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Info-Mac Digest             Wed, 17 Jun 92       Volume 10 : Issue 146

Today's Topics:

      [*] Desk Accessory Cloning (C)
      [*] DiskExpander
      [*] MDS11Updater
      [*] NetAgent.sea.Hqx
      [*] New Posting
      [*] posting game/5stix
      [*] rename dr-mac to dr-macinto
      A.R.A
      Aladdin & Alysis: miscommunication
      Apple's New Ad Campaign
      AppleShare 3.0
      Apple Video Cards and Monitor (Q)
      Audio CDs (A)
      Audio CDs: How Do It Know? (A)
      Audio CDs: How Do It Know? (Comment)
      Audio CDs: How Do It Know? (R)
      CD-ROM final stuff
      Chording Keyboards (Q)
      Contact Program
      Dead Mac Video on a IIcx (Q)
      debinhexers
      Desk Accessory Cloning (A)
      Eyeballs
      Font Mystery
      french with Zterm
      gopher
      How to make PowerBook Power-On Chime go Away? (Q)
      IBM 3151 Terminal Emulation on a Mac?
      Identifying guests in appleshare
      II/IIx/IIfx -> Quadra (C)
      Macintosh/NeXT E-Mail
      MacWeek
      MathCad question
      memory errors using DISKCOPY 4.2
      nuntius newsreader
      Of Mice and Switches
      Quadra/OverDrive (C)
      replacing internal floppy drive on Mac+
      se/30 question
      SNA ps 3270 Terminal emulation
      Sound recording with Macintosh LC
      Superpaint 2.0 and Radius video cards - solution ?
      Symantec
      TrueType vs BitMap Fonts (A)
      Why no Apple RAM disk option on less than a Quadra?
      Word 5.0 styles bug

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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 92 23:24:44 PDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Desk Accessory Cloning (C)

>What I'm after is having multiple copies of the Note Pad for keeping
>track of various snippits by category.

You might find one of the following a better alternative to making
multiple copies of NotePad:

info-mac/da/notepadii.hqx
info-mac/da/super-note-pad-121.hqx

Ah, I see that Note Pad II is no longer at Sumex. So here is a
resubmission...

NotePad II is a shareware enhanced notedpad DA. It provides a
wide window and the ability to group notes into topics.

[Archived as /info-mac/da/note-pad-ii.hqx; 15K]

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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 92 13:19:36 -0400
From: Scott E. Lasley <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] DiskExpander

Here is Alysis' Disk Expander, downloaded from Compu$erve.  From the
Read Me file...

The Disk Expander is a system extension.  Adding it to your Macintosh
System Folder will allow you to read and use files and applications
that have been compressed by More Disk Space.  You will find that
applications are much smaller in compressed form and that they require
no extra time to launch.  Compressed applications and compressed
document files behave exactly as you would expect them to.  Even
multi-megabyte files will open without delay and without any disk
space overhead.

[Archived as /info-mac/ex/alysis-disk-expander.hqx; 67K]

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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 92 13:21:34 -0400
From: Scott E. Lasley <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] MDS11Updater

This program will update Alysis' More Disk Space to version 1.1.
Here is an excerpt from the Read Me file:

More Disk Space 1.1 brings you two new features:

The Omit System Folder option makes the More Disk Space command ignore
items in the System Folder.  With this option off, you can compress
items in the system folder like faxes, After Dark Modules and others.

The Verify Writes option gives you hands-free verification.  You can
still do on-the-fly verification of writes by depressing the 'v' key,
but now you can do it without pressing a key at all.  For large jobs
on removable media, this feature may prove particularly useful.

Downloaded from Compuserve

[Archived as /info-mac/util/alysis-mds-11-updater.hqx; 207K]

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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1992 14:16:31 +0200
From: Per Henrik Johansen <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] NetAgent.sea.Hqx

This is an agent developed as part of a diploma thesis in Informatics at
Ostfold Regional College in the spring of 1992.

This agent will pick out news for you, monitor your mail-boxes and finger
persons of your choice. You will need an account on an UNIX-machine to have
any use of this agent. Read the ducumentation supplied.

Authors: Nina Beate Olsen, Morten Kristiansen and Per Henrik Johansen.

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/net-agent.hqx; 442K]

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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 92 11:18:55 -0600
From: [e-mail] (SLINKER GEOFFREY SCOT)
Subject: [*] New Posting

These files have been maintained on a system with Disenfectant 2.8
and GateKeeper 1.25, so we assume we are free from virul infections.

The QuickTime VCR is a simple QuickTime Movie Player.

It requires that QuickTime and 32 Bit QuickDraw are installed and
that you have at least a MC68020 processor.

It's interface is that of a VCR with Play, Stop, Fast Forward,
Rewind, Go to Beginning, and Go to End.

The Flashing 12:00 (which can be found on most VCRs) can be set
by clicking on the 12:00.

I only have access to a 16 level gray scale monitor, so if the VCR
has strange colors in it, I didn't know.

The code is C with a THINK C 5.0.2 project file. There is a ResEdit
resource file that contains the dialog boxes, icons, pict's, etc...

There are two windows that come up when you launch the application.
One is the movie window for playing the movie, the other shows the
movie's poster.

