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Info-Mac Digest Wed, 19 Jun 91 Volume 9 : Issue 142
Today's Topics:
[*] GCC Drive Manager 7.0
[*] MacHanzi
Bill Goodman/Compactor Pro
Computer Modern fonts
Cricket Graph & tabs ...
Decoding ".Z" files
Dive Log Software
Does Sys 7 spool to ImageWriter?
External drive and sys 7 problem: report
FDHD Drive Problem?
How Can I Change the Name Responder Uses?
LoDOWN tape drives. Who supports?
Maps of Middle East
Need HP ThinkJet driver
PC file --> Mac file (CR/LF --> CR)
Radius monitors and System 7
reprogramming hex characters keyboard sends
Still Video Cameras & Computer Eyes Color
sys-7 Q and A: A/Rose, Balloons help, get info, PRAM Zapping
system 7.0 warning msgs
TANDY 102 FILE TRANSFER TO MACINTOSH
X windows on a mac?
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 91 8:56:31 EDT
From: kenh@eclectic.com (Ken Hancock)
Subject: [*] GCC Drive Manager 7.0
Enclosed is a Compact Pro archive containing GCC Technologies' Drive Manager
application version 7.0. Please note that this will only work on
GCC drives. It is not compatible with other 3rd party drives.
Drive Manager 7.0 is fully System 7.0 compatible and may be used in
both virtual memory and 32-bit mode. (Previous versions were not
32-bit clean for partitioned drives.)
Although GCC has no Internet account, they may be reached through
America Online (gcc tech), via the Compuserve-Internet gateway
(76004.2302@compuserve.com), as well as our 800 number,
1-800-422-7777.
[Archived as /info-mac/util/gcc-drive-manager-70.hqx; 283K]
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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 91 23:05:57 EDT
From: xli@king.mcs.drexel.edu (Xing Li)
Subject: [*] MacHanzi
Hi,
This is MacHanzi, a freeware application for viewing and printing
Chinese articles WITHOUT using a Mac Chinese Operating System.
It is useful for those who subscribe to "Hua Xia Wen Zhai"
(ccman-l\\@uga.cc.uga.edu) and "Chinese Articles from HKU"
(car-request\\@ahkcus.org).
The features are:
* Supports both GB format (simplified Chinese character used in
mainland China) and BIG5 format (traditional Chinese character
used in Taiwan and Hong Kong) WITHOUT using a Mac Chinese OS.
* The Chinese articles can be viewed and printed either horizontally
(from left to right, top to bottom - the modern way) or vertically
(from top to bottom, right to left - the traditional way).
* The minimum hardware requirement is a Mac Plus with 1 Mb RAM
(512e should work, but has not been tested).
* It is multifinder friendly and can be used under System 7.0.
* The application itself is small (about 10 K). Two font libraries
are obtained from anonymous ftp sides. (cclib.16 [GB font] is
from 128.123.1.14 inside pub/chinese/ChTex-1.1.tar.Z and
chinese.16 [BIG5 font] is from 192.55.187.25 at src/pc/HKU.
I think that these two libraries are in the public domain.
If not, please delete them and down load them yourself.
Enjoy.
Xing Li
[Archived as /info-mac/app/mac-hanzi.hqx; 663K]
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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1991 08:42 CDT
From: Stark Raving <TRIMPERG@lawrence.edu>
Subject: Bill Goodman/Compactor Pro
Deciding to just forget about Stuffit, and register Compactor Pro,
I sent a check to Bill Goodman, and he mailed me my registration
number in less than a week.
So those of you not registering your shareware because "I'll never
hear from the guy.." - GO REGISTER! NOW!
I feel like the post office "These Mac Users Grew Up Today - They Registered."
Greg Trimper TRIMPERG@LAWRENCE.ACAD
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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 91 12:37:18 PDT
From: meldal@anna.stanford.edu
Subject: Computer Modern fonts
Does anyone know of a TrueType, Adobe Type 1, or Adobe Type 3 version
of the TeX font "Computer Modern".
Blue Sky Research (authors of TeXtures) have a PostScript version of
the CM fonts. These can be purchased separately from TeXtures, for a
few hundred dollars (if I remember correctly).
I do not have Blue Sky's phone number or address here, but any
retailer selling TeXtures should be able to help you.
Best regards,
Sigurd Meldal
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Date: 19 Jun 91 09:08:00 EDT
From: "V5120::MENTON" <menton%v5120.decnet@cfe1.nrl.navy.mil>
Subject: Cricket Graph & tabs ...
Many thanks to all respondents re my problem of getting tabs into an
ASCII file of numbers, for plotting in Cricket Graph. At last count: 38
replies! Summary of suggestions: (1) write CHAR(9), with an A1 format, between
the columns of numbers to imbed a tab via Fortran; (2) use a text editor such
as McSink to replace spaces with tabs; (3) same suggestion using a word
processor (in the 'Change' function, MS Word recognizes 'white space' in a file
with " ^w " and can replace it with " ^t " as the tab character); (4) read
data into a spreadsheet like Excel, then save as tab-delimited data; and (5)
use a better plotting program such as Kaleidagraph or Igor, where tabs between
columns are not required. More than one respondent also sent BinHex'd files to
take care of the tab problem.
Again, thanks to all. I'm pursuing several of these options to increase
my flexibility. Your polite responses for what now seems to be a simplistic
question is also much appreciated.
I actually found one solution not mentioned by anyone - the columns of
numbers (without tabs) will read into an array in MathCAD. Each column can
then be identified as a vector, and vectors can be plotted against each other.
MathCAD's plotting capabilities are very basic, but it worked (and the graph
can be pasted into MacDraw for further annotation).
- Bob Menton
menton@wave.nrl.navy.mil
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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 91 05:15:48 CDT
From: traurig@ncavax.decnet.lockheed.com (Scott Traurig/603-885-3408/Lockheed Sanders)
Subject: Decoding ".Z" files
Hi Folks,
I am currently searching for a good share/free-ware or
public domain SMTP mail client for my ethernet & MacTCP
equipped 2si.
Problem #1: Does anyone have any good leads for me (names
of software, FTP sites)?
Problem #2: I did identify a couple of likely candidates,
Beaver 0.85 and SMTP 0.87, which I FTP'd from csc2.anu.edu.au
Unfortunately, SMTP came as "smtp0.87.sit.hqx.Z", and Beaver
came as "beaver-0.85.Z", and, of course, I have no clue how
to decode a ".Z" file.
I have binary FTP'd them successfully (I also tried ASCII
FTP but all I got was trash). They came uuencoded but that
was no problem. Can someone point me to the correct utility
for decoding ".Z" files, or, alternately, point me to an FTP
site that encodes these files as plain old ".hqx".
Thanks,
Scott (traurig@ncavax.decnet.lockheed.com)
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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 91 13:50:29 -0400
From: John Alciere <jmalciere@eng.xyplex.com>
Subject: Dive Log Software
Anyone know whether diving log software exists for the Mac? (Preferably PD or
shareware.) I've seen such software advertised for the PC.
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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 91 8:49:19 PDT
From: Hans Jannasch <jaha@mbari.org>
Subject: Does Sys 7 spool to ImageWriter?
Before I install Sys 7.0, does it spool to an imagewriter II? I now use
SuperSpool 5.0, and don't want to relive the pre-spooling days. (I also
don't have the $'s yet for a laser priter at home). I haven't seen this
discussd anywhere else, and I get conflicting reports from people
(including the two Apple dealers in my area) on the subject. Has anyone
tried this? If it sys 7 doesn't spool, is SS5.0 sys 7 compatible?
BTW, SE-30, 5Mb RAM, Radius 2-page B&W Monitor with card,
IIsi, 5Mb RAM, 13" Apple color monitor, coprocessor on Nubus adapt.
Thanks in advance. Please reply to: jaha@hp850.mbari.org
I'll summarize.
Hans Jannasch, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1991 10:44:07 CDT
From: DVW6760@geophy.tamu.edu
Subject: External drive and sys 7 problem: report
This is a follow-up on my report about a week ago concerning the apparent
failure of my then new Ehman 105Q external drive to boot with newly down-
loaded system 7. I though the problem was the disk drivers, as several
others had reported. It was instead my ignorance. Here's a brief resume:
Using either System Switcher1.1 or the Startup Device control panel
device, I had set the external, partitioned, drive as the startup drive.
One restarting, the happy mac would be displayed, then a checkerboard
pattern would flash for an instance, then the screen would grey, followed
by the happy mac. This cycle would go on as long as I let it. Calls to
Ehman assured me the drivers were ok. After checking terminations, switching
system folders between drives and doing numerous other little things, a
tech at Ehman got the idea that I may have had the system 7.0 folder on the
WRONG PARTITION. You MUST put the sytem folder on the uppermost partition,
the one that loads and displays its icon first. I had it on the partition
that was lowest on the totem pole on the right side of the screen. The manual
did not contain any statement about system folder placement. To be fair, I
would imagine the great majority of people do not have both internal and
external drives (except, of course, for the hot shots who subscribe to
this digest!). It never occured to Ehman to include instructions for second
hard drives and I was totally ignorant of the nuances.
Anyway, problem solved.
Thanks to all the people who offered advice, assuming that I had the
partition thing right. There was some misconception about System Switcher. It
CAN be used just like Startup Device to switch among drives. A few people
thought it could only be used to switch between systems on the same disk. I
have still not found any documentation on System Switcher 1.1 in my usual
places (info-mac and the MACSERVE@PUCC listserver).
Thanks to all who responded again.
Dave Wiltschko
Department of Geology
Texas A&M University
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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 91 13:17:17 EDT
From: Steve Greenfield <FEATS%VTVM1.bitnet@ricevm1.rice.edu>
Subject: FDHD Drive Problem?
Sorry to bother the list again but can anyone suggest anything before I end
up taking my MAC back for repairs? I may have a problem with my FDHD drive.
I ftp stuff to the mainframe at work and then download it to my PS/2 using
Kermit. My 1.44 MB disks have been formatted on the PS/2. I do this because
it's faster to download at work at 19200KB instead of at home at 2400KB.
I take the DOS disk and use Apple File Exchange on my MAC to translate the
ftped files to the MAC format. It was working pretty good until last night.
I had a problem translating one of three files that were on a diskette from
work. After retrying, the one file was successfully translated. I was
backing up my hard drive to get ready to install System 7.0. I started to
reformat some DOS formatted disks to do my backups when three disks in a row
would not initialize! I've only had the MAC for 60 days and I doubt that
dust would be causing the problem. The diskettes were sold by SONY. Is there
a problem with formatting diskettes back and forth between a PS/2 and a MAC?
I can't believe that these mechanisms are that sensitive!
I plan to buy a couple of boxes of diskettes to use exclusively for system
backups! At what point should I feel like I need to take the machine in for
service? Are there any tests I can perform to help get a definitive answer
as to whether I truely have a problem or not? Should I be using a different
brand of diskettes? Thanks for any help you may be able to provide!
Internet: feats@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu
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Date: 19 Jun 91 15:42:52 GMT
From: 9531sons@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Jamie Sonsini)
Subject: How Can I Change the Name Responder Uses?
I am creating a diskette which will (eventually) be a boot and system
disk for a Avatar MacMainFrame Gateway system. I created the System
folder by copying a minimal set from my own Mac IIcx's System folder.
When I boot with this floppy diskette (and observe with LTPeek running
on another Mac) I notice that the system identifies itself as if it was
my Mac IIcx. I believe it's Responder doing this? I've tried copying
(what I believe is a "clean" responder - from the System Utilities
diskette) - and still the same result.
I know I've seen (somewhere!) Responder asking for you to identify
the machine, but I can't seem to remember where. How can I change (or
replace) Responder's idea of who it is?
Thanks much (sorry to have such a bad memory).
Jamie Sonsini
UC Santa Barbara
9531sons@ucsbvm.bitnet
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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1991 10:59 EDT
From: "Harry E. Bates" <E7P2BAT%TOWSONVX.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: LoDOWN tape drives. Who supports?
We are looking for the address and/or phone number of the company
that supports the LoDOWN tape backup unit. Please send replies to
HBATES@TOWSONVX.BITNET
Thanks in advance!
Harry Bates
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Date: 19 Jun 91 15:19 +0200
From: Sven Meiborg Sorensen <sms@dou.dk>
Subject: Maps of Middle East
Dear netters,
Our department of Middle East Studies wants to acquire (= buy) maps
of the Middle East. They would like PostScript artwork (FreeHand or
Illustrator) or EPS to be used in PageMaker 4.0.
They would like most to get maps of a fairly good quality (high
resolution) and preferably organized hierarchically with regard to
infrastructure details. They would like to be able to include
- major/minor cities with/without names
- major/minor roads
- ports, airports
- administrative borders
- etc
The maps may be on CDs or diskettes - and the price doesn't matter
very much if the quality is reasonable.
