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Info-Mac Digest Mon, 1 May 89 Volume 7 : Issue 78 Today's Topics: A/UX Hard Disk backup ArcMac -- additional suggestions (DeltaSave ?) Chemistry CD-ROMs Combining .HQX Combining Large HQX files DIRectory 3.0 Demo and DIReader Facade Facade INIT installation Hebrew fonts? HyperCard Report Problem Iconia 7.0 Demo Initializing appletalk-ip routing using K-star/Kinetics Jasmine cdev problem with MultiFinder Macs and Ham Radio my sounds Need help installing Facade INIT UUCP for Mac Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa. The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous, any password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6]. Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu. Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 1 May 89 00:06:03 EDT From: Alexis Rosen <cucard!ccnysci!alexis@columbia.edu> Subject: A/UX Hard Disk backup Recently, Frank Peters asked about unix backups. There are a few backup products that will back up a partition image, but there is only one which will work under A/UX, doing true file-by-file backup. It is the Irwin DC2000 product. Currently it can do 120MB on a tape, but they should have a 300MB DC600 by this summer. I've played with this product quite a bit and it looks very very nice. You can have cron back things up for you at three AM, for example. The backup program takes command-line options, but if you invoke it with none it pops up looking like a real Mac app. It even uses color. These guys really seem to know what they're doing. When we get our A/UX box I have every intention of getting their tape, even though I'm usually a happy and satisfied MicroNet customer. BTW, they also have lots of other really neat products coming. Not to mention a few neat ones already shipping. --- Alexis Rosen alexis@ccnysci.{uucp,bitnet} alexis@rascal.ics.utexas.edu (last resort) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Apr 89 19:17 CDT From: "Sandro Corsi, Univ.of WI-Oshkosh" <CORSI@oshkosh.wisc.edu> Subject: ArcMac -- additional suggestions (DeltaSave ?) Don Gilbert asks for encouragement for his major ArcMac revision project -- so here's plenty of cheers for this most deserving of programming endeavour (especially now that StuffIt is apparently being taken commercial). I would also like to put forth a suggestion for an added feature. In fact, this is slightly off the mark -- but still related to archiving and compression. In my work, I often create several closely related versions of the same file. Some of these are bound for the trashcan, but some I want/need to keep. Since I work mostly with raster graphics programs, the typical file will be anywhere between 2 and 3 MBytes, and some can be quite a bit larger. Maintaining a thorough archive, therefore, is rather space-consuming and, since I have no alternative but to dump stuff to tape, also difficult to access. I have always wondered whether it would be possible to generalize the version-control systems available for source-code text files to arbitrary binary files, i.e. -- instead of saving version 154 all over again, compare it with version 153 and save the differences only. I imagine that in some cases it would be necessary to have some knowledge of the file structure, but in general a file is a file is a file -- and as long as you can piece it back together correctly, the originating application should have no problem reading it back. In graphics, besides saving vast amounts of space in files that are subject to frequent revisions (CAD being another example), it would also be helpful with repetitive kinds of imagery -- such as animation (each frame being only slightly different from the previous one). Analogous benefits could be had in fields other than graphics. Also, where necessary, this could facilitate keeping an audit trail. And, it would make for much more efficient use of write-once media. Ideally, such capability would be implemented within the standard Save file dialog box (possibly as an INIT which adds a "Save as delta" checkbox ?) But also a separate standalone application to compare and save files already on disk would be quite helpful. Is this entirely off the wall, or is there a chance of throwing it into the Great Archiving Cauldron ? Thanx for listening, anyway. Sandro Corsi Art Dept. Univ. of Wisconsin - Oshkosh Oshkosh, WI 54901 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Apr 89 19:20 CDT From: "Sandro Corsi, Univ.of WI-Oshkosh" <CORSI@oshkosh.wisc.edu> Subject: Chemistry CD-ROMs K360171%AEARN.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu (Norbert Mueller) writes: > We are currently searching for CD-ROMs with chemical oriented databases A company called "Bureau of Electronic Publishing" (in spite of the name, and their eagle logo, these folks are NOT a government agency) puts out a catalog of CD-ROM titles which includes the following: "Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Engineering" $3,100 "Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology" $ 840 "Powder Diffraction File" $5,900 "Registry of Mass Spectral Data" $2,645 Generally they specify an IBM PC as required equipment but -- as mentioned by Brian Bechtel in Info-Mac Digest V7 #76 -- if you did get the ISO 9660 / High Sierra software upgrade for your Apple CD SC, then there should be no problem in accessing these disks (of course, if they require special software to be searched, and the software only runs on PCs, then things are a bit more complicated). The Bureau ships the CDs in the catalog for an additional $5 fee (there is a 20% surcharge for foreign orders). Their address is: P.O.Box 43131 Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 (201) 746-3031 Sandro Corsi Art Dept. Univ. of Wisconsin - Oshkosh Oshkosh, WI 54901 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 May 89 9:39:28 EDT From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@PICA.ARMY.MIL> Subject: Combining .HQX #CARLS9%ccm.UManitoba.CA@forsythe.stanford.edu writes: >Is there an application that will automatically combine the large >.HQX files and strip the message headers? >If not, what do other's use? MS-Word or MacWrite? > >Thanks, >Charles > Look in the <info-mac> archives. There's a utility called Unity 1.0, which does just what you want. I think it is in the utility directory. As a suggestion, tho... Why mess around with downloading multiple segments of .hqx files? Combine them on your Internet host, using 'cat' for example, on a UN*X host. Then you only have to download one file. Or, to go a step further, (once again, assuming you run unix) and download xbin and macbin from <info-mac>. Compile them and use xbin to decode .hqx files into the three MacBinary file components. You'll get (from file.hqx): file.rsrc, file.data & file.info. Use macbin to combine those three into a Macintosh file. Benefits include, fewer files to download, smaller files to download (macbinary files are smaller than their .hqx representations), use of the processing power of your host to do the scutwork of file conversion. Disadvantages, of course; you gotta use the stupid command line syntax, unix file names must be used, etc. The files you get look like this. I ftp'd arcmac-13c.hqx from <info-mac>, then ran xbin and macbin on it... This is the file I started with: -rw-r--r-- 1 tcora fsa 176740 May 1 09:07 arcmac-13c.hqx Running xbin created these: -rw-r--r-- 1 tcora fsa 103670 May 1 09:14 ArcMac.ARC.data -rw-r--r-- 1 tcora fsa 128 May 1 09:14 ArcMac.ARC.info -rw-r--r-- 1 tcora fsa 25962 May 1 09:14 ArcMac.ARC.rsrc Running macbin created this: -rw-r--r-- 1 tcora fsa 129792 May 1 09:14 ArcMac.ARC.bin Note that the Macbinary file is ~73% the size of the .hqx file. Takes less time to download, that way. tom c ARPA: tcora@pica.army.mil -or- tcora@ardec.arpa [201] 724-4344 UUCP: ...!{uunet,rutgers}!pica.army.mil!tcora BITNET: Tcora@DACTH01.BITNET ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 May 89 09:34 EDT From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist) Subject: Combining Large HQX files Original Question: >From: #CARLS9%ccm.UManitoba.CA@forsythe.stanford.edu >Subject: Combining .HQX > >Is there an application that will automatically combine the large >.HQX files and strip the message headers? >If not, what do other's use? MS-Word or MacWrite? > >Thanks, >Charles My Response: On a VAX running VMS 5.0 I simply use the copy command to concat the various parts into one big file, which I then download using Kermit. It has worked most recently with Image-112-Part1 & Part2. Peter Jorgensen Microcomputer specialist Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346 AppleLink - U0523 BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Apr 89 23:15:55 -0200 From: sund@tde.lth.se (Lars Sundstr|m) Subject: DIRectory 3.0 Demo and DIReader New version of DIRectory 3.0 Demo - The icon-based disk catalog program. Also included - DIReader which is capable of reading documents created by DIRectory. DIRectory 3.0 Demo and DIReader are freeware. Please feel free to give it to anyone who wants a copy. [Archived as /info-mac/demo/directory-30.hqx; 213K] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Apr 89 19:43 EDT From: Josh Smith <JBS92@campus.swarthmore.edu> Subject: Facade You actually need to edit the Facade init itself. Use ResEdit to modify the ICN# resource of Facade; create as many ICN#'s as you like (or as many as the program can handle--don't know if there's an upper bound, but if there is it's above twenty at least), or modify old ones, or whatever suits your fancy. Once you've got some pictures you like, Get Info on a given