HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: mattd@apple.com (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: IR 2.0 available on ftp.apple.com
Date: 13 Apr 92 01:19:55 GMT
Organization: Developer Technical Support, Apple Computer, Inc.

In article <22826@goofy.Apple.COM>, I wrote:
> 
> IR 2.0 is now available on ftp.apple.com for downloading.  I don't object
> if someone breaks it up and posts it to comp.binaries.apple2, but it's about
> 343K and I didn't have the time to do so myself.  If you do, make sure you
> keep the whole package together; don't split it up.
> 

Less than 24 hours after I wrote this, at least one person (no one's being
singled out here, so don't send nastygrams to anyone) did exactly what the
above paragraph said _not_ to do:  unpack the archive from ftp.apple.com,
pull individual pieces out of it and reupload it.

DO NOT DO THIS.

As long as the archive stays together, it's DTS Sample Code and you can
redistribute it how you like as long as you don't resell it or modify it
in any way (just like Technical Notes).  If you split it up, you're now
distributing Apple copyrighted software without a license agreement.  This,
in case you hadn't guessed, is smiled upon by Apple's legal department in
the same way George Bush smiles upon Pat Buchanan.

DO NOT BREAK UP THE IR PACKAGE.  If people continue to do so, I'll have to
withdraw it from distribution and require an explicit license agreement to
protect Apple's copyright on it.  

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From: 2frjbits@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Preston J. Park)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Programming: NDA question (NOT sys6:)
Date: 10 Apr 92 22:31:46 CDT
Organization: Macrocosm BBS: 913-841-9446

In article <65096@apple.Apple.COM>, dlyons@Apple.COM (David A Lyons) writes:
> the front and in 5.0.4 never tells you about that click.  In 6.0, you
> can receive the click that brings you to the front, by setting a bit
> in your window's frame...qContent, I think it's called.)

Ohhh, so that's why my NDA was going to its click routines at the same time it
was activating.  I thought it was just one of those friendly type bugs, and I
guess it was.
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From: fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: AudioZap 1.2 still won't record
Date: 8 Apr 92 07:12:52 GMT
Reply-To: fadden@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

Well, I disabled my ZipGS and AUDIOZAP STILL WON'T RECORD OR ALLOW ME TO
MONITOR INPUT.

(sorry for yelling, just wanted to be heard over Ian's shouts)

I'm still getting nothing but whisper static in AudioZap, I can still record
with the software that comes with the card (with my Zip enabled, no less),
and I can still watch the oscilloscope dance to the beat of the music.

Now I see why Ian is starving. ;-)

System 6
  Pointless
  GSBug & other debugging goodies
  ProSel-16
AudioZap 1.2
4MB RAM on a CVTech board
105MB Quantum attached to a Rev D RamFAST
MDIdeas SuperSonic with digitizer add-on
InnerDrive controller (switched out of slot 6)
ZipGS 8MHz/16K (disabled during tests)
Grappler+ printer interface
5.25" drive daisy-chained to a 3.5" drive

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fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
[ Above opinions are mine, Amdahl has nothing to do with them, etc, etc. ]
From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David A Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: A2 Achivement Awards
Date: 9 Apr 92 09:18:40 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

In article <1992Apr4.050040.5514@news.iastate.edu> irsman@iastate.edu (Ian R Schmidt) writes:
>suck suck suck suck suck.  Hal Bouma had it completely right the first time,
>although I didn't realize how right he was until I saw GNO lose to GSBug
>before my eyes....

The category GSBug won in was "Outstanding developer aid."

I think it's relevant that the GNO folks *use* GSBug to aid in their
development.

I think GNO would fit better under "best utility" or "software of the
year," rather than "outstanding developer aid."  It was nominated for
a couple of those I think, and it was probably close.  (I don't know.)
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America Online: Dave Lyons                |   Cupertino, CA 95015-0875
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My opinions are my own, not Apple's.
From: sjordan@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Steve Jordan)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 23:35:44 GMT
Subject: Re: Help (getting files)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2

I transfer files from my Unix system at work to my IIGS at home all the time.
The best way of doing this seems to be Kermit.  Most Unix systems have Kermit,
but you'll need to get a GS modem communication program that does Kermit also.
(Proterm, shareware, etc.)  Then, simply login to your Unix system
over the modem & run kermit.  Type the command: send filename   & Kermit will
then wait for you to escape back to your local system to do a receive command.

If you don't have a GS program that does Kermit protocol, you can turn on the
copy buffer in most communication programs.  Then do a "cat filename".  As
Unix lists the file, it will go into the copy buffer.  (You may be limited to
fairly small files if your copy buffer isn't too big, though.)  After the
listing is done, you'll need to save the copy buffer to disk & then use an
editor to edit out the misc junk that got captured at the start & end of the
file.

There's actually quite a few protocols that can be used.  The key is to get the
same one on your Unix system as you have on your GS.  Kermit and ASCII are a
good bet.  I've also used your PC/DOS method.  My Unix system can write 
directly to MS-DOS disks.  I then plug them into my PC Transporter on my GS &
transfer the files to PRODOS (saving me hours of modem time!)
From: jguy@pro-finders.cts.com (Jerry Guy (sysop))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: RE: NEWS RELEASE: MDG INTRODUCES PROLINE 2.0
Date: 7 Apr 92 23:02:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: pro-find.d769689
Organization: [Pro-finders], Guy's Computer Services, New Bern, NC 919/638-5973

In <k4koiB4w164w@graphics.rent.com>
matthew@graphics.rent.com (Matthew McGehrin) writes:

>[ alot of stuff deleted ]  
>
>> Pricing
>>
>> ProLine 2.0, $259.95 ($50 upgrade)
> 
>I guess you do not want many new users in the proline community. Isnt 
>$260 alot for a bbs program? Alot of new authors will go the gnh- route, 
>since I woudlnt pay $260 for a software package. 


$260.00 is an awful lot to pay for a system and the $195.00 I paid for it 3
years ago was a lot then. I still remember writing out that check and saying
ouch! It is the most usefull software package I have ever seen! I have a 286
PC clone a Mac SE a Prime mini computer and they all don't provide near the
utility, expandibility, support, and fun that my //e running Proline does. 

Best software dollars I ever spent! and I've spent a lot over the years.. I'm
sure that others have had great luck with whatever BBS software they buy and
it would be interesting to compare notes and see who would recommend the
package they bought to others (and buy it themselves again). 

These comments are in my expert opinion.

Jerry
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
From: stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang)
Subject: Re: System 6.0
Reply-To: stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 08:48:33 GMT

In article <1992Apr15.074414.17810@utstat.uucp> philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough) writes:
>
>Nope it doesn't work. Odd. What if it were in 3200 colour format?

	The auxtype of DreamGrafix is set to $DB06, and it starts by
displaying a 3200 color title screen.

>Philip McDunnough

Steven Chiang                  Order - DreamGrafix:  The ONLY 16/256/3200
stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu       color paint program for the Apple IIGS.
America On_Line:  DWS Steve
Genie:  S.Chiang4              Apple IIGS Forever!
From: fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: True Type Fonts
Date: 17 Apr 92 18:27:40 GMT
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

In article <1992Apr16.224538.29876@ausom.oz.au> mle@ausom.oz.au (Michael Levine) writes:
>Having received many TT fonts from many sources, I am now faced with a
>dilemma - why so many of the same or similar type of different size?
>As an example I have
>Times 138 Blocks
>Times 514 Blocks
>Times B 135 Blocks (B probably for Bold)
>Times B I 139 Blocks (Bold Italic?)
>Times I 141 Blocks ( Italic?)

Well, you can probably throw out all but "Times".  The reason it's so huge
is that all of the other fonts are contained inside it - you can have several
different styles within the same file.

It looks like you have one file with the whole set, and then one each for
the sub-styles.  Let's see... 138+135+139+141 = 553; subtract a few blocks
for index blocks and misc junk, and you're almost dead on.

>Why are all the variations needed - don't all the GS programmes automatically
>take a plain vanilla Pointless TT Times font say 19 point and convert it to
>Bold Italic Outline etc, without a separate TT font of that kind?

Yes, but they won't look as good.  It's better to have a professional font
designer (what a strange occupation) go through and embolden or italicize
each font by hand than it is to have your //gs do the boldfacing and
italicizing automatically.  Pointless is smart enough to use a TrueType font
for a particular style if it exists; otherwise it asks the //gs to do it.

(Pointless is a fairly clever program.)

If you're really concerned about disk space, throw out all but the 138 block
Times font.  You should still be able to do everything you could before, but
it just won't look quite as good.  I'd suggest you try it both ways and see
if you can tell the difference in Bold Italic mode at, say, 45 points.

>__Michael Levine Apple IIgs PD Librarian for AUSOM - Apple Users Society__

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[ Above opinions are mine, Amdahl has nothing to do with them, etc, etc. ]
From: fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Testing huge pointless fonts
Date: 9 Apr 92 05:40:20 GMT
Reply-To: fadden@tde.uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

If you want to play with really huge Pointless fonts, try Teach.  It seems
to handle them much better than anything else I've seen.

-- 
fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
[ Above opinions are mine, Amdahl has nothing to do with them, etc, etc. ]
From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David A Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Is Prodos 8 2.0.1 faster than P8 1.9 ?
Date: 9 Apr 92 10:02:13 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

In article <1992Apr5.150926.13249@umiami.ir.miami.edu> jdeitch@umiami.ir.miami.edu writes:
>Has anyone noticed a speed difference between ProDOS 8 1.9 and 2.0.1 ?
>
>I swear 2.0.1 loads files faster than the old version and has faster
>disk access (3.5, Unidisk 3.5, and 5.25) all around than P8 1.9 ...

There were no changes specifically intended to make it way-faster, but
it's possible it happened by accident (I haven't done any timings):

P8 now uses 65C02 opcodes (STZ instead of LDA #0, STA, etc).  This was
to save *bytes*, but it has the side-effect of making it a *little*
faster.

Now, if making it a *little* faster means you often read a block on disk
right as it spins into position instead of trying to read it right after
it goes past (and then waiting for almost a whole revolution), it could
get considerably faster.

(Kind of like ProntoDOS or Diversi-DOS over vanilla DOS 3.3.)
-- 
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Apple II System Software Engineer         |   P.O. Box 875
America Online: Dave Lyons                |   Cupertino, CA 95015-0875
GEnie:DAVE.LYONS  CompuServe:72177,3233 Internet:dlyons@apple.com

My opinions are my own, not Apple's.
From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown Matt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Big question
Date: 6 Apr 92 17:47:20 GMT
Article-I.D.: darkstar.32160
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz; Open Access Computing


In article <wds6QxC00WB2APO6Fi@andrew.cmu.edu> gt0t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Gregory Ross Thompson) writes:
>  Here's the problem:  I'm getting MASSIVE data loss at 19.2K bps
>through my GS's serial port.  I never had any before installing ProDOS
        You _NEED_ a hardware handshaking cable.  If you have one, and it's
not working, I'm stumped...
        (Oh yes, you're using a CTS/RTS driver??)

        I'm at 9600 now, with a 38400 port connection.. I'm only connected
with MNP5 however, so the _actual_ maximum throughput is 'only' 19200.
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From: sec20750@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (BW)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: System 6 / Orca/M warning
Summary: my orca crashed
Keywords: crash
Date: 7 Apr 92 03:39:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: ux1.1992Apr7.033933.20053
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

Just a note to everyone, I had a very unsettling experience two days ago...

Using Orca/M shell and its editor, with a clean no init / no DA boot, brand
new system 6.0, the operating system decided to crash while editing a file.
Unfortunately it was a highly modified version of a bit of software I intended
on releasing next week, and this crash set me back about 4 weeks.  See, every
thing was ok, until I went to the save screen.  When saving the file back to
its original name, the error "PARAMETER OUT OF RANGE" appeared.  That was bad
news.  I knew I was in trouble, so I tried saving it to my other hard drive
partition (prodos).  I then got the message "INCOMPATIBLE FILE SYSTEM".  Way
bad news.  So I then tried to save it out to a 3.5" disk.  This was the
strangest one of all.  It would start writing, then make noises like it was
writing the same thing over and over, then eject the disk and leave the disk
light still on.  Extremely unsettling.  Pushing the disk back in made it 
repeat the same process (writing noises, then eject with light still on).
Needless to say my machine was locked up, all it said was "Writing...".. yeah
I wish.  My original file was reduced to one block of garbage (I couldn't find
the rest of it anywhere on my hard drive), and, well

I guess the moral of the story is save early and save often, you never know
when it's going to hit you hard.  Be wary.
later

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From: bj687@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Gregory Joseph Boehnlein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: NEWS RELEASE: MDG INTRODUCES PROLINE 2.0
Date: 7 Apr 92 20:57:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: usenet.1992Apr7.205752.28759
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)


Well, I wouldn't say "Proline is one of the best" because, that is a matter 
of your opinion.

Ever been in the METAL Shell? It completley smokes Proline...

But that is MY opinion...

P.S. - It's also about 175$ cheaper..
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From: gkomatsu@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Galen Tatsuo Komatsu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Don't forget to install...
Date: 12 Apr 92 10:42:19 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Apr12.104219.19412
Organization: University of Hawaii

In article <67qH02ldbdN700@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> fadden@xserver.uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden) writes:
>|> and I never found a bug-free version. At least its better than Dragon's Eye or  
>|> something lame like that... ;)
>
>Dragon's Eye.  Now THERE'S a classic game.  You'd basically run around until
>you got unlucky; then you died.  Looked kinda like a Swashbuckler wanna-be
>in the fighting sequence, only I think it came out before Swashbuckler.

>Still, seeing a huge dragon animated with fonts from a hires character
>generator was sorta neat.

	Dragon's Eye?  UGH! Utter Crust... though I did find myself
playing it for hours on end! =^)  dunno what it was, maybe the fight
sequences fascinated me, crude animation, but it did seem to work.

	Also played Odyssey for a while too, did fairly well I guess,
at least until I reached the dungeons (drawn in lo-res.)

	dunno if it was mentioned yet in this thread, but can someone
tell me what Beneath Apple Manor was (like)?  I heard of it, but never
did get to play it.  I guess it was "before my time..." =^)

	...here's another game to toss into the thread:

		SSI's "Galactic Gladiators"

	(have fun with that one!)

Galen Komatsu
gkomatsu@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu
From: kimba@gnh-cathouse.cts.com (Kim Brennan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: synthLAB problem
Date: 7 Apr 92 12:04:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: crash.m0lYEGt-0000KnC
Organization: The Internet
X-Unparsable-Date: Sun Apr 05 92 at 15:12:02 (EST)

> Same here, but I get alllll the way to a dialog box that says, "Memory
> is too fragmented to run synthLAB"
> I have 1280K altogether and 175K free when I launch it. What's up?


System 6.0 is larger than 5.04. You are running a bare minimum system. 
A bare minimum system allows you run the finder. Get more memory.
 
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From: tron@pro-nsdapple.cts.com (Jim Wadman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Apple II BL and my Apple III
Date: 13 Apr 92 02:40:42 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: ProLine [pro-nsdapple] - North San Diego Apple Users Group

Hello, 
     What the heck is a Apple II BL.  
  
                                    Jim W.
                                    (tron)

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From: unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu (The Unknown Matt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: EasyAccess question.. answered
Keywords: repeat? It went out earlier w/out distribution
Date: 6 Apr 92 18:17:59 GMT
Article-I.D.: darkstar.32175
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz; Open Access Computing


In article <1992Apr3.185412.16989@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
schwarts@cps3xx.cps.msu.edu (Steven Eric Schwartz) writes:
>What is the exact purpose of EasyAcess?

        It lets people with limited mobility type anything us 10 fingered
people can.

        That is, to type openapple-S to save a document, with Easy Access,
you can hit open-apple, let go of open apple, then hit S.. and it remembers..

        There's also the keyboard-mouse, where the numeric keypad can be used
as if it were a mouse.  On the ROM 3, I consider it usable _instead_ of a
real mouse.. (since you can turn the speed way up).. On the ROM 1, it doesn't
move fast enough that I use it instead of a real mouse..  But if someone
finds a way to patch it, I'd be happy.. (I would like it to go 10-20 pixels
each time I hit a key).

        there's probably more that I don't recall now..
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From: fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: ir2
Date: 11 Apr 92 19:42:55 GMT
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

In article <1992Apr11.085351.1320@cco.caltech.edu> toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) writes:
>NO, YOU CANNOT assume the file is okay. I have had problems un-GSHK'ing things
>from both HFS and prodos partitions to a ProDOS RAMdisk (.ramcard1, not /ram5)
>where NO ERRORS OCCURED IN GSHK. The only indication(s) I had that the files
>were bad was (a) they didn't work, and (b) they were smaller than the GSHK
>listing said the uncompressed size should be. This seems to be similar to the
>HFS writing problem (which appears to be caused in part by use of NewLine mode)
>that Derek is investigating.

Can you isolate this as any of the following:

    - a GS/ShrinkIt problem
    - an HFS FST problem
    - a system 6.0 problem

I guess what I SHOULD have said is, "if the file unpacks without errors,
then you can assume that the ARCHIVE is okay."  You'd have to do a CRC on
the on-disk file itself to verify that IT was okay.

Given the reports we've been having, I suggest people avoid using HFS
partitions for active use...  Use them to store programs and data, but
definitely do NOT use them to unpack stuff from GScii or GSHK.

>Todd Whitesel

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fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
[ Above opinions are mine, Amdahl has nothing to do with them, etc, etc. ]
From: platkus@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Shawn W Platkus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: SUPER CONVERT under System 6
Date: 17 Apr 92 03:26:47 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network


Does anyone know why SuperConvert 3.01 by Seven Hills Software no longer
shows any NDAs under the apple menu when running under System 6.0?


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From: bslog@pro-scat.cts.com (Bill Logsdon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Pointless problems
Date: 12 Apr 92 05:17:57 GMT
Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA


No idea at all.... what I would like ta know is...

Where can I obtain copies of all those truetype fonts for our new users
group?

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