Can anyone give a clue to who makes or sells maps like these?
Thank you,
Sven - Odense University, Denmark
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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1991 10:29 CDT
From: LAMB4784@iscsvax.uni.edu
Subject: Need HP ThinkJet driver
Net Slakers,
I'm getting desperate in my search for an HP ThinkJet driver. HP no longer
supports any PCL1 driver. If you have one or no where to get one, please get
back to me. My QuietJets will thank you!
Keep on slakin'
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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 91 13:52:49 EDT
From: jyoo@elbereth.rutgers.edu (J-S Yoo)
Subject: PC file --> Mac file (CR/LF --> CR)
Hi,
I tried to convert PC files to Mac files with both of Apple File
Exchange and MacLink Plus. Since the PC file format is not one of those
supplied by either program, I have tried many combinations. Even though
I selected the CR/LF->CR transformation whenever available, it seemed that
the LFs were not stripped during translation. What did I do wrong?
After the translation, I have to run some program with the translated
files because the translated files have no creator information. What will
be the best of achieving the same result as above?
All these were done on SE/30 with the foreign language system version
6.0.7.
--
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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 91 08:24:03 PDT
From: managan#robert#a%nersc.mfenet@esnmrg.nersc.gov
Subject: Radius monitors and System 7
I wanted to add my experiences to those of David Van Nuys. He reported
that his Radius Full Page Display froze his pointer under system 7.0. I
have a Radius Two Page display and had no trouble. The software provided
by Radius to enlarge the menu bar does not work with Sys 7 but the new
software (RadiusWare 2.0 which replaces II Display, SE/30 Display, and
Pivot Display plus others?) is finished. Radius nicely emailed me a copy
two weeks ago.
I also was told I would need a ROM upgrade but since my system worked
fine without it and when I installed the RAdiusWare 2.0 software I
recovered all the functionality I had under sys 6 so I am not planning to
upgrade yet. It seems that there may be a difference between the FPD and
TPD so do be careful about finding out what you do need to run Sys 7 with
Radius monitors.
Rob Managan (managan@llnl.gov)
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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 91 15:15:44 EDT
From: Peter Furmonavicius <PETER%YALEVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: reprogramming hex characters keyboard sends
I think this question was discussed a while ago but I wasn't paying full
attention to the various comments. Now that I need some information,
I'm forced to go to the lists to ask all over again.
(I hate when that happens.....)
We would like to change the key sequences that are sent to host
applications when certain keboard keys are depressed. Particularly
the four cursor postioning keys (cusor (arrow) left, cursor (arror)
up, cursor (arrow) down, and cursor (arror) right). Do any of the
popular Macintosh terminal emulators that run over the AppleTalk
network (as opposed to serial connections) have this capability?
(e.g. NCSA telnet, etc.)
Thanks.
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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1991 7:30:44 CDT
From: DAVE@gerga.tamu.edu (Dave Martin)
Subject: Still Video Cameras & Computer Eyes Color
Howdy. Has anyone had any experience with Still Video cameras, like the Canon
Xapshot? What kind of quality can you get from it? Also, any comments or
horror stories on the Computer Eyes - Color video digitizer? I do know that it
takes six seconds to capture an image (as opposed to 1/30th for most live video
grabbers) and would require the video source to be in a paused state. What kind
of quality can you get from it? I've been told that it does work in the power
limits of the IIsi with NuBus adapter - can anyone verify? Is the software
compatible with (you guessed it) System 7, and will it work with 32-bit CQD if
you only have 8-bit video display (the blurb I read only says that if you have
a 24-bit display and driver board that it is compatible)?
Reason I ask is that Third Wave in Austin has been advertising the Canon
Xapshot still video camera and Computer Eyes - Color digitizer as a package (or
as the camera by itself) and I'm real tempted to get it, but want to see if
anyone has anything negative about either of the two products.
Respond to me and I'll summarize if there is an interest. Thanks.
Dave Martin (DAVE@GERGA.TAMU.EDU, BROOKS@TAMVXOCN.BITNET, DBM on AOL)
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Date: 19 JUN 91 11:29:57.96-GMT
From: SYGNET%FRIAP51.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: sys-7 Q and A: A/Rose, Balloons help, get info, PRAM Zapping
hi, maybe someone knows the answer to these system-7 related questions :
1/ what is the A/Rose INIT(system extension) for ?
(it is on the Install-3 disk of the 8x800 K system-7 disks
one can download from ftp.apple.com)
2/ how can one add a keyboard shortcut to the "show/hide ballons" command ?
I've used ResEdit2.1 to modify the MENU resource of the system file,
the shortcut I choosed (command-H) is displayed in the help menu :-)
but no action takes place :-(
Any clues ?
3/ why MacUser et various other sources keep saying that the "Get Info"
information is saved under system-7 when "rebuiding the desktop":
it doesn't work for me ! Do I miss the point, or what ?
and an answer to a question about "Zapping the PRAM" on system 7
that someone asked a few days ago (or was it on the sys-7 specific
listserv ?)
4/ you can Zap the PRAM under system 7 by booting while pressing
Command-Option-P-R and your Mac (at least my IIcx) will
restart immediatly with a "clean" PRAM
Jean-Francois Sygnet [sygnet@friap51.bitnet]
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Date: Tue, 18 Jun 91 18:56:06 PDT
From: glenn@gla-aux.uucp (Glenn Austin)
Subject: system 7.0 warning msgs
In article <9106172059.AA01613@sumex-aim.stanford.edu> you write:
> I've seen this question before, but not the answers and I am
> having the same problem. I have a Mac SE, 4meg memory, 68020 accelarator
> and system 7.0 Whenever there is a system message it prints it so that only
> the bottom half of the message box is shown, the rest is off the screen.
> No other software I have does this including the print monitor.
> Anyone have any solutions?
I've seen this when someone installed over their old system while a virus
detection utility (like the Disinfectant INIT) was still running. You knew
there was a reason Apple said to disable these things...
Simply remove the INIT, reboot and reinstall (update), then put the INIT
back. You should have the correct dialog positioning!
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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 91 15:29:17 EDT
From: ZAK@cu.nih.gov
Subject: TANDY 102 FILE TRANSFER TO MACINTOSH
I wanted to thank the people who sent me info on how to transfer
files from Radio Shack's Tandy 102 laptop to a Macintosh:
Jonathan Waage <JWAAGE@brownvm.brown.edu>, Yoshinori Kamo Kamo
<SOKAMO@LSUVM>, Mark O'Brien (USERHCFB@ub.cc.umich.edu), David
Van Nuys (vannuysd@Sonoma.EDU), Hans.Moravec@ROVER.RI.CMU.EDU,
and Chuck Maddows (cmaddox@imsa.edu).
My intended use is as a "text bucket" when I'm away from home,
something lightweight and easy to use and simple to upload files
to my Mac from. I've been farting around now for several weeks
looking at the Tandy 102 (~$700) and WP-2 (starts at $350), as
well as the Laser PC4 (starts at $250-$279) (which comes with the
file transfer software necessary and the appropriate cables).
Did I mention that this unit must be CHEAP?
The comments/hints I received about transferring files to the
Macintosh (and general information) follows. All contributors
thought the machine was more than adequate for my intended uses.
============================================================
T A N D Y 1 0 2
Weight: 3 pounds
Battery life: 14 hours with 4(?) AA batteries
There is a good national support group known as Club 100.
The files are plain ASCII, so no translation is necessary.
Software needed on the Mac--
. FreeTerm 3.0b3 (freeware--from Info-Mac)
- OR -
. Red Ryder (White Knight) (an article appeared in the
August 1985 or 1986 MacUser describing exactly how to do
this transfer using Red Ryder)
Software on the Tandy 102--
. The software the 102 needs for file transfer is built in.
. The text editor is apparently somewhat similar to
WordStar (ctrl-k, ctrl-d, etc).
Hardware (cables)--
. an RS232 cable should be attached to the Mac's modem or
printer port (available from Data Spec--Radio Shack
version is apparently unusable)
. a null modem adapter is needed between the RS232 and the
Tandy.
- OR -
. a "null modem" cable such as the Mac's Imagewriter I (not
Imagewriter II) cable
- OR -
. you can buy a Mac-to-Hayes-modem cable and a null modem
adapter.
Contraindications--
. The screen is limited to 40 columns.
. The Tandy 102 can store only about 30 single-spaced
pages. but there are apparently third-party memory
upgrades up to 512K of static ram.
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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1991 18:23:53 GMT
From: jjz34245@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Cub Fan - Zim man)
Subject: X windows on a mac?
Is there a program which will turn a macintosh into an X station?
If so, is this available somewhere via FTP?
thanks,
-Zim
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