Info-Mac-Request@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (The Moderators) (09/28/90)
Info-Mac Digest Thu, 27 Sep 90 Volume 8 : Issue 162
Today's Topics:
[*] A Pascal library for calculations
[*] Brickwell
[*] convert2
[*] GetMyAddress
[*] Screen/Shinagawa.hqx
Battery problem with Mac
Big disk drives and "concurrent resources" limit (Info-Mac Digest V8 #161)
Blesser 1.1, Big Cheese, Ripper & Melt DA
DIN 8 - DB25 COMMUNICATIONS PINOUT
Fast Formatter 3.0 Confusion !
Giff files
HyperHackers
Info-Mac Digest V8 #160
introducing SmallAda 1990, for free!
Locking directory structure
Mac-Link Translators
macpage PS cartridge for LaserJet (Info-Mac Digest V8 #161)
MS-Word from Mac to PC ?
MSWord justification
Multifinder Problems
Norton Utilities
Password Protecting the Control Panel ?
Qms 410 , TI ps35 & TI ps17
Slot numbers for video boards
XCMD OR MACWRITE FILE FORMAT WANTED
XPress 3.1 upgrade, available online?
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Date: 21 Jul 90 16:19:00 PST
From: "JONATHON GUTOW" <gutow@bogart.stanford.edu>
Subject: [*] A Pascal library for calculations
This library Batch Control.lib can be linked to code that does massive
calculations so that the user may suspend and resume the calculations at will.
It is meant to run under multifinder so that a calculation that normally would
completely take over the computer will allow the user to gracefully
swap the job out temporarily to do something else. The code was originally
written in THINK PASCAL*. The library can probably be used with THINK C*
without any trouble.
I hope other people find this library useful. Comments are more
than welcome.
Jon Gutow
Gutow@Bogart.Stanford.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/source/pascal/batch-control.hqx; 15K]
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Date: Sun, 22 Jul 90 15:06:32 PDT
From: dwl%ocf.Berkeley.EDU@lilac.berkeley.edu (David Lee)
Subject: [*] Brickwell
BRICKWELL is a new game for the Macintosh based on the arcade
game KLAX. The object of the game is to catch bricks of
different patterns that fall from the top of the window on a
paddle and then drop the caught bricks into one of 5 columns
such that at least 3 bricks of the same pattern are adjacent
vertically, horizontally, or diagonally; depending on the
level. BRICKWELL uses the Sound Manager and is FREEWARE.
David Lee
dwl@garnet.Berkeley.EDU
[Archived as /info-mac/game/brickwell.hqx; 140K]
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Date: Sat, 21 Jul 90 20:03 MDT
From: Bernie <BSWieser%UNCAMULT.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: [*] convert2
Greetings Netwits,
Here is a small utility I wrote for displaying and converting old
Apple][ style hi-res graphics on the Macintosh. It is called
convert][ and I have also included some classic ][ pictures and
a help file for you to play with. It is "incentive ware", i.e. if you
like it send me some incentive to do more in the form of e-mail
or money. Enjoy.
Bernie Wieser (BSWieser at UNCAMULT.BITNET)
(Application? Think of the heaps of clip art you can convert.)
[Archived as /info-mac/util/convert-apple-ii.hqx; 34K]
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Date: Mon, 23 Jul 90 11:40:16 EDT
From: Leo W <Leo_W@qm.circa.ufl.edu>
Subject: [*] GetMyAddress
There was a post from a Mac support person on Info-Mac recently, asking if
there existed a utility to get the EtherNet address from a Mac without having
to open it up and look at the EtherNet card.
Yes, there is. It's called GetMyAddress and it's in the public domain (I
checked with the author). Here it is, stuffed and binhexed. I tested it with
Mac II w/card, Mac SE w/card, and Mac Plus w/NuvoLink box and it seems to work
fine.
P.S.: There is also a newer, commercial version called GetTheirAddress, that
comes bundled with EtherPeek, a Mac network analyzer.
[Archived as /info-mac/util/get-my-address.hqx; 21K]
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Date: Sat, 21 Jul 1990 23:00:30 CDT
From: MACKINNON@bison.fnal.gov (Bryan MacKinnon, Fermilab Computing Oyster)
Subject: [*] Screen/Shinagawa.hqx
Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858) is perhaps the most famous artist of late feudal
Japan. And of his work RFifty-Three Stages of the Tokaido is his most well
known. The Tokaido was a great highway that extended from Edo (present day
Tokyo) to Kyoto. On it were fifty-three stages, or stops, where travellers
could rest, eat, sleep, and enjoy life while they made their way. Hiroshige
recorded each of these stops in wood-block prints which were widely produced
and very popular among his contemporaries.
