Info-Mac-Request@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (The Moderators) (06/06/90)
Info-Mac Digest Tue, 5 Jun 90 Volume 8 : Issue 111
Today's Topics:
2 unrelated Q's: Tektronix 4693D & AppleShare name in Chooser
Acius' 4th Dimension
Artwork...
Buying memory summary
Copyright
Copyright Law (was: Re: Mickey Mouse Argument)
Creator type
Fonts for ImageWriter LQ
GCC WriteImpact
Hard Disk Security (Access Managed Environment)
How can I get PICT(2) files into FreeHand?
Joining Files (SUM)
mac
MacTutor
Need uuencode/uudecode for the Mac
Screen distrubance after installing a HD
Solarian on a RasterOps 264
Steriod Trojan -- WARNING!
Submission for comp-sys-mac-digest
System 7.0 on new machines
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Date: Mon, 4 Jun 90 11:51:47 PDT
From: G.Munroe%V1.QUB.AC.UK@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: 2 unrelated Q's: Tektronix 4693D & AppleShare name in Chooser
I've just taken charge of the Tektronix Mac II interface for the 4693D
colour thermal transfer plotter. Works a treat but they told me that
it was an Appletalk (Localtalk) interface and all I've got is a direct
parallel. Anyone know if this thing can be networked ?
Also I tried putting in 32 bit QuickDraw and using the supplied TekColour
program for matching the screen colours exactly - it warned me this might
take a while but I wanted to see what it could do - the system froze up
after a couple of minutes (I was printing an imported EPSF file from
FreeHand 2.0 on a IIci). Anyone tried this ?
I'm also nearly through arranging our general access machines (SE/30's)
- just one link in the chain needed to make the lot failsafe (wishful
thinking) - I need to get the Appleshare Username supplied at startup
into the chooser name and locked there so that i) the usage log (courtesy
of LaunchInit 2) keeps a record of who's doing what and ii) the printer
log on the server (Apple's PrintServer) tells me who's printed what. I'd
be grateful for any suggestions or sample code (preferably LSC) to give
me a start.
Thanks in anticipation,
George Munroe, Queen's University Belfast
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Date: Tue, 5 Jun 90 08:21:30 -0700
From: That's MR. Idiot to you <chuq@apple.com>
Subject: Acius' 4th Dimension
You can't use the standard Import Data, but you can write your own custom
import routine to do it. A pain, but possible. One reason why I hate
subfiles. (and with relations, there's really little reason to use them).
--
Chuq Von Rospach <+> chuq@apple.com <+> [This is myself speaking]
It isn't easy being green. -- Kermit
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Date: Mon, 4 Jun 90 13:30:28 -0400
From: dmg@mwunix.mitre.org (David M. Gursky)
Subject: Artwork...
Can someone point me to a source for very large (1024 x 768 x 256) artwork for
the Mac?
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Date: Tue, 5 Jun 90 15:23 +0100
From: Pieter Stouten <STOUTEN%EMBL.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Buying memory summary
In Info-Mac Digest, Fri, 1 Jun 90, V 8 #109 Kees Huizing replies to an
earlier posting of mine:
>WARNING: in Holland -- and most other European countries -- you have to pay
>VAT when you import things from the States. The Dutch rate is 18.5%, I guess
>that other European countries have about the same figure. Futhermore, you
>have to pay about 4% import tax on computer stuff, unless it comes from
>another member of the common market. When I ordered some memory chips, a
>third company in Holland called Wassing took care of this and charged me Dfl
>120 ($60) for this service!
>I am still trying to find out how to avoid this in future.
>I once bought some second-hand software, which passed the customs without
>any trouble. I don't know whether this was correct or not.
I already mentioned in the original posting that Germany typically charges
15% import tax for semi-conductor materials. You can be lucky, however.
I once ordered two almost identical shipments of books from Japan. Once they
arrived to me in Holland without additional costs and the second time I had
to pay tax. There does not seem to be a consistent behaviour. The same seems
to hold for Germany and Belgium too.
>All in all both packets took about a week to arrive. The first by UPS
>($39), including time spent at this ****** handling company, and the second
>by air mail ($3).
>Also note that many mail order companies have some contract or policy
>that forces them to ship by a specific mailer. Across the Atlantic, this is
>very expensive -- and do you need those few days?
In my note on "Buying memory" I also wrote that returning damaged chips and
receiving new ones together took only 11 days. So it can be fast if the chips
are in stock and if customs act swiftly (it seems German customs are not so
fast). I wanted to stress only that it might take considerable time. The
company where we bought our chips was prepared to deal with any carrier
service that their customers would pick.
Furthermore Kees asks what COD is. It means something like Cash on Delivery
(Rembours would be the Dutch word that covers it, I'd say).
>They told me they only ship by UPS and Federal Express. In April, 70ns
>SIMMs cost $79 *University Price*. They sold us Siemens chips. Better than
>all that Asian stuff, huh?
I don't know whether Asian stuff is worse. A decade or so ago, in Europe one
would buy a European stereo set, not a Japanese one. Nowadays the standard is
Japanese: good and cheaper. I know Samsung is Korean, but that is one of the
cheap production countries of today. The chips have a 5 year warranty, anyway.
Kees, I hope "the grapes are not sour" because you payed all-in-all far more
than necessary.
Pieter.
#### ## ## ### # Pieter Stouten
# # # # # # # # EMBL, Biocomputing Programme
### # # # ### # Meyerhofstrasse 1, 6900 Heidelberg, West Germany
# # # # # # Bitnet: Stouten@EMBL Phone: +49-6221-387 472
#### # # ### #### Telex: 461613 embl d Fax: +49-6221-387 306
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Date: Mon, 4 Jun 90 16:11:15 MDT
From: daspit%zodiac@johns.Stanford.EDU (John Daspit, C.U. LASP, (303)492-6951)
Subject: Copyright
Hi netters,
Just one more comment about the already exhausted subject of
posting scanned art:
OK, my apologies if my last letter to the net was a bit strongly worded...
My main point is: It seems logical that legal action would only be possible
if 1) The artwork was sold for a profit (in which case the person or company
holding the rights to it would be entitled to some or all of the proceeds)
or 2) The posting of the artwork in some way deprived the owner of profits
that they would otherwise have made or 3) The owner of the artwork simply
requested that it not be posted in the first place, for whatever reason.
If the artwork happens to fall into the hands of those who would try to make a
profit off of it then this is the time for legal action against THEM.
The obvious best solution is not to post such artwork until the
permission of the owner is obtained, or if not possible, until a reasonable
determination can be made about an item being in the 'public domain'.
It just rubs me the wrong way to have people give the wonderful
folks who moderate the INFO-MAC grief about such a minor transgression (IF
transgression it is) since there really is no 'victim' in this scenario, and
in fact (as I said before) it could even be seen as free advertisement for
the owners of the artwork. I realize that the original comments to INFO-MAC
about this were just suggesting that they 'keep their tails covered', so I
agree that it's probably a good idea to check it out with the owners first.
Enough said, and THANKS to the INFO-MAC moderators for all
their hard work!!!
John Daspit
DASPIT@COLOLASP
[Thank you, John. But since the law seems to be clear in this area, I have
removed the files. My conscience is also clear! -Bill]
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Date: 4 Jun 90 22:40:58 GMT
From: rose%beowulf@ucsd.edu (Dan Rose)
Subject: Copyright Law (was: Re: Mickey Mouse Argument)
Joshua Yeidel <YEIDEL%WSUVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> writes:
>My personal feeling is that copyright is an obsolescent idea in the
>age of electronic scanning, networking, sound sampling, and digital
>copying. Copyright itself is a concept associated with the Printing
>Age; you don't need copyright protection when the only copying tool is
>a quill pen. When the printing press became available as a copying
>tool, the initial cost of making (even one) copy via typesetting was
>so great that only pirates who intended to sell copies would make
>them.
Copyright law protects not only the economic but also the artistic
rights of the author. If I paint a picture, I have a right to decide
how, if at all, it is "published." Maybe I don't want it copied
because I don't like that version; maybe I don't think your printing
technology does the colors justice; maybe I don't want it distributed
in South Africa. It doesn't matter how good or bad my reasons are
or whether they have to do with money. According to the law (U.S.
Copyright Act of 1976), section 106:
The owner of copyright . . . has the *exclusive* [my emphasis]
right to do and to authorize any of the following:
(1) to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies . . . ;
(2) to prepare derivative works . . . ;
(3) to distribute copies . . . to the public by sale or
other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or
lending;
(4) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, . . . and
other audiovisual works; to perform the copyrighted
work publicly; and
(5) in the case of literary, . . . pictorial, graphic, or
sculptural works, . . . to display the copyrighted work
publicly.
>...Today's concept of "fair use" responds to the relative ease of
>making copies (e.g., via Xerox) by legitimatizing single copies made
>for personal use under certain conditions (which include "lack of
>economic impact on the copyright holder" or something to that effect).
Though the fair use exemption probably wasn't necessary before cheap
photocopying was widely available, it doesn't depend in any way on the
availability of the copies but rather on their use. Section 107:
Notwithstanding the provisions of Sec. 106, the fair use
of a copyrighted work . . . for purposes such as criticism,
comment, news reporting, teaching . . ., scholarship, or
research, is not an infringement of copyright. . . .
I hope this mix of federal statute and personal opinion is useful!
Dan
--
Dan Rose {ucbvax,decvax,akgua,dcdwest}!sdcsvax!beowulf!rose.uucp
UC San Diego rose%cs@ucsd.edu
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Date: Tue, 05 Jun 90 09:55:41 EDT
From: Jean Brunet <R31631%UQAM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Creator type
Hi! I would like, within a programm called TOTO, assign to a file a different
creator name than the one associated with TOTO. For instance if the creator of
TOTO is ABCD, I would like that the file generated by TOTO be QWER. I would
appreciate if one could tell me how to do this. Please reply directly to me at:
R31631@UQAM (Bitnet). Thanks in advance.
PS. The language used is Absoft Fortran. Thanks.
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Date: Tue, 05 Jun 90 15:26
From: "Peter Maurer" <RY06%DKAUNI2.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Fonts for ImageWriter LQ
Hi,
I'm working with a Mac IIci an an ImageWriter LQ. With the four
fonts comming with the LQ up to 72pt size, the printing results
are good enough for my purpouse. But I need more fonts with good
printing quality. Are there any other fonts like the LQ Fonts
(Times,Helvetica,Courier & Symbol) in sizes up to *at least* 72pts.
Or does anybody know a way, to use post-script fonts for this
purpouse ?
Please answer directly, I will summarize for the list, if there is
enough interest.
Peter :-)
*****************************************************
Peter Maurer
RY06@DKAUNI2 (DEARN)
Computer Center Univ. Karlsruhe, West Germany
Programmers Information Service
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Date: Tue, 5 Jun 90 10:24 CDT
From: JSCHACHTER@nuacc.acns.nwu.edu
Subject: GCC WriteImpact
I do not know if this has been discussed before, so please forgive the
possible redundancy of this posting.
A friend of mine is looking to buy a printer for his Macintosh, and does not
want to buy an ImageWriter II. Does anyone have any information on the GCC
WriteImpact as an alternative to the ImageWriter II?
Any information would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Jon
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Date: Tue, 5 Jun 1990 11:59:12 CDT
From: T1F4387@venus.tamu.edu (Michael Farlow aka Captain Video)
Subject: Hard Disk Security (Access Managed Environment)
In a recent issue, Chip Ekardt writes...
>Does anyone out there know where to obtain either MacClone or
>Double Ganger? These programs let you show pseudo icons of applications
>that are really just launch documents. The result is that a user
>double clicks on an icon (for example Word) and it runs just like the
>application normally would. The nice thing about these launch
>documents is that the user can only copy the launch document; not
>the application itself! The reason that I am interested in something
>like this is that we are trying to find some way to stop illegal
>copying of software in a campus Mac lab.
>
>Second item; in an attempt to control viruses and users deleting
>programs, System files, etc. I am looking at two options. Installing
>a server and running Apple Share. With this option I would regularly
>monitor the server but leave the local hard drives up for grabs (possibly
>reformatting them once a week?) The second alternative is to monitor
>each hard drive on each Mac.
>The lab consists of six Mac IIs with 40 meg hard drives, color monitors,
>a LaserWriter and an ImageWriter running under AppleTalk (LocalTalk).
>The lab is used almost exclusively by the art department. The Macs are
>running graphics programs (Swivel 3D, Quark Express, Illustrator 88, etc.)
>These programs are not only large but they also create very large
>document files. Because of the size of documents we need to have the
>Users have access to local disk storage. Any suggestions on
>configurations and/or software. We are currently running GateKeeper.
>I will summarize the response to the net. Thanks for any help!
>Chip Eckardt F542723.@UWEC.BITNET
Chip,
I have the answer to both the copy protection and the virus protection
questions. Access Managed Environment (AME)from Cassady and Greene, Inc. From
a recent MacWEEK advertisement, it lists the following features:
* Security & Virus Protection
* Logs software and hardware activities
* Protects against illegal copying
* Prevents launching of unauthorized programs (incl. Trojan Horses)
* Multiple levels of Users with individual/Group access controls
* _Specific_ Desk Acessory control
* Multiple encryption/password options
I called their 800 number and got to talk to one of the main ppl (a V.P. I
think) and he said that it is probably one of the premier bits of software for
computer security. I suggest that you call them and ask your questions. Their
phone number is 800-359-4920.
Michael Farlow
Texas A&M Computer Services Center
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Date: Mon, 4 Jun 90 22:03 GMT
From: Big Nose <LAWA%IAPE.AFRC.AC.UK@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: How can I get PICT(2) files into FreeHand?
Dear All,
I have a series of graphs in PICT(2) format which I would like to colourise
and generally tart up prior to turning them into slides for a conference. I
would like to do the touching up in Freehand, but the only way that I can find
to get the PICT images into this package is via the clipboard, and that results
in all my multitude of lines and circles becoming one object in the background.
I have tried using the Adobe DrawOver program to convert the file into
Illustrator and then save it out as an EPS file, but that only gave the same
results. I need to maintain individual lines as individual objects so I can
colourise properly.
Firstly, does anyone have any suggestions?
Secondly, are there any shareware, PD etc programs available that will perform
the necessary PICT(2) to acf3 conversion?
Thirdly, if the answer to question 2 is "No", where can I get hold of the
definitions of PICT(2) and acf3 file formats so that I can write my own.
Thanks in advance,
Andy Law.
LAWA@UK.AC.AFRC.IAPE Big Nose in Edinburgh
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Date: Tue, 05 Jun 90 15:49
From: "Peter Maurer" <RY06%DKAUNI2.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Joining Files (SUM)
Hi,
First of all, I have to thank all of you, who answered to my question
how to join .hqx files from the archives. I've got about 15 notes so
far.
There seem to be three diffrent ways, joining those splitted files:
1.) To use "unity 3.11", archived in /info-mac/util/unity-311.hqx
at the stanford mashine, wich performs the task for two or
more files.
2.) To use the computer wich is connected to internet with its own
commands ( for instance the cat - command in UNIX )
3.) With any text-editor on the macintosh by copying the contense
of the second file behind the first one.
Thanks again
Peter :-)
***************************************************
Peter Maurer
RY06@DKAUNI2@DEARN
Computer Center Univ. Karlsruhe, West Germany
Programmers Information Service
***************************************************
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Date: Tue, 05 Jun 90 08:32:11 EDT
From: Clare Durst <CCD@brownvm.brown.edu>
Subject: mac
Since no one else has yet (but moderator, please delete mine if others
do post), I'll describe a little bit of System 7 as demonstrated at
MacAdemia in Rochester this past week, because in particular network
administrators (as I am) should know what to anticipate in order to
plan last-minute fiscal year purchases. Chris Espinosa, who was apparently
There in the Garage with Steve and Steve, made the presentation and altho
it's promised by the first of the year, no sooner, there were no crashes.
There is indeed the set-aside of applications under multifinder. There is
the "no flush the trash until I say so". There are "alias" documents
that can be created (1k); they open a DOCUMENT from whatever folder they
live in even tho that document isn't there (sort of like having a template
that opens an APPLICATION from within a folder without the app being there).
Should be very useful. There is a good find utility. Linkage between
files so that changing a file in one application will update it in another.
But it will without question require hard disks for each and every machine
running it, and 2m ram at the minimum (although Espinosa was quite clear,
it will run at least the finder and one application with 2m, no more).
He is anticipating that Apple may bundle simms with "a good price" (but
not, he admitted, "anywhere near what you can get from those fly-by-night
places in the back of MacWeek")(which annoys those of us who know that a lot
of those dealers like Chip Merchant have been around for years) for net
admins to do bulk upgrades. No plans to do likewise with hard disks.
There will be a system much like TOPS which will let users publish
folders on their own hard disks to the general use of people on the Appleshare
network. Now, this will mean two easily envisioned things at least: one,
that network traffic can be diminished if, say, boss and secretary share
files with one another on one another's hard disks and no one else can get
into them; that should be great. And since you have to buy all those
hard disks anyhow, YOU WON'T NEED TO BUY LARGER AND LARGER SERVER HARD DISKS
but can utilize the hard disk space left after the humongous system file.
But for all you guys out there in Consortium
schools who have apple "orchards" of row after row of double-floppy SEs or
plusses - there may be major problems. And backups, in any event, will be
infinitely complicated (you'll undoubtedly be able to buy software to
look for all mounted server volumes and back them all up over one, but
you also have to make sure all those hard disks are turned ON, for instance).
And Apple is intent on making System 7 THE operating system which will be
bundled with every machine and will run on every machine from the plus on
up, within a year or so after introduction. It will be possible to run
sys 6 and 7 simultaneously on a network. I think in my own case I'm going
to wait a while on buying all those hard disks - anyone forsee drops in
costs? The system as he showed it takes up an immense amount of room
although they will have an installer that will be quite precisely customized.
Welcome to the future!
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Date: Mon, 4 Jun 90 17:22:46 EDT
From: wang@pennmess.physics.upenn.edu ( Huangxin Wang)
Subject: MacTutor
I asked about the back issues of the MacTutor magazine. The advice all people
give me is that the best bet is to get the set: Best of Mactutor.
I just call them, the address: (from lindahl@evax.arl.utexas.edu)
MacTutor
The Macintosh Programming Journal
P.O. Box 4000 1240 Van Buren, #105
Placentia, CA 92670 Anaheim, CA 92807
(714) 777-1255
Volume year Price
1 1985 5
2 1986 10
3 1987 25
4 1988 30
5 1989 35
Shipping is around $7-10. Hope someone find this useful.
Thanks to all who replied my request.
Huangxin Wang of University of Pennsylvania
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Date: Mon, 4 Jun 90 20:25:18 EDT
From: Dave_Walker@ub.cc.umich.edu
Subject: Need uuencode/uudecode for the Mac
Hello everyone. I'm looking for a reliable Mac version of uuencode
and uudecode for the Mac. I've got one now that doesn't work very
well at all. For those who don't know what it is, uuencode is a
utility which works a lot like BinHex: i.e., it transforms binary
files into text so that they can be dropped into messages, UseNet
The Un*x utility which does this is called uuencode, and it's
The Un*x utility which does this is called uuencode, and it's
companion decoder is called (surprisingly enough) uudecode.
Thanks kindly,
Dave
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Dave Walker, Marmoset Pty. Ltd.
marmoset@ub.cc.umich.edu "I don't read, I just guess"
marmoset@mondo.engin.umich.edu -"Wrote For Luck", by Happy Mondays
I *am* Marmoset Pty. Ltd., therefore they back me up all the way...
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P.S.: I vote for keeping Anonymity in the archives...
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Date: Mon, 04 Jun 90 18:46:58 BST
From: Kevin 'fractal' Purcell <KPURCELL@liverpool.ac.uk>
Subject: Screen distrubance after installing a HD
I have just installed a Ehman Quantum 100Mbyte hard disk (manufactured
on 10 April 1990) in my twin floppy SE. The disk mounts on a bracket just
above the floppy disk drives and clears the back of the tube by 1cm and
the neck by 2.5cm.
It works fine (as a hard disk) but on some accesses to the disk the
screen rips-up. It looks like the image moves from side to side only. The
displacement seems larger at the bottom of the screen than the top.
This latter observation leads me to believe that this *may* be a
magnetic disturbance (but what effect would this have on the media?). The
other alternative could be related to a power supply problem?
The machine exhibits no problems when just run with 2 floppy drives.
Most saves to the disk do not exhibit should a marked effect (there may
be a small amount of ripple) but this effect occurs on those intermittant
accesses that the Mac makes from time to time when its not doing much
else, such as holding mouse button down on a menu for several seconds
(why does the mac do these?).
Has anybody seen a problem like this before? How many of you have added
an internal HD drive to a twin floppy SE and see or not see problems?
Ehman tech support initially said they had not seen this problem, then
the techie asked a supervisor and they said they had seen it and they
would call me back. They didn't. Another call to Ehman and the techie
hadn't heard of this prolem either, and as I had no names I could
identify the person who said they had seen this before. I am waiting
again for Ehman to return my call. As I am on the wrong side of the
Atlantic I would like to cover all possible avenues before returning the
drive and indulging myself on transatlantic music-on-hold.
Thanks in advance,
Kevin
Kevin "fractal" Purcell | SURFACE SCIENCE CENTRE | These opinions are
kpurcell@liverpool.ac.uk | Liverpool University | shareware. Send me $10 if
| Liverpool L69 3BX | you use them.
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Date: Tue, 5 Jun 90 07:45:01 PDT
From: "Eric S. Boltz" <eboltz%JHUVMS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Solarian on a RasterOps 264
Regarding the use of Solarian II on an SE/30:
The problem is, most probably, your RasterOps 264 card. I have a IIci and
the same board and cannot use Solarian II unless I run the built in video
(which is just about never).
With many games (Falcon is another example) the programming is video card
specific. In fact the original Solarian II wouldn't run with the ci built-in
video. I look forward to a 1.3 version which supports the RasterOps 264!!
Eric S. Boltz
Materials Science and Engineering
The Johns Hopkins University
(eboltz@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu)
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Date: Tue, 5 Jun 90 15:07:26 -0700
From: William Lipa <wlipa@hqpyr1.oracle.com>
Subject: Steriod Trojan -- WARNING!
Steroid Trojan Horse
--------------------
There is a Trojan Horse called "Steroid". It is an INIT that claims to speed
up QuickDraw on Macintosh computers with 9" screens. The INIT contains code
that checks for the date being greater than June 6,1990. If it is, it will
ERASE all mounted drives.
I have performed some tests on a Macintosh SE. Having Comm Toolbox installed
seemed to interfere with the INIT and keep the erase from happening. The SE
simply crashed.
I then installed the INIT on a floppy disk and booted the SE. The floppy and
hard disk were promply erased. NOTE: I had set the date to 7/7/90.
So far, we know that the code does the following:
OPERATIONS AT RESTART:
----------------------
DATE & TIME CHECK (Loop)
SYSENVIRONS CHECK
GETS VOLUME INFORMATION (probably checking for HFS)
GETS SOME ADRESSES (Toolbox traps)
DOES SOME HFS DISPATCH OPERATIONS
VOLUME IS REINITIALIZED to "Untitled"
INFORMATION:
------------
TYPE: INIT
CREATOR: qdac
CODE SIZE: 1080
DATA SIZE: 267
ID: 148
Name: QuickDraw Accelorator
File Name: " Steroid" (First 2 characters are ASCII 1)
WHAT TO DO:
-----------
If your disk becomes erased, you can use SUM II Disk Clinic to recover the
deleted files. We have tried this and it seems to work. If you read this
today, before June 6 1990, REMOVE the Steroid INIT from all disks IMMEDIATELY.
POSTED BY:
Thomas Scott
Desktop Services
AppleLink: MICRO.SUPT
Thanks to Larry Nedry, Lee Neuse, & Gary Giusti for information
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Date: 5 Jun 90 00:01:20 GMT
From: brett@spinifex.oz.au (Brett Sealey)
Subject: Submission for comp-sys-mac-digest
I have a little project at the moment which involves me creating an animated
demonstration with sound and graphics (most likely on the Macintosh {IIci} but
an Amiga if I can't get the product I need). What I need is some product which
will allow me to produce this animated sequence easily (on the Mac). I have
heard of a product called 'MacroMind Director' - What is it like - has anybody
used this and can it handle sound as well as graphics? If anybody has done
this sort of work I would be most interested to hear from you.
Thanks,
ACSnet,CSNET: brett@spinifex.unsw.oz
JANET: spinifex.unsw.oz!brett@ukc
UUCP: ...!uunet!munnari!spinifex.unsw.oz!brett
BITNET/ARPA: brett@spinifex.unsw.oz.au
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Date: Mon, 4 Jun 90 14:04:25 EDT
From: gateh%conncoll.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: System 7.0 on new machines
>From "Syllabus for the Macintosh", May/June 1990, Number 11:
"The new software, System Software Version 7.0, will be rolled in across
the product line. It will also be an upgrade option for anyone with a
Macintosh equipped with 2 or more megabytes of RAM."
I am wondering if the phrase "across the product line" implies that all new
systems shipped after the V7.0 release will be shipped with V7.0, and
therefore will all be shipping with 2 MB RAM (and a hard disk?) standard.
It was my impression that even after the V7.0 release, Apple was going to
continue shipping some new systems with V6.x system software so as to keep
the price down on low-end configurations.
Anybody have more detailed info on this? - Gregg
Gregg TeHennepe | Academic Computing Services | Yes, but this
gateh@conncoll.bitnet | Connecticut College, New London, CT | one goes to 11...
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