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From: purp@wixer.cactus.org (Jim Meyer)
Subject: Re: font AFMs
Organization: Real/Time Communications
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 06:16:16 GMT

In article <7116@lib.tmc.edu> drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David Gutierrez) writes:
>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?

As I understand it, the application has to specifically make use of
them. As for which ones do, I have no idea, but I'm sure that if your
program wants them, the manual will say so.

--Purp, with great faith in the documention process.
-- 
+---------------+------------------------------+-----------------------+
| Jim Meyer     | If I express an opinion, you | purp@wixer.cactus.org |
| Austin, Tejas | can bet no one else agrees.  | aka jimpurp@pro-lep   |
+---------------+------------------------------+-----------------------+
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From: dl1@ukc.ac.uk (Duncan Langford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Can't eject a CD from a 150
Date: 19 Aug 92 14:45:08 GMT
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.

We've just bought a new Apple 150 CDROM player, and after testing it on a borrowed
LC I hooked it up to what was intended to be a permanent home, on a networked IIcx.

Problem: it now isn't possible to eject a CD unless filesharing is turned off, first.
Even if the disk isn't shared, the Mac assumes it is, and throws up an error
message.

I can't leave it like this, 'cos the first user who knows enuf to turn off file
sharing wil disconnect that Mac from the network..

Is this a common problem? Is there an answer?

- duncan

ps It seems hard, particularly as we don't WANT to share CDs!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: petez@mintel3.med.uiuc.edu (pete ziemkowski)
Subject: How to limit printing!
Reply-To: p-ziemkowski@uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 03:44:44 GMT
Keywords: Printing, Macintosh

Is there a simple way to limit the amount printed by a user.  We have a  
Mac lab here where people just abuse the printing privileges to no end.   
We have a LaserWriter networked to about 12 macs and often come in to find  
that someone has printed stacks of stuff, only to leave it sitting on the  
printer.  (At least we re-cycle, but printer and toner is killing our  
budget!)  We don't want to lock-up the LaserWriter.  Its needed by our  
users.

Idealy we would like a utility that would allow us to limit the amount of  
printing a user could do.  We have seen printers that requre a magnetic  
card to print, but thats more than we want to spend.  We have heard of a  
utility that would lock the printer and require a floppy that would keep  
track of pages printed for each user (sort of a floppy-key system) but  
that won't be available until 1st quarter of '93 (or later).  We need  
something sooner.

Does anyone know if 'At Ease' will do what we want?  How about AppleShare  
3.0 Print Server?  Does anyone know of an add on utility that might cut  
it?  If so, please email me, and I'll summarize and post to the net if  
desired.

Thanks,
Pete. (p-ziemkowski@uiuc.edu -or- petez@mintel3.med.uiuc.edu)
Univ of Illinois 
College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: keith@uunet!tellab5!odgate (Keith Ludwig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: How do you zap PRAM under Sys7?
Date: 13 Aug 92 15:38:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: uunet!te.1992Aug13.153842.302
Distribution: comp
Organization: Odesta Corporation


The subject says it all.

-- 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
#define  DISCLAIMER( me, odesta)  ( OPINIONS( me ) != OPINIONS( odesta ) )	
Keith Ludwig, Odesta Systems Corporation,
Northbrook, IL  (708) 498-5615 x303		      -- keith@odgate.uucp
From: soubyran@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Soubyran Richard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Misc questions...
Date: 20 Aug 92 14:53:45 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal


Hi Fellow Macers!

I have a few questions that I hope you will be able to answer... at
least try to!

1. Is it possible to run System 6.0.X on a Quadra (any one of them)?

2. Is there a utility which would permit me to run X-Windows on my
   Mac IIci? I am connected to a SGI Indigo at 9600 bauds (direct
   connect modem).

3. My boss, Professor Legendre, is undertaking a book on bio-stats.
   He would like to know which is the better DTP to use: PageMaker,
   FrameMaker or Nisus. His book will be about 400 pages and it
   will contain many mathematical expressions. He knows that in
   FrameMaker there is an equation editor.

4. Rumors wants that Apple will reveal new machines in November of
   this year... Should he wait for them or go for a Classic II?

