HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
Subject: Re: Extracting SEA's
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central
	<WILHELM.92Aug21185715@michelotti.ae.ge.com>
	<1992Aug22.045008.7692@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 20:49:07 GMT

[followups to c.s.m.comm]
WS> == William Stocker <stocker@Xenon.Stanford.EDU> 

 WS> What exactly is "MacBinary" format?

It's a way of encoding the Mac's file information (icon &c), data fork,
and resource fork into one file in such a way that it can be stored on
an "unforked" system like a BBS or ftp site.

BinHex does the same thing, but also encodes the file into ASCII in such
a way that it can be emailed.
--
Christopher Davis * ckd@eff.org * System Administrator, EFF * +1 617 864 0665
            ``Ed Gruberman, you fail to grasp Ti Kwan Leep.
            Approach me that you might see.'' -- The Master
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: PowerBooks and Hand Sacnners
From: zaphod@vax2.winona.msus.edu (Gregory Talmo)
Date: 18 Aug 92 15:19:33 -0600
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Distribution: world
Organization: Winona State Academic Computing

  Howdy,
  Does anyone out there know of any company that manufactures a _battery_
powered hand-scanner?  I'd like to use onw with mu PowerBook while I'm
doing research, and libraries are not generally known for thier outlets. 
If it ran off the ADB bus that would be okay, but preferrably off of its
own battery
  Also, if there is such an animal does it work well with OCR software,
such as Omni-Page?

  Thank you,
- Greg Talmo  (zaphod@vax2.winona.msus.edu)
  [The opinions expressed above are my own, and do not necessarily reflect
   the opinions, tastes, or policies of Winona State University, its
   faculty, staff or students.]
From: purp@wixer.cactus.org (Jim Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: comp.sys.mac.powerbook
Date: 18 Aug 92 14:52:48 GMT
Organization: Real/Time Communications

In article <1992Aug18.002611.23687@verity.com> anders@verity.com (Anders Wallgren) writes:
>In article <6255@ucru2.ucr.edu> Michael Judson,
>judson@watnxt2.ucr.edu writes:
>>Reading through the various mac newsgroups, I think there are
>enough posts
>>regarding powerbooks to justify a newsgroup devoted solely for
>powerbooks.
>>Does anyone else agree.
>
>Sure.  I also think we should add the following groups:
>
>comp.sys.mac.powerbook.supertwist
>comp.sys.mac.powerbook.backlit
>comp.sys.mac.floppy-drive.left
>comp.sys.mac.floppy-drive.right
>copy.sys.mac.floppy-drive.my.system.can.only.have.one

Don't forget:

comp.sys.mac.mouse
comp.sys.mac.trackball
comp.sys.mac.tablet
comp.sys.ibm.i.hate.mice.they.stink.kill.them.all

--Purp, who would like to see comp.sys.mac.powerbook.

-- 
+---------------+------------------------------+-----------------------+
| Jim Meyer     | If I express an opinion, you | purp@wixer.cactus.org |
| Austin, Tejas | can bet no one else agrees.  | aka jimpurp@pro-lep   |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: stocker@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (William Stocker)
Subject: Re: Extracting SEA's
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 04:50:08 GMT

In article <WILHELM.92Aug21185715@michelotti.ae.ge.com> <wilhelm@michelotti.ae.ge.com writes:

>Two things:  you must ftp with the binary mode set AND
>MacBinary probably needs to be enabled too.  If you are using
>NCSA telnet to do your transfers, it will indicate whether
>MacBinary is enabled or not when you set binary mode (type
>"bin" at the ftp prompt).  MacBinary can be enabled or
>disabled under the "File" menu.

This is something I've been wondering about for a while now.
What exactly is "MacBinary" format?

--Will
From: js43+@andrew.cmu.edu (James William Stepanek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Is there sys 7 compatible Send PS?
Date: 21 Aug 92 12:09:47 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.QeZIq=_00Uh_Q4c4su
Organization: Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

I have recieved the answer to my query. Thanks you all for the quick
replies. I just re-configured so that send PS would run. I put a copy of
LaserWriter in the system outside of the extensions folder.
James Stepanek
esp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.misc
From: scottb@netcom.com (L'etat des mortes)
Subject: Re: comp.sys.mac.powerbook
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 17:53:21 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

While we're at it, might as well include:

comp.sys.mac.fdhd.floppy.dead.dead.dead


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: kass@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Andrew Kass)
Subject: Re: 7.1 in Beta???
Reply-To: kass@sj.ate.slb.com
Organization: Schlumberger Technologies ATE, San Jose
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 19:27:48 GMT

In article <1992Aug11.011409.28069@news.columbia.edu>,
spr@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Sebastian P Ruta) writes:
|> 
|> Now that some netters have stated that they have 7.1 betas in their
|> possesion, would anyone like to let their fellow users know what they
|> have found included in the upgrade?
|> 
|> Realizing that this is only a beta, what can we expect when 7.1 does
|> come out?  Will it incorporate 7-tuneup?  ATM?  etc.....
|> 
|> 
|> Thanks, and sorry if this has been a faq.
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> -- Sebastian 
|>    spr@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu

For a good description of 7.1, see TidBITs  in c.s.m.digest.

BTW, 7.1 does NOT include ATM.

Andrew
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=  Andrew J. Kass					kass@sj.ate.slb.com   =
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From: judson@watnxt2.ucr.edu (Michael Judson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: comp.sys.mac.powerbook
Date: 19 Aug 92 22:53:03 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.145156.14050@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>  
geoffb@coos.dartmouth.edu (Geoff Bronner) writes:
> In <6255@ucru2.ucr.edu> judson@watnxt2.ucr.edu (Michael Judson) writes:
> 
> >Reading through the various mac newsgroups, I think there are enough posts
> >regarding powerbooks to justify a newsgroup devoted solely for powerbooks.
> >Does anyone else agree.

> No, I don't. the comp.sys.mac hierarchy provides a place for any post on
> the PowerBook, or any other Mac for that matter.

> Specific groups for specific Macs is a BAD IDEA (tm) IMO.

Well, a Powerbook is not a specific computer.  Why have comp.sys.mac.*
and not just have comp.sys.apple.* that would cover all apple computers.
Powerbooks are starting to become as diverse to Macintosh as Macintosh
has become to Aplle.  Thus, I do see a need, if not now, then eventually
(soon) for comp.sys.mac.Powerbook, or comp.sys.powerbook.

--
"I drank what?" -- Socrates

judson@watserv.ucr.edu
From: zaphod@vax2.winona.msus.edu (Gregory Talmo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: MacTCP -- Cannot lock address W Admin TCP
Date: 20 Aug 92 00:02:14 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.system
Organization: Winona State Academic Computing


> >We have found that we cannot lock up the IP address box on the
> >first screen of MacTCP even using AdminTCP.  We can lock up
> >the parameters of the second screen, however.
> 
> Locking the second screen locks the first. You cannot lock the LAP
> choice, but the address is locked just fine.
> 
> pr
> --
> Pete Resnick             (...so what is a mojo, and why would one be rising?)

 Pete, what version of MacTCP are you using?  I've been working with Jophn
and 
we have tried all we can thing of, yet we can still change the IP addresse
with
the 'Protection" check box checked.
 We are using MacTCP vers. 1.1

 Thanks for any input

- Greg Talmo  (zaphod@vax2.winona.msus.edu)
  [The opinions expressed above are my own, and do not necessarily reflect
   the opinions, tastes, or policies of Winona State University, its
   faculty, staff or students.]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Apple's Very First AMAZING
From: stanger@otago.ac.nz (Nigel Stanger)
Date: 13 Aug 92 14:55:43 +1300
Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

john@newave.mn.org (John A. Weeks III) writes:
> ttak@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>> I heard about the maze game called Amazing that came with
>> the very first System Software for the Macintosh?
>
> I have it, but I don't have a Mac at the moment.  Amazing is a maze game
> that has something like three levels of play, from trivial to more difficult,
> with the top level being a very difficult multi-level maze.  This game is
> really neat, but it only runs on 68000 hardware, and I don't think it ran
> past system version 5.  I wouldn't think that it would take much trouble
[...]

I beg to differ. I've successfully run it on an SE/30, and it was
earlier on this year, so it was under System 7. You're right
though -- neat demo. I wonder what the algorithm is like?

