info-mac-request@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (The Moderators) (05/03/91)
Info-Mac Digest Thu, 2 May 91 Volume 9 : Issue 100
Today's Topics:
[*] AnimatedButtonsStack.hqx
[*] AppleDraw version 5.1
[*] Ashley.hqx
[*] Caraway Bold
[*] Compactor file format...
[*] Deprotecting EXCEL Spreadsheet Utility
[*] Microsoft Works 2.0e Updater.
[*] Mind Mines Bomb Search Game
[*] Murph's VAPORWARE column for May 1991
[*] SaveATree 1.5
[*] SNOWBALL Reference Notes 1.7
A/UX whacking...
Adding Color Icons into Fruits-of-Passion
Disinfectant and HyperCard Viruses
Displaying GIFs
Ethernet vs. Token-Ring
Filemaster DA
GatorBox and PS/2's?
GCC For Macintosh
HPGL->Postscript or PCL->Postscript for Mac, IBM or UNIX
I-M V9 #93 (Multiple Serial Port Boards)
INIT managers
Mac IIsi speed
Memories...
Multiple public folders ]
Obscure virus problem (I think) with a Mac SE...
scrabble
Spooler for StyleWriter
stuffit
Word files PC <> MAC
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Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1991 12:34 GMT+1
From: FRICCI%ITOPOLI.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: [*] AnimatedButtonsStack.hqx
This is version 1.6 - shareware $15.
New stuff in this version: Animated Cursors, Scrolling Lists, and bug fixes
in window handling and sliders.
This stack shows you how to use things like animated buttons, sliders, scroll
bars, windows, scrolling lists and other, in HyperCard, *without* XCMDs or
XFCNs. Just plain HyperTalk.
- Alberto Ricci.
[Archived as /info-mac/card/animated-buttons-16.hqx; 115K]
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Date: Mon, 15 Apr 91 10:33:34 SDT
From: Guenther Blaschek <Blaschek%EDVZ.UNI-Linz.AC.AT@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: [*] AppleDraw version 5.1
This is verion 5.1 of AppleDraw. AppleDraw is a DA for object
drawings that supports:
- lines, rectangles, rounded rects, ovals, arrows
- polygons (also with arrowheads)
- text in different fonts, styles, sizes, alignments ...
- groups
- "partial pictures"
- zooming
- grid
- hairlines
- and much more ...
Included is a self-extracting archive that contains
- the AppleDraw DA
- documentation (MacWrite format)
- Drawer (an additional application for printing pictures)
- a couple of sample pictures
New in version 5.1:
- some (at least 3) bugs corrected
- shows the size of objects in pixels, cm, or inch
- supports selection of covered objects (with others on top of them)
AppleDraw is shareware (US$30).
gue -- Guenther Blaschek -- blaschek@alijku11.bitnet -- gue@soft.uni-linz.ac.at
[Archived as /info-mac/da/apple-draw-51.hqx; 125K]
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Date: Sat, 13 Apr 91 16:37 CDT
From: "Thomas L. Hausmann" <HAUSMANN@iscsvax.uni.edu>
Subject: [*] Ashley.hqx
Ashley is a new Type 1 Postscript font that mimics a neat, sophisticated
handwriting. It's perfect for those "handwritten" memos and annotations! Upper-
and lowercase, numeric and punctuation characters included. Author requests a
$10 Shareware fee. Make your Mac a synthetic secretary!!!
[Archived as /info-mac/font/ashley.hqx; 44K]
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Date: Sat, 13 Apr 91 16:37 CDT
From: "Thomas L. Hausmann" <HAUSMANN@iscsvax.uni.edu>
Subject: [*] Caraway Bold
Caraway Bold is a new Type 1 Postscript font that is distinctive,
scaleable, and a pleasure to read! UPPERCASE, lowercase, and
numeric/punctuation chars. included -- Foreign/Special chars.
available. The Author requests a $10 Shareware fee.
Add some spice to your next project!!!
[Archived as /info-mac/font/caraway-bold.hqx; 45K]
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Date: Sun, 14 Apr 91 12:45:25 EDT
From: Johnny Lee <jlee@watnow.waterloo.edu>
Subject: [*] Compactor file format...
A few people keep posting questions on this.
By examining the files Compact Pro produces
I was able to discern the file format which corresponds very
well to the file format which Compactor's authour send out to
developers.
I thought you might want the file containing the file format.
It contains the file format description as given by Compactor's
authour and by me. It doessn't contain info on how to extract
files from Compact Pro archives.
If you decide not to, that's fine with me.
Sorry about the first desciption (from Compact Pro's authour).
Johnny
[Archived as /info-mac/tech/compactor-file-format.txt; 8K]
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Date: Mon, 15 Apr 91 11:01:05 CDT
From: dedrad@arco.com (Randall A DeRuiter (907)263-4951)
Subject: [*] Deprotecting EXCEL Spreadsheet Utility
Here is a small utility I wrote and am posting in reponse to a
request on how to deprotect EXCEL spreadsheets. To my knowledge,
this utility will remove password protection on Excel 2.2
documents, charts, and macros. The utility is free, but I retain the
rights to it. It has been tested successfully on a Mac SE and a Mac II
mostly but should run on anything with system 6.05 and above. The
utility is intended for personal use, I assme no responsibility for the
misuse of it.
[Archived as /info-mac/util/deprotect-excel.hqx; 11K]
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Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1991 19:41:45 EST
From: "George A. Piotrowski Jr." <V2071A@vm.temple.edu>
Subject: [*] Microsoft Works 2.0e Updater.
This is the latest updater utility from Microsoft. It will update all 2.0
versions to 2.0e. I believe that is is only bug fixes. There is a readme
file included in a stuffit archive.
[Archived as /info-mac/app/msworks-20e-updater.hqx; 11K]
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Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1991 8:37:27 CDT
From: DAVE@gerga.tamu.edu (Dave Martin)
Subject: [*] Mind Mines Bomb Search Game
Just downloaded this from America Online. It's just like the
game game/bombs-21.hqx from the archives, except it works only
in 256-color mode and is much smoother in operation. Also a bit
harder, since it doesn't give you anything to start with. The
online help mentions problems with the Mac IIsi and DAs, causing
the game to bomb, and that 6.0.7 may cause similar problems on
other machines, though untested. I've run it on my Mac IIsi at
home with no problems at all.
For those who don't know to point of this game, you have a grid
of squares (configurable as to number of squares each direction)
in which bombs are hidden. Clicking on a blank square reveals
either a bomb (game over) or a number telling you how many of
the surrounding squares contain bombs. The object being to find
all the safe squares without exposing any bombs.
Remember: Requires 8-bit color.
Dave Martin (DAVE@GERGA.TAMU.EDU, AOL: DBM)
[Archived as /info-mac/game/color-bombs.hqx; 64K]
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Date: Thu, 02 May 91 08:17:43 EST
From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL%UCONNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: [*] Murph's VAPORWARE column for May 1991
To: Macintosh Digest <Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
The May column is now in the /digest/ subdirectory at sumex-aim and in
the shadow archives on LISTERV@RICEVM1.Rice.Edu
Those of you who find retrieving the column from the archives inconvenient
may wish to subscribe to info-micro@WSMR-Simtel20.Army.Mil (a digest
also available from the LISTSERV systems as DIST-MIC) It's a low
volumn list (four or five digests a month, usually smaller than a
typical info-mac digest - the column makes it noticeably fatter :-)
[Archived as /digest/vaporware-05-91.txt; 16K]
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Date: Mon, 15 Apr 91 09:32:16 CDT
From: engber@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu (Mike Engber)
Subject: [*] SaveATree 1.5
This is the latest version of SaveATree (1.5). It`s a text file
printing utility designed to conserve paper by printing 2 or 4
pages worth of text on a single page.
noteworthy changes in version 1.5:
- works with the System 7.0 finder drag & drop launching
- background PICTs
- top & left margin control
It`s still freeware. I can be reached at: engber@ils.nwu.edu
-ME
[Archived as /info-mac/util/save-a-tree-15.hqx; 60K]
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Date: Sun, 14 Apr 91 22:05 MDT
From: <FORDJ%BYUVAX.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: [*] SNOWBALL Reference Notes 1.7
The SNOWBALL Reference Notes Background is a research tool which
allows you to flexibly manage the large number of reference notes
that accumulate during any large writing project. Unlike similar
"bibliography" stacks, this tool is designed to support
organization and management of reference notes, rather than
citations.