If you have any questions, comments, or bug reports please contact
me at       [e-mail]       or
[e-mail]
before Sept. 1992, that is when I get my MS in computer science here at
BYU.

[Archived as /info-mac/app/quick-time-vcr.hqx; 125K]

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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1992 17:39 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] posting game/5stix

From: [e-mail]
Subject: 5 Stix 1.3UR

        The object of this game is to match the pattern of sticks and
        the cards. It has much more options than the original game.
        It is another great game for youngsters from age 8 to develop
        their matching skill while they are playing. It is enjoyable
        for adults too.

[Archived as /info-mac/game/five-stix-13.hqx; 83K]

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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1992 17:37 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] rename dr-mac to dr-macinto

From: [e-mail]
Subject: Dr.Macinto

        If you downloaded Dr.Mac from this site, it should be replaced
        with Dr.Macinto since Dr.Mac has a problem with its name.
        Dr.Macinto is a single player game in which one is to remove
        all the viruses (smiling-face squres).  The blocks can be
        removed by arranging them sequences of 4 or more of the same
        color horizontally or vertically.
        Playing pills drop from the top and are comprised of two random
        colored blocks. Pills drop one at a time and may be moved left
        or right, or rotated.
        Any resemblance to other game is pure coincidence.

[Archived as /info-mac/game/dr-macinto.hqx; 70K]

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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 92 15:13:42 HAE
From: Denis Gauthier <5703DGAU@LAVALVM1>
Subject: A.R.A

AppleTalk Remote Access Question !!!
!
the configuration :

caller : modem GVC 9600 with v.42bis install

responder : (the fun begin) U.S. robotic dual standard 14400 who call
        a PBX ADI 101 who call PBX ADI 100 connected to my MAC II

the gvc call, us robotic answer and call my ADI that's ok, i have the connectio
n but after 45 secondes the connection was quit !.

Any information  about this process (why this quit after 45 secondes)

Denis Gauthier
5703dgau@lavalvm1 or [e-mail]
Universite Laval
Quebec

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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1992 10:12:06 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Aladdin & Alysis: miscommunication

Jeffrey L. Needleman <[e-mail]> writes:
>In Info-Mac 10-135, I posted a warning from Aladdin that the More Disk
>Space program from Alysis has a serious problem with StuffIt which causes
>loss of data...

>[to which Alysis responded]:
>This is not totally true. There is a problem between Stuffit Lite Beta and
More
>Disk Space compressed files, but we are not convinced that it is our "fault".
>Compact Pro works just fine with More Disk Space compressed files.
>But we feel that users should have a choice between Stuffit Lite and Compact
>Pro and have offered to work with Aladdin, before Stuffit Lite gets out of
Beta
>Testing, to determine who needs to make changes, and if we determine that we
>have to, we will post a updater for More Disk Space on all online services...

>[Needleman then goes on]:
>I've seen no further public comments by Aladdin, but over at the Alysis
>board on AOL there are several statements from Alysis personnel about how
>companies should work together, and how since the problem affects only a
>forthcoming version of StuffIt now in beta test it should have been solved
>between the two companies privately.  There's also been a running argument
>among me and several MDS users over on Prodigy about this issue, with two
>people assuring me that the problem only affects the beta release of
>StuffIt--they were told so when they called Alysis technical support.
>
>The fact is that Alysis has simply misinterpreted Aladdin's note. Aladdin
>said that the version now in beta test recognizes the problem. Aladdin
>never said the problem was limited to the beta version. Alysis just assumed
>that. Both of the MDS users on Prodigy (at my request) tested the shareware
>1.5.1 version of StuffIt by creating an archive using an MDS-compressed
>file and then unstuffing it. In each case, the archive was corrupted and
>the original file could not be recovered from the archive.
>...
>Version 1.5.1 of StuffIt is distributed to all Mac subscribers to AOL. It's
>safe to assume that all subsequent versions of StuffIt and StuffIt Deluxe
>have this problem with MDS as well.

Huh?  A problem with an ancient version of Stuffit means there "must" be an
ongoing problem?  Phooey!  Does the problem occur with Stuffit Classic, the
now current shareware package?  I appreciate Jeff's bringing our attention
to a possible problem and stimulating Alysis to work with Aladdin to
maintain compatibility, but this latest note is irresponsible. The
statement that "Alysis has simply misinterpreted Aladdin's note" is
astonishing since Jeff doesn't work for either company (or does he?).  Why
does Alysis get the blame if other packages (e.g., Compact Pro) allegedly
work fine?  Is Alysis lying?  Has Jeff bothered to check?  People who beta
test software (and I am one of them) should realize they have unfinished
works in their hands and that reporting based on those comes under the
requirements of responsible journalism: clearly distinguish between facts
and opinions and check the facts (twice).  The "facts" in Jeff's note are
failures in tests of Stuffit 1.5.1 versus an (unspecified) version of MDS.
The rest is unsubstantiated fluff.  If a beta tester finds problems, the
bug reports should go to the vendor, not the public.  Finding problems is
the POINT of beta testing.  If a serious bug is ignored by the vendor in
the rush to ship the product, then blow the whistle.  Alysis has
acknowledged the existence of an incompatibility and expressed a strong
desire to work with Aladdin to patch the problem.  That's all anyone can
expect of them.  The information is helpful (I will watch out when using
Stuffit and MDS together) until a definitive statement comes from the
software houses (not third parties).  As for the rest, I must wonder what
Jeff's agenda is.

Paul

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Date: Wed Jun 17 13:34:00 EDT 1992
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Apple's New Ad Campaign

I have to wonder about the logic of Apple's new ads (I haven't seen them, just
read about them in newpapers and Tidbits).  For anyone not familiar with the
ads I'm talking about, essentially, the new ads will confront PCs and Windows
directly.

Who are these ads targeted towards?  Certainly, you can't expect someone after
seeing that ad, to sell their PC and get a Mac instead.  Most PC users believe
that what they have is the leader in technology and they love to say things
like, "My PC runs at 33 MHz, how 'bout your Mac?"  An ad won't change their
mind.  (Don't get me wrong; Mac users are pretty much the same way in reverse)

Likewise, most PCs come installed with Windows now (Windows Ready!) and the
lack of ease of installation isn't too much a concern.  When someone walks
into a computer store to buy a computer (with nothing else decided except the
fact that they WILL buy a computer) the salesperson will make sure they leave
the store with a PC.  Will these ads decrease the number of people buying PCs
and increase the people who show up and say, "Gimme a Mac!"?

I also hope that Apple removes the phrase, "It will let you run MS-DOS" from
their ads.  It can't!  Ok, so you add Soft-PC and, sorry Insignia, you have a
286 that runs at the speed of an Apple II.  DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!

I'd appreciate any insight on these ads, whether just a guess or someone who
actually has something to do with these ads.

Ken Linger
[e-mail]

(When will Microsoft release a Mac version of Windows? :)

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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1992 13:03:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Tsai <[e-mail]>
Subject: AppleShare 3.0

Hello,
    Sorry if this is old news.....but I just read in MacUser that there
is some sort of problem in security with the new AppleShare 3.0.  This
leaves me worried becuase we have just switiched to Apple Share 3.0

Dave

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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 92 19:31:28 -0700
From: David Hartmann <[e-mail]>
Subject: Apple Video Cards and Monitor (Q)

Hi,

I have a few questions about Apple video cards and monitors:

First, I have a Mac II.  I would like to use Apple's new 21 inch color
monitor.
What video card do I need to use this monitor?  Will Apple's 8*24 card drive
it or do I need a third party card?  Or will the old Apple 8-bit video card
that currently runs a 13 inch Apple RGB be able to run the 21" monitor (I
can dream, can't I)?

Second, assuming the ancient 8-bit card can't run the 21" monitor, can it be
used in a Mac IIsi, or does the IIsi require a more recent video card, say an
8*24?

Any information would be greatly appreciated!

Please mail responses (I'll summarize if there's interest) to:
[e-mail]

Thanks,
David Hartmann

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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 92 10:00:45 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Mark Przeslawski)
Subject: Audio CDs (A)

Just a quick comment about the silly responses which have appeared regarding
how CD players know song information. While it is true that the CD is divided
into time intervals, there is also a "header file" on the disk which contains
a unique CD code, number and length of songs (and movements for classical
music - only top-of-the-line players decode this information), as well as
other information (some of which was meant to help prevent piracy).

An example of how this information is used is that on some players you can
program them to recognize the CD and display a name on the front panel, then
only play the songs you like on the CD. All it takes is money to get all the
features ;-)

- Mark Przeslawski
  E.R.I.M.

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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 92 13:56:00 -0400
From: "Keith E Gatling" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Audio CDs: How Do It Know? (A)

Paul Gilmartin sez...

   > Ah, me, they must never have heard of the "birthday paradox".
   > Among 20 people, there's roughly a 50-50 chance that two have
   > the same birthday.  similarly, among a few hundred CD's, there's
   > roughly a 50-50 chance that two will have the same identifying
   > number.

Well yeah...it's true that out of 23 people it's a safe bet that two of
them have the same birthday, but what are the odds of them having the same
birth*date*.  I mean, I'm sure that someone else on this list must have a
June 19th birthday, but how many are 06191956?  Or for that matter, how
many are 06191956 at 0931?  I'd say that the odds are rather small.

Now if you consider that the birthday paradox works in a situation where
you have only 366 dates max to work with, the situation could change
considerably with CD times when you consider a top time of about 72
minutes, which would mean 72*60*75 frames or 324,000 frames.  If we use
the same ratio of CDs to frames as applies for people to dates (which is
about 1:16), you'd have to have about 20,000 discs in your collection
before you really had to worry about a ID conflict.  Okay, the Library of
Congress may have a problem on their hands, but I probably won't.

Just out of curiosity, isn't there anything else that's used as an
identifier, like the number of tracks on the CD?  After all, a 72 minute
CD of Beethoven's 9th would have many fewer tracks than a 72 minute CD of
Elton John.

