HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: wang_dj@zebra.cs.jhu.edu (David J. Wang)
Subject: Re: Superclock Battery indicator indicates wrong?!?!?
Organization: Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, Baltimore, MD
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:23:26 GMT

In article <1ikme6INNfjl@jumbo.read.tasc.com> dstrout@sun.rest.tasc.com writes:
>Or even better, get Edison from ftp.apple.com.  It shows you the voltage  
>and the time that you have been running on battery.  I find this at least  
>--
>Dave Strout	dstrout@sun.rest.tasc.com

Or even better than Edison, I like MyBattery, which will estimate the time left
and/or elapsed time.  The estimation is based on your prior usage -- which the
program saves (only if registered -- otherwise it is a true estimate, based
on internally set values.  Works good for me.
-- 
_______________________________________________________________________________
David J. Wang                                    CAUTION!
wang_dj@server.cs.jhu.edu                SPACE UNDER CONSTRUCTION!
_______________________________________________________________________________
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.comm
From: wolfeman@apple.com (Dan Wolfe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: System Enablers, What Are They?
Date: 12 Jan 93 18:03:26 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.

In article <1993Jan12.152840.27057@tdb.uu.se> Mats Bredell,
bredell@tdb.uu.se writes:
>Robert Abeles (rabel@netcom.com) wrote:
>
>[text deleted]
>
>: I checked his system carefully, and found that he had a file that I had
>: never seen, something called 'System Enabler 111'. By installing a
>: new system on his HD, then putting this 'System Enabler 111' into
>: his system folder, then reinstalling his HD into his PB160, we got
>: him back into business. A couple of questions:
>: 
[Stuff Deleted]
>
>Starting with system 7.1, Apple will not make a new system version for
every
>new Macintosh model. Instead, they all use the same system version, and
the
>new models add an extension called a system enabler. The problem is that
the
>installation disks now have to be different. There's a separate install
boot
>disk for the IIvi/IIvx, one for PB 160/180, one for PB Duo 210/230, and
one
>for all the rest.

Yep that's right - it's call Install Me First for X ; where x is the new
CPU.

>I'm not sure on this, but I think a system enabler can do bad things if
it's
>used on the wrong model. This is probably the reason why an install for
all
>macs doesn't install all the enablers.

Nope, this isn't correct.  Having the wrong enabler will not do anything
bad otherwise Apple would be getting sued right and left and we wouldn't
be that foolish would we?  Each Enabler is writing for a specific set of
CPUs.  When the system first boots up it looks in the system folder for
the enabler with the latest timestamp and check to see if this enabler
can boot the CPU.  If it can great, if not it goes on to the next
enabler.  In the above example, if you had a IIvi/IIvx enabler  (it's
number 001) and a PB 160/180 Enabler (111) on a IIvx, it would first
check the 111 enabler to see if it could boot the IIvx.  Since the  111
enabler cannot boot the IIvx it would look for the next enabler, the 001.
 Since this could boot the CPU it would be used.  Say you had a Quadra
700 (aren't you lucky), since this was a released machine at the time 7.1
shipped, the enabler to boot this machine is built into 7.1.  I hope this
clarifies thing a little.  To summarize, there is nothing wrong with
having multiple enablers within a given system folder - only the proper
one will be used to boot the system - they will only take up disk space.
:-)

[stuff deleted]

>Mats Bredell                                   Mats.Bredell@udac.uu.se
>Uppsala University Computing Center (UDAC)     Ph:  +46 18 187817
>Department of medical systems                  Fax: +46 18 187825
>Sweden                                         Think straight - be gay!

Dan Wolfe
Apple Computer Inc							           Internet:  wolfeman@apple.com
Disclaimer:  This are my own opinions, Apple doesn't pay me to be a
spokesman.....
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: jelmore@nyx.cs.du.edu (John Elmore)
Subject: ACK! WHOA! (was Re: need software to do HD locking !!!)
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 93 04:50:28 GMT

