Date: Thu, 14 Apr 94 18:47:56 PDT From: The Info-Mac Moderators Reply-To: Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Subject: Info-Mac Digest V12 #59 To: info-mac-list Info-Mac Digest Thu, 14 Apr 94 Volume 12 : Issue 59 Today's Topics: [*] AddressBook368; keeps, prints, and dials! [*] Alphabet; a hypercard stack for the wee ones in the family [*] Autograph 1.0B7, Swedish; an Eudora signature utility [*] Autograph 1.0B7; an Eudora signature utility [*] csmp-digest-v3-013 [*] Digital Messiah Updater v2.0 -> v2.0.1 (a game) [*] Digital Messiah v2.0.1 fixer (a game) [*] FAQ: How can I send a fax from the Internet? (ver. 0.1) [*] FaxSTF 2.2.6 update; a facsimile modem utility [*] Guitar; a HyperCard Stack guitar lesson [*] hermes-ii-merchant-050b1.sit.hqx [*] Internet Services FAQ (ver. 1.8) [*] LEU 4/94; an electronic magazine for Mac users [*] Myst 1.0.1 (a game) updaters [*] Nuntius new release; a Macintosh news (Usenet) client [*] On the Edge 2.0; a solitaire type game [*] OptiMem Demo 1.5.6; a virtual memory utility [*] OptiMem Update 1.5.6; a virtual memory utility [*] Pictify 1.5 (resubmission); a screen capture utility [*] Player Pro Demo 4.154; a MOD file player [*] pms 1.0; a ascreen saver [*] Poker 2.0; a card game [*] print-juggler-demo; direct access to printers [*] Printer Defaults 1.2; configures defaults settings [*] Quill2.2; a text viewer [*] StartupScreenManager; a control panel [*] Teacher's Grading Program II 1.03 [*] teletimes-94-04; a journal [*] Tester 1.00; a test editor [*] Tetris; an arcade game [*] Tex-Edit 2.3.1; an editor [*] The Macintosh/Newton Easter Egg List [*] Unofficial Internet Book List (version 0.3) (Q) Address and or FAX of Metrowerks [?] FWB & GCC e-mail addresses needed. [Q] Access to CD-ROM from At Ease? [Q] How do I convert LaTEX to Word or RTF (Formulas and sections)? [Q] Seeking better terminal and modem tools About DiskCopy 5.0d1 Annonymous e-mail App to produce railroad diagrams? Archie data Color StyleWriter Pro brief review/speed test Common Ground and PageMaker 5.0 emulating a bug FileMaker Pro flex/bison Graphic Simulations U Turn How to get data out of a Rocket board onto the network, fast??? HP DeskWriter 560C vs. Apple Color StyleWriter Pro Info-Mac Digest posting Info-Mac Digest V12 info-mac inclusion Init limits InterSLIP-CALLBACK-Script needed (repost) IP over ARA irc clients LCIII PROGRAMMERS'S SWITCH Lost Files on floppy (Q) Macintosh Disk Cache fix -- 25 times speedup [C] MacTCP over ARA Mouse Cleaning Time in Montana Network backups Nisus 3.4 problem - please help Pathworks vs. PowerBook 165c PowerPC - Sys 7 Pro YES PPP vs SLIP Problem with large BinHex files Reported Trojan Horse in FTPd! SPSS 6 vs PowerMac Stylewriter and IIgs Talk and Finger over server-addressed account Telnet Version # Q Time Tabling On A Mac Turkish Font What's the deal with File Sharing? What mail programs handle internet mailing lists? ZModem spec (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: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 15:44:28 -0500 From: Ken Simpson Subject: [*] AddressBook368; keeps, prints, and dials! The latest of Jim Leitch's great Address Book. It prints labels and dials for you. I am in no way connected with the author. Stuffit 3 archive Regards Ken [Archived as /info-mac/app/address-book-368.hqx; 343K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1994 18:28:36 -0500 From: STUART WATSON Subject: [*] Alphabet; a hypercard stack for the wee ones in the family [Archived as /info-mac/game/alphabet-hc.hqx; 386K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 16:31:38 -0500 From: David Kabal Subject: [*] Autograph 1.0B7, Swedish; an Eudora signature utility Autograph 1.0B7 README Copyright (c) 1993-1994 David Kabal FREE! ** CHANGES -- Multi-language compatibility Now the folder (Eudora Folder in English) and file (Eudora Settings) to change are stored in the resource fork of Autograph (STR# 100). If I don't have a version of Autograph in YOUR language, you can make one! I currently have only English (autograph.cpt) and Swedish (autograph-sw.cpt) versions, so send me one modified in YOUR language and I can distribute it! [Archived as /info-mac/comm/net/eudora-autograph-10b7-sw.hqx; 39K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 16:31:47 -0500 From: David Kabal Subject: [*] Autograph 1.0B7; an Eudora signature utility Autograph 1.0B7 README Copyright (c) 1993-1994 David Kabal FREE! ** CHANGES -- Multi-language compatibility Now the folder (Eudora Folder in English) and file (Eudora Settings) to change are stored in the resource fork of Autograph (STR# 100). If I don't have a version of Autograph in YOUR language, you can make one! I currently have only English (autograph.cpt) and Swedish (autograph-sw.cpt) versions, so send me one modified in YOUR language and I can distribute it! -- Random signatures Yes, that feature we've all been waiting for: If you drag a FOLDER over Autograph, it picks a random file in that folder to be your signature. Be careful. Make sure all your files in that folder are acceptable signature files. ** WARNING Autograph only works with Eudora. If you don't have Eudora, give up. If you don't know what Eudora is, give up. You also need System 7. ** WHAT IT DOES Not much. It changes your signature in Eudora. You can drag and drop a text file onto Autograph and it'll change your Eudora signature to that. If you tell it to make a TEXT file into a signature, the next time you double-click on the file, the signature in Eudora will be changed to it. The idea is to have a folder of signatures, any which one can be double-clicked on to change your signature. Drag the whole folder over Autograph if you want Autograph to pick a random one. Oh yeah, if Eudora happens to be running when you double-click one of the signatures, it'll switch back to Eudora. ** DAVE-WARE If you use it, drop me a line (or smile). [Archived as /info-mac/comm/net/eudora-autograph-10b7.hqx; 41K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Apr 94 14:54:30 MET DST From: pottier@clipper.ens.fr (Francois Pottier) Subject: [*] csmp-digest-v3-013 C.S.M.P. Digest Wed, 13 Apr 94 Volume 3 : Issue 13 Today's Topics: AppleEvents to Run Excel? Finding the High Bit Generating Activate Events I got my PPC PDS card... Moving an editText area in a Modal Dialog Q PPC Development and MPW Tools PowerMac Programming PowerMacs and ARTA Quickdraw GX Beta 3 The Comp.Sys.Mac.Programmer Digest is moderated by Francois Pottier (pottier@clipper.ens.fr). [Archived as /info-mac/per/csmp/cdmp-v3-013.txt; 81K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 19:08:59 -0600 From: boryan.eberhard@u.cc.utah.edu (BoRyan Eberhard) Subject: [*] Digital Messiah Updater v2.0 -> v2.0.1 (a game) About DM Updater -> v.2.0.1 To use simply open the application (double-click on the icon -or- select and press cmd-O) and follow instructions. The patch will create a new application entitled Digital Messiah v.2.0.1. Dispose of the older Digital Messiah application. NOTE: This update may only be used on v.2.0 of Digital Messiah. An attempt to use on an older version will cause unexpected results. v.2.0.1 Improvements: All known bugs in v.2.0 are fixed. Known Bugs: None Planned Improvements: None at this time. [Archived as /info-mac/game/arc/digital-messiah-20-to-201-updt.hqx; 55K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 19:03:46 -0600 From: boryan.eberhard@u.cc.utah.edu (BoRyan Eberhard) Subject: [*] Digital Messiah v2.0.1 fixer (a game) This file is Digital Messiah Fixer v.2.0.1 AUTHOR: Terminal Sunset Software NEEDS: Digital Messiah v.2.0.1 This is a fixer for users who have upgrades from v.2.0 to v.2.0.1 and are now experiencing problems such as abnormal slowness and crashes with an error type 4 (while opening the preferences dialog). [Archived as /info-mac/game/arc/digital-messiah-fixer-201.hqx; 29K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 13:40:54 -0700 From: Kevin Savetz Subject: [*] FAQ: How can I send a fax from the Internet? (ver. 0.1) Summary: Answers the Frequently Asked Question "How can I send a fax >From the Internet?" Archive-name: internet-services/fax-faq Last-Modified: 1994/4/13 Version: 0.1 FAQ: How can I send a fax from the Internet? version 0.1 - 13 April 1994 Send comments & updates to Kevin Savetz . This document is copyright 1994 by Kevin M. Savetz. All rights reserved. More legal stuff is near the end of this file. This document is brand new and in transition. If you notice that an Internet fax service is missing, or information herein needs updating, please send e-mail to "savetz@rahul.net". *** Table of Contents Can I send a fax from the Internet? Free "remote printing" InterFax FAXiNET Unigate Legal Stuff Where to Find this Document [Archived as /info-mac/comm/info/internet-services-fax-faq-01.txt; 10K] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Apr 1994 12:35:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Russ Blaine Subject: [*] FaxSTF 2.2.6 update; a facsimile modem utility Please put the following file in your info-mac archive. The file is an updater for FaxSTF, it will update previous versions to version 2.2.6. Thanks | ---- Russ Blaine ---- | "Achilles was dipped in the River Stynx | | rblaine@max.tiac.net | until he became intolerable." | [Archived as /info-mac/app/fax-stf-2x-to-226-updt.hqx; 491K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 16:02:04 -0500 From: Salim.Ansari@mail.esrin.esa.it (Salim Ansari - DPE/IE) Subject: [*] Guitar; a HyperCard Stack guitar lesson A HyperCard Stack guitar lesson. It teaches you all the basic chords and includes 5 popular songs. Enjoy !! Thanks, Salim [Archived as /info-mac/info/nms/guitar-hc.hqx; 1351K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Apr 94 23:58 EDT From: michael.krause@exchange.wariat.org (Michael Krause) Subject: [*] hermes-ii-merchant-050b1.sit.hqx Merchant! v0.50b1 was finally released by Delphic Software. All registered users who wish to have their free upgrades should contact Michael Marshburn of Delphic Software either at: PUMA BBS - Aeolus/Delphic Software Support BBS - (909) 792-4902 <2 lines, both at 14.4 - Automatic Rollover> Internet: Delphic_Software@delphic.com He will check his records and follow "any procedure he wishes." On to *my* review of the wonderful new upgrade: Seems bugless, unlike previous versions of the external, much faster, more efficient, and generally "worth buying." Previous versions were plagued with mass amounts of bugs, inefficiencies, etc. This great external is definitely worth checking out. Lots of fun with the TW-2002 theme. Price was bumped back up to $20. Oh well. :) % Michael Krause % michael.krause@exchange.wariat.org % SysOp: Exchange / 216-261-9911 / 14.4 access [Archived as /info-mac/comm/hermes-ii-merchant-050b1.hqx; 162K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 01:44:32 -0700 From: Kevin Savetz Subject: [*] Internet Services FAQ (ver. 1.8) Summary: This posting lists frequently asked questions and answers about Internet services. It should be read by anyone wishing to post to the newsgroup "alt.internet.services". Archive-name: internet-services/faq Last-Modified: 1994/4/13 Version: 1.8 INTERNET SERVICES FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Version 1.8 - 13 April, 1994 *** CHANGES IN THIS VERSION: 2.1: added NVN (National VideoText Network) 2.2: added NVN (National VideoText Network) 2.2: can now telnet to CompuServe! 3.4: updated List of Lists 3.4: updates Surfing the Internet ???: lots of random little fixes 3.6: removed the section 3.6: "What's a good book to read for more information about the Internet?" and created a new periodic posting (see below). *** PARDON OUR DUST Ok, kids. This FAQ is about due for a major overhaul. The Internet changes quickly, making maintenance of this particular FAQ a chore. So, as soon as I finish my book at the end of April (well, give me a week to sleep. As soon as I wake up...) I plan to raze this FAQ list, update it and give it new life. Among my planned changes: removal of info re dead and dying Internet documents, addition of info obout sleek new 'net documents (like the Big Dummy's Guide version 2), info on how to fax >From the 'net, better explanations of 'net tools (like Archie/ Gopher/ Netfind/ Veronica/ WAIS/ WHOIS/ WWW...) and lots of other good stuff. This list will revert to its task of being a pointer to pointers rather than an answer source itself. The changes have already started: I have removed the question "What's a good book to read for more information about the Internet?" Quite simply, that question outgrew this FAQ list. I've started a new periodic posting, "The Unofficial Internet Book List", listing lots and lots of 'net books, many with descriptions. It is (or will soon be) available via FTP from: rtfm.mit.edu:/pub/usenet/news.answers/internet-services/booklist For further information, or to automatically receive updates of the booklist, send mail to "savetz@rahul.net". [Archived as /info-mac/comm/info/internet-services-faq-18.txt; 44K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Apr 94 11:34:56 18000 From: "Michael C. LaBossiere" Subject: [*] LEU 4/94; an electronic magazine for Mac users This is the April issue of the Low-End User (the EMag dedicated to meeting the needs of the "average" Macintosh user). As usual, the LEU is distributed in the standalone DOCMaker format. This issue features columns on Apple's future, the contents of DTC's mind, an in depth look at virtual crime and how to protect yourself from it, reviews of Apple's PowerCD and other products, News & Rumors, Letters, a special Mac Humor April Fool's section and much more. Remember, like members of the US Congress, the LEU likes to travel so please distribute it far and wide. The LEU Staff [Archived as /info-mac/per/low-end-user-94-04.hqx; 75K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1994 18:48:52 -0500 From: Martijn Plak Subject: [*] Myst 1.0.1 (a game) updaters Hi! This package contain updaters to the Myst game. I created them with UpdateMaker. On a local BBS I found version 1.0.1 of the Myst application. It seems to work OK, and may help those who have problems with the game. There is no documentation, so I don't know what was fixed. I have no connections with Cyan or Broderbund, and these updaters are not official. Yet I want to share this update with others. Martijn Plak Martijn.Plak@phil.ruu.nl [Archived as /info-mac/game/com/myst-101-updt.hqx; 105K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 19:36:15 +0200 (MET DST) From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: [*] Nuntius new release; a Macintosh news (Usenet) client Hi! I hope I'm not the 500th person to mail you this, but I just got Nuntius1.2, a major upgrade. Peter Speck, the author, *asked* us to distribute this to FTP-sites, that's why I'm doing it right away. [Archived as /info-mac/comm/net/nuntius-12.hqx; 463K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 15:41:24 -0500 From: John Stiles Subject: [*] On the Edge 2.0; a solitaire type game On the Edge is a fun solitare game in which the idea is to place the face cards in slots around the edges of the screen. An America Online tester (the guy who makes sure that things run OK) said it was "VERY ADDICTING" -- high praise, I assume, from a guy that tests dozens of files daily. [Archived as /info-mac/game/crd/on-the-edge-20.hqx; 8K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 15:47:30 -0400 From: alp@telerama.lm.com (Adam L. Pollock) Subject: [*] OptiMem Demo 1.5.6; a virtual memory utility Keywords: OptiMem Software Memory Upgrade Optimization Utility Control Panel Macintosh Jump Description: This is a fully functional copy of OptiMem v1.5.6 which operates for 24 hours after installation. Required: Stuffit Expander (or equivalent) to expand the archive. Hardware Requirement: Any Mac Running System 7 Contact: Jump Development Group 1228 Malvern Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15217 Phone: 412-681-2692 Fax: 412-681-2163 Recorded Info Line: 412-681-0544 AppleLink: RThornton * AOL: JumpDevGrp * CompuServe: 71321,1527 InterNet: jumpdevgrp@aol.com [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/opti-mem-156-demo.hqx; 464K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 15:58:13 -0400 From: alp@telerama.lm.com (Adam L. Pollock) Subject: [*] OptiMem Update 1.5.6; a virtual memory utility Keywords: OptiMem Software Memory Upgrade Optimization Utility Control Panel Macintosh Jump Description: Update a previous version of OptiMem (from 1.4.1) to v1.5.6. REQUIRED: An original OptiMem distribution disk and serial ID are needed to use this updater. Stuffit Expander (or equivalent) to expand the archive. Hardware Requirement: Any Mac Running System 7 Contact: Jump Development Group 1228 Malvern Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15217 Phone: 412-681-2692 Fax: 412-681-2163 Recorded Info Line: 412-681-0544 AppleLink: RThornton * AOL: JumpDevGrp * CompuServe: 71321,1527 InterNet: jumpdevgrp@aol.com [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/opti-mem-156-updt.hqx; 187K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Apr 94 23:34:53 EDT From: Alan D Earhart Subject: [*] Pictify 1.5 (resubmission); a screen capture utility After I first uploaded this I discovered that I had binhexed the archive twice. I resubmitted it but I may have done that incorrectly. I was recently informed by someone about a problem with the file at the Sumex-Aim archive. I downloaded it and it is indeed binhexed twice (I think I should take up something easier than email but I don't think I have any skill with snail-watching). I don't know which of the archives still have the 2x binhex file so I am sending it off yet again. *sigh* For those who don't yet know here is some info from the readme: PICTify by Scott A. Johnson PICTify is a control panel that provides you with screen capturing capabilities and is provided FREE of charge. You may capture the entire screen, a selection that you define, the frontmost window, or a pulled-down menu (including popup menus) to a file or to the clipboard. If you choose to save the snapshot to a file, you have the option of saving it to a TeachText* PICT file or to a ResEdit file which will contain a 'PICT' resource and a couple of other resources which define the dimensions of the PICT. I find the latter option essential for capturing pictures I've drawn to include in about boxes or other parts of my programs. America Online: DevScott CompuServe: 71035,3273 Internet: devscott@aol.com Alan aearhart@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu [Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/pictify-15.hqx; 43K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Apr 94 02:36:28 -0400 From: jamal@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Jamal Hannah) Subject: [*] Player Pro Demo 4.154; a MOD file player Here is the Player Pro version 4.154 .. with the "fat" RAM code block in it for the PowerPC. A few bug fixes and interface improvements. Comes with old version of the FAQ file, a list of MOD sites, and liscencing information. Contact Antoine Rosset for more info! [Archived as /info-mac/snd/util/player-pro-4154-demo.hqx; 579K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Apr 94 14:32:18 SST From: gloo@apple-iss.iss.nus.sg (George Loo Chee Khin) Subject: [*] pms 1.0; a ascreen saver Welcome to PMS, PatMan's ScreenSaver. This program was made to give me a screensaver when I boot up without extensions, during program development. This program is freeware / emailware / evangelismware. [Archived as /info-mac/gui/pms-10.hqx; 41K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 15:41:42 -0500 From: John