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From: Michael_D._Murie@fourd.com
Organization: 4th Dimension BBS
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 14:24:39 EST
Subject: Multimedia Newsletter - free copy

For a free sample issue of "Exploring Multimedia," the Macintosh multimedia
newsletter, send your name and address to:

    Multimedia Workshop
    P O Box 44-37
    Somerville MA 02144
    (617) 776-2469

OR you can email your name and address to: Michael_D._Murie@fourd.com



The following release describes the newsletter in more detail. 

NEW MACINTOSH MULTIMEDIA NEWSLETTER

Boston MA - December 18: A new Macintosh multimedia newsletter called 
EXPLORING MULTIMEDIA will commence publication this January. Written for
multimedia users and producers, each issue includes product reviews, news,
hints and tips of interest to this audience. Exploring Multimedia goes beyond
other magazines by trying to answer the questions; How is it done? What is it
good for? and How do we make money doing this?

Exploring Multimedia is published by Multimedia Workshop and edited by Michael
D. Murie, a Macintosh multimedia consultant who writes for several nationally
known computer magazines. He is co-author of the QuickTime Handbook published
by Hayden. Having worked as a consultant for over five years, Murie knows what
users want. "Most people want to get a task done as quickly and easily as
possible. The latest toys are of little use if you don't know how to use them
effectively."

The publishers maintain that this newsletter isn't going to be another boring
trade publication. Exploring Multimedia promises a lot of excitement for
readers. "Multimedia is the most exciting field in the industry and we want to
bring that feeling to Exploring Multimedia," says Murie. To compliment the
newsletter an electronic bulletin board is planned that will allow readers to
download sample files, demos, and the latest news.

Multimedia Workshop, P.O.Box 44-37, Somerville MA 02144. Phone (617) 776-2469


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From: Eric.Choi@zeus.ieee.org (Eric Choi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Geneva,Cairo display but don't print (sys 7.)
Date: 18 Dec 92 02:49:16 GMT
Organization: IEEE Service Center, Piscataway, NJ

There is no good dim sum in Michigan! 

  cu> From: cthurrot@jade.tufts.edu (cthurrot@pearl) Date: 14 Dec 92
  cu> 19:09:54 GMT Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA Message-ID:
  cu> <CTHURROT.92Dec14140937@jade.tufts.edu> Newsgroups:
  cu> comp.sys.mac.system
  cu> 
  cu> Help please! Hi, I just upgraded to system 7.0.1 from 6.0.5 and am
  cu> having probs printing to my Laserwriter IIntx.  In all my
  cu> applications, Geneva and Cairo display fine on the screen, but then
  cu> print out as helvetica and a serif font (times?) when I send to the
  cu> printer.  I re-installed the fonts from the Sys 7.0.1 fonts disk, what
  cu> am I doing wrong.  I have Adobe Type Manager available if that is
  cu> needed, but I am running without it until I figure this out (ATM is
  cu> not installed, I don't think that is the problem). Please email
  cu> replies if possible to : CTHURROT@PEARL.TUFTS.EDU Thanks, Chris
  cu> cthurrot@pearl.tufts.edu -- VVVVVVV--Disclaimer--VVVVVVVVV          I 
  cu> -Chris   (wonko@end.tufts.edu) 
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Chris, you need the Truetype fonts for Chicago and Geneva installed in the
System file. If you choose view by icon, it is the suitcase wih the three "A".
You still need those with the single "A". These are the bitmap fonts which
appear on your screen, scaled according to the TrueType fonts.

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From: chang hsu liu <cliu@silver.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Strange system problems!!
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 08:45:21 GMT


Dear netters, 

I have several minor (but annoying) problems on the system 7.0.1 
with tuneup I'd like  to find answers. All of the problems won't go 
away after re-installation of the system software or with extensions
off.  The disk was formatted with Hard disk Toolkit PE.

1) "By Label" won't work, and it becomes "Get Info."
I cannot use "By Label" for "View" on Finder. When I choose it, the view
won't change and I get the info box of the folder if the folder is my 
current view. It won't do anything if a hard disk is my top view. All 
the other views work. (By name, by date,.....)

2) "Get Info" won't work on "hard disk" and "Trash."
"Get Info" won't work on the hard disk and trash, but works on folders.
But it's strange that I could "get info" from the aliases of the Hard drive 
and Trash.

3) Color Switch and Finder redraw.
I liked using "Color Switch" to change monitor settings, but I found one
very irritating desktop redraw recently. It would redraw the desktop
everytime I change the color depth. It takes 3-4 seconds on my machine.
I don't remember seeing this when I first started using it. Is there any
known conflict between Color Switch and other extensions. I felt that
SpeedyFinder could be the reason, but I was not completely sure.

4) BeHierarchic problem?
I used create a alias for hard disk or a folder and put it in Apple menu 
items, so that I could access the folder hierarchically from Apple menu 
with the help of BeHierarchic. It works fine. But everytime I have a crash 
and when I restart the Mac, it takes far longer time to show the desktop 
after the CDEVs, extensions are loaded. After the loading of extensions, 
I see my external hard disk (200Mb) flashes for 30 seconds to 1 mintues, 
then my internal (80Mb) flashes another 30 seconds. After these two 
steps, my hard disk redraws the desktop (antoher 10 seconds). It dries 
me crazy. I suspect that BeHierachic need to update the folder info after
a crash. It doesn't happen again after I remove the CDEV. Is there a 
good substitute for BeHierarchic? I really like the hierarchical menu but
I hate to wait so long after the crash.


Thanks in advance for the input.

Peter Liu

cliu@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
From: roy@mchip00.med.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Anti-Virus software
Date: 16 Dec 1992 19:52:23 GMT
Organization: New York University, School of Medicine
NNTP-Posting-Host: mchip00.med.nyu.edu

> Get SAM.  Symantec gives good support although you pay a lot

	I actively discourage the use of SAM.  Completely aside from the
facts that it costs money and I find the "scanning disk for viruses" dialog
boxes annoying, it apparantly can be configured in a variety of ways.  Most
of the machines I've seen it installed on have it configured so that you can
abort a disk scan if you like.  What typically happens is I watch somebody
put a floppy in, not want to wait the few seconds to wait for the scan to
finish, and hit the abort button.  Some people seem to have trained
themselves to abort the scan almost automatically every time they put a disk
in.  This makes SAM totally useless.

	Would you have sex with a brand of condoms that, everytime you used
them, stopped you in your tracks and made you wait 10 seconds, but gave you
the option to just take the condom off and continue what you were doing
unprotected?

	Disinfectant has no configuration required or possible.  You just
install it and it works.  You never hear from it again until it alerts you
to a virus attack.
-- 
Roy Smith <roy@nyu.edu>
Hippocrates Project, Department of Microbiology, Coles 202
NYU School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
"This never happened to Bart Simpson."
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From: Joe_D._Ciarcia@fourd.com
Organization: 4th Dimension BBS
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 15:40:31 EST
Subject: Re: Cleaning Macs

Chris if you are using a normal vaccum cleaner to clean computers it is only a
matter of time before you completly beyond recognition destroy a computer. 
Unless you have a special vaaum cleaner specifically designed for cleaning elecronic
devices you are taking a big risk.  Vaccum cleaners generate lots of static
electricity.... computers and static don't mix very well.  I believe that 3M
makes a vaccum cleaner that is designed for cleaning computers.  I think it
cost somewhere around $250. but I wouldn't know where to find one.  Joe
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From: Michael_J._Bell@fourd.com
Organization: 4th Dimension BBS
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 04:52:11 EST
Subject: Re: decompress question????

A .image file is a special file which is an exact duplication of an entire
disk. It has been used for 2 or more years by apple for distributing system
software.
You need either/both
     mountimage - this cdev allows you to mount the file as if it were a disk
     diskcopy - this application allows you to create .images of your own, and "decompress" them back to a full disk.
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From: licht-jeffrey@yale.edu (Jeffrey Licht)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Quicktime natural bit depth
Date: 17 Dec 1992 14:17:53 -0500
Organization: Yale University Science & Engineering UNIX(tm), New Haven, CT 06520-2158
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: minerva.cis.yale.edu



What is the natural bit-depth that Quicktime movies use?  If I use a different
depth, will I see a serious performance hit?

Thanks.

-- 

Jeffrey Licht 					 jeffrey@minerva.cis.yale.edu
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From: wjb@cscsun2.larc.nasa.gov (William J. Bene)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: System 7.0.1 and Fonts
Date: 14 Dec 1992 17:49:47 GMT
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA  USA
Reply-To: wjb@cscsun2.larc.nasa.gov (William J. Bene)
NNTP-Posting-Host: cscpk.larc.nasa.gov

After using the Postscript file option in the print job dialog box, I noticed 
that all my New York fonts were converted to Times Roman.  My Laserwriter did
not have the New York font so I downloaded and it made no difference.

I thought that the Mac will query the printer to determine what fonts it has 
loaded.  The fonts the printer does not have are then included in the 
postscript code if they are loaded in the System file.  If neither of these 
is the case, a substitution is done.

Is this right?  I have System 7.0.1 with tuneup and the TrueType version of 
New York.  Can someone explain whats going on here?


Thanks,

Will
===============================================
William J. Bene
Computer Sciences Corporation
wjb@cscsun2.larc.nasa.gov


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From: Fred Chen <flc1@cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: HEY, WHAT HAPPENED TO THE IISI POSTINGS----
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X-Xxdate: Sun, 13 Dec 92 13: 06:44 GMT
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Organization: school
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Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 17:59:11 GMT

oops...my email is flc1@cornell.edu
From: wrowe@reed.edu ( )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Memory Loss (MacAlzheimers?!)
Date: 14 Dec 92 21:58:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: reed.1992Dec14.215828.17970
Distribution: comp.sys.mac.system
Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon

Anyone know why it is that Macintoshs' RAM memory seems to be gradually eaten
up when applications are ran? That is, why is that when I first start my Mac
I have x amount of memory available, and then after running a few applications
and quiting them I always have (x - some) lesser amount of memory available. It
seems like the programs chew up some extra memory that cannot be recovered
even after the programs are no longer in memory. What gives?


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From: Chris_M._Hanson@fourd.com
Organization: 4th Dimension BBS
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 13:28:41 EST
Subject: Re: Duo's: Are Redundant Systems A Good Idea?

>   Good news! I've finally got my Duo 230! 
>   Bad news! I don't have a mini dock or disk drive yet! 
> 
>   As you can imagine, I'm *really* paranoid about crashing my system
> under these circumstances. I have an idea in case I do, but am not
> sure if it is safe. Let me know what you think of the following. 
> 
>   My day to day system is in folder A, a backup system is in folder
> B. I put A on my hard disk, I put B,in a folder, in a folder, on my
> hard disk. When I start up the first system found is A, and if A is
> ok, the Duo never looks for B. If A gets trashed, the Duo looks lower
> in the hierachy until if finds B, it boots, and I can repair A and
> restart. 
> 
>   Any insight or usefull critisism will be greatly appreciated.

Actually, it will look for A, not see it, and then not even think of B, If the
boot blocks are not set to see B then it won't, also having to system folders
can hangup a machine, I had it happen I 1 year ago on my Mac when I had sys 7
and 6 on my one HD(now I have 2 HD and that solved the prob of having sys 6
and 7).  I thought DOUS had a local talk port on them, without any adaptors?
mabey I'm wrong, but if they do just back up through file sharing.
									-Chris Hanson
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From: cthurrot@jade.tufts.edu (cthurrot@pearl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Geneva,Cairo display but don't print (sys 7.)
Date: 14 Dec 92 19:09:54 GMT
Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA

Help please!
Hi, I just upgraded to system 7.0.1 from 6.0.5 and am having probs printing
to my Laserwriter IIntx.  In all my applications, Geneva and Cairo display
fine on the screen, but then print out as helvetica and a serif font (times?)
when I send to the printer.  I re-installed the fonts from the Sys 7.0.1 
fonts disk, what am I doing wrong.  I have Adobe Type Manager available if
that is needed, but I am running without it until I figure this out
(ATM is not installed, I don't think that is the problem).
Please email replies if possible
to : CTHURROT@PEARL.TUFTS.EDU
Thanks, Chris
cthurrot@pearl.tufts.edu
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All opinions are mine, not those of     |	"On Vulcan, the teddy bears are
Tufts University 			|      	alive, and have six inch fangs"
(Like we'd agree on anything anyway)	|    -Spock to McCoy,"Journey to Babel"
From: sls16@po.CWRU.Edu (Samuel L. Shank)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: PB 160/ Sys 7.1
Date: 15 Dec 1992 15:41:59 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc5.ins.cwru.edu


I have experienced similar problems with mine.   If I open the AboutFinder
immedately after booting, even with no inits, it will fluctuate by as much as
25k in front of my eyes.  I just let the PB sit there, and one the system takes
up, say, 1204k.  The next second it takes up 1224K.
What is happening?
-- 
Sam Shank
sls16@po.cwru.edu
From: Treble@asc.slb.com (John Treble)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Gray-scale printing on StyleWriter
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.system
Date: 18 Dec 1992 13:38:57 GMT
Organization: Austin Systems Center -Schlumberger
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: asc438.asc.slb.com

I just read a review of a new product called WonderPrint in MacWorld (Jan
'93, Pg. 215) and it claims to speed up graphic printing to both PostScript
and non-PS printers.  I treat most magazine articles with reserved
skepticism unitl hearing from the vast base of expericned Macintosh users
(that's you!)

Has anyone tried WonderPrint yet?  Is it worth the $59 (list price)?

Thanks in advance,
Regards,
John Treble

treble@asc.slb.com "My humble, but accurate, opinion does not necessarily
reflect that of my employer. I get full credit for my insightful and witty
comments!"
From: fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu (Faisal Nameer Jawdat)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Duo's: Are Redundant Systems A Good Idea?
Date: 12 Dec 92 18:58:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.sf_g=YC00VpA0S1aFF
Distribution: na
Organization: Sophomore, Physics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

nick+@pitt.edu (Nick C De Mello) writes:
>   My day to day system is in folder A, a backup system is in folder B.
> I put A on my hard disk, I put B,in a folder, in a folder, on my hard
> disk.  When I start up the first system found is A, and if A is ok, the
> Duo never looks for B.  If A gets trashed, the Duo looks lower in the
> hierachy until if finds B, it boots, and I can repair A and restart. 

I'd also make sure that you name folders in such a way:
folder 				zfolder.backup.system
usual system			folder
				folder
				backup system

and then rebuild the desktop, because the mac does alphabetical
scans of files, though this may not be necessary, because the system
may be scanned before the rest of the fs is loaded...


-- faisal jawdat                  | "Certainly the game is rigged.
email: fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu       | Don't let that stop you;
if mail handler barfs             | if you don't bet, you can't win." 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: Bill Stearns <whs1@cornell.edu>
Subject: 7.1 Install barfs on Quadra 700
X-Xxdate: Wed, 16 Dec 92 16: 27:49 GMT
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Organization: Cornell University
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Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 16:24:05 GMT


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From: JohnM._Stafford@uu0570.foggybottom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: At Ease files info needed???
Date: 14 Dec 92 05:35:36 GMT
Organization: Foggy Bottom / Washington, D.C.

If you work at the World Bank's DC office go over to George Washington
University's computer store on the ground floor of 800 21st Street NW and
pester them for advice (just don't tell them your not a student, they won't
ask if you don't tell). They'll be happy to help.
Foggy Bottom - your FirstClass Mac connection in Washington, DC
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From: phaedrus@halcyon.com (Mark Phaedrus)
Subject: Re: HD icon locked
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 18:28:52 GMT

In article <1992Dec11.144750.332@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> DAVISM@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Michael T. Davis) writes:
>	We have a Mac IIcx running 7.0.1, with AfterDark, SAM and TOPS.  The
>HD icon is displayed as a "generic document" (i.e. plain dog-eared page).  If
>we try to Cut/Clear the icon, or attempt to Paste another icon into the Get
>Info box, a dialog pops up telling us "The command could not be performed,
>because it could not be found."  We _are_ able to rename the HD icon.  This
>also does not seem to depend on SAM or TOPS, as I have tried rebooting without
>them active with the same results.  (I didn't try booting w/o AfterDark.)  I
>have also attempted to "unlock" the icon via the utility UnlockFolder mentioned
>in a recent thread here, without success.  Can anyone ofer a suggestion?

     Did the hard disk in question originally have a custom icon, which 
vanished when the problem started?  If so, then I can tell you the likely
problem, since I've run into it myself a couple of times.
     When you put a System 7 custom icon on a file, the icon gets stored as
a resource in that file, and the file's "Has custom icon" bit is set so the
Finder knows to look for the icon.  Folders and disks can't have resources
added to them in this fashion; so when you put a custom icon on a folder or
disk, the "Has custom icon" bit is still set, and an invisible file named
"Icon<carriage return>" is created in the disk/folder to hold the icon.
If that invisible "Icon<cr>" file later gets messed with or deleted, the
Finder gets very confused, and won't let you add a new custom icon.
     The solution to this is simple: go into one of the newer versions of
ResEdit, get info on the problem disk or folder, and clear its "Has custom
icon" bit.  You should now be able to add a new custom icon.
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From: JohnM._Stafford@uu0570.foggybottom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: 7.1 on a Quadra
Date: 14 Dec 92 05:32:03 GMT
Organization: Foggy Bottom / Washington, D.C.

Bad workaround. Using the general install wastes disk and RAM space with
information that doesn't pertain to Quadras. Pester Apple (and be thankful for
that 800 line) for a 7.1.1 bug fix.
Foggy Bottom - your FirstClass Mac connection in Washington, DC
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