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From: nin15b43@merrimack.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: disabling extensions
Date: 28 Dec 92 16:24:23 GMT
Organization: Merrimack College, No. Andover, MA, USA

In article <1992Dec23.141811.11598@tdb.uu.se>, bredell@tdb.uu.se (Mats Bredell) writes:
> Noam G. Nudelman (P88038@BARILVM.BITNET) wrote:
> : 
> : Hi,
> : 
> :   I am interested in changing some system extensions so that
> : when I hold the Shift botton down while booting, they will NOT be
> : disabled.
> : 
> :   Any help will be appreciated.
> 
> As far as I know, it's (almost) impossible. Apple has made it with the
> Tune-Up by adding a driver that loads the INIT somehow, but it's tricky.
> 

Au contraire.  There are several extension manager programs available
to do what you want.  The one that comes to mind is called just that:
Extension Manager (v1.8 is the last version I've seen).  Check the
usual FTP sites (SUMEX, WUARCHIVE, UMICH) for it and others like it.
Most even allow you to define sets of extensions, so you can activate
only those needed for a given task.

Hope this helps.

Mark
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From:  serg@factinfo.khabarovsk.su (rewa sergey vladimirovich)
Subject: help needed: Mac Classic->any non-apple laser printer via serial port w/o appletalk
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 09:02:59 GMT
Reply-To: serg@factinfo.khabarovsk.su
Organization: Fact-INFO

Howdy all !

'To whom it may concern... '

I'd like to know if there's a way to connect any non-Apple laser printer
to Macintosh Classic via serial port ( RS-232 or RS-422 ) in order to
print documents from Microsoft Works or any other applications...
 Any ideas ?
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From: geoffb@coos.dartmouth.edu (Geoff Bronner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: IIci or not IIci? That is the (FA)Question?
Date: 30 Dec 92 14:13:32 GMT
Reply-To: geoffb@Dartmouth.EDU
Organization: Amos Tuck School
Disclaimer: I don't represent Dartmouth and Dartmouth doesn't represent me.

In <1992Dec29.202111.21303@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> bms7y@ggsun.ee.Virginia.EDU (Brian Marshall Sadler) writes:

>Your thoughts are appreciated on the issue of whether to
>buy a IIci now (on sale at our academic store), or, to go
>for the IIvx.  I'd like to stay in the $2000 - 3000 range,
>preferably closer to $2000.  I currently have a 5/40 IIcx,
>with 4-bit color.  I don't know much about the Macs due
>out soon, but assume that they will be out of my price 
>range (for a while at least).

Unless you have a specific need for something that only the IIvx offers
(CD-ROM drive bay, etc) I'd say go for the IIci. The current academic
price is hard to resist.

I'm just bummed that I bought 12 of them in July! Arrrgh!

-Geoff
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system
From: bredell@tdb.uu.se (Mats Bredell)
Subject: Re: disabling extensions:  extension manager
Reply-To: Mats.Bredell@udac.uu.se
Organization: Uppsala University Computing Center (UDAC)
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 17:16:37 GMT

Harvey Brydon (918)250-4312 (brydon@ASLVX1.SLB.COM) wrote:
: In article <1992Dec29.155209.16121@tdb.uu.se>, bredell@tdb.uu.se (Mats
: Bredell) writes:
: >Peter Bell (bell-peter@yale.edu) wrote:
: >: In article <1992Dec23.141811.11598@tdb.uu.se> Mats.Bredell@udac.uu.se writes:
: >: >Noam G. Nudelman (P88038@BARILVM.BITNET) wrote:
: >: >: 
: >: >: Hi,
: >: >: 
: >: >:   I am interested in changing some system extensions so that
: >: >: when I hold the Shift botton down while booting, they will NOT be
: >: >: disabled.
: >: >: 
: >: >:   Any help will be appreciated.
: >: >
: >: >As far as I know, it's (almost) impossible. Apple has made it with the
: >: >Tune-Up by adding a driver that loads the INIT somehow, but it's tricky.
: >: 
: >: yeah, as far as I know, the only solution is to use the extension manager
: >: control panel (at sumex, et al.) to select a group of extensions to 
: >: enable at startup, disabling the rest.  It works quite well.
: >
: >Yes, but this won't solve the problem. If you hold down the shift key, the
: >system won't load any extensions at all.
: >[...]
: 
: Two suggestions that I think do what you want.
: 
: (1) If you want some extensions to load and not others, move the ones you
: don't want into a temporary folder.
: 
: (2) While holding down shift disables all extensions, many (but alas, not all)
: extensions allow you to set another key (caps lock, control, option, command,
: or combinations of these) that disable that particular extension.  Why not set
: all of these but the one you want to disable themselves with (say) the option
: key?  I would avoid option/command and shift...
: 
: Any reason why one of these two things won't work for you?

