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Info-Mac Digest Mon, 5 Sep 94 Volume 12 : Issue 117
Today's Topics:
[*] Bogosian as Rapper; a sound file
[*] csmp-digest-v3-052
[*] FreeHand US 4.0a to 4.0b updater
[*] FreeHand US 4.0 to 4.0a updater
[*] jims-demoCDEF-v110; some control definitions
[*] mac.ftp.list Version 3.8.9
[*] Mosaicon 1.1; a game
[*] Motosfera; simulates motion of a ball on a surface
[*] nancys-textures-grp8; soem desktop patterns
[*] PairPicker1.0; a card game
[*] PNL Info Browser; a gopher client
[*] PowerTalker 1.0; read your PowerTalk mail
[*] Pro Predictor Week#0 Update; NFL data file
[*] RSI Network Newsletter #18/June 94
[*] Ruler 1.3.5 (Newton utility)
[*] SpiroChart 1.0; an Excel based spiral chart generator
[*] T_r_a_n_s_i_t_i_o_n; an integral PICT viewer
(Q) MacTCP & Stylewriter II conflict?
[A] How to change the finder default text editor
[A] vendor email FAQ?
[Q] Best way to store files for cross-platform ftp?
[Q] Heat sink for 68040 in Performa 475?
[Q] System 7.5 on CD?
Apologies for multiple "Dearth" postings
Apple Portrait Monitor
BAD F-LINE
BBEdit T-Shirts Available
Books for novices?
CD Mastering Problem
Changing Hard Disk name w/sharing OFF
color monitor information sought...
DayMaker contact?
Dearth of PowerBook Drives II
Desktop Strip on a PM **NOT**
Dial-up, non-MacTCP offline newsreader?
EUDORA (A)
Fantasy Football (Q)
Fidonet (C)
Great Shareware (R)
HD spin down
HD Spin Down (C)
HD spinn down (C)
Help on Fidonet
how de-MIME?
how to remove carriage returns (R)
Hydrology Software for Mac?
I need a typeface...
Info-Mac Digest V12 #116
IP address for aol.com? (A)
mosaic
Original and doc. for older softwares
Pecking Order
PPC Video Question
QUADRA 800 talk to (old) LaserWriter Plus...? (A)
query...
RAM Doubler 1.5 (C)
Re- Mac FAQ web site proble (2 msgs)
Request for programs whereabouts
Setext Viewer for DOS/Windoze?
SF 171
system 7.5 and worldscript II
Windows color
Zmodem Wanted
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Date: Thu, 1 Sep 1994 10:20:15 -0400
From: [email protected] (Jonathan D. Feinberg)
Subject: [*] Bogosian as Rapper; a sound file
These are double-clickable System 7 sound files (Type 1).
Eric Bogosian raps over grooves from The Brand New Heavies and The Beatles.
These short sounds are best when played by an application that can loop
sounds seamlessly.
[Warning: the Beatles groove contains strong language.]
[Archived as /info-mac/snd/bogosian-rap.hqx; 143K]
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Date: Thu, 1 Sep 1994 14:33:55 +0200 (MET DST)
From: [email protected] (Francois Pottier)
Subject: [*] csmp-digest-v3-052
C.S.M.P. Digest Thu, 01 Sep 94 Volume 3 : Issue 52
Today's Topics:
A Note for SC++ newbies
Adobe Photoshop Plug-ins.
Advanced QuickTime 1.6.1 Question
AppleEvents during ModalDialog?
Background always app that cannot be switched to by user?
Book recommendations for new Mac programmer?
CodeWarrior WWW Support Service
Control Strip docs?
Copying graphics without QuickDraw: custom blitting code
Debugging on PowerMacs
Guide for writing programs for both PowerPC and 680x0? etc...
HFSDispatch Trap. Success
MPW PPCC funnies ...
Opening the Apple CD ROM Tray.
PPC CDK User Comments
Problem with FSRead-WriteNoCache
Talking to the network (TCP) -- how?
What fonts are always available?
[Q] Universal Headers
best c++ book...
testing if a sound is done
The Comp.Sys.Mac.Programmer Digest is moderated by Francois Pottier
([email protected]).
[Archived as /info-mac/per/csmp/csmp-v3-052.txt; 136K]
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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 94 18:37:34 -0500
From: Lorin Rivers III
Subject: [*] FreeHand US 4.0a to 4.0b updater
This is a stuffed and binhexed updater for FreeHand 4.0a US. It only
works on FreeHand 4.0a. For more info, see the ReadMe.
[Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/free-hand-40a-to-40b-us-updt.hqx; 340K]
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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 94 18:36:25 -0500
From: Lorin Rivers III
Subject: [*] FreeHand US 4.0 to 4.0a updater
This is a stuffed and binhexed updater for FreeHand 4.0 US. It only
works on FreeHand 4.0. For more info, see the ReadMe.
[Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/free-hand-40-to-40a-us-updt.hqx; 109K]
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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 14:38:57 -0800
From: [email protected] (Jim Stout)
Subject: [*] jims-demoCDEF-v110; some control definitions
Hello,
Here is a collection of 10 CDEF's (Control Definitions) and some bits of
source code to demo their use.
procID Name Function
100 GroupBox draws a titled box, text in upperleft
101 PopUp Menu system 7 style popup menu control
102 Spinner "little arrows" control
103 Date & Time Date & Time control using "little arrows"
104 Tog Button a new type of "one or many" control
105 HSlider horizontal slider control
106 VSlider vertical slider control
107 3D Buttons a 3d replacement for the standard button CDEF
108 Progress Bar "thermometer" or "barber pole" progress indicators
109 TabPanel a "Tab Panel" control as in MSWord
The source code for all of the CDEF's is not included here, but you can find
the CDEF's as code resources in file xDEF.rsrc.
The source for the "3D Buttons" CDEF is included, along with some utility
routines common to all of the CDEF's. A test harness to allow source level
debugging is also included.
This package is a replacement for the "jims-demo-cdef-v101.sit.hqx" file I
posted earlier.
Changes are:
- Date & Time control now draws a title if supplied.
- 3D Buttons, fixed a pensize problem in alerts with no 'actb'.
- Slider controls use correct gray when disabled.
- Corrected a major memory leak in the Slider controls.
- Slider controls now respond to clicks in the scale
portion of the control.
- Slider control variation 1 (was gray thumb) now
draws a "3D" version of the control. Shadow color
is cTingeLight from 'cctb'.
- Progress Bar control has a new "barber pole" variation.
- All control titles will be drawn with an embossed, 3D effect
if the control background is non-white.
- Popup control will draw its title embossed and will use colors
from a 'cctb' if supplied, rather than the 'mctb' resource.
- Added a new control, "TabPanel" that can be used to created multi-
panel dialogs.
- Completely new Demo program to show how to use the "Tab Panel" control.
Includes source for many utility routines I find handy to use in
writing dialog handlers.
Jim
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/jims-demo-cdefs-110.hqx; 129K]
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Date: 31 Aug 94 23:36:11 EDT
From: bruce grubb
Subject: [*] mac.ftp.list Version 3.8.9
This is the latest {Sept 1,1994} version this report and should replace the
previous version of mac-ftp-list.txt.
Changes: evolution.uh.edu and ruunfs.fys.ruu.nl removed;
toklab.ics.osaka-u.ac.jp is officially gone; ftp.cso.uiuc.edu moved
to 'These sites have a lot of files, but do not get much new'
section; archie list updated;
Added sites: atg.apple.com; ftp.std.com; crab.rutgers.edu; crystal.ualr.edu;
ftp.globalvillag.com; ftp.stat.ucla.edu; micros.hensa.ac.uk;
ftpbio.bgsu.edu;
This is a update {Sept 1,1994} to Mike Gleason's ftp list {He gave me permision
to continue it}. It lists a good number of mac anonymous ftp sites with notes
on some and a little blurb on how to use anonymous ftp. Must be in Monaco 9
{or PC equivalent} to be readable.
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/info/mac-ftp-list-389.txt; 40K]
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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 94 10:25:52 EST
From: Info-Mac Moderator
Subject: [*] Mosaicon 1.1; a game
Mosaicon is a game in 256 colors on HyperCard 2.0, which includes the Xcmd
Colorizing HyperCard of BUNG DABBA.
The game is very easy : you have to draw a mosaic with 6 colors (at least) on a
checkerboard by moving a cursor. This places a different color each time you
move it according to the direction it gets.
You can create (Drawing mode) or recreate (Playing mode) a mosaic, save it,
display it where when and as you want, play a blind game, with a limited number
of moves, a limited time, bonus/malus, inversion of moves I
You can also entirely customize the game and choose your cursor, background
color, checkerboard, pieces, keys for moving cursor, differents sounds to play
with I
Have a good time !
Dogliani Patrick
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/game/mosaicon-11-hc.hqx; 1592K]
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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 15:40:39 -0500
From: Andrea Bonetti
Subject: [*] Motosfera; simulates motion of a ball on a surface
MotoSfera simulates the motion of a ball over a 3D surface. You can choose
between three different surfaces. The best one, I guess, is
sin (X^2+Y^2).
Andrea Bonetti
[Archived as /info-mac/sci/motosfera.hqx; 120K]
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Date: Tue, 30 Aug 1994 15:48:58 -0700 (PDT)
From: [email protected] (Nancy Schneider)
Subject: [*] nancys-textures-grp8; soem desktop patterns
The file contains Nancy's ppats, Edition 8 and an accompanying
ReadMe file. The 12 ppats are 128 x 128 pixels, 256 colors. They
look good with 256 greys; 16 greys/colors (PowerBooks) are okay,
too. Install them with Desktop Textures, BeforeDark, Wallpaper,
ClickChange, Underware, Screenscapes, or Chameleon. Maybe others?
This edition CANNOT be viewed with ResEdit because ResEdit barks
at ppats larger than 64 x 64 pixels.
It may be included on info-mac's CD-ROM archive. Compact Pro 1.5
file.
Enjoy!
Nancy Schneider [email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/grf/nancys-textures-grp8.hqx; 78K]
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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 07:14:37 -0700
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] PairPicker1.0; a card game
Pair Picker 1.0 is a Mac implementation of the card game "Concentration".
It has game options for one or two players and maintains a Top Score list.
Changes since version 0.2b include: Solitaire game, Top Score list, sound
toggle, and basically more compact, efficient code. This version is also
shareware ($10). System requirements => any Mac running System 7.0 or
later. The game and it's documentation are compacted into a Compact Pro
self-extracting archive. Distribution is encouraged provided the
documentation is included. Inclusion of Pair Picker 1.0 on the sumex CD
ROM archive is permitted.
Al Spohn [email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/game/crd/pair-picker-10.hqx; 115K]
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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 13:35:51 -0700
From: [email protected] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: [*] PNL Info Browser; a gopher client
PNL Info Browser is a Gopher client that supports the Gopher+ extensions
used by some Gopher servers. Although not as fast as TurboGopher, it has
some interesting features, including one that enables you to "subscribe" to
an item, thus allowing you to find out when that item is updated. PNL Info
Browser is free and is freely distributable. One note - the documentation
comments that PNL Info Browser has a conflict with QuicKeys, and although I
didn't have any trouble immediately, consider yourself warned.
cheers ... -Adam
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/tcp/pnl-info-browser.hqx; 302K]
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Date: 31 Aug 1994 10:31:54 -0500
From: "Sean McMains"
Subject: [*] PowerTalker 1.0; read your PowerTalk mail
PowerTalker is a project of mine, motivated in equal parts by a desire to
learn Mac programming better and a desire to have my mail read aloud to
me. Basically its job in life is to use the Speech Manager to read
messages delivered via PowerTalk.
Features:
* Fat Binary.
* Can read selected portions of a PowerTalk letter, including sender,
subject, time sent, and text content.
* Letters can be read as they come in, on command, or by drag and dropping
particular letters.
* It's AppleScriptable.
* Provides 100% of the USRDA of vitamin C.
* Works cheerfully in the background.
* Only takes 150K of memory. (Possibly more if you use a high quality
voice.)
* Full balloon help.
Sean McMains
Macintosh Support
[Archived as /info-mac/snd/util/power-talker-10.hqx; 30K]
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Date: Tue, 30 Aug 1994 16:17:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email protected] (Chemaly Rene)
Subject: [*] Pro Predictor Week#0 Update; NFL data file
Week #0 PRO1994 file.
Here is this week's PRO1994 file for Pro Predictor. If you are a registered
user, use the Pro Copier application to update your own PRO1994. If you are
not a registered user, simply replace your PRO1994 file with this one.
Note: I am NOT the author. I am simply the 'distributor'. For any questions,
please mail the author, R Scott Smith, at: [email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/game/pro-predictor-week00.hqx; 8K]
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Date: Tue, 30 Aug 1994 21:34:12 -0400
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] RSI Network Newsletter #18/June 94
The RSI Network Electronic Newsletter
For People Concerned About Tendinitis, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome,
and Other Repetitive Strain Injuries
Sender: [email protected]
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: [email protected]
Produced by:
Caroline Rose
Electronic editing, Internet distribution:
Craig O'Donnell
>From Craig:
It's been a slow process getting this summer's issues online
because of shoulder and back flare-ups (despite some relaxing
trips out of town), spiced with computer problems. Since Issue 18
and 19 are coming out almost simultaneously, I've eliminated a
few sections from this issue to save space. No need to repeat the
information, which appears again in Issue 19.
[Archived as /info-mac/per/rsi/rsi-network-news-18.txt; 21K]
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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 13:31:02 -0500
From: [email protected] (John Dunning)
Subject: [*] Ruler 1.3.5 (Newton utility)
Ruler is a freeware utility I've written that lets Newton developers
measure and align views, bitmaps, and other on-screen items. Tapping on
the Newton's screen lets the user drag one of two crosshairs around. A
small floating palette displays the position of each crosshair and the
distance between them. Non-programmers will probably not find it of much
use.
[Archived as /info-mac/nwt/dev/ruler-135.hqx; 49K]
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Date: Thu, 1 Sep 1994 12:01:50 -0500 (CDT)
From: Paul Koch
Subject: [*] SpiroChart 1.0; an Excel based spiral chart generator
SpiroChart 1.0 is an Excel 4.0 spreadsheet which generates
an infinite variety of spiral patterns (similar to the
commercial toy SpiroGraph) based on four numbers selected by
the user. These graphics may also be of interest
to math instructors teaching about polar equations.
(Users do not need to know anything about polar equations to
enjoy the program!)
Paul Koch [email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/sci/spiro-chart-10-excel.hqx; 126K]
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Date: Tue, 30 Aug 1994 12:40:30 -0600
From: [email protected] (Jay Boersma)
Subject: [*] T_r_a_n_s_i_t_i_o_n; an integral PICT viewer
Attached is T_r_a_n_s_i_t_i_o_n, a grayscale PICT image with integral
scrolling image viewer.
