Info-Mac-Request@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (The Moderators) (01/24/89)
Info-Mac Digest Mon, 23 Jan 89 Volume 7 : Issue 14
Today's Topics:
Antipan Question
Creating of PostScript File...
GateKeeper - THE TRUTH COMES OUT - (or from the horse's mouth...)
Helix VMX
HP2648 emulator?
More on MicroNet
RobotArm game
Symantec CAPP (?)
Talking Moose 1.21
Text file manipulator
Usenet Mac Digest V5 #12
Usenet Mac Digest V5 #13
Usenet Mac Digest V5 #14
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Date: 23 Jan 89 13:15 CST
From: B28384%ANLVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Antipan Question
Date: 23 January 89, 13:06:11 CST
From: Ray Carlson 2-5805 B28384 at ANLVM
To: INFO-MAC at SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU
Subject: Antipan Question
I tried to send a message to Alex Heatley, not author but submitted antipan to
info-mac, but couldn't seem to get the right routing address.
I didn't have any problems either, until I compressed my harddisk with Disk
Express. Could antipan have added something to the programs that Disk Express
did not recognize and copy?
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Date: Mon, 23 Jan 89 16:53:27 EET
From: Jouni Santara <LK-JOUNI%FINTUVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Creating of PostScript File...
Hi everybody|
Proudly, I have to inform that the problem of creating of PS
files has been solved a long time ago by me. However, it does
not help me much, because I still have to transfer my files
via network to the PC-compatible printer and so on...(you do
not want to hear, I am sure).
To the facts: I am using Mac+ with the next thumb rules in
order to succeed. So, do not blame me if you have another machine
or configuration.
1. First, you have to be sure that there is nothing connected
to your printer port if there is a plug pick it out - this is an
order.
2. Next, open the chooser under your apple menu and activate
LaserWriter also press the AppleTalk on. Do not ask why.
3. Close the chooser and go to your favorite text processing
program reading in the text you are wanting to print.
4. Now, select the print function. The printing window appears.
5. Press OK-button of window and immediately after that
COMMAND-F or COMMAND-K (the difference was explained before).
6. Finally, the window saying "Creating PostScript files" appears
to mark you have succeeded.
The most important step, which has been missing until now, was
1. and 2. For some odd reasons, it just seems that the printer port
has to be free or let's say in state where Mac can illustrate to be
able to use AppleTalk.
This is only one way to do it, but it works for me. I hope it does
for you too.
Jouni Santara
Computing Centre
Turku university
FINLAND
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Date: Sun, 22 Jan 89 18:28:43 CST
From: chrisj@emx.utexas.edu (Chris Johnson)
Subject: GateKeeper - THE TRUTH COMES OUT - (or from the horse's mouth...)
GateKeeper 1.0 has been in release for twenty days now and it appears to be
time to make an announcement or two.
GATEKEEPER BUGS - THE TRUTH COMES OUT
There are indeed bugs in GateKeeper 1.0. They cause some people no end of
serious problems, while other people are blissfully unaware of them and run
without any problems at all. I suspect that most people fall into this
latter category, but there are cetainly quite a few in the former category
with problems that can't be (and aren't) ignored.
If you are having serious problems with GateKeeper, my apologies. It would
probably be best if you stop using GateKeeper until the fixed version is
available.
If you are not having problems with GateKeeper, by all means continue using
it - from everything I've learned from those people who've contacted me it
will either cause you chronic and unmistakeable problems, or none at all.
I, personally, fall firmly in the category of one who has had no problems
at all.
The fixed version of GateKeeper (1.0.1) has been in testing for several days,
and I should start getting feedback from my testers soon. I don't believe in
releasing software that is still in its testing stages (i.e. Alpha, Beta or
Development versions), so when 1.0.1 is released, it'll mean something.
IS GATEKEEPER 1.0 A BETA VERSION OR WHAT?
As I stated above, I don't believe in releasing software that's still in its
testing stages. GateKeeper 1.0 was a full-fledged release version. It was
tested at two separate sites (actually, there were three, but the last one
served primarily to confirm the results of the original two). None of the
problems that have so effectively plagued some GateKeeper users were reported
by those testers. In addition, I ran GateKeeper on my own machine throughout
the entire development phase in the belief that if anybody was going to get bit
by bugs it ought to be me. An extremely early internal development version
actually did cause me some serious problems too - while I was in the process
of building a newer version of GateKeeper, it caused Lightspeed C to delete all
of the GateKeeper source files. I was not amused - but that bug, and every
other one I encountered, were fixed. Indeed, by the time the earliest test
version went out to the test sites, GateKeeper had been running trouble-free
for me for some time.
