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Info-Mac Digest Fri, 29 Jun 90 Volume 8 : Issue 127
Today's Topics:
Answers to French Thesaurus/Dictionary
Datadesk 101
Emulating a 3270 with a Mac
Finder C programming ??
ForTran on SE;SE/30
Getting HPGL out of a Mac
Kerning and Freehand
Looking for DeskPict 1.1 or ColorDesk
Murph's VAPORWARE Column for July 1990
printing to file
Publishing Graphics
Re- Zoom modems
SafeEject INIT
SARGON
SimCity
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Date: Thu, 28 Jun 90 19:02 EST
From: <DLARRICK%TUFTS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Answers to French Thesaurus/Dictionary
Many thanks to all who replied to my question about a French spelling
dictionary and thesaurus for WriteNow. The general consensus is that there are
dictionaries available for MS Word and Nisus, but not for WriteNow.
I called T/Maker, the publisher of WriteNow, and asked the same question. They
replied that there would be foreign-language dictionaries for the spelling
checker "Real Soon Now." Evidently the French one is being developed by a real
live French company.
The computer industry sure has come a long way. 8 years ago when my Dad got
a state-of-the-art Apple IIe, I would have thought a "spell checker" would help
a great deal in Wizardry--which is why I still insist on calling them "spelling
checkers."
-Doug Larrick
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Date: Fri, 29 Jun 90 01:05 EST
From: DOEMELC%Wabash.Bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Datadesk 101
Is there any way to 'fool' the Datadesk 101's keypad into thinking that it has a
Keypad = ?
I am trying to set up a Macintosh SE with a Datadesk extended keyboard for a
visually impaired professor at Wabash who is using a program by Berkeley Systems
(the name of which escapes me... apologies to Berkeley Systems...) that will
allow him to use the Macintosh interface through the keypad by speaking to him.
Unfortunately, this program uses a key on the Apple keypad that the Datadesk
keypad does not have.
Is there a way to fool the program with a macros program (preferrably 101-Keys
or the Apple-supplied macros program...)? Or does anyone have an alternative
suggestion?
Thank you for any help,
Christopher Doemel
DOEMELC@WABASH
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Date: Thu, 28 Jun 90 13:27:10 EDT
From: tblake%vaxa.dnet@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Thomas R. Blake)
Subject: Emulating a 3270 with a Mac
Folks,
Perhaps I've missed it, but here we use Brown's tn3270 for the Mac. This
little package does a fine job of emulating an IBM 3279g! (APL and Graphics
supported!) They have built it for use with NCSA's TCP/IP routines or MacTCP.
It even reads the NCSA Telnet Settings files!
TBLAKE@BINGVAXA.BITNET Thomas R. Blake
tblake@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu Lead Programmer/Analyst
Academic Computing
SUNY-Binghamton
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Date: Thu, 28 Jun 90 13:08:00 CST
From: Peter Gerhardstein <gerhard@sunserver.psych.umn.edu>
Subject: Finder C programming ??
Greetings to all,
I need some help. As per usual, if this is a simple question, please forgive me
.
I have a program to open PICT files and display them on the screen, and I would
like to have it use either PBHGetFInfo() or PBCatInfo () in combination with the
standard file package to allow a user to open one file in a directory and then
go through that directory and open and display ALL of the PICT files in the
directory. The Index section of I.M. V.4 seems to be exactly what I need, but I
CANNOT get it to work. Specifically:
What information (such as volumes ref #, working dir ref #, DirID, etc) do I
need to specify in addition to the ioFDirIndex field? Assume that the program
has just returned from a SFGetFile (or SFPGetFile) call in which the user opened
a file in the directory in question.
Any help at all would be appreciated - please respond to me, I'll summarize.
Peter C Gerhardstein INTERNET: gerhard@sunserver.psych.umn.edu
Image Understanding Laboratory BITNET: eqz6627@umnacvx.bitnet
University of Minnesota, Psychology
(612) 626-1551 Disclaimer: This is my opinion and nobody else's!
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Date: 28-JUN-1990 09:47:41.16
From: WSHIRLEY@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Subject: ForTran on SE;SE/30
Path: eagle.wesleyan.edu!wshirley
>From: wshirley@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest
Subject: ForTran on SE;SE/30
Message-ID: <30408@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Date: 28 Jun 90 09:47:09 GMT
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What experience do you have with ForTran compilers on the Mac?
