Info-Mac-Request@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (The Moderators) (10/11/89)
Info-Mac Digest Tue, 10 Oct 89 Volume 7 : Issue 178
Today's Topics:
Adding a sysz resource to ColorFinder & Facade
Appleshare PC with a TOPS Flashcard
Changing the TEXT-file creator in File Convert (query)
Corner INIT
Does the Mac SE internal HD20 have a auto park/sleep feature?
Forgotten HyperCard Stack Password
Graf3d
IIcx internal drive woes, queries
Info-Mac Digest V7 #174
IPT-PSN pricing, complaint
IPT Pesonal Server Network
Launch Init v1.1
Looking for Multi-Lingual Word-processing software
MacDAQ+C
MacKermit just posted
Morse code
NCSA Telnet 2.3
Need Help with Pascal Compiler Choice
PopChar INIT
Printing mainframe files on an imagewriter using kermit
Public Folder 1.0
Russian Font in HyperCard
SoftPC
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Date: Fri, 6 Oct 89 08:31:32 PDT
From: PUGH@ccc.nmfecc.gov
Subject: Adding a sysz resource to ColorFinder & Facade
Someone badmouthed ColorFinder some time ago for not working after he added a
bunch of icons. This is not a problem with ColorFinder, it is a problem with
adding too many icons. I had the same problem with Facade, but it is easily
fixable. Both INITs contain a sysz resource that specifies how much room they
need on the system heap. If your copy of either doesn't have this resource
then you can add one of ID 0 and it should help things. The resource is
simply a longword that has the number of bytes of heap space that should be
allocated for that INIT. If the INIT doesn't function (Facade will put up the
crumbled facade and ColorFinder will just not work) then there is insufficient
space for its icons. The sysz resource should be larger. The proper amount
to add is an empirical value, which means you should keep adding a bit until
it works. The only real limit is the amount of memory in your machine. Both
of these INITs keep all the icons in memory, so they are of limited use on a 1
Meg machine, particularly if you have added a bunch of icons.
Well, I hope that clears up the problems some of you might be having.
Jon
N L pugh@ccc.nmfecc.gov
M A L National Magnetic Fusion Energy Computer Center
F T N Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
E L PO Box 5509 L-561
C Livermore, California 94550
C (415) 423-4239
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Date: Fri, 6 Oct 89 18:57:14 PDT
From: Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: Appleshare PC with a TOPS Flashcard
I purchased the latest Appleshare PC with the anticipation that it could be
used on machines equipped with a TOPS FlashCard. Although the install
provided a pretty long list of supported network boards, including the ones
>From DayStar, it did not list the TOPS card! This is really disappointing!
The TOPS FlashCard has got to be the most popular AppleTalk board and there
are bound to be lots of installations that would like to change over to
Appleshare from TOPS but are not willing to buy new cards. Is there a good
solid technical reason why Appleshare PC does not support the FlashCard, or
what?
I don't expect support of FlashTalk speed, I just want it to work!
PS. A list of supported network boards is NOT printed on the package. In
fact, it lists "LocalTalk PC Card" as *required* equipment which simply is
not true.
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Date: 89-10-06 09:02:07 MEZ
From: TU70150%DHHUNI4.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Subject: Changing the TEXT-file creator in File Convert (query)
Hello fellow MacNetters,
My Mac II has just been upgraded with a new FDHD floppy device, mainly to
read/write MS-DOS disks. So the old and never used 'File Convert' program
came in action (I don't know if 'File Convert' is the correct US-name; my
german application is called 'Dateien konvertieren').
Surprisingly it works, though I think Apple should have kept the GCR-format
for the HD-disks and use them with 1.6 MB instead of just copying the poor
1.4 MB IBM-stuff ...
Well, there is one problem (better: difficulty) with the mentioned 'Convert'
application: all the created textfiles get ' ' (4 spaces) in the creator
field. So they are not clickable to launch a wordprocessor. Does anyone know
in which resource these defaults can be found and if it will be sufficient
to change the entry to, let's say 'MACA' for MacWrite ?
