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From: drew@netcom.com (Drew Wade)
Subject: Re: Powerbook Battery Charge Monitor
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 02:33:55 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

the charger can be in high-charge state (when the battery is low) or
low-charge sate (when the battery is close to fully charged, but it's
maintaining the charge).  the apple utility battery shows
a lightning bolt only on high charge.  the superclock utility (on sumex)
shows a lightning bolt on high and lo charge.  the utility mybatter
(on sumex) show three different icons for internal (battery is powering
the computer), high charge, and low charge, and siplays the battery voltage.
interesting to see that the aple battery shows full charge when mybattery
says it's quite far from that.  and superclock shows half-charge when
it's empty.  oh well...

-drew wade
drew@netcom.com

In article <1992Aug26.151747.7401@news.yale.edu> ALSOBROOK@biomed.med.yale.edu (John Alsobrook) writes:
>Well, I would have posted this to comp.sys.mac.powerbook, but it seems
>a lot of folks think that questions like mine might be useful to everyone
>who uses a Mac, so I hope they enjoy reading this!
>
>When my Powerbook 100 has the AC adapter plugged in, the battery icon
>does not have a jaggy lightning bolt through it; from reading the manuals,
>the lightning bolt is supposed to indicate that power is from an external
>source, and not draining the battery. Can anyone shed light on this?
>
>Thanks loads, and to all you folks who don't want to see a powerbook newsgroup,
>may I suggest that you buy a powerbook, use it for awhile, and then re-evaluate
>your stance.
>
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From: rouse@sage.cc.purdue.edu (John Rouse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Postscript & Sys 7.0
Date: 28 Aug 92 04:43:31 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center


  Under 6.0.x one could hold down the f key when sending something to the
Laserwriter and get a nice PostScript file.  Under Sys. 7 the f key trick
doesn't work so I selected the PostScript file option and ended up with a
file many time the size of the file that is created under Sys 6.  What is
happening and how can I get the same type of file that was produced w/
sys 6 and the f key?


							Thanks,
							  John Rouse
rouse@en.ecn.purdue.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: frechett@DMI.USherb.CA (Bruno Frechette)
Subject: Ejecting syquest while sharing is on *HELP*
Summary: How to eject syquest whil file sharing is on?
Organization: Universite de Sherbrooke -- departement de Mathematiques et d'Informatique
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 02:54:00 GMT

Hi! I know that this problem has been adressed before, but I can'y remember
what the solution was. How do you eject a syquest cartridge (or any other
removable media) when file sharing is turned on in system 7?

I know you can do it by turning off file sharing but there has to be another
way.

Also, when a syquest drive is attached to a Quadra with a cartridge in it,
you simply can't boot the Mac. You have to eject the cartridge first, and then
boot the Mac, and then put the cartridge in the drive....

Please send any help to me and I will summarize.

Thanx to all!
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From: billd@gdstech.GRUMMAN.COM (Bill D'Camp)
Subject: Re: System on RAM disk
Organization: Grumman Corporation
	<dr_mcgee-260892153714@pythagoras.pnl.gov> <37343@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 23:53:59 GMT

You have to run System 7 to make use of the RAM Disk as a start-up
device.  If you are running System 7, turn on RAM disk from the memory
control panel, specifying at least 2mb for the disk size.  After the
RAM Disk is "formatted/initialized", copy your system folder to it.
Now open the startup disk control panel, and select the RAM Disk as
the startup device.  Restart your mac.  The RAM Disk contents will
survive warm restarts, but not cold restarts.
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From: dr_mcgee@pnl.gov (David R. McGee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: System on RAM disk
Date: 26 Aug 92 22:32:31 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.system
Organization: Pacific Northwest Laboratory

In article <hise.714782149@vincent1.iastate.edu>, hise@iastate.edu (Allan R
Hise) wrote:
> 
> Would there be a significant performance advantage to having your system files
> on a RAM disk?  If so, how would one transfer control to the system files that
> you just put on your RAM disk as opposed to the ones on your hard drive?
> 
> Can this be done automatically at startup?  (that is the copying of system 
> files and transfer of control)
> 
> 
> Thinking of ways to use my new 12 MB of memory, 
> Allan
> hise@iastate.edu

Yes. I have found with my Quadra 900 and 36 MB of RAM that there is a
significant performance increase. To transfer control of the OS to the new
RAM drive, simply copy your system folder to it and select it as the
startup drive. Keep in mind that if you shutdown the RAM disk will get
erased. I have found that it helps to make frequent backups of your system
folder to a hard drive.

David R. McGee
Network Manager
Battelle Northwest
Pacific Northwest Laboratory
Battelle Boulevard, M/S K1-88
Richland, WA 99352
(509)375-6994
fax  375-6631
ALINK drmcgee
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.programmer
From: howard@locus.com (Howard Moskovitz)
Subject: System 7 SCSI Problem?
Organization: Locus Computing Corporation, Los Angeles, California
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 21:05:46 GMT

I have discovered a really strange problem with System 7 that is being
caused (apparently) by my external scsi disk.

Scenario: I have a remote Appleshare volume mounted. Under System 7, if
I either try to create an alias on that volume or try to open a file on
the volume with MS Excel (3 or 4) my systems hangs and I have to reboot.
After extensive testing of software, re-installing system 7 and a
systematic elimination process I isolated the problem to my external 210
MB Quantum drive. If I run under system 6.0.7 - no problem. If I turn
off my external drive (physically power down, just unmounting the volume
doesn't help) - no problem. In addition, the behavior is very consistent
- it happens when the operation (make alias or open file) is nearly
complete - the open fails after the file has been opened but before the
cursor returns, the make alias fails just before updating the screen
with a new icon.

Does anyone have any ideas as to what is going on here? Any suggestions
as to how to diagnose what my drive is doing to upset Sys 7 in those
scenarios? Any ideas what system call finder's make alias and excel's
open file routines have in common?

I have spoken to Apple and gotten the usual non-help response " you
gotta call our 900 number and pay for an answer". They told me to ask
the net, so I am.

Please email responses, spare the bandwidth.

Thanks in advance,
Howard

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From: dagraham@unix1.tcd.ie (David Graham)
Subject: Re: 7.1 in Beta???
Organization: Just enough to get by
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 17:24:03 GMT

In <15064@claris.com> mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner) writes:

>> 
>> spr@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Sebastian P Ruta) writes:

>> 	- The "Special" menu is named "Shuswap" !

>Apple always changes the name of the Special menu for software under development.
>Each build has a different name, and they always begin with the letter S.  There
>was one exception, however.  In one of the builds of System 7, Special was
>changed to Sculley.  However, ever so often, instead of Scully, it said $culley.

...and one of the 7.0 alphas had 'San Jose' (or it might have been 'San
Jose' with a ' on the 'e') for the Special menu. As far as I remember,
the 7.0 beta with the '$culley' menu reverted back to 'Special' every
second startup, so you only knew you weren't running the final version
every second time you used it...

My dha phingin worth,

David

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From: ehle@leland.Stanford.EDU (Robert Ehle)
Subject: Compression Software
Keywords: stuffit, compression
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Distribution: ca
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 22:54:30 GMT

Will someone explain to me as broadly (but still as usefully) as
possible what the difference is between Salient's two compression
packages is - Disk Doubler and Auto Doubler? If I am trying to
increase the capacity of my 20 meg SE hard drive, which program do I
want to get?


-- 
		
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				Stanford University Press
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From: gpb@gpb-mac. (greg berryman )
Subject: Re: 7.x.x Finder Heap Allocation ?
Organization: SPS
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 19:18:21 GMT

sgrenander@NASAMAIL.JPL.NASA.GOV (Sven Grenander) writes:
: Since I switched to 7 I've had intermittent "Out of memory, try closing windows
: or quitting applications" problems. Well, I'm not out of memory (or at least I
: shouldn't be with close to 80Mbytes of RAM left). So I got a copy of SWATCH to monitor 
: what was going on with the memory allocations, hoping to see the problem as it
: occured.
: 
: What SWATCH (a pretty neat little app) showed was that the finder heap is the problem.
: It is fixed at around 263K (or close to it, maybe it varies from machine to machine ?)
: and sure enough, its free space which is usually around a measly 4K sometimes sinks
: to 500 bytes, followed by the OOM message.
: 
: I should note that I haven't been able to determine exactly how the free space gets
: chewed up. Sure, if I just start opening windows it starts disappearing, but if I 
: re-boot with the windows already open the free space _seems_ to have largely returned
: with the overall heap size staying constant. 
: 
: The system heap on the other hand is nicely self-adjusting, growing and shrinking
: as needed, just as promised.
: 
: So, the question is how to increase the finder heap allocation to
: make the problem less likely to occur. I tried ResEditing the Finder to increase the
: allocation, but the system will not boot with the edited copy.
: 
: Any suggestions ?
: 
: -Sven

I have had the same problem on a number of machines along with assorted bombs
due to "bad f-line instruction" errors.  I used ResEdit to change Finder's
memory allocation up to 358400  in the SIZE=-1 resource.  The problems went
away afterwords.  

If you decide to do this, remember to make a good copy of the finder in case
Murphy strikes,  BTW you will have to edit a copy of the Finder and then
replace the finder in the System Folder and reboot.

AS ALWAYS WITH RESEDIT DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK!

--
Greg Berryman       gpb@gpb-mac.sps.mot.com
Motorola Inc.       Austin Texas
From: rson@rhi.hi.is (Reynir Hugason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: U.S. System 7.0.1 with Icelandic fonts?
Keywords: fonts
Date: 1 Sep 92 11:54:16 GMT

It is not just a matter of putting in the Icelandic fonts, since those
3 fonts you mentioned are located in ROM (brilliant eh?) you need
a resource or two inside the system file itself to tell it that it should
not use the fonts located in ROM (now why doesnt it figure that one out
itself?).

Anyway, even if you had the Icelandic fonts working, the sorting order
would still be wrong and fonts would not be printed properly if you used
a word processor to right align text. That is if text is justified
on both sides your document would print quite like such. There would be
some mistakes in the justification.

I suggest you get the whole icelandic system and then replace menu
and string resources. That's an easier way to have an icelandic system with
an english front.
From: Rob.Dewhirst@macrocosm.omahug.org (Rob Dewhirst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: RE: elVerBook and MAC Extended Keyboard. OK?ed modification0063)2. THAN
Date: 02 Sep 92 16:46:24 CST
Reply-To: rob.dewhirst@macrocosm.omahug.org
Organization: The MacRocosm BBS, Lawrence, KS
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.system


Finkel@sirius.llnl.gov to All on 02 Sep 92:

 FF(> Is there any problem with connecting the SE's extended keyboard 
 FF(> to the PB170? Would power drain be a problem.

The ADB extended does not conform to Apple's low power desktop bus specs, and
does not have the little symbol on the bottom (almost-closed circle) that
indicates it is safe.

I have two models of ADB extended, two of ADB non-extended, and none of them
have the low-power desktop bus symbol on the bottom. My conclusion is that it
is not recommended to plug any Apple keyboard into your PB. 

The manual claims it is actually possible to drain the battery while the PB is
plugged in if you plug anything but low-power ADB devices into the PB.
 
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From: sears@cello.hpl.hp.com (Bart Sears)
Subject: Re: JPG to GIF or PICT converter
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 00:00:24 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories


Take a look at the "JPEG decompressor? (Summary)" string in
comp.sys.mac.apps.  The current answer is that there are several
programs which will let you view and/or convert jpeg->gif however,
none of them are very good at color quantization (needed for viewing
on an 8bit screen or converting to gif (gif is 8bit color).  The
Independent JPEG group release 3 software does a good job of
color quantization, but there is no port of this software for the mac.
(Their released code will compile with no changes on a mac using
Think C 5.0, but has a very primitive user interface).

							Bart
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: thomas@uts.EDU.AU (T Brodhursthill)
Subject: (Q) sytem 7 on a workstation plus
Organisation: University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Organization: University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 11:36:48 GMT
Keywords: system 7, AppleShare

Help,
I am trying to get system 7.0.1 running on a group of floppy drive 800K Mac Plusses with 4MB of RAM.
I have had succes with "InitShare" under system 6 to have the boot floppies load all the INITs, cdevs, fonts, sounds etc from the server at startup. I seem to remember coming accross a similar INIT months ago that only worked with system 7 allowing you to put aliases in the boot system  of INITs (and hopefully the finder) that pointed to files on the server.
I also had the idea that the bulk of system 7 could be put into a large INIT on the server which could be loaded at startup.
Can someone please help me with any of the above?

Please don't reply to this account.
email to thomas@phys.uts.edu.au

I'll post any solutions.

Tom
From: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: ARA
Date: 3 Sep 92 22:50:31 GMT
Reply-To: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
Organization: Peirce Software
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1


In article <Derek_Juntunen.07z4@abcd.Houghton.MI.US> (comp.sys.mac.system), Derek_Juntunen@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Derek Juntunen) writes:
> Where can I get ARA?

Apple will sell it to you.  They will also give it to you if you also
buy a Powerbook (at least in the USA).

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From: rek@sei.cmu.edu (Bob Kubiak)
Subject: Apps disappear while in use! Help, help.
Organization: Software Engineering Institute
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 03:55:06 GMT

We have a troubling phenomenon on some number of systems (so far about 6 out
of 250) of various types (IIci IIcx, IIfx, etc.), all running a System 7.0.1
configuration that includes v1.1.1 of the System 7 Tuner. It seems
applications *disappear* seemingly while in use! The application files can
typically later be found by Norton in the deleted file space, but are most
often unusable. The user is typically actively working, then their application
quits unexpectedly or crashes. The application then can't be restarted because
the application file is no longer on the disk (likely the reason for the quit
or crash).  We've seen this repeatedly with MacX, and more recently on a
couple of systems with Telnet and PowerPoint. The systems show no other sign
of damage (as reported by tools like Norton Disk Doctor), don't seem to be
infected by any known viruses, etc.. Many other (unaffected) systems with
identical System Folder configurations don't exhibit the problem (yet), and
most of the affected systems don't have any extensions or control panels added
to our standard.  We're trying to narrow down what some of the similarities
are (Apple disk drivers versus 3rd-party, etc.). Has anyone else seen this
kind of behavior or have any hints on what to be looking for?

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

_bk

_Bob Kubiak___________________________________________________________________
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From: sybert@felix.filenet.com (Mark Sybert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: strangeness while copying files
Date: 1 Sep 92 18:30:19 GMT
Reply-To: sybert@fritz.filenet.com (Mark Sybert)
Distribution: usa
Organization: FileNet Corp., Costa Mesa, CA


I have a IIci, 20 megs RAM, System 7 plus tuneup and quicktime, and
tend to run with 32 bit addressing on.  Sometimes when I format a
1.4 meg floppy and then copy a large (say 800k) folder to it,
the copy will complete, but then screen will go blank for an instant
and the desktop will be redrawn.  It doesn't seem to hurt anything
(i.e. the folder got copied ok and the desktop is intact) but it is 
strange and I wonder if someone can explain what's going on.  
Sorry if its a lame question.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: dms50304@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Darkman)
Subject: Re: Disappearing icons for alias residing on another drive
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 00:37:53 GMT

I've had similiar problems to this with system 7 too.  I commonly create aliases
for stuff on disks.  The alias retains the original icon till I rebuild the
desktop, then they turn to generic.  On the non-system disks, the files seem
to lose their icons also unless they are in a folder.  If someone could
post some kind of resedit hack to fix this it would be greatly appreciated.

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From: qman@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Charles Kuehmann)
Subject: Screen Inverter Summary
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.system
Organization: Northwestern University
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 13:10:45 GMT

From the volume of mail I have recieved from people interested in my
findings on a screen inverter utility (from black on white to white on
black) I think it is best if I summerize here.  Thanks to a number of
individuals for pointing out that the Closeview cdev distributed with
system 7 (I'm not sure about earlier releases) does this trick.  On my
distribution disks (7.0) the file can be found on the install 3 disk.  A
quick drag to the system folder and a restart was all that was needed.  The
only drawback is that the cdev also draws a square white border around the
mouse pointer.  Richard Long pointed me to an fkey written by Howard
Ridenour available through the usuall ftp sites that can do the inversion
with a simple command-shift-0.  This worked well on my IIfx and someone
reported that it also worked well for them on quadra internal video.  It
worked well in both b&w as well as 8bit and I highly recommend it.

Charlie Kuehmann
From: dave@gergo.tamu.edu (Dave Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Windows NT = Death of the Mac?
Date: 2 Sep 92 16:49:00 GMT
Organization: Geochemical & Environmental Research Group, Texas A&M University
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Sep2.034018.933@tamsun.tamu.edu>, dlb5404@tamsun.tamu.edu (Daryl Biberdorf) writes...
}Microsoft looks to be dividing into a low-end/high-end strategy
}with DOS version ? with Windows version ? on the low-end and Windows
}NT on the high-end.  NT looks like it's going to provide the features
}commonly associated with systems like UNIX, as well as some other
}things that not many operating systems implement yet.  It's still
}very vauge, though.
} 
}NT also has very stiff hardware requirements.  A good 16 MB of RAM
}and a 200 MB hard disk looks like a fairly minimal configuration.
}This won't catch on on the desktop for at least another 2-3 years.

Don't forget that the current estimated suggested retail on Win/NT is a few
hundred dollars on top of the cost of this minimal configuration. This is
definitely not going to be a low-end product. Even with site licensing (what
little that Microsoft offers), it's going to cost a fortune for a company to
buy copies for everyone, so they'll start with just a few initially. Like
you say, it'll take a few years to get going. 

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