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Info-Mac Digest             Thu,  3 Jun 93       Volume 11 : Issue 113

Today's Topics:

      [*] "Send PostScript" Extension (attachment)
      [*] B&W Vette! 1.01->1.02 patch
      [*] BoloStar 1.5 Extension
      [*] Color Vette! 1.01->1.02 patch
      [*] Demo for Submission
      [*] FileMaker_Pro_Biblio+1.01.hqx
      [*] FileMaker_Pro_Contacts+2.03.hqx
      [*] Maelstrom v1.2
      [*] MazeMaker 3.0 (demo)
      [*] new-look-21.hqx
      [*] The Simpsons(tm) meet Maelstrom(tm)
      (Q) Experience with internal Centris video & large display
      8-bit color X server for Macintosh (fwd)
      A Call to Arms
      Alessandro Levi Montalcini? who?
      A matter of interpretation...(c)
      Anyone have experience with TimesTwo?
      Apple 21" monitor
      Apple Express Modem FLAME (C)
      Apple Prohibited software ? (2 msgs)
      Apple Script (R)
      Archie/Fetch
      archie client
      Backup over Sparc Tape unit (Q)
      Bad SE/30 Internal Floppy
      C610
      Checkbook software
      Chemdraw
      Colors 'n highlighting in prog. code
      DAT Backup Problems With Retrospect 2.0
      DEC CD-ROM drives
      Depth&Volume 1.0 alternatives (C)
      DiiMO takes over Logica
      Draw-Type DA
      driver for Hitachi cdroms?
      e-disk
      English menus for Hebrew system (Q)
      Eudora Questions - scripts and Date field
      FileMaker Pro ver. 2.0v4 ?? (C)
      folder-from-hell (Q)
      Foreign Language Fonts
      Getting in touch with Steve *Dorner*
      Gnu zip (.z) file - unzip on Mac?
      HC/PB Serial Port Problem!?!
      High-level events
      HP DeskJet driver
      Info-Mac CD the second and System 6
      Install me first Disks
      JPEG viewer needed (A)
      latest ver. of FM Pro >is< 2.0v4
      LC III free 16 bit video re-explained (C)
      LC III print behaviour
      LCIII to a Gateway 2000 Monitor?
      Life expectancy for a Laserwriter IIntx (Q)
      Looking for At Ease enhancement prog. [C]
      looking for opinions on TimesTwo
      LW 8.0 drivers
      Macintosh Clock Speeds (refresher)
      MacSchedule
      MacWarehouse On-Line BBS
      Memory CDEV Hack (a challenge!) (A)
      memory upgrades into Mac II
      MIDI Wish: Internal Sound (A)
      Modems for PowerBooks
      monitor problem -- brighter, dimmer [Q]
      News Reader Source
      New Zealand Powerbook Use
      nmr spectrometers and macs
      OSF Motif look for the Mac (R)
      PB 180 and MIDI (A)
      PICT's in TeachText (C)
      PICTs in TeachText? (R)
      PowerBook 170 internal modem (R)
      PowerBook AC Power Adapter Nonfunction (A)
      Printing to a PS file
      program FastComm
      qt faq?
      Radius price reductions - warning
      re- Alessandro Levi Montalc
      re  PhotoGrade at 600 dpi
      SendPS Replacement
      sendps replacement (R) (3 msgs)
      Slooow BeHierarchic 1.0.5
      SpeedyFinder7 1.5.4 (Q)
      Stacker, an impression... (R) (2 msgs)
      Syllabic (Inuit) Font(Q)
      syncing clocks (A)
      syncing clocks on Mac-only network (R)
      System folder protection (summary)
      Toner cartridge disassembly?

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Date: Tue, 25 May 1993 09:53:09 -0400
From: [e-mail] (BBEdit Support)
Subject: [*] "Send PostScript" Extension (attachment)

The attached StuffIt Deluxe archive (in BinHex format) contains a BBEdit
Extension called "Send PostScript". This extension enables you to download
the contents of the front editing window to a network-connected PostScript
printer as a PostScript program.

The extension and a descriptive text file are included in the archive.

This extension is compatible with BBEdit 2.2, BBEdit Lite, and BBEdit 2.5.

BBEdit Support                                          [e-mail]
Rich Siegel                                     Principal Software Designer
Patrick Woolsey                                 Director of Quality Assurance

[Archived as /info-mac/text/bbedit-extension-send-ps.hqx; 15K]

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Date: Tue, 25 May 93 21:05 EDT
From: "Ken Rosenberry 814 865 4763" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] B&W Vette! 1.01->1.02 patch

Spectrum HoloByte has granted permission for this update file to
be freely distributed.

This will patch B&W Vette! from version 1.01 to 1.02

[Archived as /info-mac/game/vette-bw-patch-102.hqx; 100K]

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Date: Wed, 26 May 93 14:31:05 -0400
From: Matt Slot <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] BoloStar 1.5 Extension

This Extension is for the BoloStar 1.5 map editor software. Drop it in the
   BoloStar Extensions folder with your copy of the program. The extension
   is written by Matt Slot, Slot-Machines Ltd., not K&D Software. This
   extension is Freeware, as are all my extensions -- so pass it on.

Map >> Text allows you to remap a selection to an arbitrary text using
   different terrain to character mappings. This tool is useful for
   people who want to demonstrate a map portion in E-Mail or a newsgroup.
   Remember that non-ASCII characters don't work well in mailers, so try
   to avoid them for use outside of the Mac World. (ResEdit hounds can
   modify the Mapping resource using the available Template :). Once
   remapped, the text is placed onto the Clipboard for exporting to your
   favorite text or mail editor. Yes, I am aware of the duplication of
   some symbols, but you can change that can't ya...?

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

    [This text scrap was created using BoloStar's "Map to ASCII" tool]

    ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
    ~ # - # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ~
    ~ # - # - - - - - # - - - # - - - # ~
    ~ # - # # # # # - # - # - # - X - # ~
    ~ # - - - - - # - # - # - - - # - # ~
    ~ # # # # # - # - O - # # # # # - # ~
    ~ # - - - # - # - - - - - # - - - # ~
    ~ # - # # # - # - O - # # # - # - # ~
    ~ # - # - - - # - # - # - - - # - # ~
    ~ # - X - # # # - # # # - # # # - # ~
    ~ # - - - - - - - - - # - # - - - # ~
    ~ # # # # # # # # # - # # # # # # # ~
    ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

     Grass:      -    Road:        =     Mine:    !
     Tree:       *    Wall:        #     Base:    X
     Swamp:      :    Broken Wall: +     Pillbox: O
     Water:      ~    Rubble:      ,
     Deep Water:      Crater:      .

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

Thanks,
Matt Slot, Slot-Machines Ltd.
[e-mail]

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

[Archived as /info-mac/game/bolo/bolostar-map-editor-15.hqx; 20K]

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Date: Tue, 25 May 93 21:02 EDT
From: "Ken Rosenberry 814 865 4763" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Color Vette! 1.01->1.02 patch

Spectrum HoloByte has granted permission for this update file to
be freely distributed.

This will patch Color Vette! from version 1.01 to 1.02

[Archived as /info-mac/game/vette-color-patch-102.hqx; 101K]

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Date: Tue, 25 May 93 21:40:29 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Chet Niewczyk)
Subject: [*] Demo for Submission

PRIME is a numerology application modeled on some of the more arcane
theories of Pythagoras. It is divided into two sections, "Personal Numbers"
and "Applications".  "Personal Numbers" includes Birth, Destiny, Internal,
Appearance, and Survival #'s as well as Personal Eras & Personal Challenges.
It also includes "Alpha-Numerics" & "Predictions" (which makes predictions
on any future year, divided into trimesters). The "Applications" section  is
divided into "Mates & Partners", which analyzes potential relationships;
"Choosing Names" & "Addresses".

OTHERLOBE
374 DELAWARE AVENUE
TORONTO, ONTARIO
CANADA  M6H 2T8

Submitted by Chet Niewczyk

[Archived as /info-mac/demo/prime-numerology.hqx; 151K]

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Date: 24 May 93 14:33:07 U
From: "Andrew Lee" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] FileMaker_Pro_Biblio+1.01.hqx

Biblio+
(c)1993 Andrew Lee, All rights reserved.
_______________

Read Me

Biblio+ is a shareware Filemaker Pro (version 1.x) database. It's main purpose
is to allow proper automatic generation of bibliographic references even when
certain components (eg publisher, year...) are omitted. Other than that, you
should find that Biblio+ is just about as powerful and usable as any other
`commercial' Bibliographic database/manager.
    When exporting data, the FullRef field contains the full bibliographic
details. Other fields do not have to be exported.
    Plea: If you feel that BIBLIO+ has some useful value, or use it for any
purpose, or want to encourage ME to improve BIBLIO+ and develop other
`affordable & useful' databases, PLEASE send me an international money order
cheque (or cash) made
payable to: Andrew Lee, for ANY amount that you find appropriate. If you pay
your shareware contribution, you will receive a PASSWORD to enable you to
MODIFY LAYOUTS and DELETE records.
        If you license the source code, you will be able to create
        your own
predefined value list for the Categories field and change it to a radio
button.
        All suggestions for improvements are welcomed.

Please do not distribute Biblio+ without all the original materials,
especially
this file. Biblio+ is not for commercial re-sale without my knowledge and
permission. Please inform me if you decide to place Biblio+ onto shareware
CD-roms, disks etc...


