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From: markley@gradient.cis.upenn.edu (Jim Markley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Postscript & Sys 7.0
Date: 31 Aug 92 13:57:48 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

I am trying to print a postscript file that I transfered (using
kermit) from the unix machine here at Penn to my Mac. I am running
system 7. I am trying to use an Apple writer at work to print the
file. When I try to print the document I get all of the post script
characters just like the file looks if you were to try to edit the
file.

Do I need some specail software to print the post script file, or is
it something in the way I transfered the document originally, or
perhaps something else? 

Ant help would be great.

-Jim
 
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Jim Markley
graduate student in computer and information science
markley@grad1.cis.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer
From: kellys@orac.holonet.net (Kelly Schwarzhoff)
Subject: Re: # of files
Organization: HoloNet (BBS: 510-704-1058)
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 17:56:01 GMT

> - each volume is partitioned to a maximum of 2^16 = 65536 blocks. 
>   The blocksize is a multiple of 512 Bytes. 
>   The result: on a 30 MB-hard disk each block is 512 bytes, on larger
> volumes 
>   the blocksize will be increased. On a 200 MB hard disk the
> blocksize will be 
>   3.5 KBytes, on a CD-ROM or 650 MB hard disk the size is about 10
> KBytes.

Is there anyway to get around this limit? I have a 600MB drive and have it
formatted so that each block is 10k and can't find a way to have smaller
blocks.  Is the limit of 2^16 due to the operating software or just the
software that formats the drive.

The reason I'm asking this is that we're setting up a large FirstClass BBS
software and it stores every message as a file and you cannot have the
messages in seperate volumes / partitions.  I'm running System 7.0 on a IIfx.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: vikas@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Vikas Taneja)
Subject: Hiding a Mac Application
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 21:44:57 GMT


  I need to hide a Mac application such that it is not visible on the monitor.
And also to have it boot up automatically on restarting the machine.

	Using the StartUpItems folder does not work because if ResEdit is used
to hide the icon of the application, the Finder cannot see it. Putting an alias
of the application in the StartUpItems folder doesn't work either for the same
reason.

	Are there any reasonable solutions ???

vikas@leland.stanford.edu
vikas@xenon.stanford.edu
From: Frank.O'connor@f386.n634.z3.fidonet.org (Frank O'connor)
Sender: acsnet@csource.oz.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Too many fonts in System 7???
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 15:45:21 +1000

Jeremiah - "I hardly ever change anything in my System file using the Finder
because just opening the System takes more than 15 minutes! (No, I'm
not kidding, yes, I have timed it)."

Ahh .. the blinding speed of System 7. (saracasm intended) I always notice it
when I revert to System 6 on occassion.

Whatever happened to the System 7 Lite Apple was gonna release for all of us
peasants who don't need the networking, file sharing and other abilities that
go with the (slow and over blown) version we're currently using?

                                                 Regards,

 * Origin: /\/\acContent,Victoria's First Iconic BBS (3:634/386)
From: garyad@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Gary Davidson)
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 19:56:20 GMT
Subject: Mac Plus internal HD ??
Organization: Hewlett Packard - Boise, ID
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system


I am going to upgrade the hard drive in my IIsi.  I would like to install the 
40mb Connor I remove into my Mac Plus.  Does anyone know if this drive will
work in the Plus (other than the fact that I will have to make my own mounts),
and where can I pick up the +5 & +12 vdc from the power supply board for the 
drive?

Please e-mail me.

Thanks-

Gary Davidson
garyad@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: leonardr@ccs.itd.umich.edu
Subject: Re: Extracting SEA's
Originator: leonardr@diddley.ccs.itd.umich.edu
Organization: Campus Computing Sites, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 18:18:43 GMT

In article <10380027@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM> bayes@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Scott Bayes) writes:
>Are macbinary and Apple Double the same thing???
>
	Not even close!  MacBinary and Apple Single are very similiar (Apple
Single has the fork order reversed & a variant header), but Apple Double (a
the name implies) uses two files instead of one.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: rrumpf@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Robert Rumpf)
Subject: Re: RE-Compression Software
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 01:19:27 GMT

I beg to differ.  Even with the updated versions of Stuffit Deluxe/Stuffit 
SpaceSaver I am having problems when transferring files between 
Appletalk-linked machines, BOTH of which DO have the Stuffit 3.0 package 
installed.  If the transfer takes longer than a minute or two (which it 
frequently does at AppleTalk speeds) one or the other machine often bombs, 
requiring a complete restart.  I prefer SD/SS to Autodoubler simply because of 
the features which come with the package, and admittedly Autodoubler has had 
more time to work out bugs.

