INFO-MAC-REQUEST@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA.UUCP (08/16/86)
INFO-MAC Digest Friday, 15 Aug 1986 Volume 4 : Issue 100
Today's Topics:
Strange MacPlus?
laserwriter & macpaint
US Macs on 50 Hz
Sorting Demonstration program
MAC/appletalk connection to UNIX/ethernet
Sharing an Apple Laserwriter
microsoft fortran update
Phonenet from Farralon
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Date: Fri, 15 Aug 86 00:09 EDT
From: BELSLEY%BCVAX3.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA (DAVID A. BELSLEY)
Subject: Strange MacPlus?
Has anyone any ideas on what is happening? I have a disk which has a RamStart
which is set to create a ram disk of 550K. On my MacPlus it does exactly this,
and I can make a ram disk in excess of 800K. This disk works exactly the same
on several other MacPluses as well. But, there is one MacPlus that behaves
differently. When the ram disk is created, it is made 230K instead of 550K,
and the largest ram disk that can be created is only about 660K. All these
machines are actual MacPluses, no upgrades. The one that is strange is running
version 1 of the 128K ROM, but this doesn't seem to be the issue, since it
runs correctly on other machines having version 1 and version 3 of the 128K
ROM.
Is there some sort of system parameter that RamStart reads to initialize its
size? And if so, can this differ from MacPlus to MacPlus? and if so, can it
be altered to make the strange MacPlus behave correctly? Or is there simply
something wrong with the odd man out?
thanks for any thoughts
david a. belsley
boston college belsley@bcvax3.bitnet
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Date: 15 Aug 86 11:19:00 EDT
From: "Rick Jones" <jones@nrl-lcp.ARPA>
Subject: laserwriter & macpaint
Reply-to: "Rick Jones" <jones@nrl-lcp.ARPA>
Is there any way to tell the LaserWriter that you want FULL page printing?
We are doing large blowups that then get pasted together and would like to
avoid cutting up the sheets. The only solution we have come up with is to use
'precut' paper very carefully fed into the LaserWriter.
Mercie Bien,
The LCP G.A.P.S. Crew
[ note from moderator: Some of the page size limitation has to do with
memory considerations on the laserwriter but the most serious one
for this user is that the Canon print engine used in the LaserWriter
cannot print to the whole page, a margin of 1/4" or so will always result
independent of the memory on the LaserWriter. DAVEG ]
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Date: Thu, 14 Aug 86 10:05:02 aest
From: Martin Ewing <munnari!rpepping.oz!MSE@seismo.CSS.GOV>
Subject: US Macs on 50 Hz
Let me relate my experience in bringing US-spec Macintosh equipment to
Australia, where the AC power is 240 v / 50 Hz.
I borrowed a transformer from the CSIRO lab here, which fortunately was
all set up with Aussie plugs for 240 v and US receptacles for 120 v. Don't
expect to be able to get any US-style plugs, cube taps, extension cords
outside the US/Canada. (Bring what you need with you.) Unless you're
lucky as I was, your Mac AC cords can't be used without surgery or adapters.
You can acquire local cables, however, that plug into the "IEC" plugs
on the Mac/Imagewriter backsides - in place of your US power cords.
I plugged my 512K (nee 128K) Mac and Imagewriter I (60 Hz nameplate)
into the transformer, and it all worked straight away. I was worried
about the Imagewriter, since it is not rated "50-60 Hz" as you might have
hoped. It's possible it uses a lighter-weight transformer than 50 Hz
would require, or that there is something resonant at 60 Hz. I was
worried about overheating, in particular. I have seen no sign of that,
though I make a point not to leave the Imagewriter power on for long
periods. I do hear a 50 Hz buzz that gets louder as the printer warms
up, but I don't see any overheating. I wonder if the transformer has
some odd mechanical resonance.
In any case, I can report 8 months of happy computing here with no
problems of any kind.
Martin Ewing
CSIRO Div. Radiophysics
Epping NSW Australia
mse%rpepping.oz@Seismo.CSS.GOV
mse@CITPHOBO.bitnet
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Date: Wed, 13 Aug 86 22:44 MDT
From: <SLRS9%USU.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA> (HAROLD STUART)
Subject: Sorting Demonstration program
What follows is a Sorting Demonstration I wrote to
experiment with several algorithms. It gives a graphical
representation of the sorting process. I hope someone
finds it interesting.
Harold Stuart
SLRS9@USU.Bitnet
[ archived as
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>DEMO-SORT.HQX
DAVEG
]
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Subject: MAC/appletalk connection to UNIX/ethernet
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 86 13:30:38 -0700
From: leiner@RIACS.ARPA
Does anyone know of a good way to do this? In particular, what we
would like to do is back up our hard disk on a UNIX machine without
having to use macget/macput to do each file separately over a serial
line.
Thanks for the help.
Barry
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Date: Fri, 15 Aug 86 15:25+0100
From: Ralph <MartinRR%multics.cardiff.ac.uk@Cs.Ucl.AC.UK>
Subject: Sharing an Apple Laserwriter
I know this has probably been asked before. Sorry if this bores you,
especially if you get more than one copy of this message ....
I want to share a LaserWriter between Appletalk AND a unix system. Its
easy to connect it to either, but can it be conencted to both at the
same time, in such a way that we dont have to keep fiddling to switch it
from Appletalk to 9600 ?
Is there some way of sending it some postscript to tell it to listen to
both ports ? Or is there some other way, that doesnt involve wasting a
mac to connect unix into the appletalk network ?
If you have any useful ideas on this topic (or even a proof that it
cant be done!) I would be glad to hear from you.
Thanks, Ralph
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Date: 14 Aug 86 17:14:00 EDT
From: <bouldin@ceee-sed.ARPA>
Subject: microsoft fortran update
Reply-to: <bouldin@ceee-sed.ARPA>
If you call microsoft at (206)882-8088, they will now admit that there
is a 2.2 version of fortran that works with hfs. The charge for the update
is $30.
The only new feature is that the compiler has a 'compile list' option that
will let you compile more than one module at a time. You construct a list
file and hand it to the compiler. I have tried this a couple of times and
it works ok, though I don't have much experience with lists of modules that
were still full of compiler errors. For stuff that is in final form or
doesn't contain too many errors it works fine.
Letters about the update went out to registered owners yesterday, they
should arrive soon.
[ note from moderator: Indeed we just received this information in the
mail from Microsoft. One note is that if you have purchased the
compiler since July 1,1986 you can get this update for free. ]
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Date: Fri, 15 Aug 86 11:48 EDT
From: Thomas D. Schardt <K3TDS%SCFVM.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA>
Subject: Phonenet from Farralon
Does anyone have experience with Phonenet, an AppleTalk alternative,
origional designed by BMUG but now manufactured by Farralon?
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