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Info-Mac Digest Fri, 5 May 89 Volume 7 : Issue 82
Today's Topics:
Copyfile XCMD
Getting file names from refnums
Helium????
HP DeskJet Driver
IBM-PC to Imagewriter II
Info-Mac Digest V7 #80
Joining text files
Printing code example
Promodem 2400
Screen savers and SPY!
Shrink-wrapped virus
Source Codes for INIT/CDEV's
Subject: Re: Info-Mac Digest V7 #81
Weird PageMaker Problem
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Date: Fri, 5 May 89 14:21 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist)
Subject: Copyfile XCMD
Greetings:
Can anyone give me some clue as to how to use the COPYFILE XCMD by J. Brad
Hicks (I believe)? I have tried the following syntaxes:
COPYFILE("file" "newfile") (returns "expected ")" but found " " ")
COPYFILE("file newfile") (the result is -2 (invalid queue element)
COPYFILE("file,newfile") ( ditto)
COPYFILE("Vol:file,newfile") (ditto)
And many other permutations of the above. Thanks alot... by the way, is this
xcmd in the archives, I did look for an example stack, apparently I threw out
the one from which I got this xcmd, after copying it into my Home Stack.
Thanks for your assistance,
Peter (helpless) Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
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Date: May 5, 1989 12:00 PST
From: dwb@apple.com
Subject: Getting file names from refnums
In article <17812@srcsip.UUCP> mnkonar@srcsip.UUCP (Murat N. Konar) writes:
>
>I am writing an INIT/cdev combo where the cdev and an INIT
>installed patch need access to the INIT file to read
>resources. Short of hardcoding the file name, how can I
>get the name of my INIT file from during INIT time for
>use later? Getting the file number is easy, but how
>do I use that number to re-open the file from inside a
>patch or cdev? I can't find any file opening routines
>that take this number as an argument, nor can I find any
>routines that take this number as an argument and return
>the name of the file. I know this must be possible since
>a number of cdevs seem to do this.
The following code (completely untested and written off the top of my
head) should do what you want. The code should also work for applications
if executed immediately upon entry, ie., before the application opens
any additional resource files. You'd have better luck in applications
if you replaced the call to CurResFile with CurApRefNum. CurApRefNum
is a short at 0x900.
OSErr GetMyFileInfo(short *myRefNum, char *name)
{
FCBPBRec pb;
pb.ioNamePtr = name;
pb.ioVRefNum = 0;
pb.ioRefNum = CurResFile(); /* get the refNum of the INIT file */
pb.ioFCBIndx = 0;
PBGetFCBInfo(&pb, false);
*myRefNum = pb.ioVRefNum;
return pb.ioResult;
}
Opinions: MINE, ALL MINE! (greedy evil chuckle)
David W. Berry (A/UX Toolbox Engineer)
apple!dwb@sun.com dwb@apple.com 973-5168@408.MaBell
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Date: Fri, 05 May 89 12:15:38 EDT
From: Kim Dyer <3C257F7%CMUVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Helium????
I downloaded some sound effects and appear to have a bit of a
problem. All but one appears to have been done in a helium
atmosphere ... EXTREMELY high and quick. Gotta be something
I'm doing. (I got ONE to play properly, but don't recall
doing anything different) Any suggestions? I'm referring
specifically to the various Warner Brothers FX available
here. (The one I got to work OK was non-WB ... Lizardo saying
"Laugh While You Can - Monkey Boy".)
I want to use them as a less mundane "start up" sequence ... but
Martin the Martian looses his impact at 78 rpm.
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Date: Fri, 05 May 89 13:21:26 EDT
From: "Collins, Herman" <SYSHERM%UKCC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: HP DeskJet Driver
I'm interested in the HP DeskJet driver that was mentioned here
recently, but I had some problems when I retrieved it. I FTPed it
>From Stanford to my VM machine, then to my Mac. I unpacked it in two
ways (BinHex/Packit and Stuffit), but the type and creator were garbage
in many (all?) of the files. In particular, I couldn't read the manual,
even after setting the type and creator and trying Edit, MacWrite, and
Words 1.0 and 3.0. Has anybody successfully retrieved this? I'm
particularly interested in the source; I don't have a DeskJet, but I
might be able to modify it to driver a funny plotter we have.
Herman Collins
128 McVey Hall Bitnet: SYSHERM@UKCC
University of Kentucky Internet: sysherm@ukcc.uky.edu
Lexington, Ky. 40506-0045 Phone: 606-257-2256
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Date: Thu, 4 May 89 16:58:38 pdt
From: burke%pepvax.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: IBM-PC to Imagewriter II
This is a delayed response to Jeff Wasilko's need to hook an Imagewriter II
printer to an IBM-PC (INFO-MAC v7 #74). I made a cable to mate the two so
long ago, today I had take the cable apart to see what I had done. Assuming
that you have a serial interface in the PC, the following should be helpful.
When I originally made the cable I consulted Apple's Peripheral Interface
Guide (pn 072-0213A) for guidance. This guide is very useful to help in
making strange cables for any of Apple products. The specifications for
the beast are as follows:
male din-8 end female db-25 end
-------------- ----------------
pin# 1 6 & 8
2 4 & 5 & 20
3 3
4 & 8 7
5 2
6 n/c ** All other pins are not connected.
7 n/c
I find that soldering on those little din-8 connectors is really hard, so I
just cannibalized an Imagewriter to Mac cable (pn M0187) to get the din-8
with a wire already on one end. I then soldered a female db-25 to the end I
had cut off. The alternative to this home grown approach is to buy the cable
to hook an Apple II Super Serial Card to Imagewriter II (pn A9C0314) and then
make a db-25 female to female gender changer that has this pin out:
female db-25 female db-25 end
Apple cable end IBM-PC end
--------------- ----------------
pin# 2 2
3 3
6 6
7 7
8 8
20 20 & 5 & 4 ** All other pins are not connected.
Besides the cable the IBM-PC will need to have the printer
output redirected by the following DOS commands:
C:\>MODE COM1:9600,n,8,1,p ** Assuming the PC has a hard disk
C:\>MODE LPT1: = COM1: ** and DOS is on the hard drive.
Another tip would be to set the dip switch SW-1-6, OPEN to get the
Imagewriter II to print at 10 cpi pitch (like default on Epson and
Okidata printers) not 12 cpi (the Imagewriter default pitch). Since
the Macintosh prints "graphics" not "text" in the BETTER or BEST
print mode, the switch setting will only effect the Macintosh printing
FASTEST mode whan the Imagewriters bulitin Courier font is used.
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Date: Fri, 5 May 89 10:00 CST
From: AEEVERETT%UALR.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #80
We here at UALR have recently acquired LaTeX software from DECUS which
includes a TeX to PostScript translator. There is a version of this
software for the PC, and I would like to see some manageable version
for the Mac.
While I'm at it, I might as well bring up the issue of pulling
TeX -> PostScript documents into a Mac application like PageMaker
as an EPS file.
Albert Everett
Academic Computing Services
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
bitnet: aeeverett@ualr
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Date: 5-MAY-1989 12:02:04.30
From: BPARSIA@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Subject: Joining text files
In addition to the Unity utility, I think that Stuffit (ver 1.51?) has a
"Join" (as well as "Split") command that will join text files. I believe
it is in the same menu as the Hexing/Dehexing and unpacking commands are.
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Date: Thu, 4 May 1989 16:11:09 PDT
From: William J. Lipa <lipa@polya.stanford.edu>
Subject: Printing code example
Here is a printing code shell I got off comp.sys.mac.programmer. It's supposed
to have code for some special cases that only trip you up 1% of the time.
[Archived as /info-mac/source/pascal/printing-example.txt; 9K]
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Date: Fri, 5 May 89 12:56:18 AST
From: JOAO CANDIDO PORTINARI <USERJCP%LNCCVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Promodem 2400
Hi:
I acquired a Prometheus ProModem 2400 and need your help to use it. I have no
User's Manual and would appreciate if anyone on the net could kindly inform me
on how to set the dip switches. Also, to which Hayes commands will it respond
(I tried AT&V, which on Hayes SmartModem 2400 gives you the complete
configurations, but the ProModem answered ERROR to that command).
Thanks!
Joao C. Portinari (USERJCP@LNCC)
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Date: Fri, 5 May 89 09:17 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist)
Subject: Screen savers and SPY!
Greetings:
Does anyone know of a screen saver that will blank out SPY!? (If you don't
know SPY!, and are a programmer, you should check it out. It continuously
displays, above the menubar, your startup volume's free space, the sizes of the
system heap, Application heap, and stack. It's free from Cricket Software,
(don't know if it's posted in the archives.)
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, 05 May 89 15:41:04 EDT
From: Anup Patel <patel@mitre.mitre.org>
Subject: Shrink-wrapped virus
Around the end of last year, I read in a magazine or E-Mail about a software
manufacturer who sent out brand new shrink-wrapped disks that contained a
virus.
Does anyone rember who it was, or can tell me where to find the information?
Thanks
Anup Patel
The MITRE Corp.
m20011@mwvm.mitre.org
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Date: Thu, 4 May 89 17:33 EDT
From: <BMEDIRAT%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Source Codes for INIT/CDEV's
Hello all,
I am an aspiring programmer with some good ideas, but I lack the
background in Macintosh software architecture. I would like to write INIT and
CDEV resources, but I need something to work with. Could somebody out there
who has written these types of resources publish some kind of skeleton program
(I'm using LightSpeed Pascal, but C is fine also) that I could use as a
guideline? It would be much appreciated.
Bharat Mediratta
BMEDIRATTA@COLGATEU
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro" - Hunter Thompson
By day, an ordinary college student...
...by night...an ordinary college student.
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Date: Fri, 5 May 89 11:48:03 PDT
From: John Peterson <jp@apple.com>
Subject: Subject: Re: Info-Mac Digest V7 #81
>
> Could someone tell me if Word 4.0 supports the following features?
> Automatic numbering of any arbitrary elements. (ie. Chapters,
> sections, sub-sections, tables, figures, equations...)
> Cross referencing of these elements by a user defined template.
> (ie. Equation 4.1, Table 3.1, Figure 2 on page 8)
> Citing from a user created bibliography database
>
> In short, I would like to know if word can do most of the things that
> Scribe does but on a mac. Not that I like Scribe, but it does handle
> large documents with lots of equations, citations, and cross references
> well.
>
No. What a turkey. Word 4.0's manual is actually thicker than
Scribe's (approaching 500 pages) yet it still doesn't have these basic
features. It does now have a mathematics mode, but the user interface
is a ghastly eqn/TeX like thing (e.g., ".\I.\SU(...") instead of something
like MathType or Milo.
I have seen kludgy bibliography databases for Word, implemented with
Hypercard and Word's "print merge" facility. It's not the real thing though.
FullWrite does real cross referencing, and a crude bibliography facility.
However, it's still not robust or complete enough to do the job right.
Stepping back, it seems really sad that after five years we still don't
have a WYSIWYG word processor with all the necessary features that
Scribe, LaTeX, or the Unix troff tools have.
As Brian Reid said, "What You See is All You've Got." Sigh.
Cheers,
jp
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Date: Fri, 5 May 89 09:04 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist)
Subject: Weird PageMaker Problem
Greetings:
Has anyone seen this one before?
I had several TIFF gray scale files to print. I placed one into a PM 3.01
document and printed the document. I did this first on a Mac II with 8bit
color, 5MB RAM running under MultiFinder (700K allocated to PageMaker), system
6.0.2. The printout, on a LaserWriter IINT was very nice, just as expected (I
let PM do the halftoning). Now I did the same process, same TIFF file, on a
MacII with 4bit Monochrome. Same LaserWriter, same system version, no
multifinder, 2MB RAM. The image prints out as if it were posterized, i.e.
fewer grays! PageMaker claims, and I believe them, that the gray scale
capacity of the monitor should have nothing to do with how a TIFF image gets
printed out. But what happened.
Any ideas?
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
P.S. I ended up printing all the files from the color MacII.
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