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From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
Subject: Re: SCCS/RCS for Mac? - Revisionist/Voodoo
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 03:04:13 GMT

>In article <1992Oct2.072827.25643@kpc.com> Brian Rice, bri@kpc.com writes:
>>I have a group of users at my company that require some sort of
>>revision control tool for product specifications on the Mac.

I ported RCS-5.6 to the Mac, using Think C.
It's available from ftp.tcd.maths.tcd in pub/Mac as ci.hqx and co.hqx.
The source (diffs from standard distribution) can be found
in pub/Mac/rcs-5.6 .
You'll also need the sources for diff, in pub/Mac/diff-2.0 .
And the ThinkCPosix library, in pub/Mac/ThinkCPosix-1.1 .
I'm afraid the documentation leaves something to be desired --
I hope to improve that shortly.
The program seems to work though -- I use it all the time.

-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie
tel: +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
From: jh61+@andrew.cmu.edu (John C. Henderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Mac EPROM Burner
Date: 7 Oct 92 21:40:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.Meowb_y00WBK89_VYm
Organization: Junior, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Howdy,
 
Has anyone out there ever used an EPROM burner that interfaced with a Mac?
(That is, apart from any serious serial-port hacks.)  If so, I would be
very interested in learning how it performed, who manufactured it, how it was
purchased (i.e. mail order, electronics store, etc.), and how much it cost.
 
Thanks in advance,
 
-John
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: cole@nepenthe.unx.sas.com (Tom Cole)
Subject: [Where to get] Lemmings Demo
Originator: cole@nepenthe.unx.sas.com
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 17:33:39 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.


Many folks have sung the praises of the "Lemmings Demo".  So, if
one wanted to order the game based on seeing non-Mac versions and
hearing how everyone at c.s.m.m loves it, _where_do_I_order_it_from?

Specifically, is it available from the mailorder houses, or must
it be purchased from Prognosys (sp?) directly?  Any help would be
appreciated. 

[Mail me any thoughts, I seem to be the only person on the net who
 doesn't already know the answer so posting is probably unnecessary.]



-- 
Tom Cole, SAS Institute Inc. VMS R&D  cole@nepenthe.unx.sas.com

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: smills@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (MuffinHead)
Subject: Re: What are the best screen fonts?
Keywords: fonts, screen
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 20:38:45 GMT

teresa@media3.radiology.uiowa.edu (Kevin Biermann) writes:

>We are producing multimedia textbooks using the Voyager Expanded Book
>Toolkit and are in search of what the best fonts are for displaying
>text on the standard Mac screen - in other words which fonts are
>the most readable, least irritating, etc.  Any pointers to pre-existing
>work on this subject would be appreciated.

   Geneva looks very good at 9-, 14-, and 20-point and also looks good in
Bold and Italic. New York looks good if you want serifs. Courier and Monaco
also look great on a screen (if you need mono-spaced).
   Eurostyle looks good. Lithos at larger sizes is great for eye-catching
titles and headlines.
From: an780@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Travis Grundke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Macintosh naming scheme
Date: 13 Oct 1992 01:55:04 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: an780@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Travis Grundke)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades) says:

>bizarre@leland.Stanford.EDU (Bruce Templeton) writes:
>
>>I'm just curious, why is my IIsi called an si?  And what about the ci or the
>>new vx?  I've heard the LC stands for Low Cost and that an 'x' stands for
>>extra features.  Anyone know?
>
>    Someone mentioned that the "i" stood for internal video support,
>which kind of makes sense. The "c" of the cx and the ci was supposed to
>mean compact, and the "s" in si could mean slim or streamlined based on
>the case design. But I have no idea what the "v" in the vi/vx combo
>could stand for.
>
 Well, last time I heard, the "V" in VX and VI stands for "Fifth
Generation". I don't know what validaty there is in that statement, but,
eh! Personally, I like the IIsi case design- limited on expansion, but
sleek. As far as the other "i" "c", I've heard the same. But, people also
say that APple's naming scheme changes due to marketing reasons. Quadra,
for instance, taken apart QUAD means four, and I've heard that the QUAD
could stand for the 68040 processor, or for the four basic elements the
Quadras are developed around: graphics, sound, ethernet, expansion. Who
knows.THe IIe is said to mean "Enhanced" the IIc "Compact" and the IIgs
"Graphics and Sound".

>    I do know that the last time Apple introduced a pair of machines
>based on the same case design, they were the IIcx and the IIci and the
>"i" was faster then the "x", now they have introduced another pair, the
>IIvx and the IIvi, but this time the "i" is slower than the "x". So it
>certainly seems like they have changed their naming scheme. Of course
>all anyone can do is speculate, because Apple doesn't seem to want to
>let us in on the secrect.
>
 All that I care about is that they don't get too heavy into these
numerical naming schemes. Okay, Quadra 700 and 900 and 950 isn't bad, even
the PB 100, 140, 145 and 170 isn't TOO bad, but now with the P200, P400 and
P600, I'm starting to worry! Personally, I think "IIex" is a snazzy name or
"IIdx" or "IIsx" (starting to sound like Intel processors now!) <grin>
>--
>-Hades (Brian V. Hughes) 
>   "You know Television has gone to hell when, with every commercial,
>	 you find yourself hoping to see the Energizer Bunny."
>
-- 
         Travis Grundke- Contributing Editor, MacGames Digest
                      an780@cleveland.freenet.edu
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  
    MacGames Digest: The first magazine dedicated to Macintosh Gaming.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: Andreas Wuertz <wuertz@tik.ethz.ch>
Subject: Re: Mac IIsi bus error
Organization: Federal Institute of Technology
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 09:09:58 GMT

In article <1b1nedINN613@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> Louis Moreau,
ch166@cleveland.Freenet.Edu writes:
> No virus detected with disinfectant 2.9. The Hard drive is OK. It also
This truely IS weird... Hmm... What util did you take to check the
harddisk? Disk 1st Aid? There ARE errors, that this program doesn't find;
try to get a copy of norton utils 2.0 and check your hd with that one
(maybe a friend can loan you one?) OR is you have the media to do a
complete backup, try reinitialising your hd. how often do the bus errors
occur? Every minute or once a month? The next thing i'd try is to take
the ram simms out and put them in again (making sure they're exactly in
place). If the errors persist - i can't think of anything else except a
hw-failure. maybe someone else can, or take the mac to a dealer.

hope this helps.
Andy (wuertz@tik.ethz.ch)

========================================================================
The only person who got all his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe.
========================================================================
From: nemoto@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Help: DVIM72 and OzTeX on Mac.
Date: 11 Oct 92 17:07:23 +1300
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

Hi everyone.

I'm beginning to use a TeX system on Macintosh, OzTeX and DVIM72-Mac.
I can compile files by the OzTeX, but I cannot print out them.
Please teach me the setup of the DVIM72-Mac.

I'm using Macintosh Plus + 4MB RAM + 52 MB HD + Kanji Talk 6.0.7, and 
Panasonic KX-P1081 printer (I think this is ImageWriter compatible,
because I usually use ImageWriter driver without trouble)
I extract sit files in OzTeX folder, and put all fonts (300,329,360,...
and 72, 86, 104, 144...) into PK-files folder.

I changed Font resolution item in "Settings" dialog box of DVIM72-Mac
to 300dpi (because I have 300dpi fonts). And I tried to print out 
a dvi file. However a paper is feeded out, any characters aren't typed.
I tried another resolution, 144, 360. But the result was same.
Only when I choose "other" resolution and 72 dpi, the document was typed.
Previewer is working well. Font name format is 72:cmr8, 72:cmr8.pk and
72:cmr8.72pk.

How should I set up DVIM72-Mac to use 300dpi or at least 144dpi fonts?
Or I have to use 72dpi font only ? It's very bad quality. If someone 
has an experience, please let me know. I can read both of news and
E-mail.

Thanks in advance.