Regards,

Andrew Lee
School of Information Technology
Bond University     Queensland
Australia       4229
............................................................
Internet: [e-mail]
fax: [phone] (international)

[Archived as /info-mac/app/filemaker-pro-bibliography-101.hqx; 35K]

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Date: 24 May 93 10:47:45 U
From: "Andrew Lee" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] FileMaker_Pro_Contacts+2.03.hqx

Contacts+
(c)1992,1993 Andrew Lee, All rights reserved.
_______________

Read Me

CONTACTS+ is a shareware Filemaker Pro (version 1.x) database. It's main
purpose is to allow proper address details to appear (even when some
components
of the address are omitted such as the organization, country etc...) in
Microsoft Word print-merge documents. Other than that, you should find that
CONTACTS+ is just about as powerful and usable as any other `commercial'
Contacts database/manager.
    When exporting print-merge data, the FullAddress field would replace all
the individual fields that make up the receipient's address. You should also
export the title, firstname and lastname fields, to be used in the greeting
line, ie Dear [title] [firstname] [lastname]... Other fields do not have to be
exported.
    Plea: If you feel that CONTACTS+ has some useful value, or use it for any
purpose, or want to encourage ME to improve CONTACTS+ and develop other
`affordable & useful' databases, PLEASE send me an international money order
cheque (or cash) made
payable to: Andrew Lee, for ANY amount that you find appropriate. If you pay
your shareware contribution, you will receive a PASSWORD to enable you to
MODIFY LAYOUTS and DELETE records. All suggestions for improvements are
welcomed.

Please do not distribute Contacts+ without all the original materials,
especially this file. Contacts+ is not for commercial re-sale without my
knowledge and permission. Please inform me if you decide to place Contacts+
onto shareware CD-roms, disks etc...


Regards,

Andrew Lee
School of Information Technology
Bond University     Queensland
Australia       4229
............................................................
Internet: [e-mail]
fax: [phone] (international)

[Archived as /info-mac/app/filemaker-pro-contacts-203.hqx; 77K]

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Date: Thu, 3 Jun 93 12:08:30 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Derek Chee)
Subject: [*] Maelstrom v1.2

Maelstrom 1.2 has just been released.  If you have any previous version of
Maelstrom, you'll definitely want to download version 1.2, for there are a
number of enhancements and bug fixes in this new version.

If you have version 1.1 of Maelstrom, you need only download a small
Maelstrom 1.2 Updater in order to use the new version.  If you have any
version of Maelstrom prior to version 1.1 (versions 1.0, 1.01, 1.02 &
1.03), you'll need to download the entire version 1.2 package (there were
changes made that make this unavoidable).

I'd like to extend a personal note of thanks to all of you who have
supported me by sending in your registration fee and suggestions.  I would
not continue do update Maelstrom, nor plan future games were it not for
your support.  Maelstrom 1.1 is a free upgrade--as all Maelstrom upgrades
will be--if you've already registered.  Thanks friends!

I have started work on my next game, Martinet, and I hope not to disappoint
you.  I expect that it will be finished sometime in October '93 (provided
that I can afford to give Martinet my full attention).

[Archived as /info-mac/game/maelstrom-12.hqx; 936K]

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Date: Wed, 26 May 93 10:28:48 CDT
From: [e-mail] (Bob Schenk)
Subject: [*] MazeMaker 3.0 (demo)

 MazeMaker 3.0 demo is an upgrade to MazeMaker .99 which was released in late
 1991. It is vastly improved over the original (which as still good enough to
 be one of only 45 games to make it in the "Mac Shareware Emporium" by Bernard
 J. David and Maria L. Langer (Brady Publishing, New York, 1992))

   MazeMaker can create mazes or allow a user to draw his/er own. For
   computer-created mazes, the user controls the dimensions (4x4 to 210x210)
   and type (regular square-celled mazes, triangular-celled mazes,
   hexagonal-celled mazes, square- or hexagonal-celled mazes with underpasses;
   mazes with simple exit/entrance or multiple exits/entrances.) The program
   provides six different styles to view mazes on screen. After a maze is
   completed, location of exits can be changed, deadend paths connected, mazes
   can be flipped horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, or the maze can be
   transformed in several other ways.  Finally, the user can solve many mazes
   from the keyboard, or can ask the computer to show the solution.
   Complete instructions are provided inside the program. Additional info is
   provided in the ReadMe document.

   The demo version is crippled in several ways:
1. Open, Save As, Append and Print do not work.
2. After about 15 minutes the demo version will quit.
3. If the computer's clock is set to year 1994 or beyond, the program will not
run.

Those who pay the registration fee will receive uncrippled versions of
MazeMaker and 1 meg of mazefonts in both Type 1 and TrueType format.

   MazeMaker is by far the most sophisticated and complete maze construction
   kit that I am aware of on any platform. (This statement even applies to
   this demo version!) IF YOU LIKE MAZES, YOU GOTTA HAVE THIS PROGRAM!!!

Robert Schenk

(P.S. The above descriptionwas written by the author who believes every word
of it. However, he may not be the most objective source on this topic.)

[Archived as /info-mac/demo/maze-maker-30.hqx; 126K]

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Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 10:31:06 +0000
From: Phil Flack <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] new-look-21.hqx

This is the latest version of NewLook and incorporates some new feature and
bug fixes.

NewLook now allows you to adjust the window hilite (tinge) colors and then
Auto Tint the controls for a better color-coorsinated look.

Phil Flack

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/new-look-21.hqx; 40K]

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Date: Tue, 25 May 93 16:43:06 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Mark Verschell)
Subject: [*] The Simpsons(tm) meet Maelstrom(tm)

Here is a set of sounds for Maelstrom taken from the Simpson sounds posted
on the net. Some of the basic sounds are left from the original sound files,
while others are from the FUNKY Maelstrom sounds submitted earlier (not by me)

Approximate file size is 664K

Enjoy! Mark Verschell [[e-mail]]

[Archived as /info-mac/game/maelstrom-simpson-sounds.hqx; 785K]

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Date: Thu, 3 Jun 93 07:46:34 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Michael L. Dickens)
Subject: (Q) Experience with internal Centris video & large display

I'm looking into getting a Centris 650 with 1M VRAM for use with a large
(19", 20", or 21") display.  I've called around and found that most large
displays are compatible with the internal video via either a special
adapter or a Control Panel (for on-the-fly changing).

I've used the internal video on my IIsi and IIci, and ended up getting a
video card because the video was so slow (no video circuitry or VRAM).

Does anyone have experience with this?  Ie: Is this a wise thing to do, or
should I stick with a graphics card, possibly one with acceleration?

Thanks in advance.

    MLD

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Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 09:15:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Ricardo C. Davis" <[e-mail]>
Subject: 8-bit color X server for Macintosh (fwd)

I'm passing this message from the Computational Chemistry List.  Please
CC: your response to the CCL at [e-mail].  Thanks.


    Ricardo C. Davis                    Internet: [e-mail]
     Building 773-42A, SRTC/SCS, Westinghouse Savannah River Co.
       P.O. Box 616, Aiken, SC  29802  [phone]

 --------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 17:21:17 -0400
From: Joe M Leonard <jle%world.std.com@internet>
To: chemistry%osc.edu@internet
Subject: 8-bit color X server for Macintosh

Is anybody aware of a product that allows a Mac with an ethernet card
to act as an 8-bit color X terminal?  Also, what communication software's
required to make it work?

Joe Leonard
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 02 Jun 93 13:14:45 CDT
From: Graeme Forbes <[e-mail]>
Subject: A Call to Arms

Well, a call to word processors, really, but the pen *is* mightier
than the sword, isn't it?

The editorial in the current MacWeek is titled "Don't abandon Quadra
owners", and concerns indications from Apple that there won't be
an upgrade path to the PowerPC for the 700, the 900 and the 950.

This would also apply to IIcx/ci owners, since a board that would
fit in those machines would fit in a 700.

There must be a lot of peple on this list who'll be left high and dry
with dead-end machines if no upgrade is provided. So I would like to
suggest to y'all that we write outraged letters to whereever they'll
do some good.

Unfortunately, I'm not quite sure where that is. Would someone with
some experience of putting pressure on Apple to make them do the
right thing please post some recommendations?

Graeme Forbes

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Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 7:54:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Alessandro Levi Montalcini? who?

I noticed in the latest version of Digest(111) that Alessandro Levi Montalcini
has written a lot of software that people are submitting.  This is incredible
to
say the least!!!  Is this all he does, is write shareware???  He should be
commended for his work!!  A lot of it looks usefull (DBugR & Traper for
example).

Just curious.  Also, is there a better way to reply to a message in the digest
other than replying to the post and deleting all the extrenious articles?
This
takes awhile sometimes.

Carl B. Constantine
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 07:45:26 +0000
From: Nick Rothwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: A matter of interpretation...(c)

>        One thing that a Macintosher can take unique pride in is that the
>on-line services are typically near-"squeaky clean" on matters of fact and
>interpretation, as compared to similar services for other platforms.

Actually, I think I'd have to differ on this to start with. The whole
PowerBook/MIDI fiasco proves that disinformation sometimes abounds, and I
see many articles, news postings, mail messages containing material which,
when subjected to even a small amount of technical scrutiny, is obviously
wrong. This is, I suspect, just the usual S/N ratio of a lot of online
services; the Mac culture is no better or worse than any other in that
respect.

So much for inaccuracy: regarding bias, well, bear in mind that every
article is written by someone with an opinion, and that there is no truly
objective or "right" answer in many contexts. I tend to regard the TidBITs
columns as essentially editorials bringing in guest contributors. Hence I
have no problem with opinions that might happen to be expressed there, as
long as the facts aren't wrong, misleading or technically biased. I don't
think that any reader can expect total objectivity from articles of this
nature - I mean, I have seen articles issued by Apple regarding MIDI which
are out-and-out incorrect. And I would consider it sad that any reader
would come to TidBITs in a frame of mind such that they would accept as
gospel truth every single word they read there. I've always been one for a
small dose of healthy scepticism, or at the very least, a little analytical
thought about what is being read. If you don't have this, be prepared to be
taken for a very expensive ride...

>Comment 1) The Amiga NEVER has had built-in MIDI capabilities.  Of the two
>           computers, only the Atari ST has had built-in MIDI ports.