This selection is a startup screen of stop number two, Shinagawa (and may be
used with Backdrop, Randomizer, etc). Shinagawa is a section of Tokyo (Edo)
and is every bit as lively today as in Hiroshige's time (although now it looks
nothing like it did then). In this RprintS, you will see Daimyo's (Feudal
Lord's) procession passing from the water front into a row of shops and houses
while fishing boats are anchored in the bay.
Of course, this is freeware. You may do with it what you want as long as you
don't do anything that would make Hiroshige upset.
Enjoy,
Bryan MacKinnon
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Batavia, IL 60510 USA
mackinnon@bison.fnal.gov
[Archived as /info-mac/art/shinagawa.hqx; 19K]
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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 90 00:27:48 EDT
From: wang@pennmess.physics.upenn.edu ( Huangxin Wang)
Subject: Battery problem with Mac
This problem has been driving me cracy for months: the clock on my Mac Plus
won't work! At first it just went wrong, so I thought it was out of battery.
But the new battery just did no help: Still the same problem. Obviously
it's the problem with the PRAM since the control panel also goes wrong (such
as when I set the Mouse, every time after I reboot, it is set back to the
original. For the clock, when I correct the time, if I reboot immediately,
then it's fine, but if I reboot after a day, then I might be back to the future
or to the past (not necessary to 1904). Then I found out the "Dr. Macintosh"
book, there is talking of "zapping the PRAM" in the book. So I zapped it:
turn of the Mac, disconnect the power code, take out the battery, wait for 10
minuits, then put everything back again. Then I set the time, control panel,
etc. But when I turn on the next day, the clock is still cracy!
Does anyone know what's really going on? I remember the other day someone
talked about a problem with circuit of PRAM, but I forget how to solve
the problem. Does this sound related to that?
Thanks a lot in advance!
Huangxin Wang, University of Pennsylvania
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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 1990 16:44-EDT
From: Tom.Lane@g.gp.cs.cmu.edu
Subject: Big disk drives and "concurrent resources" limit (Info-Mac Digest V8 #161)
>This bug is repeatable. According to the La Cie user manual, "If you
>exceed 2,727 concurrent resourcesm the Desktop Manager will not work
>properly." A call to La Cie said that the same statement applied to
>the Finder. I asked what they meant by "concurrent resources" and they
>said they thought that meant "application programs."
The magic number 2727 is the maximum number of resources that can fit
into the Desktop file; this limit is wired into the Resource Manager
and is not readily removable. (I believe it arises from a 16-bit
limit on the size of the resource map.)
The main things that go into the Desktop file are application bundles
(typically half a dozen resources per application) and File Info
comments (one resource per file that has a comment). Unless you have
either a huge number of distinct application programs, or a lot
of files with comments, I wouldn't expect that the Desktop file
would overflow.
The easiest way to recover from this is probably to rebuild the
Desktop file; that'll get rid of any duplicate resources and also
all of the File Info comments.
There is a Mac Tech Note that explains all this, but I don't have
it handy.
I've heard that System 7 will provide a new implementation of the
Desktop file that'll cope better with large disks. The present
implementation is horrendously slow with large Desktop files,
as well as having this hard limit on the file size...
--
tom lane
Internet: tgl@cs.cmu.edu
UUCP: <your favorite internet/arpanet gateway>!cs.cmu.edu!tgl
BITNET: tgl%cs.cmu.edu@cmuccvma
CompuServe: >internet:tgl@cs.cmu.edu
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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 90 13:51:36 EDT
From: Mark Edward Toomey <MTOOMEY@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: Blesser 1.1, Big Cheese, Ripper & Melt DA
Does anyone know of a site where I can FTP the abovementioned files? If
anyone would upload them to Sumex or elsewhere I would appreciate it.
Thanks in advance!
**************************************************************************
Mark Edward Toomey Disclaimer: I only speak for
Computer Services Specialist myself, although
College of Family & Consumer Sciences sometimes I wonder
University of Georgia even about that!
