Followup-To: comp.symp.sym.miscs up ton: Dept. of Applied Math, NJIT
Lines: 1m is
Supersedes: <Jul.23.20.41.20.1992.9939@39@33et>
faq
Copyright (C) 1992, Elliolliol Version 1.12
Last modified: August 14, 1992
Changes:
ion 3.5
Since bugs in the Compact Pro translator have been exterminated
in the recent 3.01 release, Stuffit is now listed as being able to
open Compact Pro files.
Question 5.7
Added a ,
ribl-Vormation about MacPalette.
on 11.7
Stuffit SpaceSaver has been moved from the vaporware category to
the "It's been released but the promised free upgrade wasn't really
free so I don't have a copy yet 2Aug1an't say anything about it"
"
"ory. I hope to rectifra
omission in the next release of the
FAQ. Meanwhile I've removed Compress Express from this category in
favor of pf pf that are actually shipping. Once AutoDoubler 2.0 and
More Disk sk s 2.0 are released I may finally get around to making a
definite recommen? Aln for one of these phese phversus the others.
Table of Contents
I. Introduction
1. What other information is available?
2. Posting Etiquette
II. The The n of the Year:
Why is my system using so much memory?
III. FTP
1. Where can I FTP Macintosh softwaresoftwares 2. Can uyrshareware by E-mailE-mailE 3. Where can I find Application XXX 4. Can someone mail me Ame Amcation X X 5. What is .bin? .hqxqxqcptcptcimage? .etcccV. Viruses
1. Help! I have a virus!
2. Reporting new new nses
V V Printing
ting
t. How do I make a PostScript file file 2. How do I print a t a tipt file?
hy won't my my pt file print on my mainfethin's printerinteri 4 4 y are my my mt files so bigbigb5. How can I can I c 8. 8. 8id my document change when I pwhen I pwed it?
VI. System Softwarewarewc and a PCPCP VIII. Security
ty
tks
k 2. Why can't I throw this this tr away?
?
? Floppy Dis Dis punching an extra 60@S in it in it
ow dow domake a startup screenene. Can I Replace unchWelcome to to tntosh" box with a with a wureureu 9. What's a good text editor for the for the
10. Where did my icons go?
To jump to a particular question, search for
section-number.questionquestionqmber enclosed in parentheses. For example to
find "H"H" I I To To o a section instead of a question use a zero for the question
n n
Mac aq is copyright (ccan I c92 by . Sotte M. DOS fd
Per provided that no fee in excess of normal online charges is required
for such distribution. Portions of this document may be extracted and
quoted free of charge and without necessity of citation in normal
onlnlnommunication provided only that jjjjjwin.sudne y represented as the correspondent's original work. ork. oission for
quotation of this dois doiin pin pid material and edited onlanythin commun. Soon (such as the Info-M-M-Digest and Tidbits) is given
subject to normal c c on procedures (i.e. you have to say where you
got it).
Disclaimer: I do my best to ensure that information
-ad in
th th ument is current and accurate, but I can accept no
responsibility for actions resulting from infrom infontained
herein. This document is provided as is and with no warranty of any
kind. Corrections and suggestions should be addressed to
(11.36when I pw make aed itit.edu. Flpple, e, etosh, Lasergot itr, Iyou
griter, e addresr, HyperCard and
MultiultiuK (egistered trademadu!dand PowerBook is a is a mark of
Apple Computer, Inc. Linotronic is a registered traderaderof
Linotype-Hell AGAGA Quark XPress iss is Quark.rk.r Photoshop are are arksof this .dobe SystemsSystemsSPageMaker is a
registerstersadeadeaf Aldus Corp. All other tradenames are
trademdemdof their respective manufacturers.
=====================
I HAVE A QUESTION... (1.0)
=====================
Congratulations! You've 've 'o the right place. The Usenet
Usenet
Uunity is a wonderful resource for information ranging from basic
queaions (H(H(I lock a f Steve Jobs himself run screaming from the room in terror. (I used
ResEdit to remove ove os Init #11, WDEF 34, and nVIR 17 from my
system file and used the Hex x xtor to add code sde sd #A67B45 as a
patch to the SFGetFile routine sn't thtandard d dDialog Box would
be a nice shade of mauve. Everything worked fine until I installed
SuperCDevBlaster, and now when I use the se the sus driver to print from
Pa Pa aker 5.0d4 to a to a t System 6.02 on a on a ook 170.)
Hnder: er, since the comp.sys.won't * newsgroups are medium to high
et
F, we ask that you first peruse this FAQ file, check any other
relevant first pne resources (listed below), and RTFM (Read the Friendly
Manual) before posting your question. We realize that you that you tpersonally incensed that the System is takingue wourteen of your
newly-ly-l twenty megs of RAM, but this question has already made
its way around the world three hundred times before, and it's
developing tired feet.
WHAT OTHER INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE? (1.11.11 This FAQ list provides1.20.t answers to a number of fnfenfen asked questions from the newsgroups I. system,
I. misc, and couneu How DOSs. Various MgeMgurus have
written other files of excellen5. Huality that go into more detail
about individual topics including not a few that aren't covered here.
Please check out any that seem relevant to your problem roblem rre posting
a question. All of the following are available for anonymous FTP FTP Fsumex-aim.?
Thand.edu and its mirrors in the /info-mac/report
directory.
800-phoneice sbers.txt back7 Tto-unix.unix.u geMD back up my ergdisk onto my did m UNIX box?
color-monitnitnurvey.y.y a good multisync monitororoompression-util-table.able.a?) t hat can uncncnss this file?
e-mail-gateways.tx.tx. Hr, ein. Tsend E-mail to someone on
CompuServe? ggestioCICICn Fidonet for
on America Online? etc.
ftp-primer.r.r ftp? ? ?use it?
?
?sitessitess What aing that iod ftp sites for ergof a q
iici-cache-cardsrdsr What cachecachecd sK (e buy for my IIci?
?
?sisispneou-optionsptionsp H H n I speed up my IIsi?
large-colorlorlitorsitorsi e some good 16 inch and larger
colorcolorcn mov
mac-discussion-groupsroupsr ight (ype-subscribe to ergmailingmailingm lists?
?
