HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: knapp@cs.purdue.EDU (Edgar Knapp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: High Density floppy drive in a Mac II?
Keywords: Doesn't work right...
Date: 25 Aug 92 21:07:54 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Purdue University

In article <18745@bunny.GTE.COM> stm0@gte.com (Steven McClure) writes:
>Hello all.  My girlfriend just purchased a Mac II without a floppy drive
>and would like to install a High Density drive in it.  When we put the HD
>drive in, it refuses to read HD disks.  It has a Rev A motherboard in it,
>so I'm assuming we need a ROM upgrade, right?  Or is there some other
>way we can get the drive to work correctly?  If not, any idea how much
>an upgrade should/will cost?  Thanks!!!!

Too much, I am afraid. Last I checked, the upgrade including ROM rev. C
and HD drive was above $500. I don't think you can get the ROMs
separately.  A good way to go seems to be to get one of these cheap
Powerbook 100s with external HD drive: for just a couple of hundred
bucks more you get a laptop, in addition to access to HD disks.

Edgar

(knapp@cs.purdue.edu)


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: farrell@mot.com (Tod Farrell)
Subject: X from A/UX
Organization: Motorola, Inc
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 14:21:04 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.system

Does A/UX contain 'X'?  If so is it r4 or r5?
How compatible is writing a program to display in X on the
Mac and running the same program on a unix machine?

Please e-mail any responses to farrell@mot.com

Thanks,
Tod Farrell
farrell@mot.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: qman@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Charlie Kuehmann)
Subject: Screen Inverter utility?
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.system
Organization: Northwestern University
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 19:32:21 GMT

I'm looking for a utility which will invert the screen on my Mac such that
the windows will contain white text on a dark background.  Please e-mail
any replies.  I will summarize if there is interest.

Thanks
From: bayes@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Scott Bayes)
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 17:18:03 GMT
Subject: Re: # of files
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Loveland, CO
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system

> - the max block size is 2^32 Bytes = 4 GigaBytes! The theoretical limit of
>   each partition is thus 256 TeraBytes. This is the suported size of the
>   File Manager.
> 
> 

Do you know how much testing they've done at 256 TB?

:-) :-)

ScottB
From: proctor@cme.nist.gov (Fred Proctor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Turning Memory Cache Off
Date: 1 Sep 92 21:34:31 GMT
Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology

How does one turn off the memory cache in System 7?  In the Memory
control panel, the cache is described as always on, and the minimum
value I can set it to is 32K.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: lsr@taligent.com (Larry Rosenstein)
Subject: Re: Aliases--- Getting to the source
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.system
Organization: Taligent, Inc.
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 01:09:39 GMT

In article <alen.715101916@crash>, alen@crash.cts.com (Alen Shapiro) wrote:
> 
> My temporary solution...I'm building a shareware program (called
> partslist...now in beta) that you drag a steering file. The steering
> file contains a textual list of files and their destination with an

The steering file could also be a folder of aliases.  You drag the folder
onto your app and it resolves the aliases it finds inside and copies the
real files.  The only problem is figuring out where the destination should
be, but you could have a destination alias.

Also, I you have MPW, I have a tool that resolves aliases.  You this you
can easily write a script that resolves the alias and duplicates the real
file.

Larry Rosenstein
Taligent, Inc.

lsr@taligent.com
From: mpinkert@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Snowden )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Disappearing icons for alias residing on another drive
Date: 29 Aug 92 18:51:46 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

another test....sorry again....

mike

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: czychi@bernina.ethz.ch (Gary Czychi)
Subject: Installer doesn't install "LaserWriter Prep". Why? 
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 18:42:30 GMT

Hi.

Today, I installed new printer drivers on the Macs in our network. I used
the installer on the "Printing" disk, and noticed, that it didn't install
the LaserWriter Prep file.  After a bit of testing, I figured out that it is
absolutely not necessary.

But why did Apple include this file in the first place?  What happens for
instance, when I want to print to a Linotronic instead of to a LaserWriter?
Will I need it there?

