INFO-MAC-REQUEST@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA.UUCP (07/26/86)
INFO-MAC Digest Friday, 25 Jul 1986 Volume 4 : Issue 90
Today's Topics:
Problem with System 3.2
Typo in "A Taste of Smalltalk"
Interrupt switch (new roms) and Apple Modem?
Does Font/DA mover compact system files after removing fonts?
raw postscript to laserwriter
Front Man
Usenet Mac Digest V2 #58
Double Apple
Calendar 1.1
Digitizing point coordinates (MacTablet)
internal drives
Losing Files on New (and Old) Macs
** Looking for a sheet feeder **
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Date: Wed 23 Jul 86 20:48:59-PDT
From: JAY HIRSH <HIRSH@BIONET>
Subject: Problem with System 3.2
Solution to font problem: System 3.2 is INNOCENT!
Regarding a problem I posted (Vol 4, Issue 88): we were unable to
print boldface or italics on laser fonts following an update to System
3.2/Finder 5.3 etc., even tho the screen looked fine. We solved the
problem by simply obtaining a fresh version of the system disk from
another source. My best guess for the problem is that I initially
used an old version of Font/DA mover (2.0) rather than the version on
the new system disk (2.2). Our tech support group said that versions
<2.2 can irreversibly but subtly corrupt fonts. Whereas I tried to
subsequently rewrite the fonts with Font/DA mover 2.2, I did not
remove the old fonts before re-writing, such that they may not have
been touched. In any case, though I have not attempted to reproduce
this problem to prove the cause, I would strongly advise using only
the new Font/DA mover (2.2) with the new systems files.
Otherwise, the new systems files have solved a number of gliches
present in earlier versions.
Thanks to all those who offered help.
Jay Hirsh
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Date: Wed, 23 Jul 86 17:43:50 pdt
From: Larry Rosenstein <lsr%apple.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA>
Subject: Typo in "A Taste of Smalltalk"
Ted Kaehler, one of the authors of the book "A Taste of Smalltalk" told me
about a typo in his book and gave the following correction.
*****
Easy Fix for a Typo in "A Taste of Smalltalk"
There is a typo on page 97 of "A Taste of Smalltalk" that causes an error
if you run the program. The actual code is correct, but a change from the
program on page 80 is not underlined. The fifth line on page 97 reads:
mockDisks at: index put: (HanoiDiskRules new width: 1000 pole: index)].
The word HanoiDiskRules should be underlined, indicating that it is a
change from page 80. If you modify the program on page 80 by looking at
the underlined changes, and don't notice the change in this line, you will
get an error saying "HanoiDisk does not understand the message width:"
Have fun with the rest of the book. -- Ted Kaehler
*****
Larry Rosenstein, Object Specialist, Apple Computer
CSNET: lsr@Apple.CSNET, UUCP: sun, voder, nsc, mtxinu, dual}!apple!lsr
AppleLink: Rosenstein1
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From: John T Kohl <jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 86 00:12:07 EDT
Subject: Interrupt switch (new roms) and Apple Modem?
I just found some weird interactions between an Apple Modem 1200 and the
New roms on a 512k logic board.
If the modem is asserting DCD, the interrupt switch gives the normal
debug window and things work fine.
If it is not the Mac hangs.
If the modem is turned off the Mac hangs.
If the modem is disconnected from the modem port, things work fine.
I have a modem on the modem port, an external 400k drive, a 20M
HyperDrive, system 3.2/Finder 5.3. AppleTalk is turned on in the
Control Panel (I capture LW output and transfer to another machine in
another bldg).
Has anyone else had this problem/know how to fix it?
John Kohl
jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
-or-
...!mit-eddie!jtkohl
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Date: Thu 24 Jul 86 09:38:05-EDT
From: WEINSTEIN@G.BBN.COM
Subject: Does Font/DA mover compact system files after removing fonts?
Yesterday, I encountered a weird problem while using Font/DA mover 3.2 to
trim down a system file by removing unneeded fonts. Although the fonts were
removed, the size of the system file did not decrease. Apparently the
file was not being compacted (remaining resources bumped down to occupy
the space vacated when the fonts were removed) when it should have been.
Has anyone else had similar problems, or have any idea what might be wrong?
Incidentally, I was using Font/DA mover 3.2, system 3.2, and Finder 5.3
on a 128K Mac (Sic!) belonging to a friend (so don't give me lectures on
being obsolete, because it wasn't my machine). I know Apple doesn't recommend
using System 3.0 or later on a 128K machine, but I assumed that was because
of space limitations, and this seems like a very strange bug to be caused by
something like that.
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Date: Thu 24 Jul 86 03:42:54-PDT
From: David Hogness <HOGNESS@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA>
Subject: raw postscript to laserwriter
There was a recent message describing the use of the utility PSTester to send
raw Postscript code to a laserwriter on Appletalk. The new Laserprep (3.1, I
believe) will interpret anything sent to it in a font called "PostScript Escape"
as raw Postscript commands. There's an article about it in the June MacTutor.
The bottom line is: Use Redit to copy one of your fonts, rename it "PostScript
Escape", anything in a MacWrite or Word document (not Pagemaker) in this font
will be interpreted as raw postscript. One thing you have to do--first command
has to be a initgrahics (MacWrite and Word set the origin at top left, PostScript
wants it to start at bottom left--initgrahics will save the Write or Word setting
and reset origin at bottom left). Printing the document just sends thecommands to the laserwriter. Has worked well for me, going through the examples in
the Adobe Manuals... Now, if anyone knows how to send commands interactively
(where you actually get the PS> prompt on Mac screen) without disconnecting the
Appletalk cables and putting in a modem cable, I'd like to hear about it...
tom chappell
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Date: 23 Jul 86 22:21:27 EDT
From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@RED.RUTGERS.EDU>
Subject: Front Man
[ Uploaded from Delphi by Jeff Shulman ]
Name: FRONT MAN
Date: 19-JUL-1986 09:44 by TOOLSMITH
This allows you to select any number of files from any number of folders to be
submitted to an application. A list of file names can be submitted in a file
whose name ends in '.FILE'. The selected files can be either printed or opened.
Documentation explains how to customize using ResEd. Works with clpr, MacWrite,
all of the editors I am aware of....
Keywords: UTILITY, FILE BATCHER
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Date: 24 Jul 86 16:02:10 EDT
From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@RED.RUTGERS.EDU>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V2 #58
Usenet Mac Digest Thursday, 24 July 1986 Volume 2 : Issue 58
Today's Topics:
Re: colour for mac???
Re: problems with displaying PICT's in dialogs.
Manx's Mac 1.06H.1 C and assembler bugs
brightness problem
Re: LaserPrep -- Help PLEASE!! (Long)
Astrology S/W
Re: true code-generating M2 for the Mac ?
Re: Warp Nine Drives
Setfile 2.0
Thunderscan problems
Re: Empire (really RE: Strategic Conquest copy protection)
MPW Pascal
Sculley on Apple Licensing (from CompuServe)
ZoomIdle is Dangerous
Re: Macintosh and MIDI recording, Ensoniq Mirage MASOS
Re: Efs on a MacPlus
Mac Cache
Re: Manx's Mac 1.06H.1 C and assembler bugs
Re: How do I restore MacWrite resources. (Calendar 1.1)
Re: Finder looses file..?!
Re: Delphi Mac Digest V2 #29 (copy protection)
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From: stefan@dartvax.UUCP (Stefan Bilaniuk)
Subject: Double Apple
Date: 23 Jul 86 07 24 03 GMT
Sender: macintosh@felix.UUCP
This posting contains "Double Apple" and a Macwrite file with some
documentation.
"Double Apple" is a desk accessory which lets one run desk
accessories from a Font/DA Mover file. After the user chooses a file,
"Double Apple" lists the extra desk accessories in a separate menu
(whose title is, of course, two apples). The extra accessories are
then opened and run just as if they were in the apple menu. This can
be done from within any application that supports desk accessories,
without disturbing the application except for the extra menu; an
advantage over the various DA "sampler" applications.
"Double Apple" may be freely used and copied for non-commercial
purposes. It is about 2.8K in size.
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From: oster@lapis.Berkeley.EDU (David Phillip Oster)
Subject: Calendar 1.1
Date: 24 Jul 86 16 44 56 GMT
Sender: macintosh@felix.UUCP
Reply-to: macintosh@felix.UUCP (The Moderator)
Since the letter dealing with a bug in Calendar, and since there was a
previous letter this week asking for calendar software, and since the
original author of Calendar doesn't answer his mail, I am taking the
liberty of posting Calendar 1.1 - Calendar 1.1 is my re-implementation of
Calendar. I believe it to be bug-free. If there are problems with
Calendar 1.1, I will warn the net, and I will try to fix them.
Notes
1.) Calendar 1.1 uses the Mac's international package, so that it will
work correctly in countries that don't speak English. The Mac's
international package does not support years < 1940 > 2004.
Since this is Apple's bug, I want Apple to fix it. If there is a big
demand for calendar to support any year, I will fix it.
2.) Calendar 1.1 definately does not have Calendar's fatal bug.
It has been tested on 512k Macs, MacPluss, and on MacXLs.
Calendar 1.1, a desk accessory A Macintosh version of a desktop
calendar. Calendar starts up with a display of the calendar for this
month. There is a 12-line note pad below the calendar to jot down text
associated with today (your days agenda) . Click on another month to
see the calendar for that month. Click on another year to see the
calendar for the current month in that year.
After you have moved away from today, Click on the date and time
display at the top of the calendar window to return to today's
calendar. Calendar's editor provides cut, copy, paste, and undo.
I have plans to enhance Calendar, and I am looking for suggestions for
what to put in. In the future, I intend to add
a.) Printing produce a neat printed calendar with your notes already
printed on it.
b.) Searching You'd like to be able to search for a keyword, for
example, to advance the calendar to the next message on a particular
topic.
c.) Autostart if there is a message associated with today, Calendar
should be smart enough to turn itself on first thing in the morning and
show itself to you.
d.) open specific calendar files sometimes it will open one on the
wrong disk.
e.) merging - if you can have more than one calendar file, you'll want to
merge them together into one combined calendar file.
f.) archiving - remove notes for past events from the current calendar,
but save them in an "old stuff" file.
g.) marking - right now, the only indication you get in the calendar
section of the window is the presence or absence of a note. It would be
nice to have differnet kind of signals for the presence of different kinds
of notes You might make the lower left corner of the number's square
black for a professional note, but the upper right corner balck for a
personal one. If a day had both kinds of notes, both corners would be
black.
h.) import/export be able to generate and read a text-file representation
of an annotated calendar.
i.) work with the notifier the notifier is a device driver with a
published interface (so that other programs can call it, and other
programmers can replace my notifier with one of their own.) that informs
the user that something has happened. I haven't written it yet.
Examples
(1) Remind you of your 10 oclock appointment.
(2) Someone has just mailed you a letter over your Mac's appleTalk
network.
You should be able to tell the notifier how you want to be notified 10
minutes before that appointment, play the openning bars of Holsts The
Planets, or, when a new letter comes in, use the Mac's speech
synthesizer to say "Letter for you, from Joe Hansen."
If you wish to work on this wish list let me know. If there is
sufficient interest and I will publish the LightSpeed C code for Calendar 1.1. I would like to coordinate other people's enhancements.
--- David Phillip Oster -- "The goal of Computer Science is to
Arpa oster@lapis.berkeley.edu -- build something that will last at
Uucp ucbvax!ucblapis!oster -- least until we've finished building it."
Here is the the current version
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Date: Thu, 24 Jul 86 14:38:11 PDT
From: Paul Sampson <entropy!pds@uw-beaver.arpa>
Subject: Digitizing point coordinates (MacTablet)
I have a simple task in mind: digitizing certain point coordinates
(from photographs or x-rays in this case) with reasonably high
resolution, and creating a text file of point coordinates.
I figured that if we bought MacTablet I would simply write a
Basic program to read point coordinates. But, in looking
at the Basic documentation I discovered it can only read
(mouse) coordinates at the pixel/bit-mapped resolution of a
window. Does anyone know how (or have software) to access
the high-resolution point coordinates available from the
digitizer? (A surprising number of people knowing something
about MacTablet haven't been able to answer my question.)
Thanks.
Paul D. Sampson
Dept of Statistics
Univ. of Washington
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Date: 0 0 00:00:00 EDT
From: "Rick Jones" <jones@nrl-lcp>
Subject: internal drives
Reply-to: "Rick Jones" <jones@nrl-lcp>
Here in DC, we have had numerous reports of MacPlus internal drive
failures. Some people have had to replace their drives three or more times.
Is this just a local problem, or is it more widespread?
Rick Jones
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Date: Wed 23 Jul 86 21:50:28-PDT
From: Tony Siegman <SIEGMAN@Sierra.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Losing Files on New (and Old) Macs
Is the following enough shorter and milder?
The desktop on both new and old Macs provides another way of losing files that
has always seemed to me, if not a bug, at least a serious design flaw.
Suppose you have a storage folder containing files A, B, C, D and E on a backup
disk, and a working folder of the same name holding files D and E on a working
disk. After doing more work on D and E, and adding a new file F, you drag the
folder onto the backup disk, to store these changes, and get the message
"Replace items with the same name with the selected items?". Not the clearest
message ever displayed, but the novice user (me) might well assume that in the
backup folder D and E will be replaced with the updated copies, F will be
added, and A, B and C will remain.
What happens, however, is that A, B and C are irreplaceably DELETED. This
violates two of the basic laws of any user-friendly computer system: NEVER
delete a file without first warning the user (the warning msg above says
"Replace" -- nothing about "Delete"); and always give a chance to recover. I
haven't tested this same process on a set of nested HFS folders and files, but
the possibility of large-scale destruction of files seems worrisome. At
minimum Apple should improve the warning message in this situation.25-Jul-86 07:26:41-PDT,609;000000000001
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From: Chris Harslem <harslem%eagle@rand-unix.ARPA>
Subject: ** Looking for a sheet feeder **
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 86 06:16:20 PDT
Does anyone know of a good sheet feeder for the
Apple Laserwriter?
Thanks, Christie
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