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Info-Mac Digest Fri, 1 Sep 89 Volume 7 : Issue 156 Today's Topics: (None) ASLEdit+ V1.0a7 Cmdr. Dialog Problems? Description of Mac II video utility Hypercard Trainset poster? Info-Mac Digest V7 #155 KaleidaGraph 2.0 Laser printer Hazards LCD projection system Mac Digest stack Mac Moria Bugs Mac Portable battery/AC connection Modula 2 on the Mac MS Word Postscript Headers? NCSA Image Problems with 2400bps modem Problem with auto log-on in AppleShare Red Ryder command language ShowDialog1.4 XCMD stack Speeding up an SE/030 TransSkel25.sit.hqx Venda-Card Systems for Mac Output Devices 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: Sat, 2 Sep 89 03:45:54 GMT From: wasatch!cs.utah.edu!caeco!i-core!clint@cs.utexas.edu (clint) Subject: (None) I'm trying to print Mac-generated PostScript files on a Mannesman- Tally 910 PostScript printer which is hooked up to an IBM Novell network (there are no Macs on the network). I can get the files converted over, but the printer program rejects the Mac files. I _have_ been able to get Amiga-generated PostScript files to print without any problems. I have tried printing both with and without the LaserPrep file included, and with output from more than one program. Someone on the net mentioned that Apple uses a "special flavor" or PostScript. Can I take out or add something to the file to get it to print? clint@i-core ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Aug 89 23:14 CDT From: Youhei Morita (Univ. of Tsukuba) <MORITA%FNAL.BITNET@uicvm.uic.edu> Subject: ASLEdit+ V1.0a7 Here's yet another version of ASLEdit+, a tiny text editor written by Mr.Hiroo Yamada (SysOp of MACPRO forum in NIFTY-serve) which is capable of handling Japanese characters. This version fixes several nasty bugs such as system crashes in the DA version. Version included here is 1.0/a7. Note: This is still an alpha version. English ReadMe included. Freeware. ************************************************************************** Youhei Morita High Energy Physics Lab, Univ. of Tsukuba -|- /|\ _____ Be yourself Bitnet: MORITA@JPNKEKVX -|- -|- |__|__| No matter what they say HEPnet: UTKBP::MORITA /|\ /|\ |__|__| -STING Nifty: MGG01275 ************************************************************************** [Archived as /info-mac/app/asledit-plus-10a7.hqx; 118K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Sep 89 17:26 CST From: <HRAMAGLI%UTMEM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> Subject: Cmdr. Dialog Problems? I tried out Cmdr. Dialog and have encountered a problem. It exists when you are running MultiFinder. Apparently, Cmdr. Dialog somehow inhibits screen refresh of the desktop. If you open a window over top of something on the desktop, and then close the window the icon on the desktop is no longer there. Also, you can get the control panel to some real funky stuff too. Has anyone else encountered similar problems? Howard ************************************************************************ * * * Dr. Howard J. Ramagli * * BITNET Info Representative * * Director, Technology Support Services * * Biomedical Information Transfer (BIT) Center * * University of Tennessee, Memphis, 877 Madison, Memphis, TN 38163 * * (901) 528-5848 * * BITNET: HRAMAGLI@UTMEM1.BITNET * * Internet: HRAMAGLI@UTMEM1.UTMEM.EDU * * AppleLink: U0282 * * * ************************************************************************ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Sep 89 13:20:52 EDT From: gateh%conncoll.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu Subject: Description of Mac II video utility Here is the description of the Mac II Video card utility which Bill posted the other day. It is taken from the top of the Read Me file provided with this cdev. More info on building the cable is provided in the Read Me document. _____________________________________ Apple Macintosh II Video Card utility Copyright 1986-1989 Apple Computer, Inc. All Rights Reserved This unsupported utility is a "Monitors CDEV Extension" which may be of assistance in obtaining interlaced, RS170-compatible video output signals >From a Macintosh II-class machine equipped with the Macintosh II Video Card. It may support 1,2,4, and 8 bits-per-pixel interlaced video. In also may provide an optional "no flicker mode" for the 1 bit-per-pixel mode. This mode eliminates the flickering caused by thin horizontal lines (like the racing stripes at the tops of windows) that occurs when Macintosh video is transferred to video tape. Audience: This video utility allows developers and video-knowledgeable users to obtain medium quality video output at extremely low cost. This