srp@ethz.UUCP (05/11/87)
[line eater fodder] Hello, I am a recent refugee from the PC world so I am a little uneducated with respect to Macs etc., and I would like to ask a couple of questions. I am an experienced programmer so I can handle technical descriptions. Please give references were appropriate if you know them. Question one concerns a stock Mac Plus, two about the Apple Laser Writer. 1) Every once in a while a particular program will cause the disk that it resides on to become the startup volume if it is not already. I see this because the disk icons on the desk-top get swapped so that the afore mentioned disk is in the upper right corner. How does this come about? Can I turn this "function" off and on at will? 2) About the Laser Writer... I notice that there are two kinds of yellow light blinking. A 'single' blink and a 'double' blink. It appears as though the double blinking occurs during timeouts and Postscript function definition transactions, while single blinking occurs during function calls (like during the printing of a document). Does anyone have a more concrete definition of single and double blinking? Any help would be appreciated. ----------- Scott Presnell Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Zentrum) Department of Organic Chemistry Universitaetsstrasse 16 CH-8092 Zurich Switzerland. uucp: ...seismo!mcvax!cernvax!ethz!srp (srp@ethz.uucp) earn/bitnet: Benner@CZHETH5A