Info-Mac-Request@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (The Moderators) (09/07/90)
Info-Mac Digest Thu, 6 Sep 90 Volume 8 : Issue 150
Today's Topics:
3270 Emulation for Mac
A problem using the print manager...
Asking for Suggestions/Information about Inexpensive Draw Programs
BinHex woes...
Copying files
DA launching problem
Determining total memory capacity
Fortran News
GAMES AGAIN
IBM 7375 Plotter with Mac?
Is there a LOGO-like program for the Mac?
Looking for Biological Taxonomy program
MIDI Interface recommendations?
Network Management tools on Mac
Neural Networks
Passage?
PM4 Shortcut DA
Postscript --> MS Word
Preview 2.0
Suggestion for Posting to the Net
Telnet 2.3 and Local<>Ether connections
The answer to .hqx decoding problems
TIFF viewers
TypeStyler
Viruses/Breakdown of MacII
waiting until October
What's a Binhex?
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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 90 11:52:53 PLT
From: Joshua Yeidel <YEIDEL%WSUVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: 3270 Emulation for Mac
tn3270 for macintosh is available from BROWNVM. Since you are on
Bitnet, try
TELL LISTSERV AT BROWNVM HELP
to get started. You may have a bootstrap problem, since BROWNVM
will "sendfile" the files to your mainframe -- then you'll need to
download them to the Mac. Maybe there's more info on BROWNVM --
I don't have time to check it out now.
- -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - --
Joshua Yeidel YEIDEL@WSUVM1.BITNET
Academic Computing Services YEIDEL@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu
Washington State University (509) 335-0441
Pullman, WA 99164-1226
DISCLAIMER: I'm speaking solely for myself here, not Washington State U.
-- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- -
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Date: Sun, 19 Aug 90 15:24 PDT
From: DAVID JOHN BURROWES <YODER@oregon.uoregon.edu>
Subject: A problem using the print manager...
I'm trying to get a program (DVIM72 v.1.4, though I suspect this is
irrelavant) to print on the WriteMove printer. I've not been having
success.
Hoping to isolate the problem, I have written a tiny program that does
nothing except a:
PrOpen
PrDefault
PrValidate
PrGeneral (doing a getrsldata)
PrClose
(along with the minimal toolbox initializations to get mythe thing running
under the debugger in Think C 4.0.0).
Oddly, the results returned by PrDevault and Validate indicate that the
printer has a 72dpi resolution. The PrGeneral call, however, indicates
that the resolution is 192 (this latter is the truth, though it does not
have an additional entry in the record list it returns for a 96dpi
resolution, which the printer is easily capable of).
(I'm running under system 6.0.2 on a Macintosh Plus. Version 1.2 of the
WriteMove driver).
Does anyone out there have enough experience with things like this to
point out where either (a) I am doing something very wrong, or (b) where I
might look further for the problem? Without source to the WriteMove driver,
I seem to find myself kinda stuck. =(
Thanks for any insights you can offer!
\david john burrowes
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Date: 19 Aug 90 17:04:00 EST
From: "Jeffrey Templon" <templon@venus.iucf.indiana.edu>
Subject: Asking for Suggestions/Information about Inexpensive Draw Programs
Hi,
I am trying to decide on a drawing program to run on the Macintosh.
I will be using it mostly to draw technical illustrations (for my thesis)
and to enhance other graphics (plots, histograms, spectra) which are created
on the VAX/VMS system here and captured as PICT by VersaTerm. The package
must meet the following criteria:
- must have arrows of different thicknesses in the DRAW layer (I have
deskdraw and it has lines, but no arrows as far as I can determine)
- should support editable text in several fonts (greek/symbol a must)
- must support Encapsulated Postscript output format (or some format
which can easily be converted to EPS; in particular the bounding
box of EPS is important since these graphics will ultimately be
included in TeX documents, and our DVI->PS drivers need this
bounding box in the postscript graphic in order to do something
intelligent with it)
- should be able to draw circular arcs easily, and support rotation
in small increments (like in 1 deg increments, not 15 deg increments!)
of objects about some arbitrary rotation center
- should have a good manual (i am not a professional illustrator, so
I need all the help I can get!)
- should not cost an arm and a leg (I consider $350 for Illustrator
to be an arm and a leg. I hope to find something closer to $100.)
Packages I have seen advertised which may fit the bill are Generic CADD
Level 1 ($83), UltraPaint ($125), Canvas ($189), SuperPaint ($125), FullWrite
Pro ($39 !! - has a "MacDraw-like drawing environment"), MacDraft ($193),
DeskPaint & DeskDraw 3.0 ($115 - I have 2.01/1.3 Paint/Draw). All prices
are latest Mac Connection. I am interested in
comments/suggestions/recommendations about any of these packages or others
which might be acceptable in regard to the requirements above. I am also
interested in receiving pointers to review articles on any of these packages
in MacUser, MacWorld, etc. I am especially interested in the two least
expensive - Generic CADD and FullWrite (I still can't believe this!). Please
e-mail your responses to me
templon@venus.iucf.indiana.edu .
If anybody is interested in what recs I get, let me know and I will forward
replies. If there is enough interest, I will post the replies as a report.
Thanks, ladies and gents!
Jeff Templon
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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 90 16:19:10
From: randy@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Randy Zagar)
Subject: BinHex woes...
Many thanks for all the responses on my binhex problems. For your
information, however, I would like to mention that BinHex v5.0 is
available via anonymous ftp at oswego.oswego.edu (129.3.1.1) under the
pub/mac/binhex directory. Version 5.0 has sucessfully decoded
everything I've downloaded from the info-mac archives without any
changes to the files.
Randy Z.
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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 90 14:12:07 EDT
From: Kathy DuBose <DUBOSE%AKRONVM.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu>
Subject: Copying files
I encountered what I think is a interesting problem. I am using a MacIIcx
and an HP PaintJet. The HP PaintJet comes with software that allows spooled
printing. I simulatneously copied the three necessary files from the
HP diskette to my system folder. However, I could not get the spooled
printing to work properly, as a matter of fact, it behaved somewhat
eratically.
After several hours of frustration and many calls to HP, HP suggested that
I copy the files one at a time to the system folder. Believe it or not
that completely solved my problems. Has anyone else ever had or heard
of such a problem with copying several files at once. I am really interested
in this problem.
You can reply directly to me: DUBOSE@AKRONVM
Kathy DuBose
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Date: 16 Aug 90 11:37:00 EDT
From: "Charles E. Bouldin" <bouldin@sed.ceee.nist.gov>
Subject: DA launching problem
I am running Multifinder 6.1b7 (for the "Set Aside" feature) and have just
started to have a problem launching DA's. No DA will run. I just get a beep
when I try. However, holding the option key down and launching works. I looked
at "About Finder" and I see that the System has used ~95% of the 808K allocated
for it. I suspect that this is why I can't run DA's. I probably need to increase
the system heap size or some such.
Any hints? Anyone seen this before? What causes it and how do I fix it??
[You might be missing the DA Handler application. -- Jon]
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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 90 10:15 EST
From: 17-Aug-1990 1011 <ELIOT@cs.umass.edu>
Subject: Determining total memory capacity
Can someone tell me how to determine the total RAM capacity of a
Mac from Think C? I would like it to be compatible withany type
of mac with or without multifinder. The SysEnvirons procedure
does not return this info, nor do any global variables seem to.
(I have IM I-V). But "About the finder" and "MacEnvy" both
determine this value, so it can be done.
Any help will be appreciated.
Chris Eliot
Umass/Amherst
Eliot@cs.umass.edu
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Date: 16 Aug 90 11:43:00 EDT
From: "Charles E. Bouldin" <bouldin@sed.ceee.nist.gov>
Subject: Fortran News
Here is some very interesting news for fortran users, and, actually, for anyone
who programs on the Mac in any language. In both Absoft's MacFortran II compiler
and Language Systems 2.1 release of Fortran there is a compiler switch that
*automatically* includes code for background multifinder operation! This means
that you can run number-crunching in the background and, best of all, all of
that horrible old fortran code that you use will do this without you touching
the source.
I have beta-tested both products and it really does work. Code for context
switching is automatically inserted at appropriate points during compilation
and the user can adjust the level of background processing to trade off fast
background operation as opposed to a more lively foreground. If you don't do
anything in the foreground, the penalty in execution speed in the background
can be 10-25%, which I find quite tolerable.
