HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ujmurphy@mcs.Drexel.edu (Jim Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: OpenResourceFile problem...bug?
Date: 15 Dec 92 21:15:52 GMT
Organization: Drexel University


On 15 Dec 92 07:48:23 GMT, jmk3@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (Jay M. Krell) said:

> I am creating a resource file with CreateResourceFile. It has normal access:
> $C3. This works fine.

> I use OpenResourceFile to open it. If I ask for only write access (2), I get
> error $4E, access not allowed. If I ask for read and write (3), no problem.

[Bits o' stuff removed for brevity.]

> Any ideas what is going on?

    Yup. When you call OpenResourceFile, part of the process involves reading
the resource file header to find out where the resource file map is located,
which is required to manipulate the file. Since the Resource Manager was
instructed to open the file with only Write access, it'll get the error when it
tries to read the file header. When dealing with resource files, you must give
the Resource Manager at least Read-only access.

>   --Jay, jay.krell@cornell.edu


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From: st1dr@elroy.uh.edu (Frankfort, David C.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: SCSI drive troubles
Date: 19 Dec 1992 01:43 CST
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: world
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News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

In article <lh83347@pro-sol.cts.com>, danb@pro-sol.cts.com (Dan Brown) writes...
>In <17DEC199201061181@rosie.uh.edu>
>        It's possible that the drive is toasted, but there's no easy way to
>do a low-level format on a Quantum drive.  This is, I think, because
>Quantum's afraid that you'll change the interleave from 1:1, which is a Bad
>Thing on a Quantum drive (64k+ cache and all).
Don't be silly, there is a program on the Amiga that does exactly this!
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2,comp.sys.mac.system
From: cranem@edsi.plexus.COM (Mike Crane)
Subject: Re: Where to get the Mac ProDOS file system extension
Organization: Enterprise Data Systems Incorporated, Appleton WI
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 19:19:36 GMT

tnakada@eis.calstate.edu (Tom Nakada) writes:
>cxdb14@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu (RANDY) writes:
>> Can someone tell me site, directory, and file name where I can get the Mac
>> ProDOS file system extension?
>If you are referring to the IIe files necessary to run ProDOS disks using
>the IIe card in the LC then:

As a (perhaps) interesting side note, the last time I checked (which
wasn't too long ago), the current version of the ProDOS File System
Extension is completely incompatible with Macintosh System 7.1.  It
worked *great* under System 7.0 and 7.0.1, and made the Mac treat the
ProDOS disk just like a Mac formatted disk.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: mkheintz@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Michael Heintz)
Subject: Re: Apple ][ typing program
Keywords: Apple ][, typing
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:30:57 GMT

A really great typing program for the Apple ][ is "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing"
which should be available from Big Red Computer Club (402) 379-4680.  I know
they have the GS version... call for info on other versions.

The program offers tailored lessons based on your performance.  I have used 
the program and I was very impressed with the diagnostic tests it generated.


	Later,
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: tonyh@pro-scat.cts.com (Tony Hamaoui)
Subject: //C FOR SALE
Organization: ProLine [pro-scat] St. Petersburg, Florida.
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 12:43:00 EST

I have the following system for sale

Rom 3 apple //c
14" color composite monitor
imagewriter // printer...
hayes modem

and various software packages including bank street writer, print shop     
and new print shop........

this is a great system I bought it in 1989........   I need to sell        
this computer as soon as possible to make room for my new system..         
This is a great system for the first time computer user or anyone who      
has great word processing needs..  I will accept the first reasonable      
offer...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: jcarson@us.oracle.com (Jim Carson)
Subject: Help required with CCS 7710 ASI
Followup-To: sender
Keywords: CCS7710
Reply-To: leasgeog@zygochloa.anu.edu.au
Organization: Oracle Corp., Redwood Shores CA
Disclaimer: These ramblings are from ME, not Oracle.
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:29:55 GMT
Expires: Sun, 31 Jan 1993 08:00:00 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by an unauthenticated user
              at Oracle Corporation.  The opinions expressed are those
              of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.

     I'm posting this for a friend who no longer has access to these news
groups, so please send all reply directly to him, instead of posting them
on the newsgroup.
Thanks.

-- Jim Carson
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G'Day.

     After many years of successfully using a //c as an all-purpose home
computer, I picked up a second-hand ][e (unenhanced) at a computer auction
(at an amazingly cheap price, too).  However, it contained a number of cards
I am unfamiliar with (my previous contact with ][es was over six years ago,
and they always had Apple cards in them).

     One card that is giving me problems is the CCS 7710 Rev. B ASI.  My
Point-to-Point manual tells me this is equivalent to an Apple Communications
Card, but rerfers me to the card's manual for instructions on setting the dip
switches to adjust the baud rate; said manual was not amongst the
equipment/manuals I obtained at the auction.  Can anyone out there send me
a table of dip-switch settings for this card?  I assume the switches set
a high speed and a low speed, but this is only a guess.  Any help would
be greatly appreciated.  I'm not able to access netnews, so please reply
to the e-mail address below.

Thanks.

Steve Leahy
c/- Dept. of Geography, ANU

leasgeog@zygochloa.anu.edu.au
From: cd248@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Richard Sherman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: I got Binscii to EXEC.  Thanks.
Date: 17 Dec 1992 07:22:20 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: cd248@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Richard Sherman)
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I wrote in a day ago that I was having trouble EXECing Binscii.
I goofed about the binscii.txt part.  It WAS binscii.exe that I was
trying to EXEC.  Anyway, Todd posted a different version and someone
else told me that it was a problem w/ linefeeds instead of carraige
returns.  I think that was my problem.  I just copied and edited Todd's
posting and it worked fine!
 
Thanks guys.
 

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From: ujmurphy@mcs.Drexel.edu (Jim Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: The Apple II Now and Forever
Date: 13 Dec 92 20:06:40 GMT
	<Bz5H7q.908@darkside.osrhe.uoknor.edu> <bazyar.724188332@teal>
Organization: Drexel University

On 12 Dec 92 19:25:32 GMT, bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar) said:
>> dsdd@okcforum.osrhe.uoknor.edu (Roy Barrett) writes:
>>Matt, it's over at Apple Computer for us Apple IIers. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we
>>have great developers, but how is Apple gonna help us? 

>   Why does Apple need to help us?  They're just dropping the IIgs from the
> price due to lack of sales; they're not going to execute Dave, Matt, Andy, 
> and Jim!!!!

     I would certainly hope not! :-) I haven't really even started yet and
someone used "execute" and my name together in a sentence. Yikes! :-)

>>No way. Who's gonna revise our System Software? No one. 

>   Procyon, an Apple II software company with extensive operating
> system experience, is in great shape to do just that, as long as you're
> willing to pay for it.

     Could you please wait a minute? I'd like you all to please realize that
right now, and for at least the forseeable future, _Apple_ is in the best
place to revise and enhance Apple II System Software. It's as simple as that.
In case you don't know (and I'm not bragging, just trying to bring him back to
reality), I was just hired into the Apple II Continuation Engineering Group
with the sole purpose of working on IIgs System Software. I certainly can't
speak in specifics as to what I will be doing, but one could assume that it
would indeed be enhancements to GS System Software. :-)

>>The Apple IIgs will be dead by 1993,...

     If you listen to all of the negativism that's been around here lately,
sure, the Apple II will be dead in 1993. I certainly don't belive it will. The
Apple II is more than hardware sales from the parent company - it's the entire
user community. If you've had your head in the sand for the last few years and
didn't realize that Apple II sales could indeed be declining, then that's your
fault. The Apple II isn't the core of Apple's business, and it hasn't been for
a long time. Please either keep your quite-unproductive comments to a minimum
and do something _positive_ for the Apple II for a change. I certainly know
I'm going to be doing my best at it in the coming year. Harrumph. :-)


Jim Murphy                             "...you really should know that it's
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From: antony@carson.u.washington.edu (Anthony Hand)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: RAM CARD AUTOLOAD
Keywords: RAM CARD AUTOLOAD AUTO LOAD
Date: 21 Dec 92 02:08:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Dec21.020826.22552
Organization: University of Washington

Does anyone know of a program I could use to auto load Procomm into
a RAM Factor card?  I'm working with a student that is disabled, and
he isn't able to do it manually.  If there was a program that could 
be placed on the procomm disk that would allow others to just insert the 
disk and it would auto load onto the RAM card, this might be workable.

The capabilities of Procomm would be very helpful for this severely 
disabled student.

Perhaps there is a simple BASIC program that could be written that would
do this?

Thanks in advance for any help...

antony

antony@u.washington.edu

please respond via mail as I don't normally read this forum...
From: bing@zinc.cchem.berkeley.edu (Bing Ho)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: IIgs upgrade options
Date: 15 Dec 1992 05:22:52 GMT
Organization: UC Berkeley
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: zinc.cchem.berkeley.edu

I just came upon an Apple IIgs 512k and wanted to upgrade it a bit (less
than $150-200) to take advantage of whatever I can out of it (since it
was free!).

I picked up one of the mags still around for the Apple II and some mail
order places mention version 3.0 ROMS, and I've poked around on ftp.apple.com
and have seen gs-os 6.0.  Is this upgrade worth it and should I go to the
new operating system?

Also, I only have 512k of ram and I've been led on to believe that the last
gs-specific programs required more ram than that.  What can I afford along
with this ROM upgrade?

Thanks for any help anybody can offer me.

-- 
Bing Ho
bing@zinc.cchem.berkeley.edu   University of California, Berkeley
From: tgeer@pro-gumbo.cts.com (System Administrator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: email from internet to applelink
Date: 19 Dec 92 04:16:55 GMT
Organization: Apple Gumbo BBS

In <timmer.724600338@dutiag> timmer@dutiag.tudelft.nl (I. Timmermans) writes:

>Can anybody tell me how I can send email 
>from Internet to applelink and vice versa? 
>I know the procedures for sending mail from 
>compuserve to internet and back again. 
>It seems logical that this is possible 
>for applelink too. 

To send mail from Internet to Applelink

   To: user@applelink.apple.com

To send mail from Applelink to Internet

   To: user@domain@internet  (substitute correct domain & internet address)

To obtain a text file documenting how to send email between many different
networks, send the following email message:

        To: crash!pro-gumbo!server  -OR-  server@pro-gumbo (Proline)
   Subject: send network/mail.addressing

   (body of message can be left blank)


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: ltchean@rambutan.iss.nus.sg (Lim Thye Chean)
Subject: Re: II Alive!
Reply-To: ltchean@iss.nus.sg (Lim Thye Chean)
Organization: Institute of Systems Science, NUS, Singapore
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 02:23:45 GMT

Joe Kohn, first let me thank you for what you have done for the Apple II
community. Your articles are excellent, and is the only reason for me to
read A+/Incider nowadays.

>As you well know, I'm a freelancer, and my words are available to any
>publication that wants to pay me for them. I plan to continue to write for
>inCider/A+ and for Softdisk G-S. So far, plans for writing for II Alive are
>up in the air. When I spoke to Joe Gleason the other day, he did say that
>he'd like for me to have 2 articles in each issue. But, no actual
>assignments were given me. And, the reality is, I'm up to my ears as it is
>with articles. I have 4 more due in the next 2.5 weeks.

Will your articles in II Alive be the same as the one in A+/Incider? Can I
expect something different?

What exactly will the II Alive like? Something like A+/Incider with many
pages of colour graphics and advertisement? Or GS+ with good articles but 
in black and white? Or A2-Central which is actually just a newsletter?

I am hoping for something like the good-old A+. Good graphics design, good
articles, and they actually know the technical detail. I dislike the current
A+/Incider, but it is still the only magazine for the II you can buy from
shell. GS+ is very good, but there is basically no artworks at all in the
magazine.

How many pages can we see in II Alive? How much will it cost me? Will it
be monthly? Will it have colour? Will it focus on IIGS? Will it focus on
school user (AppleWorks!), programmers, hobbiest, or all of us? 

>As much as I'm obsessed with the Apple II, I still only have 24 hours in
>each day. So, we'll see. I am also very seriously considering publishing and
>editing and writing my own Apple II publication. Decisions, decisions,
>decisions...

Why don't you join II Alive and be an editor? I think a strong Apple II
magazine is much better than a few newsletter.

>Joe Kohn

Thanks. And hope to hear from you!



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: irsman@iastate.edu (That Ian Guy)
Subject: Re: MODifier
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 00:18:50 GMT

In article <ZesoVB1w165w@cyberden.uucp> gasman@cyberden.uucp writes:
>I have NO idea what you mean by "totally incompatible" with BSCing.

BSC is a shell utility by Neil Parker.  Due to a conflict with the libraries
it doesn't compile under DEC RISC Ultrix 4.1 or 4.2.  Neil will hopefully fix
this (he's looking into it).  

QuadraScope is part of MODZap 0.85, not a separate program.  The jukebox in
MZ is controllable to some extent with the keyboard.  RTFM.



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  "I will choose a path that's clear: I will choose free will." - Neil Peart
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: sknkwrks@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter)
Subject: Re: Pointless 2.0
Organization: Skunk Works Software Co.
Distribution: na
Date: 18 Dec 92 16:42:26 GMT

In article <1gsgboINNdeh@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> bsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (Bob Sherman) writes:
>Has anyone that ordered the Pointless 2.0 upgrade yet received it??
>
>I placed my order almost 3 weeks ago, and they said it would ship
>within 48 hours. To date I have not received it. I called the company
>and they claim it was shipped...

I didn't order an upgrade...I was buying it for the first time under
their user-group special offer.  It arrived after less than a week.
(I ordered it about 2 weeks ago.)

