Info-Mac Digest Fri, 12 Nov 93

Info-Mac Digest Fri, 12 Nov 93 Volume 11 : Issue 223

Today's Topics:

Administrivia

[*] a-whole-new-world.hqx

[*] alarmbook-13-demo.hqx

[*] autobuild-10.sit.hqx

[*] Bestplace

[*] FA-18_MissionChooser

[*] FolderIcon

[*] Gatekeeper 1.2.9 Anti-Virus System

[*] IIe Discolour

[*] MacOberon402

[*] Manilla Folder Icons

[*] mcvert-214.shar

[*] Menu Choice 1.8

[*] MSG Demo 1.2 (graphics demo)

[*] MSG Demo 1.2 (source code)

[*] Neurodule 1.03 neuron simulation laboratory

[*] Pentominoes 1.4 (board game)

[*] Pentominoes 1.4 (source code)

[*] Print Choice 1.1

[*] PrintIt version 2.12

[*] So To Speak 1.0

[*] Speech FKEY

[*] tidbits-caring-for-wrists-ps.hqx

[*] Voyeur 1.0 (file utility)

[*] Voyeur 1.0 (source code)

[*] white castle startup

!Using PowerBook 170 with external monitor(Q)

1984 Commercial

1984 Movie

660 AV Memory

[Q] Archie client software

absoft address

Access PC w/ Audio CDs (C)

Animals Cache Control Panel

balloon help

CD-ROM DRIVERS

Classical Greek font (Q)

CPU usage software (Q)

Desert Trek (Q:-)

Disney After Dark [Q]

FAA Exam Software Recommendations? (A)

GCC Eclipse 8 Laser printer [Q]

Info-Mac Digest V11 #221

Info-Mac Digest V11 #222 (2 msgs)

Internal SyquestIn 800/840

Is AudioVision an EnergyStar Monitor?

Is SupraFAX LC 14.4 modem a good buy?

LaserWriter Lockout

MacBench (R)

Mail to prodigy from internet (Q)

Modifying Page Sizes & Printer Drivers (Q)

Moving disks (transcontinentally)

NCSA Mosaic

Norton Utilities

PB 100 charger problems

Port for floppy drive (A)

PPP Server Software?

QuarkXPress list (Never Mind)

QuickTime Movie Site

random acts of System 7?

Re : 1984 Commercial

Revsion Control on Macintosh

Room/Overhead Projection/Slide making equipment Suggestions.

SNL commercial

Sound Converter

Specmarks anyone?

Speeding up Centris 660AV (Q)

Stylewriter & WriteNow (two separate Qs)

Stylewriter II driver

Subscription request

Threads

Unix mount of HFS file system: what's available?

unplug keyboard when computer is on, bad?

What is "Printer Share" ?

ZTerm High-Speed Patch

The Info-Mac newsgroup is moderated by Bill Lipa, Gordon Watts and Liam

Breck.

The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous,

any password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu

[36.44.0.6]. Help files and indices are in /info-mac/help.

Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.

Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.

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Date: Wed, 3 Nov 93 12:56:07 -0500

From: info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu

Subject: Administrivia

Please welcome the new Info-Mac Special Projects Moderator, Liam Breck.

Liam has been doing a lot of hard work on the archive over an extended

period of time and consequently deserves public recognition. Although he

will not be actively involved in the digest or archive on a day-to-day

basis, he has taken an interest in pursuing more long-term projects for

the overall advancement of our archive and the Macintosh network community

in general.

Liam is a Macintosh consultant and database designer living in

Amherst, Mass. He is known for his efforts to get Apple to recall

Malaysian mice with "sticky" buttons (see Macweek, 15 Mar 1992). He

has been working with Info-Mac since July 1992, when he proposed the

directory reorganization which is now nearly complete. Among the

special projects he is working on for the archive are: the compilation

of a list of mirror sites and establishing communication between their

administrators, finding a way for client software (gopher, fetch) to

automatically access the closest Info-Mac mirror, a redesign of the

archiving procedure that we use, and completing the reorganization

begun last May.

Bill

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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 93 22:56:26 +0100

From: abouelou@poly.polytechnique.fr (abou el ouafa abder)

Subject: [*] a-whole-new-world.hqx

This file includes a sample of the famous song "a whole new world".

(french version "ce reve bleu").

>From the "aladdin's" movie.ABOU EL OUAFA Abderrahim (ali-baba on IRC, Angelo

BBS, Me in real life)...

X91 6e Cie Ecole Polytechnique 91128 Palaiseau Cedex France

phone : (33) (1) 69 33 55 01

18, r. Ahmed Boubia, Hay Salam. Khemisset 15 000 MOROCCO

phone : (212) 755-4810

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/a-whole-new-world.hqx; 532K]

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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 93 17:28:29 CST

From: wizzkid@eagle.natinst.com (Dan Repich)

Subject: [*] alarmbook-13-demo.hqx

AlarmBook v1.3 Demo

Neptune Systems

Thank you, Daniel Repich

[Archived as /info-mac/app/alarmbook-13-demo.hqx; 957K]

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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 93 15:50:05 +0100

From: Rene Ros <rgaros@paramount.nikhefk.nikhef.nl>

Subject: [*] autobuild-10.sit.hqx

AutoBuild 1.0

Extension for System 7 and later.

Written by Rene G.A. Ros.

Freeware.

This extension deletes automatically, at preset intervals, the

Desktop Database which is maintained by the system (since 7.0)

for every volume larger than 2 Mb. After deletion it is then

rebuilt by the Finder. It also deletes the Desktop Database when

the extension is moved to another disk, which is useful for

harddisk-update software like LikeWise.

Rene Ros

rgaros@bio.vu.nl

[Archived as /info-mac/disk/autobuild-10.hqx; 42K]

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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1993 10:46 EST

From: Jim Allison <JALLISON@vax.clarku.edu>

Subject: [*] Bestplace

Bestplace:

Bestplace is program which can be used to find the best place to position

speakers in a listening room. The program is based on Roy Allison's

research into the effects of speaker placement on the accuracy of the

sound produced. Allison has been one of the leading figures in the audio

industry for the past 30 years. The program plots a room augmentation

curve for a speaker placed at any position within a room, and so allows

experimentation to find acceptable positions that are also practical for use.

An augmentation curve is a frequency vs. amplitude plot showing how

nearby boundaries affect the power output of a speaker. The curve's shape

is dependant on the location of the woofer with respect to the three nearest

boundaries. The program also plots the power output of some specific

speakers and contains background material on the historical development

of the home Hi-Fi industry over the years. Finally there is information on

Allison's current speaker designs.

[Archived as /info-mac/sci/bestplace.hqx; 437K]

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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 01:43:11 -0600

From: jbaughmn@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (James C. Baughman)

Subject: [*] FA-18_MissionChooser

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F/A-18 Hornet Mission Chooser

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* For Graphics Simulations F/A-18 Hornet v1.0 and v1.0.1.

* Allows you to choose what mission a pilot will fly on his

next mission.

Send comments, suggestions, complaints to:

Jim Baughman

University of Texas, Austin

jbaughmn@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu

[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/fa-18-mission-chooser.hqx; 76K]

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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1993 23:27:33 GMT

From: Sven Guckes <guckes@inf.fu-berlin.de>

Subject: [*] FolderIcon

>Subject FolderIcon Date11/5/93 Time 4:12 PM

>FolderIcon is a utility for generating custom folder icons from existing

>desktop icons. For example, it could create the familiar system folder icon

>from the Finder icon.

Hm, is this a drag-and-drop utility?

Does it create folders or icon resources?

