Info-Mac-Request@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (The Moderators) (08/22/89)
Info-Mac Digest Mon, 21 Aug 89 Volume 7 : Issue 147
Today's Topics:
Administrivia
Apple Color Monitor heat problem
Appleshare
Archive question
AutoBlack and SE/30's
CoCoA wanted
COMPOSITION FORUMS
Does anyone have the Apple MacII Video Card Utility
Expert System Shells for the Mac
Financial Program Needed!
Help on Daylight Saving Time Needed
Looking for Old English Fonts
Masking in FreeHand
Nothing CDEV
Questions about Multifinder and TeX DVI printing (v7 #142)
Response to: (3 msgs)
SEARCHING/INDEXING FILES
SuperPaint 2.0/LaserWriter 6.0 problem
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1989 16:49:29 PDT
From: The Moderators <Info-Mac-Request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Subject: Administrivia
Sumex will be off-line Tuesday, August 22. Get your FTP kicks somewhere else.
Bill
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Date: Sat, 19 Aug 89 12:07:00 PDT
From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Subject: Apple Color Monitor heat problem
My Apple RGB monitor also becomes quite warm while in operation. This
doesn't seem to have affected its operation, but I supposed that long-
term usage at high temperatures could shorten the life of some components.
You could put a fan on top... but you should make sure that the fan is one
that does not generate a strong magnetic field. Many AC-powered motors
(fans, clocks, etc.) emit a strong enough field to deflect the electron beam
in the monitor's CRT... causing the image on the screen to bend, wobble,
oscillate, or lose convergence (develop rainbow-colored edges). A DC-powered
fan, with an outboard power supply mounted several feet away, might produce
the best results.
You might want to try a trick I've seen used with Mac Plus (and earlier)
systems that don't incorporate fans. Simply build yourself a "chimney"
out of cardboard... make it as wide as the vent-area on top of the
monitor, and perhaps two or three times that high. As warm air from the
monitor rises into the chimney and flows upwards, it will generate a
substantial draft, pulling other warm air out of the monitor, and thus
pulling cool air into the monitor through the vent-slits in the bottom.
People who used this sort of cooling-tower with their Mac Plus systems
have (I've heard) found that it cools the interior of the machine
significantly. You may have trouble building an effective chimney in
your current setup, though, since you say that there's a shelf only
8" above the top of the monitor...
Since the monitor's cool-air vents are on the bottom, you should make
sure that airflow into the vents is not being restricted. There must
be a free flow of air along the bottom of the sides and back of the
monitor (air can't flow in easily from the front, as the monitor's
"legs" block airflow in the area). If you have boxes, diskette
holders, modems, or anything else sitting right beside the monitor,
you might want to move them aside a few inches to make sure that
air can flow past them and into the monitor. You might also want to raise
the monitor up a couple of inches to encourage airflow along the bottom.
--
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Date: 19 Aug 89 02:11:05 GMT
From: Scott Truesdell <truesdel@ics.uci.edu>
Subject: Appleshare
PUGH@ccc.mfecc.llnl.gov writes:
>I just installed Appleshare. Did I do something wrong or is Appleshare intent
>on calling InitWindows at INIT time? It's kind of disturbing to have my
>StartupScreen vanish at startup. Any fixes or ideas?
I'm assuming you are referring to the installation of AppleShare client
software on your workstation as opposed to the server software...
AppleShare INIT clears the screen. If this is overly distressing to you,
you can purchase INITPicker from most of the mailorder houses for under
$30 and have AppleShare and Responder load last. All Macs should have
INITPicker. Apple should buy the technology from Microseeds and make
it part of the OS.
I saw INITPicker II at MacWorld Expo and it adds to the functionality
with multiple named sets of INITs selectable at boot by holding down
a user defined key and "Bomb Protect", where it senses an impending
bomb on boot and fails to load the 2nd INIT that would cause such. Not a
perfect solution to INIT conflicts, but better than nothing.
--
Scott Truesdell
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 89 13:06:08 EDT
From: Michael_Webb@ub.cc.umich.edu
Subject: Archive question
Dear Moderator:
Someone told me there is a file in the archives that explains how to make
one's application MultiFinder compatible. I looked through the arcs, but
I didn't see an obvious candidate. Could you give me a pointer as to
where I might look? A filename would be great. Thanks!
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| Michael Webb |
| University of Michigan Physics Dept. |
| 1038 Randall Laboratory |
| Ann Arbor, MI 48109 |
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| Michael_Webb@ub.cc.umich.edu |
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Date: 21 Aug 89 07:15:23 +0000 (Mon)
From: munnari!utscsd.oz.au!gregw@uunet.uu.net (-a8000033-g.webb-cen-250-)
Subject: AutoBlack and SE/30's
Does anyone have a copy of AutoBlack that works with an SE/30?
This is still my favourite screen saver. The version I have is 1.5.
Greg Webb
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 89 10:02:00 EDT
From: bkirsch@nadc.arpa (B. Kirsch)
Subject: CoCoA wanted
I am very interested in receiving a copy of CoCoA - Commutative Algebra
Mac System that was mentioned in Info-Mac Digest Volume 7 : Issue 144. If
anyone can email a binhexed copy, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Barry Kirsch
Naval Air Development Center
Code 5051
Warminster PA 18974-5000
bkirsch@nadc.arpa
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 89 10:03:07 EDT
From: ZAK%NIHCU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: COMPOSITION FORUMS
In response to Paul Brians <HRC$04%WSUVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>:
> Does anyone know of a forum in which teachers of English composition
> and related fields can discuss the use of computer labs (specifically
> Macintosh labs) for education? Anything available through BitNet,
> Tymnet, or CompuServe would be great.
Send mail or an interactive message to LISTSERV@CANADA01 to subscribe
to ENGLISH. They're rather quiet in the summertime, but with classes
starting in the next week or so, they should be back to normal
activity soon.
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Date: Mon 21 Aug 89 08:30:08-PST
From: ROHAN%ASTRO.SPAN@star.stanford.edu
Subject: Does anyone have the Apple MacII Video Card Utility
A recent MacWeek article noted a free software utility from Apple that
lets you make flicker-free video tapes with a Mac II video card. It
is called "the Apple Macintosh II Video Card Utility" and was first
distributed at the Apple Developer's Conference in May.
If anyone has this utility, please upload it to the archive.
Thanks, in advance,
Rick Rohan
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Date: Sun 20 Aug 89 22:04:02-EST
From: Mark Maybury <MAYBURY@tops20.radc.af.mil>
Subject: Expert System Shells for the Mac
Has anyone used/evaluated any expert system shells/development
environments on the Macintosh? One of my collegues is investigating
the development of an expert system to automate project management and
the associated government forms.
He has targeted the IBM PC as a delivery platform, but I would like to
offer him an ES shell that can run on both the Mac and an IBM PC. Any
suggestions?
If there is sufficient interest, I will summarize and post any suggestions.
Mark
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Date: Sat, 19 Aug 89 14:42:44 CST
From: decwrl!pro-party.cts.com!hplabs!d.m.p.@labrea.stanford.edu (Don Peaslee)
Subject: Financial Program Needed!
Does anyone know of a program that will compute the yield on an
investment that is _compounding_? In other words, compute the yield on
a simple interest investment which compounds every day, every 30 days,
etc. Sure would be handy for choosing among the various CDs when
getting ready to tie one's money up for a period.
Thanks.
Don
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 89 14:46:15 EDT
From: Guenther Blaschek <K331671%AEARN.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Help on Daylight Saving Time Needed
Dear Mac-Netters,
I'm in the process of writing an INIT/cdev for automatic clock correction.
The principle is quite simple: It remembers how much you had to correct the
clock during a given period and then corrects the clock whenever necessary
during restart.
A prototype of this tool is already under testing, but I would very much like
to extend it in such a way that it also switches between daylight saving time
and regular time. Yes, I know that there is already such a tool (Daylight cdev
by Gregory Smith), but this one doesn't work for me, because the rules for
switching are not flexible enough.
What I need in order to provide a convenient customization in the
Control Panel is knowledge about the different rules used in different
countries. For example, in Austria and Germany (and in many other European
countries as well) we switch to daylight saving time on the first Sunday in
spring and back to regular time on the first Sunday in fall.
Please send the rules used in your country directly to me in order to avoid
an overflow of this list. Thank you in advance.
e Guenther Blaschek
gu EMail: <K331671@AEARN> (BITNET)
SNail: University of Linz / Austria
Institute of Computer Science / Software
Altenbergerstr. 69
A-4040 Linz
Tel.: +43 (732) 2468 / 447
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 89 13:34:26 PDT
From: rob@nrc.com (Rob Pawsner)
Subject: Looking for Old English Fonts
If you're looking for QUALITY manuscript fonts, you'll have to expand
your budget. Public-domain calligraphic fonts are worth their prices,
but not much more.
Adobe: Linoscript, Linotext, and Fette Fraktur. Catalog: 800-83-FONTS.
$145-185. Street prices are much lower; check magazine fold-outs.
Alphabets, Inc.: Prospera and many others. People you should know, at
312-328-2733.
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rob@nrc.com (UUCP); rob%nrc.com@trwind.ind.trw.com (Internet)
2380 North Rose Avenue, Oxnard CA 93030; (805) 485-2700
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 89 08:49 EST
From: PETER CHEN <CHEN@pisces.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Masking in FreeHand
Hi,
Does anybody know how to do masking in Aldus FreeHand 2.0?
For instance, I "placed" a MacPaint file into FreeHand, and I only
wanted to have a part of it to show through a circle.
Peter Chen
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 89 10:59:59 PLT
From: Paul Brians <HRC$04%WSUVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Nothing CDEV
I downloaded a CDEV from MacServe called "nothing" which claims to
do nothing--practical joke, right?
It's a menace! On my Mac, activating it made the right-hand half
of the control panel menu disappear--permanently! I could not
use any of my CDEVs. There was no note or documentation explaining
how to get rid of it. I had to reinstall the system to eliminate
the problem. Worse, GateKeeper detected nothing wrong when it was
doing its nasties. It's not a virus, but is just as bad. I
recommend it be yanked from the library.
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 89 16:38:32 PDT
From: David_Dalton@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: Questions about Multifinder and TeX DVI printing (v7 #142)
1. There is an FKEY archived as /info-mac/fkey/blast-windows.hqx that
lets you blast through a locked window to see the icons on the desktop.
2. In the Beebe DVI driver collection there are two programs
(DVIMAC and DVIM72) for printing DVI files on the ImageWriter.
They are written in C and since I don't have a C compiler for the
Mac I have not built the program. The source code is archived
on the machine science.utah.edu (128.110.192.2) in the directory
APS:<TEX.DVI>
You could also E-Mail Nelson Beebe (Beebe@Science.Utah.Edu)
for more information on porting DVIMAC to the Macintosh.
If successful, could you post a note here and send the
OzTeX compatible application to info-mac or to one of the OzTeX archives.
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Date: Fri, 18 Aug 89 17:49 PDT
From: "is having a tea party..." <MADRABT@toby.acs.washington.edu>
Subject: Response to:
>Info-Mac Digest Sat, 5 Aug 89 Volume 7 : Issue 137
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>Date: Fri, 4 Aug 89 12:30:42 PDT
>From: chan@icsl.ucla.edu (Kevin Chan)
>Subject: Radius Accelerator
You asked a number of questions regarding the Radius Accelerator which have
already been answered. However, I thought I'd give you my impressions/
complaints regarding both the 16MHz accelerator and the Full-page display.
I have owned and used them extensively for over one year with my SE.
Recently, I was offered a free Memory Management Unit (MMU) chip by a friend
who traded some hardware for three of them; if you are unfamiliar with this
item, it allows up to 8 megs of disk space to be allocated as virtual memory
through the use of an INIT. Unfortunately, the Radius accelerator will not
accept or recognize an MMU. A phone call to Radius revealed that they have
no future plans to support it.
There is substantial "buzz" when using sounds, particularly with the
SoundMaster Cdev, but it can be cleared up by turning off the accelerator.
I have been informed that this problem is inherent to accelerators in
general, and is not the fault of the Radius.
The Radius accelerator, unlike others, has no slots for extra RAM chips;
additionally, due to its mounting location, only low-profile SIMMs may be
used on the motherboard.
The full-page display mounts directly to a socket on the accelerator in
an upright position, which makes it impossible to fit even the smallest of
5 1/4" hard drives inside the SE case (in place of the top floppy). I
have a 140meg internal drive sitting next to my Mac right now, 'cause it
won't quite jam in there. I've spoken with Radius a number of times on
this problem, looking for a 2" straight-through cable that would allow
me to insert the drive and mount the display card horizontally above it.
Radius will provide no pinouts, parts, cabling, or advise, so I'm looking
into having a local cable manufacturer custom-make it for me; I'm not
handy enough with a soldering iron to do it myself.
Both items are configured from "control panels" that appear if you hold
down the mouse button when restarting the machine. However, since the
accelerator starts up first, you always get its control panel, even if
you just want the display's. Also, after clicking on "ok" from the
accelerator's control panel, you must immediately depress and hold the
mouse button again to get the display's. Sometimes it works, sometimes
you'll get the accelerator panel again, and sometimes the machine just
boots and skips the display's panel.
Christopher Rimple Free Dialog BBS
Mad Rabbit Productions (206) 365-4605
P.O. Box 30883 Meg after meg of movie lines,
Seattle, WA 98103 soundtracks, and other digitized sounds
(206) STEALTH
Bitnet: MADRABT@UWAV1
Internet: IN%"MADRABT@UWAV1.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU"
Compuserve: 71750,2256
Disclaimer: We've upped our standards, now up yours.
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Date: Fri, 18 Aug 89 17:52 PDT
From: "is having a tea party..." <MADRABT@toby.acs.washington.edu>
Subject: Response to:
>Info-Mac Digest Tue, 8 Aug 89 Volume 7 : Issue 139
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>Date: Tue, 08 Aug 89 21:17:30 SST
>From: TNG TH <ISSTTH%NUSVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
>Subject: HYPERCARD EVENTS
>What I need is a way to detect in the background that there are no events
>for a period of time and the project runs itself again.
>Having an on Idle handler in the project does not work. How can I know if the
>user has move the mouse, or click the mouse, or press the keys etc? Is
>there something equal to a mouseIdleTick function?
I was recently presented with a similar problem by a co-worker here at
Boeing. He was working on Hypercard stacks for an executive secretary
who had a tendency to walk away from her desk and leave the machine running,
with stacks still open and whatnot. He wanted a script that would provide
functions similar to a screensaver: after 2 minutes, start beeping or whatever.
He and I agonized over the lack of an onNotIdle system event, since we
wanted the time counter to be reset on an mouse or keyboard activity. Adding
a script to every button to reset the counter was not an acceptable solution.
Eventually I wrote a stack script which first looks for a time "boundry"
every few minutes and then begins counting idles. When a maximum is reached,
it "bombs." If there is any activity before the max is reached, the counter
is reset and doesn't start again until another time boundry is passed during
which there is no activity. However, such a system cannot pinpoint the
amount of idle time with great accuracy; therefore, it will "bomb" after
2-5 minutes of inactivity.
I have intended for months to send a copy of the script to Steve Dragza at
Analytx for the public-domain Developer's Stack which may have circulated in
your area, but never got around to it. I'll try to clean it up a bit,
add a few notes for the budding Hypertalk programmer, and send it on to the
Info-Mac moderators as soon as I can. Also, I'll look into shortening the
amount of max idle time to 2 or even 1 minute.
Included in the script are the different max idle counts required for the
routine. I've tested it on Pluses, SEs, accelerated SEs, and IIs. No
maximums are included for other machines nor Supercard; you'll have to
figure that out yourself. However, I'd like a piece of mail when you do.
Christopher Rimple Free Dialog BBS
Mad Rabbit Productions (206) 365-4605
P.O. Box 30883 Meg after meg of movie lines,
Seattle, WA 98103 soundtracks, and other digitized sounds
(206) STEALTH
Bitnet: MADRABT@UWAV1
Internet: IN%"MADRABT@UWAV1.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU"
Compuserve: 71750,2256
Disclaimer: Mad Rabbit Productions - astral projection is our middle name.
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Date: Fri, 18 Aug 89 17:53 PDT
From: "is having a tea party..." <MADRABT@toby.acs.washington.edu>
Subject: Response to:
>Info-Mac Digest Tue, 15 Aug 89 Volume 7 : Issue 142
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>Date: 13 Aug 89 16:07:00 EST
>From: "JEFF TEMPLON" <templon@venus.iucf.indiana.edu>
>Subject: Questions (separate) about MultiFinder and TeX DVI printing
>1) Using Multifinder, some applications take up too much of the desktop
>to be able to see the disk icons when switching back to the Finder.
>Usually I can use the size box or move the window to get at the icons.
>I have a problem with VersaTerm however; when I am transferring files,
>the window controls (dragging and resizing) are inoperative, so you
>can't open any new folders until the transfer is complete unless you
>want to abort the transfer.
I use Red Ryder rather than VersaTerm, but have found similar problems.
My solution was to turn off Multifinder and use a DA-based disk utility
while transferring files. Disktop and Disktools II both work well in
this capacity. Sure, I don't get to see the icons, but all the disk
functions are there. I would suspect that such a solution would also
work under Multifinder.
Christopher Rimple Free Dialog BBS
Mad Rabbit Productions (206) 365-4605
P.O. Box 30883 Meg after meg of movie lines,
Seattle, WA 98103 soundtracks, and other digitized sounds
(206) STEALTH
Bitnet: MADRABT@UWAV1
Internet: IN%"MADRABT@UWAV1.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU"
Compuserve: 71750,2256
Disclaimer: It's good the Vatican didn't frown on surrogate
motherhood 2000 years ago.
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 89 08:25:18 EDT
From: ZAK%NIHCU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: SEARCHING/INDEXING FILES
In answer to Peter Jones <MAINT%UQAM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>:
> Can anyone suggest some utilities that would allow searching and/or indexing
> of files created by MS Word? I've looked at $MACARCH CONTENTS, a list of PDMAC
> programs from LISTSERV@RICE, but the short descriptions aren't much help.
If you want to be able to search through files for keywords while
working in Word, Locate! (a DA packaged with the latest version
of CopyII Mac) works very nicely.
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 89 13:28 MDT
From: DSPhillips%UNCAMULT.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: SuperPaint 2.0/LaserWriter 6.0 problem
Documents with draw-layer text do not print to our LaserWriter IINT from
SuperPaint 2.0 using System 6.0.3 on a MacPlus with
LaserWriter/LaserPrep 6.0 installed. These documents print with the 5.2
printer drivers. Also, they print with the 6.0 drivers from SuperPaint
2.0 or when opened and printed from SuperPaint 1.1 or from MacDraw II.
Can we expect an update from Silicon Beach to correct this problem? Has
anyone else noticed this? Thanks.
Doug S. Phillips Telephone: (403) 221-8904
SuperComputing Services BITNET: DSPhillips@UNCACDC
The University of Calgary
390, 1620 - 29 St. N. W.
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
T2N 4L7
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