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Info-Mac Digest             Tue,  8 Sep 92       Volume 10 : Issue 215

Today's Topics:

      [*] Alias Director 3.0
      [*] CyberPort.sea.hqx
      [*] default-application-1.0d5.hqx
      [*] EasyTransfer
      [*] ircle 1.0
      [*] Print2Pict3.4
      [*] Report on Translating WordPerfect files
      [*] Savvy 0.1
      [*] Termy 2.0 - a CTB comms program
      !DeskPict 1.1 (Q)
      "Elizabethan" fonts?(Q)
      "Problems" with startup Icons (Q).
      "View by colour/lable" for fast system folder clearout?(Q)
      2MB PowerBook RAM available
      3 in Three (Q)
      Apple Marketing in Europe doesn't have a clue ...
      ARA WON'T INSTALL (Q)
      Compressing QuickTime movies
      Connecting from the Boonies [Q]
      Dead Macs
      DeskWriter Driver 3.1 (NetWork)
      Extensions Manager - new features (C)
      FDHD upgrade
      formatting floppies
      help! my computer has a bug
      Info-Mac Digest V10 #213
      Info-Mac Digest V10 #214
      Jasmine Driver (one more time)
      Kudos to NOW for 4.0 Startup Manager
      Mac-in-Dos Anywhere?
      Mac-in-Dos Anywhere? (A) (2 msgs)
      Machine Records
      MacTCP vs. file sharing? [Q]
      MacWrite Pro
      Need beep randomizer
      Not.
      Now Utilities 4.0 (C)
      PB 100 Scsi Cable
      power books and colur
      QuickTime & AD (A)
      QuickTime 1.1 (or 1.5 or whatever)
      Random StartupScreen CP?
      Rebuilding Desktop with ColorSwitch??
      Reset and Interrupt Switches on the IIsi
      Speedy Finder7 author
      Where/when is MacWrite Pro / Nisus ?

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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 92 11:03:50 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Tony Huang)
Subject: [*] Alias Director 3.0

Here is the latest version of Alias Director (version 3.0) I
downloaded from AOL.

Tony Huang
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/util/alias-director-30.hqx; 44K]

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Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 22:44:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Nick C De Mello <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] CyberPort.sea.hqx

Subj:  CyberPort, the ultimate desktop picture.
From:  Nick De Mello ([e-mail])
Date:  9/6/92

People:

    Included is a copy of "Cyberport" I found on the Berkeley Macintosh
    Use
rs Group BB.  It's gone from Cal to PA to Stanford.
    In case you didn't see the article on it in "MacWeek" in early '92,
    it'
s a PICT document that is the ultimate desk top picture.  There's an included
document by the creator, Jim Leftwich, which describes it in detail, but the
basic idea is that it simulates cyberspace.  A huge expanse of the matrix
framed by a window that emulates a high tech interface, including docking
bays for disks, and a trash chute.  You'll need a program to install it in
the desktop.  I used DeskPicture* from NOW Utilities*, but there are plenty
of programs out there that do the same thing.  The document is binhexed, and
compacted in a self extracting stuff it archive.  As a last word, I tip my
hat to mr. Leftwich, this is quite an impressive accomplishment.  You'll
see what I mean.


           Nick
          ([e-mail])

[Archived as /info-mac/art/cyberport.hqx; 299K]

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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 92 09:48 +1200
From: "Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University, Hamilton, NZ"
<[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] default-application-1.0d5.hqx

This is a utility I wrote for configuring the list of default applications
in Finder 7.0. Default applications are the ones used to open documents
of particular types, whose original creators can't be found; for example
Finder 7 comes configured as standard to allow you to open "TEXT" and "PICT"
files with TeachText.

There are other Finder-patching utilities around which can do the same
thing; what makes Default Application different is that it's a control
panel, so it's able to patch the running Finder without having to quit
and restart it, and without having to load INITs at boot time.

Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Computer Services Dept
University of Waikato
Hamilton, New Zealand
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/cp/default-application-10d5.hqx; 15K]

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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 92 12:01:29 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] EasyTransfer

Problems? Questions? Suggestions?
Mail me at:

         [e-mail]

Chris


What is EasyTransfer?

EasyTransfer and EasyTransfer-Server form a tool that allows users
to exchange files (Macintosh or otherwise) between Macintosh
computers. There is no need to compress and/or BinHex or manipulate
the files in any other way first. File transfer in synchronous,
so it gets the files across when you want it  and not with
days of mail queue delay. EasyTransfer allows you to send or
receive files to/from any Mac anywhere in the world, provided both
Macs are equipped with MacTCP.  It is designed for groups of people
who work together on some project and wish to exchange/update files
frequently. Compressing/BinHexing/Cutting-into-bits takes up a lot
of time which EasyTransfer eliminates. EasyTransfer is extremely
simple. It has no particularly fancy  user interface and apart from
sending or receiving files thereUs not a lot to it. This is quite
deliberate. It is meant to provide a *simple* and *quick* way of
transferring files without the need for an elaborate setup and many
configuration files. There is no need for special servers (eg. POP
hosts) or UNIX services. Absolutely no knowledge of networks etc.
is required. Users should be able to get it up and running in at
most ten minutes. Users who seek compatibility with Unix, or Mac e-
mail, should have a look at, for example, Eudora. Also, it is not
meant to substitute ftp, even though it can be used this way (if
you are looking for a Mac-style ftp client, try Fetch!).


