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From: sknkwrks@unlv.edu (Scott Alfter)
Subject: Re: zmodem/ymodem/xmodem unix ---) apple
Organization: Skunk Works Software Co.
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 07:29:07 GMT

In article <a2a403Uf354D00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden) writes:
>In article <1992Jul14.072826.22389@unlv.edu> sknkwrks@unlv.edu (Scott Alfter) writes:
>>The problem is probably with rz and sz.  I'm beginning to think that
>>they're crippled somehow because the only program I've been able to
>>use from my machines to pull files through with ZMODEM is DSZ on my
>>286--and DSZ and rzsz were both written by the same company.
>
>I'm using sz v1.44 (03-03-88) and it works just fine with ProTERM.  There are
>dozens of comm programs which support zmodem, and they all work fine.  It's
>not sz/rz.

Maybe they did something funky with later versions...I'm using v3.19,
released 2 Jan 92.  It's the version I got from Omen when I registered
DSZ for my clone.  Maybe the older versions would work better with
ProTERM...but where would you find such an old version on the net?

>Don't forget you NEED 8N1 to do sx/sb/sz reliably.  7E1 don't cut it.

I'm pretty sure we have 8N1 here.

  _/_   Scott Alfter                             Internet: sknkwrks@cs.unlv.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: zeisloft@euler.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Samuel Zeisloft)
Subject: Re: Pointless
Organization: University of California at Berkeley
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 07:17:51 GMT



Pointless is a CDEV sold by Westcode Software that allows IIGS users to
use TrueType fonts (an outline font) in GS/OS programs
like Appleworks GS and Graphicwriter III. It is commercial, and very good
except for the fact that it is a little slow.
.


Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne)
Subject: Re: The Perennial Piracy Debate (was Re: Bilestoad)
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 14:20:48 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <bazyar.712366903@teal> bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar) writes:

[...]

>  It's simple- if you use software and do not pay for it, you're
>committing a crime.  

It's simple, but absolutely wrong as stated. I use some freeware that
I have not paid for, and I have committed no crime. I have much software
that I have written for my own use, who the hell are you to tell me
that it is a crime to use it?

You've gone off the deep end Jawaid. Beyond reason, and beyond the law.
I think now that you might be wanting as a moderator. You are too
extreme, and you have stopped even trying to reason.

>                         Perhaps this personally incriminates you, causing
>you discomfort.  Not my problem, 

No, you have another problem.

>                                  	and not an excuse to pirate.

What you fail to see is that there is no connection whatsoever between
the morality/legality of piracy and the validity of the lost profits
argument.

>  I tell you what.  Everyone knows Porsches are overpriced.  If you _truly_
>believe what you're saying as regards to piracy, go out and steal
>a Porsche.  

And he has said as much about piracy as I have, nothing. 

To defend the lost profits argument is _NOT_ defending piracy.

>              After all, it's got an arbitrary sticker price, right? After
>all, it's not hurting Porsche Co because you'd never have paid them
>anyway, right?  No argument in favor of piracy can fly.
>
>>   2) You assume that each piracy equates to a lost sale, at your arbitrary
>>      price, and that in every case the program would have been purchased
>>      if it hadn't been cloned.
>
>  Arbitrary price? I think not.  We priced GNO *very* fairly, and any of
>our customers will tell you that.  Nintendo cartridges are (IMHO)
>priced excessively.  However, IIgs games that cost half what a NES
>game does get pirated, simply because it's possible.  THIS DOES NOT
>MAKE IT RIGHT.

Is it right to twist things around till you get something that makes
you red-faced angry? No it is not. And yet you keep doing it. You are
not arguing from the moral high-ground here, and you have the wrong
topic.
 
>-- 
> Jawaid Bazyar              |   Ask me about the GNO Multitasking Environment
> Procyon, Inc.              |   for the Apple IIgs!   
> bazyar@cs.uiuc.edu         |   P.O Box 620334
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Rich

payner@netcom.com
From: fmlin@terapin.com (Frank M. Lin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Help ! Mac Font Conversion to GS
Date: 24 Jul 92 23:24:06 PST
Organization: BBS

In article <1992Jul22.221644.25276@ecst.csuchico.edu>, jcrane@ecst.csuchico.edu
(John Crane) writes:
>I need hepl remembering the apple IIGS utility that is capable of
>extracting mac fonts from mac suitcases
>
>so that once extracted they can be used in GSOS
>

I believe you're talking about ResouceSpy.  From a guy in Japan.  Don't
remember his name right now.  The latest version was release in Jan, 1991. 
Which was v1.01.

The program will read binary files that contains Macintosh resouces ( suitcases
are ).

frank m. lin
internet: fmlin@terapin.com
symmetrix...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re:      Re: System 6.0
Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 20:45:28 GMT

In article <1992Jul27.111653.23387@crash.cts.com> johnf@gnh-digibits.cts.com (John Fulton) writes:

[Possible bugs with 6.0...]

Sorry to add to this, but there is another error which is really
annoying. This happens to me whenever I use either Relicator (from
GS+) or Teach. Upon quiting you get this message telling you that
the System needs 300k or whatever free and that you should remove
da's, init's, etc...and then it asks you to restart. I've got 5 megs
of RAM. Surely that's enough. I've stopped using Teach because of this-
EgoEd does everything anyway (also from GS+), but Replicator which is a
desktop disk copier is really useful. Now why is it exhibiting the same
behaviour as Teach.

Finally, is Achiver (supplied with 6.0) reliable? I've had odd experiences
with it not resoring a volume to one of a lessor size. Or is this common?
 
[ ]

Philip McDunnough
nextwave!seacove!philip@epas.utoronto.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: toh@micor.ocunix.on.ca (Marc Sira)
Subject: Re: The Perennial Piracy Debate
Organization: M.B. Cormier INC., Orleans (Ont)
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 20:28:58 GMT
Summary: and the band played on... 

>>bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar) writes:
>
>  If someone doesn't think a program is worth the sticker price, that
>*DOES NOT* give them the right to pirate it.  Capitalism works because
>someone either thinks a product is worth a certain amount, and purchases
>it, or they think it _isn't_ worth a certain amount, and they don't
>purchase it.  If a particular company is having a hard time selling a

Actually, some of us would argue that capitalism (particularly consumer
capitalism with advertising/marketing for flavour) doesn't really work
at all. It appears to in the short term, if you're willing to readjust
your definition of "works". Of course, this has now gone off-topic.

>  I tell you what.  Everyone knows Porsches are overpriced.  If you _truly_
>believe what you're saying as regards to piracy, go out and steal
>a Porsche.  After all, it's got an arbitrary sticker price, right? After
>all, it's not hurting Porsche Co because you'd never have paid them
>anyway, right?  No argument in favor of piracy can fly.

Oh, please...this is the classic misunderstanding. There are perfectly
good examples without corrupting your argument. Stealing a 911 is not at
all like stealing Windows...on the one hand, I can't copy the 911 and
distribute it to potential customers, and on the other hand a "stolen"
Windows is still saleable (particularly if I only keep it for personal
use). Traditional property law doesn't apply especially well to information
copyrights...for that matter traditional _copyright_ law doesn't really
apply to software very well. These laws are simply going to have to change,
and they will (as they have before).

I'm not advocating or denying piracy here, just pointing out a few
fallacies B-).



-- 
Marc Sira               |
toh@micor.ocunix.on.ca  |  "Your god drinks...P-P-Peach nectar!"
                        '
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: meekins@cis.ohio-state.edu (Tim Meekins)
Subject: New Demo from Europe!!!
Originator: meekins@anaconda.cis.ohio-state.edu
Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and Information Science
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 05:25:36 GMT

On my return from The Apple II Developers Confernce in Kansas, I had a package
awaiting me from Heidelberg Germany. The package was from NinjaForce and 
included his new demo (him and several others). This is a really cool demo
and has some vector ball animationns that blow away the FTA. Also included
was a picture ripper program that you can install on the boot block of a 
program for extracting pictures.

