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- Posted: 5:38pm EDT, Mon Jun 16/86
- Subject: Last of the hand delivered info-macs (V4 #74)
- To: Info-Mac
- From: Post Master
-
- Mail-From: INFO-MAC-REQUEST created at 26-May-86 15:40:34
- Date: 26 May 86 1539-PDT
- From: Moderator Dwayne Virnau... <INFO-MAC-REQUEST@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA>
- Reply-to: INFO-MAC@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA
- Subject: INFO-MAC Digest V4 #74
- To: INFO-MAC@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA
-
-
- INFO-MAC Digest Tuesday, 27 May 1986 Volume 4 : Issue 74
-
- Today's Topics:
- Beta System Files
- PICT Resources
- Multi-Scrap and Scrapbook bug
- Thawing a frozen mouse (cursor)
- Creator and Type flags
- Alternative keyboards for Macintosh
- MacDraw, Times and Tabs
- MacTerminal and Mac+
- Mac Plus cable hardware.
- Finder Bug
- Re: New LaserPrep file
- scrolling menu bug in Mac+
- SetFile 2.0 Bug
- A "gotcha" for user routines on the vertical retrace queue
- Usenet Mac Digest V2 #40
- Usenet Mac Digest V2 #41
- Delphi Mac Digest V2 #20
- FontDisplay 4.0
- Latest TechNotes
- FONT-BOSTONII
- LINT again
- new software support plans from Apple
-
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed 21 May 86 08:20:15-PDT
- From: DBECK@SRI-KL.ARPA
- Subject: Beta System Files
-
- There are several beta version System 3.2 files wandering about. In
- particular, beware of 3.2b4. It has a debugging artifact that will
- hang the processor if... 1. you are in Switcher (4.9 in this case)
- 2. using MacWrite and 3. Attempt to print to the LaserWriter.
- Returning to System 3.1.1 eliminated the problem. ...Doug Beck dbeck@sri-kl
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 21 May 86 10:22 EST
- From: CML5A9%IRISHMVS.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU
- Subject: PICT Resources
-
- Since there have been several questions of this nature
- lately on infomac, so i thought i would outline a more
- GENERAL procedure for getting PICT resources from other
- types of data. This hold true for just about any program
- that generates PICT type data in the first place.
-
- 1) Bring up the document in your favorite program.
- (MacDraw, f'rinstance)
- 2) Select all of the document you want to make
- into a PICT. (In MacDraw, i usually reduce to fit,
- and highlight the whole thing)
- 3) Select COP? from EDIT.
- 4) Open the scrapbook.
- 5) PASTE.
-
- Now, the scrapbook contains a PICT resouce with your
- PICT in it. So, quit the application, go into ResEdit,
- open the Scrapbook file, open the pict resources,
- find the one with your picture in it.
- Select Copy from Edit menu.
- Close the scrapbook file.
- Open your application where you want to paste the
- PICT.
- Select PASTE from EDIT.
-
- And viola. ?ou have a PICT resource from a document
- into your application. By the way, this is a GREAT
- way to do help screens, esp for small utility programs.
-
- I should point out that the resource you
- copy from the scrapbook will have a strange resource
- number. Just do a GET INFO on the resource after you
- paste it into your application and change the number
- to whatever you want it to be.
-
- Hope this helps.
- Tom Dowdy
- "If it jams, force it, if it breaks, it needed fixing anyway."
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: stew%lhasa.UUCP@harvard.HARVARD.EDU
- Date: 21 May 86 14:07 EDT
- Subject: Multi-Scrap and Scrapbook bug
-
- Does anyone have the sources to the Multi-Scrap DA? There is a bug in
- this and in the Scrapbook DA, in that if you cut out something that
- has a resource of type other than PICT or TEXT, the other type does
- not get removed from the resource file. If you then paste something
- in that has that type, you end up with two resources with identical
- ID numbers.
