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Delphi Mac Digest Saturday, 27 September 1986 Volume 2 : Issue -47 Today's Topics: DataFrame RE: DataFrame (Re: Msg 12941) RE: DataFrame (Re: Msg 12946) RE: DataFrame (Re: Msg 12949) RE: DataFrame (Re: Msg 12960) RE: DataFrame (Re: Msg 12949) RE: DataFrame Altsys upgrades RE: Printing multiple text files RE: Difference between Mac 512E and Mac Plus RE: Reset & HFS with C compilers RE: Reset RE: C Compilers and HFS Tex for the mac RE: My DataFrame 20 (Re: Msg 12884) LAUNCHING RE: LAUNCHING (Re: Msg 805) RE: LAUNCHING (Re: Msg 806) imagewriter 2.3 RE: imagewriter 2.3 (Re: Msg 13010) RE: imagewriter 2.3 (Re: Msg 13011) RE: imagewriter 2.3 (Re: Msg 13015) MacScheme RE: Useful tips 'n tricks with VersaTerm, Edit and Word Networks RE: Medical/Dental (Re: Msg 12895) Architectural programs LS Pascal RE: TextEdit Behavior Fedit+ RE: Fedit+ (Re: Msg 13070) RE: Fedit+ (Re: Msg 13072) RE: Fedit+ (Re: Msg 13075) LaserWriter cartridge toner RE: LaserWriter cartridge toner (Re: Msg 13080) RE: LaserWriter cartridge toner (Re: Msg 13097) RE: Request for PICT disk file format & Getting grow regions in -Windows.. RE: Errors in TESetText Medical systems/where are you? Hammermill Laser Plus paper QuickDrive from MacVentures Renting a Mac Re: DataFrame C, Sampling & Mac RE: WhatsA Bernoulli ? 'n HowGoodsIt Anyway?... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From: NOTDVORAK (12941) Subject: DataFrame Date: 19-SEP 22:25 Hardware & Peripherals DataFrame 20 Saga Continues... Maybe it's the moon. Last week I noted that after repeated crashes, the folks at SuperMac suggested I backup and reintialize my DataFrame 20. They were concerned that a sector had been damaged in shipping, and was only now being used, causing head seek errors. I did the backup, etc. but did not have time to use the unit until today, when I entered 100+ items into an inventory database. On completion of the entries, I attempted to print out labels for the items. Clickety, clickety, clickety....CRASH! Eeek! Ya, backups are the best solution, but I don't usually stop a program on entry of data just to make a new backup. I have to give SuperMac credit, though. I called, and when everyone in the tech department was tied up, I was patched through to Steve Edelman, who agreed the problem was "kinky" and needed investigation at SuperMac, not on my desk. They promised to send out a new unit Monday via UPS Blue. Alf ------------------------------ From: BMUG (12946) Subject: RE: DataFrame (Re: Msg 12941) Date: 20-SEP 01:11 Hardware & Peripherals You are right , the companies support for DataFrames is great..But the drive is poorly designed in someway. The say only 6% have been returned but about one third of the poeple I know that have them, have had the break down in one way or another....But they have the best support of any company I've ever heard of. All of these people had drives sent to them UPS Blue... Steve Costa/BMUG ------------------------------ From: BMUG (12949) Subject: RE: DataFrame (Re: Msg 12946) Date: 20-SEP 02:41 Hardware & Peripherals I still can't totally agree with Steve that the "party line" should be that DataFrames have problems. 100% of my sample works fine! -- Raines/BMUG P.S. We're currently evaluating the ProApp and WhisperDrive HD's. Look for an article in the Fall '86 BMUG NL. P.P.S. If **YOU*** were reading a comparison of SCSI HD's, what would you want to see compared? Benchmarks? Timing? Reliability? Noise? Performance? Color? Flavor? Documentation? Which of the above in quantitative terms? ------------------------------ From: MACINTOUCH (12960) Subject: RE: DataFrame (Re: Msg 12949) Date: 20-SEP 15:24 Hardware & Peripherals Reliability, reliability, and reliability. In that order. And don't forget reliability. Ric ------------------------------ From: MOUSEKETEER (12967) Subject: RE: DataFrame (Re: Msg 12960) Date: 20-SEP 21:10 Hardware & Peripherals Seconding Ric's vote on reliability. Having spent the better part of the morning rebuilding 100+ inventory entries and related files due to my DataFrame crash, the only other factor I think that needs to be considered beyond reliability is general and specific reliability. I found it rather silly that I decided to rebuild everything onto floppies when the HD is sitting there, but I trust them more than the DF 20 until I've seen it work smoothly for awhile. I don't know how my experience fits in with others, but maybe it's time we put up a poll on HD reliability. My Apple HD 20 has never caused a problem, and I'd vote it tops so far. Alf ------------------------------ From: DDUNHAM (12985) Subject: RE: DataFrame (Re: Msg 12949) Date: 21-SEP 04:47 Hardware & Peripherals Reliability, speed, and noise can all be measured. Reliability is the -hardest, and I've heard that noise can vary from unit to unit. No one ever said it -would be _easy_. ------------------------------ From: BMUG (817) Subject: RE: DataFrame Date: 24-SEP 03:22 Programming Techniques I called SuperMac yesterday, and found out: >> The XP upgrade will be available in early October >> They haven' t figured out what they're GOING TO write in the Apple // Software (i.e. They haven't written it yet!) >> The 1.5 Initializer will come out at the same time as the XP. And, from another source, I found out that version 3.0 of the printspooler is available on "another service"... I hope you're not getting the problem of companies sending files to different services at different times again, like with the System file. I DL'ed it, but I'm not sure I got a good copy. -- Raines ------------------------------ From: NOTDVORAK (12942) Subject: Altsys upgrades Date: 19-SEP 22:26 Bugs & Features New Fontographer Release....it's nice! Just received the new Fontographer 2.0 release, and I'm impressed. What were rather skimpy docs (less than 100 pages) are expanded to 296, with a very nice index, etc. Several features have changed from the initial release, making it quite a bit easier to build Laserfonts. A newly revised and expanded User's Guide for FONTastic (included) as well. While they are still using the key disk copy perversion, HD installations (which allow for de-installation) have been upped to 3 per master disk, or 6 in all. It's a freebie upgrade for registered owners. Call Altsys Corp. at 214-424-4888 if you haven't received the upgrade notice card. Also, I've received their first Fontographer Font, Goudy Newstyle, done by Judy Sutcliffe (see article in Personal Publishing, July 86). It's a beautiful decorative Goudy face, and is supplied with the Fontographer files allowing easy modification of the typeface. Alf ------------------------------ From: DSACHS (12975) Subject: RE: Printing multiple text files Date: 20-SEP 23:18 Network Digests YAPU will print multiple text files. The current version, 3.2, can be downloaded from Compuserve, Delphi, Genie, and many bulletin boards. Move the files to be printed and yapu to the same folder (Finder restriction) select them all, double click on yapu, and stand back. Works with either model Imagewriter connected to a serial port. The files must be line delimited. ------------------------------ From: DSACHS (12976) Subject: RE: Difference between Mac 512E and Mac Plus Date: 20-SEP 23:27 Network Digests The Mac 512E has the old motherboard (without the SCSI port) and the old keyboard. I suspect it will be discontinued sometime soon, as a Mac+ really costs no more to make. Apple may be getting rid of its stock of old parts. ------------------------------ From: DSACHS (12977) Subject: RE: Reset & HFS with C compilers Date: 20-SEP 23:53 Network Digests RE:reset The RESET operation on the 68000 does NOT reset the 68000. The hardware on the macintosh DOES reset the 68000 AFTER the ROM has been mapped -to addresses starting with 0, so the first 8 bytes of ROM are used to initialize the processor. RE:HFS with C compilers; The Consulair Mac C compiler has a path manager feature to allow control of search paths. ------------------------------ From: MCOHEN (12996) Subject: RE: Reset Date: 21-SEP 17:11 Network Digests to "Steven B. Munson" <sbm@purdue.edu> The RESET instruction asserts the Reset signal of the 68000, which in the case of the Mac causes the ROM to be relocated to $000000. Because of this, the PC & SP values will be loaded from ROM. ------------------------------ From: DDUNHAM (12986) Subject: RE: C Compilers and HFS Date: 21-SEP 04:48 Network Digests > From: Mike O'Dell <mo@seismo.CSS.GOV> > Subject: C Compilers and HFS Aztec C has a +I flag which uses precompiled #includes. I guess this isn't the same (I've never used true Unix). What's wrong with putting #include "/foo/bar.h" in your program (as -Aztec C allows)? Doesn't this access directories? ------------------------------ From: SOLARPULSE (12950) Subject: Tex for the mac Date: 20-SEP 08:51 Business Mac I heard that several companys have TEX for the Macintosh. Some were showing -at the MacBoston thingee. Does anyone have any first hand experience with them. How good is the LaserWriter driver that comes with TEX? How fast are they? Etc. Thanks. David. ------------------------------ From: LAMG (12956) Subject: RE: My DataFrame 20 (Re: Msg 12884) Date: 20-SEP 12:39 Hardware & Peripherals Jack: I was also apprehensive about keeping the DF in its upright position next to the Mac... I've found, though, that it's heavy enough to remain stable, even when jostled accidentally. If you use a long cable to put it out of sight somewhere, the place it goes has to be well ventilated. I imagine that in many cases, putting it under a desk (on the floor) would be worse - it might be easier to knock it over with your feet if you can't see it lying there. -Franklin ------------------------------ From: ASMCOR (805) Subject: LAUNCHING Date: 20-SEP 17:02 Programming Techniques Anybody here know the proper way to launch an application with a document? Jan ------------------------------ From: PEABO (806) Subject: RE: LAUNCHING (Re: Msg 805) Date: 20-SEP 18:15 Programming Techniques It's explained in Inside Mac (I'm not at home now where I can check the chapter) . Maybe under the Segmnet Loader, or The Structure of a Macintosh Application, or Putting Together a Macintosh Application?? You pass a list of WDRefNums and filenames along with a print/open flag by stashing the address of this thing in a global. It gets allocated from the System heap to prevent it from being trashed by _Launch. peter ------------------------------ From: ASMCOR (807) Subject: RE: LAUNCHING (Re: Msg 806) Date: 20-SEP 20:36 Programming Techniques Yeh, I looked at that stuff in the Segment Loader section, but when I tried to get the system to allow me to allocate a handle and put it at 0xAEC (which is called AppParmHandle) it wouldn't allow me to do it. I got an error and the handle was not reallocated (it 's size was zero). But you just gave me a thought... maybe I should try to REallocate the handle, but just allocate it and store it there...? I'll try it, what the heck. I LIKE the bomb, really I do! Jan ------------------------------ From: PIZZAMAN (13010) Subject: imagewriter 2.3 Date: 21-SEP 23:17 Hardware & Peripherals Could someone please explain the different choices on the new imagewriter 2.3 file? In particular, I would like a quick explaination of the following: U.S. letter vs. U.S. legal (I think I know this one), but what about "computer paper" (I thought I was using computer paper), A4 letter, and international fanfold? I have been using pinfeed paper for years in my imagewriter I, and have left the setting on U.S. letter. Should it be on "computer paper"? The other tough one is "special effects". When would you use "tall adjusted" vs. 50% reduction? What about "no gaps between pages"? Would this setting help when printing labels, such as with the infamous Habadex, that I still have one mailing list on? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks. Pizzaman ------------------------------ From: PEABO (13011) Subject: RE: imagewriter 2.3 (Re: Msg 13010) Date: 21-SEP 23:52 Hardware & Peripherals Computer paper ... presumably that's for use with the wide carriage IW. A4 -is the size of a kind of drafting paper. International fanfold I think is 12" between top of forms. I remember using one of these once to print on 1-1/2" label stock ... only the 12" choice worked from one page to the next. Oh -yeah, US legal is 8-1/2 by 14. Tall adjusted means that everything is printed at a 144 dot per inch horizontal resolution as apposed to 160. That way, the pixels are square. You would use this when printing draft copies of things on the IW for eventual printing on the LaserWriter, wince the LW also prints with square pixels. No gaps between pages sounds like it would help with labels, but when I was doing them I finally gave up and switched to the 12" setting, wasting one label in 8. peter ------------------------------ From: MOUSEKETEER (13015) Subject: RE: imagewriter 2.3 (Re: Msg 13011) Date: 22-SEP 01:25 Hardware & Peripherals Just a few other notes. A4 paper is 8.3" x 11.7, which is the same width as International Fanfold (as used in Europe and Japan) but .3" shorter. I'd suggest trying out the "No gaps" option with each individual program you use. It does work when printing labels in MS File and Helix, but those are the only two programs I use I know it has much effect with (there are bound to be others). Helix has a great secondary layer for choosing paper sizes....it allows you to choose 6 sizes to use most of the time, from a list of 30 or so. I use 8.5 x 5 inch paper most of the time with Helix, and the combination is very handy. Anyway, if you are using normal 9.5 x 11 inch fanfold paper, US Letter is the right choice, since after you strip the sprocket strips, it is 8.5 x 11. Alf ------------------------------ From: MACINTOUCH (13020) Subject: RE: imagewriter 2.3 (Re: Msg 13015) Date: 22-SEP 16:43 Hardware & Peripherals Computer Paper is the kind used in big computer printers: 11"x17"wide, usually green and white striped to make it particularly ugly, although accountants like it. Ric ------------------------------ From: BEVERLEYKANE (13016) Subject: MacScheme Date: 22-SEP 10:16 SIG Business WANTED: Review of MacScheme for the Fall Berkeley Macintosh Users Group Newsletter. Two-three pages w/ 2-3 screen dumps. Can be very roughly drafted -- we edit the *)&(^& out of everything. U/L to me Delphi e-mail, to BMUG BBS: ( 415) 849 BMUG or s-mail 1442A Walnut St. #153, Berkeley, CA 94709. ***** REWARD **** Also: any book reviews (1 paragraph only) of AI -related books for same. THANKS! ------------------------------ From: MACINTOUCH (13043) Subject: RE: Useful tips 'n tricks with VersaTerm, Edit and Word Date: 23-SEP 13:37 Network Digests to: <INFOEARN%HLERUL5.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU> Subject: Useful tips 'n tricks with VersaTerm, Edit and Word It turns out that the Word find/change strings _are_ documented in the -manual, but only in the Find section, not in the Change section (p. 230). In Edit, you can insert a Return or Tab into the Find/Change dialog by -holding down the Command key while you hit Return or Tab. The Command key acts like -an "escape." One of my frustrations with Mac editors is their stupid inability to simply change any ASCII string to any other, whether the character is printable or not. This should be supported by pasting into Find/Change dialogs from the Clipboard (or doesn't the Clipboard necessarily contain unprintable characters when you select them), and by the option of specifying characters in Find/Change dialogs by typing their numeric ASCII equivalents. Mac editors are so far ahead of mainframe editors, with the power of the mouse and the Mac interface, it's sad to see them lagging in some basic functional areas. Ric Ford ------------------------------ From: NETMAN (13042) Subject: Networks Date: 23-SEP 09:22 Telecommunicating Rumored inthe 9/22 InfoWorld that Novell, one of the premeir publishers of Network Operating System Software for the IBM-PC is writing for the Mac. The VP said that it is one of their primary concerns. I am looking for great things from Novell due to the quality of their PC-Network operating systems. In the past they have exceeded the performance of any network operting system be at least two-fold. Any comments or additions ??? Netman Jonathan Oski MacInTouch ------------------------------ From: NANOCHIP (13051) Subject: RE: Medical/Dental (Re: Msg 12895) Date: 23-SEP 23:05 SIG Business Rob> Recently started to grind my way thru all the info I picked up at MacExpo in Boston. "The Omnis Business Directory" may be of help to you. It's published quarterly (7$/issue) by Blyth Software (415) 571-0222. It lists over 200 standalone business applications generated using Omnis 3 by independent developers. Blyth actually devoted more of their booth at MacExpo for the promotion of these independents than they did for Omnis 3 itself! The list of applications is *quite* diverse, but you may be interested in these (among 24 entries under "Medical & Medical Office Mgmt"): "The Certified Dental Assistant" (203) 878-8770, Nappo Computer Service, Bethany CT. and "Shana Dental System" (403) 438-6548, Shana Ent. Inc., Edmonton, Alberta Canada. Both these packages profess *Complete Dental Office Business Mgmt*, in single or multiuser enviornments. The guide lists the particualars for each. Maybe some of the general medical applications would be of use to you also. Hope this helps. <Chip ------------------------------ From: NOFAL (13057) Subject: Architectural programs Date: 23-SEP 23:53 SIG Business A friend of mine needs good Macintosh software for creating presentations quality drawings. He needs a program to plot on proffesional plotters (big -page sizes) and 2D and 3D drafting programs.I've heard of a lot of them but which -is the best one? --Danny ------------------------------ From: LOFTUSBECKER (13059) Subject: LS Pascal Date: 24-SEP 02:32 Programming I forget now who asked it: but it's easy to get at the length byte of a str255 in Lightspeed Pascal. Just turn off range checking: {$R-} theString[0] := 23; {$R+} should set the length byte to 23. -Lofty ------------------------------ From: DDUNHAM (13069) Subject: RE: TextEdit Behavior Date: 24-SEP 21:35 Network Digests >From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois) >Subject: TextEdit Behavior DuBois wanted to know how TextEdit differed on the two ROM versions. By synchronicity, dlc@lanl.ARPA (Dale Carstensen) has a message in the same digest, saying that selRect can be used to locate the cursor. selRect is one of the differences. As long as the selection is an insertion point, it's a 1-pixel wide rectangle. Under the two ROMs, it gives different values if the selection is longer (a selection can involve up to 3 rects). There are also some differences in clipping, but I don't remember the exact symptoms. BTW, I don't understand Carstensen's caveats about scrolling. The essence of miniWRITER's scrolling is ScrollRect(&r,0,dv,theRegion); /* Scroll screen */ OffsetRect(&(*te)->destRect,0,dv); /* Let TE know about scroll */ (I can't remember why I didn't use TEScroll). David Dunham "If voting could change the system, it would be illegal. If Maitreya Design not voting could change the system, it would be be -illegal." ------------------------------ From: MOUSEKETEER (13070) Subject: Fedit+ Date: 24-SEP 22:04 Creative Pursuits Just bumped into a note here to post the version # of Fedit+ being shipped by ComputerWare. It's 1.0.7. Alf ------------------------------ From: PEABO (13072) Subject: RE: Fedit+ (Re: Msg 13070) Date: 24-SEP 22:39 Creative Pursuits I wonder how us registered 1.0.4 owners get updated? peter ------------------------------ From: MACINTOUCH (13075) Subject: RE: Fedit+ (Re: Msg 13072) Date: 24-SEP 23:38 Creative Pursuits Probably the same way we did last time :-( I've been trying to recover a number of trashed disks with Fedit Plus and I'm not happy with it. Can you not load the memory buffers from a file and then switch disks without resetting them? I want to dump one file from one disk into another disk, but it seeems to be resetting the buffers each time I switch disks. And I can't open 2 at once. I've gone thru the docs a number of times, without any luck finding an answer. In addition, it has crashed fairly frequently, and a rebuild of a trashed 800K _MFS_ disk was unsuccessful, giving me 0K files which were unusable. Ric ------------------------------ From: MOUSEKETEER (13085) Subject: RE: Fedit+ (Re: Msg 13075) Date: 25-SEP 21:55 Creative Pursuits The registration card supplied with Fedit+ says upgrades will be available to registered owners for $10, and that notes would be sent out when upgrades are ready. I don't know how big a jump it would be from 1.0.4 to 1.0.7, and a "Read Me First" file I thought might have some notes on the most recent -version was only a page or so from Mitchell about how it had failed so as shareware. Ya know, it would be nice if on less expensive programs like this if one's registration card could simply be sent in with a couple of bucks for an auto upgrade. From talking with Scott Watson about mail upgrades, generating the labels and collecting a basic charge for the disk and mailing ends up costing so much that $10 is needed to keep the upgrader from going broke upgrading -the upgradee (grin). But if the registration card doubled as an address card for upgrades, and a few buck were sent in advance for disk and postage, it would seem upgrades could be done much faster and at less expense. Then again, that makes too much sense to be practical, I guess ;-). Alf ------------------------------ From: MACINTOUCH (13080) Subject: LaserWriter cartridge toner Date: 25-SEP 17:03 Business Mac Does anyone know the names of toner suppliers for LaserWriter cartridges? Any other info would also be helpful. (I'm looking specifically for toner, not necessarily recharging services.) Ric ------------------------------ From: MOUSEKETEER (13088) Subject: RE: LaserWriter cartridge toner (Re: Msg 13080) Date: 25-SEP 22:04 Business Mac Hi Ric, The guy at Laser Printer Products, 11 Freeman Street, Stoughton, MA 02072 (24 hour machine: 617/893-9000; the guy 9-5 ET: 617/341-3005) sells little plastic bottles of the toner at $20 per, a kit of 2 bottles, directions, and a tool bit & replacement wiper things, etc. for $99. This is the guy that Ray Sanders has been buying from, as well as myself. The toner is great, -with much nicer blacks than the stock carts from Apple (nee Canon). One bottle is enough for one total recharge. He will also recharge your cart there for $40 including the toner, but is usually rather backlogged a few -weeks for that service, I believe. Alf ------------------------------ From: MOUSEKETEER (13111) Subject: RE: LaserWriter cartridge toner (Re: Msg 13097) Date: 26-SEP 23:28 Business Mac From a discussion with Ray Sanders a few months ago I got the impression that the toner is from Canon but is not the one they normally pack with the carts for the Laserwriter and PC 10 etc. series