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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Subject: VM usage (was Re: Which Mac-II : II-si or II-ci ?)
Organization: Sony Microsystems, San Jose, CA
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 92 03:10:54 GMT


In article <1992Apr11.221236.29416@cs.wright.edu>, joh@valhalla.cs.wright.edu (Jae Chan Oh) writes:
|> One more question: Do Macintoshes have the similar problem as in DOS's 640K 
|> memory barrier? I'm tired of having the "out of memory error" even though 
|> I have 3Meg of main memory in my AT. (That EMS, EEMS , XMS stuff aren't quite
|> working for my older programs!! and my program developments)

In thinking about this question, I recalled a question I've been
meaning to ask about System 7 virtual memory.  I have a couple of MIDI
programs that reportedly can't work with VM, so I've never tried it.

Given the way the Mac requires that programs have a pre-allocated
memory space, it seems to me that there are many cases where programs will
never need to swap.  For example, I have HyperCard set to 2MB so I can
run lots of stacks, but most of the time it uses less than half of this.
In a system with 8MB of RAM and 13MB of VM (assuming a system with a
NuBus video card), I suspect that there are many cases where programs
never use all of the 8MB of real RAM.

Have people seen this to be true, or do programs tend to behave
badly enough that they end up swapping?

--
...David Elliott
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..."Nobody believes a laughing person." -- Farkle
From: olle@solaris.astro.uu.se (Olof Morell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Stuffit garbo -> Mac problem
Date: 9 Apr 92 10:30:15 GMT
Organization: UDAC, Uppsala, Sweden

In article <1992Mar25.130255.14615@chvax.uucp>, peloc@chvax.uucp (Cattaneo N.) writes:
|> My problem:
|> ===========
|> 
|> I have downloaded from garbo a .sit files (a stuffit archive) on my UNIX
|> Workstation. I have uudecoded the file, copied the file to my PC to  
|> unstuff the file and then copied the resulted files on my Mac classic
|> with Apple File Exchange (a very looong procedure, isn't it ?).
|> I have changed the file type from MSDOS to BIN but the application
|> does not run. 
|> 
|> All these steps are necessary because I don't have neither UUDECODE
|> nor UNSTUFFIT on the MAC. On garbo these files are available but
|> in .SIT format, which does not help me very much.
|> 
|> Any ideas?
|> 
|> Thank you in advance for the help.
|> 
|> Bye
|> 
|> N. Cattaneo (E-mail:   peloc@chvax.uu.ch)
|> 
|> 
|> Can you say me the steps
unstuffit exists as shareware and is easy to get.
It's worth the effort!

Olle

Olof.Morell@astro.uu.se
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: kettler@mitme5.mit.edu (KETTLER, THOMAS R.)
Subject: Re: Mac Zone flame
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Organization: MIT Lab for Nuclear Science
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 02:42:00 GMT

In article <1992Apr10.181808.1704@phri.nyu.edu>, roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)        writes...
> 
>	It would appear the MacZone has taken to fax bombing.  I have
>gotten repeated unsolicited ads from them faxed to me, which I find very
>annoying.  I have no idea where they got my fax number from, but I consider
>it a breach of good manners to send somebody an unsolicited fax
>advertisement.  I would urge everybody to abstain from doing any business
>with MacZone until such time as they cease this practice.
>-- 
>roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
>Public Health Research Institute
>455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA
>"This never happened to Bart Simpson."

Personally, I find this to be no different than MacWarehouse, MacZone or other 
companies, including Equifax, and TRW selling addresses to the highest bidder 
and those companies that bought the address sending thousands of people, 
including myself tons and tons of junk mail which costs most of us to get rid 
of. The answer is clear: do not buy from companies that send you junk mail 
through a fax machine or otherwise unless by buying from that company, your 
actions resulted in the mail.

