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Info-Mac Digest             Sun, 13 Jun 93       Volume 11 : Issue 120

Today's Topics:

      [*] Baker's Dozen 2.1.1 (Solitaire)
      [*] Bolo 0.99.2
      [*] DarkSide4.0.sea
      [*] deskwriter-39-image.hqx
      [*] info-mac/report/comp-sys-mac-comm-faq.txt
      [*] tex-edit-183.hqx
      [*} Data Desk v.4 Demo
      A Plea. (C)
      BBC TV Horizon (R)
      b Distinguishing backup files from originals. (R)
      Centris Video
      Chain (and lock) your Windows...N(O)T!
      Clock Synchronization
      Club Mac drives - Info wanted
      Cyclones...
      DiskCopy sound
      Diskless Plus using AppleShare (R)
      Help needed in Postscript (Q)
      Info-Mac Digest V11 #118 (2 msgs)
      Info-Mac Digest V11 #119
      Looking for Mac sound to .WAV file converter...
      MacTCP over AppleTalk Remote Access
      MacWrite Pro (Q) footnotes won't print!
      Mail to Mac-L (A)
      Mirror sites for Sumex
      Mouse Feets
      My Computer Forgets Folder Settings (Summary)
      NEEDED:  note-taking program with keyword search
      OKI Laserline printer driver (Q)
      Packaging of MacGS
      Photoshop not taking advantage of an FPU
      PICTPixie for Quicktime 1.6?
      Pioneer 6 CD ROM Changer
      Re.: Bad SE/30 Internal Floppy
      re.:Hooking a Quantum ProDrive 210S to a Mac (Q)
      Re.:Toner cartridge disassembly?
      Referbished Mac's
      SuperDrive is Dead?
      supra internet address (A)
      They killed our Quadra. A Cautionary tale. (C)
      To shut down or not shut down? (A)
      trouble ftping easyplay2.0.cpt.hqx
      Vaporware issues (R)
      Where to find non-apple PPDs
      White House IP address
      window cycling in the Finder
      Your Index Finger and the Future of the Mac (C)

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Date: Fri, 4 Jun 93 2:44:46 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Eric Snider)
Subject: [*] Baker's Dozen 2.1.1 (Solitaire)

Here's the latest version of Baker's Dozen. This is version 2.1.1. It
has some very minor changes from version 2.1. The main difference is
that I added a blurb or two about my upcoming game "Eric's Ultimate
Solitaire" which will be shipping this Fall through Delta Tao Software.

Anyway, Baker's Dozen is a one deck solitaire game. An older version
received 3 mice in MacUser. Version 2.1.1 is much better than the
version that was reviewed though.

Baker's Dozen has some cool features like:
  Unlimited Undo
  Supports color on color machines
  Digitized Sounds
  Statistics (yay!)
  Double clicking to move cards
    (You can still drag cards to move 'em around too)

If you like solitaire games you may want to check out my other games,
Montana, and Forty Thieves.

Baker's Dozen is shareware ($10 US). If you play it then please
register your copy, otherwise why not give it to a friend?

Eric Snider
4941 Woodcliff Hill Rd.
West Bloomfield, MI 48323

[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/game/bakers-dozen-211.hqx; 140K]

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Date: Sun, 13 Jun 93 17:16:38 -0700
From: Stuart Cheshire <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Bolo 0.99.2

Contents: Bolo, the networked multi-player tank battle game
Filename: Bolo992package.cpt.hqx
Version:  0.99.2 (appears to be pretty stable after a week or so of testing)
Size:     715K (BinHexed Compact Pro file)

Stuart Cheshire <[e-mail]>
 * Liliore Green Rains Houses Resident Computer Coordinator
 * Stanford Distributed Systems Group Research Assistant
 * Macintosh Programmer

[Archived as /info-mac/game/bolo/bolo-0992.hqx; 715K]

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 08:45:22 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Tarun Reddy)
Subject: [*] DarkSide4.0.sea

Here is the latest version of DarkSide of the Mac 4.0. According to the
Read Me, it is a screen saver that uses 64k of RAM and in addition to
running it's own modules, will run most AfterDark modules too. Enjoy! (btw,
I got this version from ftp.apple.com)

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/darkside-of-the-mac-40.hqx; 521K]

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Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1993 08:27:52 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Ralph Lombreglia)
Subject: [*] deskwriter-39-image.hqx

Hewlett-Packard DeskWriter 3.9 Drivers.  Installation disk image.

Unlike two recent sumex uploads of the new HP DeskWriter 3.9 drivers,
this file contains a true "disk image" of the HP installer floppy,
created with Apple's DiskCopy 4.2 program.  YOU WILL NEED DISKCOPY 4.2
TO USE THIS FILE.  The previous uploads to sumex did not work because
the HP Installer script and compressed files must reside on a
precisely formatted and configured 800K floppy, called "Installer 1,"
or the script will not run.  DiskCopy 4.2 will use this disk image to
create that floppy.

This file is a binhexed Compact Pro archive.

DeskWriter 3.9 includes more sophisticated support for grayscale
printing (with user-configurable levels of gray), and a
context-sensitive help window.  HP provides no detailed list of
changes from the previous 3.1, but it appears that the
enlargement/reduction feature of Print Preview is gone entirely, while
page navigation within Preview has been improved with a pop-up menu of
page numbers.

Uploaded to sumex-aim 6/4/93 by Ralph Lombreglia ([e-mail])

[Archived as /info-mac/prn/deskwriter-driver-image-39.hqx; 853K]

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Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1993 18:08:33 -0700
From: backmod (Backup Moderator)
Subject: [*] info-mac/report/comp-sys-mac-comm-faq.txt

Last-modified: Sat Jun 05 1993
This is the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) list for comp.sys.mac.comm
=======================================================================

This list of frequently asked questions and answers is intended to help
reduce the number of "often asked questions" that make the rounds here
in comp.sys.mac.comm. Since comp.sys.mac.comm is intended as a forum to
discuss telecommunication (and related issues) that are specific to the
Macintosh, most questions about modems, telecommunications in general,
and other non-Macintosh specific communication questions are not listed
here. The proper newsgroup for such questions is usually comp.dcom.modems.

This list is posted periodically (about once a month) to the Usenet
groups comp.sys.mac.comm, news.answers, and comp.answers. The FAQ can be
retrieved via anonymous FTP from the following sites:

        Site                 Directory                File(s)   {Parts}
 ----------------------- ----------------------------
 -------------------------
 sumex-aim.stanford.edu        info-mac/report
 comp-sys-mac-comm-faq.txt
 rtfm.mit.edu           pub/usenet/comp.sys.mac.comm
 c.s.m.c_FAQ_[1_4]...[4_4]
 mac.archive.umich.edu     mac/misc/documentation       compsysmaccommfaq.txt


[Archived as /info-mac/comm/info/comp-sys-mac-comm-faq.txt; 121K]

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Date: Fri, 4 Jun 93 15:35:04 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: [*] tex-edit-183.hqx

The latest version of Tex-Edit, a freeware text editor. See
TidBITS#177 for a full review. Some bug fixes and a few new
features in this release.

cheers ... Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor

[Archived as /info-mac/text/tex-edit-183.hqx; 66K]

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Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1993 12:06:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Ricardo C. Davis" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*} Data Desk v.4 Demo

Since the JMP statistical visualization software came up a few digests
back, I thought I would throw in another excellent tool for statistical
analysis for the Mac.  Attached is a demo of Data Desk.  IMHO, it is
a better product than JMP.  By contacting the publisher, DataDescription,
demo users can get a "Quickstart Guide" that explains capabilities of
Data Desk.  Their address is [e-mail].  Please
place this demo in the Info-Mac archives.


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

[Archived as /info-mac/demo/data-desk-40.hqx; 729K]

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Date: 12 Jun 1993 16:28:18GMT
From: "Alun J. Carr" <[e-mail]>
Subject: A Plea. (C)

To people submitting to the digest:

Please, please, please. If you include a message that you've copied from the
digest, PLEASE could you comment that message out (i.e. put a `>' or `%' or
something in the left margin at the start of each line). This is especially
useful if you include the *whole* message (mail address, subject line, and
all).

Thanks.

Alun.

A. J. Carr, Mech. Eng. Dept., UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Internet: [e-mail] / [e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 13 Jun 93 14:39:09 BST
From: [e-mail] (Sak Wathanasin)
Subject: BBC TV Horizon (R)

In Info-mac v11 no 118, E Hoenkamp <[e-mail]> writes

 > 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.

It wasn't just about Bill Gates: there was plenty of footage on Apple
including a demo of the Newton, a modified PB with a built-in cellular
phone, and lots of Macs. Oh yes, and a look at what General Magic are
doing.

My favourite bit: Microsoft manager taking the camera around their
Seattle campus says (something to the effect of) "We have about 12000
employees here. Why? Because, if they are working here, they can't be
working for someone else."

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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 93 22:53:21 CDT
From: Andrew Vernon <[e-mail]>
Subject: b Distinguishing backup files from originals. (R)

Fergus,

>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?

After you mirror your internal drive, You can use a file-diddler like
Bat Filer (info-mac/util/bat-filer-10.hqx) to go through your backup
drive and attach an extension to the copies so you can tell them apart.
It also got a few other features, like being able to trash files after
they're a certain age or have a creator code to a program you don't use
anymore. That should do the trick.

Andrew
[e-mail]/[e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 93 18:55:34 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Peter Lwin)
Subject: Centris Video

>> 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.

I believe the Apple IIGS video monitor lacks the bandwidth to support the
Centris video. However, the Centris will support a cheap PC clone VGA
monitor. Try the following pin-outs. If you rather buy, stores like CompUSA
carries a ready made adapter.