We are looking for a compiler w debugger which will efficiently handle
large code (200k line) on the Mac SE and SE/30. The programs are very
number intensive so the speed of the compiled code is important too (i.e.
the effectiveness of the optimizing compiler). We currently have the
Absoft comiler without the FP option. The interface is poor and the
dbugger extremely poor.
Thanks.
William Shirley
WShirley@Eagle.Wesleyan.Edu
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Date: Thu, 28 Jun 90 13:10:24 EDT
From: tblake%vaxa.dnet@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Thomas R. Blake)
Subject: Getting HPGL out of a Mac
>My reasoning here is that the end-result counts for me.
>WordPerfect on the PC gives me nice camera-ready printouts that
>I can send to a journal. So do the various text-processors on
>the Macintosh, AND they give me a much nicer user-interface. But
>I can't include my graphs in my documents... So, I tend to
>relinquish the mouse and WYSIWYG, and use a less friendly
>program that does what I need.
I believe what you want is MacPlot Professional. This is a Chooser Document
which acts as a Printer Driver for an HPGL plotter. I understand it also will
allow you to produce an HPGL file on disk (for latter plotting) but in your
case of course you'd take it over to your PC for importing into WP. (*Heavy
Sigh*).
I'm curious as to why you want to produce a graph on the Mac, and then ship the
results to WP when you appear to prefer the user-interface on the Mac. (Why
aren't you just pasting your graphs into your documents in your favorite Mac
word processor?) (Unless perhaps you don't have a LaserWriter at your
disposal.) Oh well, it's none of my buisiness...
As for your graphing needs, I suggest you check out the demo of KaleidaGraph in
the archives. A number of my users are *quite* pleased with the difference
between this package and Cricket-Graph.
TBLAKE@BINGVAXA.BITNET Thomas R. Blake
tblake@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu Lead Programmer/Analyst
Academic Computing
SUNY-Binghamton
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Date: Thu, 28 Jun 90 21:27 PDT
From: BOLDUAN%catlin.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Kerning and Freehand
I'm having a serious problem with Freehand 2.02 not kerning properly.
The pair that seems to cause the most trouble is "re." On the screen
everything looks just fine, but when I print it on the laserprinter
there're unsightly (and sometimes HUGE) gaps between the letters. I tried
printing out the word "dares" and it came out "dar es." There was at least
an em-space between the r and the e. But while in that pair it is the most
noticeable, it still happens other times. The only fonts that seem to
be all right are the ones built in to the laserprinter.
And if I try to print out on the Imagewriter, things just get worse.
Even Zapf Chancery dies on the "re" pair and other fonts on other pairs.
I also noticed that FreeHand can't handle large text blocks. I typed in
nearly a page in Garamond 12 point and there were at least 10-15 kerning
errors. I'm pretty sure the problem is in Freehand, as I've not experienced
it in any other application. I'm running ATM 1.2, a myriad of INITs, and
Sys. 6.04 on an SE/30, though the problem has happened on a IIcx as well.
Unfortunately, I can't seem to isolate the problem any further. The
problem crops up _most_ of the time there's an "re" but not all the time.
And it's a bit different each time: in Zapf Chancery it eliminates the
space altogether cramming the letters right next to each other; but in
Garamond Bold, it simply separates them at least an em-space. While it
occurs on the Laserwriter, the problem is unbearable on the Imagewriter.
I know the IW isn't a postscript device, but one should at least be able
to print out a few lines of text, no? The page of text in Freehand, printed
on the IW, was nearly unreadable.
Can anybody help me?
Please respond via e-mail to this address. Thank you.
Kevin Bolduan
BOLDUAN@CATLIN Bitnet Address
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Date: Thu, 28 Jun 90 06:51:44 PDT
From: claris!drc@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Dennis Cohen)
Subject: Looking for DeskPict 1.1 or ColorDesk
In comp.sys.mac.digest you write:
>Does anyone know where I can get a copy of either DeskPict version 1.1
>or ColorDesk? The Info-Mac archives only have DeskPict v1.0. I couldn't
>find ColorDesk in the archives (is it PD/ShareWare?). Any help would be
>greatly appreciated.
Both of the utilities you mention have gone commercial. ColorDesk is a
part of the "Screen Gems" package and DeskPict is part of the "Now Utilities"
package.
--
Dennis Cohen
Claris Corp.
****************************************************
Disclaimer: Any opinions expressed above are _MINE_!
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Date: Thu, 28 Jun 1990 11:57:00 EDT
From: Murph Sewall <Sewall%UConnVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Murph's VAPORWARE Column for July 1990
VAPORWARE
Murphy Sewall
From the July 1990 APPLE PULP
H.U.G.E. Apple Club (E. Hartford) News Letter
$15/year U.S. - $18/year Canadian
P.O. Box 18027
East Hartford, CT 06118
Call the "Bit Bucket" (203) 569-8739
Permission granted to copy with the above citation
Analysts say that technology currently under development
will make most of the products on display at this June's
Comdex (many of which are not yet available for sale)
obsolete within three years. - CNN 5 June
Laser, Scanner, FAX, Modem.
National Semiconductor has introduced the NS32GX320
Imaging/Signal processor which can allow a single peripheral
to print, scan, send and receive FAXes and function as a
modem. Printer-FAX-copiers that include the new chip are
expected as early as next fall's Comdex. Ed Pullen, an
analyst at San Jose market research firm InfoCorp, predicts
an 8 page per minute unit will cost about $2,400.
- PC Week 28 May
"What If?" Graphics.
Bell Atlantic plans an August release of a Windows 3.0
program called Thinx which allows users to draw or import
images, attach numeric values or other attributes to them,
and then do "what if" analysis by manipulating the images.
Bell Atlantic product manager, Jack Coppley, says Thinx
blends drawing tools with database and spreadsheet
capabilities. The proposed retail price is $495.
- PC Week 11 June
Fall Colors.
Dauphin Technologies and Sharp Electronics both demonstrated
color laptop computers at last month's Comdex. Dauphin's
president, Alan Yong, says a 386-based slim screen LCD
portable will ship in September for about $10,000. Sharp's
active-matrix flat-panel color model is expected to be on
sale in the U.S. by the end of the year.
- InfoWorld 11 June
HP 50 MHz Workstations.
Hewlett-Packard's new line of 50 MHz workstations based on
the Motorola 68030 CPU was originally intended to be
introduced as a 68040 line of workstations. Motorola's
delay in shipping production quantities of the more powerful
CPU forced HP to change its plans, but the company will
offer "attractively priced" upgrades to the 68040 later this
year. - PC Week 11 June
Fall Radio Shack Catalog Item.
Advertising proof pages for this Fall's Radio Shack catalog
show a 20 MHz 80386SX model designated the 4020SX for
$2,199. - PC Week 11 June
Macintosh IIgs?
Maybe John Sculley's reference to a Macintosh IIgs, at
AppleVision '90 back in April, wasn't a "Freudian slip."
Word from Germany is that Apple dealers are telling their
salesmen not to turn away customers asking about the Apple
II. Instead the salesman are told to promote the Mac II
line which "can be upgraded to the Macintosh IIgs early next
year!" - found in my electronic mailbox
Low End Macs.
John Sculley is quoted as telling a developers conference
recently "We clearly underestimated the market importance
for new low-end and laptop Macs. We will catch up by
offering both low-end and laptop Macs over the next 12 to 15
months." The long awaited, modular color K-12 Macintosh may
be offered as early as October, but the "no compromises"
(does that really mean IIgs?) Apple II emulation card may
not be ready until next spring (sources say it has existed
in one form or another for more than two years, but
production cost remains a problem).
- InfoWorld 4 June, A2-Central June,
and my electronic mailbox
Low End LaserWriters.
Apple plans to introduce two new "personal" LaserWriters
this month in response to low cost competition from Hewlett
Packard, Canon, and others. The $2,300 Personal LaserWriter
SC will have 1 Mbyte of memory and include a driver that
generates graphics from QuickDraw. The $3,300 Personal
LaserWriter NT with 2 Mbytes of memory will include
PostScript. Both printers support 300 dots per inch and are
rated at 4 pages per minute. - PC Week 11 June
Color PostScript.
Seiko plans to ship a PostScript compatible color thermal
printer in August for $7,000. The printer will work on a
network and will offer Centronics, RS-232, and Appletalk
ports. - InfoWorld 28 May
Apple Demos System 7.
Apple engineer Chris Espinosa demonstrated the alpha version
of System 7 for the Macintosh at MacAdemia in Rochester, New
York at the end of May. The new operating system will,
without question require 2 Mbytes of RAM and a hard disk for
every machine running it. Apple engineers emphatically deny
any plans to make a "cut-down" version for smaller machine
(Does that say something about the memory of the K-12
Mac?). Espinosa was quite clear, it will run the Finder and
at least one application on a Mac with only 2 Mbytes of
RAM. He also is anticipating that Apple may bundle SIMMS
with "a good price" (but for less than already is available
by mail order). Apple will make System 7 the operating
system bundled with every machine and will run on every
machine within a year or so after introduction.
- found in my electronic mailbox
MS DOS Data on Macs.
Insignia Solutions, maker of Soft PC emulation software for
the Macintosh, is scheduled to release a program code-named
"Wizard" on July 15. The $89.95 package will compete
directly with Dayna Communications' DOS Mounter. The
Insignia product will mount a DOS disk up to 30 times faster
than DOS Mounter and will work with a wider range of drives
and files received over a network. The Insignia program
also does not need to write Macintosh desktop information
onto disks that are being read; thus, copy protected disks
can be read without becoming corrupted. - InfoWorld 28 May
Micro Channel Extensions.
Sixty-four bit and even 128 bit extensions of IBM's Micro
Channel Architecture are under development. When these
buses become available, desktop systems will approach the
I/O channel capacity of mainframes. - InfoWorld 11 June
MS-DOS 5?
Microsoft Windows product manager, Russ Werner, has been
heard to say that "a new release of DOS will provide
significantly more memory for DOS applications".
- InfoWorld 4 June
PM Lite Lives.
Cyco International and GeoWorks continue to work toward
Presentation Manager interfaces for DOS even though IBM
abandoned the idea last fall. Cyco will begin shipping
Autobase, a graphical database system that includes a PM
interface in August. GeoDOS from GeoWorks, a multitasking
graphic environment that runs in as little as 512K, is
scheduled for this Fall (yes, that is the same company that
offered a graphic user interface for the Commodore 64 back
in antediluvian times - nearly five years ago).
- PC Week 11 June
OS/2 in the Future.
Insiders say the OS/2 version 2.0 will be the last that
supports the 80286 processor. Bill Gates has predicted a
multiprocessor version of OS/2 by the first quarter of
1992. - PC Week and InfoWorld 11 June
PM Programming Difficulties.
Programming in the Presentation Manager environment is said
to be so difficult that IBM is hastily porting Motif to OS/2
to keep the Defense Department happy. Motif will permit X
Window applications to run under OS/2. - PC Week 11 June
Desqview/X.
Quarterdeck Office Systems will begin sending beta copies of
Desqview/X to developers in August. This new version of the
popular character-based multitasking environment will
integrate the X Windows graphical user interface and permit
PC users to run DOS and X Windows applications
simultaneously within on-screen windows. Desqview/X will
support OSF's Motif or AT&T's Open Look for X Windows
applications. The finished product is scheduled for the
fourth quarter. - InfoWorld 21 May and PC Week 22 May
Word Perfect for Windows.
Word Perfect vice president Pete Peterson says that a
version of his company's popular word processor for Windows
3.0 has a target date of next January. The Presentation
Manager version won't be ready until next March. The
greater sales volume of DOS compared to OS/2 is given as the
reason for giving the Windows version priority.
- InfoWorld 4 June
IBM in Your Lap.
There must be something to the IBM laptop rumors because
hardly a month goes by without a new version (see the last
two month's columns). The latest version says the "me too"
80286, 80386SX, and 80386 models will be offered in the
interest of having a complete line, but the real winner is
expected to be a 10 pound i486 little color beauty with a
100 Mbyte hard drive. - PC Week 28 May and 4 June
Palmtops.
Sony displayed a $1,320 Palmtop computer at Comdex. The
Sony PTC-500 uses a stylus entry system and has no
keyboard. Peripherals include a 2-inch disk drive, modem,
64K memory expansion, and a printer. - InfoWorld 28 May
Data Diskman.
Sony says they have no immediate plans to export the
palm-sized CD ROM reader debuted at the Tokyo Business Show
in May. The $400 CD ROM reader was designed as a portable
database and contains on-board retrieval software as well as
an output port for a television or video recorder. Software
disks under development at several Japanese companies are
expected to cost between $19 and $132 per disk.
- InfoWorld 28 May
Laptop Printer.
Computer Product Plus has a 3.6 pound (including the
batteries), 11.5 by 6.75 by 1.125 inch 24 pin thermal
printer which prints full width (8.5 inch) paper. The
WSP-200 printer is scheduled to ship in August for $349.95.