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Nigel Stanger,                  Internet: stanger@otago.ac.nz
University of Otago,            Phone: +64 3 479-8179
Dunedin, NEW ZEALAND.           Fax:   +64 3 479-8311
"Only people fail, not the system." -- The President-General, "Amtrak Wars"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: hrose@eff.org (Helen Trillian Rose)
Subject: Re: At Ease system extension
Organization: The Evil Fascist IRC Admins From Hell, Inc.
	<BsvMLx.926@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 15:57:55 GMT

Steven> == Steven L. Mullen <mullen@aries.scs.uiuc.edu> 

 Steven> In article <1992Aug11.170015.26658@walter.cray.com> william.zwicky@cray.com (Bill Zwicky) writes:
>Hi,
>I just saw an article about Apple's 
>new Performa line.  The article
>breifly mentioned a system extension
>called "At Ease" that would be shipped with
>the Performa.  What is this extension?
>What will it do?
>

 Steven> I suggest reading the clari.nb.apple newsgroup.  They had a
 Steven> press release last week about At Ease.  Clari.nb.apple is a
 Steven> good way to get facts rather than rumours about new Mac
 Steven> products.

clari.* newsgroups are not avaliable everywhere for the simple reason
that they *cost money*. Mail info@clarinet.com for subscription rates &
more information. 


disclaimer: I have no connection with clarinet apart from being a
satisfied customer.

--Helen
--
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: zben@ni.umd.edu (Charles B. Cranston)
Subject: Re: My LC II won't boot under System 6!? :(
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.system
Organization: UM Home for the Terminally Analytical
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 21:51:05 GMT

In article <1992Aug12.205713.15900@m.cs.uiuc.edu>,
spence@dante.cs.uiuc.edu (Rob Spence) wrote:
 
> This may be a commonly known problem, I'm not sure. I have for the past
> severl months swapped between system 7.01 and 6.08 by booting off a
> 6.08 disk. I recently tried out the shareware product system-switcher and
> encountered some buggy operations such as unwillingness to bless the 6.08
> folder. I deleted the program and....
> Now my LC II gives me a system error whenever I try to boot off a 6.08
> or 6.07 floppy! The error occurs right after multifinder puts the disk icon
> on the desktop.

Some of these system-switching products do ugly things to the system and/or
disk to make the un-blessed systems not visible.  One of them changed the
system file's creator (or filetype, I don't remember) from uppercase ZSYS
to lower case zsys etc.

A side effect of this change is that moving system from folder to folder
no longer updates the boot blocks, since it doesn't look like a system
anymore.

If you throw away the system switcher then it just doesn't work right.
I eventually had to reinstall all my systems to get rid of whatever changes
the system switcher performed.

I now consider these products extremo bad luck, and I'm back to manually
hiding "system" in a subfolder of the respective system folder on all the
currently unblessed systems...

zben@ni.umd.edu     -KA3ZDF
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: owen@olympus.arc.nasa.gov..arc.nasa.gov (Owen S. Nishioka)
Subject: Re: Screwy Mac SE/30
Organization: Nasa-Ames Research Center
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 20:28:24 GMT

In article <Bt8x8o.DFF@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Igor Livshits <igorl@uiuc.edu> writes:
>Hello,
>
>I have a bizarre problem with a colleague's SE/30:  It boots up
>(Sys6.0.5) and then presents me with "floppy unreadable" dialog even if
>the floppy drive is disconnected.  If I escape the dialog, the Mac now
>presents me with a similar dialog for the external floppy.  If I escape
>the second one, the cycle begins again with the internal drive.  
>
>Is this something inherent to the motherboard?  Any ideas and suggestions
>would be greatly appreciated...
>
We had this problem once.  In our case, the SE/30 was new and we took it
back to the store.  I was told that it was a board defect that slipped
in on the line and they gave me a new one.  Don't really know what the
problem was, but if yours is new, you may want to take advantage of the
warranty.


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_|  _|   _|_|  _| 
_|  _|   _|  _|_|    -These are my personal views...
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From: purp@wixer.cactus.org (Jim Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: RE-DAs not working?
Date: 17 Aug 92 21:54:09 GMT
Organization: Real/Time Communications

It could also be that your friend is out of memory; the Finder doesn't
give much in the way of reasons when it can't open other System software
tool-kinda things, it seems. 