The long and the short of it is: It was not for lack of trying that GateKeeper
1.0 went out with bugs. My apologies and sympathies to those who have been
bitten.
IT'S GOT PROBLEMS. SO WHAT'S BEING DONE ABOUT IT?
New and significantly more varied test sites have been chosen for version 1.0.1
of GateKeeper. Specifically, I've asked everyone who has reported problems
(especially those who have reported very serious problems) to become testers.
I've also asked all those who contacted me and reported that they've had no
problems to become testers. This way I should get feedback from both ends of
spectrum. So far I've had very favorable responses and I believe that with
the help of these people, GateKeeper 1.0.1 will be an admirably stable and
reliable release.
When it will be available depends entirely on what I learn from the testers,
and what (if any) features I decide to add. In the name of timeliness, I'm
inclined to release it without additional features as soon as I get the word
>From my testers - In the name of steadily reducing the size of the list of
features to be added without creating a senseless plethora of versions, I'm
inclined to add several important new features to the upcoming release. The
debate rages - only time will tell what I'll decide.
For those of you wondering, the version of GateKeeper that is already in test-
ing does (should?) allow privileges to be granted to INITs and cdevs. It was
not forgetfullness that resulted in being unable to grant those items privi-
leges in version 1.0, it was a difficult implementation problem. I've since
worked out a solution that should work in the vast majority of cases, so you
won't have to rename your INITs and cdevs for very much longer.
REPORTING YOUR PROBLEMS WITH GATEKEEPER
Two basic approaches to problem reporting have been developed by GateKeeper
users: 1) Send the the author (me) email as I've repeatedly requested, or
2) Post problem reports to the newsgroups without making any attempt to
contact yours truly. [There's actually a third: Find out the author's phone
number and call him early on Sunday mornings to make certain he doesn't get
any sleep after long nights of working on GateKeeper into the wee hours of
the morning. Fortunately, this one hasn't been used very often. :-) ]
I leave it as an exercise to the reader to guess which of those two approaches
is most likely to accomplish something. :-)
Seriously, I'm very interested in making GateKeeper as useful and reliable as
possible, but if questions, comments, bug reports and whatnot don't get to
me, they'll never do anyone any good. If you want to post to the newsgroups,
that's fine, but send a copy of your bug reports, etc. to me as well (and if
you find my reply useful, I'd appreciate it if you'd post a follow-up summary.)
If it sounds like this part was aimed at you - please take it in the spirit it
is intended: nothin' more than a friendly suggestion.
IN CLOSING
Thanks to everyone who's tried GateKeeper for better or for worse. Particular
thanks to everyone who's contacted me - whether it was with problems
or compliments (they all serve a useful purpose). The current problems with
GateKeeper will be (have been) fixed and I hope it will go on to be a useful
tool for everyone concerned.
Thanks,
----Chris Johnson
----Author of GateKeeper
P.S. If you haven't found the on-line help, click on the question mark above
the Info/Settings sliding switch. Regrettably, this makes perfect sense to
some people, while other people never do discover it. I'll find a more
sensible form for the button in a future release. 'Sorry for any troubles this
may have caused.
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Date: 23 Jan 89 13:55 EST
From: WMLBTAM%UCCCVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Helix VMX
Date: 23 January 1989, 13:31:12 EST
From: <WMLBTAM@UCCCVM1 (Theodore A. Morris)> WMLBTAM at UCCCVM1
To: INFO-MAC at SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU
Subject: Helix VMX
I would like to hear any success or horror stories regarding the use of Helix
VMX. In particular we are going to be using an Ethernet peer-to-peer network
of Macintosh II/IIx machines with a MicroVAX II. The Mac II's have 4M, the
IIx has 8M, and the uVAX II has 9M. The only other application on the uVAX is
an Oracle VMS database application, but I don't know how many blocks it takes
or how many tables it's composed of, etc.
We're not so much interested in using Helix as a dbms, as we are in utilizing
the cross-system authoring tools it includes, to create a "user shell" around
our application. That application is, essentially, to manage multiple
communications sessions, steering the user from one to another, or even to
several "concurrently" (at least to the capabilities of the MultiFinder).
We could obviously work within hypermedia to create the multiple pathways one
might follow to navigate an informational query through multiple information
resources, but we'd like to see how easy the task could be. Basically, the
scenarios runs something like this: patient gets sick; physician logs into
our "system," checks a couple of resources including an Oracle db of normative
values, etc., a bibliographic full-text db, and sends a DEC All-in-1 E-mail
message to a colleague, with bits and pieces of the other comm session data
cut-and-pasted into his E-mail message.