Is it an editor?

How do you use it?

Which version is it?

"More info!"

Sven :)

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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 16:07:52 -0600

From: chrisj@mbs.telesys.utexas.edu (Chris W. Johnson)

Subject: [*] Gatekeeper 1.2.9 Anti-Virus System

Gatekeeper 1.2.9 is a set of Macintosh system extensions (INITs)

and related control panels (cdevs) which, when active (i.e.

allowed to install themselves during the boot process) offer

protection against attacks by all known viruses (to the author

at the time of this release).

Gatekeeper also monitors computer activities for what are

considered to be suspicious 'events' or 'operations', in an

attempt to intercept what could be variants of known viruses or

even completely new viruses.

Since its initial release in January of 1989, Gatekeeper has

repeatedly demonstrated its ability to stop the spread of

viruses which were unknown during its design. Like any anti-

virus system, however, it cannot guarantee complete protection.

Of course, no claims or promises are made regarding Gatekeeper's

effectiveness or suitability, and some functions and capabil-

ities of Gatekeeper are non-trivial to use and may require a

careful reading of the documentation.

Gatekeeper 1.2.9 Release Notes 11-Nov-93

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

Gatekeeper 1.2.9 was created to deal with the CODE 1 and MBDF-B

viruses. The latter, MBDF-B, was already dealt with by previous

releases, but code was added to explicity identify the virus as the

"B" strain instead of as an "unknown" strain.

At the same time, some improvements have been made. These include

the elimination of a known false-positive identification of the

INIT 1984 virus, the further refinement of address sanity checking

code (and its application in a couple of new places), the addition

of some new privileges, the elimination of the conflict between

version 1.2.8 and System 7 Tuner, and probably a couple more things

I can't remember at the moment. :-)

----Chris

[Archived as /info-mac/vir/gatekeeper-129.hqx; 316K]

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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1993 16:33:55 EST

From: devendorfb@picard.msoe.edu

Subject: [*] IIe Discolour

The following ResEdit document contains the icons necessary for converting

Ambrosia Softwares freeare program Discolour for the use of colorizing your

Apple IIe partition on your hard drive. To install the patch, copy all the

resources except the STRING resource to your copy of Discolour. Click on YES

to replace the original icons. This is the only method I have found to date

for colorizing the IIe partition icon. In fact, due to the wonderful nature

of Andrew's program, you can have an edited version co-exist with the original

and have colored disk icons and the colored Apple IIe partition

simultaneously.

Hope you like it...any comments or suggestions?

[Archived as /info-mac/disk/iie-discolour.hqx; 5K]

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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1993 23:34:31 -0500

From: "Scott E. Lasley" <lasleyse@wam.umd.edu>

Subject: [*] MacOberon402

Here, once again, is a binhexed stuffit archive containing the latest

version, 4.0.2 of the programming language MacOberon written by

Michael Franz and available from neptune.inf.ethz.ch. Here are some

excerpts from the readme files:

Version 4.02 fixes a compiler bug accidentally introduced when

correcting Version 4.00 (sorry about that).

The enclosed archive contains Version 4.0.2 of MacOberon. This software

is copyrighted, but may be distributed free of charge for non-commercial

purposes. Please read the copyright message within the program for

details. MacOberon requires a Macintosh equipped with a Motorola 68020

processor (or higher) and a floating-point coprocessor. It will not run

on Macintosh Classic computers. However, you can use it on Macintoshes

without floating-point hardware by installing one of several widely

available "shareware" coprocessor emulation INITs in the System Folder.

MacOberon prefers to run under System 7 and later versions of the

Macintosh operating system, and is compatible with 32-bit addressing,

virtual memory, and the "fast" mode of Macintosh Quadra computers. This

version of MacOberon prints on any Macintosh printer. For esthetically

pleasing results, scalable versions (TrueType or PostScript) of the

Helvetica and Courier fonts should be present, instead of bit-mapped

printer fonts.

The standard software distribution contains sufficient on-line

documentation to enable users to use the system normally.

This documentation can also be printed from within the application.

MacOberon by Niklaus Wirth, Juerg Gutknecht, Michael Franz

Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Switzerland

"Oberon" and "MacOberon" are trademarks of ETH Zurich.

"Macintosh" is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.

"StuffIt" is a trademark of Aladdin Systems.

The ProgInOberon and ProjectOberon files have not changed since the 3.3

release. Further information about Oberon can be found in the Oberon

newsgroup comp.lang.oberon. Please note that I am not the author of

this software.

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/mac-oberon-402.hqx; 821K]

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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 12:21:20 +1000

From: Iain Anderson <ianderso@gucis.cit.gu.edu.au>

Subject: [*] Manilla Folder Icons

Manilla Folder Icons

by Iain Anderson

A free set of replacement system folder icons.

Instructions for installation are included.

If you have any queries/suggestions etc. please mail me on:

ianderso@gucis.cit.gu.edu.au.

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/grf/manilla-folder-icons.hqx; 10K]

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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 17:27:10 -0600

From: jskud@wv.mentorg.com (Joseph Skudlarek)

Subject: [*] mcvert-214.shar

mcvert converts among Macintosh file formats used for file interchange,

including BinHex 4.0 (.hqx) and MacBinary (.bin). mcvert is written

in C and runs on many popular UNIX boxes. See mcvert.1/mcvert.man

(the man page) for program details. See README for how to build mcvert.

[Archived as /info-mac/cmp/mcvert-214.shar; 151K]

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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 00:17:27 -0500

From: "David P. Faust" <tigger@fiesta.cns.udel.edu>

Subject: [*] Menu Choice 1.8

The latest version of this shareware control panels. Allows for heirarchial

menus in the apple menu under system 7. Very handy. This version has

several bug fixes.

Dave

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/menu-choice-18.hqx; 36K]

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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 12:20:09 -0500 (EST)

From: f8dy@netaxs.netaxs.com (Mark Pilgrim)

Subject: [*] MSG Demo 1.2 (graphics demo)

MSG Demo is a collection of graphic effects for putting a picture

onto the screen (into a window). The collection started in Feb.

1992 and has since grown to include 32 different effects, including

8 scrolling effects.

MSG Demo 1.2 is distributed under the GNU General Public License.

Complete THINK C source code and project files will be uploaded

to the archive sites. If you do not have FTP access, e-mail the

author requesting a copy of the application, source code, or a list

of other programs by the same author. The address is f8dy@netaxs.com.

This demo should work under system 6 or 7 on any monitor. Please

report any bugs/comments/suggestions/etc. to f8dy@netaxs.com.

[Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/msg-12-demo.hqx; 265K]

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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 12:30:16 -0500 (EST)

From: f8dy@netaxs.netaxs.com (Mark Pilgrim)

Subject: [*] MSG Demo 1.2 (source code)

MSG Demo is a collection of graphic effects for putting a picture

onto the screen (into a window). The collection started in Feb.

1992 and has since grown to include 32 different effects, including

8 scrolling effects. This is the complete THINK C 6.0.1 project and

source code, distributed under the GNU General Public License. You

may freely modify this source code and re-release it under the GNU

licensing terms; read the enclosed file "GNU General Public License"

for details.

The graphic effects themselves have been updated, based on comments

received from earlier versions. They now do not rely on application

globals or external #defines. The rest of the code in this archive

demonstrates basics of apple events, menus, windows, offscreen bitmaps,

dialogs, asynchronous and synchronous sounds, hierarchical menus,

using a preferences file, using timing loops to run the same speed on

all Macintoshes, and general event handling.

MSG Demo 1.2 (demo application) has been uploaded to the archives. If

you can not find it or do not have ftp access, e-mail the primary

author at f8dy@netaxs.com (Mark Pilgrim). You may also e-mail bugs,

comments, and/or suggestions to that same address.

Some of the source files contained in this archive are copyright

Pilgrim.

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/src/msg-12-demo-c.hqx; 377K]

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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1993 22:03:36 +0100

From: lombard francois <lombard@cui.unige.ch>

Subject: [*] Neurodule 1.03 neuron simulation laboratory

Please find neurodule 1.03 Stuffit Binhex archive.

Neurodule is an experimental neuron laboratory simulation for high

school/Universty students.

Unlike most courseware, it doesn't try to TEACH you, it lets you discover.

Neurodule is like getting an experimental apparatus. In fact you can use an

virtual Oscilloscope, a virtual milivolmeter on a virtual neuron, or inject

virtual curareI

Very little text.

However what text there is, is in French. (we speak french over here in

Geneva...)

Teachers here found it allows a much better in-depth learning.

FranCois lombard

lombard@cui.unige.ch

[Archived as /info-mac/sci/neurodule-103.hqx; 1014K]

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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 12:16:23 -0500 (EST)

From: f8dy@netaxs.netaxs.com (Mark Pilgrim)

Subject: [*] Pentominoes 1.4 (board game)

Pentominoes is a board game where you must fit 12 pieces (of five squares

each) into a variety of boards. Pieces may be rotated or flipped, but may

not overlap each other. A great geometric puzzler that goes back 40 years!

Pentominoes 1.4 fixes several technical bugs and adds several technical

features. In addition, Pentominoes is now distributed under the GNU

General Public License; complete C source code will be uploaded to the

archive sites (e.g. sumex-aim.stanford.edu) in a separate archive. If you

do not have FTP access, e-mail the author at f8dy@netaxs.com requesting

a copy of the source code, the game itself, or a list of other programs

by the same author.

System 6 and 7 compatible; supports B/W, grayscale, and color monitors;

includes sounds. Sounds work under system 6, but may require 6.0.7.

[Archived as /info-mac/game/brd/pentominoes-14.hqx; 215K]

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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 12:26:36 -0500 (EST)

From: f8dy@netaxs.netaxs.com (Mark Pilgrim)

Subject: [*] Pentominoes 1.4 (source code)

Pentominoes is a board game where you must fit 12 pieces (of five squares

each) into a variety of boards. Pieces may be rotated or flipped, but may

not overlap each other. A great geometric puzzler that goes back 40 years!

Pentominoes is now distributed under the GNU General Public License; this

archive contains complete THINK C 6.0.1 source code for the Pentominoes

application, as well as complete source code for an external application

used to set up Pentominoes' self-integrity checker. You may freely re-

distribute this package as a whole; you may freely modify this application

and re-distribute it under the GNU General Public License. See the file

"GNU General Public License" in this archive for details.

This code handles, among other things, events, menus, apple events, a prefs

file, Gestalt environment checking, asynchronous sounds, hierarchical menus,

dialogs, windows, off-screen bitmaps, file management, standard file dialogs,

and the soon-to-be-famous "cough to continue" modal dialog filter proc. None

of this is very well commented, but feel free to direct any questions to

f8dy@netaxs.com.

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/src/pentominoes-14-c.hqx; 283K]

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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 00:18:39 -0500

From: "David P. Faust" <tigger@fiesta.cns.udel.edu>

Subject: [*] Print Choice 1.1

A great shareware product that allows you to setup a hierarchial menu under

the apple menu with all of your printers. Switches between them without

using the chooser. Downloaded from AOL.

Dave

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/print-choice-11.hqx; 30K]

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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1993 16:35:10 EST

From: al_caughey@carletonbe.ottawa.on.ca

Subject: [*] PrintIt version 2.12

I've included version 2.12 and a documentation stack. This version fixes a

number of small bugs from previous versions.

[Archived as /info-mac/prn/print-it-212.hqx; 24K]

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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 93 16:50:02 CST

From: e-weidl@uchicago.edu (eric weidl)

Subject: [*] So To Speak 1.0

All,

So To Speak version 1.0 is finally finished! It is the best shareware app

to demonstrate Apple's new Speech Manager. With So To Speak, you can have

two voices speaking at once. While they are speaking, you can vary their

modulation, pitch, rate and volume.

This version works on all Macs, including Macs with small monitors (SE's,

Pluses, etc.) It also works properly on black & white-only machines. You

can also create, open, and save text files. Drag-and-drop of text files is

supported on System 7 machines.

You must have the Speech Manager software to make full use of So To Speak.

Have fun!

Eric

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/util/so-to-speak-10.hqx; 462K]

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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 93 15:59:42 CST

From: e-weidl@uchicago.edu (eric weidl)

Subject: [*] Speech FKEY

All,

Here is the Speech FKEY. It will read any text on the clipboard, assuming

you have the Speech Manager installed. I make no promises for it's

reliability or stability. I don't plan on enhancing it either. I'd rather

people use my SpokesDaemon faceless background application when they need

text-to-speech in an application which doesn't have it.

Email is welcome.

Eric

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/util/speech-fkey.hqx; 6K]

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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 11:15:21 -0800

From: tidbits@halcyon.halcyon.com (Adam C. Engst)

Subject: [*] tidbits-caring-for-wrists-ps.hqx

(Updated to make it possible to print on more PostScript printers - I had

accidentally printed with the QMS-PS 410 printer driver rather than the

General driver in PageMaker. Please replace the previous version. Otherwise

there are no changes).

[Archived as /info-mac/info/nms/tidbits-caring-for-wrists-ps.hqx; 211K]

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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 12:17:27 -0500 (EST)

From: f8dy@netaxs.netaxs.com (Mark Pilgrim)

Subject: [*] Voyeur 1.0 (file utility)

Voyeur 1.0 is a no-frills file viewer. It allows you to view raw data (in

hexadecimal and ascii format) of either the data or resource fork of a

file. You can't edit any of the information, but you can change the

type/creator information or modify the length (EOF) of either fork.

Voyeur is distributed under the GNU General Public License. Complete C

source code will be uploaded to the archive sites (for instance,

sumex-aim.stanford.edu) in a separate archive. If you do not have FTP

access, e-mail the author at f8dy@netaxs.com requesting a copy of the

source code, the program iteself, or a list of other programs by the same

author.

System 6 and 7 compatible; supports B/W, grayscale, and color monitors.

[Archived as /info-mac/disk/voyeur-10.hqx; 97K]

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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 12:28:14 -0500 (EST)

From: f8dy@netaxs.netaxs.com (Mark Pilgrim)

Subject: [*] Voyeur 1.0 (source code)

Voyeur 1.0 is a no-frills file viewer. It allows you to view raw data (in

hexadecimal and ascii format) of either the data or resource fork of a

file. You can't edit any of the information, but you can change the

type/creator information or modify the length (EOF) of either fork.

Voyeur is distributed under the GNU General Public License; this

archive contains complete THINK C 6.0.1 source code for the Voyeur

application, as well as complete source code for an external application

used to set up Voyeur's self-integrity checker. You may freely re-

distribute this package as a whole; you may freely modify this application

and re-distribute it under the GNU General Public License. See the file

"GNU General Public License" in this archive for details.

This code handles, among other things, events, menus, apple events, a prefs

file, Gestalt environment checking, hierarchical menus, dialogs, windows,

standard file dialogs, and the soon-to-be-famous "cough to continue" modal

dialog filter proc. None of this is very well commented, but feel free to

direct any questions to f8dy@netaxs.com.

