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Info-Mac Digest             Thu, 25 Jun 92       Volume 10 : Issue 152

Today's Topics:

      Administrivia
      [*] auto-clock-1.3.1.hqx
      [*] Ivar1.0.1.sit.hqx
      [*] Mac memory configurations
      [*] Nuntius1.1.sea.hqx
      [*] RoboWar 2.3
      [*] TheBelcher.cpt.hqx
      [*] The Real 3D Rubik Pyro Module
      [*] TidBITS#131/29-Jun-92
      [*] UnZip 1.10
      "59M" rather than "59K"?
      A-Soft BASIC pgm to Mac
      About QuickBasic/Think C....
      Aliases and italics?
      applesoft
      A question about Soft PC
      AutoMenus II (Q)
      Battery ext for PB-100 system-6, Force sleep key, RAM disk.
      Demo versions (like cp/auto-menus-ii-10.hqx and app/mac-roots-57.hqx)
      Demo Versions (R)
      Disappearing Folder After MacTools 2 insatllation HELP
      Disk Cache for PB (Q)
      DiskDup+ 2.0 Conflict with Maxima (A)
      disk fixup utilities?
      Dr Who Sound?
      DynoPage Lite
      EDUCATIONAL PRICE OF MAC LCII IN ENGLAND
      FrameMaker educational pric
      FTP transfer rates
      How to tell whether fonts can be freely distributed (?)
      IIsi, video, cache settings
      IISi Video Tweeking (Again?)
      Internet access on America Online
      Internet speed (was FTP Programs for the Mac (Addendum)) (C)
      Is the Powerbook 100 to be dropped?
      Mac&MS-DOS Scheduler (Q)
      Mac floppy drive repair and diagnostics
      MacTCP control panel weirdness
      Manalyzer (Q)
      Messed Up Icons
      mirror site boo-boo (Mine!)
      Need advice on 16-inch color monitor (Q)
      No Paste Special on Word 5 Edit Menu
      No Paste Special on Word 5 Edit Menu (A)
      PLI--A True Story
      PSpice (Q)
      PwBk170 availablitity? (Q)+(F)
      Quadra Cache - Is SAM 3.0.3 compatible?
      Return of AppleSoft BASIC (A)
      Return of Applesoft Basic ? -- NOT !
      StuffIt Lite Expiration
      Superclock with PB -- extra feature
      System 7 in 2 MBytes
      Telecom/Satalite Problem
      Wanted:  Postscript converter
      Warning for users of NCSA Telnet 2.5B
      Windows 3.1 fonts for use on Macs

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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1992 15:37:34 PDT
From: The Moderators <[e-mail]>
Subject: Administrivia

I have changed the way the digest is processed so as to wrap lines longer
than 80 characters. Please let me know if this does not fix the problems
some people have reported with retrieving digests that have long lines.
(For example, should I be wrapping at 79 characters instead of 80?)

Bill

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Date: Wed, 24 Jun 92 01:40:15 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Marc Tizzano)
Subject: [*] auto-clock-1.3.1.hqx

AutoClock version 1.3.1.

AutoClock is an application and a system extension that keeps your Macintosh's
clock right. As a matter of fact, this clock has the tendency to deviate from
the standard time every day, which can accumulate to minutes or dozens of
minutes after one year.

The AutoClock application allows you to:
 - set the clock by calling a time server in Washington D.C., if you have a
   modem,
 - set the clock manually from an accurate source (for exemple a vocal time
   server),
 - display a logbook of every clock changes that occurs on your Macintosh,
   whether they are done with AutoClock, or with another application (the
   General control panel, or the Clock desk accessroy for example),
 - compute the mean clock deviation of the Macintosh's clock for a 24-hour
   period, using data recorded in the logbook,
 - display the date and time in almost any country of the world.

The system extension AutoClock Extension can:
 - periodically open the AutoClock application according to your schedule, to
   perform an automatic clock adjustment by calling the time server, without
   any user intervention,
 - keep the Macintosh's clock continually right, by adjusting it using the
   computed mean clock deviation,
 - detect any clock changes done by any other programs, and record them in the
   application's logbook.


Compatibility:

The AutoClock application and AutoClock Extension work on any Macintosh, with
System 6.0.5 or later, including system 7.0. AutoClock is 32-bit clean, and has
balloon help if used with System 7.0.

To set clock by calling the time server, AutoClock needs 1200-bps Hayes
compatible modem (Bell 212A standard). Extra serial ports compatible with the
Communication Toolbox are recognized.

[Archived as /info-mac/util/auto-clock-131.hqx; 173K]

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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 92 9:17:59 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Eggert Bjarni Thorlacius)
Subject: [*] Ivar1.0.1.sit.hqx

Ivar 1.0.1

Ivar is a program to play sounds over a network.  To use it,
install the Ivar extension on the target machine and reboot.
Then find a convienient Mac nearby and wait for an innocent
victim.  When he/she is busy working run the Ivar application
and surprise him/her with a few well chosen noises.
I have found the sounds "Sally in restaurant", "Mary dismebered
and screaming" and "Does not compute" to be very effective :-)

Changs in version 1.0.1:
Fixed a very stupid bug that caused Ivar to refuse to run
under System 7.0.1

[Archived as /info-mac/sound/program/ivar-101.hqx; 30K]

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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1992 14:33 CST
From: Dan Lunderville <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Mac memory configurations

There have been a number of questions and comments in the digest lately
about memory for the various Mac models - what size SIMMs to use, what
combinations of SIMMs are allowed, etc.  Here is a chart produced and
published by Apple on AppleLink.  The chart lists all the Mac models,
except those older than the Mac Plus.  The Quadra 950 also is not listed,
but its memory specs are the same as the 900.

For each Mac model the chart lists how much RAM is soldered on the
board, how many SIMM slots it has, which SIMM sizes work in that model,
all the possible RAM configurations, and the required SIMM speed.  I
have found this chart to be very useful, and in conjunction with the
Macintosh Memory Guide published by Connectix, all my Mac memory questions
have been answered.

The file is a binhexed, self-extracting Compact Pro archive of a MicroSoft
Word 4.0 file.  I apologize for the non-generic format, but the chart
contains several special symbols that are not in the standard ASCII set,
so they didn't translate when I tried to make a text file out of it.
(If someone know how to do this, I would like to know.)

This chart is copyrighted by Apple and was published on AppleLink.  I
got permission from them to publish it here, with the stipulation that
the copyright remain on the file and that the chart not be used in any
"for sale" products.  Obviously I can't insure that this will happen, but
you have been informed.  Please don't abuse this policy.

Dan Lunderville            [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/report/mac-memory-chart.hqx; 25K]

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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 92 16:08:20 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Peter Speck)
Subject: [*] Nuntius1.1.sea.hqx

Final version of Nuntius 1.1:
  Newsreader, requires system 7, and ~1200K.
  Written with MacApp3, C++ and the thread pkg from "d e v e l o p".