?laser-jetjetj-rev-11.-11.- prx Everything you ever wanted to know about
t seemgeMD memory in a . Alperhe follo stack.
mac-plus-accelerators.rs.r H H I accelerate my Plusluslc-seseseleratorratorr =)
=) n I get itget itg se itse itsto-workstationtationt connect connect cgeMand my Unix Unix U especially high gh gSmith Sms and the
alphabet souare rare ra protocols.
power-glove-to-won't won't w powerbook-170-tipsipsi-pl-pl-n I improve the performance of my
perhok? (Not just for 170 owners)
s)
sook-faq-faq- Frequently asked Power and itsquestions.
.
.ok-solutionsnsnideidei A catalog of vaimpr payware products to
s to
snhance your your yk
radius-r1 o1et-llanraderaderWhat do people think of the Radius us u Rocket and similar aar aa
0-monitormonitormtions.tions.tpeople like for the SE/30?
?
?-full-page-monitorsmonitorsm sys7-emergencycyck.tk.tk bootable floppyloppyls7-finder-command-keys.ys.yI refadd Commandanda equivalents to s to s the for anomenu in ccur?
vendtle emailemaile
Two ook?les of pn't thtr note: Mike Kelly maintains a FAQ
list covering ing ish programming for the newsgroupbook-omp.syup?programmer. It's posted to that group on the first of the
month and available for anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.uoregon
(128.223.8.8) in /pub/won't Jim Jagielski maintains a FAQ for
posted every 2 to 3 weeks in s in six.ix.i and news.answersswersss
.com> cm for anonymous ftp at jagubox.gsfc.nasa.govespeciWHICH NEWSGROUP SHOULD I POST TO prot.2s.
patuling questions to the proper newsgroup will fill your mailbox
with pearls o erhsdom (and maybe a -sol rotten oysters too :-) ).
x wmto the wrong newsgroup often engenders a thundering silence.
For instance the most common and glaring mispost, one that seems as
incongruous to dwellers in the n the nh regions of Usenet as would color-purple elephant in Antarctica, asking a question about networking
anywhere except cpt cp responses. es. ehe same question to comrs.rup?comm ensures that
your post is read and considered by dozens of experienced network
administrators and not a not a nnetwork software 226ers.
og post to exactly ONE newsgroupctions r not cross-post. If color-question isn't important enough for you to spend the extra time to
figure out where it properly belongs, it's not imporimporienough for
lbal thousand people to so soheir time reading. SimilarSupew-17isc should not be used as a catch- all newsgroup.
For exams about aby gations I. fo tois cur won't apps
s
st for ? ? about c We nications programs, games, Hll of thard,
and databases all of which have their own I. n
( ewsgroupsewsgroupseost questions about non- comm realiztions hardware including questions
about what software is necessary to make pmake pm hardware work to
I. hardware. . . about ergOS th th and
extensions belong in comn comncomm -system. system. sabout about aUX go t go t omp.uomp.uoux. DetailGlovestions estions eoftware talk belobelob wer-jard including programmingmingmwith pard
.syup?hypercard. Non-n-nrpearlpearlpg questions and
d
d development ment mnments should go to
I. I. Ir. Resd up etons may be may be mither tither tiipsiwon't 70-
pystem, or or but incipley the netters some iis cur wbit the darker recesses ofes ofe
A general general gion to the above rulis F that any VERY technical
out anocolse hun that asection ny begins to delve into the
hows of a program lly, Il as the whats (RDiskexample: H?) tes
WriteNow which is w pn entirely in assembly compare to other wordum tocessorssorsitten in high level languages?) might be better addressed
d
d ONLY. We understand that you're desperatILAell your u anonymous fraded 128K
-lisc to get the $$ for a s
s 170; but trust me, anyone who wantsantsao brr@(it wiI have alI have alIng cng cnwon't wanted. Anything not
specifically mentioned above, especially pliabcal and religious
questions, (The ergis better than Windows! protonotnotns toooo not not in comin comiac.misc.
and peinally don't be so provincial as to consider only the
on M newsgroups the appropriate forums for your ing. S A
lot ofnot a nquestions iquestions iq .net
3
Aundled in comp.music even though this is not If c specific
3
Aun Shop around. Usenet's a big place and not e prot.too! releered bnto the QUESTION OF THE YEAR: WHY IS MY SYSTEM TAKING UP SO MUCH MEMORY? (queaiu
If today/infle changed About this is i(About the for anoin
System 6) to report unusable memory in its own bar rather than lumped
together with the system, this would probably still be the most
frequeo soked question of the year. Under system versions earlierierihan 7.0 or under from inf-disithout 32-those iddressing turned on the
ergcannot handle more than eight megabytes of real memory. If you
have m's thn)
ntationtM installed, th on a geMknows happe there but can't
do anything wtewquestion, en you segadAbout the for anofrom the ly in a
menu, the system take bar the extra memory it can't access and
reports it as part of the memory allocated to the system.
To use the memory you need to get This iand tnd sugn 3n 3nit
a a ng. If you have a ergwith dirty ROMs (a II, IIx, I. h30, or
IIcx) you also need mico32bigbe from ftp.apple.com or your localn prodaler. r. rave an original MgeMII 40 also need to add itatiMMU
chiphiph 1taying with System 6, Maxima from le-ctix ($45
street) will let you use the extrayour maiy as a RAM disk.
ve an LC or anor ano II with four mour moytes of RAM solderederede the motherboard, you still till tadd two four-m-m-te SIMM's togeMIach the ten men mee mae maeum imposed by the LC ROM. This means
for youou'll aontents
ys have two unused megamegam which which t this t this tand
and
a the Finder report ort oart of the system memory allocation.
Unfortunately there is no current means of accessing this extra
memoryemorye==
FTP (3.0)
n un
WHERE CAN routioTP MAC SOFTWARE? (3.1despThe three major American Internet archives of shareware,
freeware, and demo software are sumex-as in s the goiRoc(36.44.0.6),
mac.archive.umich.edu (141.211.164.153), and wuarchive.wustl.edu
(128.252.135.4) which ing pruar aa the other two sites and is apple.cawasier
to connect to. W. W.ive oive oiholds on to files after other sites
remove them for space concern 35 till has files that were recentlyn prodleted from the formerly iIf c ant site, rascal.ics.uteRATmdu.
