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From: Alessio Guglielmi <guglielm@di.unipi.it>
Subject: Hard disk: how to change its name and its icon: solution
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A7600705650104BE@lt3-15.di.unipi.it>
X-Xxdate: Fri, 25 Dec 92 23: 32:05 GMT
Organization: Dipartimento di Informatica - Pisa - Italia
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d16
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 23:05:49 GMT

Changing name and icon to the hard disk should normally be very easy: to
change the name click the name and then rewrite it. To change the icon do
cut and paste in the info window of the disk.
But there's a bug in system 7, and these operations become impossible
when a folder is shared with system 6 cpus, even when file sharing is
turned off.
To solve the problem simply run UnlockFolder, a small utility you can
find in ftp.apple.com, directory /dts/mac/hacks (thanks to Roland
Hubscher for the pointer).
Thank you all for your interest,

                                                   Alessio               
                                                                         
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    /   /  /      /      /      /      /  /   / guglielm@ipisnsib.bitnet 
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From: owhadi@sirocco.rice.edu (Eric Owhadi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Wanted: a good mail order company to purchase a Xceed Color30
Date: 28 Dec 92 17:33:51 GMT
Organization: Rice University


Hi all,

does anyone know a good mail order company.
I am going to buy a Micron Xceed Color30 and would like to have the cheapest price.

Houston, Tx.
Eric.

owhadi@geophysics.rice.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: ctrbdo@iapa.uucp%mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu (bryan d oakley)
Subject: mcvert, binhex, file forks tutorial
Organization: FAA / Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 15:32:32 GMT

A brief tutorial for a new mac owner, please:

I am a proud papa of a bouncing baby performa 600CD, and have in
anticipation been grabbing software from the net.  These files are
typically in .hqx format.  I read that the program mcvert can run on
my sun (and indeed, it does) to convert .hqx files to MacBinary
format.  The man page reads mentions data and resource forks, and data
and rsrc files.  Ok, here's the question:

If I take my .hqx file(s) and convert to MacBinary and somehow manage
to get these files to my mac, are they ready to go or do the
MacBinary files require yet another round of translation to become
executables?  And, what's the deal with the forks?  Just what is a
fork, and what is it doing in my files...

Here's what I observed when I ran mcvert on umoria (after all, I was
raised on rogue, so moria seemed like a good first choice... :-)

    % mcvert umoria-55.hqx
    Converting     Moria_1.0.cpt      type = "PACT", author = "CPCT"
	    Created  Tue Dec 29 09:21:23 1992
            Modified Tue Dec 29 09:21:23 1992

    -- and sure enough --

    % ls -l Moria*
    -rw-rw----  1 ctrbdo     330240 Dec 29 09:21 Moria_1.0.cpt.bin

So now what do I do?

If all of this is in a FAQ somewhere, just point me in the right
direction.   Many thanks.
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From: schriejh@cnsvax.uwec.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Madness-Rage
Date: 25 Dec 92 23:55:35 -0600
Summary: shareware program
Reply-To: schriejh@cnsvax.uwec.edu
Organization: University of Wisconsin Eau Claire

	I have a quick question about a shareware program called Madness -
RAGE 1.0.3.  The program allows you to "shoot" your Macintosh with different
types of guns.  It is one of those "fun" things you can do with your Mac.
I installed the program on my Mac LC running System 7.0.1.  The program worked
just as the instructions said it would. The problem with the program I 
discovered is when I go to shut the computer down, I do not get the shutdown
dialog box rather the screen goes completely blank with just the pointer of
the mouse showing.  I am able to move the pointer around and shut the computer
down with no damage.  I would prefer to have the dialog box back
on the shutdown routine!  Is there anyone else who has given this program a
try and run across the same problem??  Any suggestions would be great.

					John

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: freek@phil.ruu.nl (Freek Wiedijk)
Subject: Speedometer ratings for the current Macs
Organization: Department of Philosophy, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 14:45:46 GMT

Help!

Can someone help me complete my list of speedometer specs.

I'm trying to compile a list of speedometer 3.1 "P.R. Ratings" for
vanilla machines (the way they come in the box from Apple with no
strange extensions) running system 7.1, rounded to the nearest
integer.

Thus far I have: (correct me if I'm wrong!)

    Classic                         1
    LC                              3
    Performa 200 = Classic II       4
    Performa 400 = LC II            4
    Performa 600                    ?
    IIsi                            4
    IIci                            6
    IIvi                            ?
    IIvx                            ?
    Powerbook 100                   2
    Powerbook 145                   ?
    Powerbook 160                   6
    Powerbook 180                   ?
    Powerbook Duo 210               ?
    Powerbook Duo 230               ?
    Quadra 700                     23
    Quadra 950                      ?

It seems I have ratings for more than half of my list.

Freek
--
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system
From: phaedrus@halcyon.com (Mark Phaedrus)
Subject: Re: disabling extensions
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 03:56:58 GMT

In article <1992Dec29.022650.14169@eng.umd.edu> russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:
>In article <1992Dec23.141811.11598@tdb.uu.se> Mats.Bredell@udac.uu.se writes:
>>Noam G. Nudelman (P88038@BARILVM.BITNET) wrote:
>
>>As far as I know, it's (almost) impossible. Apple has made it with the
>>Tune-Up by adding a driver that loads the INIT somehow, but it's tricky.
>
>Not at all.  It's brute force-- Apple put the TuneUp INIT directly
>into the system file.

     Nope.  When you disable System 7's extension loading by holding down the
Shift key at power-up/restart time, System 7 stops looking for extensions of
the "conventional" file types: INIT, cdev, etc.  The System 7 Tuner isn't
of any of these types; it's of type "scri", creator "toon".  System 7 will
check for and load this type/creator combination even when extension loading
is disabled.  (I'm told that attempting to beat the system by making your own
extension type "scri" and creator "toon" causes Dire Things to Happen, but I've
never tried it myself so I can't comment.)
     Instead of trying to make your extension load even with extensions
disabled, there's a much easier solution to the problem; prevent extensions 
from being disabled in the first place.  Open up your System file (or, if
you're safety-conscious, a copy thereof) with ResEdit; there should be a single
resource of type "dbex".  If you remove this resource from the System file (by
selecting it and choosing "Cut", then saving your changes), it disables 
System 7's extension-disabling mechanism.  Now the only way users can boot
without extensions is to boot from another disk or re-modify the System file.
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From: jdsiegel@garnet.berkeley.edu (Joel Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: printers
Date: 24 Dec 1992 04:02:03 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.berkeley.edu

I tried to email this, but it bounced, so here it is as a post.


In article <1haf2eINNf37@transfer.stratus.com> Allen Goldberg <agoldber@sneezy.stratus.com> writes:
>
>Does anybody have any recommendations for a low-cost printer. I'd be 
>interested in a $3-400 printer for home use (not heavy use) but would
>like decent quality (close to laser printer if possible).
 
I've heard nothing but good about the HP DeskWriter.  Runs about
$290-400 street; and there's a $50 HP rebate that runs through 31
Jan. 1993.  Check it out.


-- 
Joel Siegel <jdsiegel@garnet.berkeley.edu    jdsiegel@ocf.berkeley.edu>
"Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in
affairs which properly concern them."  - Paul Valery
From: ChazL@county.lmt.mn.org (Chaz Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: OK to pass diskette through airport X-ray?
Date: 30 Dec 92 23:38:35 GMT
Reply-To: ChazL@county.lmt.mn.org (Chaz Larson)
Organization: LaserMaster Corporation

In article <1992Dec23.083627.2716@tdb.uu.se>, bredell@tdb.uu.se (Mats 
Bredell) writes:
> However, some x-ray machines have other bad things, like large motors that
> produce magnetic fields. I suggest that you ask the personell working there
                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> if it's okay. If they say it's okay, you can put them through. Some won't
> let you do otherwise.

