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From: zaidel@muzungu.cis.upenn.edu (Martin J. Zaidel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Can't print MacDraw figs with psfig (Summary)
Date: 23 Dec 92 15:43:23 GMT

In article <102897@netnews.upenn.edu>, I wrote:

|> Our users often generate postscript figures with MacDrawII, then transfer them
|> over to our Unix machines, where the figures are included in Latex documents
|> with \psfig, and printed with Tomas Rokicki's dvips.  This system, though
|> cumbersome, worked well enough until we upgraded the Mac to System 7.0 from
|> 6.0.  Now we find that the MacDraw postscript figures included with \psfig
|> don't print out on our Apple IIg printers.  However, they *do* print fine when
|> they're shipped to the printers by themselves (not wrapped in dvips output).
|> When the documents are latex'd and then converted to postscript by dvips, the
|> rest of the text on that page (including, for example, the figure's caption,
|> done with latex's \caption) is printed all right, but the figure never appears.
|> We know that the figure has been included in the dvips output, since the
|> figure appears when previewed with ghostview, but the printers won't print them
|> out when given the dvips output.  The dvips output files are not so large as
|> to overflow the printer's memory capacity.
|> 
|> Has anyone seen similar behavior? Any helpful suggestions?  (Besides
|> getting them to use a Unix drawing program... :-)
|> 
|> Martin
|> 
|> 

Since I received several mailings from people who had seen similar
problems, I thought the net might be interested in the solution.

The problem is that System 7 Macs include the wrong laser prep file in
the Postscript file generated by MacDrawII.  The solution is to strip out
the bad code and paste a new header file in with a \special{header=lprep71.pro}.

Special thanks to Eric Dujardin at INRIA for pointing me to the mactotex
package at mac.archive.umich.edu in mac/util/unix, which automates the
stripping process---everything you need to fix this situation is in there.
Also thanks to Anita Zanolini Hoover at U of Delware.

All glory to the net, hari, hari...

Martin
From: kscott@brahms.udel.edu (Nicole Lassiter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Apple Tape Drive
Date: 22 Dec 92 02:07:42 GMT
Organization: University of Delaware

In article <jdurham-141292110726@148.171.33.73> jdurham@atg.amex-trs.com (Jeff Durham) writes:
>Apple's software is on some of the old Developer CDs - but buy Retrospect
>instead. Apple's s/w does not work with System 7.

jdurham is completely correct.  But for diehards who insist on using apple's
lousy backup software, you can edit the system pack's (using resedit) into
the tape backup program and it will work marginally.  Of course the program
gets much larger.

Hope this helps, Kevin (Not Nicole)
From: stephan@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Stephan Eggermont)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Soft_PC. How compatible is it?
Date: 21 Dec 92 14:27:26 GMT
Organization: MCGV Stack, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Harvey Brydon (918)250-4312 (brydon@asl.slb.com) wrote:
: In art. <29600@castle.ed.ac.uk>, tjc@castle.ed.ac.uk (A J Cunningham) writes:

: We have encountered problems with software that does goofy copy-protection.

Well of course. It won't run on some PC's too. Stupid copy-protection schemes 
depend on timing. Or else they have a dongle which has to be put on the
parallel printer port.

: We also have encountered a problem with software that uses the 80287.  This
: was blamed (by Insignia) on a timing problem, caused by defective code in the
: PC application that makes a request of the 287, and grabs data from the result
: register before looking to see if the computation was complete yet.  This
: timing problem does not occur if the pseudo-287 is disabled, but boy does it
: take a long time to run.  Insignia said that this could be remedied by one of
: several things (depending on source language): (1) recompiling with a
: different compiler option, if a high level language such as fortran, pascal or
: c, (2) rewriting some of the code, if it is written in assembler. We got back
: to our application vendor and they were not interested in doing any of the
: above without big bucks since we were not running it on a 'real' PC where the
: problem does not show up.

Did they test that with all different combinations of 286/386/386SX/SL/SLC/
486SX/SL... + 287/387SX/487SX...? I'm not sure I'd want to use software from
a company which doesn't act upon bug-reports.

Or Insignia could make a version of SoftAT which always halts the 286 till all
287 instructions are finished. 

b.t.w. I've seen Turbo Pascal working.

Stephan Eggermont
stephan@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl
From: robertw@informix.com (Robert Weinberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: MAC percentage of the Market
Date: 18 Dec 92 19:44:59 GMT
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.

In article <Bz77DL.49D@iat.holonet.net> bwilliam@iat.holonet.net (Bill Williams)  
writes:
> percentage of the Micro-Computer Market is?
> 
> 
> NBC National evening news on May 12th said that 1 out of 5 Macintoshes in
> business workplace versus IBM clones.

> Conservatives place Mac to functioning PC Clone ration at 1:8 ratio, I now
> cautionsly place the ratio at 1:7.

It would be interesting to look at the statistics again if one thought of a machine  
running Windows as a "Mac clone". Of course, Windows is a much poorer clone of a  
Mac than a Del is of an IBM . . .

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: mf@dancer.cc.bellcore.com (fusco,marc)
Subject: Re: Aladdin Email Support?
Organization: Planet XTC
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 21:35:35 GMT
Keywords: Stuffit, Aladdin

In article <1992Dec19.030520.19874@midway.uchicago.edu> amun@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>Has anyone out there communicated with Aladdin by email? I want to
>register my copy of StuffIt Lite. When I noticed that they have an
>email address, I sent them a message asking if I could register via
>email. That was Sunday. This is Friday. This makes me wonder how much
>support I can expect from them--after all, I'm trying to give them
>money and they aren't responding.
>
>So, is this a pattern of behavior, or an anomaly?

Not sure about their e-mail support but they are pretty shabby about
returning voice-mail help requests too (and don't keep a careful log
of who was helped!).
I've noticed this with a few companies recently including Symantec....
which will definitely influence my decision to buy next time.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: ctrbdo@iapa.uucp%mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu (bryan d oakley)
Subject: Macs for UNIX lovers
Organization: FAA / Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 15:42:34 GMT

As I have said in other postings (whether you've seen them or not), I
am a new mac owner.  My roots are in UNIX, mostly of the workstation
variety (with a smattering of VMS and (argh!) Data General AOS/VS --
though, why should you care?).  Anyway, I want my mac to have some of
the 'luxurys' I've grown used to.  For example, I want an emacs clone
(microemacs?), I would love to gateway email to the net (uucp/uupc?),
get news (of course!) play my favorite games (moria, hack, various
startrek incarnations, etc.)  connect to my sun (X, ppp/slip, etc.)
and so on and so forth.

Has anyone put together the information into a single FAQ which covers
such topics?  I suspect there is a fair number of folks out there
with the same questions.  If there is no FAQ, bear with me as I toss
out such questions for discussion now and again...

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: aj@lew.rosemount.com (Andy Joe)
Subject: Can't get NEC monitor to work on a PB160
Keywords:  PB160, NEC
Organization: Rosemount, Inc.
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:03:13 GMT


Hi.  

Sorry if this posting is a duplicate, since I don't know if my first
request made it and I haven't received any responses.

Has anybody been able to get NEC monitor to work with a PB160 as
an external monitor?  I have both a 3D and a 5FG and neither
will work.  (I have been able to get a Compac VGA monitor to work with
my PB160).

Thanxs for any help.

aj.
From: jdsiegel@garnet.berkeley.edu (Joel Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Re: Stuffit extentions and ".z"
Date: 23 Dec 92 08:57:24 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.berkeley.edu

In article <142340001@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com> rterry@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Ray Terry) writes:
>Another nice thing that -I- like about MacCompress over StuffIt Dlx translator
>is that I can make good use of MacCompress along with HandOff.
>
>Using HandOff I can define any file that ends in '.Z' as being a MacCompress
>document.  Thus by double-clicking on the compressed .Z file, MacCompress is
>launched and asks if I want to decompress the startup file.

