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Info-Mac Digest             Sat,  3 Oct 92       Volume 10 : Issue 239

Today's Topics:

      Ancient 13" Monitor Question
      Apple/Adobe, New Apple Fonts pr
      AppleTalk clock synchronization (Answer)
      Bypass for the LaserWriter testpage.
      Canvas 2.0....
      Central Point's e-mail address
      ChemEdit Problem...
      DesktopTextures Summary
      Dial-up Loops in (M)AcKnowledge
      Ethernet & Quadras
      extension ``restoreCLUT'' (Q)
      Fat Files (C)
      Fat Fujitsu Files
      Fat Fujitsu files (A) (2 msgs)
      FileGuard, and others
      Finder Folder Sizes (Q)
      Good experience with a Syquest drive and Dantz DiskFit-Pro backup
      HP PaintJet XL300
      Incredibly Noisy HDI Hard Drive (C)
      IP/TCP
      Macintosh IIsi won't shutdown.
      partitions
      POSSIBLE MACIISI/SYSTEM 7.0/M.S. WORD 4.0 VIRUS/BUS????
      Putting new files at the end (NOT!)
      reverse the order..(A)
      TCP Programs
      Tektronix terminal emulator
      Telecommunications on a 128K Mac
      The 128K Mac & a use other than a paperweight.
      The soon to be announced Quadras (Q)
      THINK C problem-solved
      Virtual Reality for Mac
      Why Apple is charging for system 7.1

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Date: Fri, 2 Oct 92 19:52:59 EDT
From: dougf@felix.async.vt.edu (Doug Feuerbach)
Subject: Ancient 13" Monitor Question

	Forgive my ingnorance, but what do owners do when they
discover that their 13" Apple monitor lies within a "troubled"
serial number range?

	Is there a program through authorized dealers or repair
shops that offers a free repair option, or even an extended
warranty?

	I'm sure this question is old, but I haven't found a
reference to it anywhere.

Regards,
Doug

[dougf@felix.async.vt.edu  -  Felix A/UX  -  Blacksburg, VA]

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Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 20:43:00 PDT
From: The Moderators <info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Subject: Apple/Adobe, New Apple Fonts pr

Here are some press releases I pulled from AppleLink. I haven't seen them on
the net.

--

Adobe and Apple Announce Further Details of Cooperative Font Strategy

Apple to Support Type I in QuickDraw GX, Adobe to Support Advanced
Typographic Capabilities of QuickDraw GX


SEYBOLD SAN FRANCISCO, San Francisco, California--September 22, 1992-
-Adobe Systems Incorporated and Apple Computer, Inc. today announced
they have signed an agreement that formalizes the details of their
previously announced cooperative font strategy.  The strategy is
intended to provide customers of Macintosh personal computers with
easier access to both Type I and TrueType fonts.
    This agreement calls for the integration of Adobe's Type I font
rasterizing technology into QuickDraw GX, Apple's new imaging
software architecture that will be delivered next year as an
extension to the Macintosh System 7 operating system.  Apple will
also include an enhanced version of Adobe's popular Tekton font with
QuickDraw GX.  Additionally, Adobe will use Apple's QuickDraw GX font
data structure in Type I fonts to take advantage of the advanced new
typographic capabilities of QuickDraw GX.
    QuickDraw GX will provide advanced new graphics and typographic
capabilities for Macintosh-based applications.  With QuickDraw GX,
customers will be able to create documents with greater visual
variety, using new typographic features, such as automatic ligatures,
swash characters and small caps.  Under the agreement, Apple and
Adobe will continue to work closely to ensure that QuickDraw GX
provides backward compatibility for fonts in both Type I and TrueType
formats.
    Using QuickDraw GX, font developers will be able to deliver fonts
with increased functionality and value, allowing them to
differentiate their offerings in the marketplace.  Software
developers will also benefit from the ability to use a single
application programming interface (API) to access fonts in either
format, making it easier to create applications for the Macintosh
computer.
    "QuickDraw GX is a significant advance in technology and gives users
greater control than ever before over the look of type in their
documents," said Charles Geschke, Adobe's president and chief
operating officer.  "With both Type I and TrueType integrated into
QuickDraw GX, users will have greater flexibility and choice in
selecting the typefaces most appropriate for their needs."
    "Any customer will be able to easily access the new advanced
typographic capabilities provided in QuickDraw GX with both Type I
and TrueType fonts," said Roger Heinen, senior vice president and
general manager of the Macintosh software architecture division.
"Adobe is a leader in the publishing industry--their support of the
QuickDraw GX technology in their applications and future GX fonts
will strengthen the acceptance of QuickDraw GX in the marketplace."

--

ApplApple Offers New Selection of High-Quality, Affordable Fonts for
Mainstream Macintosh Customers

New Fonts Complement Apple's Existing Fonts -- Available in the New
Apple Font Pack and in Apple Network Printers

