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From: kby@cco.caltech.edu (Kimo B. Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Auto Power-up Stuff [A]
Date: 24 Jan 1993 01:00:55 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: alumni.caltech.edu
Summary: Response to person looking for timed power-ups
Keywords: Power-up auto

For whomever was looking for the unattended auto power-up stuff, my latest
MacWarehouse catalogue seems to imply that PowerKey does what you want.  It's
an ADB controlled power outlet, but it also apparently has a programmable
timer in it now (which you set with an included CDEV) that generates the
ADB pulse to turn on your machine at the preset time.  You can also make it
power up with a phone call.-kby
From: vincent@cad.gatech.edu (Vincent Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: eDisk: Any clues how it works?
Date: 21 Jan 1993 18:05:01 -0500
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, CAE/CAD Lab
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: cae.cad.gatech.edu

Just saw an ad in MacWorld for something called e-Disk from Alysis.
Supposed to do what AutoDoubler does, but at a much lower level if I'm
reading this right. One of the things I dislike about AD is that if
I share my drive, the other machines must have AD as well to uncompress
the file. If anyone has any clues on this, post. The ad is remarkably
vague on how it works.
From: kwun@css.itd.umich.edu (Michael Kwun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: SuperClock 4.0.1
Date: 22 Jan 1993 21:04:49 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan - ITD Consulting and Support
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

I R A Aggie (aggie@wealthy.ocean.fsu.edu) wrote:
: In article <C18otK.7p0@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>,
: jawalsh@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (John A. Walsh) wrote:
: > 
: > BTW, SuperClock 4.0.2 does NOT fix the conflict w/ Moire screensaver on
: > a B&W Mac (Classic II).  That is, when the screen saver kicks in, the
: > clock is still visable.  

: Why is it that SuperClock has to fix the conflict, and not Moire? 

: James

I'm with James...  Anyway, I'd just use Eclipse (from Andrew Welch).
It's cheap, it's small, and Welch writes cool stuff.
 
(In reality, I wouldn't use a screensaver at all; I have a duo)

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: mcdonald@cs.sfu.ca (Ken Mcdonald)
Subject: Question on Duo Dock graphic support
Organization: CSS, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 10:30:28 GMT


When fully configured with 1 Meg of video RAM, the Duo Dock has enough memory
to support up to 1024x768 pixels in 256 colours.  However, while I know that
it will support 800x600 pixels @16bits/pixel, I have been unable to determine
from Apple Documentation if there is any way of setting it to the higher
resolution, which would be entirely useful on (say) a NEC 4FG monitor.
Can anyone tell me if this is possible?

Please e-mail, as I do not regularly read this group.

Thanks in advance,
Ken McDonald
mcdonald@cs.sfu.ca
From: lhep_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Leonidas Hepis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: problems with files from apple and sumex
Date: 24 Jan 93 04:50:40 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

I recently downloaded files from ftp.apple.com and sumex.  I downloaded
them to a Unix account through ftp, and from there to my LCII through 
Kermit and Supra.

The file sc-018-stdfil* was decoded by Stuffit and extracted properly.
Other files like file-handling-qas.hqx and standard-file-tips.hqx
were decoded (by Stuffit) into .sit files which didn't have the appropriate
icon and would not be opened by Stuffit (even though Info says it is
a Stuffit 1.5.1 document and indeed doubleclicking on it opens the application
but does nothing with the archive).

The same thing happened with a few da's from sumex such as miniWRITER.

Anyone has any idea what I may be doing wrong?  Has anyone succesfully
downloaded those file-handling... files from ftp?

-leo

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the pants it hurts ALL THE WAY UP TO THE SPLEEN ?! When  |
that happens to me I see NO Intelligent Divine Designer! |lhep_ltd@uhura
I see chaos and stars and birds flying around my head :) |.cc.rochester.edu
From: wcaw@juliet.caltech.edu (Wilisch, Wolf C. A.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Superclock 4.0.2 crashes SE
Date: 24 Jan 93 05:50:00 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology
NNTP-Posting-Host: juliet.caltech.edu

Hi!
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

Having just installed version 4.0.2 of Superclock! to replace the supposedly
buggy 3.9, my old SE at home won't accept it (crashes during startup).  Has
any one else had that problem ?  As far as I can tell (after swapping inits
for a while), only SC! causes the crash.  

My setup:

SE 4/20
6.0.7
Disinfectant Init (2.9)
Gatekeeper 1.2.7 + Aid
After Dark 2.0v
CE Toolbox 1.6.5
MBarCompress 1.1
On Cue 1.3
PopChar 1.3
QuicKeys 2.1.2a
SCSIProbe 3.5

The message I get is that there has been a "system error" and that there
is  "insufficient memory".

Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks

Chris W.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: fisher@ncselxsi.uucp (Chuck Fisher)
Subject: Re: Comments on Dictionary/Thesaurus Combinations
Organization: National Computer Systems, San Jose, CA 95131
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:00:41 GMT

In article <8540@lib.tmc.edu> drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David Gutierrez) writes:
>In article <randal.727048445@dapp> randal@cs.UAlberta.CA (Randal Peters)  
>writes:
>> Anyone have information/experience with Dictionary/Thesaurus software
>> for the Mac? I am thinking of getting American Heritage Electronic
>> Dictionary. Anyone out there using this product? How do you like it?
>> Do you find it useful (i.e. do you use it on a regular basis)? I also
>> heard of a Webster version and another one called Big Thesaurus or
>> something like that.
>
>The American Heritage Electronic Dictionary is not 32-bit clean. My department
>chairman could only run it on his Quadra if he turned off 32-bit addressing.
>The tech support people said they knew about it but didn't know when it would
>be fixed.

The American Heritage Electronic Dictionary is *now* 32-bit clean.  I
received a mailing in December and ordered the new DA which is 32-bit
clean.  I'm running on a Mac IIci with 12MB and System 7.1.  Also
ordered their "College Edition" which comes on 11 diskettes and takes
up about 8MB for the dictionary file.  I have that stored on a SyQuest
cartridge and use it when the smaller dictionary just won't do.  :-)


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: sacg@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (giuseppe sacco)
Subject: (Q)Which Duo doc are there?
Keywords: Duo, duo doc
Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 13:12:16 GMT


Is there anybody that knows anything about 3rd parties Duo docs?
I only know about E-Machine, offering a minidoc. Are there any more already in the market or going to be marketed?
Any help will greatly apreciated, as I'm going to buy a Duo with a doc.

	Thank you very much
		Giuseppe
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: aslakson@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Brian Excarnate)
Subject: Re: Anybody know a good book?
Organization: :noitazinagrO
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 03:11:29 GMT

jmg@bach.udel.edu (Jason Mich Gottshall) writes:
>exciting System 7 features that I haven't even heard of. Can anybody
>suggest a good book(s) that I could find at the bookstore that might
>enlighten me on the secrets of the Mac, System 7, Res Edit, programming,
>and anything else fun and exciting that my machine is capable of? Thanks

There is one book that should come with every Mac, and that is The Macintosh
Bible.  I've owned 2 editions and *still* haven't owned a Mac.  Peachpit
Press, 4th edition just came out.

As far as books on the other things....

Go to a good bookstore and browse the Mac books.  Go to another bookstore and
browse the Mac books.  Find out what helps YOU and what tells you what YOU
want to know.


Brian
I'd recommend books but I'm not at home just now....

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From: cs000rjp@selway.umt.edu (Russell J. Pagenkopf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: HELP! How do I lock the name on my hard-drive :-)
Date: 23 Jan 93 10:09:26 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.system
Organization: University of Montana

I know I'm probably gonna get flames for this, but would some kind soul
please tell me how to lock the name of a hard-drive. YES!, I DO want to
lock the name of my hard-drive! ResEdit won't do it, and NO I didn't
follow the postings on how to unlock the name of a hard-drive.

Sorry. 

Please e-mail responses. I do read these groups, but probably nobody is
really gonna want to know how to do this so why pester em'? ;-) If you do
want to know mail me and I'll pass any info along.

