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From: rlw@atlanta.dg.com (Richard Wright)
Subject: Re: Gifs Galore again...
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 14:54:33 GMT
Organization: Data General Corp. Performance Services, Atlanta, GA

In article <3071@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU>, pjs@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU (Peter John Swiatkowski) writes:
|> In article <1992Sep3.075934.1@tesla.njit.edu> kpm8447@tesla.njit.edu writes:
|> >I'm sorry to jump into a already finished conversation but what is the
|> >gifs galore cd (how many gifs are on it, etc)?
|> >How much, and where can I order one
|> > - Thanks
|> > - Kirk
|> 
|> 
|> I'm not sure if I've seen a posting to this group that quantifies the
|> contents of the GIFs Galore CD ROM yet. Basically this is about as full as
|> a CD ROM disc can get.
|> 
|> The GIFs Galore CD ROM disc, from Walnut Creek CDROM, contains over 6000
|> images divided into directories by category, totalling over 600MB of image 
|> data. It also has recent viewer programs for DOS, MS-Windows, Macintosh, 
|> Amiga, Atari-ST, NeXT, Sparc, DecStation and X11.
|> 
|> The disk is standard ISO9660, and a bargain at Walnut Creek's price of
|> $24.95. Contact Bob Bruce by email as rab@cdrom.com for more details.
|> 
|> 
|> Peter Swiatkowski
|> in AUSTRALIA
|> (Just a satisfied Walnut Creek customer)
|> 
|> 

	I ordered the GIF's Galore CD as well. Overall, I am very satisfied.
	How can you NOT be happy with that many GIFs for $25? The only area 
	that I was disappointed in was the clip art. There are only a handful
	of GIF files in this category and they are poor quality. Oh well, 
	you can't have everything - where would you put it all? <grin>
	Seriously, It's a great collection and you can't beat the price. 

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From: wilde@hri.com (Scott Wilde)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Can't display GIFs Galore CD ROM  on Mac
Date: 14 Sep 92 14:12:42 GMT
Distribution: usa


In article <1992Sep14.013928.15849@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>, bpjcmjr@coos.dartmouth.edu (Patricia A. Crossett) writes:
|> I have been unable to convert the format of the GIFs on the GIFs Galore CD ROM to a
|> form which can be read by QuickGif or other GIF viewers.  Does someone know the
|> correct transformation to make?  I have no problem reading the files from the CD ROM
|> itself.

QuickGif only tries to read files that have filetype 'GIFf' or whose names end in
.gif . To get the files to show up in QuickGif you need to copy them off the CD and either change their type or rename them to remove the ';1' at the end of the
name

Scott
wilde@hri.com 


Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: jpark@jarthur.claremont.edu (Jae H. Park)
Subject: Good CD ROM prices?
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 23:38:40 GMT

Hi there, everyone!

I'm a newcomer i the CD ROM realm, and I was wondering if any of you
could tell me; where's the best place to get CD-ROM software?
particularly for the Mac.
The prices I see advertised in magazines are just too high!

Any info would be greatly appreciated.

                              Thanks!!

  Jay Park
  jpark@jarthur.claremont.edu


Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: bwilliam@iat.holonet.net (Bill Williams)
Subject: Re: Can't display GIFs Galore CD ROM  on Mac
Organization: HoloNet (BBS: 510-704-1058)
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 09:22:05 GMT

Another reason you might not have been able to load these .gif files in
your macintosh GIF viewer because they are a newer gif standard. Here is
some information I have in a text file written by Frankie Sierra that
discusses how to alter your readers permanently to accept the newer gif
formats (if not too radical)


Patching QuickGIF for viewing GIF89a graphics.
 
This patch will simply short-circuit the check for GIF87a header
information. 
This means that GIF87a as well as GIF89a will be decoded.  Since the new
version is backward compatible with the previous one, there will be no
problems
decoding the image.  However, new extensions to the file format, such as
comments, graphical text, and others, will be ignored and bypassed by
QuickGIF,
only displaying the background image.  This will be no problem for most
images,
since the majority of GIF89a images only contain the background image plus an
invisible textual comment about the image origin.
 