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/src/voyeur-10-c.hqx; 170K]

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Date: 10 Nov 1993 12:09:05 CST6CDT

From: "Jay Larsen" <JLARSEN@che1.che.umn.edu>

Subject: [*] white castle startup

[Archived as /info-mac/grf/white-castle.hqx; 292K]

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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 93 22:42 EST

From: "Dr. Zoltan Tyeklar" <0005695188@mcimail.com>

Subject: !Using PowerBook 170 with external monitor(Q)

Hi Netters,

I would like to ask for your help to solve the problem I've been

struggling with for several weeks now.

I have a PowerBook 170 (6 mb RAM 120 mb HD, running System 7.1)

and I'd like to use it with an external Monitor (NEC 4FGe). Since this

PB does not support external monitors I will have to use a third-party

device (using the SCSI port). So far I out SuperMac's SuperView, but,

unfortunately, I could not make my PB work with it and SuperMac's

tech support could not do it either. They were not able to figure out what

the problem could be. I have checked the SCSI port of my computer and

it worked flawlessly with a SyQuest external HD and drove an Apple

OneScanner without any problems.

Does any of you have any experience regarding this question or

does anyone know other interfaces which I could try out?

Many thanks for your help and answers.

Zoltan (ztyeklar@mcimail.com or ztyeklar@world.std.com)

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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 20:49:58 -0600 (CST)

From: Andrew Vernon <avernon1@ua1ix.ua.edu>

Subject: 1984 Commercial

On Tue, 09 Nov 93 22:56:24 EST, Adriane Moser <AMOSER@CCVM.sunysb.edu> said:

>Ok, so we have decided that this bugger is too big to practically download

>over the net. Al Bloom has offered it to people on floppies. (Issue 218) My

>question is, does anyone have it on videotape? Seems it would be much

>better, faster, authentic. Anyone out there?

Bad news. I asked an Apple guy about the 1984 QuickTime movie at our

computer fair yesterday. According to him, the clip is under copyright

end-user license. So, it's mid-to-fairly illegal if it's out there.

--Andrew Vernon (Just as bummed-out about it as the rest of you)

avernon1@ua1ix.ua.edu

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Date: 11 Nov 1993 17:04:36 U

From: "Anne" <harwell@bandw.panam.edu>

Subject: 1984 Movie

I've some information on where to get the 1984 Commercial online. If you're

interested, mail me at this address.

-abh

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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 93 11:50:09 EST

From: Richard <HBLAD124%UCONNVM.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>

Subject: 660 AV Memory

I need to buy a 16Mb simm for a Centris (Quadra) 660 AV. My campus reseller

is telling me that I need a 60ns chip while all the mail order places

say that I only need a 70ns chip. He says that an Apple engineer told

him that I would have trouble with a 70ns chip. Can anyone help me with

this? Please respond directly and I will summarize for the list.

Also, since I plan to upgrade to a Power PC, is that more likely to require

a 60ns chip if I could use the 70ns?

Thanks in advance

Richard Caccavale Hblad124@uconnvm or Hblad124@uconnvm.uconn.edu

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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 12:46:46 +0000

From: mike@bison.lif.icnet.uk (Michael Mitchell)

Subject: [Q] Archie client software

I remember down-loading a Mac Archie client about 3 months ago, since then

I have lost my copy and can't remember which anon ftp site I got it from.

Does anybody know of such an application, or know of an ftp site that has

one.

If this is a FAQ, please do not flame me, just send a copy of the

appropriate FAQ list or the relavent section.

Michael Mitchell, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London

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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 11:16:39 -0600

From: david-bourne@uokhsc.edu (David Bourne)

Subject: absoft address

Hello

Does anyone have an e-mail address for absoft. Tech support and sales if

possible. THanks.

David Bourne, Ph.D.

OU HSC College of Pharmacy

1110 N. Stonewall Ave, Oklahoma City, OK 73117-1223

Voice: (405) 271-6471 FAX: (405) 271-3830

Internet: david-bourne@uokhsc.edu

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

Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 21:06 PST

From: AUNE_N%PLU.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU

Subject: Access PC w/ Audio CDs (C)

Thanks to everyone who responded to my question regarding Access PC and Audio

CDs. Many people suggested moving the Foriegn File Access extension out of the

Extensions folder and into System Folder. I tried it and it worked!

The Don Markuson <dmm@tiger1.cv.com> suggested reordering the INIT loading

sequence such that Foreign File Access loads *after* ~AccessPC.

I tried this but it didn't work.

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

Date: 11 Nov 1993 08:10:37 GMT

From: guykuo@carson.u.washington.edu (Guy Kuo)

Subject: Animals Cache Control Panel

Al Bloom Writes:

>BTW, I understand that "Animals" is superior to "Compatibility." Lets one

>turn off just one 040 cache instead of all. Do any of y'all know where to

>get Animals? Not in any of the multitude of catalogs I get.

I purchased my copy of Animals directly from Impulse Technolgies. Yes,

you're right it allows the write through cache mode which gives you about

80% the speed of write back caching and compatibility with most 68030

compatible software.

Impulse Technology

210 Dahlonega St. #205

Cumming, GA 30130

(404) 889-8294

Guy Kuo <guykuo@u.washington.edu>

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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 19:40:57 -0600

From: mlong@mermaid.micro.umn.edu (Michael A. Long)

Subject: balloon help

I heard from a friend that there is something out there to disable

the balloon help on a mac. Do you know of such an application?

please respond at your earliest convenience.

Michael A. Long University of Minnesota

mlong@mermaid.micro.umn.edu

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Date: Thu, 11 NOV 93 13:04 GMT

From: BASSI@BOLOGNA.INFN.IT

Subject: CD-ROM DRIVERS

Hi, I've got a Digital CD-ROM drive and it's identical to the Apple CD-ROM

drive. In fact, if I boot the system with an Apple CD and then I change

fisically the scsi cable, the Digital CD-rom works as the Apple one !

So, I guess the only problem is "Apple CD-ROM INIT" does not recognize the

Digital CD and so it doesn't load itself into the system.

Do you know any other INIT to be able to see other CD drivers.

Thank's a lot.

Antonio

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

Date: Thu, 11 Nov 93 17:42:28 +0100

From: gjr@ams.chem.ruu.nl

Subject: Classical Greek font (Q)

Hello,

A friend of mine asked me whether I was able to find a classical Greek font

(in

fact he bragged that the Mac was superior to a PC since there you had to patch

some of the characters). The question is quite simple: does anyone know about

Greek font with all the characters needed in the classcal greek texts?

Thanks in advance

Geert Jan

G.J. Rademaker

Utrecht University, Dept. of Chemistry, Mass Spectrometry

P.O. Box 80083, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands

gjr@ams.chem.ruu.nl tel:+31.30.536794 fax:+31.30.518219

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

Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 14:42:48 +0000 (GMT)

From: Colin_Lamb@qmbridge.drake.edu

Subject: CPU usage software (Q)

Regarding: CPU usage software (Q)

Friends,

I am looking for an application which will tell me how much CPU time is

allocated to different apps running on the mac. I.E. - application A is

taking so many cycles, Finder is taking so many cycles, so many cycles

idle.

What I am trying to do is figure out how hard a Mac IIcx we have running

QuickMail server is working - so I can plan on when we will have to replace

it.

Please mail me directly if possible (CL7841S@ACAD.DRAKE.EDU)

Thanks much! I will post any interesting findings here soonest.

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

Date: Thu, 11 Nov 93 15:13:15 -0800

From: Leslie_Ballentine@sfu.ca

Subject: Desert Trek (Q:-)

A quote from Issue #222:

>Desert Trek: Desert Trek is a game of adventure where you try to cross

>the great Gobi Desert. Be careful, though, since hungry cannibals are

>chasing you. Watch your food and water supplies, try to find an oasis

>or two, visit the trading post for supplies, and hope that those wild

>Berbers don't kidnap you again.

Berbers in the *Gobi* ? I thought they lived in the Sahara.

Or perhaps we are confusing the "Gobi Desert" with the better known Gobi

Dessert. The latter contains a lot of sand; the former is made of sugar.

:-)

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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 02:48:07 -0500

From: mxh160@psu.edu (Matt X. Herbison)

Subject: Disney After Dark [Q]

Hello all. I am thinking of getting the new After Dark Disney Screensaver

set. If anyone out there (hopefully the big-time Disney fans) has anything

at all to say about it, please post here or write me. Much obliged.

-Matt X. Herbison -Penn State University

-mxh160@psu.edu -Apple Student Representative

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

Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 09:54:16 EST

From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" <JFRITZ%WVNVM.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>

Subject: FAA Exam Software Recommendations? (A)

Dean E. Gunderson asked:

DEG> I am interested is purchasing software that will allow me to

DEG> prepare for the FAA written Exam (private pilot). Does anyone have

DEG> any recommendations Or suggestions as to where (list) I might

DEG> direct this question?

I'm also preparing for the private pilot FAA written Exam. I have

found the Usenet group alt.rec.aviation.students to be very helpful

in general. I'm sure that if you posted a question about software

on this group, you would get some helpful answers.

Jeffrey Fritz

West Virginia University

jfritz@wvnvm.wvnet.edu

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

Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 17:09:31 -0500 (EST)

From: Michael Petty <MJPETTY@CUTCV2.TC.COLUMBIA.EDU>

Subject: GCC Eclipse 8 Laser printer [Q]

Dear Netters,

Does anyone have comments or opinions about the GCC Technologies BLP

Eclipse 8 laser printer? This new product is positioned between the two GCC

laser printers rated in the Sept. 93 issue of MacUser.

We're a small business office with three Macs and our printing needs are

not too demanding: mostly short documents such as letters and contracts with

no complex graphics. Though we don't have a lot of money to throw around,

we've begun improving our system, networked the Macs via EtherNet, and

now want to upgrade our printing setup. The current nightmare includes an

ancient HP LaserJet IIP linked to two of the Macs via LocalTalk and a manual

A-B switch!

The Eclipse 8 appears ideal. What we can't figure out is how GCC can offer

so much printer (8ppm, RISC processor, PostScript level 2, and EtherNet built-

in) for only $1399 after direct sale rebate. Is there some hidden flaw? Is

risky

to consider a new printer with no proven track record?

I'd appreciate any information, gossip, or rumors that might help us make

the right decision. If appropriate, I'll post a summary to the Net.

Thanks in advance,

Michael Petty

Michael J. Petty

<mjpetty@cutcv2.tc.columbia.edu>

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

Date: Thu, 11 Nov 93 08:54:51 EST

From: Prof GWK Moore <moore@rainbow.physics.utoronto.ca>

Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #221

Have you tried ( I hate to suggest!) ln pressure rather

than pressure?

Professor G.W.K. Moore Department of Physics

60 St. George Street University of Toronto

Toronto,Ontario,Canada M5S 1A7

Phone: 416-978-4686 Fax:416-978-8905

email:moore@rainbow.physics.utoronto.ca

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

Date: Thu, 11 Nov 93 08:19:00 EST

From: Ken Miller <KMILLER@BROWNVM.brown.edu>

Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #222

Some Comments on WordPerfect (3.0):

I've been using WP 3.0 for about 2 weeks on a Centris 650 and an

LC-III. I've been a heavy-duty MS Word user ever since the old Word 1.0

days, and wanted to see if WP was a viable alternative. It is. In fact,

I'm tempted to switch most of my writing to WP.

There are a few differences in "logic" between Word and WP, most

notably in the areas of paragraph formatting. These have taken a while

to get used to. But they are more than compensated for by the ease of

positioning paragraphs, producing borders and shaded text, imprinting

"watermarks" and graphic overlays, and an excellent graphic interface.

My Word-using friends have already started to ask me how I produced

some of the effects in my documents.

Unfortunately, WP is a BIGGER program than Word.... It uses 3000 k

chunk of memory in optimum installation, and the program itself is

2.5 mb. It also has trouble opening "fast-saved" Word 4.0/5.1

documents, and cannot save in Word's format (only in RTF).

I haven't thrown Word 5.1 off my hard drive yet, but I'm impressed

with WP 3.0.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

~ DISCLAIMER: Not only do I have no relationship ~

~ of any kind with WordPerfect Corp... ~

~ I've never even been to Utah! ~

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- Ken Miller / Brown University

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

Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 11:41:40 -0500

From: tonyh@msc.cornell.edu (Tony Huang)

Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #222

>Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1993 13:11:30 -0600 (CST)

>From: takata@sncac2.snc.edu (Takamasa Takahashi)

>Subject: Japanese WorldSript and vertical printing (Q)

>I noticed some discussion of Nisus and WordPerfect and

>their capability to handle Apple's WorldSript (Worldscript?).

>As far as I can tell, neither program can print Japanese

>text "vertically," that is, top to bottom instead of right to

>left or left to right. In Japanese it is called "tategaki" and

>it is a very common form of writing Japanese (also Chinese,

>I believe).

>Admittedly, I haven't played with either word processor very much.

>I just tried them on my colleague's Mac when she got the Japanese

>Language Kit from Apple. Maybe I am missing something, but until

>a word processor can p

> r

> i

> n

> t Japanese (Chinese, Korean?) vertically, it

>is not worldsript savy in my opinion.

>Does anyone have thoughts on this? Also if you know a way to make

>Nisus 3.47 or WordPerfect 3.0 do this, please let me know.

>Thanks in advance. You can either email me (takata@sncac.snc.edu) or

>post it in the info-mac.

It's not the fault of the applications that you can't write Chinese or

Japanese vertically. To do so would require new scripts with such

capability and they have to come from Apple (and they don't exist yet).

Nisus 3.4.8 is a little worldscript-savvier than WordPerfect 3.0; it can

handle right-to-left scripts (WP 3.0 can't).

Tony Huang

tonyh@msc.cornell.edu

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

Date: Wed, 10 Nov 93 17:57:20 CST

From: Mack <ZU01988%UABDPO.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>

Subject: Internal SyquestIn 800/840

Has anyone put an internal syquest drive in their 800 or 840? I am in

need of backup storage, and am looking into an internal syquest drive.

Can anyone give me the pros, and cons. I would love to have a PLI 128 MO,

but cannot afford one.

TIA

MAck

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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 01:31:44 -0500

From: jmoore@halcyon.com (Joel Moore)

Subject: Is AudioVision an EnergyStar Monitor?

The subject pretty much says it all. I was wondering if the AudioVision

monitor is actually an EnergyStar monitor or not. The Apple Catalog seems

to say that it is, but it doesn't have the Star logo on the box, so I was

wondering.

Thanks,

Joel Moore

jmoore@halcyon.com

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

Date: Thu, 11 Nov 93 10:12:12 EST

From: iedh1@agt.gmeds.com ( Daniel J. Hofferth (317) 230-4791 AGT/8896)

Subject: Is SupraFAX LC 14.4 modem a good buy?

I've seen exchanges on this list comparing various FAX-modems and their

bundled

software. I seem to recall a brief debate over Supra's 14.4kb offering, but

I'm not clear on what the conclusion was... it began in a negative tone and

was followed by positive testimonials.