Klaus Schnathmeier
Hamburg, W. Germany
<TU70150@DHHUNI4.EARN>
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Date: Mon, 25 Sep 89 13:42:02 SET
From: Guenther Blaschek <K331671%AEARN.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Corner INIT
This is Corner, a tiny INIT for measuring things on the screen.
When you need to know the exact location and/or size of things
on the screen, hold down the command key and click in the very
top left Corner of the screen. The advantage of Corner over all
of the DAs currently available for this purpose is that it even
works properly under MultiFinder and also for modal dialogs.
MacWrite documentation is included.
Corner is FreeWare. Enjoy it.
e
gu
Guenther Blaschek University of Linz/Austria
Tel.: +43 (732) 2468 / 447 Institute of Computer Science
Fax: +43 (732) 2468 / 10 Altenbergerstr. 69
BITNET: <K331671@AEARN> A-4040 Linz, Austria
[Archived as /info-mac/init/corner.hqx; 10K]
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Date: Sat, 7 Oct 89 12:00:55 PDT
From: Hla Tun Thein <c30atim@pic.ucla.edu>
Subject: Does the Mac SE internal HD20 have a auto park/sleep feature?
I have a regular Mac SE that came with an internal 20 meg hard disk. I bought
this Mac last year around September.
One thing that I noticed about it is a sound that the hard disk makes when it's
not busy. It sounds like the movement of the read/write head, however, the
red light that indicates that the hard disk is in use does not glow when the
hard disk makes this sound. It does glow when the hard disk is busy.
I was wondering if this was unusual or if this disk came with a feature that
puts the read/write head over a nonsensitive area of the disk when it's been
inactive for a few minutes.
Could anybody tell me what's going on in my hard disk?
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Date: Fri, 06 Oct 89 08:40:59 MDT
From: "Bruce A. Carter" <DUSCARTE@idbsu.idbsu.edu>
Subject: Forgotten HyperCard Stack Password
Regarding the problem with a forgotten HyperCard stack password: If you had
the stack set for "private access" with a password and you ran one of the
deprotect XCMD's on it you are up the proverbial creek without the legendary
paddle. The stack can't be opened anymore with current knowledge. The best
thing you can do is attack it with ResEdit and attempt to save your scripts
and data.
On the other hand, if it was just password protected without "private access"
set, get a copy of the "Developer Stack" (it's available on CIS, don't know
if it is here or not) and use the "DeProtect" XCMD. It will bring up a
standard file dialog and you can select the stack you want to deprotect.
It has never failed for us.
* BRUCE A. CARTER OFFICE: (208) 385-1250 *
** COURSEWARE DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR MESSAGE: (208) 385-1433 **
*** BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY, 1910 UNIVERSITY DRIVE, BOISE, ID 83725 ***
** BITNET: DUSCARTE@IDBSU INTERNET: DUSCARTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU **
* APPLELINK: U0919 CIS: 76666,511 PLATO: CARTER/IDAHO/PCA *
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Date: Fri, 6 Oct 89 20:41:07 PDT
From: oster%SOE.Berkeley.EDU@jade.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
Subject: Graf3d
It works fine with LightSpeed C. Do what I did: run the MPW .o file through
THINK C's .o converter, or the TML pascal .obj through THINK C's .obj
converter, and make your own .h file based on the pascal include files.
I wrote a demo program that used Graf3d to draw the Canonical Teapot using
3-d bezier splines, I wrote a query letter to MacTutor asking if they'd be
interested, got back an enthusiastic YES!, sent them the software and the
article, and got a letter confirming reciept. And heard nothing. I heard
recently that they probably lost my article over 2 years ago. I've just
re-learned my Bezier splines, I'll get the article off to them again in
two weeks. They should print it some time next year, and you'll have your
code. Or, I can sell it to you now for what MacTutor would pay, and you
can submit it to them.
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Date: 7 Oct 89 13:57 EDT
From: science@NEMS.DT.NAVY.MIL (Mark Zimmermann)
Subject: IIcx internal drive woes, queries
Help! - my new Mac IIcx doesn't want to recognize the internal 80 MB disk
drive, and won't let me initialize it ... any advice?
It's a 4 MB memory cpu, with an A/UX sticker on the outside (product number
"M5690", "Mac IICX A/UX HD80 CPU"), with an 80MB internal drive ... I also
just got an external 80 MB disk with A/UX 1.1 factory-installed on it, and that
part works fine (I initialized UNIX on it following instructions). The IIcx
is also happy to run with an old CMS 60MB external drive.
Clues/evidence: the light for the internal drive flashes many times (about
twice/second) before boot-up, but Apple's HD SC Setup program doesn't see
any SCSI drives to work with, nor does Apple's Disk First Aid. On the other
hand, CMS's SCSI Utility v 3.2R *does* detect a drive at ID 0, but complains
of an error when trying to gets some of its parameters (it reads out that
the drive is a QUANTUM P40S). Wm. Long's SCSI EVALUATOR v 1.00 also can
detect that a drive is hooked to SCSI ID 0, but can't do anything with it.
(The internal drive light again flashes briefly when any of these programs
looks for a device at ID 0).
On the hypothesis that the drive might think it was a UNIX device, I tried
using the UNIX 'mount' command, with variations, none of which worked. I
also tried zapping the PRAM (cmd/opt/shift while opening control panel) with
no effect.
I hesitate to apply the CMS SCSI Utility program's 'initialize' command to
reformat the internal drive, but that's my next likely course of action. Is
that unwise??
Any other advice as to how to make the system recognize that internal drive?
I wouldn't have thought that this is just a bad Quantum 80MB disk (on a brand
new machine). Is there some other way for me to zap the PRAM or otherwise
reinitialize the internal drive parameters? I vaguely recall other people
discussing such problems many months ago here or somewhere else on the net(s),
but don't have a record of the answer(s).
Many tnx -- ^z (Mark Zimmermann, 'science@nems.dt.navy.mil' internet,
[75066,2044] CompuServe, tel. 301-565-2166....)
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Date: Fri, 06 Oct 89 08:29:37 EST
From: "MARK P. HANUSZ" <MUAIESEC%MIAMIU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #174
I'm a student looking for a cheap, fast, 20-30 meg hard drive for my Plus.
Any ideas? Also, does anyone know if students can get deals directly
>From Apple or any other manufacturer for a poor, starving college student?
Any insight would be greatly appreciated...
mph
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Date: Fri, 6 Oct 89 09:59:58 EDT
From: David Escalante <descalan@bbn.com>
Subject: IPT-PSN pricing, complaint
>The pricing was somewhere along the lines of
>2 Nodes $250.00
>4 Nodes $500.00
>10 Nodes $1000.00
>$99.00 per/node there after.
>What I don't understand is that the person I spoke to said you use a
>standard AppleShare installation for the clients?? Then how can they
>charge for them? How could servers limit the number of Clients if this
>is the case?
Well, the number of nodes refers to the number of people who can log
onto a server simultaneously. Thus, if I have a 10 Mac Appletalk
network, I install the Appleshare client software on all 10 Macs. Then
I buy a 2 node license to PSN and install it on one of the Macs. Only 2
people can log into that particular server at once. Had I bought a 10
user license, everyone could log in at once. Actually, I think this is
a reasonable pricing scheme. If I have a very small, say, 3 Mac network
I want to set up, then PSN's pricing is better than TOPS's. But if I
want to set up a network of 20 Macs with an SE/30 server or something,
then I should be willing to pay more. Of course at some point it
becomes cheaper to just buy Appleshare and a server from Apple ;-)
BUT -- here's another problem. Based on articles on the net, I went out
and had a copy of PSN Fed-Ex'ed to me shortly after MacWorld. I had
some installation difficulties, and IPT was VERY casual about supporting
PSN. The secretary told me, "Oh, the PSN support person doesn't get in
until 10:00 or so Pacific time". Well, that's nice, but I'm on the East
Coast. When I finally got it sort of running, I ran into a conflict
between PSN and NCSA Telnet. If I run Telnet, then launch PSN, it
reports an error. If I launch PSN on startup, then try to launch
Telnet, it can't acquire an IP address through KIP properly. I reported
this to IPT, and they said that they had never heard of such a problem,
and that they thought they had used NCSA Telnet successfully during
testing. They took my name and number and promised to look into it and
get back to me.
A month or more later, they still haven't. And I'm still not running
PSN. And they've definitely lost at least 3 more sales at my company
because I'm still telling people to buy TOPS until I can make the
beastie run right on my machine.
So, if you go with PSN, go slow, and test everything you've got. They
sure won't.
--------
David Escalante Internet: descalante@bbn.com
(617)873-1814 Applelink: N0608
Room 20/807 UUCP: {backbone}!bbn!descalan
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Date: Fri, 6 Oct 89 14:02:08 EDT
From: vita@disney.crd.ge.com (Mark F Vita)
Subject: IPT Pesonal Server Network
> From: microsoft!t-jims@uunet.uu.net
>
> It just ain't true. You might of thought that the pricing that was mentioned
> in (MacWorld or MacUser I can't remember which) for the IPT Pesonal Server
> Network (PSN) was too good to be true. Well It was. I spoke to a sales
> representative from IPT this morning and the pricing is totally different
> along with the fact that you pay per node. The most attractive thing about
> PSN is that supposedly you pay for your servers and you get your clients for
> free. Nope, this is wrong you pay per node regardless of whether it is a
> server or a client.
This is utterly false; the person who told you this is mistaken. You only
need to purchase PSN for server machines, not for clients. Clients use the
(free) AppleShare client software that comes on Apple's system disks, and
which IPT also includes on the PSN disks. I have confirmed this fact with
IPT.
Apparently there were some misprints of the price in various articles in
MacUser/Macworld/MacWEEK. The correct list prices, which I just obtained
over the phone from IPT, are:
1 node 189.
2 nodes 289.
4 nodes 529.
10 nodes 999.
There is a 35% dealer and educational discount; also, volume pricing is
available.
IPT advertises that PSN is "less then $145 per user"; this is apparently
referring to purchases of 2 nodes or more.
By comparison, TOPS requires a copy for every node, client or server, and
lists for $249 per node, regardless of the number of nodes.
Mark Vita vita@crd.ge.com
General Electric CRD ..!uunet!crd.ge.com!vita
Schenectady, NY
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Date: Fri, 06 Oct 89 13:00:29 CST
From: Larry Pickett <C4898%UMSLVMA.BITNET@umrvmb.umr.edu>
Subject: Launch Init v1.1
I've been testing Launch Init v1.1 posted by Theodore Wu recently.
For use intracking Mac usage in out public lab it has great promise.
One problem has been reported here that I haven't had a chance to
replicate but I believe I've found another two. 1. All accesses to
Finder are not logged only the first after startup. 2. The init
doesn't write the stats from an application access until the next
application is started. Thus the last application accessed in a
session isn't entered in the log.
I'm running a Mac Plus with system 6.02. Has anyoneelse been trying this
out??
Acknowledge-To: <C4898@UMSLVMA>
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Date: Sat, 7 Oct 1989 17:54:55 CDT
From: Werner Uhrig <werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu>
Subject: Looking for Multi-Lingual Word-processing software
(I saw this ad in MacWeek of Sept 19, page 95: Ad Showcase)
(has anyone seen this software already?!?)
MULTILINGUAL SOFTWARE
AllScript Word Processor. Write Hebrew, Arabic, Japanese, or Chinese!
Superb bi-lingual (English and other) word processor compatible with
Apple's Script language systems, features ...<long and impressive list>...
$350 - demo $8
AllPage Desktop Publishing. ...<what you would expect> ...$649 and $8 demo.
both special: $899 call for free catalog of Judaic/Hebrew software.
<blah-blah> ...
Visa and Mastercard, Amex: Davka Corp, 845 Michigan Av, Chigaco ILL 60611
(800)621-8227 Dept. M, (312)944-4070
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Date: 6 Oct 89 08:32:18 PDT (Fri)
From: jmm@skivs.ski.org
Subject: MacDAQ+C
There is a class of realtime applications, common in biological research,
that involves "realtime response" (closed-loop control) at moderate data
rates, and experimental protocols that are complex, contingent on the data
collected, and which tend to change change from day to day, as an experimental
study evolves. (Eg: I do "visual psychophysics" experiments, involving eye
-position-contingent visual displays, which must be updated -- by sending
a few dozen bytes from a digital output port -- with 1 msec resolution.)
These sorts of experiments need the power of a full programming language that
has a very friendly programmer's interface (to support frequent program
modifications), and can provide an interface to the experimenter that
facilitates control and monitoring of the ongoing experiment. The soon-to-be
-released LabVIEW 2.0 from National Instruments would seem to be ideal.
LabVIEW runs on the Mac.
The Mac, however, is a "non-deterministic" machine, in that lots of events can
can put NuBus DAQ+C (data acquisition and control) cards out touch with the
CPU and system RAM for tens of msec or longer. The usual solution, using
a FIFO on the DAQ+C card, cannot be used in the realtime response paradigm,
since the CPU must see each sample in a timely manner (in under 1 msec, in
my case). I (and many other lab managers, I'll bet) would be grateful for
an informed discussion of this problem. Some particular things I would like
to see discussed are:
1. The Mac's disk controller waits idly for disk writes to complete, blocking
access to the CPU for tens of msecs. Is there a way around this, or must
"realtime response" applications avoid disk writes?
2. Video cards grab the NuBus every 16.7 msec to update the screen. How long,
typically, do they hold it? Must one kill the display to have reliable
sub-msec access to the CPU?
3. Apart from the disk, screen, mouse and Appletalk, are there any other
non-deterministic events that could deny NuBus cards access to the CPU?
4. The onboard video chip in the Mac IIci is said to grab the CPU bus for
800 nsec at a time. Is it true, then, that a NuBus DAQ+C card would
get CPU-memory service with a worst-case delay of 800 nsec?
5. A "B plan" is to use 2 Macs, connected, perhaps, with a GPIB bus. One
Mac, the "DataMac" would be "headless" (ie, without video), "armless"
(no mouse or keyboard) and, diskless; it would carry the DAQ+C cards.
The "HostMac" would have the operator's display, keyboard, mouse, and the
disk, both fed by the GPIB connection. Is this likely to solve the
realtime response problems?
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Date: Fri, 06 Oct 89 13:38:51 -0500
From: samg@tank.uchicago.edu
Subject: MacKermit just posted
Indeed, a new version of MacKermit has not yet been released
as anything more than a test version:
Note the following:
In Info-Kermit Digest V10 #1:
>Date: Tue, 27 Jun 89 15:33:06 EDT
>From: Paul Placeway <paul@cis.ohio-state.edu>
>Subject: Announcing Release 0.97(57) of Macintosh Kermit
>Keywords: MacKermit 0.97(57), MacBinary, Macintosh Kermit
>Xref: Apple Macintosh, See Macintosh
>The new Macintosh Kermit, version 0.97(57), is ready for testing.
^^^^^^^
This kermit was never 'released' to info-mac. Rather, someone took
it upon himself to forward it there, leaving out the test information.
>From Info-Mac:
>Date: Thu, 21 Sep 89 12:54:36 EDT
>From: gateh%conncoll.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu
>Subject: MacKermit 0.97(57)
>This is release version 0.97(57) of MacKermit, by Paul Plaeway.
In Info-Kermit Digest V10 #3, issued today there is the message
>Date: Tue, 22 Aug 89 16:46:26 EDT
>From: Paul Placeway <pplaceway@bbn.com>
>Subject: New Test Release of Mac Kermit
>Keywords: Macintosh Kermit
>New sources for Mac Kermit 0.98(62), compilable with the 4F(095) C-Kermit
>files are now available, along with an up-to-date CKMKER.HQX file, which
>can be decoded into the working Mac Kermit application using BinHex V4.
>
>This version fixes the font assignment problems, makes mouse->arrow keys
>work again, and does statistics on file transfer right. It also is better
>about keys when running under System 4.2 or better (specifically, it
>disables dead-keys and doesn't strip off shifting when unmodifying keys).
>
> --Paul
>
>[Ed. - Thanks Paul! The new files have relaced the old ones in
>kermit/test/ckm*.* on watsun, and in the T: area of BITNET KERMSRV on
>CUVMA. Please send reports and comments to Info-Kermit@watsun.]
It's still a test version, and, I suspect it will stay that way
at least until C-Kermit 4F ceases to be a test version.
The address of the kermit-distribution host is watsun.cc.columbia.edu
(128.59.39.2)
Sam Gassel Academic and Public Computing
samg@tank.uchicago.edu University of Chicago Computing Organizations
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Date: 6 Oct 89 21:20:55
From: ELO4065.UPVM2@f4.n494.z5.fidonet.org (ELO4065 UPVM2)
Subject: Morse code
Hi there,
This is my first attempt at using this list so I hope it works,
I would like to know if there is any program, CHEAP, that will help
to learn morse code. ie. It send the morse then you type in what has been
sent etc.
Many thanks
Mark Larsen
Reply to: elo4065.upvm2@f4.n494.z5.fidonet.org (I hope)
--
uucp: {mcvax!uunet,tektronix,sun!nosun}!oresoft!dawggon!5!494!4!ELO4065.UPVM2
Internet: ELO4065.UPVM2@f4.n494.z5.fidonet.org
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Date: Mon, 25 Sep 89 18:03:07 EDT
From: gateh%conncoll.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: NCSA Telnet 2.3
Here is the new version of NCSA Telnet (version 2.3) for use with Ethertalk
network connections. This was downloaded from zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu using
the FTP server BITFTP@PUCC (for those of us without Internet connections).
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/ncsa-telnet-23-part1.hqx; 161K
/info-mac/comm/ncsa-telnet-23-part2.hqx; 140K
/info-mac/comm/ncsa-telnet-23-docs-part1.hqx; 150K
/info-mac/comm/ncsa-telnet-23-docs-part2.hqx; 150K]
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Date: Fri, 6 Oct 89 13:01:04 EDT
From: williams@cbl.umd.edu (Bill Williams)
Subject: Need Help with Pascal Compiler Choice
I've been using Borland's Turbo Pascal for several years now, and it has
served me well. However, I really think I need some symbolic debugging,
and I'm wondering what experience people out there in Mac Land have with
some of the newer Pascal products. Specifically, I'm thinking of
Symantec's THINK Pascal or TML Pascal II. The tradeoff seems to be MPW
or no MPW. What experience do people have with these products? Anybody
have any experience with "SADE," the new (?) debugging package that runs
under MPW? Is MPW worth the expense for the non-developer?
Or ... should I stick with Turbo - it's fast, cheap, and it makes
compact, fast code. But debugging is a real pain in the tochas!
-Bill Williams
-St. Mary's College of Maryland
-Williams@cbl.umd.edu
!ls
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Date: Mon, 25 Sep 89 13:41:38 SET
From: Guenther Blaschek <K331671%AEARN.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: PopChar INIT
Some of you may know what Character Map is. It is a DA similar
to Key Caps, except that it doesn't require experimenting with
key combinations.
Now there is an even simpler way to insert exotic characters
in your text documents: PopChar INIT. Whenever you need a
character and do not know which keys to hit, click in the very
top left corner of the screen. A pop-up menu will then allow you
to select a character of the current font. The selected character
gets inserted in your text document as if you had typed the
appropriate keyboard combination/sequence on the keyboard.
PopChar works under MultiFinder and also with DAs. MacWrite
documentation is included.
PopChar is FreeWare. Enjoy it.
e
gu
Guenther Blaschek University of Linz/Austria
Tel.: +43 (732) 2468 / 447 Institute of Computer Science
Fax: +43 (732) 2468 / 10 Altenbergerstr. 69
BITNET: <K331671@AEARN> A-4040 Linz, Austria
[Archived as /info-mac/init/popchar.hqx; 14K]
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Date: Fri, 6 Oct 89 10:07:12 EDT
From: jake@leah.albany.edu (Jake)
Subject: Printing mainframe files on an imagewriter using kermit
At SUNY Albany, we have a routine within MS-Kermit (PC compatibles) that
allows us to send a text file directly from one of the mainframes to a
printer attached to the PC. Is anyone aware of a way to do that with
the Macintosh? Any clues would be greatly appreciated. Please respond
to me, as I sometimes go days without being able to check the news.
Thank you.
-Steve Jacobson
- internet - - BITNET -
jake@leah.albany.edu
jake@rachel.albany.edu JAKE@ALBNYVMS
jake@uacsc2.albany.edu JAKE@ALBNYVM1
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Date: Mon, 25 Sep 89 19:43:14 -0500
From: mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Michael Thomas Niehaus)
Subject: Public Folder 1.0
As a nice gesture from Claris, here is Public Folder version 1.0. Although
Public Folder is going out under the Claris label, there is no charge for
this software. Public Folder is officially unsupported by Claris (i.e.
no technical support). Do not assume that means low-quality software, however.
Public Folder is very easy to use, elegantly implemented and designed,
and very "professional."
Public Folder is one of the most useful pieces of software that
I have seen in some time. So just what does this do? To put it simply,
Public Folder allows the transferring of data files and applications from
one Macintosh to another using AppleTalk as the transmission medium.
(File transfer over AppleTalk!)
How does it do this? This software consists of a Chooser icon (RDEV) that
allows you to connect to any other machine running Public Folder and retrieve
any files and/or folders from that machine (as long as the files are in the
folder that was designated as public by that other machine).
Running in the background is a server process (INIT) that handles all
requests for files from your machine. Since this is running in the background
(MultiFinder is not necessary), you can continue working on your machine
while someone is transferring files from it.
>From the Chooser, you can configure Public Folder to use different folders
as the public folder, as well as choosing the name that your machine will
register on the network (if you choose to make it different from the normal
Chooser name).
Thanks to the author, Michael Peirce, for writing this utility, and to Claris,
for allowing the widespread distribution. Please feel free to copy this
software and pass it on to friends, co-workers, etc.
-Michael
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Date: Fri, 06 Oct 89 08:47:29 MDT
From: "Bruce A. Carter" <DUSCARTE@idbsu.idbsu.edu>
Subject: Russian Font in HyperCard
Regarding the question about strange word breaks with a Russian font in
HyperCard, we've run into anomolous word breaks in HyperCard fields several
times (things like leaving the opening quotation mark at the end of a line
by itself). I am not aware of any way to fix this other than with manual
spacing or returns. Apple is aware of this problem.
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Date: Thu, 05 Oct 89 07:40:49 LCL
From: Gene Smith <ESMITH@suvm.bitnet>
Subject: SoftPC
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I just found out yesterday that there is a product called SoftPC
which allows a Macintosh to operate as an IBM compatible machine. I
have a need for both environments in my work and this seems like a
cost effective approach since I already have a Macintosh IIcx
with 8meg memory. A few questions for the list:
1. Does anyone have any experience with SoftPC they could share?
Pros and Cons would be greatly appreciated.
2. If in the PC mode, how is a laserwriter used by IBM applications?
3. Is there IBM software that cannot be supported in this environment?
4. Does emulation of the IBM environment drastically reduce program
execution speed?
Please contact me directly with responses and I will summarize the
information for the list. Thanks.
Lead Programmer Analyst
Administrative Information Systems
Syracuse University
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