5. Is there a co-processor in the LCII? Plus, is there an extension
   slot in it?

6. About laser printers now... should we go for another LaserWriter
   II NT or go for HP, Texas or any other brand? The volume of
   paper printed is not that important... as long as the printer is
   ps compatible. By the way.. could you tell me what is the
   difference between ps and eps?

7. Another Professor is planning to buy a IIci... shoud he go for
   one plus an accelerator or go for a Quadra? Speaking of
   accelerator... which is the best (understand more reliable) on
   the market? Is it Daystar or Radius or Tokamak?



I know I could ask all those questions to my nearest Apple
dealer... but the thing is that they are sellers! I am more
sensible to end-users opinions, not just "Yeah.. buy this.. it's
the best of this and that...". Real world users are much valuable
than any (car/mac!) sellers!

I thank you all in advance... 


Richard Soubyran
soubyran@alize.ere.umontreal.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: info wanted on Insigna Win 3.1 emulation
From: Marco Simionato <simion@iveuncc.unive.it>
Date: 19 Aug 92 13:22:52 +0100
Distribution: world
Organization: University of Venezia
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1a2Lines: 16

Sorry for any cross-posting.

If anybody has used Insigna - only rumored or annonced - Windows 3.1
emulation, I would like to know the following:

i)  is it a new product or just DOS 5 and Win 3.1 running on top of
SoftAT?
ii) if it is a new product, does it give significative improvements over
    loading Windows on top of SoftAT - hardly acceptable on a FX?
iii) how is it supposed to perform on a PowerBook 170 (68030 25Mhz +
co-proc.)
     with, say, 8 megs?
	 
Any help appreciated. PLEASE REPLY DIRECTLY.

Marco Simionato
From: cory@enigami.mv.com (Cory Kempf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Set startup in 7.0?
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 13:33:59 EST
Organization: EnigamI, Inc., Nashua, NH
Reply-To: cory@enigami.mv.com
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1


In article <1524@sousa.ltn.dec.com> (comp.sys.mac.system), long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Rich Long) writes:
>
> Does anyone know of a way in System 7 to mimic System 6's Set Startup of
> running applications and DAs?

You are aware to the System 7 startup items folder in the system folder,
right?  Any documents, folders, aliases, sounds, etc. in that folder
will get opened when the system starts up.

+C


-------------------------------------------------------------
Cory Kempf                    EnigamI, Inc.
cory@enigami.mv.com           ...!decvax!enigami!cory
Annon:	wi.5036@wizvax.methuen.ma.us

"F' cryin' out loud, it's *your* life; shouldn't you at least examine 
your lifestyle values to see if they are really what *you* want."
										--Keith Lim
From: jonh@pogo.wv.tek.com (Jon Howell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: RE-Darned Icons...
Date: 13 Aug 92 17:00:04 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.system
Organization: Tektronix

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

The solution to that problem is to make sure your icon is surrounded by
colors
which are below the 50% threshhold. (Apple recommends that icons have a
black
boundary, and I agree, but mine often don't. :v)

In the future, I'd like to see the Info box accept (somehow) a whole cicn
(Hmm -- do cicns have masks built in, or do they go off and use another
rsrc?) pasted in, so I can do the masks myself.

              --Jon

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jonh@pogo.wv.tek.com     Jon Howell
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Large disks -> large block sizes?
From: Bruce.Hoult@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 06:53:05 GMT
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange

In article <2978@accucx.cc.ruu.nl> creon@accucx.UUCP (M.Voswinkel.) writes:
> Hi all.
>  
> We just connected a 1.3GB hard disk to a Mac, to find
> that the minimum file size is 21k. The disk was formatted
> with silverlining.
>  
> Is this a limitation of the Mac OS or just a problem with
> silverlining? Does anyone know of a formatting utility that
> allows for smaller block sizes?

It's a limitation.  Apple managed to avoid the 32 MB volume size limit that
MS-DOS had, but they fell into another trap and HFS can only support 65536
allocation blocks per disk volume.

That means that as disks get larger, the minimum size for files goes
up at the same time -- divide 1.3 GB by 65536 and you get 21299 bytes
per allocation block, which gets rounded up to the next 512 byte
multiple, i.e. 21504 bytes.