BITNET: MTOOMEY@UGA
Internet: mtoomey@uga.cc.uga.edu
Voice: 404-542-4864 or 404-542-4651
FAX: 404-542-4862
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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 90 20:44:00 SST
From: TNG TaiHou <ISSTTH%NUSVM.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu>
Subject: DIN 8 - DB25 COMMUNICATIONS PINOUT
Help!!! I need the pinouts for connecting a din8 to db25 so I can
hook up to an external modem, or control my Sony laserdisc player.
Please help me. Send mail directly to me at ISSTTH@NUSVM. Many thanks.
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Date: Thu, 27 SEP 90 14:38:29 GMT
From: AEIC0456%VAX1.CENTRE.QUEENS-BELFAST.AC.UK@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Fast Formatter 3.0 Confusion !
Gann,
It's the same program from Beyond yes. I formatted another
10 HD floppies yesterday to 1.44 Mb. You have to be using a
superdrive of course and you mustn't cover the hole on the other
side of the write protect hole on the floppy or the Mac won't
know it's a HD disc. I've a IIx running 6.0.4.
George
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Date: Tue, 25 Sep 90 17:15:28 -0700
From: jlouch%polyslo.CalPoly.EDU@ricevm1.rice.edu (John Louch)
Subject: Giff files
Netters,
First of all, I'm afraid there is a small problem. I was the one who posted
the question about the Mac IIci and said I would send peopl the files htatwere
interested. Well, anyway I moved and have a new address no longer
loucha@clargrad.bitnet, now jlouch@polyslo.calpoly.edu. Please send me any
information you have on the cache cards made for the IIci. If you send an
address and a request I'll try to get a list of the replies to my questions out
to you in the near future.
Now for a real question. I've been trying to anonymous ftp giff files from
wuarchive.wustl.edu for the mac but am getting them in a strange format. Is
there away to ftp these files ina format that when I download them from the
mainframe the mac can read and convert them. Thanks in advance!
John Louch
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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 90 15:21:37 PDT
From: dmittman@beowulf.jpl.nasa.gov (David Mittman)
Subject: HyperHackers
Does anyone know if HyperHackers is still active and where,
if any, their archives are? - David
DMittman@Beowulf.JPL.NASA.GOV
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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 90 13:19 MST
From: Steve <SLOUIE@ccit.arizona.edu>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V8 #160
MS-Word on a PC
If you get Word for Windows, the interface will be close but not
exactly the same as the Mac. One of the options in saving is to save
as a MS-Word Mac file. You can then save it to an IBM PS/2 disk
and then read it on a SuperDrive equipped Mac with the Apple File
Exchange. You've got to start the File Exchange program first and
then insert the PC disk. It will read right up into a Mac converted
MS-Word format.
.
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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 90 16:39:11 EDT
From: mfeldman@eesun.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)
Subject: introducing SmallAda 1990, for free!
F R E E S O F T W A R E A N N O U N C E M E N T
SmallAda 1990 for Apple Macintosh and IBM-PC family computers
=============================================================
copyright 1990, The George Washington University
project supervised by
Prof. Michael B. Feldman
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
The George Washington University
Washington, DC 20052 USA
202-994-5253
mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu
SmallAda is a compiler/interpreter for a part of the Ada language, namely
the "Pascal subset" plus the Ada tasking support. It is not intended
ever to be a full Ada compiler, rather a vehicle for teaching, learning,
and experimenting with concurrent programming. The compiler is quite
fast, producing P-code which is then interpreted by the interpreter.
Both the Mac and DOS versions are integrated systems, complete with editor
and window-oriented runtime monitor. The Mac editor is like any Mac ASCII
editor, supporting cut/copy/paste and the like. The Mac version is Mac-like.
The DOS version editor is Turbo-Pascal or WordStar-like, including pull-
down menus for editor and compiler commands. No mouse support is provided
at this time.
We are handling these systems as "freeware," meaning that we distribute them
without charge and without obligation, but we retain the copyright and wish
to keep the distribution and our mailing list under reasonable control.
Executables may be obtained by sending e-mail to mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu.
By return e-mail I will send you a simple license form which you can mail
back to me with formatted disks.
THE TASKING MODEL
We have tried to be reasonably faithful to Ada tasking. The scheduler is
designed to show some of the important issues of concurrent programming,
therefore time-slicing is implemented, and the length of the slice is
randomly determined. Also, at each rescheduling point the next task to
be scheduled is selected randomly. This is to give a reasonable model of
nondeterministic (unpredictable) behavior.