EasyTransfer-Server is the server side. It runs in the background
(unless it is activated) and deals with incoming/outgoing files.
It uses little memory and very little CPU time when sleeping.
Clients who wish to transfer/deposit  files must have an account
(with optional password).  There is the possibility of an
TanonymousU login, which or may not be enabled. The TownerU of the
server may add/delete registered users at will.

EasyTransfer is the client. It is only run when you want to
transfer some files. You may transfer files to more than one
machine at a time (up to 30). The server is not required just to
drop/read files on some other machine (provided the other machine
has the server running, of course!).


System Requirements

EasyTransfer and EasyTransfer-Server require system software 6 or
higher and MacTCP. I have not tested it on MacPlus or older, but
would like to hear whether it runs/doesnUt run on older machines.

Limitations

EasyTransfer is not meant to be a substitute for e-mail etc. It certainly
makes
no attempt to create a sophisticated Mac based mail system. It is merely
providing a quick and easy means of sharing files.

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/easy-transfer.hqx; 58K]
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/easy-transfer-server.hqx; 58K]

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Date: 07 Sep 1992 14:23:30 +0100 (MET)
From: Olaf Titz <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] ircle 1.0

Here is version 1.0 of ircle, my Macintosh IRC client.
The sources come in a separate package.

Olaf

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/ircle-10.hqx; 123K]
[Archived as /info-mac/source/c/ircle-10.hqx; 178K]

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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 92 09:38:18 BST
From: [e-mail] (Baudouin Raoult)
Subject: [*] Print2Pict3.4

    This is version 3.4 of Print2Pict. It is a printer driver that
previews and saves printed pages to PICT files or the clipboard. It works
only under System 7 or later.

    Drop it in your extensions folder and select it with the Chooser.

    It has an on-line help you can copy to the clipboard and print u
sing any word processor. It also supports Balloon Help.

- Description:

    The PICT file format is the standard format for saving pictures
on a Macintosh. Most of the graphical applications can read these files.

    If you copy a page to the clipboard, it can be paste into any do
cument that can include pictures.

    You can use Print2Pict with any application that prints using the
standard Macintosh interface.

- What is new in version 3.4 ?

  * A bug in the handling of resolutions that prevented Print2Pict to work
     with some applications was fixed.
  * The default paper size and orientation can be chosen.
  * A background color or a background picture can be added to the pages.
  * The Postcard extension can now print without bombing.
  * Two new extensions: print to a ScrapBook file, Send pictures to remote
     applications.

- What was new in version 3.0 ?

  * Color and high resolution pictures when possible.
  * Custom "paper" sizes.
  * Full support of System 7's Balloon Help.
  * Any scale factors in the preview window.
  * Use of extensions to add new functionality:

     - Print to MacPaint file: The pages  are saved in MacPaint format.
     - Print to PICS: The pages are saved as the frames of a PICS movie.
     - Print to text: The text is extracted from the pages and saved in a text
       file.
     - PostCard: The pages are saved into a standalone application. You
     can edit
       a complex document with a DTP software, and then "print" it as a
       "PostCard". This postcard can then be sent to anyone, who can read
       it
       and print it without the DTP software.

[Archived as /info-mac/ex/print-2-pict-34.hqx; 130K]

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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 11:16 EST
From: "PROF. L.G. LEDUC" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Report on Translating WordPerfect files

Please find below my report on translating WordPerfect files from PC DOS
format to Word 5.0 on the Mac.

Leo G. Leduc
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/report/pc-wordperfect-files.hqx; 14K]

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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 92 11:04:22 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Tony Huang)
Subject: [*] Savvy 0.1

Here is a System extenstion that enhances the usefulness of
Finder 7's Get Info function. For applications, it displays an
icon in the Get Info window showing how System 7 savvy the
application is and whether it's 32 bit clean.

It is downloaded from AOL.

Tony Huang
msc.cornell.edu

[Archived as /info-mac/ex/savvy-10.hqx; 6K]

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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 92 18:43 WET
From: "Alun J. Carr" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Termy 2.0 - a CTB comms program

Enclosed is a copy of Termy release 2.0 from ICE, sent to me
by Tim Endres of ICE. It is Freeware and must not be
commercially distributed.

Termy is the successor to uATerminal. It is a comms program
using the Communications Toolbox (CTB), which is *not* included
(copies presumably available from bric-a-brac.apple.com).

In addition to file transfer (using the standard CTB tools, or
the new Kermit Tool written by Glenn Howes), Termy provides
facilities for Binhexing/UnBinhexing, MacBinary and uucp
conversion.

Please note that I am not the author, and that all comments
should be sent to:

    [e-mail]

I have no connection with ICE, save as a user of Termy, and I
think they deserve a round of thanks from us for making software
like this available for free.

Alun

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

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/termy-20.hqx; 161K]

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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 92 18:01:40 PDT
From: [e-mail] ( John Thoo )
Subject: !DeskPict 1.1 (Q)

Hello, folks!

Anyone out there using !DeskPict 1.1 by Clay Maeckel?
I just downloaded it, and like it very much, but ...

I'm using a Radius Color Pivot/LE.  Now, !DeskPict properly
scales the backdrop to fill the screen upon startup or restart
(whether in landscape or in portrait mode), but doesn't seem
to know to *rescale* the backdrop after I pivot the screen.

Does anyone know how I might coax !DeskPict into checking the
screen size each time after pivoting?  I dropped Clay a note
at the CI$ address in the included ReadMe file, but haven't
heard from him.

