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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 6 Nov 90 Volume 8 : Issue 184 Today's Topics: [*] Alpha 2.07 Apple's Token Ring card ARMOR ALLEY ATM1.2/Sys6.0.7/QuantumThanks CD ROM drives on AppleShare Server classic vs SE Code for mix Paint and Text? Code for text edit larger than 32 K needed Filename XFCN Bug fx internal SCSI terminator Hypercard 2.0 and Netnews Reader... IIci & KanjiTalk 6.0 & Hanzi 4.3 Info-Mac Digest V8 #181 (2 msgs) InfoMac #181 and Laser printers init for internal modem Mac Classic Monitor problems None OzTex PostScript problem Printing a PS file to a newly switched-on printer robust impact printer wanted scheduling software symbolic logic courseware Text Editors THINK 4.0 WINDOW COLORS Wanted: Kawasaki Screen Font Your Info-Mac Moderators are Bill Lipa, Lance Nakata, and Jon Pugh. The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous, any password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6]. Help files are in /info-mac/help. Indices are in /info-mac/help/recent-files.txt and /info-mac/help/all-files.txt. Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu. Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 22 Sep 90 12:54:16 CDT From: Pete Keleher <pete@rice.edu> Subject: [*] Alpha 2.07 Alpha is the programming editor for the rest of us. The Mac paradigm is fully supported, yet professional programmers aren't penalized for knowing what they are doing. Every function can be invoked via the mouse AND via the keyboard. [Archived as /info-mac/app/alpha-207.hqx; 230K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Nov 90 06:30:21 EST From: dmg@lid.mitre.org (David Gursky) Subject: Apple's Token Ring card Does Apple's Token Ring card connect to a Token Ring LAN operating at 16M? How would I connect a Mac to a 16M Token Ring LAN if Apple's card doesn't operate at 16M? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Nov 90 10:25:27 SST From: TNG TH <ISSTTH%NUSVM.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu> Subject: ARMOR ALLEY I just bought Armor Alley. It is published by Three Sixty. Anyone who has played Rescue Raiders on the good old Apple II will be comfortable with Armor Alley. It is exactly the same, except for better graphics and sound and multiplayer support over modem (2 players) and appletalk (4 players). But it is quite slow. And oh yes, it runs in 16 colors on a Mac II or LC. The best thing is that the version for MSDOS can be networked with appletalk or modem with Macs. FLAME ON: Why 16 colors? Is it because most color machines are 16 colors? The Mac has an architecture that is depth independent. Why can't the original be written in 256 colors? Are Macs slow in graphics when in 256 color mode? Seems to me this is most likely the case, especially where animation is concern. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Nov 90 12:19:34 EST From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL%UCONNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> Subject: ATM1.2/Sys6.0.7/QuantumThanks On Fri, 26 Oct 90 14:26:18 EDT you said: >REQUEST: I believe After Dark is SHAREWARE... could somebody PLEASE put this > in the archives as I believe it was a VERY "hot" item. After Dark is NOT shareware, although many of the modules for different screens are freeware (the Moire module is shareware). However, After Dark is as inexpensive as most shareware ($22 from MacConnection - 1-800-334-4444). I bought it, and I like it though I must say that I think it responsible in one way or another for the majority of my system crashes (I tried Moire which IS shareware and it too encourages crashes as do other screen savers in my estimation -- screen savers have to "fool" System and in doing so they sometimes get in the way). /s Murph <Sewall%UConnVM.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.Edu> [Internet] or ...{psuvax1 or mcvax}!uconnvm.bitnet!sewall [UUCP] + Standard disclaimer applies ("The opinions expressed are my own" etc.) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Nov 90 13:13 EST From: "Bill Doemel, Director of Computer Services" <DOEMELB%Wabash.Bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu> Subject: CD ROM drives on AppleShare Server Date sent: 6-NOV-1990 13:05:59 Friends, I need advice on how to connect an Apple CD_ROM to an AppleShare Server. Presently, I have an 80 MB Cobra drive by Rodime Systems. When I boot the server with the CD player installed before or after the Cobra Drive, the system stops at the Welcome to Macintosh Message. Please send suggestions direct. Thanks. Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bill Doemel Office: (317)-364-4311 Director of Computer Services BitNET: DoemelB@Wabash.BITNET Wabash College AppleLink: U0846 Crawfordsville, IN 47933 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Tue 6 Nov 90 18:40:30-HST From: Harold Miller <CNET2SH@uhccvx.uhcc.hawaii.edu> Subject: classic vs SE This big question I have is: why didn't they put the slot in the Classic like they had in the SE. Now, the Classic has NO expandability (like the PLUS) and the price of buying an expandable Mac has just doubled, at least. Why? Harold Miller Maui, HI CNET2SH@UHCCVX.BITNET ------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Nov 90 19:59:19 EST From: wang@pennmess.physics.upenn.edu ( Huangxin Wang) Subject: Code for mix Paint and Text? Can anyone give me an example code (or just some ideas) for mixing painting in text (or read out a file including text and painting)? Thanks! Huangxin Wang, University of Pennsylvania ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Nov 90 19:54:56 EST From: wang@pennmess.physics.upenn.edu ( Huangxin Wang) Subject: Code for text edit larger than 32 K needed I saw in recent MacUser Programming section, it mentioned about how to view text file larger than 32K. Is anyone out there has the code? Specifically, I want to know how to use TextEdit for file larger than 32K. Thanks. Huangxin Wang, University of Pennsylvania ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Nov 90 16:18:50 PST From: PUGH%CCV.ESNET@ccc.nersc.gov Subject: Filename XFCN Bug FYI, There is a minor bug in the filename and newFilename XFCNs written by Andrew Gilmartin and myself. The stack "New and Old FileName" contains these XCMDs. The bug is not fatal but is merely annoying and only appears with Hypercard 2.0, not with 1.2.x. The bug manifests itself as a stray modal dialog window. It appears as a blank line in the HC2.0 function THE WINDOWS. It comes from prefetching the dialog resource and centering it but not disposing of it after calling the SFGetFile or SFPutFile routines. Steve Maller's original XFCNs probably did not have this problem since he didn't center the dialog over the HC window like we did. This is all moot since the prefered method in HC2.0 is to use the ASK FILE and ANSWER FILE commands to get file names. This is why I have not posted an updated stack. It seems that the file has migrated out of Sumex which prevents people from propagating it farther. Jon N L pugh@ccc.nersc.gov E A L National Energy Research Supercomputer Center R T N Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory S L PO Box 5509 L-561 C Livermore, California 94551 (415) 423-4239 ------------------------------ Date: 6 Nov 90 13:36:00 EDT From: "CAPT. RICHARD BERRY" <rberry@hrllr.wpafb.af.mil> Subject: fx internal SCSI terminator I N T E R O F F I C E M E M O R A N D U M Date: 06-Nov-1990 13:18 GMT From: Capt. Richard Berry RBERRY Dept: LRL Tel No: (513)255-3871 or AV 785-3871 TO: _MAILER! ( _DDN[INFO-MAC-REQUEST@[36.44.0.6]] ) Subject: fx internal SCSI terminator We have been busily upgrading our Macs to fx's and a question about the internal SCSI terminator has come up. If the fx has an internal hard drive, is the gray portion of the terminator (the portion with the male and female connectors) used? Where is it attached? At the board or on the drive? Is it even needed? Also, has NCSA Telnet been upgraded past version 2.3? If so where can I FTP to find a new copy? Thanks. RBERRY@131.4.7.1 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Nov 90 08:14:18 WST From: peterj%swanee.ee.uwa.OZ@uunet.uu.net (Peter E. Jones) Subject: Hypercard 2.0 and Netnews Reader... Have you tried "set user level to 5" in the message box & then look at the scripts? .-_!\ Peter Jones Phone: +61 9 380 3100 / \ Electrical & Electronic Eng Fax: +61 9 380 1065 *_.-._/ University of Western Australia o Nedlands, Perth, W. Australia 6009 E-mail: peterj@swanee.uwa.oz ------------------------------ Date: 6 Nov 90 12:20:14 JST From: nojima@may.ntt.jp Subject: IIci & KanjiTalk 6.0 & Hanzi 4.3 Hi > Date: Tue, 30 Oct 90 18:21 +0800 > From: DTPALMER%HKUCC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu > Subject: IIci & KanjiTalk 6.0 & Hanzi 4.3 > > I just got a IIci and am pleased. I am extremely unpleased to find > out that my Japanese and Chinese systems that were fine on my SE/30 no > longer work. IIci needs KanjiTalk 6.0.5 or later. (KanjiTalk 6.0.7 is the latest version.) You can buy KanjiTalk 6.0.5 from Apple Japan for 70000yen (approx. $500). I know that APDA sells KanjiTalk at much cheaper price; I don't know the version, and I don't know if it works on IIci, either. $BLnEg5WM:(B NOJIMA Hisao nojima@nttlab.ntt.jp ------------------------------ Date: 06 Nov 90 16:37:40 EDT From: SJPORTE@asc.upenn.edu Subject: Info-Mac Digest V8 #181 Re: help for transferring text files from ancient systems. Generally, disks created by dedicated word processors are a lost cause. Your best bet is to you an RS232 connection, if the hardware you were using had one. Generate your text files on the old system, fire up the communications software, and send the text files over an RS232 cable to the Mac or whatever system you're transferring to, which is running a terminal program and receiving the data. Then you're all set. Jeff Porten, Annenberg School for Communication, UPenn ------------------------------ Date: 06 Nov 90 16:40:02 EDT From: SJPORTE@asc.upenn.edu Subject: Info-Mac Digest V8 #181 Help needed for a printer driver. I need a Mac driver that can run a Citizen HSP-550. We currently have a LAN network with IBMs and Macs hooked up to the Citizen, a Laserwriter, and an Imagewriter II. The IBMs can run all three printers, but the Macs can't get to the Citizen, which can cause problems when there are ten thousand documents (figuratively) queued to the IWII and the Laserwriter isn't operational. Jeff Porten, Annenberg School for Communications, UPenn ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Nov 90 15:17:32 EST From: CON-ETDL-COM <contr003@monmouth-emh2.army.mil> Subject: InfoMac #181 and Laser printers The question is: >bobw@gdstech.grumman.com (Bob Waffenschmidt) >Subject: HP LaserWriter > >We will be purchasing a new laser printer for our appletalk network. >Our network has both Macs and PC's. Does any one have any good or bad >experineces with the HP (or other) alternatives to the the Apple laser writer. >Thanks in advance! > I'm working in a lab of IIci/fx/x machines with Apple NTX and NewGen printers. I cannot, unfortunately, recommend the NewGen printer. Sure, it's cheaper and a little faster (once you add the extra memory), but we've had nothing but problems here with pages printing incorrectly, font downloads crashing the Mac or the printer or both, and the printer jamming the LocalTalk net. NewGen has given us a ROM upgrade that fixed some of the problems, but not enough of them, and their TechSupport seems pretty lame. I have no affiliation with any of the aforementioned firms... Hope this helps ---------- George F Tempel, Vitronics, Inc | internet: contr003@monmouth-emh2.army.mil America OnLine: gftempel4, CompuServe: 76047,70 [ end of message ] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Nov 90 17:15:16 -0500 From: prm@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu (Paul R McMullin (S1A)) Subject: init for internal modem A friend (not networked) has a <random manufacturer's> internal modem in his MAC II, and finds that many software packages do not cooperate well with it. He is sure that someone somewhere should have written some sort of init/CDEV that would "reflect" software interactions with the built-in modem port onto the internal modem. Does anyone know of such a beastie? Thanks. prm@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Nov 1990 16:10:25 PST From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt) Subject: Mac Classic > I have purchased a simple Classic with a single floppy drive recently. > What really surprised me is that the machine has a fan inside while the > Mac+ does not have one. Is it possible to disconnect the fan so as to > get a really silent machine ? I'm sure it's possible... open the case with a Torx driver and a case puller, and unplug the fan (or snip & tape the wire). I really do believe that this would be a _bad_ idea, though. The Mac Plus is infamous for its tendency to suffer from catastrophic failures of the analog board (the power supply circuitry, video retrace and flyback, etc.). Most of the problems seem to be due to heat buildup... the Plus gets quite hot inside due to its lack of a fan (it isn't known as a "toaster" for nothing ;-). Thermal cycling (heat-up/cool-down cycles) cause solder joints to fatigue and crack; electrolytic capacitors dry up and quit; and so forth. Some Mac Plus owners have gone through as many as three or four analog boards in as many years. There's a very healthy market made up of externally-mounted fans for the Mac Plus... such a fan (or even a convective "chimney" made of cardboard) can greatly improve the chances that a Mac Plus will survive through a given six-month period. If you were to disconnect the fan in a Mac Classic, you'd be leaving yourself vulnerable to the same sort of heat-related failures that have plagued the Mac Plus since shortly after it was released. It probably wouldn't fail in exactly the same ways as a Plus would... but you'd very probably shorten the machine's lifetime. That'd be a shame. > Another question I have is whether it is > possible to connect an external 800k floppy to the Classic ? I presume so... the SWIM chip in the Classic should work correctly with both 800k and 1.44-meg drives. However, you should not attempt to connect an old-style 400k external drive to the Classic... it doesn't support these drives, and they will not work. -- Dave Platt VOICE: (415) 493-8805 UUCP: ...!{ames,apple,uunet}!coherent!dplatt DOMAIN: dplatt@coherent.com INTERNET: coherent!dplatt@ames.arpa, ...@uunet.uu.net USNAIL: Coherent Thought Inc. 3350 West Bayshore #205 Palo Alto CA 94303 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Nov 90 23:18:06 -0500 (EST) From: Donald Jackson Pickett <dp32+@andrew.cmu.edu> Subject: Monitor problems I have been having monitor problems w/ my Mac color monitor. I have a IIcx w/ 8 megs, 8-bit color card, and the 13" monitor. I bought the system fall '89 The monitor flickers - the screen image jumps up and down a little bit - enougnh to be a pain in the ass. At first we thought it was because the computer is now next to the stereo/speakers - large magnetic sources . . . There seems to be some correlation with turning the speakers off and lack of flicker, but the screen flickers by itself sometimes. What up? Don ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Nov 90 18:23:01 AST From: "Stewart Walker" <SWALKER%MTA.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> Subject: None _______________________________________________________ Date 11/6/90 Subject None >From Stewart Walker To infomac REGARDING RE: Date: Sat, 3 Nov 90 20:11:27 EST >From: dmg@lid.mitre.org (David Gursky) Subject: All-in-one, LanWORKS... Back in July, Apple and DEC announced a series of products to facilitate connecting Macs and VAXes together. These products (All-in-one, LanWORKS, enhancements to DECnet, etc.) were suppose to hit the street 3rd quarter this year. Have they? Any thoughts on them? * AlisaShare came down in price as of Nov. 1 and costs a lot less for large groups of Macs as unlimited use license. They also have a 5 user license. * APDA carry some of the Mac to VAX integration stuff for DECnet tunnelling, etc. * LANworks uses an older version of AlisaShare to do serving. * So far the DEC product looks badly overpriced if you have many machines. * I will probably buy the Alisa product. I am also interested in this matter. Stewart Walker Mount Allison University Sackville, N.B. CANADA E0A 3C0 Bitnet: swalker@mta _______________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Nov 90 12:46:31 JST From: Dr. Paul Fons <paul@bk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Subject: OzTex PostScript problem I recently copied OzTeX 1.1 from a local ftp archive and installed it on my Mac II following the instructions in the LaTeX-docs file. While I can preview things just fine (e.g. all the font files are being found) I find I always end up with a PostScript error when I attempt to print anything to my Apple NTX-J (Japanese extension Apple NTX II laser printer). The error occurs in the @setup routine in the DVItoPS.PS header that is used to translate DVI -> PS. STACK: -dictionary- /cmbx10.746 %%[ Error: invalidfont; OffendingCommand: definefont ]%% %%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%% Now when I print the PostScript to a file and examine the contents it is clear that the appropriate font files are being found and loaded and that the error may be related to the NTX-J (note I don't know PostScript and am making intellgent guesses only). This code fragment (from the PostScript output) contains the line that causes the error 1 @bop0 /cmbx10.746 127 @newfont /cmbx10.329 127 @newfont /cmr10.329 127 @newfont /cmtt10.329 127 @newfont cmbx10.746 sf [<00000003FFF0000000000000007FFFFF80000000000003FFFFFFF000000000000FFFFF ... this hex code definition continues for several lines Here is the code for bop0 (begining of page) /@bop0 {pop} def % begin DVI page n Here is the code for @newfont (where the error occurs) /@newfont % create new font dict { /maxchcode exch def /fontid exch def fontid 7 dict def fontid load begin /FontType 3 def /FontMatrix [1 0 0 -1 0 0] def % -1 because y scale is negative /FontBBox [0 0 1 1] def /BitMaps maxchcode 1 add array def /BuildChar {CharBuilder} def /Encoding maxchcode 1 add array def 0 1 maxchcode {Encoding exch /.notdef put} for end fontid fontid load definefont pop } def and CharBuilder is as follows % The following character builder looks up the char data in the BitMaps array % and paints the character: /CharBuilder % image one char { /ch-code exch def % save the char code /font-dict exch def % and the font dict /ch-data font-dict /BitMaps get ch-code get def ch-advw 0 ch-xoff neg ch-height ch-yoff sub 1 sub neg % -xo , -(ht-yo-1) ch-width ch-xoff sub 1 sub ch-yoff % (wd-xo-1) , yo setcachedevice ch-width ch-height true [1 0 0 -1 ch-xoff ch-yoff] % bitmap sent top to bottom {ch-image} imagemask } def I would appreciate any help on this that may come along as OzTeX looks to be a very nice system and this little PS error should be an easy thing to fix. Paul Fons Institute of Applied Physics University of Tsukuba Tsukuba Japan paul@bk.tsukuba.ac.jp ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Nov 90 22:37:28 PST From: Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca Subject: Printing a PS file to a newly switched-on printer >To create a file that contains a copy of Apple Prep, and hence should print >regardless of whether the printer is newly switched on, use command-F instead >of command-K (it's not option, by the way). Uhh, typo maybe? Command-K *does* produce a file with LaserPrep included. K, F, and even Command-F do not. Those keys will give you PostScript files without LaserPrep. I just tested it on a IIci with System 6.0.5. An easier way to do it is to throw the init "laserFix" into your system folder and add "AdlPrep" to your DA menu. LaserFix will give you a disk file option with a dialog box to let you control where the file is saved and AdlPrep will let you add LaserPrep to these files afterwards. Both are available on Sumex. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Nov 90 15:58:23 EST From: Francis Taylor <narf@media-lab.media.mit.edu> Subject: robust impact printer wanted Hi. Our company-with-growing-pains is also looking for a dot-matrix impact printer that will print 5-part forms and is dead-nuts robust and reliable. Imagewriter compatibility is best, but a Mac printer driver will do. We want to print checks, invoices, packing lists, etc. Does anybody have any recommendations? My impression is that an Imagewriter II won't be able to cut it here. Thanks. ------------------------------ Date: Tue 6 Nov 90 18:42:55-HST From: Harold Miller <CNET2SH@uhccvx.uhcc.hawaii.edu> Subject: scheduling software Does anyone know of or recommend a program for settin up class teaching schedules (i.e. assigning teachers to rooms throughout the teaching day), with some intelligent and easy-to-use "what-if" features (e.g. periods of varying lengths)...this is for a small high school (300 students). Preferebly not TOO expensive. HArold Miller Seabury Hall MAui, Hawaii CNET2SH@UHCCVX.BITNET ------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Nov 90 17:01 EDT From: DAILEY@vaxsar.vassar.edu Subject: symbolic logic courseware Where might I find out about Mac programs for instruction in symbolic logic? Thanks, David Dailey ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Nov 90 12:26:30 EST From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL%UCONNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> Subject: Text Editors On Fri, 26 Oct 90 14:33:57 EDT you said: > Does anyone out there know of a cheap, possibly public domain, text >editor. Our microlab users are currently using Edit to prepare source >files for input to MacFortran. The problem is that Edit has problems >with HFS files and thus must reside in the same folder as the files it >edits. Is there a simple editor out there that can open files, print, >and as a bonus maybe have tabs and parens checking? Take a look at McSink (in the info-mac archives and the shawdow archives on BITNET). I find it a pretty reasonable (not too expensive either) editor. The shareware fee is $45. The same author wrote a more extensive (highly similar with more feature) commercial version named Vantage (a sales pitch for Vantage is in the docs for McSink). I bought Vantage from MacConnection (1-800-334-4444) for $52 (at only $7 more than the shareware fee, I figured the extra features would be worth it, and my opinion, after the fact, is that they are). BTW I have no connection (other than as customer) with MacConnection. I'm not a heavy student of mail order ads, but from those I've purused, Mac Connection's prices seem, on the whole, to be as good as anyone elses. You may find Vantage (or After-Dark which I mentioned in an earlier message) for a few dollars less (or more) at other outlets. /s Murph <Sewall%UConnVM.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.Edu> [Internet] or ...{psuvax1 or mcvax}!uconnvm.bitnet!sewall [UUCP] + Standard disclaimer applies ("The opinions expressed are my own" etc.) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Nov 90 10:22:57 SST From: TNG TH <ISSTTH%NUSVM.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu> Subject: THINK 4.0 WINDOW COLORS Hi folks. Has anyone patched Think C 4.0 so that the editor windows come up black on white (black background and white letterings)? It is too much strain on the eyes to have it the other way round. I have tried Kolor and Click Change, but it seems that Think C 4.0 sets its own window background color to white all the time. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Nov 90 20:44 PST From: Tigger <GREG@pomona.claremont.edu> Subject: Wanted: Kawasaki Screen Font Some time ago, a friend had a screen font on his system called Kawasaki, and now I'd like to get my hands on it again. Does anyone out there in netland have this font? If it's pd/freeware/shareware, I'd like to get a copy. If it's a commercial item, I'd like to know where I can buy it. Please e-mail to me directly before sending the font. I'll get it from just one person to save bandwidth. I'll post a summary (and the font itself, if possible) to the net if there is sufficient interest. TTFN! Greg Orman Remember, you don't have to be a greg@pomona.claremont.edu menace to society to win! greg@pomona.bitnet - Damon Killian, host of The Running Man ------------------------------ End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************