I suddenly find myself on the brink of buying a SupraFAX LC 14.4kb modem for

US$180... a price that I'm willing to pay if the general consensus is that

the modem and software are solid. There is another model up, for $250, that

(try as I might) I was unable to determine any major difference between it and

its cheaper sibling (the cheaper one says it'll do "class 1" FAXes, the other

says "class 2". Is that worth $70?). Competitors on the shelf were all at

the $250 mark and above.

Question: For plain-vanilla home use, is this beast worth my money, or should

I spring for one of the more expensive models?

Please respond directly to me - I'll post a summary of opinions next week.

Thanks in advance.

Dan Hofferth

iedh1@agt.gmeds.com

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

Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 16:57:41 -0600 (CST)

From: "John P. Young" <JYOUNG@VAX1.UMKC.EDU>

Subject: LaserWriter Lockout

Some time ago I downloaded a file called LaserWriter Lockout. It allowed

me the option of showing or not showing all of the laserwriters on the one

zone we have using appletalk. I have lost the copy I had and could not

find it listed in the info-mac directory. Does someone remember this pro-

gram? Can someone suggest a location for ftp'ing a copy? Or, is there

a newer version floating around out there with another name?

Thanks in advance for any help.

John Young

Librarian

William Jewell College

Missouri

Internet: JYOUNG@VAX1.UMKC.edu

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

Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 11:46:53 -0500

From: tonyh@msc.cornell.edu (Tony Huang)

Subject: MacBench (R)

>Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1993 13:23:57 -0600 (CST)

>From: takata@sncac2.snc.edu (Takamasa Takahashi)

>Subject: MacBench (Request)

>Could anyone please post MacBench 1.0 from Ziff/Net

>(the MacUser's own forum on Compuserve, if I remember

>it correctly). I read in the December issue of MacUser

>that MacBench is made available free to anyone who asks

>(it was stated in the article that compares MO drives).

>Maybe someone could download it from Ziff/Net and upload

>it to the sumex archive? I would greatly appreciate it.

>Thanks in advance.

I downloaded MacBench from ZiffNet but I'm not allowed to post it because

of Ziff's policy. It's much better than Speedometer (its video benchmark is

still not very accurate). If you don't have access to ZiffNet, you can get

it on a diskette by sending Ziff a postcard.

Tony Huang

tonyh@msc.cornell.edu

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

Date: Thu, 11 Nov 93 9:23:49 PST

From: John Louch <jlouch@apple.com>

Subject: Mail to prodigy from internet (Q)

Info Mac People,

Is it possible to mail to Prodigy from the internet? And for

that matter mail to the internet from Prodigy.

Please respond directly to this address (jlouch@apple.com) and if there

is enough interest I will send a report back to info-mac.

Thanks,

John Louch

Apple Computer, Inc.

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

Date: Thu, 11 Nov 93 13:06:22 EST

From: adorfman@cs.tufts.edu (2d Lt Avram Dorfman)

Subject: Modifying Page Sizes & Printer Drivers (Q)

Does anyone know of a way to modify existing printer drivers? It sure would be

nice if I could define my own page sizes for use with non standard size

paper.

It would also be nice if I could get my Stylewriter II to print "every odd

page" or "every even page" for me (I know I can do it one at a time).

Please respond directly, and I'll post a summary.

-Avram Dorfman (adorfman@cs.tufts.edu)

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

Date: Thu, 11 Nov 93 9:45 BST

From: Richard Lim <RTL@siva.bristol.ac.uk>

Subject: Moving disks (transcontinentally)

I'm shortly due to go back to the Far East :-( and have decided not to ship

my LC system back as it'll take ages - I'd really like to have a Mac ready

to use when I get back. So I thought I'd buy an external hard disk, back

up my files, take the disk with me rather than ship it, and buy a new Mac

once I arrive. The problem with this scheme is that I'm intending to career

around the Levant (a favourite bit of the world for me) en route to the Far

East, and I really don't want to be lugging a SCSI hard disk with me! I can

imagine the suspicious looks I'm going to get at various airports/border

checkpoints. Anyway, questions:

(1) If I do lug the disk everywhere I go, will it be secure? I'll be

backpacking it much of the way and don't want the disk to be jolted into

oblivion, assuming this could happen.

(2) Can the hard disk be affected by airport scanning equipment? (Doubt

it, but maybe some of you know better.)

(3) I'll probably be shipping quite a few floppy disks rather than taking

them with me. Do I have to be wary of factors like high temperatures in

cargo holds? (Vinyl LPs warp fabulously under such conditions; I hope

floppies don't.)

I'd appreciate any other pointers people might have to offer about moving

computer equipment over such distances. I'll be reading my mail up to

about November 24. Thanks in advance!

PS: any Levantine Mac users want to meet up there in December? (Assuming

my visas come through - fingers crossed...)

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

Date: Thu, 11 Nov 93 09:59:41 -0500

From: barnett@amnh.org (Bill Barnett-Interdepartmental Laboratories)

Subject: NCSA Mosaic

>From: ace@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst)

>Subject: NCSA Mosaic

>In Regards to your letter <199311081221.AA08303@nwnexus.wa.com>:

>> Can anyone tell me what Mosaic is, and if it is of any use to me. I

>current

>> -ly dial up into an IBM 32 somthin' to get my mail. I have access to an

>> 030 Sun, but is not set up with a name server, or news. Can I use Mosaic

>> dial into the sun and join usenet?

>It's a browser for the World Wide Web, which is an Internet service

>along the same lines as Gopher and WAIS. You need a Mac connected

>to the Internet via network or SLIP/PPP and Apple's MacTCP. Without

>that software and that connection, you can't use Mosaic at all.

>There is a version for Unix that might run on your Sun, if it has

>a connection to the Internet, but I don't know anything about it.

>cheers ... -Adam

For the Sun (or other Unix) you can download Xmosaic (but your

system has to run X or maybe even X11R5). We haven't attempted it here yet

but we do run X11R5 (also freeware for Unix systems) and will try it soon.

There is Mosaic for Windows. We downloaded this and tried to load

it up on a 486DX but due to the klugey nature of Windows we have been

having trouble getting it to work. It also requires a separate TCP/IP

stack running (pain!).

For Macs (yea!) you need Mosaic, a JPEG app. called JPEGView to see

the pictures, an MPEG app. called Sparkle (v.1.6?), and ULawPlay (a sound

player). Needless to say, after downloading all these from NCSA, they

worked seamlessly the first time.

All three Mosaics are available from ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu

-Bill Barnett (barnett@amnh.org) American Museum of Natural History

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

Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 13:51:53 CST

From: Chip Sample <sample@shire.ac.arknet.edu>

Subject: Norton Utilities

I have also been pleased by Norton Utilities ability to fix errors on my hard

disk. But I've found that Speed Disk (a disk optimizer which comes with

Norton

Utilities) can fix some problems that Norton cannot. A few times I have

gotton

the message that "Norton Utilities can not fix this error". Once I

reformatted

to get rid of the problem, but a year later when I had a repeat occurance I

gave Speed Disk a try**. It noted the problem and told me it needed to fix it

before it could optimize the disk; was that okay? Sure enough, it fixed the

problem!

**NOTE: THERE WAS NOTHING ON MY DISK THAT I WAS NOT PREPARED TO LOSE. TRY

THIS

AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Chip Sample

Arkansas College

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

Date: Thu, 11 Nov 93 12:04:44 MST

From: sradford@heineken.tuc.nrao.edu (Simon Radford)

Subject: PB 100 charger problems

I'm having a problem with the battery charger on my PB 100. The plug doesn't

make good contact with the innards. When I connect it to the PB, I have to

push

the plug this way or that for it to make contact. Then, if I don't keep

pushing, it loses contact again. With the volatage display in Edison I can see

when it's really making contact. This is getting more frequent, more tedious,

and, needless to say, my PB rarely gets a full charge so it doesn't last

long on its batteries.