Macintosh Centris                       VGA Connector
DB-15                                   Hi-density DB-9
 ------------                           --------------

2  ------------------- Red Video ------------ 1
1  ------------------- Red Ground ----------- 6
9  ------------------- Blue Video ----------- 3
13 ------------------- Blue Ground ---------- 8
5  ------------------- Green Video ---------- 2
6  ------------------- Green Ground --------- 7
15 ------------------- Hsync ---------------- 13
12 ------------------- Vsync ---------------- 14
14 ------------------- Sync Ground ---------- 10
10 ------------------|
7  ------------------| Connect 7 and 10 so the sense pin ID will equal VGA

Of course, any multisync monitor from the PC world will also support the
Centris. Just make sure pin 4 on the Mac video connector is tied to GND. By
the way, the standard 640x480 resolution specs are:

    Horizontal rate:        35.0 KHz
    Vertical rate:          66.7 Hz

If your multisync monitor can handle higher resolutions, the standard
Centris can also support 832x624, 640x870, and 1152x870 pixels resolutions
but with less colors.

Pete Lwin
[e-mail]
408/437-5195

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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 93 03:22 CDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Chain (and lock) your Windows...N(O)T!

The following showed up in my mailbox from a guy who obviously
counts me among one of his 84 friends. Well, henceforth, he will
have to do with only 83.  I dare not displease the WindozeNT Muse
(so I am superstitious, ok?). The problem is I don't have 84 friends
who program in C, or for that matter, program in any language at all.
The gentle reader is bound to point out that knowledge of programming
has not been established as a requisite criterion for this undertaking.
The fact is I don't even know 84 people. Volunteers...any one??

Cheers-Shekhar Govind                   [e-mail]

> Within 60 days you will receive a letter from Redmond containing
> a list of names and addresses, along with instructions to write
> 10 lines of C code and send them to all the address you find on the
> list. Add your name to the bottom and mail copies to 84 of your
> friends.  In a few weeks you will receive 12.5 million lines of
> NT source code, ready for compiling and linking.

> Do not break the chain. One beta tester forgot to mail his source
> and lost his system to a power surge. Another sent the letter back
> to MicroSoft and was soon in a mental hospital, endlessly repeating
> the word downsizing.

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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 93 12:12:47 GMT
From: "Ray Kallman" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Clock Synchronization

I would like to thank everyone who responded to my request for
information about a program that would allow me to synchronize the clocks
on a number of macs all connected together on appletalk.
The majority of those responding recommended the Tardis/Timelord
package (in versions 1.6 &1.4, respectively).  A special
thanks to John Thoo who sent me a bin hexed copy of the file and also
placed a copy on sumex as:

 /info-mac/comm/net/tardis-timelord.hqx

Other programs mentioned were:
Announce, Gracelan and Time

Thanks:John Thoo, Kee Nethery, Tersa Lewandowski, J|rn Erik Wenners,
Dominik Hoffmann, Sandro Menzel, Peter Jorgensen, Mike Dustan, and
David Hornsby.

Who said no one ever answers questions on info-mac!!??


| Ray Kallman       [e-mail] |

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Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1993 08:58:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rick Lakin <[e-mail]>
Subject: Club Mac drives - Info wanted

   I just purchased a Quantum LPS 240 External from Club Mac and I am happy
with the service.  I ordered on Wednesday afternoon and received the
product on Friday afternoon.  Club Mac does not make their own hard
drives, they resell those made by Quantum or Syquest.

                    Rick Lakin

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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 93 23:40:15 -0400
From: "Scott E Maxwell" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Cyclones...

I heard by way of MacWeek that August is the magic month for the
Cyclones.  Officially they will be called the Centris 620v and the
Quadra 810v (or some such; the old memory is a starting to go).
The Centris will be in the Centris 610 form factor and will supposedly
start at around $2300.  The Quadra will be in the Quadra 800 form
factor and is supposed to go for over $4000.

As fas as PowerPC upgrades, I have heard that the C610, C650 and
Q800 form factors will have upgrade pathes.

Most of this info is from MacWeek, and I could be remembering it
wrong.  ;-)

Scott Maxwell
The University of Michigan
[e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1993 09:12:38 -0400
From: [e-mail] (William Homer Waits)
Subject: DiskCopy sound

Does anyone know how to change that god-awful sound in DiskCopy?
It happens when you try to duplicate on an already formatted
disk.  I have tried searching with ResEdit to no avail.
I would rather change it to something more pleasant, like a
personal sound.  Any help?  Please answer directly and I will
post a summary.  Thanks in advance.

--Bill

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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 93 22:45:34 CDT
From: Andrew Vernon <[e-mail]>
Subject: Diskless Plus using AppleShare (R)

Bryan,

>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.

