Date: Tue, 8 Feb 94 12:26:22 PST From: The Info-Mac Moderators Reply-To: Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Subject: Info-Mac Digest V12 #21 To: info-mac-list Info-Mac Digest Tue, 8 Feb 94 Volume 12 : Issue 21 Today's Topics: [*] /snd/loopback-grp7.hqx [*] /snd/loopback-grp8.hqx [*] 2nd Amendment After Dark module [*] Brainwave.cpt.hqx [*] code-programs.sit.hqx [*] ExAminer 1.1 [*] F/A-18 updater submittal [*] Fables & Demo submission , February 6, 1994 [*] FlightPrepDemo resubmission [*] frog-counting-eat20.hqx [*] frog-equation-eat21.hqx [*] frog-integer-eaters20.hqx [*] Info-Mac Archive Mirror Sites [*] mac-facts-ii-94-02-04.txt [*] MicroBridgeDemo.cpt.hqx (Corrected contact info) [*] midi-copyrights.hqx [*] NewMaxwell-c-src [*] Peeping Tom 1.4 [*] PowerLaunch Lite v1.6F [*] Screen Play 1.2.1 [*] SoftScreen Extension 1.0 [*] system.extensions - MacTCP Netswitch 1.0b2 [*] TeachersAide22.cpt.hqx [*] TidBITS#212/07-Feb-94 [*] Timer [*] word solution demo $MACARCH -- is it working? (Thanks) (Q) PD/SW Screen dump utility for System 7.1 (Q) Where do the Think C/C++ upgrades reside (R) Al Bloom - Unchained 2 Commercials on Quicktime format (Q) 840av install CD a bootable disk? apple/mac history Apple IIgs monitors Appletalk software ARA over CISCO Autodoubler (?) makes HD work overtime AV and PowerDesign Solution Bowling League Software? Changing TIFF files into PICT files, How? Color PC-ANSI Comm Tool DA/Font Manager Needed DeskPict vs BackSplash Duo 230-How much RAM on the Motherboard? Fixing bad sectors on floppy disks (2 msgs) For the Digest : Book Reporter's Guild info Fujitsu HD in PB180 problems GNU & other public-domain fonts Good TCP/IP Stack hard drive question Help: Trying to find publication... (A) (2 msgs) Help with downloading files Home Internet Connections (A) HYPERCARD Hypercard 2.1 (Q) Info re: Fetch Info re: Fetch (A) Interslip & Fetch (C) Looking for text processor...[R] Macintosh Easy Open Mac Plus Monitor Card Bitz (Q) MacPost Question MacTools 3.0 & Now Utilities 4.02: Conflict? MacX and the Meta key---a puzzle My solution to SOS APPL problems News Reader for the Mac Nuntius Obscure Q950 problem (Q) Other Japanese TrueType Fonts? posting question concerning MAC Powerbook 100 battery trouble PowerBook ADB (A) PowerOpen Problems Mailing to MACGIFTS@SUMEX_AIM Puny Floppy Drive Capacity Q: MacTCP+SLIP+Ethernet Quicktime Novice has a question (Q) RAMdoubler and First Class Client 2.0.9? RAMDoubler Prices and Performance Random Number Software Screen shots Sculley Resigns Sending mail to aol or compuserve serial or AppleTalk device on Ethernet (Q) Speech Macro editor failed Strange Finder problem on a Quadra Undocumented System functionality and you US Colleges internet directory? Wanted: Info on Claris CAD Libraries Weather gif site... The Info-Mac newsgroup is moderated by Bill Lipa, Gordon Watts and Liam Breck. The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous, any password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6]. Help files and indices are in /info-mac/help. Mail articles for inclusion in the digest to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu. Send binaries to be placed in the archives to macgifts@sumex-aim.stanford.edu. Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 04 Feb 1994 20:24:18 -0400 (EDT) From: M94DPEARSON@Gems.VCU.EDU Subject: [*] /snd/loopback-grp7.hqx Well, it's been just over a year since I last uploaded some loopbacks (sound loops) to sumex. Once again, these are sampled from Miramar's latest computer animation videotape called "Beyond The Mind's Eye." (I got "The Mind's Eye" last year for my birthday, and got its sequel this year). You can get the video at Radio Shack, and Blockbuster may have it. Anyway, these were sampled with my CEDAR digitizer and came out fairly well, I think. To those who wrote me asking for more loops, here you are. This one is called "Too Far." These loopbacks are nice to use in any multimedia animations or anything that can use an instrumental soundtrack in the background.... but they're also nice just to listen to, and they're long enough that they don't become irritatingly repetitive. Crisp, clean, 22 kHz, 8-bit mono, SoundEdit file (type FSSD). Enjoy!... DCP Internet:m94dpearson@ruby.vcu.edu [Archived as /info-mac/snd/loopback-grp7.hqx; 236K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 Feb 1994 20:27:01 -0400 (EDT) From: M94DPEARSON@Gems.VCU.EDU Subject: [*] /snd/loopback-grp8.hqx Well, it's been just over a year since I last uploaded some loopbacks (sound loops) to sumex. Once again, these are sampled from Miramar's latest computer animation videotape called "Beyond The Mind's Eye." (I got "The Mind's Eye" last year for my birthday, and got its sequel this year). You can get the video at Radio Shack, and Blockbuster may have it. Anyway, these were sampled with my CEDAR digitizer and came out fairly well, I think. To those who wrote me asking for more loops, here you are. This one is called "Seeds of Life." These loopbacks are nice to use in any multimedia animations or anything that can use an instrumental soundtrack in the background.... but they're also nice just to listen to, and they're long enough that they don't become irritatingly repetitive. Crisp, clean, 22 kHz, 8-bit mono, SoundEdit file (type FSSD). Enjoy!... DCP Internet:m94dpearson@ruby.vcu.edu [Archived as /info-mac/snd/loopback-grp8.hqx; 115K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 12:49:17 -0700 (MST) From: Eric H Seale Subject: [*] 2nd Amendment After Dark module An admittedly political screen-saver -- Life Clock is a thought- provoking After Dark module. It uses your screen to display some statistics on the uses (both good and bad) of guns, and some quotes from the US's founding fathers on their views of the right to keep and bear arms. [Archived as /info-mac/gui/ad/life-clock-ad.hqx; 47K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 Feb 1994 10:57:01 CST From: Tom Gooding Subject: [*] Brainwave.cpt.hqx Brainwave v1.05 by Tom Gooding (tgooding@iastate.edu) * This fixes some bugs and adds some features to the Set Keys window... Brainwave is Bolo cyborg that improves your Bolo abilities. Here's a list of its features. - Auto-Mapping - Radar - Auto Alignment - Stagger Mines - Clear Mines - Automatic and manual road, bridge, and boat building - Automatic tree gathering - Can restrict speed when Builder is outside of tank - Can display time till new builder lands. - Can transmit location to allies (upon request) - Can transmit current Brainwave version to all players - and More!!! Requirements Bolo 0.99.1+ 020 processor or better 32-bit Quickdraw (Will work in B&W, just not well) 64k available after Bolo is launched [Archived as /info-mac/game/bolo/brainwave-105.hqx; 41K] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Feb 1994 20:17:27 -0600 (CST) From: Russell Cotton Subject: [*] code-programs.sit.hqx Dear netters, Here is my first REAL mac program. The stuffit archive contains two programs, EnCodeIt and DeCodeIt. These programs encode and decode up to 512 characters of text, respectively. The files are stored in an internal format and are not readable by text proccessors. These programs are Freeware but I will accept any money, postcards, and/or e-mail. Thanks for listening (read: reading), Lance Cotton rcotton@tenet.edu [Archived as /info-mac/cmp/code-programs.hqx; 81K] ------------------------------ Date: 7 Feb 1994 09:53:26 -0800 From: "Mike Weasner" Subject: [*] ExAminer 1.1 Here is ExAminer, an application that is similar to the various extension manager type of programs, but being an application, has more features and a nicer interface. Version 1.1 adds a file information display and a file deletion capability. ExAminer supports Macintosh Plus and newer computers. ExAminer requires System 7.0 or later. ExAminer is compatible with multiple monitors and large screen monitors. ExAminer is a shareware program. If you like and use ExAminer, please send your name and mailing address to the author along with the $10.00 (U.S.) shareware fee. Registered users of ExAminer will receive support via online services, and future updates free or at reduced cost. In fairness to those who register, unregistered users will not receive any support. [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/examiner-11.hqx; 82K] ------------------------------ Date: 4 Feb 1994 13:24:07 -0200 From: "Eugene Poncelet" Subject: [*] F/A-18 updater submittal F/A-18 updater submittal This is the F/A-18 1.1.0 TO 1.1.1 updater downloaded from AOL and submitted for posting. Info from GSCs readme file posted on AOL follows but there is a different readme in the stuffed file. The 1.1.1 upgrade should be painless as long as you kept your 1.1.0 patcher and can make a VIRGIN upgrade from your original disks. If not, you'll have to wait and download the 1.0.x --> 1.1.1 patcher as soon as it's available. The patch file from 1.1.0 to 1.1.1 is fairly small at around 144K and is available now (er, as soon as it's released by AOL that is) There is a NEW database file that is OPTIONAL. At around 1MB stuffed, you may just want to pass. There are VERY few cosmetic changes. Mostly mission bug fixes. The new DB file will be available early next week for those of you who want it. [Archived as /info-mac/game/com/fa18-11-to-111-updt.hqx; 204K] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Feb 1994 20:22:25 -0500 From: Venanzio@hookup.net (Venanzio Jelenic) Subject: [*] Fables & Demo submission , February 6, 1994 It is a demo only insofar as number of users allowed is limited, otherwise it is a fully functional program with nothing else disabled. Because this is a multi-user program, this may make it seem 'crippled', yet one could use it at home, with a limited number of users, at 100%. Requires a Macintosh computer, Hypercard 2.x or Player, Printer (optional) and approximately 15 kids. This is a Group-A-Ware (tm) product. "Aesops Fables+Our Fables" a Group-A-Ware product by V. Jelenic A simple presentation of over 300 of Aesop's Fables, as extracted from the Gutenburg Project's E-text version. Laid out in a database form in Hypercard. (requires Hypercard 2.x or Player). Includes "Life of Aesop" and "Preface to the Fables". Additional multi-user database where the users can write their own fables. Ideal for a classroom, library, or any location which sees a large number of users-browsers. It can easily be integrated into any unit you are doing on fables, short-story writing, or simple paragraph formation practice, and is non-intrusive into the daily schedule. [Archived as /info-mac/app/aesops-fables-10-hc-demo.hqx; 444K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Feb 1994 01:07:10 -0800 From: jberman@hmc.edu (Joshua Berman) Subject: [*] FlightPrepDemo resubmission This is a demo of a Hypercard stack that will allow a pilot to plan a flight by entering the departure and destination points, waypoints, alititude, winds aloft, etc... The stack then acts as an electronic E6B (an aviation "slide rule") and calculates the correct course, etc... The stack is written by Eric Griffiths, at the University of Wales College of Cardiff. The full version is in the documentation stage and should be released ???? Eric's email address is : eric@cm.cf.ac.uk Enjoy! Josh B. jberman@hmc.edu [Archived as /info-mac/app/flight-prep-demo-hc.hqx; 17K] ------------------------------ Date: 5 Feb 94 04:00:00 PST From: "CHRIS MYERRS" Subject: [*] frog-counting-eat20.hqx VERSION 2.0 AND HIGHER AVAILABLE AS OF Feb 94 - complete overhaul of previous versions One of the Hungry Frog educational same series, Hungry Frog Counting Eaters is a full color (or B&W) real-time animated multimedia game with 3D-rendered graphics. Counting Eaters teaches basic counting skills to children, and should be played before Inte er Eaters. Like the other games, the game uses feedback loops to focus instruction on areas of difficulty, so that the user is not forever presented with known problems. All aspects of the game are fully adjustable by the user. System 7.0.1* or higher, any Macintosh, 32 bit compatible. [Archived as /info-mac/game/hungry-frog-counting-eaters-20.hqx; 593K] ------------------------------ Date: 5 Feb 94 03:58:00 PST From: "CHRIS MYERRS" Subject: [*] frog-equation-eat21.hqx VERSION 2.0 AND HIGHER AVAILABLE AS OF Feb 94 - complete overhaul of previous versions One of the Hungry Frog educational same series, Hungry Frog Equation Eaters is a full color (or B&W) real-time animated multimedia game with 3D-rendered graphics. Equation eaters is a game for learning math skills ranging from simple addition of small wh le numbers to advanced equations involving addition/subtraction and multiplication/division as well as absolute value. Like the other games, the game uses feedback loops to focus instruction on areas of difficulty, so that the user is not forever presen ed with known problems. All aspects of the game are fully adjustable by the user. System 7.0.1* or higher, any Macintosh, 32 bit compatible. [Archived as /info-mac/game/hungry-frog-equation-eaters-21.hqx; 940K] ------------------------------ Date: 5 Feb 94 07:06:00 PST From: "CHRIS MYERRS" Subject: [*] frog-integer-eaters20.hqx VERSION 2.0 AND HIGHER AVAILABLE AS OF Feb 94 - complete overhaul of previous versions One of the Hungry Frog educational same series, Hungry Frog Integer Eaters is a full color (or B&W) real-time animated multimedia game with 3D-rendered graphics. Integer Eaters is designed to be played after Counting Eaters. Integer Eaters teaches the s quence of integers on the number line, counting up or counting down with whole numbers or integers. Like the other games, the game uses feedback loops to focus instruction on areas of difficulty, so that the user is not forever presented with known pro le ms. All aspects of the game are fully adjustable by the user. System 7.0.1* or higher, any Macintosh, 32 bit compatible. [Archived as /info-mac/game/hungry-frog-integer-eaters-20.hqx; 942K] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Feb 94 16:35:00 -0500 From: breck@kirk.ecs.umass.edu (Liam Breck) Subject: [*] Info-Mac Archive Mirror Sites Finally, here are the results of my 4 month search for our mirror sites. Thanks to the Info-Mac user community for being so patient! This info will live at the archive in info-mac/help/mirror-list.txt. We ask that you use our mirrors INSTEAD OF our server, because the load there now makes it difficult for us to manage the archive! We cannot vouch for the quality of any mirror sites that are not listed here, since they are not in touch with us. If you know of a mirror site not listed here, please inform us by email to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu. Each entry in the list below contains: internet address internet number archive directory #/# contents access methods organization, city, [state,] country [notes about the site] internet number Try using this number if the internet address doesn't work #/# The number of updates made to the mirror per number of days. (ie: 1/1 is once a day, 1/14 is once every two weeks.) contents ALL -- the site carries all directories in the archive RECENT -- the site only carries files added within the past year or so. VERY-RECENT -- the site only carries files added within the past few months. ... Public Mirror Sites ....................................................... archie.au 139.130.4.6 micros/mac/info-mac 1/1 ALL ftp gopher AARNet, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia ftp.univie.ac.at 131.130.1.4 mac/info-mac 1/1 ALL ftp gopher Vienna University, Vienna, Austria ftp.ucs.ubc.ca ? pub/mac/info-mac ? ? ftp University of British Columbia, BC, Canada ftp.funet.fi 128.214.248.6 pub/mac/info-mac 1/1 VERY-RECENT ALL ftp gopher Finnish Academic and Research Network FUNET, Espoo, Finland ftp.jyu.fi 130.234.0.1 info-mac 2/1 RECENT ALL ftp Jyvaskyla University, Jyvaskyla, Finland all binhex converted to macbinary ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de 130.14.17.7 pub/mac/info-mac 1/1 RECENT ALL ftp gopher email Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany email service: mail-server@cs.tu-berlin.de ftp.rrzn.uni-hannover.de 130.75.2.2 pub/info-mac 3/7 RECENT ALL ftp University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany ftp.uni-kl.de 131.246.9.95 /pub/info-mac 1/1 VERY-RECENT app cfg cmp comm dev disk gui nwt prn sci text vir ftp gopher University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany gopher available via pizza.unix-ag.uni-kl.de ftp.uni-stuttgart.de 129.69.8.13 pub/systems/mac/info-mac 1/7 vir card gui comm sci cmp prn cfg text nwt ftp Rechenzentrum Universitaet Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany ftp.technion.ac.il 132.68.1.10 pub/unsupported/mac/info-mac 2/1 ALL ftp gopher Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel also GopherMail access ftp.center.osaka-u.ac.jp 133.1.4.10 info-mac 1/1 ALL ftp Osaka University, Osaka, Japan updating from U of Tokyo ftp.iij.ad.jp 192.244.176.50 pub/info-mac 1/1 ALL ftp email Internet Initiative Japan Inc., Tokyo, Japan email service: ? ftp.u-tokyo.ac.jp 130.69.254.254 pub/info-mac 1/1 ALL ftp University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan ftp.fenk.wau.nl 137.224.129.4 pub/mac/info-mac 2/1 RECENT ALL ftp gopher Wageningen Agricultural University, Wageningen, Netherlands ftp.lth.se 130.235.20.3 mac/info-mac 1/1 ALL ftp Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden 4 users allowed during work hours (8-5 GMT), 8 other times nic.switch.ch 130.59.1.40 mirror/info-mac 1/1 ALL ftp gopher SWITCH, Zurich, Switzerland imftp.mgt.ncu.edu.tw 140.115.83.90 /pub/mac/info-mac 6/7 ALL ftp National Central University, ChungLi, Taiwan ftp.edu.tw 140.111.1.10 Macintosh/info-mac 1/1 ALL ftp fsp afs National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan src.doc.ic.ac.uk 146.169.2.10 packages/info-mac 1/1 ALL ftp email gopher web fsp ftam telnet Imperial College, London, UK email service: wizards@doc.ic.ac.uk amug.org 165.247.10.2 pub/ftp1/info-mac 1/1 ALL ftp email Arizona Macintosh Users Group, Phoenix, Arizona, USA email service: not running yet ftp.hawaii.edu 128.171.44.70 mirrors/info-mac 1/1 ALL ftp University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA grind.isca.uiowa.edu 128.255.21.233 mac/infomac 1/1 ALL ftp gopher telnet University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA macbinary; telnet access for kermit and zmodem download with search functions wuarchive.wustl.edu 128.252.135.4 systems/mac/info-mac 1/1 ALL ftp gopher fsp Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA ricevm1.rice.edu 128.42.30.2 [NA] 1/1 RECENT ALL email, Bitnet message/file Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA email LISTSERV@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU with "$MACARCH HELP" in body for help info ... Private Mirror Sites ...................................................... (These mirrors are only accessible from within their organizations) DREA, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada LAAS - CNRS, Toulouse, France Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel accessible only via the Israeli Appletalk WAN Sony Corporation, Tokyo, Japan University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA will become public soon Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA accessible locally by ftp, gopher & appletalk; contact a CSR for information ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 94 12:48:14 EST From: "J. D. S. (Sterling) Babcock" Subject: [*] mac-facts-ii-94-02-04.txt Dear Readers: Enclosed please find my collection of lists of Apple Macintosh Models. Model List I is my regular list which provides as much information on the configuration of each model that can fit on one line. Model List II is additional information. It contains minimum and maximum system versions, dates of manufacture, suggested retail prices and model of case. Model List III is from Kevin D. Connery. It contains Speedometer 3.11 speed ratings for each model as well as upgraded machines. Please email to jdsb@ee.egr.duke.edu any corrections to Model List I or II. Please email to keradwc@rahul.net any corrections to Model List III. Sterling [Archived as /info-mac/info/hdwr/mac-facts-ii-94-02-04.txt; 47K] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Feb 1994 11:45:43 -0800 From: fowell@netcom.com (Richard A. Fowell) Subject: [*] MicroBridgeDemo.cpt.hqx (Corrected contact info) The contact info in the current archive is wrong. (phone # has transposed digits), to the annoyance of the person whose phone number it _really_ is. This version also has a summary/pointer to a review of Mac bridge programs in the Spring 1994 BMUG Newsletter. Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com) [Archived as /info-mac/game/com/micro-bridge-companion-demo.hqx; 308K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Feb 1994 23:08:07 -0800 From: higgs@netcom.com (Simon Higgs) Subject: [*] midi-copyrights.hqx The following file entitled "MIDI_Copyrights.sea.hqx" contains a multi-media presentation (Made in MacroMedia Director) of an article I wrote for Keyboard magazine in the June 1993 issue. The article was called "MIDI File distribution and computer bulletin boards". 1993, 1994 Simon Higgs [Archived as /info-mac/info/midi-copyrights.hqx; 525K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 1994 18:57:18 -0800 (PST) From: kenlong@netcom.com (Ken Long) Subject: [*] NewMaxwell-c-src Gift Givers! This is source for Think C 5.0.4 which combines some routines found in the original PD source for Maxwell-DA and a microShell made from the TC demo "Bullseye." All I did was get this to run in the shell. More work needs to be done one it, but it stands as a demo for doing B/W sprite animation without resources. It puts up a window with a framed Rect. There are little happy faces bopping around randomly, boncing off walls and each other. Ther are some black dots doing the same. A bar down the Rect. center has a gate that opens on mouseDown and closes on mouseUp. The idea is to open and close it at the right time so that all the "balls" wind up on one side of the bar. -Ken- [Archived as /info-mac/dev/src/maxwell-c.hqx; 36K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Feb 1994 13:53:31 -0800 From: olmsted@cs.ucdavis.edu Subject: [*] Peeping Tom 1.4 Peeping Tom v1.4 2/94 Copyright )1993-1994, Bret Olmsted All Rights Reserved. Peeping Tom is a shareware init/background application that keeps track of the current applications and desk accessories that are open. When processes are quit, Peeping Tom writes the information that it has on the dead process to a text file in the System Folder. The log file shows information on when each process was started and the total time it ran. Peeping Tom also shows the average CPU usage of the process. The percentage represents how much the process used of the CPU while the process was running. Peeping Tom also has the option to peep at the keyboard and record all keypress to a file. At the request of many users, Peeping Tom can now disable the printing of the processes for registered users. This will then only show the startup and shutdown time of the computer. [Archived as /info-mac/app/peeping-tom-14.hqx; 19K] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Feb 1994 11:56:36 -0700 (MST) From: ROBY SHERMAN Subject: [*] PowerLaunch Lite v1.6F What is PowerLaunch Lite? PowerLaunch Lite is a Macintosh desktop launching agent (DLA) that allows users to store applications, documents, control panels, desk accessories, sounds, and any other "double-clickable" file on a series of icon palettes for quick and easy access. Files launched from within PowerLaunch Lite can be configured to temporarily modify the Macintosh's sound and video settings or even hide other open windows, as the file is launched. This is much faster for the user than having to select each control panel, modify these settings, launch the file, and reset the settings upon program termination. PowerLaunch Lite also features group launching and auto-launching capabilities. Group Launching allows "groups" of files to be launched together. Auto-Launching allows files or "groups" of file to be launched at pre-determined times for purposes such as timed backups, etc. PowerLaunch Lite's highly-flexible user interface allows the user to layout their icon palette any number of ways and display "Power Tools" only when needed. [Archived as /info-mac/gui/power-launch-lite-16f.hqx; 471K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Feb 94 09:52:06 PST From: Kevin Fong Subject: [*] Screen Play 1.2.1 Enclosed is bug fix version 1.2.1 of Screen Play, an extension that randomly selects a startup screen to be displayed on your Mac. This version fixes a bug that occasionally caused Macs to freeze during the startup process. It replaces the file "screenplay1.2.cpt.hqx". Documentation is included. Kevin Fong Santa Monica, CA Kevin_Fong@rand.org [Archived as /info-mac/gui/screen-play-121.hqx; 10K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Feb 94 16:52:29 PST From: robd@farallon.com (Rob Dewhirst) Subject: [*] SoftScreen Extension 1.0 This SoftScreen Extension fixes a problem when using Timbuktu Pro 1.0 to control a Macintosh which does not have a monitor attached (a "headless server"). You do NOT need this extension if the Timbuktu Pro host has a monitor. In addition, you do NOT need this extension if the headless server is a Quadra 700, Quadra 900, or Quadra 950. If you are using Timbuktu Pro on a Macintosh not in this list which does not have a monitor attached, you should download and decompress the SoftScreen Extension using Compact Pro and follow the instructions in the Read Me file. Questions about this extension may be directed to techsports@farallon.com. [Archived as /info-mac/comm/timbuktu-soft-screen-extension-10.hqx; 5K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 1994 22:11:18 -0500 (EST) From: dwalton1@darwin.cc.nd.edu (david walton) Subject: [*] system.extensions - MacTCP Netswitch 1.0b2 MacTCP Netswitch 1.0b2 MacTCP Netswitch is an extension that will swap in a MacTCP Prep file >From a group of pre-configured prep files. This eliminates the hassle of swapping in different versions of the prep file when you move your Macintosh from location to location on (or off) a network. The extensions decides which file to load by determining whether an AppleTalk network is available; if there isn't one, it loads in a default file for dial-up connections; if there is, it loads in either a) a default network configuration file, or b) a file matched to the AppleTalk zone you are in. This software is designed chiefly for PowerBook users, but it is potentially useful for anyone who needs to move a Macintosh around to different locations on a network. It's a little like some other utilities that have appeared recently (such as John Norstad's). A couple of its advantages: it doesn't require the user to reboot after choosing a configuration file (the correct file is chosen automatically at startup); and it will allow you to use aliases to a file server, making it possible to store a single set of centrally-maintained prep files for all users attached to a network. (This won't work for dial-up connections, of course). This software is free and may be freely distributed subject to the distribution restrictions discussed in the accompanying "MacTCP Netswitch Guide." It is not in the Public Domain. David Walton David.Walton.10@nd.edu [Archived as /info-mac/comm/net/mactcp-netswitch-10b2.hqx; 55K] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Feb 1994 21:13:24 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Richard Koopmans Subject: [*] TeachersAide22.cpt.hqx Teacher's Aide is a complete gradebook program for the Macintosh. It will manage the grades of any size or level of class you have. Teacher's Aide is flexible enough to handle dropped grades, grade exemptions, extra credit, and weighting by type of assignment or weight given to a single assignment. It has been used by teachers across the country for four years and has been tuned to their gradebook needs. This is free software. Give it to anybody and everybody, just don't change anything in the program. That's my job--send me mail if you have comments or suggestions. Version 2.2 fixes a problem with saving files. It replaces version 2.1 of the program. Enjoy the program, and I hope it makes grades less of a hassle for you. Ryan Koopmans koops@owlnet.rice.edu [Archived as /info-mac/app/teachers-aide-22.hqx; 115K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Feb 94 21:01:58 PDT From: ace@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst) Subject: [*] TidBITS#212/07-Feb-94 TidBITS#212/07-Feb-94 With this issue we wrap up our look at interesting products from the Macworld Expo in San Francisco. Mark Anbinder passes on news of price reductions and rebates from Apple, Pythaeus provides the latest Duo market share news, and we look in depth at the concepts behind Apple's eWorld and other online services. Finally, the real way Apple could change the world with the Macintosh. Topics: MailBITS/07-Feb-94 Duos Rule Quadras Make Way For New Machines More Products from Macworld An Electronic World The Apple and the Internet Reviews/07-Feb-94 [Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-212.etx; 29K] -- Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor -- ace@tidbits.com -- info@tidbits.com Author of The Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh -- tisk@tidbits.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Feb 94 14:18:29 +0100 From: a605a003%diamond.sara.nl@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU (Bas Meijer) Subject: [*] Timer Hi All, I posted Timer as a stuffed binhex file. It's a small alarm clock which shows the time in a window. It has various display and timer options. You should have a "Preferences" folder in your System Folder so the options can be stored for future sessions. Reply to: a605a003@diamond.sara.nl Bas Meijer [Archived as /info-mac/app/timer.hqx; 23K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 05 Feb 1994 14:10:51 -0500 (EST) From: Yuji Nakazato Subject: [*] word solution demo I have just sent you a binhexed self-extracting copy of the demo of Word Solution Engine. It is a fully-functional double-byte capable (i.e., can handle Japaense, Chinese, or Korean) word processor. It is a "demo" of the programming tool marketed by DataPak, but the demo word processor itself is not "crippled" in any way. It is especially handly for double-byte language like Japanese. Major features of the word processor: * it can handle files larger than 32KB ! * it supports in-line input ! * it is free !!! I got this copy directly from DakaPak. If you are interestd in their programming tools, get in touch with them directly. I do not work for Dataka. Yuji Nakazato Chinese/Japanese Dept Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057 [Archived as /info-mac/app/word-solution-engine-22-demo.hqx; 279K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Feb 94 14:59:45 -0500 From: clu@po.cwru.edu (Christopher L. Ursich) Subject: $MACARCH -- is it working? (Thanks) Thanks to all who responded to my question about whether or not the Listserver at Rice Univ. was working. The problem was that I was ordering the files as soon as I received the Info-Mac digest, and they had not yet actually appeared in the archives. When I tried again later, the files came across normally. Thanks especially to: Bill Rausch , "Allan M. Bloom" , wolf@BBN.COM (Jerry Wolf), takemoto@xtal0.harvard.edu (Darin Takemoto) psheldon@utdallas.edu (Paul M Sheldon) Chris Ursich clu@po.cwru.edu "Too bad you have to buy your Macintosh from Apple Computer." ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 12:03:35 -0600 From: courcoul@itesmcq1.qro.itesm.mx (Juan M. Courcoul) Subject: (Q) PD/SW Screen dump utility for System 7.1 I need to prepare a pair of application manuals on my Mac and would like to include snapshots of menus and windows. Is there some utility out there that can accomplish this ? I need it to: * Be able to dump menu and submenu images. * Be able to dump the menu bar. * Be able to dump any window or stacked windows. Color rendering is not needed; I'll be using only black & white. Naturally, it would be nice for the image to be in PICT format, so it could be scaled properly, if needed. PD or shareware is the only way to go, for I cannot justify purchasing this type of utility with my boss. TIA for any leads. Juan P.S. I tried Andrew Welch's Black Box, but it refuses to run on my PB 180. ------------------------------ Date: 06 Feb 1994 15:18:07 +0100 (MET) From: EICKHOFF@dornier.de Subject: (Q) Where do the Think C/C++ upgrades reside Hello, recently I saw that upgrades of the Think compilers from version 6.0 to 6.0.1 were posted to the file server, which contain quite a lot of bug fixes. Now I need them but have not yet full ftp access. Can anyone please mail to me the complete names of the hqx files for the Think C 6.0 upgrade, the THink C++ 6.0 upgrade and as far as I remember there was a third hqx file mentioned, supposingly for the Classes TCL or the Libraries. Thanks Jens Eickhoff (eickhoff@dornier.de) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Feb 94 11:57:22 EST From: bmunday@tecnet1.jcte.jcs.mil Subject: (R) Al Bloom - Unchained Kudos to Paul Baim for his submission regarding the latest Bloomism. I'm afraid I missed the original Al Bloom message in question, but I've before been the subject of a BloomFlame (and undeserved at that). Hey, folks, Paul said it well. The Net is no place to abuse people. Gentle corrections, maybe. Suggestions, sure. But to paraphrase a common saying, write once, review twice. Let's keep things friendly here; there's loads of good info available on Info-Mac, and I'd hate to turn anyone off permanently. I made that mistake early in my email career, and learned the hard way that words written are not easily undone. Brandon Munday ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Feb 1994 02:50 EST From: Don't Panic! Subject: 2 Commercials on Quicktime format (Q) Dear Netters, Are the following two commercials available via FTP or Gopher on quicktime format? 1. The 1984 introduction of the Macintosh. 2. The Magnavox add with the man sitting in his chair being blown away by his tv. If I remember correctly, it was accompanied by Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries. If you know the size of these files (with or without sound) please e-mail that info too. In addition where may these files be found via Gopher or FTP? Thank you. Sincerely, ABRODY@VAX.CLARKU.EDU ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 02:59:59 -0800 From: dblack@cisco.com Subject: 840av install CD Greetings; I'm about to drop alot of hard earned dollars for a 840av 32MB/1.2G/CD. I've opted for a NEC multispin instead of the stock CD player. Speed is the issue. CompUSA is telling me since I 'm not getting the stock Apple CD player, I won't /can't/will never get the CD. They say even if you offer Apple $$$ they won't even sell you the CD. SO... Q1. Is this true?, how can I get the 840av Apple CD. Q2. How close do the diskettes that come with a 840av resemble the CD??. I know you lose at least the developers QT when you get diskettes. What else is missing. Q3. Has anyone overcome this obstacle??. Tanx |8-) Dennis Black Dennis Lee Black dblack@cisco.com cisco Systems Inc., 33 Wood Avenue, Iselin, NJ 08830 AMA,ECEA, CJCR, Husq 36WXE, Enduros, Hare Scrambles "When people stop complaining, they stop thinking".....Napoleon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Feb 94 16:10:41 GMT From: Marion GUNN Subject: a bootable disk? My Mac SE/30 (8MB RAM, 40MB disk space) which was working happily earlier today, will not boot. Tried Norton, which declared it to be a bootable disk, but it still wouldn't start. Error msg, when booting from another disk--"Not enough Finder memory to work with disk Coyote (that's the name of my machine)". Norton Utilities reported "A problem has been found. These file could not be read and are probably damaged... [long list] ... and 191 more." The machine was serviced only a couple of weeks ago, and I did several hours of work on it earlier today, with no sign of trouble. Only thing I can think of is that I did try to install some beta utilities (a set of WorldScript keyboards) several times over, but Coyote refused to accept the installation. Could that have caused system corruption? I am running system 7.0.1. When I try to re-install the system sw from original disks, I get error message 2231. As I really need my machine, help would be much appreciated. It might help if someone could explain what the error message "not enough Finder memory" actually means. Marion Gunn MGUNN@IRLEARN.UCD.IE ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Feb 1994 11:00:32 -0600 (CST) From: TOMAS@VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU Subject: apple/mac history Path: vax1.mankato.msus.edu!tomas From: tomas@vax1.mankato.msus.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest Subject: apple/mac history Message-ID: <1994Feb8.105901.491@vax1.mankato.msus.edu> Date: 8 Feb 94 10:59:00 -0500 Summary: apple mac beginnings???? Keywords: history beginings???? Distribution: world Organization: Mankato State University News-Moderator: Approval required for posting to comp.sys.mac.digest Lines: 4 Im looking for info on the early days of apple macintosh. Im researching the history of apple macintosh for the slave driver(comp inst). any interesting info please Tomas Grim, snowed in in Mankato. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 00:39:05 -0500 From: mxh160@psu.edu (Matt X. Herbison) Subject: Apple IIgs monitors Hi there. Recently, someone donated an Apple IIgs to the day-care facility on campus. Only problem is that it didn't come with a monitor or monitor cable. Can anyone tell me if the IIgs monitor is unique to the CPU, or could any Apple II monitor do the job. Also, can anyone tell me anything about monitor cable requirements. If anyone has any pertinent information, please send it, it will really help the kids and their supervisors. <---The heart-wrenching plee 8) Thanks. -Matt X. Herbison -Penn State University -mxh160@psu.edu -Apple Student Representative ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Feb 94 12:54:31 EST From: AMOSER@ccvm.sunysb.edu Subject: Appletalk software I am looking for some software to do the following: I would like to be able to have users at out Macintosh lab sign in at a termina l, and then log on at their machine. The idea is that, when there are many user , the machine could determine which machines are in use, and display on an LED scren which macs are available, or who is next in line. So, obviously, I need it to be able to output to an LED screen. (Like you see a t basketball games.) Can anyone suggest software (commercial or shareware) that can do one or all of these things? Also, does anyone know a source for LED screens? TIA, Adriane Moser amoser@ccvm.sunysb.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 09:32:39 -0600 (CST) From: emancera@sunmex.mty.itesm.mx (Ing. Erick Mancera) Subject: ARA over CISCO HI, I've heard that the version 9.1 of the Comunication Server of CISCO routers can use ARAP (AppleTalk Remote Access Protocol) over a serial line. Does anybody have information about it? Is it easy to configurate? I'll appreciate any comment. Erick Mancera emancera@sunmex.mty.itesm.mx ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 19:02:52 +0200 From: michaels@techunix.technion.ac.il (Dr. Michael S. Silverstein) Subject: Autodoubler (?) makes HD work overtime I am running AutoDoubler 2.01 on a MacIIci 8/80, system 7.1 . Autodoubler is configured to work after 20 minutes idle and to compress everything except certain excluded applications (the time it took to launch frequently used compressed applications was driving me nuts). The HD has about 10MB free. Lately the HD has taken to working overtime. The problem does not necessarily occur when opening or saving documents or using the finder...these activities usually take a few seconds. The problem is that the HD is working for 30-60s (or sometimes more) when there is no reason. For instance, while I am looking at a document, not inputing, not saving, not autosaving, not doing anything...but only one or two minutes since my last keystroke. The disk-read light starts blinking and I cannot input from the keyboard or the mouse until it stops. I estimate this as 30-60s in real time but the annoyance factor involved is high. I stopped AutoDoubler from loading and everything went back to normal...no sudden halts for the computer to try and find the meaning of life from the HD. What I can't figure out is why AutoDoubler should be working at all if the 20 minutes did not pass. Is this a conflict with the system? Could there be conflicts with other programs/utilities/extentions that could cause this? Do I need a further update of AutoDoubler? Thanks for any and all insights... Michael Silverstein Materials Engineering Technion ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Feb 1994 10:54:11 -0400 From: mleblanc@HUSKY1.STMARYS.CA (Michael LeBlanc) Subject: AV and PowerDesign Solution Thanks to everyone who responded to my question about the 'non-linearity' of output of the AV/PowerDesign Speaker combo. The problem is with the PowerDesign Speakers. As several respondents have pointed out, you should set your Sound Level in the Sound Control Panel to the maximum. You can then adjust the sound output from the Powered Speakers. Apparently, Apple built the speaker amps to squelch off at low input levels (to decrease noise and possibly power). Michael LeBlanc, mleblanc@husky1.stmarys.ca Nova Scotia College of Art and Design 5163 Duke Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3J 3J6 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Feb 94 13:30:38 CET From: cc@cs-po.avi.af.mil (cc) Subject: Bowling League Software? Would appreciate tips, pointers, etc to good Mac software for managing a small (20-team) bowling league. PD or shareware are better, will go commercial if necessary. Nothing found on Sumex. Any recommendations or tips would be appreciated. Reply direct to "cc@cslan.avi.af.mil" to avoid cluttering the list. Pete Jones ------------------------------ Date: 08 Feb 1994 19:04:42 +0000 (GMT) From: "F.J. Lalor" Subject: Changing TIFF files into PICT files, How? Subject says it all. Can someone tell me how to do this? Thanks in advance - Fergus Lalor, Chemistry Dept., University College, Cork, Ireland. STCH8002@IRUCCVAX.UCC.IE ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Feb 94 07:13 EST From: Joseph Block <0006316815@mcimail.com> Subject: Color PC-ANSI Comm Tool Is there a Communications Toolbox tool that will do PC-ANSI in color? Please reply by email and I will summarize to the list if there is adequate interest. Thanks, Joe Block Subtlety is the art of saying what you think and getting out of the way before it is understood. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Feb 1994 19:18:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Pete Boulay Subject: DA/Font Manager Needed To any of you gurus out there... I need to find a DA/Font Manager to put on my MAC SE/30 running System 6.05- soon to be 6.08. I downloaded one from a site earlier this year and it was a bad copy... Any ideas??? A novice MAC addict... Pete Boulay pjb4288@ritvax.isc.rit.edu pjb4288@ultb.isc.rit.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Feb 94 12:44:27 EST From: "David Virga" Subject: DeskPict vs BackSplash Al Bloom wrote in IM Digest v12-019, Subject DeskPict replacement (A): >DeskPict has gone commercial.... Does this mean that I'm no longer allowed to use the older FreeWare version? I'll take a stab at answering my own question: No, just don't expect any upgrades. Sooner or later, you're going to upgrade something in your system and DeskPict will stop working. >For a freeware equivalent to DeskPict that is marvelously stable under >System 7 and the new machines, nothing beats the "ZMac Exclusive" (It >may not be posted, but it may be shared) BackSplash. IMHO. Yes, but... BackSplash only displays the selected picture at its original size. I still prefer DeskPict because it will resize an image to fit the screen. I have a 1024x768 monitor, and most images are still 640x480 or 800x600, so that feature is important to me. I run in 32bit mode, Sys 7.0.1 Tuned 1.1.1 on a Quadra 700, with File Sharing but not VM, with no problem. VM is reportedly the one incompatibility that !DeskPict has, and I can live comfortably without it. When I upgrade my system and become incompatible with DeskPict, I'll look for something else. Maybe by then, BackSplash will support auto resizing (hint, hint!). Dave Virga, Defense Information Systems Agency virgad@cc.ims.disa.mil *** MY opinions!! Don't try to say, "The Government said, '...'" *** ------------------------------ Date: 5 Feb 1994 16:58:10 -0500 From: smhennin@news.delphi.com (SMHENNING@DELPHI.COM) Subject: Duo 230-How much RAM on the Motherboard? Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu writes: >Could someone refresh my memory and tell me how much RAM comes on >the Duo 230's motherboard? Is it 4MB? In other words, if I get a >4MB 230 and I add RAM later, I won't be removing any RAM? Pete Tamas Yes, yes and yes. The 4 Meg stays on the motherboard and the added RAM is plugged in. Cheers, Steve Henning in Reading, PA ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Feb 94 20:26:21 EST From: Pete Tamas Subject: Fixing bad sectors on floppy disks Sector Collector is part of 911 Utilities which is part of SuperSet Utilities ($90 at MacWharehouse). I still use the Sector Collector I bought about 5 years ago so I don't know how the latest version works. Norton Optimizer is part of Norton Utilities. MacTools and Public Utilities also fix bad sectors. (Actually, it puts an invisible file on the bad sector so it won't be used). Note that Norton Utilities will say a a disk is fine even if it has bad sectors.-Pete Tamas Gnome@VM.Temple.edu or TempleVM.bitnet On Fri, 4 Feb 1994 12:12:13 -0500 (EST) you said: > >Would you be able to point me to a site at which I could acquire Sector >Collector or Norton Optimizer (or possibly both)? If this is not >possible, would you be able to send me a copy of said programs? > ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Feb 1994 20:43:12 -0500 From: gk1@acpub.duke.edu (Gavin Kistner) Subject: Fixing bad sectors on floppy disks At 8:26 PM 2/6/94 -0500, Pete Tamas wrote: >Norton Optimizer is part of Norton Utilities. and also >Note that Norton Utilities will say a a disk is fine even if it has >bad sectors.