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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 21 Feb 89 Volume 7 : Issue 36
Today's Topics:
ANTI virus report
External Floppy Drive w/MacII
Frame Grabbers
help ...
Help system (for including into programs)
Info-Mac Digest V7 #29
Info-Mac Digest V7 #35
Journalling Mechanism
Laserwriter NT bug...
Menstat 1.0B1 (part 1 of 3)
MicroEmacs again.
more Mac graphing
No multi-launch under 6.0.2
Printing Postscript Files on the Sun
THINK Pascal 2.0p1 Updater
TML Pascal II 3.0 vs. Lightspeed Pascal 2.0
XFCN to see whether bitmap exists?
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Date: 17 Feb 89 2:42 +0100
From: Danny Schwendener IDA <macman@ifi.ethz.ch>
Subject: ANTI virus report
This is a report on the ANTI Virus. For any information, please contact
me directly at the following address:
Danny Schwendener
ETH Macintosh Support, ETH-Zentrum, m/s PL, CH-8092 Zuerich, Switzerland
UUCP: macman@ethz.uucp BITNET: macman@czheth5a.bitnet
Internet: macman@ifi.ethz.ch AppleLink: macman%czheth5a.BITNET@DASNET#
[Archived as /info-mac/virus/anti-info.txt; 8K]
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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 89 22:35:40 GMT
From: PMIDS%FRPOLY11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Subject: External Floppy Drive w/MacII
In a recent posting, Gregor_Rittinger@um.cc.umich.edu asked
> I just got a MacII in my office, right in the place it always
> should have been. There's just one problem: it takes too much space!
> ... After I
> had formulated this great plan to put an external floppy on the
> desk, too, I realized that that was not possible. How lame!
He asked how to make a longer cable.
I have a similar problem, and would like to know how long cables
can be for the monitor as well as a floppy. Does the image quality
degrade with a longer cable? There is no room on my desk, nor under
it, nor in my tiny room ... I am thinking about hanging it all from
the rafters (the 18th century or whatever rough hewn wooden beams
which help make the real estate so cher ...). I want to run cables
3-4 meters for the monitor, disk drive, ADB. Actually, I was just
thinking about taking out the internal drive and replacing the ribbon
cable with a longer one, sort of rolled up and tinfoil covered (OK,
its kludgy, its cheap, but with this rent ...) Any limits on, any
experiences with long cables?
Thanks,
Darrell Skinner Paris (not Texas)
I(nformatique)-Mail: PMIDS@FRPOLY11.BITNET (PMIDS@FRPOLY11.EARN in Europe)
E(scargo)-Mail: Labo. PMI / Ecole Polytechnique / 91128 Palaiseau France
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Date: Sun, 19 Feb 1989 19:58 -
From: Fereydoon Family <PHYFF2%EMUVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Frame Grabbers
I am trying to put together an image analysis system for studying patterns in a
physics related experiment. The heart of the system has to be a frame grabber.
I would appreciate hearing from people who have been using frame grabbers.
As far as we can tell, there has been no review of frame grabbers in the
standard mac magazines. I also like to know what monitor and cameras you
are using with them. Thanks.
--Fereydoon Family (PHYFF2@EMUVM1)
Physics Dept., Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322
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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 89 01:45:17 EST
From: Ravi.Anupindi@isl1.ri.cmu.edu
Subject: help ...
I have a microexplorer system. I tried to install the vaccine utility
(public domain) but failed. When I (re)start the system with the vaccine
in my system folder, it bombs - gives a system error (ID = 01). Does anyone
know what the problem is???
Thanks,
Ravi Anupindi@isl1.ri.cmu.edu
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Date: 16 Feb 89 22:37 EST
From: STERRITT%ARISIA.decnet@ge-crd.arpa
Subject: Help system (for including into programs)
Hello,
This is R. Fronabarger's 'Help System', which is a stuffed,
binhex'd file consisting of a sample program, the program source, and
the source for the help system as a LightSpeed Pascal 2.0 Unit.
