HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: mrb@earth.wustl.edu (Mike Bray)
Subject: Help!  Microsoft Mail 3.0a enclosures crash IIci...(virus?)
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 04:31:23 GMT

We're running an appletalk network with Microsoft Mail server
3.0a on a IIci.  When reading or writing messages to the server
containing enclosures, the IIci will hang completely.  We 
installed the server on an SE 30, and created a new data file.
This system doesn't hang, but seems to freeze periodically.
We created an enclosure about 1 megabyte in size, and hit
"send".  Watching the activity monitor on the SE 30, it would 
chug along writing the enclosure to its data file for 20 
seconds or so, then totally freeze for 16 seconds, and then 
resume the transfer for another 72 seconds, and another 16 second
freeze, etc.  This was done from a workstation on the appletalk
network.  When the same was tried from workstation software 
running on the server itself, the freeze was 16 seconds, but the
active interval between freezes was only 50 seconds.  When sending
from across the network, the client software periodically displayed
the message "can't find microsoft mail server   (( Give Up))".  
Clicking ((Give Up)) would return control to the user.

Once again, the point where the SE 30 freezes, and then resumes, 
our IIci totally, irreversibly locks up.

We have also experienced lockups on the IIci (apparently) as people logged
into the server as their macs booted, if they had set "login automatically"
in their choosers.

Other lockups have occurred, but we don't know what happened at that 
time.

We also have a Shiva LanRover and a NetModem on the net.  At some 
point we became unable to connect to either, although their 
indicator lights indicated that they were being communicated with.
Rebooting the mac trying to talk to the LanRover fixed the problem. 

This configuration has been runnning fine for months.  One change
made last week was the addition of a route to a remote mail server,
but all was well until Friday or so, when certain machines
started hosing the server as they logged in, seemingly more
and more as time progressed.  This suggested virus infection,
but we haven't found anything yet.

Thanks for any information or suggestions you might have!

Mike Bray  mrb@earth.wustl.edu
From: arons@sci.ccny.cuny.edu (Michael Arons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Small app to start Shutdown?
Date: 17 Aug 92 12:07:18 GMT
Organization: City College of New York - Science Computing Facility

In article <BsxIKt.J4v@news.cso.uiuc.edu> aad35939@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (A A DeGuzman) writes:
>I am mananging a lab of 30+ Macs running System 7. We want to keep the
>machines running all the time; we don't want students shutting them down.
>I've edited the Finder using ResEdit to diable the Shutdown command. But I
>would like a way to shut down the machine using, perhaps, a small
>application, in case of repair/maintenence. Does such any app exist?
>

There is a small application called "SHutDown Later" which, I believe
is on sumex.


Michael Arons                     arons@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Division of Science               arons@ccnysci.uucp
City College of New York          (212) 650 6850
APPLELINK: ARONS.SCI              FAX (212) 650 7948
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: knguyen@emr1.emr.ca (Kim Nguyen)
Subject: Re: Looking for app to run DA's under System 7
Organization: Energy, Mines, and Resources, Ottawa
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 03:26:34 GMT

In article <BtADBz.D78@news.cso.uiuc.edu> aad35939@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (A A DeGuzman) writes:
>hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades) writes:
>
>>aad35939@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (A A DeGuzman) writes:
>
>>>I'm looking for an app to install a few (4) DA's to run under System 7.
>>>I found this program on mac.archive.umich.edu called DASh, but it opens all
>>>of the DA's when launched. I basically want the equivalent of DA Handler
>>>(from Multfinder - System 6) - just a File and Edit menu. If anyone knows of
>>>such an app, any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>>    Am I the only one who doesn't understand this request? One of the
>>great things about System 7 is the fact that you no longer need an app
>>to install DA'a any longer. You just drop them into your system folder
>>and let it do the rest. System 7 treats each DA as if it were an
>>application unto itself.
>
>You know, I realized now that I should have described *why* I am trying
>to do this.
>
>I am running a lab of Mac on System 7, and I would like to hide the
>System Folder. But doing so disables all of the Apple Menu items. I was
>trying to look for an app to hold all of the DA's, put in the Startup
>folder, and disable the Quit command on the app. Then the students can
>get to the DA's w/out getting a chance to muck around in the System Folder.
>
>But I figured out the answer to my problem anyway. You can use Font/DA Mover
>to move DA's back into the System File under Sys7. Then, if you hide the
>System Folder, or quit the Finder, the DA's will still be accessible.
>
>Sorry about the confusion.
>
>
>-- 
>Alan A. DeGuzman                 "I dunno, it seems like once people grow up,
>Calculus&Mathematica              they have no idea what's cool"
>DISCLAIMER: "The University 
>can't afford my opinions."                        - A naked Calvin to Hobbes
--            
Hi Alan,
You said you can disable the quit command on the app (Font/DA Mover, in this
case). How do you do it ?
Thanks
Khanh Kim, Nguyen

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: knguyen@emr1.emr.ca (Kim Nguyen)
Subject: Reverse printing
Organization: Energy, Mines, and Resources, Ottawa
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 02:53:29 GMT

Hi,
Reverse printing as default in printing dialog box in MacWrite II. If I deselectit, the output will be pages 1,2,3,...
In text editor Edit II, I have no control on this matter. My output is in       reverse. So I have to reorganize the pages again !
I have 2 questions :
- Does any friend get a forward printing in using Edit II ? Please give me a
clue ?
- How can I get forward printing from MW II without deselecting "Reverse" all   the time ? Why "reverse printing" ? Is that for special printer ?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Khanh Kim, Nguyen
knguyen@emr.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: tonyg@spock.retix.com (Tony "Salty Dog" Goulding)
Subject: SpinD.FKey problems...
Organization: Retix, Santa Monica CA
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 23:04:05 GMT

Hey ho!
I've just downloaded SpinD - the function key that allows me to spin
down my PB disk at will.  I also downloaded FKey Manager 3.0 to install
the FKEY, but it doesn't recognize the file. 
ANy ideas, anyone?
[N.B. the documentation is very system 6-oriented and it may be that the
app is not 7-savvy]

Tony.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: bcarter@claven.idbsu.edu (Bruce Carter)
Subject: Re: Where to get street price of CompileIt?
Organization: Boise State University - CBI Product Development
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 16:51:54 GMT

In article <16AUG199221413684@oregon.uoregon.edu> ccyang@oregon.uoregon.edu
(Chun-Ching Yang) writes:
>I would like to buy CompileIt ( a software to compile HyperTalk into XCMD).
>I am looking the street price. Does anyone know where I can buy it?

Heizer Software
1941 Oak Park Blvd., Suite 30
P.O. Box 232019
Pleasant Hill, CA  94523
FAX:  510-943-6882
Phone:  800-888-7667 or 510-943-7667

CompileIt! is product number #30-0894 and is $149.00
                                     <->
Bruce Carter, CBI Product Development                bcarter@claven.idbsu.edu
Simplot/Micron Instructional Technology Center       amccarte@idbsu (Bitnet)
Boise State University, Boise, ID  83725             (208)385-1851@phone
From: matti@my.sm.luth.se (Matti Larborn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Nisus
Date: 13 Aug 92 08:36:02 GMT
Organization: Lule} University
X-Xxdate: Thu, 13 Aug 92 09: 36:03 GMT
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d6

Subject: Re: Nisus
From: Kevin Boyce, boyce@amo.mit.edu
Date: 12 Aug 92 18:34:52 GMT
In article <1992Aug12.183452.5505@athena.mit.edu> Kevin Boyce,
boyce@amo.mit.edu writes:

>I got the demo (I forget what version) about two years ago, and dropped
>it immediately, because of at least one major bug:
>
>I copied a graph from Igor into the document.  The graph had about 1000
>objects (circles) in it.  So far, fine.  Then I wanted to center it or
>something, so I thought I'd try double-clicking it first, to see if that
>brought up some convenient controls.  Big mistake... 

If you double-click at a picture in Nisus it gives you an edit window
in which you can edit the picture. I don't know if this feature has
been in Nisus for two years, but it is there today. That is what might
have happened to you (and the picture must have been huge).

My guess...

	--Matti Larborn, Sweden
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <JNeedleman@MCIMail.com>
Subject: Re: Screen Capture
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 11:24:43 EDT
Organization: The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d8
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A6B931FCEE028137@via.ccb6.merit.edu>
X-Xxdate: Thu, 20 Aug 92 11:26:52 GMT

In article <1992Aug20.010143.1953@afterlife.ncsc.mil> Peter Kellman,
pkellma@afterlife.ncsc.mil writes:
>are there better screen capture applications available? 

Try flash-it, available from sumex-aim.stanford.edu as:
info-mac/cp/flash-it-22.hqx
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Subject: Re: Problem with Retrospect Remote
Originator: d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
	<9222617.259@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 10:46:08 GMT

> djh@cs.mu.OZ.AU (David Hornsby) writes:

   AUFS currently provides directory ids that are fixed only for the life
   of the server process. The current implementation of the Macintosh
   Hierarichal File System uses "fixed dirids" which means that every
   directory has a unique id fixed for the lifetime of the file system


That has caused major problems for us, since Aliases (the
system-7-cool way of remembering files) also stop working when
dirIDs are re-assigned. I can see three work-arounds:


1) have an invisible file called ".dir-ID" in every directory
   given a dirID.
2) keep a database file coupling directories to dirIDs (the way
   A/UX does it)
3) (I like this one) make up a dirID out of the i-node and
   partition number the directory uses.

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  sufficient number of boxes. Go out and buy something.
From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: What version of Stuffit works with Runtime
Date: 13 Aug 92 14:05:08 GMT
Reply-To: hades@Dartmouth.Edu
Distribution: usa
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Disclaimer: Personally, I really don't care who you think I speak for.
Moderator: Rec.Arts.Comics.Info

walton@gcnext.gac.peachnet.edu (Sam Walton) writes:

>Greetings,

>I ftp'd the shareware version of Runtime from U Kans and my copy of 
>Stuffit Deluxe 2.01 won't unstuff it saying it probably needs a newer 
>version of Stuffit.

    Runtime what?

>I thought until Stuffit 3.0 came out, I had the latest version.

    Well, Stuffit 3.0 is out and has been for about a month. However,
prior to that the Stuffit Lite shareware program has been out in both
beta and full release for about 4 months. There is also Stuffit Expander
available as freeware which is what I use to expand all of my downloaded
and compressed archives. Expander handles not only all the versions of
Stuffit but also all the versions of Compact Pro.

--
-Hades (Brian V. Hughes) Moderator: Rec.Arts.Comics.Info
		   "A clear case of curare poisoning
	       of one of her Majesty's Cold-Cream Guards"
						   -- Durlock Holmes
From: owen@olympus.arc.nasa.gov..arc.nasa.gov (Owen S. Nishioka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: HD backup software
Date: 21 Aug 92 14:47:01 GMT
Organization: Nasa-Ames Research Center

In article <1992Aug21.012405.25508@sfu.ca> flui@fraser.sfu.ca (Francis Wai Gee Lui) writes:
>
>What's everyone's favourite HD backup software?

Retrospect (hands down)

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From: matti@my.sm.luth.se (Matti Larborn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Repost: review
Date: 14 Aug 92 12:12:56 GMT
Organization: Lule} University
X-Xxdate: Fri, 14 Aug 92 13: 13:01 GMT
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d6

Reposting since i strongly suspect that the article will be
scrambled in the facts part:

Someone asked me to compare Nuntius and NewsWatcher and
write a short review. Here it comes, but I havn't done
so much work with it so there is a lot of questions you
could ask. If you have questions about Nuntius or
NewsWatcher, please do not post directly to me. If you
post in this group I may answer if I can.

NewsWatcher 1.3d5 is a News reader that reminds quite
much of the Unix nn (no News). Of course you don't write
one letter commands to the NewsWatcher, but instead you
use menus to subscribe, post articles etc. NewsWatcher
uses a little of the special Mac features that is of use
in a News reading program (folders: not used, "triangles"
to hide/show info: used in a open News group). There is
a lot of built in functions (which i did not test).

Nuntius 1.1.1d6 is a News reader where the graphical
possibilities of the Mac user interface is more used.
It uses folders when showing the all news groups list,
and "triangles" to hide articles if you don't want to
see them. You subscribe to groups by dragging and
dropping. Nuntius is claimed to be slow, but as far as
I could see there was no significant difference.

Facts:

NewsWatcher:
Size: 118K
Version: 1.3d5

Startup: Reads all groups from the server. Shows new
groups if any. Marks groups updated since last use with
numbers.

Subscibing: Mark group and select subscribe in menu.

Opening a group without unread
articles: An alert is displayed.

Extracting binhexed binaries from
articles: No.

Bombs: Once when trying to read an article.

Nuntius:
Size: 672K (big for those with only 2Mb, uses 1500Kb)
Version: 1.1.1d6

Startup: Works for a while, why-don't know. Shows your groups
window and marks groups updated since last use with a black dot.

Subscibing: Drag group into your groups window and drop.

Opening a group without unread
articles: Shows an empty window.

Extracting binhexed binaries from
articles: Yes.

Bombs: None so far.

I am sure that the NewsWatcher will increase in strength
as new versions come out, but so far Nuntius seems to bee
the (in my opinion) best freeware News reader available by
now.

  1991-08-14

  Matti Larborn, Lule}, Sweden

Ps. I know, there is much more to discuss...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: xexeo@dxlaa.cern.ch (Geraldo Xexeo)
Subject: HELP: Adobe Illustrator and HP Paintwriter XL
Followup-To: poster
Reply-To: xexeo@dxlaa.cern.ch
Organization: CERN - European Organization for Particle Physics
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 10:46:49 GMT


Thanks for reading.

  I don't manage to print in color from Adobe Illustrator to a
HP Paintwriter Xl. 

  A friend says that is impossible, since the printer is QuickDraw
and Adobe is designed to print in Postscript.

  I believe there should be a solution.

  Can you help me?

BTW: I have a MacII ci, System 7.0 with Tune up 1.1.1, and a PaintWriter XL
 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: aad35939@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (A A DeGuzman)
Subject: Small app to start Shutdown?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 15:48:27 GMT

I am mananging a lab of 30+ Macs running System 7. We want to keep the
machines running all the time; we don't want students shutting them down.
I've edited the Finder using ResEdit to diable the Shutdown command. But I
would like a way to shut down the machine using, perhaps, a small
application, in case of repair/maintenence. Does such any app exist?

Thanks in advance.
-- 
Alan A. DeGuzman                  "The problem with the future is that it
Calculus&Mathematica               keeps turning into the present."
DISCLAIMER: "The University 
can't afford my opinions."                     - Calvin to Hobbes
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: jbush@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (J Eric Bush)
Subject: Re: Word 5.0 problem : grammar Checker &Powerbook 170 w/ 8mb-->Out of m
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 02:45:39 GMT

I don't know how to grammar check without spelling though.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: chrille@zelator.in-berlin.de (Christian Kuss)
Subject: Mounting DOS SyQuest
Organization: Puplic-Access-Xenix-System
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 22:54:19 GMT

Hello...
I need to mount a MS-Dos SyQuest (44 MB) Disk on my Mac. It was
formatted on a PC with a Seagate SCSI controller. I tried AccessPC but
it just told me that there is no partition available.
So how can I mount a SyQuest disk on a Mac???

Christian

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From: egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Freedom of Press Lite
Date: 17 Aug 92 13:13:30 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

I have a feeling that this has been asked (and answered) before,
but can FOPL be used to print a postscript file (such as produced
by OzTex) on an ink-jet printer (such as a Desk Writer)?

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From: eric@npri6.npri.com (Eric Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: "Typist Plus Graphics" OCR -- How good?
Keywords: OCR mac typist Caere
Date: 14 Aug 92 14:43:31 GMT
Organization: NPRI, Alexandria VA

I'm always on the lookout for a good, not-too-expensive OCR program,
and I noticed this one today. It comes with a hand-held scanner and
the catalog claims it "recognizes text in any non-stylized font..."
etc. The only requirement is 4 megs of RAM, which I have (exactly).
My questions are: will it run on a Mac Plus (system 6.*); how fast and 
how reliable is it? Personal experiences welcome. Email me and I'll 
summarize if I get enough testimonials. Thanks in advance.

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From: j-norstad@nwu.edu (John Norstad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: One more question (Was Re: How do Nuntius/NewsWatcher/other work??)
Date: 18 Aug 92 16:25:00 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: Northwestern University

In article <1992Aug17.203615.6630@hellgate.utah.edu>,
mshields%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Michael S Shields) wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the replies everyone has given.  It seems I need to somehow get a 
> TCP/IP connection to my Unix box and run SLIP to use a newsreader
> 
> Now, this is my setup(normally). 
> I dial into my school's Unix machine using Zterm, and then use rn to access 
> the newsgroups.  This is over a 2400baud modem connection.
> 
> Here's my question.  
> Can I use MacTCP and MacSLIP to connect to my school's computer to use a 
> newsreader over the phone lines??  What I mean, is this a simple case of me 
> having the correct software on _my_ side of the connection, or is there 
> something that has to be on the Unix side also.

You need a special box on your campus internet called a "terminal server".
At NU we have a big Cisco terminal server. It's connected to a large modem
pool on one side, and to a campus backbone Ethernet network on the other
side. The terminal server is configured to support SLIP dialup from any
kind of host - Macs, PCs, or whatever.

It is also possible to support SLIP by attaching one or more modems to a
UNIX host and running appropriate software on the UNIX host. 

You will have to ask your local campus computing organization whether they
provide SLIP access, and if so, how.

John Norstad
Academic Computing and Network Services
Northwestern University
j-norstad@nwu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: eric@cs.ruu.nl (Eric Nieuwland)
Subject: Re: Look & Feel
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 07:30:24 GMT
Organization: SERC/RUU
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps

It seems to me that the problem here is what we call an algorithm.
Or actually, the term algorithm is too coarse.
Let say my problem is to connect two boards. I could use a hammer
and nails, a screw driver and screws, and a drill and bolts and nuts.
These are the *tools* I use to make the connection and using them of
course requires some technique. But both tools and techniques are
readily available and mostly quite obvious.
What is not obvious is *why* I needed to connect the two boards in
the first place. Here is where, IMHO, possibilities for patents
might be found.
Similarly, in programming our tools are our data structures and their
associated pieces of code. None of these should, IMHO, be patentable.
What might be subject to a patent is how one uses a combination of well
known things to achieve a goal. It should be this combination that is
not obvious, novel etc.
As a paradox, I guess it would be best if the same problem usually was
solved in a different way to demonstrate patentability of a solution.

--eric (eric@cs.ruu.nl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: tonyg@spock.retix.com (Tony "Salty Dog" Goulding)
Subject: Word 5.0 white chars on black b/g problem?
Organization: Retix, Santa Monica CA
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 16:19:12 GMT

Hey ho!
I just moved a Word 5.0 doc from my color IIcx to my b/w PB.  The doc
contained a table with the column headings formatted thus: Text was
'white' and background was shaded black (100%) from the Border menu.
The printed result is rather nice - white chars on a black block
background (say that 3 times fast after a pint of Guiness...).  Problem
is, on the PB, the black b/g shows up fine, but the text doesn't show at
all - ie, I get a black square block and that's it.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Dog.

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