Info-Mac-Request@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (The Moderators) (02/06/89)
Info-Mac Digest Sun, 5 Feb 89 Volume 7 : Issue 25
Today's Topics:
Administrivia
3D graphing program (v0.5)
Closure Game hexification
Couple of Questions and a comment.
FontMaster 1.1 DA
FontWizard DA
How? to get AppleShare files off UNIX host
Info wanted on tranferring CAD files to AutoCad (PC)
Info wanted on WaitNextEvent
LaserWriter II NTX Hangup
Macintalk problems
Macintosh users
McSink 6.5 DA
MyPageSet.Hqx
Programmer's Key 1.1B3
Repair 1.4
Staircase 1.0.3 cdev
Update with my MAC/SE booting problem
Virus RX 1.4a2
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
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Date: Sat, 4 Feb 1989 12:58:02 PST
From: The Moderators <Info-Mac-Request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Subject: Administrivia
Freq was a lame name. It's now tips.
Here is some great news for Bitnet readers and others without FTP access:
the Bitnet/electronic mail server at Rice University is now talking to the
new archive. You should be able to get any of our files within 24 hours of
their posting on sumex-aim.
To use the server, you send commands (one to a line) as the body of a mail
message to listserv@icsa.rice.edu or LISTSERV@RICE. Some example commands:
$MACARCH HELP
$MACARCH INDEX
$MACARCH GET <FileNameGoesHere>
Bitnet users may be able to do things a different way using interactive
messages. I am not familiar with this procedure, however.
Please keep your usage of the server outside of Texas working hours. This
kind of server can really eat a lot of computer power if it gets overloaded.
It would be bad to lose this capability because of an abuse of Rice's
generosity.
Many thanks to Mark Williamson for implementing the changes necessary to
support our new archive.
Bill Lipa
Info-Mac
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Date: Sat, 4 Feb 89 13:08:40 PST
From: chris%hobbes@lbl.gov (Christopher Moll)
Subject: 3D graphing program (v0.5)
This is version 0.5 of the 3D graphing program, to replace
3d-graph.hqx. It's now easier to export graphs to other
programs. You can generate a flat, shaded array from the graph,
and do topo-style shading.
I've yet to solve some problems with working in multiFinder;
for example, Suppose you're in the middle of responding to an
update event and taking a long time about it. Of course you
should call WaitNextEvent to let someone else get time. The
resulting events may include reshuffling windows. Result; since
you're was in the middle of a BeginUpdate(), the visRgn etc. gets
scrambled. I'm curious what other people do about this sort of
thing. (An offscreen bitmap for the drawing might be a solution,
but it's a pain in color, takes a gross amount of memory, and
leaves the poor user wondering just what the hell the program is
up to.) Most programs seems to solve the problem by blocking
until the update is over; if you've been clicking during the update,
the update is followed by a flurry of moving windows, which generates
more update events...
At any rate; The following is a program to generate three
dimensional graphs of mathematical functions. The graphs can be
displayed from any angle and shaded. There are two versions, one of
which uses the 6888x; they are otherwise identical (I've tossed the
fixed point version). This is freeware; do anything with it but
sell it.
Send comments etc. to
Christopher Moll
chris@hobbes.lbl.gov
(415)843-2437
[Archived as /info-mac/app/3d-graph-05.hqx; 198K]
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Date: 4 Feb 89 16:00 EST
From: STERRITT%ARISIA.decnet@ge-crd.arpa
Subject: Closure Game hexification
Hello,
This file is the fascinating game of Closure, which is a variant of
Othello. The game is played on a 4 x 4 x 4 'cube' of squares. It is
quick to play a game, and the computer plays a pretty good game, with
seven levels of intelligence. You can also run a demo, and set the level
of intelligence of the demo 'players'. HOWEVER, I think that this sets the
intelligence of the regular player, whatever the Smarts menu says.
The only problem I have is a nagging suspicion that there is a
perfect strategy (that is, 'perfect' play always wins, for one player or
the other). If anyone knows what it is, or of writings on this game, I'd
like to hear about it. On this subject, I discovered a perfect strategy
for the 12 x 12 board twixt game (shareware'd as Betwixt).
Enjoy,
Chris Sterritt (I'm not the author, and it's free.)
Sterritt%sdevax.decnet@ge-crd.arpa
[Archived as /info-mac/game/closure.hqx; 41K]
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Date: Feb 5, 1989 6:00
From: John Sutcliffe <9663SUTC@MUCSD.BITNET>
Subject: Couple of Questions and a comment.
1. I am interested in any information concerning using Grappler (or an
equivalent) with an Epson 24 pin printer (or equivalent) on a Local Talk network
Specifically, how do you allow everyone on the net to have access to the Epson?
Is this even possible?
2. I just read in a recent PC Magazine about a new optical character
recognition software product for the Mac called TextPert from CTA Inc. in New
York. John Dvorak mentioned it in his Inside Track column (Jan 31, 1989). He
says it has a "99.5 percent hit rate". I am wondering if anyone else has heard
of or seen this product in use. Has someone compared this to OmniPage? I would
be interested in any observations you may have about TextPert and OmniPage.
Also, what hardware are you using with this software?
3. A while back someone mentioned putting some pressure on Apple to extend their
warranty to 1 year. I have seen no other comments on this topic since. I think
it is time to unite and complain. If a PC compatible company can give a 1 year
warranty, why can't Apple???? What are your thoughts and ideas?
Thanks in advance for any help you may provide.
John Sutcliffe O.S.F.A. Marquette University, Milwaukee WI.
<9663SUTC@MUCSD.BITNET>
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Date: Sun, 5 Feb 89 15:07:43 CST
From: Robert J. Hammen <hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu>
Subject: FontMaster 1.1 DA
This message includes a copy of the FontMaster desk accessory, written by Ken
Winograd and sponsored by Varityper. FontMaster can show you statistics on
the fonts you have installed (point sizes, styles, size in bytes, FONT ID's,
FOND ID's, resource types (FONT or NFNT), and can also display sample text in
each font.
[Archived as /info-mac/da/fontmaster-11.hqx; 24K]
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Date: Sun, 5 Feb 89 15:10:07 CST
From: Robert J. Hammen <hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu>
Subject: FontWizard DA
Here is another desk accessory written by Ken Winograd and sponsored by
Varityper. From the Read Me file included in the archive:
Varityper FontWizard is a desk accessory that approaches the problem of
font management from the perspective of the FOND resource. Varityper
FontWizard is particularly useful to users who wish to know more about
their fonts than the names of the fonts present and their resouce ID
numbers. This DA shows the name of the PostScript font and the name of the
printer font for each style variation of the font. This DA also informs
the user as to whether the screen font and the printer font specified will
be imaged by a font that has been provided or whether they will be imaged
via a mathematical distortion of an existing font. Double clicking on the
name of a font will display the entire character assignment table, and the
pressing of a key will momentarily flag the position on the chart that
corresponds to the key pressed.
[Archived as /info-mac/da/fontwizard.hqx; 29K]
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Date: Fri, 3 Feb 89 22:28:08 EST
From: David J. Sturman <djs@gertie.media.mit.edu>
Subject: How? to get AppleShare files off UNIX host
With AppleShare we can open volumes on UNIX machines over ethernet or
the applenet via a Kinetics box. The directories and files appear on
the desktop like [almost] ordinary Macintosh folders and files. They
can be dragged from the UNIX folder onto the Mac and vice-versa. It's
kind of a nice setup. However... the files are kept in 3 separate
parts on the UNIX side (data, resources, info) and if AppleShare isn't
working, which happens occasionally, I cannot use them (I can't decode
and reassemble them!). Does anyone know the format of these files and
how to reassemble them? Does anyone have (or want to write) something
that will assemble the three portions of AppleShare files on the UNIX
side and package them suitably for recovery via a modem. Something
like xbin/macget/macput.
David Sturman
MIT Media Lab
djs@media-lab.media.mit.edu
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Date: Sat, 4 Feb 89 23:09 N
From: <KRAALING%HWALHW50.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Info wanted on tranferring CAD files to AutoCad (PC)
Dear Net,
Does anyone have any experience transferring data from Mac CAD
programs to AutoCad (IBM PC) ?
Thanks in advance,
Daniel van Kraalingen
Department of Theoretical Production Ecology
Agricultural University of Wageningen
The Netherlands
kraalingen@hwalhw50.bitnet
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Date: Sat, 4 Feb 89 19:25 MET
From: "AGRD02::V_ZON"%HWALHW50.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Subject: Info wanted on WaitNextEvent
Hello networkers,
I am looking for detailed information on the toolbox routine WaitNextEvent.
What types are the new parameters, what are all the events it returns
(MultiFinder / System 6) and what are the possible values for the other fields
in the returned EventRecord for the new events, like SuspendResume and
MouseMoved.
Is there anybody who can mail me this information, or knows where I can
find it? (preferably in C, but not necessarily)
Please E-mail me directly: "AGRD02::V_ZON"@HWALHW50.BITNET
Thanks.
Ed van Zon
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Date: Sat, 04 Feb 89 02:18:53 EST
From: Greg Brail <ST601396%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: LaserWriter II NTX Hangup
I use a LaserWriter II NTX with a 20 MB Apple hard disk for most of my
work. It's normally an extremely fast, reliable printer. But every
once in a while, it seems to hang while printing a file. The 'in use'
light on the printer flashes, and the computer doing the printing (a
file server running the AppleShare Print Server) doesn't complain
about not being able to reach the printer. But the printer just sits
there, flashing the 'in use' lights on both the printer and the hard
disk, for 10-15 minutes. This seems to happen even for very simple
files which would take less than a minute to print. In any case,
no file would ever take that long to print on this printer normally.
What's going on? I'm using system software 6.0.2 and the AppleShare
Printer Spooler, as I mentioned above. The hard disk on the printer is
an Apple HD 20 SC with 65 fonts on it. My guess is that the printer
is somehow rearranging the font cache on the disk. After all, it
sometimes starts accessing the disk when the printer is idle. But
couldn't it stop when someone tries to print something?
Has anyone else experienced this problem? Is this a bug, or a feature?
I'd be interested in finding out, since people start to get a little
annoyed when their one-page Microsoft Word files take 15 minutes to
print.
Thanks in advance,
-Greg
Greg Brail
ST601396@brownvm.brown.edu
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Date: Sun, 5 Feb 89 21:41:33 gmt
From: Stephen Page <sdpage%prg.oxford.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: Macintalk problems
I took my usual version of Macintalk and put it on a shiny new IIx
running System B1-6.0.2. I ran a couple of talking applications,
including HyperMacintalk, and boom! The application "unexpectedly quit (1)".
Very helpful.
Any suggestions? Is there a later version of Macintalk? (My version doesn't
show a version number in the Get Info box.)
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Date: Sun 5 Feb 89 15:23:12-EST
From: Bill Starbuck <BSTARBUCK@vx1.gba.nyu.edu>
Subject: Macintosh users
MacWeek and Macintosh Business Review recently published
lists of large-scale users of Macintoshs.
The following organizations have policies of using 100%
Macs:
General Electric (6000-10000)
Seafirst (2900)
Northern Telecom at Research Triangle (2830)
General Dynamics (2500)
Dartmouth College (2080)
Electronic Data Systems (1380)
Drake University (1250)
Boeing Aircraft (>1000)
Ford Aerospace Western Lab (900)
BBN Communications (900)
Naval Research Lab (650)
Martin Marietta - Oak Ridge (600)
Alcoa (550)
Bell Communications Research (500)
Polaroid (500)
Less than 500: Domino's Pizza, Armco, Bechtel Group, Amoco,
Grumman Aerospace, Deere, Hambrecht & Quist
Macs comprise more than half of the pcs in the following
organizations:
DuPont (9000)
Motorola (>6000)
University of Michigan (6000)
Peat Marwick ((5500-6000)
Hughes Aircraft (5000-7800)
Martin Marietta (5300)
Eastman Kodak (>5000)
US Sprint (4500)
Arthur Young (4000)
Northern Telecom (4000)
TRW (>3500)
University of Texas - Austin (3500)
GTE (3450)
Tektronix (3150)
Lawrence Livermore Lab (2600)
University of Chicago (2000)
Adaptive Control Systems (2000)
AlphaGraphics (1800)
Federal Express (1550)
Lockheed Missles (1500)
Virginia Polytech (1500)
Planning Research (1300)
ARCO (1200)
University of Missouri (1200)
Brown University (1200)
Drexel University (1100)
Citicorp (>1000)
Texas A&M (1000)
Eli Lilly (1000)
MIT (1000)
Pacific Bell (1000)
Union Carbide (1500)
University of Pennsylvania (1000)
Jet Propulsion Lab (1000)
Colgate University (1000)
Ohio State University (1000)
Aetna Insurance (1000)
NASA - Edwards (900)
Bolt Beranek & Newman (900)
McDonnell Douglas (850)
Mitre (800)
University of Hawaii (800)
University of Tennessee (800)
Nynex (800)
University of Wisconsin (750)
Bank of America (700)
Massachusetts Mutual Life (750)
University of California - Santa Barbara (700)
Chevron (600-700)
3M (500-700)
Princeton University (650)
SRI International (>600)
Northrop (600)
US Dept. of Energy - Richland, WA (600)
Arco Alaska (600)
Rockwell International (500-600)
Raytheon (550)
AT&T Bell Labs (>500)
BBD&O (500)
Control Data (500)
GcGraw-Hill (500)
University of Delaware (500)
Southern California Edison (500)
National Institutes of Health (500)
Army Materiel - Ft. Monmouth (500)
SCI Applications (500)
General Motors has more than 5000, but the percentage is
unknown.
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Date: Sun, 5 Feb 89 15:15:13 CST
From: Robert J. Hammen <hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu>
Subject: McSink 6.5 DA
This is version 6.5 of the shareware McSink text editing DA. This version
adds no new features, but fixes some of the problems with the last release
(6.2a). Also changed is the price to upgrade to Vantage, the commercial version
of McSink, which has a number of other goodies (spelling checker, reads
MacWrite/WriteNow files, macros, external commands, and more).
[Archived as /info-mac/da/mcsink-65.hqx; 85K]
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Date: Sat, 4 Feb 89 13:52 EST
From: <GILBERTD%IUBACS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: MyPageSet.Hqx
MyPageSet for the Macintosh will make your preferences
for "Page Setup" of your printer the default choices.
A useful choice if you use an ImageWriter and a Laserwriter
is to make the Imagewriter "Tall Adjusted" option the
default. Then pagewidths for both printers will be
similar, any you won't need to reformat documents when
switching. Another use of MyPageSet is to set the default
to the type of paper you normally stock in your printer.
One caveat: MyPageSet modifies a system resource in your
current printer device driver (the file "ImageWriter" or
"LaserWriter", the one you pick with "Chooser") when you click
okay on the dialog (nothing is changed if you click cancel).
Make sure you keep an unmodified original, and note that this
will probably set off the gongs on your virus prevention
software.
Don Gilbert
dogStar Software Bitnet: GilbertD@IUBACS
[Archived as /info-mac/util/my-page-set.hqx; 16K]
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Date: Sun, 5 Feb 89 15:24:54 CST
From: Robert J. Hammen <hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu>
Subject: Programmer's Key 1.1B3
Here is version 1.1B3 of Paul Mercer's Programmer's Key INIT. For those who
use Apple Desktop Bus keyboards, Programmer's Key lets you interrupt or reset
your Mac without using the switch on the side; it works in conjunction with
the "Triangle" key, or the power-on key for Mac II users. Pressing Command-
Triangle generates an interrupt, while Command-Shift-Triangle resets your
computer. Useful for those, like me, whose reset switches have long ago
broken off their Mac (if you lug it around a lot this happens easily. Just
try going to your dealer and ordering a new switch!).
[Archived as /info-mac/init/programmers-key-11b3.hqx; 4K]
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Date: Sun, 5 Feb 89 15:00:05 CST
From: Robert J. Hammen <hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu>
Subject: Repair 1.4
This is Steve Brecher's Repair application, version 1.4. Repair disinfects
applications that have been infected with the nVIR and/or Hpat virus.
Version 1.4 repairs all nVIR variants.
[Archived as /info-mac/virus/repair-14.hqx; 18K]
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Date: Sun, 5 Feb 89 15:17:40 CST
From: Robert J. Hammen <hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu>
Subject: Staircase 1.0.3 cdev
Here is version 1.0.3 of the Staircase cdev (Control Panel device) by
Eccentric Software. Staircase allows you to select menus and menu items from
the keyboard, similar to the "WalkDown Menus(tm)" feature of FullWrite
Professional. Place the cdev into your System Folder and restart to activate.
Version 1.0.3 fixes problems with some applications, such as QUED/M.
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/staircase-103.hqx; 27K]
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Date: Sat, 4 Feb 89 10:58:35 -0500 (EST)
From: John Salmento <ziggy+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Update with my MAC/SE booting problem
Jose,
Trying resetting your parameter ram, I believe you do this by holding down
the command, option, and shift key and picking the control panel.. Remember to
reset set the options you had in the control panel, since they will be set to
their defaults. The only other thing I can think of is to but a clean system
and finder on the hard disk.
John Salmento
ziggy+@andrew.cmu.edu
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Date: Sun, 5 Feb 89 14:52:05 CST
From: Robert J. Hammen <hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu>
Subject: Virus RX 1.4a2
This posting includes a BinHexed StuffIt archive containing version 1.4a2 of
Apple's Virus RX application. Virus RX will scan your disks for infections
by all of the known Mac viruses - nVIR, Scores, Hpat, INIT 29. This version
no longer reports all present INITs, or files dated in the future. It now has
options to automatically scan inserted floppies, and a few other improvements.
[Archived as /info-mac/virus/virus-rx-14a2.hqx; 68K]
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