Oh...and by the way, since I've been misunderstood before...this is *NOT*
a flame.

keg

* Keith E Gatling                                [e-mail] *

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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1992 21:23:44 -0500
From: Steve Strassmann <[e-mail]>
Subject: Audio CDs: How Do It Know? (Comment)

   Date: Mon, 15 Jun 92 20:08:25 MDT
   From: "Paul Gilmartin [phone]" <[e-mail]>
   Subject: Audio CDs: How Do It Know? (A)

   Ah, me, they must never have heard of the "birthday paradox".  Among 20
   people, there's roughly a 50-50 chance that two have the same birthday.
   similarly, among a few hundred CD's, there's roughly a 50-50 chance that
   two will have the same identifying number.

It's actually worse - of course the distribution is not evenly distributed
across all possible values. There's not a hell of a lot of 5 minute audio
CD's out there.

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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 92 21:41:01 EDT
From: [e-mail] (David Fry)
Subject: Audio CDs: How Do It Know? (R)

True enough.  It's not quite that bad, though. If we
assume that the length of your CDs is evenly distributed
between 45 and 90 minutes, you need about 520 to get
a 50-50 change of repeats.  If you shrink that distribution
to 50 minutes to 80 minutes, you need about 424 CDs.
But your point is made.


David Fry                               [e-mail]
Division of Applied Sciences            [e-mail]
Harvard University                      ...!harvard!huma1!fry
Cambridge, MA  02138

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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 92 19:12:01
From: [e-mail] (Dieder)
Subject: CD-ROM final stuff

Just my two cents worth here:

How'n'da'heck does the CDROM recognizes the disc that you insert? I
believe it is because in the CDROM format there is a track that has the
names, times, track numbers, location, and whatnot of the contents of
the CDROM. There's nothing really magical going on in the CDROM player,
except for the fact that it is just reading this information that is
encoded on all CDs. I know that this isn't just a CDROM reader trick
because a friend of mine has one of those do-everything-and-walk-the-dog
CD players, and it displays the discname, and the song title. Thus, I
would assume Apple has done a similar thing for its own CDROM
reader/player.

Hope that helps (if not muddle the issue),

Dieder

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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 92 14:59:29 PDT
From: Kevin Shuk <[e-mail]>
Subject: Chording Keyboards (Q)

I am asking this for a friend who is a teacher and is troubled with carpal
tunnel syndrome.

I understand that chording-type keyboards provide a method of data entry that
doesn't aggravate the wrist in the same way normal keyboards do as to avoid
further damage. I am intersted in any knowledge anyone is willing to share on
these devices for the Macintosh regarding manufacturers, resellers, reviews,
prices, personal experience, etc. ANYTHING!!!

For the benefit of those who don't know what chording keyboards are, they
are one-handed keyboards with one key for every finger and 2 or 3 for the
thumb. The different characters are typed by pressing combinations of the
keys rather than just one at a time, kind of like playing chords on a piano.

Please reply to my personal e-mail address: [e-mail]
I will summarize for the net.

-- Kevin Shuk

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Date: 17 Jun 92 16:25:39 U
From: "Tom Scott" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Contact Program

               Subject:
               Contact Program
I'm hoping that one of the resident experts in Listserv-Land can help me out.

Cornell's Engineering Admissions office would like to have some type of an
on-line contact database to track incoming phone calls and letters.  They'd
like to be able to maintain a record of applicants contacting the office and
better handle subsequent contacts by the same person(s) by accessing the info
in this database (comments, reason they called, etc.).

They want something that will contain (at least) the following fields:
     -> Their name
     -> Who they wish to speak to (or who the letter was sent to)
     -> Their phone number
     -> Date they called
     -> Who they talked to when they did call
     -> Any comments about the call

That in itself seems simple enough.  However, what complicates the matter is
that it needs to be centrally located on our file server, and (here's the tough
part) has to be able to give write access to probably 3 people that might be
taking messages concurrently.  It also needs to have read access to at least 6
people in the office.

When this project was initially proposed, I was thinking about using Excel or
FoxBase+/Mac, but both of those suffer from a multi-write deficiency.  I am a
little familiar with FileMaker, and know very little about Double Helix and 4D
(even though a couple of my other offices use these as their DBMS).

Does anyone know of ANYTHING that might fit the bill?  Shareware would be nice,
but if the only solution is commercial, we'll go with that.  Please direct all
responses to me directly.  Thanks!  :-)

 From the desk of:
Tom Scott

 Cornell University

 Carpenter Hall Annex
 Phone: [phone]
 [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 92 21:54:43 EDT
From: ZMEG000 <[e-mail]>
Subject: Dead Mac Video on a IIcx (Q)

     I just had an interesting thing happen to the Mac IIcx
at work. Appearantly the video board died.
     When I turn on the Mac, the screen is just black. We have
apple's 13 inch monitor and Apple 8*24 color card. The one that
came in the IIcx. Any possiblity that this could be a quick fix??

Thanks,
    Mike
    [e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 92 11:19:27 EDT
From: Seth Ness <[e-mail]>
Subject: debinhexers

hi,
are there any drag(a lot of files) and drop debinhexers. or at least something
that will debinhex a whole folder at once. i've used downline but it gives
me corrupted files for some reason. and i don't like the built in stuff
in fetch since it slows things down too much. so any suggestions?
thanks

--
 Seth L. Ness                        Ness Gadol Hayah Sham
 [e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 92 14:19:45 -0400
From: "Alan D. Danziger" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Desk Accessory Cloning (A)

In comp.sys.mac.digest Dave Griffey wrote:

>What I'm after is having multiple copies of the Note Pad for keeping track
>of various snippits by category.

>Possible?

Yes, it's possible, but not with Apple's Note Pad DA.  You need one of
the (many) replacement NotePads.  There are some at Sumex in the DA
directory.

I suggest checking into NotePad+.  I haven't used it, but it seemed to
be appropriate.

Good luck,
    -=Alan

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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1992 14:57:37 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Garry Russel Burgess)
Subject: Eyeballs

Hi all,

In MacWorld I read about a shareware program called: eyeballs, or
something like that, that one installs on powerbooks, where the eyes
always looks in the direction of the cursor.  Does anyone know where this
can be obtained via the internet?

Garry

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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1992 17:22:03 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Font Mystery

I downloaded a font called LarcombeCaps from the umich archive.  The
characters are ornate and quite exquisite illuminated capitals.  Now, the
mystery:  this is a Type 3 font, and won't work on my Deskjet at home.
Neither FontMonger nor Evolution will parse it to convert to Type 1.  The
readme with the font attributes it to one "David Rakowski, Alle Rechte
Vorhalten (sic)" and is distributed free to all as "another unusually
altruistic service of Bug-Bytes."  The postscript in the printer fonts
identify the fontography software that built them as "Art Importer 2.0" and
the creation date is 10/17/90.

So, does anyone have any leads to Rakowski, Bug-Bytes, or Art Importer 2.0
that might help get this wonderful font into a convertable form? Please
respond directly to me and thanks in advance.

Paul

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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 92 17:21:06 EST
From: Francois Brillon <[e-mail]>
Subject: french with Zterm

Hi,

  I use Zterm to connect on some BBS. These BBS use IBM ascii code and
the accents are not correct on my screen. Do you know a way with Zterm 0.9
or a new version of a communication program that support IBM french ascii
code??

Pffouit! (excuse my english!!)

Thanks for your answers!

Francois
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 92 20:46:37 EDT
From: Seth Ness <[e-mail]>
Subject: gopher

i just got gopher from info-mac and its the most amazing thing i've ever
seen on the internet. i've been waiting for something like this ever since
i first got on the net. and the biological stuff in its superset is also
a godsend to me as a biologist. i highly recomend it.

--
 Seth L. Ness                        Ness Gadol Hayah Sham
 [e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 92 10:45:40 MST
From: Declan A. Rieb <[e-mail]>
Subject: How to make PowerBook Power-On Chime go Away? (Q)

Subject line sez it.  I do understand that placing a jack in the audio port
will do the trick, but that requires an extra piece which is prone to being
lost!  Is there any other (software?) way to avoid being embarrassed on the
plane during PB poweron?

Declan A. Rieb
[e-mail]   [phone] or 5-7714
Division 1957, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185-5800

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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 92 13:11:12 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: IBM 3151 Terminal Emulation on a Mac?

Hi netters...my first posting to the internet, so here goes...

Does anyone know of an emulator (pd, s/w, $$$) that will let my Macintosh
(IIci 8MB) emulate an IBM 3151 dumb asynch terminal?  Lease lines aren't an
option, really, so I'd like to do it over the modem...I thought about
PacerTerm and VersaTerm Pro, but have been told that neither supports 3151
emulation.

Any suggestions are welcome, and as I am not on the mailing list for
Info-Mac, please respond directly to me at the following address:

[e-mail]

As always, summaries posted back if there is an interest.
Grateful thanks!
Brian

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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 92 14:42:48 PDT
From: "Phillip Broussard" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Identifying guests in appleshare

Netters,

Has anyone run across this problem?  I'm a mac user in a lab where there are
about 30 different AT zones connected by ethernet.  Now, suppose some person
ties into my machine, (running system 7) and connects as a guest under
appleshare, and inadvertantly checks the "connect at startup" box (which is
quite common, unfortunately...), then we get the situation that they log on
every time they startup, even though they really don't need to, and often don't
realize it.  And of course, File sharing info CP only shows them as a guest...

My hope is that there is some method of getting more info about who is
connected
to the machine (i.e, which zone they are in, and the computer name) than just
"guest".  I can't check every machine in the facility, so I am hoping that
someone out there has heard of some utility that can do this.  I don't want to
limit access as I distribute updates for a good size group, so if you know of
something like this, I would sure love to hear about it.

Thanks!  Phill Broussard

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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 92 12:20:06
From: "G.Allsopp" <[e-mail]>
Subject: II/IIx/IIfx -> Quadra (C)

To confirm this - Our AppleCentre Rep called in on Monday - Apple UK
have dropped all 6-slot machines from the range. The IIfx upgrade is
no longer available.

Instead Apple UK are offering a trade-in deal for all owners of 6-slot
machines who want to upgrade to Quadras. Typically, this will cost
around #2000 - #3000, depending on both your 6-slot configuration &
the Quadra you wish to trade up to. (# = UK pounds).

THIS MAY APPLY TO APPLE UK ONLY
- Does anyone know of similar deals elsewhere ?

Incidently, the Rep also told me (off the record) that a Quadra 750 is
unlikely in the near future, and the main reason that Apple brought out
the 950 was because the 900 was so flakey. (though Apple UK get the news so
late that I wouldn't be suprised if you can already get a 750 in the US)

One last item
Anyone know the address/phone/fax for Tree Star? (FlexiGraph & FlexiTrace)

Pip pip

Graham  ([e-mail])

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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1992 01:28:49 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <[e-mail]>
Subject: Macintosh/NeXT E-Mail

We are interested in setting up a remote mail connection between a Macintosh
and a NeXT which would support the sending and receiving of NeXT mail messages
that contain attachments.

Are there any known solutions to this problem?

Does QuickMail and/or its Unix gateways provide the flexibility to support this
connection?

Does you know of anyone who is trying to solve this or a similar problem?

Thanks.

Monty
---
# Monty Solomon / PO Box 2486 / Framingham, MA  01701-0405
# [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 92 17:51 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: MacWeek

I have a question regarding the tabloid, MacWeek.

Back in late-February or early March, I sent in application forms for MacWeek
and PCWeek.  About three weeks ago, I started recieving PCWeek (yippee.), but
I still haven't heard from Ziff-Davis regarding MacWeek.  A co-worker, who
seems even more likely to receive a free MacWeek sub. (she gets a free
Macworld subscription from Ziff), hasn't heard anything from MacWeek since
sending her application in back in November, '91.

Now I've dealt with these application-type publications before, and usually,
if they don't send you a free sub, they'll at least send you a polite rebuff
along with an offer to BUY a subscription for $X a year (that's just $X/52 per
week!).  I (nor my co-worker) haven't received that either.

Anyway, my questions:

  -How long did it take any current MacWeek recipients to start receiving
    MacWeek once "approved"; or turn-downees to recieve the offer to buy?

  -For those paying for subscriptions, how much and to what address?

Oh yes, I don't have access to anyone else's MacWeek and the library doesn't
subscribe (got my initial card in another state), otherwise I'd just re-apply.

Direct answers will be more helpful to me, but list answers will be more
helpful to anyone else who is curious.

Thanks in advance,
Byron Mayes
University of Delaware

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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 92 15:29 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: MathCad question

Hello, net.

The question I have probably is very stupid, but here goes:

Stupid program chokes at any calculation wich resalt is 10000 or more. If, for
instance, I want to find what 100^2 equial to I get ? as a result. 99.99999^2
is OK. 9999+1 will give me ? 10000-1 will give me 9999, but 10001-1 doesn't
work
I tried to call MathSoft technical suport, but they couldn't explain me what's
going on.
I tried to reinstall MathCad but it didn't help me either.

I am using Mac SE with Mobius accelerator board and math co-processor, 4Mb RAM,
Sys 7 with Tune-up 1.1.1.
If anybody has any ideas of how to fix this I would really appreciate your
responce Right now this program less usefull to me then my poket calculator.
Thanks in advance,
Mike.

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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1992 08:33:15 PDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: memory errors using DISKCOPY 4.2

greetings netters
when trying to load large (1.44MB)  image files with DISKCOPY 4.2 i get
consistently error -620 (not enough physical memory) despite the fact
that i allocated 1.6MB to it. one possible (?) explanation is that
being short of RAM i use the virtual memory option of system 7. could
this be the problem? has anybody else ever run into this problem?
thanks in advance for any help in this matter.
                          zeev fraenkel
                         [e-mail]


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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 92 20:44:35 EDT
From: Seth Ness <[e-mail]>
Subject: nuntius newsreader

does anyone out there have any sort of documentation for the nuntius
newsreader?

thanks

--
 Seth L. Ness                        Ness Gadol Hayah Sham
 [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 92 15:31:14 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Pete Eltgroth)
Subject: Of Mice and Switches

This is in response to several messages lately on mouse switches failing.
I had a failure of a mouse switch early this year.  It was an ADB mouse
on a Mac IIcx.  The mouse was made by Logitech, sold by Apple in 1989.
Neither organization would do anything other than to sell me a new mouse.
So I attempted to find a new switch.

Upon inspection, the old switch had printed on it the words
"OMRON JAPAN" and two codes: 13Z8RAD and D2F-01L83W.
Only the last code is important for this tale.

A local electronics store (not Radio Shack) was persuaded to let me leaf
through its distribuer's listings.  I found

Kent Electronics
2115 De La Cruz Blvd.
Santa Clara, CA. 95050
[phone]  FAX [phone]

and

Electro Components Dist.
3496 Arden Rd.
Hayward, CA. 94545
[phone]  FAX [phone]

which carried OMRON components.

The switch is called a subminiature basic switch, dimensions in mm:
6.5H x 12.8W x 5.8D.  The model number is D2F-01 or D2F-01L.
The latter has a small lever attached to push the actuation plunger.
The distributers wanted to sell by the gross.  Electro Components
finally gave me a (free) D2F-01L switch as a sample.  I removed the
lever, installed the switch, and the mouse has worked perfectly over the
past few months.

So find someone to sell you an OMRON switch or equivalent if you have a
problem switch in your mouse.  Installation involves minor mouse surgery
and soldering three pins on the switch.  The usual warranty disclaimers
probably apply.

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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 92 16:52:07 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Mel Martinez x8378)
Subject: Quadra/OverDrive (C)

Several people have asked for more details about Newer Technology's
Quadra/OverDrive because of my tantalizing earlier posting.

