info-mac-request@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (The Moderators) (04/07/91)
Info-Mac Digest Sat, 6 Apr 91 Volume 9 : Issue 81
Today's Topics:
[*] ButtonKey
[*] Panasonic printer driver
[*] The Vertebrate World Stack Series
[*] Virtus WalkDemo.hqx
Address request
Apple/mac/ibm hardware compatibility
Comm on Apple Talk. Thanks!
communications software
FONT <--> NFNT
GIFS!!
HyperGlot, What's going on? [Read problems]
Internet Info stack
LC & VGA Monitors
Mac Bridge Programs
MasterFinder
Polski Font
Re-entrant for Virtual memory
SE --> SE/30 Upgrade How much?
SIMMs and Apple's Warranty
Stark Raving: backup programs
stylewriter follow-up
StyleWriter Margins
System 7, will this bring my SE to a crawl?
True tabs (Programming question)
Using FDHD drives in old model Macs.
where is file-paths?
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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 91 19:23:50 GMT
From: jeremyr@cs.qmw.ac.uk
Subject: [*] ButtonKey
ButtonKey 1.0
Enclosed is a little INIT which lets you work many dialog buttons from the
keyboard (just like Windows :-)). I find it quite handy (but then, I wrote
it).
Shareware, $15
[Archived as /info-mac/init/button-key.hqx; 30K]
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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 91 20:51:42 cst
From: roach@cs.wisc.edu (Charles Rentmeesters)
Subject: [*] Panasonic printer driver
The following is a Chooser Device/ Printer Driver for using
a Panasonic 9-pin printer ( 1080, 1091, 1092... ) with the
machintosh that I wrote. Please put it in the info-mac section
of sumex-aim.stanford.edu if interested.
Thank You,
Charles Rentmeesters
roach@khan.cs.wisc.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/util/panasonic-printer-driver.hqx; 21K]
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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 91 23:49:58 MST
From: EPETERS%CSUGREEN.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu (Eric L. Peters: Radiol. & Rad. Biol., CSU)
Subject: [*] The Vertebrate World Stack Series
Hello All:
This is an announcement for a prototype version of 'The Vertebrate
World', a HyperCard 2.0 stack series that I am developing as a
teaching aid. I have sent some earlier versions to a number of you,
but because of the growing size of the stacks (as well as the number
of requests), I am posting this version to the archives. You will
need StuffIt Classic 1.6 or StuffIt Deluxe to decompress these
stacks.
'The Vertebrate World' will be a series of (at least) seven stacks,
each covering a class of vertebrates. The stacks will contain
descriptions (e.g. taxonomy, physical characteristics), geographical
distribution, and ecological and behavioral information. Each stack
will have dozens to thousands of pictures, as well as range maps and
sounds (e.g., bird and frog calls) for many of the species. In this
version, I have included representatives from five of these classes:
bony fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. Please note
that these contain only a few species each! Needless to say, the
final product will require distribution on CD-ROM, but I hope to have
the final version sufficiently compartmentalized to permit portions
of the final project copied onto other media such as hard disk
drives. I would also like the user to be able to pick and choose
individual cards to create custom 'lessons'. In this spirit, I am
uploading the stacks as individual files. Each stack is self-
contained, and contains all the important handlers in the stack script
(those of you stackheads who are not biologists can therefore download
only one stack if you are curious as to how it works). If you do not
download the entire set, however, you will obviously not be able to
transfer to the missing stacks. You should also know that because
most of the pictures are in color or greyscale, they are nearly
indistinguishable on a one-bit screen: use a color or at least a
four-bit greyscale monitor.
For those that have been keeping in touch with the development thus
far, I have made a number of substantial changes, and I have now
improved the stack to the point where I feel I have an adequate
prototype to use for demonstrations. The next step is to try and
obtain some funding for the tools I need to continue (any suggestions
in this area would be appreciated).
