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From: ppm@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Sticky Mouse Problem
Date: 22 Jul 92 14:15:57 +1200
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

In article <5022@transfer.stratus.com>, cdt@sw.stratus.com (C. D. Tavares) writes:
> In article <1992Jul14.074614.9290@ousrvr.oulu.fi>, juha@skynet.oulu.fi (Juha Pirttil{) writes:
>> Bruce Templeton, bizarre@leland.Stanford.EDU writes:
>> >I have been having problems with my mouse on my IIsi.  Often when I press the
>> >mouse button down and release, the application will act like the button is 
>> >still pressed.  The button does not physically stick down as far as I can tell,
>> >leaving me to think that it is a software problem.  This happens in all 
>> >applications and in the finder.
>> >
>> >Has anyone else experienced this?  Any idea whether it's hardware or
>> software?
>> >
>> 
>> I have the same problem in my IIfx.I am running the lastest possible system. 
>> I have a friend who has a Classic running 6.0.7 and he has the same problem. 
>> Because he has a different machine and system it must be a hardware problem 
>> in the mouse.
> 
> For a year, I used the mouse that came with my machine (one of the 
> terrible big-gray-ball mice) and NEVER had this problem.  Then I bought
> a replacement mouse because it tracked better, and I have this problem
> every ten minutes.  And I haven't changed any software.  Try switching
> your mouse with somebody else's, and see if your problem doesn't just
> go away.
> -- 

Well last night at home it happened to me (again).  This time I took a little
more notice of what actually happened.  I was scrolling in a dialog box in Word
4 and the *button* stuck down over the down arrow.  When I moved the pointer to
any other button on screen - nothing happened.  But when it was back over the
scroll down arrow, away it went again.
As soon as I hit the mouse button again, all was well.    For now;-)
I have a Classic II 4/40 with syst 7.01 tuneup 1.1.1. and the usual small aray
of boring extensions.  This also happens on my LC (7.0, 1.1.1, 6/50 etc.) at
work and it has a *different* type of mouse!
I say its software (but then I say all sorts of stupid things!)

Pete Moodie <ppm@waikato.ac.nz>         |  #Std. disclaimer
Undergrad Mac Support Person            |         and all of that
University of Waikato                   |               boring stuff.
New Zealand				|
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: ccyang@oregon.uoregon.edu (Chun-Ching Yang)
Subject: How to increase the download speed in Kermit by high speed modem
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Oregon
Date: 25 Jul 1992 19:13 PDT  

I just bought a 14,400 Modem. However, after trying to download the data from
the VAX in the university, I found the download speed from the mainframe to my
Mac was slow. The transfering speed was about 560 byts in each 	TWO seconds. If
the high speed modem worked fine, then the transfer speed should be about
1,440  in ONE second. (Is that right?)
I have check the VAX and the modem there is 14,400. I don't expect that the
speed can  reach 1440 in a second but the speed I got was so slow. How come?

Can anyone help me solve this problem?


							Yang
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Bad F-line instruction?
From: jlawrence@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Date: 21 Jul 92 10:02:32 EDT
 <1992Jul19.180509.23246@news.columbia.edu> <jeroen.711661581@groucho.phil.ruu.nl>
Organization: Wesleyan University

In article <jeroen.711661581@groucho.phil.ruu.nl>, jeroen@phil.ruu.nl (Jeroen Scheerder) writes:
> gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener) writes:
> 
>>In article <Brn7q0.MC@news.cso.uiuc.edu> ct54143@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Chris Trimble) writes:
>>>
>>>David - I have been using a Mac IIfx with the tuned up system 7 and it does
>>>this all the time.
> 
>>I've seen this "Bad F-line instruction" bomb on many macs over the past
>>few months, especially in the finder.  I saw it on an SE/30 the other
>>day whenever someone tried to format HD disks.
> 
>>I suspect it is a genuine system bug.
> 
> That might be the case. I've experienced the very same error on quite a
> few System 7 Macs recently. However, I have established a relation between
> the frequency of the "Bad F-Line instruction" (and, alternating with this,
> "Finder Address error") and the memory set aside for some 'daemonic'
> applications.
> I am under the distinct impression that increasing the memory for PrintMonitor
> increases the system's stability greatly. So does not having too much
> fileservers mounted.
> 
> Yet it would be nice to have the _real_ culprit pinned down. From the
> information I get with TMON Pro, the active app when crashing is almost
> always the Finder. But let's not jump to conclusions, please.
> 
> Just my $0.01.
> 


I may be getting in this a little late, but I am working on a project that uses
a multimedia program Authorware. The machine we use crashes ALL the time when
using it,(iisi, 7.0.1 tuned-up) and it happens mostly when doing file I/O. 
Just thought Id throw that in.  Maybe Authorware can do something about it (and
maybe a lot of other things that would make it MUCH nicer to work with,
too.:))

My $.02.

jamie
From: steve@im.mgt.ncu.edu.tw (Steve Chiu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: how to build NOVELL server desktop in System 7.0 ?
Date: 29 Jul 92 14:47:09 GMT
Organization: NCU IM
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1


    We usually build NOVELL server's desktop in system 6.0 with 
option-command key after choosing these network volume, but 
this does not work in system 7.0.
    I try to build desktop in system 6 and return to system 7, but 
lots of files losing icon, or with a bad icon. What can I solve
the problem ?

   ** before rebuild desktop, I first unload afp, then load afp cdt
    to delete desktop file, then rebuild it with mac

Steve Chiu, NCU IM, Taiwan, ROC
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: command key equivelents in buttons- How?
From: jlawrence@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Date: 29 Jul 92 14:18:09 EDT
Organization: Wesleyan University

How do you add command key equivelents to buttons?  I know how to do it for
menu items using resedit, and was wondering if there was a similar method for
doing stuff like command- . for cancel buttons that do not have it and
 command-  n  for no buttons, and so forth.  Is there a quick method through Resedit or
similar?  

Thanks,

Jamie
jlawrence@wesleyan,edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: sml@yarra-glen.aaii.oz.au (Steven Law)
Subject: Quark, Truetype, Horizontal Scaling and Stylewriter
Organization: Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 08:16:24 GMT

I've had some problems with the above combination:
(Stylewriter driver is version 7.2.2)

-0- Under System 7 on a Powerbook, horizontally scaled text displays
    text as normal width chars all jumbled. On System 6 machines it displays OK.

-0- When printing on a Stylewriter it takes over 20 minutes to print a
    page of A4 text. And people complain about 1 minute printing times!
    I believe this is because of using scaled text.

I don't have good access to the equipment so I haven't been able to experiment
with the setup. But I would like a solution to the printing problem as I'll
have to be using it again soon. So,

    If I don't use TT will that help?
    Does Adobe Type Manager overcome this problem?
    I might be able to use a Deskwriter instead. Does this exhibit the
    same problem?

Please, any help would be greatly appreciated. I could stop using horizontal
scaling, but I find it very usefull for fitting text blocks into a given
space. I believe Pagemaker 4.2 has this feature. Would it also have this
printing problem?

Thanks in advance,
Steve Law
From: Laurie Carlson <honoluluweek@igc.org>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Date: 23 Jul 92 21:54 PDT
Subject: Re: Sticky Mouse Problem
Nf-ID: #R:1992Jul12.063203.16701@leland.st:79920089:cdp:1364900034:000:106
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!honoluluweek    Jul 23 21:54:00 1992


just my two cents.. this has been happening a few times a week since I put
TuneUp 1.1.1 on my fx...

hmm.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: ahmeda@gtephx.UUCP (Aftab Ahmed)
Subject: Re: Installing Multiple Language Scripts
Organization: AG Communication Systems, Phoenix, Arizona
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 22:55:52 GMT

In article <k.vikor-280792201826@mac10.sms.uib.no>, k.vikor@alf.uib.no (Knut S. Vikor) writes:
> In article <1992Jul28.120953.7617@tdb.uu.se>, matsb@tdb.uu.se (Mats
> Bredell) wrote:
> > 
> > jenkinsj@blowfish.taligent.com (John H. Jenkins) writes:
> > 
> > .... Right now, I can move back and
> > : forth between English, Hebrew, and Chinese just by hitting command-space. 
> > : It's rather nice.  
> > 
> > How did you install the foreign scripts (why doesn't it work on my machine???)
> > 
> > I thought that dropping the script, the keyboard layout and the fonts into the
> > system file was enough. Oh yes, that little INIT that complains during startup
> > too ...
> > 
> > /Mats
> > -- 
> > Mats Bredell                                   Mats.Bredell@udac.uu.se
> > Uppsala University Computing Center (UDAC)
> > Department of medical systems                  Ph:  +46 18 187817
> > Sweden                                         Fax: +46 18 187825
>          Installing Arabic, I had to drop the various bits in twice before
> they "caught". You must also have all elements - I do not know about
> Chinese or Hebrew, but Arabic consists of two control panels, two
> extensions and a system addition (keyboard layout) + the fonts (at least
> al-Qahira, the Arabic System font). In order to see Arabic in the Finder,
> the Finder font must then be set to al-Qahira (in the View control panel).
> In such a "hybrid" system, menus will normally not appear in Arabic, only
> Latin script (the "default" script). 
> 


To get Arabic Script installed all you need is:

1) Arabic Extension (Al-Nizam-al-Arabi)
2) Arabic Script System
3) Arabic Keyboard
4) Arabic System Font (Al-Qahira ID-17920)

all other Control Panels and Extensions are optional.

One more thing I find out was that on my CD ROM the Arabic Extension was on two
different installation disks (Diskcopy files). One of them was bad and caused
the mac to beep on startup.  Replacing it with the good one fixed the problem.

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Aftab Ahmed (ahmeda@gtephx)                      | If your computer is not on, turn it
AG Communication Systems, Phoenix, Arizona       | on as you normally do. If you are 
UUCP: ...!{ncar!noao!asuvax | att}!gtephx!ahmeda | unsure how to turn it on, you may need
Internet: gtephx!ahmeda@asuvax.eas.asu.edu       | to see somebody more familiar with it.
From: chopper@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (OOI)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: comm-opt-esc
Date: 30 Jul 92 14:50:49 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London



as the title says,

command option escape does something unexpected.
A dialog box pops up on mine, and says

" Force Finder to Quit
  Force       Cancel
"
Probably goes through list alphabetically, in MF. Is this a standard 
command avail?


ps. dont reply to me direct if you don;t mind.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: kourakos@cardinal.ncsc.org (Alexander W. Kourakos)
Subject: Help! Need bootable floppy for Classic II!
Summary: How do you make a bootable system disk for a Mac Classic II?
Organization: North Carolina Supercomputing Center
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 01:11:09 GMT

   Hello MacFolk...

   A friend of mine with a Mac Classic II wants to make an "emergency"
floppy that he can boot from in case his hard drive malfunctions for some
reason.
   The system needs to fit on one 1.44M floppy with about 200K free space
for the disk utilities.
   We've tried system 6.0.7, but it doesn't work on a Classic II. Now,
before trying to locate a copy of 6.0.8 (which is supposed to work on a
Classic II, right?) is there any program or something that would make 6.0.7
work on Classic II, or is it possible to squeeze System 7 down? (We've tried
such wonderful things as chopping unneeded things out of the System file with
ResEdit...)
   If anybody has any ideas, I'd greatly appreciate them.

   please send replies to

   kourakos@ncsc.org

as I do not read this newsgroup.

   Thanks,

   Alex Kourakos
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From: dswartz@redondo.sw.stratus.com (Dan Swartzendruber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: HP LaserJet - can I use it with System 7?
Date: 30 Jul 92 17:19:37 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Software Engineering

In article <1992Jul29.155841.16443@cged.co.uk> johnr@cged.co.uk (John Richards) writes:
>I guess this is a dumb question, but can I use a LaserJet on a Mac running
>System 7? We use LaserWriters mostly, but now want to hook a HP LaserJet
>up. The output will be nearly all Microsoft Word output, so not much call
>for graphics. Please e-mail if you can help with advice on the best way to
>do this.

If you don't need Postscript, try PowerPrint from GDT Softworks.  They
include a serial to parallel cable and drivers for a whole lot of printers.
I happen to have a Laserjet IIIP and I've been using PowerPrint for a
couple of months now with no problems.

>-- 
>                                      John Richards


-- 

Dan S.
From: george@mech.seas.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Can MacX be run on SE/30?
Date: 31 Jul 92 19:55:08 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania, Mechanical Engineering


:
:Can MacX be run on a SE/30?  If yes, how much memory we need?


I regularly use macX on a macII ( 8Mb )
..however the 12inch monitor is way too small.  You will find
that x programing types have no consideration for people with
small monitors.




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From: simmons@duncan.utkcs2 (Paul T Simmons ( Doc ))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Scrolling through 6.07 Multifndr
Date: 24 Jul 92 14:46:38
Organization: My own private world :-)
NNTP-Posting-Host: duncan.cs.utk.edu


	I haven't seen any information on how to do this in a FAQ or I missed
some technical note somewhere.  Is there a way to change the scrolling
direction when clicking on the Multifinder (6.0.7 vers) icon.  I cannot (read
will not) switch to system 7 due to memory constraints and personal preference
so that is not an option.
	Thanks to all repliers...
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: nigel@socs.uts.edu.au (Nigel Pearson)
Subject: ResEdit ics# editor bug
Organization: Computing Sciences, Uni of Technology, Sydney.
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 02:30:32 GMT

	Has anyone else been unable to use the graphical editor for a small
icon (ics#) resource on a monochrome Mac? My copy of ResEdit complains about
needing Color QuickDraw to edit it. Aren't ICN# and ics# meant to BE b&w?

	Oh, yeah :-

		PowerBook 100 2/20
		System 7.0.1, TuneUp 1.1.1
		ResEdit 2.1.1

-- 
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   AARNet: nigel@socs.uts.edu.au       Talk: (Sydney) 330 1799, fax 330 1807
   Hardcopy: Nigel Pearson, SOCS, UTS, PO Box 123, BROADWAY, Australia, 2007
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: ejbehr@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Eric Behr)
Subject: Re: Sticky Mouse Problem
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 02:34:08 GMT
Reply-To: behr@math.ilstu.edu (Eric Behr)
Organization: Central Illinois Surfing Club

Just to add to the confusion: among our IIsi's, Classics, Pluses etc. weird
problems like that show up when air is humid. It makes me suspect that most
of the famous IIsi keyboard and mouse problems are more subtle than just a
batch of faulty switches and contacts -- they may simply be more
susceptible to environmental factors. I stopped believing in a IIsi design
error a month ago, when I saw a Mac Plus spontaneously type asterisks in
the file name in the Finder, and nothing but a sharp whack on the keyboard
would stop it.

-- 
Eric Behr, Illinois State University, Mathematics Department
behr@math.ilstu.edu   or   behr@ilstu.bitnet  (please avoid!)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: rrumpf@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Robert Rumpf)
Subject: Re: System 7: Flat icons?
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 03:04:46 GMT

I've solved the problem; the wrong version of system software was installed.  
This was due to my own stupidity in directly copying my PowerBook system  
folder onto a Mac II; I reinstalled the proper way and the system installed 
with full color, etc.

Bob
From: weissh@nextadm.cc.vt.edu (Hugh Weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Pathworks
Date: 22 Jul 92 14:00:09 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech Computing Center - Distributed Computing Group

In article <1992Jul22.005504.5135@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
duncan@loris.cisab.indiana.edu (Shan Duncan) writes:

> Does anyone know where I can find information on Pathworks?  If
> there is another group that would be more appropriate please let
> me know.

vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks might be able to provide you with 
more information than this group.

> I know there is more support for Novell but have not heard much about 
> Pathworks.

I've seen and used Pathworks for the Macintosh.  It works quite well and
has excellent documentation.  I'd be willing to answer (if I can) any 
specific questions you might have.

-Hugh Weiss
-Virginia Tech Computing Center - Distributed Computing Group
-weissh@vtcc1.cc.vt.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: short@microcom.com (Todd Short)
Subject: Re: Windows NT (Not a flame.)
Reply-To: short@microcom.com
Organization: Microcom, Inc.
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 14:20:46 GMT

In article 27200@risky.ecs.umass.edu, breck@spock.ecs.umass.edu (Liam Breck) writes:
>maynard@esther.msc.cornell.edu (Maynard J. Handley) writes:
>> [lots of interesting stuff about NT, Apple, OOP, etc...]
>
>Average consumers, academics and MISers don't buy operating systems,
>IMHO.  They look for a fast box and useable applications.  Noone but
>folks like us thinks about or even knows about the operating system.
>To the rest of the world, the OS is part of the box.  Hence, the OS
>must come with the box to be successful.  This is why MS has been
>working so hard with manufacturers to have Windows come installed on
>their boxes.  Still, folks I know have Windows that came with their
>machines, but they turn it off and start up plain vanilla WordPerfect
>or 123 to do their work.  To judge the success of Windows, OS/2, NT,
>and Mac OS, let's look at the number of apps sold for each of those
>systems last quarter (well, NT hasn't shipped yet).  I don't have
>references, but I'm willing to bet that Mac apps outsold all the
>others combined.  Anyone have details?  Refute or support me!

Considering the number of PC's vs. Macs, I'd say:

DOS app sales > Mac app sales;
DOS app sales > Windows app sales;
Windows app sales ~ Max app sales;
Mac app sales >> OS/2 app sales.

>No offense intended to anyone.  Please don't bother to flame, I won't
>respond.
>-- 
>Liam Breck     breck@zonker.ecs.umass.edu
(Liam you can also reach me at short@zonker.ecs.umass.edu, unless they erased by
 account...) 
---
-Todd Short
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: ai888@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thomas Flesher)
Subject: Re: Increase number of files open at once?
Reply-To: ai888@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thomas Flesher)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 20:36:23 GMT


In a previous article, milbouma@esvax.dnet.dupont.com () says:

>I have 8 Megs of RAM on a Mac II with system 6.05 and I'm often running
>into printing problems: error -42 (too many files open). Some programs
>just say "can't open printer". If I close some files, printing works
>again. However this is very annoying. Is there a way to increase the
>maximum number of files simultaneously open. I know that one can set the
>number of windows. But the number of files?

There's a utility called BootMan that will allow you to alter the maximum 
number of open files (and a few other values in the boot blocks as well).
From: sasaki@physics20 (Yutaka Sasaki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: KanjiTalk on LC
Date: 23 Jul 1992 23:57:59 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: physics20.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Jul22.203744.11045@polari> sparky@polari.online.com writes:
>I have been informed that the LC will not run any system below 6.0.7--
>thus, KanjiTalk 6.0.5 doesn't work.  (Amazing!)  Evidently, System 7.1,
>when it arrives, will have some great capabilities for multilingual
>users.6
>


Just get latest version of KanjiTalk (6.0.7 or 6.0.7.1).  It will let 
your LCs read and write Japanese!




Yutaka Sasaki
From: ccw@prefect.uucp (26554-wood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Current version of MacTCP?
Date: 29 Jul 92 20:56:40 GMT
Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ

Can someone tell me what version of MacTCP is current?  I am about to
install MacNFS, which came with version 1.1.  Will this work with System
7? 32bit addressing?  Thanks!

Chris Wood

Chris Wood     Bellcore     ...!bellcore!prefect!ccw
                         or ccw@prefect.cc.bellcore.com

Subject: Current version of MacTCP?
From: brnt@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: the TrueType Blues
Date: 22 Jul 92 07:55:07 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

	I own a Mac LC and a Personal LW LS laser printer (TrueType).  I also
do a lot of work with Music Prose.  My problem is that MP only comes with
screen fonts and type 1 Postscript fonts.  I recently had a truetype version of
those fonts made so I could avoid bitmapping.  This neccessitated removing the
resident screen fonts from the MP application so that it would use the
TrueType fonts installed in the system.
	HOWEVER, Music Prose will not run when the TrueType font is installed,
giving the error message "You have Petrucci (that the MP font) 71 point
installed on the system, Music Prose uses 24 point.  Please remove 71 point
from the system."  There is no 71 point font, so I assume that its referring to
the TrueType font.  I tried installing 24 point along with the TT font, but to
no avail.
	Does anyone have any ideas on how I can get this to work?  I'm running
7.0.1 with tuneups. 
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From: dminer@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Dan Miner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: init/cdev
Date: 25 Jul 92 18:51:26 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Rolla


	I am looking for a copy of Init/cdev for system 6
If anyone knows where I might find it or if anyone has a copy
they could send me I would appreciate it.

	Thank you
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 Dan Miner
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Computer Science          
University of Missouri-Rolla             "It all begins with a glimmer."
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