Info-Mac 4/Info_Mac IV CD-ROM (Pacific HiTech Inc.)(August 1994).iso/Periodicals/InfoMac Digest volume 12/infomacv12-021.txt

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Date: Tue,  8 Feb 94 12:26:22 PST
From: The Info-Mac Moderators <[e-mail]>
Reply-To: [e-mail]
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V12 #21
To: info-mac-list


Info-Mac Digest             Tue,  8 Feb 94       Volume 12 : Issue 21

Today's Topics:

      [*] /snd/loopback-grp7.hqx
      [*] /snd/loopback-grp8.hqx
      [*] 2nd Amendment After Dark module
      [*] Brainwave.cpt.hqx
      [*] code-programs.sit.hqx
      [*] ExAminer 1.1
      [*] F/A-18 updater submittal
      [*] Fables & Demo submission , February 6, 1994
      [*] FlightPrepDemo resubmission
      [*] frog-counting-eat20.hqx
      [*] frog-equation-eat21.hqx
      [*] frog-integer-eaters20.hqx
      [*] Info-Mac Archive Mirror Sites
      [*] mac-facts-ii-94-02-04.txt
      [*] MicroBridgeDemo.cpt.hqx (Corrected contact info)
      [*] midi-copyrights.hqx
      [*] NewMaxwell-c-src
      [*] Peeping Tom 1.4
      [*] PowerLaunch Lite v1.6F
      [*] Screen Play 1.2.1
      [*] SoftScreen Extension 1.0
      [*] system.extensions - MacTCP Netswitch 1.0b2
      [*] TeachersAide22.cpt.hqx
      [*] TidBITS#212/07-Feb-94
      [*] Timer
      [*] word solution demo
      $MACARCH -- is it working?  (Thanks)
      (Q) PD/SW Screen dump utility for System 7.1
      (Q) Where do the Think C/C++ upgrades reside
      (R) Al Bloom - Unchained
      2 Commercials on Quicktime format (Q)
      840av install CD
      a bootable disk?
      apple/mac history
      Apple IIgs monitors
      Appletalk software
      ARA over CISCO
      Autodoubler (?) makes HD work overtime
      AV and PowerDesign Solution
      Bowling League Software?
      Changing TIFF files into PICT files, How?
      Color PC-ANSI Comm Tool
      DA/Font Manager Needed
      DeskPict vs BackSplash
      Duo 230-How much RAM on the Motherboard?
      Fixing bad sectors on floppy disks (2 msgs)
      For the  Digest : Book Reporter's Guild info
      Fujitsu HD in PB180 problems
      GNU & other public-domain fonts
      Good TCP/IP Stack
      hard drive question
      Help: Trying to find publication... (A) (2 msgs)
      Help with downloading files
      Home Internet Connections (A)
      HYPERCARD
      Hypercard 2.1 (Q)
      Info re: Fetch
      Info re: Fetch (A)
      Interslip & Fetch (C)
      Looking for text processor...[R]
      Macintosh Easy Open
      Mac Plus Monitor Card Bitz (Q)
      MacPost Question
      MacTools 3.0 & Now Utilities 4.02: Conflict?
      MacX and the Meta key---a puzzle
      My solution to SOS APPL problems
      News Reader for the Mac
      Nuntius
      Obscure Q950 problem (Q)
      Other Japanese TrueType Fonts?
      posting question concerning MAC
      Powerbook 100 battery trouble
      PowerBook ADB (A)
      PowerOpen
      Problems Mailing to MACGIFTS@SUMEX_AIM
      Puny Floppy Drive Capacity
      Q: MacTCP+SLIP+Ethernet
      Quicktime Novice has a question (Q)
      RAMdoubler and First Class Client 2.0.9?
      RAMDoubler Prices and Performance
      Random Number Software
      Screen shots
      Sculley Resigns
      Sending mail to aol or compuserve
      serial or AppleTalk device on Ethernet (Q)
      Speech Macro editor failed
      Strange Finder problem on a Quadra
      Undocumented System functionality and you
      US Colleges internet directory?
      Wanted:  Info on Claris CAD Libraries
      Weather gif site...

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Date: Fri, 04 Feb 1994 20:24:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] /snd/loopback-grp7.hqx

Well, it's been just over a year since I last uploaded some loopbacks (sound
loops) to sumex.  Once again, these are sampled from Miramar's latest computer
animation videotape called "Beyond The Mind's Eye."  (I got "The Mind's Eye"
last year for my birthday, and got its sequel this year).  You can get the
video at Radio Shack, and Blockbuster may have it.  Anyway, these were sampled
with my CEDAR digitizer and came out fairly well, I think.  To those who wrote
me asking for more loops, here you are.

    This one is called "Too Far."

    These loopbacks are nice to use in any multimedia animations or
anything that can use an instrumental soundtrack in the background.... but
they're also nice just to listen to, and they're long enough that they don't
become irritatingly repetitive.

Crisp, clean, 22 kHz, 8-bit mono, SoundEdit file (type FSSD).

Enjoy!...

DCP
Internet:[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/loopback-grp7.hqx; 236K]

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Date: Fri, 04 Feb 1994 20:27:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] /snd/loopback-grp8.hqx

Well, it's been just over a year since I last uploaded some loopbacks (sound
loops) to sumex.  Once again, these are sampled from Miramar's latest computer
animation videotape called "Beyond The Mind's Eye."  (I got "The Mind's Eye"
last year for my birthday, and got its sequel this year).  You can get the
video at Radio Shack, and Blockbuster may have it.  Anyway, these were sampled
with my CEDAR digitizer and came out fairly well, I think.  To those who wrote
me asking for more loops, here you are.

    This one is called "Seeds of Life."

    These loopbacks are nice to use in any multimedia animations or
anything that can use an instrumental soundtrack in the background.... but
they're also nice just to listen to, and they're long enough that they don't
become irritatingly repetitive.

Crisp, clean, 22 kHz, 8-bit mono, SoundEdit file (type FSSD).

Enjoy!...

DCP
Internet:[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/loopback-grp8.hqx; 115K]

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Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 12:49:17 -0700 (MST)
From: Eric H Seale <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] 2nd Amendment After Dark module

An admittedly political screen-saver -- Life Clock is a thought-
provoking After Dark module.  It uses your screen to display some
statistics on the uses (both good and bad) of guns, and some quotes from
the US's founding fathers on their views of the right to keep and bear
arms.

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/ad/life-clock-ad.hqx; 47K]

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Date: Fri, 04 Feb 1994 10:57:01 CST
From: Tom Gooding <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Brainwave.cpt.hqx

Brainwave v1.05 by Tom Gooding ([e-mail])
* This fixes some bugs and adds some features to the Set Keys window...

Brainwave is Bolo cyborg that improves your Bolo abilities. Here's a list of
its
features.
- Auto-Mapping
- Radar
- Auto Alignment
- Stagger Mines
- Clear Mines
- Automatic and manual road, bridge, and boat building
- Automatic tree gathering
- Can restrict speed when Builder is outside of tank
- Can display time till new builder lands.
- Can transmit location to allies (upon request)
- Can transmit current Brainwave version to all players
- and More!!!

Requirements

Bolo 0.99.1+
020 processor or better
32-bit Quickdraw (Will work in B&W, just not well)
64k available after Bolo is launched

[Archived as /info-mac/game/bolo/brainwave-105.hqx; 41K]

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Date: Sun, 6 Feb 1994 20:17:27 -0600 (CST)
From: Russell Cotton <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] code-programs.sit.hqx

Dear netters,

Here is my first REAL mac program. The stuffit archive contains two
programs, EnCodeIt and DeCodeIt. These programs encode and decode up to
512 characters of text, respectively. The files are stored in an internal
format and are not readable by text proccessors. These programs are
Freeware but I will accept any money, postcards, and/or e-mail.

Thanks for listening (read: reading),
Lance Cotton
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/cmp/code-programs.hqx; 81K]

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Date: 7 Feb 1994 09:53:26 -0800
From: "Mike Weasner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] ExAminer 1.1

Here is ExAminer, an application that is similar to the various extension
manager type of programs, but being an application, has more features and a
nicer interface. Version 1.1 adds a file information display and a file
deletion
capability.

ExAminer supports Macintosh Plus and newer computers. ExAminer requires System
7.0 or later. ExAminer is compatible with multiple monitors and large screen
monitors.

ExAminer is a shareware program. If you like and use ExAminer, please send your
name and mailing address to the author along with the $10.00 (U.S.) shareware
fee. Registered users of ExAminer will receive support via online services, and
future updates free or at reduced cost. In fairness to those who register,
unregistered users will not receive any support.

[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/examiner-11.hqx; 82K]

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Date: 4 Feb 1994 13:24:07 -0200
From: "Eugene Poncelet" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] F/A-18 updater submittal

              F/A-18 updater submittal
This is the F/A-18 1.1.0 TO 1.1.1 updater
downloaded from AOL and submitted for posting.
Info from GSCs readme file posted on AOL follows but
there is a different readme in the stuffed file.

The 1.1.1 upgrade should be painless as long as you kept your 1.1.0 patcher
and can make a VIRGIN upgrade from your original disks. If not, you'll have to
wait and download the 1.0.x --> 1.1.1 patcher as soon as it's available.

The patch file from 1.1.0 to 1.1.1 is fairly small at around 144K and is
available now (er, as soon as it's released by AOL that is)

There is a NEW database file that is OPTIONAL. At around 1MB stuffed, you may
just want to pass. There are VERY few cosmetic changes. Mostly mission bug
fixes. The new DB file will be available early next week for those of you who
want it.

[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/fa18-11-to-111-updt.hqx; 204K]

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Date: Sun, 6 Feb 1994 20:22:25 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Venanzio Jelenic)
Subject: [*] Fables & Demo submission , February 6, 1994

It is a demo only insofar as number of users allowed is limited, otherwise
it is a fully functional program with nothing else disabled. Because this
is a multi-user program, this may make it seem 'crippled', yet one could
use it at home, with a limited number of users, at 100%.

Requires a Macintosh computer, Hypercard 2.x or Player, Printer (optional)
and approximately 15 kids.  This is a Group-A-Ware (tm) product.

"Aesops Fables+Our Fables"  a Group-A-Ware  product by V. Jelenic

A simple presentation of over 300 of Aesop's Fables, as extracted from the
Gutenburg Project's E-text version.    Laid out in a database form in
Hypercard.  (requires Hypercard 2.x or Player). Includes "Life of Aesop"
and "Preface to the Fables".
Additional multi-user database where the users can write their own fables.
 Ideal for a classroom, library, or any location which sees a large number
of users-browsers.  It can easily be integrated into any unit you are doing
on fables, short-story writing, or simple paragraph formation practice, and
is non-intrusive into the daily schedule.

[Archived as /info-mac/app/aesops-fables-10-hc-demo.hqx; 444K]

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Date: Sat, 5 Feb 1994 01:07:10 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Joshua Berman)
Subject: [*] FlightPrepDemo resubmission

This is a demo of a Hypercard stack that will allow a pilot to plan a
flight by entering the departure and destination points, waypoints,
alititude, winds aloft, etc...  The stack then acts as an electronic E6B
(an aviation "slide rule") and calculates the correct course, etc...  The
stack is written by Eric Griffiths, at the University of Wales College of
Cardiff.  The full version is in the documentation stage and should be
released ????

Eric's email address is : [e-mail]

Enjoy!
Josh B.
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/app/flight-prep-demo-hc.hqx; 17K]

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Date: 5 Feb 94 04:00:00 PST
From: "CHRIS MYERRS" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] frog-counting-eat20.hqx

VERSION 2.0 AND HIGHER AVAILABLE AS OF Feb 94 - complete overhaul of previous
versions

One of the Hungry Frog educational same series, Hungry Frog Counting Eaters is
a
full color (or B&W) real-time animated multimedia game with 3D-rendered
graphics. Counting Eaters teaches basic counting skills to children, and should
be played before Inte

er Eaters. Like the other games, the game uses feedback loops to focus
instruction on areas of difficulty, so that the user is not forever presented
with known problems. All aspects of the game are fully adjustable by the user.

System 7.0.1* or higher,  any Macintosh, 32 bit compatible.

[Archived as /info-mac/game/hungry-frog-counting-eaters-20.hqx; 593K]

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Date: 5 Feb 94 03:58:00 PST
From: "CHRIS MYERRS" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] frog-equation-eat21.hqx

VERSION 2.0 AND HIGHER AVAILABLE AS OF Feb 94 - complete overhaul of previous
versions

One of the Hungry Frog educational same series, Hungry Frog Equation Eaters is
a
full color (or B&W) real-time animated multimedia game with 3D-rendered
graphics. Equation eaters is a game for learning math skills ranging from
simple
addition of small wh

le numbers to advanced equations involving addition/subtraction and
multiplication/division as well as absolute value. Like the other games, the
game uses feedback loops to focus instruction on areas of difficulty, so that
the user is not forever presen

ed
 with known problems. All aspects of the game are fully adjustable by the
 user.

System 7.0.1* or higher,  any Macintosh, 32 bit compatible.

[Archived as /info-mac/game/hungry-frog-equation-eaters-21.hqx; 940K]

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Date: 5 Feb 94 07:06:00 PST
From: "CHRIS MYERRS" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] frog-integer-eaters20.hqx

VERSION 2.0 AND HIGHER AVAILABLE AS OF Feb 94 - complete overhaul of previous
versions

One of the Hungry Frog educational same series, Hungry Frog Integer Eaters is a
full color (or B&W) real-time animated multimedia game with 3D-rendered
graphics. Integer Eaters is designed to be played after Counting Eaters.
Integer
Eaters teaches the s

quence of integers on the number line, counting up or counting down with whole
numbers or integers. Like the other games, the game uses feedback loops to
focus
instruction on areas of difficulty, so that the user is not forever presented
with known pro

le
ms. All aspects of the game are fully adjustable by the user.

System 7.0.1* or higher,  any Macintosh, 32 bit compatible.

[Archived as /info-mac/game/hungry-frog-integer-eaters-20.hqx; 942K]

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Date: Sun, 6 Feb 94 16:35:00 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Liam Breck)
Subject: [*] Info-Mac Archive Mirror Sites

Finally, here are the results of my 4 month search for our mirror
sites.  Thanks to the Info-Mac user community for being so patient!
This info will live at the archive in info-mac/help/mirror-list.txt.

We ask that you use our mirrors INSTEAD OF our server, because the
load there now makes it difficult for us to manage the archive!

We cannot vouch for the quality of any mirror sites that are not
listed here, since they are not in touch with us.  If you know of a
mirror site not listed here, please inform us by email to
[e-mail].

Each entry in the list below contains:
internet address         internet number  archive directory           #/#
contents                                  access methods
organization, city, [state,] country
[notes about the site]

internet number
   Try using this number if the internet address doesn't work
#/#
   The number of updates made to the mirror per number of days.
   (ie: 1/1 is once a day, 1/14 is once every two weeks.)
contents
   ALL -- the site carries all directories in the archive
   RECENT -- the site only carries files added within the past year or so.
   VERY-RECENT -- the site only carries files added within the past few
   months.

... Public Mirror Sites
.......................................................

archie.au                139.130.4.6      micros/mac/info-mac            1/1
ALL                                       ftp gopher
AARNet, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

ftp.univie.ac.at         131.130.1.4      mac/info-mac                   1/1
ALL                                       ftp gopher
Vienna University, Vienna, Austria

ftp.ucs.ubc.ca           ?                pub/mac/info-mac                 ?
?                                         ftp
University of British Columbia, BC, Canada

ftp.funet.fi             128.214.248.6    pub/mac/info-mac               1/1
VERY-RECENT ALL                           ftp gopher
Finnish Academic and Research Network FUNET, Espoo, Finland

ftp.jyu.fi               130.234.0.1      info-mac                       2/1
RECENT ALL                                ftp
Jyvaskyla University, Jyvaskyla, Finland
all binhex converted to macbinary

ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de      130.14.17.7      pub/mac/info-mac               1/1
RECENT ALL                                ftp gopher email
Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
email service: [e-mail]

ftp.rrzn.uni-hannover.de 130.75.2.2       pub/info-mac                   3/7
RECENT ALL                                ftp
University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany

ftp.uni-kl.de            131.246.9.95     /pub/info-mac                  1/1
VERY-RECENT app cfg cmp comm dev disk gui nwt prn sci text vir  ftp gopher
University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
gopher available via pizza.unix-ag.uni-kl.de

ftp.uni-stuttgart.de     129.69.8.13      pub/systems/mac/info-mac       1/7
vir card gui comm sci cmp prn cfg text nwt  ftp
Rechenzentrum Universitaet Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

ftp.technion.ac.il       132.68.1.10      pub/unsupported/mac/info-mac   2/1
ALL                                       ftp gopher
Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
also GopherMail access

ftp.center.osaka-u.ac.jp 133.1.4.10       info-mac                       1/1
ALL                                       ftp
Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
updating from U of Tokyo

ftp.iij.ad.jp            192.244.176.50   pub/info-mac                   1/1
ALL                                       ftp email
Internet Initiative Japan Inc., Tokyo, Japan
email service: ?

ftp.u-tokyo.ac.jp        130.69.254.254   pub/info-mac                   1/1
ALL                                       ftp
University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

ftp.fenk.wau.nl          137.224.129.4    pub/mac/info-mac               2/1
RECENT ALL                                ftp gopher
Wageningen Agricultural University, Wageningen, Netherlands

ftp.lth.se               130.235.20.3     mac/info-mac                   1/1
ALL                                       ftp
Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden
4 users allowed during work hours (8-5 GMT), 8 other times

nic.switch.ch            130.59.1.40      mirror/info-mac                1/1
ALL                                       ftp gopher
SWITCH, Zurich, Switzerland

imftp.mgt.ncu.edu.tw     140.115.83.90    /pub/mac/info-mac              6/7
ALL                                       ftp
National Central University, ChungLi, Taiwan

ftp.edu.tw               140.111.1.10     Macintosh/info-mac             1/1
ALL                                       ftp fsp afs
National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

src.doc.ic.ac.uk         146.169.2.10     packages/info-mac              1/1
ALL                                       ftp email gopher web fsp ftam telnet
Imperial College, London, UK
email service: [e-mail]

amug.org                 165.247.10.2     pub/ftp1/info-mac              1/1
ALL                                       ftp email
Arizona Macintosh Users Group, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
email service: not running yet

ftp.hawaii.edu           128.171.44.70    mirrors/info-mac               1/1
ALL                                       ftp
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

grind.isca.uiowa.edu     128.255.21.233   mac/infomac                    1/1
ALL                                       ftp gopher telnet
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
macbinary; telnet access for kermit and zmodem download with search functions

wuarchive.wustl.edu      128.252.135.4    systems/mac/info-mac           1/1
ALL                                       ftp gopher fsp
Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

ricevm1.rice.edu         128.42.30.2      [NA]                           1/1
RECENT ALL                                email, Bitnet message/file
Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
email [e-mail] with "$MACARCH HELP" in body for help info

... Private Mirror Sites
......................................................
  (These mirrors are only accessible from within their organizations)

DREA, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

LAAS - CNRS, Toulouse, France

Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel
accessible only via the Israeli Appletalk WAN

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA

MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
will become public soon

Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA

Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA
accessible locally by ftp, gopher & appletalk; contact a CSR for information

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Date: Fri, 4 Feb 94 12:48:14 EST
From: "J. D. S. (Sterling) Babcock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] mac-facts-ii-94-02-04.txt

Dear Readers:

   Enclosed please find my collection of lists of Apple Macintosh Models.

   Model List I is my regular list which provides as much information on the
configuration of each model that can fit on one line.
   Model List II is additional information.  It contains minimum and maximum
system versions, dates of manufacture, suggested retail prices and model of
case.
   Model List III is from Kevin D. Connery.  It contains Speedometer 3.11
speed ratings for each model as well as upgraded machines.

Please email to [e-mail]    any corrections to Model List I or II.
Please email to [e-mail]       any corrections to Model List III.

   Sterling

[Archived as /info-mac/info/hdwr/mac-facts-ii-94-02-04.txt; 47K]

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Date: Sun, 6 Feb 1994 11:45:43 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Richard A. Fowell)
Subject: [*] MicroBridgeDemo.cpt.hqx (Corrected contact info)

The contact info in the current archive is wrong.
(phone # has transposed digits), to the annoyance of
the person whose phone number it _really_ is.

This version also has a summary/pointer to a review of
Mac bridge programs in the Spring 1994 BMUG Newsletter.

Richard A. Fowell ([e-mail])

[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/micro-bridge-companion-demo.hqx; 308K]

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Date: Sat, 5 Feb 1994 23:08:07 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Simon Higgs)
Subject: [*] midi-copyrights.hqx

The following file entitled "MIDI_Copyrights.sea.hqx" contains a multi-media
presentation (Made in MacroMedia Director) of an article I wrote for Keyboard
magazine in the June 1993 issue. The article was called "MIDI File distribution
and computer bulletin boards".

1993, 1994 Simon Higgs

[Archived as /info-mac/info/midi-copyrights.hqx; 525K]

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Date: Fri, 4 Feb 1994 18:57:18 -0800 (PST)
From: [e-mail] (Ken Long)
Subject: [*] NewMaxwell-c-src

Gift Givers!

