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From: suhler@pollux.usc.edu (Paul Suhler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Ram disk does not work on pb100
Date: 23 Dec 1992 12:15:34 -0800
Organization: USC Advanced Computer Architecture Laboratory
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: pollux.usc.edu
Summary: Need > 2MB

Peter G. White writes:
>I just received my powerbook 100 and cannot seem to activate the ram disk.
>I have a 2/20 and the memory control panel doesnt let me activate the ram
>disk.  It is shown but it is not selectable.  What is my problem?

The manual says that you need MORE than 2 MB to have a RAM disk.  I
certainly didn't get it to work until I added more.

Good luck,

Paul Suhler
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps
From: jkyser@netcom.com (Jeff Kyser)
Subject: Re: Help! Need to locate update to MacTCP 1.1.1
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 01:27:16 GMT

mfraase@mr.net (Michael Fraase) writes:

>In article <1992Dec29.151919.10546@cbfsb.cb.att.com>, 
>mstov@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (michael.p.stovsky) writes:

>> it is necessary to upgrade to version 1.1.1.  They claimed this version is 
>free
>> and available from services as well as dealers.  I've looked around the net 
>and
>> have not been able to locate this file.

>There's a copy in the XGator 2.0 demo. Look in the /demo directory of the 
>sumex archive.

Looks as if this copy has been pulled from sumex, and the copy at 
ftp.cayman.com has been repackaged without MacTCP (the date on the file
is now 12/31/92).  Apparently Cayman has decided not to include it in the
demo. 

However, there are still copies of the old xgator.hqx with MacTCP floating
around.  Check archie for details. 

Jeff
>--
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Jeff Kyser      jkyser@netcom.com      {amdahl,apple,claris}!netcom!jkyser
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: brent@terminus.gatech.edu (Brent Laminack)
Subject: Re: AppleShare 3.0 -> 3.0.1 upgrade kit
Organization: Georgia Tech College of Computing
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 01:28:47 GMT

ralphw@comm.mot.com (Ralph Warchol) writes:

>I just received my AppleShare 3.0 -> 3.0.1 upgrade kit. It contains no
>information regarding what has been fixed. Does anyone know what
>problems have been fixed in 3.0.1?

>---
>        Ralph P. Warchol, Systems Administrator    | ralphw@comm.mot.com
>        Software Technology Center - LMPS Research | Ph:  708-576-8519  
>        Motorola Inc., Schaumburg, Illinois        | Fax: 708-576-3131

The big problem that has caused mac net administrators to cry for years:

Under 3.0.1 you can now have the same machine be your AppleShare file
server AND you Quickmail server.  Yea! The only question now is: how
do I go about moving my Quickmail server from one machine to another?


					
					-Brent Laminack (brent@cc.gatech.edu)
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.system:15495 comp.sys.mac.games:13452
From: kperic@vms.eurokom.ie (Konstantin Peric S.W.I.F.T.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Strange NEC CDROM behaviour - help
Date: 23 Dec 92 19:14:54 GMT
Organization: EuroKom Conferencing Service

Hello,

I've recently bought a NEC CD Rom drive (model CDR-25) to connect to my
Mac II SI. Along with the drive, I also bought the "Sherlok Holmes consulting
detective" game. The game contains many real-time video parts.

The problem is that the game crashes ("corrupt scene file") randomly when
playing the video scenes. Sometimes, it'll play out the entire scene, and othe
times it will crash at random intervals.
I get the same behaviour on a Mac II SI running 7.0 (with tuner) and on a CX
running 6.0.7.
Just before the crash, the screen gets somewhat garbled, so currently I'm
suspecting the NEC driver to cause memory problems (the NecCDDrvr that came
with the drive is version 2.25).
I've played a lot of other CD-ROMs, including some containing QuickTime movies
without problems...

Has anyone experienced the same problems? Any comments welcome.

Konstantin Peric
kperic@vms.eurokom.ie
From: qsi@contrast.wlink.nl (Peter Kocourek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Split Infinitive in System!
Date: 26 Dec 92 19:09:02 GMT

Playing with ResEdit and my System file, I managed to trash it; upon
re-installing the "Ask before emptying" dialog of the trash can was enabled
again, and to my horror I discovered that it contains a split infinitive
"...to permanently remove..."

Am I just a sole lunatic in a wasteland of solecisms who notices this?

(Sorry, I had to get this off my chest. :-))


YHS:QSI!
 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com (Harry Erwin)
Subject: Re: 7.1 and Zmodem -- HELP!!
Organization: TRW Systems Division, Fairfax VA
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 03:34:48 GMT

I have a Mac IIsi running System 7.1 at both the office and at home. Zterm
0.9 is my terminal program of choice. I have no problems running Zmodem.
However, I have installed Zmodem on a UNIX system, and I discovered it is
sensitive to a lot of parameters you never see in zterm. You might check
the other end of your connection to see if you're wiping out with buffer
overflows or something. It may even be internal to you if the datarate is
high enough.

Cheers,
-- 
Harry Erwin
Internet: erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: scott@rhombus.cs.jhu.edu (Scott Smith)
Subject: Re: Duo's: Are Redundant Systems A Good Idea?
Organization: Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, Baltimore, MD
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 02:35:08 GMT

wallich@ncd.com (Ken Wallich) writes:

>Basically, anything that would waste your RAM disc will hose your
>machine.  When my RAM disc would crash, it still thought it was the
>boot volume, and hung trying to boot from a now garbage "disc".  I had
>to use a floppy to recover.  You'll "usually" be ok, but I'd trust
>my hard drive more.

I did this once (hosed my RAM system disk intentionally to see what
would happen), and restarting would not work.  However, shutting down
(by the switch on the back) caused the computer to erase the RAM disk
and I booted fine. 

>Of course, if you had a floppy, or you could hook your machine up via
>the dock you don't have to another machine, you could create two
>partitions on your single hard drive, and dedicate one just to be a
>system volume, and put a backup on the other partition.  You can't do
>that unless you can back up the drive first though.  So, once you have
>the dock, alleviating the worry, you can do something about it :-).

You can in fact do this by backing up over Appletalk or a modem.  I
have thought about doing this.  Its actually not so bad as long as you
go eat dinner during the backup, and you have a destination machine
with lots of free disk space.

One thing I want to correct.  I said in my previous post:

>>The only solution I know of is to create a RAM Disk and put a minimal
>>system folder there (make aliases for the noncritical stuff, pointing
>>to the hard disk version), and make the RAM disk your startup disk.

It turns out many things can't be aliased in a system folder. That
means you need a big (wasteful) RAM disk to do it this way.

My current method is to use a different approach: I just keep a backup
minimal system on a small RAM disk.  I "spend" 1.5M of RAM for this
insurance.  This is the opposite of what I described above, I normally
use the disk-based system and the RAM one is just a backup in case my
hard disk crashes.  As long as I can restart the computer without
powering down, the RAM disk should boot if my hard disk won't mount.
(Right?) Then I would use appletalk or a modem (be sure to have
approp. files on the RAM disk or there is an accessibility problem) to
restore.

I think this method will work OK, and should not be any major time
drain as long as the disk doesn't crash too often (or better yet,
never!) 

Scott
--

------------------------------
Scott Smith, scott@cs.jhu.edu
------------------------------
From: ibhan@husc10.harvard.edu (Ishir Bhan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: DuoDock and ResEdit conflict
Date: 22 Dec 92 07:30:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc.ibhan.725009418

I've been unable to get ResEdit 2.1.1 to work with my docked Duo 230, yet
it works fine with the same setup undocked.  I get the message

"The resource was not found [-192]."

whenever I try to open a file with ResEdit.  Anyone know what's going on?
-- 
               -  Ishir Bhan -  ibhan@husc.harvard.edu  - 
                                     - - - 
           "The sky and the impossible explode..." -The Cure
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.system:15465 comp.sys.novell:10778
From: drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David Gutierrez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: *** WARNING *** Novell + QuickTime = Disaster
Date: 22 Dec 1992 21:33:13 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.system
Organization: Univ. Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

In article <1992Dec21.185554.16895@novell.com> dseeman@novell.com (Daniel
Seeman) writes:
>If using RESEDIT is not easy enough, maybe you should try asking the
application
>maker to use consistant time stamps.  My guess is that it will take a bit
longer
>for the company to make those changes rather than for you to do the work your-
>self.

I think Novell should correctly implement time stamps in their server software.
I believe this problem has been known for a while; how long will it take the
company to make the changes?

Yet another reason we trashed our NetWare server and moved the PCs in our
department to AppleTalk.

David Gutierrez
drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu

"Only fools are positive." - Moe Howard

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.advocacy
From: ccw@prefect.cc.bellcore.com (wood,christopher)
Subject: Re: PowePC Chip emulation, Why 68020??
Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 20:34:05 GMT

In article <zkessin.724522396@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> zkessin@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Zach, the Lego Maniac) writes:
>cconstantine@galaxy.gov.bc.ca writes:
>
>>Does anyone out there know why Apple chose to emulate a M68020 for its' PowerPC
>>chip for software compatability instead of at lease a 68030 which can do
>>virtula Memory and was the most stable chip (as far as software compatability
>>went) of the bunch????

>Prob. because a 68020 can do virtual with a 68851 chip, which will
>prob. also be emulated. as will the coprossor. Plus the mac's memory
>will have to go threw the rs6000 memory manger.

>Zach
>zkessin@cs.brandeis.edu

Close...

My guess is that the software emulation of the 68020 will rely on
the power PC virtual memory _hardware_.  The hardware will be faster
than software trying to emulate hardware....

Chris


-- 
Chris Wood     Bellcore     ...!bellcore!prefect!ccw
                         or ccw@prefect.cc.bellcore.com

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: squeegee@world.std.com (Stephen C. Gilardi)
Subject: Is Omega SANE running? Test.
Summary: Use Calculator DA to test if OmegaSANE is running
Keywords: omega sane running test
Organization: SQ Software via The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:21:10 GMT

Here's how to check if Omega SANE is running.

Open the Calculator DA.  Type "45 / 100 - .45 ="  If OmegaSANE is
running, the answer will be 0.  If not, the answer will be a very
small number.

OmegaSANE fixes some rounding bugs in addition to speeding things up.

--Steve

Stephen C. Gilardi
SQ Software
squeegee@world.std.com
From: baltman@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Brian Altman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: sys 7.0.1 on a plus problems
Date: 23 Dec 92 02:54:41 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)

I tried to install sys 7.0.1 onto a plus...I get a "finder address error";
what should I do?
Mac 128k upgraded to a plus, 20 meg miniscribe ext. HD, 4 megs ram.

-Brian
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Powerbook 170 Startup Problem
From: zaphod@vax2.winona.msus.edu (Gregory Talmo)
Date: 23 Dec 92 15:55:29 -0600
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.system
Distribution: comp.sys.mac.system
Organization: Winona State Academic Computing

In article <AG.92Dec22110825@erasure.ATT.COM>, ag@erasure.ATT.COM (Agesino
Primatic) wrote:
> 
> 
> I had a strange problem with my PowerBook 170 recently (System 7.0.1
> w/ System 7 Tuner 1.1.1, 8 MB RAM, 120 MB Hard Drive).  When I tried
> to start it up, it would get as far as putting up the Finder's Menu
> Bar, then pause for about 1/2 second, then clear the Menu Bar and
> repeat.  I tried disabling all of my INITs (w/ Extenstion Manager),
> but it didn't help the problem.
> 
> Here's the weird part.  I booted from a floppy, but when it got to the
> Finder, two of the hard drive's folder windows continually became
> selected and deselected rather quickly.  I couldn't do anything,
> because the watch cursor was up (I tried Command-., and a few other
> keys and mouse clicks).  Scary thing, not even being able to boot from
> a floppy.
> 
> I tried rebuilding the desktop (which it let me do), but it didn't fix
> the problem.
> 
> Then, I started up again with just the hard drive, and while it was in
> its Finder/No Finder cycle, I held down just the Option key.  It then
> started up correctly.
> 
> 
> First question: Did anyone ever see this behavior with a PowerBook
> before?
> 
> Second question: What does holding down just the Option key do when
> starting the Finder?
> 
> 
 Wow,
  I saw the exact same thing happen on a IIsi.  I tried everything that I
could, but to no avail; so we sent it off to Apple.  I thought it was a
hardware problem.  It is interesting that the optiooon key fixed it though.

   Must be a "feature" of System 7  ;-)

- Greg Talmo  (zaphod@vax2.winona.msus.edu)
                                  |The opinions expressed above are my own,
"A censor is a man who knows more |and do not necessarily reflect the
than he thinks you ought to."     |opinions, tastes, or policies of Winona
                - Granville Hicks |State University, its faculty, staff or
                                  |students.
From: chip@inter.interzone.ch (Marc Liyanage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: How can I decode a .rle file?
Date: 2 Jan 93 12:13:06 GMT
Reply-To: chip@interzone.ch
Organization: Interzone Switzerland
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.5v4


Hi all,

I have a file that has the suffix .rle. It was generated using
rayshade, possibly on a unix machine.

The file contains the following string near the beginning:

udisplay_gamma=1HISTORY=./rayshade/rayshade -R 512 512 -O test.rle Examples/tcblob.ray on Fri May  1 15:11:31 1992

Is there a way to decode this picture? I assume rle means run-length-encoded.


Thanks

-Marc


___________________________________________________________________
Marc Liyanage                    chip@interzone.ch
                                 CH-9552 Bronschhofen,  Switzerland 
                                 47 29 17 N / 009 03 41 E / ALT 578
                                 +41 73 22 1196
From: ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Seaman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Split Infinitive in System!
Date: 28 Dec 92 18:36:42 GMT
Organization: Purdue University

In article <725437806.AA00941@contrast.wlink.nl> qsi@contrast.wlink.nl  
(Peter Kocourek) writes:
> Playing with ResEdit and my System file, I managed to trash it; upon
> re-installing the "Ask before emptying" dialog of the trash can was  
enabled
> again, and to my horror I discovered that it contains a split infinitive
> "...to permanently remove..."
> 
> Am I just a sole lunatic in a wasteland of solecisms who notices this?
> 
> (Sorry, I had to get this off my chest. :-))

Strunk and White, _The Elements of Style_, third edition, has the  
following to say on the subject:

	The split infinitive is another trick of rhetoric in which the ear 
	must be quicker than the handbook. Some infinitives seem to 
	improve on being split, just as a stick of round stovewood does. 
	"I cannot bring myself to really like the fellow." The sentence is 
	relaxed, the meaning is clear, the violation is harmless and 
	scarcely perceptible. Put the other way, the sentence becomes 
	stiff, needlessly formal. A matter of ear.

--
Dave Seaman
ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: cole@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Sandra Stewart-Cole)
Subject: Re: Mac OS on PC
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 19:15:36 GMT

In <1992Dec20.074726.12708@panix.com> rmah@panix.com (Robert Mah) writes:


>In any case, if Apple DID make hardware, and sell a portable OS and gained
>substancial market share, then the FTC would come knockin'.  Note that
>they are already investigating Microsoft, and MS doesn't even control 
>(directly) any hardware.


I doubt it would be a problem with the FTC. Their problem with MS is not this 
sort of thing, but the way MS works it's OS and apps software divisions. 
Theoretically, MS's app developers know no more about Windows and DOS internal
than anyone who has gone thru the normal open paths to develop Windows and DOS
software. (i.e. they guys writing Word for Windows aren't supposed to know 
about any calls that Joe Schmoe who bought the Windows SDK doesn't) This has 
become clearly a problem with Windows, since there are clearly problems with 
Windows software where MS's apps use undocumented features that add value. 
Apple's risk in this area is if Claris products start to (a) dominate the 
market and (b) clearly benefit from proximity to Apple. There is nothing 
illegal in dominating a market, or even in selling all the pieces. What is 
illegal is to create a purportedly open market (say in application development)
and then withhold proprietary information in order to dominate that market. 
That is what the FTC seems to be looking into at MS. On the face of it, MS is 
guilty (ask any Windows d3eveloper about standard file dialogs... MS products 
use them but they weren't documented until very recently) but essentially 
pleads incompetence (i.e. "we couldn't get everything documented fast enough")
I wouldn't be surprised if eventually MS ends up going the way of AT&T..
From: billyh@crash.cts.com (Bill Huey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: EtherTalk is slow....Why ????
Keywords: EtherTalk, Ushare slow
Date: 28 Dec 92 07:16:06 GMT

I was wondering why in the hell is EtherTalk soooo sloooow on a Quadra 950
that is EtherTalked to a NeXT running Ushare (sp?). Is EtherTalk slow
when running between two Macintoshs ?????

What the problem here ????
From: sichase@csa2.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: SYS.7.1 &RADIUS MATH
Date: 30 Dec 92 19:00:00 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.254.197
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <725551214.AA00000@blkcat.UUCP>, Dennis.Dimick@f421.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Dennis Dimick) writes...
>We'll see how it works out. I'll get back to you. Thanks!

I'm still running 7.0.1 on my IIci, and am desperate for any math power I can 
get, and short of the bucks necessary for an upgrade to a Quadra, I am
willing to go to almost any length.  Will this extension do me any good?
Are there any other suggestions out there for what I can do to squeeze
integer and/or floating performance from my machine?  

-Scott 
--------------------
Scott I. Chase			"It is not a simple life to be a single cell,
SICHASE@CSA2.LBL.GOV		 although I have no right to say so, having
				 been a single cell so long ago myself that I 
				 have no memory at all of that stage of my 
				 life." - Lewis Thomas
From: rogerk@queernet.org (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Subject: Re: Technical details on Teleport/Gold-wanted
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:50:26 GMT
Organization: QueerNet

In article <1992Dec30.161743.1@cc.curtin.edu.au> ssocl01@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:
>Hi there,
>
>	Can anyone tell me what speeds are supported on the Teleport/Gold? 
>I know it surports V32bis, and that's all. Does it support v32,v22bis and
>etc?

The V32bis spec *requires* fallback to V.32, so yes, it does.  It also
supports V.42, V.42bis, MNP1-5...
-- 
ROGER B.A. KLORESE                                              +1 415 ALL-ARFF
rogerk@unpc.QueerNet.ORG              {ames,decwrl,pyramid}!sgiblab!unpc!rogerk
"Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from."
                                                                   -- J. Foster
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: aggie@wealthy.ocean.fsu.edu (I R A Aggie)
Subject: Re: MacTCP 1.1.1 (was Re: VersaTerm)
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm
Organization: An Ol Ag surrounded by a bunch of unfriendly Seminoles
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 21:09:11 GMT

In article <friedman.725049350@syssrv3>, friedman@nrel.gov (Daniel J.
Friedman) wrote:
> 
> In <abelbeck.1075263957B@tigger.jvnc.net> abelbeck@tigger.jvnc.net (Lonnie R. Abelbeck) writes:
> 
> >Both VersaTerm and VersaTerm-PRO come bundled with the "VersaTilities"
> >package which offers Telnet and FTP (CommToolbox tools), FTP Server
> >cdev/INIT, SLIP for MacTCP and MacTCP itself... among other goodies.
>                                 ^^^^^^
> 
> What version of MacTCP is included? Is it the fabled 1.1.1?

Indeed it is - if you get the latest versions.

James
From: bcoleman@hayes.com (Bill Coleman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Help: Sharing non-networkable modem
Date: 28 Dec 92 08:31:49 EDT
Organization: Hayes Microcomputer Products, Norcross, GA

In article <846F010192@TWIN.srcc.msu.su>, BUTENKO@TWIN.srcc.msu.su writes:
> 
>  The   only   thing   I   HAVE   to  say  -  in  the  original  posting
>  ARA-compatibility  was requested. As far as I know, only PortShare Pro
>  cooperates  with  ARA.  But may be we missed the new releases of Hayes
>  Connect and other products.

HayesConnect is compatable with ARA as of version 3.0C. (Although making an
outgoing ARA call with a HayesConnect modem isn't recommended for obvious
reasons)

-- 
Bill Coleman, AA4LR                ! CIS: 76067,2327    AppleLink: D1958
Principal Software Engineer        ! Packet Radio: AA4LR @ W4QO
Hayes Microcomputer Products, Inc. ! UUCP: uunet!hayes!bcoleman
POB 105203 Atlanta, GA 30348 USA   ! Internet: bcoleman%hayes@uunet.uu.net
Disclaimer: "My employer doesn't pay me to have opinions."
Quote: "The same light shines on vineyards that makes deserts." -Steve Hackett.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: dcm@csn.org (David C. Menges)
Subject: Public domain Mac UUCP?
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 17:38:06 GMT

Most of our customers use ICE's uAccess, but there are a few that
don't have the funds.  I've never heard much talk of a good public
domain UUCP application for Macintosh, but thought I'd double check.  

Please mail me with leads - I don't frequent this group.  I'll summarize.

	David Menges, Colorado SuperNet, dcm@csn.org, 303-273-3471.
From: Waleed.Rashidi@f111.n207.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: 9600 data/fax modem for sale, $150
X-Sender: newtout 0.05 Dec 30 1992
Date: 30 Dec 92  15:29:48

               Will you include shipping to the Los Angeles county area for
free? If so, I'll offer $110 or so..  

               How old is it?

                       -Waleed

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