HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ross@bnr.ca (Ross Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Aliases (was Re: # of files)
Date: 28 Aug 92 16:03:41 GMT
Organization: Bell-Northern Research

In article <1992Aug28.131941.19238@qualcomm.com> sdorner@qualcom.qualcomm.com
(Steve Dorner) writes:
>[stuff deleted]
>UNIX symlinks with a mount capability would have been cleaner, IMHO.

I can see that this is becoming an unresolvable philosophical debate.  UNIX
chose simplicity, Apple chose functionality.  If UNIX users moved their files
and directories around as much as Mac users, their symbolically-linked file
systems would become so much shredded cabbage.  With desktop metaphors
penetrating the UNIX realm (OpenWindows, HP-VUE, and others), I sense that much
coleslaw is in the offing.

Personally, I find that aliases add little to the (staggering, I grant you)
complication of the Mac File Manager interface, an amount far exceeded by the
benefit of FSSpec support.

W. Ross Brown                 |        from Brown's Bestiary of the Macintosh:
Advisor, Telemanagement Svcs. |  PBCatMoof:  A purring system trap shaped like
Bell-Northern Research Ltd.   | a dog with cow spots and a 3-hr. battery life.
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada       | ----------------------------------------------
ross@bnr.ca                   |      Any opinion expressed is mine, not BNR's.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Rich Long)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: unchangeable HD name and icon
Date: 31 Aug 92 16:49:26 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <31VPB0ZW@cc.swarthmore.edu>, kohn@cs.swarthmore.edu (Daniel Kohn) writes...
[can't rename hard drive; has turned off file sharing]
>	A friend suggested that this is a known problem and that I can
>download a program that can fix it.  He couldn't remember the name; can
>you?  Where is it?

 This apparently can also happen if a System 6 Mac connects to a System 7
 server. I think the program you're thinking of is "UnlockFolder".

Richard C. Long			long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com
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From: wyattw@loowit.wr.tek.com (Wyatt Webb;6291592;92-835)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: How do I reduce SYSTEM file size?
Date: 26 Aug 92 15:41:16 GMT
Organization: Tektronix - Instrument Controllers and Software
In-reply-to: v065hjku@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu's message of 26 Aug 92 13:46:00 GMT

In article <BtLCt3.AHr@acsu.buffalo.edu> v065hjku@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Jason Osborne) writes:


   >Somehow my SYSTEM file has been expanded beyond usefulness.  I have a Mac IIci
   >with 20 Megs of memory, System 7.0.x.  After running out of memory trying to
   >run a second (!) application, I looked at the Finder info and I see the system
   >is occupying 14+ Megabytes.
   > 
   >I know that with System 6, if you add fonts or DA's the system file expands to
   >contain these and does not shrink back when you remove them again.  Is this
   >the case with System 7 as well (ie. with fonts and sounds)?  How do I get a
   >'reasonable' size System file back again?

   I have taken fonts & sounds in and out, and system size always reflects the 
   alterations.  Also, check the extensions and control panels, as well as
   apple menu items folder to make sure you have only what you want, and

   I have managed to create a wonderfully functional system with a variety
   of fonts and sounds, and extensions I want for under 2 meg, and a version
   that
   fits on a HD floppy with room to spare.

   ____________________________________________________________________________ __
   Jason Osborne | Disclaimer: Who'd listen to me anyway?
   ______________________________________________________________________________
   For information on the Underground Phont Archive, drop me a note via email
   ______________________________________________________________________________



Wait!  Wait!  I don't think your system has expanded to 14 Meg. This is
probably the most common FAQ on this group.  You need to turn on 32-bit
addressing in the memory control panel.  Until you do, the Mac can only
address approx. 8 Meg and the rest is _shown_ as being taken up by the
system.  This is supposed to comfort you in knowing that the Mac knows
it is there, but cannot use it.  It has only succeeded in confusing the
hell out of many lucky (they can afford 12-20 Meg!) Mac users...

Good luck!

	-Wyatt
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|     Engineers are better	|        never, never, never"	    |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: byrne@terminus.gatech.edu (Michael Byrne)
Subject: Re: Quickeys 2.1
Keywords: Macros
Organization: College of Computing
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 03:52:01 GMT

Put me in with the people who maintain it's the best money you'll
ever spend.  If I had to run only one third-party INIT/cdev, it 
would be QuicKeys.

If for no other reason than to get the *%#! Page Up and Page Down
keys to work even when the the %&*@#$ developers didn't write the
code to handle it.

I use it for everthing--typing common strings in my terminal emulator,
automating little things like changing bit depth, launching applications,
adding keyboard commands (which I *could* do with ResEdit, sometimes),
and on and on and on.  

One VERY happy customer,

============================================================
Mike Byrne                               byrne@cc.gatech.edu
Grad student in Psychology/Cognitive Science
25947 GA Tech Station, Atlanta, GA 30332

----->>>>    "Only the mediocre are always at their best."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: hector@cs.toronto.edu (Hector Levesque)
Subject: Overlining in Times true type font
Keywords: overline, Times, TT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Date: 31 Aug 92 14:59:28 GMT

Is there a way to cajole the Times TT font to do overlining of individual
characters, so that I can get, for example, an x in italics with a bar on top
of it?  I see there is a character in the font (typed option-shift-,) that
puts a little line in exactly the right position, but I can't see how to get
an x, or a p, or an n under it.  Ideally, there would be something like
option-e, which is used to put an accent on the next character typed (or some
of them anyway).

If not, is there a TT or Postscript font (free or commercial) that is similar
to the Times italic font but permits overlining on at least some of the
characters?

If not, do I have any options besides using a drawing application to draw a
little horizontal line over a character and saving it as PICT file??

Thanks for any help

Hector Levesque
U. of Toronto

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.amiga
From: lalonde@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Francois Lalonde)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Oscilloscope in a mac?
Date: 3 Sep 92 13:14:46 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Institut de Recherche d'Hydro-Quebec

In article <hise.714935833@vincent1.iastate.edu>, hise@iastate.edu (Allan R Hise) writes:
> 
> I seem to remember seeing last fall (before I had my mac...) a vendor selling
> a card & software that essentially allowed you to use your mac as an 
> oscilloscope.  Anyonmne out there know about this?  I would very much like
> to have one of these in my IIsi....
> 
> Thanks for any info,
> Allan
> hise@iastate.edu
 
 
I use National Instruments products: Labview software and NB-MIO 16 card on my MacII fx.
I like it very much and it can do much more than a oscilloscope.
Call Instruments products
     6504 Bridge Point Parkway
     Austin, TX 78730-5039 USA
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From: Glen.Stewart@f175.n2240.z1.ieee.org (Glen Stewart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: RE: What's wrong with my Mac Plus?
Date: 25 Aug 92 13:54:20 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:2240/175 - The Associati, Grand Blanc MI

The transformer is a common problem on older Macs.  Get Larry Pina's book on
Mac repair secrets.  He clearly shows how to diagnose & repair this problem -
and many others.  Also, get a fan!


--  
=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=
 Glen Stewart - Internet: Glen.Stewart@f175.n2240.z1.ieee.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
Subject: Re: RE-MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 18:49:46 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 <ajross.715355666@husc10> ajross@husc10.harvard.edu (Andrew Ross) writes:

>You continue to assert that it does, but have yet to
>detail even one memory management problem you have had at 640k.  

I have given very specific examples of memory management problems 
that Windows has, not just once but several times.  Every time, you 
shot off flaming replies but, obviously, did not bother to read what 
I had written.  Either that or you are too senile to remember it
now. (No wonder you object to my calling you a kid. :-)  Or maybe
you just don't *want* to believe it.

>Windows effectively has no 640k barrier, and OS/2 cannot.  Period.

You have great potential for a career in NASA public relations --
"The Space Shuttle cannot catch fire and crash.  Period." 

A technician who worked on rocket sleds at Edwards Air Force Base 
during the 60's said that if anything can go wrong, it will go wrong.
Maybe you've never heard of Murphy's Law or "bugs."  A bug is the
reason why something in the real world doesn't work the way your
textbook says it should.  This may come as a shock to you, because
universities tend to indoctrinate students to believe the textbook
(and the professor) is always right, but the real world is full of
bugs.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.amiga
From: alexr@capella.EETECH.McGill.CA (Alex Rousseau)
Subject: Re: Atari Falcons $799... WHO CARES! Just emulate it.
Keywords: n
Organization: McGill University - Montreal, CANADA.
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 05:10:21 GMT


Some of us remember that the author of the above comments was the same person
advocating the Atari a few years ago. Yes, Atari's woes are Atari's fault
(although IBMonitis plays a key role in this situation; just ask Amiga and
Mac owners) and yes, the Tramiels are probably the worst thing that could 
have happened to Atari (at least the sons) and yes, I see very little 
future in the Atari as a platform. Too little, too late, too bad.

	If memory serves, you advertised the GEMulator over a year ago in
some Atari mags and I am frankly surprised that your product is not out yet.
Just a friendly reminder that some Amiga owners are getting ready to lynch
Jim Drew of Utilities Unlimited for being 3 months late on an
announced product's release date.

	How easy it is to point an accusing finger, n'est-ce-pas ? Take
a good look at yourself before you judge another man, lest a third party
judge you just as harshly and do release you product on time, just this
once. You said "in a few days"; now, let's see... Why, that's in 21 days or 
less ! Let's see you keep your promise for once.