PLease help.


Thanks a lot,

  Gary

    Gary T. Czychi          University of St.Gallen

       czychi@alpha.unisg.ch (preferred host)
         czychi at csghsg52   (=bitnet)
           czychi@bernina.ethz.ch
             Switzerland
              -
  



Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: davidr@pdx.mentorg.com (David Ransier)
Subject: PB170 Heap Problem
Originator: davidr@davidr
Organization: engr
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 23:48:32 GMT


Hi, netters.

(Please excuse this message if you have seen it before.  I am having
problems posting news and have recieved no responses to this query.
Thanks for you patience.)

My group at work has a "floater" PB170 that is typically used when
one of us is traveling.  All this really means is that it's  difficult
to remove something and easy to add stuff to the Mac because you
can't know what someone else added that they'll expect the next
time they use it.

So here's my problem.  The system file is nearly 2Meg with very little
space left on the HEAP (8 Meg in the machine.)  I've tried using
HeapFixer V1.01 but it won't let me set the heap size any larger
than it is.  

It keeps running out of space, not constantly, but often enough to 
be obnoxious.  To run ResEdit (which I do frequently because I'm
learning Think C on it) I have to re-start with the <shift> button
down to turn off the extension applications.

It's a pain!

Any ideas how I can solve this, short of deleting all my fonts
or removing a bunch of extension applications?  Is there a more
current version of HeapFixer or a better program for System 7?

Thanks in advance.

David Ransier    davidr@pdx.mentor.com
From: erics@infoserv.com (Eric S. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Windows NT = Death of the Mac?
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 08:19:07 PDT
Organization: Reigning Cats and Dogs
Reply-To: erics@infoserv.com
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.5v4


ian@syacus.acus.oz.au (Ian Joyner) writes:

> Unix somehow sits in the middle of mainframes and workstations, but is
> not particularly suitable for either task. So where will it be in 10 years?

I think the industry is definitely moving in the direction of microkernels.
In 10 years Unix will still be around but it will probably be only one
of several "operating systems" that actually run on top of an MK, possibly
even on the same machine since processor speeds will increase dramatically
in the next ten years.

-----
Eric Smith
erics@infoserv.com
CI$: 70262,3610


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: John T. Chapman <jtc1@cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: Apple breaks promise? MODE32 not in 7.1?
X-Xxdate: Tue, 1 Sep 92 18: 21:52 GMT
Nntp-Posting-User: jtc1@cornell.edu
Organization: Office of Computing and Statistical Consulting
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 17:10:18 GMT

In article <SPENCER.92Aug31125259@guraldi.med.umich.edu> Spencer W.
Thomas, spencer@med.umich.edu writes:
>My understanding was that MODE32 worked only with system 7.0, not even
>with 7.0.1.  Please correct mee if I'm wrong.

I've been running Sys. 7.0.1, TuneUp 1.1.1 and Mode32 on a Mac II for a 
while now and have seen no incompatibilities. (Other than 32-bit 
unfriendly programs, of course).

- John

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From: rhrs_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Rob Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: HELP NEEDED!!!!!!!!!(read it)
Date: 1 Sep 92 15:43:27 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

Well, the subject says it all...

	Ever since I remember installing tune-up 1.1.1, I remember having
a very specific problem with several applications (Superpaint 3.0, Before
Dark 1.0.1 etc...).  What happens is this:  the application will quit 
suddenly and the machine will resume to the finder.  After this happens,
Ill get a dialog box that says something like:

	The application "unknown" has unexpectedly quit because
	and error of type 01 occurred.

The unknown is not generic; it appears every time no matter what application
Im running...so I can assume that the real appl quits before the system knows
whats going on.  Then, it realizes what happened, but because the appl is no
longer in memory, it doesnUt know what to call it, and thus calls it
unknown.  

Has this ever happened to anybody?  I have seen in happen on several machines
and I thought it was of a corrupt system (that seemed to fix it once).  Id
like to gather some info about this, and see if it makes any more sense.
Replies can be posted here or e-mailed to me directly at:

rhrs_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu

Thanks in advance for the time and effort,

>>>>>>>============================>>Rob Harris


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From: ljones@andrew.ATL.GE.COM (LeRoy E Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Virtual Memory Problems w/ Sys 7.0
Date: 28 Aug 92 15:32:21 GMT
Organization: GE Aerospace, Advanced Technology Labs

Hello,

This is my first post to this news group, and from reading it, 
there seems to be a lot of expertise here.

Hopefully, someone can help me.

I have System 7.0 running on a IIcx, 4MB RAM, and with MODE32. I just
tried to use the virtual memory feature, and had several problems. I 
turned on 32 bit processing, and enabled MODE32, and increased the
*total* memory to 12MB.

1) Although the memory control panel says 'total memory,' the entire
12MB seemed to be subtracted from my hard drive, ignoring the 4MB of
real RAM I have.

2) The Mac doesn't seem to release its VM on the hard drive. After I
ran some memory intensive applications, I closed them all and tried
to open one small application, and I got a message saying insufficient
memory (and not the message saying an application prefers X amount, but
only Y amount is available), and the application would not open. I
checked the Finder, and it said the largest unused block was > 8MB, and
this app only needed 342K!!!!

3) I couldn't seem to cut and paste. I tried cutting something from a
paint program, and pasting it into the scrapbook...after several tries
and 'out of memory' errors, that finally worked. Then I tried to copy
the picture from the scrapbook and paste it into a PICT resource inside
ResEdit, and I couldn't get it to work (the picture was about 700K). 
It was like the clipboard just kept being erased.

4) VM seemed to bite into harddrive space which I didn't allocate to it.


Any help would be appreciated. I don't know what System 7.0.1 fixes, but
I didn't even know it was out until reading this news group. Does it patch
VM?

Thanx in advance,

Lee

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Advanced Technology Laboratories
General Electric Conpany

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: brunner@crchh447.bnr.ca (James Brunner)
Subject: Re: JPG to GIF or PICT converter
Reply-To: brunner@crchh447.bnr.ca (James Brunner)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Richardson, Tx
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 18:04:44 GMT

In article <1992Aug31.152918.25507@bnr.ca>, brunner@crchh447.bnr.ca (James Brunner) writes:
|> I will be posting shortly (to the alt.binaries.pictures.utilities group)
|> ported versions of djpeg, giftoppm, ppmquant, pnmscale, cjpeg, & ppmtogif.  
|> I have done the minor changes necessary to get them to work with Think_C.  
|> Also, I have optimized the hell out of ppmquant.  It's still slow, but it's
|> at least 15% faster than the original version (I haven't done any real timing
|> yet, just estimates based on the output from the profiler).
|> 
[...]

Correction, my optimized version of ppmquant is 66% faster!  It is functionally
equivalent to the original version.  On a 565k ppm file (generated from a 43k
jpeg file), it took 417 seconds (6 min 57 sec) with the ORIGINAL version of
ppmquant.  My version took 138 seconds (2 min 18 sec) on the same file.  (I
probably could have saved a few more seconds if I took out the additional
informational messages I added ;-).
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All opinions are my own and have nothing whatsoever to do with BNR, NT,
NTI, Bell Canada, or any of the BCE corporations or affiliates.
From: karen@Cayman.COM (Karen Houldin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Making Disks For Duplication
Date: 26 Aug 92 01:32:33 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.mac.system
Organization: Cayman Systems Inc., Cambridge, MA

I have been making the master disks for Beta and Final Releases for a couple
of years now for Cayman Systems, but lately, due to the fact that we have 
many versions of software and products, this task has become quite time 
consuming and I was wondering if anybody else had any other ideas on how
to do this.

Currently, after making the first set of masters, I use a disk duplicator
by Mountain Computer which does a bit-by-bit copy.  I need 5 copies of each
master (for offsite backup, disk duplication house, support team, and 
QA backups).  Then, using a checksum program, I validate the copies against
the original.

