Date: Sat, 19 Mar 94 17:22:18 PST From: The Info-Mac Moderators Reply-To: Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Subject: Info-Mac Digest V12 #45 To: info-mac-list Info-Mac Digest Sat, 19 Mar 94 Volume 12 : Issue 45 Today's Topics: [*] all-day-40; a calendar [*] Alpha 5.76 [*] AXIS GEMs (Cheats) [*] C.S.M.P. Digest, Issue 3.006 [*] Dateline 45.txt; Star Trek newsletter [*] Detect New Volume - Display volume's message-of-the-day [*] Drop*PS 1.1, a Postscript file downloader [*] FileMaker Pro 2.1v2 (Mac) U [*] foil-10.hqx; an airfoil designer [*] Gaeke's Maps; BOLO maps [*] Icons-4-Us-PRO; 300 color icons [*] Icons-4-Us; 300 color icons [*] internet-dial-in-Europe-1.0.txt [*] mac-bread-board-115-demo.hqx [*] MIDI Pack'en 1.0.4; for system exclusive MIDI data [*] NSF Forms Templates updated [*] PopupFolder 1.0 Demo, menu access to folders [*] qt-on-ibm.hqx; how-to information [*] RailroadFonts1.0 [*] RunTime 1.0.4; readout of total power-on time [*] submission of new version ppc.basic2.9b2.sit.hqx [*] UUParser 1.71b; UUCode utility [*] Voodoo 1.5; a version control tool [*] Watch Volume Mount - Display volume's message-of-the-day 2 Questions from Dieder Bylsma [A]: MS Word & xtra line feeds [Q] Word 5.1 and Extended Postscript Adobe Purchases Aldus??? A Mac and a PC sharing a monitor? American Heritage Ditionary(C) Apple Blunder...... Apple Event Manager and 32 bit mode [Q] As Apple has sown, so shall they reap - the tools mess AutoDoubler Woes AVI->QuickTime conflict (Q) BocaModem? CD-ROM 5.0 audio question CD-ROM player that works on both Mac and PC? Change default font in Endnote plus? Claris Resolve (C) connecting localtalk lans Crashed Quadra 840av Fixed Dead SE/30 screen -> guide to Pina books disabling SE/30 monitor disk drive repairs near boston Eudora and Delphi EUDORA Questions Eurora for Windows enclosure format Excel-picture-Word extension .tgz FTF Proactive 1.0 slow and buggy. FullWrite 2 Status (fwd) General Magic phone number Global Village High-speed Connect How to set up a local talk with just 2 computers? HyperTalk help needed... (A) ink jet refill - larger sizes In praise of the HP Deskwriter 5.0 drivers Join Now. Letter Gothic Font Mac configurations Mac SQL query software (A) Mac symptoms (fwd) MacTCP and SLIP MapArt is still around MountImage 1.2b2 and Mt.Image 1.0.2 (/info-mac/disk/) My own opinions need for 6100/60 16MB/500MB/CD/AV Card polar bears Power Mac Hard Drive Speed Specs ? Power Macs and 21" Mono monitor (A) Printer recognition problems Quadra 840av Goes Belly Up receiving files, etc. Robert Gibson's Scale si sound bug Sound source re-direction from internal CD stereo-maker problem WriteNow 4.0 (Q) 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: 17 Mar 1994 13:19:49 -0600 (CST) From: SCOTT PAUL Subject: [*] all-day-40; a calendar AllDay 4.0 This is a great calender program that is very small and has a little memory footprint. I am not the author, I just love the program. You can set your own holidays for display and print out a yearly calender. It is totally user-configurable from the way you want the weeks displayed to the colors that they are displayed in. It is also FREE. Get this one! [Archived as /info-mac/app/all-day-40.hqx; 38K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Mar 94 19:41:58 CST From: pete@cs.rice.edu (Pete) Subject: [*] Alpha 5.76 This is the latest version of Alpha, a programmable text editor that is is excellent for editing programs and latex documents. There is extensive support for both. [Archived as /info-mac/text/alpha-576.hqx; 700K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 15:36:22 -0600 (CST) From: chaudoir@worms.cmsbio.nwu.edu (Mic Chaudoir) Subject: [*] AXIS GEMs (Cheats) Here is the latest group of GEMs for AXIS! The game cheater... please post em' [Archived as /info-mac/game/com/axis-gems.hqx; 12K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Mar 94 16:15:51 MET From: pottier@clipper.ens.fr (Francois Pottier) Subject: [*] C.S.M.P. Digest, Issue 3.006 C.S.M.P. Digest Fri, 18 Mar 94 Volume 3 : Issue 6 Today's Topics: 68K emulation and PPC toolbox questions. AE coercion handlers ? ARGH!!! Whamwhamwham!! (DialogSelect stuff) An offering: Assembly language code for a high speed copybits Animation speed: here we go again... Animation speed: improvement! Animation speed: more info Animation: the story continues... Blank Screen? C code for scrollable application help Can C be as fast as Assembler? (next...on the McLaughlin Group) Color Terminal Emulator DrawString + Ellipsis character ? Finder comments on non-Desktop DB volumes? Finding System Folder (Again) Free code: Sean's window manager How does the Finder handle events? How to determine color of progress bar? How to draw inits icons? How to tell a Mac from a Mac? I know the Mac MM isn't reentrant, but: If you use SysBeep() for debugging... Improving DrawText speed (Was: Color Terminal Emulator) Interface guidelines for extra program files Intermixing graphics and text Let's kill 24-bit mode! (was Re: Let's kill System 6!) Let's kill system 6! Never beep when using GWorlds. System software bug! PPC & 68k UPP problems PPC binaries Passing data through to completion procs? Password editing item.. Tricky? Permanent front windows... Preference file question! Reading PICT files != 72 dpi. How ? Resources on PowerPC Safer Segments ? Speeding up animation; questions System Folder on NONstartup disk Trap dispatcher overhead User in a menu? What happens if my Vertical Retrace task takes too long? When to StripAddress? (was Re: Let's kill 24-bit mode!) Why can't I have AEs *in* AEs? Why use handles at all, though? Writing To Screen Memory dirIDs jGNEFilter Q password encryption The Comp.Sys.Mac.Programmer Digest is moderated by Francois Pottier (pottier@clipper.ens.fr). [Archived as /info-mac/per/csmp/csmp-v3-006.txt; 616K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Mar 94 12:44:36 PST From: backmod (Backup Moderator) Subject: [*] Dateline 45.txt; Star Trek newsletter Here is Dateline 45 from AOL (Star Trek interest with reviews of recently released commercial games, including Mac versions)... Enjoy, Rob Malick MALICK.ROBERT@IGATE.ABBOTT.COM [Archived as /info-mac/per/dateline-45.txt; 29K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 14:32:46 -0600 From: oleg@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Kiselyov Oleg) Subject: [*] Detect New Volume - Display volume's message-of-the-day What: Detect a new mounted volume and "double-click" at a document/application (if found) at a "standard" location on that volume What for: telling the user (a student) what's new on some particular volume and/or how to use it. The document "clicked" by the present WatchVol program may be a text document about what's new on the volume. Or it may be any application that somehow prepares the student how to use the (file server) volume, whenever the volume is mounted. Hot points: Dynamic (transient) patch of the system: doesn't require restarting the system, gets uninstalled when the application quits. Contents: WatchVol - Application (watchdog) itself Watch MountVol.pi - project and resource files to build it Watch MountVol.pi.rsrc WatchMount.cc - Source code of the main module (C++) launcher.cc - Launches an application-creator given FSSpec of the document/application MountVol init.pi - project to compile an Init (not INIT!) code resource that patches the system on-the-fly MountVol init.c - Source code of the _MountVol interceptor (assembly inlined into a dummy C program) The source code contains enough (I hope) comments to show what a particular piece of code does, as well as some tricks involved Language: Symantec C/C++ 6.0 and built-in Assembler System: System 7.x, uses AppleEvents. Tested on IIsi, IIci, Quadras and Centres. Patching the system: _MountVol system trap is patched when the application starts up. The patch is removed (i.e., the trap is restored to its original state) when the application quits. How to run: place the application into your "Startup Items" folder; the application quits when it receives a "QUIT" event, or when it's in the foreground and any keyboard key is pressed. Note: the source code uses a "standard" environment, see myenv-notify.cpt For completeness, the library and the .h file are included as a separate CompactPro archive. However, they (complete with the source code) can be found at various archive sites under the name 'myenv-notify' Comments to: oleg@ponder.csci.unt.edu, oleg@unt.edu [Archived as /info-mac/dev/src/detect-new-volume-cpp.hqx; 82K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 13:14:20 -0500 (EST) From: bbedit@world.std.com (Bare Bones Software) Subject: [*] Drop*PS 1.1, a Postscript file downloader Enclosed is the latest version of Drop*PS, the freeware PostScript downloader. Drop*PS requires System 7.0 or later, and is 32-bit clean, and 68040- and Power Macintosh-compatible. Version 1.1 adds the ability to download EPSF files, fixes some deviant behavior, and adds various other minor capabilities. Bare Bones Software Internet: bbedit@world.std.com Rich Siegel Patrick Woolsey Principal Software Designer Director of Quality Assurance [Archived as /info-mac/prn/drop-ps-11.hqx; 39K] ------------------------------ Date: 18 Mar 1994 10:28:55 U From: "Bill Swagerty" Subject: [*] FileMaker Pro 2.1v2 (Mac) U FileMaker Pro 2.1v2 (Mac) Updater Bill Swagerty Claris Technical Support [Archived as /info-mac/app/fmpro-21v2-updt-us.hqx; 584K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 22:51:41 -0800 From: Kris Anne Hulburt Subject: [*] foil-10.hqx; an airfoil designer Enclosed please find Foil 1.0, a Macintosh airfoil creation and viewing program. Airfoils are the cross-sectional shapes of wings. Foil 1.0 creates NACA 4- and 5- digit airfoils, reads and writes in NACA and SoarTech formats, and will also print airfoils. It does a few other things, but thats the gist of it. Foil is free, but not public domain. Please distribute it to the other mac archives. Thanks, Gregory Payne (email to hulburt@leland.stanford.edu - wifes account) [Archived as /info-mac/sci/foil-10.hqx; 237K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 04:34:27 -0500 (EST) From: brg@cscns.com (Brian R. Gaeke) Subject: [*] Gaeke's Maps; BOLO maps These are the worthwhile Bolo maps that I've created over the years. Share and Enjoy. Brian Gaeke [Archived as /info-mac/game/bolo/gaekes-maps.hqx; 14K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 07:47:17 -0600 From: gas52r0@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Jay Boersma) Subject: [*] Icons-4-Us-PRO; 300 color icons I c o n s 4 U s P R O By popular demand (well, actually, an e-mail from a guy in Iowa), this is Icons-4-Us, a collection of over 300 color icons to adorn your files, beautify your folders, impress your friends and eat up your RAM. This collection is available in two versions: Icons-4-Us - - in which the icons are pasted onto individual empty Mac file folders and which includes easy instructions for transferring them onto other files. Icons-4-Us-PRO - - the same collection provided as a Macintosh resource file with less elaborate documentation. (If you're not comfortable with resource editing or will be sharing Icons-4-Us with friends who aren't, you might want to obtain the non-pro version instead of this one.) Jay Boersma gas52r0@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu [Archived as /info-mac/gui/grf/icons-for-us-pro.hqx; 166K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 07:39:22 -0600 From: gas52r0@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Jay Boersma) Subject: [*] Icons-4-Us; 300 color icons I c o n s 4 U s By popular demand (well, actually, an e-mail from a guy in Iowa), this is Icons-4-Us, a collection of over 300 color icons to adorn your files, beautify your folders, impress your friends and eat up your RAM. Icons-4-Us - - in which the icons are pasted onto individual empty Mac file folders and which includes easy instructions for transferring them onto other files. Jay Boersma gas52r0@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu [Archived as /info-mac/gui/grf/icons-for-us.hqx; 620K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 20:40:57 -0100 From: Benoit LIPS Subject: [*] internet-dial-in-Europe-1.0.txt internet-dial-in-Europe-1.0.txt is a list of European internet access providers or BBS allowing cross posting mail to internet. I suggest it would be archived in /info-mac/comm/information/internet-dial-in-Europe-1.0.txt Thanks for comments, suggestions and updates, Benoit LIPS [Archived as /info-mac/comm/info/internet-dial-in-europe-10.txt; 10K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Mar 94 13:49:23 -0500 From: conger@rock.concert.net (Eric G. Conger) Subject: [*] mac-bread-board-115-demo.hqx [An electronic bread-board simulator. -isl] [Archived as /info-mac/app/mac-bread-board-115-demo.hqx; 234K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Mar 94 13:33:46 JST From: setsu@lab2.yamaha.co.jp (Takashi Suzuki) Subject: [*] MIDI Pack'en 1.0.4; for system exclusive MIDI data MIDI Pack'en is an application for the Macintosh which allows you to keep system exclusive data in files. (So called MIDI Data Filer.) When this application receives system exclusive data, a new window'll tell you the datasize and manufacturer. MIDI Pack'en can handle any kind of system exclusive data. Apple Script recordable. What's changed in 1.0.4. Inline input support under Kanji (Japanese) System7. This application requires : System7 + QuickTime + Apple MIDI Manager or System7.1 + Apple MIDI Manager Shareware Takashi Suzuki [Archived as /info-mac/snd/util/midi-packen-104.hqx; 69K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 17:16:40 -0600 From: judith@utig.ig.utexas.edu (Judith Haller) Subject: [*] NSF Forms Templates updated For people who still submit NSF grant proposals on paper: Here are revised Nat'l Science Foundation proposal form templates incorporating changes in the new Grant Proposal Guide. These replicas, constructed in MS Word and MS Excel, are cleaner, faster, and easier than typing on photocopied paper forms. Microsoft Word 4.0/Excel 3.0 or higher are needed, plus a laser or 300-dpi ink jet printer. Changes: -- Templates are updated or added to match the NSF Grant Proposal Guide, (GPG) dated 2/94. -- All forms in the Grant Proposal Kit are included except the "Information about PI's/PD's." -- The forms now work properly with all standard Mac configurations. -- On color monitors, the templates are displayed in two colors to more easily distinguish between your data and the form. -- Style sheets have been cleaned up and and simplified for easier modification. -- The NSF-UNOLS Ship Time Request Form has an .eps version with a READABLE map. -- The budget pages include new macros to automatically format the forms to handle TrueType or PostScript fonts. The correct format can be selected during the setup process or after the fact by choosing a menu command. -- A macro fix is included for the insidious bug that sometimes leaves a blank in Line L of the Cumulative page. By the way, I'm keeping a list of other known templates for research proposals. Please email me if you know of others. So far: NIH templates by John Livesey, available now at ftp.u.washington.edu in /pub/user-supported/templates. NASA Budget Form and Army Research Organization forms by Eric Bruce Cohen. His drafts look terrific and are available at goofy.cs.umd.edu. He expects to post finished versions to the Mac archives before the end of the semester. Coming soon: -- NSF Antarctic Proposal Worksheets by Judeene Blankenship, Univ. of Texas, are in progress, will be posted to info-mac, umich, and ut/microlib. -- Windows version of these forms may soon be available. A knowledgeable and intrepid user at u.washington is planning to convert them. Let's wish him luck! [Archived as /info-mac/sci/nsf-proposal-forms-msw.hqx; 231K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 10:10:16 -0600 From: vinko@spss.com (Vinko Tsui (312) 329-3455) Subject: [*] PopupFolder 1.0 Demo, menu access to folders This is a demo of the latest utility published by Inline Software. It provides the ability to get at any folders or files via a Popup menu (see review in April MacWorld). -- Vinko [Archived as /info-mac/gui/popup-folder-10-demo.hqx; 101K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Mar 94 20:44:44 +0500 From: Eric Bennett Subject: [*] qt-on-ibm.hqx; how-to information Hello. I have attached a text file which explains how to play Macintosh QuickTime movies on the IBM. I've seen lots of people asking about how to do this in newsgroups and on the online services, but nobody seems to have the answers. Well, here they are. Since redistributing the necessary software might bring up sticky legal issues, I've only included instructions on where people can access the software for themselves. Thanks for considering the submission. -Eric (EricB@emb121.rh.psu.edu; if that fails, use ericb888@aol.com) [Archived as /info-mac/info/sft/qt-on-ibm.hqx; 6K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 00:13:55 -0800 From: BENJAMIN COIFMAN Subject: [*] RailroadFonts1.0 Railroad Fonts This file contains a PASSENGER TRAIN font and a FREIGHT TRAIN font. Both fonts are PostScript and are compatible with each other. These fonts were designed for high resolution printers (e.g., laser or ink jet printers) and may not look their best on screen. You should print out the sample files that come with the fonts to get an idea of their detail. The two fonts will enable you to couple together just about any sort of train you could imagine. Benn Coifman zephyr@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu [Archived as /info-mac/font/ps/railroad.hqx; 286K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 15:27:55 +0100 From: MICROSTADEL Subject: [*] RunTime 1.0.4; readout of total power-on time Hi ! This is RunTime, a little app that gives you the total power-on time of your Macintosh. Should work with System 6 (not tested). Tested on the following Macs : ci, fx, vx (all running sys 7.1). Also tested on a PowerMacintosh 8100... and it works !!! Macintosh models prior to the IIci don't remember how long they've been running, so RunTime is useless on theses machines. RunTime is is free and can be distributed freely. Send comments, bug reports, suggestions... to Patrick.Stadelmann@etudiants.unine.ch Patrick [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/run-time-104.hqx; 8K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 00:40:17 -0800 From: rhn@netcom.com (Ron Nicholson) Subject: [*] submission of new version ppc.basic2.9b2.sit.hqx Please replace ppc.basic2.9b0.sit.hqx with ppc.basic2.9b2.sit.hqx . Version 2.9b2 fixes a static text bug when running under virtual memory. *ppc_chipbasic 2.9b2 README* Every *real* personal computer should come with a BASIC interpreter. Here's my contribution for the new Power Macintosh machines. It's a line number based BASIC interpreter similar to the Applesoft BASIC that came with the Apple ][+ (that's Apple ][, *NOT* Mac II for you newcomers). This version runs ONLY on Power Macs. Chipmunk Basic is a simple Basic interpreter for the Macintosh. It is similar to the line number based MumbleSoft BASIC interpreters of circa 1980. Its roots are from a pascal program, basic.p, that was part of the test input suite to p2c, a pascal to c translator. Both basic.p and p2c should be in the net.sources archives somewhere (I no longer have copies). I cleaned up the translated source, ported it to the Mac and added some Mac specific features. Chipmunk Basic 2.9 is being distributed as freeware (but only for those who don't believe that using the BASIC language causes brain damage. :-) Please note that there are far better versions of BASIC available commercially. Just none that run PowerPC native and are available for the Mac as of March 14th. Version 2.9b2 fixes a static text bug when running under virtual memory. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; not even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. [Archived as /info-mac/dev/chipmunk-basic-29b2-ppc.hqx; 114K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 10:10:52 -0800 From: jsl@netcom.com (John S. Lee) Subject: [*] UUParser 1.71b; UUCode utility UUParser release Information UUParser is Copyright =A9 1993, 1994 by John S. Lee & Truly Mac, Inc. UUParser 1.71b (Unregistered) & 1.72 (Registered) Users. This is the latest version of UUParser! This version replaces all other versions and has a bug fix: There was an elusive bug with UUParser that caused it to crash on Powerbooks and the Mac Classic. It has been repaired. The problem was opening a color grafport on a non-color Mac (did not check for color QD ;( ). Now the program checks and operates properly. [Archived as /info-mac/cmp/uu-parser-171b.hqx; 104K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Mar 94 09:57:59 +0100 From: Christoph Reichenberger Subject: [*] Voodoo 1.5; a version control tool To all of you who need version control, I am glad to inform you that version 1.5 of Voodoo can been released now. Here is a short overview of the most important changes: For Voodoo newcomers: Voodoo (the name stands for Versions Of Outdated Documents Organized Orthogonally) is a version control tool for the simple and clear management of projects in which files are created in numerous versions (variants and revisions). Since Voodoo is capable of managing arbitrary files, the program can be employed for more than just the organization of software projects in a narrow sense (program development). Even the writing of a book, for example, is a project in which multiple elementary building blocks (the individual chapters, illustrations, etc.) evolve in various revisions. Using Voodoo can also pay off here. Voodoo allows both variant and revision control, and it manages not only variants and revisions of single files, but of a whole software project (multi files, multi users, multi variants, access rights, ...). The tool offers a neat graphical user interface and is not only suitable for mere source code control but can handle all different kinds of files with amazing compression rates: typical size of delta between arbitrary files 5% (in words: five per cent) !!!! no matter whether the files are plain text or any other documents - e. g. MSWord, WriteNow, Canvas, FileMaker ...). Contrary, if you try to manage non-text-files with Projector or SCCS you will not get any space reduction. Voodoo differs from previous source code control systems in its orthogonal approach to version management. This means that for every component of a project hierarchy you can not only store its revision history but also different variants of the same component.The orthogonal organization of revisions and variants leads to a much clearer organization that with other RCS/SCCS-based tools like Projector/SourceServer and others. A lite version of Voodoo is being distributed on a shareware basis (30 $). The package included contains VoodooLite 1.5 together with a readme document and a manual. Changes since version 1.4: + The most important change is one you may not even notice. All operations modifying the project files are now based on a transaction mechanism to ensure absolute data integrity, even in the case of a power failure during an operation. You might notice that the operations proceed a bit slower now, but you should gladly grant Voodoo these seconds to ensure the total security of your files. + The dialogs for storing or fetching multiple components now show the number of components checked/total. + The logon dialog is now suppressed in the case that there is only one user within the project (the administrator) and this user has set no password. + some minor changes and bug fixes. + added an index menu to the online manual. If you have further questions please contact me at: chrei@unisoft.co.at or voodoo@unisoft.co.at Christoph [Archived as /info-mac/dev/voodoo-15.hqx; 851K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 14:32:35 -0600 From: oleg@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Kiselyov Oleg) Subject: [*] Watch Volume Mount - Display volume's message-of-the-day What: Detect a new mounted volume and "double-click" at a document/application (if found) at a "standard" location on that volume What for: telling the user (a student) what's new on some particular volume and/or how to use it. The document "clicked" by the present WatchVol program may be a text document about what's new on the volume. Or it may be any application that somehow prepares the student how to use the (file server) volume, whenever the volume is mounted. Hot points: Dynamic (transient) patch of the system: doesn't require restarting the system, gets uninstalled when the application quits. How to run: place the application into your "Startup Items" folder; the application quits when it receives a "QUIT" event, or when it's in the foreground and any keyboard key is pressed. Comments to: oleg@ponder.csci.unt.edu, oleg@unt.edu [Archived as /info-mac/gui/watch-volume-mount.hqx; 13K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 22:58:44 -0800 (PST) From: VANNUYSD@sonoma.edu Subject: 2 Questions from Dieder Bylsma I am forwarding the following two questions for Dieder Bylsma who is off for a semester in Paris. Please send replies directly to him at 73773.3262@CompuServe.COM First Question: Playing with the new PowerPC's such as the 6100/60 and the 7100/66 and running Speedometer, reveals some interesting info. Such as that it thinks it is running on a Power Macintosh Centris 610 with no FPU and a 68020 CPU! As well, running the tests of Speedometer provides the result that it is still slower than a Q800, but only just slightly. Now wasn't the CPU that was supposed to be emulated supposed to be a 68030 or a 68040? Second Question: Given a PB100, why is it that on occasion it completely forgets that it has an internal disk drive? Using such utilities as Silverlining, SCSI disk-probe shows an absolute zero for hd's on the SCSI disk chain despite the fact that the scan powers up the SCSI disk? No matter what I do, even so drastic as to unplug and remove all the batteries, press the interupt and restart switches simultaneously for 20 seconds, and so on, I can't get the HD to be recognized or even accessed at all, other than power being provided to it? Using SCSI disk-mode cables, the <1 disk symbol will go across (SCSI disk symbol 1) the screen and the drive will be powered up. But still, unplugging the cable results in no recognition of the HD. The *only* way to get the HD to be recognized is to use the SCSI disk-mode of the PB100 with a desktop macintosh and suddenly the disk is recognized by both computers! Why? Is there a way to reproduce this miracle cure without having to use another Mac? Macs are hard to come by at the moment, so plugging n the computer into these desktop macs is an infrequent option. Any suggestions, explanations would be greatly appreciated! ons, explanations would be greatly appreciated!J`00mcHx/ again, please reply to dieder at 73773.3262@CompuServe.COM ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Mar 94 21:39:06 EST From: Tom Coradeschi Subject: [A]: MS Word & xtra line feeds ethan+@pitt.edu wrote: >Just off the top of my head, here's how I'd do it: use three global >search and replace operations. > >1. Replace ^p^p (two paragraph marks, where you eventually want only 1) > with something you won't find anywhere else, like *PARA*. >2. Replace ^p with just a single space. >3. Replace your marker, *PARA*, with ^p. Or just a search for ^p, with the 'Whole Word' option selected and replace it w/ a blank space. tom coradeschi <+> tcora@pica.army.mil <+> DoD#413 Disco Still Sucks ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 09:35:43 -0500 From: Morris_Balamut@INS.COM (Morris Balamut) Subject: [Q] Word 5.1 and Extended Postscript Hi, I have on many occasions printed a regular postscript file by opening it in Word and setting the style to postscript and then just printing. I recently received several files that Word insists on converting from EPS. I presume that the EPS files are extended postscript, is that accurate? My problem is that when Word is finished 'converting' the file all that appears in the window is some of the % header info. If I try and print the file all I get is some blank pages. Can Word handle EPS files? Is there a trick to it. I am further confused because one of the files was supposedly created with Word for Windows. I am using a PowerBook 165 with 7.1 and Word 5.1a. Can anyone help me? Thanks. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + Morris Balamut, International Network Services, Tel: 908-603-7707 + 120 Wood Avenue South, Suite 403, Iselin, NJ 08830 Fax: 908-603-6293 + Internet: Morris_Balamut@ins.