Info-Mac-Request@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (The Moderators) (12/11/90)
Info-Mac Digest Mon, 10 Dec 90 Volume 8 : Issue 206
Today's Topics:
[*] Any Calendar
[*] Generating Postscript
[*] HERB 1.0b1 w/description & file
[*] MacFact
[*] Monaco-6 pt
[*] MountImage 1.1b3
[*] orb-mazez-10b1.hqx
[*] PC-KIMMO v1.0.3
[*] RecipeWare 1.05
[*] teachtextmaker_1.1
[*] util/after-dark-maze.hqx
[*] util/after-dark-roaming-lines.hqx
[*] Wingz MountTools
Appletalk Printing from Windows 3.0
Info-Mac Digest V8 #204
LaserWriter 6.0.1 patch
Long sounds
Virus Detection
Virus detection.
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Date: Sun, 11 Nov 1990 18:41:33 -0400
From: "Nuno M. Paixao" <paixao@ug.cs.dal.ca>
Subject: [*] Any Calendar
HELLO FELLOW NETTERS....
HAVE YOU EVER NEEDED TO FIND OUT WHAT DAY OF THE WEEK SOMETHING HAPPENED?
FOR INSTANCE, HAVE YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW WHAT DAY OF THE WEEK YOU WERE
BORN? IF SO, YOU WILL FIND THIS STACK HELPFUL.
WRITTEN ON HC 1.2.5, THIS STACK WILL GENERATE A CALENDAR FOR ANY YEAR YOU
ASK. TRY IT FOR YOURSELF, AND THEN TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK.....
---
Nuno M. Paixao \\ PAIXAO@UG.CS.DAL.CA \\ So I don't have an exciting
2319 Clifton St. \\ DEXTER@AC.DAL.CA \\ .SIGNATURE file.... If you
Halifax, NS, CAN. \\ DEXTER@DALAC.BITNET \\ hate it that much, why don't
(902) 492-9402 \\ \\ you design a better one for me.
[Archived as /info-mac/card/any-calendar.hqx; 26K]
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Date: Thu, 8 Nov 90 21:09:12 -0600
From: Don Gillies <gillies@cs.uiuc.edu>
Subject: [*] Generating Postscript
Here is "Everything you ever wanted to know about generating and printing
postscript on the macintosh." The only change to this edition is:
-> Tells how to patch Laserwriter 6.0 so that the
"black/white" button is turned ON by default.
[Archived as /info-mac/tips/generating-postscript.txt; 13K]
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Date: Fri, 16 Nov 90 22:26 EDT
From: HHARMAN@midd.cc.middlebury.edu
Subject: [*] HERB 1.0b1 w/description & file
HERB is Shareware DA that calculates an estimated download time in accordance
with user configurable values such as modem speed,data size, and protocol
efficiencies. User defined "Sets" can be used to represent any number of
different values and are stored by name in a simple, scrollable list. Comes
with complete documentation and guide to customizing HERB itself. Try HERB
for 30 days and if you think it's still worth using send in the 5$. Enjoy !
Sutffed/BinHexed file includes: HERB,documentation,and sample "Sets"
Hayden Harman
[Archived as /info-mac/da/herb-10b1.hqx; 101K]
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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 90 23:01:05 EST
From: Jean Brunet <R31631%UQAM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: [*] MacFact
MacFact is a statistical package for factorial analysis (principal
components analysis, correspondence analysis) and cluster analysis
(metric: euclidean, chi-2). It is freeware and can be posted on
any BBS.
Do not hesitate to contact me for: informations, reporting bugs....
The file is coded using StuffIt (Binhex) and Compactor (self-
extracting)
Would you decide to keep the software drop me a word. I will let
you know of all upodates. Nov. 2nd 1990
Jean Brunet, Dept. des communications,
UQAM, P.O. Box 8888, Station A,
Montreal, Qc., Canada, H3C 3P8
BitNet: R31631@UQAM
[Archived as /info-mac/app/mac-fact.hqx; 230K]
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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 90 23:09:30 EST
From: Jean Brunet <R31631%UQAM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: [*] Monaco-6 pt
Here is Monaco font (6 point). It is usefull, among others, for MacFact.
This file is StuffIt(Binhex) and Compactor (self-extracting)
[Archived as /info-mac/font/monaco-6.hqx; 20K]
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Date: Thu, 15 Nov 90 22:00:33 PST
From: wilkins@jarthur.claremont.edu
Subject: [*] MountImage 1.1b3
MountImage 1.1b3 is a cdev by Steve Christensen which mounts DiskCopy 4.1
Disk Image files on the desktop as though they were floppies.
Thus, for example, people who use DiskCopy 4.1 for distribution can
examine the contents of an image without creating a floppy.
According to the author, MountImage 1.1b3 is free.
-- Mark Wilkins
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/mount-image-11b3.hqx; 12K]
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Date: Fri, 9 Nov 90 21:54:56 EST
From: wilson@csis.dit.csiro.au (Murray Wilson)
Subject: [*] orb-mazez-10b1.hqx
ORB MAZEZ
version 1.0 beta 1
Copyright 1990 Stephen Wilson / SMW Software
$10 Shareware
Orb Mazez is a two-player game similar to Maze-Wars (you see a
3-D view) but with a divided screen so that both players can
play on the same computer.
Basically, you must try to find and kill your opponent on each
level, collecting goodies along the way.
Orb Mazez 1.0b1 features...
% Full colour 3-D graphics
% Digitized sound
% Online help
% An extensive array of objects in the mazes
% Statistics at the end of each game
% Customizable keys, game length and sound volume
Bug reports, questions, etc. gladly accepted. Source code
in MPW C 3.0 is also available.
** ORB MAZEZ RUNS ONLY ON ON A MACINTOSH II **
[Archived as /info-mac/game/orb-mazez-10b1.hqx; 282K]
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Date: Thu, 8 Nov 90 13:36:20 CST
From: adobe!txsil.lonestar.org!evan@labrea.stanford.edu (Evan Antworth)
Subject: [*] PC-KIMMO v1.0.3
PC-KIMMO:a two-level processor for morphological analysis
PC-KIMMO is a new implementation for microcomputers of a program
designed to generate (produce) and recognize (parse) words. It is based
on Kimmo Koskenniemi's two-level model of word structure in which a word
is represented as a correspondence between its lexical (underlying) form
and its surface form. PC-KIMMO is language-independant. For each
language description the user prepares two input files: (1) a set of
rules that govern phonological/orthographic alternations and (2) a
lexicon that lists all words (and/or morphemes) in their lexical form
and specifies constraints on their order. The rules and lexicon are
implemented computationally using finite state machines.
Evan Antworth
Summer Institute of Linguistics, Dallas, TX
evan@txsil.lonestar.org
[Archived as /info-mac/app/pc-kimmo.hqx; 134K]
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Date: Sun, 18 Nov 90 05:45 PST
From: Don Nakanishi/Gann Matsuda <IYI4DTN@oac.ucla.edu>
Subject: [*] RecipeWare 1.05
RecipeWare 1.05 is a custom recipe database "application." It lets you enter
recipes, sort them by category, and/or title. Prints on 4 x 6
index cards too!
This was uploaded to GEnie last year as a demo of what Panorama 1.5
can do. It is a simple, custom database with no frills, but it
does serve its purpose quite well. Freeware. If you like it,
please send me a short e-mail with your comments.
YOU MUST BE A REGISTERED OWNER OF PANORAMA 1.5 TO USE THIS FILE!
Panorama is distributed commercially by ProVUE Development.
I have no connection with ProVUE.
Stuffit Deluxe archive. Use Stuffit Deluxe or Classic to
decompress.
BTW: This is my first upload to Info-Mac. Hope it works!
Gann Matsuda
BITNET: IYI4DTN@UCLAMVS
INTERNET: iyi4dtn@oac.ucla.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/app/recipe-ware.hqx; 41K]
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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 90 10:02:57 +0100
From: stud04@cc4.kuleuven.ac.be (Tyberghein Jorrit)
Subject: [*] teachtextmaker_1.1
TeachTextMaker version 1.1
Creating TeachText readme files containing Pictures in the past was something
most people didn't like to do. Moreover many people didn't even know how to do
it. It was a complex task, juggling resources, using ResEdit. So there weren't
too many TeachText files with Pictures about. And yet, TeachText is an ideal
instrument for readme documents and online-manuals of all kinds: it launches
quickly, uses little memory and above all: everybody's got it.
So I decided to write an application to create TeachText files as easily as it
is to create a MacWrite document, using cut&paste-like commands. The result was:
TeachText Maker (TTM).
This is version 1.1:
* printing is now included.
* you can now directly import pictures from
draw/paint programs, the complex picture pre-processing is now done by TTM.
* delete pict: the carriage returns after the insertion point will be deleted.
*'fast typing' option is now included.
* basic search/replace facilities are provided.
* suggested memory size (multifinder) is filled out.
* several bugs were fixed.
For the time being you can contact me via e-mail:
Karl Pottie GHGAQA0@BLEKUL11.BITNET
[Archived as /info-mac/app/teach-text-maker-11.hqx; 61K]
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Date: Mon, 12 Nov 90 04:50:32 -0500
From: bau@husc8.harvard.edu (David Bau)
Subject: [*] util/after-dark-maze.hqx
Maze is an entertaining screensaver for use with Berkeley System's After Dark
software. After blanking the screen, it constructs mazes, "growing" them in
random directions. It solves each maze by exhaustively searching possible
paths. Every maze is different, and each maze is drawn at a different
resolution so that different pixels get used.
If you have any comments or suggestions, or if you have anything special
you would like a screensaver to do, please let me know! Hope you like it.
- David Bau
[Archived as /info-mac/util/after-dark-maze.hqx; 14K]
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Date: Thu, 8 Nov 90 00:35:31 -0500
From: bau@husc8.harvard.edu (David Bau)
Subject: [*] util/after-dark-roaming-lines.hqx
This is version 1.1c. This file should replace after-dark-roaming-lines.hqx
Here's the COLOR update for a screensaver I posted a couple weeks ago. You have
to be running in 4-bit or higher to see the color. In addition I've added a
few more checkboxes in the control panel, maybe useful, maybe not.
Roaming Lines is the speediest screen saver I've seen - it's fast enough so it
looks smooth on an SE. Up to five independent lines bounce around the screen
followed by moire shadows of adjustable size. The lines can be made long or
short, and can bounce a lot or a little. Also, you can have the screen
saver start by quickly dissolving the screen it in blocks.
Please send ideas for improvements and your ideas for better screen savers, and
I'll try my best to implement them. Until then, enjoy!
David "gonna fail all my exams 'caus of this" Bau [bau@husc9.harvard.edu] :)
[Archived as /info-mac/util/after-dark-roaming-lines.hqx; 21K]
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Date: Wed Nov 14 13:09:03 1990
From: "Heinrich Puschmann, Santiago" <HPUSCHMA%UCHCECVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: [*] Wingz MountTools
MountTools is a "tool" for Informix Wingz. A Wingz tool is a file which
contains external commands for the Wingz spreadsheet. MountTools contains
three external commands:
o Mount - mounts an AppleShare server disk, bypassing the Chooser
o Unmount - unmounts a disk, similar to dragging the disk to the trash
o Shutdown - shuts down and turns off your Macintosh
These Wingz external commands are in fact quite unusual. You see, MountTools
contains "inside itself" (in its resource fork) two Hypercard external
commands (XCMDs), "Mount" and "Unmount", and an FKEY (function key) called
"Shutdown". The external commands for Wingz don't really do anything, but
call their HyperCard and FKEY counterparts to do the real work.
[ These HyperCard external commands were mailed to me by a kind person on the
network. The orginal author of these commands is Peter Desnoyers. ]
I used the HyperCard command "Mount", because I found out that mounting an
AppleShare server disk is not a trivial thing to do, and the HyperCard command
already worked. Once I had written a shell to call XCMDs, I decided to use
the other HyperCard command, "Unmount", as well. The "Shutdown" FKEY is there
for more technical reasons (Wingz will crash if you try to shut down the
Macintosh directly from a tool).
Besides MountTools, I am also posting the MountTools source code (written in
MPW C v3.1), which demonstrates how to call HyperCard external commands
yourself. This is useful for writers of external commands for programs such
as Wingz, 4th Dimension, and others, since there are so many HyperCard XCMDs
out there to make use of! It may also help programmers who wish to call
XCMDs from their own standalone applications.
-- Thomas Fruin Apple Chile
AppleLink: LAICHI.SPT laichi.spt@applelink.apple.com
[Archived as /info-mac/app/wingz-mount-tools.hqx; 74K]
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Date: Mon, 10 Dec 90 11:15:04 EST
From: Ken_Latta@ub.cc.umich.edu
Subject: Appletalk Printing from Windows 3.0
With a pc appletalk card, the software configures itself as lptx where
x can be 1,2, or 3. Typically lpt1 is used as the port for automatic
ascii-->postscript translation so things like printscreen and dumb non-
postscript supporting software can print, and lpt2 or 3 used for sending
postscript.
1. many windows postscript drivers include control-Ds in their job stream.
In some cases you can configure the appletalk driver to strip these (the
Daystar software for their appletalk card can do this). Another way to avoid
it is to pick your softwares' option of print-to-file but use a filename
that is the same as the driver (lpt3 or lpt3.prn). Worst case, print to file
and then use an editor to get rid of the control-D (which looks like a diamond
on the pc screen).
2. on a 386 machine, you can use the lpt1.os2 to make sure it uses a device
driver instead of printing to the memory address where the printer port
"nominally" lives.
3. another failure source can be the postscript printer you are using.
If it has limited memory (like original laserwriters) and you are also
doing things like downloading fonts from the Macs, you may end up with
insufficient memory to handle the PC's downloaded prologue. When laserwriters
run out of memory the failures can be obscure (like it just blinking
until the job times out). There are postscript code fragments that can
make the laserwriter printout its status (postscript version, total memory
and available memory) to help diagnose this problem. On the dos side is
a program called errorhdl.ps which tells the laserwriter's postscript inter-
preter: "hey, when you get an error print out the error status."
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Date: Mon, 10 Dec 90 13:33:32 -0500
From: William C. DenBesten<denbeste@andy.bgsu.edu>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V8 #204
Info-Mac-Request@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (The Moderators):
>
> To all you AppleShare administrators...this one's for you!
> How do you make sure software is NOT copied from the folders on your
> AppleShare server? Locking and protecting the programs using ResEdit or
> something like that isn't sophisticated enough for our university students.
> Getting them to sign a waiver promising that they won't pirate software
> wouldn't work either. We need either some third-party encryption program
> that will work over AppleShare or some other way of making the programs
> Execute-Only. Please help! Send any suggestions directly to me. Thanks.
> Joy Aberback (alias JABERBACK@HUSKY1.STMARYS.CA)
>
Add dummy resources to the application so that it is larger than 800K.
If you have high density drives, you will need to make the app larger
than 1.4 meg.
--
William C. DenBesten is denbeste@bgsu.edu or denbesten@bgsuopie.bitnet
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Date: Mon, 10 Dec 90 16:58:43 EST
From: Roberta Norin <rln%metasoft.uucp@bbn.com>
Subject: LaserWriter 6.0.1 patch
In comp.sys.mac.digest you write:
>>>Subject: Laserwriter 6.0.1 Default Dialog Boxes
>>>
>>>The new laserwriter driver (6.0.1) has the option to
>>>print in "Color-Greyscale" or "Black-White". A majority
>>>of the time I would like to have this set to B-W but the
>>>radio button defaults to Color-Greyscale. Where can you
>>>hack with ResEdit to change the default to BW.
>
>Here's a LaserWriter 6.0.x tip. Paul Cozza (author of SAM anti-virus utilities)
>came up with a patch to the LaserWriter color driver to set B/W as the default
>rather than color. This speeds up most printing.
>
>Using Fedit (or any other sector editor), search the LaserWriter system file
>for the hexadecimal string (Don't enter the spaces. I only put them there to
>ease readability):
>
>search for: 377C 0017 0004 7801
>change to: 377C 0018 0004 7801
>
>This will change the radio button default to B&W.
Greetings,
I have recently added color to an object-oriented graphics application
for garden design ("Mum's the Word"). I am trying to find information
on half-tone printing on laser writers and saw your correspondence on
the network. The above sounds like the laser writer will do it for
you. Is this true? What do you do with earlier laser writer software?
I'd appreciate any help you could give me: references, suggestions, code,
etc. Thank-you.
Roberta Norin
rln%metasoft@bbn.com
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Date: Mon, 10 Dec 90 11:33 PDT
From: <NELSON%catlin.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Long sounds
I was wondering if anyone out there in netland knows of a way to record
sounds on the IIsi besides the Sound CDEV (I want to record sounds considerably
longer than 10 seconds). Preferrably it will record outside of the System file,
also. One more thing: What does 'bus error' mean?
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
The /\ Russ Nelson Bitnet: NELSON@catlin
Catlin /--\ ----------- Internet: NELSON@catlin.bitnet
Gabel /--\ ---------------------------------------------------
School /--\ Bill the cat sez: "Remember, if some weirdo in a
------ || blue suit offers you some MS-DOS, JUST SAY NO!"
-=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-->>>Cut Wherever<<<--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-
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Date: Mon, 10 Dec 1990 10:59:30 PST
From: Carl_A._Steinhilber.osbu_south@xerox.com
Subject: Virus Detection
>Symantec's SAM has an INIT you install which does just that. However,
>I don't think the version currently in the market will detect the latest
>flavors of Mac virus (the new ZUC and MDEF).
The SAM INIT, as marketed, does not yet have the BUILT-IN capability of
detecting the ZUC 2 virus strain. But the nice thing about SAM INIT is the
ability to add search strings. A quick phone call to the Symantic Virus Update
service will fill you in as to how to add a string definition into SAM so that
it will detect and erradicate the ZUC 2 virus... and any other future virus
that comes along (Symantec also sends postcards with said information... of
course, they arrive some weeks after the first reported infection of the virus
in question... so the phone # comes in handy for instant updates).
And no... I'm not affiliated or associated with Symantec in any way... in fact,
I have many flames about the company... but this is one product that they did
right.
Carl Steinhilber
Xerox Systems Operability Group
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Date: Mon, 10 Dec 90 11:55:49 PST
From: doug@nisd.cam.unisys.com (Doug Hardie)
Subject: Virus detection.
I received an enormous response to my recent request for assistance on
virus detection. There is no way I could individually thank all those who
helped, but thanks to all.
I had tried Disenfectant before posting the request. However, I did not find
the hidden key to creating the INIT. Someone pointed out the menu item
and it was in business. Later I found the help screens which probably
would have led me there.
Another question:
We have been using SafeEject on 6.0.3 to avoid disk problems for some time.
I would like to upgrade to 6.0.7 and seem to remember that Apple included
the same functionality in the newer version. There is no easy way to
search the archives (where I think this was discussed) without downloading
a whole lot of them. Does anyone remember if this INIT is still needed?
And an observation:
On 6.0.3, a SfGetFile with numTypes set to 0 will display all the files.
On 6.0.7, it only displays folders. There are no files to choose from.
You really have to follow the Inside-Mac instructions and set it to -1.
Sometimes it pays to read a little more carefully...
-- Doug
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