Info-Mac-Request@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (The Moderators) (06/20/89)
Info-Mac Digest Mon, 19 Jun 89 Volume 7 : Issue 107
Today's Topics:
Acknowledge?
Bibliography programmes: Pro-Cite & EndNote
Bugs in Sargon IV?
Buttons
Computer conferencing software
Converter DA.hqx
File manager query (Finding directory where the application is)
Font Harmony Updater version 1.2.1
GifConverter 1.04.1 (demo version)
HELP! (HD20SC won't forget or learn!)
Help with network accessible files
Hooking Mac II to NEC Color Printer
HyperCard and CD-ROM
Info-Mac Digest V7 #104
Info-Mac Digest V7 #106
Is there a serial printer driver for Epson printers?
June 89 Tech Notes Info
Machine types & Interpoll 1.0
Pyro Updater 3.3.1
SuperClock Bug (maybe not)
Terminal program: Fawn+ 1.00
Thanks .. re: Uploading to MacWrite
Truchet
Using LaserWriters with DOS machines
VirusDetective DA 3.0.1
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Date: 19 Jun 89 12:50 EST
From: WMLBTAM%UCCCVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Acknowledge?
Date: 19 June 1989, 12:46:55 EST
>From: WMLBTAM at UCCCVM1
To: INFO-MAC at SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU
Subject: Acknowledge?
Does anyone out there have info re: Acknowledge? It was described to us
as a Mac user's interface to host applications (communications host--as
in dial-up or networked configurations).
We don't know anything more about it, and haven't seen any recent ads (well, we
weren't looking for them, then, anyway...)
Thanks for any help,
Ted
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Med Ctr Information & Communications |Bitnet: WMLBTAM @ UCCCVM1 NTS: WB8VNV
231 Bethesda Avenue, Mail Location #574|======================================
Cincinnati, OH 45267-0574 |"Call me up and I'll talk data to ya'"
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 89 16:55:00 +0200
From: Jan Engelen <FHEDA02%BLEKUL11.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Bibliography programmes: Pro-Cite & EndNote
Hello,
In answer to my question on bibliography programmes with a WORD or
MacWrite output (as to keep intact character formatting and fonts), I received
two indications: Pro-Cite and Endnote.
Demo versions of both programmes seem to exist.
Can anyone send me a copy thereof, or better yet, make it available on
a server?
Also, any good (or bad) experiences with these programms are welcome.
Jan Engelen
Kath. Univ. Leuven
FHEDA026BLEKUL11 (Bitnet)
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 89 16:54:20 EDT
From: Michael_Webb@ub.cc.umich.edu
Subject: Bugs in Sargon IV?
I bought a copy of Sargon IV the other day. It plays well, at least it beats
me most of the time. But I think I have found a few bugs, and want to know
if anybody on the list has seen them. I'm using a vanilla Mac+
with Sys. 6.0.2 and an Ehman Eng. 32M hard drive. I've loaded it onto my
hard disk, but I noticed the same bugs when using just the program disk
and the hard drive not booted.
After saving a game, then playing more, and deciding to choose Save again,
the program saves the newest version, but crashes (id=25, I think) when
coming back from the save. Annoying. It will also stochastically crash
sometimes when choosing Take Back from the Options menu. Very bothersome.
Has anybody seen these bugs? Also, the system fonts (when using the
program disk) look like Geneva, but it seems as though they are using
a size that isn't installed in the system, so it looks funny.
A related matter. Does anybody have any experience with both Sargon IV and
Chessmaster 2000? Which plays better chess? Which has the better interface?
Which has nicer graphics? If the bugs are real, I'll take Spinnaker up
on their money back offer and get C. 2000.
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| Michael Webb |
| user6lnu@ub.cc.umich.edu |
| University of Michigan Physics Department |
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Date: Sun, 18 Jun 89 22:12:51 EDT
From: Oliver Steele <steele@cs.unc.edu>
Subject: Buttons
[Oliver's Buttons]
Drop this Startup document in your System Folder, and reboot,
to get push-buttons, radio buttons, and checkboxes that are
a little bit different from the standard Mac ones. Thanks to
whoever wrote the MainWDEF Startup document (Eric?) for the
idea as to how to distribute this.