I'd be glad to discuss the project with anyone who's interested; meanwhile,
could Helix VMX knowledgable users contact me? I'd appreciate it!
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Theodore A. Morris | 231 Bethesda Avenue, ML #574
University of Cincinnati | Cincinnati, OH 45267
Med. Ctr. Info. & Communic.| (513)558-6046
Info. Res. & Devel. Dept. |
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Call me up and I'll talk data to ya'!
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Date: Mon, 23 Jan 89 14:15 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: HP2648 emulator?
Is anyone out there aware of sw for the Mac (or PC for that matter) that
emulates an HP 2648 graphics terminal?
thanks
Peter Jorgensen Microcomputer Specialist
Computer Center Colgate University
BITNET PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
APPLELINK U0523
CompuServe 74010,1353
Phone (315) 824-1000 ext 742
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Date: Sun, 22 Jan 89 13:31 EST
From: REWING%TRINCC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: More on MicroNet
Since this was mentioned before on Info-Mac, this is information on
MicroNet, for those of you looking for hard drives right now.
MicroNet was indeed started by Charles F. McConathy, a vice-president of
CMS Enhancements, a company that also makes hard drives for Macintosh,
Apple II family and PC-based systems. Those of you who have had Apple II
systems might recognize McConathy's name: he once ran another company
called CMC which was an Apple II hard drive vendor, before being bought
out by CMS Enhancements. McConanthy left CMS after what can only be said
as "business direction differences", and went off to found MicroNet.
Since McConathy has been in the hard drive business for several years now,
he has earned a reputation for being a stickler for quality, design, and
support, and I have no problems with recommending one of his units now.
This is not an official endorsement from my company, but just a comment
>From a satisfied field engineer whom McConathy sold a CMS drive (80 meg),
and have loved it ever since. I am currently in the process of trying
to secure a 600 meg unit for my office network from MicroNet based on
this reputation.
__________________________________________________________________________
|Disclaimer: Disclaimers are for sissies and...what??? Me??? SUED?!?!?! |
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|Internet: REWING%TRINCC@MITVMA.MIT.EDU-----------Rick Ewing |
|BITNET: REWING@TRINCC-----------------Systems Engineer, Apple Computer |
|Applelink: EWING--------------------100 Ashford Center North, Suite 100 |
|Compu$erve: [76474,1732]--------------------Atlanta, GA 30338 |
|GENIE: R.EWING1--------------------------Talknet: (404) 393-9358 |
|USENET: ...ihnp4!psuvax!trincc.bitnet!rewing |
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Date: 21 Jan 1988, 10:00 PST
From: comp.binaries.mac
Subject: RobotArm game
[RobotArm]
Here is a simple game I wrote for my four-year-old in three days.
Somewhat amusing, and just in time for Solstice Days.
Totally free, but still copyrighted.
[Archived as /info-mac/game/robotarm.hqx; 21K]
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Date: Sun, 22 Jan 89 14:35 CST
From: Mark Roseman <ROSEMAN@UOFMCC>
Subject: Symantec CAPP (?)
Just a question for anyone using this product which provides a full
featured TextEdit type of thing for Lightspeed, but allows for unlimited
text size in the window, tab support, etc. I'm running MPW Pascal and
was wondering if the package could be used with MPW rather than just
with Lightspeed.
Please respond directly as I'm not subscribed!
Mark
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Date: 21 Jan 1988, 10:00 PST
From: lipa@polya.stanford.edu
Subject: Talking Moose 1.21
This posting contains the Talking Moose DA, it's associated Moose
Phrases file, Jan Eugenides' Moose Frazer, and a short help file.
[Moderator's Note: Requires MacinTalk, which is copyrighted by
Apple and cannot be distributed through Info-Mac.]
[Archived as /info-mac/da/talking-moose-121.hqx; 64K]
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Date: Mon, 23 Jan 89 19:14:57 EMT
From: HDBFS%NOBERGEN.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Subject: Text file manipulator
This is a Stuffit file that has been run through BinHex
You'll need the program "StuffIt" to unpack it.
Paradigma contains the paradigm "Net", which can be used to
purge text files (such as mailing lists) of linefeeds and
unneccessary returns.
The help screen doesn't work on a Mac II
Also, use the "Add" function before quitting, if you want to
keep a useful paradigm, because the program won't ask you to
do so.