  _/_   Scott Alfter                             Internet: sknkwrks@cs.unlv.edu
 / v \  Call the Skunk Works BBS today!           Ask me about SoftDAC--digital
(IIGS(  (702) 894-9619 300-14400 V.32bis          audio for your Apple IIe/IIc!
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: tgeer@pro-gumbo.cts.com (System Administrator)
Subject: Re: Apple Profile Drive information
Organization: Apple Gumbo BBS
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 21:26:37 CST

In <BzDJAF.2vG@news.cso.uiuc.edu> clark@cerl.uiuc.edu (Mike Clark) writes:

>Does anyone out there remember the Apple Profile Drive?

[remainder of msg deleted]

Although I don't have any hard specs on the Profile I can tell you a little
about them.  No, they are not SCSI - they use their own controller card. 
They are most likely 5 meg drives, although they could be 10 megs.  By
today's standards they are noisy, bulky and very slow but like most things
made by Apple, they are real workhorses.  My first hard drive was a 5 meg
Profile and for what I paid for it way back then, you can now buy a .5 gig
drive!  Realistically, they are probably worth about $50 each now.  They
might be good for running a small BBS, though.

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From: noahm@pro-freedom.cts.com (Noah Magram)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: //e Monochrome Monitor Wanted!!!
Date: 20 Dec 92 21:34:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: pro-free.1992Dec20.143418.7690
Organization: ProLine [pro-freedom] AppleVan (Apple UG of Vancouver, WA)

Greetings, I am desperately searching for a new Monochrome monitor for my
Apple //e, since my old one committed suicide.  If you have one to
sell or give me (Hey it's worth a shot! :) ) please E-Mail me at:
 
noahm@pro-freedom.cts.com
 
Thanks,
 
Noah.

ProLine:  noahm@pro-freedom
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: lurch@eskimo.com (Erik Kloeppel)
Subject: Re: Need Help w/ RoDime SCSI Drive & RamFAST
Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 02:32:49 GMT

according to my info, the Rodime 3085s is a _70_ meg drive, with 7 heads,
750 cylinders and 28ms access time.

	I don't know exactly how accurate the info is, but this is the
address/number I have for Rodime:

	Rodime Systems
	7700 W. Camino Real
	Boca Raton, FL  33400

	407 994 5585  
	or
	800 346 0270

I have heard that they were bought out by Seagate (800 468 3472)

Ho this helps!

Lurch

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From: sknkwrks@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter)
Subject: Re: where do I get Operating systems updates?
Organization: Skunk Works Software Co.
Date: 17 Dec 92 06:09:16 GMT

In article <1gok1pINNqg4@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> co057@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Steven H. Lichter) writes:
>Maybe someone else has some more places.

You forgot ftp.apple.com...you can cut out the middleman and get
system software direct from Apple's FTP site.

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From: philip@utstat.toronto.edu (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: The Apple II Now and Forever
Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 08:29:37 GMT

In article <Bz675x.K9u@news.iastate.edu> hal@budapest.math.macalstr.edu (Harold Byron Bouma) writes:

[ ]
>> 
>> For the record, the Enhanced Version of Mathematica for the Macintosh costs
>> $795.00. The Student and Standard Versions (no math coprocessor required)
>> costs about $200.
>
>	True, but I was going for what the "average" user has to pay for. Not  
>exceptions like students, which tend to get discounts on a lot of goodies. :)

The "average" user is hardly going to buy Mathematica, Maple, Reduce,...These
programs are oriented towards people who need symbolic algebra and are able
to get someone else to pay for it.
 
That being said, if one wants to explore this area, which has really only
recently been available on micros, then there is Henrik's (Bright Software)
GSymbolix on the GS (priced quite reasonably as I recall- I'd appreciate
someone posting the prices), Derive for the PC (which is $250 for the full
version and $50 for a restricted version- this includes a good manual).
 
There is a real problem with most, but not all computer platforms. They are
very expensive to maintain. Software costs are high, repair/maintenance
costs are high, peripherals cost a lot, etc...
 
I do feel that most people do not pay for software, and if they had to they
wouldn't get a computer.
 
Philip McDunnough
philip@utstat.toronto.edu
From: fmlin@terapin.com (Frank M. Lin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: anyone modifying Zips?
Date: 16 Dec 92 00:48:12 GMT
Organization: BBS

Wasn't there a couple of you trying to put Sanyos into Zips?  I'm interested in
your results.  Please post or leave e-mail, thanks.

frank m. lin
fmlin@terapin.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: henigan@quando.quantum.de (Kevin Henigan)
Subject: Re: .Z files
Organization: Quantum Software GmbH, Dortmund, Germany
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 07:44:34 GMT

In article <1992Nov30.174359.1255@cs.UAlberta.CA> glyn@cs.UAlberta.CA (Reade Glyn Devin) writes:
>>....[loads deleted]
>
>{ I would like to delete some of the above but my arrow keys don't seem
>to be working on this Sparc ...}

use hjkl next time.

>--Devin		glyn@cs.ualberta.ca


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