HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: btcl_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Brian Connell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for init/cdev to track usage
Date: 15 Oct 92 19:10:51 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

In <1992Oct15.012038.17522@newshub.sdsu.edu> cs108069@pandora.sdsu.edu (John DeRose) writes:

>There's a shareware program from a few years ago called LaunchINIT.
>I got a copy of it from CompuServe and it'll do the things your asking
>for.  One disappointment:  You have 30 days from the your launching of
>the program to decide if you like.  If you do, you gotta send in something
>like $20 to get the full working copy.

>Party on!  :-)

I got a copy of this from the mirror of mac.archive at wuarchive. It was 
version 2.0s. I couldn't get it to work. The readme file said to command-
option-double-click on the extension to open it in order to set the prefs.
Not only wouldn't it open, but every time I did this the window I had the 
extension in closed. Does anybody know if it is system7 compatible? (I would
guess not). I put in the extensions folder and restarted but it told me that
my trial period was over and that I should pay my shareware fee (which is $10,
not $20). I don't think I will be using it.

Incidentally, I did receive one response via e-mail which stated that there is
something in NOW Utilities 3.0 called ScreenLocker which will track usage,
but that seems a little overkill for my needs.

If anybody knows of any other inits/cdevs that track the usage of a mac, or
how I can get LauchINIT to open so I can set the prefs, please let me know.

Thanks in advance.

-- 
Brian Connell                   	      |    University Of Rochester
Internet: btcl_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu     |    CPU Box 271361
Bitnet: btcl_ltd@uordbv			      |    Rochester, NY 14627
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system
From: cs108069@pandora.sdsu.edu (John DeRose)
Subject: Re: bus error upgrading to 7.0
Organization: San Diego State University, College of Sciences
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 01:15:35 GMT

This may help  (but it's more likely to mess things up worse!).  A
couple years ago MacWorld or MacUser did a review of what they consider
to be the best values in shareware.  MaxAppleZoom was one of them.  In
their review they stated that MaxAppleZoom functions properly only if
you are using an Apple 13" color monitor and the original Apple Color
Display card w/256k.

Onward ho!  :-)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: stu1d46@bmerh255.bnr.ca (Erik P. Trounce)
Subject: Re: Stuffit Query
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 15:56:44 GMT

In article <billie.718613743@camelot> billie@camelot.bradley.edu (Eliot Frick) writes:
>Unfortunately, in order to D/L anything here at Bradley, I must D/L via
>a lan system in the library, (or computer dorm), in which all the
>computers are IBM clones.  The ISN where I call in from my Mac has no D/L
>capabilities.  So, I must D/L onto a IBM formatted disk and then use
>AccessPC to read the disk, then I use Stuffit Lite 3.0.1 to decompress
>the Mac stuff I D/L.  Here is the problem:  Stuffit reads .hqx files just
>fine, unbinhexes them and then often I must unstuff them, but Stuffit
>cannot read .sit files from an IBM formatted disk.  I've tried everything,
>and no luck.  Anyone have a similar problem?  Any cures?  Thanks.
>--

Just de-hqx the files onto a non-IBM formatted disk.  (ie your HD...)
If you can't do that then copy the de-hqx'd files onto your HD.
Not too tough,
Erik.

-BNR doesn't even know I exist so how could my views represent theirs?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: malan@leland.Stanford.EDU (Paul Malan)
Subject: Recommendations sought: MacIIsi FPU Cards
Organization: ME Dept., Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 17:06:12 GMT

I am shopping for an FPU Card for a MacIIsi. The NuBus expander sells
for $171 at our bookstore, but I was wondering if it is possible to do
better by mail order. For example, MacProducts USA sells a
"Magic IIsi Dual Slot Card w/FPU" for $99. Is there a catch? 

I would appreciate advice and/or recommendations on 3rd party cards 
including those with cache.  Please e-mail & if there is sufficient 
interest I will post a summary.

----------------------------------------------------------------
Paul Malan, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
malan@leland.stanford.edu


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: pgiltner@epas.utoronto.ca (Philip W. Giltner Jr.)
Subject: Re: Another stooge trying to decode files from comp.binaries.mac
Organization: University of Toronto - EPAS
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 13:14:21 GMT
Summary: Just a little detail
Keywords: not totally significant

In article <1992Oct7.221505.23804@col.hp.com> terry@col.hp.com (Terry Thero) writes:
>
>   The first thing you need to do is strip all the head and tail,
>   i.e., (that is to say, make this:
>
>      (This file must be converted with BinHex 4.0)
>
>      :#8pcBf&b,R0TG!"6593K8dP8)3#3!`1hd!#3""jm8dP8)3!&!!1hd(*-BA8"!*!
>      (!J!&6h0MBA)"4!!f!'@Y)%##`BC!JX'3!%##`D"3M`!$"SUTm8TYff`!CDdf!',

Actually, if you're using the latest vers of Compact Pro #1.33, you
can skip this step in one-part files, though you will have to strip
h&f in multi-part files (Which you can unite either w/ your
wordprocessor or the nifty little utility called "unity," available
via ftp @ sumex). Compact Pro looks for the colon at the beginning &
the end & treats the stuff in between. To decode binhex, simply hit
cmd-d (decode is the eunomic). When Cpact Pro finishes with this, if
the format is readable by it (i.e., if it's 'cpt' or a stuffit 1.5.1
format), it'll open it for uncompressing--automatically.

Anyway, it saves a tedious step.

--Phil
pgiltner@epasu.utoronto.ca
Dept of History, so gimme a break
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.wanted
From: powell@ug.cs.dal.ca (Joel E Powell)
Subject: Info, please!
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 04:22:53 GMT

Could somebody please be so kind as to answer a few questions?

1)  What's the major difference between regular Macs (like the Classic),
    and the "II series" ones, like the IIsi, etc.  Is it just speed, or
    is there compatibility differences (i.e. certain machines will only
    run certain prograams)?  Would I be better off sticking with the
    cheaper LC II and the likes, or would I see a huge difference with
    a II series machine?

2)  I'm thinking of getting a IIsi, but first I'd like to know how 
    specific I'm going to have to be when I buy stuff for it.  For
    example do all Macs need different kinds of SIMMS and accelerators?

3)  What's the low down on monitors?  I see there's of course different
    size ones, but will they all act the same hooked up to a Mac, or
    do I need different video boards to support different monitors?
    Also, sorry about this one, but what's the difference between RGB
    monitors and composite color monitors, if any?

4)  Can somebody give me the approximate educational price for a
    IIsi system, with 12" color monitor, keyboard, mouse, and whatever
    else comes with it?  (just wondering what it's like down there!)

5)  Or should I just get an IBM compatible?!  <-- just kidding!  Wanted
    to spur somebody into responding!!!

Thanks everyone,
Joel.

powellg.cs.dal.ca

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: smills@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (MuffinHead)
Subject: Re: How do I decode uuencoded stuff?
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 22:13:26 GMT

DOBENSON@ua1vm.ua.edu (Joe Demon) writes:

> I have tried downloading several gifs that have been uuencoded from
>USENET. I have tried running them through UUTool 2.1.2, UUTool 2.32,
...
>90%, then say, "Could not open. Be sure you downloaded as binary."
>But I can't download in binary, because the UU tools won't recognize the
>stuff.

   Download the uuencoded stuff in binary, THEN make sure the Type of those
files is 'TEXT'. You can change file Types with ResEdit or FileTyper or
any other file attribute-changing utility like that.

Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.misc:17547 comp.sys.mac.comm:9802
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: What is a .hqx file--Correction
From: hagberg@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (HAGBERG JR, D. J.)
Date: 7 Oct 1992 23:11 MST  
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    


>: 	On many of the FTPable sites there are files labeled .sit ..  I've
>: fiqured out how to unsit them.  However, receintly there has been a 
>: number of files labeled  .hqx ..  How do you unhqx them???
>:
> 
>Using StuffIt compresses a file or group of files into a file with a
>hqx suffix.  Use StuffIt to uncompress it to get the original file(s).
> 

Not to flame or anything, but the above paragraph is not completely
correct.  Brian, .hqx stands for "Binhex coding" which takes the two 
parts of an ordinary *binary* (composed of 1001011101001...) file and
changes it into a *text* file (composed of abcABC123/,?#...), which 
makes it much easier to transmit and store on mainframes and workstations.

Binhex coding *does not compress the file*.  In fact, it usually ends up 
expanding the size of the files by about 5-10%.

For the beginners out there, the process can be very confusing, but maybe
a diagram will help.

1) start with an ordinary Mac file:

 				My Little Program           (130 Kbytes)

2) use stuffit/compact pro to squish the size of the file

				My Little Program.sit       (75 Kbytes)

3) use stuffit/compact pro to encode it as a Binhex-ed file

				My Little Program.hqx       (84 Kbytes)

4) upload it to your favorite mainframe and mail it off to Sumex

5) Joe user grabs the file my-little-program.hqx from Sumex.

6) Joe user downloads the file

7) Joe user uses stuffit/compact pro to decode the Binhex-ed file

				My Little Program.sit

8) He notices it has a .sit on the end and uses Stuffit to decompress 
   file and get back the original

				My Little Program

Which is finally something he can double-click and actually accomplish 
something.  All of that squishing and encoding is basically necessary
to deal with the way the Internet is structured -- all the communication
protocols are structured around sending text back and forth between
machines, but that's another lecture :-)

I hope this helps to clear up some of the confusion. 

			-=- D. J.
			-=- hagberg@ccit.arizona.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: wmporter@jetson.uh.edu (William M. Porter)
Subject: Re: Another question about CheckFree
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 05:30:00 GMT

In article <91ay03MHa0Oy00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>, jsp@pls.amdahl.com writes...

>Has anyone that uses CheckFree had a problem with . . . a merchant
>complaining about the lack of the stub?  

I've been using CheckFree now since last April. No, none of the merchants whom
I pay with it have complained about the lack of the stub: Your account info is,
I believe, printed pretty clearly on the drafts that CheckFree sends. I use it
to pay all sorts of bills: car payments going to banks, utility payments,
credit cards, and occasionally even a payment to a small merchant.

There have been a few problems, though most of them seem to be less CheckFree's
fault than the fault of the merchants, who are still trying to get used to this
new way of collecting their dough.

Sometimes CheckFree sends a whole bunch of payments to a merchant at once, for
many different customers, and on one or two occasions, my payment, while
received by the merchant, was not properly credited to my account. In every
such case, the merchant finally admitted fault, and credited me with the
payment on time retroactively. I try to keep an eye on things, and so far
nobody has reported me to a credit agency: I catch and rectify these problems
within thirty days of the due date.

When I got started, I had some concerns about the >security< of my bank
account, which after all CheckFree has access to. After an exchange of letters
with CF Customer Service on CompuServe that was not terribly informative, I
decided to "trust them." Fortunately I don't have a lot to steal!

One other quirk. You can never be sure whether a given payment will be
paid by laser draft or by direct electronic transfer. Some of the payments show
up on my bank statement as electronic withdrawals--in the same category as ATM
withdrawals. Others appear (this surprised me) in with my normal written
checks, and they have numbers, sometimes numbers that have already been
assigned to other (usually earlier) checks. I find this mildly disconcerting,
but not a big problem: I try to keep within the basic service limit of twenty
payments per month so I never have very many of these payments to track down.

Last point: I strongly recommend that you consider getting Quicken both for
your checkbook and for CheckFree. CheckFree's own software is, IMHO, >really<
crummy. Quicken is not expensive and is a truly fine piece of software: plus it
makes using CheckFree a breeze. 

William Porter 
Internet: wmporter@jetson.uh.edu
Classical Languages: University of Houston
From: folse@crs.cl.msu.edu (Mark Folse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: System Hang (file corruption) with General CDEV
Date: 12 Oct 92 18:09:21 GMT
Reply-To: folse@crs.cl.msu.edu.UUCP (Mark Folse)
Organization: Michigan State University

I have had an identical problem with my Quadra 900 running 7.0 with TuneUp.
Can't change the screen color without getting the same error.

                        0000000F
                        00000028

The local support people told me to call my vendor, which I've not done yet. I
have the 21" apple  monitor and added VRAM on the Quad. Could this be a bug in
Tune UP? A new virus at work?
a y
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: leonardr@netcom.com (Leonard Rosenthol)
Subject: Re: Virus vs disk compression
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 05:33:11 GMT

In article <35101.2AD8F8BF@psycho.fidonet.org> Jim.Kauffman@f20.n3603.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Jim Kauffman) writes:
>In the current issue of the Information Systems newsletter where I work, 
>there was an article suggesting that "While any disk compacting utility, 
>such as Disk Doubler, or Auto-Doubler, is active, your Virus protection 
>software is rendered virtually useless." I will assume by this statement 
>that they mean to include other utilities such as More Disk Space, 
>SpaceSaver, and others as well.
>
>This strikes me as a gross oversimplification at best. Can anyone offer 
>authoritative refutation or confirmation? Perhaps the answer depends on 
>the virus and disk compression utility?
>
        Not only is it an oversimplification, it is a misunderstanding of
both viruses and compression software!  Let me see if I can shed some light on 
the subject..

        With DiskDoubler & SpaceSaver, since all files are "converted" to 
documents (and in the case of SpaceSaver, the file system is fooled into 
thinking otherwise) and then expanded to disk and run/open like normal
files, they are as succeptable to viruses as uncompressed files.  In the  
case of More Disk Space, the file is compressed  resource by resource and 
then only each piece is expanded on the fly, again leading to no change in
virus infestation.  AutoDoubler on the other hands puts a twist on the game
by opening up applications read only - therefore stopping (in many (but not all)
cases) spread of viruses in applications.  

        However, NONE of the products will prevent viruses which spread in
the System file, the Desktop file, documents, etc.  You STILL want to use a
good virus checker like Disinfectant, SAM, etc.

-- 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Leonard Rosenthol			Internet: 	leonardr@netcom.com
Director of Advanced Technology		AppleLink:	MACgician
Aladdin Systems, Inc.			GEnie:		MACgician

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: maynard@tamar.msc.cornell.edu (Maynard J. Handley)
Subject: Re: Hard drives have lost icons and won't allow them to be pasted
Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1992 01:49:47 GMT

In article <1992Oct16.070909.19047@msc.cornell.edu> you write:
>Following a crash after trying out a new INIT, my (all three) hard drives
>have lots their pretty system 7 icons. I tried pasting them back into the
>get Info window and they won't paste. I tried trashing the invisible
>rootlevel icon file but that didn't help. I tried booting with vanilla
>7.01
>and no INITs, no joy.

>My guess is that there is a software flag somewhere on each volume that
>says that the volume name (and I guess icon) are locked. Is this true?
>How
>can I get to it?
>

I thought I'd tell people my findings on this, since others might have
this
problem. There is a software flag that needs to be reset. I used Volume
Name Unlocker by James Walker, and available from
bigbird.csd.scarolina.edu
in pub/mac and it fixed the problem right away.

Maynard Handley

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: kanefsky@halcyon.com (Steve Kanefsky)
Subject: Re: Wierd Use for your Mac
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 16:29:06 GMT

In article <Bw51xn.H87@ns1.nodak.edu> fleckens@plains.NoDak.edu (Clint Fleckenstein) writes:
>In article <cubsfan.719107334@camelot> cubsfan@camelot.bradley.edu (Michael Silverman) writes:
>>
>>What is the strangest use you have seen a
>>Mac used for? (Fishbowls don't count!)
>
>I leave mine on with the modem powered up so I know if I got any
>phone calls in my absence.

That's not so wierd.  I remember a great shareware DA from many years
ago which would record each call as it came in, logging the number of
rings and the time and date.  So instead of just seeing

RING
RING
RING
RING
RING
RING
RING


on your terminal screen, you'd know that you got 2 seperate calls, one
with 3 rings and the other with 4, and you'd know what time they came
in.  I'll have to go back and dig that one up.  It would be great to see
it extended to add caller ID information if you had a modem that could
pass it along.


--
Steve Kanefsky
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: jbailey@world.std.com (james d bailey)
Subject: Re: PDA'S are flop
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 04:13:35 GMT

How about this for a new application only available on a PDA.  Use the
built in microphone to record a lecture or meeting.  As the recording 
is happening the user is also taking notes.  These notes are coordinated 
with a time - code from the recorded audio.  On playback your notes
are displayed when the appropriate audio comes up.  All of this is
Hypertext of course, so you can point and click your way around based on
your notes.  This application is possible today, with today's technology.
You could model it in hypercard, but it won't be very useful unless 
you have it running on a PDA.  I thought of this application in 30 seconds
while reading these posts.  There must be thousands of unique things
you can do with PDA technology.  You just have to break out of the 
desktop computer mode.
From: crogerson@tds-hsc.com (Charlie Rogerson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Background driver for the old StyleWriter?
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 14:55:21 PDT
Organization: TDS Healthcare Systems
Reply-To: crogerson@tds-hsc.com (Charlie Rogerson)
Distribution: us
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1

I've got an LC running system 7 with the old StyleWriter (pretty but slow). I've heard of a driver
that will let me run the stylewriter in background but I can't find one. Anybody
know if one exists and where?
Thanks--

-------------------------------------
Charlie Rogerson
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: latesh@genghis.borland.com (Latesh Bhatia)
Subject: Fonts for Gujarati, Malayalam, Tamil, etc.
Followup-To: latesh@borland.com
Summary: Fonts for Indian Languages
Originator: latesh@genghis.borland.com
Keywords: Gujarati, Malayalam, Tamil, etc.
Organization: Borland International
Distribution: World
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 01:14:32 GMT

Could anyone recommend any vendor(s) that provides fonts for these and other
Indian languages?  

I need them for a Mac IIcx.  

Thanks,

Latesh

		   ***** latesh@borland.com *****
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Let's talk Cross-Posting, Boys and Girls
From: Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix)
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 92 02:20:11 EST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:226/20.18 - cmhGate UF Gateway, Columbus OH

H> From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades)
H> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.misc 
H>

ok, this "Lets Talk Performas, Boys and Girls" thread probably belongs in
hardware, would belong in c.s.m.misc only if it weren't posted anywhere in c.s
m.hardware, and absolutely doesn't belong in c.s.m.comm.

Just because someone starts off shouting his piece in every newsgroup, doesn't
mean you have to send your follow-ups to every newsgroup as well.  Be
considerate--send your replies to one group.  If your newsreader doesn't let
you restrict replies to just one group, then hold your replies.

Possibly tilting at windmills, but sure I'm not the only one peeved at all
this crossposting,

--Adam--
 
--  
Adam Frix via cmhGate - Net 226 fido<=>uucp gateway Col, OH
UUCP: ...!n8emr!bluemoon!cmhgate!20.18!Adam.Frix
INET: Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: ekaftan@malloco.ing.puc.cl (ekaftan)
Subject: Re: Start Up Applications
Organization: Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 14:41:09 GMT

Jinsong Gao (gaow@bones.et.byu.edu) wrote:
: Hi. I have a question to ask.  I put an application into startup items folder 
: so it will be run every time I turn on the machine.  Now is there a way to 
: not start the application without having to restart?  (that is disabling it
: during system start).

---> Just hold shift key right before finder draws the desktop and
the startup items won't launch. (If you hold shift before 'Welcome..'
INITs won't launch too!)

: 
: 
: Oh, one other thing.  My friend has a IIx,  and he's got MODE32, and 20meg
: worth of SIMMS.  When he turns on MODE32 and turns on 32 bit addressing, the
: machine starts up and the screen becomes messed up with strips and everything.
: Does anybody know what is causing this and how to make it work so he can use
: more than 8 meg RAM?

---> Never used mode32, sorry.
: 
: Thanks for any help.
: 
Never mind!, hope I'm useful

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Eduardo Kaftanski

ekaftan@ing.puc.cl

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From: James.K.Pinkelman.1@nd.edu (Jim Pinkelman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: HiQ Experiences?
Date: 9 Oct 92 18:05:11 GMT
Organization: University of Notre Dame
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A6FB36C67001401E@jpinkelman.aero.nd.edu>
X-Xxdate: Fri, 9 Oct 92 13:16:54 GMT
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9

I would appreciate hearing about anyone's experiences
with HiQ, a new program from bimillenneum which is oriented
toward engineering and mathematics problem solving.

Thanks
From: Glen.Stewart@f175.n2240.z1.ieee.org (Glen Stewart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: RE: Sys 7 filesharing slows down machine?
Date: 6 Oct 92 14:26:34 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:2240/175 - The Associati, Grand Blanc MI

It's the truth.

--  
=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=
 Glen Stewart - Internet: Glen.Stewart@f175.n2240.z1.ieee.org