I've had that one, too. It's frustrating as all hell!

--Purp, happy with 16M.
-- 
+---------------+------------------------------+-----------------------+
| Jim Meyer     | If I express an opinion, you | purp@wixer.cactus.org |
| Austin, Tejas | can bet no one else agrees.  | aka jimpurp@pro-lep   |
+---------------+------------------------------+-----------------------+
From: heinle@gimp (Glenn Heinle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Need Mac+ Help
Keywords: keyboard
Date: 19 Aug 92 15:31:03 GMT

In article <3380@ra.nrl.navy.mil> heinle@gimp (Glenn Heinle) writes:
> 
>  [ Problem about inits deleted ]
> 
Thanks for the help.

The prblem is definitely with the keyboard.  It follows the keyboard  
around to different macs.  Now all I have to do is figure out how to  
diagnose and fix an old Mac+ keyboard.  Any ideas?

--
Glenn Heinle
heinle@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: zben@ni.umd.edu (Charles B. Cranston)
Subject: Re: HELP no color mac @ welcome to mac screen
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.system
Organization: UM Home for the Terminally Analytical
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 21:14:56 GMT

In article <1992Aug12.231430.16926@polari>, sparky@polari.online.com wrote:
 
> Happened to me once.  All I did was to go into the Monitors control panel
> and change the screen to B&W and then back to 256 colors (resetting it).
> Then I rebooted, and it seemed to get the clue.

When the parameter ram setting (in the hardware, saved by slot number)
gets out of sync with the monitors control panel settings (saved in the
filesystem somewhere) then this happens.  When first booting the monitor
is set by the ROM to b/w so the startup icon is b/w.  Sometime later in
the boot process the system notices the setting in the filesystem is
color and fixes things up.  By resetting the monitor state with the
Monitors control panel you get them back agreeing with each other...

zben@ni.umd.edu     -KA3ZDF
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: comp.sys.mac.powerbook
From: zaphod@vax2.winona.msus.edu (Gregory Talmo)
Date: 18 Aug 92 14:59:33 -0600
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.system
Distribution: world
Organization: Winona State Academic Computing

In article <6255@ucru2.ucr.edu>, judson@watnxt2.ucr.edu (Michael Judson)
wrote:
> 
> Reading through the various mac newsgroups, I think there are enough posts
> regarding powerbooks to justify a newsgroup devoted solely for powerbooks.
> Does anyone else agree.

  Yes there is a proliferation of newsgroups on the net, and no I don't
think that there sould be a seperate newsgroupf for every Mac model. 
However, I do feel that the PowerBook series (and the Portable b/c the
PowerBook 100 is just a "Honey I Shrank the Portable"), with their inherent
differences warrant a news group of their own, with one caveat: only if
there is sufficent response to keep the group viable, and not have it
whiter on the UseNet vine.

  With that said, Yes I would supporta comp.sys.mac.powerbook news group.


- Greg Talmo  (zaphod@vax2.winona.msus.edu)
  [The opinions expressed above are my own, and do not necessarily reflect
   the opinions, tastes, or policies of Winona State University, its
   faculty, staff or students.]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: borders@ms.uky.edu (Johnny Borders)
Subject: Re: stylewriter driver
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 05:38:20 GMT
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences

jlawrence@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:

>I have heard that a new driver for the Stylewriter is out that speeds it up to
>about twice the speed of the older driver.  Does anyone know what the version #
>on that is?

7.2.2.. Supports background printing, too!
-- 
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From: sbarnhar@mailbox.mail.umn.edu (Dr. Barnhart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Creating alias to Netware server folder
Date: 21 Aug 92 18:37:36 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.system
Organization: U of Mn Propoganda Ministry

There's a Novell Netware server that I have to copy files to periodically. 
Naturally the folder they want the information posted to is like four
levels into the server.  So naturally I'd like to create an alias to that
folder.
Unfortunately, I don't have write access in the level the folder I need to
copy
stuff into sits, so the finder won't let me create an alias to that folder.

I've tried all the various alias tools at sumex and none of them seem to do
what I'd like them to do.
.
Is there a workaround for this kind of situation?  Can you create an alias
to any old file and then hack the pathname inside the alias file?  Does
anyone know what exactly is inside an alias file?