11/10/92
			Jiro Nemoto
		   University of Waikato
			New Zealand
		    NEMOTO@waikato.ac.nz
From: smt1179@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Tom Thatcher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: System Hang (file corruption) with General CDEV
Date: 14 Oct 92 16:15:49 GMT
Reply-To: smt1179@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology

In article <1992Oct12.180921.9653@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, folse@crs.cl.msu.edu (Mark Folse) writes:
>I have had an identical problem with my Quadra 900 running 7.0 with TuneUp.
>Can't change the screen color without getting the same error.
>
>                        0000000F
>                        00000028
>
>The local support people told me to call my vendor, which I've not done yet. I
>have the 21" apple  monitor and added VRAM on the Quad. Could this be a bug in
>Tune UP? A new virus at work?
>a y
Here's a suggestion for those who like to liver dangerously.
Before Dark, a shareware background program, modifies the system ppat resources
to install background patterns of up to 64x64 pixels.  It comes with a few
patterns and you can make your own (in color of course) with ResEdit.
.
If you  like to live dangerously, try installing a Before Dark pattern and
see if the same thing happens..
.
Before Dark is available on sumex-aim.stanford.edu
in info-mac/ex/before-dark-11.hqx
.
.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
^ Q:  "What must I do to convince you people?"  ^  Tom Thatcher
^ WORF:   "Die."                                ^  University of Rochester
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: stud08@cc4.kuleuven.ac.be (Karl Pottie)
Distribution: world
Date: Wednesday, 14 Oct 1992 18:32:47 +01
Organization: K.U.Leuven - Academic Computing Center
Subject: KeyBoard Virus ???


We've been having problems with 4 of our macs since yesterday:

on each machine, the keyboard locks up. After reboot, the
machine works normal for a while, but after some time
the keyboard doesn't respond any more.

Disinfectant 2.9 reported no problems. Could this be a new virus ?
It might be coincidence, but the odds on 4 machines getting
problems on the same day seems pretty small. Could anybody
else report an unusual high number of keyboard problems ?


Karl Pottie    Macintosh Consultant
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: leonardr@netcom.com (Leonard Rosenthol)
Subject: Re: Stuffit SpaceSaver vs. Finder 7
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 05:23:46 GMT

In article <1992Oct11.003412.18021@newstand.syr.edu> greeny@top.cis.syr.edu (J. S. Greenfield) writes:
>I recently discovered that changing the label (color) under Finder 7
>caused the Finder to terminate (with the label change reflected after the
>Finder restarted).  A little testing detected that Stuffit SpaceSaver
>was the culprit.
>
	What version of StuffIt SpaceSaver were you using??  The current
version is 1.0.1 and there are no known problems with the Labels menu - in
fact since using labels to compress/decompress is an important aspect of
the product we KNOW that it works.

>Is Alladin aware of the problem, and will there big a fix in the near future?
>
	If you send me some EMail with more info about your disks, system 
configuration, etc. I will be more than glad to look into it - though as I 
said above, it sounds pretty weird...
(Oh, the company name is Aladdin - 1 'l', 2 'd's)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: csmith@blackplague.gmu.edu (Blackplague)
Subject: test
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Organization: George Mason University-IDO
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 19:48:15 GMT

test
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: cs108069@pandora.sdsu.edu (John DeRose)
Subject: Re: Mac IIsi bus error
Organization: San Diego State University, College of Sciences
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 00:56:39 GMT

Listen buddy, if you're having troubles with the damn thing
and if it's under warranty, why don't you just take it to the
repair people.  It's alot easier in the long run!  :-)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: gsm@gsm001.mendelson.com (Geoff Mendelson)
Subject: Re: HP 2P laserprinter on a Mac
Organization: Mendelson.com
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 23:33:05 GMT

In article <1bhpauINN2si@agate.berkeley.edu> stoll@ocf.berkeley.edu (Cliff Stoll) writes:
>Hi Gang,
> 
> A friend has a Hewlett Packard HP 2P laserprinter on her IBM PC.
> She wants to hook it up to her Macintosh over a serial line.
>
> The serial cable is easy; any idea if there's printer software
> available for the HP2P on a Mac?
>
> Many Thanx!
>
> -Cliff Stoll    stoll@ocf.berkeley.edu



There are two software drivers for the Mac and HP printers. I use
MacPrint by Insight. It has some problems with multiple layers and
MacDraw II, but otherwise it works fine. I have a realtively old version,
that I got with 6.0.7 and it still works fine on system 7.

It costs about $100-$125 with the cable.

This is the package that the HP drivers that are given away with the
"DeskWriter" series of printers were based upon. 

The other option I have tried was a Grappler IIsp from Orange Micro.
It is a serial to parallel adaptor with Appler Imagewriter LQ emulation
built in. So the Mac thinks it is printing to an Apple ImageWriter LQ
(there are  many adavangates to this) while printing on the laserjet.

The disadvantges of this are: 

    Their software promised alot it did not deliver (but may now, 
    that was June) in the spooling and networking area.


    The Imagewriter LQ has slightly larger pixels so you get a slightly
    smaller printout.

Both methods seem to take as long to print a page.

Geoff.

-- 
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(215) 242 - 8712
geoffrey@mendelson.com    or   uunet!gsm001!geoffrey
-- 
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(215) 242 - 8712
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From: aberigan@nde.unl.edu (A. Berigan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: BinHex problems...
Date: 14 Oct 1992 18:02:14 GMT
Organization: Ord High School, Ord, NE
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: nde.unl.edu

aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D.) writes:
>GILMART@LSTC2VM.stortek.com (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
>>aberigan@nde.unl.edu (A. Berigan) writes:

>>>I have a need to get a .hqx (BinHex) decoder to a Mac LC II with System
>>>7 installed.  Because of various problems, I can only download text
>>>files.  I can uuencode a file, transfer it to a non-Mac system, uudecode
>>>it, and transfer that file to an HFS volume, but likely the file will
>>>have a "document" filetype when read by the LC II.
>>>
>>>Is there a format that I can retrieve a BinHexing application in that
>>>when I store the file on the HFS volume, the LC II will be able use it
>>>as is?  Could I be losing important resource forks doing this?

>>It's even as you fear: the resource forks are lost.
>>
>>You must get _one_ more essential piece that isn't shipped with the Mac;
>>it might be any of:
>>
>>    1) A full-featured comm program.

>This will help a little, but how would it help with .hqx files?  Of
>course, you could use Mcvert on Unix and then a program such as Zterm,
>etc. to download in MacBinary.

And of course, it would help if I had an external modem to connect to
the Mac.  Unfortunately I went with an internal modem.  And still
there's the problem that it would be an application, and would have the
resource forks shaved in the transfer.  And then there's the gamble that
I would actually be able to use Zmodem with it.  Right now I can only
transfer using Kermit Text.

>>    2) Compact Pro or Stuffit (for BinHex).

>Yep, either of these (or both) will be very useful...  They can
>convert binhex files, as well as expanding the archive files...

Which is the precise problem -- to extract them, I need them to extract
with and...

>>    3) Mac2Macbin Apple File Exchange filter  (AFE itself comes with Mac)

>This is 'overkill' if you get Stuffit Lite 3.0.x.

This sounds like the closest thing to my needs -- the AFE filter.  Is it
possible I could transfer that?  I've found a program which will store
un.sit-ted files on an HFS volume with the original file information
(although questionable on resource forks) so if it is legal to pass that
file around, I would like it.  An .hqx'ed .sit file will work; on my
intermediary system I can unBinHex and unSit files.

>>    4) BinHex 4.0 or MacBinary.

>Either app in #2 will do BinHex, & any Mac terminal (comm) program
>should include MacBinary file transfers automatically.

Same problem of getting an application to extract files extracted.

>>    5) (?? AccessPC ?? I don't know if this works; just hearsay.)

>I don't think so...  But maybe.....

Not using a PC.

> -=Alan

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: bizarre@leland.Stanford.EDU (Bruce Templeton)
Subject: Macintosh naming scheme
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 92 20:04:08 GMT

I'm just curious, why is my IIsi called an si?  And what about the ci or the
new vx?  I've heard the LC stands for Low Cost and that an 'x' stands for
extra features.  Anyone know?

Bruce

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|*bizarre@leland				 DFOTB  /_____________/ |  *|
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|*opinions of virtually everyone I have ever met.	|_____________|/   *|
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: bower@pecan.cns.udel.edu (Tyson Bower)
Subject: Re: Greyscale on a compact mac screen..?
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 20:08:53 GMT

No, you cannot make the 9in compact Mac screen create a greyscale.

Why?  It is only prepared to accept 1 bit for each pixel (either on
or off).

The 12" monochrome can handle (I think) up to 8 bits per pixel.
2^8 = 256 shades of grey.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: kkalan@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Kenneth Kalan)
Subject: Re: BRAINSTORM ACCELERATOR?
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 16:30:30 GMT

In article <jal-290992185119@81.120.147.132.in-addr.arpa> jal@sco.COM (Joe Longo) writes:
>In article <Buw2qy.JL1@world.std.com>, kenh@world.std.com (Ken Hancock)
>wrote:
>> It is a CPU accelerator.  The two chips are 1) 16 MHz 68000, 2) a
>> proprietary PAL to speed up screen redraws and SCSI transfers.
>> I installed one in my sister's Mac and she says it makes a real difference.
>> It's cheap and was fairly easy to install.
>> 
>> Ken
>
>
>I've had a quote of around $250 for a fully installed accelerator from
>BrainStorm. Juding from the speed of my PowerBook 
>100, I would guess that the Plus will run at about 3 times it's current
>speed. For this price, it's worth it.
>When you say it's easy to install, just how easy is it ?
>is it worth the savings in installation costs ?
>
>Regards,
>
>
>Joe

I have just installed the BrainStorm in a plus, and it was not that hard,
but we have an electronics lab, with a nice  iron and solder sipper.
I did have a problem trying to get it to work.  The folks at BrainStorm
were very helpful, turns out the problem was noise with the ROM chips.
I swaped them with another Mac and all was well.

Speedometer test showed a 2x improvement. Worth the money.

My sugestion is to have someone install it for you, and let them worry
about any problems.  Also if you check MacWeek you may find someone
who can do it for less  BTW if your with a university, I believe that
Brainstorm has an educational discount.

Ken Kalan
PP ASEL
kgk@nwu.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: phil@cs.curtin.edu.au (Phil Wild)
Subject: Document management systems
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 08:25:02 GMT


Fellow netters,

I am trying to track down information relating to client server based Document
managment systems for IBM and or Apple Mac.

The system will need to have a unix back-end/server and be able to perform
full text retrieval on documents stored within the system.

Could all correspondence please be directed via email to both

phil@ctechnics.oz.au and
phil@cs.curtin.edu.au

If there is enough interest, I will report any findings to the net.

Thankyou

Phil Wild


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From: groggy@unixg.ubc.ca (Clive J Grogono)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Backup Utility HELP!
Date: 15 Oct 92 23:54:35 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
NNTP-Posting-Host: unixg.ubc.ca
Summary: need backup utility
Keywords: backup utility


Dear newsgroup; 

Backing-up is sooo boring! By the time I get around to it, 
I have 150 files which  belong on 25 different floppies. 

Can anybody tender advice on backup programs - commercial  
or otherwise?  Are  Norton Utilities or SAM the solution to  
all my trials?  Is there a package out there that has the  
smarts to know which files have never been backed-up? 

Is the only simple solution a removable cartridge or tape drive?

thanks in advance,
  
Clive Grogono 
groggy@unixg.ubc.ca 
Regent College, 
Vancouver, B.C.
From: yjc@po.cwru.edu (Jerome Chan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: POV - Any Users?
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Date: 9 Oct 1992 16:23:01 GMT
Organization: The Tofu Society of Singapore
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: b61539.student.cwru.edu

  Is any one out there using POV to do image rendering? I would like to
find out if there is a new version which dumps PICT files instead of targa
or raw data files? It's very troublesome having to render each image and
then save it as a PICT file.

  POV (a ray tracer) can be found at alfred.ccs.careton.ca under the pub
directory.

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