No documentation is available.

Report bugs etc to [e-mail], not [e-mail]

Some people have trouble with editing articles when they use
another editor besides TeachText. I'm working on this bug.

Peter Speck, [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/nuntius-11.hqx; 405K]

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Date: Wed, 24 Jun 92 21:06:49 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] RoboWar 2.3

This is the latest version of RoboWar.  In this game, you can
program robots, then turn them loose in animated combat for a
duel to the death.  Approximately twice a year, there are
tournaments in which hackers around the country submit their
robots to determine the RoboWar Champion.

RoboWar 2.3 features the long-promised RoboTalk Debugger and a
much-improved tournament utility as well as a number of smaller
changes and fixes.

Happy hacking,

David Harris

[Archived as /info-mac/game/robowar-23.hqx; 233K]

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Date: Wed, 24 Jun 92 22:47:09 EDT
From: Steven Hatch <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] TheBelcher.cpt.hqx

 -----------------------------------------------
The Belcher) 1992 Grafx Indeed Multimedia Inc.
 -----------------------------------------------

What is "The Belcher?"

An animated short created with MacroMind Director). The Belcher was created
a while back. But after a few requests, we decided to share our friend with
everyone. If you like it drop us a note and pass it around.

The application requires at least system 6.0.5 to run and you could probably
run it with 1 megabyte. However the application suggests 2 megabytes.

PS:
Thanks to all the people who responded to our last little short 'BoB' :-)

--Steven D. Hatch & Martin V. Leone
  [e-mail]

  Grafx Indeed Multimedia Inc.

 --------------------------------------------------
MacroMind Director is a trademark of Macromedia Inc.

[Archived as /info-mac/art/thebelcher.hqx; 370K]

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Date: Wed, 24 Jun 92 11:41:09 +0100
From: [e-mail] (MAZARS Patrick - MICHEL Jean-Jacques)
Subject: [*] The Real 3D Rubik Pyro Module

Rubik's Cube
 -----------

PLEASE , NOTE THIS:
 ------------------

To sysop: I'm sorry , the previous Version I sent just before this one
IS NOT the right one (I've made an error when I attached the document)

THIS IS THE REALLY GOOD VERSION (AND THE LAST) OF THE RUBIK PYRO MODULE
fixing the Mac IIfx bug (Thanks Bill) and moving the cube a little more
on the screen.

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

by MICHEL Jean-Jacques & ZEREKLY Nihal
made at SUPELEC - METZ (FRANCE)

This program is a PYRO module , which displays a RUBIK's CUBE and solves
it.

Convert the above file with Stuffit using Decode BINHEX file to obtain
the executable code. It has not been compressed.
Like all PYRO modules, it must be put in the System folder, in order
to work.
Then call PYRO, and click to select the module called Rubik68000.

The program was compiled in 68000 code without coprocessor and tested
on Mac + , Classic , SE/30 , II/si , II/cx , II color (but the animation
is still b&w) and thanks to Bill , on a IIfx with 8x24GC graphic card with
quickdraw accelerator .


If you have problems with this program, please send email to :
           [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/util/pyro-rubiks-cube.hqx; 47K]

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Date: Wed, 24 Jun 92 22:31:25 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: [*] TidBITS#131/29-Jun-92

TidBITS#131/29-Jun-92

 Wondering about expanding a PowerBook's hard drive space? Want
   to do some visual programming? Interested in hearing some great
   music from your Mac? Curious about how you can go to jail by
   using your color scanner and DeskJet C? Still wondering
   whether you should buy Word 5.0 or Nisus 3.06? Answers to
   these questions, and maybe even a few more, inside. There
   is, however, no little plastic toy. Sorry.

Topics:
    MailBITS/29-Jun-92
    Expanding a PowerBook
    Prograph Extensions
    SoundTracker
    Use a Scanner, Go to Jail
    Nisus/Word Comparison
    Reviews/29-Jun-92

[Archived as /info-mac/digest/tb/tidbits-131.etx; 29K]

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Date: Tue, 23 Jun 92 23:21:10 PDT
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] UnZip 1.10

Here's version 1.10 of the freeware UnZip utility. It's the latest version
I've found and is about a year later than the one now in the archives.
There's no documentation (but none is needed). The program is
straightforward. It will unzip archives compressed in the common IBM ".zip"
format. It includes options to automatically delete line feeds, decompress
only .gif or text files and (new in this version) to set the file type and
creator depending on the suffix of the uncompressed file.  Thus for example
a .gif file can automatically be given the type/creator you specify to
launch your .gif reader, so that you can just double-click on the output
file to get your .gif reader launched.

Jeff Needleman  <[e-mail]>

[Archived as /info-mac/util/unzip-11.hqx; 53K]

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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 92 13:27:25 EST
From: Murph Sewall <[e-mail]>
Subject: "59M" rather than "59K"?

On Thu, 25 Jun 92 06:43:42 EST you said:
>In the latest issue of TidBITS, you write:
>>  applications. Adding a few things I didn't have room for on the 40
>>  MB drive has left me at 59K on the drive. After one day, I'm happy
>
>For the sake of your desktop files and your sanity, I hope you
>meant "59M" rather than "59K"!

Actually I'm alpha testing an amazing new 1,000 to 1 transparent
compression program from Typo Solutions ;-)

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Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1992 19:55 EST
From: Mark Cornick <[e-mail]>
Subject: A-Soft BASIC pgm to Mac

In the last Info-Mac Paul Kerrigan wrote:

I would like to retrieve some old applesoft basic algorithms. Does anybody know
how I would go about getting an applesoft basic file from a prodos 3.5 floppy
to a mac text file? I got the file over to the mac, with Apple File Exchange,
and
opened it as a text file, it wasnt a pretty sight.  Also, does Microsoft
MacBasic have the capability to do this? Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

Try this.
1) If necessary, renumber the program so that the first line number is 10.
2) Add the following lines to the program:
1 POKE 33,33
2 PRINT CHR$(4);"OPEN TEXT"
3 LIST 10,
4 PRINT CHR$(4);"CLOSE"
5 TEXT
6 END
3) RUN the modified program. This will create a TXT file on the disk named
   TEXT.
4) You should now be able to convert this TXT file to Mac format using Apple
   File Exchange.

If I'm not mistaken--I haven't used an Apple II since 1988--this should give
you a TXT file containing a listing of the Applesoft program. This TXT file
should transfer with A.F.E.

Mark Cornick
James Madison University
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 92 11:41 MET
From: max <[e-mail]>
Subject: About QuickBasic/Think C....

