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Date: Wed, 18 May 94 07:04:09 PDT
From: The Info-Mac Moderators <[e-mail]>
Reply-To: [e-mail]
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V12 #75
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Info-Mac Digest             Wed, 18 May 94       Volume 12 : Issue 75

Today's Topics:

      [*] TidBITS#226/16-May-94
      "Thunderware"
      (A) Elite+
      [FWD] [D[D[DApparent Bug in System Update 3.0
      [Q] Anyone know the current status of DataScan?
      [RE] Backup solutions -- What Kind and do brands matter
      Address Needed
      ARA CCL for Supra at 9600?
      A repair guide to Personal Laserwriter NT ?
      Book available for MPW? (Q)
      Can anyone help me contact Apple (followup)
      Can Excel Talk to me? [S]
      Coca Cola Commercials in QT?
      Convenient Printer Chooser
      Corrupt Word docs 'Recovered'
      Delete MerryXMAS
      Easy View
      Express Modem
      frame grabber problems (2 msgs)
      GeoPort
      Huh! Internal modem?
      InterNews HELP
      LaserWriter Startup page (R) (2 msgs)
      Mac file format ?
      MacTCP updates
      MacWorld expo in Europe.
      Mail order source--NEC SW 2 90 toner cartridges
      Mosaic Extension (Q)
      MountImage1.2b2.warning
      Movie2Snd source (Q)
      Need Sounds !
      New Apple CDROM software w/ CAI internal CD
      printing on a UNIX-machine: solved!
      problems with the sys update 3.0
      Problem with PPP on PB
      Quadra 605 on an inverter
      radar antenna pattern prediction model (R)
      ResEdit & Map? (A)
      ROM drives for the mac?
      Scheduler (Q)
      Simpsons
      SoundEdit 16 and AV Macs
      Startup sound
      Suppress Startup Page on Laserwriter
      Suppress Startup Page on Personal LW NT
      That Ongoing Headless Chicken Scenario Just Ran Past Me Again
      Train Sounds
      Which surge protector?
      Why is DayStar PPC card so expensive? (R)
      Your favorite Internet site

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Date: Mon, 16 May 94 22:55:32 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: [*] TidBITS#226/16-May-94

TidBITS#226/16-May-94

Access America Online via the Internet? That's right, and read
   on for the details. Mark Anbinder reports on Apple's System
   Update 3.0, which includes a slew of fixes for System 7.1 (and
   later) users, Mr. Chan complains rightly about the way
   international customers are treated, and John Wolf provides
   some instructions for a rainy day of electronics work, assuming
   you want to use Apple's resolution switching software with a
   non-Apple multisync monitor.

Topics:
    MailBITS/16-May-94
    Sales Gripe from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    Apple Multiple Scan Software
    System Update 3.0
    America Online Gets Wired
    Reviews/16-May-94

[Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-226.etx; 30K]

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Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 08:56:56 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Bob "Skippy" Blechinger)
Subject: "Thunderware"

[e-mail] writes:

>I have been trying to contact "Thunderware" for days now.  All you can get
>is recorded messages, never talk to humans. Tried faxing without returns.
>My problem (if anyone can help)
>I just purchased a "Lightning Scan Compact" - a hand held scanner.  I run
>it on my Mac SE which is running system 6.0.7. I have available total
>memory 6400 K with Finder 4402 K and system 1998 K.
>The scan DA works fine and brings up a new scan field properly. My problem
>is that when I open the Thunderworks application, and click "new scan" or
>"scan and join", I get the following message:
>"Sorry there isn't enough memory to completer the current operation"
>This is strange since I haven't even opened anything yet and I would think
>that I have plenty of available memory. (My RAM cache is off and I am not
>using multifinder.  Any suggestions?
>[e-mail]

Norm,
  Well, the first thing that comes to mind is that your System & Finder
are taking up *way* too much RAM!!!

  To start with, unless you have an 020 or 030 accelerator card that can
give you a maximum of *more* than 4 Meg, your total memory should be
4096 K.

  I run my SE with System 6.0.8, and I have an 030 card in it. The Finder
(6.1.8) takes up about 160 K, if I remember correctly. My System, without
any INITs, etc. uses about 200 K, and the way I have it, it takes slightly
less than 900 K.

  Thunderworks doesn't take up all that much RAM, either (especially if you
compare it to something like Photoshop), so you shouldn't be running out of
RAM from that...

  Best thing I can say at this point is to ask you to give me a *complete*
list of what you have as far as INIT's, cdev's, etc., on your Mac, and we
can take it from there...  :)

  Hope this helps!  :)

  -Bob Blechinger
    AppleCore of Siouxland
      Mac Software Director
    Sioux Falls, South Dakota
      [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 16 May 94 23:20:54 -0500
From: "Joshua B. Colglazier" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (A) Elite+

From: Brian Veenker <[e-mail]>

Hey! Anybody remember that classic game Elite+? Was it ever made for the
Mac? Anybody know where I could obtain a copy?

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

Elite has not been ported to the Mac (much to my dismay).  However, a guy named
Christian ([e-mail]) is writing "Final Frontier" which he says
is
somewhat similar to Elite.  The demo/alpha version can be found in the sumex
archives.

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Date: Wed, 18 May 94 08:27:26 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [FWD] [D[D[DApparent Bug in System Update 3.0

Corrected error in sumex address line.

>Forward message follows.
>To: [e-mail]
>From: dcolores
>Posted: May 18 08:08 1994 EDT (May 18 12:08 ZULU)
>Cc:
>Blind Carbon Copy (BCC)
>Subject: Apparent Bug in System Update 3.0
>
>An alert to those who have downloaded System Update 3.0.
>
>Loaded System Update 3.0 in my Mac IIfx (20 meg RAM, no internal HD,
>boot from dual 150 bernoulli) to update System 7 Pro.  Printed a file in
>MS Word that uses Adobe's AGaramond Semibold and Semibolditalic True
>Type fonts.  File prints with bitmap jaggies as if ATM were not
>installed.  Same file printed two days earlier with smooth crisp
>output.  Same file printed today with another bootdisk that did not have
>System Update 3.0 installed was also smooth and crisp.  Only difference
>in system configuration with the before/after prints is System Update
>3.0.  Other boot disk has essentially the same System 7 Pro folder as
>the primary boot disk before its update.
>
>I don't know the cause but it appears that something in the System
>Update 3.0 is interfering with true type font smoothing.  I don't
>understand ATM well enough to know whether it is involved, but its
>configuration is the same on both disks, and it is active.
>
>Using ATM ver. 2.0.3 and LaserWriter driver ver. 7.0.
>
>Steve Seiden
>[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 16:31:27 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Peter Hardman)
Subject: [Q] Anyone know the current status of DataScan?

Does anyone know the current status of software called DataScan.

We have a very old version (1.03) which was published in 1988 by a company
called BrainPower, Inc. We would like to purchase either the latest version
or a suitable equivalent.

DataScan is capable of reading TIFF or MacPaint bit-map files  of graphs
and converting the data to x-y values. It can handle multiple lines and has
options for noise tolerance and other things.
If anyone knows the current status of this software or suitable equivalent
and where it can be obtained then please let me know.

Thankyou.

Peter.

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Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 07:51:24 PDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [RE] Backup solutions -- What Kind and do brands matter

Gregory,

While I don't want to confuse you with your decision on which type of
hardware/technology to purchase to do your  backup (I haven't made my own mind
up on this one yet either!), I do want to let you know how pleased I am with
the support I have received from APS. I have had a few very technical questions
(not problems) which they have promptly answered via Internet
([e-mail]) and/or TOLL FREE tech support number (800-334-7550).
The products that I have purchased from them work fine and I plan to continue
to patronize them because of their above average technical support.

Bruce Rubin

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Date: Mon, 16 May 94 22:22:31 CEST
From: Marco Ridoni <[e-mail]>
Subject: Address Needed

Does anybody have e-mail address of A4 Tech Ltd. or Thunderworks (two
scanner producers)? I'm trying to interface my PC Scanner with my new Mac.
Shouldn't anyone be able to answer, I'll have to keep using my PC...

Marco
<[e-mail]>

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Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 13:02:39 +0000
From: Matthew Johnson <[e-mail]>
Subject: ARA CCL for Supra at 9600?

I run an ARA server from a Supra V.32bis modem and a spare SE. It works
fine with calls coming in at 2400, but with calls from other 14.4k modems
it has problems both establishing a connection and maintaining it for any
length of time.

I suspect the problem is the speed of the SE, since I have managed to make
connections with ZTerm at 14.4 without problem. Does anyone have a CCL that
would limit the Supra to 9600, or alternatively does anyone have any other
ideas?

Please reply to me and I will summarize responses.

Many thanks,
Matthew.

---
Matthew G. Johnson
IC-Parc
William Penney Laboratory
Imperial College
London SW7 2AZ
UK

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Date: Sun, 15 May 1994 20:33:31 +0100 (BST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: A repair guide to Personal Laserwriter NT ?

I have an Apple Personal Laserwriter NT which I have gummed up with a
sticky label from laser label stationery.  When the front of the
Laserwriter is open, the miscreant label is clearly visible underneath
the fuser (black "furry" plastic, marked 'Warning High Temperature'), but
is not accessible either from above or from below (i.e. from the manual
paper feed area).  It seems that I shall have to unscrew something,
probably the fuser unit, to get to the label.

Although the Laserwriter is no longer under warranty, I am wary about
randomly unscrewing parts without knowing what I am doing, in case I
don't succeed in getting it all back together again.  Can anyone advise
me on which screws I should undo to remove the fuser?  Or is there
another, better access route?

Is there a repair manual for this Laserwriter that can be purchased for a
reasonable sum by people like me, i.e. ordinary owners, which shows which
screws do what and the like?

All help gratefully received.  Thanks.

--
Prof. G. Nigel Gilbert, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey
Guildford GU2 5XH, England. Tel: [phone]  [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 20:31:14 +0000
From: [e-mail] (Alun J. Carr)
Subject: Book available for MPW? (Q)

Is there a book available which provides a simple introduction to the MPW
shell? Apple's manuals are intimidating to say the least, and I would like
to be able to do more with the MPW shell, other than use the canned
commands that come with my FORTRAN compiler.

Thanks in advance.

Alun

--
Dr A. J. Carr, Mech. Eng. Dept., UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
Internet: [e-mail]

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Date: 16 May 1994 19:26:22 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Gisli Leifsson)
Subject: Can anyone help me contact Apple (followup)

I'm sorry if I was not specific enough when I asked for "Apple's
e-mail address". I just assumed that people would understand it as
meaning tech support, and at the time I wrote it, I was in a kind of
panic.
I know that Apple has zillion internet
addresses. What I wanted was actually to know why CloseView (the
cp for the visually impaired) was so damn slow on an 80MHz 8100
(slower than on a Quadra 700) and if they had a fix for it. Anyway,
I've got what I want now (thanks again Brian) so I'd appreciate it
if I would not get any more mail on the subject.

 Gisli

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Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 18:07:47 +0100
From: Big Nose <[e-mail]>
Subject: Can Excel Talk to me? [S]

Dear All,

Many thanks to all who replied to my recent query about getting
Excel to read back my spreadsheet data. I'm sorry that it has taken
so long to reply, but I've been really busy with a large scale
experiment these past few weeks and haven't had the time.

Anyhow, in summary there are two add ins out there that will make
Excel talk back. They are ExcelTalk by John Blackburne and
Excel Talk (note the space!) by Richard Buckle. They should both be
available at sumex and its mirrors, but Richard was kind enough to
mail his version to me. You will also need the Speech Manager which
is available from ftp.apple.com. Getting that was the hardest part
of the whole exercise.

The voices I have available are a bit Pink Floyd / Stephen Hawking
for my liking. I don't know if it is possible to get better
quality sound from other voices. Anyone care to contribute?

Thanks go to Rangsarn Peter Chanyavanich, Stephen Grady, Richard
Buckle, Dave Axler, Jeffrey N. Fritz & Lloyd Butler for their help.

Regards,

Andy Law
( Lawa @ afrc.ac.uk                      Big Nose in Edinburgh )

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Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 12:05:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail] (David Shaw)
Subject: Coca Cola Commercials in QT?

What happened to the coca cola quicktime movies?  There were a lot of them in
the archive for a while.  Was it a copyright violation?  Are they still there
somewhere?  If someone could tell me another site that has them, I'd
appreciate it.  Thanks...

David Shaw   | [e-mail]  | Georgia Institute of Technology

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Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 16:03:17 -0500
From: Tom Wilson <[e-mail]> (Tom Wilson)
Subject: Convenient Printer Chooser

What I'd really like to see is a a print dialog box that has the AppleShare
Zone and Available Printer window so you could select where you want the
output to go each time you issue a print command.  Default would always be
the one selected in Chooser.

No response is necessary, I'm just wishin'.........



Tom Wilson <[e-mail]>
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, TN
Voice:  615-574-3927

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Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 19:39:30 +0000
From: [e-mail] (Steve Taylor)
Subject: Corrupt Word docs 'Recovered'

Hi all,
This technique/long shot worked for me, maybe somebody else could find it
useful. Sorry if everybody knows about it already:

A customer here had been busily documenting a sophisticated project
recently with Microsoft Word 5.1, a file of about 410K in length. Machine
was a Quadra 950 with sys 701, 12MB RAM. After a successful morning's
modifying of this file, the person returned after lunch to continue, only
to find on doubleclicking the file that the machine froze.

Reaching no further than the Word toolbars, one of two problems would occur:
1) Total lockout with no response from CMD-OPT-ESC or programmer's key
2) Occasionally a "Not enough memory to open Word" and immediate Quit.

Opening Word first then the file from within would suspend the machine but
CMD-OPT-ESC could in this case quit, but it did look like the file was the
trouble and not Word itself.

Their last backup? A month ago.
When will it be needed? Next few days.
The customer was not happy ("Distraught").

Usual attempts to fix with Norton Utils, checks with Disinfectant etc.
didn't help.
File duplicated and copied OK.
Converting the creator code and type to permit opening in PlainText allowed
viewing of the ACSII but of course all the formatting was lost (lots of
it). Saving as text and opening in Word still caused the hang. But being
able to see the doc contents was a big help - there seemed to be some sort
of graphics commands there (EPS perhaps but I'm no expert; there had been a
graph image in there somewhere) with bits of document text interspersed at
various points, and what looked to be some Eudora email messages stuck in
their too! Apparently the person in question had had Eudora open
simultaneously with Word 5.1 that morning.... weird huh? Anyway I could cut
and paste the individual unformatted text sections into another doc and
save OK so I suspected manic graphics were causing the hang.

A sort of solution was available by virtue of the the multiplatform systems
we have here: mostly macs and Windows PCs. All I did was to format a floppy
with PC exchange as a PC disk, transfer the bad Mac Word file to it, open
it (slowly) in PC Word4Windows which seemed to handle the file, then save
as a proper Word4Windows file again. Then, take it back to the Mac, let
Word 5.1 convert from PC to Mac word format, and lo and behold it opened OK
with all the formatting intact. The good/bad bit (depending on your
perspective) is that the graphic was lost - though this was not a problem
because it was early on in the doc and could be recovered from the old
backup.

Presumably, the translation between Word for Mac and Word for Windows is
not 100%, and so anything not understood is filtered out in the translation
- including the screwball graphics.

Cheers,
Steve

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Date: Wed, 18 May 1994 21:39:22 +1000 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Jason Haines)
Subject: Delete MerryXMAS

About This Document
 ------------------

This document contains information on

* the Delete MerryXmas stack
* the MerryXmas virus
* how to use Delete MerryXmas
* freeware legal information
* contacting the author


What is Delete MerryXmas?
 ------------------------
Delete MerryXmas 1.0 is a HyperCard stack that will check your
stacks for the MerryXmas HyperCard virus. It can also install
protection into your Home stack to detect and remove the
MerryXmas virus automatically. Most (if not all) virus
protection programs cannot detect this virus.


What is the MerryXmas Virus?
 ---------------------------
The MerryXmas virus infects stack scripts, starting with the
Home stack, and any other stacks that you open thereafter. The
virus infects HyperCard (and possibly SuperCard) stacks
*only*. It does not infect any other files on your hard disk.


How to Use Delete MerryXmas
 --------------------------
Delete MerryXmas 1.0.2 requires HyperCard version 2.1 or later,
and at least as much free disk space as the size of the
largest stack to be checked.

1. Double-click the Delete MerryXmas stack to open it.
  The stack immediately disinfects your Home stack, to
  avoid errors from an existing MerryXmas virus infection.

2. Click the Add... button.
  To add whole folders or hard disk volumes, hold down
  the Option key as you click the Add... button.

Repeat step 2 to add stacks from more than one location.

3. Select the stacks you want to optimize.

4. Click Start.
  A grey bar shows the stack's progress through the list
  of stacks. When all stacks have been checked, a report
  appears.

5. Click Save.
  A dialog box appears for you to name the report. Click
  the Save button (or press the Return key).

6. Click Done.

To stop the optimization at any time, click the Stop button.
After confirming your action, Delete MerryXmas will stop
checking stacks in the list, leaving the remaining stacks
untouched. (At certain times, the Stop button is dimmed and
the current process cannot be canceled.)


Scripter's Note
 --------------
If you enjoy scripting in HyperCard as much as I do, you're
probably quite likely to end up wanting to take it apart.
A word of warning: Delete MerryXmas has been designed to work
best in its original, *locked* state, so please tinker with an
unlocked *copy* only. Also, unlocking Delete MerryXmas may
result in its being infected, so please keep it locked.


Legal Notice
 -----------
Naturally, I am not responsible in any way for any losses or
damages resulting from your possession or use of this
software. Please use this software exclusively at your own
risk, and if in doubt, only use it on a backup copy of any
stack.
  This software is Freeware, but is not in the public domain.
It remains the property of, and is Copyright (c) 1994 by
Simon Poisson. All Rights Reserved.  XFCNs: FullSFPack,
GetDir, GetFInfo, GetVInfo, and FullSFPack (c) Frederic Rinaldi


Simon Poisson
 ------------

FirstClass E-Mail:
    Simon Poisson,MacInTouch

Snail Mail:
    PO Box 256
    Darlinghurst  NSW
    Australia  2010


Thank you for reading this document.



Wednesday, 18 May 1994

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Date: Mon, 16 May 94 09:25:18 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: Easy View

In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
> I'm trying again to make sense of EasyView; it doesn't make it easy to
> establish your own text view. I tried to get the report it refers to:
>
> file://garbo.uwasa.fi/mac/tidbits/setext/setext_concepts_Aug92.etx

Not my file site, so I don't know. Ask Ian Feldman <[e-mail]>
about that site.

