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From: hp48sx@wupost.wustl.edu (HP48SX Archive Maintainer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Multiple language fonts problems
Date: 12 Sep 1992 17:18:17 -0500
Organization: Washington University in Saint Louis, MO USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: wuarchive.wustl.edu

I haver a friend who is typesetting some stuff in multiple languages. He
has some problems, as Turkish, Polish and other languages uses special
accented characters not available in the standard font. Is there any
suggestions how to handle this ?

Currently I have told him to reeplace his font selection with Times and
Helvetica, and then use the system software from the country he is
writing software for. Their system 7 versions on the Developer CD
contains TrueType fonts that works. Only problem here is the printer has
to use the foreign system too when printing. 

Is there any way to get an extended font ? I know I can make a set for
him using FontMonger, and combine the accents and the letters in there.
But is there a better solution ? He got a eastern version of
Times/Helvetica from his printer, but they do not have the Turkish
characters, and seems to be targeted at Poland and other countries with
same alphabet.

Povl
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Font Drawing (was 32 bit Quickdraw on a plus)
From: sschechter@idicl1.idi.battelle.org
Date: 10 Sep 92 09:37:21 EST
Organization: IDI-Dublin
Nntp-Posting-User: sschechter

> This is EXTREMELY wishful thinking :-) but will Quickdraw GX result in any
> speed increase for drawing (especially bitmap fonts in a terminal program) to
> the screen on a Plus?  That would be reason enough for me to move from System
> 6.0.5 to System 7.1 right there...

   Well, Quickdraw GX can handle font drawing under its new environment, which
means fonts will be running under the new environment that the folks I saw
from apple (at machack) claim is faster. However, this involves true-type
font drwaing under quickdraw GX so saying it will be faster than the bit
mapped fonts mainly used these days for term programs is questionable.
   Quickdraw GX however isn't scheduled to be out 'til sometime in '93,
so you wont be seeing it in a form you can use for a while!

=-=-=-=-==-=-=>Stuart Schechter
Research & Development Intern
Information Dimensions Inc.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: justin@mik.uky.edu (Justin Sullivan)
Subject: Re: SpeedyFinder7 1.5.2 errors
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 22:37:32 GMT

Ray Zimmerman <Ray-Zimmerman@cornell.edu> writes
> In article <1992Sep8.160322.7779@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Robert Rumpf,
> rrumpf@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu writes:
> >I have had problems getting SpeedyFinder7 1.5.2 to work properly on my 
> >PowerBook.  I get lots of "The Application Unknown has quite
> unexpectedly" 
> >messages on bootup, which is when Shadowriter Backgrounder starts up.  I
> didn't
> >have this problem with SpeedyFinder7 1.5.  Is the author online
> somewhere?
> 
> Me too.  Although with different applications.

Why do I get the feeling this is going to happen to me when I get home  
tonight? :)
Has anyone informed the author of these bugs? I know (since he stated it  
explicitly all over 1.5.2) that 1.5.3 is on the threshold of release anyway..  
Maybe we can get some fixes in this one, no? :)
From: $ennsnr@brandonu.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Damaged floppy savers?
Date: 12 Sep 92 15:16:46 GMT
Organization: Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada

In article <79424@ut-emx.uucp>, ifbb657@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Douglas Floyd) writes:
> In article <1992Sep8.120934.1440@cs.ucla.edu> lange@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Trent Lange) writes:
>>I've just gotten the dreaded "This disk is damaged" message on one of
>>my important (and only partially backed-up) floppies, which no amount
>>of shaking and the usual tricks will get to work.
>>
>>Does somebody know of good PD or shareware damaged disk programs that
>>are likely to allow me to recover the files (I didn't see this listed
>>in the FAQ).
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>- Trent Lange
>>  lange@cs.ucla.edu.
> 
> I know that Norton Utilities is not commercial, but Norton Utils
> especially version 2.0 has recovered data from many a damaged
> floppy.
> 
> A note about floppies:  Eventually they will die on you.  After
> a year or two of having a floppy, copy the data onto another
> new floppy and keep the old as a backup.
> 
> 
> -- 

Try using Disk First Aid. It is on the Utilities 1 disk that came wiht your
Mac.
It is FREE and it works well. Otherwise, see if you can find a copy of 1st Aid
HFS. I don't think it is shareware, but it doesn't cost too much.