				Sincerely yours,

				Thomas R. Kettler "Mac Nut and Junk Mail Hater"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.next.misc
From: biesty@ide.com (Bill Biesty)
Subject: Re: NeXTs vs Macs for desktop publishing
Organization: IDE, San Francisco
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 01:19:35 GMT

In article <1992Mar29.000828.29217@news.arc.nasa.gov> ogawa@orion.arc.nasa.gov (Arthur Ogawa) writes:
>[criticizes me for not mentioning the "best of class apps" on NeXT,
> then describes a single application where he could not find a 
> similar application on the NeXT or SGI whil patting himself on
> the back for the snazzy journal he prepresses (no advertising from me).]
>
>I'm afraid the abovequoted user is much more opinionated than
>well-informed.  As the remainder of his polemic may indicate:

To assume other wise on Usenet is....

>In other words "Go forth and verify the truth of my words, if you
>dare". You'll excuse me, Bill, for not being convinced by your
>unfounded assertions. Now, would someone with more solid experience
>please speak up? Who has produced a publication of the caliber of the
>Mathematica Jounal with NeXT? Care to relate your experiences?

First your needs for DTP are beyond what the original poster asked for.
Nice of you to broadcast your opinions to the world after privately
emailing me to find out I was unaware of any applications that met
your purposes. I do all black and white. What's on the NeXT suits
me very well thanks.

Maybe you could be a little more constructive next time and just say
"Hey NeXTs don't handle 2400x3600 with 24 bit color worth snake spit."
Which may change, by the way when 3.0 and really affordable color printing
hits the NeXT world. (But probably not 2400x3600.)

--
Bill Biesty
<biesty@ide.com>     These are not the opinions of my employer.
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From: george@mech.seas.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Augmenting an SE30 to have color capabilities ...
Date: 9 Apr 92 01:07:23 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Organization: University of Pennsylvania, Mechanical Engineering


has anybody else caught the TV commercial ( some airline.. )
where there is a guy working at a 'classic' mac with an
internal color monitor?

I want one.

( I'm sure its a trick of some sort.. )
--
-george            george@mech.seas.upenn.edu  
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From: sharris@chopin.udel.edu (Scott A Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Which is better to use serial or AppleTalk?
Date: 11 Apr 92 18:53:50 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Delaware


I have a DeskWriter C and was wondering which would be better
and why.  Should I run my DeskWriter from the serial cable
or use an AppleTalk newtork.
Many thanks

Scott


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From: rkou@skat.usc.edu (Roger H. Kou)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: install a/ux 3.0 (GM) on a LPS 240(Q)
Date: 15 Apr 92 03:19:30 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: USC Computing Services, Los Angeles
NNTP-Posting-Host: skat.usc.edu


hey there!

I tried to install A/UX 3.0 golden master on a Quadra 700 w/20 meg RAM
LPS 240 Quautum(sp?) HD. but failed. the problem could be there is no
entry for this HD in a/ux's installer disk table. I dunno exaclty.

anyone? installation was sucessful on a ci, haven't tried to install
it on that LPS 240 w/another machine besides the HD's owner(the Quadra
700). tried formatted it into a/ux partitions w/silverlining, but a/us 
still won't install. 

any reply would be appreciated!!

-RK
From: fleckens@plains.NoDak.edu (Clint Fleckenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Is there an IFF sound player for Mac?
Date: 12 Apr 92 06:32:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: plains.16702
Organization: North Dakota Higher Ed Computing Network

I found some cool Amiga IFF sounds that I'd like to play on my Mac.
Since the built-in sound capture capabilities of my IIsi are limited
in duration, this seems my best alternative; however, I don't know 
of any utilities which play IFF sounds.

I downloaded a bunch of sound utilities from umich a while back, and
none would run after decompression.  I didn't get a chance to retry
the transfer.

Could someone shed some light on this?  Thanks!

Clint 

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From: John.Hirsch@mixcom.mixcom.com (John.Hirsch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Speaker Problem (was Re: internal speaker in a IIsi problem...)
Date: 14 Apr 92 22:34:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: mixcom.1992Apr14.223452.28282
Distribution: usa
Organization: Milwaukee Internet Xchange BBS, Milwaukee, WI U.S.A.