I have to plead guilty at least to letting this one slip past. I had very
little time to do a technical editing pass over the entire set of articles,
and was more concerned with getting the PowerBook/MIDI/OMS technical
content correct (given the amount of garbage that's been floating around,
which is why I had to be very careful in my technical comments and hence
not pay too much attention to other things).

>Comment 2) The last quoted sentence states that the Mac is the
>           "professional's computer of choice".  This is a matter of opinion
>           only.

There can be *no* objective statement of what is a group's "choice" - if
there could be, there would be no choice involved. Semantics aside, I have
no real problem with this statement, although personally I would have
inserted an "arguably" in here somewhere, if I'd had more time to do
another pass over the original. This was an editorial article written by an
individual, and it's obviously an opinion. To be a little more objective
though, I notice that practically all computer-related articles in KEYBOARD
refer to the Macintosh implicitly. I can only assume it has a dominant
market share over in the US, which implies that it is indeed "the
professional's computer of choice" on purely statistical grounds. (In the
UK, it happens not to be, because of Apple UK's stupid pricing policies a
few years ago.)

Oh, and in an unbiased spirit, to pick up on Shekhar's comment:

>Currently, apart from the Mac which other platform boasts an application of
>the caliber of Max, "one of the most significant MIDI products (hardware or
>software) ever"?  (A loaded question, if ever there was one; the answer to
>which, if I may be so bold as to add, a creative MIDI-musician might just
>find a mite helpful in defining the "computer of choice" :-)

I think this shows that we even have to decide what we mean by
"professional." Professionals are, in this context presumably, people who
make money in the area of MIDI-produced music. As such, most of them
probably wouldn't care about MAX because it's so far ahead of what's needed
to produce a Kylie Minogue single. Speaking as a semi-professional who's
interested in pushing the technology as far as it'll go (and who doesn't
produce Kylie Minogue singles), I find MAX to be indispensable and I
consider it to extremely important in the area of MIDI/music work. Again,
it's a matter of opinion, or rather, a matter of professional aims and
priorities; there is no right answer.

Oh: aside to Shekhar: MAX (a non-marketed version thereof) also runs on the
NeXT. :-)

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

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Date: Wed, 2 Jun 93 10:22:53 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Connie Fennema)
Subject: Anyone have experience with TimesTwo?

    I just got an advertisement for TimesTwo which is advertised as
being able to double your disk space without compressing files.  Anyone
having experience with this software, send e-mail directly to me and I will
summarize to net.

    [e-mail]

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Date: 03 Jun 1993 16:13:00 -0700 (MST)
From: Alan Levine 731-8297 <[e-mail]>
Subject: Apple 21" monitor

Can the on-borad video in a Mac IIci support the Apple 21" monitor? How much
RAM would it need and how should the SIMMS be configured (I understand that it
draws from bank A for on-board video). Please send a copy of your reply
directly to me. Thanks,

{-- alan levine            [e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1993 19:01:27
From: [e-mail] (Charlie Mingo)
Subject: Apple Express Modem FLAME (C)

Elliot Bennett <[e-mail]> writes:


> But my big problem in all this is that my EM still only works
> at home. That's because at ... work we have an internal telephone
> system by ...Siemanns .... Our Siemanns system has a different dial
> tone internally than the Deutsche Telekom .... Our internal dial tone goes:

> beep, beep, beep (pause), beep, beep, beep, (pause)...

> But the EM doesn't recognize it as a dial tone.

Of course not: it isn't a dial tone.  Modems are only designed to
work with the "public switched telephone system" (that's Deutsche
Telecom in your area).  There are literally tens of thousands of
products used to handle private line exchanges, and there are many
different ways each of them can be configured.  How in hell is your
Express Modem supposed to _know_ that it's hooked up to a Siemens
PBX, and that the "beep beep beep" is a dial tone, and not (say)
a busy signal or a ring signal?

No, the solution is simple: people who use modems within PBX's
are expected to configure the modem to handle the local
ideosyncricies of their setup.  If your PBX requires prefixing "9"
for an outside line, it is up to the user to tell the modem this.
If your PBX has a non-standard dial tone, it is up to you to tell
the modem not to wait for one.

>  I fear that the solution to this is to delve into some deep,
> dark recesses of some script somewhere using ResEdit ...

You don't need ResEdit.  Use a text editor (force it to open
the ARA script), and add at the beginning:

    write "ATX0\13"

which will cause the modem not to wait for dial tone.

> Yet, at home I WANT it to wait for a dial tone:

Have two scripts: the old one for home, and the new one for work.
How is the modem supposed to know which kind of phone system you
have hooked it up to.  Use a little intelligence.

> The CORRECT solution is
> to be able to recognize different types of dial tones (at least
> those from the major players like Siemanns, Northern Telecom,
> and Philips). The next best solution is to have an easy accessible
> user option to ignor the waiting for a dial tone (like typing
> a special character before the telephone number). (Or am I
> off the mark here?)

How many dial tones do you think there are?  If your Siemens PBX
is not using a standard dialtone, then how can the modem recognize
it?

The "CORRECT solution" is (i) for PBX manufacturers not to use
nonstandard dial tones (and I gather "beep beep beep" is nonstandard
even for Germany), (ii) for intelligent consumers not to purchase
nonstandard telecom equipment, OR (iii) for business that do purchase
nonstandard telecom equipment to educate their employees that they
may have to use a bit of foresight when hooking up non-Siemens
equipment.  In your case, it only takes a slight effort to make
the modem work with Siemens, so (iii) is probably the best course.

Actually, I think you real complaint is with the German telephone
industry as a whole, since they seem to have a penchent for doing
things differently, even if this causes much frustration and
inconvenience for their customers.  As you point out, this is often
a rather transparent effort to keep foreign suppliers out by setting
bizarre local standards, just for the sake of being different.

If it is any consolation, the EC will be taking over the setting of
German telecom standards in 1995, and Siemens will be forced to conform
to the standards used by the rest (non-German) part of the world.

Regards.

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

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 93 10:49:37 -0700
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Apple Prohibited software ?

In a recent discussion about "Freedom of Information & Software", Jon Pugh
mentioned:
>The idea of Apple Prohibited software is already in place by the GNU
>Foundation.
No doubt he thought he was alluding to something in common knowledge, but
I, at least, did not get the point.  What is "Apple Prohibited software",
and what does it have to do with GNU?

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

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 93 11:22:50 -0700
From: Jon Pugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Apple Prohibited software ?

Apparently, the GNU Foundation has declared Apple to be unsupported, and will
not port or support GNU software on Apple platforms.  This is because Apple
had a licence clause (I'm not certain if this is still used) stating that
any derivations of Apple's interface were included under Apple's copyright.
I don't believe that it had anything to do with Apple's lawsuit against
Microsoft, which was just completely dismissed and will be appealed, according
to the San Jose Mercury News this morning.

People will note that there is GNU software available for the Mac, but this
was done by people not involved with the GNU Foundation and is possible
simply because the GNU software is available free with source code.  Anyone
can port it anywhere they please.

Thus, the GNU Foundation has not really declared its software to be "Apple
Prohibited", but it has declined to support Apple, which was the gist of
the previous message.

Jon

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

Date: Thu, 3 Jun 93 11:37:16 CDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Apple Script (R)

No Apple Script is quite good. I received the final version from Apple a few
weeks ago. Apple showed off Apple Script at this year's Worldwide Developers
Conference, and the demos were quite impressive.

I don't think you should get it unless you're a developer. Since there are not
enough application out that are Scriptable.

I hope this helps! I think you can get more info from APDA.

--

Vinko Tsui                              Vinko Enterprises
In Chicago:                             In Canada:
Work: [phone]                    Voice: [phone]
Home: [phone]                    AppleLink: CDA1051

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

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 08:57:43 +0000
From: [e-mail] (Henry Rzepa) (Henry Rzepa)
Subject: Archie/Fetch

Is Fetch still being developed? Another feature I would love to have in
Fetch is the equivalent of the Unix ls -last, ie listing files latest first. I
used to use it in the old ftp mechanism for connecting. And how about
a Fetch document which when clicked opens directly to a given site
and directory, which could be inserted eg into the Aple menu items.

Dr Henry Rzepa, Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College, LONDON SW7 2AY;
[e-mail] via Eudora 1.3.1, Tel:[phone], Fax:[phone].


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

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 93 09:40:13 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Jim Matthews)
Subject: archie client

In comp.sys.mac.digest article
<[e-mail]> Adam Engst wrote:
> 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.

I have two excuses (maybe I can find more if these aren't good enough
:-)).  One is that I'm busy with other projects.  The other is that I
haven't found a concise, RFC-style description of the archie
protocol.  If someone wants to help get this second excuse out of the
way then maybe I'll be forced to deal with the first...:-).

Jim Matthews
Dartmouth Software Development

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

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 93 12:59:20 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Bernabe Linares B.)
Subject: Backup over Sparc Tape unit (Q)

Dear Friends,
I am sure this has been asked previously. Please accept my apologies for
my ignorance.
We have a Sparc workstations network and a Macintosh. I was wondering if
it would be possible to somehow make backups of the Macintosh Hard Drive
over the tape unit of the Sparcs network.
Thanks.

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

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

Date: 3 Jun 93 14:18:17 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Bad SE/30 Internal Floppy

    My internal 1.44M floppy drive is bad.  It always thinks that there is
a disk inside even when there isn't.  Its constantly making the "clunking"
noises as if it is trying to read something that is not there.  Sometimes the
Mac pops up the "Would you like to format this disk" dialog, again, when
nothing is in.

    It ejects any disk I put in it and THEN tries to read it.

    Has anyone else had these problems on an SE/30?  Is it the drive or
(heaven forbid) something on the motherboard?  What are my options?  Can I buy
a new 3rd party internal?  Should I just disconnect it and buy an external?
Maybe its just something simple?

    I've tried all the obvious--no extension conflicts, I can't boot from
the drive.  Its really slowing things down (just the constant trying to read
>From it and the dialogs).  Where might I find a replacement drive (and
recomendations?)