This patch applies to QuickGIF 1.0, QuickGIF-Plus 1.0 and QuickGIF-Plus 1.1.
 
Using a file editor:
1. Make a copy of QuickGIF, and work on the copy.
2. Run your file editor and select to "Edit Resource Fork", then open
   QuickGIF copy.
3. Find hexadecimal: 0C40 0037 6610.
4. Replace with:     0C40 0037 4E71  (only last 4-digits changed).
5. Write or save changes, and verify it works.
6. If it works, trash previous version, and keep the patched one.
 
Using ResEdit 2.1:
1. Make a copy of QuickGIF, and work on the copy.
2. Run ResEdit 2.1, select the QuickGIF copy, and open Code ID 3, and/or 4.
3. Find hexadecimal: 0C40 0037 6610.
4. Replace with:     0C40 0037 4E71  (only last 4-digits changed).
5. Save changes, and verify it works.
6. If it works, trash previous version, and keep the patched one.
 
Enjoy!
 
Frankie Sierra/QuickGIF Author
 
QuickGIF's Custom "Open File" window has an update problem running under
Sys 7. The file names don't always appear. To force an update, click on
the "Graphics" pop-up menu in the center of the window.



BWilliams
From: bpjcmjr@coos.dartmouth.edu (Patricia A. Crossett)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Can't display GIFs Galore CD ROM  on Mac
Date: 14 Sep 92 01:28:59 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Originator: bpjcmjr@coos.dartmouth.edu

Bob Crossett
bpjcmjr@coos.dartmouth.edu
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond)
Subject: Re: Parallel Port CD-ROM
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 05:16:03 GMT
Organization: Dixie Communications Public Access.  The Mouth of the South.

schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster) writes:

>International Computer Products, the people who made the "BSE Drive"
>and "FlashDrive" parallel port hard disks, are now Dayton Valley
>Electronics. I just received a flyer from them, and in their
>new product list:

>======================================

>PARALLEL CD/ROM:


This sounds like an interesting product but I'd like to point out 
another option.  I have one of the Trantor parallel port SCSI
host adaptors.  I run a CD-ROM drive and a Syquest removable hard drive
from this unit.  Since SCSI gives one 7 target addresses to work with,
there is little reason why 7 devices could not be hung from the parallel
port.  I have also used a cartridge tape drive with this unit.  A tad
more money but well worth it, IMHO.

John

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Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: CALMAN@FSUAVM.BITNET (Doug Calman)
Subject: Hitachi1503s
Reply-To: Doug Calman <CALMAN@FSUAVM.bitnet>
Organization: FUNET-NGW
Distribution: alt
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 23:23:07 GMT

At Florida State, we are running Biological Abstracts on CD-ROM from Silver
Platter.  I have loaded the latest MSCDEX and DOS 5.0 and SPIRS 3.1 on the
workstation, which is an IBM PS/2 Model 80-071 (microchannel architecture or
MCA bus).  I assume what is missing is an updated driver for the Hitachi
drive, the CDR-1503S. We have 2 of these drives daisy-chained.

This is an older drive, made in 1987/88.  Currently I am using an Hitachi
driver called HITA_MCA.SYS which works with another file called MDIHSDVR.
A line in the config.sys reads:
     device=hita_mca.sys /U:0,1 /P:300 /D:MDIHSDVR /N:2

Can you help by giving instructions on downloading a new hita_mca.sys? Does
Hitachi have a BBS, or is there a node which collects these drivers? Am a
novice at FTPing. Doug Calman, Florida State Univ. <CALMAN@FSUAVM>.
From: kirk.jensen@spacebbs.com (Kirk Jensen) 
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Information on Sony H
Date: 9 Sep 92 20:24:00 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: SPACE BBS - Menlo Park, CA - 10 Lines + 4gB - 415-323-4193
Reply-To: kirk.jensen@spacebbs.com (Kirk Jensen) 

To: 2719weberj@vms.csd.mu.edu
2I>
2I>In article <2753.1188.uupcb#spacebbs.com>, kirk.jensen@spacebbs.com (Kirk Jensen) writes:
2I>>
2I>>No, no, no! Those 300kb transfer speeds do not effect the access time at all.
2I>>The NEC 84 still has a 280ms access time, not 140ms. 
2I>>
2I>>These 2x and 4x drives will only transfer data at the higher rate, once it
2I>>has located it. That is important if you want to display 30 frames per 
2I>>second video, for example, or if you have very large files you want to copy.
2I>>For database applications, it is almost worthless.
2I>>                                                                                                    
2I>Ok, so lets try this again, are you saying that it will have 1200kb transfer
2I>speeds at 4x????

It is 300kb / sec, and would be 600kb / sec for a quad-speed drive using
the same tricks that NEC is now using. Still, this is only useful in certain
applications, such as file copy and full-motion video. 

As a comparison, think about hard drives. Are you mainly concerned with 
access time or transfer rate? Most people only think about access time,
and would not be able to tell you what the transfer rate of their drive
was if asked. Not that it isn't important, but it certainly isn't the
MOST important aspect of the drive.
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From: gess@knex.Gwinnett.COM (Gess Shankar)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Dual Adaptec 1542b and ASPI functions ?
Date: 9 Sep 92 19:22:57 GMT
Organization: Knowledge Exchange, GA, US of A

otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) writes:

> A second problem surfaced: seems that the ASPCDTSH driver can't control
> more than seven drives.  Or that's what it looks like.  As the eighth drive
> is initialized, it doesn't print the SCSI ID/LUN information like it should,
> but just the ROM information.  The drive is not accessable thru MSCDEX
> (though the driver did get loaded), it just says "drive not ready".
> Tried changing SCSI ID, and it always surfaces on the eighth drive.  If I
> have just seven drives, no problem.
> 
> Anyone else see this ?
> -- 

I thought that there was a limit of 8 devices on the bus. With the host
adapter taking one of these, only 7 more devices (drives) can be on the
bus.

Is this not correct? Is there a way to control 8 devices using the
Adaptec SCSI adapter?

GeSS
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From: 1012breuckma@vms.csd.mu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: poor customer service at COREL
Date: 16 Sep 1992 02:18:23 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
Reply-To: 1012breuckma@vms.csd.mu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: vmsc.csd.mu.edu

> According to Corel technical support, there is an maintenance update CD
> available that fixes known bugs in V 3.0B of Corel Draw, adds extra
> fonts and an improved PCX filter.  Contact Corel Technical support at:
> 1-613-728-1990 (Voice) or 1-613-728-9175 (FAX) for details.

Good luck getting ANYTHING out of corel customer service...
I had a CD with some problems, Kelly Greig of COREL promised a 
replacement back on July 27th.  After a followup letter on August 
29th, Lynn Stevens promised on September 10th (2 weeks!) that it would 
be 'expedited.'

Maybe by the time COREL 4 comes out I will have it...
From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Need cd-rom containing 4-year college guide.
Keywords: cd rom college 4
Date: 14 Sep 92 15:20:48 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

sheth@cs.scarolina.edu (Vipul Arun Sheth) writes:
>I am looking for a cd-rom which can provide access to information on all
>major U.S universities and colleges. This would be something similar to
>Petersons guide etc.
>Any pointers would be highly appreciated.
*----
Mr. CD ROM (these high-tech guys sure have funny names) lists The
College Handbook, "Advice on selecting a school, the official
College Board database of more than 2700 colleges, "The College
Handbook", and more.  $ 129

Mr. CD Rom
PO Box 1087 
Winter Garden, FL  34777
800-444-mrcd
407-877-3834  FAX

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	Department of Statistics, University of Illinois
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	Internet    berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: u7911050@cc.nctu.edu.tw (Saturn Paul)
Subject: NEC vs. BusTEK
Organization: National Chiao Tung University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 15:16:49 GMT

Hello, all.
  
   I got an information that I have to find the NEC CD-ROM driver 
 for my SCSI if I buy the NEC CD-ROM driver.

   I currently have a BusTEK 542B SCSI Driver, and it seems competible 
with Adeptec 1452B.  Have anybody who uses BusTEK SCSI tried this ?
Do I have to find a BusTEK 542B Driver for NEC CD-ROM Driver or 
I may use Adeptec 1452B ? Where can I find them ?

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From: bwilliam@iat.holonet.net (Bill Williams)
Subject: Re: Floptical drives of any interest?
Organization: HoloNet (BBS: 510-704-1058)
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 10:14:52 GMT

The INSITE device has been available for over 2 years. It is not new.

Th INSITE is unfortunately not a normal device it was designated as a
MS-DOS floppy by a committee and to prevent its use a a general purpose
SCSI storage device requires special "Tricks" in the SCSI driver to unlock
it for writing and to recognize it. In fact It has to be "unlocked" for
use AT EVERY BUS RESET. The group that proclaimed that the INSITE was a 12
bit FAT MS-DOS device was (INSITE,
Adaptec, Data Tech/Qume, Future Domain, Iomega, and Rancho) to prevent
usage of
the device for non-MS-DOS purposes.

INSITE FLOPPIES have to be pressed to implant their timing information as
well as the magnetic layers.

INSITE floppies are thus much more expensive than regular floppies. 

Also they transfer data at only 110 K per second and THAT IS SLOWER THAN A
CD-ROM!

The INSITE is dead because they took too many years to fix the laser
overheating problem and because high tech goodies like that should never
have been kept from the Mac on purpose (especially because 11 million Macs
have SCSI ports that could have used it)


A CD-ROM can be pressed in 10 seconds but a INSITE takes 30 minutes to
format and fill.


Bad Idea.

BWilliams
From: aa699@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tony Thomas)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Corel Draw CD-ROM Edition (Reviewed by Tony Thomas)
Date: 10 Sep 1992 20:28:50 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: aa699@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tony Thomas)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc12.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, calloway@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Frank Calloway) says:

>
>Not true.  There are "check boxes" in the installation program that let
>you install as little or as much of Corel and its features as you want.
>For example, you can choose to install all, none, or a selected number
>of the 250 fonts provided.  The subset I installed on my hard disk takes 
>about 11 MBytes.
>
Granted, you can install little chunks of the program via the check box
option, but this is not what I would call a "minimal installation" since
you don't really have access to the whole package. 

The fonts alone take up over 10MB.  I would rather have access to all
of the clip art, fonts and filters, etc. than install chunks of the
program and lose access to those resources.  By running it from CD-ROM
you lose only 750K of hard disk space and still have access to
everything.

  
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From: deand@bcarh823.BNR.CA (Dean Dillabough)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Parallel Port CD-ROM
Date: 14 Sep 92 21:17:25 GMT
Reply-To: deand@bcarh823.BNR.CA (Dean Dillabough)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.

In article <BuKr24.77F@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, berger@atropa (Mike Berger) writes:
|>*----
|>The Trantor parallel SCSI adapter supports CD-ROM, is available for
|>$ 100, and would allow you to use any standard SCSI CD-ROM which
|>could then be shared with other machines.  Drivers are also
|>available for other SCSI devices (but at those speeds, don't count
|>on much). 
                   
Could someone post a list of places I could order one of these from??
Email would be even better. Thanks.


                Dean Dillabough (No shoes, no shirt, no sig)
From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: CD-ROM article.
Date: 14 Sep 92 15:27:02 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

bwilliam@iat.holonet.net (Bill Williams) writes:
>HAHHAHAHHAHAHAAAA   MANY MANY CD-ROMS are **SINGLE** session PhotoCD
>Compatible, so why further the confusion by using the word "compatible"
>Single session devices ar NOT PHOTO-CD COMPATIBLE.
>To be called compatible by Kodak requires proper multisession capability
>and two years from now people will think you very evil for coining such
>phrases as "My drive is PhotoCD compatible" WHEN IT IS SINGLE SESSION!
>I can't belive how eagerly I Clipped out the post earlier that claimed 
>Kodak said that these devices were PhotoCD compatible :

>>===
>        Magnavox CDD461
>        Sony CDU-6205
>             CDU-535
>        NEC CDR-73
>            CDR-37
>>===

>Imagine my disappointment to realize that the post might have included
>SINGLE SESSION devices (which will only show the first few photos saved on
>the disk the first time it was bought at the processing store)
*----
Imagine YOUR misunderstanding.  The XA specification covers single-session
photo CD roms (which will undoubtedly include the vast majority of
commercially available products).  I don't know if multi-session
CD's are a legitimate extension or manufacturer-specific feature.  But
any manufacturer that claims XA compatibility is telling the truth.
Perhaps you should familiarize yourself with the standards before
jumping to conclusions based on articles in popular magazines.  

>Stop the confusion. Do not disseminate misinformation. If a device is not
>PhotoCD compatible, or is at least SINGLE SESSION capable say it clearly
>in the post.
*----
It appears to me that all the confusion is yours.
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Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: mdroid@world.std.com (WRM)
Subject: information on nec cdr-74
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 04:03:14 GMT


I've just purchased an NEC CDR-74 w/ scsi interface card and I have a few
questions that the individual at NEC tech support was unable to help me
with. Any information you can provide is more that I have!

   1) the drive supports a burst rate of 1.5 Mbytes/sec while the 8bit
      card only goes to .9Mbytes/sec. Is there a real life situation
      where a 16bit card would outperform the 8bitter?

   2) the CDR-74 is a dual speed drive, 150/300Mbytes/sec. Does the
      drive automatically switch to the higher speed when necessary
      or does the software need to signal it to do so. If it does
      automatically what causes it to do so?

   3) the literature indicates that the drive is 'XA ready' but
      requires additional hardware and software to take advantage
      of it. Is there anything available that does so?

Finally, I noticed that although dos treats the rom player as a drive
disk caching software ignores it. I see no logical reason why a read-only
device can't be cached. Is there any caching software that does work?

Please email responses.

-w

P.S. Does anyone have the Groliers Multimedia Encyclopedia? If you do
     is it worth the price? I've heard that World Book is available
     on cd-rom but I haven't been able to confirm this.
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: bwilliam@iat.holonet.net (Bill Williams)
Subject: Re: CD-ROM article.
Organization: HoloNet (BBS: 510-704-1058)
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 06:22:00 GMT

HAHHAHAHHAHAHAAAA   MANY MANY CD-ROMS are **SINGLE** session PhotoCD
Compatible, so why further the confusion by using the word "compatible"

Single session devices ar NOT PHOTO-CD COMPATIBLE.

To be called compatible by Kodak requires proper multisession capability
and two years from now people will think you very evil for coining such
phrases as "My drive is PhotoCD compatible" WHEN IT IS SINGLE SESSION!

I can't belive how eagerly I Clipped out the post earlier that claimed 
Kodak said that these devices were PhotoCD compatible :

>===
        Magnavox CDD461
        Sony CDU-6205
             CDU-535
        NEC CDR-73
            CDR-37
>===

Imagine my disappointment to realize that the post might have included
SINGLE SESSION devices (which will only show the first few photos saved on
the disk the first time it was bought at the processing store)

Imagine my surprise to read that MacWorld (and Apple) claims that the
Apple CD 150 (Sony 8002) is Single session capable but that ANOTHER
magazine claims that this is not true and that the device is MULTISESSION
and thus fully PhotoCD compatible (which I doubt).


Stop the confusion. Do not disseminate misinformation. If a device is not
PhotoCD compatible, or is at least SINGLE SESSION capable say it clearly
in the post.

BWilliams "Boycot Fascist File Format Patents"

Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom,bit.listserv.novell
From: chad.w.german.1@nd.edu (Chad W. German)
Subject: SCSI EXPRESS
Organization: University of Notre Dame
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 12:45:49 GMT

Our Campus clusters group is looking into SCSI EXPRESS CD-ROM to  hang off 
of a Netware 3.11 file server and be shared by individuals........ Anyone 
using this product, what has been your experience either negative or 
positive?????  On the Netware side of things, how much of a anticipated load 
could this put on the file server???????  


Thanks for your info...