Alexandre Rousseau.

P.S.: 	Some fellow well dwellers may discern a slightly antagonistic tone to
	this response. They are correct.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.system
From: fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (steve hix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: RE-MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
Date: 31 Aug 1992 19:55:09 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: concertina

In article <1992Aug28.073628.290@CS.ORST.EDU> pricec@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (price carl wayne) writes:
>>Oh?  What government agency spent thousands of dollars on a toilet
>>seat?  I know the press *reported* that the US Air Force spent
>>thousands of dollars on a toilet seat, but that was dead wrong
>>-- the bill was actually for a toilet *cover*, an injection-
>>molded plastic part covering the entire toilet and weighing
>>600 lbs.  So, do you know of an example where a government
>>agency actually did spend that much on a toilet seat.  I'm
>>just trying to see how careful you are with your facts here.
>>Establishing your credibility, so to speak.
>
>Back about 5-7 years the pentagon was laid into by congress for spending
>Thousands of dollars on toilet seats, along with a number of other fiscal
>fiascos.  I have personally seen the waste in goverment, so I tend to 
>believe this when congress jumped on them and the press reported it, your
>beliefs may differ of both the government and the press.

I know about the $600 dollar hammer incident.

The initial hammer (part of complete aircraft system that included spares,
and so on) *did* cost $600.

Of course, you have to include tooling, testing, setting up the packaging
and so on for the full system.

Follow-on hammers in the production runs didn't cost anywhere near that.

The $n-thousand dollar coffeepot sounded horrific, until you realize that
it was less expensive than the "coffepots" used in airliners.  You can't
just use an off-the-shelf coffeepot (or coffee maker) in an aircraft, for
safety concerns, if nothing else.  They have to be custom-designed to fit
the (new) aircraft, 'cause space is a precious, rare resource in them.

There are valid concerns about waste in government spending...beside the
fact that governments, by their inherent nature, tend toward more and
more waste.  But a good number of published examples are used more for
pummeling effect than in trying to deal with real problems. 

Can you say "deviating from the group's charter"?  :}

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: eric_gorr@coglab_psych.uoregon.edu (Eric Gorr)
Subject: Swivel 3D - editing objects
Organization: University of Oregon Network Services
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 20:18:58 GMT

I have a question for any of you Swivel 3D users out there.  

I am attempting to edit the skull that comes with the software.  I am able
to
remove the jaw and upper teeth, and I would like to remove everything else
except for the brain case.  When I try to use the Redesign Object menu
option, nothing happens (the object is selected).  

How can I edit this object?  

(I've skimmed over the manual and could find nothing useful)

Thanx...
From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
Date: 27 Aug 92 22:44:54 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 <1992Aug27.202922.13039@CS.ORST.EDU> pricec@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (price carl wayne) writes:

>However, OS/2 with WPS beats macs user interface, and offers a nice OS for
>the power user.

Oh?  You mean IBM traded Apple the rights to the hottest RISC 
processor around in exchange for an interface that's inferior
to what Big Blue had already developed itself?  Who writes your
material, kid, Groucho Marx?
From: sdorner@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Steve Dorner)
Subject: Re: # of files
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 22:07:40 GMT

kent@sunfs3.Camex.COM (Kent Borg) writes:
>No, Firstclass does not circumvent the file system, aliases are not
>implemented by the file system--which is what annoys the makers of
>Firstclass.  I think they wish they were on a Unix box.  To use
>aliases would require extra irksome work on their part.

Sounds like they have an Attitude.  Of course, they're not the
only ones.  I can think of one particular development system that ALSO
doesn't have a clue about aliases.  It's called MPW, and the company
is some fruit name.  Ah, well, they probably weren't Apple Partners, and
didn't get any warning of what was going to happen in System 7. :-)

Aliases are implemented in an unpleasant way for any app that doesn't
just use standard file, and it's no particular shame that aliases
aren't supported in such apps.  Of course, as the years wear on, one's
patience wears thinner.
-- 
Steve Dorner, Qualcomm, Inc.
Yes, I'm still working on Eudora and it's still free.
From: sells@cs.umn.edu (Chris Sells)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Test
Date: 28 Aug 92 04:19:27 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Organization: Spanlink Communications



----------------
Chris Sells
sells@cs.umn.edu
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From: ba903@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Charles P. Hobbs)
Subject: System 7 Sound on the LC II
Reply-To: ba903@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Charles P. Hobbs)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 06:13:16 GMT


I have a new LC II, and one of the features I really enjoy is the
built in sound digitizer.
 
However, the sounds created by this digitizer do not seem to be compatible
with any existing Mac sound package (Soundmaster, etc.)
I
I would like to know if there are any conversion programs which would convert
System 7 system file sounds to ordinary sound documents (and back, if possible)

Please e-mail as well as post. Thanx in advance....
From: jmale@melpo.inria.fr (Jean-Michel Male)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: RE-MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
Date: 28 Aug 92 09:30:31 GMT
Reply-To: jmale@cosinus.inria.fr
Organization: INRIA Sophia Antipolis

--

	  It seems to me (perhaps I am wrong) that, for my personal 
	  experience, the major problems existing with PCs are their
	  (notorious ?) unreliability. When the PC-people speak about
	  prices, they do not mention that what I would call a reliable
	  PC (Compaq for instance) is expensive; they tell you the
	  advantages of PCs and the prices of the cheap clones which ARE
	  not reliable. If you want to compare Macs and PCs, you'll
	  have to take into acount this.

	  If you want to flame me, please do not Email, and think twice
	  before doing it; I am french and I will probably not understand
	  insults or even deep humor ;-)

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(Mort aux vaches !)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: Jonathan A. Duke <jonathan@hermes.bc.edu>
Subject: Re: Quickeys 2.1
Organization: Boston College
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 12:55:26 GMT

Subject: Quickeys 2.1
From: Stephen Jenks, jenks@usc.edu
In article <l9kknlINNobu@aludra.usc.edu> Stephen Jenks, jenks@usc.edu
writes:

>So I'm asking:
>	Do you like Quickeys?
>and	What do you use it for that makes it indispensible in your life?

I love QuicKeys.  

I use it for many things on my machines.  At home, I use it in
conjunction with PowerKey (from Sophisticated Circuits) to launch a
specific
application in the early AM, make a couple of phone calls to connect to
online
services, then go off and do some other things, before relinquishing
control to
me about 7 AM.

Plus, I use it to pull down DAs and the like from the keyboard.

At work, I have keysets set up for choosing printers, mounting fileserver
volumes
and accessing control panels.

Jon Duke
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: thorn@leland.Stanford.EDU (Shannon Lee Thornburg)
Subject: Re: IIsi RAM
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 18:36:32 GMT

>I looked into several sources of information and this is what I found about RAM
>in a Mac IIsi:
>
>  -The hardware limits the RAM to 1 Gb (not 4 Gb).
>
>  -The ROMs are 32-bit clean (no MODE32 needed).
>
>  -Mac IIsi can use 256k, 1M, 2M, 4M, 8M and 16M SIMMs. I cant find out about
>   bigger SIMMs (32M and 64M doesnt exist yet?)
>
>  -Mac IIsi has four SIMM-slots.
>
>  -Mac IIsi has 1 Mb soldered onto the motherboard.
>
>The result of this is that Mac IIsi can be congfigured as follows:
>
>  -1 Mb, 2 Mb, 5 Mb, 9 Mb, 17 Mb, 33 Mb and 65 Mb.

The IIsi can also use 512k SIMMs for a total memory of 3 Mb.

This was one of the standard configurations that Apple sold (the IIsi 3/40) 
before they gave up pretending that anyone could do anything useful with System 
7 and fewer than 4 MB RAM.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: daniels@xstor.com (Daniel A. Segel)
Subject: Re: How do I read this file?
Distribution: usa
Organization: Storage Dimensions, Inc.
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 16:55:13 GMT

In article <92222.1541559001648@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at>, <9001648@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at> writes:
> 
> Is there a way to read ***.ARJ files on the Mac? Or, alternatively, is
> there a Unix hack to view such files? And what does ARJ stand for anyway?
> 
> Any pointers welcome.
> -Marcus
> 
I tried to respond via e-mail, but it didn't work.

ARJ files are compressed using a MS-DOS based archiving utility
similar to arc or pkzip. The only way I know of dealing with them
on a Mac is to use SoftPC and run the UNARJ.EXE file to extract the
files you want.

Daniel S.
daniels@xstor.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: jlaurent@encore.com (Jim Laurent)
Subject: Re: How good is AutoDoubler?
Organization: Encore Computer Corporation
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 22:41:56 GMT
Keywords: autodoubler

johnsd2@rs6405.ecs.rpi.edu (Daniel Norman Johnson) writes:

>In article <1992Sep01.181941.544@bmerh85.bnr.ca>, stu1d46@bmerh255.bnr.ca (Victor Koa) writes:
>[deletia in praise of AutoDoubler]
>|> Disk Doubler files.  Looks like I'll have to uncompress each and every file
>|> one at a time...If I really want to bother.
>|> 

>Can't you just set your whole hard drive to "do not compress" with the
>control panel? I think that decompresses the content too... At least I
Two options

1. Use ADexpand to expand a file or the entire contents of a folder in
"Batch" mode.

2. Tell AD not to compress either drive.  Then drag all your folders
from drive A to drive B.  AD decompresses when you copy files!  Then
drage them back replacing the originals.
`
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