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Info-Mac Digest Sun, 25 Feb 90 Volume 8 : Issue 38 Today's Topics: adding PICTs, SNDs, and animation to MACL Apple Lisa 2 Information Booting off an AppleTalk server CMS harddisk problem solved Different header on different page with word4?? Ehman 19" displays Epson printers and Macs, Grappler? How many SCSI's at a time are needed to make a boot? Info-Mac Digest V8 #33 Info-Mac Digest V8 #34 Mac - Pc file sharing missing tn #120 Responses to NOT SHUTting DOWN a Mac SPAMM Tour of the Solar System? X-Windows summary Your Info-Mac Moderators are Bill Lipa, Lance Nakata, and Jon Pugh. The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous, any password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6]. Help files are in /info-mac/help. Indicies are in /info-mac/help/recent-files.txt and /info-mac/help/all-files.txt. Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu. Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 19 Feb 90 21:13:03 -0500 From: dpliske@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Daniel B. Pliske) Subject: adding PICTs, SNDs, and animation to MACL I'm interested in extending Macintosh Allegro Common LISP in several ways to support a project I'm involved in as a graduate student in cs. Specifically, I would like to be able to import PICTs and SNDs into Allegro, and provide a facility for doing bitmap animation. I have been experimenting with the examples provided with Allegro 1.3 (e.g., the pict scrap handler routines) and am interested in anything additional that might be available on the net. If anyone has advice and/or examples regarding extensions to MACL I would much appreciate hearing from them. Dan Pliske dpliske@gmuvax2.gmu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Monday, 19 Feb 1990 15:59:57 EST From: Bruce Blanar <BGB100@psuvm.psu.edu> Subject: Apple Lisa 2 Information Hi, I'm looking for some help with an Apple Lisa 2 computer I just bought. The system configuration is: Apple Lisa 2 model #A6S0200 1M RAM 800K 3.5" floppy Hard Drive (capacity yet unknown) I got the system with only a few docs, and the only software is the stuff which is on the HD. When I start up the system, the HD autoboots and starts to run MACWORKS XL 3.0 (c)1985. I get a "Welcome to Macintosh" message window, and then the system starts to load a program called JCLOCK. JCLOCK puts the current time in the upper-right hand corner of the screen, then I get a system error, ID=02 alert box. None of the docs I have tell me about what the system error codes mean. Sometimes this system error comes up with ID=33, but usually the error is 02. If anyone has any info they can pass on to me, or where I can get more info, please let me know. I got the system cheap, and I would like to get it up and running. From what I understand, if I had a Lisa startup floppy, I could start the system up from the floppy and repair the HD(maybe), but at least I could get into the system. Unfortunately, I don't have any floppies for it, and Mac startup files won't work. Again, any help would be appreciated!!! Thanks in advance, Bruce Blanar BGB100@psuvm.bitnet ------- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= __ __ __ Bruce Blanar |"Everybody need a mood lifter, |__) | _ |__) Penn State University | Everybody need reverse polarity." |__).|__|.|__). BGB100@PSUVM.bitnet | -Rush voice: (814)862-8036 | ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 90 14:59:44 -0600 From: fgodfrey@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Francis N. Godfrey) Subject: Booting off an AppleTalk server The subject line pretty much says it all. Even though this may have been answered before, I am wondering if it is at all possible through the method of altering the Mac ROMs that a person can boot up a Mac from an AppleTalk server. Francis N. Godfrey Syracuse University ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Feb 90 09:39:02 EST From: Padmanabhan Anandan <anandan-padmanabhan@YALE.EDU> Subject: CMS harddisk problem solved It is probably too late to stop my previous posting, but I have found a solution to my CMS harddisk problem (in any case, perhaps there are other ignorant users like me who can use this): 1. Start the mac using a system diskette 2. Open the apple menu, and click on the control-panel while holding down the shift, command, and option keys (thank heavens for two hands and twenty fingers!). A dialog box appears asking if you really want to zap the PRAM. Click on "yes". 3. Nothing really seems to happen---the harddisk icon does not appear, but if you restart the mac immediately things are back to normal, the harddisk appears and the RAM seems to have been cleaned up. A curious thing was that I ran the ZapPRAM utility provided by CMS, but that seems not to solve the problem. But to their credit, I did get my current solution from a CMS technical support person. --anandan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Feb 90 08:59:53 EST From: munnari!mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU!akkh@uunet.uu.net (Alvaro Kau Kam HUI) Subject: Different header on different page with word4?? Hi, Could I ask whether there is a way to create different header on different page WITHOUT using section breaks??? I don't want to use section breaks because word4.0 SEEM to reset