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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 7 May 91 Volume 9 : Issue 103
Today's Topics:
[*] Architect font
[*] Crillee font
[*] font-cascade.hqx
[*]TidBITS#60/06-May-91
6.07 and Omnipage incompatabilities
Changing Paper size on LW
Classic internal HDs
Deskwriter/Deskjet ink refills: Query
Ethernet vs. Token-Ring
Experience with Prolog II ???
Fedit functionality
Font problem
GCC and a question about the Arizona ICON project...
hypercard 2.0 pw lockout
II si speed
Info-Mac Digest V9 #101
Info-Mac Digest V9 #99
INTERNET/BITNET e-mail to GEnie
intl resource
Looking For
Mac PC Card by Hydra Systems?
MacTCP and Color SimCity
Need help with Appleworks to Mac to Ascii (2 msgs)
Piracy & software reviews
Question: How to use DAL's under System 7.0b4.
Speed comparisons for IIsi in several conditions
TrueType question/GCC answer
Where can I find Steve Christensen (Author of MountImage)?
Who Wrote SCSI Probe 2.03 Cdev
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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 91 23:20:50 -0800 (PST)
From: dplatt@snulbug.mtview.ca.us (Dave Platt)
Subject: [*] Architect font
This posting contains a convertion into TrueType format of the Architect
font. What follows is a StuffIt 1.5.1 archive containing the Architect
PostScript font as it was originally received by me (bitmap, downloadable
PostScript file(s), and perhaps documentation and/or AFM files). I've
added a suitcase file which contains a TrueType version of the font,
created by FontMonger 1.0.
[Archived as /info-mac/font/tt/architect.hqx; 104K]
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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 91 23:19:06 -0800 (PST)
From: dplatt@snulbug.mtview.ca.us (Dave Platt)
Subject: [*] Crillee font
This posting contains a convertion into TrueType format of the Crillee
font. What follows is a StuffIt 1.5.1 archive containing the Crillee
PostScript font as it was originally received by me (bitmap, downloadable
PostScript file(s), and perhaps documentation and/or AFM files). I've
added a suitcase file which contains a TrueType version of the font,
created by FontMonger 1.0.
[Archived as /info-mac/font/tt/crillee.hqx; 177K]
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Date: Thu, 18 Apr 91 03:49:33 CDT
From: 231b3679@fergvax.unl.edu (Mike Gleason)
Subject: [*] font-cascade.hqx
With all those neat TrueType fonts starting to arrive, I looked for any
application that could display a fontsize larger than 127 points. Word,
MacWrite, SuperPaint, or MacDraw couldn't do it, so I had to whip up this
program, Font Cascade, just to see some really big characters. Font Cascade
can open up other suitcase files, in addition to the fonts installed in your
System. I've added some other goodies, like displaying whole ranges of sizes
and styles at a time. This little 8k program helps me decide which TrueType
fonts will make it into my System, perhaps it will be of use to fellow netters.
Enjoy!
_mike gleason, 231b3679@fergvax.unl.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/util/font-cascade.hqx; 12K]
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Date: Mon, May 6, 1991 10:52:14 PM
From: Adam Engst <ace%tidbits.UUCP@theory.tn.cornell.edu>
Subject: [*]TidBITS#60/06-May-91
[*]TidBITS#60/06-May-91
Index of TidBITS#60/06-May-91
Reviews/06-May-91
TechnoBITS/06-May-91 - A new fractal compression
technique
MailBITS/06-May-91 - On a personal note, if you are
in the Seattle area, please send me email. Thanks!
Also, news about a chip theft, DOS utilities that
don't work with System 7.0 yet, and a letter from
John Sculley to George Bush.
Less-Than Prodigal - The latest scandal surrounding
Prodigy
ROM Rumors - More rumors surrounding ROM upgrades
along with a new product that will make them
unnecessary. Well, not quite.
