From: vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Replies and stuff (*%#@) <-- Attention grabber
Date: 10 Oct 92 00:57:06 GMT
Organization: Champlain Regional College, St-Lambert QC  CANADA


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Micol BASIC            Chris Arndt                      23
Comm program           Jay Diamond                      33
Composite/NTSC         Neal Pitts                       40
Self Test              rheinze@lrc.edu                  46
Text vs. Desktop       Mark Munson                      54
DOS 3.3 Launcher       Joe Kohn                         65
Null Modem             Dennis J. Behrens                70
GS Relational Database All                              78
Finder                 Eric S.                          84
Inactive checkbox      Eric S.                          95
Colors                 Tony Hamaoui                    106


Micol BASIC   TO   Chris Arndt
~~~~~~~~~~~        ~~~~~~~~~~~
> I received a flyer a while back about Micol BASIC. Would
> someone with some experience with this language post some
> opinions on it?

I used Micol BASIC for a long time until It stopped being
sufficient for my programming needs. I thinks this is
probably a limitation of BASIC, not Micol BASIC.

Comm program TO Jay Diamond
~~~~~~~~~~~~    ~~~~~~~~~~~
> I am searching for a communications package that will run on my //c
> that can emulate VT100 (so that I can use VI on a remote UNIX system).

Use PROTerm. It's just about the best you can get.

Composite/NTSC TO Neal Pitts
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~    ~~~~~~~~~~
> The GS outputs COMPOSITE video and not NTSC video.

What's the difference?

Self Test TO rheinze@lrc.edu
~~~~~~~~~    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> What are the keys you press on a IIGS to get it
> to do a self-analysis? Will this check all the
> memory for bad chips?

OA-Option-Ctrl-RESET. Yes, it will check the mem.

Text vs. Desktop TO Mark Munson
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~    ~~~~~~~~~~~
> In any case, ProDOS and GS/OS aren't mutually exclusive.
> GS/OS is just a faster and more capble 16-bit version
> of ProDOS.  ProDOS will only handle volumes up to 32 MB
> in size.  GS/OS will go much further.  GS/OS is required
> when running Desktop GS programs, and for useing new
> graphical desk accesories.

Why, oh why, does everybody ignore Text based GS/OS programs?

DOS 3.3 Launcher TO Joe Kohn
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~    ~~~~~~~~
Merlin sets the hi bit on text files?

Why do programs do that? It doesn't make sense to me.

Null Modem TO Dennis J. Behrens
~~~~~~~~~~    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
You can hook up a GS to an IBM. Assuming you will connect to the
IBM's MODEM port (It's a different cable the other way around):

You need an Apple IIGS RS-232 Printer cable. Trust me.

GS Relational Database
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Thanks to those who replied to me to say they would like to have
a GS relational database program, which I am well underway in
writing.

Finder TO Eric S.
~~~~~~    ~~~~~~~
> Ever since I installed System 6, I've been having occasional
> random problems with all the icons of a given type (like, say,
> all the "document" icons or all the folder icons) being either
> not drawn at all or being drawn as garbage.  I don't know where
> it comes from, or why it chose to happen to me.  It's getting
> annoying, though...

I have a solution: Don't use the Finder! <g>

Inactive checkbox TO Eric S.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~    ~~~~~~~
> Actually, a better solution is to select the EasyAccess
> icon, press AppleI, and click the "Inactive" checkbox,
> then close the window.  Do the same for the CloseView icon.
> This will disable these troublemaking INITs.

Then you take a look at the list of files and you can't tell which
ones are active and which ones are inactive unless you take a look
at the AuxType.

Colors TO Tony Hamaoui
~~~~~~    ~~~~~~~~~~~~
> I just tried that commans open apple closed apple control reset.
> That is really cool that the //c can diagnose itself.  I have a
> question how many colors can the //c display.

The famous question. How many? Nobody can give an exact figure
because you can dither, do tricks with the hardware. It's not like
on an IBM where you can say, I have 640X480X256.

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Phil
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