HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: larry@lablues.UUCP (Lawrance A. Schneider)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Undelete files - help?
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 92 09:52:49 EDT
Organization: L/A Blues BBS - Auburn ME (207) 777-3465

rheinze@lrc.edu writes:

> 
> Can anyone tell me if there is a program that will undelete
> files on an Apple /// -  yes a 3.
> 
> I accidently deleted some text files and could not recover them.
> I don't want that to happen again.
> 
> I would like to undelete files and alphabetize them too, if possible.


ProSel or any ProDOS optimiser(?) will work.    Larry

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From: ltchean@rambutan.iss.nus.sg (lim thye chean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Accelerator Performance
Date: 14 Sep 92 01:57:42 GMT
Reply-To: ltchean@iss.nus.sg (lim thye chean)
Organization: Institute of Systems Science, NUS, Singapore

In article <1992Sep13.165019.6149@nuscc.nus.sg> isc10327@nusunix3.nus.sg (ONG TAT-WEE) writes:
>toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) writes:
>: 
>: And I'm saying that unless there is something you aren't telling me, what you
>: are saying shouldn't be possible. Simply plugging in ram chips with a faster
>: speed rating should not affect ANYTHING except the reliability of the Zip.
>: 
>: The only way I can believe your statement as you worded it is if the Zip
>: has some special circuitry for detecting when cache ram is too slow and
>: automatically slowing down to accomodate it. I know of NO cache system that
>: can do this, but I also do not know for a fact that the Zip doesn't attempt
>: to do it, so I have to admit it's a possibility. But I am very skeptical.
>: 
>	Hmmm.... You've got a point there too.  I don't really know if
>the Zip accelerator does have a special circuitry for detecting cache
>ram speed.  But besides increasing the reliability of the Zip, shouldn't
>a faster cache ram also produce faster results?  Sound quite logical to
>me. 

Not true, David. Go ask your comp science lecturer.

If the RAM is slower than what is required, it will crashed because it cannot
catch up the speed of CPU.

If the RAM is faster, it will just wait for the CPU. It can't make the CPU
go faster.

You can either give satistics to prove us all wrong, or assume Todd is correct.

>: Todd Whitesel
>: toddpw @ cco.caltech.edu
>
>- DOTW -
>I'm all zipped up.....

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: bird@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (j.l.walters)
Subject: Re: Undelete files - help?
Organization: AT&T
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 03:23:00 GMT

From article <1992Sep3.153037.296@lrc.edu>, by rheinze@lrc.edu:
> 
> Can anyone tell me if there is a program that will undelete
> files on an Apple /// -  yes a 3.
> 
> I accidently deleted some text files and could not recover them.
> I don't want that to happen again.
> 
> I would like to undelete files and alphabetize them too, if possible.

This had GOT to be your lucky day. I was recently sent a Apple ///
catalog by mistake. I called the sender to thank him for the
catalog, which I'll keep forever, and to tell him that I don't
have an Apple // so he could take me off his list. In any case the
information you need is:

Bob Consorti
Apple /// Products
1174 Hickory Avenue
Techacapi, CA 93561
(312) 338-2202

Questions? Cal Bob between the hours of 5-9PM CEntral Standard
Time Monday through Friday and 10AM - 6PM C.S.T. on weekends.

Notice, Bob is in Chicago and the address is in CA, I have no idea
why. I do know that I talked to him at the 312 number. Please tell
him that Joe Walters, a non Apple /// person sent you. Fate, where
is thy sting?
-- 


				Joe Walters att!ihlpw!bird   
				IH 2A-227 (708) 979-9527
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Subject: Re: Epson-compatible printers are icky... NOT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 11:01:02 GMT

sknkwrks@unlv.edu (Scott Alfter) writes:

>Last time I checked (and this was a LONG time ago), you can't get
>60/120/etc dpi vertically out of Epsons anyway...as I recall, you can
>set vertical line spacing at n/216" (72*3=216).  You're stuck with a
>non-square dot matrix.

That's no longer true. Square pixel resolutions are available at pretty much
every dpi setting.

Of course, the Harmonie default aspect ratio is ImageWriter II Normal which
isn't square, but that's easily fixed. I just pick "Epson LQ Condensed" and
AWGS repaginates everything accordingly. Quite slick.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ cco.caltech.edu
From: daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Dave Huang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: A little help pleeze..
Date: 9 Sep 92 22:13:07 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin

In article <1992Sep8.133514.18762@mlb.semi.harris.com> eam@gumbee.mlb.semi.harris.com (Ed A. Mills) writes:

[reformatted a bit to fit into 79 columns]

>1.)  There is a board in my ][+ which simply says Microsoft on it.  It
>has an LED which says "In Use" or something like that.  Also, it has a
>bunch of TTL and a Z80 uP.  Is this is infamous Language card, or is
>it something else?  And if it is "The Language Card", what is it for?

This is a MicroSoft Softcard (not sure if that's the exact name.. I
used to have one many years ago), which lets you run the CP/M
operating system and programs that run under CP/M. I don't think
anyone really uses CP/M these days, but I remember that dBase II and
Turbo Pascal was available for it.

>2.) I figured out that ]catalog will give me a directory of the disk.
>However, what if I want a directory on the other drive (labeled B:)?
>I noticed that after some programs run, the B: drive seems to become
>the default drive somehow.

The B: label is from CP/M... when in BASIC (the ] prompt), type
catalog, d2 to get the directory of the other drive (and catalog, d1
to get the directory of drive 1).

>3.) Lastly, how can I determine how much memory I have, and how much
>is used?

If you have a card in slot 0 (the leftmost slot), it's probably the
language card and gives you an extra 16K of memory, for a total of
64K. If slot 0 is empty, you probably have 48K. How much of your
memory is used depends on which program you're running :-)

-- 
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Internet: daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu          | "Microwaves: They're not just
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: sknkwrks@unlv.edu (Scott Alfter)
Subject: Re: Apple Stupidity (was Re: Where does ProDOS come from?)
Organization: Skunk Works Software Co.
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 02:20:25 GMT

In article <1992Sep11.193723.9947@zip.eecs.umich.edu> grover@emunix.emich.edu (Grover Thomas) writes:
>This may be a shot in the dark, but assuming you are using a server to
>post to the internet anyway, you should be able to use Sciibin and Nulib
>to extract the files on your site and then download JUST the ProDOS and
>BASIC files.

Won't work...the files at ftp.apple.com consist of SHK'd 3.5 disks.

(Suggestion to Andy Nicholas for the next version of ShrinkIt:  how
about prohibiting the creation of disk archives of ProDOS disks?
It'll prevent the terminal stupidity of some people who like to use
disk archives for everything instead of file archives (which is what
you should always use for ProDOS volumes).)

  _/_   Scott Alfter                             Internet: sknkwrks@cs.unlv.edu
 / v \  Call the Skunk Works BBS today!
(IIe (  (702) 894-9619 300-14400 V.32bis Apple II/IBM/Star Trek/Aerospace
 \_^_/  Ask me about SoftDAC--digital audio for your IIe/IIc! Apple II Forever!
From: fmlin@terapin.com (Frank M. Lin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: PC Transporter...
Date: 6 Sep 92 01:11:05 PST
Organization: BBS

Some one was selling a 14mhz PC Transporter.... have you sold it already?  If
not, I would like to buy it.

Anyone want to sell their PC Transporter?

frank m. lin
fmlin@terapin.com
cyprus systems
From: fsemm@acad3.alaska.edu (Edward M. Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: AutoArc (Looks like Staker for GS)
Date: 14 Sep 92 03:50:15 GMT
Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks

In A+/Incider, on page 60 (In the back with all the little companies), in the
corner there is an add by Econ Technologies for a product called AutoArc, for
the IIgs.  Basically, the add describes autoarc as a finder extention and desk
acessory that compresses + expands applications + documents on the fly.  I'd
like to know why none of this has been mentioned on the net, assuming that
there really is such a product.......  With all the people wanting something
like Auto-Doubler......


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From: POSTMASTER@MC.DUKE.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: PC Transporter...
Date: 12 Sep 92 15:44:44 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Duke University Medical Center, Durham NC, USA

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To:
From: jimmys@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw)
Subject: Re: A modem on the IIGS
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Reply-To: jimmys@ics.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw)
Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
Date: 7 Sep 92 06:36:11 GMT

In article <1992Sep7.001757.23519@ddsw1.mcs.com> zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh) writes:
>
>	What's the best high-speed modem for use on the IIGS? I'd like v32,
>and associated protocols. I don't really need Dual Standard/HST-type stuff,
>'cause I'll only be using the modem for connecting to UUCP nodes and
>Internet sites.

Well, since you already mentioned that you don't need an DS HST, I'll leave
that one out as the BEST high-speed modem :)  (16.8K DS HST is just awesome!)
I'll tell you what I have:  A SupraFAXModem v.32bis.  I just got this modem
about 3 days ago, and I am truly impressed with it (and the cps it's able
to achieve.)  It's got it all, 14.4K, v32, v32bis, v42, v42bis, MNP 2-5,
and most of all, it's affordable!  (When compared to other HS modems)

I got my for $275 from a group deal from a guy on the internet, but the
best prices that I've seen from mail order (Computer Shopper) is $309,
from CompuAbility.  The Supra is compatible with Proterm 3.0.

Standard disclaimers:  I don't work for Supra, and don't date the CEO's
daughter, etc...

>--
>Sameer_Parekh zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM zane@infopls.chi.il.us
>PFA related mail to pfa@ddsw1.MCS.COM   | Specialization is for insects
>Anonymous mail to ap.2363@cupid.sai.com |   - Robert A. Heinlein
>Sun Sep  6 19:02:10 1992 US Debt: $4,049,121,692,558 Per capita: $15,858

Hope this help.

Jimmy Shaw


--
Jimmy Shaw
jimmys@ics.uci.edu     "Hold my calls... I am trying to learn C."
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From: ericm@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Eric Mulholland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: SCSI cards
Date: 12 Sep 92 02:45:24 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center

tracadas@athena.mit.edu (Philip W Tracadas) writes:
>>Can someone say something about the RamFast SCSI and the Apple SCSI and any
>>other apple // SCSI cards?  

philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough) writes:
>The conservative approach would be to get the Apple DMA SCSI. The RamFAST
>may be faster, but the other has fewer hassles.

I'll agree that attaching various SCSI devices to Apple's card is a bit
easier, but both require software drivers or specific applications.  The
RamFast comes with harddisk utilities in its rom (harder to loose) for
low level formating and partitioning drives.  I'm not sure about what comes
with Apple's card, but a lot of people have been asking where to find
better utility software.

Anyone else besides me hate what CVtech did to the menubar in the 3.0 roms?
Inversing the first letter like they did is ugly!
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 //oo--OO    ...!pur-ee!sage.cc!ericm
From: hollandd@qut.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Keypress function in pascal?
Date: 5 Sep 92 17:07:40 EST
Organization: Queensland University of Technology


I need some help with a simple programming problem..

The situation is that I have to do a particular project in pascal,
and since I normally use my nice new version of ORCA C, my copy of
ORCA Pascal is now rather out of date.. 

But to the point.  Does there exist in Orca pascal a function that
will return a keypress without waiting for return to be pressed?
Not as far as I can tell from the manual?

Can someone suggest code that will do that? or some other work arround?
or is it time to respond to the offer of the discount pascal and
toolbox tutorial that arrived in the mail last week?

Thanks heaps.
Darren.

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  - Post-Graduate Student:               | Environmental Education.
  - Faculty of Information Technology    | Queensland University of Technology
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From: marc@cxr_rs6000.med.ge.com (Marc Wolfgram)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Woz certificates
Date: 15 Sep 92 15:46:04 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

Mine's framed and on the wall... the only thing that bothers me is that
under my Oct 31, 86 Woz cover is a July 90 ROM 3...  So the question is
mutated to:  What IS considered a WOZ GS right now?  A cover & certificate
or a ROM 0 board (with ROM/Video upgrade) in the original case?

Marc
From: snakey@pro-iisysops.cts.com (David Ross)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: TML Pascal II
Date: 11 Sep 92 21:25:13 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: ProLine [pro-iisysops]


        I'm having a bit of trouble in Pascal.  I need to get a number to
and from a LineEdit (a real number, not an integer).  A LineEdit will only
take strings, not numbers.  I looked in the TML Utilities source code,
located with the rest of the source code for the Toolbox functions to be
used and I found a command called String2Real.  Every time I use this
though, I just get the same number, on any string that I use as input.  Is
there some special syntax that needs to be in the string or something??? 
The routine just doesn't seem to work.  Any other ways of solving this
problem?
 
                                             /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\:>-
                                             Snakey
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Subject: Re: Programming
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 16:45:54 GMT

colbyp@pro-freedom.cts.com (Colby Pederson) writes:

>  I was just wondering what programming languages are available for the
>Apple IIgs?   Thanks.

	Let's see...  I've seen compilers for Applesoft basic, basic,
C, fortran, pascal, and don't forget all you can get with a CPM card
emulating a CPM machine.  That gives you virtually everything else.

	Happy?  Practically, only Pascal and C are available, the
former from TML (now something else, but still available) and the
latter from Orca.  Orca also has a pascal module, but I understand
the TML version is somewhat better.

	Anybody having PD or shareware compilers want to add to this?

<Dan Sorenson, DoD #1066 |"There'll be angels on Ariels in leather>
<z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu | and chrome, Ridin' down from heaven    >
<viking@iastate.edu      | just to carry me home." -- R. Thompson >
< ISU thinks I need more education, which they provide for a fee. >

Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne)
Subject: Re: Accelerator Performance
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 18:38:35 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <1992Sep13.180602.20643@news.iastate.edu> irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt) writes:
>[faster cache ram magically makes the zip run faster]
>
>The answer is NO.  The speed of a Zip is determined solely by the crystal
>oscillator that generates the timing signals (and of course the speed of the
>'816 chip on it).  Running faster SRAMs simply means that the SRAMs -can-
>keep up with a faster processor, not that they -will- make said processor
>faster.  Its like putting racing fuel in a regular car: sure, the fuel is
>capable of being used in race cars to go at high speeds, but in your regular
>car the engine ('816/crystal) determines the speed not the SRAMs.  
 
Are not racing fuels higher octane than normal fuel? I suspect that a
normal car might go a little faster with racing fuel, while risking engine 
damage.

Just pointing out that this may not be the best anology. 

>   _IanSchmidt(oINet+irsman@iastate.edu,oBITNET+twbv4@isuvax,$C000,Data)
>     Data  dc i'Apple IIgs,Rush,Tiny Toons,Dave Barry,David Letterman'
> "I will choose a path that's clear: I will choose free will" - Neil Peart

Rich

payner@netcom.com


Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: power@grex.ann-arbor.mi.us (Russ Woodroofe)
Subject: Prime
Organization: GREX Public Access Unix +1 313 761 3000
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 17:10:38 GMT


	I have a friend who finally got together the hardware and software
to run a BBS on his Apple, and he's still having a few problems with the
software (Prime).  Does anyone know the email address of John Hagen, the
author of Prime?  (internet email, of course :) )... I heard he had an
account on AOL, but apparently we either translated the AOL name to an
internet address wrong, or else he dropped his AOL account.  I'd appreciate
replies (via email, please, my Unix site drops posts)... Also, does
anyone know of any tech support boards for Prime?  (Or anyplace where
one could get good externals, etc for it?)   Thanks for any replies, and
if anyone is interested I can post a summary on here... Thank you.

                                                   The Power
id <m0mTZsx-0000GTC@crash.cts.com>; Sat, 12 Sep 92 08: 59 PDT
	id <ic31438@pro-sol.cts.com>; Sat, 12 Sep 92 08: 43 PDT
	id <ic10467@pro-fla.cts.com>; Sat, 12 Sep 92 02: 54 EDT
From: bilbo@pro-fla.cts.com (Bill Logsdon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Wanted....
Date: 12 Sep 92 06:48:34 GMT
Organization: TruckStop BBS  [pro-fla] *A ProLine Networked BBS*  Tampa, FL


Hey Everybody.... My RamKeeper (Rom Revision 6) just fried.... has anybody
out there have one of the newer (by newer, I mean with the separate
power/battery ports that mount to the case) RamKeeper that they would be
willing to sell?

Also, does anyone know where I can still get some Activision Titles?

My copy of PostCards was in my drive when lightning blew all (yes ALL, and
I had three of em) my surge protectors.... and it got zapped, and I had no
deprotected backup....

If anybody has these items at a reasonable price, please email me....
From: wrh@PHYSICS.WM.EDU (William Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Tape Backup - any recommendations?
Date: 11 Sep 92 15:17:03 GMT
Organization: The Internet


  Has anyone successfully connected a SCSI tape drive?  I am thinking about
getting one, and I am looking for suggestions, sources, helpful hints, etc.

  I currently have a RAMFast (rev D), and it has the built-in tape backup
feature.  My father has an Apple DMA SCSI card, and it would be useful if we
could share the drive (not connected simultaneously, of course) from time to
time.  So basically, I have two questions:

1. Does Archiver support SCSI tape drives? (and with RAMFast and/or DMA SCSI?)

2. What companies sell SCSI tape drives that people have and would recommend
   that I get? (approximate prices would also be helpful)

Thanks in advance,
   William
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From: spector@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Tybalt FTP
Date: 8 Sep 92 02:26:00 GMT
Organization: Concordia University
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


  Does anyone know if the Tybalt FTP site in California is down or something? 
(Tybalt.caltech.edu). I've been unable to connect with it from my Vax account
for the past couple of days, and usually get the following message:
--
NEXT, OH WISE LEADER? FTP Tybalt.caltech.edu
VAX2.CONCORDIA.CA MultiNet FTP user process 3.0(102)
Connection opened (Assuming 8-bit connections)
Connection closed by remote.
--
  I've also been unable to telnet to brandenville to access the GS<>IRC
for the past few days. Is FTP and Telnet a local problem with the University
here, or is everyone else having this...?

Mitchell Spector
spector@vax2.concordia.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: johnmac@fawlty.towers.oz.au (John MacLean)
Subject: Simulated Dithering
Organization: Tower Technology, Sydney
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 22:49:46 GMT

This is the sort of question people usually ask me, but unfortunately
my answer is not as good as it should be - so maybe someone knows better:

What algorithm should be used to simulate the 640 mode SHR dithering in
software?
ie: Given two RGB values, what is the closest RGB value to the color that
will appear on the screen, if these two colors are placed side by side in
640 mode?

This is needed to display GIFs, etc, in 640 mode dithered format.
I seem to have a really good routine for selecting an appropriate palette,
but I am having trouble mapping the colors onto this palette, so I need
to improve my dithering routine.

BTW: R3 = (R1 + R2) / 2, ... etc does not work very well.

Any ideas, pointers, etc.
Maybe its even in a tech note I have not seen?

John MacLean.



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From: brianh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Brian Huddleston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: UtilityWorks
Date: 13 Sep 92 23:30:36 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

>>
>> After reading GS+ about UtilityWorks and UtilityLaunch (it says,
[ Text deleted to try to satisfy my poster program ]
>> Anybody know where can I get the latest versions of both programs?
>
>Simply send in the shareware fee and he will send you the disks. He
>sent them to me even though I told him I had the latest version. Good
>thing he did, there are additional files on the disk he sends you.
>
[ More text deleted :) ]

Would some kind soul please post UtilityWorks to comp.binaries.apple2 or
to one of the ftp sites for those of us who would like to try before we
buy.

I'm not particularly interested in UtilityLaunch, but from the review
UtilityWorks sounds intriguing. [Hmm...did I mispell that?]

Thanks
Brian Huddleston
brianh@sleepy.cc.utexas.edu