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Oliver Steele ...!decnet!mcnc!unc!steele
UNC-CH Linguistics steele@cs.unc.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/init/buttons.hqx; 9K]
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Date: Sun, 18 Jun 89 20:49 CDT
From: "Sandro Corsi, Univ.of WI-Oshkosh" <CORSI@oshkosh.wisc.edu>
Subject: Computer conferencing software
In reply to Noshir Contractor <nosh@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
( InfoMac v7 n105 )
> I am planning on implementing a computer conference for a course i am
> teaching in the fall 1989. Are there software programs that will allow me
> to do that on a set of Mac SEs and Mac IIs that are connected via AppleTalk
> to a file server?
I have used Timbuktu to teach classes for the past two semesters. The
program allows you to put up the screen of one Macintosh on as many other
Macs on the network as needed (I've had as many as 14 "onlookers"). It is a
bit slow for the rasterGraphics-intensive things we do, but it is still
invaluable -- you can rely on everyone seeing everything there is to see on
the teacher's screen. For text-only stuff (or strictly vector graphics)
even speed should not be a problem. If desired, the "spectators" can become
"participants": everyone's keyboard and mouse can control the host computer
(of course, it is advisable to take turns -- or the ensuing tug-of-war will
lead nowhere).
Sandro Corsi
Art Dept.
Univ. of Wisconsin - Oshkosh
Oshkosh, WI 54901
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Date: Sat, 17 Jun 89 17:42:17 -0500
From: jdm@emx.utexas.edu (James Meiss)
Subject: Converter DA.hqx
Converter DA:
This is a desk accessory for conversion between
currencies. It stores the rates for 18 different countries* and will
convert between any pair of countries. It uses pop-up menus to choose
the currencies. Simply type in the amount in one currency and hit
enter or return to calculate the equivalent value in the other currency.
I use this desk accessory to help me enter my financial
data after a trip overseas. In order to facilitate this entry,
the DA has an "auto enter" feature which will post the result of the
conversion to the event que and send the desk accessory behind the
window of the current application. What happens is that you type the amount in pounds sterling (say), hit enter, and the amount in US $ (say) is entered in your spreadsheet, Dollars and $ense document etc.
This desk accessory is completely free. I only ask
that if you have any suggestions, comments, criticisms or praise,
that you let me know!
Jim Meiss
jdm@emx.utexas.edu
jdm@fusion.utexas.edu
*Rates supplied are from the NY Times June 16, 1989.
[Archived as /info-mac/da/converter.hqx; 16K]
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 89 09:39:26 BST
From: Brian Candler <BTC10%phoenix.cambridge.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk>
Subject: File manager query (Finding directory where the application is)
On application startup, the default directory is the one which contains the
application. So if you call FSOpen or whatever with vRefNum=0 the operation
will be performed in the same directory as the application, as long as you
haven't changed the default directory with SetVol. I have tested this, and it
works.
I expect you may be able to get an explicit working directory somehow, perhaps
by GetVol, but I've not tried this.
The chapter in Inside Mac Vol IV on the File Manager is horrible. If a function
returns a 'vRefNum', is this a volume reference number, a directory ID, or a
working directory reference number??
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 89 00:50:55 EDT
From: Michael Kazlow <KAZLOWF%PACEVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Font Harmony Updater version 1.2.1
This program will update Steve Brecher's Font Harmony to version
1.2.1. This file is stuffed.
[Archived as /info-mac/util/font-harmony-updater-121.hqx; 32K]
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Date: Sat, 17 Jun 89 23:19:45 PDT
From: kcr@sun.com (Kevin Rushforth)
Subject: GifConverter 1.04.1 (demo version)
Several people have asked about a program to display GIF images on a
monochrome MAC+ or MAC SE. Here is version 1.04.1 of "GifConverter
Demo", a GIF display utility which I downloaded from CompuServe. It
runs on a MAC+, MAC SE or a MAC II. This program may be freely
distributed, but it is copyrighted by Kevin A. Mitchell. Please do not
send questions/comments about this program to me. Send them to the
author, Kevin Mitchell, who can be reached on CompuServe at
74017,2573.
--
Kevin C. Rushforth | "If winning is not important,
Sun Microsystems | then commander, why keep score?"
| - Lt. Worf
ARPA: kcr@sun.com |
UUCP: <most-backbone-sites>!sun!kcr |
[Archived as /info-mac/art/gif/gif-converter.hqx; 90K]
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 89 14:46 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist)
Subject: HELP! (HD20SC won't forget or learn!)
Greetings,
We have here an internal HD20SC in a Mac SE which has experienced some sort of
brain damage. We can't erase files, nor can be copy files onto it. I tried
rebuilding the desktop file :( , deleting the desktop file (using ResEdit) :( ,
it fails the HS20SC Setup test and initialization. All of the files that we
have tried seem to be retrievable :) , A Read Only Hard Disk... how novel, how
useless... any ideas?
What's your favorite replacement? :(.
Thanks,
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: Mon, 19 Jun 89 15:30 EST
From: LASSEZ LES BON TEMPS ROULER <DANNY%BCVMS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Help with network accessible files
Hello,
I am looking for some ideas and hopefully someone out there has done this
already!
We have a student lab here with Macintosh IIcx's (130 of them) that are in the
process of being connected to our VAX cluster as a file server. We will be
using AlisaShare to serve from the VAX to the Macs - all the applications will
be on the VAX, and students will simply connect from their machine and see the
VAX as a "hard disk", of sorts. Anyway, the problem is that we would like to
put documentation for many of the supported programs on the VAX and have it
accessible by students through some easy to use interface like HyperCard,
DAtabase, or even a simple text editor DA.
Does anyone out there have any experience with this, or even some ideas? I not
only need to come up with a way to access the data, but also how to put the
data there in the first place. That is, do I have to scan all this stuff in, or
does anyone know if it exisits in ASCII form already?
We will be using the standard stuff, MS Word, Excel, File, Draw, Paint, etc. I
know I can extract the help files from many of these programs, and I may end up
doing that. However, any help would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Dan Henderson
Computing Consultant,
Boston College
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 89 14:21:04 EDT
From: Ghassan Alkhoja <ALKHOJA%GWUVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Hooking Mac II to NEC Color Printer
Hi,
Does anyone have any experience in hooking up a Mac II to a NEC color
printer. Specificaly the NEC CP6/7 dot matrix. I am considering
buying a Mac II but do not want to get rid of my NEC color printer. Do
I need special software/hardware, or cabling to accomplish this? Or is it
not possible. Thanks in advance for all your help.
Ghassan Alkhoja
Computer Information and Resource Center
The George Washington Uiversity
BITNET - ALKHOJA@GWUVM
INTERNET - ALKHOJA@GWUVM.GWU.EDU
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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 89 20:51 MDT
From: Reitman%UNCAMULT.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: HyperCard and CD-ROM
Does anyone have experience bringing straight ascii files into HyperCard
off of a CD-ROM. I am developing an application which does just this
and was trying to determine how efficient this method is. Please reply
to Reitman@UNCAMULT.Bitnet.
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Date: 19 Jun 89 17:01:35 GMT
From: steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #104
#>Date: Thu, 08 Jun 89 15:53:15 MDT
#>From: "Bruce A. Carter" <DUSCARTE@idbsu.idbsu.edu>
#>Subject: Problems with Laser Printer 6.0 Drivers
#>
#>Apparently some software is not fully compatible with the new 6.0
#>LaserWriter drivers (available on AppleLink). SuperPaint 2.0 has a
#>definite problem with them, as do several of the utilities that send
#>PostScript files to the printer.
A question: Is this a new 6.0 driver which replaces the old 6.0
driver or do you mean the new 6.0 driver which replaced the old
5.0 driver? I haven't noticed any problem with SuperPaint 2.0
and the 6.0 driver I am using. How can one identify the problem
driver and what other advantages does it offer which would prompt
one to wish to use it?
#>A fix is forthcoming from Silicon Beach for their product. I spoke with
#>them today and they were aware of the problem and were waiting for material
#>to come back from duplication.
#>
#> 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: Mon, 19 Jun 89 13:16:55 PDT
From: daybell%aludra.usc.edu@usc.edu (Donald Daybell)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #106
I am looking for a spellchecker that I can use while in an application,
rather than having to quit and do a seperate spellcheck. Are there any
such programs, and if so, which ones are the best. (Perhaps a DA?)
Mail me of reply here.
Don Daybell daybell@aludra.usc.edu
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 89 12:40:48 CDT
From: "Bob B. Funchess" <S090726@umrvma.umr.edu>
Subject: Is there a serial printer driver for Epson printers?
There is a serial printer driver for the Epson family but the only one I
know of is not PD. The program is EpStart (by SoftStyle) and is available
for around $50 from several mail-order houses. We have a Mac + and an
Epson LQ-800 printer and the program has worked fairly well with them.
SoftStyle supplies several screen fonts with the program that match the
spacing on the internal printer fonts (used in "Draft" mode), so if these
are used, you can get NLQ out of the printer. Mac screen fonts print OK
but not as good as on an ImageWriter. The driver also handles graphics.
I have a cabling diagram for hooking the printer to the Mac I can send to
anyone who's interested. Reply directly to me.
<Bob|ZENO|Funchess>
S090726@UMRVMA (.EDU for Internet)
Acknowledge-To: <S090726@UMRVMA>
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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 89 22:57:18 +0200
From: Roland Mansson <roland@dna.lth.se>
Subject: June 89 Tech Notes Info
Here are the June 1989 Tech Notes. 233-244 are new.
19 How to Produce Continuous Sound Without Clicking
86 MacPaint Document Format
161 When to Call _PrOpen and _PrClose
180 MultiFinder Miscellanea
184 Notification Manager
193 So Many Bitmaps, So Little Time
208 Setting and Restoring A5
212 The Joy of Being 32-Bit Clean
229 A/UX 1.1 Toolbox Bugs
230 Pertinent Information About the Macintosh SE/30
233 MultiFinder and _SetGrowZone
234 NuBus Physical DesignsQBeware
235 Cooperating with the Coprocessor
236 Speedy the Math Coprocessor
237 TextEdit Record Size Limitations Revisited
238 Getting a Full Pathname
239 Inside Object Pascal
240 Using MPW for Non-Macintosh 68000 Systems
241 Script ManagerUs _Pixel2Char
242 Fonts and the Script Manager
243 Script Manager Variables
244 A Leading Cause of Color Cursor Cursing
[Archived as you might expect in the /tn directory. -Bill]
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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 89 15:58:43 EDT
From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@pica.army.mil>
Subject: Machine types & Interpoll 1.0
Thanks to all who responded to my query about an SE/30 not being reported as
such by InterPoll. The solution was simple. Get out the System 6.0.3 disks
supplied with the machine and install Responder v1.0.1 in the System Folder.
The user had gotten his hands on v1.0 somewhere and installed it, instead.
Also, STR#'s 101 & 102 (I think, this is from memory) in InterPoll need to
have strings added for SE/30 (as well as Mac IIx & IIcx while I was at it).
It all works fine, now.
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: Mon, 19 Jun 89 01:00:44 EDT
From: Michael Kazlow <KAZLOWF%PACEVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Pyro Updater 3.3.1
This program will update Steve Brecher's Pyro to version
3.3.1. This file is stuffed.
[Archived as /info-mac/util/pyro-updater-331.hqx; 29K]
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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 89 21:45:28 PDT
From: Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: SuperClock Bug (maybe not)
>I tried what Jon suggested re: hitting the "chime on hour" check box twice
>without doing anything else, and he's certainly correct. Just came back
>From a restart! I had the gatekeeper init in overide, so it had no effect.
>Looks, acts, and walks like a bug to me... <grin>
I just tried the same thing and no bomb here folks. I may have got
SuperClock 3.3 from a different source (can't remember for sure).
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 89 14:25:58 BST
From: Brian Candler <BTC10%phoenix.cambridge.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk>
Subject: Terminal program: Fawn+ 1.00
Here is "Fawn+ 1.00", a terminal program which implements the SSMP protocol,
widely used in UK academic circles. It also features a dumb terminal with split
scrollback and has selectable PAD types.
This program is Freeware - you may use and distribute it as widely as you like,
as long as you don't make a profit from doing so.
It was written by Iain Sharp and myself; any correspondence should be addressed
to Iain (IS111@UK.AC.CAMBRIDGE.PHOENIX) as I am about to leave university.
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/fawnplus.hqx; 70K]
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 89 12:19:10 EDT
From: David Rubin <RUBIN@graf.poly.edu>
Subject: Thanks .. re: Uploading to MacWrite
I want to thank the many people who responded to my problem with
uploading text files from UNIX to MacWrite using Red Ryder.
The problem turned out to be extra Line-Feeds generated at the UNIX
end, and Red Ryder has an option to strip them (many public domain
programs can also strip them).
Thanks again for your help...
David Rubin | INTERNET: RUBIN@graf.poly.edu
Polytechnic University | BITNET: RUBIN@POLYGRAF
Brooklyn, NY |
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Date: Sun, 18 Jun 89 22:13:10 EDT
From: Oliver Steele <steele@cs.unc.edu>
Subject: Truchet
[Truchet]
The "Computer Recreations" column of the July 1989 Scientific
American mentions Truchet tiles. This program creates random
tilings from Truchet tiles and from some variants, including
some tiles created by my colleague Greg Turk. Fingerpaint
with the mouse button.
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Oliver Steele ...!decnet!mcnc!unc!steele
UNC-CH Linguistics steele@cs.unc.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/app/truchet.hqx; 26K]
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 89 09:32:04 CST
From: Michael Hanrahan <C09615MH%WUVMD.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Using LaserWriters with DOS machines
Some posted a question in a previous INFO-MAC digest involving
LaserWriters and DOS machines. I'm sure there are ways to hard-wire
a LW and a PC together but I think the easiest way to do this is via
some sort of AppleTalk network. My department at WU uses a TOPS
network to connect the micros we use. Using TOPS on a DOS machine
requires a minimum of:
- a FlashCard (a card which handles the AppleTalk)
- DOS TOPS (the server software)
If you wish to use a LaserWriter from PCs, the PCs also need NetPrint
(also written by TOPS). You also need a PostScript driver for any
programs you wish to use (for example, we have a POSTSCR driver that
we use in Microsoft Word). When you print, you select the PostScript
driver, print the document which spools it to disk, then you run
NetPrint to send it to the LaserWriter.
Although this isn't as transparent as selecting the PostScript driver
and having the stuff sent directly, you do have access to all LW fonts.
As for TOPS as a whole on DOS machines... (contact me directly, I don't
want to bore the net with DOS horror stories :-) )
Michael Hanrahan
Educational Computing Services
Washington University
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Date: Sat, 17 Jun 89 14:28 EST
From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@sdr.slb.com>
Subject: VirusDetective DA 3.0.1
VirusDetective is a DA for tracking down viruses (or any resources) in files.
You specify the resource type and various attributes. Once the offending
resource is found it can optionally be removed from the file (use this
feature with caution) or file deleted. The user can update the search list
at any time. Shareware.
Version 3.0.1 corrects a problem where Data scans would fail in certain
situations (evident in the System file searches but *not* in the application
searches). Update postcards will be going out to all registered users this
week. All those who paid to receive 3.0 will be getting 3.0.1 free of charge.
Unpack with StuffIt after downloading.
[Archived as /info-mac/virus/virus-detective-301.hqx; 75K]
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