From: info-mac-request@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (The Moderators)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V10 #246
Date: 14 Oct 92 00:47:39 GMT
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Info-Mac Digest             Tue, 13 Oct 92       Volume 10 : Issue 246

Today's Topics:

      [*] SimScandal: The Software Sex Scandal
      [*] TidBITS#146/12-Oct-92
      13" Monitor Discolouration
      16" PICT's
      24-bit addressing and virtual memory (2 msgs)
      24-bit addressing and virtual memory (A)
      24-bit addressing and virtual memory.
      About QuickTime Compression
      ADA compiler for mac
      Amazing expanding clipboard (2 msgs)
      Apple TV Contact ?
      Apple UK - minor flame
      Applied Engineering external 1.44M floppy drive
      ARA as an alias
      AutoDoubler 2.0 Reset command
      AutoDoubler Int. Comp. Bug?
      Colony Editor Wanted
      Color Pivot/LE
      country area codes
      dongles
      DOS-INIT possible Trojan??
      Expert System Shells (reply to reply)
      Expert System Shells for the Mac (A)
      Expert System Shells for the Mac (C)
      Faulty 13" monitors - Apple France make you pay!
      FileMaker Pro page break after subsummary part
      Focus Ethernet Cards (Q)
      Formatting 178MB Hard Drive
      Grayscale printing
      HD icon can't be modifed
      Imagewriter II Sheet Feeder? (Q)
      Info-Mac Digest V10 #245 (2 msgs)
      Korea and Mouse problem (Q)
      Logging Into My Own HD (Q)
      Logging Onto My Own Hard Disk (NM)
      MacNosy (A)
      Max memory with VM/24 bit (2 msgs)
      My IIsi fan is dying!
      My Spreadsheet Search -- Summary
      NCSA Telnet question
      NNTP access
      PB100 as an ADB device?
      PCs vs. Macs / Doctoral Committees
      Personal LWLS and a Mac Plus
      PhotoShop Plug-Ins on the Net?
      Plea for help. VERY sick SE/30.
      Powerbook 140/Clarisworks/Imagewriter problem
      PowerBook 140 upgrade
      Question about New Macs
      QuickTime 1.5
      TrueType Fonts... how to use?
      UK Internet Access (summary)
      Using QuickTime Compression with SuperPaint 3.0
      Various replies (3 msgs)
      WAISTATION 0.6.2
      word temp files
      World Script and System 7.1

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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 20:22:08 -0400
From: ccmlh@bu-it.bu.edu (Mark Hayes)
Subject: [*] SimScandal: The Software Sex Scandal

Presenting SimScandal: The Software Sex Scandal, version 1.0

An election season special from the people who brought you
SimBush: The Digital Candidate, and SimPiglet: The Electronic
Potbellied Pig. Requires System 6.0.7 or later.

This shocking computer simulation is based on actual
recordings of a secret erotic liason between President
George Bush and an unknown female who is obviously not his
wife.  Unfortunately, the original tapes have mysteriously
disappeared, so it is history's great fortune that this
simulation is available.  Several distinct phases of the
clandestine encounter were documented and programmed into
the simulation. You may select the phase you wish to study
>From a menu (it is suggested that you begin at Level 1 and
gradually increase the intensity up to Level 5;  you will
note that the President's level of vocal participation
is directly proportional to his illicit partner's level of
arousal, and so is most apparent at the highest settings).

Anyone who actually takes the time to try this thing out is
earnestly requested to drop me a line with reactions,
suggestions, etc., at Internet address ccmlh@bu-it.bu.edu.

Thanks!

   Mark Hayes, Author

P.S. - I'd like to express my thanks once again to the many
kind people who sent me mail about my other contributions. I
do hope to be producing a Sim-Vice-Presidential-Debate once
I have the material recorded, and will post it here as soon
as it's ready!

[Archived as /info-mac/game/sim-scandal.hqx; 335K]

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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 22:45:10 PDT
From: ace@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: [*] TidBITS#146/12-Oct-92

TidBITS#146/12-Oct-92

 This week we clarify the DeskWriter 550C's print mechanism and
   talk briefly about the possibility of a portable version of the
   DeskWriter. Mark Anbinder reports on the MBDF virus authors'
   sentences, Mark Nutter contributes a review of a package of 100
   fonts, and we venture into the political arena with an editorial
   on how the presidential campaign looks from the high tech
   perspective.