-Pete Tamas I'd just like to kind of defend the honor of Symantec here... First, "Norton Utilities" is a name for a collection of items, including Norton Disk Doctor, Unerase, VolumeRecover, Backup, SpeedDisk, etc. Disk Doctor will say a disk is fine if it has bad sectors which aren't so bad off that it can't read the vital information when it tests it...it does NOT test for bad sectors. Unless they've changed the names in versions, "Norton Optimizer" is SpeedDisk, which has an option to check for bad sectors, and to tell the system there are files there if it finds bad sectors. - Gavin Steamboatcaptainman put my .sig in a .sigcompactor. gk1@acpub.duke.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 17:28:00 -0500 From: venanzio.jelenic@canrem.com (Venanzio Jelenic) Subject: For the Digest : Book Reporter's Guild info +Book Reporter+s Guild+ a Group-A-Ware (tm) product by V. Jelenic Requires a Macintosh computer, Hypercard 2.x or Player, Printer(optional) and approximately 15 kids. (Use with less people is possible, but does not utilize the full capabilities of the program) Have your students write their own book reports and leave them on the computer for others to read and use to guide their reading choices. Laid out in a database form in Hypercard. Modeled after a multi-user database where the users can write their own Book Reports. Ideal for a classroom, library, or any location which sees a large number of users-browsers. Some instructions for educational use included in docs. Very good for using over extended periods of time with multiple writers, as almost 600 reports may be saved to a single 800 K floppy disk. Teachers, Educators; this one is worth trying. A low-cost solution to using computers in a classroom creatively. One of the few models which allows for collaborative long-term work with computers in the classroom, yet requires little hardware or training. A simple and elegant solution for creating *Public* knowledge-bases. Demo version 1.0. Allows for 3 users, and 3 Reports per category (for a total of over 30 possible Reports). The complete version allows for unlimited number of users, and unlimited Reports. Demo version is now available as bookreportersguild.sit.hqx . (be sure to read the docMaker file for instructions for log-in procedure.) Projected cost: $ 110 U.S. per school-site!, unlimited copies, unlimited users. $ 40 U.S. Single copy, unlimited users. (School Board Licencing details are available upon request.) Please direct email inquiries to: Venanzio@hookup.net Venanzio.Jelenic@Canrem.com Venanzio.Jelenic@f15.n229.z1.fidonet.org or/ Venanzio Jelenic Simulnet/BK_Reporter 20 Chalmers St. North Cambridge, Ontario,CANADA N1R 5B7 (519)623-4050 "Macintosh", "Hypercard" are trademarks of Apple Computer Corp. "Group-A-Ware", "Simulnet", and +Book Reporter+s Guild+ are trademarks of V. Jelenic ------------------------------ Date: 06 Feb 94 16:24:57 EST From: Hans Kroeger <100136.3052@CompuServe.COM> Subject: Fujitsu HD in PB180 problems I bought a 230 MB Fujitsu HD for my PB180. The following problem revealed: When I wake up the PB180 from sleep mode I get all kinds of errors and crashes. I tried a number of different formatting tools but the problem does not go away. I reloaded the System Software, zapped the PRAM and turned extensions off.....but to no avail. Any idea ? Thanks in advance. Hans Kroeger kroeger@dornier.de kroeger@stsci.edu 100136.3052@compuserve.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Feb 94 11:55:11 GMT From: Michael Everson Subject: GNU & other public-domain fonts How des one find out, exactly, what fonts are truly public-domain fonts? I understand that the GNU licence specifies exactly that one can make any changes one likes as long as it's documented and that the result as well is free. Anyone know more than this? Michael Everson School of Architecture, UCD; Richview, Clonskeagh; Dublin 14; E/ire Phone: +353 1 706-2745 Fax: +353 1 283-8908 Home: +353 1 478-2597 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Feb 94 14:41:27 EST From: John Alciere Subject: Good TCP/IP Stack Can anyone recommend a good package of TCP/IP applications for the Mac? On my PC, I use the NetManage Chameleon package, which has Ping, FTP, Telnet, Mail (SMTP), Whois, etc. I'd like to find something comparable for the Mac. I'm currently running MacTCP 1.1. Please respond directly to my e-mail address. Thanks. John Alciere Technical Publications Xyplex Inc., Littleton MA ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Feb 1994 15:25:18 -0800 (PST) From: Regina Melczer Subject: hard drive question I recently obtained a Western Digital WD40AP hard drive with a "dead" mechanism. Even though these drives were made for Macs (and Apple II's) they did not use SCSI mechanisms. They used a 3.5" ST-412 RLL mechanism and a RLL->SCSI host adaptor card so as to work in the Mac world. To make this drive functional again, would I have to replace it with the exact same model of RLL mechanism (which apparently haven't been made for quite a few years) or would other models of RLL drives work? Thanks. Gabe melczer@sfu.ca ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 20:14:42 -0800 From: kee@kagi.com (Kee Nethery +1 510 843 6140) Subject: Help: Trying to find publication... (A) >In response to a networking question my Apple technical support >person referred me to: "The Design and Planning of Enterprise-Wide >AppleTalk Internetworks" by Addison Wesley. >I've not been able to find it. When called, Addison Wesley disavowed >any knowledge of the book. >Does anyone know if the book exists and if so where it can be found? >Thanks all. The book is in lawyer limbo right now. The plan is for it to become the property of the AppleTalk Networking Forum. If (or when) that happens, the ANF will make sure it is available. Kee Nethery ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 09:33:05 -0800 From: kee@kagi.com (Kee Nethery +1 510 843 6140) Subject: Help: Trying to find publication... (A) >In response to a networking question my Apple technical support >person referred me to: "The Design and Planning of Enterprise-Wide >AppleTalk Internetworks" by .... Sorry I forgot to mention that if you want to be informed when (if) the ANF publishes this book, you should send email to: lc_mtl@netcom.com (Michael T. LoBue) He is the ANF secretariat and will handle getting it produced and distributed. Kee Nethery ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Feb 1994 17:55:45 -0800 From: Richard Lim Subject: Help with downloading files I am having difficulty downloading text files using my modem. At present I'm connected at 2.4 kbaud to my account in California, and I'm trying to download Digests and other stuff, mostly with the zmodem protocol, but sometimes xmodem and ymodem too. Most of the time, I get a "CRC-32 error, cnt 43" message when I try zmodem, and the transfer is aborted. Any ideas what could be going wrong? I am using hardware hand- shaking (&f1 &k3 in the Hayes command set). Thanks in advance, Richard Lim RLIM@WELL.SF.CA.US,RTL@SIVA.BRIS.AC.UK, or c/o World Scientific Publishing Singapore, fax 65-4622167 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 20:14:55 -0800 From: kee@kagi.com (Kee Nethery +1 510 843 6140) Subject: Home Internet Connections (A) >I'm interested in finding out what exactly I would need to set up for InterNet access from my home (probably through a SLIP connection; I need to check with my university on that). I would love to be able to take advantage of shareware wonders like Fetch, Eudora, Anarchive, TurboGopher, and NewsWatcher; can I do this from a v.32bis SLIP connection? >I'd like to avoid buying any expensive books if I can; however, if I need MacTCP (I probably do, don't I?), I'll get Adam Engst's book. How can I order it (I can't find it around here). For sure get Adam's Book. It has all the info and software you will need and it's well worth the price. You can order it through the computer literacy bookstore reachable at: order@clbooks.com Home internet connectivity is wonderful and yes, all the shareware wonders work quite well through a SLIP connection. Kee Nethery ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Feb 94 13:07:02 GMT From: Aurelio Turco Subject: HYPERCARD Does anyone know when hypercard 2.2 (which i believe is the first version supporting color) will be released in europe (italy to be precise) ? or where i could email to find out ? Thanks. Aurelio Turco azt@bom.gov.au Bureau of Meteorology Melbourne Australia ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Feb 1994 17:47 EST From: Don't Panic! Subject: Hypercard 2.1 (Q) Dear Netters, I searched veronica and archie and I can't seem to find Hypercard 2.1. Has it gone under a different name? Is there a different software that will read Hypercard 2.1 stacks. I still only have Hypercard 2.0 because I thought I would never nead 2.1. So in my own error I decided to use the Hypercard 2.1 disk that came with System 7 for something else (before backing it up)! Please let me know if it is available ftp or gopher somewhere. Please reply e-mail as sometimes the listserv has been unreliable in delivering the digest. Thank you. Sincerely, ABRODY@VAX.CLARKU.EDU ------------------------------ Date: 08 Feb 1994 08:31:59 +0000 (U) From: "Dees, Ted E." Subject: Info re: Fetch W Paul Blakey wrote: >I'm new to Internet and a virgin Fetch user. Are there any diagrams of how >Fetch finds its way through the net? The different fields make no sense to >me. What is the Host field in relation to the Directory field? Any good >books you can suggest? Thanks :-) wpb The Host field is the site to which you are attempting to connect (e.g., sumex-aim.stanford.edu) and the Directory field is the directory level at which you wish to be (e.g., /info-mac). I don't know of any "diagrams" as such but ... as to how it finds its way through the net, it's best to think of Fetch as a kind of telephone -- you have to tell it the number you want (the Host) and the person to whom you wish to talk (the Directory). It doesn't find its way through the net -- you tell it where to go. You didn't ask, but if you're also wondering about user id and password, for now use "anonymous" as the id and your mail address (sn0016@wimsey.com) as the password. As to books, I started with Zen and the Art of the Internet. Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet (no value judgement here ;) ) is also helpful. Both of these are available on the 'net but, of course, I can't recall where. I'm sure others on this list can enlighten us. Ted ted.dees@stpete.honeywell.