copiers, rather one of their toners from the more commercial series units. The guy in MA repacks into smaller containers (gad...can you imagine a 55 gal drum of toner...hehe). If you -feel like experimenting on your own, Quill Corp. (312) 634-4800 sells both Canon non-cartridge and other brand toners in pint bottles, as well as the long, skinny tubes as used in a lot of later generation copiers (Mita, etc.). The toner from MA looks just like the Mita toner I use in the copier, but the Mita runs so much warmer from the exit, I'm afraid to try it in the Laser. I would think that the heat fusing temps might be a critical factor in sub- stituting toners. Alf I expect the guy in MA would be happy to tell you what brand he is using... he has been very friendly and helpful on the phone the couple of times I've bugged him. ------------------------------ From: PEABO (13089) Subject: RE: Request for PICT disk file format & Getting grow regions in Windows.. Date: 25-SEP 22:17 Network Digests >Date: Wed, 24 Sep 86 01:08:59 PDT >From: <MCD@SLACVM.BITNET> >Reply-to: MCD%SLACVM.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.Edu >Subject: Request for PICT disk file format >I would like to get a description of the contents of a PICT disk file, >as can be saved by MACDRAW if the appropriate option is checked. You need Tech Note 27, which is part of the September Tech Note release that was put up on various electronic networks on September 24. -Unfortunately, DELPHI cannot no longer release Tech Notes to Usenet and INFO-MAC because of restrictive license agreements imposed by Apple. peter >Date: Wed, 24 Sep 86 14:53:35 PDT >From: ucscc!jordan@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (90220000) >Subject: Getting grow regions in Windows.... > I think that I am missing something, but for the life of me, I can't >fiqure out how to get a window to have a grow region based on Inside -Macintosh. You have to draw the grow region yourself, it's not automatic. Use the -routine DrawGrowIcon(). peter ------------------------------ From: DDUNHAM (13095) Subject: RE: Errors in TESetText Date: 26-SEP 03:29 Network Digests >From: a.d. jensen <UD040164%NDSUVM1.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU> >Subject: Errors in TESetText TESetText requires a pointer to text, not a pointer to a string. -@theString[1] should work (my Pascal is still ore). ------------------------------ From: PIZZAMAN (13092) Subject: Medical systems/where are you? Date: 25-SEP 22:26 Hardware & Peripherals It is very hard for me to believe that someone hasn't put together a nice package for the medical office using Mac hardware and software. I have many medical compatriots who are finally ripe for a medical system for their offices, and they are all turning to IBM stuff. I find this hard to believe, since the Mac would be so much easier to use and valuable to these medical types. However, I must agree that no one yet has seemed to fill this void with a reliable accounting/billing/information managing system for them. Now, I have seen many mentions of medical systems on the networks and in print. However, I have contacted a number of them, and gotten nowhere. I have received a few very nice, three sided pamphlets, with what seemed sincere marketing hype, but so far have gotten nothing but smoke. One fellow even promised to send me a copy of his program to try. He was going to send it out the next day. that was a month ago. Sound familiar? What gives? Could it be that no one is really ready, yet, to fill this void? I have my Mac and HD-20 presently set up to do the creative work I need to do in my office. It word processes, keeps track of patients with MS file (granted a fairly simple approach), telecommunicates to the National Library of Medicine via BRS after Dark and Smartcom, and does all the graphics stuff I need to do to generate educational programs and papers. The only thing lacking is accounting to complete the package. How can I sell my friends on the Macintosh unless I can guide them to a -decent package and support? What a shame if they all go with IBM's or clones. Is the problem that the market isn't big enough (I doubt that)? Anyone have any thoughts or ideas? These doctors want to try their wings on office computing, but think they have to go big Blue. They don't have the time or interest to piece meal their computing the way that I have. barry ------------------------------ From: MACINTOUCH (13098) Subject: Hammermill Laser Plus paper Date: 26-SEP 09:08 Business Mac I went to a Boston Computer Society Publishing Group meeting last night and saw a presentation on paper, concentrating on laser printer paper. It was given by a paper distributor, who said that Hammermill has been ahead of the other guys in development of stuff for new technologies like the LaserWriter and Xerox machines. Anyway, it appears that there are two important features of the Laser Plus paper: 1) one side of the paper has a "wax hold-out" which means that you can use a waxing machine on it (that side only) for manual paste up of your "typesetting." The other main feature seems to be a rather smooth surface that permits fine resolution and avoids the problem of toner "spray" getting absorbed into the paper and making fuzzier images. (Although, if you're offset-printing onto coated paper at the final stage, you may want a little fuzziness/softness at this stage.) Less important items are a relatively high brightness (very white), and apparently good opacity. The price is supposed to be about 2 cents a page. (8.5" x 11"). The part numbers for LaserPlus paper are 10450-5 (8.5x11), 10451-3 (8.5x14), and 10452-1 (11x17) The distributor, D. F. Monroe, welcomes calls and seems readily willing to supply information and paper samples. They were passing out an interesting brochure, with samples, on the Laser Plus paper. 800-237-2737 (617-944-4750) (There are other numbers and locations as well). Ric Ford "MacInTouch" ------------------------------ From: UJL0012 (13101) Subject: QuickDrive from MacVentures Date: 26-SEP 09:48 Hardware & Peripherals Does anyone know where I could get QuickDrive, an external RAM Disk from MacVentures, at a discounted price? Although I've heard much about -QuickDrive, I have rarely seen ads for it in magazines. So I have no idea as to where I -can purchase it. Junichiro ------------------------------ From: UJL0012 (13103) Subject: Renting a Mac Date: 26-SEP 09:52 Hardware & Peripherals I'll be visiting Washington, DC for approximately three weeks this November. Since it is too much trouble to take my Mac all the way from Tokyo, I am wondering whether there are any places or persons where I can rent a Mac. I would like to rent the following items: a Macintosh Plus, an 800k external drive, a 2400 baud modem and necessary cables. Thank you in advance. Junichiro ------------------------------ From: BRECHER (13121) Subject: Re: DataFrame Date: 27-SEP 05:37 MUGS Online To: rcopm@yabbie.rmit.oz (Paul Menon) Subject: Re: DataFrame 20 > I have been amused as to how people shutdown their Dataframes for some >time now, and can offer may own humorous, yet possibly sane method. This is >how I interpreted SuperMac's instructions, and it seems the safest. > * Select the "ShutDown" option as per normal. > * WAIT FOR THE THING TO REBOOT COMPLETELY!!! ie, wait for the desktop > to appear and the system has subsided into a state of tranquility. > * Switch the DataFrame off. > * Switch the Mac off. > (The order of the last two actions is unimportant) >.... > * Using my interpretation, the Dataframe ALWAYS boots up in a matter of > seconds. ALWAYS! I infer that you don't have many files on your disk. With 1K+ files, you -will be looking at the smiling Mac icon for quite awhile while the volume bitmap -is rebuilt. Yes, with your procedure everything is updated -- EXCEPT a bit -which, if set, means that the volume was unmounted properly. It is safe to turn off the Mac and/or disk any time during the interval while the screen is dark or while the smiling Mac is displayed, i.e., any time -before the "Welcome to Macintosh" box (or startup screen picture). It doesn't hurt -to turn off a disk while it's reading -- it CAN hurt to turn it off while it's writing. ------------------------------ From: IKON (820) Subject: C, Sampling & Mac Date: 27-SEP 11:16 Programming Techniques Does anyone know how to implement digitized sound files? We're currently usingsing the MacNifty Audio Digitizer (as we don't know about anything else over here in Australia) and would like to call the sampled files from within Cmpled files from within C (we're using Aztec C). A clue, hint, ANYTHING -would be appreciated. ------------------------------ From: MACINTOUCH (13125) Subject: RE: WhatsA Bernoulli ? 'n HowGoodsIt Anyway?... Date: 27-SEP 12:20 Network Digests to: MACA.AFCC@AFCC-4.ARPA Subject: WhatsA Bernoulli ? 'n HowGoodsIt -Anyway?... One of our readers, a consultant, called to tell us that Iomega wanted something like $650 for a board for that 5MB Bernoulli box to permit it to handle HFS correctly. He said that Iomega only charged dealers about $250 for the upgrade, but that he could not get it for that price. Ric Ford "MacInTouch" newsletter ------------------------------