Users familiar with resource editing may enjoy replacing the image in the
viewing software with one of their own.
Users unfamiliar with resource editing may just enjoy watching
T_r_a_n_s_i_t_i_o_n.
Jay
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/transition.hqx; 721K]
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Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 08:35:30 -0400
From: [email protected] (Jonathan D. Feinberg)
Subject: (Q) MacTCP & Stylewriter II conflict?
I recently purchased a Stylewriter II, and have consistently experienced
some aggravating quirks. I am not yet 100% sure, but the behavior seems to
disappear if I deactivate MacTCP 2.0.4 (by restarting without it).
The first time I print something, everything goes fine. The second time I
try to print, everything hangs. If I have turned on background printing,
then it's Print Monitor that hangs. Otherwise, the printing app hangs. I
am able to force a break through cmd-opt-escape, but that leaves the serial
port hung up, and I am informed that it's "in use by another app" if I try
to print again.
Has anyone else experienced similar behavior?
[email protected] Jonathan Feinberg Sunny Brooklyn
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Date: Thu, 01 Sep 1994 13:54:17 +0500
From: [email protected] (Mel Park)
Subject: [A] How to change the finder default text editor
At the end of June, I asked the net if there was a way to change the
default text editor that the finder launches when it encounters a file of
type TEXT and unknown creator. I wanted PlainText to be the default. In
fact many users of PlainText have asked me how to do this, and I did not
know the answer.
Thanks for all of you who replied. Sorry that I waited so long to post the
results.
Mark Nagata and Robert Winston both gave me the answer I wanted.
>Open a copy of the Finder with ResEdit.
>Double click the "fmap" picker to open it.
>SINGLE click fmap #17010 to select it.
>If you look at the resource, the rest should be obvious to you.
ResEdit is easiest way to do this, but it can also be done with MPW. Here
is what the derezed resource looks like. The idea is to change the first 8
bytes from the byte-equivalent of 'TEXTttxt' to 'TEXTMRPH', 'MRPH' being
the creator for PlainText.
data 'fmap' (17010, purgeable) {
$"5445 5854 7474 7874 5049 4354 7474 7874" /* TEXTttxtPICTttxt */
$"6C74 7472 6C61 7032 736A 6F62 7474 7874" /* lttrlap2sjobttxt */
$"726A 6F62 7474 7874 716A 6F62 7474 7874" /* rjobttxtqjobttxt */
$"0000 0000 0000 0000" /* ........ */
};
Steven Lee had an even better answer. He sent me a freeware control panel
called "Default Application" by Lawrence D'Oliveiro which provides a nice
user interface for changing the fmap 17010 resource. It is available in the
info-mac archives as cfg/default-application-10a1.hqx.
The shareware control panel/extention "SpeedyFinder 7" was also suggested.
Several people suggested that I put an alias of my favorite text-editing
application on the desktop and drag and drop the files to be opened into
the alias.
The suggestion was also made that I change the creator of any foreign text
documents. This is a good long-term solution but not quite the answer when
you want to immediately open a document that you have just received. By the
way, one of the command-line commands that I have put into PlainText is
"chcre" which can change the creator of any Macintosh file. There is also
"chtyp" for changing the file type.
-Mel Park
University of Tennessee, Memphis
[email protected]
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Date: Fri, 2 Sep 94 03:01:00 +0100
From: [email protected] (Carmelo Saraceno)
Subject: [A] vendor email FAQ?
Tuesday, 30 Aug 94 at 11:01:27 MST Jonathan Lundell wrote:
>Anyway. Is there a FAQ for this kind of thing? If not, there ought to be,
>with computer-stuff vendors contact info. I'd think it should have snail-
>mail addresses, phone numbers, BBS numbers, email addresses, relevant
>URLs,CIS or AOL presence, whatever. These are certainly frequently asked
>questions, and there are similar FAQs on (for example) the coffee and
>guitar newsgroups.
A couple of weeks ago I downloaded from host ftp.cerf.net a file called
VENDOR-EMAIL.hqx (Sorry! I can't remember the exact path, but it was in a Mac
relateed directory) listing contact numbers and email addresses for more than
250 Mac hardware and software vendors. So far I didnt'had the time to check
whether or not the information provided is accurate and I don't even know if
the document is regularly updated. The information is presented as a text file,
a Word document and an Excel worksheet and it is the work of Warren Kibbe
([email protected]). Hopefully, you can check with him the details
about the update policy of his listing and its availability at sites other
than ftp.cerf.net.
Enjoy
Carmelo "just call me Mel" Saraceno
[email protected]
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Date: Fri, 02 Sep 94 00:15:33 EDT
From: [email protected]
Subject: [Q] Best way to store files for cross-platform ftp?
Greetings fellow Info-Mac-aniacs,
I have an anonymous ftp site that I use to distribute various files,
including a couple of Macintosh applications. A potential employer (as yet
unnameable) tried to ftp to my site to download my resume demo application
using a client running Windows. According to them, they were unable to
decompress the files they received once they transferred the downloaded files
to a Mac.
My question is: What is the most flexible way to store Macintosh applications
in a public directory so that if the files need to travel through other
machines (running non-Mac OS's) that they will "remain intact?" I have the
ability to create files in all of the most common file formats (.sit, .hqx,
.z, etc.), but don't know which format is the most flexible given the myriad
of OS flavors we have to deal with today.
In the case given above, where a foreign client downloads a compressed Mac
file then transfers it via a LAN to a Mac, should I advise the user not to
attempt decompression until the file has been transfered to a Mac (thus
keeping it in compressed form as a transportable text file)?
-- Toby Braun [email protected] [email protected] CIS:70674,2634
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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 12:15:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Martin Forrester
Subject: [Q] Heat sink for 68040 in Performa 475?
Opinions please...
If I replace the 68LC040 in a Performa 475 with a 68040 do I need to add a heat
sink?
Thanks
Martin Forrester
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Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 02:35:58 +0000
From: [email protected] (Wagner Luiz Truppel)
Subject: [Q] System 7.5 on CD?
Hi everyone,
does anybody know if System 7.5 will be available on a CD-ROM format? I'm
sure new Macs that come with a built-in CD-ROM reader will come with the
System in such a way, but I want to know if I can order it that way,
instead of in floppies.
Thanks.
Wagner Luiz Truppel
[email protected]
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Date: Thu, 1 Sep 1994 10:57:03 -0500
From: [email protected] (Clinton MacDonald)
Subject: Apologies for multiple "Dearth" postings
Friends:
Sorry about the multiple submissions of my "Dearth of PowerBook Hard
Drives" question. Due to some mail slowdowns, and other mistakes (I had
forgotten about the Info-Mac "No long sigs" rule), I got carried away.
Read, however, "Dearth II" for a new posting on that subject.
Wasting bandwidth,
Clint
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Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 07:12:53 +0000
From: Richard Smith
Subject: Apple Portrait Monitor
Can anyone tell me which video cards will drive an Apple Portrait Display,
or which Mac will drive it directly?
Can I drive it from an original 8-bit Mac II card? (I think not, but ...)
Thanks,
Richard Smith
NorthEast Macintosh User Group - UK
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Date: Thu, 1 Sep 1994 17:54:42 GMT
From: [email protected] (Mike Cohen)
Subject: BAD F-LINE
[email protected] writes:
>CAN ANYONE TELL ME WHAT THE BOMB "BAD F-LINE INSTRUCTION" MEANS, WHAT
>CAUSES IT, AND DOW DO I AVOID IT? ANY HELP WOULD BE MOST APPRECVIATED.
