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From: bredell@tdb.uu.se (Mats Bredell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: OK to pass diskette through airport X-ray?
Date: 21 Dec 92 10:03:00 GMT
Reply-To: Mats.Bredell@udac.uu.se
Organization: Uppsala University Computing Center (UDAC)
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Christopher A. Smith (smithc@amcl7.math.stolaf.edu) wrote:
: 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)...

When I was working at an airport, I never hand-checked disks. The owners
had to put them through the x-ray.

/Mats
-- 
Mats Bredell                                   Mats.Bredell@udac.uu.se
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
From: nlee@s6.math.umn.edu (Namyong Lee)
Subject: To: PowerBook 160 Users
Keywords: Restarting
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 09:33:00 GMT


Hi, I just got my own PowerBook 160 4/40 with System7.1.
Everythings are working very well except restarting from the menu.
It's very strange. I can restart by poweroff and then press the
power switch again or by pressing the reset point on the back.
But I can't from the menu.... It makes clear start sound and then
just fail to find my interenal hard disk (give me a floppy-? icon).
Is it common bug for powerbook 160? Please drop me an email about
your experience. Any suggestions will be welcomed.
Thanks in advance.

nlee@math.umn.edu 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.novell,bit.listserv.novell
From: dseeman@novell.com (Daniel Seeman)
Subject: Re: *** WARNING *** Novell + QuickTime = Disaster
Organization: Novell Inc., San Jose, Califonia
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 18:58:26 GMT

In article <1992Dec28.135124.1573@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> geoffb@Dartmouth.EDU writes:
>In <1992Dec23.192837.16797@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> I WROTE:
>
>>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. 
>
>After further discussion with Nigel I have concluded that I was using a
>'comtaminated' QT movie in my first comparison of Word and WordPerfect. By
>contaminated I mean that the file must have been copied on and off of a
>Novell server some time since I downloaded it. 
>
>I have repeated the experiment with two movies chosen at random from sumex
>and Word and WordPerfect both behave in exactly the same manner (that is,
>they both choke on the movie if it is shifted to a Novell volume).
>
>So I retract my previous comments about Word. My faith in WordPerfect is
>restored.
>
>But it is easy enough to work around this so I'm not so sure that Novell
>needs to give this too much concern.
>
>Apologetically,
>
>-Geoff

Thank you for your honesty.

Think Peace...

Dan Seeman
Novell
Walnut Creek, Ca.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: maynard@leah.msc.cornell.edu (Maynard J. Handley)
Subject: Re: thanks (Re: Macs for UNIX lovers)
Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 02:38:04 GMT


>>Many folks did let me know about UUPC for the mac.  Whew. There's hope
>>yet.  And it's a toss up between alpha and microemacs.  One person
>>suggested I get a 'real word processor'.  Hmmm...  Not the problem.  I
>>have a 'real word processor'.  Three-ish actually -- pagemaker (well,
>>ok...), claris works, and Microsoft Word (*gag* I HATE giving them my
>>money).  What I want is a text editor with EMACS compatible commands
>>and a version of TeX.  I hate using the mouse (*).
>
You really should get a real internet address so people can mail you
personally. 
Anyway, if you get alpha and oztex, you will have exactly what you
want---an emacs-compatible editor and tex. I use this all the time, and
things behave the same whether I'm on my mac or a unix box (except that the
tex on the mac I can hack to alternate configurations a lot more easily.)

Maynard Handley
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: ivan sin <ivan-sin@cuhk.hk>
Subject: SCSI id of a Laser Writer IIg
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A75CD834EC01061B@mac6027.csc.cuhk.hk>
X-Xxdate: Tue, 22 Dec 92 14:35:32 GMT
Organization: Computer Services Centre, CUHK
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 06:19:32 GMT

How can I find out the SCSI id of a IIg printer?
Is it id=7 just like the id of a mac system, I guess?
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.misc:21274 comp.sys.mac.system:15665
From: bk146@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Todd Sternisha)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: **IMPORTANT** System 7.1 Installer bug
Date: 2 Jan 1993 03:07:20 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: bk146@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Todd Sternisha)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, bgrubb@dante.nmsu.edu (GRUBB) says:

>In the posting of '**IMPORTANT** System 7.1 Installer bug' I said
>>When I removed the fonts from the system file and rebooted I gained almost 
>>100K of RAM back and 200MB of Hard disk space from what 7.0.dot had used.'
>It should read:
>When I removed the fonts from the system file and rebooted I gained almost     
>100K of RAM back and 200K of Hard disk space from what 7.0.dot had used.' 
>

If you'd spent as much time thinking about the problem as you did trying
to prove that you're "right," you'd realize that the Apple rep answered
your question. Apple recommends booting from the Install disk. Not
booting from this disk produces this "bug." Sounds like pilot error to
me...
 

-- 
	-Todd Sternisha
   bk146@cwru.freenet.edu              Wolf's Den (216) 528-0321 
"I am not impressed by your ability to hurt people." -Ian McKaye of
Fugazi
From: szikopou@alfred.carleton.ca (Steven Zikopoulos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: hardrive backups
Summary: need the name of a GOOD hardrive backup appl. I hate Apple's
Keywords: backup
Date: 27 Dec 92 19:28:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: cunews.szikopou.725484519
Organization: Carleton University

Does anyone know a good hardrive backup utility?  I hate Apple's
because you don't know where your files are if you want partial
restoration!

I'm a student with no $$$ so a good shareware app. would be a
blessing.

Thanks.  Steve

Steven Zikopoulos
Carleton University
Ottawa, Ontario
email: szikopou@ccs.carleton.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: bauer@informatik.uni-ulm.de (Christian Bauer)
Subject: Re: Rumour: 040 VX?!
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Organization: University of Ulm
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 09:33:10 GMT

In article <8211@lib.tmc.edu>, drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David
GUtierrez) wrote:
> The reports I've seen indicate that the Centris 610 will have two SIMM slots,
> which sounds like the machine will have a 16-bit data path.
> 
> David Gutierrez
> drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu
Centris 610 20 MHz 68LC040
Centris 650 25 MHz 68040 or 68LC040
Quadra 800 33 MHz 68040

The new Centris 6XX and Quadra 800 use the new 72 pin SIMMs which can be
as big as 32 MByte per SIMM, and as 32 Bit chips are not available, perhaps
it may be that they are 16 Bit wide per SIMM, so perhaps a 32 Bit datapath
is possible. (the new SIMMS should be the same form factor as PS/2
SIMMS???)

Christian Bauer

bauer@informatik.uni-ulm.de
From: hacker@access.digex.com (Dark Hacker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: MAC emulators on unix?
Date: 3 Jan 1993 05:45:42 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com

Liken crashes under several popular programs.  Last I looked Stuffit
Lite crashed in Liken.  Also, programs that use colour of any kind
will crash Liken, unlike monochrome Macs which at least run.

Liken has a ways to go I fear.

- Hacker
-- 
Dark Hacker @ Black Silicon, Fortress Of Computation
hacker@black-silicon.mclean.va.us

"Life itself is... COMPUTATION!"
From: bskendig@netcom.com (Brian Kendig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Where can I get the latest Gravis MouseStick software?
Date: 29 Dec 92 00:06:06 GMT
Organization: Starfleet Headquarters: San Francisco

I just got a used Gravis MouseStick from a friend -- stick, disk, and
interface only; I didn't get the instructions with it.  Is there any
way I can get a later version of the MouseStick supporting software
on-line?  I currently have version 2.1.4 of the cdev, which is giving
me some problems.

I tried calling Gravis technical support at 1-604-431-1807, but that
line is busy half the time and they never answer it the other half of
the time.

Also, does anybody know how to get the thing to center properly?  When
I'm playing Hellcats, the thing sometimes strays off-center, forcing
me to pause the game and re-center the mouse every few minutes.

-- 
_/_/_/  Brian Kendig                             Je ne suis fait comme aucun
/_/_/  bskendig@netcom.com                de ceux que j'ai vus; j'ose croire
_/_/                            n'etre fait comme aucun de ceux qui existent.
  /  Nolite te bastardes     Si je ne vaux pas mieux, au moins je suis autre.
 /    carborundorum.                                             -- Rousseau
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system
From: eacj@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Julian Vrieslander)
Subject: Re: **IMPORTANT** System 7.1 Installer bug
Organization: Cornell Theory Center
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 05:59:06 GMT

In article <1i30t8INNlju@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bk146@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Todd Sternisha) writes:
>If you'd spent as much time thinking about the problem as you did trying
>to prove that you're "right," you'd realize that the Apple rep answered
>your question. Apple recommends booting from the Install disk. Not
>booting from this disk produces this "bug." Sounds like pilot error to
>me...

Are you sure anout this?  When I did a 7.0.1 to 7.1 upgrade, I booted from
the install disk.  This was not a "clean" install, since I made no effort
to hide the old System files.  But the installer left the minimum font set
(Monaco, Geneva, Chicago) in my System file, and duplicates in the Fonts
folder.
-- 
Julian Vrieslander 
Neurobiology & Behavior, Mudd Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853    
INTERNET: eacj@theory.tc.cornell.edu     BITNET: eacj@crnlthry
UUCP: ..cornell!batcomputer!eacj
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: cliu@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (chang hsu liu)
Subject: Re: Will ants do harm to the computer?
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 07:07:45 GMT

nks for the responses from the netters. The way I have done so far is
to clean up my desk, and isolate my desk from the wall. I used another
trick I remember my mother used to prevent the ants from going into the
powder milk can, i.e.,  I put rubber bands over the cables wires of the
phone and ethernet. Ants probably do not like the smell of the rubber
band. They probably will stop trespass the line due to the band. I don't
know if this will work. Let's wait and see.
 
I found that ants doesn't like the smell of WD-40, and I sprayed some
into the hole on the wall where they hide. It killed some ants. (The
smell is so strong, and I feel a little sick. If they don't get killed
first, I probably died before them.) Hopefully, they would never like to
go to my room anymore.

Another thing probably is even more important is not to put any food on
my table from now on. The food may be the main reason they came to my
table in the first place.

I am not sure if they have built their kingdom in my computer already. 
I used to see one or two ants climbing on the screen of the monitor, but
I thought they might not like the heat or even radiation :-) I lived 
pretty peacefully with them until I saw so many in the transceiver.
Has anyone seen cases that ants live in the monitor. I checked my cpu
and didn't see any. It's hard to get the monitor open, and I don't want
to break the warranty.


Peter Liu
cliu@silver.ucs.indiana.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: wstuartj@lucky.ecn.purdue.edu (W Stuart Jones)
Subject: Re: Rumour: 040 VX?!
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: 29 Dec 92 14:45:01 GMT

Where are these machines due to be released?  I heard February a long time ago,
does that still stand?

Anyone know information on the prices of these machines?

Wesley Stuart Jones
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: bredell@tdb.uu.se (Mats Bredell)
Subject: Re: OK to pass diskette through airport X-ray?
Reply-To: Mats.Bredell@udac.uu.se
Organization: Uppsala University Computing Center (UDAC)
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 12:43:01 GMT

Chaz Larson (ChazL@county.lmt.mn.org) wrote:
: In article <1992Dec23.083627.2716@tdb.uu.se>, bredell@tdb.uu.se (Mats 
: Bredell) writes:
: > However, some x-ray machines have other bad things, like large motors that
: > produce magnetic fields. I suggest that you ask the personell working there
:                                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
: > if it's okay. If they say it's okay, you can put them through. Some won't
: > let you do otherwise.
: 
: Given that every airport security person I've shown any piece of computer 
: gear to has been unable to identify it is without my telling him/her [on 
: being shown my SE/30, "Is that a computer?"  No, it's a really old Sony 
: Watchman.], I don't know if I'd trust their judgement as to whether or not 
: that big machine there emits dangerous [to media] magnetic fields...most of 
: the time, I'd be surprised if they knew what a magnetic field was.

True, most airport personell don't know much about computers or magnetic
fields, but they know what kind of equipment is unsafe to take through the
x-ray. So you can (at least in Europe) trust them.

/Mats
-- 
Mats Bredell                                   Mats.Bredell@udac.uu.se
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
From: eagle@silver.lcs.mit.edu (Chip Benowitz)
Subject: Macintosh NewsGroups
Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 17:25:26 GMT


What are all of the macintosh newsgroups?
please tell me all the comp.sys.mac.*, and others you know...
From: fleckens@plains.NoDak.edu (Clint Fleckenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Sharing a Personal LaserWriter LS
Date: 23 Dec 92 13:04:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: ns1.Bzpr08.6xG
Organization: North Dakota Higher Ed Computing Network

If you don't find a better solution, get one of those mini-8 A-B
switch boxes.  I use it to switch between my IIsi and my ImageWriter
and LaserWriter LS.  In your case, between one printer and two 'puters.

Clint
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: kpl@engin.umich.edu (Ken Laberteaux)
Subject: converting Mac graphics to Sparc Frame document
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 14:15:03 EST
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Distribution: comp.sys.mac.programmer, comp.sys.mac.masscomp, comp.sys.mac.apps

Help.

I have a paper that is in Tex (on a Mac) that I need to bring over
to Frame on a Sparc.  I have used a program called la2mml to convert
most of the document successfully.  The problem is the graphics.

I have tried to bring the Mac graphics over in many forms, including
different Save As commands using MacDraw.  I have even been able to
get the graphics into Mac Frame, and even after saving it as a MIF file
Interchange format, the grahics would neither appear or print once
brought over to the Sparc.

Can anyone offer a graphics filter program that will get the Mac graphic
in a form readable by Frame on the Sparc?  I will take any and all
suggestions.

Please respond to ken@trc.tellabs.com since I do not read this group
too often.

Thanks.

-- 
Ken Laberteaux
Tellabs Research Center
219-259-9818
Please reply to ken@trc.tellabs.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: maarten@fwi.uva.nl (Maarten Carels)
Subject: Re: Is SpeedBeep incompatible with Disinfectant?
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 10:05:21 GMT

bskendig@netcom.com (Brian Kendig) writes:

>I tried using SpeedBeep 2.0 recently, and it didn't work -- the
>"Status" button reported that it had been installed, but something
>else has changed the way your Macintosh beeps since then,' so it
>wouldn't do its thing.

>After a lot of init-swapping and rebooting, I traced the problem to
>the Disinfectant INIT 2.9.  SpeedBeep works when this INIT is not
>loaded, but does not work when it is loaded.  This is especially odd
>because [1] Disinfectant shouldn't be messing with SysBeep() and [2]
>it loads _before_ SpeedBeep, anyway.
It's documented in the online manual of Disinfectant. Version 2.0.6 (of
SpeedBeep) is supposed to fix the problem.

--maarten

Disclaimer: I don't even know what SpeedBeep is supposed to be doing. I only
            read manuals sometimes.


-- 
In real life:	Maarten Carels
		Computer Science Department
		University of Amsterdam
email:		maarten@fwi.uva.nl
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: Philip Machanick <philip@concave.cs.wits.ac.za>
Subject: Re: Speedometer ratings for the current Macs
X-Xxdate: Wed, 23 Dec 92 11:16:29 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept, Wits University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 09:23:44 GMT

In article <freek.725035556@groucho.phil.ruu.nl> Freek Wiedijk,
freek@phil.ruu.nl writes:
>                 LC     LC II
>-----------------------------
>CPU             3.58     4.01
>Graf            4.17     4.31
>Disk            1.60     1.93
>Math            4.12     5.61
>
>P.R. Rating     3.41     3.85
>-----------------------------
>
>After this I rounded the rating to an integer: 3.4 rounds to 3 and
>3.8 rounds to 4.

This is OK if you think the results are only accurate to about 30% -
otherwise you are throwing away information.

On the figures to 2 decimals, the difference is about 13% which is
probably about right, based on previous 020 vs 030 benchmarks.
--
Philip Machanick
Computer Science Dept, Univ of the Witwatersrand, 2050 Wits, South Africa
philip@concave.cs.wits.ac.za  phone: 27 (11) 716-3759  fax: 339-7965
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: pg@sanitas.stortek.com (Paul Gilmartin)
Subject: Re: Drivin' me nuts! ("in use")
Organization: Storage Technology Corp.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 02:43:19 GMT

ray wilmott (wilmott@remus.rutgers.edu) wrote:
: I use Pagemaker and Freehand frequently, so I keep them always open
: for easy access. Quite often I find that I open a file in PM or FH,
: and then at some point later in the day want to delete it. I drag it
: to the trash and go to empty trash, but get a "trash cannot be
: emptied, file is in use" message. This would be desirable if the file
: were still *open*, but this happens even with files that I have
: closed hours before. It seems that the system is remembering that
: "at sometime today the file was opened; therefore it must still be
: in use". Bzzzzz! Wrong! It's not really "in use"; I want it deleted;
: stop hassling me!

I wish MicroSoft had patented this perversion so other vendors couldn't
imitate it.  MS Word shows the same behavior.  I believe it's to allow
Word to defer copying a (possibly large) selection to the clipboard;
they just remember its position in the file.  But this means that Word
(or PM or FH) must keep the file open, even though you requested it
closed.  Bad idea, however good their intentions.
From: carroll@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Carroll Morgan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Address for BBEdit bug reports
Date: 29 Dec 92 15:18:41 GMT
Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK
Originator: carroll@client61.comlab

I'd be grateful for information on how to send a bug report
to the author of the BBEdit editor.

Carroll Morgan
From: martin@inferenzsysteme.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Martin Protzen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: How to generate a postscript file
Date: 22 Dec 92 16:41:55 GMT
Organization: TH Darmstadt

Hi there,

I remember that under system 4.0.3 one could generate a postscript file in pressing
Command F while printing the file. I tried this recently under system 6.0.x and
it didn't work. Is there anything I have to pay attention to (enter Comm-F in the
finder, in the application, ...) or is this command not available any more.

Thanks for your help,
Martin.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: jvp@vlsi4.ee.iastate.edu (Jim Van Peursem)
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: SUIT 2.3, An easy-to-learn GUI toolkit
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 19:53:11 GMT

In <owen-211292104542@rowen.astro.washington.edu> owen@astro.washington.edu (Russell Owen) writes:

>I tried an older SUIT and found:
>- it is very easy to set up user interfaces, as advertised
>- it is not very Mac-like. Instead, it is specifically intended to "work
>the same" on any platform. In particular, the text editing is so different
>that most Mac users will probably find it quite disconcerting.
>- I got a fair number of crashes

  Agreed.  But I'd like to add one item:  It was quite slow on my machine.

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