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- Network_Server.Daemon 03/05/87 0318.0 est Thu info-mac
- Subject: INFO-MAC Digest V5 #61
- From: INFO-MAC-Request@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU
-
-
- INFO-MAC Digest Wednesday, 4 Mar 1987 Volume 5 : Issue 61
-
- Today's Topics:
- Vertical Retrace Tasks in Lightspeed C
- MPW vs. TurboCharger 2.0
- SCSI Manager in C...
- Re: Shutdown (V5 #60)
- Screen & Coatings & Dust...
- Word 3.0 - Grrrr
- AutoDialog
- Chinese Text Processing, KanjiTalk, and Script Manager
- Kanji and other non-Roman fonts
- SE First Impression
-
-
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-
- Date: Tue, 3 Mar 87 13:39:18 est
- From: rs4u#@andrew.cmu.edu (Richard Siegel)
- Subject: Vertical Retrace Tasks in Lightspeed C
-
- Does anyone have some Lightspeed C source that installs a simple task
- in the vertical retrace queue? I know how it's done in Pascal,
- but Lightspeed C's queue type is different, and I don't quite
- have the hang of it yet.
-
- Any help is appreciated.
-
- Rich
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 3 Mar 87 18:12:33 PST
- From: digiorgi@Jpl-VLSI.ARPA
- Subject: MPW vs. TurboCharger 2.0
-
- An odd problem:
- I have been using a system including an early prerelease beta
- of the MPW Shell in a 2Meg environment with Nevin's TurboCharger 2.0
- cacheing software.
- Now I have MPW release version 1. No matter how I set the TurboCharger,
- when I execute a program from MPW, it attempts to return and dies with
- a message "MPW must have 256K to operate". The only way I get the system
- to function is to run the TurboInstall program and turn off the
- TurboCharger entirely, and even then, quitting from a program started from
- the shell sometimes goes to the Finder, not the shell.
-
- Has anyone else had this problem? What would you suggest?
-
- thanks,
- Godfrey DiGiorgi
- digiorgi@jpl-vlsi
- March 3, 1987
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 4 Mar 87 12:46:27 est
- From: rs4u#@andrew.cmu.edu (Richard Siegel)
- Subject: SCSI Manager in C...
-
- Has anyone used Lightspeed C to drive the SCSI port on the Mac Plus?
- I am looking for specific experience with the National Instruments
- MacBus box, but anything will do; I'd appreciate it if someone
- could post source.
-
- Rich
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 3 Mar 87 13:27:24 PST
- From: jww@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu (Joel West)
- Subject: Re: Shutdown (V5 #60)
-
- Jorg is right, shutdown is built-in with TMON. But it's
- so trivially simple that you could also build it into
- your Debug menu of your program under development.
-
- jw
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 4 Mar 87 11:37:39 EST
- From: JURGEN%UMASS.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu
- Subject: Screen & Coatings & Dust...
-
- A couple of weeks ago I commited a big no-no... I cleaned my Mac screen
- with isopropyl alcohol. Afterward I remembered that one is not supposed
- to do that because it removes some kind of coating on the Mac screen (?).
- Well, the result is that ever since my screen has been magically attracting
- immense amounts of dust. About every 24 hours or so I have to wipe a thin
- milky film off the screen that severly reduces my contrast. Yuck.
- Does anyone have a solution to this problem/can anyone tell me more about
- exactly what happened when I used isopropyl alcohol to clean the display?
- Any info greatly appreciated, this is getting to be a real drag...
- - Jurgen
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 3 Mar 87 22:47:01 est
- From: Gavin Hemphill <hemphill@nrl-aic.ARPA>
- Subject: Word 3.0 - Grrrr
-
- A comment to add to Chuq's notes on word 3.0.
-
- o Overall Word 3.0 is close to everything I've wanted in general
- purpose word processing for the Mac. I still see use for my other
- desktop publishing programs -- but not as much.
-
- BUT!
-
- o They Screwed up the font menu stuff. There appears to be no way to get
- the available fonts to appear in alphabetical order -- either in the
- "character" dialog or in the font menu. The font and fond resources in
- my system are both in alphabetical order (i.e. when viewed with resedit)
- and even if they weren't most other programs seem to be able to use the
- menu manager stuff to get the font menu in order. This is a real pain
- when you have 20 or 25 fonts in your system and you want to move groups
- of them in and out of the font menu.
-
- G++
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 3 Mar 87 14:26:17 PST
- From: PUGH%CCC.MFENET@nmfecc.arpa
- Subject: AutoDialog
-
- To: John O'Neill
-
- I am interested in this AutoDialog thing from JAM, could you please give us
- more information?
-
- You mentioned that you use a ResEdit template to create a 'DSta' resource.
- Is this a normal ResEdit template or a code template (along the lines of
- the window editor in ResEdit)? If it is a normal ResEdit template, can it
- be freely distributed so that users can use it to change the DSta resource?
- If it cannot be distributed, how can the users be expected to modify it?
- Also, I assume that there is code that goes along with this so that you can
- just initialize your dialog. Is this the case, and if so, what languages
- are supported? Is source or object code included?
-
- Could you please fill us in?
-
- Jon
-
- N L pugh@nmfecc.arpa
- M A L National Magnetic Fusion Energy Computer Center
- F T N Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- E L PO Box 5509 L-561
- C Livermore, California 94550
- C (415) 423-4239
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 3 Mar 87 16:24:08 pst
- From: apple!jordan@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Jordan Mattson)
- Subject: Chinese Text Processing, KanjiTalk, and Script Manager
-
- In Reply to requests about Chinese Text Processing:
-
- Apple Computer has implemented a new part of the Toolbox known as the
- Script Manager (described in Chapter 13 of "Inside Macintosh Volume V",
- which is available from APDA (Apple Programmer's and Developer's
- Assoication) in draft form). The Script Manager allows applictions to
- function correctly with non-Roman writing systems such as Japanese, Arabic,
- and Chinese, as well as the various Roman writing systems (English,
- Spanish, German).
-
- Quoting from "Inside Macintosh Volume V", Chapter 13:
-
- "The Script Manager is the low-level software that enables Macintosh
- applications to work with such different scripts. It includes utilities
- and initialization code to create an environment in which scripts of all
- kinds can be handled. In order for an application to use a particular
- script, a SCRIPT INTERFACE SYSTEM to support that script must also be
- present. The Macintosh normally uses the Roman script, so the Roman
- Interface System (RIS) is in the system file and always present. On some
- models it may be in ROM. Other Script Interface Systems are the Kanji
- Interface System (KIS, also called KanjiTalk), which allows applications to
- write in Japanese, the Arabic Interface System (AIS), and the Hanze
- Interface System (HIS) for Chinese."
-
- Since Text Edit supports the Script Manager, the only people who need to
- worry about using the Script Manager are those that directly manipulate
- text such as word processors (But that is what everyone is interested in,
- is it not :-) ).
-
- At present, the information and software you need to use the Script
- Manager and various Script Interface Systems is