SEYBOLD SAN FRANCISCO, San Francisco, California -- September 21,
1992 -- Responding to customer requests for a wider selection of
affordable, high-quality fonts, Apple Computer, Inc. today introduced
its latest retail software product, the Apple Font Pack, which
includes a rich selection of new TrueType fonts from leading type
vendors.  With the Apple Font Pack, Apple has made it even easier for
customers of the Macintosh personal computer to use fonts in
designing more effective documents with greater visual impact.
    The Apple Font Pack is designed as a comprehensive product that
addresses the typographic needs of mainstream customers.  It requires
minimal system overhead, and makes fonts easy to use with one-click
installation and a booklet to educate customers on how to effectively
use type to create compelling documents.  Apple's focus on ease-of-
use is backed up by one year of toll-free telephone support for
customers in the United States.  The Apple Font Pack also includes
the Apple LaserWriter Driver and LaserWriter Font Utility software
for using the fonts with Apple and third-party PostScript laser
printers.
    "Our objective is to make it easy and affordable for any Macintosh
customer to take full advantage of the powerful typographic
capabilities of System 7," said Roger Heinen, senior vice president
and general manager of Apple's Macintosh software architecture
division.  "With the Apple Font Pack, customers have convenient
access to a carefully selected library of exceptional fonts that will
deliver impressive results."
    The Apple Font Pack has 43 fonts, including 25 new Apple fonts -- all
>From leading type foundries -- and 18 of the fonts Apple has been
shipping with its popular LaserWriter and StyleWriter printers.  The
Apple Font Pack fonts, added to the 21 fonts that come with the
Macintosh System 7 operating software, bring Apple's font offering
for the Macintosh computer to 64.

Enhanced LaserWriter Printers
    The 25 new fonts will also be added to the library of fonts included
with Apple's network printers--the LaserWriter IIf, LaserWriter IIg
and Personal LaserWriter NTR.  This boosts the font offering to 64
for customers using any Macintosh computer with these printers, and
provides the most compelling type offering among laser printer
vendors.
    "Our network laser printers are a key part of Apple's business," said
John Moon, Apple's vice president, imaging products.  "The inclusion
of 25 new high-quality fonts in these printers sets a new standard
and is an example of Apple's continued commitment to provide its
customers with the industry's best all-around printing products."


Price and Availability
    In the United States, the Apple Font Pack will be available by
October 7, 1992 through a wide variety of software resellers and
authorized Apple resellers, for a suggested retail price of U.S. $99.
Outside the United States, the Font Pack will be available through
authorized Apple resellers.  Pricing varies by country.
    The 25 new fonts included on disk with the Apple LaserWriter IIf and
IIg and Personal LaserWriter NTR printers will be available beginning
September 22, 1992.  In the United States, the suggested retail price
for these enhanced laser printer products remains the same -- U.S.
$3,299 for the LaserWriter IIf, U.S. $4,299 for the LaserWriter IIg,
and U.S. $2,199 for the Personal LaserWriter NTR. The prices vary
outside the U.S. by country.


Compatibility and Configurations
    The Apple Font Pack requires a Macintosh personal computer running
System 7.   The LaserWriter IIf, IIg and Personal LaserWriter NTR
printer font sets are compatible with Macintosh computers running
System 6.0.7 or  System 7.   Once installed, the fonts are compatible
with any Macintosh printer or output device, and third-party
printers.


25 New Fonts from Apple

AGFA Division of Miles, Inc.      Delphian
				 Nadianne
				 Nadianne Bold
				 Oxford


Bigelow & Holmes, Inc.           Lucida Bright
				 Lucida Bright Bold
				 Lucida Bright Italic
				 Lucida Bright Bold Italic


Bitstream, Inc. (all licensed to ITC)   ITC Garamond Narrow
				       ITC Garamond Narrow Bold
				       ITC Garamond Narrow Italic
				       ITC Garamond Narrow Bold Italic

   Font Bureau, Inc.                     Zeal


International Typeface Corporation     ITC Machine
				       ITC Lubalin Graph
				       ITC Lubalin Graph Bold
				       ITC Lubalin Graph Oblique
				       ITC Lubalin Graph Bold Oblique


Linotype-Hell                          Helvetica Black
				       Helvetica Black Oblique
				       Helvetica Compressed
				       Helvetica Compressed Oblique


Monotype Typography                    Old English
				       Swing Bold
				       Onyx




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Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 09:40 GMT+1
From: "HEWAT@FRILL.BITNET FAX FRANCE(33) 76-48-39-06 TEL 76-20-72-13 OR (-26)"
<HEWAT%FRILL.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: AppleTalk clock synchronization (Answer)

>How can I synchronize the clocks of two Macs on AppleTalk?

Versaterm-Pro 3.6.2 (and probably the cheaper Versaterm) have a pair of
control panels called Versaterm Time Server and Versaterm Time Client
that should do just that.

Alan Hewat, ILL Grenoble, France (hewat@frill.bitnet)

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Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 18:50:00 EDT
From: "Thomas E. Palm, Computer Lab Asst." <palm@hal.hahnemann.edu>
Subject: Bypass for the LaserWriter testpage.

	If the LaserWriter is a II, then there is a hardware solution if Bill
Moynihan's solution (which I think works the best) does suit. On the toner
cartridge there are two places, side by side, that accomodate a tab. This tab
pushes a button telling the LaserWrtire that a cartridge in place. Remove this
tab before turning it on. Put the cartridge back and turn it on. Wait two
minutes and replace the cartridge, without turning it off. It's an ugly
procedure, but it definitely works. I just thought of something else. Remove
the paper cassette for two minutes and see if that will do it. Why two
minutes?
The LaserWriter will timeout and cancel the test page print job.

	Ugly solutions for Ugly problems.
		-Tom   palm@hal.hahnemann.edu

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Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 11:33:28 -0500 (CDT)
From: Z_GAUDIANOAF@CCSVAX.SFASU.EDU (Anthony F. Gaudiano II)
Subject: Canvas 2.0....