The way to avoid this is to split your large drive into several partitions,
and put your smallest files in the smallest partition.

-- Bruce

-- 
Bruce.Hoult@bbs.actrix.gen.nz   Twisted pair: +64 4 477 2116
BIX: brucehoult                 Last Resort:  PO Box 4145 Wellington, NZ
"Cray's producing a 500 MIPS personal computer with 256MB RAM and 8 GB
hard disk that fits in your pocket!"   "Great!  Is it PC compatible?"
From: akir@bobcat.ent.ohiou.edu (Ziad Akir)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Test
Date: 13 Aug 92 01:07:06 GMT
Organization: College Of Engg. & Tech., Ohio University. Athens
Originator: akir@bobcat.ent.ohiou.edu

This is a test, please ignore.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.misc
From: sefhelp@tamuts.tamu.edu (Steve Fuller)
Subject: Re: Need Mac+ Help
Keywords: MacPlus Keyboard
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 18:38:35 GMT

In article <3380@ra.nrl.navy.mil> heinle@gimp (Glenn Heinle) 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  
>usually show an icon with an X or some other "broken" icon, and don't work  
>at all.  If I hold down the shift key (or command or option), or put the  
>caps lock on, they all come up properly.
>
>I have another hard drive with a fresh copy of 6.0.7, and only 4 inits.   
>On my mac three of the four don't work (without the shift key).  When I  
>take the same drive to another mac+, they all work just fine (without  
>holding a key down).
>
>There seems to me no other symptoms.
>
>I have a Mac+ with 4 megs of memory.  Running 6.0.7.
>
>Any help will be greatly appreciated.  Thank you.
>
>--
>Glenn Heinle
>heinle@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
Just a shot in the dark, but try booting without the keyboard attached, or
with a different keyboard

Steve Fuller
sefhelp@tamuts.tamu.edu
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.system:10886 comp.sys.mac.apps:13176 comp.sys.mac.misc:14699
From: jstc_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (J. Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Encryption Program
Date: 12 Aug 92 14:57:38 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

Hey Folks,
    I am looking for a program that will encrypt files.  What I need is a
program that will encrypt all the files saved to the hard drive, but will
allow the hard drive to be seen, as in all the files can be seen but they
are in a encrypted format.  So basically I need a background encryption
program.  Maybe something that will encrypt everything put into a particular
folder.  If anyone knows of anything like this please let me know.

-justin m. collins <jstc_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu>
From: anstine@rm105serve.sas.upenn.edu (David Anstine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Mac Plus and Personal Laserwriter LS
Date: 17 Aug 92 21:38:46 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.system
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

Sorry if this is in the manual, but my client lost it.

Trying to get a Personal Laserwriter LS to work with a Plus. I know the
printer works, tested it on a IIci running 7.0.1. I know the Plus can
print, tested it with an Imagewriter. But they won't work together. I get
the message, "No Personal Laserwriter LS is available" immediately after
issuing a print command. Swapped serial cables and tried both ports (with
appletalk off). 

Currently the Plus has 6.0.8. I've been using version 7.0 of the Personal
Laserwriter LS driver because it's the only one I've found anywhere. Does
this work with 6.0.8 or is there a driver I don't know about? Moving to
system 7 on this machine is out of the question.

If not, is there a problem with this combination? I know the printer pulls
a very high data tranfer rate over a serial connection. Can a Plus handle
it?

Thanks in advance,
-dave
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: matsb@tdb.uu.se (Mats Bredell)
Subject: Re: MS does build hardware
Organization: Dept. of Scientific Computing, Uppsala Univ.
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 21:41:41 GMT

tmaehl@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
: In article <1992Aug10.124837.1188@python.microcom.com>, short@microcom.com (Todd Short) writes:
: > Microsoft can't do hardware, except for mice. Remember that TruImage thing
: > a year ago? (The Postscript clone?) They passed it off to a printer manufac-
: > turer.
: > 

They can build mice? Today I was looking at an AT running OS/2. It had a
Microsoft mouse, a big fat thing lying on the table. I put my hand on it,
it didn't feel nice. I pressed the button ... nothing happened. I pressed
harder ... SCRUNCH said the mouse and I thought it was trying to eat my
fingers.

I suppose Microsoft hardware is just as bad as Microsoft software ...

/Mats
-- 
Mats Bredell                                   Mats.Bredell@udac.uu.se
Uppsala University Computing Center (UDAC)
Department of medical systems                  Ph:  +46 18 187817
Sweden                                         Fax: +46 18 187825
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: maynard@tamar.msc.cornell.edu (Maynard J. Handley)
Subject: Re: 7.1 in Beta???
Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 22:13:35 GMT

In article <1992Aug14.153209.24172@email.tuwien.ac.at>, Peter Purgathofer
<root@iguwnext.tuwien.ac.at> writes:
>We (at the institute) saw 7.1b7.
>
>The most obvoius thing to change is that WorldScript is included, and it
>is a great thing, although we didnt get it to run perfect (Well, beta...)
>
>The other things we found were:
>
>Font folder (no more 15min to open the System Document - well, once
>more...)
>Double Byte TrueType Fonts
>3 new control panels (1 for the PowerBook - the long awaited!!!)
>Dictionary Manager
>Text Services Manager 
>(ther latter two being of interest only to developers right now)
>improved drag-and-drop, even for new CPU-specific extensions (No more
>7.1.0.2a)
>This is most of what I found, and what seems to be of interest to me. 

Thanks for the info but a few questions:
1) Can you settle the ATM question: is it part of 7.1? In what way or
form?
2) Is MODE32 functionality built in now (eg on an SE/30 does the memory
control panel now have the 32 bits on/off section activated)?
3) This talk of a "Translation manager" that looks kinda like XTND. Is that
what you mean by improved drag & drop? Is it part of the OS? Does it use
XTND or AFE filters?
4) Do we have 3D buttons and a color icon for floppies yet?
5) Are the scroll-bars drawn faster?

Maynard
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: eric@homebase.vistachrome.com (Eric Brunson)
Subject: Re: Screwy Boot up Icons...
Organization: Vista-Chrome Incorporated
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 13:25:41 GMT

nasadk@vccsouth16.its.rpi.edu (Kristopher Martin Nasadowski) writes:

>Well, when I start up my mac IIsi, I get the nice progression of icons
>across the bottom of the screen. It lookes wonderful, until it reaches the
>right side of the screen. Then it chops the icon there in half. The next
>icon proceeds up one row, and then the remaining three drop down to the first
>row. Anybody else experiencing this? If I turn off the display of the icons,

This is caused by slip-shod programming.  The programmer assumed ( incorrectly )that his icon would always be on the bottom row.  There isn't really anything
you can do about it.

-- 
Eric "Ra" Brunson      |
eric@vistachrome.com   |     These opinions are mine alone, but
brunson@math.fsu.edu   |   they could be yours for a low monthly fee.
From: dave@gergo.tamu.edu (Dave Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: At Ease Distribution
Date: 14 Aug 1992 13:32:00 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.mac.system
Organization: Geochemical & Environmental Research Group, Texas A&M University
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <16095@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>, fzchen@othello.ucdavis.edu writes...
Will At Ease be available at ftp.apple.com or will it be like
Remote Appletalk (gotta buy it or schmooze it)?

At Ease is a commercial product, not System software. As with any commercial
software, you have to BUY it ("schmooze it" is NOT a valid way to acquire it).
I think people have become too greedy -- they expect Apple to give away
everything for free (or at least make it available to those who don't want
to have to pay for it).
From observing Apple of late, I would suggest that any product which Apple
places a price on is commercial software, but any System software (or any
extension which is expected to be rolled into a later System release, such
as QuickTime) will be made available (minus the documentation and technical
support) via FTP or the various online services. System 7.x and QT are
System-level software. Macintosh PC Exchange, QuickTime Starter Kit, and
At Ease are NOT, therefore they must be purchased in order to be legally
used.
So none of this "schmooze" (i.e. - get an illegal copy from a friend) stuff. 

 -                                                                     -
 - Dave Martin - Geochemical & Environmental Research Group, Texas A&M - 
 - DAVE@GERGA[GERGO,GERGI].TAMU.EDU - BROOKS@TAMVXOCN.BITNET - AOL:DBM -
 -                                                                     -
From: tmyers@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Tim Myers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: No Color Desktop Patterns
Date: 19 Aug 92 14:58:39 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Ohio University CS Dept,. Athens

I seem to be no longer able to change the color of my color desktop 
patterns.  The b/w patterns are still there in the General 
Controls/Control Panel, but there is no bar at the bottom for color 
changes.

I have a IIsi, 17mb, System 7.0.1 with tune up 1.1 ... no recent 
changes in system files.  I have been using a shareware program 
called "Desktop Patterns, Vol. 1" that I got from Sumex.  It puts 
color patterns on the desktop, so I assume it patches the OS somehow. 
 How do I unpatch?  This is a program, not an INIT.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Tim

-- 
Tim Myers                      
Ohio University             tmyers@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu
From: felix@dino.dinoco.de (Felix Gersic)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re:  Problems Shutting Down
Date: 21 Aug 92 04:15:04 GMT
Organization: Private

In article <lsr-100892112523@lsr.taligent.com> lsr@taligent.com (Larry Rosenstein) writes:
>In article <1992Aug7.222021.22134@wixer.cactus.org>, purp@wixer.cactus.org
>(Jim Meyer) wrote:
>>
>> Actually, I have the same problem, but I've traced it to DiskDoubler. If
>> DD has files to compress before shutdown, it does so, and in the process
>> seems to lose the Shutdown command. I've yet to find a way to make it
>> work as it should.
>
>When yo utry to shut down the Finder will try to shut down all the running
>apps.  It also has some algorithm for deciding that an app is not going to
>shut down and giving up.  In this case, if you were to cancel what
>DiskDoubler was doing, then the machine should shut down.
>
>Larry Rosenstein
>Taligent, Inc.
>
>lsr@taligent.com

I had AppleTalk RemoteAccess running under system 7.0. Whenever I tried to
shut my Mac (SE) down without the modem turned on, the Mac won`t shut down.
It stopped after closing all files (except for some RemoteAccess stuff),
but as soon as I turned the modem on, it shut down completely...

Now that I removed RemoteAccess, the problem is gone.

Felix
--

felix       Internet: felix@dino.dinoco.de
gersic      UUCP    : ...!unido!easix!dino!felix

* Draft beer, not people ! Tastes great, less killing !!! *
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.misc
From: grabenst@umbc4.umbc.edu (Mr. Michael Grabenstein; ACS (GUEST))
Subject: Re: How to HIDE Files on a mac to prevent Piracy?
Organization: Univ. of MD, Baltimore County
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 01:44:16 GMT

	There is a copy bit as well that is also accessible
through res-edit. It is suppose to keep the users from coping
the file. This plus making them invisible should stop the
"common" user (not me :-).

Later,
	Mike
	ZMEG@AACC.bitnet
	or grabenst@umbc3.umbc.edu
From: /dev/null@NWNEXUS.WA.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest
Subject: (none)
Date: 19 Aug 92 11:33:26 GMT
Organization: The Internet
From: ferch@ucs.ubc.ca (Les Ferch)
Subject: Re: Awesome Stuff this Morph!
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 09:29:32 GMT

In digest <9208162356.AA03193@SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU>
Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu writes:

>As for Terminator 2, there was only one scene done on the Mac, and it really
>stands out once you notice it.  It was after the T1000 pins mom near the
>end and Arnold splits him with the iron bar (the Terminator, with the iron
>bar, in the Conservatory!).

I had read that the Nuclear fire storm scene was done entirely on Macs.
Was that just a rumour?

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 08:31:15 CDT
From: wadew@DUCVAX.AUBURN.EDU (Wade Williams)

>FYI, the morphing done in T2 was produced on a battery of Silicon
>Graphics workstations.  As I recall, there were 30 or more SGI machines
>all working on each frame at the same time(!) to produce the morphing
>affects for the movie. Public television had a program about how the
>movie was made.

I don't know about the morphing effects, but the scene of Los Angeles being
hit by a nuclear bomb was created on a Macintosh.

Wade Williams
wadew@ducvax.auburn.edu

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