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From: geniene@fwi.uva.nl (Geniene (Sheep))
Subject: LOCK Stack, HOW ???
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 08:50:18 GMT

Hoi,

They're going to work with this stack in a hospital, so I'd 
like to have some advice on how I can lock it properly, so that those
hospital person's can't delete it.

Sheep.
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From: ramorgan@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: "Too many pending messages" Error?
Date: 13 Aug 92 12:59:36 +1200
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

In article <1992Aug11.110751.14578@uva386.schools.virginia.edu>, wayne@uva386.schools.virginia.edu (Tony Wayne) writes:
> I writing a hypercard stack that runs like a slide show.  The
> user is not to pess any buttons.  In fact, when done the
> computer will be on the other side of a window.  Here the rub.
> While running the program I get an error -debug, script,
> cancel- box that says "Too many pending messages."  What does
> this mean and most importantly how can I get rid of it?
> 
> I backed up to the previous card and the stack began running
> again. But this time it didn't show me the error box.  The
> error box only shows up when I begin from the beginning ofthe
> stack. Appearantly after running through so many card scripts.
> 
> The stack is written by using "On OpenCard" scripts on each
> card.
> 
> Suggestions?
> -Tony Wayne

To quote almost ... Hypercard has no room to cache a new object to send a
message to it ... Yes it happened to me in similar circumstances. When you back
up one it's like clearing the slate, but if you continue on in the same manner,
it will happen again. 

How did I get around it ? I compromised with the length of travel (ie how many
cards I went to), and when I came to the front of my program again, I got the
user to click anywhere. This was an extremely SLACK way to solve the problem
and I'm sure someone will have a better idea, but because it was a demo which
was mostly under my control, to be used once ever only, it wasn't such a bad
thing, and I didn't try too hard to find a solution. Sorry, but if you can't
get a better reply, I hope this helps.
From: brandt@currituck.cs.unc.edu (#66 Andrew Brandt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Removing the "alias" when making aliases
Keywords: alias
Date: 20 Aug 92 02:54:03 GMT

This was posted a few days ago:

| >I want to change that annoying string " alias" that is appended
| >whenever you call the Make Alias command.  Anyone know where that string is
| >located. Thanks in advance.
| 
| Finder Resource STR 20502
| 

I edited this resource.  It is indeed the word "alias" but it is not
the " alias" that is appended to aliases when they are created.  It is
actually the string "alias" that appears when you, for example, view
files by type.

Does anyone the resource that contains the "alias" that gets stuck at
the end of newly created aliases.

Any slick programs out there that will prevent new aliases from being named
`filename alias'?

-Andy (brandt@cs.unc.edu)
From: ps296au@sdcc4.ucsd.edu (Steven Cobb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Extracting SEA's
Date: 20 Aug 92 01:37:10 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

I realize this is a fairly basic question but I FTP'd a .SEA file
but get info tells me it's a document.  How do I change a document
to an aplication such that it can self extract?

Thanks,
Steve

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From: wilhelm@michelotti.ae.ge.com (Roland K. Wilhelm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Extracting SEA's
Date: 21 Aug 92 23:57:15 GMT
Reply-To: <wilhelm@michelotti.ae.ge.com
Organization: GE Aircraft Engines

# In message <80858@bcsaic.boeing.com>, 
# vanover@bcsaic.boeing.com (Jann VanOver) writes:

jann> In article <37050@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> ps296au@sdcc4.ucsd.edu (Steven Cobb) writes:
>I realize this is a fairly basic question but I FTP'd a .SEA file
>but get info tells me it's a document.  How do I change a document
>to an aplication such that it can self extract?
>
jann> Well, did you FTP it as ascii?  If so I think you're
jann> SOL.  I believe it would have to be FTP'd as binary.  If
jann> it was ftp'd as binary and your mac STILL doesn't
jann> recognize it as an application, you must use some tool
jann> to change the file type from whatever it is to APPL.
jann> Disk Tools does
jann> this, probably others.  I use a Hypercard stack to change file types.

jann> Good Luck!
jann> Jann E VanOver

Two things:  you must ftp with the binary mode set AND
MacBinary probably needs to be enabled too.  If you are using
NCSA telnet to do your transfers, it will indicate whether
MacBinary is enabled or not when you set binary mode (type
"bin" at the ftp prompt).  MacBinary can be enabled or
disabled under the "File" menu.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz)
Subject: rebuilding desktop under Sys 7?
Organization: Mount Holyoke College
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 22:09:36 GMT

Can anybody tell me how to force a desktop rebuild under System 7?

The Command-Option trick doesn't seem to work anymore...

  - Jurgen Botz
From: howarth@rice.edu (Jack W. Howarth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Why fewer typefaces in Apple LW+ TT
Date: 19 Aug 1992 22:53:03 GMT


   I am wondering if anyone from Apple knows why they failed to include a
complete set of typefaces for the TrueType fonts. For instance Courier and
Avant Garde are missing Bold and Bold Italic. Just curious if there was
a good reason for this.
  Also, congrats for Apple making the LW+ TT set available as a freebie. I 
just called and asked for it.
                       Jack

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: smills@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (MuffinHead)
Subject: Re: rebuilding desktop under Sys 7?
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 06:53:11 GMT

jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) writes:

>Can anybody tell me how to force a desktop rebuild under System 7?

>The Command-Option trick doesn't seem to work anymore...

Yes it does. Hold the keys right after the last extension icon has popped up
and hold them until the dialog appears. If that doesn't work, type Command-
Option-Escape and click the Force Quit button on the box that appears, then
quickly hold down Command-Option. Make sure you don't have any other app's
running in the background.
From: mppu3@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Conor McMenamin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: How to use TeX previewer?
Date: 12 Aug 92 11:12:46 GMT
Organization: University of Sussex

Hi,
	I have just downloaded TeX previewer 0.1.0, to try to preview
.dvi files from my local Unix box, running LaTeX C version 3.0. However
when I download .dvi files from the Unix machine to the mac (using
macbput with MacLayers, binary mode [-d], type and creator set to DVIF
and TEXP respectively) and then launch TeX previewer and open the
downloaded file, either by using Open in the menu or by double clicking
on the new file, the application just bombs out with no error message or
dialog. TeX previewer works fine with the example that comes with it.

	Has anyone experienced this behaviour before, and do they know a
solution? I notice the creation date of TeX previewer is June 1985-is it
just that my .dvi files and TeX previewer are incompatible? If so does
anybody know where I can get a compatible version, or some similar APPL?

	Cheers,
	Conor.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: terjer@ifi.unit.no (Terje Rydland)
Subject: Re: HELP--It's this darned LC!
Organization: Ifi, University of Trondheim / AVH
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 07:11:11 GMT

In article <14042@auspex-gw.auspex.com> hcheng@Auspex.COM (Howard Cheng)
writes:
>Hi y'all. Thanks to everyone who responded to my last question about the
>DAs not coming up. There actually are 4MB worth of memory in there, so it
>isn't a memory problem. We still haven't figured it out, but now there's
>something else.
>
>After successfully trashing System 7 and reinstalling System 6, the LC no
>longer boots correctly. In fact, we can't even get the happy Mac. We don't get
>the sad Mac, either, though. Instead of the normal booting up chord sound,
>the LC plays an arpeggio. Does anyone know what that means?
>
>We're thinking about using the computer as an anchor for someone's yacht.
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Howard
>hcheng@auspex.com
>
>
The arpeggio means a RAM problem! Check you RAM chips!

Terje Rydland

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: nasadk@vccsouth16.its.rpi.edu (Kristopher Martin Nasadowski)
Subject: Re: Screwy Boot up Icons...
Reply-To: nasadk@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 02:35:43 GMT

In article <14122@auspex-gw.auspex.com>, hcheng@Auspex.COM (Howard Cheng) writes:
|> In article <1992Aug18.010322.24035@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> ak873@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael Sapienza) writes:
|> >
|> >Sure there is, get a program called IconWrap from your nearest ftp site!!
|> >
|> >Mike
|> >-- 
|> 
|> But IconWrap still doesn't prevent second-row icons from dropping into the
|> first row, which DepthCharge, for one, does. On my IIsi, sometimes the After
|> Dark icon will write over the SAM one as well, curiously enough.

Where Are these located? I couldn't find IconWrap at sumex or umich.

Nazman
<nasadk@rpi.edu>
From: mozart@coos.dartmouth.edu (Sting)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Loading order for INITS
Date: 20 Aug 92 20:03:31 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

In <1992Aug20.134119.16096@wam.umd.edu> nadeem@wam.umd.edu (Nadeem Malik) writes:

>I was wondering if somebody would be kind enough to let me know what
>is the simplest way to change the loading order for INITS?

They're loaded from the System Folder/Extensions Folder (depending on system
version) in alphabetical order by the file containing them.  Put extra spaces
before items you want to move to the top, put a bullet before an item you want
to move to the end.  

That's the EASY way.

:)

-Sting

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From: long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Rich Long)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: 7.1 in Beta???
Date: 15 Aug 92 22:04:09 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <Aug.15.16.09.44.1992.15265@math.rutgers.edu>, landwebe@math.rutgers.edu (Peter Landweber) writes...
>Actually, ATM is NOT part of 7.1, or at least it isn't in 7.1b7.  Yes,
>you can put your Adobe Type 1 fonts in the fonts folder, but that's
>only for downloading to your PostScript laser printer.  They won't be

 As I understand the Type 1 support, it is part of Quickdraw GX, the new
 imaging architecture. I don't think this is in the current beta, and I'm not
 sure it's even supposed to be in 7.1.

 Does anyone know if Adobe is still offering the $7.50 ATM deal from last
 October?

Richard C. Long			long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: dave@prc.unisys.com (David Lee Matuszek)
Subject: Re: Need Mac+ Help
Keywords: MacPlus Keyboard
Organization: Paoli Research Center - Paoli, PA
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 21:50:04 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.183835.5050@tamsun.tamu.edu> sefhelp@tamuts.tamu.edu (Steve Fuller) writes:
> I have a Mac+ with strange behavior.  I hope someone can help.
> When I start the system, about 90% of the cdev/init's don't work.  They

Many inits won't load if you are holding a modifier key down.  This is
deliberate behaviour on their part.  Sounds like one of the modifier
keys on your keyboard is giving you problems.  Try swapping keyboards
(with the power OFF!) and see if the problem moves with the keyboard.
-- 
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I _knew_ Spiro Agnew.  He was a friend of mine.  And Dan...  
You're no Spiro Agnew!"
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: wall@cc.swarthmore.edu (Matthew Wall)
Subject: FileGuard Interest Group
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.system
Organization: Swarthmore College Computing
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 18:58:22 GMT



For University/College users of FileGuard (tm) disk protection software
from ASD/Highware Development...

A FileGuard Interest Group (fig ?!?) for University/College lab managers
ONLY is being established. This will be an unmoderated
immediate-mail-forwarding group with a SMALL and PRIVATE membership for the
discussion and exchange of information on specific technical problems and
solutions with using FileGuard in University lab management situations.
Please, educational or like institutions only; we want to keep this
focussed.

For further information or to request membership, please send email to Matt
Wall, wall@cc.swarthmore.edu with a descriptive subject header, such as
"Please sign up for FileGuard interest group" and a short description of
your lab set-up and your job title included in the message.

