From: fredh@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (laviathen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest
Subject: Help: Want Mac programs from the net
Date: 30 Sep 1992 13:52:45 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University

Hello,  I need help downloading programs for my Mac. I cant down load
to my Mac because I don't have a modem for it. I have downloaded
the programs to the PC at my school the copied them to disks. But
how do I get them to run on my MAC. I tried Apple File Transfer and
it read the disk and showed the programs on it but would not let me
do any thing with them. The programs have a .hqx extension. If you
can help please send E-Mail with your reply. Thank you very much for
your time and effort.
 ----------->
FRED A. HUNT
fredh@matt.ksu.ksu.edu

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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 20:41:39 -0400
From: Bob Kerns <rwk@crl.dec.com>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V10 #235

    Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 17:29 BST
    From: bcek1@cus.cam.ac.uk (B.C.E. Khoo)

    Dear all,

    I have recently received a file... it looks like this:

    begin 644 CompressedFile%2ePKG

    ...

    end

    My question is, what format is it in, and how do I decode it? I have
    already
    tried BinHex 4.0 and 5.0 but they do not recognise it.

    Please e-mail me with answers. Thanks in advance.

Use uudecode on a unix box.  The 'begin 644' is a dead givaway;
the '644' is the Unix file protection bits to assign after
decoding.  It may then have been compressed, probably with
'compress', in which case, use 'uncompress' on it.

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

Date: 30 Sep 1992 07:07:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kermit's Buddy! <GRAPHICS%EKU.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V10 #235

>From: ZIBERT%SIENA.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU
>Subject: Info-Mac Digest V10 #234
>
>Can anyone help me...How can I download one of these Info-Mac files? I am on
a
>Bitnet node, and I don't believe we have access to ftp. Pardon me if this is
>basic, as I am an experienced telecommunications person, but new to the
>network
>scene. Any help appreciated!
>
>Thanks,
>Jack Zibert
>Zibert@Siena.Bitnet

Jack,
Use BITFTP -- works great!!! Create a file like :
ftp sumex-aim.stanford.edu
user anonymous
cd /info-mac/digest/tb
get tidbits-108.etx
quit

Then send the file to bitftp@pucc it does the ftping for you!!!! A very
nice service provided by Princeton. There is a help file available,
also.


-Bob Martin -- Graphics@eku.bitnet

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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 15:34:26 +0000
From: Elliot Bennett <Elliot.Bennett@europa.rs.kp.dlr.de>
Subject: Looking for Chemintosh & Beaker

Anyone seen either of these programs (my boss asked me to find out for his
daughter who's stuying chemistry)??

Any leads as to where I could find/order/buy them would be most
appreciated...


Thanks in advance,
Elliot Bennett
elliot@europa.rs.kp.dlr.de

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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 17:04:43 -0600
From: c4898@umslvma.umsl.edu (Larry Pickett)
Subject: lpr client/server for Mac

	Does anyone know of a lpr client/server for the Mac.

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

Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 07:35:53 PDT
From: "Tom Wilson" <wilsont@fedc04.fed.ornl.gov>
Subject: Mac NuBus <-> RS-422 Card

I am looking for a Mac NuBus <-> RS-422 Card so I can communicate with
Yokagowa Process controller without sacrificing my Modem Port or my Printer
Port.

A SCSI<->RS-422 would meet my needs also.

Has anyone seen such a beast?

Tom Wilson
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
<wilsont@fedc04.fed.ornl.gov>

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Date: 30 Sep 1992 14:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: "ADAM L. KLEIN" <V107KG89@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu>
Subject: Mac security app

MacNetters (and other folks):

	I am a lab consultant in a lab with 28 networked Macintosh LC II's,
ported to 2 LaserWriter IIg's. We have been attempting to find an application
(or CDEV or DA) that will lock out the hard drive, simply preventing students
>From throwing out or modifying the names of applications (as well as the
Chooser, Control Pannel, and startup settings). We do not care (that much)
if students store their programs on the drives (because we can throw the
stuff out). But when they rename things (we are using nameLock on the drive
names), it's a royal pain.

	The department would really rather not spend $$ just protecting the
names of things (and the time of the monitors), so we would very much prefer
a shareware or freeware app. We considered FolderBolt, or DiskLock; but
in addition to costing $$$, they may prevent some apps from accessing the
system folder...