I think this is a BRILLIANT concept and it could be done in with any compiler
on the Mac. I think this enormously simplifies the process of writing MF
friendly applications on the Mac.
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Date: Mon, 20 Aug 90 12:59:07 SST
From: TNG TaiHou <ISSTTH%NUSVM.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu>
Subject: GAMES AGAIN
This is a continuation of my previous mail.
I have the original Starglider for the Mac. This games is nice, but
grossly written for the mac. It works only on the Plus and SEs and is
hardcoded for the 9" b&w screen. Looks like the porting is simply
done by taking the original code and making it work on the Mac. The
Mac has become, in this case, just a machine with cpu, memory, and
display. No attempt was made to use the rom routines.
Since the two CD Rom games for the Mac (Manhole and Cosmic Osmo),
nobody else I know wants to write another one. And you thought the
Mac has a nice environment for a CD ROM. Sierra OnLine (King's Quest)
has released CD ROM games for the PC (VGA Color), but has no plans
to do so for the Mac. I am wrong, there is another CD (LaserDisc) game
(multimedia), but it is pornography, much like those envisioned in Arthur
C Clark's Cradle.
What is happening here? Why is there a shortage of developers for
the home market?
High price, lack of inexpensive tools, and generally (surprise) a
lack of experience in game-development on the Mac.
Come on, Apple. Games are the stuff that pushes the machine to its
limits, sound, graphics, storage, memory management, etc etc.
Push for it, please, or in a few years time, kids will grow up thinking
Macs are underpowered and will not touch it anymore.
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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 90 09:25:44 +0200
From: Jay Rolls <jrolls@frg.bbn.com>
Subject: IBM 7375 Plotter with Mac?
This question might have been posed previously.....is there software available
to interface and drive an IBM 7375 Plotter? This plotter has a scsi port, a
serial port, and a parallel port, so I would guess needs no special hardware
to attach to a Mac. What about software? Please respond directly to me
(unless you think others could benefit from your reply). Appreciate any
assistance.
Jay Rolls
<jrolls@bbn.com>
Stuttgart, West Germany
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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 90 16:06:25 EDT
From: Bruce Abernethy <bda@uengr.calvin.edu>
Subject: Is there a LOGO-like program for the Mac?
Have there been any LOGO like languages/platforms written for the Macintosh?
[Yes] What are there names? Any comments or suggestions?
[No] Has anyone written UNITs or LIBraries for PASCAL or C environments that
could be used to simulate a LOGO language subset?
[else] Will I have to write these routines/programs myself? >groan<
Bruce Abernethy, Computer Center Hotline, Calvin College
<bda@uengr.calvin.edu> (616) 957-8555
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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 90 15:24:05 GMT-0500
From: williams@oyster.smcm.edu (Bill Williams)
Subject: Looking for Biological Taxonomy program
I've run across a program for doing biological taxonomy, but now I can't find
it. Any suggestions? Seems to me the program was claled "Clade" or "Hennig,"
or somesuch. It allowed one to specify characters and then enter data about
these characters for a number of organisms. The program would then form a
hierarchical tree, with more similar organisms closer together and more
different ones farther apart.
Any help locating such a program would be much appreciated. I've checked in
the Sumex-aim archives, and at IUBIO; no luck.
W. E. Williams
Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
St. Mary's College of Maryland
St. Mary's City, MD 20680
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Date: 18 Aug 90 18:28:00 MDT
From: "2614 Rieb, Declan A." <darieb1@sandia.gov>
Subject: MIDI Interface recommendations?
Has anybody any recommendations for a MIDI interface for a beginning musician?
We've got a Mac 512Ke and a Casio CT-640, and would like to try some basic
experiments/learning. Looking in a mail order catalog, we find:
Altech Systems MIDI Interface $59
Altech Systems MIDIFace II $85
Opcode Systems Professional + $59
Passport Design Passport MIDI $89
We've got a small budget, so even these prices are close to daunting, but we
don't want to suffer from "if you pay a little less, then you get a lot less."
Any recommendations would be nice. Given enough responses, we'll summarize for
the net.
