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From: ia4@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Imran Anwar)
Subject: How to HIDE Files on a mac to prevent Piracy?
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 06:59:03 GMT

I have spent a lot of effort and time to develop a solution to a communications
problem/need and now face a quandry.

While I do NOT want to limit users with the hassle of copy protection,
keys eyc.  I do want to protect my s/ware.  There are two ways I feel
I can lose control of my product.  One is that someone can actually
just copy and share it, and secondly someone can see what System Folder
files I give with my program and reverse engineer (or figure out).

I therefore think that one simple solution would be to install the software
and my Macros in the user's machine BUT to make some of the files (eg
Macros, Scripts) INVISIBLE to the user.  So even if someone copies files they 
are likely to miss the INVISIBLE files (that are essential for the 
solution to work) and so basically I will have copy protection.  I know this
solution will not be likely be perfect but for ORDINARY non hackers it
will be sufficient, I feel.

Q. Any suggestions, and also: HOW TO MAKE FILES INVISIBLE eg a file in
Preferences or Control Panels folder?

Thanks for your help


Imran

Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac:216 comp.sys.mac.programmer:14065
From: alves@calvin.usc.edu (William Alves)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Extracting a sound file from a QuickTime Movie
Date: 16 Aug 1992 14:50:46 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: calvin.usc.edu

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
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac:239 comp.sys.mac.apps:13628 comp.sys.mac.comm:8181
From: sstai@ocf.berkeley.edu (Samuel S. Tai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: boss!  de binhex, de binhex ...
Date: 22 Aug 92 22:06:59 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: tsunami.berkeley.edu


Why not have your FTP leech do "mcvert *.hqx" at his unix box?  All the
BinHex'ed files will be converted to MacBinary format, ready for downloading.

-- 
-----------------------+-----------------------------------------------------
Samuel S. Tai          | Wisdom is supreme, therefore get wisdom.
sstai@ocf.berkeley.edu | Though it cost you all you have, get understanding.
                       |                                -- Proverbs 4:7 (NIV)
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From: wall@cc.swarthmore.edu (Matthew Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.announce
Subject: FileGuard Interest Group and Mailing List for university lab
        managers
Followup-To: poster
Date: 17 Aug 1992 14:57:46 -0500
Organization: Swarthmore College Computing
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu



For University/College users of FileGuard (tm) disk protection software
from ASD/Highware Development...

A FileGuard Interest Group (fig ?!?) for University/College lab managers
ONLY is being established. This will be an unmoderated
immediate-mail-forwarding group with a SMALL and PRIVATE membership for the
discussion and exchange of information on specific technical problems and
solutions with using FileGuard in University lab management situations.

Please, educational or like institutions only; we want to keep this
focused.

For further information or to request membership, please send email to Matt
Wall, wall@cc.swarthmore.edu with a descriptive subject header, such as
"Please sign up for FileGuard interest group" and a short description of
your lab set-up and your job title included in the message.

- Matt Wall * Swarthmore College
From: pete@titan.rice.edu (Louis Wu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.announce
Subject: Alpha 5.0 Release
Followup-To: poster
Date: 14 Aug 1992 00:23:07 -0500
Organization: Whatsamatta U
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu



Version 5.0 of Alpha, the most powerful programming/LaTeX-ing editor
available for the Mac, is now available via anonymous ftp from cs.rice.edu,
and will soon be available at the major Usenet ftp sites.

Alpha has been in continuous development for three years, and has hundreds
of registered users (and I tend to believe that there are a few users out
there who haven't paid, too). Alpha is completely programmable, with
user-defined menus, unlimited binding of functions to keys. The Mac
paradigm is fully supported, yet the interface doesn't get in the way when
it isn't needed. Every function or macro in Alpha can be accessed via the
mouse OR keyboard shortcuts.

FEATURES:
        - standard Mac interface
	- complete programming language (Tcl)
		- first-class functions
		- conditionals, iterations
		- lists
		- function tracing
		- external code module support
		- over 2000 lines of sample Tcl source
        - user-definable hiearchical menus
        - mapping of any function (over 150 available) 
          or macro to any key combination
	- rudimentary command-line "shell", including "ls", "cd", "mv",
	  "rm", as well as interface which allows other commands to be
	  added by the user.
        - can be customized extensively (can be configured
           as a coke-bottle emacs)
	- multi-file searching
        - unlimited undo/redo
        - full regular expression (GREP) searching and replacing 
	  (including alternation)
        - extensive online help
        - rectangular editing
        - 7.0 friendly, supports AppleEvents
        - temporary memory support
        - anonymous keyboard macros
        - configurable popup function and LaTeX section menus
        - electric braces and semicolons
        - window tiling
        - unlimited named markers and buffers
	- mark stack
	- 'C' programming templates
        - word wrap to window or 'fillColumn'
        - continuous row/col display
        - saving of backups to a different directory
        - user-definable "modes", providing special functionality
 	  or configurations based on file suffixes.
        - any font/size
        - support for international keyboards
        - reads and writes Unix and IBM file formats
        - and Many, Many, More...

ALPHA is shareware and has a fee of $25. (Still!)

Pete Keleher                                    pete@cs.rice.edu

                Peter Keleher
                P.O. Box #1892
                Department of Computer Science
                Rice University
                Houston, Texas 77251-1892

Alpha requires at least system 7.0 in order to run.
-----

--
=============================================================================
Pete Keleher   "Relax! Don't worry! Have a homebrew!"        pete@cs.rice.edu
=============================================================================
From: krvw@cert.org (Kenneth R. van Wyk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.announce
Subject: Macintosh virus stories
Followup-To: poster
Date: 18 Aug 1992 15:49:42 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

	[ COMMENT from your moderator:
		Ken posted this note to comp.virus and VIRUS-L
		and given that a few netters have been kind enough
		to try to alert via posting to comp.sys.mac.announce,
		I thought that reposting Ken's note will explain why
		there is no need to sound the alerts further.  By now,
		everyone, whose cooperation is needed to work on a
		response, has been alerted; and is grumbling:
		"ENOUGH ALREADY!" ;-)
	]

Over the weekend, numerous reports of a potential new Macintosh virus,
(tentatively) named "Aliens 4" have been floating around the networks.
After speaking with the originator of the report and having received
numerous (5 and counting, so far) cross-postings of the preliminary
reports, I would like to stress the need for calm, rational response
to this problem.  A couple of critical facts:

- - The virus, if indeed it is a virus, has not yet been isolated and
  analyzed.
- - As such, the preliminary reports were based on rough, empirical
  observations, and may well be incorrect and/or incomplete.  At the
  very least, these preliminary reports are not sufficient to
  disinfect any systems.

I am sure that we (as a community) are all grateful for the work that
is being done to isolate and analyze this virus, but until more
information is known about it, we must be careful to not jump to
conclusions, since this only serves to promote panic.

Everything posted about the virus until it has been properly analyzed
is strictly conjecture.  For this reason, I will NOT be re-posting any
of the preliminary bulletins to VIRUS-L/comp.virus until the virus has
been analyzed.

Calmly,

Ken

Kenneth R. van Wyk
Moderator VIRUS-L/comp.virus
Technical Coordinator, Computer Emergency Response Team
Software Engineering Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
krvw@CERT.ORG       (work)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: eric@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Eric Hansen)
Subject: Mac IIci with Shiva E-Port needs tcp on Netware
Summary: How to get tcp comm. going on a Mac in a Netware ethernet.
Keywords: TCP NOVELL NETWARE MAC SHIVA FTP
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 15:55:32 GMT

I have a Mac IIci with a Shiva EtherPort card operating on a Novell Netware
3.11 network.  I'm not at all interested in getting to the DOS fileserver,
I just want to run tcp so I can get to the internet.  TCP from the internet
*is* routed on our network, but usually, if you're on a DOS machine running
a Netware shell, your board will ignore tcp packets.  We solve this by
using generic packet drivers on our PS/2's.  I, however, only need to
communicate TCP with the Mac - thus, no Netware module is loaded.  My questions
are:

* Is the MacTCP extension enough for the IIci to be able to accept standard
tcp packets, or must they be encapsulated in some other packet?

* Do I need more software and/or extensions?

* I want to use NCSA Telnet and TheNews (among other things)...  Right now,
I get messages saying that the "host isn't responding".  Our network is
thin coax.  I believe that I have all the ip numbers right, why won't it
work!?

* Is there an FAQ to answer these questions?

Normally, I'd ask our system administrator, but as of a few weeks ago, I'm
it.

Any help would be extremely appreciated!!

Thanks,
Eric Hansen

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| Eric J. Hansen                            Center for Clinical Computing   |
|  eric@binoc.bih.harvard.edu              350 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA  |
|  eric@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu                (617) 732-5925          |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.misc
From: tacketta@oregon.uoregon.edu (Tackett Austin)
Subject: Re: Zoom modem
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Oregon
Date: 13 Aug 1992 17:49 PDT  

In article <16es0aINNfrd@agate.berkeley.edu>, heilmayr@jaffna.berkeley.edu (Stephan Heilmayr) writes...
> 
>I need an inexpensive 2400 baud modem.  MacConnection has a Zoom
>Telephonics modem (model AMX or MX2400R, depending on which ad
>I'm looking at) for $69.  Is this a decent quality modem (fully
>Hayes compatible, fairly reliable, etc.)?  I'd appreciate hearing
>from anyone who uses it.
>Thanks.
> 
>-- 
>-Klaus   (a.k.a.   heilmayr@math.berkeley.edu )
>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>If you lived here, you'd be home already.

I have one and have been relatively happy with it. If you need a lo-buck
no-frills modem $69 is a great price. The only problem I have had with it is
that lately I can't get it to upload to a BBS running Hermes software and I
don't know if it is Hermes, my modem, my initialization string, cosmic rays or
George Bush. I did work for about a year, then in the last month I get errors.
I must say that I haven't put too much time into it, so it could be  a minor
problem. 
It has a *SEVEN* year warranty, so it will last a lifetime and works as
advertised. You might look into a Supra with error correction; if you work for
a university (I think you might) you can get a good deal on a Supra. The error
correction may speed up your transfer rate.

Tackett Austin
University of Oregon

>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
From: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Problems with MacSLIP/MacTCP <-> Telebit Netblazer
Date: 17 Aug 92 19:04:25 GMT
Reply-To: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation

black@devnull.mpd.tandem.com (David C. Black) writes:
> When I bring up Telnet it get the MacTCP
> drivers OK, but I can never connect with a host :( !

Make sure that MacTCP has something (anything should do) for a default 
gateway address.  Even though this field is absolutely useless over SLIP, 
MacTCP wants it anyway.  The NCSA standalone TCP/IP code is more laid back :).


Amanda Walker
-- 
No one can be exactly like me--even I have trouble doing it.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: Ben E. Colley <tpmaint@mizzou1.missouri.edu>
Subject: Re: Problems with MacSLIP/MacTCP <-> Telebit Netblazer
Organization: University of Missouri-Columbia
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 17:21:37 GMT

In article <2220@devnull.mpd.tandem.com> David C. Black,
black@devnull.mpd.tandem.com writes:

>I am having problems getting a MacSLIP connection to work.  The funny
>thing is that I can get NCSA/BYU Telnet 2.4.19 SLIP to work like a
>charm.  I have MacTCP 1.1 and MacSLIP 1.01.  I got MacSLIP to dial in
>successfully and connect. When I bring up Telnet it get the MacTCP
>drivers OK, but I can never connect with a host :( !  I configured my
>manual local IP same as for the stand-alone Telnet SLIP.  My mask is a
>class C (255.255.255.0), and my gateway server IP is just what the MIS
>guys tell me (I even experimented with some others, but no banana).  On
>the remote end (host network) we have a Telebit Netblazer setup for
>static SLIP login.  Very frustrating - I have other applications that
>use MacTCP waiting in the background.
 
I recently got MacSLIP and had a similar problem.  My problem was pretty
much the same as you describe.  Turns out I had not successfully disabled
XON/XOFF in the local modem (initstring).  Once I got that fixed, things
worked fine.  My connection point was a cisco CS-516 with dynamic slip
assignment.
 
Ben
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: bl668@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David P. Alverson)
Subject: Re: fax operating {free, share}ware?
Reply-To: bl668@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David P. Alverson)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 03:45:45 GMT


In a previous article, amck@.sw.mcc.com (Alan McKendree) says:

>I'm looking for modems and found one (OK, OK, I won't be coy -- the
>Supra FAXmodem v.32bis) which is offered without the manufacturer's
>(fax and modem) operating software for a substantially lower price.
>(The offer is made by both a mailorder catalog and by the manufacturer
>itself.)  This implies that there's alternative operating software out
>there.
>

I don't know of any shareware or freeware fax software for the Mac.
Supra bundles FAXstf software, which works with many faxmodems and is
pretty nice.  There is also QuickLink FAX, which is bundled by some
modem makers, but I see frequent complaints about it.

BTW, email to amck@.sw.mcc.com bounced.

  -- Dave

-- 
Dave Alverson, Mason OH
davea@tso.uc.edu
From: u_banzai@mcl.ucsb.edu (Buckaroo Banzai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: NCSA Telnet 2.5B and SLIP: Help plz!
Date: 16 Aug 92 11:52:03 GMT

In <15s4ceINN5pu@network.ucsd.edu> mfetzer@ucsd.edu (Michael Fetzer) writes:

>In article <1992Aug6.170629.4278@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> Jim Butler,
>butler@quest.comm.mot.com writes: > >	(1) Open a serial connection to
>the DEC and invoke the SLIP server. >	    The Sessions menu remains
>greyed out entirely. > >	(2) Try and tell Telnet to switch to SLIP (but
>be unable to do so >	    because the Session menu remains greyed out).
>>	    do { bang_head(hard); } while (TRUE);

>I second the experience... It's not possible to get the sessions menu to
>become active. I've sent mail to the creators about this, and am waiting
>for a reply. I'll post whatever info I receive.

Don't hold your breath on getting mail from them.

This isn't to knock the people at NCSA who work on telnet, but I've been
waiting TWO WEEKS to get mail regarding this bug.  I've looked at the
sources and haven't figured out why it does it...but then again.....

I haven't stepped through the routines in question with SADE.

--
=  Marc Tamsky    u_banzai@mcl.ucsb.edu    KB6JWE  =
From: shoemake@apple.com (Mike Shoemaker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: No LocalTalk icon in MacTCP
Date: 15 Aug 92 01:33:02 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.

In article <14076@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>, jstevens@crick.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu
(Jason Philip Stevens) wrote:
> 
> 
> As i understand it, the the Network Installer was "ifxed" becausse of
> a bug that made AppleTalk act wonky on Quadras.  In fixing this bug
> (with AppleTalk 57.0.4) Apple screwed up the icon stuff.  Note that this
> is (possibly misremembered hearsay, so take it with a grain of salt.
>
  No. Version 57.0.3 on the NSI 1.2 installer disk fixes the
  Quadra LocalTalk problem in ROM. This change has zip to do with MacTCP.
  This version of AppleTalk is distributed on the NSI 1.2 disk.

  Version 57.0.4 on the NSI 1.2.1 disk has some changes for upcoming system
  software releases and new hardware (specifically one of the new
portables.)

  One of the changes made in 57.0.4 causes MacTCP not to show the icon.
This
  has to do with some assumptions MacTCP makes about what's in PRAM. If you
run
  the Internet Router with either LocalTalk port as the user port, MacTCP
  will have the same problem.

> Anyway, the outcome is this, as far as I know:  
> 
> 1)  If you're not using a Quadra, don't use the new Installer/AppleTalk 57.0.4.

  Use the Network Software Installer disk 1.2 with MacTCP 1.1 if you are
  using IP over LocalTalk. (By the way, this also fixes a problem with
  the ethernet driver in ROM when VM is on and you have heavy ethernet
  traffic.)

> 2)  If you are using a Quadra, but you don't need to switch MacTCP back and 
> 	forth between Ethernet and LocalTalk once it has been configured, then 
> 	a)  Install the old AppleTalk drivers from an older Installer.
> 	b)  Install and configure MacTCP the way you want it.
> 	c)  Install the new AppleTalk drivers (57.0.4)

  No, see below.

> 3)  If you're using a Quadra and you _do_ need to be able to switch back and
> 	forth, you're just hosed.  Keep bugging Apple for an upgrade.  :)
>
	 No, stick with NSI 1.2. Don't upgrade to NSI 1.2.1; there is no
compelling
  reason. The ROM Ethernet drivers and LocalTalk drivers are updated just
  fine with NSI 1.2.

	 Rumor has it that if the icon is missing, just reboot and hold down
  command-option-P-R to clear PRAM. Then if you open the MacTCP control
  panel, the LocalTalk icon should be present.

> -jps
> 
> -- 
> Jason Stevens			Internet:  jstevens@bcm.tmc.edu

  The bottom line is that there is no compelling reason to use the NSI
  1.2.1 installer unless you use Apple's TokenRing cards. (The primary
  reason for NSI 1.2.1 was to release new TokenRing drivers.) For all
  other audiences, ths NSI 1.2 disk has all of the 'current' goodies
  and doesn't cause MacTCP conniptions. 

---
Mike Shoemaker
Apple Computer, Inc.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: jdonalds@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan H Donaldson)
Subject: Shareware Communications
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 14:24:48 GMT

Does any one know if there are any good communication programs out there? I am 
currently using Red Ryder V9.4 and all it supports is xmodem and kermit, both 
of which are veeeerrrrryyyyy slow. I am using a PowerBook 140 with the apple 
internal modem. I am also looking for good advice on how to increase the 
throughput using the MNP5 compression. I have read a lot of people using Zterm 
or something like that. If there are no good shareware programs then how about 
regular pay for first type. like which is better smartcom or Microphone II?

Any help is needed. please E-mail any replies so I don't miss them in the News.

-thanks
-Donaldson.5@osu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: ogil@quads.uchicago.edu (Brian W. Ogilvie)
Subject: Eudora Return Address format question
Summary: it don't like angle brackets too much.
Keywords: Eudora return address fullname aargh
Reply-To: ogil@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Morris Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 22:05:22 GMT

I've just switched to Eudora and love the program.  However, I've been
having a slight problem with address formats.

If I set my return address to:
b-ogilvie@uchicago.edu (Brian W Ogilvie)
Eudora takes out the space between the Internet address and the open
parenthesis.  This confuses some mailers.  On the other hand, if I
use:
Brian W Ogilvie <b-ogilvie@uchicago.edu>
Eudora leaves the space but consistently confuses the SMTP server by
informing it to receive mail from "<<b-ogilvie@uchicago.edu>", and it
complains about the unbalanced angle bracket.  But Eudora has no
problem mailing TO addresses configured that way.  Trying
Brian W Ogilvie (b-ogilvie@uchicago.edu)
produces incredibly evil results when one replies to the message, in
case anyone is wondering.

Does anyone know whether it's possible to make Eudora accept the
"fullname <user@host>" return address format?  If not, it's my
candidate for new feature (Steve Dorner is already a candidate for
Macintosh Saint).

Thanks much (and even more if you have a solution).
-- 
Brian W. Ogilvie           DISCLAIMER: You think I have time to
b-ogilvie@uchicago.edu       think about everything I post?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: mark_silbernagel@mentorg.com
Subject: Re: Eudora Suggestion???
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 18:54:49 GMT
Organization: Mentor Graphics Corporation


On the subject of ideas, or suggestions, I would like to see support
for return receipt. If it's there, I've missed it somehow. One possible
implementation would be to provide a return-receipt checkbox under 
"Special"/"Switches" which would enable placement of that header line
during message composition. Reciept acknowledgement is a commonly used
feature around here.

Mark Silbernagel                |
Mentor Graphics Corporation     | ...Don't let the sands of time
8005 S.W. Boeckman Road         |    get in your shorts      ;')
Wilsonville, OR  97070-7777     |
(503) 685-4738                  |    mark_silbernagel@mentorg.com

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.programmer