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 11:52:21 -0600 (CST) From: Neil Eric Mickelson Subject: Adobe Purchases Aldus??? I just saw in issue #44 that someone saw an article about Adobe purchasing Aldus? Is this true? Where can I find more details? And who's got bets that Illustrator vs. Freehand is going to be an issue no longer if this is really true? I'm in... Neil E. Mickelson n-mickelson@uiuc.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 22:11:24 -0800 From: Charles Chia-Hsing Hsieh Subject: A Mac and a PC sharing a monitor? I have a PC and Mac sitting on my desk and I know of monitors that would work with both. Now, is there some kind of switcher that would connect the monitor to both Mac and PC and allow me to see either with a dial, much like a printer swticher? Or am I dreaming? Charles C. Hsieh ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Mar 94 17:04:39 JST From: awaji@gokumi.j.kisarazu.ac.jp (AWAJI Yoshimasa) Subject: American Heritage Ditionary(C) Hi, > Does anyone know when WordStar is going to update their American >Heritage Deluxe Dictionary to 32 bit addressing? grumble, grumble... This is not an answer to Larry's question, but talking about AHD, I also would like to know if upgrade is available anywhere from standard ed to delux one. When I asked the angency in Japan where to contact about AHD, they told me it was not WordStar but some other company. I couldn't find their e mail address so I gave up. I couldn't dare to pay for internaional phone call. Thanks in advance, AWAJI Yoshimasa Kisarazu National College of Technology ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Mar 94 13:04:47 -0500 From: manager@msd.measurex.com Subject: Apple Blunder...... If you can get a copy of the March 14th issue of Information Week get a load of the cover shot of Ian Diery standing behind a Power Mac 8100 and a badly skewed 21" Apple monitor. The same scene is duplicated on page 22-23 at an even closer vantage point. The monitor just looks awful....... I think Ian needs a few lessons in basic marketing (and photography). The monitor should have been adjusted or just removed from the picture. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Mar 94 17:09:07 -0800 From: groucho!josh@uu4.psi.com (Joshua Sakov) Subject: Apple Event Manager and 32 bit mode [Q] Is there a compatibility problem between Apple Event Manager and 32 bit mode? I am running a Mac SE/30 with 20MB physical RAM, Connectix MODE32 version 1.2 and system 7.1. When I turn 32-bit Addressing ON in the Memory control panel, the Apple Event Manager extention will not start (the startup icon shows an X on it). It does start OK though with 32-bit Addressing turned off? Any ideas? Thanks, Joshua Sakov josh@dl.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 03:42:49 GMT From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle) Subject: As Apple has sown, so shall they reap - the tools mess As of today, there are NO shrink-wrapped PowerPC apps at Fry's, Computerware, Computer Attic, Egghead, or the Stanford Bookstore. That's here in Silicon Valley, a local call from Cupertino. Despite all the hype from Apple, that is the reality. Considering that Power PCs have been in the hands of developers for at least six months, this is suprising. But it's not suprising when you look at the tools situation. During the last six months, we've had the Bedrock debacle, the death and re-animation of MacApp, the Symantec C++ mess, the ETO ripoff, and now, the discovery that Think C 6.0 won't run on PPC. Apple let the tools situation deteriorate. Only a few months ago, Apple was urging developers to migrate to Symantec's tools. Remember? MPW C++ was allowed to get years behind (it's still based on the ancient AT&T Cfront 2.0). Then when Symantec blew it, the fallback positions were weak. All this happened just as Windows really took off, and many Mac products were converted to Windows or simply abandoned. Apple didn't provide a painless migration path to PPC for developers. And now they must suffer for it. PPC may well fail in the market because of this. John Nagle ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 20:16:02 -0600 From: bkim@ddsw1.mcs.com (Brian Kim) Subject: AutoDoubler Woes My friend has an 8/105 IIci with 32-bit addressing enabled running AutoDoubler 2.0.3. For some inexplicable reason, AD uses around 1,728K of system RAM no matter what AD's RAM cache is set to. After disabling all other extentions, re-installing and doing all the other usual stuff, we still couldn't figure it out. We'd really like to reclaim a lot of that RAM. Any help would be appreciated! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 04:00:37 -0500 From: lt10@cornell.edu (Tim) Subject: AVI->QuickTime conflict (Q) I am having system errors using AVI->QuickTime to convert a .avi file. The process crashed on both my Quadra 610 and Mac IIx with very limited inits. Does anyone have similar problem? Or is there any conflict problem that I am not aware of? Thank for any help. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 10:57:42 -0800 (PST) From: Regina Melczer Subject: BocaModem? I would like to find out if anyone has had any experience (pro or con) with a Boca Research 14.4K external BocaModem. In July 93's Byte magazine it was top rated as best overall for general purpose use. Thanks. Gabe melczer@sfu.ca ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 16:10:16 -0800 From: durstb@BCC.ORST.EDU (Bob Durst) Subject: CD-ROM 5.0 audio question I just upgraded to the 5.0 version of the CD-ROM stuff from Apple. The new Audio controller is much nicer than the old CD-Remote, but I have one question that maybe someone out there has solved. How do I get all my audio CD names and songlists to transfer in from the old CD-Remote Init? -Bob D. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 22:08:16 -0800 From: Charles Chia-Hsing Hsieh Subject: CD-ROM player that works on both Mac and PC? Do CD-ROM players work on both Mac and PC? Like modems, unlike keyboards? Please respond to me directly. Charles C. Hsieh ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 14:34:52 GMT From: P Mulderry Subject: Change default font in Endnote plus? Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu writes: >Hi, everybody: >Endnote seems use Chicago font as default font to display. It is too big. >Is there a way to change it to Geneva 9 or 10 point? With Resedit? >Thanks for any help >Y S It uses Chicago because that's the system font (menu bar etc.) You can change it, but it's probably more trouble than it's worth. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 12:15:40 -0800 (PST) From: John Thoo Subject: Claris Resolve (C) Some months(?) ago there was a short thread on Claris Resolve in the imdigest. I just read in the 03.07.94 MacWEEK that Claris Corp. this week got out of the spreadsheet business by pulling the plug on Resolve.... Claris is offering Resolve owners an upgrade to its $299 ClarisWorks for $29. The upgrade can be ordered by calling (800) 544-8554.... --Claris Corp. (408) 987-7000 or (800) 325-2747; fax (408) 987-3931. I hope this info proves useful to someone. --John. J. B. THOO, Math Dept, Univ of California, Davis ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Mar 94 10:30:16 -0800 From: Bill Rausch Subject: connecting localtalk lans >school in Ecuador ... three Appletalk LANS to connect I'd recommend buying one hub, e.g., Focus Enhancements TurboStar ~$500, and connecting your three LANs to it. If you are using Apple brand LocalTalk connectors you will need three adapters also (cheap). The distances you describe are not very long as networks go, and the traffic you describe sounds pretty light so you don't need Ethernet. Focus phone number: 1-800-538-8865 - ask for their catalog. ---- Bill Rausch, SW Engr, wnr@fred.nfuel.com, 509-943-0861 Numerical Applications, 825 Goethals #A, Richland, WA 99352 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 09:44:10 EST From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" Subject: Crashed Quadra 840av Fixed Yesterday I reported a Quadra 840av that went belly up with what appeared to be a hardware error. (Sad Mac icon on boot, hex numbers on the screen.) I am happy to report that the problem is now cured-- and it wasn't hardware. It was partly user error (little old me) and partly Apple CD problem. Apparently the Apple Support Briefing CD on the PowerPC has corrupted boot tracks. When I rebooted the Quadra, the CD-ROM was not ejected (why, I don't know). When the 840av restarted it looked (God knows why) to the CD ROM, saw the bad boot tracks and died. The CD ROM with the defective boot tracks was manufactured by Apple! For shame! :-( Thanks to a number of really helpful people who jumped in to help including Chris Chew and Ethan Ernest . Special thanks to a good friend who always seems to have the right answer--he's absolutely amazing! We are back up and running! Jeffrey Fritz West Virginia University jfritz@wvnvm.wvnet.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 19:24:22 -0600 From: courcoul@itesmcq1.qro.itesm.mx (Juan M. Courcoul) Subject: Dead SE/30 screen -> guide to Pina books On Info-Mac 12-44, Paul Baim wrote: ... >Mr Pina has currently released 5 books: > >Macintosh Repair and Upgrade Secrets (MRUS) >Macintosh Printer Secrets (MPS) >Macintosh II Repair and Upgrade Secrets (M2RUS) >Mac Classic & SE Repair and Upgrade Secrets (MCSERUS) >The Dead Mac Scrolls (DMS) ... > Although purchasing the books would make Mr Pina quite >happy, you can easily learn the procedures for your Mac from a library copy >or one borrowed from somewhere else. Could someone please list the ISBN's and publisher for these books. Thanks, Juan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Mar 94 09:50:52 PDT From: ace@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst) Subject: disabling SE/30 monitor In Regards to your letter <199403170127.AA22462@nwnexus.wa.com>: > I have an SE/30 and a Radius Color Pivot/LE. The Pivot/LE is the main > monitor. > > I would like to disable the SE/30's internal monitor (in a reversible > fashion, of course :-) so that the Mac thinks that the Pivot/LE is its > only monitor. The bottom line is that I would like somehow to keep the > mouse pointer (and also windows and dialog boxes, etc.) from roaming off > the Pivot/LE's screen. Can I do this by simply unplugging something > inside the Mac? If so, what? Egads - why would you want to do this? Using double-monitors is one of the most productivity enhancing things you can do on the Mac, since you can easily have multiple windows on different screens and that sort of thing. I won't buy a Mac that I can't easily put two monitors on. However, if you have your heart set on this, perhaps a simple solution is best. In the Monitors control panel, arrange the two monitors so they only touch in a corner - that leaves a one pixel doorway. Then just turn the SE/30 monitor all the way black with the brightness knob. cheers ... -Adam -- Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor -- ace@tidbits.com -- info@tidbits.com Author of The Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh -- tisk@tidbits.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Mar 94 14:32:00 EST From: chyde@labs-n.bbn.com Subject: disk drive repairs near boston I've got to get a hard disk repaired (darn thing won't spin up half the time, works fine when it does). a Maxtor drive. I live just outside Boston. any suggestions who to see or who to avoid? price range? please reply direct. -- clint chyde@bbn.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Mar 94 17:41:42 PDT From: ace@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst) Subject: Eudora and Delphi In Regards to your letter <199403172230.AA02889@nwnexus.wa.com>: > Subject: I recently purchased a copy of The Internet Starter Kit in which there > was a copy of Eudora. I believe that I have installed and configured it > properly. I attempted to connect to the Delphi server via a Tymnet number > through a Compudyne modem with Mac/TCP enabled and received an error message > 43. When I then unchecked Mac/TCP and tried to use the Communication ToolBox, > the Communication ToolBox could not be opened. > > What am I doing wrong? I would like to use Eudora with my Mac, because of the > easier interface. Can someone help, offer some suggestions or enlighten me > about > this particular error message. Unfortunately, what you're doing wrong is using Delphi. Eudora does not work with Delphi at all, either in MacTCP mode or in CommToolbox mode because Delphi doesn't use standard POP/SMTP servers as far as I know. So as much as I hate to say it, the only way you can use Eudora is to find a different provider that offers either SLIP or PPP access, or that uses POP and SMTP servers that Eudora could access via dialup using the CommToolbox. cheers ... -Adam -- Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor -- ace@tidbits.com -- info@tidbits.com Author of The Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh -- tisk@tidbits.com ------------------------------ Date: 19 Mar 94 09:23:05 EST From: Hans Kroeger <100136.3052@CompuServe.COM> Subject: EUDORA Questions Background Information --------------------- We finally got our Ethernet LAN connected through a router to the INTERNET. My intention is to establish some kind of a "Standard" for the connection of individual PCs and Macs in a client/server configuration to our VMS-VAX machines and Suns in order to use E-Mail over the Internet. The user interface should be as simple as MS Mail or so... My specific questions about EUDORA are : --------------------------------------- 1. If I send an EUDORA mail message with a binhexed enclosure, can the recipient manually debinhex the attachment in case she/he does not use a tool like EUDORA ? 2. If EUDORA receives a message which includes a "manually" binhexed file will the file automatically be debinhexed and filed on the Mac or PC ? 3. Is there a limit for the file size of a binary enclosure ? 4. Is it sufficient to install TCP/IP in the server only or do we have to istall TCP/IP in the clients (Macs and PCs) too ? 5. Where do I find more info about TCP/IP for the PC (anonymous ftp site) ? 6. Any sugestions to use a different system than EUDORA ? Thanks for your help! Hans 100136.3052@compuserve.com kroe@eds.dofn.de kroeger@stsci.edu kroeger@spacediv.dofn.de ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Mar 94 11:50:51 MST From: "Roger B. Marks" Subject: Eurora for Windows enclosure format kroeger@spacediv.dofn.de wrote: >>Eudora can be used to transfer arbitrary Macintosh files between >>computers through its BinHex 4.0 attachment features. >I understand that there is a also a Windows version of Eudora. >Does anybody know if the Windows version of Eudora also provides an attachment >feature, and if yes, does it use BinHex 4.0, or UUencode or something else ? It uses BinHex 4.0. This makes it really easy to transfer binary files (in our case, WordPerfect files) between Macs and Windows machines. Roger Marks@bldr.nist.gov NIST/Boulder, CO ------------------------------ Date: 18 Mar 1994 16:32:27 MET1DST From: "Roger berglund" Subject: Excel-picture-Word I dont know my problem has been discussed before but it is very annoying. First I make my graphs in MS-Excel 4.0 then I try to copy it link it or even publish it to be able to add it into my MS-Word 5.1 document. No matter what method I try to use the result is the same. All thin (hair)line have become thicker and the graphs now looks terrible. My way of getting around the problem ist to redraw the graph in a drawingprogram and then paste it in Word but this i very time consuming. What's wrong???? Is there any other solution????? (I have heard that the same problem ocurres in the PC-world!!!) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Mar 94 14:27:24 EST From: jgagne@edupac.qc.ca (J GAGNE) Subject: extension .tgz I know this is not exactly the right place to ask... But it's the only place I know of! I recently saw many files with a .tgz extension. Those are appended to Unix files i want to download. What is the program I need to decompress (I just suppose the .tgz come from a compression or similar utility) those babies? Thanks for your time and sorry for not knowing were those UNIX foxes are located. I'm a Mac fanatic since 1984. Louis Lavoie ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Mar 94 14:06:15 EST From: chan@termite.space.swri.edu Subject: FTF Proactive 1.0 slow and buggy. I am a happy user of First Thing First 3.0, but the lack of calendar feature on FTF had me considering Now UpToDate. Then I got a direct mail from Visionary Software announcing FTF Proactive. From what I read in the promo, FTF Proactive sounded like a winner, and it was exactly what I was looking for; FTF 3.0 with calendar! FTF Proactive takes up 4Meg of disk space, and it's an application that hogs 1.3Mb of precious RAM. On top of this treachery, it's slow!!! It takes 10-15 seconds to open up on my PB100, and I have to hold down the mouse for a few seconds to open a menu. It is quite frustrating! It is worse than trying to run Word 5.1 on a SE. But, what really bothers me is that the program is full of bugs. The program quits cold when I try to open up "My FTF agenda" file used by FTF 3.0. Tech support person I talked to said "We're aware of the problem, and we'll send you a bug fix in a few weeks". So, do NOT buy or upgrade to FTF Pro!!! BTW, which is better? Now Uptodate or Datebook Pro? - Chan Na - chan@termite.space.swri.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 21:34:04 -0800 (PST) From: John Thoo Subject: FullWrite 2 Status (fwd) Received the following FW status report from Akimbo: --------- Forwarded message ---------- >From the FullWrite forum on AOL: Subj: Re: FullWrite 2 status 94-03-06 11:41:37 EST From: FullWrite Posted on: America Online First, about receiving notices in the mail about FullWrite 2. We will send notices to registered users when FullWrite 2 is available, but we have a company policy not to send these notices out until a product actually ships. Thus, when you receive an upgrade notice you know there won't be any further slips in the schedule. We will also announce in this forum when FullWrite 2 ships. We do not announce "golden master" ship dates, etc. We also do not publicly announce our beta schedule. We can say that the betas we've already sent out have gone well and we hope the rest go as smoothly. Second, the end of the first quarter is indeed fast approaching and we are working at a rapid pace. However, we have decided that we must delay the ship date past the end of this quarter. Our development schedule is on track, but there's been more work required to bring FullWrite up to our quality standards in some areas than we initially anticipated. We'd rather delay the release slightly than leave some problems unaddressed. At this point, we are not announcing an official shipping date. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 08:49:27 -0600 (CST) From: Andy Kesling Subject: General Magic phone number Will someone post a telephone number for General Magic? Thanks for your assistance. Andy ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Mar 94 13:05:00 PST From: hallett@keanemw.mixcom.com (Jeffrey A. Hallett) Subject: Global Village I received word back from Global Village tech support. The cable they ship with the Teleport is a hardware handshaking cable. Knock yourselves out. Jeffrey A. Hallett, Keane, Inc. (414) 797-4980 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Mar 94 12:01:15 PST From: hallett@keanemw.mixcom.com (Jeffrey A. Hallett) Subject: High-speed Connect I'd like to summarize the data I got about high-speed connection. To remind people, I was attempting to use my Teleport Gold to connect at high-speed (14.4k+) to a UNIX host. I was using White Knight. 1. I was told by a few people to make sure that the cable was a hardware handshaking cable and it use the hardware handshake if so. I have email out to Global Village to find out. 2. I was also told to set White Knight to speak at 19.2k rather than 38.4k. As an aside, I ended up using the init sequence AT%C1\N2\Q3\J0\V1W1S112=11 to achieve the best results. (I had been experimenting with this string rather than using the settings in the Teleport Serial control panel). It basically authorizes the modem to try to get the best it can and to be verbose about the connection settings. The really relevant part is setting register 112 equal to 11, the code that says to use a DTE speed of 19.2k. 3. The last major piece of advice was to change the window size on the ZMODEM by using the -w option on sz. I ended up using sz -w 2048 to do my transfers. What difference did it make? On a transfer of 860K, I received no transmission errors and the efficiency was constant at about 83% (a throughput of about 12kbps). Before, I would get about 8%, so these changes gave me a factor of 10 improvement -- much more acceptable. :^) Thanks again to all who responded. I appreciate it. Jeffrey A. Hallett, Keane, Inc. (414) 797-4980 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 22:14:52 -0800 From: Charles Chia-Hsing Hsieh Subject: How to set up a local talk with just 2 computers? I have a PC and Mac sitting on my desk and I would like to set up a network that would connect both. The reason is I would like to run Timbuktu on them and control the Mac from Windows, even though again they are sitting next to each other. Am I dreaming? Please respond to me directly. Charles C. Hsieh ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 13:39:04 -0800 From: kee@kagi.com (Kee Nethery +1 510 843 6140) Subject: HyperTalk help needed... (A) >These are educational flashcards BTW, so you want to include a button >that will "randomly" go to another card. Simple enough. But what if you >only want a card betwen a certain range of card numbers, say only from >card 40 to card 80? on mouseUp put 40 into firstNrange put 80 into lastNrange go to card firstNrange + random(lastNrange-firstNrange) end mouseUp Cheers, Kee Nethery ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 13:03:28 -0400 (EDT) From: HUBSCHWE@SNYONEVA.CC.ONEONTA.EDU Subject: ink jet refill - larger sizes Anyone know of a source for HP PWXL and XL300 ink??? I have tried refills sucessfully, but the cost is still too high for my students. anybody know where I can buy ink in say Gallon sizes??? I'd even get my students a large format printer if I could. They eagerly await your reply!!!! Bill Hubschmitt _ Art Department SUNY Oneonta ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 16:13:52 +0100 From: Martin.Jourdan@inria.fr (Martin Jourdan) Subject: In praise of the HP Deskwriter 5.0 drivers Last week I downloaded the new printer drivers for the HP DeskWriter series (one size fits all, i.e. there's only one driver for the whole family, from the plain B/W 510 through the one-cartridge DW C to the brand new color 560C -- the 310 is not in the list, though, it still has its own driver). I installed them and tried them on my old DW C. I printed several types of jobs with the new 5.0 driver and the old 3.0 one: a scanned photograph, text with colors, business graphics. The results are impressive. In all aspects of the printing process, the new driver is much better than the old one: - the colors are much more faithful and, with the color cartridge, the black is blacker (!!); - on the scanned photograph, there's much less banding and pixellization (although I had set the 3.0 driver the recommended, non-default way for printing photographs); - on colored text and business graphics, areas of light colors print better because, apparently, the driver uses randomly scattered dots rather than geometric patterns; for the same reason, gradients are also much more pleasant to the eye; - the "ColorSmart" feature, which automatically determines the best settings for each print job, works really well: you (at least I) never have to go to the "options" dialog to manually set the intensity, halftoning method and color matching; - printing is faster, from the moment you click the "OK" button to the moment you have the page in the hand, because the driver is faster; the only slight problem is that, when ColorSmart is enabled, it may take some time to analyze your job before spooling it to disk, especially on bitmaps; - and status messages are back in HP Print Monitor! Installation is a snap. Note that, if you have System 7 (and hence TrueType), the contour fonts living in the "HP folder" are not used by the driver and can be trashed; this frees about 1 Mb! Same with the "color test" file. Hooray to Hewlett-Packard! The 5.0 driver has revived my DeskWriter C. Drivers are available via anonymous FTP from FTP-BOI.EXTERNAL.HP.COM in file pub/printers/djet.pjet.dwriter/mac/dw50.hqx (976148 bytes). Martin Jourdan -- INRIA, Projet ChLoE, Rocquencourt, France ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Mar 94 00:26:30 EST From: Gino Filicetti Subject: Join Now. This is an ad for a brand new electronic 'zine now available on the Internet. 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I need a 12-point type that spaces at 12-pitch (Elite) *monospaced*. A scan of the archives and summaries has yielded no likely suspects. Any suggestions? Traci J. Ingram tingram@services.dese.state.mo.us | or | 101-8673@MCIMail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Mar 94 17:36:32 PDT From: ace@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst) Subject: Mac configurations In Regards to your letter <199403172230.AA02889@nwnexus.wa.com>: > Does Apple offer the following Power Macintosh 6100 configuration? > > Power Macintosh 6100/60 16MB RAM/500MB HD/CD300i+/AV Card (with 2MB VRAM) > > If not, why not? > > If they do not, I'm quite pissed (and I'M SURE OTHERS ARE TOO!), as 8 MB of > RAM is NOT enough, and a wimpy 250MB hard disk is NOT enough, either! > > I'M SURE that others out there would also like to see a 6100 16/500/CD/AV > config. as well... If indeed others out there do, PLEASE followup to this > thread and I'll email the darn thread to Apple after a while. I don't think this is particularly worth getting worked up over. If you want 16 MB of RAM, buy another 8 MB separate when you buy the Power Mac. It will often be cheaper than if you bought it from Apple anyway. The same goes for the hard disk, though it's a bit more of a pain to have two hard disks sometimes (although at other times it's a godsend since you don't have as many problems if one gives you trouble). cheers ... -Adam -- Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor -- ace@tidbits.com -- info@tidbits.com Author of The Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh -- tisk@tidbits.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 13:51:32 -0800 From: kee@kagi.com (Kee Nethery +1 510 843 6140) Subject: Mac SQL query software (A) >We a project to create an application which will permit users to obtain >administrative data from DB2 & IDMS databases using SQL and combine this >data to provide online financial information. The development is being done >in the MS windoze environment. Does anyone know of any work like this done >with macs? Macs speak SQL quite well. I like the Brio tools and you should definately get the APDA catalog since it will list other SQL tools. Maybe someone else knows if there is a distribution list for Mac SQL questions. For all I know, Apple might even have a whole catalog of SQL solutions. Contact your local Apple office and ask an Apple employee. Cheers, Kee Nethery Apple Computer: APDA PO Box 319 Buffalo, NY 14207-0319 1-800-282-2732 fax 716-871-6511 apda@applelink.apple.com Brio Tech 444 Castro St., Suite 700 Mountain View, CA 94041 415-961-4110 fax 415-961-4572 brio@applelink.apple.com DataEdit, DataPivot, and other tools for dealing with SQL databases ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 23:50:26 -0500 (EST) From: Paul Koch Subject: Mac symptoms (fwd) Mysterious behavior has been reported on a Mac last seen in northern Virginia. Is there a kind-hearted sleuth who would like to tackle this one? The machine is a Performa 200 (Classic II) which I purchased, refurbished from Apple, for my father to use with MIDI to teach music. You are invited to post your replies directly to John.ksi@KSINET.COM. Many thanks in advance for any clues leading to the restoration of this machine. Paul Koch --------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 23:05 EST From:John.ksi@KSINET.COM To: pkoch@cdcnet.uniandes.edu.co Subject: Mac symptoms OK, I have the Mac. When I turn it on, I get the usual smiling Mac icon, then the "Welcome to Macintosh" window. Next, along the bottom I get an icon of a Mac with a disk in front of it, then to the right of that I get a second icon. I can't really describe this icon because it only appears for a fraction of a second before both icons disappear. Then, where the "Welcome to Macontosh" once was, there is now a blank white window against an otherwise greyish screen. The black borders of this window is flashing as if it's in a perpetual state of redrawing it. Across the top of the screen, there is a blank white bar but there's nothing there to click on - no icon, no verbiage, just empty white bar. So that's all I have: a blank screen with a white window and a white bar across the top. The arrow does indeed move in response to the mouse. But, of course, there's nothing to click on. Suggestions? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Mar 94 14:42:31 EST From: jgagne@edupac.qc.ca (J GAGNE) Subject: MacTCP and SLIP Here is the problem : we want to set up a FirstClass BBS (on a Mac :-) ) with a access to the Internet. At our college, we have a dial-up access to a Sun Unix workstation already on the net. BUT, that machine does not know nothing about a SLIP or PPP connection. Is it possible to get access to the net with MacTCP and a SoftArc UUCP gateway thru this dial-up connection? If not, how much can it cost to install a SLIP connection on a Sun Workstation? Thanks for your help (and ANY help will be very valuable to us! Louis Lavoie ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 17:02:57 -0500 (EST) From: "William P. Krauthammer" Subject: MapArt is still around Hi Eric, I'm not sure where you've been looking, but I've been checking out MapArt for the last few months (trying to decide whether ClipArt will suffice or if I need map-making program such as BaseMap or Azimuth). In fact, vol. 18 of the Mac Zone catalog features MapArt on p. 25. It's in all the other major catalogs as well. Hope this helps, Bill -- William P. Krauthammer f2ehg786@umiami.ir.miami.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Mar 94 09:59:16 CST From: dwyman@houston.geoquest.slb.com (Douglas Wyman) Subject: MountImage 1.2b2 and Mt.Image 1.0.2 (/info-mac/disk/) MountImage 1.0.2 has been shown to corrupt files when they are read from a mounted image file. The author of the control panel is: Steve Christensen America Online stevec44 CompuServe 76174,1712 Internet stevec@applelink.apple.com Steve has requested, several times, that MountImage 1.2b2, be removed from all public servers due to this deadly bug. Steve did not, in fact, release MountImage 1.2b2 to the world, it was "leaked" by his beta testers. MountImage 1.2b2 is DANGEROUS and should be removed from this and any other archives...It's a bad penny that just keeps coming back! This action was taken, at least twice, by the previous Info-Mac moderators. The recently posted application Mt.Image by Yosuke "Basuke" Suzuki uses the MountImage control panel (and therefore its driver) to mount .image files. It therefore shares the same problems discussed above since it depends on MountImage for its operation. If you want a reliable way to mount .image files as desktop volumes then use DiskDup+ 2.3.2 by Roger Bates, available in the archives. Turning on the image mounting capability will cost you no more than a phone call and $20 registration fee. Unlocking information is given over the phone at the time of registration. Up-to-date version diskette and mailing is included in $20 fee. The usual disclaimers apply: I have not connection to Roger Bates except as a satisfied customer. I use DiskDup+. I HAVE BEEN BURNED by MountImage. I have confirmed the above statements by email with Steve Christensen who, by the way, works for Apple and is the author of the popular and reliable SuperClock as well as Apple's own DiskCopy (which creates the .image files). In my mind, Steve is blameless in this matter...He has tried hard to remove the MountImage 1.2b2 from public distribution. Please feel free to post this in any edited form that you see fit. It would probably have more impact coming from the moderators. >------------------------------ > >Date: 14 Mar 1994 19:47:05 -0500 >From: "Gavin Eadie" >Subject: [*] Re(2): Mt.Image 1.0.2 > >OK, please locate this file to some approprite site. >But be careful, this version cannot mount image files on >the server. Just not delete them. This is the limitation >of MountImage. > >best regards, > >Yosuke "Basuke" Suzuki >Factory, Inc. >Japan > >[Archived as /info-mac/disk/mt-image-102.hqx; 26K] ---------------------------------------------- Douglas Wyman System Engineering GeoQuest, 5247 Langfield Road, Houston TX 77040 USA 713 460-1260 phone USA 713 460-9579 fax Internet: wyman@houston.geoquest.slb.com SINet: m_sgqhou::wyman ---------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri Mar 18 13:33 EST 1994 From: nibeck@Pentagon-EMH6.army.mil (MNibeck) Subject: My own opinions Hello all Macintosh fans, I wanted to share some of my thoughts with you concerning Apples 10th anniversary and the release of the PowerMacs. I have been a Macintosh user for almost 8 years now. It started when my dad brought home an SE. I had been using a variety of machines up until then(Atari, Commodore, HP mainframe, etc..) for a variety of reasons, mostly games, but I got my programming start there also. Over the last 8 years I have grown to believe in no other machine, at least for myself. I will not fault other people for their personal choices of computers, but I firmly believe that the Macintosh is the best all around personal computer. In the last year I have started my own company and made an early decision to try and stick with all Macintosh hardware. We are primarily a graphics/animation shop, but provide general consulting services as well. Now, that you know a little about me, let me share with you some of my experiences(I am sure these will sound very similar to some of you as well). First, I would like to make a blanket statement that aside from some Mac periodicals and this internet forum, I heard/saw NO advertisement about Mac's 10th anniversary! I know of a few people that said they saw some, but I did not. I was shocked, I saw this as a real opportunity, especially with the future release of the PowerMacs. All kinds of goofy gimmicks come to mind, "We brought you the future, now we are going one step further!!!" Heck, even direct claims against the competition would be nice. Come on guys any business will tell you that advertising/marketing is kind of important! Excited about getting my hands on a PowerMac, I visited one of our local super-computer warehouse styles stores. They had each of the PowerMacs all lined up nicer and neat(6100, 7100 & 8100). There were some people looking at them, and I quickly hopped on the 8100(dream machine) for a test drive. Huh, what is this?? I don't understand, the machine had no software installed except the operating system!!! I was astonished, how did they expect to demo these machines correctly without software?? OK, so I tried the 7100 next. Ah ha! This had the CD from Apple with all kinds of cool demo software(Infini-d, Fractal Paint designer, SoftWindows, etc..). I was fully aware of the performance of these native apps, I was interested in finding out how well Windows performed. Was it installed, of course not. I had to drag the archive onto the hard drive and uncompress it. After a couple minutes or tweaking, I got it running. I must say it was quite impressive, to me at least. One last story about my visit. There was a gentleman there interested in the 8100, he asked a salesman for help. The salesman politely replied that he was not very knowledgeable on the Apple computer, but he would go get the "local Mac expert". I was impressed, they might actually be helpful. Ahh, this was not to happen, the local expert arrives and continues to totally shatter any hope I had of this retail chain actually helping Apple sell any hardware. The customer asked a simply question, "I understand that this machine will run DOS software is that correct, and if so how does it do it?" Legitimate question I think to myself. I then hear the salesman enter into a long speech about how "the machine can do it, but it needs extra file-transferring software and probably a network hookup." My jaw hit the floor, but there was more yet! He then proceeded to tell the customer that the machine had an "Intel chip inside" and that was how it could do it!!!! After I picked myself off of the floor, I calmly waited for the salesman to leave and then pointedout a few of the 'small' errors that the salesman made. I realize that some of the blame falls on the retail chain, and you can believe that I will be contacting them as well, but I believe that Apple has a vested interest in these situations. I worked for two years as an Apple student Rep at my university, and I couldn't get away from the marketing/propaganda machine >From within the company. They need to turn that machine loose on the general public. I won't admit that I have any exact answers or know all the right approaches, but I do feel deeply that something needs to be done. The idea that Macintosh people are a small 'elite' group is ridiculous. We need to start breaking down some of the untruths that have surroundedthis great machine for so many years. "There is more software for the DOS machines", "The DOS machines are cheaper", "The Mac is only good for games". We have heard all of these before, and they simply aren't true. I urge you to please take a larger role in promoting this machine. Although I don't personally believe that we will see the demise of the Macintosh any time soon, it sure would be nice to make promoting this environment less of an uphill battle. If anyone has any ideas/comments/stories to share please do so. If anyone has an "in" at Apple, please share that with us and maybe we can take advantage of it. I would like to believe that Apple would be interested in hearing what we have to say. And please visit your local dealers, and see how they are treating the Macintosh sales. I can't expect any of my clients to buy a Macintosh if they hear information like I heard. Well, I hope this wasn't too long, but I had to get some of this off of my chest. Thanks for your time, and I hope that my soapbox wasn't too high. Mike Nibeck President - Digital Horizons, Inc. email-nibeck@pentagon-emh6.army.mil Mailing address: 1456 Chatham Court Crofton, MD 21114 Mike Nibeck ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Mar 94 10:08:23 -0800 From: Bill Rausch Subject: need for 6100/60 16MB/500MB/CD/AV Card You can buy 8/250/CD/AV and then buy more RAM and external disks to upgrade. What's your beef? ---- Bill Rausch, SW Engr, wnr@fred.nfuel.com, 509-943-0861 Numerical Applications, 825 Goethals #A, Richland, WA 99352 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 00:45:53 -0600 (CST) From: park0009@gold.tc.umn.edu Subject: polar bears hi there i am looking for quicktime movies of the coca-cola polar bears you know the ones that coke had out over christmas with santa claus and all. if anyone has them please let me know.. Henry Park park0009@gold.tc.umn.