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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 18 Jul 89 Volume 7 : Issue 123
Today's Topics:
1st Aid Software
Apple-Approved Mac II Fan Noise Solution
BroadCast 1.1
CD-ROM's: The really BIG question.
color icons
Creating Color Icons.....
C vs Pascal
DeskWriter
Equations and MSWord
Info-Mac Digest V7 #121
Info-Mac Digest V7 #122
Macintosh Reference Book
Mac Plus power supplies
Postscripted Logo on Word 4
Postscript Logo on Word 4
Segment Unloading When Printing
Simulation/arcade software?
System Icons different...
TeXtures
Wireless Trackball for Mac-II
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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 89 09:58 EST
From: <DANNY%BCVMS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Lassaiz les bon temps rouler!)
Subject: 1st Aid Software
In response to William Grant's query, 1st Aid Kit is from 1st Aid Software;
42 Radnor Road, Boston, MA 02135; (617) 783-7118.
We use 1st Aid Kit extensively here at BC, and have found that it is excellent
for recovering lost files and floppys, as well as rebuilding volume and file
directories on hard disks. The only drawback I have found is with it's MFS
version, which is implemented differently than the HFS version and is much more
cumbersome to work with. Often it does not work at all; however, if you are
only working with HFS floppy and hard disk, I recommend it highly.
Dan Henderson
Computing Consultant,
Boston College
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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 89 15:03:02 +0200
From: Sigurd Meldal <sigurd@eik.ii.uib.no>
Subject: Apple-Approved Mac II Fan Noise Solution
Here is some clarification concerning the fan controller (it is funny,
Nova Norway seems to know more about this than Nova International):
2. Installation requires a little soldering of the fan
power wires.
There are at least two versions of the power supply for the MacII.
Depending on which version you have, you either slip the fan
controller right in there, or you have to fiddle around with a
soldering iron, due to incompatible plugs. They are in the process of
getting versions for both types of plugs, in which case the soldering
will become unnecessary.
3. The product was implemented by their European office,
and was not yet available in the U.S
It will be shown at the MacWorld show in Boston.
I suspect that cutting and soldering wires will invalidate an Apple
warranty.
It has to be installed by an Apple techie if you are particular about
the letter of the law, anyhow. If you have the type of power supply
where soldering is unnecessary then you leave no traces, even if you
should (God forbid) install it yourself.
Sigurd Meldal (SDA & just a very happy customer)
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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 89 10:43:54 EDT
From: Michael J Antonio <MIKEA%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: BroadCast 1.1
Does BroadCast 1.1 work with system 6.0.3? I just installed it on a vanilla
6.0.3, and it crashed with an ID of 11.
Any ideas?
MikeA
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Date: 18 Jul 89 07:30 EDT
From: science@nems.arpa (Mark Zimmermann)
Subject: CD-ROM's: The really BIG question.
Reitman%UNCAMULT.BITNET in Info-Mac Digest V7 #122 mentions my TEX, TEXAS,
etc. HyperCard stacks. Some slight corrections & additional comments:
- current version is still 0.51 (not 5.1!) from last fall; only change
from 0.5 which I think is in the archive is in handling umlauts, accents,
etc. properly in the Context view; if anybody wants to upload 0.51
to replace 0.5, and to upload source code, etc., please feel free to
do so (I don't have time and my net connection is not good for big
files)
- I haven't tried TEX (or the associated qndxr.c, brwsr.c, generic indexing
and browsing programs that work on Suns, VAXen, etc.) on CD-ROM media;
a heavily-rewritten version was used by Broderbund on their Electronic
Whole Earth Catalog CD, but I don't know any details
- since Apple has dropped me from their Developer's program, I can't afford
to do much more Macintosh work on free-text indexing/browsing to give
away, but I do have a bunch of ideas in the queue and if I can manage to
get some of them implemented later this summer, I'll post source code
(basically, I figured out a nice mouse-driven way to do full boolean
searching, using multiple windows into subsets of the database, and
I plan to include full user control of font and alphabetization during
the index-building phase, as requested by a bunch of linguists). Next
version of the program will probably be named 'Free Text', if that isn't
already owned by some company's lawyers, and will be free software in
the RMS/GNU sense
If anybody has other ideas/suggestions to try to work in to the next
indexer/browser release, pls let me know ... for instance, does anybody
really need to see the word list sorted right-to-left? How important is
the ability to browse multiple files at once?? Etc.... ^z
(science@nems.arpa)
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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 89 13:41 EDT
From: <JRCLARK%UTKVX1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: color icons
In regards to a recent query as to editing color icons:
there are two utilities in the info-mac archives to do this:
util/color-icon-editor.hqx is a full-fledged color icon editor that can
be used to edit a black/white icon into a color one by copying the black
and white icon to a cicn. This is probably the easiest way of
creating color icons, especially for use with color finder.