You can fit a minimal System 6.0.8 on an 800K diskette (including
the System 7 LaserWriter driver that comes with it) but you won't have
any room for Desk Accessories or other goodies (In fact, strip out all
your DAs except for Control Panel and the Chooser) Get a teeny screen
saver like AutoIdle, which only takes up 4K. As long as you don't mind
working with only a few bitmap fonts and no DAs, using a System like this
can actually work. And, if you use a finder-substitute, you may be able
to add more resources (Sumex has a few, as does oak.oakland.edu, a mirror
of the old SIMTEL stuff).

Andrew
[e-mail]/[e-mail]

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Date: 12 Jun 1993 18:54:57GMT
From: "Alun J. Carr" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Help needed in Postscript (Q)

Since the LaserWriter 8.0 driver and LaserWriter Utility 1.4.1 still do not
address the problem of setting a default for the paper feed, I still have a
problem printing letters from OzTeX, where the first page should be on
letterhead from the multipurpose feeder, and the balance should be on plain
white paper from the 250-sheet tray.

The author of OzTeX suggested that I write PostScript code to persuade the
printer to do this, and append this code to the DVItoPS.ps file that OzTeX
sends down at the beginning of each print job.

Unfortunately, I am Postscript-illiterate. Could any kind soul out there
please give me some help in producing an appropriate chunk of Postscript
code which will impose the following logic on paper selection:

    IF (paper present in multipurpose feeder) THEN
    print first page using multipurpose feeder
    ELSE
    print first page using 250-page tray
    END;
    print balance of job using 250-page tray

I tried setting the appropriate options up in a text editor, printing to
disk, editing most of the stuff that seemed inappropriate out, then adding
what was left to the end of DVItoPS.ps. Bingo! the first page printed from
the multipurpose feeder. Unfortunately, the printer wanted everything else
>From the same source (manual feed error, or some such, was the helpful
diagnostic message).

If I ever get the Postscript code to do the job, I'll submit it to the
archive, and post a copy to the OzTeX archive at midway.uchicago.edu as
well.

Don't let the above put people off the idea of using OzTeX. It's superb, and
with a set of fonts built at 600 dpi, on a 600 dpi printer, the output is
indistinguishable from typeset (well, OK, with a suitably high-powered
magnifier you can see a *slight* step in some of the serifs).

I await the responses, including the ones that run `You cretin: why don't
you use Word like the rest of the Universe?' (I have an answer to that one,
and it won't please Mr Bill :-) ).

Alun

A. J. Carr, Mech. Eng. Dept., UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Internet: [e-mail] / [e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1993 09:38:38 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #118

     Hey, if you get a schematic on the two-page MegaGraphics
I'll be first in line to send you an SASE for a copy. Mine
quit with the symptom of briefly showing the desktop and
then going blank.
    If you know of anyone who fixes the d--n things I'd also
be much obliged. Thanks.
    Bill Phillips (Economist, not an EE ....)

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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1993 20:20:34 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Stewart Walker)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #118

In article <[e-mail]>, you write:
>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.
The tilde before works with a FastPath IF the proper option is enabled.
The LaserWriter will be hidden from all machines on the Ethernet side.

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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 93 16:34:40 EDT
From: Clare Durst <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #119

You can strip a 6.0.5 system down to basics, put on an 800k, connect
to the appleshare servers with it, and use Initshare or probably
carpetbag to get to a folder on the server for fonts BUT you can't
fit an up-to-date printer driver on the 800k disk, and if you don't
have the same one everyone else has, the printer keeps reinitializing
and is a pain for all and sundry. You could, however, use the mac as
a terminal server with, say, tn3270 on the appleshare volume.
You can also use it with an older version of a word processor; the
new ones tend to take up too much ram to be very useful on a 1 M machine.
But again, you can't print from it unless everyone is running a very
old version of the printer drivers.

I've forgotten, though, if 6.0.8 will really require you to have
more memory than 1 M. I think it does. And it's bigger.

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Date: 12 Jun 93 14:21:01 EDT
From: William Gonnason <[e-mail]>
Subject: Looking for Mac sound to .WAV file converter...

The subject line captures most of it.  I'm looking for a small program
in either the Macintosh or (excuse my language) the DOS world to convert
Macintosh sound files to windoze .WAV files.  I'm now contracting at a company
that uses primarily DOS boxes, but has sound cards in some of them.  I'd like
to take advantage of the collection of Mac sounds I've accumulated over the
years, but need a utility to convert them.  I'm aware of the recently-posted
Balthazar 1.0, but this utility goes in the wrong direction for my needs.

Can someone point me in the right direction???  Please send replies to
[e-mail].  If there are more than a few "me toos", I'll post
the (positive only) results.

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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 93 09:23:19 EDT
From: "Timothy Cera"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: MacTCP over AppleTalk Remote Access

Tried to send this direct to [e-mail], but my mailer says,
'unknown host'.  This might help others though.  I do not have the
time, but this question is asked often enough to warrant a report.
Whomever wants to do this can copy this post verbatim.  Of course,
fix any errors.  ;-)

ARA only will pass AppleTalk packets.  This poses a slight problem
for MacTCP which on LocalTalk passes TCP/IP packets encapsulated in
AppleTalk and on ethernet passes raw TCP/IP packets.  Notice the
what MacTCP does on LocalTalk.  It encapsulates TCP/IP packets
within AppleTalk packets, and that is how you can get TCP/IP
services over a ARA connection.