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 10:53:20 +0000 From: Francis Knight Subject: Power Mac Hard Drive Speed Specs ? Hi All, A side effect of this Internet in my Back Room thang is that my existing hard drive is now stuffed to the gills. I may well buy a humungous new one, which will start off in my SE/30. Ever optimistic, I forsee swapping it into a Power Mac in maybe 12 month's time. What specification should I be buying, speed-wise, in order not to embarrass the eventual host? Cheers, Francis K. At a Mac Oasis Somewhere in Suburban Hertfordshire ------------------------------ Date: 18 Mar 1994 12:47:24 -0500 From: "JT Green" Subject: Power Macs and 21" Mono monitor (A) Tim Onosko asks about connecting a 21" monochrome monitor and a 13" high resolution RGB monitor to a Power Macintosh. Macweek and my local authorized dealer both indicate that DRAM video supports 13" and 16" monitors at 16 and 8 bits respectively; while the high performance PDS card supports up to 21" monitors with 8/16/24 bits per pixel from 1M/2M/4M of VRAM. So if you get a 7100/66 plus the $29 display adapter you can use your 13" monitor with DRAM video to get thousands of colors and connect your monochrome monitor to the PDS video and get 256 shades of grey. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Mar 94 12:12:50 EST From: bling@NADC.NADC.NAVY.MIL (B. Ling) Subject: Printer recognition problems I have a PB165c that won't recognize a particular LWIIf, but will "see" all of the other printers that it's hooked up to. Any quick suggestions ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 15:59:43 EST From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" Subject: Quadra 840av Goes Belly Up My bad luck with the Quadra 840av continues. I won't waste bandwidth with the gory details, but it has been one thing after another since I placed an order for the 840av last September. This afternoon the Quadra 840av stopped working altogether. It was acting strangely, complaining of memory problems, so I rebooted it. It never came back. Instead I got a sad Mac with the following hex: 0000000F 0000000C I suspect a bad SIMM. (I've tried just about everything else!) It won't even boot from a floppy. Has anyone seen this error? What does it mean? The Quadra refuses to boot. So I'm back to my trust Quadra 700. Hmmmm. Given all the trouble with the 840av (and not a drop of trouble with the 700), maybe I'll stay here! :-( Jeffrey Fritz West Virginia University jfritz@wvnvm.wvnet.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Mar 94 05:26:00 EST From: kylea63834@aol.com Subject: receiving files, etc. Hi! Hearty thanks go to those who responded to my query last week about receiving files from Info-Mac. To summarise: The e-mail posts to Info-Mac that contain an asterisk (*) next to the Subject: line are posts that had a file attached when submitted to Info-Mac digest. These files were then automatically stripped from the post and were placed in the archives where they can be retrieved via anonymous ftp. The attached message is then added to the digest. My net connection allows me to connect at 19200bd if I wish, but files are still transmitted at Kermit pace and I do not know how to figure that rate. As it currently stands, my connecting software is Microsoft Works as it seems the only one to support Kermit. Therefore, I will continue to receive Info-Mac digest here @ AOL as e-mail for two reasons: 1) I can set a FlashSession that logs off immediately upon completion of the download and 2) MSWorks has a problem capturing all of the text to appear on the screen--there are often large gaps between sections of text, making paging a file useless. Many people asked that question of me, and I thought the easiest way to reply would be here. Also, this allows others to see the answer to the original question, as seems to be fairly common practice. Point 2: I understand that on dial-up access accounts for the Internet, Fetch, TurboGopher and like programs do not function. These require a SLIP account to operate. My question is this: Is(are) there programs that operate in a similar fashion on dial-up accounts? Is this even possible given the way TCP/IP operates on the Macintosh (or other platforms for that matter)? Thanx again for the help. Happy computing everyone. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 13:54:31 -0800 From: 2gitarz@uclink.berkeley.edu (Jason Stone) Subject: Robert Gibson's Scale Hello Everyone, I hope someone out there can help me out. I am looking for a program called Scale. It was written by Robert Gibson of 7.0 Plus Utilities fame out of which came such programs as Custom Killer and DeIcon. I have tried contacting Mr. Gibson at his CompuServe address several times and he has not replied to me. I even asked BMUG to look for the program and even they can't find it. Briefly, Scale allows you to drag a bunch of files onto it and it automatically displays the cummulative logitical and physical size of the bunch without you having to break out the calculator to add up the sizes of all the individual files. This is immensely useful if you're trying to see how many files in a group will fit onto a floppy disk. I have searched high and low for this program and have come up with nothing. Since I can't get Mr. Gibson to reply to me, would someone be kind enough to point me in the right direction, or better yet, send me a copy of the program (it's shareware)? Any help at all will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Jason Stone 2gitarz@uclink.berkeley.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Mar 94 13:07:01 GMT From: m.deyssenroth@ic.ac.uk Subject: si sound bug hello netters. as some of you might know since a long time there is a bug in the si which sometimes (in fact regularly) causes the machine to stop playing sounds. i've got an f-key which sets the volume to 6 and back to 1 which seems to reactivate the output - but it's still really annoying. especially if you do lots of music on the mac like me. has anyone got another solution, so mail me please. thanks miron ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 17:31:51 +0000 From: C.Morgan@soc.staffs.ac.uk (Craig Morgan) Subject: Sound source re-direction from internal CD Is it possible to re-direct audio direct from the internal CD's of standard Mac's via the control panel ... I'd like to attempt to sample direct from an audio CD into an app supporting the standard audio source. The latest Sound control panel (v8.0.1 from the System Update 2.0.1) offers a selection of Audio In/Out options, but the internal CD does not appear ... is this only available with AV mac's? The hardware in question is Centris/Quadra 610's and 650's with internal/external CD300's Thanks for any help ... Craig -- C.Morgan@soc.staffs.ac.uk ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Mar 94 16:52:38 EST From: "Hines, Daniel M." Subject: stereo-maker problem It appears there is a problem with the stereo-maker Binhex file. I have attempted to download it twice. I received a Checksum error both times when using Binhex 5.0. Dan Hines "Once you go Mac - You never go back!! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 23:19:02 -0800 (PST) From: John Thoo Subject: WriteNow 4.0 (Q) Having waited what seems like forever for FullWrite to be upgraded, I'm now seriously considering switching to WriteNow 4.0. Before I decide, however, I'd like to ask a few things of you WriteNow users. (1) How do you find WriteNow overall? (2) Can one paste PICTs, etc., in the new tables of version 4.0? (3) Can one adjust the amount of super- and subscripting (e.g. by points)? (4) Can one super- and subscript a PICT, etc. (5) Can WriteNow flow text around (irregular) objects? (6) Does WriteNow suppoprt sidebars? (7) Can WriteNow create indexes, TOCs, etc., and cross-reference? (8) Does WriteNow have a (simple) draw module? (9) Can WriteNow import EPS files? (Items (3) & (4) are probably most important to me, since I often have to adjust equations pasted in from Expressionist. ClarisWorks apprently cannot do (3) & (4), which is why it can't replace FullWrite for me.) Thanks much for your help. --John. J. B. THOO, Math Dept, Univ of California, Davis ------------------------------ End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************