The Macintosh environment provides a number of capabilities for runtime
monitoring of a SmallAda program. You can open a window for MAIN and
for each task in your program, and watch the source code scroll through
the window as the program runs. There is also a control window that gives
lots of information on task states, etc., and a P-code window that scrolls
the P-code as it is executed by the interpreter. Run in slow-motion mode,
this provides lots of insight into the workings of an interpreter and
the source-code scrolling can also be used just to show beginning students
how the logic of a program is executed.
The Mac windows are entirely under the user's control, that is they can
be opened, closed, moved, or re-sized at will, just like any Mac windows.
PC window management is in general not as easy as it is in the Macintosh,
so the windowing system here is not quite as sophisticated. We do support
the source-code windows for all tasks; they can be opened or closed
individually but their size is "hard-wired" and they cannot be moved.
Speed control is supported, which allows the user to speed up or slow
down the execution of the interpreter. All this is done with the usual
PC-oriented function key commands.
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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 90 07:12 CST
From: BPRODEN%UALR.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Locking directory structure
Does anyone know of a utility that will let me lock files and folders into a
particular HFS structure? We have a common Mac in our office, and the non-
computer people are always dragging files and folders around, making it hard
to find things. Sometimes they come to me asking "Where's the word processor?
I can't find it." I look around, and usually the file or folder has been
dragged inside another folder.
Also, when I start up the Mac, sometimes only one folder appears on the
hard drive, when there are actually 10 there. Does anyone know what causes
this? Usually after restarting a couple of times, the other folders reappear.
Could this be a new virus that plays invisible folders?
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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 90 09:43:43 LCL
From: ESMITH%SUVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Mac-Link Translators
Derk,
I saw your query on the bulletin board and thought I'd respond. I use
a package called Mac-Link Translators that will perform the translation
>From MS-Word on the Mac to a PC file. I've had good results using this
package. You should be aware however that re-formatting after a translation
is almopst always necessary since the fonts between the Mac and PC are seldom
close enough to make all the tab stops and margins look the same. This cleanup,
while a pain, is usually quite easy.
I'm not at all sure about the way the graphics will translate. I reported
a problem translating TIFF files to PC format to DataViz (the makers of the
translators). Apparently the files translate fine but trying to import them
to Wordperfect presents a header translation problem. They admitted there
seems to be a problem. They also are apparently unable to translate eps files
>From Mac to PC even though they claim they can. With this in mind there may be
a problem translating graphics to MS-Word using these translators.
Let me know if you need any more information.
As Always,
Gene
ESMITH@SUVM.BITNET
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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 1990 16:56-EDT
From: Tom.Lane@g.gp.cs.cmu.edu
Subject: macpage PS cartridge for LaserJet (Info-Mac Digest V8 #161)
>Has anyone has any experiences, good or bad, with using
>the macpage postscript cartridge (or any other PS cartridge)
>with the HP Laser Jet printers with their Mac ?
John,
I would strongly urge that you go with HP's licensed-Adobe
PostScript cartridge if you have a LaserJet IId, IIp, or III,
or Adobe's own PostScript cartridge for the original Series II.
The Pacific Data MacPage cartridge is a "clone" implementation of
PostScript and suffers from serious problems.
I have a III with the HP/Adobe cartridge and am quite happy with
it; its *only* drawback is that it doesn't provide a programmable
way of switching between PS and HP modes. (You have to power down
the printer and insert or remove the PS cart.)
I have not personally used the Pacific Data cart, but I have
seen numerous complaints about it on the net; it is apparently
slow, buggy, and not very compatible with real Adobe PostScript.
It also appears that the manufacturer is not very responsive to
complaints, and that their tech support people are unfamiliar with
Macintoshes. I have saved some of the messages about it and
can forward them to you if you want to see them.
Upgrading a bare LaserJet to PostScript will cost you about $1000
(at least it cost me that a couple months ago). Buying the P.D.
cart instead of HP's will save you only $100 or so out of that;
I'd say it's not a good deal. (I do recommend that you buy the
extra printer memory you'll need from Pacific Data or South
Coast Electronics; HP charges about three times what it's worth.
P.D.'s memory boards seem to have a good reputation; I bought
my extra memory from S.C.E. and am happy with it.)
--
tom lane
Internet: tgl@cs.cmu.edu
UUCP: <your favorite internet/arpanet gateway>!cs.cmu.edu!tgl
BITNET: tgl%cs.cmu.edu@cmuccvma
CompuServe: >internet:tgl@cs.cmu.edu
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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 90 11:19:45 PDT
From: 6600patb%ucsbuxa@hub.ucsb.edu (Pat Breitenbach)
Subject: MS-Word from Mac to PC ?
In comp.sys.mac.digest you write:
>Hello,
>I'm asking this for a friend of mine, who is currently preparing a thesis
>on a Mac, using MS-Word 4.0, macDrawII, macPaint and superPaint(?).
>For some very good reasons, he would like to continue the work on a PC,
>without struggling with learning the features of another editor, so he
>wants to use MS-Word on a PC.
>Can anyone tell if
>- the user-interface of MS-Word on a PC differs much from the Mac?
I don't know much about PC's but will tell you as much as I can.
there are two MS Words for PCs, regular MS Word (v5.0 I believe) and
Word for Windows (I assume you know about Windows). WinWord (as it
is called) is very similar to MacWord and would be relatively
easy to learn for any MacWord user. Word 5.0, however, is similar
to traditional DOS character based programs and might present
some problems as far training time.
>- it is possible to convert MS-Word 4.0-files to a PC, and how should
Word 4.0 gives you the option to save files in DOS format to be used
on a PC. The requirement is that you have a Mac with a SuperDrive (the
ones that can store 1.44 MB on a single floppy, they've been standard
in all Macs for several months). The disk should be initialized on
a PC and then can be used to store files in the manner described above.
When Saving as... in Word 4.0, click on the File Format... button
and you will be given the choice to save in DOS format.
> that be done (preferably using discs, instead of cables, modems or networks)
>- this conversion includes graphics? If not, how can that be done?
I've never tried this so I'm not sure how the formatting or graphics
come out. Sorry.
>- there are programs, comparable with macDraw and/or macPaint, on a PC?
Windows 3.0 comes bundled with a MacPaint style program called
PaintBrush and the drawing program that I've heard about for Windows
is CorelDraw. I imagine it's better than MacDraw.
>Sorry if this question has been asked and answered before.
>If there is enough interest, I'll summarize to the net.
>Please reply by e-mail; I don't subscribe this group.
>Thanks for your help!
>Derk Ederveen
>e-mail: D_Ederveen@pttrnl.nl or
> ederveen@hlsdnl5.bitnet
Hope this helped. Perhaps you've gotten some responses from people
who've actually done these conversions. Good Luck.
Patrick Breitenbach Internet: 6600patb@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu
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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 90 14:58:24 MDT
From: daspit%zodiac@johns.Stanford.EDU (John Daspit, C.U. LASP, (303)492-6951)
Subject: MSWord justification
Hi netters,
We recently ran into a problem where small point sizes would not
right justify in Word. After several iterations of communications with
Microsoft a soultion to the problem was found: replace the Laserwriter
driver with a newer version called (confusedly enough) 6.0.1. The only
problem is that now any machine running multifinder bombs out (in various ways)
when printing (looking at printmonitor, etc.) We should have plenty of
memory (4 meg) to print (no other software launched at the same time).
This has happened on a MAC II as well as a IIci with totally different DAs
installed. Anyone with comments/suggestions/similar experiences?
Thanks! John Daspit. DASPIT@COLOLASP (bitnet).
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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 90 14:23:51 EDT
From: "Gregory E. Gilbert" <C0195%UNIVSCVM.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu>
Subject: Multifinder Problems
I am running a Mac SE, with 2M RAM and 40M hard drive. When I do
"Set StartUp" Multifinder and restart I cannot access anything under the
Apple menu except "About Multifinder". Anyone have any ideas? I looked
through my documentation and could find a reference to this type of behaviour.
Thanks for any help! Regards,
Greg.
Postal address: Gregory E. Gilbert
Computer Services Division
University of South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina USA 29208
(803) 777-6015
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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 90 02:03 PDT
From: Gann Matsuda <IYI4DTN@oac.ucla.edu>
Subject: Norton Utilities
I have had no problems with Norton Utilities for the Macintosh. In
fact, I have stopped using Disk Express II in favor of Speed Disk for
disk optimization. It works flawlessly (and faster) on my IIci, running
System 6.0.5 on a SuperMac DataFrame XP100i (actually a Quantum 105).
I have also used the Norton Utilities to recover files from crashed
floppies a few times with 100% of the file recovered. So far, I like the
package. I also like Mac Tools Deluxe--they both work well, although
I like Speed Disk much better than the Optimizer program in the Mac
Tools package.
Gann M.
UCLA Asian American Studies Center
BITNET: IYI4DTN@UCLAMVS
INTERNET:iyi4dtn@oac.ucla.edu
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Date: Thu, 27 SEP 90 14:45:42 GMT
From: AEIC0456%VAX1.CENTRE.QUEENS-BELFAST.AC.UK@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Password Protecting the Control Panel ?
Dave,
When I set up our lab I had the same problem as you with people
changing settings in the Control Panel. I decided on the configuration
I wanted on each machine then created a folder within the System folder
and copied most of the control panel stuff to it i.e. the General, Sound,
Mouse files etc. - the only things you can access from the Control panel
now are innocuous things which provide information such as MacEnvy or the
likes of SAM which you can set a password on - life is much better !
George
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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 90 16:02:19 HAE
From: Carlos Reed <CLRPFSE%LAVALVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Qms 410 , TI ps35 & TI ps17
Hi Nets
Can anybody give some feedback about the fallowing laser printers.
1-QMS 410
2-Texas Instruments PS17
3-Texas Instruments PS35
Do they have incompatibility problems with softwear?, Are they real po
stscript, Does softwear like page maker have the drivers for these printer
Thanks a lot for your help I'll sumarize this on the network
Carlos Reed from beautiful and lovely Quebec
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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 90 11:35:35 PDT
From: radius!lemke@apple.com (Steve Lemke)
Subject: Slot numbers for video boards
In comp.sys.mac.digest you write:
>The Net,
>I have a question concerning how one can determine the slot number of a
>particular video board. The problem arises because you must know the slot
>number of the board if you want to insert a task into the vertical retrace
>queue for that particular monitor. (Yes, I must use the vertical retrace
>queue) However, I know of no way to determine the slot number of a particular
>board if more than one board is present in the machine. One solution is to
>check the ID of each board in the machine. -- However, this requires that you
>know the ID of every video board that might be used. If anyone has any idea
>how an application can determine what slot a particular video board is in,
>please help! Send your answer to me. Thanks!
There are at least two ways to do this. I'm describing this without the
benefit of having my Inside Macintosh Volume Five nearby, but you can look
it up and if you have problems let me know and I'll be a little more specific.
Having just done this (in assembly), I know it's possible. The quick and easy
way to check is to look at the pixmap of the gdevice in question, and look at
the base address. It will be something like $Fsxxxx, where s is the slot
number. You can also use the device manager and slot manager to check for
a given gdevice what slot it's in. If you don't get any better help than
this let me know and I can send you some sample code - I've also done this
in Pascal (about a year ago, so I'm a little hazy in remembering how to do it).
>Steve Kohlmeyer phone: (612) 626-1551
>Image Understanding Laboratory email: steve@eye.psych.umn.edu
>Department of Psychology
>University of Minnesota 55455
--Steve
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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 90 11:44:53 TST
From: Gokcer%TRBOUN.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: XCMD OR MACWRITE FILE FORMAT WANTED
Hi there Mac-netters,
I'm looking for an XCMD which can save and read from files in MacWrite
format with character informations intact. It will (and has to due to the lack
of type manipulation in HyperCard 1.2.x) save any container in MacWrite format
with only one type attribute (ie., Helvetica, 12 pt, plain), and of course,
will be able to do vice versa, that is, read a MacWrite document (no matter
how many type attributes are applied in it) into a container. Any type (PD,
commercial) is welcome.
If such an XCMD is unavailable, I have to write it myself. So where can
I find the MacWrite file format?
Thanks in advance.
Ertugrul Gokcen
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Bosphorus University, Istanbul, TURKEY
E-Mail Adress: GOKCER@TRBOUN.BITNET
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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 90 10:36:00 EST
From: Pete Tamas <V5296E%TEMPLEVM.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu>
Subject: XPress 3.1 upgrade, available online?
I read in MacWeek in 9/18/90 issue that the XPress 3.0 to 3.1 upgrade is
available online. Anyone know of an FTP site that has it?
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