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Info-Mac Digest Sun, 18 Jun 89 Volume 7 : Issue 106
Today's Topics:
Application Font CDEV
assistance with database for managing cryogenic storage tanks
Batch conversions of Binhex Files...
Bibliographic Software
Database Advice
Exabyte helical scan tape drives
Finder Bug
GateKeeper Permissions list (finally!)
How Do I Trash This Folder??
Improving speed of MacWrite II
Milliseconds
MultiLaunch controlling
Need XMODEM, or YMODEM, or ZMODEM source
Resedit version 1.2
Stat Packages
SuperClock! version 3.3
SuperClock 3.3
TeX previewer
Update of Brown Univ. Term program needed
UUCP for the Mac
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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 89 0:17:23 EDT
From: mikeoro@sumex-aim.stanford.edu (Michael K O'Rourke)
Subject: Application Font CDEV
This is a CDEV written by me, Michael O'Rourke, to allow people to change
the default application font. It is pretty simple and straightforward,
giving a list of all fonts installed that exist in 12 point. To choose
a new font, you just click on one.
This program is HappyWare, if you like it , smile.
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/application-font.hqx; 5K]
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 89 17:26 MDT
From: GERKEN%BIOL@cc.utah.edu
Subject: assistance with database for managing cryogenic storage tanks
Our laboratory is currently evaluating database management systems
for our cryogenic storage tanks. We currently have 10,000 vials stored and
we are planning to increase our capacity by another 50,000 vials over the
next 5 years. We would like to be mac based but we have a new vax 3600
with 64 Mb of memory and 500Mb of available disk storage currently available.
If you have any advise and/or know of someone that may already have
already solved this problem, plese contact me. I would appreciate the help.
Steve Gerken,
Gerken@Biology.Utah.Edu
801-581-7096
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Date: Fri 16 Jun 1989 02:35 CDT
From: GREENY <MISS026%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Batch conversions of Binhex Files...
I was on GEnie tonight and noticed a program which would handle the batch
BinHex conversions of files that someone recently requested. I consequently
downloaded it from GEnie, and uploaded it here. I didn't have time to use
it and since I dont need it anyway, it is getting deleted from my hard drive.
But hopefully it will serve the purpose of whomever needed it.
Bye for now but not for long
Greeny
BITNET: MISS026@ECNCDC
Internet: MISS026%ECNCDC.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
GEnie: GREENY
Disclaimer: I just upload em, I don't take responsibility for em...:->
[Archived as /info-mac/util/batch-binhex.hqx; 16K]
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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 89 12:57:53 CDT
From: Bill Goffe <B234WLG%UTARLVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Bibliographic Software
Sometime back somebody asked about bibliographic software. In response,
I recently came across an ad a program called EndNote. The ad (in a
recent issue of Science) says that it can contain 32,000 references
with up to 32,000 characters in each. It works with Word, WriteNow, Word
Perfect and MacWrite. After making a reference in the text and finishing
the text, it makes up the bibliography for you (given your desired style).
You can also access the database while writting by using a desk accessory.
I haven't used this critter, but it looks like it could be useful.
Contact Niles & Associates, 2200 Powell, Suite 765, Emeryville, CA,
94608, (415) 655-6666. A demo is $5, while the program is $129. They
also sell software for keeping your track of your budget and payroll if
you're on a grant.
Bill Goffe
b234wlg @ utarlvm1 (bitnet)
The standard disclaimer applies.
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 89 22:25:27 EDT
From: thoyt@ddn-wms.arpa (Thomas Hoyt)
Subject: Database Advice
Greetings, NetMac'ers:
This is an urgent request from someone who doesn't have time to digest
the reams of information about software that come out in Mac Magazines
every month. I need opinions/advice/recommendations about databases that
can be easily tailored to school administration applications.
The software will be used to keep track of fund-raising
pledges/donations for a small, private school as well as a variety of
mailing lists of donors, faculty, staff, students, alumni, etc. The amount
of data is relatively small overall (< 5000 records max), and reporting
need not be too fancy (just mailing labels and a few simple
reports). SIMPLE financial calculations are essential, and a simple
script language would be nice.
We tried HyperCard this last school year, but it was just too slow and
cumbersome on our Plus. Any recommendations need to run on a MacPlus w/1
meg memory. Unless you think this is of interest to the net, post to me.
MANY Thanks.
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 89 10:06 CDT
From: Fred Schulz <CHEE77@uhvax1.uh.edu>
Subject: Exabyte helical scan tape drives
does anyone have experience with the Exabyte 2.3 GigaByte heical scan tape
drives available from various companies (eg, PCPC Jetstream)? We want to get
a drive for use with both a MacII and a microVax II. For the mac, we need
backup software, and for the vax a Q-bus SCSI tape controller.
The trouble is, no one who will sell for a reasonable price serves both
markets, so they can't say for sure whether the mac drive will work with a the
vax, or whether there is mac software which will support their tape drive.
Any insights will be greatly appreciated. If I learn anything and interest
warrants, I will summarize to the net.
Thanks,
-Fred
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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 89 14:40 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist)
Subject: Finder Bug
Martin Ewing Caltech Radio Astronomy reports:
>[Finder: 6.1 / System: 6.0.2
> Mac II, 2 MB, various hard or floppy disks]
>
>If you have a folder containing files of the form ".xxx", with leading periods,
>an attempt to duplicate the folder or to drag the folder to another device will
>fail with ID=01 (Finder) or a reinitiation of the Finder (Multifinder). [The
>"reinitiation" of MF comes with the loss of a few hundred K of available
>memory.
>
>This error occurs repeatably if the duplication is tried immediately after
>booting. It is probabalistic afterwards.
I have verified this on a MacII 5MB System 6.0.2 Finder 6.1 running under
MultiFinder. Attempting to duplicate a folder containing four files all of
whose names began with a period dumped me into MacsBug with a Bus Error at
address 4080680A. I did an EA which relaunched Finder and MultiFinder, and
then was able to duplicate the folder (twice). Register A0 had an address that
was off the charts - 6400????.
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
[The reason for this is probably something to do with the fact that drivers
have names beginning with a period. I remember reading a TN a while ago that
explicitly stated that applications should refuse to create files with names
starting with a period. Sounds like a hack to me, though. -Bill]
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Date: 15 Jun 89 20:26:56 GMT
From: jalden@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Joshua M. Alden)
Subject: GateKeeper Permissions list (finally!)
Hello.
You may recall that some time ago I posted a request that people
send me their configurations for GateKeeper so that I could compile a
large list. Well, a number of people replied this time, so here is the
compilation. If anyone has any additions or corrections, please send
them to Virus@mac.dartmouth.edu. DO NOT 'r' to this message. Send
directly to Virus@mac.dartmouth.edu. Thank you.
Blitzmail File(Other)
Blitznotify Res(Self)
Binhex File(Other)
ClockAdjust Res(Self)
DA Handler File(Other)
Dimmer 1.3 Res(Other)
Disinfectant Everything
DiskFit File(Other)
DOCtor File(Other)
Excel Res(Other,System)
FastBack File(Other)
Finder File(Other)
FKey Manager Res(Other,System)
FKey/Sound Mover (part of MasterJuggler) Res(Other,System)
Floppy Recover File(Other)
Font/DA Mover Res(Other,System)
Font/DA Utility (part of MasterJuggler) Res(Other)
Fontsie Incompatible
HD TuneUp (part of SUM) File(Other)
HFS Backup File(Other)
HFS Recover File(Other)
Hypercard Res(Other)
initcdev File(Other)
KSP Res(Self)
Layout Res(Other)
LS C File(Other) Res(Other)
LS Pascal 1.1 & 2.0 File(Other) Res(Other)
MacDraw II File(Other)
Macintalk Res(System)
MacWrite Turn off "User Alerts" in "If Errors Occur"
MenuEdit Res(Other)
Microsoft Excel Res(Other,System)
M0ire Res(Self)
NCSA Telnet (2.2 and later) File(Other)
Oracle's XCMD's Res(Other)
Packit III File(Other)
RAM Disk INIT Res(Self)
REdit File(Other) Res(Other)
ResCopier Res(Other,System)
ResEdit File(Other) Res(Other,System)*1
Resource Resolver (part of MasterJuggler) Res(Other)
Scanner File(Other)
Spooler (INIT part of LaserSpeed & TOPS Spool) Res(Self)
Stuffit & Unstuffit File(Other)
Think C File(Other) Res(Other)
TOM\C3\INIT Res(System)
TOPS Res(Self)
Turbo Pascal File(Other) Res(Other)
VersaTerm File(Other)
*1 ResEdit needs different settings between nothing and everything.
Those above are probably most frequently used, according to survey.
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| Josh Alden | HB 48, Dartmouth College |
| Private mail: Joshua.Alden@dartmouth.edu | Hanover, NH 03755 |
| Virus mail: Virus.Info@dartmouth.edu | (603) 640-5397 <- temp. |
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 89 12:27 EST
From: <ELBERT%MIDD.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: How Do I Trash This Folder??
I have a strange problem and would love some help.
After copying a non-beta version of ResEdit off
Apple's "Phil and Dave's Excellent CD," I removed
the files from the folder and tried to trash the
empty folder (named ResEdit1). When I issue and
"Empty Trash" messr. Mac replies "The Trash couldn't
be emptied (a file was busy or a folder was not
empty).". After responding OK to this alert, the
empty folder is replaced to its position in any other
folder or on the desktop.
I have tried several things:
I can rename the folder without change in behavior.
I can duplicate the folder and trash the copy.
I cannot trash the folder even when I boot from another
disk.
I cannot find anything of help by using various disk/file
editors (they can work on files and volumes but not
on folders).
I have tried various random (but sometimes lucky) methods
to change something (trying to quit with the folder
in the trash; rebuilding the desktop file both from the
finder and from Alsoft's DiskExpress utility; I have
done a complete DiskExpress run).
According to everything I can see (including looking for invisible
files, this folder is truely empty; I don't understand how a
folder can be busy.
Can someone think of another tactic? I'd rather not backup-
reformat the disk-restore, and I don't find that particularly
satisfying anyway...there must be something interesting
hidden in this problem.
Thanks in advance..
David C. Elbert
Geology Department
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT 05753
(802) 388 3711 x5652
Elbert@midd.bitnet
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 89 15:08 EST
From: "Rand P. Hall" <RAND@merrimack.edu>
Subject: Improving speed of MacWrite II
Was anyone else surprised when they saw how slow MacWrite II was on a
1MB machine? Me too.
In a conversation I had with someone at Claris I learned that they
planned to take out the built-in translators because they bloat the
size of the application--limiting the memory available for `real'
code. They're going to take T/Maker's approach and place the filters
in a folder near the application. This isn't going to happen for a
while so I said to myself, `Self, why don't you get out your (t)rusty
copy of ResEdit and do it yourself.'
It turns out that there are two sets of filters, import and export, of
course. They are of the resource type FLTI and FLTE, respectively.
Just cut out the filters you don't want to use. The more the better.
Claris (and/or Quark) were nice enough to just flag a disk i/o error
if you should try to use one of the filters after you've bagged it.
Rand P. Hall rand@merrimack.edu (csnet)
Director, Academic Computing 508.683.7111
Merrimack College
315 Turnpike Rd. "There is elegance in simplicity."
North Andover, Mass. 01845 - Kimball S. Maddocks
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 89 17:33:08 PDT
From: oster%SOE.Berkeley.EDU@jade.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
Subject: Milliseconds
I experimented with the Time Manager recently. I built a little task that
just incremented a counter every millisecond. I discovered that it was slow
by about 10% compared to the wall clock, and slowed by a second 10% is I
moved the mouse vigorously while the timer was running. I've heard a rumor
that the Time Manager was rewritten in System 7.
--- David Phillip Oster --"Unix Version 7 was an improvement not
Arpa: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu --only over its predeccessors, but also its
Uucp: {uwvax,decvax}!ucbvax!oster%dewey.soe.berkeley.edu --successors."
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 89 09:34:08 CST
From: Larry Pickett <C4898%UMSLVMA.BITNET@umrvmb.umr.edu>
Subject: MultiLaunch controlling
Somewhere I've seen reference to a program which will control the number
of copies of a program present on a file server (AppleShare) that can
be used at one time. We have 13 Mac's on a net and have purchased
10 copies of MSWord. I can either create 10 separate copies on separate
server disks or use some sort of control program so everyone uses the
same server disk but we don't exceed our limit. Any information?
Acknowledge-To: <C4898@UMSLVMA>
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 89 17:20:53 EDT
From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@pica.army.mil>
Subject: Need XMODEM, or YMODEM, or ZMODEM source
Jeef(?) Smith <B609CSE%UTARLG@uta.edu> writes:
>Does anyone know where C source (preferably LSC 3) for
>XMODEM, or YMODEM, or ZMODEM is? No I am not writing
>YACTE, just a lit'l DA to automatically upload postscript.
I'd saved the following. Hope it helps...
tom c
>From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Subject: ZMODEM description and sources
The sources for "sz", an excellent Unix XMODEM/YMODEM/ZMODEM package, are
available for anonymous FTP on UUNET.UU.NET; they can be downloaded from
/usr/spool/ftp/comp.sources.unix/volume12/zmodem/part01.Z, part02.Z,
and part03.Z. Remember to download these files in binary mode... they're
compressed shar files.
A description of the ZMODEM protocol can be found on the MacCincy BBS;
I don't have its phone number handy, but Andy should be able to find it
in the FidoNet nodelist (it's actually located in Kentucky). Check
the telecom section; the protocol description is there, as is the
current version of ZTerm (a very nice X/Y/ZMODEM-capable terminal
emulator for the Mac).
[I believe the zmodem files from uunet.uu.net are also in info-mac/unix.
-Bill ]
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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 89 00:42:58 EDT
From: Michael Kazlow <KAZLOWF%PACEVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Resedit version 1.2
Apple has released new versions of Macsbug 6.1
and Resedit 1.2. Resedit 1.2 seems much faster
and more reliable than previous releases based
upon an initial evaluation. The only drawback
is it size. Its over 300K. But I guess all power
has its price. For those who use Resedit the new
version is a must!
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* From the computer of: Michael Kazlow (Bitnet: KAZLOWF@PACEVM) *
* Mathematics Department *
* Pace University *
* 1 Pace Plaza *
* NYC, NY 10038 *
* (212) 346-1451 STARTING JULY 1 *
* *
* Warning: The information contained herein maybe worth the *
* paper it was written on. *
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Acknowledge-To: <KAZLOWF@PACEVM>
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 89 16:36:56 CDT
From: James Beard MD <beard@wuibc3.wustl.edu>
Subject: Stat Packages
Can anyone provide help selecting a statistical package for use on the Mac? My
critical requirements are:
1) It must have some built-in time-related analysis procedures. By "time
related analysis" I mean the ability to detect shifts or patterns in some
variable that is recorded over time. I want to explore ways of dividing up time
into periods that are "interesting" because some outcome variable differs among
them.
2) Is extensible by programming to allow the development of tests and procedures
that are not built in. Preferably, the programmer should be able to use the
tools that the program itself uses to run its built-in procedures (not have to
write his own matrix inverter, for example).
Suggestions will be appreciated.
James Beard (beard@wuibc2.wustl.edu)
Institute for Biomedical Computing
Washington University
700 S. Euclid
St. Louis, MO 63110
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 89 10:26:05 EDT
From: gall@nexus.yorku.ca (Norman R. Gall)
Subject: SuperClock! version 3.3
Just a note: I've been using it for about 2 months (?) now and have
NEVER had a problem with ANY of the features (which I try to test out
when I get any software...) Maybe you guys have all gotten a corrupt
copy from the same source???
nrg
--
York University Department of Philosophy Toronto, Ontario, Canada
internet: gall@nexus.yorku.ca bitnet: gall@yorkvm1
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 89 08:27:46 PDT
From: PUGH@ccc.mfecc.llnl.gov
Subject: SuperClock 3.3
For the record, neither my SE/30 or my Mac II have problems with SuperClock
3.3 although I must say that I think the sound should be played asynchronously
like TimeKeeper does.
Jon
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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 89 02:12:20 PDT
From: David_Dalton@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: TeX previewer
I have tried the TeX previewer archived on sumex-aim.stanford.edu as
/info-mac/app/tex-preview.hqx, and found that it worked well on the
included sample 'DVI file'. However, I was unable to get it to read a DVI
file produced on a SUN. I intend to try decomposing the Macbinary DVI file
into data and info files, and combining the info file with a mainframe or
SUN produced DVI file to get a new Macbinary file. In case this doesn't
work or if there are complications, does anyone know how to convert a
truly DVI (device independent) file to a form readable by the previewer?
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1989 13:53 CDT
From: Frank Wu <IFRA%UMINN1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Update of Brown Univ. Term program needed
Does anyone know if is a new version of Brown University's Term program?
The 'tab' key doesn't seem to work when connected to our mainframe. I
am connected to a IBM 4381 running VM/CMS 5, with TVI950 selected as
terminal type.
P.S. I have version 4.36
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Date: 15 Jun 89 21:48:46 GMT
From: eleazar!boomer@dartvax.dartmouth.edu (Rich Akerboom)
Subject: UUCP for the Mac
Has anyone written a UUCP for the Mac? UUCP stands for Unix-Unix Communication
Program as I understand it. It provides for dial up connections between
Unix hosts and is the basis for USENET's dialup services (some of USENET
runs on the Internet). I am unsure of what services UUCP provides beyond
store and forward mail, but I believe there are several. Someone here in
New Hampshire told me that there was UUCP for many platforms and thought
that someone must have done this for the mac too.
If anyone has information, would they please respond to me directly as
I am behind on some of these groups and might miss the message. I will
summarize if the responses warrant it. Also if anyone can enlighten or
correct my understanding of UUCP, please feel free. Thanks
Rich Akerboom Internet: boomer@eleazar.dartmouth.edu
Usenet: decvax!dartmouth!eleazar (I think decvax knows
where dartmouth is!)
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