Besides the picture XCMD scripts that I worked out with the aid of
your generous suggestions, the features of this stack are:
1) A custom control palette to change stacks, as well as to navigate
within a stack. The class Agnatha is represented by the icon on the
far left of the bottom row of the control palette by what (I hope) is
obviously a lamprey attached to a fish. Using the FrontWindow XCMD
(included with the stacks) prevents the control palette from being
trapped behind the picture window when changing cards.
2) I have also added the showList XFCN from the Apple Power Tools
stack, and used it to display alphabetized lists of species. You can
use these lists to locate any animal in the stack by scientific or
common name. At present, these lists can be updated using the 'Update'
button as new cards are added, but this will not be necessary when
the project is completed (as the list information can be stored in
hidden fields). I therefore plan to remove the buttons that activate
these handlers from the list dialogs at that time.
3) There are some sample menus (only two so far, however).
One moves you from stack to stack (optionally using Command-#,
where # is a number from 1-7. The menu item that corresponds to
the class of vertebrates you are currently viewing also has a
checkmark. The Help menu items still do not work except for the
HyperCard help command. You will need to type Command-Q to quit.
4) I have added two range maps to the stack (for the turtles), and
they can be displayed by clicking on the 'Geographical Distribution'
field for each species. Clicking on the map or anywhere on the card
background (not in a field or the control palette) makes them go away
again (as does changing cards). I have also added four bird calls, and
two big cat roars that correspond to the appropriate species in the bird
and mammal stacks. I have also included one frog call (played when the
amphibian stack is opened). Both the map and the sound commands are
generic, i.e., they only work when a certain text string is present in
the appropriate field.
5) There are also a number of custom resources (including version
resources for the 'Get Info' box in the Finder) that I'll leave to
you to discover.
I hope you find these worthwhile. Please feel free to pass along any
suggestions you may have as to the content and interface design. I
would also be most appreciative of any donations of graphics (especially
color, any format) and sounds you might like to make.
Thanks again for all of your help in the construction so far,
Eric L. Peters
elpeters@LAMAR.COLOSTATE.EDU
[Archived as /info-mac/card/vertebrate-world-fish.hqx; 181K
/info-mac/card/vertebrate-world-amphibians.hqx; 167K
/info-mac/card/vertebrate-world-reptiles.hqx; 166K
/info-mac/card/vertebrate-world-birds.hqx; 293K
/info-mac/card/vertebrate-world-mammals.hqx; 187K]
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Date: Fri, 5 Apr 91 1:21:51 EST
From: bhuttam@spruce.ulowell.edu (Muhammad Bhutta)
Subject: [*] Virtus WalkDemo.hqx
As my first submission to sumex-aim, here is demo version of Virtus
WalkThrough, used for "computer-aided visualization for spatial design,"
which MacUser called breakthrough product of the year. I believe it is
compatible with all Macs, though I have used it only on a Plus and SE.
Unless you have the luxuary of a math coprocessor, the real-time
walk-thorugh is slow for complicated models, so stick with the simpler
models. To my knowledge, is works in Color as well as B&W monitors.
Oh, by the way, I have no relation with Virtus Corporation, other than
being an impressed demo user whos unable to afford the real thing. :-)
[File as Virtus-WalkDemo.sea.hqx; 230 K]
Bilal A. Bhutta
[Archived as /info-mac/demo/walk-through.hqx; 217K]
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Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1991 16:48:18 CST
From: DAVE@gerga.tamu.edu (Dave Martin)
Subject: Address request
Can anyone tell me how to address mail from the internet to this address:
cs.utexas.edu!halley!twb
I'm trying to get a message to Tom Bereiter (Image Catalog 1.03) and this
is the only address I've got, with no idea how to get it there.
Please respond directly to me. Thanks alot!