	So: any ideas folks? Please respond to e-mail addresses below, and
I will summarize depending on requests.

	Thanks bunches... Adam Klein

Internet:       v107kg89@ubvmsc.cc.buffalo.edu (or) alklein@acsu.buffalo.edu
Bitnet:         v107kg89@ubvmsc.BITNET         (or) alklein@sunybcs.BITNET

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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 13:35:27 +0000
From: rwensley@stmarys-ca.edu
Subject: MacTCP, Eudora, and Telnet

I am having trouble with MacTCP, Eudora, and Telnet.  We have a small
appletalk network that is bridged to our ethernet backbone using a
Shiva FastPath.  When I try to configure the MacTCP on a MacIIsi running
system 7.0 I have the following problem:  If I choose to set the IP
address of the machine manually (by choosing the Manually option with
AdminTCP), then Eudora works fine, but Telnet2.402
doesn't work (It says that I must reconfigure, but I can't).  Now, if I
try to let the server set the IP number ( I choose the Server option in
AdminTCP) the Telnet works fine, but Eudora won't work.  Any ideas?

Roy Wensley
Saint Mary's College

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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 08:57:14 PDT
From: Kee Nethery <nethery@parc.xerox.com>
Subject: methods to disable printer test page? (Q)

What are all the various tools and techniques that can be used to disable
the test page of a laserwriter when it is first powered up? I'd like to
develop a list.

Kee
Nethery@parc.xerox.com

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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 00:52:17 EST
From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU>
Subject: Mystery file format

On Tue, 29 Sep 92 17:29 BST you said:
>I have recently received a file... it looks like this:
>
>begin 644 CompressedFile%2ePKG
>M``4
>...
>
>end
>
>My question is, what format is it in, and how do I decode it?

Try info-mac/util/maccompress-32.hqx

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

Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 10:39:29 cdt
From: David Bourne <david-bourne@uokhsc.edu>
Subject: Mystery file format (A)

Looks like you need uutool (look in the sumex archive /util/uutool-232.hqx

> Subject: Mystery file format
>
> Dear all,
>
> I have recently received a file... it looks like this:
>
> begin 644 CompressedFile%2ePKG
> M``46```"``````````````````````````0````#````2@```!(````)````
> M7````!`````!````;```""4````"```(D0````!#;VUP<F5S<V5D1FEL92Y0

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

Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 12:21 BST
From: bcek1@cus.cam.ac.uk (B.C.E. Khoo)
Subject: Mystery file format -- solved!

I had neglected to read the header of the mail message via which it was sent
-- this told me that it _was_ a UUEncoded file in 'Apple single format'.

UUDecoding doesn't seem to give good results, it came up with a garbled text
file -- however, Tiger (which some netters kindly pointed out to me) did
decode it properly to an Applelink package and as a result all is well!

Thanks to all that replied...

Bernard Khoo. Wellcome/CRC Institute, Cambridge, UK.
BCEK1@cus.cam.ac.uk or @phx.cam.ac.uk

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

Date: 29 Sep 1992 16:16:35 U
From: "Robert Hess" <robert_hess@macweek.ziff.com>
Subject: Mystery file format [A]

Mystery file format [A]
Bernard Khoo presents a weird file format and asks for its origin.

I can't say for sure but the "PKG" at the end of the first line leads me to
think you should give AppleLink Package format a shot. StuffIt Expander can
decrypt these files.

Robert

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Date: Wed, 30 SEP 92 08:27:44 GMT
From: CMRCM%STAFFS.AC.UK@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU
Subject: Mystery file format [A]

In reply to Bernard Khoo's problem of a mystery file format .....

The file that you included an excerpt from in your mail seems to be
uuencoded. UUencoding is used commonly on Amiga/PC/U**x boxes, to
encode binary files as ASCII to simplify transfer, just like .hqx
files are used for Mac transfers.

You'll need a set of utilities on your platform to access the
files, these are normally just two simple C programs, called
uuencode and uudecode, but the encoding is so simple that there
are even shell script s and Basic programs available.

Take a look your nearest archive, or use Archie for a copy ....

Craig Morgan
Staffordshire University, UK
Email: cmrcm@staffs.ac.uk

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

Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 13:49 EST
From: "First things first ... but not necessarily in that order."
<JGETZIN@vax.clarku.edu>
Subject: Need help with Mac networks

Hello everyone,

  I was wondering if you could give me a hand.   We need to perform various
Mac upgrades so that we can hook into a network over long distance.  What I
need is to have some terms defined, because everybody I talk to uses different
terms and doesn't talk to each other, leaving utter pandemonium.

So anyway:

What is Inbox?   What is Apple Talk Remote?   How does Apple Talk Remote
differ from plain old apple Talk?   How do both of these differ from
Inbox?

What kind of hardware is/are needed for these programs?    Is there a minimum/
maximum transmission speed involved with these?   Could I use a 300 BAUD
MODEM, a 9600 BAUD, or anything between?

What is the difference between System 6 and System 7?

Any help you could give me would be a razor with which I could slash through
about a million (and a half) hours of beaurocratic red tape.   It would
be VERY appreciated.

Please respond through EMail, as I rarely have time to get into the news
groups etc.    I'll try to collect all replies into a file, so if you have
similar questions, let me know, and I'll forward a copy to you, too.

		Thanks a million,
			    =*()*()* Jeff *()*()*=


-
Jeffrey H. Getzin                 ! "Don't read this."
Email: jgetzin@vax.clarku.edu     !

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

Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 00:53:02 EST
From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU>
Subject: New Authorware listserv

On Tue, 29 Sep 1992 13:45 GMT you said:
>You write:
><<To subscribe to Aware-L send the following command to
>listserv at UKANVM.bitnet via mail text.
>
>SUBSCRIBE Aware-L@UKANVM.Bitnet   Your_full_name>>
>I did - and was told that there is no such beast @UKANVM. What now?

A problem with your mailer perhaps?

Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 23:34:18 -0500
From:         Revised List Processor (1.7d) <LISTSERV@UKANVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Output of your job "SEWALL"
To:           SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET

> release
Revised LISTSERV, version 1.7d, managed by:
User Services <QUESTION@UKANVM.BITNET>

--

I also queried LISTSERV@UKANVM to see if it knows list AWARE-L; it does.

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

Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 09:13:38 PDT
From: ace@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: PB's and airports

Hi All,

Rich Wolfson, author of the PowerBook Companion, posted this on CIS,
and I thought you all might appreciate reading it. He certainly knows
what he's talking about about, although it is still his opinion...

# Subject: #159059-PB's & Airport X-rays
# From:    Rich Wolfson 72467,617
#
# Airport X-rays can NOT harm your PowerBook. To prove the point
# I had my PowerBook (a 100) and Sharon Akers (a 170) x-rayed. I
# then printed the radiographs in The PowerBook Companion to
# prove the point. I'm using that 100 right now and it has gone
# through no less than 25 airport security checks in the last
# year and I always run it through the machine. No problems.
#
# Now. In some airports you may find large metal detectors that
# put out major magnetic fields that can theoretically do some
# harm. For this reason I do not go through the detector gates
# with my PowerBook. I once rubbed a disk on the dectector and
# the disk still worked so I doubt that it would harm your hard
# drive though its metal case, but I guess it theoretically can.
# The magnetic fields from the motors that drive the x-ray belt
# may also be harmful so I always place my PowerBook as close to
# the entrance of the tunnel as possible.
#
# Of course. Sometimes they still ask to have it turned on, even
# after its rayed. For that I keep it in sleep to clear the check
# quickly. 10 seconds if you have a stock drive and 4 seconds if
# you have a G080 or 120. Leaving it in sleep is ok as the heads
# are parked on the drives whenever they are not on.
#
# One mans opinion.
#
# Rich Wolfson

Just a quick additional note. Connectix's CPU is great for airports
because it doesn't spin up the drive when you wake the PowerBook and
you can sleep the PB again with a single click (and no dialog).

cheers ... -Adam

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

Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 11:43 CDT
From: trimper@edsi.plexus.COM (Greg Trimper)
Subject: Powerbook 145's and 170's to remain

A local dealer, when I asked him if I would ever see the 145's I've had on
order, told me that Apple plans on _keeping_ the 145 and the 170 as the
non-dockables, and the 160 and the 180 as the dockable computers.  So, it
does seem a pretty round product line:

PB145: 25Mhz, LCD Mono, all ports built in
DU210: 25Mhz, LCD Gray, needs a dock to access anything but a modem
PB170: 25Mhz, Active Matrix, FPU, all ports built in
DU230: 33Mhz, LCD Gray, needs a dock to access anything but a modem

That seems to be a marketing-diverse product line, and costs should
be in that order.

