Info-Mac-Request@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (The Moderators) (07/17/89)
Info-Mac Digest Sun, 16 Jul 89 Volume 7 : Issue 121
Today's Topics:
Apple-Approved Mac II Fan Noise Solution
Apple FTP Now Available
A stupid question Re: Color-Finder....
blesser
Color Icons
email
Esperanto Course stack
First-Aid
hiding the menu bar
Info-Mac Digest V7 #120
Kudos for source code
Memory ..... etc.
Red Ryder
Red Ryder question
Reversing the Video
Set Volume DA
System Switcher.sit
Thanks
Unloading segments while printing
Using an Epson with a Mac II
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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 89 11:48:46 EDT
From: Peter_Poorman@um.cc.umich.edu
Subject: Apple-Approved Mac II Fan Noise Solution
I called Nova International about a week after this topic was first posted.
What they told me was:
1. Theyd gotten about 20 calls since it was posted.
2. Installation requires a little soldering of the fan
power wires.
3. The product was implemented by their European office,
and was not yet available in the U.S
4. They would take my name and address, and call me when
then product became available in the U.S.
I suspect that cutting and soldering wires will invalidate an Apple warranty.
(Although Id buy one for each Mac II anyhow.)
So far I haven't heard anything from them.
--Pete Poorman
Control Data Corporation
9894 Bissonnet, Suite 229
Houston, Texas 77036
713-778-6274
Peter_Poorman@um.cc.umich.edu
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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 89 06:27:03 PDT
From: Mark B. Johnson <mjohnson@apple.com>
Subject: Apple FTP Now Available
Apple Developer Technical Support is proud to offer a new service
to the Apple II and Macintosh development communities: Anonymous
FTP to an Apple Internet host loaded with the most up-to-date DTS
tools and documentation available.
FTP is the user interface to the ARPANET standard File Transfer
Protocol, and it allows you to transfer files to and from a remote
network site. To access and retrieve files from the Apple
archive, you should FTP to apple.apple.com (130.43.2.2) using
account:anonymous and password:guest. Once you logon, change
directories to pub/dts/ (cd pub/dts/) and get the README file (get
README) which explains the archive content and structure. If you
are unfamiliar with FTP or do not know if you site supports it,
use your on-line help or check with your local site administrator.
You will always find the most current Technical Notes and Sample
Code posted in the dts/ directory, as well as other documents or
materials relevant to development on an Apple platform.
Look in the help/ directory for a current list of all the archived
files (dir-yy-mm-dd) and a list of the most recent additions
(recent-yy-mm-dd). The following is a basic outline of the
directory structure and the contents of the archive:
README - General info about content and structure
aii - Apple II information
tn - Apple II Technical Notes
ftn - Apple II File Type Notes
sc - Apple II Sample Code
help - Helpful info about these directories
dir-YY-MM-DD - Directory of all files in the dts/ directory
recent-YY-MM-DD - Directory of all files added within 14 days
mac - Macintosh information
docs - Macintosh Technical Documentation
hacks - Useful, unsupported hacks
mpw - Current MPW Interface files
q+a - Macintosh Q & A Stack
sc - Macintosh Sample Code
sys.soft - System Software information
tn - Macintosh Technical Notes
press - Apple Press Releases
Tools and utilities sold by APDA (e.g., ResEdit, etc.) are not
available from this archive due to licensing restrictions. In the
future, if we can make these sorts of tools available and still
please our attorneys, we will.
This service is long overdue, and we thank the many volunteers on
the networks who maintain other archives and make Apple's tools
and documentation available to the masses. If you normally get
your files from these other sites, you should be able to continue
doing so, as we are working with these people to make sure that
their files are updated on a much more timely basis than in the
past.
This archive site is just a small effort in Apple's attempts to
provide our developers with the best tools and developer technical
support in the industry, and we are very interested in your
feedback. Please send comments and suggestions to us at one of
the addresses listed below.
Thanks for your suggestions and patience in making this archive
site reality. Special thanks to Erik Fair of Apple Engineering
Computer Operations; Lance Nakata, Bill Lipa, and Jon Pugh of
Info-Mac and SUMEX; and Werner Uhrig of the University of Texas.
Mark B. Johnson
Developer Technical Support
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AppleLink: mjohnson
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Apple Computer, Inc.
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[Note: we intend to provide a shadow of everything "important" in the apple.com
archive. In fact, that's where everything in the apple directory comes from.
"Important" means Macintosh technical stuff, like tns, sample code, etc.]
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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 89 15:18:44 -0400
From: cuzzivog@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Les Cuzzivoglio -Syscon Corp-)
Subject: A stupid question Re: Color-Finder....
This is probably a stupid question, but here goes anyway....