Another utility is
tech/rescicn-10b3.hqx
This is a Resedit TMPL that must be installed in Resedit 1.2 (you may
have to have the official release version or one very close to it for
it to work. I distinctly recall never getting it to work with
SOME pre-release version of resedit 1.2. Anyway, this can be used
to edit color icons from resedit, but the colors are harder to work with.
The main advantage is that you do not have to know the ID number of
either a color icon or b/w icon in advance as you must with color-icon-editor.
Since most applications have ID numbers of 128,129 etc. for its icn#, this may
not be too much of a problem, but for the ones in color finder, you must first
use Resedit to get the id numbers, then switch to color-icon-editor.
Jim
UT Martin
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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 89 20:25:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Adam C. Duncan" <aw1j+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Creating Color Icons.....
In regard to one of the question on how to create color icons,
here are some suggestions. I had a lot of experience with these
as a friend of mine has produced a full fledged color icon
editor application. You should see it real soon.
Some options for creating color icons are:
1) Work out the long tedious calculations in hex.
(I don't like this way at all. Too much Time for one
icon. This is the best way to create a color cursor
though. I have a hack that I can post if anyone is
interested. The hack allows you to create your own
color cursor. Send me mail if interested and I'll post
it.)
2.) There is a version of Res-Edit that does allow you
to edit color icons. This part of the program is
fairly buggy though. I crashed it several times doing
color icon creations. I am not sure of the version
that has the color icon editor. One way to check though
is to go into ResEdit, make a new file, and create a cicn
resource. If you open the resource and it let's you edit it,
you're in! If not, try a different version!
3.) Here is a method that I have not done testing on yet,
however, I have succesfulyt colored other resources this
way.(ie. Aldus' startup screen, pallettes, etc.)
The problem with this method is that it depends directly
on the way the program that you are editing handles the
display of their icons, dialogs etc. If the port that the
program uses is strictly a black and white one, you will
probably run into problems. What you do is to copy the
resource from Res-edit and paste it into a color graphics
editor. Color the resource, and paste it back into the
resource file of whatever you took it from. Beware! this is
tricky and buggy! It only works for some types of resources,
and you must take care to keep the dimesions intact! Otherwise
the program that uses the resurce will not like you at all.
Be careful! It didn't take Einstein to figure this out and
it doesn't work as well as any of his ideas either.
4.) My friend has written a color icon editor. It is beautiful.
By far the best program ever written for the editing of color
icons. You'll have to take my word for it. He will be releasing
it sometime in the near(I hope) future. Whether he sells it,
sharewares it or what I don't know. Look for it though and get it
when he releases it! You won't be dissapointed. His e-mail
address is wa0h@andrew.cmu.edu
A little proding from those in netland might help!!
5.) Some of the other currently available icon editorsmight
handle color icons. I don't know I have not tried any of them.
You'll be responsible for this one on your own.
Extra Huge Discalimer:
These are strictly my ideas and I do not represent any of the
people or companies mentioned in this article. I simply am
offering ideas on color icons.