In article <1iveqfINN2kd@alshain.usc.edu> root@alshain.usc.edu (Lance 'Moof' Kimes) writes:
>
>In article <C0rDrI.LJs@srgenprp.sr.hp.com>, dan@Name:    hpnmdp (Dan Pleasant) writes:
>|> Ola Montan (Ola.Montan@malmo.trab.se) wrote:
>|> >>Does anyone know of a package that securely lock writing to parts of a
>|> >>hard drive (partitions)?
>|> 
>|> >I am using an application called DiskLock to lock the entire harddisk. The
>|> >system can still run on the locked disk. Following this is the code for
>|> >DiskLock. Run it trough some BinHex-program, and double-click the
>|> >icon to unpack the program.
>|> 
>|> STOP!  DiskLock is NOT a public domain program!!!  It is marketed by
>|> Fifth Generation Systems.  It should NEVER have been posted.  Somebody
>|> please find the original poster and inform him/her of US copyright
>|> laws.
>|> 
>|> Dan Pleasant
>|> [Not financially linked to DiskLock, but the author is a friend.]
>|> 
>
>
>Its not the same program. Did you STOP to found that out before you got 
>egg-foo-young on your face. The one posted is a simple freeware program.

If it is, it's the first time I ever heard of another DiskLock. I thought
someone was posting the Fifth Generation Program also.

In either case, these things would be better served by sending it through
e-mail. Bandwidth and all that...

Jay (=

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: cliu@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (chang hsu liu)
Subject: Re: Rebuilding desktop ?
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:41:31 GMT

You can do this in different ways:

1) Command-Option-esc to force quit Finder and hold comand-option
   key to rebuild desktop
2) Use some Control Panels like SpeedyFinder7 to add Quit Finder and
   hold command-option key to rebuild destop.
3) AntiFinder can do the same thing as SpeedyFinder7.

Peter Liu
cliu@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
From: hue@pro-freedom.cts.com (Scott Hudziak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: STARTUP SOUNDS AND SCREENS
Date: 9 Jan 93 01:04:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: pro-free.1993Jan8.180418.5389
Organization: ProLine [pro-freedom] AppleVan (Apple UG of Vancouver, WA)

How can I get a startup screen to display and a startup sound to
 
___There's an init that I think stuffed with versions of Sound Mover
(Ricardo Ettore (sp?) and all you do is drop any number of sounds in it and
it will play them on startup. I think the system runs extentions/inits
alphabetically, so if you were to rename the sound init something like 
" Soundinit" with the sapce, it ought to be the first init, and theu pay
right after you Startupscreen.
 
scott hudziak

ProLine:  hue@pro-freedom
Internet: hue@pro-freedom.cts.com
UUCP:     crash!pro-freedom!hue
==============================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: jmunkki@vipunen.hut.fi (Juri Munkki)
Subject: Re: What is Maelstrom 1.03 game doing while loading?
Reply-To: jmunkki@vipunen.hut.fi (Juri Munkki)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 02:39:09 GMT

In article <01062012.n9s1n1@inter.interzone.ch> chip@interzone.ch writes:
>Every time I start it up, it displays a startup screen and 
>a progress indicator labeled "Loading". It usually takes
>about 10 seconds to complete. During this time, my harddisk
>makes sounds that are very similar to the ones that my 
>HD indexing program produces when searching.
>
>Is this program scanning my HD for something?
>Has anybody else noticed this behaviour? Is there a programm
>that will let me check wich files are opened by the game?

This has got to be the funniest post of the week.

Some programs actually do something while they display the splash
screen and a show a "loading" indicator. (It is customary for evil
programmers to put waiting loops in their programs in order to irritate
the customers and make them buy faster computers so that the processor
can execute more NOPs in the busy waiting loop.)

Maelstrom has all those sprite shapes as color icon resources
in one big file. It steps through those resources one by one
and probably converts them to some obscure format. Unfortunately
the resources are not in sequential order in the resource file,
so the disk drive has to seek back and forth.

So, it isn't looking at your files. It's just doing what it is
supposed to be doing: loading the game.

-- 
  Juri Munkki					       Windsurf: fast sailing
 jmunkki@hut.fi					      Macintosh: fast software
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Distribution: world
From: dwv@magic.ucsb.edu (Dave Valentine;GS 2012;3471)
Organization: Odyssey Ultraware, Inc
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 03:42:12 CDT
Subject: Re: Sherlock CD

Michael.Davidson@macrocosm.omahug.org (Michael Davidson) writes:

>(Konstantin Peric S.W.I.F.T.) writes:
>>The problem is that the game crashes ("corrupt scene file") randomly when
>>playing the video scenes. Sometimes, it'll play out the entire scene, and
othe
>>times it will crash at random intervals.

>If MTR's suggestion doesn't fit, try this. If I remember correctly, you need
to
>turn 32 bit addressing off to use Sherlok Holmes cd rom.

I have had no problems with 32-bits on. But I have the latest apple drivers. I
suggest updating the CD ROM driver, checking your inits, and making sure that
your not running any other apps in the background (ie word with repagination
on)

Best of luck,
dave valentine



------ Internet Message Header Follows ------
From: dwv@magic.ucsb.edu (Dave Valentine;GS 2012;3471)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Sherlock CD
Date: 29 Dec 92 18:00:08 GMT


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: howie@simcon.boeing.com (Howard Modell)
Subject: IIvx/Performa600,7.1/7.1p questions
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.system
Organization: Boeing Defense and Space Group
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:04:57 GMT

Does anyone out there know (and can he tell me/us) what the differences
between the IIvx and the Performa 600 are?  All I've  been told is that the
latter lacks the FPU and Instruction Cache(?) of the former.  Is that
really all?????

Also, what are the differences between 7.1 and 7.1p (the version of 7.1
that comes with/on the Performas)?  Is it safe/wise/possible to replace (if
necessary) 7.1p with 7.1???

FTR: My wife and I have recently bought one of the P600's (sans CDROM,
though that is on the "to get when $$$ permit" list), and are reasonably
content with it.  This post is just curiousity more than anything else, but
I *would* like an answer. 

+----All opinions expressed are mine and *NOT* my employers!----+
   howard modell, Boeing Defense & Space group, Seattle, WA
         howie@simcon.boeing.com, h.modell@online.com,
         h.modell@ieee.org,   72376.252@compuserve.com
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.system:16062 comp.sys.mac.misc:21678
From: briand@tekig5.pen.tek.com (Brian D Diehm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: System 7.1 Installer
Date: 12 Jan 93 19:40:26 GMT
Reply-To: briand@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.system
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.

>BUT, I did find instructions for the Installer to place Geneva, Monaco,
>and Chicago in the system file--even if they weren't there before, it seems.

Yes, it did that on my IIsi as well.

***** FLAME ON *****

Why is it that Apple insists they know better than I how my system should be
configured?

Why is it that Apple insists that TrueType fonts need to be there even if I
already have PostScript equivalents installed?

Why is it that Apple insists that I need DAs such as their silly Map and Puzzle
and Alarm Clock and EasyWhatever when I have taken a lot of trouble to get rid
of these things in the past?

Why is it that Apple insists that I need a certain set of sounds installed in
my System file, when I have taken a lot of trouble to get rid of them in the
past?

I can see installing these from a "new" or "clean" install, but damn it, the
installer is supposed to *preserve* my configuration, not screw it up!

***** HYPERFLAME ON *****

Now that I've had to actually *pay* for an upgrade, I have for the first time
had an installation completely fail. I had to go back to 7.0.1 to get a
system that would operate.

Why? I had more than 128 files in my Font folder. Well, sure guys, I had lots
of PostScript outline font files there. 131 to be exact. And you added more
with your installer not bothering to look to see if Symbol, Palatino, Times,
Courier, and Helvetica are already there! And you blessed the Font folder
with New York (which I don't want) and a SECOND copy of Geneva, Chicago, and
Monaco.

System worked before upgrade. Crashed regularly after upgrade. Thanks Apple,
now I see what I paid for.

***** FLAMES OFF (for now) *****

No longer amused,
-Brian
--
Brian Diehm
Tektronix, Inc.                (503) 627-3437         briand@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM
P.O. Box 500, M/S 19-286
Beaverton, OR   97077
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: ld231782@LANCE.ColoState.Edu (L. Detweiler)
Subject: 7.0 ramdisk not there?
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 20:47:06 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523

- - -

Hello, I use a quadra that has a "ramdisk" option in the Memory control panel.
I can't find this option on other memory control panels for lower end macs
(cx, si, etc.).  What does it take to get a 7.0 ramdisk running on these 
machines? p.s. 32 bit addressing is on.

thanks!
--

ld231782@longs.LANCE.ColoState.EDU
From: sarahh@mbcr.bcm.tmc.edu (Sarah Highlander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: System 7.1 and SE30: Summary
Date: 11 Jan 1993 15:56:41 GMT
Organization: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tx
NNTP-Posting-Host: mbcr.bcm.tmc.edu

Thanks to all who responded to my queries about 7.1 and my SE30. 
THEY ARE NOT INCOMPATIBLE!
As suggested by several of you, I had hard disk problems. I was able
to install 7.1 by unblessing the old system and then installing. 
Disk FirstAid indicated disk problems so I ultimately had to reformat
the disk as well. Things are great now.

Thank you all.

Sarah Highlander, Ph.D.
Dept. Microbiology & Immunology
Baylor College of Medicine
One Baylor Plaza
Houston, TX 77030

Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.system:16005 comp.sys.mac.hypercard:4761
From: cardinal@informix.com (Edward Cardinal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Super tiny "System" file?
Date: 11 Jan 93 18:36:33 GMT
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.

OK, here's a topic that's kind of "retro," but I have seen a bit of traffic
lately on the net for how to use an old mac. Here's my solution, and some
questions:

I have made a Supercard application to run on my old Plus (w/4MB RAM)
for my one-and-a-half year old son. All it does is show bitmaps of
animals, etc., every few seconds, and it intercepts all key and mouse
events (he likes to bang on the keyboard).

I want it to run just by having the machine turned on (he can do it
himself; he's pretty precocious). I only have an 800K internal drive,
and I want as much room as possible for the bitmaps.

I named the application "Finder" and stuck a System on the disk. I had
to use Resedit to trim the System file and application by hand to make
them even smaller, because the application is fairly large (about
500K). I sliced out all the color stuff, and minimalized the text
messages (It now just says "Error! for everything),

Any hints on what else I can cut from the System file without making it go
BOOM? What's the smallest you've ever gotten a 6.0.x system to be?

If you are familiar with Supercard internals, is there anything I can slice
out of the application? I'm sure there is a lot of waste in this context.

The images came from a Hypercard stack originally. Is there a small FREE
(or shareware) hypercard stack browser/player?

As another approach, is there a super-small application that does this
kind of thing (say, for stand-alone self-running ads) that just shows a
series of bitmaps (I can convert them to any format if necessary)? At
best, it would run under an older System so it could be smaller, with
more room on the disk for images. It could even be optimized for the
small screen. Supercard takes up a lot of room for things I don't need
once the app is ready, like the script editor, etc.  I'd write my own,
but I don't have the time right now.
-- 
[ Ed Cardinal                   An English major from Berkeley  ]
[                               Who sold out to programming     ]
[ cardinal@informix.com         Because it pays more.           ]
[          DISCLAIMER: My Opinions. MINE! MINE! MINE!           ]
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.system:16081 comp.sys.mac.misc:21700 comp.sys.mac.hardware:25875
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 21:59:06 CST
From: <U53606@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Apple HDI-30 SCSI System cable $30.00 obo (for powerbooks)


I've got a Apple HDI-30 SCSI System Cable for PowerBooks. I'll sell it at the b
est price I can. Please email me for more info.


-paul
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: dcbii@rob.raleigh.ibm.com ()
Subject: Re: mac 512 errors
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 16:09:00 GMT
Organization: IBM, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
Keywords: mac 512k, old system errors

braun@daytona.tunl.duke.edu (Richard Braun) writes:

>A couple days ago a friend of mine was given an old mac 512k.
>However the machine came without any system software, so he asked
>me for help.  What is the latest system that will run on this
>model mac?  We found an old system 4.2, chopped it down so it
>would fit on a single-side disk and tried it (it successfully booted
>a mac plus), but he got an error 12 just before it finished booting.
>Does anybody know what this error is.  Does anybody have an old system 
>that will work on his mac?

There are several systems that will run fine on this Mac.  However, you should
know that most of today's programs (and that means almost ALL) do not run on
this machine.  I also have an old 512K Mac that I do not use anymore for this
reason, although I do have the system files that will work.

>Is it possible for his mac to use a double-sided drive?

Yes it is.  As has been mentioned, you can either use 800K MFS disks, or
alternatively, you can add the "Hard Disk 20" file to your system folder.
This will allow an external 800K drive to use HFS disks, but you will still
have to boot from the 400K floppy (internal drive) first.

>He said he saw where he could get a mac plus logic board for $150,
>maybe this would be the best way for him to go.  But a cheaper
>solution would be better (after all $150 could be spent a lot of
>other ways).  Any help would be appreciated.

