INFO-MAC-REQUEST@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA.UUCP (05/15/86)
INFO-MAC Digest Wednesday, 14 May 1986 Volume 4 : Issue 70 Today's Topics: cryptic posts (documentation please!) Re: Ecology, MiniAda, etc. Current Apple software list as of April 21, 1986 Re: DA Number limit Re: tex and times roman fonts Exit_To_Shell in ROM Debugger MacPaint non MacPlus StUpCr -- An application Usenet Mac Digest V2 #34 Usenet Mac Digest V2 #35 Delphi Mac Digest V2 #18 Usenet Mac Digest V2 #36 Usenet Mac Digest V2 #37 Usenet Mac Digest V2 #38 Tape Backups TML Pascal .vs. Turbo Pascal How to fix rotated screen image? The value of a thing... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 7 May 1986 16:10:07-EDT From: Bob.Walker@faraday.ECE.CMU.EDU Subject: cryptic posts (documentation please!) Several messages lately have simply been of the form "This message contains foobar.hqx", followed by a message from the moderator stating that the file has been stored as <info-mac>foobar.hqx. Either the sender didn't include a description, or the moderator stored it with the file and deleted it from the message, but either way there's nothing but the name to help us decide whether or not we want to take the time to download if from SUMEX, and then to our Macs. PLEASE include at least a brief description of the program you are supplying, and please, Moderator, leave that description in the Digest as well. It's rather annoying to have to guess the functionality of a program from its name, go to all the trouble to download it, and then find out it's not what you think it is. A little documentation goes a long way... - bob bob.walker@faraday.ece.cmu.edu [ from the moderator: I never remove the description of a program from the message announcing it. If there is no description, I didn't get one. Some sources I try out before posting -- but I am WAY behind in checking out all the sources and just don't have time. I may post it without a description, BUT I AGREE that ALL sources should come with some word on what they are and do. Thanks. DoD ] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 May 86 07:40:10 PDT From: jww@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu (Joel West) Subject: Re: Ecology, MiniAda, etc. Re: Ecology, MiniAda, etc. Do you think the author could include a 1-line explanation of what they are? There's so much PD stuff now that many of us have to consider whether we have a use for anything before we upload it. Joel West {ucbvax,decvax,ihnp4}!sdcsvax!jww jww@SDCSVAX.ARPA ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 May 86 12:36:29 cdt From: hammen@gumby.wisc.edu (Robert J. Hammen) Subject: Current Apple software list as of April 21, 1986 Here is the official list (assuming I didn't make any typos) of current Mac Software as of April 21, 1986. This was given to me by our local Apple rep, Phil Okun. MACINTOSH PLUS SYSTEM TOOLS DISK P/N 690-5064-A File Version Number Last Updated ----------------------------------------------------------------------- System File 3.0 1/86 Finder 5.1 1/86 Clipboard File 1.0 1/86 Scrapbook File 2.0 1/86 Font/DA Mover 3.0 1/86 ImageWriter 2.1 1/86 AppleTalk ImageWriter 2.1 1/86 LaserWriter 1.1 1/86 Laser Prep 1.1 1/86 The Namer 2.0 1/86 Chooser 2.0 1/86 Installer 2.0 1/86 Installer Scripts 1.0 1/86 HARD DISK 20 STARTUP DISK P/N 690-5067-A ----------------------------------------------------------------------- System File 2.1 9/85 Finder 5.0 9/85 Hard Disk 20 1.0 9/85 Hard Disk 20 Test 1.1 9/85 Font/DA Mover 2.5 9/85 Choose Printer 1.3 9/85 PRINTER INSTALLER DISK P/N 690-5075-A ----------------------------------------------------------------------- System File 3.1 2/86 Finder 5.2 2/86 Clipboard File 1.0 1/86 Scrapbook File 2.0 1/86 Printer Install 1.0 2/86 ImageWriter 2.2 2/86 AppleTalk ImageWriter 2.2 2/86 LaserWriter 3.0 2/86 Laser Prep 3.0 2/86 The Namer 2.0 1/86 Chooser 2.2 2/86 Installer 2.1 2/86 OTHER SOFTWARE Font/DA Mover 3.1 2/86 LaserWriter Fonts 1.0 2/86 P/N 690-5077-A MacWrite 4.5 6/85 P/N 690-5009-B MacPaint 1.5 5/85 P/N 690-5009-B MacDraw 1.9 7/85 P/N 690-5014-B MacTerminal 2.0 12/85 P/N 690-5017-B MacProject 1.0 11/84 P/N 690-5015-A MacPascal 1.0 12/84 P/N 690-5010-A 2.0 2/86 N.A. MacWorks XL 3.0 (D) 8/85 P/N 682-0087-D Switcher Construction Kit 4.4 8/85 P/N 690-5066-A Mac 68000 Development System 1.0 (A) 5/85 P/N 690-5012-A, 690-5013-A Robert J. Hammen {seismo,allegra,ihnp4,harvard,topaz}!uwvax!gumby!hammen UW-Madison CS Dept. hammen@gumby.wisc.edu UW-Madison Plasma Physics Dept. plasma%wiscpsl.bitnet {@wiscvm.wisc.edu} --- Working here is like being in a nightmare. You'd like to get out of it, but you need the sleep. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 May 86 19:30 EST From: CML5A9%IRISHMVS.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU Subject: Re: DA Number limit Regarding the question about the Font/DA mover not letting you install more than 15 DAs. It's not the font movers limitation, but a limit in the number of DA drivers permitted in the system file. I beleive that only a certain number of drivers are available for use with DAs. As I've never found that many (15) useful DAs, i can't say Ive run into the problem before. Here's a thought, how about some clever person writting a program that will allow you to "install" DAs into the program's resource file, and open tons of DAs that way, you could run the program under Switcher. Hmmm, if I get bored this summer I know what I can do. -Tom Dowdy CML5A9@IRISHMVS.BITNET "If it jams, force it, if it breaks, it needed fixing anyway." ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 May 86 10:06:10 PDT From: <DAVEG%SLACVM.BITNET@Lindy> Reply-to: DAVEG%SLACVM.BITNET@SU-Forsythe.ARPA Subject: Re: tex and times roman fonts Date: 7 May 86 10:02-PST From: DAVEG@SLACVM To: INFO-MAC@SUMEX-AIM Subject: Re: tex and times roman fonts Date: 7 May 1986, 09:56:33 PST From: David M. Gelphman 415-854-3300 x2538 DAVEG at SLACVM To: INFO-MAC at SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD, SIMSONG at MEDIA-LAB.ARPA Subject: Re: tex and times roman fonts Regarding the question of using TeX and times-roman fonts instead of the standard computer modern fonts normally used with TeX: I'm not sure exactly what the question refered to, TeX or the Mac or just driving the LaserWriter. There is a version of TeX on the Mac from Kellerman and Smith but I don't know whether they support the LaserWriter fonts (I suspect they do, it must be a reasonable thing to do). As far as driving the LaserWriter, there is a company called TextSet -> 313-996-3566 which sells drivers for DVI->Postscript on a variety of computers, most notably the Vax. They were kind enough to send me documentation and in it they claim you can use any of the default LaserWriter fonts in your documents. I'm not sure if this has answered the original question but it was an answer nonetheless. David Gelphman BITNET address: DAVEG@SLACVM Bin #88 SLAC ARPANET address: DAVEG@SLACVM.BITNET Stanford, Calif. 94305 UUCP address: ...psuvax1!daveg%slacvm.bitnet 415-854-3300 x2538 usual disclaimer #432 applies: my employer apologies for the fact that I have access to this net. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 May 86 09:43:56 PDT From: borton%sdcc3@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu (Chris Borton) Subject: Exit_To_Shell in ROM Debugger Courtesy Darin Adler, the call to the ROM debugger (hit interrupt) for Exit_To_Shell is: G 40F6D8 This will save many a crash! -Chris Chris Borton, UC San Diego Undergraduate CS; Micro Consultant, UCSD borton@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU || ...!{ucbvax,decvax,noscvax,ihnp4,bang}!sdcsvax!borton ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 May 86 13:41 EDT From: BELSLEY%BCVAX3.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU (DAVID A. BELSLEY) Subject: MacPaint non MacPlus Several infomac's ago, stew%lhasa.UUCP@Havard.harvard.edu complained that MacPaint wasn't copying and pasting properly with MacPlus. I've noticed the same thing. I've no problems when using MacPaint on a disk that has its own System and Clipboard, but when using it on the external drive w/o system, problems arise. Making sure there is a clipboard file on the MacPaint disk allows for cuts and pastes within MacPaint, but does not allow one to save items to the Scrapbook on the system disk or to carry them over to applications on the system disk. Very weird, since it used to allow all this with the 512K and old ROM. Apple just wants to keep us all aware that good things don't come without costs. david a. belsley belsley@bcvax3.bitnet boston college ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 May 86 22:28:54 PDT From: woody@Juliet.Caltech.Edu (William E. Woody) Subject: StUpCr -- An application After getting an init resource which keeps the startup screen to stay on the screen permanately (replacing the background pattern with whatever was there), and after being unable to find a public domain program which was able to create the startup screen file "StartUpScreen", and having spent a weekend figuring out how to make resources properly, I sat down and wrote an application which converts a paint file to a startupscreen, and visa-versa. I have included the application and the source (written in MegaMax C). It's public domain software; if you like the program, please send me mail and tell me so! I have this insecurity thing; I like to think I can program right. :-) The file is a PACKIT file in .HQX format; included is the application "STUPCR", the source "STUPCR1.C", "STUPCR2.C", "STUPCR.H", and "STUPCR.R", and instructions "INSTRUCTIONS", a paint file. - William Woody NET Woody%Romeo@Hamlet.Caltech.Edu USNAIL 1-54 Lloyd, Caltech / Pasadena, CA 91126 [ An old application on <info-mac> exists: <info-mac>screenmaker.rsrc This application was written by Bill Atkinson in 1984 -- and still works under HFS and Finder 5.2 and System 3.1.1 !!! It can be downloaded as a resource file using macput /r (macput -r). Mr. Woody's version (with source and documentation) is archived as: [sumex-aim.arpa] <info-mac>utility-startupscreen-creator.hqx DoD ] ------------------------------ Date: 8 May 86 20:47:37 EDT From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@RED.RUTGERS.EDU> Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V2 #34 Usenet Mac Digest Thursday, 8 May 1986 Volume 2 : Issue 34 Today's Topics: Bizarre MacWrite problem... Suggestions for music typesetting systems? Help in planning computer fair Re: Bizarre MacWrite problem... Re: ETHZ Modula-2 for Macintosh 2 Meg upgrade for Mac+ Lightspeed C and/or TML Pascal Re: Ocular/Eye Control of Cursor?? System 3.0 on Mac XL request for Japanese fonts Re: Graphics Help Needed Re: Delphi Mac Digest V2 #16 (DiskBench) Mac tote templates and rescsource editors Re: Paradise (and general) Hard disk icons Troubles with TDI Software, Inc. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [ archived as [SUMEX-AIM.ARPA]<INFO-MAC>USENETV2-34.ARC DoD ] ------------------------------ Date: 8 May 86 20:48:05 EDT From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@RED.RUTGERS.EDU> Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V2 #35 Usenet Mac Digest Thursday, 8 May 1986 Volume 2 : Issue 35 Today's Topics: Re: Cache bit--retraction & questions A QuickDraw bug. Sony diskette labels... Re: Info requested on MacServe Ten Challenges (long) Packit + BinhHex; All in one; Is that possible? how to add RAM Mac rebate extension ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [ archived as [SUMEX-AIM.ARPA]<INFO-MAC>USENETV2-35.ARC DoD ] ------------------------------ Date: 8 May 86 20:49:29 EDT From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@RED.RUTGERS.EDU> Subject: Delphi Mac Digest V2 #18 Delphi Mac Digest Thursday, 8 May 1986 Volume 2 : Issue 18 Today's Topics: PCPC's HFS Backup RE: PCPC's HFS Backup (Re: Msg 7688) RE: Need help with JCLOCK utility Mac SCSI connection problem MacPaint Pasting Problem good disk prices LaserWriter and VMS Re: Apology to Micah ROM Resources Bug in LightspeedC RE: Warning about HP disks (Re: Msg 7731) To John Bass cache setting RE: cache setting (Re: Msg 7775) RE: cache setting (Re: Msg 7779) Microsoft Updating Word... Re: Changing the default font Mac+ games HFS Backup bugs MacPCBridge Desperately Seeking Software LoadSeg problem Printing Errors Setting file protect bit in ResEdit RE: Setting file protect bit in ResEdit (Re: Msg 7883) RE: Setting file protect bit in ResEdit (Re: Msg 7893) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [ archived as [SUMEX-AIM.ARPA]<INFO-MAC>DELPHIV2-18.ARC DoD ] ------------------------------ Date: 11 May 86 21:29:50 EDT From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@RED.RUTGERS.EDU> Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V2 #36 Usenet Mac Digest Sunday, 11 May 1986 Volume 2 : Issue 36 Today's Topics: Copying 400K Copy Protected Files to 800K Mac+ ??? MacAuthor_Review re: uSoft Word and Mac+ Re: Re: Info requested on MacServe Re: Suggestions for music typesetting systems? ResEdit enhancement (Apple, are you listening?) Re: ET Icon Editor Question... Re: Suggestions for music typesetting systems? Re: Rental Software? MAC look-alike for MS-DOS PC's mac scheme Problems of a Beginner Re: CAD/PC layout wanted for mac Software to use the Mac as a LW print spooler tftp on vms or ftp on macs Re: Power Supply Troubles? Now Kids, don't try this at home... Modula-2 for MacIntosh (commercial) ICONS in buttons (HELP)? Re: A QuickDraw bug. Re: 2 Meg upgrade for Mac+ Re: Delphi Mac Digest V2 (mac scsi) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [ archived as [SUMEX-AIM.ARPA]<INFO-MAC>USENETV2-36.ARC DoD ] ------------------------------ Date: 13 May 86 16:02:44 EDT From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@RED.RUTGERS.EDU> Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V2 #37 Usenet Mac Digest Tuesday, 13 May 1986 Volume 2 : Issue 37 Today's Topics: Summary of Macintosh Techical Documentation Re: ResEdit enhancement (Apple, are you ResEdit is *already* customizedable (Re: Ten Challenges) Re: ResEdit is *already* customizedable (Re: Ten Challenges) Re: Microsoft Fortran Finder 5.2 bug. Sort by size bomb. Re: Power Supply Troubles? Re: Microsoft Fortran LaserWriter on VMS Quit under Special in Finder ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [ archived as [SUMEX-AIM.ARPA]<INFO-MAC>USENETV2-37.ARC DoD ] ------------------------------ Date: 14 May 86 15:22:50 EDT From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@RED.RUTGERS.EDU> Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V2 #38 Usenet Mac Digest Wednesday, 14 May 1986 Volume 2 : Issue 38 Today's Topics: Re: Suggestions for music typesetting systems? Re: 2 Meg upgrade for Mac+ Finder flag bits and protection bit assignments. Current volume under SFGetFile ? Re: Vertical Bar Crashes... printer problem Re: MacAuthor_review (long) MacNifty Sound and Music products: Review Re: Ten Challenges (long) A question concerning the memory maneger . ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [ archived as [SUMEX-AIM.ARPA]<INFO-MAC>USENETV2-38.ARC DoD ] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 May 1986 17:45 EST From: Dave Elbon <SYSDAVE%UKCC.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU> Subject: Tape Backups Are there any tape drives that will attach to AppleTalk that aren't part of a disk or file server? Acknowledge-To: Dave Elbon <SYSDAVE@UKCC> ------------------------------ Date: 7 May 1986 1126-EDT From: name "Daniel Allen Deufel" <DEUFEL@MARLBORO.DEC.COM> Reply-to: Deufel@MARLBORO.DEC.COM Subject: TML Pascal .vs. Turbo Pascal I have an upcoming project that will need to run on a Rainbow (MS-DOS) and a Macintosh. I would like to keep as much code as possible common to both machines with separate, machine specific modules for I/O and user interface code. I would dearly love to do the entire project in Turbo Pascal. However, since the compiler for the Macintosh might be more appropriately named Vapor Pascal, and since calls to Borland over the past six months have produced answers from "I don't know" to "Soon, we hope", and since I am fast running out of time available to me I am forced to examine other alternatives. Can anyone out there share their experiences porting Turbo Pascal code to the Macintosh using the TML Pascal compiler? I would like to hear anything...flames...non-standard inplementation pitfalls...hints...rumors...magic... Also, if anyone has any examples of code they have transported that they would be willing to show to the world in general (and me specifically) please post it. Thanks in advance for the feedback and information. Cheers, -Abdul- -------- - - - - - - - End forwarded message ------------------------------ Date: 14-MAY-86 11:13 MEZ From: U02F%CBEBDA3T.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU (Franklin A Davis) Subject: How to fix rotated screen image? My screen image is rotated, displacing the corners about half a centimeter. It's a problem for graphic design use. My guess is that the yoke on the tube must have a simple rotation adjustment. Anyone know the procedure for fixing this? Necessary precautions? Please reply directly. --Thanks. Franklin <U02F@CBEBDA3T.BITNET> ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 May 86 16:15:01 PDT From: woody@Juliet.Caltech.Edu (William E. Woody) Subject: The value of a thing... You really never know the value of something until it's gone... About three million four hundred seventy thousand years ago (subjective time; objective time is about four days), my Mac broke. MY MAC BROKE!!! When this happened, I realized that there were only two classes out of my five class load here at the California Institute for Technologists which didn't heavily depend upon my having the Mac. But of the other three... I now wonder about aimlessly, looking for something to do. Class work and games are just not the same without the poor Mac. Even writing mail to this mailing list is just not the same without the Mac; it misses a certain umph! creating a letter to send. I even consoled myself by going down to the local store and buying more floppy disks, as if the poor Mac was well, and not sick with a life threatening desease. How I miss her! I even thought of sending flowers but I didn't think the repair shop where she sits alone would understand. *sigh* I hope she lives; life just wouldn't be the same without her. :-( - William Woody NET Woody%Romeo@Hamlet.Caltech.Edu USNAIL 1-54 Lloyd, Caltech / Pasadena, CA 91126 ------------------------------ End of INFO-MAC Digest **********************