is not intended for the unsophisticated user. If you don't know how to make a video cable, this software is not for you! Pluses: + Supports 1 to 8 bits per pixel RS170 video output + This type of video can be video-taped + Flicker filter improves image quality in 1 bit per pixel mode. Minuses: - Requires a special cable. - Flicker filter slows the computer down 20% to 40%. - Flicker filter uses about 48K of RAM - Not 100% broadcast-quality RS170 signal. Hardware Required: % A Macintosh II-class Macintosh computer. % An Apple-brand 640 x 480 x 4 or 8 bit Macintosh II Video Card. % A special cable (you make) to connect the video card to your video equipment. Software Required: % System 6.0.3 (or higher). % The Monitors 4.0 Control Panel device (available with 32-Bit QuickDraw). % The General file accompanying 32-Bit QuickDraw % 32-Bit QuickDraw ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1989 23:31:23 PDT From: The Moderators <Info-Mac-Request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu> Subject: Hypercard Trainset poster? Could the person who posted the Hypercard Trainset please contact us? I have misplaced your address. The problem seems to be that your mailer is doing word hyphenation. Bill ------------------------------ Date: 1 Sep 89 15:34:10 GMT From: intercon!amanda@uunet.uu.net (Amanda Walker) Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #155 In Info-Mac Digest V7 #155, John Sotos <sotos@sumex-aim.stanford.edu> writes: > I seem to remember reading a few years ago that the chemical > used in copiers is mutagenic (in rodents no doubt). > Anyone have any qualms about sitting next to a powered-on > LaserWriter all day in a less-than-exuberantly ventilated > room? (This is more curiousity than paranoia.) Many photocopiers and larger laser printers use a drum coated with Selenium, which is extremely nasty, and must be replaced by an official service droid (mainly to insure that it's disposed of properly). As far as I know, though, the Canon engines are quite safe, although toner can be very annoying if it gets spilled :-). -- Amanda Walker InterCon Systems Corporation amanda@intercon.uu.net | ...!uunet!intercon!amanda ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Aug 89 15:24:15 MDT From: EPETERS%CSUGREEN@forsythe.stanford.edu Subject: KaleidaGraph 2.0 This is a demo version of Synergy Software's KaleidaGraph 2.0 commercial scientific graphics application. Users of CricketGraph will love this program, as it has all of Cricket's features and graph types plus many more, including: 14 types of data plots (including box plots, histograms), curve-fitting to user-defined functions, MacDraw-like plot annotation tools, a programmable calculator and function window (where you can make complex data transformations in one step, rather than a step at a time) and macros. Saving has been disabled in this demo, and printing will add a demo banner across the page. Comes with some documentation (including a 'Read Me' file outlining the new features of version 2.0) and some sample data files. A working copy can be obtained through Synergy Software, 2457 Perkiomen Ave., Reading, PA 19606 (215) 779-0522, or through your favorite mail order house. Stuffed with StuffIt and binhexed. Enjoy! Eric L. Peters Department of Radiology and Radiation Biology Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 EPETERS@CSUGREEN ******************************************************************** Disclaimer: As usual, I am not associated with this company in any way (most will attest that there is little sign that I EVER work at ALL!). Although I DO come from Pennsylvania... OK, Synergy, I posted it. Where's my two dollars? ******************************************************************** [Archived as /info-mac/demo/kaleidagraph-part1.hqx; 162K /info-mac/demo/kaleidagraph-part2.hqx; 162K /info-mac/demo/kaleidagraph-part3.hqx; 162K /info-mac/demo/kaleidagraph-part4.hqx; 78K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri 01 09 89 10:34 EDT From: U009%CCIW.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu Subject: Laser printer Hazards I took a quick browse through a CD database called WHMIS (Workplace Hazardous Material Information System) here at the shop and found indexing 'laser' only told me about the hazards of Helium/Neon/CO2 mixtures (HA HA HA). Anyway, 'toner' gave a much more pertinant collection of 59 records from Kodak, Cannon and Xerox Corporations about the materials in their photocopier chemicals. Let me briefly list the chemicals found (as reported by the manufacturer) in the products retrieved (obviously incomplete): Acrylic Resin (20-25%) ALUMINUM MONOSTEARATE Amorphous Silica (<1%) AN ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBON SIMILAR TO KEROSENE Bisphenol A Propylene Oxide Fumarate Polymer (85-90%) Blue Pigment; Phthalocyanine Derivative (<10%) BUTYLATED HYDROXYTOLUENE Carbon Black (10-15%) chromium chelate (72869-85-3) Copper oxide DIVINYLBENZENE CROSSLINKED RESIN Dye or Pigment Ferrite FRAGRANCE MATERIAL (SCHOENMANN INC. #91925) Iron oxide (1309-37-1) ISOPAR G (ISOPARAFFINIC PETROLEUM SOLVENT) Isoparaffinic hydrocarbons Magenta Pigment; Quinoacridine Derivative (<10%) MIXTURE MAINLY COMPOSED OF ISOPARAFFINIC HYDROCARBON SOLVENT MIXTURE MAINLY COMPOSED OF RESIN COATED FERRITE POWDER PETROLEUM HYDROCARBONS Pigment Polyester resin Polyolefin (<5%) POLYPROPYLENE WAX POLYVINYL BUTYRAL RESIN PRUSSIAN BLUE PIGMENT Quaternary Ammonium Salt (<2%) ROSIN MODIFIED FORMALDEHYDE RESIN Rosin-modified resin and vinylpolymers Salicylic acid Styrene acrylate copolymer STYRENE AND N-BUTYLMETHACRYLATE COPOLYMER Styrene methacrylate copolymer Styrene/Butadiene Copolymer (45-50%) Titanium dioxide VINYL TOLUENE-ACRYLATE TERPOLYMER RESIN Vinyltoluene-Butadiene Resin (85-90%) WAXES AND SURFACTANTS Yellow Pigment; Acetylacetamide Derivative (<10%) Zinc Stearate (<1%) Obviously, not all compounds appear in all toners. The following phrases occurred in some of the vendor's data sheets and I thought you might get a kick out of some of them. None of the products looked at appeared to be genuinely toxic, although long-term exposure data is relatively unknown. <QUOTE:> INHALATION: LC50: >2.6 G/M3 (RATS) SLIGHTLY TOXIC * INGESTION: ORAL LD50: >15.3 G/KG (RATS) PRACTICALLY NON-TOXIC MUTAGENICITY TEST(S): AMES NONE DETECTABLE **; MICRONUCLEUS NEGATIVE Concerning carcinogenicity, each ingredient is not listed on NTP Third Annual Report on carcinogens, IARC Monograph or OSHA listing. EFFECTS OF OVEREXPOSURE: Inhalation Gasping. Do not breathe the dust. Medical Conditions Generally Aggravated by Exposure: None when used as described by product literature. This material has been tested and evaluated by Xerox Corporation. When used as intended, it does not represent a health or safety hazard. Mutagenicity: No mutagenicity detected in Ames, WP2, Pol A+/A-, and Micronucleus Assays. Carcinogens: None present XEL1: 5 mg/m3 (Total Dust) Aquatic LC50: >500 mg/l (Fathead Minnows) non-toxic (~~~Fatheads beware of this one~~~) POTENTIALLY IRRITATING **, NON-SENSITIZING. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: **THIS IS DUE TO THE SOLVENT TOXICITY DATA: Negative mutagenicity (Test species: S. typhimurium) We recommend 300 ppm maximum for 8-hour working day, 5 days week. and my favorite:- Inhalation of high concentration can produce central nervous system depression which can, in turn, lead to a loss of coordination, impaired judgement and, if exposure is prolonged, result in stupor and unconsciousness. (NOW we know what's causing it... Lets get those photocopiers and laser printers out of our government's offices!) If you want the complete citations, I can send netdata files to BITNET users and Email to others (59 5-6K blocks). Regards, Stu Beal, VE3MWM, (U009@CCIW.BITNET), National Water Research Institute, Burlington, Ontario, Canada. (My opinions only... Sir?... SIR?) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Sep 89 00:42:52 CDT From: GA0095%SIUCVMB.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu (Robert J. Brenstein) Subject: LCD projection system We have Kodak DataShow and nView's MacViewFrame for about a year now. At the time we got them there were some 6 LCD devices available and these two were rated the best. Now there are more of them, but I haven't seen any new ones in action, hence can't say anything about them. Both of the ones I have work fine, although Kodak's unit is somewhat better -- it is more true b&w, it's a bit brighter, and seems to have better refresh rate. Both require very bright overhead projector and are sensitive to overheating (LCD goes bananas but we haven't had any permanent damage yet). Both are easy to use once the video capture card is installed in the Mac (additional cards can be bought for other Macs). The card installation is not difficult either. The refresh rate appears to be a problem of the current generation of LCD devices -- faster movements on the screen are becoming jerky when projected. As far as I remember all LCD devices sell for $1400-1700. nView has now another model which is more advanced and works (I believe) with Mac II. Kodak's unit does not work with Mac IIs (somebody correct me if they got a card for Mac II by now). Overall, I do recommend Kodak Datashow. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Aug 89 15:05 EDT From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist) Subject: Mac Digest stack Here is a reposting of my Mac-Digest Stack, in UnStuffed, binhexed form. It undigestifies the Info-Mac digest, and updates the archive stack. I think the last time I sent it it got lost in the ether. Thanks. Peter Jorgensen Microcomputer specialist Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346 AppleLink - U0523 BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742 [Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/mac-digest.hqx; 98K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Sep 89 12:19:22 EDT From: Joe_Mullaney@ub.cc.umich.edu Subject: Mac Moria Bugs RE: Date: Thu, 31 Aug 89 19:27:21 CDT >From: Michael Farlow--Texas A&M Graphics Lab <X098MF%TAMVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stan Subject: Mac Moria Bugs A Question: Is it possible that you are wearing a ring of Teleportation? This is very much like carrying around a teleportation trap. Hope this helps -Joe ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Sep 89 12:55:31 EDT From: gateh%conncoll.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu Subject: Mac Portable battery/AC connection > I read your summary of the Mac Portable in the info-mac digest with > great interest. I just wondered whether the thing can be run with an > A/C adaptor *without* having the battery in place? I'm guessing that a > significant part of the 15 lb is in the battery, and for those of us who > need to take a Mac on a trip, but don't need to use it on battery power, > it would be nice if we could leave the battery behind. > > Paul Romaniuk, > Biochemistry, > University of Victoria > PROMAN@UVVM.bitnet Unfortunately, the battery must be place in order for the machine to run. That is to say, you cannot run directly from the AC adaptor. You can, however, switch batteries while the machine is on, thanks to a 9V battery which keeps the machine up while you change the rechargeable battery. I did not get physical specs on the battery itself, and did not handle it either (bonehead), so I cannot give you a very good guess as to its weight. It is about 2.5" x 3" x 4.5", and did not appear to be inordinately heavy, but I would guess that you are correct in assuming that it accounts for a significant portion of the machine's weight. It would be my guess that, due to the constraints of working with a lead-acid battery as a power source, it is unlikely that we will see any third-party products which would allow the machine to function without the battery. However that is a relatively *wild* (and uninformed) guess. Comments anyone? - Gregg *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* Gregg TeHennepe | Academic Computing and User Services Minicomputer Specialist | Box 5482 BITNET: gateh@conncoll | Connecticut College Phone: (203) 447-7681 | New London, CT 06320 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Sep 89 09:04:45 EDT From: kim@cs.williams.edu Subject: Modula 2 on the Mac We have been very pleased with MetCom Modula-2 by Metropolis Computing. It has an integrated environment (editor, compiler, linker, source-level debugger). While not quite as friendly an environment as MacPascal or LightSpeed Pascal our students have had no problem learning and using the system (in great contrast to the MPW environment!). It has very good access to toolbox routines, and they provide some modules to make it easier to do such things as pop up windows (of various flavors) and provide character sets. We have been running the software on Macs with hard disks (you need the space for all of the libraries provided), but will be running it off of an (ethertalked) network server this fall. The documentation is very complete (although you still need Inside Macintosh to really get into the toolbox) - my students can dig out just about anything they need from the manual. The best news however is the support. Metropolis has been incredibly responsive to our questions and requests. It is easy to get them on the phone and questions are answered very rapidly. One new piece of news is that they are coming out with a "student pack" - compiler and abbreviated documentation. I haven't seen it to know how complete it is, but the price is right ~$40 (the full package is substantially more). We had tried MacModula-2 earlier. It was incredibly slow and apparently isn't being supported anymore. We definitely would NOT recommend it. Kim Bruce, Department of Computer Science, Williams College kim@cs.williams.