This tool is "Responseware." You may use it as you wish, but
please do not distribute modified copies. Instead of a shareware
fee, please send me your responses to the enclosed questions about
this tool.
John M. Ford
fordj@yvax.byu.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/card/snowball-ref-notes-17.hqx; 125K]
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Date: Thu, 2 May 1991 08:19 EST
From: Bob Beason <BEASON%GENESEO.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: A/UX whacking...
In answer to your first question about HD under AUX. I ran into the same
problem. The drivers of some manufacturs are not recognized by AUX. The
drive must be reformatted with suitable software. Apple's formater works,
but it only likes Apple HDs. I've heard that there is a ResEdit patch to
the formater that cures this problem, but not seen it. The best alternative
is to use third-party formaters, such as SilverLining, that are recognized
by AUX. I choose the second method and everything works great.
Question 3: A problem that I have encountered is that the EtherNet on
campus is running EtherTalk 1.2, and AUX apparenently (as far as I can
determine) is 2.0. EtherTalk 2.0 cannot see anything that is 1.2
Bob Beason
beason@geneseo.bitnet
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Date: Thu, 2 May 91 18:17:04 CDT
From: traurig@ncavax.decnet.lockheed.com (Scott Traurig/603-885-3408/Lockheed Sanders)
Subject: Adding Color Icons into Fruits-of-Passion
Hi Everyone,
I have been using "Fruits of Passion", a neat cdev
available from sumex that let's you change the apple in the
upper left corner of your screen into other things. It comes
pre-equipped with a number of icons (mostly other fruit), but
I added a skull & cross-bones a la "Robocop II" using
ResEdit.
The problem I am having is that I am migrating from a Mac
SE to a Mac 2si and my great skull & cross-bones icon is no
longer available to me in the "Fruits" list in the control
panel on the 2si. Apparently, only the icons installed with
color resources show up on a color machine - any black &
white ones go missing with this cdev.
Can anyone tell me what I need to do, and with what
tools, to get my skull & cross-bones properly configured with
color resources, or any other way to make them operational
under Fruits of Passion on a 2si in 256 color mode?
Thanks in advance,
Scott (traurig@ncavax.decnet.lockheed.com)
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Date: Thu, 2 May 1991 10:57:48 -0600
From: j-norstad@nwu.edu (John Norstad)
Subject: Disinfectant and HyperCard Viruses
hoepfner@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov (Patrick Hoepfner) writes:
>According to a recent MacWEEK John Norstand (author of Disinfectant) has
>no plans to update Disinfectant to take care of this virus. This is
>partially do to the fact that any competant HyperCarder can modify this
>virus so that it will not be found by the scanning for a particular string
>of characters.
>
>John is not alone, according to the same article, Jeff S. (the author of
>Virus Detective, a shareware product) has no plans to update his product
>either.
I think that Henry Norr must have gotten this information from Jeff. As I
told Henry, the reason that I'm not updating Disinfectant for the new
HyperCard virus is because Disinfectant was not designed to handle
application-specific viruses which spread via the application scripting
languages. These are radically different kinds of viruses from the "normal"
ones Disinfectant was designed to recognize. Adding detection and repair of
these kinds of viruses to Disinfectant would be a major project, and I
don't have the time or energy to do it right now (if ever).
This is not the first HyperCard virus - there was one quite a long time ago
named the "Dukakis" virus which is very similar to the new one.
Disinfectant doesn't recognize the Dukakis virus either.
I believe that the major commercial anti-viral packages either already
handle the new HyperCard virus, or will soon (SAM, Virex, and Rival). I
believe that there have also been some free stacks/programs posted on the
nets that attempt to deal with it.
Please don't ask me for more details - I'm not a HyperCard expert, I
haven't studied the new virus in any detail, and I haven't looked at any of
the stuff I mentioned in the previous paragraph, so I don't feel competent
to give advice.
John Norstad
Academic Computing and Network Services
Northwestern University
j-norstad@nwu.edu
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Date: 3 May 91 02:56:59 GMT
From: justin@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (Justin Ridge)
Subject: Displaying GIFs
I wish to be able to display GIF files on a mac - I'm new to this game!!
Can anybody give me a few tips?
I think I need a utility called QuickGIF. Can anyone Email me a copy, or direct me to it?
Many thanks,
justin@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au
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Date: Thu, 02 May 91 11:43:05 PLT
From: Joshua Yeidel <YEIDEL@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu>
Subject: Ethernet vs. Token-Ring
>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.
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Date: Thu, 2 May 1991 09:13 -0500
From: PERCIVAL@ecs.umass.edu
Subject: Filemaster DA
Dear Stanford,
Do you know what is wrong with the Filemaster DA? I downloaded it, and BinHex
decoded it using Stuffit, but I couldn't unstuffit. The file came up as a document icon
and I viewed it, but it was all control characters etc. If you have a good copy of the
DA could you replace it in the archive and email me at sherer@ecs.umass.edu
Thanks Todd Sherer
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Date: Thu, 2 May 91 10:13 EDT
From: Rick Lesniak <LESNIAK%UBVMS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: GatorBox and PS/2's?
Hello net,
We are adding a GatorBox gateway to ethernet to our AppleTalk
network so that we can all use TCP/IP stuff to communicate, e.g. Telnet.
Unfortunately, we have a handful of PS/2's using appletalk cards which
also reside on the network (administrative guys, can't be helped).
My question is: "Does anyone have any experience or know of a
PS/2 DOS based product which will allow the PC's to communicate on
Appletalk through the GatorBox just like the Mac's?"
Please respond to me directly. I will summarize for the net.
Thanks in advance for your assistance.
Rick Lesniak
lesniak@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu
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Date: Thu, 02 May 91 11:23:02 PLT
From: Joshua Yeidel <YEIDEL@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu>
Subject: GCC For Macintosh
I seem to remember that Richard Stallman (the head Gnu)
has repeatedly refused to
do anything for the Mac by way of protesting Apple's hyper-proprietary
(from his perspectinve) software policies.
-- Joshua Yeidel, not speaking for WSU
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Date: Thu, 2 May 1991 09:38 -0500
From: SHERER@ecs.umass.edu
Subject: HPGL->Postscript or PCL->Postscript for Mac, IBM or UNIX
Does anyone know of a software package (shareware or costware) that does misc.
graphics translations like HPGL->PS or PCL->PS? I would prefer to have it for the
macintosh, but I have access to a IBM and HP-Unix machine also. I called HP and
Adobe regarding this question but neither were able to give me a name or address
for such a package. Is there a ftp address that might have such a translator?
Thanks in advance. email me at sherer@ecs.umass.edu
Todd Sherer-University of Massachusetts
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Date: Thu, 2 May 91 18:56:05 EDT
From: joseph@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Seymour Joseph)
Subject: I-M V9 #93 (Multiple Serial Port Boards)
Alberto,
Applied Engineering in Carrolton Texas makes a multiport Nubus card
for the Macintosh II series. I have an old phone number of (214)
241-6069 for them.
Seymour
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Date: Thu, 2 May 1991 7:08:40 CDT
From: DAVE@gerga.tamu.edu (Dave Martin)
Subject: INIT managers
Howdy. No, not another Apple-scorcher today ;). I was wondering which
of the various INIT managers (PD, ShareWare, Commercial) allow you to
change the loading order of the INITs without renaming them (i.e. --
don't put a non-printing character in front of the INIT filename to
set the load order). Thanks!
Dave Martin
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Date: 3 May 91 02:54:17 GMT
From: 6600dayl@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Darryl "NOT Sara" Lee)
Subject: Mac IIsi speed
In digest <9105020118.AA23895@sumex-aim.stanford.edu> David Schwartz <DSCHWART%UMAB.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> writes:
>Please pardon my ignorance; I am a relative newcomer to the Mac.
>My problem is this: I have noticed a significant difference in
>speed between a Mac IIx with 4Mb of RAM and my new IIsi with 3Mb
>of RAM. The IIsi is definitely slower in all applications.
>My questions: Will the addition of the math coprocessor speed the IIsi
>to IIx pace or better? Is the video board possibly making the new
>machine run more slowly? Even though my apps run well within the
>3Mb, would more memory help? Am I correct in assuming that this 20MHz
>machine should run more quickly than the 15.7MHz IIx?
sigh...i wish i had thought about this before i bought MY 2si.
anyways, to the questions at hands. a math coprocessor would probably
only speed up the 2si if you're going to be using math intensive
programs like excel, etc. And actually, if your spreadsheet doesn't
have any functions more complex than +-/* it probably won't make that
much of a difference at all. If that sounds like you, just get a
great cdev called SoftwareFPU (it was on...um...sumex-aim.stanford.
edu, or maybe mac.archive.umich.edu). What it does is let you run
stuff that assumes you have a FPU (since you've got an '030
processor)... this includes Excel 2.x (i'm not sure whether they fixed
it in the 2.x versions), and another handy init (totally unrelated)
called Laserfix.
In answer to the question about the video board. You hit the nail
right on the proverbial head. The si, like the ci, has built-in video.
While this sounds like a great thing on advertisements, brochures and
the like (yes, i was taken in), it means SLOW SLOW SLOW for
color-intensive work. Try it in b&w and enjoy the speed of 20MHz.
Better yet, get the way cool fKey named Switcheroo (available on both
of the aforementioned ftp archives) v.1.6 (well, i'm not sure what's
the lowest version that works, but 1.6 works for me) and let your
shift-command-whatever keys do the work, instead of having to go to
the control panel. It's darned convenient when i'm working on
illustrator to be able to move semi-fast in b&w keyline mode, then get
a preview and switch to color/greyscale.
your si came with THREE megs?? aw man... yet again, apple has screwed
the eager customer. oh well, nothing new...they screw all their
customers with overpriced pieces... (kinda makes you think--"dang, i could've
had a 2x!!".....oh, sorry, this isn't comp.sys.mac.rant.and.rave.about.
how.badly.apple.rips.offs.its.customers.by.not.opening.its.
architecture. (so that i could say, "Dang, i could've had a mac
clone!!")
:)
good luck....sorry i ramble so much...
Darryl Lee
6600dayl@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu
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Date: 2 May 91 8:37 -0500
From: "C.M. Cho" <ccho@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Subject: Memories...
Hi! I have two questions regarding memory on the IIsi.
In the two big Mac magazines in the past it has been
mentioned that maximum memory is 17 MB. But after
seeing the call for clean ROM upgrades for older Macs
so that they can access 128 MB, couldn't the si also
access 128 MB? If I'm not mistaken it has 32-bit clean
ROM. What am I missing here?
Next question: I upgraded from 2 MB to 5 MB, and since
I work a lot with color I wanted to see whether the extra
memory would help the speed. As far as I can tell, nope.
I was under the impression that the video memory was
restricted to the permanent bank, so that upgrading the
other bank would help since now less than half the
memory would be involved. If this isn't true, anyone
why it wasn't done like that? It's not fatally slow
by any means (not compared to my beloved old Fat Mac!)
but it is noticable.
Thanks in advance!
Connie K. Cho
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Date: Thu, 2 May 91 13:50:57 EDT
From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@pica.army.mil>
Subject: Multiple public folders ]
>The Public Folder Release Notes dated 9/20/89 claim that you can have more
>than one public folder. I haven't been able to get it to work.
>
>Does anyone have experience with more than one public folder?
>
Yes.
>Please reply directly; I don't get to see every posting on ths list.
>
Create multiple copies of public folder. Public #1, Public #2, Public #3,
for instance. Put all of them in your system folder. Go to the Chooser and
select Public #1. Click on Customize. For Public Folder Location, put the
name of the folder you wish to make public. Follow the docs for PF to make
sure you do this correctly. For the folder's network name, give it the name
you wish your "clients" to see, say Public #1 (original, huh?). Do this for
Public #2, and Public #3. Reboot and you should have 3 public folders up
and running.
>Many thanks.
>
tom coradeschi <+> tcora@pica.army.mil
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Date: Thu, 02 May 91 17:43:41 BST
From: Ciaran O'Rourke <SCP23021%IRTCCARL.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Obscure virus problem (I think) with a Mac SE...
Hi,
I recently had a curious experience wiht my Mac SE (by 'curious' I mean
totally innocent and above board, honest :-) ) I clicked on my hard disk icon
and, for no apparent reason,the label for the hard disk changed from 'SE/240'
to '-'. Then, as I sat there watching it, the name expanded out to '--------'
(I'm NOT making this up :-) ) Finally, the system displayed an error message
which read something like 'The volume/disk could not be renamed (Unknown error
)'
I had Virex INIT 1.7 installed, this did not register any viruses when the
Mac was starting up. Repeated checks with the Virex 2.7 application since have
failed to reveal anything. One funny after-effect was that the hard disk icon,
which had been displayed like a globe, changed to the standard hard disk icon
(the symbol that looks like a diamond with a '-' inserted into it). The Facade
init, which I think was responsible for the globe icon, is still loading
successfully at startup but the hard disk icon has not changed back to what
it should be.
I wonder if anyone has had any similar experiences or could anyone point
me in the direction of up-to-date virus software. Thanks,
Ciaran O'Rourke
<SCP23021@IRTCCARL>
As a postscript, here's a list of my system spec and the inits I'm using:
Macintosh SE with 40Mb hard disk and 2048K of RAM
Finder 6.1
System 6.0.2
Virex Init 1.7
M0ire cdev screen saver
hier DA
Facade
OnCue
SFVol Init 1.1
Suitcase II 1.2.3
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Date: 2 May 91 16:13:00 EST
From: "MICHAEL R. ROMAN" <mikero@lns61.tn.cornell.edu>
Subject: scrabble
Does anyone know about a Scrabble game that runs under system 6.0.x? The
Scrabble available from Virgin Mastertronics (a port from PC's, I think)
runs under System 5.x only, and they have no plans to make it runnable
under later operating systems. A real bummer for LC owners...
Mike Roman, mikero@lns61.tn.cornell.edu
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Date: Thu, 02 May 91 10:23:05 SDT
From: Christoph Reichenberger <Reichenberger%EDVZ.UNI-Linz.AC.AT@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Spooler for StyleWriter
Hi out there,
does anybody know something about a spooler supporting the new
style writer?(commercial or share/free/anyother-ware)
Please answer either to the list or directly to
Ch. Reichenberger--K331670@ALIJKU11 or christoph@soft.uni-linz.ac.at
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Date: Thu, 02 May 91 15:01:11 CDT
From: Joe Stevens <S101807@umrvma.umr.edu>
Subject: stuffit
Does anyone out there know how to determine what the password is
for a stuffit archive? i have some old archives that i made with
stuffit classic 1.5.1 and i have since forgotten the password.
can anyone tell me where i might find this information, or should
i just trash the archives...
reply to : S101807@umrvma.bitnet or S101807@umrvma.umr.edu
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Date: Thu, 2 May 91 09:02 MET
From: "A.L. SMIT" <SMIT%CABO.AGRO.nl@cunyvm.cuny.edu>
Subject: Word files PC <> MAC
Hello netters,
Is it possible to keep the style sheet when moving a Word-file from PC to
the MAC and back! with Apple File Exchange?
>From PC to the MAC everything is all right
But the way back (MAC to PC) the Word file (saved as Word for DOS) loses it's
stylesheet. Am I doing something wrong?
Bert Smit
SMIT@CABO.AGRO.NL
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Date: Thu, 02 May 91 11:09:44 EDT
From: Lee Hartley <N640027@univscvm.csd.scarolina.edu>
One of the secretarys at work has experienced a problem with Word 4.
When she opens the ruler - there is a system failure with ID 4. I
replaced the Word files but she still has the same problem. According
to her there have been no changes to the material on the hard drive
before the problem started.
If you load an old file the ruler works - if you have a new screen and
access the ruler you get a crash.
Any suggestions on how to deal with the situation. She is using a Plus
with a generic hard drive.
My only thought is to replace the system files.
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