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- INFO-MAC Digest Monday, 15 Feb 1988 Volume 6 : Issue 17
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- Today's Topics:
- ADB Mouse Fix
- Re:IMAGEWRITER LQ & WORD 3.01
- REdit
- GatePost1.7
- Scientific Graphics Query
- contact with ADS & MPDA
- Printing on VAX ScriptWriter
- Phonetic alphabet fonts
- Greetings
- printers
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- Date: Thu, 11 Feb 88 20:13:31 CST
- From: "Kevin Altis" <C413315%UMCVMB.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
- Subject: ADB Mouse Fix
-
- Here is a quick fix for [ADB] mouse butttons that are jammed ON
- because of a defective case. Unscrew the case. Add two washers
- (approximately the thickness of one normal paper clip {that
- story follows}). I would suggest using a little rubber cement
- on the washers to keep them from sliding around. Screw the
- mouse back together, and check the button. If it is still
- jammed on, add another washer. If it wonUt click or requires
- a violent click to register, either take out a washer or use
- thinner washers.
-
- Needless, to say, this will void your warranty, but if you
- are out of warranty, it will save you the price of a new
- mouse.
-
- The Thickness of a Paper Clip.
- This solution came to me because we had a mouse go down on
- deadline day in the journalism department and needed a quick
- fix. All I had to work with were paper-clips and rubber
- cement, so that is where the thickness of a paper clip came
- about. Of course, I haven't yet told my advisor how I fixed the
- mouse....
-
- Bill Bumgarner
-
- This problem was mentioned in Delphi Mac Digest, but I didn't know the
- mail address to send a reply to.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 11 Feb 88 23:15:29 EST
- From: lucius@hermes.ai.mit.edu (Lucius Chiaraviglio)
-
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest
- Subject: What fonts/DA's must I leave in a System (v. 4.2) file for proper funct
- ion?
- Reply-To: chiaravi@gold.bacs.indiana.edu (Lucius Chiaraviglio)
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Dis-
- Keywords: minimal size while retaining function with System v. 4.2 (Finder 6.0)
-
- _
-
- I have a Mac SE with a 20 Mb hard disk running System 4.2/Finder 6.0.
- However, sometimes I would like to take a work disk with me to a Mac which
- might not have a hard disk or even 1 Mb of RAM; also sometimes I would like to
- send a disk to someone, who in some cases might not have a double-sided drive.
- Now, I have enough fonts and DA's that the Apple and Font menus run off the
- bottom of the screen; this takes up a good bit of the size of the System file,
- whose total size is ~630 kb. This is fine on my Mac (right now at least -- at
- the rate I am using up space I will have to get an additional hard disk --
- groan -- anyone know of good deals on large Mac-compatible SCSI drives?).
- However, it eats up too much space even out of a double-sided disk, and won't
- fit on a single-sided disk at all (on a double-sided disk containing a copy of
- my System file plus the Finder (version 6.0), without Multifinder, I have
- 50 kb left).
-
- So, to get to the point, I know that I can reduce the size of the
- System file (which is more than that of the rest of my System Folder put
- together) drastically by removing fonts and DA's. Which of these MUST I leave
- in for proper function, and which do I need to leave in to avoid inherent
- fundamental inconvenience which would be more of a pain than the size
- reduction than they are worth?
-
- Will it be at all possible to get a useable single-sided boot disk out
- of this? (I doubt it.) For that matter, will the versions of System and
- Finder I have even work on Macs which are too ancient to have double-sided
- drives. (I doubt this also -- if I encounter a Mac with only single-sided
- drives and I don't have a disk with an old System Folder on it with me, I am
- probably just out of luck -- but I guess it doesn't hurt to ask just to be
- sure.)
-
- At any rate, I would like to experiment with stripping a System v. 4.2
- file down to the minimum, but would like to avoid some of the trial-and-error.
- If anyone could provide some helpful information on this matter, I would
- appreciate it.
-
- -- Lucius Chiaraviglio
- chiaravi@gold.bacs.indiana.edu
-
- ------------------------------
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- Subject: Re:IMAGEWRITER LQ & WORD 3.01
- Date: Thu, 11 Feb 88 21:33:15 -0800
- From: Lance Nakata <nakata@jessica.Stanford.EDU>
-
-
- Yes, a new version of Microsoft Word is available. Version 3.02 supports
- the ImageWriter LQ, AppleShare, and the Mac II.
-
- Lance
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 12 Feb 88 15:42 GMT
- From: Ralph <MartinRR%cardiff.ac.uk@NSS.Cs.Ucl.AC.UK>
- Subject: REdit
-
- Does anyone know if a newer version than 1.2 of this exists, which will
- write Rez compatible output, as opposed to RMaker output?
-
- And while we are at it, are is there a version of ResEdit which
- understands color icons, patterns and so on? And which will allow you
- to edit windows in the same way that REdit does? Its a pity the nice
- features of these two programs can't all be rolled into one.
-
- Ralph
-
- ------------------------------
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- Date: Fri, 12 Feb 88 13:05:57 -0500 (EST)
- From: John Salmento <ziggy+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: GatePost1.7
-
-
- Hi,
- I am trying to run GatePost1.7 on our sun3. GatePost is a program which
- takes data coming in over the serial port on the mac and redirects it to
- a laserwriter on appletalk. The files print fine, but the sun3 doesn't
- remove any of the jobs from the queue after their done. I have to manually
- remove the jobs and then kill the print daemons. Were using transcript
- filters on the sun3. I set GatePost to 8 bits, no parity, 9600 baud, and 1
- stop bit. I am using the following printcap entry.
-
-
- # PostScript printer driven by TranScript software
- ap|ps|postscript|PostScript:\\
- :lp=/dev/ap:\\
- :br#9600:rw:fc#0000374:fs#0000003:xc#0:xs#0040040:mx#0:sf:sb:\\
- :if=/usr/local/lib/ps/psif:\\
- :of=/usr/local/lib/ps/psof:\\
- :gf=/usr/local/lib/ps/psgf:\\
- :tf=/usr/local/lib/ps/pstf:\\
- :nf=/usr/local/lib/ps/psnf:\\
- :sd=/usr/spool/ap:\\
- :lf=/usr/adm/ap-log:\\
- :af=/usr/adm/ap.acct:
-
- I would appreciate any suggestions for this problem. GatePost would a
- be an ideal program for our set up, if I can get everyting to work.
-
- To Paul Menon, the author, can you make it run in background in multifinder,
- and is there a way to preset the default settings and have it automatically
- start running when you launch GatePost. What is the latest version?
-
-
- Thanks a lot,
-
- John Salmento
- PH 128c, Engineering and Public Policy
- Carnegie Mellon
- Pittsburgh, PA 15213
- (412) 268-2673
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 12 Feb 88 18:10:21 EST
- From: "William E. Williams"
- From: <BSQUARE%YALEVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
- Subject: Scientific Graphics Query
-
- I would like people's opinions about Macintosh graphics software that is easy
- to use in scientific applications. Things that would be nice are
-
- -Ability to handle lots of data (2000 points or so)
- -Error-bar handling
- -Easy interfaces with popular spreadsheets (esp. Excel)
- -Can use scientific notation on axis labels
- -Graphs easily exportable to MacDraw, etc.
-
- I have played with Microsoft Chart (ugh!), Excel's graphing facility, and
- Cricket Graph. Excel can't handle nearly enough points. Cricket looks quite
- good, but my particular application involves points taken every hour or so for
- several days, and Cricket Graph doesn't seem to be able to handle mm/dd/yy
- hh:mm data (or any other reasonable date format) as a quantitative value for
- the X-axis.
-
- Are there any other good packages out there? If I get a sufficient number of
- replies, I'll summarize for the net.
-
- Thanks in advance,
-
- -B2
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 13 Feb 88 09:10:22 EST
- From: Guojun.Zhang@A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
- Subject: contact with ADS & MPDA
-
- On January 14, I wrote Apple Developer Services in CA regarding where to find
- the Chinese writing system for Macintosh, and wrote Apple Programmer's &
- Developer's Association in WA to order a couple of books. One month has passed,
- but I have heard nothing from them. Is their service always so bad? Thanks.
-
- --Guojun
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Sat, 13 Feb 88 23:55:15 DNT
- From: Jakob Nielsen Tech Univ of Denmark
- From: <DATJN%NEUVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
- Subject: Printing on VAX ScriptWriter
-
- We have a DEC ScriptWriter on our VAX and I would like to use it
- for Mac output but have problems doing so.
- This printer runs PostScript and I can print some of the PostScript demo
- files for the Mac with no problems when I have downloaded them
- (i.e. both downloading and the printer itself works OK).
- I get a PostScript from my Mac applications by holding K down
- while printing (so I do get the header file included).
- When trying to print this file, I get a PostScript error message stating
- that the paper size "legal" is undefined (I don't even use this paper
- size in my output). OK, so I find the place in the header file that
- references "legal" and change it to a NoOp - after which I do notget any
- error messages, but I also don't get *any* output.
- What is the problem? I can't believe that this problem hasn't been
- solved since countless number of people must be using both Macs and Vaxen.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 12 Feb 88 16:29:29 EST
- From: Dave Elbon <SYSDAVE%UKCC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
- Subject: Phonetic alphabet fonts
-
- Does anyone know of a source for phonetic alphabet fonts like the
- IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet). I'm interest in both bitmap and
- PostScript forms (PostScript preferred).
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Sat, 13 Feb 88 10:42:08 CST
- From: Chang <MT8B0101%TWNMOE10.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
- Subject: Greetings
-
-
- HI, THERE:
- IT'S CHINESE NEW YEAR ON FEB. 17, AND THE FOLLOWING CHINESE
- CHARACTERS EXPRESS THE BEST WISHES FROM TAIWAN TO ALL OF YOU ON
- THE NET LAND. WE WISH YOU A HAPPY ONE IN THE "YEAR OF DRAGON".
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-
- Date: 14 Feb 88 13:58:16 EST
- From: Carlo.Tomasi@IUS1.CS.CMU.EDU
- Subject: printers
-
- A friend of mine needs a printer for about a year, before going back to Italy.
- He would like to buy a laserwriter, but he would prefer one that works with
- 220 volts. Can such a thing be found in the US ?
- Alternatively, if you have an imagewriter you would like to sell, would you
- please give him a call. His name is Bruno, and his phone number is 682-2784
- (he is usually at home after 10 pm).
-
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