>LOU KAY
>AUDIOLOGY SERVICE
>OLIN E. TEAGUE VETERANS' CENTER
>TEMPLE, TX 76504
That's what most users say when their program bombs unexpectedly
No, seriously it means that an illegal 680x0 instruction of the form $Fxxx
was encountered. These are usually co-processor instructions and may mean that
you're running an application that requires an FPU on a system without one.
--
Mike Cohen - [email protected]
NewtonMail, eWorld: MikeC / ALink: D6734 / AOL: MikeC20
Home Page: file://ftp.netcom.com/pub/isis/home.html
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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 22:01:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email protected] (Bare Bones Software)
Subject: BBEdit T-Shirts Available
Those of you who visited us at the MacWorld Expo back at the beginning
of August may recall the famous BBEdit T-Shirt: our logo on the front,
and the famous "It Doesn't Suck" slogan on the back (along with the '93
Eddy Finalist logo and the '94 Accelerated for Power Macintosh seal).
These shirts were a hit. They were a -phenomenal- hit. Unfortunately,
quantities were so limited that they were nearly impossible to obtain.
Not anymore.
Bare Bones Software, Inc. proudly announces availability of the official
BBEdit T-Shirt. Black lettering and logos silk-screened on a heavy duty,
white, pre-shrunk 100% cotton shirt.
For information on how to get yours, send mail to [email protected].
--
Bare Bones Software, Inc. Internet: [email protected]
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Date: 2 Sep 1994 13:33:21 GMT
From: [email protected] (Roger Burns)
Subject: Books for novices?
I am revising a guide to computer networking to be read by
disabled patients and I need some advice. The guide so far
tells people where valuable medical & disability resources can
be found on Compuserve, Internet, BBSs and elsewhere. However,
some of the readers of this guide will be people who are not
accustomed to using modems at all, and perhaps some readers
won't yet even *have* a computer.
I'd like to include a section in my guide that refers people to
books, etc., which advise people on how to buy a home computer,
what kinds of communications software are needed, how to use a
modem -- all that super-novice stuff.
(1) What are good, easy-for-pure-neophytes, books that I should
recommend? I'd rather not ask people to buy several books, so
I'd prefer recommendations on individual books that can stand
alone in advising newcomers.
(2) Since I believe that no book can "do-it-all", but that some
in-person advice will be needed, I'd like to advise people on
how they can find local computer user groups to find such help.
Is there any central registry that lists all local computer user
groups? If not, is there any other way for some one who is
off-line to locate nearby users groups?
Thanks for any help.
-- Roger Burns [email protected]
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Date: 1 Sep 1994 13:50:05 -0300
From: "Diego Akerman"
Subject: CD Mastering Problem
Hi! I recently mastered 600+ Mb to a CD using a friend's Micronet CD
recorder.
The CD appeared to be working OK, we tested it on the recorder (as a reader)
and
on an Apple CD-300 and it performed perfectly. Unfortunately when I tried to
use
it at home (I have an Apple CD-300+, the new one with no caddy) the CD could
not
be mounted.
Since then I tried it on different CD-300+ and obtained the same result (my
friend told me that this kind of problem seems to happen when you fill a CD
up-to-the-top and then try to read it on the CD-300+). The CD starts spinning
but after a few seconds the reader gives some weird noises as if it were trying
to read "outside" the CD.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance. Doglan //)
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Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 14:06:20 -0500
From: [email protected] (Andrew W. Litt, M.D.)
Subject: Changing Hard Disk name w/sharing OFF
The problem is probably that you system had sharing on and was accessed
by a Mac running System 6. Apple has a program called "Rename Rescue"
which will fix the problem. It is available on Compuserve, AOL, etc.
Good Luck
*************************************************************
Andrew W. Litt, M.D.
Director, Neuro MRI
New York University Medical Center
530 First Avenue
New York, NY 10016
Phone: 212-263-8121
Fax: 212-263-8186
Email: [email protected]
*************************************************************
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Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 08:52:22 -0700
From: [email protected] (Kevin Purcell)
Subject: color monitor information sought...
Allan Hunter asks:
1. What is the difference between the Apple Basic color monitor and
the Apple RGB monitor and the Apple Color Plus monitor, assuming
they are all the same size?
The Basic monitor SUCKS! It only does VGA scan rates (more prone to
flicker), has a higher dot pitch and is generally not very bright. Avoid
this one!
The Apple Color Plus monitor is 66.7Hz refresh 640 x 480 shadow mask tube
with 0.28 pitch, it is pretty bright, the screen is definitly not flat
(especially if you stare at 2 13" RGBes all day! Good monitor for the
price. Aimed at the price concious user. I was pleasantly suprised when I
saw it. Not as bright as the Trinitrons.
The Apple RGB monitor is obselete. It is the traditional (original Apple
Mac color monitor). It is 66.7Hz refresh 640 x 480 Trinitron tube with 0.26
pitch. Very sharp. DGood brightness. SOme batches had problems with
underspecified capacitors which die after a period, but the fix is pretty
cheap (should you pick up a dead one cheap). Still an excellent monitor (I
have two on my desk attached to 8100).
The Apple Color Display monitor is obselete, but only just, you still can
find it in the stores. It is 66.7Hz refresh 640 x 480 Trinitron tube with
0.26 pitch. Very sharp. Good brightness. Construction is ligher than the
older 13" RGB monitors. Built in swivel base. Switch on the front. Nice
monitor for the price.
The latest Apple Monitor fs15 is a rebadged Taiwanese monitor. Multisync
using a Hitachie flat shadow mask tube 0.28 pitch. Will cope with 1024 x
768 at 75Hz as well as most other VGA, VESA and Mac display modes that are
common on the Quadra and Power Macs. Built in speakers and amplifiers for
multimedia. Replaces the old Apple AudioVision monitor with a price point
closer to the Apple Color Display. Looks like a good buy too.
2. Assuming I have all the VRAM I need for 24-bit color if and when
I need it, will any color monitor display it? Or do some monitors
themselves have limitations in the number of colors they can do?
No, all RGB monitor are analog.
3. I'm used to the original Mac screen, which at 72 dpi gives you
true WYSISYG so that you can hold up something against the screen
and draw a replica and it prints out exactly the same size, etc.
Does this change with color monitors that aren't 72 dpi, or does
the Mac correct for it so that a monitor inch is a printer's inch?
And by the way, what is the relationship of dot pitch to dpi, and
exactly what the hell is dot pitch anyway, and should I care much?
Enough to spend more? And how does dot pitch bear on Question 1?
Yes it does.
No they can't (or rather don't) correct for it. The info was provided in on
the WindowRecord, but no-one actually makes any use of it. Most of the
time, except for drawings, it doesn't matter. Most programs you can rescale
the output on the display so that you approach WYSIWYG.
Dot pitch is the distance in millimeters between the dots or stripes of the
same color. It makes a difference to the sharpness. 0.29mm or less is good.
Don't forget that the monitor is the bit of you Mac system that you always
look at: if your monitor sucks it will bug you EVERY time you use it! Buy
the best you can afford (perhaps even a little better than you can really
afford).
Avoid VGA monitors like the plague. Make sure you multisync monitor can do
all the modes you are interested in at 75Hz (except the Mac 640 x 480 mode
at 66.7Hz). Cheaper multisyncs cannot do this. Avoid 60Hz VGA/SVGA
monitors.
Good luck,
Kevin Purcell, N7WIM / G8UDP [email protected] 206/649-6489
Seattle dBug Mac Developers SIG organiser
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Date: Thu, 1 Sep 1994 10:41:02 -0500
From: [email protected] (Nathan Gilliatt)
Subject: DayMaker contact?
Greetings, all.
Does anyone know where Pastel went, or who owns/supports DayMaker? I'm
trying to help a user whose DayMaker ate her calendar.
Thanks for any leads.
- Nathan
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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 16:13:31 -0500
From: [email protected] (Clinton MacDonald)
Subject: Dearth of PowerBook Drives II
Friends:
Earlier I asked about what I perceived to be a nationwide shortage of
PowerBook hard drives. Several people were kind enough to respond,
including:
"matt n."
[email protected]
Bill Rausch
[email protected] (Jon Callas)
Thanks to all! However, each of these respondents point out, for
instance, that APS or Club Mac list several 2.5 inch PowerBook hard drives
in their catalogs. That is the problem: none of these places have any of
the hard drives listed in their most current catalogs! The situation is, as
of last Friday (all prices per mb are for formatted mb):
MacWarehouse (800/255-6227)
DRI-0835 120 mb $319.95 $2.67/mb in stock
--all other PB hard drives backordered and discontinued
LaCie (503/520-9000)
170 mb $259.00 $1.52/mb
256 mb $349.00 $1.36/mb
--7-10 day wait before they begin to fill orders
APS Technologies (800/233-7550)
1025 340 mb $399.00 $1.23/mb in stock
10-T01 520 mb $499.00 $1.00/mb in stock
--no other hard drive listed in catalog available
MacConnection (800/800-0014)
210 mb $619.00 $2.95/mb
340 mb $679.00 $2.19/mb
--$2.95/mb -- no comment necessary
I finally bit the bullet and ordered the APS drive at 340 mb -- more than I
wanted to spend, but it seemed like the best value. So, am I dreaming, or
is this truly a conspiracy?
Clint
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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 94 12:23:42 CDT
From: [email protected] (Joe Gard)
Subject: Desktop Strip on a PM **NOT**
I have tried with out success to load Desktop Strip on my PM6100. I have
turned off all inits except memory, Quicktime, Quicktime PowerPlug, and
Softfpu (one error suggested that the fpu was not installed).
I can sometimes (1 in 3) get the system to finish booting, but when I try
to turn on the Strip control panel, a dialog comes up saying not enough
memory to do this. When I then try to click the hide strip box, a system
error occurs and the machine lockes up.
Does Desktop Strip really need a fpu? I have seen other posts where
people have had this error for no reason. Any suggestions??
thanks
Joe Gard
[email protected]
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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 17:06:51 -0600
From: [email protected] (Mark Evans)
Subject: Dial-up, non-MacTCP offline newsreader?
essage-Id:
I have internet access through a dial-up connection to, I believe, a unix
box . (Hey, it works, it's a mystery, and not everybody needs to know all
of the secrets.) My Eudora uses the CTB to fetch mail; i have no MacTCP.
Question:
Is there an offline news reader for the usual news places that can go
through my service using a Tool Box? I don't know how to configure TCP,
etc., or if it is available at my site. (It took me so long to get Eudora
figured out that I'm a bit shy to ask the sysop for more special help :^)
Mark Evans
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Date: Thu, 1 Sep 1994 07:09:40 +0100
From: [email protected] (Tom van Peer)
Subject: EUDORA (A)
> When I send two or more qeued messages with Eudora, the first one=
> sends fine.. then, when it tries to send the second, it gets stuck with the=
> message... So I have to cancel and re-transmit=
> queued messages (once for every queued message!) It gets very boring when=
> 10 messages have been queued :-/
This may be caused by the fact that some Unix mailers puke on a RSET
command. I have once experimented with a Unisys SVR4 machine and its smtpd
daemon terminated the connection when it received an RSET.
You can probably fix this by changing the STR# resource "SMTP commands"
with ResEdit. It contains the RSET command. From Steve Dorner I understood
that if you can change it to NOOP and then the RSET will not take place. I
have not tested this but I hope it helps. The alternative is to get another
Unix machine on the other end of the line
.Tom.
----
[email protected]
Tom van Peer
Hartingstraat 171
3511 HV Utrecht
THE NETHERLANDS
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Date: Thu, 1 Sep 94 11:10:47 -0600
From: Takamasa Takahashi
Subject: Fantasy Football (Q)
Hi fellow netters. Does anyone know of a good fantasy football program,
either shareware/freeware or comercial, for the Macintosh? It would be
for the commissioner of the league. Thank you very in advance.
Taka (St. Norbert College)
[email protected]
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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 13:40:35 -0400
From: [email protected] (Charlie Mingo)
Subject: Fidonet (C)
[email protected] (Geoffrey C. Hoffman) writes:
>How do I send mail to someone with a fidonet address from the internet? Is
>there a gateway to/from the internet?
There is a gateway, of sorts. The main problem with is that long-range
email within Fidonet is very unreliable; your message will arrive on the
gateway in seconds, be transferred to a Fido host in a few minutes, and
then may take days or weeks to arrive at its destination (if ever).
Nonetheless, if you're feeling game, here's how to do it.
Assume you have a Fido address in the form:
Charlie Mingo at 1:109/716.4218
(my real Fido address; the ".4218" is optional)
this can be re-expressed as:
[email protected]
(note how the Internet form is the regular Fido form read backwards.)
Many Fido nodes have their own, private Internet gateways, precisely
because Fido-to-Fido email is so unreliable. For example, I can also be
reached at the same Fido account mentioned above by:
[email protected]
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Date: Thu, 1 Sep 94 16:07:28 JST
From: [email protected] (Mark Nagata)
Subject: Great Shareware (R)
In Info-Mac Digest #116, Alun J. Carr wrote:
> From: [email protected] (Alun J. Carr)
> Subject: Great Shareware (R)
>
> How about:
>
> * OtherMenu (more stable than Apollo)
> * OpenWide (I can't live without it)
> * DefaultFolder (ditto)
> * Alpha (a _must_ for LaTeX users)
> * OzTeX 1.7 (and an honorable mention for both DirectTeX and CMacTeX)
Open-wide 3.59 was superseded by Dialog View version 2.*
(Info-Mac currently has 2.01, but 2.1 will soon appear).
Dialog View 2.* combines the functionality of Dialog View 1.*
and Open-wide 3.59, which is the last version that supports System 6.
So, if you are a System 6 user, use Open-wide 3.59;
and if you are a System 7 user, use Dialog View 2.* ($10 shareware, though)
instead of Open-wide (which was postcardware).
Here is my list:
* OtherMenu (undoubtedly "The Greatest")
* Dialog View (I can't live without it)
* Alpha (a _must_ for any serious text editor users)
* Apollo (has some unique features not in OtherMenu
* KeyQuencer (wonderful if used together with OtherMenu)
* About 1.0.3 (DragManager-aware process monitor/launcher)
* DiskStatus 1.2 (displays free spaces on disk/RAM)
(About and DiskStatus are freeware.)
BTW, the items in my list have something in common: All of them have my
name included either in the on-line help text or in the About box
> Just my (very) biased opinions.
>
> Alun
My (even more) biased opinions!
Mark
--
Mark Nagata
[email protected]
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Date: 2 Sep 1994 12:40:13 -0400
From: "JT Green"
Subject: HD spin down
On Fri, 26 Aug 1994 13:38:27 +0200 (Info-Mac 12-114), [email protected]
(Rolf Kocherhans) wrote:
>Does anybody know a utility for a desktop MAC, which spins down
>the Harddisk after a specific time.