Output quality is said to be comparable with many 24-pin
impact printers. Future plans call for the addition of FAX
and scanning capabilities. - InfoWorld 21 May
If You Can't Lick 'Em, Join 'Em.
Adobe is joining the growing number of vendors offering
PostScript cartridges for Hewlett-Packard printers. Adobe's
cartridge for the LaserJet II will include 35 outline fonts
and accept downloaded PostScript fonts (while requiring the
LaserJet's memory to be expanded to at least 1.5 Mbytes).
The Adobe PostScript Cartridge will retail for $495.
- PC Week 4 June
Flash (continued).
There's some dispute about how many Macintosh programmers
remain working at Beagle Brothers (see last month's
column). The original author of Flash has departed, but
someone fixed a few bugs and made enough improvements to
create version 1.1 (a free upgrade to registered Flash
owners). Does building HyperCard stacks count as Mac
programming, or must one Think C (4.0)? We'll find out if a
substantially enhanced version 2.0 makes it to market "later
this year," and if Flash continues to be a "quick, easy,
fun, and inexpensive" utility even after System 7.0 is
released. - found in my electronic mailbox
Automatic, Continuous Backup.
Golden Triangle will offer an accelerated SCSI card and
Macintosh software that simultaneously writes files to two
hard drives as early as this month. The product named Disk
Twin is expected to have a "street price" on the order of
$500. Robert R. Tillman, a consultant to Golden Triangle,
points out that, due to the falling price of hard drives, a
user may be able to acquire Disk Twin and two 100 Mbyte
drives for about $2,000. - InfoWorld 4 June
Pocket FAX.
Seen at Comdex - a FAX attachment for your Sharp Wizard
(pocket personal schedular). The ideal Christmas present
for the executive who has everything.
- Science & Technology Today (CNN) 6 June
Multimate for Windows.
Ashton-Tate plans to release a graphic version of its
Multimate word processor by the first quarter of next year.
Multimate Executive for Windows will include all the
functionality of Multimate 4.0. Ashton-Tate also plans a
Windows version of dBase and its Applause presentations
graphics program. - PC Week 11 June
A Year's Notice.
Word Perfect will accommodate customers who complain about
too frequent upgrades by not releasing the next MS-DOS
version of its word processor until at least July 1991.
- InfoWorld 28 May
Missed Planned Ship Dates.
XyQuest's major upgrade, XyWrite IV, originally scheduled
for last February won't occur until the fourth quarter. The
delay is said to be tied to a variety of font issues.
Paradox SQL (System Query Language) missed its due date of
the first half of the year, but will be out "soon" according
to Borland's vice president and general manager of the
database unit, Rob Dickerson.
- PC Week and InfoWorld 11 June
/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.)
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Date: Thu, 28 Jun 90 11:28:49 CST
From: David Irwin <C09615DI%WUVMD.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: printing to file
Does anyone know of a way (application, chooser...) to print to a file instead
of a printer. I know Word supposedly lets you save a postscript file, but what
about other applications? Even if I could only get postscript files, that
would be better than nothing.
David Irwin
C09615DI@WUVMD
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Date: Thu, 28 Jun 90 09:55:06 PLT
From: Joshua Yeidel <YEIDEL%WSUVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Publishing Graphics
The problem you described in Info-Mac V8 #125 is not an uncommon one.
As a "Scientific Visualization Analyst", I see similar problems
frequently. When many different computers are used to generate
information which is to be graphically presented in a
computer-processed document, there are likely to be difficulties which
include incompatibilities of graphics "languages", but go well beyond.
For example, two programs which both write HPGL files may use
different line widths, type styles, etc. leading to "klutzy"
appearance of documents.
In _some_ cases, the best approach I have come up with is to use a
"data interface" -- that is, port the data that is to be graphed from
the various computers which generate it to one computer on which the
graphing software runs. For example, download simulation results
numerically from Cray, Vax, etc. to Macintosh, then use CricketGraph,
Kaleidagraph, etc. to graph, then move graphs into your word
processor.
This approach may include unacceptable costs in specific cases (e.g.,
packaged simulation codes which refuse to produce appropriate
numerical files), but it may be worth considering. Generating the
graphs on the Macinstosh has certain benefits (e.g., quick preview,
uniformity of graphic style, clean-up with drawing tools, multiple
graphic tools via cut-and-paste between applications) which could make
the data interface an especially attractive approach.
