hideg@spsd3260a.erim.org (Steve Hideg) (07/26/90)
Subject: Mac+, QuickMail, SingleShare
Organization: ERIM
Here's the scenario:
Mac Plus with 4 MB, 20Megabyte Dataframe Drive
Finder 6.1.4 System 6.0.4
Two partitions created with Silverlining v5.22
Running QuickMail Server Software V2.2
Trying to run SingleShare 0.9b11
Two published volumes, each a folder on each partition
If an AppleShare client tries any operations on the published
volumes, the system crashes. I tried SingleShare in all of its
configurations:
SingleShare application
SingleShare application under multifinder
SingleShare Server Init
I have friends that run SingleShare on Mac IIci's and IIcx's (no
mail server) with no problems.
Unfortunately, I am restricted to using this Mac Plus for server duty.
I am not at liberty to purchase AppleShare. I am hoping that System 7.0
will solve this problem. Until then, any advice would be appreciated.
Any experience out there with this setup?
Is there a later version of SingleShare I might try?
Does anyone have any experience with EasyShare by ShirtPocket?
Does anyone know of a vendor for EasyShare?
Thanks for your help.
--Steve
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Steve Hideg (N8HSC)
hideg@spsd3260a.erim.orge86_gede@tekno.chalmers.se (09/07/90)
Hello out there ! I've got a question: Does anyone know what has happend to the Sumex-aim? Nothing has been updated for the last three, four weeks! (At least as far as I can see!) Just wondering ... __________________________________________________ S Gunnar Edebrant Chalmers University of Technology Gothenburg Sweden Email: E86_GeDe@tekno.chalmers.se __________________________________________________
ksbolduan@amherst.bitnet (09/10/90)
In article <NAYERI.90Sep9230251@ibis.cs.umass.edu>, nayeri@cs.umass.edu (Farshad Nayeri) writes: > At the risk of being redundant, I have been wondering why no one has yet > written a Chooser document that will dump a pure PostScript or EPSF file (with > some options previously specified from Chooser, e.g., folder to put the ps > file, or the name of the ps file.) Please do realize that I know about the > little utilities that hack the apple f/k hack (like LaserInit). What I don't > understand is that since the Mac interface has the hooks to do the job nicely > (i.e. through chooser documents), why hasn't anyone done it? I have a hacked version of the LW driver if anyone wants it. You simply select it from the Chooser and when you "Print" it creates the Postscript file. It may not be as "pretty" as you'd like, but you can hack it with ResEdit to put the postscript file (PostScript0-or whatever you want it to be) in any folder that you would find useful. If there's enough interest, I'll post it to comp.binaries.mac, though there seems to be a bit of a time lag on that. Send me e-mail if you're interested. Kevin Bolduan KSBOLDUAN@AMHERST
spworley@athena.mit.edu (Spaceman Spiff) (09/21/90)
Subject:Modem for sale Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Date: Thu, 20 Sep 90 17:16:12 GMT Lines: 16 I just bought a new computer system and my dealer added a modem to the package that I don't need (already have one) so I'm looking to sell. It is an external CBM 1630 modem and is completely Hayes compatable. It comes with a cable (for hooking to a serial port) and even has a gender changer so you can mate it with either male or female RS-232s. It is BRAND NEW- I just don't have any use for it. It retails for $110.00, and I'll take the highest offer I get in the next week or so. Email your questions or offers, Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Steve Worley spworley@athena.mit.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ctm@sugar.cs.unm.edu (Clifford T. Matthews) (10/05/90)
Greetings ARDI watchers,
This post is a briefly annotated set of notes that we are using at ARDI to
keep track of how well which applications run under Executor. They may appear
a bit incoherent because most of our notes are kept on hard copy (yellow legal
pads; ooh, ick but it is important to have a paper trail).
In case you came in late: Executor is a program that runs Macintosh binaries
on Sun3 machines. One copy is given away with each copy of ROMlib we sell.
ROMlib is the product, Executor is currently just for laughs. (ROMlib is
a UNIX ARchive and some tools that allow you to recompile C source with
embedded Toolbox calls and run the resulting executable as an X application).
Please do not consider buying ROMlib to get Executor unless you want a "toy."