I want to reiterate that I do not own one of these things, although I am
thinking about it, so anything I say is not, I repeat NOT based on personal
experience.

The Quadra/OverDrive accelerates the existing cpu in a Quadra 700 or 900 to
33MHz, resulting in a performance boost of about 30%.  It does so by
increasing the processor clock speed, NOT by replacing the '040 chip.  This is
why it is so cheap (LIST price of only $349).  Physically, it consists of a
small simm-type board that plugs into the unused ROM-upgrade slot.  A new fan
is also included for better heat disapation.  I do not know if this replaces or
is used in addition to the existing fan.

This is about all the info I have been able to extract from the smattering of
literature references that I have, including Newer Technology's catalogue.

On a limb remarks:

The biggest concern one might have about this is whether the 68040 chip in the
q700 or q900 will be able to take the stress of being run at a higher clock
speed than it is rated for.  Motorola initially had trouble getting decent
yields of 33MHz chips so the quadra was introduced at 25MHz.  It is my
understanding that they made some sort of alteration to improve the yield, but
this may have been in the manufacturing process, not the chip itself.

33MHz is not all that fast for any given transistor, so FUNCTIONALLY, it should
not prove a problem for the 25MHz chips.  The main problem that arrises when
increasing the clock speed is that you now are sinking and sourcing current
through each transister at a higher rate.  Each time you do so a certain amount
of heat is generated.  This heat takes a certain amount of time to dissipate
through the chip away from the transister.  The very HIGH density at which
these elements are packed in a chip like the '040 already makes this a
problem.
By increasing the clock, you are decreasing the amount of time allowed for the
heat energy to dissipate from a given transistor before another cycle dumps
more energy into the same area.  Different substrate and package materials can
result in better heat conductance.  The simplest way to increase the rate of
heat transfer, though, from basic thermodynamics, is to keep the temperature
differential between the 'hot' part of the chip (the actual transistors) and
the 'cool' part (the outside surface) maximized.  To do this one generally heat
sinks the outer surface with a high-conductance material cut in a shape with a
lot of surface area. Typically this is a hunk of copper in the shape of fins.
Blowing (relatively) cool air over these fins takes heat away and (hopefully)
keeps it cool.  The Quadra/Overdrive apparently provides a fan to increase the
flow of air, thus moving excess heat away.  This sounds like it would probably
do the job.  There is a lingering caveat that some people would remind me to
mention here.  Increasing the flow of cooling air is not always good.  If not
implemented right, it is actually possible to cool a part too fast resulting
such a large temperature differential between to points in a part that it
breaks due to uneven thermal expansion.  This is a very rare blunder, though.

The Newer Tech. people have been shipping a similar toy for Mac IIfxs for a
while, so I would hope they have solved most of these types of problems.

As far as memory goes, you should be able to continue using 80ns or better
simms at 33MHz.  If you feel really worried about it, go ahead and pay the
extra few dolars for 70ns, but you will not see any performance gain.

The video simms that the q700, q900 and mac LC use have been only rated at
100ns up to now.  With the advent of the q950, I imagine retailers will begin
to make 80ns VRAM simms available.  I am not entirely convinced that they are
necesarry for the video even at the higher clock speed, but if so, you should
wait a bit.  80ns memory is not really much more expensive to make than 100ns
memory so I don't think the cost will be that much more.  Newer Technology's
catalogue mentions no requirement for faster video simms, but this may be an
oversight.

For more info, give 'em a call:  [phone]  (Wichita, Kansas, USA)

I hope this is helpful.

Mel Martinez
The Johns Hopkins University
Dept.of Physics

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

Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1992 00:38 EST
From: Mark Cornick <[e-mail]>
Subject: replacing internal floppy drive on Mac+

I'm about to install a few SIMMs in my Mac Plus. While I'm at it, I'd like
to try to repair a broken floppy drive. (The broken drive will not "grab
onto" a disk; it springs right back out.) Two questions:

a) Can anyone tell me what might be wrong with the drive? It seems like it
   might just be a spring out of line, or something.
b) Failing that, I have an external Apple 800K floppy drive that I would be
   willing to sacrifice in order to repair the internal drive. Is the external
   drive the same as the internal? (that is, is it the same mechanism, etc.)

Disclaimer 1: It's a Mac Plus, the warranty expired in 1584. :)
Disclaimer 2: I've done lots of electronics work in the past, so I can handle
the techie details.

Please respond by e-mail, or snail mail if you need to enclose diagrams or
what-not.

Mark Cornick
James Madison University
[e-mail]

1343 Devon Lane
Harrisonburg, VA 22801

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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1992 10:25 EST
From: "Brian K. Pickerill" <[e-mail]>
Subject: se/30 question

>        I'm running a SE/30 with 8MB RAM and with system 7.0.
>        It seems that more and more, the applications that I try to run
>        after taking RAM to 8MB(from 5MB) are getting "BUS" errors of
>        some sort or another...
>        I used to be able to run/compile MS-BASIC when I had 5MB of RAM
>        under system 7.0, but now I cannot with 8MB...
>        Anyone else have these problems ? Suggestions ?
>        thanks.
>        dan dalal
>        email => [e-mail]
>        PS. I'm also running MODE32

IMHO, I doubt seriously that the extra memory in itself is causing
any problems.  If you installed Mode 32, there is a good chance that
you also turned on 32-bit addressing in the memory cdev.  If so, I
would check to see if you have some applications or extentions or cdevs
that are not 32-bit-clean, (check the /reports directory of the
archives for some compatibility info) or simply turn off 32 bit addressing.

Since you still aren't *above* 8MB, you don't need to turn on 32 bit
addressing.  Having Mode 32 installed shouldn't cause a problem
without using 32 bit addressing.  (No need for it though, as far as
I know.)   That is, unless you are a compulsive ROM cleaner!  ;)

--Brian  <[e-mail]>

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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 92 18:24:00 EDT
From: "Richard A. Michaels" <[e-mail]>
Subject: SNA ps 3270 Terminal emulation

Dear Netters,
    Here in our lab, we have the program SNA ps 3270 terminal emulation.  I've
been experimenting with the program and have had several problems downloading
files.  It seems that during the de-binhex process, the Data and Resource forks
are unable to be varified.
     If anyone has had any experiance with this program, please e-mail me.  Any
and all help with this problem would be appreciated.



Richard A. Michaels (pupscrm@pacevm)

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

Date: Tue, 16 Jun 92 17:08:39 EST
From: Francois Brillon <[e-mail]>
Subject: Sound recording with Macintosh LC

Hi,

  Is there anyone who know if a program exist to record sound with the
microphone of the LC. I know that the SOUND control panel and Hypercard
2.0 do that... but some better program must exist... no??

Thanks for your help! (excuse my english!!)

Francois

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Date: Wed, 17 JUN 92 09:54:18 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Superpaint 2.0 and Radius video cards - solution ?

Further to Mike Vaughn's posting in Info-mac #145, regarding Superpaint 2.0
crashing out on Radius Direct/Color cards, maybe our experience will give
you a pointer.


We ran Superpaint 2.0 on some SE/30's here hooked up to Radius Tilt screens
driven by Radius cards, we observed bombs each time with this setup, BUT in
the preferences option for Superpaint 2.0 there is a checkbox for 'Quickdraw'
video calls only, which causes Superpaint to not try to circumvent the standard
window manager ( for speed reasons).

Since checking this option we've had no further problems ........

I've heard of this behaviour on other setup's also, so try it out!

Craig Morgan
Research Associate
School of Computing
Staffordshire Polytechnic, UK

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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 92 13:33:53
From: [e-mail] (Dieder)
Subject: Symantec

What is the online mail address of Symantec? i.e. for Norton Utilities
and Think C/P etc. I would rather not have to contact them through
Compu$erve, and the charges for Americal Online through a gateway
connection here are  a bit too steep for my liking. So, is there an
address that I can mail to from the internet? Also, what is the America
Online suffix? i.e. to mail to it? is it aol.com?

Thanks in advance,

D.

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

Date: Tue, 16 Jun 92 18:49:54 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: TrueType vs BitMap Fonts (A)

On Mon, 15 Jun, Jonathan Kamien asked:

>Once you've added TT fonts to your system file under Sys. 7, does it
>make sense to still keep the older BitMap fonts in there?  Will TT
>overide the bitmapped fonts, or will the system use whatever is best
>a particular purpose (e.g., printing or screen display?)

Neither, Jonathan. If there is a bitmapped font of the proper size, the
system will use it for screen display. Otherwise the TT font is used. If
you have a PostScript printer with the proper font, the PostScript font
is used, else the TT font is used. Bitmap/TT is (generally) a screen
display question. I tossed all my bitmaps when I got all the TT fonts
built into my LaserWriter IINT. Others chose to keep the smaller bitmap
sizes for aesthetic reasons -- easier to read than TT in small sizes. I
suggest trashing your bitmaps and seeing how well you can live with the
TT display in small sizes. Put the little ones back as needed.

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1992 09:55 EST
From: "Brian K. Pickerill" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Why no Apple RAM disk option on less than a Quadra?

As I have had the opportunity to "play" with some quadras lately,
I have gotten into the RAM disk option in the Memory cdev.

My question for you macphiles out there is this:  Why doesn't
Apple's RAM disk work in lesser (68030 or 68020+PMMU) Macs?
I assume it has something to do with the 68040, but if you could
enlighten me on this, please do so!

Thanks,

--Brian  <[e-mail]>   bitnet<[e-mail]>

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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 92 17:30:26 PDT
From: Paul Brians <[e-mail]>
Subject: Word 5.0 styles bug

This weekend's issue of the New York Times Magazine contains a remark-
able article criticizing Microsoft's unwillingness or inability to
fix what sounds like a similar font bug in Word for Windows.  It doesn't
inspire much hope.

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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 92 16:42 MSZ
From: [e-mail] (Hermann Lederer)

  - x3270 using MacX -

Hi netters,

when using x3270 under MacX to have an X window based
access/terminal emulation for IBM mainframes,
the standard font used is too large as to support
a window sized 640 x 480 pixels as the limits are
on the 13" Apple RGB monitor.

Who has designed/created a smaller font so that
the created window fits on the 13" monitor?

Thanks a lot
Hermann Lederer,  [e-mail]

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