Thanks for any help.

Ken Linger
[e-mail]

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

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 93 16:56:17 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Chris Pepper)
Subject: C610

>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>
>
>------------------------------

Martin,

    Centris 610 comes in 2 motherboard configurations.  The wimpy one
has no Ethernet (must use NuBus cards for Ether), and includes 4MB of RAM
on the motherboard.  There's a medium-wimpy config with Ethernet on the
motherboard, and 4MB of RAM.  All the other configurations include Ether &
8MB of motherboard RAM.  They all come with 2 72-pin SIMM sockets & all
NuBus slots free.

    I am told that PDS/motherboard Ethernet is faster than NuBus
Ethernet which is faster than SCSI-based Ethernet.  I heard Apple said so,
but no confirmation on that.  I think you do need to buy a connector for
your Ethernet wiring -- the Centris built-in Ether do not connect to your
wiring without one.

    If you replace the CPU you'll probably void the warranty.  If you
get Digital Eclipse to do it (for example), they'll probably offer their
own replacement warranty.

    You'll need non-FPU programs for a C610 unless you install the FPU
CPU replacement.

    Be aware that (unlike the C650 & Q800) the C610 & LC III do not
support faster RAM access if both SIMMS are the same size.



                        L8r,


                        Chris Pepper
                        [e-mail]

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

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 93 19:44:40 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Wonko the Sane)
Subject: Checkbook software

I've been hunting around for a dedicated checkbook management program for
the mac, the PD/SW/FW kind.  If anyone has any recommendations, I'd appreciate
it.

Eric
[e-mail]
(It's my annual "send lots of email to infomac" week!)

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

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 16:11:39 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Karl Pottie)
Subject: Chemdraw

For those of you looking for a demo-version of chemdraw:

There are Macintosh demo programs of ChemDraw Plus 3.0 and Chem3D Plus 3.1
available directly from Cambridge Scientific Computing.  The demonstration
programs are distributable as long as no modifications are made.

The demonsration programs are available on disk or via ftp.

To access Cambridge Scientific Computing's ftp site:

Ftp site:  helium.camsci.com (149.53.1.2)
Login: anonymous
Password: Your e-mail address (If an e-mail address is not entered, we may
restrict future access)

The demos are available from:

pub/info/demos

Each demo is available as either a MacBinary self-extracting archive (.sea) or
a binhexed version of the same (.hqx).

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

Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 13:56:16 +1000 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Philip FX Ryan)
Subject: Colors 'n highlighting in prog. code

I am relatively new to Mac programming - I purchased 'Learn C on the Mac'
and a few other useful things.

I also do a fair amount of PC programming, with Turbo C and Turbo Pascal.

One thing that I really miss on the Mac is the smart highlighting of
reserved words, and to a lesser extent, the colours used by the better PC
programming editors.

Does anyone else use Microsoft's Basic for the Mac? It has bold
highlighting of all BASIC's reserved words, which makes it all much
clearer.

My question then is: Are there ANY Macintosh C or Pascal programming
compilers which include smart editors (i.e. editors which understand C's or
Pascal's reserved words and can make such reserved words CLEAR to the
programmer). I would also like to be able to make all INTs, for example,
show up as BLUE, while HEXIDECIMALs showed up as YELLOW etc.

I don't want to be told that 'You can make a Nisus macro that will do all
of this for you' or 'BBEdit is what you want'. I want a COMPILER's editor
to actually show some intelligence. Is that too much to ask? I have held
for many years that PCs are easier to program, and there are better
programming tools for them; is the Mac programmers' universe all 9 point
Monaco (especially given that Macs effectively made the world understand
what FONT even means)? Please, those of you who like the way things are, do
not take offence; I would just like to be able to 'see' programming code
more clearly, particularly with a large project.

(I remember a program called 'Pretty C' which could apparently do a nice
job of printing C code so that reserved words were in some font while other
C data type were in another etc - is there a version of this that works AS
the actual editor for a Mac compiler?)

All correspondence will be entered into.

Phil Ryan
Melbourne

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

Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 18:52:21 EDT
From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: DAT Backup Problems With Retrospect 2.0

A week or so ago, I wrote about problems we were having with Retrospect
2.0 and a Gigatrend 1235 DAT drive.  We have been doing some testing on
the problem (and Dantz has been helpful).  So here's an update.

The problem is that after an unattended backup, any attempt to change
DAT tapes (from the devices screen or manually) causes the Mac to crash.
When it is rebooted, it can not find its own internal drive.

It appears that there is a problem with version 2.0 and *some* DAT
drives.  We know this because:

    1.  I received e-mail from users with DAT drives from vendors
    other than Gigatrend who reported similar SCSI problems.
    (These occurances have been passed on to Dantz.)
    2.  We downgraded to version 1.3.  It has been running in attended
    and unattended mode for a week without an problem.  Nothing else
    has been changed.  It is running on the same IIci, with the same
    system and the same DAT drive.

As we get more information, I'll post it.  Meanwhile if you are running
Retrospect 2.0 and having mysterious crashes which make it impossible
to mount your internal disk drive (unless the power is cycled on the
Mac or the drive), let me know.  I'll pass along your comments to
Dantz.

One more thing:  Many thanks to a number of super people on the net
who have taken time to contact me with suggestions.  Your input and
ideas were a terrific help in focus us and Dantz on the possible causes
for the problem.

More to come, no doubt.  ;-)

Jeffrey Fritz
[e-mail]
West Virginia University

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

Date: Thu, 3 Jun 93 0:15 BST
From: RICHARD LIM <[e-mail]>
Subject: DEC CD-ROM drives

I know this question has been asked before, so apologies for putting it
again: is it possible to use DEC CD-ROM drives with Macs?  If it is, what
driver software do we need; will Apple's do?

I ask because, well, we have a few DEC CD-ROM drives in the building, but
no Apple ones, and it also struck me that the DEC drives look almost
exactly like Apple's except they don't have the rainbowy fruit on the
front!

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

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 09:54:59 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Wayne K. Walrath)
Subject: Depth&Volume 1.0 alternatives (C)

   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.....

I would suggest people also check out the recently submitted applets
called PwrSwitchers by Dair Grant. They are very simple little apps
which will change the volume or depth to a specific setting and then
immediately quit. I believe I got them off of Sumex. I haven't tried
Depth&Volume so perhaps it offers something not possible from
PwrSwitchers. Best of all though, PwrSwitchers are free!

    -wayne

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

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 93 15:32:24 edt
From: Bob_Starkey@DG_SUPPORT.ceo.dg.com
Subject: DiiMO takes over Logica

Message:
  In Info-Mac 11.111 (!) Dr Stephan P. Mueller asked about '040
accelerators for the SE/30 and wondered why Logica wasn't returning
his calls and faxes.  I can't help him find the '040 info, but I can
help him with Logica.
  According to MacWeek, 5/31/93 page 10, "DiiMO Technologies Inc.
[formerly Teknovation Inc.] last month took over distribution of the
LogiCache accelerator from Logica Research Inc. and announced new
models. [...] The cards will now be sold under the DiiMOCache name."
The article gives some info about the current '030 line and mentions
"a 68040-based card that will include an upgrade path for current
DiiMO card users."
  DiiMO Technologies Inc. is at 2540 Brockton Drive, Suite 110,
Austin, TX 78758, voice: 512/834-0106, fax: [phone].

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

Date: Thu, 3 Jun 93 15:02:53 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Herb Kroemer)
Subject: Draw-Type DA

In #111, Greg Trimper looks for a

>... 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?

'MiniDraw' can do all the things Greg asks for, although I have never tried
it under System 7 or with TrueType fonts, nor do I know whether or not the
publisher is still in business:

Software for Recognition Technologies
55 Academy Drive
Rochester, NY 14623
[phone]

Another potential candidate is Guenther Blaschek's AppleDraw (Shareware),
which used to be on this archive, but it cannot rotate text.

Regards,
Herb K

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

Date: Wed, 02 Jun 93 18:04:05 ITA
From: maurizio lana <[e-mail]>
Subject: driver for Hitachi cdroms?

I am searching for driver(s) that allow me to hook an (almost) old Hitachi
CDRO
M drive to a Mac.
I know I should be able to state the model of this Hitachi cdrom drive, but I
w
ould be happy even if only I could get infos about the existence of this
softwa
re.
Any ideas?
Thank you to anyone will help.
Maurizio

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

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

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 15:27:39 -0400
From: Chris Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: e-disk

Mark, if you are using e-disk, you shouldn't use *any* other
compression program. Using two compression programs at the same time
produces a lot more of a delay with very little space change. From what
I understand about CopyDoubler, it compresses the data it sends along
the bus from one disk to the other (that's how it improves performance:
same amount of space on the bus will contain more data). This means that
if you copy with CopyDoubler, at one end it will decompress the data and
then compress it to e-disk format, which can't be very efficient. The
case would be even worse if *both* disks use e-disk. Try copy those same
AutoDoubled files but this time, copy over the *uncompressed* files, and
compare iit to AutoDoubler's size.

E-disk is a usefull product if
    1) You never want to bother with using other compression
software
    2) You want something that will give you really good
compression, but is fast enough to be used on the fly.
    3) Space is more important to you than performance (this is true
of all compression programs).
    4) You are willing to have your entire drive compressed.
    5) You keep a backup of the files, as a compressed drive is more
likely to lose large amounts of data in the even of hardware failure.

--Chris

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

Date: Thu,  3 Jun 93 14:37 +0200
From: [e-mail]
Subject: English menus for Hebrew system (Q)

Hello Netters

Here is a question for those using foreign language systems.

The MACs in the Hebrew University usually have a Hebrew system.
This means that all menus are in Hebrew, and that the system can
handle Hebrwe fonts and writing right-to-left.

My question is: How can I get a Hebrew system with ENGLISH menus for
use by guests from abroad?
I know that this was a standard option for system 6. But I've never
seen it on system 7.