If he can upgrade the machine to a Plus for $150, that would definitely be
the way to go.  He would then be able to run System 6/7 and use the newest
software.  However, you would also need an internal (maybe external would
also work) 800K drive.

Hope this helps,

Dave Barnhart                    email: 70672.1311@Compuserve.com

Please do not email to the address in the header; it's just a news server.


P.S.  I also live here in south Durham.  If you would like to come by to
get some system software, we could arrange something.

My work phone is 254-6617, and home is 544-7512.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From:  (m19701)
Subject: Re: How can I change my Hard Disk Icon?
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.system
Organization: mitre.org
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:04:34 GMT

In article <C0ox2o.DLv@bailgate.gpsemi.com>,
david_hickson@lincoln.gpsemi.com (David Hickson) wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Can anyone tell me how I can change the Hard Disk Icon and Title on my
> Mac IIci (7.0.1 l)?
> I can just about use ResEdit, if needs be.
> 
> Thanks, Dave.

If you can't change the title I would suspect that you have sharing turned
on.  With sharing off you can change the title like always.  To change the
Icon, go to "get info", capture the icon (click and copy), go to one of
many programs that will allow you to do something to it, paste, edit, copy,
and paste back onto icon under get info.  I've pasted in things from
MacDraw, Studio, MacScan, etc. and have some interesting icons.  This works
for any icon. My trashcan looks like a black hole

ed casey

(insert standard disclaimer here)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: John W Gintell <j.gintell@bull.com>
Subject: Re: Error M essage from PrintMonitor?
Organization: Bull - US Applied Research Lab
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:48:50 GMT
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A77861220C010E72@dufay.ma30.bull.com>
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
X-Xxdate: Tue, 12 Jan 93 11:50:58 GMT

Subject: Re: Error M essage from PrintMonitor?
From: Frank Rens, rens@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu
Date: 11 Jan 93 20:10:00 GMT
In article <C0pHBo.5Bx@acsu.buffalo.edu> Frank Rens,
rens@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu writes:
>In article <1993Jan5.150058.14967@mips2.ma30.bull.com>,
j.gintell@bull.com 
>(John W Gintell) writes...
>>Recently I started having severe printing problems that result in a
>>message from Print Monitor that says:
>> 
>>  PrintMonitor found an internal problem
>>  Where =80,
>>  Why = -50
>> 
>>And then asks to cancel the request, but I usually can't because
>>you get back into this above dialog.
>> 
>>What does this message mean?
>>--------
>>I'm running 7.0.1 on a Quadra 700 with "too many extensions"; but they
>>are the same ones I've had for quite a while. 
>> 
>>The printer is a TI Turbo XL connected via AppleTalk to my Mac and also
>>to many other machines including a GatorBos gateway to the ethernet.
>>I get the problem if I reconfigure Networks to use Ethertalk instead of
>>Appletalk for printing.
>> 
>>I have reinstalled LaserWriter and PrintMonitor but the problem is
>>still there. I have no problem printing with background printing turned
>>off so it clearly is an interaction with PrintMonitor and something. 
>
>	I'm having exactly the same problem running the same hardware and
>system.  My printer is a Laserwriter NTX connected via AppleTalk.  I'm
running
>Sonic System's SuperBridge and have a couple of systems printing through
me via
>ethernet. I agree, it is a MAJOR problem.  Any help would be appreciated.

According to some mail I received from someone who works at Apple (I'm
not giving his name since I don't know if he wants me to) the above
error message is  from PBGetCatInfo and indicates that something is wrong
with
some directory structure.  He suggested running a cleanup utility to fix.

I tried FirstAid which said everything was all right.  I tried Norton
utilities 2.0 booted from my  emergency disk and it crashed after saying
not enough memory (presumably because of some bad disk structure).  I
then booted with another quadra-bootable floppy and ran the Norton
utilities on my "bad disk" .  This found a number of errors which it
corrected including one (I don't remember the message) that sounded
liek a bad directory structure. Since then I have had no printing
problems.  I don't know what caused my bad directory structure and I
still have  another problem  with mouse freezing that gets unfreed
after a while so I need to reinstall lots of software because something
probably was also damaged.

I wonder why Norton utilities when booted from its bootable disk failed
but the other version worked fine? 

Anyway - kudos to Norton and to the Apple person who responded to a
email from an Apple Developer Program  member colleague of mine.