>
>I know of some PowerBook utilities. I would like to let our
>server disk have a rest over night.
Silverlining 5.5 CAN do this, but I'm not sure if a SCSI 4.3 compatible
version exisits yet.
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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 20:15:42 -0400
From: "Robert E. Winston"
Subject: HD Spin Down (C)
>> Does anybody know a utility for a desktop MAC, which spins down
>> the Harddisk after a specific time.
>>
>> I know of some PowerBook utilities. I would like to let our
>> server disk have a rest over night.
> If I remember my hardware correctly, this is not possible on a
> traditional desktop computer of any kind. The HD is designed
> to spin all the time and the hardware does not have the
> capability to be stopped by software; in other words, there is
> no "softswitch".
Both the internal and external hard drives on my Quadra 605 spin down after
12 minutes of idle time.
They do so because I set that value in the Drive-7 driver.
(Hold down while clicking "Update" in the Drive-7 application to
set "Auto Stop Time".)
________
Robert E. Winston [email protected]
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Date: Thu, 1 Sep 94 05:50:12 PDT
From: [email protected] (John Thoo)
Subject: HD spinn down (C)
On 29 Aug 1994 [email protected] (Juan M. Courcoul) wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Aug 1994 13:38:27 +0200 (Info-Mac 12-114), [email protected]
> (Rolf Kocherhans) wrote:
> >Does anybody know a utility for a desktop MAC, which spins down
> >the Harddisk after a specific time.
> >
> >I know of some PowerBook utilities. I would like to let our
> >server disk have a rest over night.
>
> If I remember my hardware correctly, this is not possible on a traditional
> desktop computer of any kind. The HD is designed to spin all the time and
> the hardware does not have the capability to be stopped by software; in
> other words, there is no "softswitch".
>
> Perhaps future Energy Star compliant machines....
Actually, the latest version of SilverLining (HD formatter) can be set to
spin down a HD after an idle time of your choosing.
--John.
J. B. THOO, Math Dept, Univ of California, Davis, CA 95616-8633
Internet: or
Home Page:
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Date: Thu, 1 Sep 1994 08:17:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jill Craig
Subject: Help on Fidonet
A friend of mine in Zimbabwe who is a MAC user sent me the following
question. I am an IBM user and have no ideas but would most grateful for
any help you could give in responding to him.
Thanks very much ,
Jill Craig
On Sat, 27 Aug 1994 [email protected] wrote:
> ? I am a trying to get some information about > Fidonet mailing software
for Macintosh. We use shareware programs called > MacWoof and ZZWoof for
our E-mail and have had no success. I sent a message to > the editor of an
electronic Mac newsletter called TidBits that we get but he > couldn't
help. There follows the text of his answer (quoting my message):
> > >Just wondered if you might be able to give me some info on Mac software
for
>
>mailing on our FidoNet system. We here do not have full Internet access
so > can > >only E-mail. For PC users a (freeware) program called Marimba
has been > >developed for "developing countries". We Mac users are using
MacWoof (1.5.3) > >and ZZWoof (1.0b17). For nearly a year we have been
trying to get hold of > >Craig Vaughan through E-mail, firstly, to pay our
shareware fees (!), and, > >secondly, to see how we can get updates to the
software. We have never had > any response. Can you help? Does Craig
Vaughan still exist? Should we stay with > >what we've got? Are there
good alternatives? What do you recommend?
> > Sorry, but I know
essentially nothing about FidoNet. I'd recommend asking > on Info-Mac at
[email protected] or on comp.sys.mac.comm if > you have
Usenet access.
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Date: Fri, 02 Sep 1994 15:55:27 +1200
From: "matt n."
Subject: how de-MIME?
Someone sent me an email with an enclosure in MIME format. I presume
this is because the sender was using Eudora. Trouble is, I'm not.
How do I de-MIME this thing? Stuffit doesn't handle it...
Thanx. m.
matt neuburg, phd = [email protected]
In four days, world population will have increased by 1 million.
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Date: Thu, 1 Sep 1994 13:17:16 -0500
From: Paul M Sheldon
Subject: how to remove carriage returns (R)
I improve my infomac digest 118 post, because I found a confusion in
my technique that others out there might bump into.
For those who don't recall my last post, I brief it here:
You can use bbedit to make text that flows into word processors,
newton books, or e mail margins. Eg., you can write e mail off line, while
waiting for phone calls! I also submitted the location of the newton book
maker in im 118.
bbedit took a default this morning that I didn't realize I had
unchecked when I had successfully used it. So I amplify my instructions:
Before the process of selecting paragraphs and putting them in single
indented lines can be really automated, you must first use wrap menuitem
of text menu straight from the menu without the quickkeys macro to fly you
through the dialogue box.
At that point you uncheck paragraph fill and set character width text
box to a large number.
When I forgot to do the former, not just selected paragraphs, but
rather the whole document got reflowed. This might have frustrated people
until they caught on to my fortunate guess.
So, I repost them here. Successful guesses should be, not forgotten,
but rather shared in the human community.
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Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 10:47:18 -0500
From: [email protected] (Miles Abernathy)
Subject: Hydrology Software for Mac?
Can anyone steer me to hydrology software for the Mac? I need to do some
modeling of rainfall runoff, using the Soil Conservation Service TR-20 (or
TR-55) method, or maybe EPA's SWMM or HEC-20. Thank you.
Miles Abernathy ([email protected])
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Date: Thu, 1 Sep 94 09:32:36 EDT
From: [email protected]
Subject: I need a typeface...
in particular, one that looks like "Toledo" typeface #275 from FontBank.
I need it once, and don't want to buy the entire add-on package from
FontBank that includes #275.
is there a freebie Type 1 PS font and matching bitmap around somewhere?
-- clint [email protected]
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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 12:56:33 -0500
From: [email protected] (John Norstad)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V12 #116
In article , [email protected]
wrote:
> I have been using Disenfectant for a long time and
> now have installed 3.5. I also have been reading
> all of the toasts to John for his system.
> Can anyone tell me if there is some part of
> Disinfectant that warns you when an infected disk
> is inserted? I have installed something called
> Virus Detective which does that. Maybe that is
> redundent. What is the scoop?
> Thanks.
Yes, it is redundant. The current version of the Disinfectant protection
INIT detects and blocks all known Mac system viruses before they can
spread or damage your system. Scanning floppy disks every time they are
inserted is not only redundant, it is an enormous waste of time.
--
John Norstad
Academic Computing and Network Services
Northwestern University
[email protected]
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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 09:32:46 -0800
From: [email protected] (Kee Nethery +1 408 974 7889)
Subject: IP address for aol.com? (A)
>Can anyone tell me the numeric IP address (e.g., 1.2.3.4) for "aol.com"?
>Our nameserver seems to have a problem with resolving a select few
>addresses, and this is one of the more popular that I'd like to use, but
>cannot. I tried doing a "nslookup" on our unix box, but since it uses the
>same nameserver, I get the same answer: not found.
These are the live addresses that I could find. I searched for ftp.aol.com
and got the first address. Then I searched their entire subnet for active
addresses.
Sorry, no names, just addresses.
198.81.1.1
198.81.1.2
198.81.1.5
198.81.1.10
198.81.1.11
198.81.1.12
198.81.1.14
Kee Nethery
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Date: 2 Sep 1994 11:45:28 GMT
From: [email protected]
Subject: mosaic
I am looking for an address where mosaic is available.
Thanks,
Bill Wallace
[email protected]
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Date: Fri, 2 Sep 94 08:11:02 -0400
From: [email protected]
Subject: Original and doc. for older softwares
Since I am moving very soon, I am giving away some stuff I have which I do not
use. I do not know if some institutions or individuals could be interested.
I have Word 4.0 and Excel 2.2 and System 6.0.7 with original disks. Perhaps the
two Microsoft products could be upgraded using these originals. I would prefer
a school or something like that, but anyway write to me if interested.
louis [email protected]
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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 14:58:00 -0300 (ADT)
From: Dwight Lemke
Subject: Pecking Order
> I vote that Gordon kill future messages, from any source, that are
> OBVIOUSLY TACTLESS, regardless of the actual information content. He
> can return them to sender with a demand they be reworded. That way, Al
> et. al. (oooh, a pun) will be protected from their personal devils.
> Simple rule: attack ANY THING you wish - ideas, products, advice, etc -
> but attack NO ONE.
That puts Gordon in the role of everyone's censor--something that is
overburdonsome for him and a bit Big Brotherish. People have an
inalienable right to make asses out of themselves.
-Dwight
--
|>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>| Dwight Lemke
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Date: 1 Sep 1994 13:49:40 -0300
From: "Diego Akerman"
Subject: PPC Video Question
Hi there!
I have the following problem that arose when I switched me 660AV to my
brand new 6100/60. I use a Samsung SyncMaster 3 that I was able to switch
between 640x480 and 800x600 pixel resolution on the 660 but I am unable to do
so
on the 6100 (with its built in video).
Does anyone out there know if the 6100 can handle the 800x600 mode
with
this monitor? I tried with different VGA-to-Mac adapters with no good results.
Mmm... it doesn't seem to be possible...
Thanks in advance. Doglan //)
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Date: Thu, 01 Sep 1994 15:16:13 +0100
From: [email protected] (Peter Jorgensen)
Subject: QUADRA 800 talk to (old) LaserWriter Plus...? (A)
>Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 12:41:34 SAST-2
>From: "KORRUBEL, JL, JAN, KRRJAN001"
>Subject: QUADRA 800 talk to (old) LaserWriter Plus...?
>
>Hi all,
>
>I am trying to get a stand-alone QUADRA 800 to talk to a (very old)
>Apple LaserWriter Plus but am having no joy whatsoever.
much stuff deleted...
>I made up a cable for the DIN-8 to the DB-9. BUT the QUADRA still won't
>see the printer on the chooser.....I was expecting that by switching off
>the 'AppleTalk Active' button in the CHOOSER, the MAC would 'know'
>that the printer is standalone and when I choose the LaserWriter Icon,
>it should ask which port it must go to (printer or modem), but no joy.
rest of message deleted...
The LaserWriter driver (Icon that appears in the Chooser) is designed only
to communicate with a laserWriter using AppleTalk (LocalTalk, EtherTalk,
etc.). It will not communicate with the LaserWriter using RS422 (RS232-like
serial - Printer or Modem) communications, it just doesn't do it. The
ImageWriter driver, for instance, communicates via RS422 and thus,
providing AppleTalk is not using the Printer Port, allows you to choose
between the Modem and Printer ports. OF COURSE the ImageWriter driver does
not send the correct information for printing to a LaserWriter, I'm just
using it as an example of a "serial" driver, as opposed to an AppleTalk
driver.
According to [email protected] (Robert L. Frost) in Issue 114 of this
digest, >Well, it turns out that there's a software solution, LocalPath,
from
>Farallon, and it works like a charm. It seems to patch around the Apple
>misconception, allowing one to run EtherTalk and LocalTalk at the same
>time. It creates a LocalTalk stub appended to an ether-connected Mac, and
>the printer looks just like any Ether-Talked printer to other macs. Nice
>stuff! My congrads to Farallon on this, and it's a bargain at about $90 for
>academics
Peter Jorgensen SUNYAB ASCIT Information Technology Services
201 Capen Hall, SUNYAB, Buffalo, NY, 14260
[email protected] 716-645-3879
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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 11:22:40 -0700
From: david miller
Subject: query...
greetings,
i am trying to figure out how to pull applications off of info-mac
for use on my mac. in particular, i am using kermit to download
files onto my mac from the internet, once i have ftp'd from info-mac.
how should ".hqx" files be converted into macintosh application
files? i am using a terminal emulator called "microphone-LT" which
supports the kermit protocol on my mac and downloading in
"macbinary", whatever that is. the downloaded programs are not recognized
as bonafide mac applications on my mac. is there some sort of conversion
that i need to do?
also, do you know of a faster way to transfer over a modem than kermit?
kermit seems really slow.
i would greatly appreciate answers to these questions. thanks sincerely,
-david miller-
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 08:52:31 -0700
From: [email protected] (Kevin Purcell)
Subject: RAM Doubler 1.5 (C)
Said [email protected] (Andre Vellino):
>... I have a system
>folder on each of the hard disks (A and B) and I updated only one of them
>(A) with the 1.5 updater. Then I *copied* the updated extention from one
>system folder (A) to the other (B) (instead of "updating" it as I did the
>first time). Then I tried to boot from disk (B) and started *really*
>worring that something was seriously wrong with the hardware. The "Welcome
>to Macintosh" dialog was fluttering wildly and the disk wouldn't boot. I
>took away the extension and the problem went away.
I say:
Theres nothing wrong with your hardware, but there is a problem with your
installation.
Connetix are pretty sneaky (they have to be to get something like this to
work!). They patch up the system *very* early in the boot process and to do
this they install two INVISIBLE files in the sytem folder: LoadRAMDblr and
Macsbug Mgr. I presume that the latter munges Macsbug so Ramdoubler can get
in very early and make the patches it needs to work.
I'm pretty certain that these have to match the installed RAMdoubler system
extension. If you deleted these files the RAMdoubler system extension will
recreate them in the system folder and display a dialog asking you to
reboot and try again. If it seems the right file names (but doesn't check
the versions) then it just tries to use them. Result: fandango on core.
So if you dragged the RAMdoubler system extension and deleted LoadRAMDblr
and Macsbug Mgr then it would probably work.
But why bother: just use the installer!
If a developer provides an installer then they intend you to use it!
You can get a similar effect trying to run Compact Virtual 3.01 with System
7.1. It seems something has changed in the system! You get a really
"old-time" crash: buzzing sound, overwrite the memory at the bottom of the
screen. Very spectacular!
Finally I'm always impressed with Connetix. They're the only non-Apple
company writing system software for the Macintosh (RamDoubler, Virtual,
Mode32, etc) and they seem to have some of the best ideas in the industry.
Kevin Purcell, N7WIM / G8UDP [email protected] 206/649-6489
Seattle dBug Mac Developers SIG organiser
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Date: 31 Aug 1994 15:50:12 -0800
From: "Lisa Bjarke"
Subject: Re- Mac FAQ web site proble
Re: Mac FAQ web site problem?
The URL I have been using for a few weeks now is:
http://rever.nmsu.edu/~elharo/faq/faqs.html
Mel Martinez wrote:
>Does anyone know if there is problem with the macFAQ www page site?
>http://rever.nmsu.edu/~elharo/faq/Macintosh.html
>Mosaic gives me an error of 'file not found or is read protected'.
>Mosaic is able to make the connection, so it sounds like there is a problem
>with the page. Has the file been moved? I realize that people rearrange
>their systems alot and especially when first starting a web server. It
>would be helpful when they do so to put a pointer to the new location
>(URL), though.
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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 19:58:51 -0500
From: [email protected] (Mel E. Martinez)
Subject: Re- Mac FAQ web site proble
I originally wrote:
>
>>Does anyone know if there is problem with the macFAQ www page site?
>
>>http://rever.nmsu.edu/~elharo/faq/Macintosh.html
>
>>Mosaic gives me an error of 'file not found or is read protected'.
Then "Lisa Bjarke" replied to me:
>
> Re: Mac FAQ web site problem?
>The URL I have been using for a few weeks now is:
>
>http://rever.nmsu.edu/~elharo/faq/faqs.html
>
>
I am replying to the digest in case anyone else is experiencing this
wierdness...
Prior to Lisa's note, Tom Coradeshi told me he was having absolutely no
problem with the http I posted (originally cut from tidbits). So I tried
using xmosaic from one of our unix workstations. Lo and behold, it worked.
However, no matter what, I could not get it to work from my Mac. Now, as
far as I can tell, my mac is a fully and properly connected and registered
IP node and I have had no problem whatsoever using _any_ of my zillions of
other tcp/ip tools and applications. I tried both the ppc version and the
68k version of Mosaic2.0.0a6. Nothin' works!
[I don't really have a desperate need for this html page, but the wierdness
kinda bugs me...
].Finally, I figger there must be some bias this node has against mine when
Lisa posts the above, which has the same node and directory path, but just
a different filename. Works like a charm.
Well, this is not really the same file, though so at this point I still
don't know why I can't access the 'Macintosh.html' file. I have no problem
accessing several other html documents in that directory. I don't
unnerstand why that one file jilts me and yet works for my sun's xmosaic
access.
Finally, inspiration strikes: I download MacWeb (an alternative www
client) and try out http://rever.nmsu.edu/~elharo/faq/Macintosh.html with
it.
Works like a charm!
Lesson? Moral? I dunno. Just that their is something weird about NCSA
Mosaic 2.0.0a6 on my power mac with that particular URL.
BTW: In my initial pokin' around with MacWeb, it already seems faster
(under emulation) than the PowerPC native version of Mosaic. Just
perception? I think I'll try using MacWeb for a while and see how I like
it.
Cheers,
Mel Martinez
The Johns Hopkins University
Dept. of Physics
[email protected]
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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 94 18:16:28 GMT
From: [email protected] (Alexandre Almeida)
Subject: Request for programs whereabouts
Hi there! I am looking for share(or free)ware programs dealing with neural nets
simulation. Any help
where I can find them?
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Date: Tue, 30 Aug 1994 09:43:39 +0400
From: [email protected] (Akif Eyler)
Subject: Setext Viewer for DOS/Windoze?
Evans Brasfield wrote in I-M #114:
> I'm trying to convert a friend to the wonders of setext. Where can I find
> a viewer for DOS/Windows?
David Davenport of Bilkent University is halfway thru such a program.
The latest version can be found at
ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/pub/tidbits/tisk/ ... SYVIEW.uue
ftp://ftp.bilkent.edu.tr/pub/Local/setext/EASYVIEW.uue
(see also the related article in TidBITS #219)
M. Akif Eyler /|
Bilkent University /_|
06533 Ankara, Turkey________/ | [email protected]
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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 15:11:07 -0500
From: [email protected] (Rick Shafer)
Subject: SF 171
I am interested in finding any Mac software, commercial, share, beer-ware,
that allows one to fill out the dreaded (and soon to be defunct) SF 171;
the Standard Form for applying for a job with the federal government. I
seem to recall seeing some stuff on this, but it turns out I needed some
other software. Please reply by mail to me.
Thanks,
Rick Shafer
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Date: 1 Sep 1994 14:06:28 GMT
From: [email protected] (Chao)
Subject: system 7.5 and worldscript II
Does anyone know if system 7.5 is compatible with
the worldscript extensions for traditional and
simple chinese used in system 7.1 ? Also do the
new mac models released with system 7.5 also run
with system 7.1 ? Thanks.
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Date: Tue, 30 Aug 1994 09:08:09 +0200
From: [email protected] (Sharfi Alon)
Subject: Windows color
Hi,
Does someone know how to change the default windows colors ?
Thanks
Alon
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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 94 23:51:57 CEST
From: Marco Ridoni
Subject: Zmodem Wanted
Hi !
Does anybody know where I can find Pascal sources for the Zmodem protocol,
or a ready made CODE resource? I need to incorporate Zmodem file transfer
in a little program I'm writing, but I don't have time (and I'm not so
happy about it) to write the code.
Marco RIDONI
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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 19:02:00 +0100
From: GCSI
Hi there! I am looking for share(or free)ware programs that can create Mac user
interfaces,
most like AppMaker or Prototyper and targeting at Think C language. Any help?
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Date: Thu, 01 Sep 1994 14:48:00 +0100
From: [email protected] (Peter Jorgensen)
>On Fri, 26 Aug 1994 13:38:27 +0200 (Info-Mac 12-114), [email protected]
>(Rolf Kocherhans) wrote:
>>Does anybody know a utility for a desktop MAC, which spins down
>>the Harddisk after a specific time.
>>
>>I know of some PowerBook utilities. I would like to let our
>>server disk have a rest over night.
>
IMHO, the disk IS resting if it's just spinning. It's the starting up that
wears them out eventually. I'd predict, even bet money, that your server's
disk life will be reduced by stopping it each night and starting it each
morning. BTW, most laptop HD are built to much more rugged specifications
to allow them to survive jiggles and jolts while being used on your lap (in
a car, plane, etc.). Therefore, they are somewhat more tolerant of repeated
starting and stopping.
Peter Jorgensen SUNYAB ASCIT Information Technology Services
201 Capen Hall, SUNYAB, Buffalo, NY, 14260
[email protected] 716-645-3879
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Date: Thu, 1 Sep 1994 08:13:59 -0400
From: [email protected] (Capt Bill Cameron)
In response to Al Bloom's hyperpyretic postings and Louis Bergeron's
gerontocratic defense, Paul Baim writes:
>...This is not the jungle...,it's the INTERNET!!!! A group of adult
>professionals with mutual interests....I think the net community
>owes the newcomers the courtesy of helping them learn the ropes so they
>will enjoy this resource as much as we do. Don't just whine and flame,
>EDUCATE! Call it selfish, paternal, misguided, arrogant or any other
>annoyed name, we cannot allow the fragile etiquette of the net to fall
>apart. If it does, there will be no reason to log on. This portion of the
>net remains a (possibly last) bastion of basic courtesy.....
I couldn't agree more. We are not animals, we are human beings who deserve
respect, compassion and courtesy. I've looked through several news groups
where precious little courtesy exists; I no longer look through some
because there is nothing approaching intellectual discussion occuring, only
name-calling.
>I vote that Gordon kill future messages, from any source, that are
>OBVIOUSLY TACTLESS, regardless of the actual information content. He can
>return them to sender with a demand they be reworded. That way, Al et. al.
>(oooh, a pun) will be protected from their personal devils. Simple rule:
>attack ANY THING you wish - ideas, products, advice, etc - but attack NO
>ONE.
I like the idea, but I'd hesitate to give further work to our already
overburdened moderators. A more proper, but perhaps less reliable approach
is for each of us to provide some self-restraint in our responses.
Bill Cameron sdg
[email protected]
[email protected]
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