From: info-mac-request@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (The Moderators)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V10 #241
Date: 7 Oct 92 00:15:32 GMT
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Info-Mac Digest             Tue,  6 Oct 92       Volume 10 : Issue 241

Today's Topics:

      [*] 3D Tic-Tac-Toe 1.0.6
      [*] Battleship 1.2.2
      [*] bio_ess HC stack replacement
      [*] Black Box 1.2.2
      [*] Crypto 1.2.3
      [*] HP Announces New DeskWriter
      [*] MacTurnover 1.2.2
      [*] Mazer 3.2.3
      [*] PICT Ripper Version 2
      [*] Re: Mandella 7.0 -- fractal program
      [*] Russian Roulette 1.1.1
      [*] space-war-10.hqx
      [*] TacTickle 1.0.4
      [*] TidBITS#145/05-Oct-92
      [*] TurboGopher 1.0
      [*] Vort.sea.hqx
      88mb SyQuest with bad blocks!
      Address needed for FRANKLIN SYSTEMS
      A faster Quadra?
      Apple charging for HyperCard
      Apple Font Pack
      Apple Monitor problems
      Apple press releases
      Appleshare 3.0 problem
      Apple System Secrets (A)
      Autodoubler 2.0
      Autodoubler [A]
      Backwards "R" (A)
      CopyDoubler bug--only in demo!
      DeskJet and the Mac (A)
      DOS.INIT 1.2 conflicts with Apple File Exchange (and copy)
      FAQ...HD Vendor
      Fat Files (C) (2 msgs)
      Floppy Disk Tester
      Group Scheduling/PowerBook Modems
      Hellcats interesting...
      IIsi that won't shut down (R)
      Info-Mac Digest V10 #240 (2 msgs)
      Info-Mac Drive Fund
      InitShare
      Internet mail to/from GEnie
      Jewish Humor stack (Q)
      Laserwriter II Repair Cost
      Lee Mail and 3 days for delivery
      Macintosh Accelerators.
      Macintosh IIsi won't shutdown.
      MacScheme Support? (2 msgs)
      Mactut & Dubl-Click (Q)
      Memory Question
      Microsoft OS for the Mac (C)
      More PowerBook Info ?
      MS-DOS for the Mac (?!?!)
      Need network software on Mac to connect UNIX's NFS (A)
      page layout programs
      Portable printing advice sought
      Powerbook Retail Prices
      Quadra Shipping Delays?
      Radius Rocket Accelerator card
      Software to assist scheduling events (Q)
      Stuffit 3.0.2
      Sumex Fund Drive
      TaxCut for the Mac
      Upgrade to Microsoft Word 5 imminent?
      Why Apple is charging for Sys 7.1
      Windows 3.1/Mac (Was: Why Apple is charging for system 7.1)
      ZModem and CTB

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Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 20:00:39 PDT
From: jafl@Alice.Wonderland.Caltech.EDU (John Lindal)
Subject: [*] 3D Tic-Tac-Toe 1.0.6

3D Tic-Tac-Toe 1.0.6        Tic-Tac-Toe in 3 dimensional perspective.  Play
			    against the computer or a friend or have the
			    computer play itself.

Now Quadra 040 cache compatible.

John Lindal
jafl@alice.wonderland.caltech.edu

[Archived as /info-mac/game/3d-tic-tac-toe-106.hqx; 70K]

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Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 19:55:46 PDT
From: jafl@Alice.Wonderland.Caltech.EDU (John Lindal)
Subject: [*] Battleship 1.2.2

Battleship 1.2.2            The classic game of battleship.
			    Play against the computer or your friend.

Now Quadra 040 cache compatible.

John Lindal
jafl@alice.wonderland.caltech.edu

[Archived as /info-mac/game/battleship-122.hqx; 109K]

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Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 17:28:23 +0100
From: Markus Frischknecht <frischknecht@esh.unibe.ch>
Subject: [*] bio_ess HC stack replacement

Dear Moderators

Shame on me... My first posting, and I forget to include the Read.me file
in the file. I've corrected my little omission and send you a complete
version. Please replace my previous posting with subject "bio_ess HC
stack". Apologies for the inconvenience. Original text follows here:

Included is the result of my first attempt at creating an
HyperCard stack (HC version 2.1). It aims at demonstrating simple
computer simulations in the field of evolutionary biology. The
concept of evolutionarily stable strategies (or ESS) is introduced
with a few simple examples, the results can be presented in a
graph. It could help teachers at universities to introduce game
theory and its applications to students who are no computer or
maths wizards.
This file includes a binhexed  Compact Pro archive
with a text file (TeachText) and the stack itself.

   MacGreetings, Markus Frischknecht
   email: frischknecht@esh.unibe.ch

[Archived as /info-mac/card/bio-ess.hqx; 45K]

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Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 19:56:27 PDT
From: jafl@Alice.Wonderland.Caltech.EDU (John Lindal)
Subject: [*] Black Box 1.2.2

Black Box 1.2.2             Shoot rays into a box where balls are hidden.
			    From the results of your shooting, deduce where
			    the balls are hidden.

Now Quadra 040 cache compatible.

John Lindal
jafl@alice.wonderland.caltech.edu

[Archived as /info-mac/game/black-box-122.hqx; 78K]

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Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 19:57:01 PDT
From: jafl@Alice.Wonderland.Caltech.EDU (John Lindal)
Subject: [*] Crypto 1.2.3

Crypto 1.2.3                Encrypt text messages so that ONLY your friends
			    can figure out what they say.
			    (This is a utility program)

Now Quadra 040 cache compatible.

John Lindal
jafl@alice.wonderland.caltech.edu

[Archived as /info-mac/util/crypto-123.hqx; 71K]

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Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 08:53:06 -0700
From: egurney@hpvcleg.vcd.hp.com (Ed J. Gurney)
Subject: [*] HP Announces New DeskWriter

Here's the press release for the new DeskWriter 550C which HP
announced today.  I've stripped out most of the DOS-specific
stuff to make a little most "digest"able. :-)

Regards,
Ed

     HP INTRODUCES DUAL-CARTRIDGE HP DESKJET FAMILY PRINTERS
		  FOR BLACK AND COLOR PRINTING
		FROM PCs AND MACINTOSH COMPUTERS

[Archived as /info-mac/report/deskwriter-550c-pr.txt; 7K]

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Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 19:57:40 PDT
From: jafl@Alice.Wonderland.Caltech.EDU (John Lindal)
Subject: [*] MacTurnover 1.2.2

MacTurnover 1.2.2           A version of Othello.  Play against the computer
or
			    a friend or have the computer play itself.

Now Quadra 040 cache compatible.

John Lindal
jafl@alice.wonderland.caltech.edu

[Archived as /info-mac/game/mac-turnover-122.hqx; 70K]

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Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 19:58:14 PDT
From: jafl@Alice.Wonderland.Caltech.EDU (John Lindal)
Subject: [*] Mazer 3.2.3

Mazer 3.2.3                 Generates mazes. You can navigate through them,
			    fight nasties, and collect prizes to get out.
			    You can also edit and save the mazes.

Now Quadra 040 cache compatible.

John Lindal
jafl@alice.wonderland.caltech.edu

[Archived as /info-mac/game/mazer-323.hqx; 116K]

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Date: Mon, 05 Oct 92 15:10:13 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <IRBLOOM@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject: [*] PICT Ripper Version 2

A Tektronix technical support type just sent me a newer version of the
PICT Ripper program that is in the archives, and I thought I would share
it with the group. This should replace [app/pict-ripper-8804.hqx] in the
archives. The submission is a self extracting archive containing the PICT
Ripper application and documentation (MacWrite II) that I extracted from
the program's built-in help system. The following is from the author's
introduction:

PICT Ripper, by Scott Gillespie, is a public domain program:  it may be
distributed and copied without restriction.  The author makes no
guarantees of any kind about anything. Here is a quick summary of what
PICT Ripper does:

*  Object-Oriented Text Overlay.  PICT Ripper allows you to lay any
number of text objects on top of PICT files.  When the resulting PICTs
are printed, the text is printed at whatever resolution the current
printer supports.  Therefore, you can take a bit-mapped PICT file created
with Modern Artist or PixelPaint and print it with high-resolution text
superimposed.  If you have a high-res color printer PICT Ripper is ideal
for creating color presentation graphics.