Given that every airport security person I've shown any piece of computer 
gear to has been unable to identify it is without my telling him/her [on 
being shown my SE/30, "Is that a computer?"  No, it's a really old Sony 
Watchman.], I don't know if I'd trust their judgement as to whether or not 
that big machine there emits dangerous [to media] magnetic fields...most of 
the time, I'd be surprised if they knew what a magnetic field was.

OK, so I'm hyperbolizing.  Honestly, I don't think the average airport 
security guard will know much at all about the innards of that x-ray machine.  

chaz

..must think...bubble pipe will relax me and I think...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: Alessio Guglielmi <guglielm@di.unipi.it>
Subject: Hard disk: how to change its icon
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A75E6C23210204BE@lt3-15.di.unipi.it>
X-Xxdate: Wed, 23 Dec 92 18: 18:59 GMT
Organization: Dipartimento di Informatica - Pisa - Italia
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d16
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 17:52:40 GMT

Can someone teach me how to change my hard disk icon?
Please, reply directly to me, and i'll repost a summary.
Thank you in advance,
                                                   Alessio               
                                                                         
     ___ /  /      ____/  ____/  ____/  /  ___ / guglielm@di.unipi.it 
    /   /  /      /      /      /      /  /   / guglielm@ipisnsib.bitnet 
   ___ /  /      __/   ____ / ____ /  /  /   / guglielmi@vaxsns.infn.it   
  /   /  /      /          /      /  /  /   / guglielmi@vaxsns.sns.it     
_/  _/ _____/ _____/ _____/ _____/ _/ _____/ guglielm@ipisnsib.sns.it
From: schulte@klin.far.ruu.nl (Bas Schulte, Spider)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: (Q) MacDraw to DXF
Date: 3 Jan 1993 13:55:15 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

Hi there,

I need to convert some MacDraw II/Pro files to .dxf format. Is there 
something that can do this conversion? I've heard about Claris CAD 
Translator, but nobody over here can tell me what it does. Replies by 
mail are preferred (Gopher-only access to News is a pain...).

Best regards,

Bas A. Schulte
schulte@klin.far.ruu.nl
From: roxannen@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Mass Microsystems FAX/modem
Keywords: mass microsystems FAX/modem help
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 23:42:14 PST
Reply-To: roxannen@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us


I am posting for a friend.  He received a Mass Microsystems FAX/modem
24/96 for Christmas.  It is small, compact, and has an owner's manual
that is practically worthless.  It periodically shows a green LED
and functions - maybe 1 out of 50 tries.  Most of the time it hums,
does *not* show a green LED light, and gives the startup screen
problems and/or sad mac faces with error codes.

Does anybody have any clues what is wrong?  We have checked all
connections and software and what little the manual has told us to
no avail.  Any ideas/comments/suggestions opinions on this company's
product would be helpful.

Thanks in advance,

-Rox
-- 
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"'If I could work my will,' said Scrooge indignantly, 'Every idiot who went
about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips should be boiled with his own
pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.'"

		-Ebeneezer Scrooge (Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol)
From: tim@polycarp (Tim McLarnan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: St. Petersburg
Date: 23 Dec 92 17:35:41 GMT
Distribution: world

This is hard-core Mac trivia, but have people noticed that between
System 7.0.1 and System 7.1, Leningrad diasppeared off the Map, and
St. Petersburg replaced it?

A little something to celebrate.

Tim


-- 
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Dept. of Mathematics, Earlham College, Richmond, IN 47374
From: g-man@phsbbs.princeton.nj.us (Greg Sachs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Apple SOS Service is AMAZING!
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 13:49:17 EST
Organization: Princeton High School, Princeton, New Jersey

leonardr@netcom.com (Leonard Rosenthol) writes:

> I don't normally write this type of article, but I had such a WONDERFUL
> experience this week, I wanted to share it.
> 
> My Powerbook 140's trackball has been giving me trouble for a while, and last
> weekend it finally gave out and would only move horizontally (not a good
> thing ;).  
> 
> Monday morning I called 1-800-SOS-APPL (after being told by all the local
> dealers that they couldn't do it in less tha a couple of weeks), talked with
> a nice rep who took down all of my information and said he'd send out the 
> box for shipping and that the'd have it back on the 28th (not great but bette
> than the dealers).  So the box arrives on Tuesday, and I send it right back
> out via Airbourne Express (all the forms come predone at Apple's expense).
> 
> This morning (Thursday), my Powerbook returned to me FULLY REPAIRED!!!
> 
> Talk about service, they turned the machine around the SAME DAY they recieved
> it, so I was only without my PB for 2 days (airbourne time).
> 
> It's about time someone (Apple, thankfully) did something like this in the
> computer (or any other) industry.  
> 
> Leonard Rosenthol
> P.S. I did this as an "end user", I received no special developer privledges
> and never even identified myself as one.
> 
> -- 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Leonard Rosenthol			Internet: 	leonardr@netcom.com
> Director of Advanced Technology		AppleLink:	MACgician
> Aladdin Systems, Inc.			GEnie:		MACgician

Ditto that.  We recently sent our pb 100 back for the third time with a 
hd problem on a thursday, got it back on monday with a new hd and a free 
battery for our trouble, as well as a 6 month warrantee extension.  Apple 
is doning great!
g-man

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From: peterm@dna.lth.se (Peter Moller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Desperately looking for "Biffo" TT-font...
Date: 1 Jan 93 22:53:22 GMT
Organization: Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden

Hi there! I'm looking for a TrueType-font called "Biffo MT" that was
floating around a couple of months ago. I'm (almost) sure it was on
sumex, but isn't there now. 

I'd really apprechiate a binhqx'ed file via email or an IP# to go to
to find the font. I would also apprechiate a hint on where to find 
lots of free TT-fonts!


Thanx

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system
From: streater@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Tim Streater)
Subject: Re: **IMPORTANT** System 7.1 Installer bug
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 05:53:11 GMT

In article <1i30t8INNlju@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bk146@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Todd Sternisha) writes:
>
>If you'd spent as much time thinking about the problem as you did trying
>to prove that you're "right," you'd realize that the Apple rep answered
>your question. Apple recommends booting from the Install disk. Not
>booting from this disk produces this "bug." Sounds like pilot error to
>me...
> 
I tried booting from the "Install" disk, my IIsi crashed. It did this twice.
The first time it expired before it could tell me who had shot it, but the
second time it did manage to put up an empty bomb window. I looked at the disk,
there is a system on it (also installer and script) but nothing else (no system
folder or finder). Is such a configuration able to boot, and if so, how? In the
end I booted from the hard disk again, but with extensions off, and then did
the install by double-clicking the installer. Seems to have worked fine except
for the fonts issue.

A friend of mine did his upgrade the same way as I did the other day, except
he did not restart his machine, so all extensions were running. His install
hung very near the end, when the installer was copying apple menu items. We
had to reboot using the Disk Tools disk, and do a *lot* of tidying up. The
install was in a serious mess at that point. Only our knowledge of what things
are supposed to look like got us going again.
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.misc:21126 comp.sys.mac.system:15561 comp.sys.novell:10875 bit.listserv.novell:19738
From: geoffb@coos.dartmouth.edu (Geoff Bronner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.novell,bit.listserv.novell
Subject: Re: *** WARNING *** Novell + QuickTime = Disaster
Date: 28 Dec 92 13:51:24 GMT
Reply-To: geoffb@Dartmouth.EDU
Organization: Amos Tuck School
Disclaimer: I don't represent Dartmouth and Dartmouth doesn't represent me.