> but the tidbits directory there doesn't appear to have an setext
> subdirectory. I also looked hopefully at tidbits.com, and found the
> setext directory there appears to be empty; shame, Adam.

That's a private directory - there's never been anything in there
for people to play with (nor much of anything ever). There may be
at some point, but no guarantees.

> Does anyone know where this document is, or where I can get instruction
> on creating my own views?

That document has nothing on working with Easy View anyway. Easy View
comes with its own documentation and includes its author's email address
both in the About box and in the documentation.

> And, by the way, just to overload this note, EasyView 2.4 got a bus error
> on my 660av while I was bumbling around trying to make a new view. Are
> there known problems there, and should I abandon hope of using it on
> my Quadra?

Works perfectly on my 660AV.

OK, I'll freely admit that Easy View works in a slightly
non-standard way - it has to to do the things it does. However,
it's just not that hard.

Easy View's documents are "view documents." They are in essence
an index to a set of text files. Those text files must live in
the same folder as the view document, which is why Easy View
comes with a folder for TidBITS that contains a preconfigured
view document.

So, if you want to use Easy View to view TidBITS, download an
issue as a TEXT file (ie - don't save it in Word format or
anything proprietary - Nisus works fine because its native file
format is TEXT), then save that file in the TidBITS folder that
comes with Easy View. If you don't have that folder, download a
new copy of Easy View since every distribution copy comes with
that folder. Once you have put an issue of TidBITS in the
proper folder, launch Easy View by opening the TidBITS view
document. Easy View will launch and will automatically read in
the TEXT file in that folder. Now, the main reasons this
doesn't work for some people is that they save in a word
processor format or their comm program downloads the issue in a
strange way. We're looking for straight, readable text here -
open the issue in TeachText or SimpleText to check it if you're
concerned.

OK, but what if you want to create a new view document? Launch
Easy View, and choose New from the FIle menu. Save the file in
a specific folder (create a new one if necessary), since that's
where you'll have to put the files that the view document will
view. Easy View then opens up a blank window. Choose Modify
View from the File menu, and you'll see a Font/DA Mover style
window. First, choose a format from the popup menu in the lower
right - it's setext for TidBITS, Digest for Info-Mac, Mail for
Unix email, and so on. Then select one or more files from the
left hand list and click on the > or >>> button (the first one
does one file, the second does all the files in the list). When
Easy View is done processing, click Done and save your view
document from the File menu.

There now, that wasn't so bad, was it? The reason Easy View
uses this non-standard method of creating what are in essence
indexes to the text files is because that method allows fast
access to the files but at the same time keeps the size of the
view document very small. In addition, Easy View never modifies
any of the original text files, so you don't have to worry
about that at all.

cheers ... -Adam

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Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 11:07:19 -0600
From: (Pete Chane) <[e-mail]>
Subject: Express Modem

I am on a 660av with a GeoPort.  Using GeoPort software 1.2 and the new
Express Modem 1.5.2 (new interface!).

With MacSLIP, I have problems staying connected to the University dial-in
here.  At times my connection vanishes although the line stays connected.
The phone is still connected, but my SLIP connection is lost.  This happens
quite often and I have been unable to isolate the problem - MacTCP or SLIP
or my AV system?

(1) Has anyone else had this problem?
(2) Is there a way to reset the GeoPort without the
cntrl-cmd-opt-shift-powerkey reboot?

Thanks!

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Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 12:09 +0100 (MET)
From: "A.L. SMIT, AB-DLO, WAGENINGEN NL" <[e-mail]>
Subject: frame grabber problems

We have a DT Quick Capture Framegrabber in a fx. I use this
card for grabbing picures from a video-recorder with NIH-Image.
Now the strange thing occurs that the card only functions when
I remove the card from the slot and put it back again.
Then it functions for the rest of the day. Next day same story again.
Using an other slot won't help.
Any suggestions?
Bert Smit
e-mail [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 12:09 +0100 (MET)
From: "A.L. SMIT, AB-DLO, WAGENINGEN NL" <[e-mail]>
Subject: frame grabber problems

We have a DT Quick Capture Framegrabber in a fx. I use this
card for grabbing picures from a video-recorder with NIH-Image.
Now the strange thing occurs that the card only functions when
I remove the card from the slot and put it back again.
Then it functions for the rest of the day. Next day same story again.
Using an other slot won't help.
Any suggestions?
Bert Smit
e-mail [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 17:09:10 -0400
From: "Charles A. Patrick" <[e-mail]>
Subject: GeoPort

I just received our GeoPort adaptors, and I cannot seem to be able to get
them to work properly with our telephone system. The most audible aspect of
the problem is that my telephone is dead.

The modem function seems to be working, at least to the extent that AT&F
gets an OK response, but my telephone hand set is completely dead.

Our telephone system, which is huge, is one which allows each line to be
accessed directly by outside callers, but requires a prefix (8 in our case)
to access an outside line. In addition we have a centralised voice-mail
system which intercepts calls after three rings.

I suspect, and have a call in to verify, that our system uses more than two
of the six available wires to do its thing. Does the GeoPort adaptor
recognise more than the two middle wires? While I have a call in to Apple
about this last, I thought I might plumb the wisdom of the List.

I would appreciate any information that has a bearing on this situation.

Thanks.

Charles A. Patrick ([e-mail])
International and Professional Relations Division
Statistics Canada
Ottawa, ON  K1A 0T6
CANADA
Tel: [phone]           FAX: [phone]

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Date: Mon, 16 May 94 20:29:13 EDT
From: "Christopher B. Hopkins (Wesley)" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Huh! Internal modem?

Well, a few days back I posted a query about problems with my modem
port on my PB165.  Although I've had this machine for months, it turns
out that it has an internal modem in it!  This, through the Powerbook
control panel settings, has caused problems with the external modem
I have been using.

I figure, as I bought this 165 new and out-of-the-book, that it came
with a modem.  But, the retailer didn't know it (evidently -- I got a
sweet deal).  How do I find out what kind of modem it is?  I've had
little luck using my terminal programs (which I use for the ex. modem)
with the internal modem.  Hmm.  Any thoughts?  Christopher

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

Date: Mon, 16 May 94 23:45:25 -0500
From: "David FC Sproule" <[e-mail]>
Subject: InterNews HELP

I have gotten as far as downloading InterNews 1.0 to my Mac LC III. I recently
began having trouble with another newsreader and my University help line
suggested changing to InterNews. I am using a SLIP connection and having no
trouble with any other aspect of the computer use. Two other newsreaders
resulted in running out of memory and system crashes and oddities on my screen
while attempting to "get full list of newsgroups" for initial set up. InterNews
seems to retrieve all the groups but then about 2 minutes into "sorting groups"
I get a bomb and message of "numeric overflow". HELP! I realize this is not
intended as a help line...perhaps you can refer me. I'm hours and hours into
this process, stuck and with nowhere to turn and no news to read! Thank you.

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

Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 11:53:07 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Christian F. Buser)
Subject: LaserWriter Startup page (R)

[e-mail] asked:

>Folks, I'm having a bit of a problem. Want to suppress the startup
>page on my wife's new Personal LW NT. I know I can send it a series of
>Postscript commands to suppress the startup page, but that's a pain
>(sounding spoiled?) and I can foresee times when we'd want to turn it
>on again, then off.... is there a small utility or hack to do this?

You don't need to send PS commands. Just use Aplles LaserWriter
utility which should be included on the disks that came with the
printer. There's an option (radio-button, I think) to enable or
disable startup-page.

>Item #2 -- "The Namer" which came with my printer on a diskette won't
>run. Claims it can't find a "printer driver or printer definitions on
>my boot disk". But I'm happily printing away with Laserwriter 8. Duhh..
>what am I missing here?

Sounds like the software with your printer is older than the LW8
printer driver. The Apple LaserWriter utility also was complaining
that way. This was due to the fact that earlier versions of the
printer driver were different: they had a separate "LaserPrep" file.

Maybe you should get hold of the latest version of the LaserWriter
Utility and the Namer.

Greetings, Christian.

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

Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 11:53:07 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Christian F. Buser)
Subject: LaserWriter Startup page (R)

[e-mail] asked:

>Folks, I'm having a bit of a problem. Want to suppress the startup
>page on my wife's new Personal LW NT. I know I can send it a series of
>Postscript commands to suppress the startup page, but that's a pain
>(sounding spoiled?) and I can foresee times when we'd want to turn it
>on again, then off.... is there a small utility or hack to do this?

You don't need to send PS commands. Just use Aplles LaserWriter
utility which should be included on the disks that came with the
printer. There's an option (radio-button, I think) to enable or
disable startup-page.

>Item #2 -- "The Namer" which came with my printer on a diskette won't
>run. Claims it can't find a "printer driver or printer definitions on
>my boot disk". But I'm happily printing away with Laserwriter 8. Duhh..
>what am I missing here?

Sounds like the software with your printer is older than the LW8
printer driver. The Apple LaserWriter utility also was complaining
that way. This was due to the fact that earlier versions of the
printer driver were different: they had a separate "LaserPrep" file.

Maybe you should get hold of the latest version of the LaserWriter
Utility and the Namer.

Greetings, Christian.

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

Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 18:05:50 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Ulf Dittmer)
Subject: Mac file format ?

Hi netters,

I need to know how a Mac HFS file is constructed, meaning
how the exact sequence of bytes constituting the header
and the two forks is. Our institute needs to generate Mac
files on Unix workstations. Is this information part of
Inside Macintosh ? If yes, would the "old" edition be
sufficient ?

Many thnaks in advance for any help.

Greetings,      Ulf

[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 16 May 94 09:26:28 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: MacTCP updates

In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
> How do we acquire updates for MacTCP? I am running 2.02 c/o Adam Engst's
> book, and I was wondering if updating to 2.04 would improve stability.

Look in:

ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/pub/tidbits/tisk/mactcp/

for the updater, and make sure to run it on a clean copy of MacTCP
>From the master disk. The updater doesn't work on a copy that you've
opened already.

cheers ... -Adam

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

Date: Wed, 18 May 1994 09:48:05 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Marc Dionne)
Subject: MacWorld expo in Europe.

Does someboby know when there is a MacWorld expo in Europe.  I know that
last year it was one in September at Paris in France.  Does someone know
wish is the date for this year.  Please answer to me, I want to go there.

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

Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 15:13:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: "William P. Krauthammer" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mail order source--NEC SW 2 90 toner cartridges

I know this is a bit off-topic but can anyone recommend a reputable mail order
house that sells replacement toner cartridges for an NEC SilentWriter 2 90?
I'm looking for new cartridges at the best price possible. Email would be
appreciated given the limited interest that any responses would encompass. If
you'd like to know what I find out, drop me an email and I'll summarize
responses.

Thanks in advance,

Bill

--
William P. Krauthammer
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 16 May 94 17:07:28 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Mosaic Extension (Q)

I read in the 5-9-94 issue of Macweek that an extension has been developed to
allow users behind security 'firewalls' to use NCSA Mosaic. They did not
indicate where the extension is available from. Any information is welcome.

Thanks in Advance,

-Max Miller
[e-mail]

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

Date: Wed, 18 May 1994 08:53:40 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Douglas Wyman)
Subject: MountImage1.2b2.warning

There is a piece of unauthorized and dangerous code
which frequently gets transferred from other archives
to info-mac like a staph infection from a carrier to a
salad bar.

I last issued this warning to the info-mac moderators on
the 14th of March, 1994.  It appears that someone has, again,
obtained a copy of the control panel MountImage1.2b2 and
uploaded it "for our enjoyment".
=============================================================

MountImage 1.2b2 is a control panel which allows the
desktop mounting of DiskTop diskette image files.

!!!WARNING !!!
==============
MountImage 1.2b2 has been shown to corrupt files when
they are read from a mounted image file.  This
behaviour does not occur with every diskette image
however and since no warnings or error messages appear the
user may unknowingly corrupt valuable files when moving
them from the image files to other storage.  The bug is
particularly dangerous during software installations
>From disk image files.

The author of the control panel is:

Steve Christensen
America Online          stevec44
CompuServe              76174,1712
Internet                [e-mail]

Steve has requested, several times, that MountImage
1.2b2, be removed from all public servers due to his
concern about this bug and other weaknesses in the
code.

Steve did not, in fact, release MountImage 1.2b2 to the
world, it was "leaked" by his beta testers.

MountImage 1.2b2 is DANGEROUS and should be removed
>From this and any other archives...It's a bad penny
that just keeps coming back!  This action was taken, at
least twice, by the Info-Mac moderators.

Another posted application, Mt.Image by Yosuke "Basuke"
Suzuki, uses the MountImage 1.2b2 control panel (and
therefore its driver) to mount .image files. It
therefore shares the same problems discussed above
since it depends on MountImage 1.2b2 for its
operation.

I have "been burnt" by MountImage.  I have also
confirmed the above statements by email with Steve
Christensen. Steve works for Apple and is the
author of the popular and reliable SuperClock as well
as Apple's own DiskCopy (which creates the .image
files).  Steve is blameless in this matter...He has
tried hard to remove the MountImage 1.2b2 from public
distribution.

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

Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 14:18:20 -0600
From: Earl Misanchuk <[e-mail]>
Subject: Movie2Snd source (Q)

Can anyone please send me or point me to a source for Scott Lindsey's freeware
MOVIE2SND which, according to a recent MacUser, will convert the soundtrack
from
a QuickTime movie into a snd resource?

Or can anyone tell me about (or better, provide me with) an alternative
program?

ADVthanxANCE

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

Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 15:49:54 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Need Sounds !

Hallo,

I am currently working on a Mac application.
The Dutch version works fine.

Now I want an English / American version. For that I need some
(spoken) sounds in (real) English or American language and well
pronounced, but clear and short (in time).

What I need are the following sounds:

= The sounds 0 (null) 1 (one) 2 (two) and so on to 9 (nine)
= The sounds + (plus) and - (minus)
= The sounds (space) (tab) (point) and (komma)

Could some kind soul please speak these words (as I noticed)
SHORT (in time) BUT CLEAR for me, compact the whole , binhex it
and send it to me ?

You will receive my Mac application shortly after that !! FREE !!
It is an application that will read data for you, no matter in what
application you are working, a wordprocessor or a spreadsheet or what
ever, its not important. And it works on a Mac Plus / SE and up !!

send your stuff to:

[e-mail]

Thanks !!

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

Date: Thu, 3 Mar 94 09:06:16 EST
From: [e-mail] (Scott Stricker)
Subject: New Apple CDROM software w/ CAI internal CD

I have a Centris 610 running System 7.1 with a built in CAI CD-ROM.
I've had 3 problems with the new CD-ROM software.

1.  If I try to install it, the installer crashes with an application error.
2.  If I manually try to copy the files to my system folder, I get all
    sorts of weird behaviour.  System locks up...screen clears...
3.  If I try to use the application, I get a message that the application
    needs to be made bigger.  If I do so with Get Info, the
    min size goes to 0 and the preferred size goes to 4 MBytes.
    Also, the app size changes to ~ 2 Mbytes.

Any thoughts?

Does this stuff work on a centris/ Does this stuff work with CAI internal
CD-Roms?

Thanks for your help

Scott Stricker - [e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 10:46:07 +0200
From: "Jan van Schoot"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: printing on a UNIX-machine: solved!

A few issues ago I sent in a question about printing on a UNIX-machine. I
received two answers, both dealing with the question in it's own way. Because I
think the Info-Mac archives should contain both the questions and the answers I
will summarise what I have received from others.

Bill Rausch wrote to me:

> I've got the same setup you do: print to disk, use telnet to move the file to
> the Unix host, and send it to the Unix postscript printer.
> What I've done to make it work is to leave my NCSA Telnet program running all
> of the time, and then wrote a Unix script called macprint that I just give
the
> nameof the file on my mac that I want to print.
> For example, a Word document named sample. I'll print to disk a file called
> sample.ps, click in my Telnet window and type macprint sample.ps.
> macprint ftp's to my mac, gets the file, sends it to the printer, and then
> removes it from the host.
> I don't have unlimited memory either, but Apple's system 7 virtual memory
> works fine for me so I just leave my telnet session active allthe time.

I think it's a fairly good solution if you have to use telnet often or, in his
case have, have the ability of virtual memory. However, my LC-zero does not
have
this feature.
Another solution came from Sylvia Elliott:

> there are 2 versions of lpd for the Mac, both shareware/freeware.
> One is called lpr, the other is lpdaemon. The last one sets up your
> Mac as an LPdaemon so that unix people can send PS to your laserwriters.
> I believe it lets macs do lpr to unix printers also.
> I forget where to find these pgms, do an archie or gopher search.

With too much effort I found it at info-mac/util/lp-daemon-332.hqx. It contains
both programs Sylvia wrote about. The program lpr does exactly what I need. It
consumes 100k of RAM, needs to be configured only once and supports Drag&Drop
so
it has found its own place on my desktop.

Jan van Schoot, e-mail: [e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 09:24:54 -0500 (CDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: problems with the sys update 3.0

well i just installed the sys update 3.0 on my powermac 6100/80
and now it crashes out whenever I tell it to EMPTY TRASH..

it bombs by telling me that it can't find the FLOATING POINT PROCESSOR
... then i have to restart...

i got this update off of the apple ftp server (ftp.apple.com).. seems like
it has a bug in it.

henry park ([e-mail])

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

Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 13:52:15 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Larry Wink)
Subject: Problem with PPP on PB

After suffering for years with a CLI interface to the Internet (first using
VMS on an IBM mainframe and more recently through a UNIX shell on a Sun
Workstation), a free weekend with my wife out of town present the
opportunity to attempt a direct hookup via a dialup to a PPP server. I
purchase Adam Engst's Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh (Thanks Adam!
Great book and a fantastic bargain.) and within an hour had my desktop Mac
on the Net.

Then I tried to set up my PB 165 (8/80 running System 7.1 with Update 3.0
and MacTCP 2.0.4) and found that MacPPP 2.0.1 could not find my internal
modem (ZOOM PBK 144). MacPPP indicates that it is checking for the modem
and then times out before the modem responses. The modem works fine with
ZTerm 0.9, ClarisWorks 2.1 and FaxSTF 3.0.1(beta).  The documentation that
came with MacPPP indicates that "the Port Name pop-up menu allows you to
select the modem port, printer port, or any other serial ports registered
with the Communications Toolbox." My pop-up only indicates a "Modem Port"
and a "Printer Port" so apparently my internal modem is not "registered"
with the CTB. Since it works with both non-CTB aware programs (ZTerm) and
CTB aware programs (ClarisWorks), I'm not sure what the problem is or how
one "registers" a serial port with the CTB.

While checking out the internal modem with my other communications
programs, I did stumble upon a kludge that will allow MacPPP to find the
modem and establish a link with the server. If I turn "on" the FaxSTF
software, set it to auto-answer, and then open MacPPP, FaxSTF releases the
internal modem port to MacPPP and MacPPP logs onto the server. Neat feature
of FaxSTF but something I rather avoid since using FaxSTF to keep the
internal modem port active probably extracts a power penalty that I would
rather not pay.

I would appreciate guidance on how to "register" my internal modem with the
CTB or other sage advice that would allow MacPPP to find my internal modem.
My PB has many fewer control panels and extensions than my desktop Mac with
CPU the only software on the PB that is not also on the desktop machine.
Thanks to all who take the time to respond and I will post a summary if a
solution is found.


Larry Wink <[e-mail]>
    or <[e-mail]>
"Still naked in the periwinkle."

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

Date: Mon, 16 May 94 08:04:16 PDT
From: George Steinitz <[e-mail]>
Subject: Quadra 605 on an inverter

After I got tired of schlepping my Quadra 800 to my cabin for weekend use,
I purchased a Quadra 605 to leave there permanently. To my great surprise,
it does not power up when connected to my inverter (DC to AC) on my solar
system. When I called Apple Technical support they informed me that this
problem had been reported previously and they had no suggestions for cures.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to circumvent this problem without having
to run the generator every time I want to use my 605? (My limited under-
standing is that inverters produce a modified sine wave which *most* units
can use, but for some reason the 605 cannot.) Thanks for any help.

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

Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 12:45:13 -0500
From: "Andrew E. Scheck" <[e-mail]>
Subject: radar antenna pattern prediction model (R)

I'm posting this for a colleague of mine with the following request:

............

I'm looking for a Macintosh tool that will predict radar azimuth and
elevation antenna patterns (i.e., sidelobe/backlobe levels and positions)
given:

1) A detailed description of the antenna/feed hardware (sizes and spacings)

and/or

2) A general description of the antenna/feed hardware and measured mainlobe
(gain and 3 dB beamwidth) and first sidelobe (level and position) data.

..............

A Macintosh application/utility could be built from C/C++/FORTRAN/Pascal
source code if that is available instead.

Any help with this or at least in pointing him toward more likely sources of
information would be greatly appreciated.

Andy Scheck
[e-mail]
for
Lou Colangelo
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 10:20:22 -0500
From: "Andrew E. Scheck" <[e-mail]>
Subject: ResEdit & Map? (A)

>Has anyone tried to open the Map Control Panel with ResEdit to change
>the timezones? Specifically, I would like to change the entry for
>Singapore as the time there is now 8 hours ahead of GMT, not 7 and a half.
>
>I opened a copy of the CP with Resedit, and the most likely candidate was
>the CTY# resource. This had a resource ID of -4064 in it, size 5850.
>However, when I tried to double-click this, I get the following message:
>
>  The list contains too many items. The resource may be too big to be
>  displayed in a template or the resource may not match the template.
>
>I have tried increasing the memory for ResEdit, but this does not do
>anything for it. Can it be done?

The problem is not with ResEdit (directly) or with the amount of memory
it has available. The problem is the template used to display the data.
>From the ResEdit Reference...

Note: Templates can contain a maximum of 2048 fields. For the purpose of
enumerating, a field is defined as any item that is drawn on the screen.
That is, a label counts as a field, as does a separator, and so on. This
limiting number of 2048 is reached rather easily, particularly in
resources with repeating lists, as for example, 'pltt'.

In the case of the 'CTY#' template, it looks like there are 13 fields
per city so once you hit the 158th city you've exceeded the template
limit.

To change Singapore you can write down the latitude and longitude then
remove the city. Now recreate it using the new time zone value. If you
really want to use ResEdit, use the hex editor to open the 'CTY#'
resource, do an ascii find (command-g) on "Singapore" then change the
hex 6978 that you find directly above the 'in' in Singapore to a 7080.
This worked for me.

Andy Scheck
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 10:50:58 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: ROM drives for the mac?

hello world.
i wonder if anyone knows about running the mac system software
over ROM. as i do some programming my mac crashes from time
to time 8) and i get a bit annoyed about the booting process
of several minutes.
Any suggestions? also any other hardware hacks are appreciated.
(my mac cannot get worse inside)

thanks miron

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

Date: Tue, 17 May 94 11:10:44 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Scheduler (Q)

     I am looking for a program to shcedule a small group of people into
     four different assignments. The assignments will rotate within the
     group on a weekly basis.  It should have the ability to input things
     like vacation schedules and holidays and take these into consideration
     when making assignments to the schedule.  Ideally, it would have a
     Windows counterpart for those less enlightened.

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

Date: 17 May 94 20:43:20 GMT
From: [e-mail] (jschrade)
Subject: Simpsons

Hello everyone,

I am trying to find an updated Simpsons episode guide, but not having much
luck. I checked a few internet sites which I knew had some Simpsons stuff, but
the most recent guide I found was over a year old. Any help would be
appreciated.

Thanks,

Jody Schraden
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 23:31:12 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Anthony F. Gaudiano II" <[e-mail]>
Subject: SoundEdit 16 and AV Macs

Dear Eugene,

     I too have flamed SoundEdit Pro in the past.  Partly because
MacroMedia who bought it from Farallon, didn't mention in the upgrade
literature that the program required a 68020 processor or greater and
also required the Apple Sound Chip.  I at the time had a SE and was quite
miffed at the fact I just paid $75.00 only to find out that I couldn't
use it.  However, I did eventually get a computer that can use it and I
did.  SoundEdit Pro version 1.0.5 works great on my 840 AV.  However, it
still has a few drawbacks, that being that I have to downsample the 16
bit sound to 8 bit just to edit it.  That's where SoundEdit 16 comes into
play.  SoundEdit 16 was designed to be used on AV Mac's and I would also
hope that it would be a Fat Binary to work great on the Power Mac's as
well.  This program according to a rep. of MacroMedia that I talked to on
March 14, 1994, is supposed to allow me to work with and edit 16 bit
stereo sounds without any downsampling required.  I however won't be
paying for the upgrade right away after being burned once.  So, my
suggestion, wait for Mac User/MacWorld/MacWeek to preview it before
buying/upgrading.

Anthony F. Gaudiano II

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

Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 10:04:53 -0400
From: "John R. Dunning" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Startup sound

I'm new to the Mac community, so please forgive me if this is a stupid
or oft-answered question: Can I disable the "chord" that my Mac plays
when I power it up, and if so, how?

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

Date: Wed, 18 May 94 14:13:15 CET               Message-Id: <AA19645>
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Suppress Startup Page on Laserwriter

Many thanks to the gurus who came to my rescue and showed me how
to supress the startup page on my Personal Laserwriter NT. Official
geniuses include Al Bloom, Virginia Tech; Heather Jo Tipple at
Schlumberger Technologies; Peter Gerhardstein; Murph Sewall at UConn;
and "vielen danke" to Christian Buser up north in Switzerland.
For the record, the answer was to find the Laserwriter Utilities
program which came with Laserwriter 8.1 (from ftp.apple.com).
This program wasn't part of the disks with the original Laserwriter;
instead, I received the "Namer" program. When I went back and
checked the 8.1 install disk, there was the Utilities program. The
"Read Me" file even tells you it won't install the Utilities on
your hard disk; you have to copy it over manually. Moral: RTF "read me"!

Thanks again,

Pete Jones
Pordenone, Italy
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 11:55:37 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Murph Sewall)
Subject: Suppress Startup Page on Personal LW NT

On Sun, 15 May 94 20:56:25 CET, Pete Jones wrote:
>Folks, I'm having a bit of a problem. Want to suppress the startup
>page on my wife's new Personal LW NT. Is there a small utility or hack
>to do this?
>
>Item #2 -- "The Namer" which came with my printer on a diskette won't
>run. Claims it can't find a "printer driver or printer definitions on
>my boot disk". But I'm happily printing away with Laserwriter 8. Duhh..
>what aI missing here?

The Personal LW NT disks still contain a version of Namer that isn't
compatible with System 7.  You can apple.com, but in
reality, all you need is a more recent version of LaserWriter Utility
(seems to me there's one on the LaserWriter 8 disk) also available from
ftp.apple.com and the Apple gopher site.

The recent LaswerWriter Utility will BOTH rename the printer and also
suppress the startup page.

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

Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 23:16:26 +0100
From: Francis Knight <[e-mail]>
Subject: That Ongoing Headless Chicken Scenario Just Ran Past Me Again

That Ongoing Headless Chicken Scenario Just Ran Past Me Again:

Just had a letter from Apple (BTW Apple, 'Francis' is the _masculine_ form
of the name!) telling me that Apple Direct, the UK direct mail operation is
no more. This is after barely six months of operation, and one full
catalogue.

Actually, the prices weren't ruthlessly competitive, for obvious reasons,
but at least you could see everything Apple had on the market, including
odds and ends like MacTCP. This made it attractive as a reference item,
while MacUser et. al. allowed you to find the best current deals.

I do hope any new converts Apple made with this operation haven't been too
disappointed by Apple's lack of stamina.

Cheers,

Francis K.



At a Mac Oasis Somewhere in Suburban Hertfordshire

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

Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 13:10:37 EDT
From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Train Sounds

I am looking for steam and other railroad sounds.  If anyone knows
of sites (other than AOL--I've already looked there) where there
are digitized railroad sounds, please let me know.

Jeffrey Fritz
West Virginia University
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 00:58:31 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Jack D OLeary)
Subject: Which surge protector?

What's the scoop on surge protectors these days?  Do the more
expensive ones really provide better protection, or would I
be wasting my money?

- Jack O'Leary
  [e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 02:50:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: 2d Lt Avram Dorfman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Why is DayStar PPC card so expensive? (R)

It seems to me that DayStar's PPC upgrade card is priced unreasonably to
about the same extent that their '040 and '030 cards are.

they want about $800 (including adaptor) to put a 50MHz '030 in an LCIII.
for that price, you can get a whole quadra 605 CPU, drive, RAM & all.
Other comparisons are similar, and keep in mind, an accelerated Mac is
NEVER as fast as it's nearest equivalent regular Mac. Partly this is b/c
of the slower data bus in some cases, but caches make up for much of that.
One of the biggest problems is that Apple's built in video cards usually
can't handle more speed than the CPU they were designed for has.

I tried out a DiiMoCache 50MHz (64k cache) accellerator on my LCIII. 8
bit and 16 bit video were nerely unchanged. 1 bit (B&W) was drastically
improved (75% faster in the worst case). But who want's to keep an LCIII
in Black & White?

Anyway, as far as accelerator prices go, Daystar just can't compete with
Apple in terms of Bulk. I'm just guessing, but I'll bet Daystar hasn't built
more than a couple hundred PPC cards. Apple is aiming for PPC sales in the
Millions. Apple simply doesn't pay nearly as much for components as Daystar.

Daystar justifies their price by giving you 80MHz instead of 60, and letting
you put more RAM on the card itself, so it can be accessed straight accross
their 64 bit bus, instead of the orignial machine's 32 bit bus. Is this worth
$1000? Does it cost them $1000 to build? No, probably not. They do it not
because they are "smarter" than apple, but b/c they need an edge. If
Apple had chosen to put RAM expansion and a 64 bit bus on their own PPC
upgrade card, Daystar would have that and some other extra feature so that
consumers would at least be gettign *something* for their extra money.

Accelerators are for people who have money to burn, and are either impatient
or an a very strict and short time schedule. They are really left over from
the old Apple market when everything was way overpriced. You may notice that
you don't hear much discussion of acceleration in the PC world, short of
built in processor upgradeability. I imagine it's because an accelerator
realy does cost almost as much as a whole computer (thanks to economies of
scale), and the PC market, having been deflated ages ago, has no room for
them.

-Avram Dorfman ([e-mail])

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Date: Wed, 18 May 1994 11:42:39 -0400
From: "Tom Scott" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Your favorite Internet site

     Your favorite Internet sites
I'm collecting ideas for people's favorite Internet resources for an article
I'm doing.  What I'm looking for are resources that are most meaningful to Mac
managers and Mac network administrators.  I'm looking for:
       * Best listserv groups
       * Best usenet groups
       * Best telnet sites (give passwords if applicable)
       * Best ftp sites (besides standards of sumex and umich; give path)
       * Best gopher sites (again give hostname and path, and if it supports
     gopher + protocol)
       * Best www sites (give hostname and html file name)

Please send me your votes, and I'll summarize.  TIA!

Cheers!

Tom

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

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