Anyways, I'll try and get it uploaded to comp.binaries.apple2 asap for it's
U.S. Premiere.. (as the authors do not have access to the internet or any BBSs)

-Tim
From: jcitro@CWIS.UNOMAHA.EDU (Joe Citro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Graphicwriter
Date: 29 Jul 92 20:37:29 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet


 ____________________________________________________________________A friend of mine posted the following question to our local Apple II BBS.  I couldn't answer the question.  Can anyone on the net answer it???>Sub  ->GWIII Question                                                       > Date ->Mon. Jul 27, 1992 at 09:35:24 PM>Do you know?  Is there a limit to the number of fonts that can be put into>your System/Fonts folder when using GraphicWriter III?
(57 files counting all the >different point sizes) in my system folder.  I have about 100 other fonts >(360 files counting  different sizes) that I keep in another folder for use >with AW SuperFonts.  Just as an experiment, I placed __ALL__ of the fonts in >my System/Fonts folder.  I wanted them all to be accessible to GWIII.>Anyway, here's my problem.  After placing all 360 files in my System/Fonts>folder, I rebooted and launched GWIII.  I then "pulled-down" the Font Me!
nu >and clicked on "Choose Font". 
 To my surprise, _MANY_ of the fonts that >were in my System/Fonts folder did not show up in the GWIII font list.  Also >when I tried choosing a font and point size, GWIII crashed.  I retried >several different times choosing different fonts and got the same results >each time - a CRASH.  I then went back to my normal, small, System/Fonts >folder and GWIII worked flawlessly.>I find nothing in the documentation that addresses this problem.
WIII or is >it more likely an incompatibility with a desk accessory (I haven't tried >pulling  them yet)?>If this is a problem with GWIII, how many files can I safely put in my>System/Fonts folder without crashing GWIII?>Any input or ideas will be appreciated.>DanWe would apprecite any help.
From: spector@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Music Contruction set to Soundsmith
Date: 26 Jul 92 08:08:00 GMT
Organization: Concordia University
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <22520@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM>, danw@mitchell.hac.com (Dan White) 
writes...
>  How about connecting two GS's with MIDI interfaces/cables, then you
>play the MCS out through the MIDI (Yes, it has MIDI output) and re-record 
>it on the 2nd GS with Soundsmith.
> 
>  As for a straight software based file conversion/manipulation -- I have
>not heard of any, but I'd like to know if one exists
> 

  How is that possible? The last version of Soundsmith released (v0.95)
didn't support MIDI input OR output! A MIDI function was listed in the
menu selection but the programming to support it was not completed.
Soundsmith v1.0 was supposed to support MIDI, is that what your talking
about using...?

>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                                                               Dan White
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>"Sometimes  I  think  the  surest  sign  that  intelligent  life exists
> elsewhere  in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
>                                                  Calvin (Bill Waterson)

Mitchell Spector
Concordia University
spector@vax2.concordia.ca
From: wsheffield@pro-ace.cts.com (Wayne Sheffield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Zip GS cache RAM
Date: 15 Jul 92 22:46:41 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: ProLine [pro-ace]

2 chips means either 8k, or 32k.  Check out the dip switches :
                Sw 1/7      Sw 1/8
8k              on              on
16k             on              of
32k             off             on
64k             off             off

there ya go!
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From: taob@generic.UUCP (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Hints on Shadowgate
Date: 31 Jul 92 16:31:57 GMT
Reply-To: taob@generic.UUCP (Brian Tao)
Organization: Terra*Net Technologies Corp Toronto

brianh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Brian Huddleston) writes...
>
>1)  How do you get to the opening in the celing in the room with the silver
>	arrow?  When I try to climb up on the ledge it crumbles.

    Don't bother.  It's a dud.

>2)  How do you get past the avalanche?

    I'm almost finished the game, but I'm pretty sure that's a dud too.
Something else to waste your time (and torches).

>3)  How do you cross the rickety bridge?

    The rickety bridge can't hold very much weight...

    If you're really stuck, consult one the Nintendo game player's hint
books.  Shadowgate is available for the Nintendo and one of those books
has a complete walkthrough.
-- 
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Dept. of Exobiology   | :::::> generic!terranet!taob@zoo.toronto.edu <:::::
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: chauhan@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu (Amrit Chauhan)
Subject: Re: KFest stuff
Organization: The Institute for the Learning Sciences
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 06:54:45 GMT

cshepher@nyx.cs.du.edu (Chris Shepherd) writes:

: Bad News:
: and 6.0 is the last
: major software release

The GS is dying folks...it almost makes me sick to me stomach, but at
least there are still some very talented people out there doing great
things with a great machine.

Next time you set up your .cshrc file, include this somewhere:

set prompt = "] "	# !! Apple II Forever !!

for old times sake...

: --
: | Chris Shepherd Starving Programmer  | cd119@Cleveland.Freenet.Edu |
: |    Ask me about Impasse //gs        | cshepher@nyx.cs.du.edu      |

Amrit

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: jasonp@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Jason Perez)
Subject: need help with SFGetFile
Reply-To: jasonp@fantasia.UUCP (Jason Perez)
Organization: Motorola Inc., Austin, Texas
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 22:14:25 GMT

  i've just started toolbox programming and i need help with SFGetFile.
i'm using orca/c v1.3, gno 1.0, gs/os 6.0.  i have all three toolbox
manuals, but vol.3 is at unfortunately at another location.
  anyway, the problem i'm having is getting the filter procedure to
filter out all files that aren't $C1 (SHR pics).  i do the following
to call SFGetFile:
 
     SFGetFile(30,30,OpenFilter,NULL,LoadReply);  <i think that's it>  

and :       
     pascal int OpenFilter(ptr);  <function prototype>

     pascal int OpenFilter(ptr DirEntry)
      {
        return noSelect;   <this should simple not let me select ANY file>
      }

  what happens is that SFGetFile is called, the open file dialog box comes up,
  and ALL files are displayed and selectable.  i can accept a file and the dialog
  box goes away.  so it looks like the filter function is NOT being called.  
     

-- 
Jason Perez                             | 
jasonp@fantasia.sps.mot.com             | "Gig 'em!"     "Frodo lives!"
j0p7771@sigma.tamu.edu                  | "Don't have a cow man!"
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From: johnf@gnh-digibits.cts.com (John Fulton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re:      Re: System 6.0
Date: 27 Jul 92 11:16:53 GMT
Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA


    David A. Lyons on Apple Computer wrote:

> For GS bugs, emailing me (or posting to comp.sys.apple2 & getting a response
> from me) works just as well...winds up in the same bug tracking system,
> unless I know the problem has already been fixed.
    
   OK, this may or may not be a system 6 bug, and it probably has been
reported before, but anyway...

    I have two NDA word processors, and the same thing happens with both.  If
I create and save a document to an open folder, when I close the NDA, the open
folder does not show the document.  In other words, the system refreshes the
pre-existing desktop but does not check to see whether anything has changed.
    I suspect, in fact, that the NDA word processors are at fault -- that they
are not telling the operating system to refresh its data.
    If I close the folder and reopen it, the new document is shown.  If I
transfer a file into the folder, then two new items are show -- the "missing
document" and the file that was transferred.
    ----
    If it is an operating system bug, well, now you know.
    If it is an error in both NDA, then HEY WORLD, when you write an NDA that
can do something like create or delete a file, have it update the desktop data
when it shuts down.
From: mr.cool@pro-fla.cts.com (German Leparc)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: I need Disk Muncher 1.0 for backups!
Date: 27 Jul 92 07:16:12 GMT
Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA


  
   Speaking of backing up ol' //e software. Has anyone cracked Wasteland?
 It isone of my favorite games.. and it is IMPOSSIBLE to crack.. the
 DOS is completely re-written. It's a mess... 


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane M Zatezalo)
Subject: Re: Hypercard GS upgrade
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 17:58:26 GMT

In article <1992Jul25.121625.28083@crash.cts.com> sysadm@pro-cajun.cts.com (System Administrator) writes:
>Is there an upgrade available for HCGS? If so, could someone send me the
>details? Thanks.

 There is an upgrade available through A2Central/Resource Central.

 My question is... is the upgrade worth getting? I paid the original price
for Hypercard GS, and have had relatively no problems so far. What have they
changed/added for the new version?

:GS::::::::::Genesis game system? ::::::::: Interceptor Cycle ?::::::::::GS:
:   Shane M. Zatezalo         : i-net> szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu  :
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:GS:::: Apple II forever!! ::::::GO BUCKS!::::::: Play Lacrosse! ::::::::GS:
From: daye@JACOBS.CS.ORST.EDU ("J. Q. Gumby")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: PS to mousetext & hyperc
Date: 23 Jul 92 18:25:47 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

That's kind of the point that I tried to make, that MouseText worked flawlessly
for me, but the only time I used it was when the cursor was invisible (by 
printing 0x06).  If anything, change the print mousetext command or whatever
to include the cursor-invisible at the beginning and then the cursor visible
at the end.

Evan Day
daye@jacobs.cs.orst.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: bill@braille.uwo.ca (Bill Carss)
Subject: Re: Jpeg for the GS
Organization: University of Western Ontario
Distribution: World
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 12:18:31 GMT


This is one of the many areas about which I know very little.  According to
several friends of mine who are system level programmers JPeg is a flawed
system.  After packing and unpacking GIFs or whatever you begin to loose some
of the picture quality.  I would be willing to bet that the same could be 
said for any version of the process.


Just my two cents.
-- 
Bill Carss
bill@braille.uwo.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: David.Empson@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Subject: Re: Converting MicroSoftWorks->AppleWorks
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 13:28:26 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.151043.509@whscdp.whs.edu> alumn123@whscdp.whs.edu writes:
> I was wondering if anyone out there had any information about converting
> Microsoft Works back to Apple Works.
> 
> The module inquestion is the database. A friend of mine would like
> to convert from MicroSoft Works database to a AppleWorks Data base.

Can Microsoft Works 'export' database files into a text-based format?
AppleWorks 3.0 can import text files that have fields separated by TABs
and records separated by RETURNS, or text files that have one field
per line.
If there is some way to get a plain text file out of the Microsoft
Works database, the rest is straightforward.
-- 
David Empson

Internet: David.Empson@bbs.actrix.gen.nz    EMPSON_D@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Snail mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand
From: brianlee@zodiac.rutgers.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Hot Glue, GBBS, Mockingboard
Date: 31 Jul 92 15:55:18 GMT
Organization: Rutgers University Computing Services


Does anyone have a Mockingboard, Echo, or Phasor around here?  I wish to
exahcnge songs, programs, data, programming bits/tips, anything.  AE's
advertising said they sold thousands of Phasors, but no one ever replies to any
of my Phasor queries.  What ahppened?


Can I use a hot glue gun to keep a connector in on ICs, an internal card, etc?

Can I use a hot glue gun anywhere inside a // case?

How can GBBS "Pro" be hooked up to the Internet?

I am looking to buy a game called "Micro" or "Microbe" or something like that. 
It's real old, and you swim with a ship through the human body, fighting
disease.

Somebody reply to something, please in email.
From: cjs@ausom.oz.au (Cameron Silver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: battery
Date: 28 Jul 92 05:33:15 GMT
Organization: AUSOM - The Apple Users Society of Melbourne

I know that this topic was addressed about a month ago, but it didn't concern
me then, so i took no notice of it :-( ... My battery just went flat, and I
can't be bothered going to apple to get it replaced. Is there any easy way to
replace the batter using parts that i could buy from the local milk bar?
Like a watch battery, or AA batery or something???

-- 
Cameron Silver

Laugh, and the world thinks you're an idiot!