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From: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Information on: The IIvi, IIvx, and Performa 600
Keywords: performa new macintosh
Date: 17 Aug 92 00:30:55 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

breck@kirk.ecs.umass.edu (Liam Breck) writes:

>Wait!  Stop!  (Sorry about this, Apple, but...)  Reconsider buying
>that IIsi!  It has no significant advantage over the LCII, and some
[...]

>The IIsi's only advantages are slightly better CPU speed (not a big
>enough difference to notice in real time use, but you will notice the
>disappointing screen redraw speed) and the ability to plug in Nubus
>cards, again, not an issue because the LCII is a very popular machine,
>so there are a lot of cards for its PDS (processor direct slot).

[...]

Say what?! no offense, buddy, but I would recommend whoever considering
buying a LCII to think about it again... 

The LCII is a *major* speed hog.  The Vram is not only nice to have... but
also essential!  If you have supplied enough ram, you can see the SI sweeps
the floor of the LCII.  Putting a 32 bit cpu into a 16bit machine is
simply inexcusable--especially when their price tags only have $100 difference
(according to my school's "Back to School" deal.)

I do have to admit it's nice to have the PDS though...

Yours Sincerely,
Kelvin
e-mail: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu
From: ficara@remus.rutgers.edu (Ken Ficara)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Disappearing icons in System 7
Date: 14 Aug 92 15:23:29 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

par@nwu.edu (Pete Rodriguez) writes:

>Lately, I've been seeing Macintoshes running System 7 and System 7 tuner
>with a most unusual problem.  Instead of the usual "specialized" icons
>(like the "V" shield for Disinfectant 2.9), there's only a blank
>extension-type icon.  Other files have been similarly affected (MS Word
>documents have a blank document icon).  I have no idea as to what is
>causing this.  Rebuilding the desktop gets rid of the problem for a while,
>but I have seen this problem resurface on at least two Macintoshes.

I've had a similar problem on two separate Macs, my work and home
machines. The work machine is an SE/30 5MB, networked; the home
machine is an SE, 4MB, not networked (except occasionally with ARA).

Rebuilding the desktop has NOT worked for me (the obvious answer). But
what has worked (most but not all of the time) is to use ResEdit or
any other program that can modify finder flags, make the Desktop DB
and Desktop DF files visible, and then trash them.

This only started happening to me recently but I haven't really
changed anything -- except installing the latest Alliance disk drivers
(could that be it?).

Ken
ficara@remus.rutgers.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: purp@wixer.cactus.org (Jim Meyer)
Subject: Re: Outbound Vs. Powerbook
Organization: Real/Time Communications
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 06:13:02 GMT


One quick note on a major difference (or at least, major in my decision
to buy a PB 140): none of the Outbound models (nor the PB 100) have the
ability to do color quickdraw. This stems from the ROMs inside these
machines. If you ever intend to use color with your notebook, the
Outbounds and the PB 100 are worth avoiding.

--Purp, considering marrying his PowerBook.

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| Austin, Tejas | can bet no one else agrees.  | aka jimpurp@pro-lep   |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer
From: alen@crash.cts.com (Alen Shapiro)
Subject: RTF generation...preliminary report
Date: 23 Aug 92 01:04:28 GMT
Summary: Mostly done, here's a report on progress so far
Keywords: RTF microsoft word styles page numbers nextfile

First, thanks for all the hints/advice/desperate-pleas received.
The response was heartening. It seems that a number of netters have
tried RTF generation with varying degrees of success/frustration.

In response for the requests for a progress report, here goes...

First a disclaimer, I've not contacted Microsoft with these observations,
I'll do that this week and will post a follow-up report.

I have an RTF generator that takes a program-module specification and generates
formatted documentation, allowing for user-specified styles which override
my programmed defaults. Some of the "features" that so-far have me stumped
are:

1) Specification of next-file-to-print. I use the "{\*\nextfile aaaa"}
   command but can only get that to work with an "aaaa" in the current
   folder. Seems to be some strange restrictions even with absolute path
   names (19 character truncation). Even specifying the follow-on file
   from within Word and then saving as RTF loses the path information.

2) Can't stop the next file in a sequence of files from resetting the
   page-counter to 1. After reading in the RTF file, Word notices my
   \pgncont directive (and does not set the "reset-page-numbers" check-box
   in the "section" dialog) but page numbers restart on all follow-on
   print files.

3) Wouldn't it be nice to have an "Open-next-file" menu, so I can test the
   file-spec without having to print it.

4) If I want to print page 5 of a 10 page composite document with 2 pages
   per file, I specify start=5 end=5 in the print dialog but get pages 3
   through end. Seems my page requests are forgotten when the second file
   is converted from RTF as it is chained to!! (To be fair, I have not
   tried this with chained files of type=normal so I don't know if this
   is an RTF related problem.)

5) An unterminated "{" causes footers to be forgotten (no matter how
   many previous pages the footnote could have appeared on before the
   unterminated "{" appeared. Tracked this down by binary-chop deletions
   of RTF from the bottom of the file till the footers reappeared.

Once again, if there are any hints/suggestions available before I make
a fool of myself to microsoft, I'm all ears. The technique of building
a sample document in Word then saving as RTF (to see how they do it)
is the biggest time saver.

--alen
alen@crash.cts.com

ps I'm using System 7.01, Tuneup 1.1.1, SE/30, 8Mb RAM, Word 5.0a, many,
   many, many inits (and I'm collecting more all the time).
From: jsp@uts.amdahl.com (James Preston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: How to HIDE Files on a mac to prevent Piracy?
Date: 17 Aug 92 22:31:56 GMT
Reply-To: jsp@pls.amdahl.com
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

tinsel@uiuc.edu (Thomas Aaron Insel) writes:

}On a technical level, you can simply set the invisible bit with ResEdit.
}I don't know if the Control Panel will read invisible files, but it might
}work.  However, DON'T DO THIS.  It's not enough copy protection to be
}useful, and it's guaranteed to make paranoid people like me on edge.  If
}I install a program, and it starts writing invisible files over my hard
}drive, I'll want to know why, and don't think that making them invisible
}will cause trouble for anyone with enough knowledge to reverse engineer it.

I want to second this.  Don't use invisible files.  Consider what happens
if I try out your application, don't like it, and drag it into the trash.
But I've still got your invisible files taking up space on my disk.  I'll
tell you, when I discover them (which I'm sure I will, eventually, because
I use things like ResEdit and DiskTop which show invisible files), I am
going to be VERY pissed at you.  There is NO excuse for an application
to create invisible files.

--James Preston

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: spence@dante.cs.uiuc.edu (Rob Spence)
Subject: My LC II won't boot under System 6 :( ???
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 20:52:47 GMT

This may be a commonly known problem, I'm not sure. I have for the past
severl months swapped between system 7.01 and 6.08 by booting off a 
6.08 disk. I recently tried out the shareware product system-switcher and
encountered some buggy operations such as unwillingness to bless the 6.08 
folder. I deleted the program and....

Now my LC II gives me a system error whenever I try to boot off a 6.08
or 6.07 floppy! The error occurs right after multifinder puts the disk icon
on the desktop. 

Some people have told me that the LC II isn't supposed to be able to use
system 6 at all, but I had it working for a while and it seems silly to
me that this would be the case.

Any comments, advice, or 'me too' stories?

Slainte,
Rob
--
Rob Spence
University of Illinois
spence@gog.cs.uiuc.edu
From: wilson@bongo.cc.utexas.edu (Samuel M. Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Program to calculate Postal Rates?
Date: 12 Aug 92 16:33:34 GMT
Reply-To: wilson@bongo.cc.utexas.edu (Samuel M. Wilson)
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Originator: wilson@bongo.cc.utexas.edu

I'm looking for a Mac program to calculate postal rates -- to, say,
type in the zip code or country and the weight, and get the amount of
postage to put on the letter/package.  I know there is such a thing
in the MSDOS world, but would appreciate any pointers to Mac progs.

Thanks,
Sam.

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  Samuel M. Wilson                       wilson@bongo.cc.utexas.edu
  Department of Anthropology            University of Texas, Austin
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: smittie@beach.csulb.edu (Smittie)
Subject: Re: * America On-Line vs. Prodigy vs. Genie...which one??
Organization: Cal State Long Beach
	<TSLATER.92Aug11111918@zeste.nmsu.edu><1992Aug11.155027.2424@nic.csu.net>
	<1992Aug12.164822.24162@clark.edu>
	<SMITTIE.92Aug12100806@beach.csulb.edu>
	<aland.713648165@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 21:38:36 GMT

If one were to use Navigator then navigation of CI$ becomes irrelevent and the
cost goes way below AOL because time on line is reduced dramatically.

smittie
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: ccy@po.CWRU.Edu (Cheung C. Yue)
Subject: Hook-up for 3 serial lines to IIsi
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 14:10:58 GMT



I have a need to hook up 3 peripherals to my IIsi via the modem/
printer ports.  The 3 are 1) external modem, 2) Appletalk connection
to the Laser printer, and 3) connection to a laboratory machine
(a DNA synthesizer).  The IIsi has only 2 such ports.  What options
do I have?  Is an AB switch a possibility?  Could some sort of a
Y-connector be constructed?
 
ccy@po.cwru.edu
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From: paszehr@csghsg5a.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: You cannot do xxx to file yyy, because it cannot be found
Date: 14 Aug 92 13:24:40 GMT
Organization: University of St.Gallen, Switzerland

In article <1992Aug13.130626.25895@bradford.ac.uk>, A.L.Radtke@bradford.ac.uk (Drew Radtke) writes:
> Simple question.
> 
> What do I do to delete a 'file' that when I try to trash it it says 'You
> cannot move file yyy to the "Wastebasket" as it cannot be found'.
> 
> A get similar errors when I try to move the files to another folder, do
> a get info or delete it using Apple File Exchange (a last ditch
> attempt).
> 
> I can't option-drag (or option-trash as it never gets in the bin).
> Rebuilding the desktop, switching on with extensions off, booting from a
> floppy, using Norton Wipe Info, all do not work. In fact the files have
> been created by a run of Norton. 
> 
> Oh, I do not want to back-up a reformat my hard disk, as I seem to have
> not got my free tape-backup drive which obviously comes with every copy
> of system 7. (If it's a good joke once it's always a good joke....).
> 
> Thanks for any help people!
> -- 
> Drew Radtke * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * A.L.Radtke@bradford.ac.uk
> * * * * * * * * Fax: +44 274 305340 * Voice: +44 274 383180 * * * * * * * *

Try it again with Norton Disk Doctor. It will fix some errors in the directory,
when it`s looking for lost files.
After you`ve done this, I think there are no more problems to delete this
file (in most cases).

Raimar Paszehr-Barthel
Hochschule St. Gallen
From: watson@clark.edu (Dennis Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: * America On-Line vs. Prodigy vs. Genie...which one??
Date: 12 Aug 92 16:48:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: clark.1992Aug12.164822.24162
Distribution: usa
Organization: Clark College, Vancouver, Wa.  USA

In article <1992Aug11.155027.2424@nic.csu.net> marc@csufres.CSUFresno.EDU (Marc Matteo) writes:
>For what it's worth I just got a subscription to AOL and it's *painfully*   
>moronic.  It makes me think of the "CLIs that teach and GUIs that don't" thread
>on the net a while back.
>
>After pounding around on GEnie or Compuserve        
>(without Navigater) for a while you can easily explore other BBSs without much
>heartache.  I'd hate to see a AOL veteran let loose on any other BBS. Of 
>course an exclusive AOL veteran wouldn't know how to dial a modem cause the AOL
>software does that too. 
>
>--
>
What is this hangup people have about wanting to do things the hard way????
If you like Compu$serve without Navigator you must just LOVE Unix and DOS!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: Andreas Wuertz <wuertz@systech.tik.ethz.ch>
Subject: Re: QUESTION: Stylewriter Refills
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, TIK
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 10:24:20 GMT

In article <1992Aug10.002847.13243@wixer.cactus.org> Jim Meyer,
purp@wixer.cactus.org writes:
>I'm not an entirely disinterested party, but I may have a solution for
>you. A company in Houston, Texas named JetFill makes a refiller for the
>Stylewriter that is elegantly designed and clean. And they're heavily
>into recycled/recyclable products -- in the packaging and unit itself,
>all materials are recycled or recyclable. And it comes in a spiffy
>package (which I designed :) ). Anyway, email me if you want their
>number.
Is there a European (pref. Swiss) distribution channel for this product?

Andy (wuertz@systech.tik.ethz.ch)

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The only person who got his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe.
===============================================================
From: jjm70@ccc.amdahl.com (Jerry Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Macs cost too much (NOT!)
Date: 19 Aug 92 03:20:46 GMT
Reply-To: jjm70@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Jerry Miller)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

In article <ewright.714155044@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
>In <1992Aug18.054315.10238@msc.cornell.edu> maynard@esther.msc.cornell.edu (Maynard J. Handley) writes:
>
>>And one wonders why this is so. My guess is that PC owners are rather more
>>likely to ship stuff back, with consequent headaches for *Connection,
>>because the stuff doesn't work on their systems, or sucks or whatever.
>
>No, PC owners can't ship stuff back.  MacConnection offers 30-60 day
>money-back satisfaction guarantees on most products.  PC Connection
>doesn't.  What does that tell you about the relative quality of Macintosh
>and PC software?
> 

I give up - please tell me the answer.  Upside down and/or backwards, please,
so as not to spoil the fun for the folks who are still working the problem...
From: watson@clark.edu (Dennis Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Emptying the Trash in System 7
Date: 20 Aug 92 18:43:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: clark.1992Aug20.184304.23519
Organization: Clark College, Vancouver, Wa.  USA

In article <1992Aug19.180806.14908@husc3.harvard.edu> vreddy@husc3.harvard.edu writes:
>I have a question... 
>  [stuff deleted]
 Is it one of my inits? or is this system
>7 in general? Thanks in advance...
>
>-- Venk Reddy --

Not system 7 in general!
watson@clark.edu
From: jmoulder@mis.mcw.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Where to find SYS 6.05
Date: 19 Aug 92 12:53:15 CDT
Organization: Medical College of Wisconsin

>> I am trying to find system 6.05 anywhere.
>
> If you are using an older machine, 6.0.5 may be best for you.

I understand why some people prefer 7.0 to 6.0.x, but what advantage would
6.0.5 have over 6.0.8 on an "older machine"?

> I don't know of an
> ftp site that has 6.0.5, and I don't think it is legal for us to exchange
> software like that over the net.

I'm not aware that it would be illegal for me to take a set of 6.0.5 disks
that I no longer use and mail them to another user in the U.S. (another country
might be a problem).

John Moulder (jmoulder@mis.mcw.edu)
Radiation Biology
Medical College of Wisconsin
From: waldemar@toast.ai.mit.edu (Waldemar Horwat)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: CD-ROM drives
Date: 15 Aug 92 01:31:59 GMT

In article <65579@hydra.gatech.EDU>, tegammk@prism.gatech.EDU (Mike Kazmierczak) writes:
|> In article <26388@life.ai.mit.edu> waldemar@toast.ai.mit.edu (Waldemar Horwat) writes:
|> >Are there any fast CD-ROM drives available for the Mac that will read PhotoCD's?
|> >I know that none of the current NEC drives are compatible.
|> >
|>  What is your source of information? According to the Uad's, the -74 is 
|> Photo CD compatible. Is their ad incorrect or misleading?  Please enlighten
|> me...
|> 

I called NEC (1-800-NEC-INFO) and asked.  They said that their current drives (including
the -74) are not compatible, but their future ones will be.  Photo CD's are explained in
the latest MacWeek.

				Waldemar
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From: vreddy@husc3.harvard.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: QuickTime Movies...
Date: 17 Aug 92 02:06:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Aug16.220656.14804
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

In article <l8tjdmINNg18@calvin.usc.edu>, alves@calvin.usc.edu (William Alves) writes:
> Does there exist a utility that will extract a sound file from a
> QuickTime movie? The resulting file can be in an SND resource, a
> SoundEdit file, or an AIFF file. I know of the SoundToMovie Utility
> in the QuickTime developer's CD, but that does the opposite of what
> I want - it adds sound files to a movie. Thanks!
> 
> Bill Alves

Hey all... sorry 'bout this. I assume this is probably in the wrong place, and 
it's probably been asked millions of times before, but I was wondering if 
ANYONE could tell me WHERE I could find QuickTime Movies... I mean, is there
an FTP site that collects all or most ShareWare/FreeWare Quicktime movies?

Thanks...

-- Venk Reddy --

If you email, please send it to vreddy@husc8.harvard.edu, not this address...
Thanks... :)
From: davidm@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu (David Morgenstern)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: What is the best way to Print Thick Wedding Invite Envelopes?
Date: 19 Aug 92 00:18:55 GMT
Organization: San Francisco State University

In article <86376@netnews.upenn.edu> sal@tuna.cis.upenn.edu (Marcos Salganicoff) writes:
>I need to print some pretty thick fancy  envelopes using a postscript
>calligraphic font. They are wedding envelopes which don't feed well on
>a Laserwriter Canon Engine type printer.  Does anyone know of a good

I've put some really thick card stock into my StyleWriter. The
paper travels straight through so you can really stuff it. I've
even put shrinky-dink sheets. I may write an article on this in the
Winter BMUG Newsletter...

daviD
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: Ray Zimmerman <Ray-Zimmerman@cornell.edu>
Subject: HELP:  SCSI drive not recognized
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A6B6AF82A802E0B5@ziklag.ee.cornell.edu>
X-Xxdate: Tue, 18 Aug 92 18: 45:38 GMT
Nntp-Posting-User: rz10@cornell.edu
Organization: Electrical Engineering, Cornell University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d8
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 17:41:15 GMT

A friend of mine just bought a used 90MB CDC external SCSI drive and
we can't get it to work on his Mac Plus.  I put it on my IIci and
formatted it with Silverlining 5.33, installed Sys 7.0.1 and things
work fine.  It'll even boot from this disk with no problems.

However, when we put it on his Mac Plus it isn't even recognized.
He's got an old 20MB SCSI that works fine on the Plus, but the 90MB
spins up but doesn't mount.  When we run Silverlining it says something
like:
	SCSI bus not responding, please check that devices are connected
	and turned on.

We've tried with several different cables, with and without a
terminator (including the exact configuration which worked on my IIci)
Any ideas?  Please reply ASAP via e-mail.  Thanks,
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::  THIS SPACE FOR RENT. THIS SPACE FOR RENT. THIS SPACE FOR RENT.  ::
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
Subject: Re: PICTPixie - why a user break on Open?
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 20:15:05 GMT
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

In <03ga03Lg64Ze00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> jsp@uts.amdahl.com (James Preston) writes:

>I recently got PictPixie from ftp.apple.com.  I assume that it's the
>latest version (1.0a2) since it comes from Apple.  

Pictpixie is not meant to be a "real" application.  It's basically
a demo for programmers, so if you use it, you should expect some
interesting "features."

>But when I select the Open command, MacsBug comes up and says "user 
>break".  If I respond with an "es", the program quits.  

"es" stands for "exit to shell."  This is just what the "es" command
is supposed to do.  To continue from the break, type "g" (for "go")
instead.


>Is there a way to avoid this?  Would it work if I remove MacsBug?  

It should.  I'd also suggest that you either remove Macsbug or
get the manual so that you know what to do with it.  It doesn't
sound like you're a programmer, so you probably don't need MacsBug
anyway.


>JFIF file onto it causes it to not be able to correctly 
>read the file (I'd appreciate it if anyone could shed any light on this 
>problem, too).

If you're getting the JFIF files off a PC or mainframe system, 
you may need to set the file type so that PictPixie can recognize
them.  You can do this using Resedit or a similar utility.
From: A.L.Radtke@bradford.ac.uk (Drew Radtke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: You cannot do xxx to file yyy, because it cannot be found
Date: 13 Aug 92 13:06:26 GMT
Organization: University of Bradford, UK
Originator: s3535@mail

Simple question.

What do I do to delete a 'file' that when I try to trash it it says 'You
cannot move file yyy to the "Wastebasket" as it cannot be found'.

A get similar errors when I try to move the files to another folder, do
a get info or delete it using Apple File Exchange (a last ditch
attempt).

I can't option-drag (or option-trash as it never gets in the bin).
Rebuilding the desktop, switching on with extensions off, booting from a
floppy, using Norton Wipe Info, all do not work. In fact the files have
been created by a run of Norton. 

Oh, I do not want to back-up a reformat my hard disk, as I seem to have
not got my free tape-backup drive which obviously comes with every copy
of system 7. (If it's a good joke once it's always a good joke....).

Thanks for any help people!
-- 
Drew Radtke * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * A.L.Radtke@bradford.ac.uk
* * * * * * * * Fax: +44 274 305340 * Voice: +44 274 383180 * * * * * * * *
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc