HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ivanski@world.std.com (Ivan M CaveroBelaunde)
Subject: Compact Video/Vector Quantization (was re: semi-technical QT info...)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 15:57:58 GMT

rwb@kurn.VI.RI.CMU.EDU (Robert Berger) writes:

>In article <BxF8nt.5zw@world.std.com> ivanski@world.std.com (Ivan M  
>CaveroBelaunde) writes:
>> It's a VQ (Vector Quantization) scheme, which is similar to finding an
>> optimum CLUT for an image. You basically have a color map (called a
>> codebook) and you map each pixel to the closest color in the codebook.
>Not exactly. In VQ, you map blocks of MULTIPLE pixels to codebook entries.
>For example, each codebook entry might be a 3x2 group of pixels.

This is true. I was trying to simplify the concept by using the analogy
to an optimum CLUT. Of course, what really happens is that you take
each block of pixels that you will be quantizing and you consider it
an n-dimensional vector (where n could be, for example, the # of components
[RGB, YUV, or whatever] per pixel times the number of pixels in the block).
Then the codebook is nothing but a list of these "vectors", in essence
coordinates in n-dimensional space, and quantizing involves doing
an n-dimesional distance calculation, thus determining which of the "vectors"
the pixel block is closest to.  Thus the name "vector quantization."
As you mention, calculating and updating this codebook is a bear.

I thought the CLUT analogy made the concept easier to digest than the
ugly details (this is csm.misc, not csm.programmer, after all).

>VQ has the property that the compression is many times slower than the
>decompression. Finding a codebook that works well for a set of images
>requires lots of computation.

Absolutely. VQ is EXTREMELY asymmetric, and thus very nicely fitting for
"publishing" endeavors, where the ability to do decoding a lot more
cheaply than encoding makes a lot of sense.

The VQ codec in QT 1.5 (Compact Video) also optionally performs data
rate limiting, so it becomes even easier to make a movie CD-playable,
for example.

-Ivan

----
Ivan Cavero Belaunde
DiVA Corporation
From: tbiggs@sierra.com (Todd Biggs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Network Modems (can it be done ?)
Date: 5 Nov 92 20:21:20 GMT
Organization: Sierra Geophysics,  Kirkland WA

Is it possible to have a modem attached to just one machine on 
an appletalk network which can then be used for dial out by any of 
the machines on the network ?  The machines will be dialing out 
and connecting to unix, vms, pc and MAC systems.  

If this is possible is it  hardware or software controlled and who 
makes the hardware or software ?

Thanks, Please email tbiggs@sierra.com

Todd  
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: etheredg@ucs.indiana.edu (Wil Etheredge)
Subject: Re: Powerbook 100. still being manufactured?
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 15:26:13 GMT


What does this mean about production of batteries for the PB100?
Are they to become rare as well?

- Wil



In article <1992Nov10.065827.14245@netcom.com>, derek@netcom.com (Derek
LeLash) wrote:
> 
> In article <1992Nov10.052644.9660@news.columbia.edu> rs54@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Richard Sucgang) writes:
> >
> >the PB100 was the right idea for a consumer Mac...sob sob sob
> >
> Yeah... any time Apple wants to come out with a "new" 4/40 laptop for $900
> would be just fine with me...... :-)
> 
> Derek [so *now* I get a Price Club pass!]
> 
> -- 
> Derek LeLash (derek@netcom.com)   "You just think that's intellectual 
> Tech Writer/dietCokehead           because you were educated with a banana
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> Sunnyvale, CA  408-SEX-LLAMA       intellectual-free zone."  --  L.A. Story

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From: erh0362@tesla.njit.edu (Elliotte Rusty Harold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Utility to list file sizes
Date: 8 Nov 92 05:41:41 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology


	Does anyone know of a utility, payware, shareware, or whatever, that 
will produce a listing of all files on a disk and their sizes?  If it produced 
listings for folders too, that would be even nicer.