*  Object-Oriented PICT Overlay.  PICT objects may now be pasted in from
the Clipboard and manipulated in the same way as text objects.

*  Printing.  PICT Ripper allows you to print any portion or all of a
PICT file.  If you have a Tektronix 4693D Color Image Printer (300 dpi
Thermal Transfer), special PICT Ripper options allow you to take full
advantage of the 93D's various sizing options.  You can also print
posters and print reduced pictures.

*  General PICT Manipulation.  You can create new PICT files from any
part of an existing PICT file, or from a PICT object on the clipboard.
Also, any part of a PICT file may be copied to the clipboard.

[Archived as /info-mac/app/pict-ripper-20.hqx; 167K]

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Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 16:30:49 -0700
From: Jesse Jones <jesjones@u.washington.edu>
Subject: [*] Re: Mandella 7.0 -- fractal program

   Hi Gordon,

   Thanks for emailing me. I could have sworn I had included the
   description...
Well anyway, here it is:

   Mandella is a great fractal program for color Macs. It can draw many
different types of fractal images. This file contains Mandella 7.0b1,
docs in MS-Word 3.0 format, and 22 sample files. Mandella has a ton of
features, including: multiple Mac style fractal windows, seven special
purpose  windows, over 70 fractal types, ten draw styles, eight transforms
(including 3D), four ways to automate drawing, a palette editor, etc.
The number of fractal windows is limited only by memory. Mandella works
on any color Mac with System 6 or later. Shareware $40.

   The changes since version 6.1 include:
   1) Integer math has been added so the program will work on the LC and Si.
   2) Sped up the floating point versions of many of the fractals.
   3) Added the Feather dynamical system.
   4) Bailout and Epsilon can now be changed.

--jesjones@milton.u.washington.edu

[Archived as /info-mac/app/mandella-70.hqx; 763K]

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Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 19:58:56 PDT
From: jafl@Alice.Wonderland.Caltech.EDU (John Lindal)
Subject: [*] Russian Roulette 1.1.1

Russian Roulette 1.1.1      Barrels are placed on the perimeter of an arena.
			    Inside the arena are reflectors.  Shoot bullets
			    into the arena so they bounce off the reflectors
			    and smash barrels.  One of the barrels (you don't
			    know which) will blow up and kill you if you shoot
			    it.


Now Quadra 040 cache compatible.

John Lindal
jafl@alice.wonderland.caltech.edu

[Archived as /info-mac/game/russian-roulette-111.hqx; 95K]

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Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 23:25:55 -0500
From: hui@rainbow.uchicago.edu (Hui Dong)
Subject: [*] space-war-10.hqx

Subject: Introducing a new Mac game: SpaceWar! 1.0
							      Oct. 4, 1992

SpaceWar! 1.0 Introduction:

OK, here is a new game called SpaceWar! 1.0, I created for the Macintosh.
It's compacted and binhexed, with Compact Pro 1.33. 440K.
It's uploaded to: sumex.stanford.edu, mac.archive.umich.edu.
It's a fast action "shoot up" type game with 30 frame per second animation,
currently require 8 bit (256) color/gray to run (if there's enough interest
and resource, I will make it run under other color depth in future updates).
It uses 640x480 full screen of a 13" monitor, although if you has a bigger
size
monitor and know how to use ResEdit, you can change the "battle field" to a
larger size by increasing the window size of the WIND resource (only one) to
anything NO BIGGER than your real screen size.

SpaceWar! 1.0 is distributed as a shareware, ask for $20 shareware fee if you
like it and play it. But if you REALLY couldn't afford it, send any amount
you prefer. Being a Mac game lover myself, I could have asked for less, but as
a poor graduate student, getting my degree and currently looking for a job
(preferably a Mac programming job), I need and appreciate all the help I can
get now! So if you like the game, please send me what you can afford and help
me to get over this difficult time. And if you have a job offer or any
information that may help, please contact me! I really appreciate all your
help.

SpaceWar! 1.0 is a fast action "shoot up" game, the goal is to achieve highest
score. You are armed with a bullet gun or a laser gun. Bullet costs you 1
point,
you get lasers by catching laser supply. There are four types of enemy bomb
ships dropping bombs, each type has different level of shield protection.
Enemy
also has bullet gun ship and laser ship that shoot bullets and lasers at you.
Besides, there are seven types of enemy special war ships that do some nasty
things to you: drop atomic bomb, shoot missile, lay mines, drop plague slows
down your speed, drop S-bomb blast you ammunition, drop parity change your
sense of left and right (it's really a hi-tech war out there! *smile*), and
drop ozone layer shorten your gun range. You are not helpless though, there
are four types of friendly supply ships provide you with extra life, free
bullets (you will certainly appreciate it if your ammunition is blasted),
faster move speed, and laser supply (laser is awfully powerful, try it out!).
Well, of course, you had to catch these supplies first. There are atomic time
bomb and four types of magic that appear randomly, provide you with extra
score or take score from you without mercy, you must shoot them down
to get the bonus or avoid being hit by them within limited time.
Each level is more difficult than the previous one (enemy shoot or bomb
faster, supplies are more difficult to catch, etc.). With all these, get a
high score and have fun.

SpaceWar! is tested on MacII, IIcx, IIci, Quadra 700, under sys7 and 6.0.5
up.
Please send any bug reports, problems ... to me so it can be fixed in future
updates. Anyone who send his/her donation will receive a Thank You letter
together with registration code so he/she can personalize the copy, and get
any future updates free. No, the game is not protected. Please distribute only
the unregistered copy.

Since I don't have access to the CompuServe or Genie or American Online or
Zmac,
I'd appreciate if someone can upload the program to these sites. And if you
like to do that, please email me first, I don't want to sent multiple copies
to these sites.

I am also testing another Mac software called PianoSim 1.0, I developed for
the Macintosh. It's a music instrument simulation with full music input and
edit ability. I expect to release it very soon.

Thank you for your time, hope you enjoy the game.

Hui Dong
hui@rainbow.uchicago.edu

[Archived as /info-mac/game/space-war-10.hqx; 363K]

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Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 20:00:03 PDT
From: jafl@Alice.Wonderland.Caltech.EDU (John Lindal)
Subject: [*] TacTickle 1.0.4

TacTickle 1.0.4             Strategy board game where two players moves their
			    pieces around on a grid.  The first player to
			    align the correct number of pieces wins.
			    There is usually a severe space shortage, however,
			    so you keep getting in eachother's way!

Now Quadra 040 cache compatible.

John Lindal
jafl@alice.wonderland.caltech.edu

[Archived as /info-mac/game/tac-tickle-104.hqx; 60K]

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Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 22:05:33 PDT
From: ace@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: [*] TidBITS#145/05-Oct-92

TidBITS#145/05-Oct-92

 The Duo debate continues and we present the first 7.1 tip for
   early birds. Printer mavens will like HP's new dual cartridge
   color DeskWriter, NEC has a new driver for the CDR-74 that
   solves some problematic conflicts, we figure out just how
   Performa users will re-install system software since they don't
   get bundled system disks, and finally, a review of a rare book
   on tech support.

Topics:
    MailBITS/05-Oct-92
    Duo Doubters
    CDR-74 Problem
    Now Utilities 4.0 Bugs Out
    System 7.1 Tip O' The Week
    Performa Systems
    Double DeskWriters
    Help! The Art of Computer Technical Support
    Reviews/05-Oct-92

[Archived as /info-mac/digest/tb/tidbits-145.etx; 29K]

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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 15:29:40 CDT
From: gopher@boombox.micro.umn.edu (The Gopher Team)
Subject: [*] TurboGopher 1.0

The Gopher development team at the University of Minnesota is pleased to
announce TurboGopher. The TurboGopher application was carefully tuned for
maximum speed, and runs as much as three times faster than other Mac
gopher applications we benchmarked against. It is even faster (sorry
guys!) than the UNIX client when run on a comparable machine on Ethernet.

For the folks who are Gopher experts, TurboGopher is a full featured
Gopher client. Gopher+ features have been disabled in this release. These
will be turned on in the next release. MacIP support has not been added,
but should be by the next release.  Current features include:

     + Both warp speed AND considerate backgrounding
     + Multiple concurrent fetches (multiple streams)
     + Intelligent caching to improve perceived speed over SLIP links
     + Choice of multiple windows or window recycle
     + Displays as it fetches (cancel if you like!)
     + Interruptible network transactions (Command-Period)
     + Directory length limited only by memory
     + Unlimited document length (displays 32K, saves all)
     + Pseudo-hypertext searches (Option-double-click on word)
     + ISO Latin-1 character-set support
     + Find text within documents
     + Cache everything, nothing, or exactly what you want!
     + Set & Delete Bookmarks for any Gopher object
     + Import & Export of Bookmarks
     + Total recall of entire session (Recent menu)
     + NCSA Telnet & TN3270 support (via AppleEvents under system 7.0)
     + System 7 Balloon Help
     + Comprehensive built-in Help document (can be customized)
     + Preconfigured (can be reconfigured)
     + Automatically un-binhexes Mac documents

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/turbo-gopher.hqx; 278K]

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Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 10:56:45 edt
From: Brad Fowlow <brad%vedge.UUCP@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Subject: [*] Vort.sea.hqx

Vort/Art for the Macintosh II (version 1.0d4).

This is a Macintosh version of the raytracer and image viewing
tools from vort (the very ordinary rendering toolkit).
This is free software; all source code is provided.
Requires 68020+68881.

The vort package comes from the University of Melbourne.
The original sources, and lots of images, can
be found at the ftp site gondwana.ecr.mu.oz.au.

The raytracer uses a fairly readable scene description language,
accepts offiles, allows use of images as surface textures,
does CSG modelling, and handles arbitrary algebraic surfaces.

[Archived as /info-mac/app/vort-10d4.hqx; 840K]

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Date: Tue, 06 Oct 92 11:39:24 EST
From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU>
Subject: 88mb SyQuest with bad blocks!

On Mon, 5 Oct 1992 10:12 MST you said:
>Last night my SyQuest 88removable locked my system when I tried to
>access it.  I ran a disk program and it found 2 bad blocks (one was
>where the desktop file was so that is why it locked up)  My question is
>this... I haven't removed that cartridge in over a month and have been
>using it without problems...  Basically I'm asking, what do I do now?

Fact of life; removable media are not as reliable as fixed.  Although
some will report having used a SyQuest cartridge as a primary drive for
long periods, they remain more prone to failure than sealed drives.
Actually, the cartridge probably is more susceptible to infiltration by
dust while in the drive than when sealed in it's storage container.

I suspect there isn't anything seriously amiss with the cartridge, but I
recommend you back up to another one and reformat it.  If your
formatting software doesn't automatically mark bad blocks, or if you're
not sure, run MacTools or Norton's Volume Block checking routine which
will tag those two blocks (should they remain 'bad' after reformatting)
as "in use").

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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 13:03:58 GMT
From: m.connell%ucq.edu.au@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU
Subject: Address needed for FRANKLIN SYSTEMS

Could anyone provide me with a means of contact for
FRANKLIN ESTIMATING SYSTEMS
P.O. BOX 526199
SALT LAKE CITY,UTAH.
Are they on a network somewhere? Applelink,Internet, Compuserve etc.
Phone No. or Fax No. would also be good.

Any comments on their software would also be appreciated.

 ------
m.connell@ucq.edu.au (Merv)

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Date: 6 Oct 92 14:25:02 U
From: "Scott McGovern" <scott_mcgovern@maca.sarnoff.com>
Subject: A faster Quadra?

		      A faster Quadra?
We now officially retire from the "try to keep up with Apple race."  Faster
Quadras?  Nope.  Not biting anymore.  Power PC?  Sounds fast.  Cost is cheap.
But what's next?  SuperPC?  Or maybe...

"Apple is preparing to release it's new computer developed jointly with Cray.
Called the Hyper Craybapple, this baby purrs at 300 MHz.  With this kind of
power, the Hyper Craybapple, will be able to talk, understand speech, and even
compose poetry (when first demonstrated, the Hyper Craybapple cranked out 700
haikus per second).  The bargain basement price of $5000.00, is a steal for
this kind of performance.  However, the user will also need to purchase the
MacDesk, an aluminum stand for the Hyper Craybapple, which also doubles as a
heatsink.  In a shocking statement during the unveiling of this dazzling piece
of engineering, John Scully, CEO of Apple, stated that 'we have no plans to
sell a more powerful computer...honest.'  Seven days later, Apple announced
plans that it was in the process of designing the Mega-Hyper Craybapple, a 600
MHz machine that will......"

Apple announced today that the soon to be released Hyper-Mega-Craybapple
(formally leaked
out as the Mega-Hyper Craybapple) will provide compatibility with all existing
computer technology.  The high-tech machine will require an add-on cryogenic
cooling tower, but will then be able to offer a slower compatibility-mode.
Users can expect to get
lightning fast Apple //e performance in a window with a 16K allocation.
Future versions of the software should provide up to 48K  memory segments
to allow all of the Atari 800 software to run.

Upon hearing this announcement, Commodore Computers immediately announced
that CD-I technology will be portable to the new architecture for only an
additional $3000.00.  When asked if they were going to support the new OS
or depend on the compatibilty mode, Commodore offered the following
response:

"We will offer new and exciting CD's vigorously to take advantage of the
advanced platform being offered by Cray and Apple to stimulate the
aforementioned release in a manner consistent with the overwhelming demand
for the CD's which we will vigorously support."

No response was heard from Apple, but the prototype Hyper-Mega-Craybapple
was heard to say:

Mighty speedy me
Burning fast almost godlike
Others left behind

-Cupertino, CA

Scott McGovern
Brad Sandman

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Date: 6 Oct 1992 14:03:00+1300
From: "matt n." <clas005@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
Subject: Apple charging for HyperCard

I find this issue more interesting than the charging for system 7.1.
As you know, the plan seems to be to charge about $200 for HyperCard
and distribute free only a HyperCard "player".

I recognize that we've been paying for HyperCard in the hardware
costs and that if we want lower hardware costs then HyperCard has to
be paid for in some other way. But at the same time, HyperCard is
*THE* basis of my own relationship with the Mac: I bought a Mac only
because HyperCard came with it, opening the Mac to easy programming.

What does Apple expect its new policy to mean for the HyperCard
community? Right now, HyperCard is a free tool for the distribution
of all sorts of information, exercises, utilities, etc. There's a
large cottage industry in this, especially in Academe. Is Apple
going to drop its emphasis on having a close relationship with
Academe? Will the Mac cease to be a medium for inexpensive
production of courseware and "amateur" utilities?

Views, facts, disagreements, corrections? --- matt

 --------
matt neuburg, phd = clas005@csc.canterbury.ac.nz

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Date: Tue, 06 Oct 92 11:38:24 EST
From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU>
Subject: Apple Font Pack

On Mon, 5 Oct 92 00:16:11 -0500 you said:
>RE:  Apple Font Pack
>Anyone know if this is going to be available for FTP at Apple.Com?  :)

Commercial product; list price = $99; hence not likely to show up on an
ftp site until the Internet starts accepting MasterCard or Visa ;-)

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Date: Tue, 06 Oct 92 18:21:31 EDT
From: "Dieder B." <UGU00266@vm.uoguelph.ca>
Subject: Apple Monitor problems

I have a 12" Apple Monochrome monitor (640x480), and just recently
I noticed a series of bands going up the length of the left side of
the tube. These bands are there regardless of brightness or bit level
of the display. What are these bands? Can I fix? Or do I just have to
gulp and live with it? What caused them?

Thanks

D.

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Date: Mon, 05 Oct 92 23:26:55 EST
From: CXEO000 <CXEO%MUSICA.MCGILL.CA@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Apple press releases

    Hi, all!

    Just a short (probably FAQ) inquiry:

    Where's the best place to pick up Apple's latest press releases? The
best I could find on ftp.apple.com is info on the Apple/IBM alliance
in October of last year. I often get quotes taken from Apple PR's on
various information services and messages from average Joe-Blow users
over the various services and BBSs I use. I was wondering where this
was all coming from. Is there an official and up-to-date source for
Apple's latest stuff? Please reply to E-Mail or to the digest, as you
wish. If nobody posts to the digest, I'll summarize for everyone.
Complete paths are appreciated. Thanx!

Rebecca Aiken
CXEO@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA

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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 13:29:00 PDT
From: KAYLAN_AL%DCRC01.gm@hac2arpa.hac.com
Subject: Appleshare 3.0 problem

Hi netters:

We have a major problem with our network.  We are running AppleShare 3.0 on a
Quadra 900.  We have two hard disks one with 1 Gig and one with 1.3 Gig
formatted capacity.  We are around 70% full.  The server has 20 megs of memory
and it is running system 7.0.1 and tuner 1.1.1.  Apple's router is  also
running on the server.

We have about 70 IIci's and a few IIfxs and PCs connected to the server thru
NRC 10 Base T hubs.  All workstations are running system 7.0.1.

The problem is that we are hitting the open file limit on the server every
day
with only 15-20 logged in users on the network.  Now, we know that the open
file limit is supposed to be some 346 files, and that we are not anywhere
close
to that.  Ever since moved to two disks  (which requires users to log into
both), the frequency of the problems seems have increased, possibly due to the
fact that every login counts as an open file. Once the "open file limit"
messages start appearing on the workstations, we  can't open any more
applications and/or files.  The only way out of the problem then is to reboot
the server.  We are also having meaningless "application could not be found"
messages when you double click on the files even when we are not at the open
file limit.  Rebuilding the desktop does not help.

For the longest time, we suspected one of our applications to be the cause
this.  We disabled various applications at various different times without
succesfully eliminating the problem.  If you have any sort of clue about this
problem, we would greatly appreciate it.

I would appreciate if you respond directly back to me.  I promise I will
summerize on the net.  Thanks in advance for your input...

Ali Kaylan

kaylan_al%dcrc01.gm@hac2arpa.hac.com
dcrc01::kaylan_al@hac2gm.dnet.hac.com

------------------------------

Date: 6 Oct 92 16:24:05 U
From: "Tom Scott" <tom_scott@qmrelay.mail.cornell.edu>
Subject: Apple System Secrets (A)

     Apple System Secrets (A)
Jason Trump  <J.TRUMP@qut.edu.au> asks.....

>A collegue mentioned that he has heard of a list of little hidden
>treasures that exist in Apple's System software and in some common
>applications....you know, the things that make using a mac even more
>enjoyable.   One that I am aware of is in the Monitors control panel.
>If you click on the number 7 (in system 7), then a list of programmers
>is displayed.
>
>Does anyone know where a list might be?   Also a list of undocumented,
>but very useful hints would be good.

----
To which I happily respond....

Try sumex:   info-mac/report/mac-secret-trick-list.txt


Enjoy!  :-)

Thomas Scott, Systems Manager, College of Engineering
Cornell University, Carpenter Hall Annex, Ithaca, NY  14853

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 18:30:44 PDT
From: s169126@cc.gettysburg.edu
Subject: Autodoubler 2.0

	I just recently upgraded to Autodoubler 2.0 and I'm very
happy with it and the new Internal Compression Feature.  One thing
does worry me though and that is the fact that it is almost
impossible to tell the orginal from the compressed version (the size
is different but other than that there is no way to tell.  For me as
an end user this is not a problem, but my job is fixing software
problem of the students on campus.  From that point of view, how can
you tell if this or another internal compressor has been used (maybe
Fifth Generation should added a line to the info box of the
Applicaiton like Lauchbreak does).  Also in network help letters this
adds one more thing that could be wrong.  This worries me and I hope
that it does not become a problem.
	I am not tring to stop people from getting an Upgrade to AD
2.0, becuase I love the new Version of AD.  I am just worried about
people who use this compressor who do not know what they are doing.
Let face it a Warning FOR EXPERTS ONLY is not going to stop many
people.
	What do People Think??

Michael Schuler
	s169126@cc.gettysburg.edu

------------------------------

Date: 6 Oct 1992 10:28:46 U
From: "Robert Hess" <robert_hess@macweek.ziff.com>
Subject: Autodoubler [A]

Autodoubler [A]
Michael Silverstein asks:

===================================================
I found, as indicated in this forum previously,
that in most cases autodoubler does not improve
already well compressed movies.  I did find, however
that if autodoubler was used on the movies and on
'simple player' that the movie was slowed down
considerably.  I have subsequently decided to leave
the movies and simple player uncompressed.  I made the
same decision for games, thinking that they would also
probably suffer from the compression/decompression.

Is this feeling right, or have I missed something...?
===================================================

AutoDoubler (or, for that matter, any compression utility) is unlikely to
achieve much compression on a QuickTime movie because the are pre-compressed
using compression standards specific to moving pictures. Compression programs,
in general, don't have the ability to be that specific (StuffIt has filters to
do this sort of thing but it still won't accomplish any great compression on
QuickTime movies since they are pre-compressed).

The moving is running slowly when compressed because QuickTime movies don't
get
opened normally, so AutoDoubler isn't doing a normal full decompression.

"Games" is a pretty wide area. Most games will not slow down due to
AutoDoubler
compression because they will be completely decompressed when they're
launched.
This is one area where AutoDoubler/SpaceSaver beat MoreDiskSpace.

Robert

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 08:01 EST
From: MIGLIUOLO@NERUS.PFC.MIT.EDU
Subject: Backwards "R" (A)

There is a letter (pronounced "YA") in the cyrillic alphabet that
looks exactly like a backwards R. Now, all one has to do is find
a set of cyrillic fonts...
			     Hope this helps.

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 16:39 EDT
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <needje@msen.com>
Subject: CopyDoubler bug--only in demo!

Recent issues of Info Mac contained some comments by Martin Jasoo and Tony
Huang about a bug in CopyDoubler which gives a "disk is full" error message
under some conditions.

I was just reading through the Salient bulletin board on AOL and found this
explanation:

>Subj:  RE> CD very nice, one more thing      92-10-01 17:27:27 EDT
>From:  Salient
>
>I'm glad you are impressed with the CopyDoubler demo. The erroneous 'disk is
>full' message is a bug that was introduced in the demo version.
(Demonstrating
>the importance of beta testing :) The demo itself was never in beta)
 [answer to another question deleted]
>Andy Stocker
>Salient/FGS

One oddity is that the release version of CopyDoubler will not work unless
AutoDoubler is present (AD doesn't have to be turned on--only present
somewhere in the System Folder). The reason given is that since CopyDoubler
is not being sold separately as yet, only owners of AD have received the
release version, so any pirate must remember to steal both AD and
CopyDoubler. It's an anti-piracy measure, but not a copy protection
measure. I never heard of anything like this myself. The demo version has
no such restriction.

In another reply, Andy Stocker notes:

>FGS' tech support line is open 24 hours, and they can process credit card
>orders. 800-766-7283. That's 1-800 ROM SCUD, whatever that means.
Jeff Needleman  <needje@msen.com>

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 06 Oct 92 14:35:01 +0100
From: "Dr. Christoph van Wuellen"
<HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: DeskJet and the Mac (A)

In principle, the DeskJet works fine with the Mac, but this has some
drawbacks:
- you need a printer driver (JetLink Express etc.)
- you need a 'modem cable'
- the serial interface of the DeskJet only works up to 19,600 baud. Since
  essentially bitmaps are transferred, this may slow down the print process

C.v.W.
Besides of this, no problems with the DeskJet.
P.S.: You can drive the DeskWriter with JetLink, but not the DeskJet with the
DeskWriter driver.

------------------------------

Date: 6 Oct 92 15:51:09 GMT
From: moj@risken.vd.volvo.se (Mats-Olof Sander)
Subject: DOS.INIT 1.2 conflicts with Apple File Exchange (and copy)

Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu writes:

>  I tried the file uploaded as dos-cp-12.hqx. It does allow DOS
>  disks to be mounted on the desktop as advertised. However, when I
>  tried to use Apple File Exchange to translate a file, it bombed.

>  If anyone knows how to contact the mysterious author or
>  "Strikersware, Inc" I'll report the bug.

>  Bob Canfield, Internet: canfieldra@vtcc1.cc.vt.edu

 I've also tried the CDEV, and DOS-disks mount fine. I can also open
text files with TeachText or MS Word, but if I try to copy or duplicate
files I get error -58.

