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- Info-Mac Digest Thu, 5 Nov 92 Volume 10 : Issue 266
-
- Today's Topics:
-
- [*] AppleShareSetup CDEV
- [*] bo-rad-101.hqx
- [*] Ren & Stimpy Oath Picture.cpt.hqx
- [*] Spectre World Editor 1.3
- 7.1 and older Macs (A)
- A little more info, more pieces... (2 msgs)
- Anagram unscrambler?
- APDA's email address (A)
- APDA Info
- ARA no longer bundled with Powerbooks!
- Archie and other online services...
- Atari Disk in SuperDrive? (Was Re: Mac Atari ST emulator)
- AutoCAD IBM --> Mac file format
- Autosaver for any App
- Backing out of folders problem.
- CAD on macs - advice please [Q]
- Canon BJ 820-Quadra probs
- Cost of computers
- Curiosity about PB100 waking up. (R)
- Desktop Files: Trashing and Rebuilding (Q)
- FTPing from a mac
- Genealogy Programs for Mac (A)
- GIFConverter woes (Q)
- Hiding Apps in Sys7 (A)
- How can I change the font in TeachText? (Q)
- Hypercard & Quicktime
- id'ing sims (more summary)
- id'ing sim speeds (summary)
- IIci 50Mhz 030's
- Invisible init.
- LC III
- Mac benchmarks please
- Mac IIvx and 16" Apple Monitor?? (Q)
- mac interface lacking powerful abstractions to do work
- MacTCP 1.1.1
- Mixing network types on a Mac (Q)
- MovieShop
- My kitty uses Zterm.
- Naming printers (A)
- New one for the Mac Secret Trick list (Al & Jeff)
- Now Utilities 4.0.1 updater
- NOW Utilties and WYSIWYG Font Menu Problem
- PB100 Battery Not Fully Charging (A)
- Pg Mker 4.2
- PostScript Errors with Word 5.0
- Power cord for StyleWriter
- Programming a progress window
- RasterOps (O=Opinion)
- Sharing serial devices (A)
- Stylewriter problems
- Sys7.1 Finder Address Error on Cold Boot EUREKA!
- TeXtures, Postscript example
- Unix on Macs
- What machine should I get? (Q)
- where is speedy-finder?
- Where to find large Worldmap ? (Q)
-
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-
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- any password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu
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-
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- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Date: 4 Nov 1992 19:24:49 -0700
- From: "Apgar, Eric" <apgar#m#_eric@msgate.corp.apple.com>
- Subject: [*] AppleShareSetup CDEV
-
- by Jim Luther, Apple Developer Technical Support
-
- The AppleShareSetup control panel is free software and can be
- distributed freely by individuals. For commercial distribution or
- bulletin board distribution please contact Apple Software Licensing.
-
- AppleShareSetup is distributed "as is" and unsupported by Apple.
- Please don't call Apple for technical support on this program.
-
-
- ********** System Requirements **********
-
- This control panel only works with the AppleShare 3.0, AppleShare
- 7.1, and future AppleShare Chooser extensions under both System 6
- and System 7. It does not work with the AppleShare 2.0 Chooser
- extension under System 6 or the AppleShare 7.0 or 7.0.1 Chooser
- extension under System 7 - the configuration features just aren't
- there.
-
- The AppleShare Chooser extension must be in the "Extensions"
- folder under System 7, or in the "System Folder" under System 6.
-
- ********** What's it do? **********
-
- The AppleShareSetup control panel lets you set or disable various
- options supported by the AppleShare Chooser extension. With
- AppleShareSetup, you can:
-
- * Make specific AppleShare alerts "time-out" after a set amount of
- time. For example, you can make the "The file server is closing down
- in x minute(s)" alert automatically dismiss itself after 10 seconds.
-
- * Completely disable all AppleShare alerts.
-
- * Disable AppleShare "Greeting" messages.
-
- * Disable some auto-mount features.
-
- Full Balloon Help is provided under System 7. Turn on Balloon
- Help (and read your AppleShare manuals) if you can't figure this
- control panel out.
-
-
- Apgar@Apple.com | Eric Apgar alias Gar | I said it, NOT Apple.
-
-
- [Archived as /info-mac/ex/appleshare-setup.hqx; 37K]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1992 23:24:40 -0600
- From: Eric Strand <strand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Subject: [*] bo-rad-101.hqx
-
- Bo-Rad! v1.01 by Joe Fleck
-
- This is an upgraded version of Bo-Rad with a bug-fix and
- documentation update on some of the hidden features.
-
- Have fun!
-
- -Joe Fleck
- 11/1/92
- -------------------------------------------------------------
- This is a souped up version of a board game by which the player
- places colored dots in combinations and receives hints as to
- the ultimate combination. There are many features to the game
- such as a great score list and timed events where the puzzle
- is mixed. Hope you have some fun with it.
-
- 32 bit clean, sys 7.0 compatible, color\b/w, etc.
-
- You are free to copy and pass along the game as long as the original
- files remain intact (excluding the great scores list).
-
- -Joe Fleck
- 10/26/92
-
- [Archived as /info-mac/game/bo-rad-101.hqx; 166K]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 2 Nov 92 01:33:27 -0800
- From: kc@netcom.com (Dameon D. Welch)
- Subject: [*] Ren & Stimpy Oath Picture.cpt.hqx
-
- Color Picture to go along with Ren & Stimpy Oath Snd. Pictures Ren & Stimpy
- with Stimpy's hand on the TV screen. Can be read with GIF Converter or similar
- utilities.
-
- [Archived as /info-mac/art/gif/ren-stimpy-oath.hqx; 134K]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Sun, 1 Nov 92 20:19:15 PST
- From: jafl@Alice.Wonderland.Caltech.EDU (John Lindal)
- Subject: [*] Spectre World Editor 1.3
-
- Spectre World Editor 1.3 Edit the Spectre game grid layout and colors.
- Stone Henge structures confuse the robots!
- Now you can also copy the worlds from one
- copy of Spectre to another and you have a manual.
-
- John Lindal
- jafl@alice.wonderland.caltech.edu
-
- [Archived as /info-mac/game/spectre-world-editor-13.hqx; 119K]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 08:27:44 -0800
- From: fdm@WLV.IIPO.GTEGSC.COM (Frank D. Malczewski)
- Subject: 7.1 and older Macs (A)
-
- >Actually, there is only one little bitty thing wrong between MODE32 and
- >System 7.1 -- VM dies when MODE32 is active. But why would you invoke
- >VM if you have all kinds of memory? I have MODE32 active on Leslye's II
- >and my office IIcx, each with 20MB of real memory. No need to invoke VM.
- >And 7.1 works dandy.
- >
- >Al Bloom, Virginia Tech
-
- This is not a minor ("little bitty") thing. If you only have 8MB of RAM, and
- you need to use, say, 16MB (can you say "MacApp"?), then you are S.O.L. I
- want my 32-bit clean Mac II ROMs!
-
- Anybody know if you don't really need to do the SuperDrive upgrade in order
- to use those special PAL 4MB SIMMs on a II? The last Mac Memory Config TN
- seemed to imply this was the case, but verification would be nice...
-
- --
-
- Frank Malczewski (fdm@wlv.iipo.gtegsc.com)
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 08:42:07 -0500
- From: tvr1@cornell.edu (Tarun V. Reddy)
- Subject: A little more info, more pieces...
-
- Hi guys (or gals as the case may be),
- Appearently there is quite some interest in the ``Crush other
- kids'' movie as I have received mail from 7 people wanting it. Steve Jones
- has informed me (and now you) that the movie is indeed from Sat. Night
- Live. He also says that he has a sound clip of the end of the commercial
- ("McIntosh Jr. The power to crush other kids"). If he could send me that
- clip (BinHex'd to this address) that would be great. I don't want to post
- his address and have him overwhelmed with request, so if you want a copy
- I'll be happy to forward it to you.
- So the search goes on...
-
- BTW, if I find it, how do I send it to the Info-Mac archives for everyone
- to get it?
-
- Tarun
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 14:45:22 -0600
- From: Neil Eric Mickelson <nem52463@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Subject: A little more info, more pieces...
-
- Tarun -
- If you find either the sound clip or the QT MooV, please send me a
- copy. As for posting it to the archives, you need to look at the README
- file on POSTING in the lowest level of the Info-Mac directory on SUMEX.
- Thanks a lot!
- Neil
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 11:26:21 PST
- From: "Don W." <webbd@CCVAX.CCS.CSUS.EDU>
- Subject: Anagram unscrambler?
-
- I've just rec'd a forwarding from an e-friend that offers
- possibilities...
-
- >If you rearrange the letters in: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER THIRD
- >
- >You get: MANY VOTED, BUSH RETIRED
-
- This is positively ingenious! Just think: no more hunting
- through the paper for your horoscope, no more painfully picking
- up scattered jackstraws, no more shuffling Tarot cards, no more
- messy tea leaves or chicken entrails! This is prognostication
- for the Space Age.
-
- But I don't have time to unscramble phrases like "Thursday,
- November fifth" to find out what might happen. By the time
- I finish, the race is already over and I haven't bet on my horse
- yet. Is there a little application or Hypercard stack somewhere
- that will unscramble anagrams in a jiffy? Who knows, maybe
- "It's morning in America" will be revealed to say, in effect,
- "Welcome to the Twilight Zone."
-
- This is the next best thing to playing records backwards...
-
- Don W. (DonWebb@CSUS.EDU)
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 08:20:35 EST
- From: Andrew E. Scheck <aes@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu>
- Subject: APDA's email address (A)
-
- APDA's email address is 'APDA@applelink.apple.com'
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 4 Nov 1992 19:01:38 -0700
- From: "Apgar, Eric" <apgar#m#_eric@msgate.corp.apple.com>
- Subject: APDA Info
-
- APDA
- Box 319
- Buffalo, NY 14207-0319
-
- US 800-282-2732
- Canada 800-637-0029
- International 716-871-6555
- Fax 716-871-6511
-
- Applelink: APDA
- AOL: APDA
- CompuServe: 76666,2405
- Internet: APDA@applelink.apple.com
-
- Apgar@Apple.com | Eric Apgar alias Gar | I said it, NOT Apple.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 19:27:42 GMT
- From: saunders@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Kevin Saunders)
- Subject: ARA no longer bundled with Powerbooks!
-
- >In article <1CE00001.hs06kr@tbomb.ice.com> time@ice.com (Tim Endres) writes:
- >And what will pay to have the ARA protocols work over PPP, and other
- >coming technology that would will wish to utilize? IT may be somewhat
- >idealistic to think things will work one-to-one like this, but I believe
- >in funding things that are needed.
-
- Yup, ARA is an awesome example alright: one of Apple Brain Damage.
- Sure it *works*, and from the user's point of view it's nice, as long
- as you're not using it on an SE... but the guts of the protocol are
- INCREDIBLY UGLY (and non-standard in wonderfully undefined ways,
- i.e., v42bis compression is implemented over MNP framing).
-
- ARA should have been written to conform to PPP from day one. And
- it should have been written to support genuine network point-to-pont
- links, rather than spoofing the remote network into thinking your Mac
- is local.
-
- That it was not is just another Apple-NIH (Not Invented Here) symptom.
-
- Pathetic!
- bonze
-
- --
- Kevin Eric Saunders (a/k/a bonze blayk!), CometMonger--"NeXT, please!"
- saunders@nmc.cit.cornell.edu
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 05 Nov 92 10:46:40 EDT
- From: Marc Posner <mposner@student.med.harvard.edu>
- Subject: Archie and other online services...
-
- This may be a FAQ, but I haven't seen it yet...
-
- What is this 'archie' system I've heard several people
- mention? Where is it, and how does it work?
-
- On a related note, is there a list (somewhere) of other
- electronic "magazines", like Info-Mac, that can be
- subscribed to on the Net?
-
- Thanks in advance.
-
- Marc (mposner@student.med.harvard.edu)
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 04 Nov 92 17:58:20 EST
- From: jonesr2@rpi.edu
- Subject: Atari Disk in SuperDrive? (Was Re: Mac Atari ST emulator)
-
- Hmm...well, is it possible to read an Atari ST format disk (old format...
- the ones that need a new boot sector before an IBM can read them). I
- moved from an ST to a Mac recently, and have some files I want to move
- and can't since the ST disk drive died. Can a SuperDrive _just_ read IBM,
- OS/2, ProDos, and Mac, or is it programmable to read any reasonable format?
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 05 Nov 92 12:17:40 EST
- From: Rob Smyser <smyser@Athena.MIT.EDU>
- Subject: AutoCAD IBM --> Mac file format
-
- Gerhard writes:
-
- >> I need to convert AutoCAD (IBM) files to a
- >> Mac format. Almost any format will do (PICT, EPS,
- >> TIFF, standard Postscript, whatever).
-
- Several approaches:
- - use AutoCAD 10's "Postscript Device" plotter driver. Plot to a
- file. The result in release 10 is a barebones PS file full of
- "moveto" and "lineto" statements. Anything that can read
- postscript ought to be able to read that. Release 11 creates
- an EPS file, which may be more what all these postscript-reading
- programs really read, but I'm not sure about that.
