Info-Mac-Request@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (The Moderators) (07/11/89)
Info-Mac Digest Mon, 10 Jul 89 Volume 7 : Issue 117
Today's Topics:
A line-counting XCMD?
A message sent yesterday
Apple-approved Mac II Fan Noise Solution
AppleShare server won't boot off a floppy.
CAP with FastPath4&K-Star
Diamond (new archieve/backup utility)
How to specify suggest applications sizes
HPopupMenu XFCN Update
Implementing Kermit protocol
Info-Mac Digest V7 #115 (2 msgs)
Info-Mac Digest V7 #116
MacGENie Macros
Multiple systems
News on Oracle/Mac products?
PROGRAMMABLE FRAME GRABBERS
Request for Charting program...
Reversing the video
Scientific modelling software
Smartalarms...
Supporting MultiFinder
System 6.0.2, MacTools 7.1, and Font/DA Mover problems
System 7.0 speculations
TTI CTS8000 tape drive
Two system folders
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Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1989 9:00:44 PDT
From: John Sotos <sotos@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Subject: A line-counting XCMD?
I hope this is an easy one:
Given a Hypercard field and some text, is there an easy way to
determine how many lines in the field will be required to display
the text? (The vertical number of pixels would be equally
suitable.) I need to know *before* the text is displayed, so
I can decide whether to make the field a scrolling one or not.
There is definitely a way to do this, using the toolbox routine
TECalText and the nLines part of a TE (TextEdit) Record.
However, the process of writing an XCMD to do this is becoming
so ungainly that I am beginning to fear I have overlooked some
other simple way. In particular, Hypercard, if it uses a TE
record, must make this calculation itself.
(The problem with the XCMD is accessing all the decriptors of
a field [font,textsize,textstyle] and converting ones like font
name into a font number.)
I am open to suggestions both vague and specific.
Thanks.
John
sotos@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
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Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1989 23:08:39 PDT
From: John Sotos <sotos@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Subject: A message sent yesterday
Yesterday i posted a message seeking a method to
invert the screen. Today I found the file
reversescreen.hqx in /info-mac/util. Although I
was able to Binhex it into a .pit file, UnStuffit
1.5.1 did not recognize the file (that is, the file
did not come up in the menu of openable files).
Any suggestions?
John
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Date: Thu 6 Jul 89 12:29:28-PDT
From: Brodie Lockard <I.ISIMO@hamlet.stanford.edu>
Subject: Apple-approved Mac II Fan Noise Solution
Could some kind soul repost the address for this again? It was somewhere in
Seattle, I think. The product sensed temperature and varied the fan speed
accordingly. The note with the address just fell off the end of the queue
here on HAMLET.STANFORD.EDU. Thanks in advance.
Brodie Lockard
HAMLET.STANFORD.EDU
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Date: Thu, 6 Jul 89 20:50 CDT
From: "Sandro Corsi, Univ.of WI-Oshkosh" <CORSI@oshkosh.wisc.edu>
Subject: AppleShare server won't boot off a floppy.
I'm having a puzzling (to me at least) problem with a Mac SE running
AppleShare 2.0 server software. Everything works fine otherwise, but
whenever I try to boot off the Server Administration disk, the SE after
brief rumination ejects the floppy and proceeds to boot off the hard disk
-- jumping straight into the server application. I've tried to substitute
other startup floppies -- to no avail. Apparently I've stumbled on the way
to make a server 100% secure -- except I can't get in myself.
I imagine the problem has an obvious solution -- but I badly need someone
to point me in the right direction. Any suggestions highly appreciated.
Thanks.
Sandro Corsi
Art Dept.
Univ. of Wisconsin - Oshkosh
Oshkosh, WI 54901
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Date: Thu, 06 Jul 89 12:49:57 -0700
From: cpd@aic.hrl.hac.com
Subject: CAP with FastPath4&K-Star
I recently upgraded my FastPath to a FastPath4 equivalent and started running
K-Star instead of KIP. I was running several CAP packages before (like
papif) and now the CAP packages won't run. Any Suggestions? Anybody
know where the latest version of CAP is. I am running CAP 5.0
Thanks
-Charlie Dolan
cpd@aic.hrl.hac.com
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Date: Tue, 4 Jul 89 13:49:44 +0200
From: Roland Mansson <roland@dna.lth.se>
Subject: Diamond (new archieve/backup utility)
I've tried a new archiever. It's called Diamond (version 2.1,
demo). It packs considerably better than StuffIt (se below for
figures). Diamond is somewhat slower than StuffIt to pack,
but it unpacks extremely fast.
I've done some 20 tests with Diamond, and the unpacked packed
archive has always been identical to the source (incl positions
and colors of icons).
It has three levels (fast, medium and compact). While the size
of the archive is about the same in my tests, the time spent
differs quite a lot. "Fast" is probably the best alternative.
It works with MultiFinder, but not in the background. It gives
some time (very little, but better than nothing) to background
applications.
It can pack a file, a folder, or a volume. If the destination
doesn't have enough free space, it just asks for another disk(s).
If you have an extra hard disk, it's convenient to backup one
disk to a single file on the other. This is generally not
possible in backup programs.
Times are measured on a Mac II, 5MB, System 6.0.3, MultiFinder
and a dozen inits. StuffIt configured to try LZW and Huffman
and to not allow background tasks.
Method Size Saved Time to Time to
pack unpack
Unpacked Application 590278
StuffIt 402079 31.88% 0.45 0.56
Diamond, fast 308579 47.72% 1.28 0.19
Diamond, medium 304446 48.42% 2.07 0.18
Diamond, compact 303931 48.51% 2.43 0.17
Unpacked Stack 349562
StuffIt 191841 45.12% 0.27 0.28
Diamond, fast 162627 53.48% 1.04 0.10
Diamond, medium 156681 55.18% 1.27 0.10
Diamond, compact 154820 55.71% 1.44 0.10
Unpacked Docs Folder 330816
StuffIt 182545 44.82% 0.45 0.36
Diamond, fast 142490 56.93% 1.09 0.12
Diamond, medium 142430 56.95% 1.35 0.12
Diamond, compact 142426 56.95% 1.48 0.12
(Application: MacWrite II, Stack: Apple's Q&A 3.1,
Docs folder: ten documents (MacWrite, Word, MacPaint,
MacDraw etc)).
I'll try to get permission to post the demo to infomac@sumex
and comp.binaries.mac. Diamond is developed by SOFT Technologies.
Their address is
SOFT Technologies
Denis SERSA
9, rue des lilas
67640 FEGERSHEIM, France
Tl. (33) 88.64.31.74
Fax. (33) 88.67.13.73
Applelink: SOFT.TECH
Standard disclaimers apply.
--
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Phone: +46-46107436 Fax: +46-46138225 Bitnet: roland_m@seldc52
Internet: roland_m@ldc.lu.se or roland_m%ldc.lu.se@uunet.uu.net
UUCP: {uunet,mcvax}!sunic!ldc.lu.se!roland_m AppleLink: SW0022
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Date: Wed, 05 Jul 89 09:51:56 CST
From: Michael Hanrahan <C09615MH%WUVMD.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: How to specify suggest applications sizes
Hello (again),
I posted two questions to a previous INFO-MAC which I have answered
on my own, thanks to the long holiday weekend. Nonetheless, I think
others might find this information useful.
1) How do you specify the Suggested application memory value that
the Finder displays when a user does a Get Info... on an
application?
Answer: You create a SIZE resource with an id of -1. (NOTE: The
SIZE resource has been around probably as long as MultiFinder
has been around, yet Inside Macintosh makes NO mention of it.
Come on, Apple...) A SIZE resource consists of a word (a 16
bit Integer) and two long words (32 bits) which are used to set
the actual and minimum sizes (measured in bytes).
The first word value is actually used to set 6 flags which provide
info about whether the application knows about MultiFinder, whether
it is a background-only procedure and things like that.
Specifically,
bit Parameter
----------------------------------------------------
15 Save Screen (Switcher)
14 Accept suspend events
13 Disable option (Switcher)
12 Can background
11 MultiFinder aware
10 Only background
9 Get front clicks
8-0 (reserved)
The RMaker source statements that create a SIZE resource are
listed below.