Topics:
    MailBITS/12-Oct-92
    APDA Moves
    DeskWriter Comments
    MBDF Culprits Sentenced
    MacUser Oops
    100 Fonts for $49
    MacPolitik
    Reviews/12-Oct-92

[Archived as /info-mac/digest/tb/tidbits-146.etx; 29K]

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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 11:41:51 GMT
From: marcus@sun.pcl.ac.uk (Marcus Harvey)
Subject: 13" Monitor Discolouration

I have a spare 13" monitor that I keep meaning to get fixed.
The monitor works fine but all blacks are discoloured havily by
a browny-purplish tint. This colour can also be seen in a border
around the edge of the desktop. At the top left corner this
border 'tears' off to the left.

Funnnily enough, I got the old 13" monitor at work out of the
storeroom yesterday to fix some problem or other on our Mac &
found that it had a similar discolouration, although less
pronounced and blue rather than purple.

No, none of the twiddlers behind the removable panel effect
this problem at all. The unpleasant tint is present when the
monitor is switched on with no signal from the Mac.

Seems to me it could be caused by one or more of the guns
being over enthusiastic. Before I call in an engineer does
anyone know if I can fix this myself?

Marcus Harvey, University of Westminster IRS
JANET: marcus@uk.ac.westminster
INTERNET: marcus%westminster.ac.uk@ukacrl

							  ...Bubble Up!

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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 15:55:01 PDT
From: "Stan Kerr" <stankerr@uiuc.edu>
Subject: 16" PICT's

In article <9210092322.AA11015@SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU> The Moderators,
info-mac-request@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU writes:
>From: Jon Pugh <jpugh@apple.com>
>Subject: Announcing 16" PICTs!
>
>I have placed some PICTs in 16" 624 x 832 size on ftp.apple.com in my
>directory.  All are stored in MacBinary format.  I cannot take the time
>to binhex and mail these, so please don't ask.  I also cannot resize or
>otherwise muck with them.  It has taken too much of my time to just post
>them.

Can you give a hint what tool to use to uncompress them? I got a couple of
these with Fetch and had no luck reading them with the programs I have.
Name a tool and I can happily pluck it from the sumex garden of delights.
 ---------
Stan Kerr    Computing and Communications Services Office
U of Illinois/Urbana      stankerr@uiuc.edu   (217)333-5217

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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 21:18:08 -0700
From: tonyh@lynx.msc.cornell.edu
Subject: 24-bit addressing and virtual memory

Scott Kaplan writes,
>Okay, yes, I realized that 2^24 is 16 megs...Although thanks for the
>explination
>of where some of those addresses go and what they're used for...I never knew
>that.  But still, the limit the system puts on memory addressing, from every
>account I've seen, is 8 megs with the 24-bit addresses going.  If in fact (I
>haven't tried myself) 13 megs should be addressed with virutal without going
>to 32-bit addresses, then I have two questions:
>1) Why can virtual address that much, but with straight RAM the system stops
>at 8 megs?
>2) The original question that started this needs a new answer.  Whoever it
was
>   (sorry, can't remember) that started this found that his memory control
>   panel would not let him set virtual to more than 8 megs...when he had more
>   than that in the machine.  Something's strange about that, or I'm missing
>   something.

With 32-bit addressing off, Mac can only address 8Mb of RAM because 2Mb is
reserved for ROM and I/O and 6Mb for 6 expansion slots (each slot has 1Mb
address space) even on machines that have fewer or no slot. If you don't
use
all these slots (most people don't - I do use 5 of them in one of the
machines
I use, however) and you want to stick with 24-bit addressing for the time
being,
you can use a program called Maxima from Connectix to reclaim the "missing"
address space. The maximum memory you can address is 16Mb - 2Mb (for ROM
and
I/O) - 1Mb x number of slots (or psuedo slots such as internal video) used,
keeping in mind, however, the resulting address space is fragmented (only
the
first 8Mb is continuous) due to the space reserved for ROM and I/O. To
avoid
further fragmentation, you should place all Nubus cards together (next to
each
other).

Virtual memory, whether from Apple (System 7) or Connectix (Virtual 3.0),
uses
the same scheme to reclaim the missing address space, so the same formula
applies. One final comment, if you turn on 32-bit addressing,
theorectically,
you should be able to address 4Gb (2^32) of memory. However, only 1Gb can
be
addressed for the same reason (it's not a limitation today since Quadra
900/950
can only address 256Mb for hardware reason).

Tony Huang

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Date: 12 Oct 1992 19:48:06 -0700
From: "Apgar, Eric" <apgar#m#_eric@msgate.corp.apple.com>
Subject: 24-bit addressing and virtual memory

The original question came from Don Lee (I think) and his problem
was that with 24-bit addressing and 12 Megs of RAM he could not
turn on VM on his IIci. The reason was he was using on-board video
and a NuBus Ethernet card. The card and video each reserve a  Meg
and ROM/IO uses 2 Megs so that brings the limit down from 16 to 12.