This used to work great.  But now, I have been running into a lot of problems
with the copied disks and I have to maunually put each copy (after locking it)
into my mac and making sure that there are no copy errors, installer scripts
work, etc.  Over the last 3 months, I have had 3 bad copies, each adding 30
minutes or so to the final task.

The checksum program is from Mountain Computer also and seems to be far 
superior then anything else that I've tried.  

The above scenerio might not seem to take too long, but when you have to 
douple and triple check 75 to 80 disks manually, knowing that one mistake could
cause a lot of grief down the road for everyone, it really takes a lot of you.

How do other developers make their master disks?  Is there some other check-
sum program that I could have more confidence in?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

thanks

Karen
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 karen@cayman.com : Phone 617-494-1999, Fax 617-494-9270, AppleLink D0523
From: MacUserLabs@cup.portal.com (Stephan - Somogyi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: NEWS
Date: Tue,  1 Sep 92 09:05:38 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: na

Dan.Hughes@f421.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Dan Hughes) writes:

>Oh, brother. Why don't you get in a time machine and go back to Nazi
>Germany circa 1933 and sleep with Hitler you fascist, racist bitch! Then
>the allied bombers can bomb your bigotted ass in to oblivion with the rest
>of that sorry country.

Someone recently suggested disconnecting FidoNet from the Internet. I would
like to second that motion.

__________________________________________________________________________
Stephan Somogyi            puzzle-piece together-putter            MacUser
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: haase@meediv.lanl.gov (Peter Haase)
Subject: MAC Bookstore Los Angeles vicinity??
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.system
Organization: LANL
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 18:45:38 GMT

I am going to be in LA next week (UCLA area) and was wondering if anyone
knows of a good bookstore which carries the complete (or almost) line of
Apple books that are published by Addison-Wesley Publishing.............
Thanks in advance....

<==================================+==================================>
  Peter Haase                      +    Internet: haase@meediv,lanl.gov
  Net Manager/MEE-Division         +    Phone: 505-667-2684
  Los Alamos National Laboratory   +    FAX:   505-665-3911

"The opinions expressed in this message are my own and do not necessarily
 reflect those of Los Alamos National Laboratory"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: c60a-bw@danube.Berkeley.EDU (James Wang)
Subject: Re: Unknown Trick???
Organization: University of California, at Berkeley
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 22:31:49 GMT


Look, even the old cmd-. will halt a startup item if
you time the key stroke correctly.  and if you want
nothing launched, type it until you get repetitve-
motion-sickness :)

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.misc
From: mark@cygnus.lanl.gov (Mark Martinez)
Subject: file conversion: MacTOPS to Apple double format ???
Keywords: conversion tops double
Reply-To: mark@cygnus.lanl.gov
Organization: Los Alamos National Lab
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 13:50:21 GMT

This site uses MacTOPS for file sharing across a Sun network. I need to work on  
some of my TOPS files with Executor, a Mac emulator which runs on a NeXT  
computer. Executor can read Mac files from a UNIX file system if they are in  
Apple double format. MacTOPS apparently doesn't use Apple double format for  
storing files on a UNIX file system. Is there a convenient way to convert  
MacTOPS files to Apple double format and back again?

Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks

Mark Martinez
mlbm@lanl.gov
From: breck@saul.cis.upenn.edu (Breck Baldwin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Prolog wanted for the Mac
Date: 1 Sep 92 15:55:14 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

Would folks be kind enough to reccomend decent prologs for the Mac.
MacConnections says there are none currently available, but I hope
that they are just misinformed.