-
- Thanx
- Stew
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 20 May 86 22:23:45 mdt
- From: dlc%b@LANL.ARPA (Dale Carstensen)
- Subject: Thawing a frozen mouse (cursor)
-
- I notice that lots of little bugs I can put in my programs will not totally
- crash the Mac or even damage the ramdisk I am using, but will get a system
- error. An ES command in macsbug will return me to the shell with only one
- problem. The one problem is a frozen mouse (cursor.) To get the mouse
- moving again, I've found that running prsetup for the vertical and term for
- the horizontal frees one axis at a time (perhaps selecting both ports in
- term would free both). But not always. The vertical movement is tougher.
- Both prsetup and term are programs that come with Aztec C68K for the
- -Macintosh.
-
- Of course, what's happening is that the SCC registers are getting clobbered
- by stray writes in memory, with slightly negative bases and small offsets
- missing all the RAM, but attacking the SCC with a vengeance. So I wrote a
- program to re-initialize the SCC. And it always thaws the mouse (so far.)
- But it also always disables the printer. Usually any attempt to write data
- to port B will cause a hang at 40141a-40141e (64K ROMs,) which MacNosy tells
- me is in "Write" (actually before Write, but Write jumps back to "com_23".)
- I have an "improved" version which results in a system error -14 when any
- attempt to use port B of the SCC happens. Page III-176 of IM says:
- I/O system error: The File Manager is attempting to dequeue an
- entry from an I/O request queue that has a bad queue type field;
- perhaps the queue entry is unlocked. Or, the dCtlQHead field was
- NIL during a Fetch or Stash call. O, a needed device control
- entry has been purged.
- for ID 14. Typical. Exciting reading. What does it mean, though?
-
- So I'm curious if someone has solved this problem and has a mouse thawer that
- doesn't cause printer hangs. If there is such a program, I think it should be
- put in a FKE? resource so the "rest of them" (including me, when I'm running
- a purchased or public domain program) can save their hard-won data and not
- be forced to re-boot when the mouse gets frozen. Fortunately, macsbug saves
- the day whenever mascbug is around.
-
- I could post my program, but it seems to be dangerous enough that I think it
- is better not to.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 20 May 86 14:56 PDT
- From: PUGH%CCV.MFENET@LLL-MFE.ARPA
- Subject: Creator and Type flags
-
-
- I have tried setting the Creator and Type flags of a file with Resedit from
- Sumex (versions 10D4 and D5) and it fails. Is there a version available that
- works, and if so would someone a) mail it to me and/or b) post it?
-
- Or is there something I am missing?
-
- Jon
-
- [from the moderator:
-
- Others have reported this problem. Inside the Dr. Mac package is a program
- called SetFileAttributes, which I have used with success. The entire file
- (which includes some hints on Finder 5.x) is archived as
- [SUMEX-AIM.ARPA] <INFO-MAC>DRMACV1-HINTS.HQX
-
- DoD
- ]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 20 May 86 08:11:36 edt
- From: Pat Mcconnel <mcconnel@nrl-b43.ARPA>
- Subject: Alternative keyboards for Macintosh
-
-
- I am interested in software that would allow a Macintosh
- user to use a keyboard other than the stock-from-the-box
- unit that comes with it. I have in mind substituting a
- keyboard from a Digital VT220 for the original Macintosh
- unit. I prefer the "feel" and responsiveness of the VT-220,
- and they are close in price. The VT-220 also has a built
- in key pad. What I would envision is a 'choose keyboard'
- driver ala 'choose printer'. I believe it would also be
- much easier for the Mac to emulate a VT-100 with a VT-220
- keyboard than with the original.