Please answer directly to:
[e-mail]
TIA, Ilan szekely.

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

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 93 03:14:25 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Frances Blomeley)
Subject: Eudora Questions - scripts and Date field

I'm having some problems running Eudora with the POP3 and SMTP servers
located on a central VAX/VMS system. The VAX/VMS network mail system uses
the U.K. Grey Book mail, and therefore all mail that passes through the
VAX has addresses in the form CBS%<site>::<user>. I cannot do a straight
Reply to messages because of this syntax.

I recall a mention of Eudora scripts on this list some time ago, but
cannot locate any relevant archives using WAIS on info-mac.src. Can
anyone point me in the direction of information about scripts, or indeed,
any other suggestions for getting round the CBS problem?

The second problem is that Eudora does not send a Date field out to the
SMTP server, and this prevents me from sending mail to any Internet site
in the U.K. or elsewhere, via the uk.ac.nsfnet-relay. Viz:

>    %MX_SMTP-F-TRANSACTION_FAI, transaction failed
>
> Transcript:
>    Rcvd: 220 sun.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk PP Here - Pleased to meet you
>(Complaints/bugs to:  UK.AC.NSF MTA <[e-mail]>)
>    Sent: HELO OAK.CC.KCL.AC.UK
>    Rcvd: 250 sun.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk: Looks good to me
>    Sent: MAIL FROM:<[e-mail]>
>    Rcvd: 250 OK
>    Sent: RCPT TO:<[e-mail]-relay>
>    Rcvd: 250 Recipient OK.
>    Sent: DATA
>    Rcvd: 354 Enter Mail, end by a line with only '.'
>    Rcvd: 554 No date field given
>    Sent: QUIT
>    Rcvd: 221 sun.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk says goodbye to oak.cc.kcl.ac.uk at Wed
>Jun  2 10:39:47.

Can Eudora be tweaked to include a Date field?

Thanks,
Frances Blomeley
Computing Centre
King's College London
U.K.

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

Date: Thu, 3 Jun 93 10:18:53 CDT
From: sga![e-mail]
Subject: FileMaker Pro ver. 2.0v4 ?? (C)

> >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.
>
> To my knowledge the current version of Fm Pro is still 2.0v2. Also, Claris
> doesn't usually use 'updaters' for upgrades, they send out special install
> disks.
>
> I would be very suspicious of such an updater if it just popped up
> somewhere with no formal announcement.

Claris does in fact use updaters now.  They can be found in the Claris
folder on AppleLink.  The current updater in that area for FileMaker
Pro is version 2.0v4.

-- Doug Smith * Wheaton, IL * [e-mail]                   --
-- AppleLink: G0231 * AOL: DougLSmith * CompuServe: 72727,3532 --

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

Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 09:46:56 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Andy Moiseff)
Subject: folder-from-hell (Q)

I am running 7.1 on a MacSI and have just detected a folder-from-hell. It
refuses to be trashed.  The message:"...contains items that are in use..."
appears when trying to trash it.
1) I have checked the folder for 'invisibles' but it is completely empty.
2) I have rebuilt the desktop.
3) I booted off a system 6.0.7 just in case the system was bad.
4) I tried deleting with other utilities (MacTools, e.g.) and having the
folder  delete itself after 'stuffing'.
5) ..etc..
NOTHING WORKED! HOW CAN I TRASH THIS FOLDER?!?!
Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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

Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 17:26:31 -0600 (CDT)
From: [e-mail] (Andrew Laurence Bender)
Subject: Foreign Language Fonts

If you need foreign language fonts (for limited use) you could download
the that country's system 7.0 (or 6.x) from ftp.apple.com.  These files can
usually be found on the Fonts disk.

alb
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 05:26:30 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Pete Resnick)
Subject: Getting in touch with Steve *Dorner*

[e-mail] (Vinko Tsui) writes:

>I recently spoke to Steve Donner via email. I had no problems sending him
>questions at [e-mail].
          ^^^^^^^

Of course, the correct address is [e-mail].

pr
--
Pete Resnick - [e-mail].

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

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 93 16:13:28 BST
From: [e-mail] (Malcolm Bebb)
Subject: Gnu zip (.z) file - unzip on Mac?

Hi,
can anyone out there tell me of a Mac application (or whatever) that
can uncompress Gnu .z (little z) files?

And where I can get it...

Thanks muchfully,                           (referring to the software!)

Malcolm  [e-mail]      [e-mail]

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

Date: Wed,  2 Jun 1993 20:54:05 +0000
From: Richard Rathe <[e-mail]>
Subject: HC/PB Serial Port Problem!?!

To anyone who can help:

We are using HyperCard to drive laserdisc players via the Mac modem port. The
software has been stable for 2+ years on Mac IIsi/ci hardware. We recently
wanted to run the system from a powerbook (for a road show) and ran into a
brick wall.

The HC stack freezes as the first call to the modem port is made. If I comment
out the serial port code the stack runs fine. I have tried three different
serial port XCMDs (Voyager Video Stack, SendSerial, SerialHandler) and all
fail in this way. I connected the same powerbook to a Hayes modem and tried
dialing--the send/receive lights flash but the modem *does not* dial. The
built-in HC dial command *successfully* dials using the same set up (cables,
baud rate, HC 2.1, home stack, etc.).

Keep in mind that these stacks run without problems on a Mac II (and an
Outbound laptop by the way) but will not work on either a PB 140, 160 or Duo
210.

Does anyone have any insight? I think I have uncovered a subtle difference in
the serial port hardware/specs on the PB line. Or a ROM conflict... Or it
could be a true bug...

Thanks in advance!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Richard Rathe
[e-mail]

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

Date: 3 Jun 1993 08:46:13 EST
From: Drew B. <[e-mail]>
Subject: High-level events

  Hi, all. I'm trying to write a program that my lab will use as a "sign-in"
so we can keep track of which departments are using which applications
on our server. What I had in mind was a daemon that would wait for an open
event, check a list of target applications (the ones we want to track),
if the launched app is in the list, the daemon would send an open event to
a "sign-in" program which would save the information and quit.

 I think this is all possible. I have a question though.

 what I have done: written the daemon (just a dummy background app).

  I can't figure out how to get ALL open events sent to the daemon, though.
Is it possible? Am I just being stupid and missing something?
  If I can't do it this way, would keeping a list of currently running
processes and periodically checking it for changes take up too much cpu?
  I'm stuck. Any help is greatly appreciated.


  Drew   ([e-mail])

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

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 93 11:14:37 +0200
From: [e-mail] (stefan kuypers)
Subject: HP DeskJet driver

Does anyone know wether there exists a printer driver for the
HP Deskjet 500 Plus ?


Stefan Kuypers ([e-mail])

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

Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1993 23:29:59 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Dieder B.)
Subject: Info-Mac CD the second and System 6

Actually the problem of System 6 desktop files is easy enough to eliminate.
Just get the Desktop Manager (available in the oscar package from
ftp.apple.com (dts/mac/hacks/oscar*.hqx or something like that) and you'll
be able to read the CD-ROM just fine. Plus it makes System 6 copying and
file management activities a load faster!

Just my $0.04 worth,

Dieder

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

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 93 21:34:41 +0200
From: Christian Rom <[e-mail]>
Subject: Install me first Disks

Hi Netters!
I have a major problem with my vx and Quadra 800. I want to install the
international version of system software 7.1. But in Austria I Apple cannot
deliver the  "install me first" Disks together with international System
Upgrade. As I've paid for it, I hope that someone of you can send me an Image
file of the "install me first" Disks. Or can somebody tell me whether I can
fetch it with anonymous ftp?
Please answer to my personal account, as I do not have the time to read the
whole Digest! ([e-mail])

Thank you very much
Chris
(Network Management, Mininguniversity Leoben)

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

Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 8:40:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: JPEG viewer needed (A)

>From: SMTP%"[e-mail] (Steven Hodas)"
>Does anyone know of a good free- or shareware JPEG viewer?

You might want to look at jpeg-view-20.hqx in the
/info-mac/app folder of SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU
(anonymous login)
            Stefano


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

Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1993 18:10:46 -0500 (CDT)
From: "William M. Porter" <[e-mail]>
Subject: latest ver. of FM Pro >is< 2.0v4

Subject says it all. The Claris Tech Rep on Compuserve confirmed today
that the latest version of Filemaker Pro is in fact 2.0v4. Some
skepticism was expressed about this in yesterday's Infomac Digest.

Will Porter / University of Houston

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

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 93 12:36:22 EDT
From: [e-mail] (2d Lt Avram Dorfman)
Subject: LC III free 16 bit video re-explained (C)

A little while ago, I sent a post explaining how to get 32 thousand colors
on an LC III WITHOUT paying for a VRAM upgrade. Some people missed my
explaination of how to do it, and others had trouble with it. Here is the
final explaination and story:

First, the requirements: This only works on an Apple Color Display (14" RGB).
I suspect it will work on the 13"RGB, but I am not sure. The 12" monitor does
not require the VRAM expansion, for 16 bit color, and monitors bigger than
640x480 can't do 16 bit color at all (according to the manual).

So, if you went for the Apple product, instead of getting a VGA monitor, you
can open up your Monitor control panel, and press options. You will have
two options: Apple Color Display (Hi Res), and 640x400 Hi-Res. The latter of
these two cuts 80 pixels off of the bottom of your screen, and centers it
vertically (you must restart for it to take effect). Once you are in the
shrunken screen mode, go back to the Monitors panel. There will be a new
color option:
 "Thousands"

Have fun!! BTW, QuickTime movies look significantly better (and smoother) in
16 bit video than 8 bit. Also, Draw & paint programs don't have to customize
the palette, so you backdrops won't look ridiculous. Also, all pictures will
look just as good in the Finder as they do in GifConverter or Photoshop.