Dave Martin (DAVE@GERGA.TAMU.EDU / BROOKS@TAMVXOCN.BITNET)
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Date: Thu, 4 Apr 91 03:12:14 -0500 (EST)
From: "H. Scott Matthews" <hm0i+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Apple/mac/ibm hardware compatibility
A friend of mine has a PC and an apple IIGS.
Some questions:
Can he use his imagewriter 2 with the IBM, and if so, how?
Can he use his IIgs monitor with his PC?
He has the PC at work, and the GS at home. He wants to be able to just
get a PC CPU at home and use the old monitor and printer...
Please let me know via e-mail...
scott
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Date: Thu, 4 Apr 91 16:02 N
From: "jordi@sc2a.unige.ch ==> S. Jordi, Geneva, Switzerland" <JORDI%sc2a.unige.ch@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Comm on Apple Talk. Thanks!
Thanks to each of you who have replied to my query about communication
with Apple Talk.
The solution resides in using Broadcast 1.2 and Public Folder.
Thanks to everybody.
Steve Jordi, Univ. Of Geneva, Switzerland
jordisc2a.unige.ch
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Date: Fri, 05 Apr 91 11:28:06 CST
From: ECPKLINE%UMCVMB.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: communications software
hello netters
I am interested in finding a communications software package
that is shareware, that supports keyboard mapping, scripting
autoscripting and a variety of protocals (kermit, x-modem, y-modem,
and z-modem). I have looked at red ryder 9.2 but I am notsure that
9.2 is the latest version. I currently use MacKermit for my local ^
university mainframe and Term Plus for other BBSs. I am not afraid
of complexity, I just want power. Please e-mail any suggestions to
me directly, I will summarize.
thanks ahead of time.
Jeff Kline
ecpkline@umcvmb.missouri.edu
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Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1991 14:44 GMT+1
From: FRICCI%ITOPOLI.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: FONT <--> NFNT
In IM V9 #76, Erik Johnson writes:
>back what applications can edit NFNTs, and the only positive reponse said (if
>I remember correctly) that Fontographer could edit NFNTs. But since
If I remember correctly, Fontastic too can edit NFNTs. And it doesn't cost as
much as Fontographer.
>how fonts work on the Mac. According to IM-IV-42, the FONTs and NFNTs have
>identical resource formats, so I used ResEdit 2.x to do edit my FONTs and
*IF* it's true, then who wants to convert existing NFNT fonts to FONT format for
editing, has to do this:
- "Open General" with ResEdit you NFNT resource, copy everything, then close,
make a new FONT resource, paste.
OR:
- With a file editing utility such as FEdit, change all occurences of 'NFNT' in
the resource fork of the file to 'FONT'.
Hope this helps,
Alberto Ricci.
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Date: Wed, 3 Apr 91 17:42 CST
From: <SC05212%SWTEXAS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: GIFS!!
Hi Guys!!
I am looking for an algorithm ofor a GIF Converter. Since I only have a
Plus.. I am forced to use GIF Converter which is having a few problems reading
some of the gifs I download. I suspect Subtle differences in the Mac and IBM
GIF readers, and I'm going to try and write an program to bridge these gaps for
Plus or better users [Sorry 512E or worse guys..]. I am starting with the
standards in the archives.. and will work from there if I have to.. but I hope
to at least get an Alogorithm to work from.
Thanks all, Sean Chitwood
SC05212@swtexas
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Date: Thu, 4 Apr 91 20:52 EST
From: <SZAWASKY%WHEATNMA.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: HyperGlot, What's going on? [Read problems]
Hello All,
I'm working in a Language Lab in a small liberal arts college. We
received money to upgrade our lab some time ago. One of the things they did
here was to buy a IIx. Eventually they also got a CD ROM.
The 'heart' of our Mac language software is HyperGlot from the
'Lingua ROM'. We bought a CD with the entire library of HyperGlot software
on it.
Now things have changed. Our mac is running 6.0.5 (.7 crashed every
attempt it made to make a sound) with HyperCard 2.0. The visual effects work
incolor now and every thing seems to be ok, but it isn't.
There are several problems with this system.
* The Lingua ROM cannot be used like a disk, all of the stacks *MUST*
be copied a read/write media! The CD is only good as some sort of
backup, and archive if you will.
* When you do get fresh copies from the CD, you have to convert them
to 2.0.
* The "fresh" copies have bugs! One Russian stack prints all of its
sentances in the wrong font! [actually the whole 7 stack series
does this]
* Some of the Spanish stacks contain an XCMD that crashes
* At some arbitrary time the Stacks just decide to stop playing
sounds. This is usually when someone important comes to see the
system, and we try to show off the great sound capabilities.
* Other Spanish stacks don't even run. Somehow they get corrupted.
"fresh" copies usually fixes this, but I really think I shouldn't
have to do this continually.
Plus many more things that just don't come to mind now. We have not
been able to sit down and make a comprehensive list of the bugs because they
are so inconsistant, and there are so many stacks (60 Megs on our Hard Drive,
plus more on the CD that we have decided not to make instantly available).
Is there anyone out there who is having similar problems?
Is it HyperCard 2.0?
Are there upgrades for the HyperGlot Stacks? Why haven't we been
notified?
Are these people hiring? I could really show them a thing or two on
how to make a stack much neater and much more efficient.
Please Respond even if you just have a couple of stacks, reassure me, tell me
its not just me. I'll summarize to the net. Thanks.
-Spencer
SZawasky@WheatnMA
BitNet
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Date: Wed, 03 Apr 91 22:09:33 CST
From: GA0095%SIUCVMB.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu (Robert J. Brenstein)
Subject: Internet Info stack
I have seen on America Online a stack providing information about
Internet to new users. It has apparently been developed by people
who run NSFNet. It is a fairly large stack hence I could not afford
downloading it from AOL (I call there long distance). Does anybody
has it and can upload to sumex archives? I am sure it will be of
interest to many people here.
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Date: Thu, 04 Apr 91 11:46:24 CST
From: Graeme Forbes <PL0BALF@vm.tcs.tulane.edu>
Subject: LC & VGA Monitors
I will be taking my LC to Scotland for a month and it looks as if the
Nutmeg flat screen won't be available in time, so I'll have to buy a
monitor over there and store it there for future trips. The Apple
12" mono goes for about 120 pounds with ed discount, but I also understand
that the LC video circuitry can drive VGA monitors from the PC world.
Does anyone have more information about this?
Also, does anyone know anything about a carrying case for the LC box and
keyboard?
Graeme Forbes
PL0BALF@TCSVM
PL0BALF@VM.TCS.TULANE.EDU
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Date: Thu, 4 Apr 91 09:48:46 +0800
From: dlamet@claven.idbsu.edu
Subject: Mac Bridge Programs
Dear Netters,
Yesterday a friend asked me about programs for
Macs that play bridge (the card game). After
finding none at Info-Mac, I am asking for help!
Can any of you tell me if there are Mac Bridge
programs - PD or Commercial. What do you use, and
what are the pros & cons.
I would appreciate any comments, and I would be
pleased to post a summary, if there were
sufficient interest.
My net address is: dlamet@claven.idbsu.edu
My thanks for your help, in advance.
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Date: Wed, 03 Apr 91 19:20:27 PST
From: Michael O'Henly <LUX@uvvm.uvic.ca>
Subject: MasterFinder
If you're a DiskTop user, run - don't walk - to your phone and order Tactic
Software's demo of MasterFinder. This utility does the entire DT bag of tricks
plus quite a bit more. For example, it includes a complete disk cataloguing
facility so that you can create a database (like FileList) of offline disks.
The DT-like functions are incredible: DT takes 22 sec. to FIND all the Word
documents on my system - MF takes 5 sec. MF will read an entire AppleTalk net-
work and display up to four zones in four scrolling windows. These scrolling
windows also come into play for file management - you can display a source
folder in one and target folders in the others (ending the tiresome back-and-
forth that DT puts you through). MF has a "alias" facility for launching doc-
ments with substitute applications (i.e., opening MacWrite files with Word).