-
- Pat McConnel
- Naval Research Laboratory
- Code 7009
- Washington, D.C. 20375-5000
- ARPANET address: mcconnel@nrl-b43
- 202-767-3020 (commercial)
- 297-3020 (AUTOVON)
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 20 May 86 09:39 EST
- From: CML5A9%IRISHMVS.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU
- Subject: MacDraw, Times and Tabs
-
- Someone here has been having problems with MacDraw
- and the Times font. It seems that when using the text
- tool with the Times font the Tab key doesn't seem to
- work. The tab goes in okay (you can backspace), but
- doesn't seem to appear on the screen. Anyone else had
- this problem or know either why it happens or its
- solution?
-
- -Tom Dowdy
- "If it jams, force it, if it breaks, it needed fixing anyway."
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: MacTerminal and Mac+
- Date: Tue, 20 May 86 16:50:14 -0800
- From: Kathleen Huddleston <gregory@ICSE.UCI.EDU>
-
- I've noticed something somewhat annoying now that I've upgraded to the
- -MacPlus.
- With the 512, when I quit MacTerminal if I did not physically reset the Mac,
- the terminal line would stay open. I would not have to re-login each time I
- started up. This is not true with the Plus. If I quit MacTerminal, it
- disconnects the session. This is not too pleasant.
-
- One solution. If I use MacTerminal under Switcher (4.9), it does't disconnect
- when simply moving to another application under switcher. Does anyone have
- any idea why this happens?
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Mac Plus cable hardware.
- From: KNIGHT%MAINE.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU (Michael Knight)
- Date: Tue, 20 May 1986 10:50 EDT
-
- Could anyone tell me where I can mail order the 8-pin mini-din
- connectors. Thanks much.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 22 May 86 13:53 PDT
- From: PUGH%CCV.MFENET@LLL-MFE.ARPA
- Subject: Finder Bug
-
-
- I found a nifty Finder bug in 5.2 and here's how you can repeat it.
-
- First, open a disk or folder. Take a file and drag it to the trash.
- Close the disk or folder. Open the trash and drag the icon back into
- the closed disk or folder. Open the disk or folder. All your other
- files will not be there. Only the formerly trashed icon appears.
- Now close and reopen the disk or folder and voila, your stuff reappears,
- with the trashed icon underneath one of them.
-
- Isn't that nifty? Are you listening Apple?
-
- Jon
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu 22 May 86 14:07:21-CDT
- From: Brian H. Powell <CS.Powell@R20.UTEXAS.EDU>
- Subject: Re: New LaserPrep file
-
- I did most of the work putting together the LaserPrep file from the
- version 3.0 LaserWriter driver. It was appledict version 36.
- Then I found out Apple is testing an even newer version, so I abandoned
- the project until Apple makes up its mind.
- The newest version I have seen is appledict version 38. It was part of
- LaserWriter 3.1 distributed with the System 3.2B4. (Do you have all those
- version numbers down?)
-
- Brian H. Powell brian@sally.UTEXAS.EDU
- brian@ut-sally.UUCP
- CS.Powell@r20.UTEXAS.EDU
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 24 May 1986 1159-JST (Saturday)
- From: Hisao NOJIMA <nttlab!nojima@su-shasta.arpa>
- Subject: scrolling menu bug in Mac+
-
- [ I was asked to pass the following message to people interested in
- Macintosh.]
-
- ----- Forwarded Message -----------------
- Return-Path: <titcca!srava!ariza>
- Received: by ntt.junet (4.12/4.7JC-7) CHAOS with CHAOS-MAIL
- id AA06175; Fri, 23 May 86 21:55:20 jst
- Received: by titan.junet (4.12/6.0Junet)
- id AA04072; Fri, 23 May 86 19:57:06 jst
- Received: by srava.sra.junet (4.13/6.1Junet)
- id AA17114; Fri, 23 May 86 16:55:52 jst
- Date: 23 May 1986 16:39-JST
- From: ariza@srava.sra.junet
- Subject: scrolling menu bug
- Message-Id: <517217974/ariza@srava.sra.junet>
-
-
- I found a bug in Mac+'s menu scrolling.
- When there are more than eight menu items with icons
- in a menu, Mac+ lets you scroll it up and down and
- the menu will be ... corrupted.
-
- The following program is written in Mac Pascal; it installs
- a menu of 10 items with icons (10 is more obvious than 9)
- and reveals the bug. The system file used was version 3.0
- but I don't have the later versions.
- Is it already known and patched or still sneaking around...?
-
- Michiharu Ariza
- Software Research Associates, Inc., Tokyo, Japan
- JUNET: ariza@srava.sra.junet
- UUCP: ...mcvax!kddlab!koudai!titcca!srava!ariza
- ------------------
- program Test;
- const
- { Traps }
- NewMenu = $A931;
- AppendMenu = $A933;
- InsertMenu = $A935;
- DrawMenuBar = $A937;
- DeleteMenu = $A936;
- DisposeMenu = $A932;
- GetNextEvent = $A970;
- MenuSelect = $A93D;
-
- mouseDown = 1;
- MyMenuID = 20;
- type
- MenuHandle = LongInt;
- var
- myEvent : record
- what : Integer;
- message : LongInt;
- when : LongInt;
- where : Point;
- modifiers : Integer;
- end;
- MyMenu : MenuHandle;
- tempL : LongInt;
- temp : Integer;
- done, tempB : boolean;
- begin
- writeln('Select "My Menu" and try scrolling it ...');
- MyMenu := LInlineF(NewMenu, MyMenuID, 'My Menu');
- { ^1 means ICON # 257, in this case the bug icon of MacPascal }
- InlineP(AppendMenu, MyMenu, 'bug 1^1;bug 2^1;bug 3^1');
- InlineP(AppendMenu, MyMenu, 'bug 4^1;bug 5^1;bug 6^1');
- InlineP(AppendMenu, MyMenu, 'bug 7^1;bug 8^1;bug 9^1');
- InlineP(AppendMenu, MyMenu, 'bug 10^1');
- InlineP(InsertMenu, MyMenu, 0);
- InlineP(DrawMenuBar);
- done := false;
- while not done do
- begin
- tempB := BInlineF(GetNextEvent, -1, @myEvent);
- if myEvent.what = mouseDown then
- begin
- tempL := LInlineF(MenuSelect, @myEvent.where);
- done := true;
- end;
- end;
- InlineP(DeleteMenu, MyMenuID);
- InlineP(DisposeMenu, MyMenu);
- InlineP(DrawMenuBar);
- end.
- -------
-
-
- ----- End of Forwarded Message ----------
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 22 May 86 19:15:23 edt
- From: cperry@mitre.ARPA (Chris Perry)
- Subject: SetFile 2.0 Bug
-
- I installed the SetFile 2.0 desk accessory on a HyperDrive 20
- under Finder 5.2. When I first opened it up, a minifinder file list
- appeared briefly only to be overlaid by a second minifinder, offset
- by about 1/4" down from the first minifinder. When I designated
- a file, nothing printed out in the CREATOR, T?PE or LOCATION boxes.
-
- I re-installed SetFile on a 4.1 Finder system disk, booted it, and
- the desk accessory works fine: I can designate a file and get the
- expected output from it.
-
- Question: is SetFile 2.0 supposed to work with HFS and Finders
- above 5.1?
-
- Chris
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon 26 May 86 17:05:56-EDT
- From: WEINSTEIN@G.BBN.COM
- Subject: A "gotcha" for user routines on the vertical retrace queue
-
- Beware of the following oddity when installing user routines on the vertical
- retrace queue, as when following Apple's instructions (in the technical notes)
- on how to produce continuous sound through the sound driver without annoying
- clicking:
-
- Some routines in the Macintosh ROM seem to use A5 as scratch, in violation
- of all conventions. Hence, if your interrupt routine accesses program globals,
- and just happens to be called while one of these screwy ROM routines is
- executing, it will not find those globals where it expects. The result is
- likely to be mysterious addressing exceptions and other failures which will
- be excruciatingly difficult to pin down (ever tried to set a break point on
- a vertical retrace interrupt routine? I doubt it would work -- I was too
- scared to even try it). The solution is simple -- save the current value of
- a5 on the stack on entry to your interrupt routine, and reset it to the
- proper value by using the CurrentA5 value in low memory. Then, restore its
- original value before exiting your routine.
