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Info-Mac Digest             Fri, 11 Jun 93       Volume 11 : Issue 118

Today's Topics:

      [*] SIMM Stack 3.5.2
      3.5" removables and cron (Q)
      32 bit floating point math without FPU (from DDJ article)
      3 buttons mouse for MacX
      A Plea
      AppleTalk Problems
      BBC TV Horizon (R)
      Biology, Virology and Genetic (A)
      Bug in Glidel1.0
      Centris 610 configuration / flame on Apple France
      Centris 610 Video Pins
      Debugging Unusal Extension Conflict
      DeskPaint/Deskdraw
      Double sided printing
      Font conversion
      font corruption (Q)
      Football, anyone?
      FrameMaker 3 on Mac/SGI compared to PageMaker-Mac (Q)
      Genealogy software
      Help! Which Mac should I buy?
      hiding printers, again
      How do you uncompress installer files?
      HP Deskjet 1200 Ink Cartridges
      HP LaserJet 4M: New Driver (sort of)
      IIx won't start! Help!
      Info on writing a MacTCP LAP Module?
      LaserWriter 8.0 "features"
      LaserWriter Startup Page %$#@!#
      LaserWriter Startup Page %$#@!# (A)
      LCIII microphone rec level (Q)
      living...without mouse feet (R)
      Looking for key sub utilities
      MacX (3-button mouse; mapping Backspace to Delete) (R)
      MacX (A) -3 button mice, and defining the Unix erase key
      MacX over a 14.4Kb line
      MAJOR PowerPoint 3.0 BUG (Really?)
      MegaScreen - Help (Q)
      Need recs on disk mirroring ware
      NU 2.01 Updater
      Partitioning HD (2 msgs)
      Pioneer 6 CD ROM Changer
      PPDs
      QuickTime 1.6 "solution"...
      Retrospect to include mobile users?
      screen saver (R)
      shareware opportunity (C)
      SimCity
      SimCity doesn't work (A)
      Sparkle & QuickTime
      startup items
      Startup order...
      stylewriter II
      Using DEC CD-ROM drives with a Mac
      Using Eudora over an IDX line (Q)
      Vaporware issues
      Where to find non-apple PPDs
      WindowShade 1.2 author email
      Your Index Finger and the Future of the Mac

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Date: Fri, 4 Jun 93 13:45:00 -0700
From: Jon Pugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] SIMM Stack 3.5.2

Here's the SIMM Stack 3.5.2 by Mark Hansen of Apple.  It outlines SIMM
configurations for all Macs and LaserWriters capable of taking SIMM memory
upgrades.  Pretty useful stuff.

Jon

[Archived as /info-mac/card/simm-stack-352.hqx; 109K]

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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 93 10:23:42 -0400
From: [e-mail]
Subject: 3.5" removables and cron (Q)

    Sysquest 3.5" removable drive looks very inviting. I
noticed that a lot of mail order houses label it as new, since
I missed whatever horay was made at its introduction. Does anyone
know how long it has been out?
    Any good or bad reports about it? (haven't seen any
periodicals with articles about it...)
    How does it stack up against a magneto optical 3.5" (128 meg)?
    Speed wise???
    TIA.

    Next, is there a program in the mac archives that does
what cron does on UNIX? Preferably a background application that
can execute other applications at its startup, every 12 minutes,
at 5,7,8pm, etc...

Thanks,
    Mike    [e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 10:10:59 +1000 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Philip FX Ryan)
Subject: 32 bit floating point math without FPU (from DDJ article)

Hi

In the june 1993 issue of 'Dr Dobbs Journal' (a programming journal not
confined to any single platform, rather it is concerned with algorithms and
techniques), there is an article by Al Williams called '32 bit floating
point math'.

In this article, Al basically devises a method of getting almost-fpu
performance out of a non-fpu chip (the 80386) by converting floating point
numbers to a set of integers. He provides the source code to do this, but,
unfortunately, it is in 808x assembly language.

The speed improvements were pretty drastic, however: line drawing with the
80386 (25 MHz, no 80387) took 26 clock-ticks; with his 'FPM' library, it
took 7 clock-ticks; if the 80387 was added to the 80386, it took 4
clock-ticks. That is, the math improvement was much much better than
without the FPU.

Seeing as there are now many Mac types that have 32 bit chips but do not
ship with an FPU, there would be a clear interest in this sort of
improvement in math performance. Although to take advantage of such a
library, the program would have to be aware of it, it would still be of
help to those of us who would like to do more numerical programming on their
Macs. (Al does discuss the possibility of using C++ to overload the normal
math calls with his 'FPM' calls, when the library is available, but found
that such a method was slower than not using the library at all.)

I would have a go at translating his code to 68000 assembly, but have never
done any assembly programming - is it really that hard?

If anyone has any ideas on the implementation of an equivalent 'FPM for
Macs' to get better math performance out of non-fpu Macs, I would be glad
to hear it.

Phil Ryan
Melbourne, Australia

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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 93 18:30:57 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Howard Hui)
Subject: 3 buttons mouse for MacX

Hi,
Here is another MacX questions.

Does anyone know a 3 buttons mouse that will work withe MacX?

Since MacX use the right arrow key combined with the Mouse button to simulate
the middle button of the mouse and is quite inconvinence, I'd like to replace
 the one button Mac mouse with a 3 buttons one.

Does anybody knows who made it and how much does it cost?  How can it work
with
MacX?

Thanks in advanced.

Howard Hui
[e-mail]

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Date: 10 Jun 1993 11:32:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Peter Jorgensen <[e-mail]>
Subject: A Plea

Greetings,

The archives are getting harder and harder to connect to. Demand is going
up and the capacity of the machine probably isn't, so...

If you are using ftp to get files then connect, get and disconnect as
quickly as you can. Don't stay connected as you read the current digest
thinking that there MAY be something you'll want to get.

Better yet, use a gopher to get your files. These guys are designed to
minimize network traffic. If you don't know what a gopher is, write to me
and I'll tell you. If I receive enough responses I'll post a reply.

Use mirror servers. Could someone post a list of mirror servers?

We're all going to have to learn good resource sharing skills as the net
(read "Earth") becomes more crowded.

