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From: asunta@convex.csc.FI (Miika Asunta)
Subject: Icon drawing & other new routines?
Organization: Finnish Academic and Research Network Project - FUNET
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 16:03:31 GMT


Are the new Icon drawing (System 7 way) routines already included to
MPW - or are they available on Developer CD?

If so, when they are included to THINK C among all other new stuff?

I managed to create a ColorIcon.h file, by cutting+pasting+editing
from the Icon drawing tech note. Works fine, but the routines would
be easier to use if there were more detailed documentation, especially
about Icon Suites.

Miika

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Miika Asunta
asunta@convex.csc.fi			Double Bass Player
tel. +358-0-494 093			Macintosh Programmer
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
From: uh311aa@sun4.LRZ-Muenchen.DE (Martin Kerscher)
Subject: PPP for the mac
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 14:13:30 GMT

Is anybody developing a PPP LAP for MacTCP or 
is it already existing?
I'm willing to do beta testing.

martin
(uh311aa@sun7.lrz-muenchen.de)
From: tjhendry@mcs.drexel.edu (Jonathan Hendry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Fortran (cheap!)
Date: 23 Nov 92 20:20:44 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Drexel University

Is there a cheap fortran compiler for the mac? Or, even better,
(dare I say it?) a public domain one available via ftp?


Please reply via email.


Thanks!

jon


-- 
Jonathan W. Hendry
Drexel University College Of Information Studies
Anderson Financial Systems "Programmer-in-Exile" :)
hendryjw@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu (No NEXTMail :( )
From: cc4b+@andrew.cmu.edu (Christopher Brian Cox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: FAST fixed point math?
Date: 18 Nov 92 15:57:22 GMT
Organization: Senior, Physics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

(mail to cs.oberlin.edu bounced for 4 days, so I'll post this to the bboard)

response to  mhall@mark1.cs.oberlin.edu message:

If the samples are all -127..128 , then do the whole thing in integer math.
Also, with this small a range you could do the multiplies with look up tables.

preinit:
Q[i] = r*a*[-127..128]
R[i] = r*b*[-127..128]

in loop:
xTemp = Q[x] - R[y]
y = R[x] + Q[y]

Also, unroll the loops as much as possible  (if you are doing a fixed
number of iterations (ie:fft) then you can unroll it exactly.

Chris
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
From: zkessin@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Zach, the Lego Maniac)
Subject: Re: Think Reference - feedback wanted
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 02:37:44 GMT

rgoldstone@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU (Robin, Girl Wonder) writes:

>My sister is a product manager at Symantec and she is looking for feedback
feedback ok: :-)


          +-----/\/\/\/\----+
          |   |\            |
          |   | \           |
--\/\/\/--+---|- \          |
              |   \         |
              |    >--------+--- ~~~~
          +---|+  /
          |   |  /
          |   | /
          |   |/
          G

(i've been spending too much time in my electronics lab)

--Zach
   Zachary Kessin         /  Define the Universe, Give 3     
 ZKessin@cs.brandeis.edu /       examples.      
  (617)736-5848         /     Repeal Ohm's Law
From: stanger@otago.ac.nz (Nigel Stanger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: How do you make a master disk?
Date: 16 Nov 92 17:09:45 +1300
Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

petrus@stacken.kth.se (Lars Petrus) writes:
>   Some software products are sold on disks that can not be copied - or so
>I'm told. This means that you can have an installer program on that disk,
>and only allow a limited number of installations from that disk.
>
>   But I can not see any way that this can be accomplished. If you copy a disk
>you copy every byte of is, and thats that.

One thing I've heard of is that you copy your software onto a
floppy, then physically wipe out one of the sectors on the disk
(maybe zap the surface coating with a laser or something -- I
don't really know how it's done). The software looks at this
sector when it runs, and the cunning thing is that it _expects_
to get a read error at this point. No matter how you copy the
disk, the copy program or whatever won't be able to recreate that
bad sector, so when the software tries to read it that sector and
_succeeds_ it screams "PIRATE! PIRATE!" and explodes :)

The only way to get around this is to figure out where the
program reads the dead sector and patch it out.