I recently downloaded Color-Finder and have been using it. The documentation
claims that you can add new cicns to the color-finder for customizing it. My
question is: How does one create CICNs?? Is there an easy ResEdit-type way
to simply draw a CICN?? Or must I actually develop them as hex data??
Any input would be greatly appreciated....
LC
css.itd.nrl.navy.mil
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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 89 04:11:14 EDT
From: Michael Kazlow <KAZLOWF%PACEVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: blesser
Blesser allows you to run more than one system file on a Hard disk.
[Archived as /info-mac/util/blesser.hqx; 40K]
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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 89 12:06:15 CDT
From: GA0095%SIUCVMB.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu (Robert J. Brenstein)
Subject: Color Icons
I have been using the ColorFinder for a few weeks with no problems.
I just downloaded the newer one (which supposedly differs only
by having a larger number of icons included). However, this version
bombs the system (id 27) during booting once a while. Assuming that
the INIT itself is not changed, the only explanation I can up with
is that the problem is caused by duplicate icons (meaning that there
are identical icons with two different res ids). Is it possible?
ColorFInder and Ceditor are now missing a companion program: Icon
Mover which is capable to move ICONs, ICN#s, and cicns and be smart
enough to assign the same res ids to cicns as to corresponding
icons and optionally pair those as required. Anyone working
on anything like this?
Finally, does anyone has any idea why the Apple in the Apple menu
would not be displayed in its proper colors? I have turned color
permanently on only after installing the ColorFinder and just lately
realized that Apple should be the Rainbow Apple now not B&W Apple.
I checked that the original system diskette does show all colors
which means that something in my customizing turned this off.
Any ideas what I did and/or how to get the Rainbow Apple back?
Robert
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Date: Fri, 14 Jul 89 11:03:54 est
From: munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!pfr654@uunet.uu.net
Subject: email
Hello from Oz.
Does anyone out there have a Mac 512 enhanced with the HyperDrive 2000 from
General Computer (or GCC)? Ours is continually crashing, with either system
3.2/finder 5.3; system 4.1,4.3/finder 6.02. Any ideas? Is it just the power
supply for the 512 not being enough for the extra Ram, hard disk and fan?
If so, should it be possible to power at least some of these separately
>From the Mac's power supply. On the other hand, is it just the versions of
the system and GCC's HyperDrive Drivers (Version 3 Release 2) clashing?
The machine still works, but it crashes reasonably randomly every few
hours, particularly when writing to a floppy disk (very messy!). The hard
disk is always OK though, so we haven't lost any valuable data (mainly
because we now keep valuable data away from the machine!). We don't really
want to toss out the enhancement, and feel that it could be something
simple.
Phil Ryan
Physics, Australian National University, Canberra
email: pfr654@csc.anu.oz
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Date: Tue, 11 Jul 89 04:30:31 -0400
From: moore@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Doug Moore)
Subject: Esperanto Course stack
Mike Urban has substantially improved his Esperanto hypercard stack since
its creation. The latest version includes digitized sounds as well as pictures.
Please replace the old version with this version in the archives. Thank you.
Doug Moore
>>>
The message that follows comprises a (StuffIt, Binhexed) stack containing
a complete introductory course in the international language Esperanto. It
is submitted for inclusion in the INFO-MAC archives. Those with little or
no interest in Esperanto may find that it contains some useful presentation
ideas. Initial feedback has been very positive.
This stack works MUCH better when the MacinTalk driver is installed.
Comments and suggestions are always appreciated.
Mike Urban
TRW
urban@rand-unix.RAND.ORG
or
...!trwrb!trwspp!urban (UUCP)
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/esperanto-part1.hqx; 152K
/info-mac/hypercard/esperanto-part2.hqx; 152K
/info-mac/hypercard/esperanto-part3.hqx; 152K
/info-mac/hypercard/esperanto-part4.hqx; 140K]
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Date: Fri, 14 Jul 89 10:06:41 -0400
From: grant@itd.nrl.navy.mil (William (Liam) Grant)
Subject: First-Aid
Hello, I am looking for a piece of utility software for recovering files
>From a hard disk. Symantec Util. is on order for us at the moment, but I
was told by the technician who came in to check the hard drive out (yep, it
passed with flying colors, leaving no idea why these files just flew away.)
That SUM was good at recovering a whole drive, but that "First Aid" was
better at recovering individual files. This was NOT the Apple version
called "Disk First+Aid", but a program by someone else. Does anyone know
who? Or have any other suggestions?
=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=
William (Leprechaun Liam) Grant Grant@itd.nrl.navy.mil
Code 5541 (202) 767-2392
Naval Research Laboratory
Washington, D.C. 20375
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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 89 09:32 CDT
From: Fred Schulz <CHEE77@uhvax1.uh.edu>
Subject: hiding the menu bar
I want to photograph the color monitor to make slides of graphs and drawings.
