HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: briand@tekig5.pen.tek.com (Brian D Diehm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Balloon help in sys 6.0.7?
Date: 17 Nov 92 19:41:07 GMT
Reply-To: briand@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.

>Is there a way of showing help balloons under System 6.0.x instead
>of 7.x.x?

I have yet to figure out why anyone would want balloon help on any system,
7 included.

What a waste. I just wish Apple would give us some way to delete the balloon
help during installation, thereby saving a lot of wasted disk space.

What a useless feature. What a useless way to provide on-line help. "The Quit
selection Quits this application." Wow, really?

--
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,comp.sys.mac.apps
From: reo@cbnews.cb.att.com (robert.e.o'brien)
Subject: Black flashing rectangle on PowerBook 170
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 03:26:41 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: Powerbook

My sister-in-law has a PowerBook 170 running System 7.0.1.  After about 15
minutes of use, a black flashing rectangle appears on the screen.  The 
rectangle will flash for about 5 seconds and then disappear for 
another 15 minutes.  Any clues as to what is going on here?

Bob O'Brien
From: yjc@po.cwru.edu (Jerome Chan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Linking SE/30 with Classic II
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.system
Date: 22 Nov 1992 06:37:29 GMT
Organization: The Tofu Society of Singapore
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: b61539.student.cwru.edu

In article <By3Irn.3zq@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>, me322faa@sail.uwaterloo.ca
(Fall BEACON me322 account) wrote:

> If anyone knows any special trick to get a tiny LAN working with a plus I'd appreciate it. (I tried removing all non apple extensions and control panels)

Has the AppleShare Choose extension been installed onto the Plus?

---
The Evil Tofu
From: conan@tron.gun.de (Dirk Taggesell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re:sys 7.01 memory problems
Organization: TRON Public Mailbox, Neurath, Germany
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:13:00 +0100

Am 12.11.92 schrieb FRISINGE%AIO.JSC.NASA.GOV@USENET.ZER unter dem Betreff sys 7.01 memory problems:

> From: frisinge@aio.jsc.nasa.gov (Greg Frisinger)
> Subject: sys 7.01 memory problems
> Message-ID: <1992Nov12.140219.20519@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
> Organization: nasa-jsc
> 
> Help me please.
I'll try it...

>   I have a MacIIci with 20 meg of memory.  When I select the 32 bit mode in 
> memory under the control panel, the system takes up 982k of memory.  When I 
> have the 32 bit mode off the system then takes 12,961k of memory.  Could 
> anyone explain why this happens.

If You switch the 32-Bit-Mode off, You have only access to eight
Megabytes of those precious RAM. Ergo the unused amount of RAM will be
grabbed  by the System.  This Option is implemented and only useful for
compatibility with older applications.
Hope, I could help You...
 
> Thanks.......
Never mind...

Greetings from Good Old Germany


Absender: Dirk Taggesell
          CONAN@TRON.ZER

hoerst du diese lieder, boehse onkelz immer wieder
sie sind ein teil von meinem leben
sie sind ein teil von mir
sie sind fuer dich, ich schenk' sie dir
                      (Boehse Onkelz 1992)

-- THE ANSWER V2.03
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: mason@cis.umassd.edu (Mason L. Bliss)
Subject: Re: This random, weird noise
Organization: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:35:51 GMT

In <ERICT.92Nov21085702@Fairview-Heights.ascent-west.uucp> erict@ascent-west.uucp (Eric Tiffany) writes:


>Thanks to everybody:

>    Weird Noise <--> Easy Access

You might want to consider keeping Easy Access around... It saved my hide once,
when my mouse died. I could have gone for days without using my Mac while I
waited for a repair, or waited for a new mouse top arrive, but, fortunately,
I had Easy Access installed. It lets you use your numeric keypad as a mouse-
equivalent, which at times is pretty cool.

RepairHack: I did the repair to my mouse myself, after being told by the
dealership that while they couldn't repair it for me, they'd give me a discount
on a new one... A hot glue gun does wonders for stabilizing loose, occasionally
bridging wires...
--
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 \   What diabolical chicken stepped on your forehead and sat on your chin?  /
  \-------------------------------------------------------------------------/
   \        Mason L. Bliss <mason@cis.umassd.edu> is watching you.         /
From: maynard@leah.msc.cornell.edu (Maynard J. Handley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Linking SE/30 with Classic II
Date: 20 Nov 92 17:57:17 GMT
Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center

In article <1992Nov20.104422.20653@fwi.uva.nl>, maarten@fwi.uva.nl (Maarten
Carels) writes:
>johnston@me.udel.edu (Bill Johnston) writes:
>>In article <1992Nov19.144029.17608@husc3.harvard.edu>
>mcrae@husc8.harvard.edu writes:
>>>In article <1992Nov19.085527.12367@wuecl.wustl.edu>, har1@cec2.wustl.edu
>(Hasnol Abdul Rahman) writes:
>>>> I have a question for you all out there. I want to link a SE/30
>>>> with Classic II. What is the best way to do so? I just want to
>>>In Steven Bobker's article in the "Bridges" section of the October '92
>>>MacUser, he says that "what is sold as an ImageWriter II connector
>cable"
>>>will do the trick. I guess it makes the same pin-to-pin connections as
>the
>>>LocalTalk or PhoneNet connectors would. 
>>Wrong.  An ImageWriter II cable running between two macs will function
>>as a null modem connector, letting the user link the machines over a 
>>serial connection (ie, two terminal apps, etc.).
>>
>>Localtalk cables are wired differently, and have fewer pins. 
>>The connector boxes contain terminating resistors that 
>>automagically work when only one device is connected.  It's a 
>>different setup for a different purpose.
>True, but when using ONLY TWO NODES it will work. So, when connecting a
>single
>mac to a (AppleTalk) printer, or just two macs together, it will work.
>Don't say it won't, I've used setups like this many times.

I have no practical experience with loaclTalk, but I thought that the Mac
serial
ports could only be driven by the mac to 56kbps reliably. To run at
localTalk
speed of 212kbps the port has to be externally clocked which is one of the
functions of the box. This would seem to imply that the null modem setup
might
work, but kinda slow.
Are my ideas on this correct?

Maynard
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Erik A. Johnson)
Subject: Old LaserWriter drivers (6.0.x) with System 7.0.1+?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 01:48:13 GMT

Anyone know of any significant problems with playing with old
LaserWriter drivers under System 7.0.1 (Tuneup 1.1.1)?   Will
my Mac eventually self-destruct? :-)

Thanks!


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: jelmore@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jay Elmore)
Subject: Re: Drivers for Apple File Exchange
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.
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 10:25:53 GMT

In article <1992Nov17.035900.19222@hubcap.clemson.edu> jshea@eng.clemson.edu writes:
>Are there binhex or macbinary drivers available for AFE?  I haven't been able to 
>find any here at school, and they would be extremely useful to me.  Please email me
>if you know the answer.  I am very sorry if this is a FAQ, but it is important that
>I find out, and right now I am too busy to search for an answer.
>
>						John
>
>
>

Funny you should mention that... I just found a "mac->macbinary"
translator in one of the rascal.utexas mirrors on wuarchive.wustl.edu.
I haven't tried it, but I think that's what you need...

(btw, did anybody notice that one of the Installer disks for System 7.1
has a copy of Apple File Exchange 7.0? I think that's the first time I've
ever seen it...)

Jay (=
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: System 7.1 = $$$
From: ibhan@husc8.harvard.edu (Ishir Bhan)
Date: 20 Nov 92 16:33:59 GMT

pip@pro-freedom.cts.com (David Pipgras) writes:

>System 7.1 requires you to upgrade virtually all your software, as most
>things will not work properly, or are just plainly incompatible with 7.1,
>including Publish It Easy 2.9, Illustrator 3.2, Ready,Set,Go! 4.5a,
>HyperCard 2.1, Most CD-ROM drivers, Scanner Drivers, Monitor Drivers,
>Printer Drivers, (all non-apple of course), MacLabelPro, After Dark, ATM
>2.3, OnCue II, Adobe Type Reunion, Adobe Type Align, MacPaint, MacDraw...

I think there is something wrong with your setup other than 7.1.  I am
running 7.1 and thought I don't have all the programs you do, After Dark,
ATM 2.3, Adobe Type Reunion, and MacDraw all work fine on my machine (I
don't have the others).  Though ATM won't function properly (looking in
the fonts folder) unless you apply the free fix that I think I saw
floating around somehwere.  Anyway, Sys 7.1 should come with a free offer
for the latest ATM.

>Seems Apple does not feel $99 for the software upgrade is enough, and also

It's only $35 if you have System 7 already.

I use System 7.1, and have had 0 compatability problems, and I use a lot
of different software packages.
-- 
             --      Ishir Bhan (ibhan@husc.harvard.edu)      --
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: jelmore@nyx.cs.du.edu (John Elmore)
Subject: Re: Folder from hell (Help needed)
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: Mon, 23 Nov 92 23:34:18 GMT

In article <jean-231192163432@macjt.univ-lyon1.fr> jean@biomac.univ-lyon1.fr (Jean Thioulouse) writes:
>Hi,
>
>    Who can help me ? I can't delete this damned folder...
>Thanks,
>Jean
>
>Jean Thioulouse                              | e-mail:                    |
>Universite Lyon 1 - Laboratoire de Biometrie | jean@biomac.univ-lyon1.fr  |
>69622 Villeurbanne CEDEX - France.           | THIOULOU@FRCISM51.BITNET   |

(sigh)

Find a copy of HellFolderFix, or try reading through old posts in this
group to find alternate methods.

If you can't find HellFolderFix, e-mail. I found my copy.

Jay (=
From: veloso@husc9.harvard.edu (Manuel Veloso)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Hacking a Font Folder Manager
Date: 16 Nov 92 17:05:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Nov16.120555.17499
Distribution: world
Organization: Harvard University
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d11
X-XXMessage-ID: <A72D402210011817@humcr3.harvard.edu>
X-XXDate: Mon, 16 Nov 92 17:10:10 GMT

After looking at the Font Extension Manager, I figured that there had
to be a better way. So I looked at the 'protypical' extension manager,
"Extensions Manager 1.8", & found out that it's actually really easy
to make it recognize the Fonts Folder.

With Resedit:

open the FTyp resource, go to the bottom of the resource, and type
(don't type the quotes)
'fontfonD'

then go to the fld# resource, and add
fonD
Fonts (disabled)

if you like, you can delete all the other FTyp's and fld#'s, leaving
just the above changes.

Then, configure EM to recognize 'LWFN', 'ffil', and 'FFIL'. Voila! you've
got a font manager that not only does sets, but is a cdev & can be
used @startup. How 'bout that?
From: Sean McMains <mcmains@unt.edu>
Subject: Re: Query: Appletalk, mixing 6.0.5 and 7.x systems?
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A72C370856010205@isbdeskmac.acs.unt.edu>
X-Xxdate: Sun, 15 Nov 92 10: 19:04 GMT
Organization: University of North Texas
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 23:18:57 GMT

In article <1992Nov15.195012.10222@netcom.com> Hank Roberts,
hank@netcom.com writes:
>I'm told that works fine sharing 6.0.7 and 7.x  -- but wonder if anyone
>can advise me about trying System 7 printer drivers on a 6.0.5 System?

It should work fine. There were no substantive changes to the print
architechture betweens versions 6.0.5 and 6.0.8 of the Mac OS, so all
should work together swimmingly. You may also want to make sure that you
have version 3.x of the Appleshare workstation software on each machine
so you can take advantage of its features as well.
==========================================================================
Sean McMains <mcmains@unt.edu>        |          University of North Texas
==========================================================================
"An open mind, in questions that are  not ultimate, is useful. But an open
mind about  the ultimate  foundations either  of Theoretical  or Practical
Reason is idiocy." - C.S. Lewis
==========================================================================
From: arnaud@lami.epfl.ch (Pierre Arnaud)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Why is formatting a floppy so fast ?
Keywords: floppy, formatting
Date: 17 Nov 92 09:07:05 GMT
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

Hello out there,

Does anyone know why formatting a disk on a mac only
takes about half a minute ?

I am working on a Swiss machine and would like to improve
the formatting speed of our 3"1/5 floppy disks. Shall I
format one side, then the other, or what is the trick used
in the Mac-OS ? Whatever we do, it takes us about a minute
to format (and half a minute to read a complete disk).

Please don't tell me it is slow just because it is Swiss :-).


Pierre ARNAUD, student, Swiss Federal Institue of Technology
arnaud@lamisun.epfl.ch
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Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 10:16:13 MST
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: $stephan@sasb (Stephan Fassmann, Software)
Subject: StyleWriter Problem
Organization: BYU
Distribution: world

One of my student labs is having problems with their StyleWriters which are 
hanging off Mac II ci's. When they try to print out from MS Word 5.0 the
pages often get punted (half the page is printed and then is spit out). 
These SWs are getting extremely heavy usage 100+ pages a day. Is it just that
they are being run ragged or is there some other problem.
Thanks a lot.
_____________________________________________________________________
|Stephan Fassmann  Internet: $stephan@sasb.byu.edu  GEnie: S.FASSMANN
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|The Random Acts of Kindness will Continue until Morale Deteriorates|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.system:14318 comp.sys.mac.misc:19546
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Sys 7.1
From: cvadsadm@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu
Date: 22 Nov 92 14:12:16 PST
Distribution: world
Organization: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Nntp-Posting-User: cvadsadm

In article <1992Nov17.181756.39000@fourd.com>, Joe_D._Ciarcia@fourd.com writes:
> Is Apple shipping all machines with the new system 7.1 or are they only
> shipping it with the new Macs??  In other words ... I just ordered a ][ci
> today (education program).  What system should I expect to see?  Thanx, Joe C

> ********************************************************************
> System: fourd.com                                Phone: 617-494-0565
> Cute quote:  Being a computer means never having to say you're sorry
> ********************************************************************
>
apple only ship 7.1 with new macs now. upgrade kit for $35 is hard to find, but
for $99, you can get one from somewhere
From: erics@infoserv.com (Eric S. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Suitcase II 1.2.12 and Sys 7.1
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 09:10:36 PDT
Organization: Reigning Cats and Dogs
Reply-To: erics@infoserv.com
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1


fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu (Faisal Nameer Jawdat) writes:

> erics@infoserv.co> (Eric S. Smith) writes... 

> >You don't *need* Font/DA Mover. You can create an empty suitcase by
> >making a copy of an existing one and dragging all the fonts out of it,
> >then dragging the fonts you want into it.

> i haven't used systems earlier than 7 to any degree to know the answer
> to this, but isn't it true that in earlier systems than 7 you couldn't
> open up a suitcase, but had to access its contents with font/ds mover?

That is correct, but that wasn't the point. The original topic was System
7.1, and the original poster said that FDAM was once again necessary
because of the limit of 128 suitcases in the Fonts folder.

-----
Eric Smith
erics@infoserv.com
CI$: 70262,3610


Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.system:14162 comp.sys.mac.misc:19273
From: mintz@cvl.umd.edu (Dr. Doron Mintz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Please HELP, my floppy drive is dead !!!
Date: 17 Nov 92 16:48:06 GMT
Organization: Center for Automation Research, Univ. of Md.

It was alive and kicking until it ejected a floppy and
after a short idle turning noise it will not come to live
again. It does swallow the disk but the machine doesn't know
about it (or it seems so).

This is the original Sony super drive that came with my IIsi
more than a year ago. I did move the system earlier but did
not drop it or something of the sort.


Can you please help?


Thank you very much,

Doron Mintz
From: geck@plasma.icsl.ucla.edu (William Ross Geck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Renaming a folder that has been shared
Date: 20 Nov 92 21:57:53 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of California at Los Angeles, EE Dept.

I am trying to rename the root folder (hard disk) on a powerbook that has 
been preveously shared under system 7.1.  Even after turning off File 
Sharing and Appletalk, etc. I cannot change the disk's name.  Does anyone 
have any hints on how to do this?

Thanks

W. Ross Geck
geck@plasma.icsl.ucla.edu
From: dsb@osustat.mps.ohio-state.edu (David S. Blumenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Problems with Japanese beta System 7.1
Date: 20 Nov 1992 18:13:52 GMT
Organization: OSU Statistical Computing Laboratory
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: osustat.mps.ohio-state.edu

I've been experiencing some trouble with a Japanese beta version of System
7.1 and MacTCP 1.1.  Whenever any control panel is changed, the next
reboot crashes on loading MacTCP with a message to the effect that the system
may be damaged.  If the system file is replaced with a backup, it boots
fine, but of course the changes that were made in the control panel are not
there.  Removing MacTCP allows control panels to be used, but then when MacTCP
is reinstalled, it crashes again.  Is this a bug with 7.1, with the beta
version, or with something else?  If so, does anyone know how to work around
it?  Or do I just have to wait until the release version of Japanese 7.1 is
available?

Specifics:       Mac IIsi, 5Mb RAM, 80Mb HD
                 System version:  J1-7.1f1c4
                 Finder version:  J1-7.1f1c3
                 MacTCP version:  1.1
Error:  boot up with MacTCP installed, turn on virtual memory (or change
        any other control panel), reboot -> system file corrupted

Please email responses, I don't usually read this group.

Thanks a lot,

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
| Dave Blumenthal                  | The Ohio State University        |
| dsb@osustat.mps.ohio-state.edu   | Statistical Computing Laboratory |
------ There is a fine difference between insight and insanity. -------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: Quinn <quinn@cs.uwa.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Killing Cmd-Opt-Space in Sys 7.x
X-Xxdate: Wed, 18 Nov 92 00: 50:16 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Australia
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 00:56:19 GMT

M.A. Weissman (maw5506@ultb.isc.rit.edu) wrote:
: I commonly use a Dvorak KCHR layout on my Mac running system 7.1. 
Inside
: Mac documents a really neat feature of switching KCHR layouts every time
: you hit Cmd-Opt-Space.  This is great if other people wish to use my
machine.
: 
: 	Unfortunately it is not so great if I want to zoom-out in Adobe
: Illustrator which just so happens to use...you guessed
it...Cmd-Opt-Space.
: 
: 	Does some kind soul out there know how to modify the system to ignore,
: or use a different key combination, for the command.  I am familliar
with 
: ResEdit, and any help would be appreciated.

I don't have time to write up specific advice but if you check out
IM VI-14.98 you'll find a descrption of the KSWP resource.  This
resource is used by the system to determine which special key
combinations do Script Manager functions.

Share and Enjoy.

Quinn "The Eskimo!"      <quinn@cs.uwa.edu.au>     "Support HAVOC!"
Department of Computer Science, The University of Western Australia
  -- Script Manager does not make for fun bed time reading!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: jelmore@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jay Elmore)
Subject: Re: Linking SE/30 with Classic II
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: Thu, 19 Nov 92 18:19:20 GMT

In article <1992Nov19.085527.12367@wuecl.wustl.edu> har1@cec2.wustl.edu (Hasnol Abdul Rahman) writes:
>I have a question for you all out there. I want to link a SE/30
>with Classic II. What is the best way to do so? I just want to
>transfer files from one another. Buying 2 of those AppleTalk
>device ($25 each) is a waste of money. I would like to use
>a male/male cable similar to those used by Imagewriter which
>only cost me $4. Since I want to link only 2 computers, my brain
>said that I can do so. Am I right? 
>
>Don't ask me to try it out. I just want opinions
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>p/s: Both macs are using 7.0.1


Yep... you can do it. I've done it lots of times.

If you ever want to hook up more than 2 Macs, an inexpensive alternative
to AppleTalk boxes are Farallon PhoneNet connectors. They use phone
wiring, and cost about $15-$20 per box, depending on how you get them...

Jay (=
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system