-
- I haven't even attempted to do anything like this under Switcher yet, but
- there are warnings about interrupt routines accessing program globals in
- the switch documentation so I assume that getting it to work under switcher
- would be even more complicated.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 21 May 86 11:14:24 EDT
- From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@RED.RUTGERS.EDU>
- Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V2 #40
-
- Usenet Mac Digest Wednesday, 21 May 1986 Volume 2 : Issue 40
-
- Today's Topics:
- HELP! with HyperMac+
- Re: Modula-2 for Macintosh (commercial-MacMETH)
- Word Tools
- Experience with 512K -> Mac+ upgrade.
- Lightspeed C and Ram disk
- Re: right to left word processing
- Re: Lightspeed C and Ram disk
- remember those Verbatim refunds?
- Mac output on HP LaserJet?
- SCSI pronunciation query
- System Update for Fokker Triplane?
- LW 3.0 is very slow printing A4-sized documents
- icon in buttons (My solution)
- Re: MacAuthor_review (long)
- Anybody know of a good general ledger program?
- MS-Basic on Mac+
- Interrupts on the Mac
- Bad Bundle Bombs Finder
- Re: Finder tip
- Lightspeed C Bugs
- Mac News and Rumors
- New 512 without new ROM
- Printing on a LaserWriter
- Traveling with my Mac
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- [
- archived as [SUMEX-AIM.ARPA] <INFO-MAC>USENETV2-40.ARC
-
- DoD
- ]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 24 May 86 21:30:22 EDT
- From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@RED.RUTGERS.EDU>
- Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V2 #41
-
- Usenet Mac Digest Saturday, 24 May 1986 Volume 2 : Issue 41
-
- Today's Topics:
- Seen GKS for Mac?
- Acta/Symmetry Software
- SCSI disks
- Re: HFS again
- Re: Delphi Mac Digest V2 #19
- Re: Mac+ (attention: Apple)
- Cheap ($5) fan for a hot Mac
- Loads and loads of SCSI drives for Mac+ -- Which to choose?
- Apple buyout?
- Fanny Mac cooling fans
- Pointers needed to Spelling programs and hard disks
- Info on Setting up Mac Lab wanted
- recipe: getting HFS to run on the TECMARs
- Apple, please interchange ZOOM-Box and CLOSE-Box
- CAUTION, WARNING, DANGER ThinkTank 512 and 128K ROMS
- Re: Loads and loads of SCSI drives for Mac+ -- Which to choose?
- Re: List Manager availability (was: ICONS in buttons)
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
- [
- archived as [SUMEX-AIM.ARPA] <INFO-MAC>USENETV2-41.ARC
-
- DoD
- ]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 25 May 86 17:57:27 EDT
- From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@RED.RUTGERS.EDU>
- Subject: Delphi Mac Digest V2 #20
-
- Delphi Mac Digest Sunday, 25 May 1986 Volume 2 : Issue 20
-
- Today's Topics:
- Re: MIDI, SIGs, et al.
- RE: Usenet Mac Digest V2 #39 (Re: Msg 8301)
- Apple SCSI
- RE: getting screen dumps with menus (Re: Msg 8258)
- 128K ROM/keypad bug
- RE: Large screen display (Re: Msg 8292)
- Note to Apple Developers
- MacServe...
- Jonathon report
- RE: MacDraw 1.9 patches (Re: Msg 8198)
- Re: HELP! with HyperMac+
- re: Interrupt switch problems on the Mac
- RE: re: Interrupt switch problems on the (Re: Msg 8389)
- Re: How does one make PICT resources?
- Re: How does one make PICT resources?
- List Manager
- PCB Layout Software
- Hayden Software bought
- Maybe this was asked on Usenet or Info-Mac
- Purging HFS Desktop
- RE: Purging HFS Desktop (Re: Msg 8460)
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
- [
- archived as [SUMEX-AIM.ARPA] <INFO-MAC>DELPHIV2-20.ARC
-
- DoD
- ]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 25 May 86 20:48:06 EDT
- From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@RED.RUTGERS.EDU>
- Subject: FontDisplay 4.0
-
- This is FontDisplay 4.0, a program that allows you to display and print files
- containing fonts.
-
- In addition to numerous bug fixes, version 4.0 features:
- Sample Window text saved
- Can now print Sample Window text as part of the Style Sheet
- Indexed documentation with edit history
- Better printing error messages
-
- [ This is a BinHex'ed PackIt II compressed file (saved 20K over
- non-compressed ]
- ------------------------------------------------------------
- (This file must be converted with BinHex 4.0)
-
- [
- archived as [SUMEX-AIM.ARPA]<INFO-MAC>UTILIT?-FONTDISPLA?-40.HQX
-
- DoD
- ]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 21 May 86 20:41:47 EDT
- From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@RED.RUTGERS.EDU>
- Subject: Latest TechNotes
-
- The following messages contain the latest Apple TechNotes brought to you by
- Apple and Delphi.
-
- Tech Note 0: Introduction to Mac Tech Notes May86 edition.
-
- Tech Note 2: describes what you should do in your applications to be sure of
- compatibility with future Macintoshes.
-
- Tech Note 6: describes how a Desk Accessory locates resources which are owned
- by it, even if it has been renumbered by the Font/DA Mover.
-
- Tech Note 7: describes several handy debugging techniques, with instructions
- for using them with both MacsBug and TMON.
-
- Tech Note 8: describes a problem with the AppleTalk Pascal interface.
-
- Tech Note 9: describes Internets, a method of connecting together AppleTalk
- networks to form a larger distributed computing facility.
-
- Tech Note 12: this is an update to the MacWrite 4.5 file format
- -documentation.
-
- Tech Note 14: describes how to write INIT resources that reside in files
- -other
- than the System File.
-
- Tech Note 17: describes new low-level printer calls.
-
- Tech Note 22: describes a minor bug in TextEdit routine TEScroll in the 128K
- ROMs.
- -------
-
- [
- from the moderator:
-
- archived as [SUMEX-AIM.ARPA] <INFO-MAC>TN00.HQX
- TN02.HQX
- TN06.HQX
- TN07.HQX
- TN08.HQX
- TN09.HQX
- TN12.HQX
- TN14.HQX
- TN17.HQX
- TN22.HQX
-
- the previous files TN00.HQX and TN14.HQX have been renamed TN00-OLD.HQX
- and TN14-OLD.HQX.
-
- DoD
- ]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 22 May 86 10:28:43 PDT
- From: chuq%plaid@SUN.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
- Subject: FONT-BOSTONII
-
-
- Instructions for installing and using the Boston II font:
-
- There are four parts to this Boston II distribution:
-
- o FULMAN.BOS -- The manual for the Boston II font. This manual must
- be formatted by Macwrite 4.5 on a 512K or larger machines. It
- will NOT work on a 128K machine, and it is too complicated for
- Word to successfully convert. There is a 128K version of this
- document (in four pieces) available on CompuServe, but I didn't
- download it due to cost.
-
- o MACWRT.BOS -- The Boston II font set up for MacWrite. Use these fonts
- to format the manual regardless of your normal Word processor.
-
- o WORD.BOS -- The Boston II font set up for Microsoft Word.