Anyone else have this problem? Anyone have a fix? I suspect it's a hairline

crack in the solder on the jack. Anyone have any experience reflowing the

solder?

Thanks, Simon Radford, NRAO, Tucson

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

Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 09:56:53 EST

From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" <JFRITZ%WVNVM.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>

Subject: Port for floppy drive (A)

Steve Waechter asks:

SW> Could somebody tell me if the Mac IIsi is equipped with a DB-19

SW> external floppy disk drive port? I'm trying to find out if I can

SW> connect an external SuperDrive to the IIsi.

I'm not sure what the connector physically is, but a Mac IIsi does

have an external floppy drive port and it does support external

SuperDrive devices.

Now if only Apple hadn't removed the floppy port on the Quadras! :-(

Jeffrey Fritz

West Virginia University

jfritz@wvnvm.wvnet.edu

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

Date: Wed, 10 Nov 93 18:35:18 PST

From: fredc@netcom.com (Fred Condo)

Subject: PPP Server Software?

I am looking for PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) *server* software to run

on a Macintosh. Does such a beast exist? Thanks.

Fred Condo * fredc@netcom.com

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

Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 20:34:36 -0600 (CST)

From: Andrew Vernon <avernon1@ua1ix.ua.edu>

Subject: QuarkXPress list (Never Mind)

A few days ago, I asked for the address for the QuarkXPress list and

received an answer the next day from a MAC-L reader at UAB, who pointed me

in the general direction of listserv@iubvm.bitnet. General listserv

procedures apply: First line should read "sub quarkxpr your name"

Thanks anyway...

Andrew Vernon (avernon1@ua1ix.ua.edu)

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

Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 12:41:42 -0500

From: mxh160@psu.edu (Matt X. Herbison)

Subject: QuickTime Movie Site

Hello all. I will be making the following QuickTime movies

available for a little while. These are on my own personal computer in a

dorm room, so it will not be up and running all the time. Another

downside: I don't have enough disk space left to compress or even binhex

any of these files, so they have to be downloaded in MacBinary format. I

hope you don't have trouble getting them, if you DO however, please write

me. In the near future I am planning on getting another SyQuest cartridge

on which I would be able to binhex and segment these files. SO, if it

doesn't work now, these movies WILL be made available in an easier format

later. As far as the access speed of my data, I have been able to maintain

20K per second FTPing from remote hosts, so it should be OK in that

respect. Transfers would probably be most effective after midnight here

(EST). Hope this works out for you.

FTP to: "128.118.193.88" or "mxh160.rh.psu.edu"

Available in the "/CHEF/Pub" directory:

-1984....................13,433K-The original Mac commercial from 1984.

-Aliens (Directory)......15,005K-An EXCELLENT movie. Please get the "About

Aliens" file when you download this one. If

you have the space I HIGHLY recommend this

movie.

-Kennedy_Assassination....1,949K-Self-explanatory.

-McIntosh_Post-It_Notes...8,380K-The recent SNL spoof of the Newton.

-MTV-Blooper................723K-Kurt Loder messing up. Also available from

Sumex.

-Quadra_Commercial........1,761K-Self-explanatory.

-Quayle_Season............5,950K-Hilarious clips of Dan Quayle screwing up.

Especially funny is the movie maker's

clarification of one of Dan's mumblings.

-QuickTime_Logo.............230K-A short animated QT logo. Nice.

-Ren&Stimpy...............1,861K-The original opening sequence for the Ren &

Stimpy show. A "must-have" for any fan.

-SNL-ad_MacJr.............7,073K-A very funny spoof on Macintoshes from SNL.

I don't recall when this was from.

-Matt X. Herbison -Penn State University

-mxh160@psu.edu -Apple Student Representative

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

Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 09:28 EST

From: DAVE@unirel.a1.clemson.edu

Subject: random acts of System 7?

From: NAME: David J. Crockett

FUNC: News Services

TEL: 656-3859 <DAVE AT A1 AT UNIREL>

To: in%"info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu"@mrgate

Hello again, Info-Mac junkies! Time for another "what's causing this?"

query. I'll try to be brief.

Just upgraded from an aging SE on System 6.0.8 to an LC III (160/8)

running 7.1 (preinstalled by the computer.gods). Have a handful of

normal extensions (latest versions of Disinfectant, Gatekeeper/Aid,

Soundmaster, AD, SuperClock!). Only thing 'unusual' is that I've

hitched a 3-year-old PowerUser 64 Meg. external drive to the SCSI port.

Same one I had tied to the old SE without incident or problems.

Problem: LCIII randomly hangs during boot. Sometimes at the

happy Mac, sometimes the startupscreen, sometimes somewhere in the

extension load sequence and sometimes just before Finder finishes

loading. Sometimes it boots up fine.

Through elimination, I've found if I leave the the external drive

physically disconnected from the LCIII, problems don't occur.

On advice of local and other techs, I've tried reformatting BOTH

internal and external drives; reinstalled respective drivers (external

uses Disk Manager Mac utility); and checked for viruses. Only

abnormality found was that with the EXTERNAL drive CONNECTED, HDSC

Setup said it couldn't verify the INTERNAL drive (it apparently cannot

even see the external). With external drive DISCONNECTED, HDSC Setup

said internal was OK. Go figure. Tried it several times with same

result.

Comments direct? I'll summarize for the net. TIA!

Dave <dave@unirel.a1.clemson.edu>

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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 93 14:44:55 +0100

From: robk@stack.urc.tue.nl (Rob Kouwenberg)

Subject: Re : 1984 Commercial

L.S.,

To make life even easier :

To get the quicktime movie I can give it to you on DAT tape. Just send me

something ( e.g. a SASE + tape or some $$ to buy a tape ) and I'll put it

on DAT for you .. ( either an optima demo desktape or retrosect 2.0 format

)

My address : below

Greetings from The Netherlands, Rob Kouwenberg

( BTW it can also be placed on 34 SS floppies .. )

(* robk@stack.urc.tue.nl Gr. Adolfstraat 86 040-524372

ERSICRKO@HEITUE52.bitnet 5616 BX Eindhoven,Holland *)

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Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1993 04:45:59 GMT

From: dbesler@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Darren Besler)

Subject: Revsion Control on Macintosh

Is anyone aware of a RCS or SCCS like revision control system for the

Macintosh?

Either commercial or PD (shareware, etc) will suffice. I am just interested to

see what is available to satisfy the need for revision management in the Mac

environment.

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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 11:16:42 -0600

From: david-bourne@uokhsc.edu (David Bourne)

Subject: Room/Overhead Projection/Slide making equipment Suggestions.

Hello all

I have been given the task of making recommendations about classroom

presentation equipment and slide making equipment.

We have two large lecture rooms in which we would like to install either

RGB type projection equipment driven by Mac and IBM computer or overhead

type projection equipment driven by Mac and IBM.

Additionally we want to provide in-house slide making facilities from Mac

and IBM computers. Not the developing at this stage just the process from

computer to film.

I would appreciate any information that can be provided. Especially if you

have installed or used any of this type of equipment. Simply vendor names,

models, addresses would be a great help. Equipment to avoid would be

useful. Equipment limitations would be useful.

I will summarize to the net after receiving comments.

Hopefully I'll be able to give a follow-up after we install the new

equipment and have some experience with it.