The demo program is the documentation for the system; the idea
is that the code gives you the capability of topical help. It
brings up a dialog box with a scrolling list of topics, and when one
is clicked, it brings up the appropriate text for that topic. The
text in the topics is formatted with the new TextEdit, so it's styled
text; that is, you can have underlined, bold, different fonts, etc.
all in the same window.
It takes (obviously) LSP (but it could probably be ported),
and some familiarity with ResEdit to set up all the appropriate
resources (a TMPL is included for creating and editing 'styl' resources).
Enjoy,
Chris Sterritt
Sterritt%sdevax.decnet@ge-crd.arpa (on arpanet)
[Archived as /info-mac/source/think-pascal-help-system.hqx; 40K]
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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 89 14:26 CST
From: WAR EAGLE! <HAMMETT@ducvax.auburn.edu>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #29
Does anyone know of a morse code practice program for the MAC? It is needed
to practice for a ham license.
thanks,
Richard Hammett
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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 89 14:32:42 CDT
From: "James N. Bradley" <ACSH%UHUPVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #35
I use the CMS SDU-30 at home. I've had it for about six months with
no problems. No louder than the airplane I use at work (Mac II).
If you need specs, I'll have to see if I can find them, contact me
directly at ACSH@UHUPVM1.bitnet or ACSH@UHVAX1.UH.EDU (internet).
Jim
Acknowledge-To: <ACSH@UHUPVM1>
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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 89 17:56:49 GMT
From: PHY6JEM%CMS1.UCS.LEEDS.AC.UK@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Journalling Mechanism
In order to provide a special interface to the Mac, I would like to
overwrite the current mouse position and to simulate mouse-downs
etc. Reading "Inside Macintosh" I guess that the way to do this is
to use the "journalling mechanism". This is demonstrated in the
"Welcome" guided tour disk and also in the DAs ProMouse and JournalMaker.
The explanation in "Inside Macintosh" is a little sparse and
suggests that journalling is only possible from Assembly language
Is this true, or can I use C and if so how?
In the Apple Developers Group product listings is a document titled
"Journalling and Guided Tour". From the title this looks promising
Has anyone ever seen this publication and does it answer my
questions?
In summary, all hints, tips, tricks or sample code for using the
journalling mechanism would be most welcome.
John McMillan
phy6jem@uk.ac.leeds.ucs.cms1 | JANET |
phy6jem%uk.ac.leeds.ucs.cms1@ukacrl.earn |BITNET/EARN|
phy6jem%cms1.ucs.leeds@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk | ARPA |
star::"phy6jem%leeds.ucs.cms1@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk" | SPAN |
Haverah Park Group / South Pole Air Shower Experiment
Physics Department, University of Leeds, LEEDS, LS29JT, UK
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Date: Fri 17 Feb 89 14:22:28-PST
From: Elliot Bennett <ELLIOT@star.stanford.edu>
Subject: Laserwriter NT bug...
Ok, here's an obscure one for all you manual-feed people:
I've got a Laserwriter II NT (at the moment all to myself!!) connected to
a Mac II running System 6.0.2 and Finder 6.1 etc, etc. When I try to do
a manual feed and LEAVE PAPER TO BE HAND FED IN THE TRAY BEFORE THE RED LIGHT
COMES ON, the paper feeds just fine, but the red light doesn't go off. If,
on the other hand, I wait for the red light to come and THEN feed in the paper,
the red light goes off (as it should) after the sheet goes through. Make
any sense? Has anyone seen this too, or is my logic board not quite all
there?
Any info would be greatly appreciated...
Elliot Bennett
elliot@star.stanford.edu
Disclaimer:
Now, don't try this at home kids...
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Date: 15 Feb 89 17:00:26 GMT
From: paco@devsys.UUCP (Paco)
Subject: Menstat 1.0B1
Menstat is the first in a series of Macintosh applications from
SubPhyllum which address women's health issues. This is a preliminary
release, submitted for public evaluation as freeware.
You may distribute this software freely, but you may not bundle it with
commercial software nor charge any fees whatsoever for its distibution
without the written consent of the authors and due payment of royalties.
Otherwise, our legal department will want to do lunch with your legal
department, in a big way.
Try the sample file for demo of the charts and stats. Check out the
online help for more info. To reach the authors, login to:
Generic BBS @ 201/389-8473
and send mail to "paco". We'd like to hear what you think about Menstat.
Besides, Generic is a cool boardI
paco xander
suzanne nathan
3 Nov 88
[Archived as /info-mac/app/menstat.hqx; 86K]
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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 89 11:19:30 -0500
From: earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton)
Subject: MicroEmacs again.
This is a rather stable version of microemacs for the Macintosh,
still using Daniel Lawrence's 3.9e microemacs code.
There are some user-visible changes from previous posted
versions. You can now define the region using the mouse: A drag sets
the mark at the beginning of the drag and point at the end. You can
resize buffer windows by dragging the mode lines up and down. A click
in the message line lets you enter a named command. There is support
for ctags. (How you create a tags file is up to you, but the source
for ctags is in the comp.sources.unix archives.)
There are some non-apparent changes which are as significant. The
file read/write code has been overhauled. This version no longer destroys
the resource fork of a file when saving over a previously existing file, nor
does it change the file's creator. It checks for sufficient disk space
before saving a file. The code to read in a line now uses a Handle for a
temporary input buffer, so that long lines are taken care of by resizing
the Handle. Binary files may be edited, even those containing nulls.
Non-TEXT files may be edited using "execute-command-line" and "find-file."
The last "line" in any file written out will have a carriage-return appended
to it, however.
Enjoy.
Earle R. Horton
[Archived as /info-mac/app/microemacs.hqx; 81K]
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Date: 20 Feb 89 13:18:00 EST
From: "ZZT" <zzt@stc10.ctd.ornl.gov>
Subject: more Mac graphing
Mac graphing
I too have found Cricket Graph to have annoying limitations (inability to
mix symbols and ordinary text, subscripts, superscripts, slow on a
Mac II...). Recently, we purchased a new program called Igor from Wave
metrics for a little (a very little) under $200 that may be useful for many
people. Its main advantage seems to be for automatically producing plots
of basically similar sets of data. Igor is basically a laboratory assitant
that takes data (text files) and produces pretty good plots. It uses a
standard Macintosh interface such as pull down menus etc., but in a
slightly different manner.
Whenever you make a selection, rather than just executing your choice,
a command is automatically entered in a small window, executed, and saved
in a "history" window. The commands in the history window can be later
move to a macro window and edited to create a procedure for use at some
later time. In fact, you can set things up so that upon running Igor a data
file is read in, the data curves are analyzed (scaling, Fourier Transform,
fit to Lorentzian...), the data are plotted, and then printed. Although at
first the user interface appears daunting, it is only slightly different;
you can still do everything from dialogs and pull down menus. Appearently
everything that the program can do, can be done either by standard menus
and dialogs, or by commands.
The limitations in Igor that I have encountered are:
-- selection of markers is too limited, and they cannot be easily sized
-- axis labels cannot be positioned, and often appear too far away for me
-- error bars are possible, but not easy
Particular advantages of Igor are:
-- can mix symbols, text, superscripts, and subscripts in text boxes
-- ability to save ALL features of a plot for use with another set of data
-- can AUTOMATICALLY process data (much of my data is fit to two gaussian
curves) and automatically put results (mean, FWHM,...) into text boxes
-- ability to print two graphs on the same page, even on top of each other
-- can accept data, analysis, graphing, and printing commands from a single
TEXT file. Thus your PDP-11 can take data and generate a file with
EVERYTHING you need for a picture
-- doing mathematical operations on data is very easy, and there is plenty
to choose from (even special functions such as bessel functions)
Igor is available from:
Wave Metrics
PO Box 2088
Lake Oswego, OR 97035
(503) 635-8849
Note, these opinions are mine, and are unconnected to Wave Metrics or my
employer. I just use programs.
Jon Tischler, ORNL
DDN: zzt@stc10.ctd.ornl.gov
Bitnet: zzt@ornlstc
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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 89 16:45 CST
From: "Sandro Corsi, Univ.of WI-Oshkosh" <CORSI@oshkosh.wisc.edu>
Subject: No multi-launch under 6.0.2
This is in reply to part of a message from
Damian Roskill <Publice@Umass>
which goes:
...
> I am also writing because of a problem with using system version 6.0.2
> with the fileserver. We have noticed that system version 6.0.2 now
> no longer supports multilaunching of applications. Meaning, that if
> someone is running Finder and tries to access the program on the fileserver,
> only the first user will be able to get on. The other option is to run
> Multifinder, which presents a problem with some applications (such as
> Hypercard), because of the memory usage.
...
I'm afraid I can't help you, but perhaps you can help me... how is it that
using Multifinder lets you get around the problem ? We have an AppleShare
server running on an SE, and soon will have another on a Sun going thru a
GatorBox. The entire network is back to system 5.0 precisely because we could
no longer multi-launch applications with 6.0.2.
More in general, I have the impression that even under 5.0 multi-launching was
a barely tolerated klutz: no clear documentation of it, and everything that is
meant to be shared had to be manually locked in its Info window. Are there any
true multi-launch applications around (nothing fancy -- just capable of making
itself and documents it opens read-only -- forget about record/byte locking) ?
To clear the air from understandable suspicion: we do it right -- buy 10 copies
of the software -- but we can't be expected to clutter our limited disk space
by installing all 10.
Sandro Corsi
Art Dept.
Univ. of Wisconsin - Oshkosh
Oshkosh, WI 54901
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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 89 15:52:16 EST
From: Padmanabhan Anandan <anandan-padmanabhan@yale.arpa>
Subject: Printing Postscript Files on the Sun
I have files generated on the MAC using Adobe Illustrator88, which I need
to print on a postscript printer connected to a Sun workstation. I
have tried the "k" and the "f" versions as well as just the input
files for the illustrator (which are in postscript), but nothing works.
Has anyone solved this problem? I also have postscript files generated by
Pagemaker with the same problem.
Thanks.
-- P. Anandan
PS: I was adviced to add "showpage" just before the trailer of the Illustrator
file. I did, but that did not help either.
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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 89 10:14:52 EST
From: siegel@harvard.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Subject: THINK Pascal 2.0p1 Updater
This patcher fixes the notorious "fatigue" bug, and miscellaneous code
generation and library bugs.
--Rich
[Archived as /info-mac/lang/think-pascal-updater-20p1.hqx; 54K]
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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 89 16:51 CST
From: <STEVEN%AUDUCVAX.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: TML Pascal II 3.0 vs. Lightspeed Pascal 2.0
I would like some info on the two new Pascal compilers: TML Pascal II 3.0
versus Lightspeed Pascal 2.0. Some particular concerns:
-- How is MPW 3.0? Is the linker faster/slower? Is the package a memory-hog?
-- How is the LSP editor? Better/worse than MPW or LSP 1.0?
-- Is LSP well-suited to large projects?
-- How is the LSP debugger? Useful with small amounts of memory?
-- How is code generation on each? Both are supposed to be 030/882 compatible,
"optimizing" compilers. How well do they optimize? Any head-to-head
comparisons?
If anyone could post info on either or both of these compilers, I would
appreciate it.
-- Steven Johnson (Bitnet: STEVEN@AUDUCVAX)
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Date: Mon 20 Feb 89 14:48:12-PST
From: Brodie Lockard <I.ISIMO@lear.stanford.edu>
Subject: XFCN to see whether bitmap exists?
Is there some HyperCard structure I can get at via an XFCN to see whether the
current card has a bitmap or is blank? It would be best if the method was
likely to work in future versions of HC. Examples best, explanations helpful,
rumors better than nothing. Thanks!
Brodie Lockard
CAT Project, Stanford University
I.ISIMO@LEAR.STANFORD.EDU
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