- -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - --
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: 28 Jun 90 11:42:51
From: Wolfgang Naegeli <Wolfgang_Naegeli.ED_TSRS@qm01.ctd.ornl.gov>
Subject: Re- Zoom modems
REGARDING Re: Zoom modems
A little more than a year ago, MacClique, the East Tennessee Macintosh Users
Group, put together a group purchase of some 25 Zoom 2400 Baud modems.
To my knowledge, most users are very happy with the price/performance and
compatibility of the modem. In the couple of instances where compatibility
problems were reported to me, I was not able to reproduce the problem. They
turned out to be configuration errors by the user.
We have some very poor phone lines in our area, and line noise is often a
serious problem. It is my gut feeling that the Zoom modem might be slightly
more robust to line noise than the Hayes Smartmodem 2400 (I use both models
regularly).
I have never experienced or heard about random stepping down in speed. I don't
think the modem has that capability once the connection is established.
Sometimes the receiving modem is not capable of 2400 Baud communication or is
set to use a slower speed only.
There apparently are several versions of the ZOOM modem. The ones our club got
did not yet have the SendFax feature and was distinguishable from a similar
model by having a small pot knob stick out in the back for adjusting the
speaker volume.
The only modem out of this bunch that I have learned about having developed a
hardware problem was my own, which last week suddenly started to generate
garbage characters ten or fifteen seconds after being turned on. The software
also reported that there was no dial tone, when in fact there was one when I
picked up the phone.
I called ZOOMs Customer Support and received a RMA number to send it back under
the 2-year warranty that we got at the time. I have not shipped it yet, so I
can't tell about the outcome, but they told me it would take about two weeks
till I'd get it back.
Most users have not used the bundled software, using FreeTerm or Kermit with it
instead and primarily of course TeleFinder/User to access our club's
graphic-interface TeleFinder BBS.
I think SendFAX by itself isn't very useful if the recipients can't respond to
you. I'd consider it more as a freebie feature of an inexpensive modem.
Of course, if you already have a regular FAX machine it would be useful for
sending documents at higher quality than is possible by printing them out first
and then sending them through the relatively poor scanning mechanism of most
inexpensive FAX machines. On the other hand, if you have many long distance
FAX transmissions, you might save money by buying a real Fax modem or regurlar
Fax machine capable of communicating at 9600 Baud, which is becoming fairly
standard and would cut your phone charges in half (the ZOOM SendFax cannot
transmit at more than 4800 Baud).
Wolfgang N. Naegeli
President, MacClique--East Tennessee Macintosh Users Group
Internet: wnn@ornl.gov Bitnet: wnn@ornlstc
Phone: 615-574-6143 Fax: 615-574-6141 (MacFax)
QuickMail (QM-QM): Wolfgang Naegeli @ 615-574-4510
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Date: Fri, 29 Jun 90 10:17:20 BST
From: Kevin 'fractal' Purcell <KPURCELL@liverpool.ac.uk>
Subject: SafeEject INIT
Andy Law recently commented on the use of the SafeEject INIT to park the
heads of a 800k 3 1/2" drive before ejecting the disk. Unfortunatly this
patch was need as this problem was ovelooked by the OS software.
But the good news is: if you're running 6.0.4 or later, this is now built
into the system software. So you don't need SafeEject, and you can save a
little system heap.
So you can sleep more easily.
Just trying to make the world a kinder gentler place. :-)
Kevin Purcell ................................... kpurcell @ liverpool.ac.uk
\ Surface Science \ Stepwise Refinement n. A sequence of kludges K,
\ Liverpool University \ neither distinct or finite, applied to a program P
\ Liverpool L69 3BX \ aimed at transforming it into the target program Q.
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Date: Thu, 28 Jun 90 19:20:10 EDT
From: deepak perianayagam <PERIANAD%DUVM.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu>
Subject: SARGON
Does anybody know where I can get Sargon ( the chess game for the Mac )
Any info would be appreciated.
Mail me directly or the list.
Thanks in advance.
Deepak.
PERIANAD@DUVM.OCS.DREXEL.EDU
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Date: 28 JUN 90 21:02:46 CST
From: Z4529627 <Z4529627%SFAUSTIN.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: SimCity
Can anyone tell me how to embezzle fund in SimCity version 1.2.
- Thank You in Advance.
Harold Valderas <Z4529627@SFAUSTIN.BITNET>
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