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Info-Mac Digest             Fri, 29 Oct 93       Volume 11 : Issue 214

Today's Topics:

      [*] - Rescue v1.6
      [*] A Chinese ink painting by Zhou Jun turned into a 698x689 startup
      screen
      [*] Aladdin Sounds (2 msgs)
      [*] CIconButton CDEF 1.0
      [*] Compact Pro 1.34
      [*] DigSim 2.8
      [*] Incoming!
      [*] Insomniac 1.0.2 for Macintosh PowerBooks
      [*] Mangia! demo
      [*] Matt Paint 1.9.3 256 color paint program
      [*] MyBattery 2.1.1 for PowerBooks
      [*] OmegaWindow (3 msgs)
      [*] sim-beavis-n-butthead-ii.hqx
      [*] son of SUMMARY: Is the Apple 8*24 GC video display board worth
      something?
      [*] Text track sample movies
      [*] TheRagePackage.hqx (2 msgs)
      [*] Underground Mac Report
      [*] ZTerm 0.9 FAQ 1.5
      "Get Info" Problems
      (A) SNL PARODY  "McIntosh Post It Note" on QuickTime
      (C) SNL McIntosh "Post-It N
      (Q) Downloading Binary Files (2 msgs)
      (Q) Persuasion Multimedia
      .image files (was: system software)
      .PPD file for IBM/Lexmark 4039 printers
      1984 Commercial (Please Stop!)
      [A] P. Ingenierie Intertalk, winner is : ...
      [A] serial port woes-- thanks to all
      AppleWorks to -> ??? (Q)
      ARA competes with printer -- summary and thank yous
      Are there other programs like SendPS?
      A way to space in ClarisWorks
      Backlight longevity
      Boys Club of Memphis (2 msgs)
      Cheap 8-bit video card for 660AV?
      Claris Works 2.0
      Client file sharing (Sys 7.1) problem:: notification keeps popping!
      Communicate Lite Demo/Apple Modem Tool 1.5
      diskette incompatibility
      E-mail Address for Newton's Apple
      E-Mail Text Editor Application (2 msgs)
      Emulate VT100
      English SoundTrecker 2.0?
      Eudora - Need Help!
      Eudora for the masses
      Eudora Tricks
      Font Printing Differences
      Frozen Duo in the dock
      fsp vs gopher (3 msgs)
      Futura SX and Quadra 840
      HD Crash??!!*&$%
      HP 4ML auto-switch feature (Q)
      HP Deskwriter drivers for PCs?
      Info-Mac Digest V11 #212 (3 msgs)
      Info-Mac mailing list and Junk e-mail
      Lazy PowerBook ? (2 msgs)
      login
      LW8 Spool Somewhere Else?
      MacPPP 2.0.1
      Mac Printing Problems
      MacTCP (2.0.2) woes, once again.
      Midi Song Files (2 msgs)
      Network Software- Telnet, FTP, NFS (2 msgs)
      no subject (file transmission)
      Posting to Usenet by E-Mail
      Problems with AD modules in Darkside 4.1
      Replacement trackball retaining rings for PowerBooks
      Re PSPICE
      Reset Dtdbs 2.0
      SendPS substitution
      SNMP agents for the Mac platform
      Speedyfinder
      Strange crash and SadMAc and 'resource'
      Stylewriter II defaults (2 msgs)
      Switchback (Oops)
      SW or PD MeetingMaker Work-a-like?
      Text file pager for Mac (A)
      Thanks RE: Lang Kit 7.1
      The lowdown on RamDisks and Spinning disks
      The Mac Report 9311 on sumex
      TrueType GX (Q)
      typing tutors
      Unethical Computers (2 msgs)
      Using an HP Laserjet printer
      Using IBM Hard drives on a Mac ? ?
      WYSIWYG Font Menus

The Info-Mac newsgroup is moderated by Bill Lipa and Gordon Watts.

The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous,
any password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu
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Please send articles and binaries to [e-mail].
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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 14:44:43 -0500 (CDT)
From: Paul Duckenfield <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] - Rescue v1.6

Enclosed, please find a copy of Tom Spreen's STNG-Rescue v1.6. This is an
upgrade to Rescue v1.51. Bug fixes/changes include: no more sound problems
with
new Sound Manager, better functioning under 68000-series Macs, and...Star
Bases
now fire back and can be attacked....

Requires System 7.

[Archived as /info-mac/game/arc/stng-rescue-16.hqx; 570K]

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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 10:40:32 +0100 (MET)
From: "KUN - Phil. of Language dpt" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] A Chinese ink painting by Zhou Jun turned into a 698x689 startup
screen

Hello, asian art lovers:

Zhou Jun is a Shanghai born (1955) chinese ink painter, who
I happen to know because he now lives in Nijmegen, the
Netherlands, like I do. ZJ belongs to the elite circle of
painters that completed the central academy for fine arts
in Beijing.

This is a scan I made of a 10x10cm reproduction of a 53x53cm
"free style" ink painting by him depicting a young woman
transporting fruits.

It measures 698 by 689 pixels and is in 8 bit colours.
In deBINHEXED and unSTUFFed from it occupies 497KBytes.

The scan only approximates the original, but still makes for
a nice startup screen I hope you will enjoy!

Henk Schotel
[e-mail]

Moderators, please save this 323K file as:

[Archived as /info-mac/grf/zhou-jun-ink.hqx; 318K]

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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 93 02:59:00 -0400
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Aladdin Sounds

Since I'm always on the lookout for new sounds, I decided to try to make my
own.
These are some of the more rememberable sounds from the Disney movie Aladin.
Hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed making them.

Thanx

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/disney-aladdin.hqx; 1651K]

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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 93 02:59:00 -0400
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Aladdin Sounds

Since I'm always on the lookout for new sounds, I decided to try to make my
own.
These are some of the more rememberable sounds from the Disney movie Aladin.
Hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed making them.

Thanx

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/disney-aladdin.hqx; 1651K]

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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 17:44:02 -0800
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] CIconButton CDEF 1.0

CIconButton CDEF 1.0
====================
The CIconButton CDEF is a custom control definition procedure that allows
developers to elegantly and simply included "icon buttons" in their
applications. These icon buttons are built from one or more standard 'cicn'
resources. The CDEF works under System 6 & 7, is sensitive to multiple
monitors and monitor depths, and works with or without Color Quickdraw.
Mouse tracking can be sensitive to the cicn mask for non-rectangular
controls.

Ramon Felciano
Digital Alchemy

CIconButton CDEF 1.0 is (c) copyright Ramon M. Felciano, 1993

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/c-icon-button-cdef-10.hqx; 456K]

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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 11:58:28 -0400
From: "David P. Faust" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Compact Pro 1.34

This is the newest version of compact pro downloaded from aol. It contains
bug fixes and documentation changes. That's all the readme said. Version
1.34.
Dave

[Archived as /info-mac/cmp/compact-pro-134.hqx; 165K]

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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 10:29:42 PDT
From: macmod (Info-Mac Moderator)
Subject: [*] DigSim 2.8

   In a post I made yesterday, wherein many Mac packages for doing analog
and digital electrical simulations were listed, the existence of a package
called DigSim was noted. Since it no longer appears to be on sumex, I dug
up this copy, which I'm submitting for the archives.
[????]
circuits. It is useful for both learning digital logic and for testing
advanced circuit ideas.
   When DigSim starts up, a palette of circuit elements and an untitled
circuit window appear. You can drag any of the elements over to a circuit
window to add them to the circuit.
[...]
   If you like DigSim, send $20 to:

   Brian Rauchfuss
   8915 N. 13th Ave.
   Phoenix, Az 85021
   (Compuserve Id: 73657,121)

        tom coradeschi    <+>    [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/sci/dig-sim-28.hqx; 53K]

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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 16:21:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Michael L. Dupuis" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Incoming!

This is a game developed for the Newton MessagePad that features arcade-like
animation.

Incoming! 1993 Gravity.  All Rights Reserved.

Incoming! is released as freeware, but is not public domain.

This release is 0.99.0b.

Incoming! was created as a design and programming test on the Newton.
Basically what we wanted to do was see what kind of things could be done with
arcade-like animation.  This game is more of a programming demo for us then
anything else, but we thought other people might find it entertaining.

Premise:

Based on Missile Command, your mission is to defend your cities from waves of
ICBM's.  This is accomplished with the defense missiles you have.  Because of
tracking stations already destroyed in the war, you can only track two of your
missiles at once.  This means you'll have to choose your shots wisely.  You
can't let the enemy missiles get too close, or you won't be able to detonate
one of your defense missiles.  Enemy missiles are intercepted by being caught
in the nuclear cloud formed when you detonate one of your defense missiles.
Anything caught in these clouds is evaporated.  The enemy has ICBM's and Smart
Bombs in their arsenal.  Smart Bombs know how to avoid the nuclear clouds, so
unless your shot is timed correctly, you won't destroy them.  Your mission is
to defend your cities as long as you can.

     G         R         A         V         I         T         Y

[Archived as /info-mac/nwt/game/incoming-099b.hqx; 38K]

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Date: 27 Oct 1993 09:07:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Jeremy Kezer, [phone]" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Insomniac 1.0.2 for Macintosh PowerBooks

Some PowerBooks (Portable, PowerBook 100 and Duos) can "wake" themselves up at
a user-specified time.  This is great for automating late-night
telecommunications sessions.  However, Apple's PowerBook control panel only
allows you to set a single wakeup time.  Insomniac allows you to program up to
50 wakeup times, so your computer can perform multiple sessions.  Shareware;
$10 registration fee suggested to enable all features.  By Jeremy Kezer.

[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/insomniac-102.hqx; 58K]

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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 17:57:37 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: [*] Mangia! demo

This is a demo version of Mangia, the best cooking/recipe program for the
Macintosh that I've ever seen. It lets you create recipes, sort them, move
them into different cookbooks, scale them, and so on. It also helps you
create menus, figures out shopping lists, and even organizes the lists by
section of the store. It's highly customizable, which is good, but it comes
with a huge dictionary of ingredients. I've also included one of the two
recipe files that comes with the shipping version, Mangia Miscellany.
Eventually Upstill Software hopes to have numerous electronic cookbooks
available, and if enough people on the net use it, we could create some
net.cookbooks as well. This demo is fully functioning for two months (it
expires on Sunday, December 26th, 1993), after which you should think about
getting the full version. It's about $50 and has a unique and fun manual,
along with another recipe file that's five times larger than this one.
Enjoy!

cheers ... -Adam

[Archived as /info-mac/app/mangia-demo.hqx; 659K]

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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 93 23:15:59 -0500
From: [e-mail] (matthew battey)
Subject: [*] Matt Paint 1.9.3 256 color paint program

[Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/matt-paint-193.hqx; 173K]

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Date: 27 Oct 1993 09:15:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Jeremy Kezer, [phone]" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] MyBattery 2.1.1 for PowerBooks

MyBattery is the essential battery monitoring utility for any PowerBook
owner!
MyBattery shows you your current battery status via user-selectable graphical
displays.  You can choose from bar, column, or even "gas gauge" displays.
MyBattery also estimates how much useful battery time you have remaining.
Shareware; $10 registration fee suggested to activate all features.  By Jeremy
Kezer.

[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/my-battery-211.hqx; 90K]

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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 3:40:36 -0600 (MDT)
From: "Hyo E. Ahn, Los Alamos National Laboratory" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] OmegaWindow

Welcome to OmegaWindow:

    OmegaWindow is a mouse-free window manipulating and application
managing program for Apple Macintosh.  OmegaWindow provides keyboard
shortcuts for things that normally have to be done using the mouse.
The heart of the OmegaWindow package is a system extension.
The package also includes an application for customizing OmegaWindow's
features.  Currently OmegaWindow has the following features implemented
using keyboard shortcuts:

 - Switch from one application to another:  allows direct switching to
   other applications.
 - Activate a specific window:  when bringing an application to the front
   you can select a window to be brought to the front with the application.
 - Automatically hide windows belonging to other applications.
 - Move and resize windows:  works with any zoomable window.
 - Zoom window.
 - Close one or all of the windows.
 - Bring the back-most window to the front.
 - Send the front-most window to the back.
 - Swap the two front-most windows.
 - Hide/Show the front-most window (Up to 7).
 - Hide/Show the front-most application.
 - Switch to the next or previous application.
 - Go to the Finder.

System requirements

 - System 7 minimum.
 - Macintosh Plus or higher.

Copyright notice

 - OmegaWindow is shareware ($30) and Copyright 1993 by Hyo E. Ahn.

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/omega-window.hqx; 238K]

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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 23:45:46 -0600 (MDT)
From: "Hyo E. Ahn, Los Alamos National Laboratory" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] OmegaWindow

I found an error in INIT file I sent you yesterday.
So I am sending new one (not just INIT file but whole thing) again.
Sorry for giving you a trouble.


Welcome to OmegaWindow:

    OmegaWindow is a mouse-free window manipulating and application
managing program for Apple Macintosh.  OmegaWindow provides keyboard
shortcuts for things that normally have to be done using the mouse.
The heart of the OmegaWindow package is a system extension.
The package also includes an application for customizing OmegaWindow's
features.  Currently OmegaWindow has the following features implemented
using keyboard shortcuts:

 - Switch from one application to another:  allows direct switching to
   other applications.
 - Activate a specific window:  when bringing an application to the front
   you can select a window to be brought to the front with the application.
 - Automatically hide windows belonging to other applications.
 - Move and resize windows:  works with any zoomable window.
 - Zoom window.
 - Close one or all of the windows.
 - Bring the back-most window to the front.
 - Send the front-most window to the back.
 - Swap the two front-most windows.
 - Hide/Show the front-most window (Up to 7).
 - Hide/Show the front-most application.
 - Switch to the next or previous application.
 - Go to the Finder.

System requirements

 - System 7 minimum.
 - Macintosh Plus or higher.

Copyright notice

 - OmegaWindow is shareware ($30) and Copyright 1993 by Hyo E. Ahn.

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/omega-window.hqx; 239K]

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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 23:45:46 -0600 (MDT)
From: "Hyo E. Ahn, Los Alamos National Laboratory" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] OmegaWindow

I found an error in INIT file I sent you yesterday.
So I am sending new one (not just INIT file but whole thing) again.
Sorry for giving you a trouble.


Welcome to OmegaWindow:

    OmegaWindow is a mouse-free window manipulating and application
managing program for Apple Macintosh.  OmegaWindow provides keyboard
shortcuts for things that normally have to be done using the mouse.
The heart of the OmegaWindow package is a system extension.
The package also includes an application for customizing OmegaWindow's
features.  Currently OmegaWindow has the following features implemented
using keyboard shortcuts:

 - Switch from one application to another:  allows direct switching to
   other applications.
 - Activate a specific window:  when bringing an application to the front
   you can select a window to be brought to the front with the application.
 - Automatically hide windows belonging to other applications.
 - Move and resize windows:  works with any zoomable window.
 - Zoom window.
 - Close one or all of the windows.
 - Bring the back-most window to the front.
 - Send the front-most window to the back.
 - Swap the two front-most windows.
 - Hide/Show the front-most window (Up to 7).
 - Hide/Show the front-most application.
 - Switch to the next or previous application.
 - Go to the Finder.

System requirements

 - System 7 minimum.
 - Macintosh Plus or higher.

Copyright notice

 - OmegaWindow is shareware ($30) and Copyright 1993 by Hyo E. Ahn.

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/omega-window.hqx; 239K]

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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 02:18:08 -0500
From: James Nathan Durchenwald <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] sim-beavis-n-butthead-ii.hqx

Subject: Sim Beavis and Butthead II

This is a pretty basic sound playing program to help enjoy the
stupidity of Beavis and Butthead.  There are no mentions of the
word fire, nor is there aggressive violence.

For entertainment purposes only.  This is not an instructional
program. The large file size is due to about 35 sounds, some of
which are quite large.

Enjoy

      -James Durchenwald
    [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/game/sim-beavis-n-butthead-ii.hqx; 1637K]

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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 19:49:25 +0100
From: Dominique Petitpierre <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] son of SUMMARY: Is the Apple 8*24 GC video display board worth
something?

The summary that I posted posted in Info-Mac and comp.sys.mac.hardware a few
days ago ("SUMMARY:  Is the Apple 8*24 GC video display board worth
something?")  stirred a few more comments that relativize the very negative
opinions that were expressed.

In short:
The card can be used as a good non accelerated 24 bits color card if it is
used with the proper drivers (8*24GC 7.0.1 driver and "Cache On" extensions).
The possibility of extending its GWorld memory (with the same SIMMS as for a
MacIIfx) makes it useful for some applications.  Newer versions work with a
832x764 pixels 16" monitor.

As the price that I was quoted (400$ second hand) is still more than the
standard 24 bits card (330$ list price in Switzerland), I won't buy it.

[Archived as /info-mac/info/hdwr/worth-of-8-24-gc-card-son.txt; 8K]

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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 93 12:25 BST
From: RICHARD LIM <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Text track sample movies

In the Infomac Digest V11 #210, Gordon Werner ([e-mail]) gave us all
a valuable tip on how we could at last get at that text track capability
that's been lurking in QuickTime since version 1.5.  Inspired by his
suggestion, I set about adding text tracks to two movies I'd made a few
days earlier, and I now submit these as examples of how you can use text
frames and subtitles.

The video sections of both movies are Cinepak-compressed, so you should
have 16-bit colour or better, or else use 256 greyscales.  I've also
included some documentation giving my own recipe for creating text tracks
with Movie Player and listing some pitfalls I encountered.  For the text
tracks and my documentation to display properly, you should have the
TrueType versions of Geneva and New York installed.

I don't claim these movies to be models of thespian prowess or cinematic
technique - all they are is me and a friend messing about in someone's
office actually - but I do hope they inspire you to get started with text
tracks yourself.  I realise this is a rather large submission for what it
is, and will probably only be downloaded by those with fast and cheap net
access, so I'll make my documentation available separately if you write me.

PS: Apologies to Gordon Werner - in my documentation I stupidly forgot to
delete the words "sorry I don't know your real name".

[Archived as /info-mac/grf/qt/text-track-sample.hqx; 901K]

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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 08:59:51 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Adriaan Tijsseling)
Subject: [*] TheRagePackage.hqx

This Compact Pro archive contains five images, two scanned images from the
Rage Against The Machine cd booklet, and three modified versions of the
former two.
I really hope you will enjoy it, yes, I do care. So mail me if you do or if
you do not. Do not just download this package anonymously, I LIKE TO HEAR
FROM YOU.

Adriaan Tijsseling,
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/grf/rage-against-the-machine.hqx; 805K]

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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 08:59:51 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Adriaan Tijsseling)
Subject: [*] TheRagePackage.hqx

This Compact Pro archive contains five images, two scanned images from the
Rage Against The Machine cd booklet, and three modified versions of the
former two.
I really hope you will enjoy it, yes, I do care. So mail me if you do or if
you do not. Do not just download this package anonymously, I LIKE TO HEAR
>From YOU.

Adriaan Tijsseling,
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/grf/rage-against-the-machine.hqx; 805K]

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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 01:55:38 -0500 (CDT)
From: Michael Shannon <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Underground Mac Report

Here is the first of what may become a weekly E-zine dedicated to the Mac.
Issues will contain news, rumors, tutorials, reviews and more.
This issue:
Reviews of The Underground Laserprinter Guide and ClickChange
Stats on the new Mac's and Apple printers
An Illustrator 5.0 tutorial on how to creat the "perfect rivet"
and much more...
Please send E-mail with comments, contributions, and criticisms
Thanks!

[Archived as /info-mac/per/underground-mac-report-93-10-27.hqx; 13K]

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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 00:21:18 -0500
From: Les Jones <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] ZTerm 0.9 FAQ 1.5

This is the ZTerm 0.9 FAQ, version 1.5, dated October 27, 1993.

The FAQ answers frequently asked questions (FAQs) about ZTerm, and
includes undocumented tips, ResEdit hacks, bug reports, and
bug fixes. Please read this FAQ before sending questions about
ZTerm to ZTerm author Dave Alverson or to comp.sys.mac.comm.

Changes since the last version:

o  News: the $99 14400 bps LineLink modem
o  News: new ZModem CTB tools available
o  News: Crosstalk 2.0 for Macintosh
o  News: Communicate Lite demo with the Apple Modem Tool 1.5
o  Tip:  adding a separator line to the Dial menu
o  Tip:  changing ZTerm's terminal font with ResEdit
o  Q:    how do I do ZModem uploads to Delphi?
o  Q:    Why is my transfer efficiency so low?

My Internet account will change soon. Please direct email to
[e-mail].  --Leslie Jones

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/info/zterm-faq-15.txt; 71K]

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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1993 10:28:21 -36803936 (CDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: "Get Info" Problems

Greetings, all...

I'm having problems with the "Get Info" command on my Mac.  For some reason,
doing a "Get Info" command on any kind of volume (HD, Floppy, Trash, etc.)
will not execute.  This is a major inconvenience when it comes to icon
editing, turning off annoying trash messages, etc.  Here are the
extensions/CPs
I'm using that could possibly be causing a problem:

CONTROL PANELS:
    Extensions Manager      SuperClock!             After Dark
    BeHierarchic (Patched to v1.0.6 to work with MenuDropper)
    ColorSwitch             Decor                   Default Folder 2.42
    FaxMenu (FaxSTF)        Greg's Buttons          MenuDropper
    MountImage              PopChar                 PowerBar
    PrintChoice             SpeedyFinder7           System 7 Pack! Extras
    TrashMan Controls

EXTENSIONS:
    Disinfectant            Bomb Shelter            FaxMonitor (FaxSTF)
    FaxPrint (FaxSTF)       Hardware System Update 2.0.1
    ICON Wizard INIT        JPEGView JFIF Preview   SoundManager 3.0
    TrashMan Engine         Type Reunion

In addition, I've got all sorts of standard Apple and Adobe stuff that doesn't
cause problems and I can't live without.  Course, I can't live without any of
this other stuff, either...

I seem to remember problems with SpeedyFinder7 being talked about...any clue?

Thanks for your help, everyone!

Neil E. Mickelson
[e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1993 03:12 EDT
From: "Face it, you are not always what you wear." <[e-mail]>
Subject: (A) SNL PARODY  "McIntosh Post It Note" on QuickTime

In the last digest someone asked whether or not the Saturday Night Live parody
of Apple's Newton was ever created into a QuickTime movie...


Well the answer is YES!

it is *TEMPORARILY* available at the following address via anonymous FTP:
192.100.81.100 (netcom.com) in the directory /pub/jaimev in the file
"McIntosh_Post-It_Notes.bin * (MacBinary File)

This is about an 8MB file...

So enjoy...now that you know where to obtain it!


[e-mail]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1993 09:32:08 -0400
From: "Tom Scott" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (C) SNL McIntosh "Post-It N

     (C) SNL McIntosh "Post-It Note" Commercial
[e-mail] (Richard K. Wolf) asks:

>I doubt it, but did anyone get a chance to make a QuickTime movie of the
>Saturday Night Live McIntosh "Post-It Note" commercial?  No matter how you
>feel about Apple, that thing was right on the money ... and pretty darned
>funny too.

Any chance of you or someone else posting it (no pun intended! :-) to
sumex?  Sounds like something many would enjoy!

Thomas Scott, Systems Manager, College of Engineering
Cornell University, Carpenter Hall Annex, Ithaca, NY  14853

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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 93 10:57:37 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (Q) Downloading Binary Files

Hi there...I need to download (via ftp) a file that is in Binary form
(filename.bin).  I will be using fetch, but is there anything special that I
have to set or type to download it successfully?

Please E-Mail me directly at  [e-mail]  or [e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 93 10:57:37 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (Q) Downloading Binary Files

Hi there...I need to download (via ftp) a file that is in Binary form
(filename.bin).  I will be using fetch, but is there anything special that I
have to set or type to download it successfully?

Please E-Mail me directly at  [e-mail]  or [e-mail]

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

Date: 27 Oct 1993 17:14:10 +0100
From: [e-mail] (massimiliano orso)
Subject: (Q) Persuasion Multimedia

[e-mail] writes:

>     (Q) Persuasion Multimedia
>What's the easiest way for incorporating QuickTime movies in a Persuasion
>(version 2.0) presentation?  Will version 2.1 do this?  Or what other
software
>will I need to do this?  I've heard of a package called Cinemation which
might
>do this, but I was wondering if there was something out there in cyberspace.

>Also, what about integrating video into Persuasion?  Am I limited to buying a
>VideoSpigot?  Please help me; I'm a multimedia junkie!!!

Astound is what you need...
Why don't you buy it?

>Thomas Scott, Systems Manager, College of Engineering
>Cornell University, Carpenter Hall Annex, Ithaca, NY  14853
--
MAC does it better and faster.
| Massimiliano Orso        Tel. [phone] (casa)
| Via Gran Sasso 40        E-mail : [e-mail]
| 20131 Milano MI          Italy

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

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 15:10:03 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Matthew Ahrens)
Subject: .image files (was: system software)

you want DiskCopy to read .image files, i think it is at ftp.apple.com, in the
/
+ mac/utils or something

--
My opinions are mine only and tentative, pending further data
Matthew Ahrens                      [e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 93 21:01:39 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: .PPD file for IBM/Lexmark 4039 printers

Our lab recently got an IBM 4039-16L printer and I am looking for the
appropriate .PPD file to use it with the LaserWriter 8 drivers.  The
printer came with software that installs a chooser option to print to
it, but it appears in the Chooser as another option, not under either
the old (7) or new (8) Laserwriter driver.  The resulting Print Setup
and Print dialog boxes, however, look like this is based on the old
drivers.  One of the floppies that came with the printer's Appletalk
interface has a file called IBM4039.PPD, but when I try to select this
with the LaserWriter 8 setup, I am told it's not a valid Printer
Description file.  It IS a moderately large postscript file, but
apparently not of the right sort for LW8.  I looked on ftp.adobe.com,
but there seem to be .PPD files only for older IBM printers, such as
the 4029 series.  Asking IBM has, so far, yielded no plausible leads.
A pointer to the right file, if it exists, would be much appreciated.
Thanks.  --Pete Szolovits

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

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 93 19:31:04 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: 1984 Commercial (Please Stop!)

Oh why do I never learn? My seemingly innocuous response to the query
about the Macintosh "1984 Commercial" yielded a small host of requests
to get a copy from me. Remember? I did say it was a bit of a trial to
transfer that big a file. If memory serves, Richard Lim is the only one
to actually get the thing from me. It took the better part of a day to
get it, after a bunch of time consuming false starts.

Richard only got the file after I converted to hqx format (adding 1/3 to
its already mind-numbing size). I think he also used NCSA Telnet to get
it. The most recent supplicants used Fetch. Death. Fetch's gets died at
about the 6M point. I tried a Fetch put. Seemed to go, but the bytes
transferred were maybe 5M more than the file size, and it didn't really
do it. Dead meat.

I got a tad annoyed at NCSA Telnet's ftp host capability at that point
and snagged the new FTPd program. Only took me two hours to get it sort
of working. I seem to lack some pre-supposed knowledge. Even after it got
up, it was slower coming than Christmas. From the Tech command-line ftp
under VM/CMS and from Fetch. So slow I thought my client machine died.
Forget about that puppy.

No mas! If God had meant the "1984 Commercial" to be ftp-able, She would
have given us better tools. I can barely afford the disk space for that
file. I cannot afford the time to diddle with y'all trying to send it
over the net. But only since the problem seems intractable. I diddle all
the time when I make progress and learn something.

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

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

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 93 12:18:05 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Rob Kouwenberg)
Subject: [A] P. Ingenierie Intertalk, winner is : ...

Hello Netters !

Thanks to Kee Nethery, I found the card is a localtalk router which draws
it's power from the nubus slot. He also made a reference to the software
needed for it. Alas for the other folks ( lotsa strange suggestions as to
the card's function ), he's the winner !

His prize choice :

>I'd go for the kiss except I'm married and well, I'm kinda partial to the
>kisses I already receive. I already have a handful of 256Ksimms and my wife
>bakes excellent no-fat organic chocolate cakes (very yummy). So, I know
>it's nerdy but I have to choose the monochrome Nubus monitor card.  :-)

Nothing more to add !

Greetings from Holland, Rob Kouwenberg

(* [e-mail]           snailnet:p/o Gr. Adolfstraat 86
   [e-mail]                 5616 BX Eindhoven,Holland*)

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

Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1993 00:41:22 -0400
From: "David L. Elliott" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [A] serial port woes-- thanks to all


I wrote earlier about having both modem and  printer ports go out of
action simultaneously on my Mac IIci. It failed the local tech's loopback
test, and he suggested a $750 motherboard replacement. However,
this newsgroup came to the rescue:
 Bob Beason <[e-mail]> suggested zapping the PRAM, since
PRAM memory corruption can, he explained, cause serial port problems.
 [e-mail] (Harry Dodsworth) suggested buying a NuBus board
(QuadraLink or Hurdler) which -- with its software -- replaces the missing
serial ports.
In the case of my IIci, PRAM-zapping didn't help, and it still isn't clear
what caused the trouble... So... I ordered ($202 incl. S&H) and received
(in about 12 hours) an AE QuadraLink from MacWarehouse. Works fine by
"shadowing" the printer and modem ports to the new ones.

Thanks!
           David

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

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 93 13:53:34 -0400
From: Michael Grabenstein <[e-mail]>
Subject: AppleWorks to -> ??? (Q)

    I have some AppleWorks files I need to move over to the Mac.
They are SpreadSheets, Dbase, and WordProcessor documents, are there
any recommended ways to bring them over? (I know I could save the files
as text, but I would rather use a converter ;-) TIA.)

    I seem to remember some AFE add-ins for doing this stuff, but I
can not find them anywhere.

Thanks,
    Mike    [e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 15:05:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: Scott Wyant <[e-mail]>
Subject: ARA competes with printer -- summary and thank yous

Two weeks ago, I posted a plea for help with a Powerbook 145 which would
not let my friend both print to a Stylewriter II AND connect with his
office via AppleTalk Remote Access.  The answer (which I am afraid to say
is contained in the fantastic manual) is to go to the Network Control
panel and select the "Remote Only" option, and reboot.  Alternatively,
sumex is reported to contain two shareware utilities called "Appletalk
On" and "Appletalk Off", which come recommended as "things no Powerbook
owner should be without."  PB Tools also offers a similar function.
Thanks to all who responded -- including Ted E. Dees, Dennis D. Davison
Alonso Castro , Matthew Ahrens, Povl H. Pedersen,
Dieder A. Bylsma, Steve Dagley ,Dana Bolden, and  Sylvia Elliott.  My
apologies for not posting this earlier, but I must work...

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

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 22:57:35 +0000
From: [e-mail] (Martin Stoermer)
Subject: Are there other programs like SendPS?

>Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1993 17:03:55 -0500 (CDT)
>From: Dan Lunderville <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Are there other programs like SendPS?
>
>There is a utility named SendPS that was written several years ago by someone
>at Adobe.  It was used to download Postscript over AppleTalk, such as sending
>a
>Postscript file to a printer.  The latest version seems to be v. 2.0.
>
>This version of SendPS does not work with System 7.  ...stuff deleted......

SendPS can be made to work with system 7.0 and 7.01 at least, by moving the
laserwriter extension out of the extensions folder and putting it one level
up i.e in the system folder loose.  SendPS v.2.o doesn't know about the
extensions folder.  And System 7 seems to tolerate a moved lasewriter
extension.  Just can get a bit tricky changing laserwriters in the chooser.

martin,  3D Centre, University of Queensland, AUSTRALIA

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

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 20:11:59 -0500 (CDT)
From: Russell Cotton <[e-mail]>
Subject: A way to space in ClarisWorks

Hello,

I was wondering if there is a way in ClarisWorks 1.0 to do things like this.

Chapter 1..................45
Index......................97

I forget what it is called.

I will be getting ClarisWorks 2.0 in the near future, but I want to do
this now.
BTW: the periods are spaced by tabs

If there is a way to do this in CW 2.0, please tell me that too.

Thanks
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~ Russell Cotton <> [e-mail] ~
~ Superintendent/Principal Garner ISD ~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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

Date: Fri, 29 Oct 93 10:17 CDT
From: U.W.-Madison Atom Trainers <[e-mail]>
Subject: Backlight longevity

To whom it concerns:

For the longevity of the fluorescent backlight in my PowerBook, is it
better to leave it on all the time when plugged in, or should I let it turn
off when not in use?

Thanks,

Paul Feng,  Dept. of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison WI
53706
BITNET:   paulfeng@wiscmacc                   INTERNET:
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 93 11:30:57 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Boys Club of Memphis

The Boys Club of Memphis has received a grant and purchased a 60 used Mac
SE's, which are networked via Personal FileSharing, running System 7 and At
Ease (in networks of 10 computers each).

Unfortunately, they each only have 2 megs of RAM at this point.  If any of
you has recently upgraded their Mac memory and has available some 1-megabyte
SIMMs, they would certainly be put to good use by some inner-city kids at the
Boys Club.

They will send you a letter confirming your donation after receiving any
SIMMs (for income-tax purposes).  The address to which the SIMMs should be
sent is:

Joe Sing
Boys Club of Memphis
189 South Barksdale
Memphis TN  38104

Phone: [phone] (should you have any questions)

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

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 93 11:30:57 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Boys Club of Memphis

The Boys Club of Memphis has received a grant and purchased a 60 used Mac
SE's, which are networked via Personal FileSharing, running System 7 and At
Ease (in networks of 10 computers each).

Unfortunately, they each only have 2 megs of RAM at this point.  If any of
you has recently upgraded their Mac memory and has available some 1-megabyte
SIMMs, they would certainly be put to good use by some inner-city kids at the
Boys Club.

They will send you a letter confirming your donation after receiving any
SIMMs (for income-tax purposes).  The address to which the SIMMs should be
sent is:

Joe Sing
Boys Club of Memphis
189 South Barksdale
Memphis TN  38104

Phone: [phone] (should you have any questions)

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

Date: Tue, 26 Oct 93 15:30:24 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: Cheap 8-bit video card for 660AV?

Hi all,

Well, I finally broke down and got a Centris 660AV (no, not a Quadra
660AV, I like being different ;-)). It's up and working, but not yet
configured perfectly. One stumbling block is that I need a cheap 8-bit
video card to use with the used Apple 12" monochrome monitor I picked
up for $75. I have the monochrome monitor running off internal video
now, but once I get a main color monitor, I want to use the mono monitor
as a second screen, just as I've become used to on the SE/30 with
its extra color monitor.

So, does anyone have any recommendations for decent cheap video cards
that will fit in a Centris 660AV (7 inches max) and that can drive
an Apple 12" monochrome monitor? It doesn't have to be anything fancy.

Many thanks!

cheers ... -Adam

Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor -- [e-mail] -- [e-mail]
Author of The Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh -- [e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 23:11:33 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brian Amira <[e-mail]>
Subject: Claris Works 2.0

Could someone please tell me how to make logon & other macros with Claris
Works 2.0!! I have tried everything (almost nothing) that the manual says
and noting works! The "Macro Wait" commands seem to do nothing. Am I
missing something here?

Thanks

<|Brian M. Amira     | Internet E-Mail: [e-mail] |>

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

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 17:22:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail] (Casgrain Philippe)
Subject: Client file sharing (Sys 7.1) problem:: notification keeps popping!

Figure the following: Two macs, System 7.1 (it works with, at least, a PB 160,
a Mac II and an SE/30). One accesses the other through "guest" file sharing
(I use the "AutoGuest" extension).

    When the server goes belly-up for any reason, the client received
the message "The shared disk "Quark" from the fileserver "Deep Space Nine"
is no longer accessible" or something to the sort (it varies depending on a
crash or a shutdown).

    Fine so far! However, the following notification keeps popping up,
every few seconds in the Finder: "The shared disk "Quark" could not be
accessed due to an error -1070". This message is repeated ad nauseam until
I reboot (not a particularly time-saving experience on my 14/80 PB 160 with
three rows of extensions!).

    I thought the culprit is "AutoRemounter", a PowerBook-only control
panel, but no. The problem keeps on going without those two.

    However, when the client is System 6.07 or System 7.0, the problem
does not exist! I get the message that the server is no longer available,
the shared disk gets flushed and I can keep going like nothing happened!

    I would like to know if anybody else has experienced this problem, and
if there is a solution.

Thanks, Philippe Casgrain

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

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 17:02:29 EDT
From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Communicate Lite Demo/Apple Modem Tool 1.5

After reading the recent edition of Tidbits, I downloaded a
copy of Communicate Lite Demo primarily because it has the
new version of the Apple Modem Tool (1.5).  As Adam said,
there are a lot of nice new features included in AMT 1.5.
(BTW, although I haven't had much time to explore it,
Communicate Lite Demo itself looks interesting and I plan to
spend a little time with it as well.  The Communicate Lite Demo
is available by anonymous FTP from Tidbits.com and netcom.com--
it may also be available on Sumex-aim, but I don't know that for sure.)

One omission I noticed was that the old AMT had many more default
modems included.  AMT 1.5 has just a few.  I particularly miss the Shiva
NetModem V.32 configuration.  That's the bad news.  The good news is that the
user can configure additional modems in the AMT configuration.
So here comes the question.  Does anyone know the proper set up
info to add the Shiva Netmodem V.32 into the AMT?

Jeffrey Fritz
West Virginia University
[e-mail]

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

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 14:02:33 -0800
From: [e-mail] (John Rosborough)
Subject: diskette incompatibility

Has anyone else seen this one. A file written on an 800K disk on a
Powerbook 100 can not be read on a Centris 660AV.

Both machines are running System 7.1 with the Software Update 2.0.1.

I tried two different PB 100's and 2 different Drives with extensions 'on'
and 'off'. I tried three different 660's with extensions 'on' and 'off'. HD
disks work fine, the probelm is only with 800K and 400K disks. These same
disks and files can be read on other machines (MacPlus, Duo 230 with dock,
Centris 610, LC520)

This one haws us stumped.

 ---------
John Rosborough  Computer Support Specialist,        [phone]
         Faculty of Education                 fax  [phone]
         Simon Fraser University
         Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6

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

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 19:26:13 -0500 (CDT)
From: Russell Cotton <[e-mail]>
Subject: E-mail Address for Newton's Apple

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone knows the e-mail address for David Heil or
anyone else on the PBS show "Newton's Apple"

Thank You
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~ Russell Cotton <> [e-mail] ~
~ Superintendent/Principal Garner ISD ~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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

Date: Thu Oct 28 15:10:10 1993
From: [e-mail] (Capt Jon Dagle;86OSS/DOW;480-2822;93-6194)
Subject: E-Mail Text Editor Application

I currently log into an  AT&T 3B2 Unix system via a modem from my Macintosh.
The on-line editor is _really_ bad. Can anyone recommend a good application
(free or share) for drafting email? Keep in mind that I'm not directly linked
to the host system. Thanks.

Jon Dagle
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu Oct 28 15:10:10 1993
From: [e-mail] (Capt Jon Dagle;86OSS/DOW;480-2822;93-6194)
Subject: E-Mail Text Editor Application

I currently log into an  AT&T 3B2 Unix system via a modem from my Macintosh.
The on-line editor is _really_ bad. Can anyone recommend a good application
(free or share) for drafting email? Keep in mind that I'm not directly linked
to the host system. Thanks.

Jon Dagle
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 93 08:47:52 -0400
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Emulate VT100

I need a software to emulate VT100.  It must print in fast draft mode and have
a
keyboard lock (lock the keyboard so it cannot send caracter to the host during
I
'm printing)

Thak you !!!

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

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 19:24:34 -0500 (CDT)
From: Russell Cotton <[e-mail]>
Subject: English SoundTrecker 2.0?

hello,

I was wondering if the english version of SoundTrecker 2.0 is released (or
will be released).
thank you
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~ Russell Cotton <> [e-mail] ~
~ Superintendent/Principal Garner ISD ~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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

Date: Fri, 29 Oct 93 09:07:59 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Catherine Rey)
Subject: Eudora - Need Help!

I have a stand-alone Mac IIci and a Hayes Smartmodem 9600.
I've been asked to show someone on the staff Eudora.  I
know nothing!  I have eudora-131 from the archives, and a
very old I'm sure - version 11 - of White Knight, which I
assume is of no help at all.

Does anyone have a moment to tell me what I need to get/buy
to set up such a demo?


All help will be greatly appreciated.

Catherine Rey

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

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 16:30:21 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Tim Neese)
Subject: Eudora for the masses

Hello,

I am investigating the feasibility, advantages, and disadvantages of making
pop mail programs such as Eudora on the Mac and NuPop or PopMail for PC
users available to our students (around 25,000) on floppy disk.  I was
wondering if those out there that have gone through this at other
universities could provide some insights on several issues or share how
their campuses have dealt with providing email to all students, faculty,
and staff.

The first is how do you do the distribution?  Do you use floppy disks or do
students log into some central server?  If they log into a server, is it
available campus wide and do you use one for both Mac and PCs or one for
each platform?  If you distribute on floppy disks, how many do you prepare
and how long does it take to do so?  Do you configure and label them for
the students or have them do that?  How do you get the disks to the
students?  Do you have to provide training sessions or is just giving them
the disk and an instruction sheet usually enough?

Since it seems that pop mailers are much more efficient for the mail
servers, since they only connect and consume CPU resources to transfer
messages, I am wondering if anyone has any kind of data or feedback to
compare the numbers of users that could be accommodated through pop mail
programs versus the number that could be handled through traditional
terminal connections.  For those who campuses rely primarily on pop mail
programs, how many users are on a given mail server and what kind of
hardware is the mail server (make, model, RAM, disk space)?  This seems to
be especially true for handling dial up traffic with the expense and
general scarcity of modem lines.  Does any one have similar feedback or
comparisons for the number of users that were able to be handled with pop
mailers (using ARA, SLIP, PPP, or plain serial connection like Eudora and
NuPop can) versus having people dial into unix or VMS hosts with standard
terminal emulation software?

Also, since the other great benefit of pop mail programs is their more
intuitive and thus easier to use interface, does anyone have any feedback
or data to support the notion that people are more likely to utilize email
more heavily with pop mail programs than unix or VMS based editors.  This
seems to be true from my own experience but I'm wondering if any one has
ever verified it by tracking email traffic (not just the number of accounts
but something that better measures utilization).

Again, for those who's campuses rely heavily on pop mail program usage,
what percentage of the students, faculty, and staff have email accounts?
Has this led to a greater sense of access to the faculty, staff, and
university services for students?  What have been the other outcomes, both
positive and negative.

Sorry for the twenty questions, but any insights people would like to share
would be greatly appreciated.  Feel free to respond directly and I'll post
a summary to the list later.

Thanks.
Tim

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

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 09:51:37 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Tim Neese)
Subject: Eudora Tricks

Good Morning,

For those of us in the position of helping and supporting people using
Eudora to access email on unix and VMS hosts, here are a couple of tricks
for dealing with common problems that are probably worth remembering.

For people using Eudora to access mail on a unix host, there are two common
outcomes when something goes wrong when Eudora is in the middle of
transferring mail.  The first is that if the transfer is canceled after
Eudora has logged into the pop server, only part, if any, of the messages
may have been transferred, and appear to have been lost if they log in to
their unix account via Telnet or other terminal method.  It turns out that
the messages have merely been moved to a pop server temp file (from their
incoming mail spool) and will transfer fine the next time they check for
messages with Eudora.

The second unix problem comes when something goes awry in the middle of
transferring messages leading subsequent attempts to check for messages to
return the infamous "Mail drop locked or busy" message.  This can easily be
remedied by having the person log into their unix account with Telnet or
other terminal method, and typing ps -x at the system prompt.  This will
bring up a list of the active processes and look something like:

    spot> ps -x
      PID TT STAT   TIME COMMAND
     2490 w7 S      0:00 -tcsh (tcsh-6.04)
     1760           0:00 popper
     2590 w7 R      0:00 ps -x

You then need to have them type in kill and the process number to terminate
the pop process, such as

    spot> kill 1760

After that, Eudora will happily transfer messages once again!

The most common consequence of something going wrong when transferring
messages from a VMS host is that messages appear to get lost.  It turns out
that they merely get transferred to the "Mail" directory, out of the
"Newmail" directory, and since Eudora only looks at the "Newmail"
directory, it no longer sees them.  Again, if they log into their VMS
account with Telnet or other terminal method, they can view the "lost"
messages with a dir command of their Mail directory.

In our group, I seem to get some form of the above problems about once
every two or three months and thought that a summary might be useful to
others.

Tim

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

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 21:39:31 -0700
From: "Trevor I. Blumenau" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Font Printing Differences

Have you ever noticed that some of the characters in the Symbol font
print differently on the StyleWriter than on the LaserWriter?

It's irritating the s..t out of me.  How can I get the two to match?

I thought of making a copy of the Symbol font and calling it something else,
so that the LaserWriter wouldn't use it's own internal version of Symbol.
This failed however, because apparently the font file name doesn't affect
the font name within the file.  I then also tried ResEdit to no avail.

Am I correct to assume there is a different version of Symbol built into
the LaserWriter?  How does one _really_ change the name of the font within
the font file?

Typically, I pre-print all my documents on my StyleWriter to make sure
that all the formatting and such is perfect, and then I go down to Kinkos
to print the documents on a LaserWriter.

Is anyone else having this problem?

Trevor Blumenau
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 15:07:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: Scott Wyant <[e-mail]>
Subject: Frozen Duo in the dock

Hello all --
I too, have experienced the sudden freeze-up of my Duo when in the dock.
I can't detect any sort of common situation which causes this to happen,
and I believe I remember this issue was addressed on the digest, and that
the ADB mouse was to blame.  Is this still in the hearsay category,
or should I be hounding Apple about this?  Particulars are:  Duo 230, 12k
memory, Mac 16" color display, System 7.1.  The mouse is the one with the
light gray ball and feet, Maylasia-made.  Extended keyboard (which freezes
up, too.)  Any particulars or pointers appreciated, and I'll summarize if
warranted.

Scott Wyant
Origami, Ltd.
[e-mail] OR
[e-mail]

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

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 93 13:16:31 -0400
From: Alan Ruttenberg <[e-mail]>
Subject: fsp vs gopher

After sending my message off, I note that it is redundant given the
message of

  [e-mail] (Juan M. Courcoul)

and the moderators response

  [We already have gopher, which uses less system resources than ftp. -Gordon]

However, may I point out that gopher also often says that "the system
is busy". Thus it suffers the same problem that ftp suffers. Also, you
can't tell gopher to do a bunch of things as it is menu driven, not
command line driven.

Please do reconsider the fsp option in addition to your current
solutions.

Thanks,

alan

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

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 08:56:46 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Juan M. Courcoul)
Subject: fsp vs gopher

Alan Ruttenberg <[e-mail]> writes:

>Please do reconsider the fsp option in addition to your current
>solutions.

I agree with and support Alan's arguments. An FSP command-line interface
permits a greater automation, allowing downloads at off-peak hours. Having
played with the configuration of several succesive releases of the FSP
server code, I'm sure it can satisfy any security and accounting
requirements you might have, especially if it incorporates the latest
enhancements (such as those developed by the folks that manage WUArchive).

Juan

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

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 08:56:46 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Juan M. Courcoul)
Subject: fsp vs gopher

Alan Ruttenberg <[e-mail]> writes:

>Please do reconsider the fsp option in addition to your current
>solutions.

I agree with and support Alan's arguments. An FSP command-line interface
permits a greater automation, allowing downloads at off-peak hours. Having
played with the configuration of several succesive releases of the FSP
server code, I'm sure it can satisfy any security and accounting
requirements you might have, especially if it incorporates the latest
enhancements (such as those developed by the folks that manage WUArchive).

Juan

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

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 93 02:24:26 CDT
From: Oliver P. Soell <[e-mail]>
Subject: Futura SX and Quadra 840

I believe I've finally found the root of my crashing problems with my 840.
When
my video card (E-Machines Futura SX) is installed, the system sometimes
crashes
on startup: right at the start of the extension loading process (it does NOT
happen when I shift-boot), but after the Apple Event Manager extension (used
with AppleScript).

Does anyone else out there have the same setup? Or problem with the Futura
SX?

Thanks

Oliver Soell
Rice University
[e-mail]

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

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 93 19:13:43 CDT
From: Mack <[e-mail]>
Subject: HD Crash??!!*&$%

 Help!!!! My hard drive crashed, right before my backup!!!
with sys 7.1 formatted with FWB.  When I power on and listen to
the drive, I hear a click, click, click, pause, click, click, and
then nothing.  I pulled the drive, a Q 525LPS, to check to see if
all the connections and jumpers were ok.  The ternination jumper
was still there (TE) so I pulled it.  I checked the scsi id
jumpers, and they were set to zero...fine.  I put the drive back
in and nothing, just that familiar flashing question mark. At one
time last nite it did come up for a while, then crashed again.  I
had the drive in my roommates ci for a while, and everything
worked out fine, then I put it back in my 9 and this happens. I
haven't put it back in the ci yet but will try and see if it is
the mac or the drive.
    Any suggestions?  Can anyone name a Quantum servive center
in the Southeast region?

Mack

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

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 11:55:53 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Constantin Kahn)
Subject: HP 4ML auto-switch feature (Q)

Hi,

I would like to hear from people who are using a Hewlett-Packard 4ML
PostScript laser printer (the 4ppm model) in a mixed environment, i.e.,
attached to a LocalTalk Macintosh network AND via Centronics to a DOS PC at
the same time. Does the auto-switch feature (i.e., the printer is serving
both ports automatically) work as advertised? Do the two cables fit into
the printer together?

(HP's printer manual is a comic. I was able to borrow one (German edition).
It merely states that there is such a feature but it actually says less
about it than the ads I have seen.)

Thanks in advance,

Constantin Kahn

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

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 15:14 -0700 (MST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: HP Deskwriter drivers for PCs?

Does anyone know whether I can attach my HP deskwriter to my PC? I've
not seen any driver to work on the PC???

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

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 09:28:55 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Rich Siegel)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #212

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

>Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1993 17:03:55 -0500 (CDT)
>From: Dan Lunderville <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Are there other programs like SendPS?
>
>There is a utility named SendPS that was written several years ago by someone
>at Adobe.  It was used to download Postscript over AppleTalk, such as sending
>a
>Postscript file to a printer.  The latest version seems to be v. 2.0.
>
>This version of SendPS does not work with System 7.  Can anyone direct me to
>an equivalent utility that is free, and works with System 7?  I know that
this
>can be done with Apple's LaserWriter Utility, but I can't use that.  I need
>to give this utility to students, and LaserWriter Utility has several options
>that students could really mess things up with.

Drop*PS, free for anonymous FTP from sumex, and from world.std.com,
should do the job. It can be found on world.std.com, in /ftp/pub/bbedit.

R.

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

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 09:28:55 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Rich Siegel)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #212

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

>Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1993 17:03:55 -0500 (CDT)
>From: Dan Lunderville <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Are there other programs like SendPS?
>
>There is a utility named SendPS that was written several years ago by someone
>at Adobe.  It was used to download Postscript over AppleTalk, such as sending
>a
>Postscript file to a printer.  The latest version seems to be v. 2.0.
>
>This version of SendPS does not work with System 7.  Can anyone direct me to
>an equivalent utility that is free, and works with System 7?  I know that
this
>can be done with Apple's LaserWriter Utility, but I can't use that.  I need
>to give this utility to students, and LaserWriter Utility has several options
>that students could really mess things up with.

Drop*PS, free for anonymous FTP from sumex, and from world.std.com,
should do the job. It can be found on world.std.com, in /ftp/pub/bbedit.

R.

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

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 09:32:43 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Rich Siegel)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #212

>Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 01:43:39 -0600 (CDT)
>From: [e-mail] (William Richard Jr Russell)
>Subject: Text file pager for Mac (Q)

>I just got a _lot_ of almost-plain-text ascii material on CD-ROM that
>I would like to read. I could print some of it out, but given that the
>text consists of a half-dozen science fiction novels and related
>materials, printing becomes a time consuming and expensive
>proposition.
>
>What I need is a simple pager program, like 'more', 'most' and 'less'
>on UNIX systems. While there are plenty of fine programs for _editing_
>text, there are none (that I know of) for simply viewing and reading
>text. Optimally, the pager/viewer would have a few useful features:
>
> - A user-defined "page key" that advances the text exactly one page
>   forward. When reading a large amount of material, there's no reason
>   to take the time or effort to use the mouse.
>
> - User-settable font and style (so text can be set to large & bold
>   for easy viewing).
>
> - Optionally, it should be able to interpret the standard ASCII
>   printer control characters... newpage (^L), backspace (^H),
>   etc the way 'less' does.
>
> - Optionally, it should also automatically recognize and properly
>   format non-Mac newline characters, ^J for UNIX and ^J^M for DOS.
>
> - An RTF interpreter would be nice too... but perhaps I ask for
>   too much :-)

Although BBEdit is a text editor, it can do most of these things; drop
a file on it, and you can use the paging keys on the extended keyboard
to page through it, or Cmd-up- and -down-arrow. It also translates
linefeeds automatically, and you can set a preferred font and size for
viewing. You'll also be able to print your files, as well.

BBEdit 2.5's support of XTND makes it possible to read the text from
RTF-format files, as well.

BBEdit Lite is free for anonymous FTP from sumex.stanford.edu, in
/info-mac/text, and from world.std.com, in /ftp/pub/bbedit. A demo
version of BBEdit 2.5 is available from the same locations.

R.
--
Rich Siegel                              Internet: [e-mail]
Senior Software Engineer                 Turning Point Software

Moderator, SE-R mailing list             Internet: [e-mail]

"Thirty inches of thigh-slappin', blood pumpin' nuclear brain damage!"

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

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 93 13:34:38 CDT
From: [e-mail] (Pete Jemian)
Subject: Info-Mac mailing list and Junk e-mail

In a recent IM Digest, Pete Chane <[e-mail]> writes
> Does anyone (Moderators?) know exactly how many people get Info-Mac from
> the subscription list and are those email names available to the public?

And in another message in the same digest, he continues:
> I am looking for high quality Macintosh or Windows software to bring to
> market.  If you have developed something that you think is viable in the
> commercial software market, please contact me via email.

Thankfully, the IM moderator comes to our rescue:
> [We have no idea.  The info-mac digest is distributed from sumex-aim to a
> a large number of other mailing lists.  These lists then explode the digest
> to the end users (or, perhaps, to other lists)  Very few individuals get the
> digest directly from the macmod account.  Other people moderate these
mailing
> lists.  I have no idea what the info-mac subscriber base is :)  If you wish
> to get a message to all of them I suggest using the
> [e-mail] address.  I think a fair number of our
> subscribers would be angered if they received unsolicited (sp?) mail.  :)
> --Gordon]

Way to go, Gordon! Talk about a leech! Who is this guy?
Another useful MBA? This is the sort of crap that we don't
need.  It's a waste of InterNet bandwidth and is most
certainly going to bring the impending commercialization of
e-mail that much sooner.  Ultimately, we'll have to pay cash
for each message sent or received, probably by the size of
the message.  (Take a look at cellular phones.  You pay for
connect time whether sending or receiving.) The *last* thing
I want to pay for is JUNK e-mail.

Actually, isn't there some sort of rule about transacting
commercial business over the InterNet? Don't know but
thought so.  Product announcements in the digest are
probably in the grey (or gray) area but are not nearly as
offensive as junk e-mail.

If this yahoo, or others, wants to make a fast buck off
somebody else's hard work and * at our expense *,
I say get rid of him!

Guess that Gordon was right that
"... subscribers would be angered ..."

BTW, reply to this message but don't send _me_ any junk
e-mail.  You can hear the firebrick being stacked all
around me.

Pete Jemian
[e-mail]

P.S.  Hearty round of applause for Gordon.  He's doing a great job!

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

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 08:56:38 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Juan M. Courcoul)
Subject: Lazy PowerBook ?

Many thanks to everyone who responded. The consensus was that the processor
cycle is the culprit of the system slowdown. Perhaps the key piece of
information was that you have to press the Option KEY before clicking on
the Options BUTTON in the Powerbook control panel. Only that way does the
resultant window include the two buttons which enable/disable the processor
cycle.

The Spanish version of the user manual does not indicate this, which is why
I had never seen those controls (even though they do appear in the
pictures; I had thought they belonged to an earlier version of the control
panel). Maybe that information was lost in the translation*.

Also mentioned was the fact that enabling filesharing will slow down the
system somewhat, even if nobody else has mounted your machine's filesystem.
 Naturally, when someone does, the slowdown will get worse. ("filesystem"
??!? Goodness, my Unix is showing....;) )

I am still not convinced with the algorithm Apple employed to determine
when to slow the system down. I feel that a slowdown is NOT appropiate when
the machine is right in the midst of a CPU-intensive operation; in this
case, it is almost certain that the user will NOT be generating any input,
since he/she is waiting for the machine to finish the work. A slowdown in
this case is definitively counterproductive and frustrating. Two examples
of this would be while running a complex macro in Excel or while
downloading/decoding a hypertext page with inline graphics from the WWW in
NCSA Mosaic (I've had the machine slow down to a crawl in both cases).

Thanks again for your kind and prompt help.

Juan


* A comment regarding the internationalization of Mac software and manuals:
Those of us living in Latin America have really resented the fact that
Apple seems to think that Spanish is for Spain and period. I, for one, have
opted to use the US version of the system software, rather than having to
suffer thru the Spaniard version of the same. Hey, people, the (potential)
buyers in Latin America far outnumber those in Spain ! Least you could do
is include a Latin America country code, like IBM, Microsoft, Compaq and
others have done in their equipment and software.

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

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 08:56:38 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Juan M. Courcoul)
Subject: Lazy PowerBook ?

Many thanks to everyone who responded. The consensus was that the processor
cycle is the culprit of the system slowdown. Perhaps the key piece of
information was that you have to press the Option KEY before clicking on
the Options BUTTON in the Powerbook control panel. Only that way does the
resultant window include the two buttons which enable/disable the processor
cycle.

The Spanish version of the user manual does not indicate this, which is why
I had never seen those controls (even though they do appear in the
pictures; I had thought they belonged to an earlier version of the control
panel). Maybe that information was lost in the translation*.

Also mentioned was the fact that enabling filesharing will slow down the
system somewhat, even if nobody else has mounted your machine's filesystem.
 Naturally, when someone does, the slowdown will get worse. ("filesystem"
??!? Goodness, my Unix is showing....;) )

I am still not convinced with the algorithm Apple employed to determine
when to slow the system down. I feel that a slowdown is NOT appropiate when
the machine is right in the midst of a CPU-intensive operation; in this
case, it is almost certain that the user will NOT be generating any input,
since he/she is waiting for the machine to finish the work. A slowdown in
this case is definitively counterproductive and frustrating. Two examples
of this would be while running a complex macro in Excel or while
downloading/decoding a hypertext page with inline graphics from the WWW in
NCSA Mosaic (I've had the machine slow down to a crawl in both cases).

Thanks again for your kind and prompt help.

Juan


* A comment regarding the internationalization of Mac software and manuals:
Those of us living in Latin America have really resented the fact that
Apple seems to think that Spanish is for Spain and period. I, for one, have
opted to use the US version of the system software, rather than having to
suffer thru the Spaniard version of the same. Hey, people, the (potential)
buyers in Latin America far outnumber those in Spain ! Least you could do
is include a Latin America country code, like IBM, Microsoft, Compaq and
others have done in their equipment and software.

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

Date: Fri, 29 Oct 93 8:59:37 EDT
From: [e-mail] (David Cappello)
Subject: login

Hello, How many users does sumex-aim.stanford.edu support?  I have
been trying all hours of the day for a few weeks to connect and
I get the message "busy - to many users try again"  I have been
using anonymous to login in.  thanx.

[  David Cappello                   Internet:  [e-mail]  ]

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

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 93 10:01 CET
From: "Charles C. Schneider"
<[e-mail]>
Subject: LW8 Spool Somewhere Else?

Hi,

Well, I got my hands on the LaserWriter 8.1.x and installed it. Great
Stuff!

Great, that is, if I don't print large jobs.

The Problem:
I've partitioned a large hard disk so that my startup volume is
only 30MB. The rest of the 520MB drive is divided up amongst 3
other volumes. This was done in the superstitious belief that I'd
save space and speed up system duties.

The LW8.1 spools my QuarkXpress jobs to the startup disk and then
prints. However, my QX jobs are upwards of 40MB a pop, and I keep
getting "Disk Full" errors since there's no room on the startup disk.

Before I go about re-partitioning my disk (with the jungle of details
and hassles that that represents), I'd like to know if anyone can
help me figure out a work around:

1) Can I redirect WHERE the LW8 driver spools to disk?
2) Can I stop it from spooling?
3) Can I make it spool to RAM? (I've got 70MB to spare)

I'd really appreciate any help with this!

TIA,

Chuck

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

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 15:26:10 -0400
From: "Larry J. Blunk" <[e-mail]>
Subject: MacPPP 2.0.1

   MacPPP 2.0.1 is now available on merit.edu in the pub/ppp directory.
The name of the binhexed Stuffit archive is macppp2.0.1.hqx.

  This version fixes a bug in the 2.0 release which caused it
to not send the modem init string if the "AT" was included in
the string.
  Also fixed is an inline asm construct which was causing problems
with Think C 6.0.1 (I believe its a Think C bug).
  Lastly, support was added in PPP to loopback packets which are
addressed to the the Mac itself.  This function is the responsibility
of the LAP, but was neglected in earlier versions of MacPPP.

  -Larry Blunk
   Merit Network, Inc.  /  University of Michigan

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

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 14:53:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Mac Printing Problems

Help!!

I'm hoping someone will be able to help me with this problem.  Here is what is
happening.  We have 7 computers on an Ethernet network.  We recently hooked up
the 7th which is a centris 650, the is one quadra 700, and the rest are mac
IIci's. We are having major printing problems.  When trying to print from
Quark, the users are getting an error message that there isn't enough memory
to
print the file. The only computer this doesn't happen on is the Centris.

Things I have tried:

    1.  Upgrading all laserwriter drivers to 7.1 so all computers have the
        same version.
    2.  Installing new system software to make sure it was not damaged.

    3.  Bumping up the memory in Quark.

    4.  Bumping up the memory in  Print Monitor.

    5.  Turning background printing off, which causes an error message
        -108.  Apple tells me this is the heap space is full but how
        can this be if I am using system seven.

Another change that took place before the printing problems was we installed a
QMS Colorscript 230 onto the Ethernet network.


Please email me back with any suggestions.  We are really in a bind here.

Thanks,
Karen Mallory
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 22:48:59 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Juan M. Courcoul)
Subject: MacTCP (2.0.2) woes, once again.

Sorry for boring the audience with this repeat but it REFUSES to go away....

I've upgraded MacTCP from 1.1 to 2.0.2 in a Centris 650 with a Nubus
Ethernet card. Since the thing talks Ethernet directly, the Gators and
FastPaths in the place can't tell it what IP address to use. If they did,
I'd have to set MacTCP to EtherTalk and I'd have to bounce the packets off
the chosen router, adding an extra layer of software to the path.

So, I added the card's address and related info to our main and backup
bootp servers, hoping the thing would get its address there. Well, the
server logs report the incoming bootp request, as well as the reply,
stating the correctly assigned address; however, MacTCP just hangs there
until it times out. It never processes the bootp reply, even though it is
getting sent out on the wire. Both bootp servers send out extended bootp
replies.

I have tried reinstalling a fresh copy of MacTCP, trashing the Prep and DNR
files, starting with extensions off, etc., to no avail. What can I do to
get this cantankerous bit of code to work, short of (horrors !) setting a
static address ?

Thanks for your advice.

Juan

P.S. I did follow both Adam Engst's and Eric Behr's advice to the letter...

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

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 17:29:30 +0200
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Midi Song Files

I am interested in obtaining via ftp, free or shareware Midi song files of
both classical and popular music.  If anyone can point me to the relevant
servers and folders (they do not necessarily have to be MAC sites, since
the Midi files are standard for all computers), it would be much
appreciated.

Please respond to my internet address listed above.   Thanks

Sam Safran

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

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 17:29:30 +0200
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Midi Song Files

I am interested in obtaining via ftp, free or shareware Midi song files of
both classical and popular music.  If anyone can point me to the relevant
servers and folders (they do not necessarily have to be MAC sites, since
the Midi files are standard for all computers), it would be much
appreciated.

Please respond to my internet address listed above.   Thanks

Sam Safran

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

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 07:44:24 -0600 (MDT)
From: Bradley Nation <[e-mail]>
Subject: Network Software- Telnet, FTP, NFS

Our Group is looking for some software, preferably one package, that has
client
servers for Telnet, FTP, NFS and mail. If possible it would be great to
have it handle TelnetD also.
Send all response to [e-mail]. I will summarize for the net.
Thanks

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

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 07:44:24 -0600 (MDT)
From: Bradley Nation <[e-mail]>
Subject: Network Software- Telnet, FTP, NFS

Our Group is looking for some software, preferably one package, that has
client
servers for Telnet, FTP, NFS and mail. If possible it would be great to
have it handle TelnetD also.
Send all response to [e-mail]. I will summarize for the net.
Thanks

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

Date: 28 Oct 93 19:19:41
From: acpwvw!auxrcc![e-mail]
Subject: no subject (file transmission)

I have a Quadra 950 running System 7.1 that has an intermittent problem.
Several times each day when an object is selected with the mouse it stays
selected.  I realize this is a "feature" of windows and an extension
for the handicap for the Macintosh but I can not seem to get rid of it.
Has anyone seen such a problem or better yet a solution?
--
Rich Clemens, WV Wesleyan College, [e-mail]

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

Date: 28 Oct 93 16:22:03 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Posting to Usenet by E-Mail

Full-Name: Tjeng-Bo Lie

We have no access to Usenet on our site, and I seem to remember that there
is a way to post to Usenet by E-Mail.  Only problem is, I can't find any
information on how to do it.  I've tried archie to find anything that has
to do with 'usenet' and read the faq, primer, and what-have-you's.

Anybody out there knows how to do this?  I'd appreciate if you E-Mail me
some instructions.

I'll post to the net if enough interest warrants that...

=-Tjeng-Bo->

BTW, it would probably be helpful to get a current list of all Usenet
newsgroups also, so we can selectively post to the right newsgroup.

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

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 17:12:36 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Problems with AD modules in Darkside 4.1

Hi,

I've had a few bad crashes lately with Darkside 4.1, when trying to
run AD modules.  Anyone have any tips, or have the same problems
running modules such as "slide show".  I've had trouble with more
than one of the AD modules, though some work perfectly.

Is it just me, or is anyone else having any problems with this
otherwise EXCELLENT program?  I'd be especially interested in hearing
>From someone who runs the randomize ad module with DS 4.1 on all the
standard AD modulles at least, without any problems.   I'm pretty
happy with the darkside modules alone, and have no problems running
them.

{I'm running 7.0.1 tuned on a Q950.  I have DarkSide 4.1.  The picts
in the slideshow folder are not compressed.  It occured to me that
perhaps some of the AD _modules_ are a bit old, but I haven't heard
much about upgrading the modules, just the AD cpanel.}

Thanks,

--Brian Pickerill  <[e-mail]>

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

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 22:07:40 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Juan M. Courcoul)
Subject: Replacement trackball retaining rings for PowerBooks

Would anyone know if you can acquire replacement retaining rings for the
trackballs in the PowerBooks ? My PB 180 first broke off one of the locking
tabs the sixth time I removed the ball to clean the rollers (about 5 months
after I received the unit). When I reported the failure to my local dealer,
he said the part was not under warranty, since I had removed it to clean
the rollers: I was supposed to take it to them for that procedure (even
though the manual clearly states that cleaning the rollers is something
done by the user). He also said that Apple replacement policy dictated that
the whole part (i.e., the whole trackball assembly) had to be replaced, at
a cost to the customer, for a total of $135. plus tax. I ended gluing the
broken bit of plastic with Liquid Solder...

Now, the OTHER tab broke off and I know I'll have to replace the whole ring
sooner or later.

Anyone know a supplier and cost of the part ? From the looks of the fragile
part, I better buy half a dozen of the things !

Thanks in advance for your help.

Juan

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

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 22:48:56 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Juan M. Courcoul)
Subject: Re PSPICE

On Info-Mac #211, [e-mail] (Wallace C.
Patterson) wrote:

>I'm looking for a MAC-based circuit simulator call PSPICE.
>Please, tell me where I can find it.

In /info-mac/app/pspice-51.hqx.

Beware this is the demo/student version (i.e., it is limited in the number
of components, mainly transistors, it can handle). However, it will give
you an idea of how it works and where to get the Pro version.

JMC

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

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 93 16:01:12 CET
From: Alfredo Todini <[e-mail]>
Subject: Reset Dtdbs 2.0

I have got Reset DTDBs v2.0, a program which is supposed to delete the
desktop files completely, so that the Finder might rebuild them from
scratch. It doesn't seem to work on my system: I launch the program, then
the computer restarts, but the Finder behaves as usual, without stopping
to
rebuild the desktop. I don't think I made any mistake, as the usage of the
program is very easy; so, what's wrong? Is there anybody who can help me?
Thanks.

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

Date: Fri,  29 Oct 93 7:49 +0200
From: [e-mail]
Subject: SendPS substitution

>From: Dan Lunderville <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Are there other programs like SendPS?
>
>This version of SendPS does not work with System 7.  Can anyone direct me to
>an equivalent utility that is free, and works with System 7?  I know that
this
>can be done with Apple's LaserWriter Utility, but I can't use that.  I need
>to give this utility to students, and LaserWriter Utility has several options
>that students could really mess things up with.
>
>--
>Dan Lunderville                      Email:      [e-mail]
>
Hi

I use the utility called ShowPages 1.4.1 from Sumex-aim.
It can download PS files to the LaserWriter, and it can print text files in
a tiny format (which I use to print the Info-Mac Digest)
All under system 7.x.

Regards
    Ilan Szekely

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

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 93 07:49:33 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: SNMP agents for the Mac platform

Has the Mac world yet been sniped by yet another corporate type application?

I am looking for any leads on SNMP agents for the Mac platform.  I need a
simple inexpensive (retail <$1K) agent that can understand MIBs and provide
basic network management and troubleshooting.  Disappointingly, there is a
multitude of products for Windoze, some fairly robust and inexpensive
and yet I have been unable to find a single one for a Mac!

There is a product from Apple known as MacSNMP, but apparently it is only a
SNMP client.  Please let me know of any product leads or experiences, and I
will summarize to the Digest.

Thanks,
paul waxman ([e-mail])

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

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 18:32 EST
From: Don't Panic! <[e-mail]>
Subject: Speedyfinder

Dear Netters,
An alternative that costs a little more than SpeedyFinder is System 7 Pack
which costs $30 shareware.  Many of the same utilities are in System 7 Pack.
It is more Control Panel based than Extension based, so it may have less
conflicts.  Hope this helps.
....Another $0.02.  :-)
Sincerely,
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 29 Oct 93 16:35:55 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Strange crash and SadMAc and 'resource'

My Duo hates me!!! Can anyone tell me why the following might have happened to
me yesterday?...

I brought my Duo out of sleep-mode, but then noticed that it was reacting VERY
slowly and wouldn't get faster, so I restarted it. BUT, then I got a
floppy-disk-question-mark symbol. I restarted again (ctrl-command-start) and
got
the same. So I used the panic button at the back of the Duo...and got the
message (translated from Swedish) 'temporary system/bus error - turn off all
extensions and restart'. I duly restartd and this time I got a SADMAC!!

SadMac codes were 0000000F, 00000063. (I cannot find code 63 in any of the
SadMac lists I have access to). SadMac wouldn't go away.

Once home again, I attached my external floppy drive, and booted from a backup
system diskette. Tested the harddrive with DiskFirstAid, DDDiskTester and
DDVerify/Repair, which all said 'all's well'. Tried to install a new system on
the harddisk, using the original system diskettes, but got the error
(translated
>From Swedish) 'a write-protected resource cannot be replaced'. What
write-protected resource?? I renamed the old system folder, so that the
installation wouldn't have anything to replace in an old 'system' folder, and
tried again to no avail.

I then compressed everything on the hard disk with DiskDoubler (don't ask me
why, it was just a feeling I had) and put it all in the trash. THEN I removed
everything one-by-one from the trash and put it back on the hard disk. I
deliberately left one or two dispensable files in the trash (randomly chosen)
and then emptied the trash. Voila, the write-protected resource, whatever it
may
have been, was gone, and a new system could be installed without further
problems.

Any bright ideas out there?? I'd be grateful!

[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 12:36:14 +0000
From: [e-mail] (Malcolm Bebb)
Subject: Stylewriter II defaults

Thanks to those who mailed me. The upshot is:

The default IS black-and-white.

Some programs, e.g MS Word, apparently overwrite this with their own
default setting. (Guess what I'm using!)

A program called "myPageSetup" will change the standard defaults, but won't
stop other programs overwriting them... (I found v1.3 at umich, couldn't
see it at sumex.)

Word's behaviour in changing the default is considered a bug and should
therefore be fixed sometime. I have this second hand, and have not
confirmed with MS.

Hope this helps other users.



Malcolm     [e-mail]  (Usual disclaimers apply)
       [e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 12:36:14 +0000
From: [e-mail] (Malcolm Bebb)
Subject: Stylewriter II defaults

Thanks to those who mailed me. The upshot is:

The default IS black-and-white.

Some programs, e.g MS Word, apparently overwrite this with their own
default setting. (Guess what I'm using!)

A program called "myPageSetup" will change the standard defaults, but won't
stop other programs overwriting them... (I found v1.3 at umich, couldn't
see it at sumex.)

Word's behaviour in changing the default is considered a bug and should
therefore be fixed sometime. I have this second hand, and have not
confirmed with MS.

Hope this helps other users.



Malcolm     [e-mail]  (Usual disclaimers apply)
       [e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 93 18:53:21 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Switchback (Oops)

My most heartfelt apologies to those I misinformed in my recent blather
about file sync programs. I apparently said I couldn't figure out what
Switchback was doing. So the author told me today. My notes must have
gotten confused. Support DAM (Mothers Against Dyslexia). Switchback is
the one that is too automatic for my taste. It was another one I could
not figure out. I think. I've been wrong before.

As I said to Switchback's author, it is a bummer to make an ass of myself
in public that way. On the other hand, I should be used to it by now.

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 93 09:59:33 CDT
From: [e-mail] (Chuck Maddox)
Subject: SW or PD MeetingMaker Work-a-like?

Hello,

The school where I work is contemplating the purchase of On Technology's
MeetingMaker.  However, in the interest of keeping costs down and saving
taxpayers's money we are open to the possibility of adopting a ShareWare or
Public Domain software package that overss a similar set of features.

The features that we are interested in is the electronic coordination of
meetings/schedules of a medium to large number of staff members via
network.  Multi-platform (Mac/Dos/Windows) capability is a must.  If you
have any information on a product that might suit our needs please respond
directly to me ([e-mail]).

Thanks in advance!

Chuck

Chuck Maddox ///  (708)-907-5015  [e-mail]  IL Math & Science Academy

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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 16:08:17 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Rich Siegel)
Subject: Text file pager for Mac (A)

>I just got a _lot_ of almost-plain-text ascii material on CD-ROM that
>I would like to read. I could print some of it out, but given that the
>text consists of a half-dozen science fiction novels and related
>materials, printing becomes a time consuming and expensive
>proposition.
>
>What I need is a simple pager program, like 'more', 'most' and 'less'
>on UNIX systems. While there are plenty of fine programs for _editing_
>text, there are none (that I know of) for simply viewing and reading
>text. Optimally, the pager/viewer would have a few useful features:
>
> - A user-defined "page key" that advances the text exactly one page
>   forward. When reading a large amount of material, there's no reason
>   to take the time or effort to use the mouse.
>
> - User-settable font and style (so text can be set to large & bold
>   for easy viewing).
>
> - Optionally, it should be able to interpret the standard ASCII
>   printer control characters... newpage (^L), backspace (^H),
>   etc the way 'less' does.
>
> - Optionally, it should also automatically recognize and properly
>   format non-Mac newline characters, ^J for UNIX and ^J^M for DOS.
>
> - An RTF interpreter would be nice too... but perhaps I ask for
>   too much :-)

Although BBEdit is a text editor, it can do most of these things; drop
a file on it, and you can use the paging keys on the extended keyboard
to page through it, or Cmd-up- and -down-arrow. It also translates
linefeeds automatically, and you can set a preferred font and size for
viewing. You'll also be able to print your files, as well.

BBEdit 2.5's support of XTND makes it possible to read the text from
RTF-format files, as well.

BBEdit Lite is free for anonymous FTP from sumex.stanford.edu, in
/info-mac/text, and from world.std.com, in /ftp/pub/bbedit. A demo
version of BBEdit 2.5 is available from the same locations.

R.
--
Rich Siegel                              Internet: [e-mail]
Senior Software Engineer                 Turning Point Software

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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 09:39:53 -1000 (HST)
From: Rhys <[e-mail]>
Subject: Thanks RE: Lang Kit 7.1

Thanks to all those who replied on my query regarding Apple's Japanese
Language Kit 7.1 vs. Kanji Talk 7.1.  It appears that the primary
differences between the two, are that the JLK does not make all of the finder
menus and dialogs appear in Japanese, and the JLK has two less kanji TT
fonts.  The price difference is tremendous: $195 for the JLK from Mac
Warehouse to ~$800+ for Kanji Talk 7.1.  (KT7.1 does ship standard with every
mac sold in Japan, however.)

Thanks again to all who replied.  My choice has been to save the extra
$600 and forego the two extra fonts.

--Sunny Walker
[e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 93 16:12:48 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: The lowdown on RamDisks and Spinning disks

Thank you to all who responded to my question about RamDisks and spinning down
the harddisk! (especially Fearghas and Avram)

Opinions are many and varied regarding Ram Disks. CPU from Connectix was
recommended (and gets a fairly good review in the Mac press), whilst others
felt
that the memory control panel was sufficient.

If you have lots of Ram, then an unusual (in that I've never read about it
anywhere else) solution is to increase the size of your Disk-cache, so that
there is enough room for system and whatever application you want to use to
load
directly into memory. I haven't tried this out completely yet, as my Duo's
been
playing up, but my attempts thus far have been positive. NOTE HOWEVER that if,
like me, you only have 8Mb RAM, the maximum for the disk-cache is 2560k, which
ISN't enough to run more than the system from, so you will still need a
RamDisk
of some sort for applications.

SpinD FKEY works fine for me when running on battery.

cheers
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 19:44:10 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Lorne J Kingsley)
Subject: The Mac Report 9311 on sumex

Howdy:

The November, 1993, edition of The Mac Report - online version - is now
available on sumex.

It is located in the /info-mac/periodical directory.

Take a look and let me know what you think.

- Lorne

Lorne J. Kingsley
Editor, The Mac Report
[e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1993 01:28:47 GMT
From: [e-mail] (David K Dean)
Subject: TrueType GX (Q)

    Anyone heard any interesting info about TrueType GX? I saw an article
about this in a products catalog that a friend received with his 8 MB SIMM
purchase. I don't remember which mail order place it was, but I'll look up the
details if there's enough interest. In the mean time has anybody heard of this
before. The article I read said some neat things about TrueType GX and it's
typesetting capabilities, like unlimited character sets, ligatures that would
be put in automatically (of course this will require program support), etc.

    Please post or e-mail me any info you have. Thanks in advance.


                                  Dave

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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 93 19:39:58 EDT
From: [e-mail] (2d Lt Avram Dorfman)
Subject: typing tutors

Does anyone know of any shareware touch-typing tutors, and where to get them?
Please respond directly, and I'll post a summary.

-Avram Dorfman ([e-mail])

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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 09:20:53 CDT
From: "Tom Kirke [phone]" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Unethical Computers

> From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" <[e-mail]>
>
> The word from our West Virginia Attorney General is that it is
> "unethical" for faculty or staff to purchase computers directly
> From the Computer Store on campus at reduced prices.  Students,
> however, can still purchase at discounts.  This, of course, ends
> a very nice perk--and something that I feel benefited everyone.

I am a member of the Campus Computer Resellers Association and can
positively say that in Illinois and other states this is not
an issue.  Any student, faculty, staff can purchase a discounted
computer here and in every other state except WVa.

Tom Kirke, [e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 09:20:53 CDT
From: "Tom Kirke [phone]" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Unethical Computers

> From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" <[e-mail]>
>
> The word from our West Virginia Attorney General is that it is
> "unethical" for faculty or staff to purchase computers directly
> From the Computer Store on campus at reduced prices.  Students,
> however, can still purchase at discounts.  This, of course, ends
> a very nice perk--and something that I feel benefited everyone.

I am a member of the Campus Computer Resellers Association and can
positively say that in Illinois and other states this is not
an issue.  Any student, faculty, staff can purchase a discounted
computer here and in every other state except WVa.

Tom Kirke, [e-mail]

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Date: 27 Oct 1993 20:07:06 GMT
From: Jeff E Mandel <[e-mail]>
Subject: Using an HP Laserjet printer

Jeff Richards <[e-mail]> writes:
>
>I have access to an HP Laserjet II that has a Postscript cartridge.  Is
it
>possible to connect my Mac to this printer and expect it to produce nice
>output?  Can I install one of the Apple printers from the LW 8.0 diskette
>and hope for it to work?  If so, which laserprinter would be the best to
>install - probably the most basic one I guess, but I don't know Apple's
>laser product line - what's the most "plain jane" laser printer?

You can get the appropriate PPD file from a number of places; the horse's
mouth being ftp.adobe.com (/pub/adobe/PPDFiles).  The readme file notes:

PPD files for Hewlett-Packard printers that are not present here must be
obtained directly from Hewlett-Packard. Telephone: [phone]

I have used the HPIIP522.PPD file with my IIP printer with the Adobe
Postscript cartridge version 52.2; I don't know if it will work with the
II.

There is also a way to obtain these files by email to
"[e-mail]" for the ftp-impaired.

>
>Or is this silly and I should just continue printing on my Stylewriter
and
>xerox the results?

Don't you mean photocopy the result? :-)

Jeff E Mandel MD MS
Department of Anesthesia
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 93 22:40:38 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Using IBM Hard drives on a Mac ? ?

Netters,

First of all, I would like to thank everyone who responded to my last post
about getting more information about how my mac eats its memory.

I would like to hurl myself upon the knowledge and wisdom of ye info-macers.
I am wondering if I can connect an IBM hard drive to my mac. Are there SCSI
drives for Dos machines that will just plug and play? If I have a specific
dos drive in hand, how can I tell if it will connect. Do I need to find any
weird cables? Etc.

Thanks in advance,
Bailey
[e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1993 10:34:15 -36803936 (CDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: WYSIWYG Font Menus

Greetings all...

I was wondering if anyone knows of a good shareware or freeware WYSIWYG Font
Menu extension/control panel.  I've got tons'o'fonts, and I'd love to be able
to see what they look like without buying NOW Utilities or some such goodie.
BTW, I'm using almost all Type 1 fonts (except TrueType Chicago, Geneva, and
Monico), with SuperATM Version 3.5.1.  Compatibility with Word, PageMaker,
etc., is required, but I'm willing to put up with a program that will turn
itself off in incompatible apps.

Thanks for your help!

Neil E. Mickelson
[e-mail]

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