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From: Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Apple warranty replacement
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 12:43:43 EST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:226/20.18 - cmhGate UF Gateway, Columbus OH

A friend of mine recently had his second 40MB drive go out on his SE/30.  The
first time it was replaced under Apple warranty, and apparently the second one
that went faulty last week was also covered under an Apple warranty.  This SE
30 is way, way out of normal warranty.

He amazingly enough got good service from our local superstore dealer--4 hour
turnaround, and they knew right away this was a special warranty fix.  This
was Micro Center, a dealer I've flamed in the past because they've screwed me
and many other people over.  But that was in the past.  Maybe they got
religion.  But I digress.

The dealer charged Apple $1,072 for the replacement drive!  PLUS labor!  I'm
sure that to some extent this is non-money, all paperwork, and that probably
this is the standard fee that Apple set up for this particular warranty work. 
But I found it astounding nonetheless.  Is this SOP for this kind of
arrangement?

--Adam--
 
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From: DonD@cup.portal.com (Don Robert DeCosta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Tape Backup Options
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 21:49:37 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

Looking for info on the current state of Tape Backup for Macs.  

I need about 250mb backup.
I need external so I can move it from Mac to Mac
I'd prefer a widely available media with multiple sources

I also need info on backup software that uses a standard format so I'm
not tied to one source for restore software.

Please reply via Email, I'm a fish outta Mac waters.

Don DeCosta           |The nice thing about sanity is|  VM/Nomad2
DonD@cup.portal.com   |you can lose it more than once|  Amiga/Imagine
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: mstov@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (michael.p.stovsky)
Subject: MacPlus Dying?
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 13:56:42 GMT

Hi!

I am posting this on behalf of my brother who has a 3 year old Mac Plus.  
This past weekend, he tried to boot up & all he saw were some vertical
black and white stripes on the screen.  They were 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch
wide.  He said the machine "groaned" when he tried to boot it.  He attempted
to start the machine several times, both from the hard disk & from the 
floppy with the same results.

Since I live several hundred miles from him, he decided to take it into
the local Mac shop & get an idea of what was going on.  As it turned out,
they were unable to duplicate the problem.  I.e., the machine booted
fine.

My question is what's going on?  Does he have some cold solder joints?
Loose SIMMs?  A sick power supply?  Something else to worry about?  Or were
the Labor Day weekend computer gods just telling him not to work?

Any and all pointers are appreciated.  I plan to get Macintosh Upgrade & 
Repair Secrets to futher investigate.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Note my e-mail address differs from the return address of this posting!
You can reach me at mps@cbvox.att.com.

	Michael


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.editors
From: bell@teal.csn.org (Bell Scott)
Subject: Re: good vi editor for the mac
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 05:17:43 GMT

In article <D88-JWA.92Sep8123551@black.nada.kth.se> d88-jwa@black.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) writes:
>
>   To Tom:  Just what can't you do in MSWord 5.0 that you can do in emacs?
>
>Keyboard macros
>
>Toggle words
>
>Execute other program
>
>Towers of Hanoi (OK, OK)
>
>
>-- 
>Jon W{tte, h+@nada.kth.se, Sweden, Phone +46-8-107069
>
>Help eradicate FIDO-Net <-> Usenet gateways in our time!

	Try using the 'Command' option.  (After all, nearly every function
                                         can be accessed by a single
                                         keystroke...who needs macros?)

	With System 7 who needs to HAVE to execute another program from
WITHIN the current one?

	Towers of Hanoi?  What!?!?!?  You're not being productive?!?!?!?;)

Scott R. Bell

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From: bwilliam@oyster.smcm.edu (Bill Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.editors
Subject: Re: good vi editor for the mac
Date: 7 Sep 92 14:13:28 GMT
Organization: St. Mary's College of Maryland
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X-XXDate: Mon, 7 Sep 92 15:14:26 GMT

In article <1992Sep4.192444.24921@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu> Tom Pollard,
pollard@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu writes:
>If you're just looking for a good editor that you can use directly on
text
>files, I would strongly suggest you look at the excellent shareware
editor,
>Alpha (now in version 5.0).  It is quite powerful, extensible, and
flexible.
>You can redefine the key bindings, for instance, and write much more 
>interesting macros than in vi.