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* Adam C. Duncan aw1j@andrew.cmu.edu *
* Carnegie Mellon University (412)268-5366 *
* GSIA Computing Group (412)268-2276 *
* *
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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 89 07:39:00 PDT
From: drc@claris.com (Dennis Cohen)
Subject: C vs Pascal
It depends on who you ask. The C programmers I know say that they comprise
about 60% of the market, the Pascalers claim to be 50-60% of the market. I
happen to be both and use each about equally. Looking around here, it's
about 50-50, at Ashton-Tate it was about 70-30 Pascal, at Microsoft it's
almost all C, at Symantec it's about even (from the people I've talked to).
According to APDA sales figures, they sell about equally with C having a
lead of 1-3 percent (but for MPW C, there are no alternative sources while
TML gives you an alternative source for MPW with a Pascal compiler). If
you say that it's about even, you'll be real close. Remember, real programmers
use whatever is available at the time that will get the job done.
--
Dennis Cohen
Claris Corp.
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Disclaimer: Any opinions expressed above are _MINE_!
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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 89 16:19:07 -0400
From: mjkobb@athena.mit.edu
Subject: DeskWriter
I have heard rumors of a new HP printer called the DeskWriter, which is
supposedly compatible w/Macintosh, and comes with some good resident fonts,
etc. Has anybody heard anything more concrete about availability, price,
print mechanism, etc? Thanks!
--Mike Kobb
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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 89 12:04:43 HAE
From: Patrice Gosselin <SACPAT%LAVALVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Equations and MSWord
----> Question
When an equation is created in MathType (or any other equation
processor) and is pasted into a Word paragraph, it is pasted
sitting "on the baseline" and must be selected and subscripted in
order to line up properly with the line of text it is pasted into.
This is the same in both word 3.0 and 4.0. However, Word 3.0 will
"close up" the space above the pasted line as soon as the equation is
subscripted; but Word 4.0 will not--resulting in a very large gap
above the line containing the equation. This makes for very unsightly
paragraphs. The problem seems to exist with any pasted graphic.
----> Answer:
You should try to remove Auto from Line Spacing in the Menu Paragraph. I can't
guarantee the result since I don't have Mathtype. But it's worth a try.
(Instead of Auto, place the real size you need) Maybe you'll need to make this
specific line as a paragraph to avoid all the lines around it getting as wide
as the one containing your formula.
Patrice Gosselin
Services a la clientele
Centre de traitement de l'information
Universite Laval
Quebec
Canada
G1K 7P9
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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 89 16:17:08 GMT
From: "J.M.L.Martin" <LUCTHSCH%BDILUC11.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #121
Dear fellow-MacIsts,
does anyone know the answer to the following stupid question: is there a way
to interface an Epson-compatible 24-pin printer (like the LQ-500) with the Mac
and have it do anything sensible? You may reply either to me directly, or to
the Info-Mac digest. (My address is LUCTHSCH at BDILUC11.BITNET)
Thanks in advance,
J.M.L.Martin
Quantum Chemistry
Department SBM
Limburgs Universitair Centrum
Universitaire Campus
B-3610 Diepenbeek
BELGIUM
Disclaimer: IBM is no longer the acronym to Italian Branch of the Mafia. Its
official reading (after 9 months of dicussion in four independent
top-secret task groups) is now: I'd Buy a Mac
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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 89 09:44:19 PDT
From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #122
I have a problem. My system, Finder, Clipboard and scrapbook
icons have all changed. Sounds like the scores virus, right? Well
maybe.
I have already found two virus programs on my hard disk drive,
so I have done a lot of reading. I know that the scores virus
changes those same icons, however it changes them to documents,
mine changed to better drawings of the mac plus with shadded
screens?
[Colorfinder?]
This does indeed sound as if the ColorFinder INIT (or a similar one called
Icon Colorizer, I believe) has been installed in your System folder. If
either of these INITs is present, many of your desktop icons will be
replaced with nicer-looking cicn (color icon) patterns. ColorFinder's
icon for "System" files (e.g. System, Scrapbook, etc.) is an image of a
Mac II, displayed in color; the color-icon for the System folder is a
folder with a miniature Mac II in the center. MacWrite documents appear
much as they did before, except that the top of the icon is displayed in
blue. The generic application icon (hand holding pen, writing on
document) is mostly unchanged; the pen is displayed in color.
If this is the sort of thing you're observing, and if a good virus-
detecting program (e.g. Disinfectant) says that your system is not infected,
then don't worry.
Dave Platt FIDONET: Dave Platt on 1:204/444 VOICE: (415) 493-8805
UUCP: ...!{ames,sun,uunet}!coherent!dplatt DOMAIN: dplatt@coherent.com
INTERNET: coherent!dplatt@ames.arpa, ...@uunet.uu.net
USNAIL: Coherent Thought Inc. 3350 West Bayshore #205 Palo Alto CA 94303
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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 89 09:10:05 MDT
From: "Bruce A. Carter" <DUSCARTE@idbsu.idbsu.edu>
Subject: Macintosh Reference Book
Greetings,
There is a book that will soon be appearing from Addison-Wesley titled
"Dr. Macintosh - Tips, Techniques, and Advice on Mastering the Macintosh"
by Bob LeVitus that I recommend every Macintosh user in the world buy.
Even if you don't use a Macintosh I think you should buy this book. The
fact that I am quoted in the book on pages 259, 268, 285, 286, 287, and 289
has nothing to do with this recommendation (well, maybe a little... *heh*).
* 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: Tue, 18 Jul 89 08:22:12 PDT
From: palkovic%almond.hepnet@lbl.gov (John Palkovic)
Subject: Mac Plus power supplies
Hello there. Is this Info-Mac? If not ignore the following message.
My Mac Plus died on me last week after less than 7 months of ownership. It
was purchased new in Dec. '88. I have described the symptoms over the phone
to a Mac technician at the local dealer and he agrees with me that it is
probably the power supply gone bad. Of course he will gladly replace it for
$206 parts and labor. After calling around the area I have ascertained that
this is the best deal available for me. I would buy the supply and install it
myself but then the 90 day parts and service warranty on the new supply would
be voided. My question for those of you out there in Mac land is are there
any alternatives to having the supply replaced at an Apple dealer? Are there
any companies which sell reliable replacements for the Plus power supply? Can
I expect to replace my power supply every six months now?
I am quite discouraged by this turn of events. I think the Macintosh is
one of the greatest things to happen in computing. Is it common knowledge
among computer repair technicians that Macintosh power supplies are
unreliable? I remember reading in a recent issue of Info-Mac about someone
who had sold their plus and bought an SE after replacing the supply for the
second time in two years. Now I know why the warranty is for only 90 days.
Please post replies directly to me.
John Palkovic bitnet: palkovic@fnalad
decnet: FNAL::PALKOVIC
DISCLAIMER: This space intentionally left blank.
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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 89 14:32:28 EDT
From: Tom Downey x2558 11/333 <tdowney@bbn.com>
Subject: Postscripted Logo on Word 4
The READ ME file that came with my version of Word 4 says that there is a bug
in printing PostScript on the first page of a document. The workaround listed,
which has worked for me and explains your results, is to arrange
things so that the first page does not include PostScript (e.g., a blank page,
printing back-to-front, print it twice, etc.). Your first page with Postscript
came out wrong (the bug apparently causes the Postscript image to be in the
wrong place on the page) but the second page worked fine. This only occurs with
in-line Postscript code; I have documents with encapsulated PostScript figures
(from Freehand) on the first page, and these work ok.
Tom Downey
tdowney@bbn.com
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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 89 12:05:56 EDT
From: Peter_Poorman@um.cc.umich.edu
Subject: Postscript Logo on Word 4
This problem (misplaced Postscript graphics on the first page) sounds
exactly like a known problem described in the file "Using Postscript
with Word" which comes on the Word 4.0 distribution disks. (It's in the
"Postscript Glossary" folder.)
Quoting from that file:
"If you use a print spooler or use Background Printing with MultiFinder
to print documents containing PostScript commands, a System bug causes
PostScript graphics on the first page of a document to be printed
incorrectly. (The PostScript graphics are shifted down and to the
right.) PostScript graphics are printed correctly on all other pages of
the document.
"You can work around this bug at least two ways:
* "Insert a blank page at the end of your document and print the
document back-to-front.
* "Print the entire document using the print spooler or Background
Printing. Then turn off the print spooler or Background Printing
and reprint only the first page."
I'm a little suprised that Microsoft Technical Support didn't mention
this.
There are a couple of other files full of interesting tidbits on these
disks, mostly hidden in folders. In particular, all users of Word 4
should probably read the file "Word 4 ReadMe", which contains errata for
the manuals.
--Pete Poorman
Control Data Corporation
9894 Bissonnet, Suite 229 Peter_Poorman@um.cc.umich.edu
Houston, Texas 77036 USERK1Y6@UMICHUM (Bitnet)
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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 89 11:21:40 EDT
From: Peter_Poorman@um.cc.umich.edu
Subject: Segment Unloading When Printing
"Unloading" a segment doesn't actually remove it from memory.
It just marks it so that it can be removed if the memory is needed
for something else.
So I'd say go ahead and "unload" all your uninvolved segments when
printing. If the memory isn't needed for printing then the system will
automatically leave the segments in RAM, and there won't be any negative
effects. If the memory *is* needed for printing then your users will be better
off if you "unloaded".
--Pete Poorman
Control Data Corporation
9894 Bissonnet, Suite 229
Houston, Texas 77036
713-778-6274
Peter_Poorman@um.cc.umich.edu (Internet)
USERK1Y6@UMICHUM (Bitnet)
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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 89 09:26:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Yozie <dy0b+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Simulation/arcade software?
I'm not sure this is the appropriate bboard for this question, but here
it is anyway.
I was wondering if I could get some recommendations for good
simulation/entertainment programs for the macintosh. What I'm looking
for is something that's relatively simple to learn, has good graphics
and animation, and would involve an extended playing time. Perhaps
something on the lines of Harrier Strike Mission II, but with more
strategy and maybe less arcade-oriented.
Thanks for the info,
David Yozie
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 89 10:43:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Adam C. Duncan" <aw1j+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: System Icons different...
If you are running color Finder and the proper cicn and
icn# resources are there, then ColorFinder will put the
color icons in place of the old ones. It does not sound
like you have a virus. Your system file has become larger
because of the new icons. I would go into res-edit and
take a look inside your system and finder files. In
particular, look in the icn# and cicn resources of each.
Remember, if you installed cicns in the sytem files cicn
resource file, you're system will get bigger. ColorFinder
won't make the system file itself bigger but you will see
a RAM decrease. Hope this helps.
Good Luck!
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* Adam C. Duncan aw1j@andrew.cmu.edu *
* Carnegie Mellon University (412)268-5366 *
* GSIA Computing Group (412)268-2276 *
* *
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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 89 15:01:05 EST
From: Alan Stein <STEIN%UCONNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: TeXtures
I just obtained TeXtures for my office and realized that it was
not ordered with Latex. Can Latex be obtained from an archive without
having to purchase it?
Alan H. Stein | stein@uconnvm.bitnet
Department of Mathematics | stein%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu
University of Connecticut | ...psuvax1!UCONNVM.BITNET!STEIN
32 Hillside Avenue |
Waterbury, CT 06710 | Compu$erve 71545,1500
(203) 757-1231 | GEnie ah.stein
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Date: 18 Jul 89 02:18:12 GMT
From: kurt%pyr@gatech.edu (STIREWALT,RICHARD ERICK KURT)
Subject: Wireless Trackball for Mac-II
Does anyone know of a remote controlled (that is, wireless connection)
trak-ball or mouse for a Mac-II? Any information would be helpful. We
would like to buy one, but if someone can give references to technical
information on the construction of such a device that would be fine also.
Thanks. Please reply via e-mail as I don't normally read these groups.
Thanks again.
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