- Matt Wall * Swarthmore College
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: stylewriter driver
From: jlawrence@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Date: 12 Aug 92 12:27:56 EDT
Organization: Wesleyan University

I have heard that a new driver for the Stylewriter is out that speeds it up to
about twice the speed of the older driver.  Does anyone know what the version #
on that is?
thanks.
jamie

Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.system:10924 comp.sys.mac.apps:13236
From: jaime@tcville.HAC.COM (Jaime Villacorte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Looking for PowerBook utilities
Keywords: PowerBook, PB100
Date: 13 Aug 92 08:16:02 GMT
Reply-To: jaime@tcville.HAC.COM (Jaime Villacorte)
Distribution: na
Organization: Hughes Aircraft Co., El Segundo, CA


	Having recently acquired a PB100 from the Price Club and upgrading
it to 8 Mb of ram, I'm trying to find some utilities to compliment it.
I'd appreciate any pointers to freeware, shareware or commercial sources
for the following 3 functions: 

	(1) a battery timer

		I envision a system extension or application which
		helps me track of how long I've used the battery. With
		the Battery DA or Superclock, I can get a relative indication
		of battery life *left*, but not how many minutes I've actually
		*used* the battery. It should be smart enough to handle
		restarts, shutdown, and sleep mode, and ac adapter insertion.
		I'm aware of stand-alone stopwatch programs (like Dtimer)
		which provides a simple timer function, but I'm interested
		in something more transparent, and more PowerBook aware.

	(2) Something that prevents the hard disk from mounting *and*
	    spinning when I'm booting off of a RAM disk.

		I'm using a 4MB ram disk, with all the utilities and apps
		that I need in ram. I seldom have a need for spinning
		up my hard disk when I turn on the machine after a shutdown
		or restart. I tried doing the key combo (cmd-opt-shift-del)
		on startup to bypass the internal drive, but my drive
		still spins (but it doesn't mount).

	(3) Something that dismounts and parks the hard disk without shutting
	    down the computer, preferably in an fkey form.

		Situation: I've booted off my ram disk. Assuming I've obtained
		utility #2 I described above, my drive is not spinning or
		mounted. If I need to access a file on my drive. I use
		something like the Scsi Probe CDEV to mount the drive. I
		grab the file, and now want to shutdown and park the drive
		quickly (to conserve power). Currently, I drag the
		HD icon to the Trash to dismount it, (it's still spinning
		at this point) put the PowerBook to sleep (the drive stops
		spinning, but I'm not sure if the heads are parked) and
		immediately awaken it (the drive does not spin up).

		I'm not sure if movement of the PB is safe if I put the
		PB back to sleep at this point.	It would be nice to have
		a simple Fkey to both dismount and park the drive (and
		provide me with piece of mind).

	Advanced thanks for any suggestions (and yes, I'm looking into
	CPU by Connectix).

						- jaime villacorte


    Hughes Aircraft Co, EDSG                  jaime@tcville.edsg.hac.com
              El Segundo, CA                  villacor@hac2arpa.hac.com
From: drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David Gutierrez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: font AFMs
Date: 13 Aug 1992 16:34:43 GMT
Organization: Univ. Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

In article <1992Aug12.194857.8893@wixer.cactus.org> purp@wixer.cactus.org (Jim
Meyer) writes:
>AFM = Adobe Font Metrics files.
>
>As to what you do with them to use them on a StyleWriter, well, you
>throw them in the garbage.

What if you have a PostScript printer? Do they do anything for you or do
applications have to explicitly make use of them? If so, what applications use
them?

David Gutierrez
drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu

"Only fools are positive." - Moe Howard
From: Kaz.Karl@f1138.n261.z1.fidonet.org (Kaz Karl)
Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: RE-Printing Problem
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 15:00:43 -0500

Off the top of my head(yeah, right...) error -50 is error in user parameter
list...could this mean you have a parameter in the document that your printer
can't handle...? Another suggestion is that the System 7 tune-up contains
Hewlet-Packard codes(yep, they put in codes from a competitor's machine, don't
ask me why) and is therefore somewhat incompatible with a truely loyal
Postscript machine...
From: sold@kit.uni-kl.de (Christoph Sold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: RE-7.1 in Beta???
Date: 17 Aug 92 21:14:33 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Kaiserslautern

In article <713959300.F00001@blkcat.UUCP> Kaz.Karl@f1138.n261.z1.fidonet.org (Kaz Karl) writes:
>Subject: RE-7.1 in Beta???
>From: Kaz.Karl@f1138.n261.z1.fidonet.org (Kaz Karl)
>Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 19:39:48 -0500
>>In fact, why the heck is the System File a suitcase - that doesn't  
>>really make sense.  All changeable pieces should be separated from the  
>>System.
>
>This is going to sound mean, but I often wonder what kind of idiots they have
>working down there at Apple...I mean, not only were some of the Sys7 ideas
>deprovements, but others were things they could have done a long time ago, which
>were simple logical, not things to take advantage of new hardware/firmware and
>power...
>Dumb things: Balloon help, System Resources in the System...the method of
>distributing processor time(I often forget to force my machine to get on with
>things by clicking the mouse on the area the System is forgetting is
>foremost...Compact Pro, for example, sometimes takes twice as long to crompress
>a file because the finder is off doing other, archane things...clicking on the
>dialog causes it to suddenly get back to work)...there are others...but I'm low
>on time, perhaps someone else would like to chip in...
>

You got it: They where low on time, and maybe someone other will chip in. 
Youwill never get as much work done as you got ideas. That's life.

-Christoph

Christoph P. Sold                   CATS Software GmbH
                                    Mussbacher Landstr.2
                                    W-6730 Neustadt (Weinstrasse)
ger.xse0035@applelink.apple.com     Germany

"If an apple is fun, what the heck is an appletree?"
From: stricher@masig.fsu.edu (Char Aznabul)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: System 7.1 to ship with new macs?
Date: 15 Aug 92 19:13:59 GMT
Distribution: na

Jack W. Howarth writes
+ 
+   Does anyone know for certain whether System 7.1 will be released with
+ the new macs in mid Sept? If so will it be distributed via apple's ftp
+ site for free. What will the upgrade cost be for a shrink-wrapped copy?

I don't *think* it will released with the performa's in september.
Don't they have their system built in to rom? That's what I recall
reading about 'em, but that don't mean it's true.

I'm betting that it will be released with the vx/vi's in october, unless
something disasterous crops up in the meantime.

James
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: michele@apex.yorku.ca (Michele Marques)
Subject: extension to print over ethernet
Organization: York University, Help Services, CCS
Distribution: comp
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 17:28:11 GMT


My department is putting a departmental printer on the ethernet.  I have
MacTCP installed.  Is there any extension or utility so that I can select
the network printer?

Note: this is a postscript printer.

Thanks a lot.  

		-- Michele

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From: Kaz.Karl@f1138.n261.z1.fidonet.org (Kaz Karl)
Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: RE-Darned Icons...
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 14:51:01 -0500

OK, so when I asked how to get icons pasted from ResEdit into the infobox,
everyone pretty much replied with this answer:

>>Are you selecting the icon's picture (while in the editor) with the
>>'marquee' and then copying?

     Acxtually, that was the <second> thing i'd tried...but the problem is it
pastes the bitmap, sans mask...this doesn't look very good on my desktop...a
vague, transparent icon...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: 7.1 in Beta???
From: stanger@otago.ac.nz (Nigel Stanger)
Date: 14 Aug 92 13:26:25 +1300
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.system
Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

zben@ni.umd.edu (Charles B. Cranston) writes:
> kass@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Andrew Kass) wrote:
>
>> For a good description of 7.1, see TidBITs  in c.s.m.digest.
>> BTW, 7.1 does NOT include ATM.
>
> Can you confirm or deny if the "new printing architecture" is
> present in 7.1???

From to the TidBITS article, it doesn't sound as if there's going
to be much new stuff at all in 7.1 :) The main things are going
to be the inclusion of the Tuneup (i.e. bug fixes), and final
implementation of the plug-in architecture. It sounds like most
of the neat stuff is going to be released as extensions, like
QuickTime.

The new printing architecture will be a part of QuickDraw GX, as
it is heavily dependent on GX features.

As Andrew said, get a hold of the TidBITS article, it describes
things much better than I ever could.

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