Bob
From: mgn@cup.portal.com (Mike G Newman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Shizuoka Font Set
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 02:37:20 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

Can someone please post or e-mail me English language
instructions for the Shizuoka Font Set?

Thanks
+-------------------------------+--------------------------------+
|   Mike G Newman               |  mgn@cup.portal.com            |
|   BX 1510                     |  MCI:   mnewman (333-1196)     |
|   Saipan MP 96950             |  Phone: 670-234-7726           |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: ross@bnr.ca (Ross Brown)
Subject: Re: 7.1 in Beta???
Organization: Bell-Northern Research
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 14:41:20 GMT

In article <mwalker-260892100415@mwalker1.npd.provo.novell.com.>
mwalker@novell.com (Mel Walker) writes:
>What does "Shuswap" mean? BTW, my version of 7.1 says "Sahara+".

I think it means that the shu is on the other fut.  :-)

R
From: bayes@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Scott Bayes)
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 21:08:49 GMT
Subject: Re: Extracting SEA's
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Loveland, CO
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system

Are macbinary and Apple Double the same thing???

ScottB
From: chrish@strl.labs.tek.com (Chris Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Mac will not start in color
Keywords: mac II, color, e-machines
Date: 29 Aug 92 02:22:11 GMT
Reply-To: chrish@strl.labs.tek.com
Distribution: na
Organization: STRL, Tektronix Inc, USA

hello,

In our lab, we have a mac II with a e-machines 16" color monitor
hookup up to it, and every time it boots up, it is in black & white.
We can change the monitors cp so that is in color, but it will not 
stay in color on the next startup.

Any Ideas?

Chris
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: kluskens@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Michael S Kluskens)
Subject: Re: FileGuard Interest Group
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 11:43:02 GMT

In article <bondir.4.0@vaxb.gbus.virginia.edu> bondir@vaxb.gbus.virginia.edu
 (RICHARD BONDI) writes concerning the University FileGuard Interest Group

>...So it seems to me that there is a very 
>great need for a program like FileGuard or Folderbolt to (a) prevent people 
>from copying software in a Mac lab, and (b) prevent people from deleting 
>important files or adding crazy fonts and das -- ALL WITHOUT IMPEDING THE 
>OPERATION AND ESPECIALLY TEMP FILE CREATION OF OTHER PROGRAMS.

I myself use Fileguard (not as lab monitor so I won't be in on the
discussion group) however there is a product worth considering--
Empower II, one of our group is switching over to it based on the
experiences of people in another division.  Those who are university
lab monitors who are planning on purchasing large quantities of security
software should purchase individual copies of all the known packages
that are available within their planned price range for testing.
I can't believe the people controlling the money would veto that type
of purchase while okaying the purchase of 100 of the same software.
Several lab monitors have already reported wasting more time and money
on repairing damage from the approach of just buying 100+ of a recommended 
package without throughly testing many packages--testing can mess up only
one machine, blind buying risks hundreds of machines and alot of money.

Also, Empower II costs the same as Fileguard.

Dr. Michael S. Kluskens
kluskens@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu



Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: James Sawers <J.Sawers@uts.edu.au>
Subject: Re: How do TrueType fonts interact w/bitmapped?
Organization: University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 00:58:12 GMT
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X-Xxdate: Tue, 25 Aug 92 18:58:04 GMT

In article <19AUG199204234267@deimos.ucc.umass.edu> D. BESONEN,
s0671922@deimos.ucc.umass.edu writes:

>How do TrueType fonts interact with bitmapped fonts?
>
>Specifically, if I have both the TrueType font Courier
>and the bitmap font Courier 12 in my system folder, which
>one will be used when I select 12 point Courier in
>Microsoft Word?

As I understand it TrueType is much like ATM in that if a bitmapped font
of the correct size is available it will use that in preference because
it doesn't need to image it and thus saves time. 
However if you choose an odd size: say 11pt then TrueType will do the
scaling from it's outline font to give the best quality it can. Slows
your machine significantly sometimes though.
TrueType will only download it's outline to the printer if that font
doesn't exist in the printer or the printer is non-postscript
(truetype?). That's why the Stylewriter and Personal Laserwriter take
2mins plus to image a page. ie. the Mac has to do the page and font
imaging in these cases because there is no processor in the printer.
Completely false economy I reckon.


"Remember, being pissed off is always better than being pissed on?"

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From: chrish@strl.labs.tek.com (Chris Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Loosing Color Icons
Keywords: Resedit
Date: 29 Aug 92 00:59:27 GMT
Reply-To: chrish@strl.labs.tek.com
Distribution: na
Organization: STRL, Tektronix Inc, USA

Intermittently, I have been losing the color icon to ResEdit.  I can 
find no rhyme or reason for this.  I tried zapping the pram and now 
the color icon on the hello box is gone, resedit has no icon at all
(i.e. generic application icon).  Can anyone suggest how I get my color
Icons back and to make them stay.  (I am more interested in why it is
happening than getting the state of my machine back, so please no
"reinstall system" answers, unless system corruption is the real 
problem).

Chris

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From: crk5@vms.cis.pitt.edu (Chris Kunselman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Can't find programs or creator???
Date: 1 Sep 92 19:16:41 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.system
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

Hi,

Anybody having a problem with System 7 occasionally not recognizing the
creator of a data file?  We're running Word 4.0 and Word 5.0 on our server
and sometimes the files appear as Word 4.0 files, and other times the files
appear as Word 5.0 files.  Then when double clicking on the file to load,
occasionally we get the famous message: "The application is busy or
missing."  

Thank you,

Chris Kunselman
crk5@vms.cis.pitt.edu
University of Pittsburgh
From: braun@oswego.Oswego.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Problem with DiskExpress
Date: 28 Aug 92 01:51:05 GMT
Reply-To: braun@oswego.Oswego.edu ()
Distribution: usa
Organization: Instructional Computing Center, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY
Originator: braun@gidney.oswego.edu

Hello fellow Mac-folks,
I've got a quick question for you,

Recently I installed Auto-Doubler on to my SE (which works real good)
And found that my DiskExpress (Control Panel) no longer optimizes my drive.
The verify works OK, but DiskExpress says I have a problem with my
Directory.  I'm using 7.0 with 4 meg and I have replaced the finder file.

The question:  Has anyone else found this problem occuring?
Does anyone have a sloution?
Thanks in advance,  feel free to E-mail me

Stephen Braun   (Oswego is finally Hot!)
braun@Oswego.oswego.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.misc
From: eric@cs.ruu.nl (Eric Nieuwland)
Subject: Re: Apple breaks promise? (POST IN ONE GROUP ONLY, PLEASE)
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 11:44:18 GMT
Organization: SERC/RUU
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.system

AAAAAAAARRRGGGHHHH...

All these duplicate messages. Discussions are OK, but please not
all over the place. Thanks.

Follow-Ups to: comp.sys.mac.system

--eric
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: John T. Chapman <jtc1@cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: Switching HD icons w/ sys 7.0.1
X-Xxdate: Wed, 26 Aug 92 14: 53:17 GMT
Nntp-Posting-User: jtc1@cornell.edu
Organization: Office of Computing and Statistical Consulting
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 13:41:34 GMT

In article <714218615.F00004@blkcat.UUCP> Kaz Karl,
Kaz.Karl@f1138.n261.z1.fidonet.org writes:
>     You >might< notice that you can't change the name of your HD
either...I'm
>not certain why, but the changability of the drive fields seems to vary
from
>installation to installation on some of my machines...but I know that
>theoretically it depends on the method of formatting...sometimes the
designers
>seem to think the first name placed on the drive will be the last...

Actually, I'm pretty sure this is due to FileSharing under System 7. Turn 
sharing off and you should be able to change the name.

Also, I've noticed that some utilities (most notably, Norton Utils 2.0 
Fast Find and Directory Assistance II) _will_ allow you to do the custom 
icon thing with the Hard Drive. Interesting...

- John

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From: AVERNON1@ua1vm.ua.edu (Andrew Vernon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Enough News Already!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: 2 Sep 92 17:19:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: ua1vm.16856AD6E.AVERNON1
Organization: The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

What does this have to do with using Macintosh computers?
 
After reading nearly half a dozen RACIST DEGRADING TASTELESS posts, I'm
starting to think that comp.sys.mac.system is all a joke.                       ONET.ORG (Mary Hicks) writes:
This kind of behavior is not only annoying and inappropriately placed,
but It's downright intolerant. I would hope that as a worldwide network
of scholars and professionals that we would somehow be able to coexist
on the same computer networks.
 
This kind of argument should have been relegated to private e-mail when
It first started. I think some of us should practice a little more
decorum in the newsgroups.
 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: smills@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (MuffinHead)
Subject: Re: WISH LIST (DO THESE EXIST?)
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 20:32:25 GMT

dnwhiteh@eos.ncsu.edu (DUANE N WHITEHURST) writes:

>WISH 1: I'd like to be able to move a file from an open window to a particular
>sub-folder by just dragging the file over to the hard-disk icon (or any folder
>on the desktop)and having a menu of all the sub-folders pop up similar to the
>way beheirarch pops up menus and submenus for folders & nested folders under
>the apple menu...this way..instead of opening up the window for the hard-disk
>and the several layers down using a non-icon view, the menu would just pop up
>and I could bury the file in the harddisk from the desktop....
>??? DOES THIS FEATURE ALREADY EXIST SOMEWHERE ???

   Not that I'm aware. If you have only a few folders that you commonly
want to drop things into, you could put aliases on the desktop. Or, you
can always just go to your main drive window, choose View by Name, Select
All, Command-CursorRight, repeat. This way, you'll always have drag-and-
drop access to any folder on your drive. The folder expansion stays the same
even after you go back to an icon view, then to by Name again.

>WISH 2: Regarding the new drag and drop feature used to open files from the
>application you drag them to....it seems that my Mac will only recgonize
>files created by the application you drag them to...for example...if I drag
>a generic document (which MS Word CAN open from its file menu when viewing
>all readable files) to the Word application icon it won't highlight and I
>can't open it this way...but it works great if I drag a Word file to the Word
>application....is there a way to force Word to open the generic document?

   Launch ResEdit, Open Word, open its BNDL, choose Create New Item (or
something like that), make its type '****', Save, Quit. I'm not sure if you'll
need to rebuild the desktop after doing this before the change takes effect.
Now you can drop ANY file onto Word and it'll be opened.

Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.system:11483 comp.sys.mac.misc:15773
From: martin@DMI.USherb.CA (Jean-francois Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.app,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: AutoDoubler 2.0???
Date: 30 Aug 92 14:52:10 GMT
Article-I.D.: DMI.BtsxAz.Ms9
Reply-To: martin@DMI.USherb.CA
Organization: Universite de Sherbrooke -- Dept. De Mathematiques et D'Informatique

Can someone tell me about Autodoubler 2.0? Someone told me that Salient was
showing such thing at the MacWorld Expo in Boston. Any confirmation or
comments?

JF Martin

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From: alen@crash.cts.com (Alen Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Aliases--- Getting to the source
Date: 29 Aug 92 15:25:16 GMT

In <armand-280892221058@stc201.comm.mot.com> armand@comm.mot.com (Arman Dolikian) writes:
>There's got to be a better way!!!  (I hope)....

>I have a set of files that I regularly copy onto a floppy disk to 
>shuttle between home and work.  The files are rightfully stored in 
>different directories on my disk.   I had the bright idea that I could
>keep a folder of aliases so I could speed up the daily find and copy 
>process.  Only problem is,  copying the folder only copies the _aliases_,
>not the files themselves.   I guess this is the "logical" thing to 
>expect,  but...

>What I _really_ want is a way to tell the finder to copy the object the
>alias points to,  not just the alias.  


>{Right now,  I manually go to each alias, do a Get Info, click on
>"Find Original", then drag the resultant file....  but this is very
>tedious, and makes me wish there was a command shell on the Mac!!}

>Now that I've explained what I want to do,  and why I want to do it,
>does anyone have any suggestions on how to accomplish this feat?

Oh boy...what a gem...I've been trying to write a program to do the
same thing for a week and posted to the net (comp.sys.mac.programmer)
to find out why I could not drag-and-drop the aliases onto my copy
program to repace the aliases with their original. My idea was to
create my target folder, "option+drag" the aliases I wanted originals
for, into that new folder then drag-and-drop them onto my new app.

Finder however does not allow application to know the folder that
the drag-and-dropped alises were in, just the folder that the
originals are in.

My temporary solution...I'm building a shareware program (called
partslist...now in beta) that you drag a steering file. The steering
file contains a textual list of files and their destination with an
optional convert-me flag that translates CR->CRLF (so DOS hierarchies
may be created). This program allows for the management of parts-lists
for software distribution runs. Prog also has a option that warn
of lines longer than X characters (X is configurable) and at the same time
expands TABS to Y spaces (also configurable). This is useful for those poor
people who have to transfer files (program modules etc.) to fixed-width
mainframe datasets.

I'd consider adding a feature (to help the original poster) that allows
a destination dialog when more than 1 file is dropped onto the app. The effect
would be to make copies of all the drag-and-dropped files to the destination
and would allow a short-cut to the scripting mechanism.

Any interest? (the program works but I have not built the documentation yet,
the response I get determines how quickly the doc will be put together.)

--alen
alen@crash.cts.com