Even if you see something that you would desperately like to run on your Sun3
and we say it runs there is no guarantee that the copy of Executor that you'd
get would run the application since it's not a product and the latest copy
could conceivably work worse that a previous copy.
Note as long as we have a sufficient number of mystery bugs to work on we
will not be adding applications to the list below. When we do, we will most
likely add applications from either the BCS or BMUG PD ROMs. The lack of
full versions of big name applications is due to our cheapness. We do not
pirate software so if we are busy testing a non Publically Distributable
piece of software then that means that the owner of said software is not
using it. Before we release Executor as a product we will go on a shopping
and testing spree.
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G R E E N
The following programs are considered "green"; they run without error under
Executor. I don't think there has been much change in the green directory
since most of our time has been spent getting programs to move from "red"
to "yellow".
macyahtzee: stomps location 0xe (It does this on a Mac+ too)
eartrainer (not useful: no sound)
backgammon
hearts1.6
stuntcopter1.2
reversi
MotorBike: after a crash it does a spooey copy (on the Mac+ too)
1000miles
canfield2.0
klondike3.3
deckedit
vp
units
Y E L L O W
The basic definition of Yellow is those programs that are between "Red" and
"Green". In the best case they are applications that may work perfectly but
haven't been tested enough to be sure. In the worst case (e.g. 4DDemo) they
may be applications that absolutely can't run because they call something
that we don't support (e.g. ScriptUtil) but they aren't placed in Black because
they run with enough interaction to look neat. The majority of the apps here
run but with some known glitches (which are noted). Since we have been
spending most of our time moving apps from Red to Yellow, the glitches don't
get worked on much right now.
blackjack2.0: uses outline on black background to write white text
DialogEditor: does own dragwindow and leaves stuff in menubar
Hypercard1.2.2: writes directly to screen (requires -clock -refresh)
hasn't been tested much (is probably very buggy).
Works well enough on Stack-O-Dead to be amusing to deadheads
(no sound though).
lazlife2.0c: writes directly to screen (requires -refresh)
Picks up mystery value from 0xA7C (in ApplScratch)
and stores funky value at 0x18 off it. I think
other apps do this before they leave as well.
macdraw sampler: text isn't clipped
macpaint sampler: writes directly to screen and hasnt' been tested much
(requires -refresh)
macproject sampler: doesn't write dates in boxes
Fontographer Demo: needs testing
supermandelzoom1.0: a touchy program. Limps. Doesn't see
mouse stuff as it occurs (waits to draw the
entire "bug")
GrapherDemo: doesn't redraw graphs always
4Demo2.0: Uses ScriptUtil. Limps otherwise
Multi-AdCreatorDemo: needs testing.
MultiFlow: needs testing
ParadigmDemo: No known bugs. Should be tested.
Pleides: appears to have problems w/funky control
Synchronicity: No sound
SonarDemo: Places a button in the wrong place. Margins don't
seem to be set quite right. They try to go 4 off of
a nil pointer.
DungeonofDoom4.0: requires -clock -refresh -nbitsinaddr 24 but seems to
work (have only played a few levels)
R E D
The applications below are totally unusable. Some of them decide something
is amiss and then just exit. A couple decide we don't have enough memory
(even though the obvious calls are returning correct values), some bugs
are a total mystery; luckily there aren't that many totally mysterious bugs
around.
Microsoft Excel: if SysEnvirons says we are on equipment that Excel knows
about it starts monkeying with the i/o area just to verify
that it knows what's going on. This can be avoided by
saying we using processor 0xffff or something like that.
Then Excel claims we don't have enough memory
Much work has gone into tracking this down. No clue.
SuperPaint 2.0: Plays with RomMapInsert
Thinks we don't have enough memory (foo!)
Wingz: OpenDeny call HACKED. Wingz now just exits...
wizardsfire: Wants to ExitToShell, although does
movl 0xA7C, A0
movw sp@(4), a0@(0x18)
trick just like lazlife
hangman-9.0: Exits of its own accord (uses FCBSPtr which isn't tested much)
Stella: Exits normally without doint anything.