Declan A. Rieb and Brian Rieb INTERnet:DARieb@Sandia.GOV
Org 2635 (Supercomputer Consulting)
Sandia National Laboratories dxxr@LANL.GOV
Albuquerque, NM 87185-5800 Bell: (505) 845-8515
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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 90 17:41:05 SST
From: Wong Chee Heng <CCEWCH%NUSVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Network Management tools on Mac
I am looking for some PD software that allows me to view packets & analyse
protocol and layers on the LocalTalk cable and Ethernet cable.
Please send the reply as direct. I shall summarize to the list if there is
enough interest.
Thanks.
Wong Chee Heng (bitnet: ccewch at nusvm)
Computer Centre
National University of S'pore
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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 90 11:08:47 CDT
From: Graeme Forbes <PL0BALF@vm.tcs.tulane.edu>
Subject: Neural Networks
NeuralWare has just released NeuralWorks Explorer ($199 list) for the Mac.
A few issues back, AI Expert praised the PC version highly. Has anyone used
the Mac version? How Mac-like is it? Thanks in advance for any information.
(NeuralWare: 412-787-8222).
Graeme Forbes
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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 90 18:07 EST
From: "Roger Marks, Boulder, CO. 303-497-3037" <MARKS@enh.nist.gov>
Subject: Passage?
Can someone give me the name and address of the distributor of the graphing
program called "Passage"? Thanks,
Roger
MARKS@ENH.NIST.GOV,MARKS@NBSENH.BITNET
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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 90 08:18:13 EDT
From: Mark Edward Toomey <MTOOMEY@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: PM4 Shortcut DA
Does anyone know where I can get Mark Teranishi and Paul Sorrick's
PM4 Shortcut DA which contains help pages for Pagemaker? It was cited
in the MacInTouch section of the August 14 issue of MacWeek. I don't
subscribe to Compuserve and have checked several Internet sites but to
no avail. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Mark
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Computer Services Specialist myself, although
College of Family & Consumer Sciences sometimes I wonder
University of Georgia even about that!
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Voice: 404-542-4864 or 404-542-4651
FAX: 404-542-4862
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Date: Mon, 20 Aug 90 11:50:14 TST
From: MOLLA%TRBOUN.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Postscript --> MS Word
Does anybody know how to import Postscript text files into MS-Word?
Thanks for your interest.
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Date: Sun, 19 Aug 90 18:54:41 EDT
From: sbchanin@ai.mit.edu (Steve Chanin)
Subject: Preview 2.0
A while back, I remember seeing a message about preview 2.0 being in the
archives as util/preview-20.hqx, but when I checked the archives today, it
wasn't there. If anybody has a copy of this, could you mail it to me?
Thanks,
Steve
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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 90 12:04:06 PLT
From: Joshua Yeidel <YEIDEL%WSUVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Suggestion for Posting to the Net
Many queries to info-mac include a line like "reply directly to me and
I will post a summary to the net". I would like to suggest that such
summaries be posted as "reports" into the archives rather than as
messages in the info-mac digest. The reports are easy to find and
valuable long after the messages disappear into the haze of last
year's multi-megabytes of stuff.
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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 90 11:23:20 EDT
From: paisley@mte.ncsu.edu (Mike)
Subject: Telnet 2.3 and Local<>Ether connections
George Williams recently wrote:
> But then our trusty support folks upgraded us to OS 6.0.4 and Telnet
> 2.3, and though I can use LocalTalk ok, I can't use the EtherTalk --
> the control panel tell you that it can't get a necessary resource, and
> puts you back in LocalTalk. This sounds like more of an OS problem
> than a Telnet problem, but we still haven't got it figured out.
>From my experience (a numbe of Macs on both Local and Ether Talk connections),
you are on the right track.
> However, addition to that, we're told that with 2.3, in order to
> switch between Ether and Local it's necessary to edit the Telnet
> config file to reflect which hardware it should be using. I haven't
> dug into the documentation yet, but this seems like a giant step
> backward in user friendliness, and counter to the intent of the
> Control Panel. If anyone out there has a response to this, I shure
> would like to hear it, and maybe it would help to resolve Hector's
> problem also.