The original question was about finding a way to force an extension to be
loaded even if the shift key is being held down. The answer is simple: when
the Mac boots, it checks to see if the shift key is down. If so, it doesn't
load any extensions or control panels. You can't change this behaviour.

Under system 6, the extensions checked for a key combination themselves, but
system 7 has made the shift key as an override that will disable everything.

One way to force an extension to be loaded is to write a device driver to
do all the job. Device drivers are always loaded at startup. The driver colud
be very simple, it's enough if it simply loads the extension code and starts
executing. As far as I know, no one has done it yet (except for Apple
themselves).

/Mats
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: twosheds@ferris.cray.com (Jay Vollmer)
Subject: Re: StartUpScreen under System 7
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 2 Jan 93 13:07:55 CST

In article <g89s9112.11.724429777@giraffe.ru.ac.za> g89s9112@giraffe.ru.ac.za (MR D STURZEBECHER) writes:
>Hi there,
>  can someone tell me, wich fileformat my own StartUpScreen under System 7
>must be. I tried the MacDraw format but I only got some sort of barcode 
>displayed on the screen. 
>Thanks for answers.
>Dirk.

	Create a PICT resource with an ID of 0 and paste the image into that.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,misc.invest
From: bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell)
Subject: Re: History was made today...
Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:05:50 GMT

In <1992Dec18.003753.14271@news.eng.convex.com> swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren) writes:
.....
:It is sad indeed that IBM foisted upon the world the sorry piece of
:machinery now known as a "PC" (remember when any desktop
:microprocessor-based computer was a "PC"?  Now it has to be IBM
:compatible to be referred to as a "PC".), and then by the sheer mass
:of their bloated marketing power, bull-dozed it over everything
:in its path.  As a result we are now stuck with its evil legacy.

I've often thought that a class-action suit against IBM and Intel
for foisting this crap on the world would be interesting :-).

:Finally, IBM's problems stem largely from the *success* of desktop
:computers, not failure.  IBM makes the RS6000, which has been a
:hugely successful workstation, but it is displacing mainframes in
:some locations.  IBM is replacing million dollar IBM machines with
:$100,000 IBM machines, and they are losing money as a result.  They
:had a choice between replacing their mainframes with fast IBM
:workstations or letting some other workstation company replace their
:mainframes.  They were backed into a corner and they did what they
:could.  One thing you might notice about this situation is that it
:has nothing to do with PCs.

Unfortunately for IBM, the RS6000 and AIX (which must be an
acronym for Ain't unIX :-) is still plagued with IBM's typical
proprietary attitudes.  There are many non-PC (i.e. Intel)
workstations available which offer performance similar to the
RS6000, and also offer real UNIX (at least the Berserkley flavor).

:Your PC-centered interpretation of these events is totally bogus.
:But if it makes you feel better to believe that stuff while the
:monster hords of Utter Crap (TM) continue to take over the computing
:world, and most consumers ignore the arguably superior Mac, then
:stick your head in the sand and whisper to yourself, "there's no box
:like a Mac, there's no box like a Mac, there's no box like a Mac,
:..."

