HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: the.cloud@applelink.apple.com (Ken McLeod)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Small Icon view desktop
Date: 14 Apr 92 03:09:51 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.

In article <1992Apr3.204855.7062@cognos.uucp>, heeschv@cognos.uucp (Brian VanHeesch) writes:
> 
> Does such an init exist that allows for the desktop to be viewed
> by small icon?  Perhaps someone is interested in writing such an init.

You don't need an INIT to do this. What you need is Jon Pugh's FinderEvents
stack, which will allow you to send an event to the Finder with appropriate
parameters to change the "view by" mode of the (invisible) Desktop Folder.
It works, although as I recall, it caused a status bar (x items, x MB in
disk, x MB available) to be drawn on the desktop. Maybe that's a feature.

-ken

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
Subject: Re: Apple's worst current piece of software
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 07:42:03 GMT

 J> == Jonathan Kimmitt <jrrk@camcon.co.uk> 

 J> I have found the easiest way to do this job without any disk swaps
 J> is to use diskcopy to generate four disk images [...]

The *really* easiest way is to copy each of the disks to the hard disk
(just drag the floppy icons one-by-one onto the hard disk, or onto a
folder icon), creating four folders, one per disk image.

Then open Install 1, and double-click the Installer.  Hey presto.

(This is simply a network install minus the network ;-)
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From: jrrk@camcon.co.uk (Jonathan Kimmitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Apple's worst current piece of software
Keywords: Installer System 7.0.1 Hi Density Shit
Date: 6 Apr 92 11:32:50 GMT
Organization: Cambridge Consultants Ltd., Cambridge, UK

scott@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu (Scott Bronson) writes:



>I have just come to the conclusion that the idiot who wrote Apple's Installer
>program probably never used it.  In fact, he was so proud of it that he
>he didn't include his name anywhere on it.  Neither would I.

>Don't get me wrong.  The Installer is an incredibly powerful program.  I
>own a Mac IIci with 20 megs of memory (14 megabytes MORE than is needed to
>keep the entire suite of six System 7.0.1 install disks in memory) and 105
>meg hard drive.  It's the only program I've found to date that was able to
>bring my computer to a screeching, sobbing halt.

>Apple says that we should make a System 7 startup disk so that we can start
>the computer from a floppy.  Okay, so I inserted the Install 1 disk and
>ran the Installer program.  After grinding away for a few minutes, it popped
>up.  I then ejected Install 1 and inserted my HD disk, and told it to install
>on that.  Silly me--I should have known that it was necessary to copy all
>six megs of install disks onto my hard drive to make a single stupid 1.4 meg
>floppy.

I have found the easiest way to do this job without any disk swaps is to use
diskcopy to generate four disk images of the 4 apple source disks
(install 1, install 2, fonts, tidbits) and save these on the hard disk

then use MountImage (recently posted on comp.binaries.mac) to fool the mac
into thinking that it is a five floppy machine, and hey presto

installation proceeds without a single disk swap !
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.system:7128 comp.sys.mac.comm:4641 comp.sys.mac.apps:7925 comp.sys.mac.wanted:4414
From: jwallace@hatch.socal.com (John Wallace)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.wanted
Subject: News readers for UUCP feeds?
Date: 14 Apr 92 01:04:14 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Hatch Usenet and E-mail.  Playa del Rey, CA


Are there any newsreaders available that will read USENET and mail files
from my local disk?  I have a UUCP news feed through a local service
and the USENET and mail files are just dumped onto my hard disk.
I'm looking for applications that will help me read and manage these
files.  Any suggestions?  (Either public domain or $$$ are OK).

Thanks!
John

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John Wallace            jwallace@hatch.socal.com
From: burglin@ochre.mgh.harvard.edu (Thomas Burglin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Tuneup 1.1.1 is at ftp.apple.com !!
Date: 16 Apr 92 09:25:00 GMT
Organization: Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <23023@goofy.Apple.COM>, nerm@apple.com (Dean Yu) writes...
>In article <1992Apr11.183828.12967@lonex.rl.af.mil>, longj@lonex.rl.af.mil (Jeffrey K. Long) writes:
>> 
>> I just noticed that tuneup 1.1.1 is at ftp.apple.com!!  Time is listed as
>> very late on Friday night, so someone at apple was working hard on this fix!
>> 
>  For the record, and so all the second guessing will stop, the ONLY reason
>there is a TuneUp 1.1.1 at all is because 1.1 was compiled with the wrong
>version of a header file, causing the "Application Assassin" to crash.   This
>is the code that brings up a dialog suggesting an application to quit to allow
>another application to run in low memory situations.  Nothing else was changed
>between 1.1 and 1.1.1.
> 
>  -- Dean Yu
>     Blue Meanie, Negative Ethnic Role Model, Window Cleaner,
>      Skanky Hack Consultant, etc.
>     Apple Computer, Inc.
>     "Normality is restored.  Anything you can't deal with is your own
>       problem."
> 

Well, maybe this be so, but I have noticed the following problem, 
which went away after changing from Tune-up 1.1 to 1.1.1:
I had folders of an external harddrive under the AppleMenu so
I could access the external files using NowMenus.  However, if
the external drive was not connected, my powerbook 140 would  crash
as soon as the curser was over these folders.  This doesn not
happen with Tune-UP 1.1.1 anymore...
Thomas Burglin
From: david@mobius.msri.org (David Mostardi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: SUMMARY: Why can't I background printing?
Date: 10 Apr 1992 16:02:56 GMT
Organization: Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley
Reply-To: david@mobius.msri.org (David Mostardi)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.188.88

In article <22610@dog.ee.lbl.gov>   I (David Mostardi) wrote:
>Hardware: Mac IIcx, Sys 7.0.1, 80M disk, Radius full-page display.
>
>Problem:  When I open Chooser, and click LaserWriter, the "on" button for
>	  background printing is dimmed out.
>
>
>Printing itself works fine -- it's just the backgrounding that I can't
>enable.  My other (similarly configured) IIcx does not do this.  
>Any ideas why I might be experiencing this?

I had cleverly put the PrintMonitor application in the "Apple Menu Items"
folder, so that I could access it easily.  But -- for background printing
to work, the PrintMonitor application *must* be in the "Extensions"
folder.  

The trick is to put an *alias* of PrintMonitor in the "Apple Menu Items"
folder, and leave the actual application in "Extensions".

Thanks to the following colleagues who got me thinking:
casgrain@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Casgrain Philippe)
rcaldwel@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Roger Caldwell)
"Peter Bell" <pmb2@midway.uchicago.edu>

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From: corse@a1.mscf.upenn.edu (Emily L. Corse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Sys7 Compatability
Date: 13 Apr 92 22:04:17 GMT
Organization: U of PA Biomed Library

I use MacLink with DosMounter and have been having a lot of trouble with
Sys7 freezing up when I try to work with a DOS disk.  Is there something
I should know?  And where do I get a copy of the compatability checker?  I
couldn't find it with my Sys7 disks.

Thanks!  Please email me directly...

-- Emily
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: jens@seas.gwu.edu (Jens Johansen)
Subject: Re: System 7.1 enhancements I'd like to see
Keywords: cron jobs
Organization: George Washington University
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 01:29:28 GMT

It would be nice to see--perhaps included in AppleScript--some way of
executing commands at a specific time or time interval unattended, similar
to cron commands on Suns.  Does anybody know if this sort of thing is
already possible and I just missed it?  Will Frontier do it?

Jens

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From: erh0362@tesla.njit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Format MFS disks on HFS machine?
Date: 13 Apr 92 14:33:00 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology


> I have a friend with a 512K (not a 512K E) Mac who has the question:
> 
>   Is there a utility of some sort that will allow HFS Macs to format
>   a floppy to an MFS format (400K or 800K)?

	Yes. In fact it's built into the disk formatting system software. This 
will only work on 400K (1S-DD) or 800K (2S-DD) floppies, not on high-density 
(2S-HD) floppies. When you insert the uninitialized disk into the drive or when 
you select erase disk from the SPECIAL menu, and the Finder asks you how you 
want to format the floppy, just select one-sided instead of two-sided. That's 
all.


Elliotte Rusty Harold		Department of Applied Mathematics
elharo@m.njit.edu		New Jersey Institute of Technology
erh0362@tesla.njit.edu		Newark, NJ 07103
From: green@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Bradley Green )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: FTP.APPLE.COM
Date: 12 Apr 92 15:15:34 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

Don't burn me too badly for this, but I'm new to the net.  My problem is
this:  I'd like to get TuneUp 1.1.1 from ftp.apple.com, and have no idea
how to get onto the system.  Someone told me to try using 'anonomyous' or
'guest' as a username, but that didn't work.  Do you have to be a registered
member of something in order to get an id and password?  Or am I simply logging
on improperly?

Please e-mail me in response so as not to clog up the net

Brad
From: hayes@ug.cs.dal.ca (Kevin B Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: QuickTime Startup Movie summary
Date: 8 Apr 92 04:44:44 GMT
Distribution: dal
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

I have a "pseudo-alias" of a startup movie in my system folder.  To make it
I opened up Simple Player and my Favorite Quicktime movie (the quadra
 commercial) and chose "Save as..." (under the File menu, duh!)  I made sure
the little checkbox at the bottom of the save dialogue (I think it says include
complete data , or something relating to keeping the whole file).  Anyway, that
checkbox was UNchecked, and I named the file "Startup Movie" in the system
folder.  Tah-dah! The file takes up 10K, as opposed to 1.9MB for the whole
thing.  That's probably what you guys did.

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From: nick@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Latest Tuneup bug? (was hoses File Sharing)
Date: 10 Apr 92 14:33:29 GMT
	<1992Apr9.231959.39183@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
	<1992Apr10.124239.1641@midway.uchicago.edu>
Organization: Friends of the Salter Duck
In-reply-to: pmb2@ellis.uchicago.edu's message of 10 Apr 92 12:42:39 GMT

In article <1992Apr10.124239.1641@midway.uchicago.edu> pmb2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Peter Bell) writes:

   An application, Compact Pro, hung last night while trying to debinhex a file.
   I did a ctrl-option-esc to force a quit CPT.  When I tried relaunching it,
   I got an error -39.  When I tried launching System 7 Errors, I also got the 
   error -39.  Since the second app should have been ok, I restarted and was
   able to launch it and find that -39 is an EOF error.  I went back into 
   CPT, it hung again, I forced quit again, and found that I could *only* 
   get MSWord 4 to launch (more evidence that Microsoft does odd things); every 
   other app that I tried gave me a -39.  

OoooOOOOoooh!

I had a failure running Performer, doing its auto-decompress.

Error -39.

This is on a PowerBook 140, TuneUp 1.1, but an old-ish release of Performer,
so this could be coincidence.

Nick.
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From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: ** Apple File Exchange HELP ME! **
Date: 15 Apr 92 16:04:36 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

cpastore@unity.ncsu.edu (Chris Pastore) writes:

>>In article <23350005@col.hp.com> chrism@col.hp.com (Chris Magnuson) writes:
>>>I am trying to get a TIFF file on a DOS disk imported into FrameMaker 
>>>on my Mac.  I tried using the Default Translator in Apple File Exchange
>>>but the file is not recognized as TIFF when it shows up on the Mac desktop.

>I am not sure of this one, but I was led to understand that there are
>different TIFF formats.  For example, using Adobe Photoshop, if you save
>as TIFF, it will prompt you for either Macintosh format or IBM format.

>I'm not sure what the difference is, but this may be part of the
>problem.

    I'm fairly certain that this is the whole problem. And the only way
you are going to be able to fix this problem is by using some kind of
translation software, that can go from Dos TIFF to Mac TIFF. I recommend
MacLink/PC Translators.

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 hades@Coos.Dartmouth.Edu   | "DON'T TOUCH IT!! It's the History Eraser
 Mac Database Developer     |  Button, you fool!"  -- Ren
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: changing name of hard disk.....
From: coleman@post.ntu.edu.au (James P H Coleman)
Date: 7 Apr 92 16:15:14 +0900
Organization: Northern Territory University

In article <1992Apr3.224601.8284@cs.ucla.edu>, jason@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Jason Rosenberg) writes:
> On our Mac IIsi, we can't seem to change the name of the internal hard
> drive.  We're getting tired of the plain "Macintosh HD".  We are running
> system 7.0.1 with the first tune-up.  On my Mac II using the same software,
> there is no problem.  I just click on the icon, wait a second, then the
> text of the hard disk name becomes highlighted, and I can edit it.  I can't
> seem to do this on the IIsi.

I have solved the problem but it is a terrible YUKKY CLUDGE.

Boot the IIsi up using a sys 6.07 startup disk and change the name there.

See I told you iut was YUKKY

James
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps
From: siegel@world.std.com (Rich Siegel)
Subject: Re: Norton Utilities 2.0
Organization: GCC Technologies
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 00:04:22 GMT

In article <1992Apr9.044548.26085@Princeton.EDU> miyazaki@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Takeshi Miyazaki) writes:
>
>Have anyone got the new version of Norton Utilities? Is it worth
>upgrade? 
>
	I'm a beta site, and the ability to scan SCSI devices and heuristically
look for partitions just saved my behind in a really big way - the partition
map was smashed, and a new partition had been partially created, but
Norton Disk Doctor 2.0 was able to retrieve *all* of my files in orderly
fashion.

	I'd say it's worth it...

R.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: czychi@bernina.ethz.ch (Gary Czychi)
Subject: How can I mount an ISO standard CD-ROM? A UFS CD-ROM??? 
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 20:55:08 GMT

Hi,

who has experience with CD-ROMs which come in different formats?  Is it
possible to mount an ISO 9660 standard CD-ROM to the Desktop of a given Mac?
Say for instance, with the help of AccessPC?

Is there any possibility to access data on a unix UFS CD-ROM with a Mac?

Thanks a lot for any help,

  Gary

    Gary T. Czychi          University of St.Gallen

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


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: s_fuller@iastate.edu (Steve Fuller)
Subject: HP Background printing (again)
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 22:41:26 GMT

If anyone out there has succesfully gotten the DW-C drivers to
backgound print with a Deskwriter, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE tel me
how you did it!!!!