-- 
Russ Pagenkopf		      GO GRIZ!		    cs000rjp@selway.umt.edu
School of Journalism				      cs__rjp@lewis.umt.edu 
University of Montana 	       (There's no way I speak for this university)
<There is no other wisdom, and no other hope for us but that we grow wise.>
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From: friedan@raunvis.hi.is (Daniel Friedan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Radius Math + MaxAppleZoom -> not enough memory
Date: 21 Jan 93 13:39:08 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Distribution: comp

I would like to use Radius Math 1.5 on my Mac IIx, running System 7.1.1
(with tuneup 1.1.1).  The machine has a MC68882 FPU and 8MB of RAM.

When I install Radius Math, MaxAppleZoom 1.43 fails to load with an
error message saying that there is not enough memory. This happens when
the only extensions or control panels are Tuneup 1.1.1, Radius Math and
MaxAppleZoom.

Radius Math is an extension so it loads first.  MaxAppleZoom is a
control panel so it loads after the extensions.  But a bomb box comes
up saying there is not enough memory to run MaxAppleZoom, and I have to
restart.

Without MaxAppleZoom, Radius Math works fine, even with about 20 other
extensions and control panels.

Radius Math seems to improve floating point performance. But I would
hate to give up MaxAppleZoom and go back to Apple's truncated monitor
screen.

Is there any system 7 parameter I could change to let Radius Math and
MaxAppleZoom coexist?

(Is this a message from Radius that, if I want a bigger screen, I should
buy one?)

Thanks for any advice,

Daniel Friedan <friedan@raunvis.hi.is>
From: slc@a2.cim.cdc.com (Steve Chesney x4662)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: XVT GUI Toolkit
Keywords: xvt
Date: 27 Jan 93 18:52:40 GMT
Reply-To: slc@a2.cim.cdc.com (Steve Chesney x4662)
Organization: Metaphase Technology Inc

We are considering the use of the XVT GUI portability toolkit for our next
application release.  Our current product uses X and Motif directly, but we
see a need to anticipate new platforms (like Macs).

I would appreciate responses (e-mail or followup postings) from those who
have worked with the toolkit.

How does it compare to working with X and Motif directly?

Is it reliable? Efficient? Supported well?

I would particularly like to hear from those who have extended it
(new widgets)or have intermixed native toolkit calls.

I will summarize for later posting.

Steve Chesney                                    slc@cim.cdc.com     
Metaphase Technology Inc.                        612-482-4662 (voice)
4201 North Lexington Avenue                      612-482-4001 (fax)
Arden Hills, MN  55126
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: kreme@nyx.cs.du.edu (Not A Random Name)
Subject: Re: Stylewriter vs DeskWriter???
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 05:53:25 GMT

Ravi Konchigeri <mongoose@leland.stanford.edu> writes:

>	I have a Deskwriter C connected to an SE/30, and I have to say that the
>greatest advantage to the HP is Background Printing.  Your productivity
>is increased tremendously through its use.  I've printed full page color
>documents from Photoshop.  They take less than a minute to spool to disk.
> After that the Print Monitor takes care of everything and doesn't take
>up much CPU time.  It's almost as if it were not running.

The Stylewriter prints in the background, no problem.  As a matter of fact,
it has far less problems with backgrounding that the HP500C, which took almost
three months to deliver a system 7 friendly backgroundable init.

>	Another advantage to the HP is the noise, or lack thereof.  Except for
>the sound of the motor, you can't hear a thing.  Your computer fan's
>probably louder than the HP.  The quiet is especially noticible if you're
>upgrading from something like an Imagewriter.

The only noise the stylewriter makes is the engine loading the paper... not
much really.

>	Also, the print quality is great.  HP printouts on good paper are almost
>indistinguishable from laser printouts.  Grayscale images are printed
>easily and are dithered beautifully.  Printouts at 'Normal' setting are
>just about as good as at 'Best.'

Um.. greyscale looks better on the HP, but the regular text looks a lot better
on the SW than on the HP, IMO.

>Besides all of this, I think the HP's cheaper than the SW anyway.

They're both about $325 aren't they?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: szikopou@superior.carleton.ca (Steven Zikopoulos)
Subject: superclock 401 and 402 problems
Summary: need info on bugs in superclock 402
Keywords: superclock crashes and bugs
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:54:48 GMT

I'm running a 4meg Plus under multifinder with 3 startup init/cdevs
1)SAM virus protection
2)Afterdark
3)Superclock

I had an old version of Superclock (3.3?) which worked fine

I foolishly trashed it when I upgraded Superclock to 4.01 and 4.02

I have the following problems with super 401 and 402
when I try to change the timer option if damages the finder and must
run disk first aid to fix

P.S. system is 6.0.8

Is the author out there?

Anyone have any suggestions?
steve zikopoulos
szikopou@ccs.carleton.ca
From: owen-christopher@yale.edu (Christopher Owen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: creating a bootable System 7 disk
Date: 25 Jan 1993 22:58:42 -0500
Organization: Yale Center for International and Area Studies
NNTP-Posting-Host: minerva.cis.yale.edu

In article <1993Jan25.141722.30758@Lehigh.EDU> lusol@Lehigh.EDU (Stephen O. Lidie) writes:
>Is it possible to create a bootable disk for system 7 on an 800K or 1.4 M
>floppy?  I tried copying the System file from install disk 1 and the Finder
>from install disk 3 and booting from that, but, amazingly, after the happy Mac
>face I get a divide by zero error from the Finder!!!

It can be done but you need to be creative.  What I did was take a copy of 
the system and just start deleting away things that are unimportant in it
with Resedit.  There is a installer script that will do this automatically
on sumex, but you can just hack it yourself if you need just an emergency
startup disk.  Take out the error strings, color icons, etc until you get
it down.  I have a disk that has the system, finder and even the file 
sharing/appleshare stuff on it (this is esential if you have a DuoDock
without a seperate hard drive).      

Of course this system may not be the best to run everything off of, but
it will serve your purpose of a emergency startup disk.

Chris


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From: bpb9204@tamsun.tamu.edu (Brent Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Is MacTutor still alive?
Date: 26 Jan 1993 13:37:30 -0600
Organization: Texas A&M Univ., Inc.
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: tamsun.tamu.edu
Summary: Yes, it's alive.  It's now called MacTech.

harrym@netcom.com (Harry Myhre) writes:
|kieran@world.std.com (Aaron L Dickey) writes:
|
|>Yes, MacTutor magazine is still in business, but they changed the
|>magazine's name...to what, exactly, I can't remember.  But I did just see
|
| last time I checked the newstand near my house, they had something that looks
|like MacTutor, but they've changed the title. It still *looks* like MacTutor
|on the outside.

The last issue I bought had the MacTutor name with a big X through it, and
"MacTech" was written above it.  MacTech is now the name of the magazine,
going back to their original intentions.

-Brent
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| bpb9204@tamsun.tamu.edu |  
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Organization: Senior, Physics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 10:59:02 -0500 
From: Greg Howard Rhodes <gr1c+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: NeXT sounds

Is there any way (not necessarily easy) to convert NeXT sounds to some
format that SoundEdit will read?

Greg Rhodes
gr1c@andrew.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: "Jeffrey Baron" <jbaron@kiwi.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Q: Omnipresent 'macro menus'?
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:02:03 -0500

Hi folks,

I'm using MacLayers (lovely program!) and I love everything about it except
for two things: it doesn't do Z-modem (C'est la vie) and it doesn't have
macros.  There are a lot of things that I do that require long text lines
and it gets annoying.

I wonder if there exists the following: an extension or cdev that puts an
omnipresent menu up which, on demand, spits out user defined macros?  If
there isn't, it seems to be a terrible oversight, considering how many
telecom packages (commercial or otherwise) don't have macros.

Thanks in advance,

Jeff
jbaron@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
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From: IO91748@MAINE.MAINE.EDU (Jon Carr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: GIF files to STartUp Screens
Date: 27 Jan 93 16:03:45 GMT
Organization: University of Maine System

In article <1993Jan26.214719.2994@sbcs.sunysb.edu>, wdennen@csws6.ic.sunysb.edu
(William Dennen) says:
>
>How do I make a GIF file into a startup screen or desktop background?
>
>I want to preserve the color, etc.
>
The best way I've seen to preserve a GIF file for use as a desktop
patern is to compress the GIF using Apple's QuickTime 1.5 technology.
Get PickPixie from ftp.apple.com and compress using the "CopactVideo"
routines.  PictPixie then lets you save the compressed image in PICT
format.  Unfortunately, you can't use an image compressed with QT
because when the image is loaded into memory at startup, QuickTime has
not yet been loaded.

There was a control panel called "ColorDesk" that let you use a PICT for
a desktop patern.  It would even strech an image if it was not 640x480
(or whatever your screen size was).  I'm not sure if it is available
via ftp or not.

    -----> Jon                                   Jon Carr
    -----> IO91748@MAINE.BITNET                  36 Forest Ave
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    How about those 24-0-2 Black Bears!!!  M-A-I-N-E GO BLUE!!!!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: lsr@taligent.com (Larry Rosenstein)
Subject: Re: Auto Power-up Stuff [A]
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Organization: Taligent, Inc.
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 02:22:32 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.102214.26024@slcs.slb.com>, brydon@asl.slb.com
(Harvey Brydon (918)250-4312) wrote:
> 
> is only available for North America power (120VAC/60Hz) and they have no plans
> to add functionality for other power systems (I work in an engineering center

When I bought my PowerKey (January 1992) the same company was demoing a
more expensive version that would work with other power systems.  It was a
much more expensive box because it supported independent control of each
outlet and had front panel switches for each.  I remember at the time that
they claimed it would work with non-US power systems.

Larry Rosenstein
Taligent, Inc.

lsr@taligent.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: scharf@lrs.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de (Ron Scharf)
Subject: Re: killing multifider without restarting
Organization: LRS
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:17:40 GMT

vladimir@Eng.Sun.COM (Vladimir Ivanovic) writes:

>I'm not sure if this is what the original poster wanted, but it is possible
>to 

>	. startup up another application under System 7.0
>	. kill the Finder using any one of a number of PD utilities
>	  (QuitFinder?) 

When in the Finder, press CMD-OPT-ESC simultaneously (works for any
application, BTW)

>	. restart the Finder

>The memory partition that Finder 7.0 (nee MultiFinder) sets up is still
>intact and different from that of Finder 6.x of course.

>-- Vladimir

Ron
From: tal691@huxley.anu.edu.au (Tonio Loewald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Sexist Pronouns
Date: 26 Jan 93 11:10:21 GMT
Organization: Australian National University
NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.2.12

jelmore@nyx.cs.du.edu (John Elmore) writes:

>Amen to _that_ sentiment. I'm a journalism major, and one of the regular
>discussions that pops up is non-sexist vs. gender-neutral language.
>(BTW, try using "letter carrier", "fire fighter", and "police officer".
>Work wonders.)

>The only time I've _ever_ seen these supposed gender-neutral pronouns in
>regular use is in a comic book (DOOM PATROL, and the character in question
>was a hermaphrodite.) That's it.

A bit of creativity doesn't help, but there are still quite a few glaring
problems, notably he/she, his/her, him/her. My solution -- unsatisfactory
but I think effective -- is to say he/she, him/her, or whatever it is,
exactly, I wish to say. Sure, it may grate compared to the age old
chesnut of disclaiming "he" as meaning "he or she but I just wanted
my prose to be sweeter." However many thousand years of entrenched
sexism and women earning 65c in the dollar or whatever probably grates
at least as much.

Then there's words like "actor" and "master". Does a woman "mistress"
the flute? I don't think so. Homey don't play that.

BTW -- isn't there a special place to debate this stuff somewhere?

Tonio

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 We're burning in hell!!!" (John Callahan)