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From: saverio@lorelei.ece.drexel.edu (Saverio Mercurio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Printer Advice: Inkjet vs. Laser (specific)
Date: 7 Oct 92 04:19:04 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Drexel University, Philadelphia PA

Hello, world.  My trusty old Imagewriter I has been serving me for the past
seven years, and is still going strong.  I've upgraded the rest of my Mac
system, except the printer.  Still chugging along at 72 dpi.  Well, I'd like
to change that now.  I'll be keeping my IW I to print out draft stuff
relatively quickly, but want a printer that has a better printing output.
I've narrowed down the choice to the Apple Stylewriter, HP Deskwriter, and
Apple Personal LaserWriter LS.  My budget is limited, so I can't go too far
up in price (read <$700).  I can get the Stylewriter for $271, the Personal
LaserWriter LS for $645, and the HP Deskwriter for about $400.  Between the
Stylewriter and the Deskwriter, it would seem to me that the better buy in
this case is the Stylewriter.  Question:  Is the Personal LaserWriter LS worth
it at $645?  Also, what's the difference between the HP Deskwriter and the
HP Deskwriter C?  I assume the "C" is for color? 

Any advice and opinions are welcome.  I would say that 80% of my printing is
text.  I've seen the output from both the StyleWriter and Deskwriters.  They're
quite good for inkjets.  

Thanks...

	  -Saverio

saverio@lorelei.ece.drexel.edu
From: jeffz@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (JeffZ)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Mac Classic 2 Memory
Date: 14 Oct 92 18:37:23 GMT
Organization: Cybernet BBS, Boca Raton, Florida

Hello all...

I'm running a Mac Classic 2 4/80 and am running into some memory 
problems.  I'm running system 7.01 and would like to be able to run 
concurrently Pagemaker 4.2, WordPerfect 2.1, and ScanMan sotware.
Is system 7.1 smaller and more efficient?  Can I add anything to the 
machine to make this possible?  I know I probably can add 4mb SIMMs to it 
to make it work, but are there any other possibilities?

Thanks!

Jeff

jeffz@cybernet.cse.fau.edu
From: kanefsky@halcyon.com (Steve Kanefsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Performa cache slot plus 68040 PowerCache info
Date: 8 Oct 92 06:06:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: nwnexus.1992Oct8.060612.20423
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service

In article <1992Oct7.183124.4197@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> hades@Dartmouth.Edu writes:
>palane@iastate.edu (Paul A. Lane) writes:
>
>>In <1992Oct7.143811.17809@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades) writes:
>
>>><IO92668@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> writes:
>
>>>>Any info on the IIvx would be appreciated.
>
>>>    Take a P600 and add both a cache and an FPU. Presto... instant IIvx.
>
>>I hope not. The P600 has been crippled. How else can you explain a machine
>>that gets outpreformed by a IIci with a slower processor. Also, the IIvx is
>>supposed to support a cache card. The P600 can't.
>
>    I am still very skeptical of those tests. The P600 that was used was
>running System 7.1b7 while the IIci was running a Tuned (1.1.1) 7.0.1.
>This is not a fair comparison of the two machines. I just can't see how
>a 25Mhz '030 can run faster than a 33MHz '030. And the IIvx is supposed
>to have an on board cache, not suport a cache card. It has the same
>accelerator slot that the the P600 has. The logic boards are basically
>identical, from what I have read.

It's interesting to note that the P600 accelerator slot has a lot in
common with the IIci cache slot.  Steve Tuttle from DayStar announced
today on CompuServe that existing PowerCache accelerators will work
without an adaptor on the P600, just as they do in the IIci.

On a sad note, it appears that all new adaptors will have to be designed
for the upcoming 68040 PowerCaches (except for the IIci and P600, which
will take the PowerCache without the adaptor).  The LC appears to be
almost last on their list of adaptors to work on, and they fear they'll
have problems with the ROMs, power supply, and/or physical space inside
the LC/LCII.  In the words of Steve Tuttle from DayStar, "the LC has
been pushed way out - even for consideration."  The order of priorities
is IIci/P600, IIcx, IIx, II, IIsi, SE/30.  Anything beyond that isn't
being considered yet.  The only thing due out this year is the bare
68040 PowerCache, so only IIci and P600 users (and perhaps IIvx?) can
benefit before next year.

