HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: dross@cambizola.cs.wisc.edu (Dan Ross)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: PB 170 Trackball Problems
Date: 27 Dec 92 21:36:00 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept.

My mother's PB 170 4/40 w/ Apple modem had trackball and button problems 
a couple months ago which were as follows:

- clicks on objects would not be registered appropriately occasionally,
  in a variety of applications:  I tried it and so noticed the pointer
  was right on the object being clicked--just nothing happened
- the arrow cursor would move jerkily around the screen, as if the
  trackball was dirty or as if the machine was doing a lot of background
  work.  No, the machine had not gone to sleep, and power-saver was
  turned off, and the trackball was clean (she hasn't used it that much,
  either, to make it terribly dirty).

She sent it in and they replaced the trackball which SEEMED to fix the
problem.  However, while playing with SimCity (1.4, the monochrome version),
I noticed that again, with power-saver off, if I
leave the trackball alone for a couple seconds, the machine goes into
super-slow mode:  the animation all but stops, and the progress of the
simulation becomes about 5 times a slow (there's a counter indicating
the passage of simulated time).  Simply moving the trackball a bit 
will restore it to full speed, and continuously moving the trackball 
(going in a circle, for instance), will keep the game going at full tilt.

She mentioned that a problem she'd had before having the repair dones
was that the insertion point in MS Word 4.0 would stop flashing, and it
would take the machine a while to catch up if she started typing.  She
also said the problem seemed to occur only after the machine had been
on for a while.

It sounded to me like an ADB problem, but I don't know that much--are
there faulty trackballs which bog the machine down or cause missed
mouse events?  Anyone else have these problems?

I believe the only INITs are the Apple Fax, Quicktime, and ARA; she
had tried it with them all disabled before sending it in, also.

Dan
dross@cs.wisc.edu

(Follow-ups to .misc--I don't know if it's really a hardware problem.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.wanted
From: haferman@icaen.uiowa.edu (Jeff Haferman)
Subject: PD/Shareware DEFRAGMENTATION software wanted
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:34:42 GMT
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA


What's available these days as far as System 7 compatible
non-commercial defragmentation software?



Jeff Haferman                            internet: haferman@icaen.uiowa.edu
Department of Mechanical Engineering     DoD 0186  BMWMOA 44469  AMA 460140
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA  52242                                 '76 R90S
From: acm139@ccs.northeastern.edu (Scott Ehrlich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: WANTED: Ham radio software for Mac
Date: 28 Dec 92 00:42:06 GMT
Organization: College of CS, Northeastern U

Any help would be wonderful.

There is no deadline.

===============================================================================
| Scott Ehrlich 	       Internet: wy1z@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu   |
| Amateur Radio: WY1Z          Packet Radio: WY1Z @ K1UGM.MA.USA.NA	      |
===============================================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: rjones@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Ronald Jones)
Subject: Re: History was made today...
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:21:17 GMT

In article <Dec.21.04.38.17.1992.29194@remus.rutgers.edu> clong@remus.rutgers.edu (Chris Long) writes:
>In article <1992Dec19.170507.4692@siia.mv.com>, David Dick writes:
>
>> I once heard of someone saying that trying to use PCs to replace
>> mainframes [for some tasks] is like trying to plow a field with
>> a herd of chickens.
>
>But what if the chickens are the size of a horse?  Considering the
>power of PCs today, they might even be as big as elephants.
>-- 
>Chris Long, 265 Old York Rd., Bridgewater, NJ  08807-2618
>
Grace Hopper (a wonderful speaker, who died early this year) was fond of

telling a story about a farmer who was faced with the problem of trying

to pull a tractor out of the mud.  When he found that one horse was not

enough to do the job his solution was not to try to grow a bigger horse

but rather to hitch-up more than one horse.  She used this anology to

promote distributed processing with computers.  However, a retort that I

heard was that although one might try using several horses trying to

hitch-up 10,000 chickens is not a good idea!