-Avram Dorfman ([e-mail])

p.s. For this reason alone, I highly recommend LC III purchasers to buy the
     Apple Color Display instead of a 14" VGA monitor. It is a great monitor,
     and if you are careful, can be yours for about the same price.

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

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 15:50:43 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Karl Pottie)
Subject: LC III print behaviour

We have 2 LCIII Macs which behave in a very strange way. During printing,
the printmonitor sometimes complains it has not enough memory to print the
document and asks if you want to give extra memory to the printmonitor.

If I look in the "About this Mac" box, the printmonitor seems to have
enough memory and there is also lots of "total free memory". I even set the
printmonitor's partition to 500Kb, but the problem keeps occuring.

Norton and Snooper can't find anything wrong. I rebuilt the desktop, zapped
the pram,etc ... I even reformatted the drives and installed a clean
system. No avail.

The 2 LCIIIs are in 2 completely different places, one has 4MB and one 8Mb.
Both have no inits except for disinfectant 3.2 . Used programs are
Filemaker Pro and MsWord. Both are connected to a localtalk network and
print to a different Personal laserwriter NT. One uses a Dutch system 7.1
and another uses the international version (original system disks !)

Our dealer doesn't seem able to help us. Has anybody experienced similar
problems ?

--
Karl Pottie                           e-mail: [e-mail]
Macintosh Consultant for the University Hospitals of Leuven, Belgium

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

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 10:13:35 -500 (EDT)
From: "Russell S. Aminzade: Trinity College of VT" <[e-mail]>
Subject: LCIII to a Gateway 2000 Monitor?

We have a very happy camper next door with an NEC multiscan monitor
connected to both a Mac and a DOS machine (hey, he needs it for a
class he's teaching) with a switchbox.  I know I've seen the pinouts
for connecting a Mac to a VGA monitor, and I know the quality won't be
nearly as good as a multiscan, but I'm wondering:

1)      Has anyone tried this with a Gateway 2000 CrystalScan (1024 NI)?

2)      Would the switchbox work?

3)      Is the quality likely to be really awful (even worse than the
    "apple basic" monitor?)

Thanks for any help!

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

Date: Thu, 03 Jun 93 08:29:15 EDT
From: "J. Feustle" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Life expectancy for a Laserwriter IIntx (Q)

Does anyone happen to know what approximate page count one can expect
to get out of a IIntx? I have about 160K pages on the one that I now
use and am preparing a budget request for hardware and software. If I'm
even starting to come close to the limit, I'd like to know now so I can
get a new printer lined up for when this one goes west (north, south,
east, take your pick).

Thanks
Joe Feustle
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1993 08:48:29 EDT
From: "Paul D. Bain" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Looking for At Ease enhancement prog. [C]

I understand you're looking for an At Ease-like program that
someone is developing for shareware. However, may I suggest you look
at Menu Master Mac? While it is NOT shareware, it is an EXCELLENT program.
I wrote the manual for Menu Master Mac, which means I looked at most (if
not all) of its competitors, including At Ease.

Menu Master Mac is the most complete and Finder-like program available.
After a year and a half of using and testing Menu Master Mac, each new
version impresses me more. Just when I think they can't make it any
better, they add revolutionary features to it.

Yes, it will cost you some money ($99 for a single user version), it
is worth it! Contact Mitchell Martin at Electronic Learning Systems
in Gainesville, FL at [phone].

One last piece of advice: programs like Menu Master Mac and At Ease
are SECURITY programs. You really want the availability of a company
behind a program that could potentially keep you out of your
computer. At Ease's security is easily overridden, just hold
down the Shift key when booting the computer. Menu Master Mac
provides several levels of password protection and ability to
get back into your computer should you really mess up or
install a conflicting extension.

You can tell them Rick sent you.

--Rick at PDBAIN

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

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 93 09:47:11 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Clinton Hyde)
Subject: looking for opinions on TimesTwo

I'm curious as to folks' opinion of TimesTwo, the driver-level
file-compressor. I've an opportunity to get it cheaply, and wonder how
those who have it and use it like it...

please reply direct, I'll summarize if there's enough response...

 -- clint               [e-mail]

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

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 93 19:43:13 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Wonko the Sane)
Subject: LW 8.0 drivers

I may have missed a discussion about this, as my main account for recieving
the
digest is down (argh!) but I would like to know if the LW 8.0 driver is
    a) easily available
        and
    2) capable of finally generating poratble Postscript

If anyone can enlighten me, please respond to
[e-mail]
Thanx!

Eric.

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

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 93 16:55:13 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Chris Pepper)
Subject: Macintosh Clock Speeds (refresher)

>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]
>
>------------------------------

Following are the clock speeds and processors of all the Macs I can remember.

Lisa
XL
Macintosh (128)
512 (Fat Mac)
Plus
SE
    use   8Mhz 68000

Portable
PB 100
    use  16Mhz 68000

II
LC (I)
    use  16Mhz 68020

IIcx
IIx
SE/30
LC II
IIvi
PB 140
    use  16Mhz 68030

IIsi
    use  20Mhz 68030

IIci
LC III
PB 145
PB 145B
PB 170
PB 160
PB Duo 210
    uses 25Mhz 68030

IIvx
PB 180
PB 165c
PB Duo 230
    use  33Mhz 68030

IIfx
    uses 40Mhz 68030

Centris 610
    uses 20Mhz 68040

Centris 650
Quadra 700
Quadra 900
    use  25Mhz 68040

Quadra 800
Quadra 950
    use  33Mhz 68040



                        L8r,


                        Chris Pepper
                        [e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 3 Jun 93 07:53:42 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Catherine Rey)
Subject: MacSchedule

I'm looking for an application called MacSchedule.  Assume
it's, as the name says, some kind of schedule-keeping app.
I've been asked to track it down but am having trouble.
Anyone heard of it?

Thanks

Catherine Rey
[e-mail]

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

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 10:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Ricardo C. Davis" <[e-mail]>
Subject: MacWarehouse On-Line BBS

Just got my latest catalog from MacWarehouse and I noticed an interesting
blurb on the ability to download demos of software they carry by
downloading from their BBS.

Anyone try this out?  Is it too good to be true?  Do the Info-Mac archives
have more demo software?  Can someone post these demos on Info-Mac?


    Ricardo C. Davis                    Internet: [e-mail]
     Building 773-42A, SRTC/SCS, Westinghouse Savannah River Co.
       P.O. Box 616, Aiken, SC  29802  [phone]

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

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 93 10:14:41 EDT
From: Andrew E. Scheck <[e-mail]>
Subject: Memory CDEV Hack (a challenge!) (A)

>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!

I think there is a miscommunication here; what the LC's ROM does not support
is "Apple's" RAM disk--the one set up by the Memory control panel. This one
survives all crashes, restarts, and can even be set up as the start-up disk
(on restart of course). It warns you when you shut down if you have anything
in the RAM disk, but not if you simply restart because that is completely
safe. I think the old ROMs cleared all memory on restarts and the new ones
first check to see if a (the Apple) RAM disk is set up and will not touch
that memory. I seem to remember reading that the memory protection
capabilities of the 68030 and 68040 are used to prevent that memory from
being corrupted by applications gone astray also. I'm not sure any of the
other available RAM disks support this.

So, while you may be able to patch the control panel to create the RAM disk,
I seriously doubt that it would work.

Andy Scheck

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

Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1993 18:57:44 -0500 (CDT)
From: "[e-mail]"@ualr.edu
Subject: memory upgrades into Mac II

Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.0-3 14/03/90 VAX/VMS; site ualr.edu
Path: news.ualr.edu!news
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest
Subject: memory upgrades into Mac II
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
From: Albert Everett <[e-mail]>
Date: 3 Jun 93 18:57:40 -0600
Distribution: world
Organization: University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Nntp-Posting-Host: acsmae.ualr.edu
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d17X-XXDate: Thu, 3 Jun 93 01:12:27 GMTLines: 27

Hello, net folk,

I am having a really weird problem and I could sure use some help on it.

I bought some 80ns 1mb SIMMs to install into a pair of Mac II's. They
previously had 2mb (=8 of 256k modules) and were running fine. When I
installed 8 of these new modules, the first Mac II wouldn't boot, giving
me the major chord arpeggio. At first I thought I had fried something, so
I put the 256k memory in. All was fine again. Then I tried filling just
bank A, then just bank B. Neither bank worked.

The other Mac II behaved exactly the same way. Then I tested the new
SIMMs in a IIci and they worked perfectly.

I called tech support at various places and they had no idea.

Need help bad on this one,

Albert Everett

 --------------------------------------
Albert Everett
Academic Computing Services
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
AppleLink:  U1686
Internet:  [e-mail]
 --------------------------------------

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

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 93 11:30 CDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: MIDI Wish: Internal Sound (A)

> 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.

Try ConcertWare+MIDI.  One of the modules, Instrument Maker, can
construct waveforms for various intruments. The other two modules
(Player and Misic Writer) can playback either through the internal
speaker or a MIDI device.  Playback on the Mac speaker is limited
to 4 voices only. Street price for Vers. 5.x used to be < $100.

Cheers- Shekhar Govind                    [e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 11:26:02 PDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Modems for PowerBooks

All,

It seems like there's a long waiting list to get Apple's fax/modem for the
PowerBooks and I'd like to know if there are any other comparable packages out
in the marker that competes or excels in performance/reliability/Software.
Anyone?
-Steve

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

Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1993 13:17:24 +1200
From: "matt n." <[e-mail]>
Subject: monitor problem -- brighter, dimmer [Q]

Yesterday the monitor of my LC, which is an Apple 12" greyscale
hi-res monitor, started doing something odd: it gets brighter and
dimmer suddenly. No distortion of the screen image, just this quick
brightening and dimming, just enough to drive me totally nuts.

Anyone ever see anything like this before? Could it be: trouble in
the electricity (spikes etc)? Dust in the monitor? Impending
blindness??? -- Thanx for any suggestions... m.
 --------
matt neuburg, phd = [e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 08:27:31 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Thomas R Lawrence)
Subject: News Reader Source

Hello.  Does anyone know where I can get the source code to a UNIX
news reader?  Any will do (rn, trn, etc.)

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

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 10:10:51 -500 (EDT)
From: "Russell S. Aminzade: Trinity College of VT" <[e-mail]>
Subject: New Zealand Powerbook Use

Any kiwis out there?  A colleague here is planning on spending a big
part of next year in New Zealand.  He's thinking of purchasing a
Powerbook Duo to bring with him.  He'd like to know:

1)      Does he need a special AC adaptor?

2)      Will the Apple Duo modems work with Kiwi phone lines

3)      Anything else he should know?

Any help would be appreciated.  Feel free to respond to me. You
can CC: Jeff if you wish ([e-mail]), though he doesn't
subscribe to info-mac and doesn't read his mail regularly.

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

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 08:35:15 +0000
From: [e-mail] (Martin Stoermer)
Subject: nmr spectrometers and macs

Evening all,
Here is a question for you: Is Version 1.0.2 the latest version of WIN-NMR
for Macintosh?  We have this version, but in the manual it mentions that in
the "third quarter of 1992" there will be an enhanced version available.
What I need to know is whether the "enhanced version" (v2.0.x???) can do 2D
data processing, which version 1.0.2 can't.  If so, does it require a high
end Mac to perform reasonably well?  The reason for asking is that we need
to incorporate 2D spectra into all sorts of documents (word processing,
ChemDraw etc.) and would like to know if anyone out there has done this.  I
know we can always go via a scanner, which we have done but is time
consuming.  We have a brand new Bruker ARX-500 nmr spectrometer, and the
manual says that it can output Postscript files of screen dumps.  However
as the screen is a big 19 inches the files are likely to be large.  If
anyone has transferred Postscript files like this over to a mac from the
host computer (an X32, a Bruker computer), could they let me know how they
did this?

As this is unlikely to be of any interest to the vast majority of Info-mac
subscribers it would probably be best if you replied to me directly.

martin

P.S.  If v2.0.x of WIN-NMR exists does it still require the copyright
protection dongle (EVE), and if so will the dongles that came with version
1.0.2 still work?
 ----------------------------------------------
Martin John Stoermer
Centre for Drug Design and Development
University of Queensland
St Lucia 4072
AUSTRALIA

INTERNET:  [e-mail]
 ----------------------------------------------

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Date: Thu, 3 Jun 93 11:59:12 CDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: OSF Motif look for the Mac (R)

Try the program ClickChange. It is a commercial software that allows you to
customize your Finder any which way you want. As I recall it is about US$99.

I hope this helps!

Vinko
-----
Vinko Tsui                              Vinko Enterprises
In Chicago:                             In Canada (Oakville):
Work: [phone]                    Voice: [phone]
Home: [phone]                    AppleLink: CDA1051

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

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 93 11:59 CDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: PB 180 and MIDI (A)

> 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?

Never heard this rumor before! I say rumor 'cos I've never heard an
"audio-pulse" on my PB170 while doing MIDI. Get a copy of TidBITS#178 from
sumex (in info-mac/per/tb) for more info on the PowerBook/MIDI soap opera.
Plans for a built-in MIDI interface on PowerBooks?? Unlikely.

Cheers-Shekhar Govind                   [e-mail]

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

Date: Wed, 02 Jun 93 11:49:28 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: PICT's in TeachText (C)

On Fri, 28 May, Paul M. Sheldon responded to the query

>>... 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?
>
>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!

Well, sort of, Paul. It works dandy with MacWrite II, but it leaves a
tad to be desired under MacWrite Pro. No text or graphic frame appears
in the saved TeachText document. No PICTs.

Yes, I dropped a note to Alan Coopersmith (the author) about that.

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

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

Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 11:48:47 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Hank Dolben)
Subject: PICTs in TeachText? (R)

Besides putting PICTs in the resource fork of a TEXT file, another way to
use TeachText to view PICTs is to create a document with a drawing
application and save the document as a PICT. Then, in System 7, the PICT
file can be opened by dropping it on TeachText. Also, if the creator of the
document is changed to 'ttxt', opening the document from the Finder
launches TeachText. TeachText can print the PICT, although page setup seems
to be problematic.

I like this as a way to distribute small (a few pages) pieces of read-only
documentation, because I can use the drawing application (e.g., SuperPaint)
for simple page-layout getting richer presentation (tables, figures, font
choices, etc.) than a plain TEXT document.

-Hank

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

Date: Thu, 3 Jun 93 12:09:02 CDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: PowerBook 170 internal modem (R)

I strongly recommends the PowerPort Gold from Global Village. They have the
best support and customer service I have ever experienced. I owned a TelePort
Bronze about 2 years ago and since upgraded to a TelePort Gold for my IIci.
When I purchased my PB 180 I purchased a new PowerPort Gold for it too.

Global Village has a 5 years warranty for their products and they also offer
an upgrade path for most of their modems. The best thing is that their
warranties are transferable. When you sell your old Global Village modem, the
new owner will have a new 5 years warranty on the old product. They really
believes in their products.

They also sells the modem direct. If you want to buy in somewhere else, make
sure the package you receive from the dealer is sealed. I really recommend
you buying direct if the price difference is not too great. This is because
Global Village do not have registration cards, you register your purchased
by FAX (what else) via their software.

I hope this helps! Let me know if you have more questions or call Global
Village direct at 800-736-4821.


Vinko
-----
Vinko Tsui                              Vinko Enterprises
In Chicago:                             In Canada (Oakville):
Work: [phone]                    Voice: [phone]
Home: [phone]                    AppleLink: CDA1051

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

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 93 12:52:22 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Bernabe Linares B.)
Subject: PowerBook AC Power Adapter Nonfunction (A)

A few days ago I posted some lines asking if anybody had open a PowerBook
AC Power Adapter. None of the people that answered had done it.
I had discovered that mine was non-functioning, and before throwing it
away and buying a new one I wanted to have a look inside that misterious
and hermetic box.
So I tried to open it. It's quite simple. That box consists of two plastic
pieces (top and bottom) that are glued together. Forcing the union of these
two pieces a little bit with a screw driver can bring them appart without
breaking any of the pieces.
Inside the box there are several small pc-boards with a lot of circuitry,
and in between that jungle of electronic components is a little 1.25A fuse.
The fuse was burned out. So I bought a new one for a few pennies, and now
I have my AC Power Adapter working again.

Hope this might help somebody else

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

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

Date: 3 Jun 1993 12:05:07 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Paul Johnson)
Subject: Printing to a PS file

I have just upgraded to system 7.1, and am having problems printing
to PostScript files on disk. Under system 6 I just pressed optionP to
invoke print, pressed <return> and then optionF, and a PS file was created
without the Mac header. (optionK or something creates a much larger file
with the Mac header left intact). Anyways, under system 7, on the print
panel, I click on the 'PostScript' button, and it creates a file OK:
unfortunately it has the header on it. As I'm sending my PS file down a modem
to be printed out on a unix printer with 'macps' I don't want this header!!!

Question: How does one print to PostScript files *without* the Mac header
under system 7?

Thanks, Paul Johnson

[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 03 Jun 93 16:04
From: "Andreas Frick" <[e-mail]>
Subject: program FastComm

Hello netters!
A few weeks ago, someone posted version 2.1 of termy. He mentioned
that it would be the only free program that works with the comm-
toolbox. Last year in the german "Macwelt" there was a  report
about noncommercial terminal and communication programs.
One of the programms mentioned was "FastComm", a shareware
terminal emulator totally based on the comm-toolbox. I tried to
find it with archie, but was not successful. Maybe it is on
Applelink or elsewere. So if someome has tested it, please
upload it to sumex.
Many thanks in advance!
Andreas Frick
University of Karlsruhe,  Germany
[e-mail]

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

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 93 14:52:33 +0100
From: Mr Gordon S Byron <[e-mail]>
Subject: qt faq?

Where can I find info on quickTime? Iwant to use it with Premier and
eventually in hypercard thanks
gordon

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

Date: Thu, 03 Jun 93 15:01:59 CDT
From: Graeme Forbes <[e-mail]>
Subject: Radius price reductions - warning

In case any of you are like me shopping around for a 2-page greyscale
monitor and leaning towards the Radius 19" or 21", be aware that (A)
on May 17 Radius made very big cuts in the suggested retail price of
these monitors: the 19" is now $799 and the 21" is $999. But (B) dealers
and mail-order companies are still selling at the old prices (usually
around $1300 for the 21"), or at least all the ones I called are doing
this. Local dealers claimed not to have heard of the cuts, and a guy
at MacZone said I'd have to wait for them to sell out their current
stock and restock from Radius at the new prices.

Moral: right now may not be the best time to pick up one of these
monitors - wait a couple of weeks for the cuts to hit the street.

But if anyone knows of a mail-order place where the prices presently
reflect the cuts, I'd be pleased to hear about it.

Graeme Forbes

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

Date: 02 Jun 1993 12:34:29 +0000 (U)
From: George Tempel <[e-mail]>
Subject: re- Alessandro Levi Montalc

              re: Alessandro Levi Montalcini
Alessandro...enough already!

What are you trying to do, put all us aspiring shareware
developers  to shame?

Keep up the work!

george f tempel
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 17:19:09 -0800
From: Larry Rosenstein <[e-mail]>
Subject: re  PhotoGrade at 600 dpi

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

Memory is an issue.  As I understand Photograde it works by imaging into a
4-bit pixmap.  Going from 300 dpi to 600 dpi increases the memory
requirements for this by a factor of 4.

It's possible that the photograde hardware itself would need to be upgraded
as well because it would have to work with 4x as much data.  (If it does
this while printing then it would have to be faster because once the
printer starts feeding the paper you can stop it.)

Larry Rosenstein
Taligent, Inc.