In <1992Dec23.192837.16797@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> I WROTE:

>I can repeat the problem you describe in WordPerfect 2.1.2
>but when I do the same thing with Word 5.1a I can re-establish the QT link
>to the copy of the movie on the server without any problems. 

After further discussion with Nigel I have concluded that I was using a
'comtaminated' QT movie in my first comparison of Word and WordPerfect. By
contaminated I mean that the file must have been copied on and off of a
Novell server some time since I downloaded it. 

I have repeated the experiment with two movies chosen at random from sumex
and Word and WordPerfect both behave in exactly the same manner (that is,
they both choke on the movie if it is shifted to a Novell volume).

So I retract my previous comments about Word. My faith in WordPerfect is
restored.

But it is easy enough to work around this so I'm not so sure that Novell
needs to give this too much concern.

Apologetically,

-Geoff
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   left out of, in my opinion, platforms and conventions."
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Distribution: world
From: David_B._Hauer@bmug.org
Organization: BMUG, Inc.
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 21:30:38 PST
Subject: Re: Low formatting...

> I have an SCSI
>hard drive (perfectly working on other type of machines) but
>refusing to work on a Mac. May be it is due to a low format 
>problem.

>Does anyone of you is using the Seagate ST1480N? Does it need >any
>driver to work with a Mac? What is the jumper setting to use >it as
>an internal drive? As an external drive?

There are certainly people reading this who know more about the subject than I
do, but my understanding is that standard Mac formatting as performed by
formatting software is equivalent to the so-called "low-level" format of the
DOS world.

I think what you are experiencing may be a SCSI problem. I had a similar
problem with a Maxtor; after prolonged conversation with (very helpful) tech
support, it was determined that the non-Mac SCSI drive had to have its SCSI ID
set to zero to work on a Mac. (unfortunately I don't know for certain which
jumper configuration this requires on your Seagate, but it's probably no
jumper at all)  If you've been hooking up the drive to a Mac with and internal
drive, of course you will have to  disconnect the internal in order to avoid a
SCSI ID conflict. 

Hope this helps. Let me know.

david 
 

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D.)
Subject: Re: Apple SOS Service is AMAZING! (NOT!)
Reply-To: aland@cs.brandeis.edu
Organization: As little as possible
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 06:00:33 GMT

jpugh@apple.com (Jon Pugh) writes:

>In article <1992Dec26.041758.21630@cs.brown.edu>, omh@cs.brown.edu (Owen M.
>Hartnett) wrote:

>> Here's the history:

>> Trackball on 180 freezes after returning from sleep mode.  You can make this
>> repeat if you try it at least 10 times and/or let the machine sleep for at
>> least 4 minutes.

>> ...

>> Note: in case you still think that this is software, I also backed up and
>> reformatted the hard drive, in case it was in some driver that lived on
>> the disk and got loaded in a startup.  Still freezes.

>This _is_ software.  There is an experimental INIT on the Developer CD
>called ADBReInit that reduces the problem but doesn't quite fix it.  At
>least my PB 140 still freezes up occasionally.

>The problem is a result of a bug in the ROM which causes memory to move
>during a call to ADBReInit.  This bug is present in the PowerBooks (not the
>100) and the Quadras, but the Quadras don't encounter it because they don't
>sleep.  When the PB wakes up it calls ADBReInit and if memory moves in the
>wrong way SLAM! it freezes.

>There is a program called ResetADB (I got it off Sumex) that can fix this
>problem.  I launch it from Hypercard, which I always have running, and it
>brings the trackball back to life.  That pretty much _proves_ it is
>software.

I _wrote_ ResetADB.  I'm glad to hear that someone's using it. :)  I
didn't know anything about this problem (I had a similar one with my
Kensington TurboMouse 3 under 6.0.7 and 7.0, on my SE/30.  I haven't
had any problems of this sort under 7.0.1 or 7.1 on either the SE/30
or my PowerBook 160, but I'll put ResetADB on the PB just in case. :)

	-=Alan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc