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Info-Mac Digest Thu, 6 Apr 89 Volume 7 : Issue 64 Today's Topics: [DCGQAL]GER.XSE0010!BroadCast 1.1 Catalog and Extent B*-Tree files Daffy's laugh Dead Dataframe 20 FTP to Mac FTP unSTUFFING problems Help: Disk editor needed. Mac II Diagnostic Sound program Message Box Command Recall Script More Cross Development Tools for the Macintosh Real fonts Space sound TKSOLVER ToMultiFinder 3.01 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: Wed, 5 Apr 89 04:17:38 PDT From: "DASnet" <XB.DAS@forsythe.stanford.edu> Subject: [DCGQAL]GER.XSE0010!BroadCast 1.1 BroadCast 1.1 fixes the bug, that causes it to crash occasionally while "answering" to a message. It also fixes a couple of other minor bugs. In case you don't know what BroadCast is for... BroadCast is a tool to exchange short messages between Macintoshs. It is installed by dragging it into the system folder on all Macs. To send a message, open the chooser and select first broadcast, then one or more recipients. Click OK and enter your message. You may select an icon to accompany the text. Voila. The receiver will get a dialog on his screen. The dialog shows the icon, text, the time the message was received, the sender and two buttons: OK and Answer. The answer is used as the direct path back to the sender without opening the chooser. There is a Columbia AppleTalk version available to REGISTERED USERS ONLY. It consists of a daemon that registers all the users of one box, and of a tool that allows unix users to send messages to other unix or macintosh users. BroadCast is shareware: it costs $25 per zone, or $100 per entire appletalk network. Send your money (check), and you'll receive the disk with all the files. Joachim Lindenberg, Sommerstrasse 4, 7500 Karlsruhe 1, West Germany GER.XSE0010@applelink.apple.com [Archived as /info-mac/init/broadcast-11.hqx; 28K] ------------------------------ Date: 5 Apr 89 21:09:00 CST From: "Sharbutt, Albert" <z3als@ttacs1.ttu.edu> Subject: Catalog and Extent B*-Tree files Help! My hard disk has been slowing down considerably lately. The fragmentation index according to Symantec Utilities was 1%, but I defragmented the disk anyway. There were large blocks of empty space on the disk, so the tune-up should have been very effective. However, the desktop update is still very slow (the desktop is only 154K). Using Fedit, I found out that the Extent B*-Tree and Catalog B*-Tree are each 495K. If my understanding is correct, these files have a record of every file you ever put on your disk, so temporarily storing and later erasing a large number of files (as I have done several times) adds a lot to the size of the tree files. Questions: 1) Am I correct in assuming that my system slow-down is due to the size and complexity of these tree files? 2) If so, does anyone know of a way to rebuild them? Rebuilding the desktop does not affect them. Thanks in advance for sending me your comments/suggestions! -Albert BITNET: z3als@ttacs1 INTERNET: z3als@ttacs1.ttu.edu THENET: ttacs1::z3als ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Apr 89 21:43:31 EDT From: djhill@rodan.acs.syr.edu ( Number_6 **) Subject: Daffy's laugh The beginnings of a series of digitized sounds from various sources including but no limited to: The Prisoner, Monty Python, Warner Bros. cartoons,... I have tried to digitized phrases which I have not seem digitized elsewhere so this should be all new. This file Daffy duck's famous nutty laugh. Douglas J. Hill - djhill@rodan.acs.syr.edu or RSDJH@SUVM [ BITNET ] or User #1 at Europa BBS (315)-426-8092 [Archived as /info-mac/sound/daffy-laugh.hqx; 20K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Apr 89 16:42:22 +0200 From: Sigurd Meldal <sigurd@eik.ii.uib.no> Subject: Dead Dataframe 20 A DataFrame 20 with XP prom has decided to die, seemingly because of a bad bearing (it heats up and never stabilizes). So the MicroScience disk has to be thrown out. Now we wonder - is it possible to mount another 20MByte harddisk, e.g. a SeaGate, in the DtaFrame chassis, using the SuperMac prom and power supply. We can get those cheaply, whereas buying a whole new DtaFrame seems such a waste. Any info would be appreciated. -- Sigurd ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 Apr 89 14:32:41 CST From: CB Lih <CL06076%UAFSYSB.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> Subject: FTP to Mac This is about problems transfering Simtel20.arpa binary files with FTP. I've found a way to do it on my equipment and perhaps this will apply to other situations. I'm going from simtel20 to CMS mainframe to Mac SE. First I open an anonymous connection to 26.2.0.74 (Simtel20.arpa). The tenex command isn't available to me so I use: TYPE l <--(lowercase l) 8 That's: type l 8 before attempting transfer. I then use Red Ryder 9.4 to download to the Mac. On the CMS side the only setting I enter is: SET FILE BINARY. On the Red Ryder side I use kermit (of course) with SPECIAL KERMIT ~Q HANDSHAKE selected (that's carat Q or control Q, whatever is above the number six in the number row). I also select RECOGNIZE AND CONVERT MACBINARY FORMAT FILES. Then it's just a send from CMS and a RECEIVE FILE -- KERMIT... on the RedRyder side. And it works! However, if I could get Kermit 0.9(40) to do it, that would be preferable. So... Please Alistair Milne, post that de-encapsulating program. Thanks. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =---> CB Lih <---= "Picked up for questioning." Macintosh Support BITNET: CL06076@UAFSYSB AppleLink: U0669 Phone: 501-575-2905 US Mail: ADSB 220, University of Arkansas 155 Razorback Road, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Apr 89 16:00:18 CDT From: "David Richardson, UT-Arlington" <B645ZAX@utarlg.arl.utexas.edu> Subject: FTP unSTUFFING problems In recent digests, there has been talk of ftp files not being recognized by stuffit. Someone (who?) downloaded it in MacKermit 0.90, looked at the file in MacSnoop, and found the information normally in the directory part of the disk. This same person extracted the "good part" of the stuffit file and ran it though stuffit ok, albeit with some grumbling of stuffit. *disclaimer: all of the above is from memory. Don't flame me on the digest. Diagnosis: It sounds as if your file was not processed correctly with Macbinary. Most modem programs, including Red Ryder and MacKermit (I think) are Macbinary- compatable. Perhaps you have Macbinary-detection disabled? Solution: Run Binhex5 (NOT binhex4) on the file. If the filename in the archive ended in .hqx, ignore the above. Running it through a de-binhexer (like in Stuffit) should result in an OK stuffit file. -David Richardson, The University of Texas at Arlington Bitnet: b645zax@utarlg Internet: b645zax@utarlg.arl.utexas.edu UUCP: ...!{ames,sun,texbell, <backbone>}!utarlg.arl.utexas.edu!b645zax SPAN: ...::UTSPAN::UTADNX::UTARLG::b645ZAX US Mail: PO Box 192053 PhoNet: +1 817 273 3656 (FREE from Dallas, TX) Arlington, TX 76019-2053 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Apr 89 11:38 N From: <KRAALING%HWALHW50.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> Subject: Help: Disk editor needed. Dear net, Is there a good public domain or shareware disk editor available from sumex-aim. Especially one that is capable of searching for byte sequences in the data fork. Thanks in advance. Daniel van Kraalingen Department of Theoretical Production Ecology Agricultural University of Wageningen The Netherlands kraalingen@hwalhw50.bitnet ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Apr 89 12:48:37 -0700 From: Lance Nakata <nakata@jessica.stanford.edu> Subject: Mac II Diagnostic Sound program This came across the net. It is the application that shows you what the various sounds a II makes when it boots and what problem the sound means. [Archived as /info-mac/sound/mac-ii-diagnostic-sounds.hqx; 8K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Apr 89 12:04:43 PDT From: PUGH@nmfecc.llnl.gov Subject: Message Box Command Recall Script Here is an improvement over a similar script I saw posted some time ago. It makes use of the doList XCMD which should be in the archives. I'll look and post it if it isn't. That part isn't mandatory though. What this does is keeps track of all the commands you type into the message box. { In all cases here, return and enter are equivalent. } When you press return, it logs your message (after checking to see that it is unique) and then executes it. If you have the Option key down then it cycles through your last commands until you find the one you want and either edit it or just execute it again. If you hold the Command key down then you are presented with a dialog box (courtesy of the doList XCMD) that has all the remembered commands for you to choose from. You may then edit or execute the one selected. The scripts are fairly simple, but they make use of a loop that can grow slow if you do a lot of commands on a Mac Plus, but I've never had that happen on the faster machines. The Mac+ is why I added the Shift key modifier to erase the log file though. I found that you seldom need to erase it as not many different commands pass through the message box. More often, I find myself doing the same command for a series of cards or backgrounds and it is easier to do it by hand once than write a script. I also agree with someone else I was reading that the message window should be multiline so you can do repeat loops and such in it. Share and enjoy! Jon >--- le script ---< on enterKey if parseMsg() then pass enterKey end enterKey on returnKey if parseMsg() then pass returnKey end returnKey function parseMsg global lastMsgs, lastNum, maxNum if lastNum is empty then put 0 into lastNum if maxNum is empty then put 0 into maxNum if the optionKey is down and the shiftKey is down then put empty into lastMsgs put empty into lastNum put empty into maxNum put empty return false else if the optionKey is down then if lastNum <> 0 then put maxNum into lastNum put line lastNum of lastMsgs subtract 1 from lastNum return false else if the commandKey is down and maxNum > 0 then put lastMsgs into junk repeat with i = 1 to the number of chars of junk if char i of junk is return then put "," into char i of junk end repeat if junk is empty then answer "You have no saved commands" return false end if doList "Execute","Cancel",junk,one get the result if it is not empty then put it return false else put true into newLine repeat with i = 1 to maxNum if the msg = line i of lastMsgs then put false into newLine exit repeat end if end repeat if newLine then add 1 to maxNum put the msg into line maxNum of lastMsgs end if put maxNum into lastNum return true end if end parseMsg ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Apr 89 23:47:07 PDT From: C43CJK%ENG1.gm@hac2arpa.hac.com Subject: More Cross Development Tools for the Macintosh I've located some more information about cross development systems for the Macintosh. o MPW IIgs - Cross Development System MPW IIgs Tools v.1.0 --- APDA# A77Z0012/B $50.00 includes linker and file transfer tools. Generates ProDOS 16 or ProDOS 8 load files. Makes object files into libraries, etc. MPW IIgs - Assembler v.1.0 --- APDA# A0005LL/B $100.00 actual assembler for five different incarnations of the 6502: 65816, 6502, 65c02, NCRCX02, and the Mitsubishi 740 microcontroller. MPW IIgs - C and Pascal Compilers $150 and $175 respectively. Full feature compilers that generate code for the 65816. (C Compiler - A7Z2001/B Pascal Compiler - A7G0032) o Memocom Univeral Cross Assembler An Editor and cross assembler for $299.00 Some months ago I spoke with the people at this company about their product, and I am impressed with the wide range of targets (from a single program): 32010 320c25 68000 64180 8086 68hc11 6301 8051 6805 1802 65816 6502 Super8 COP800 6809 8048 8096 8085 Z80 Z8 SMC4050 3870 7000 and a few others The one feature I want (which they don't have) is a linker. I asked about this and got the standard response: "We're considering several different enhancements". None-the-less, if you can live with reassembling the whole target every time, then this might be the program for you. I'm still waiting for the linker. Memocom Development Tools 1920 Arbor Creek Drive Carrolton, Texas 75010 (214) 446-9906 /----------------------+---------------------------------+---------------------\ | Craig Keithley | C43CJK@ENG1.GM.HAC.COM | | | GM DSO-SBO | C43CJK%ENG1.GM@HAC2ARPA.HAC.COM | | \----------------------+---------------------------------+---------------------/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 Apr 89 02:20 EST From: "R. Allen Jervis" <C78KCK%IRISHMVS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> Subject: Real fonts Has anyone been able to get the REALfonts init >From Diskworld to work at all? I've tried every thing from 3.2 -6.1 and on macs from 512- mac 2's I can't seem to hit the right combination. The documentation says that the system has to be 4.1 or newer, but it doesn't seem to make a whit of difference. The init is supposed to change the font menu so that the various fontnames are displayed in the fontstyle that they represent. A great idea! It should have been that way to start with! R.allen Jervis c78kck@irishmvs.bitnet ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Apr 89 20:58:31 EDT From: djhill@rodan.acs.syr.edu ( Number_6 **) Subject: Space sound This is a new digitized sound from a Warner Bros. cartoon - remember the little Martian guy. Digitized using MacRecorder 4/4/89. Douglas J. Hill - djhill@rodan.acs.syr.edu or RSDJH@SUVM [ BITNET ] [Archived as /info-mac/sound/space-modulator.hqx; 65K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 Apr 89 15:52:57 EDT From: "Anton R. Schep" <N410104%UNIVSCVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> Subject: TKSOLVER In a recent infomac digest there was a question about the availibility of TKSolver for the MAC in this country. The company (Universal Technical Systems) which markets TKSolver for the IBM, says they will bring out a new version of T KSolver for the Mac in a couple of weeks. You can contact them at (800)435-7887 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Apr 89 18:05:26 EDT From: siegel@harvard.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel) Subject: ToMultiFinder 3.01 This version of ToMultiFinder has a less confusing dialog; the "Use Attached" switch is now "Run Startups", and some other cosmetic changes have been made. R. [Archived as /info-mac/util/tomultifinder-301.hqx; 18K] ------------------------------ End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************