I tried running the installer, no luck. Tried copying the files
to the system folder, no luck. I put the printer driver,
background and background startup in the extensions folder like
someone explained to do. No luck.

I give up. Period. Unless someone can give me fool proof way to
figure this out, I guess I'll wait until the DW 3.0 drivers make
it to the FTP sites some time in the next week or two.

I am running System 7.0.0 splat version 1.1. Using Silverlining
5.31 for my driver software and have about 4 extensions
installed. Machine is a Mac SE 4/105.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: delaney@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (John Delaney)
Subject: Apparent Moire 3.22 bug
Reply-To: delaney@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (John Delaney)
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 13:20:18 GMT

We seem to have tripped over an obscure bug in Moire 3.22. It occurs
on a Mac IIci with a B&W monitor run System 6.0.7. From the Monitors
CDEV, one can chose B&W, 8-bit greyscale, or 2 bit (I think)
greyscale. No probelms in B&W mode. In the other two modes, the
"apple" symbol onthe menu bar is not redrawn when the screen unblanks
(because of a mouse movement or key press). This behaviour is
absolutely repeatable.

Anyone out there with suggestions? 3.22 seems to be the latest version
of Moire at SUMEX, so hunting for a more recent version does not seem
to be the solution.

Thanks in advance for any and all help,

John


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From: ingemar@isy.liu.se (Ingemar Ragnemalm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: MAC Trivia
Date: 10 Apr 92 08:56:00 GMT
Organization: Dept of EE, University of Linkoping

mg4s+@andrew.cmu.edu (Marissa Gonzalez) writes:

>Is there any meaning behind the Mac "SE", "si","ci","fx" etc...

>No one around here seems to know and I've never run across any explaination.

Mostly guessing:

SE: Single expansion
cx: compact "x", where "x" stands for '30 as opposed to '20.
ci: compact, internal video
fx: fast "x".
si: single expansion, internal video
LC: Low Cost

At least *some* of the above should be correct. :-)

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                  ..
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: dowling@hubcap.clemson.edu (william a dowling)
Subject: Re: Background printing
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 21:20:21 GMT

resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick) writes:

>jang@forit.forut.no (Jan Grav) writes:

>>After installing sys.7.0 Laserwriter on a Mac IIcx running 6.0.5,
>>it is not possible to print in background anymore.
>>Any suggestions?

>Yes. Get the System 7 Backgrounder and the System 7 PrintMonitor.
>They are both on the System 7 disks.


	Backgrounder?  It's not in my system folder and I print just fine
in the background.  I thought all you need is PrintMonitor.>pr
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: m16547@mwunix.mitre.org (Arthur Gorski)
Subject: Latest Tuneup hoses Personal File Sharing?
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1992 15:57:51 GMT

I just installed the latest TuneUp on a IIsi and an SE/30, both running 7.0.1 
and the original TuneUp.  I got a cryptic dialog, something like "File Sharing
could not be enabled."  Trying to start personal file sharing via the Sharing
Setup control panel repeated the dialog, and file sharing stayed off.

I eventually replaced only the File Sharing Extension with the 7.0.1 version, 
and everything came back to normal.

What gives?  Anyone else see this?  Is there a better fix?  Thanks in advance.
--
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From: nick@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: MAC Trivia
Date: 8 Apr 92 14:12:49 GMT
	<1992Apr8.010636.24267@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Organization: Friends of the Salter Duck
In-reply-to: manuel@space.ualberta.ca's message of 8 Apr 92 01:06:36 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.010636.24267@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> manuel@space.ualberta.ca (John R. Manuel) writes:

   Proof? Well, around the time I bought  
   my first Mac, a new SE, I noticed a quite a few noncomputer products with  
   'SE' as part of the model name. I've forgotten most of them, but I do  
   remember there being a couple of car models that fit that description.

Certainly, the lower-case trailing "i" (as in IIsi etc.) is trendy. We have
a lot of pose-mobiles of that nomenclature (Escort XR3i and the like). In
this context, perhaps "i" means injection; perhaps not.

Nick.
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From: damon@hp-vcd.vcd.hp.com (Damon Schaefer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: 6.0.7 and Coprocessor not Installed
Date: 10 Apr 92 18:28:04 GMT
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Vancouver, WA, USA

> Do not go back to 6.0.5. System 6.0.7 fixes a lot of bugs and is much
> more stable than older versions (at least that is my experience).
   
I was using 6.0.5 on a Mac II.  For no readily apparent reason I 
upgraded to 6.0.7 when it first came out.  I noticed that after the
upgrade I got the "Coprocessor not installed" almost HOURLY and my
system file was getting trashed about twice a week.

For me, the solution was to return to 6.0.5.  Problem solved.
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