	Thanks

	breck
	breck@saul.cis.upenn.edu
From: dr_mcgee@pnl.gov (David R. McGee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Installer doesn't install "LaserWriter Prep". Why?
Date: 28 Aug 92 23:51:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: pythagor.dr_mcgee-280892165816
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.system
Organization: Pacific Northwest Laboratory

In article <1992Aug28.184230.13792@bernina.ethz.ch>, czychi@bernina.ethz.ch
(Gary Czychi) wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> Today, I installed new printer drivers on the Macs in our network. I used
> the installer on the "Printing" disk, and noticed, that it didn't install
> the LaserWriter Prep file.  After a bit of testing, I figured out that it is
> absolutely not necessary.
> 
> But why did Apple include this file in the first place?  What happens for
> instance, when I want to print to a Linotronic instead of to a LaserWriter?
> Will I need it there?
> 
> PLease help.
> 
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> 
>   Gary
> 
>     Gary T. Czychi          University of St.Gallen
> 
>        czychi@alpha.unisg.ch (preferred host)
>          czychi at csghsg52   (=bitnet)
>            czychi@bernina.ethz.ch
>              Switzerland
>               -
>   

This file was included for compatibility with the Apple PrintServer and
other printservers. It is required by these spoolers, and can be installed
by drag-dropping.

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
internet dr_mcgee@pnl.gov
From: bng@tropel.gca.com (Baldwin Ng)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: *** DISCOUNTED MACS !!! ***
Date: 3 Sep 92 19:01:14 GMT

HELLO EVERYONE!

I was talking to a salesman this morning at ComputerCity (a big computer store
here in Rochester, NY).  He told me that the BIG DISCOUNT from university 
computer stores right now will not be available to non-university compute 
stores until the week of 9/14.  Is that right?  Does anyone know about the
"inside" info as to how much discount those stores will be able to give?
Deeper discount than universities'??

Just for your info:

Univ. of Rochester, Computer Sales
IIsi 5/80 CPU	~$1499

ComputerCity:
IIsi 5/80 CPU	~$2200

Thanks,
Baldwin Ng

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: gpb@gpb-mac. (greg berryman )
Subject: Re: Turning Memory Cache Off
Organization: SPS
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 16:17:10 GMT

proctor@cme.nist.gov (Fred Proctor) writes:
: How does one turn off the memory cache in System 7?  In the Memory
: control panel, the cache is described as always on, and the minimum
: value I can set it to is 32K.

You don't.  The cache is Disk Cache and is basicly the ram buffer for disk reads
and you most likely really don't want to turn it off.

--
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Motorola Inc.       Austin Texas
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: neilg@fraser.sfu.ca (Neil K. Guy)
Subject: Re: 7.1 in Beta???
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 08:10:31 GMT

cory@enigami.mv.com (Cory Kempf) writes:

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

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

>For those of you on the outside, it seems to be a tradition at Apple
>to change the name of the "Special" menu on betas.  One the the 7.0
>betas was "Sportscars", another was (I think, fading memory) "Sculley".
>It returns to "Special" when the final version is shipped.

 So why "Shuswap?" Are there Canadian programmers at Apple working on
the new System?

 - Neil K. (n_k_guy@sfu.ca)
From: 00bwanderson@bsu-ucs.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: WARNING: HATE POST! (was News)
Date: 1 Sep 92 18:15:44 GMT

In article <1424.2AA07819@fidogate.FIDONET.ORG>, Mary.Hicks@p0.f222.n125.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Mary Hicks) writes:
> All jews should be shot in the head. They control the media and make it 
> look like Palestinians are wrong when in fact the jews are doing 
> genocide to them. The jews are the nazis of the desert and Rabin the 
> Hitler of the middle east. Why do jews commit genocide of palestinians 
> after them round them up and put them into death camps? 
> 
> JEWs: Ivan Boesky; Keating: Mike Milken; Carl Icahn; These are the Den 
> of Thieves, since most jews love to cheat people. Never trust anyone 
> with the last name Zimmer or Horowitz or Epstein or Roth, or Rosenberg.

Beggin' yer pardon, Miz Hicks, but what th @!#!@$!@# are you doing posting
HERE?!?!???  Just piss off, and take your hate to alt.flame, where it's the
norm.

> 
> 
> 
> --  
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>     UUCP: ...!uunet!hoptoad!kumr!fidogate!222.0!Mary.Hicks
> INTERNET: Mary.Hicks@p0.f222.n125.z1.FIDONET.ORG

Bruce Andersonbergstienwitz.

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