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Info-Mac Digest             Fri, 11 Jun 93       Volume 11 : Issue 119

Today's Topics:

      3.5" SyQuest drive comments
      3D Vision address?
      Apple IIGS Monitor on Mac?
      AppleTalk problems
      AppleTalk Remote Access via MacTCP
      AUX and SLIP
      Biology, Virology and Genetic (C)
      Choosing a printer with no sweat?
      Club Mac drives - Info wanted.
      comp.sys.mac.digest
      connecting a mac to AS/400
      Danger of ozone from laserwriters ?
      Debugging Unusal Extension Conflict
      Deskwriter 550C 2.0 bug
      Diskless Plus using AppleShare
      Distinguishing backup files from originals. (Q)
      Drag and Drop binhex/email (SUMMARY)
      Easyyplay location... ? (R)
      Forgotten Folder Settings
      hiding printers in a given zone (A)
      HP Deskjet Ink Cartridges (A)
      Info on Bilingual Educ'l Software (Q)
      LaserWriter 8.0 and Columbia AppleTalk Package (long)
      Laserwriter Reset
      living...without mouse feet
      Mac-o-phile's review of Jurassic Park
      Mac ftp sites (A)
      Mac II still won't start
      Mac si, DeskWriter, MSWorks (Q)
      MacX
      MacX and X (responses)
      MacX with OpenWindows
      mounting Mac Disk over Sparc Network (Q)
      MYM Plus Plan vs. Upgrade Cost (Q)
      Odd Finder View Problem
      Packaging of MacGS
      Personal Press 2.0 vs. Publish-It! Easy 3.0
      Please help with file sharing question
      Release date specified for cyclone wrong
      Search & Replace (Q)
      smartening and stupefying quotes
      Stacker for Macintosh
      They killed our Quadra. A Cautionary tale.
      TimesTwo troubles (C)
      To shut down or not shut down? (Q)
      virtual desktop for Mac (Q)
      Your Index Finger and the Future of the Mac
      Your Index Finger and the Future of the Mac (C)

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 93 10:48:01 PST
From: Tim Castle <[e-mail]>
Subject: 3.5" SyQuest drive comments

[e-mail] asked in IM V11 #118 for opinions about the SyQuest
3.5" removable drive. I've had a chance to play with the PLI version of it for
a few weeks now, and I really like it. They've made some good improvements on
the physical process of inserting, spinning up, spinning down, and ejecting
the
cartridge. The cart design isn't just a smaller version of the 5.25" size,
it's
redesigned, with one entire end being the door for head access.
    The speed is very good, both in terms of access time (14.5 average) and
transfer rate (1.6 to 2.3 MB/sec to media, 4.0 MB/sec to buffer). There is a
noticeable difference between transferring from my internal Quantum 240 MB
hard
disk to my old PLI Infinity 40 Turbo and transferring from the internal to the
PLI Infinity 105 Turbo S. It's much quieter than the 44 MB units that I've
worked with, too; must be the smaller fan.
    The form factor is excellent in the PLI unit -- it's 2" high, 5" wide,
    just
7.75" long, and weighs just under two pounds. The power supply is a wall mount
jobbie, which made it tricky on an already-crowded power strip. I like the
drive a LOT! I can't compare it with the 3.5" 128 MO drive yet -- the PLI rep
will be swapping us one eval unit for another next week!

Tim Castle       [e-mail]
End-User Computing, GTE Gov't Systems, Mountain View, CA

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 93 14:35:02 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Stefano Pelli)
Subject: 3D Vision address?

I am a happy Mac user at home,but at work I have to unfortunately
switch to IBM-compatibles :-( .
I am looking for a good and user-friendly charting program for the
IBM environment and I have seen in a catalogue the program Graftool
by 3D Visions which could be alright. The problem is that I have never
had the chance to see the program running. Therefore I would like to
contact the company to have some demo, if available.
Does any unfortunate IBM user among all happy Mac users of Info-Mac
know anything about the company and the program ?
I thank you in advance and I am confident that someone will answer,as
it has always happened before!

          Stefano Pelli [e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 93 11:24:10 EST
From: Alan Stein <[e-mail]>
Subject: Apple IIGS Monitor on Mac?

Our brilliant secretary managed to forget to order a monitor for`
my new Mac Centris, and our government bureaucrats have determined
that the forgotten monitor cannot be ordered until the next fiscal
year, leaving the Centris to languish, unused, in a closet.

Does anyone know whether one can connect the RGB monitor that goes
with an Apple IIGS to a Centris?  A dealer said no, but sounded
like he didn't know what he was talking about.

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 93 10:53:01 PST
From: Tim Castle <[e-mail]>
Subject: AppleTalk problems

[e-mail] writes of AppleTalk problems on his LC under System 7.1

Mark, I'd try getting hold of the latest Network Software Installer from
ftp.apple.com -- it's up to v1.3, last time I looked. It'll install AppleTalk
and the latest network stuff. It may be that you installed something which
installs an older version of AppleTalk (like MS-Mail 3.1) than 7.1 can deal
with.

Tim Castle       [e-mail]
End-User Computing, GTE Gov't Systems, Mountain View, CA

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 20:43:16 +0400
From: Leigh Daniels <[e-mail]>
Subject: AppleTalk Remote Access via MacTCP

Is it possible to establish an Appletalk Remote Access connection between two
Macs connected through the Internet and running MacTCP? If so, could someone
outline the basic procedure and what would be needed.

Thanks in advance.

**Leigh

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 93 16:44:34 PDT
From: Dieder A. Bylsma <[e-mail]>
Subject: AUX and SLIP

Could the person who asked earlier about AUX and SLIP
give me a shout? I accidentally nuked your email address and
have some info for you.

Thanks

D.

[e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 17:04:00 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Leslie Jones)
Subject: Biology, Virology and Genetic (C)

The report "A Biologist's Guide to Internet Resources"
contains a wealth of information of use to biologists.
It can be found on the Usenet newsgroup news.answers.

You might also direct questions to the sci.bio newsgroup,
if you haven't already. Good luck!

Leslie Jones        [e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 93 16:54:29 -0400
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Choosing a printer with no sweat?

When choosing a printer on Ethernet, I need to first pick up a
zone then go through a list of printers to select the one I want to
use. Is there a way to put the printer I want directly in Chooser so
I can simply open Chooser and click on the printer? I only connect
to Ethernet to print, not staying on Ethernet all the time.

Thanks in advance for any reply.

Chou
[e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 21:55 GMT
From: "NAME \"Fergus J. Lalor\""
<[e-mail]>
Subject: Club Mac drives - Info wanted.

Has anyone out there had experience of Club Mac external hard drives?
How do they rate compared to, say, Quantum drives.
TIA-
Fergus J. Lalor, Chemistry Dept., University College, Cork, Ireland.
BITNET: [e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 15:13:55 +0700
From: [e-mail] (Priyajeev Narain Trika)
Subject: comp.sys.mac.digest

Supra FAX modem V.32bis
Can somebody please help me?  I recently bought a SupraFAXmodem
V.32 bis and now I am in Bangkok, Thailand.  I used the Supra and
was very impressed with it, and was very happy with it.....until......
it stopped giving back result codes.  I would type AT Q, AT <anything>
and it still doesn't give me the OK result back.  I have basically typed
everything that is listed in the manual and no success has come my way.

Has anybody had the same problem and has successfully repaired it?
ANY help would be very much appreciated.  I am desperate to get my
modem working again.

I read the manual and it said that there was a Supra BBS, but living
in Thailand makes it a big problem connecting to it.  Is there an
internet address that Supra has that they would be willing to assist
me on.  If anybody has an address, please respond.  Thanks.

Priyajeev Trika
Internet: [e-mail]
Mailing Address: 177 Pichai Road, Bangkok 10300, Thailand.

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 93  09:12 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Sherrie Pierson 643-7688)
Subject: connecting a mac to AS/400

Can someone answer a few very basic questions about connecting a mac with
an AS/400 over the internet? My knowledge of networking is limited, so
forgive me if my questions seem dumb!

My problem is that I need to log on to an AS/400 that is offsite. I can
FTP to and from each machine, but when I attempt to TELNET from my mac, I
get a blank screen and then the connection drops. I understand that the
problem is that I need to emulate a 5250, while TELNET is using 3270.

Now here are my questions:

1) Is there something I can do on the mac side to emulate a 5250? Is there
software or a card or something that will do this?

2) Do I have to have the 5250 emulation happen on the AS/400 end? If so,
what software or hardward do I need to add to the 400?

3) (now this is really a dumb question) I am using tn3270 to TELNET over the
internet to other sites that are based on the 3270 emulation. Is there such
a thing as tn5250? Or an application that TELNETs in 5250?

I appreciate any information on this subject....thanks in advance.

Sherrie Pierson
Administrative Systems Department
UC Berkeley

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 93 17:52:50 BST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Danger of ozone from laserwriters ?

Is there a significant danger of ozone in the area around a laserprinter
such as an Apple LaserWriter? One can often smell the ozone, which, I have
heard, probably means that its concentration is dangerously high.

Are there filters installed in  laserprinters to absorb the ozone - the Canon
engine is meant to have one, I have been told.

Thanks for any  advice on this matter

David  Schiffmann
Corpus Christi College
Cambridge
England

[e-mail]

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Date: 11 Jun 1993 10:52:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Debugging Unusal Extension Conflict

In Info-Mac #118, you wrote:

>   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.
>  ............
>  (stuff deleted)
>  ............
> * Stuffit SpaceSaver 1.0.4
> * Suitcase 2.1.3
>  ............

Right after I installed SpaceSaver 1.0.4 (along with the rest of the StuffIt
Deluxe package), my Mac dropped into Macsbug on every restart or startup.
Using the "ES" command allowed the Mac to continue the boot process and I
could proceed normally, but it was a royal pain.

I don't know where I read it, but it was mentioned that Suitcase might have
somehow become corrupted. It was recommended that I re-install Suitcase 2.0
>From the master disk, then use the Suitcase 2.1.3 Updater to get a "virgin"
updated copy.  I tried this just this morning, and my Mac is now booting
normally for the first time in weeks.

No way of knowing if this is related to your problem, but re-installing
Suitcase might be worth a try.

--Larry Cunningham
  [e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 93 20:48:28 AST
From: [e-mail] (Guido Paccagnella (Hosp.Perez Carreno))
Subject: Deskwriter 550C 2.0 bug

I would like to point the following bug regarding the new HP-550C
driver:
The Print Monitor window which appears when you choose to background
print, has a Printing Status portion, which is not giving any
information on the number of pages nor the percentage of printing
completed.
I have only tried the Apple Talk driver,  and peeking with ResEdit I
suspect the driver itself is guilty for not updating print monitor.
I tried both the Infomac file, and the one from CompuServe.
Have you noticed the same problem?
I'm using system 7.1 on a Quadra 700.

Guido Paccagnella
[e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 12:10:19 -0600
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Diskless Plus using AppleShare

I have a MacPlus at work with no hard drive. It has an 800k floppy and a
400k external floppy.  I can hook it into the LocalTalk network, where
there a some AppleShare servers available. What System should I use? I can
boot the mac off of the 400k drive with System 3.2, but that's not worth
much. What should I use that can include AppleShare? Will 6.0.8 and
AppleShare fit on an 800k floppy okay? Advice welcome.

Bryan Walls                             My words are not NASA policy.
[e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 19:26 GMT
From: "NAME \"Fergus J. Lalor\""
<[e-mail]>
Subject: Distinguishing backup files from originals. (Q)

I have just acquired an external hard drive to back up the ca. 2000+
files on my internal HD. A 'find' command in the finder will first
locate the designated folder/file on the boot disk and then the
mirror on the external disk. Is there any simple way of tagging the
B-U files/folders so that I do not find myself accidentally working
on the latter instead of the original?
Fergus J. Lalor, Chemistry Dept., University College, Cork, Ireland.
BITNET: [e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 93 10:43:02 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Steve Portigal)
Subject: Drag and Drop binhex/email (SUMMARY)

VersaTerm FTP Client from Synergy Software will automatically upload files you
drop on it, if it is already connected to a host. Otherwise it puts them in a
queue and sends them when you connect. But it doesn't do binhex'ing.
 --------------
You've probably been flooded with this answer, but the way to go is Eudora.
It's free, and has a very handy "attach document" command which does an
automatic binhex of the document you select from a standard file dialog.
You have to have a Pop server available to receive mail with Eudora, but it
uses SMTP for sending, so should work fine in the configuration you
mention. I am assuming you have MacTCP installed...
 -----------
Steve, you might want to have a look at LeeMail (at Sumex). It is a mailing
application (using MacTCP, which I assume you have since you mentioned
Fetch).
With LeeMail you type out your regular email messae on the mac and to enclose
files you just click the enclose button (then select from the standard dialog
box). When you click "send" LeeMail sends you remail and binhexes the
"enclosed" file on the fly. For example I will enclose an empty TeaxhText file
with this message to show you how it looks. The binhex is all generated
automatically by LeeMail.


--
|  Steve Portigal, Dep't of CIS, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1   |
|  email: [e-mail]    Phone: [phone] ext 3580  |

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 12:41:42 -0500 (CDT)
From: Larry Rymal <[e-mail]>
Subject: Easyyplay location... ? (R)

From: "Michael E. Caine" <[e-mail]> asks:

> Sorry, but according to my ftp, there is no such directory path as:
>       ..ch/graphics/quicktime/
>
> on plaza.aarnet.edu.au...  Am I missing something?

    Yeah.  I "geed" when I should have "hawed" on my capture and
didn't catch it.  If no one knows what I'm talking about in the last
sentence, then you haven't been in East Texas.  grin
    Anyway, here is a gopher capture.  Apologies for the mess-up:

$ archie -c easyplay2.0.cpt.hqx

Host plaza.aarnet.edu.au

    Location: /micros/mac/umich/graphics/quicktime
       FILE -r--r--r--     101602  Jun  1 03:06  easyplay2.0.cpt.hqx

--Larry Rymal <[e-mail]>

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 93  13:19 GMT
From: Big Nose <[e-mail]>
Subject: Forgotten Folder Settings

Dear All,

Would you believe it? The day after I tell the world that my SE loses its
settings after I've used ResEdit, it does it all on its own. So, the
problem may not involve ResEdit after all. However, it definitely does
not involve File Sharing as someone else suggested. My little mac just
sits there on its ownsome, not sharing anything, so what gives?

Could this be another mainifestation of the infamous Lost F older bug in
original system 7 versions. I have the tuneup file installed, but coul;d
there be something else that has been overlooked?

Regards,

Andy Law
( LAWA @ IAPE.AFRC.AC.UK                        Big Nose in Edinburgh )

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 9:46:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: hiding printers in a given zone (A)

Bill McCarthy wonders:
     ... I'm wondering if there is a way to hide the printers in
office zone from users in other zones.

I recently received a demo of 'Silver Cloud' by the ag group.  It is a
chooser replacement that has extensive features for grouping devices,
hiding devices, hiding zones, etc.  I'm pretty sure we're going to buy
it for our WAN.  I saw it advertised in MacWeek a short while back.

Try calling the ag group at [phone]

Ken Sayward
Vitro Corp.
[e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 93 08:55:22 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Steve Hunter 423-2219)
Subject: HP Deskjet Ink Cartridges (A)

    The cartridges that I buy have a small hole on top. I manually
drilled another small hole for an air hole while filling. I drilled manually
to reduce the amount of plastic cuttings that might fall into the
cartridge. I filled a plastic syringe with ink that I got from a
stationery store, and squirted it into one of the holes.
    When I tried filling without drilling a second hole, there wasn't
enough room for the air to escape from the cartridge during the filling
operation and ink was forced out of the print head.
    The ink that I used is thinner than the normal ink and takes a
second or two longer to dry. Don't smear the ink as soon as the paper
comes out of the printer (this has only happened to my kids).
    Since the ink is thinner, it would leak out of the cartridge
until I put a piece of tape over BOTH air holes in the top of the
cartridge. The celophane tape is not a perfect seal, so it allows some air
in, but not fast enough to cause a lot of leakage.
    The print quality is great, but there are the above problems.
Considering that I can refill the cartridge for less than $3, I am willing
to put up with the minor inconviences.

Steven Hunter

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 93 12:09:34 EDT
From: Thomas Smyth <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info on Bilingual Educ'l Software (Q)

I am compiling a list of educational software which is bilingual(English/
Spanish) and would be interested in any titles/publishers you are aware of.

Please send titles/publishers and I will summarize for IM Digest:

               [e-mail]
                               Much oblige'!

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 93 20:20:27 -0700
From: [e-mail]
Subject: LaserWriter 8.0 and Columbia AppleTalk Package (long)

With regard to the discussion of LaserWriter 8.0 and Pathworks, the same
problem occurs with the lwsrv spooler for the Columbia AppleTalk Package,
in that the new driver queries the spooler about resolution, fonts, etc.
and lwsrv was not able to response very well.

I have been working on a major fix to lwsrv to allow it to answer these
queries correctly for the print in question.  Unlike the approach that
is apparently being used by Pathworks, which read PPD files, I have created a
separate configuration file for lwsrv that will allow options to be specified
to lwsrv and for answers to printer queries to be specified.  As it turns
out, many of the queries that LW 8.0 asks are not in the PPD file.  I plan
to have a PostScript file that you can send to your printer that will print
out the answers to the queries so you can enter them in the configuration
file.

Now since there are so many printers, lwsrv will also support a database
of printer templates (using ndbm or dbm).  I propose that part of future
distributions of CAP contain a database which will contain printer
templates contributed by all of you out there on the internet for you
favorite printer.

As an example, here is my current (test) configuration file:
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Library = DB;

Options = (
    -a ProcSets;
    -N;
    -T makenondscconformant;
    #-t TRACE;
    logfile spooler.log;
    queryfile query.log;
    lprArgument "-l";
);

"Compaq Pagemarq" = (
    include "COMPAQ PAGEMARQ 15";
    printerqueue cp;
};

"Test Spooler" = (
    include "LaserWriter IIg";
    printerqueue lp;
};

"Trace Spooler" = (
    include "Compaq Pagemarq";
    TraceFile TRACE;
};
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Notice that arguments can be the original argument format of lwsrv (like -a)
or as a string like "printerqueue" (for -p).  After setting options, I define
three printers, and include the printer templates from the DB database.  The
DB database looks like:

 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
plain300 = (
    Query ADOIsBinaryOK? True;
    FeatureQuery *?Resolution 300dpi;
    FeatureQuery *ColorDevice False;
    FeatureQuery *FaxSupport None;
    FeatureQuery *TTRasterizer None;
    Query ADOSpooler spooler;
);

"COMPAQ PAGEMARQ 15" = (
    include "LaserWriter Plus";
    FeatureQuery *PSVersion '"(2012.015) 13"';
    FeatureQuery *?Resolution 400x800dpi;
    FeatureQuery *ColorDevice Unknown;
    FeatureQuery *FreeVM '"2397046"';
    FeatureQuery *Product '"(COMPAQ PAGEMARQ 15)"';
    FeatureQuery *FaxSupport Base;
    Query ADORamSize '"10485760"';
);

"Dataproducts LZR 1260" = (
    include "LaserWriter Plus";
    FeatureQuery *PSVersion '"(47.0) 0"';
    FeatureQuery *FreeVM '"2389815"';
    FeatureQuery *Product '"(Dataproducts LZR 1260)"';
    FeatureQuery *TTRasterizer Accept68K;
    Query ADORamSize '"4194304"';
);

LaserWriter = (
    include plain300;
    font (
        Courier,
        Courier-Bold,
        Courier-BoldOblique,
        Courier-Oblique,
        Helvetica,
        Helvetica-Bold,
        Helvetica-BoldOblique,
        Helvetica-Oblique,
        Symbol,
        Times-Bold,
        Times-BoldItalic,
        Times-Italic,
        Times-Roman,
    );
    FeatureQuery *LanguageLevel '"1"';
    FeatureQuery *PSVersion '"(23.0) 0"';
    FeatureQuery *FreeVM '"173936"';
    FeatureQuery *Product '"(LaserWriter)"';
    Query ADORamSize '"2097152"';
);

"LaserWriter II NT" = (
    include "LaserWriter Plus";
    FeatureQuery *PSVersion '"(47.0) 1"';
    FeatureQuery *FreeVM '"434204"';
    FeatureQuery *Product '"(LaserWriter II NT)"';
);

"LaserWriter IIg" = (
    include "LaserWriter Plus";
    FeatureQuery *ColorDevice Unknown;
    FeatureQuery *LanguageLevel '"2"';
    FeatureQuery *PSVersion '"(2010.130) 2"';
    FeatureQuery *FreeVM '"2150107"';
    FeatureQuery *TTRasterizer Type42;
    FeatureQuery *Product '"(LaserWriter IIg)"';
    Query ADORamSize '"8388608"';
);

"LaserWriter Plus" = (
    include LaserWriter;
    font (
        AvantGarde-Book,
        AvantGarde-BookOblique,
        AvantGarde-Demi,
        AvantGarde-DemiOblique,
        Bookman-Demi,
        Bookman-DemiItalic,
        Bookman-Light,
        Bookman-LightItalic,
        Courier,
        Courier-Bold,
        Courier-BoldOblique,
        Courier-Oblique,
        Helvetica,
        Helvetica-Bold,
        Helvetica-BoldOblique,
        Helvetica-Narrow,
        Helvetica-Narrow-Bold,
        Helvetica-Narrow-BoldOblique,
        Helvetica-Narrow-Oblique,
        Helvetica-Oblique,
        NewCenturySchlbk-Bold,
        NewCenturySchlbk-BoldItalic,
        NewCenturySchlbk-Italic,
        NewCenturySchlbk-Roman,
        Palatino-Bold,
        Palatino-BoldItalic,
        Palatino-Italic,
        Palatino-Roman,
        Symbol,
        Times-Bold,
        Times-BoldItalic,
        Times-Italic,
        Times-Roman,
        ZapfChancery-MediumItalic,
        ZapfDingbats,
    );
    FeatureQuery *PSVersion '"(42.2) 3"';
    FeatureQuery *FreeVM '"172414"';
    FeatureQuery *Product '"(LaserWriter Plus)"';
);

"PrintServer 20" = (
    include "LaserWriter Plus";
    FeatureQuery *PSVersion '"(48.3) 19"';
    FeatureQuery *FreeVM '"964599"';
    FeatureQuery *Product '"(PrintServer 20)"';
    Query ADORamSize '"2621440"';
    font (
        AvantGarde-Book,
        AvantGarde-BookOblique,
        AvantGarde-Demi,
        AvantGarde-DemiOblique,
        Courier,
        Courier-Bold,
        Courier-BoldOblique,
        Courier-Oblique,
        Helvetica,
        Helvetica-Bold,
        Helvetica-BoldOblique,
        Helvetica-Oblique,
        LubalinGraph-Book,
        LubalinGraph-BookOblique,
        LubalinGraph-Demi,
        LubalinGraph-DemiOblique,
        NewCenturySchlbk-Bold,
        NewCenturySchlbk-BoldItalic,
        NewCenturySchlbk-Italic,
        NewCenturySchlbk-Roman,
        Souvenir-Demi,
        Souvenir-DemiItalic,
        Souvenir-Light,
        Souvenir-LightItalic,
        Symbol,
        Times-Bold,
        Times-BoldItalic,
        Times-Italic,
        Times-Roman,
    );
);

"QMS-PS 410" = (
    include "LaserWriter Plus";
    FeatureQuery *PSVersion '"(52.4) 94"';
    FeatureQuery *FreeVM '"336596"';
    FeatureQuery *Product '"(QMS-PS 410)"';
    font (
        AGaramond-Bold,
        AGaramond-BoldItalic,
        AGaramond-Italic,
        AGaramond-Regular,
        AGaramond-Semibold,
        AGaramond-SemiboldItalic,
        AvantGarde-Book,
        AvantGarde-BookOblique,
        AvantGarde-Demi,
        AvantGarde-DemiOblique,
        Bookman-Demi,
        Bookman-DemiItalic,
        Bookman-Light,
        Bookman-LightItalic,
        Courier,
        Courier-Bold,
        Courier-BoldOblique,
        Courier-Oblique,
        Helvetica,
        Helvetica-Bold,
        Helvetica-BoldOblique,
        Helvetica-Condensed,
        Helvetica-Condensed-Bold,
        Helvetica-Condensed-BoldObl,
        Helvetica-Condensed-Oblique,
        Helvetica-Narrow,
        Helvetica-Narrow-Bold,
        Helvetica-Narrow-BoldOblique,
        Helvetica-Narrow-Oblique,
        Helvetica-Oblique,
        NewCenturySchlbk-Bold,
        NewCenturySchlbk-BoldItalic,
        NewCenturySchlbk-Italic,
        NewCenturySchlbk-Roman,
        Palatino-Bold,
        Palatino-BoldItalic,
        Palatino-Italic,
        Palatino-Roman,
        Symbol,
        Times-Bold,
        Times-BoldItalic,
        Times-Italic,
        Times-Roman,
        ZapfChancery-MediumItalic,
        ZapfDingbats,
    );
);
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------

I've been able to use binary PostScript level 2 and even the FAX capability
of the Compaq Pagemarc, using lwsrv.

There is still some work to finish but hopefully in a week or so I will notify
David Hornsby ([e-mail]), who knows I'm working on this, and have
him ask for beta testers, if he would be so kind.  There are has been lots
of rewritting of various parts of lwsrv so I'd like to have it tested more
before really releasing this.

In the middle of all my hacking, I decided to fix a bunch of things, including
NewStatus.  It works now multi-forked.  The printmonitor shows "Page n of m"
now, while other user will see "Processing Job(s)" status.