ICN# and change that ICN#'s name to the name of the disk you want to have that icon. Restart your Mac with Facade in the system folder and voila! Note that since each ICN# can only have one name, if you want a single icon to be used for more than one disk, you'll have to duplicate it and rename the copy to the other disk's name. And, of course, if you change the name of a disk, you'll have to change the name of the ICN# or it will revert to the standard disk icon. Also note: the ICN#'s ID numbers are totally irrelevant, except that ID=128 is the icon it shows at startup to let you know the program is running. -Josh Smith JBS92@CAMPUS.SWARTHMORE.EDU or JBS92@SWARTHMR.BITNET ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 May 89 09:07:34 edt From: gateh%conncoll.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu Subject: Facade INIT installation Thanks to everyone who responded to my question concerning the installation of the INIT Facade - I was making the problem much harder than it needed to be. One note of which may be of interest, one which I didn't notice in the documentation: holding down the shift key when booting bypasses Facade - you get the Facade Failure icon during boot (the broken down buildings instead of the normal Facade Success icon, and your disk will mount with the standard icon. - Gregg *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* Gregg TeHennepe | Academic Computing and User Services Minicomputer Specialist | Box 1482 BITNET: gateh@conncoll | Connecticut College Phone: (203) 447-7681 | New London, CT 06320 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Apr 89 11:54:54 EDT From: Larry Kolodney <LKK@ai.ai.mit.edu> Subject: Hebrew fonts? Can anyone tell me of the existence or availability of Macintosh Hebrew fonts? I'm not on this list, so please mail directly. Thanks, larry kolodney lkk@ai.ai.mit.edu lkk@eddie.uucp lkk@mit-eddie.uucp ------------------------------ Date: Mon 01 May 1989 07:52 CDT From: GREENY <MISS026%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> Subject: HyperCard Report Problem Hi all....I was fooling with Hypercard 1.2.1 the other day and when I tried to print 43 copies of a report, it refused to do so, and only printed one copy. So I tried less than 43 -- say 2 -- and it still refused to do so. Needless to say, this is a real pain. Is there a bug fix for this? I'm using system 6.0.2, finder that goes with it...etc... Bye for now but not for long Greeny BITNET: MISS026@ECNCDC Internet: MISS026%ECNCDC.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Apr 89 23:14:50 -0200 From: sund@tde.lth.se (Lars Sundstr|m) Subject: Iconia 7.0 Demo Iconia 7.0 Demo Using Iconia is a fast and easy way to create application and document icons used by the Finder. Iconia performs resource compilation which makes the use of ResEdit superfluous when creating the bundle structure. New or modified icons are directly visible in the Finder, without rebuilding of the Desktop file. Icons can be copied from programs, be read from MacPaint documents or PICT files. The Clipboard and Scrapbook are fully supported. Features * Large icon and mask editor with preview. * Tool set in separate window. * Edit commands with multiple format support(ICN#, ICON, CURS, SICN and PICT) * Import of icons from any file(ICN# and ICON) * Import of any part of Paint/PICT files. * Decompile of complete bundle structure. * Compile directly to any file. * Support of application document icons. * Automatically uses aproppiate resource IDs for cdevs. * Complete version data editing. * Complete 'vers'-resource editing. * Automatic updating of Desktop file. * Default mask generation. * Online short manual for quick help. [Archived as /info-mac/demo/iconia-70.hqx; 92K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 May 89 05:50 EDT From: "John L. Jamison x8508" <JAMISON@campus.swarthmore.edu> Subject: Initializing appletalk-ip routing using K-star/Kinetics I have a user who needs to do an application layer network program to communicate between an IBM PC and an Apollo (HP?) Unix machine. He'll be using TCP/IP embedded within AppleTalk from an IBM-PC with a LocalTalk PC card to a Unix host using TCP/IP. The LocalTalk segment is connected to Ethernet using a Kinetics FastPath with KSTAR routing configured. Unfortunately he has no programmer's interface to AppleTalk or TCP/IP for the PC and handle the protocol himself. In fact, this is more or less the point of his Engineering project- to make the interface himself. (please no replies like "why the hell does he want to do this" :-) ) Has anyone done this? Anybody out there know how to do any of the following: (1) Initialize the IP routing of the FastPath- he'll be using a "static address" and must presumeably communicate with the FastPath II (FPII) so that it does IP routing for this appletalk node machine. (2) embed the IP packets within AppleTalk packets for net sends. (3) strip away IP packets from AppleTalk packets received. Any help would be greatly appreciated. John Jamison System and Network Manager Swarthmore College Swarthmore, PA 19081 jamison@campus.swarthmore.edu jamison@swarthmr.bitnet ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 May 89 12:36 MET From: Ed van Zon <V_ZON%AGRD04%HWALHW50.