Info-Mac-Request@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (Jon Pugh and Lance Nakata) (08/06/88)
INFO-MAC Digest Saturday, 6 Aug 1988 Volume 6 : Issue 70
Today's Topics:
Netter's Dinner
Hard drive question
Looking for Ray Traced Demo
Statistical Packages
desktop file purger
help....
Accessing Mac laserprep/postscript files
interface to LN03R
Sending postscript files to a laser printer
Apple Asynch Laserwriter Driver
Identifying disconnections/breaks in Appletalk
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Date: Fri, 5 Aug 88 16:01:59 PDT
From: PUGH@NMFECC.ARPA
Subject: Netter's Dinner
From Robert Hammen:
Here are the finalized details for the Netters Dinner, which will be held at
6:30 PM on Friday, August 12th at the Shanghai Restaurant in Chinatown, on the
east side of Boston. The Shanghai is located at 21 Hudson Street; the
reservation is under the name "MacWorld".
We'll have two meeting points for persons wishing to go to the dinner. The
first meeting point will be in front of the Bayside Expo Center at 5:30 PM.
We'll take the MBTA to South Station; the Shanghai is about a 5 minute walk
from there. The second meeting point will be the Commonwealth Pier, again at
around 5:30. It's about a 15 minute walk from there to the Shanghai.
After the dinner, we've all been invited to attend the BMUG party, which will
be held at the Boston Tea Party. It promises to be an interesting and
entertaining evening.
The following people have announced their intentions to attend the dinner. We
still have room for a few people, so if you'd like to come, please reach me at
one of the E-mail locations listed at the end of the message. The last time I
will read my messages is Wednesday afternoon...
Usenet/ARPA
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barrys@apple.apple.com Barry J. Semo
preese%SOE.Berkeley.EDU@jade.berkeley.edu Phil Reese
tecot@apple.apple.com Ed Tecot
richard_vernon_ford@cup.portal.com Richard Vernon Ford
lloyd!kent@hscfvax.harvard.edu Kent Borg
unisoft!paul@ucbvax.berkeley.edu Paul Campbell
harvard!dartvax!uunet!eplrx7!lad Lawrence A. Deleski
daf1%gte.com@RELAY.CS.NET David Fay
WARD@NOSC-TECR.ARPA 1
mailrus!cornell!rochester!ritcv!jlw2232 Joshua L. Weinberg
wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu William M. Bumgarner (3)
dasys1!alexis@UUNET.uu.net Alexis Rosen
woody@tybalt.caltech.edu William Edward Woody
tldavis@Athena.MIT.EDU Timothy Davis
Gregor_Rittinger@um.cc.umich.edu Gregor Rittinger
landman@hanami.sun.com Howard A. Landman
eddings@bgsu.edu Ken Eddings
dwb@apple.apple.com David W. Berry
beekman@mist.cs.orst.edu George Beekman (maybe)
portal!cup.portal.com!Tim_M_Dierks@Sun.COM Tim M Dierks (maybe)
steinmetz!vita@uunet.UU.NET Mark Vita (4)
freund@nada.kth.se Peter Freund
steph@CS.UCLA.EDU Stephen Sakamoto
mw2k+@andrew.cmu.edu Miles Asher Weissman
pugh@nmfecc.arpa Jon Pugh
garage.att.com!ggr Guy Riddle
Art Goodall@OFFICE-1.ARPA Art Goodall
Delphi
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HAMMEN, MADMACS, PEABO, JEFFS, MACWEEKBOS, DRITTNER, DDUNHAM, JIMH,
KWILLEY, PIPPIN, NWOLF
Robert J. Hammen
hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu
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Date: Fri, 5 Aug 88 09:37 CST
From: <CCLARK%UTMEM1.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU> (The Ayatollah
From: Computer - Cole Clark)
Subject: Hard drive question
An SE with 20 meg drive was recently brought to my attention when its
desktop came up absolutely blank. The disk boots, and close examination
of the disk with FEdit shows all the files to be "there" but they simply
don't show up on the desktop. I have tried all the cliched methods of
rebuilding the desktop, but the results are always the same - a blank one.
If anyone has encountered this phenomena and have a solution, would you
please send a reply ASAP.
Frank C Clark, Jr.
University of Tennessee, Memphis
CCLARK@UTMEM1 (bitnet)
FCCLARKJR (GEnie)
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Date: Sat, 4 Jun 88 02:21:24 EDT
From: John Matthews <matthews@vax1.acs.udel.edu>
Subject: Looking for Ray Traced Demo
Sorry to bother you guys with a request, but you're probably one of the
best places to start. I am looking for the image (and others too) that
first appeared on a poster for the Mac II when it was first being
introduced. If this image (and hopefully a format document) are available
in your archives, could you please give me the file name(s)? Is
COLOR-FLOATING-BALL.HQX what I am looking for? I don't have a Mac II so
I can't check it out. I am interested in this image because it was so
sharp. I would like to use it to test some display software.
Any pointers to other good bit mapped images would also be appreciated.
Thanks in Advance,
John Matthews
matthews@udel.edu
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From: W1.WELCH%CHIP.UChicago.EDU@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU
Date: Sat 16 Jul 88 22:35:47-CDT
Subject: Statistical Packages
I am a recent convert from a PC to a MAC-II. I didn't realize until
now that there seems to be a lack of high-powered but affordable
statistical and mathematical packages (for the social sciences) on the
MAC. For some reason, I had thought of the MAC as the academic
discount machine...
In particular, I am surprised that (1) I can't find
mainframe-compatible or programmable packages like Gauss, Speakeasy,
SCA, S etc. (2) that Mathematica's academic discount makes it $430
cheap...; that may be fine for faculty, but for students Mathematica
is just out. (3) that Excel is more stifled on the MAC than it is on
the PC, etc.
Anyway, here is a short report on one acquisition of mine: I recently
got myself a copy of Mathview. I am a bit disappointed. It does not
permit any programming (or piecewise functions) whatsoever. I got it
to try out graphics. Unfortunately, it does not allow to specify the
y-dimensions. If you plot a few functions over a common domain, and
one has an asymptote within this domain, the action takes place on the
bottom 2% of the screen... In general, my impression is that if you
ask for the company's prospectus, it lists precisely what the package
does; I made the mistake of considering it a sample, rather than a
complete list. In sum, Mathview is ok if you know EXACTLY what you
want is listed in the prospectus. But it's extremely inflexible. On
the good size, this inflexibility makes for quite a bit of
userfriendliness: you select, the program asks you a few built-in
questions. That's it.
My questions are these: Does anybody have a list of available
math/stats packages with a good description of capabilities/value for
the MAC? Does anyone have experience with Kinko's Courseware
offerings (are they good/bad?) ?
Moreover, where would one get a good listing of PD/shareware programs?
I.e. one that says a few lines about what's good and what's bad. Is
there a PD/SW Texktronix Terminal Emulator? I appreciate any info.
Ivo
PHD_IVO@GSBACD.UCHICAGO.EDU
or sometimes
PHD_IVO%GSBACD.UCHICAGO.EDU
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Date: Thursday, 28 July 1988 10:28am
From: zoda537@UTA3081.CC.UTEXAS.EDU ("Josh Hayes")
Subject: desktop file purger
Howdy.
I've had to rebuild my desktop several times now to speed up
performance (twice) or fix incessant crashing (twice). Surely,
surely, there exists a DA or small utility that can be called
upon to clean out the bloated desktop. Anybody know one, and
where it might be obtained? I have access to sumex archives,
if that helps. Direct e-mail would probably be the best way
to reply---thanks!
Josh Hayes zoda537@uta3081.bitnet
Department of Zoology j.a.hayes@uta3081.cc.utexas.edu
University of Texas
Austin, TX 78712
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Date: Fri, 5 Aug 88 10:36:28 EST
From: SIANI@nssdca.GSFC.NASA.GOV
Subject: help....
Question for you all...
One of the people in our office has an apple macintosh plus with a
data frame 30 hd & is running finder 5.5 & sysem 4.1. The problem
is that whenever some applications create files (for example. microsoft
word) the finder does not recognize the document as being created by that
application. When you double click the document it says that it cannot
find an application. (even though ms word is in the same directory).
This doesn't happen with all applications though. For example, mac draw
documents are saved okay. (you are able to double click the document to get
at the file). But macdraw II files are not saved correctly.
To this point the only way to get around it is to go into the application
and then open the document by hand (mighty tediousif you have 500 files spread
across 20 different folders.)
Please reply directly to me as I do not read info-mac regularly.
Thanx,
Michael Kirby
siani@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (internet)
mpk9172@ritvax.bitnet (bitnet)
[Moderator's Note:
This is a bundle bit problem and is very serious. I keep finding docs
with their bundle bit set. Scott Boyd announced in MacTutor that he had a
hack that went looking for these files. Let's see if it can be posted!
Meanwhile, someone at Apple should be looking into this. If not a fix,
a garbage collector at least. One bundle bit can screw up access to all your
documents!
Jon] 2-Aug-88 21:55:31-PDT,1614;000000000001
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Date: Tue, 2 Aug 88 14:50:08 MDT
From: gellman%mv2.UNCA.Adhocnet.CA%UNCAEDU.BITnet@Forsythe.Stanford.ED
From: U (Ruben Gellman)
Subject: Accessing Mac laserprep/postscript files
Hello:
I have a new Mac SE and I want to use a PostScript laser printer
(QMS-800PS) located elsewhere and hooked onto a non-Apple
workstation (Apollo) to print my Mac stuff. I know that
I can get a PostScript file dumped to disk on the Mac by hitting
Command-F after asking for a print; I can transfer this file by
modem to the Apollo, but it won't print out. Reason is, the
PS file assumes a prolog or header file (presumably Laserprep) has
been sent ot the laser printer, defining a whole bunch of things.
Any idea how I can generate or get hold of the relevant laserprep/
header/prolog PS file?
I don't normally read info-mac, so please reply to me directly
(on BITNET) at: GELLMAN @ UNCAEDU.BITNET
Thanks
Reuben Gellman
[Moderator's Note:
Tell the net too! I have a TI OmniLaser printer hooked to our VMS VAX and
I have had no luck at all printing to it. Any clues?
Jon] 2-Aug-88 13:32:11-PDT,920;000000000001
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Date: Tue, 2 Aug 88 16:34:58 EDT
From: Richard J. Solomon <rjs@media-lab.media.mit.edu>
Subject: interface to LN03R
Is there a hardware device for a DEC Scriptprinter which would emulate an
Appletalk interface so I could connect a Mac directly to the LNO3R (with
PostScript)? Currently I use a null modem cable and download PostScript
files through a terminal program at 19.2 kbps, but this is very slow and
prone to bit errors. Is there any Laserprep software for the Mac configured
properly for the LN03R's peculiarities?
Richard Solomon MIT Media Lab 617 253-5159
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Date: 3 Aug 88 17:13:00 EDT
From: <brun@nrl-lcp.arpa>
Subject: Sending postscript files to a laser printer
This is probably a very witless question, but how does one go about sending
a text file with postscript code in it to a LaserWriter? Just doing
"print" from the finder clearly doesn't work. Please email me, since
I don't read this newsgroup all that often...
Todd Brun Laboratory of Computational Physics
BRUN@NRL-LCP.ARPA Naval Research Laboratory
BRUN@NRL-GONZO.ARPA Washington, D.C.
"Feezeeks? Ve don't need no lousy feezeeks!"
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Date: Mon, 1 Aug 88 11:41:38 CDT
From: wombat%vger@xenurus.Gould.COM (Joan Eslinger)
Subject: Apple Asynch Laserwriter Driver
This is a request for a friend who doesn't have net access. He said he
is trying to use the 'Apple asynchronous laserwriter driver' and is
having no luck getting it to work. If someone out there knows something
about the beast and is willing to help, could you please mail me your
name and phone number and I'll forward it to him. Or if you want to
contact him:
Rolf Wilson
(217) 244-2514
Joan Eslinger
wombat@xenurus.gould.com
uunet!uiucuxc!urbsdc!wombat
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Date: Mon, 1 Aug 88 14:25:47 EDT
From: sdl@mitre-bedford.ARPA (Litvintchouk)
Subject: Identifying disconnections/breaks in Appletalk
If this sounds like a naive question, I apologize in advance....
Does anyone know of any software or whatever that can identify
breaks/disconnections in an Appletalk network?
We've had a number of annoying occurrences where an Appletalk
connector loosened up (maybe someone accidentally pulled one loose),
resulting in several Macs on our Appletalk net getting effectively
disconnected from the net (unable to print to the Laserwriter, etc.).
(The daisy-chain nature of Appletalk means that a disconnection in some
office can affect many other offices.) Finding the loose connection
was a hit-or-miss affair.
Is there any software or whatever that can periodically poll Appletalk
and identify disconnections on the net, or perhaps find those
Appletalk ports that are inaccessible (say, from the Laserwriter
port)? Or are there other ways to deal with such problems?
Please reply directly to me as I am not a regular subscriber to this
newsgroup. Thanx very much in advance!
Steven Litvintchouk
MITRE Corporation
Burlington Road
Bedford, MA 01730
(617)271-7753
ARPA: sdl@mitre-bedford.arpa
UUCP: ...{cbosgd,decvax,genrad,ll-xn,mit-eddie,philabs,utzoo}!linus!sdl
"Those who will be able to conquer software will be able to
conquer the world." -- Tadahiro Sekimoto, president, NEC Corp.
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Date: Mon, 01 Aug 88 10:34:46 -0900
Reply-to: <SXWRR%ALASKA.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Sender: <SXWRR%ALASKA.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
From: Reed Rector
From: <SXWRR%ALASKA.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
I have been looking for a 'C' that I can afford with a source level
debugger. I have seen Manx's latest ad talking of Aztec 'C' with a debugger
for a special low price until the end of August. Does anyone out there use
Aztec, especially the new version with the debugger? I would really like to
see some comments about it.
I do realize that LSC has a source-level debugger also, but I don't
think I'll have more than 1 meg for quite a while.
Thanks in advance,
Reed Rector
SXWRR@ALASKA (bitnet)
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