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Aug 89 20:30:45 PDT From: POTHIERS%TUVA.SAINET.MFENET@ccc.nmfecc.gov Subject: MS Word Postscript Headers? I think I remember reading that MS Word sends a postscript header to the laser writer before sending a document to be printed (for setup purposes). Is there any way of inhibiting the sending of the header? I want to print a non-Word postscript document but I think its getting interference. advTHANKSance, Steve Pothire ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Sep 89 10:56 MDT From: DSPhillips%UNCAMULT.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu Subject: NCSA Image There was a recent Info_Mac posting by Wayne Rashband mentioning that he had uploaded the source code to Image 1.16. I believe he is referring to software that originates at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We recently received their "Anonymous FTP Source Reel" which contains source code for a program called ImageTool 1.2. ImageTool has apparently been revamped in C and renamed Image. Although the documentation for Image indicates that the source is in the public domain, it was not included on the tape we received. Does NCSA plan to release the C source code? Could someone post it to a BITNET-accessible archive, such as the one at Rice? Thank you. Doug S. Phillips BITNET: DSPhillips@UNCAMULT SuperComputing Services or DSPhillips@UNCACDC The University of Calgary 390 - 1620, 29 St. N. W. Phone: (403)-221-8907 Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 4L7 [To clear up any confusion, the archive at Rice is a shadow of the Sumex archive: it contains our files, and only our files. There is an automatic program which runs every night to maintain the linkage. In order to get a file onto the archive there, you have to send it to the regular address here at sumex-aim.stanford.edu. The same goes for MACSERVE@PUCC and the European IRLEARN, two other Bitnet-accessible shadows. -Bill] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Sep 89 15:06:44 EDT From: eric%bnrmtl@iro.umontreal.ca (Eric Brunelle) Subject: Problems with 2400bps modem I'm trying to connect a Packard Bell 2400bps modem to my 512E Mac. I can't even get echo from the modem when I type a command to it >From the Mac, although the RD LED lights at every one of my keystrokes. What's wrong with my connection? The Mac is an original 128K (I was an early believer!) upgraded to 512 and then to 512E. I bought the cable yesterday evening from the biggest Mac store in Canada (Micros-Boutique in Montreal), and it was supposed to work! I guess it's a very simple problem, but it's still frustrating! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Brunelle | "C'est la nuit qu'il est beau de croire a la lumiere." BNR-Montreal | -- E. Rostand ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1989 10:40:41 EDT From: LYONS@scri1.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Lyons) Subject: Problem with auto log-on in AppleShare We have been having a problem at our site with the automatic log on feature of AppleShare. The problem is that when a user tries to set automatic log on from the volume selection dialog box in Chooser, an alert says, "The AppleShare Prep file needed some minor repairs. Some startup information may be lost." The file it then creates is garbage compared to a prep file that works; the former just has a dozen or so (non-text) bytes and the latter has some sort of structure which includes plain-text strings for the user name and password, the zone(s), and volume name(s). Where did we get a prep file that works, you ask? Well, we have have Mac IIs which all have Apple's EtherTalk board and Mac Pluses on LocalTalk; a Kinetics FastPath bridges the two. Turns out this problem was only occurring on the IIs; on the Plusses, it works fine. (We are using System 6.0.3, EtherTalk 1.2, and AppleShare 2.0.1 on all machines.) Hold on, it gets wierder. Further investigation showed that if a Mac II was switched over to LocalTalk, AppleShare then created a good prep file! We also found you could create a good prep file on a Plus and then copy it into the System Folder of a II on the Ethernet, and it would work correctly; however, if you tried to change the startup information, the prep file would be garbaged again. The problems apparantly started when we reconfigured the server volumes. We noticed that after the change, users who had been using the automatic log on feature with just the name being saved would get the dialog box during boot-up asking for their password; they would enter it, but after boot-up, no server volume would be mounted. In looking at these prep files we discovered, interestingly, that the prep file kept information about previous configurations of the server; we saw in them names of test servers we had set up briefly, and volumes that had existed some time in the past but were no longer present. We have reported this problem to Apple Tech Support via our local Apple S.E. If I find out what's going on, I'll post it. In the meantime, if anyone can corroborate this problem or has any information or ideas about this, please let me know or post it to the net. Jim Lyons \ Supercomputer Computations Research Institute 904/644-4274 \ Florida State University lyons@gw.scri.fsu.edu \ Tallahassee, FL 32306-4052 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Sep 89 02:07:14 -0900 From: "DANIEL K LASOTA" <FTDKL%ALASKA.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> Subject: Red Ryder command language Hi Everyone! Is there anyone out there who has done work with the command language of Red Ryder 10.3? I was interested in automating remote dial ins to a host mac. Maybe we could post a few example com files in the archives. Thanks Dan Disclaimer: Disclaimers not needed. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Aug 89 09:18:29 PDT From: Paul Romaniuk <PROMAN%UVVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> Subject: ShowDialog1.4 XCMD stack What follows is a share ware stack with an XCMD for putting up modeless dialogs in HyperCard. The author is Jay Hodgson. Paul Romaniuk PROMAN@UVVM.bitnet [Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/xcmd/showdialog-14.hqx; 131K] ------------------------------ Date: 1 Sep 89 10:50:00 EDT From: "Charles E. Bouldin" <bouldin@sed.ceee.nist.gov> Subject: Speeding up an SE/030 I am considering the purchase of an SE/030 and upgrades of existing SE's to the 030 motherboard. I believe that the SE/030 runs at 16 mhz with 120 nsec ram, therefore needing 2 wait states on the memory. Since fast (70-80 nsec) ram is now ~$110/meg, I am wondering if there is any way to swap the memory on the SE/030 motherboard, install the faster ram and reduce the wait states? If anyone has info on this I will repost replies to infomac. Related question: The SE/030 does not come (I think) in a 2 floppy version. If I upgrade a 2 floppy SE do I still have use of both floppies? I much prefer 2 internal floppies and an external hard disc to a configuration with an internal hard disc. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Aug 89 18:57:20 PDT From: xanadu!grand-central!bob@uunet.uu.net (Bob Schumaker -- "Software-in-a-bucket") Subject: TransSkel25.sit.hqx In the wake of the recent rash of messages looking for modifications to TransSkel, here is a new version of TransSkel. This version (which is not officially blessed by Paul DuBois) is now multifinder friendly, supports the multifinder cursor region, support pull-right menus, and comes complete with a test program that demonstrates the new features! This version is set up for MPW C 3.0 and has not been tested with LsC in a looong time. Enjoy! Bob Schumaker The AMIX Corporation 2345 Yale, Palo Alto, CA 94306 Addresses: bob@xanadu.com, {hoptoad,uunet,apple,sun}!xanadu!bob [Archived as /info-mac/source/c/transskel-modified.hqx; 125K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Sep 89 09:30:21 CDT From: Michael Farlow--Texas A&M Graphics Lab <X098MF%TAMVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> Subject: Venda-Card Systems for Mac Output Devices Howdy!! I am looking for information on how to hook up a Venda-card system to our Mac output devices. For those of you who don't know what this is, I shall try to elaborate: A Venda-Card is a small card issued from a machine that has a magnetic strip with an ammount of money encoded on it. This card can be placed into a reader attached to any machine that normally might take coinage (say a copy machine) and used in place of loose change. Once the card is out of money, then you can re-insert it into the vending machine, add a $1 or $5 bill, and have that much credit added to the card. I have seen a few references in the past to accademic computing sites having this attached to their laserweriters and would like for anyone who might know about this to send information back to me. Thank you, %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Michael Farlow X098MF@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU (InterNet) % % CSC Help Desk & Graphics Lab Consultant X098MF@TAMVM1 (BitNet) % % Texas A&M University (409)845-1365 % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Disclaimer % % % % Any opinions expressed here are the sole responsibility of Michael % % Farlow and do not in any way constitute the views, policy, or % % other legal type things of Texas A&M University. % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ------------------------------ End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************