-
- o N?.BOS -- The Boston II font set up for Microsoft Word, but numbered
- to act as a replacement for the New ?ork Font, allowing it to
- be the startup Word font.
-
- All fonts are in Font/DA mover format.
-
- Notes:
-
- This font is copyrighted and is shareware ($10), cheap at twice the price.
- I have been using Boston, the original version of this font, for a number
- of months now as my main font, but Boston II makes the original Boston
- look like San Francisco font. There are also new sizes available (such as
- a VER? readable 7 point) a LOT of special characters, and a special 1 point
- leading font. Read the manual, it explains all about using this stuff and
- is a work of art besides. ?ou have to look VER? closely to see that this
- isn't laserwriter output, and it is significantly cleaner than a typewriter.
-
- [
- the rest of this message is archived as:
-
- [SUMEX-AIM.ARPA]<INFO-MAC>FONT-BOSTON2.README
-
- the other files are:
- [SUMEX-AIM.ARPA]<INFO-MAC>FONT-BOSTON-FULMAN.HQX
- [SUMEX-AIM.ARPA]<INFO-MAC>FONT-BOSTON-MACWRT.HQX
- [SUMEX-AIM.ARPA]<INFO-MAC>FONT-BOSTON-N?.HQX
- [SUMEX-AIM.ARPA]<INFO-MAC>FONT-BOSTON-WORD.HQX
-
- DoD
- ]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 23 May 1986 16:17:28 EDT
- From: Robert L. Wald <6090617%PUCC.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU>
-
-
- (Also posted to USENET)
- I'm trying to compile a list of Macintosh magazines, newsletters, etc...
- I'd appreciate any help in getting names, contact addresses, and the aim
- of the publication. Please send mail, I'll post it to the net when compiled
- if there is a demand.
- Thanks.
-
- =========================================================================
- -Rob Wald
- (PUCC User Services)
- BITNET: 6090617@PUCC (preferably)
- UUCP: ...ALLEGRA!PSUVAX1!PUCC.BITNET!6090617
-
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- Date: Mon, 19 May 86 11:40 EST
- From: CML5A9%IRISHMVS.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU
- Subject: LINT again
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- I would also like to see LINT for the Mac. AN? lint.
- Of AN? kind. I remember a while back someone was talking
- about something along these lines and pointed out something
- interesting. In order to have a really USABLE lint for
- the mac, someone also has to take the time to type in
- all of the function definitions with types as per Inside
- Mac into header files. That is, lint without the toolbox
- descriptions wouldnt be as useful. I remmeber that the
- person was looking for people to help split the task.
- But then again, without lint, it's pretty useless.
-
- -Tom Dowdy
- "If it jams, force it, if it breaks, it needed fixing anyway."
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- Subject: new software support plans from Apple
- Date: 20 May 86 09:26:14 EDT (Tue)
- From: cdh@BBN-VAX.ARPA
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- Strange though it seems, the following is not a joke:
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- Summarized from the May 12 edition of Electronics magazine, p. 24:
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- John Scully, chairman of the board, announced that Apple will offer
- MS-DOS support via an add-on board for the Macintosh personal
- computer. Furthermore, they will also add ATT Unix in a renewed bid
- to penetrate the business and technical markets. The announcements
- were made at a closed meeting of financial analysts at the company's
- Cupertino headquarters.
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- Development of the UNIX system for the Macintosh is taking place
- inside Apple, the company says, using proprietary software bought from
- Cadmus Computer Systems, Inc. of Lowell, Mass. The MS-DOS
- implementation, on the other hand, is being done by a third party, and
- will be supported as an add-on board.
-
- The publisher of the California Technology Stock Letter, Michael
- Murphy, was at the meeting and said, "Sculley specifically said they
- are going to announce, during the next 12 months, more products than
- Apple has announced in its entire corporate history to date."
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- The rest of the article primarily deals with other companies'
- reactions to the announcement.
-
- Just thought people would be interested.
-
- Carl
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