Info-Mac-Request@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (Jon Pugh and Lance Nakata) (09/20/88)
INFO-MAC Digest Tuesday, 20 Sep 1988 Volume 6 : Issue 88
Today's Topics:
InvisiHDMainBo3b
Re: INFO-MAC Digest V6 #84
Backup of A/UX systems
Macintosh use on Campus
Document Numbering on a Mac
Imagewriter LQ
Monaco Fix doesn't work
Ram Disks and MPW
BIG disks
MIDI interface
Mac Mail Handlers?
HAM RADIO SOFTWARE NEEDED FOR MACINTOSH(512K)
ASSISTANCE WITH IP ADDRESSING, etc.
Wanted, dead or alive: Experience with Lang. Sys. Fortran
Non-standard Sort Order in DBMSs?
MACSERV@IRLEARN
RamStart woes
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Date: Thu, 08 Sep 88 09:32:57 EDT
From: Laurie <LW901@ALBNYVM1>
Subject: InvisiHDMainBo3b
Writing to you from SUNY Albany. We believe that InvisiHDMainBo3b is where
a virus is lodging and causing all kinds of problems. We have it here at
the University and are having a very difficult timing eradicating it. It
acts like the SCORES virus, but not as quickly. Eventually it eroded our
systems resources making it very difficult to even erase the hard disk.
The reason we think the virus is lodging in InvisiHDMainBo3b is Apple's
Vaccine program identifies it as a questionable INIT file, but tells us to
relax. In the meantime, the system, finder, printing resources, etc. are
being modified every time we turn on the machine, plus other times in no
kind of pattern.
We though we had eradicated the virus in August to find that while bringing
back files one at a time from our back-ups and checking each one, it was
reintroduced again. When you are a true Mac User (not programmer) everything
you find about viruses is in programmese; even the instructions on how to
get rid of the virus. Any tips (in English) would be appreciated. We
contacted the local Mac User group with no real solutions. There are several
macs on campus infected, and the university doesn't support mac so there is
no help there.
Thanks again. Laurie Webster-Saft, The University at Albany,
LW901 at ALBNYVM1
[Moderator's Note:
InvisiHDMainBo3b is an invisible data file from HDBackup! This is the worst
part about viruses, they spread fear and paranoia! You have no virus, you
are merely backing up your hard disks.
--Jon]
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Date: Thu, 8 Sep 88 21:24:51 PDT
From: Steve Lemke <lemke@apple.com>
Subject: Re: INFO-MAC Digest V6 #84
Some of the Mac archives that I've logged on to have things divided into
several different directories rather than all being in the same directory.
Instead of naming everything "INIT..." and "GAME..." and "HC..." and ...
couldn't you create directories called "INIT", "GAME", "HC", etc.? It would
make it much easier to find stuff, as well as to get lists of what is there
without burning up as much time on my end or on yours. Please let me know
if you plan to do this or why you can't if you don't.
--
===== Steve Lemke =====
Internet : lemke@apple.com UUCP: {sun,voder,nsc,decwrl}!apple!lemke
AppleLink: LEMKE GEnie: S.Lemke
All opinions are, of course, mine, and could never belong to anyone else!
[I can see the usefulness of subdirectories. If everyone (or most
everyone) agrees with you, then I'd be willing to go to the system manager
and ask for the privilege of creating subdirectories. You see, we run the
TOPS-20 operating system. You can't create subdirectories (like in UNIX)
on a whim. In Sumex's case, I'll need permission. Please send your
opinions to Info-Mac-Request@Sumex-Aim.Stanford.Edu. - Lance ]
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Date: Fri, 9 Sep 88 17:21:59 +0200
From: ifi!sigurd@uunet.UU.NET (Sigurd Meldal)
Subject: Backup of A/UX systems
We have recently purchased a MacII with A/UX (internal). The MacII
runs off an ethernet populated with Suns. I have backed up the whole
A/UX to a tape using one of the sun tapestations (using NFS).
The problem/question is: What do I do if I get a disastrous diskcrash
on A/UX (everything wiped out) - how do I get the system up again?
Assume that I have SASH on a floppy, and (if it helps) also have the
A/UX system on a bunch of floppies besides the tape.
I cannot find anything in the manuals - they assume that any restore
operation already has A/UX running. And I would like to avoid buying a
backup disk, it would be such a waste of money in our environment of
file- and tapeservers.
Cheers.
Sigurd Meldal
Internet: sigurd%eik.ii.uib.no@uunet.uu.net
Hard mail: Department of Informatics
University of Bergen
Allegt. 55
N - 5007 Bergen
Norway.
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Date: Fri, 9 Sep 88 11:29 EDT
From: A. DARO <ACCAMD@HOFSTRA>
Subject: Macintosh use on Campus
I would like to find out how other colleges and universities are using
Macintosh computers on their campuses, for example, the english dept.
uses them to teach writing, or the fine arts dept. uses them to teach
computer graphics, etc. I'd be interested to know of any software which
is especially popular on campus, especially which word processor for the
Mac people prefer and why. I'd also like to know if and how the macs are
networked together, and if and how they are linked to the campus mainframes.
You can reply to me individually, and I will summarize to the net if people
are interested. Thanks in advance!
Anne Daro
Academic Computing
Hofstra University
Hempstead, NY 11550
BITNET: ACCAMD@HOFSTRA
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Date: Mon, 12 Sep 88 11:44:20 EDT
From: Robert S. Murray <murray@media-lab.media.mit.edu>
Subject: Document Numbering on a Mac
Our lab recently made the transition from a Wang VS-100 system to a
system with Mac SE's and Mac II's tied together with LocalTalk and Kinetics
boxes to our Ethernet backbone. Part of our staff does research and part is
the administrative support for that research.
One of the problems we have had in the transition lies in the area of
keeping track of documents. In our old system the Wang assigned a document
number to each new document. Since all the terminals were connected to the
VS-100, we had no problems sharing documents.
Now with a more decentralized system, and with 30 staff people
generating documents on their individual machines, we want to find a way to
assign a document number to each document generated on each of the Macs, so
that the document number can be placed at the bottom of each printed copy
of the document.
Does anyone know of an easy way to generated document numbers? We have
written a HyperCard shell to do it, but it is cumbersome and does not
follow the standard Mac "look and feel" guidelines. I cannot believe that there
is not an easier way.
Robert Murray
Computer Coordinator
MIT Media Lab
murray@media-lab.media.mit.edu
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Date: 12 SEP 88 00:31-
From: JJW7384%RITVAX.BITNET@CORNELLC.CCS.CORNELL.EDU
Subject: Imagewriter LQ
Has anyone had any experience with the Imagewriter LQ? I have heard tah
there have bee problems with the driver and incompatibilites with software.
Also, are are there many fonts available (since it requires that there be
a font 3 times larger than the printed size to scale from for higher
resolution).
Also, is it compatible with SuperSpool v5.0?
Thanks in advance.
Jeff Wasilko
BITNET: jjw7384@RITVAX
DIsclaimer: Nobody ever cares what I say...
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Date: Mon, 12 Sep 88 15:45:26 CDT
From: "Lee Schneider" <MATHPG2%UMCVMB.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Monaco Fix doesn't work
I got a copy of monaco-fix-resources.hqx, which is mentioned in Info-MAC
V. 6 #72, posted by Dave Platt, dplatt@coherent.com. Using System 5.0,
I copied & pasted these resources into a copy of my System file, then
renamed it and rebooted. All I got was a pleasant musical chord and an
absolutely blank screen, and then I had to reboot. Has anyone tried
to use this with success? I am a novice at using ResEdit and may not be
doing things the correct way.
Lee Schneider
Department of Mathematics
University of Missouri-Columbia
MATHPG2@UMCVMB.BITNET or MATHPG2@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU
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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 88 09:57:45 PDT
From: Mark Richer <RICHER@SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Ram Disks and MPW
We are dying a slow death running MPW. We know that Microsoft C on the PC
can be run effectively with ram disks to increase performance and we have
heard that the same can be done with MPW. So far we haven't had any luck.
We have tried two programs, which we think are shareware or freeware:
RamStart 1.32 and RamDisk+ 1.4. RamStart was on our Jasmine drive so
it might be shareware, but RamDisk+ was on a BMUG disk so I assume it's
freeware.
In any case, we haven't had any success using these programs with MPW.
A while ago one guy tried RamDisk+ 1.4 and claimed that there was no
performance improvement. Recently someone else here tried RamStart with
System 6.01 (with and without multifinder) on a 5mb Mac II. However, when
we double-clikc RamStart it crashes with "CanUt Mount the Ramdisk --- error -108."
So here's my questions:
Have you used a ram disk to increase MPW performance successfully? Which
Ram Disk do you recommend? And how do you use it? If it's not one I have,
where do you get it? Is it shareware, commercial ware, etc.? And what system
is it working on?
Has anyone gotten RamStart to work with system 6.0 or 6.01? Is there any
documentation -- we don't seem to have any?
Any other suggestions?
thanks,
mark
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Date: 14 Sep 88 11:13:03 EDT
From: Ravinder.Chandhok@GNOME.CS.CMU.EDU
Subject: BIG disks
I'm trying to find a source for a large (> 500 MB) SCSI disk with drivers
for a Mac. Our project will be collecting large amounts of data, and also
will be researching "electronic book" issues. If we ever decide to cut a
CD-ROM, I understand that we can send such a large disk to 3M and they will
master it onto a CD for us.
Any information on suppliers, etc. would be greatly appreciated.
I have info on CMS Enhancements disks, but their drives are broken up into
300 MB physical drives, and I want a single volume (I am not willing to
rewrite a SCSI driver to act that way, either). I am also familiar with the
WORM drive that Corel sells, but would be interested in any comparable
optical drive.
Thanks,
Rob Chandhok
Computer Science Department, CMU
Arpa: chandhok@gnome.cs.cmu.edu
Phone: 412 268-2468
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Date: Wed, 14 Sep 88 14:37 EDT
From: "Maj. Doug Hardie" <Hardie@DOCKMASTER.ARPA>
Subject: MIDI interface
I am trying to interface my Mac+ to a MIDI synthesizer. However, the
dealer wants approx $100 for what I believe is only a cable. He doesn't
have any in stock so I can't check for sure. However, that cable should
not cost anywhere near that figure. I have the connector info for the
Mac+, but do not for the MIDI end. Where can I find that information?
-- Doug
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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 88 13:03:02 EDT
From: sanborn%jello@gateway.mitre.org (Jim Sanborn)
Subject: Mac Mail Handlers?
Does anyone out there have any experience with (and/or opinions about)
the various Mac Mail programs? I'm in a group with lot's of Macs and some
Suns. Are there any that let you forward to-from some Mac and a remote
machine? Ideally, we'd like the mailer to be transparent between Unix
and Mac sytems. Let me know via e-mail; I'll post a summary if there's
much response.
On another front, I'm preparing to bite the bullet and plunk down my
$XXX.XX on a hard disk for my Mac at home (I'm *real* tired of carrying
work's HD20 home every weekend). I'm leaning toward Jasmine's Direct
Drive 45. Anyone have opinions on this topic? Has there been a recent
net-review (or other) I should pay attention to? Any info will be
greatly appreciated.
-Jim Sanborn
sanborn@jello.mitre.org, OR
sanborn@brillig.umd.edu
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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 88 03:05:45 MDT
From: Larry L. Springstee <LSPRINGSTEEN@SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL>
Subject: HAM RADIO SOFTWARE NEEDED FOR MACINTOSH(512K)
I am looking for software for the mac (pd or com) that is useful to the
VHF or UHF ham. I have purchased the package from ON4UN (Low Band DX-ING)
and am not thrilled with it. The programs run soooooo sloooooow and are
geared for low hf operation. Most of the formulas won't allow freq's
higher than 30 MHZ to be used. I would like a logging pgm for contest
or general purpose logging. I am using File Maker+ for a general purpose
logger.
Any information is appreciated
LSPRINGSTEEN@SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL
THANKS IN ADVANCE
--LARRY WB8LBZ
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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 88 11:55 EST
From: John Jamison <JAMISON@swarthmr.bitnet>
Subject: ASSISTANCE WITH IP ADDRESSING, etc.
PLEA FOR ASSISTANCE WITH IP ADDRESSING, SUBNETTING MACS to SUN WORKSTATIONS:
We are completing installation and configuration of a campus-wide
Ethernet LAN. We have 250+ macintoshes distributed around campus,
which are connected via Kinetics Fastpath 4 gateways, and which
can make use of AlisaShare and Alisa Print System software on a
VAX 8810 (vms 4.7).
We also have a network of 9 Sun workstations, 8 of which use the ninth
as a file server. We are extending their ThinWire Ethernet cable to
a DEMPR (ThinWire Repeater) and then to a DEBET (Thick wire Bridge), with
the net (pun?) result of including their ethernet into the main campus LAN.
We would like to use a Mac TCP/IP (NCSA Telnet or MacIP) so that the
Macs can be used to log in to the Sun workstations (or any other TCP host
on our LAN). Unfortunately, we must have the Macs and the Suns on
different logical IP Subnets.
HERE'S THE QUESTION: Does anyone have any experience with NCSA Telnet (or
some other Mac IP/telnet program in a similar situation? We are currently
experiencing difficulties with NCSA Telnet, the package distributed (at
the time of our purchase) by Kinetics with their FastPath product.
Any IP gurus out there in MAC land? We could really use some help...
"Thanks very much" in advance for any information given. If sufficiently
voluminous, I'll condense and post a follow-up.
Cheers,
-John Jamison
Swarthmore College
jamison@physics.swarthmore.edu
jamison@swarthmr.bitnet
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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 88 09:41:13 PDT
From: TOLLIVER%ATF.MFENET@NMFECC.ARPA
Subject: Wanted, dead or alive: Experience with Lang. Sys. Fortran
Is there anyone using Language Systems (MPW) Fortran? For scientific
number crunching, I've tried and nearly given up on Absoft's MacFortran/
020. LSF [that's Language Systems, not LightSpeed :-(] is surely
superior to Absoft, but how good is it really? I would like to know
anyone's experience (good and bad) with it. Questions of interest
include:
1. Speed (compile and execution time). The first version was reportedly
slow, but they now advertise version 1.1. Has speed improved?
2. What else has changed?
3. Does it really support most VAX extensions? How easy would it
be to download a working VAX fortran file and run it?
4. How does it support namelist, for example?
5. What kind of support for 68020 and 68881 code does it have?
6. What does it do about the famous 32k segment limit? They advertise
support for large arrays, but what does that really mean?
7. What about code segmentation? Does the user have to segment his
program into < 32k segments in the normal Mac way? At least Absoft got
around that by using > 16 bit offsets, but what about the MPW
environment? Does the MPW linker require < 32k segments?
8. How easy is it to use really? I assume that since it is MPW, it
is "Mac-like" in the redefined sense of MPW. But how does one choose
among various compile time options, for example?
9. What kind of debugging support is there? Are they waiting on SADE
with MPW 3.0?
10. For extra money, one is suppose to get a year's worth of upgrades.
Does anyone know what is supposed to be added in the coming year(s).
11. How easy is it to call C routines?
12. How about Mac toolbox access?
13. And, most importantly, DOES IT GENERATE CORRECT CODE?
14. anything else of interest
I have also seen the Absoft ads offering an improved/faster Fortran
for the MPW environment sometime soon. Does anyone have any knowledge
at all about that? Could it be any better than the "normal" MacFortran?
Why does it seem that there are faster (i.e., better optimized, I guess)
Fortrans for other 68020 machines (Suns, for example) than for the Mac
II? Since the CPU hardware (68020 + 68881) is the same, is there some
other fundamental hardware difference (bus or memory speed, perhaps) that
makes the difference? Or is the Mac OS slwoing things down somehow? Or
is it just that there has never been a lot of demand for good Fortran on
the Mac so no one has ever produced or ported a good compiler. Except
Absoft, of course, and that hasn't worked out too well.
Thanks. I will summarize to the net if I get individual replies.
John Tolliver (TOLLIVER%ATF.MFENET@NMFECC.ARPA)
P.S. Oh yeah, it seems to be popular to have some sort of disclaimer.
Pick your favorite and paste here.
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Date: 15 Sep 88 11:36:00 EDT
From: Greg Morrison <MORRISON%CARLETON.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Non-standard Sort Order in DBMSs?
Reply to:Greg Morrison <MORRISON@CARLETON>
File Copy:Y
Delivery Receipt:Y
Return Receipt:N
Broadcast:N
Signed:Greg Morrison MORRISON@CARLETON on Bitnet
Hi -- does anyone know if any of the Mac database programs allow you
to modify the standard sort order for characters when sorting data?
We have large amounts of textual data written in a transliteration
from Arabic, and would like to be able to intersperse standard characters
and special symbols in the sort order. As an alternative to a DBMS,
are there any stand-alone sort programs for the Mac which would do this?
Thanks for your help.
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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 88 20:06:22 IST
From: "Jonathan B. Owen" <GDAU100%BGUVM.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: MACSERV@IRLEARN
Does anyone know why the Ireland fileserver is not being updated?
As far as I can tell, the latest file is dated May 1988.
I would like to take this oppertunity to ask if any of you out there
are using an Ada compiler and if so with what configuration (SE or II)?
Are the compilers any good? How about interfacing to the Mac OS?
Shalom,
JB
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Date: 16 Sep 88 10:12 EST
From: STERRITT%SDEVAX.decnet@ge-crd.arpa
Subject: RamStart woes
Hello,
Sorry if this has already been asked and answered, but I've been
unable to get the digests for a long time.
Is anyone else getting the "Sigh. Programmer error -23" when they
try to start up RamStart (either 1.32 or 1.4) under the current system/finder
(that is, 6.0 system/6.1 finder). I can't get it to run, and would like to.
If that program is broken now, is there another ramdisk program
that works under the 6.0 system/6.1 finder combination?
thanks,
chris sterritt
sterritt%sdevax.decnet@ge-crd.arpa
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