--
Steve Kanefsky
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac:369 comp.sys.mac.misc:17553
From: jfw@jfwhome.FUNHOUSE.COM (John F. Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: HD defragmenter ?
Date: 8 Oct 92 02:00:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: jfwhome.Bvs5L4.7Ht
Organization: Misanthropes-R-Us

In <1atll9INNpoa@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> jdymond@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Jason Dymond) writes:
>I am looking for a PD/Shareware HD defragmenter for the Mac which is
>System 7 friendly.  Does anyone know where I might find such.  I have
>been using SUM2, and have just found that it has been trashing my HD.
>If there is no PD.. software available, does anyone have recommendations
>re: commercial software eg. DiskExpress, NUM, others ?

I don't know of any PD/SW defragmenters, but I want to second the
recommendation of DiskExpress.  There have been three cases where my Mac
crashed in the middle of a compact operation; when I rebooted, DE told
me what file it was working on and that that file just might be corrupt.
It has yet to have actually corrupted a file for me, however.

It's safe, AND effective.
 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
From: hyu@eng.umd.edu (Henry K. Yu)
Subject: DAL server with VAX and Oracle
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 92 22:40:15 GMT
Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park
Keywords: DAL server VAX Oracle


I am new to this group.  I have just installed the DAL server on a VAX.
The DAL Client 1.3.5 is installed on a Mac IIfx.  The exercise is to
get to the Oracle database on the VAX via MS Excel 3.0.  Could you
please help me to determine if the problem is on the VAX side?  And,
what the problem is?  Please.  Or refer me to someone.

Thanks in advance,
hyu

Here is a description.  Excel will say that it "Can't establish connection".

On the VAX server, Oracle is linked with Two-Task because 'netvsn' shows
Mail box utility.  The demo tables have been installed and can be accessed
through SQL*Plus as scott/tiger.  However, when I run the 'idal'
interactive DAL tester on the VAX with:
	begin> open oracle dbms;
	more> go
	Execution begins...
	Execution Completed Successfully
	begin> open oracle database as user "scott" with password "tiger";
	more> go
	Execution begins...
	<after about eight seconds>
Then, it will kick me out of the session.
That is all on the server side.

The client side has the following diagnositics from the DAL Debugger:
Hostname? IbsenADSP
Username? hyu
Password? 
Connopts? 
Atconnect IBSEN.CSC Laurel EtherZone
username hyu
MPPOpen = 0
DSPCreate = 16
Entity IBSEN:DAL Server:CSC Laurel EtherZone
Server Found!
Entity name		Net:Node:Socket
Entity IBSEN:DAL Server:CSC Laurel EtherZone4ef2:89:d9
About to open listener connection
ATtxnsnd (10ffbfa, 15, 88) 
DSPWrite = 23
ATtxnrcv (18000)
DSPStatus = 30
ATtxnrcv = 21
response /ffff ffff ffff ffff 7/
DSPClose = 0
scanning ffff ffff ffff ffff 7
Unable to Login
ATdisconnect
DSPRemove = 0

1: Connection to host 'IbsenADSP' failed.
1: Error #-10632 (0) adsp (IBSEN:DAL Server:CSC Laurel EtherZone)
1: Message: Host error - Server subprocess terminated unexpectedly soon.
1: Disconnected.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
From: rgaros@bio.vu.nl (Rene G.A. Ros)
Subject: Re: 4th Dimension -- Disable Button
Organization: VU Biology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 17:32:59 GMT

matsj@ios.CMD.UU.SE (Mats Johnson) writes:
: 
: I'm sorry I wasn't clear enough. I know that using an empty array will
: prevent the popup from popping up. What I was looking for, however, was
: something equivalent to SET ENTERABLE(foo; False). That is, the popup
: should still display the current value, *but* not be popupable.
: 
: --
: Mats Johnson, CMD, Uppsala University, Laegerhyddsvaegen 18, S-752 37 UPPSALA
: Mats.Johnson@CMD.UU.SE

You can try a field or variable below the pop-up and make the pop-up invisible.
I tried this some time ago, and somewhere it didn't go the way I wanted. But
perhaps it works for your data-base ok.

