info-mac@uw-beaver (05/18/85)
From: Moderator John Mark Agosta <INFO-MAC-REQUEST@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA>
INFO-MAC Digest Saturday, 18 May 1985 Volume 2 : Issue 47
Today's Topics:
Info-Mac distribution on tape
Problems with new Imagewriter
MacDraw & Missing Imagewriter
MacWrite 4.X
Forwarded: MacPaint's system files
wrong default font after upgrade, DA/font mover
MacTerminal Document with Del/BS remapped (switched)
Beginner's Payroll???
Power supply question
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Date: Fri 17 May 85 15:47:48-PDT
From: John Mark Agosta <INFO-MAC-REQUEST@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA>
Subject: Info-Mac distribution on tape
Readers:
This weekend I plan to dump the entire current info-mac directory to
tape, so that it may be available for purchase. I will post ordering
instructions when it is; they will be essentially the same as for the
Sumacc tape distribution.
Would you please check over the contents of file <info-mac>00dir if
you have any comments or corrections to the entries and descriptions
it contains. Thanks -jma
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Date: Thu 16 May 85 15:36:11-PDT
From: Irvin Lustig <OR.LUSTIG@SU-SIERRA.ARPA>
Subject: Problems with new Imagewriter
I experimented with creating an entire 0-width version of the
Princeton Math font, which would allow one to do superscripting over
subscripting. This technique worked fine with MacWrite 2.2 and early
versions of the finder. When I moved to MacWrite 4.5 with the new
Finder 4.1 and new Imagewriter, things looked fine on the screen, but
did not print correctly. After some file moving, I discovered that
the new Imagewriter resource file is the culprit.
To reproduce the problem, you can use the Princeton Math font
alone. Type the following sequence:
x <command>-H <Shift-Option>-\ <command>-L <Shift-Option>-\
This will work o.k. with the old Imagewriter, but not the new one. It
should look like an x with 2 bars next to it. The 0-width font that I
created has numbers that take the place of the bars in the example
above, but I described the above example to enable others to reproduce
the problem.
Any comments?
-Irvin Lustig
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Date: Thu, 16 May 85 10:27:28 pdt
From: Larry Rosenstein <lsr%apple.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa>
Subject: MacDraw & Missing Imagewriter
The problem with not being able to create a new MacDraw document if
the Imagewriter file is missing is a known bug.
When MacDraw creates a new document, it must get the paper size from
the print manager, which in turn gets it from the appropriate printer
resource file (Imagewriter, Laserwriter, ...). Based on the symptoms,
it seems that if the required resource file is missing, MacDraw ends
up with a 0-sized page. (This problem will be familiar to users of
MacApp 0.1.)
Larry Rosenstein Apple Computer
UUCP: {nsc, dual, voder, ios}!apple!lsr CSNET: lsr@Apple.CSNET
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Date: Fri 17 May 85 13:54:10-CDT
From: CMP.BARC@UTEXAS-20.ARPA
Subject: MacWrite 4.X
The 512 paragraph limit on a skinny Mac running MacWrite 4.2 i
inexcusable. I can generate 512 paragraphs in just a few pages
writing mathematical text with lots of section headings and the like.
Every section heading takes 3 paragraphs, or more. This limit is
going to make 4.X next to usless for anything except straight prose.
In every other way 4.2 a big step forward. Come on Apple, do this
right, for the rest of us.
Douglas Surber
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Date: Thu 16 May 85 12:51:53-PDT
From: John Mark Agosta <INFO-MAC-REQUEST@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA>
Subject: Forwarded: MacPaint's system files
> Why does MacPaint need space on the system disk when you run it
on a disk in the external drive?
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Date: Wed 15 May 85 02:25:09-PDT
From: Elgin Lee <P.PAVANE%LOTS-C@LOTS-C>
Subject: Re: a novice question about MacWrite
MacPaint uses scratch files (one or two, I believe, depending on which
version you're using) while running -- these are stored on the system
disk.
In a similar vein, since the scratch files it uses are given fixed
names, you can't run it twice using the Switcher, since both instances
would try to access the same scratch files.
Elgin
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Date: 16 May 85 18:38:00 PDT
From: "PETER YAOHWA CHU" <chu@su-star>
Subject: wrong default font after upgrade, DA/font mover
Reply-to: "PETER YAOHWA CHU" <chu@su-star>
If your new finder uses a strange font for displaying disk names, file
names, etc., you can restore the system font by removing the battery
on the back of the mac and putting it back. Then the mac hopefully
will behave normally. Of course you have to run control panel again.
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Date: Wed, 15 May 85 00:20:46 pdt
From: Michael Peirce <peirce@lll-crg.ARPA>
Subject: MacTerminal Document with Del/BS remapped (switched)
The following is a BinHex 4.0 copy of a MacTerminal document that has
a key map resource in it that switches the way delete and backspace
are mapped on the keyboard so that delete is the default code coming
from the backspace key and a backspace code is produced with
clover-backspace. This is *very* nice when working on systems like
Unix, VMS, etc.
The new keyboard map also added ^9 ^0 ^- ^= to be equivalent to the
cursor keys found on a VT-100 terminal.
[ Find this document in REMAP-MTERMDOC.HQX -jma THis was also
announced yesterday by accident. ]
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Date: Thu 16 May 85 13:11:21-PDT
From: DEMKE@USC-ECLB.ARPA
Subject: Beginner's Payroll???
My parents have just purchased a 512K mac for their
small business. Amoung other things, they would like
to install their payroll on the computer. However,
neither of them have much experience with computers
and finding a good, simple payroll program has'nt been
too easy. Any suggestions?? Preferably under $500,
with a capacity of at least 50 employees.
Chris Demke
Demke@usc-eclb.arpa
P.S. Any ideas on a preferred hard disk would be
appreciated...
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Date: Fri, 17 May 85 14:33:34 edt
From: Velu Sinha <velu@maryland>
Subject: Power supply question
Could someone please verify if the Mac power supply is a switching
supply? Thanks....
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