HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: robertw@informix.com (Robert Weinberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Mobius CPU accelerators
Date: 29 Dec 92 20:44:50 GMT
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.

In article <jvp.725642455@cpre1.ee.iastate.edu> jvp@vlsi2.ee.iastate.edu (Jim Van  
Peursem) writes:
> 
>   In my latest issue of MacUser I saw an advertisement for some NuBus 33 MHz
> '040 CPU accelerators made by Mobius.  The price was impressive and they used
> the motherboard's RAM which looked attractive to me.  Does anyone have any
> experience with this company or this board?  Do you think that they will be
> able to maintain the memory throughput necessary via NuBus to keep the CPU
> from stalling?

About 2 years ago I purchased an accelerator-video card/full-page monitor package  
for my old SE/20. The display was great and the accelerator gave noticeably  
improved performance - but there were hardware problems. The card apparently took  
too much power from the SE which caused intermittant crashes (walk away from the  
Mac and after awhile it would do a restart on its own). Mobius admitted the problem  
and sent me a new card, which worked. Unforturnately there were also problems with  
the power supply failing on the monitor - they were pretty good about sending a  
replacement quickly, but the third time this happened I told them I wanted my money  
back. This was well after the expiration of the warrantee period, but after going  
through several levels of refusal they did issue me a full refund in exchange for  
the equipment. 

As I say, this was a couple years ago - don't know what their product is like now.  
My take was that they were a really responsive company, but had a lot of work to do  
on their product.
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From: jsp@uts.amdahl.com (James Preston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: History was made today...
Date: 21 Dec 92 18:43:02 GMT
Reply-To: jsp@pls.amdahl.com
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

mongoose@leland.stanford.edu (Ravi Konchigeri) writes:

}Well, my question is, has anyone found anything really annoying with Finder
}that they haven't been able to fix with some nifty init or the other? 
}Basically, does anyone have any huge complaints about the Mac System that are
}completely unresolvable?

Yeah.  My pet peeve about the System 7 Finder is that there's no way to
change the vertical offset of the icon grid positions.  You have two
choices, either all icons in a row, or adjacent icons offset by half
the icon height.  The wonderful Layout utility under system 6 let me
offset adjacent icons by just the height of the text for the names.
This enabled me to have long names that weren't obscured by neighboring
icons while still preserving a definite row-oriented look.

(Ok, so it's not exactly a "huge" complaint, but it's annoying as hell,
precisely because it *is* such a simple thing that there's no damned
reason for it to not be under user control.)

--James Preston

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.novell,bit.listserv.novell
From: geoffb@coos.dartmouth.edu (Geoff Bronner)
Subject: Re: *** WARNING *** Novell + QuickTime = Disaster
Followups-To: comp.sys.mac.misc, comp.sys.novell
Reply-To: geoffb@Dartmouth.EDU
Organization: Amos Tuck School
Disclaimer: I don't represent Dartmouth and Dartmouth doesn't represent me.
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:28:37 GMT

In <1992Dec21.013555.22417@massey.ac.nz> news@massey.ac.nz (USENET News System) writes:

>Try the combination: insert movie into WordPerfect document, move MOVIE (and
>WP doc if you like) onto Novell file-server. Now attempt to play it... The
>problem is that moving the movie DATA onto Novell has destroyed the link
>to it embedded in the WP doc. We have yet to confirm why the problem
>occurs but the suspect is Novell's rounding of time-stamps to even seconds
>(maybe there's enough odd in the DOS world already without including
>odd seconds :-) :-)). It is not to do with storing hard-coded pathnames as
>suggested my one of Novell's postings. 

Why don't you have a chat with the people at Word Perfect Corp. and give
Novell a break? I can repeat the problem you describe in WordPerfect 2.1.2
but when I do the same thing with Word 5.1a I can re-establish the QT link
to the copy of the movie on the server without any problems. (That's QT
1.5 running under System 7.0.1 tuned.)

I think you may be barking up the wrong tree, so to speak.

I'm using Novell v. 3.11 and NW4MAC 3.011... your mileage may vary.

-Geoff
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: ctrbdo@iapa.uucp%mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu (bryan d oakley)
Subject: quark and frame
Organization: FAA / Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 19:19:51 GMT

Anybody know the current educational prices for quark express and
framemaker? 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer
From: jdc@selway.umt.edu (John-David Childs)
Subject: changing default printer destination in LaserWriter 7.01 Extension
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Keywords: Microsoft Word/ResEdit/LaserWriter
Organization: University of Montana CIS
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 00:52:07 GMT

I was trying to print out the NCSA Telnet documentation (in Word 4.0 format)
to a Postscript file.  The files are linked together so that printing
the Telnet.tp file with the "next file" option checked would print the whole
document set to the (destination).  I selected "Postscript File" as my
destination and clicked "Print".  Needless to say, the Telnet.tp file
printed to the Postscript file, but the other documents printed to the
LaserWriter.  So I decided to try hacking the LaserWriter Extension
to make "Postscript File" the default.  I hit a dead end.  I thought,
mistakenly, that the DLOG resource would contain a field which said "This
is the default".  Anybody know if there is a way to do this?  Is this problem
fixed in Word 5.0?  Can I use the LaserWriter Font Utility to print the
NCSA docs (in order) to 1 postscript file?