Hello!
I'd like to build a MBPC (written in THINK c 5.0) using it as a library for my
Quick Basic program.
But...when I make my application as PCR library:
/**** MAIN PROGRAM *******/
/*** compiled as a MBPC
     name: MyGrid   id:60   ***/

#include "BasicLSC.h"
main()
{
    short rows,columns;

    SAVEREGS();     // save A4 and A5 registers
    ToolBoxInit();
    MenuBarInit();
    SetUpDragRect();
    SetUpSizeRect();
    ......
    CreateWindow( rows, columns); // window with a grid of rows x columns
                            cells
    MainLoop();     // management of events for window created
    RESTREGS();     // restore A4 and A5 registers
}
...I run my QuickBasic program:
LIBRARY "MyGrid.lib"
...
CALL MyGrid
...
...
LIBRARY CLOSE
END

it breaks after CALL statement quitting the program and turning up to the
FINDER.
Anyone may help me?
Thanks in advance,
    Massimo La Farciola

    -Excuse for my poor english-

E-Mail: [e-mail]

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Date: 25 Jun 1992 9:40:59 EST
From: "Lester Lefton"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: Aliases and italics?

Somehow, I have made all of my aliases appear in standard plain
text--that is, not in italics.   But, I have no idea how I did this.  I
have been asked by friends and relatives how to do this, but I have
no idea.

How did I do it?  Any ideas

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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 92 00:18:51 -0400
From: [e-mail] (King Rhoton)
Subject: applesoft

Ah, yes, Applesoft.  The problem that you're having is that applesoft is a
tokenized language.  If you still have access to an appleII machine, you can
write out the listing of the file to a strictly text file.  One way to do
this is to add a couple of lines to your program.  Open a text file, write to
it, list the program and then end.  You can then strip out these 2 lines
once you get it over to a Mac.  For more complete and explicit instructions,
write me directly.
King

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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1992 18:13 EDT
From: KIERAN O'CONNOR <[e-mail]>
Subject: A question about Soft PC

Hi,

My wife regularly uses WordPerfect 5.1 on a DOS 386 Machine.  It would
save her a lot of time if she could do some of her work at home.  She
generally uses LOTUS (DOS) to calculate numbers, and then uses WP
5.1's table maker.

What I'd like to know is, if I buy Soft PC, will I be able to run
LOTUS and WP5.1, or at least WP 5.1?  I have an SE (FDHD drive) w sys
7.0 and 4 megs of ram.  SHould I get an accelerator board?

Also, I looked in the MacWarehouse book, whats the differnce among the
various Soft PC's?

Kieran O'Connor

[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 24 Jun 92 16:43:45 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Prof. L.G. Leduc)
Subject: AutoMenus II (Q)

Hello netters,

AutoMenus II is causing the following error messages to appear upon restart:

"Sorry, a system error occurred - unimplemented trap"

My system is as follows: Mac SE (4/20), System 6.08, SuperClock, Norton
Utilities installed, Disinfectant and Suitcase 2.0.

I noticed that the bomb occurs when the Norton Utilities startup icon shows
up at the bottom of the screen. I don't want to get rid of this program to
use AutoMenus II.

Any ideas?

Thanks and please reply directly to me.

Leo G. Leduc
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 92 09:54 N
From: <[e-mail]> ([e-mail] FAX
FRANCE[33] 76-48-39...)
Subject: Battery ext for PB-100 system-6, Force sleep key, RAM disk.

Distribution-File:
    [e-mail]

Murph Sewall suggested the following for using the system-7 battery extension
in system-6 on the PB-100, warning that he hadn't tried it-

>Alternatively, open any DA suitcase and drop the System 7 battery DA
>into it.  Then, restart under System 6 and use Font/DA mover in the
>usual way to install the DA.

Yeah, you can do that, but the system-7 battery extension not surprisingly
bombs system-6 on the PB-100 with error 32 - a 'slightly obscure error'
according to System Error tables 3.1.  Just use the battery icon in the menu
bar of system-6 for the old Mac Portable.

But ! If you are running a minimal system-6 (ie Finder is swapped out by the
application) the system-6 battery extension is the only way to force sleep.
Anyone like to write a little 'force sleep' key for both system-6 and 7 ?

BTW, I set up a 1 Meg non-volatile RAM disk on my PB-100, and loaded in a
minimal portable system 6.0.8 together with Claris Works, which is gratis on
the PB's, and easily runs in the remaining 1Meg on a 2Meg machine.  The hard
disk is then (almost) never accessed, which should save on battery life.

Is the PB-100 to be dropped ? I don't know, but at around $1100 with external
floppy and Claris Works, get one before its too late ! I heard Tandy is
throwing in the stylewriter for around $1200.

Alan Hewat, ILL, 156X Grenoble Cedex, 38042 France (email [e-mail])

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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 92 10:10 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Demo versions (like cp/auto-menus-ii-10.hqx and app/mac-roots-57.hqx)

    Henk Schotel says: If a demo version of a program is offered to the
    archives
    this
    should be, and in most cases *is*, indicated in the description of it,
    and the demo should be/is put in the proper directory.
    Sometimes the description of a program does *not* tell that only
    a demo version is offered.
    =====

    I agree with this in principle, but I think it is more complex than it
    seems.  Every shareware program is, technically, a demo since you
    cannot (legally) keep using it without paying for it.  On the other
    hand, a demo program can be used for whatever it is good for.

    There are several distinctions that can be made.

    Free programs vs. ones you are supposed to pay for.  As I said
    before, demo programs are free while shareware you are supposed to pay
    for.

    Complete programs vs. limited programs.  This distinction creates the
    opposite problem: many of the "complete" programs in the archives are
    shareware.  Distinguishing shareware from demos might be regarded as
    implying that you don't need to pay for shareware.  Moreover, for those
    who understand the difference and don't want to use unpaid shareware,
    there is the same problem with wasted time downloading them.

    I'm not sure there is a perfect solution, but I do support the idea
    that an announcement of a posting should describe any limitations and
    prices of things that are posted.  Including prices is controversial,
    because some people think that is like advertizing. I don't agree with
    this: I believe that the announcement should inform the reader fully
    before a package is downloaded so including price information should be
    required (strongly encouraged.)

    Regarding the /demo/ directory I must say that I am biased as th author
    of /info-mac/demo/empire-master.hqx.  The question is, what makes a
    program a demo?  Compactor, Shadow Keep and MacBzone (among others)
    all require the entry to a user code before you can use all features of
    the program without seeing any shareware messages but I don't think
    they are in the demo directory.

    Chris Eliot

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Date: Wed, 24 Jun 92 13:14:51 PDT
From: Jerry Wilcox <[e-mail]>
Subject: Demo Versions (R)

Henk Shotel writes that programs like AutoMenus II should be
considered demos and not regular programs. Speaking only for
AutoMenus, I disagree most strongly.

To me, a demo program is somehow crippled - all of the functionality
is not present, or something is done to signal that the output comes
>From a demo (Example: the NISUS demo which flags all printout as
being from the demo).

AutoMenus II, on the other hand, simply expires. Not sneakily -- you
are told that right up front. It doesn't disable or damage anything else,
it simply disables itself. That isn't, IMHO, a demo version. I don't
have to buy, order, download, or install anything new to get the
"real" product. Just register, and Michael will send you the code to
remove the expiration feature.

To me (and again, these are MY opinions - you don't have to agree)
this is a far more palatable method of trying to get reasonable
shareware registration than providing crippleware. Consider the
alternative. Michael could sell AutoMenus to NOW, or some other
company and they could bundle it with NOW Utilities. Michael would
then get paid for each copy sold and we'd have another great
shareware product gone commercial (remember Boomerang?).

I find AutoMenus (the original, and now II) to be one of those things
that I would not do without on my machine. I think it would be a
shame if it and others like it were buried in the "demo" folder. I
wouldn't be opposed to seeing the posting messages required to
clearly state any such expirations or conditions, however.

(No, I'm not involved with AutoMenus or Michael Conrad other than as
a satisfied and very happy shareware registrant)

Disclaimer: These are my own personal opinions, not my employer's.
+ Jerry Wilcox -- [e-mail] -- phone: [phone] +

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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 92 22:33:11 ITA
From: davide proserpio  <[e-mail]>
Subject: Disappearing Folder After MacTools 2 insatllation HELP

Hi,
   last night I installed the new MacTools version 2 from Central Point.
      When I restarted the next morning a Folder on the desktop was
      disappeard.
... What can I do to recover it?
I try using Mac tools but does not work.....
I have a Mac SE/30 with sistem 7.0 and tune up 1.1.1 installed
I have 8Mb of ram (5 simm and 3 virtual) and HD of 40Mb

Any suggestions?
All the other folter on the hard disk are still there. Only the one on the desk
top disappear.   thank you for any help
                       davide proserpio

e mail   stinch at imisiam.mi.cnr.it

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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 92 14:52:59 EST
From: "Kirke B. Lawton" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Disk Cache for PB (Q)

My understanding (*please* correct me if I'm wrong) is that the
disk cache (set via the Memory control panel) affects I/O speed
by allowing your Mac to "memorize" frequently accessed stuff, so
it doesn't actually have to read it from the drive each time.

Assuming this is true, how does this work?  I guess I don't really
need the details, but I would like to know if this is a good way
to save power using a PowerBook.  I have cranked my cache up to 256K,
but I can't say I have noticed any difference (except the larger
System memory consumption).  On the PB the goal would be to eliminate
*all* disk usage while doing one task so the disk can spin down and stay
down.  If even a large disk cache will only speed up disk access rather
than eliminate it (obviously not completely, but I hope you see my
meaning), it won't be worth it.

Any insight will be appreciated.

Kirke
[e-mail]       or [e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 24 Jun 92 17:06:10 PDT
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <[e-mail]>
Subject: DiskDup+ 2.0 Conflict with Maxima (A)

In 10-151, Paul Bians reports:

>DiskDup+ "unexpectedly quits" when run while Maxima is on.  The error
>message is the hugely informative "application unexpectedly quit
>because (your hard disk name here)."  Turning off Maxima from its
>control panel and rebooting fixes things.

I'm using DiskDup+ version 1.54 with Maxima version 2.0.1 on a IIci with
cache card running 7.0.1 with Tune-Up 1.1.1 and a bunch of other inits, and
have no trouble whatever.

May I suggest that everyone post version numbers of programs and system
software when stating conflicts--and possibly the specific Mac involved too
in case problems are for only some processors?  That information might help
someone who DOES have a problem solve it.

Jeff Needleman  <[e-mail]>

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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 92 13:03:28 EST
From: Murph Sewall <[e-mail]>
Subject: disk fixup utilities?

On Wed, 24 Jun 92 03:23:36 -0700 you said:
>I've normally used Disk First Aid with success; however, recently it couldn't
>fix a problem (cmd-S revealed an "invalid PEOF") on my internal hard disk.
>suggestions for utilities (share, commercial) to patch such problems greatly
>appreciated.

My experience with Norton's Disk Doctor and MacTools DiskFix is that
they sometimes identify and fix things that Disk First Aid overlooks
altogether (the opposite also is sometimes true).  However, I haven't
come across a single instance where any of these reported they couldn't
fix something that another one fixed (they miss things, but what they
say isn't repairable, isn't repairable).  I have for some time gotten
away with Disk Doctor saying that the b-tree contains an incorrect
number of nodes that DFA and DiskFix say is okay (if I let Disk Dr. fix
it, either DFA or DiskFix will ask to correct it back to the way it
was).

In such instances, the thing to do is back up at reformat at the
earliest opportunity.

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

Date: 25 Jun 92  1:02 -0500
From: "Connie K. Cho" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Dr Who Sound?

Hi,

Does anyone know if a MOD of the Dr. Who soundtrack exists?
I'm not really interested in snippets, but rather the whole
thing blasting in stereo ... :)

Thanks for any help!

CKC

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

Date: Thu, 25 Jun 92 15:20:30 EDT
From: Ken Davignon <[e-mail]>
Subject: DynoPage Lite

Macweek mentioned recently that DynoPage Lite, a freeware version
of DynoPage, is being distributed on AppleLink, America Online and
CompuServe. Does anyone know if it is available on any FTP sites.
I looked through the sumex archives but didn't see it. Does anyone
have a copy that they could upload.

Thanks,
Ken Davignon
IJZ101@URIACC

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

Date: Thu, 25 Jun 92 16:31:43 SST
From: "S. Suthipuntha" <[e-mail]>
Subject: EDUCATIONAL PRICE OF MAC LCII IN ENGLAND

Hello from Singapore,

My colleague going to Cambridge UK later this year is wondering whether it will
be cheaper to buy a MAC LCII from Singapore and carry it over or to get one the
re.

I shall be most appreciative if some kind soul will let us know the educational
 price of MAC LCII 4/40 and 4/80 in England.

Thanks in advance.

Suthipuntha,School of Architecture
        National University of Singapore

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

Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1992 10:17:29 CDT
From: [e-mail] (David Gutierrez)
Subject: FrameMaker educational pric

FrameMaker educational price
In Info-Mac Digest #151, Terry Thiel writes:
>You know FrameMaker is avaialable for an educational price if you qualify.
>I think its $279.

That was true until a few months ago, when they lowered the price to $199.