PROBLEM:  You need something on the host network to take the TCP/IP
packets out of the ARA packets.  This something is called a DDP/IP
gateway and is a feature of many LocalTalk to Ethernet routers
(GatorBox, FastPath, . . . etc.).

A DDP/IP gateway is recognized by the Mac by it's zone name.  I have
a zone here called 'UF Brain Institute', and it is maintained by my
GatorBox.

ARA HOST CONFIGURATION:
*  See whole network (a must because the remote Mac must 'see' the
DDP/IP gateway)

MISC HOST CONFIGURATION:
*  Network Control panel set so that the host can 'see' the DDP/IP
gateway
*  NOTE: The host MacTCP setting is IRRELEVANT!


ARA MacTCP CONFIGURATION:
*  You must connect with ARA to configure
*  Choose 'EtherTalk' (I think this is a bug) in the first screen
*  Select your DDP/IP gateway out of the pop-up list under the
EtherTalk icon
*  Goto the 'More...' screen
*  MUST be server mode, all other settings should match the
TCP/IP settings on the DDP/IP gateway, not the host Mac (this can, and
often are the same though)
*  Close MacTCP, restart

Next time you connect with ARA your TCP/IP programs should work.

hope this helps
tim cera
[e-mail]
computer operations manager
department of neuroscience
uf brain institute

P.S. If this works for you, could you pass it around.

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Date: 14 Jun 93 01:46:01 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Warren Steel)
Subject: MacWrite Pro (Q) footnotes won't print!

    I was impressed with the creation of footnotes in MacWrite Pro.  Just
"Insert Footnote" at a location in the text, and you are placed at the
bottom of the page below a rule (straight line) in a smaller font size.
Footnotes are renumbered automatically if you add additional notes or
move text.  They appear at the bottom of the page in all MacWrite views.
    But they don't print!  I'm using TrueType fonts on an ImageWriter II.
The footnotes are in small font size, but not too small for the printer
to handle--the subscript calls in the text are smaller, and they print
fine.  After much panic and aggravation, I noticed the "Print Notes"
choice on the Print Dialog, but it does nothing--it seems to refer to
another MacWrite feature: Notes, or comments which ordinarily are not
printed.
    I am new to the Mac and new to MacWrite.  Can any kind soul tell me
what I'm doing wrong?

Warren Steel                      [e-mail]
University of Mississippi    Department of Music     [phone]

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Date: 13 Jun 93 20:40:00 +2000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Mail to Mac-L (A)

 > 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?

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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1993 22:52:13 -0500 (CDT)
From: Dow Palmer <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mirror sites for Sumex

I am looking for a list of Internet sites that mirror the Sumex Info-Mac
archives.  The README files say that a list of those sites is to be found
in the info/comm area, but I am unable to locate them.  If anyone has such
a list, I'd appreciate knowing where it can be found.    Thanks...
     Ed Palmer      [e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 13 Jun 93 21:54:46 -0700
From: Jon Pugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mouse Feets

Some years ago, I picked up a pack of spare mouse feet at MacWorld.  I just
happen to have them here, awaiting the amputation of one of my meece's feets.
They are called MouseGlides from MicroStore (LeSueur, MN 56058) and the
phone number is [phone].  I seem to recall the price was in the $5
range.

The package contains two sets of glides for every model of ADB mouse.

Jon

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Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1993 10:02:55 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Thomas R Lawrence)
Subject: My Computer Forgets Folder Settings (Summary)

I've gotten several responses to my query.  Thanks to all who responded!
The query was:
>My problem is this:  Occasionally when I restart, a couple of my
>folders will have forgotten their settings.  They'll be back to
>icon view and will resume the default size and position.  This has
>always happened to me under System 7 on my PowerBook 170 and I
>believe it happened on a Mac LC as well.  I want to emphasize that
>this is not caused by crashing my computer; I shut down and restart
>quite normally.

The responses were quite varied.

Jim Vance ([e-mail]) said he'd experienced it many times
on Mac IIsi's and Classic II's.
Richard Austin ([e-mail]) said he's seen it on a Mac IIfx.

[e-mail] reminded me that folder preferences
won't be saved if you don't own the folder.  And I have been mubbling
around with file sharing.

However, David Milton ([e-mail]) said he had never
seen such a problem and that I should check my disk out with a
disk fixing program.

Beth Gladen ([e-mail]) suggested I toss my Finder
Preferences file because it might be corrupted.

This just in, Big Nose <[e-mail]>
said that ResEdit usually does it for him.  Yup  I'm a programmer and
I use ResEdit nearly >every< time I turn my computer on.

(Sorry if I received your reply after Thursday; it didn't make it into
this summary.)

Thanks for the suggestions!  I'll be trying them presently...

Thomas R. Lawrence

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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 93 09:00:32 EDT
From: Jon Butler <[e-mail]>
Subject: NEEDED:  note-taking program with keyword search

I need a note-taking program that also allows one to assign key-word for later
searching, rather the kind that would parallel EndNote Plus for
bibliographies.  Can someone suggest such a program?  Many thanks. --Jon
Butler   JBUTLER@YALEVM

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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 93 18:11:51 BST
From: Richard Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: OKI Laserline printer driver (Q)

Has anyone tried using an OKI LASERLINE 6 printer with a Mac?

Mine works OK with a spurious HP laserjet driver and the Apple serial tool,
but
it's very slow and takes ages before it frees up the Mac.

Any ideas on a driver? It's supposed to be HP LaserJet II compatible, has
serial
interface at a max speed of 19200, and 512kB RAM.

Thanks in advance.

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Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1993 18:38:21 -0600 (CDT)
From: Andrew Vernon <[e-mail]>
Subject: Packaging of MacGS

In a recent Info-Mac [e-mail] (Harald Hanche-Olsen), said:

>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.

>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.

I also have a gripe about the MacGS package. Both parts are TOO DAMN BIG.
The distribution needs to be re-packaged in a multi-part SEA (Compact Pro
and StuffIt can both do these) which each segment binhexed separately to
cut down on the hacking apart and concatenation of the files.  Since my
Mac isn't directly connected to the net and I don't trust my campus phone
lines, I do a lot of my FTPing from a PC and transmit the files across
SneakerNet enclosed in high-density diskettes (primitive, yes, but unless
they want to run Ethernet into my home...). and even in MacBinary form,
the first chunk of MacGS just won't fit on a 1.4MB disk.

Andrew Vernon
[e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 93 14:06:25 EDT
From: Pete Tamas <[e-mail]>
Subject: Photoshop not taking advantage of an FPU

I heard that Photoshop does not take advantage of an FPU even if it
is installed. Any truth to this rumor? Thanks-Pete Tamas
[e-mail], Temple Univ, Philadelphia (betw New York & Wash DC)

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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 93 12:23:26 +0200
From: [e-mail] (JOSSO)
Subject: PICTPixie for Quicktime 1.6?

When I tried to use PICTPixie 1.0 with Quicktime 1.6, I got a message stating
that the Image Compression Manager is out of date, and compression was
disabled.
Is there a new PICTPixie or Manager available? (no luck from ftp.apple.com)?
If not, what else can be used to compress simple PICT files? JPEG Convert
returns an error message.
Thanks in advance.                      Martin Josso, [e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1993 16:39:27 GMT
From: kd4nc!esinc![e-mail] (Dwight Kelly)
Subject: Pioneer 6 CD ROM Changer

[e-mail] writes:

>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?

On the Macintosh, the DRM-604X appears as 6 cd drives and automatically
mounts all of the available disks upon bootup. The only problem is when
the Mac goes out and looks for an unknown file creator or other info
and mounts each disk in succession to find the info.

Each 'virtual drive' is a lun so that the 6 drives only use 1 scsi id.

--
Dwight Kelly
Essential Technical Services, Inc.
3375 Summit Trail Cumming, GA 30131
[phone]  [phone] fax

--
Dwight Kelly
Essential Technical Services, Inc.
3375 Summit Trail Cumming, GA 30131
[phone]  [phone] fax

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Date: Sun, 13 Jun 93 16:55:19 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Lars Bertelsen)
Subject: Re.: Bad SE/30 Internal Floppy

in Info-Mac V11 #113, Ken Linger writes:

>
>       My internal 1.44M floppy drive is bad.  It always thinks that there is
>a disk inside even when there isn't.  Its constantly making the "clunking"
>noises as if it is trying to read something that is not there.  Sometimes the
>Mac pops up the "Would you like to format this disk" dialog, again, when
>nothing is in.
>
>       It ejects any disk I put in it and THEN tries to read it.
>
>       Has anyone else had these problems on an SE/30?  Is it the drive or
>(heaven forbid) something on the motherboard?  What are my options?  Can I
buy
>a new 3rd party internal?  Should I just disconnect it and buy an external?
>Maybe its just something simple?
>
>       I've tried all the obvious--no extension conflicts, I can't boot from
>the drive.  Its really slowing things down (just the constant trying to read
>>From it and the dialogs).  Where might I find a replacement drive (and
>recomendations?)

The first thing you have to consider is, has Your Mac been opened recently?
If so, this may be your answer! The floppy drive is connected to the
mainboard by
a flat ribbon cable. This cable fits into a connector on the floppdrive.
Now, if somebody
 opens the Mac to do almost anything, they will almost inevitably pull this
cable slightly
loose from the drive. What happens then is that the signals telling the Mac
that there is or
isn't a disk in the drive gets fouled up. Result: the disk stubbornly tries
to format a
disk that is not there!
Try opening your MAc and gently pushivng the connector all the way into the
socket
on the floppy.
If this does not work, try a new cable. If this does not work, the cheapest
replacement
is probably a replacement unit from Apple; their spareprices are not that
horrible
right now, at least in Denmark.

Lars Bertelsen
internet: [e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 13 Jun 93 16:56:56 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Lars Bertelsen)
Subject: re.:Hooking a Quantum ProDrive 210S to a Mac (Q)

>
>As a result of a hardware upgrade of our Unix boxes we now have a
>Quantum ProDrive 210S available for a Mac II.
>
>I have tried to hook it to an LC-II to install sys 7 on it. I've
>unplugged the IBM disk in the LC and I have installed the Quantum
>SCSI address 0 (terminators installed) in its place.
>HD-Setup complains that there is no suitable drive attached to the Mac.
>
>What di I do wrong?
>Do I need special drivers for the Quantum or what?
>
>University of Twente
>Public Administration and Public Policy
>
>Ronald Leenes
>

HD-SC setup only recognizes the drives that Apple supply!
Your solution is to get another formatting program. You might try FWB
Harddisk Toolkit. By the way, the version of HD-SC Setup that comes
with A/UX is general and suffer no such hang-ups!

Lars Bertelsen
internet: [e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 13 Jun 93 16:56:14 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Lars Bertelsen)
Subject: Re.:Toner cartridge disassembly?

in Info-Mac V11 #113, Bill "Tightwad" Park
>
>How do I disassemble the toner cartridge of an Apple Personal
>LaserWriter?  Apple part number M0089LL/A.  Other numbers on the
>cartridge are R64-1002-010, RA1-7731-2-4, RA1-7769-1-2-N.
>
>I've refilled it myself several times and it's been printing beautifully
>until just lately, when it developed a grey streak down the page.  I
>suspect there is dirt on a corona wire or a crudded-up thing dragging
>on the selenium drum.
>
>Looks like there is a pin at each end that holds one half of the
>cartridge inside the other so that they can pivot around the pins by
>about a degree or so.  There's a coil spring loading this pivot joint.
>Do I just press the pins out?  Are the two pins actually the two ends
>of a single long pin going all the way through?
>
>Are there any books on toner cartridge disassembly, repair, and
>reassembly?  Why not?

Two things are worth noting about toner cartridges:
1) They do deteriorate with use
2) They do not lend themselves to easy (or clean!) disassembly.
If you have already refilled the toner several times, you should probably
regard it as used up! If you insist on trying to take it apart, at least do
yourself a favor and do it outside your home!
Have fun!

Lars Bertelsen
internet: [e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 93 08:59:51 PDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Referbished Mac's

I am thinking of buying a "refurbished" powerbook from a company called
Rentex.  If anyone has any comments on used powerbooks or the company
Rentex, they would be appreciated.  Please send them directly to me.

Gerry Paille

[e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1993 09:18:27 -0400
From: [e-mail] (William Homer Waits)
Subject: SuperDrive is Dead?

Was anyone as disturbed as I was to learn of an EJECT button for a Mac
upon reading the news here at Info-Mac? (Sorry, don't remember which
issue.)  If you are as upset as I am about this truely disturbing news,
then I urge everyone to call 1-800-SOS-APPLE and register a formal
complaint.  Tell the person answering the phone that you read it here
at Info-Mac and that it would be a grave mistake to the mac interface
to do such.  The end user, especially all of us who have been
evangilizing would really suffer!  I already have done so and told
them EXACTLY what I think of even the CONCEPT of an eject button for
the Mac.  Let's ban together and show our strength in numbers!

--Bill

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Date: 13 Jun 1993 09:03:55 -1000
From: "HARTLING" <[e-mail]>
Subject: supra internet address (A)

The Internet address for Supra Tech support is:
[e-mail]

Gary Hartling
[e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 93 5:27:49 EDT
From: Shaw Wu <[e-mail]>
Subject: They killed our Quadra. A Cautionary tale. (C)

On Fri, 11 Jun 93  13:42 GMT Big Nose <LAWA%IAPE.AFRC.AC.UK@> said:
>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.

[a lot of stuff deleted....]

Sounds like you have the 040 caches turned OFF...go to the "CACHE SWITCH"
control panel and turn the 040 caches ON.

I must admit that i was quite impressed by your emotions...

:-)

__
Shaw Wu, NYU Stern School '94  --  Finance and Information Systems
Junior Analyst, Merrill Lynch, World Financial Center, South Tower
    <[e-mail]>       <[e-mail]>

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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1993 10:58:06 PDT
From: Kee Nethery <[e-mail]>
Subject: To shut down or not shut down? (A)

>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?

First, good question. Second, this question can generate tons of replies
and opinions so I'll try to summarize what I remember from the last
discussion.