Howdy,

    I was just wondering if anyone out there has a updater for Canvas 2.0.
    Not
Canvas 3.0, 2.0.  Don't ask why...it's too long to explain.  Please reply
directly to me, as I don't want to waste everybody else's time with my
replies.
If there is sufficient interest, I will post a summary.  Thanks.

Anthony F. Gaudiano II
SFASU Apple Student Rep.
Applelink: ST0503
Internet: Z_GAUDIANOAF@CCSVAX.SFASU.EDU
Tenet: anthonyg@formby.tenet.edu

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Date: Sat, 03 Oct 92 02:03:20 EST
From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU>
Subject: Central Point's e-mail address

On Fri, 02 Oct 92 07:37:33 EDT you said:
>Anyone know Central Point's e-mail address? All I found in the
>MacTools 2 manual was how to get on the forum (Go CentralPoint,
>or something similar) but I do not have a Central Point Account.

75300.2172@compuserve.com

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Date: Sat, 3 Oct 92 00:52:57 PDT
From: Les Ferch <ferch@ucs.ubc.ca>
Subject: ChemEdit Problem...

>Any hints and/or suggestions of how to reach them (author of ChemEdit)
>electronically would be most appreciated...

Neil Gray can be reached at:

nabg@cs.uow.edu.au

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Date: Sat, 03 Oct 92 02:03:42 EST
From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU>
Subject: DesktopTextures Summary

On Thu, 1 Oct 92 19:46:44 edt you said:
>Thanks to all who answered my post on the application DeskTop Textures 2.0
>found in the Sumex-Aim Info-mac archives.  The results were mixed as 4 people
>reported having had problems.  Three said that they had not had any
problems.
>One person asked if I was using Cursor Animator (I'm not) because a rumor had
>circulated that there was a fatal conflict between the two.

I've used DeskTop Textures on a Mac IIci and a Quadra 700; 32-bit on,
virtual off 7.0.1 TU 1.1.1.  No problem at all.  I use it WITH Cursor
Animator 2.0.1 without ill effect.

Of course, Textures does write directly to the active System file.  As
ResEdit reminds you if you use it to open the active System, writing to
the active System may result in corruption.  In short, if the state of
your active system heap is a crash waiting to happen, anything that
writes to System may corrupt it.

A more cautious, though not foolproof, strategy for changing the desktop
texture would be to do it immediately following a restart (when the heap
should be relatively clean).  I run most of the extensions and cdevs on
the planet; Textures seems comparatively free of conflicts (your mileage
may vary), but you might also restart with the shift key down and then
install a new texture.  No warranty, of course, but I haven't found the
precautions necessary (knock on wood :)  However, I DO keep a backup
copy of my System hidden away in another folder in order to make my
risks calculated.

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Date: Sat,  3 Oct 1992 09:31:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Schroeder <ds4p+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Dial-up Loops in (M)AcKnowledge

Hi folks --

Prometheus Products ships a communications program called 'MacKnowledge'
(that's built with the Acknowledge comm-toolbox, I believe).  Problem is,
there's a capability for programming new scripts, but no scripting manual.

I'm looking for a stub of code that loops and keeps dialing a given
number until it gets something other than 'BUSY' -- if any MacKnowledge
users out there could mail me sample lines of code that can handle this
simple loop I'd appreciate it.

Many thanks -- Dave Schroeder

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

Date: Sat, 3 Oct 92 13:56:02 -0700
From: Jon Pugh <jpugh@apple.com>
Subject: Ethernet & Quadras

Well, I've finally got half a second of breathing time here, so I thought I
should update everyone on my trials and tribulations of late.

My goal was to Ethernet my house now that I have two Quadras (well, one's for
the wife) and a Laserwriter IIg.  The trouble is, I still have a PowerBook and
an SE/30.  So, on the advice of the net, I got three Asante FriendlyNet thin
connectors, for about $90 each, from a variety of sources.  Nobody had three,
so I had to shop around.  I picked up two 10' cables with connectors from
Fry's for about $20 each.

I chose thin for several reasons.  Notably, it's cheapest.  With twisted pair
I would need a hub since it is a star configuration.  This would have at least
doubled my cost.  Since I was currently running LocalTalk, thin's bus topology
was identical and could be laid right on top of (or in place of) the LocalTalk
wires.  In addition, twisted pair isn't FCC approved for use in the home.

OK, so I left the LocalTalk wires in place between all 5 machines and added a
3 node Ethernet.  The difference is impressive.  Printing times are down by
over a half.  Five minute jobs from Photoshop complete in two.  Large
postscript jobs are the most impressive.  They dropped to a tenth of the time,
like from a minute and a half to 11 seconds.  You might ask why bother with
short times like these, but these aren't our large jobs.  These are just ones
we tried for the before and after effect.

I copied an 11 MB file from Quadra to Quadra over Localtalk.  It took 12.5
minutes.  I switched to Ethertalk (via the Network control panel) and copied
it again.  It took 2.5 minutes.  Now that's worth some money in my book.  I
can stand to wait 2.5 minutes, but my attention wanders in 12 minutes and I'm
off doing something else, making the delay even greater before I get back to
what I was originally doing.

Well, the big problem now is the Network control panel.  Since I have to
choose between Appletalk or Ethertalk, it's a drag to switch.  So I got the
AppleTalk Internet Router, version 2.0 and 3.0a11 off the servers at work.  It
turns out 2.0 won't work with 32 bit addressing or VM.  That's out.  32 bit
cleanliness is required at my house.  I tried installing 3.0a11 but it
couldn't start up Ethertalk.  Bummer.  It just gave me one of those great
dialogs with an "I couldn't do that" dialog and an OK button.  Gotta love
'em.
Rumor has it that there is a newer version available, but I haven't had the
time to track it down.

So I'm stuck with the Network control panel and switching between them.  The
trouble is now that it also has an all too annoying "Are you sure?" dialog.
My wife started whining about it, which only made the damn thing more
annoying, so the ResEdit CODE editor and I went to work.

To remove the "Are you sure?" dialog from the Network control panel, open the
'cdev' resource and go to offset $13A4 in System 7.0, $13D2 in 7.0.1 or $1442
in 7.1 and change:

     3F00 A9C8 598F 2F3C 444C 4F47 3F3C F039
to:  4E71 4E71 3D7C 0001 FFF0 6000 0094 4E71

For those of you in the know, this is not, by far, the most efficient patch
ever written, but it works.  If you would like the control panel to beep at
you, don't change the first two words (3F00 A9C8).  I thought I might like it
to beep, but I was wrong, so I just NOPed the beep after the fact.

So, to summarize, for ~$350 I Ethernetted 3 machines for a dramatic increase
in speed.  I currently have to switch back and forth between LocalTalk and
Ethertalk, but my patched Network cdev takes the pain out of that.  I believe
this exercise was worth the time and money spent.  Plus now I can brag that I
am a true technoweenie, as if there were any doubt.

Jon

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Date: Sat, 3 Oct 92 10:33:18 PDT
From: jbthoo@ucdavis.edu ( John Thoo )
Subject: extension ``restoreCLUT'' (Q)

In infomacv10-237.txt Tom <palm@hal.hahnemann.edu> said:
%         In reference to Bob's problem with Color Startup Screens that go B&W
% and back to color. I am not sure if this will work, but I use an INIT called
% restoreCLUT. It is supposed to maintain the oorigal CLUT from the picture.
The
% system sometimes will replace the CLUT with the standard system CLUT. I
can't
% say if that is what the problem is, but give a try. I use this on an
original
% Mac II with DeskPICT. Haven't had a problem since.

Does anyone know where I can find the extension restoreCLUT?
I would like very much to give it a try.

Thanks much for your help.

--John.
<jb2@math.ucdavis.edu>

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Date: Sat, 3 Oct 92 16:00:47 EDT(-0400)
From: ed@titipu.resun.com (Edward Reid)
Subject: Fat Files (C)

Macintosh files are allocated one "allocation block" at a time.  The
Macintosh OS stores allocation block numbers for each partition as 16-bit
numbers, so there are a maximum of 2^16, or 65536, allocation blocks in each
partition.  Do the arithmetic and you will find that 7.5KB < 520MB/65536 <
8KB, hence the allocation block size on a 520MB partition is 8K.  Some
formatter/drivers may offer larger sector sizes, but this does NOT affect
the allocation block size.

You can decrease the allocation block size by partitioning a drive, since the
limit applies to each partition, not to the entire drive.  The table at the
end of this article shows maximum partition sizes for various allocation
block sizes, and (conversely) allocation block sizes for various partition
size ranges.

To decide whether to partition your disk, compare the waste of partitioning
vs the waste of not partitioning.  Huh? I hear you say.  How can I waste
space by partitioning?  Easy: if the space isn't in the partition where you
need it, it's wasted.  With only one partition, the space is naturally
always in the right partition.  Moving the space from one partition is a big
hassle, because you need to make TWO backups (for safety), reformat the
disk, and reload.  So you probably move some files instead of moving the
space.  Now think about it: at first you will have plenty of space in each
partition, so you won't be spending any time moving files, but you aren't
using the space you saved anyway.  As your disk fills up and you get close
to using the space you saved, you will move files more and more often until
you list "juggler" as your occupation.  If you move files that have aliases
pointing to them, you must reattach the aliases.  So in the general case,
partitioning can cost you either space or time.  Or both.

But you say you are willing to trade time for space, or have special
circumstances.  OK, calculate how much space you can actually save.  If your
files are of random lengths, you will waste about half an allocation block
for each, on the average.  But oops, there is a complication: Macintosh
files have two forks, the data fork and the resource fork, and the forks are
allocated separately, so you can lose an average of half an allocation block
for each fork.  In general, applications have only resource forks, plain
text files have only data forks, and most other documents have both data and
resource forks.  (There are exceptions, but they won't affect these
estimates much.)  So

  #forks = #applications + #plaintextfiles + 2 * #otherdocs

Now I don't know of an easy way to make this count.  You may already have a
pretty good idea of what's on your disk.  If not, I'm not sure what to
recommend.  If you have Retrospect, it can easily tell you how many files
have data forks and how many have resource forks.  I have one shareware
program which can almost do it, but crashes.  Perhaps someone else can
recommend a program to count.  Perhaps there is even some program that
calculates the actual waste.