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Nigel Stanger,                  Internet: stanger@otago.ac.nz
University of Otago,            Phone: +64 3 479-8179
Dunedin, NEW ZEALAND.           Fax:   +64 3 479-8311
Peggy Babcock. Peggy Babcock. Peggy Babcock.
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.programmer:18481 comp.sys.mac.hardware:21687
From: aep@world.std.com (Andrew E Page)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: LC II Motherboard Logic
Date: 16 Nov 92 16:07:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: world.BxtGru.53x
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA


Is there any difference in how the signals FC0, FC1, FC2, FC3 behave
on the LC II PDS slot, versus the LC?

-- 
Andrew E. Page   (Warrior Poet) |   Decision and Effort The Archer and Arrow
Mac Consultant                  |     The difference between what we are
Macintosh and DSP Technology    |           and what we want to be.
From: urritche@mcs.drexel.edu (Ralph Paul Ritchey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Time Manager Sample Code...
Date: 20 Nov 92 17:21:11 GMT
Organization: Drexel University

Netters:

	Does anyone know of any code floating around that I can get my
hands on that uses the Time Manager?  I've poked around but haven't turned
anything up yet....   Thanks in advance!

Ralph Ritchey
urritche@mcs.drexel.edu
	@king.mcs.drexel.edu
From: jafl@cco.caltech.edu (John Lindal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Macintosh Serial Port Question
Date: 23 Nov 1992 19:45:54 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: punisher.caltech.edu

I've developed some circuitry that talks with the Mac via the Serial Port,
and the circuitry is set up to use parity as a flag.  But when I
send the Mac some data with the wrong parity, I can't get the Serial
Manager to give the me data!  I only get a parity error.

(My circuitry gives me the byte regardless of parity errors)

Is there any way to get the Mac to give me the data it receives no matter
what the parity, and still have the send parity set to even or odd?

Thanks for any suggestions.  John Lindal

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
From: cfejm@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (John Miller)
Subject: Sound Manager Grainies: fixes?
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:29:50 GMT
Organization: Eastern Illinois University


Using the sampled sound synthesizer to play different frequencies, the
sound is often "grainy" with noise at the very beginning.  I seem to
remember some discussion about this some time ago, with some suggestions.
Can anyone suggest fixes?

Thanks in advance,

John

-- 
John Miller
Music Theory
Eastern Illinois University
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
From: rmartin@world.std.com (Rich A Martin)
Subject: seeking CDEF example source code
Summary: seeking CDEF example source code
Keywords: CDEF example source control
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 05:08:25 GMT

I'm relatively new at programming the Mac in Think C. Although I've managed
a few trivial applications, one thing which would boost my programming
skills is a good example of how to create my own control definition.
I'm working on some ideas for a modular synth (digital audio synthesis),
and among other things I need to design a keyboard control which sends
MIDI note-ons and note-offs. Can anyone refer me to some source code for
a CDEF?
                        -Rich Martin


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
From: mspace@netcom.com (Brian Hall)
Subject: Re: Developers: Do you test with Apple AUX??
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 23:24:12 GMT

chrism@col.hp.com (Chris Magnuson) writes:
>  If you develop programs for the Mac, there is one other operating system
>you should test with...Apple A/UX 3.0.

Apple maintains a testing lab in Cupertino that developers can reserve time in.
Also, at the last developer conference, there was an A/UX 3.0 test room - if
you tested your app with A/UX, you took home a trendy black A/UX t-shirt.

As far as I was able to determine in an hour, all the apps I have worked onin the last year work fine.  As long as you play by the rules, it does not seem
to be a problem.


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From: BLOOMDA@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu (_creative_output_)
Subject: Is this a BaseAddress problem with the Quadra .?.?.?.
Organization: Camp Vanderbilt Vision Research Center
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 23:26:53 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.21

Hi, Gals & Guys.

I do pseudo-instantaneous presentation of visual stimuli using
color table tricks.  I.E., I read a byte from video RAM, write
into only the high or low 4 bits, as desired, and then write
my byte back out.  Appropriately managing color tables, I can
paint an image of up to 16 colors invisibly while another image
of up to 16 colors is onscreen, then swap them in one VRT.

This technique broke when I tried it on a 24-bit card set to
8-bit mode.  That's when I learned about incorporating the slot
number of the video card into the base address:
     ( ( baseAddr >> 24 ) | something ) << 20 | baseAddr, or somesuch

One of my bosses has left town for another University.  He took his
third of my funding, and now I'm part-time here, so I'm incentivized
to keep supporting him through email.

He has a Quadra.

My code generates Bus Errors on his machine, during the loop which
accesses video RAM.  This is _similar_ to the errors generated by
my earlier failure to account for the slot number.

I have 'testing access' to a Quadra 700 here, but not 'development
access'.  That means I can go and bother someone in his office for
a moment to see if I got it right, and crash his machine many times.

I've gotten a hold of IM v6, the monster, and shall be perusing it
tonight.  It may hold a solution.  However, I'm moved to ask you
folks out there if anyone has a quick hint.  Anybody run into this
difference?

(s)he who helps shall receive a brief burst of good thoughts from
Music City, U.S.A. and a personal thank-you.  I'll check news and
mail at 2 a.m., so listen up hard for that burst of good karma...

- Dave	=(^;|=				Dave Bloom, JSPS
					bn: bloomda@vuctrvax
					in: bloomda@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu
"Mekka Lekka Hai, Lekka Heinie Ho"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: rss19@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Richard S Sucgang)
Subject: Re: Looking for PostScript -> PCL program...
Reply-To: rss19@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Richard S Sucgang)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 22:51:27 GMT

In article <20NOV199209374967@comb1.comb.umd.edu> jeffc@comb1.comb.umd.edu (Jeff Clowser; IRG) writes:
>In article <1992Nov20.034118.27433@merk.com>, sltheria@artsci.wustl.edu writes...
>> 
>>My question is: Is there a utility out there (to run on either a PC or my Mac)
>>that will take a PostScript file that I create and make it printable on his HP
>>LaserJet?

[significantly trimmed]

>
>I'm pretty sure all you're gonna need is the right cable and a driver.  I've
>seen Mac drivers for the Laserjet III on Applelink.  I contacted HP about 
>drivers for a Laserjet II - they don't support it (at least not for the Macs),
>but you can call them and they'll send you the driver for free or very cheap.
>Then you can just connect the printer for he price of the cable, and you're
>set.  I've never actually tried to connect a laserjet II, so I could be
>wrong.  I don't have HP's number handy - look in the manual, or I think it's
>in a file containing 800 numbers on sumex.  Email me back if you can't find it
>and I'll see if I can dig it up.
>
>===============================================================================
>Jeff Clowser		    			     "A keyboard... how quaint"


Jeff (and all others interested),

I don't think Seth wants to hook up the laserjet directly to
the SE/30. But those of you who want to, check out my review in
sumex: /info-mac/report/mac-laser-jet-up-rev-11.txt.

Also, quite definitely, HP does *not* provide drivers for the
LaserJet series II.

Cheers!

-rich
rs54@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu
From: bwilliam@oyster.smcm.edu (Bill Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Biorhythem Program?
Date: 17 Nov 92 18:18:13 GMT
Organization: St. Mary's College of Maryland
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d10
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X-XXDate: Tue, 17 Nov 92 19:22:23 GMT

In article <1drnu2INN1jp@aludra.usc.edu> Eduardo Franqui Jr.,
efranqui@aludra.usc.edu writes:
>Does anyone know where I can get a Biorhythem program for my Mac?  Or
perhaps
>some one who can program one if all else fails.  Thank-you.  Please
e-mail me
>directly.

It's no problem:  find a program that generates sine-waves with random
periods.
___________________________________
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.apps
From: truher@netcom.com (Joel Burke Truher)
Subject: ARA <--> X RPC ?
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 05:36:51 GMT

Is there a program which translates the Apple Remote Access
display server calls into X Window System equivalents?

It would be nice to dial my office from my Sun at home
(not the usual configuration, is it?).

Maybe some guru could educate me on why this is harder than
is seems to me to be . . . Is there more to the local
part of ARA than a display server?

Joel
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: strange@zk3.dec.com (Steve Strange)
Subject: Re: MS Word 5.1/5.0a update
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp.
Date: 20 Nov 92 15:32:58

In article <1992Nov20.133607.1040@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> nestor@hub.toronto.edu (John Nestor) writes:

   We're currently using Word 5.0a (i.e. Word 5.0 updated with the 5.0a
   patcher).  Is there an update available to bring our version up to
   Word 5.1?  I've heard about the 5.1a patcher, but this seems to require
   Word 5.1 to work on.

   Thanks in advance ...


You have to buy 5.1.  You can get it for around $20 if you're a
registered user of 5.0.  In fact, if you supplied your address on your
registration card for 5.0, MS will send you an upgrade coupon.  I got
one, and received 5.1 within two weeks of sending in the check....

	Steve
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From: kanefsky@halcyon.com (Steve Kanefsky)
Subject: Re: Norton Backup does eat Chicago
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 19:19:38 GMT

In article <mike_steiner-131192132315@192.35.50.131> mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner) writes:
>In article <10NOV199219055353@jetson.uh.edu>, hcls7@jetson.uh.edu (Marino,
>Nancy F.) wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 	The Norton Backup only appends changes made in files. In no time, you
>> can accumulate scads of back-up disks. Since I like Norton Utilities in
>> general, I have decided to get around this problem by making a complete, fresh
>> back-up each time. This is, of course, time-consuming, and may not be
>> desireable if you have a lot to back up.
>> 	Maybe Nprton will improve this in a future version.
>
>Almost every backup program handles incremental backups this way.  The
>reason is that if something happens during the backup, the previous
>versions are left untouched.

That's not the main reason.  It's fairly simple to verify a new copy of the  
file before deleting the old copy (and, of course, the original is still 
there to copy again if necessary).  The reason the old copies aren't
deleted is simply so you can go back to them.  In other words, backups are
often used as archives.  It's nice to know that you can free up some space   
on your hard drive by deleting some files and have the ability to recover 
those files from the backup if necessary.  With an image backup, the files
you deleted will be deleted from the backup the next time you do one, so  
you can actually *lose* data by doing a backup. Also, if a file has been
corrupted prior to the most recent backup, the corrupted file will replace the
good one in an image backup, and you won't be able to recover it.  The 
only solution with an image backup is to maintain multiple backup sets, 
but you'd have to do a full backup every time, without ever re-using any
disks, to ensure that you can recover any version of any file.

Of course, with any type of backup, one should do a full backup on a new
set of disks from time to time, to provide some redundancy in case the
backup itself becomes corrupted.
  
--
Steve Kanefsky
From: Bruce.Giuriceo@p4.f204.n2603.z1.ieee.org (Bruce Giuriceo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Redux Reviews Please
Date: 17 Nov 92 14:56:35 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:2603/204.4 - Not Even Odd, Forest Hills NY

To: iscjcw@uccvma.ucop.edu (Jerry Wilcox)

  > I'm looking for a backup program, to automate back-ups over ethernet to
  > a unix machine.  Redux is a relatively inexpensive program.  Is it up to
  > the task? w/thanks Adam Richman (arichman@shiva.psu.edu)
  > 
  iu> I don't think so. Redux is designed to backup onto floppies or Syquest
  iu> cartridges attached to the Mac itself. It has no network connectivity,
  iu> as far as I know (I use it on my personal system, which is not
  iu> networked)
  
Redux will back up networked Macs with no problem...turn on file sharing. The
only restrictriction of the speed of the network. BTW, I do it all the time
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From: pjhst10+@pitt.edu (Peter   J Hill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Reading Text Files
Date: 17 Nov 92 14:15:13 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

An easy way to read text files when you do not know what the creator is
(without fooling with resEDIT is to open the file in WORD.  It should be
fairly easy to find someone who will let you use their copy if you do not
have it.  (I said use, not pirate)  Open Word and hold down the shift key
while you pull down the FILE menu.  OPEN will change to OPEN ANY FILE.  
Now you can open any file that has a data fork (LIKE A TEXT FILE)

This should work for any text file that you down load.  Good luck.
BTW  try checking out the system file using this procedure, you might
find it interesting


pjhst10+@pitt.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: M.Steven@uws.edu.au (Mike Steven)
Subject: Re: Apple Menu Item from Hell: Solved!
Organization: University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 04:19:16 GMT

In article <1992Nov16.034857.12845@uws.EDU.AU>, M.Steven@uws.edu.au (Mike Steven) writes:
> 
> We've had the Folder from Hell, but what about this.....I have upgraded from
> SUM II to Norton Utilities. I used the Sum Partition utility and now use the
> Norton partition feature. Problem is, I cannot delete the Sum Partition item
> from the Apple Menu.

Problem solved. I found the offending DA in the System File, a relic from
System 6 days. I was unaware that utilities such as Fast Find are unable to
locate files/docs etc within the System File itself.

Thanks to those who responded

Mike
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: nilesinc@well.sf.ca.us (Avi Rappoport)
Subject: Re: MacInTax 92 Woes
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:00:42 GMT


Another MacInTax problem is that they do something weird with the Geneva
TrueType font.  Apparently they used to do it with the bitmap versions, but
the TrueType versions cause other programs (like mine, EndNote) to crash
horribly.  It wasn't clear what the fix was, besides removing their Geneva
and reinstalling the system font.

I know folk who _used_ to work at SoftView, and can say that the management
at ChipSoft has made many people unhappy.  Their attitude is not very
much oriented towards quality programs and happy users.  Sigh.
-- 
--  Help me justify my online bills: ask me about EndNote!               --
Avi Rappoport                               2000 Hearst, Berkeley, CA 94709
nilesinc@well.sf.ca.us,                                        510-649-8176
Niles.Assoc on AppleLink    		    	          fax: 510-649-8179
From: jim@bilpin.co.uk (JimG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Reading Text Files
Date: 19 Nov 92 12:08:49 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: SRL Data


    IN ARTICLE <9770@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>, 
		pjhst10+@pitt.edu (Peter   J Hill) WRITES:
> An easy way to read text files when you do not know what the creator is
> (without fooling with resEDIT is to open the file in WORD.  [...]

    ... and an easy way to crack a nut is to take one sledgehammer ... :-)

    Apart from the obvious choice of TeachText (although its 32k,
    one-file-at-a-time limits are rather a bind), I would suggest that a
    better option would be the excellent Freeware text editor BBEdit.
    Shareware programs McSink and EditII would do just as well, and there
    are numerous others around, all a lot cheaper than Word (which means you
    could probably afford to buy one yourself, rather than borrowing someone
    else's copy of Word, as PJH suggests, which doesn't sound particularly
    convenient to me). I use Vantage myself (the commercial version of
    McSink) - considerably cheaper and quicker than Word. 

    Remember, the creator is fairly irrelevant; the only restriction that
    imposes is that you can't double-click on the document to open it
    (although there are utilities which will allow you to get around that by
    defining alternative applications for specified types); if you don't
    have the creating application all that means is that you use the
    editor's Open File dialogue to open the file - it doesn't prevent you
    opening it.
-- 
    Another Fine Product from <jim@bilpin.co.uk> {JimG : Hatfield, England}
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