David Gutierrez
Univ. Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 25 Jun 92 13:05:31 EST
From: Murph Sewall <[e-mail]>
Subject: FTP transfer rates

On Wed, 24 Jun 92 14:30:08 EDT you said:
>First, a correction:  The IP adress for ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu, as reported
>even in Mike Gleason's Mac FTP List, is 128.174.20.50.  I still have not
>been able to connect to this IP address.

IP numbers can be changed, even names can be changed (either an alias
is left in its place, or the name was an alias in the first
place)--that's what name servers are for.  If you can't connect to an IP
number, use the name.

>My complaint is with the Internet.  Its backbone is too small to support
>the massive amount of traffic that it carries.  I experience an average
>data transfer rate of about 750 characters per second; I've never seen
>better than 2k cps.  I think that's pretty crummy.  I hope that upgrade
>plans are in the works for it. (bandwidth limit exceeded for this
>topic...)

The backbone is running at T3 or faster.  I routinely transfer files at
18 to 28 KBYTES per second from the Left Coast.  I occasionally get low
speeds (sometime under 1K per second) on the rare occasions when I ftp
to Europe.  The transfer rate is limited by the slowest link on your
connect path.  It's not a particularly good idea to try and ftp at
midday when the nets are running at peak load, but I've grabbed small
files  from sumex-aim or ftp.apple.com in the early afternoon once or
twice (transfer rates at 11 KBytes/second or so).

If you're getting transfers under 2K bytes/second (16K bps) at night and
on weekends, it's NOT the backbone.  Your rates appear suspiciously
close to what you'd expect from an RS-232 link; I'll bet your speed
limit is very close to home (perhaps as near as the distance between
your workstation and the wall).

The last I read Congress has authorized increasing the backbone to 1
gigabit per second by mid-decade and the planners are already talking
about 10 terabits (10,000 gigabits) per second in another 10 years (at
that speed we'll be able to play QuickTime movies on ftp.apple.com
without having to bother downloading them ;-)

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

Date: Wed, 24 Jun 92 19:41:37 EST
From: Murph Sewall <[e-mail]>
Subject: How to tell whether fonts can be freely distributed (?)

Here's a toughie.  Today a student gave me a disk with some Macintosh
TrueType fonts along with a few standard bitmap sizes.  He says that he
got them from a friend and has no idea where his friend got them.  I've
looked at enough public domain fonts to appreciate the difference in
quality between the output of individuals versus the font foundries.  In
short, these fonts look too good to not to be copyright by someone (they
probably were paid for at some time by some one who had one of those
CD-ROM disks you can get font passwords for in return for a fee).

The problem is: fonts whether in suitcases or as individual documents
aren't readily identifiable as copyright.  I examined the 'sfnt'
resource with ResEdit and sure enough there's a "redistribution strictly
prohibited" notice buried in there (not right at the top or bottom
either).  I don't think it's reasonable to expect the ordinary user have
to go to that length to determine the pedigree of a font.

Someone also gave me a font converted from Windows 3.1.  Its 'sfnt'
resource has a Microsoft copyright but makes no statement about
redistribution (having been burned by whoever put BeHierarchic 2.0 in
Genie's public folder, I've learned caution).  Microsoft is a widely
recognized commercial source; one can reasonably conclude that software
with its copyright can't be freely shared, but there are loads of less
widely known vendors.

Didn't I read in InfoWorld that Windows 3.1 has the capacity of carrying
BOTH fonts that can be passed from one user to another AND others that
can are read only (attached to the document they came with)?  Its a
great idea but it does complicate the "what can I pass along" problem.

I expect the problem of sorting out what fonts can be freely shared from
those that cannot is going to get rapidly out of hand as fonts are able
to cross platforms.  I'm not in a position to think about how to get a
copyright identifier to pop up into a get info box, but someone probably
ought to figure a better way of protecting the foundries property rights
before things get completely out-of-hand (if we haven't arrived at that
point already).

/s Murph Sewall <[e-mail]>

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

Date: Thu, 25 Jun 92 14:35:52 CDT
From: "Eric H. Durbrow" <[e-mail]>
Subject: IIsi, video, cache settings

I read that screen redraws can be improved if you force the IIsi to use the
disk cache to store video information (Lon Poole's System 7 book). Two question
s: (1) is this true and (2) I'm not sure how to calculate how much memory to
allocate for 256 grays or 256 colors. Thanks in advance! Eric.

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

Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1992 21:59:24 CDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: IISi Video Tweeking (Again?)

Dear Macsters:
Here's another one of those "I wasn't listening real good when the band
went through town" questions:  How can one configure memory allocation
to speed up 8 and 24 bit operation of the Si?

There was some talk a few weeks back about setting the application size
of the system (or something) so that the first meg of ram was taken up
thus preventing the processor from shifting video information around.
(It went something like that).

I looked in the reports at sumex but could not find the information there.

Please revisit this discussion.

Thanks,
Dave Griffey, [e-mail]

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

Date: Wed, 24 Jun 92 18:39:06 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Internet access on America Online

>Here is version 1.8 of Imagery by Jeff Lewis...
>Note that I am uploading this on behalf of Jeff Lewis who does
>not have Internet access. He may be contacted on
>Compuserve at 76217,2241, on America Online as "T Werewolf"
>or via the Internet at [e-mail].

If he has an America Online account he has Internet access. His AOL address
would be [e-mail], and to send a file to the archives he would
simply attach a file to a message to [e-mail].

Thank you, AOL

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

Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1992 18:03:50 -0400
From: Christopher Davis <[e-mail]>
Subject: Internet speed (was FTP Programs for the Mac (Addendum)) (C)

Dave> == Dave Virga <[e-mail]>

 Dave> My complaint is with the Internet.  Its backbone is too small to
 Dave> support the massive amount of traffic that it carries.  I
 Dave> experience an average data transfer rate of about 750 characters
 Dave> per second; I've never seen better than 2k cps.  I think that's
 Dave> pretty crummy.  I hope that upgrade plans are in the works for
 Dave> it. (bandwidth limit exceeded for this topic...)

I hate to tell you this, Dave, but that's because you're in the
backwaters of the net.  MILNET is still based on 56kbps backbone links
(that means 6K/s or so *maximum*).  Those of us out here on the 'main
net' often do better than 2K from, say, Sumex...

It also doesn't help that the gateways between MILNET and the rest of
the Internet have a tendency to become clogged.

(I just got all-files.txt from sumex; this is at 3pm PDT, or 6pm EDT,
still within the 'high-traffic' times for sumex.  Here's the result:
86937 bytes received in 9.5 seconds (8.9 Kbytes/s).)

I tracerouted your site; I got 145-175ms round-trip times from the last
gateway this side of MILNET, and 2.5s (or worse--some packets didn't
come back within 15s) to the first MILNET gateway.  Then I gave up.