[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1993 08:31:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Michael A. McGuire" <[e-mail]>
Subject: SendPS Replacement

In Article <[e-mail]>,
[e-mail] (The Moderators) wrote:
>Date: 1 Jun 1993 21:38:50 GMT
>From: baum/[e-mail] (Christopher F Baum)
>Subject: sendps replacement (Q)
>
>A quandary-- how to send raw PostScript to a PostScript printer? Under
>System 7.x, the old Adobe sendPS (2.0) doesn't seem to work. The local
>support people hacked a version of Apple's LaserWriter Utility to
>contain only the Download Postscript File option, but in our zones of
>the LAN we use AppleShare 3.0 and print queues, with no printers visible.
>The Apple LWU will only talk to a physical printer, not a spooled printer.
>There is always the workaround of bringing the PostScript text into
>MS-Word and formatting with PostScript style, but I was hoping for
>something
>like a drag-and-drop or at least a sendPS replacement. Any ideas?
>Thanks for your help!
>
>Kit Baum
>Economics/Boston College

What you want is ShowPages 1.4.1  (formerly MacLPR) by
[e-mail]
1993/5/7 Takahiro Sumiya, Hiroshima Univ, Japan.

Its great.  A small excerpt follows:

>  ShowPages is a small utility for downloading PostScript code and
>  printing ASCII text file to your PS printer. The main features are:
>
>    1. You can download PS code in the background (Using PrintMonitor)
>    2. You can print your documents simply by drag & drop.
>    3. It treats text whose first 2 bytes are '%!' as postscript code,
>       otherwise as plain text.

It is in: /cfg/show-pages-141.hqx


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

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Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 05:44:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: John Thoo <[e-mail]>
Subject: sendps replacement (R)


On 1 Jun 1993 baum/[e-mail] (Christopher F Baum) asked:
> A quandary-- how to send raw PostScript to a PostScript printer?

You might try [./cfg/show-pages-141.hqx] at <sumex-aim>.

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

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Date: Thu, 3 Jun 93 09:31:29 EDT
From: Andrew E. Scheck <[e-mail]>
Subject: sendps replacement (R)

>A quandary-- how to send raw PostScript to a PostScript printer? Under
>System 7.x, the old Adobe sendPS (2.0) doesn't seem to work. The local

We've been able to use SendPS under System 7.x. The catch is that the
LaserWriter driver must be moved from the Extensions folder to the "System
Folder" in order for SendPS to find it. Chooser seems to have no problem
finding it in the "System Folder".

Andy Scheck

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Date: 3 Jun 1993 16:05:20 GMT
From: baum/[e-mail] (Christopher F Baum)
Subject: sendPS replacement (R)

Many thanks to those who replied to my query at lightspeed:
Crawford@McGill, Robert Winters, John Thoo, ajcarr@Dublin,
and Ryan MacWiller. As is often the case, the collective wisdom
of the net beats local support--no contest!

One important thing for those who might have this problem--
the application "MacLPR", nowhere to be found but highly
recommended by two of the above, is now called "ShowPages 1.4"
and _is_ available on the archives. I have tried it out and
it works beautifully. Anyone who needs this capability under
System 7.x should use it and forget Adobe SendPS. Again, thanks!

Christopher F Baum
baum/[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 22:43:50 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Thorsten von Eicken)
Subject: Slooow BeHierarchic 1.0.5

I had some HD problems and mucked around with the system. Now BeHierarchic
suddenly takes over 1 seconds to display submenus! Even if I just flip back
and forth between 2 submenus it still takes over a second, so it's not the
initial disk access to update the submenu. Any clues where this delay could
come from? Like this it's basically worthless...
    Thanks,
        Thorsten von Eicken
        [e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 16:40:48 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Li-Hsiang Tu)
Subject: SpeedyFinder7 1.5.4 (Q)

I just downloaded SpeedyFinder7 1.5.4.  Everything seems to work very well
except that my Mac crashed whenever I chose Get Info from the menu.
(However, I could use command-I.)  I tried it on my friend's Mac.  The
Finder quited whenenver I chose Get Info, and when the Finder came back,
his NowMenu stopped to work.  (NowMenu worked after the Mac was restarted.)
 Has anyone experienced the same or similar problem?

 -----------
Li-Hsiang Tu                                    Cornell University
Internet: [e-mail]                              Ithaca, New York

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Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 14:23-0400
From: "Brian K. Ogilvie" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Stacker, an impression... (R)

>From: Larry Rymal <[e-mail]>

>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.
>[...]
>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.

This just doesn't match my experience with Stacker and AutoDoubler.  I
have seen AutoDoubler on a friend's Powerbook 170 and was totally
unimpressed; small files in Think C compiles in particular seemed slow.
Since then, I have "stacked" both my internal 40Meg and my external
180Meg drives on my IIsi and haven't really noticed any change in speed.
I'm sure it is slower since, as was pointed out earlier, there is no
free lunch, but damned if I can tell.  The 40Meg internal (Apple
supplied) has always been slower than my larger, external drive.  I have
therefore (previously) migrated most of my large data files to the
external drive, leaving the internal with just the OS, fonts, programs,
and the like.  I haven't done any scientific timings, but I would
certainly notice the factor of three(!) that you are seeing.  Maybe
something in your configuration is going awry?  I really don't think any
one of the many automatic compression tools is *that* much better or
worse than any other, and I made my choice based on the ease of setup
and use (install it and forget it).

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Date: Wed, 2 Jun 93 17:41:36 PST
From: [e-mail] (Salient Software)
Subject: Stacker, an impression... (R)

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

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

...
    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.
...

With QuickTime movies they will only expand into memory if you lock
them.  QuickTime opens them with write access so AutoDoubler must
create an expanded copy.

Also, if the QuickTime file get very little compression (5 - 10%)
then you might just want to leave it expanded.

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Date: Wed, 2 Jun 93 8:54:16 PDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Syllabic (Inuit) Font(Q)

I would like to find out where I can get a Mac font that describes
the Inuit (Eskimo) syllabic alphabet.  I understand that there
may be a publisher in Ontario (Canada) that has such a font but
I'm unable to get more info.  Can anyone be of help?  Thanks in
advance.
"George Alexander" [e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 2 Jun 93 10:33:17 EDT
From: Andrew E. Scheck <[e-mail]>
Subject: syncing clocks (A)

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

If one of your Macs is running MPW and you have access to the developer CDs
then there is an extension called 5thColumn that is run on each networked Mac
and receives messages from the master Mac (running MPW tools that send the
required messages). These include (besides SyncClocks) Debug, DeleteIt, Do,
GestaltProbe, GetDirID, LaunchIt, MemPeek, SayHi and ScreenShot.

Andy Scheck

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Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 06:04:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: John Thoo <[e-mail]>
Subject: syncing clocks on Mac-only network (R)

On Sat, 29 May 1993 I posted:
> Does anyone know of a utility that will synchronise the clocks of
> networked Macs?  Thanks.

I received several responses, and my thanks to everyone who dropped me
a line:

  Anwar Y. Shiekh <[e-mail]>
  Dieder <[e-mail]>
  Igor Mikolic-Torreira <[e-mail]>
  Peter Jorgensen <[e-mail]>
  David Milton <[e-mail]>
  <[e-mail]>
  <[e-mail]>

(My apologies if I left off anyone.)


A few folks suggested using something called Network Time, but I gathered
(perhaps wrongly) that Network Time requires some sort of Unix box to work.
Several folks suggested using Tardis and Timelord (in tandem) since I was
interested in syncing the clocks on a Mac-only LocalTalk network.  I grabbed
the pair of items.  They seem to work as advertised, and so I'm posting them
to the archives.

Again, thanks for everyone's help on this.

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

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Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 12:31:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail] (Jim Schenk)
Subject: System folder protection (summary)

>  Does anyone out there know if there is a utility that will prevent
>  users from trashing the System folder or it's contents?  We need
>  something for a student lab.

Thanks to all the people who responded to my earlier post about protecting
the System folder.  Here is a summary of the replies:

Two people recommended FolderLocker, from:

Software Brewing Company
270 Apricot Lane
Mountain View, CA 94040-4320
[phone]

Also recommended was Folderbolt, from Kent-Marsh Ltd., and FileGuard,
>From ASD (I didn't get an address or phone number on these).

Several people also recommended using Apple's At Ease program, or using
either ResEdit or Norton Utilities Disk Editor to hide the System folder.

Again, thanks to everyone who responded.

Jim             [e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 3 Jun 93 16:48:38 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Bill Park)
Subject: Toner cartridge disassembly?

How do I disassemble the toner cartridge of an Apple Personal
LaserWriter?  Apple part number M0089LL/A.  Other numbers on the
cartridge are R64-1002-010, RA1-7731-2-4, RA1-7769-1-2-N.

I've refilled it myself several times and it's been printing beautifully
until just lately, when it developed a grey streak down the page.  I
suspect there is dirt on a corona wire or a crudded-up thing dragging
on the selenium drum.

Looks like there is a pin at each end that holds one half of the
cartridge inside the other so that they can pivot around the pins by
about a degree or so.  There's a coil spring loading this pivot joint.
Do I just press the pins out?  Are the two pins actually the two ends
of a single long pin going all the way through?

Are there any books on toner cartridge disassembly, repair, and
reassembly?  Why not?

Thanks,

Bill "Tightwad" Park
====================

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Date: Thu, 03 Jun 93 10:39:39 CDT
From: [e-mail]

Hello netters,
          I need some advice.  I am in the process if getting a new
hd for my 900.  The 160 that came with it is too small, and I am desperate
for a new one.  I have narrowed it down to the Fujitsu 520 and the Qunatum
425.  Both are about the same price, and speed...from the ads, have any of
you used these drives?  Any other drives that I should look at?  Oh, it
will be an internal drive.  My main uses will be photoshop and database work
using Filemaker pro and HC.  Any and all suggestions are welcome.


TIA
Lovejoy

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