In <Adua2HC00WBMQ_iYEn@andrew.cmu.edu> jsbr+@andrew.cmu.edu (John Hamilton Slye) writes:



>Please, if anyone with a non-si, has had this problem, post! Maybe we
>can nail this problem down definitely...

  I have had this problem with my LC running both System 6.07 and System 7.
I used the exact same "fix" already described - turning the volume all the
way up and then back down.  The idea that it was a hardware problem and
that turning up the sound added enough voltage to cut through the oxidation
sounded reasonable to me.  I couldn't nail it down to particular software.

-- 
John.Hirsch@mixcom.com

Hi there.
From: afry@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Alan R. Fry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: System Help
Keywords: shareware, system help
Date: 6 Apr 92 16:53:45 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)

In article <880774h.702573965@aucs> 880774h@aucs.acadiau.ca (Chris Hulan) writes:
>A friend has just purchased a new mac. He was wondering if there
>are any utilities (preferably shareware) which provide helpful
>hints to new mac users. ie explain system errors, list commands,
>Something like the Help commands available with most apps.
>
>Please e-mail responses will summarize if any interest.

Under system 7 there is a useful item called "Finder Shortcuts" under the
Balloon menu in the Finder.  There are DA's and applications that list all
of the system errors, but even knowing what the system errors are and/or
mean does not mean that you can do much about them.

I have a possible "hardware" solution:  buy Robin Williams' "The Little Mac
Book".  It is a wonderful little book for beginners and experienced users
alike.  By the way, that's not Robin Williams the comedian (in fact, it's a
woman), and it's not Queue's book by the same title (it's published by
PeachPit Press).  Make sure it's Robin Williams' book!

Cheers,

Alan
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From: marosen@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Mark Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Postscript tricks
Date: 12 Apr 92 20:36:38 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

Does anyone out there know where I can ftp a document on how to use
Postscript to make cool effects in my print output, like:

Making a cool page border.
Making rotated text in shades of gray.
Other neat ideas.

Word5 comes with a few cool things in the Page Layout Glossary, like a
simple page border, and a grayed rotated text, but I want to learn how
to do a few things, without learning the entire Postscript language.
Any ftp'able files out there?


-- 
Mark J. Rosen        marosen@gandalf.rutgers.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: hay@ssd.comm.mot.com (Mike Hay)
Subject: (Q) BMUG BBS Phone #
Organization: Motorola LMPS
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 18:09:25 GMT
Followup-To: bo505@cleveland.freenet.edu


Can someone please email the phone number of the BMUG BBS
to bo505@cleveland.freenet.edu?

Thanks.
-- 
| Mike Hay        |  I feel much more    |  My opinions are my own |
| SW Engineer     |  like I do now than  |  and in no way reflect  |
| Motorola, Inc.  |  when I got here.    |  the views or policies  |
| Schaumburg, IL  |   - Anonymous        |  of Motorola, Inc.      |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer
From: kessler@decwet.enet.dec.com (Gary Kessler)
Subject: Re: Mac SCSI Disk Spin-up
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: 16 APR 92 14:20:44    


In article <1622@deadmin.ucsd.edu>, trevor@celece.ucsd.edu (Trevor Henthorn) writes...
>I have a SCSI disk here which requires a SCSI spin-up (or restart)
>command before it will spin up. 
> 
>Most computers other than the Mac send that spin-up command when they boot. 
> 
>Does anyone know of any drivers or utilities for the Mac that send
>that spin-up command? I have seen spin-down utilities.
> 
> 
>Thanks,
> 
>Trevor Henthorn
> 
>please e-mail
> 
>trevor@ece.ucsd.edu
What kind of disk is it??  There are a couple of "freeware" SCSI init's the
send spin-up commands to the disks or you might be able to modify the mode page
to set the spin-up on power-up bit.  All depends on the drive.

Gary Kessler
From: dmmg1176@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (David M Marcovitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: internal speaker in a IIsi problem...
Date: 12 Apr 92 15:29:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: ux1.1992Apr12.152913.21454
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

Several people have offered hardware solutions to this problem.
However, I think the original notewriter was describing a different
problem.  If the problem were with the connection to the motherboard,
then adjusting the volume in the control panel wouldn't affect it.  I
think the original notewriter was talking about a software problem.

-- 
David M. Marcovitz                     |  internet: marcovitz@uiuc.edu
Computer-based Education Research Lab  |            dmmg1176@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
University of Illinois                 |  novanet:  marco / cca / nova
From: scott@swindle.Berkeley.EDU (Scott Silvey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Beat the academic discount?
Date: 7 Apr 92 22:01:08 GMT
Article-I.D.: agate.rt634INNeer
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: swindle.berkeley.edu


I heard a rumor that there are a few mail order places that will beat the
academic discount on Macs by 2%.  I am looking particularly for a Powerbook
though.

Anyone know of such a place?  


Scott Silvey
scott@xcf.berkeley.edu
From: tbeaubie@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Todd Beaubien)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Mac Hardware Help
Summary: 2Mb SIMMS work fine I think
Date: 16 Apr 92 17:33:02 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio

Having not actually tried any, take this with a 
grain of salt. 

It is my understanding that Apple just hasn't
gotten their own purchasing of 2Mb SIMMs working
right, but that use of third-party SIMMs is just 
fine.

As soon as the money appears, I'm planning to 
upgrade my IIsi with 2Mb SIMMs.

Any horror stories??

Todd Beaubien
UT at San Antonio
From: ace@tidbits.halcyon.com (Adam C. Engst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: TidBITS#115/06-Apr-92 posted in c.s.m.digest
Date: 7 Apr 92 04:33:36 GMT
Reply-To: ace@tidbits.halcyon.com (Adam C. Engst)
Organization: TidBITS

TidBITS#115/06-Apr-92
=====================
 
 In the fast moving world of Apple, you can never tell when Apple
   will fix an evil bug, offer something for free to owners of
   PowerBook 140s and 170s (new battery cases to prevent the
   batteries from catching fire), or even start a new promotion.
   All of those things happened this week, along with the
   late-breaking buyout of DataClub-maker IBS by network kingpin
   Novell. We also have an editorial on electronic privacy and a
   review preview of Nisus.
 
Topics:
    MailBITS/06-Apr-92
    Tune-Up 1.1, Just Get It
    Novell Buys IBS
    Personal, Not Private
    PowerBook Freebie
    Apple Announces New Promotion
    Nisus Review Preview
    Reviews/06-Apr-92
 
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From: jpugh@apple.com (Jon Pugh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Need help connecting Hypercard and Microphone II via Apple Events
Date: 27 Mar 92 21:57:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: goofy.22081
Organization: Apple Co.

In article <1992Mar24.200427.2026@eecs.nwu.edu>, kaufman@eecs.nwu.edu (Michael L. Kaufman) writes:
> 
> I am trying to get Hypercard to tell Microphone II 4.0 to start excecuting a
> script. The documentation for both packages is a bit sparse. I have the 
> following bit of code in a Hypercard script:
> 
>   send "Do script " & quote & "luis" & quote to program "*::Microphone II" 

I haven't actually tried this, but the send command _is_ a doScript AE, so
all you should need is the parameter and the destination.  Like so:

send "luis" to program "Microphone II"

Jon
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: potts@itl.itd.umich.edu (Paul Potts)
Subject: Re: Defragmenting (Was AutoDoubler)
Organization: Instructional Technology Laboratory, University of Michigan
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 17:38:38 GMT

In article <9464@wrgate.wr.tek.com> davidbu@loowit.wr.tek.com (David E. Buxton) writes:
>
>I posted a request for email feed-back on AutoDoubler.  One person wrote
>saying that it does seem to fragment faster.  Which would suggest the
>need to get a Defragmenter.  

Yes, AD does cause more fragmentation, depending on what you do: applications
are expanded into memory when launched, so the application files don't get
any bigger on disk. Data files are expanded when read in and get written out
in an uncompressed state, which can cause fragmentation. (Basically, any
time a file gets expanded, there is the possibility for fragmentation, like
this:

FILE FILE FILE FILE FILE FILE - before -

FILE BIGEXPAN FILE FILE FILE -after-
             DEDFILE

One way to minimize the effects that this fragging will have on your system
performance is to make a separate partition (using something like SilverLining
or AlSoft's Mutlipartition) for your commonly used data files. I used to use
Multipartition (I think the product name is MultiDisk) and had three
partitions on an 80-meg drive; I used DiskExpress, and it kept the 
partitions defragged quite nicely. That way the fragging of the data files
won't affect the applications or system files (which don't get compressed).

I run AutoDoubler and DiskExpress together and the combination works quite
well. I may install MultiDisk to see if I can save disk space further: since
MultiDisk writes each partition as one large physical file, you can get around
the allocation-block-size problem somewhat.

DiskExpress should run you about $50 from MacConnection. I would recommend
partitioning, Defragging, or both to get maximum performance from AutoDoubler.
DE is nice because it keeps commonly-used files at the end of the partition,
where they are less likely to cause fragmentation problems.

-- 
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Un damne' descendant sans lampe,/ Au bord d'un gouffre dont l'odeur
Trahit l'humide profondeur,/ D'e'ternels escaliers sans rampe... 
   -Baudelaire on DOS/Windows programming
From: levin@star-trek.bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Is there a new Mac virus?
Date: 17 Apr 1992 12:48:47 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: archive.bbn.com

hlsw_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Dave Hollinsworth) writes:

>I was reading c.s.m.digest today, and it mentioned that there was a new
>Virus Detective search string file.  In it, it said that it "added support
>for the CODE 252 virus."  I've never heard of this one before, and there's
>been no mention of it on c.s.m.announce.  So I'm just curious:  is this a
>new Mac virus, or what?

Yes.  It is not an especially deadly virus nor is it very widespread.
Look for announcements today in comp.sys.mac.announce.

>Just wondering.

No need to panic.

	/JBL
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: thao@cse.uta.edu (Laly Thao)
Subject: Need Help in Class Poll!!
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, Univ. of Texas at Arlington
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 02:29:59 GMT


Hi.  I need your assistance/response for an engineering prob & stat class I'm
taking.  I need to collect some data and here are the questions:

1)  Are you male or female and how tall are you (accurate to 1/10 th of an
    inch :-) )?
    --I need at least 15 responses from male and 15 responses from females,
      so please respond.

2)  Do you use an IBM PC or Mac?  (Tell me which one you use).  AND are you
    male or female?
    --need at least 30 samples/replies

3)  This question is only for CSE/CS and EE majors.  Are you CSE/CS or EE major?
    If so, which type of movies do you watch most often i.e. what type of movies
    do you like?  Choose from DRAMA, ACTION, and COMEDY.  For simplicity's sake 
    and because I don't want to collect more than 30 samples, you are limited to
    choosing from the categories given...sorry sci-fi and horror buffs.

Thanks in advance.  Direct all email responses to B645ZAQ@UTARLG.UTA.EDU
or THAO@CSE.UTA.EDU.. 

Laly Thao
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: kucharsk@solbourne.com (William Kucharski)
Subject: Re: There is a crippled  LC II because ...
Organization: Solbourne Computer, Inc., Longmont, CO
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 22:17:51 GMT

While reading article <4563@unccvax.uncc.edu>, I noticed that
mpd@unccvax.uncc.edu (Michael Parker Davis) said the following:
 >  Would you have paid $20 more and waited an extra month for a coprocessor 
 >socket on the motherboard?  I think so.  Would you have paid $20 more for a
 >32 bit data path?   I think so.

Point is, at least in the US the LC II is the SAME price as the LC, not $20
more.  It also will be replacing the LC in the US (although the LC and LC II
will both be available in Europe).
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