Info-Mac-Request@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (The Moderators) (03/20/90)
Info-Mac Digest Mon, 19 Mar 90 Volume 8 : Issue 58
Today's Topics:
Apple Grants
application not found message
ATM 1.2 Upgrade Proble
ATM patches needed
Clip-art PD-shareware?
Condordances/Text-base Programs
Guide to Macintosh netnews reader
Hard Disk Problems
HP terminal emulation sought
Internal Mac HD as external to another Mac; new questions.
Laserwriter cover pages
Looking for FileChange DA author
Morse Code
Music Programs
NT/NTX compatibility under CAP
password to hard disk
Printing Books
programming background task
Quick Basic-Disk Express II conflict!!
screen glare
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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 90 00:55 PST
From: Gann Matsuda <IYI4DTN@oac.ucla.edu>
Subject: Apple Grants
For information and to request proposals for Apple Grants for
non-profit organizations, call Apple's Community Affairs
Department at Apple's main phone number in Cupertino, California.
(408) 996-1010. Chances are, you'll reach their voicemail.
By the way, I believe that all of the deadlines for grants have
already passed. The voicemail will tell you. If you reach a
real person when you call, I'd be extremely surprised.
If Apple has a representative to your institution, he/she would
be another person to get information from.
Gann M.
UCLA Graduate School of Education
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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 90 10:21:24 -0500 (EST)
From: Braddock John Hathaway <bh11+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: application not found message
OK, net:
The problem that I was having before:
for the past month or two, I've been getting the message
"application not found" whenever I try to open a document
whose application is buried a couple of levels deep in the
HFS.
I thought that the Desktop file was supposed to keep track
of this. I've tried fixing the desktop with the application
"fix desktop" (yes, I had the "fix application list" option
checked off), but to no avail.
What am I doing wrong? Am I mistaken in any of my assumptions?
the problem was that I was using DeskTop manager which uses a
different file (or two) than the desktop to keep track of where
applications (and icons and stuff) are found. When I rebuilt
the desktop on startup (by holding down the command and option
keys when the machine is booting), the problem was solved.
Fix Desktop (the program I used to try to fix the desktop before)
is an application (****ware, I believe) that tries to rebuild
the desktop while the system is up and running. It finds applications,
deletes unused icons ... that sort of thing.
I hope this helps anybody else that runs into the problem.
--Brad
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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 90 19:06 EST
From: "NAME L.G. LEDUC" <F1400004%LAUVAX01.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: ATM 1.2 Upgrade Proble
I was looking forward to receiving the new version of Adobe Type Manager (1.2)
because I was really disappointed with the first version. The problem which
plagues the ATM is the very poor spacing when printing from applications that
don't support fractional widths (Microsoft Word 4.0). Although Adobe claims
to have improved the spacing problems, I was extremely disappointed that it
really has not changed. Thus, the poor spacing problem is still around for
a few more months until the company really decides to improve it.
I called Technical Support in California and have found them to be rather
disintersted about the problem. In fact, they claim that spacing is
normal on their Mac with ATM (1.2).
Does anyone know of a solution to my problem? Am I the only one with
this problem?
Leo G. Leduc
Department of Biology
Laurentian University
Sudbury, ONT
CANADA
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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 90 13:15:27 PST
From: gelphman@adobe.com (David Gelphman)
Subject: ATM patches needed
There was a question about how to get better character spacing
using ATM with MicroSoft Word 3.x. The solution is to send in
your coupon for the FREE upgrade to ATM version 1.2 AND turn
off fractional widths. The 1.2 version does a much better job
of spacing WHILE PRINTING when Fractional Widths can't be used
(as is the case for MS Word printing to the ImageWriter).
If you didn't get the upgrade information in the mail AND you
sent in your registration card, call our Customer Support number
at 415-961-0911. Please don't send me mail asking for help upgrading
since all I can do is refer you to our Customer Support department.
Hope this information helps,
David Gelphman
Adobe Systems Incorporated
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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 90 12:35:02 MEZ
From: Ewald JENISCH <A4421DAD%AWIUNI11.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Clip-art PD-shareware?
Hi Mac-Users,
Does anybody know of a source of PD/shareware clip-art?
I'm especially looking for pictures of people, landscape and nature.
If anybody out there knows of such a software respository please
drop me a note where I can find it.
Thanks in advance,
Ewald Jenisch
Univ. of Vienna, Austria
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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 1990 08:08:59 EDT
From: FAC0395%UOFT01.BITNET@jade.berkeley.edu (J. Feustle)
Subject: Condordances/Text-base Programs
A colleague has raised the question of software available for the
Mac to create a concordance to several literary texts. Were this
for the PC, I could immediately suggest 3 or 4 programs off the
top of my head. But that's not the case.
Is there a Mac equivalent to WordCruncher and ZyIndex? Something
that will index large amounts of text?
Cordially,
J. Feustle
FAC0395@UOFT01
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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 90 15:50:52 -0500
From: Don Gilbert <gilbertd@silver.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Guide to Macintosh netnews reader
A brief guide to installing and reading Internet news from a networked
Macintosh:
Macs that are connected to a network that includes tcp/ip links to the Internet
can be set up to let you easily read and post network news, including the
bionet.* newsgroups for research biologists. The netnews reader stack is
easy to use, but requires some network knowledge to install.
Requirements:
* Macintosh with an appletalk or ethernet connection
* MacTCP software to provide the Mac with the tcp/ip communications link
* Harry Chesley's netnews reader hypercard stack
* A local area NNTP netnews server computer
Does your mac have an appletalk or ethernet connection to the internet?
If you are using NCSA Telnet for logins to mini or mainframe computers
then you probably have the right connections.
Do you have a local netnews server computer?
This is probably a Unix computer which runs netnews software and serves
out news messages following NNTP protocols. You need to check with your
campus computer administrators for the IP address of a local server that you
can read news from. The NNTP server must support the XHDR command.
How to get and install MacTCP software:
This is Apple Computer software that provides the underlying tcp/ip
communication connection. A new version 1.0.1 is due for release about
the end of March. It is currently available in a single-user licence thru
Apple Prog. and Developers Association (APDA) as part M0230LL/B for $100,
or as a university (about $1000) or commercial site license. APDA sells only
to individuals or groups who have an account, for an annual fee is $20.
APDA can be reached at
APDA, Apple Computer, Inc.
20525 Mariani Ave, M/S 33G, Cupertino, CA 95014-6229
Applelink: APDA Internet : APDA@applelink.apple.com
A site license can be obtained thru
Apple Computer Software Licensing
20525 Mariani Ave., M/S 380I, Cupertino, CA 95014-6229
MacTCP is best installed with help of a network administrator. You need to be
assigned an IP address for your mac (something like 123.45.67.89 where 123.45
is your campus network address, 67 is your building subnet address, and 89 is
your mac's address), and to know some technical details of your network
configuration (is the address dynamic or static? What is the ip mask? What
are your local nameserver addresses?). If you are using NCSA Telnet, this is
essentially the same configuration info.
How to get and install the newsreader stack:
This hypercard stack and complete xcmd source code is available thru
APDA for $20 as part M0228LL/A. It is also available thru anonymous ftp to
apple.apple.com, in directory pub/dts/mac/stacks/. The newsreader stack by
itself can be obtained by anonymous ftp to iubio.bio.indiana.edu, in diretory
[archive.util.mac]netnews-reader.hqx.
Once you have the stack, directions for installing and using it are
contained in the stack. You need to know the IP address of your local netnews
server at this point, and have MacTCP installed.
Don Gilbert biocomputing office / archive for
gilbertd@iubio.bio.indiana.edu / molecular & general biology
biology dept., indiana univ., / ftp iubio.bio.indiana.edu
bloomington, in 47405, usa / (129.79.1.101) user anonymous
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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 90 10:52:13 +0100
From: Pauwels Luc <GHGAPAO%BLEKUL11.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Hard Disk Problems
Hi,
Some months ago, I bought an external harddisk for my Mac Plus. When
I received it, is was formatted with system 6.0.2 installed.
Two weeks ago, I ran a utility to check disk fragmentation and it
was so bad, I decided it would be better to reformat the disk. I tried
to use Apple's SCSI utilities but they didn't recognize my harddisk.
Does anybody know a program that will format my harddisk?
My harddisk is a 30Mb Seagate ST138N, installed as SCSI device 1
Thanx!
Luc Pauwels GHGAPAO@BLEKUL11.BITNET
GUTEST6@BLEKUL10.BITNET
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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 90 17:44 EST
From: "Roger Marks, NIST, Boulder, CO. 303-497-3037" <MARKS@enh.nist.gov>
Subject: HP terminal emulation sought
Does anyone know of software that will emulate an HP terminal? A VT100
emulator works fine for Unix [on a Series 300 workstation]. But when you
try running Basic, the terminal can't handle the special characters used to
set up softkey menus and such on screen. I haven't been able to find any
terminal other than an HP brand that will work, but I thought that maybe the
software exists to let a Mac do the job.
Thanks,
Roger
MARKS@ENH.NIST.GOV
MARKS@NBSENH.BITNET
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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 90 23:29 EST
From: CHGARNETT%AMHERST.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Subject: Internal Mac HD as external to another Mac; new questions.
Hello all.
A while back I asked about connecting two Macs so that the HD in one was
controllable by the other. All the answers I got indicate that this is
impossible, since while I could change the SCSI numbers of the drives
themselves, I can't change the addresses of the Macs, which both will be
SCSI 7 and would conflict in spectacular way. The most popular suggestion
was to set up one of the machines as an AppleShare file server and copy
things across that way. I'll probably get the boss to fork over for an
external HD for this purpose, but these suggestions brought a new question
to mind....
For the past year I've been managing a room full of HD20 SE's that are for
public use. This was a big pain at first, running down viruses and keeping
unauthorized software off the HD's. I've solved most of these problems, but
as the number of Macs increases, I really don't want to keep doing things
this way. So an AppleShare file server seems to be in the near future. Does
anyone out there have tips, hints, etc, for how to best make AppleShare
work well? INITs that will let me minimize the amount of stuff I will need
on the client HD's, ways to completely lock the client HD's, minimum amount
of memory the clients will want to run happily, etc? These Macs don't have
ethernet cards, so they will be doing this across LocalTalk...is there some
way I can make launching applications across the network less painful? Will
using a FlashTalk connector on the file server give me better speed, etc?
I really don't have more than a vague idea of exactly how AppleShare works,
so any suggestions from folks already doing this would be most appreciated.
Craig Garnett
Microcomputer Specialist
Amherst College
CHGARNET@AMHERST (BITnet)
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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 90 11:36:10 GMT
From: JDM16%PHOENIX.CAMBRIDGE.AC.UK@ricevm1.rice.edu
Subject: Laserwriter cover pages
Hello NetLand,
Some time back, I sent a query asking if there was any way of setting up a
simple Appletalk network such that a cover page was printed with every document
on an attached Laserwriter (sent about 19 Dec 1989). This cover page should
show the number of pages in the document, and is to be used for billing
purposes, since I run a printing service here.
Investigation of the reply I had (thanks, Mark McBride), and other suggestions,
lead nowhere. I am very suprised that no-one, least of all Apple itself, has
come up with a way to do this. It seems to me such a common arrangement -
shared Laserwriters with a billing system. Anyway, can I throw it back with
some further thoughts?
1) Hacking the Laser Prep file seems to be a nightmare: a friend of mine had a
look at it, and thought that it might be possible to have a main loop which
checked on incoming documents and then appended a cover page to them, but could
not really get anywhere.
2) Having thought about it a bit more, there might be another way: how about a
small init, using similar code to a screen saver or clock, which runs itself
periodically, and checks the status of the networked Laserwriter, recording the
value in the Laserwriter's internal page counter. Then, if it finds the printer
busy, it sets itself up to print a single page when the printer next becomes
free and puts the number of pages printed on the cover page (which is the
difference in the value of the internal counter) - viola, one cover page.
Simple, really. Well, I can see some immediate problems:
i) The init would have to recognise when a cover page was being printed, since
otherwise it would print a cover page for the cover page (and so on);
ii) On a busy network, the init might get beaten to access to the printer, and
that would really mess things up;
iii) Checking the printer status while it is busy could affect the current
document;
iv) It would not work where there was a print spooler, or (I suppose) a network
server.
v) If lots of small documents are being printed, then the network traffic and
the cost per useful copy goes up significantly.
That said, my specific set-up means that it might be feasible - two SE's, one
for public use to print from and the other for office use (which are both
physically seperate from the printer); cover pages are only required for
documents printed from the public machine, so the init would be installed on
this only. The machines are only switched on when someone wants to print
something, so installation has to be automatic in some way, and also not
specific to particular applications. The init could be set up to append cover
pages only to documents longer than (say) ten pages, and only if the documents
originated from the machine that the init is running on. I won't be expanding
the network much, and won't be putting in server software (I hope).
Any comments? Are there any other problems, or maybe another way to go about
it? Is it feasible/workable, and would anyone like to write it (aha!) - my own
programming skills are minimal. Direct replies are preffered, as I don't log on
to info-mac very often.
Yours in hope,
John McKinley (jdm16@phx.cam.ac.uk)
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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 90 12:39 PST
From: Tigger <GREG@pomona.claremont.edu>
Subject: Looking for FileChange DA author
In the DA section of the Info-Mac archives there exists an interesting DA
called FileChanger. In the docs, the author gives the address to which
shareware payments should be sent. However, he also says that the address
will only be good until May 15, 1986! The author's name is Tom Dowdy.
Tom, are you out there? Does anyone know where to get in contact with him?
Greg Orman greg@pomona.claremont.edu
Systems Manager greg@pomona.bitnet
Seaver Academic Computing Services
Pomona College Standard disclaimer-type stuff.
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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 90 22:20 PST
From: JOHN LOUCH <LOUCHA%CLARGRAD.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu>
Subject: Morse Code
Netters,
I'm looking for some good morse code programs. Something that
could test me on morse code. Anything will be sufficient.
If there is enough interest I'l respond to net!!
John Louch [LOUCHA@CLARGRAD]
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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 90 19:00:05 EST
From: "Chris Khoury (Sari's Son)" <3XMQGAA%CMUVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Music Programs
Can anyone recommend any good music composition programs? I don't need MID
I or any DTP features, just one that has a lot of instraments, can do chords, a
nd has great sound. Thanks in advanced.
Chris Khoury
3XMQGAA@CMUVM
Acknowledge-To: <3XMQGAA@CMUVM>
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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 90 15:22:19 GMT
From: Jeremy Olsen <jmho%epistemi.edinburgh.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk>
Subject: NT/NTX compatibility under CAP
We currently print UNIX and Mac files to a Laserwriter IINTX from a
Sun running OS3.5. Lpr uses transcript stuff and the Mac files are
spooled via CAP's lwsrv (5.0). Everything works fine. The NTX went
wrong. While waiting to get it fixed we temporarily redeployed a new
IINT (not X). This literally meant swapping the serial line from the
NTX to the NT. Unix-spooled files print fine; however, print jobs
>From the Mac are sent to the printer but nothing comes out. To be
specific, a job appears in the spool queue, the 'printer ready'
flashes for a while and then stops and the job disappears from the
spool queue. As far as we understand, the NT and NTX are supposed to
be compatible in every respect (ours are each fitted with 2Mb RAM).
Has anybody any suggestions as to why the NT should be 'ignoring'
these files?
Jeremy
Jeremy Olsen Phone: +44 31 667 1011 x6470 | University of Edinburgh
UUCP: ...!uunet!mcvax!ukc!its63b!cogsci!jmho | Centre for Cognitive Science
ARPA: jmho%cogsci.ed.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk | 2 Buccleuch Place
JANET: jmho@uk.ac.ed.cogsci | Edinburgh EH8 9LW Scotland
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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 90 23:21:05 -0800
From: vito@ucscb.ucsc.edu (66115000)
Subject: password to hard disk
I am in need of a program to prevent my roomates from using my hard drive. Is
there a program that asks for a password before allowing access?
Thanks you very much!
Nick Kopsinis
p.s. Please address mail to "feedme" rather than "vito". (at the same machine)
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Date: Sat, 17 Mar 90 04:41:02 EST
From: joseph@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Seymour Joseph)
Subject: Printing Books
Francis Taylor:
There is a shareware program called pocket book writer. It will make
a booklet out of the postscript output of any program that uses the
Apple LaserWRITER driver. (Not PageMaker). It crashes my Mac II but
on an SE near our LaserWriter it works fine. I have done two booklets
with it and it was amazingly easy to use once I got the hang of it.
If someone can tell me how to post it to INFO-MAC I would be happy
to if it isn't already there.
Seymour
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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 90 15:33:04 EST
From: Peter Griffith <COMB6%UMDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: programming background task
Can someone recommend a reference or source of information on writing a
program that can execute a background task in Multifinder? I have seen some
general introductory examples (for instance in Byte Mac special issue) but
nothing specific enough to show me the shell of actual code that will execute
in the background. I am writing a data acquisition program that uses the
serial port, and I would like to make it read in the serial port buffer while
in the background. Thanks,
Peter Griffith (comb6@umdc.umd.edu)
[Moderator's Note: This is easy. Use WaitNextEvent in your event loop
and specify a short time. Set the CanBackground bit in your SIZE resource.
Don't put up a modal dialog. You are now multitasking. -- Jon]
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Date: Sat, 17 Mar 90 10:38 EST
From: "Harry E. Bates" <E7P2BAT@toe.towson.edu>
Subject: Quick Basic-Disk Express II conflict!!
I recently wrote a compiled application using Microsoft's
Quick Basic. I found that Disk Express INIT
prevents the compiled version from doing simple sequential file
save and retrieve operations. If you try to write a sequential file
or read one, the program crashes. The interpreted version works
fine. Does anyone know how to alter the compiler to get around this
problem?
Harry E. Bates
Department of Physics
Towson State University
Baltimore, MD 21204
(301) 830 - 2441
Bitnet: HBATES@TOWSONVX
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Date: Sat, 17 Mar 90 00:45:26 PDT
From: Gregg Kasten <proteus@portia.stanford.edu>
Subject: screen glare
Does the MAC SE standard display monitor have an anti-glare coating? I've
been told that it does, but I tend to disbelieve this, as I have plenty of
glare reflecting from my screen. Any feedback would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
Gregg Kasten
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