Thanks in advance.

David Bourne, Ph.D.

OU HSC College of Pharmacy

1110 N. Stonewall Ave, Oklahoma City, OK 73117-1223

Voice: (405) 271-6471 FAX: (405) 271-3830

Internet: david-bourne@uokhsc.edu

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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 04:24:58 -0800 (PST)

From: John Owens <jowens@cory.EECS.Berkeley.EDU>

Subject: SNL commercial

Still looking for the SNL commercial ... I would love to get either

the recent Newton (I think) commercial or the one shown a couple

years ago - "The power to crush the other kids".

So desperate, I will trade for Quadra commerical, George of the Jungle

intro , or Ren + Stimpy intro. (None of which are currently uploaded.)

The site at MSUS no longer accepts anonymous ftp. :(

Any ideas, please let me know.

John Owens

jowens@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu

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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 93 14:33:16 AKS

From: engberg@ctis.af.mil (Bob Engberg)

Subject: Sound Converter

Is there a utility to convert from mac sound format to PC format,

say .wav for example?

Thanks

email adr: engberg@ctis.af.mil

Bob Engberg x2054

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Date: 11 Nov 93 00:20:00 CST

From: "Eugene Cohen" <eugene@rover.uchicago.edu>

Subject: Specmarks anyone?

(I didn't see the original message, only Christopher Smith's reply in

Info-Mac 220, so bear with me if I say something stupid...)

Anyway:

If I remember correctly, the "classic" (one might be tempted to call them)

SPECmark was scaled so that a VAX 11/780 ran at 1 SPECmark. Kinda' makes

you think-- a multi-user VAX minicomputer has a tiny fraction of the power

of today's desktop workstations. Hmmmm.

Eugene Cohen

eugene@rover.bsd.uchicago.edu

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Date: Fri, 12 Nov 93 03:39:21 GMT

From: taylor@dytm21.SINet.SLB.COM

Subject: Speeding up Centris 660AV (Q)

From: TAYLOR@PSI%DYTM21@MRGATE@SNDRTR

To: IN%"info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu"@M_SDR@MRGATE@SNDRTR@SNDRTR

I can remember reading recently that there is a $10. clock crystal or

something like that which can be plugged or piggy-backed onto the 25 Mhz

crystal driving the 660AV. This boosted the clock frequency of the 68040

to around 33 MHz. I assume that it is just a faster crystal.

Does anyone have any information on such a mod? Supplier, etc.

Jeff Taylor TAYLOR@DYTM21.SINET.SLB.COM or TAYLOR%DYTM21@SDR.SLB.COM

Aberdeen

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Date: 11 Nov 1993 03:21:23 -0500

From: rlichter@panix.com (Robert Lichter)

Subject: Stylewriter & WriteNow (two separate Qs)

In digest <9311020251.AA03908@SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU>

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

>Dear Netters,

>Second:

>In WriteNow 3.0 I can't seem to tell the headers section not to print a 1 on

>the first page, is there anyway of doing this without forcing all odd pages

>not to have their page #s printed?

>Thank you.

>Sincerely,

>ABRODY@BLACK.CLARKU.EDU

A way to do this is to insert a header on the page on which you do not

want a page number printed. The header should not have the "Insert

page number" icon on it.

Then insert a new header on the page on which you want page numbers to

begin to appear and put the Insert Page Number icon into it. Go to Page

Setup in the File menu, enter the starting page number that you want into

the "Starting Page Number" box (top of lower left quadrant of dialog box,)

click OK, and you're set. That number will apply to the first page of

your text but will not display because you haven't put the page number

icon into it. You can confirm this in the Preview mode.

It works for any selection of page numbers. For example, if you have a

title page and a table of contents page, you can have the first two appear

with no page numbers, and begin with page three on the first text page by

entering "1" into "Starting Page Number", or begin with page 1 on the

first text page by entering -1 into "Starting Page Number".

Hope this helps.

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Date: Fri, 12 Nov 93 07:14:52 GMT

From: tgh3_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (dead swordsman)

Subject: Stylewriter II driver

Is there anyone out there who can tell me where I can get my hands on a

Stylewriter II driver? I tried getting it at ftp.apple.com, but I couldn't

find it. Maybe if someone sent me a binhex'd version...

Thanks for all your trouble.

tgh3_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu

dead swordsman ds+H

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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 93 18:34:51 -0500

From: Thomas H. Jones <wk02143@worldlink.com>

Subject: Subscription request

I am interested in available discussion groups for the Mac, with specific

interest in:

1. Quadra 840AV experiences/problems/modem operation etc.

2. FAQs or other introductory info on using the Mac via the Internet, with

or without a Telnet-capable Internet service.

3. User experiences on various software applications, such as file sync

between Powerbook and desktop Macs.

Thanks.

Thomas H. Jones

wk02143@worldlink.com

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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 18:07:23 -0600

From: (Pete Chane) <pchaneuw@vms2.macc.wisc.edu>

Subject: Threads

WHERE can I get the Apple Thread Manager? Has it been offically released?

If so, what was the distribution like? What version?

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

Pete Chane

PCHANEUW@macc.wisc.edu

PCHANE@applelink.apple.com

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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 12:24:16 PST

From: Victor_J_Heintz.wbst128@xerox.com

Subject: Unix mount of HFS file system: what's available?

Received: by launchpad.paa.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA20031; Thu, 11 Nov 93

15:24:23 EST

Unix (SunOS) provides mount_pcfs which allows DOS format HD floppies to be

mounted and used. What's available for Mac format? I realize that the

Macintosh HFS format is necessarily more complex because Mac files have both

resource and data forks. Nonetheless, Xwindows applications like Liken are

able

to use not only Mac HD format floppies but HFS format CDROMs such as the

Info-mac archive CDROM.

Is there not some simple unix tool which will at least read the contents of a

Macintosh HD disk?

Does Liken have some proprietary information or is the HFS structure published

information? If the latter is true where can I find the info?

Vic

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

Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1993 17:29:25 -0800

From: Charles Chia-Hsing Hsieh <chsieh@leland.Stanford.EDU>

Subject: unplug keyboard when computer is on, bad?

I heard somewhere that unplugging keyboard when the computer is on is bad.

Really? Why? If so, any software way to solve that?

11/10/93 Charles C. Hsieh

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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 93 08:40:08 PST

From: jeff@apl.washington.edu (Jeff Schindall)

Subject: What is "Printer Share" ?

Hi,

My quadra 840av has a system extension called Printer Share, what is it,

and how do I use it?

-jeff

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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1993 17:36:49 -0600 (CST)

From: Michael Salmons <msalmons@bigcat.missouri.edu>

Subject: ZTerm High-Speed Patch

Hello,

I've recently taken to expereimeting with ZTerm as a comm program. I'd

like to use the high speed patch I've found on Sumex with it, but don't

know how to. I suppose this might be in the docs registered users get, but

don't want to commit to that until i know the patch works! Could some kind

soul direct me?

Thanks!

Michael Salmons

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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 93 9:39:03 GMT

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest

Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #223

Message-ID: <9311120810.AA24135@SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU>

Date: 12 Nov 93 08:10:21 GMT

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Approved: info-mac@sumex-ai I've been looking for the ttsDialog thingy that allows

you to reset the speech settings (as mentioned in one of the PD

utilities' read-me) - only thing is I can't seem to find it on

ftp.apple.com. Am I simply looking in the wrong place?

Best regards,

Martin

P.S. If you have answers please could you drop a line to me

M.Bartos@ed.ac.uk (I'll summarise the responses when I have the answers)

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