I have one major problem with Apple.  I refuse to buy from companies
that figure to make money through litigation rather than innovation.
This is also why I don't have any Lotus products on my system.

Bill
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: cengelog@cambridge.dab.ge.com (Yilmaz Cengeloglu)
Subject: HELP : file exchange MAC <-> SUN
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 13:57:34 GMT
Organization: GE Simulation & Control Systems
Distribution: usa


Hi, 

	How can read SUN formatted DISK  from MAC. 

I am trying to transfer file from SUN to MAC using
DISK. ( My SUN does not have capability for dealing
with dos formatted disk therefore my APPLE file exchange
is not a option to use).
	Do you know any software for MAC that can read SUN
disk.

	Please mail to :

	yil@engr.ucf.edu
From: mfraase@mr.net (Michael Fraase)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Raw PostScript Viewer?
Date: 23 Dec 92 05:52:40 GMT
Reply-To: mfraase@mr.net (Michael Fraase)
Organization: Arts & Farces

Anyone know of a raw (as opposed to EPS) PostScript viewer for the Mac? I'd 
like to save a few reams of paper by viewing several long PS documents on 
screen instead of printing them out. I don't need to edit the PostScript, 
just see the multi-page documents.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system
From: phaedrus@halcyon.com (Mark Phaedrus)
Subject: Re: **IMPORTANT** System 7.1 Installer bug
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 04:59:12 GMT

In article <1i30t8INNlju@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bk146@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Todd Sternisha) writes:
>If you'd spent as much time thinking about the problem as you did trying
>to prove that you're "right," you'd realize that the Apple rep answered
>your question. Apple recommends booting from the Install disk. Not
>booting from this disk produces this "bug." Sounds like pilot error to
>me...

     I'd have to disagree.  There is a big difference between a recommendation
and an order.  If booting from another disk causes a major foul-up in the
resulting System file, Apple shouldn't just "recommend" that you boot from
the Installer disk; they should flat-out tell you not to (and the Installer
script should check to see what the startup disk is, and refuse to modify
the startup disk).  
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: miweber@apollo.davidson.edu
Subject: Kill Finder ZoomRects Hack??
Organization: Davidson College, Davidson, NC
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 05:40:27 GMT
Reply-To: miweber@apollo.davidson.edu
X-Posted-From: apollo.davidson.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

I apologize for the apparent FAQness of this, but I can't seem to find
an answer through my usual channels.
 
Can someone mail me the ResEdit hack to kill those annoying ZoomRects?
I had it once but lost it...  This would be much appreciated!
Thanks in advance,

Mike Weber
miweber@apollo.davidson.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: pnsf01dw@UMASSD.EDU (Dennis J. Wilkinson)
Subject: Re: Escher print backdrops (desktop pattern) and screensavers
Reply-To: pnsf01dw@UMASSD.EDU
Organization: UMASS DARTMOUTH, NO. DARTMOUTH, MA.
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:21:44 GMT

In article <1992Dec22.050151.23002@athena.mit.edu>, bruce@space.mit.edu (Bruce A. Grossan) writes:
>
>	I am looking for software that will make the desktop pattern an escher
> print.  I need this for a holiday present.  The software must be system 7
> compatible: it's for a notebook.  I remember a program called backdrop for
> SEs, but it wouldn't work with anything else.  Does anyone know of a new
> version?  Where/how can I get it? 
>
>	At the very least, can anyone suggest a screen saver for a power book
> that has escher prints available?  
>
>	thanks, 
>
>	Bruce

Try Desktop Textures at sumex-aim.stanford.edu. You can create large desktop
patterns from any picture that you can cut&paste. The version up there is 2.0,
and as far as I know, it'll work with system 6 or 7 I've had no problem with my
IIci (7.0.1 tuned, 32-bits on). 

There's also a selection of miscelleneous patterns (brings the total to about
80, I think) that includes Escher-style horses at least (in the /info-mac/misc 
directory, desktop-patterns or somesuch.)