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.


-- 
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
From: suthers+@pitt.edu (Daniel D Suthers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Moved from IIc? to IIfx => bogus errors in MS-Word and Laplink.
Summary: I get errors in MS-Word and Laplink after moving to IIfx.
Keywords: IIfx, MS-Word
Date: 31 Dec 92 21:57:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: blue.1286
Followup-To: suthers+@pitt.edu
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

I just moved to a MacIIfx after using a IIcx or ci (not sure which it was).

1. When I try to open Traveling Software's Laplink MacIII it enters the
debugger with a bus error. (When I "ea" it exits with "error of type
1".) On subsequent tries, it thinks another application is using the
modem port. (When I tell it that this is not the case, it bombs with
"problem activating the master process [-17]".)

2. When I try to open certain MS-Word files from an open-file dialogue I
get "not enough memory to complete operation" error. If I try to open
these files by double-click on the file and word is not runing, I get
"not enough memory to run word" even though there's 6+meg. If I double
click when word is running, sometimes I get an insufficient memory
error and sometimes the machine just hangs with the watch cursor up.
I can open other files just fine, including much larger ones. It
doesn't help to increase the application's memory. The problem files
are all versions of the same document (printed successfully on the
previous machine).

Both problems happen under both system 6 and system 7 under either 24
and 36 bit addressing. While 2. could be attributed to a corrupt group
of files, 1. makes me wonder ...  Anyone know of software
incompatibilities or other quirks involving the IIfx that might be
behind this - and fixes?

Please respond to 
  suthers+@pitt.edu
I'll never find you in all these postings! -- Dan

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: leighc@cognos.com (Leigh Chapman)
Subject: Care and feeding of Desktop file
Summary: updating/purging the desktop file
Keywords: system 7.0.1 desktop file
Organization: Cognos Incorporated, Ottawa CANADA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 02:27:50 GMT

Can I delete the (hidden) file Desktop, and expect that it will be rebuilt
when I reboot my Mac?

Under system 7.0.1, when I use ResEdit to view the file Desktop, I see 
resources from programs that are no longer resident on my Mac. For example, 
after removing the terminal emulation program Reflections, and all related
files, including any preference files, I still have the Reflections icons
in the ICN# (et alia) file. (Yes, I rebuilt the desktop... :) 

I've evaluated several software packages for my workgroup, each of which
leaves a little trail of used icons, and so on... Any suggestions on how
to reduce the amount of space used by this file? Are there any other files
that are growing as well?

Thanks.
-- 
Leigh Chapman
Cognos Inc., Box 9707, Ottawa, Ontario K1G 3Z4 613.738.1338 x3105 (EST/EDT)
bitnet: leighc@cognos.com   uucp: leighc@cognos.uucp
From: cs360@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Geoffrey William Buhl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: hardrive backups
Date: 28 Dec 1992 05:10:50 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


Does anyone know a good hardrive backup utility?  I hate Apple's
because you don't know where your files are if you want partial
restoration!

I'm a student with no $$$ so a good shareware app. would be a
blessing.
**********
end quote
**********

If you have a small HD, you could do it by hand.  Sure its
a bit tedious, but it is free.  Also it is easy to do a
partial restoration of data.  If you have a large HD, I 
have heard that Fast Back Plus in nice, but that is
about it.

Geoff
-- 
     Geoffrey Buhl - cs360@cleveland.freenet.edu
  Anybody from University of Detroit Jesuit High School out there?
  If so E-mail me.
From: david_hickson@lincoln.gpsemi.com (David Hickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: LaserWriter IINTX vs IIg
Date: 22 Dec 92 13:26:46 GMT
Organization: GEC Plessey Semiconductors (UK)
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A75CC96D850270B2@mac_nob8.lincoln.gpsemi.com>
X-Xxdate: Tue, 22 Dec 92 13:32:29 GMT
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12

I've just done a speed comparison between the IINTX (16.7 MHz 68020, 2
MB) and IIg (25 MHz 68030, 8MB) printers, using PageMaker.  And guess
what, the IIg is about 30% slower.  Can anyone shed some light on this?