-- 
 < Ron Jones                   |    E-mail:       rj+@osu.edu   > 
 < The Ohio State University   |    Office:      (614) 292-1665 >
 < 338 West Tenth Avenue       |    FAX:(9-5PM)  (614) 292-7151 > 
 < Columbus, Ohio 43210        |        "eschew obfuscation"    >      
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.misc:21108 comp.sys.mac.hardware:24944
From: ostertag@cs.umd.edu (Eduardo Ostertag)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Mac IIci restarting with Power Button UNLOCKED!!
Date: 27 Dec 92 17:10:26 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Organization: Computer Science Dept, University of Maryland at College Park

Hi there:

I have a Mac IIci at home. For  the  past  week  or  so  the  Mac  restarts
automatically 30 secs (or so) after I turn it off via the "Shut Down" menu.
I read the documentation and made sure the "power lock button" found in the
rear  of  the  Mac  is  unlocked:  popped out and the notch in a horizontal
position.

According to the documentation ("Getting Started with your Mac IIci" pp 24)

    1) if the computer is on when you lock the power, it will turn off

    2) when you unlock the power, the computer will shut off

Well, none of this is true in my Mac IIci.

    1) If the computer is on and I lock the power, the Mac  restarts
       as if I had pressed the front reset button.

    2) If the computer is  on  and  I  unlock  the  power,  the  Mac
       continues working and does not shut off.

Any help will be greatly appreciated,

-Eduardo Ostertag (ostertag@drinkme.cs.umd.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: owhadi@sirocco.rice.edu (Eric Owhadi)
Subject: How to send eMail to AppleLink fellow? 
Organization: Rice University
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 18:04:54 GMT

Hi all,

does anyone know the eMail address I have to use if I want to Email a message to pierre Bouyges. His AppleLink address is BOUYGES.P
He is a Apple Computer France employe.

Eric.

owhadi@geophysics.rice.edu
From: an780@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Travis Grundke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Apple to have trouble ahead
Date: 28 Dec 1992 01:19:00 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: an780@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Travis Grundke)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc12.ins.cwru.edu


Well folks, just read the recent Murph's Vaporware and it seems like
Apple's going to have a tough time ahead. It seems that PC vendors cannot
lower prices any more, so they're including more in the hardware such as
soundcards, CD-ROM drives, accelerated video cards, and upgradable CPUs. In
my opinion, there is no reason why the Macintosh OS can/should be Apple's
premise for buying the Mac, and these new "PC Additions" will make it just
that more tempting to buy a PC. Apple needs to get the ball rolling and
update its next series of Macs to stay just that farther ahead of PCs.

-- 
Travis Grundke	 	    |  For More information about MacGames Digest,
Contributing Editor-        |  The First Publication Dedicated to Macintosh
MacGames Digest		    |  Gaming, Please contact us at the previous 
an780@cleveland.freenet.Edu |  E-mail address. (c) 1992 Travis Grundke/MGD
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: maynard@leah.msc.cornell.edu (Maynard J. Handley)
Subject: Re: Drivin' me nuts! ("in use")
Keywords: help!
Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 02:46:03 GMT

In article <C024vs.CGB@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu>, mgreeny@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Greeny)
writes:
>wilmott@remus.rutgers.edu (ray wilmott) writes:
>
>The problem is because Freehand/Pagemaker is still OPEN that the file is
>marked as "In Use".... Basically, you're probably trying to drag 'n toss
>one of the temporary files that Freehand/Pagemaker is using (because
>it's open), and the Mac is saying "you can't do that...".
>
>The trick is to either not drag those files to the trash, or to QUIT the
>offending application before trying to dump the trash.... A pain, but
>that's the way it is...

Well I don't this is quite all. Surely the answer is to write to Aldus and
tell them you find this behavior unaccpetable and want a switch so you can
turn it off. If they don't know you dislike this behavior, nothing will
ever change, and complaining to the net will not affect them. Anyway it's
worth a shot.

Maynard Handley
From: spw@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Steven P Wilkinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Mouse lock-button-down software available?
Date: 24 Dec 1992 11:40:49 +0800
Organization: The University of Western Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: uniwa.uwa.edu.au
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Mark Hayes (ccmlh@buitc.bu.edu) wrote:
: The following seems quite desirable to me:                                      
: A simple FKEY / control panel / extension that would let you                    
: define a hot key as "lock mouse button down". In other words,                   
: you could type control-option-command-M (or whatever) and it                    
: would have the effect of making the system think the mouse button               
: was being held down continuously, until you either hit the                      
: real mouse button or take some other action other than                          
: just mouse movement. Anyone know if there is such a thing?                      


There is such a thing and you most likely already have it.
"Easy Access" comes free with Apple system software. Check your
manual and read the section on Mouse Keys. You can toggle mouse
keys on and off with cmd-shift-clear. The 0 (zero) key locks the
mouse button down. The decimal point key unlocks the mouse button.
Easy Access is a control panel BTW.

Good luck,
Steve Wilkinson
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Distribution: world
From: starsabre@ultramac.uucp (JT August)
Organization: Odyssey Ultraware, Inc
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 04:52:09 CDT
Subject: Re: Why doesn't someone write a ShutdownSound Extension?

Apparently you have not seen Sound Master (I have 1.7.3).  It permits assigning
sounds to several functions, including Start Up (Welcome honoured guests),
Restart (Oh no, not again), disque request (And now for something completely different),
and shut down (Looney Tunes closer with Porky Pig), amoung others.

John

Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.misc:20998 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:16071 misc.invest:15243
From: lex@optimla.aimla.com (Lex van Sonderen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,misc.invest
Subject: Re: History was made today...
Date: 22 Dec 92 02:13:05 GMT
Organization: Philips Interactive Media of America

In article <1gon7oINNshk@mirror.digex.com> hacker@access.digex.com (Dark Hacker) writes:
>
>But who's laughing now?  IBM is on the skids and scrambling to stay

Microsoft.

Does anyone think the downgoing of IBM is to be contributed to Apple in
any way?  The only one with real power in the personal computing world 
is Microsoft.
Apple is lucky (and smart enough) to be changing into a software company.

Lex van Sonderen
lex@aimla.com
From: HarriRehnberg@salient.com (Salient Software)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Autodoubler
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 14:41:13 PST
Organization: Fifth Generation Systems
Reply-To: HarriRehnberg@salient.com (Salient Software)
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.5v3


In article <HEYES.92Dec18162558@dadev.cebaf.gov> (comp.sys.mac.misc), heyes@dadev.cebaf.gov (Graham Heyes) writes:
|In article <2025@intermec.UUCP> howie@intermec.com (Howard Kaplan x1696) writes:
|
|
|   I have them stumped though on an AD 2.0 problem with my Mac SE. I am running
|   6.0.7 without MultiFinder.  Basically what happens is AD will never quit
|   scanning! If I set the delay to 3 minutes it will start the scan on schedule
|   and display the scanning icon as it should. It takes roughly 10 minutes to
|   scan my 100 meg external Quantum for potential files to scan. When complete
|   it immediately starts scanning again with no scanning icon visible. Once this
|   starts it never stops until I hit a key or move the mouse. Checking the AD
|   control panel usually shows a future scheduled scan as one would expect, but
|   it never really gets to this since it never stops scanning.  
|
|   This problem is driving me and 5th generation nuts. I have tried everthing
|   they suggested so far inlcuding re-installation, runnning a heap fixer
|   program (Bootman) and killing all inits excpet AD/DD.  No luck yet! 
|
|
|I have posted on EXACTLY the same subject to comp.sys.mac.apps (or maybe system)
|anyway the same thing is happening to me, exactly the same symptoms. 
|
|So far I have...
|
|1) Rebuilt desktop (ater using ResEdit to make visible + trashing old desktop)
|
|2) Removed AD and re-installed, repeat 1)
|
|3) Called 5th Generation.
|
|4) Deleted hidden AD file using ResEdit to make visible etc, go back to 1)
|
|5) repeat stages 1,4,2 in that order.
|
|6) Repeat all stages without re-installing AD, back up to floppys,
|   ERASE hard drive, re-install AD.
|
|The problem persists. I have System 6.0.7, crash barrier, after dark hierDA, 
|appolo and a few others. Symptoms  appeared 2 weeks after upgrade to 2.0.
|
|Any suggestions could be useful,
|
|		Graham Heyes
|

We are trying to duplicate this report here.  So far we have been
unsuccessful.  If those of you that are having this problem could
send me a complete description of your hardware and a listing, viewed
by name, of your system folder it would be helpful.

for all FGS products FIFTHGEN@aol.com
for AutoDoubler & DiskDoubler techsupport@salient.com
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From: fang@phy.duke.edu (Fang Zhong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Auto-Convert MacWrite Files to Word-5.0 Files
Date: 2 Jan 93 17:53:31 GMT
Followup-To: poster


	We start to use Word 5.0 for all our word processing.
We still have hundreds of documents in the MacWrite format.
Is there a simple tool by implementing which we can double
click a MacWrite file and load in Word 5.0 to convert it?
Or maybe an even better way: we can automatically open with
Word 5.0 all the MacWrite files in a folder, save them under
original names in Word format.  Does such a tool exit?
	Thanks in advance for any helps.

-- 
	Fang Zhong				1-919-660-2524
	Duke University Dept. of Physics	fang@phy.duke.edu
	Durham, N.C.      27706			
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: frost@netcom.com (John Frost)
Subject: Two Networking Questions - WAN routers & LCII network ability
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 02:38:39 GMT

I am about to wire my companies two offices for a WAN.  They both use 
Ethernet and Appletalk (using sys 7.1 networking capabilities as a network)
to talk locally.  We are going need to establish a WAN, with the ability to
expand to 10 or more offices, using digital lines (rented 56kbits) through
our local telephone cloud.

I am looking for testemonials on which WAN router (and WAN link [DSU] )
to buy.  Any help will be appreciated.

PART II

the MAC LCII seemed to be a solid platform for networking while I was in
college.  I was hoping to get confirmations/denials from the netfolx on
the LCII's ability to holdup in a WAN network environment.

All help is appreciated.  

Thanks
frost@netcom.com
o
From: jdsiegel@garnet.berkeley.edu (Joel Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: BINHEX encoder/decoder for Unix?
Date: 23 Dec 1992 09:41:43 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.berkeley.edu

In article <5026@equinox.unr.edu> malc@equinox.unr.edu (Malcolm Carlock) writes:
>Does anyone know of a BINHEX decoder (and, hopefully, encoder) that
>will run on Unix?
>
>I've checked archie, and been unable to find anything with "binhex"
>in the name.
>
>Thanks in advance for any info.
>-- 
>
>Malcolm L. Carlock                      Internet:  malc@unr.edu
>                                        UUCP:      unr!malc
>                                        BITNET:    malc@equinox



The program is called mcvert; it's archived at
sumex-aim.stanford.edu under /info-mac/unix/mcvert-188.shar.  I
*think* it will encode as well as decode, but I haven't used that.
Check the man page.  (You have to use unshar to get it out of the
.shar format, and may need to use make to get an executable.)


-- 
Joel Siegel <jdsiegel@garnet.berkeley.edu    jdsiegel@ocf.berkeley.edu>
"Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in
affairs which properly concern them."  - Paul Valery
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: wdp@gagme.chi.il.us (Bill Pfeiffer)
Subject: Is there a comprehensive list comparing mac features/price?
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: Gagme Public Access UNIX, Chicago, Illinois.
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 12:22:11 GMT


Does anyone know of, or willing to construct, a comprehensive
chart-style listing of all macintosh models which will compare
the miriad of features of each Macintosh model?

Such things as CPU, speed, number/type of expansion slots/ports, bus speed, 
peripheral support, and other things that would affect a person's decision
on which Mac to buy.  The list might also contain some subjective/objective
comments on what models would be better for what purposes.  The list should
include models that are discontinued as well as ones that are in production.

I would like to see this list created by a/several Mac users as opposed to 
Apple.   Any ideas?  Does any such list exixt?

Please e-mail

Thanks

Bill







Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: tjs@earth.wustl.edu (tom sullivan)
Subject: Sticking mouse button???
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 06:53:04 GMT


I have a mouse problem and wondered if anyone else has seen it.

I've had a IIsi for about 6 months now and have been having problems
with a "sticking" mouse button. When I press the button and release,
it often remains pressed. If I press the button again, it will
release, or if I pick up the mouse and set it down rather sharply.
This started several months after getting my mouse and I had it
replaced. It was then fine for a couple more months, but has cropped
up again with the second mouse. I've checked for back connections with
cables, and internally in the mouse to no avail.

I've reinstalled the system and I've made sure that Easy Access is not
installed. I've got System 7.0.1 with TuneUp and the old style ADB
standard keyboard (M0116).

Any ideas? 

thanks,

tom

tjs@earth.wustl.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: leonardr@netcom.com (Leonard Rosenthol)
Subject: Re: Mouse lock-button-down software available?
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 17:38:57 GMT

In article <1hc038INNpls@agate.berkeley.edu> jdsiegel@garnet.berkeley.edu (Joel Siegel) writes:
>My question is, is there software out there that will do the same
>for the PowerBook trackball buttons?  Since the machine has two of
>'em it would be nice to be able to configure one as a "lock down"
>button.
>
	Well, the original Powerbooks (100, 140, 145 & 170) did not have
the software logic to distinguish between teh buttons, though the newer
models and the Duos are able to distinguish.  So at least now it is possible.

-- 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Leonard Rosenthol			Internet: 	leonardr@netcom.com
Director of Advanced Technology		AppleLink:	MACgician
Aladdin Systems, Inc.			GEnie:		MACgician
From: brecher@husc8.harvard.edu (Jonathan Brecher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Sumex is in need of a restucturing
Date: 1 Jan 93 03:29:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc8.BRECHER.92Dec31192928
Organization: Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services, Cambridge, MA
In-reply-to: bgrubb@dante.nmsu.edu's message of Thu, 31 Dec 1992 17:42:08 GMT

bgrubb@dante.nmsu.edu (GRUBB) writes:

>Was looking though sumex-aim.stanford.edu in the /info-mac/app directory
>and had the realization that the /info-mac/app directory was becoming
>a messy dumping ground for files that logicly belonged in other
>directories.  For example the following files SHOULD be in the game
>directory:
>glider-112-updater.hqx
>glider-designer.hqx

Actually, only the first of these files is related to the paper-airplane game.
the other helps you design balsa wood gliders -- the kind you actually throw.

>There is a large number of files that imply the need for a 'graphics' 
>directory with with 'art' and 'program'  subdirectories. With these
>directories the following programs could be moved out of the /info-mac/app
>directory and into a /info-mac/graphics/program directory:
>[list deleted]

If you don't like the way sumex organizes things, don't use sumex.  At
mac.archive.umich.edu we have always organized things in much the way you
suggest.  We have a hierarchical directory structure that makes it easy to 
find exactly what you want.  And if you CAN'T find what you want, you can
always search our 800K descriptive index file, which is also available in a
tab-delimited form for easy import into the database of your choice.  We have
between 50% more and twice as many files as sumex does (depending on how and 
what you count), including everything sumex has (except art, sounds, and 
quicktime).

If you have any questions about mac.archive, you can mail me or send mail
to questions@mac.archive.umich.edu, which sends you message to all the 
archivists.
					jonathan brecher
					brecher@husc.harvard.edu
					assistant mac.archivist
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: David Johnston <davidj@daveland.demon.co.uk>
Subject: HP 500C colour inkjet driver?
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A764EC0BD40208B8@daveland.demon.co.uk>
X-Xxdate: Mon, 28 Dec 92 22:38:19 GMT
Organization: Daveland Developments
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:35:40 GMT

Does anybody know if a printer driver exists for the HP 500C
colour inkjet printer for the macintosh.

  Thanks muchly,
                David
-----------------------------------------------------------------
           David Johnston:  davidj@daveland.demon.co.uk
                        Cambridge, UK
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From: rterry@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Ray Terry)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:31:20 GMT
Subject: Re: Re: Stuffit extentions and ".z"
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc

>Hmmm, I'm able to do this without HandOff.  When I download ZModem
>using ZTerm, it sets the file type/creator to ZIVU/LZIV, and
>doubleclicking them automatically launches MacCompress.  (If I
>shift-click a bunch of them and open, MacCompress will uncompress
>as a batch.)  I may have had to rebuild my desktop to do this, but
>it's worked fine as long as I remember.

Yes, that would work if the file was created with MacCompress, but what
if it was created with Un*x compress?  It then probably ends up as a 
TEXT file after the Zmodem transfer.  Unless, that is, ZTerm does something
special with .Z files.  I'm ZTerm registered user #7 (as I recall), but 
I use White Knight.

Ray
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc