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 I do not read this notes string frequently so please forgive me if this
 question is commonly asked. Are there any recommended tools/utilities
 that will read/fix PFS:File floppies that report a DISK I/O ERROR when     
 read by the PFS:File program on an Apple IIe ?


Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: dsdd@okcforum.osrhe.uoknor.edu (Roy Barrett)
Subject: Re: A2-Central uses cheap paper?!?!?!
Organization: Okcforum Unix Users Group
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:12:54 GMT

>    So I guess you bitch exclusively at Apple, eh?  ;-)

Well, just the "morons and dimwits in Apple's front office"... I don't beleive
that OggNET Sculley post, you know why? I've heard, publicly stated, that John
Sculley DOES NOT LIKE the Apple II, and the Macintosh is #1 priority..

I'd like to talk to Mr. Sculley someday... (!)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: joko@well.sf.ca.us (Joe Kohn)
Subject: Real Basic Questions
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:29:12 GMT


I have a bunch of questions about the net that are so basic that they are
not covered in the FAQ.

As most of you know, I write inCider/A+'s Grapevine column. If you're not
familiar with it, it's about telecommunications. Even though I've been
hanging out here in c.s.a2 for a year, I consider myself a net novice, and
there's a lot I just don't understand. Just a few weeks ago, I finally got
brave enough to FTP for the first time. I was stunned at how fast a file
flew from cco.caltech.edu to my host machine.

As little as I understand about the net and how it works, a lot of
inCider/A+ readers understand a less about it than I do. I'd like to be
able to provide information in my column to get even more Apple II folks
involved with c.s.a2.

I access c.s.a2 from The Well, a commercial network. Obviously, I know how
to read newsgroups and respond to postings, as it really only takes a few
commands. I use !rn to read newsgroups I've subscribed to, f to respond
without quotes, F to respond with quotes, r to respond via email and
!postnews to start a new topic. I mention that because I don't really know
if those are across-the-net commands, or just the ones on my local host.

I've recently been getting lots of email from college students who have
the ability to send me Internet mail, and they are asking me how to access
c.s.a2. And, in all honesty, I'm not sure what to tell them.

So, I'd really appreciate it if someone, or a few people, who access the
net via their school computer, or via their work computer, could tell me
how they access the net. I know that must sound silly, but the next time
someone writes to me and asks me how to access c.s.a2 and c.b.a2 and FTP
that I'll know what to tell them.

Thanks!

Joe Kohn
Contributing Editor, inCider/A+
From: co057@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Steven H. Lichter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Apple II Networks
Date: 26 Dec 1992 21:22:43 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


I just got back from t here today. I wish I had you number at the time.
I guess I can call you PCP.
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From: vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Hardware Hacking
Date: 1 Jan 93 18:43:56 GMT
Organization: Champlain Regional College, St-Lambert QC CANADA

jon@qed.cts.com (Jonathan Fether) writes:

>I know that there are stereo outs on the esoniq chip. The only thing is 
>Apple made that stupid MONO (UGH) jack on the GS. It would have cost just 
>as much to install the same thing, in stereo.

Last time I checked the schmatics in the hardware referenmce manual, I saw no
sign that stereo output is directly available from the Ensoniq chip. In fact,
the manual tells you how to get the stereo output, and it DOES require extra
circuitry...

>jon@qed.cts.com (Jonathan Fether)  or  qed!jon
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From: Clayten_Hamacher@mindlink.bc.ca (Clayten Hamacher)
Subject: Re: really basic question
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 22:19:41 GMT

>Oh, one more question. For those who either post or email messages, could
>you tell me whether you're accessing the net via a terminal at school or
>work or whether you're calling in on your Apple II.

I'm calling in from home with my Apple //GS.. I am a student but my
highschool doesn't have net access.

What's the information on where we call from for?

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Clayten_Hamacher@Mindlink.bc.ca                 Land of the rising snow.
From: cotner@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (<<  EL CAPO  >>)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: System Error $1104.  Opening AutoUnshring files.
Date: 1 Jan 93 07:05:22 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

I remember seeing a question about this by someone else a few weeks back,
but I missed the reply, or there never was one.

In any case, what is a System Error $1104?
It comes up when trying to open the AutoUnshrinking files.
I haven't even been able to unpack the last GSHK, since its in that 
format.

I've already tried with minimal System configurations, without SCSI, DMA, even
older System software, but to no avail.  I've run diagnostics on my machine
and everything checks out OK.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thnx.


KAS
cotner@eniac.seas.upenn.edu

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for crash!comp-sys-apple2 id AA02571; Fri, 25 Dec 92 03: 17:51 -0800
	(5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA17014; Fri, 25 Dec 92 03: 53:55 -0500
  (5.67a8/IDA-1.5 for <uunet!photon!crash!comp-sys-apple2@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu>); Fri, 25 Dec 1992 02: 52:19 -0600
  (5.67a/IDA-1.5 for uiucuxc!uunet!photon!crash!comp-sys-apple2); Fri, 25 Dec 1992 03: 52:32 -0500
From: photon!uunet!pro-magic.oau.org!bdoherty (Benjamin Doherty)
Subject: Re: BD: comp.binaries.apple2.d
Organization: Pro-Magic [A Proline BBS] Orlando, FL
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 13:27:27 EST

anthony@seas.smu.edu (Richard Anthony) writes:

>WEll a .d group might be a good idea.  As many might recall Jawaid was willing
>to moderate the binaries, but it was voted down.  Personally I think Moderation
>would be better than a .d group.  If you look at any of the other groups
>that have .d's, non 'uuencoded' posts still pop up on the groups.  I think
>a request for moderation can be brought up again in a few months, I'm not sure
>but I am sure someone can post when a revote can be brought up

Yes, but there is a difference.  A .d group wouldn't just alleviate the
non-binary messages in c.b.a2 but provide a discussion area for the programs
posted.  I don't read c.s.a2 every day because it is too large of a group and
I don't have enough time on my accounts.  Moderation and a .d group are two
completely different things.  A moderated group would inhibit postings and a
.d group would allow for non-binary requests, comments, or descriptions to be
posted.

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Ask me about TunaNET v3.80| /\/   |< |Starkist - 407-859-9999 - FidoNET/UseNET

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From: blaby@fraser.sfu.ca (John Edward Blaby)
Subject: Re: Uh oh! Zip Cache is messed.
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 07:54:07 GMT

Clayten_Hamacher@mindlink.bc.ca (Clayten Hamacher) writes:

>Sorry John but it's not... The info on the default settings is in there.. It
>doesn't say what switch is for what though..

Well, my manual does :) That is how I put the info up in the message.
It listed the settings for all possible combinations of sram.

>P.S. Try spelling the name right... Yeesh!

oops..yeah..Clayten. It was just a typo on my part. 

John	E-Mail: jblaby@cyberstore.ca
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: dsdd@okcforum.osrhe.uoknor.edu (Roy Barrett)
Subject: Re: Apple II Networks
Organization: Okcforum Unix Users Group
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:06:23 GMT

>Well, certainly there is ProLine - run strictly on Apple II machines.
>Then doesnt GBBS have a network?  And what about the AppleNet, METAL
>and some of those other boards - do they share networking?

Okay, AppleNet is just a BBS Program, there is no network code in AppleNet.
Metal is a BBS Language, similar to ACOS, but much faster and better, IMHO. The
BBS Program that is most widely used under ACOS is GBBS, which has no net code
involved, although you can various networks, such as FidoNet (but nasty code),
OggNET (Which was once a semi-large network, but is now down to like 15 nodes),
TeamNet (Which code I haven't seen) and IIneNet (which code I haven't seen).

As for Metal, the Future Vision BBS Package runs under this language, and does
have a great network structure, and is about to hit the 50 node mark. All on
Apple II Computers. You should start to see posts coming from the *.fvnet.org
domain, which is formed from the new gateway that is under development. This
is just another 50+ nodes (expected) by the time FutureNet Phase II goes into
effect. Beta testing will come soon, but it may be a few months before we get
a working version in.  FutureNet, which I am on, has some very nice features,
such as Networking Email, Conferences, and FileMail. System Updates also
are automatically sent through the network. At this point in time, most
Sysops call another FutureNet BBS to get their data, and it's all done
automatically, but soon, this will change with a direct Unix interface, sockets
and all. I don't know if I should be saying this, but hell, why not... Just
informing..

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From: avolk@juliet.caltech.edu (Volk, Andrew Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Jump around...
Date: 2 Jan 1993 02:06 PST
Organization: California Institute of Technology
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: juliet.caltech.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

	I've been doing some digging around in my gs w/ the
technical reference manual, and discovered the jumper W1,
but I'm not good enough w/ schematics to figure out its
effect. Can anyone explain it to me?
	Also, has anyone tried the new 8mb memory card from
TMS w/ a RamKeeper? 
	I also just got a Zip accelerator, and since I picked it
up myself (living in LA), they had one made up to order because
they were short on stock. I noticed later that they had given
me a 10mhz chip (I had bought a 9mhz card), with a 9mhz 
oscillator. Besides switching the oscillator, are there any
other mods needed to go to 10mhz? (especially the minimum
cache memory speed!) That card is great, despite the software!

Now if someone cypherhead would just port PGP 2.1 to the GS...:-)


	Andrew Volk, live and direct from Caltech at
		Avolk@Iago.Caltech.Edu
From: vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: ProDOS 8 busy?
Date: 1 Jan 93 18:57:33 GMT
Organization: Champlain Regional College, St-Lambert QC CANADA

ST2975@SIUCVMB.SIU.EDU writes:

>Is there an undocumented error code for ProDOS 8 busy
>similar to GS/OS busy?

>I was thinking of returning from a subroutine with a
>zero in the accumulator indicating that no error occurred
>but with the carry set to simulate a ProDOS 8 busy error.

The error codes are defined the same way in GS/OS and ProDOS 8. If ProDOS 8
ever returns a busy error in future versions (which it probably never will)
you can be sure it's going to be the same code at the GS/OS busy error.

But you're the one who is writing your program. You can do whatever you want :)

>Andy Werner
>st2975@siucvmb.siu.edu
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From: ST2975@SIUCVMB.SIU.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: ProDOS files vs. disk
Date: 28 Dec 92 01:36:25 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

I seemed to have noticed that files on my disks aren't exactly
contiguous.  There seem to be 512 byte 'holes' on the disk that
separate different files' data.  Is this an optimization of
ProDOS?  Can I write a disk utility that can move the files'
data closer together and change the directory structure to reflect
the change using read_block/write_block and read/write?
I'm using ProDOS v1.9 currently.  Am I imagining things as usual?

Andy Werner
st2975@siucvmb.siu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
Subject: Re: AWGS vs System 6
Followup-To: comp.sys.apple2
Reply-To: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
Organization: Nedriv Software and Shoe Shiners, Uninc.
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 13:07:38 GMT

He has 2.25 meg of memory, no accellerator.  When we shift boot, it appears
the problem is either lessened or completely resolved.  What we would like
to find now is what known problems exist, so we can eliminate those DAs and
leave the rest.  I would rather not go thru the 10 hrs or so of testing that
would be necessary to resolve this one DA at a time...
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: drice@ponder.csci.unt.edu (D. Keith Rice)
Subject: Apple ][e disk format. Readable by PC?
Organization: University of North Texas
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 19:04:10 GMT

I was wondering if there are any programs available for the PC that will
allow reading of Apple ][e diskettes.  If not, could someone either send me
the specs on Apple disk formatting or, at least, point me to where I can
find it.

Thanks!

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From: dockery@griffin.cuc.ab.ca (Sean Dockery)
Subject: Re: ProDOS files vs. disk
Organization: Synchrotron Software Group, Calgary, Alberta
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 21:03:16 GMT

In article <9212280139.AA10293@apple.com> ST2975@SIUCVMB.SIU.EDU writes:
>I seemed to have noticed that files on my disks aren't exactly
>contiguous.  There seem to be 512 byte 'holes' on the disk that
>separate different files' data.  Is this an optimization of
>ProDOS?  Can I write a disk utility that can move the files'
>data closer together and change the directory structure to reflect
>the change using read_block/write_block and read/write?
>I'm using ProDOS v1.9 currently.  Am I imagining things as usual?
>
>Andy Werner
>st2975@siucvmb.siu.edu

Andy, you are not imagining things at all.  ProDOS uses this block
method of storage because it allows more files on a disk than would be
possible for sequential storage.

Example:  If you have many small files on a disk which were written to
sequentially, deleting some of them randomly would free up sections of
the disk which do not fall into a consecutive pattern.  Although the
total number of blocks free on the disk may be enough of a volume to
contain a file currently in memory, requiring that the file be written
sequentially might mean that it would not be possible to save it.

ProDOS has overcome this problem by allowing different blocks to be
linked via a pointer in the original directory entry for that file.
Depending on the file type, the pointer may point directly to the data
block of the file (as the case with a seedling file,) a block of
pointers which point to the data blocks of the file (as the case with
a sapling file,) or a block of handles which point to a block of
pointers which point to data blocks of the file (as the case with a
tree file.)  There is also another file type (extended files) which
is available under GS/OS only (not ProDOS 8) which contain two logical
data segments (resource and data forks.)

The version of the ProDOS doesn't matter.  It has been done this way
since the original version -- otherwise, ProDOS would not be backward
compatible because the structure on the disk would not be the same.

As for a utility to remedy you problem, you want a program called a
defragmenter.  I'm sure that Glen Bredon has written something for
smaller disks in his ProSel 8 package as someone suggested (what kind
of utility hasn't he written!)

If you want to know more about the actual management of ProDOS and
GS/OS disk storage devices, I would recommend _Exploring Apple GS/OS
and ProDOS 8_ by Gary B. Little (Addison-Wesley Publishing Company --
copyright (c) 1988.)

sean
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
Subject: AWGS vs System 6
Reply-To: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
Organization: Nedriv Software and Shoe Shiners, Uninc.
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 13:36:04 GMT

It appears that this msg didnt get out before - if you did see it , I apologize
for the repeat.

My father-in-law purchased a TMS Pro 105 hard disk recently.  It came with 
system 6, some inits, etc. installed.  He installed AWGS 1.1 on it and began
working with it.  He found that it frequently freezes operation.  In one demo
he provided for me, the mouse cursor continued to move, but no menu items would
drop,  no windows would reposition, etc.  The system had to be rebooted.  He
also saw times when the outside border of the screen (where text, windows etc
never go) would turn to a bright red.

Any ideas where to start looking for a fix for this problem?  What steps
would be useful?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: ST2975@SIUCVMB.SIU.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re:turbo IDE card description
Date: 24 Dec 92 02:58:25 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

My favorite configuration:

What about a IIe/c with a 65802 installed and //gs rom turbo
IDE card?

/*   Andy Werner        hybrid concepts     st2975@siucvmb.siu.edu  *
 *   HyperC enthusiast                 65802/816 support for HyperC *
 *   Laser 128EX          4Mhz 65802        st2975@siucvmb.bitnet   */
From: herbertf@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Herbert Fung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Fatal Error 0911
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 93 13:11:18 MST
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #1, Edmonton, AB, Canada

Previously Clayten_Hamacher@mindlink.bc.ca (Clayten Hamacher) wrote:
 
>re: Fatal Error 911
>
>I used to get this whenever I had used the computer for more
>than 45 minutes or so and then hit oa-ctrl-reset. I would then
>have to turn the computer off for a few minutes or it'd do the
>same things as soon as I hit oa-ctrl-reset again.
>
>Solution: I bought a system saver GS and have NEVER experienced
>the problem again, and gained a decent powerbar/surge
>protector.. I think the problem was that it was overheating
>though all I had in it was a printer card.
>
>P.S. Now I've got a new grappler, Zip, 2 ram cards, Sonic
>Blaster and it still hasn't overheated so I guess that's a good review
>for the System Saver.
 
The AE Conserver isn't too bad either. I've got a Quickie controller
card, Audio Animator, Video Overlay Card, TransWarp GS, RamFAST D, Vulcan
controller card, and a four meg memory card in a ROM 3 GS. I believe this
is almost as hot as a GS can get and the Conserver keeps my GS $0911
free. Of course the other cool thing about the Conserver is that it gives
me a place to put both of my 3.5 drives, provides 6 outlets, and three
power switches.
 
--
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Edmonton, Alberta, Canada       |       The Herbster! 1988

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: 90taobri@CHASM.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: An oft repeated point... (Was Re: Switch It)
Date: 3 Jan 93 01:43:48 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: MuGS Research and Development Facility

The following revelation escaped Gayla Ann Greis's lips:
> 
> Now if you wanted to revise your post to tell WHY or WHAT makes it
> so great, and disguise it as a product review for those who haven't 
> downloaded it yet, then so be it. But please try and not post just to
> see if you can...

    Hmmm... maybe I should post my bug list with 80+ items on it to offset
all this ego-puffing that's been going on.  ;-)  Of course, to Procyon's
credit, 95% of those bugs have been squashed by now...  :)

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