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Info-Mac Digest Fri, 28 Apr 89 Volume 7 : Issue 76
Today's Topics:
ArcMac 1.3c
Character Map 1.1
Color slide makers for the mac
Combining .HQX
Everex Educ. Discount
Info-Mac Digest V7 #75 (2 msgs)
Information about Script Manager
Jasmine DirectPrint
Need help installing Facade INIT
PICT and Ventura
RoboCop Sounds
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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 89 22:13:11 -0500
From: Don Gilbert <gilbertd@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Subject: ArcMac 1.3c
Attached is the current version (1.3c) of the shareware compression
utility ArcMac, which uses the MS-DOS/other standard
file compression schemes. ArcMac produces archives which
can be extracted by PKArc or Sea's Arc, and extracts such.
A simple de-archiver, ArcPop (to extract the compressed ArcMac),
and documentation are included.
direct from the author:
Don Gilbert
<BitNet> GilbertD@IUBACS <InterNet>GilbertD@Gold.Bacs.Indiana.Edu
PS. I've noted some talk about stuffit users asking for wild
card file handling. ArcMac has always featured command lines,
wild cards, and batch processing. If I find the time, there will
be a major upgrade to ArcMac this year to include .zip, .sit,
and .pit formats, binhex, MPW shell tool and Hypercard callable
forms. Those interested in such, send your encouragement my way.
[Archived as /info-mac/util/arcmac-13c.hqx; 177K]
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Date: Thu, 27 Apr 89 04:51 EDT
From: alanr@MEDIA-LAB.MEDIA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Character Map 1.1
Here is a further suggestion for charactermap. I use sonata font, which
is a 20 pt font. It would be good to have charactermap have a choosable
size, or to print in the smallest real font size above 9 pts, say.
Also, the new version seems to have some trouble displaying sonata and
other fonts. Only a few of the possible characters are displayed, mostly
just show a grey area. This did not seem to be a problem with the
earlier version.
Thanks for the great work, Guenther.
Alan Ruttenberg
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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 89 21:41:38 EDT
From: David Ascher <ST501649%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Color slide makers for the mac
Hi everyone.
Does anyone have any experience working with 35 mm color slide makers for
the Mac? Any info will be appreciated. If necessary, I will summarize
for the net. Specific use is creation of slides to accompany biology
talks. i.e., interface with a good drawing program (a la freehand) is
required. Prices, performance, support, operating costs, speed, all
is welcome! Thanks.
David Ascher
E-mail: ST501649@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (ARPANet/BITNet)
SnailMail: P.O. Box 3209, Brown University, Providence RI 02912
NewEnglandTelNet: (401) 863-6603
# include disclaimer.h;
Flames, mail, and love letters gladly accepted.
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Date: Thu, 27 Apr 89 19:56 cdt
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
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Date: Thu, 27 Apr 89 10:20:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: Lester Paul Diamond <ld0h+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Everex Educ. Discount
Everex is offering an educational discount on much of their equipment in the
EMAC line. This includes internal and external hard drives, tape units and
scanner. The discount is available to anyone associated with a university.
They seem to measure that by whether they can ship it to you at some university
address. In addition, if you can wrangle a purchase order number they will
ship to you and give you 30 days to decide to keep the unit.
Examples of prices are:
EMAC-40 Plus (19 ms access, external) $629 best mail order ~$800
EMAC-60 Impact (29 ms access, external) $695 best mail order ~$800
The 40 Plus uses a Quantum drive while the Impact series uses Epson drives.
The guy to contact is Gil Takemori at (800) 821-0806 Ext. 2585. He is
Associate Sales Rep.
Mention my name to him. It won't make a difference in price, but I think he
might be interested in seeing what kind of response this gets. I'd also
appreciate it if you could me a message too. I'd like to see how many people
pick up on this. I just happened on this deal, and I ended up getting the 60
Impact HD for a SE I use. Gil was extremely helpful, a pleasure to do business
with. He knows I'm posting this, but I'm doing it on my own initiative in
response to all the inquires about what drives to buy. By the way, the 80 meg.
Impact drive got a very good review in MacWorld this month and uses the
Quantum drive. It is $958 through this deal.
Lester Diamond
LD0H@ANDREW.CMU.EDU
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Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1989 06:13:29 PDT
From: goofy!apple.com!blob@apple.com (Brian Bechtel)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #75
In article <8904262114.AA04269@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
K360171%AEARN.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu (Norbert Mueller) writes:
> We are currently searching for CD-ROMs with chemical oriented databases,
> in particular we would like to know if there are any plans to publish
> data collections like the cambridge crystallography data file or the
> brookhaven protein data base on CD ROM and if these will be in a Mac-
> readable format.
I can't comment on whether they'll be usable, but almost every CD being
published today for MS-DOS or VMS is in High Sierra or ISO 9660 format.
Both of these formats are completely readable on the Macintosh; by
default, all files appear as plain text files with a creator of 'hscd'.
This allows anybody to write a program to do useful things with such a CD.
(If you have a file that needs it, you can add Mac type, creator, and
finder flags, using our extensions to ISO 9660; contact me for further
details.)
As an example, NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has
published a couple of CDs of scientific images. A person at JPL (Jet
Propulsion Laboratory) has written a Macintosh program to read VICAR
images and display them. Presto, it works with the NASA CD.
--Brian Bechtel blob@apple.com "My opinion, not Apple's"
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Date: Thu, 27 Apr 89 08:57:06 MDT
From: "Bruce A. Carter" <DUSCARTE@idbsu.idbsu.edu>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #75
Regarding the questions about 32-bit Color Quickdraw, the patch file and
a new LaserWriter driver are available now on AppleLink. They should
show up shortly at dealers (and if you need them badly, all dealers have
access to AppleLink and can download them for you).
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Date: Thu, 27 Apr 89 09:11 U
From: <JINTEIK%ITIVAX.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Information about Script Manager
> Does anyone know any articles, references etc. where an account of
>APPLE's SCRIPT MANAGER For NonRoman Scripts is given. I am looking for
>a description of Script Manager capabilities in order to decide whether
>to buy it or not to build an Editor for Indian Languages. So, please let
>me know if you know of any such documentation before I enrich Apple with
>my order. Thank you.
You can get the Script Manager Developer's Package from APDA. The order
number used to be KMSSMD before APDA was taken over by Apple. I don't think
Apple has an Indian System yet but you could check with them. You can
contact them on AppleLink on APDA. You should be able to send them mail
through the net at APDA.apple.com I think.
>DESIKACHARY,K
>Whiteshell Nuclear Research DESIKACHARYK@WNRE.AECL.CDN
>Pinawa, MB ROE 1LO
>(204)753-2311 EXT 3062
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J.T. Teh
Systems Engineer / Macintosh Developer
Information Technology Institute
NCB Building, 71 Science Park Drive, Republic of Singapore 0511.
BitNet Address: jinteik@itivax.bitnet
Internet Address: jinteik%itivax.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Disclaimer: "My opinions are mine! All mine!" (Merry chuckle!)
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Date: Thu 27 Apr 89 11:17:07-MDT
From: Alan S. Lichty <Lichty@science.utah.edu>
Subject: Jasmine DirectPrint
I posted a request for information about the Jasmine DirectPrint LCD
printer and promised a summary of the responses. Email has dwindled
down, so I guess its time to summarize. Many of the responses
requested that I not include personal names, corporate names, or
direct quotes, so I will have to paraphrase the text as best I can.
Many thanks to those who took the time to respond. Your opinions and
feedback have been taken into account and are greatly appreciated.
When I first posted my request, I was unaware that the Jasmine
printer uses a postscript clone RIP rather than a controller by Adobe.
For my own purposes, I must admit that I am unwilling to purchase one
of these clones instead of "the real thing" unless the price
differential is considerably more than is the case here. Since we are
at a university with consortium pricing, we are going to purchase an
Apple Laserwriter II NT based on the advice of several respondents.
So much for our decision - here what feedback I got:
The print engine is a Casio LCD. Qume is OEMing the machine to
Jasmine, so much of what follows applies equally to Qume's
Crystalprint product.
1) Since the Jasmine printer uses postscript clone technology, much of
the discussion revolved around whether font scaling was actaully
possible given the encription scheme Adobe uses for the 'hints' to get
better resolution. According to one respondent, Adobe fonts cannot be
used with this printer. For anyone who has an investment in
downloadable fonts, this isn't a trivial problem. The printer comes
with (clones of) the standard 35 LaserWriter fonts. I cannot make
conclusions about the clarity and smoothness of the output since I
haven't actually seen an example. The feedback from respondents was
mixed - "respectable" was an often used descriptor, but noone claimed
that the font clarity was indistinguishable from an Adobe
interpreter's output.
2) Tangled with the font clarity issue is the debate over true
postscript vs. postscript compatable controllers. The responses
almost bordered on a religious war. There were those who swore by the
Wietek chip and its speed whilst having no complaints about smoothness
and clarity and these responses were contrasted with those who
wouldn't even consider the clone technology unless there was at least
a $1000 price difference. One correspondent has tried using this
printer with unix machines and the like and reports that the
postscript compatability is very good.
3) The Weitek chip is apparently FAST. At least one satisfied user
claims at least 5 times the speed of a Laser NTX in complex graphics
output. This user has 3 megs of RAM on his printer. Some responses
suggested that the printer comes with only 1 Meg, but can support 3 as
an option. I don't know whether the claim for speed is dependent on
the purchase of extra RAM.
4) The paper tray was a problem child for all - it only holds about
100 sheets - and there are no third party paper feeders such as those
for the LW II. Not too bad for a personal printer, but a fatal
problem for an office with high throughput.
5) Since most all of the discussion of LCD printers was limited to
almost identical machines (postscript clones) I was not able to tease
out just how good LCD technology might be if a true postscript
interpreter was onboard.... this could make for an interesting
discussion at another date.
6) Toner replacement is quite different than the cartridges for Cannon
engines. The "toner pack" consists of an imaging drum and 3 toner
reservoir cartridges. It was pointed out that this scheme could
potentially lead to messy toner spills although no one claimed to have
suffered this fate (yet). Blacks are described as "very black".
That's the jist of the info I received - quite frankly if I were to
consider such a machine, I would spend a lot of time examining output
>From the various offerings with some text and graphics of my own
choosing. It appears that there is a great deal of personal judgement
involved in the issue of clarity and smoothness of the final product
and long-winded discussions of how the various products compare doesn't
really answer the final question.
Alan S. Lichty
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Date: Thu, 27 Apr 89 09:51:30 edt
From: gateh%conncoll.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Need help installing Facade INIT
Ok, after two evenings I'm ready to say uncle.
I've been attempting to install Facade, a little INIT by Greg Marriott which
allows you to customize your disk icons. The help file which accompanies
Facade gives the following instruction:
> Place named ICN#s into the INIT file for each volume you want to dress
> up.
I'm assuming that this means ResEditing the INIT resources of your System
file - I've tried a few things, but to no avail. Is there anybody out
there who can give me a more detailed set of instructions for installing
Facade? Any help would be _much_ appreciated. - Gregg
(Running Mac II, 6.0.2, MultiFinder, 4-bit color, host o' INITs and CDEVs)
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Date: Thu, 27 Apr 89 10:45:05 CDT
From: hyde@ngstl1.csc.ti.com (Clint Hyde 343-7709 Strong Typing is for people with Weak Memories!)
Subject: PICT and Ventura
I'd like to read some PICT files into Ventura (yeah, I know that's on a PC)
but it fails. I copied the files from Mac to PC using Kermit in binary mode,
(which seems to be right for paint files). is there something special I
should do? or is there a better way to transfer the files?
-- clint
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Date: 27 Apr 89 04:05:34 GMT
From: Rob Elkins <relkins@vax1.acs.udel.edu>
Subject: RoboCop Sounds
Enclosed is a fine collection of digitized sounds from the film RoboCop,
These are classics such as
"Dead or alive, you're coming with me!"
"Dick, You're FIRED!"
"Stay out of trouble."
The ED209 shutdown sequence (makes a great shutdown sound)
the sequence from NukeUm, (another quality home game from Butler Brothers)
as well as others.
[Archived as /info-mac/sound/robocop-various-part1.hqx; 150K
/info-mac/sound/robocop-various-part2.hqx; 150K
/info-mac/sound/robocop-various-part3.hqx; 153K]
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