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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 6 Jun 89 Volume 7 : Issue 100
Today's Topics:
1 Mbyte SIMMs
2 Questions
3270 access for networked Macs
Amateur Astronomy Software for the Mac
APPLE TAKES A BIG BITE FOR FREEDOM
Bad Disks
Bibliography programs
Broadcast receive only
Converting sounds
FAA DUAT flight briefing seems to like IBM
FullWrite footnotes
Interpoll & the SE/30
Micah Storage Systems
Objects-in-C 1.02
PICT info needed
SetClock2.sithqx
SuperClock 3.3 bug
Undigestifier
Use MacsBug 6.x on SE/30s
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Date: 01 JUN 89 15:41:25
From: DERIDDER%SARA.NL@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: 1 Mbyte SIMMs
Hello
At our department we have developed a 1 Mbyte SIMM.
Does anyone know a place in EUROPE were we can obtain
printed circuit board with a thicknes of 1.3 mm (1/20").
Kees.
Free University,
Chemical Dept.,
de Boelelaan 1083,
1081 HV Amsterdam,
the Netherlands.
tel.: (0)20-5485347
DERIDDER@SARA.NL
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Date: Mon, 05 Jun 89 18:14:38 EDT
From: Greg Mouning <GAM%YALEVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: 2 Questions
> Could someone please tell me how to disable the Cover page that the
> Laserprinter IInt prints out each time you turn it on?
>
The following postscript commands work for me using an Apple Laserwriter Plus,
I don't have a Laserprinter IInt to try it out with.
000000
serverdict begin exitserver
statusdict begin
false setdostartpage
I use the MSWORD 3.02 program and save the above lines as a "TEXT ONLY" file.
Then I use the SENDPS utility to download it to the laserwriter and the next
time I power on the machine the cover page no longer prints.
In order to start the cover page again change the "false" to "true" and the
next time you power on the laserwriter the cover page will begin printing
again. Please post this in the archives, thanks.
Sorry I don't any experience with CAD/CAM programs.
Acknowledge-To: <GAM@YALEVM>
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Date: 1 Jun 89 10:37 EST
From: WMLBTAM%UCCCVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: 3270 access for networked Macs
Does anyone out there have any information on black boxes which might sit out
on an ethernet and "serve" 3270 terminal communications over the network to
distributed Macintoshes? We'd like to avoid having 9 Mac workstations each
have to have their own coax pulled from a controller to the workstation and
its associated MacIRMA/MacMainFrame board, by having a multiport
connection from the Ethernet to the controller and having the Macs access
the Ethernetted multiport device. I think such things exist for pcs on an
Ethernet; how about for Macs?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Ted
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Date: Thu, 1 Jun 89 22:43:11 PDT
From: nardi@cs.nps.navy.mil (Peter Nardi)
Subject: Amateur Astronomy Software for the Mac
Could anyone recommend a good astronomical program for the
Macintosh. I would like to be able to perform time conversions,
calculate RA & DEC for celestial bodies and various other useful
amateur astronmer calculations.
Two programs I've read about in Sky & Telescope Magazine
are: "Voyager, the Interactive Desktop Planetarium" and "Sky
Travel Planetarium by Deltron". Does anyone have any experience
with these programs, or know anyone that does? Any help would be
greatly appreciated.
Thanks for your time.
-=<Pete>=-
Pete Nardi
nardi@cs.nps.navy.mil
Naval Postgraduate School
Monterey, Ca.
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Date: Thu, 01 Jun 89 18:20:36 CST
From: robert font <NCUT012@TWNMOE10>
Subject: APPLE TAKES A BIG BITE FOR FREEDOM
Don't you remember our hope that Apple and the personal computer could
help take humanity across the big step towards freedom of communication
between all men everywhere. Now Apple has the chance to really get their
message across if they still have the guts and feeling that made us Apple
users into almost religious fanatics.
Now is the time to act. Now is the time to show the world where our
idealism and our hearts really are. Princeton this morning contributed
$200,000 towards buying computer equipment so that Tienanmen students can
establish a computer network and publish a newspaper.Let's encourage Apple
to stand up and take a bite for freedom. So please send this message:
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: Rumor: Apple takes a big bite for freedom by donating :
: one millon dollars of computer equipment to the :
: students in Tienanmen Square. :
: LONG LIVE APPLE AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND PRESS! :
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Date: Wed, 31 May 89 19:20:32 PDT
From: Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: Bad Disks
> "...Usually, all files can be recovered with First Aid Kit or SUM,
> but the disk can not be reinitialized..."
If a disk really is physicaly damaged, then you certainly may not
be able to format it. But I thought it might be worth mentioning
that occasionally disks can get screwed up in such a way that the
Finder rejects them without providing the dialog to let you format
the disk. In this case, you can usually format the disk with a
formatting program like "Fast Formatter".
Fast Formatter is archived as /info-mac/util/fastformat.hqx
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Date: Thu, 1 Jun 89 16:28 AST
From: Stan Armstrong <ARMSTRONG%HUSKY1.STMARYS.CA@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Bibliography programs
What has your experience been with bibliography programs? Is
there a clear winner? What shareware is available? Are the
commercial programs worth the price? What about Hypercard
programs? My own interest is for scholarship in the humanities,
but the experiences of people in the sciences may be helpful to
others. If you will Email to me, I will summarize to the net.
Thanks.
Stan Armstrong.
Religious Studies Dept
Saint Mary's University
Halifax, N.S.,CANADA, B3H 3C3
(902)420-5866
USENET: att!clyde!watmath!water!dalcs!armstrng
BITNET:ARMSTRONG@STMARYS.BITNET
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Date: Thu, 01 Jun 89 10:49:32 MDT
From: Bob Bolt <BBOLT%UALTAVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Broadcast receive only
A couple of weeks ago, I saw a message that requested information on how
to make Broadcast 1.1 receive messages but not allow messages to be sent.
I have discovered a way to do exactly that. All you have to do is change
the file type from RDEV to INIT. Doing this will prevent the icon for
Broadcast from appearing in the Chooser. Anyone with an unaltered copy
of Broadcast can send messages to any computer on the network with
an original or modified version. Those with the altered version cannot
respond in any way. Use ResEdit or any other similar utility to change
the file type. We have been using this in our lab to notify students
of lab closing times and other information.
Bob Bolt
Micro Labs Supervisor
University of Alberta
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Date: Mon, 5 Jun 89 21:05:58 PDT
From: David Lu <jetson@portia.stanford.edu>
Subject: Converting sounds
Recently, I tried my hand at unloading sound files (via FTP) from
info-mac. However, I am having problems converting them to usable files.
I must be using the wrong procedure, so could you please let me know
how to do this? Any help is greatly appreciated.
jetson@portia
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Date: Fri 02 Jun 1989 00:45 CDT
From: <MSER001%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: FAA DUAT flight briefing seems to like IBM
This September, the FAA is starting to phase in more of the Automated Flight
Service System. This will allow people with a Pilots License to call a 1-800
number to gather flight information. The smart FAA has brought three vendors
into the arena for the DUAT(Direct User Access Terminal System). Among these
are:
Contel Federal Systems 800-345-DUAT
DataTransformation Corp 609-228-3232
Lockheed DataPlan, Inc. 800-767-DUAT or 408-866-7611
This allows the pilot to get weather briefings and allows flight plans to
be filed in the FAA's computer system via modem (hopefully >300&1200).
The reason I am even bothering with this, is a quote from AOPApilot (Aircraft
Owners and Pilots Association) by Marc E. Cook. "Moreover, computers capable
of receiving basic text over the modem (such as the Apple Macintosh, which
otherwise doesn't generally talk to IBMs) also can gain access to DUAT."
Now...think of all the pilots that know absolutely nothing about computers.
Ah...I better get an IBM since it talks to the FAA's IBM 9020 Air Route Traffic
Control Center and automated flight service stations.
Now, if Apple would just spend a some of its $15 million Desktop Media Blitz
on trying to do more with the DUAT market. I would much rather parse "FRM
DCA TO 20NE BWI TO 10SW HAR TO AGC TO CKB TO IAD TO DCA ....." on my Mac,
rather than my IBM. And, I would much rather have the graphics on my mac
than my Heavy 20ton IBM pc(since my mac goes home with me every night).
Quote from Dan Woods of Lockheed. re: graphics. "... Software for the
Macintosh is next." Notice next...when is next? All the pilots will have
IBM's by then. Is it just too hard for them to write for the Mac, or do
they feel the market is IBM?
Sorry for the apparent divergence from the subject...but this is an EXTREAMLY
IMPORTANT step the FAA is taking, and it seems to be IBM oriented from
what press I have seen. Of course all EGA graphics can be converted, and
lucky I can write my own parsers...and have the full current FAA Airport and
Navaid Database. But feel sorry for those poor lost pilots that don't, and
also have a Macintosh.
Scott Hutinger
I know Apple has some Pilots in its mists...hmmm laptop IFR macintosh?
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Date: 01 JUN 89 09:50:22 CST
From: Z4648252 <Z4648252%SFAUSTIN.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: FullWrite footnotes
In spite of my curling up with the two manuals and digging through
every reference that I could find, I have yet to find a way to
standardize end-of-page footnotes. Specifically, I'm referring to the
number, not the footnote body.
When customizing FullWrite footnotes, the user is presented with
many options for changing the footnote number that is within the text
body, however, there is no way of killing the period and superscripting
the footnote number at the end of the page.
Am I missing something? Is it something so simple that I'm going
to feel stupid when the solution is found? Please say 'yes'.
Larry Rymal <Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET>
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Date: Wed, 31 May 89 17:02:33 EDT
From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@pica.army.mil>
Subject: Interpoll & the SE/30
We've gotten our first SE/30 in (finally), and it seems to be working well.
The only niggling little problem we have is with Interpoll. The SE/30 shows
up in the search window ok, but isn't listed as such. Rather, it appears as
a Mac II! I added the SE/30 (as well as Mac IIx & Mac IIcx) strings to
Interpoll resources ID=101 & 102, but it made no difference. We're using
Interpoll v1.0. Any suggestions?
tom c
"What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?"
ARPA: tcora@pica.army.mil -or- tcora@ardec.arpa
UUCP: ...!{uunet,rutgers}!pica.army.mil!tcora BITNET: Tcora@DACTH01.BITNET
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Date: Thu, 01 Jun 89 11:52 CDT
From: BATE%ccm.UManitoba.CA@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Micah Storage Systems
I purchased a hard disk from Micah Storage Systems about a year ago,
and it failed. I returned it to them for warranty repairs, and have
never seen it again. Apparently Micah went under shortly after I
shipped them the drive, but the courts, Better Business Bureau,
Consumer Affairs, etc. seem to know nothing about it. Can anyone out
there tell me what became of Micah? A late-night flight to Mexico,
perhaps? -John Bate <bate@ccm.UManitoba.CA>
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Date: Thu, 1 Jun 89 09:40:32 EDT
From: Gavin_Eadie@um.cc.umich.edu
Subject: Objects-in-C 1.02
This is the shareware, explorer's release of a portable
object-oriented programming environment for the C pro-
gramming language. The kit contains the complete objects
environment, a bunch of simple, but useful demo classes
and this, EXPERTS ONLY, documentation - enough for ex-
perienced C programmers that know something about object-
oriented techniques to take advantage of them in the
excellent C environments now on the Mac.
It is supplied as a verion 3, LightSpeed C project but
the source files are simple text files that should be
readable by any of the Macintosh C compilers.
The full release will come with complete documentation
and an EXTENSIVE set of classes for developing Mac
applications - a persistent object store, a complete
Model-View-Controller system for accessing the Mac
toolbox, 2D & 3D PHIGGS-like imaging spaces integrated
with the MVC system, a polymorhpic, object-oriented
spreadsheet system, and an embeddable Common Lisp
subset interpreter with OIC interface.
[Archived as /info-mac/lang/objects-in-c.hqx; 104K]
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Date: 31 May 89 19:53:00 GMT
From: cg-atla!haigis@decvax.uucp (Brad Haigis)
Subject: PICT info needed
I am developing a translater to convert PICT and PICT2 format files
into our draw format and am having trouble finding
detailed meanings for many sub-opcodes (comments) that are produced
in MacDraw 1.1 and MacDraw 2. Many of these sub-opcodes are
undocumented in the Inside Macintosh manuals as well as the Mac
Technical Notes. There are also many opcodes whose
description in our Mac notes is ambiguous.
I am looking for any type of help/advice. APDA had nothing of
any use.
Thanks
--
Brad Haigis
Agfa Corp, Agfa Compugraphic Division (508) 658-5600 x5339
Wilmington MA. ulowell!cg-atla!haigis
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Date: Tue, 23 May 89 15:53:57 EDT
From: Peter Jones <MAINT%UQAM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: SetClock2.sithqx
Is it possible for an IBM-PC or other machine to access the MAC set clock and
be able to set its time by emulating the MAC's protocol, when it runs
SetClock2?
Peter Jones MAINT@UQAM (514)-282-3542
"All's well that ends." :-)
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Date: Wed, 31 May 89 21:48:19 PDT
From: Jon Newman <newman@portia.stanford.edu>
Subject: SuperClock 3.3 bug
Date: Wed, 31 May 89 09:45:31 CST
>From: d.m.p.@pro-party.cts.com (Don Peaslee)
Subject: Bug in Superclock 3.3
>Jon Newman writes:
>"I think I have found a bug in SuperClock 3.3. When I clear the check box
>for the new "chime" item, my Mac crashes." (etc...)
>
>Are you using the GateKeeper CDEV, Jon? If so, it will cause the problem you
>mention.
Yes, I suppose it would. Sorry, though, GateKeeper crashed everything I have
and I dropped it from my system long ago. By the way, I have received one
confirmation of SuperClock's bugginess, although I still can't guarantee the
problem is not incompatibility with some random INIT.
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Date: Fri, 02 Jun 89 18:17:50 IST
From: "Jonathan B. Owen" <GDAU100%BGUVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Undigestifier
Does anyone know of an undigestifier which runs on an IBM or preferebly
on a Mac. For those of you who never the term undigestifier before,
it is a program that breaks up a digest, such as the one you are reading
now, into individual files, each containing only one letter.
Also, I would be very interested in hearing about the street-price of
swapping an SE logic board with an SE/30.
Thanx,
Jonathan
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Date: Thu, 01 Jun 89 10:48:48 CST
From: Michael Hanrahan <C09615MH%WUVMD.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Use MacsBug 6.x on SE/30s
In the last digest, I posted a question about a problem with MacsBug
(version 5.4) on the new SE/30 machines. I received direct responses
>From Scott Hutinger, John Watlington, and Herman VandenBoom and
all three stated that a newer (6.0) version of MacsBug works properly
on the SE/30 (and presumably on the IIcx).
Just thought I'd let the net know... (Thanks Scott, John, and Herman!)
Michael Hanrahan
Educational Computing Services
Washington University
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