Edward Moy                              Principal Programmer - Macintosh &
Unix
Workstation Support Services            Workstation Software Support Group
University of California
Berkeley, CA  94720

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

Date: Fri, 11 Jun 93 14:22:44 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Dave Hirsh)
Subject: Laserwriter Reset

After I installed my LW 8.0 driver I looked at a few of the PPD files and
noticed that there is a definition for a RESET command that requires a
password. I assume this is the command that resets the number of pages
printed. Supposedly when the laser engine is swapped out the technician
should be able to reset the page count. Of course an unscrupulous user
could run the engine to the brink of failure then reset the count and
foist it off as an almost-unused laser. Am I on the right track ??

Dave Hirsh
Cincinnati,OH

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

Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 17:17:18 GMT
From: [e-mail] (William C. DenBesten)
Subject: living...without mouse feet

In article , [e-mail] (Kim Cary) wrote:
> Neither Apple nor our trust local service guys can help my users whose
> teflon feet have fallen off their mice:

> >I talked to apple this morning and their suggestion was to replace the
> >mouse.

Any manufacuturer can be a less-than-helpful when it comes to replacement
parts, particularly the small, cheap parts that are attached to high-margin
expensive parts.

The way around this is to find your own teflon and cut replacement pads.  A
really good hardware store (not true value/builder's square/ace, etc) may
be stock it.  Automotive stores are another option.  (once again, something
like NAPA or a local distributor.  The goal is a wide variety of stock, not
pretty sales floors and polished floors.)  If not, buy a teflon-like mouse
pad, and cut it up.

A friend wore his Mac+ feet down to nothing, and replaced them with litle
balls made from ribbon epoxy.  This worked well.  Another friend uses self
stick felt pads and has a slick mouse pad.

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

Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 08:41:10 -500 (EDT)
From: "Russell S. Aminzade: Trinity College of VT" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mac-o-phile's review of Jurassic Park

A few notes from the late-night preview here in VT of the new Jurassic Park.

o Lots of Macintoshes!  Apple computer is cited in the credits, as is
  SuperMac Technology, which means that not only are there Macs (I caught
  a IIci, or maybe a Quadra standing on its end), but some pretty impressive
  large-screen displays.  There's a sequence where you see a quicktime movie
  on screen, and you can clearly see Mac icons & windows (and some variations
  on the user interface we all love).

o One bad guy is a computer nerd, one good guy (actually a little girl) is
  too ("Hacker, not nerd," she complains).

Though Apple gets a lot of publicity (and I'm sure it wasn't free...), one
of the better lines that breaks a cliffhanger type of situation is "Hey,
this is UNIX, I know this!"  Perhaps Apple didn't pay enough, or maybe
AT&T or Novell paid 'em something.

Otherwise, if you like special effects, it's the movie of the decade.
It's not a particularly thoughtful or intellegent movie, but lots of
thrills, chills, and dinos chomping on defenseless mammals of every
persuasion.

Two other trivia notes: I was reading Stephen Jay Gould's book "Eight
Little Piggies" the night before, and he mentions how to show a
paleontologist that you don't know anything about the field: refer to
their field work as "a dig."  Archaeologists, not paleontologists, have
"digs."  The movie blows that one in the first few minutes.  Second, in a
reference to Dino-maven Bakker, the little kid pronounces is "Baker" not
"Bock-er"

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

Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 21:37:26 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Mac ftp sites (A)

ftp ftp.apple.com
anonymous
ident

You forgot an additional ftp in the name!

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

Date: Fri, 11 Jun 93 15:32 CST
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mac II still won't start

We have had trouble starting our Mac II recently, even after replacing the
batteries.  I am writing to see if any one recognizes the symptoms and
knows what the best thing to do might be.

We had trouble with starting this computer from the keyboard, and so we
replaced the lithium batteries inside.  We ordered Tadiran brand batteries
in the (1/2)AA size, from Newark, and soldered them in a few weeks ago.
The computer (plain Mac II) started fine at the time, but after running it
for a few weeks we now cannot get it to start from the keyboard after a
shutdown.

I looked in the Mac Family Hardware Reference, and it seems that the batteries
must pull one of the input lines to the power supply up to between 3 and 6
volts for the power-up trigger to operate.  When we checked this line, it
seems
that the pull-up is only to about 1.5 volts when the keyboard switch is
pressed.

However, the batteries themselves seem fine, and still read 3.6 volts or so
each.  Furthermore, when we unplugged the power supply cable from the mother-
board, the pin on the output connector pulls up just fine to several volts.
What I am wondering is, how much current is the power supply supposed to be
pulling in on this line?  Is there any way of telling whether we need a new
power supply, or if we might have purchased batteries with wimpy current
capacity, or maybe whether the power-on circuit on the board is bad?

We did get the computer started, by the way.  This can be done by taking an
ex-
ternal 5 volt power supply, grounding the (-) side to metal parts of the case,
and touching the hot end to the correct pin on the connector to the power
supply.  (It is the pin on the end away from the power supply, which has a
white wire soldered to it.)  Only a momentary contact is needed, and this
works
like a charm!  However, this is a bit of a kluge, and I don't think we want to
make this a permanent arrangement.

Any help on this would be appreciated.

Joe Ross
Texas A&M University
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 09:35:48 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Larry Pickett)
Subject: Mac si, DeskWriter, MSWorks (Q)

I have a faculty member who is having intermittent problems with the
following configuration:
Mac si with 8M
Nubus adapter with Apple TokenRing card
HP DeskWriter (connected through either serial port both have been tried
with no change)

She had had the DW attached to a Mac SE and reported no problems.

The DW will print without problems and then with no reported change in user
behavior stop printing or print trash pages (many of them at one time).
Anyone have any thoughts?  I'm considering removing the nubus adapter, is
it reasonable that the network connection could be causing problems
somehow?

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

Date: 11 Jun 1993 14:17:59 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Stan Kerr)
Subject: MacX

[e-mail] writes:

>I have just installed MacX on a couple of IIci's here and have a couple of
>general questions. Basically, the installation was simple (a bit clunky
>though.
>One would think that they could have had an installer script!) and it works
>OK,
>but ...

>1) Does anyone know of any 3 button mouse (mouses, mice??) that work well.
The
>modifier keys leave a bit to be desired if you are using mouse button 2 a
>lot!

I use the Logitech mouse and it works quite well. Make sure you get the most
current driver (1.11 as far as I know); old ones don't recognize modifier
keys that are depressed at the same time as a mouse key.

>2) Does anyone know how to get the delete key to actually do a 'rubout'. I
had
>to use QuickKeys to map the delete key to ^h. This doesn't seem right!

In Unix, at least, you can have your login script (.login, .profile or
whatever) do the command

   stty erase ^?

to set the erase key to rubout. When your remote command invokes the
xterm program, the TERM environment variable is set to 'xterm', which
causes most applications to look up terminal control codes for
'xterm ' in /etc/termcap. Our own termcap entries for xterm define
control-h as the erase key; this is probably the standard definition
for your xterm's, unless you can persuade your system administrator to
change the xterm entry in /etc/termcap.
--

Stan Kerr
Computing & Communications Services Office, U of Illinois/Urbana
Phone: [phone]  Email: [e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 09:24:28 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Robert N. Winters)
Subject: MacX and X (responses)

Wow! Stuff I know!

Richard Bram <[e-mail]> writes:
>I would like to run a program that requires XWindows on a macintosh
>(Centris 650) and am wondering if anyone has heard of or seen an emulator
>to do that. If so, is it reasonably speedy, or too slow to be useful?
>I suppose the other options are to get an internal PC board (like the
>orange thing) and run the pc-XWindows emulator, or just spend the $5000
>and get a DEC terminal. I'd sort of like to save desk space, though.

Choose from MacX (Apple) or eXodus (White Pine Software). Are they too
slow? Er... How spoiled are you? MacX on my IIcx is easier to suffer
through than Word 5, but that's not saying much ;-) It's an order of
magnitude cheaper than a color X terminal, though, so the choice should
be clear. If I had the money and serious X work to do, I'd buy the Xterm.

"Marc Leroux" <[e-mail]> writes:

>1) Does anyone know of any 3 button mouse (mouses, mice??) that work well.
>The modifier keys leave a bit to be desired if you are using mouse button
>2 a lot!

I've been told that the Logitech 3-button mouse "MouseMan" (sic) can be
set up to handle this. The later version of the drivers (1.11 and up?)
fix earlier problems with using mouse buttons with control keys, etc.

>2) Does anyone know how to get the delete key to actually do a 'rubout'.
>I had to use QuickKeys to map the delete key to ^h. This doesn't seem
>right!

Pretty sure this one is in the manual. Don't remap your Mac keyboard.
Instead, from Unix, (either the command line or in your, .xinit or
.profile or whatever), try:

   term escape \^\?

[e-mail] (Howard Hui) writes:

>I'm currently using MacX 1.2 to connect to the Sun 4.1.3 UNIX server.
>I'd like to know whether we can run OpenWindows under MacX.

>I have managed to open shelltool, commandTool, mailTool using Remote command
>(Rootless) without any problem.  However, I don't know how to run OpenWindow
>manager under MacX. Could somebody give me some help?  Or can it be done.

Piece o' cake! Set up a remote command to run OpenLook on your rooted
color (or mono, of course) window:

   remote command: /usr/openwin/bin/olwm -single -display "@display"

    (note: replace the @ sign with option-R)
    (note: don't forget "-single" or it will fail)

   display: (1) Color Rooted

When you run this baby, up will pop an OpenWindows desktop in a window.
Size it to take over your screen(s). Set the virtual desktop size under
edit:Color Root preferences.

Now, when you set up remote commands, send them to the rooted color
display as well. They will come up as managed by olwm. In MacX, rootless
windows are always managed by the built-in Apple window manager, rooted
windows never are, so you must run a window manager for them; olwm, mwm,
twm, or whatever.

Note: I find olwn to be sslowww compared to mwm and twm. However, if you
want to use textedit, it seems to be the only way. Closing textedit from
mwm seems to cause an abby normal termination and a core dump!

 /// Rob

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

Date: 11 Jun 1993 14:22:37 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Stan Kerr)
Subject: MacX with OpenWindows

[e-mail] writes:

>Hi,
>I'm currently using MacX 1.2 to connect to the Sun 4.1.3 UNIX server. I'd
like
>to know whether we can run OpenWindows under MacX.

>I have managed to open shelltool, commandTool, mailTool using Remote command
>(Rootless) without any problem.  However, I don't know how to run OpenWindow
>manager under MacX. Could somebody give me some help?  Or can it be done.

>The reason I'd like to have OpenWindows Manager running under MacX is because
>I have some OpenLoook applications which may not be able to run under strick
>X.  DBX tool is one in mind.


You need to make your remote command bring up xterm in a 'rooted' window; see
the Display pop-up menu in the remote command editing window. When your
session is logged in, you then start the window manager, and it takes over
control of the root window. Rooted windows in MacX are very sluggish, unless
you have a Quadra class machine.

On second thought, this may be nonsense. I'm not a Sun guru; OpenWindows
may just not work with an X server.
--

Stan Kerr
Computing & Communications Services Office, U of Illinois/Urbana
Phone: [phone]  Email: [e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 11 Jun 93 10:50:25 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Bernabe Linares B.)
Subject: mounting Mac Disk over Sparc Network (Q)

Hi Netters,
I am sure this has come up before, but here goes the question: is it possible
to mount a Mac HardDisk on a Sparc Network (unix)? How?
What I intend to do is to make backups of the Mac MardDisk on the Tape unit
of our Sparc network, and our sparc system manager suggested to mount the
mac disk. I thought to check this idea out, before trying other suggestions.
Any other ideas are welcome. 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: Fri, 11 Jun 93 08:46:20 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Carol Conti-Entin)
Subject: MYM Plus Plan vs. Upgrade Cost (Q)

A question to Managing Your Money users: how does the Plus Plan cost of
$54.95 for 1 year or $89.95 for 2 years compare with the cost of the
annual upgrade? (I bought MYM just 2 months ago, so I have no idea what
the upgrade costs.) Also, is there any advantage to upgrading each year
besides getting a more accurate tax-estimate section?

Thanks in advance for helping me make a well informed decision.

--
Carol Conti-Entin      216-561-8720
2878 Chadbourne Road   Shaker Heights, OH  44120-2215
Free-Net: ag311        Internet: [e-mail]
     from CompuServe: >INTERNET: [e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 20:15:50 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Odd Finder View Problem

I've been having an odd problem with my mac.  (of course I have--why else
would
I be writing?) ;-)
My system is an aging Mac SE w/ 4 megs Ram and a new 85-meg HD.  System 7.0.1
Tuner 1.1.1, and just over a row of inits, most of which are non-resident.
The problem is this:
    Intermittently, when I startup, I find the finder has switched to
    'view
by icon'.  It's not a major problem, but I worry it may be a sign of worse
to come.  I have rebuilt the desktop, and all the standard stuff, but it's
too intermittent for any real INIT testing.  ANy ideas?
                    Jim Wise
                    [e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 11 Jun 93 17:07:32 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Harald Hanche-Olsen)
Subject: Packaging of MacGS

A while back, I downloaded MacGS from sumex.  I found I could not
unpack it, since it was a multiple part Compact Pro archive, and none
of my unarchiving programs would unpack it for me.

Is there a free program that will unpack these files?

If not, I believe it is a violation of the program's copying license,
and it should be corrected, for example by distributing the package as
two or more single part archives.

- Harald Hanche-Olsen <[e-mail]>

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

Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 11:31:09 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Rocky Olive)
Subject: Personal Press 2.0 vs. Publish-It! Easy 3.0

I am considering these two packages for doing a community newsletter.  Does
anyone have any particular pros/cons they would like to share with me?  I'm
currently leaning towards Publish-It! Easy, since it got better reviews in
MacWorld.... Thanks.

Rocky Olive <[e-mail]>       [phone]
Data General Corporation              fax: [phone]
Apex, NC  27502    USA

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

Date: 11 Jun 1993 21:40:34 GMT
From: Robert Horton <[e-mail]>
Subject: Please help with file sharing question

I would like to enable remote users to access files on my networked
Mac, and I'd like to control which files they access. In particular,
I'd like each one of several users to have his own folder. In some
of these folders I'd place aliases of many (or all) of the files on
my machine, while in others I'd place only a few items. The problem
is that I can't differentiate between guest users; all users except
the owner (me) see the same 'Guest' folder.

Is there a way to allow different guests to access different files
(other than to partition my disk, and assign a partition to each
guest user)? Please reply by e-mail, and I'll summarize to the net.
Also, if you know for certain that this can't be done, drop me an
e-mail note to that effect.

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

Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 22:00:16 -0500
From: "Paul M. Sheldon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Release date specified for cyclone wrong

    I was tired and goofed, only wait until August 5,1993. Will my total
acellerated Magellan board allow the dsp chip?

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

Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 18:32:49 -0600
From: (Harry Hahn) <[e-mail]>
Subject: Search & Replace (Q)

I've been having trouble getting a sort of tricky search and replace to
work. To wit, I want to search a text file of concatenated mail messages
and remove all the uninteresting header info. For example, here's a typical
header:

>Received: from uafsysb.uark.edu by wigate.nic.wisc.edu;
>          Fri, 11 Jun 93 08:54 CDT
>Received: from UAFSYSB.UARK.EDU by UAFSYSB.UARK.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2)
>          with BSMTP id 1136; Fri, 11 Jun 93 08:50:39 CDT
>Received: from UAFSYSB.UARK.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@UAFSYSB)
>          by UAFSYSB.UARK.EDU (LMail V1.1d/1.7f) with BSMTP id 6787;
>          Fri, 11 Jun 1993 08:50:27 -0500
>Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
>Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 01:13:59 PDT
>From: The Moderators <[e-mail]>
>Reply-To: [e-mail]
>Sender: INFO-MAC Digest <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #118
>To: Multiple recipients of list INFO-MAC <[e-mail]>
>Comments: To: [e-mail]

I want to delete everything from the first 'Received:' to the end of the
Message-Id line. In other words, find 'Received:*Date:' and replace with
'Date:', where * is a wildcard for any number of characters.

I've tried this with BBEdit and Word and have problems. Word's wildcards
are good for only one character and BBEdit's grep wildcards only apply to
single lines (I may be wrong on this). Also, the number of lines between
the first 'Received:' and 'Date:' varies so I haven't been able to devise a
macro (a la Quickeys) to do this.

Is this at all possible, especially with the software that I have? I don't
want to have to go buy Nisus or something just to do this. I get the
feeling that there is some way to do this with grep but I can't figure it
out.

And I don't think I can save my mail without those headers; Eudora saves
them even if I have the 'Save Headers' option turned off.

TIA,
Harry
[e-mail]

P.S. On a unrelated note, can anyone tell me how to post to Mac-L? I've
tried sending to [e-mail], [e-mail], and
[e-mail] to no avail. What am I doing wrong?

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

Date: 11 Jun 1993 23:16:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail] (steve jaffe)
Subject: smartening and stupefying quotes

In Info-Mac Digest V11 #118, Pat Ullman asks for

"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!"

I have good news, Pat - Tom Bender's excellent Tex_Edit will do this, and
much more.  What's more, it's free!  Get it from sumex-aim (the latest
version is 1.8.1).  You'll find the quote-changing option in the Specials
menu under "Modify".
Steve Jaffe
Math Dept, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie NY 12601
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 11 Jun 93 19:52:22 -0700
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Stacker for Macintosh

I just caught up reading netnews so I missed the discussion about Stacker.
I purchased it a week or so ago and I must say that I have a much different
reaction to it than Larry Rymal <[e-mail]> did.

On my Mac IIfx and Quantum 105 LPS internal drive, I reformatted it with
Drive 7.  I ran Hard Disk Toolkit's DiskBench of the un-stacked disk and
got a 3.1 performance index (that's what I've always gotten, even using
other driver software).

I then ran Stacker and DiskBench again, and got an incredable index of 20.7!!
The graphs went off the chart.  OK, I said, I really don't believe that my
stacked disk is going to be seven time faster and twice as large.  So the
only other thing I had was Speedometer.  I don't remember the numbers, but
Speedometer reported that the disk was somewhat faster.  Again, I was
skeptical.

After restoring from backup (yes, I know I didn't have to do this, but I
figured if I'm going to do it at all, I'll do it absolutely safe and clean),
my impressions are that speed is slightly faster than I remember it.  Finder
windows display their icons faster.  This is all subjective I know, but
it really seems faster.

I stacked a 128 MB optical disk so I could backup my stacked hard disk.
While there are known problems with DiskFit (which likes to format your
disk and thus remove Stacker), there are ways to get around it (see Stac
on CompuServe).  While I did get the backup to work, it did appear somewhat
slower that without running Stacker at all.  Of course, Stacker has to
uncompress my hard disk and recompress to the optical disk.

My best thing about Stacker for me is that it has so far been totally
compatible with the 4 dozen or so INITs that I use.  I had purchased
DiskDoubler and AutoDoubler a long time ago, but was afraid to use it
because of incompatibilities.

So I'm happy.  It seems like performance may depend on lots of factors,
including CPU speed, hard disk speed, driver software, SCSI hardware,
and maybe even the phase of the moon when you install it ;-)

Edward Moy                              Principal Programmer - Macintosh &
Unix
Workstation Support Services            Workstation Software Support Group
University of California
Berkeley, CA  94720

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

Date: Fri, 11 Jun 93  13:42 GMT
From: Big Nose <[e-mail]>
Subject: They killed our Quadra. A Cautionary tale.

Dear All,

An interesting and cautionary tale for you all.

Several weeks ago, our Quadra 950 died. No warning or anything, it just
curled up its toes and expired. So we called the engineers. Some time
later, a small child of about 12 years of age (or so he looked to us),
arrived, stripped the box down and repaired the device by the simple
expedient of whipping the old motherboard out and replacing it. This
process seems to involve a lot of tutting and mumbling, but the thing
worked when he left....... or so it seemed.

Users began to notice or suspect at least, that things were not quite
as they should have been. Files took longer to open than previously,
source files compiled slower. In fact, it just seemed that we didn't
quite have a 950 at all.

Fortunately we had some evidence to go on. Just a few weeks previously we
had run Speedometer to compare the 950 with a IIsi, so we could use those
figures to compare the current performance with the old. We ran Speedometer
again. Nervously we awaited the results.... they seemed to be taking longer
than they did before.....

And yes, there it was in black and white (and glorious colour as well). The
damn
thing was about 10 times slower than it should have been!!! Had we been sold a

dud replacement board?

Now it had to go away anyway to be fitted with some extra VRAM, so we phoned
them up to complain and they said they would check it out when it was with
them. This time a different child came to pick it up and we waved it a
tearful farewell.

Aha! They phoned us up. We're terribly sorry Sir, we seem to have fitted a
board for a 900 Quadra, instead of a 950. That must be your problem. So,
one week later, the machine was restored, replete with its new VRAM.

BUT, its still slow. Speedometer says that it is about 4 times sloweer than
it was, and I've checked the old figures we got against the figures for a
Quadra 950 in the archives. They tally OK, so we weren't getting anything
out of the ordinary before.

The problems persist even when all extensions are turned off, with or without
virtual memory or anything else we can think of. Disinfectant doesn't
report anything suspicious. So what is going on? The most alarming thing
is that the machine reports itself to be a 950 to TattleTale, so it
looks like we have the right motherboard now?

So if you need your motherboard replacing, make sure you get the right thing
put in, and check it afterwards. And if anyone has any suggestions as to what
we can try next, apart from nipping down to the engineers with baseball bats,
then we'd be most grateful.

Regards

Andy Law
( LAWA @ IAPE.AFRC.AC.UK                   [Puzzled] Big Nose in Edinburgh )

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Date: 11 Jun 1993 10:14:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: Peter Jorgensen <[e-mail]>
Subject: TimesTwo troubles (C)

Greetings,

I have installed TimesTwo on my PowerBook 100 (4/20, Sys 7.1) and have
encountered three problems (so far). Two are software incompatiblities,
and the third was a general hard disk failure.

After backing up my hard disk I installed TimesTwo. The installation went
smoothly. I was able to reboot and things looked OK, not really much
slower than before, and I now had lots of free space on my tiny disk. I
did notice that during the startup the PSI "FAX Monitor" extension
appeared with an "X" through it. Then I noticed that my Apple menu
submenus created by Kiwi Power Menus no longer worked. They appear, but
don't do anything. I tried rebuilding the submenus and reinstalling Kiwi
PM. I tried rebuilding the desktop. After several reboots I suddenly had a
completely empty Control Panels folder!  I looked in the "Control Panels
(disabled)" folder, but it, too, was empty. Then I tried looking for
problems with Norton Utilities - which is supposed to be completely
compatible with TimesTwo disks.  Norton found some problems, including a
problem with the root directory which it could not fix. At this point my
hard disk became unbootable. The control panels folder now could not be
opened (error -127).

TimesTwo claims to be incompatible with multiple partition drives. My
drive had only one partition, but I had used the trick of increasing the
partition to the maximum size using Apple's HD SC Setup application. So...
I reinitialized the disk with HD SC Setup and selected the default
partition size, which leaves over 1MB of wasted free space on the disk. I
reinstalled TimesTwo, and restored my files from the backup. The disk
boots now, but FAX monitor still does not load and the Kiwi apple submenus
still don't work.

I called their tech support number (NOT toll free!) and was put on hold
for quite a while (3-5 minutes) before getting an automated message taking
system which asked me several questions. It promised to have my call
returned - which has yet to happen.

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: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 21:58 GMT
From: "NAME \"Fergus J. Lalor\""
<[e-mail]>
Subject: To shut down or not shut down? (Q)

I have read somewhere that startup and shutdown are the most
stressful events in the life of a hard disc. Is it therefore
advisable to leave my Quadra and external hard disc running
continuously?
TIA-
Fergus J. Lalor, Chemistry Dept., University College, Cork, Ireland.
BITNET: [e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 93 16:42:20 +0200
From: "Olaf F. Normann" <[e-mail]>
Subject: virtual desktop for Mac (Q)

Hello!

On unix I am using a virtual window manager. On my mac I would appreciate
that even more, since my mac screen is only 13 inches.

Does anybody know of such software (init/extention) for mac?

-olaf f. normann

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 12:41:25 -0600
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Your Index Finger and the Future of the Mac

I must admit the decision to go to MFM drive sounds like a bad idea, but it
is also pretty much inevitable. One of the big pluses of the PowerPC is
that a lot of DOS sorts of folks will be buying the same machines that Mac
sorts of folks will be buying, giving us the economy of scale, and a good
foothold into convincing them to use a decent operating system.
Unfortunately, the chance of getting every manufacturer of PowerPCs to but
the more expensive GCR drive, which offers absolutely nothing to a DOS (or
OS/2 or Windows NT) user except 800k Mac floppy compatibility, is nil. So
to run on those machines, the Mac OS will have to be able to deal with MFM
disks, including the cheap push button ones.

I would hope the OS will continue to recognize GCR and SuperDrives. What
you really have is just the ability to work with brain-dead floppies.
Hopefully Apple will never market a machine without a Superdrive, but you
never know. Do realize that when you use HD floppies in a SuperDrive, they
are formated MFM! So unless you have a Plus, MacII, or SE, you shouldn't
see any effect. For those people (not a tiny group, I'll grant, but
shrinking steadily in proportion) it will be a hassle.

Bryan Walls                             My words are not NASA policy.
[e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 16:36:06 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Peter D. Esser Ph.D.)
Subject: Your Index Finger and the Future of the Mac (C)

> 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?

Macintosh HD (1.44 meg) disks are MFM Formatted.

--
Peter D. Esser Ph.D.

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