I hope the author reads this.

Mats-Olof (moj@risken.vd.volvo.se)

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 06 Oct 92 11:39:00 EST
From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU>
Subject: FAQ...HD Vendor

On Mon, 5 Oct 1992 10:47 EST you said:
>I'm guessing 100MB is just fine for the HD.  I know there are some
>thousands of companies in the back of MacWeek, and I'd like to hear
>rave reviews about any of 'em.  Lets assume we're getting a Quantum
>105, and are interested in who delivers it with the best case,
>software, and trimmings.

Similar polls have been taken at least twice in the last two years.  The
far and away winner on those occasions was APS in Missouri (800)
233-7550

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 11:34:46 EDT(-0400)
From: ed@titipu.resun.com (Edward Reid)
Subject: Fat Files (C)

Bob Kerns writes:
> Actually, with Silver Lining, [...] adjust the partition sizes.  And
> then wait; it takes time to move all that data.

Hey, that's pretty neat!  Do make sure (as Bob says) you have one GOOD
backup when you do this, though.  You are not erasing your disk completely,
but there is still plenty of room for something to go wrong.

> In fact, in every circumstance I've
> ever seen in real life, there is a strong skew toward
> lots of smaller files, and fewer large files.

In fact, this is an instance of a general phenomenon.  If you look at almost
any statistical table, and calculate the distribution of leading digits, you
will find more numbers beginning with "1" than with any other digit.  This
applies to city populations, street addresses, and many other things.  (It
does not apply to non-statistical data such as telephone numbers.)  I'm sure
it applies to to file systems as well.

> This means that your space savings is likely to be larger than
> your estimate would yield. [...]
> The larger the allocation blocks, the more likely it is
> that this skew will be substantial.

Waste as a percentage of the disk size is likely to be fairly constant,
though, since changing the allocation block size simply shifts your position
on the curve.  %waste is probably a more important number to watch than
absolute waste.

Consider, too, that much of the need for larger disks is being driven by
larger files rather than by more files.  Has %waste increased or decreased
as disk sizes have increased?  Probably no one has sufficient historical
archives to find out.  My guess is that %waste has decreased.  Of course,
that doesn't take into account the way disks are used: my old 30MB disk ran
95% full, but my new 210MB disk is only 80% full.  Should I consider my 20%
unused space as wasted?

> I'd suggest: [...]
>  wasteguess = (oldmaxwaste/1.5)-(newmaxwaste/2)

Not a bad guess, but we are sort of shooting at sounds here.  What will we
hit?  I prefer to avoid over-formulizing and emphasize analysis.  Each user's
file system will be different, and each user's space/time/cost tradeoffs will
be different.  Know thyself.

Again, this only points out the need for a good program to aid the analysis.
I'm rather surprised that I've never heard of such a thing.  Probably could
even be done in Hypercard.  I'll do it myself in my Copious Spare Time (tm).

> Lots of applications come with vast numbers of tiny files.

I also received email from Ben Fowler pointing out that text editors often
store very small resource forks with text files, for font information and
the like.  This tends to increase the skew toward small forks.

> This 16-bit nonsense is one more example of Apple's old
> lack of foresight, in the days when hard disks were 20Megs.

20MB???  Dream on!  This structure harks back to 400KB floppies.  Every byte
counted in those days.

Even without that consideration, don't assume it was lack of foresight.
It's not at all clear that we would be better off with a different
structure, only that our problems would be different.

> Ideally, the allocation block size should be purely a performace/
> space tradeoff, rather than forced by 16-bit fields in the filesystem.

I agree.  But managing that performance/space tradeoff would not be trivial.

> Oh well, maybe in the next OS.

Don't hold your breath.  Such a change would be an enormous conversion.
Many disk utility programs would require major upgrades.  Even more
important, a back-out path has to be provided.  That is, if you install
System 8 and all your applications bomb, you have to go back to System 7.
The support for the back-out has to be in the earlier system, since the new
file system is incompatible with the old.

Enough rambling.

Edward Reid  (8*}>
  eel:   ed@titipu.resun.com  or  nosc.mil!titipu.resun.com!ed
  snail: PO Box 378/Greensboro FL 32330

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 06 Oct 92 20:09:50 -0400
From: Bob Kerns <rwk@crl.dec.com>
Subject: Fat Files (C)

    Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 11:34:47 EDT(-0400)
    From: ed@titipu.resun.com (Edward Reid)
    Waste as a percentage of the disk size is likely to be fairly constant,
    though, since changing the allocation block size simply shifts your
    position
    on the curve.

But the curve isn't linear, so shifting you position on it
yields different results.  Consider a disk with 64,000 512-byte
forks.  On a 32Mb drive, there will be no waste.  On a 3.2Gb
drive, it will be 99% waste.
    > This 16-bit nonsense is one more example of Apple's old
    > lack of foresight, in the days when hard disks were 20Megs.

    20MB???  Dream on!  This structure harks back to 400KB floppies.  Every
    byte
    counted in those days.

Buzz, wrong answer.  That filesystem, called MFS, is long obsolete.
The current filesystem, HFS, replaced it because MFS was so
incredibly inadaquate for drives in the 20Mb range.

Having been forced to redo the filesystem once, you would think
they would have gone to 32 bit disk addresses  The amount of
space consumed by disk addresses is trivial, even on an 800K
floppy.  (400K floppies still use MFS).

    > Oh well, maybe in the next OS.
    Don't hold your breath.  Such a change would be an enormous conversion.

Actually, the technology has long existed to support multiple
filesystems.  In fact, the Mac supports too many to even count.
There's MFS, HFS, Appleshare, NFS, a couple varients of CDROM,
AFS, and probably others I've never heard of.

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 16:52:36 EDT
From: gordon@funrsc.fairfield.edu (Gordon Oppenheimer)
Subject: Floppy Disk Tester

Hello,

Is there such a thing as a software program that tests the floppy
drive to ensure that it is working properly?

My problem is that one or more drives (in the lab) are corrupting
data.  The problem is not noticed until the user returns at a later
date and trys to use their disk.  The disk is unreadable and the
system asks to initialize it.  Norton Utilities usually can restore
the disk to working condition with no data loss (usually).

The users, of course, can never remember the last machine they
worked on (even the users that have been hit serveral times).

Does anyone have a program we can run on each drive to find the
offending drive?

Thanks,

Gordon
--
 UNIX Lab Manager, Academic Computing Services, Fairfield University

------------------------------

Date: 5 Oct 1992 23:51:41 -0800
From: "Anker, Andrew" <anker@spayot.com>
Subject: Group Scheduling/PowerBook Modems

My opinions on two questions:

>Can anyone recommend software to handle the calendars of a
work group of 10 people?  Ideally, we would like to be able to
see each other's calendar, schedule meetings, and also
we would like a feature that would make it easy to determine where
a user is (or where the user says he/she is) if not in the office.

>We are running Microsoft Mail, but we don't want to post random messages
about our schedules.  We are lookinmg for something different, but I'm
not sure what exactly.

>Anyone know if the program NOW-UP TO DATE have the features I am looking
for?

We're running Up-to-Date on our network.  It has proved to be very helpful and
has
all of the features you described as "ideal".  Of course, it's only as helpful
as people are diligent in entering their calendars.  Before purchasing
Up-to-Date, we looked at Microsoft Scheduler (we also have a MS Mail
network).
I didn't think it was anything more than a specialized mail generator (i.e.,
you
select a time period, tell it who you want at the meeting, and it
automatically
(!) sends an e-mail to those people telling them about the meeting).
Helpful.
Not.

>I'm in need of information on internal modems (9600baud) for the Mac
Powerbook 145 (and the 160 and 180's when they come out).

>Would someone please drop me a note with a few models and names of sources?

We have a Global Village PowerPort/Silver for our PB 170 (I'm sure it works in
a 145
as well).  The only problem we've had with it is in dialing into our network
using Remote Access:  for some reason, the Global Village cannot communicate
with the Abaton Interfax we have on one of our machines.  Otherwise, it has
worked well: it has had no problem communicating with a PSI Comstation 5, a
Prometheus Home Office Ultima or any of the generic 2400 baud modems we've
got.

Hope this helps,

Andrew Anker
anker@spayot.com

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 05 Oct 92 21:12:19 EDT
From: "Dieder B." <UGU00266@vm.uoguelph.ca>
Subject: Hellcats interesting...

Here's something a friend and I noticed while playing Hellcats.

1) If you have finished the mission 'Flying Fortress' and you land
successfully
   and then taxi to the middle of the runway where the flying fortress is, you
   may notice something strange. Select the Tower view and then take a look
   at the B17. It just KEEPS on turning around and around! Weird. But, if you
   take a look at it from the cockpit view of the plane, it stands still.

2) Recently, on comp.sys.mac.games, some new screen shots were posted from
   the new scenery files 'Leyte Gulf' (?). Could somebody copy those files
   and turf them onto info-mac?

D.

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 11:39:37 EST
From: williams <williams@sra011.tours.inra.fr>
Subject: IIsi that won't shut down (R)

We had that very same problem on an fx, the motherboard got changed, then the
hard disc, then ....  Eventually, it turned out that one of the SIMM's was
bad,
so get your dealer to check the SIMMs before accepting a motherboard
exchange!

John Williams (INRA Station de Recherches Avicoles, C.R.Tours, Nouzilly,
France)
williams@tours.inra.fr

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 22:50 EDT
From: STEIN78@WILMA.WHARTON.UPENN.EDU
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V10 #240

Anyone know how to turn off the startup sound of the Mac Quadra? Is
it possible?

Thanks,
Adam Stein

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 22:52 EDT
From: STEIN78@WILMA.WHARTON.UPENN.EDU
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V10 #240

Is there a shareware or freeware progrma that can plot a graph from
linear formulas instead of values. I'm primarily interested in graphing
supply and demand curves. I am a MS Excel user but the manual was not
very clear about whether it was possible to do it or not with the program.

Thanks,
Adam Stein

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 09:11:16 EST
From: Christian_Gingras <Christian_Gingras@UQSS.UQuebec.CA>
Subject: Info-Mac Drive Fund

Hi netters!

I don't know how the Info-Mac Drive Fund is doing right now, but I would like
to ask all user group leaders around the world to convince your board of
directors to donate some money for the drive.

I don't know about you, but our PD library stuff comes mainly from Info-Mac,
and it's worth a lot for us. So, we decided to donate 100$ for the drive. I
urge all user groups to do the same (almost 2000 user groups would make a lot
of money, even at only 10$ each!).

Le Club Macintosh de Quebec is proud to be a part of this. Please join us!


Christian Gingras
(Christian_Gingras@UQSS.UQuebec.CA)

*** Quebec City, the home of Club Macintosh de Quebec...

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 19:42 EDT
From: Friendly Neighborhood Witch <EOLIVER@ACC.HAVERFORD.EDU>
Subject: InitShare

A day or so ago I posted a request about sharing init's over a network (or
diskless booting of pluses), and one of the responses to me suggested using
the
program INITShare, however, that program is no longer in the SUMEX archives,
at
least not according a the ALL-FILES.TXT list.

Does anyone have INITShare?  And if they do, could they repost it, thanks.


-Erik Oliver
EOLIVER@ACC.HAVERFORD.EDU

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 08:30:18 -0800
From: Jerry Wilcox <iscjcw@uccvma.ucop.edu>
Subject: Internet mail to/from GEnie

Catching up on a couple of back days activity, I've seen several notes
regarding the exchange of mail with GEnie users. Several people have
correctly indicated that the proper address for a GEnie user is
<userid>@geis.com. What I haven't seen pointed out (pardon me if I missed
it), is that the GEnie user must have elected to enroll in the internet
mail program before s/he can send OR receieve internet mail.

Note also that this service is not free. Enrollment carries a flat monthly
charge, in addition to the subscriber's regular GEnie charges. The internet
charge is assessed whether or not the user receives or sends any internet
messages during the month. I'm sorry, but I've forgotten exactly what the
amount of the charge is and I've also forgotten the message size limits,
etc.

I am a GEnie subscriber, but elected not to sign up for the internet
service because of the extra charges.

If you do send mail to a GEnie user who hasn't subscribed, you'll get back
a very cryptic bounce note. I attempted to send a note to myself on GEnie,
and got this back, 5 days later:

>Status: 7   Message picked up by receiving system and not delivered to
>            any recipients because of various exception conditions.
>
>Address Delivered To:
>   J.WILCOX4
>Address Status Message:
>   *   This address is not permitted to view or send to address J.WILCOX4

Pretty helpful, huh?
--
Jerry Wilcox  iscjcw@uccvma.ucop.edu    iscjcw@uccvma.bitnet

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 09:12:01 -0500
From: sowell@unomaha.edu
Subject: Jewish Humor stack (Q)

	I remember seeing in the New Products section of MacWorld (at
least, I think that is where I saw it) an announcement of a Hypercard stack
of Jewish humor. Is anyone familiar with this stack?
Name/company/address/phone/etc. would be appreciated.
	Please respond directly since I am behind in reading info-mac.

Glenn Sowell      sowell@unomaha.edu

------------------------------

Date: 06 Oct 1992 10:32:37 -0500 (CDT)
From: Al Spohn * Hilton 516 * 507-284-1666 <spohn@mayo.edu>
Subject: Laserwriter II Repair Cost

Howdy -

I've got a Laserwriter II that I bought about 3 years ago, that, if anything,
suffered from underuse (it's only on it's second cartridge).  When it started
"shooting blanks" the other day, I brought it in to Computerland to get it
checked out.  The estimate was $598 before labor, &755.35 total for a new
"scanning assembly".  Although I have no real reason to doubt the estimate, I
thought I'd get some initial impressions on Computerland's repair practices
and
other alternatives I might have, if applicable.  The reason I went to
Computerland is simply that it's the most conveniently located repair
facility.
Thanks in advance!

- Al Spohn      spohn@mayo.edu

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 10:41:08 EST
From: tkelley <tkelley@HEL1.BRL.MIL>
Subject: Lee Mail and 3 days for delivery

I am trying to convince our net administrator to use Lee mail and we are
currently beta-testing it, but we have hit a problem. He says that if your Mac
is turned off for more than about 3 days, people sending you mail will get an
undeliverable mail error message because there is no place for the mail to
go.
I think he is right, and unless I leave my Mac running over the weekends and
holidays (which I don't want to do) I will miss getting a lot of mail. Is
there
any way around this?

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 06 Oct 92 18:32:41 +1200
From: fingolfin@abyss.actrix.gen.nz (Paul Thompson)
Subject: Macintosh Accelerators.

Here in New Zealand we get the US macworld (albiet 3 or so months
behind) but I *STILL* managed to miss the copy I wanted. It was June or
July's edition (I think) It was all about macintosh Accelerators, Now
this is what I want to know, I want information on accelerators for the
Classic, (I'm not paying more then my classic is worth to upgrade the
logic board to only a classic II). I remembered seeing a piece on classic
specific accelerators, The one I'm interested in was a 68030, 50 mhz
model that support upto 64mb of ram, It has two lessor models and it
costs 994$ (US). Here's the interesting bit, I didn't get ALL the
information on this board (like who makes it and where it comes from)
Can any one give me information on this? plus any extra information.

Cheers, Paul.
fingolfin@abyss.actrix.gen.nz

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 02:07:53 GMT
From: mbany@iastate.edu (Mike A. Bany)
Subject: Macintosh IIsi won't shutdown.

In digest <9210040344.AA05980@SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU>
Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu writes:

>My Mac IIsi won't shutdown from the menu anymore, when you try it just closes
>everthing and loads it back up.  I talked to an apple service center and they
>said I would have to replace the motherboard for $300.  Does anyone know of a
>specific component to replace or something else I can do that doesn't cost
>quite as much.  Please e-mail or post.

>Thanks in advance,

>mbany@iastate.edu

Thank you to those who recommended rebuilding my system.  For some reason it
must have gotten corrupted.  Because my mac would neither restart nor
shutdown.
But after rebuilding my system everything worked fine.

Thanks.

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 03:46:39 -0400
From: DL10@cornell.edu (Don Lee)
Subject: MacScheme Support?

Does anyone know whatever happend to "Semantic Microsystems, Inc." (not
Symantec) who once sold MacScheme?  I tried calling the number in the
"About" box, but they've apparantly either moved or closed shop.  If anyone
has a current number or know of another party that has taken over support,
I'd appreciate hearing from you.

The specific question I had about MacScheme was whether or not there have
been any versions later than 2.1.  Version 2.1 does not seem to be 32-bit
compatible.

Thanks.

=====================================================================
Don Lee :               DL10@cornell.edu       |       CIS: 70731,3413

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 20:12:33 -0400
From: DL10@cornell.edu (Don Lee)
Subject: MacScheme Support?

Does anyone know whatever happend to "Semantic Microsystems, Inc." (not
Symantec) who once sold MacScheme?  I tried calling the number in the
"About" box, but they've apparantly either moved or closed shop.  If anyone
has a current number or know of another party that has taken over support,
I'd appreciate hearing from you.

The specific question I had about MacScheme was whether or not there have
been any versions later than 2.1.  Version 2.1 does not seem to be 32-bit
compatible.

Thanks.

Don Lee (DL10@cornell.edu)

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 09:10:44 -0500
From: sowell@unomaha.edu
Subject: Mactut & Dubl-Click (Q)

I have a colleague that has MacTut/Proglyph and wants to contact the
company (Dubl-Click, I think). Unfortunately, the address that she has is
no longer good (the mail was sent back). Does anyone have a current
address/phone number for this company.

Please reply to me directly since I am not current in my reading of
info-mac.

Glenn Sowell      sowell@unomaha.edu

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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 16:37:59 -0400
From: DL10@cornell.edu (Don Lee)
Subject: Memory Question

The scenario:

- A IIci with more than 8Megs of RAM installed - say 12Megs as an example.
- 32-bit addressing is NOT turned on

The Question:  Why can't virtual memory be used? - The button can be turned

	       "ON", but no extra memory can be allocated (as far as I can
	       tell).
When 32-bit addressing is turned on, VM behaves normally.

Without going into why anyone would install more than 8Megs of physical
memory and not use it, can anyone give me a technical explanation of why VM
can't be used in this situation? (...or what I'm missing?)

Thanks.

Don Lee (DL10@cornell.edu)

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Date: Tue, 06 Oct 92 08:33:33 PDT
From: Jerry Tangren <GSW$EN@WSUVM1.CSC.WSU.EDU>
Subject: Microsoft OS for the Mac (C)

Several of you have wondered how anyone could imagine a Microsoft OS
for the Mac. Unfortunately, when Microsoft announces Windows NT for the
Mac, 90% (a conservative estimate) of the non-Mac oriented publications
will endorse that as the greatest advance in personal computing of the
decade. It's also no secret that Microsoft envisions Windows NT as THE
OS for ALL computers, from the microprocessor in your toaster up to the
top-of-the-line Cray. There is no way Microsoft will leave the best
selling desktop machine out of its strategy. Fortunately, we, the
marketplace, will be making the final decisions.

Jerry Tangren
Wenatchee WA
<gsw$en@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu>

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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 06:00:39 PDT
From: f_rushingrg@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
Subject: More PowerBook Info ?

Greetings (again...) from Nacogdoches--

It seems that there has been a powerBook craze hit our college--  I've been
asked to find out all sorts of information on these beasties--
first it was just modems, not it has mushroomed into:

batteries and chargers
carrying cases
external mouse and keypads
ect ect ect

Would some of you folks please send me a few sources of these types of
products (other than Apple itself) ?

Has one of the Mac Magazines had an article or set of reviews on this info
?


Please send to me, rather than burdern the other list users--

Thanks
Ron Rushing-Supervisor     S.F.A  University- College of Education
f_rushingrg@ccsvax.sfasu.edu

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Date: Mon, 05 Oct 92 21:27:25 EDT
From: "Dieder B." <UGU00266@vm.uoguelph.ca>
Subject: MS-DOS for the Mac (?!?!)

I had a good chuckle today as I read the comment that perhaps Apple is
'charging' for 7.1 in the way that MacWrite and MacDraw are now being
charged for so that other developers can write their own equivalents.
Maybe I'm reading it all wrong, but I think it was said tongue-in-cheek?

Re: Charging...I still don't know what Apple will be including in 7.1
that will make me want to upgrade to it. Whether or not I would have to
pay is irrelevant so far as I am concerned until I know what I'm upgrading
to. Sort of like my feelings re: MS Word 4.0 vs 5.0. I could purchase
Word 5.0 for a song, at little expense to my pocket book or to my hd/ram,
but Word 5.0 has *nothing* in it that is sufficiently better such that
I can justify the effort. Until Apple comes out with the 'what's new in
7.1' sheet...it ain't worth worryin' 'bout says I.

Just a few nonsensical ramblings,

D.

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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 09:11:58 MDT
From: sharmony@nova.ta52.lanl.gov (Stephen C. Harmony)
Subject: Need network software on Mac to connect UNIX's NFS (A)

In info-mac v10#238 Yuan-Der Liu writes:

> I need the software to connect Mac with UNIX's NFS.

Check out PathWay Client NFS from Wollongong (despite the name, they appear
to be in California, not Australia). Their ad in the September 28 MacWeek
claims they'll send you a 30-day free evaluation copy.

The ad listed the following phone numbers and an internet address:

800-872-8649                  415-962-7202       322-718-0311 in Europe
800-962-8649 in California    415-962-0286 fax   sales@twg.com

Steve Harmony (not affiliated with Wollongong, just read the ad)

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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 16:04 EDT
From: "Michael R. Roman" <MIKERO@lns61.tn.cornell.edu>
Subject: page layout programs

I'm going to buy a page layout program for work. I've narrowed it down to
Quark
Express, PageMaker and Ventura Publisher. Can anyone fill me in on the pros
and
cons of each of these applications?

Mike Roman
mikero@lns61.tn.cornell.edu

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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 10:52:41 -0400
From: Dave Cohn [703] 818-4516 <cohn@europa.eng.gtefsd.com>
Subject: Portable printing advice sought

We are planning to buy a couple of Powerbooks and are looking at alternatives
for portable printing capability.  I have seen Phil Harriman's summary (#134)
on portable printers, but am now looking for information on 2 products which
are not discussed in it:  the GCC WriteMove II, and the ShareTALK interface
device from Digital Products.  The ShareTALK is little more than an interface
cable and a pile of driver software which supposedly allows printing to "Iany
laser, inkjet or letter quality matrix printer."  (from their ad in MacWeek,
9/28/92, p. 71)

I would greatly appreciate any comments, pro or con, on either of these
products and/or companies.  If I get enough responses or requests, I'll
gladly post a summary.

Thanks,

Dave Cohn

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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 18:27:14 MET DST
From: mcdavey@maths.tcd.ie
Subject: Powerbook Retail Prices

Can someone help? I am looking for prices for over-the-counter powerbooks.
I am in Ireland but am soon to travel to the States.

In general terms, I'm interested in prices for PB145 and PB170, but understand
these are soon to be replaced by the PB160 and PB180.  Also, I would be
looking for up to 4MEG RAM and 40-80 Meg Hard Drives.  Can someone send me
a brief idea of what prices I'm likely to face, and when the newer models
will become available?

Replies via email, or post if you like........

Thanks,

Matt Davey,   Trinity College, Dublin.
mcdavey@maths.tcd.ie

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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 14:53:31 GMT
From: im@sei.cmu.edu (Ira Monarch)
Subject: Quadra Shipping Delays?

I ordered a multimedia version Quadra 700 through the computer store
at CMU mid-July and still have not received it.  According to a
computer store representative, the store was unable to get in touch
with Apple about a shipment date until early September, even for
orders put in June.  At that time Apple `promised' to deliver by the
end of September.  Now, again according to the computer store, Apple
says the shipment will come mid-October.  There was no explanation for
the delay.  Is anyone else experiencing these sorts of delays for
Quadras?  Is there a problem causing delay of shipment?

[Ira Monarch, Software Engineering Institute, CMU, Pittsburgh, PA]

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Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 23:56:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: 1250011@SAPHIR.ULAVAL.CA
Subject: Radius Rocket Accelerator card

To anyone using the Radius Rocket 040 accelerator card:

Is there a compatibility problem with some software (like QuickTime) ?
If so, does it depend on what type of Mac (the ROM in fact) you had in
the first place ?

I'm looking a for a used Mac I'd like to upgrade with the Radius Rocket,
and I hesitate between the IIx, the IIcx and the IIci.  The IIx would be
a terrible machine since it has 6 slots, but I'd like to make sure I
won't be stuck with incompatibility problems with popular software.

Please respond to me directly if you can and I will post a brief summary
for the digest.  Thanks in advance.

  - CHR$
    -------------------------
    1250011@SAPHIR.ULAVAL.CA


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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 11:46 PDT
From: Ed Costello <COSTELLO@YOOHOO.llnl.gov>
Subject: Software to assist scheduling events (Q)

Greetings,
	I am helping a local boys' basketball group schedule games.  There are
approximately 70 teams and 10-12 gyms available at various times.  We need to
schedule the games so that each game is played at a gym belonging to one team
or
the other and so that each team gets about the same number of home and away
games.
	Some time ago, I heard of a program or Excel template or something
	that
could assist in this task.  Thinking back, it may have been applied to
teachers
and classrooms, but the concept is somewhat similar.
	I am willing to try any suggestions as the season is rapidly
	approaching
and the schedule must be distributed.

	Thanks in advance for any help.

Ed Costello

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Date: Tue, 06 Oct 92 19:18:17 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <IRBLOOM@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject: Stuffit 3.0.2

I noticed that Aladdin's Leonard Rosenthol posted the 3.0.2 updater for
Stuffit Deluxe the other day. Where, Good Aladdin Folk, is the updater
or the replacement for Stuffit Lite?

I know there is a Stuffit Lite 3.0.2 because I just got a copy on disk
>From Aladdin.

I'd seen two fruity things related to my Stuffit Lite. It just pretended
to create an AppleLink package. That was one. That didn't bother me much.
I tried that facility only to test an oddity mentioned by one of you fine
Info-Mac folk. What bothered me was getting clobbered by AutoDoubler 1.07
with Stuffit Lite 3.0.1 installed.

It was apparently a multi-way interaction, since I've not been clobbered
at home in another, slightly different, environment. The symptoms were
major system death with a variety of "An app died" messages and a snot
nosed message from AD saying that it died trying to recompress Stuffit.
AD didn't mention that it turned itself off as a result, but that's what
it did.

I dropped a note to Aladdin tech suppt. After I sent the tech a copy of
the Norton Disk Doctor report on what goodies I had installed, the tech
said simply that I needed 3.0.2 and that he would send it ASAP. He did.

I don't know that Stuffit Lite 3.0.2 will solve any of the problems that
I've experienced. I had moved the program to the System Folder, so AD
hasn't bothered trying to compress it lately. I had also pulled the Retro
SCSI extension (Retrospect) as the only other addition I'd made to my
system of late. Haven't had a crash since, even with Stuffit 3.0.1. I've
been busy. No chance to play.

However. Aladdin knows there are problems with Stuffit 3.0.1 (whether
Deluxe or Lite). Otherwise there probably wouldn't be a 3.0.2, si? So
why has Leonard only posted the Deluxe updater? Yes, I tried. It does
not work with Lite.

Is the shareware version of Stuffit an unwanted stepchild? I've been a
registered user since 1.51, I paid the upgrade fee for Stuffit Lite, I
suffered through several months of snot nosed messages re unregistered
shareware use before getting my official Stuffit Lite disk, and I do
not see broadband distribution of the fix to Stuffit Lite 3.0.1. C'mon,
Aladdin! If you're stuffing Stuffit Lite, say so. Scott Watson's Red
Ryder went to purely commercial White Knight very explicitly. If y'all
are going to do the same, it'd be friendly if you told us.

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 10:51:23 -0400
From: navsaria@bu-pub.bu.edu
Subject: Sumex Fund Drive

   Well, you know, Wuarchive has a little "plug" for DEC in their FTP
message:

Name (wuarchive.wustl.edu:navsaria): anonymous
331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
Password:
230-  This is an experimental FTP server.  If your FTP client crashes or
230-  hangs shortly after login please try using a dash (-) as the first
230-  character of your password.  This will turn off the informational
230-  messages that may be confusing your FTP client.
230-
230-  This system may be used 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.  The local
230-  time is Tue Oct  6 09:50:47 1992.
230-
230-  Wuarchive is a DECstation 5000 Model 240.  Thanks to Digital Equipment
230-  Corporation for their support of Wuarchive.
230-
230-Please read the file README
230-  it was last modified on Mon Mar  2 08:29:25 1992 - 218 days ago
230-Please read the file README.NFS
230-  it was last modified on Tue Jul  7 14:11:22 1992 - 91 days ago
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp>
================================

  Perhaps something similar can be done for Sumex...

					      Dipesh Navsaria
					      (navsaria@bu-pub.bu.edu)

[I asked our sysadmin about this, but he was reluctant. Apparently those
 descriptive lines can cause some ftp clients to collapse. -Bill]

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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 13:32:02 EDT
From: dswartz@redondo.sw.stratus.com (Dan Swartzendruber)
Subject: TaxCut for the Mac

I was *very* happy to hear that this program will be out in Mac form
soon.  I've done my taxes on the PC version for the last 4 years and
I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it.  When I recently (this summer)
moved from a PC to a Mac, I was a little apprehensive about what I'd
do for my 1992 taxes.  Hopefully TaxCut will be out (in a reliably
debugged version) by next spring.

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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92  10:30 BST
From: RICHARD LIM <RTL%SIVA.BRISTOL.AC.UK@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Upgrade to Microsoft Word 5 imminent?

Can anyone out there confirm or deny what someone mentioned to me in passing
lately, namely that Word 5.1 is due very shortly?  If so, is it likely to be
much more like Word for Windows 2, in accordance with Microsoft's declared
policy of maintaining consistency between Mac and Windows apps?  Not that I
particularly like WfW 2, although it has some nice features...

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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 08:25:56 GMT
From: knight@swfmc1.SINet.SLB.COM (Francis Knight, SIEM UK Felixstowe)
Subject: Why Apple is charging for Sys 7.1

>>It is clear to me that the charge for system 7.1 is a similar
>>attempt by Apple and we can expect Microsoft to announce a
>>Macintosh operating system soon.

>I find it very hard, but not impossible to believe that Microsoft would get
>into the Mac OS Market.
>Interested in hearing more from anyone!!

Didn't I hear someone mention that Macrosoft had bought Insignia, purveyors
of SoftPC? Doesn't this fit with the theory?

) Francis K.

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Date: Sun, 4 Oct 92 19:51 CDT
From: trimper@edsi.plexus.COM (Greg Trimper)
Subject: Windows 3.1/Mac (Was: Why Apple is charging for system 7.1)

>It is clear to me that the charge for system 7.1 is a similar
>attempt by Apple and we can expect Microsoft to announce a
>Macintosh operating system soon.

Now THERE is a way to make the Mac a "corporate" standard - the
"Macintosh Carp is fully Windows 3.1/Dos 5.0 compliant, and can run all
of your standard applications."

Death first.  (Coming from someone who finds himself writing some of his
Mac applications for Windows at the current time, this could be a suicide
note....)

Greg Trimper   trimper@edsi.plexus.com

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Date: 6 Oct 92 07:32:00 CST
From: "Eugene Cohen" <eugene@rover.uchicago.edu>
Subject: ZModem and CTB

>Quick question. Has anyone heard of a ZModem tool for the Communications
>Toolbox?

Yeah, but it ain't free.  Can you believe that Apple is CHARGING for it?
What a gip!

-Yuge

[Are you sure about that? I am an aficionado of the CTB and have not
 heard anything about an Apple ZModem tool. There are commercial ZModem
 tools -- one from Pacer, and an upcoming one from SeaQuest.

 Besides, why would it be a gyp for them to charge for it?? -Bill]

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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 15:00:57 -0400
From: Michel D Pepin <Michel_D_Pepin@UQTR.UQuebec.CA>

Subjet  :       Monitoring activities on Mac

I am searching a software which would be able to record all
the activities running on a MacIntosh.  For each software
and/or file, I would like to know the date and time used
and, eventually, other related informations.

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