One thing I like about MF is that it pays attention to changes in the
Desktop file. For instance, if you expand a Compactor file, MF senses the
change in the Desktop and updates its display of the current folder immediately
- unlike DT wich forces you to exit the folder and then reenter to refresh its
display.
I've only spent an evening looking at the demo, so I can't vouch for Master-
Finder's bugfreeness - but I'm really impressed with what I've seen.
The demo arrived today (April 3) and wouldn't run until I set the clock back
to before March 31. (It's full-featured but set to die on March 31.) The nor-
mal list price is $99 - probably much less by mail-order. They had it on sale
for $45 until March 31 ($30 with the cover of a competing product) - perhaps
they'll offer a bit of leeway on the dates... Even at $99, it strikes me as
being a better value than DiskTop by a long shot...
Tactic Software
11925 Southwest 128 Street
Miami, FL 33186
USA
(305) 378-4110 Tech. Support
(800) 344-4818 Sales
(305) 232-7467 Fax
Michael O'Henly
McPherson Library, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., Canada.
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Date: Thu, 4 Apr 91 20:35 EST
From: <SZAWASKY%WHEATNMA.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Polski Font
Dear Mac Foriegn language specialist (or dabblers),
I would like to get a hold on a public domain, or shareware Polish
Font. I have seen this mentioned a couple of times on the list, but I never
heard anything of it.
Could those people who posted before drope me a line and let me know
what you came up with?
Thank you all.
Spencer
SZawasky@WheatnMA
BitNet
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Date: Wed, 3 Apr 91 21:43:26 CST
From: Your friendly neighbourhood Lab GTA <chai@hawk.cs.ukans.edu>
Subject: Re-entrant for Virtual memory
J>Well I found out from others people's comments and from personal experience (I
J>got a hold of 7.0b4) that the virtual feature of 7.0 will work with all hard
J>disks that have been formatted with a driver that is "re-entrant" because it
J>needs be called from the low-level VM code when a page
J>must be read in. As far as i've been able to find out La Cie's Silverlining
J>and OnTrack's Disk Manager Mac v 2.24 will do. La Cie's driver will also work
J>on 45mb removable drives, there's also a file available on Compuserve that
J>allows virtual memory (for sys 7.0b4) to be used from a 45Mb removable.
Does anyone know if Diversified i/o software is re-entrant? All my HDs
are formatted with it...
Ian Chai
Internet: chai@cs.ukans.edu
Bitnet: 2fntnougat@ukanvax
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Date: Thu, 4 Apr 91 21:02 EST
From: <SZAWASKY%WHEATNMA.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: SE --> SE/30 Upgrade How much?
The subject says it all, how much would it cost (with educational discount)
to get my SE upgraded?
What would happen anyway? Aren't SE/30's really quite differenly arranged
inside?
-Spencer
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Date: 3 Apr 91 15:14:00 MST
From: "5268 Spires, Shannon V." <svspire@sandia.gov>
Subject: SIMMs and Apple's Warranty
In v9-79, Steve Greenfield <FEATS%VTVM1.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu> asks:
> I have a cousin who has worked for Apple, the last couple of years,
> on MACs. I asked him, "if I upgrade my IIsi from 2MB to 5MB will I
> void my 1-year warrenty?" He said, "You can install these yourself
> (SIMMS) and the warrenty will still be intact!" I asked the salesman
> at the bookstore, on Saturday, the same question and he said that if
> I put anything that was non-Apple in the machine, the warrenty would
> be null and void! Who do I believe? If I can upgrade myself, how can
> I get verification of that fact? I don't want to lose my warrenty! !
> ! Thanks for any information!
You will absolutely, positively NOT void your Apple warranty simply
by installing extra memory. Remember that computer salesmen are
pretty near the bottom of the food chain as information resources
go. The case of the IIsi was intended by Apple to be opened by end
users so they could install extra stuff, chiefly boards (both Apple
and non-Apple brand). Apple would prefer that you get a real
computer technician to install extra memory, since this is a bit
trickier than installing boards, but they WILL NOT void your
warranty if you do it yourself, unless you start hitting the
motherboard with a hammer or something during the operation. The
chief problem with installing memory yourself is the danger that you
might fry your SIMMs by not being careful about static electricity.
If you install non-Apple SIMMs (a wise idea, since Apple SIMMs are
exactly like everybody else's except that they cost three times as
much) the SIMMs themselves will not be warranted by Apple, of course
(they will be guaranteed by the memory vendor) but installing them
yourself will not void the warranty on the rest of the machine. I
don't know where you should go to get this in writing, but you might
start by calling Apple's new end-user help line, the number of which
should have been included in the documentation with your IIsi.
Perhaps some other reader can post this number?
--
Shannon Spires
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
Internet: SVSPIRE@SANDIA.GOV
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Date: Wed, 3 Apr 91 21:45:29 CST
From: Your friendly neighbourhood Lab GTA <chai@hawk.cs.ukans.edu>
Subject: Stark Raving: backup programs
sr>HFS Backup is one of the nicest backup programs that I have seen
sr>as far as interface and directory displaying and printing are
sr>concerned. It writes files in an archive format, not in Finder
sr>format, and is allows absolute selection of any mix of files. It
sr>lacks one thing,though, and that is compression. Thus, my new
sr>favorite is MacTools Backup. Nice interface (better in color),
sr>lots of disk options, can backup to tapes, and does an almost 50%
sr>compression. All that, and it is PART of MacTools. For $50,
sr>it is a great package deal, even if you only use FileEdit and
sr>Backup.
Well, actually, MacTools Backup's tape option currently only works
with Apple's tape drive. I have a TEAC and so I wrote to their tech
support about it and they said that they're working on a version that
will support the better tape systems as well, but it's not ready yet.
Hope it gets ready before my stuff exceeds 150 meg (I've got 170M of
disk space) as the software that came with the TEAC machine doesn't
do compression and the tapes hold 150 meg.
Ian Chai Internet: chai@cs.ukans.edu
Bitnet: 2fntnougat@ukanvax
----- End of forwarded messages
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Date: Thu, 4 Apr 91 08:54 EST
From: NEUBURG@campus.swarthmore.edu
Subject: stylewriter follow-up
The following are addenda and corrigenda to my report of a couple issues
back on the Stylewriter:
* A number of people have asked whether it is international. It is. It comes
ready to accept A4 paper, and the power supply is said to run off foreign
current.
* I have not had any difficulty with ink smearing or the like. So far.
* The problem I reported with the letters possessing a visible wiggle in the
middle was alleviated by our on-campus repair service, who, after a great
deal of thought and testing (it was the first stylewriter they had had to
look at!), decided it was the ink cartridge, and they replaced this free.
At $15+ a pop, it is going to be a very bad thing if some of these are
defective. The cartridge contains not only ink but also a microchip brain;
I have no idea just what was causing the problem, though. In any case,
the moral is: all ink cartridges may not be created equal...
* Someone commented on this net that the printing of screen fonts looked poor
on the stylewriter. Actually the situation is worse than this. I have some
documents in Monaco 9 in which the *columnization* is important, that is,
I am counting on the spaces and letters to be all exactly the same width
so that I can use the spaces to set up columns. On the stylewriter, though,
my columns wander over the page. Evidently something is wrong with its
method of adapting/interpreting Monaco 9, and it no longer comes out as
true monospace. You can solve the problem by converting to Courier, which
exists in a TrueType version and comes out perfectly, but it is darned
annoying all the same.
* When I mentioned background printing, I was talking through my hat (actually
just repeating something someone else had said over this net). I have *not*
found any way to do background printing with a stylewriter.
* Final, theoretical note: a great advantage of the stylewriter is its
tremendous *simplicity*. This was commented on with some awe by the people
in our on-campus repair service. It basically has only two moving parts, the
mechanisms for rolling the paper and for moving the print head back and forth,
respectively; the actual ink-squirting is done by the brain inside the
ink cartridge. Contrast the imagewriter, which is famous for its insane
complexity.
--usual disclaimer etc... matt neuburg = neuburg@campus.swarthmore.edu
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Date: Thu, 4 Apr 91 19:48 CDT
From: Kyle Griffin -- DMLVR <KG0041A@acad.drake.edu>
Subject: StyleWriter Margins
I have a question about the StyleWriter margins. What are the maximum
margins you can print on one at the top, bottom, and on the edges?
And how well does it print to those margins? Does the quality fade
at all as you get near the bottom/top?
--Kyle Griffin
--Prospective Buyer
--Kg0041a@Drake.Edu
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Date: Thu, 4 Apr 91 20:59 EST
From: <SZAWASKY%WHEATNMA.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: System 7, will this bring my SE to a crawl?
Hello again,
Does anyone know if Apple and its developing team has tried to engineer
system 7 so that it doesn't bring my poor little SE to a crawl?
My impression of the world of software development is that features,
and gadgets far outweight the simple, fast, minimalist ideas.
Will I really long to have system 4 back?
Thanks,
Spencer
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Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1991 19:11:30 GMT+0200
From: JM CORTES <EPARI@etsii.unizar.es>
Subject: True tabs (Programming question)
I need a source for C or Pascal (or any others) language that implements
a text editor with true tabs (like common editors).
I use THINK C 4.0.2 - with object extensions - and TCL. Then, I like to make
a subclass of CEditText with this feature. I would submit it to the list
if I get this.
Thanx in advance.
-- JM CORTES<EPARI@etsii.unizar.es> // Univ.Zaragoza SPAIN/EUROPE
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Date: Thu, 04 Apr 91 13:38:56 CST
From: "Juan M. Courcoul" <COURCOUL%VMTECQRO.qro.itesm.mx@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Using FDHD drives in old model Macs.
Howdy,
Is it possible to use a FDHD external SuperDrive connected to an old model
Mac (Plus, SE) and still be able to read MS-DOS disks ?
I tried the above, using a Mac SE, with system 6.0.7, and was able to
read/write normal 400 & 800 k Mac diskettes, but couldn't even recognize
730 k or 1.44 m DOS diskettes (yes, the 1.44 DID have the extra hole).
Is there perhaps some init or something to enable this use, without
having to swap boards or ROMS ?
Thanks,
Juan Courcoul
Monterrey Tech.
Mexico
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Date: Thu, 4 Apr 91 09:53:39 +0100
From: reinder@neuretp.biol.ruu.nl
Subject: where is file-paths?
With the introduction of HFS (back in '86 or so) some programs got
problems with the existence of 'real folders' on the Mac (i.e. they
required their help files and preferences in the same folder as the
application). To simplify this a utility named 'file-paths' (or
something like that) was created which made it possible to put your
help files etcetera in different folders.
Today I have about 100 files in my system folder (lots of preferences
for little used programs, etcetera). I would like to be able to make
a System 7 like 'Preferences' folder to put all the non-init stuff in.
Since I do not want and am not able to patch all programs to look for
their files in that folder (this is fairly simple for some programs, which
contain the name of the file in a 'STR#'-resource (for instance MacTCP),
but very difficult for other programs (for instance MS Word)).
If I could get a copy of 'file-paths' (and if it still works under system 6.07)
I would be most appreciated. The problem is: I can't find it in the archives
(I also checked the archie database). Of course tips or pointers to other
utilities are welcome, too.
Reinder Verlinde
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