Also, does anyone know if NOW Utilities' DeskPicture works
properly with a Radius Pivot?  I know that a custom backdrop
is hardly a necessity, but then again ... ;-)

Thanks for your help.

Cheerio!
--John.
<[e-mail]>

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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 12:30 EST
From: WALLACE FELDMAN <[e-mail]>
Subject: "Elizabethan" fonts?(Q)

Date sent:  7-SEP-1992 12:27:25

Does anyone know of the existance of an "Elizabethan" style font?
(That is, one in which the lower case "s" looks very much like an "f"?)
Freeware, shareware or commercial sources are all suitable. Trtuetype or
postscript OK.

This is for a colleague who does not have net access. Please reply
directly to me.

Thanks.

Wally

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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 20:17 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: "Problems" with startup Icons (Q).

I have a large number of goodies with startup icons on my recently-acquired
Quadra 700 and I have noticed some differences in the way the icons display on
bootup compared to my previous IIsi machine.  Instead of a appearing in a
single
(largely) alphabetical sequence there appear to be two separate sequences.
The
first begins with Disinfectant 2.9, GateKeeper 1.2.6 (OK, so I'm
over-protected)
CEIAC (QuicKeys), CEToolbox (Ditto), DiskDoubler 3.7x, [Unknown icon],
[Unknown
icon], Suitcase II and TypeIt4Me 3.2.  The second sequence commences with
Virex
3.6 (Alright, already!), Extension Manager 1.6, After Dark 2.0v, Compatibility
2.2, DFaultD 2.2.2, (at this point an unknown number of icons completely
disappear into hyperspace at the right hand side of my Apple 13" HR monitor,
eventually reappearing on the left hand side with) Ram Disk Namer 1.0,
SuperClock 3.9.1 and [Unknown icon].  That there are indeed two sequences is
shown e.g. by the fact that the position of TypeIt4Me is not altered by
renaming
it to zTypeIt4Me.  That some icons are actually off-screen in the second
sequence can be demonstrated by the fact that appropriately renaming selected
icons causes them to vanish and previously off-screen ones to reappear and by
the fact that the left edge of one icon is frequently just visible at the
right
edge of the screen.  Finally, the first icon to reappear on the lefthand side
of
the monitor starts a new line above the previous icons but subsequent icons
drop
down and overlap with the first line.
    All of this prompts several questions:
    (i) Why are their two sequences and does it matter?
    (ii) Virex 3.6 "ought" to load first but neither the settings in it's
    co
   ntrol
panel nor appropriate renaming alter it's position - which is, of course,
"first" in the second sequence.  Does this matter?
    (iii) Is there any way to force the "off-screen" icons to display
    "on-sc
   reen"?
    (iv) Is there any way to prevent a second line of icons from
    superimposi
   ng
themselves on the first?
    (v) Why am I more interested in this problem than in all the tasks I
    "sh
   ould"
be doing on my Mac? (OK, you don't need to answer that one).
Thanks in  advance - Fergus.

Fergus J. Lalor, Department of Chemistry, University College,
Cork, Ireland.
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 14:32 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: "View by colour/lable" for fast system folder clearout?(Q)

I am one of those  folk, detested by AppleCentre servicepersons, who love
festooning their Macs with fun devices and extensions, one or two of which are
even practically useful. Inevitably I suffer occasional crashes and now and
then
have to request a visit from the said servicepersons - all of whom react
identically with "Get ALL of those @!!*&%!!!?! things out of your system
folder!". Some of this can be achieved by Extension Manager - but, so far as I
(in my ignorance) know not all (e.g. shareware fonts and sounds, various
preference and data files etc.). It occurred to me that it would be handy if I
could identify all non-barebones system items with a particular colour/lable
and
then have a "View by lable/colour" command which would bring all such items
together in the directories for ease of selection and removal. Can this be
done?
If so I would need idiot-proof instructions as I am a nifty user but have no
computing skills so that what goes on below the graphical interface is as
clear
to me as ancient Sumerian, which is to say not at all. Or perhaps this is a
naive question to begin with and there is a simpler way of achieving the same
result?
Thanks in advance - Fergus.

Fergus J. Lalor, Department of Chemistry, University College,
Cork, Ireland.
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 92 17:17 N
From: <[e-mail]> ([e-mail] FAX
FRANCE[33] 76-48-39...)
Subject: 2MB PowerBook RAM available

Distribution-File:
    [e-mail]

>>I just upgraded my 4MB PowerBook to 8MB and therefore have a 2MB module
>>available.  I don't necessarily want to sell it over the net but I'll

>Anyway, if someone gets one and wants your 2 MByte memory expansion,
>I've got a Connor 40 MByte left over here (I wonder if a drive from a

Hey why are you all so shy?  Whats wrong with selling this stuff over the
net ?  A lot more practical than some of the trivia we all engage in.

If anyone wants to know, I have a PB-100 2/20, and though I might yet give
it to my teenage daughter, could be persuaded to pick up a spare Ram card
or left over hard disk if the price is right.

Alan Hewat, ILL Grenoble, France. (email: [e-mail])

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Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 12:11:48 -0500 (CDT)
From: [e-mail] (Jeff W. Keys)
Subject: 3 in Three (Q)

Howdy Net,

I was wondering if anyone had had any experience conquering 3 in Three...  If
so please reply directly.  Thanks

Jeff W. Keys   Internet:  [e-mail]
Civil Engineering
Texas A&M University               Gig 'em Aggies!

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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 92 17:02 N
From: <[e-mail]> ([e-mail] FAX
FRANCE[33] 76-48-39...)
Subject: Apple Marketing in Europe doesn't have a clue ...