--
"To be average scares the HELL out of me"
Neil Enns
$ennsnr@brandonU.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies)
Subject: Re: 32 bit Quickdraw on a Plus----QUESTION
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 03:47:05 GMT

There is supposedly "no point" in making an 8Mhz 68000-based color
quickdraw.  The bus on the Mac II and higher machines has at least 4
times the throughput of the MacPlus bus.  This means that, in 8-bit
color mode, the Mac II draws at (approximately) 50% of the speed of
the plus.  Color Quickdraw makes use of the 680x0 (x >= 20) bit field
instructions to speed things up, esp. in 2-bit and 4-bit mode.  You
would need some advanced dithering algorithms to be able to view color
in black/white on a plus (maybe a 50% hit in performance, in the best
case).  The Mac II is a slow machine (for handling 8-bit color).  The
plus is an even slower machine.

	  Would you enjoy editing dithered grey-scale 
	 on a mac plus at 1/8th the speed of a mac II?

I think people would go berserk if forced to live with this.

Don Gillies - gillies@cs.uiuc.edu - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: Patrick Parker
Subject: Re: Mac educational discount prices
Reply-To: pharmacy@epx.cis.umn.edu
Organization: University of Minnesota
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 22:20:38 GMT

In article <1992Sep10.034427.26900@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
rqi@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Rugang Qi) writes:
>The Macintosh Student aid package here at Ohio State priced at :
>
>$ 1408 for LC II (4/40)
>$ 1936 for IIsi (5/80)

Interesting how these prices vary from college to college.  But here at the
University of Minnesota, the configs are as follows.

Classic II 4/40 $895
Classic II 4/80 $1005
PowerBook 145 4/40 $1695

LC II 4/80 $1195
IIsi 3/40 $1305
IIsi 5/80 $1520

Apple 12" Monochrome $195
Apple 12" RGB Color $390
13" Hi-Res RGB Color $550
Organization: Sophomore, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 13:55:14 -0400 
From: John Hamilton Slye <jsbr+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: DD and 32 Bit Addressing


I have Disk Doubler Init 3.7.6i and its not 32-bit clean. Whenever I
turn on 32 bit addressing DD causes part of my apple menu icon to
disappear.

Has anyone else had this problem with DD, or could it be specific to my
copy? If it is a problem with this version...is there a version that is
32-bit clean?



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: danny@utkux1.utk.edu (Danny W. McCampbell)
Subject: Re: SpeedyFinder7 1.5.2 errors
Organization: University of Tennessee
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 12:44:35 GMT

In article <BuA6zH.9Iz@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, mpcg9397@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Mark ) writes:
> 
> >In article <1992Sep8.160322.7779@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Robert Rumpf,
> >rrumpf@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu writes:
> >>I have had problems getting SpeedyFinder7 1.5.2 to work properly on my 
> >>PowerBook.  I get lots of "The Application Unknown has quite
> >unexpectedly" 
> >>messages on bootup, which is when Shadowriter Backgrounder starts up.  I
> >didn't
> >>have this problem with SpeedyFinder7 1.5.  Is the author online
> >somewhere?
> 
> I couldn't get any applications to run on my Mac IIsi with ver 1.5.2 installed
> 
> Mark
> 
I run 1.5.2 on my CI without any problems so far.

Danny 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: t901902@mp.cs.niu.edu (chaudoir ric william)
Subject: Re: Mac educational discount prices
Organization: Northern Illinois University
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 04:13:25 GMT


Here at NIU in Illinois Classic II 4/40 @ $919
                        Powerbook 145 4/40 $1744
                        Macintosh LC II    $1032 w/o monitor and keyboard
                        Mac IIsi           $1260 w/o monitor and keyboard

Thats it...
Ric
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From: bha@vall.dsv.su.se (Bertil Hansson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Mac Mail Systems: Which one to choose?
Date: 15 Sep 92 21:43:21 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Organization: Stockholm University, Sweden

In article <1992Sep14.041357.4174@trl.oz.au> ssuther@brahma.trl.OZ.AU (S. Sutherland) writes:
>rgoldstone@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU (Robin, Girl Wonder) writes:
>
>>We use Macintosh Microsoft Mail and PC Microsoft Mail and a product called
>>MS Mail Connection which allows the two platforms to exchange address lists.
>>We also have SMTP gateways for both platforms to allow them to send Internet
>>mail.  The PC SMTP gateway is from Microsoft.  The Mac SMTP gateway is from
>>StarNine.
>
>I understood that the forthcoming release of Microsoft Mail for PC
>networks (v3.0) also included a Macintosh client that worked 'directly'
>with MSmail (assuming a common network platform like Novell).
>
>Am I right or wrong?
>

Right, as reported to me by Microsoft. (Still waiting for delivery)
Version 2.1, which we use now, also has a Mac client. This is possible
due to the fact that MS Mail for PC Networks is nothing but a passive
set of files installed on a shared disk on the file server. If the
server can export a DOS file system, DOS users may use mail. If the
server can make the disk look like an AppleShare server at the same
time, then a Macintosh client is possible.

All delivery and administration is made by client programs, there is
no "daemon" in the Unix sense. This has not changed with version 3.0.
However, address list export within a domain and other administrivia
is now more or less automatic.

My personal and greatest complaint is that Microsoft do not support
more than 50 Mac users on a Lan Manager 2.1 server with the "Lan
Manager Services for Macintosh". This will change, I am told, when Lan
Manager for Windows NT is available - in a year or so. I am aware of
other LAN Operating Systems that would remedy that right now. Sigh.

--Bertil Hansson <bha@dsv.su.se>!"The ideal situation is to have real computing
Arbetsmilj|institutet, Solna    !power close at hand - right at home. Something
voice +46 8 730 95 96           !that dims streetlights and shrinks the picture
fax   +46 8  82 63 53           !on the neighbors TV when you crank it up"-anon
From: peter_chen@cbis.ece.drexel.edu (Peter M Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Mac edu price
Date: 11 Sep 92 19:37:55 GMT
Organization: E.C.E. Drexel University
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A6D66E13AD0105BC@n1-5-188-ece-commonwealth.ece.drexel.edu>
X-Xxdate: Fri, 11 Sep 92 15:38:59 GMT
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9

Hi, Netters,

Here is the price of Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pa

Classic II 4/80					$937.00
LCII 4/80 (no kbd)	  	$1039.00
IIsi 5/80 (no kbd)				$1339

13" RGB Monitor 					$503.00
12" RGB Monitor 					$359.00
12" Mono Monitor					$179.00


Apple Kbd II									$77.00
From: Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: RE:  WARNING !!!
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 92 19:00:12 EST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:226/20.18 - cmhGate UF Gateway, Columbus OH

About his problems in getting a refund from Second Wave in Texas, cyor@logos
uwaterloo.ca writes:

> Thanks for all those who replied to me. Most people told me 
> to ask the credit card company for help. Unfortunately, please 
> note the following: 

I think now's the time to contact Deborah Branscum at Macworld Magazine.  She
managed to do wonders for me several years ago with Jasmine, right before they
started the big slide down the tubes.  I have nothing but praise for Ms.
Branscum and her staff on the Conspicuous Consumer column.

--Adam--
 
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From: Paul.Conaway@p22.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Paul Conaway)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: NeXT CD-ROM drive on a Mac? (Again)
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 23:23:39 EST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:226/20.22 - cmhGate UF Gateway, Columbus OH

To: jjmckay@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu

Jim Mckay writes in a message to All

 JM>  To: All  From: Jim Mckay  Subject: Re: NeXT CD-ROM drive on 
 JM> a Mac? (Again)  Created: Tue 25 Aug 92 at 17:23 
 JM> From: jjmckay@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Jim McKay) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc 
 JM> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana 
 JM> A while back I posted a simialr question. I was told that it 
 JM> could not be used (boo hoo!). However, maybe those posting 
 JM> then were inaccurate!? :) 
 JM> ccoprcd@prism.gatech.EDU (Bruce Coy Dillahunty) writes: 
>Well,
>   Thought I would try again.  The only response I have received to my
>original query was from several people who wanted to know the answer also
>(I'll try to send it to you, if I ever find out).
 >   I want to run a NeXT CD-ROM drive from a Macintosh... what do I need in
>the way of drivers?  Any pointers?  Thanks
>Bruce
 >-- 
>Dillahunty, Bruce C.
>Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332  
>uucp: ...!{allegra,amd,hplabs,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!prism!ccoprcd
>ARPA: ccoprcd@prism.gatech.edu
 
Jim, I'm not sure if this is going to be any help but have you tried calling
the manufactorer of the drive. (Sony if it is a sony mechinism) and see if
they have any mac drivers for it. I would think that once you found the
drivers for the mac as long as you can hook it up to the mac you should be
fine. I could be wrong though 

Paul
 
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Organization: Junior, Drama, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 21:20:56 -0400 
From: Kurt Nathaniel White <kw1z+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: BU Networking?

I have a question.  I go to Carnegie Mellon, my sister goes to Boston
Univ.  We 
both have Macs.  At CMU all I need to do to network my computer to all
the other
Macs on campus, as well as the printers is, buy a phonenet connector and
another
connector that adapts the networking extension in my room to a telephone
wire.  
Then I go to computing services with the number on the outlet of the extension,
as well as some other info, and they turn on my outlet.

My question is, is it as simple as that to network a Mac at BU? Are there 
extensions in the dorm rooms at BU for networking?  Where should I tell my 
sister to go to get the nessesary hardware, software, or anything else she may
need?

Thanks,
kurt
kw1z@andrew.cmu.edu
From: chapman@centerline.com (Scott Chapman, (Scott Chapman x233))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: AutoDoubler/Stuffit Spacesaver on fast machine with slow disk
Date: 15 Sep 1992 14:25:49 GMT
Organization: CenterLine Software
Distribution: world
Reply-To: chapman@centerline.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: divine.centerline.com

In article 15331@nwnexus.WA.COM, kanefsky@halcyon.com (Steve Kanefsky) writes:
>Has anyone actually noticed *improved* performance using AutoDobuler or
>Stuffit Space Saver on a fast machine with a slow disk?  The theory is
>that the CPU can decompress the file in less time than it would take to
>read the extra uncompressed data off of the disk.
>
>I currently have an LC II with 80MB Quantum LPS drive and 50mhz 68030
>PowerCache from Daystar Digital.  Soon (hopefully) I'll be upgrading to a 
>33mhz 68040 PowerCache.  Would Autodoubler or Stuffit Space Saver
>actually improve performance?  Which one of these two products would be
>better, where performance is the main criterion rather than saved space?
>(of course the overall performance increase depends on how much space
>was saved in addition to decompression speed)
>
>Can either or both of these products compress files that haven't been
>created yet, before they're ever stored on the disk in uncompressed
>form? 
>
>Thanks,
>
>--
>Steve Kanefsky

Well, SpaceSaver would most certainly NOT help at all, although the compressed files
are indeed smaller, they must be recompressed TO DISK before they are opened.
(this actually why Space Saver does not suffer from the incompatabilities and
behavioural oddities that AutoDoubler suffers from).

AutoDoubler, because it decompresses into memory (read-protecting applications)
it *can* be quicker to start applications if you have a fast CPU and a slow
disk, but that is only a theory...

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From: cf043@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Lance K. Chun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Poll on Educational Discount
Date: 12 Sep 92 23:53:03 GMT
Reply-To: cf043@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Lance K. Chun)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, ronw@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (ronald.g.wolenty) says:

>In article <1992Sep12.182537.29164@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>, jonkatz@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jonathan W. Katz) writes:
>> 
>> I would like to take a poll of all the people who have purchased computers
>> through Apple's Educational Discount program.
>> 
>> Quite simply, how long did it take for you to get your computer?
>> 
>> 
>
>IIsi ordered 8/12 - still waiting!
>
>Ron Wolenty
>inuxy!wolenty
>

I purchased my IIci setup back in 12/90 and it was IN STOCK! Didn't have to
wait; except credit card company wanted to verify this HUGE purchase. YES!
Back then I paid close to $5000 for my humble IIci 8/80 + 13" RGB setup!
And that was with an Educational Discount!
 