This is true for 2.3, you do put it in the config.tel file. However, we are
running a number of network services (e.g., Microsoft Mail, etc.) that won't
let you change the type of connection without rebooting, so we don't, and it
isn't a problem for us. One option that does work, though, is that Telnet
will use EtherTalk if it is specified in the config.tel file even if LocalTalk
is selected in the Control Panel. This lets you access Mac-thingys on
LocalTalk for printing and such, but gives you your EtherTalk connection for
mainframe communications. I have done it and it works. I'm not sure if the
reverse is true, but I'm not sure why you would want to do that anyway. Hope
this helps.
Michael J. Paisley PAISLEY@MTE.NCSU.EDU
Materials Science & Engineering PAISLEY%MTE@NCSUVX.NCSU.EDU
Room 221, Research Building #1 PAISLEY@NCSUMTE.BITNET
Campus Box 7919 Office: (919) 737-7781
North Carolina State University Messages: (919) 737-2874
Raleigh, NC 27695-7919 FAX: (919) 737-3419
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Date: 17 Aug 90 08:15:00 CDT
From: "Coons, David" <ekdfc@ttacs1.ttu.edu>
Subject: The answer to .hqx decoding problems
Thanks to everyone who suggested solutions to the problem I wrote of here
of being unable to decode some of the .hqx files from the SUMEX archives
("CRC error" or "EOF error" always seemed to pop up). For those who may be
struggling with the same problem, here is what worked for me.
Multiple-part .hqx files (like "GreatGame-part1.hqx", "GreatGame-
part2.hqx", etc.) are NOT independent StuffIt files, but must first be
concatenated (in the proper order) into one big file before decoding. The
concatenation can be done with a text editor or by the "Unity" application.
Once concatenated, the decoding itself is probably done most conveniently
by StuffIt, since after the file is decoded, it usually has to be
unstuffed.
Unity, by the way, is located on sumex-aim.stanford.edu as
"info-mac/util/unity-311.hqx". Unity is small, easy to use, and much
faster than doing it manually with an editor.
Thanks again,
David Coons
Texas Tech University
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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 90 22:51:21 +0200
From: Steinar.Bang@elab-runit.sintef.no
Subject: TIFF viewers
Hi!
I am looking for TIFF-viewers, so I wonder:
1. Are there any free programs availiable? (preferably accessible by
anonymous ftp)
2. What commercial programs are availiable?
3. What is the type of TIFF-files on MacIntosh? (we are FTP-ing TIFF files
from a UNIX machine)
[1. Vision Lab here at Sumex. 2. PhotoShop, my favorite. 3. Binary -- Jon]
Thanx!
- Steinar
(Steinar Bang ELAB-RUNIT Trondheim Norway
,Steinar.Bang@elab-runit.sintef.no
,telephone +47 7 592028
,telefax +47 7 594302)
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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 90 08:49:35 EDT
From: Denis Beauchemin <IN10%UDESVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: TypeStyler
Hi,
I just bought TypeStyler at the MacWorld Expo (btw it was a great expo!)
and discovered that it didn't work on my non-US system. It seems that
it checks your system when you fire it up and won't run if you are using
any system other than the US one.
When I booted from a US system, I could use the program without any
problems but I didn't have access to the accented letters that are
available on my keyboard (french-Canadian).
The funny thing is that the version I bought is supposed to work only
in North-America. Since when Quebec, Canada isn't in North-America?
I called Broderbund and was told that I had to pay an extra 100$US
to get the international version that would work on my system!
I am pretty sure the North-American version will only work with
US-English systems so I wanted to warn other potential customers...
That's a pity considering the strengths of the program to put such
idiot restrictions on its use...
--> Denis Beauchemin, Analyste --> IN10@UDESVM.BITNET
Departement de mathematiques (819) 821-7022
et d'informatique
Universite de Sherbrooke
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Date: Sat, 18 Aug 90 22:11:26 EDT
From: Detlef_Sprinz@ub.cc.umich.edu
Subject: Viruses/Breakdown of MacII
Dear Netters:
My MacII (with system 6.0.5) is currently breaking down, and I suspect that
there might be a new virus on the campus of the University of Michigan at
Ann Arbor that cannot be detected by Disinfectant 2.0.
The symptoms: Programs that are memory-intensive (I have only one MB RAM)
literally stall, the screen freezes, and I have to reboot it by pushing
the famous button on the back panel.
But even normal use with MS Word 4.0 leeds to strange encounters: Sometimes
the cursor just repeats the last letter typed as a long string and it is hard
to limit the mess.
Recently, the system only boots, but after all icons appear on the screen,
nothing can be moved, no window can be closed etc.
Booting with an external system does not help consistently, neither does the
replacement of the system folder with backups.
I would appreciate if persons experienceing the same problem or those who had
similar problems in the past would inform me of an alternative to erasing the
harddisk. To the best of my knowlegde, it is not a cdev problem since it
I worked with the current configuration for some time.
Vaccine and the Disinfectant init did
not catch anything, and Gatekeeper was not more successful either.
I am grateful to all those who help me solve the puzzle.
In case my problems are genuinely new, I will summarize to the net.
Detlef Sprinz
Dep. of Political Science
The University of Michigan
Internet: Detlef_Sprinz@UB.CC.UMICH.EDU
Bitnet: USER6GF2@UMICHUB
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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 90 17:25:19 EST
From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL%UCONNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: waiting until October
On Fri, 17 Aug 90 08:21:16 EDT you said:
>From what I can understand, the prices on some Mac lines are supposed to
>drop. The IIcx already dropped $1,000 in the last month or so. I'm
>waiting till the market shakes out before I buy. I got advise to
>hold off till October. I don't know what is out there to come but......
There is a price special on the IIci (in either store or Apple inventories)
which leads some to suspect that something's about to happen with the IIci
(the IIci has a *peculiar* memory map, and I hear there's going to be a
'revised' IIcx). Could it be that the IIcx and IIci are going to become
the IIcxi (what! a "seeing eye" Mac :-) ??
The long awaited K-12 Mac(s) allegedly will be announced in October (if
Info-World's got the facts correct, the 'modular-color' version will have
a 20 MHz 68030 and list for something like $2,495 -- THAT could give both
the IIcx and IIci serious competition!) Some line simplification probably
is in order. My local educational retailer says she's heard the K-12
color won't be out until after Jan (maybe she's got that confused with the
Apple II card for the K-12 Mac?).
Then there's the 68040 Mac rumor. I haven't heard that Motorola is producing
040 CPU's in sufficient quantity yet (Hewlett-Packard's still selling a
68030 workstation with a promise to upgrade to 040 as soon as the CPU's
become available). I'd guess Apple's not going to announce anything more
amazing than the IIfx until after the first of the year, and the next
generation (Motorola 88000 Mac's) are likely to require System 7 (or 32-bit
clean Macware running under A/Ux).
Developers at a recent conference with Apple told 'em that the Mac's price
to performance ratio is too high. As long as Mac's market share is stuck
at about 10% developers are increasingly tempted to develop for
MS-DOS Windows 3 first and port to Mac (maybe) later. That notion *might*
cause Apple to make some meaningful adjustments in their pricing strategy,
but I wouldn't count on it by October...
As for me, the State of Connecticut *finally* decided they should supply me
with a computer they own instead of making me use my own. I'm learning how
to live with a Mac IIci 80 HD :-)
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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 90 9:05:44 EDT
From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@pica.army.mil>
Subject: What's a Binhex?
>Hi Mac People|
>
>I'm new to all this Bitnet stuff, so could somebody steer me in the right
>direction?? I want to download some files from the info-mac archives thru
> a VM/CMS sytstem to a MAC.
>
>What programs/utilities/etc do I need. I can "GET" hqx files from MACSERVE
>at PUCC, but I don't know how to get the hqx file to the mac in a usable
>format. I assume I need some form of binhex, but I cannot find anything that's
>not also in hqx format.
>
>THanks for helping me get started.
>
>Mike Holtzman, St. John's University, New York
>HOLTZMAN@SJUVM
>
>[You need a Mac guru to give you StuffIt 1.5.1 and use the Decode Binhex...
>menu item. -- Jon]
>
I don't believe that this is entirely true. The one question in my mind is
whether BITNET folks can get binaries from the MACSERV. If so, binhex 4.0 is
in binary format. The info-mac archive location is /info-mac/util/binhex4.bin.
Iff BITNETters can get binaries, this is the one to get. THEN, they can get
StuffIt 1.5.1 and unhex *it*.
Just another opinion...
tom coradeschi <+> tcora@pica.army.mil <+> tcora@dacth01.bitnet
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