-
- - use AutoCAD 10's DXFOUT command to make a DXF, which is an ascii
- representation of the drawing. Shift that over to the Mac and
- use a program (I believe Freehand works) that reads DXF.
-
- Word for Windows reads DXF as a graphic format -- you could read
- it into Word for Windows, transfer the DOC file to the Mac; in
- Word 5.0, I believe the graphic becomes a PICT.
-
- - AutoCAD 11 on the Mac will now copy drawings into the clipboard,
- i.e., convert them to PICT on the fly. That would probably work
- if someone had the Mac version.
-
- By hook or by crook, one of these ought to work if you have all the
- programs.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 10:28:52 PST
- From: mangalam@salk-sc2.sdsc.edu
- Subject: Autosaver for any App
-
- A friend of mine has the following query:
-
- Do you know of a Mac utility that will automatically save the file of
- whatever app you are working in at preset times, like every 5 or 15 min?
- My word processor does it (Nisus) very nicely, to 2 disks, creating auto
- backup in the process. The office staff here asked me to look for
- something
- that would work with all programs. My reading of the ads for all the
- various
- commercial utilities gives no joy. A friend in Minnesota said that he
- thought
- he had seen something called saveomatic (???) or such on SUMEX. Have you
- run across anything like this?
-
- I've looked on sumex to no avail.. Anyone know of such a beast? Please
- post to me directly and I'll summarize to info-mac as soon as I find the
- creature.
- Thanks
- Harry
-
- Harry Mangalam Vox:(619) 453-4100, x250
- Dept of Biocomputing Fax:(619) 552-1546
- The Salk Institute mangalam@salk-sc2.sdsc.edu
- 10010 N Torrey Pines Rd mangalam@salk-sgi.sdsc.edu
- La Jolla CA 92037 mangalam@salk.bitnet
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 10:00 EST
- From: PC Coordinator <LFINKELSTEIN@vax.clarku.edu>
- Subject: Backing out of folders problem.
-
- For the past 2 days I have noticed a problem on my PB100 running sys 7.1.
-
- When I am in an application, and I go to open, or save a file I can't back
- out of the folder I am in by clicking on it's name. I never had this problem
- before, and don't know what could be causing it. Now, I have to click on the
- Desktop button and go in that way.
-
- At first I thought it was a TeachText problem, but I noticed it again this
- morning with Z-Term, and Microsoft Word 5.0.
-
- Is this a bug, or did I just, accidentally, set some variable incorrectly.
-
- Thanks.
-
-
- Loren Finkelstein
- LFINKELSTEIN@VAX.CLARKU.EDU
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 9:24:31 +1100
- From: hughc@cs.unsw.oz.au (Hugh Clapin)
- Subject: CAD on macs - advice please [Q]
-
-
- My wife is a theatrical designer (sets, props and costumes), and
- I am an avid mac fan. She is beginning to think that it would
- immensely useful for us to upgrade our plus to something she could
- use to design on. The work she needs the mac for is roughly equivalent
- to architectural drafting, although a capability for 3D-modelling of
- drawn plan would be good too.
-
- Obviously she needs to go and try some different packages out, and
- see what suits her needs, however we really don't have much of an
- idea of what is available, what sort of computational power these
- packages require (i.e. how cheap a mach can we run them on), whether
- they are useless without a plotter (as opposed to a laser printer),
- etc.
-
- So this is call for general advice and suggestions og sofltware and
- hardware people have found useful for similar tasks.
-
- thanks in anticipation
-
- Hugh Clapin
-
- email is preferable, and I'll summarise to the list if there is
- sufficient response.
-
- hughc@cs.unsw.oz.au
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 5 Nov 1992 14:50:13 U
- From: "Anne" <harwell@smtpgate.techrscs.panam.edu>
- Subject: Canon BJ 820-Quadra probs
-
- Does anyone know why a Canon BJ 820 connected by SCSI to a Quadra 700 would
- not
- allow the computer to start as long as the printer is powered down? Another
- interesting facet is that the Quadra hangs if the printer is turned off while
- the computer is running.
-
- Thanks,
- -abh
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 12:23:48 CST
- From: bobs@saintjoe.EDU (Bob Schenk)
- Subject: Cost of computers
-
- How much does a personal computer really cost when everything is included?
- The 11-2-92 issue of the Wall Street Journal (p. B5) reported a study
- examining computer costs at 10 large US companies. It found the cost of
- having PCs far exceeed the $2000 to $6500 these companies had budgeted
- per PC annually. There were additional costs of $6000 to $15000
- a year for every PC, and the study thought these estimates conservative.
-
- The source of additional cost was the value of time which users
- spend helping each other. Some workers become computer gurus and
- spend half their time solving problems for others. (Sometimes
- the guru is the one who read the manual.)
-
- The study tells us again that the cost of a machine is very different
- >From its purchase price. It also suggests intriguing questions about
- the importance of user-friendliness. Does user-friendliness translate
- into lower computer costs? If so, is the Mac, despite its higher price,
- the low-cost computer?
-
- R. Schenk
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 04 Nov 92 20:35:34 -0500
- From: brg@dgate.org (Brian Gaeke)
- Subject: Curiosity about PB100 waking up. (R)
-
- Unless you are running with file capture on, ZTerm never needs to read
- the disk. therefore, it can run with the hard drive off. SysBeep()
- doesn't keep the system beep in memory, however, so it needs to read the
- sound off the disk if it's not already in memory.
-
- Brian
- ---
- Brian Gaeke, The Dimensional Gate, Inc. Internet: brg@dgate.org
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 15:00:01 GMT
- From: james@sst.ph.ic.ac.uk (James Kew)
- Subject: Desktop Files: Trashing and Rebuilding (Q)
-
- Anthony E. Siegman, <siegman@sierra.stanford.edu> writes:
-
- > I know about the "hold-down-multiple-keys-and-Restart" technique
- >for rebuilding the Desktop file; but doing this on a system with three
- >hard disks and multiple INITs means holding down the keys for a *long*
- >time, screwing up several of the INITs which look for keys themselves,
- >and not being sure all the volumes are actually rebuilt.
-
- Now I was thinking about this just last week...
-
- Rebuilding the desktop isn't easy! Restart, wait for the init icons to
- finish so as you don't disable any of them, jam the keys down and hope you
- got in in time...
-
- The other method I use it to quit all the apps running and then quit the
- Finder (using Anti-Finder to kill it or SpeedyFinder7 to add a Quit item to
- it). Hold down the keys as the Finder restarts...
-
- Now, this is still a bit involved... which gives me an idea for a nice
- little utility. How about an app to automate desktop rebuilds? Just launch
- it and wait....
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 19:42:31 +0200
- From: bnhirsch@weizmann.weizmann.ac.il (David L. Hirschberg)
- Subject: FTPing from a mac
-
- Dear Netters,
-
- What do I have to do to FTP from a mac? I have the FTP number of the mac I
- want to contact but fetch and Telnet just spin their wheels when I try to
- access it. I downloaded FTPd from Sumex-aim and can get it to work on my
- SE but can not get it to work on my Quadra 950. All other communications
- functions are working on the Quadra (ARA, Fetch, Telnet) so I do not think
- there is a problem with the hookup. I like all the features of FTPd, but if
- it will not run on my quadra then I am not that excited about using it.
- Shouldn't fetch or Telnet work without using anything anyway? Any
- suggestions?
-
- David (bnhirsch@weizmann.weizmann.ac.il)
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 5 Nov 92 03:35:46 GMT
- From: ph600fcy@sdcc14.ucsd.edu (Matthew Harrington)
- Subject: Genealogy Programs for Mac (A)
-
- In digest <9210290027.AA10217@SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU>
- Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu writes:
-
- > You may get
- >some valuable info from LROOTS, a list which deals exclusively with
- >genealogy.
-
- Check out the newsgroup soc.roots which is all about genealogy.
- There is some motivation to rename that newsgroup to soc.genealogy
- so that people find it easier. It is very common for people to have
- looked for a genealogy newsgroup and not have known to look for
- soc.roots
-
- Matt Harrington
-
- PS. My recommendation for genealogical software is PAF (Personal
- Ancestoral File) from the Mormons. It is only $35 and they set the
- standard for the industry with GEDCOM. Reunion is also good, but
- more money.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 4 Nov 92 19:43:22 PST
- From: jbthoo@ucdavis.edu (John Thoo)
- Subject: GIFConverter woes (Q)
-
- I recently grabbed GIFConverter from the archive, and have been
- playing with it. So far, it doesn't appear that I'll continue
- using GIFConverter because I'm having trouble copying stuff to
- the Clipboard. Specifically, pictures that appear fine in
- GIFConverter become badly ditherd when copied-and-pasted into
- another program (like MacDraw Pro, for e.g.). Also, opening
- a GIFConverter-generated PICT in GIFConverter is fine, but opening
- such a PICT in another program (like TeachText, for e.g.) results
- again in a badly dithered picture. This is *very disappointing* :-(
-
- I'll be more than happy to continue using GIFConverter (and send in
- my shareware fee) if someone could help me out here. How do I keep
- GIFConverter files faithful when opened in another program?
-
- FYI, I'm using an SE/30 with a Radius Color Pivot/LE (8-bit).
-
- Thanks for your help.
- --John.
- <jb2@math.ucdavis.edu>
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 08:48:23 CST
- From: bwalls@marvin.msfc.nasa.gov
- Subject: Hiding Apps in Sys7 (A)
-
- A little control panel called ProSwitch (on info-mac) allows you to cycle
- through your open applications, hiding all others (the hiding is an option -
- I don't hide them, just use it for changing apps by keyboard). I wish it
- also gave the ability to hide the current app from the keyboard. Anyway,
- you might check ProSwitch out and see if it works for you. It's free.
- Bryan Walls
- bwalls@marvin.msfc.nasa.gov
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 09:50 EST
- From: PC Coordinator <LFINKELSTEIN@vax.clarku.edu>
- Subject: How can I change the font in TeachText? (Q)
-
- I just want to change the default font to one where all the characters are the
- same size. (like Courier, and VT100)
-
- It would make it much easier to read text that I download that is supposed to
- be lined up.
-
- I looked around with ResEdit, but couldn't find a font resource.
-
- Is it possible?
-
-
- Thanks,
- Loren Finkelstein
- LFINKELSTEIN@VAX.CLARKU.EDU
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 11:08:34 -0500
- From: neym@cc.gettysburg.edu
- Subject: Hypercard & Quicktime
-
- I haven't had time to keep up with the latest word on integrating Quicktime
- and Hypercard.
-
- How easy/difficult is it?
-
- Any cool examples and/or tools available for integrating the two?
-
- Thanks in advance.
-
- Virtually yours,
-
-
- Michael A Ney
- ---------------------------
- Neym@gettysburg.edu
- ext 7012
-
- * May U live 2 C the dawn.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 05 Nov 1992 15:39:02 -0700 (MST)
- From: NOHL@CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU
- Subject: id'ing sims (more summary)
-
- thanks to Alberto L. Zuniga
-
- more usefull info:
- Somewhere on the individual simm chips ther should be a
- number with a dash in it. The numbers following the
- dash indicate the speed. For example I have some old
- simms from a Plus here in fromt of me. Each chip has
- the following three lines:
-
- NEC Japan - manufacturer
- 8704ED74 - serial number (I think)
- 41256-15 - size and speed
-
- I don't know what the first 2 didgits of the third line
- are, but the next 3 indicate size (256k) and the 2
- after the dash indicate speed (150ns).
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 05 Nov 1992 09:04:21 -0700 (MST)
- From: NOHL@CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU
- Subject: id'ing sim speeds (summary)
-
- Here is a useful summary about id'ing sims. thanks to Paul and Kee.
-
- The speed is in the dash number on the chips. You'll find some number
- ending in -12 or -7 or -07 or something similar. The 12=120ns, 7 or
- 07=70ns, etc. Some SIMMS have the info silk-screened on the board itself.
-
- Lets say your computer requires 80 ns RAM. If you mix 70 and 80 ns RAM in
- the same bank and they are all the same size, your computer will not notice
- or care. The 80 ns refers to how long it takes the RAM to get the requested
- data and present it to the CPU to read. If it presents it early, the CPU
- will not care. The CPU can only go 80 ns and thats why 80 ns RAM was
- specified.
-
- Thanks to all the folks who replied.
- nohl
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 7:03:41 PST
- From: galexand@sfu.ca
- Subject: IIci 50Mhz 030's
-
- I am currently considering upgrading my IIci with a 50Mhz 030
- card (with 50Mhz FPU). I have narrowed my choices to the
- Daystar PowerCache 50 and the Applied Engineering Transwarp
- units, both with FPU's. Can anyone indicate to me any
- relative merits between one or the other with respect to
- reliability, advertised performance, and customer service
- I can be contacted at george_alexander@sfu.ca or
- George Alexander
- Simon Fraser University, Dept of Biological Sciences
- Burnaby, BC Canada V5A 1S6 THANKS
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 10:47 EST
- From: PC Coordinator <LFINKELSTEIN@vax.clarku.edu>
- Subject: Invisible init.
-
- I just noticed that when I start up all of my inits are one space over to
- the right. In other words, there appears to be an invisible init that is
- loading before the others. Am I in danger? I didn't see anything unusual
- in my system folder.
-
-
- Loren Finkelstein
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 05 Nov 92 08:09:06 IST
- From: "Dr. Michael Silverstein"
- <MTRMS01%TECHNION.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
- Subject: LC III
-
- I was thinking about buying an LCII but am willing to
- wait for a few months as I am in no great hurray
- if it is worth it for an LCIII...is it worth it?
- ie is a significant boost in performance expected?
-
- For instance, it turned out that the wait for the LCII
- was not worthwhile, since it really didn't give you
- much besides virtual memory and especially since the
- original 'wait' was to have been a month and the international
- delay resulted in them coming out here about half
- a year (at least) after the US release.
-
- PLEASE don't tell me that there will always be a
- new computer etc., I know, I know, it just sounds
- that the advantages of the LCIII for my use
- could make the wait worthwhile.
-
- Peripheral questions?
- Would the FPUs avaiable for the LCII suit
- the type of machine that the LCIII will be or
- will there be a whole new generation of FPUs?
- WIll I be able to use a A4 size (15 inch?)
- monochrome monitor to its full advantage
- on such a beast without buying a graphics card?
-
- Thanks in advance!!!
-
- P.S. I find that a pretty funny marketing scheme to
- sell 7.1 as the worldscripting OS and then withhold
- the world script............
-
- Materials Engineering, Technion Tel: 972-4-294-582
- Haifa, Israel 32000 Fax: 972-4-321-978
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 22:20 BST
- From: RICHARD LIM <RTL%SIVA.BRISTOL.AC.UK@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
- Subject: Mac benchmarks please
-
- I've been out of touch for a couple of days while our Vax was down, but I'd
- like to echo the request someone made a few days' back for some benchmark
- results for Macs.
- Apple seem to me to be enormously reticent about giving performance data
- for their machines in terms of SPECmarks, MFLOPS and so on. While I'll
- readily admit that such statistics don't tell the full story of a machines'
- efficiency, because that's greatly influenced by ease of use and the quality
- of the available applications, they would provide useful ammo when it comes
- to measuring Macs against the competition, particularly PCs. (I'll also
- readily admit that I don't fully understand what these stats mean!)
- For example, one of the staff in my Dept currently has funds to buy a
- desktop machine (but not a workstation), and he's wondering whether he
- should buy a 486 PC or say a IIci. His associates are more familiar with PCs
- but he's attracted by the Mac's ease of use. If I had some performance data,
- especially for 486 PCs and the IIci/Quadra 700, I might be able to swing the
- decision Mac-ward (assuming of course that the Macs perform pretty well,
- which I have little doubt they will).
- So if anybody out there can compile a table of such benchmark data, could
- they please submit it to the Digest, citing their sources? It would be a
- great service. I would undertake to compile such a list if others can
- provide the stats (again, please provide references so others or myself can
- verify)
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 14:35:19 -0800
- From: davidh@ella.mills.edu (David Hartmann)
- Subject: Mac IIvx and 16" Apple Monitor?? (Q)
-
- Does the new Mac IIvx support the Apple 16" color monitor.
- If so, how much VRAM gives how many colors??
-
- please e-mail the answer!
-
- David
- davidh@mills.edu
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 05 Nov 92 12:54:08 EST
- From: Rob Smyser <smyser@Athena.MIT.EDU>
- Subject: mac interface lacking powerful abstractions to do work
-
- I've been flaming about a couple things
- lately that people are fusing into a single thought. One
- point was about Apple's "dumbing down" the Mac interface to
- increase its market. The result is that novice users learn even
- _less_ than they do now about how computers work; Mac-adherents
- think that's a good idea. I and others who responded to me
- personally don't. The adage about giving people fish or teaching
- them how to fish for themselves seems to apply here.
-
- The second point was that the Mac's exclusively object-oriented
- iconic interface lacks some very important tools for automation and
- mass-production, as well as maintaining coherence over time.
- Lots of people wrote about specific software solutions to
- the specific example I used. The general case, though, of doing
- process A on an unknown but large number of objects B on multiple
- machines N in a reliably consistent manner, was not answered.
- I did hear of an
- interesting toolkit called something like "BatFiler", which provides
- scripting, filename wildcards, etc., that all other useful computers
- provide and the Mac ordinarily does not. It sounds promising.
-
- In general Macs seem to be fine when you are the only one using it
- and you are using only one. Clusters of public macs are a
- nightmare, as each mac faithfully and friendily "remembers" each
- nonsensical or destructive setting novice and other users make, and
- saves them between restarts. No problems are fixable remotely, and
- none are fixable with scripts that do the fix identically on each
- machine on the network. This is not true of networked PCs or
- Workstations (my lab has equal numbers of all three platforms and I
- administer them all).
-
- To solve any problem on the Mac, as you say, you need to find some
- dubiously supported public domain utility or do some hacking with
- ResEdit or "write your own program" (which is where all the
- above-mentioned utilities must come from).
-
- My overall point is that Apple is spending too much time on its
- hardware evolution and not nearly enough on its operating system or
- Multifinder interface. All of these tools that we are all looking
- for should be migrating into the system, not left exclusively to
- the helpful hackers across the land. That tactic worked when
- Macs were for hobbyists and buffs, but not in more professional,
- perhaps more "institutional" settings.
-
- While Apple is neglecting the fundamentals, the Macs' much-vaunted
- ease of use is being duplicated elsewhere by companies with software
- R&D budgets (which Apple must not have much of, it having spun it
- all off to Claris, which doesn't do operating systems). If the PC
- market ever gets around to creating coherent hardware was well as
- Apple does (and there are signs of this happening) then Apple will
- be in trouble. But by then it will be known as Taligent, and Apple
- Macintosh will be relegated to niche markets as the Apple IIe has
- been.
-
- Just some thoughts.
- Rob Smyser, MIT School of Architectur and Planning
- smyser@athena.mit.edu
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 06:35:53 EST
- From: gt3017c@prism.gatech.edu
- Subject: MacTCP 1.1.1
-
- Dear Netters,
-
- Thanks for all who replied to my request about info regarding MacTCP
- 1.1.1. Come to find out, it is a commercial product that can not be
- found on Applelink and such. I am disappointed in this, because now
- our group has to purchase two software packages (MacTCP 1.1.1 & System
- 7.1) just to evaluate System 7.1. Now we are most certain not to
- upgrade. MacTCP 1.1.1 is a product of APDA. There address is below.
-
- APDA,
- Apple Computer Inc.
- PO Box 319,
- Buffalo,
- New York
- 14207-0319, phone: 1-800-282-2732
- APDA@applelink.apple.com
-
- I hope that this helps someone out there. Again, I want to thank all of those
- who replied. Your info has been very valuable. Now we are just content to
- just sit by and watch the world pass by. I'm sorry, where are my manners.
- The cost of MacTCP that was relayed to me was about $100, but that site
- licences are available.
-
- Cheers,
-
- Bill Waits
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 16:26 WET
- From: "Alun J. Carr" <AJCARR%ccvax.ucd.ie@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
- Subject: Mixing network types on a Mac (Q)
-
- A colleague of mine has a Mac SE (system 6.0.5) connected to the
- campus ethernet. Unfortunately, his printer is a Ricoh
- Postscript laser printer, which connects to his Mac via one of
- the serial ports. If he has EtherTalk selected as his network
- type, he can't see his printer in the Chooser when he selects
- the LaserWriter driver. This means he has to change from
- EtherTalk to LocalTalk whenever he wants to print (so he can't
- print from any applications on one of the AppleShare volumes on
- the ethernet). Is there any solution to this problem, other than
- him buying a black box which will connect his laser printer to
- the ethernet? Can the LaserWriter driver be hacked so that it
- treats the printer as an ordinary serial device?
-
- Thanks in advance.
-
- Alun
-
- Alun J. Carr, Mech. Eng. Dept., UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
- Internet: ajcarr@ccvax.ucd.ie
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 13:35:44 -0800
- From: avserve@scilibx.ucsc.edu (Peter McMillan AV/Media Services x2117)
- Subject: MovieShop
-
- I am trying to locate a copy of this QuickTime software. Hopefully
- it would be compatible with QT v. 1.5.
-
- Many thanks,
-
- Peter McMillan
- Media Services
- UC Santa Cruz
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 17:54:56 -0800 (PST)
- From: Richard Eldon Barber <ribarbe@eis.CalState.EDU>
- Subject: My kitty uses Zterm.
-
- When I was downloading from my dialup number, my cat, Adeneko, ran across my
- keyboard. Zterm started displaying this after each packet of zmodem:
- zrdat32: cnt = 1024
- zrdata: cnt = 1024
- zrdat32: cnt = 1024
- zrdata: cnt = 1024
-
- I can guess as to the meaning of the messages, but I cant figure out how
- my cat pressed the right keys to get this. What are the keys?
- ---Rick Barber, ribarbe@eis.calstate.edu
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: THU, NOV 05 1992 12:48:33
- From: David Campbell <DC6040%BROCK1P.bitnet@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
- Subject: Naming printers (A)
-
- For those who are interested:
- How to Name AppleTalk Printers
-
- Use Namer. It is a little application that comes with your
- system disks (Print Tools), except for System 7.x.
- Why?? Because Namer doesn't work with System 7.
- So boot up with a lesser version, and use Namer.
-
- I personally found Namer on a disk that came with the AppleTalk
- Option card for the ImageWriter II.
-
- Thanks for all the responses to my query.
-
- Dave Campbell {SYSDEV}
- System Operations Assistant
- Academic Computing Services
- SUNY College at Brockport
-
- Mail to:
- dave@acspr1.acs.brockport.edu
- dc6040@BROCK1P.BITNET
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 05 Nov 1992 14:59 -0700 (MST)
- From: FEDORICK@bitsy.gmcc.ab.ca
- Subject: New one for the Mac Secret Trick list (Al & Jeff)
-
- ...after changing the lables in this or other ways, how does one restore the
- lables to their original settings without retyping them?
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 4 Nov 92 23:30:45 -0500
- From: "Alan D. Danziger" <aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>
- Subject: Now Utilities 4.0.1 updater
-
- Hi--
- Has anyone else downloaded the updater yet? (Well, 233 people had
- as of 11pm tonight, but ... If no one has told me that they
- downloaded it by midnight Thursday, I'll spend the $5 or so on the
- download & upload it to Sumex 'by return'... But hopefully someone
- else has. :)
-
- -=Alan
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 09:53:25 EST
- From: sjoyce@heidelberg.edu (Sean M. Joyce 93)
- Subject: NOW Utilties and WYSIWYG Font Menu Problem
-
- Hi all!
-
- Does anyone know of a conflict between NOW Utilities' WYSIWYG Font
- menus and System 7.1 (i.e. the Fonts Folder)? I just purchased
- NOW and when I try to start up with the WYSIWYG INIT loaded,
- my Mac hangs and displays the message "WYSIWYG Menus is
- making sure that its database is current" forever. I've
- had no conflicts with any of the other NOW INITs, though.
-
- Any suggestions or comments?
-
-
- Sean M. Joyce sjoyce@sparc2.heidelberg.edu
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 4 Nov 92 23:06:24 -0800
- From: vannuysd@Sonoma.EDU
- Subject: PB100 Battery Not Fully Charging (A)
-
- In an earlier posting, I asked the net for information as to why my PB100
- is not fully recharging, according to SuperClock and the Battery DA. Right
- after posting my question, I came across a phone number at Apple for PB
- support. I called and they told me not to worry about it. That those
- gauges are inaccurate and do not indicate that the battery is not fully
- charged, even though they appear to.
-
- I've pretty much decided not to worry about it as a result of this
- information.
- I am posting this because I could several e-mail messages from other PB100
- users in the same quandry.
-
- David Van Nuys
- Psychology Dept.
- Sonoma State University
- Rohnert Park, CA
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 22:24 EDT
- From: LEARYJ%SNYCORVA.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU
- Subject: Pg Mker 4.2
-
- I have just started to monkey around with Page Maker 4.2 and have come
- across a few snags. I liked the newsletter, tabloid template and
- tried to transfer my own creation into it. On the screen everything
- looks good but when i go to print all hell breaks loose. Either some
- of the words are cut off or not sll of the publication is printed. I
- am not using the right size paper but this can't be the whole prob.
- If any one is adequatley skilled in using PG maker and would not mind
- answering a few additional q's please include your E-mail or snail
- mail adress with your reply. My underground paper is depending on
- me:-)
- learyj@snycorva.bitnet
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 14:38:29 -0500 (EST)
- From: "T. Lesher" <lesher@mail.bucknell.edu>
- Subject: PostScript Errors with Word 5.0
-
- Our University has just begun seeing errors generated when Word 5.0a tries
- to print documents to a Laserwriter. According to PrintMonitor, Word is
- generating an "offensive PostScript command." Here are some more
- specifics:
-
- All copies of Word 5.0a are copied down from central file servers. We
- have been using this system with system 7.0.1 (tuned) since summer, but
- have only noticed the PostScript problems within the past two weeks, and
- we have not made any significant changes to the system (in software or
- hardware) within those two weeks. The problem has occurred on IIsi and
- SE/30 machines. If a file gives an error when printing from one machine,
- it will give the same error when printing from another machine on a
- different printer.
-
- We have also tried loading the offending documents into Word 4.0 and
- printing from there. However, the same thing occurs. We have not,
- however, noticed any problems in files that have originated in Word 4.0.
-
- We also tried generating a Postscript file in Word and using SendPS to
- route it to the printer, with no luck. I haven't found the time yet to
- delve into the Postscript code generated yet, however, so I don't have a
- very clear picture of the circumstances under which the bad commands are
- generated.
-
- Some ideas: is it a System 7 problem? (We have not noticed it on any
- machines running 6.0.8, but that may not be a fair comparison, as we have
- only seen the problem two or three times so far). Reinstalling printer
- drivers doesn't seem to affect it, and a machine that has errors one day
- is perfectly fine the next.
-
- Comments or ideas are appreciated; we plan to approach Microsoft and/or
- Apple if we can't figure anything else out.
-
- Tim Lesher, aka <lesher@bucknell.edu>
- "The mantle of leadership is decorated with
- concentric rings over the heart."-- anon.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 04 Nov 92 21:52:30 EDT
- From: Gene Mayro <V5356E@VM.TEMPLE.EDU>
- Subject: Power cord for StyleWriter
-
- My little brother just bought a StyleWriter at a good price. The only
- problem is that it didn't come with any cords or drivers. The cord for
- the Mac was easy to get (as was the driver). We are having problems
- finding a power cord, though. Any suggestions of where to look (Apple
- dealers have not been helpful)?
-
- - Gene Mayro <V5356E@TEMPLEVM>
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 05 Nov 92 11:04:43 +0100
- From: Vecoven Frederic <U514303%BLIULG11.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
- Subject: Programming a progress window
-
- My problem is this :
-
- I have to write a progress window because some operations in my application
- can take a lot of time. I try the following : I create a new window in which
- I draw the progress rect. (Of course, I save the port and the device before
- doing this, and I restore them after.) When the operation is finished, I call
- DisposeWindow. If the progress window was on a b&w monitor, no problem. But if
- it was on a color monitor, the windows under it aren't updated correctly : the
- edges get yellow !!!
- Can somebody help me, or send me C source of such a routine ???
-
- Send to : Vecoven Frederic (U514303@vm1.ulg.ac.be)
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 05 Nov 1992 15:40:23 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Peter Jorgensen - Colgate University
- <PJORGENSEN%COLGATEU.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
- Subject: RasterOps (O=Opinion)
-
- I've got a RasterOps 24STV board in my IIcx. It does a good job of putting
- live
- video on the screen. It's xcmds and xfcns are well written (they don't crash)
- and well documented (I got them to work without much trouble).
-
- The one disappointment I've had is trying to get color OUTPUT from the
- RasterOps card to an ElectroHome projector. I bought the converter box, but it
- didn't really do the trick. We since bought a color LCD panel that accepts the
- standard Mac video output so I've stopped fooling with the converter box.
-
- I also tried the ColorSpace cards, and like the RasterOps better.
-
- Peter Jorgensen - Colgate University Research & Instructional Computing Spec.
- - Mac/DOS/VMS consultant, PMDF Postmaster, HyperTalker
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 4 Nov 92 17:16:16 PST
- From: "Maurice M. McNeil" <mmcneil@BBN.COM>
- Subject: Sharing serial devices (A)
-
- Date: Tue, 03 Nov 92 01:23:31 AST From: X2F1000
- <X2F1%UNB.CA@UNBMVS1.csd.unb.ca> Subject: Sharing serial devices on
- LocalTalk
- >Does anyone out there know of a way to share serial devices (like the
- >StyleWriter) over a LocalTalk network? The ideal solution would be
- >software based. I seem to recall a utility of this nature from a
- >programmer in Germany, but I can't seem to find a reference to it in
- >the archives anywhere. Any and all help would be appreciated.
-
- I believe LaCie has a software solution, I have not actually tried to
- use it.
- -------
- Thanks
- -----^-----
- 0-0 Maurice "Mike" McNeil, BBN San Diego
- (_)+ (619) 224-3240 "mmcneil@bbn.com"
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 10:15:02 PST
- From: dlabross@sfu.ca
- Subject: Stylewriter problems
-
- Hi there I own a Classic 2/40 and a StyleWriter, run system 6.0.7 and have
- a problem when I try to print white on black from Quark Express v. 2.12 (yes
- I know it's old, and that I think is at the root of the problem). My problem
- is I get a black page and no white type. I think it has to do with
- QuarkExpress
- being designed before trutype fonts (which I use exclusively). Is there a
- cheap (shareware, freeware?) solution to this kind of problem. Oh yes and
- please be gentil on my brain, I am not very fluent in the
- Mac-techno-language.
- I thank you in advance for even taking the time to read my plea. Please don't
- send your response to the Net. Send it to me personally and I will summerize
- for info-mac. Thank you.
-
- Dominique Labrosse
- Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British-Columbia, Canada
- INTERNET e-mail adress
- dlabross@sfu.ca
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 15:57:58 -0500
- From: Gary Goldberg <og@access.digex.com>
- Subject: Sys7.1 Finder Address Error on Cold Boot EUREKA!
-
- Eureka! No kidding, I figured out roughly at the same time as Scott Phillip's
- message to me suggesting this, so I was provided independant confirmation, but
- I was sitting here struggling with the umpteenth reboot and ready to pitch the
- unit out my second floor window,
- when I noticed EXACTLY when it was crashing, as it was trying to access my
- external hard drive (The 40MB Quantum that used to be internal and was the
- original IIcx drive.) So I powered down and disconnected the external SCSI
- cable and voila! no crashes. Hooked it back, CRASH!
-
- It's a great relief knowing what's wrong. Now I have to figure out what to do
- about it. - Gary
-
- P.S. - Reminder of what happened. Fresh format and install of System 7.1 on
- an 8MB IIcx with an internal 120MB Maxtor and an external 40MB Quantum (was
- the original Apple drive), with or without extensions, it was crashing on
- cold boot with a Finder address error. Replaced drivers, replaced System
- folder,
- reconfigured the SIMMs, everything I could think of until this.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 23:49 CST
- From: MRSMA@royal.crc.uno.edu
- Subject: TeXtures, Postscript example
-
- can anyone give me a hint as to why
- the PostScript example file in TeXtures 1.2
- does not 'display' on the screen?
- the Picture, Illustration examples work well enough.
- have i missed something?
-
- does anyone know how to get their hands on a
- 'dvi' like file from TeXtures. if so , then one could
- use TeX Preview to show this, which is about all i want to do anyway...
-
- sincerely,
- mrsma@uno
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 22:18 BST
- From: RICHARD LIM <RTL%SIVA.BRISTOL.AC.UK@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
- Subject: Unix on Macs
-
- One of my professors is thinking of buying a Mac (see my related posting
- under the heading, "Mac benchmarks") but he wants it to be able to run Unix.
- My understanding is that his research group wants to compile and debug
- programs on a desktop machine before porting the code to Unix mainframes
- (though why they can't just do everything on the mainframe, I have no idea -
- that's just what I was told).
- I would appreciate it if readers could supply me with more information on
- Unix systems available for the Mac. Naturally A/UX comes to mind, but I've
- been told A/UX 3.0 only comes on CD-ROM (is it that vast?), and is pretty
- expensive - both those points make me a bit wary. I have read reviews of
- other versions of Unix for the Mac but I'd like to hear your experiences.
- Important considerations to my mind would be the size of the package (can we
- get it on floppies, do we need a huge hard disk), price, and also what sort
- of development tools are provided. Would it be practical to develop code for
- a Unix mainframe by running Unix on a Mac, for starters?
- Apologies if these questions seem a bit wayward but I admit I'm out of my
- depth - I personally have not much used, or much liked, Unix!
- Thanks for your contributions in advance
-
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-
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 15:35:34 MST
- From: "Phillip Hicks" <phicks@macops.nrao.edu>
- Subject: What machine should I get? (Q)
-
- I am experimenting with a new E-mail package. Please send a e-mail note to the
- second address below if you have a problem.
-
- Phillip Hicks
- phicks@macops.nrao.edu phicks@nrao.edu
- Hello to those in net-land. I seek your collective wisdom. I
- am writing to you from the Very Large Array (VLA) in west central
- New Mexico. The VLA is a radio astronomy observatory for
- scientific research. We use a Mac II (no letters) for the
- telescope operators to keep a log of each observing program and
- document our procedures. The Mac II has 8M of memory, using System
- 7.0.1 (TuneUp 1.1.1),an ethernet card, CPU = MC68020, FPU = 68881,
- and it has a math-coprocessor. Include also the fact that it has
- dual monitors and an external hard drive (80K, the internal is
- 40K). We run a network of 3 Macs at our main site and 3 Macs at
- our office building 50 miles away. Sorry about asking you to wade
- through the above, but hopefully it will give you sufficient
- information to answer my question.
- The telescope operators spend some 30% of their time at the
- Mac II running an observing log program using Excel 4.0. Using
- something besides Excel would probably requir###4ny hours of work,
- I rather not take the re-write
- route. Updating documentation is
- another chore and we use WordPerfect 2.1. They complain, validly I
- think, about having to turn their attention away from the array#s
- performance to use the log program. Summed up, they want a faster
- machine. Now the dilemma.
- What should we do; upgrade, buy a new machine. My boss says
- that money will be a factor and that a factor of 2 speed increase
- is #not worth it# and to look for a factor of 5 or so. Please help
- me collect some ideas on what to do. I need some ideas of the
- amount of speed gained (I know, hard to determine and depends on
- what we use it for) and the cost.
- Thanks in advance for all your help. I#ll summarize if there
- is sufficient interest.
-
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-
- Date: Thu, 05 Nov 92 23:19:29 ITA
- From: maurizio lana <LANA%ITOCSIVM.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
- Subject: where is speedy-finder?
-
- I remember some people spoke about a speedier finder than that coming with our
- Macs (no zoom rects, and so on).
- I searched for it on sumex-aim but didn't find it. Where is it?
- Thanks. Maurizio
-
- MAURIZIO LANA | E-MAIL: LANA@ITOCSIVM.BITNET | phone & fax 39-11-837262
- CISI - Universita' di Torino - V. S. Ottavio 20 - 10124 Torino Italy
-
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-
- Date: 05 Nov 1992 17:26:09 +0100 (MET)
- From: HANS KROEGER <KROEGER@dornier.de>
- Subject: Where to find large Worldmap ? (Q)
-
- Can someone point me to a Worldmap showing countries, cities etc....?
-
- Thanks for your help!
- Hans
- kroeger@fn.dornier.de
-
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-
- Date: Thu, 05 Nov 92 10:47:48
- From: Analysis <PI1PJS@PRIMEA.SHEFFIELD.AC.UK>
-
- Probably an ultra-faq, but here goes ...
-
- Is there a nifty way of doing a global delete of all files with
- names containing a certain string?
-
- Before I saw the light, when I was still using a DOS PC, I had a
- tiny program that let me type e.g. GLOBAL DEL *.BAK, and hey presto
- every .BAK file in every directory got deleted.
-
- Now, I accumulate "Backup of ...." files in various directories, and
- would like every so often to trash them all at once. Any suggestions?
-
- Peter Smith
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 05 Nov 1992 16:12:03 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Peter Jorgensen - Colgate University
- <PJORGENSEN%COLGATEU.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
-
- I have experimented with using a RAM disk on the PowerBook 100 and it works
- GREAT! I can take class notes in a HyperCard stack during a class that runs
- >From 6:30 to 9:30 PM on one battery (it gets down to about half.) Here are
- the
- tricks I use:
-
- Create a RAM disk with enough memory (1700K) to hold a system 6.0.7, HyperCard
- 2.1, Home, and your work stack(s) (or System 6.0.7 your work application and
- document(s)).
- Put these things on the RAM disk.
- Use the "Startup Disk" control panel to set the RAM disk as the Startup Disk.
- Restart.
- Startup is almost instantaneous. HyperCard loads in about 3 seconds. The hard
- disk never comes on. The battery lasts and lasts... almost as good as
- Duracell(TM)... or is that EverReady?
-
- The backlight control knob won't work, as others have noticed running under
- system 6.0.7. I don't think BackLight Control will work either. It doesn't
- show
- up in the Control Panel.
-
- Hope this helps.
-
- Peter Jorgensen - Colgate University Research & Instructional Computing Spec.
- - Mac/DOS/VMS consultant, PMDF Postmaster, HyperTalker
-
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