Thanks,

Peter Jorgensen MS-IRM                                  Colgate University
13 Oak Drive                 Research & Instructional Computing Specialist
Hamilton, NY 13346                Mac/DOS/VMS/PMDF consultant, HyperTalker
315-824-7742

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Date: 9 Jun 93 16:33:23 GMT+7
From: [e-mail]
Subject: AppleTalk Problems

Hi guys - I have a problem.
    I have a Mac LC 4/40 running system 7.1.  When I go to turn on
apple talk - it says that the file is not in the system folder.  I
have tried reloading the system - but it doesn't help.  I can bypass
the problem by loading on a Sys 6 disk - but it is a pain.  Any Help.
    Thanks

    MarkF

    [e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1993 00:19 MET
From: "E Hoenkamp, NICI" <[e-mail]>
Subject: BBC TV Horizon (R)

Here's the transcript info (a tv program about Bill Gates' visions).
HORIZON, The Electronic Frontier, PO Box 7, London W3 6XJ.
Checques for UKPound 2.- payable to BBC.
Edward.

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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1993 21:15:33 EDT
From: Robert Geisler <[e-mail]>
Subject: Biology, Virology and Genetic (A)

"J. Rossi" <[e-mail]> writes:
>Are there anyone out there who could give me addresses of servers (FTP,
>Telnet, WAIS, Gopher) with information on Biology, Virology and Genetic.

You might try the IUBIO Archive, ftp.bio.indiana.edu, which is accessible by
Gopher and FTP. IUBIO has the newest GenBank sequences, the central database
of the Drosophila community, assorted scientific software, and Gopher links to
other genetics-related servers.
You might also try ftp.embl-heidelberg.de, but (as usual with European hosts)
Internet access is sometimes slow.

Robert Geisler

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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 93 14:10:21 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Jean-Francois Sygnet)
Subject: Bug in Glidel1.0

dear moderators and info mac readers

in info-mac v11 #117 was the annoncement of the upload:
      /info-mac/gui/glidel-10.hqx; 13K

The init inside has been found not operating the way it should.
Don't bother downloading it, and could the moderators remove
it from the archive.
A new post will be made ASAP.

Sorry for the inconvenience ...

Jean-Francois Sygnet <[e-mail]>


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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 93 09:37:02 +0200
From: Martin Jourdan <[e-mail]>
Subject: Centris 610 configuration / flame on Apple France

In a previous post I gave some information on the various
configurations of the Centris 610, which I considered buying to
replace my secretary's IIsi.

Well, after I decided what precise configuration I needed, I called my
dealer.  Can you imagine that

        THE CENTRIS 610 WITH BUILT-IN ETHERNET
            IS NOT AVAILABLE IN FRANCE !!!

Since going to the 650 is too expensive (+1000$ according to the
mac-facts-ii report) for very little benefit (FPU, +25% speed, more
slots) which I don't really need, Apple won't see my money yet.

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

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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 93 17:42:12 edt
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Centris 610 Video Pins

I've just purchased a Philips 15" Monitor Model 1557AS and according
to the Documentation it will work with any Mac. Not so it is
currently set up for Mac II and Older Quadras. After connecting the
cable with the supplied adapter the screen cuts off the apple menu
and to the right of the Help menu. The horizontal adjust does
nothing to fix this and the display is distorted inward. does anyone
know what the Video pin outs are on the Centris 610.
Thank You.

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Date: Wed, 9 Jun 93 15:51:40 PDT
From: Edan Kabatchnik <[e-mail]>
Subject: Debugging Unusal Extension Conflict

I have one of those Extension conflicts that manifests itself after my boot
sequence has been completed.  I was hoping someone out there might be
recognize these symptoms:

* My Macintosh eventually drops into the debugger.  If a debugger is not
  installed I get the bomb.

* Macsbug reports that the crash occurrs in _VRemove.

* The crash will eventually happen.  It happens in any application that I
  might have running.  It usually happens right after startup or right before
  shutdown.

* I suspect - though I might be naiive on this one - that this has something
  to do with a vblank task: _VRemove?

Is there any way that I can determine which of my extensions are installing a
vblank task?

In case you are really interested, I have the following configuration:

* Macintosh IIci, 16MB memory, FastCache IIci
* System 7.0.1 with Tuneup 1.1.1
* Running in 24-bit mode, so I only really have access to 8MB of memory.
  I have to do this or XGator 2.0 won't work.

My extensions load in the following order:

* INITPicker 3.02
* Bongo Bob
* FastCache
* DOS Mounter Plus (happens with and without this extension)
* MacTCP 1.1.1
* XGator 2.0
* Versaterm FTP Server 1.1.6
* Versaterm FTP Client 1.1.3 (shutting this one off helps, but fix it
entirely)
* AppleShare
* CommentKeeper 1.0
* CompleteUndelete 2.01
* Disk Express II 2.11
* Greg's Buttons 3.0
* Magic Menu 3.0.5
* Memory
* Now Menus 3.0.1
* Open Wide 3.4.1
* Programmer's Key 1.4.2
* Savvy 0.1
* Shiva Config 3.6.6
* Stuffit SpaceSaver 1.0.4
* Suitcase 2.1.3
* The Grouch 2.5B1

    - Edan

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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 93 01:09 CDT
From: [e-mail] (Greg Trimper)
Subject: DeskPaint/Deskdraw

    I had asked if anyone knew if Zedcor's DeskDraw program
was still available, as I wanted a small Drawing program to
use with Word 4 on my Powerbook.  I received a LOT of replies
telling me that it was available, and giving the info on
how to get it, as well as approval for the program.  Nobody
told me that the program wasn't worth getting, and the
only alternative offered was AppleEdit, which does not
do Rotated Text, something I need for diagrams.

    In the mail yesterday I received a mailer from them
by sheer coincidence, offering DeskPaint and DeskDraw for
$29.95.  Sounds like a deal, even though I already own
MacDraw II 1.1 and Canvas 3.  Bothof those programs
 are bigger than I want for
extended powerbook use with Word, and MacDraw graphics give
me problems printing rotated truetype text to Laserprinters
(but not to a Deskwriter) from within word.

You can call them at 800 482 4567, FAX [phone] for
futher information or to buy the package.


Greg Trimper   [e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 09:15:13 +1000 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Gary G Drury)
Subject: Double sided printing

Well hi there all I have a problem which isa real pain.
Here's the situation.
    I have a BIG Word 5.0 file (1.5Meg) which I am trying to print
double sided.  ie: print the first 20 even pages then put the paper
back into the printer and print the 20 odd pages on the other side.

Now I can do this with Nisus easily but as the file is a word file
I loose all the formatting which is definately out of the question.
I have searched everywhere through the Word manual and have found no
solutions at all.

Now the questions:
Can word do what I have asked above ie:print double sided.

Or preferably

Can I convert the word file some way so that Nisus will read it and
keep all the formatting info intact.

NB: the file also contains diagrams with I must have.

Thatnks in advance.....

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

    Gary Drury   [e-mail]

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

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 93 00:08:25 GMT
From: Michael Everson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Font conversion

Does anyone know of any way of converting PC .PFA fonts to PC .TTF fonts?
Please answer me directly at [e-mail]. Thanks.

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

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Date: 09 Jun 1993 12:50:52 -0700 (MST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: font corruption (Q)

Has anyone ever heard of font corruption?
    if so, what is it?  what causes it?  can the corruption be repaired?
    How does one detect the font corruption?
    and finally, what kinds of problems arise from font corruption?

I'll cheerfully sumerize (with credits) to net once I discover the answers
to these questions.

Thanks,
Nohl Lyon

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Date: Wed, 9 Jun 93 20:29:14 PDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Football, anyone?

I am a devoted lover of sports-computer games and I was wondering if anyone
out there would have a Football game for the Mac. I have searched through
a number of archives looking for one, but have been unsuccessful so far.
I have heard of a shareware game called "MacFootball" but haven't been able
to locate it anywhere.

Thank you kindly in advance,

Christopher Walks
[e-mail]

PS Congratulations to the Montreal Canadians for winning the Stanley Cup

PSS That's the award for the National Hockey League champions, for those of
you who didn't know.   ;-)

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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1993 13:59:43 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Alan Hewat, ILL Grenoble)
Subject: FrameMaker 3 on Mac/SGI compared to PageMaker-Mac (Q)

I have the opportunity to buy FrameMaker 3 for either my Quadra-700
or our Indigo R4K at a special price ($400 for Mac, $700 for Unix).  At
present I use PageMaker 4 on the Quadra.  Any opinions about the relative
merites of PM and FM on the Mac vs FM on the SGI would be most welcome.
I import Word (sigh) documents from my Mac, and must use EndNote
(applause) for references. I am a scientist, not a professional publisher.

Previous comments in recent info-mac's said:

>The problem is with Nisus, not the fonts - Word, PAgeMaker,
>Quark, FrameMaker all perform as expected

>EndNote can reformat documents created by Microsoft
>Word 3, 4, and 5, WordPerfect 1.0 - 2.1, MacWrite 5.0, MacWrite II,
>WriteNow 1.0-3.0, Nisus 3 and FrameMaker 3.

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

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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 93 10:57:34 EDT
From: Eric Weiss-Altaner <R22104@UQAM>
Subject: Genealogy software

In the #116 Info-Mac, Romeyn Precott asks about genealogy software.

I have just received Personal Ancestral File 2.1 for the Macintosh.

It is produced by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints,
which in itself is reassuring, since genealogies are an
important part of the Mormon faith, and Mormons have
contributed notbaly to the preservation of demographic information
in many countries.

Since I have just gotten it, I can't report my personal impressions.
But it was well reviewed in Macworld, I think it was.

It costs 35$US. It requires a Mac 512 or larger. It is also
vailable in Ms-DOS version.
Credit card orders will be taken at 240-5274 if you are calling
>From Salt Lake City. All other callers from the US and Canada
may dial 1-800-537-5950, toll free.
Their fax number is 801-240-3685.
And the postal address is: Church of Jesus Christ ofLatter-Day Saints
Sal Talke Dsitrubiton Center
1999 West 1700 South
Salt Lake City, UT 84104-4233.

Cordially,

Eric Weiss-Altaner, Montreal  (R22104  @UQAM.BITNET)

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Date: 10 Jun 1993 10:33:10 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Bill Wiegand)
Subject: Help! Which Mac should I buy?

I'm about too buy a new Mac system and need help.  I've narrowed my choices to
the following and am looking for opinions regarding the benefits and
shortcomings of each.  Thanks in advance for your help

The choices are:
    1.      LC III
    2.      MAC II VX
    3.      Centris 610

send email to [e-mail]

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Date: 10 Jun 1993 15:53:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: O MH KATA MHXANHN <[e-mail]>
Subject: hiding printers, again

Thanks to all for the suggestions. LaserWriterLockout, however, only locks
out users who have it installed on their machines...hmmm, that doesn't
help me much. I'll check out the router (Shiva FastPath).

One person mentioned that it was possible to render printers invisible
across zones by renaming them with a tilde (he thought, but wasn't sure)
before their names. Can any one else verify this? It would be the easiest
method.

Bill McCarthy
Washington, D.C.

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Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1993 02:26:22 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Veljko Roskar)
Subject: How do you uncompress installer files?

I have a program installation disk that got some bad blocks and Norton
Utilities saved all but the Apple Installer Script file. The company is out
of business and I only have this one disk.

The Apple Installer (v 3.1) and all the files are separate and OK, but one of
the files is seemingly in compressed format. Installer tells me that the
Installer Script file is missing and can't install the software.

QUESTION: Is there a way to decompress a compressed Apple Installer file
without the script?? Or how can I create an Installer Script that would work?


I can figure out where to put all files if I could only get the crucial one
uncompressed!

PLEASE mail direct to me, I will post a summary to those intereted.

Kind regards,

Veljko [e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1993 12:57:40 +0000
From: [e-mail] (Henry Rzepa) (Henry Rzepa)
Subject: HP Deskjet 1200 Ink Cartridges

We have recently acquired such a printer. The (four) ink cartridges
resemble Fort Knox, in that they appear to be impregnable. Since
all four are still full (and in the UK they each cost about $50!)
we have not had the courage to open one up. Is anyone out there
any the wiser than we are on the prospects of refilling one of these?

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


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Date: Wed, 09 Jun 93 17:11:48 CDT
From: Graeme Forbes <[e-mail]>
Subject: HP LaserJet 4M: New Driver (sort of)

HP still hasn't issued a 7.1-savvy driver (i.e., one that knows to
look in the fonts folder). And maybe now they won't.

The new Level 2 drivers from Adobe and Apple (in particular, Adobe's
PSPrinter 8.0 driver) are 7.1-savvy, and you can get a Printer Page
Description file from HP for the 4M that works with the Adobe driver.

The PPDs that HP sent me are said to be for printing with PageMaker
and nothing else, but they seem to work fine with Nisus and FrameMaker,
and I would guess that they'll do so with most other (non-Microsoft :))
software.

The catch is that you have to pay about $25 plus shipping for the Adobe
driver. I believe the Apple one is free and it should be possible just
to put the PPDs for the 4M (there are 2) into the Apple PPD folder. If you
pay your money to Adobe, you get PPDs for a vast range of output devices,
many of which I had never heard of, but of course there isn't one for the
4M - the readme file says tough, call HP. The 4M is only the groundbreaking
600dpi personal laserprinter and the Byte Hardware Product of the Year
for 1992 - why should they bother with it?

No matter, HP will send you the PPDs for nothing, not even the cost
of shipping and handling.

Why bother? As far as I can tell, there aren't any fancy new control
features that the PPD enables - maybe HP is working on an improved
version. But you do get a perceptible increase in spooling speed,
a window that informs you of spooling progress, and a *very* perceptible
increase in rasterizing speed. So a page spits out quite a bit quicker
than it used to (this is for non-resident fonts).

For those of you using Easy Envelopes Plus 2.6: leave the driver on
auto-select. I had EE set on "Other" for envelope size but changed it
to 4.5x9.5 when the first printout didn't work. This change means that
the return address should be on the bottom left as you feed in the
envelope. Weirdly, "Other" has now disappeared from the menu of Options
in the PS Page Set-Up dialog box called by EE. So I have to make a
few small adjustments in my address formats to get the positioning
on the envelope right. But this is a small price for the speed increase.

Adobe: 800-83-fonts
HP: 303-353-7650

Graeme Forbes

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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 93 22:59:25 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Ian Chai)
Subject: IIx won't start! Help!

My IIx won't turn on. I make sure it's plugged in, etc, and press the on
switch and it doesn't turn on. I've tried both the one on the keyboard and
the one at the back of the Mac.

Last year, I seem to remember seeing someone say that this was a
"simple problem to fix with a soldering iron."

If you know the answer, could you please email me? (I'm *way* behind on
info-mac.)

Thanks,
    Ian Chai <[e-mail]>

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Date: 10 Jun 93 10:34:00 EDT
From: "JS::CLEMENTSG" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info on writing a MacTCP LAP Module?

              E L E C T R O N I C   M A I L
           (DDN Host Address:  JS3-VAX.HANSCOM.AF.MIL)

                    Date:      10-Jun-1993 10:34am
                    From:      Geoffrey Clements
                    Username:  CLEMENTSG
                    Dept:      HTI ESC/JSER
                    Tel No:    x8466

TO:  _WINS%                               (
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Subject: Info on writing a MacTCP LAP Module?

Hi,

I'm writing a SLIP link access protocol (LAP) module for MacTCP. It uses
the Macintosh Communications Toolbox to manage the serial connection. I
figure I have it maybe 80 percent done. My question is: does anyone know of
information on writing link access protocol (LAP) modules for MacTCP?

I have the MacTCP developers kit from APDA which provides no information
other than get a copy of "Building Alternate Link Access Protocol Modules
for MacTCP". "Building Alt...for MacTCP" has some huge gapping holes in the
information it provides. I also have the 802.2 ethernet example LAP from
the developer's disk. The 802.2 example LAP really does some funky things
and I'd prefer not to have to untangle it.

Any help would be appreciated. Please reply to me directly as I can't
subscribe.

internet:
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

Thanks again,

geoff

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Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1993 20:06:57 -0755
From: [e-mail] (David Valentine)
Subject: LaserWriter 8.0 "features"

>Also, the following statement appears: "The LW 8.0 driver allows some
printers
>to print using a larger imageable print area on the page. If your printer
does
>so, you may find that text in some documents reflows or is clipped to fit the
>new imageable area." My response: *Please*, Apple, could you  be specific?
>What printers? Various models of your own, or third-party ones only?

My understanding, after only having installed the driver a coulpe of days
ago.

If you use the generic PPD, you will not have this problem. BUT, if you
start using the custom PPD's you will get all the features of your printer.
Luckily, apple provides a nice way of winding this out. Select your printer
PPD, and open the page setup box. Click on the dogcow. This will show the
imagable area, complete with the dirt on the margins. Then, select the
options button, and set to a large print area.
It shows a big difference. We have laserwriter NT's, and a GCC PLP II. When
in larger print area status, the PLPII's imageable area is larger than the
NT's.  The NT's get .2 inches away from the page, while the PLP says it can
get 0.014 inches (and the generic driver goes to .25 inches). Apple is
being honest. You may have users coming to you with problems if they use
the larger printer area option. With the new driver, it is no longer a
standard dimension.

David Valentine
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 9 Jun 93 17:17:02 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Alan S. Dobkin)
Subject: LaserWriter Startup Page %$#@!#

Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1993 08:08:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Benjamin White <[e-mail]>
Subject: LaserWriter Startup Page %$#@!#

Is there any way to stop my LaserWriter from spitting out it's startup
page every time it gets turned on?

Thanks in advance!

Ben White
[e-mail]

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

Yes, you must use the LaserWriter Utility.  The latest version is 7.4.1,
which comes on the LaserWriter 8.0 disk that you can download from several
sources, including ftp.apple.com in the dts/mac/sys.soft/imaging directory.

Alan S. Dobkin
Student Lab Consultant and
Microcomputer Support Technician
Emory University Info. Tech. Division

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Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1993 19:51:21 PDT
From: Kee Nethery <[e-mail]>
Subject: LaserWriter Startup Page %$#@!# (A)

>Is there any way to stop my LaserWriter from spitting out it's startup
>page every time it gets turned on?
>

The software that ships with LaserWriters has a menu selection that tells
the Laser to stop spitting out a test page.

Kee Nethery

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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 93 16:07:26 EDT
From: [e-mail] (2d Lt Avram Dorfman)
Subject: LCIII microphone rec level (Q)

According to the manual that comes with the LC III, the internal microphone
does not have an adjustable record level. So far, the sources I have found
OTHER than an accoustic microphone, have been too loud. Seriouis clipping
has occurs ( flattening of the waveform when the amplitude passes an
imposed limit), and the resulting sound is generally distorted and
unpresentable. You can tell what it is, but you wouldn't want to produce
something with your name on it that contained the sound.

I am looking for any solutions that people have found for this problem. I am
aware that I could run sounds through my tape deck, and use that record
level.
I would like a solution that does not require me to sacrifice a whole
appliance
for the sole purpose of adjusting an audio input to another system.

Mostly, I have been recording audio from a VHS. I am interested in either
software or hardware methods of reducing the input level, without significant
loss of fidelity.

-Avram Dorfman ([e-mail])

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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1993 07:12:06 -0500 (CDT)
From: Larry Rymal <[e-mail]>
Subject: living...without mouse feet (R)

    A comment was made about how to replace the missing mouse feet.  I
have a solution, albeit sloppy.
    Some mice have tall feet (wonder how many rodentia experts are on
their death bed from laughing about this message thread?).  If this is the
case, you can go to a store that sells nylon tie-wraps and buy one that
has wraps about the same size in thickness as the foot.
    Cut it to about the same length as the foot.
    Superglue it to a location that works on the mouse.
    The nylon is just about as slick as the teflon and certainly more
durable.  I have used this solution on a LC vintage mouse (LT038 series)
for a few months that has a problem about the mouse's huge foot not being
thick enough.  The most obscure piece of lint will make the mouse stop
tracking.  This is the mouse with the feather-light ball.  I placed a
nylon tie-wrap piece across the entire foot surface and the ball tracks
marvelously.

--Larry Rymal <[e-mail]>

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 93 01:09:21 EDT
From: Adam Schenker (GE) <[e-mail]>
Subject: Looking for key sub utilities

Hello again. A friend of mine just got a PowerBook Duo 210. However, he
needs to run some DOS software for it. The problem is this: the DOS
program he is using requires Page Up and Page Down keys. The Duo's
keyboard doesn't have these keys. Is there some small control panel
or somthing that would allow him to use some other key combination
to work as Page Up and Page Down?

Also, my inturrupt key (cmnd-power) still doesn't work (yes, I have
MacsBug installed). Someone said there was a utility that would let
me do it, but I forgot what it was called. (ooops :).

Thanks for your help!

Adam Schenker
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 93 14:38:00 EDT
From: Tony Silva <[e-mail]>
Subject: MacX (3-button mouse; mapping Backspace to Delete) (R)

I use a Logictech 3-button mouse and it works flawlessly on my
MacLCIII. I strongly recommend it.

To swap keys, use the X client "xmodmap". For example, to turn the
Backspace key into a Delete key, use

    xmodmap -e "keysym BackSpace = Delete"

Tony Silva, Atlantic Aerospace Elec. Corp., [phone], [e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1993 09:54:48 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Alan Hewat, ILL Grenoble)
Subject: MacX (A) -3 button mice, and defining the Unix erase key

"Marc Leroux" <[e-mail]> writes:
>I have just installed MacX on a couple of IIci's here and have a couple of
>general questions.

>1) Does anyone know of any 3 button mouse (mouses, mice??) that work well.
>
>2) Does anyone know how to get the delete key to actually do a 'rubout'. I
had

These are Mac-X FAQ's.

1)  LogiTech make a good 3-button mouse where the buttons
can be programmed to do various things.

2) Here's a fancy Mac-X script to run xterm.  The last bit defines the
erase key.

/usr/bin/X11/xterm -ls -sb -display "Rdisplay" -title "Rhost xterm"
-geometry 100x120-20+20 +t +j +si -sk -sl 256 -tm "erase ^?" &

Type "man xterm" on your Unix machine to understand these options.
You can also define keys in your .xsession (and other) files on the Unix
machine.

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

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Date: 10 Jun 1993 08:09:49 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Paul Johnson)
Subject: MacX over a 14.4Kb line

Does anybody have any experience of running MacX over a 14.4Kb (or any other
speed) modem line? I have been told that it works, albeit slowly, but you
need some kind of TCP/IP service, eg. MacSLIP, but the latter costs an
awful lot of money (like 4X cost of modem).

Any ideas?

Paul Johnson

[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 93 13:39:56 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: MAJOR PowerPoint 3.0 BUG (Really?)

On Wed, 9 Jun, Brandon Munday wrote:

>Just heard hat there's a major bug with PowerPoint for Macintosh, V 3.0.
>The problem occurs whenever you work with a floppy diskette or a remotely
>mounted volume from inside PowerPoint, such as save to a floppy or save
>to a mounted volume. The result of the bug seems to be that the hard
>drive AND the floppy can be ***ERASED***

That's not what MicroSoft just told *me*, Brandon. The bug fixed in 3.0B
relates to changes in a previously save file. It is caused by highliting
one or more text blocks and attempting to change anything (font, size,
color, etc). This can cause a "bad f-line instruction" which will lead
to the loss of your changes. It does not erase any disks.

Or so I'm told.

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 93 07:49:27 BST
From: Richard Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: MegaScreen - Help (Q)

Does anyone know anything about a Mega Graphics two page display for the Mac
SE??

I have one, I also have the driver card and the software, the card works OK,
the
software works OK, but I'm having the devil of a job to get the screen to work
-
I don't have a schematic (I'm an electronics engineer - I've got most of the
screen working, it was completely dead when I got it) so it's proving a real
nightmare.

I can't get in touch with either Mega Graphics (used to be at Canoga Park, CA
91304) or Video Monitors INC (were at 3833 N. WHITE EAU CLARE, WI 54703).

The screen's model number is M2400-301B.