This is source for Think C 5.0.4 which combines some routines found in
the original PD source for Maxwell-DA and a microShell made from the TC
demo "Bullseye."

All I did was get this to run in the shell.  More work needs to be done
one it, but it stands as a demo for doing B/W sprite animation without
resources.

It puts up a window with a framed Rect.  There are little happy faces
bopping around randomly, boncing off walls and each other.  Ther are some
black dots doing the same.  A bar down the Rect. center has a gate that
opens on mouseDown and closes on mouseUp.  The idea is to open and close
it at the right time so that all the "balls" wind up on one side of the bar.

-Ken-

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/src/maxwell-c.hqx; 36K]

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Date: Sat, 5 Feb 1994 13:53:31 -0800
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Peeping Tom 1.4

Peeping Tom v1.4    2/94

Copyright )1993-1994, Bret Olmsted
All Rights Reserved.

Peeping Tom is a shareware init/background application that
keeps track of the current applications and desk accessories
that are open.  When processes are quit, Peeping Tom writes
the information that it has on the dead process to a text file
in the System Folder.  The log file shows information on when
each process was started and the total time it ran.  Peeping
Tom also shows the average CPU usage of the process.  The
percentage represents how much the process used of the CPU
while the process was running.

Peeping Tom also has the option to peep at the keyboard and
record all keypress to a file.  At the request of many users,
Peeping Tom can now disable the printing of the processes
for registered users.  This will then only show the startup
and shutdown time of the computer.

[Archived as /info-mac/app/peeping-tom-14.hqx; 19K]

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Date: Sun, 6 Feb 1994 11:56:36 -0700 (MST)
From: ROBY SHERMAN <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] PowerLaunch Lite v1.6F

What is PowerLaunch Lite?

PowerLaunch Lite is a Macintosh desktop launching agent (DLA) that allows users
to store applications, documents, control panels, desk accessories, sounds,
and any other "double-clickable" file on a series of icon palettes for quick
and easy access. Files launched from within PowerLaunch Lite can be
configured to temporarily modify the Macintosh's sound and video settings
or even hide other open windows, as the file is launched.
This is much faster for the user than having to select each control panel,
modify these settings, launch the file, and reset the settings upon program
termination. PowerLaunch Lite also features group launching and auto-launching
capabilities. Group Launching allows "groups" of files to be launched
together.
Auto-Launching allows files or "groups" of file to be launched at
pre-determined times for purposes such as timed backups, etc.
PowerLaunch Lite's highly-flexible user interface allows the user to layout
their icon palette any number of ways and display "Power Tools" only
when needed.

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/power-launch-lite-16f.hqx; 471K]

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Date: Mon, 07 Feb 94 09:52:06 PST
From: Kevin Fong <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Screen Play 1.2.1

Enclosed is bug fix version 1.2.1 of Screen Play, an extension that
randomly selects a startup screen to be displayed on your Mac. This version
fixes a bug that occasionally caused Macs to freeze during the startup
process. It replaces the file "screenplay1.2.cpt.hqx". Documentation is
included.

Kevin Fong          Santa Monica, CA       [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/screen-play-121.hqx; 10K]

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Date: Mon, 7 Feb 94 16:52:29 PST
From: [e-mail] (Rob Dewhirst)
Subject: [*] SoftScreen Extension 1.0

This SoftScreen Extension fixes a problem when using Timbuktu Pro 1.0 to
control a Macintosh which does not have a monitor attached (a "headless
server").

You do NOT need this extension if the Timbuktu Pro host has a monitor.  In
addition, you do NOT need this extension if the headless server is a Quadra
700, Quadra 900, or Quadra 950.

If you are using Timbuktu Pro on a Macintosh not in this list which does
not have a monitor attached, you should download and decompress the
SoftScreen Extension using Compact Pro and follow the instructions in the
Read Me file.

Questions about this extension may be directed to [e-mail].

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/timbuktu-soft-screen-extension-10.hqx; 5K]

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Date: Fri, 4 Feb 1994 22:11:18 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (david walton)
Subject: [*] system.extensions - MacTCP Netswitch 1.0b2

MacTCP Netswitch 1.0b2

MacTCP Netswitch is an extension that will swap in a MacTCP Prep file
>From a group of pre-configured prep files.  This eliminates the hassle
of swapping in different versions of the prep file when you move your
Macintosh from location to location on (or off) a network.  The
extensions decides which file to load by determining whether an
AppleTalk network is available; if there isn't one, it loads in a
default file for dial-up connections; if there is, it loads in either
a) a default network configuration file, or b) a file matched to the
AppleTalk zone you are in.

This software is designed chiefly for PowerBook users, but it is
potentially useful for anyone who needs to move a Macintosh around to
different locations on a network.  It's a little like some other
utilities that have appeared recently (such as John Norstad's).  A
couple of its advantages: it doesn't require the user to reboot after
choosing a configuration file (the correct file is chosen
automatically at startup); and it will allow you to use aliases to a
file server, making it possible to store a single set of
centrally-maintained prep files for all users attached to a network.
(This won't work for dial-up connections, of course).

This software is free and may be freely distributed subject to the
distribution restrictions discussed in the accompanying "MacTCP
Netswitch Guide."  It is not in the Public Domain.

David Walton    [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/net/mactcp-netswitch-10b2.hqx; 55K]

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Date: Sun, 6 Feb 1994 21:13:24 -0600 (CST)
From: Ryan Richard Koopmans <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] TeachersAide22.cpt.hqx

Teacher's Aide is a complete gradebook program for the Macintosh.
It will manage the grades of any size or level of class you have.

Teacher's Aide is flexible enough to handle dropped grades, grade
exemptions, extra credit, and weighting by type of assignment or
weight given to a single assignment.  It has been used by teachers
across the country for four years and has been tuned to their
gradebook needs.

This is free software.  Give it to anybody and everybody, just don't
change anything in the program.  That's my job--send me mail if you
have comments or suggestions.

Version 2.2 fixes a problem with saving files.  It replaces version
2.1 of the program.

Enjoy the program, and I hope it makes grades less of a hassle for
you.

Ryan Koopmans
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/app/teachers-aide-22.hqx; 115K]

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Date: Mon, 7 Feb 94 21:01:58 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: [*] TidBITS#212/07-Feb-94

TidBITS#212/07-Feb-94

With this issue we wrap up our look at interesting products from
   the Macworld Expo in San Francisco. Mark Anbinder passes on news
   of price reductions and rebates from Apple, Pythaeus provides
   the latest Duo market share news, and we look in depth at the
   concepts behind Apple's eWorld and other online services.
   Finally, the real way Apple could change the world with the
   Macintosh.

Topics:
    MailBITS/07-Feb-94
    Duos Rule
    Quadras Make Way For New Machines
    More Products from Macworld
    An Electronic World
    The Apple and the Internet
    Reviews/07-Feb-94

[Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-212.etx; 29K]

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

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Date: Sun, 6 Feb 94 14:18:29 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Bas Meijer)
Subject: [*] Timer

Hi All,

I posted Timer as a stuffed binhex file. It's a small alarm clock
which shows the time in a window. It has various display and timer
options.

You should have a "Preferences" folder in your System Folder so
the options can be stored for future sessions.

Reply to: [e-mail]
      Bas Meijer

[Archived as /info-mac/app/timer.hqx; 23K]

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Date: Sat, 05 Feb 1994 14:10:51 -0500 (EST)
From: Yuji Nakazato <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] word solution demo

I have just sent you a binhexed self-extracting copy of the demo of
Word Solution Engine. It is a fully-functional double-byte capable
 (i.e., can handle Japaense, Chinese, or Korean) word processor. It is
a "demo" of the programming tool marketed by DataPak, but the demo
word processor itself is not "crippled" in any way.
It is especially handly for double-byte language like Japanese.

Major features of the word processor:

* it can handle files larger than 32KB !
* it supports in-line input !
* it is free !!!

I got this copy directly from DakaPak. If you are interestd in their
programming tools, get in touch with them directly.
I do not work for Dataka.

Yuji Nakazato
Chinese/Japanese Dept
Georgetown University
Washington, DC 20057

[Archived as /info-mac/app/word-solution-engine-22-demo.hqx; 279K]

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Date: Mon, 7 Feb 94 14:59:45 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Christopher L. Ursich)
Subject: $MACARCH -- is it working?  (Thanks)

Thanks to all who responded to my question about
whether or not the Listserver at Rice Univ. was working.
The problem was that I was ordering the files as soon
as I received the Info-Mac digest, and they had not
yet actually appeared in the archives.  When I tried
again later, the files came across normally.

Thanks especially to:
Bill Rausch <[e-mail]>,
"Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>,
[e-mail] (Jerry Wolf),
[e-mail] (Darin Takemoto)
[e-mail] (Paul M Sheldon)

Chris Ursich
[e-mail]

"Too bad you have to buy your Macintosh from Apple Computer."

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

Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 12:03:35 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Juan M. Courcoul)
Subject: (Q) PD/SW Screen dump utility for System 7.1

I need to prepare a pair of application manuals on my Mac and would like to
include snapshots of menus and windows. Is there some utility out there that
can
accomplish this ? I need it to:

* Be able to dump menu and submenu images.
* Be able to dump the menu bar.
* Be able to dump any window or stacked windows.

Color rendering is not needed; I'll be using only black & white. Naturally, it
would be nice for the image to be in PICT format, so it could be scaled
properly, if needed. PD or shareware is the only way to go, for I cannot
justify
purchasing this type of utility with my boss.

TIA for any leads.

Juan

P.S. I tried Andrew Welch's Black Box, but it refuses to run on my PB 180.

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

Date: 06 Feb 1994 15:18:07 +0100 (MET)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (Q) Where do the Think C/C++ upgrades reside

Hello,
recently I saw that upgrades of the Think compilers from version 6.0 to 6.0.1
were posted to the file server, which contain quite a lot of bug fixes. Now I
need them but have not yet full ftp access. Can anyone please mail to me the
complete names of the hqx files for the Think C 6.0 upgrade, the  THink C++ 6.0
upgrade and as far as I remember there was a third hqx file mentioned,
supposingly for the Classes TCL or the Libraries.

Thanks

Jens Eickhoff
([e-mail])

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

Date: Tue, 8 Feb 94 11:57:22 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (R) Al Bloom - Unchained

Kudos to Paul Baim for his submission regarding the latest Bloomism.  I'm
afraid I missed the original Al Bloom message in question, but I've before
been the subject of a BloomFlame (and undeserved at that).  Hey, folks,
Paul said it well.  The Net is no place to abuse people.  Gentle corrections,
maybe.  Suggestions, sure.  But to paraphrase a common saying, write
once, review twice.

Let's keep things friendly here; there's loads of good info available on
Info-Mac, and I'd hate to turn anyone off permanently.  I made that mistake
early in my email career, and learned the hard way that words written are
not easily undone.

Brandon Munday

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

Date: Sun, 6 Feb 1994 02:50 EST
From: Don't Panic! <[e-mail]>
Subject: 2 Commercials on Quicktime format (Q)

Dear Netters,
Are the following two commercials available via FTP or Gopher on quicktime
format?
1. The 1984 introduction of the Macintosh.
2. The Magnavox add with the man sitting in his chair being blown away by his
tv.  If I remember correctly, it was accompanied by Wagner's Ride of the
Valkyries.
If you know the size of these files (with or without sound) please e-mail that
info too.  In addition where may these files be found via Gopher or FTP?
Thank you.
Sincerely,
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 02:59:59 -0800
From: [e-mail]
Subject: 840av install CD

Greetings;

I'm about to drop alot of hard earned dollars for a 840av 32MB/1.2G/CD. I've
opted for a NEC multispin instead of the stock CD player. Speed is the issue.

CompUSA is telling me since I 'm not getting the stock Apple CD player, I
won't /can't/will never get the CD. They say even if you offer Apple $$$ they
won't even sell you the CD.  SO...

Q1. Is this true?, how can I get the 840av Apple CD.

Q2. How close do the diskettes that come with a 840av resemble the CD??.
I know you lose at least the developers QT when you get diskettes. What else
is missing.

Q3. Has anyone overcome this obstacle??.

Tanx
|8-)
Dennis Black

Dennis Lee Black                                   [e-mail]
cisco Systems Inc., 33 Wood Avenue, Iselin, NJ 08830
AMA,ECEA, CJCR, Husq 36WXE, Enduros, Hare Scrambles
"When people stop complaining, they stop thinking".....Napoleon

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Date: Mon, 07 Feb 94 16:10:41 GMT
From: Marion GUNN <[e-mail]>
Subject: a bootable disk?

My Mac SE/30 (8MB RAM, 40MB disk space) which was working happily
earlier today, will not boot. Tried Norton, which declared it to
be a bootable disk, but it still wouldn't start. Error msg, when
booting from another disk--"Not enough Finder memory to work with disk
Coyote (that's the name of my machine)". Norton Utilities reported
"A problem has been found. These file could not be read and are
probably damaged... [long list] ... and 191 more." The machine was
serviced only a couple of weeks ago, and I did several hours of
work on it earlier today, with no sign of trouble. Only thing
I can think of is that I did try to install some beta utilities
(a set of WorldScript keyboards) several times over, but Coyote
refused to accept the installation. Could that have caused system
corruption? I am running system 7.0.1. When I try to re-install
the system sw from original disks, I get error message  2231.
As I really need my machine, help would be much appreciated.
It might help if someone could explain what the error message
"not enough Finder memory" actually means.
Marion Gunn

[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 08 Feb 1994 11:00:32 -0600 (CST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: apple/mac history

Path: vax1.mankato.msus.edu!tomas
From: [e-mail]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest
Subject: apple/mac history
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 8 Feb 94 10:59:00 -0500
Summary: apple mac beginnings????
Keywords: history beginings????
Distribution: world
Organization: Mankato State University
News-Moderator: Approval required for posting to comp.sys.mac.digest
Lines: 4

Im looking for info on the early days of apple macintosh.
Im researching the history of apple macintosh for the slave driver(comp inst).
any interesting info please
Tomas Grim, snowed in in Mankato.

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Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 00:39:05 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Matt X. Herbison)
Subject: Apple IIgs monitors

Hi there.  Recently, someone donated an Apple IIgs to the day-care facility
on campus.  Only problem is that it didn't come with a monitor or monitor
cable.  Can anyone tell me if the IIgs monitor is unique to the CPU, or
could any Apple II monitor do the job.  Also, can anyone tell me anything
about monitor cable requirements.  If anyone has any pertinent information,
please send it, it will really help the kids and their supervisors.
<---The heart-wrenching plee 8)   Thanks.

-Matt X. Herbison                       -Penn State University
[e-mail]                         -Apple Student Representative

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Date: Tue, 08 Feb 94 12:54:31 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Appletalk software

I am looking for some software to do the following:

I would like to be able to have users at out Macintosh lab sign in at a termina
l, and then log on at their machine. The idea is that, when there are many user
, the machine could determine which machines are in use, and display on an LED
scren which macs are available, or who is next in line.

So, obviously, I need it to be able to output to an LED screen. (Like you see a
t basketball games.)

Can anyone suggest software (commercial or shareware) that can do one or all of
these things?

Also, does anyone know a source for LED screens?

TIA,
Adriane Moser             [e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 09:32:39 -0600 (CST)
From: [e-mail] (Ing. Erick Mancera)
Subject: ARA over CISCO

HI,
    I've heard that the version 9.1 of the Comunication Server of CISCO
routers can use ARAP (AppleTalk Remote Access Protocol) over a serial line.
Does anybody have information about it? Is it easy to configurate?

    I'll appreciate any comment.

Erick Mancera
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 19:02:52 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Dr. Michael S. Silverstein)
Subject: Autodoubler (?) makes HD work overtime

I am running AutoDoubler 2.01 on a MacIIci 8/80, system 7.1 . Autodoubler
is configured to work after 20 minutes idle and to compress everything
except certain excluded applications (the time it took to launch frequently
used compressed applications was driving me nuts). The HD has about 10MB
free.

Lately the HD has taken to working overtime. The problem does not
necessarily occur when opening or saving documents or using the
finder...these activities usually take a few seconds. The problem is that
the HD is working for 30-60s (or sometimes more) when there is no reason.
For instance, while I am looking at a document, not inputing, not saving,
not autosaving, not doing anything...but only one or two minutes since my
last keystroke. The disk-read light starts blinking and I cannot input from
the keyboard or the mouse until it stops. I estimate this as 30-60s in real
time but the annoyance factor involved is high.

I stopped AutoDoubler from loading and everything went back to normal...no
sudden halts for the computer to try and find the meaning of life from the
HD.

What I can't figure out is why AutoDoubler should be working at all if the
20 minutes did not pass.

Is this a conflict with the system?
Could there be conflicts with other programs/utilities/extentions that
could cause this?
Do I need a further update of AutoDoubler?

Thanks for any and all insights...

Michael Silverstein
Materials Engineering
Technion

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

Date: Sun, 06 Feb 1994 10:54:11 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Michael LeBlanc)
Subject: AV and PowerDesign Solution

Thanks to everyone who responded to my question about the 'non-linearity'
of output of the AV/PowerDesign Speaker combo.  The problem is with the
PowerDesign Speakers.

As several respondents have pointed out, you should set your Sound Level in
the Sound Control Panel to the maximum.  You can then adjust the sound
output from the Powered Speakers.  Apparently, Apple built the speaker amps
to squelch off at low input levels (to decrease noise and possibly power).




Michael LeBlanc, [e-mail]
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
5163 Duke Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3J 3J6

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Date: Mon, 07 Feb 94 13:30:38 CET
From: [e-mail] (cc)
Subject: Bowling League Software?

     Would appreciate tips, pointers, etc to good Mac software for managing
     a small (20-team) bowling league. PD or shareware are better, will go
     commercial if necessary. Nothing found on Sumex.  Any recommendations
     or tips would be appreciated. Reply direct to "[e-mail]" to
     avoid cluttering the list.

     Pete Jones

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

Date: 08 Feb 1994 19:04:42 +0000 (GMT)
From: "F.J. Lalor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Changing TIFF files into PICT files, How?

Subject says it all. Can someone tell me how to do this?
Thanks in advance -
Fergus Lalor, Chemistry Dept., University College, Cork, Ireland.
[e-mail]

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

Date: Sun, 6 Feb 94 07:13 EST
From: Joseph Block <[e-mail]>
Subject: Color PC-ANSI Comm Tool

Is there a Communications Toolbox tool that will do PC-ANSI in color?

Please reply by email and I will summarize to the list if there is
adequate interest.

Thanks,

Joe Block <[e-mail]>

Subtlety is the art of saying what you think and getting out of the
way before it is understood.

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

Date: Mon, 07 Feb 1994 19:18:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: Pete Boulay <[e-mail]>
Subject: DA/Font Manager Needed

To any of you gurus out there...

I need to find a DA/Font Manager to put on my MAC SE/30 running System 6.05-
soon to be 6.08.

I downloaded one from a site earlier this year and it was a bad copy...

Any ideas???

A novice MAC addict...

Pete Boulay
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 07 Feb 94 12:44:27 EST
From: "David Virga" <[e-mail]>
Subject: DeskPict vs BackSplash

Al Bloom wrote in IM Digest v12-019, Subject DeskPict replacement (A):

>DeskPict has gone commercial....
Does this mean that I'm no longer allowed to use the older FreeWare
version?  I'll take a stab at answering my own question:  No, just
don't expect any upgrades.  Sooner or later, you're going to upgrade
something in your system and DeskPict will stop working.

>For a freeware equivalent to DeskPict that is marvelously stable under
>System 7 and the new machines, nothing beats the "ZMac Exclusive" (It
>may not be posted, but it may be shared) BackSplash. IMHO.
Yes, but...  BackSplash only displays the selected picture at its
original size.  I still prefer DeskPict because it will resize an image
to fit the screen.  I have a 1024x768 monitor, and most images are still
640x480 or 800x600, so that feature is important to me.

I run in 32bit mode, Sys 7.0.1 Tuned 1.1.1 on a Quadra 700, with File
Sharing but not VM, with no problem.  VM is reportedly the one
incompatibility that !DeskPict has, and I can live comfortably
without it.  When I upgrade my system and become incompatible with
DeskPict, I'll look for something else.  Maybe by then, BackSplash
will support auto resizing (hint, hint!).

Dave Virga, Defense Information Systems Agency
[e-mail]

***  MY opinions!!  Don't try to say, "The Government said, '...'"  ***

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

Date: 5 Feb 1994 16:58:10 -0500
From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
Subject: Duo 230-How much RAM on the Motherboard?

[e-mail] writes:

>Could someone refresh my memory and tell me how much RAM comes on
>the Duo 230's motherboard? Is it 4MB? In other words, if I get a
>4MB 230 and I add RAM later, I won't be removing any RAM?

 Pete Tamas
Yes, yes and yes.
The 4 Meg stays on the motherboard and the added RAM is plugged in.

Cheers, Steve Henning in Reading, PA

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

Date: Sun, 06 Feb 94 20:26:21 EST
From: Pete Tamas <[e-mail]>
Subject: Fixing bad sectors on floppy disks

Sector Collector is part of 911 Utilities which is part of SuperSet
Utilities ($90 at MacWharehouse). I still use the Sector Collector I
bought about 5 years ago so I don't know how the latest version
works. Norton Optimizer is part of Norton Utilities. MacTools and
Public Utilities also fix bad sectors. (Actually, it puts an invisible
file on the bad sector so it won't be used). Note that Norton Utilities
will say a a disk is fine even if it has bad sectors.-Pete Tamas
[e-mail] or TempleVM.bitnet

On Fri, 4 Feb 1994 12:12:13 -0500 (EST) you said:
>
>Would you be able to point me to a site at which I could acquire Sector
>Collector or Norton Optimizer (or possibly both)?  If this is not
>possible, would you be able to send me a copy of said programs?
>

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

Date: Sun, 6 Feb 1994 20:43:12 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Gavin Kistner)
Subject: Fixing bad sectors on floppy disks

At  8:26 PM 2/6/94 -0500, Pete Tamas wrote:
>Norton Optimizer is part of Norton Utilities.

and also

>Note that Norton Utilities will say a a disk is fine even if it has
>bad sectors.-Pete Tamas

I'd just like to kind of defend the honor of Symantec here...
First, "Norton Utilities" is a name for a collection of items, including
Norton Disk Doctor, Unerase, VolumeRecover, Backup, SpeedDisk, etc.

Disk Doctor will say a disk is fine if it has bad sectors which aren't so
bad off that it can't read the vital information when it tests it...it does
NOT test for bad sectors.

Unless they've changed the names in versions, "Norton Optimizer" is
SpeedDisk, which has an option to check for bad sectors, and to tell the
system there are files there if it finds bad sectors.

- Gavin

Steamboatcaptainman put my .sig in a .sigcompactor.
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 17:28:00 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Venanzio Jelenic)
Subject: For the  Digest : Book Reporter's Guild info

+Book Reporter+s Guild+  a Group-A-Ware (tm) product by V. Jelenic

Requires a Macintosh computer, Hypercard 2.x or Player,
Printer(optional) and
approximately 15 kids.
(Use with less people is possible, but does not utilize the full
capabilities of the program)

Have your students write their own book reports and leave them on the
computer for others to read and use to guide their reading choices.
Laid out in a database form in Hypercard.

Modeled after a multi-user database where the users can write their own
Book Reports.   Ideal for a classroom, library, or any location which
sees a large number of users-browsers.

Some instructions for educational use included in docs.  Very good for
using over extended periods of time with multiple writers, as almost 600
reports may be saved to a single 800 K floppy disk.

Teachers, Educators; this one is worth trying.  A low-cost solution to
using computers in a classroom creatively. One of the few models which
allows for collaborative long-term work with computers in the classroom,
yet requires little hardware or training.   A simple and elegant
solution for creating  *Public*  knowledge-bases.

Demo version 1.0.   Allows for 3 users, and  3  Reports per category
(for a total of over 30 possible Reports).  The complete version allows
for unlimited number of users, and unlimited Reports.  Demo version is
now available as   bookreportersguild.sit.hqx .
(be sure to read the docMaker file for instructions for log-in
procedure.)

Projected cost:
$ 110 U.S. per school-site!, unlimited copies, unlimited users.
$ 40 U.S. Single copy, unlimited users.
(School Board Licencing details are available upon request.)

Please direct email  inquiries to:
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

or/
Venanzio Jelenic
Simulnet/BK_Reporter
20 Chalmers St. North
Cambridge, Ontario,CANADA
N1R 5B7
[phone]

"Macintosh",  "Hypercard"  are trademarks of Apple Computer Corp.
"Group-A-Ware", "Simulnet", and +Book Reporter+s Guild+ are trademarks
of V. Jelenic

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

Date: 06 Feb 94 16:24:57 EST
From: Hans Kroeger <[e-mail]>
Subject: Fujitsu HD in PB180 problems

I bought a 230 MB Fujitsu HD for my PB180. The following problem revealed:
When I wake up the PB180 from sleep mode I get all kinds of errors and
crashes.
I tried a number of different formatting tools but the problem does not go
away.
I reloaded the System Software, zapped the PRAM and turned extensions
off.....but to no avail.

Any idea ?

Thanks in advance.

Hans Kroeger

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

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

Date: Sun, 06 Feb 94 11:55:11 GMT
From: Michael Everson <[e-mail]>
Subject: GNU & other public-domain fonts

How des one find out, exactly, what fonts are truly public-domain
fonts? I understand that the GNU licence specifies exactly that
one can make any changes one likes as long as it's documented
and that the result as well is free. Anyone know more than this?

Michael Everson
School of Architecture, UCD; Richview, Clonskeagh; Dublin 14; E/ire
Phone: [phone]  Fax: [phone]  Home: [phone]

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

Date: Tue, 8 Feb 94 14:41:27 EST
From: John Alciere <[e-mail]>
Subject: Good TCP/IP Stack

Can anyone recommend a good package of TCP/IP applications for the Mac?  On my
PC, I use the NetManage Chameleon package, which has Ping, FTP, Telnet, Mail
(SMTP), Whois, etc.  I'd like to find something comparable for the Mac.

I'm currently running MacTCP 1.1.

Please respond directly to my e-mail address.  Thanks.

John Alciere <[e-mail]>
Technical Publications
Xyplex Inc., Littleton MA

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

Date: Sun, 6 Feb 1994 15:25:18 -0800 (PST)
From: Regina Melczer <[e-mail]>
Subject: hard drive question

I recently obtained a Western Digital WD40AP hard drive with a "dead"
mechanism.  Even though these drives were made for Macs (and Apple
II's) they did not use SCSI mechanisms.  They used a 3.5" ST-412 RLL
mechanism and a RLL->SCSI host adaptor card so as to work in the Mac
world.  To make this drive functional again, would I have to replace
it with the exact same model of RLL mechanism (which apparently
haven't been made for quite a few years) or would other models of RLL
drives work?  Thanks.

Gabe
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 20:14:42 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Kee Nethery [phone])
Subject: Help: Trying to find publication... (A)

>In response to a networking question my Apple technical support
>person referred me to: "The Design and Planning of Enterprise-Wide
>AppleTalk Internetworks" by Addison Wesley.

>I've not been able to find it. When called, Addison Wesley disavowed
>any knowledge of the book.

>Does anyone know if the book exists and if so where it can be found?
>Thanks all.

The book is in lawyer limbo right now. The plan is for it to become the
property of the AppleTalk Networking Forum. If (or when) that happens, the
ANF will make sure it is available.

Kee Nethery

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

Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 09:33:05 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Kee Nethery [phone])
Subject: Help: Trying to find publication... (A)

>In response to a networking question my Apple technical support
>person referred me to: "The Design and Planning of Enterprise-Wide
>AppleTalk Internetworks" by ....

Sorry I forgot to mention that if you want to be informed when (if) the ANF
publishes this book, you should send email to:

[e-mail] (Michael T. LoBue)

He is the ANF secretariat and will handle getting it produced and distributed.

Kee Nethery

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

Date: Sat, 5 Feb 1994 17:55:45 -0800
From: Richard Lim <[e-mail]>
Subject: Help with downloading files

I am having difficulty downloading text files using my modem. At
present I'm connected at 2.4 kbaud to my account in California, and
I'm trying to download Digests and other stuff, mostly with the zmodem
protocol, but sometimes xmodem and ymodem too. Most of the time, I get
a "CRC-32 error, cnt 43" message when I try zmodem, and the transfer is
aborted. Any ideas what could be going wrong? I am using hardware hand-
shaking (&f1 &k3 in the Hayes command set). Thanks in advance,
Richard Lim
[e-mail],[e-mail], or
c/o World Scientific Publishing Singapore, fax [phone]

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

Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 20:14:55 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Kee Nethery [phone])
Subject: Home Internet Connections (A)

>I'm interested in finding out what exactly I would need to set up for
InterNet access from my home (probably through a SLIP connection; I need
to check with my university on that).  I would love to be able to take
advantage of shareware wonders like Fetch, Eudora, Anarchive, TurboGopher,
and NewsWatcher; can I do this from a v.32bis SLIP connection?

>I'd like to avoid buying any expensive books if I can; however, if I need
MacTCP (I probably do, don't I?), I'll get Adam Engst's book.  How can I
order it (I can't find it around here).

For sure get Adam's Book. It has all the info and software you will need
and it's well worth the price. You can order it through the computer
literacy bookstore reachable at: [e-mail]

Home internet connectivity is wonderful and yes, all the shareware wonders
work quite well through a SLIP connection.

Kee Nethery

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

Date: Tue, 8 Feb 94 13:07:02 GMT
From: Aurelio Turco   <[e-mail]>
Subject: HYPERCARD

Does anyone know when hypercard 2.2
(which i believe is the first version supporting color)
will be released in europe (italy to be precise) ?
or where i could email to find out ?

Thanks.
Aurelio Turco
[e-mail]
Bureau of Meteorology
Melbourne
Australia

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

Date: Sat, 5 Feb 1994 17:47 EST
From: Don't Panic! <[e-mail]>
Subject: Hypercard 2.1 (Q)

Dear Netters,
I searched veronica and archie and I can't seem to find Hypercard 2.1.   Has
it gone under a different name?  Is there a different software that will read
Hypercard 2.1 stacks.  I still only have Hypercard 2.0 because I thought I
would never nead 2.1.  So in my own error I decided to use the Hypercard 2.1
disk that came with System 7 for something else (before backing it up)!
Please let me know if it is available ftp or gopher somewhere.  Please reply
e-mail as sometimes the listserv has been unreliable in delivering the digest.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
[e-mail]

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

Date: 08 Feb 1994 08:31:59 +0000 (U)
From: "Dees, Ted E." <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info re: Fetch

W Paul Blakey wrote:
>I'm new to Internet and a virgin Fetch user. Are there any diagrams of how
>Fetch finds its way through the net? The different fields make no sense to
>me. What is the Host field in relation to the Directory field? Any good
>books you can suggest? Thanks :-) wpb

The Host field is the site to which you are attempting to connect (e.g.,
sumex-aim.stanford.edu) and the Directory field is the directory level at which
you wish to be (e.g., /info-mac).

I don't know of any "diagrams" as such but ... as to how it finds its way
through the net, it's best to think of Fetch as a kind of telephone -- you have
to tell it the number you want (the Host) and the person to whom you wish to
talk (the Directory).  It doesn't find its way through the net -- you tell it
where to go.

You didn't ask, but if you're also wondering about user id and password, for
now use "anonymous" as the id and your mail address ([e-mail]) as the
password.

As to books, I started with Zen and the Art of the Internet.  Big Dummy's Guide
to the Internet (no value judgement here ;) ) is also helpful.  Both of these
are available on the 'net but, of course, I can't recall where.  I'm sure
others on this list can enlighten us.

Ted
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 20:15:01 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Kee Nethery [phone])
Subject: Info re: Fetch (A)

>I'm new to Internet and a virgin Fetch user. Are there any diagrams of how
Fetch finds its way through the net? The different fields make no sense to
me. What is the Host field in relation to the Directory field? Any good
books you can suggest? Thanks :-) wpb

Host: Host is the FTP server machine name. For example the info-mac
software library is on the machine named: sumex-aim.stanford.edu  Fetch
sends this name to a Domain Name Server and gets it's TCP/IP address back
in return. Packets get sent to TCP/IP addresses.

User ID: If you had an account on a file server, you would enter your
account name in this field. For example "sn0016". Since most people use
Fetch for anonymous FTP, when you want to log into an anonymous FTP server,
the account name you should use is "anonymous".

Password: If you had an account on a file server, you would enter the
password that goes with your account name. For anonymous FTP servers you
enter your e-mail address as a courtesy so that the managers of the FTP
server have an idea who is logging into their server. You would enter
"[e-mail]"

Directory: I usually leave this field blank and the FTP server puts me in
at the root directory (similar to the view you see when you open a hard
drive on your mac and see all the folders and documents). If you know where
you want to be placed and you don't want to have to go opening folders to
get to the same place each time you login, you can enter the directory path
in this field. If you don't know how to type in a unix directory path,
don't worry about it, do what I do and leave it blank and then use Fetch to
navigate once you are connected.

Kee Nethery

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

Date: Mon, 07 Feb 94 14:38:43 EST
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Interslip & Fetch (C)

On Wed, 2 Feb, James R. Chard wrote

>I have version 1.0fc3 of Interslip and version 2.1.1 of Fetch.
>Both seem to be giving me problems on my Mac.  Fetch freezes
>and locks up the Mac.  Interslip connects to my service
>provider but doesn't seem to be "aware" of it and highlights
>the Connect button again.

Jim, if you can't get the SLIP connection, don't even try to launch
Fetch. You'll just confuse the poor dear.

Not being all that bright, I found the InterSLIP script language to
be impenetrable. However, InterSLIP has a neat feature called "direct
connect" that allowed me to get around the problem. I made the initial
connection to the SLIP server with my usual data communications pgm,
with the modem set up (&D0) to not hang up when I quit the program. Once
connected, I quit the comm program and launched InterSLIP in "direct
connect" mode. A tad awkward, to be sure, but it worked. If it works
for you, you'll know it is a script problem.

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

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

Date: Mon, 7 FEB 94 12:16:5 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Looking for text processor...[R]

Matt X. Herbison asks:

>Hi.  I am in need of a program that can open (or just look inside of)
>short text documents in order to find a word.  When it finds that word,
>it has to alert me with a sound.  If it doesn't find the word, nothing
>happens.

This isn't exactly what you are asking for, but I think it might do what
you want.  Try FindIt 1.1.1, a drag-and-drop application which will find
and display occurrences of text.  It only takes folders, though, not files.
You can find it at:

    ftp://sumex-aim.stanford.edu/info-mac/util/find-it-111.hqx

or at respective mirror sites.

Bill Cameron
[e-mail]
[e-mail]


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

Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 14:04:17 -0700 (MST)
From: Todd Kennedy <[e-mail]>
Subject: Macintosh Easy Open

How does one get a hold of Mac Easy Open?
Is it freeware/shareware?  Or is it
commercial?

thanks
todd

[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 8 Feb 94 12:43:45 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Steven Taylor)
Subject: Mac Plus Monitor Card Bitz (Q)

Hi all,

I'm sorry to trouble you like this. We have here one Mac Plus with a Nutmeg
Systems video card, and the Nutmeg 19+ display. Bought by us in 1989, the
card is retrofitted to the Plus' 68000 processor by plugging into a plastic
ic 'clip' that fits down over the processor's legs, so that the video card
then plugs in to ride piggyback above it. Unfortunately, this ic clip (made
of acetate or perspex by the looks of things) is broken and is now useless
while the card itself is OK.

I can find no mention of any company by the name of Nutmeg Systems in the
UK (directory enquiries, advertiser's index in mags...).
The clip itself is embossed "KILLY" - if this is the manufacturer's name
then it may be possible to source just the clip itself, as there are
presumably other peripheral devices that can retrofitted in the same way.

Qs: 1) Do any of you know of a source of these piggyback clips for Pluses?
    2) Can any of you tell me whether Nutmeg Systems or parent company
still exists in the States or elsewhere, and if so, what their Telephone
number might be?

Thank you so much for your help!

Please reply to me direct and I'll post a brief resume later.
Cheers,
steve

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

Date: Mon, 7 Feb 94 15:05:29 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: MacPost Question

I recently installed the MacPost Server on our local AppleTalk server.
This server has MacTCP installed and is running on an ethernet with
internet access (we use fetch from this and similarly connected machines
daily).  I installed the MacPost client software on one of the other
local Mac's and it appeared we were in business.  We sent a couple of
messages and things went well.

Then we tried to send mail to an addressee that was not in the same
domain as we were.  Almost immediately, we got the following error
message via return mail.

******************************

TThe following error(s) has occured while sending Your mail:
RCPT TO: <[e-mail]>
550 User not local: "[e-mail]"
Your mail follows below:
 -----------------------
This is a
******************************

We have been able to show connectivity by sending an e-mail to this
domain from another domain.  But we can't seem to be able to *send* mail
outside of our domain.  Can anybody help?  Our prefs are as follows;

Domain:  setd.nawcad.navy.mil
SMTP Gateway: 1 40.229.43.37   (the IP of the server itself)
TimeZone: +0400
AppleTalk Nave: .SETD Server

Once again, any help would be much appreciated.  Responses can be sent
to me at:

[e-mail]  (preferred)
[e-mail]  (incoming does work)
[e-mail]     (least preferred)


Regards,
J.R. Smullen

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

Date: Sat, 5 Feb 94 15:47:21 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: MacTools 3.0 & Now Utilities 4.02: Conflict?

    i have experienced a conflict between the trashback extension
that comes with mactools 3.0b and nowmenus.  after reinstalling my
system (7.1) and turning off all other extensions and control panels,
my mac often crashes when i try to launch files or apps from nowmenus
when trashback is present.  the error that i get is usually a
"bus error" or "address error."  it is attributed to the finder or
whatever app i happen to be in when i go to nowmenus.

    the makers of both programs say there i no such conflict on
record but i know that i am having it.  has anyone else had this
experience?  any suggestions?  btw, it is nowmenus 4.02.

    i have an se/30,4/80.  turning 32 bit addressing and virtual
memory off does not fix the problem.

    TIA.

    ([e-mail])

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

Date: 8 Feb 1994 15:55:55 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Stan Kerr)
Subject: MacX and the Meta key---a puzzle

[e-mail] writes:

.>I'm running MacX 1.1.7.  I'm trying to use my Meta key (called Option or Alt
.>on Mac keyboards), but MacX is outsmarting itself and refuses to even send
the
.>keypress events for Meta until I've typed some other character, whereupon it
.>sends (e.g.) "aring" for Meta-A instead of just sending A with its meta bit
.>on.  And for characters for which the Macintosh doesn't define accents, it
.>sends nothing at all.

.>I can tell this by running "xev" on a UNIX and watching what events get sent
.>when I type characters.

I don't use emacs, so I may be missing the point entirely, but I'm using
MacX 1.2, with option-arrow mappings for the mouse (so option-up-arrow is the
meta key). I ran xev, then depresed option-up and held both keys down; the xev
window showed a 'meta' keysym being sent by MacX. With the keys still down, I
depressed 'a', and the window dutifully reported an 'a' keysym being sent.
I released 'a', and this was reported. I released the up-arrow key (while
still depressing the option key), and a keyrelease was reported for 'meta'.

I just tried an experiment with QuicKeys, to see if I could map option-up
to a single key for convenience. I mapped a key to option-up and ran xev,
then hit the key and released it. xev reported the keypress but not the
keyrelease, so QuicKeys isn't quite smart enough here.

...

.>Alternately, can anyone suggest other vendors of X server software for Macs
.>that may work better?  Personal experience with such a product is, of course,
.>always the best, but I'll take just names & phone numbers of vendors if
.>necessary.

There's Exodus, from White Pine Software. I've been testing it for a few
months, and am overdue to make a report on it. I'll see if I can try
the meta key. If you can give me a short script to follow with emacs
(taking into account that I don't use it, so you have to describe every
keystroke), I would be happy to test it with both MacX and Exodus.
(If you do this, don't forget to send your emacs initialization files as well.)
--
-----
Stan Kerr <[e-mail]>  Phone:[phone]  Fax:[phone]
Computing & Communications Services Office, U of Illinois/Urbana

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

Date: Mon, 07 Feb 1994 02:05:34 PST
From: SHU-WAI CHOW <[e-mail]>
Subject: My solution to SOS APPL problems

In September 92, I ordered a powerbook through my campus dealer.  They told me
b
the powerbook would be delivered in about 30 days.  October, November, and
December rolled by and I was still powerbookless.  I started calling SOS APPL
in late December to ask for an explanation.

Surprise, surprise!  They gave me an excuse and a guess as to the delivery date
of within 1 week.  One week later, no powerbook.  Throughout January, I called
SOS APPL once a week to see if there was any news on a delivery date.
Everytime, I got a new twist to the excuse and a different guess as to the
delivery date.  I talked to a supervisor once, but he didn't help.  He just
spewed the same Apple party line.

In February, I complained to the county consumer affairs department.  One month
later, I got a message on my answering machine from Apple Executive Affairs
Office.  They wanted to discuss my complaint with me.  The next day, before I
was able to call Apple, the campus retailer called me with news that the
powerbook had arrived.  I do give Apple the benefit of the doubt and chalk
this one up as coincidence.  they also agreed to sign me up for 1 year free
Applecare warranty.

In closing, I want to point out the county budget problems.  If anyone else oh
takes the path of bringing in government agencies to settle their disputes,
please remember they are severly understaffed and working with a tiny budget.
Santa Clara Consumer Affairs Department is staffed with volunteers.  Remember
to be patient with them.

Secondly, it's obvious SOS APPL is a sham.  It's filled with a bunch of
spin doctors whose purpose is to place the blame anywhere else except on
Apple.
Executive Affairs is where the people with real power hide.  Talk to them if
you can.

Shu Chow
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 08:22:22 +0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: News Reader for the Mac

Hi netters, a friend in on the net using UUPC Mac to connect to
a local Internet provider. He seems to be receiving compressed
rnews files (can't remember what he subscribed on the net).
Where can I find a rnews reader for the Mac? At least he can
find out where those rnews files came from....
-Mike

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

Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 15:48:47 -0600
From: (Pete Chane) <[e-mail]>
Subject: Nuntius

Is it just me or does Nuntius 1.1.7 crash and hang your Mac too?  It always
happens when it is doing stuff in the background and I have more than 4
windows open.  And I give it 1500K!!!!  Any help or recommendations for a
replacement?  Can I keep my existing newsgroup file?

PETER CHANE
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Home of the 1994 Rose Bowl Champions.

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

Date: Mon, 07 Feb 94 06:35:34 +0000 BST
From: Richard Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: Obscure Q950 problem (Q)

One of the NEMUG members is having problems with a Q950 -

They've recently replaced a Q950 with a newer one and now find that the
software, New England Digital, is unstable with frequent system bombs etc. It
was perfectly stable on the older Q950, and the cpu is the only bit of the
system that's been changed.

The new Q950 is exactly the same spec as the older one; it was manufactured
around Spring 1993.

Has there been any ROM changes in the Quadra?

Any other ideas?

Richard Smith
Hardware & Systems Executive,
NorthEast Macintosh User Group, UK

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

Date: 7 Feb 1994 22:26:29 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Scott Dedrick)
Subject: Other Japanese TrueType Fonts?

I am running a pseudo-Japanese Language Kit on my Mac and I am curious
about the two other TrueType fonts included with the files from the
developer CD -- Ryumin Light and Chu Gothic. How do you get these things
to work? The file creators, types, and resources are not those of TrueType
fonts, and I absolutely cannot get the system to recognize them. Even when
I install a pure Japanese system they are not available. It seems silly to
include them if they don't work. Any advice?

[e-mail]

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

Date: Sat, 5 Feb 1994 13:32:21 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Bill Horsfall)
Subject: posting question concerning MAC

I would greatly appreciate someone responding to a "rookie's" question...

i have recently connected to the 'net through northwest nexus using SLIP
and MACTCP with software appl.'s FETCH and TURBOGOHER on a MAC POWERBOOK
165c with internal modem (32bis).

Seems everytime i use 'GOPHER, i can explore for about five minutes before
it gives me the error message "unable to resolve host".  Of course, I
CHECKED ALL CONFIG's.  I tried reinstalling MACTCP.. no go.  I then
installed everything from scratch... same thing, nothing.

Again, if anyone has ANY ideas,  would greatly appreciate hearing them.

Thanx

Bill...

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

Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 00:05:22 -0600 (CST)
From: Doug Michael Benning <[e-mail]>
Subject: Powerbook 100 battery trouble

HELP!!!
I have got some weird powerbook problems.  My trust 100 is having battery
trouble.  I knew the old lead acid was getting weak, not charging all the
way up.  Well the other day after chArging I tried to turn it on (using
the apple in the powerbook charger  ie adapter).  It would not do
anything.  So I plugged it in and boom, no problem it works.  I noticed
that the clock was reset to 12:00 1/1/4.  So I went out, bought a new lead
acid, and knew lithiums for the backup-- you know the watch battery kind.
I put them all in, let it charge with adapter for a couple of hours (first
I reset the clock).  I pulled the plug, tried to boot -- nothing.  Plugged
it in, bingo it comes on.  So I unplugged the adapter -- boom no power.  I
turned it back on - clock reset!  I want to start by restting the PRAM --
how do I do it on the powerbook 100?   Anybody got any other ideas?  I
have checked external connections -- they look ok.

Any help apprec.

Doug Benning
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 20:15:08 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Kee Nethery [phone])
Subject: PowerBook ADB (A)

>(2) Will running the extended keyboard off the plugged-in PB
hurt the computer and/or battery?  Again, how and why?

Nope, it will not hurt it. Basically the keyboard draws power and the
PowerBook is designed to run as long as possible on it's batteries. Using
an extended keyboard just drains the batteries faster. When you have it
plugged in, the whole issue of battery drain is mute. At home my wife sets
her PB100 on a shelf at eye level and plugs in her keyboard and mouse at
hand level.

Kee Nethery

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

Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 10:38:03 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: PowerOpen

Apple will not ship PowerPc with PowerOpen until 1995, does any body have a
feel if the PowerPc shipped in 94 will be upgradable to run PowerOpen? If you
think the answer is yes will that be just an operating system that you purchace
for a reasonable price?

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

Date: Sat, 5 Feb 1994 23:59:16 -0600 (CST)
From: Neil Eric Mickelson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Problems Mailing to MACGIFTS@SUMEX_AIM

Greetings, all!

I have been having a problem recently mailing to the new submission address,
[e-mail].  Somewhere along the line, the message gets
refused for insufficient disk space on some machine or other; my file is
quite small, so this shouldn't be a problem.  This has happened twice.

Does anyone have any ideas on fixing the problem, or should I just resubmit
this by sending to macgifts at UMICH (I already FTP'ed it there, but that
doesn't echo to SUMEX, I guess!)?  Can I FTP directly to SUMEX?

If anyone has a clue, please share!

Thanks!

Neil E. Mickelson
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 08 Feb 1994 11:59:19 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Blake Sobiloff)
Subject: Puny Floppy Drive Capacity

In article <[e-mail]>, Allan Hunter
<[e-mail]> wrote:

> Why anyone would be in the unfortunate position of being unable to put
> SOME kind of OS on the hard drive and reboot--and thereby avoid the
> Toaster Tango--is beyond me (even System 7.1 fits on a single 1.44,
> doesn't it?); but if you want solutions nevertheless, get a second
> floppy drive.

Allan, I don't know how big megabytes are in your neck of the woods, but
1.44 of *my* megabytes is not enough to make a universal Sys7.1 floppy. :-)
Throw in a couple of (different) newer machines and you'll need a couple of
different System Enablers which quickly take up the remaining free space on
a floppy even after you've built one by stripping out all the non-vital
resources. Additionally, a second drive isn't going to help you if you
can't fit all the system software on one floppy.

My time and energy is much better spent lugging around an ancient 40 meg
hard drive with a complete copy of Sys7.1Pro, all the System Enablers ever
written, and all the networking extensions we use around here, too. I even
have room for a couple of different disk recovery utils and several other
handy viral and hard drive utilities. All I have to do to get a Mac working
again is hook up my HD and reboot.

Unfortunately, this *isn't* a viable solution for most folks. It works for
me because I run a lab and I inherited an old 40 meg drive from a hard
drive upgrade I did for one of our Lab members. Apple *desperately* needs
to set a new standard for removable media; CD-ROM would be fine by me
(especially if Apple would release a System Reference disc every quarter or
so), but even that is only a partial solution. What about writable media?
IMHO, the Quadras should have incorporated the 2.88 meg mechanism, and the
PowerPCs should use 20 meg flopticals.

Well, sorry for venting on you, Allan, but this has been a growing pet
peeve of mine, and I haven't heard anyone at Apple even drop a hint that
there's something in the works to solve this problem. <sigh>
--
 Blake Sobiloff <[e-mail]>  |   University of Maryland
 Laboratory for Automation Psychology   |   College Park, MD  20742-4411
 Department of Psychology               |   301/405-5936 (Voice)

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

Date: Mon, 7 Feb 94 09:34:41 MST
From: [e-mail] (Jonathan Lundell)
Subject: Q: MacTCP+SLIP+Ethernet

I have a small home office net of:

    Mac IIcx          [LE ]
    Mac Q610          [LES]
    Mac Duo 210       [L  ]
    Windows PC        [ E ]
    SPARC workstation [ E ]
    LaserWriter IINT  [L  ]

In the table, L=LocalTalk, E=Ethernet, S=SLIP modem.

My problem is twofold. First, I'd like the two desktop Macs to be able
to AppleTalk over EtherTalk *without* excluding the Duo and LW from
their net ('cause they want to print, or sync files). My guess is that
this is what Apple's Internet Router is intended to do. Is that correct,
and is there a better/cheaper solution. The reputed performance hit of
the Router isn't an issue here.

Second, I use MacTCP to communicate with the UNIX and PC boxes. But I also
use it to get to the outside world via SLIP. Not only can MacTCP not do
both at once, but it has to *restart* to switch. I'm trying MacTCP Switcher
to make that slightly less painful, but I'd really like simultaneous
access.

Without going into detail about the reasons, I'm not in a position to use
the UNIX box as the TCP/IP router, attaching the modem to it. And a Cisco
box is beyond my budget. The latter seems silly anyway as a solution for
something that should be simply solved in software.

One last caveat: I've got a pile of software that wants to use MacTCP,
so any replacement would have to provide a compatible interface.

Any suggestions?

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

Date: Sun, 6 Feb 1994 12:11:17 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Graeme Forbes)
Subject: Quicktime Novice has a question (Q)

I think this is becoming an faq, but now that I have at last loaded
Quicktime on my machine, I naturally want to play "1984". A couple of weeks
ago someone posted the address of (I think) an ftp'able copy. I took a note
of it and now can't find the note. If someone could repost the address or
mail it to me, I'll try to set aside however many days it takes to download
it. Thanks in advance,

Graeme Forbes

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

Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 21:46:40 -0600
From: (Pete Chane) <[e-mail]>
Subject: RAMdoubler and First Class Client 2.0.9?

I seen to get crashes and system hangs when I run First Class on a system
with RAMdoubler installed.  Anyone else experience this?

PETER CHANE
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Home of the 1994 Rose Bowl Champions.

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

Date: Sun, 6 Feb 1994 00:01:15 -0600 (CST)
From: Neil Eric Mickelson <[e-mail]>
Subject: RAMDoubler Prices and Performance

Greetings, all!

I was wondering if anyone out there has been using RAMDoubler for a while
now (you listening, Adam?), and how stable it has been on the long term.
Also, who has the best price on this thing currently?

Thanks for your help!

Neil E. Mickelson
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 08:59 CST
From: "Robert E. Front" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Random Number Software

Looking for Mac software that lets me generate a random numbers table and
allows me to control the range within which the numbers are to be generated.

r o b e r t

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Date: Sun, 6 Feb 1994 23:18:20 -0600
From: (Pete Chane) <[e-mail]>
Subject: Screen shots

How can I capture the contents of a non-modal (doesn't have a window title
bar) dialog box? I need to make in into a PICT file for manipulation.  Is
there anything better than cmd-shift-3?

Thanks.

PETER CHANE
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Home of the 1994 Rose Bowl Champions.

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Date: Tue, 08 Feb 94 07:50:48 CST
From: Mack Willingham <[e-mail]>
Subject: Sculley Resigns

Dateline: Feb. 7 1994, California.
Former Apple Computer exec John Sculley resigns from new telecommunications
company, says he was misled by the company, and plans to file 10 million
dollar lawsuit, says it has damaged his reputation.  More to follow I am
sure.  Mack Willingham, UAB news, Birmingham.

Mack

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Date: Mon, 07 Feb 1994 10:21:26 -0600 (CST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Sending mail to aol or compuserve

How can I send mail to someone with addresses for America Online and/or
Compuserve?  I'm not on either list, but I do have Internet and BITNET
connections.  Thanks for the help.

Steve Waechter
swaechter@utmem1 (bitnet)
[e-mail] (internet)

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Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 00:08:00 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Li-Hsiang Tu)
Subject: serial or AppleTalk device on Ethernet (Q)

Is there any software that will allow my Mac to use a serial or AppleTalk
device attached to another Mac on a ethernet?

I need the recommendation, if such a software exists, ASAP to make a
decision on the installation of ethernet.  Thank you very much.

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Date: Sat, 5 Feb 1994 21:59:58 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Jeffrey S. Shulman)
Subject: Speech Macro editor failed

[e-mail] writes:

>Dear netters,

>I have just acquired PlainTalk and its software for my 840av. It works
>fine, except.....

>When I want to record a speech macro using the speech macro editor, after I
>press the stop button, nothing appears. No translated script for my action.
>Pressing the run button (or tell Vivien to run my script) yields
>nothing....Sigh!

>I have tried reinstalling everything. From plaintalk s/w to system itself. :~(
>Would someone show me the way??! Thank you

>Rgds,
>David Chiu
>([e-mail])
>Dept. Biochem.,
>Hong Kong U. of Sci & Tech

You did not say what program you were trying to record your actions
from.  The Speech Macro Editor (SME) works like the AppleScript Script
Editor (and other OSA recorders) in recording "recordable"
applications (i.e. those apps that send AppleEvents to themselves to
do actions). You can't just turn on record and "do things" and then
have it record your actions, the app MUST BE a "recordable" app.

You can try using the QuicKeys OSA componant which will let you record mouse
movement/actions. Just be sure to select this in the SME before you choose
Record.

Jeff Shulman
President, Lighthouse Woods Corp.
Contract Engineer at Apple Computer, Speech Technologies Dept.
--
Jeff Shulman, CEO & President
Lighthouse Woods Corp.
[e-mail]

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Date: 7 Feb 1994 21:54:51 -0500
From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
Subject: Strange Finder problem on a Quadra

Fellow Macintosh users,

A friend of mine just called me with a problem.  He is a lab manager at a
University, and it seems that one of his Quadras is malfunctioning.  Of
course, the machine will be taken into the shop unless an answer is found
shortly.

He tells me that upon boot, the system goes into a continuous loop whereby
the screen is grey, then the menubar appears, then the screen goes back to
grey (menubar goes away), and so on, ad nauseum.  He pointed out that the
hard drive icon never appears.

To me, it sounds like the system is launching the Finder, which then
aborts unceremoniously.  As we all know, when there are no applications
running, the Mac will launch the Finder.  The Finder is launched again,
and then exits unceremoniously for a second time.  This cycle repeats.

He tells me that he has reinstalled a minimal system, but this has not
corrected the problem.  He has also tried disconnecting all SCSI devices,
but to no avail. The machine is on a network, possibly ethernet, I'm not
sure.  In any case, neither of us can think of what could possibly be
causing this phenomenon.

Any help would be appreciated.  You may respond to me at
[e-mail] or contact my friend Charles C. White directly at
[e-mail].

Sean--

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Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 00:54:27 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Tim Dierks)
Subject: Undocumented System functionality and you

Recently we've seen a lot of discussion, sometimes fervent discussion, on
the use of undocumented System functionality.  The Apple people and some
others have generally said "It's undocumented; don't use it- it will
break."  Many others have said things along the lines of "Well, it works
great now; I don't mind fixing my code if it breaks, and who knows if it
ever will break?"  I'd like to point out one more argument against using
system functionality.

At Apple, we're very committed to backwards compatibility, and this attitue
has translated into generating an expectation among our customers.
Customers are concerned, distraught, even unhappy or angry, when the
software they own breaks with a new system software release. There's an
expectation that if software worked once, it must have been correct, and
that any change in its functionality is the fault of the new system
software, and thus, Apple Computer. Because of this, Apple jumps through
hoops, bends over backwards, and goes through hell trying to both advance
system software and at the same time keep applications working. The single
hardest thing about advancing system software is backwards compatiblity.
Sometimes this difficulty is solely due to architecture and design
shortcomings in previous system software and applications that depend on
these broken architectures, but often, the problem is keeping applications
which went outside the boundaries of expected behavior working.

Regardless of your willingness to change or fix your system software, your
customers do not necessarily share this feeling, and even if they do,
they're generally not aware of why their software broke; it is unfair for
Apple to bear the brunt of this dissatisfaction.  Given that Apple will
always try to minimize customer dissatisfaction, if a reasonable number of
applications with a reasonably sized market are using undocumented managers
(such as the Layer Manager), you essentially remove Apple's ability to
change that manager. The reason we never documented the Layer Manager was
not because we wanted to keep it to ourselves like selfish children but
because we knew we wanted to change it, and knew that if it were used
outside of the company, it could not be changed.

When developers use undocumented system functionality, no matter how well
meaning the intention, you handcuff Apple to having to provide that
functionality for the rest of time, and this generally means:
   - It's much harder to develop and qualify system releases, which makes
them later, buggier, and they have fewer features.
   - We're very restricted in our abilities to change the system
architecture, since it must remain within the constraints established by
the API as it is used. This, in turn, sometimes makes it impossible for us
to implement features which would require architectural changes outside of
these constraints.

At the very least, we have to break applications and this means unhappy
developers and customers, especially customers who now have to pay for an
upgrade, find a new product because the original developer is no longer in
business, or choose to not upgrade their Macintosh to newer system
software. All of these reduce Apple's success and impacts platform
adoption, which in turn impacts market size, and in turn, developer
revenues.

In the end, not using undocumented system features is one of the most
helpful things developers can do to enable Apple to move forward in
functionality and features. Please take this into account whenever you
consider using something which does not appear within Inside Macintosh.

Thanks,
 - Tim
(While I'm speaking for myself, not Apple, I am involved with trying to
design and implement a future OS release and this is a real concern for
us.)

Tim Dierks                                                [e-mail]
       I work for Apple Computer, but I speak for myself.
 If my information helps you, please help someone else next time you can.
"If you can't lick 'em, put 'em on with a big piece of tape." -Negativland

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Date: Sun, 6 Feb 94 18:51:19 MET
From: An Apple a day...  06-Feb-1994 1844 <[e-mail]>
Subject: US Colleges internet directory?

Hello,
    I'm entering this message for a friend of mine who would like to
get in touch with the different college's authorities for educational
exchange purposes at various levels in the humanities. If such a listing
exists or can be uploaded from an ftp site, please make it available either
directly or via reply to this article.

Thanks in advance,
Giuseppe Milana
Digital SpA
Milan, Italy.

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Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 02:43:37 -0600 (CST)
From: James Ryan Osborne <[e-mail]>
Subject: Wanted:  Info on Claris CAD Libraries

    Hello!

    This is my first posting to Info-Mac.  Please, be gentle!
Apologies in advance if this duplicates previous material...
    I'm a scenic and lighting designer for a local community theater and I
work in Claris CAD to execute my designs.  Does anyone "out there" know if
there are libraries of symbols in the public domain for either the theater or
interior design?  I use 1/4"= 1' scale, but will use any I find.

    Please respond directly.  Useful information will be posted.
    Thanks in advance.

    Jamey Osborne
    [e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 5 Feb 1994 10:04:07 -0600 (CST)
From: "Larry Rymal:T.E.M.U.G.-EAST_TEXAS-" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Weather gif site...

Folks,

    During the summer of last year, I frequently downloaded weather
gif files from vmd.cso.uiuc.edu, converted them to .pics and used
PICS-to-Movie to combine them into a QuickTime movie for weather formation
animation.
    Well, imagine my surprise to discover that vmd.cso.uiuc.edu no
longer posts hourly infrared and visible satellite gif images.
    Does anyone know of a similar site?  Apparently, there have been
recent changes at other weather image sites because all of my FAQs on the
subject are no longer valid (dead sites, images no longer there, etc.).

-- Larry Rymal <[e-mail]>

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Date: Sat, 5 Feb 94 08:37:16 CST
From: [e-mail]

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Date:         Wed, 02 Feb 94 23:44:43 CST
From:         Uzi Mann <KMUZM@TTUVM1>
Subject:
           Speech Recognition Program for the Mac
To:
           Info Mac <[e-mail]>

Greetings,

Can anyone help me find info on speech recognition sotwares for the
Mac.  I am looking for one that is capable of recognizing speech beyond
few commands, although it does not have to be very sofisticated.  What
additional hardware (cards, microphone, etc.) is needed?  I have a Mac II
that operates with Sys 7.01.

Thanks for your help.
Uzi Mann
[e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 5 Feb 1994 16:22:35 -0800
From: Kevin Savetz <[e-mail]>

Archive-name: internet-services/faq
Last-Modified: 1994/2/4
Version: 1.7

INTERNET SERVICES FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Version 1.7 - 4 February, 1994

*** WANTED - YOUR FREQUENTLY ASKED INTERNET QUESTIONS AND
    FREQUENTLY ANSWERED ANSWERS!
I have been publishing this FAQ list for seeming eons, and it became
clear to me very early on that I need to be very selective as to what
questions can be answered herein, lest this document become a 600-page
book. Well, Sams publishing has agreed to make it a 600-page book which
will be able to cover hundreds of common questions with more thorough
answers. For information on how to submit your question for possible
inclusion in this book, or if you would like your answer to a FAQ
(attributed to you, of course) considered for publication, send e-mail
to "[e-mail]" (message subject/body unimportant).

*** CHANGES IN THIS VERSION:
2.7: Clearer info on finding the misc.invest FAQ
2.7: Info on receiving daily stock updates **
3.4: Updated info on the List of Lists
3.5: Updated info on Internet Business Journal
3.5: added Boardwatch magazine. Dunno why it wasn't there before.

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/info/internet-services-faq-17.txt; 48K]

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Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 20:35:07 -0500 (EST)
From: Norman Friedman <[e-mail]>

    Can anyone help.  Why am I lately getting an error message,
"illegal instruction" occassionaly (actually more than that) when my Mac
SE is awakened by the telephone. I have a single line for fax, modem and
with my extended keyboard, and "power key" the phone ringing is supposed
to turn on the Mac in case a fax is coming in. I have been getting the
error message lately after everything loads, but then comes the bomb.
I have done the desktop bit and cleaned out anything I could.
Any help is appreciated at [e-mail]
Thanks to all in advance.

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