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  Mastering the Mac
A look at ways to organise your Mac and how to beat those nasty problems.
  M1 • Views
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VIEWS • Views Control Panel • Initial View of a Hard Disk • THE APPLICATIONS FOLDER • Special Applications •
Installing an Application • Files Provided by an Installer • Subdividing the Applications Folder • Hierarchical Menus • Unwanted Items in Hierarchical Menus • Modifying the Applications Folder • Support Files •
  M2 • Documents & Backups
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THE DOCUMENTS FOLDER - Document Care • Document Location • Subdividing the Documents Folder •
ADDING MORE FOLDERS • BACKING UP • File Synchronisation • Periodic Backup • GENERAL HINTS •
  M3 • Keyboard Control
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THE KEYBOARD • Keyboard Layouts • The Extended Keyboard • Keyboard Symbols • FKEYs • Keyboard Speed •
FINDER SHORTCUTS • Disk Control • Finder Navigation • Other Finder Shortcuts • GENERAL SHORTCUTS •
DIALOG SHORTCUTS • Standard Dialog Shortcuts • EASY ACCESS • USING MACROS • Adding Keyboard Features • Keyboard Remapping • Text Manipulation • Text Macros • Macro Key Assignments •
  M4 • Using a Printer
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THE CHOOSER • Choosing a Printer • Printer Driver Files • Other Chooser Settings • EXTRA PRINTING SOFTWARE • Desktop Printers • Print Monitor & Desktop Print Monitor • ColorSync • Other Software • PRINTING OPTIONS • PRINTING IN ACTION • Printing from the Finder • Printing with Print Monitor • Other Printing Problems •
QUICKDRAW GX • Desktop Printing • Printing Extensions • Paper Types • Portable Digital Documents • GX Utilities • PAPER SIZES •
  M5 • Managing Memory
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MEMORY OPERATION • Memory Demands • Allocating Memory to an Application • Memory Heaps •
Memory Fragmentation • Memory Symptoms • Avoiding Problems • THE MEMORY CONTROL PANEL • Disk Cache •
Virtual Memory • 24 and 32-bit Addressing • RAM Disk • PARAMETER RAM • Zapping the PRAM •
  M6 • Crash Survival
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THE STARTUP PROCESS • Controlling the Mac during Startup • Startup Responses • REPAIRING DAMAGED DISKS •
Disk Repair Software • Getting the Mac started • Making Repairs • Mounting Hard Disks • Recovering Files •
THE MAC IN OPERATION • Controlling the Mac • Crashes • SHUT DOWN & RESTART •
  Applications
The various categories of applications and their associated generic files.
  A1 • Text & Data
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WORD PROCESSING • Inside a Word Processing Application • Generic WP Documents • SPREADSHEETS & DATABASES •
Inside a Spreadsheet Application • Inside a Database Application • Moving Data between Spreadsheets & Databases •
Transferring Data using a Text File • Other Generic Data Documents •
Some rather obscure corners of the Mac and other systems.
  T1 • PostScript
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POSTSCRIPT BASICS • The PostScript Language • PostScript Data • PostScript in Operation • Extra Functions in LaserWriters • POSTSCRIPT SOFTWARE • Applications • LaserWriter Utility • POSTSCRIPT FILES •
Font Categories • FONT PARAMETERS • Legibility • Readability • Serifs • Proportional and Monospaced Fonts •
Ligatures and Pair Kerning • Font Dimensions • Styles and Weights • Font Parameters in Detail • THE CHARACTERS
IN FONTS • Non-printing Characters and Hyphens • Punctuation and Accents • Non-keyboard Characters •
STANDARD FONT CHARACTERS • International • Mathematics • Universal • STYLES •
  T3 • Network Protocols
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THE OSI PROTOCOL MODEL • OSI and Existing Standards • PHYSICAL LAYER / NETWORK HARDWARE • LOCAL AREA NETWORKS • Topography • Cable Types • Transmission Techniques • Repeaters and Other Devices •
LOCAL AREA NETWORK TYPES • LocalTalk • Ethernet • Token Bus • Token Ring • WIDE AREA NETWORKS •
Integrated Services Digital Network • Asynchronous Transfer Mode • Fibre Data Distributed Interface • X.25 •
Frame Relay • Metropolitan Area Network • DATA LINK LAYER • Packets • Errors and Flow Control • NETWORK LAYER •
AppleTalk • Internetworking Protocol • TRANSPORT LAYER • AppleTalk • Transmission Control Protocol •
Protocols for Asynchronous Links • SESSION LAYER • Structured Query Language • OTHER NETWORK SOFTWARE •
System Network Architecture • DECNet and Novell •
  T4 • Other Computers
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COMPUTER TYPES • The User Interface • Operating Systems • USING A DOS PC • Entering Commands •
MS-DOS Data Storage • Other Hardware Features •
  T5 • Resources
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THE TOOLBOX • RESOURCES • Resource IDs • RESOURCE LIST •
  T6 • Using ResEdit
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Editing and Printing • Resource IDs • FONT RESOURCES • SCREEN GRAPHICS • SCREEN ICONS • DESKTOP ICONS •
Icon Masks • Hard Disk Icons • Icon Vault Files • OTHER RESOURCES •
  T 7 • Computer Data
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BINARY BITS AND BYTES • Hexadecimal Notation • CHARACTER CODES • The Macintosh Keyboard • American Standard for Information Interchange • ISO Latin-1 Encoding • Unicode • EBCDIC • Coding Variations • Control Codes •
Escape Sequences •
  T 8 • Programming
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STANDARD PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES • APPLESCRIPT AND IAC • Using AppleScript •
Inter-application communication •
  T 9 • MIDI Messages
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STATUS BYTES AND DATA BYTES • CHANNEL MESSAGES • Channel Voice Messages • Channel Mode Messages •
SYSTEM COMMON MESSAGES • REAL TIME MESSAGES • SYSTEM EXCLUSIVE MESSAGES •
  Software Review
A handy survey of just some of the excellent software available for the Mac.