The consesus was that if you plan to not use your computer for around 4
hours, shut it down. So when you go home at night, turn it off. If you are
getting a drink of water, leave it on. The trigger time (4 hours) is
arbitrary but in general, if you don't plan on using it for quite a while,
turn it off.

Just my opinion,
[e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1993 23:09 EDT
From: CHRIS EDWARDS <[e-mail]>
Subject: trouble ftping easyplay2.0.cpt.hqx

I tried ftping easyplay2.0.cpt.hqx from plaza.aarnet.edu.au as reported in
Info-Mac Digest V11 #119. I found the file, but cannot ftp it. When I use the
'get' commands I get the error

%FTP-W-PARMDEL, invalid parameter delimiter - check use of special characters

I even tried setting a different local name due to all the periods in the
remote name to no avail. I'm sure I'm doing something painfully obvious
wrong.
Could someone please tell me what it is. Thanks.

-Chris Edwards
[e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1993 16:09:09 -0400
From: Chris Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: Vaporware issues (R)

The Cyclone will be announced in August, but as far as the PowerPC goes,
I think everyone is still working off of outdated information. PowerPC
development is well ahead of its original schedule. I think you will see
the second release of the PowerPC's in January, and things up to the 604
as soon as March. I agree though, the first PowerPC's probably won't
offer any improved performance over the Cyclones, especially since there
won't be much recompiled software, BUT I would say that they will
probably be significantly less expensive, so I think you will see some
strange things happening with the price point.

--Chris

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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1993 12:15:33 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Olof Backing)
Subject: Where to find non-apple PPDs

In digest <[e-mail]>
[e-mail] writes:

>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.

Try ftp.adobe.com or ftp.imagen.com for non-apple PPDs.
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Olof
--
WHOAMI: Olof Backing                                 EMAIL:
WHERE:  Royal Institute Of Technology, Stockholm     [e-mail]
SNAIL:  Professorsslingan 25/102, S-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden
VOICE:  + 46 8 166318

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Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1993 15:16 PDT
From: shane <[e-mail]>
Subject: White House IP address

  In response to Karl ([e-mail]), I believe
the White House IP address is:

    198.137.240.100

  The House of Representatives is allegedly coming on line
themselves; I think their domain name is going to be something
like "hr.gov"...  (though that name didn't jive with my name-
server).

vr/ shane
<[e-mail]>

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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1993 14:36:01 +0900
From: [e-mail] (Jeong-Hyun Kim)
Subject: window cycling in the Finder

Command-clicking on the title bar(but not on the title) of the foremost
window in the Finder sends the window to back and activates the next window.
I think I've rtfm thoroughly but this nice feature was documented nowhere.
Anybody knew that?

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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1993 07:20:54 -0500 (CDT)
From: Larry Rymal <[e-mail]>
Subject: Your Index Finger and the Future of the Mac (C)

Andrew Vernon writes:

> 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.

    Ummm, although I'm no fan of the Amiga, this assumption is not
quite the problem as suggested.  Both the Amiga and Atari Macintosh Plus
emulators, the Amax and the Spectre GCR, address this situation easily.
They have "floppy insert" detect microswitches in their floppy mechanisms.
When a user inserts a disk, then the standard Mac floppy format/erase
option dialog is presented.  No fuss, no muss.
    What about ejects?  Both the Amax and the Spectre GCR use flashing
letters or symbols in the menu bar to alert the user to remove the
floppy.  This all works rather well.  I used the Spectre GCR for
YEARS until Macs became affordable.  The flashing letter/symbol method
was rather intuitive and the letter/symbol disappeared when the disk was
removed.  What do you want to bet that Apple will use some ugly dialog box
that covers half the screen, though?  grin
    Finally, the "CrippleDrive", from what has been presented, is mainly
for low-end consumer models.  As such, these mechanisms are about half
the cost of a motor assisted unit.

--Larry Rymal <[e-mail]>

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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1993 19:38:42 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Norbert Mueller)

Please help me someone!

I have been using a very reliable fast Maxtor 345 MB hardddisk for 2.5 years
without any problems. When I switched to a Centris 650 last week my troubles
started:

The disk would be mounted only occasionally.
Frequently the machine hangs when trying to mount the disk.
If it mounts successfully it hangs later on during a transfer.

The problems immediately go away if I turn off the processor's caches.
The problems do not occur on a Q950 (running A/UX 3.0).

I have tried:
reformatting, 4 different disk drivers (including Apple's A/UX 3.0 HD SC
setup),
yes - it also happens with a clean system (no non-Apple inits), 24 hour disk
read/write test.

The precise designation of the disk is XT8380S.

This prblem is really wierd, the other external peripherals I use work Ok.

Thanks to anyone who can help me!

Norbert Mueller
Institut fuer Chemie
Johannes Kepler Universitaet
A-4040 Linz
Austria

e-mail:

[e-mail] (preferred)

[e-mail]
NorbertM (AMDA-Link Linz)    ->FirstClass

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