Type SIZE = GNRL
,-1
.I ;; first component is a 16 bit integer
22528 ;; decimal representation of desired flag value
.L ;; second component = actual application size
204800 ;; 204800 = 200k
.L ;; third component = suggested minimum size
204800 ;; again, 200k
Note that the above example sets bits 14, 12, and 11, which would
be what most standard applications need.
2) How does one get MultiFinder to display a reduced size version of
your application's custom icon in the upper right corner, etc.?
Answer: I finally got this to work but I'm not sure if it is
because I finally figured out bundles or because I set the
"MultiFinder aware" bit in the Size resource.
I hope someone (anyone! :-) ) finds this useful...
Michael Hanrahan
Educational Computing Services
Washington University
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Date: Mon, 3 Jul 89 10:07:29 PDT
From: PUGH@ccc.mfecc.llnl.gov
Subject: HPopupMenu XFCN Update
I fixed a couple more bugs in my Hierarchical Popup Menus XFCN. They all had
to do with parsing bad parameters, so there is no functional changes. It
is now more resistant to bad programming.
Jon
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/xfcn-hpopupmenu.hqx; 30K]
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Date: Mon, 03 Jul 89 14:59:34 CST
From: Michael Hanrahan <C09615MH%WUVMD.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Implementing Kermit protocol
Hello,
My department purchased CE Software's QuickMail electronic mail
package for our networked Macintoshes. One of the features of the
QuickMail program is the ability to create a "bridge" between the LAN
hosting QuickMail and other systems. Our department is hoping to
design a bridge which would allow us to access e-mail sent to our
CMS accounts through our Macs. This involves having our custom
bridge somehow sign on our system, download any incoming mail, upload
any mail sent from our LAN to the outside world, etc.
My question involves transferring the files to/from the
mainframe. One of our goals is to have this bridge transfer these
mail files automatically on (say) an hourly timetable. This means
the solution to this problem can't involve having someone manually
handle the task of downloading incoming mail from the mainframe and
uploading any outgoing mail from the LAN. (THAT I could handle! :-) )
The desire to transfer mail automatically (in a background mode) poses
two main problems...
1) First of all, the script procedures within QuickMail only
support XMODEM. Since we have an IBM mainframe (VM/SP), XMODEM
can't be used in our case.
2) I can't use the MacKermit program "as is" because:
a) There's no way to run a program in a "shell" and have the
calling program resume control when the "shelled" program
is through.
b) Even if there was a way to run Kermit in a "shell" of sorts,
the current version of MacKermit doesn't have any login
script capabilities. If a "shell" could be used, I'd be
willing to figure out a way to add script capabilites to
Kermit, but...
Columbia University (the Kermit Server) has a version of Kermit
for MS-DOS machines that was written in Pascal that I'm thinking
of obtaining to see what the Kermit encoding/decoding routines would
look like. Has anyone else ever attempted their own rudimentary
communications using Kermit? If so, I'd love to hear any suggestions
or words of wisdom. THANKS...
Michael Hanrahan
Educational Computing Services
Washington University
St. Louis, MO 63130
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Date: 5 Jul 89 07:39:41 GMT
From: munnari!ditmela.oz.au!Hans.Eriksson@uunet.uu.net (Hans Eriksson)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #115
I want to build a stack that acts as a user friendly interface to a
unix program who have a dull line-oriented dialog. That dialog should
of course be presented with the bells & whistles of a mac.
Is there a stack (or something) that can do some of the
terminalhandling towards the unix system? The Mac will be connected
via a terminal connection (vt100).
There is a VT100 stack somewhere. Can that be modified to enable my
stack to capture the output from the unix system and present it to the
poor user in my way. Of course, I'd want to sne dcommands back to the
unix system also.
/hans
--
Hans Eriksson (hans@ditmela.oz.au)
CSIRO/DIT, 55 Barry Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia (we are GMT+10)
Tel: +61 3 347-8644 Fax: +61 3 347-8987 Home: +61 3 534-5188
On a years leave from Swedish Institute of Computer Science (hans@sics.se)
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Date: Thu, 6 Jul 89 17:47:43 EDT
From: joseph@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Seymour Joseph)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #115
I ran quickmail 1.?? and am now running 2.01 both with gatekeeper 1.11
with no problems whatsoever.
Quickmail 2.0 has been available for some time....
Seymour
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Date: Fri, 7 Jul 89 08:40:01 PDT
From: hplabs!infmx!ape!cortesi@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (David Cortesi)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #116
>Info-Mac Digest Thu, 6 Jul 89 Volume 7 : Issue 116
>From: postmaster@movies.mit.edu
>Subject: HP DeskJet summary
>3: Finally, the one remaining drawback of this printer is the fact that the
>ink is water-soluable. I have pages printed on one of these machines that I
>got from a demo, and the ink runs badly if the pages get wet. This is quite
>unfortunate, and if anyone has any solution to this problem it would be most
>welcome.
I think you should talk to a graphic artist. Surely watercolorists
and workers in other soluble media have solved this problem already?
The phrase "charcoal fixative" drifts up from a dim memory of
high-school art classes...
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Date: Wed, 5 Jul 89 15:45 MDT
From: <JHREIHER%COLOSPGS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Don't worry, be happy :~{])
Subject: MacGENie Macros
I have a question about macros for the MacGENie comm program; How in the
bloody blue blazes do you get the @#&#$*~&! things to work! I've tried several
combinations of settings,(I even read the manual! ;->) and still can't get
my dialup and logon macro to work. What should I do?
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# A.K.A. Animal # not in front of #
# Bitnet: jhreiher@colospgs # the Klingons" #
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Date: Thu, 6 Jul 89 20:25:52 EDT
From: David_S._Allan@ub.cc.umich.edu
Subject: Multiple systems
Stuart MacFarlane writes:
>We'd like to be able to use either the English operating system, or the
>Japanese version (Kanjitalk). This seems to mean having two system folders
>on the hard disc, with
>some method of telling the mac which one we are using at present.
I recommend buying some kind of partitioning program (such as Alsoft's
MultiDisk or Symantec Utilities) to divide your disk into separate volumes.
You can then put a separate system on each partition. Switching between
systems will be a matter of switch-launching to the system you want
(by command-option double-clicking the finder of the desired system) and
dismounting the other partition by dragging its icon to the trash (if
desired).
David Allan
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Date: 6 Jul 89 11:28 EST
From: WMLBTAM%UCCCVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: News on Oracle/Mac products?
Date: 6 July 1989, 11:26:15 EST
>From: WMLBTAM at UCCCVM1
To: INFO-MAC at SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU
Subj: News on Oracle/Mac products?
Has anybody out there seen/played with a copy of Oracle/Mac 1.1? It
is supposed to have come out in June and be more useful than the
"toy" which was 1.0.
Anybody heard of any beta sites for a SQL*Forms package for the Mac
product?
Ted
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Date: Thu, 06 Jul 89 08:26:38 SST
From: TNG TH <ISSTTH%NUSVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: PROGRAMMABLE FRAME GRABBERS
Hello folks.
I know lately I have been asking MANY questions. I can't help it since this
is the fastest way to get info since I am Singapore.
My question is whether anyone has bought any programmable frame grabber boards?
TrueVision sells a couple, but they are very expensive. I need alternative
24-bit frame grabbers such as the RasterOps 324, but the advertisements did
not say anything about programming the board through Think C 3.0 or some other
language.
Please reply directly to me at ISSTTH@NUSVM
Thanks.
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Date: Tue 4 Jul 89 04:51:01-PST
From: 323ELLIOT%ECD1.SPAN@star.stanford.edu
Subject: Request for Charting program...
Hi Mac-netters!
I have an interesting problem: I'm responsible for designing a proposal to the
European Space Agency for our organization and I need a program that will let me
graphically design the work packages. Basically, it should look like a tree
chart with the ability to split each box in two: one part is for the title of
the work package, the other for the work package number (ideally, there should
be a line drawn between the name and number). Ordinarily, MORE II would be
sufficient. In fact, I want something that functions like MORE II in outline
mode (so that I can drag the various packages around and reorganize them as I
see fit), but numbers each box automatically (this is probably practically
impossible, but it doesn't hurt to ask :-). The main drawback of MORE is that
when it generates the tree chart, it won't do boxes in this format:
__________
| main |
|_________|
| __________
|-| sub |
| |__________|
| __________
|-| sub |
|__________|
except in the bottom most level currently shown. I.e., I can't do this:
__________
| main |
|---------|
| 1000 |
|_________|
| __________
| | sub |
|-|----------|
| | 1100 |
| |__________|
| | __________
| | | sub-sub |
| |_|----------|
| | 1110 |
| |__________|
| __________
| | sub |
|_|----------|
| 1200 |
|__________|
In fact, MORE isn't designed to do this kind of thing at all (only org charts,
really). So if anyone knows of any program that CAN do this, I would be most
grateful...
While I'm on a wish list, each work package would, of course, have a full
description. It would be REAL interesting if there was a page-layout-type of
program that could generate the above tree chart from an outline and then use a
template to let me fill in what each work package actually is. As I change an
order, name, or number in the outline, it would automatically be updated in the
tree chart and document wherever it is referenced. We have a piece of software
that will in effect do this on our big ibm mainframe, but as you all well know,
graphics and user-friendliness are not big blue's forte.
So, if you have any ideas or suggestions please respond to me personally and I
will summarize...
Thanks in advance,
Elliot Bennett
DLR
Cologne, West Germany
Please send replies to:
elliot@star.stanford.edu (or ecd1::323elliot for SPAN people)
Disclaimer: building a better space program so you don't have to.
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Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1989 14:12:28 PDT
From: John Sotos <sotos@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Subject: Reversing the video
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.
My eyeballs thank you.
John
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Date: Thu, 6 Jul 89 20:10:40 EDT
From: David_S._Allan@ub.cc.umich.edu
Subject: Scientific modelling software
Dan Henderson of Boston College was looking for a program to manipulate
molecular models (building, rotations, etc.). Several people directed him
to the Ball & Stick demo in the archives. This is an excellent program.
The main shortcoming, in my mind, is the tedious procedure for executing
rotations. Still, well worth the download, especially for color use.
Another program to be considered is Molecular Editor from Kinko's
Academic CourseWare Exchange. M.E. is probably good for student use, but
it is limited to a Mac Plus-sized screen and monochrome graphics. Still,
quite reasonably priced.
No one mentioned Chem3D, by Cambridge Scientific Computing (617) 491-6862.
CSC is the same company that publishes ChemDraw, a great 2-D program.
This program is full-featured and pretty powerful. Its price is steep, but
a substantial discount for a student license is available. I believe that
the author of the program reads this digest; he may provide more information.
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Date: Thu, 6 Jul 89 21:47:18 EDT
From: dmg@lid.mitre.org (David Gursky)
Subject: Smartalarms...
In Info-Mac Digest V7, #116, LIBHTK%SUVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
recommended SmartAlarms as an excellent application for setting up reminders
on you Mac.
I agree wholeheartedly. SmartAlarms is much better than Comments, and unlike
Comments, does not take up as much RAM to operate (Comments is a real memory
hog if I recall).
*HOWEVER*, Imagine Software is no longer licensed to distribute SmartAlarms
in the United States. Do not try and buy SmartAlarms from Imagine. Imagine
has recently introduced their own reminder application which looks surprisingly
like SmartAlarms.
JAM Software (the Australian Company that wrote SmartAlarms) has set up an
American subsidiary (also called JAM Software) that you can get the real,
honest to goodness, SmartAlarms from. They are very nice and technically
competent. The correct address is...
JAM Software
P.O. Box 1345
Point Reyes Station, CA 94956
415.663.1041
JAM will want $99 for SmartAlarms if you buy it from them, but MacConnection,
et. al. will have it for less.
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Date: Mon, 03 Jul 89 15:05:00 CST
From: Michael Hanrahan <C09615MH%WUVMD.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Supporting MultiFinder
I've written a program that as far as the basics goes, runs fine under
MultiFinder (no crashes, no memory problems, etc.) However, it's
missing a few of the final touches. For example, how can I specify
the "Suggested memory size:" value that is shown when a user does a Get
Info on the file? Also, it's been my experience that when my application
is running under MultiFinder, most of the time I get the generic applicat
icon in the upper right and a few times I'll get a reduced version of
my application's custom icon (which is what I want). The reduced version
of my custom icon is always shown in the list of active applications
in the Apple menu, though. Where does the Finder want this information
stored?
THANKS as always...
Michael Hanrahan
ECS
Washington University
St. Louis, MO 63130
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Date: 3 Jul 89 11:00:00 EDT
From: "J. SCOTT WEAVER" <fweaver@bigvax.alfred.edu>
Subject: System 6.0.2, MacTools 7.1, and Font/DA Mover problems
In v7-114, Craig S. Cottingham writes:
>After running Font/DA Mover, the system bombs when it tries to open a window
>on the desktop. I con't even get into MacTools -- it bombs on launchin.
>Do I need the latest versions to run under 6.0.2? (I don't know right off
>which version of Font/DA Mover I'm using.)
I have had no problems under System 6.0.2 with either MacTools 7.1 or Font/DA
Mover 3.8 (provided with System 6.0.2). It is safest to turn off Multifinder
when using Font/DA Mover but this is not essential.
J. Scott Weaver
fweaver@ceramics
fweaver@bigvax.alfred.edu [192.31.254.1]
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Date: Fri, 07 Jul 89 11:48:18 IST
From: "Jonathan B. Owen" <GDAU100%BGUVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: System 7.0 speculations
I was very impressed reading about system 7.0 and await eagerly for
it's release.
I read the System 7.0 notes found in the MacArch archives (LISTSERV@RICE)
and saw little mention of the improvments scheduled for the Finder.
As any other Mac user, I too have my views on how to improve the finder.
I have not really orginized my thought in the matter, but the following
comes to mind:
o I would like to see a standard Control Device for setting the port
used for communication (read Modem) with all it's relative parameters,
such as speed, parity, etc. Maybe even a modem setup string sent to
the modem at boot. This would eliminate the need for each comm.
program to have it's own implementation.
o I think each application should have it's own menubar within it's
window (possibly scrolling the menubar, for small windows) instead
of todays menubar.
o Desk Accesseries should "float" like Hypercard's tools menu. How
many times did YOU have to bring back the Notepad each time
you switch to anoter application? I can't count that much :)
o The finder should include a tree structure view of an HFS volume.
o Having a pull down menu from a window's title bar of the enclousing
folders would be great (like in MacTools) for navigation (this is
one step futher of double clicking in the title bar in system 6.03).
o The ability of temporarly making a window into an icon ("iconization")
is a good solution for working with many applications/windows/DAs
at once.
Any thought?
JB
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Date: Tue, 4 Jul 89 09:29 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist)
Subject: TTI CTS8000 tape drive
Greetings,
We just bought a TTI CTS8000 DAT drive to backup our VAX 780... and love it.
Since it's a SCSI device, we were wondering if anyone has used one for
backing up Mac hard disks? Are there any drivers for it floating around?
Thanks in advance,
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
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Date: Fri, 7 Jul 89 01:39:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Adam Duncan Warr <aw1j+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Two system folders
I find that the Blesser Utility works wonders when trying
to change the startup system. I have a 2 meg Mac II that
has the Marathon 030,33MHz chip installed. I often use the
Blesser Utility to change from system 6.0.3 to a smaller
system, namely v4.2. I do this when I'm trying to run
large graphics programs such as Studio8 or what have you.
I'm sure that the same results could be achieved for you.
If you have trouble finding the Blesser Utility please let
me know. I believe that it is public domain software so
it should cost you nothing. However, I'll ahve to look up the
archive that has a copy of it.
Good Luck!
Adam C. Duncan
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh Pa. 15213
aw1j@andrew.cmu.edu
Please respond if you need help. Blesser is definately
your answer.
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