Also, if I use the Apple printer driver instead of the Aldus driver,
printing time can be halved on both these machines.

Dave
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GEC Plessey Semiconductors, Lincoln, England
E-Mail: david_hickson@lincoln.gpsemi.com
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: ctrbdo@iapa.uucp%mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu (bryan d oakley)
Subject: thanks (Re: Macs for UNIX lovers)
Organization: FAA / Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:10:04 GMT

I had previously posted:

> ... I am a new mac owner...  My roots are in UNIX... I want my mac
> to have ...  For example, ...  an emacs clone ... email to the net
> ... news ... my favorite games ... Has anyone put together the
> information into a single FAQ which covers such topics?

*sigh* just what I thought.  First though, thanks already to those who
replied via email or through news.  In summary, many folks suggested
A/UX 3.0.  ... I knew it was there but can't afford it -- that's why I
posted my query.  I just dropped $4K and don't have much left.  I also
know about Mach10, which also looks promising, but at $600 (so the
ads say) is also out of reach.  Hmmm... anyone know the educational
prices of these?

Many folks did let me know about UUPC for the mac.  Whew. There's hope
yet.  And it's a toss up between alpha and microemacs.  One person
suggested I get a 'real word processor'.  Hmmm...  Not the problem.  I
have a 'real word processor'.  Three-ish actually -- pagemaker (well,
ok...), claris works, and Microsoft Word (*gag* I HATE giving them my
money).  What I want is a text editor with EMACS compatible commands
and a version of TeX.  I hate using the mouse (*).

As for the games, yeah, I see that sumex has lots o' games, including
my favorite UNIX game moria.  I just downloaded it to my sun, and will
take it home with me tonight.  

Perhaps I'll let this stew on the back burner 'til everyone gets back
from christmas break and try to compose a collection of what I've
found.  Thanks again for the replies.

Actually, I'm thinking about buying a generic 486 type box and run a
public domain version of unix (eventually GNU, linux now).  Perhaps
then I'll get some sort of Mac X and TCP/IP software and I'll be happy
as a clam.  I bet I can get a '486 with cheapo monitor and public
domain unix up and running for less than A/UX 3.0.  Hmmm...
Interesting thought...

* why did I buy the mac if I hate to use the mouse?  If you have to
  ask ... (well, if you DO have to ask... so my wife can run PageMaker
  ... hard to find a UNIX version of that!  There are, perhaps,
  hundreds of other practical and religious reasons, but we'll save
  that for another day :-)

Thanks again.  Harpy New Year!
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From: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Jim Mann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: History was made today...
Date: 21 Dec 1992 18:18:04 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
Reply-To: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: gondolin.pubs.stratus.com

In article <L0193JI@gwdu03.gwdg.de> jkleins@gwdgv1.gwdg.de writes:
> 
> I think PC today means Microsoft. Their decisions will influence
> the upcomming hardware and their monopol is even stronger than  
Apples.
> Sad that they are not equally innovative. Here they match more a  
clone
> company.

Do you use many Microsoft Apps? I think they've done a number
of innovative things. In the Word Processor market, word seems
to be the first word processor to allow you to copy text using
drag and drop rather than cut and paste.  The way the mini-apps
are integrated into the major Windows apps is also pretty
neat.   And Access is a marvelously inventive and well-designed
database product.

--
Jim Mann            
Stratus Computer   jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com
From: bredell@tdb.uu.se (Mats Bredell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Mouse lock-button-down software available?
Date: 23 Dec 92 09:12:33 GMT
Reply-To: Mats.Bredell@udac.uu.se
Organization: Uppsala University Computing Center (UDAC)
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

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?                      

EasyAccess.

/Mats
-- 
Mats Bredell                                   Mats.Bredell@udac.uu.se
Uppsala University Computing Center (UDAC)     Ph:  +46 18 187817
Department of medical systems                  Fax: +46 18 187825
Sweden                                         Think straight - be gay!
From: twosheds@ferris.cray.com (Jay Vollmer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: What is Macsbug ?
Keywords: Macsbug
Date: 3 Jan 93 18:48:48 GMT
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.

In article <szikopou.724833948@cunews> szikopou@alfred.carleton.ca (Steven Zikopoulos) writes:
>What is Macsbug?  What does it do? Can I remove it?  If so ..should I?
>I am having trouble running some software on my 4meg Plus and the
>software says that Macsbug is the problem.
>
>Can anyone help?
>
>Steven Zikopoulos
>Carleton University
>Ottawa, Ontario
>please reply email :szikopou@ccs.carleton.ca
>
>Thanks.
>
Macsbug is a machine-level debugger, and if you're not a programmer, it's
pretty safe to say that you'll never have a use for Macsbug.  It can come in
handy during a crash though.  If you crash and drop into the Macsbug display
on a Mac Plus, you can return to the finder by typing "G 40F6D8".  On newer
versions of Macsbug, you can do the same by typing "r s"(Return to Shell).


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From: sw29s30@instem.uucp (Scott Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Surge Suppression
Distribution: world
X-BBS-Software: EXCELSIOR! V0.975
Date: 25 Dec 92 17:22:55 EDT
Organization: The Institution - Chesterfield Twp. MI

This is no doubt not Mac specific but it's certainly "misc..."

I'm looking for some Techie/Engineering type(s) to comment on whether tying 
three (or so) overhand knots in the power cord(s) of electronic devices 
(computers etc) offers any significant protection from line surges.

I'm not sure what to think after having been brow beaten for even bringing it 
up... I'm almost afraid to express my personal opinion and eagerly await those 
opinions from someone that's smarter than I. ;-)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: thf28310@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd)
Subject: HELP!!! IIsi hangs after boot!
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 07:15:30 GMT


 
I have a Mac IIsi and I recently encountered a problem during start-up.
I turn my mac's power on and after the "Welcome to Macintosh" screen
appears, the system hangs for about 10 minutes.  (Occasionally, the Hard
Drive makes noise.)  Then, after the 10 minutes, the Finder loads normally.
Everything is then fine, just as if nothing was wrong.  I've checked for
viruses and anomolies, but have found none.  I've reinitalized my hard
drive and reinstalled the system and the problem still persists.  I don't
have ANY inits loded.
 
Please help!!!  I'm desperate!  If you have any ideas as to what the problem
might be please send me some mail.  Thank you in advance.
 
-Todd Faulstich
thf28310@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu

PS: I've booted from a floppy and the same thing happens!
From: sjk6119@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Sgt. Kleper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: StartUpScreen under System 7
Date: 3 Jan 93 17:45:52 GMT
Reply-To: sjk6119@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology

Thanks. Sorry about that. Somebody else informed me that I have an
older copy of Macsbug. My apologies to anybody who just took out
their startup screen. I'll get the new version. Thanks to all.

-Scott
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: bredell@tdb.uu.se (Mats Bredell)
Subject: Re: How to send eMail to AppleLink fellow?
Reply-To: Mats.Bredell@udac.uu.se
Organization: Uppsala University Computing Center (UDAC)
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 15:54:01 GMT

Eric Owhadi (owhadi@sirocco.rice.edu) wrote:
: 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.

You can send email to AppleLink by appending "@applelink.apple.com". Try
sending your mail to BOUYGES.P@applelink.apple.com.

/Mats
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Mats Bredell                                   Mats.Bredell@udac.uu.se
Uppsala University Computing Center (UDAC)     Ph:  +46 18 187817
Department of medical systems                  Fax: +46 18 187825
Sweden                                         Think straight - be gay!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system