The menu bar makes the results seem somewhat unprofessional. Is there an
application to hide the menu bar from any program available?
Thanks in advance for any info...
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Date: Fri, 14 Jul 89 11:05:24 PDT
From: USERQKMP@cc.sfu.ca
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #120
re segment unloading while printing:
The historical reason for doing this is that on early (128K) Macs your typical
application had roughly zero RAM available when the user wanted to print
something. Since the Print Manager creates a bitmapped Quickdraw image of
each page and sends that to the ImageWriter in its graphics mode, which
obviously takes memory -- and a lot more in "High" quality -- either your
application would die or the Segment Manager would thrash, thrash, thrash
before it got anything done.
Since of course we all now have 8 Meg of system memory :-) there's no need
to worry about such things anymore.
BTW, remember that all your printing code will be obsolete under System 7.
Alex Curylo...Simon Fraser University...tel 604-298-8913
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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 89 22:55:20 PST
From: JHL@naif.jpl.nasa.gov
Subject: Kudos for source code
Many thanks to Apple's Developer Technical Support and to
Info-Mac for posting the sample source code in /apple/code. That's very
worthwhile. To follow one good deed with another, how about giving us
some sample code for using the new Sound Manager routines--something
using a canned 'snd' resource and something calculating the resource
on the fly (for example, where one has a simple harmonic oscillator and
the tone is proportional to the speed would be nice).
Keep up the good work. -Jay Lieske
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Date: Fri, 14 Jul 89 09:54 EDT
From: <J_KAZURA%UNHH.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Memory ..... etc.
Hello all,
I just wanted to note that 7.0 will require 2.0mb of RAM according to
all articles I have seen on the subject.
Memory upgrades.... I just (Thursday) upgraded my SE to 2.5mb I bought
2 1mb simms for $129 (US) they are rated at 80ns, they are surface mount, but
not low-profile. They came with out-of-date instructions: my board has jumpers
not resistors and I have to use simm sockets 3 & 4 NOT 1 & 2 as the instructions
said I did. The simms come with a lifetime warranty and 30 day money back
guarantee. For $15 I had the them Federal Expressed, they did come 2 days later
(I ordered at 5pm EDT).
Finally the company that I graced my business with is:
South Coast Electronics
700 S. Flower St. #2200
Los Angeles, CA
90017 (800) 289-8801
The whole thing cost me $273, I had a friend who is an authorized Apple
Technician install them, my SE's warranty lives on!
I am not affiliated with the above company, just stating the facts as I see 'em.
Joe Kazura [J_KAZURA@UNHH]
Computer Specialist & Quasi Student Rep.
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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 89 08:28 CDT
From: <CC_BRYSO%SWTEXAS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Red Ryder
Regarding Red Ryder and the capturing of text
information, you should use the the capture
incoming text to a file menu selection but adjust
the file transfer preferences to strip line feeds
and other control characters. The "strange"
characters are mostly line-feeds and form-feeds.
To strip embedded carriage returns try the DA
McSink or the commerical couterpart Vantage.
These da's will remove internal hard-returns.
If you have Microsoft Word or a word processor
that lets you look for control characters, you can
also remove the "strange" characters. In Word, I
believe you can use Change All to replace "~10"
with nothing. (~10 represents a line-feed
character and ~12 represents a form-feed) Using
Word it is also possible to strip internal
hard-returns fairly easily by placing a special
character such as "#" at the end of each "true"
paragraph and then using Change All to replace
"~p" with nothing. Then go back and replace the
special character "#" with "~p". Make sure the
special character is not found normally in your
text.
Bill Bryson
SWTSU
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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 89 11:22:06 EDT
From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@pica.army.mil>
Subject: Red Ryder question
>I am using a Mac running Red Ryder to send and receive messages on Bitnet.
>After some custom configuration with Quickeys, it now operates quite well
>as a VT100 terminal. But, I can't find a way to capture messages on the
>Mac as text files. Using RR's "Capture incoming data to text file" option
>captures the text, but also contains a high percentage of garbage
>characters. The "Remember screens" option does not seem to remember
>screens that contains messages even with the "Remember lines before full
>screen clear" option turned on. I can copy and paste the text to a text
>processor, but if the message is longer than 1 screen, this is a tedious
>process. Does anyone know how this might be done?
>
What version of Red Ryder are you running? Version 10.3 allows the save text
option to strip out all the control characters you're seeing. Also, you need
to set the number of saved screens to be greater than 1. On a 1Meg machine,
you can save ~30 screens, no sweat.
tom c
Electromagnetic Armament Technology Branch, US Army Armament Research,
Development and Engineering Center, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ 07806-5000
ARPA: tcora@pica.army.mil -or- tcora@ardec.arpa [201] 724-4344
UUCP: ...!{uunet,rutgers}!pica.army.mil!tcora BITNET: Tcora@DACTH01.BITNET
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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 89 09:41:27 CST
From: d.m.p.@pro-party.cts.com (Don Peaslee)
Subject: Reversing the Video
John Sotos asks the following on 7/5/89:
> Is there a robust method to change a Macintosh
> display from black-on-white to white-on-black?
> I don't know what the human factors experts say,
> and I don't care: eye strain invariably results
> (for me) after only a few hours of working with
> black-on-white screens.
=-=-=-=-
There is a small INIT called "Reverse Screen INIT" that will do what you're
looking for, John. The INIT is available for download from GEnie and other
similar services.
Don
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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 89 09:37:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Norman William Franke, III" <nf0i+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Set Volume DA
This is Set Volume, which is a DA that lets you set the volume of the Mac's
speaker. I wrote it because the control panel is too slow comming up, and I
seem to change the volume a lot. This DA can optionally beep when you
change the setting, and save the setting into PRAM if you'd like, and
remembers it location on the screen for the next time you open it. Set
Volume is freeware.
Norman Franke
nf0i+@andrew.cmu.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/da/set-volume.hqx; 6K]
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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 89 04:26:03 EDT
From: Michael Kazlow <KAZLOWF%PACEVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: System Switcher.sit
The Switcher programs allows you to run more than one version of the
Mac Operating System off the same hard disk. This program is similar
to Blesser. It also works with the Japanese language version of the
Mac Operating System.
[Archived as /info-mac/util/system-switcher.hqx; 35K]
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Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1989 08:53 EDT
From: Stan Horwitz <V4039@vm.temple.edu>
Subject: Thanks
To all of you who were kind enough to tell me how to alphabetize my folders
and files I say thanks. You can stop flooding my reader with responses as the
answer is now clear but I do apreciate your efforts. Thanks again.
Stan Horwitz
V4039 AT VM.TEMPLE.EDU
Acknowledge-To: Stan Horwitz <V4039@TEMPLEVM>
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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 89 23:29:27 PDT
From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Subject: Unloading segments while printing
Inside Mac recommends unloading all unnecessary segments in order to
maximize the amount of memory available to the printer-driver.
Many printer-drivers create page-image bitmaps by allocating a big chunk
of memory, setting it up as an off-screen bitmap, replaying the spooled
picture information and drawing it into the bitmap, and then sending the
bitmap to the printer (in a printer-specific fashion).
Creating a full-page bitmap can take quite a bit of memory (say, 1 meg
or so for a 300 dot/inch image on a DeskJet or something similar). If
the printer-driver can't get enough memory to create a full-page bitmap,
it must "band" the image. It will get a smaller bitmap-buffer (say,
large enough for 2" of height), play the spooled PICT once to image the
top 2" of the page, send the data to the printer, clear the bitmap, play
the PICT again to image the next 2", send that data, etc. This may slow
down the printing process significantly, because QuickDraw must make
many passes over the same PICT, drawing the image into the bitmap buffer
each time (with different clipping and origin values each time).
Memory conservation during the printing process isn't _quite_ as vital
as it was back in the days of the 128k Mac. Consider the plight of the
application that tried to print an image with only 5 or 10k of free
memory in the heap! These days, Macs are bigger and applications can
_usually_ depend on having somewhat more free memory... but even today
it's possible for an application to paint itself into a corner
(allocating too much heap-space) and then have trouble printing.
So, I guess it's still good practice to unload all unnecessary code
before printing, and again when calling the "print a spooled picture"
routine. It can make a difference in printer throughput.
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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 89 09:47:04 PDT
From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Subject: Using an Epson with a Mac II
Howdy, Ira. There are several solutions available. One approach is to
use the Grappler LQ, which supports most 24-pin printers; it makes the
printer "look like" an ImageWriter LQ. Another approach is to use
a software-driver-plus-cable combination that Epson is now offering;
it's listed in the current Icon Review catalog for $69, and comes with
several font bitmaps. A third approach is to use a similar software-
driver marketed by GDT SoftWorks.
Re the DeskJet: it's a really nice printer for use with the Mac. Based
on what I've heard (I haven't seen one yet) I'd suggest buying a DeskWriter
rather than a DeskJet... it's substantially faster, and comes with a
driver supported by HP, rather than requiring a third-party driver (e.g.
the Printer Interface III from DataPak, MacPrint, the Grappler LS, etc.).
A used DeskJet, plus a third-party driver, is probably the _cheapest_
way to get yourself 300 DPI printout capability... it's not the fastest,
but is quite effective.
Dave Platt FIDONET: Dave Platt on 1:204/444 VOICE: (415) 493-8805
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