Shawn Barnhart ! sbarnhar@mailbox.mail.umn.edu
Someday a real rain will come...
From: quinn@cs.uwa.edu.au (Quinn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Balloon Help - Don't leave home without it! (was 7.1 in Beta)
Date: 17 Aug 92 02:21:52 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Australia
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1

Normally I refrain from flaming but...

In article <713959300.F00001@blkcat.UUCP> Kaz Karl,
Kaz.Karl@f1138.n261.z1.fidonet.org writes:
>Dumb things: Balloon help
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^
{$setc Flame=true}

How can you flame Ballon Help as being a "dumb thing" without
suggesting your own concepts of the "you beaut, latest, coolest,
help system".  Personally I find Ballon Help:

a) incredibly clever
b) extremely useful

Balloon Help often supplies just the right amount of help.  Enough
to tell me why the menu item is disabled but no so much that it
gets in the way.  It's much, much, much better than any other
help system I've used, on the Mac or elsewhere.

Besides that it's technically very clever because it provides
a totally non-modal help system and it's quite easy to program
(once you give up on BalloonWriter and use Rez).

{$endc}

About the only flaw in the Ballon Help I can see is the pain 
required to turn it on and off.  But that's just a silly oversight
that Helium fixes (-:

And if applications want to provide there own form of help system
(like the "Claris Help System") above and beyond what's system
supported then good for them.

As for your other point about process scheduling, try writing an
operating system for 128K sometime and then try retrofitting
multi-tasking *in a compatible way* some years later and see how
well you do.  Give the engineers a break.  They've got enough
problems without being flamed by people who haven't stopped to
consider the technical difficulties involved.

Quinn "The Eskimo!"      <quinn@cs.uwa.edu.au>     "Support HAVOC!"
Department of Computer Science, The University of Western Australia
  -- Hmm.  I'm normally not this vehement.  I must have got out
     the bed the wrong side this morning.
  -- It works for me.
From: ph@physiology.oxford.ac.uk (Patrick Haggard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Unix software to read Mac floppies on DECstation 5000
Keywords: floppy, unix
Date: 12 Aug 92 13:50:35 GMT
Organization: Physiology Department, Oxford University, Oxford, UK.

In article <14422@borg.cs.unc.edu> brandt@cs.unc.edu (#66 Andrew Brandt) writes:
>Does anyone know of any way to read/write/mount a Mac floppy on a
>Personal DECstation 5000/25 with a 2.88MB floppy drive?

	I've been using SUNtar, which is on the sumex archive.  It
allows the mac to read and write tar and bar archives on floppies
which can be used by both Mac and my SUN sparc2.  If your DECstation
will read/write 1.44MB floppies you might try it.

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

Patrick Haggard,
Oxford University Laboratory of Physiology,
Parks Road,
Oxford,
OX1 3PT
England

Tel. (0865) 272116
Fax. (0865) 272469
Email (JANET): ph@uk.ac.ox.physiol
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From: nortond@lonex.rl.af.mil (Doug Norton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: System 7.0.1/Quadra 900 Problems...
Date: 13 Aug 92 19:26:02 GMT
Organization: Rome Labs Photonics Center
Originator: nortond@lonexb.rl.af.mil

We are having some problems with System 7.0.1 with the latest tuneup
installed.  Here's a brief listing of the chain of events...

-First, we noticed that the system (Quadra 900) was running a bit slow
-We could not print with PrintMonitor it told us that there was not enough
 memory for PrintMonitor even after we increased it to 1MB.  We were not
 printing anything big just a Print Window... from the finder's File menu.
-We pulled PrintMonitor from the Extensions folder and tried to print, again
 not enough memory to print (Finder Error not a printer error)
-We then tried to open the System Suitcase, the Finder told us that it was
 damaged.
-We tried to reinstall System 7, Quadra froze.
-We trashed the System File on the Quadra and then successfully installed
 System 7 and TuneUp
-Opened the Control Panel and set 256 colors and then added a desk pattern
 and when we closed the General CP the System froze.

We did this several times and it produced the same problem.  Can someone
give me some advice?  Thanks!!!

Doug Norton
nortond@lonex.rl.af.mil
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system