Now, he could be wrong and just be trying to keep me from cancelling my order,
but seeing as how Monday he started getting in some 145's, finally!, I think
that the above should be correct.

Greg Trimper   trimper@edsi.plexus.com

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

Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 10:56:24 GMT
From: Andre Carvalho <L34044%BETA.IST.PT@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Printing Fonts catalog

Dear Netters:

I've been trying to find an intelligent way to print on a LaserWriter IIg my
who
le collection of fonts (more than 200).

Well two paths have been followed:

1. Installing some of the fonts in the sistem file, and using Virtual User to
au
tomate the process of writing a custom sentence using each font.
This solution is very slow (I Cant't understand why VU takes so much time
after
writing a TAB in the controlled Mac), and, as I don't have any documentation
for
 VU, I haven't been able to program it to scroll the font menu past the
 low-end
of the screen (when I select menuitem 60, for instance, VU does't accept it).
The conclusion is that I have to install only about 25 fonts a time and run VU
o
n that Mac, which takes a lot of time, and inutilizes that Mac during that
time.
2. I have downloaded some Postscript fonts to my LaserWriter, and then, using
La
serWriter utility, I have printed a font catalog.
This solution isn't satisfactory either, because I need a custom catalog (with
m
y own page styling and with the complete lot of characters, instead of the
lasy
dog and the fox stuff!

At this point, I decided that I needed help.

What more can I write? The fonts are TrueType and PostScript and my main
priorit
y is to see them printed and not on the screen only.

Well, Any suggestions? I think this problem has came up to other mac-users...

Thanx in advance,

Andre Carvalho
L34044@beta.ist.pt       (BITNET)
Technical University of Lisbon

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

Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 10:02:01 EST
From: Paul Savage <paul.savage@carbon.chem.csiro.au>
Subject: problem with Help! 1.0.3

This is just a warning to users and potential purchasers of Help!(tm)
by TKS Teknosys, a quite useful application that scans your system setup
and warns about incompatabilities or problems with system software, inits,
applicatons, hardware, multiple system folders, and so on.

A coworker here has version 1.0.3 which ran fine on his Mac II but crashed
on his new IIsi with an unimplemented trap. A local mac guru dived in with
MacsBug and discovered some test code left in the application which was
specific to the IIsi. When he deleted this code the application ran fine.

Dr. G. Paul Savage                          paul@carbon.chem.csiro.au
CSIRO Div. of Chemicals & Polymers       Research Advancing Australia

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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 19:54:04 -0600
From: bdolson@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Brian David Olson)
Subject: Programmer's Key

There was a request for the information for programmer's key a few issues
ago.  I just found this on my hard drive.  I believe that everything is
about the same.
Programmer's Key 1.1B5 of 05/09/88

Revision History

;       Created:  07/23/87  PM - 1.0D1  first cut using VBL task to call
Debugger
;       Modified: 07/24/87  PM - 1.0D4  changed to use AutoInt1 instead of
VBL's
(yay!)
;                 07/26/87  PM - 1.0D5  changed key combinations (works better
with
TMON)
;                 07/26/87  PM - 1.0D6  added FlashMenuBar to ShutDown
;                 08/04/87  PM - 1.0B1  added BufPtr -> sp for _ShutDowns in
TMON; its
stack
;                                                       too small, changed key
combinations again (for ICOM)
;                 12/29/87  PM - 1.1B1  removed BufPtr -> sp (see above)
;                                               added support for classic
keyboards, changed key
;                                                       sequences again,
revved for ShowINIT31
;                 01/31/88  PM - 1.1B2  added oldAutoInt7 for dual-debugger
hack
;                                               fixed option key bug on
Classic keyboards
;                 03/04/88  PM - 1.1B3  ADB sense code changed to use
HWCfgFlags since
;                                                       SysEnvirons doesn't
tell all about ISO, etc.
;                 05/06/99  PM - 1.1B4  changed option-break to swap entire
exception
vector
;                                                       for better
dual-debugging
;                 05/09/88  PM - 1.1B5  changed option-break to always go to
boot
debugger
;                 05/27/88  PM - 1.1B6  added _Debugger swapping to
option-break

Tester Notes
*** The keyboard combinations have changed again, see the chart below ***
1.1B1 now supports the classic keyboards.  Try it and see what I mean.
The 'hot' key is also configurable.  Let me know if you care.

There is also a very sick hack in this version which allows the use of 2
debuggers.  An example: if you rename Programmer's Key such that it loads
before TMON, then pressing option-power will invoke MacsBug or the ROM
minidebugger while all the other keyboard combos will still get you into
TMON.  This feature is still under construction and has many pitfalls.  For
instance, what happens when you use breakpoints with both MacsBug and TMON
installed?  Save all your files and try it.

*** addendum to above ***
The entire exception vector table is now switched out with  option-break.
This means MacsBug & TMON can almost coexist.  Try it!

General Info
Programmer's Key is a small INIT that allows the use of the 'power-on' key
of an Apple Desktop Bus keyboard as a substitute for the Programmer's
Switch.  To install Programmer's Key, simply drag it into your System
Folder and reboot.  You may then use the following key combinations:

;       Trap Signal  = Power-Command-Option (applies to TMON only, else the
same
as Interrupt)
;       Interrupt    = Power-Command (for like real Programmer's Switch)
;       BootDebugger = Power-Option (allows use of MacsBug)
;       Reset         = Power-Command-[Control or Tab] (like real Programmer's
Switch)
;       Restart      = Power-Command-Shift (uses ShutDown Manager)
;       ShutDown     = Power-Command-Shift-Option (uses ShutDown Manager)

To temporarily disable Programmer's Key at boot time, hold down the mouse
button or the shift key.  To permanently disable it, drag it out of the
System Folder.

Programmer's Key will work with any debugger, including the microdebugger
in the
128K+ ROMs.  The use of the ROM debugger is discouraged since it does not
have any builtin mechanisms to guard against potential problems such as
interrupting a VBL task or interrupting itself.  However, Programmer's Key
is no more dangerous than the real programmer's switch.

Note:
	If you experience any weird behavior with the ROM debugger, please let
	me
know.  I have   tested Programmer's Key with the ROM debugger and have had
intermitant problems after      using _ExitToShell.  I'm not certain
Programmer's Key is causing the problem.

Programmer's Key will not Restart or ShutDown if the file system is busy,
so if it doesn't seem to be responding, keep on holding the keys down.

Note:
	There is a problem with the ShutDown key combo; if _ShutDown is called
while the 'power-       on' key is down (thereby causing an immediate reboot),
the keyboard will not function  properly.  If this happens, you need to
ShutDown, wait a few seconds and power back up.  This   appears to be
hardware problem.  I haved added a menubar flash as well as a short pause
to      the ShutDown key combination so there is a chance to release the power
key.

The code to display the icon at boot time is called ShowINIT and is in the
public domain and available from me directly.  If you'd like to use it in
your INIT, please drop me a note.

Bug reports and comments are should be directed to one of the addresses
below.

Programmer's Key may be freely distributed for non-commercial purposes as
long this text file is also included.  A license is required for commercial
distribution.

Enjoy,
Paul Mercer

Delphi:    PAULMERCER
AppleLink: MERCER1
MCI:       SOL

P.O. Box 160165
Cupertino, CA  96016-0165
"I've fallen and I can't reach my beer"
bdolson@casbah.acns.nwu.edu
bdolson@sevaxu.cica.es
bdolson@seclu0.cica.es
bdolson@cica.es

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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 11:19:59 EDT
From: James BelBruno (GC-CDSI) <belbruno@PICA.ARMY.MIL>
Subject: QuarkExpress 3.1 ideas

I recently purchased this program but because of time constraints,
i cannot take any training classes to enhance my knowledge of
this program.  I have gone thru the short tutorial book several
times.  The question....does anyone have any ideas or advice on
what else I can do with this program so i can learn more on how to
use it until I find the time to get to a class?  Is it a good idea
to look in magazines and just try to recreate what they have done
on certain pages?   Thanks...Jim

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

Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 10:32:28 -0400
From: iom@dsunx1.dsrd.ornl.gov (MIKOLIC-TORREI I)
Subject: Question on SuperDrive Upgrade....

I just got the SuperDrive Upgrade Kit from Falcon Micro and installed it.

More precisely, I installed the 4 ROMs, replacing the old ones in the
same numerical sequence (ie, chips ending 105, 106, 107, and 108 were
replaced one-for-one with chips ending in 639, 640, 641, and 642).

I installed the SuperDrive itslef as the second drive.

Put it all back together, and I works _almost_ perfectly.  Everything
boots fine, runs fine, EXCEPT the Mac thinks the FDHD is just another 800K
drive!!!

The FDHD works fine as an 800K drive--but I really want a 1.4M FDHD!!!

Have I done something wrong?  Do I need to re-install the system software?

ANy ideas!!!

FOr the record,

It's a Mac II, DayStar 68030 accelerator, 8M RAM, RasterOPS video card,
and the only inits are the 3 related to the accelerator and video card
(can't run without those and it never gave any troulbe before).

THanks for your help....

Igor Mikolic-TOrreira
iom@dsunx1.dsrd.ornl.gov

P.S. reply direct and I will post a summary to the net....

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

Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 01:36:22 -0500
From: Charlie.Mingo@p4218.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Charlie Mingo)
Subject: QWK Programs (A)

Jeff Linder <jeff@picasso.ocis.temple.edu> writes:

> Does anyone know of any good programs to process/display/respond to QWK
> mail/message packets?  My local BBS just got the capability.  Qwk-reader in
> the archives looks okay, except it has no read/reply facility.
>
> Ability to handle .lha compression automagically a plus!

   There are (at least) two .QWK readers available for the Mac.

   Freddie 1.2 (available at sumex-aim.stanford.edu as freddie12.hqx in
the /info-mac/comm folder) is the only "full featured" .QWK reader for
the Mac.  It has a  fairly slick (if a bit slow) user interface, and is
$15 shareware.  Freddie does not have built-in decompression, but comes
with the UnZip application.

   There is also a freeware .QWK reader (qwk-reader.hqx in the /comm
folder) which has a simpler interface than Freddie.



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

Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 01:41:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: Les Ferch <ferch@ucs.ubc.ca>
Subject: Sharing HyperCard from a Netware 386 Server

I've encountered a wierd problem with HyperCard in a shared lab
environment. When several users try to open the same stack, such as the
ClarisWorks tutorial, the first user gets it open and then subsequent
users get the message "File could not be opened because the application is
busy or missing". After a little while, if they try again, the stack
opens. Each user may have to try two, three, or more times before the
stack opens.

This problem does not occur when opening other big application such as the
ClarisWorks program.

A few facts:

1) The lab consists of 20 Mac Classic II computers on ethernet
2) The server is a 386 running Netware 386 3.11 and Netware Mac 3.011
3) The applications are all in a read-only folder on the server
4) All users automatically log in as Guest when they turn on their Mac
5) All applications are flagged shareable

I thought the problem may be that all users need write/modify/erase access
to the DESKTOP.AFP directory, so I gave those rights to Guest today, but
it did not help.

Anyone see this problem before?

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

Date: Wed, 30 SEP 92 10:25:12 GMT
From: EFE%V1.PH.QMW.AC.UK@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU
Subject: Simple Pascal compiler?

   Can anyone recommend a simple, basic, cheap (shareware or
public domain) Pascal compiler for the Mac? My son is taking
a computer course using PCs, but we have a Mac LCII not a PC.
He would like something for doing his homework and a course
project. No need for access to the Mac toolbox or fancy
facilities, so THINK Pascal (excellent though I am sure it is;
I use THINK C at work) would be overkill. It should be
System 7 compatible even if not 32-bit clean.
   Thanks in advance for any advice or suggestions; if the
replies are interesting I will post a summary.

Eric Eisenhandler
Physics Department, Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London

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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 00:54:24 EST
From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU>
Subject: SuitCase II substitute

On Mon, 28 Sep 92 20:08:11 -0500 you said:
>I am wanting a program to act like SuitCase II, so I do not need to purchase
>this software.  All I want is the font suitcase option.  It gets anonying to
>have all the fonts in RAM...I want them in a folder, and still be able to
>use them.

get info-mac/cp/carpet-bag-123.hqx

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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 01:28:06 PDT
From: Les Ferch <ferch@ucs.ubc.ca>
Subject: System 7.1 - check out the windows... (C)

>As the sparks fly over the fact that System 7.1 is going to actually cost
>something, I should like to know whether Apple have given due to
>consideration to the *real* issue at stake here - are they going to
>correct the confused window icons for zoom-box and size-box? - which, as
>enlightened users of a well engineered user interface, I'm sure you'll all
>agree are the wrong way round.

>Whilst clicking on the zoom-box might change a window's size in the way
>the icon depicts, there's no way the size-box changes a window in the
>manner indicated. Basically, they depict *each others* results.  So much
>for user interface graphic design... :-)

While you may have a valid point, I doubt that many will agree that a
minor interface quirk is "the *real* issue at stake here". Mac users are
quite comfortable with the operation of the zoom and size box and as a
teacher of Mac beginners, I know that the new user hardly even notices the
icon. They just point and click (or drag) at a corner and "something
happens".

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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 11:20:31 EDT
From: Rob Smyser <smyser@Athena.MIT.EDU>
Subject: The Macintosh "Little People"

Remember the ads touting the Mac as "the machine for the rest of us"?  The
price
of selling machines that evangelize themselves to non-computer users is
getting
higher.  Mac users of this kind seem to have a high percentage of people who
are, forgive the term, "learn-nothings and don't want to".  Even at MIT I see
a
large number of people who I now, usually privately, call "Mac cripples".  If
a
program doesn't have the pull-dowon menus and buttons precisely as they first
learned them, they're incapacitated (or whine so much they might as well be).

Apple evangelists have encouraged people to join the club who don't really
belong there and thus will need lots of help, forever.  It's getting worse.
Case in point, in this week's MacWorld article describing the Performa version
of System 7, apparently the mouse double-click is too difficult for all the
people Apple thinks it is selling to.  So now there's a row of big colorful
buttons on which you just single click.  And the trash can is gone too.  I ask
you, how much dumber or more debased can the much vaunted Mac interface make
itself in the name of gaining market share?

Rob Smyser, Manager, Computer Resource Laboratories
School of Architecture and Planning, MIT
smyser@athena.mit.edu

Disclaimer: the opinions expressed above are based on many years of direct
 personal experience and observation.

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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 18:04:24 EST
From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU>
Subject: Typing (and other stuff) while the clock chimes!

I've loved SuperClock ever since I first saw it, but it has one feature
that drives me to distraction: it's possible to configure it to chime
the hour, but the "chime" hogs the CPU and makes it impossible to do
anything else while the clock is chiming, bonging, or cuckooing.  The
problem is most noticeable at noon and midnight, of course ;-)

Riccardo Ettore's SndControl 2.0 reduced the problem by offering a chime
option that can be interrupted by pressing the option key.  Functional,
but then the clock doesn't get to chime the hour (the price one pays for
getting the work out ;-)  Yesterday, I downloaded
/info-mac/util/sound-utilities.hqx containing Riccardo's SndControl 2.2.
Guess what; the clock chimes and you can KEEP ON typing!! (or
whatever).  Terrific; a great advance in overall Mac sound
functionality.  I didn't see any mention of this improvement in the
"what's new" file (maybe I read that too fast); what a nice surprise.

I've been a registered user for two years. If you're not yet get out
your checkbook, SndControl 2.2 is worth the shareware fee for the whole
Sound Manager Package (only $25)!

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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 18:24:03 +0000
From: Elliot Bennett <Elliot.Bennett@europa.rs.kp.dlr.de>
Subject: Typing tutor with Dvorak keyboards???

Subject says it all: I'm looking for a program that teaches 10 finger typing
but allows you to learn a Dvorak keyboard as an option.  I should mention that
although Shareware would be nice, it is by NO means necessary.  Comments and/
or sources of reviews are most welcome!

Thanks in advance,
Elliot
elliot@europa.rs.kp.dlr.de

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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 21:01:06 CDT
From: fredh@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (laviathen)
Subject: Wanted: Way to get Mac programs off net