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 20:15:01 -0800 From: kee@kagi.com (Kee Nethery +1 510 843 6140) Subject: Info re: Fetch (A) >I'm new to Internet and a virgin Fetch user. Are there any diagrams of how Fetch finds its way through the net? The different fields make no sense to me. What is the Host field in relation to the Directory field? Any good books you can suggest? Thanks :-) wpb Host: Host is the FTP server machine name. For example the info-mac software library is on the machine named: sumex-aim.stanford.edu Fetch sends this name to a Domain Name Server and gets it's TCP/IP address back in return. Packets get sent to TCP/IP addresses. User ID: If you had an account on a file server, you would enter your account name in this field. For example "sn0016". Since most people use Fetch for anonymous FTP, when you want to log into an anonymous FTP server, the account name you should use is "anonymous". Password: If you had an account on a file server, you would enter the password that goes with your account name. For anonymous FTP servers you enter your e-mail address as a courtesy so that the managers of the FTP server have an idea who is logging into their server. You would enter "sn0016@wimsey.com" Directory: I usually leave this field blank and the FTP server puts me in at the root directory (similar to the view you see when you open a hard drive on your mac and see all the folders and documents). If you know where you want to be placed and you don't want to have to go opening folders to get to the same place each time you login, you can enter the directory path in this field. If you don't know how to type in a unix directory path, don't worry about it, do what I do and leave it blank and then use Fetch to navigate once you are connected. Kee Nethery ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Feb 94 14:38:43 EST From: "Allan M. Bloom" Subject: Interslip & Fetch (C) On Wed, 2 Feb, James R. Chard wrote >I have version 1.0fc3 of Interslip and version 2.1.1 of Fetch. >Both seem to be giving me problems on my Mac. Fetch freezes >and locks up the Mac. Interslip connects to my service >provider but doesn't seem to be "aware" of it and highlights >the Connect button again. Jim, if you can't get the SLIP connection, don't even try to launch Fetch. You'll just confuse the poor dear. Not being all that bright, I found the InterSLIP script language to be impenetrable. However, InterSLIP has a neat feature called "direct connect" that allowed me to get around the problem. I made the initial connection to the SLIP server with my usual data communications pgm, with the modem set up (&D0) to not hang up when I quit the program. Once connected, I quit the comm program and launched InterSLIP in "direct connect" mode. A tad awkward, to be sure, but it worked. If it works for you, you'll know it is a script problem. Al Bloom, Virginia Tech ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 FEB 94 12:16:5 EST From: CAMEROWD@ml.wpafb.af.mil Subject: Looking for text processor...[R] Matt X. Herbison asks: >Hi. I am in need of a program that can open (or just look inside of) >short text documents in order to find a word. When it finds that word, >it has to alert me with a sound. If it doesn't find the word, nothing >happens. This isn't exactly what you are asking for, but I think it might do what you want. Try FindIt 1.1.1, a drag-and-drop application which will find and display occurrences of text. It only takes folders, though, not files. You can find it at: ftp://sumex-aim.stanford.edu/info-mac/util/find-it-111.hqx or at respective mirror sites. Bill Cameron camerowd@ml.wpafb.af.mil billc55122@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 14:04:17 -0700 (MST) From: Todd Kennedy Subject: Macintosh Easy Open How does one get a hold of Mac Easy Open? Is it freeware/shareware? Or is it commercial? thanks todd tkennedy@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Feb 94 12:43:45 GMT From: steven.taylor@mrc-applied-psychology.cambridge.ac.uk (Steven Taylor) Subject: Mac Plus Monitor Card Bitz (Q) Hi all, I'm sorry to trouble you like this. We have here one Mac Plus with a Nutmeg Systems video card, and the Nutmeg 19+ display. Bought by us in 1989, the card is retrofitted to the Plus' 68000 processor by plugging into a plastic ic 'clip' that fits down over the processor's legs, so that the video card then plugs in to ride piggyback above it. Unfortunately, this ic clip (made of acetate or perspex by the looks of things) is broken and is now useless while the card itself is OK. I can find no mention of any company by the name of Nutmeg Systems in the UK (directory enquiries, advertiser's index in mags...). The clip itself is embossed "KILLY" - if this is the manufacturer's name then it may be possible to source just the clip itself, as there are presumably other peripheral devices that can retrofitted in the same way. Qs: 1) Do any of you know of a source of these piggyback clips for Pluses? 2) Can any of you tell me whether Nutmeg Systems or parent company still exists in the States or elsewhere, and if so, what their Telephone number might be? Thank you so much for your help! Please reply to me direct and I'll post a brief resume later. Cheers, steve ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Feb 94 15:05:29 EST From: rsmullen@tecnet1.jcte.jcs.mil Subject: MacPost Question I recently installed the MacPost Server on our local AppleTalk server. This server has MacTCP installed and is running on an ethernet with internet access (we use fetch from this and similarly connected machines daily). I installed the MacPost client software on one of the other local Mac's and it appeared we were in business. We sent a couple of messages and things went well. Then we tried to send mail to an addressee that was not in the same domain as we were. Almost immediately, we got the following error message via return mail. ****************************** TThe following error(s) has occured while sending Your mail: RCPT TO: 550 User not local: "rsmullen@tecnet1.jcte.jcs.mil" Your mail follows below: ----------------------- This is a ****************************** We have been able to show connectivity by sending an e-mail to this domain from another domain. But we can't seem to be able to *send* mail outside of our domain. Can anybody help? Our prefs are as follows; Domain: setd.nawcad.navy.mil SMTP Gateway: 1 40.229.43.37 (the IP of the server itself) TimeZone: +0400 AppleTalk Nave: .SETD Server Once again, any help would be much appreciated. Responses can be sent to me at: rsmullen@tecnet1.jcte.jcs.mil (preferred) rsmullen@setd.nawcad.navy.mil (incoming does work) rsmullen@dmso.dtic.dla.mil (least preferred) Regards, J.R. Smullen ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Feb 94 15:47:21 -0500 From: hawkins@husc.harvard.edu Subject: MacTools 3.0 & Now Utilities 4.02: Conflict? i have experienced a conflict between the trashback extension that comes with mactools 3.0b and nowmenus. after reinstalling my system (7.1) and turning off all other extensions and control panels, my mac often crashes when i try to launch files or apps from nowmenus when trashback is present. the error that i get is usually a "bus error" or "address error." it is attributed to the finder or whatever app i happen to be in when i go to nowmenus. the makers of both programs say there i no such conflict on record but i know that i am having it. has anyone else had this experience? any suggestions? btw, it is nowmenus 4.02. i have an se/30,4/80. turning 32 bit addressing and virtual memory off does not fix the problem. TIA. (hawkins@husc.harvard.edu) ------------------------------ Date: 8 Feb 1994 15:55:55 GMT From: kerr@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Stan Kerr) Subject: MacX and the Meta key---a puzzle Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu writes: .>I'm running MacX 1.1.7. I'm trying to use my Meta key (called Option or Alt .>on Mac keyboards), but MacX is outsmarting itself and refuses to even send the .>keypress events for Meta until I've typed some other character, whereupon it .>sends (e.g.) "aring" for Meta-A instead of just sending A with its meta bit .>on. And for characters for which the Macintosh doesn't define accents, it .>sends nothing at all. .>I can tell this by running "xev" on a UNIX and watching what events get sent .>when I type characters. I don't use emacs, so I may be missing the point entirely, but I'm using MacX 1.2, with option-arrow mappings for the mouse (so option-up-arrow is the meta key). I ran xev, then depresed option-up and held both keys down; the xev window showed a 'meta' keysym being sent by MacX. With the keys still down, I depressed 'a', and the window dutifully reported an 'a' keysym being sent. I released 'a', and this was reported. I released the up-arrow key (while still depressing the option key), and a keyrelease was reported for 'meta'. I just tried an experiment with QuicKeys, to see if I could map option-up to a single key for convenience. I mapped a key to option-up and ran xev, then hit the key and released it. xev reported the keypress but not the keyrelease, so QuicKeys isn't quite smart enough here. ... .>Alternately, can anyone suggest other vendors of X server software for Macs .>that may work better? Personal experience with such a product is, of course, .>always the best, but I'll take just names & phone numbers of vendors if .>necessary. There's Exodus, from White Pine Software. I've been testing it for a few months, and am overdue to make a report on it. I'll see if I can try the meta key. If you can give me a short script to follow with emacs (taking into account that I don't use it, so you have to describe every keystroke), I would be happy to test it with both MacX and Exodus. (If you do this, don't forget to send your emacs initialization files as well.) -- ----- Stan Kerr Phone:217-333-5217 Fax:217-244-7089 Computing & Communications Services Office, U of Illinois/Urbana ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Feb 1994 02:05:34 PST From: SHU-WAI CHOW Subject: My solution to SOS APPL problems In September 92, I ordered a powerbook through my campus dealer. They told me b the powerbook would be delivered in about 30 days. October, November, and December rolled by and I was still powerbookless. I started calling SOS APPL in late December to ask for an explanation. Surprise, surprise! They gave me an excuse and a guess as to the delivery date of within 1 week. One week later, no powerbook. Throughout January, I called SOS APPL once a week to see if there was any news on a delivery date. Everytime, I got a new twist to the excuse and a different guess as to the delivery date. I talked to a supervisor once, but he didn't help. He just spewed the same Apple party line. In February, I complained to the county consumer affairs department. One month later, I got a message on my answering machine from Apple Executive Affairs Office. They wanted to discuss my complaint with me. The next day, before I was able to call Apple, the campus retailer called me with news that the powerbook had arrived. I do give Apple the benefit of the doubt and chalk this one up as coincidence. they also agreed to sign me up for 1 year free Applecare warranty. In closing, I want to point out the county budget problems. If anyone else oh takes the path of bringing in government agencies to settle their disputes, please remember they are severly understaffed and working with a tiny budget. Santa Clara Consumer Affairs Department is staffed with volunteers. Remember to be patient with them. Secondly, it's obvious SOS APPL is a sham. It's filled with a bunch of spin doctors whose purpose is to place the blame anywhere else except on Apple. Executive Affairs is where the people with real power hide. Talk to them if you can. Shu Chow chowsw@ccvax.ccs.csus.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 08:22:22 +0000 From: M.Choo@mya0101.wins.icl.co.uk Subject: News Reader for the Mac Hi netters, a friend in on the net using UUPC Mac to connect to a local Internet provider. He seems to be receiving compressed rnews files (can't remember what he subscribed on the net). Where can I find a rnews reader for the Mac? At least he can find out where those rnews files came from.... -Mike ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 15:48:47 -0600 From: (Pete Chane) Subject: Nuntius Is it just me or does Nuntius 1.1.7 crash and hang your Mac too? It always happens when it is doing stuff in the background and I have more than 4 windows open. And I give it 1500K!!!! Any help or recommendations for a replacement? Can I keep my existing newsgroup file? PETER CHANE PCHANEUW@macc.wisc.edu PCHANE@applelink.apple.com University of Wisconsin-Madison, Home of the 1994 Rose Bowl Champions. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Feb 94 06:35:34 +0000 BST From: Richard Smith Subject: Obscure Q950 problem (Q) One of the NEMUG members is having problems with a Q950 - They've recently replaced a Q950 with a newer one and now find that the software, New England Digital, is unstable with frequent system bombs etc. It was perfectly stable on the older Q950, and the cpu is the only bit of the system that's been changed. The new Q950 is exactly the same spec as the older one; it was manufactured around Spring 1993. Has there been any ROM changes in the Quadra? Any other ideas? Richard Smith Hardware & Systems Executive, NorthEast Macintosh User Group, UK ------------------------------ Date: 7 Feb 1994 22:26:29 GMT From: sdedrick@mail.sas.upenn.edu (Scott Dedrick) Subject: Other Japanese TrueType Fonts? I am running a pseudo-Japanese Language Kit on my Mac and I am curious about the two other TrueType fonts included with the files from the developer CD -- Ryumin Light and Chu Gothic. How do you get these things to work? The file creators, types, and resources are not those of TrueType fonts, and I absolutely cannot get the system to recognize them. Even when I install a pure Japanese system they are not available. It seems silly to include them if they don't work. Any advice? sdedrick@mail.sas.upenn.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Feb 1994 13:32:21 -0500 From: kaiser@halcyon.com (Bill Horsfall) Subject: posting question concerning MAC I would greatly appreciate someone responding to a "rookie's" question... i have recently connected to the 'net through northwest nexus using SLIP and MACTCP with software appl.'s FETCH and TURBOGOHER on a MAC POWERBOOK 165c with internal modem (32bis). Seems everytime i use 'GOPHER, i can explore for about five minutes before it gives me the error message "unable to resolve host". Of course, I CHECKED ALL CONFIG's. I tried reinstalling MACTCP.. no go. I then installed everything from scratch... same thing, nothing. Again, if anyone has ANY ideas, would greatly appreciate hearing them. Thanx Bill... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 00:05:22 -0600 (CST) From: Doug Michael Benning Subject: Powerbook 100 battery trouble HELP!!! I have got some weird powerbook problems. My trust 100 is having battery trouble. I knew the old lead acid was getting weak, not charging all the way up. Well the other day after chArging I tried to turn it on (using the apple in the powerbook charger ie adapter). It would not do anything. So I plugged it in and boom, no problem it works. I noticed that the clock was reset to 12:00 1/1/4. So I went out, bought a new lead acid, and knew lithiums for the backup-- you know the watch battery kind. I put them all in, let it charge with adapter for a couple of hours (first I reset the clock). I pulled the plug, tried to boot -- nothing. Plugged it in, bingo it comes on. So I unplugged the adapter -- boom no power. I turned it back on - clock reset! I want to start by restting the PRAM -- how do I do it on the powerbook 100? Anybody got any other ideas? I have checked external connections -- they look ok. Any help apprec. Doug Benning benning@tenet.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 20:15:08 -0800 From: kee@kagi.com (Kee Nethery +1 510 843 6140) Subject: PowerBook ADB (A) >(2) Will running the extended keyboard off the plugged-in PB hurt the computer and/or battery? Again, how and why? Nope, it will not hurt it. Basically the keyboard draws power and the PowerBook is designed to run as long as possible on it's batteries. Using an extended keyboard just drains the batteries faster. When you have it plugged in, the whole issue of battery drain is mute. At home my wife sets her PB100 on a shelf at eye level and plugs in her keyboard and mouse at hand level. Kee Nethery ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 10:38:03 PST From: Hassan_Abu-Hassanyn.El_Segundo@xerox.com Subject: PowerOpen Apple will not ship PowerPc with PowerOpen until 1995, does any body have a feel if the PowerPc shipped in 94 will be upgradable to run PowerOpen? If you think the answer is yes will that be just an operating system that you purchace for a reasonable price? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Feb 1994 23:59:16 -0600 (CST) From: Neil Eric Mickelson Subject: Problems Mailing to MACGIFTS@SUMEX_AIM Greetings, all! I have been having a problem recently mailing to the new submission address, macgifts@sumex-aim.stanford.edu. Somewhere along the line, the message gets refused for insufficient disk space on some machine or other; my file is quite small, so this shouldn't be a problem. This has happened twice. Does anyone have any ideas on fixing the problem, or should I just resubmit this by sending to macgifts at UMICH (I already FTP'ed it there, but that doesn't echo to SUMEX, I guess!)? Can I FTP directly to SUMEX? If anyone has a clue, please share! Thanks! Neil E. Mickelson n-mickelson@uiuc.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Feb 1994 11:59:19 -0500 From: sobiloff@lap.umd.edu (Blake Sobiloff) Subject: Puny Floppy Drive Capacity In article <9402072359.AA05403@CAMIS.Stanford.EDU>, Allan Hunter wrote: > Why anyone would be in the unfortunate position of being unable to put > SOME kind of OS on the hard drive and reboot--and thereby avoid the > Toaster Tango--is beyond me (even System 7.1 fits on a single 1.44, > doesn't it?); but if you want solutions nevertheless, get a second > floppy drive. Allan, I don't know how big megabytes are in your neck of the woods, but 1.44 of *my* megabytes is not enough to make a universal Sys7.1 floppy. :-) Throw in a couple of (different) newer machines and you'll need a couple of different System Enablers which quickly take up the remaining free space on a floppy even after you've built one by stripping out all the non-vital resources. Additionally, a second drive isn't going to help you if you can't fit all the system software on one floppy. My time and energy is much better spent lugging around an ancient 40 meg hard drive with a complete copy of Sys7.1Pro, all the System Enablers ever written, and all the networking extensions we use around here, too. I even have room for a couple of different disk recovery utils and several other handy viral and hard drive utilities. All I have to do to get a Mac working again is hook up my HD and reboot. Unfortunately, this *isn't* a viable solution for most folks. It works for me because I run a lab and I inherited an old 40 meg drive from a hard drive upgrade I did for one of our Lab members. Apple *desperately* needs to set a new standard for removable media; CD-ROM would be fine by me (especially if Apple would release a System Reference disc every quarter or so), but even that is only a partial solution. What about writable media? IMHO, the Quadras should have incorporated the 2.88 meg mechanism, and the PowerPCs should use 20 meg flopticals. Well, sorry for venting on you, Allan, but this has been a growing pet peeve of mine, and I haven't heard anyone at Apple even drop a hint that there's something in the works to solve this problem. -- Blake Sobiloff | University of Maryland Laboratory for Automation Psychology | College Park, MD 20742-4411 Department of Psychology | 301/405-5936 (Voice) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Feb 94 09:34:41 MST From: jlundell@opus.com (Jonathan Lundell) Subject: Q: MacTCP+SLIP+Ethernet I have a small home office net of: Mac IIcx [LE ] Mac Q610 [LES] Mac Duo 210 [L ] Windows PC [ E ] SPARC workstation [ E ] LaserWriter IINT [L ] In the table, L=LocalTalk, E=Ethernet, S=SLIP modem. My problem is twofold. First, I'd like the two desktop Macs to be able to AppleTalk over EtherTalk *without* excluding the Duo and LW from their net ('cause they want to print, or sync files). My guess is that this is what Apple's Internet Router is intended to do. Is that correct, and is there a better/cheaper solution. The reputed performance hit of the Router isn't an issue here. Second, I use MacTCP to communicate with the UNIX and PC boxes. But I also use it to get to the outside world via SLIP. Not only can MacTCP not do both at once, but it has to *restart* to switch. I'm trying MacTCP Switcher to make that slightly less painful, but I'd really like simultaneous access. Without going into detail about the reasons, I'm not in a position to use the UNIX box as the TCP/IP router, attaching the modem to it. And a Cisco box is beyond my budget. The latter seems silly anyway as a solution for something that should be simply solved in software. One last caveat: I've got a pile of software that wants to use MacTCP, so any replacement would have to provide a compatible interface. Any suggestions? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Feb 1994 12:11:17 -0600 From: forbes@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu (Graeme Forbes) Subject: Quicktime Novice has a question (Q) I think this is becoming an faq, but now that I have at last loaded Quicktime on my machine, I naturally want to play "1984". A couple of weeks ago someone posted the address of (I think) an ftp'able copy. I took a note of it and now can't find the note. If someone could repost the address or mail it to me, I'll try to set aside however many days it takes to download it. Thanks in advance, Graeme Forbes ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 21:46:40 -0600 From: (Pete Chane) Subject: RAMdoubler and First Class Client 2.0.9? I seen to get crashes and system hangs when I run First Class on a system with RAMdoubler installed. Anyone else experience this? PETER CHANE PCHANEUW@macc.wisc.edu PCHANE@applelink.apple.com University of Wisconsin-Madison, Home of the 1994 Rose Bowl Champions. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Feb 1994 00:01:15 -0600 (CST) From: Neil Eric Mickelson Subject: RAMDoubler Prices and Performance Greetings, all! I was wondering if anyone out there has been using RAMDoubler for a while now (you listening, Adam?), and how stable it has been on the long term. Also, who has the best price on this thing currently? Thanks for your help! Neil E. Mickelson n-mickelson@uiuc.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 08:59 CST From: "Robert E. Front" Subject: Random Number Software Looking for Mac software that lets me generate a random numbers table and allows me to control the range within which the numbers are to be generated. r o b e r t ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Feb 1994 23:18:20 -0600 From: (Pete Chane) Subject: Screen shots How can I capture the contents of a non-modal (doesn't have a window title bar) dialog box? I need to make in into a PICT file for manipulation. Is there anything better than cmd-shift-3? Thanks. PETER CHANE PCHANEUW@macc.wisc.edu PCHANE@applelink.apple.com University of Wisconsin-Madison, Home of the 1994 Rose Bowl Champions. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Feb 94 07:50:48 CST From: Mack Willingham Subject: Sculley Resigns Dateline: Feb. 7 1994, California. Former Apple Computer exec John Sculley resigns from new telecommunications company, says he was misled by the company, and plans to file 10 million dollar lawsuit, says it has damaged his reputation. More to follow I am sure. Mack Willingham, UAB news, Birmingham. Mack ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Feb 1994 10:21:26 -0600 (CST) From: SWAECHTER@UTMEM1.UTMEM.EDU Subject: Sending mail to aol or compuserve How can I send mail to someone with addresses for America Online and/or Compuserve? I'm not on either list, but I do have Internet and BITNET connections. Thanks for the help. Steve Waechter swaechter@utmem1 (bitnet) swaechter@utmem1.utmem.edu (internet) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 00:08:00 -0500 From: lt10@cornell.edu (Li-Hsiang Tu) Subject: serial or AppleTalk device on Ethernet (Q) Is there any software that will allow my Mac to use a serial or AppleTalk device attached to another Mac on a ethernet? I need the recommendation, if such a software exists, ASAP to make a decision on the installation of ethernet. Thank you very much. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Feb 1994 21:59:58 GMT From: kilroy@netcom.com (Jeffrey S. Shulman) Subject: Speech Macro editor failed Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu writes: >Dear netters, >I have just acquired PlainTalk and its software for my 840av. It works >fine, except..... >When I want to record a speech macro using the speech macro editor, after I >press the stop button, nothing appears. No translated script for my action. >Pressing the run button (or tell Vivien to run my script) yields >nothing....Sigh! >I have tried reinstalling everything. From plaintalk s/w to system itself. :~( >Would someone show me the way??! Thank you >Rgds, >David Chiu >(bcdavid@usthk.ust.hk) >Dept. Biochem., >Hong Kong U. of Sci & Tech You did not say what program you were trying to record your actions from. The Speech Macro Editor (SME) works like the AppleScript Script Editor (and other OSA recorders) in recording "recordable" applications (i.e. those apps that send AppleEvents to themselves to do actions). You can't just turn on record and "do things" and then have it record your actions, the app MUST BE a "recordable" app. You can try using the QuicKeys OSA componant which will let you record mouse movement/actions. Just be sure to select this in the SME before you choose Record. Jeff Shulman President, Lighthouse Woods Corp. Contract Engineer at Apple Computer, Speech Technologies Dept. -- Jeff Shulman, CEO & President Lighthouse Woods Corp. kilroy@netcom.com ------------------------------ Date: 7 Feb 1994 21:54:51 -0500 From: sew7490@news.delphi.com (SEW7490@DELPHI.COM) Subject: Strange Finder problem on a Quadra Fellow Macintosh users, A friend of mine just called me with a problem. He is a lab manager at a University, and it seems that one of his Quadras is malfunctioning. Of course, the machine will be taken into the shop unless an answer is found shortly. He tells me that upon boot, the system goes into a continuous loop whereby the screen is grey, then the menubar appears, then the screen goes back to grey (menubar goes away), and so on, ad nauseum. He pointed out that the hard drive icon never appears. To me, it sounds like the system is launching the Finder, which then aborts unceremoniously. As we all know, when there are no applications running, the Mac will launch the Finder. The Finder is launched again, and then exits unceremoniously for a second time. This cycle repeats. He tells me that he has reinstalled a minimal system, but this has not corrected the problem. He has also tried disconnecting all SCSI devices, but to no avail. The machine is on a network, possibly ethernet, I'm not sure. In any case, neither of us can think of what could possibly be causing this phenomenon. Any help would be appreciated. You may respond to me at sew7490@delphi.com or contact my friend Charles C. White directly at ccw4096@ritvax.isc.rit.edu. Sean-- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 00:54:27 GMT From: absurd@apple.com (Tim Dierks) Subject: Undocumented System functionality and you Recently we've seen a lot of discussion, sometimes fervent discussion, on the use of undocumented System functionality. The Apple people and some others have generally said "It's undocumented; don't use it- it will break." Many others have said things along the lines of "Well, it works great now; I don't mind fixing my code if it breaks, and who knows if it ever will break?" I'd like to point out one more argument against using system functionality. At Apple, we're very committed to backwards compatibility, and this attitue has translated into generating an expectation among our customers. Customers are concerned, distraught, even unhappy or angry, when the software they own breaks with a new system software release. There's an expectation that if software worked once, it must have been correct, and that any change in its functionality is the fault of the new system software, and thus, Apple Computer. Because of this, Apple jumps through hoops, bends over backwards, and goes through hell trying to both advance system software and at the same time keep applications working. The single hardest thing about advancing system software is backwards compatiblity. Sometimes this difficulty is solely due to architecture and design shortcomings in previous system software and applications that depend on these broken architectures, but often, the problem is keeping applications which went outside the boundaries of expected behavior working. Regardless of your willingness to change or fix your system software, your customers do not necessarily share this feeling, and even if they do, they're generally not aware of why their software broke; it is unfair for Apple to bear the brunt of this dissatisfaction. Given that Apple will always try to minimize customer dissatisfaction, if a reasonable number of applications with a reasonably sized market are using undocumented managers (such as the Layer Manager), you essentially remove Apple's ability to change that manager. The reason we never documented the Layer Manager was not because we wanted to keep it to ourselves like selfish children but because we knew we wanted to change it, and knew that if it were used outside of the company, it could not be changed. When developers use undocumented system functionality, no matter how well meaning the intention, you handcuff Apple to having to provide that functionality for the rest of time, and this generally means: - It's much harder to develop and qualify system releases, which makes them later, buggier, and they have fewer features. - We're very restricted in our abilities to change the system architecture, since it must remain within the constraints established by the API as it is used. This, in turn, sometimes makes it impossible for us to implement features which would require architectural changes outside of these constraints. At the very least, we have to break applications and this means unhappy developers and customers, especially customers who now have to pay for an upgrade, find a new product because the original developer is no longer in business, or choose to not upgrade their Macintosh to newer system software. All of these reduce Apple's success and impacts platform adoption, which in turn impacts market size, and in turn, developer revenues. In the end, not using undocumented system features is one of the most helpful things developers can do to enable Apple to move forward in functionality and features. Please take this into account whenever you consider using something which does not appear within Inside Macintosh. Thanks, - Tim (While I'm speaking for myself, not Apple, I am involved with trying to design and implement a future OS release and this is a real concern for us.) Tim Dierks absurd@apple.com I work for Apple Computer, but I speak for myself. If my information helps you, please help someone else next time you can. "If you can't lick 'em, put 'em on with a big piece of tape." -Negativland ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Feb 94 18:51:19 MET From: An Apple a day... 06-Feb-1994 1844 Subject: US Colleges internet directory? Hello, I'm entering this message for a friend of mine who would like to get in touch with the different college's authorities for educational exchange purposes at various levels in the humanities. If such a listing exists or can be uploaded from an ftp site, please make it available either directly or via reply to this article. Thanks in advance, Giuseppe Milana Digital SpA Milan, Italy. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 02:43:37 -0600 (CST) From: James Ryan Osborne Subject: Wanted: Info on Claris CAD Libraries Hello! This is my first posting to Info-Mac. Please, be gentle! Apologies in advance if this duplicates previous material... I'm a scenic and lighting designer for a local community theater and I work in Claris CAD to execute my designs. Does anyone "out there" know if there are libraries of symbols in the public domain for either the theater or interior design? I use 1/4"= 1' scale, but will use any I find. Please respond directly. Useful information will be posted. Thanks in advance. Jamey Osborne jrosb@tenet.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Feb 1994 10:04:07 -0600 (CST) From: "Larry Rymal:T.E.M.U.G.-EAST_TEXAS-" Subject: Weather gif site... Folks, During the summer of last year, I frequently downloaded weather gif files from vmd.cso.uiuc.edu, converted them to .pics and used PICS-to-Movie to combine them into a QuickTime movie for weather formation animation. Well, imagine my surprise to discover that vmd.cso.uiuc.edu no longer posts hourly infrared and visible satellite gif images. Does anyone know of a similar site? Apparently, there have been recent changes at other weather image sites because all of my FAQs on the subject are no longer valid (dead sites, images no longer there, etc.). -- Larry Rymal ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Feb 94 08:37:16 CST From: KMUZM@TTUVM1.TTU.EDU ======================================================================== 25 Date: Wed, 02 Feb 94 23:44:43 CST From: Uzi Mann Subject: Speech Recognition Program for the Mac To: Info Mac Greetings, Can anyone help me find info on speech recognition sotwares for the Mac. I am looking for one that is capable of recognizing speech beyond few commands, although it does not have to be very sofisticated. What additional hardware (cards, microphone, etc.) is needed? I have a Mac II that operates with Sys 7.01. Thanks for your help. Uzi Mann KMUZM@TTUVM1.TTU.EDU ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Feb 1994 16:22:35 -0800 From: Kevin Savetz Archive-name: internet-services/faq Last-Modified: 1994/2/4 Version: 1.7 INTERNET SERVICES FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Version 1.7 - 4 February, 1994 *** WANTED - YOUR FREQUENTLY ASKED INTERNET QUESTIONS AND FREQUENTLY ANSWERED ANSWERS! I have been publishing this FAQ list for seeming eons, and it became clear to me very early on that I need to be very selective as to what questions can be answered herein, lest this document become a 600-page book. Well, Sams publishing has agreed to make it a 600-page book which will be able to cover hundreds of common questions with more thorough answers. For information on how to submit your question for possible inclusion in this book, or if you would like your answer to a FAQ (attributed to you, of course) considered for publication, send e-mail to "faq-book-info@northcoast.net" (message subject/body unimportant). *** CHANGES IN THIS VERSION: 2.7: Clearer info on finding the misc.invest FAQ 2.7: Info on receiving daily stock updates ** 3.4: Updated info on the List of Lists 3.5: Updated info on Internet Business Journal 3.5: added Boardwatch magazine. Dunno why it wasn't there before. [Archived as /info-mac/comm/info/internet-services-faq-17.txt; 48K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 20:35:07 -0500 (EST) From: Norman Friedman Can anyone help. Why am I lately getting an error message, "illegal instruction" occassionaly (actually more than that) when my Mac SE is awakened by the telephone. I have a single line for fax, modem and with my extended keyboard, and "power key" the phone ringing is supposed to turn on the Mac in case a fax is coming in. I have been getting the error message lately after everything loads, but then comes the bomb. I have done the desktop bit and cleaned out anything I could. Any help is appreciated at norm@helix.nih.gov Thanks to all in advance. ------------------------------ End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************