-- 
				John-David Childs
				Consultant, University of Montana CIS
				con_jdc@selway.umt.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: parkyn@fraser.sfu.ca (Dale Parkyn)
Subject: Re: Care and feeding of Desktop file
Keywords: system 7.0.1 desktop file
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 03:06:56 GMT

leighc@cognos.com (Leigh Chapman) writes:

>Can I delete the (hidden) file Desktop, and expect that it will be rebuilt
>when I reboot my Mac?

>I've evaluated several software packages for my workgroup, each of which
>leaves a little trail of used icons, and so on... Any suggestions on how
>to reduce the amount of space used by this file? Are there any other files
>that are growing as well?


Does not the recommended DeskTop rebuild procedure accomplish what
you have mentioned above? Hold down Option-Command keys will starting
computer. Keep them down until you are asked to verify that you want the
DeskTop rebuilt.

Then take a look again using ResEdit to determine if those old resources
are gone - I think they will be.

Dale
parkyn@sfu.ca

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: nzimman@icaen.uiowa.edu (Nicholas R. Zimmerman)
Subject: Re: Macs for UNIX lovers
Organization: Iowa Computer Aided Engineering Network, University of Iowa
X-Newsreader: NN version 6.4.19
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 17:46:45 GMT

ctrbdo@iapa.uucp%mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu (bryan d oakley) writes:

>As I have said in other postings (whether you've seen them or not), I
>am a new mac owner.  My roots are in UNIX, mostly of the workstation
>variety (with a smattering of VMS and (argh!) Data General AOS/VS --
>though, why should you care?).  Anyway, I want my mac to have some of
>the 'luxurys' I've grown used to.  For example, I want an emacs clone
>(microemacs?), I would love to gateway email to the net (uucp/uupc?),
>get news (of course!) play my favorite games (moria, hack, various
>startrek incarnations, etc.)  connect to my sun (X, ppp/slip, etc.)
>and so on and so forth.

>Has anyone put together the information into a single FAQ which covers
>such topics?  I suspect there is a fair number of folks out there
>with the same questions.  If there is no FAQ, bear with me as I toss
>out such questions for discussion now and again...

>-- 
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>Instrument Approach Procedures Automation              DOT/FAA/AMI-230
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>Bryan D. Oakley                    ctrbdo%iapa@mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu

Yes, Bryan, there is a solution. It is called A/UX 3.0. Buy it.

It lets you run Mac Apps, Unix apps, X apps....all at once....it is Unix.

Get an ethernet board for your mac...or buy a Quadra....and poof....connected
to the Sun....simple....and direct.
 
Look into it...it is a good idea.
 

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From: aragorn@convex.csd.uwm.edu (Steven J.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: troubles grabbing Mac binaries
Date: 30 Dec 1992 05:33:05 GMT
Organization: The Other Side of the CPU
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.30

I recently saved an application which I saw posted in the Mac binaries
newsgroup.  My newsreader allows me, after saving a multi-part file as
one file, to automatically run the uudecode process on the file/files and then
have the archived file ready for x-fer to the proper platform.  After having
rtin run the uudecode process I received an error which said that there were
no begin or end statements in any of the files, so rtin doesn't know how to
process the thingy.  I know that the application was archived using BinHex
4.0.  Is there a step missing here or will I just have to edit the 18 files
down into one file and then x-fer the archive to a Mac?


Steve J. White
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.wanted
From: pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby)
Subject: Re: PD/Shareware DEFRAGMENTATION software wanted
Organization: 3M Company
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 22:10:18 GMT

In article <1992Dec29.203442.9170@news.uiowa.edu> haferman@icaen.uiowa.edu (Jeff Haferman) writes:
>What's available these days as far as System 7 compatible
>non-commercial defragmentation software?

There aren't any non-commercial defragmentation utilities out there,
really.  You may find something called "DeFrag cdev" floating, dated
around 1989.  If you do, THROW IT AWAY.  It is dangerous.  I know the
developer, and he still doesn't know how it ever got out to the world.

I have yet to see anything that is -free- which does a better job of
defragging than a full backup/restore cycle. Tedious, yes.  Free, yes
(well, time isn't free, but it won't cost you hard cold ca$h :-)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: rcamama@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Robert Camama)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,sci.electronics
Subject: Need help w/testing solar cells again...lost all replies!
Date: 27 Dec 92 00:42:09 GMT
Reply-To: rcamama@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Robert Camama)
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Originator: rcamama@tramp.cc.utexas.edu

From: rcamama@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Robert Camama)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,sci.electronics
Subject: Need help w/solar cells...lost all e-mail replies!
Expires:
References:
Summary: 
Reply-To: rcamama@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Robert Camama)
Followup-To: 
Distribution: world
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Keywords: 


	I have a project that involves testing solar cells for my university's
(University of Texas at Austin) entry into Sunrayce '93.  It involves testing
of solar cells for their power output over a wide V-I range from 0 volts
at max current to 0 amps at max voltage, with the ultimate objective of finding
the cells' fill factors.  I need to do this with a computer to reliably and 
quickly record the V-I performance of the cells and with a budget for around
$300 for hardware and software.  The arrangement should be for eigher
a Mac+ or an Apple II family member (the two types of computers I'll probably
ever have on hand for the duration of the project), but I'll accept ideas
involving any type of computer.

	Some of you might recognize that the same request was made earlier
this month; I have gotten e-mail replies, but my system mailbox has
been giving me hell and I lost all the solar cell-related e-mail in the 
process (Looks I'll be doing alot more screen dumps to microcomputer 
whenever I logon via modem from here on).  In particular, I need to 
get in touch with the persons who:

	Suggested two DVM w/serial ports
	A Mac-usable data acquisition module sold by a California firm
	and,
	Has some ideas involving an electronic load

I'll happily accept others tho...

Sorry to bother you again,
R. Camama
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: umcho000@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Connie Cho)
Subject: Re: Why doesn't someone write a ShutdownSound Extension?
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:54:30 GMT

On the commercial side, Clickchange has it.
From: wcaw@juliet.caltech.edu (Wilisch, Wolf C. A.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: US ImageWriter in Europe ?
Date: 26 Dec 1992 23:54 PST
Organization: California Institute of Technology
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: juliet.caltech.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

Hi there !

Does anyone know whether a US bought ImageWriter II will work (once the input
voltage has been transformed to 110 V) in Germany ?  Will the 50 Hz current
there srew things up ?  My Mac says it takes all AC input from 110 to 240 V
and 50-60 Hz, but the IW just says 110 V/60Hz.
Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

Chris W 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system
From: bredell@tdb.uu.se (Mats Bredell)
Subject: Re: disabling extensions:  extension manager
Reply-To: Mats.Bredell@udac.uu.se
Organization: Uppsala University Computing Center (UDAC)
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 15:52:09 GMT

Peter Bell (bell-peter@yale.edu) wrote:
: In article <1992Dec23.141811.11598@tdb.uu.se> Mats.Bredell@udac.uu.se writes:
: >Noam G. Nudelman (P88038@BARILVM.BITNET) wrote:
: >: 
: >: Hi,
: >: 
: >:   I am interested in changing some system extensions so that
: >: when I hold the Shift botton down while booting, they will NOT be
: >: disabled.
: >: 
: >:   Any help will be appreciated.
: >
: >As far as I know, it's (almost) impossible. Apple has made it with the
: >Tune-Up by adding a driver that loads the INIT somehow, but it's tricky.
: 
: yeah, as far as I know, the only solution is to use the extension manager
: control panel (at sumex, et al.) to select a group of extensions to 
: enable at startup, disabling the rest.  It works quite well.

Yes, but this won't solve the problem. If you hold down the shift key, the
system won't load any extensions at all.

The way Apple did it with the TuneUp was to write a device driver instead of
an INIT (or a device driver that loads the INIT), at least from what I've
been told.

/Mats
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From: Tom Haberlandt <haberlat@ccmail.dayton.saic.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Tar programs for DAT drives
Date: 30 Dec 1992 18:25:24 GMT
Organization: SAIC
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: haberlandt.dayton.saic.com
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d11
X-XXMessage-ID: <A76753D07B011AA1@haberlandt.dayton.saic.com>
X-XXDate: Wed, 30 Dec 92 17:25:36 GMT

I am looking for an application (free or otherwise) that 
will read/write to a 2.3 Gb DAT drive.

The drive is made by TTI but can emulate an Exabyte drive
(and others).

Thanks in advance !
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: wondertr@fraser.sfu.ca (wondertree learning center)
Subject: Re: The Macintosh Secret Tricks List
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 17:04:15 GMT

Since we're on the subject of "easter eggs" I was wondering are there
any for the latest MACs or the Powerbooks.... or has Apple gotten
down to serious business :)

TED
I have a IIvx... inquiring minds what to know....

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.wanted
From: dross@cambizola.cs.wisc.edu (Dan Ross)
Subject: Re: Mac IIsi 5/80 ---> $946
Organization: U of Wisconsin Madison - Computer Sciences
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 09:12:47 GMT

In <1992Dec15.184453.5121@news.uiowa.edu> haferman@icaen.uiowa.edu (Jeff Haferman) writes:

>The above system is being advertised by our University Personal
>Computing center (the price is for CPU only).  Also advertised
>is a IIci 5/80 for $1419 and a IIci 5/230 for $1662.

UW-Madison (Wisconsin, USA) did something similar through today, 12/23/92.
The prices were higher, though--about $1050 for the si, and $1450 for
the ci (don't remember the config/prices combinations).

Yeah--it made me sorry I'd bought my Classic II 4/80 for $1217 last February,
which will never run color acceptably.  Then I remembered that 1) I could
barely afford it back then 2) there was no LC II, just an LC, back then
3) the 13" color monitor was still around $500 extra.  So, those of you
who got a "lesser" machine, remember that you've gotten good use out of it.

But those of you yet to buy--there're some great deals (which will be
superseded at some point in the next year, I'm sure)!

I was told the si and ci are NOT being phased out, just that they'd
"bought a whole lot of them and could pass the savings on" or something
equally corny.

Dan
From: owhadi@gale.rice.edu (Eric Owhadi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Help! Virus?
Date: 29 Dec 92 21:25:03 GMT
Organization: Rice University

are you using system 7.1 ?
if you don't the problem can come from the hebrew font that is a 2 bytes font.
You cannot use 2 bytes font with a system version under system 7.1.

Eric

owhadi@geophysics.rice.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Rick.Horowitz@launchpad.unc.edu (Rick Horowitz)
Subject: Help! Virus?
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 01:44:31 GMT

I retrieved a file today from garbo.uwasa.fi called MacInHebrew.  When I
dragged the suitcases over my system 7 folder, it mentioned that things
had to be stored, blah, blah, blah, as usual.  I clicked okay.
Thereafter, I was unable to locate the Hebrew font, and furthermore my
Microsoft Word 5.0a program quit working.  I've finally managed to do a
reinstallation of the program.  Several of my files which relate to the
word processor (either as parts of it, or as files created by it) are
showing damaged forks.

Furthermore, I am unable to do any copying of files from one area to
another, e.g. from my Maxima RAM disk to my "regular" hard disk or vice
versa.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.  PLEASE respond to:

rhorowit@mondrian.csufresno.edu

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From: Francis.Sainsbury@lib.utas.edu.au (Frank Sainsbury)
Subject: xLibrary
Organization: Library, University of Tas
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:02:17 GMT

Is anyone using xLibrary at all.   Several people have collected a copy but
 I have had no indication that anyone is actually using it?

Please let us know if you are using it.

NB.  check archie for a copy.
I will cross post to comp.sys.mac.comms
From: loa@syo.lu.se (Lars-Olof Albertson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Return key in field entry
Date: 2 Jan 93 00:29:59 GMT
Organization: Lund University

In article <1992Dec31.142915@IASTATE.EDU> vortex@IASTATE.EDU (Vicki Tsai) 
writes:
>         Occasionally, HyperCard will not let me use the return key while
> I'm typing text into a field.  HyperCard simply ignores the return key,
> forcing me to use the mouse to click at the next line.  Does anyone know 
> why this happens and what I can do to fix it?  This has happened on an SE, 
> LC,and a IIcx but does not regularly occur.  I'm using HyperCard 2.1.
> 
>         Thanks for the help.
> 
>         Vicki
>         vwtsai@leland.stanford.edu

Hello Vicki,
It looks like you have a returninfield handler in your script.
Check your card, background and stack scripts and see what the handler is 
doing.
If you don't need it just comment it out by --
Regards from a cold Sweden
Lars-Olof Albertson
From: paf@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU (Paul Fritze)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Hi-liting a locked field
Date: 21 Dec 1992 17:45:23 +1100
Organization: Chemistry Department, Melbourne University, AUS.
NNTP-Posting-Host: ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au

In article <babb-161292152533@larc.sdsu.edu> babb@sciences.sdsu.edu (J. Babb) writes:
>I've got a field that changes fonts and is supposed to look like a
>chalkboard (white letters on black) but I can't select it cause it's
>locked. I don't want to unlock it, otherwise people will change its
>content. When I "select cd fld chalkb" from a script, I get marching ants
>(and the field tool goes active!!), but not selection like hitting the Tab
>key will give me.

Create a new button over the field and set its hilite to true (via message box
eg.
set hilite of last btn to true).
This will give white lettering on black.
As a matter of interest to select the text of a field:

select text of fld xyz
This will work if the field is locked as well. The selection will disappear if
you need to enter text anywhere else or change cards etc.

Paul
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