Data-PCS, Please - Want to express support for Apple's
proposed wireless networking scheme? Here's how.
[Archived as /info-mac/digest/tidbits-60.hqx; 33K]
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Date: Tue, 07 May 91 10:39:15 EST
From: Pete Tamas <V5296E%TEMPLEVM.bitnet@ricevm1.rice.edu>
Subject: 6.07 and Omnipage incompatabilities
Some time ago, James Bradley asked about Omnipage & 6.07 incompatabilities.
Whaat was the result? If you use Omnipage, do you stay away from 6.07?
Thanks--Pete
Acknowledge-To: <V5296E@TEMPLEVM>
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Date: 07 May 91 18:29 GMT
From: KURAS@applelink.apple.com (Kuras, Patrick)
Subject: Changing Paper size on LW
With regard to the question about changing page sizes on a LaserWriter, I think
you may be able to do what you're after in another way. If you're trying to
print multiple pages at reduced size and altered orientations on a letter-size
piece of paper, check out DynoPage from Portfolio Systems. It's a real slick
piece of software that captures the LaserWriter driver's output and manipulates
it in different ways to print n-up pages (pages with n copies of the contents
on them), small pages on normal size paper and loads of other stuff.
(If you're just trying to print mailing labels, get FileMaker Pro and create a
mailing label layout. It'll print 1-up, 2-up, 3-up or 26-up labels on laser
printer label stock. Piece o' cake.)
Good luck,
pat
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Date: Tue, 07 May 91 10:26:41 EST
From: Pete Tamas <V5296E%TEMPLEVM.bitnet@ricevm1.rice.edu>
Subject: Classic internal HDs
If someone buys a Classic without a HD and wants to put an HD in at a later
date, do you have to buy a mounting bracket? I saw such things advertised in
MacWeek and I was wondering. Thanks--Pete
Acknowledge-To: <V5296E@TEMPLEVM>
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Date: Tue, 07 May 91 13:16:05 +0200
From: Karl Pottie <GHGAQA0%BLEKUL11.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Deskwriter/Deskjet ink refills: Query
I'd like to create the 'ultimate' article about refilling
Deskjet/DeskWriter ink cartridges.
Please send any positive/negative experiences about refilling
the cartridges .
Which kind/brand of ink should one use, and which not ?
(I'm convinced many ppl must have tried different brands and kinds
of ink; I'd like to bundle this knowledge)
How's the smudging compared to the original ink (and the new HP ink) ?
How many times can one refill a cartridge ?
What about professional refill kits ?
ect....
I'll summarize and post to the net and info-mac archive if there
is enough response.
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Date: 6 May 91 20:57:26 GMT
From: 9531sons@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Jamie Sonsini)
Subject: Ethernet vs. Token-Ring
In digest <9105030419.AA04592@sumex-aim.stanford.edu> Joshua Yeidel <YEIDEL@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu> writes:
>>Thank you for your comments on the token-ring x ethernet dilema. I do prefer
>>ethernet also but there some guys from IBM making a lot of pressure in order
>>to let us select token-ring. The director of Data Processing Center would like
>>to follow what IBM reccomends. The LAN users, the engeneering dept, wish
>>ethernet, so if we find some papers, articles, comparing both it will help us
>>to argue against token-ring. I know that there are some comparations showing
>>that when the traffic on LAN is lower than 30% of the total capacity, the
>>probability of collisiion is very low and in this case, ethernet is certainly
>>better than token-ring because it is not necessary to wait for the token.
>>Unfortunately I was not able to find such kind of paper and have asked helped
>Forget issues like "probablility of collision" and "waiting for the token".
>The _real_ issues in networking are "What machines can I access" and
>"what can I do when I get there". The biggest advantage of Ethernet is
>is the wide range of systems that can use it, and the multi-vendor
>protocols that run over it (especially TCP/IP, NFS, RPC, etc.)
>There is simply NO
>PERCENTAGE in buying in to a proprietary networking technology in a
>University context -- if DEC or Sun offers you a grant next year,
>will you have to say "Sorry, we can't network your machines?"
>Computing is too important to leave to Data Processing Center directors.
>Make sure you are getting the widest possible base of support from
>real users for your networking scheme -- people who CAN and WILL use
>the network to advance the work of the University. DP people will have
>to follow.
>Forgive me if I am too blunt. These are obviously my opinions, not
>hard facts -- but I do have over twenty years' experience in academic
>computing, and I hope I've learned something in that time.
I would like to "second" Joshua's comments and add a bit of perspective
>From the Administrative computing side of things.
Besides asking "What machines can I access", I'd also ask "who else am
I planning to share information with". Working together with other
departments to plan a network design (like picking e'net or token ring
and file server standards etc) may be time consuming (and even
impossible at some universities) but I believe it's well worth the
effort. This is important for administrative departments who,
typically, are tightly linked together and depend on the same view of
the body of information regarding budgets, students, staff etc.
As for Joshua's comment that "Computing is too important to leave to DP
Directors"...geez, I would appreciate a little more professional respect.
Jamie Sonsini
UC Santa Barbara
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Date: Tue, 7 May 91 21:18:32 +0200
From: thomas%INFORMATIK.MATHEMATIK.UNI-MAINZ.DE@forsythe.stanford.edu (Thomas Schueler)
Subject: Experience with Prolog II ???
Hi networkers,
has anybody worked with PROLOG II from Prologia/Marseille ???
I need some information about integration of/into MPW C/Pascal, OS access
and performance.
Does anybody know about another Prolog implementation for the Mac wich can
be called from MPW C/Pascal ???
Thanks in advance,
thomas
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Date: 7 May 91 16:05:00 EST
From: "MICHAEL R. ROMAN" <mikero@lns61.tn.cornell.edu>
Subject: Fedit functionality
Does the company that sells Fedit still exist? If so, are they still main-
taining Fedit? If not, is there a current application with Fedit's function-
ality? Please reply to mikero@lns61.tn.cornell.edu
Thanks,
Mike Roman
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Date: Mon, 6 May 91 19:46 EST
From: <BANDSTRA%HOPE.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Font problem
I have a font problem I can't seem to solve. A small display font shows
up distorted in many applications; for example, in HyperCard buttons that
use icons, in Excel's help window, and in many other places. I had the
problem in 6.0.5 and now in 6.0.7. I tried unloading all my inits and
cdevs and restarting, but that didn't fix it. I have a straight II with
Apple RGB monitor. Any ideas? It's probably something real simple, but
I am no Mac whiz.
Barry Bandstra, Hope College (bandstra@hope.bitnet)
P.S. I do have all the system fonts loaded, in all sizes.
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Date: May 4, 1991
From: ozymandias G desiderata <Norvell%KNOX.BITNET@uicvm.uic.edu>
Subject: GCC and a question about the Arizona ICON project...
I've got a response for the folks who were wondering about the avail-
ability of GCC for the Macintosh. I know for a fact that there is a copy of
GCC (in a few large pieces (oh, how I love copylefting! :-)) at the MACSERVE
Macintosh server at Princeton (PUCC). It's archived under the name
gcc-137-part1 - ? (The abstract file doesn't say how many segments there are.
You'll have to find out for yourself.) The software was ported by some folks
at Apple, and apparently full sources exist at apple.com. It's a complete
implementation. I don't know if it's standalone or MPW. I have MPW and little
free room on my hard drive, so I haven't messed around with it. But it DOES
exist.
Now, for my question. I am interested in using the ICON programming
language, or at least taking a look at it. I ran across a reference to it
recently when I was reading through a list of mailing lists. There was an
address to which inquiries should be sent, something like icon-project@
arizona.edu, or something like that. It's been a few weeks now, so I've given
up hope of getting a reply. Do any of you know anything about these bozos?
Better yet, do any of you know anything about ICON? (Besides what was in
Byte a few months ago). Any responses would be appreciated, and if there are
enough, I'll summarize the responses and post them (this means send mail
privately!).
BTW - I think that a summary of shopping info would be great! Un-
fortunately, I can't help out - I'm a mere user of the VAX system here and
have much too small a partitition and userlevel to be able to do much. Plus,
I'm stuck on a VAX running VMS. Truly, a disastrous fate. Mourn for me.
ozymandias G desiderata
<Norvell@knox.bitnet>
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Date: Mon, 06 May 91 19:27:46 EDT
From: George <ST701640@brownvm.brown.edu>
Subject: hypercard 2.0 pw lockout
To anyone who can help:
I just locked myself out of my program in Hypercard 2.0. I wanted to
test the Hypercard password function, and after selecting that in menu, I decid
-ed that I didn't want to set a password anymore. When I got the first
window, I selected only "Text typing" for the userlevel, and clicked on every
one of the check boxes. When I went to select a password, another window pop-
ed up. It wanted me to enter a password. I decided that I should have copied
the program first, so I clicked on "cancel" and low and behold, the program
becomes locked. Now I can't get back to the program to modify it. There is
not even a "Change Password" or "Set Password" on the menu bar. So what's up?
How do I delete the password??!? HELP!
Thanks in advance...
George Lai ST701640@brownvm
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Date: 91-05-07 11:54:26 MEZ
From: Kurt Behnke --- MS80030@dhhuni4.bitnet
Subject: II si speed
There have been discussions about the speed of the II si. I would
like to add a few comments on that issue.
Two major reasons for the sometimes poor performance of that machine
have been isolated.
- the absence of the (optional) coprocessor.
- the built in video
Buying an additional FPU helps, at least if you do a lot of numerical
things. Graphics does get a bit faster too. But most people seem to
do word-processing more that anything else. Here an FPU is more or
less useless.
Together with Constantin Kahn (Hannove) I have run a number of
benchmarks on my II si (5 MB / FPU) with a number of programs that
do NOT use FPU like e.g. TeXtures and the symbolic computation
program Macaulay.
The figures were roughly like this:
With 256 colours our benchmarks needed about TWICE AS LONG as in
B/W, and about 1 1/2 times longer than with 16 colours.
The explanation is that the video RAM sits in the 1 M RAM bank A
(fixed on the board), that is very busy (the more colours the busier).
Hence access to this part of memory is very slow.
Smaller applications (almost every appl. is small, except things like
Mathematica ...) fit almost entirely into this bank, since the
application heap grows from bottom to top.
Now Apple says that access to the other SIMMs is not affected by
video RAM access. So one needs a device to move applications to
higher parts of the memory.
The solution is actually very easy: Ajust the RAM CACHE to
768 K. As a consequence bank A is all video and RAM cache. Then
the performance with 256 colours is (almost) as good as in Black
and White.
Regards,
Kurt Behnke
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Date: Tue, 7 May 91 13:30:12 -0400
From: stacey@csmil.umich.edu
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V9 #101
We have a MicroTech tape backup unit that uses 150mb cassettes. We've been
using Teac tapes. They are $28 a pop from our supplier. Our backup
needs are growing rapidly. We're about to purchase an additional 20 tapes.
Does anybody know of sources for good, cheap 150mb tapes?
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Date: Tue, 07 May 91 01:55:11 EST
From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL%UCONNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V9 #99
On Mon, 06 May 91 09:49:05 CDT you said:
>I noticed that a tidbit is being advertised reviewing and describing PC-Access.
>I also noticed that the table of contents included sections for installing
>the program. My question is: why include installation information, unless
>to assist those who are pirating the software?
Everytime I jump to a rash conclusion like that I get thoroughly flamed
(and deserve it too).
First, some people LIKE to know if a piece of software is going to be a
complex nightmare before they spend money on it.
Second, as an AccessPC owner (and reader of Adam's review) I can report
that AccessPC is one of the few pieces of Mac software I've seen for which
it it difficult to get complete functionality without owning and *gasp*
READING the manual. The review offers a potential pirate NOTHING they
wouldn't be able to come up with themselves unless they are truly braindead.
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Date: Tue, 07 May 91 03:36 PDT
From: Gann Matsuda <IYI4DTN@mvs.oac.ucla.edu>
Subject: INTERNET/BITNET e-mail to GEnie
Currently, there is no way to send mail from either BITNET or
INTERNET to GEnie. GEnie is in the process of considering an
INTERNET connection.
Gann Matsuda
INTERNET: iyi4dtn@mvs.oac.ucla.edu
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Date: Tue, 07 May 91 10:32:25 EST
From: Pete Tamas <V5296E%TEMPLEVM.bitnet@ricevm1.rice.edu>
Subject: intl resource
I remember someone asking about the intl2 sorting resource. A book on ResEdit
2.something says you cannot modify this resource. Any comments to the contrary?
If you need to code, can anyone get sample code for an itl2 resource?
Thanks--Pete
Acknowledge-To: <V5296E@TEMPLEVM>
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Date: Tue, 07 May 91 08:25:07 EDT
From: Steve Greenfield <FEATS%VTVM1.bitnet@ricevm1.rice.edu>
Subject: Looking For
I am looking for the following:
1) A program that clears the screen after a certain time. Screen saver!
2) A program that will print address labels on a HP DeskWriter!
3) A program that will print a monthly calendar and fill in each day
with activities. Should be able to print for next year as well.
4) A saw before that there was an ICON or something that showed disk
activity on MACs that did not have an activity light! (IIsi)
5) Someone told me there was a directory somewhere that contained alot
of clip art! Does anyone know where?
Bitnet: FEATS@VTVM1
Internet: feats@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu
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Date: 6 May 91 15:20:53 GMT
From: gasior@khazad-dum.rutgers.edu (Eric Gasior)
Subject: Mac PC Card by Hydra Systems?
Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu writes:
>HYDRA SYSTEMS Cupertino CA. Does anyone have the phone/fax or address of
>this company or know any more details about this product....it sounds
>interesting....(from the point of view of a PC user!)
Yup. I got their number from one of the Mac magazines, called, and got
some info.
Their address is:
Hydra Systems Inc.
1340 S. Saratoga-Sunnyvale Rd. Suite 106
San Jose CA 95129
Phone: (408)253-5800
Fax: (408)253-1113
They're just starting out, and have very little info. Also, they don't have
many dealers yet, so there isn't anywhere local (NJ/NYC/Eastern PA) that I
could see the board. This is definately something that I'm not going to get
until I test it.
EDG
gasior@hardees.rutgers.edu
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Date: Tue, 7 May 91 16:21:04 EDT
From: Patrick Bray <bray@think.com>
Subject: MacTCP and Color SimCity
Two questions:
1) We use the MacTCP driver extensively here on all models of macs except
SE/30's. I'm not able to get it to work correctly on the one SE/30 we have
(system 6.0.5 - finder 6.1.5). It is not a network problem and I'm pretty
sure that there are no init problems. Has anyone gotten MacTCP to work on an
SE/30? Does anyone know of a reason that it shouldn't?
2) I am interested in getting Color SimCity for my SI but a friend says that
he cannot get version 1.1c to work on his SI. Is there another version for
SI's?
Thanks in advance for all replies!
Patrick Bray bray@think.com
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Date: Tue, 07 May 91 02:01:13 EST
From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL%UCONNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Need help with Appleworks to Mac to Ascii
On 5 May 91 02:49:00 EST you said:
>the files were composed in Appleworks on an Apple IIc+. The ORIGINAL
Meaning they are in Apple ProDOS on 3.5 inch disks.
>version 1.0 of Appleworks (goes back to '83 or '84 I think). What I
>want to do is someone use a Mac as a platform to go from ProDos to Mac
>to IBM ascii, as my current machine is a Toshiba laptop. Can the new
You should be able to do better than that. First, Apple File Exchange
(supplied on the Mac system disks) will read ProDOS files and copy them
to the Mac for you (even if you don't have the SuperDrive). Second,
MacWrite II (and Microsoft Works) and possibly other software will read
Appleworks files.
>Superdrives read Appleworks files or not? If so, can it perform the
>necessary conversions to get to IBM ascii format? If not, can you offer
MacWrite II can WRITE to most IBM PC word processor formats and if
you DO have a Mac with a SuperDrive, AFE will write those files onto
MeSsy DOS disks and you'll have your work all nicely formatted (better
than plain ASCII). And, save those Mac files you read from Appleworks;
after the Mac notebooks come out in the Fall you can give that clunky
Toshiba to some unsuspecting colleague and switch to a full function
word processor :-)
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Date: Tue, 7 May 91 14:45:20 +0100
From: Ola.Knutsson@ina.hv.se
Subject: Need help with Appleworks to Mac to Ascii
Hi
>What I want to do is someone use a Mac as a platform to go from ProDos to Mac
>to IBM ascii, as my current machine is a Toshiba laptop. Can the new
>Superdrives read Appleworks files or not? If so, can it perform the
>necessary conversions to get to IBM ascii format? If not, can you offer
>any alternative suggestions. Thanks in advance.
You are lucky, there should be no problem with this one. First You use Apple
FileExchange (come with the system software) to move the file from Your ProDOS
disc to a Mac-disc. Step two is to start MacWrite II. This program can convert
AppleWorks-files (among others) to almost any other format including ASCII. Step
three is to use Apple FileExchange again to convert (and move) the ASCII-file to
DOS ASCII-format.
I think there are possibilities to exclude the MacWrite II-step by using a
converter-script for Apple FileExchange which dirtectly converts from
AppleWorks-ProDOS to ASCII-DOS. I have however no personal experience in this.
Good Luck
Ola Knutsson
V{xj| University
email: Ola.Knutsson@ina.hv.se
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Date: Tue, May 7, 1991 1:50:06 PM
From: Adam Engst <ace%tidbits.UUCP@theory.tn.cornell.edu>
Subject: Piracy & software reviews
Piracy & software reviews
Thanks for the explanation, John, and thanks for sticking up for me, Murph.
I understand your feelings about slimy pirates, but the problem is that a truly
good review aimed at informing a potential purchaser will by default be useful
to those of less-scrupulous nature. I try to make it as easy as possible to
buy the program by including complete contact information for the company and
the real price that a reasonably intelligent person would pay if price is an
issue. Short of that, it's hard for me to provide an informative review without
letting some of the stuff a pirate would want out of the bag. And I do agree
with Murph - any mildly sophisticated pirate could figure out everything I said
with no difficulty. Unsophisticated pirates (read: clueless users without a
sense of honesty) won't be able to figure it out even with help, so they're
less of a problem.
Cheers.... -Adam Engst, TidBITS Editor
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Date: Tue, 7 May 91 17:49:07 GMT-12:00
From: David Richards <DAVID@wcc.govt.nz>
Subject: Question: How to use DAL's under System 7.0b4.
Has anybody had any success with DAL's under System 7.0b4?
I had Clear Access and Digital's PATHWORS for Macintosh DAL stuff
working under System 6.0.7.
Do I need to install the PATHWORKS DAL drivers?
David
P.S. My return address is screwed, please SEND not REPLY, to "david@ccc.govt.nz"
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Date: Mon, 6 May 91 10:56:49 PDT
From: DORY%ORFE.ESNET@esnmrg.nersc.gov
Subject: Speed comparisons for IIsi in several conditions
Some data for the discussion of IIsi speeds.
Macintosh Speeds as measured by Public domain program MacSpeed from INFO-MAC.
Mac Description CPU Math Disk Overall
512KE,Floppy 1M(Dove 524S) 0.87 1.01 0.37 0.66
512KE,Q80 " 0.87 1.01 1.10 0.96
Plus, HD20 Standard 0.87 1.01 0.94 0.92
SE actual HD20 0.97 1.16 0.99 1.02
SE nominal (MacSpeed) 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00
II nominal (MacSpeed) 3.18 6.60 1.46 2.70
Plus, HD20 16 MHz Radius 3.58 2.73 1.87 2.72, no '881
SE/30, HD20 Standard 4.00 7.77 1.52 2.39
IIcx, Q40 w/ MS Mail 3.18 7.70 1.20 3.47
" Standard 4.02 7.80 2.12 3.64
IIcx, Floppy (1.2M) 5.00 7.80 0.61 1.70
IIsi, Q40,'882 256Color 2.54 6.60 2.69 3.05, Slow mode
" 256 Grey 2.54 6.70 2.70 3.06
" 16 Color 4.11 10.14 2.70 4.15
" 4 Color 4.43 10.64 2.94 4.48
" Grey 4.44 10.64 2.96 4.50
" B&W 4.54 10.90 2.80 4.45
" 256 Color 4.63 11.23 2.93 4.60, Fast mode
",1.2M Floppy 256 Color 4.64 11.18 0.67 1.92
", Q40 256 Color 4.72 11.13 2.66 4.45, Normal mode
SE Jas70 25MHz Radius 1.80 8.37 1.44 2.06, Slow mode
" 25MHz Radius 5.13 19.46 2.51 4.69, Normal mode
IIci, Q80 4.27 11.13 2.29 4.56, Slow mode
" 5.80 13.90 3.28 5.49, Normal mode
Speed on the IIsi seems to be dependent on what else is happening has already
happened during the session in question. The 'slow mode' occurs only
sporadically. This IIsi test used a 13" Hi-Res color screen driven by the
onboard video. The slowness symptom can sometimes be cured (at least
temporarily) by using the Monitor CDEV to switch from color to black and white
and back again. A simple Restart does not seem to suffice.
The slow mode of the Radius 25MHz accelerator was fairly well eliminated by
chucking out a number of CDEV's and INIT's.
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Date: Tue, 7 May 91 16:33:29 +0100
From: reinder@neuretp.biol.ruu.nl
Subject: TrueType question/GCC answer
One question:
Does anybody know how to get the TrueType INIT to run under Apple Unix 2.0
in
32 bit mode? It works fine in 24 bit mode, but we would like to use it in
32 bit mode.
One answer:
there definitely does exist a port of GCC for the Mac. The port was done
by Apple. Their port runs under MPW using the MPW C 3.1 libraries and
header files. It does not run with the 3.2 libraries and header files.
This product (sorry, this non-product, GNU C is not an official Apple
product) can be found in the archives as infomac/lang/gcc-137-part*.hqx,
substituting '1', '2', '3', '4', '5' for the '*'.
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Date: Tue, 7 May 91 21:52 N
From: "Gary T. Czychi" <CZYCHI%CSGHSG5A.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Where can I find Steve Christensen (Author of MountImage)?
Adress1: czychi@csghsg52.BITNET or czychi@alpha.unisg.ch (preferred host)
Adress2: czychi@bernina.ethz.ch.UUCP
Hi,
does anyone know how I can contact Steve Christensen, the author of
MountImage?
I would like to thank him for this wonderful little INIT/cdev and tell him
about some bugs I have discovered.
Gary
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Date: 7 May 91 04:06:42 GMT
From: steveh@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (Steven Howell)
Subject: Who Wrote SCSI Probe 2.03 Cdev
Does anyone know who wrote SCSI probe 2.03. Is it the same person that
wrote SCSI probe?
thanks in advance
steve h
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