There's a spare socket on the driver card labelled for a 'CO-PROCESSOR OPTION'
-
what does this do, which chip fits it, does it make any difference?

I suppose ideally, I'd like someone to mail me a copy of the scematic for the
screen, but any info or help would be really helpful.
Thanks

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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 93 14:02:11 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Richard Schaaf)
Subject: Need recs on disk mirroring ware

Hello,

I need some recommendations on disk mirroring software or hardware.
Requirements are that it be fast, and that it has the ability to
mirror an entire drive with sys software and all. I would like
it to be a simultaneous mirroring scheme but a good background
setup is OK if its fast..

Thanks,

Ric Schaaf
[e-mail]
--

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Date: 10 Jun 1993 10:47:05 -0500
From: "dlawrence" <[e-mail]>
Subject: NU 2.01 Updater

>>> (Also, if anyone has the Now Up-To-Date 2.01 updater would you please
post it - thanks in advance)
Jonathan Leblang
[e-mail] <<<

Here you go...although I guess I could have hopped on 66 and dropped it off on
disk!

[Sent via Fetch under separate cover]

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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 93 18:52:26 CDT
From: Mac <[e-mail]>
Subject: Partitioning HD

Hello all,
      I have a new HD on the way, a Q525, and am in need of some advice
to partition it up.  I do mainly graphics, and some FileMaker Pro database
design, but mostly graphics...3D stuff, Quark layouts, Photoshop...stuff
like that.  Since 500 is am oddish size, the normal parts don't seem to be
right to me.  I thought about making a partition for just the system folder
with all the fonts that I use, but am having second thoughts.  Has anybody
got any better ideas.  Also, does anybody know that the latest version of
HDT is.  If I have an old version, I would like to upgrade.  I checked the
supported list of hard drives, and since this is a new drive, it is not on
the list.  I am sure that it is supported, but just want to be sure.

TIA
Mac

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

Date: Thu, 10 Jun 93 20:07:41 CDT
From: Mac <[e-mail]>
Subject: Partitioning HD

Hello all,
    I HAVE A NEW HD ON THE WAY, A Q525, AND AM IN NEED OF SOME ADVICE
to partition it up.  I do mainly graphics, and some FileMaker Pro database
design, but mostly graphics...3D stuff, Quark layouts, Photoshop...stuff
like that.  Since 500 is am oddish size, the normal parts don't seem to be
right to me.  I thought about making a partition for just the system folder
with all the fonts that I use, but am having second thoughts.  Has anybody
got any better ideas.  Also, does anybody know that the latest version of
HDT is.  If I have an old version, I would like to upgrade.  I checked the
supported list of hard drives, and since this is a new drive, it is not on
the list.  I am sure that it is supported, but just want to be sure.

TIA
Mac

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

Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1993 22:36:26 CDT
From: [e-mail] (Andy Stolper)
Subject: Pioneer 6 CD ROM Changer

Does anyone know how to change the discs on the Pioneer 6 CD CDROM changer?
Is
it controllable via software or is it a manual switch?  Anyone have any
experience and comments about this CD ROM changer?  Does anyone know if more
than one CD can be accessed at one time?

Any information would be appreciated.

A. Stolper

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Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1993 17:53:46 EDT
From: [e-mail] (PHILLIP MICHAEL WILLIAMS)
Subject: PPDs

Thanks to all of you who answered my request for PPD files.  The stock answer
was look for them at ftp.adobe.com.  I can't remember the directory they are
in but it is relatively easy to find.  If anyone needs to know I can go back
and find out for sure.

Thanks again for your help!

Phil Williams

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

Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1993 22:34:04 -0500 (CDT)
From: Larry Rymal <[e-mail]>
Subject: QuickTime 1.6 "solution"...

Folks,

    Lately, a few users have been voicing concerns on being able to
view QuickTime submissions while QuickTime 1.6 is installed.  This
work-around does nothing to help those who are having problems
incorporating QuickTime movies within word processors, it does help those
who are having grief on getting the MovieMaker application to work with
1.6.
    Getting a bit peeved at MovieMaker myself, I did some digging on
GEnie and discovered that the users there have SEVERAL different QuickTime
viewers.  I downloaded a few.  One is called QTPLAY and is a 11k
HyperCard stack.  Another is EasyPlay 2.0 and can also be found at:

plaza.aarnet.edu.au:..ch/graphics/quicktime/easyplay2.0.cpt.hqx

    Both applications have a tremendous advantage over the currently
psychotic MoviePlayer/QT 1.6 pairing... speed and no crashes.  I was VERY
surprised how smooth QuickTime movies can be with QTPLAY and EasyPlay.
There is little or no "stuttering" in the view window.  Both also give you
the ability to form catalogs and lists of movies.
    EasyPlay supports drag & drop.  I was surprised that
many unmentionable viewers do not which is why I bring it up.
    The MAIN advantage on using these is that they WORK and the viewed
movie is FAST.
    Disadvantage????  Yep... I assume QuickTime movies are in
MoviePlayer format meaning that with a stock computer, you cannot merely
click on the movie and have EasyPlay come up.  However, this is a small
price to pay compared to the features you get with these nifty programs.
    If anyone is is interested in the 11k QTPLAY HyperCard stack, I'll
send it to Sumex.  As far as I know, it isn't there, although I might have
missed it while getting lost and confused in the new directory structure.
(;>)

--Larry Rymal <[e-mail]>

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Date: Wed, 9 Jun 93 18:27:26 -0400
From: Brian K. Kobleur <[e-mail]>
Subject: Retrospect to include mobile users?

Greetings Netters!

In designing an automated script session for Retrospect 2.0, has anyone given
though to how to design an unattended backup plan that includes people with
Duos and PowerBooks who may inconsiderately take their Mac home?  Unexpected
absences tend to give Retrospect the hiccups...

TIA!

Brian

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

Date: Thu, 10 Jun 93 13:18:05 EDT
From: [e-mail] (2d Lt Avram Dorfman)
Subject: screen saver (R)

Someone wrote in looking for a simple Shareware screen saver that just
blackens the screen.

There is one called Twilight, (at sumex it is in /gui/twilight-714.hqx I
think). This one is a control panel, and dims the screen to a brightness
percentage that you specify. It requires that you have the brightness
extension installed, (which it provides, as well as an installer script).
Obviously, it requires that your mac be compatible with the brightness
adjustment.

I recently installed brightness, and it is great. It hasn't conflicted with
anything so far (it has been a couple of weeks). One of the nice things is
that since it works by dimming the screen instead of drawing a picture over
it, there is no chance of it messing up the desktop, or any other application
displays (like Maelstrom, for example).

Yes, 0% is one of the possibilities.

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

Date: Thu, 10 Jun 93 09:28:56 CDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: shareware opportunity (C)

>Any would-be shareware writers out there looking for a worthwhile project?
>Here's an idea that would be useful to a number of people, I suspect
>(especially
>those in workgroups that trade documetns, or those who take their documents
to
>service bureaus for printing). It could be a system extension (preferably) or
>a
>stand-alone application.
>
>I think it would be very handy to have something that would whip through a
>document and make a list of all the fonts (and possibly sizes and styles
>thereof) used in that document. The list could be attached (electronically or
>physically) to a document that is being printed from a different Mac, so that
>the person doing the printing would be forewarned that certain fonts may have
>to
>be added to the Mac doing the printing in order that the document come out
all
>right.

This sounds like a great idea to me. I have another--how about something
that will go through an existing word processor document (specifically
MS Word in my case, but it would be nice if it worked with others also)
and change dumb quotes to smart ones. This would make me an exceptionally
happy camper, smiling all the way to the post office to send in my share-
ware fee!

If anyone knows of the existence of such an animal, please let me know...

                             Pat

Pat Ullmann  [e-mail] or PULLMANN@TRINITY (BITNET)

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Date: 10 Jun 1993 19:52:18 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Jeremy Norberg)
Subject: SimCity

[e-mail] writes:

SimCity is currently at ver. 1.4. The sumex directory has the updater in
its games sub directory!

Jeremy
[e-mail]


>I have SimCity version 1.2 which I ran on a Plus.  I recently upgraded to a
>LCII running 7.1 and now my SimCity won't run.  I tried calling the number
>listed for Maxis in my old version 1.0 manual, but it is out of service.

>Does anyone know how I can get a new version or get in touch with Maxis?

>Thanx,

>Greg.

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

Date: Thu, 10 Jun 93 17:37:04 EST
From: GRENDEL <[e-mail]>
Subject: SimCity doesn't work (A)

I believe your problem is that the latest version of SimCity is 1.4. I had
the same problem a little while bAck, and it was hell tracking down the
updater
so I could update my version. I finally found it on America Online, but not
on the net. If it's legal, I may upload it to Sumex.
If you need to contact Maxis, their snail is:
Two Theatre Square, Suite 230
Orinda, CA 94563-304
[phone]
I couldn't find a Net address for them, but since they're on AOL, you could
probably get to them using [e-mail] as an address.
Hope this helps.

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Date: 10 Jun 1993 8:25:32 CST
From: "Dr. Francis J.  Van Wetering"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: Sparkle & QuickTime

I have a couple of questions:

I have a standard SE/30 (no color monitor; no greyscale).  Can I use
Sparkle to play MPEGs in B&W?

I am using system 7.0.1 w/ TuneUp 1.1.1.  There is NO QuickTime
extension that I can see.  Can I get QuickTime for a B&W SE/30?
Where?

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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1993 23:47:17 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Grant R. Bowman)
Subject: startup items

I looked into that as well, and I even made a fool of myself on comp.sys.mac
   .programmer.  It is alphabetical, but not the same alphabetical that the
   finder uses.  The startup routine will ignore all the special characters
   that are used by the finder like nulls and such.

I hope this helps.

----
   Grant Bowman                   Delta Sigma Phi, Technology Task Force
   [e-mail]      All hardware is worthless.  --Torque Systems

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Date: 10 Jun 1993 10:44:43 -0500
From: "dlawrence" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Startup order...

>>> In system 7, what determines the order of items that are opened
at startup (also known as startup items (which are items in the
startup foldr that boot at startup))?? It isn't random, as I have
booted my computer many, many times whith the same results. It
also doesn't seem to be alphebetical. I have noticed that they
seem to boot in the same order as when they are all selected
and opened at once in the finder. Does anyone know what
determines this?

Kurt White
[e-mail] <<<

As far as I know, the order *is* alphabetical, but the first set is the
extensions, the second set are the control panels, and the third set is
anything loose in the system folder. That is, of course, unless you're using
Startup Manager or an equivalent

David Lawrence
Online Tonight

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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 93 20:59:52 +0300
From: [e-mail]
Subject: stylewriter II

I have waited a long time for my stylewriter which has finally arrived....I
have two problems that perhaps someone else has experienced:

1)  when I change the defaults in the print dialogue (ie to black and white
and to best) they do not stay changed and revert...how do I change the
defaults?

2) the same paper that is used for photocopying, laser printers, and hp
deskjets yields lousy  quality on the stylewriter .  I have had to use high
quality letterhead to get good results...any suggestions (I did clean the
head....)?

Thanks in advance

Michael Silverstein, Materials Engineering, Technion

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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 93 21:24 BST
From: RICHARD LIM <[e-mail]>
Subject: Using DEC CD-ROM drives with a Mac

The only response I received to my query of several days ago was to use
a program called Drive 7.  This advice has been echoed on other newsgroups,
eg this posting in comp.sys.mac.system:

In article <[e-mail]> ,
[e-mail] writes:
>DRIVE 7 's cdrom driver (Casablanca Works) works well with the RRD42 /Sony
>drive.  Remove the parity jumper.  Once the jumper is removed the vendor id
>should change from DEC RRD42 to SONY CDU-541.

So it would seem you can put your DEC CD-ROM drive to some "proper" use,
with your Mac! :-)

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Date: 10 Jun 1993 11:15:44 -0700 (MST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Using Eudora over an IDX line (Q)

I wan to use Eudora as my mail app, but I have only
an IDX-line connection to the server.  Is there a
way that I can modify the scripting in Eudora to
make this happen?  (I need to have Eudora send a
break, wait for a reply, send a three letter command
followed by several returns, wait for a reply, and
then log on).   Please reply to me...

Peter Gerhardstein ([e-mail])

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Date: Wed, 9 Jun 93 09:35:27 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: Vaporware issues

In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
> 1.  The last TidBITS mentioned some price "tinkering" by Apple on
> models that (I assume) are on their way out, or are not selling well.
> But does anyone have _reliable_ information on whether the "Cyclone"
> is still going to be announced this month?  And if so, what are the
> implications for Quadra 800/Centris 650 prices?  The April price
> adjustment in Canada actually saw some small _increases_ on the higher
> end CPUs.

Your assumption is correct about models on their way out or not selling
well; however, that's standard practice for Apple these days.

I very much doubt that the Cyclones will be announced this month,
although I gather Apple will have some more announcements in June,
I've heard dates more in the August time frame for the Cyclones. Of
course, that might be for shipping and they might announce them in
June. You can never tell with Apple. Everything I'd heard about the
new PowerBook announcement said June 14th until the beginning of June,
when it was moved up to June 7th.

The Cyclones will outperform the Q800, so I can't help but think that
prices on the Q800 and C650 will drop slightly.

> 2.  There have been some comments on the net in the last few days
> about upgrade paths to the PowerPC.  Again, does anyone have the scoop
> on which present models, if any, will be upgradable?

The latest I've heard is that the Centris 650 and 610 cases will be
upgradeable - I heard somewhere that the Quadra cases will not be
upgradeable, but that could be very unpopular, and thus is more likely
to change.

I just wish I could upgrade my SE/30. :-)

Keep in mind that it will be mid-94 before the second set of PowerPCs
appear, which is probably when you'll want to start thinking of upgrading.
The first PowerPCs probably won't outperform the Cyclones by much,
if at all, since none of your software will run in native mode on
the PowerPC, and emulation, good as it may be, just isn't as fast.
It may take Microsoft until Jan-94 to release Word 6.0 for the Mac,
so it's pretty obvious that Word 6.0 for PowerPC won't be out the
next week. The same will probably apply to other major apps, although
I'm sure one or two will appear at the same time as the PowerPCs.

cheers ... -Adam

Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor -- [e-mail] -- [e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 93 14:38:17 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Jean-Francois Sygnet)
Subject: Where to find non-apple PPDs

in info-mac v11 #115 Phil Williams <[e-mail]> asks:
> Dose anyone know if there are any PPDs for non-Apple
> laser printers??

I found some (about 50) in the (unix) file: psf3.5.tar.Z
that one can download by anonymous FTP from: ftp.inria.fr
in the directory: /postscript
But you should probably do an archie search to find
a site near you carrying the same file.

hope it helps

Jean-Francois Sygnet <[e-mail]>


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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1993 18:11:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alex Sirota <[e-mail]>
Subject: WindowShade 1.2 author email

Does anyone know the address on the Internet of the author of WindowShade
1.2? His name is Ron Johnston. I will try X.500  and gopher searches also
but I thought I would ask quickly.

Thanks

ps. The reason I am asking is that I have been informed it is not
compatible with 4D and we absolutely need to run 4D. But I need
WindowShade also :)

aTdHvAaNnKcSe!


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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1993 17:25:03 -0600 (CDT)
From: Andrew Vernon <[e-mail]>
Subject: Your Index Finger and the Future of the Mac

On Tue, 8 Jun 1993, Tim Hammett <[e-mail]> read as thus
>From the June 1993 _Apple Directions_:

>Future Macintoshes to Employ MFM-Only Disk Drives

>* The new floppy disk drives will only read diskettes with data
>that has been written according to the MFM recording standard,
>which is commonly used by IBM-PC compatible computers.
>
>* The new drives do not employ the automatic ejection feature
>used by SuperDrive disk drives. Instead, disks will have to be
>ejected via a manual eject button.

And, I guarantee these CrippleDrives will go over about as well as if Apple
had named a computer after a woman again (Remember Lisa, everyone?).

First, the MFM recording standard will be a pain for software distributors
to manage. Can you tell the difference between an MFM Mac disk and an 800K
Mac disk without reading the fine print on the label? Will your consumers?
This is just as clumsy as having to deal with 5.25" and 3.5" diskettes in
the DOS world. Distributors as well as Apple itself will have to go to
extra trouble to include multiple diskette sets (for the two formats) or
enable customers to exchange disks for a set that work with their Macs.

Then, they will have effectively turned a consumer Mac into an Amiga.
Amiga diskettes have to be ejected manually. Amigas are strange to work
with because of it. Can you imagine having to pull down a menu to format a
floppy disk after years of being asked when you put in a fresh floppy?
That's the Amiga Way. Next would be to impliment a unix-like shell into
the Mac OS to make it feel more like AmigaDOS.

>Various techniques can be used to continue providing software to
>users whose Macintosh computers can read only GCR disks, such as
>providing a special order card with their products that can be
>returned for disks employing the GCR standard. Compact discs
>present another possible method of distribution, especially
>since the CD-ROM drive is quickly becoming a standard Macintosh
>feature.

See what I mean? More time. More trouble. A royal pain. As for CD-ROM
quickly becoming 'standard,' I don't think so yet. Five years from now,
when CD-ROM systems are finally in the price range of Audio CD units
(under $200), then distributing common software on CD would be viable.

>The other major change introduced by the new drives is that
>users will have to remove disks with a manual eject button. The
>current automatic disk ejection feature will not be available
>with Macintosh computers using MFM-only drives, which will
>affect both the user interface and device driver in the system.

In the beginning, there was "128K Elbow."  Soon, we'll have "Eject-Button
Thumb."

>_Apple Directions_ will let you know which new Macintosh models
>will ship with MFM-only drives and provide further information
>about the new drives when it's available.

I would seriously hope they limit these CrippleDrives to Performa-class
machines.  I doubt that any current Mac user would want to take on a
machine with one of these wretched IBM-Compatible drives that should be
only used in a DOS clone.  The idea of having to support multiple disk
standards on, of all things, a Mac is completely ludicrous.  I'll be going
through my MUG's Apple propaganda very closely for the next few months,
but I feel sure I would never recommend a CrippleDrive Mac to a potential
buyer.

Andrew Vernon
([e-mail])

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