Now you can calculate

  maxwaste   = #forks * allocblksize

  wasteguess = maxwaste / 2

For example, my hard disk holds 210MB, has a resulting allocation block size
of 3.5KB, and Retrospect tells me I have 1159 files with resource forks and
1528 with data forks (out of 2061 files), for a total of 2687 forks.  Thus
my

   wastemax   = 2687 * 3.5 * 1024     = 9630208 = ~10MB

   wasteguess = 9630208 / 2           = 4815104 = ~ 5MB

Geez, say I, that's about 5 megabytes I could get by partitioning my drive!
Sounds pretty worthwhile!  But wait a minute.  First, I'm not going to get
it all -- even if I cut my disk up into seven partitions to achieve the
minimum allocation block size, I'll still be wasting well over a megabyte.
And seven equal partitions would be a major hassle.  I could make two 99MB
partitions and a small 12MB out of the remainder, so that most of my files
would be stored with a 1.5KB allocation block size, so I might save as much
as 2 or 3 MB.  Still sound like a lot?  Compare it with the size of my disk,
and you see that I could save the princely total of about 1% of my space.  I
could so easily lose that by having the space in the wrong place that I'm
sure it's not worth doing.

Does this mean you should never partition to save space?  No, only that you
should analyze your own situation carefully before doing so.  For example,
if I had 27,000 forks instead of 2700 on my disk, the estimated savings of
50MB, for almost 25% of my disk, would almost certainly be worth the trouble
of partitioning.  Also, if you have a very large number of files, many are
likely very small -- only a small part of a single allocation block -- and
so you should estimate waste using the maximum possible waste.  For example,
suppose you will be storing 12,000 files on a 520MB disk, but 10,000 of
these are in a nest of folders with a single root, and virtually all the
files are less than 500 bytes.  You can easily calculate that you will save
70MB by placing them in a small partition.  Split your disk into a 500MB and
a 20MB partition, put the small files in the little part.  You will have
allowed half of the small partition for growth, yet saved 60MB even if you
don't use that cushion, and you decreased the allocation block size on the
large partition as a warm fuzzy.

You may find other uses for partitioning.  In some configurations it can
improve performance, or you may need to isolate two or more users keeping
each within his alloted space.  The purpose of this note is to help you
decide whether you should partition your disk to save space.

Here is the promised table.  I've listed the partition sizes three ways
because different formatters use different methods: by megabytes=10^6, by
"megabytes"=2^20, and by "kilobytes"=2^10.  The numbers for partition size
in (10^6) megabytes (including the 33.5 and 67.1 in the formulas) are not
exact but are conservative -- if you use those numbers to choose a partition
size, you will definitely get the desired allocation block size.  "floor"
means round DOWN; "ceil" means round UP.  "B" = bytes.

Alloc blk   Alloc blk   Max partition   Max partition   Max partition
(sectors)     (KB)      (megabytes)     ("megabytes")   ("kilobytes")
(2^9 B)     (2^10 B)    (10^6 B)        (2^20 B)        (2^10 B)

   1          0.5           33              32              32768
   2          1             67              64              65536
   3          1.5          100              96              98304
   4          2            134             128             131072
   5          2.5          167             160             163840
   6          3            201             192             196608
   7          3.5          234             224             229376
   8          4            268             256             262144
   9          4.5          301             288             294912
  10          5            335             320             327680
  11          5.5          369             352             360448
  12          6            402             384             393216
  13          6.5          436             416             425984
  14          7            469             448             458752
  15          7.5          503             480             491520
  16          8            536             512             524288
  17          8.5          570             544             557056
  18          9            603             576             589824
  19          9.5          637             608             622592
  20          10           671             640             655360

   n          n/2       n*2^25/10^6       n*32             n*2^15
   n                  floor(n*33.5)
  n*2          n      floor(n*67.1)       n*64             n*2^16
n*0.0298   n*0.0149         n

Edward Reid  (8*}>
  eel:   ed@titipu.resun.com  or  nosc.mil!titipu.resun.com!ed
  snail: PO Box 378/Greensboro FL 32330

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Date: Sat, 03 Oct 92 02:05:29 EST
From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU>
Subject: Fat Fujitsu Files

On Thu, 1 Oct 92 15:03:00 -0700 you said:
>My Mac is a Quadra 900, using a 520 MB Fujitsu hard drive, and uses the
>disk driver provided by the FWB Hammer Toolkit. Where do I go to
>redefine the minimum size of a file on my hard disk?

I have not seen FWB Hammer Toolkit, but I'm pretty sure I've read that
it will partition a drive.  Unless you intend to store multi-megabyte
QuickTime movies or other really large files, there are a lot of good
reasons why partitioning that 520 MB drive into 5 partitions of 104 MB
each is a good idea (hope you have a monitor large enough for all the
volume icons ;-)  One feature is that you'll have smaller minimum file
sizes.

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Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 21:09:15 GMT
From: chai@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Ian Chai)
Subject: Fat Fujitsu files (A)

>The problem is the formatting software, by default, selected a large sector
>size (in this case 8K). Formatting softwares usualy chooses larger sector
>sizes for bigger drives for performance reasons. If you store lots of small
>files and wish to gain addition disk space, you could choose a smaller
>sector size (3-5K) if your software allows it (you probably have to do a
>manual or customized setup).

If you do this, as Mike Dustan said, performance can degrade, so you
might want to partition (make sure you use *hard*, and not soft,
partitions) the drive.

Ian

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Date: Sat, 3 Oct 92 17:00:54 -0500
From: chai@cs.uiuc.edu
Subject: Fat Fujitsu files (A)

>The problem is the formatting software, by default, selected a large sector
>size (in this case 8K). Formatting softwares usualy chooses larger sector
>sizes for bigger drives for performance reasons. If you store lots of small
>files and wish to gain addition disk space, you could choose a smaller
>sector size (3-5K) if your software allows it (you probably have to do a
>manual or customized setup).

If you do this, as Mike Dustan said, performance can degrade, so you
might want to partition (make sure you use *hard*, and not soft,
partitions) the drive.

Ian

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Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 14:46 EDT
From: KIERAN O'CONNOR <OCONNOR%SNYCORVA.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: FileGuard, and others

Hi,

Our school had fileguard and we have yet to get an upgrade to work
with Sys 7.0 (1!). SHows how slow we are-and how underfunded!

Anyway, before can any of you offer any thoughts on whether we should
upgrade wto the next version of FileGuard, or is there sometihng else
you like?

FileGuard seemd to work ok, and what it did for us was super. Our
school is 7-12 th grade, and we need to prevent things form being
trashed, we need to lock certain folders (like the system) and we need
to be able to lock the hard drive so kids are forced to save to
floppies.

Any help? Private e-mail repsonses are requested, if possible.

Kieran O'Connor

oconnor@snycorva.bitnet

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Date: Fri, 2 Oct 92 20:38:21 CDT
From: fjvanwet@cwis.unomaha.edu (Francis J. Van Wetering)
Subject: Finder Folder Sizes (Q)

Here's one I never noticed before.  When you total the size of the folders
(calculated when in NAME View), they are not equal to the amount of storage
the Finder says is occupied on the hard disk.  In fact, there are about
35Mbytes
"unaccounted" for.

Anyone know what in the world is going on here?  I checked the disk, and the
only invisible files are the desktop file, and THAT certainly isn't 30M
large!

any thoughts, hints, etc., as always, are appreciated.

| F.  J.  Van Wetering, Ph.D.    INTERNET:    fjvanwet@cwis.unomaha.edu    |
| Management Information Systems BITNET: fjvanwet%cwis.unomaha.edu@UNLVAX1 |

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Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 09:56 GMT+1
From: "HEWAT@FRILL.BITNET FAX FRANCE(33) 76-48-39-06 TEL 76-20-72-13 OR (-26)"
<HEWAT%FRILL.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Good experience with a Syquest drive and Dantz DiskFit-Pro backup

After all the flack some US companies have been taking recently about high
prices and poor service to European customers, here's a small redressment.

I faxed Dantz asking for an upgrade from DiskFit Pro 1.0 to 1.1 and three
days later it arrived from the US on my desk in Grenoble France - for free !
Apart from the service, I have used DiskFit for 2+ years, and it is great for
doing a mirror image backup to Syquest cartridges.  Only copies the changed
files of course, so fast, and the backup cartidges are true images of 40Meg
portions of the 160Meg hard disk.

Then my Ehmann Syquest drive fell off my desk, landing hard enough on a corner
to distort the metal case.  Plugged it in, and it still works fine ! Fortunate
it contained no cartridge at the time, so the heads must have been parked.

Alan Hewat, ILL Grenoble, France (hewat@frill.bitnet)

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Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 16:22 EDT
From: "This is it.." <COHENALAN@urvax.urich.edu>
Subject: HP PaintJet XL300

	I just got the PaintJet XL300 on Friday and the forgot to include
the print drivers! Does anyone know where I can get them like fast? I called
HP and they will send it out but I don't want to wait another week for them.

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

Date: 3 Oct 92 04:44:29 GMT
From: bohus@math.rutgers.edu (Geza Bohus)
Subject: Incredibly Noisy HDI Hard Drive (C)

I have a PowerDrive 105, too, and I agree that it's very noisy. I got
a fan from Radio Shack and put it in ($18) and now it's much better.

g

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Date: Sat, 03 Oct 92 00:22:45 EDT
From: alan123@aol.com
Subject: IP/TCP

>>The AT Internet Router cannot do IP/TCP routing, never did never will do!

Actually, version 3.0, soon to be releases, is supposed to support TCP/IP
   ALAN

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Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 15:14:25 GMT
From: mbany@iastate.edu (Mike A. Bany)
Subject: Macintosh IIsi won't shutdown.

My Mac IIsi won't shutdown from the menu anymore, when you try it just closes
everthing and loads it back up.  I talked to an apple service center and they
said I would have to replace the motherboard for $300.  Does anyone know of a
specific component to replace or something else I can do that doesn't cost
quite as much.  Please e-mail or post.

Thanks in advance,

mbany@iastate.edu

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Date: Sat, 03 Oct 92 00:29:40 EDT
From: alan123@aol.com
Subject: partitions

>>all files on my hard diskhave sizes on disk which are multiples of 8K
bytesWhere do I go to redefine the minimum size of a file on my hard disk?

You need to make smaller partitions on your hard drive. the larger the drive
partitions,the larger the minimum block size, hence the more space the same
file takes up and the more wasted space you ewill have.  Store Larger files,
like graphics and scans in large partitions, small files in small partitions.
Alan

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Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 06:43 +0800
From: JFRANKEN@hkucc.hku.hk
Subject: POSSIBLE MACIISI/SYSTEM 7.0/M.S. WORD 4.0 VIRUS/BUS????

  I have run into an alarming problem over the past few days
  with my Macintosh IIsi and M.S. Word 4.0, and suspect either
  a virus or a bug in System 7.0.Any advice gratefully
  received.

  Background.I've been running Word 4.0 on my MacIIsi for
  about 18 months without any problems.Recently I was working
  on a new file when suddenly both the file and the
  application closed, and the message "The application
  'unknown' has suddenly quit because a Type 1 error has
  occurred" appeared.This has NEVER happened before.I
  could open this "crashed" file, but as I would get toward
  the end, the file and application would bomb out again.

  Now, when I try to open some of my other Word files--but not
  all of them--I get the message that "Some files could not be
  opened, try opening them from the application", and when I
  try to do that, the file and system close up with the Type 1
  error message.However, I can still open other Word files
  without any problems (so far!).

  I have run checks on disk and file health and integrity with
  MacTools and for viruses with the SAM virus checker (which
  has the April 1991 virus list), and things check out fine.I
  can get into some of these "bad" files by copying them through
  MacLink and opening the resultant text files with either
  Word or TeachText...there is a lot of garbage at the end of
  the files which contain snippets of previously
  deleted text; at the very end there is a line that begins with
  a "HH@" and which includes "LWLS", a reference, I presume, to
  my (slow) Apple Personal Laser Writer.

  There doesn't seem to be a pattern about the "bad" files (I
  have stopped using Word for the time being since I don't
  want to mess up my system) in that the problems affects some
  new files and some old ones.

  I don't know that much about viruses and how to ID them
  (that's why I bought SAM), and System 7 has its mysteries
  too.If it helps, the hard drive is pretty full (only a few
  megs out of 80 are left).

  There may be least two related symptoms.  Sometimes the
  computer is VERY slow and takes forever to open a folder or an
  application.  And sometimes not.  Also, there seems to be a
  problem with the "Delete Tracking" file created by the Mirror
  utility in MacTools (which you use for possible file recovery)-
  -when I tried to recover some files recently MacTools told me
  that the Delete Tracking file was corrupt and would have to be
  replaced. I'm still working on that one.

  The problems remind me of some of the file integrity issues we
  used to have with the Apple II-Plus...I would add that I always
  check new floppy disks with SAM and have only found one virus
  among the many I've checked, and that was very long ago.

  I would appreciate any suggestions.Please send the
  response to me at JFRANKEN@HKUCC.BITNET.I will collate
  answers and repost them on this board.MANY THANKS!

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

Date: Sat, 3 Oct 92 14:21:47 bst
From: Lloyd Wood <L.H.Wood@lut.ac.uk>
Subject: Putting new files at the end (NOT!)

IMHO, putting the new file info at the end to please AOL users is a bad idea.
AOL users can download files from AOL, so they don't need this info. And
reading through all of Info-MAc using rn to find out what the files are
archived as and what they are does NOT appeal.

Flame off.

Suggestion - run alternate, shorter, QA/filelist infomacs.

Lloyd Wood
L.H.Wood@uk.ac.lut

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

Date: Fri, 2 Oct 92 23:51 EDT
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <needje@msen.com>
Subject: reverse the order..(A)

In 10-238, Alan Gordon suggests putting the Q&A section of the newsletter
to accommodate the America On Line Internet gateway, which truncates all
incoming Internet mail to about 27k. He reasons that AOL users can't
receive any of the newly archived files mentioned in the early section and
thus find only the Q&A section useful.

Wrong-headed approach, Alan. IBM users of AOL are restricted to 8k on the
Internet gateway--should all the IBM subscription lists be modified to
accommodate them?  It's better for you to learn how to get the full
INFO-MAC issues--and those files which you think are of only "curiosity"
value too!  You can--even through the AOL gateway.

Here's a squib I wrote for Prodigy a few months ago explaining how to use
one of the ftp mailers. It describes how to get a typical file. You can get
each Info-Mac issue in full the same way. For example, get volume 10 number
238 by requesting the file:
info-mac/digest/im/infomacv10-238.txt
>From the ftp mailer.

Do you have a mail link to the Internet? Then you can get any file on the
Internet available on any PUBLIC bulletin board or archive MAILED to you
for your use!  That's true even if your mail gateway is limited to small
files (like on AOL).

Here's how. Decide on a file you want and make sure you know ALL the
details of it--its exact name, the directory it is in, the Internet site
that has it. You must know EXACTLY how to reach the file because the method
I'm about to describe is handled by a computer that knows nothing except
how to follow your instructions.

For example, let's suppose you're on AOL and read that there's an update to
Kung-Fu Chivalry. The updater was posted yesterday in the Mac archives at
Stanford, which you learn from INFO-MAC (an almost-daily Internet
bulletin). You decide to get that file.  The INFO-MAC listing reads:
	     /info-mac/game/kung-fu-chivalry-12-updater.hqx; 600K

Note that the file is 600K; the AOL limit is 27k. So the file will have to
be split up into chunks smaller than 27k to reach you on AOL. Here's what
you do.

Prepare the following mail message off-line. Address it to
 ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com
Put as the subject anything you want to identify the reply: say, "KungFu
Updater"

In the body of the message, do this (I'm JeffreyN3 on AOL so filled in my
own address below):

reply <JeffreyN3@aol.com>
connect sumex-aim.stanford.edu
chdir info-mac/game
GET kung-fu-chivalry-12-updater.hqx
chunksize 25000
quit

That's it--you'll get an acknowledgment that the request was received and
within a day (maybe two) the file will be in your mailbox at AOL--in 23
separate pieces. You'll have to remove the header information and then
combine all the files in the right order before running a dehqx utility on
them, but you will have the file--for the cost of your downloading time
only. (There is at least one utility that ignores the headers and combines
the files for you--that's BinHqx1.02DA, available as
mac/system.extensions/da/binhqx1.02.sit.hqx from mac.archive.umich.edu.)
You can get binary files too. For more info, send a message to the same
ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com saying only:

reply <JeffreyN3@aol.com>
help
quit

Jeff Needleman  <needje@msen.com>

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Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 22:32:08 -0800
From: Scott Allen Gruby <sgruby@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Subject: TCP Programs

I just got a SLIP connection (it is real neat), but I seem to have problems
with some freeware/shareware TCP programs giving me bus errors and
crashing. Any ideas on if these programs, such as Finger, Talk, ircle, etc.
are stable?

I haven't tried turning off extensions yet, but I will do that soon.

Thanks.

Thanks.

Scott Gruby
sgruby@jarthur.claremont.edu

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Date: Sat, 3 Oct 92 00:41:43 PDT
From: Les Ferch <ferch@ucs.ubc.ca>
Subject: Tektronix terminal emulator

>>Does anyone know of a PD or shareware terminal program that supports
>>Tektronix graphics (40014 or 4100)?

>Kermit 0.9 ought to do the trick.

MS-Kermit can do Tektronix graphics, but unless there's a hidden trick
I've missed, MacKermit cannot. Try info-mac/comm/graf-term.hqx. I've also
heard that Telnet 2.5 does graphics, but it requires MacTCP (and MacSLIP
(or equivalent) for a dial-up connection) unless NCSA still provides a
stand-alone version with SLIP support. I have not seen either program in
action doing graphics. I only speak of what I've read.

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

Date: Fri, 02 Oct 92 18:34:39 CDT
From: Andrew Vernon <AVERNON1@UA1VM.UA.EDU>
Subject: Telecommunications on a 128K Mac

Telecom on a 128? Tough but not impossible.
For this, you have to get a program from the days of beige-and-brown
Mac cases - Red Ryder. Before Scott Watson rolled out White Knight as a
commercial package, he tested the waters with this shareware version,
which depending on the particular release, can give you a VT100 on the
128. FTP to wuarchive.wustl.edu and get rr80.sit and rr92.sit from the
mirrors4/macintosh/comm directory. Those are the last two shareware
releases I know of, and should fit the bill. In fact, while you're
there, you can try some of the other programs in that directory, since
most of them were posted between 1984 and 1988.

 ---------
    Andrew

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Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 18:40:42 EDT
From: "Thomas E. Palm, Computer Lab Asst." <palm@hal.hahnemann.edu>
Subject: The 128K Mac & a use other than a paperweight.

> I have a user who wants to use a 128K Mac as a VT100 terminal.  Does anyone
> know what software and version number will run on a 128K Mac?  I know
> Kermit .40 won't.  Thanks for help.
> -Chip Eckardt, UW-Eau Claire Computing & Networking Services-

	I am working on a 512KE at home, but when it was a 128K I used Red
Ryder. I don't have an old version of it. Anything before 10.3 I believe is
shareware. It is limited, but so is a 128K paperweight.

				-Tom  palm@hal.hahnemann.edu

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

Date: Fri, 2 Oct 92 16:42:50 MDT
From: Walter Smith <wsmith@csn.org>
Subject: The soon to be announced Quadras (Q)

Greetings,

I'm in the process of putting together a purchasing recommendation for my
company to by a Quadra. I had intended to suggest the Quadra 700, but I've
heard
that that model is about to be replaced by a newer model. What's up?

Our need is immediate. Is it possible to order these new Quadras yet? Any info
would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Walter Smith
wsmith@rmt.com

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Date: Sat, 3 Oct 92 17:43:54 EDT
From: God <simsh@rpi.edu>
Subject: THINK C problem-solved

Hello again,
	Thanks to all who sent replies. I have found out why my THINK C
stopped working. This was the first program I had compiled since I upgraded.
I also have gotten many new INITs and CDEVs lately. Apparently one of them
worked all right with version 5.0.1, but had some kind of conflict with
version 5.0.3. When I took out all my strange INITs and CDEVs, the problem
went away. Now I have to try to find out which INIT or CDEV caused the
problem,
out of over a dozen candidates. Thanks again to all who responded.

     Hillel Sims                             e-mail: simsh@rpi.edu
     Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Date: Fri, 2 Oct 92 18:48:40 edt
From: "Paco Belle (Spice, Reid)" <SPICE@DICKINSON.EDU>
Subject: Virtual Reality for Mac

Does anyone know of any VR programs for the Mac?  Technically, of course,
even games like Spectre are VR but I'm talking about something snazzy.  I've
looked through the pub/vr directory at ftp.apple.com and there are some
informative readme files there, etc. but not much specific.  It seems that
there are some interesting things you can do with the Mattel PowerGlove (or
something like that) as an input device for your Mac.  Unfortunately, most of
the software seems to be geared towards the PC (ugh.) and sometimes the
Amiga.  Anyone know of anything around?  Shareware/Freeware/PD is preferable
(I'm a student) but I'd also be interested in hearing about commercial stuff
if it is a) very powerful or b) very cheap (heh heh).  I will summarize for
the list if there is enough response.  Thanks.

Reid Spice
SPICE@DICKINSON.EDU

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Date: Sat, 3 Oct 92 06:38:48 -0600
From: Robert T. Weverka <weverka@drip.Colorado.EDU>
Subject: Why Apple is charging for system 7.1

Early Mac users will recall that Apple once bundled MacDraw and
MacWrite with the Macintosh for free.  They decided to quit
bundling and charge for these programs in an effort to encourage
third party development of  drawing and writing packages for the
Mac.

It is clear to me that the charge for system 7.1 is a similar
attempt by Apple and we can expect Microsoft to announce a
Macintosh operating system soon.

-Ted
weverka@boulder.colorado.edu

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