[Archived as /info-mac/util/paradigma.hqx; 39K]
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Date: Sat, 21 Jan 89 15:31 EDT
From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@sdr.slb.com>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V5 #12
Usenet Mac Digest Saturday, January 21, 1989 Volume 5 : Issue 12
Today's Topics:
Re: Problem of Suitcase II and Cirrus Volumes DA
Re: Virtual Memory INIT
Re: Virtual Memory for Mac II -- report from a beta-test site
Re: Phonetic (IPA) font wanted
Re: help printing MAC postscript files
Staircase recently posted on comp.binaries.mac
FAX
Oracle for the Mac has arrived!
Re: HD40 SC high pitch squeal
Re: Games on the Mac II
Re: Open Resource File List
Re: Text Drawing at speeds in excess of 1200baud
Re: Alerts
Re: Text Drawing at speeds in excess of 1200baud
Re: What is an SICN?
Re: List Manager sources
Re: Big Floppy on A/UX
X-windows on MacOS (Summary)
Re: WYSIWYG Math-Text Processing
Everex harddrive for Mac
Macromaker Problem
Mac display postscript
On Cue / TMON incompatibility
Re: Turbo Pascal & MacsBug
Merging WriteNow Dictionaries?
KCHR and Resedit
MINISCRIBE HARD DISK owners ...
Re: Mac display postscript
Re: Staircase recently posted on comp.binaries.mac
Re: MacMoney help needed (non-income wages etc.)...
Moire2.22 and GateKeeper1.0 conflict...
Edit breaks!
Re: A/UX actually floppies and some moaning.
Mac Mah-Jong (sp?) anyone
Archiving software
[Archived as /info-mac/digests/usenetv5-012.txt; 38K]
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Date: Sat, 21 Jan 89 15:35 EDT
From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@sdr.slb.com>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V5 #13
Usenet Mac Digest Saturday, January 21, 1989 Volume 5 : Issue 13
Today's Topics:
Re: help printing MAC postscript files
Re: MacMoney help needed (non-income wages etc.)...
Re: Edit breaks!
Re: Virtual Memory for Mac II -- report from a beta-test site
CDEFs and the Disk Driver
MPW vs Lightspeed
Plotting SICN items
Help request: Event Journalling Mechanism
Re: DIBadMount
Re: Text Drawing at speeds greater than 1200baud
terminfo vs. termcap
Re: FAX
Apple Educational Contacts
Re: help printing MAC postscript files
Re: Protecting applications on server from viruses
More PageMaker 3.0 Problems
dumping Mac graphics to video
Re: Everex harddrive for Mac
Re: Gatekeeper bug (2 messages)
Re: Virtual memory init
Re: Reprogramming Keyboard Layout
Re: Protecting applications on server from viruses
Re: Gatekeeper bug
Re: Open Resource File List
INIT 29: a brief description
Re: Text Drawing at speeds greater than 1200baud
Re: FoxBase XCMDs & XFCNs (was Re: Bug in resource handling in LSP 2.0)
Re: help! large offscreen map
[Archived as /info-mac/usenetv5-013.txt; 46K]
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Date: Sat, 21 Jan 89 15:39 EDT
From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@sdr.slb.com>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V5 #14
Usenet Mac Digest Saturday, January 21, 1989 Volume 5 : Issue 14
Today's Topics:
Re: Text Drawing at speeds greater than 1200baud
Re: MPW vs Lightspeed
'Standard' Wordprocessor exchange format?
Help With VBL Tasks
UUPC on Macintosh anyone?
Re: terminfo vs. termcap (4 messages)
Re: Virtual memory init
Word-For-Word ??
Educational Spreadsheet for Teachers
PageMaker performance on network
Re: ZTERM 0.7 is out!
Re: On Cue / TMON incompatibility
Re: Gatekeeper bug
Re: Aask is now out! (New EZ-menu too)
Re: FontSizer
Mac & TeX
Re: Everex harddrive for Mac
Re: Virtual memory init
Re: free TIFF software
VirusRX 1.4aX
Forced Switching under MF
Re: DIBadMount
Re: Forced Switching under MF
SADE
reading color video signals using QuickCapture
Re: MacApp and the 68881
Allocating large amounts of memory
Re: INIT 29: a brief description
Re: Help With VBL Tasks
Re: UUPC on Macintosh anyone?
Re: Forced Switching under MF
Re: INIT 29: a brief description (2 messages)
SIGIO
[Archived as /info-mac/digests/usenetv5-014.txt; 40K]
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