shulman@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Jeff Shulman) (02/23/86)
Delphi Mac Digest Sunday, 23 Feb 1986 Volume 2 : Issue 7 Today's Topics: Administrativia - New name & TechNotes Silly Time Again Re: RAM disks and LaserWriter RE: Doubling your Sony Floppies (Re: Msg 6018) RE: Doubling your Sony Floppies (Re: Msg 5985) Re: How to save PostScript files on the Mac Laser Printers Mac Plus floppy disk performance RE: Mac Plus floppy disk performance (Re: Msg 6127) TEIdle blinks through menu bar ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jeff Shulman (Moderator) Subject: Administrativia - New name & TechNotes Date: 23-FEB 11:33 This digest has been renamed to "Delphi Mac Digest" to better reflect what it contains. It is posted to net.micro.mac on Usenet and archived on <INFO-MAC> on Sumex. Arpanet readers may directly subscribe to this digest by sending a message to: DELPHI-MAC-DIGEST-REQUEST@RUTGERS I would also like to remind readers that the Apple TechNotes are being made available to Arpanet and Usenet readers. Arpanet readers may obtain the notes from the <INFO-MAC> directory on Sumex. Usenet readers may obtain them through the following redistribution sites (pick the one closest to you): packard!ihnp4!ihuxo!pvp mcvax!frankk russes%cygnus.DEC@decwrl, davidk%amber%dartmouth@csnet-relay gkloker.toronto@csnet-relay seismo!cvl!tk@topaz ihnp4!cbdkc1!gwe@topaz My thanks to these people for volunteering as redistribution sites. ------------------------------ From: MOUSEKETEER (5960) Subject: Silly Time Again Date: 16-FEB 14:09 Bugs & Features After my adventure with odd files dealing in dental work, I'm almost hesitant to ask (grin), but: Last evening I was installing and trying some new DA's. All was going fine ( except that I discovered that the DA "Monkey" is not good for people who like to maintain some sense of sanity). However, when I installed the last DA, the new HFS Mockwrite, my system folder suddenly inflated to extreme proportions....to almost 4 meg (on an HD20)! Removing the DA (in fact, nearly all of them) had no effect other than to decrease the size by a normal amount....a bare bones file was still 3 1/2 meg. I finally removed the entire Sys Folder and replaced it, re-added the fonts and DA's (except Mockwrite), and it is only 500K or so. Any ideas on what happened? Thanks, Alf. ------------------------------ From: RICFORD (6039) Subject: Re: RAM disks and LaserWriter Date: 17-FEB 10:07 Mousing Around Jeff, in response to the discussion about RAM disks and the LaserWriter, I believe that the Assimilation RAM disk usually allows the LW to be run from the RAM disk, unlike most other implementations. Ric Ford ------------------------------ From: RICFORD (6040) Subject: RE: Doubling your Sony Floppies (Re: Msg 6018) Date: 17-FEB 10:09 Hardware & Peripherals We tried a Kodak single-sided floppy in a Mac Plus yesterday, using it moderately as a double-sided disk. The only problem we noticed was that it took _longer_ to copy files from the double-sided disk to a HD20 than from a single-sided disk! (substantially longer, timed as part of our Mac Plus benchmarks - 67 sec. vs. 50 sec. for single sided). Anyone got an explanation for this? Ric ------------------------------ From: RSTICKLE (6184) Subject: RE: Doubling your Sony Floppies (Re: Msg 5985) Date: 23-FEB 10:03 Hardware & Peripherals I haven't looked that closly yet, what would be a help would be a test program. I had one that would read and write to each sector and print out any bad sectors, that was for my old computer. If someone with a MAC+ could write one it would be a big help to everyone. The kinnd I had was used after initialization and before puting data on the disk because it is a destructive test. --Rick-- ------------------------------ From: RICFORD (6095) Subject: Re: How to save PostScript files on the Mac Date: 19-FEB 11:06 Mousing Around Hold down CMD-F just after saying OK in a LaserWriter print dialog box. It'll give you a PostScript file instead of printing. I'm not sure what the implications of LaserPrep are for this person. As I understand it, Laser Prep' is a PostScript program that's downloaded to the LaserWriter where it sits and converts QuickDraw calls to PostScript commands. Ric ------------------------------ From: DSACHS (6101) Subject: Laser Printers Date: 19-FEB 22:07 Hardware & Peripherals I just tried out a Talaris 820 printer. It is claimed to be 100% laserwriter compatable and costs thousands of dollars less. Using the same disk with no changes whatsoever, I printed a few MacDraw documents with both the 820 and with a real Laserwriter. Except for the Laserwriter documents having slightly more contrast - probably a simple adjustment as they both use the Cannon engine - the results were the same, but the 820 took 20-25% less time to print complex documents. ------------------------------ From: RICFORD (6127) Subject: Mac Plus floppy disk performance Date: 20-FEB 23:39 Macintosh In Fact We have been performing some benchmarks on the Mac Plus, and one very odd result occurred: We found copying a set of files from a single-sided floppy (internal floppy drive) to the HD20 was FASTER than copying the same set of files from a double-sided floppy! Anybody got an explanation for this one? Anyone got a Mac Plus who'd like to check our results? (Peter...) Ric Ford ------------------------------ From: PEABO (6129) Subject: RE: Mac Plus floppy disk performance (Re: Msg 6127) Date: 20-FEB 23:57 Macintosh In Fact Ric, Try formatting an HFS 400K floppy and compare the performance. I suspect that the difference in performance has something to do with extra processing of the HFS folders when opening the files. To format a 400K floppy as HFS, hold down the option key when you press OK after entering the name of the volume at the end of disk initialization. peter ------------------------------ From: MARSHG (6178) Subject: TEIdle blinks through menu bar Date: 22-FEB 22:39 Programming I have a DA with a modeless dialog that has a few edittext items in it. The DA has dNeedTime set and calls TEIdle at each accrun control call with the port set to the dialog's window. The TEHandle passed to TEIdle is the TEHandle in the dialog record. Things work just fine until I pull down a menu on top of the edittext item. When I make a selection from the menu, while the menu manager blinks the selection, the text insertion point blinks through to the menu. Can somebody tell me what's going on here? Marsh Gosnell ------------------------------ End of Delphi Digest ********************