SHULMAN@sdr.slb.COM (Jeffrey Shulman) (09/06/88)
Date: Tue 6 Sep 88 09:31:21-EDT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR.SLB.COM>
Subject: Delphi Mac Digest V4 #15
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Delphi Mac Digest Tuesday, September 6, 1988 Volume 4 : Issue 15
Today's Topics:
Falcon 2.0
Re: HELP HELP HELP DEAD MAC
DG Terminal Emulation / Fax Machine (3 messages)
re: old Mac connectors & AppleTalk
MultiFinder Problems
Re: Attention all Suitcase Owners...
Re: Suitcase upgrade
RE: INFO-MAC Digest V6 #76
RE: File stripper (2 messages)
LCD displays (6 messages)
MacWorks Plus for LISA & Mac/XL (2 messages)
Mac Construction records package
MenuEdit 1.2 (2 messages)
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From: HALL
Subject: Falcon 2.0
Date: 24-AUG 21:35 Games and Entertainment
Well, I got my copy of Falcon 2.0 in the mail today. It's still
garbage. To run it on the Plus or SE, you HAVE to run System Release
5.0; it won't run with anything else. To run on the Mac II, you HAVE
to run System Release 6.0, and you HAVE to have an Apple video card! If
you thought it was screwed up before... It's supposed to have a lot of
new features, but I couldn't try any of them. I have a Mac II with a
SuperMac ColorCard. AFT works fine, though. In COLOR, too. I doubt
that Spectrum Holobyte will ever manage that with Falcon. Maybe they
need to hire some of the AFT programmers... This has to be the most
screwed up thing released yet. Even screwier than Strategic Conquest
Plus...
Brian
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From: MACWEEKBOS
Subject: Re: HELP HELP HELP DEAD MAC (Re: Msg 27335)
Date: 27-AUG 21:05 Network Digests
Re: HELP HELP HELP DEAD MAC
The company that took over MacMemory is:
SiClone Sales and Engineering Corp. 1169 Borregas Ave. Sunnyvale
CA 94089 408-734-9151
In a conversation at the expo, a company representative indicated that
they would help MacMemory owners who have problems with their hardware.
Ric Ford
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From: BPAT
Subject: DG Terminal Emulation / Fax Machine
Date: 28-AUG 09:03 Telecommunicating
I want to do two things with my Macintosh SE: (1) Emulate a Data
General Terminal and connect to a Data General MV10000 Host. (2) Use my
Mac as a Fax machine to send and receive documents with other Fax
machines. Can anyone point me in the right direction on either of these?
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From: SVC
Subject: RE: DG Terminal Emulation / Fax Machine (Re: Msg 27340)
Date: 28-AUG 17:51 Telecommunicating
Let me see if I can answer you questions for you:
1) There is only one program that I know of that emulates the DG210 and
410 terminals - UNFORTUNATELY there are two problems. One, the program
is from Australia and I do not know who is selling it here in the
states, and two, it is $900!! It is called Opal and is desiged as a
Communications ToolKit (like Acknowledge)
2) This one is much easier. Get a Fax Modem such as the one from Apple.
Works quite well, only problem is that you almost have to dedicate a mac
to doing it as the software does not work in the background - but there
is a another piece of software that works with the FaxModem called
BackFax which will run in the background.
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From: JEFFS
Subject: RE: DG Terminal Emulation / Fax Machine (Re: Msg 27343)
Date: 28-AUG 21:50 Telecommunicating
VersaTerm emulates a DG D200. Since I'm not familiar with DG products I
can't say if this is good enough for what you are looking for.
Jeff
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From: DDUNHAM
Subject: re: old Mac connectors & AppleTalk (Re: Msg 27332)
Date: 29-AUG 22:53 Network Digests
>From: rupp@cod.nosc.mil (William L. rupp)
>Subject: old Mac connectors & AppleTalk
There are DB9 AppleTalk connectors; that's what plugs my LaserWriter
into my network.
David Dunham "If voting could change the system, it would be
illegal. If Maitreya Design not voting could change the system, it
would be be illegal."
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From: PMANDEL
Subject: MultiFinder Problems
Date: 30-AUG 00:08 Programming Techniques
I need some help in determining what would cause the 'Can't Load Finder'
error when the program that I am writing tries to launch another
program. I can't seem to track it down nor can I find any info about
the error. Paul
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From: BRECHER
Subject: Re: Attention all Suitcase Owners...
Date: 31-AUG 06:15 Network Digests
To: bell@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Mike Bell) Subject: Re: Attention all
Suitcase Owners...
> In the letter that I received from [Fifth Generation Systems], they
> said that [Suitcase] 2.0 would be available at the Boston Expo.
The letter said, "Suitcase 2.0 will be announced at Macworld", and that
the upgrade would be available for shipment in August.
Since it won't ship in August (but rather in Sept.), the availability
statement was wrong, but 20 days less wrong than if it had said what you
said it said.
Meanwhile, the product name has changed to Suitcase II.
--Steve Brecher (author of Suitcase II)
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From: BRECHER
Subject: Re: Suitcase upgrade
Date: 31-AUG 06:16 Network Digests
To: leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu Subject: Re: Suitcase upgrade
Suitcase II, unlike the original Suitcase, does not look for
specially-named files or folders at startup. Rather, it opens whatever
files were open before (unless you tell it, when opening a file or
files, that they shouldn't be remembered across reboots). Thus you must
open your "permanent" suitcase files once after first installing
Suitcase II. You can, however, open all the files in a folder in one
operation. You can "Show All Types" by clicking a checkbox (or typing
its key equivalent) in the file opening (SFGetFile) dialog. Hence no
patching is required for nonstandard file types. Beep sound files with
types SFIL or Smg2 are considered standard.
Suitcase II will (in a "Power User" Settings dialog) allow you to alter
the boot blocks of the startup disk so that the file system will allow
more files to be concurrently open, and hence allow more suitcase files
to be concurrently open. In this way, you can have up to 99 suitcase
files concurrently open. The default maximum is 12.
--Steve Brecher (author of Suitcase II)
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From: KWILLEY
Subject: RE: INFO-MAC Digest V6 #76 (Re: Msg 27332)
Date: 31-AUG 21:55 Network Digests
I might be able to help regarding 2 of the INFO-MAC questions: The first
problem I'll address is the linker hanging problem in MPW2.0.2. .. The
MPW linker trys to retain as many object files as possible in memory,
this allows greater speed for resolving references across object files.
It does this by default if you list all the object files on a single
line in the make file. That is also the way that the build command
generates them. If there are too many .o files then the linker pukes.
There are two solutions: 1. Set the linker option which specifies the
number of open files allowed. or 2. Break the link commands up into
several lines. This should solve the problem.
Secondly, the best approach for generating a ruled text window probably
involves messing with the QuickDraw bottlenecks. A scary procedure for
all but the most hardened Mac programmer but doable. Secondly, you
could maybe (emphasize MAYBE) fiddle with the clip region to keep the
lines from being trashed (on second thought that would only work for
text with no descenders...) Oh well. The root cause of the problem is a
well documented bug in the older ROMs which caused a DrawString to
obliterate the rest of the line. You may be able to use some of the
more little utilized ROM routines to draw the text. These may not
suffer from the same problem...?
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From: HALL
Subject: RE: File stripper (Re: Msg 27363)
Date: 1-SEP-23:24: Telecommunicating
Yes, I'd LOVE to be able to cut and paste into a find dialog; nothing
I've seen can do that! Anyway, I finally got the editing done; I had to
go to FullWrite Pro to do it. Word 3.02 (on a 5MB Mac II!) couldn't
handle search and replace in a 150 page document. Needless to say, I
didn't bother trying the 250 page document... FullWrite is very slow on
the search and replace, by the way...
Brian
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From: HAMMEN
Subject: RE: File stripper (Re: Msg 27371)
Date: 2-SEP-00:14: Telecommunicating
QUED and QUED/M can cut & paste into the search & replace dialog...