Distribution-File:
    [e-mail]

>I have been "in the UK market" for an entry level Mac since March, and at
>every branch of Lewis's, Dixons and Wildings where I have asked, I have
>been told by the men and women "on the shop floor" that they are extremely
>keen to sell Mac's, but are far from sure whether they will get an
>agreement with Apple to retail Mac's.

Don't try to understand Mac marketing in Europe (or in the States either).

France is the biggest Mac market outside the US.  You can now buy the low end
Macs in the local electrical supermarket, but the prices are similar to those
at the local Apple dealer, whose 31 August price list I have in front of me.
The private buyer must add about 20% to these prices for tax etc, while our
lab escapes this AND gets a discount of 10-25%.  But the official prices are
pure fantasy.  Apple marketing apparently doesn't even know that the old
Classic and LC (still on the list) should cost LESS not MORE than the new
models.

Classic 2/40              $1520
Classic-II 2/40           $1380  !!! less than the old classic
LC 4/40 +12"RGB           $2580
LC-II 4/40 +12"RGB        $2380  !!! less than the old LC
PB-100 4/40               $2180
PB-145 4/40               $2780  !!! cf PB-100
  .
Quadra 950 4/400          $11380

Remember to add 20% for a private buyer, but subtract 10-25% for a
government lab....OK, so the dollar is undervalued now but still....

This is why the Mac market is smaller than it could be in France, and largely
non-existant so far as I can see in the UK and Germany.

In the US, Apple marketing isn't much better...the PB-100 priced too close
to the 140, and then randomly unloaded too low.  Will Apple marketing learn
anything from the fact that the PB-100 would sell like hot cakes at $999 ?
I can't believe that the margins are too low at $999. PC makers can do it.
Young people who buy the 100, Classic and LC are Apple's future market -  if
those in Europe don't discover that they paid x2 the real (US) market price.

Alan Hewat, ILL Grenoble, France (email: [e-mail])

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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 92 22:23:38 -0700
From: [e-mail]
Subject: ARA WON'T INSTALL (Q)

Gentle Folk of the Net,

I can't seem to get Appletalk Remote Access to install on my Mac IIci 8/80,
running sys 7 and tuneup 1.1.1

I've tried turning off all extensions but that doesn't seem to help.  The
ARA installer tells me that it has installed successfully but when I reboot
and double-click on the application, I get a message saying either the
application didn't install correctly or one of the extensions is turned off,
but as far as I can tell the extensions installed are turned on.  I've
tried installing over and over again with the same result.

Can anybody tell me what is going on and how I can get the blasted thing
installed?  Thanks.

David Van Nuys
Psychology Dept.
Sonoma State University
Rohnert Park, CA

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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 92  10:03 BST
From: RICHARD LIM <[e-mail]>
Subject: Compressing QuickTime movies

I wouldn't agree with Adam Engst that you can't compress QuickTime movies
much.  I've found that I can get anything between 10-50% compression using
a variety of compression utilities.  The amount of compression seems to
have little to do with which program you use, and so far I can't figure
out what it is about a given movie that determines how much you can squeeze
out of it - whether it's the presence or absence of sound, or the frame rate,
or whatever.  My advice is that when you need to free space on your hard
disk (presumably that's why you'd want to squash your movies!) just go ahead
and try your luck.  You'll be pleasantly surprised how much some movies will
scrunch down

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Date: Mon, 07 Sep 92 06:31:16 EDT
From: Pat Pruyne <[e-mail]>
Subject: Connecting from the Boonies [Q]

Time to harness the awesome creative inertia of fellow readers:

In short: I am looking for connection options for a novice Mac user that I
advise who lives in a region with (apparently) no local BBS, MUGs or
InterNet public-access hosts.  By connection I mean a resource/gateway he
can dial his modem into to enter a peninsula of this wonderful electronic
world.

History: he bought a modem (v. happy w/ TelePort BTW) and signed on to AOL
until he ran $400 in the first month.  No kidding.  I tried Apple's MUG
referal group ([e-mail]) which provided a local MUG
with no BBS (they didn't know of any either).

He has often wondered aloud if there is an 800 number access anywhere.  Sounds
like a fine idea doomed by its inevitable popularity.

Any other ideas?  His phone area code is 413; western Massachusetts, and his
zip code is 01230, but I think more universally applicable answers are more
useful to fellow readers.

Much obliged,
Pat

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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 15:49 CST
From: "NAME \"Chip Eckardt\"" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Dead Macs

Help
I have a lab with 30 Macs that will not boot

BACKGROUND
Lab of 15 LCs and 15 LC IIs each has memory upgarde to 6 meg RAM
All running 7.01 with TuneUp 1.1.1
Only Extensions are latest version of Pyro and Virex 3.82
Software-PageMaker 4.0, Microsoft Works 2.0, SuperPaint 2.0, Hypercard 2.1
Lab has 2 Imagewriters on Appletalk and 1 LaserWriter IINT
We have deleted PrintMonitor from Macs (we charge for laser printing and the
print spooling was causing headaches with the vending card system we use).

PROBLEM
We have had anywhere from 2 to 25 Macs not boot (shows disk with "?")

What I DID
I scanned for viruses with Virex 3.82 (latest version) and Disinfectant
2.8--both programs say no viruses.
I would boot dead Macs from an external harddrive and the System Folder on the
internal drive from dead Mac would have a corrupted System and NO Finder.  My
"solution" was to re-format drive and copy everything from external drive.
[external drive was setup specifically to be a clone for drives in lab for
just
 such emergencies].  I then re-boot and re-build the desktop.  The Macs would
then work from 1 hour to three days but it would then die.

OTHER INFO
We turn all Macs on and off from 1 bank of switches.  Last semester there was
only 17 Macs running System 6.07 and no problems. (I know you should not power
off Macs without selecting shutdown from the menu but we did not do this last
semester and everything seemed to work).
When I do the Command-Option-Esc to force Finder to quit the Macs totally
lockup about 1 out of every three attempts.  This happens even if I boot with
the Shift key held down so no extensions load.
I reformatted a Mac LC in my office and reloaded software from the same drive
I
 used in the lab.  Then I kept turning the power on and off while I was doing
various things on it.  After four hours of this my LC was still running
flawlessly (except it would freeze sometimes when doing the Command-Option-Esc
"force quit")
I tried Disk1stAid on many of the Macs and it said everything was fine (this
was on Macs that were working)

ANY GUESSES??--

Chip Eckardt, Computing & Networking Services University of Wisconsin-Eau
Claire

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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 92 16:07:02 -0700
From: [e-mail]
Subject: DeskWriter Driver 3.1 (NetWork)

Apparently-To: [e-mail]

I'm trying to locate the network driver for the DeskWriter v3.1.

Is it located at Info-Mac? If so, can you tell me where it is located?

If not located at Info-Mac, then can someone please e-mail me a copy? Or
tell me where I can get a copy?

Thanks,
Lance

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Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1992 15:28:17 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Charlie Mingo)
Subject: Extensions Manager - new features (C)

[e-mail] (Pete Resnick) writes:

  > Scott <[e-mail]> writes:
  >
  >> Could some kind person take a minute and write a quick description of
  >> the file types which EM considers? They are:
  > ...
  > gc24 - ????
  > ...
  > Don't know what the gc24 is. Sorry.

  Could that be an extension for Apple's own GC*24 video card?  (The one
that still isn't properly supported by System 7.)



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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 92 12:31:45 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Alon Mogilner)
Subject: FDHD upgrade

Dear netters:
After reading the reply by Al Bloom to ? waxman (don't know his first
name), I feel I must respond. I upgraded my Mac II to an FDHD drive,
and I must admit I probably lost 10 pounds (of sweat) in the process.
However, I would have lost alot more if I hadn't had a copy of Larry
Pina's "Macintosh II Repair and Upgrade Secrets", which gives detailed
instructions as to how to go about doing it. Now, to Mr. (or Ms.)
waxman, based on your letter, a few things might have gone wrong:

1) first, you mentioned you installed the new ROMS. There are 4 ROMS
in the kit, HOWEVER there is another chip, called a SWIM, that comes
with the kit and must replace the IWM (Integrated Woz Machine, named
after Steve Wozniak) on the board, at location U66 or UI10. Now, this
chip is really tough to remove, since its a PLC chip which must be
recessed into its socket (I broke part of the casing removing it). To
remove it , you need a special tool or a very small screwdriver you
insert in the slot, and then rotate 90 degrees to pry out the chip.
SO, Did you install the SWIM??

2) the new ROMs must be placed in a specific order on the board. The
chips I got had slightly different part numbers than the one's in the
book, but I disregarded the final letter and used the part number.
(i.e. Pina says part # 342-0640B, whereas I got 342-0640C - the chips
are numbered 639,640,641,642).

My diagnosis is that the SWIM chip was either not put in or put in
incorrectly.

As to Al Bloom's statement that
> "There are some things that God did not mean civilians to succeed
> at, and the FDHD upgrade is one", -
  give me a break!! these apple technicians are no smarter
or more technically adept than you or I, and they charge ridiculous
fees for labor (Computer Era, NY's premier Macintosh Ripoff joint,
charges $75/hour, minimum 1.5 hours - that's $124.00 including tax
WITHOUT the part!!) With Larry Pina's book, I was able to upgrade in
about half an hour and not deal with those shiesters. In fact, it took
less time than installing Microsoft Word 5.0 and was more rewarding!

Well, I hope that Mr./Ms. Waxman gets a copy of that book and tries
again - don't give up yet!!


Alon Mogilner                   [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 11:27 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: formatting floppies

Can someone tell me the quickest way to format a large batch of floppies
(HD)?
Does the shareware utility Fast Formatter work, or is there a better
alternative?
                            Thanks,
                            Greg Hinson

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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 92 21:10:12 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: help! my computer has a bug

I never realized that there was any significant clearance between the
LCD screen and the fluorescent panel on a PowerBook, but somehow a
gnat has found its way into that space on my unit.  He or she is still
crawling around in there.  I feel that it would be in both of our best
interests to free him or her, but I don't know how to do it.

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Date: 07 Sep 1992 07:42:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rick Lesniak <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V10 #213

>
>Date: Fri, 04 Sep 92 09:59:49 EDT
>From: [e-mail]
>Subject: PC Exchange Software
>
>Has anyone had any experiences with Apple's PC Exchange
>Software - good, bad, or ugly?
<

I got PC Exchange a couple of weeks ago, after using Dayna's DOS Mounter for
quite a long time.  PC Ex installed easily on my PB 140, and runs MUCH faster
that DOS Mounter.  It seems to be doing the job well in terms of identifying
and mounting non-Mac diskettes.  Application files associated to Mac products
open the app properly, etc.  No complaints here. I really like having a
PC diskette icon when MS-Dos formatted diskettes are mounted.  DOS Mounter
shows DOS and mac diskettes as the same icon (plain diskette) which can be
confusing.

One slight quirk, although very minor.  Insert a Mac diskette and erase it
to reformat selecting a DOS format will persist with a MAC icon until the
disketted is remounted (and vice versa). This is confusing. You're not sure
whether the format was properly selected...?

I give the product four "Cupertinos"!

Cheers,
    Rick

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Date: Mon, 07 Sep 92 22:23:22 EDT
From: Clare Durst <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V10 #214

Most of the Appleshare network I manage is SEs, with 4 meg ram but
still the 68000 chip. The users are accustomed to Word4 and there's no
real compelling reason to go to (or buy) 25 copies of Word 5. However,
I wanted to have a copy around to use for special purposes, but let them
continue to use the (much faster) Word 4. So I bought one. When I put it
on my own disk to check it out, every document on the disk always opened
in Word 5, not in 4. Trying to figure out what to do about this, I asked
on my local net, and someone told me that "it's too bad Word 5 doesn't
save in Word 4 format."  That was calumny to me, and when asked where he
read this, my correspondent said, in MacUser. Sure enough, in the
October issue, Andy Ihnatko's column ( p.29), says,"if a Word 4 user
gives you a document for editing, you'll have no way of handing the
document back in 4.0 format; you'll have to transform it into a prehistoric
Word 3 file".
     Now, a) before anyone believes this: the file type is identical
between Word 4 and Word 5. NO PROBLEM. No reason to "SAVE AS" bec. it's
IDENTICAL! (I don't know about SOUNDs attached, though)
      b) How can someone get away with this kind of inaccuracy? Doesn't
anyone PROOFREAD what columnists write? In the same issue are lots of
articles on connectivity!

p.s. the solution to the don't-use-word5-accidentally is: if you have
word 4 on your boot disk, that's what opens up. You have to work at it
to use Word 5. Which is precisely what I want to happen.

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Date: MON, 07 Sep 92 20:31:05 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Jasmine Driver (one more time)

Jasmine being out of business, it's useless trying to call them for a new
driver. Instead contact: Seagull Software  2435 Faber Place Suite 100
Palo Alto CA 94303  [phone]  FAX [phone].
The message above is a reply to a comment in Info-Mac 10 213.
Get the new driver now while Seagull Software is still flying, it's 30$.

Louis Bergeron [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 92 14:43:14 -0400
From: "Alan D. Danziger" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Kudos to NOW for 4.0 Startup Manager

I have to tell the world...  Now Software has _SERIOUSLY_ impressed me
with one very minor aspect of Now Utilities 4.0.

Startup Manager _SOMEHOW_ makes all my startup icons behave.  They
don't overwrite each other anymore.  I'm amazed.  I actually applauded
when I first saw it. *grin*  (Talk about a Mac geek... This excited
me.  My girlfriend already knew I'm nuts, though, so it's alright.)

Now, I'll probably have to read the manual to find out how to get the
control panels & extensions to be alphabetically sorted all together
rather than in each category, but that's alright, it still works this
way. ;)

My only complaint is that the package seems to use _more_ memory than
the competing software (Now Menus v. HandOff II & SuperMenu, Super
Boomerang vs. ShortCut (or Directory Assistance II)) even though the
"Now Toolbox" is supposed to hold "shared" resources & memory to cut
down the total...  Of course, this could be my imagination.  I just
noticed the System Heap requirements going from about 2.5 meg to 3.3
meg when I installed 4.0, even though I _removed_ Directory Assistance
and HandOff SuperMenus.  As soon as I read up on Now Menu's
Application menu I can get rid of HandOff II (*sob*), though, which
will free up about 200k if I remember correctly.

Anyway, I just wanted to publically acknowledge my admiration for Now
Utilities 4.0...  And note that the things I don't like about it I (so
far) have been able to change.  I'll just _HAVE_ to finish RTFM'ing...

    -=Alan

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Date: Mon, 07 Sep 92 14:49:39 EST
From: Murph Sewall <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mac-in-Dos Anywhere?

On Fri, 04 Sep 92 18:16 PDT you said:
>'Couple of months ago, this extension-thing called Mac-in-DOS arose from the
>depths to enable PC users to read floppies in Mac format.  It's apparently
>a TSR (Terminate-and-Stay-Rickety) program that works under DOS 5 (so it
>wouldn't be in the Mac archives, I s'pose).  Has anybody seen it around?

Mac-in-DOS is commercial software.  Someone who was unaware of its
status found it on a BBS someplace and sent it to info-mac.  It was
quickly identified as a commercial product and removed from info-mac
(and presumably the mirrors as well).

I'm not really familiar with the product, but if I remember correctly
(and I may not), the version that briefly appeared on the Internet was
not the latest and conflicted with other TSR programs under DOS 5 (or
under Windows or something).

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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 92 10:28:50 -0400
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mac-in-Dos Anywhere? (A)

In 10-214 Michael A. Reed asks where to find Mac-in-Dos on the Internet.

Let's hope the answer is nowhere. Mac-in-Dos is a commercial product by
Pacific Micro. One version keeps cropping up on the various Mac or DOS
archives in error. If you see it anywhere, tell the SysOp to remove
it--FAST!

Jeff Needleman  <[e-mail]>

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Date: Mon, 07 Sep 92 14:32:18 CDT
From: Don Walter <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mac-in-Dos Anywhere? (A)

     Mac-in-Dos is a program from Pacific Microelectronics that lets
you read/write/format Mac disks.  About a year ago I saw a posting
that listed its price at $199.

     There is a crippled demo of Mac-in-Dos called MAC-DOS.ZIP that
has been removed from most archives.  I looked at MAC-DOS.ZIP when
it was first released, but it didn't seem to work.

     The number for Pacific Microelectronics (possibly old) is
800-628-3475 or 415-948-6200.

     Don Walter
     [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 16:39 EST
From: Carlo Fusco <[e-mail]>
Subject: Machine Records

Hello,

Does anyone have an up to date version of machine records for Speedometer
3.1?  A complete record of all Mac's is prefered, but, any will do.
If it is available somewhere, can someone tell me where it is.

Carlo Fusco
[e-mail]

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Date: 08 Sep 1992 11:58:15 +1200
From: "matt n." <[e-mail]>
Subject: MacTCP vs. file sharing? [Q]

Do file-sharing and MacTCP conflict under system 7? That is, might
the reason I am having trouble getting TCP to work be that I have
file sharing turned on on my computer?

-- thanks, as always --
 --------
matt neuburg, phd = [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 07 Sep 92 14:50:15 EST
From: Murph Sewall <[e-mail]>
Subject: MacWrite Pro

On Sun, 6 Sep 92 03:44:15 CDT you said:
>I talked to Claris a couple of weeks ago about something, and while I
>had them on the phone, I asked about MacWrite Pro.  The guy said that
>the most recent word from the gods was "around the end of the year."
>When I asked if this was serious or not, he declined to comment.

Take a date, any FUTURE date; add three to six months and you have as
accurate a forecast for the release date of MacWrite Pro as you've had
for the last two years :-(

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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 92 12:08:05 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Darren Cokin)
Subject: Need beep randomizer

I have been reading the digests for a while, and I remeber there was a
program that would play a different sound for every system beep.  I didn't
want it then, but I do now.  Unfortunatly I forget the name, and was unable
to find it by 'grep'ing the .abs files, for words like random and beep.  If
anyone knows where on sumex (or any other site) this is let me know.  If you
know the name, but not where it is, let me know anyway so I can check archie.
Thanks.

                     Darren
                     [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 07 Sep 92 11:28:41 GMT
From: Michael Everson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Not.

Forwarded from The Linguist List <[e-mail]>

Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 22:50 CDT
From: [e-mail] (Katherine Elizabeth Krohn   )
Subject: ". . .Not!"

This juicy tidbit had been forwarded from MEDTEXT-L.  The names have
been omitted to protect the guilty:

Hmm, I have kids older than my younger sibling.  You might be amused
by a Macintosh init I saw recently that replaces all 'negatively'
phrased dialog boxes with positively phrased ones and replaces the
"OK" button with "NOT"

"Your file was saved successfully"  [NOT]

(Pretty awful, what? --Katie Krohn)
 ------------------

Michael Everson
School of Architecture, UCD, Richview, Clonskeagh, Dublin 14, E/ire
Phone: [phone]  Fax: [phone]

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Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1992 15:56:59 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Charlie Mingo)
Subject: Now Utilities 4.0 (C)

The Esteemed Murph Sewall <[e-mail]> writes:

  > On the other hand, I don't see Now 4 as a great improvement over
  > 3.0.2. Maybe more like Now 3.5?
  >
  > It's too soon to draw a conclusion, but I don't think
  > the new SuperBoomerang adds much to the functionality I had already..

    One thing I like about SB is that you can now search "Recent Folders"
up to five levels deep (SB 3 would just let you see the contents of each
recent folder).  On the other hand, the Recent Folders are relegated to
a submenu within the first SuperBoomerang menu (they used to be above
recent items).

    SB's find ability is improved, as it can now search for text within
files (even if they're compressed).

  > StartUp Manager now moves disabled extensions, cdev's and so forth to
  > separate folders.  The SAME names as Extension Manager (makes it
  > Extension Manager compatible).  Other than that, I don't immediately
  > see any change in functionality (for those who prefer the old way of
  > simply tinkering with filetypes, I don't see any reason why you can't
  > just keep using 3.0.2's StartUp Manager).

   Startup Manager now lets you control StartUp applications as well as
init/cdevs.  It also lets you open cdevs from within Startup Manager
(useful if you're trying to figure out what the heck some cdev is).
I also can add a ShowInit icon for each 'hidden' init.

  > Now Menu's shows Icons, but their in boring one bit :-(  I may envoke
  > the option to turn them off because they're so ugly.  One thing that
  > does look interesting is the document memory (it's possible to launch
  > an app used earlier in the day and have it open the same documents
  > that were opened before).  Maybe by next week I'll be wondering how I
  > ever lived without this new feature?

   NOW Menu also lets you resize applications on the fly (in the manner
of AppSizer).  You can reorder your Apple menu (adding separators and all)
to be more functional, and can set each application to open in a different
bit depth or sound level.

  > It's really too early to tell whether the $29
  > invested in the upgrade was cost effective.

   I thought is was well worth the price.  Yes, some of the improvements
could have been added using shareware (like AppSizer), but it's much
nicer to have them in an integrated format (and you'd have to send in
money anyway to avoid AppSizer's irritating dunning message).

   Frankly, I don't care much about the loss of AlarmsClock, because (i)
it didn't even work properly (made the system clock on my Mac pause and
skip backwards!), and (ii) SuperClock! is a perfectly functional
replacement.



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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 92 16:08:02 -0700
From: [e-mail]
Subject: PB 100 Scsi Cable

I have a question regarding the PB 100 SCSI cable. I just purchased a PB
100 and I want to get the cable that will let me hook it up to my IIci as
an external drive. What is the least expensive place to purchase such a
cable. I saw one at MacWarehouse for $49; anyone seen a better price?

Thanks,
Lance

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Date: Mon, 07 Sep 92 10:59:16 MST
From: Leigh Benson <[e-mail]>
Subject: power books and colur

Has any body had any luck with powerbooks and color monitors?
I want to hear your horror stories.
also what is the cheepest ways to get color from a powerbook without loosing
to
o much quality and compatibility

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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 92 10:34:38 -0400
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <[e-mail]>
Subject: QuickTime & AD (A)

In 10-124, Adam C. Engst opines that AutoDoubler won't do too well
compressing QuickTime movies, since they're already heavily compressed.

Adam's right, as usual. The "not-the-waltons" movie in sumex is 1197k
uncompressed on my disk and 1089k by the AutoDoubler Smaller method, for a
savings of 9% or 112k. Not a big help.

Jeff Needleman  <[e-mail]>

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Date: 07 Sep 1992 14:20:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: QuickTime 1.1 (or 1.5 or whatever)

    Anyone out there know the release date for the new QuickTime yet?
    I've
heard sometime in October, but nothing specific.  And is it going to be
version
1.1 or version 1.5?
                Thanks,
                    Ryan S. Leasher
                    Internet:  [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 07 Sep 92 14:50:51 EST
From: Murph Sewall <[e-mail]>
Subject: Random StartupScreen CP?

On Sat, 5 Sep 92 20:21:26 edt <Spice@UCONNVM> said:
>I'm looking for a Control Panel which will show a random startup screen each
>time you start your computer.  I was using Dawn but now I can't seem to find
>it anywhere (I lost all the info on my hard drive).  Can someone tell me
>where I can find it or something similar?

Jon Pugh's randomizer has vanished from sumex again.  I guess everyone
who wanted it got it.  You can find it at ftp.apple.com
/pub/pugh/randomizer.hqx

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Date: Mon, 07 Sep 92 14:53:33 EST
From: Murph Sewall <[e-mail]>
Subject: Rebuilding Desktop with ColorSwitch??

On Mon, 7 Sep 92 10:57:18 EDT(-0400) you said:
>In the info-mac digest, you write:
>> Haven't you noticed that every time Finder restarts the System heap is a
>> few hundred K larger than it was before.
>
>No, I haven't.  And I do restart the Finder rather frequently because I have
>some problem (conflict?) which causes the Finder to run out of memory
>regularly; I kill the Finder using cmd-opt-esc and it restarts
automatically.
>It comes back with the system heap exactly as it was.  Perhaps you too are
>blessed with a conflict?

Maybe I misspoke.  What about "free memory" (actually, I don't care what
the heap size is so much as the amount of free space I can use to launch
an app.  Today, an app complained about not having enough space to launch
in, so I closed another app but got not one byte more of free space to
work in.  System 7 fragments memory and there doesn't seem to be anyway
to defrag it :-(  Killing Finder always makes the problem worse on systems
I use :-(  Maybe someone's got an FKEY or an app or something that can
reorganize things?  I certainly hope 7.1 improves memory management.

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Date: Mon, 07 Sep 92 17:53 CDT
From: Dominik Hoffmann <[e-mail]>
Subject: Reset and Interrupt Switches on the IIsi

Hi!

Recently, I bought a Mac IIsi as part of Apple's Back-To-School-Sale.
I was very surprised to find out though, that it is not equipped with
either Reset or Interrupt switches. Even the PowerBooks have a provi-
sion for executing those actions.

I'm running it with a Radius video card that seems to feed the PDS
through. Theoretically I should have access to those two lines on that
slot. Couldn't I plug a connector into that slot with my own switches
attached to it to attain the functionality of the typical Reset and
Interrupt switches?

Dominik Hoffmann

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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 20:09:56 -0800
From: Scott Allen Gruby <[e-mail]>
Subject: Speedy Finder7 author

I just got SpeedyFinder7 control panel and really like it. I am trying to
contact the author, Victor TAN, via email. The only address that I have
access to is through applelink and the adderss he gave was AUST0116. I got
a response from AUST0116 who said I have the wrong address. Does anyone
have his correct address?

Thanks.

Scott Gruby
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 92 17:39 N
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Where/when is MacWrite Pro / Nisus ?

>get Nisus (educational price is $99)...
>...and a major upgrade of Nisus also is in the
>works (it's late too, but not as late as MW Pro :)

Which suggests, that, after MW Pro has been released, we will only have to
wait one more year to get the new Nisus :)

Dan Wismer      University of Fribourg          Switzerland

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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 92 15:16:34 PDT
From: Paulo Irulegui <[e-mail]>

Subject: OzTeX font files --- how to download *.sit files.


To all:


Thanks to all who educated me on how to move binary files on the network and
over the phone. The OzTeX font files at midway.uchicago.edu and
giza.cis.ohio-state.edu are working fine. To bring the  *.sit files from these
machines to your mac, follow these steps:

1) After you access the appropriate subdirectory in these  machines, type
``binary'' at the ftp> prompt, before you transfer the files to your local
machine.

2) To kermit these files from your local machine to your mac, type ``set file
type binary'' before you send the files to your machine. Use macbinary mode.

Another solution is to get the *.sit files in binhex form from
rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.1.12] (Germany) in directory
/soft/tex/machines/mac/OzTeX.

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