The other question raised is a good one. With 16 or 20 or more Megs
of RAM, but with 24-bit addressing on, why can't one use VM? I think
it's a problem with the System Software, but I'm afraid it will not
be changed soon.

Apgar@Apple.com                   I said it, NOT Apple.

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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 20:43 EDT
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <needje@msen.com>
Subject: 24-bit addressing and virtual memory (A)

In 10-245, Scott Kaplan wonders why the Apple system limits 24-bit
addressing to 8 megs if the theoretical limit is 16 megs.

The reason lies in the history of the way the Mac was designed. The system
reserves certain address blocks for certain purposes, even if the specific
machine involved can't use the address blocks.  For example, the IIx came
with 6 Nubus slots; the Mac reserves a meg of address space for each Nubus
card. The IIcx and the IIci have only 3 Nubus slots--but the same operating
system and ROMs are used, so those "phantom" addresses remain reserved for
the non-existent cards!

Similarly, although we're still using 256k ROMs, there's a full megabyte of
address space reserved for ROMs; I'm sure we'll find that insufficient some
day. And there is similarly a meg reserved for I/O. That leaves possibly 14
megs available for RAM addressing. Use a video card or the on-board video,
and there goes another meg, leaving 13 megs available in most situations.

Even if the address space is available, though, it's not always in one
contiguous chunk--and you still have to fiddle to make the applications
recognize that fact. That's why so many of us recommend the program Maxima
>From Connectix (from whose manual I have cribbed this information--what?
You thought I was that smart?).  It recovers address space from the
non-existent cards and other open Nubus slots. It solves a lot of nasty,
tricky problems that come up in addressing more than 8 MB of RAM in 24-bit
mode, and does it cleanly and neatly and without problem in one of the most
trouble-free programs I've ever used.




Jeff Needleman  <needje@msen.com>

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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 01:28:54 -0400
From: rwk@crl.dec.com
Subject: 24-bit addressing and virtual memory.

    Date: Sun, 11 Oct 92 13:16:51 EDT
    From: Scott Kaplan <sfkaplan@cs.amherst.edu>
    Subject: 24-bit addressing and virtual memory.

OK, looks like we've got some better explaining to do.


The low 8 Mbytes are for RAM.

Then comes the ROM.  This is a major part of the problem, since
it's sitting right in the middle of that 16Mb.

Then comes various processor-related io addresses; the VIA, SCC,
etc.  I don't remember offhand whether the ROM and the IO consume
1Mb or 2Mb total address space, but since the ROM came first, it
doesn't matter; we're already screwed.

Then comes 1Mb for each of the NuBus boards.  (Perhaps some internal
video also counts as a NuBus slot; I'm too lazy to go look it up).

The Mac memory manager only lets you manage a single contiguous block.
What Connectix's various products do is give it a much larger block,
including any unused immediately above the ROM, and permanently allocating
a section out of it for the ROM & IO, up to the first NuBus board.

So the reason you only can get up to 8 is that the @#$% ROM is sitting
there in the way, right where the 9th one should go.  Even with Connectix's
products, you can't run applications larger than that, since they need
contiguous memory.  However, you can run a large application in low
memory, and others in the higher (but smaller) chunk.

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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 22:50:08 -0700
From: Jon Pugh <jpugh@apple.com>
Subject: About QuickTime Compression

QuickTime compression works very well, and invisibly so, but you've got
to remember what's happening.  First off, here are some sizes for screens
at different bit depths:

    13" 8 bit         300,000
    13" 32 bit        900,000
    16" 8 bit         500,000
    16" 32 bit      1,500,000

Now here are some sizes for Quicktime compressed pictures at 16" 32 bit
depths, which are what most of my pictures are stored at:

    Picture         QT 1.0 Size
    -------         -----------
    Half Dome         226,413
    Yosemite          246,925
    LaunchPad         217,737

    Picture         QT 1.5 Size
    -------         -----------
    Andromeda         218,985
    Rosette Nebula    257,015
    Lagoon Nebula     216,649

So, this should explain the expansion from 250K to 1.5M, but the question
is how does QuickTime do this magic.  The answer is compression.  A lot of
people are aware of GIF compression, but few realize that standard PICT
also has compression.  PICT has always had a simple compression scheme for
black and white bitmaps, and it added another simple scheme for color PICTs
with color QD.  This works in all bit depths.  GIF has a compression scheme
that works only on 8 bit images.  QuickTime supports a number of CODECs,
which are COmpression/DECompression modules.   These are stored as CODE
resources in the QuickTime file.  The compression scheme QT adds to PICT is
called JPEG and only works for 32 bit images.

So, a 13" GIF decompresses to 300K, while a 16" JPEG decompresses to 1.5M.
Mind you, you get a lot more picture in my scans.  The trick is to be able
to convert pictures to the size and depth you want.

I use Photoshop to do all my conversions.  It works _very_ well for this
in addition to the other millions of things it does.  Another fellow claimed
that he used ClarisWorks to do this.  What are other people using?

Jon

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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 14:08:39 +0100
From: mazzanti@iei.pi.cnr.it (Franco Mazzanti)
Subject: ADA compiler for mac

>From: v6@dao.nrc.ca (Fabio Favata--Observing)
>Subject: ADA compiler for mac?
>
>        I am looking for an ADA compiler for Macintosh, either commercial or
>PD/shareware. In case you are wondering why would I need an ADA compiler for
>Mac, is for a girlfriend of mine who has to take an ADA course (no choice!).
>Anyone has ever heard of such a thing?
>
>        Thanks, Fabio Favata
>
>                ffavata@estsa2.estec.esa.nl

I am afraid that the only solution is to use the "Adaed" Ada Interpreter
(PD) which is available by anonymous ftp from "cs.nyu.edu".
However, Adaed is currently distributed only for unix and DOS (386?) systems.
If you have SoftPC for doing DOS emulation you can try this way.

Otherwise you (or someone else) could try to port the interpreter to the
MAC OS  (sources are available at that site).
(It would be a very good job!)

Franco Mazzanti
<mazzanti@iei.pi.cnr.it>

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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 01:29:35 -0400
From: rwk@crl.dec.com
Subject: Amazing expanding clipboard

    Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92  20:37 BST
    From: RICHARD LIM <RTL%SIVA.BRISTOL.AC.UK@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
    Subject: Amazing expanding clipboard

    I frequently find that my Clipboard does not shrink again after its
    contents
    have been replaced by something smaller.

There are two invisible pieces to the clipboard.  There's the
applications "Scrap", and there's the clipboard.  Multifinder aware
programs don't have their scrap exported until you switch away
>From the application (since other applications couldn't see it
until then, anyway).  So if you switch away and switch back, that
should shrink your Clipboard file.

    Something to do with the data going into
    memory rather than onto disk, methinks?

Specifically, it stays in the applications memory until there's a reason
to export it, as when you switch applications.

It may also defer updating the on-disk file sometimes, but even without
that, you'd expect to observe this behaviour.

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

Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 01:30:58 -0400
From: rwk@crl.dec.com
Subject: Amazing expanding clipboard

    Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 23:08:06 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Benjamin White <bwhite@pennsy.med.jhu.edu>
    Subject: AutoDoubler 2.0

    Hi all, I recently have seen references to AutoDoubler 2.0.  I am a
    registered user of 1.0.7 and am wondering what I have to do to upgrade and
    what, if anything, I would gain by doing so?

You gain the ability to compress applications, system extensions, and control
panels in such a way that you can run them even with AutoDoubler turned off.
Since you couldn't compress system extensions and control panels at all
before, this can save you a couple megabytes, which is very handy on
PowerBooks!

You also gain CopyDoubler, which speeds up copying operations in the finder.
It appears to be incompatible with Copyright, which is a handy utility to let
you do multiple copy operations in the background.  No surprise; I bet the
only
solution is for them to merge their products, or at least cooperate to a very
great extent.  Of course, as usual in this arena, this is all stuff Apple
should
have gotten right in the first place.

You apparently lose the ability to run MCL compressed.  (This costs me a
Megabyte).
I haven't had a chance to report this yet.  It may be only when the MCL
application
is compressed with 1.0.7; I haven't verified this yet.  This is the only
incompatibility I've seen.  Considering how tricky it is to make this sort of
thing
transparent, I think Salient/Fifth Generation deserve a lot of credit for
doing
a very thorough job of QA.

(Despite the fact it disabled itself when it saw I had Japanese software on
the system.)

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

Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 13:35:09 PDT
From: f_rushingrg@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
Subject: Apple TV Contact ?

Greetings From Nacogdoches--

Would someone send me a message and tell me how to contact the folks at
Apple TV, regarding their "Imagine" series ?

Our set of tapes was "misplaced" and I have a request for their use.

Thanks--
Ron Rushing
S.F.A University

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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92  20:01 BST
From: RICHARD LIM <RTL%SIVA.BRISTOL.AC.UK@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Apple UK - minor flame

How's this for efficient stock-taking?  After some confusion recently about
what type of Ethernet connector to buy for our Quadra 700, we finally decided
to get the standard Apple Ethernet transceiver.  We placed an order with our
local Apple dealer.  A week later we were finally informed that the order
could not be filled because Apple UK had absolutely no Apple Ethernet
transceivers in stock at all, and furthermore they wouldn't have any in
Britain until the end of the month!!!
Come on Apple UK (are any of you reading this?) - what do you think you're
up to?  Not having a standard item like your own Ethernet transceivers in
stock is ridiculous.  Is this your idea of competing for market share?  So
much for the Quadra's built-in Ethernet and all your publicity surrounding
it if you can't buy the relevant Apple connector.
For the record, we were going to buy a third-party one, but it turned out
the dealer who sold them also had a few Apple ones left!

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

Date: 13 October 1992 15:43:15 CDT
From: "Stephen Kawalko  " <U40857%UICVM.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Applied Engineering external 1.44M floppy drive

I find myself in the position of needing to read and write MS-DOS
disks. The problem is that my Mac SE has an 800K floppy drive not the
1.44M drive. Does anyone have experience with the external 1.44M
floppy drive from Applied Engineering. The product information I have
claims that it can read and write to high density floppies (i.e. 1.44M)
without the need to replace the floppy drive controller.

Stephen Kawalko (u40857@uicvm.cc.uic.edu)

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

Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 00:45:25 EDT
From: Pete Tamas <GNOME%TEMPLEVM.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: ARA as an alias

According to a friend, if you start Appletalk Remote Access, access
a remote HD via modem, do your work then unmount server, click
disconnect in the ARA application, everything works as expected.

BUT, if you create an alias of the fileserver you are using, open
it at a later date, then it will access as expected. However, you now
do not have access to the dialog box with "disconnect." So, you unmount,
and turn of the modem. Several MINUTES later you get a message: "Apple
remote access connection has been disconnected."

Does this sound familiar to anyone? Any workarounds so you can access
with an alias (which is very elegant) but stop ARA in an ellegant manner?
Thanks, Pete Tamas
Gnome@TempleVM.bitnet, Temple Univ, Philadelphia(betw New York & Wash DC)

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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 10:19 EDT
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <needje@msen.com>
Subject: AutoDoubler 2.0 Reset command

Found the following in answer to a question on the AOL Salient board this
morning:

>AD 2.0 keeps all of its exclusions and specific settings for each individual
>volume in an invisible file at the root of the volume.  The name of this file
>is ~AutoDoublerSettings(2.0).  It's possible one of these files is corrupt.
>We keep this separate file so the settings for a disk "travel" with the disk,
>not the current preferences file in the System Folder.  Because this file is
>invisible, we added a way to reset (delete) this file from within the AD
>control panel.  I don't believe the procedure made it into the manual (in all
>honesty I forgot it was there <g>).  Deleting this file will delete all
>exclusions and settings for the affected disk but it sounds like you may need
>it.  To do so, select each disk listed in the AD control panel in turn and
>click the "Settings..." button while holding down the option and command
keys.
> A dialog box will appear asking if you want to revert the disk's settings to
>the factory default.  Click OK.  After doing this to all disks, close the AD
>control panel and reboot.  Try adding your exclusions again.
>
>Dave Heller
>AutoDoubler co-author
>Salient/Fifth Generation Systems

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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 01:32:09 -0400
From: rwk@crl.dec.com
Subject: AutoDoubler Int. Comp. Bug?

[Sorry for the wrong subject line on the previous reply]
    Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 21:14:08 -0500
    From: mcj@chem.wayne.edu (Martin Josso)
    Subject: AutoDoubler Int. Comp. Bug?

    AD internal compressor is supposed to create files that will work just
    like
    the uncompressed version. It is true for the most part but I have found
    that any internally compressed Control Panel will crash if used when the
    Mac is restarted with all extensions off (shift key). I have not been able
    to find out what is required for proper function but the requirements seem
    complex. I called 5th Generation but the tech support person was unaware
    of
    the problem.

Hey, this is not AD's fault; the same is true if you don't compress them!!!
Control panels typically assume that if you're running them, they're in
the system folder somewhere so their initialization code was run.  This
was never a completely safe assumption, but it was fairly safe in System 6.

It's absurd in System 7.  Control panel writers should write them so they
don't crash in this circumstance.  But the fact is, they frequently don't.

So remember the rule:  Never try to run a Control panel which did not
have a chance to initialize itself at System startup time.  At best,
it will give you a message complaining that it can't because it didn't
get initialized.  At worst, it will crash horribly and you'll lose all
your files.  Most likely, it will just crash.

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

Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 17:32 CST
From: jaime@UDLAPVMS.PUE.UDLAP.MX
Subject: Colony Editor Wanted

Hi netters,

Some time ago I saw a posting of a program called Colony Editor, which
allows changing the energy levels of a Colony game.

Recently, someone posted the maps and hints for this game, but in most
levels is required a lot of energy in order to solve the game, so I would
like to have the editor.

Does anybody know where can I find the Colony Editor? I have tried Archie,
but I could'nt find the Editor in the sites listed.

Please reply directly to me, and I will summarize for the list.

Thanks

Jaime Iturbe, jaime@udlapvms.pue.udlap.mx

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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 11:50:13 MDT
From: Roger Marks <marks@bldr.nist.gov>
Subject: Color Pivot/LE

Has onyone worked with the Radius Color Pivot/LE monitor? How is the picture?

Roger
Marks@bldr.nist.gov    NIST/Boulder,CO

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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 13:47:06 EDT
From: Clare Durst <CCD@BROWNVM.brown.edu>
Subject: country area codes

I'm looking for an app/stack/da/whathaveyou that will tell what the country
codes are for phone numbers all over the world, in such a form that it can
be searched. Anyone have such a baby?  I'd be much obliged.

Thanks.

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

Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 17:17:30 -0800
From: Jerry Wilcox <iscjcw@uccvma.ucop.edu>
Subject: dongles

Somone in the latest issue of the digest was singing the praises of
"dongles" the little plug devices often found associated with PC software
as a copy protection device.

His/Her comment was that there could be no conflict with these devices.
Well, although I'm a Mac person myself, we do have a number of PeeCees in
the shop and I can guarantee you that the kind, gentle dongle does, in many
cases, cause problems.

On the PeeCee, the dongle generally goes on the printer port, between the
machine and the printer. We have seen some dongles where it became
impossible to print from any application other than the copy-protected one.
We're obviously not interested in software that requires a dedicated
machine, and continually plugging and unplugging dongles is a pain.

We have also seen situations where one dongle conflicted with another,
making it impossible to run both software packages on the same machine.
We're again not interested in buying two machines to run two different
packages.

I will not, as a general rule, buy packages which require dongle
protection, either for the Macs or for PeeCees under my control. If there
are competing products, one with and one without a dongle, the one without
the dongle gets the order.
--
Jerry Wilcox  iscjcw@uccvma.ucop.edu    iscjcw@uccvma.bitnet

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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 21:36:09 GMT
From: chai@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Ian Chai)
Subject: DOS-INIT possible Trojan??

Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu writes:
>This is really juicy, the DOS-INIT thing.  I've read the past week's
>stuff, and have a good guess.  Yes, it is a Trojan Horse, aimed at it's
>commercial counterparts.  It seems that every conflict reported has to do
>with Mac<-->PC applications such as SoftPC, Apple File Ex, ktl..
>Possible infractions include corporate sabbotage, but I do not mean to
>offend the author(s) or loyal users.

I had trouble with it with Apple File Exchange, too, trouble which
appeared to go away when I deleted it.

It may just be that the trouble was caused by both it and AFE trying to
accesss the drive in a special way, tho... I don't know.

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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 17:20:24 EDT
From: psz@medg.lcs.mit.edu (Peter Szolovits,416T,3476,)
Subject: Expert System Shells (reply to reply)

Try Nexpert Object, from Neuron Data.  It's a very competently done
mid-line expert system shell for the Mac.  I've seen it used just for
its flexible control of interfaces.  The inference engine is not the
most powerful, but should be fine to get you started.

--Pete Szolovits
(I have no connection with this company, and no recent experience with
their product either.)

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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 02:07:31 -0400
From: "Alan D. Danziger" <aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>
Subject: Expert System Shells for the Mac (A)

Here's the 'further response' I spoke about... ;) If anyone wants even
more information, let me know and I'll put you in touch with someone
who can help.

	-=Alan

>>I need information regarding the availability of Expert System Shells
>>available for the Mac whether commercial, shareware, public domain, or
>>otherwise.  Any information is very much appreciated.

Cognitive Systems sells the ReMind Case-Based Reasoning shell.  The
shell is supported on the Macintosh as well as on IBM systems under
Windows and Presentation Manager.  An X-windows/motif version is in
the works.

Case-Based Reasoning systems provide the ability to retrieve similar
situations from a case library and to adapt solutions to those cases
to a current situation.  ReMind provides a collection of tools for
representing cases and inputing case data, declaring and editing
taxonomic and partonomic relationships between values in cases,
deriving abstract (i.e. computed) values from concrete values on
cases, creating qualitative models of a domain which guide case
indexing and retrieval, retrieving cases using strict template
matching, inductively derived clusters of cases, or weighted nearest
neighbor techniques (or a combination of the three techniques), and
for adapting retrieved cases via user defined adaptation rules.  It
also provides facilities for designing custom forms for the display
and input of case data and facilities for tokenizing textual input.

The price varies from platform to platform and is, I believe, in the
neighborhood of $3000.  Site liscenses and multiple copy discounts are
available, as are run-time liscenses for finished applications.
Consulting and training classes are also available through Cognitive.

-Marc

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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 00:37:21 -0400
From: "Alan D. Danziger" <aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>
Subject: Expert System Shells for the Mac (C)

In comp.sys.mac.digest you write:

>I need information regarding the availability of Expert System Shells
>available for the Mac whether commercial, shareware, public domain, or
>otherwise.  Any information is very much appreciated.

Cognitive Systems, a company which is well known in the AI field, has
an Expect System Shell (CBR-based) for the Macintosh, as well as other
platforms.  I don't know anything else about it, however.  I'm
forwarding this message to someone who does, so expect a further
response...

	-=Alan

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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 11:16:49 EST
From: williams <williams@tours.inra.fr>
Subject: Faulty 13" monitors - Apple France make you pay!

	I thought that netters might be interested to learn that in France,
	far
>From replacing faulty high voltage caps for free on 13" color monitors, Apple
charge for this repair - current cost about US $300.
	Hey, Apple in Cupertino, why is there one rule for people like Rick
Barber (infomacv10-245) and other who have had this problem fixed for free in
the US, and another for the French?  Is this something to do with the
independent Gallic spirit?

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

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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 22:58:40 GMT
From: lars@ismennt.is (Lars Andersen)
Subject: FileMaker Pro page break after subsummary part

HI there,

I have a tiny but irritating problem and I believe you could
find that problem whenever you make a printout of a report with many
subsummary parts.  Let me illustrate my problem by an example.  In a
catalogue a right side looks like this at the bottom
of the page. ';' = remarks


**Violin**                         ; subsummary by Instrument
leading
  Teaching books                   ; subsummary by book type leading
    Arban, J. B.                   ; subsummary by composers leading
      Arbans famous method.part 1  ; body
      Arbans famous method.part 2  ; body
    Bambula, Alois                 ; subsummary by composers leading
      Die Posaune                  ; body
  Exercise books                   ; subsummary by book type leading
----page edge-----------------------------------------------------
    Applebaum, Samuel             ; subsummary by composers leading
      Orchestral bowing etudes    ; body

and so on

The problem is that I wan't the leading subsummary 'Exercise books' to
go on the next page with the body to which it belongs.  I have checked
the 'Do not break page part across page boundary'.
Any suggestions?

Best from Iceland    Lars   lars@ismennt.is

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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 09:35:09 CST
From: Ming-Chien Yang <MYANG%TWNNTIT.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Focus Ethernet Cards (Q)

Dear netters,
1.Does any one has any experience with Focus ethernet cards?
2.Does any one know their e-mail address?

Thanks in advance.

Ming-Chien Yang
N. T. I. T.
myang@twnntit.bitnet

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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 01:34:38 -0400
From: rwk@crl.dec.com
Subject: Formatting 178MB Hard Drive

    Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 19:37:16 +22305714 (EDT)
    From: "Warren H. James" <wjames@egr.duke.edu>
    Subject: Formatting 178MB Hard Drive

       My brother recently acquired a 178MB hard drive of unknown origins
    (possibly from a Sun.) He would like to format it for use with his Mac
    Plus.  Will he be able to use Apple's HD formatter, or will he need to buy
    a special program such as LaCie's Silver Lining?

Opinion:  Silver Lining's extra flexibility and controls make it more
likely to succeed.  Good luck.

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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 09:29:08 JST
From: huntay@big1.tma.toshiba.co.jp (TAY  Huan Nan)
Subject: Grayscale printing

ferrante@aaec1.aaec.com wrote in Info-mac Digest V10#244:
>> I'm trying to print a document which contains an 8 bit grayscale image from
>> my mac plus, but the printer output just looks like the Mac Plus screen -
>> no grays. Printing the same document to the same printer from either a
>> Quadra Sys 7.0.1 (24 bit display) or a IIci sys 6.0.7 (1 bit display) works
>> fine. The printer driver is 7.0 and color/grayscale is turned on in the
>> dialog box.
>>
>> Any ideas -- or is this a known problem?
>>
	I am not an guru in this, but I guess the reason behind this
phenomenon is the ROM. The ROM came with Mac SE and earlier models does not
carry the Color Quickdraw codes, which enable more than 1bit screen/printing.

	Unfortunately, this is the most important disadvantage of accelerator
upgrading path.

	Hope this helps.

Huan Nan      Toshiba Corporation, Japan.
::::::::::::::::The usual disclaimer applies::::::::::::::::::::::

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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 22:08:59 CDT
From: Reverend John <UC521832@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Subject: HD icon can't be modifed

The HD icon on our Mac IIx (7.01 tuned) appears as a generic document.
The name can't be modified in the finder, and you can't do a "Get Info"
on it either.

File Sharing is off, the Finder Prefs file has been replaced, the
desktop has been both reset and rebuilt...so what's the problem?

Beats me. Ideas?
Rev

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Date: 13 Oct 92 17:00:23 EDT
From: Aaron Dickey <75030.2623@CompuServe.COM>
Subject: Imagewriter II Sheet Feeder? (Q)

Does anyone out there happen to know if the Imagewriter II Sheet Feeder is
still offered for sale by Apple, or if some other reseller still has a few of
them lying around somewhere?  I haven't been able to track down any dealer who
even knows what I'm talking about.  Thanks in advance...

Aaron Dickey
New York University
Temporary address: 75030.2623@compuserve.com
Al Roker is God.

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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 20:42:53 -0700
From: tonyh@lynx.msc.cornell.edu
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V10 #245

Martin Josso writes in Info-Mac Digest V10 #245:
>AD internal compressor is supposed to create files that will work just like
>the uncompressed version. It is true for the most part but I have found
>that any internally compressed Control Panel will crash if used when the
>Mac is restarted with all extensions off (shift key). I have not been able
>to find out what is required for proper function but the requirements seem
>complex. I called 5th Generation but the tech support person was unaware of
>the problem.

MDS from Alysis had this feature (resouce compression) since its
introduction
and I found it's not a good idea to compress inits (and cdev's that contain
init codes), especially those that store and alters data in itself (e.g.
those
without pref's).

I haven't tried AD 2.0 yet (I still want to give TimesTwo a shot before
I give Fifth Generation my upgrade money).

Tony Huang

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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 11:14 EDT
From: STEIN78@WILMA.WHARTON.UPENN.EDU
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V10 #245

Is the DOS-INIT trojan horse related to the !DOS application? Should I
get rid of it immediately, or is it something I can try?

Thanks,
Adam Stein

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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 16:07:34 +0000
From: GAUTHIER%frcict81.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU
Subject: Korea and Mouse problem (Q)

Two unrelates questions
1-Where can I find information on shareware/commercial prgs for Korean
word processing.
2- Has somebody kept the info on the company that sells the switch for the
mouse
Thanks in advance

R. Gauthier
gauthier@frcict81
Univ. Toulouse-le Mirail
France

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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 10:55:05 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <IRBLOOM@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject: Logging Into My Own HD (Q)

I surrender. What stupid thing did I do now? After AutoDoubler and Silver
Lining 5.4 suggested I had some iffy blocks on my hard disk, I bit the
bullet, reformatted the disk, and reloaded from backup. Just to feel
perfectly warm and fuzzy, I reinstalled the system (after first placing
System and Finder in the trash). Things seem sort of OK now, but now I
get a dialog box offering to log my into my own hard disk as a guest or
registered user when I reboot. Say what?

Anyone know what I did dumb and how to fix it?

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 13:58:21 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <IRBLOOM@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject: Logging Onto My Own Hard Disk (NM)

Never mind.

What had happened was that I let Silver Lining format the volume with its
default name (LaCie 80-Q) instead of the previous "80 Meg" and Suitcase
couldn't find the pathnames of its files.

As I said. I knew it was a stupid mistake.

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 21:25:38 -0700
From: tonyh@lynx.msc.cornell.edu
Subject: MacNosy (A)

Richard Lim asks:
>I was just browsing through the new edition of Scott Knaster's book on
>Mac programming (sorry, don't remember the title) in the bookshop today, and
>I came across a reference to a Mac disassembler called MacNosy.  Great, I
>thought to myself, my programmer friend has been after a disassembler for
ages
>and now we've finally heard of one.  But where do we get it?  Does anyone
know
>of any other good disassemblers?

MacNosy has been around for a long time. They advertise in MacTutor
regularly.
The program is bundled with a debugger (much better than Macsbug) and is
not
cheap (lists for $350. Since no mail order house carries it as far as I
know
there's no discount.)

Tony Huang

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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 19:19 GMT
From: "Mike. Ph (44) 71 269 3618" <M_WRIGHT@ICRF.AC.UK>
Subject: Max memory with VM/24 bit