I'm really frustrated with Word right now. Even version 3.02 still has a
number of quirks. Take, for example, Microsoft's redesigned Page Setup
and Print dialogs. Because of their stupidity, you can'taccess the
standard Apple options under page setup (when the LaserWriter driver is
selected). I needed to tell it to mirror and invert each page's image
when printing to the Lino. Well, Word would allow me to set that (to
access the standard Apple print dialogs you have to hold down the shift
key before accessing the menus). However, sometimes, RANDOMLY, it woul
ignore the settings I had made and print positives instead of negatives.
On a 57-page job, I had to resend 21 pages. Kind of makes it hard to
make a living doing this.
Robert
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From: HALL
Subject: LCD displays
Date: 1-SEP-23:30: Hardware & Peripherals
Who makes the best LCD overhead display for a Mac? Kodak is very stong
in contention... This is for a user's group, and price is a factor,
although not that much, since we expect to pay at least $1500 for the
Kodak and an overhead projector... It would be nice if it would also
work on the Mac II, but it will mainly be used on a Mac Plus... Thanks,
Brian
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From: HAMMEN
Subject: RE: LCD displays (Re: Msg 27374)
Date: 2-SEP-00:21: Hardware & Peripherals
I've seen the Kodak one and the one from nView. The Kodak is the nicest
(non- monitor) display I've seen for thMac (much better than the cruddy
Limelights or Electrohome projectors, which weighed tons and were
incredibly fragile). A local dealer's selling the Kodak for $1200 or so;
I don't know what a good projector goes for these days...
Robert
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From: JEFFS
Subject: RE: LCD displays (Re: Msg 27379)
Date: 2-SEP-07:49: Hardware & Peripherals
We've seen virtually all of the LCD displays and have bought the Kodak
unit. It is *far and above* the quality of the others.
Jeff
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From: MACWEEKBOS
Subject: RE: LCD displays (Re: Msg 27380)
Date: 2-SEP-14:13: Hardware & Peripherals
Is there an interface for the MacII? My understanding is that you have
to have a Kodak interface inside the Mac for the LCD... What's the
scoop?
Ric
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From: JEFFS
Subject: RE: LCD displays (Re: Msg 27387)
Date: 2-SEP-21:03: Hardware & Peripherals
None yet for the Mac II. There is a little board that goes in either a
Mac Plus or Mac SE that gives you the connection to the unit.
Jeff
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From: HALL
Subject: RE: LCD displays (Re: Msg 27388)
Date: 2-SEP-22:29: Hardware & Peripherals
Supposedly Nutmeg is making an adapter to allow the Mac II to drive the
Kodak; I don't have any details...
Brian
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From: JAYBACK
Subject: MacWorks Plus for LISA & Mac/XL
Date: 4-SEP-00:56: Hardware & Peripherals
For all Lisa and MAC/XL owners: Be wary of the new MacWorks Plus from
Sun Remarketing. Although it appears to be a very good 128K ROM
emulator, and allows the XL/Lisa to run System 6.0, I have had a serious
problem with it.
The program cannot properly address Serial port A, so trying to use a
modem causes a major crash. Addressing the modem through serial port B
(normally used for the printer) allows only marginally reliable
communication.
My local dealers in D.C. (Mid Atlantic Telesis, Alexandria, VA) have
talked to the Sun folks in Utah. Sun knows of the bug, and is working on
a fix, along with a couple of others, one of which is needed to run
Pagemaker 3.0. They hope to ship the update in six weeks. Til then I am
sticking with MacWorks 3.0, for a much safer opertation.
Craig Shelton
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From: HAMMEN
Subject: RE: MacWorks Plus for LISA & Mac/XL (Re: Msg 27403)
Date: 6-SEP-04:03: Hardware & Peripherals
I read about MacWorks Plus problems on another service. Since the author
of MacWorks Plus, Chuck Lukaszewski, has an ARPA address, I mailed a
copy of those comments to him. Here's his recent reply:
Hi. Sorry about the delay in answering your message -- after working
eight solid months to get the 1.0 version out, I took a much-needed
vacation, but here I am on the job again.
Before I left, I completed the 1.0.1 version of MacWorks Plus which
addresses the following bugs:
-- Serial ports work properly now.
-- System 6.0 will run properly now (Does not run at all under 1.0)
-- SysEnvirons has been upgraded to reflect a Mac Plus rather than a
512E
-- Key-drop problem repaired (1.0 'lost' some keystrokes with fast
typing)
And the most interesting change is to the memory management. In 1.0,
MacWorks
Plus is honest about how much memory is there after MacWorks Plus gets
loaded
(~866K on a 1Meg machine). This made programs like Hypercard 1.2 and Page-
Maker 3.0 not run on 1Meg Lisas. The memory model has been upgraded to
reflect
the amount of physical memory in the machine, independent of MacWorks Plus.
(For techies out there, I play games with BufPtr prior to any other use of
BufPtr). The screen has also moved from MemTop-$30000 to MemTop-$8000
which
may be of interest.
In the works is a cdev to set autodim levels.
A NOTE ON DEBUGGERS: MacsBug v5.5 is supported by MacWorks Plus. You can
use
the off-the-shelf version that comes with MPW. The necessary modifications
to
run on the Lisa are made by MacWorks Plus after MacsBug gets loaded. NO
OTHER
VERSION WORKS. -- I am currently trying to get v6.0 to run but that's a
really
interesting proposition. TMON 2.81 seems to run just fine. Nosy gets
upset
only when it finds illegal intructions, and I haven't had time yet to track
down
what's happening with it.
Feel free to contact me directly with bug reports or questions.
--
---===---===---===---===--/* Chuck Lukaszewski */--===---===---===---===---
ARPAnet/NSFnet/MRnet: AppleLink: SnailMail: Ma Bell:
imp@crayview.msi.umn.edu UG0138 Minneapolis MN 55418 612/789-0931
Robert
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From: WHISCERS
Subject: Mac Construction records package
Date: 4-SEP-21:47: Programming
I am in dire need of a complete package program for a construction business.
Something m Something which will monitor jobs in progress, allow estimating,
keep accounting records, maintain payroll, write checks, etc. This is for large commercial type jobs. Any info from anyone would be very helpful. Thanks.
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From: APERLIS
Subject: MenuEdit 1.2
Date: 4-SEP-17:43: Programming Techniques
I finally got ResEdit 1.2b2 from Apple and find it fairly nice, except the
following:
* It runs out of memory if you've opened a lot of resources without quitting in
between. It seems that it somehow keeps everything in memory non-purgeable. I
was just looking at everything in the System file, closing each resource after I looked at it, and near the end I had memory problems. Weird.
* If you simply open the System's 'cctb' or 'wctb' and then close it, all the
control and window colors are messed up. This seems related to the previous
problem. Somehow ResEdit is getting the resource into memory and not releasing
it back to the system. So the system can't find the color tables and everything
becomes black.
* The awesome ResEdit patch MenuEdit (version 1.2) has some interesting quirks:
The close box does nothing (neither does the Close command), but the menu line
above the Close command closes (so menu item numbers seem to be off). Also,
changes are never saved. Perhaps these are all bugs in MenuEdit...
Any comments and any ideas when this stuff will be fixed? Thanks.
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From: MACNOSY
Subject: RE: MenuEdit 1.2 (Re: Msg 2535)
Date: 5-SEP-05:45: Programming Techniques
Apple, in their wisdom, changed the program interface for ResEdit pickers
/Editors in the 1.2b2 release. Here is a patch developed by a friend of mine,
Harry Starr:
Patch #1: {Repair menu item positions}
5340 6716 5940 6730 5340 6736 5340 6700 0200 5540 6722
xxxx xxxx 5B40 xxxx 5540 xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx 5740 xxxx
Patch#2: {Fix menu enable flags}
3F3C 0002 2F3C FFFF FEE3
xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx FBC3
Apply to a copy of ResMenu 1.2 -- Enjoy: Harry Starr
Hope this fixes your problem Steve
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