Yes, speaking of Alpha and such, anybody know how to change the default
text editor that's suggested for text files with unknown creators?  I
mean the editor that's specified in the message that ends "... would you
like to open it with TeachText?"  How can I change that from TeachText to
(say) Alpha?
___________________________________
William E. Williams, bwilliam@oyster.smcm.edu
Divison of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
St. Mary's College of Maryland
St. Mary's City, MD 20686
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.editors
From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Subject: Re: good vi editor for the mac
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 92 23:07:28 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park

In article <1992Sep4.192444.24921@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu> pollard@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu (Tom Pollard) writes:
>In article <lawton.715610572@armand> lawton@armand.RADC.AF.MIL (James Lawton) writes:
>>>I want a good vi . . . for the mac.
>>
>>Isn't this a contradiction in terms? ;-)
>
>No it isn't, you hopeless dweebs.  There are a lot of things that are much
>easier to do in a good mainframe editor, like vi and especially emacs, than
>in a standard Mac 'word processor'.

Emacs yes, vi no.  And if you want a mainframe editor, try Xedit...
-- 
Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.misc
From: ia4@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Imran Anwar)
Subject: SCSI Differences in IIfx and IIsi?  STRANGE Problems with Scanner
Organization: Columbia University
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 20:16:26 GMT

II FX SCSI PROBLEMS WITH DEVICE THAT WORKS WITH II SI

The strange stories continue.  I have a Xerox Scanner 7650 that used to
work fine with a IIfx and a IIsi, but Xerox had shipped it with a frayed and
tattered cable (How did they win the Baldridge Award, by buying it?)

So the cable stopped working, and I got a new one from MacConnection. 
Interestingly, the cable and scanner work fine with the IIsi's SCSI port
BUT the IIfx even fails to see the scanner connected.  Trying to force it to
mount or update said the SCSI chain was not terminated (even though this
works fine with the IIsi).

Could it be that good old Apple Computer has different (incompatible)
types of SCSI ports on the II fx and si.  (eg the modem ports on them are
built differently a few weeks ago each of my WorldBlazer modems failed
to work with the II sis while they worked with the II fxs.  [Maybe Apple
should also be getting a Baldridge Award ;-)  ]


Imran Anwar
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From: johnston@me.udel.edu (Bill Johnston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: software sold can't be replaced ?
Date: 10 Sep 92 15:27:35 GMT
Organization: University of Delaware

In article <cyen.716103916@ponder> Jesse writes:

System 7 can be ftp'd for free from ftp.apple.com /dts/mac/sys.soft.
If you bought it, all you paid for was the media and the manuals.

Grab 7.0.1 disk images and Apple Diskcopy plus System 7 Tuner 1.1.1;
Apple doesn't distribute 7.0.1 by floppy because it's only required
for machines that shipped with it -- that is, the changes don't 
affect the earlier Macs (except for a small change to SANE that
you'd have to run benchmarks to find).

> I went back to them and requested to renew, BUT they told me what they can
>do is to copy new version onto the old disks, and there is no way to replace
>it with a new one. I don't know if it's legal to copy new version onto old
>package and sell it as a new product.

They didn't offer to do this.  System 7.0 is the new product, and you
own it already.  They offered to let you upgrade to a newer version
that you don't really need, for free.

> Besides, I have two questions:
> (1) Why can't I renew the product in warranty period because of mis-shipment?

what you got *is* the current version that Apple ships

> (2) How come Apple Inc don't print version number on box of system 7?

they did;  it's 7.0, which is what you got
-- 
-- Bill Johnston (johnston@me.udel.edu)
-- 38 Chambers Street; Newark, DE 19711; (302)368-1949
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
From: hal@cs.cornell.edu (Hal Perkins)
Subject: why upgrade to FileMaker Pro 2.0?
Keywords: filemaker,upgrade
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 19:32:49 GMT

I received the upgrade notice for FileMaker Pro 2.0 and am trying to
decide if it's worth getting the new version.  It seems that the main
advantage to version 2.0 is it runs on IBM PC-compatible boxes as well
as macs and one can share data across mixed networks.  Since I'm only
using FileMaker on an isolated mac, what advantage would there be in
upgrading?

Thanks for any enlightenment, suggestions, etc.

Hal Perkins			hal@cs.cornell.edu
Cornell CS
From: Fred.Puhan@p4219.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Fred Puhan)
Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
Subject: Omnis error
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 10:09:55 -0500

On 9/11/92, Jerry Sy said to All: 

  JS> In a previous article, SJD9@psuvm.psu.edu () says:
  JS> 
  > 
  > Blyth  tech support has been no help so far.
  > 
  JS> That does not surprise me !!
  JS> 
  JS> the tech support there is so bad , that they now refuse to return my
  JS> calls anymore.  it would have been ok if they just admit to me they
  JS> don't know anything about omnis, but what pi__es me is they still
  JS> PRETEND to be omnis expert! (them not knowing omnis may be an
  JS> overstatement, it should have been they don't know anything about
  JS> computers).
  JS> 
  JS> I think blyth is the company with the worst business ethics that I
  JS> have dealt with.


Perhaps they have the same opinion of you? I don't want to start a flame war
here, but it seems to me that -every- post I've read from you has nothing at
all constructive to say about Blyth or Omnis. Tell me, did someone tie your
hands behind your back, sit you at a computer and -force- you to program in
Omnis for eight hours a day?

I will be the first to admit that Blyth's tech support isn't up to the level of
a WordPerfect, but then Blyth isn't WP's size. I've had no problems with Blyth
returning my calls, or working with me to solve a technical glitch (perhaps
it's
one reason they invited me to beta test...). If we are to equate tech support,
I
would have to place Blyth's with ACIUS'. "You're not supposed to do that
(multi-
level searching using Boolean logic programmatically)" was one response I 
received from the 4D guys.

At least Blyth doesn't -charge- me for every phone call, every tech note, and
every aftermarket external or add-on. So lighten up, Jerry. I have yet to see
the "perfect" Mac RDBMS. Or the "perfect" RDBMS, period.

=Fred=
From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
Subject: Re: why upgrade to FileMaker Pro 2.0?
Date: 11 Sep 92 13:22:00 GMT
Reply-To: hades@Dartmouth.Edu
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Disclaimer: Personally, I really don't care who you think I speak for.
Moderator: Rec.Arts.Comics.Info

jtc1@cornell.edu (John T. Chapman) writes:

>Has anyone seen the Script Editor yet? Are we talking more functional 
>macros now or is this still fairly limited.

    I have both seen and worked with it. It is still not up to the level
of a full macro but it is really close. Almost all the commands are
available for use in any order.

>One thing I'd like to see is the ability for scripts to execute the same 
>commands that buttons can drive. Also, I'd like to pass some parameters 
>into scripts/commands, bypassing the user in some cases.

    Well, now they can (I'm pretty sure) and in fact you can have a
script perform a Quit now.

>A primary need/use for this is a single button that, when clicked on, 
>will move the cursor to a field and perform a relookup with no dialog box 
>for confirmation. Currently, I have to manually select the involved 
>field, perform the relookup and confirm the relookup in (xxx) records.
>This is a pain in the xxx!

    I have no idea if this is possible to do with a script or not, I
never tried.

>Anyway, is the new Script Editor worth looking at? How about Lookups - 
>are they more flexible? Any changes to Summary or Calculation fields?

    I don't remember any changes to Lookups but I did notice a cosmetic
change in the Calculation dialog. Now when you scroll through the
function list, you get to see the what the argumes are for all the
functions in stead of parenthesis with commas.


--
-Hades (Brian V. Hughes) 
	    "Egads! These look like a women's fingerprints"
						   -- Durlock Holmes
From: nardy@llnl.gov (Dominic P. Nardy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
Subject: FileMaker Pro Question
Date: 8 Sep 92 19:09:28 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.databases
Organization: Lawrence Livermore Laboratory

I have a database containing 4100 records tracking computers and their
owners.  I would like to be able to create a layout that would tell me how
many people were in the database and how many computers each organization
had.  

The following fields are in the database:
Organization  Text
Contacts      Text
Bldg          Text
Rm            Text
First Name    Text
Last Name     Text
Empno         Number
Property No   Number

I would like any and all ideas on how to create a layout report showing the
organizations, the number of computers for each orgainzation, and the
number of people in each organization.
From: folse@crs.cl.msu.edu (Mark Folse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
Subject: filemaker and FoxBASE
Date: 13 Sep 92 21:11:34 GMT
Reply-To: folse@crs.cl.msu.edu.UUCP (Mark Folse)
Organization: Michigan State University

I hope this post iesn't also eaten by my newsreader:
     fxffxfxfxA0ATDT 915173538500
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Man, I don't know what happening here, but I don't like it. Anyway, is there
any compatibilty between FoxBASE+/Mac and Filemaker Pro? I'd like to import
a FMP database into FoxBASE. 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
From: John T. Chapman <jtc1@cornell.edu>
Subject: Automated custom import
X-Xxdate: Tue, 15 Sep 92 21: 15:46 GMT
Nntp-Posting-User: jtc1@cornell.edu
Organization: Office of Computing and Statistical Consulting
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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 20:03:01 GMT

Greetings, net Mac database users:

We are designing a large biographical database for our college. One of 
the tricky 'snags' is that we would like to be able to manage regular 
imports of data from the main University database to keep our database 
current. The trick is that we don't want to lose changes we may have made 
to our copy (which has additional fields and such), yet want to be able 
to do this relatively automatically, since there might be quite a few 
records that have changed for a given update. (For example, 
end-of-the-year accounting went through and information on donations 
changed for a third of our database).

The way I see this happening is that a macro or script look at each 
record of the new data and cross-check it with the existing file via a 
unique identifier (the person's ID #). For each record that matches, the 
script updates the desired fields; for each record that has no match, the 
script creates a new record and pulls in all the info.

I suppose there might be a better way of doing this, however.

I'd like to hear experiences of people that have worked on similar 
problems. Rather than focus on any single database, I'd like to hear how 
people implemented such a thing on a variety of programs.

Thanks,

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
From: hoyle@beaufort.sfu.ca (Michelle Hoyle)
Subject: Exporting from Filemaker
Summary: How do you do it if...
Keywords: Export, Menu, Filemaker Pro
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 20:15:41 GMT

I use Filemaker Pro to store the names, addresses, and reviewer
information for an academic Journal.  Recently I ran into a problem
of trying to export any of the information into a text file.  Filemaker
only allows me to select comma delimited text.  If you click on the
menu box to choose a different type, nothing happens.  I consulted
the manual, but I could not find any particular reason why this
would happen or how to fix it.  Does anyone else have any ideas?

Michelle

Organization: Senior, Social & Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 17:49:44 -0400 
From: David Tsai <dt1n+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Off the shelf Inventory Trackers

Hello,
    Seeing as how the learning curve is so steep with 4D, my programmer
has decided to freak out on me.  It was suggested that there might be an 
"Off the shelf" turnkey software package that will be able to keep track
of the computers information [periherials, warranty information, etc.]
that we have for our campus computer clusters.

Does anyone know of such a software package?

Dave
From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
Subject: Re: filemaker and FoxBASE
Date: 14 Sep 92 16:50:16 GMT
Reply-To: hades@Dartmouth.Edu
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Disclaimer: Personally, I really don't care who you think I speak for.
Moderator: Rec.Arts.Comics.Info

folse@crs.cl.msu.edu (Mark Folse) writes:

>Man, I don't know what happening here, but I don't like it. Anyway, is there
>any compatibilty between FoxBASE+/Mac and Filemaker Pro? I'd like to import
>a FMP database into FoxBASE. 

    What do you mean by "import"? It is pretty trivial to expost the
data from FM Pro to a DBF format file and then read the DBF file with
FB+/Mac.

--
-Hades (Brian V. Hughes) 
   "You know Television has gone to hell when, with every commercial,
	 you find yourself hoping to see the Energizer Bunny."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
From: michaelh@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Mike Hennahane)
Subject: Re: Will a US 4D 2.3 database run on a non-US System 7 (Swiss)
Keywords: 4D, international, system
Organization: CS Department, Stanford University, California, USA
Date:  8 Sep 92 17:47:36 GMT

mr@bernina.ethz.ch (Marc Raths) writes:
[...]
>when the floppy fails) I'd like to switch to a US 4D copy. As
>far as I know these are not copy protected.

the US 4d *is* copy protected, but in a different way; you will have
to initialize 4d the first time you use it with a serial number unique
to your network.

>BUT will it run under an international (specifically Swiss) System 7?

it should run, but this is illegal as far as i know. you will have to
use the international version or the swiss version of 4d if there is
one. 

>And will I have to rewrite the code when porting?

i don't think that you will have to rewrite any code to switch; the
big things to be careful of are the way that numbers and dates are
formatted. i should warn you again, though, that it is not legal to
use a US version of 4d outside of the US (as far as i know).

--mike
From: mwojcik@pennsas.upenn.edu (Michael Wojcik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
Subject: Re: Exporting from Filemaker
Date: 8 Sep 92 19:28:26 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.databases
Organization: the University of Pennsylvania

In article <1992Sep8.155417.18475@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>,
geoffb@coos.dartmouth.edu (Geoff Bronner) wrote:
> 
> In <hoyle.715810541@sfu.ca> hoyle@beaufort.sfu.ca (Michelle Hoyle) writes:
> 
> >Filemaker
> >only allows me to select comma delimited text.  If you click on the
> >menu box to choose a different type, nothing happens.  I consulted
> >the manual, but I could not find any particular reason why
> 
> Only one idea. Do you have the appropriate XTND translators in a place
> where Filemaker Pro can find them? (ie: in a "Translators" folder within a
> "Claris" folder within the System Folder)

> geoffb@Dartmouth.EDU - Computing Support Consultant, Tuck School of Business

I've run into this on a few of my machines. If you click on this pop up
IMMEDIATELY after the dialog box opens, you should be able to get the other
options. As a permanent fix, upgrade to 1.0v1 or 1.0v2 and grab a known
good claris folder from another machine. It should then behave properly.

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From: pamiri@uci.edu (Peter Amiri)
Subject: PR Dimensional Software announces dbTimer for 4D
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
Organization: Dimensional Software
Date: 11 Sep 92 15:01:57 GMT