the page number every time I insert a section break! I will summarize to the net. Thanks in advance!! akkh@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Feb 90 09:05:45 EST From: lti2!reg@lti.uucp (Rick Genter x18) Subject: Ehman 19" displays I recently purchased one of those incredibly cheap Ehman 19" B&W displays for my Mac SE. I should say incredibly *inexpensive* because the display is **not** "cheap". I love it. The quality is the same as the monitor on my Sun, as far as I am concerned, except that I believe it might be slightly higher resolution. I was a bit concerned with speed; I'm running a standard SE (not an SE/30, and no accelerator installed), but it's acceptable. I should note that I have 4 MB RAM, so holding the larger bitmap is no problem. The installation instructions left a lot to be desired. Fortunately I had done work on my SE in the past (1 MB->2.5 MB, then 2.5MB->4 MB) and pretty much knew what had to be done. A word of caution: if you have an internal hard drive, there is *barely* enough room for the video cable (which goes to the punch out area on the back of the SE) to snake through everything. It took me nearly an hour to install the board in the "slot", mainly because the video cable kept unhooking itself from the controller after I had reinstalled the motherboard. Nonetheless, once I got everything back together with the cable attached, it was a matter of turning on the Mac, putting Ehman's '19" Init' in my system folder, and rebooting. Voila! Another note: I am running System 6.0.2 and do *not* have the Monitors cdev. Fortunately, the Ehman Init (I presume) sets up the screens such that the 19" is the menu-bar monitor, and the SE monitor is presumed to be centered and to the left of the big monitor. This is just right if the SE and the Ehman are on the same surface and you place the Ehman immediately to the right of the SE. I have my SE sitting on an external hard drive, so the screens don't line up exactly. Someday I'll glom on to the Monitors cdev and fix this. Overall, I am a happy camper. I bought the monitor because of the ever- increasing amount of work I've been doing with Think C; having a source window that extends for 70 or 80 lines in Monaco-9 is *wonderful*, and being able to have data windows sprinkled liberally across the screen without obliterating the source debugger or application window is great. I also do a fair amount of writing in Microsoft Word; with 1" top and bottom margins, a full-length window is *more* than a page, and Print Preview is actually legible. Count me as a satisfied customer; if you're doing serious program development or writing, the Ehman 19" monitor is a must-have. - reg -- Rick Genter ...!{buita,bbn}!lti!reg Language Technology, Inc. reg%lti.uucp@bu.edu 27 Congress St., Salem, MA 01970 (508) 741-1507 ------------------------------ Date: Tue 20 02 90 13:16 Z From: U009%CCIW.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu Subject: Epson printers and Macs, Grappler? David Riddle, King's College London writes: > There are two products I have heard about in the UK recently. > One allows an Epson 9-pin (MX/FX/RX) type printer to give 24-pin quality > when sent ImageWriter LQ codes via a BBC Microcomputer's serial port..... > yes you heard right... if you have a spare BBC, a spare Epson, (paralllel) > you can send it stuff from the Mac's SERIAL port to the BBC serial port > using the LQ driver in the Chooser , and persuade the Epson to give you > 24-pin quality when attached to the BBC parallel user port!!! > I used to use an Atari/Spectre combo and got the Grappler LS to use with a Laserjet+ compatible laser printer as the Atari had a parallel port. When I dumped the Atari for a Plus, I was stuck because of the parallel interface on the printer. I built a little box based on an 8031 micro- controller which does the same job as the BBC micro does, I suspect: it receives the serial print data, buffers up to 8K of it, then feeds it out to the printer over a parallel port. I believe the Grappler software can also handle dot matrix printers, but I haven't tried my Rolland out on it. The requirement for 4X fonts other than the 3 families that come with the LS software is solved with Adobe's Type Manager. An added benefit of rolling my own hardware was that an extra parallel input port was available from the 8255 peripheral chip I used, so the box is also connected to the PC across the room too, and both machines can share the laser without switches or cable juggling. Minor hassle- the PC must reset the printer and re-download any fonts if the Mac used it in-between times. Regards, Stu Beal, VE3MWM, (U009@CCIW.BITNET), National Water Research Institute, Burlington, Ontario, Canada. The future lies ahead... and behind us lies... lies... lies. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 90 15:29:00 CST From: Phys300%UNLCDC3.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu Subject: How many SCSI's at a time are needed to make a boot? I purchased a "Cutting Edge" 45 Mbyte drive a few months ago. I am more or less happy with it. It is no speed demon and I had to replace a noisy fan (the manufacturer, Erhman, sent a replacement for free.) But otherwise, it is fine for my needs. Now here's the rub: I must turn on all of my SCSI devices (I own a laser printer) before the drive will mount/boot. My only other experience with multiple SCSI devices was with a Jasmine drive and a laser printer. In the latter case the drive booted regardless of the status of the printer. I called the company (Erhman) - surely, I say, this is a mistake. Well, it takes a while to find someone who knows what I am talking about AND who has an answer for me. The answer surprised me: I was told that the company had followed APPLE guidelines in requiring all SCSI devices to online. The suggestion is that Jasmine was NOT following guidlines. Who is correct here? Erhman or Jasmine? It is a royal pain (to the ears especially) to always have to turn on my printer and leave it on for the entire session. Glenn Sowell PHYS300@UNLCDC3.BITNET ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 90 15:45:24 EST From: Stephen Moye <SMOYE%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> Subject: Info-Mac Digest V8 #33 The files with type LISA and creator DALE are remnants of a copy-protection scheme used by Letraset for their program LetraStudio. The fonts were themselves copyprotected and had to be installed with an installer program. It was a dumb move on Letraset's part because the installer was known to crash at least some hard disks. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 90 22:29:59 CST From: Greg Wimpey <GWIMPEY%TRINITY.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu> Subject: Info-Mac Digest V8 #34 Hi there Mac-type-people: A while back on this list, I saw a reference to a version of Telnet for the Mac available by FTP'ing to BYU(I think). Does anyone else remember this, & if you do, could someone out there tell me a little more about it? Thanx in advance. Greg Wimpey <GWIMPEY@TRINITY.BITNET> Trinity Univ., San Antonio, Texas ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Feb 90 09:35:38 LCL From: Gene Smith <ESMITH@suvm.bitnet> Subject: Mac - Pc file sharing OK, I know this is going to sound ignorant but... I need to be able to share files between my Mac IIcx and an IBM machine. What I'd like to do is to be able to have either machine recognize the disk contents of the other. Is this possible? Could someone point me in a direction to start looking? Thanks! As Always Gene Smith (ESMITH@SUVM) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 90 17:59:23 EST From: michael tarr <tarr-michael@YALE.EDU> Subject: missing tn #120 I tried to download technical note #120 from the info-mac/apple/tn archives and found that tn#120 is damaged so that it will not convert >From Macwrite to MS Word. Can anyone supply the complete TN #120 or fix the version in the archive... Mike Tarr ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Feb 90 07:57:52 EST From: "Gregory E. Gilbert" <C0195%UNIVSCVM.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu> Subject: Responses to NOT SHUTting DOWN a Mac Following are some of the responses I received to the question: "Is it possible to NOT shut down a Mac". I hope the various solutions can be of use to all. >From: Caleb Strockbine <QOP@CORNELLA> I understand that you want to control after-hours access to your Macs, but I'd like to point out that removing the Shut Down option is probably not the most desirable way to do it. I work in a Mac facility at Cornell, and we have a policy that FORCES users to shut down after they finish using one of our Macs with hard disks. This is important not only because many users don't know any other way to eject the disks, but also becber of virus infections we have to deal with. With viruses, there are really two concerns. The first is that a virus will infect the hard disk, and the second is that a virus in memory will infect clean disks inserted into the disk drive. Our solution pretty much eliminates the second possibility, and good virus checking software pretty much eliminates the first. It seems to me that your lab probably occupies an entire room somewhere, so the most natural solution to me would be to lock the door. If that can't be done, perhaps you could write or have a student write a short INIT that won't let the computers boot between certain hours. It would still be possible to boot from a floppy then, but maybe you could work around that by installing a disk drive lock like The Muzzle, made by Ergotron, I think. Hope that helps a little. Caleb.QOP@CORNELLA) >From: Kevin 'fractal' Purcell <KPURCELL@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK> Yeap, we have a similar problem. A bridge running liason than naive users could also use VersaTerm pro from. If they shut down the bridge our grad student/post-doc office falls off the network! The solution I used (which works with non-malicious users) is to use ResEdit to modify the title and contents of the Special menu: The title became: "Special This is a Bridge. Do not switch off." so that this line is always displayed in the menu bar, and the menu item changed from "Shutdown" to "Do not turn me off!" OK, I know its obvious but it does work. Nobody has shut down that machine yet. Having thought about it though, Shutdown is the last command in that menu and as the menu selection just passes the menu item number when it gets selected you could try to shorten the length of the menu by one item. The shutdown would not be displayed or selectable. This too should be easy to do. I haven't a mac to hand so it's not been tried. If you find a better solution please let me know. I want to make the bridge secure to malicous idiots too! Kevin 'fractal' Purcell kpurcell @ liverpool.ac.uk >From: BRAD GOODMAN <UA_BKG@NUHUB> First a question: If you were to Inhibit shutdown to control access, once an authorized user was through using the mac, how could he log out, as to prevent another unauthorized user walk over to the mac and use it? Another question: If you were to inhibit shutdown, how would lab personel shut down the machines? If you just turned the power off, you could screw up the disk, and the drive head. Answer: To simply inhibit the shutdown, what I would do, is to use ResEdit to edit the system/finder menu, and remove the Shutdown option from it. This would be the easiest way to go about it. Answer to my second question: You could write a small Pascal program (or something,) that would be a small application, which alone, would shut the system down. You could put a password on it, so in order to shut down the system, you would launch this App, and type in the password. Apple says that the System Toolbox function to shut the system down should be called only from The actual menu, but you could probibly work around it. In fact, I'm gonna try to write a hypercard XCMD that will do the job for myself. Unfortunatly, the obvious way around any of this, is to boot the system from a floppy, which will overide any security you can put on it. Brad Goodman Northeastern University Boston, Massachusetts >From: PUGH@CCC.NMFECC.GOV I just used ResEdit to disable the Shutdown menu item in the Finder. That prevents people from choosing it. Pretty simple. It's also easy to defeat if you have ResEdit, but that's not the person you are trying to stop, is it? Be aware that there are a couple of menus with Shutdown in the later systems, for the Portable, for example, it adds a Sleep option. Get them all. Use the following to disable the Shutdown menu. Start ResEdit. Open the System Folder. Open the Finder. Open the MENU resources. Open the resources 5 and 15 (if they exist and one at a time). Scroll to the bottom of the list and find the name ShutDown. Put a ( in from of it. (This is the disable character for menus). Close and repeat. Quit and Save. Jon >From: <RMANGALD@CLARKU> Try removing the "SHUT DOWN" menu item from the Finder (open the Finder with ResEdit, open the appropriate MENU resource, and disable the "SHUT DOWN" command.) Rahul Mangaldas. BITNET: rmangaldas@clarku Internet: rmangaldas@clarku.bitnet >From: Espen Jarle Vestre <espen@ikaros.uio.no> One possible solution is to edit the finder menus using ResEdit or some other appropriate resource editor. With ResEdit v.1.3 you would do this: The only thing you have to do is to open MENU number 5, select the item "shut down" and then un-mark the "enabled"-button. The "shut down" menu item will then appear dimmed in the menu. You should probably do the same to the "restart" item. We did this to the "startup program" menu item of one of our macs, because some users were turning off multifinder all the time (and forgetting to turn it on again). Espen Vestre Dep. of Math. Univ. of Oslo >From: Chris Kinsman <22487863@WSUVM1> Just use ResEdit to go into the System file and edit the menu resources. Find the menu resources that contain ShutDown or Restart and remove them. I did similar things in our lab to change the Appleshare login from username to WSU ID#. I also changed Shut Down to Goodnight and gave it A COMMAND KEY. Chris >From: Assistant Postmaster <BHERSEY@OBERLIN> I DO NOT KNOW OF A WAY TO DISABLE SHUTDOWN AS A MENU CHOICE -- perhaps there may be a way by using ResEdit on the system resources -- but there may be another solution to your problem. YOU COULD WRITE A SHUTDOWN PROCEDURE WHICH WOULD BE ACTIVATED WHEN the user selected shutdown. (See the section on the shutdown manager in Inside Macintosh vol. V) THIS PROCEDURE COULD GRAB CONTROL OF THE MAC, PERHAPS SAVE THE SCREEN while the machine is unused, and then restart when another user selects a button on the screen. I don't know about the security software you are using, but it seems like there might be a way to bypass it during this controlled restart. David Hersey Oberlin College BHERSEY@OBERLIN (Bitnet) BHERSEY@OCVAXA.CC.OBERLIN.EDU (Internet) Greg. Postal address: Gregory E. Gilbert Computer Services Division University of South Carolina Columbia, South Carolina USA 29208 (803) 777-6015 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Feb 90 13:07:30 -0100 From: rcbaab@urc.tue.nl (Annard "Icon" Brouwer) Subject: SPAMM In comp.sys.mac.digest you write: >I'd like to know all about SPAMM (System Program for Accellerated >Mac Mathematics).This product is supposed to improve Macspeed by 50%, >purely by software. >Price ? Where do I order ? Memory usage ? (dis)advantages ? >Experiences with the program ? ....... >I have a 1Mb Mac+ and SC40 harddisk . Would the use of Spamm be >recommended for my system ? Well, after buying this program I can only say that I'm satisfied with it. The speed increase isn't as big as they claim (at least not with the programs I use...). But I think things have become a bit more responsive. I haven't used it with all my programs though. Until now I haven't found any problems and I use a lot of INITs/CDEVs! The size is about 15K, I use it on a 1Mb Mac 512KE with 2 disk-drives. Greetings, Annard -- | Annard Brouwer Bitnet : rcgbbaab@heitue51 | Dreef 74 UUCP : rcbaab@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl | NL-5504 LD Veldhoven packet-radio : pe1koo@pi8mid | The Netherlands [44.137.28.6] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Feb 90 09:51:19 LCL From: Gene Smith <ESMITH@suvm.bitnet> Subject: Tour of the Solar System? Is anyone aware of any software compatable with a Mac II that would take one on a tour of the Solar System? I'd like to be able to start with Sol and continue with each planet, preferably with pictures (perhaps GIF?) for each stop. Any ideas? As Always, Gene Smith (ESMITH@SUVM) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 90 15:10 EST From: <DANNY%BCVMS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Lassaiz les bon temps rouler!) Subject: X-Windows summary A couple of issues ago I requested information on X-windows packages for the Macintosh. Here is a summary of the replies I received; thanks to all for your responses. ============================================================================= WhitePine Software has an X-windows package for Mac. I got an info packet from them, but I am so disorganized I cannot lay my hands on it right now to get the address. If you can not get the address let me know, and I will dig around here and find it. Also, I attended a talk at DECUS in Anaheim this past Fall, and someone said that Apple has an X-windows package which has not yet been released (Real-soon-now-ware). That was then and this is now, so maybe it is out or more nearly so. ************************************ Two products come to mind (I've seen the first demonstrated, but don't own/run either myself): 1) eXodus, by White Pine software. Check Mac periodicals for an address. 2) APDA puts out MacX for (I think $100). I have not seen this running, but I know that it is available. Both products ASSUME the existence of an underlying communications network (DECnet or TCP/IP). ******************************* Yes, there is soon to be X-Windows for Macintosh. At the dedication for our CRAY Y-MP SuperComputer here at Texas A&M, many vendors showed up with their workstations to give the students and faculty a feel for what type of hardware platforms were available for working with the Cray. Amongst these was one of the local Apple Reps (Rick Carmichael) who showed up with a IIci (8megRam/80megHD), an Apple RGB, and an Apple 21" two- page monitor. He also had an alpha (pre-release) version of MacX, an X-Windows interface for the Mac OS. As far as I could tell, it worked great. It crapped out a couple of times and hung the system, but since this was an alpha version, it was to be expected. What really impressed me was when I asked him if MacX would run on any other Mac platforms. He got a thoughtful look, then pulled out his portable (2megRam/40megHD), copied the software over to it, switched the cabling, re-booted, and voila! it ran great. Now, some of the programs that he was trying to run on the Cray hung the portable as well, but this might be fixed in the actual release of the software. The reason why this is impressive is this: The Mac Portable is one of 5 or less laptop machines that can run X-Windows software. And the others need LOTS of ram and other goodies before it can even begin to consider running X-Windows. For more information on the development of X-Windows for Mac and applications to UNIX machines, I refer you to Victor Hazelwood, Texas A&M SuperComputer Center, (409)845-6907. ******************************************* Regarding the enquiry on X-window for the Mac, there is a product out there that makes your Mac behave as an X-window terminal; it is called eXodus, from a company called White Pine software. I have played with it a little, and seems to be all right, it does what it claims without too many frills. ************************************ Currently, the only product I am aware of on the market is eXodus, >From White Pine Software. I have it, and have found it to be quite functional, but so slow as to be unuseable for many applications. It gives you an Mac window which functions as the root window under X, and all the X windows appear inside that window. The only problem other than speed I have had (which is likely caused by the slow speed) is that eXodus seems to get busy with certain clients, and ignore requests for new clients trying to connect, causing time-outs on the hosts. This problem never occurs when launching programs manually (e.g., typing "twm&", followed by "xclock&"), but running a shell script to launch a bunch of clients often results in one or more client complaining that the X server is not responding and then quitting. Apple is developing a product called MacX which will likely be released in May. It is 8 bits (eXodus is only one bit deep) deep, and (I heard) will probably use actual Mac windows for the X windows, rather than rooting them inside of a single Mac window (both approaches probably have advantages and disadvantages). We are holding our breath to see how MacX performs. To summarize: I don't really recommend eXodus, but if you can't wait to see how MacX is, eXodus is all that is available that I know of. ------------------------------ End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************