Christopher Davis * [e-mail] * System Administrator, EFF * [phone]

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

Date: Thu, 25 Jun 92 13:09:52 EST
From: Murph Sewall <[e-mail]>
Subject: Is the Powerbook 100 to be dropped?

On Wed, 24 Jun 92 10:13 GMT you said:
>A recent posting from Alan Hewatt implied that the powerbook 100 is to
>be discontinued.  Can anyone stateside confirm this?

MacTheKnife has predicted the near term demise of the PB 100, but
MacTheKnife has also incorrectly predicted the end of the Apple 2 on
about a dozen occasions.  Indeed sales have been "disappointing."  What
happened is that Apple underestimated the extent to which the 140 would
be favored over the 100 in spite of the price difference (which has been
diminishing).  Easy enough to say "of course" in hindsight, but the
truth is estimating relative demand within a line of similar models is
VERY difficult.  So, the 140's and 170's have been moving off the
shelves as fast as Apple can produce them and the 100's have just sat
there.

Apple will continue to sell the 100 as long as it's profitable to do so.
Others may discover that the real mistake was marketing the original
100 as a 2/20 (ugh!).  The PB 100 DOES have a 16 MHz CPU (about twice as
brisk as the Classic).  The 4/40 can run System 7 quite nicely (or
System 6 for those who prefer it).  As a word processing and data entry
machine or "on-the-road" Mac as a 2nd computer, the 100 is a heck of a
buy (it'll run circles around 386SX MeSsy DOS laptops in the same price
range).

>If there is to be a replacement, I would hope that it will retain all
>the qualities of the PB 100 that Alan so rightly underlines: compactness
>and lightness...

In the past, Apple has designed and beta tested a number of CPU's
(primarily new Apple II's) that they ultimately elected NOT to market.
A number of different flavor "new" PowerBooks have been conceived.  I
doubt there's room in the market for them all (the proposed PB 140 seems
to me a particularly useless model--most of us with 170's run them at 16
MHz on the battery.  What the 140 needs is an FPU not 25 MHz--having
used both, I can report that 16 with an FPU is fast enough for most
purposed; the extra speed at 25 MHz is noticeable when compressing
archives or doing serious number crunching, but not when writing (or
answering email :)  Heck, a PB 140 with an FPU would be (nearly) an
<drumroll> SE/30!

Apple WILL offer new PowerBooks within nine months, and the attractive
features will be grayscale (maybe even color) displays and external
video out.  The present PB 140 may take over the price position of the
100, and there may be a new ultra lightweight model (one is in beta, but
Apple may not market it).  I think I'll keep my PB 170 until the low
power version of the PowerPC results in a PowerBook five times as fast
as a Quadra 950 for under $3,000 (by 1995 or sooner--remember you read
it here first ;-)

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

Date: 21 Feb 1904 7:18:12 CST
From: "Craig A. Brown"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mac&MS-DOS Scheduler (Q)

I'm looking for a multi-user scheduling package that supports both
Macs and IBM PeeCees on a Netware network.  WordPerfect Office
presently requires a Mac as a gateway between the two environments.
Does anyone have any experience with any other package(s)?


Craig A. Brown  ([e-mail])

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

Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1992 11:12 EST
From: "Gary D. Stratton" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mac floppy drive repair and diagnostics

Would like to obtain any information that would help us in floppy drive
diagnostics and or repair. Does anybody make diagnostic software for the
floppy drives? If this is the wrong place to ask such a question, please
inform me.

Gary D. Stratton
SUNY @ Geneseo
1-716-245-5583
.

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

Date: Thu, 25 Jun 92 10:41:35 EDT
From: Peter Furmonavicius <[e-mail]>
Subject: MacTCP control panel weirdness

Hi.  We use MacTCP all the time, have the latest version, etc. etc.
Recently though, we had the following weirdness occur on a Mac IIsi.
After selecting 'MacTCP' from the Control Panel menu, the MacTCP
control panel dialogue box appears, but... nothing appears in the top
half of the dialogue box (i.e., no 'localtalk' or 'ethernet' icons for
example).  We tried completely re-installing the system, the MacTCP
software, etc. etc.  Same thing.  The Chooser sees the zones alright,
and has the correct information regarding what zone its in, etc.
And, MacTCP applications appear to work okay as well.  Just can't see
anything in the top of the MacTCP dialgue box.  Stumped.
                              - Peter

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

Date: Thu, 25 Jun 92 12:40:05 PDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Manalyzer (Q)

(Manalyzer is Apple's officially unsupported free Ethernet packet/traffic
analyzer, a very useful program for tracking down low-level problems in
networks which run other protocols than just EtherTalk, eg. TCP/IP.)

Just how do I get my mitts on this "free Ethernet packet/traffic analyzer"?
Peter Gerhardstein ([e-mail])

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

Date: Thu, 25 Jun 92 01:53:29 -0400
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Messed Up Icons

Does anyone know why my icons can not be restored by rebuilding my desktop
(e.g. my Teach Text icon is no longer a beautiful red newspaper but a plain
sheet of paper with the upper right corner folded).  I have tried
rebuilding several times before and after running the Desktop Reset
extension from Salient.  I am running System 7 and had this problem before
with isolated files, but now things are more widespread. For example, when
I save doucuments with Mac Write, it no longer saves a pretty fountain pen
icon, rather it is the plain piece of paper icon.

I apologize if this question has been asked before.  Please direct me to
where I can find answers or respond to me directly by E-mail.  If there is
significant response  will sumarize for the net.

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

Date: Wed, 24 Jun 92 19:00:13 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Mel Martinez x8378)
Subject: mirror site boo-boo (Mine!)

Whoops!

In infomacv10#151 I said:

> ftp to sumex-aim.stanford.edu (or a mirror site like wuarchive.mac.edu) and


That should be wuarchive.wustl.edu

Sorry (Oh the shame...).

Mel (the red-faced) Martinez
The Johns Hopkins University
Dept. of Physics

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

Date: Wed, 24 Jun 92 21:50:32 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Mark Hilmantel)
Subject: Need advice on 16-inch color monitor (Q)

I'm looking for a low cost (under US$1000) color monitor in the 15 to 17
inch size range. I've seen ads for such a beast from E-Machines, Mirror,
 NEC, SuperMac, and RasterOps. Any comments/recommendations on these or
any others would be greatly appreciated. I'm interested in resolution,
quality, support, compatibility, etc.

I'm also interested in recommendations for an 8 or 24 bit interface card.
 I plan on using this monitor with an SE/30. The catch is that the only
slot is already occupied by an Ethernet card.