Lance
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From: fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (steve hix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.editors
Subject: Re: good vi editor for the mac
Date: 15 Sep 1992 20:39:47 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
Distribution: inet
NNTP-Posting-Host: concertina

In article <1955qnINN24o@oak4.doc.ic.ac.uk> ntc@doc.ic.ac.uk (N T Cheung) writes:
>In article <23284@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM> root@lyra.hac.com (Dave Fisher) writes:
>
>>Let me illustrate a couple of vi examples for the benefit of the non-Unix 
>>literate:
>>
>>1. I'm editing a file on machine X.  I need a line of text from another
>>   ... "rsh machine-y grep keyword filename"
>>
>>2. Someone gives me a file which contains a list of 1000 birdnames, as well
>>   ...grep birdname birdfile
>>   ..."!}sh" at the top of this "paragraph".  Each line will now
>>   be replaced by the corresponding description.
>>
>>3. I wish to sort from line 500 to line 1000, using the 3rd word in each
>>   line as the sorting key.  I type 500G!500+sort +3.  Done.
>>
>These are great examples of exactly why GUIs were invented.  

Right.  And why GUI's aren't enough in themselves...

>How many people in the world could do the things you mentioned above?  

All the time, not many.  Once in a while, a whole bunch.

>How often would most computer users ever want to do these things?  

Not very often, but when you need to do it, the (GUI) alternative
is really unpleasant.

>I have been hacking
>around computers for quite a while now, and using UNIX for the last few months,
>but I would have had no idea how to construct those commands.

A bit of reading of the appropriate manpages or manuals or books...

>VI and CLIs may be great for the computer literate elite, but the majority
>of people do not want to spend the time and effort to master these arcane
>interfaces.

Which is why GUIs, even bad ones, sell so well.

>>Vi is also quick to use, once learned well, because your hands don't have
>
>There it is:  "once learned well".  How long does it take to learn VI well?

A week?

>Is it possible to learn VI simply by using it a lot?  No!  You have to read
>some sort of manual, and then practice a lot as well.
`
To get most of most useful features in hand, a quick reference card or diagram
does just fine.

>To get back to the track of this thread:
>
>Why do people always denigrate the MPW editor?  I think it is a very powerful
>editor indeed.  What is wrong with it?

1. It doesn't come with all systems.

2. It costs a non-trivial amount of money.

Either vi or emacs or both typically come bundled with various flavors of U*ix.
It could be construed as a feature of such systems.

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From: ken@cujo.curtin.edu.au (Ken Taylor)
Subject: Re: Quick Time and Supercard
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 07:00:31 GMT

Scott J. Kleper (sjk6119@ritvax.isc.rit.edu) wrote:
: I just got SuperCard yesterday, and I was expecting something a little
: closer to hypercard. I do have the HyperCard XCMD's for QuickTime, but
: I'm not sure how to use them with SuperCard. I tried importing them, 
: and that didn't work. I even tried copying them to a HyperCard stack,
: and then translating that to SuperCard, but then how would I make a 
: button to play a movie. The QT tools stack doesn't recognize the 
: SuperCard stack with the resources as being a hypercard stack! I know
: that there are scripting commands to play a movie, but they seem too
: confusing. Could somebody help me or simplify those scripting 
: commands?
: 
: One more thing. I was trying to use Wild Magic instead. Some QT mooV's
: would copy and paste, but others wouldn't. Do they have to be 160X120?
: Is 2.0 the latest version of Wild Magic? Thanks in advance.

SuperCard does not support the sort of "Windoid" that is used by the Quicktime
XCMDs for playback..

You can however, use the "Direct" mode of the XCMD.. You must, however, 
specifically "idle" the QTMovie command for the movie to play..

I find this works fine if you have an appropriate "on idle" in the card
script.. I also put an "on closecard" to unload the movie in there also..

Ken
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