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- Info-Mac Digest Fri, 11 Dec 92 Volume 10 : Issue 294
-
- Today's Topics:
-
- [*] Pan & scan vs. letterbox transfers QT movie
- (Q) Modem Woes
- 128K w/Mac Plus Mouse
- 15 Minute PB100 Battery (A)
- 256k simms
- A Round of Applause Please!
- Attn users of PowerLaunch, File Fanatic, & Bongo Bob
- be careful about serial number panel on your Mac
- British clip-art
- DEClaser 1152 (Q)
- Disk replicates itself!! (R)
- Disk Replicates Itself (A)
- Finding parent of a folder window
- Franklin Systems
- Generating HPGL from a Mac Application (A)
- Harpoon Bug (A)
- How did the Macintosh get i (2 msgs)
- How did the Macintosh get its name (A)
- How did the Macintosh get its name? (A) (Trivia)
- How the Mac got its name (C)
- HP 4M Laser Printer (A)
- HP LaserJet Driver (Q)
- Info-Mac CD-ROM
- JPEG in Photoshop questions
- LaserWrtier problem
- LISP on Macintosh (A)
- Lisp on the mac (A)
- login request rejected?
- Macintosh quality (C) and keyboard question (Q)
- Mail for Macintosh new mail notifications
- Missing Omega SANE Patch
- Missing Omega SANE Patch (R) (2 msgs)
- My thanks! (128K Software)
- NEC CDROM driver in rascal.ics.utexas.edu
- NeXT SIMMs/locking files/tape drives/sound-data
- Outbound lays off 50 workers, ceases production.
- PB 160 as SCSI drive (A)
- PD UUCP client (Q)
- Processing charge cards with a Mac
- Request of information
- Retrospect Question Revised
- SCSI propblem
- SE/30's PDS
- Self-rejoining segmented files
- Startup sound app
- Syquest cartridge compatibility (R)
- System 7.1 Label's Bug
- TDD Programs for Mac
- Telnet 2.4/PowerBook 100 problems solved
- The fifteen minute battery (R)
- The Spanish Inquisition
- Turbo-Grafx CD-ROM drive
- Tweety Extension Coolness
- Umatic 3/4" Video Tape and the Mac
- UNIX filer server for Mac/P
- VX Video (A) + Thanks
- What's up at mac.archive.umich
-
- The Info-Mac newsgroup is moderated by Bill Lipa.
-
- The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous,
- any password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu
- [36.44.0.6]. Help files and indices are in /info-mac/help.
-
- Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
- Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 18:17:07 -0500
- From: jonke@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov
- Subject: [*] Pan & scan vs. letterbox transfers QT movie
-
- A comparison of pan & scan and letterbox transfers of a scene from the
- movie Cape Fear. It consists of two 11 second QuickTime 1.5 movies of the
- same scene (one from the pan&scan laserdisc, one from the letterbox
- laserdisc) and a short illustrated document (MacWrite format) giving
- additional information on video transfers and notes on the comparison. I
- recommend reading this document first.
-
- Please note that the audio on these clips is at a very low volume -- see
- the About document for information. This does not affect the comparison.
-
- Steve
-
- [Archived as /info-mac/art/qt/video-transfer-comparison.hqx; 4400K]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 10 Dec 1992 20:29:39 -0500 (EST)
- From: "Joshua Hart -- A Forensic Chemist (to be) At Large!!!"
- <STUHART%EKU.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
- Subject: (Q) Modem Woes
-
- Netters,
- I recently Bought a 9600 baud modem from "Midwest Micro", a company based
- out in Ohio. The modem seems to work fine. I am working on a Macintosh SE,
- running system 7.1 4 megs of ram, 20 meg internal Hard drive, and a 40 meg
- external Hard drive. I connect to a Vax 6610 at 9600 baud V.32, no extra
- compression rates, or neat things like that. I am testing out Z-term as my
- downloading program, using Zmodem as the downloading option.
- When downloading anything of appreciable size, I get a few data-crc
- errors, but zmodem does a retry and then gets everything fine. However 4
- minutes into a file transfer I start to get errors every second. After 43 or
- so
- tries, Z-modem gives up and stops it's downloading.
- My question comes in as this: Am i experiencing some major ammounts of
- line noise? If so, why did I never get the noise when downloading with a 2400
- baud modem using the same computer/setup? Is there any way to improve the
- quality of the connection? Something the phone company can do perhaps? I feel
- like I'm grasping at straws. Helllp!
-
- Thanks in Advance,
- Joshua
- <stuhart@eku.bitnet>
- <fuug!eku.bitnet!STUHART@uunet.uu.net>
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 10 Dec 92 18:19:01 MST
- From: svspire@somnet.sandia.gov (Shannon V Spires)
- Subject: 128K w/Mac Plus Mouse
-
- In V10-290, Tony Wong <TWONG@SCUACC.SCU.EDU> writes:
-
- > A partial answer to your question, the mouse for Mac Plus doesn't work
- > for Mac 128K....
-
- Yes it does. In fact, you can even use a Lisa mouse if you can find one.
-
- > Finally, networking is even out of the question. ( Correct me if I'm wrong )
- > Appletalk was develop sometime after the original Mac was launched, and
- > I don't think the Mac 128K can take it.
-
- Appletalk has been there from Day 1. It is one of the reasons, together with
- the original Laserwriter and Pagemaker, that the Mac is the "real" computer
- it is today, rather than just an historical curiosity.
-
- Actually _using_ it on a 128K Mac, however, may be rather frustrating :-)
-
- -Shannon
- svspire@sandia.gov
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 10 Dec 92 23:31:46 EST
- From: "Kirke B. Lawton" <LAWK%UORVM.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
- Subject: 15 Minute PB100 Battery (A)
-
- If your PB100 battery last only 15 minutes, call Apple (1-800-SOS-APPL)
- and they will get you fixed up in no time (well, 2 or 3 business days).
- I had this same problem (actually, my battery lasted a full 45 minutes).
- Apple sent Airboarn Express to pick up my PowerBook and got it back to
- me in a couple of days. And as a bonus I now have a compact shipping
- box with plenty of form-fitting foam.
-
- I should admit everything didn't go perfectly. When I got my Mac back,
- the new battery would only hold a charge for 15 seconds. Not much
- improvement there! They picked up my PB again, replaced the motherboard,
- sent it back along with a bonus battery! Too bad they replaced the
- motherboard instead of replacing the defective battery. What do I mean?
- Well the battery in the Mac still only held a charge for 15 seconds, but the
- "bonus" battery works fine. (Anyone want a defective lead acid battery?)
-
- Kirke B. Lawton
- lawk@vm.cc.rochester.edu
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 9 Dec 92 13:25:00 CST
- From: amdahl!amdahl!homebru!wheaton!sga!dougs@apple.com
- Subject: 256k simms
-
- > I have 4 256k simms I no longer need (80ns I think). Anyone interested?
-
- I just gave a bunch of them to our 16 year old babysitter. She was
- thrilled! Her and some friends had been wondering where to get some
- to make jewelry.
-
- -- Doug Smith * Wheaton, IL * dougs@sga.uucp --
- -- AppleLink: G0231 * AOL: DougLSmith * CompuServe: 72727,3532 --
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 12:28:25 -0800
- From: Jon Pugh <jpugh@apple.com>
- Subject: A Round of Applause Please!
-
- I'm very glad to see the new drive up at Sumex. I'm glad my $20 helped.
- Thanks to Jeff Needleman for allowing credit card contributions. I would
- be curious to know what percentage of the money went through Jeff. >50
- I bet.
-
- I would really like to thank Bill Lipa though. Under his moderation, the
- Info-Mac group has gained in stature, respect and stability. Bill has
- easily done the best job of all the moderators that ever lived. ;) I took
- over the job late in 85 from Dwayne V. (I can't quite remember his last name
- but it was Vishanti or something like that - correct me fellow old timers)
- and I was only able to do a marginal job even though I split the duties
- with Lance Nakata (I haven't heard from you in a long time Lance!) who was
- doing the file archives. Nevertheless, I feel that we kept the archive
- and digest going at a crucial time. Bill came in though and gave the whole
- thing a new breath of life. He made it timely and drummed up assistence.
- I commend him for his efforts. With the addition of the new drive, Info-Mac
- is once again the premiere on-line source for Macintosh shareable software
- and information. I can resume using Sumex as my backup fr PD software, which
- I used to do but couldn't anymore because of the turnover.
-
- So, a big virtual round of applause for Bill Lipa. May he never be run over
- by a bus because he is irreplaceable.