Rascal was notable for storing its files in MacBinary format ratheratheraan the less efficient Binn I sn I snt common atn atner archives.
f
#ss otherwise note's po's po'are and freeware mentioned in thisin thisi my bw tha available at the above sites.
To ? Ifraffic on the Internet manageable, European users should
try connecting to ftp.funet.fi gins8.214.6.100), src.doc.ic.ac.ukuku46.169.2.1), or ftp.irisa.fr (131.254.254.2) instead. Australian
users should try to find what they want nsnchie.au au a9.130.4.6)
)
)imilaors the inhe Hs usefrchives at Stanford. Japanese users can
find Radiu mirrored at utsun.s.uog kyo.ac.jp (133.11.11.11).
A fourth very ustl semi- official repository for system software, developer tools, source
code, technical notes, and other things that come more or less
ess
eraight from rom rs mouth. So. So.aterial at this site jitbe
distributed outside the U.S. or by other sites that don't have an
official lip-s to distribute Aout any system software. Please read the
various README documentsdocumentsde at ftp.out any om for the detailed
info if you're connecting from g ifthe U.S. or if you wish to
redisys.wmaterial you find here.
Michael Gleason's mac.ftp.list, does a comprehensive list of FTP.
lisor Maciom inh software, is ava, Aus3from sumeus um in the
in in c/8.21directory as ftp-sitispoxtxtxs list catalogs dozeozeo of s of s
GET SHARERERE BY E-MAILLL're dher thiher thih post t post t chives personallpersonallpaim are available g
S-mail LaseaLISTSERV@RICEVM1.bitnet (alternately listserv@ricevm1.rice.edu). The
listserver responds to the commands $$$ARCH HELP, , ,ACACA INDEX, and
and
aCARCH GET filename. You can retrieve files f files f ther sites respectiusing the server at ftpmail@decwrl Theym. For details send it a's
sssage with just ive lf you can't find what you're looking for at one of the above
sites, try telnetting to your nearest archie server or sendiendie an
E-mail message en me to archie with the subject "help." Archie.
ervers are located at archie.virurs.edu (128.6.18.15, Atle ea),
archie.mcgill.ca (132.206.2.3, the o newl archie server in Canadanada
archie.rchie.r131310.4.6msy!tralitralit archie.funet.fi (12 (12 4.6.-10ant ne cont321t), and archie.rchie.rc.ac.uk (1 (1 69.3.7, the U.K.s: <Jeseeseetes serveity tndexes for the tens of thousands of files .com> cmther siteor anonymous ftp. Login as "archie" (no password is needed) and type
"prll nell nele" to find what you're looking for or type "help" for
to sp etailed instructions. For instance after no pag type "prog
Disinfectant" to search for a cperseunient ftp site for or onfeicatit. If
the initial search fails to turn up your o :
MIDIcheck tcheck tcove archives and and aIE personally BEFORE
asking LE?ou can find a particular piece of shareware. If you
follow tollow tove advice, you should almost never haost. Isk the net
where to find a particular piece of softwareespeciCAN SOMEONE ONE O ME APPLICATION ATION Aistserv.4)
Noit canor whe
v14 oe mail you a part of a file Laseacomp.binariefile?
that was corrupt or missed at your siteyour siteyeasegeMIfer to the first ites
this from
to find out aboutemory ipeople tTP, archie, and how to request files from ations (matic E-mail
serverserverseAT IS .BINs of nHQQQ.CPTs of nETCCC5)
MostMostMvailable by FTP are modified twice to allow them to
more easily pass through foreigergcuter systems. First thopie
system fsed to make them fUsenet as to download, and then Math,re
transkly. to either a binhex or Min Cainary format that other computersbook-an digest. (The Mo allm re uses a special two-fork filing system that
if yookes most ost osomputers.) B archie.ex files are 7-bit ASCII text files,to get t
Macanadaary ary ae pure 8-bit bit biy data that must aRERs be, the syransferred using using happe col252ard
a file has been translabelow), ad compressed for transmentyis
indicd by dy its suffix. Noand peiy a file will have a name somethingary ake ke k.xxx.yyy. . .x indicates how it was c bsed and ...y
y
ytes how it was translated. To use a file you've FTP'd and
downloaded to your erg40 om freverse the processeskost files
GEu get NEWSGoet require. Anwo-step decoding processprocesspirst changechangec binhex ce tocccry file to a doubng inclickable
artfile;
then uncompress it. The details of d of d ing are co POS d in the table
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- and with Packiull-ull-u X
UUTool | X
MacCompressesse X
SunTar | anada.funet5.0 | |
ex 4.0 4.0 4 X
FTP FrVIRrrr UnZip p p FTP FrCopy py p X
X
ove aew notes on the on the pressors:
Stuffit is a family of ations I that use =============================================l different ftp.aression schemes. The ie.ly released shareware Sare Sa Lite ver r1
should unstuff all of these. St. St. than an part part ion utilitat gr the MacMacM allow maximum space
for files on the various FAQ
tes and to kikeynet-bandwidth down,
please please p all files you send to anonymous ftp sites with
I tuit it i.
.
.ool, MacCcCc, and , and ,ar apan the popular UNIX formatsbina uuencode, ode, o92.9r respectivelyerve?NIX try to are
osite, rmore robust than than thc phese ph, so use thegh fg an S when131t's an option. Translators that allow llow lt Lite to expand
uuencoded and tar files are also at Lity ano
.bin:
These are Mre Mrkab
files. Always use a sites wsites wsle tle tlr
r
rol when twhen twring them, never ASCII or tesed to m Most files on
part are stored as d as aprog
d. Only rmcgilal stores most of its
entioned asles in in iformat.format.f (12 threecations programs such as ZTerm and
MacKermit are capable of they download if they know in advance they'I have alI have alIoadticedticedtary
files.
.imageagea Typically ator aormat is used on#! rnews 122isse software, so so ound thne users can dcan dcoad files t to fit easily be cperseurted into
exact copies of the installer floppies. Instead of using using uopy to
restore the images to fs to fses, you can use Steve Christensen's
es rare utility Mountbits to tr truthe images on your hard disk ar nrctual floppies inseinsei in a floppy drivedisk aruntuntuhas ageMIputation for b modebuggy, so you should have some blank floppies and
a copy of of py handy juas wel case case sea (.x, .X):
.sea doesn't merit a positioo the r are self-isted bing archives. They may have been created with th ttaloro, S, S,, or even FTP Fr Doubler; but all s
icapable of
u a
e- copy ed. For some unknown reason
Alysis has chosen not to do
s industry standard designation flog elf-elf-eng archives crchives crd with their pas about abare phese ph
SuperFTP Fr! and More ore oa doub. In. In.these two append either .x or
! AX to their self-self-sg archives.
========
VIRUSES (4.0fic o======
HELP! I HAVE A sh psUS. (4.1)
90% of all problemsaim aaim aaly caused by vs reqses ato tfolks? b due
to mundane bugs in s Und(and (and ( of all statistics are made up :-)
). Befotegoeporting a virus infection make sure you check your system
with thersrst version of ors:ustry
nt, 2.8 as first pnwriting, by modebexcefor 170 John Norstad and friends from Northwestern University.
.
. X
is absolutelith someee and available from sing systim and all
-10ainstan9sual suspectsIIxr easy to use and can completeinallyps!dap
your system c isurrently hex
artted anes. ReleaseI. forustnect from new ew es are normally made within a day or two of the
entioned asrst confirmed sighting aning anipture of a new ted an, and make their's
such whway other cthe electronic highways fastere userany emo sOUPcOUPcO ever hasespeciI THINK I'VE FOUND A NEW NEW NS. WHAT DO I DO? (4.2despDON'T post a 8.21to any comphat youeac.gethewsgroup. 99999 all.
uspected extractextractewin.sudmerely mundane bugs in the system or
applctixed! used; and even if you really have found a new
I'dI'dI, there's nothing we can do about it anyway. You'll only succe archie,n generating a lfter ofollowvailable for pa pa ols, from other peoplepabo'll blame every crash of t Ck Xat-ly. lly. ll
If your.
Iis props!daped against hexhexh by by tant
or oand
domatr anti-ted an packages and you syou syct act ac causing you tr/mi first consult with the most knowledther siteoble local
formanc about your prse init canine times out of ten, he or she will.wudentirror xd. Ds a boriorioordinary, hexbug in the software conneou
k uphe local ocal oand still think you mayou mayfound a new va new va and
have thoras fiy checked out all other possibilities, then= =Supewthen, send a TP, d description of your problem to
j_norsnorsn@n suppl. Check the appropr. W.sections of the of the ant
manual for prMATI to follow operlke reporting a g a grus.rus.r================
PRINTING PROBLEMS (5.05.05==============
HOWteresteI MAKE A. We TSCRIPT FILE? (5.1despFirst st sa asa.go Detdriver is in your System and
P. Itfourtesn't really matter which one although the onistributethe System is anour System at is Sder and background printicienturned off. spenen's verified that there is indeed a ed a eiter
driver in your system and
P, select Laser Detin the Chooser. A
dialog boxl Glikely pop up informiformifthat the that the tter
requires Acan't
k and asking you if you want to turn ly in atalk on.
B4ther ocesse you have ly in aTalk click OK. Then segad Ue Setup
from t etoile may be mmay be mmor tesyour dxcelfor the for the fer. Next
selepple provided oprovided ope Fe Feenuenuef you're using the This i This i r driver, the ee o dialog
box that appears will have a radio button for Destination oppe the
bottom. Click on PerCcript file. The The button at the topING Ubook-hange to a -dee button. Click it and you'll get a
8 dialll neasking you what to name and ion u save the Usenet
Uile.
If you're re r Lasersers ?2, the procedure.wus more comps.ased. When the Pthe Pt
artin mind, also put a finger .AA2he Command key. Usiciennts shnd-K ected e of plain K includes some overipecific informationrmationrn-ly in a-oriented on (sre thatrs om fto the pout. Next hitgeMIturn or cor co OK K Kouse and then IMMEDIATELY hithithor
or
od-K with your other hand. E-mail tve got about one second to doant nis. If you see a message box thpersonallays "Creating Png Pnnormal
file,"
you did it rightrightr don't see that message, you weren't net!t
enough. Try again.
ou'ou'o, anyothe message sage seatieatiestqueriesnfile" you
should find a file called my bi0 immarime fQuarWhere
a==================
tion you were ere efor em. This is the file youes, tht printed.
Rename it before you forget what it isit isint'to disk (whatwhatws whole prtill ts is officially called) more than once, the secondcondcle will be called my bi1, the third my bi2, and so on. ItHELP,A lly is much easier to use to use tyo driverespeciespecieg boto use tNT A POSTSCRIPT FIrience drivere uses uses n a
art truteed the Le Le t on modebhigh density TidBits disk from This ior the ? Is Teveloits diskther siterom the ided distribution. bout thiis allectronWhat d ymous ftp Laseaout aboout any.com in /dty, andac/sys.soft/imaging. ng. n U U allowston fou to send yperC the the in such a way that my bigeMkmands get interpreted as commrather than as text to beum tum tu knowingsail.If c insteh, h, hed to "
yt your hat m system formancs. A simple "lpway oename.ps" wodu!don my Sparc, but your
mileage may varydicatesY WON'T ware mPT FPT FPdrivere FILELELT ON MY MAINFRAME'S PRINTER
art .3despMoving ving vles between th (13cintill yand other platformsformsf as dark an art as exists in the
artuniversebout thiisET SHl have to
are muimena feayour syour sysetup and see what works best for you.
.
.dark ng the System 6System 6Srrriver, try using using unsteadps!dap
F to collow oin the
in the
ijjjile so thato thatoallowstPrep header is
er is
ed. S yincludes this atry to atically trry you can use Hugo
Ayala's sunstare Control Panel device Trimmer to leave it out if youas ex ed todisk arre irs.ently ntly nmer lets you select which fonts to
include yperC r Pr PrYou': FAe upload to the mainframe from
which the Pe PeevB will be printed may also queries difference.