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu> Subject: Jasmine cdev problem with MultiFinder Hello Netlanders, Recently I purchased a Jasmine DirectDrive 100, and divided the disk into four partitions using the Jasmine software that comes with the drive. I arranged things so that two partitions are mounted automatically at startup, the other two must be mounted manually before they can be accessed. But strange things are happening when I use Jasmine's Control Panel device v1.2 under MultiFinder to mount the partitions. The moment the Finder displays the icon of the newly mounted partition, the Control Panel window disappears and everything freezes (even the interrupt button doesn't respond). Restarting is the only way to continue. It doesn't happen always; the first two weeks it didn't happen at all, but the problem seems to appear more frequently as time passes. Right now, it almost certainly goes wrong. There is no problem when using Jasmine's Driveware application, or when I startup with the Finder. Removing all other INIT's doesn't help one bit, so the problem narrows down to the interaction of the Jasmine cdev/INIT with MultiFinder. (I'm using System release 6.02.) Since I like to use MultiFinder and it would be very convenient to manage my partitions from the Control Panel, I would appreciate any suggestions to eliminate the problem. I would also like to hear if any of you encountered the same problem, or had no problem at all. Thanks in advance, Ed van Zon Wageningen, Netherlands. E-mail to: V_ZON%AGRD04@HWALHW50.BITNET ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Apr 89 22:46:13 ADT From: Peter J Gergely <GERGELY@[192.12.62.20]> Subject: Macs and Ham Radio Since the mail on Ham Radio and the Macintosh seems to have subsided, I would like to submit a 'Personal Digest' of all the mail that was received. Included below is the digest of all the ham radio and the macintosh messages that were received. Peter J. Gergely --------------- Gergely's Personal Digest (4/28/89 10:47:20) Responses to information on Ham radio and the Macintosh Today's Topics: get on list The Mac and amateur radio Re: Ham Radio and the Macintosh Mac's and Ham Radio ham radio and mac Re: Ham Radio and the Macintoshes Possible Mailing lists of interest [Archived as /info-mac/misc/macs-and-ham-radio.txt; 16K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Apr 89 02:17:12 EDT From: Loring Holden <hold_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu> Subject: my sounds Since I have gotten so much use out of the Sumex archives, I thought I would try to give something back in return. Below is a list of sounds that I have (over 200 sounds totalling about 15 meg). If you are interested in getting any please send me the name of the sound you want and the disk it is on... Also what prompted me to send this offer is that a friend at another site wants some of my sounds, and I thought it would be better to send them to Sumex for everyone to enjoy rather than just to him. The sounds are samples of the Phonemail anwsering service on the Rolm PBX system. Here and at Columbia Rolm is used, and I'm sure that other schools use it as well.. [Archived as /info-mac/misc/lorings-sounds.txt; 17K] [We will archive the most popular sounds here on sumex, so be sure to send Loring your votes. -Bill] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 May 89 8:37:40 EDT From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@PICA.ARMY.MIL> Subject: Need help installing Facade INIT To use Facade, you do have to hack resources. But not in the system file. Open Facade w/ RedEdit. Change the names of the various ICONs (or ICNs, I forget which) to match the names of your various hard disk partitions and floppy disk names. Then reboot and those disk will have those names! tom c Bill the Cat sez: "Remember. If some weirdo in a blue suit offers you some MS-DOS. JUST SAY NO!" ARPA: tcora@pica.army.mil UUCP:...!{uunet,rutgers}!pica.army.mil!tcora -or- tcora@ardec.arpa BITNET: Tcora@DACTH01.BITNET ------------------------------ Date: 30 Apr 89 11:20 -0500 From: Darren R Besler <dbesler@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Subject: UUCP for Mac Does anyone know about a program for the Mac that allows uucp file transfers and uucp mail transfers with Unix machines? ------------------------------ End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************