-
- We should also give ourselves a big round applause for financing this drive.
- It was miraculous in my eyes.
-
- In closing, I would like to authorize someone with more time and bandwidth
- than me to mirror my files from ftp.apple.com in /pub/pugh to sumex. A lot
- of the files will need to be binhexed, particularly the movies and pictures,
- but a lot are already binhexed too.
-
- Jon
-
- PS
-
- I don't see how the Aliens movie counts as copyright infringment any more than
- any of the other movies we are doing. They consist only of trailer clips and
- do not masquerade as the real movie. They do not remove value from the
- movie. A lot of this copyright worry is simply an exercise in paranoia. I
- vote for a bit less paranoid deletions, particularly in the realm of movie
- clips. We haven't been worried about posting clips of songs, why should we
- be worried about clips of movies?
-
- How about if we all promise to go rent Aliens again? ;)
-
- [Thanks, Jon! Was it Dwayne Virnau? It's a real memory test.
-
- As far as copyright is concerned, it is pretty much a question of judgement,
- though a paranoid one as you point out. I guess the longer a clip it is, the
- worse I feel about it. A minute and a half seems pretty long.
-
- There are enough pictures and QT movies around to fill up the new disk in
- an instant. I'm still going to exercise a heavy hand in deleting such non-
- vital things if the space they are taking up becomes a problem. Please hold
- off on submitting more than a megabyte per person per week, as it is really
- a pain to deal with larger files. I'm hoping to set up an incoming directory
- soon for such things. -Bill]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 13:21:03 -0500
- From: Roby Sherman <rsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
- Subject: Attn users of PowerLaunch, File Fanatic, & Bongo Bob
-
- Path: not-for-mail
- From: rsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (Roby Sherman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.apps
- Subject: Attn users of PowerLaunch, File Fanatic, & Bongo Bob
- Date: 11 Dec 1992 13:20:59 -0500
- Organization: The Tao of Programming
- Lines: 19
- Message-ID: <1gam6bINNo88@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: mthvax.cs.miami.edu
-
- Please note :
-
- As of December 14th, my address has changed. All US Mail sent regarding
- PowerLaunch, File Fanatic, and Bongo Bob should now be addressed to :
-
- Roby Sherman - P.O. box 110177 - Aurora, CO. 80042
-
- or electronically to :
-
- rsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu
-
-
-
- thanks,
-
-
- Roby
- --
- rsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu Roby Sherman
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 17:06:26 CST
- From: C526142@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu
- Subject: be careful about serial number panel on your Mac
-
- A while ago some people complained about how their Qudra 700
- lost the rubber stand during some warranty service. My own
- experiencr was that you could lose more than that, or even
- much much more than that.
-
- After I got my PB for two days, I found the power switch was
- sticking. The friendly campus repair shop sent them back to
- Apple this Monday and got it here Thursday afternoon. Poor PB!
- It was only two days old and had to suffer some major operation.
- When I picked it up this moring (Friday), it start up normally.
- The sticking problem was gone. I thought I was quite satisfied
- after all, so I showed it to my wife proudly and said, "See!
- It is in godd shape once again." " Really? Let me see." Wait!
- The door of modem port was gone. And, the serial number panel
- was not there either. What? Not only the sticking power switch
- was gone, but also the I/O door and serial number.
-
- After a few phone call to campus repair shop and 800-SOS-APPL,
- and also a few hours of anxiety, it turned out that the original
- upper case was out of shape and caused the sticking problem, so
- the APPLE people put a new upper case. However, they forgot to
- put back the serial number and I/O door. What a amazing surgery
- it was. They promised to send me a new I/O door. As for the
- serial number, It was impossible to issue another one, but they
- would send me a letter mention the situation and, if necessary,
- that letter could be the proof of serial number, ownership, and
- etc. They guarranty that there would be no problem for the
- warranty and all the related information was in their file.
-
- The moral is: Check out your Mac thoroughly next time you have
- you Mac serviced. Don't hasitate to ask the question. These
- people on the other end of APPLE hot line are very respnsive.
-
- Liu, Kuang-Yu
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 12:39:11 GMT
- From: Jonathan Kolodny
- <jonathan.kolodny@mrc-applied-psychology.cambridge.ac.uk>
- Subject: British clip-art
-
- I am trying to put together an invitation to a party whose theme
- involves the American War of Independence. While I have had no trouble
- finding
- clip art of the Stars and Stripes, or other symbols of American pageantry, my
- search through the /art/ directory on Sumex has failed to produce any British
- equivalents. Could anyone direct me to clip-art of the Union Jack, or any
- other such national symbols? Pictures of Redcoats would be especially
- appreciated!
-
- Cheers,
-
- Jonathan Kolodny
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 10 Dec 92 22:04:09 PST
- From: jbthoo@ucdavis.edu (John Thoo)
- Subject: DEClaser 1152 (Q)
-
- Has anyone actually used the new DEClaser 1152? Is it worth the
- (presently) low price of $999 + cables? Or was that last question
- a silly one? Thanks.
-
- --John. <jb2@math.ucdavis.edu>
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 10 Dec 92 23:10:15 EST
- From: Scott Kaplan <sfkaplan@cs.amherst.edu>
- Subject: Disk replicates itself!! (R)
-
- Okay, I have seen this behavior before, once long ago with a MicroTech Nova 50
- hard drive on a Mac Plus. I cannot remember which of the problems caused it,
- but it could be one of these two: a bad SCSI cable or a SCSI ID on the drive
- that is 7.
-
- It could be a bad SCSI cable, as it was with mine if I remember correctly, or
- it could be any sour component of the SCSI bus (I'd be careful doing any trial
- and error elimination by hooking this drive up to other machines...). Or, it
- could be the invalid address of 7, which I've seen before--you can't use that
- address as it belongs to the Mac on the SCSI chain.
-
- Hope this helps. Good luck!
-
- Scott Kaplan
- Amherst College
- sfkaplan@cs.amherst.edu
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 09:24:18 EST
- From: Ephraim Vishniac <ephraim@Think.COM>
- Subject: Disk Replicates Itself (A)
-
- Gordon Byron inquired why an external disk appeared six times, and his
- internal disk not at all.
-
- The likely answer is that the external disk has been set to SCSI
- address 7, the same as the Macintosh. When a SCSI initiator (the Mac)
- selects a SCSI target (the disk), it asserts both its own ID (7) and
- the target's ID (something else) on the SCSI bus. Thus, the target
- can both see that it's selected and know who the initiator of the
- command is.
-
- When the target is set to the initiator's address, however, it will
- believe that it's been selected every time the initiator attempts to
- select any device. I've seen this lead to seven images of a disk on
- the desktop. Gordon probably got only six because of the further
- conflict caused by his internal disk.
-
- Ephraim Vishniac ephraim@think.com ThinkingCorp@applelink.apple.com
- Thinking Machines Corporation / 245 First Street / Cambridge, MA 02142
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1992 17:53:51 -0800
- From: Jerry Wilcox <iscjcw@uccvma.ucop.edu>
- Subject: Finding parent of a folder window
-
- >In the heading of nifty utilities, something that would modify the title
- >bar of a Finder window to open and select the folder which contains that
- >window would be appreciated. I didn't find anything in the info-mac
- >abstracts. Anyone have any ideas? Any toolbox gurus interested in
- >working on it as a challenge? The idea is that I have a folder open
- >on the desktop, but I don't necessarily know where that folder is
- >in the hierarchy. Basically a button in the title bar (like in DataDesk,
- >for those who have it) that when you click on it, the parent folder to
- >that window would open up, and the appropriate folder would be selected.
-
- If you have System 7 and the window in question is the active window,
- simply type Command-up arrow and the parent window will open, with the
- original folder highlighted. Look in the "Finder Shortcuts" item under the
- Help (?) menu item for some more little goodies like this.
- -----
- Jerry Wilcox - iscjcw@uccvma.ucop.edu All opinions are mine alone
- TopSoft free software for the Mac mail to ts-general@syrinx.kgs.ukans.edu
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 11:16:34 +1000
- From: m.connell%ucq.edu.au@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU
- Subject: Franklin Systems
-
- HELP ! ! ! ! !
-
- Can someone (and it would be easy for someone in SALT LAKE CITY) **please**
- get a Phone / Fax / Email address for the company below. It is more than
- a little difficult to get this info from Australia.
-
- FRANKLIN ESTIMATING SYSTEMS
- P.O. BOX 526199
- SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH
-
- this is all the info I have.
-
- Thanks.
-
- Please reply to M.CONNELL@UCQ.EDU.AU
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 10:40:26 EST
- From: bouldin@anvil.nrl.navy.mil
- Subject: Generating HPGL from a Mac Application (A)
-
- After my inquiry, several folks said they also wanted to know how to
- get HPGL from Mac Apps. The solution is MacPlot Professional from
- Microspot. It will spool HPGL to a disc file, as well as sending it to
- a zillion different printers. They are at (800) MAC-PLOT, whatever that is
- in digits. It is pricy, list is $395; too rich for me!
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 13:39:34 EST
- From: "Terence R. Slywka" <TSLYWKA@ucs.indiana.edu>
- Subject: Harpoon Bug (A)
-
- I am also an avid Harpoon player, having Battlesets 1-4 and the Designer's
- Series. Many other scenarios are available via ftp. I would consider myself
- somewhat of a military historian and strategist.
-
- BTW, three-sixty also has another great military simulation called V for
- Victory. The Russian Front battleset was just released.
-
- Terence
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 03:06:52 GMT
- From: dpf@sage1.gsfc.nasa.gov (David Friedlander)
- Subject: How did the Macintosh get i
-
- > How did the Macintosh get its name? (A)
- >'Tis the seasoin for some whimsey, fa la la la la...
-
- >I do not know why Apple decided to spell the name differently, but I do
- >recall that they paid some small and now long forgotten company a rather
- >large sum to use the name. Seems it had been employed for some minor niche
- >product for a while.
-
- Really? My understanding was that Apple licensed the rights from McIntosh,
- the longtime American high-end stereo manufacturer (which is still very
- much around). (Or is this also a myth/urban legend?)
-
- And we we won't even get into what Apple had to pay to buy the rights
- to use "Classic" :-)
-
- Speaking of trademark infringementsand such, what ever happened to the Apple
- Records (the Beatles' label) vs. Apple Computer lawsuit? (As I recall,
- the former accused the latter of reneging on its agreement not to enter
- the music business.)
-
- --
- David Friedlander dpf@sage0.gsfc.nasa.gov
- NASA/ Goddard Space Flight Center
- Greenbelt, MD 20771 Gamma Ray Observatory
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 8:10:15 PDT
- From: Rick_Sutcliffe@faith.twu.ca (Rick Sutcliffe)
- Subject: How did the Macintosh get i
-
- How did the Macintosh get its name? (A)
- Enough, enough, I give in.
-
- No sooner had digest #293 appeared than several people wrote me offering
- corrections to my little piece on the origin of the name.
-
- Typical were the several who pointed out the the fruit is spelled
- "McIntosh." Bad editing.
-
- Others took issue with my characterization of the company Apple paid
- royalties to as a minor niche player:
-
- "The McIntosh Labs Audio corporation is hardly small _or_ forgotton and
- their very high end and very high quality audio gear is hardly a minor
- niche product. McIntosh audio gear is among the highest quality out there."
-
- was a typical comment. True, too true. But, all in its context. Apple
- does not make hi-fi equipment, and McIntosh does not make computers. In the
- context of the computing industry, McIntosh is unknown. Still, I should not
- have relied on such a vague memory. Will Y'all stop hitting me. My mailbox
- can't stand the violence.
-
- Rick
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 13:54:01 EST
- From: jfw@neuro.duke.edu (John F. Whitehead)
- Subject: How did the Macintosh get its name (A)
-
- Although Rick Sutcliffe basically answered the question about the
- Macintosh name's derivation correctly, in what appears to be a typo he
- spelled the edible apple's name incorrectly.
-
- McIntosh is the edible apple, and Macintosh is the inedible computer.
-
- The McIntosh apple was first cultivated (around 1796) by John McIntosh
- and grows primarily in the northern United States.
-
- Apple Computer made agreements to use the name Macintosh with the
- high-end music amplifier company McIntosh (based in New York State) and,
- I believe, with a group representing McIntosh apple growers.
-
- | John jfw@neuro.duke.edu Duke University Medical Center |
- | Whitehead jfw@well.sf.ca.us Department of Neurobiology |
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 07:56:33 PST
- From: Andrew_R._Melnyk.WBST130@xerox.com
- Subject: How did the Macintosh get its name? (A) (Trivia)
-
- To Richard Lim`s question on how the MAC was named. The name indeed was for
- a
- variery of apples, primarilly grown in Nothwest US, called Mcintosh, I
- believe.
- Whether the misspelling was deliberate (trademark) or accidental (computer
- types tend to short change their liberal education) I dont know. Maybe
- someone
- >From Apple can comment on this trivia.
-
- Andy
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 08:17:15 -0500
- From: "Steve Marsh" <marsh2@nrlfs1.nrl.navy.mil>
- Subject: How the Mac got its name (C)
-
- Just a quickie - the apple (edible) is spelled McIntosh, and the spelling was
- changed for some unknown reason for the costlier Apples.
-
- - Steve Marsh "marsh@anvil.nrl.navy.mil" ;-)
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 01:52:33 -0800
- From: Michael Ross <mross@antigone.uu.holonet.net>
- Subject: HP 4M Laser Printer (A)
-
- In Info-Mac you write:
- >Oh, one other thing. Someone with an Apple LaserWriter driver can
- >see your 4M if you have it Appletalked (my serial port is otherwise
- >engaged).I hope HP can suggest a way round this - I don't want my
- >colleagues printing on my printer, and they don't all understand the
- >Chooser. Meanwhile, I toggle the online switch to reduce chances of
- >unauthorized printing.
-
- It's not HP's problem. This will happen to any printer on AppleTalk.
- There is one utility called ChooserUser, written by Maurice Volaski,
- that restricts who can see a printer in the Chooser. However, it
- would have to be installed on your colleagues' Macs as well as
- yours...
-
- ChooserUser used to be in the sumex archives, but I can't seem to see
- it there anymore....
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 17:19:17 EST
- From: syen@europa.seas.upenn.edu (Shih-Cheng Yen)
- Subject: HP LaserJet Driver (Q)
-
- We recently got a HP LaserJet from someone and are thinking of
- hoooking it up to a Quadra. The only thing we have is the power cord
- >From the printer. Can anyone tell me what I need to do to set up the
- printer so that we can print from the Mac? Especially things like
- printer drivers (where to get them?), cables, compatability,
- Postscript(?), etc.
-
- I would appreciate any help you can give!
-
- -Shih Cheng
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 14:04:08 +0100
- From: "CHRISTIAN F. BUSER" <cbuser@pegasus.ch>
- Subject: Info-Mac CD-ROM
-
- ben@geography.leeds.ac.uk (Ben Fowler) asked recently about the
- availability of the Info-Mac CD in the United Kingdom.
-
- If anyone in Europe is interested in the CD, Macintosh Users Switzerland
- has imported a bunch of them and makes them available to everyone.
-
- The CD is available against advance payment. You have 3 possibilities:
-
- (a) transfer the amount of Swiss Francs 80 per CD to the postal giro
- account no. 80-772-0 in Zuerich, Switzerland. Make sure all charges are
- charged to you, otherwise we can't send the CD.
-
- (b) issue a EUROCHEQUE for the amount of Swiss Francs 80 per CD (maximum
- value per Eurocheque is Swiss Francs 300) and note your card number on the
- back of the Eurocheque. Please do NOT send Eurocheques issued in other
- currencies than Swiss Francs.
-
- (c) Have your bank issue a cheque in Swiss Francs and drawn on a SWISS
- bank.
-
- The price of Swiss Francs 80 includes shipping/handling for Western
- European addresses by surface mail (including United Kingdom). Please make
- sure to include a note that you want the Info-Mac CD.
-
- The Address is Macintosh Users Switzerland
- Sekretariat
- Postfach 6662
- CH-8022 Zuerich
- Switzerland
-
- The price per CD for MEMBERS in Switzerland is Swiss Francs 65 (including
- postage); Swiss Francs 70 for non-members within Switzerland. Membership
- is Swiss Francs 100 per year.
-
- Best regards, Christian cbuser@pegasus.ch
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 15:00:35 +0000 (GMT)
- From: Ian C McCall <csc345@central1.lancaster.ac.uk>
- Subject: JPEG in Photoshop questions
-
- I'm asking these questions on behalf of a friend, who has no net access.
-
- Is there a plug-in for Photoshop that will allow you to read standard
- JPEG format files? And if so, is it commercial or public domain?
-
- Additionally, is there any method of getting Photoshop to save JPEG
- compressed PICT files, as opposed to standard ones?
-
- Finally, can JPEG files be created from Photoshop's Indexed Colour mode?
-
- I'll be away for the Christmas break from today, so if you could email
- any replies to me I'll have a greater chance of seeing them. Thanks in
- advance for any information received.
-
-
- Cheers,
- Ian
- csc345@cent1.lancs.ac.uk
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 13:34:14 +0900 (JST)
- From: yhchung%rnd.sec.samsung.co.kr@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU (CHUNG YOUNG HO)
- Subject: LaserWrtier problem
-
- Hello, everybody!!
-
- I have a LaserWriter II NTX-K with 80Mbyte hard disk for 2-byte fonts.
- and I have used it for 2 years.
- When I turn it on every morning, it sometimes doesn't put out the first paper
- inndicating the status of system like PostScript, AppleTalk, RAM size and
- externall device.
- So I have to turn it off and restart it.
- I heard somebody say it can be fixed.
- I'll expect all kinds of help.
- Thanks in advance
-
- --
- ------------------------------------
- Youngho Chung
- e-mail: yhchung@rnd.sec.samsung.co.kr
- ------------------------------------
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 18:29:28 CST
- From: Graeme Forbes <PL0BALF@VM.TCS.Tulane.EDU>
- Subject: LISP on Macintosh (A)
-
- When Apple bought Coral Software it released Coral's low-end Lisp, Pearl
- Lisp, into the public domain. Or so an article in Byte at the time said.
- Pearl Lisp is very capable, and if you can find it, that's what you
- should go for.
-
- Graeme Forbes
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 16:45:55 -0600
- From: bwalls@marvin.msfc.nasa.gov
- Subject: Lisp on the mac (A)
-
- Anyhow, I was recently looking for a LISP implementation on the mac for
- hacking around at home. I found several Lisp or Scheme varients around, but
- by far the best was XLISP, which is freeware. It is a very good
- implementation of all the basics of Common Lisp, and is actually better
- than some versions I've seen in the multi-$100 range.
-
- I found it at mac.archive.umich.edu, in the /development/languages
- subdirectory. The file is xlispstat2.1r2.cpt.hqx. This version includes a
- lot of statistics packages which you can keep or not. There is a version
- for machines with or without coprocessor. I took home just the application
- without, and apparently left some resources behind because it opened with
- no menu items. Not having cut and paste was a major pain. I just opened the
- coprocessor version on my IIx at work to get this info, and the menus are
- there. Boy, that would have made programming easier! It seems to have a
- nice editing/interpretting environment.
-
- There's not much documentation with it, but version 1 of Guy Steel's Common
- Lisp works great. You should be able to find that easily -- it's very
- standard.
-
- Bryan Walls
- bwalls@marvin.msfc.nasa.gov
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1992 17:59:26 -0800
- From: Jerry Wilcox <iscjcw@uccvma.ucop.edu>
- Subject: login request rejected?
-
- >Why is it that my anonymous login to sumex-aim is so often rejected after
- >I put in my mail address as my password? This occurs at all odd hours
- >and I can see no reason why it continues to occur. Any ideas?
-
- An FTP host can set a limit to the number of simultaneous connections or
- guest connections allowed, and I assume that sumex-aim has such a limit. If
- you try to log in when the number of connections is at its limit, your
- login will be refused. Simply wait, and try again later (or look into using
- Gopher instead, which, since it doesn't require a continuous connection, is
- much more likely to succeed).
- -----
- Jerry Wilcox - iscjcw@uccvma.ucop.edu All opinions are mine alone
- TopSoft free software for the Mac mail to ts-general@syrinx.kgs.ukans.edu
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 11:10:23 PST
- From: Andrew_R._Melnyk.WBST130@xerox.com
- Subject: Macintosh quality (C) and keyboard question (Q)
-
- I support Eloise Kleban`s comment on the complaint (Info-Mac Digest V10 #291)
- about Macintosh quality. My experience, going back to a 1979 Apple II is that
- Apple builds quality harware.
-
- I (now my daughter) have a Mac purchased in 1984 still running like a charm.
- It has been upgraded to a 512E and then to a 2.5M Plus by a Dove snap on
- board.
- It has gotten a lot of use, it got my wife through her PhD program and one
- daughter through college. Since my youger daughter has taken the SE, I have
- been using the old MAC on occassion to run programs incompattible with system
- 7. While a little let down from my IIfx, it has been running great. Last
- week my daughter complained that sometimes it would hang up. After checking
- the sofware for viruses I figured that the snap-on connections are the source
- so I took it apart. I reset the boards, udjusted the power supply back to 5V
- and reset the Screen. (Note: the author of SAM`s book on Mac repair, whose
- name escapes me at the moment, recommends enlarging the screen beyond the 72
- dot/in WYSIWG. This realy is an improvement which I would reccommend unless
- exact WYSIWYG is important to you.). The resetting of the Dove boards worked
- as the Mac no longer hangs up.
-
- In summary, my experience is that Apple makes a good product. The DOS and
- workstation machines I have at work have more problems than my Apples.
-
- However there is one problem about to happen that I would like the netters to
- help me with. This machine still has the original small keyboard with phone
- plugs. A year ago some of the keys began to skip. I took it apart and and
- cleaned it with compressed air which solved the problem for a while. (The
- technique worked on my Apple II Cherry board, which probably has not been used
- as much in the last 8 years but got a hell of a pounding by my kids playing
- games). Lately, it started to do it again, different keys. My Sam`s manual
- suggest using penetrating oil such as DW44 on the switches.
-
- My question: What has been your experience in fixing this old keyboard? And
- are there any replacements available for this phone jack version?
-
- Thanks in advance
- Andy
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 17:53 BST
- From: RICHARD LIM <RTL@SIVA.BRISTOL.AC.UK>
- Subject: Mail for Macintosh new mail notifications
-
- Me and our Vax system manager (apologies for bad grammar) have been puzzling
- over this one; maybe somebody out there can help.
- We use the Mail for Macintosh application which ships with DEC Pathworks to
- access mail facilities on our Vax. According to Mail for Macintosh's menus,
- it is possible for new mail notifications to be broadcast to the Macintosh
- via DECNet or the AppleTalk-DECNet gateway. You just have to enable
- notification in the Remote Preferences dialog box. That's been done, but no
- new mail notifications have ever materialised!
- According to the online help, this will only work if the Pathworks Listener
- is installed, but this is done as part of the default installation. We
- can't locate a file or resource anywhere that looks like it might be that.
- Furthermore our manuals don't even mention notifications or the Remote Prefs
- menu item - as far as they are concerned, you have to manually (no pun
- intended) check for mail that arrives while you are in the application. The
- Mail for Macintosh user's guide appears to be the most recent edition and
- agrees with the version number of the program.
- So what is the mysterious Pathworks Listener, and how do we sort our
- notifications out?
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 09:13:40 PDT
- From: gla-aux!glenn@skinner.cs.uoregon.edu (Glenn Austin)
- Subject: Missing Omega SANE Patch
-
- In article <9212082127.AA08434@SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU>
- (Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu), you write:
- > ...Unless, of course, someone knew how to program an Extension to put
- > the Omega SANE patch in System 7.1. I know there are some excellent
- > programmers out there--would any of you be willing and able to
- > develop such a work?
-
- There is already a program out there that is *FASTER* (yes, faster!) than
- OmegaSANE -- it's called QuickSANE, and it is available from Total Systems.
- Their number is 1-800-874-2288 (503-345-7395 for those who don't have 800
- access).
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1992 20:27 CST
- From: Daniel Schwalbe <G00017@MSUS1.MSUS.EDU>
- Subject: Missing Omega SANE Patch (R)
-
- > I wonder if Maple isn't doing some of its own patching of the SANE
- > routines? I'm certainly no expert, either on system design or on numeric
- > packages, but it seems strange that the benchmarks would be so significantly
- > different without _any_ effect on the real world performance.
-
- What is confusing to me is the FPU benchmarks I got with speedometer
- which showed a slight increase in FPU performance on a Mac IIci.
-
-
- System 7.0.1* System 7.1
- FPU FFT 1.75 1.83
- FPU KWhet 2.14 2.16
- FPU Matrix 2.30 2.30
- FPU Ave. 2.06 2.10
-
-
- While the BYTE results by Tom Thompson for FPU tests
-
- System 7.0.1* System 7.1
-
- FPU tests
- Math 32.39 81.78
- Sin(x) 9.68 40.54
- e^x 9.95 54.48
-
- showed a slowdown in FPU performance.
-
- My original impression of the OMEGA SANE patch was that it was
- supposed to speed up SANE calls while calls to the FPU which were
- already bypassing SANE were unaffected. However, this is not what
- the BYTE benchmarks indicate.
-
- Unless, as you suggested, Maple is bypassing SANE while other Mac
- programs call the SANE routines which are then passed on to the FPU.
- This would mean the FPU benchmarks of speedometer were bypassing
- SANE calls while the BYTE benchmarks were going through SANE.
-
- Seems to be a bit of inSANE reasoning.
-
- Dan
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 10 Dec 1992 23:23:49 -0400 (EDT)
- From: DSOUTH@uoft02.utoledo.edu
- Subject: Missing Omega SANE Patch (R)
-
- >From: ace@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst)
- >Subject: Missing Omega SANE Patch (R)
- >
- >In Regards to your letter <01GS30Y2WVPS0014II@MSUS1.MSUS.EDU>:
- >> Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1992 19:02 CST
- >> From: Daniel Schwalbe <G00017@MSUS1.MSUS.EDU>
- >> Subject: Missing Omega SANE Patch (R)
- >>
- >> from Neil Eric Mickelson:
- >>
- >> > Anyone see the benchmarks between System 7.0.1 (with Omega SANE
- >> > patch) and 7.1 (without the patch) in the latest TidBITS?? Pretty
- >> > big slowdown on those math functions, huh? Well, I use a high-end
- >> > math package (Mathematica) for a lot of my work, and I'm getting a
- >> > IIvx, which only runs System 7.1. Thus, I'm kind of resigned to a
- >> > slowdown.
- >>
- >> I found in a real world situation (running a high end math package
- >> called Maple) that 7.1 was actually slightly faster (2-3%) on the
- >> Maple routines I use running on a IIci. Further, I ran speedometer
- >> before and after and although there was significant slow-downs on some
- >> of the math benchmarks, the fpu benchmarks were slightly better for
- >> 7.1. My results are in the report posted to info-mac by Mel Martinez
- >> in the file: /info-mac/report/sys-70-71-speeds.txt.
- >>
- >> Dan Schwalbe
- >
- >I wonder if Maple isn't doing some of its own patching of the SANE
- >routines? I'm certainly no expert, either on system design or on numeric
- >packages, but it seems strange that the benchmarks would be so significantly
- >different without _any_ effect on the real world performance.
-
- I would assume that the speedometer FPU benchmarks look unchanged because
- they are calling the 68882 DIRECTLY. As I recall, Omega SANE was really
- just a "short circuting" of the toolbox so that calls to some SANE routines
- would go to the 68882 directly. If the code is already calling the
- FPU directly, the existance of Omega SANE (or existance of any other
- toolbox modification) won't matter much.
-
- Many of the math packages that are responsible for tying up CPU time
- probably already bypass SANE, so I don't think the lack of the Omega patch
- is go to be THAT big a deal for most of us (but then again, I have access
- to an 8000 node massively parallel machine for my research, so I don't
- usually HAVE to make my PowerBook work up a sweat).
-
- Those who really want to sacrifice accuracy for speed can find one
- of the many math copro INITs that do essentially the same thing as
- the Omega patch.
-
- If loss of Omega SANE gets a RISC mac out the door a week sooner, I
- am all for it.
- --
- /* Dale Southard Jr. Sr. Rigger */
- /* Department of Chemistry AFF/I SL/I */
- /* University of Toledo D-11216 */
- /* dsouth@uoft02.utoledo.edu -- "Just another skydiving grad student." */
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 11 Dec 92 12:04:57 EST
- From: Charlie Summers <72257.140@CompuServe.COM>
- Subject: My thanks! (128K Software)
-
- Folks;
-
- My thanks to all who responded to my request for 128K Mac System Software!
-
- I have received a disk image version of System 2.0/Finder 2.2 (Apple now
- calls it 0.3...).
-
- Charlie
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 23:41:20 ITA
- From: maurizio lana <LANA%ITOCSIVM.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
- Subject: NEC CDROM driver in rascal.ics.utexas.edu
-
- This is to explain more precisely what I wrote some days ago.
- In wuarchive.wustl.edu, under mirrors3/rascal.ics.utexas.edu/support-
- -of-products/NEC you find CDROM-driver_2.25_hqx, a driver that some people
- (in CDROM-L) said would support multisession Photo-CD by Kodak.
- If you ftp to rascal.ics.utexas.edu directly *you don't find* the driver
- because there isn't a NEC dir under support-of-products!
- In my previous message I spoke very quickly assuming that many other people
- kne
- w something about thi matter; also, as it was very late (1:30 AM!) I did a
- mist
- ake writing the name of the server as wust, while it is wustl.
- Sorry for the inconvenience; hope this message will help.
- Maurizio
-
- MAURIZIO LANA | E-MAIL: LANA@ITOCSIVM.BITNET | phone & fax 39-11-837262
- CISI - Universita' di Torino - V. S. Ottavio 20 - 10124 Torino Italy
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 10 Dec 1992 18:50:17 -0700 (MST)
- From: John Glaser <JSGLASER@CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU>
- Subject: NeXT SIMMs/locking files/tape drives/sound-data
-
- I have four unrelated (of course, they are all Macintosh) questions to ask:
-
- 1) NeXT SIMMs: Our lab has the oppurtunity to acquire four SIMMs
- >From a NeXTStation that a friend's professor is upgrading. I'd like to
- confirm that we can use these in our Mac IIci. (I see no reason why not,
- but I've been wrong before;).
-
- 2) File locking utility: Is there a small freeware or shareware
- utility
- that can lock and unlock all the files in a directory? We have a
- directory of command files for MATLAB which we modify for our own purposes,
- but wish to lock the directory of originals so that no one can accidentally
- modify them. By the way, we use Student MATLAB ($50) for a lot of
- numbercrunching and it works great. It's main limitation compared to the
- professional version is that matrices and vectors are restricted to <=1024
- elements.
-
- 3) Sound data files: Is there a program available on the net that
- converts sound files to ascii files containing the sound data, i.e., a file
- that contains a sound amplitude value for each sample time in the
- sound sample.
-
- 4) Tape Drives: I have recently seen 120 Meg tape drives for (gulp!)
- DOS machines for $200 including a cartridge. This was an internal unit sold at
- BizMart (made by Colorado Memory Systems). This may be a stupid question, but
- why are there no comparably priced units for Macs? A power supply, case,
- and SCSI interface can't cost all that much. I mean, a comparable Mac drive
- is $500.The backup-to-floppy problem is getting out of hand, but is the only
- option we have right now.
-
- Any answers or comments (humorous ones included) are appreciated.
-
- Thanks, John (jsglaser@ccit.arizona.edu)
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 17:54:50 GMT
- From: summeral@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Summerall Thomas G)
- Subject: Outbound lays off 50 workers, ceases production.
-
- The word here in Boulder, where Outbound has its factory, is that they ceased
- manufacturing on tuesday and are looking for a buyer.
-
- This closes an interesting chapter in the debate over whether or not mac
- compatibles should exist. Outbound seemed to have attained viability when
- Apple agreed to sell them plus ROMs for use in their units.
-
- But I guess people were scared of a small company who couldn't guarantee
- compatibility with future system software or continued cooperation from
- Apple.
-
- Some of their units were much more feature packed than comparably priced
- powerbooks, and were hardware upgradeable as well.
-
- They had a lot of innovations, but in the Mac side of the market it seems that
- there still isn't room for outside competition.
-
- This brings up what to me is one of the most interesting aspects of the
- PowerPC
- agreement between IBM and Apple. Will any PowerPC run the new OS that's
- being developed by Apple and IBM at Kaleida (or Taligent, I can never keep
- those silly monikers straight?) If so, it seems that the market will change
- drasticlly when Apple is faced with hardware/software compatibles made by
- third parties. It's a little different from the PC compatibles because IBM
- and Apple will have shares of the OS profits which are now all garnered by
- Microsoft from the PCs. Will the fees for hardware/software rights be so high
- that any competition will be forced to be as expensive as Apple? Or will
- there
- be an explosion of cheap compatibles like there is for the PCs?
-
- And what is Microsoft planning in case the PowerPCs become dominant. Will
- they
- have some PowerPC version of windows?
-
- FYI,
-
- Thomas Summerall
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 10 Dec 92 22:37:36 EST
- From: "M. David Greenspon" <GREMICF@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu>
- Subject: PB 160 as SCSI drive (A)
-
- No, you can't use the PB 160 to run anything when it's hooked up to another
- computer as a SCSI drive. When the SCSI drive adapter is plugged in and you
- turn on the PowerBook, it goes into "SCSI Disk Mode," displaying only a large
- moving SCSI icon. To do what you want, I guess you'd have to set up a tiny
- (two-computer) AppleTalk network.
-
- --David
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 12:01:20 PST
- From: Kee Nethery <nethery@parc.xerox.com>
- Subject: PD UUCP client (Q)
-
- The San Francisco IEEE is providing a low cost UUCP internet connection for
- IEEE members. Of course, they have DOS UUCP clients and Mac users need to
- find something on their own. Know of any Public Domain UUCP clients for the
- Mac that handle E-mail and NetNews?
-
- If not Public Domain, which commercial UUCP client do people prefer?
-
- Thanks,
- Kee
- Nethery@parc.xerox.com
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 12:01 EST
- From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <needje@msen.com>
- Subject: Processing charge cards with a Mac
-
- Ron Welker's comment in 10-293 about the new Info-Mac drive leads me to a
- few comments about using the Mac to handle such things.
-
- There were over 200 e-mail messages with charge card contributions to
- process. A QuicKeys macro and Eudora were convenient to acknowledge all
- contributions (with thanks again, everyone). I cut and pasted the relevant
- information from each message into a FileMaker Pro database. And now we get
- cute.
-
- Usually charge cards are processed by creating a sales slip (you get a
- copy, the merchant gets a copy or two, the bank gets a copy) with your
- actual card imprint. Or processing is electronic--your card swipes through
- a terminal which gets approval on-line. What do you do when you have no
- cards? There are ways to handle it, of course--but most involve tedious
- manual keying or typing. My own usual processing method works over the
- phone; for a mail/phone order, I'm supposed to punch in each number on a
- touchtone phone in response to voice requests. How would you do it with a
- Mac?
-
- Here's my solution. I did it through a modem. I figured out that I needed a
- format like this:
- 1#,,1234567891234#,,0493#,,10000#;
- Each comma represents a two second delay, which is about how long is needed
- for the charge card computer voice to reach the next stage in its
- questioning for such manual inputs; the number sign separates the needed
- information of 1 for sale, card number, expiration date, amount of charge.
- The semicolon at the end returns the modem to the command state, so that it
- doesn't abort when it doesn't hear an answering modem on the other end.
-
- A calculated field in FM Pro gave me the basic format. But cutting/pasting
- put in extraneous information, so output appeared as:
- 1#,,1234-5678-91234#,,04/93#,,$100.00#
- instead of the needed format. No problem: those extra characters /-$. have
- no corresponding touchtone sound, so the modem ignores them.
-
- Final step was to just get connected, copy each line to the clipboard, and
- use a neat FKey named DialKey to paste the clipboard contents to the modem
- port for each charge. (My modem accepts a command line up to 256
- characters.) All worked smooth as silk...
-
-
- Jeff Needleman <needje@msen.com>
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 11 Dec 1992 15:00:59 +0001
- From: ZIPETO%IPVGBE@icil64.cilea.it
- Subject: Request of information
-
- Hi!
- I'm writing you all from italy!
- I'm doing this 'cause I need an information (and I hope you could help me);
- the question is the following:
- Do you know if exist a drive which allows a MS-DOS computer (in particular,
- a 486 based machine) to print on an Apple Style Writer in your archive?
- And if not, do you know if it exist? And if yes, where and/or how can I get
- it? Should I ask for it directly to Apple? Have you Apple's E-mail address?
- Thanks for help!
- Best regards!
- Dr. Donato Zipeto
- c/o IGBE-CNR
- Via Abbiategrasso 207
- I-27100 Pavia (italy)
- E-mail: ZIPETO%IPVGBE@ICIL64.CILEA.IT
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 11 Dec 1992 08:27:08 -0500
- From: "Tom Scott" <Tom_Scott@qmrelay.mail.cornell.edu>
- Subject: Retrospect Question Revised
-
- Retrospect Question Revised (A)
- lt10@cornell.edu (Li-Hsiang Tu) asks:
-
- >I have 2 floppy disks called CDEV1 and CDEV2 to store all the CDEV files
- >that I downloaded from sumex, an annoymous ftp site. The collection
- >contains the CDEV files that I use and those that I don't use. Now I want
- >to archive all those CDEV files (all in either Compactor Pro or StuffIt
- >format) into a tape under a folder called CDEV Folder.
- >
- >First I create a folder called CDEV Folder in my hard drive, and I copy the
- >contents of the disks CDEV1 and CDEV2 into the folder in my hard drive.
- >Then I use Retrospect to archive the folder.
- >
- >However, I have to erase the folder and the contents in my hard drive
- >because I need the space. That's the reason that I use the floppy disks to
- >store all those CDEV files. But later, say tomorrow, I download some more
- >CDEV files, and I would like to archive them under the SAME folder in the
- >tape so that I am able to see all the CDEV files that I have with only one
- >click. I can do this very easily with a hard drive. I would just copy the
- >files to the CDEV Folder, then I can see all the files that I have
- >downloaded regardless of the time and date that I downloaded the files. Is
- >there a way to do that in Retrospect? If not, does anyone know if version
- >2.0 is going to address that?
-
- To which I respond:
-
- Hello, fellow Cornellian! This is actually very easily done with Retrospect.
-
- Let's make use of the tape that you're backing your hard drive up to, which
- I'll call "HD Archive". When you set up the routine to back up your hard
- drive, you choose the volume(s) that you wish to back up, then choose the
- medium to which you wish to back up to and name the archive catalog. This
- archive catalog is a file that resides on your hard drive that keeps track of
- what files are backed up on the tape. The name of the archive catalog is on
- the tape header, so when you run the backup script for this archive, it knows
- that you've got the right tape in.
-
- OK, let's go with that. Retrospect will directly back up any volume that you
- have mounted on your desktop (floppy disks, file servers, etc.). In
- conjunction with the Retrospect Remote software, you can also back up other
- users' hard drives across the network. With this first statement in mind,
- here's how to do what you're trying to do:
-
- -> Put the "HD Archive" tape in your TEAC drive.
- -> Put the first disk (CDEV 1) into your floppy drive.
- -> Launch Retrospect. Click on the BACKUP button.
- -> Select the CDEV 1 volume from the source list. Click NEXT.
- -> Select the "HD Archive" catalog file from the next screen. Click NEXT.
- -> This is the Files section. If you only have one backup volume
- selected, it will start reading the files off of that volume. It also
- goes through and finds any new or modified files since the last backup.
- When it's finished, it displays a hierarchical view of the files it
- found. Click NEXT.
- -> Set any backup options on this last screen. I usually set "Compress
- Files". Word of caution: If you're using this tape to back up your
- hard drive as well, DO NOT select "Reset Archive". You might think
- it resets the archive just for the disk that you're currently backing
- up, but, in fact, IT DELETES THE ENTIRE CONTENTS OF THE THE ARCHIVE
- CATALOG, ERASING ALL PREVIOUS BACKUPS MADE ON THAT TAPE.
-
- Why, then, would you want to check this option? Well, continual incremental
- backups keeps a comprehensive copy of EVERYTHING since you started backing
- up.
- This includes a lot of files that might have long been deleted. By resetting
- the archive periodically (for a single user, maybe once every 3 months) you'll
- be able to keep a fresh up-to-date copy of what you want and you'll recoup a
- lot of wasted tape space taken up by files that no longer exist.
-
- You could then repeat the above procedure for CDEV 2 and any other floppy
- disks
- you wish to back up. I'm not sure, but I think you might be able to set up
- scripts (using Retrospect's Script feature) to automate the process a little.
- Then when you run the script, I think it might just prompt you for the disk.
- Another time-saver can be realized if you have a second floppy drive; you
- insert both disks, click on one and option-click (for selecting non-contiguous
- volumes from the volume list) on the other. Then you can back them both up at
- the same time.
-
- One last caveat that I've experienced: if you're backing up a Mac that uses
- virtual memory, you're ALWAYS backing up that huge (10 MB if that's what
- you've
- got virtual memory set up for) invisible file called "VM Storage". Since this
- file is dynamically changing all the time, it will always be backed up, even
- during an incremental backup. I was running out of room on a 2 GB (!) DAT
- tape
- because I was backing up around 50 users' Macs remotely, and quite a few of
- them had VM enabled. That ate up space quick! There is a modification to the
- ALL FILES parameter that you can exclude the VM Storage from your backup as
- well as the Desktop files. I got the instructions from Dantz. If anyone
- would
- like me to share the fix on Info-Mac, let me know and I'll post it soon!
-
- Hope this helps! Sorry for the length! I have been experiencing a period of
- great verbosity lately! :-)
-
-
- Thomas Scott, Systems Manager, College of Engineering
- Cornell University, Carpenter Hall Annex, Ithaca, NY 14853
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 17:59:46 GMT
- From: Mr Gordon S Byron <g.s.byron%stirling.ac.uk@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
- Subject: SCSI propblem
-
- ThaNKS to all who answered my query. I found that the scsci *was* set
- to 7. I changed it to 1 and got most of the stuff back. The disk came
- up quite well re FAT problems etc and I have now returned it to a
- relieved owner(who denies having changed the setting). thanks again
- gordon
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 13:50:55 GMT
- From: roh@gmd.de (Peter Rohleder)
- Subject: SE/30's PDS
-
- In digest <9212100054.AA13202@SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU>
- Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu writes:
-
- >Dear Netters,
-
- >My SE/30's PDS has been occupied by a graphic board.
- >And I would like to connect it to the Ethernet
- >by cards.
-
- >Does anyone know how the SE/30's PDS could be doubled ?
- >Any suggestion will be appreciated.
-
- Look in one of the major Macintosh magazines(MacWorld, MacUser).
- Some companies are offering external boxes which enable you to
- have access to the Ethernet via the SCSI-port. But I have never
- used one of these boxes so I can't tell you, if they work
- reliable.
-
- Peter Rohleder
-
- --
- Peter Rohleder, e-mail: peter.rohleder@gmd.de Tel.: +49 2241 14-2208
- German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD)
- Schloss Birlinghoven, P.O.Box 1316, D-5205 Sankt Augustin 1, FR Germany
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 11:50 BST
- From: Richard Lim <RTL@SIVA.BRISTOL.AC.UK>
- Subject: Self-rejoining segmented files
-
- Are there any utilities out there which will segment a file in such a way
- that the files can be rejoined without the original application being
- present?
- I sometimes want to distribute very large files which won't fit on floppies
- and I don't want to have to pass around the utility which did the file
- splitting as well.
- I suppose the "easy" way is to binhex the file and then cut the binhex up
- into chunks which can be rejoined by a text editor, but since binhexing
- makes large files even larger, this is not a very convenient solution
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 11:07:42 PDT
- From: ace@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst)
- Subject: Startup sound app
-
- In Regards to your letter <199212110117.AA18672@nwnexus.wa.com>:
- > There is one idea that I have that I would like to see someone post
- > here at Info-Mac. I am not a programmer, therefore I do not have
- the
- > talent to compose such a device. I would like to see someone create
- a
- > startup application for system 7 that randomly plays a sound file
- from
- > a selected folder. I have many sounds that I would love to
- alternate
- > and do not want to play them all at once. I know that there is a
- cdev
- > to randomize your system beep, but that is not what I am looking
- for.
- > Also, I would like to see an application so there is no init code,
- or
- > memory hogging, or possible conflict with anything. One could also
- > implement this idea by placing the application in a folder with the
- > said sound files and put an alias in the startup folder to randomly
- > play one file. Any takers? Also, any help on finding existing
- > similiar software would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
-
- Sounds like a good thing to do with a Frontier script for Frontier
- or Frontier Runtime. The script could optionally quit after running
- if you didn't wish to keep the program open after playing the random
- sound.
-
- Any takers?
-
- cheers ... -Adam
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 11 Dec 92 03:40:52 GMT
- From: agapow@latcs1.lat.oz.au (p-m agapow)
- Subject: Syquest cartridge compatibility (R)
-
- Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu writes:
-
- >>Is a Syquest cardridge compatible with different drives ?
- >Usually they are... 44s are usually ok with other 44 drives, and the
- >same goes for 88s, but I can't guarantee you any luck with 44s in other
- >88 drives, etc.
-
- >>Does it make a difference how it was formatted ?
- >Not usually, see above
-
- As i've recently found out (regardless of what some vendors are say), the
- 88 Mb mechanism can read but not write to 44 Mb. This results in problems
- with rewriting the desktop. So in that respect - no. Otherwise an 88 Mb
- mechanism is an 88 Mb mechanism is a ... and the same for 44's.
-
- The formatting software may make a difference, although largely with old
- or poor software. More recent utilities, like DriveMaker or Drive7 have no
- problems.
-
- p-m
-
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
- paul-michael agapow (agapow@latcs1.oz.au); AI Lab, LaTrobe University
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 14:29:07 EST
- From: jcj2879@cs.rit.edu (Jeffrey C Jodoin)
- Subject: System 7.1 Label's Bug
-
- Hi all,
-
- I just ran into a nifty(?) bug with System 7.1 the other night. This may
- exist in 7.01 as well - but I no longer have it to test to see if it does.
-
- While sorting through my Control Panels Folder the other night, I though it
- might be nice to Label (via the menu) the non-Apple Control panels. I
- selected
- them all and then as a group tried to assign a label (color) to them. The
- LC chugged away - seemed to finish - and then bombed.
-
- Upon restart, the Control Panels did have their labels changed.
-
- Has anyone else seen this in 7.1 or even 7.01?
-
- Thought you all should know,
- Jeff J
-
- P.S. It's an original LC with 10Mb memory and a 40Mb hard drive ... running
- Gate Keeper, StuffIt Space Saver, SuperClock, etc...
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 11 Dec 1992 13:22:34 GMT
- From: ch140@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeffrey G. Brown)
- Subject: TDD Programs for Mac
-
- Does anyone know of any programs that allow a Macintosh to
- communicate with or emulate a TDD device for the deaf?
-
- Thanks...
-
- Jeffrey G. Brown
- ch140@cleveland.freenet.edu
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 10 Dec 92 14:10:07 PST
- From: dmullen@kerner.com (Desmond Mullen)
- Subject: Telnet 2.4/PowerBook 100 problems solved
-
- I asked if anyone knew why Telnet 2.4 crashed on my PB100 if I switched to
- another application and then back to Telnet.
-
- The answer: Telnet 2.4 cannot handle having the keyboard icon show in the menu
- bar. "Unhacking" the itlc resource in the System file so the keyboard icon
- would no longer show solved the problem. (I use a couple of keyboards for
- different
- languages, so I like to have the icon showing)
-
- Telnet 2.5 does not have a problem with the keyboard icon. I'm now using 2.5
-
- -Desmond Mullen dmullen@kerner.com
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 08:23:49 +0100
- From: krona@nada.kth.se
- Subject: The fifteen minute battery (R)
-
- > You can imagine my surprise when, on trying to use it off
- > battery power, it went into sleep mode after just fifteen minutes!
-
- > Now I know that the PB100 uses SLA batteries instead of ni-cads;
- > you're not supposed to drain them, but my understanding was that
- > leaving the machine plugged in constantly would not damage a
- > fully charged SLA cell.
-
- It does seems that you have grounds to complain about either your
- battery or the charging circuits. I have two PowerBook 100, one of
- of them a year old, the other about three months old (saving them up!!)
- I have them almost always plugged into the wall when I can (I even
- bough a second charger to have at my work) and have not seen any ill
- effects. And lead batteries should not be prone to overcharging problems
- (compare with a car battery, which is almost always in "charge mode").
-
- One other possibility, if this was only a single occurance, is that
- the charger is not properly plygged in, and the battery only has a
- remnant charge. If the PowerBook is put to sleep, the battery will
- "refresh" itself a little bit, but will fail almost immediately when
- used again. I have had it happen to me on some occasions that the
- charger appeared to have been connected but, in old wall outlet, slipping
- a little due to its weight and losing contact. After a while, the PB
- will go into sleep mode due to lack of power, I will disconnect it, leave
- for home, and when I awake it at the train, it will run for just a few
- minutes and then go down - while I thought that it was fully charged!
-
- A bad charging circuit could also give a variation of this theme. It has
- been pointed out several times in this digest and elsewhere on the net
- that if the charging plug is damaged, it may blow a fuse on the motherbord
- which will stop any further charging, but leave the ability to run off the
- mains intact.
-
- Best wishes for your PowerBook 100, the best computer Apple has made!
-
- - kjell
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 09:22:40 +0100
- From: John Hendrickx <u211310@hnykun11.urc.kun.nl>
- Subject: The Spanish Inquisition
-
- Does anyone know where I can get the great Monty Python sound "Nobody
- expects the Spanish Inquisition!"? Also, if anyone out there does requests,
- how about the opening bars to Trane's Mr P.C. (Paul Chambers!) and Bird's
- Scrapple the Apple?
- Thanks,
-
- John Hendrickx
- Department of Sociology, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Internet: u211310@hnykun11.urc.kun.nl
- bitnet: u211310@hnykun11
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 07:13:36 -0500
- From: "Steve Marsh" <marsh2@nrlfs1.nrl.navy.mil>
- Subject: Turbo-Grafx CD-ROM drive
-
- I was wondering if anyone had info about the SCSI interface being developed
- for
- the TurboDuo video game - price, access speed of the drive, availability,
- etc.
- For those who don't know what I'm talking about, the TurboDuo video game
- system
- >From NEC (actually, Turbo Technologies now) has a built-in CD-ROM drive, and
- they have announced an upcoming SCSI interface cable for the mac (no further
- details, though). The game system is only $299. and comes with 5 games, so its
- a
- pretty good deal, both as a video game and a CD-ROM drive (if the interface is
- reasonably priced). It also plays TurboChip games and audio CD's. Any NEC
- insiders out there?
-
- - Steve Marsh "marsh@anvil.nrl.navy.mil" ;-)
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 13:06:03 CST
- From: Reverend John <UC521832@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
- Subject: Tweety Extension Coolness
-
- I FTPed the very nice extension Tweety, that plays bird sounds in the
- backgound randomly as you work on your mac. By fortunate coincidence,
- a suite of five samples of whale song were uploaded to the digest at
- the same time. Well, following the instructions in the Tweety docs, I
- used ResEdit to replace the birdsong with whalesong, and now my Mac
- lets loose with eerie, haunting sound as I type!
-
- I *highly* recommend both Tweety on its own, and Tweety with the
- "Whale-of-A.hqx" sound samples. I don't know ResEdit from adam, but
- it wasn't hard to do.
-
- Of course, it eats up about 600k of RAM with the whalesong...
-
- Rev
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 15:53:49 PST
- From: kcary@pepvax.pepperdine.edu
- Subject: Umatic 3/4" Video Tape and the Mac
-
- One of our profs is anxious to get off a grant proposal before she leaves
- on sabbatical. She wants to investigate using professional quality 3/4"
- video tape and computer controlled editing with some computer digitizing of
- clips. The latter I can handle, and we have a price for the hi-8 version of
- the former, but I have no clue on cost, or size for the 3/4" equipment.
-
- We'd need a Portable VideoCam, 2 decks, an interface to control them from
- the Mac, and two Monitors. Can anyone help me on sources, prices,
- possibility?
- Kim Cary, GSEP Systems Support, Pepperdine University
- (310) 568-5628, kcary@pepvax.pepperdine.edu, KCARY@PEPVAX,
- FAX (310) 568-5755
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 12:12:16 PDT
- From: Rick_Sutcliffe@faith.twu.ca (Rick Sutcliffe)
- Subject: UNIX filer server for Mac/P
-
- UNIX filer server for Mac/PC
- I am looking for a package that can provide both terminal access to UNIX
- bxes on the net (both Appletalk and ethernet, if possible) and also allow
- for the mounting of UNIX directories as Mac volumes. This should be
- automatic and background for both PC an Mac users, but allow for direct UNIX
- access for those who are capable of using it. The cost should be Mac-style
- and not UNIX style.
-
- The UNIX box is a Sony NEWS 1750 running a MC68030.
-
- I am aware of a variety of products to do one or the other of these tasks,
- but not both. I recently heard of a product called something like "Ice 10"
- that supposedly does do both. Can anyone give me a line on this or a
- similar product?
- Thanks
- Rick Sutcliffe
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 11 Dec 1992 08:26:18 -0500
- From: "Tom Scott" <Tom_Scott@qmrelay.mail.cornell.edu>
- Subject: VX Video (A) + Thanks
-
- VX Video (A) + Thanks
- Rafael Collantes <rafael@iit.upco.es> asks:
-
- >The December issue of MacUser states that the video hardware of the new VX
- >is basically the same as Quadra's.
- >The APDA compatibility chart of november states
- >that the maximun monitor size connectable to the VX is 14" (640x480).
- >Which statment is right?
- >I am interested in knowing if it is posssible to use a 16" or
- >super-vga (800*600) monitor with the built-in video. What about
- >bit-depth?
-
- Here's my response:
-
- The maximum resolution that the IIvx can support with the on-board video is
- 640x480, which means you can use the 14" monitor. If you wish to use the 16"
- monitor with the IIvx, you'll need to add an additional video board, like
- Raster-Ops or something similar.
-
- This comes straight from the horse's mouth. We had an Apple rep doing a
- product rollout for the new line here at Cornell, and I specifically asked him
- about this. I even asked him why, since they already have the technology to
- produce higher resolutions, why didn't they just incorporate it in? He told
- me, "...because we wanted to get them out the door..." in time for the October
- introduction. But I suspect that the cost issue is also probably involved,
- IMHO.
-
- I'm not sure about the bit depth of the built-in video, but I think I remember
- the rep saying that if you have 1 MB of VRAM (and this is one of the nice
- features of the IIvx --- the dedicated VRAM), you can get millions of colors,
- which suggests to me 24-bit (or 32-bit). Somebody can correct me if I'm wrong
- on this.
-
- Which, by the way, is what a few people did on my comment recently about some
- of the new (read System 7.1) Macs not coming bundled with 7.1 floppies. I
- guess I must have read an article on this being true with the Performas and
- extrapolating that to the rest of the Mac models. Sorry for this error on my
- part, and thanks to all the net gurus out there showing me the error of my
- ways! ;-)
-
-
- Thomas Scott, Systems Manager, College of Engineering
- Cornell University, Carpenter Hall Annex, Ithaca, NY 14853
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 07:05:33 -0500
- From: "Steve Marsh" <marsh2@nrlfs1.nrl.navy.mil>
- Subject: What's up at mac.archive.umich
-
- Since the number of signons was (severely) cut back during the day, I haven't
- been able to get near the archives at Michigan. Unfortunately, I can only
- connect from my comjputer at work, and am getting used to the daytime denial
- by
- the UMich archives. Query - is there anything recent there that hasn't shown
- up
- at sumex? And if so, could someone cross-load it here, where the new, bigger
- and
- beefier drive can certainly store it? Will we ever have free access to Umich?
- Do
- they need rescuing from the incredible shrinking ray device? Enquiring minds
- want to know!
-
- - Steve Marsh "marsh@anvil.nrl.navy.mil" ;-)
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 17:07:39 +0000
- From: James Thomson <thomsonj@dcs.gla.ac.uk>
-
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest
- Path: thomsonj
- From: thomsonj@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (James Thomson)
- Subject: System 7.1 Benchmarks
- Message-ID: <Bz3u8J.3uu@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk>
- Summary: System 7.1 - Just Say No!
- Keywords: 7.1 Benchmarks Mac System
- Organization: Glasgow University Computing Science Dept.
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 17:07:31 GMT
- Lines: 46
-
- Here are the values I obtained using Speedometer on my LCII, before and after
- fitting an FPU under 7.0.1 with TuneUp 1.1.1 and then after installing 7.1.
-
- System 7.0.1 7.0.1 + FPU 7.1 + FPU
-
- Math Rating 5.20 12.12 6.77
-
- KWhet 6.18 21.86 8.36
- Dhry 2.39 2.69 2.66
- Towers 2.39 2.52 2.55
- Quicksort 3.28 3.43 3.32
- Bubble Sort 4.28 4.60 4.60
- Queens 3.72 4.36 4.36
- Puzzle 8.33 4.57 4.65
- Permute 3.31 3.68 3.68
- Fast Fourier 4.12 12.71 5.45
- FP Matrix 4.30 12.77 5.45
- Int Matrix 4.65 3.88 3.85
- Sieve 4.53 4.83 4.83
- Bench Ave 3.90 6.82 4.48
-
- FPU FFT - 1.13 1.13
- FPU KWhet - 1.22 1.21
- FPU Matrix - 1.23 1.24
- FPU Ave - 1.19 1.20
-
- /* The pre-FPU rating was done with a previous version of Speedometer so, like
- the program says, some results may be a bit off - the Puzzle rating is an
- example of this I think */
-
- My own quick tests (time taken for a million math operations using the FPU
- directly versus time taken for the same calculations via SANE) also seem to
- back
- up these results.
-
- 7.0.1 545 ticks via FPU vs 5566 ticks via SANE
- 7.1 545 ticks via FPU vs 12010 ticks via SANE
-
- This certainly implies that OmegaSANE is not present in 7.1, or is no longer
- as
- effective, at least in the case of the LCII. I suggest you 'try before you
- buy',
- and see if you get similar results.
-
- Personally, I'm staying at 7.0.1. - the advantages of System 7.1 at the
- moment (for me, the Fonts folder is about it) don't outweigh the loss of
- performance, not to mention the cost of upgrading. Shame!
-
- James Thomson
-
- ------------------------------
-
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