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

Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1992 22:57:28 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Charlie Mingo)
Subject: No Paste Special on Word 5 Edit Menu

Paul Brians <[e-mail]> writes:

  > I passed on Martin Josso's note on multiple references to the same
  > footnote in Word 5 under System 7 to a friend who thought it was
  > great, but when I tried it I found I couldn't.  I have no "Paste
  > Special" option on my edit menu.  The copy/paste portion has these
  > options: Cut Copy Paste Object Paste Link Clear Select All
  >
  > Holding down option, command or shift keys makes no difference.  I
  > can't find anything relevant in the Preferences.  The three passages
  > indexed in the Word User's Guide don't mention the possibility of not
  > having this menu choice.  I am running system 7 with the latest
  > Tuneup, my Word is 5.0.  Was there maybe something I neglected to
  > install from the installations diskettes, and if so what is it and can
  > I install it without entirely reinstalling Word?  Or what?

  Go to the "Tools" menu and select the "Commands" item.  You can put
"Paste Special" back on the "Edit" menu (or anywhere else for that
matter).



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

Date: Wed, 24 Jun 92 17:06:46 PDT
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <[e-mail]>
Subject: No Paste Special on Word 5 Edit Menu (A)

In 10-151, Paul Brians wonders how to get the "Paste Special" option on his
Word 5.0 edit menu.

Just go to the Tools menu, select Commands, select Paste Special, and make
the choices for menu and position on the menu that you wish. Then click the
Add button.

I don't know for sure why your Edit menu installed differently than mine.
If you decided to use your old 4.0 Word Preferences file with your Word
5.0, the menus, commands, and keystrokes needed to activate them will be a
bit different.

Jeff Needleman  <[e-mail]>

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

Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1992 23:30:25 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Terry Thiel)
Subject: PLI--A True Story

[e-mail] writes:
>A PLI cartridge hard disk drive (Infinity 40 Turbo) of ours recently
>failed, and had to be returned to the factory for service.  I thought some
>of you might enjoy, and perhaps profit from, the account of our dealing
>with their administrative staff.  (Despite what is described below, I'm
>pleased with the drive itself.)
For what its owrth this months MacWorld reviewed low capacity hard drives and
said that PLI's tech support was poor.
-Terry

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

Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1992 12:43:38 GMT
From: [e-mail] (David Kok)
Subject: PSpice (Q)

Is there a version of PSpice on the Quadra?

David Kok - [e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1992 11:33 EST
From: David Elbert <[e-mail]>
Subject: PwBk170 availablitity? (Q)+(F)

I'm curious as to the latest on PowerBook 170 availability (or
lack there of!).  I ordered one in May, for use while on leave.  Original
estimates were for 6-8 week delivery; recent info from Apple was to
expect another 13 weeks before "allocation" (which means another couple of
weeks before shipping/delivery).  I'm off on leave in early August and
it looks like I won't have a computer until October!  Does anyone
have any reliable information on how Apple prioritizes orders on
items in short-supply?  Rumors suggest that it is not first-come-first-served,
b
   ut
rather related to someones view of "strategic" placement of equipment.
Is there anyone I can contact to lobby about the strategic benefits
of putting my Powerbook in my hands sooner?  Geez I hate spending big
bucks and not getting instant gratification.

Anyone with information (hard or anecdotal) may write to me and
I'll summarize to the net.

Thanks-
David Elbert
Department of Geology
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT 05753
[phone] x5652
[e-mail]

disclaimer: sorry for the tone of this... I'm having a rough week!

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

Date: Thu, 25 Jun 92 13:14:19 EST
From: Murph Sewall <[e-mail]>
Subject: Quadra Cache - Is SAM 3.0.3 compatible?

On Wed, 24 Jun 92 01:34:40 EDT you said:
>The Alysis tool isn't as 'automagic' as I had hoped. The user has to
>provide a list of applications that's known to be incompatible. The
>tool, however, is very useful if you know incompatible apps - it'll turn
>the cache off on-the-fly.

If I understand Alysis's documentation correctly the cdev doesn't
actually turn off the caches.  What it does is flush them on every
memory access by an app on its edit list (which "emulates" turning the
caches off).  The practical effect is that other apps (even those in
background) continue to benefit from caching and AppleTalk's timing
isn't screwed up.  Clever.  Making the cdev too automatic would take too
many cycles (would require the cdev to analyze the code of each app as
launched at a minimum).  The cdev is sometimes handy but (thankfully)
increasingly unnecessary.  I have not regretted being the first
individual not employed by Apple in this state to own a
Quadra--negligible problems; those who hesitate are missing a lot of
fun.

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

Date: Wed, 24 Jun 92 16:56:34 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Return of AppleSoft BASIC (A)

On Wed, 24 Jun, Paul Kerrigan wrote:


>I would like to retrieve some old applesoft basic algorithms. Does
>anybody know how I would go about getting an applesoft basic
>file from a prodos 3.5 floppy to a mac text file?
>I got the file over to the mac, with Apple File Exchange,
>and opened it as a text file, it wasnt a pretty sight.

Right, Paul. There's a world of difference between an executable BASIC
program and a listing of same. What you want is a listing, printed to
disk on the Apple side. Then you can take it over to the Mac.

I don't recall the AppleSoft command string, but an Apple /// Business
BASIC common trick was to start each program like this:

10 GOTO 30
20 OPEN#1 AS OUTPUT,"pathname":OUTPUT#1:OUTREC=255:LIST:CLOSE#1:END
30 REM Actual start of program

I suspect the AppleSoft version is similar. The above caused a normal
RUN to actually run the program, but if you said RUN 20, you get the
program listed as an ASCII text file. We who hated the BASIC editor
used that option, edited the text file in a WP program, then EXEC'd
it back into BASIC for testing. The OUTREC=255 is to keep the lines of
the text file from breaking at 80 characters.

Hope this helps.

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

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

Date: Thu, 25 Jun 92 13:15:44 EST
From: Murph Sewall <[e-mail]>
Subject: Return of Applesoft Basic ? -- NOT !

On Wed, 24 Jun 1992 12:02:47 EDT you said:
>I would like to retrieve some old applesoft basic algorithms. Does
>anybody know how I would go about getting an applesoft basic file from a
>prodos 3.5 floppy to a mac text file? I got the file over to the mac,
>with Apple File Exchange, and opened it as a text file, it wasnt a
>pretty sight.

AppleSoft is "tokenized."  That is common commands such as DO IF, PRINT
and so forth are stored as single binary bytes.  I suppose the tokens
are documented somewhere, but it would be MUCH easier to find an Apple 2
and use the widely documented one line statement (which I've forgotten
but must have on a disk somewhere) to LIST each program into a TEXT file
(which you can then import to your Mac quite easily with AFE).

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

Date: Wed, 24 Jun 92 20:53:33 EDT
From: Leonard Rosenthol <[e-mail]>
Subject: StuffIt Lite Expiration

>In IM 10-150 Al "Hokie" Bloom writes:
>
>I'm sure I am not the only one to note that the Stuffit Lite Public Beta
>expires a very precious few days from now. I dropped Aladdin a note asking
>about same last week. And I did not receive the courtesy of a reply. Have
>any of y'all found out what will happen next week?
>
    Aladdin Systems will be RELEASING StuffIt Lite next week, before
the public beta expires.  I apologize for not having it out sooner, but we
were waiting on the completion of the documentation & balloon help.  It is
undergoing a final testing round currently and should be in your hands by
the first.

Leonard Rosenthol                 Internet: [e-mail]
Director of Advanced Technology   AppleLink: MACgician
Aladdin Systems, inc.             GEnie:     MACgician

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

Date: Thu, 25 Jun 92 00:24:41 EST
From: "Kirke B. Lawton" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Superclock with PB -- extra feature

Someone just mentioned that he doesn't need the Battery DA on his
PowerBook because he prefers the battery menu icon.  I think I can
explain this.  While neither system has a built in menu bar power icon,
SuperClock does.  As far as I can tell this is completely undocumented.

But it sure is handy!  Thanks Steve Christensen!

Kirke

p.s.  SuperClock is a popular freeware control panel that puts a clock on
the right side of your menu bar.  Look for it at an archive near you.

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

Date: Thu, 25 Jun 92 13:17:59 EST
From: Murph Sewall <[e-mail]>
Subject: System 7 in 2 MBytes

On Wed, 24 Jun 92 00:33:38 +0200 you said:
>[e-mail]   asks about why a Mac Classic with system 7
>and 2MB RAM memory crashes when they try to run Sound Master:
>
>This has nothing to do with Sound Master!  Running any Mac with sys 7
>and 2Mb ram is a mistake. If it was sold like this then the vendor
>should apologize, Apple saying that it's runnable with 2 meg is
>ridiculous, you simply don't have very much left when the system is
>loaded. A reasonable configuration with sys 7 is 4 MB, and it's the
>smallest they should sell.

I admit that running System 7, a few extensions and an application
in 2 MBytes is a challenge to one's manhood, but it's really not all
that onerous (unless one INSISTS on using Excel 4.0 :)

As I've said before, I've loaded System 7 tuned, Apollo, BeHierarchic,
DeskPict, AutoMenus, Eyes, BigFoot, SndControl, Cursor Animator, and
Apple's standard cdev's onto an SE with 2 MBytes and launched MacWrite
II.  Even with AppleTalk on, there's room enough to spell check a
document of modest size (Word Finder complains unless AppleTalk is
turned off).  I didn't try ClarisWorks, but since it requires even less
CPU than MacWrite II, it should work just fine.  Given the current cost
of memory (except for PowerBook RAM :-( I agree that everyone should
expand to 4 MBytes at least and applaud Apple's decision to make 4 MB
the minimum "standard" configuration.

Those of us who take computing seriously sometimes 4 MBytes (even 8)
cramped, but we're not the bulk of the market.  The bulk of the market
is still wrapping away happily with Word 3.0 on a 1 MByte Mac SE running
6.0.4 (or so it seems on my campus ;-)

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

Date: Wed, 24 Jun 92 15:20:33 -0900
From: "ACAD3A::FNJWK"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: Telecom/Satalite Problem

I am currently trying to hook two networks together in rural Alaska using
Farallon's Liaison and an X.25 Packet Switch (PVC).  While the networks can
see each other, they will not communicate because the satalite delay is too
long for Appletalk functions (such as search/mount remote HD or choose
printer).  We are stuck bouncing the signal off two satalites, causing a 3-4
second delay in all traffic.  Anyone have any suggestions?
-Ken Knox-

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

Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1992 16:38:54 -0500 (CDT)
From: [e-mail] (Eric Vaandering)
Subject: Wanted:  Postscript converter

Mac users,

Does anyone know of a program (prefereably in the public domain) which will
convert a post script file into a graphics format like tiff or pict?  I am
generating a large amount of graphs in postscript and would like to be able to
cut and paste them into a document using a Mac rather than scissors and tape

Thanks is advance, please respond directly since I am not a subscriber to this
list.
              Eric W. Vaandering
BITNet:    EWV@ANLHEP          InterNet:  [e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 92 11:30:26 CDT
From: Bryan K. Walls <[e-mail]>
Subject: Warning for users of NCSA Telnet 2.5B

This is documented in the README file, but not in big bold letters,
so I thought I would warn folks.  If you are currently running the
MacTCP version of NCSA telnet, and plan to jump to 2.5, you need to
make a change (probably -- I did) in your config.tel file.  Make
sure it has
hardware=MacTCP
in the listing.  I had mine set to ether, an artifact of my pre-MacTCP
days.  When there were two versions (MacTCP and NCSA driver versions)
you chose by which program you ran.  Now they have combined the versions,
so you need to tell the truth!  I really like only have one version.  That's
much less confusing than four (two each from NCSA & Berkley).  And
if I can find a SLIP server, maybe I can start running from home!

Bryan Walls
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 92 08:48:18 PDT
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Windows 3.1 fonts for use on Macs

Since TTConverter 1.1 can translate to/from Mac/Windows formats, Windows
fonts can be used by Macs with a little work.

Here's a list of some TT fonts for Windows recently uploaded to
simtel20.army.mil
and available for anonymous FTP in Directory PD1:<MSDOS.WINDOWS3>:

TTFONTA1.ZIP  B  295213  920421  True Type Fonts for Windows 3.1 (A*.TTF)
TTFONTH1.ZIP  B   34520  920421  True Type Fonts for Windows 3.1 (H*.TTF)
TTFONTI1.ZIP  B  152094  920421  True Type Fonts for Windows 3.1 (I*.TTF)
TTFONTL1.ZIP  B  117316  920421  True Type Fonts for Windows 3.1 (L*.TTF)
TTFONTM1.ZIP  B   21572  920421  True Type Fonts for Windows 3.1 (M*.TTF)
TTFONTN1.ZIP  B   50142  920421  True Type Fonts for Windows 3.1 (N*.TTF)
TTFONTU1.ZIP  B   51905  920421  True Type Fonts for Windows 3.1 (U*.TTF)

SIMTEL20 files are also available from mirror sites OAK.Oakland.Edu
(141.210.10.117), wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4), ftp.uu.net
(137.39.1.9), nic.funet.fi (128.214.6.100), src.doc.ic.ac.uk
(146.169.3.7) or archie.au (139.130.4.6), by e-mail through the
BITNET/EARN file servers, or by uucp from UUNET's 1-900-GOT-SRCS.

There's a LOT of stuff out there for the IBM, folks. Can anyone think of
similar DOS files which are useful for Mac users? Pagemaker files, Word
files, clip art, postscript programs--many such can be used on both
platforms. Any suggestions?


Jeff Needleman  <[e-mail]>

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