Bye, Rene

************************************************************
Rene G.A. Ros                         Amsterdam, Netherlands
rgaros@bio.vu.nl                    rgaros@nikhefk.nikhef.nl
************************************************************
My English is niet very well en ook nog not so snel,
but that comes later wel.
************************************************************
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
From: lukel@ecs.comm.mot.com (Luke Lin)
Subject: Spelling checker for 4D Write
Organization: Motorola Independent Test Team
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 16:43:30 GMT

Does anybody know of any 3rd party spelling checker for 4D Write?

Luke Lin
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
From: <SHARON@PURCCVM.BITNET>
Subject: Using FoxBase+/Mac & FoxPro For PC
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 19:53:17 GMT

Earlier in the year (i.e. pre-Microsoft purchase) I obtained
a document from Fox entitled "Converting from DOS to MAC". This
may be helpful to folks who are considering developing a multi-
platform application (which I am doing). I also found the FoxBase+
Reference Guide (that came with the FB+/Mac software) helpful
in that the commands specific to FB+/Mac only or FB+/PC only are
marked as such. Commands not marked are common to both packages.
This was helpful, as I was already familiar with FB+/PC and could
see at a glance where the differences lay (lie?). Good Luck!


Sharon
From: Philip.Schuler@f421.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Philip Schuler)
Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
Subject: MAC<->PC FOXBASE/PRO
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 17:31:30 -0500

> In a related question how well is the compatibility between FoxPro for IBM
> and FoxBase+ for the mac?
> 
> Are programs, databases, screens, easily portable from FoxBASE to FoxPro?
> 
> How much would I have to change, and what would I have to change in order to
> convert from FoxBASE+ to FoxPro?
 
Matthew,
   Databases are easily swapped back and forth between FoxBASE+/Mac and
FoxPro--we have a FoxPro database on a PC LAN at work and I move .DBF files back
and forth all the time. Though I've not spent much time investigating how to
move other types of files back and forth, I've had zero success with report
forms, label forms, and indexes. FoxPro can use a different type of index file
than FoxBASE, and maybe the same is true for reports, etc. The FoxBASE+/Mac
documentation is full of sweeping generalizations about how how all FoxBASE+/PC
programs will run on the Mac, so maybe the problems I had would have been no
different than if I had tried to swap indexes, reports, etc. between FoxPro and
FoxBASE+/PC. These problems aside, I believe that FoxPro could run a
FoxBASE+/Mac program if there were no uniquely Macintosh file names, and
FoxBASE+/Mac could run a FoxPro program if the reverse were true (I'm not sure
what would happen if you tried to open a file whose name began with "C:\  " on
the Mac. There are a number of new features in the FoxPro programming language
which don't exist in FoxBASE (on either platform).
   I guess the bottom line is that converting a whole application would be a
pain in the neck, but exchanging data is no problem at all.

Good luck, 
Phil Schuler
From: canfieldra@vtcc1.cc.vt.edu (Bob Canfield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
Subject: Re: database wanted for bibliography
Date: 9 Oct 92 20:08:00 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Oct8.115740.1@pearl.tufts.edu>, rsmith@pearl.tufts.edu writes...
>I've had little use for a database until now, but I find that I have a growing
>need for something to keep track of my growing library of photocopies of
>journal articles.  (I'm a graduate student in cognitive psychology, so I'm
>					  RSMITH@PEARL.TUFTS.EDU

I'm using EndNote for my dissertation. It is a bibliography database
and makes the job much easier than general purpose databases. It
includes some standard styles for formatting your references or
you can make your own.  Also integrates with word processors to 
automatically number your citations.  Highly recommended.

Bob Canfield, Internet: canfieldra@vtcc1.cc.vt.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
From: charlesa@niwot.scd.ucar.edu (Charles Albrecht)
Subject: Unix solutions for 4D?
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.databases
Keywords: 4d, unix, connectivity
Organization: Scientific Computing Divison/NCAR Boulder, CO
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 18:49:59 GMT

I'm looking for options to interact with 4D databases from unix machines.
I've heard that the new 4D externals kit will include C libraries for
extracting information from v.3.0/Server databases.  What will be/is
involved in building such programs for unix and X?  Are there widget sets
available for this?  What sort of information is passed, and how is this
handled on the 4D side of the connection?

I'm not only interested in version 3.0 solutions, but also in those that
may have been developed for version 2.x.x.

Thanks,

-Charles
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NCAR - Scientific Computing Division * P.O. Box 3000 * Boulder, Colorado  80307

The opinions you are about to have read are fictitious...
          ...any similarity to opinions living or dead is purely coincidental.
From: Fred.Puhan@p4219.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Fred Puhan)
Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
Subject: What's the best way to clean up messy data?
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 23:01:13 -0500

On 10/15/92, Chris Chesher said to All: 

  CC> From: Chris Chesher <cchesher@uts.edu.au> Newsgroups:
  CC> comp.sys.mac.databases Organization: Uni of Technology, Sydney
  CC> 
  CC> We're exporting data from a relational database on a PC to put it into
  CC> an Omnis 7 databases on the Mac.
  CC> 
  CC> The problem is how to restore all the relations and keep the data in
  CC> its appropriate columnns in the kindest, gentlest way possible.
  CC> 
  CC> Does anyone have any suggestions about techniques, applications,
  CC> utilities, or whatever, that may make our lives a bit easier?
  CC> 
  CC> Chris Chesher cchesher@uts.edu.au *****************


    Depends on what RDBMS on the PC you are using, and what type of relations
you are trying to preserve (.DBF, perhaps?).

    The *first* thing to look at would be setting the file connections when you
have a file format open (look under the Modify menu)...


From: Billy.Krahl@f421.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Billy Krahl)
Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
Subject: FILEMAKER PRO AND ZIPCODE
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 13:00:05 -0500

There are about 500 members in my user group, with each record
consisting of name and address.  I would like to create a detailed
printout listing the unique zipcodes and the count of member's zip
that match the unique zipcode.  An example of printout would be like:
    Zipcode       Count
    -------       -----
     20850         34
     20874         11
     20877         48
     20879         33
      :            :
For every instance of zipcode 20850 in Filemaker Pro database, the count
would be incremented.  Is there any way I can do it other than creating
a new field for each unique zipcode and put in calculatin...?
Thanks for any help.
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 16:05:45 EDT
From: <JFL4@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
Subject: Re: FoxBase/Mac Error Message

A user of mine is using a program on a System 6.0.8 Mac that I wrote
on a System 7 Mac.  He's getting the message "Not enough memory to open
a screen of that size" when opening certain query screens.  I don't get
the message on my Mac (with System 7).

Does anyone have an idea of what parameter I might change to deal with
this problem?  Please send ideas to me directly (& to news if you want).

Thanks for your consideration.

Jeff Luck
CES Systems Office
Penn State University
JFL4@PSUVM.PSU.EDU
From: niel@cars.com (Niel Bornstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
Subject: Re: Question on 4D to Oracle
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 09:17:30 EDT
Organization: Heavy Objects R Us
Reply-To: niel@chinchilla.cars.com
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1


In article <1992Oct9.153218.144@nhqvax.hq.nasa.gov> (comp.sys.mac.databases), 131.182.28.17 (Liem Vu) writes:
> ... 1) is 
>there still a 4D to Oracle product? and 2) Is this a better solution than 
>using 4D to DAL to Oracle?

There certainly is.  ORACLE for 4th Dimension is published by ORACLE
Corp., and it works both with local ORACLE databases and remote databases
via SQL*Net.  It consists of a single 4D external, to which you can
pass SQL commands with embedded variables.  Data is returned in arrays,
which you can them mess with all you want.

Give ORACLE a call for pricing, etc.

Niel

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From: a-kraus@uiuc.edu (Albert L. Kraus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
Subject: 4D Dialog ext what is it good for
Date: 9 Oct 92 18:37:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: pesa.a-kraus-091092134105
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.databases
Organization: PES

Hi!
I found this 4D Dialog ext .
RSVP if you used it !
What can I do with it?