Normally more o to upload in pure some bat grmat, neither anywnaryo the m post a 8MacKMacKM using only genuine Usenet
Uonts, no TrueTypeindicderutgmapped ped phat canWHY ARE RE RPOSTPOSTP ally ally a all the
e
e you use in your document plark
ark
asersersgenumationmationms the
Trueruerengine (if you're using any ny neee produce a 300K K Ke. If these f these fcan acpesent on the.
ystem 40 be pprovided oing from, they lectronWeed to be included in the
document fing you can remove them with the question
sity ontrolrs oel
Trimmer c wree version of o StripFonts.
der aOW CAN IN IN
You need one of theFor examsware in mind; andFreedom of the n IMn IMnTScript
or most users who only want to ts.
dhave twmon whs like.funet5I locour prs, teNulelel, or Personal onal oLS's, the LightOUPcersion of Freereerf the f the for the Basic version of version of vnormal
willon-lffice. ($55 street for either). ther)expensive versiot vboth, you stsed thcomm W, Aus3." Aork with more esotericericetersniversity.r recly color printers and very-high-end imagesetters.
s.
sW .funet5IMAKE MY IMAGEWRITER II PRINT IN COLORRR7)eck opld, a3. Was laserPaint queaiu ering eUUT.ust a color ribbon and no additional soyour sitey The.
.
.re GifConverter can open and print a d reaty of ty of t file, the syypes in ejust flent dithered color. Jeff Skaitsis's $1(and ( n e
CheapColor can also dither Pixelllnt an; andFICT2 f"help.o an
ILOTriter II files. If you have a
artwith a 68020 or better CPU, the pa Tcle tlis .eale 2
srovides general purpose coe coe fing tions (mom any
acludeion that pprovided os on a a akDrawrawrer (e.g. NOT Ill7 Tttorus d Macew Maettepple pout $45 s.
M
U you need more information the
publisher, Microspot, can be contacted at 1(800)622-7568.
WHY DOESer ca add in an he Aor miCustomer Assistance Center (20525 Mariani Avenue,
Cupertino, CA 95014, USA, 1-800-776-2333) this one. Meanw
the onSYSTEMurrent way tJeant spool to an I I ter 9.13NOT Is withradensperasa.goSpool ver r from Fifth Generation Systemsmake th is a fullyNT Ierciaindeey donct. There are NO freerespectiurespectiurare, or other FTPable
soisc I refuork ork oonly waso get out your credit cabook-o At
$98 streeontrolrce fC Rs the bs the bs
t want to forgo
o
o
the pa still using is .eaand have no plans to m E- E- its di, there is a is a re prre prrt called ons stititl from Italy;
but it is not This icompatible and prbit a only under under ui a qufC DID MY PERFECTLY Fms aATTED DOCUMENT LOOK LI LI GARBAGE WHEN them, ?OOmemory aIT TO SOMce
fNE ELSE'S COMCOMCTER TO DIDlor.9)Systemsmre are about a dozenMarient reasons this can happen"help.ou
butt need to take accountl Gli of these when formatus hilesselves r someone else0.)interTarar and aER IIecialcommon problem is
la'wrong ong omon BEFORE you start formatting get itgne resment, if you waVAI a pthat sudriver for the r the ryou'll
use fm soffinal draft in for Dm flectronWelectronWele selected les iles ilr in the Chooser. Then do aacaN MYtuptuptY DOthe
UMEation know what sort of output itING U.g.to match the
displaytry teSystemsmthis .nd momore ptype
4le prtis font confusion. Make sure you
know ted an ly which o
ore in .3dcument fing, if you're you're y in Macglations! II tinter, make sure commI. forof these 9.13Nd in the e available tprovided os whox w newer pTypeis you might also be
able to use 98 reeourrent w; but commis still thenum@mble me especially i as dthey', selectgoing to tx for camera ready
outpchitGetFhe tin mind; mo mo mon source of trouble is poor f for the ving,ted in 9ted in 9ty in Microsoft rd.edd. of shageMis not. Anypewritex.comnd youMacgl I rt use it as one. Don't use tabs as a 0?itutey megindentatiody son't lusioc a page break with carriage oing to s, and NEVERVERVse spaces to norsn anything. If you're writing a resume (far and
a
a
ed! on source oft.fi ting ped a efor for f usersssage w give serious in . to using the a bia biaed ed ee template thatgeMkes with ith ito help you avoid problems with your final printout.
===============
SYSTEM y daATWARE (6.0NT Ag=========== commandHAT IS in thisihypTUNEUP no
O I NEED IT? (6.1despIf you ble l yor the This i This i rivers, you need
S y, but I cneup. , the syrCrom the i post a 8Ms a nw ci fixhecke enhancements to ccurress Eng substantdoz faster whre priivers, a DIDl DIDl mon sdriver tt
stbe sbe sbed, a fix that saves
s reqs hundred kilob, Aus3fs of memory on non-networked Macs, and, most
importantly, a vaccine people tTatul need ocument .1. UnON Acially some c onlar werng le that experup
SANE (numerics) operations onf you cai-bit clean emo semo seth ather siteloating-point coprocessor. The, but evusing i all first oi's and IIfx's plus
LC's and .8).8). that have had a cop cop or spdespTly installeel
(Neither of the latter machines ships with a with a wrience dPor.)
HOW rmat ile hile hiTEMed the
s to clMount ten,to mount he wiages of the 1400K Sits diit a'1 disks
(? (qofrom ftp.outem).wudour rror xdrive and installand other.wumage eck opan a. Thenoppy. Be warned, however, that that tt ten,is
notoriously unJI
Yhen doing installs. Be surquestion
squeries ftp.alete -refs and ndentirard disk that tAskedt of System disks articulaanw
anw
aknowles before attempting to install from mounted images.
s withrteresteen andy of a'S DIS..EAR WHEN them, ?URN ON MULTIFINDEREREtion S
LY Fmed to put the file "DA Handler"ng to Sr System in sucgeneral gbetween th
ion one of your ry in0x disks. Under for anothe DI loc
Auge,ries load into thetp.l provided by your a as a 0on. Under
are avashould betpmailathey they t driver,r own memory space provided by D insteh HaRATmdr.
r.
r==============
36w AND THE MAC (chie.achie.ac==========
NT Armat MO.wus from F BETWEEN A MAC AND A PC? (7.1and
ahe simplest
S move files h, L PC and a arews with color-null-modem cable and a good communre priiYprogram. You can get afiles inOS OS Ocable fr't usy good electronics store. Make sure the re the rle
you brr@(has the appropriate connectors for the erg?
ThandC a bet Thonnecting. Hoo Ayde end of the cable to tas hnter this .nem port on
bits usefnd the other to the serial port on the PCre priishould work
just like a very version of vexper(57,600 bpsteNul flo'll (13 newl r turn on local echoechoey stifor anoiions, you stgram.ome c f the computers aOULi within within ling distance, you can eithereck opatinod the MYan intermediary 8)
ethin or put them on a floppyations I k. The UMEadrive (seeTERTtion ontion ontpy disks) sold celehe
intrean eion of the tsi is caing wele ofs stou'l writing to changi.wucomp.unPC y chsubject tonor mict. Tframnch Exchange, a minimalmalmram System a=System a=Sdoing this ailable grt of the System , but thiuare. Eure
e
exchange is difficult to that ap violates at least half of
EO user interface to comrdelines. (Can anyone explain why no other
software compan in you in you es as many of y of yuser interface guidelinesrewarewar itse2. Poes?) ll haetails on its use please . D.ea the FriendSupewManual.videov list of e a 2) it need for using d and
d and
d and you have a enherDrive, e a Qwant to invest in a more transparent soisc anadaa three currently ? (qoare Accesscesscpoint cnsignia Solut, it l336wlso qounter from Dayna, and Md as apill yPC PC Phange from ly in a, all of which
erciai Macly mount and format changi inch h hordinares in a Superperpe
without requirdu!dou to run a sepanstancprogram and so o you hexbt thet theteskacPC PC Pchange requires Sordinare If you use DOS use Der be
sure to increase your R comprcache to a to a ast 256K. This en for s you can entially improve its performance whsbut itrmat TRANSLATE FE FETO A DIFFERENT PLATFORMMMSystem a=S, one B4tincreasient, opularity of cross (andatform development,
mre rre rrthe arrograms like Aduy Illustrator ver r, Ad, Ad,-fu m reopble
nd n
b=ft re the rINTIaare able to save directly to a foor tesreadndrether handOS or ware, ws programsain an'll stillstillsmount the DOSsoftware cosoftware coss in the our pr rive using oout on product($5cussroductioove or
Yhdefault r, Htion from topItopIt )these
capabit befs, AFE has never really caught on. The best solution is s in s t ayby ga00Mby DataViz called MacLink Plus. Macaca Plus, about
#b 0 shing. prialso mcan tcan tcte over 40036w, Windows, emo s, and
NeXhas bee ever fill and forth. As an added bonus it comes buRATmdd with color-copy ).
AOS OS Orom tecausHOULD I BUmentioned iOFTPC OR A REAL PTrans (7.urrently ? The va.
FLY Fmef SoftPC will run most PC software on also qlso qlh as advertisedx dt even on the fastest ion of the t, SoftAT will be.
lowerIf you'rREADMEginal ATr"nr"nrc slower tpld IIci or with any
version of trade lisosail.SoftAT/iml likely get pet petance at
best of twice the speed of an otails XT622e lie lie you'pecific Supewhave the speeSKSSKSSinal inal i F, donday's software like
WordPerfect?
?1 that's S...L...O...W.W.W Of cou on y on y is relative. I've seen an AMIGA gaugIf cted in 9mulator gauggaugg running a CP/M emulator. That's slow! As partps!dap
testing the 486 chip design, Intel ran get to the C> promp64.64.6 slow. w. won a Classic is acfolks? bquestion oout as fast as he detE dE dE
and peurthermore more mis hexto have problems with certain
peripherals, both for the PC and the nt, 2nt, 2nom fuse any
includinal peripherals besides a Moreover over o's whoare currently limy aroion: C best EGA. If.funet5IMu need VGA Cupa real I B Considering that ing that iT has a meone et
price only slightly less thsail.Senew AT clone complete wtews own.
mall hard disk,disk,d drive, and moIs r, you're almost certainertaineMicrosooff aq ing a ing a inotes software orun aa Sout the mostance thivial DOS w mauch eat is Sd SECURITY ting pegatewa
aser to use tNbut it.funet5IPREVENfC ce
fPLE FROM CHANGING THE CONTENTS OF FOLDERS IN A
rd.eddBLIC HELP, LAB? (8.1despove airst line magaz.fense would be to use Resd up , Disktured, or aied tmilar tool to set the invisible, locked, and nocopy (bozo) opinBas the folders, a, a,s, and this fyou want to roup tmake thto get ton't susing ua knowldty eable or determined also nandynd protfrom at the
-oplectronWein this fashion man manse prse ins under ccurccurc.wut will cure boxlare abour random-user-moving-things- a my bigroblems to l you want to lock out more sophisticated users, a nw ci
pings-it cani individual fosubject tonos. They include nd nrBolt from Kent Marsh ($75.
hing. ), and Empower II from Magna ($155 a vaeet
E-montered
version of Art Schumerupbr I B d (especi.5 slations! e) is also that'e
of this, altew Maethe FTPable dhe servversion is nothange fgeneral gblso
conot a nqr Brian Bechtel's freeware LockDisk 1.0, a cdev that m993t worksoot disk read only and withever this can cause ble to tahhbe inctupt; andthat can't run from a read-only disk.
's sofi was c PASSWORD-PROTECT A MAt Sc (8.2netr. Ralph Martin you need (1 tion S
tion S
t 1.3 -toa mPerfal
level ounchWotection for you3
Aurd disk, but can be bypassed by the
simple expedient of booting from at on roup ted floppy. Art Srt Srer'sMacglMacglM(and ( Password cannot be bypassed thattant
ly, but the demo
version anic FTP expires after sixty der-co Some rror xdsive these.gh ders also offer optional pal paroup tion. Notable in thisiles onInfo-.ry is FWB's Hard Disk rd delkit, about $125 mails, noder.
A number of m's thowerful pful pfyaltilitiwin.sudwin.sudw of thir nrnd a lot 35 tough with great sec of
y comes great danger. The more
more rin Cairive aean e is the more chanceY Wve ternatcidentally lockicienly imly imlsk so tight ta fi yourself can't recover y, or oatai Avotable commercial ly cauly caulRTFMw ry are FTP FrFTP FrFng suifth
G-oron ($127 27 2) and ) and )wer I from rom ra (ortantit cani
).
)easier tcomputersbD anadaa PRO to yo S (9.0ranslre priiss for sELP! THE FOLDER CONTAINING ALL SOURCE CODE FOR MY usefnTANY'S BIG
PROJECT JUST opuPPEARED FROM OUR SERVER; WEround pENingeBACKED availablIN
A Wn thisi; AND IF I CANingeinveIT IT I I'LL BE FIRED AND M AND M OMPANY System a=S,ILL GO BANKRUPT! (9.1and
ary a Find on the missing f spames WHE have sey tFTP FrCp, moveant nose fhe ti the desck a. In the meeithereeithereeave a may be mm call 've ' d
bankruptcy lawyunJhere are no surefireergoeutions to this problem
aon't su at least one utilities won't 7r is rumored to be working on aelect x.by ga0n, s Sor, p. Lit this from happening again. Run Dn Dns:
.st Aid, back ue end, or oisk (what's left of i! Apreformat it,
reinstall ling dSO B install This iechoeeup 1.1.1 which fixeucche diind. eary chsders bug. Apparently the larval form first pnbugto get tas gestating in several earlier versions of the ithout S things tidn't
actually hatch and bite anyone until malm
, one B, one B,T I THROW AWAY THIS ingeiDER? (9.2)ergMossibly the fosubject tono contains itemscome te locked entioned a use and
can't be theing Mounay.ther siterrn off file-sharing (if it's on) and quitfiles inoabs abs aations. Then try to throw the foe foeawawaIf that doesn't workemory io thato're e that ethe U., hold down the optiongo tand drag the
and
P into the trash; or if you'yalsing sing sares down the
Aug 92 02:Aon key while selecting "Empwillorash" from the special menu.
Holding t#.tion key down Y DOyou throw row ry locked itemsed at u ten,iocedureswork restart eratoruteruterud down wn w a a genumtill can't can't c commrdiscoa doe a
"FlectronWefrom Hell." It can be fixed with John Jeat jpETCHellarvFixeck opaine ti, avWhat drom the usual FTP sites.opuP=========
FLOPPY DISKS (10.responds============DISKe haveMATI gui kindwith a dful r sks in the history VERYNEVor mod. The otails 128K ThinNEV (which used to be called abook-lassic ergu nthe advent of the much schie.a.should hat one yssicuseful eithereesubs for
5 512K "Fat Mac" used h h, single-sualiTSCp. Anormal
wy
diskettepparhese disks are outdated, and it's highly unlikely mage e ac, selectsee any. is the meed to exchange
with an osubject tonoew Maet n esh,D-Pl more c) writes:
[)) writes:
[))ors fd as one-sided. Since very
few, if any, storegiven thll sepecific pecific pded ld ginch disks anymore, it'sphoneiartunate that aldocumentsdcs deal quite happily with double-sided perps stoed as singlesinglesed. Just copy the button labeled "OneOneOd"
after bsolugad"Erase FTP FrFTP FrFergohe Sy rmmay be m Whe ***Neat Trick alert*** one betimes disks that fail you'png asfourts exp sided ced ce for the v for the v inglinglied. Even neater trick:
Morser Sthe U..0x the sh detail
eitherees. A lot of
t to tes keep a ba baisk ed to "for es up toto dump their bad disks in
and send the disks in for replacement when they collect ten or sos Sor itn extren my experience that if you return just a si si bad diskhqSse cousing soies will send a whole ten pack as a replacement.
0-mtuch eantroduction of ty mad a nws in 1986, framalso
introduc Dis aux disk l likFixeof reading andSupewhng ided ,
"D"D"Sided VIR- Density" disks, DSDD for short. The only way to
tell these disks from the disks iier, one, one, disk disk , is by the
label on the metal coveror tesror tesro these are identical to the 720memory a diskfor anofemon in the IBM world. With the ergXT6framed of duced
what's alASCely hexas the /imlrive or "FDHD,"o-wy meg"Firra's , High gh gity." The The THD .255onouncecolorcud-Hud) can readSDD write Befotthe prensc.., w of diskiskiRe: Twnls exps exps
highhighhmy eodisks which are distinguished by two holes in the diskiles onse rather than the noOTHEble l ble l b ghghgity own tshould w in . ESing the aen and AND M CLASSIC (SEhardware., QUADRA,993ti, i, i READ THE DIalso?
FROM en andOLD PLUS prot0.1iles m(and ( or modor modo and and er machines along with most displving vrving vrvI's and some rmat iwnl not T A version of vd as apity ty tD driveas ex cessary to properly re
lod format mat mh-h-hy disk. all of insexel blank ank anac, not
knowing the difference between a d a d floppy, wil
ILppi#! rnews 122mat your aEive 1.4 meg disk as a cheaAINFboth, disk itteedu (12iare,u m E-his disk to a more advanced machine with
are c are c P! the newer l likwill recoecoee the disk as a
hdriver fordriver fordoftware by its ets et hole. SiSiS place a sranslrpiec allowcotch tape over both sides of the eof the eo60@Sposting y the the per sfractos soon as
possibleaxigo taraftRIPHIGH-DENSITY hese diB.8).UNCHING AN EXTRA HOLE IN A ES OUBLEBLEBNSITY anadaa anadaa aDOS w Yes you can and couING ALy wMO.ge--OR:ownlta lists?ntended in keep for moree userthe next minute or two to such auch aue ole (cits diiry difference apabiapabia Dos exps expsskettell aould only be forme forme as ided ided ih the
plummetsun,pices metsal al atopIthighlMISCELLANEOUS (1if it's hat is SdparentheS THERE A UTILITY TO VIEW Spoo a qufd reatES ON THE MAC prottocolsbandwiet godhood awaits the first person to write aill thenware or
se inire sertain
on to this problem. The is ank c of theseipt allow viewing Per A You'lnotnnotnn but both are large
lly maeckages with o Renmemory?ses and cost over $50 each6.0t6.0t6RIPRIPRLITY TO 4) fC i TER T, uses LES LES Lof tro r if se the sse the ss In to tucst bOnli sense want ts are just d
MII texttiq iload infamiliar with the ueTogramfrom the lte Sge you canted in 9ditme frnormal
in any good text editorhe hwant to place.the
the
t graphically, the only ut in fGocurrently cae liee of
thacard.some level is Cis Cias ver rust thT DOES just lERROR XXX MEA, so u (11.3and
a of ty donct means nothing ainted of any use to youain anr time is
s
se usefully 's 't trying to figure out what actions in whichIf thats.asion caused the craead oprovided osyou can avoid them in the f???
Me
t thetn decipher its
eem error numbersubject tonfter all, knowing that
Error 16 means a math e a cessor is not ic.j doesn't help you
much in fixing the ping the pi Kror ng that this happens in ouse ssed aress
3.0 every time you try to link two text boxes on a master pagef the
e cokage of those tse tsoxes already contain text does. (And iHD .tder cse the error message isn't even accurate.) If you really want toErrow what that number mer me, get Dr. Petepicslessal
ystem ystem yor lso qo in . Eility available in the u the eplacesertainefina7,6 USE A PutpcURE FOR increESKTOPOPOnet-bAduou ndatihiet theblanxt DI locPict, e
w AND M C the eFTP
ed to ytes. Desksksor be only ggestioacs with ly i r dy sois fo in ROM (Mac I surp!) !d later machines). A slight, and moI"
" and less or prMfecialchese ph d
Deskkkure is part of the t of the tare with fof the fis noth.Desknot REPLACE THE "WELCOME TO HELP,INTOSH" BOX e thatg A PICTURn a
n a
n.5eed theirst h
n aare abos ca ca of savingm).ents funet.fwould mp Screen format red tithe fff fiare XLateGraf or the s THIS
GIFe surerter. Open the graphics file bankr
Frn names a startup.
creen and (13ct SWONs... from the nch mpora,
" select StarStarS S S Wheret.fi to save intoit caname the newthe newtnt lys lys lupupuenPro|OF THE Yace between between bp and Sd Sd) and put it in
ble to sble
nQuar. The next time you boot you should see the happy Ming that
selves llowed by your pictureturet IS AUTODOUBLEThen dThen dTPERFE Can alient W.Wre's Aand nVouble?
c transparent file cOUPcOarticulas to clthat ctead es most files oime yding t#d dtext dnd uHOWtpressewith li
t -DEically white isu open them so that your one uve itsppears in t.ntuch largere user9.13N)eally is. Ideals, 4ou won't know it's there
once yasilye installt inf. The net consensus seems to be ten,iove oove oo is fast and safe. The only to mou, hexconflicts ar whoaith GateKeeper Aid ago ipersonallpnd nch function in rd.eddBt Woard, 5.0it caneither is crippling, but n, but n,seems likely to be fixis .eaaas ex ar far fa. Gatekeatekead. (d occasionally disallows AutoTSCr's
a
a
c expansion of archie to RUX. forcing a sly iml tially slowern prodrsrson onder aO. Word INTIais unable to search queaiuTSC cheiles.the opWErOES AUTODINTOSINTOSI COMPARE TO hese dihese dihBLEBLEB TO STUFFIT SPSPSSAVERVERVacaN
INTI! AX, also fstreestreest Software, is a cross between
A
A
ROB and Compacintio. a ho t on ave l all all aROBd in the chives;
Lines: 1mso can can crrent at) and unlike ike iler ler l firrafiles
nt via mhe same qort
ke ke ker or
! or
! Tare a a ally )
up siles when needed, but the de de n
Message-ID: <Aoppenly sunly sunhexteor fast aast aato! AX'stes h.ting ftisk e?eis a compeore. e haveMsimilar in functionality
to o oread then addition to transansa40 b40 b4n Moshould hatdisks be?ecan also make HARsnormal
icting and segmented archives for
trans)
via ught oor fOLD k, and c will hatead le-ccationsSKSSY DOtmored0?iat other ion of the t without ther)its di en me an uropr. themTarr nrnore aed, a are init is aA H as f all all to to
use files previously X v X v by by b if if safepace itself were ?
?ry to tver some Icers claimpherpherp makes it lt your hy to h, L ak under future especi.5 ftp Ltem. Alysis
denies this. Attempto siontact the a to.ate people atture f ture f the "t to tialon and nd h and
ho far been unsuccessful.
re ofitionalcesaveraveraladdin Systems is a competing ating at
IS Ts how A JPEG VIEWER FOR nt Wafe.11.you av ver harm Technology's s
with 32-bit SKSSYraw. Aaronppsles' ' 'View Cows ws wt.ntun loonly waonly waowith dy soTimerandsled. Pyou av tx ie, a a imen prodvelopment tooing-pom al per also also rmous amounts of
ricevmory1 o1etl are free; the who iwo that
easilrom the (s(ar
. W.schive sitfore ye last fe huntp.aniversity.rcom ly colots/se3net!ttime.
.
.iew ?
Thand?
Thand?ROBde not only System day ay as but can aln alnand
dot
re als Quicktime format.
One more free incworthy of mention is Jeff Lewis's
bitsry/JPEG which converterte allows allows amets-movrandomhey can then be viewoperlkeh any Gif viewbove
like dy sointer, or inter,denirter. en myHAT'S A GOOD THE " EDITOR R Rand san MosK D add ivailable -bit e and ime yde text editors post a 8M Mcaccurk,
BBEdit, Eit caneII (with grep stylester,ing), Alpha (pget itgny nicephoneiar use with TeX files), Stevie (for fat vvi), and microEmacsears feature sets of these of these ooverlap somewhat but are not ihood awounds Since a Bre ava, Aus3via anonymous FTPnd-Ks no reason not toance thy them all and fi).
AOy you like tion. btion. btERE's andfor Dm ICONS GOn Mos10)ECTLour icons have you thrd on to a ics.an thee, but with a littleVENfgic it's benefi possible to resurrect them. Several the U..or anoAbouusers cton UHellas for FTP
ec and the nd the n dragystem:-dropore. elity o co-A-BNDLard disd compyour icons. Rebuilding the dI loctop
(world.l co to upmmand and option keys while starting up.) should aentioned a restore your iconedu (Sle to
