HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: k044477@hobbes.kzoo.edu (Jamie R. McCarthy)
Subject: Re: The Forgetful Finder
Organization: Kalamazoo College
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 15:18:08 GMT

udmorrow@mcs.drexel.edu (Daniel Morrow) writes:
>cstrockb@cs.sunysb.edu (Caleb Strockbine) writes:
>>k044477@hobbes.kzoo.edu (Jamie R. McCarthy) writes:
>>
>>   Every once in a while, when you restart, the Finder will forget some
>>   information about one or more windows.  Sometimes they're open windows,
>>   sometimes not.  It remembers icon placements, but not the View-By,
>>   window size, or window location.  I've never noticed any pattern to it.
>>
>>I don't know the explanation for this, but I've seen it too.
>
>It mostly happens to me after I bomb the machine.
>
>For instance, I'll have a window that is all small icons. When I restart
>(sometimes) they'll be all large icons in the same spots where the small
>icons were. Then, when I view by small icon again, the icons get all cramped
>and I have to re-drag them all back to their previous locations.

The way to fix viewed-by-small-icon-but-now-large-icon windows is to
select all, drag them to the desktop, select the window again, change it
to View By Small Icon, select the icons on the desktop, and drag them
back into the window.

But that still doesn't answer the question.  Come on--_someone_ has to
know what's going on here.  Any of the MacDTS guys want to comment?
-- 
 Jamie McCarthy      Internet: k044477@kzoo.edu      AppleLink: j.mccarthy
 My contribution to urban blues...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
From: pcw@access.digex.com (Peter Wayner)
Subject: How to find the Folder I launched from...
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, Maryland USA
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 00:02:50 GMT

Let's say I'm an application and I want to look for 
a data file that should be installed in the same folder
as I am. How do I find out my path or DirID?

Thanks and my appologies if you find this question insultingly
trivial. (And if you do, feel free to insult me by mail
as long as you include the answer...)

-Peter
From: cnc@Apple.COM (Chris Christensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: ETO Problem (Where is AppleLink)
Date: 5 Nov 92 16:10:49 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

hp48sx@wupost.wustl.edu (HP48SX Archive Maintainer) writes:

>I am looking at ETO 8, and there are quite a few file in AppleLink
>format, that can not be read by any other applications as far as I know
>(creator GEOL ?).  So where can I find AppleLink 6.1 or some other
>reader for it ? 

If you can't find AppleLink, some other compression programs read the AppleLink
Package format: Stuffit Lite, Stuffit Expander
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.programmer:18023 comp.sys.mac.apps:16777
From: jb6o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jason Andrew Barshay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Prograph
Date: 4 Nov 92 11:45:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.key4GJm00VAvQVVVIg
Organization: Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


Has anyone had experience using Prograph?  I'd be interested in hearing
your opinions of it.  Please CC responses to this account.

Thanks,
Jason

P.S.  I'm also interested in learning about any CASE or UIMS tools for
the MAC that actually generate code and don't function as just
diagrammatic tools.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
From: absurd@apple.apple.com (Tim Dierks, software saboteur)
Subject: Re: Spurious invalidation
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 22:42:36 GMT
Organization: MacDTS Marauders
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.programmer

In article <1992Nov6.170232.21241@alw.nih.gov>, fixer@faxcsl.dcrt.nih.gov
(Chris Spiral Catfish Tate) wrote:
> Problem: calling SetCTitle() (and possibly SetCtlValue()) on controls in the
> dialog is forcing an update.  This is pretty bad in my case, since redrawing
> the dialog is rather time-consuming.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea what's happening, and how I might go about preventing
> it?  Calling ValidRect() on the slow-to-draw userItem's rectangle after the
> call to SetCTitle() doesn't seem to solve the problem; it's still updated.

Sure enough, controls will invalidate themselves (or the control manager
does it; I can't remember).  This isn't the real problem; the problem is
that your user items are being drawn when they don't need to be.  I would
stick a little code at the beginning of your user item drawing procedure
that makes sure that your user item intersects the union of the visRgn and
the clipRgn; this way you can be sure that your user item actually
needs to be redrawn before undertaking the task.  (For extra points,
only redraw the bits that need to be redrawn.)

Tim Dierks
MacDTS, why not?
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 10:49:32 EST
From: <RXF10@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: QuickTime and Fast Dithering


    Scott,
        Your idea of placing JPEGed images into Director as  QTime
    movies is an interesting idea (I've never tried it), but
    there's an easier way. Use the "paste as PICT" command in
    the Cast menu.  If you have a JPEG image in the clipboard
    choosing "paste as pict" will retain any QuickTime
    compression associated with that picture.  It will also keep
    the small file size when the MacroMind (excuse me, "MacroMedia")
    file is saved.
        On the other hand, if you really wanted to do it your way,
    then why not dither the image in a paint program (Photoshop)
    before you make you movie file of JPEG images.
        The easiest way to keep track of files is to use the
    "link to file" option when importing, but to keep a bunch of
    aliases to the files you need inside the same folder as your
    Director Document.  This should make your link alittle more
    robust.  Director should really use alias  records instead of
    keeping the absolute path name.  Oh, well, can't have everything.
        If you will be porting your Director Movie to another
    platform, one which doesn't have aliases (Windows), then you
    could keep all of the files needed for your movie in the same
    folder as the Director file itself and reference them via
    Lingo by using "the pathname & picturetitle" to create your
    own pathname.

    Hope this helps.

                            Robert Falco
                            Training and Multimedia Systems
                            Penn State University
                            RXF10 @ psuvm.psu.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
From: Dan.Oscarsson@malmo.trab.se (Dan Oscarsson)
Subject: Bug in ViewEdit?
Organization: Telia Research, Malmo, Sweden
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 07:47:33 GMT

Sometimes after having saved a file in ViewEdit, the file when opened
is empty (exept for an alert). No correlation between operations done
in ViewEdit and the resulting empty file have been found.

Is this a known bug? Is there a way to avoid it?

Please reply by email to: Dan.Oscarsson@malmo.trab.se

    Dan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
From: landis@ltpsun.gsfc.nasa.gov (David Landis)
Subject: TIFF file format?
Organization: NASA/GSFC
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 19:59:42 GMT

I am looking for information on the format for TIFF image files.
I want to be able to read some TIFF files from a CD-ROM into both Mac
and PC software, and I need the complete file description, headers and all.
I also need to know how to set the colors correctly.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

David Landis
landis@ltpsun.gsfc.nasa.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
From: moonshadow@cs.stanford.edu (Sean White)
Subject: Editing PICT file data
Reply-To: moonshadow@cs.stanford.edu
Organization: Stanford University CSLI
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 18:57:03 GMT


I want to try an algorithm out for taking a bitmap and changing it
in certain ways.  What's the best way to get the bitmap from a
PICT?  (Think C)
Thanks.
-sean
--
Sean Michael White
moonshadow@cs.stanford.edu	"I'm bein' followed by a Moonshadow"

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
From: us277614@mmm.serc.3m.com (Dave T. Berquist)
Subject: Re: Macsbug: crashing my system?
Organization: 3M Company
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 14:59:51 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.163433.26807@ncar.ucar.edu> urban@stout.atd.ucar.edu (Art Urban (PROFS)) writes:
>I hope this is the appropriate news group...
>
>I am running Macsbug 6.2.2. For the past several months, when the mac
>crashes, I am not sent to Macsbug. Instead the screen goes completely grey
>(not bitmapped grey, either; solid color), and I have to reset the mac to
>recover. I thought that Macsbug would intercept this condition and intervene
>allowing me to view the stack, etc.
>
>This problem also occurs when programming in Think C. I am not tossed nicely
>into the monitor, rather the aforementioned happens.
>
>So my question is/are:
>
>  Do I have an old version of Macsbug which does not run under sys7.0.1?
>  Is my copy of Macsbug trashed?
>  Is my system file trashed?
>
>Any and all help is appreciated!
>
>--
>Art Urban 					       urban@stout.atd.ucar.edu
>===============================================================================
> "Oh no! The canary exploded!"                                      -Tom Servo 
>===============================================================================

 Most likely, the video board that you have is not fully compatible with
 Apple's guidelines in "Designing Cards and Drivers".  We have had
 similar symptoms on older Supermac boards.

 As far as I know, there is no fix.  We did find, however, that running
 our older Supermac board at 1 bit depth solved the problem (thats the
 easy answer; the better answer is to get a new video board). 
-- 


--------------------------------------------------------------------
Dave Berquist                                      Software Engineer
From: sbill@informix.com (Bill Stackhouse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: WaitNextEvent availability
Date: 12 Nov 92 22:12:45 GMT
Reply-To: sbill@informix.com
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.


In a library developed under Think C or MPW C, what is the correct
way to write the functions that use quickdraw so they will work 
regardless of if it is called from a code resource or an appication?
Asked in another way, is there any way that a function can tell if
A5 is set correctly? Do I need one version for A5 use and another 
for A4 use? Do I assume A5 is ok and make the caller set and restore
A5? Of course the library is linked with either the code resource or
application.

Bill
From: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: PhotoCD Woes?
Date: 11 Nov 92 17:06:50 GMT
Reply-To: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
Organization: Peirce Software
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1


In article <kaufman.721362647@Xenon.Stanford.EDU> (comp.sys.mac.programmer), kaufman@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman) writes:
> us277614@mmm.serc.3m.com (Dave T. Berquist) writes:
> 
> >The 4.0 drivers are also available on AppleLink.  I believe (and this is
> >from memory) that they are somewhere in the Apple Software Updates
> >folder.
> 
> I downloaded the driver from ftp.apple.com -- it works just fine with
> PhotoCD and my CD-SC (Sony 8001).  I thought about downloading from
> Applelink, but it is 400K and I have NEVER had a large download work
> with Applelink.  Internet is more better if you got it. :-)
> 
> For the benefit of others not so fortunate, I hope Apple puts the driver
> on a Developer CD.

They put it on the "QuickTime 1.5 for Developers" CD-ROM.  This was
sent out to folks who beta tested QT 1.5.  I'm not sure how others
can get it, it expect you;ll be able to get it through APDA.

This CD-ROM also contains a number of new movies in the new Compact
Video format.  It's really a big improvement over what 1.0 could do.
It's nice to see bigger movies playing well off of (my old Apple) CD-ROM
drive!

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From: aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: EDITOR
Date: 10 Nov 92 03:38:09 GMT
Reply-To: aland@cs.brandeis.edu
Organization: As little as possible

James_Zuchelli@qm.claris.com (James Zuchelli) writes:

>A couple of years ago I had to edit 10 megabyte text downloads.  I found the
>only reliable way was to use the MPW Editor.  MS Word ( at least then crica 
>1988) would mess up the files.  I would save them and open the files later
>to find that the beginning of the file was a the end and the middle parts
>were all messed up.
>MPW never had trouble.  Whatever you use, make sure you check your files
>after they are saved and reopened to make sure that nothing is messed up.

This was probably because you didn't (possibly couldn't) disable "Fast
Save" which meant that Word would have understood the file if you
reopened it, but any other program would show what you found, that the
contents were out of sequence.  That's because Fast Save just appends
changes to the document, rather than doing them in place.

	-=Alan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.comm
From: Mel Walker <mwalker@novell.com>
Subject: Switch Networks programatically -- Possible? How?
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A7205CA74A021E08@mwalker.npd.provo.novell.com>
X-Xxdate: Fri, 6 Nov 92 00:32:23 GMT
Organization: Society for Anarchic Totalitarianism
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 00:32:45 GMT

Hi. I have a different soft of question that no one I know knows the
answer to.
If one's computer is connected to (for example) an Ethernet and a
LocalTalk network, one can switch between them using the Network control
panel. So far so good. What I want to be able to do is switch between
_from an application_ without any of those stupid dialog boxes and such.
I understand that this may sound like a wierd thing to want to do, but
actually it would come in handy for some things. Trust me. Anyway, if
anyone knows how to do it (and save the rest of my hair from getting
forcibly pulled out through frustration at InsideMac's index) please tell
me. Even vague hints would be appreciated. Thanks!

--Mel Walker
mwalker@novell.com
Disclaimer: Some Martians landed and stole my opinions. So if these
opinions sound like they're coming from Mars, that's why.
From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: PhotoCD Woes?
Date: 9 Nov 92 16:06:37 +1300
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

In article <kaufman.721243563@Xenon.Stanford.EDU>, kaufman@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman) writes:
> bwilliam@iat.holonet.net (Bill Williams) writes:
>
>>The old CD ROM drives from Apple do indeed read PhotoCD files!
>
>>I know it is easy for people to claim that the three different Sony CD-ROM
>>mechanisms used in the Apple CD ROM products do not all support the
>>ability to read a single session of a Kodak PhotoCD Disk... But I have
>>seen all three mechanisms used by Apple read PhotoCDs with both the
>>Apple Driver 4.0 for CD-ROMs and a beta version of the FWB CD-ROM
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^!!!
>
> I am prepared to believe it works, but for the life of me I can't find a
> copy of the 4.0 driver.

Try ftp.apple.com, the file /dts/mac/sys.soft/cdrom/cd-rom-setup-image.hqx.
Mark Johnson and his crew have been pretty much on the ball, as usual.

Lawrence D'Oliveiro                       fone: +64-7-856-2889
Computer Services Dept                     fax: +64-7-838-4066
University of Waikato            electric mail: ldo@waikato.ac.nz
Hamilton, New Zealand    37^ 47' 26" S, 175^ 19' 7" E, GMT+13:00
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
From: aep@world.std.com (Andrew E Page)
Subject: Re: ovals & friends
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 13:17:27 GMT

In article <1drqjnINN6mm@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> gil@cse.ucsc.edu (Elmer Fudd) writes:
>howdi net,
>
>i have a coupla questions about drawing stuff.
>
>(1)  how do i draw an oval in different colors (not just patterns)
>     what i do now is:
>        SetRect ( &circleRect, 315, 235, 325, 245 );
>	PaintOval ( &circleRect );
>	FillOval(&circleRect, white);

       The last two calls can be accompished with 'FrameOval'.
To change the color that the 'pen' will draw and fill in
use 'ForeColor'.


>     what i'd like to do is something like FillOval but with true
>     colors.
>
>(2)  how do i set 1 pixel to on
>


   Try  MoveTo(x,y), Line(1,0)

>thanks
>-gil


-- 
Andrew E. Page   (Warrior Poet) |   Decision and Effort The Archer and Arrow
Mac Consultant                  |     The difference between what we are
Macintosh and DSP Technology    |           and what we want to be.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.wanted
From: scs@adam.mit.edu (Steve Summit)
Subject: any Mac shells out there?
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Organization: none, at the moment
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:13:10 GMT

It may not be politically correct, but I'd like a simple
Unix-like shell for my Mac.  I've got a lot of little personal
utilities that I'd like to be able to use on the Mac and which I
could easily port, except that it's not worth giving them fancy
GUI interfaces (they and I do quite well with a pokey old command
line, thank you).

The idea can't be too far out or politically incorrect, because I
know that MPW comes with such a shell, and makes heavy use of it.
(Obviously I'm not interested in something massive and pricey like
MPW, or I wouldn't be asking here.)  Has anyone written any
rudimentary shells?  I'd probably need source code, so I could
spruce it up as needed (I've got Think C).  I could definitely
live with something small, buggy, and free rather than something
big and polished.  As long as the basics of invoking ("launching"?)
other programs are taken care of (a wheel which I don't feel like
reinventing), I could easily add any other features I might need.

					Steve Summit
					scs@adam.mit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
From: a-kevinp@microsoft.com (Kevin Purcell)
Subject: Problems with Awk under MPW
Date: 12 Nov 92 23:18:40 GMT
Organization: Microsoft


HELP! I have a problem thats driving me nuts, and I'm running out of time!

I picked up awk as an MPW tool from one of our local Mac servers at
Microsoft, there was no documentation provided so I presume it is
somebodies freeware (no copyright in the version resource when viewed
with Get Info...).

Unfortunately when I run it with my script (see below) I get a Error
message: invalid syntax on the third line of the script. This is not
in the standard style (with [ and ] delimiting the area where awk
thinks the error is) but MPW style File/line message. The precise
position of the error is undefined.

Playing with awk interactively shows the problem is not with the
pattern /@/ but with the action. An empty action or just print works,
but is a little useless in this case.

Even

/@/ {gsub(/foo/, "bar")}

doesn't work, which worries me. I get the same error message if I do

/@/ {foobar("anything")}

I presume this means sub and gsub have been omitted for this version
of awk. Anybody know the origins of this version? Are gsub() and sub() missing from this awk? How can it be awk
if these are missing?. There is a lot of work predicated on this
little script.

Anybody know what "free" version of awk are out there for MPW? Does
any documentation exist for these implementations describing their
limitations (I have "the awk book"). References to a real MPW awk
would be useful. Anybody know of any other tools that will do a
similar job (match patterns and do arithmetic -- StreamEdit doesn't
cut it unfortunately :-(


Kevin Purcell, N7WIM/G8UDP
a-kevinp@microsoft.com
"I speak only for myself"

The script is:

# awk script to renumber variations in a markedup LLPT script
#	convert @s to the variation number
#	increment the variation number at the end of a variation
#
# Written by a-kevinp 11/10/92

BEGIN 			{ variation = 1 }
/@/			{ gsub( /@/, variation ); print }
/label "var?*end"/ 	{ variation++ }

So simple ....
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
From: Anders Wallgren <anders@verity.com>
Subject: Re: C error in MPW -- What's wrong?
Organization: Verity, Mountain View, CA, USA
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 20:40:04 GMT
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X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
X-Xxdate: Thu, 5 Nov 92 20:41:16 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.073246.19214@nuscc.nus.sg> CHEN JIA TYAN,
isc30176@nusunix1.nus.sg writes:
>|    C -i 'MacintoshHD:Project:SHILPA:include:' -d MAC 6 

Try -d MAC=6
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
From: wight_brian@tallus.enet.dec.com ()
Subject: DogCow.. Moof..?
Reply-To: wight_brian@tallus.enet.dec.com ()
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 19:31:59 GMT


Hi Folks;

	In one of the newsgroups I ran across the words DogCow and Moof?  I may
be in the dark on this one, but what is the origin of DogCow and Moof?  



				Inquring minds want to know....

				Brian
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From: stevec@apple.com (Steve Christensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Where do I get information on the PowerBook Power Manager?
Date: 11 Nov 92 02:54:36 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1

In article <1992Nov9.184154.19174@tamsun.tamu.edu> Daryl Biberdorf,
dlb5404@tamsun.tamu.edu writes:
>I am interested in writing some PowerBook power control utilities, but
>as near as I can tell, the Power Manager as described in the old
>Inside Macintosh books applies only to the Portable, not to the PowerBook
>(at least not 100%).  The new Inside Macintosh:Devices book doesn't look
>like it will be available until spring 1993.
>
>Can anyone tell me where I can get information about the Power Manager
>in the PowerBooks?  Or, do the old Power Manager docs really apply to
>the newer machines?

The information in Inside Mac volume 6 is probably the extent of
information that will be published.  Some of the reasoning behind
this is that the guts of the Power Manager change slightly (sometimes
radically) from machine to machine.  By providing more information,
you'd be tempted to use it.  Of course, you'd have to know which
machines it was valid on, when it became obsolete, etc., and Apple
would have to continually update its documentation.  So, you see,
it's just saving everyone many headaches...  :)

steve
PowerBook Duo ROM guy &
Power Manager remodeller
From: grobbins@Apple.COM (Grobbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Super-Floating Windows
Date: 8 Nov 92 04:00:24 GMT
Organization: Mac Look & Feel, Apple Computer, Inc.

In article <BxD0Lu.Bzw@world.std.com> siegel@world.std.com (Rich Siegel) writes:
>Actually, monitors can't move except across restarts of the system, so
>unless some other program messes with the GrayRgn, you can probably
>un-punch your hole. It isn't safe to simply restore the GrayRgn, but
>you can probably UnionRgn the punched hole back in.

Looking towards the future, this is not a good assumption.  Do not
assume that the GrayRgn is static or that monitors cannot move.


Grobbins                       grobbins@apple.com

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