pepke@gw.scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke) (09/06/90)
It's been a while since I sent these out, so here goes: Here is the latest version of the Macintosh Users' One-Liners. The Macintosh One-Liners are intended to condense onto a couple of sheets of paper information about some of the most common Macintosh problems and programming pitfalls. Each one-liner is a single line of text, shorter than 80 characters, which informs about one aspect of Macintosh use or programming. The one-liners are brief and do not give complete information about their topics. This is intentional. Detailed documentation exists elsewhere, mostly in Inside Macintosh and in the Technical Notes. If you need more information than is provided in a one-liner, you should be able to determine it by a little experimentation or by looking it up using the words in the one-liner as hints. One-liners give either facts or advice. The facts may be obvious to some people and obscure to others but are important for all. The advice is intended to help keep people from running into the most common nontrivial problems. Like proverbs, the advice may not be absolute and may sometimes be more conservative than is strictly neccessary. However, I have found that a little constructive paranoia can go a long way toward avoiding problems, and more than once I have taken a precaution which seemed extreme at the time but which saved my skin later on. The one-liners started as a list I made for myself of things to remember while writing programs. I have augmented them with my condensed records of several years of Info-Mac, Usenet, and Delphi digests and one year of Usenet reading. People who have contributed to the list since its first release are mentioned at the end. The result is very much a gestalt of the Macintosh lore I have seen and depends on the wisdom and efforts of many people. If I have forgotten to include your name, I apologize. Send suggestions for additional one-liners to pepke@gw.scri.fsu.edu on the Internet or PEPKE@FSU on BITNET. Have fun. A beep on trying to open a desk accessory may mean the DA Handler is missing. A beep on trying to open a desk accessory may mean there is not enough memory. If opening a document from Finder doesn't work, open it within the application. A flashing Apple menu means the alarm clock is ringing. Pull down Alarm Clock. A U-shaped icon at the right of the menu bar means Easy Access is activated. HyperCard visual effects won't work on monitors set to more than 2 colors. Hold down the F key and click OK in the print dialog to make a PostScript file. Hold down command-K instead to make a PostScript file which contains LaserPrep. Turn background printing off before trying to make a PostScript file. Remove the paper tray during LaserWriter power-up to avoid the startup page. Hold down the mouse button while powering on to eject any disk in the computer. Don't put disks on the left side of a small Macintosh or near loudspeakers. Never rotate a hard disk drive while it's running, not even gently. If the cursor is surrounded by a big black rectangle, Close View is activated. It is safer to rebuild the desktop under Finder than under Multifinder. Finder's default memory size is a bare minimum. Increase it with Get Info. Putting more than one System file on a disk can cause big trouble. The maximum number of windows in Finder is stored in LAYO resource 128. To make a TeachText file read-only, change its file type from 'TEXT' to 'ttro' The first option-space in a TeachText file shows PICT 1000, the 2nd 1001, etc. You can increase the maximum number of open files using a boot block editor. Compiled by Eric Pepke Additional material by Steve Maker, Keith Rollin, Gregory Dudek, Brian Bechtel, Henry Minsky, Carl C. Hewitt, Jim Lyons, Alex Lau, Kent Borg, Peter W. Poorman, Ross Yahnke, Mark Fleming, Mark Anderson. Eric Pepke INTERNET: pepke@gw.scri.fsu.edu Supercomputer Computations Research Institute MFENET: pepke@fsu Florida State University SPAN: scri::pepke Tallahassee, FL 32306-4052 BITNET: pepke@fsu Disclaimer: My employers seldom even LISTEN to my opinions. Meta-disclaimer: Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.