Word: Calls NewCWindow, even though SysEnvirons has already returned that
we don't support Color QuickDraw
MYSTERY macwrite sampler: requires -nbitsinaddr 24
deb#232 GetResource('CODE', 2)
233 BlockMove
234 EmptyHandle
235 CompactMem
236 BlockMove (this is called with a dest/count that trashes
a block header... foo!)
DrwTable: Memory problems when calling R_Unlock (deb#405)
Peculiar code:
link fp,#-8
...
tstl fp@(-4) /* check for non-zero retpc? */
beq 1f
movel fp@(-4),sp@- /* push the retpc on stack? */
jsr /* glue to do an HUnlock */
1: unlk fp
rts
I just checked: This spooey code gets executed on the
Mac and the Mac has the good sense to blow off the call
to do the HUnlock. We could get by it if we were
to do a sanity check (address has to point into stack
or to memory below brk) before converting the Handle
to a block (which is necessary to detect nilHandle
and WZErrors)
lunarlander: counts on SetPortBits not munging d0. This bites. It will
limp under executor-O, since executor-O:SetPortBits doesn't
touch d0. It still writes directly to the screen and because
it uses scaled text, the text is placed too low on the screen.
Buick: Expects patching "GetResource" to trap calls to GetPicture
so that they can translate 'PI<pi=3.1415926535897932384626>T'
into PICT (appears to be huffman encoded). Will require
internal use of traps. (of course we could do it just for
GetPicture and get further into Buick)
MYSTERY BusWeek: Requires file names to be lower case, then gets an illegal
instruction.
DblHlxEngn: Some sort of problem with non-existant MDEF (may require
more files); should be looked into.
DiskRanger: Doesn't find any files when cataloging.
FullWrite demo: Checks out KbdType which we don't yet support (why not?)
Mystery blow up; reads what should be a small number
from fp@(8) and gets large number (0xBDC8). No
idea who is calling whom.
FullWrite: Blows up early on. Probably decompression stuff related
to traps (should check by watching which traps are patched)
BDSDemo: Can't open file I/O (because UNIX files can't have '/' in
their name) so we can't do anything with any
of the simulations. Uses Hierarchical menus so we're
fried there as well.
Leppy: Calls SndNewChannel
Nisus: Release resource pukes.
NoteWrit: About box not placed properly.
R_HLock blows up.
Shanghai: splodes big time (color problems?)
Silver Fingers: Blows up assigning the title to a dialog window...
on Mac it probably doesn't give a damn.
Telewarp: starts up then hangs.
B L A C K
These apps require something we don't support (but we know what it is,
otherwise it would be in Red as a mystery). Currently we don't put apps
that user hierarchical and pop-up menus here because the rest of the app
is runnable. Because of the prevalance of hierarchichal and pop menus and
TEStyleNew we have boosted the priority of implementing them.
Hypercard1.2.5: requires Sys 6.04. (Can't lie, it uses new traps)
MathReader: uses TEStyleNew
ActaAdvantage: Uses TEStyleNew.
FreeHand demo: Jumps to 10 off ROMBase expecting it to do something
Mustang: Uses Lvl1DT.
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That's the current state of Executor.
Everyone at ARDI appreciates the encouragement we've been receiving.
Clifford T. Matthews
Abacus Research and Development, Inc.
1650 University Blvd. NE
Albuquerque, NM 87102
(505) 766-9115
[ARDI is not associated with the University of New Mexico]ksbolduan@amherst.bitnet (10/28/90)
Is there any way to make it so that one cannot easily change the name of a hard disk? The disk needs to be _used_ so I cannot simply lock it. Is there something with ResEdit, or MacSnoop or anything like that in which one could disable to renaming capability? Thanks, Kevin Bolduan KSBOLDUAN@AMHERST
rpmayne@vax1.tcd.ie (11/09/90)
If you are a Computer Science student outside the Republic of Ireland
please read on. I am trying to compile some basic information about the make up
of Computer Science courses outside this country. The sort of information I am
looking for follows. If you are in a Computer Science under-graduate course
would you please hit reply and try to fill in the blanks, it does not matter
how much you fill in, just try as much as you can.
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General......
Country:
University:
Name of Course:
Name of degree/etc.
Duration of course(years):
What Department is the course most closely associated with,(ie. outside com-sci)
eg. maths,physics,eng. .
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exams.....
when are main exams held:(start of summer,christmass,other):
what is the duration of each exam:
what percentage of the course is obtained outside the exam:
year: percentage:
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2
etc.
Please write a short note on how the rest is examined:
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Course content....
The names of the subjects for each year(or at least the number):
year 1:
year 2:
year 3:
year 4:
etc.
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What do you consider to be the average income obtained by graduates of your
course:
Do you expect to be working in software/hardware/both:
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Do you expect to do post-graduate study if so where and what course:
If you were asked how your course could be changed for the better what would
you say:
Thanks for your help,
Ross.abulloch@garnet.berkeley.edu (11/24/90)
Subject:CD ROM drive giving trouble: help and advice please
Sender: abulloch@garnet.berkeley.edu (Anthony Bulloch)
Summary:D ROM drive not mounting disks
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 90 16:28:44 GMT
Keywords:CD ROM drive, mount
Lines: 25
Help! My CD ROM drive (Apple) is suddenly refusing to mount
disks ("This disk is unreadable...."). I have replaced the
four pieces of CD ROM software in the System Folder (Apple
CD ROM, CD Remote INIT, Foreign File Access, High Sierra
File Access), but to no avail, and the drive behaves the
same way on two machines I have (Plus and II; though I have
essentially the same software on each).
Is there anything I can try to do to fix it before taking
the drive for an expensive repair? (I know how to take the
top off, and how to remove the logic board on top of the
drive so as to get at the drive...)
Any help and advice much appreciated.
Anthony Bulloch
abulloch@garnet.berkeley.edu
Dept. of Classics
5303 Dwinelle Hall
Berkeley, Ca. 94720
Tel.: (415) 642-4218klingspo@holst.tmc.edu (steve klingsporn) (11/30/90)
You will want to go out and purchase a CD player dust cleaning kit. These are readily available at SoundWarehouse, etc., and will correct the problem at hand -- the lens is most likely dusty. Steve Klingsporn former of Apple/Chicago; now @ Colorado State University 303-491-2131 klingspo@holst.cs.colostate.edu .
stever@Octopus.COM (Steve Resnick ) (12/08/90)
Hello Netlanders! I am looking for software/hardware to interface a Mac SE to an HP Laserjet II. Does such an animal exist? Please respond via E-Mail as I don't read this news group.... Thanx, in advance, Steve -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- steve.resnick@f105.n143.z1.FIDONET.ORG - or - apple!camphq!105!steve.resnick Flames, grammar errors, spelling errrors >/dev/nul The Asylum OS/2 BBS - (408)263-8017 IFNA 1:143/105.0
ie3y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Andy Swanson) (12/21/90)
In article <49942@cornell.UUCP>, wayner@cello.cs.cornell.edu (Peter Wayner) writes: > I've gotten plenty of mail about this and EVERYONE has been quite > positive about their experience with MacWarehouse. I assume it > is a fluke, although a bit of a pain. > > This leads to the question, "How do you design networked database > software so that databases are kept consistent?" Why don't people > do this? The airlines can do it, why can't the software developers > who coded up the stuff for MacWarehouse. > > > Peter Wayner Department of Computer Science Cornell Univ. Ithaca, NY 14850 > EMail:wayner@cs.cornell.edu Office: 607-255-9202 or 255-1008 > Home: 116 Oak Ave, Ithaca, NY 14850 Phone: 607-277-6678 A minor suggestion on this. In my experience, you are generally given an order number. Also, your sales rep. will usually identify her/him self If you have a complaint, use this information. Call up MacWarehouse, (Or where ever you placed the order) ask to speak to a manager, and give this information and your complaint to the manager. Possibly even write a letter. This will help to insure that this kind of thing doesn't happen in the future. +Andy Swanson
sungho@snoopy.crhc.uiuc.edu (Sungho Kim) (12/31/90)
Subject:SALE: Apple IIe 128k enhanced
References: <37228@cup.portal.com> <1990Dec25.201354.8806@wam.umd.edu>
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 1990 02:49:53 GMT
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I have:
128k Apple IIe (& enhanced) (the plastic cover for space bar missing,
but working)
2 disk drives (1 drive is 1year old)
Apple III monitor
Datalink 2400 internal modem (1 year old)
1 brand new joystick (1 year old & never used)
1 parallel card for printer
*pro-term communication software(vt100 emulation, 1 year old & $80)
+ disks full of softwares
original owner
Excellent condition (the only flaw is the space bar of the computer)
$500 or B.O.hilbish@en.ecn.purdue.edu (David B Hilbish) (01/14/91)
Subject:Cricket Graph crashes IIfx Date: Sun, 13 Jan 91 11:16:55 GMT Subject: IIfx crashes with Cricket Graph Summary: Expires: Sender: Followup-To: Distribution: Distribution: Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network Keywords: Our Department (Biology) has recently purchased a IIfx and would like to run Cricket Graph. The machine crashes as soon as the application is launched. The application is in tact, as it runs on any of our other machines. I am looking for any type of solution/patch to get this program running on their FX. Changing graph/analysis program is not a valid solution as their research uses this program and they do not wish to change. I am looking for a patch or at least someone else who has this problem. This is defiantely not an INIT conflict or virus as this has been checked. David B. Hilbish Purdue University Biology -- hilbish@grumpy.bio.purdue.edu --
consp22@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (Darren Handler) (02/22/91)
Oops, I replied to the wrong article, that was supposed to be for the EPS
drawing program question, sorry.
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Academic Computing Support - The most fun you can have sitting down
-----------------------------------------------------------------------giex@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (03/04/91)
Is it possible to force the Mac to boot off an external hard drive instead of its default internal one? I'd like to do this as a one time thing - without using the Control Panel and without changing SCSI numbers (internal one is set by default to 0). I thought I read somewhere about holding down some key(s) when restarting, but now I can't remember whether I just forgot the key combination or whether I'm having delusions. Thanks for any help.
chwentrup@uqvax.cc.uq.oz.au (03/21/91)
Does anyone know of an anonymous FTP site that has a range of good G
GIF art in BinHex form? There isn't much at sumex-aim.stanford.edu
and everything at wuarchive.wustl.edu is in binary form (which our
vax can't download at present). Please email replies to :
paul.savage@carbon.chem.csiro.au
Thanks.
Paul.
paul.savage@carbon.chem.csiro.au
Melbourne, Australia
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Those who are skilled in combat do not become angered, those who are skilled
at winning do not become afraid. Thus the wise win before they fight, while
the ignorant fight to win.
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----------------------------------------------------------------------------zinder2500@engin.umich.edu (Michael Robert Attan) (03/27/91)
I am currently using Stepping Out II and Backdrop on my Mac Classic. Does any- one know how to makea startup screen bigger than the 512x342 pixels on the Classic? (so that with SOII the background screen fills up the entire scren) Thanks in advance, -Mike <please send replies to zinder2500@aal.itd.umich.edu>
Paul.OConnor@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Paul Michael O'Connor) (04/11/91)
Does any know if the Mac LC Apple II emulation card runs Apple IIGS software? Or not? How much do they cost where-ever you are? How do they work? Tell me all. Ta Paul Oconnor, Wellington New Zealand
gundrum@svc.portal.com (04/24/91)
Subject: Technical Support Position Available Summary: Expires: References: Sender: Followup-To: Distribution: ba Organization: Software Ventures Corporation, Berkeley Keywords: job position technical support ============================================================================= Technical Support, Macintosh, Windows & NeXT - Software Ventures Corporation, creators of MicroPhone telecommunications applications, seeks a highly qualified, bright, self-motivated computer literate person for the Technical Services team. Team members support customers and in-house staff on software and equipment, as well as test, document and design new products. Knowledge of MicroPhone, or other telecommunications software, and graphical user interfaces a must. Experience with database, network, word processing and development software are potential plusses. Skills not directly related to computer use are also considered. Please send cover letter and resume to: Technical Services, Software Ventures Corporation, 2907 Claremont Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94705. ============================================================================= -- _______________________________________________________________________ Any statements made by this account are strictly based on heresay and should be assumed to have no intelligence behind them. (No, that does not mean they have the approval of management.) gundrum@svc.portal.com