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From: Jim Barrett <Barrett_Jim@ial3.jsc.nasa.gov>
Subject: Porting application to Unix - need help
Organization: Lockheed Engineering & Sciences Co.
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 16:58:22 GMT

Greetings, 

I have a user who is porting an application from NOS/VE to Unix (specifically,
IRIX (SGI)).  

He would like to be able manipulate the linking of his program on Unix as he
is able to under NOS.  Specifically, he would like to be able to tell the
linker to satisfy unresolved symbol 'x' with symbol 'y'.  This is being done in
FORTRAN.  He has a subroutine reference that he wants to override, so to speak,
with the subroutine of his choice.

Has anyone dealt with this aspect of porting before?  Or is this a reason to
stay with NOS and CDC?  :-).  

I tried comp.sys.sgi, and got no response at all.  

Many thanks for your trouble.

Jim


--
Jim Barrett                Lockheed Engineering & Sciences Co., Houston, TX
Barrett_Jim@ial3.jsc.nasa.gov                                  713-333-6103
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cdc
From: jcvs@scinet.up.ac.za (prof jc van staden)
Subject: NOS
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 21:49:26 GMT
Organization: Gold Fields Computer Centre for Education
Keywords: version

We are using a CYBER 810 with NOS 2.7.2 level 750.
Does anybody know whether NOS is being developed 
anywhere. Will there be any future upgrades? Please 
e-mail me any relevant info. jcvs@scinet.up.ac.za

Thanx
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From: syspb@smartstar.com (Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.wanted
Subject: Laserwriter printers
Date: 20 Aug 92 23:31:46 GMT
Organization: SmartStar Corp. / Signal Technolgy Inc.

Where is a good place to buy an Apple Laserwriter II printer?  We have
one that came from one of our European offices that runs on 220v.  I
took it to the shop, and after about a month of ordering parts the
repair bill will be $1700 to convert it to 110v.  We could buy a new
printer at a local shop for about $2400, that would have a warranty.

Does anybody have suggestions for a vendor that would sell one for
less?  I looked in Computer Shopper, and most of the printers there
are for PC's.  I heard that HP made some Apple compatible printers,
but what model is it?

If anyone knows a repair place that would convert it cheaper than 
$1700 at our local shop, let me know.  Also, if anyone is interested
in buying the 220v printer, send me email.  I don't know if it works
now, but it did before they shipped it.  We only have 110v, so there
is no way to plug it in and test it.  I will have to ask the boss
before we sell can sell it.  It will probably be cheap and 'as is'.

One note, they also sent us a Mac IIx and an Apple Scanner with the 
printer.  The Mac IIx is autoconfiguring.  You just plug it in, and
it automatically switches from 110v to 220v with out doing anything.
The Scanner had a dial with different voltages you could select.

I don't regularly subscribe to the Mac newsgroups.  Please send me
email, if you have any information that could help.

Thanks, syspb@smartstar.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,misc.forsale.computers
From: daves@bluemoon.rn.com (David E. Scott)
Subject: Re: macintosh trade-ins/upgrades
Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 92 22:09:08 EDT

lstein@genome.wi.edu (Lincoln Stein) writes:

> > 
> > I'm looking for places which offer trade-ins for Macintoshes.
> > I have several machines which I would like to trade in and
> > apply their value towards the purchase of new(er) macs.
> > 
> > If you know the name/location/phone for such a place, please
> > send them to me by email. I'm familiar with the Apple Exchange
> > Program and have a number for Maya Computer. Do any of these
> > places have email addresses (preferably Internet)?
> > 
> 
> Maya has gone Chapter 11.  Places which offer trade-in's and upgrades
> include:
> 
> - Shreve Systems, Bossier City, LA 800-227-3971
> - Mac Sale International, Piscataway, NJ 800-729-7031
> 
> Although I don't have the number handy, the most venerable of the
> trade-in places is Sun Remarketing.  Maybe someone else on the net has
> their address.
> 
> ========================================================================
> Lincoln Stein		
> lstein@genome.wi.edu		Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, MA
> lstein@hstbme.mit.edu		Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston MA
> ========================================================================
> 

Chapter 11, eh?  now that's interesting.  no wonder we haven't heard from 
Maya lately. <G>

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,soc.culture.japan
From: trebor@foretune.co.jp (Robert J Woodhead)
Subject: HELP: Outbound FLOPPY needed in Tokyo
Summary: I need to borrow one for 5 mins
Keywords: help outbound portable floppy
Organization: Foretune Co., Ltd.
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 03:20:55 GMT

I am the owner of a faithful original OUTBOUND portable Mac-clone.
Through thick and thin (mostly thick, it is kind of chunky), it
has computed away without complaint.

Now, fate has laid it low.  As it was suffering from a bad case
of hard-disc congestion, I purchased and installed AUTODOUBLER
on it.

Bad move.  Autodoubler crashes on the Outbound.  What is WORSE,
due to some quirk in the Outbound's keyboard handler, pressing
SHIFT on boot does not solve the problem.

As my OUTBOUND is a hard-disc only model, I cannot boot the
machine!  Also, I don't have a Plus anymore to "dock" to the
Outbound.

If there is anyone in the TOKYO area who has an original Outbound
with an external floppy disc drive or a docking module that will
let me bypass the internal HD, I would greatly appreciate it if
you would email me.

Many thanks in advance.
-- 
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| Robert J. Woodhead, Biar Games / AnimEigo, Incs.    trebor@foretune.co.jp |
|  Fundamental Mistakes in the design of the World's User Interface, #3217  |
|                   "Elevators don't have CANCEL buttons"                   | 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.comm
From: tonyg@spock.retix.com (Tony "Salty Dog" Goulding)
Subject: Re: boss!  de binhex, de binhex ...
Organization: Retix, Santa Monica CA
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 17:44:55 GMT

In article <1992Aug21.142511.6211@samba.oit.unc.edu> Andrew.Brennan@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Andrew Brennan) writes:
>      Ok - this isn't for me.  But I *know* a FTP leech  :^) 
>
>      Anyone know of a batch de-binhex'r?  You know ... you get a
>   lot of startup screens at one time - 15 .hqx's and you have to
>   convert them all ...
>
>      andrew.  (brennan@hal.hahnemann.edu)
I use a prog called Downline.  You can configure it to sit around
polling a specific folder (your download folder).  When it finds a
stuffed, binhex'd or packed file, it will expand them (optionally into
individual folders and optionally delete the originals).
I'm not sure where it is just now, but check archie.
P.S., I use it under 6.0.7 - not sure if its ok for 7.

Tony.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.comm
From: Andrew.Brennan@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Andrew Brennan)
Subject: boss!  de binhex, de binhex ...
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 14:25:11 GMT

      Ok - this isn't for me.  But I *know* a FTP leech  :^) 

      Anyone know of a batch de-binhex'r?  You know ... you get a
   lot of startup screens at one time - 15 .hqx's and you have to
   convert them all ...

      andrew.  (brennan@hal.hahnemann.edu)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.misc
From: rsimon@cae.wisc.edu (Robert Simon)
Subject: Re: How to HIDE Files on a mac to prevent Piracy?
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
Date: 15 Aug 92 16:58:51 CDT

>Q. Any suggestions, and also: HOW TO MAKE FILES INVISIBLE eg a file in
>Preferences or Control Panels folder?
>
>Thanks for your help
>
>
>Imran
>

Have you tried/heard of ResEdit?  It can make files invisible quite easily:

It's a shareware program and here's how to do it...

When you open the program (make sure it's version 2.0 or greater), it gives you
a common dialog box asking you which file to open.  Hit "Cancel" and then select
"Get File/Folder Info" from the FILE menu.  Select the file you wish to hide
via another dialog box and a set of options appears with the filename.  One
of those options is a checkbox labeled "Invisible".  Simply check it, close the
window (It'll ask you if you want to save the info changes, just say "yes"), and 
quit the program.  Voila! your file is now invisible to the user.

Note that this means you have to do this process on the machine that the hidden
file resides, but it's the only way I know of.

One good thing is that you simply take ResEdit w/you when you leave the user's
machine, and there's no way he can undo what you did, unless he finds a copy 
himself.

Hope this works for ya...
Rob Simon
rsimon@cae.wisc.edu
From: hapa@cats.ucsc.edu (Doug Easterly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Strange stuff
Date: 23 Aug 92 07:33:45 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsco.ucsc.edu


In article <1992Aug22.034635.4606@newshub.ariel.yorku.ca> cs911037@ariel.yorku.ca (CHRISTOPHER P GEORGE) writes:
>Hello everyone,
>I have encountered two strange situations.
> 
>1. I just upgraded my mac LC from 4 megs to 10 megs of ram. My system used
>to take up about 1.3 megs of memory. After the upgrade, the same system takes up 3.3 megs. Are there any explanations? It seems that I have lost two megs
>of RAM.
> 

This is probably a matter of setting the Mac to 32 bit mode
through the Memory control panel. If you are running the LC
in 16 bit mode, the mac can only recognize 8 MB of RAM, and
will treat the remaining 2MB as part of the System. 

You haven't lost the RAM, the Mac just can't use it until 
you change to 32 bit mode.
>2. I also bought a Dynatek 45 meg RMD. My internal hard drive is set
>to start up. When I want to use my computer, I turn on the main computer
>( while leaving RMD off ). The hard drive will not boot and I get a question
>mark on the screen. ( obviously it can't find a drive ). As soon as I turn on 
>my RMD, the internal will boot. As well, the RMD mounts with no problem.
>Something is not right. It boots ok when the cable is disconnected
>to the RMD, but if it is connected, it must be on in order for the internal
>HD to boot. Strange isn't it?? Any ideas??
>

This is probably a matter of how your RMD is terminated. My guess is
that it uses an internal termination scheme. Some internally-terminated
SCSI devices won't seem terminated until they are turned on. This 
probably has something to do with the need for the terminating resistor
in this kind of set-up needing some current to recognize its own
termination. If you start up the RMD you won't have to worry about it/

You might also be able to eliminate the problem by plugging an external
terminator into the last SCSI port in the chain.
>Sincerely,
>Chris George
>cs911037@ariel.yorku.ca
>

Hope this helps. I'm no expert, but them's mah guesses.

Doug Easterly
hapa@ucsco

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Charlie found som goblins' gold.  I've had to make myself.
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From: ace@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: TidBITS#138/17-Aug-92 posted in c.s.m.digest
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 22:14:31 PDT
Organization: TidBITS
Reply-To: ace@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst)
Distribution: world
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.5v3

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: Vandell@macpost.vanderbilt.edu (Guy VanDell)
Subject: qks
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Organization: Vanderbilt University
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 15:46:59 GMT

I bought the qks upgrade to 2.1.2, and now it crashes my system all the
time.. I run appletalk remote access with Macpost, which is our email
server on my macintosh plus and it crashes horribly every time I have run
it... sometime it will let me get through startup and it will work for a
bit, but usually it get to the end of the init startup and crashes, but
even if I turn all of my inits off it still doesn't work... Any ideas..

btw mac plus 4meg, inits:appletalk,now menus, diskexpress II, notify,
listener...



Guy VanDell 

Vandelhg@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu
vandell@macpost.vanderbilt.edu
From: rwatkins@bbn.com (Ron Watkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: e-mail
Date: 18 Aug 92 17:05:45 GMT
Reply-To: rwatkins@BBN.COM (Ron Watkins)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

...are you saying that CC:mail won't run on an appleshare server ?

anyway, i'm still interested in others use of mac email packages
that can interface (via a gatorbox) to a unix machine (sgi iris 4.0.1)

thank you...
rwatkins@bbn.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: kanefsky@src.honeywell.com (Steve Kanefsky)
Subject: MacWEEK info requested
Organization: Honeywell Systems & Research Center
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 19:30:13 GMT


Some time ago I had a free subscription to MacWEEK, but since then I've 
moved, and was without a Mac for a while.  Now I have a new Mac and a
desire to read MacWEEK again.  I'm interested in getting a PAID subscription
this time, but I don't have any old issues of MacWEEK laying around to get
the subscription info from.   Could some kind soul look up the following
info for me?

o  Current subscription rates

o  email address, phone number, and/or snail mail address

o  Payment methods (Amex preferred)


Thanks in advance,

--
Steve Kanefsky

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: jmr@aaron.ece.psu.edu (Joe Reinhardt)
Subject: strange "click" when appl. quits
Organization: The Pennsylvania State University, State College
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 00:52:28 GMT


I have been noticing a strange "clicking" sound from the speaker when
an application or DA quits.   The clicking is not too loud, but loud
enough to be annoying.

I am running system 6.0.7 on a Mac SE, under multifinder.  
Virus scans show nothing.

The clicking only occurs when an appl. or DA exits, not during multifinder
switches.

Any ideas?

-Joe
From: wchang@ausom.oz.au (William Chang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: ROMs are Forever!
Date: 16 Aug 92 01:56:13 GMT
Organization: AUSOM - The Apple Users Society of Melbourne

With all this discussion on System software in ROM, I just had to
put my 2 cents in...

After mucking around with the Classic's ROM bootup disk, I've come to
hate ROM disks. This hate also stems from use of CDROMs of PD software
on which many programs are duplicated.

Basically, you can't change anything!

For system software like that on the Mac, I love to personalise things.
I doubt anyone will be able to do that on ROM machines.

A good example is that of the HP Palmtop PC. Even its AUTOEXEC.BAT file
(to Mac users, this is a BATch file that merely loads stuff on startup)
is in ROM, and there is no way I can change it if I want to bootup into
a different application.

A compromise would be that of a System CDROM that the Mac can bootup from.
Might be useful in the CDROM equipped Macs so rumoured.

Gee! This will save 5MB on the HDD!

CYA, World!


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|        Apple II Forever! (Mac user too, but thats another story...)      |
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From: byscott@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (Byron Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Information on: The IIvi, IIvx, and Performa 600
Keywords: performa new macintosh
Date: 17 Aug 92 19:39:28 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA

With all this talk about getting a Mac now or later, there is one more thing
to think about.  How much is it worth to have it now and not later.  I bought
a Mac IIci and love it.  You can buy now and have the machine or you can wait
for prices to drop, oh by the way, when prices drop it usually means new 
machines are coming out.  So, you can wait for the new machines prices to drop
or you can buy one now.

It cost you money to be the first on the block with a new toy!


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From: brandonl@gold.gvg.tek.com (Brandon Lovested)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Foreign File Access and 32 bit clean?
Date: 20 Aug 92 18:00:16 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Grass Valley Group, Grass Valley, CA

Through trial and error, I have figured out that of the seven files
required to fire up a CD Rom, the one that allows for the recognition
of an audio CD is Foreigh File Access.  It is also the only one that
apparently is not 32-bit clean.  Magic Apple error  "Bad F-line instruction."

Say what?

Is there a 32-bit clean version floating about, a version past December 89?


Thanks.

::Brandon G. Lovested
  32-bit unclean
From: mkl@rob.cs.tu-bs.de (Mario Klebsch DG1AM)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Apple menu items limited to 52?
Keywords: Apple menu items
Date: 23 Aug 92 16:37:46 GMT
Organization: TU Braunschweig, Informatik, Bueltenweg, Germany

joungwoo@mensa.usc.edu (John Kim) writes:


>Has anyone experience the following (what I'm experiencing)?

>When I add more than 52 things (applications or aliases or anything else) to
>the Apple Menu Items folder, either the last item added or the item that
>comes last alphabetically disappears from the Apple Menu. (But when I check
>the AMI folder, it is surely still there.)

Try 'magic apple' found in nic.funet.fi. A nice INIT to create hierarchical
apple menues from the folder hierarchie in the apple menue items folder.

'BeHierachic' is another utility to provide the same service. I like those
programs very much and the limit of 52 entries does't matter to me.

I hope this helps you to scope with more than 52 items under the apple menue

Mario						mkl@rob.cs.tu-bs.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.wanted
From: Andreas Wuertz <wuertz@systech.tik.ethz.ch>
Subject: Re: How to screen dump pulled down menus?
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, TIK
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 14:08:34 GMT

In article <65793@hydra.gatech.EDU> The Amazing Jim Stembridge,
ccastjs@prism.gatech.EDU writes:
>I need to get some screen dumps of menus into my pagemaker document.
>When I pull down the menu, I type Shift-Apple-3 to get the screen
>dump but nothing happens cause I'm still holding the mouse button
>down. Is there any way to do this?? Either mail or post your
>responses please. Thanks!

Take 'Flash-It!'. It's shareware (remember to pay the fees.. :-)) and
it's great!
It's a control panel and usage should be no problem. (Version 2.2)

Andy (wuertz@systech.tik.ethz.ch)

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system
From: breck@kirk.ecs.umass.edu (Liam Breck)
Subject: Re: Information on: The IIvi, IIvx, and Performa 600
Keywords: performa new macintosh
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 22:25:06 GMT

edcrwfrd@unlv.edu (Edward Crawford) writes:
>The lack of VRAM in
>the SI does hurt video performance, but you havent seen slow
>color until you run a lcII in 8bit mode on a 13" monitor...

I use 8-bit mode on a LCII daily.  It is perfectly acceptable.  The
IIsi does little better.  Until recently, the IIsi was badly
overpriced, so price/performance wise (that's my argument here) the
LCII has been the better machine.
-- 
Liam Breck     breck@zonker.ecs.umass.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: stoodt@cis.umassd.edu (Michael Stoodt)
Subject: Re: Emptying the Trash in System 7
Organization: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 15:18:19 GMT

In <1992Aug21.143536.3296@otago.ac.nz> stanger@otago.ac.nz (Nigel Stanger) writes:

>vreddy@husc3.harvard.edu writes:
>> I have a question... I think it's a system 7 question. When I empty the trash
>> in system 7, if there are any icons in between the hard drive icon and the
>> trash icon, a "path" is erased between these icons... so that I have to click
>> on any icons that were there to "unerase" them... if you understand what I
>> am trying to say, what is going on? Is it one of my inits? or is this system
>> 7 in general? Thanks in advance...

>I know! I know! :) Let me guess, you've got DeskPict installed,
>right? The INIT which puts a picture on your desktop instead of
>the boring old patterns which you normally have? That's what's
>causing the strip of screen to vanish. I have it at home and it
>does exactly the same thing. There's no real fix to it, other
>than to buy the commercial version (comes with Now Utilities I
>believe), which I'm thinking of doing...

Make sure you get Now Utilities version 3, not the about-to-appear
version 4; Now Software has removed DeskPicture (and ScreenLocker)
from NU4, and will apparently be putting them into some new package in
the future.  (They're also moving AlarmsClock to the next version of
the Now Up To Date package.)  These actions have been the subject of
much hate and discontentment in other newsgroups and on Compu$erve...

-- 
Michael A Stoodt  [MaS]                       stoodt@cis.umassd.edu
"Will the last person to leave the planet please turn off the sun?"
                                                     - Mike Resnick
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc