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From: mrh@nwu.edu (Mike Heuer)
Subject: ethernet with IIsi
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Organization: Northwestern University
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 01:09:48 GMT

My problem is that I have a mac IIsi with thin ethernet running right by it
and connected to another network.  I do not have the cash to purchase a
ethernet card as this will only be used for the next six moths or so.

	What I do have:
			1)  hayes interbridge
			2)  Transiver and cable
			3)  Appletalk network
			4)  Phonenet access

Is there any inexpensive way for me to have access to the ethernet
network??  I can be reached at mrh@nwu.edu.

	thanks in advance
From: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Jim Mann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Soft_PC. How compatible is it?
Date: 17 Dec 1992 14:53:49 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
Reply-To: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: gondolin.pubs.stratus.com

In article <1992Dec16.193817.997@sc2a.unige.ch>  writes:
> However, it may have problems with some MS-DOS development  
environments
> like Borland Turbo Pascal when attempting to write directly to  
screen pixels
> and such wild things.

In the PC world, this is not such a wild thing. Most games even
do this.

--
Jim Mann            
Stratus Computer   jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com  

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: smithc@amcl7.math.stolaf.edu (Christopher A. Smith)
Subject: Re: OK to pass diskette through airport X-ray?
Organization: St. Olaf College; Northfield, MN
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 18:02:13 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.055403.2955@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> yu@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Chen-Kuang Yu) writes:
>Hi,
>
>	Is it alright to pass diskettes through airport X-ray?  Is it
>ok if I include them in the luggage?  Are they as sensitive as the
>harddisk to strong magnetization?
>
>	Thanks in advance.
>
>/Chen


The best recommendation is that you just take the disks out before
going through the security checkpoint and hand them to the security
personnel there.  They can hand-check 'em...  Same thing for Syquest
and other removable cartridges, and computers themselves (you'll be
asked to turn it on, anyway, if they see it on the monitor)...

  ==================================================================
			 Christopher A. Smith
       German & Mathematics -- St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN
From: g89s9112@giraffe.ru.ac.za (MR D STURZEBECHER)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: StartUpScreen under System 7
Date: 15 Dec 92 14:29:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: giraffe.g89s9112.11.724429777
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

Hi there,
  can someone tell me, wich fileformat my own StartUpScreen under System 7
must be. I tried the MacDraw format but I only got some sort of barcode 
displayed on the screen. 
Thanks for answers.
Dirk.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,misc.invest
From: craigw@fnal.fnal.gov (Craig Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: INIT file conflicts
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system
Date: 18 Dec 1992 16:38:10 GMT
Organization: Fermilab - Batavia, IL
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: fnpm06.fnal.gov

In article <1992Dec17.204707.12970@athena.mit.edu>, raek@athena.mit.edu
(Robyn A E Kozierok) wrote:
> 
> Is there a FAQ file anywhere that lists know INIT file incompatibilities?
> 

That might be a good idea, but it would be *quite* long. You might try
getting the program INIT Tracker. (on some ftp site) It lists all inits and
address patches. I didnt really get into it, but it would let you know what
was incompatible.
From: tcwan@umiami.ir.miami.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: times two AND AD? anyone brave enough?
Date: 19 Dec 92 18:26:45 EST
Organization: Univ of Miami IR

In article <1992Dec19.181154.1174@udel.edu>, bower@pecan.cns.udel.edu (Ty Bower) writes:
[stuff about multiple compression passes deleted]

> I myself developed a compression scheme that will archive a set
> of files together into a single set and then compress it down
> to four bytes, regardless of how large the originals were.  I
> know this will revolutionize the entire data storage and transmission
> system as we know them today, once I manage perfect the
> decompression scheme.  I'll let everyone know when I get it
> done.

Wow! You've invented Virtual Storage (tm). Must be the biggest thing since
the perpetual motion machine......

> 
> 8^) hee hee hee......ho ho ho.....ha ha ha....... 8^)
> 
>  

:) t.c.

Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.misc:20786 gnu.misc.discuss:4035
From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Apple/Novell merger discussed
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 15:56:44 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.

anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber) writes:
> In article <suLVVB13w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk> writes:
> >That would be interesting.  We'd get to see whether the FSF would stick to
> >their professed principles and boycott DOS machines.
> 
> Huh?  What does Novell have to do with MS-DOS?  They have as much
> relation to MS-DOS as Lotus does.

You know this isn't true, because you say yourself:

>                        Novell does happen to own Digital Research which
> makes DR-DOS, a competitor to MS-DOS.  Novell also makes the number one
> file server operating system for MS-DOS and Macintosh.

Yes.  So if Novell and Apple merged, you'd presumably boycott DOS and
Netware.  And you'd have fun boycotting DR-DOS without boycotting
MS-DOS, other OEM DOS versions, and Windows.


mathew
-- 
Lung cancer and arteriosclerosis.
For people who like to smoke.
From: x.man@applelink.apple.com (Francisco De Leon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Quadra 700 - How many monitors?
Date: 11 Dec 92 17:24:22 GMT
Organization: None

You can have 4 monitors on a Quadra 700. Here's how:

You have a total of 3 expansion slots on a Quadra 700. Two of these slots are
Nubus slots so you can plug in two monitors with the appropriate Nubus card.
1 expansion slot is a Processor Direct Slot (PDS) so you'll need to get a monitor
with a PDS card (most Mac monitor Mfg's make these). The fourth monitor can be 
plugged in to the built in monitor port on the back of the Quadra. You won't need 
to use any special software to do this.If you have any very technical questions
on how to do this just call one of the manufacturers of monitors for the Mac 
(Radius, SuperMac, RasterOps, E-Machines, etc.) and check with their technical 
support people.

Hopes this helps.
Xavier De Leon
"These opinions are my own"


In article <6523.2b2779e9@hayes.com>, bcoleman@hayes.com (Bill Coleman) writes:
> 
> In article <1992Dec8.172708.25762@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>, (jmhodapp@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu) writes:
> > Is there a physical limit to the number of monitors that a Quadra 700
> > can control.  I was hoping to get 4 monitors running at once, but I need
> > to know if this is feasible, and any technical limitations that I may encounter.
> 
> 3 may be the practical limit. You can put one on the internal video, then add
> two cards in the internal NuBus slots. The Q700 only has 2 NuBus slots.
> 
> However, each screen can be really big. You could put a couple of 24"
> 24-bit color displays on there if you got the cash to afford it (and a 
> heavy-duty desk to put it on)
> 
> -- 
> Bill Coleman, AA4LR                ! CIS: 76067,2327    AppleLink: D1958
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> Disclaimer: "My employer doesn't pay me to have opinions."
> Quote: "The same light shines on vineyards that makes deserts." -Steve Hackett.
From: feinberg@acsu.buffalo.edu (John A. Feinberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Mystery cdev--Voice Record
Date: 19 Dec 92 19:45:49 GMT
Organization: UB

Sure enough, Word 5.1 (Word 5.0, too) put this in the Control Panels folder.  It
apparently needs it for Voice Annotations to work.  I, personally find Voice
annotations to be a waste of space, and deleted both the control panel and also
the corresponding tool in the Word Commands folder.

John Feinberg
SUNY BUffalo
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: skippy@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Ian Chesterton)
Subject: Mac PC Exchange vs Dos Mounter
Organization: Benedict
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 18:29:06 GMT


Hi All,

  I'm interested in either "Macintosh PC Exchange" or "Dos Mounter" for
  a system 7.0.1 machine.  They seem to do the same type of things, ie.,
  both will mount DOS disks like Mac disks on the desktop.  However, 
  the "Mac PC Exchange" comes in at $10 less.  Is it worth it to spend
  more on "Dos Mounter"?  Inquiring (and buying) minds want to know!

--- Ian ---
-- 
"Sir ... I protest!  I am not a merry man!"
					   - Worf, Q-Pid
From: erik@peewee.nwc.navy.mil (Erik van Bronkhorst       Code 3814                               Phone 939-1421)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Early 13" Color monitor, screen went dark, started to smoke
Date: 17 Dec 92 21:37:28 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: NAVAIRWARCENWPNDIV, China Lake

Have you encountered this?
I think it is the switching power supply, but miraculously I could
not find anything obviously "cooked" inside.  I ask before putting
it back together and letting it burn till the problem becomes more
obvious....
-- 
Erik van Bronkhorst KC6UUT DoD#4342585443 AMA#[classified]
"Truth is false and logic lost, now the fourth dimension is crossed..."
From: baltman@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Brian Altman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Apple Quality is sh_t !
Date: 15 Dec 92 23:38:12 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)

I've owned macs since 1984. I have had an Apple quality problem, but only
one: The 128k I bought in 1984 had a SIMM go bad in 1991. The other macs
(a plus, two SEs, and a IIsi) have been fine. I replaced the 128k motherboard
with a plus board and currently have it hooked up with my IIsi a la phone-
net and Sys 7.0.1. 

-Brian
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: adz@mitre.org (Andrew D. Zenowich)
Subject: Anyone hear of Apple's OCE???
Organization: The MITRE Corp.
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 19:35:32 GMT

Has anyone ever hear of something Apple is calling an Open Collaborative
Environment (OCE). It is supposed to have something to do with providing
more hooks for network security over AppleTalk among other things. Things
like better authentication, Kerberose... etc. Has anyone else heard of
this???

Drew

------------------------------------------------------------
Andrew D. Zenowich   | These questions, comments, opinions | 
adz@mitre.org        | are my own and do not reflect in    | 
                     | any way those of The MITRE Corp.    |
------------------------------------------------------------

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: mross@iat.holonet.net (Michael Ross)
Subject: Announcing DTP-L, the Desktop Publishing list
Organization: HoloNet National Internet Access BBS: 510-704-1058/modem
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 02:42:39 GMT

Due to a cranky gateway, anyone who tried to subscribe yesterday
using ALL CAP LETTERS in the address got bounced... This is a re-post
with a workable address...
-Michael
 
------------------------------
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: seb@ausom.oz.au (Simon Britton)
Subject: Epson Printer Driver
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 22:18:59 GMT
Organization: AUSOM - The Apple Users Society of Melbourne

I am looking for a printer driver for an Epson LQ-500 24 pin dot matrix
printer. Could some kind person drop me a line if they have on or know how I could get one? Thanks.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: rrgd50@email.sps.mot.com (Chris Terwilliger)
Subject: Re: Apple Tape Drive
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Organization: Motorola
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 23:26:54 GMT

> Buy retrospect instead. It is much better and much faster. I read in one of
> the Mac magazines that Apple bundeled it with the drives before giving up
> on them completely.

I agree, retrospect is great, the apple software just plain sucked...


* Chris Terwilliger, KB7PPT                rrgd50@email.sps.mot.com *
* Motorola                        "And now, the sequence of events, *
* 2100 E. Elliot Rd. EL374         in no particular order."         *
* Tempe, AZ  85284                                     - Dan Rather *
From: blalock@hpl-otis.hpl.hp.com (Travis Blalock)
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 22:22:49 GMT
Subject: Re: MAC emulators on unix?
Organization: HP Labs, High Speed Electronics Dept., Palo Alto, CA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc

In comp.sys.mac.misc, leonardr@netcom.com (Leonard Rosenthol) writes:

> 	I haven't actually used LIKEN, but it and all of the others 
> emulators have a problem that will be hard for them to overcome, and that's
> supporting "resource compressed" products.  This includes, but is not limited
> to: System 7, ResEdit, MORE, Norton Utils, Public Utils, StuffIt (Lite/Deluxe
> and Expander), all Salient/FGS products and the list goes on...
>

I don't understand this.  Why is this more difficult than any other part
of the emulation?  Once the emulation of a target platform is complete,
anything else is irrelevant.  For instance, the current version of Liken
emulates a Mac Classic.  i.e.  Software that runs on it has the same
resources available that would be available on the Mac Classic.  If the
emulation of the target platform is 100% then any thing that runs on the
Mac Classic will run on the emulator.  Of course, the emulation is not
quite 100% so there are some incompatibilities.  This is usually related
to a program that is using some 'quirky' (read undocumented) behavior of
the Mac toolbox and the emulation does not 'correctly' model the unusual
behavior.  What is it about "resource compressed" products that would
fall outside of this model? 

For anyone interested, I am running Liken on a HP 720 workstation and get the
following performance numbers from Speedometer:

CPU:         3.760
Graphics:    3.284
Disk:       25.516
Math:       13.615
Overall PR:  8.954

The numbers are similar for a 750 except the CPU number is about 4.5.

Travis Blalock
blalock@hpl.hp.com

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: eric@sad.hp.com (Eric Lucas)
Subject: Does Apple still offer free subs to Macworld?
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 15:06:18 GMT
Organization: HP Sonoma County (SRSD/MWTD/MID)
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]


Question.  A friend of mine just bought a new Mac si.  I told him to be sure
to send in that registration card to get the free 6 month subscription to
Macworld (MacUser subs, mouse pad, etc. where also available.)  He said he
couldn't find any card with such an offer in his paperwork.  That's funny
because just six months ago Apple was still doing this for their customers.
Can anyone tell me if they stopped this practice or did my friend just get
lucky and not get that card?  Thanks in advance.

Eric Lucas
Hewlett-Packard

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: bredell@tdb.uu.se (Mats Bredell)
Subject: Re: Sound level on Quadra 900
Reply-To: Mats.Bredell@udac.uu.se
Organization: Uppsala University Computing Center (UDAC)
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 11:50:03 GMT

Woppee (ccetaneh@nuscc.nus.sg) wrote:
: I notice that on my Quadra 900 if the Speaker volume is set to 0, the
: bootup sound is very loud (if not the loudest). And similarly on some
: games, if the speaker level is down to the minimum, its actually louder
: than if it is at level 1. This problem is quite annoying as it always
: draws alot of attention from my neighbouring colleagues. Does anyone else
: have similar problem like myself? Is there a remedy to this? 
: 
: Many thanx in advance.
: 
: Regards,
: JEFF

When the Mac is booting, it first checks the sound level. If it is set to 0,
it will play at full volume. That's true for all Macs, and it explains why
the bootup sound is so loud.

If your games play louder, that's a problem with the games themselves. Most
games let you turn sound off completely.

One way to fix all the problems is to plug in a headphone set into the sound
output of your Mac. This will kill all sound (even the bootup sound) on your
Mac internal speaker. If you just want to get rid of all sound you can also
buy a cheap headphone plug, the one that converts from a small plug into a
larger one (sorry, I don't know the word for it in english). The Mac will
stop sound through the internal speaker as soon as you plug anything into
the speaker output, even if there are no headphones connected.

/Mats
-- 
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Uppsala University Computing Center (UDAC)     Ph:  +46 18 187817
Department of medical systems                  Fax: +46 18 187825
Sweden                                         Think straight - be gay!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.novell
From: news@massey.ac.nz (USENET News System)
Subject: *** WARNING *** Novell + QuickTime = Disaster
Reply-To: N.Perry@massey.ac.nz
Organization: School of Maths & Info. Sci., Massey University, Palmerston North, NZ
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 20:56:56 GMT


Just in case this is unknown:

Apple NZ & our Apple Education Centre were running some courses on
campus and wished to use some of my software as demos. However I was
going to be in OZ so I had to leave the software on the Novell file
server so they could pick it up an demo it. Result: "Not a valid movie
file" whenever they tried to run a movie during the demo :-( :-(.

I've tracked this down to the Novell server altering files in someway
(I think I know how, but until its confirmed no rumors) which results
in the connection between a QuickTime movie reference (i.e. a pasted
movie in some document or application) and the QuickTime data file
being invalidated - so none of your pasted movies will work :-( :-(. If
you open the ORIGINAL movie file it will still play, and re-pasting it
will also work.

WARNING: DO NOT place ANY QuickTime movie files on Novell file servers
to which you have references, EVEN if you move the
documents/applications containing the references. This problem has
been confirmed using the ScrapBook as well as my own software.

This problem may also affect other programs, not just QuickTime, but
we have not found any so far.

Moral: Don't use so called "multi-platform" file servers which are
really just DOS is disguise (personal opinion!). Novell DOES NOT
PROVIDE A TRANSPARENT MAC FILE SYSTEM.

Systems: Mac LC, Quadra, System 7.0.1, System 7.1, Novell 3.11 + 3.011
for the Mac.
-- 
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Department of Computer Science    Tel: +64 6 356 9099 ext 8900
Massey University                 Fax: +64 6 350 5611
Palmerston North
New Zealand
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: fleckens@plains.NoDak.edu (Clint Fleckenstein)
Subject: Why doesn't someone write a ShutdownSound Extension?
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 23:08:51 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: North Dakota Higher Ed Computing Network

This is about the *best* time to play a sound (like the Looney Tunes
"That's All Folks" sound).  Yet with all the cool and appealing types
of extensions at the various FTP sites, there isn't anything to do a
sound at shutdown.   

I have a very primitive understanding of how it would be done; I'm on
my first Mac...is it just a DTS call to a sound upon shutdown?  In 
any case, I can't write it.

This is an urgent plea to anyone out there who's trying to put off
studying for a final:  Please give this a shot!  I know there are a
lot of us out here that would glady mail you a few bucks for your
trouble.

Clint
 __________________________________________________________________________
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From: feinberg@acsu.buffalo.edu (John A. Feinberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Changing the envelope dialog box in Word 5.1
Date: 19 Dec 92 19:58:27 GMT
Organization: UB

When I was fiddling around with the (fantastic!) print envelope feature in
Word 5.1, one the first things I noticed is that the boxes that the addresses
go in are TOO SMALL!!  Most addresses wrap around inside the boxes and look
awful (though they print out OK).  Fixing this problem is easy if you are 
familiar (and even if you're not, really) with ResEdit.  Open the toolbar file
in the Word Commands folder, and edit the first DLOG resource (ID 129, titled
"Envelope").  Double click on the picture of the Envelope window.  Now, click
on the box that you want to change.  Then, click and hold on the bottom right
corner, and resize the box.  You can also move the box around, move the buttons
around, and change the size of the box.  Save the file when you are done.  And,
of course, work on a copy if you're not sure what you are doing!

John Feinberg
SUNY Buffalo

ps using the Address feature on a DeskWriter?  Use the 'center' envelope option,
and put about 6 spaces before each line on the return address.  (I used up five
envelopes figuring this out!)
From: James.Porter@mechanic.Fidonet.org (James Porter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Macintosh Software
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 92 15:36:18 PDT
Organization: Mechanic: The Usenet<->Fidonet Gateway oF St. Pete Florida

Hi!
I have 2 premium Macintosh software packages available.  All manuals and
original disks included.  They came with a system I bought and I dont
need them.  I am letting them go for 1/2 of mail order.

=============                                        ===================
=====>              Aldus PageMaker 4.2     $275          <=============
=====>              Microsoft Word 5.0      $175          <=============
=============                                        ===================

I'll cover shipping.  Prepayments money order only.  COD's cash or money
order

James Porter
6240 17th Avenue North
St Petersburg, FL 33710-4808
(813) 345-7297
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