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Info-Mac Digest Sat, 16 Sep 89 Volume 7 : Issue 166 Today's Topics: [DCGQAL]GER.XSE0010!BroadCast 1.2 Banner-making Programs Big, fast hard drives CD UNIT HELP REQUEST Color Quickdraw Colortables under MPW with TMLPASCAL Cricket Graph plots DATA ACQUISITION on MACINTOSH DataFrame XP-20 on an Amiga? doMenu Gatorbox HackScore Helvetica Fractions Laser Font Info-Mac Digest V7 #159 Lautrec font MacWeek Microemacs source. Radius 16+ accelerator Request for INIT/CDEV SitReport v1.0 the whole apple II line. Using Modal Dialogs with the THINK C Class Library 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, 11 Sep 89 10:09:22 PDT From: "[DCGQAL]GER.XSE0010" <XB.DAS@forsythe.stanford.edu> Subject: [DCGQAL]GER.XSE0010!BroadCast 1.2 BroadCast 1.2 fixes all known problems with the "answer" button, as well as a couple of other cosmetic bugs. "answer" is now always enabled, unless you remove or rename the file, or there are to many files already open. For those who don't know... BroadCast is a tool to exchange short messages between Macintoshs. It is installed by dragging it into the system folder. To send a message, open the chooser and select first broadcast, then one or more recipients. Click OK and enter your message. You may select an icon to accompany the text. Voila. The receiver will get a dialog on his screen. The dialog shows the icon, text, the time the message was received, the sender and two buttons: OK and Answer. The answer is used as the direct path back to the sender without opening the chooser. There is a Columbia AppleTalk version available to REGISTERED USERS ONLY. It consists of a daemon that registers all the users of one box, and of a tool that allows unix users to send messages to other unix or macintosh users. BroadCast is shareware: it costs $25 per zone, or $100 per entire appletalk network. Send your money (check), and you'll receive the disk with all the necessary files. Btw, registered uses will get an invoice, a license and a disk. Joachim Lindenberg, Sommerstrasse 4, 7500 Karlsruhe 1, West Germany GER.XSE0010@applelink.apple.com [Archived as /info-mac/comm/broadcast-12.hqx; 28K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Sep 89 15:06:55 EDT From: "Roger D. Parish" <U9505RP%DOEMA.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> Subject: Banner-making Programs In the IBM PC world (ooooh, what he said!), there are lots of programs for producing banners. They print large block letters sideways (longways) on dot-matrix printers. Are there any such in the Macintosh world? Any PD or shareware programs in the archives? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Sep 89 09:40:00 MDT From: Bob Bolt <BBOLT%UALTAVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> Subject: Big, fast hard drives I am looking for a new hard drive to be used on my AppleShare file server. It needs to be blazingly fast (under 20 ms) and between 100 and 200 megs. It also needs to be reliable and come with some decent software. Does anyone have any experience with drives that meet these criteria? Thanks in advance. ================================================================== Bob Bolt Bitnet: BBOLT@UALTAVM Instructional Tech Centre CI$: 75410,2754 University of Alberta AppleLink: BBOLT@UALTAVM.BITNET@DASNET# B117 Education North Voice: (403) 492-3926 Edmonton, AB Canada T6G 2G5 ================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: 15 Sep 89 14:40 +0200 From: MetIV <mativ@cc.unizar.es> Subject: CD UNIT HELP REQUEST I have a CDROM unit SONY CDU-6100-01 with a 40 pins conector, a a set of switches to set device number (0 to 7), WAIT/DQR and terminator on/off. (If you are thinkig on the Ibycus CD drive, you all allright). It seems prepared to a IB,so i suposse it must be some standard... The question is: Can I conect this unit to a Mac II. How? two secundaries questions are: What xxcsdyzyx! that port is? What is the format of the SONY CD disks? Thanks Alejandro Rivero Zaragoza Univ - Spain ---------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Sep 89 10:09:01 -0900 From: "Chris Hartman" <FSCMH1%ALASKA.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> Subject: Color Quickdraw Colortables under MPW with TMLPASCAL Is anybody willing to help this lost user? Here is the problem. I am using TMLPascal under MPW for graphics uses on a Mac II. (Nothing important, just draw ing, etc.) I would like to use Color Quickdraw, which I have been able to do, but the lookup table is using the best match to the 8 colors that are default for the color imagewriter. I found (in Inside Macintosh, Vol 5) the function to load in a new colortable (can't remember it exactly right now...) but it needs the handle to the color lookup table, and that handle is under the window structure. As far as I can tell, I can only access things in the structure below ThePort. Do I need to open a new window? All I am looking for in an answer is a very quick example, for instance, it ought to be about five lines to draw in say, purple. I can figure out the rest from looking at the manuals, etc. (I am pretty handy with computers in general, and picking the manuals for real information. Please respond to me directly, as I do not read this list. Chris Hartman FSCMH1@ALASKA ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Sep 89 10:37:24 edt From: abboud%cuavax.dnet@netcon.cua.edu (Hisham) Subject: Cricket Graph plots "kc_yeo@sngsf1.sinet.slb.com" asks about Cricket Graph plots. According to Rich Norling (co-author), Cricket Graph does not take any extra steps to support plotters. In other words, it will not do clipping of overlapping regions, font substitution, etc. It only supports a plotter to the extent of the plotter's own intelligence and built-in fonts. For decent output from Cricket Graph, you are better off using the LaserWriter or ImageWriter II (for color). Hisham A. Abboud Bitnet: ABBOUD@CUA | Internet: ABBOUD%CUAVAX.DNET@NETCON.CUA.EDU | or ABBOUD%CUAVAX.DNET@192.31.193.2 | ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Sep 89 5:41:08 PDT From: cpdaux!steve@apple.com (Steve Lemke) Subject: DATA ACQUISITION on MACINTOSH I don't know if this will get to you - if you intend people to respond to a message, you really should include a real mail address in your message. (I'm carbon copying this to Info-Mac besides attempting to mail it to you.) That aside, I've worked with the GW Instruments Mac Adios II board, and it seems to be a pretty slick unit. I'm programming it in THINK Pascal, though it also has drivers for THINK C, Turbo Pascal, MPW, and Quick BASIC amongst others. If you don't mind programming the Mac interface yourself, it's not so bad - although I'd recommend something like Prototyper to write the actual Mac program for you, after which you can add the specifics for MacADIOS. If you actually get this and you have any further questions, please feel free to ask. -- ----- Steve Lemke ------------------- "MS-DOS (OS/2, etc.) - just say no!" ----- Internet: cpdaux!steve@apple.com GEnie: LEMKE ----- Or try: apple!cpdaux!steve CompuServe: 73627,570 ----- Quote: "What'd I go to college for?" "You had fun, didn't you?" ------------------------------ Date: Fri 15 Sep 89 10:41:08-PDT From: Brodie Lockard <I.ISIMO@hamlet.stanford.edu> Subject: DataFrame XP-20 on an Amiga? Can a Dataframe XP-20 disk drive (made by SuperMac) be used with an Amiga 1000? What hardware or software would I need to make this work? Brodie Lockard I.ISIMO@MACBETH.STANFORD.EDU ------- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Sep 89 12:25:58 EDT From: David_Detlefsen@ub.cc.umich.edu Subject: doMenu Does anybody know how (I guess IF should go first) it possible to pass parameters to "doMenu" in HyperTalk. Specifically, I am interested in passing a "New Stack..." with the new filename so that the file dialog doesn't appear. I have tried what seemed like the obvious: doMenu "New Stack...", "test" doMenu "New Stack..." with test And some perhaps a little less obvious and a lot more absurd (permutations of the above). Thanks, David Detlefsen University of Michigan Chemistry Department Ann Arbor, MI 48109 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Sep 89 23:20 CDT From: "Sandro Corsi, Univ.of WI-Oshkosh" <CORSI%OSHKOSHW.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> Subject: Gatorbox I asked Sandro to clarify his remarks in Info-Mac Digest 7/162 about his experience with limitations of the GatorBox AppleShare/NFS protocol conversions. I also asked whether it made any difference whether the Macs were EtherTalk or LocalTalk connected. His reply was very helpful: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- The relationship between the Suns and the Macintoshes is not symmetrical in the sense that any transaction must be initiated on the Mac side. You cannot be sitting at the Sun workstation(s) and down/upload files to/from a hard disk hooked up to a Mac. In fact, you cannot even "see" the regular AppleShare volumes running on Mac hardware. For a while we had a Macintosh on EtherTalk, but this did not affect any of the foregoing. In fact, it didn't seem to speed up AppleShare access to the Sun, either. It did, however, speed up considerably FTP transfers to the same, through TELNET logins. We never had an EtherTalk Mac running AppleShare -- but there's nothing in the GatorBox manuals to suggest that it would make matters different in any way. I still think that the GatorBox was a good purchase, given our specific needs. After all, we only have to cross the hallway to get to a Mac and do all the transfers we need -- and we try to do the bulk of our interactive work on Macintoshes, anyway. But it might be too limiting if you need a peer-to-peer arrangement. Sandro ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Sep 89 23:11:41 -0900 From: "DANIEL K LASOTA" <FTDKL%ALASKA.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> Subject: HackScore Hi! Here is a stack called HackScore This is a HyperCard Stack to help out with the NetHack game which was just posted. It is a great game but it occaisionally does not produce a high score list after a gaming session. To remedy this I made this stack. All you have to do is put it in the same folder as all of the other NetHack stuff. If you open it it will read in the top twenty scores from the "records" file. The main script is in the stack script and may be of interest to people who want to find out about importing text information into HyperCard. By the way does SuperCard work like this too? Have fun. Dan LaSota PS The fall colors are already at their prime up here in Fairbanks. [Archived as /info-mac/game/nethack-score-stack.hqx; 10K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Sep 89 06:02:20 MST From: Bruce Long <ICBAL%ASUACAD.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> Subject: Helvetica Fractions Laser Font This is the Helvetica Fractions laser font. Shareware. [Archived as /info-mac/font/helvetica-fractions.hqx; 25K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Sep 89 09:12:37 CST From: Bill Hayes <IANR012%UNLVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #159 Does anyone have experience with the Apple Token Ring Card and Token Talk? We're acquiring an evaluation Mac IIcx and TR card from Apple ed. reps this week. Unfortunately their SE will be in Culpertino, so I'm looking for an additional someone to call if we run into problems. We'll be hooking into an IBM TR net (running IBM PC LAN) which has gateways into an IBM 4381 mainframe, and from there to an ethernet backbone with connections to VAXes, etc. Our goals are to see if we can (a) use IBM micros as MAC file servers, (b) run a 3270 session, (c) bypass the IBM mainframe and go directly via TCP/IP. I realize that we probably can't accomplish much without extra software, so what's out there in the way of TCP/IP software, etc??? Also, what companies make Token Ring cards for SEs? What would be the minimum hardware requirements for SEs running Token Ring cards??? Thanks in advance Bill Hayes ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Sep 89 07:08:49 MST From: Bruce Long <ICBAL%ASUACAD.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> Subject: Lautrec font This is the ToulouseLautrec laser font, very artistic. [Archived as /info-mac/font/toulouse-lautrec.hqx; 33K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Sep 89 7:43:33 EDT From: Kenneth Sussmann (PBMA) <sussmann@pica.army.mil> Subject: MacWeek > This is not precisely a Macintosh question, but it is one people here ought to > be able to respond to intelligently. I've not received my MacWeek for this > week, or the previous one; nor have my co-workers. Is it just the fabled DC > Post Offices (they are taking lessons from the DC Ambulance Service I guess > ;-)) or has something happened to this publication I (1) did not > notice or (2) did not know? I noticed the same thing and wondered if my subscription was cancelled. However, when I checked a back issue and read the fine print on the inside, I discovered that they don't publish the last week in August and the first week in September. Another mystery solved. Ken ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Sep 89 03:07:45 -0400 From: earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton) Subject: Microemacs source. This is a BinHex-encoded StuffIt 1.5.1 archive containing the source to the version of microemacs 3.9e that runs on the Mac. I compiled it with Aztec C 3.6c and with MPW C 2.0.2 last week. You have to do funny things to make it work with MPW C 2.0.2, but these should make it easier to use MPW C 3.0. Once upon a time, an ancestor of these sources was compiled with LightSpeedC 2.15. This distribution contains only those files necessary to compile microemacs for the Macintosh, and supporting documentation relevant to the Macintosh. This was my first real programming project on the Mac, and I have been playing with this code for a long time. This means that portions of the code diverge somewhat from the official microemacs maintained by Dan Lawrence. It also means that there may be portions of the code which do not reflect my present ideas of good coding practice. If you see any of these, give me the benefit of the doubt and assume it was something I did three years ago. If you want to compile these sources, read everything that looks like documentation first. Earle R. Horton [Archived as /info-mac/source/c/microemacs-39e-part1.hqx; 185K /info-mac/source/c/microemacs-39e-part2.hqx; 185K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Sep 89 6:00:28 PDT From: cpdaux!steve@apple.com (Steve Lemke) Subject: Radius 16+ accelerator }Koala Video digitizer is the only thing that's had bad problems. }Sounds you need the Radius INIT (provided) Memory no different }than before. There software seems to do a great job of compatibility. For what it's worth, a representative from Koala recently visited Radius for the purpose of testing their Video digitizer with an accelerated Plus (with Full Page Display) as well as an accelerated SE (with Two Page Display). From what I recall, I don't believe the current software had a problem with the Plus, although there was a definite problem with the SE accelerator. This was easily solved, however, by rebooting, holding the mouse button down (possible only with the SE accelerator) and turning off one of the caches (I think it was the Code cache). This is due to some strange code they have written, and they intend to fix that in their next release. Also, my memory is not entirely clear on the Plus test, but if there was a problem, it was identified and will (hopefully) be fixed soon. They also had a problem with our (stock) Mac IIcx, which they intend to look into, and may have already fixed. }Only programs I've had any problems with are the OLD ones. Every thing }reasonably current runs w/o any problems. As a member of the Radius Engineering QA team, I often assist other Mac developers in testing compatibility between their products and our products. This can be done by sending us their products, or (in some cases) by loaner samples of Radius equipment being sent to the developer (though we don't often send out things like Two Page Color displays - sorry). This makes it easier for them to fix any compatibility problems, often before a product (theirs OR ours) is even announced to the public. -- ----- Steve Lemke ------------------- "MS-DOS (OS/2, etc.) - just say no!" ----- Internet: cpdaux!steve@apple.com GEnie: LEMKE ----- Or try: apple!cpdaux!steve CompuServe: 73627,570 ----- Quote: "What'd I go to college for?" "You had fun, didn't you?" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Sep 89 13:53:53 EDT From: bkirsch@nadc.arpa (B. Kirsch) Subject: Request for INIT/CDEV ~~r tomac2 I would like an INIT/CDEV that presents a modal dialog box when copying files that, instead of saying "Replace items with the same names with the selected items?" have the message say "Replace <filename(s)> with a(n) <newer/older> version of <filename(s)>". The CDEV would have options to have a prompt for each file to be replaced or replace all. The CDEV might also have the option to automatically replace old files with new ones and only prompt if an oldfile will replace a newer file. This will save me time by not having to Get Info, or changing my Finder's View from Icon View. Does any such INIT/CDEV exist? If not, could someone out there write this useful little utility? Thanks in advance, Barry Kirsch bkirsch@nadc.arpa ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Sep 89 15:35 +0200 From: "Sven (Sciz) Axelsson" <D83_SVEN_A@tekno.chalmers.se> Subject: SitReport v1.0 SitReport v. 1.0 - A utility program to generate useful reports on the contents of hierarchically maintained StuffIt archives. By Sven Axelsson, Gothenburg, Sweden d83_sven_a@tekno.chalmers.se [Archived as /info-mac/util/sit-report.hqx; 25K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Sep 89 13:15 CDT From: <JJM3383%TAMSIGMA.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> Subject: the whole apple II line. I have some time to kill and I feel like airing a gripe. I think that apple should kill the whole apple II line. Instead they should implement II in a mac or some such standard on every machine. That way they could still support the environment without wasting alot of development. Some say they still have a place in the high school - but the truth is they are loosing popularity. The way to continue them is to slowly integrate the macs into the schools as apple II clones and a whole lot more. Just a thought >From the bored... ....jeph l\ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Sep 89 08:59 EST From: <GILBERT%MITWIBR.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> Subject: Using Modal Dialogs with the THINK C Class Library Using Modal Dialogs with THINK C Class Library? After having read and used the THINK C Class Library I am very pleased with what they have done to implement this useful subset of C++. The Class Library is well put together and documented. Anyone who has been confused by the Library should not give up...reread manual, often. Turn on the Debugger and follow the flow of logic, this cleared up many questions for me. My question is about implementing modal dialog boxes. Not finding either an example or a subclass I assume one of two possiblities. 1) A modal dialog subclass needs to be created as a special Window/Director combination or 2) Modal dialogs are to be handled in the "old fashsion" way. Any ideas out there? P.S. Special thanks to THINK C and Gregory Dow for the Class Library. Good job. William Gilbert Whitehead Institute Cambridge, MA Gilbert@MITWIBR.BitNET ------------------------------ End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************