Stiles Subject: [*] Poker 2.0; a card game Poker is a little Vegas-style simulation -- you vs. the Video Poker machine. You're given $500 cash and the ability to bet as much (or as little) as you choose--can you build your fortune? [Archived as /info-mac/game/crd/poker-20.hqx; 17K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Apr 94 08:03:02 PDT From: chris@aux.sonicsys.com (Chris Russo) Subject: [*] print-juggler-demo; direct access to printers The attached file is a demo version of Print Juggler, a commercial utility published by Sonic Systems, Inc. If there are any problems with this submission, please contact me at: chris@sonicsys.com Print Juggler is a simple utility that allows: % Monitoring of several printers and their status. The user is shown whether the printers are idle, busy, not connected, or in some error state. This is done with special icons that the user creates on the desktop. More detailed information can be obtained from the Print Juggler menu at any time. % Bypassing the Chooser by allowing the user to select a printer by using the Print Juggler menu or by double-clicking on one of the desktop icons (this method is disabled in the demo) [Archived as /info-mac/prn/print-juggler-demo.hqx; 79K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 13:48:49 +0100 (BST) From: John Rawnsley Subject: [*] Printer Defaults 1.2; configures defaults settings Here is an update to my Printer Defaults program which fixes some cosmetic bugs under system 6. New in this version:- 1) Option to have an expanded error dialog when parsing PPD's with LaserWriter 8.0 (already available in 8.1.1). 2) Much requested instructions for changing the default paper tray on LaserWriter Pro 630's (thanks to Ad Herweijer) John Rawnsley * jhr@maths.warwick.ac.uk Mathematics Institute * Tel: +44-203-523595 University of Warwick * FAX: +44-203-524182 Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK * CIS: 72662,3361 [Archived as /info-mac/prn/printer-defaults-12.hqx; 37K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 15:42:22 -0500 From: Ken Simpson Subject: [*] Quill2.2; a text viewer The latest of Sergio Villone's indispensible text viewer Use Quill to display (with text and pictures) documents created by: -Text editors (such as QUED, Edit, TeachText etc.) -MacWrite -MacWrite II -Word 1.xx, 3.xx, 4.0 & 5.0 (even in 'fast save' format!) -Microsoft Write -WriteNow 1.xx, 2.xx & 3.0 -Nisus (No pictures, sorry!) -WordPerfect 2.1 -DocViewer -DocMaker & InfoMaker And also: -PICT Format Documents -PICT's in the resource fork You can also cut paste and print. Now in a resizable window! I am in no way connected with the author. Regards Ken [Archived as /info-mac/text/quill-22.hqx; 112K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 15:43:09 -0500 From: Ken Simpson Subject: [*] StartupScreenManager; a control panel control panel that lets you pick random startup screens from a folder. How this is different is that it allows you to set weights for various screens so you see some more than others. I am in no way connected with the author Regards Ken [Archived as /info-mac/gui/startup-screen-manager.hqx; 79K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Apr 94 18:07:15 PDT From: jafl@Alice.Wonderland.Caltech.EDU (John Lindal) Subject: [*] Teacher's Grading Program II 1.03 Teacher's Grading Manage your student's grades quickly and easily. Program II 1.03 Everything is organized into 3 simple worksheets. Point, click, and type! Unlimited number of students & assignments per class. Choose from 4 methods of computing final grades! 8 different printouts including Home Notices! John Lindal jafl@alice.wonderland.caltech.edu [Archived as /info-mac/app/teachers-grading-program-ii-103.hqx; 270K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1994 07:46:01 -0700 From: editor@teletimes.com (Ian Wojtowicz) Subject: [*] teletimes-94-04; a journal The April, TRAVEL issue of International Teletimes contains information about our upcoming photography contest, PHOTON '94, as well as articles on Mexico, an interview with John Hiatt, Gun Control and more! This month's cover alone is worth downloading the issue! Next month, Favorite Authors... Ian Wojtowicz Editor-in-Chief [Archived as /info-mac/per/tele/teletimes-94-04.hqx; 587K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Apr 94 18:08:04 PDT From: jafl@Alice.Wonderland.Caltech.EDU (John Lindal) Subject: [*] Tester 1.00; a test editor Tester 1.00 Complete test editor. Type in the questions, add pictures where necessary, then print multiple copies of the test, with each copy having a different question ordering, and with an answer key for each copy. You can even practice taking the tests. John Lindal jafl@alice.wonderland.caltech.edu [Archived as /info-mac/app/tester-10.hqx; 241K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1994 09:58:55 -0700 (PDT) From: fschmitt@muddcs.cs.hmc.edu (Frank Schmitt) Subject: [*] Tetris; an arcade game This is a free, compact version of tetris (requires color QD). This program replaces Tetris.sit.hqx. [Archived as /info-mac/game/arc/franks-tetris.hqx; 21K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1994 11:09:06 -0700 From: ej@white.stanford.edu (E.J. Chichilnisky) Subject: [*] Tex-Edit 2.3.1; an editor I am submitting this as a favor to the author, who has limited internet access. Please find attached Tex-Edit 2.3.1, a fast, clean fully styled text editor with speech capability. More information is included in the archive. ej [Archived as /info-mac/text/tex-edit-231.hqx; 110K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 09:41:38 PDT From: bskendig@netcom.com (Brian Kendig) Subject: [*] The Macintosh/Newton Easter Egg List .__________. .__________________________________________________. | Contents | | | |================| | The Macintosh/Newton Easter Egg List | . | Hardware | | compiled by Brian Kendig (bskendig@netcom.com) | . | System | | ____ | . | Other software | | Easter 1994 edition. | OK | | . | Useful tips . | | `----' | . `-------------|\-' `--------------------------------------------------' . |_\ ................................................. (c)1994 bsk \ [Archived as /info-mac/info/mac-newton-easter-egg-list-94.txt; 39K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 02:00:10 -0700 From: Kevin Savetz Subject: [*] Unofficial Internet Book List (version 0.3) Summary: List of books published about the Internet, its uses, users, tools, resources, culture and lore. Archive-name: internet-services/internet-booklist Last-Modified: 1994/4/13 Version: 0.3 Unofficial Internet Book List version 0.3 - 13 April 1994 Send comments & updates to Kevin Savetz . This document is copyright 1994 by Kevin M. Savetz. All rights reserved. More legal stuff is near the end of this file. This document is brand new and in transition. If you notice that an Internet-related book is missing, or information herein needs updating, please send e-mail to "savetz@rahul.net". *** Table of Contents Vital Statistics This Month's Featured Book Alphabetical List of Internet Books Publisher/Ordering Information Internet Book Information & Updates Online Legal, Ethical and Moral Stuff Where to Find this Document [Archived as /info-mac/comm/info/internet-book-list-03.txt; 37K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 14:46:01 +0000 From: kokelly@ccvax.ucd.ie Subject: (Q) Address and or FAX of Metrowerks Does anybody out there know the address or preferably the FAX number for Metrowerks Inc. E-mail me direct please. Kevin O'Kelly, Mech. Eng. Dept., UCD, D4 Ireland e-mail: kokelly@ccvax.ucd.ie ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 12:23:49 PDT From: Bruce_Rubin.Wbst845@xerox.com Subject: [?] FWB & GCC e-mail addresses needed. Hi. I have a problem with a General Computer Corp. (GCC) FX/20 HD and FWB's Hard Disk ToolKit (Personal Edition). If you know the e-mail address for these firms, I would appreciate your sending it/them to me via my e-mail address. Thanks in advance! Bruce ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 14:27:39 -0500 (CDT) From: Michael Salmons Subject: [Q] Access to CD-ROM from At Ease? Hello everyone, I hope this question is not too ridiculous but... Is it possible to start up a CD while using At Ease? We have an LCIII available for public use at our library, and we want to provide access to an Apple CD300 player but don't want to provide open access to the finder. Any ideas?!? Thanks, Michael Salmons Columbia Pub. Library, Columbia, MO ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Apr 94 16:25:50 +0200 From: voe@RGsun1.dofn.de (Michael Voelker) Subject: [Q] How do I convert LaTEX to Word or RTF (Formulas and sections)? Hi folks, I'll get inputs written for LaTeX. The Document into which I want to put the text will be written with word. I'd like to know, how to convert the LaTeX source text into word (We use word 5.x on our macs). We also have sun workstations (and DOSes somewhere) e. g. for converting the ASCII source into RTF (and then read it into word) if there would exist any converter, ... Thanx, a lot for any hints, Michael ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Apr 94 13:14:59 -0700 From: cgay@majestix.cs.uoregon.edu Subject: [Q] Seeking better terminal and modem tools I'm looking for replacements to the Apple Modem Tool and Apple's VT102 Tool terminal emulator that fix some or all of the following problems. Suggestions of free/commercial/shareware replacements would be greatly appreciated. I've looked in the info-mac archive, on Apple's ftp server and used archie with no luck, but I may have overlooked something. Just so you know where I'm coming from, I'm used to ZTerm 0.9, which has none of the following bugs/lack-of-features, but now I need to use the Comm Toolbox for various reasons. It's possible that some of these problems are caused by the application that uses the Apple Modem Tool and VT102 Tool; I don't know. (1) There is apparently no way to set a terminal size other than 24x80. (2) There is no ability to simulate a shifted meta key (as opposed to using ESC, which is not a shift key). (3) The application using these tools frequently "unexpectedly quits" when I try to highlight text with the mouse for Cut and Paste. (4) There is apparently no pre-dial initialization string. (5) The beep sound (as set in the Sounds control panel) is not respected. The Simple Beep is always used instead. (6) Limited window output history (scroll history?) (7) When telnetting to another system, typing control-Z breaks the connection rather than just suspending the process. (I can't imagine what this has to do with the Apple Modem Tool, but I note that ZTerm doesn't have this problem.) (8) While dialing, it's impossible to switch to another application to get useful work done. If the phone is busy this can take a while. Configuration: Mac IIsi with System 7.0 Apple Modem Tool 1.1.1 VT102 Tool 1.0.2 (from Basic Conn Set 1.1.1) Thanks for any help. -Carl ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 22:39:29 -0700 From: jonpugh@netcom.com (Jon Pugh) Subject: About DiskCopy 5.0d1 I said: >I've never seen any DiskCopy newer than 4.2, and I'm damn good about >staying up to date. So I don't believe that one exists, although I would >certainly change my mind in the face of any new facts and would welcome >those facts. Well, four people (oops, 5 now) mailed me DiskCopy 5.0d1, so I'll admit that it exists. However, we got into this discussion by talking about MountImage, and the troubles that were caused by people using leaked beta versions. Here's an unannounced, unreleased version of DiskCopy, written by the same guy and people are ~still~ recommending this? Has _no one_ been paying attention? FYI, I will not be posting it and I don't recommend that others do either. Wait for the release version. Also, not one person remembered where they got it from although one person was almost certain it was from a Developer CD. Just remember that's where the buggy versions of MountImage came from too. ;) I'm speaking here as one who has been burned before. Heck, I even volunteer to be burned by prereleased software. I just recommend doing so with the author's knowledge and promptly reporting all bugs. ;) Jon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 21:20:58 -0400 From: lstein@panix.com (Luke Stein) Subject: Annonymous e-mail MacPersons, Is there a way to send annonymous e-mail. I do not want to use this for an immoral/illegal purpose. Please reply by post and/or <--(latter preferable) e-mail. Muchly thankful: <+> Luke Stein (lstein@panix.com) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 14:58:06 -0800 From: jim.flood@starware.com (Jim Flood) Subject: App to produce railroad diagrams? Is there an application on the Mac, other than drawing programs, which can produce railroad diagrams? These are diagrams which look something like this, for example: ---- A ---- B ------- C ----> ^ | | | |-----| |-- D --| which means A followed by one or more Bs, followed by either C or D. I am looking for an app that will produce something that I can paste into a Word doc. Thanks for any info, Jim Flood jim.flood@starware.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Apr 94 18:48:54 PDT From: ace@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst) Subject: Archie data In Regards to your letter <199404110614.AA18468@nwnexus.wa.com>: > I collect my latest data points on mirror activity last Saturday. I wanted to > down-load some of the goodies listed in Volume 12, Issue 54, which appeared the > previous Monday. archie.au did not know about any of these files. I was given > some good advice about another mirror site to consult, but my source suggested > I keep a lid on it. The bottom line is that the published mirror statistics > are not always consistent with actual practice. Mirror sites are definitely > a good thing; but if you are trying of find a "reflection" of what you are > looking for, perseverance furthers. Keep in mind that Archie servers aren't updated all that often, perhaps as little as once per month. This keeps them from bogging down the network by transferring directories all the time, but makes them useless for recent files. In addition, the archie.internic.net server that I use seldom returns more than about five of the mirror sites - hence if you use Anarchie, it ends up being easiest to retrieve a file from Sweden, inefficient as that is, since there are seldom any closer mirrors listed. Sigh. 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: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 09:21:06 +0100 From: johan.solve@itn.hh.se (Johan Solve) Subject: Color StyleWriter Pro brief review/speed test I received my Color StyleWriter Pro (CSW) a few days ago. It is replacing the ol' StyleWriter II (SWII) for me, so this review is partly a compararison between these two printers. First of all, I want to say that I'm only a happy amateur when it comes to color printing. My need for a color printer is strictly hobby related. I have no need for (or knowledge of) an exact color proofing system. Please don't make any purchase decisions based solely on this brief review. After playing with the CSW some days, the impression is beyond my expectations. It is only a little bit larger than the SWII (about two inches more on width and depth) and it weighs 5 kg (2 more than SWII). It has a compact design, yet not as slim as the SWII. It is more silent. It has the same paper handling. It is fast, compared to my expectations after printing grayscale photos on the SWII. And best of all, it has nearly no striping thanks to the overlapping printing technique. Ink jet printers are otherwise infamous for their stripy output. The colors are bright and vivid even on cheap photo copier paper. I haven't tried those glossy coated papers yet, but the manual claims these give significantly better output. BTW, the printer comes bundled with two transparencies and two high quality glossy papers go give a taste of what can be done (special ink jet transparencies are needed.) Compared to the $3000 NEC Colormate PS thermo transfer printer here at the department, I'm willing to say that the CSW's output is more sharp, has higher resolution and (thanks to ColorSync that comes with CSW) better color balance. And ColorSync probably makes it possible to calibrate the colors to match even better if you make your own ColorSync profile, but I have too little knowledge of ColorSync to know what can be done. I haven't had the chance to compare the CSW to any of HP's color printers, but I surely think the design of the CSW is better than that of HP's. Further, the CSW driver appears to be very stable and rigid, which is not what I've heard about the HP's drivers (but that is only hearsay). I'm only disappointed that plain black text output is up to three times slower than the StryleWriter II. See the speed test below for further details. The cost for printing plain black text on CSW is actually slightly lower than the cost for SWII. A cartridge should last for about 300 pages at 5% coverage, the corresponding figure for SWII is 500 pages. As the color cartridges for the CSW are half as expensive than those for SWII, the cost for CSW is about 80% of that of SWII. The CSW has separate ink containers for each color. The 9 ml containers are transparent, so it's easy to see when a color is near replacement. I only wish the black ink container would be larger than the other colors, as the black will be much more used. However, there is unused space next to the black container, so perhaps they are planning to release a "high capacity" black container. I haven't calculated with the replacement of the print head (a separate unit on the CSW). According to the manual, it may need to be replaced after "thousands and thousands of pages" but I haven't been able to find the price for it. Another plus in the record is that the printer shuts itself off after some minutes of inactivity, and better yet, it turns itself back on when it hears something coming on the serial port. I like that! In short: a heck of a printer. --- Speed comparison between Color StyleWriter Pro (CSW) and StyleWriter II (SWII) Test conditions: One full page of black Palatino 10p text (2700 characters) printed from MacWrite Pro 1.0 on a Duo 230 full of extensions and Print Monitor 7.1. The stopwatch was started when the Print Monitor window showed up in the background, and stopped when it disappeared (the Print Monitor was set to show its window when printing). Print Monitor remained in the background during printing. The printer port was used for both printers. Standard photo copier paper (ink-jet savvy) was used. Note that there are no gray-scale or color images involved whatsoever. This is a strictly a black text printing test. Results: (view chart with monospaced font!) *** Color StyleWriter Pro 1.5 === StyleWriter II 1.2 Best quality: ********************************************************** 155 s =================== 51 s Normal quality: *************************************** 104 s ============== 37 s Draft quality: ******************** 54 s ============= 34 s (shorter is better) The figures represent printing with grayscale/color for both printers. B/W printing was only mariginally faster (1-2 seconds better on each test). Conclusion: The Color StyleWriter Pro is up to three times slower on plain black text printing than the StyleWriter II. Further, the ink on the SWII is much more black. The CSW black is more like gray and somewhat grainy, probably a side effect of the overlapping printing technique used to minimize the striping we're used to when dealing with ink jet printers. Interestingly, the SWII prints in "Best quality" faster than the CSW prints in "Draft quality"! The specifications for the printers claim equal printing speeds. This was an important factor in my purchase decision, and now I'm very disappointed. What happened here, Apple? To balance this test, I want to say that I'm very pleased with the grayscale and color printing capabilities of the CSW. But as an average home user I want decent text performance as well, which I don't get with the CSW. When can we expect a faster driver? To sum up, the text printing performance on the CSW is poor, in terms of both speed and quality. _______________________________________________________________________ " JOHAN SOLVE Department of Science and Technology Halmstad University, Sweden ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 15:00:17 -0600 From: (Pete Chane) Subject: Common Ground and PageMaker 5.0 I think I may have found a problem with PageMaker 5.0 and Common Ground 1.0. It seems that if you have more than one PageMaker document open and print to a Common Ground .dp file, _both_ documents that you have open will end up in the Common Ground file, even if you only print one of them. Also, PageMaker's Print... dialogs do not let you use some of Common Ground's functions, like creating a self-viewing file. Let me know if you have experienced this. ----------------------------- PETER C. CHANE PCHANEUW@macc.wisc.edu PCHANE@applelink.apple.com, PETE1005@eworld.com University of Wisconsin-Madison, Home of the 1994 Rose Bowl Champions. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 17:53:44 -0500 From: Murphy@sbaserv.sba.uconn.edu (Murph Sewall) Subject: emulating a bug On Tue, 12 Apr 1994 10:09:07 -0800, Chris Schmidt wrote: >>(the bug that prevents SoftFPU from working with the 68CL40 shouldn't be >>applicable to the PowerPC--I assume Apple didn't bother emulating a bug :-) >>?? > >Don't count on that one. According to reports, they did emulate the bug for >compatibility's sake. Makes some sense, actually, in a weird sort of Apple way. >You gotta love those people. It doesn't make sense since the emulator identifies itself as 68020! (that's not 'compatable') The emulation doesn't provide FPU, or MMU functions (a 68CL040 it ain't), it's merely the same instruction set running at '040 speed (well they did build in one '040 instruction, but I'm not sure what the implication of that one is). Presumably SoftFPU works with a 68020. I am told that SPSS CV running with SoftFPU (on 68K series Macs) is considerably slower than SPSS NCV (the No Coprocessor Version). That suggests there's a market out there for a native code 68K FPU emulator that calls the floating point processor of the PowerPC directly. Such a thing sounds plausible to me; I wonder why Apple doesn't emulate FPU by using the PowerPC floating point logic? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 12:21:06 +0100 From: rvw@mshare.macip.kb.bib.dk (Rip Van Winkle) Subject: FileMaker Pro Hello, all netters out there Does anyone know of any FileMaker Pro listserv or newsgroup? In particular, I'm interested in exploring how one FMP database may relate to another. We currently use FMP 2.x. Thanks :-) Rip Van Winkle rvw@mshare.macip.kb.bib.dk Nothing can astound an American - Jules Verne You can always tell a Dane, but you can't tell him much - Unknown ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 20:57:26 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: flex/bison Anyone here know where I can find the latest versions of flex and bison for MPW? Thanks. -- # Monty Solomon / PO Box 2486 / Framingham, MA 01701-0405 # monty@roscom.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 18:26:34 EDT From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" Subject: Graphic Simulations U Turn Several weeks ago I had some not so nice things to say about Graphic Simulations' copy protection scheme for Hellcats and F/A-18 Hornet. Basically, my complaint was that it was taking a l-o-n-g time for GSC to send back the unlock code. That forced users to either patch their software, or sit with the 256 page manual at their side whenever they launched Hornet. It took nearly ten weeks for me to receive my unlock code--and some folks have waited longer! This story has a happy ending. Today, I received my unlock code and the following message from Jon Blum of Graphic Simulations: JB> We are sorry for the delay, but we have decided to make up for it JB> by getting rid of copy protection for all of our future products. JB> You might want to pass that along. Removing copy protection from a game (okay--I mean simulation!) is a really gutsy move. GSC is to be admired and thanked for putting their users first. I sincerely hope that the user community will honor this move and not take advantage of GSC's generosity. Since GSC has done a 180 degree turn, I feel that I should also. I said earlier that future purchases of GSC software with my personal dollars were very much in doubt. I am happy to say that this is no longer the case. I *will* be purchasing future software releases >From GSC. Way to go, gentlemen! :-) Jeffrey Fritz West Virginia University jfritz@wvnvm.wvnet.edu Disclaimer: My comments are personal and do not reflect my employer's point of view. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 21:51:03 +0200 From: Florian Techel Subject: How to get data out of a Rocket board onto the network, fast??? We have a Quadra 900 with a fairly expensive graphic system and a built in Rocket board (33 MHz). The Quadra 900 has 20 MB RAM, the Rocket 16 MB. Both Macs run System 7.1. Recently we wanted to turn the Rocket into a network server that would peacefully hum in the background while the host Quadra could still be used as a workstation. We installed an external Harddisk directly to the Rocket board via the SCSI-2 daughterboard. When the Rocket starts up from the System on the external drive it and the host Quadra really do not get in each others way very much, except for I/O tasks!!! Too late did we realize that in order to access the motherboards EtherNet the Rocket had to go through the 68040 of the Quadra (possibly even its RAM) and this did not exactly accelerate the performance as a server, au contraire!!! The overall performance of the Rocket server currently lies between 30 and 50 percent of the Quadra, even though the Quadras chip is slower (25 vs 33 MHz). Has anybody out there encountered similar problems? Are we the only ones that came up with the idea of using a Rocket as a server? Any suggestions, if one might install a NuBus-EtherNet card as they might communicate faster via the NuBus? How about one of these new Mini EtherNet-SCSI adapters? Might it be possible to install one of these in the SCSI-chain of the Rocket? Any suggestions are greatly appreciated, ;-) Florian Techel Department of Architecture Technical University Berlin, Germany e-mail: tech2151@mailszrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 09:06:04 +0100 From: johan.solve@itn.hh.se (Johan Solve) Subject: HP DeskWriter 560C vs. Apple Color StyleWriter Pro > Second, after printing a page from a Microsoft Word document which > included both text and graphics, I noticed that the Apple would *not* use > its black cartridge for the black text whenever a printed page contained > any color. In other words, when a page contains color, the Apple printer > will print black text by draining all three (cyan, yellow, magenta) > cartridges. This is not true, at least not from what I've found out using my Color StyleWriter. When printing mixeed black/color text from MacWrite Pro, Color StyleWriter defenitely uses only the black cartridge for black text. There is no trace of color in the black text. > Apple's spec sheet boasts that the Color StyleWriter Pro "takes advantage > of ColorShare software to enable printer sharing over a network." I > don't really understand this statement, unless it implies that AppleTalk > doesn't work with color, which I doubt. The HP DeskWriter 560C supports > AppleTalk. This is Apple's cheap solution to make the printer networkable. The CSW itself doesn't support AppleTalk, but if you hook it up to a Mac's modem port, the ColorShare software makes it possible for others to access the printer over the network, via the Mac the printer is directly connected to. In other words, CSW has to be connected to a powered-on Mac in order to be reachable over the network. _______________________________________________________________________ " JOHAN SOLVE Department of Science and Technology Halmstad University, Sweden ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 11:33:24 -0500 (CDT) From: "Traci J. Ingram" Subject: Info-Mac Digest posting Here is a clarification, from one of the authors of PINE mail, of my response to Paul Koch's question regarding "Uninvited characters in e-mail." Traci J. Ingram tingram@services.dese.state.mo.us | or | 101-8673@MCIMail.com On Wed, 13 Apr 1994, David L Miller wrote: > > One clarification to your response is that both the "=20" and the "=09" are > a result of the Quoted-Printable encoding that was used to encode the > message. Any MIME-capable mail reader (e.g. Pine, ECS Mail, Air Mail, ...) > should be able to read the message and display it in its intended form. > > The Mac newline problem is on our buglist and will hopefully be addressed > in the next release. > > Thanks for the report! > > --DLM ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Apr 94 09:47:00 +0200 From: kjell@arch.kth.se (Kjell Krona) Subject: Info-Mac Digest V12 My experience with my PowerBook 100 is that it MAY be OK to connect/disconnect the SCSI cable while the PowerBook is asleep. From what I have heard over the years, the danger with unplugging the SCIS "live" is that all pins in the connector may not disengage at the same time, possibley leading to "back currents" which may destroy senstive components (although I have sometimes unplugged SCSI "live" on desktop Macs by mistake without getting burned - lucky me!) Since (I assume) all power to the main circits are off when the PowerBook is asleep, I can imagine it is safe (electrically-wise) to unplug a SCSI device from a PowerBook in sleep mode, providing the SCSI device is also powered down. However, if the PowerBook assumes that a SCSI device is available while put to sleep, it will possibly hang up when awoken wihtout the device connected. At least, this is what happens if you disconnet a hard disk while asleep. The solution to this, of course, is to drag the hard disk to the trash to un-mount it, and re-mount with SCSI Probe or similiar solutions when re-connected. I have done this succesfully with my own PowerBook a number of times, but I would still hesitate to this on anyone else=B4s compu= ter... The story with the Ethernet adapter may be different, since it may not be possible to "unmount" this kind of device easily. In short, disconnecting a SCSI device from a PowerBook in sleep mode does not *always" fry the machine, and may very well work without any problems. Depending on the device and its driver software, however, it may still be necessary to restart the Mac to make it work as intended. Of course, I do not assume any responsiblity for this advice. You have to take full responsibility for using this information... - kjell kjell@arch.kth.se ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 08:58:27 +1000 From: p_storey@postoffice.utas.edu.au Subject: info-mac inclusion Photosizer, my Freeware DTP utility has reached version 1.2 recently. It has a record of being compatible with any Mac model since its release in '86. Fixes were only for performance & cosmetic. I recommend though for everyone to update to the current version, as it is the most elegant in terms keyboard equivalents. It can be driven entirely from the keyboard. Following is a brief description what it does: In DTP there is often a need to scale images, either from negs or positives, if manual stripping-in is required. Photosizer replaces very effectively the Proportion Wheel traditionally used. Apart from giving you the new dimension & percentage of reduction, it allows to save the information to a tab delimited text file including a brief description, such as page number/image description. The list can be printed from your word processor & supplied to the typesetter/printer, allowing them to efficiently identify & strip in the images. Typically Photosizer is used on-the-fly while you work on your layout. Using Quikeys to activate/hide the small Photosizer window & using its keyboard commands is very efficient indeed. I have been working with some of my clients (as a Mac consultant) to polish Photosizer and although it looks "bare bones", it represents the "minimal-effective" solution. I welcome suggestions for future releases. Please forward via e-mail or fax. Photosizer 1.2 can be found in the info-mac archives. Adrian Keil, MacSolutions Australia, fx +61-02-502654, e-mail via ------------------------------ Date: Wed, Apr 13, 1994 9:13 AM From: "Adam I. Harris, M.D." Subject: Init limits I was directed here to post this question. Our "server" mac is also used by a less than wonderful secretary who does things like turn off file sharing and disable routers.At least some of it seems intentional. I'd like to limit some of the options on control panel devices in system 7. I used res-edit to remove the "quit" from the mail server, but couldn't remove or fix the settings of Monitor and Memory, and file sharing. Can you help? Thanks in advance. Adam Harris. Adam I. Harris, M.D. Internet: Harris@ortho4.pro.rpslmc.edu aih@siss81.sis.rpslmc.edu Compuserve: 73047,440 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Apr 1994 00:56:58 +0100 From: h9151382@idefix.wu-wien.ac.at (Joerg Schaeffer) Subject: InterSLIP-CALLBACK-Script needed (repost) I am still looking for the InterSLIP Gateway-Script that handles security callback systems (where you login, hang up and the server calls you back at home)... I know that there is one, because I read about it some time (3 months) ago on comp.sys.mac.comm, but I forgot who wrote it. Please could anyone tell me where I could find such a script? I have already mailed Amanda Walker, but she doesn't remember the author either. (Please CC any replies to my adress.) Thanks in advance Joerg -- Joerg Schaeffer ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Apr 94 18:27:12 PDT From: ace@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst) Subject: IP over ARA In Regards to your letter <199404100501.AA11032@nwnexus.wa.com>: > - When the Duo users are away from the office (undocked and off the ethernet), > they can dial in to the server Mac through Apple Remote Access and use > Appletalk services (file sharing and printing). What they lack is the > ability to send and receive email, since SMTP and POP work over TCP/IP. > - I need to set up dial-in TCP/IP access for these people. Depending on your router, you may be able to just let the Mac folks dial in via ARA. Use the router to assign IP addresses to them, install MacTCP on the Duos and it should work. ARA makes a remote Mac appear as though it's on the same AppleTalk network as the host Mac, so if you can add a Mac to the network like that, you should be able to get the remote Macs connecting via ARA. 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: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 15:05:13 -0400 From: lstein@panix.com (Luke Stein) Subject: irc clients Peoples of the Macintosh, What is the best irc client. The only one that I have been able to find is ircle 1.5.1, which is OK. irc allows realtime conversation on-line. I'm sure it must be a ton of fun, but ircle's interface is hard to handle. Maybe I just don't have the newest version, but I've been looking (though possibly not hard enough). Any suggestions would be very graciously accepted. Please reply py post and/or e-mail, though and is better. <+>Luke Stein (lstein@panix.com) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 4:09 pm EDT (20:09:43 UT) From: Idalia Torres Subject: LCIII PROGRAMMERS'S SWITCH In Info_Mac Digest#56 Tony Silva wrote: >Date: Wed, 6 Apr 94 14:24:25 EDT >From: Tony Silva >Subject: programmer's switches for MacLCIII ^Q! >Pardon my ignorance on this one, but does such a beast exist? I'd like >to have unconditional soft-reset and interrupt capability. Right now >I'm using power cycling for rebooting and MacsBug with an FKEY for >interrupting, neither of which I'm too fond of. I don't like hammering >my power supply just to reboot when things lock up, and the FKEY >doesn't work in all circumstances. >Any info on installing a programmer's switch on my LCIII or getting >the same functionality by some other means will be greatly >appreciated. TIA. >Tony Silva, Atlantic Aerospace Elec. Corp., (617)890-4200, tsilva@aaec. >com I have an LCIII too, and I found this in "The Macintosh Secret Trick List" compiled by Brian Kendig which I downloaded from mac.archive.umich.edu. Press Command-Control-Power (the key with the triangle on it) for "reset" and just Command-Power for "interrupt". Hope this helps. Idalia Torres SUNY College at Fredonia Torres@Fredonia.bitnet ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Apr 94 14:16:56 EDT From: aa010@detroit.freenet.org (Chuck Reti) Subject: Lost Files on floppy (Q) Oops. Rather than just copying individual new files from a folder on my HD to my backup floppy, I inadvertently dragged the whole folder (named the same on both disks-folder on HD contained only newest documents). As as I did it, I realized what a dumb move I had just made, having just blown away all the old documents in the floppy's folder. So much for backup. None of the documents on the floppy had been directly sent to "Trash." My question... are the "old" files on the floppy now toast, or might Norton or Public Utilities or the like be successful at resurrecting them. Suggestions/recommendations welcome as I currently do not have file recovery or disk maintenance software. But I will, real soon now. --- Chuck Reti Detroit,MI aa010@detroit.freenet.org == visit the new Greater Detroit Free-Net// detroit.freenet.org == ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Apr 94 01:03:48 +0200 From: robk@stack.urc.tue.nl (Rob Kouwenberg) Subject: Macintosh Disk Cache fix -- 25 times speedup [C] Hello Netters ! Like probably a lot of other infomaccers I installed his write through extension. Guess what ? It indeed does speed up things ! The result is IMHO a big bang for the buck ! The funny thing is that it seems that other operations are also speeded up ( starting upp the system e.g. ). I couldn't find any incompatibilities ( after a long evening testing ). Tested with : - sys 7.1.2 68k, Quadra 900 - sys 7.1 LC - ethernet, copydoubler, lots of other inits ! Hey APPLE give this author a power pc and implement this hack ! Thanks from a very satisfied end user, greetings, Rob Kouwenberg >From: Stuart Cheshire >Yesterday morning I wrote a little INIT which sets the File Manager >"don't cache" bit for disk writes of 1K or more. It does this by >installing the following patch on the _Write system call: [robk@stack.urc.tue.nl,Gr.Adolfstraat86,5616BX,Eindhoven,Holland,040-524372] ------------------------------ Date: 14 Apr 1994 03:28:13 GMT From: baum/ec@hermes.bc.edu (Christopher F Baum) Subject: MacTCP over ARA In last Friday's info-mac digest, Povl Pedersen said: "From: pope@imv.aau.dk (Povl H. Pedersen) Subject: (Q) MacTCP over ARA Is there anybody with experiences running MacTCP over ARA ? I have a 14.4k modem, and I consider connecting that way, and it will be ARA 2.0 ANy hints to setting stuff up or other pitfalls to avoid ?" I am sitting at home, connected to NewsWatcher (as well as NCSA telnet, MS-Mail, etc.) over ARA to our campus network (version 1.0 -- we don't yet have a version 2 server). Running with 14.4 Supra modems. Works just fine. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Apr 94 19:38:07 -0400 From: "Keith E Gatling" Subject: Mouse Cleaning Time in Montana Okay...so I'm not in Montana, but it does seem to be mouse cleaning time here...I can't move my cards around in Klondike fast enough. What's the official story on cleaning the mouseball? Thanks! keg * kgatling@mailbox.syr.edu I've got plenty of opinions. Just ask my wife! * ------------------------------ Date: Wed Apr 13 10:48 EDT 1994 From: nibeck@Pentagon-EMH6.army.mil (MNibeck) Subject: Network backups I have a situation where a Lan has both Macs and a DOS machine. My client wants to do automated backups of all of the machines. Retrospect does not have a version that runs on DOS PC's, therefore it cannot backup those up, only the Macs. Does anyone have any ideas?? One solution I came up with, although not very elegant, I think will work. Use Farallons Timbuktu Pro for Windows along with Quickeys and something like desktape(allows tape drives to act like disk drives, mountable). And then have quickeys go out and "mount" the PC drives and copy them to the desktape drive. With this scenerio, the backup schedule would heva to be split so that the Mac backups occur on a different night than the PC backups, but that would be OK. I hope this made some sense, and I would appreciate any help!!! Mike Nibeck ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 08:12:48 +0100 From: (Dave (Dave) Smith) Subject: Nisus 3.4 problem - please help First let me thank the kind souls out there for the advice I received after my earlier enquiry about speech. Now I've hit a problem that is driving me mad. I use Nisus 3.4 (Limited) a lot. Since I did a memory upgrade I find that it won't run under 32-bit addressing. I start it up, see the Nisus logo panel, then before the application proper begins to run I get a box on the screen saying "The application (unknown) has unexpectedly quit because an error of type 1 occured." A type 1 error is a bus error (if I'm not mistaken) i.e. hardware. Funny thing is that I can switch to 24-bit addressing and the thing runs fine, only, of course, I can't address more than 8 meg of memory, which is a waste of money. And I need that memory for other things, and would very much like the ability to word process while these other things are active (Photo-CD is one). I have talked with the Nisus support people over here. They pointed the finger a) at an INIT conflict and b) at the adaptor I have installed carrying a co-processor (Apple's own Nubus adaptor for the IIsi). So I booted with extensions off and 32-bit mode on. No different. I spent ages messing around with Conflict Catcher, too, which also showed no problems with the INITs. And I took the Nubus adaptor out. Nisus still wouldn't run and some of my drawing software fell over for lack of the co-processor (low end CAD package, so I wasn't surprised). Which leaves me wondering if I have a hardware problem lurking in the bowels of my Mac, or I should get a different word processor package. Having been a Nisus user since 1990 and with the only viable competitor I know of coming from Hackrosoft I am VERY reluctant to do the latter (no flames, please, I know I'm bigotted). So does anyone out there have any clue as to what might be causing this, PLEASE?? In desperation, Regards, Dave Smith UK Science Centre IBM Hursley From: david@oak.hursley.ibm.com (Dave Smith) Reply-To: dave_smith@vnet.ibm.com ------------------------------ Date: 13 Apr 1994 08:48:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Bob Gould Subject: Pathworks vs. PowerBook 165c I have been having trouble installing Pathworks for Macintosh on a PowerBook 165c. Once installed, the Mac crashes almost immediately after boot. I have isolated the cause (through trial and error and Conflict Catcher) to a conflict between DECNet/Mac v 1.2 and EtherTalk Phase 2 v2.5.6. BTW I'm running sys7.1 with 8MB RAM and the Express Modem installed. The Ethernet is provided with a Dayna SCSI/Link adapter. Has anyone experienced such a problem? Is there a site with Pathworks bug reports, patches, or updates? A site for Dayna software, etc? Any comments or suggestions via email would be appreciated. TIA. - Bob Gould ------------------------------ Date: 13 Apr 1994 23:14:12 -0500 From: "JT Green" Subject: PowerPC - Sys 7 Pro YES Well now that I have recovered from listening to Apple's music on hold, I have both Applescript and Powertalk running on my PowerPC-upgraded Quadra. It turns out that Applescript 1.1 came with a recently delivered 7100/66 so I installed it on my Quadra (I'm not sure if I'm allowed to install it on the 7100/66 at the same time). With some additional help from James of 1-800-SOS-APPL I had already installed PowerTalk as follows: Easy install a new System 7.1 onto a hard disk with no system. Easy install System 7.1.2 over it using the PowerMac upgrade card disks. Install PowerTalk by using custom install with the System 7 Pro install disk and chosing ONLY "Install PowerTalk for any Macintosh". I guessed that the right answer to the "its already installed" dialogs was to chose newer for everything except the finder. In the new PowerPC upgrade card Control Panel select PPC on. Shut down, wait 10 seconds, Start up with shift key held down. Using the PowerTalk Install-Me-First from ftp.apple.com chose easy install to install PowerTalk for Power Macintosh. You will also need your System 7 Pro Tidbits, PowerTalk, and PowerTalk 2 disks. Note that for a 6100,7100, or 8100 this last step is all that's needed to install PowerTalk. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 15:08:12 -0400 From: "Charles A. Patrick" Subject: PPP vs SLIP This is probably an FAQ. Could someone either direct me to the location for, or provide me with a comparison between the two? Thanks. Charles A. Patrick (patrcha@statcan.ca) International and Professional Relations Division Statistics Canada Ottawa, ON K1A 0T6 CANADA Tel: 613.951.8920 FAX: 613.951.1231 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 11:30:03 +0100 From: (Dave (Dave) Smith) Subject: Problem with large BinHex files Good gentles all, Please forgive me if I am asking this question in the wrong place. If that is so then gentle pointers to the right forum would be welcome. I have some large BinHex files (.hqx) that I have obtained by ftp. They are currently on a Unix machine and my usual procedure in such cases is to copy them to floppy and read them onto my Mac via AFE. But these files are too big to fit on one floppy! Does anyone know of a way of either re-assembling the files if I run the Unix 'split' command on them (breaks the files into arbitrary sized chuncks - in this case1.4 meg ones) or of unBinHexing the files under Unix, safely regrouping the contents and re-BinHexing them before transfer? TIA & Regards, Dave Smith UK Science Centre IBM Hursley From: david@oak.hursley.ibm.com Reply-To: dave_smith@vnet.ibm.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Apr 94 14:36:56 -0500 From: "Desmond K. Mullen" Subject: Reported Trojan Horse in FTPd! This is copied straight out of EDUPAGE without their permission... ----------------------------------------------------------------- SECURITY ALERT The Computer Emergency Response Team Command Center is alerting anyone who's obtained a copy of software called file-transfer protocol daemon from Washington University's software archive to check the number of the version. Any number lower than version 2.3 contains a "Trojan horse" virus that could allow a cracker to gain control over the system on which it is running. CERT notes that version 2.3 is available at ftp.uu.net in the directory described as /networking/ftp/wuarchive-ftpd, and recommends that any lower-numbered versions be replaced or disabled immediately. (Chronicle of Higher Education 4/13/94 A19) ----------------------------------------------------------------- -DM Desmond K. Mullen - University of Minnesota, Office of Admissions mulle009@maroon.tc.umn.edu - 612/625-0824 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 16:57:39 -0500 From: Murphy@sbaserv.sba.uconn.edu (Murph Sewall) Subject: SPSS 6 vs PowerMac I had an interesting message on my answering machine from SPSS Technical Support. It confirms what has been reported earlier: SPSS 4.x CV does NOT run on PowerMac (CV=FPU Coprocessor Version) SPSS 4x NCV not only DOES run on PowerMac, it's faster than the CV version on most 680x0 Macs Does anyone know wheter SPSS 4x CV PLUS SoftFPU will work on a PowerMac (the bug that prevents SoftFPU from working with the 68CL40 shouldn't be applicable to the PowerPC--I assume Apple didn't bother emulating a bug :-) ?? SPSS 6 will NOT run on PowerMac. One thing I'm REALLY curious about. What attributes must a program have that makes it incompatible (for sure) with a PowerMac? I can understand if SPSS isn't ready to compile in Native PowerPC code, but what can they be doing to version 6 that makes it LESS capable than version 4 NCV? The other interesting contribution in the phone message is that SPSS marketing and product development is aware of the problem. Of course, that doesn't mean that the suits will comprehend that it is imperative that the product run on the PowerMac even if it takes a little longer to offer it in native code. The missing piece is what do they have in mind for upgrade pricing (from version 4 to 6). I'd be VERY reluctant to pay (very much) to upgrade twice (from 4 to 6 on 68K architecture and again for PowerMac). So, if they plan to intice me into upgrading to 6, they'll need to include a coupon for 1) free upgrade to a native code pruct, and 2) a firm release date for said product (and even then, it'll still be vaporware). Does anyone know whether Systat's latest runs ok on PowerMac and whether they have a native code version in the works (were I Systat, I think I'd jump into the sidegrade business in a big way :) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 00:50:22 -0400 From: mxh160@psu.edu (Matt X. Herbison) Subject: Stylewriter and IIgs Hello. Does anyone know if there is such a thing as a Stylewriter driver that will run on an Apple IIgs? Please respond directly to me. Many thanks for any help. -Matt X. Herbison -Penn State University -mxh160@psu.edu -Apple Student Representative -Matt X. Herbison 8) -Penn State University -Internet: mxh160@psu.edu -Apple Student Representative -AppleLink: PSU.HERBISON -FINGER: mxh160.rh.psu.edu (or q@same) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Apr 94 18:38:43 PDT From: ace@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst) Subject: Talk and Finger over server-addressed account In Regards to your letter <199404100501.AA11032@nwnexus.wa.com>: > I have been trying to get Peter N. Lewis' Finger/Fingerd and Talk/Talkd > utilities to work over a PPP connection. Users of both SLIP and PPP have > informed me that they have been able to use these utilities when dialing > in with a manually-assigned IP address. My question, however, is whether > or not it is possible to use them when connecting with a server-assigned > IP address. I've duplicated this problem using InterSLIP with Northwest Nexus, although interestingly, the same problem doesn't occur with them if you use MacPPP for your server-addressed account. And, the problem only exists for Talk (actually, I shouldn't say that, but I can finger out, and I never stay on long enough for anyone to want to finger me). > I am aware that this problem might be better addressed a unix-question > forum. I have been unable to get a definitive, "No, that's just not > possible" answer from anyone, and several people have suggested that some > characteristic of PPP address negotiation might make it possible. On the > other hand, others have denied that there would be any difference between > SLIP and PPP in this context. I just don't know enough about what's happening at a low level here. I almost wonder if the box used to give you the PPP account (a Livingston PortMaster for me) isn't related in some way? That might explain why these programs work with PPP for my provider, but not for yours. > Has anyone been able to use these utilities in this way? Does anyone have > suggestions on how to proceed? Any help would be greatly appreciated. As unpleasant as it sounds, I'd suggest trying the commercial InterPPP as well, although I know of no reason why it should be any different. 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: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 12:44:24 -0400 From: lstein@panix.com (Luke Stein) Subject: Telnet Version # Q Those Knoledgeable: Version numbers sure have become more complicated, 8 --> 5.1 --> 7.0.2 --> 3.4.2b5 --> ad infinitum. Well, in the process of becoming very complicated, they have left me in a position in which I can't tell which version is newer: NCSA Telnet 2.6FC1, or NCSA Telnet 2.6. I would really apreciate someone telling me, as I like to have new versions. Please reply via post and/or e-mail, or prefferable. Thanx, <+>Luke Stein (lstein@panix.com) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 10:54:17 GMT From: Simon H Le G Bisson Subject: Time Tabling On A Mac I'm part of a team putting together the 1996 UK National SF Convention, Evolution, looking after the programme (they call me the Program Manager...:-) -- all the events, panels and workshops for a thousand or so people, in 10 or so rooms of different sizes, with 6 or 7 concurrent programme streams (with overlapping thematic twists). Obviously this is a case for computer aided time-tabling... Now a spread-sheet could do the job, but the constraint management (people, rooms, resources, etc) abilities of academic time-tabling software seem to be much more what we require (especially to handle programming changes either just before or at the convention). We're pretty much a Mac-based committee (all our publications are done with a combination of Photoshop, Illustrator, Word and Quark, or databases are either Claris Works or FM Pro), and the Mac is a common machine in educational establishments, so if anyone knows of a commercial, shareware, or PD package that could offer a constraint managed time-tabling facility... Simon H Le G Bisson simonb@trojan.gec-rl-hrc.co.uk [simon@fehen.demon.co.uk] Network Systems Laboratory Hirst Research Centre ---- tel: +44 81 732 0167 ---- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Apr 94 09:07:35 +0200 From: jew@language.ou.dk (J|rn Erik Wennerstr|m) Subject: Turkish Font Hello netters Quite some time ago I posted a request for Turkish Fonts along with a promise to summarize the results - I did'nt get many replies, but some arrived and were indeed of use. Akif Eyler of Bilkent University sent: > the Geneva (TrueType) for Turkish. For screen fonts, >you should use the utility BitFont. A complete set of fonts can be found in >>ftp.apple.com under international systems. Prior to my Internet-request I tried ftp.apple.com/international systems but I didn't seem to be able to find what I was looking for. John M. Mansfield (jmm12@cornell.edu) suggested that I tried ftp.apple.com and also gave the e-mail address of Akif Eyler. John also suggested, that I tried to use Postscript codes: >I study ancient Greek inscriptions, and so I very often have to >deal with modern Turkish place-names. My word-processor is MSWord 5.1a >(U.S. version). In Word, you can use Postscript codes to create, view and >print special characters I looked in the Word manual to see what the folks at Microsoft said about Postscript in this respect, but there were no direct description along the lines John mentions. Ill probably have to read more Postscript-specific information when I get the time - any info/hints from Netland will also be appreciated. James Maccaferri wrote: >I just read your posting to Info-Mac Digest regarding a Turkish font. >Sometime ago I created such a font based on Apple's New York bitmapped >font. It includes all the characters needed for modern Turkish and >to romanize Ottoman using the Library of Congress transliteration scheme. >If you would like to try this font, please let me know and I will email >you a binhexed self-extracting file. Darrah Chavey sent me: >I know of two fonts that have the characters you want, the SIL-IPA fonts, >and "International 2.1". The SIL-IPA fonts are truetype, while International >is bitmapped. International includes more characters than SIL-IPA, but both >include the two characters you mention. I can email you >copies of either,if >you do not get them from other sources. Thanks once again to all of you, who replied. Ill compile a folder containing all of the fonts I got and upload them to the archives. They'll go in a folder called Turkish Fonts and will all be found in the Fonts directory. -------------- Best, Joern Wennerstroem Systems Manager - Faculty of The Humanities University of Odense Denmark ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Apr 94 13:16:30 MDT From: "Roger B. Marks" Subject: What's the deal with File Sharing? What's the deal with File Sharing? Why does it take so long to start up? Is there any way to speed up the process? Roger Marks@bldr.nist.gov NIST/Boulder, CO phone 303-497-3037/fax 303-497-7828 ------------------------------ Date: 13 Apr 94 09:07:00 EDT From: "MATTHEW MITCHELL" Subject: What mail programs handle internet mailing lists? Has anyone had experience managing internet mailing lists from a Mac? Which of the common mail programs support distribution to a manually- created list? Which of them can send out a file in response to an incoming mail message to a specific address? And can any of them carry out listserv or archive server functions? Replies will be summarized, of course. Howzat!?! __ Matthew D. Mitchell, Ph.D. __\__ _ Environmental Chemistry Lab 301-504-6768 fax 504-5993 / | > < US Dept. of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service \__| <___> Bldg. 12, Rm 1-4, 10300 Baltimore Blvd., Beltsville, MD 20705 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 14:42:47 -0800 From: kee@kagi.com (Kee Nethery +1 510 843 6140) Subject: ZModem spec (Q) Can anyone point me to the spec for the ZModem file transfer method? Kee Nethery kee@kagi.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 00:36:19 -0500 (CDT) From: Jay Poutinen A couple weeks ago, I sent the following message to info-mac: >I've never been sure what the best setting is for the "disk cache" in the >memory control panel of my Quadra 700, sys 7.01 (w/tune-up), and 20 mg >RAM. I don't run short of RAM, so that's not much of a limitation. >Is their some "guideline" or "best" setting for the disk cache? The following are the two kind replies I received about the disk cache setting: - - - - - - - ...it all depends on how you use your machine. The best way to find out for yourself is to get Speedometer from Info-mac and try out your machine at a variety of settings. - - - - - - - ... I think the most accurate answer to your question is that it depends on your system. I've searched references trying to answer the same question and no specifics have been offered. I use at least 254kb as a cache and have used as much as 500kb or so. I'm pretting confident that using more doesn't really help. Keep in mind that the higher the setting, the more RAM your system file will consume. - - - - - - - Thanks to Rob Shaw and David Lohrentz who provided the above information. Guess there is no surefire way to determine the disk cache setting. Jay jpoutine@worf.uwsp.edu ------------------------------ End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************