The application itself is archived as /info-mac/util/desktop-textures-20.hqx

Even has balloon help!

-- Dennis
----------------------------------------------------
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University of Massachusetts Dartmouth - Design/CS Project

The opinions reflected in this post are MINE!!!! ALL MINE!!!!!
From: yjc@po.cwru.edu (Jerome 'TofuSoft' Chan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Rumour: 040 VX?!
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Date: 23 Dec 1992 17:23:00 GMT
Organization: The Tofu Society of Singapore
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: yjc-slip.dialin.cwru.edu

I met one of the Sales people while Christmas shopping last night. We
talked for a few minutes about the new systems coming out in February and
it seems that the VX may be upgraded to an 040 CPU. Has anyone heard
anything about this??!

---
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From: idowell@BBN.COM ()
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Different kinds of PICT files?
Date: 23 Dec 1992 15:42:58 GMT
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
Distribution: na
Reply-To: idowell@BBN.COM ()
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

I grabbed a few still frames from video with the application
ScreenPlay.  The files were saved as type PICT but show up
in Photoshop and Pagemaker as blank images.  Is there a special
Quicktime PICT format or such?  I couldn't find anything in the FAQ.

Thanks,
Ian

idowell@bbn.com
From: 00bwanderson@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Norton DiskLight 2.0
Date: 3 Jan 93 10:39:00 GMT
Organization: Ball State University, Muncie, In - Univ. Computing Svc's

In article <105919@bu.edu>, ccmlh@buitc.bu.edu (Mark Hayes) writes:
> I know that the original version of the Norton DiskLight was
> supposed to be poorly coded and hazardous to your system's health.
> I now have version 2.0, and I'm wondering, is this one OK?
> Thanks to any who can help...
> 
> /Mark Hayes

Actually, I was shocked to discover that DL 1.x (forget what version I used)
was bad for the system.  I used it for nearly a year (until MacTools 2.0 came
out with CP DriveLight) without it ever hurting my Classic.  I used the latest
versions of 6.0, whether .7 or .8 or .8l...never done me no harm.

Now as for NDL 2.0...hmmm...I couldn't say about that for sure.  I'm too happy
with Central Point's little job...8^)


Bruce
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From: tompkins@dream11.ibmpcug.co.uk (Eric L. Tompkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: US ImageWriter in Europe ?
Date: 27 Dec 92 15:47:13 GMT
Reply-To: tompkins@dream11.ibmpcug.co.uk (Eric L. Tompkins)
Organization: Dream Engineering
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1


In article <26DEC199223544053@juliet.caltech.edu> (comp.sys.mac.misc), wcaw@juliet.caltech.edu (Wilisch, Wolf C. A.) writes:
> Hi there !
> 
> Does anyone know whether a US bought ImageWriter II will work (once the input
> voltage has been transformed to 110 V) in Germany ?  Will the 50 Hz current
> there srew things up ?  My Mac says it takes all AC input from 110 to 240 V
> and 50-60 Hz, but the IW just says 110 V/60Hz.
> Any advice would be appreciated.
> 
I've had absolutely no trouble running my IW off of transformers in both Germany (220V)
and the UK (240V).  Both countries run 50Hz.  "They" say running motors at the wrong
frequency shortens their lives, however my 1984 Imagewriter I is still going strong
after four years overseas.

Eric

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: te@uwasa.fi (Tuomas Eerola)
Subject: Re: MacDraw II wont run on quadra 950
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 11:12:05 GMT

In article <1992Dec28.145227.25653@linus.mitre.org> jw@mitre.org (Joe Whalley) writes:
>My copy of MacDraw II that used to work on my Mac IIx
>gives a "Not enough memory to open" error when I try to
>open a new or exisiting document.  Is there a know problem
>with system 7 or the 950 with this version?
                               which version?

I think it's not Q950 vs IIx but number of colors problem.
Swich to display to b/w or give more memory for MacDrawII 
(get info - memory size).

Tuomas
From: ccmlh@buitc.bu.edu (Mark Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Mouse lock-button-down software available?
Date: 22 Dec 92 16:03:02 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Originator: ccmlh@buitc.bu.edu

The following seems quite desirable to me:                                      
A simple FKEY / control panel / extension that would let you                    
define a hot key as "lock mouse button down". In other words,                   
you could type control-option-command-M (or whatever) and it                    
would have the effect of making the system think the mouse button               
was being held down continuously, until you either hit the                      
real mouse button or take some other action other than                          
just mouse movement. Anyone know if there is such a thing?
From: jdsiegel@garnet.berkeley.edu (Joel Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Care and feeding of Desktop file
Date: 30 Dec 1992 07:13:22 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.berkeley.edu
Keywords: system 7.0.1 desktop file

In article <parkyn.725684816@sfu.ca> parkyn@fraser.sfu.ca (Dale Parkyn) writes:
>leighc@cognos.com (Leigh Chapman) writes:
>
>>Can I delete the (hidden) file Desktop, and expect that it will be rebuilt
>>when I reboot my Mac?
>
>>I've evaluated several software packages for my workgroup, each of which
>>leaves a little trail of used icons, and so on... Any suggestions on how
>>to reduce the amount of space used by this file? Are there any other files
>>that are growing as well?
>
>
>Does not the recommended DeskTop rebuild procedure accomplish what
>you have mentioned above? Hold down Option-Command keys will starting
>computer. Keep them down until you are asked to verify that you want the
>DeskTop rebuilt.
>
>Then take a look again using ResEdit to determine if those old resources
>are gone - I think they will be.


I think Leigh said he had _already_ rebuilt his desktop.  I don't
know why the icons are still there if that is the case.  I have
heard that the cmd-option trick doesn't always result in a proper
desktop rebuild.  Salient/5th Generation has a little goodie
called Desktop Reset, an init ('scuse me, extension) that
*deletes* the desktop file and its cousins at bootup if you hold
down the cmd-option keys (note this is different from what the
Apple system does).  I renamed it to aDesktop Reset so this would
happen at the beginning of bootup time, so I wouldn't have to wait
for all the inits to load and to hit cmd-option at the right
instant.  Anyway, for each partition you mount you'll get a beep
and a confirmation "OK/Cancel" dialog, and then another beep and
alert when the desktop is successfully deleted.  (It also deletes
the desktop's cousins, Desktop DB and DF).

I *think* Desktop Reset is PD.  Try emailing fifthgen@aol.com to
make sure.  They should also know if it's archived somewhere.

>Dale
>parkyn@sfu.ca
>


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: tjs@earth.wustl.edu (tom sullivan)
Subject: Re: Macs for UNIX lovers
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 19:46:59 GMT

In article <TRSNYDER.92Dec29133109@vf0031.mcs.drexel.edu> trsnyder@mcs.drexel.edu (Bob Snyder) writes:
>In article <C012B0.602@iapa.uucp%mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu> ctrbdo@iapa.uucp%mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu (bryan d oakley) writes:
>
>   As I have said in other postings (whether you've seen them or not),
>   I am a new mac owner.  My roots are in UNIX, mostly of the
>   workstation variety (with a smattering of VMS and (argh!) Data
>   General AOS/VS -- though, why should you care?).  Anyway, I want my
>   mac to have some of the 'luxurys' I've grown used to.  For example,
>   I want an emacs clone (microemacs?), I would love to gateway email
>   to the net (uucp/uupc?),
>
>There is a uEmacs out there....  Really, though, I would suggest
>getting a real word processor, and using a program like BBedit for
>small things, since it's smarter about dealing with Mac files than any
>version of emacs for the Macintosh I've seen.

For a good emacs like editor, try Alpha. It's shareware ($25) and is a
really good editor which supports modes such as LaTeX, C, and yes,
even FORTRAN. It blows the socks off the microemacs I've tried for the
Mac.  I probably got my copy from wuarchive.wustl.edu (a local plug:)


tom