Elliotte Rusty Harold		Department of Mathematics
elharo@m.njit.edu		New Jersey Institute of Technology
erh0362@tesla.njit.edu		Newark, NJ 07102
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: dp72@mc4adm.UWaterloo.ca (Dave Baumbach)
Subject: Syquest vs Bernoulli
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 17:45:53 GMT

Given that media are the same price, which do you recommend?
-- 
                           Dave Baumbach
                           dp72@mc4adm.UWaterloo.ca 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: neath@brazil.psych.purdue.edu (Ian Neath)
Subject: Resource compressor?
Summary: Is there one?
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 23:51:52 GMT

I have (for whatever reason) lots of PICTs stored in a ResEdit file.
There are several such files, each around 5 MB or so. Stuffit,
CompactPro, etc, all do a poor job of compressing.  Is there a
utility (preferably share- or freeware) that compresses resources?

Any pointers greatly appreciated.

--
    Ian Neath, PhD     | There are four kinds of people in this world:
neath@psych.purdue.edu | cretins, fools, morons and lunatics - U. Eco
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: powell@ug.cs.dal.ca (Joel E Powell)
Subject: Mac PS 1 -> IBM PS 1 fonts
Summary: How?
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 00:40:33 GMT

Sorry if this has been asked a bunch of times or if it's in a text file
somewhere, but how/can you convert type one mac fonts to IBM postscript
type one fonts?

Thanks everyone,
Joel.
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* Joel Powell  (powell@ug.cs.dal.ca) *
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: tlspurli@athena.mit.edu (Terry Spurling)
Subject: PB170 external video?
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 09:13:05 GMT

Anyone know of a good source for info on external video for powerbooks?

-tlspurli@athena
terry by name
From: tinsel@uiuc.edu (Thomas Aaron Insel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Apple //e (DOS, ProDOS) programs on Mac?
Date: 12 Nov 92 19:13:35 GMT
Reply-To: tinsel@uiuc.edu
Organization: Masticating Illini
Originator: tai50080@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu

starfish@stein.u.washington.edu (Sarah Skovronsky) writes:
> jwells@netcom.com (Jason Paul Wells) writes:

> >Of course, maybe you don't have an LC... I do remember seeing a flyer about
> >some program that enabled you to run ProDOS applications on a Mac. It was
> >a long time ago, so I think it even worked on the Mac Classic models...
> >Unfortunately, I can't remember where it was from, and I have since lost
> >the flyer... =)

> Arrgh!  Okay, can ANYONE help me with this?

I remember the flyer, and I may still have it somewhere, but this was years
ago (before they even introduced the Classic).  The program was called
"][ in a Mac", but I don't know if it's still available.
-- 
Thomas Insel (tinsel@uiuc.edu)
  "Behind every argument is someone's ignorance." -- Louis D. Brandeis
Organization: Masters student, Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
From: mas@mipl8.jpl.nasa.gov (Marc Sarrel)
Subject: What are the different flavors of Mac?
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Distribution: comp
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 00:29:48 GMT


What are the different flavors of Mac that Apple currently markets?
What are the hard disk/RAM/CPU permutations for each model?  I looked
in the FAQ, but to no avail. :-(

Feel free to pass your answer by reference or by value...

advTHANKSance,
Marc
--
Marc Sarrel			"And they lived ever after, which is about
Jet Propulsion Laboratory	 all you can expect from a story like this."
mas@mipl8.jpl.nasa.gov		            --  Fractured Fairy Tales
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: lefty@apple.com (David "Lefty" Schlesinger)
Subject: Re: What are the different flavors of Mac?
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 23:16:02 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc

In article <mike_steiner-091192165047@192.35.50.131>,
mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner) wrote:
> 
> In article <MAS.92Nov5162948@mipl8.jpl.nasa.gov>, mas@mipl8.jpl.nasa.gov
> (Marc Sarrel) wrote:
> > 
> > What are the different flavors of Mac that Apple currently markets?
> > What are the hard disk/RAM/CPU permutations for each model?  I looked
> > in the FAQ, but to no avail. :-(
> 
> Mac Classic II/Performa 200
> Mac LC II/Performa 400
> Mac IIci
> Mac IIvx/Performa 600 (but not quite identical)
> Mac IIvi (but not in the states)
> Mac Quadra 700
> Mac Quadra 950
> Mac PowerBook 100 (selected overseas locations only)
> Mac LC (selected overseas locations only)
> Mac PowerBook 145
> Mac PowerBook 160
> Mac PowerBook 180
> Mac PowerBook Duo 210
> Mac PowerBook Duo 230
> 
> Discontinued models
> Macintosh
> Mac 512K
> Mac 512K enhanced
> Mac Plus
> Mac SE
> Mac SE/30
> Mac Classic
> Mac II
> Mac IIx
> Mac Iicx
> Mac IIfx
> Mac Quadra 900
> Mac Portable
> Mac XL/Lisa/Lisa II
> Mac Powerbook 140
> Mac LC (in most areas)
> Mac PowerBook 100 (in most areas)
> 
> (Did I miss any, or get anything wrong???)

As a matter of fact, you left out the Mac IIsi.  Mr. Shooting Out Back
Squad will be paying you a visit Real Soon Now.  Here's the CPU/RAM/disk
info I have for each machine:

Classic II     16 MHz 68030      2-10MB RAM        40 or 80 MB disk
LC II          16 MHz 68030      2-10MB RAM        40 or 80 MB disk
IIsi           20 MHz 68030      3-17MB RAM        40 or 80 MB disk
IIci           25 MHz 68030      5-32MB RAM        80 or 230 MB disk
IIvi           16 MHz 68030      4-20MB RAM        40, 80, 230 or 400 MB
disk
IIvx           32 MHz 68030      4-20MB RAM        40, 80, 230 or 400 MB
disk
Quadra 700     25 MHz 68040      4-20MB RAM        80, 230 or 400 MB disk
Quadra 950     33 MHz 68040      8-64MB RAM        80, 230 or 400 MB disk
PowerBook 145  25 MHz 68030      4-8MB RAM         40 or 80 MB disk
PowerBook 160  25 MHz 68030      4-14MB RAM        40, 80 or 120 MB disk
PowerBook 180  33 MHz 68030      4-14MB RAM        80 or 120 MB disk
Duo 210        25 MHz 68030      4-24MB RAM        80 MB disk
Duo 230        33 MHz 68030      4-24MB RAM        80 or 120 MB disk

--
David "Lefty" Schlesinger (lefty@apple.com)
Chief AppleTalk Bug Wrangler
Apple Computer, Inc.
From: peterc@cubetech.com (Peter Creath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Send me Clinton sound bites! (please)
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 92 19:09:39 CDT
Organization: Cube Technologies
Reply-To: peterc@cubetech.com


In article <dx3uv972.hrjvb1@moebius.cubetech.com> (comp.sys.mac.misc), peterc@cubetech.com (Peter Creath) writes:
> I figured I'd get prepared
> my sound library prepared for his inauguration.

Please excuse my mild incoherence.  The first "prepared" should be
omitted.

"The Buck Stops There."
- Douglas Adams, _Mostly Harmless_

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: pw4963@sarah.albany.edu (Peter G. White)
Subject: Powerbook 100. still being manufactured?
Organization: State University of New York at Albany
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 21:53:01 GMT

Is it?  I read in MacUser thatit was still being manufactured as long as there
was a demand.  But I can't find any.  Please let me know if anyone knows the
answer...
_______________________________________________________________________
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|     State University of New York at Albany                          |  
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: claw@spacsun.rice.edu (Colin C. Law)
Subject: Quadra 700 prices and the new 800
Keywords: Quadra, cheap, $$$
Reply-To: claw@spacsun.rice.edu (Colin C. Law)
Organization: Dept. of Space Physics, Rice University, Houston TX
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:55:09 GMT

I have read that Apple is discontinuing the Quadra 700 in February of 1993
and coming out with the 800.     

Does anyone have any info (insider or otherwise) about whether this means
700's will not be available after this time, or if the prices will drop
even lower as we near Feb.?????

Being a graduate student and spoiled on our research groups Quadra 700, I
had toyed with the idea of getting my own.  My hope is that the prices
will drop soon and I can grab one up.

Any info would be most appreciated!!

Thanks

Colin

-- 
colin law    			                    
claw@spacsun.rice.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: "Altruism" and "Morality"
From: codish@chen.bgu.ac.il (Shlomi Codish )
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 13:27:11 GMT
Organization: Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel

Could you please post in this group or e-mail me (codish@chen.bgu.ac.il) how to
obtain System 7.1 ("Power-User") for $40?

Thanks,

Shlomi
From: mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: MacIIsi cache:  32K vs. 64K ?
Date: 6 Nov 92 23:06:21 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc

In article <1992Nov4.203400.25811@wdl.loral.com>, mlf@wdl30.wdl.loral.com
(Mike L Forster) wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I own a MacIIsi.  I plan to add a port adapter, FPU, and RAM cache.  My
> question is:  Should I add 64K of RAM cache, or is 32K sufficient?
> 
> One or two vendors sell an adapter card with 2 PDS slots, an FPU, and
> 32K of on-board RAM cache.  Many vendors sell dual-port adapters, with
> 2 PDS slots and an FPU; then, one adds a PDS card with 64K of cache,
> using 1 of the 2 PDS slots.
> 
> I've noticed that one adds 64K of RAM cache to a MacIIci.  But, the
> MacIIvx has 32K of RAM cache on-board.
> 
> What are the tradeoffs?  If 32K is sufficient, that option is more
> attractive to me.
> 
> Thanks, in advance, for your advice.
> 
> >  Mike Forster   mlf@wdl1.wdl.loral.com

Apple says that 32K is sufficient, and that any more is wasted.  The
magazines tend to confirm this, with small gains between 32 and 64K and
virtually no gain above 64K.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: bb11807@medtronic.COM (Brian A. Blow)
Subject: Re: Need Excel Gradebook/Chi Square templates
Organization: Medtronic, Inc.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 17:16:52 GMT

Robert Rumpf (rrumpf@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu) wrote:
: I need to find a way to convince Excel 4.0 to be:
: 
: 1.  A Teacher's Gradebook
:

It seems to me that Heizer softare sold an Excel template for a gradebook

 
--Brian                   brian.blow@medtronic.com
                          (612) 574-4030
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: "godfrey lue" <godfrey.lue@canrem.com>
Subject: new mac newsletter
Reply-To: "godfrey lue" <godfrey.lue@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 6 Nov 92 23:21:46 EST

to: macreport@aol.com
    
I would be interested in the new Mac newsletter.
Please reply to: godfrey.lue@canrem.com

Looking forward to your reply.
---
  KingQWK 1.00  
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World's Largest PCBOARD System - 416-629-7000/629-7044
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: ctmc@vela.acs.oakland.edu (MC CAFFREY TIMOTHY P)
Subject: need help with corrupted disk image!!!
Followup-To: scooter@emunix.emich.edu
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Distribution: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 18:19:59 GMT

HELP! I recently downloaded two disk images. I have no reason to believe
that they were created improperly, yet both Disk Copy 4.1 and 4.2 fail
to read them. 

	4.1 states that there isn't enough memory to read a HD .image
	file, even after I increase its partition.

	4.2 states that the image may be corrupted...

	MountImage gives error -127

These files were macbin'd and unix-compressed, I used MacCompress and
MacBinary to make them "readable". If you have any helpful advice please
email to: scooter@emunix.emich.edu!

thanx in advance!
-tj
scooter@emunix.emich.edu
From: kriss@mcl.ucsb.edu (Kristin Boyce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Printing overheads on a StyleWriter?
Date: 9 Nov 92 02:40:42 GMT

Is there an ink cartridge that I can buy (or some trick) that  I can use to 
print overheads directly with my stylewriter?? (sorry, i know this went around
a while ago, but I didn't keep up on it then.......)
thanks!
kriss
kriss@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu
From: temple@ucbeh.san.uc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Daisy wheel on a Mac?  How to?
Date: 5 Nov 92 11:48:58 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Univ. of Cincinnati

I have a weird parent I am trying to convince to switch to a Mac
platform from his inadequate TI 99/4A (with a whopping 52K of RAM!)
 
Query: He insists that he should be able to drive a Daisy wheel
printer from the Mac (else, no go), because, although he is
semi-retired, he still has a business, and he wants a clear, crisp
impact printer for his forms, and is positively against all forms of
dot matrix, 24-pin and otherwise.
        Is this possible (never mind preferrable; I consider it a
considerable waste of a Graphics machine)?  What drivers will do
this?  What kind of cabling (null modem??)?
        He is using an old Diablo Daisy Wheel printer (he also has a
Smith-Corona Daisy wheel; he'll want BOTH to work, the old coot!)

Please E-mail me directly.

			Jon Temple
                        Department of Psychology
                        University of Cincinnati
			TEMPLE@UCBEH.SAN.UC.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: Samuel Christian Zehr <zeh1@midway.uchicago.edu>
Subject: Mac 128/512 Software Sites?
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A726DF945C0250B0@ebcl-mac-15.uchicago.edu>
X-Xxdate: Wed, 11 Nov 92 16:04:36 GMT
Organization: Biological Sciences Division/Academic Computing
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:05:38 GMT

Hello, does anybody know where I can find software for an old Mac 512K?
I'd especially appreciate programming software. (THINK Pascal 1.0, or was
it Lightspeed Pascal?) FTP sites or usere's groups or about anything
would be nice. e-mail responses to zeh1@midway.uchicago.edu    thanks
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: russol@aix.rpi.edu (Louis Peter Russo)
Subject: SendPS and sys7.0
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Distribution: USA
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 04:45:44 GMT

Hi, 

I remember reading a few months back about a way to enable SendPS to 
work with sys7 (I am interested in using this to dump Postscript files
to my laserprinter), but I can not remember how this was done.

Could someone please re-enlighten me?

Lou Russo
From: olle@astro.uu.se (Olof Morell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Installing type faces in system 7
Date: 6 Nov 1992 14:32:01 GMT
Organization: Uppsala University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: solaris.astro.uu.se

Hi!

A friend of mine just recently got a new LC with sys 7, and has tried to 
install some more type faces. However, when he drops the type face on the
System file, the Mac says, "reading", "moving", and the the screen goes gray
for a moment, no error message and nothing installed. 
If he tries to remove a type face, it is copied out, but not removed from the system file.

The type faces are moved out of a system file of a Mac running 6.07,
and installs properly on another Mac (Si) running sys 7.

What does he do wrong ?

(No other applications are running and the system file is not locked, 
I don't know if it would matter.)


*** Olle ***
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: jwells@netcom.com (Jason Paul Wells)
Subject: Re: Sound files
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 05:15:29 GMT

wes@vax2.concordia.ca (Wes Schyngera) writes:

>I know that this has been asked before on the net, but I have
>yet to seen  an answer: what application will convert .au, .voc,
>etc. files into Mac sound files? Please help!

I've seen a program to convert Sun sounds, called 'ulaw-to-mac'
or something like that. I believe it can be ftp'd from info-mac.
If anyone knows of other converters for other platforms, please
post here, 'cause I'd like to know, too! =)


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From: liz@marvin.contex.com (Elizabeth Cyr Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Need info on shareware sites
Date: 4 Nov 92 17:05:59 GMT
Organization: Xyvision Design Systems


I've recently bought a Mac, and would like any info about popular sites
for shareware programs. I'm frustrated, because for the IBM folks
there's a great discussion newsgroup that covers where various programs
can be found (complete pathnames and all! for anonymous ftp). Is there
a similar type group for Mac owners?

Thanks for any info. 

Liz Jones
liz@contex.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: ggloor@kean.ucs.mun.ca
Subject: POWERBOOK UTILITIES???
Organization: Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 12:16:37 GMT

I've just purchased a PB145. Are there any essential utilities
that make life easier with the PB's?

Greg Gloor
ggloor@kean.ucs.mun.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: jbra0006@rz.uni-hildesheim.de (Juergen Brauckmann)
Subject: Re: Reading IBM disks
Reply-To: jbra0006@rz.uni-hildesheim.de
Organization: Universitaet Hildesheim, RZ
Distribution: world
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 09:18:39 GMT

In article 513@thunder.LakeheadU.Ca, csirigna@thunder.LakeheadU.Ca (Carmine Sirignano) writes:
>I am in dire need of a PD program that reads IBM formated disks.  Could 
>someone direct me to a ftp site, and a name that will allow me to do this?
>
>Carmine Sirignano
>csirigna@thunder.lakeheadu.ca
>

What do you mean with "read"? Do you want to mount disks, so that they
appear on your desktop, or do you just want to transfer some files to/from
them?
And do you want to read harddisks or floppys?
With floppys, try the "file convert"-utility of Sys 7 
( eh, I'm not shure if it's called 'file convert'.... the german sys 7 calls
it 'Dateien konvertieren'. It should be mentioned in your manual.).
This util allows you to read/write DOS-disks, but you cannot mount them.
hope this helps,
   Juergen



Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: bizarre@leland.Stanford.EDU (Bruce Templeton)
Subject: Does SpeedyFinder7 work for System 7.1?
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 21:48:07 GMT

The subject line says it all, does SpeedyFinder7 work for System 7.1?
I want to make sure the important things will work before upgrading.

-Bruce

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