Thanks!
Have a nice day!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
From: edestes@pop.nih.gov (Ed Estes)
Subject: 4D External source
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.databases
Organization: NIH
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 19:02:42 GMT


Greetings!

I've been programming the Macintosh since 1985 and need to write some 
externals for 4th Dimension.  I've read the 4D External package cover
to cover and have come to the conclusion that the documentation suxs!

Does anyone know if there is additional external SOURCE somewhere that I
can 
get my hands on?  In one of my externals, I need to stuff a string array
with
data and it's not working.  I'm not sure if it's the way I'm compiling my
code or what...  I'll probably figure most of this stuff out, but I'm under
a deadline and needed to get something out yesterday!  ;-)

I'm using Think C 5.0.3 and 4th Dimension 2.2.3.   Thanks in advance.


--Ed


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From: mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
Subject: Re: FileMaker Pro 2.0 warning
Date: 15 Oct 92 22:36:31 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.databases

In article <tal691.719131199@huxley>, tal691@huxley.anu.edu.au (Tonio
Loewald) wrote:
> 
> Paul.Heller@p391.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Paul Heller) writes:
> 
> >I spoke with Claris Tech Support yesterday about a problem I was having with
> >several FileMaker Pro databases after receiving the 2.0 upgrade.  Turns out
> >there's a potential big-time problem when converting files unless you do the
> >right things first.
> 
> >The problem involves any FileMaker Pro file that was created or used under 
> >1.0v1.  Seems 1.0v1 had a problem with its indexes, and doing a RECOVER
> >under 1.0v2 or 1.0v3 would fix it.  If the problem remains, however, and
> >you simply convert the file to 2.0 format, you'll lose data, and according
> >the person I spoke to at Claris there is NO way to recover it.
> 
> >The key to avoiding this is to RECOVER the file first - don't just open &
> >convert it with FM Pro 2.0.  I don't know whether doing a recover of a 1.0vx 
> >file in 2.0 also converts it, since I had already converted the files by the
> >time I learned this.
> 
> >There's supposed to be an insert in the package that explains this, but mine
> >must have been one of the first shipped, because it didn't have one.  
> 
> >Be warned - this cost me a lot of grief, since I didn't understand what had
> >happened and then put in many hours adding data to one of my most important
> >files & couldn't simply go back to the pre-2.0 backup.  It's amazing that they
> >didn't discover this during development and test of 2.0 - it's also a little
> >bothersome that a corrupted index can permanently damage a FileMaker file with
> >no way to recover the data (it's still there - you just can't get at it), but
> >according to Claris tech support, that's the way it is.
> 
> I know this doesn't make up for the bug you've mentioned, but such problems
> in general (eg. you update the wrong version of a database file) can be
> avoided by time-stamping (creation/modification date) on records automatically,
> allowing all records created/modified during a given period to be separated out
> and exported to the correct version of a file.
> 
> There's no reason why such a timestamp shouldn't be added to records (or
> for that matter, be made part of any record automatically -- anyone at
> Claris listening ? :)  ).

FileMaker Pro has this ability; however you have to impliment it by setting
up a field for it.  Not everyone wants to do this, so it is optional.

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From: matsj@ios.CMD.UU.SE (Mats Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
Subject: Re: 4th Dimension -- Disable Button
Date: 14 Oct 92 10:41:49
Organization: CMD - Center for human computer studies, Uppsala University
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In-reply-to: ST25370@VM.CC.LATECH.EDU's message of 9 Oct 92 21:09:49 GMT


I'm sorry I wasn't clear enough. I know that using an empty array will
prevent the popup from popping up. What I was looking for, however, was
something equivalent to SET ENTERABLE(foo; False). That is, the popup
should still display the current value, *but* not be popupable.

--
Mats Johnson, CMD, Uppsala University, Laegerhyddsvaegen 18, S-752 37 UPPSALA
Mats.Johnson@CMD.UU.SE
From: Paul.Heller@p391.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Paul Heller)
Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP