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Info-Mac Digest             Wed, 14 Jul 93       Volume 11 : Issue 142

Today's Topics:

      [*] CCL Modem Tool 1.3.1
      [*] TidBITS#184/12-Jul-93
      (Q) Monitor on internal video
      (Q) trouble typing the letter 'o'
      2 internal hard drives in Mac IIfx
      [R] Power-PC upgrades
      Advice on 14" Monitor Request...
      advice on 21 meg floptical drives
      Advice Requested (SE/30 Options) (C)
      American Heritage Dictionary (C)
      American Heritage Dictionary (Summary)
      American Heritage Dictionary - 2 cents worth (2 msgs)
      appletalk and eithernet (A)
      ARA Client - why not just use an alias ? [A]
      Busting Heads
      Centris 610, TR Nu bus cards - don't fit
      comp.sys.mac.announce
      Copying vs installing
      Font Tuner for System 7.1 (C)
      Font Tuner for System 7.1: CAUTION! (C) (2 msgs)
      FWD>Apple II support
      Hand made paper and LaserWriters (Q)
      Hard Drive Problems
      Helix Express
      Helix Express -- Thanks for your comments!
      HyperCard and TrueType Fonts
      IIci Floppy Eject Problems
      imaging software information
      La Cie Customer Service - Great!
      MACARCH question (A)
      Mac Stuck on Welcome screen (summary, long)
      Minitel 'Messageries roses' (2 msgs)
      Minitel is a pretty crude technology
      MRI of RAT (C)
      Norton Encrypt
      Power-PC Upgrades (C)
      PowerPC (R)
      PowerPC StartUp Screen (C)
      Setting Startup application (R)
      Stiction
      TCP---Someone Fix it!
      Toner Tuner
      Unix/Mac Digest "Un-Digester"???
      Which Term Program?
      Word negative ruler problem

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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1993 21:57:41 +0400
From: Vladimir Butenko <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] CCL Modem Tool 1.3.1

CCL Modem Tool 1.3.1

The CCL Modem Tool is a Connection Tool for Communications Toolbox.
It lets you establish a connection with a remote computer through a
modem attached to your Macintosh (or through shared network modems).
It uses CCL script files (the same files as ARA uses) for controlling
the modem, thus the user interface is as clear and simple as it is in
the Apple's Remote Access Setup control panel. The tool can also trace
CCL scripts. Balloon Help(tm) supported.

The CCL Modem Tool can be freely distributed on non-commercial basis.

Changes since 1.3: the bug in processing CMAbort (illegal return code)
fixed.

If you want to bundle the CCL Modem Tool with your products, contact:

Stalker GmbH
Fax:  [phone] (San Jose)
     49(221) 442 138  (Cologne)
e-mail: [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/ccl-modem-tool-131.hqx; 28K]

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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 93 21:53:06 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: [*] TidBITS#184/12-Jul-93

TidBITS#184/12-Jul-93

 Matt Neuburg returns to rescind some of the negative points he
   made about the Now Utilities 4.0.1 when it came out last year,
   and Rick Sutcliffe editorializes on the future of distribution
   in the Information Age. In the practical world, James Brigman
   offers tips and information about refilling DeskWriter
   cartridges, we announce a prototype setext viewer for Unix,
   and lots of other bits about SCSI, ZipIt, Communicate Lite,
   ClarisWorks, and QM-PAGE.

Topics:
    MailBITS/12-Jul-93
    Now Utilities Palinode
    Unix Setext Viewer
    DeskWriter Cartridge Refilling
    A Distribution Paradigm for the Fourth Civilization
    Reviews/12-Jul-93

[Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-184.etx; 28K]

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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1993 08:56:07 +0400 (AST)
From: BC <[e-mail]>
Subject: (Q) Monitor on internal video

G'day all,

My friend has a Apple Hi-Res RGB monitor.  When he hooks it up to his IIci
with a SuperMAc 24 bit card (Nubus), it works.  Internal video, doesn't work.
With a IIsi same thing, hook up internal video doesn't work, with the card
it works.  I thought that an Apple monitor would work with an internal
video on those machines.  Any ideas?

    Robert Cormier                  Dep. de chimie et biochimie
         >:-I                       Universite de Moncton
MacIntosh &  NCC-1701D (The best)       Moncton, N. B. CANADA  E1A 3E9
e-mail [e-mail]             Tel [phone]

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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 93 10:02:08 EDT
From: Dave Elbon <[e-mail]>
Subject: (Q) trouble typing the letter 'o'

I've been having the same problem for years, on several models of Mac
and several keyboards and System 6 and System 7.  It only happens
occasionally.  I notice it most often running tn3270 and typing the
command "top" while using Xedit (a VM/CMS editor).  I've always assumed
I was somehow typing too fast for something.  It will get the "to" then
ignore keystrokes for awhile.  It seems like hitting "o" a couple of
times wakes it up.

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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 93 17:04:16 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Thomas D. Halter)
Subject: 2 internal hard drives in Mac IIfx

A while back, someone posted an article about installing two internal
hard drives in a wide body (II/IIx/IIfx) Macintosh.  I searched the
archives, but couldn't find a copy of the report.  If anybody has
information on how to do this, please send it to me or post to the
digest.

Thanks,
Tom

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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1993 15:07:22 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Brian V. Hughes)
Subject: [R] Power-PC upgrades

[e-mail] (Guido Paccagnella (Hosp.Perez Carreno)) writes:

>Does any one know if the next to be released Power PC upgrades for the
>Quadras, Centris (by means of the Processor Direct Slot ) will also work
>on the Quadra 700 ?

    A couple of things... PowerPC upgrades offered by Apple will be in
the form of logic board replacements, and they will be offered for all
Macs that use the Centris 610, the Centris 650 and the Quadra 800 case
designs (there are 8 different models, currently). Third parties like
Radius and Daystar will be producing PDS and/or NuBus PowerPC
up"accelerator" cards for people who want to upgrade those Macs not
receiving a logic board upgrade.

>I heard a rumor that only the machines with the DMA manager will be able
>to take the card.

    Since there are only two Macs -- the soon-to-be-released Centris
660av and Quadra 840av -- that even have a DMA controller (not counting
the DMA controller that all NuBus Macs have) I would seriously doubt
this.

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Date: 13 Jul 93 08:37:29 EDT
From: Charlie Summers <[e-mail]>
Subject: Advice on 14" Monitor Request...

Folks;

   I am in the market for a 640x480 monitor for my SE/30 w/XCEED 24-bit card
(my old NEC MacSync is becoming rather unreadable), and would appreciate
suggestions. I would also appreciate someone patiently explaining to me the
"new" line of Apple monitors, particularly which one of them is the
Trinitron-based 640x480. (I noticed listings of Apple CPUs, but not the
monitors/peripherals.)

   Much thanks in advance...

     Charlie

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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 93 07:25:17 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Alan Piszcz)
Subject: advice on 21 meg floptical drives

>I bought the Iomega Floptical drive and have had very few complaints with
>it. The finder also treats 21MB flopticals in the Iomega like hard disks.
>Why is this a problem? The only inconvenience I've run into was Norton
>Backup having to be changed to 'back up to Macintosh File' instead of
>selecting a special sized floppy to back up to.

This is NOT a problem, just a fact people may want to know.


> Iomega reads and writes 1.44MB disks like any other drive. Have not
> specifically tried to run Installer from that drive, though. Have succeeded
> in making a Norton Emergency Disk from a floptical diskette and booting the
> Mac under System 7.1 however.

A reason people may purchase a floptical is to install 1.44MB disk
based software.  Booting from the floptical is not a problem.

> Tha's DiskCopy's problem. But then, DiskCopy has lots of problems.

Nortons FLOPPIER utility and others also do not recognize it as
a floppy device.

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

Thanks for providing some more information about FLOPTICALs.

If someone knows of a floptical that can :

1) Work with Installer programs from the major vendors...

2) Operate with diskcopy or similar programs to handle 1.44MB disk images


Please reply...

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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 93 15:37 CDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Advice Requested (SE/30 Options) (C)

[e-mail] (Ken  Linger ) writes:
>     [....lots of excellent advice ....]
> - Hard drive.  You can get an internal hard drive with around 200 megs
> for around $300.  Installation is fairly easy, but harder than the
> SIMMs.  You basically have to unscrew the floppy drive and the
                ------------------------
> internal HD from Apple, screw the new one in, put your Mac back
> together.  Then, after finding out you didn't line the floppy drive up
> with the case and that a disk cannot be inserted easily, reopen it up
> and remember to line it up this time.
>      [....more good stuff....]

The internal HD in a SE/30 can be removed independently of the floppy
drive.  The HD is mounted on a chassis.  The HD+chassis is kept in place
rigidly by 2 slide-in "slots" at the front of the mac and 2 screws at
the rear.  Both the slots and the screws hold the HD+chassis rigidly to
the floppy "box". If you unscrew the 2 screws (seen from the *back* of
the Mac, and of course disconnect the power and SCSI cables) the
HD+chassis can be taken out easily without taking out the floppy drive.

On a related note, two "problems" I had when installing the HD:

1. The internal ELS 170 I ordered came with connection "struts" which
   were a little too small for the original "HD chassis" (the ELS drive
   is about half the thickness of the one it replaced). I had to drill a
   couple of holes in the chassis to get the screws properly aligned.
   (Yes, I was sent struts for the SE/30; or so it said on the package.)

2. The SE/30's disk access LED (mounted on the HD chassis) had a clip-on
   connector which was quite different from the connection provided on
   the ELS 170 (even though my original internal drive was also a
   Quantum). I had to bend the "connection prongs" on the HD to get the
   LED connector to mate properly.

Cheers- Shekhar Govind                 [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1993 17:12:09 GMT
From: [e-mail] (David Wittenberg)
Subject: American Heritage Dictionary (C)

> > It would appear that registered users are the scum of the earth to AHED.
> > I would rate their user support on a scale from 1 to 10 at -10!
>
> Rather strong words. I've had good experiences with WordStar customer
> support. They certainly don't treat me like the scum of the earth. When I
> received the flyer for the new version, I called their toll-free number and
> asked to upgrade to the new Deluxe Edition, which I'd read about in
> MacWeek. (It _was_ strange that the flyer only mentioned the Standard
> Edition.) Anyhow, my call was answered promptly, the person who answered
> was helpful and friendly, and I was told my upgrade would be shipped
> immediately. Since I am a registered user, they were able to look up my
> name and address in their data base, so I didn't have to dictate it over
> the phone.

I'm afraid that my experience with WordStar has been extremely poor.  A
copy of the American Heritage Dictionary came with my PowerBook.  I was
unable to install it, and when I called the tech support number, I got
no help at all.  I did explain to them what 32-bit clean meant, but
that wasn't the problem.  After several calls (all at my expense) and
no help, I decided that it wasn't worth wasting my time anymore.  I still
have the AHED box with disks in the pile of things to play with in my spare
time, but I think I'd be better off adding the disks to my scrap collection.

--
--David Wittenberg
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1993 15:40:27 CHT
From: [e-mail] (Patricio Mason)
Subject: American Heritage Dictionary (Summary)

Dear denizens of netspace,

Many thanks to all those who replied to my call for opinions on the
American Heritage Dictionary for the Macintosh, especially the individuals
below.  My apologies if I am inadvertently leaving someone out.

So, this is the dope on the dicshunery:

* Most thought it was great and well worth the money, particularly so if
for professional or personal reasons you must (or should) reach for a
(paper) dictionary more than once a day. "Fascinating" and"enthralling"
were terms I heard more than once.

* It is a full-fledged reference dictionary, just like a hard copy. It does
not do spell-checking.  You can cut & paste to and from it, etc.

* Two versions exist.  One is variously termed "Standard" or "Basic".  If
you want power, don't bother with that.  Get the (variously termed) College
or Professional version, *THIRD EDITION*.  Caveat emptor: The "Basic"
version takes up about 5 MB of disk space.  The "College/Pro" Third Edition
version takes up in the vicinity of 13 MB and comes in 10/13 diskettes.
You've been warned.

* Several respondents agreed that the vendor's marketing strategy is rather
strange.  They go all out to advertise the Standard version, but say not a
word about the College/Pro version.  One person offered the opinion that
the poor marketing strategy is due to the product having changed hands in
the recent past.

* How much? That seems to vary.  If you are a registered owner, it's about
US$29 to US$49 extra.  On the basis of the glowing reports, I went ahead
and ordered it at a cost of US$79.95 plus US$5.50 S&H within the U.S.,
$6.50 extra if shipped somewhere else (regular mail).

* The vendor assured me that the College/Professional Third Edition version
is 32-bit clean and System-7 compatible.  Previous version apparently were
not.

And that's about it, I think.  Again, many thanks to all who responded,
including:

CHRIS EDWARDS <[e-mail]>
DON'T PANIC <[e-mail]>
Graeme Forbes <[e-mail]>
Hal Perkins                     [e-mail]
[e-mail] (Stephen C. Harmony)
[e-mail] (Mark Hayes)
BEN <[e-mail]
[e-mail] (Mike Khaw)
Bradley Nation <[e-mail]>



Patricio Mason
International Communication Solutions Ltd.
Specialist Translation and Multilingual Productions
Avenida Suecia 84, Oficina 162, Piso 16
Providencia - Santiago, Chile
Tel.: [phone]-2854
Fax:  [phone]
e-mail: [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1993 18:46:39 EDT
From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: American Heritage Dictionary - 2 cents worth

Recently Patricio Mason asked for comments on the American Heritage
Dictionary.  He said:

PM> A piece of mail from the publisher of the Electronic American
PM> Heritage Dictionary just came to me yesterday, and it sounds
PM> interesting. Before I take the plunge, however, I'd like to poll
PM> users out there.
PM>
PM> If you are one such soul, are you generally satisfied with it? How
PM> would you rate the Roget Thesaurus and Word Hunter functions?

I have been using the academic edition of AHED for a while.  Frankly,
I was not overly impressed with it.  The content was somewhat lacking,
but that was nothing compared to the awful fact that AHED insisted in
living in the System Folder.  Like most Mac folks, my System folder is
valuable real estate.  I really couldn't afford the multimegabits that
it required, so I disposed of it.

Recently I received the same mailing that Patricio did.  WordStar offered an
upgrade to a new version that was more comprehensive and (importantly) could
live anywhere on any partition.  The upgrade was to the "professional edition"
was $39.95.  So I sent for it.

What came in was something called the "standard edition".  It did not have
the bells and whistles of the professional version I ordered.  I called
WordStar technical support.  They told me that the professional edition
had been changed to the deluxe edition.  (Are you still with me?)  The
tech support guy (who was a real help) told me to call customer service.
I eventually talked to someone and was told that the deluxe edition upgrade
was $49.95.  I read her the text of the the flyer and finally convinced her
that the flyer was very misleading.  She gave me the name of a manager
in shipping to call.  It took a couple of calls and a lot of patience to
convince the shipping manager that I clearly ordered what had become the
deluxe edition but received the standard edition.  Finally, she agreed
to replace the standard edition with the deluxe edition.

It came in yesterday (all 18 disks!).  I installed it, but haven't
yet had a chance to give it a good run through.  I like the deluxe
version.  It's fairly intutitive, but less than spectacular despite
the multitude of disks.  I like Denuba's Coach Pro much better.  It has
better content that MS Word's 5.1's or AHED's Dict and Thesauraus.  We'll see
as I continue to work with the three which ones remain on my hard drive.

I do think that the upgrade is worth the price (especially at $39.95 ;-), but
I will continue to do a head-to-head (no pun intended--I think)
comparison.

Jeffrey Fritz
West Virginia University
Telecommunications
Internet: [e-mail]
AppleLink: WVUISDN
America On Line: ISDN Man

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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1993 19:53:09 CHT
From: [e-mail] (Patricio Mason)
Subject: American Heritage Dictionary - 2 cents worth

On Tue, 13 Jul 1993, "Jeffrey N. Fritz" <[e-mail]>
wrote:

> I do think that the upgrade is worth the price (especially at $39.95 ;-),
but
> I will continue to do a head-to-head (no pun intended--I think)
> comparison.
>
> Jeffrey Fritz


This is a bit of a P.S. on the summary I sent earlier to Info-Mac on this
issue.  I should add that the "College/Professional" version, a.k.a. Third
Edition I mentioned and decided to buy, is in fact the same "Deluxe"
version Jeffrey Fritz refers to.  This newest version clears System Folder
residence problems and appears to be a much improved product overall.

Patricio Mason
International Communication Solutions Ltd.
Specialist Translation and Multilingual Productions
Avenida Suecia 84, Oficina 162, Piso 16
Providencia - Santiago, Chile
Tel.: [phone]-2854
Fax:  [phone]
e-mail: [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1993 13:05:06 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Povl H. Pedersen)
Subject: appletalk and eithernet (A)

You need to set up a machine that has access to both localtalk and
ethernet, and put something like Apple Internet Router on it. It runs
invisible in the background. There are also hardware solutions, and 3rd
party software solutions.
This will make an ethenet zone and an Appletalk zone.
---
Povl H. Pedersen  -  Macintosh Consultant and Programmer
[e-mail] (prefered)   /   [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 93 19:47:11 MDT
From: Alonso Castro <[e-mail]>
Subject: ARA Client - why not just use an alias ? [A]

>I downloaded the earlier version, and it worked fine, but I am a little
>puzzled why such a thing is needed.  Once you have defined the connexion by
>establishing it the first time, which is not too complicated with plain
>ARA, you can simply
>make an alias of the remote disk, and then use system-7 and ARA to remount it
>automatically by double clicking the alias.

Sometimes one just needs to connect to the remote appletalk network, without
mounting a disk (for printing, connecting to the Internet, etc). It is in
these
cases that ARA Client is most useful (it requires less memory too).

Alonso.

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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 93 16:24:45 -0700
From: Jon Pugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Busting Heads

A recent Info-Mac submission said:
> otherwise I'm heading out to Cupertino to bust some heads

Don't expect to get too far.  There are guards here to keep out disgruntled
employees.  I'm sure they can handle disgruntled customers too.  ;)

As an example of disgruntled employees, Burrell Smith, one of the original
Macintosh hardware designers, was recently in the news.  I don't suppose it
made many papers outside the Silicon Valley, so I'll repeat the gist of it
here.  I read it in several articles from the San Jose Mercury News,
including at least one front page report.  Burrell has apparently not been
taking his medicine and has gone a bit off the deep end.  Steve Jobs has
filed a restraining order against Mr. Smith and the police have arrested him
for violating that order and other charges.  Apparently, Steve and his
household staff have had a rash of broken windows and have sighted Mr. Smith
sitting on the curb across the street juggling rocks on a number of
occasions.  Mr. Smith was also sighted by the cleaning lady just prior to an
explosion rocking the Jobs household.  It was apparently the equivalent of a
cherry bomb.  Mr. Smith was arrested and released pending trial.

Apparently Burrell has been diagnosed manic/depressive and has been under
a doctor's care, including continuing medication which he has ceased
taking.  Mr. Smith is or was a Radius employee; I don't recall his
current employment status.  No one (aside from Burrell) is entirely sure
why he has taken offense with Mr. Jobs, but his mother was quoted as saying
that he was very sick.

For more information, contact the San Jose Mercury News for reprints.

There was also a rumor of a bomb threat the other day, but I have no idea if
that is true.  Consequently, I consider coming out here to break heads as a
very problematic course of action, unless you enjoy handcuffs.  ;) ;) ;)

Jon

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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1993 17:22:49 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Larry Pickett)
Subject: Centris 610, TR Nu bus cards - don't fit

Please correct me if I am in error.  Apple has designed the Centris 610 so
that it is unable to accept long (7"?) nu bus cards in its nubus adapter.
This is a major annoyance here since our LAN is TR based and we have been
trying to plan a purchase of 610's for faculty desks.

Is there a TR card that will work in these circumstances?

Apple, I'm angry, not that it will cause a lose of sleep in CA.

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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1993 14:49:43 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: comp.sys.mac.announce

Hi,

My apologies if you're not the right person for
this.

I'm about to introduce a new Appletalk router.  It
supports a protocol called Remote Object Access
which allows AppleTalk objects from one internet
to be "mapped" into another.  So you could, for
example, use one of my ROA routers to import my AFP
server to your AppleTalk internet, then access it
normally through the chooser.  Unlike ARAP,
ROA lets you remain connected to your local network
services and lets you access multiple remote
internets ( which must be connect by TCP/IP )
at one time.


The router itself is full-featured, similar to
a Shiva FastPath in functionality, but runs on
a dedicated-headless-diskless pc.

I will have a demo version of the router ( the
software only of course ) available for anonymous
ftp on an ftp server.

Needless to say, I'm interested in announcing the
ROA part and the demo availablitity on mac.announce.
Could you give me guidelines for what would/would
not be acceptable? How to go about it, etc?

Thanks very much
Terry Braun

 -------
Terry Braun                  [e-mail]
Talking Networks, Inc.       510-549-8368

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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 93 12:45:32 CDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Copying vs installing

Just wanted to post a big thank-you to all the folks who responded
to my question about transferring files from an old Mac to a new one.
I tried to reply to everyone individually; if I left anyone out, I'm
sorry.

I got a large number of replies. Some folks said they had done drag-
copies of applications with no problem, others recommended that I do
fresh installs of apps. Among alternatives suggested were file transfer
over an Appletalk network between the two machines, and making a tape
backup of the old HD and restoring it to the new one.

I was also grateful for the discussion about system enablers, as this was
a topic I ignored back when it was hot on the discussion lists (don't we
always ignore everything that doesn't apply right now to us?;)). Also,
thanks to the many folks who warned me not to try to connect the two
machines directly via SCSI cable.

The Centris hasn't arrived yet--I hope Apple doesn't have a two-year back-
log of orders for them--when it does I'll let the net know if anything
interesting happens with the transfer process. Again, thanks for all the
advice and info.
        Pat

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

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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 93 13:51:43 CDT
From: Graeme Forbes <[e-mail]>
Subject: Font Tuner for System 7.1 (C)

I ran Font Tuner yesterday on my Quadra 700 with no problem - maybe
there's something specific to the IIsi that's affecting Robert Frost.

On the other hand, so far as I can tell, it made no difference to
the amount of memory my system takes up.

Graeme Forbes

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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1993 13:05:38 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Povl H. Pedersen)
Subject: Font Tuner for System 7.1: CAUTION! (C)

I have used Font Tuner on my SE/30 and danish system 7.1 without problems.
And fonts gets purged as they are supposed to. I am sure Robert L. Frost
has a bad font suitcase.
---
Povl H. Pedersen  -  Macintosh Consultant and Programmer
[e-mail] (prefered)   /   [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 93 07:58:03 -0400
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Font Tuner for System 7.1: CAUTION! (C)

In reply to my query/warning, Povl H. Petersen comments:

> I have used Font Tuner on my SE/30 and danish system 7.1
> without problems. And fonts gets purged as they are supposed
> to. I am sure Robert L. Frost has a bad font suitcase.

Thanks, but is it possible to have a font suitcase that works flawlessly
in all other respects, yet crashes on Font Tuner?

--frost.
\

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Date: 13 Jul 1993 08:48:15 -0500
From: "Bill Fleischmann" <[e-mail]>
Subject: FWD>Apple II support

Mail*Link(r) SMTP               FWD>Apple II support
In a recent issue (#134?), Pat Ullman
([e-mail]) asked for more information about
support for the Apple II line.

A clarinet.newsbytes article from June 14 reported that Quality
Computers in St. Clair Shores, Mi (1-800-777-3642; [phone])
was making a major push to support the Apple II line.  In addition
to selling software--e.g., they purchased rights to Beagle Brothers
Apple II software line--they are publishing a bi-monthly magazine
"II Alive" ($19.95 annual subscription includes some video).
Evidentally, Quality Computers has acquired the subscription lists
to both "A+" and "InCider" (recently discontinued Apple II-oriented
publications) and is fulfilling their outstanding subscription
orders with "II Alive."

(I am not affiliated with Quality Computers, but noted the article
with interest because my younger brother still has an Apple IIe.)

Hope this helps,

>>Bill
W.P. Fleischmann              Internet: [e-mail]

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Date: 13 Jul 1993 09:12:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Peter Jorgensen <[e-mail]>
Subject: Hand made paper and LaserWriters (Q)

Greetings,

I'd like to hear from anyone who has experience or insights into putting hand
made paper through LaserWriters or laser printers. Our art department is
looking for a laser printer that will fuse the toner onto the uneven surface
of that hand made paper presents.

Thanks in advance,

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: Tue, 13 Jul 1993 02:13:50 -0600 (CDT)
From: [e-mail] (Andrew Laurence Bender)
Subject: Hard Drive Problems

Don't overlook something as simple as a bad power supply.

Back in the olden days (when 5 and 10 meg drives were all that you needed)
(and of course, pre-MAC)

Back in the olden days (when 5 and 10 meg drives were a big deal, and of
course before any MAC was released)  I had a problem with a Hard Drive.
I would take forever to boot up.  I removed it from its housing and attached
it to a Floppy Drive power connector.  It instantly started up.

You might want to either test this yourself (at your own risk) or ask the
tech about this possible problem.

In any case, find out what kind of HD it is.  Seagate drives are notorious
for "Sticktion."

Good Luck
alb
[e-mail] / [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1993 21:45 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Helix Express

Although I am positive concerning this product, I am much less enthralled
than some of the previous commenters. I too have been a user since the
days of Double Helix. I run multiple single user databases with it as well
as a large multi-user database.

Although it is very easy to program, its paradigms are so different than
those used by conventional programmers, it is easier for novices than for
experienced programmers. Small, seemingly inconsequential differences in
structure can cause large differences in performance. It is clearly not
for everyone.

Lastly, I have found customer support to be VERY poor. Under Odesta, support
was much better. There were regular newsletters, mailings, etc. Northcon,
dba Helix Technologies, has discontinued these services. Dealing with them
on the telephone has been most unsatisfactory. I would rate overall
customer support as fair, at best.

Joe Cottrell    Division of Pulmonary Medicine  University of Pittsburgh

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

Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1993 15:53:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Ricardo C. Davis" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Helix Express -- Thanks for your comments!

I want to thank all those who responded to my request for comments on
Helix Express!  Info-Mac is a forum that works!

Ricardo C. Davis                                 Internet: [e-mail]
Building 773-42A, SRTC/SCS                       Phone: [phone]
Westinghouse Savannah River Co.                              725-8829(FAX)
P.O. Box 616, Aiken, SC  29802  USA

* Freedom is not the right to choose, freedom is the result of wise choices.


P.S.  If anyone wants the comments I received, please e-mail me directly,
not to Info-Mac.

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

Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1993 08:53:12 +0000
From: Richard Rathe <[e-mail]>
Subject: HyperCard and TrueType Fonts

"...Then along came system 7 and TrueType. Now when I open the
stack, many of the fields have missing text..."

The first thing to do is remove any fonts you don't use. The more there are
the more chances there are to confuse HyperCard. (You may want to remove ALL
the fonts and only replace the ones you use.) The second thing to try (if it
hasn't been done already) is to put the bit-mapped versions of all the fonts
you use in the system file (7.0.x) of fonts folder (7.1). This may help
HyperCard find them. It is also faster since your Mac does not have to do
TrueType calculations to draw the characters on the screen. Finally, you might
reinstall the problem fonts from a System 7 disk USING THE INSTALLER.

It is still possible to embed the necessary fonts in hypercard, the home
stack,
 or the stack in question. You can use the ResEdit application, the ResCopy
XCMD, or the Power Tools stack to do this (ResEdit only to work with HyperCard
itself). You need both a "FOND" for each named font and one or more "FONT"
resources for each size.

-Richard-

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Date: 13 Jul 1993 09:05:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: IIci Floppy Eject Problems

hello.

the disk drive on my IIci recently started giving me some serious
trouble. first, the machine would shut down every time a disk was
ejected. after two days of this, the drive refused to eject at all.
i suppose i should be happy for the change; i can at least now
use the drive, though i'm not appreciating the preview of apple's
upcoming push-button eject mechanism.

i've seen a few floppy problems, having sold and serviced
macs for a few years a while back, but nothing that caused
the machine to shut down on eject. any guesses to the problem>
the solution (a new drive) seems pretty obvious.

thanks, and have a swell day.

matthew fletcher
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 13 Jul 93 16:05:11 CDT
From: "Jaydeep Kokate-1" <[e-mail]>
Subject: imaging software information


This is what MacWorld magazine has to say about programs that create images
(3-D) in a nutshell.

"Most programs are getting easier to use but expect to put in a lot of time
and effort in  mastering them. All most all the programs combine modeling,
rendering and animation.  Modeling creates 3-D objects and scenes.
Rendering adds lighting, textures and material surfaces to produce
realistic images. Animation moves the viewer through the scene or imparts
motion to objects and lights.

Some modeling terms:

"vertex editing: you can individually manipulate every point defining an
object's geometry or its surface mesh.

lofting: applies a skin over a series of modeled elements, such as wall
panels over a building's framing.

boolean operations: calculate the interaction of the volumes or dimensions
of objects.

spline-based modelers: use genuine curves to form objects with smooth-
flowing lines. These offer greater precision than polygon based programs
that approximate curves with straight line
segments.

All four options are not available in any package less that $1000 though
some are.

Shading:        Gourand, Phong and Ray tracing ( progressively better)



Here is a list of some of the software packages with their price,
evaluation according to  MacWorld!



Ray Dream Designer      $299    excellent for graphic artists working with
print media,    Operates in 2 diff modules, lacks animation

Upfront 1.02a   $425    architecturally oriented modeler, capable pkg
interface strays with Mac stds, harder to learn

Virus Walkthrough       $495    instantaneous, interactive access to
3-D scenes, modeling tools are limited, renderings are simple flat shadings

Will Vinton's Playmation        $556    spline-based modeler can build
complex, organically shaped objects,    unstable!

MacRenderMan    $695    superlative rendering and many Shaderssnail-like
speed, lacks object creation,

Swivel 3-D Professional $695    competent modeling tools, a good interface
and workable animation component, consider programs
with more robust modeling or better build-in rendering

ModelShop II    $895    good choice for architects, offers generic modeling
tools, no textural fills, can not animate objects

Alias Sketch    $995    top-quality modeling tools, wonderful for
placing models within a realistic environment, high-quality built-in
rendering       no animation

DynaPerspective $995    built-in rendering, good producer of animation

Infini-D        $995    photo-realistic ray tracings and excellent
Phong renderings, animator is the easiest to master, modeling tools OK but
inadequate for complex shape and constructions

StrataVision    $995    well balanced with accent on modeling,harder to
learn but has a more capable/larger tool set. superb renderer, excellent
choice that is hard to master

Form Z  $1495   Offers all four tools listed above.

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

Date: Tue, 13 Jul 93 10:59:52 MET DST
From: Christian F. Buser <[e-mail]>
Subject: La Cie Customer Service - Great!

Hi,

Based on a recent posting in the info-mac digest, I want to defend
LaCie!

Last Sunday night local time here in Europe I sent them an email
message and asked how I could make a startup disk with Silverlining
which works with my new Mac (runs Sys 7.1 only). They sent fax
instructions back  which reached my desk Tuesday morning European time,
and which were sent by them Monday afternoon Pacific Time.

I think this is great service. I can't imagine that they are not
responding to customer's wishes.

Best regards, Christian        [e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1993 17:24:20 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Robert E. Winston)
Subject: MACARCH question (A)

 > When using the command
[to get Info-Mac files from the Rice Listserv]:
 > $MACARCH GET filepath/filename
 > is there a way to specify a chunk size?

No.

 > What is the best way to transfer sumex files that are too
 > large for mail gateways if I don't have direct access to FTP?

Use ftpmail. For a help file send the message:

HELP

to: [e-mail]

Ftpmail breaks files down to 64000 byte messages by default, but
that can be set to any value up to 100000 bytes by changing the
"CHUNKSIZE" command.

The basic form, sent to [e-mail] is:

CONNECT sumex-aim.stanford.edu
ASCII
CHUNKSIZE 100000
GET /info-mac/filepath/filename.hqx
QUIT

Files take about a day to arrive.

An alternative is to use the mail server for the Umich Mac
archives.
Send a HELP message to: [e-mail]

Umich sends files out in 24K messages by default, but you can set
the "CHUNK" command to any value.

________
Robert E. Winston       [e-mail]

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

Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1993 04:44:40 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Duncan Peter G. Thornton)
Subject: Mac Stuck on Welcome screen (summary, long)

A few days ago, I posted about my LC III not getting past the
"Welcome" screen on booting from the hard-drive, starting just after I
experienced a strange network glitch.* The problem is better, though
I've had to flip around my network and phone cables, but a lot** of
people wrote with stories of something similar, and Povl H.  Pedersen
suggested I post a follow-up.

Now, many people suggested things I'd already done--trash and then
re-install the system (including the whole system folder &
preferences), check for viruses, etc., but they didn't work.

Anyway, _my_ solution was discovered accidentally; disconnect the
localtalk cable. All I had to do to use the network then was re-
connect _after_ booting, but that gets dull, so I tried changing
around the terminators on my little living room Phone-Net***; soon I
could boot with the cable hooked up, but the chooser at either end
wouldn't recognise the other machine (yes, I re-set the various
network preferences, still wouldn't work) until I changed the way the
network cables so they weren't sharing phone lines anymore.

That's my story, but other people have had similar problems:

P.K. Guinessy wrote:

>I have the same problem.  The only way I know to fix it is to first
>reboot holding shift key down (this switches off extensions) then goto
>preferences in sytem folder and remove User & Groups preferences.

>Then reboot (short cut is to hold down crt, apple and start button
>together).

Note that this _wouldn't_ have helped _me_, since I couldn't reboot
even with extensions off.

Steven Taylor wrote:

>Possibly the Parameter RAM got confused during the network calamity;
>the printer port specs are held in PRAM - maybe the Mac's starting up and
>looking for a port that doesn't exist if that byte is scrambled.

>Reboot the Mac and hold down CMD-OPT-P-R together and the machine will
>pause a second, the screen will clear, the machine will <Ping!> a second
>time and the PRAM will have been reset. You can now release the keys and
>let the mac startup normally. Or at least it should!

Now I tried this, and got pleasant-sounding pings, but the problem
still occurred - though with the way I had to change around the
physical structure of my network, there might have been something to
it.

Paul Guinnessy also wrote back to say:

>A software patch for Sys 7.1 has just come out that might fix the
>problem.  I don't know when it will be on the Internet, but it should
>soon be on ftp.apple.com

Povl Pedersen also suggested:

>delete the preferences for file sharing in your preferences folder.
>You can keep users and groups.

>This has solved some problems for me when I had file sharing trouble.

>Are you sure you haven't mounted a server that is down, and put the
>checkmark next to it ?

 (as I said, I'd tried deleting the whole preferences folder, and the
 only other machine on the network was working fine, but they seemed
 like good suggestions.)

Fred Condo was closest to my mark when he wrote:

>I have had this problem for years. By trial and error, I discovered
>that this is in fact a problem with AppleTalk. Try unplugging your LC
>III from the network. I think it will then start up normally. You can
>then reconnect

>I have had this network lockup at startup occur on Macs of widely
>different dates of design and manufacture: SE, II, PB100, IIcx. I have
>found that changing the termination -- that is, removing it if present
>or adding it if absent -- from the network sometimes helps. Try
>terminating just one or the other end of the network, too.

Anyway, that's about it, thanks to all for your help, including the
people who remain nameless who also made some of these suggestions. I
don't know if the patch Paul Guinnessy mentioned will fix this
problem, but I hope something will - it's a pain.

  *The sort of thing seems to happen on Star Trek quite
   frequently, but usually you find afterwards that you have
   been unknowingly dwelling in some kind of time anomaly
   until you can figure out how to stop replaying the same
   sequence of events over and over.

 **Note that I violate net convention by being clear on whether
   this is one word or two.

***"And I bet you didn't think you'd ever be doing _that_ 10
   years ago," the guy at the shop said when I told him what
   I wanted to set up.

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

Date: Tue, 13 Jul 93 10:14 EDT
From: ncoast!tdi3![e-mail]
Subject: Minitel 'Messageries roses'

There are from time to time posting concerning the French MINITEL. The
last one I saw went like this:

>..."Were I so inclined, I could have pretty steamy terminal sex(hmmm...)
>on one of the tollable 36-15 Minitel-"Rose" (porn) lines. (So?) (It
>is interesting to note that France-Telecom had hoped to amortize its in-
>vestment in the system in about a dozen years, but charges for the porn
>lines covered it in a little more than two, I believe)...." (Bob Frost)

I feel strongly compelled to add a little comment to this posting:
I lived for 9 years in France and used the Minitel several times per day:
at University, at work and at home. It was actually one of the things I
missed most in daily life, when I moved to the US. You get spoiled, when
you have all the information you want at your fingertips. Hasslefree,
uncensored and relatively inexpensive. No comparison to the automated
voice guided 800 phone message systems where it takes 15 Minutes and 3
tries to retrieve the info you need. And, did you ever try to make a
print out of a phone message...?

Minitel:  There are over 4000 services now and several million users. I
don't quite understand why the few dozen services permitting uncensored
communication, some of which are "Messageries Roses", are seem to annoy
people and are frequently mentioned and qualified as "porn". I think the
Minitel as a whole does not deserve to be discredited for this portion of
uncensored communication. And I don't think this (info-mac) is the right
place to exercise a censorship by 'social pressure'. I understand well
that countries under heavy influence by Ayatollahs and Popes a.s.o.,
under stringent influence of religions and other man made restrictive
philosophies, try to discredit liberal thinking countries and their
systems. It is understandable that in a country where a mother lets
rather starve her baby than to breast feed it in public (if needed I can
give here more annoying examples I've seen in the US) liberal behavior is
qualified as "porn". Sorry guys, but it's not France's nor the Minitel's
fault that this country missed the "Dechristianisation" (cf Michel
Vovelle, Sorbonne) by 2 centuries already. That's your problem. If you
don't want to see what's going on next door, don't peek through the hole
in the wall, or don't dial 3615... on the Minitel. Easy, isn't it?

The natural limit of this forum should be the technical side of data
processing. There are other places to discus ethical, social,
philosophical questions...of French audio-visual telecommunication
systems...

Ok. I feel much better now.

:-)

Dieter


tdi3![e-mail]




PS:
Maybe for this forum we should modify the D.U.I. abbreviation into
"W.U.I.": Writing under Influence (of restrictive thought patterns.....)


PPS: Messageries "Roses" sont des messageries de "Charme". Si tu es trop
frustre pour confondre "Charme" avec "XXX", alors, ne compose pas le 3615

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

Date: Tue, 13 Jul 93 10:36:48 -0400
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Minitel 'Messageries roses'

Sorry for what I guess was an inappropriate comment. BTW, I'd never imply
anything positive or negative about Minitel-Rose; one's taste in sexual
or aesthetic matters is a matter of their own concern, not mine. I
certainly wouldn't want to condemn Minitel for carrying Rose services.
They are far freer than the censored material on some of the commercial
BBS's here and as information professionals (of a sort) we should resist
censorship wherever it appears, as long as it doesn't constitute sexual
harrassment.

--frost.

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

Date: 13 Jul 1993 17:19:14 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Alan Hewat, ILL Grenoble)
Subject: Minitel is a pretty crude technology

[e-mail] writes on 11 July:
>Minitel is a pretty crude (ca. 1982 or so) technology whose standards
>were built along the lowest-common-denomiator standard, in this case,
>300-baud home boxes that come free with a French telephone subscription.

Wrong.  It is 1200 bps receive and 75 bps send (typing speed), but there
are much faster services, up to 10 Mbps for more sophisticated users.
The basic service is free, including the original terminal.

>charges for the porn lines covered it in a little more than two....

>France-Telecom actually seemed at one point to be hoping that Minitel
>would somehow become the global standard/net that Internet and TCP/IP
>are, and tried for a while to hinder the entry of Internet into France,

Really ?  People who think that France is some kind of technological
backwater are forgetting about concorde, airbus, mirage, arienne, TGV...
not to mention J.L. Gassee and that new guy (or is he German ?).

>much to the dismay of our gallic colleagues. They seem to have abandoned
>that, so Minitel remains sort of an oddity. It seems to serve French
>non-computerphiles quite well, but outside of the hexagon, it's
>pretty sludgy and limited.

Minitel serves a quite different purpose to internet and TCP/IP, which
most people do not have access to, either in France or the US.  But
most people in France have access to Minitel, and use it for everything
>From finding telephone numbers, checking their bank balance, booking
air/train tickets... and of course other services not unknown in the US.
There are many thousands of different servers available to many millions
of Minitel users.

I like to amaze visitors to France by simply typing "Alan" and "Grenoble"
into the thing - it comes back immediately with my telephone number -
and Grenoble has 300,000 people.

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

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

Date: Tue,  13 Jul 93 22:47 +0200
From: [e-mail]
Subject: MRI of RAT (C)

Looking for images ... to produce 3D views...

You are really into "Virtual Reality".
As such I suggest looking in "VNEWS" groups:
sci.virtual*


Also, I know that the Syracuse University has a lab for VR. You can try
and FTP to sugrfx.acs.syr.edu, or send mail to
[e-mail].

These sources can help in locating 3D images and, more likely, people
interested in the subject.

VNEWS has many more related groups, like sci.med, sci.bio, comp.graphics etc.

Feel free to contact me directly. I collected some info about VR last year.

Hope this helps
Ilan Szekely, Computer lab of the Dental school, The Hebrew University,
Jerusalem, Israel

[e-mail]

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

Date: 13 Jul 1993 16:02:54 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Adam Young)
Subject: Norton Encrypt

     In a reply to my post Daniel Blystone wrote:

>>     Norton Encrypt from Norton Utilities 2.0
>>only uses up to the first 8 characters of each
>>password used with the DES encryption option.
>>ALL OTHER CHARACTERS ARE SILENTLY IGNORED!!!

>The same is true for AppleShare and A/UX.  Not
>to mention that most if not all of the UNIX systems
>will only use the first eight.

>>The program allows the user to type in a maximum
>>of 20 characters per password. If the user types
>>in a password of 20 characters it will encrypt
>>normally. However, only the first 8 are needed to
>>decrypt the file.

>Again, Most of the systems that I work with do the
>same.  I recall that Center Point ships an Encryption
>tool with MacTools that also does the same thing.

     Just because UNIX systems ignore the characters
in excess of 8 does not justify the occurence of this
in Macintosh software. Macintosh software is popular
for its ease of use and its user friendly GUI. This is
one of the areas in which Macintosh software excells
over UNIX software.
    When writting a program in C say, it is very
easy to prevent the user from typing in more than 8
characters. To do so, one only has to write a filter
routine and include it in the call to ModalDialog. This
routine will monitor the number of characters in the
string in the EditText dialog item and limit the size
of the text to 8 characters. I do this sort of thing
all the time.
    Stuffit Delux by Raymond Lau is an excellent
program that performs DES encryption. This program
is capable of using more than 8 characters in the
encryption, unlike Norton Encrypt and MacTools by
Center Point (actually it's Central Point, duh).

                Adam Young
            [e-mail]


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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 93 13:37:36 CDT
From: Graeme Forbes <[e-mail]>
Subject: Power-PC Upgrades (C)

In a letter to MAcWeek on 6/14/93, Eric Harslem, VP of desktop systems
at Apple, said that Apple would produce upgrade boards for the Performa
600, the 2 Centrises, the Quadra 800 and the IIvx and vi. Then he wrote:
"Apple and third parties are working together to create upgrade paths
for as many Macintosh models as possible, including the Quadra 700, 900
and 950".

In other words, high-end users apart from 800-owners might, if they're
lucky, eventually get a PowerPC upgrade from someone else. If you
don't like the sound of this - I certainly don't - write to Eric
Harslem, Apple Computer, 20525 Mariana Avenue, Cupertino, CA 95014-6299,
and ask him what Apple's got against its high-end customers.

Graeme Forbes

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

Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1993 14:45:54 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Brian V. Hughes)
Subject: PowerPC (R)

Vinko Tsui <[e-mail]> writes:

>First Apple did say that there will be PowerPC mother board upgrades, but
>unfortunately, they did not mention the IIsi, the Macs named were the Centris
>650, Quadra 800 and 950. Then remember that all this are unofficial, so that
>does not mean that upgrades for Macs other than the ones named will not be
>available.

    Actually, the upgrades will be offered for all machines that utilize
the same cases as the C610, C650, and the Q800. This is more than just
three machines, it is more like 8; the Q950 was not listed as receiving
a motherboard upgrade. And, it should also be mentioned that this
appeared in an official Apple press release during the WWDC, and is
therefore "official." As for the rest of the current Mac line, there
will most likely be PDS and/or NuBus PowerPC cards, produced by people
like Radius and Daystar, for Macs not receiving motherboard upgrades.

>As to Russell's question of what is PowerPC. PowerPC will be a series of
>RISC chips that will have performance of reportedly 6 to 8 times that of
>the current Motorolla 68040's.

    Probably closer to 6-10 times faster than the '040, since the
PowerPC 620 is not only going to be a RISC chip, but it will also have a
full 64-bit architecture.

>It is developed by a joint venture of Apple, IBM and Motorolla. The
>first chip the 601 has already been proven to be faster and less power
>hungry than the Intell Pentium.

    Well, the power hungry aspect of this didn't have to be proven,
since the 601 uses a 3.3 volt base and the current incarnation of the
Pentium is a 5 volt base. Although, Intel has stated that they are
working on a 3.3 volt Pentium for release sometime in '94.

>The proposed released date for a PowerPC machine from Apple is some time
>in the first quater of 1994. IBM and Canon also announced that they will
>have PowerPC based machine.

    IBM has stated that they will be releasing a PowerPC 601-based
workstation in Sept. '93.

>Canon's NeXT reportedly will have a version of NeXT Step ready for the
>PowerPC based machines.

    The latest rumors say that NeXT already has a PowerPC port of NeXT
Step ready for release, but I wouldn't believe trust that any farther
than I could throw it.

>With the current info from Apple the schedule seems very good, and that Apple
>will meet its goal.

    All reports say that PowerPC development and production are well
ahead of schedule.

>Due to the PowerPC's lower power consumtion and its size, consumer electronic
>companies like Sony, Sharp and Panasonic have reported that they will be
>releasing consumer products that utilize the PowerPC chip base.

    Actually, 3.3 volts is looked at as fairly noraml power consumption
these days. If you want to see a real power saver wait for the PowerPC
603.

>FYI: both Sony and Sharp has lisenced Newton technologies from Apple.

    This makes sense since Apple isn't actually producing the Newton,
Sharp (or is it Sony ?) is.

-Hades

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

Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1993 14:18:41 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Brian V. Hughes)
Subject: PowerPC StartUp Screen (C)

Zviki Cohen <[e-mail]> writes:

>      Well, it seems that we won't be getting any PowerPC powered
>computers until spring 1994, but your computer is already PowerPC ready
>and you can easily put one in it by dragging this startup screen into your
>system folder. The picture was taken from the 10 pages ad in Computer World.

    This nice little rumor has been showing up in the Mac newsgroups for
the past week or so, but no one seems to remember just where they saw
it. The last semi-substantiatied rumor states that Apple will be
releasing a PowerPC 601-based Mac in January (possibly on the Mac's 10th
anniversary ?), and the last official word on the PowerPC 601 says that
it is ahead of scedule and IBM will be releasing a PowerPC 601-based
workstation this September. Until someone can point to something
concrete about this Spring '94 push-back of the PowerPC Mac it is more
than worthless information.

-Hades

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

Date: Tue, 13 Jul 93 10:56:16 MET DST
From: Christian F. Buser <[e-mail]>
Subject: Setting Startup application (R)

[e-mail] asked:

> Using "Set Start-up" with System 6, it's possible to create bootable
> floppies with only a System file and an application.
>
> What does "Set Start-up" change?
>
> Is it possible (on a machine only capable of running Sys 7) using ResEdit,
> to do the same thing as "Set Start-up" for Sys 6 bootable floppies?

I am not sure if it's right what I think "Set startup" does. But in the
Boot Blocks of a disk is the info which application should be run at
startup, and I think this info is changed.

There are two possibilities to set the startup application in System 7:

1) rename the application which should be your startup application
   to Finder; or

2) change the Boot Block information. You can do this with Norton's
DiskEditor. You can look at the Boot Blocks - where the word "Finder"
is displayed (in the Hex view), you can type in your program name.
In the Position just befor the name starts, you need to tell the
length of the program name. Example:

   0C 44 69 73 69 6E 66 65 63 74 61 6E 74
      D  i  s  i  n  f  e  c  t  a  n  t

"0C" is hex value 12, the number of letters for Disinfectant.

Of course you can also use any other tool which is able to display and
change the Boot Block information.

Good luck, Christian.          [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 93 12:06 PDT
From: Lawrence Olliffe
<[e-mail]>
Subject: Stiction

I have recently developed 'stiction.'  The usual trick of slapping the drive
has worked temporarily, but if I power down my system, the drive locks up
again
It is a Quantum (ProDrive 80  980-80-9401), and I know that there are a few
models that are notorious for this problem, but I don't know that this par-
ticular model is one of them.  My real question is; is ther any way to per-
manently fix this?  If so, is it worth it?  Or, is this now a paperweight?

Any help or advice would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,

Lawrence Olliffe
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 93 12:38:09 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: TCP---Someone Fix it!

>The problem is that Apple management does not understand TCP/IP.  They think
>of MacTCP as a check-off item for sales to the government.  I've actually had
>Apple managers tell me that IP doesn't sell Macs.  It doesn't matter that
>huge aerospace and electronics firms have debated tossing their Macs unless
>they fit well into their IP networks--Apple just doesn't get it.

    would a massive campaign from mac internet users maybe help
convincing apple? would sending them a "standard" form letter from all
of the info-mac readers and more help? why does not somebody draft
such a (short) letter and find the address of apple "management"?

        fabio favata


--
    Fabio Favata
    [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1993 14:51 EDT
From: Dr.Peter T. Boag <[e-mail]>
Subject: Toner Tuner

Has anyone had experience with this application by Working Software?
I gather it reduces Laserwriter toner use by printing documents
lightly for draft use. How does it work? Any problems with the
Laserwriter 8.0 driver?

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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1993 16:11:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tim Colson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Unix/Mac Digest "Un-Digester"???

This may be along the lines of a FAQ...but I'm going to chance it anyway.
I love Info-Mac, period. However, I have a love/hate relationship with
digests. Granted, I would NOT want separate mesgs. versus the
compilation...but I would like to use my UNIX box (or my mac) to un-digest
the digests so to speak. I.E. I want to be able to access each mesg. from
a gopher-like menu, and I would like to be able to eliminate those mesgs.
>From the index which I have NO interest in.

If this is a FAQ, then please excuse my ignorance, point me in the FAQ's
direction, and don't waste mesgs. flaming me.
Thanks a bunch people!
Timothy

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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1993 17:05:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Mark E. Ranes" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Which Term Program?

I'm getting ready to purchase a telecom package in the very near future
and I'm debating whether to buy MicroPhone II or SmartCom II.  I plan on
using the package for local BBS's, FTPing and commercial online services.
Cost is not a concern, but rather the overall performance of the programs.
Any comments concerning either of these two packages (or others you may
love or hate) would be much appreciated.

Mark   [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1993 09:10:55 -0600
From: [e-mail] (John Daspit, C.U. LASP,
[phone])
Subject: Word negative ruler problem

Hi all,
    From time to time when I click on the left side of a Word document
the entire screen is shifted right and the ruler values become negative,
as if the program thinks that I want to work off the left edge of the
screen (which I don't). Is there any way to prevent this behavior? Thanks, JD
[e-mail]  or  [e-mail]

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