HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: sstai@ocf.berkeley.edu (Samuel S. Tai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: System 7 Tune-Up and Gatekeeper problem?
Date: 30 Jul 1992 22:06:11 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: tsunami.berkeley.edu


Oops...  I should have checked Gatekeeper before I opened my big mouth.
Gatekeeper 1.2.6 allows the Finder only File(Other) privileges.

I would guess that the earlier version is catching the "fval" res. change.
But, you would do well to consult a real Mac guru (I just live here).

PS:  Have you contacted scott johnson about this?  His email address can
be found in the Help section of the Gatekeeper control panel (way at the
end).

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sstai@ocf.berkeley.edu | Though it cost you all you have, get understanding.
                       |                                -- Proverbs 4:7 (NIV)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,alt.config
From: aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D.)
Subject: Re: RFD: alt.apple.newton
Reply-To: aland@cs.brandeis.edu
Organization: As little as possible
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 19:04:11 GMT

ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis) writes:
>Ernest> == Ernest Cline <cline@cs.scarolina.edu> 

> Ernest> There has been a lot of discussion of late about Newton the pen
> Ernest> based PDA that Apple will be introducing soon.

>Maybe discussion should be in comp.sys.palmtops or comp.sys.handhelds?

Either that or creating comp.sys.newton.

	-=Alan
From: neilg@fraser.sfu.ca (Neil K. Guy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: LaserWriter splash page hack?
Date: 28 Jul 92 20:43:27 GMT
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada

Sarek@world.std.com (Garrett Fitzgerald) writes:

>I seem to remember a PostScript program posted a while ago that told
>LaserWriters not to print that page at powerup. Can someone mail it to
>me, if it does in fact exist? Thanks.

 It does exist and I could send a copy if you like. Or you could
simply use Apple's LaserWriter Font Utility that comes with System
7.0.1 (and maybe 7.0 - can't remember...) to turn the startup page
off. Don't know what possessed Apple to sell printers that produce
test pages on startup as a default. I mean, it's cute and all but such
an incredible waste of trees...

 - Neil K. (n_k_guy@sfu.ca)
From: lkingsley@crd.ge.com (Lorne J. Kingsley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Dogcow T-Shirts - Are There Any?
Date: 29 Jul 92 17:00:23 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Organization: General Electric R&D

In article <kw2HoB5w165w@bluemoon.rn.com>, zaphod@bluemoon.rn.com (Peter
Bierman) wrote:
> 
> carl@class.gsfc.nasa.gov (Carl F. Hostetter) writes:
> 
> > I'd love to get a Dogcow T-shirt. Is there such a critter?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Carl F. Hostetter
> > carl@class.gsfc.nasa.gov
> 
> There isn't such a thing listed in APDA, but it _is_ a neat idea.
> 
> 
> ---
> The opinions I express are rarely my own, becuase my own are far too 
> outragous to post here.
> 
> IntNet:zaphod@bluemoon.rn.com    FutureNet: #33@#10
> The Metropolis (614)-846-1911
> ---

At last years MacWorld in Boston, there was a guy selling Dogcow t-shirts
at the World Trade Center. I don't know if they were authorized or not (I
kinda doubt it) but they looked pretty good.

Only problem was, he wanted $20 for the thing, and I couldn't see it. If
he's there this year, I'll try and haggle. :-)

- Lorne

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Internet: lkingsley@crd.ge.com  CI$: 75166,2550  America Online: LorneK1
From: Nimtz.1@nd.edu (Rick Nimtz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: System 7 "map" control panel
Date: 28 Jul 92 19:56:31 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Distribution: usa
Organization: U of Notre Dame, Educational Media

In article <152k1kINNsrp@agate.berkeley.edu>, sstai@ocf.berkeley.edu
(Samuel S. Tai) wrote:
> 
> 
> The Map Control Panel sets your Mac's time zone.
> This is a somewhat superflous (IMO) variable to control.
> 
> To use:
> 1.  Set the System clock with General Controls or Alarm Clock.
> 2.  In the Map Control Panel, type the name of the city you
>     currently inhabit.
> 3.  If that city is not recognized, type the name of some
>     major city in that time zone.

If your city is not listed you can enter the Latitude, Longitude and
Time Zone and city name.

> 4.  Hit the "Set" button.
> 
> You can replace the B&W default map with the color one in
> the Scrapbook.  Just copy the color map & paste it into
> the Map window.

Just for fun, hold down the option key when opening the Map CP.

> Most people never even bother with this Control Panel.  The
> only application I've seen to which the time zone was an issue
> is AutoClock, which keeps your internal clock on track by
> dialing up to an atomic clock in Washington, D.C.  AutoClock
> needs to know the time zone to calculate the offset & daylight
> savings.

Eudora uses the Map CP too. Newswatcher may use it in a future release.

The Map with system 6.0.X used a crosshair cursor to click on the city
in the map. Sys 7 now uses an arrow cursor which makes it very difficult
to click on the flashing dot of a city. Why did Apple change it?

Richard.D.Nimtz.1@nd.edu
University of Notre Dame
Educational Media Department
Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 USA
+1 219 239 5465
From: mspace@netcom.com (Brian Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: MacWorld Expo in Boston
Date: 31 Jul 92 18:55:53 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce) writes:
>In article <2427@cthulhuControl.COM> (rec.travel,comp.sys.mac.misc), cbraun@Control.COM (Corinne Braun) writes:
>> Anybody visiting Boston or from the area who will be attending
>> the MacWorld Expo want to meet for some socializing next week?

>If anyone wants to say Hi, I'll be working in the Peirce Software
>Booth (surprise!).

>Drop by Bayside booth 336.

>Of course, I'll force you to have a look at Smoothie, but it shouldn't
>be toooooo painful :-)

I'll be at one of the Ex Machina booths (not sure which one), and I won't
even try to send you a page!*|

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From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Powerbook 100 (was Re: Powerbook, Price Club, pricing)
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 14:37:25 BST
Distribution: world
Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.

ostroff@Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff) writes:
> In article <9uBooB23w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) writes:
> >If the machine can currently be sold at a profit for #900, the inference is
> >that the month before when I bought it for #1400 someone made #500 of pure
> >profit, no?
> 
> So what?  They sold the machine at whatever the market would bear.

Yes, it's just that that same argument was used to justify Apple UK's old
pricing policy.  Demand outstripped supply, so they used to increase the
prices of Macintosh computers until the number they manufactured matched the
number purchased.

British Rail have a similar pricing policy.  If trains are too crowded, they
increase the price of tickets until enough passengers are driven away
(literally) and the trains get less crowded.

> Nobody forced anyone to buy a $1400 computer.

Nevertheless, someone who buys something and then finds out a month later
that it's now being sold at half the price and still at a profit is liable to
be a little bit pissed off.  When the same company introduces a new product,
he is likely to decide that it's better to wait six months or a year until
the initial 100% profit has been cut to a more reasonable level.

> >If people wait around six months before touching Newton, it could
> >kill the product.
> 
> Again, what's your point?  Are you implying that people have a "duty" to
> buy new machines so Apple won't go broke?

No, I'm saying that new machines have to get market share quickly, or else
they die.  Look at the NeXT -- a fabulous machine, but few people bought it. 
Hence few people developed software for it.  Hence few people buy it.

Most people will have to be convinced before they'll spend money on Newton.
The people who won't have to be convinced are portable computing junkies, so
they could make up perhaps 90% of Newton owners in the first six months.  If
a sizable number of those people are put off from buying in the first six
months, Newton's momentum (ho ho) will be hit quite badly.

Put it this way.  When I first heard about Newton, I thought "Wow!  Start
saving now, and buy it as soon as it comes out!".  But now, I'm thinking "Hmm.
Probably when they first sell it, it'll have a profit markup of more than
100%, so when it's launched I'll wait six months before deciding whether to
buy one."  So Apple have already lost one potential customer, before the
product has even been released.


mathew
-- 
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 stone and a single note 'G' from CNN's ident theme) managed to convey a
 sense of rampant impropriety."  -- 'Fortran Five', Simon G. Lawrence Leonard
From: ccmlh@buitc.bu.edu (Mark Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Another QuicKeys problem
Date: 28 Jul 92 23:59:28 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Originator: ccmlh@buitc.bu.edu

Anyone else have a problem with QuicKeys where when you try to
bring up its editing window, all you get is a blank square,
which doesn't become fully "activated" until you click the mouse?
I'm also experiencing a related difficulty with an open dialog
put up by QuicKeys; sometimes, hitting escape to cancel out
doesn't work until I click the mouse in the box. Most irritating.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: jblue@mwunix.mitre.org (Jason D. Blue)
Subject: Re: PB100/Price Club Story in MacWeek
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 11:38:20 GMT

jmd@cube.handheld.com (Jim De Arras) writes:

>In article <1992Jul27.201231.20709@wuecl.wustl.edu> pjs1@cec2.wustl.edu (Philip  
>John Schielke) writes:
>> >	Other PowerBook 100 models will continue to be sold through dealer
>> >	channels."
>> 
>> Yeah I read this article too.  However, our campus computer store no longer
>> sells *any* PB100's.  I have called three mail order places and none of them
>> have 100's anymore.  The couple of mail order places that list prices for
>> 100's (in the new issue of MacUser) have 4/40's for about $1095, but I
>> haven't called them to see if they are still available.
>> 
>> In summary the availabilty of PB100's seems to be limited.
>> 
>> -Phil
>
>Not around here!  All the Price Clubs have them!
>
>Jim

The 2 Price Clubs in my area (Northern Virginia) have all sold out the same week
the article came out in MacWeek (but I did get one - and it is NOT a dog - runs
System 7 almost as fast as my IIci).  I believe they expect further shipments
for the demand.

-- 
Jason D. Blue --> User Support Center Specialist --> The MITRE Corporation, VA
--
Jason D. Blue --> User Support Center Specialist --> The MITRE Corporation, VA
From: guelzow@brandonu.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Compressing fonts?READ/NEW
Date: 29 Jul 92 17:50:50 GMT
Organization: Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada

In article <712360814.F00001@blkcat.UUCP>, Rick.Zeman@p943.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Rick Zeman) writes:
> 
>      MasterJuggler will compress all types and still let them be accessible.
>  
> Don't think that Suitcase allows that.
> 
Suitcase comes with Font & Sound Valet* which will compress fonts leaving them
accessible through Suitcase.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Andreas Guelzow  Dept. of Mathematics & Comp. Sc. Brandon University MB Canada
Guelzow@BrandonU.Ca
From: janiceg@marvin.Eng.Sun.COM (Janice Gelb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: IBM drivers to LaserWriter NTR
Date: 31 Jul 1992 16:23:22 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: janiceg@marvin.Eng.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin

Is anyone out there managing to print from an IBM to the LaserWriter NTR 
wihhout using Windows?  If so, what software are you using?

Email would be appreciated.  Thanks.


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Janice Gelb                  | (415) 336-7075     
janiceg@marvin.eng.sun.com   | "A silly message but mine own" (not Sun's!) 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.macintosh,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted
From: mmartin@nmsu.edu (Marilyn Martin)
Subject: System upgrade
Organization: New Mexico State University
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 21:52:16 GMT


If you want to upgrade from 6.0.3 to 6.0.7 or whatever, do you owe Apple
some money?

Thanks
MM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,alt.config,comp.sys.apple2,comp.sys.handhelds,comp.sys.pen,news.config
From: tiktok@milton.u.washington.edu (steve feldon)
Subject: Re: RFD: alt.sys.newton(was RFD: alt.apple.newton
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 21:48:03 GMT

I have established, as per the previous suggestion, a _temporary_
mailing list for people interested in the Newton.  It will last until
there is either a newgroup to carry the traffic or some other reason
to discontinue it.  All traffic, speculation, desires, or actual
_news_ is welcome.

Please send mail to either sfeldon@ms.washington.edu or
tiktok@u.washington.edu to be added; _please_ put "newton" or "Newton"
someplace in your subject line.  Thanks.

steve feldon
sfeldon@ms.washington.edu
my employer is innocent of anything I do.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
Subject: Re: Macs cost too much (NOT!)
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 23:26:34 GMT
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 <1992Jul29.184317.13716@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> baltman@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Brian Altman) writes:

>Just ran Speedometer 3.06 and got a Dhrystones/s of 3978.779 on *my* IIsi,
>but then again I got an FPU 8).

The Dhystone rating, as reported by Speedometer, actually drops
when you install the FPU.  Another indication of how deceptive
this type of benchmark can be.
From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Powerbook, Price Club, pricing
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 92 12:44:51 BST
Distribution: world
Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.

lkingsley@crd.ge.com (Lorne J. Kingsley) writes:
> I would be very impressed if a PowerBook 100 so configured would sell for
> "as low as $900." But then again, in the same article, they implied (?)
> that the model 100 was toast, so this would just be Apple's way of getting
> rid of old inventory.

I would be somewhat surprised if Apple junked the 100 so soon after launching
it.  I'd be less surprised if they junked the 140; at the weekend I saw a
place in London that was trying to get rid of their 140s by selling them at
100 prices...  It seems that everyone either wants a minimal cost, minimal
size, minimal weight machine -- in which case they get a 100 -- or something
as powerful as possible -- in which case they get a 170.

The 68030 in the 140 isn't much of a gain, because I wouldn't want to run
virtual memory and have my hard disk spinning all the time.  And apart from
that and a slightly larger screen, the 140 doesn't really have anything over
the 100...  when I tried the two side by side, it wasn't really noticably
faster.


mathew

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: grega@verdix.com (Greg Alonso)
Subject: APPLE LISA II FOR SALE
Keywords: Lisa, for sale
Organization: Verdix Corp.
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 17:53:39 GMT

I have two apple lisa's for sale.  Each 
have 1 MB RAM, 400K floppy disk, 10 MB external hard disk, with
Lisa Office S/W including LisaTerminal.  $200 ea.

email or call
grega@verdix.com
(703)318-5834
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. Verdix Corporation             Voice (703)318-5834     .
. 250 Van Buren St.              Fax   (703)318-9304     .
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: t-jacobs@ced.utah.edu
Subject: Contact addresses????
Organization: University of Utah
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 19:29:04 GMT

Could some kind souls please furnish me with email addresses for any of the
following organizations:

Apple
BMUG
MacTutor
MacWeek
MacWorld
InfoWorld
America Online
Compuserve
Genie

I'm looking for the kind of addresses that you would send press releases to.
Thanks

Tony Jacobs
Center for Engineering Design
University of Utah
t-jacobs
From: dave@prc.unisys.com (David Lee Matuszek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Macs cost too much (NOT!)
Date: 31 Jul 92 14:18:39 GMT
Organization: Paoli Research Center - Paoli, PA

In article <70611@apple.Apple.COM> bc@Apple.COM (bill coderre) writes:
>
 . . .
>
>But I tell ya one thing, I didn't pay extra for my Mac. As I figure
>it, I got a bargain.
>
>Of course, other people figure differently.
>
>bill coderre
>
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While I think this was generally an excellent article, and I agree
with everything you said, one point was left very unclear.

Don't you, as an Apple employee, get a discount on your Mac purchases?

I suspect there's some important point you forgot to mention, like:
you bought your Mac before going to work for Apple.  Or you don't work
for Apple, you just use their net link.  Or, Apple doesn't give its
employees hefty discounts any more.  Or, this article was really
written by someone else, you just posted it.

Again, I agree with everything you said.  I don't even mind that, as
an Apple employee, your motives for defending Apple might be in
question.  But you seem to be making the assumption that you pay as
much for Macs as the rest of us, and that's certainly not an
assumption I would make.  Please clarify.

  --dave

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: breck@ganzer.ecs.umass.edu ()
Subject: Trouble with mcvert Unix util
Originator: breck@spock.ecs.umass.edu
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 17:39:13 GMT

I picked up a bunch of stuff from sumex recently, converted it from
.hqx to .bin with mcvert on my Unix system and downloaded it to my
Mac.  Among the things were some self extracting archives.  When I
tried to execute them to extract them I got errors about available
memory, so I checked the memory settings in Get Info.  After a long
pause, the Get Info box appeared.  Recommended was n/a, Current was
zeroK.  Setting Current to a couple hundred K didn't help.  Some of
them were Compact Pro SEAs and I was able to extract them with CP.
Then I tried downloading the .hqx versions, debinhexed them on the Mac
and started them.  They extracted without complaint, and the memory
settings were normal.

So what's going on here?  Is mcvert not creating the Get Info details
or resource fork correctly?  I don't have any trouble mcverting .sit
or .cpt files and decompressing them on the Mac, but then they only
use the data fork.  Am I leaving out some command line option for
mcvert?  Does mcvert really implement the Macbinary standard right?
-- 
Liam Breck     breck@zonker.ecs.umass.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: brians@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Brian J Smith)
Subject: fast scanning
Summary: here's a solution to positional graphics for layouts, fast.
Keywords: scanning graphics dtp
Organization: Sydney University Computing Service, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 11:57:35 GMT


I used to use a Sharp JX600 for scanning graphics for design work, but have
just happend upon a new solution which speeds the process significantly. I
thought I would share it with you.

I'm now using a Quadra700 with a HP ScanJet and I'll tell you, the speed
difference is REMARKABLE. Not only does it pre-scan like a jet, but the
scanning proceedure is so fast, that you will never want to open Photoshop
until you actually want to MANIPULATE an image.

When you have a heap of scans to do, and they are taking too long when they
are just for positionals in a magazine, consider this option. It's fast and
the software (DeskJet I think it's called) is really quite good because you
can make a list of presets for the different types of images you often
encounter for preset settings.

enough raving.

brians@extro.ucc.su.oz.au

(I'm a magazine art director and thought this might appeal to anyone else in
the same field.)

Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.misc:13996 comp.sys.mac.programmer:13156
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Neat ResEdit 2.1.1 'Feature'
From: ejw1@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Eric Weidl)
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 13:55:47 GMT
Reply-To: ejw1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Academic and Public Computing

	While working with ResEdit the other day, my klutzy fingers discovered 
an neat feature.  To see it, select the Open... item from the File menu.  Then 
select a file in the standard file dialog.  Now, hold down the option key
while clicking the Open button.

        ResEdit will open a window displaying the status of its check of the
file's resource fork.  Yet another undocumented feature in a Apple product.

Eric

-- 
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               Eric Weidl    e-weidl@uchicago.edu
      University of Chicago -- Academic and Public Computing
===================================================================
From: rterry@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Ray Terry)
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 01:50:24 GMT
Subject: Re: Is StuffIt Deluxe 3.0 available now?
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc

>	At MacWorld Boston (Aug. 3) we will be releasing StuffIt Deluxe 3.0,
>which includes StuffIt SpaceSaver (our new transparent compressor) at which
>time we will also be rasing the price to $125.00 (mail order about 70-80).
>
>	If you purcahse StuffIt Deluxe 2.0 between now and then (or anytime
>since last August) you will be entitled to a free software upgrade (+ some
>shipping & handling).

What about an upgrade for existing SD 2.0 owners?

Can we buy SD 3.0 w/o SpaceSaver?  I don't need or want SpaceSaver since I'm
a very happy AutoDoubler/DiskDoubler/Sigma-Hardware user.  I assume we can
get SD 3.0 w/o paying for SpaceSaver?????

Ray
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc