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Date:  5 Mar 88 1801-PST
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Subject: INFO-MAC Digest   V6 #25
To: [e-mail]


INFO-MAC Digest           Sunday, 6 Mar 1988       Volume 6 : Issue 25

Today's Topics:
                      Pictures bigger than Memory?
                           MS Fortran ROM call
                          RE: Turbo Pascal Help
                          CopyBits() question.
                      TML Pascal Procedure Pointers
                           LSP on Mac2 Problem
                        MPW-UNIX-COMPATIBLE-MAKE
                     Re: Turbo Pascal Version 1.00A
                     Re: Turbo Pascal Version 1.00A
                  How do you hook a modem to a Mac II?
                Re: How do you hook a modem to a Mac II?
                       Telecommunication standarts
                           Kermit & Design 2.0
                          Kermitting with a CDC


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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 88 17:36:24 -0500 (EST)
From: Richard Siegel <[e-mail]>
Subject: Pictures bigger than Memory?


I've run into an interesting situation. Under some conditions, when I'm
drawing a picture, I run out of memory. I don't get a bomb 25, and MemError
is still zero, but my picture is empty.

My question is, how can I intercept conditions when a picture being drawn
runs out of memory?

I suppose it's possible to spool a picture, but some of these turkeys are going
to be huge ( >=150K), and on floppies, one can run out of space quite easily,
which is no better than running out of memory.

Thanks in advance.

        --Rich

===================================================================
Richard Siegel
Confused Undergrad, Carnegie-Mellon University

The opinions stated here do not represent the policies
of Carnegie-Mellon University.

Arpa: [e-mail]
UUCP: {decvax,ucbvax,sun}!andrew.cmu.edu!rich.siegel
==================================================================

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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 88 23:30:55 -0800
From: Dau-Tsuong Lu <[e-mail]>
Subject: MS Fortran ROM call

        I am writing a Fortran program to collect serial data at 9600 baud.
The example program provided with Microsoft Fortran v2.2 doesn't use SerResBuf
to make a bigger buffer, and I couldn't find SerResBuf or anything like that
in the file toolbx.par.  IS there anyway I can make this call?  Thanks in
advance.

                                                George
29-Feb-88 08:19:20-PST,2329;000000000001

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Date:       Mon, 29 Feb 88 08:18:35 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: RE: Turbo Pascal Help

*EMBERS ON
The Toolbox does not support dotted and dashed lines.  This is a serious
omission and is the single most important difficulty we have found with
getting scientific illustrators to use the Macintosh.

What the Toolbox does support is patterned lines, which is not the same
thing at all.  The recent posting by Tim Standish uses patterns to make
something that looks like a dashed line.  The problem with this technique
is that it only works when you know beforehand what the slope of the line
is going to be.  His particular pattern works well for horizontal and
vertical lines but fails for most others.

Yes, I know that some programs, such as the new MacDraw II, are capable of
doing dotted and dashed lines.  They, I suspect, decompose the line into
many shorter lines.  Also, MacDraw does not seem to be able to deal with
dashed polygons.  This is not good, as the connectivity information in
polygons can be very important in resolving some of the serious ambiguities
with dashed lines.

Dashed lines on the Mac are sort of similar to graphics on the IBM.  You
can do anything you want, but you have to do it yourself.  Some programs do
it well, some do it poorly, and most do nothing.  All can claim to have
"full graphics capability."
*EMBERS OFF

Eric Pepke                           [e-mail]
Supercomputer Computations           [e-mail]
   Research Institute                [e-mail]
Florida State University             "The black paper between a mirror
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4052            breaks my heart that I can't go."

Disclaimer: My employers seldom even LISTEN to my opinions.
Meta-disclaimer: Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.

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Date: Tue 1 Mar 88 16:38:58-PDT
From: Arman Bernardi <[e-mail]>
Subject: CopyBits() question.


Question:  Is there a way to find out if a CopyBits() call worked correctly?

I have formed an off-screen pixmap, I draw graphics in it, and then
I want to get a Picture of it (that is, just the pixels), so I call

    OpenPicture()
    CopyBits()
    ClosePicture()

The offscreen pixmap can be large (512*512 bytes, several hundred KBytes).
I need to make several of these Pictures, so I repeat the above
3 lines of code.  At some point I will run out of memory space (during
the CopyBits() while the Picture is being made) as more
and more of the Pictures are generated.  How do I check for that ?

Thanks for any help.

[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 3 Mar 88 11:21 PST
From: Danger Mouse <[e-mail]>
Subject: TML Pascal Procedure Pointers

TML Pascal Procedure Pointers.

TML Pascal is definately a good, inexpensive compiler for the Mac.  From what
I have read in MacTutor comparing the final code size and speed, TML produces
the best of the standalone Pascals.  (I don't know about MPW Pascal).  Then
again, neither is it the fastest compiling or re-compiling.  However, it is
quite powerful, with some nice features for compiling more than just regular
programs (definition procedures and such), and extensions for Object Pascal.

I haven't used MacApp (or tried to). But from what I've read, TML is not able to
compile it at the present time, despite the Object Pascal features, because
while it allows pointers to procedures and functions to be passed to Toolbox
routines for their use, it lacks the ability for the program itself to use them.
I don't know if this is the -only- stumbling block, but I know it is a major
one.

The following will explain how to add this ability to your programs. Even if
this does not solve problems with compiling MacApp, I'm sure it will help in a
great many other programs. The solution comes from assembly, naturally. However,
it does not require any knowledge of assembly, or even an assembler. It is
strictly code to be inserted wherever it is needed in the pascal source, and
adds only 4 bytes of code per actual call.

Credit is due in great part to David Phillip Oster at Berkeley for first solving
the problem with a .REL glue file, Christmas '85.

When a program calls a procedure, it pushes all the parameters in order on to
the run-time stack (first clearing space for a return value if it is a function
call), then pushes the return address and jumps to the routine. Oster was keen
enough to realize that if the last argument of a procedure was a pointer to a
procedure, he could pop the return address, pop the last argument, push the
return address back on, and jump to the location specificed by the last argument
(the procedure pointer). His method required a small amount of assembly, and
therefore an MDS compatible assembler to do it. At the time, TML Pascal only
supported INLINEs of two bytes. With TML 2.x though, you can put in more than
two bytes. So I assembled the little bit of code, and put it in INLINEs. At
first the idea didn't work, but I was pleasantly surprised to find out that what
was actually required was even less than the code given.

If you use INLINE, TML will push the parameters onto the stack and place the
constants in the code. It doesn't do anything with jumping or return addresses
for INLINE as it does with EXTERNAL. Therefore, all that was needed was to pop
the last argument off, and JumpSubRoutine to it. It meant that there would
inherently be 4 bytes of useless code for each call -- TML pushing the last
parameter on the stack, you immediately popping it off again. However, when all
was said and done, it worked excellently, was easy to implement, and will
certainly fill the void quite well until TML gets around to adding the ability
to their compiler.

{   ____________
   / The Danger \
 _/  Mouse File  \____________________________________________________________
| \______________/ _________________________________________________________  |
|                                                                           | |
| |  This is a sample program illustrating the use of TML Pascal INLINEs to | |
| | gain use of procedural parameters completely within Pascal -- no .REL   | |
| | file or assembly is needed.                                             | |
| |                                                                         | |
| |  Author : Ryan Beegle  /  David Phillip Oster                           | |
| |  Date   : Feb 88       /  Dec 85                                        | |
| |                                                                         | |
| |  Distribution : In the Public Domain.                                   | |
| |_________________________________________________________________________| |
|_____________________________________________________________________________|}

program DangerProcedures(Input, Output);

function DangerMouse(x,y : integer) : Str255;
begin
 DangerMouse := '.)';
end;

function DangerFrappe(a,b : integer) : Str255;
begin
 DangerFrappe := 'Whrrrrrrrr';
end;

procedure DangerCamel(var min, mid, humps : byte);
begin
 humps := 2;
end;

procedure DangerMcglk(var hi, lo, wacky : byte);
begin
 wacky := ord(true);
end;

{ Having built up an assortment of procedures and functions, we'll make some
  use of them. The following procedure takes four parameters, two of which are
  procedure/function pointers. Note that PASSing the pointers is just as with
  any other pointer. Any number of them, anywhere in the parameter list.      }

procedure DangerWorld(option, option2 : integer; StrFunc, ByteProc : ProcPtr);
var
  a,b,c : byte;

{ There won't be checking to make sure the procedure pointers are the same as
  those we are assuming to be passed within this procedure. Since the INLINE
  procedures can be declared anywhere -- global or local -- I put them here,
  near the parameter list. It allows you to do some visual checking of your own
  to make sure you know what type of parametered procedure or function is
  being expected.                                                              }

  function DoStrFunc(i1, i2 : integer; theFunc : ProcPtr) : Str255;
   INLINE $205F,  { MOVE.L (SP)+,A0 }
          $4E90;  { JSR    (A0)     }

  procedure DoByteProc(var b1, b2, b3 : byte; theProc : ProcPtr);
   INLINE $205F, 4E90;

begin

 if option = 0 then
  writeln( DoStrFunc(0, 2, StrFunc) );

 if option2 = 0 then
  DoByteProc(a, b, c, ByteProc);

{ As above, calls to the procedure pointers are made by passing the desired
  parameters to your custom INLINE procedure, plus the pointer itself.         }

end;

{ Finally, with the above declared, you can pass what procedures you want, and
  it will work just as though you were passing them to Toolbox routines.       }

begin

  DangerWorld(0, 0, @DangerMouse, @DangerMcglk);

  DangerWorld(1, 0, @DangerFrappe, @DangerCamel);

end.

{  -- Danger Mouse. }

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Date: Thu, 3 Mar 88 14:33 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: LSP on Mac2 Problem

I have a problem running within the LSP environment on a Mac2 which I have not
seen on my SE. When I repeatedly run a project within the environment, it will
run normally every time, but will always eventually crash the environment
with a system error #01. It seems to me that LSP is not cleaning up after
the program exits and runs out of space.

I have tested this with a program which does nothing more than open the
LSP drawing window, put a diagonal line across it and then terminate. It
runs exactly seven times. After the seventh run, when I try to close the
drawing window with the mouse, I see the bomb.

(I have already tried redownloading the 1.11 upgrade file from Think
and reupgrading my 1.0 version. It didn't help.)

Lee Larson
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 3 Mar 88 13:19:07 PST
From: Mark Richer <[e-mail]>
Subject: MPW-UNIX-COMPATIBLE-MAKE

Last year a Make tool for MPW that is unix compatible was posted to info-mac
by someone named reid ([e-mail]), but .SUFFIXES was not working. He
has informed me that it still isn't working at his site, but that he did
post sources to some people. In any case, has anyone fixed .SUFFIXES or
have another Make tool that is unix-compatible.  With the introduction of
A/UX this becomes even more important (maybe Apple will support a version
themselves?).

Mark

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Date: Mon, 29 Feb 88 09:42:53 EST
From: Bull <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Turbo Pascal Version 1.00A

In response to Dan Stewart's problems with Turbo Pascal and MultiFinder,
a new version of TP won't help. I got the latest (1.1) 2 weeks ago, and
it's incompatible with MultiFinder too. There's a message in the ReadMe
file that says only compiled (to disk) can be run under MultiFinder, and
that one should NOT work in the integrated TP environment under MultiFinder.
There is no hint as to the problem.
Bull

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Date: 29 Feb 88 08:33 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Turbo Pascal Version 1.00A

You can upgrade to the newer version of Turbo Pascal pretty easily.  Just give
Borland a call, and they will give you the instructions.  The cost was pretty
reasonable - only $15 - and the newer version includes interfaces for the MAC
II.

>>Dave

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Sender: "Bruce_A._Hamilton.OsbuSouth"@Xerox.COM
Date: 1 Mar 88 17:50:16 PST (Tuesday)
Subject: How do you hook a modem to a Mac II?
From: "Bruce_Hamilton.OsbuSouth"@Xerox.COM
Reply-to: [e-mail]


A group down the hall just got a Mac II from Interleaf with an 80MB hard disk,
single 3.x" floppy, and extended keyboard.  Not knowing much about Macs, I
started looking through the manuals, starting with the index.  The only
reference to RS232 was to be careful NOT to stick an RS232 plug into the SCSI
interface in back.

So how do you hook a vanilla modem onto this thing, and what software do I need?
Basically, I'd just like to be able to read a Mac disk and then stuff ASCII over
a phone line into another system.  Some of the literature makes vague reference
to an Apple modem (which we don't have), but doesn't say how it plugs in.

I'll collect, summarize, and rebroadcast interesting replies.

Thanks,

--Bruce

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Sender: "Bruce_A._Hamilton.OsbuSouth"@Xerox.COM
Date: 2 Mar 88 15:11:03 PST (Wednesday)
Subject: Re: How do you hook a modem to a Mac II?
From: "Bruce_Hamilton.OsbuSouth"@Xerox.COM
Reply-to: [e-mail]


You guys are great!  Thanks to Dave <newman:PASA>, Frank H. Bowers:OSBU North,
GUILLERMO <GLAO:ES>, Gerry Tsupros:StLouis Region, Nick <NNicoll:El Segundo>,
Victor J. Heintz:wbst139, Josh <Susser:PASA>, Kurt <Piersol:PASA>, Clark R.
Hodge:OSD Associates, Stephen W. Bartlett:OSBU South.  Below are some collected
responses, editing out redundant info.

----------------
The Mac II actually has two serial ports. They are on the back and have the
funny phone and printer icons over them. To connect a modem to your Mac II (or
plus, SE, etc), you need to get a "Mac Plus to Hayes Modem" cable. This cable
has a DIN-8 connector on one end and a DB-9 on the other. One end goes into the
Mac phone serial port, and the other goes into the modem. We got ours at
Egghead, but I've seen them all over. They run $20 to $30 depending on cable
length.

There are several good telecommunications programs available for the Mac. You
probably want to get one that is Multifinder compatible, and you definitely want
one that is Mac II compatible. Be careful, not all software runs on the Mac II.
I use MicroPhone and it does okay. I have a friend who swears by RedRyder.
VersaTerm pro is supposed to be pretty good as well, but it's expensive.

---------
As for software, let me recommend Red Ryder 10.3 as excellent software for
anyone with serious communications requirements: It supports XMODEM, YMODEM,
Kermit, MacBinary, baud rates up to 9600, emulates VT100, and has a command
language which literally does just about anything you want. It costs about $60,
I believe. It's by far the best unless you have some particular graphics
emulation needs. If you need it to act like a Tektronix terminal, I understand
that Versaterm is really very good for that sort of thing.

---------

Modems hook to a serial port on any MAC.  Mac II or otherwise.  My Mac SE has a
port on the back that is the little mini-8 port labelled as the modem port.  In
any case, the serial port is the ticket whether it is a mini-8, a DB-9 or
standard 25-pin socket.  All that is needed is a standard modem and an adapter
cable.  The apple modem comes with the same kind of connector, so my cable looks
pretty much the same on both ends.  Other modems are different.

I use Red Ryder software.  Version 9.4 was the last shareware version, and
version 10.3 is the most recent version.  Its nice, and it is relatively cheap.
Microphone gets pretty good reviews, but my colleagues at work find it a poor
second to Red Ryder.  There are other software packages, but I recommend Red
Ryder.

As for modems, my apple modem is nice, and it is compact, but it does not have a
power switch, and only goes to 1200 baud.  There are cheap 2400 baud modems
available now, and if I were buying now, I'd get one of those.

---------
Mac (plain vanilla) has an RS422 connector labeled with a cute little icon
meaning modem.  Use an 8-pin mini DIN to 25-pin D-Shell cable to convert to
RS232C.  I bought such a "Mac II to Smartmodem" cable for $15 from a Mac dealer
that works fine.

---------
I can tell you how I made a cable for a MacPlus.  I'll assume that you are
looking at the round male 8-pin connector which plugs into the Mac and the pins
are numbered left to right as so:
 1  2  3                     Mac 8-pin      RS232 25-pin
4  5    6                      1,2,3,7               NC
   7  8                              4                      2  (transmit)
                                        5                      1 & 7
(protective & signal grounds)
                                        6                      3  (receive)
                                        8                      20 (DTR)

---------

--Bruce

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From: [e-mail]
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 88  17:14:47 EST
Subject: Telecommunication standarts

In INFO-MAC Digest V6 #24 [e-mail] writes...

> There appear to be many parity problems in the 9(36)b4 version. And judging
> by the comments in the Doc file, it appears that the authors do not
> understand communications encodings and their implecations in their various
> manifestations.

Good point!  Maybe they really don't understand these things.  Certainly
I don't, even though I have written several simple programs that use them.

Which brings me to my question... WHERE ARE THESE THINGS DOCUMENTED?!?!
It seems that all the encodings used into computer telecommunications today
evolved slowly out of necessity, but have never been clearly defined any-
where.  Is there any good literature out there that summarizes telecomm-
unications standarts, encodings, issues, and effects thereof?

If anyone can point me to available literature, or even better, has liter-
ature available in electronic form, I would GREATLY appreciate it.  Please
reply in private, I will summarize to the net.

  Jurgen E Botz
  [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 29 Feb 88 13:02:39 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Kermit & Design 2.0

Notes: Info-Mac vol 6 number 24.

ref: Using  Kermit with ftp downloads :: <tom coradaschi>
While this Kermit solution seems to work on VAX UNIX machines, I cannot
find equivalent functionality in VAX VMS Kermit-32.  Instead, I ftp download
the files to the vax and then do a COPY to concatenate them, i.e.:
>DIRECTORY
DL1.HQX
DL2.HQX
DL3.HQX
>COPY DL*.HQX NEWSTUFF.HQX
>DIRECTORY
DL1.HQX
DL2.HQX
DL3.HQX
NEWSTUFF.HQX
then I download the NEWSTUFF.HQX file to the Mac.  If you are concerned about
corruption of long downloads, MPW has a really efficient CATENATE command
that also works very effectively after downloading the parts to the Mac.

ref: Design 2.0  :: <[e-mail]>
I have had and been using DESIGN 2.0 for a bit, and it is really quite a
lot better then the v1.0 demo that's out there.  My only real complaints
with it are the extreme modality of the program, which makes some operations
very awkward.  But for design drawings, there are those select moments where
none of the other graphics/drafting programs that I have are as effective as
DESIGN.

Godfrey DiGiorgi
[e-mail]
February 28, 1988

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Date: Thu,  03 Mar 88 16:39:17 +0200
From: Jonathan B. Owen <[e-mail]>
Subject: Kermitting with a CDC

Hi everyone,

Does anyone use MacKermit (0.8-33) to download files from a CDC Cyber?
I am not able to download files (or upload for that matter).  Retries
purtain and when CDC is in Server mode, it does not understand requests
initiated from my Mac.  In short, "No-Communicado".

I used the debug option of the CDC's Kermit and apparently, the Mac
sends "# N3" as a response to the Init packet of the CDC.

Any ideas?

Any help is appreciated (by me) and rewarded (in heaven!)...
______________________________________________________________________________
  (--)    /--)     /-(\                 Email: gdau100@bgunos (bitnet)
  \ /    /--K      : \:/\   /\/) /:-\   Snail: 6/15 Mendelson, Tel-Aviv, Israel
  _/_/o /L__)_/o \/\__/  \X/  \_/ : :_/ Voice: 03-5577519
 (/        Jonathan B. Owen
 Point of view:  A chicken is the means by which an egg reproduces an egg.
______________________________________________________________________________

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End of INFO-MAC Digest
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 5-Mar-88 18:36:31-PST,28508;000000000000
Mail-From: INFO-MAC-REQUEST created at  5-Mar-88 18:09:31
Date:  5 Mar 88 1809-PST
From: Moderators Jon Pugh, Dwayne Virnau, Lance Nakata
Reply-to: [e-mail]
Subject: INFO-MAC Digest   V6 #26
To: [e-mail]


INFO-MAC Digest           Monday, 7 Mar 1988       Volume 6 : Issue 26

Today's Topics:
                      Question: Irma & NetWay 1000A
         Ready-Set-Go 4.0 goofs with international character set
                          Mac ][ Sampled Sound
                              MacServe@PUCC
                        Hard disk question ??!!!
                        text retrieval databases
                            Smart Alarms v2.5
                         Color desktop pictures
                     MacDraw hook for Directory FKEY
                DA-TERMINAL DOCUMENT IS NOT READABLE. ...
         How to translate from POSTSCRIPT into IMPRINT (IMAGEN)?
                       Menu & Window-frame Blanker
                         RE: color lut resoln ?
                  IBM PC emulator for the Macintosh II
                          Humor (from EchoMac)
                        BBS for Mac wired to VAX
                          Request for wargamers
              Bank Checks in LaserWriter II Envelope Feeder
                      appletalk PC driver v2 (long)
                   mac software for foreign languages
                       Screen Slaving and Timbuktu
                   Mac II Footprint (and Noise) Cure?
                              Apache Strike


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Date: Sat, 27 Feb 88 18:35:55 IST
From: Ami Zakai <[e-mail]>
Subject: Question: Irma & NetWay 1000A

I need all info you folx at net world care to supply about two products
for the Mac, IRMA and something called NETWAY 1000A.
If you seen, have info or happend to use one of them please tell me
about it. Send directly to me (address above), I will summarize if
there will be public interest.

  --Zak

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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 88 16:30:05 DNT
From: Jakob Nielsen  Tech Univ of Denmark
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Ready-Set-Go 4.0 goofs with international character set

     Once again: A program that will not allow you to select a
word with double-click if the word contains international characters
(i.e. other than A-Z).
     These guys have not taken my tutorial on designing user interfaces
for international use :-(

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From: [e-mail]
Date: 29 Feb 1988 08:00 EST
Subject: Mac ][ Sampled Sound

I have attempted all combinations, and must still be missing somthing
*very* simple. I need a program fragment that does sampled sound on
the Mac ][ and is *known* to work. Please mail to:
    [e-mail]
Thank you, my music thanks you,
Tim Endres

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Date: Mon, 29 Feb 88 09:50 CST
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: MacServe@PUCC

        Has anyone noticed that [e-mail] is rather behind in
keeping up with the digests? There hasn't been anything new there since the
earthplot update! Is something wrong on-site, or hasn't anyone bothered to
bring the programs over from Sumex?
        Just wondering,
                Petey

        [e-mail]

disclaimer- I haven't anything do disclaim, I didn't say anything!

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Date: Mon, 29 Feb 88 22:08 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Hard disk question ??!!!

   I have a Mac SE and planningto buy a 40 Mb hard disk.  Would anybody
suggest me what is the best buy and where I can get it ???
I will relly appreciate it ....

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Date: Tue, 01 Mar 88 10:30 EST
From: "Michael Robert Freedberg"
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: text retrieval databases

I am looking for some information on a program called SONAR
by Virginia Systems Software. It is a text database and text
retrieval system which will work not only on ASCII but Word 3
docs as well. I would appreciate any comments from users of this
program or any like it. I need to search documents for words, phrases,
proximity to other words or phrases, and I need word  counts and
indexing capabilities. SONAR claims to do all this and more, so if
anyone in netland who uses this program or something similar, please
send comments and recomendations to the address posted below. I am
interested in general in text databases for use in the humanities,
so any and all info will be well-considered. Any word as of yet on
the foreign language dics for WordPerfect?
Reply to:
[e-mail]
snappy quote:"Things as they are, are changed on the blue guitar.
Thanks Wally...

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Date: Tue, 1 Mar 88 11:57 CST
From: Mike Borsetti
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Smart Alarms v2.5

I remember seeing a hack (patch?) for Smart Alarms so that it would ring the
bells only at the time the reminder is set (and not every three minutes
afterwards).  This is a very useful patch, because without it your colleague's
nerves would go crazy whenever you are not at your desk to dismiss the alert.

Now the problem: I've lost it in a HD crash.

Anyone is so kind as to send it to me or re-post it?  Thanks!

Disclaimer: I usually *do* back up drives.

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Date: Tue, 1 Mar 88 13:23:41 PST
From: [e-mail] (Dave Platt)
Subject: Color desktop pictures

Yes, it's quite possible.  You'll need two items:

1) You'll need a resource file that contains a PICT resource (ID=0)
   that is to be drawn.  This can be stored as your StartupScreen file,
   and will be displayed (centered) when you boot.  Customized
   palettes should not be used;  the StartupScreen mechanism apparently
   insists on using the Mac's default CLUT (or so I've heard).  Any
   drawing program that supports color [e.g. the new MacDraw] can be
   used to create a colored drawing;  the drawing can then be copied to
   the Clipboard in PICT format, pasted into the Scrapbook, and then
   moved over to a new resource file with ResEdit.  You could also use
   Giffer to convert a GIF file to PICT 0 format... quite a few GIF
   images have been posted to Info-Mac, and there are apparently many
   more (thousands?) on Compu$erve.

2) There's an INIT called DeskPict (I don't recall whether it's free or
   shareware) that will make the StartupScreen picture, or one found in
   another file [Desktop Picture, or something like that] become a permanent
   screen backdrop.  I _think_ DeskPict is in the Info-Mac archives;  if it's
   not, I'll be glad to post it.

I recently posted a color StartupScreen file to Info-Mac... it's a PICT of
Garfield expressing his feelings about Big Blue.  With this, plus DeskPict,
you'd be on your way.


Dave Platt
  UUCP: ...!{ames,sun,uunet}!coherent!dplatt     DOMAIN: [e-mail]
    INTERNET: coherent![e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail]

------------------------------

Date: Wed, 2 Mar 88 9:46:51 EST
From: John Major <[e-mail]>
Subject: MacDraw hook for Directory FKEY

Ray Lau's fine Fkey 'Directory' will let you preview files,
if you provide a hook for the file format.  He's done so
for PNTG and TEXT files - anyone out there done a hook for
MacDraw (not PICT) files?  I have a huge mass of them to
sort out, and previewing would be a boon. This would be a
good thing to upload, I think.

Thanks, Netland!

John Major
[e-mail]

------------------------------

Date: 28 Feb 88 15:06:00 EST
From: "ROBAX::KANG" <[e-mail]>
Subject: DA-TERMINAL DOCUMENT IS NOT READABLE. ...
Reply-to: "ROBAX::KANG" <[e-mail]>


Hello,

I just downloaded the DA-TERMINAL. It seems working fine. However,
I cannot figure out how to read the DOC file. Both file type and file creator
are messed up. I tried to set file type to be TEXT or WORD or WDBN and read
it with MacWrite or MS Word. However, it does not work. Can some one tell
me what are the correct file type and creator? What program reads it?

I also had problem with the HYPERCARD-ESPERANTO, no matter what I do,
I always have the error message END OF FILE ERROR at the end of decoding the
HQX. Does anyone have the same problem?

-- Kang Sun

------------------------------

Date: 24 Feb 88 17:31:00 EST
From: "ROBAX::KANG" <[e-mail]>
Subject: How to translate from POSTSCRIPT into IMPRINT (IMAGEN)?
Reply-to: "ROBAX::KANG" <[e-mail]>

Hello everyone,
    Is there a way to translate from POSTSCRIPT into IMPRINT (IMAGEN)?
-- Kang Sun

------------------------------

Date: Wed 2 Mar 88 11:09:35-PDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Menu & Window-frame Blanker

Does anyone know of a D/A, INIT, FKEY, or CDEV that will selectively turn off
the menu bar and the window-frame of an application leaving only the image
inside the window visible on the screen?

We just purchased a color printer that works by taking a screen dump from
the RGB signals going to the MACII monitor.  This prints everything that's on
the screen.  What we need is just the image *inside* the active window.

It would be great if it could also specify an all black or all white
background and work with most applications (Pixel Paint, MORE, MacDraw II).

Thanks for any help.

    Allen Kirby Curtis    [e-mail]
                    or
                [e-mail]

------------------------------

From: umix!umich!eecs.umich.edu!spline.eecs.umich.edu![e-mail]
From: .NET (Spencer W. Thomas)
Subject: RE: color lut resoln ?
Date: 2 Mar 88 15:03:37 GMT
Sender: umix!umich!eecs.umich.edu![e-mail]
Reply-to: umix!umich!eecs.umich.edu!spline.eecs.umich.edu!spencer@uune
Reply-to: t.UU.NET (Spencer W. Thomas)


Most standard TV monitors have a "gamma" around 2.5 (this is the
standard).  This means that the the brightness (I) on the screen is
proportional to the 2.5 power of the input voltage (V).  When you
speak of the gamma of a monitor (or of an image production chain), it
means that this rule is followed:
    I = V**gamma

=Spencer ([e-mail])

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 3 Mar 88 02:15 N
From: <[e-mail]> (Thomas Fruin)
Subject: IBM PC emulator for the Macintosh II

Wow!  The British computer monthly PC User reviewed a  prerelease  version
of a _software_PC emulator for the  Macintosh II that actually works. They
favored it higher than the AST Mac286 card, reviewed in the same issue.

Soft PC, as it's called, has been developed by  Insignia Solutions, a firm
in Britain.  The software emulates a standard  IBM PC with 8088 processor,
and the color graphics adaptor (CGA), with the color showing on the Mac II
screen of course.  It is only available for the Macintosh II,  because the
emulation would simply run too slow on other Macs.

PC User said they had tested popular IBM PC programs such as Lotus, dBASE,
Wordstar 2000 and Microsoft Flight Simulator,  and  said  they ran without
problems.  Programs run in their own window on the  Macintosh desktop, and
data can be copied from PC programs via the  clipboard  into Mac programs.
Pasting data into the PC window was not possible.

A 5 1/4 inch drive (such as the one Apple makes,  or one of several third-
party manufacturers) is necessary to read MS-DOS files. The internal 3 1/2
inch drives cannot be used to read 3 1/2 inch MS-DOS floppies,  because of
Apple's variable speed disk control, PC User said. Standard hard disks for
the Macintosh II can be  formatted  with an  MS-DOS  partition that can be
used as drive C: by Soft PC.

-- Thomas Fruin

   [e-mail]                       Leiden University
   [e-mail]                        University of Amsterdam
   hol0057.AppleLink
   2:500/15.FidoNet                           The Netherlands

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 3 Mar 88 21:48 CST
From: Mike Borsetti
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Humor (from EchoMac)

From:    Bernard Aboba
To:      All                                      Msg #227, 23-Feb-88 10:35:34
Subject: Refrigerator SIGS, anyone?

Why do refrigerators NOT need user groups, pray tell?
First of all, refrigerators generally WORK, and work well.  Their flyback
transformers do not burn out.  They do not require upgrades every year,
whether the basic hardware is obsolete or not.  Refrigerators usually defrost
themselves; their cold solder joints do not give out; they are not sensitive
to power line spikes, or static electricity.
Your average refrigerator has modest design goals.  When you open it, it does
not say "Welcome to the Refrigerator," or blink its lights.  There is probably
a simple control system, no megabyte of RAM.
You do not need your refrigerator to be making toast at the same time it is
keeping your leftovers from spoiling, controlling your VCR, or turning the
front porch lights on and off.
If this seems somewhat obvious consider this:  By 1995 a new automobile will
probably contain the equivalent of a Motorola 68000 processor, and 1 Meg of
RAM.  It may well speak to you, and contain several bit mapped displays.
Almost every component, from the engine to the brake system, will be
microprocessor controlled.  And if those components fail, your vehicle may
lose manuverability, or worse.
Can we be so sure that there will be not be AUTOMOTIVE user groups in 1995?
Or that refrigerator user groups will not some day follow suit?
Here's to a 1973 Buick, and my Kenmore fridge!
Disclaimer:  I have no business relationship with Kenmore, or any other
refrigerator manufacturer.  I am a knowledgeable refrigerator user, but do not
earn my living from giving refrigerator seminars, or from leading the BMUG
refrigerator SIG.

---
 * Origin: MailCom EchoMac InfoHere, Palo Alto 415-855-9548 (Opus 1:143/444)

--------------------

From:    Robert Holland
To:      Bernard Aboba                            Msg #228, 23-Feb-88 17:23:04
Subject: Re: Refrigerator SIGS, anyone?

hey, are you mocking all of us in the BMUG toaster SIG?  Are ya?  Huh?

---
 * Origin: MailCom EchoMac InfoHere, Palo Alto 415-855-9548 (Opus 1:143/444)

--------------------

From:    Miriam Solon
To:      Bernard Aboba                            Msg #317, 25-Feb-88 13:37:10
Subject: Refrigerator SIGs

Your tirade was an instant hit in our coffee room. Hope you get it published.
You're a funny guy.

---
 * Origin: TRoU Mac Base System, 312-784-8763, Chicago, IL (Opus 115/400)

--------------------

From:    Stephen Howard
To:      Bernard Aboba                            Msg #361, 24-Feb-88 07:10:22
Subject: Re: Refrigerator Sigs, Anyone?


Maybe you can help me. I just downloaded a can of Black Olives (Collosal, I
think) from my refrigerator. When I tried to open it, the 'fridge told me "A
utensil cannot be found to open this can." What gives? BTW, it says 'NO PITS'
on the side. Thanks in advance.

Stephen Howard

--- TBBS v2.0
 * Origin: BMUG Multiline TBBS - Berkeley, CA [415] 849-BMUG  (161/444)

--------------------

From:    Eric Larson
To:      Stephen Howard                           Msg #419, 27-Feb-88 10:02:12
Subject: Re: Refrigerator Sigs, Anyone?

You have to run the Olives through CanHex first.

---
 * Origin: Shockwave Rider 315-673-4894 Marcellus, NY (Opus 1:260/330)

--------------------

From:    Bernard Aboba
To:      Stephen Howard                           Msg #429, 25-Feb-88 08:10:34
Subject: Re: Refrigerator Sigs, Anyone?

Your fridge "bug" report was not specific enough.  How do you expect to get
answers without telling me what version refrigerator you are using? It sounds
like an incompatibility with other units residing in the Fridge, or with
Kenmore's new Fridge Input/Output System (FIOS).  Yes, I know we did not
follow the Kenmore guidelines, but it's their fault anyway.  Have you tried
reformatting the Fridge?

---
 * Origin: MailCom EchoMac InfoHere, Palo Alto 415-855-9548 (Opus 1:143/444)

--------------------

From:    Miriam Solon
To:      Stephen Howard                           Msg #538, 29-Feb-88 17:48:42
Subject: Re: Refrigerator Sigs, Anyone?

That means they're stuffed and you need Stuffit.

---
 * Origin: TRoU Mac Base System, 312-784-8763, Chicago, IL (Opus 115/400)

------------------------------

Date: Fri, 4 Mar 88 12:24 AST
From: Stan Armstrong <[e-mail]>
Subject: BBS for Mac wired to VAX

I want to set up a BBS on my Mac at the office to enable me to transfer
files between home and work. The office machine is a 2-Meg MacPlus with
two external hard drives (20 & 30). The machine is hardwired to a
DevelSwith SLIM which serves our VAXes. I have RR Host, the miniHOST
procedures for the RR, and ChesleyUs HyperHost. None of these will work
unmodified because they all expect to talk to a Hayes compatible modem.

Has anyone either modified one of the above or found something else which
may be suitable for my application?

Thanks.

Stan Armstrong

------------------------------

Date: Fri, 4 Mar 88 14:39 EST
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Request for wargamers

ATTENTION:
        I am trying to get some demographic data on Mac users, and I need
some help from the net.  I am trying to find the intersection of the sets:
_______________________________     __________________________________
                                \ /
                                / \
                              /     \
                            /         \
                            |         |
        Plays wargames      |  Both   |       Owns a Mac
                            |         |
                            \         /
                              \     /
                                \ /
                                / \
-------------------------------     ---------------------------------
        I realize that this also includes the set "Has access to the net",
but if the moderator could provide some figures as to the distribution of
this list, I could make some sense of the results.
[ We have no clue how many people read this thing.  Lots of redistribution.]
        If you are a Mac-owning wargamer or know one, please respond.  I
need to know what types of wargames you play (role-play, strategy, etc.),
any particular ones you prefer, and any other demographic info you care
to send (age, area of country, sex, etc.)  Cthulhu willing, the results
will be posted when the replies stop.  Reply directly to:

        Greg Porter, aka PORTERG@VCUVAX on Bitnet.

        Thanks.

------------------------------

Date: Fri, 04 Mar 88 14:51:46 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Bank Checks in LaserWriter II Envelope Feeder


     Does anybody have any experience with running bank checks through the
LaserWriter II's envelope tray?  The campus is going to order one and I'm
trying to plan ahead.

     How about sheetfeed bank checks that can be put into the LaserWriter's
regular paper tray?

Thanks for any info.

Michael W. Fleming, Instructional Computing Consultant, Computer Services
California State College, 9001 Stockdale Hwy, Bakersfield, Ca. 93311-1099
Business Telephone: [phone]  -or-  [phone]  {message}
Home: 2408 Barnett St., Bakersfield, Ca. 93308, Phone: [phone]
Bitnet:  HMICHEL@CALSTATE
Arpanet: [e-mail]

------------------------------

Date: Fri, 4 Mar 1988 15:01 CST
Date: Fri,  4 Mar 88 14:59 CST
From: <OPTON@UHVAX1>
Subject: appletalk PC driver v2 (long)

This is in response to a posting in the USENET mac digest.
by Mr. Lenoil of Apple.  I apologize for posting to the
digest, but my attempts to mail to him directly were bounced.

February 26, 1988

Dear Mr. Lenoil,

Enclosed please find your reply to Joachim Lindenberg concerning
version 2 of the atalk.exe driver for the LocalTalk PC card.  We
purchased the LocalTalk PC card the day before I recieved this, so it
had version 1 of the atalk.exe driver enclosed.  (We get our Apple
equipment through our campus microcomputer center).  After
reading your reply, I called up our microcomputing center to inform
them of the revision.  They have been trying to get the revision from
Apple, but for some reason, there have been some delays.  One
reason appears to be that no one in this region knew about it!  The
people in our microcomputing department say it appears that
version 2 is a well kept secret, and are having trouble obtaining it.
Can you explain what is going on, and perhaps tell me what to do to
expedite upgrading our atalk.exe drivers?  It sure would make a lot of
our clients' lives a lot easier.

Thank you,

Lee Thomison
Electronics Supervisor
University of Houston
4901 Calhoun
Houston, Texas  77004
[phone]
 Bitnet: OPTON@UHVAX1

***********************************************************************

From: [e-mail] (Robert Lenoil)
Subject: Re: AppleTalk PC card
Date: 16 Jan 88 04:03:38 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, USA

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>I purchased an AppleTalk PC Card on monday. Its obvious that you should
>not have a mouse and a modem (I am using an AT - PC users might use IRQ 2)
>otherwise you'll have to trash one...
>
>I would like to use IRQ 5 for the AppleTalk PC card (not used in my system,
>I've only one printer attached). - should be an easy hardware modification.
>However, the atalk.exe program does not allow /cardint=5. Has anyone
>done that before?  Is someone at Apple listening?
>
>Joachim Lindenberg, University of Karlsruhe
>Federal Republic of Germany, West Germany.

Slow down Joachim, no hardware modifications are necessary.  Yesterday,
Apple announced the immediate availability of AppleShare PC, which
allows PCs to transparently access AppleShare file servers and AppleTalk
LaserWriters and ImageWriters.  AppleShare PC includes a new version of
the ATALK.EXE AppleTalk driver, which no longer uses the card's hardware
interrupt feature.  The /cardint setting is completely ignored, and does
not conflict with your COM ports.  The new driver will also be included
with the AppleTalk PC Card, which has now been renamed to the LocalTalk
PC Card, in line with Apple's renaming of AppleTalk Personal Network
Cabling to LocalTalk Personal Network Cabling. (This was done to avoid
confusion between AppleTalk the network system, and LocalTalk the
cabling system, since AppleTalk protocols now run on various cable
systems, including Ethernet cabling.)  Additionally, the price of the
card has been dropped from $399 to $249 (AppleShare PC costs $149).  In
other words, you should have waited a few days to buy your card.  But
the good news is that the new ATALK.EXE (version 2.0) will solve your
problems.
--
Robert Lenoil
Apple Computer Inc.
Network Systems Development

------------------------------

From: [e-mail] (Sungdae Hwangbo)
Subject: mac software for foreign languages
Date: 5 Mar 88 00:21:58 GMT


Greetings,

    Would someone out there shed a light on the status of mac software
for the foreign languages.  Specifically, Korean, Hebrew, and Greek language
softwares are needed.  They can be separate programs or all in one.  We went
as far as using Greek symbols in Microsoft word program by loading 'symbol'
fonts.  Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated.  A detailed info will
be much much more appreciated, of course.

Thanks,
Hwangbo

p.s. In case, if possible, do try to answer to me directly.
     [e-mail] or [e-mail].

------------------------------

Date: Fri 4 Mar 88 19:16:31-PST
From: A. E. Siegman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Screen Slaving and Timbuktu

A few weeks ago I asked about "screen slaver" programs, to permit one or
more "slave" Macs to act as remote passive screen displays for a "master"
Mac over an AppleTalk connection.  Following suggestions from several people
I've tried "Timbuktu" from WOS Data Systems.

Timbuktu permits any number of Macs on an AppleTalk net to set themselves
up either as hosts, who invite participation by other Macs, or as guests,
who can attach to a host Mac who has issued an invitation.

A guest can attach to a host in either of two modes.  In "observe" mode,
the screen on the guest Mac tracks everything that happens on the host
Mac, but that's all.  In "participate" mode the mouse and keyboard on both
the host and the guest Macs can equally and simultaneously affect whatever
application is running on the host Mac.  In effect the guest Mac can run
the host Mac completely, and see everything that happens on it, while the
host operator has full control also.

Timbuktu could be very useful for a number of applications mentioned in its
documentation.  Two people at remote locations can collaborate in running
a single program, each seeing exactly the same thing on the screen, while
conversing by phone.  Consulting, problem solving, user training, and
collaborative work are all possible.  The program seems to work very well.

However, it's not really satisfactory for the pure remote display function
I was seeking.  First, only one guest can connect to a host at one time.
Multiple slave displays are possible only through a complicated serial
chaining procedure (guest watches host-a watches host-b...).  Second, at
least on a Mac Plus, running Timbuktu very much slows down the screen
display.  Repainting of the screen can take considerable time, and items
on the screen (menus, windows, icons) seem to be repainted in a strange and
random order.

Summary: A nice program, but not for the purely passive, fast local display
purposes I wanted.

------------------------------

Date: Fri 4 Mar 88 19:34:43-PST
From: A. E. Siegman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mac II Footprint (and Noise) Cure?

Many of us have obviously grown to love the small footprint on our desks of
the original Mac, Mac Plus, or SE, not to mention the silence of at least
the first two.  For me, it was a very hard choice to decide between a Mac
II or an accelerated internal-disk quieted-fan SE at about the same total
cost -- aesthetics and ergonomics versus future expandibility.

Isn't the optimum solution to this a monitor for the desktop *with the
keyboard connection and a floppy disk drive built into it* -- it would
hardly enlarge the monitor at all -- and then the whole Mac II enclosure,
power supply, hard disk, fan noise and disk whine and all, could sit out
of sight, and mostly out of earshot, under the desk or tabletop.

I hope Apple senses how much it's lost in "desktop friendliness" in going
from the original Mac enclosure to the just plain clunky IBM-like Mac II.

------------------------------

Date: Sat,  5 Mar 88  17:35:16 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Apache Strike

  If you havent tried Apache Strike from silicon beach you are missing
something. It's the MOST addicting that's come out in a very long time
(since Dark castle).

   On another note.. Does any one have any Pacal routines to read from
the Impulse Sound digitizer? I Called Impulse and they said NOTHING was
available... How ever I want to read from my digitizer using something
other than their software..
                      Jason Rahaim

=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=
   PS. My Boss doest even know I read/send net mail on his time so there
aint no way this express the opinion of my Employer (University of mass.)
and I dont even think they have any Official opinions on any thing.

------------------------------

End of INFO-MAC Digest
**********************
14-Mar-88 22:42:27-PST,21416;000000000000
Mail-From: INFO-MAC-REQUEST created at 14-Mar-88 22:18:32
Date: 14 Mar 88 2218-PST
From: Moderators Jon Pugh, Dwayne Virnau, Lance Nakata
Reply-to: [e-mail]
Subject: INFO-MAC Digest   V6 #27
To: [e-mail]


INFO-MAC Digest          Tuesday, 15 Mar 1988      Volume 6 : Issue 27

Today's Topics:
                       RedEdit 1.2d1 (in 4 parts)
                         CheapBeep (in 2 parts)
                               Giffer 1.0
                              CSLI Reports
                               FarceFilms
                            More Venice Sizes
                   A&F Review -- Feb '88 (in 2 parts)
                         Dungeon of Doom Update
                      QuickerGraf 1.0 (in 3 parts)
                           1040EZ (in 4 parts)
                                 4D Say
                               Font Stack
                            Color Icon Editor
                              Paint DA 2.0
                         TN123 plus many others
                              FarceFilm 52
           HyperCard report on HyperTEXT workshop (in 4 parts)
                Collected bug reports (& patches) for CAP
                       Round window for Earth Idle
                            Password Utility
                              Proper Icons
                           [TEAC tape editor]


----------------------------------------------------------------------

Date: Sun,  7 Feb 88 15:17:53 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Richard Siegel)
Subject: RedEdit 1.2d1 (in 4 parts)


This is a BinHex'ed StuffIt archive, that contains version 1.2d1 of
ResEdit; this one seems to fix many Mac II compatibility bugs.

        --Rich

===================================================================
Richard Siegel
THINK Technologies, QA Technician (on leave)

The opinions stated here do not represent the policies
of THINK Technologies or of Carnegie-Mellon University.

Arpa: [e-mail]
UUCP: {decvax,ucbvax,sun}!andrew.cmu.edu!rs4u
==================================================================

[archived as

[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>UTILITY-RESEDIT-12D1-PART1.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>UTILITY-RESEDIT-12D1-PART2.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>UTILITY-RESEDIT-12D1-PART3.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>UTILITY-RESEDIT-12D1-PART4.HQX

This version replaces versions 1.0d4 and 1.0d5.

- Lance ]

------------------------------

Date: Tue 9 Feb 88 22:08:14-PDT
From: Jason Daida <[e-mail]>
Subject: CheapBeep (in 2 parts)

        "Here is an amusing way to add variety and personality to your
Macintosh.  Now you can easily choose several sounds to be randomly
selected from as a replacement for the old SysBeep.
        "CheapBeep is a Control Panel device file for System 4.1 and later.
These systems have a Control Panel desk accessory which can open files of
type 'cdev' and allow them to display information and accept commands
through the Control Panel window." - from CheapBeep's documentation.

[Moderator--These files contain CheapBeep and documentation plus sample
sounds.]  These files were stuffed and binhexed.  Enjoy!

Jason Daida
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

[archived as

[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>CDEV-CHEAPBEEP-PART1.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>CDEV-CHEAPBEEP-PART2.HQX

- Lance ]

------------------------------

Date: Thu 11 Feb 88 11:35:55-GMT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: Giffer 1.0

[ Uploaded from Delphi by Jeff Shulman (JEFFS) ]

Name: GIFFER 1.0
Date: 10-FEB-1988 21:16 by BEAUZEAU

[ Updated 10-FEB-1988 21:16 by BEAUZEAU. Giffer 1.0, a significant
improvement over 0.96.  This version is BeerWare. Please read the
documentation for details.  It's included in the StuffIt file. ]

  Here is Giffer for the Macintosh II only.  It will display GIF and Thunder-
Scan images, in full color or grays.  Here also are a few 256-color GIF files.
I have much more, so if there's interest, I'll post them.  Also, GIF files may
be found on CompuServe in the PICS forum.  These images look great...just like
photographs.
  GIF is Graphics Interchange Format, a graphics storage and compression
standard developed by CompuServe Information Service.  GIF files are
transferable across computer types, and there are programs available for many
different Micros to display them.
  Steve Blackstock, Mac II, Giffer.  Tell me if you like it!

[archived as

[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>GIFFER-10.HQX

This version replaces version 0.96.

- Lance ]

------------------------------

Date: Tue 9 Feb 88 22:49:29-PST
From: Ron Nash <[e-mail]>
Subject: CSLI Reports

A list of reports published by The Center for the Study of Language
and Information at Stanford University is now available in hypercard
format. Abstracts are included.

The stack is available by anonymous ftp from csli.stanford.edu.
The relevant file is: pub/csli-abstracts.hqx.

Those without internet access can send a 3.5" disk and a self-addressed
envelope to:

    Publications
    CSLI
    Ventura Hall
    Stanford University
    Stanford, CA  94305-4115


(CSLI was founded in 1983 by researchers from Stanford University,
 SRI International, and Xerox PARC to further research and development
 of integrated theories of language, information, and computation.)


Ron Nash
Center for the Study of Language and Information
[e-mail]

[archived as

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[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>HYPERCARD-CSLI-REPORT-PART2.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>HYPERCARD-CSLI-REPORT-PART3.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>HYPERCARD-CSLI-REPORT-PART4.HQX

- Lance ]

------------------------------

Date: Fri 12 Feb 88 10:47:31-GMT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: FarceFilms

The following messages contain, StuffIt'ed, FarceFilms 45 - 51:

FarceFilm 45: "Things Just Get Curiouser and Curiouser"
FarceFilm 46: "The Right Tool For The Job"
FarceFilm 47: "Holographic Education Pt. 1"
FarceFilm 48: "Holographic Education Part II"
FarceFilm 49: "Gamma Gamma Pu"
FarceFilm 50: "Holographic Education Part 3"
FarceFilm 51: "Virus! Cough?"

                                                        Jeff

[archived as

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[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>ARTS-FARCES-FILM-46.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>ARTS-FARCES-FILM-47.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>ARTS-FARCES-FILM-48.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>ARTS-FARCES-FILM-49.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>ARTS-FARCES-FILM-50.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>ARTS-FARCES-FILM-51.HQX

- Lance ]

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 16 Feb 88 13:25:41 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: More Venice Sizes

Some add'l sizes of Venice fonts, StuffIt format, for general consumption.

Godfrey DiGiorgi
[e-mail]
February 11, 1988

[archived as

[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>FONT-VENICE.HQX

- Lance ]

------------------------------

Date: Tue 16 Feb 88 10:17:14-GMT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: A&F Review -- Feb '88 (in 2 parts)

[ Uploaded from Delphi by Jeff Shulman ]

Name: ARTS & FARCES REVIEW -- FEB '88
Date: 15-FEB-1988 00:22 by ARTSFARCES

This is the Arts & Farces Review for February 1988.  It's in MicroFilm
format and as such requires MicroFilm Reader V1.0 or later for use.

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- Lance ]

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Date: Tue 16 Feb 88 10:19:22-GMT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: Dungeon of Doom Update

[ Uploaded from Delphi by Jeff Shulman ]

Name: DOOM UPDATE
Date: 16-FEB-1988 00:51 by JONES

Doom Update updates The Dungeon of Doom version 3.0 to 5.3 and 4.0 to 5.4.
It installs important new information on the status of the dungeon into the
programs.

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- Lance ]

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Date: Mon 22 Feb 88 09:56:15-GMT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: QuickerGraf 1.0 (in 3 parts)

[ Uploaded from Delphi by Jeff Shulman ]

Name: QUICKERGRAF 1.0
Date: 22-FEB-1988 07:18 by JEFFS

This is version 1.0 of QuickerGraf (formerly known as QuickerDraw) from
Andy Hertzfeld.  QuickerGraf is a high performance extension to Color
QuickDraw that speeds up many common operations by a factor of 3 or so.  It
comes in the form of a cdev that you drag into your system folder. It is
really only useful in the 8-bit mode on the Mac II.  Andy granted
permission to distribute it anywhere you like non-commercially; He is still
retaining all commercial rights.

Also included is a benchmark/demo program for QuickerGraf that demonstrates
some of the speed-ups.

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[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>INIT-QUICKERGRAF-10-PART3.HQX

- Lance ]

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Date: Tue, 1 Mar 88 15:42:29 CST
From: [e-mail] (Dan LaLiberte)
Subject: 1040EZ (in 4 parts)

URGENT - get this out as soon as possible.  Dated material.

This Tax Stack contains everything you need to file the 1040EZ form
(tax form, tax table, worksheets, and complete IRS instructions).
The LaserWriter and ImageWriter printouts have been approved by the IRS.
If you find that this StackWorks stack works for you, please send the
shareware fee of $10.

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[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>HYPERCARD-TAXFORM-1040EZ-PART2.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>HYPERCARD-TAXFORM-1040EZ-PART3.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>HYPERCARD-TAXFORM-1040EZ-PART4.HQX

- Lance ]

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Date: Fri 4 Mar 88 08:46:05-GMT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: 4D Say

[ Uploaded from Delphi by Jeff Shulman ]

Name: 4D SAY
Date: 3-MAR-1988 13:48 by NATURAL

4D Say 1.0.  4D Say is a hot little 4th Dimension External that allows the
use of the MacInTalk speech driver from within 4th Dimension.  Less than 4k
and solid as a rock.  Great for spoken error messages, alerts, welcomes,
greetings, etc.  A lot of fun, and free. A public-domain 4D External from
Djundi Karjadi and friends at Natural Intelligence Consulting.

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- Lance ]

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Date: Tue 16 Feb 88 10:20:15-GMT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: Font Stack

[ Uploaded from Delphi by Jeff Shulman ]

Name: FONT PREVIEW STACK
Date: 14-FEB-1988 08:49 by JIMWEINRICH

This 10K stack is a template for printing out the complete character set
for any font (ASCII 1 to ASCII 255, excluding delete) in a neat rectangular
array.  It is especially useful for printing out downloadable laser fonts,
because it will print characters that are not accessible from the keyboard.
For reasons I don't understand, it occasionally prints a few characters
bitmapped, and on some derived fonts (like Helvetica Fractions) it fails to
print at all.  But it does work on the vast majority of fonts.  Enjoy!
It's free.  --Jim Weinrich

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- Lance ]

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Date: Tue, 16 Feb 88 23:48:54 EST
From: [e-mail] (Julian Vrieslander)
Subject: Color Icon Editor

Icon Edit

This is an application for editing color icon resources (cicn's).
It runs only on a color-capable Mac.  After converting with BinHex,
you will need to unstuff with Stuffit.  Documentation file supplied.

This little gem comes from Ben Haller of AppleSauce Designs.  It is
shareware.

Posted by Julian Vrieslander
ARPA -  [e-mail]       BITNET - eacj@CRNLTHRY

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- Lance ]

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Date: Tue 16 Feb 88 13:20:33-GMT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: Paint DA 2.0

[ Uploaded from Delphi by Jeff Shulman ]

Name: PAINT VIEWER DA
Date: 14-FEB-1988 01:05 by PAGE1

[ Updated 14-FEB-1988 01:05 by PAGE1. This is version 2.0 of the Paint DA.
A small bug in the selection rectangle has been fixed.  Also this version
will only display the copyright and shareware notice once when you run the
DA. ]

This is a picture viewer DA that views a MacPaint/FullPaint document on the
full screen.  It is compatable with 512s, Pluses, and SEs. Also works under
DA FKEY and suitcase.  Features include:  Zoom in/out, scroll copy to
clipboard, and startupscreen production.  Shareware.

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This version replaces the previous version.

- Lance ]

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Date: Thu 18 Feb 88 15:43:54-PST
From: Bill Lipa <[e-mail]>
Subject: TN123 plus many others

The following are tech notes from July 1987.

Bill

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[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN126.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN131.HQX
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[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN136.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN137.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN138.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN139.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN140.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN141.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN142.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN143.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN144.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN145.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN146.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN147.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN148.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN149.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN150.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN151.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN152.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN153.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN154.HQX

Technotes 96, 120, 123, and 126 supersede previous versions.

- Lance ]

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Date: Fri 19 Feb 88 10:49:02-GMT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: FarceFilm 52

[ Uploaded from Delphi by Jeff Shulman ]

Name: FARCEFILM 52.FILM
Date: 18-FEB-1988 21:21 by ARTSFARCES

It's in MicroFilm format and as such requires MicroFilm Reader V1.0 or
later for use. This week's topic is "The Bureaucratization of Macintosh."

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- Lance ]

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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 88 15:37:08-2300
From: mcvax!iddth![e-mail] (Jakob Nielsen)
Subject: HyperCard report on HyperTEXT workshop (in 4 parts)

Enclosed is a HyperCard stack which is a hypertext trip report from the
HyperTEXTU87 workshop in Chapel Hill, NC in November 1987. It has been run
through Stuffit and BinHex 4.  Unfortunately the file is too large to send
all at once, so it has been split up into four parts which must be
concatenated together before converting back using BinHex 4.

[archived as

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[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>HYPERCARD-HYPERTEXT-WORKSHOP-PART2.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>HYPERCARD-HYPERTEXT-WORKSHOP-PART3.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>HYPERCARD-HYPERTEXT-WORKSHOP-PART4.HQX

- Lance ]

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Date: Mon, 15 Feb 88 16:33:14 PST
From: coherent![e-mail] (Dave Platt)
Subject: Collected bug reports (& patches) for CAP

This posting contains bug reports #0001 thru #0015 for the Columbia
University AppleTalk Package (CAP).  The patches in these reports should be
applied against the prerelease distribution #4 sources available on SUMEX,
*after* the PATCH5, PATCH6, and PATCH7 patches and source-file replacements
have been performed.

If you're using CAP, and _especially_ if you're using the papif
line-printer daemon "filter", you should definitely install these patches.


Dave Platt
  UUCP:    ...!{ames,sun,uunet}!coherent!dplatt     Domain: [e-mail]
      Internet: coherent![e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail]

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- Lance ]

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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 88 10:40:23 est
From: Oliver Steele <[e-mail]>
Subject: Round window for Earth Idle

Here are some resources to paste (with ResEdit) into the recently
posted Earth Idle program to give it a round window.

Oliver Steele                       ...!uunet!mcnc!unc!steele
                               [e-mail]

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- Lance ]

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Date: Sun, 21 Feb 88 15:40:21 gmt
From: Ralph Martin
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Password Utility

Here is a small shareware program (and documentation) which stops random
people from booting up your Mac from its Hard Disk - at startup, a password
is requested and checked. If its not correct, the Mac just shuts down
again. This software is multifinder compatible.

Hope its useful! Ralph.

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- Lance ]

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Date: Mon 22 Feb 88 09:55:10-GMT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: Proper Icons

[ Uploaded from Delphi by Jeff Shulman ]

Name: PROPER ICONS
Date: 20-FEB-1988 11:38 by ACOTE

These two icons of my own design are, which I feel Proper Icons for the
Trash can, and one for those of you who own Suitcase(tm). The suitcases
developed by Apple set a standard, and I believe that this new suitcase
icon follows this standard for the Suitcase INIT. use ResEdit to install
into the SuitCase(tm) INIT. The Trashcan ICN# must be install by ResEdit
into the Finder, remove the trashcan and then renumber the new one to
ID#130. This may not follow Apples standard, but IS in fact TRASH.  The
Suitcase Icon will also appear on bootup, I think you'll really like it.
Hey, Software Supply... Follow the Mac interface, after all these years.
Other than the Icon (cosmetic) buy Suitcase(tm), you will never waste time
looking for that DA that removed LF's... Whats it's name.

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- Lance ]

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Date: 22 Feb 88   12:19 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [TEAC tape editor]

This program should be used with extreme caution as you could easily
destroy the contents of any device on the SCSI bus!

This program is an editor for the TEAC MT-2ST/20S Streaming Cassette
Magnetic Tape Unit. It allows you to exercise all of the commands
implemented on this unit.  It was written as an investigative tool for an
attempt to write a backup utility (forthcoming) that will use this device.
This program will probably be of no use to you if you don't have the TEAC
manuals to refer to. As it is my first effort in the Mac arena it probably
has many faults, after all it is intended to be only a tool.  Please feel
free if you would like to send comments but I have no intention of
supporting this.

The TEAC MTU that I have came from 1st Class Peripherals in their B-Sider
unit that I bought for an Apple //e system. When I discovered that the
interface was SCSI it seemed like fate that I should cable this hummer up
to my Mac so I can use it to back up my hard disk. Of course there was no
utility available and yet another project was born...

There are two added menus. The first is called "Commands" and has all of
the raw commands plus one that is called "Write RAM" which writes a
megabyte of memory starting at address 000000. This is all of the RAM on a
standard Mac+. The other menu is called "Target" and allows you to specify
the tape unit's SCSI bus address via the "Set Target" item. This is the
same dialog that comes up when the program is initially run. The other item
does an SCSI bus reset. The program also does this reset upon exit just to
be sure it has cleaned up after itself (and you).

I hope this proves to be useful to someone out there.

Steven J. Schaeffer
310 E. 17th St
Idaho Falls, ID  83404

Bitnet: B29165@ANLVM
GENIE: NYBBLESNBITS
DELPHI:NYBBLESNBITS

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- Lance ]

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End of INFO-MAC Digest
**********************
14-Mar-88 23:02:32-PST,14458;000000000000
Mail-From: INFO-MAC-REQUEST created at 14-Mar-88 22:20:01
Date: 14 Mar 88 2220-PST
From: Moderators Jon Pugh, Dwayne Virnau, Lance Nakata
Reply-to: [e-mail]
Subject: INFO-MAC Digest   V6 #28
To: [e-mail]


INFO-MAC Digest          Tuesday, 15 Mar 1988      Volume 6 : Issue 28

Today's Topics:
                        Usenet Mac Digest V4 #19
                        Usenet Mac Digest V4 #20
                        Usenet Mac Digest V4 #21
                        Usenet Mac Digest V4 #22
                        Usenet Mac Digest V4 #23
                        Usenet Mac Digest V4 #24
                        Usenet Mac Digest V4 #25
                        Usenet Mac Digest V4 #26
                        Usenet Mac Digest V4 #27
                        Usenet Mac Digest V4 #28
                        Usenet Mac Digest V4 #29
                        Usenet Mac Digest V4 #30
                         Delphi Mac Digest V4 #3
                         Delphi Mac Digest V4 #4


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Date: Mon 8 Feb 88 09:40:43-GMT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V4 #19

Usenet Mac Digest     Saturday, February 6, 1988     Volume 4 : Issue 19

Today's Topics:
     Re: X on Mac ][
     Re: VLSI design tools
     What editor(s) do you program with?
     RE: broadcasting tool on AppleTalk
     Re: opinions wanted: Fool's Errand
     Font quality on the LaserWriter SC
     Re: SE replacement fan survey
     Re: Re: (LSC) Deep Dark Secrets Wanted! (also LSP)
     Re: WANTED Hebrew/English word-processor
     SUMMARY--EXCEL Tax Templates
     How reliable is GPIB board for Mac II from National Instrument?
     Re: game review: Crystal Quest
     Re: Tempo vs. Quickkey
     Re: The ROM serial driver
     Re: Bug in 9(36)b4 Kermit
     Keyboards
     Re: opinions wanted: Fool's Errand
     What to do when Macwrite crashes?
     Re: Keyboards
     Equations and Word Processing
     FullWrite competition of Nisus

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- Lance ]

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Date: Mon 8 Feb 88 09:41:43-GMT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V4 #20

Usenet Mac Digest     Saturday, February 6, 1988     Volume 4 : Issue 20

Today's Topics:
     GC Hyperdrive - Reliable ???
     MPW 2.0.1->2.0.2 Upgrade Info
     Serial Drivers (RAM and ROM)
     Re: Screen Dumping to a LaserWriter
     Finder 6.0 in "Scourge of the Killer Icons"
     Re: Delphi Mac Digest Volume 4, Number 2
     Re: GC Hyperdrive - Reliable ???
     Ethertalk and A/UX
     printing problem - HELP...
     Real estate pkg info requested
     Re: 4th Dimension
     Mac -> stereo
     Re: Font quality on the LaserWriter SC
     Re: printing problem - HELP...
     Expressionist (was Re: Equations (was FullWrite, Word, etc))
     Re: GC Hyperdrive - Reliable ???
     Re: macii programmers button
     Re: Mac -> stereo
     Re: stack sniffer evils
     YACC for the Mac / Mac II
     Anbody done analog data acquisition on a Mac II?
     Anyone using MacNET?
     Prototyper by SmetherBarnes

[archived as

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- Lance ]

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From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V4 #21

Usenet Mac Digest     Saturday, February 6, 1988     Volume 4 : Issue 21

Today's Topics:
     Re: Serial Drivers (RAM and ROM)
     Re: MacII Fast HD Recommendations?
     Re: DataDesk 101 Keyboard Review & QuickKeys Questions
     WriteNow Real Soon Now
     Re: backup utilities
     Re: QuickerDraw
     Re: 4th Dimension
     Re: Something that does fast expansion of text abbreviations?
     MacLanding 0.6 patch patch (oops)
     Re: QuickerDraw
     Problem with Moire CDEV
     DialogSelect question
     Wanted: Dutch dictionary for MS WORD
     Driver installation at boottime
     Re: INITsdir/new
     Saleability of MS Word 1.05?
     Re: LaserWriter IPA font
     quickeys users unite?
     low level SCSI utility wanted

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- Lance ]

16-Feb-88 22:32:12-PST,989;000000000001

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Date: Tue 16 Feb 88 10:12:47-GMT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V4 #22


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Today's Topics:

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Date: Tue 16 Feb 88 10:14:03-GMT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V4 #23

Usenet Mac Digest     Saturday, February 13, 1988    Volume 4 : Issue 23

Today's Topics:
     Re: MacII Monitors Resolutions?
     Re: EtherTalk vs. LocalTalk on Mac II
     Re: DialogSelect question
     Re: Chinese,Japanese & Korean syste
     Idiotic Rumors
     Fractals...Jim Cathey where are you?!
     Font/DA Juggler vs. Suitcase-I own BOTH!
     Misc bugs in Finder or Moire, Macsbug
     DaynaFile vs Apple PC 5-1/4"
     vectors in QD
     TeXtures upgrade (was: TeXtures and LaserWriter 5.0)
     Trojan Horse?  Sour grapes?
     Re: Suitcase versus Font/DA Juggler
     Video Controllers for PAL Monitors
     the multifinder and ramdisks?
     MacRISK has escaped
     Re: Smalltalk for the Mac SE?
     Re: Finder 6.0 in "Scourge of the Killer Icons"
     Apple HD Backup weirdness
     LW II NT Startup Page
     Apple System Software Available on Portal
     Rumor of new Apple video card & monitor
     LSC and RamSDOpen()

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- Lance ]

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Date: Tue 16 Feb 88 10:15:22-GMT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V4 #24

Usenet Mac Digest     Saturday, February 13, 1988    Volume 4 : Issue 24

Today's Topics:
     Cleanup under Finder 5.4
     Re: Registered Developer?
     Perfect Multifinding:  The Surprise Ending
     How Does Word Finder do it?
     Re: KanjiTalk on an SE or Mac II?
     Mouse Problems (2 messages)
     Even parity "fix" on Kermit 9(36)b4
     Versaterm problem
     Re: popup menus and other UI stuff
     Versaterm 3.1 background "send file"
     Re: Pascal on Mac
     Re: Mouse Problems
     WIND resource questions
     How to tell if a volume in on-line
     SysEnvirons inconsistency
     Does Avatar exist?  Why don't they answer their phone?
     Re: AutoSave DA (2 messages)
     Re: Pascal on Mac
     A Solution to the Shareware Dilemma?
     Re: ResEdit support

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- Lance ]

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Date: Mon 22 Feb 88 12:48:56-EDT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V4 #25

Usenet Mac Digest     Friday, February 19, 1988      Volume 4 : Issue 25

Today's Topics:
     Esperanto Stack Password
     Keeping Undesired Trash off of hard disks
     Re: AutoSave DA
     File Server - Information Wanted
     Information request- A/UX
     List Manager problem
     Bug in LaserWriter Driver 5.0
     SAS/Graph on a Mac
     Re: A/UX cost + MAC disks
     Re: A/UX cost (2 messages)
     A/UX hints
     DA copy via cmd-C
     Re: Does Avatar exist?  Why don't they answer their phone?
     Re: A/UX cost
     Option key death
     Detecting Disk Ejections
     Why Do I need Kinetics Box?(Unix<>Mac)

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- Lance ]

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Date: Mon 22 Feb 88 12:51:21-EDT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V4 #26

Usenet Mac Digest     Friday, February 19, 1988      Volume 4 : Issue 26

Today's Topics:
     Re: SysEnvirons inconsistency
     Re: LSP keyboard EOF
     A serial port "pipe"
     Re: Bug in LaserWriter Driver 5.0
     Re: Versaterm 3.1 background "send file"
     Re: Why Do I need Kinetics Box?(Unix<>Mac)
     Tasking on the Mac (was: stack sniffer evils)
     Re: LSP keyboard EOF
     Video DRAMs
     Re: Option key death
     General Computer/Hyperdrives a summary..
     Re: Bug in LaserWriter Driver 5.0
     Re: Changing the Hard Disk Icon?
     Re: MacRISK Patch
     Re: A Few Good Rumors...
     Asynchronous LaserWriter
     LED Transparency Projectors?
     Re: A/UX cost

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- Lance ]

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Date: Mon 22 Feb 88 12:52:46-EDT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V4 #27

Usenet Mac Digest     Friday, February 19, 1988      Volume 4 : Issue 27

Today's Topics:
     Re: Software for the Mac -- recommendations wanted.
     Mail on Mac?
     Chrystalography and the 3rd Dimension
     Wanted: information on MiniCad 3D
     "Shelf life" of storage media
     Re: Mac Music
     Multifinder startup oddity
     Using an apple 3.5" drive as a spare part
     Re: Versaterm 3.1 background "send file"
     How to have Mac count laser pages automatically?
     Re: Option key death
     removing dialog boxes from the Minifinder
     Re: Software for the Mac -- recommendations wanted.
     Re: Versaterm 3.1 background "send file"
     Re: Software for the Mac -- recommendations wanted.
     Re: An Open Letter to Apple (Re: ImageWriter problem)
     MacRecorder history (was Re: Is MacRecorder what BMUG sold for $20?)
     Re: Versaterm 3.1 background "send file"
     Re: Software for the Mac -- recommendations wanted.
     Program to make log.
     Using IBM SCSI tapestreamer with Mac's
     LightspeedC 3.0 Upgrade Policy

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- Lance ]

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Date: Mon 29 Feb 88 09:25:55-EDT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V4 #28

Usenet Mac Digest     Friday, February 26, 1988      Volume 4 : Issue 28

Today's Topics:
     Re: Software for the Mac -- recommendations wanted.
     New MacWrite Demo from Claris
     Hard Disk fan
     VersaTerm vs. VersaTerm PRO
     Locking Mac files??
     80 Meg Hard Disks (Jasmine vs CMS)
     Re: A/UX cost (and tape backup)
     Re: Software for the Mac -- recommendations wanted.
     Device Driver Question
     WISH: AU/X on CD-ROM
     BASIC - summary
     Re: Software for the Mac -- recommendations wanted.
     VersaTerm PRO Ver. 2.20
     Re: VersaTerm vs. VersaTerm PRO
     Ever heard of VideoTrax backup system?

[archived as

[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>USENETV4-28.ARC

- Lance ]

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Date: Mon 29 Feb 88 09:28:41-EDT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V4 #29

Usenet Mac Digest     Friday, February 26, 1988      Volume 4 : Issue 29

Today's Topics:
     3-D transformations on a MACII?
     Re: Software for the Mac -- recommendations wanted.
     Loud Mac II Fan-- Replaceable?
     Summer Workshops/Programs for High School
     Mac Plus Video Output
     Re: Ever heard of VideoTrax backup system?
     New SE fan & screen jitter?
     Re: LightSpeed C 2.15 putchar???
     MultiFinder Info Again
     A Custom WDEF
     Re: MacInHebrew problem

[archived as

[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>USENETV4-29.ARC

- Lance ]

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Date: Mon 29 Feb 88 09:32:38-EDT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V4 #30

Usenet Mac Digest     Friday, February 26, 1988      Volume 4 : Issue 30

Today's Topics:
     Nuvotech EasyNet?
     Sound on the Mac II
     A/UX disk I/O (real numbers) (2 messages)
     Beginning Mac Programing
     DrvrInstall Question
     GKS on MAC II
     WriteNow format needed
     Mac SE with IIGS Keyboard
     Re: GKS on MAC II
     WriteNow vs. Easy Access on the Mac II
     How about Epsilon for the MAC?
     IIGS keyboards on Mac SE/II
     Re: Ever heard of VideoTrax backup system?
     Info on Rodime RX1000
     Re: Mac SE with IIGS Keyboard
     Re: grapes?
     application's home folder. HELP
     MacNosy for Mac II?
     FlushVol() when files are open

[archived as

[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>USENETV4-30.ARC

- Lance ]

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Date: Mon 8 Feb 88 09:46:23-GMT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: Delphi Mac Digest V4 #3

Delphi Mac Digest     Saturday, February 6, 1988      Volume 4 : Issue 3

Today's Topics:
     Omnis 3
     RE: Commands/MacWrite
     FullWrite Professional Bug list
     Help needed with CalcMask (2 messages)
     RE: Expressionist vs. MathType
     BAvoid SoftBackup
     re: LSC DrawString() question!  Help!
     re: Mac programming question
     Re: Tempo vs. Quickkey
     HabaWord (2 messages)
     Re: Pre-4.1 popup menus
     Re: Pyro and Multifinder
     Tempo or Quickeys? (2 messages)
     Word Hairline Rules
     Table Maker (3 messages)
     4D Blanking.
     ListMgr Scrollbar Anomalies

[archived as

[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>DELPHIV4-03.ARC

- Lance ]

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Date: Mon 22 Feb 88 12:54:25-EDT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: Delphi Mac Digest V4 #4

Delphi Mac Digest     Sunday, February 21, 1988       Volume 4 : Issue 4

Today's Topics:
     re: Re: INITs
     Sound on 68020
     RE: INFO-MAC Digest V6 #12
     re: Miscellaneous Stuff
     68030/6882 on mac II (4 messages)
     MACINTAX ON XL (2 messages)
     Re: Perfect Multifinding:  The Surprise
     Where to get kiosks for Macintosh
     re: LW II NT Startup Page
     RE: Tape backup
     re: Alphabetizing Icons? (2 messages)
     Put Finder comments in resource fork (6 messages)
     Sampling Rates
     Placement of Disk Drives (3 messages)
     MacPaint 5.0
     color lut resoln ? (3 messages)
     re: DA copy via cmd-C
     re: Detecting Disk Ejections
     re: Multifinder startup oddity (2 messages)
     Full screen access

[archived as

[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>DELPHIV4-04.ARC

- Lance ]

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End of INFO-MAC Digest
**********************
14-Mar-88 23:15:42-PST,18551;000000000000
Mail-From: INFO-MAC-REQUEST created at 14-Mar-88 22:26:29
Date: 14 Mar 88 2226-PST
From: Moderators Jon Pugh, Dwayne Virnau, Lance Nakata
Reply-to: [e-mail]
Subject: INFO-MAC Digest   V6 #29
To: [e-mail]


INFO-MAC Digest          Tuesday, 15 Mar 1988      Volume 6 : Issue 29

Today's Topics:
                              Dotted lines
                                   GIF
                                   GIF
                RE: Lightspeed C Gripes (forward & post)
                      LS Pascal Grey Scale Problem
                      Resource numbering for XCMDs.
                   Submission for comp-sys-mac-digest
                       MACWRITE file format wanted
                         Submission to INFO-MAC
                           Color QD -> ReGIS?
                           IBM PC display font
                       Satellite coverage program
                                NEC LC890
                       Non-Apple Printers for Mac
                     Another Mac virus on the loose?


----------------------------------------------------------------------

Date: Fri, 26 Feb 88 00:57:26 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Dotted lines

The easiest way to create a dotted line is just to set the pen pattern
to something other than black and then draw the line:
    PenPat(ltGray);
    MoveTo(50,50);
    LineTo(100,100);    /* etc */

 -Eric Shapiro
  MacTechnics

------------------------------

From: franz!frisky![e-mail] (John Foderaro)
Subject: GIF
Date: Mon, 29 Feb 88 23:24:00 PST

 re: your digest entry of Sun, 21 Feb 88 21:16:01 PST

 Can you point me to a description of the format of GIF files?  I'd
like to figure out how to display them on sun workstation.
 Thanks.
                john foderaro
                [e-mail]

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 25 Feb 88 14:10:13 CST
From: Benjamin 'Drew' Herman <[e-mail]>
Subject: GIF


I have just postedto the net (comp.sys.mac) for help. but I'm going to request
here also if it's O.K.
I'm looking for various file formats.... In particular GIF developed by
CompuServe.  ie. I have a 8bit deep pixel map and I want to convert it into
something useful that I can eventually print out on a lazerwriter.
thanks
Ben Herman
[e-mail]

------------------------------

Date:       Mon, 8 Feb 88 08:09:05 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: RE: Lightspeed C Gripes (forward & post)

RE Error reporting:
Probably the most difficult thing to do in language translators is to recover
from errors in the program.  This applies to both top-down and bottom-up
parsers.  Comparatively little work has been done on this theoretical
problem, and so approaches tend to be ad-hoc and heuristic, which usually
produces unsatasfactory results.  It also results in a lot of just-in-case
code that has to be executed whether there is an error or not.  An approach
such as Lightspeed C uses does not need this code, which I think is a major
reason for it's speed.

RE Optimization:
I know this is a religious issue, but no flames please.  Lightspeed C does
some pretty dumb things, especially in tight loops, but I really don't
care.  Personally, I find that I can hand-optimize the important sections
of the code and get a speed improvement of a factor of three or four, which
is a greater difference than I have seen between the optimizations of Mac C
compilers.  One of the reasons that I can do this is that the speed of
Lightspeed C allows me to try out different things and put in timing code
with very little cost.  For me, this works better than having the
compiler's optimizations squeeze 10% extra speed out of the code that I
know does not get called that often and use up my time doing it.

I am not trying to say that MPW C is not a good compiler or that their
traditional, solid, theory-intensive approach is in any way "wrong."
I am just trying to say that Lightspeed's different approach has something
to be said for it as well.  I hate to see it flamed simply because it is
different.

Eric Pepke                           [e-mail]
Supercomputer Computations           [e-mail]
   Research Institute                [e-mail]
Florida State University

Disclaimer: My employers seldom even LISTEN to my opinions.
Meta-disclaimer: Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 07 Mar 88 15:40:10 PLT
From: Will Fitzpatrick <[e-mail]>
Subject: LS Pascal Grey Scale Problem

I have a user who is having problems doing Grey Scales in LSP on a
Mac II.  I seem to recall seeing an article on this problem In Info-Mac
but having hyperactively chucked my back issues, I can't find the information.

If this article included a fix, or if you have any information on the problem,
It would be appreciated If you could mail it to Harry Simpson,
60250863@WSUVM1 on Bitnet.

                            -Thanks in advance,

                                Will Fitzpatrick

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 8 Mar 88 15:30:52 EST
From: [e-mail] (Andrew E. Scheck)
Subject: Resource numbering for XCMDs.

I've got an XFCN/XCMD that needs additional resources (STR#, etc.).
My convention has been to number my XCMDs from 129 on up and then
use the same number for the different resources that are needed.
With the copying of buttons, XCMDs, and other HyperCard objects
from stack to stack, it becomes obvious that this numbering
convention will soon cause conflicts. Should I be using GetNamedResource()
instead of GetResource() to allow my resources to be renumbered, or is
there some standard convention for numbering XCMDs/XFCNs and their
associated resources similar to that for DAs?

If GetNamedResource is the way to go, then my next question is: Is there
a way in MPW (C/Asm) to create literal string constants that do not need
runtime initialization and are not created as globals? With a declaration
such as
               char *my_resource = "\PMy_resource_name";

Aztec C would just place the literal string after the compiled code, but
MPW wants to place the literal text in a global area requiring runtime
initialization -- both of which can't be done from an XCMD. The only way
I can figure out to do it is with something like:

                 char my_resource[ 20 ];

         (long *)my_resource[ 0 ] = ' My_';
         (long *)my_resource[ 1 ] = 'reso';
         (long *)my_resource[ 2 ] = 'urce';
         (long *)my_resource[ 3 ] = '_nam';
         (long *)my_resource[ 4 ] = 'e   ';
         *my_resource = 16;
         res_handle = GETNAMEDRESOURCE( 'STR#', my_resource );

What am I missing? Help!!!!!!!!!

Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Please send responses to: Andy Scheck
[e-mail]

------------------------------

From: Root <[e-mail]>
Date: 14 Mar 88 22:02:08 GMT
Subject: Submission for comp-sys-mac-digest

Path: sequent!mntgfx!tomc
From: [e-mail] (Tom Carstensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.digest
Subject: MPW vs AZTEC Programming Systems - A Review
Keywords: MPW ATZEC C programming review
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 14 Mar 88 21:21:11 GMT
Organization: Mentor Graphics Corporation, Beaverton Oregon
Lines: 59

I have been an Aztec C user for about 3 years now, and I just recently
got the MPW Shell to run Aztec C v3.6 with, (the Aztec shell is terrible!).
Anyway, I recently ported a large program to MPW C, and after a few days,
got it to compile and run.  Here are some of my comments & results:

           Compile Time         Link Time        P rogram Size
        -------------------------------------------------------
MPW           30:30               75 sec.         78K   (79660 bytes)

AZTEC         23:10               72 sec.         83K   (84000 bytes)

My main complaint about MPW is that is does not have the capability
of having pre-compiled include files.  In this program I have about
20 .c files, and compiling with the -p option you tells you as it
reads in each .h files.  It spends OVER HALF the time reading in
the .h files, and it has to read them all in for every .c file.

Also, you CANNOT compile very large functions on a 1 MEG mac.  I was
forced to break up a couple functions so they would compile.
It also frequently crashed when it ran out of memory.

ALSO, MPW C  DOES NOT !!! conform to standard C.  It considers
'\n' nad '\r' to be the same (????) and does not guarantee the
behavier of the ++ and -- operators.

A MAJOR PLUS!!! MPW C does type check the calls to the ROM.  The
ROM calls are delared in the include files, and it tells you when
your not passing the right type thing or the # of arguments is off.
A VERY NICE feature.  It does, howevery spew out too many redundant
non-meaningful error messages a lot of the time.


MPW 2.0.2 C now includes rom call function that DO NOT include
their glue of automatically converting pascal stirngs to C strings.
This liked this, since I don't want function doing things I didn't
tell them to do.

ONE PROBLEM:  MPW C define TRUE to be 1 and FALSE to be 0.  This will
cause problbem if you return TRUE in a function you pass to the ROM
(i.e. ModalDialog).  It expects TRUE to be (-1) 0xff.

Overall I like the MPW development system far better then AZTEC, but
the compile time is much greater.  The non-ability to have inline
assembly code in MPW is more than made up for in the assembly that
procudes compatible object files.  But for now, I think I'll use
the MPW Shell, with the Aztec C compiler.

MAIN COMPLAINT ABOUT MPW SHELL:  TOOLS ARE HUGE.  the average tool
is 15-25K in size, (why so big to do so little??).  Aztec "tools"
are much much smaller.  You end up having over 1MEG of tools (ugh!)

:------------------------------------------------------------:
: Tom Carstensen         Usenet: [e-mail]      :
: Mentor Graphics                Delphi: CARSTENSEN          :
:                                GEnie:  XPC23637            :
:                                                            :
:     . . . about the world we live in, and live in general. :
:                                       - Depeche Mode       :
:------------------------------------------------------------:

------------------------------

Date: 6 Mar 88  9:07 -0600
From: Grant Delaney <[e-mail]>
Subject: MACWRITE file format wanted

I am passing this request on for a friend and as I only receive the Digest
I would appreciate replies by email.

  What he would like to know is the MacWrite file format.  He is trying to
to create a MacWrite readable file from some software he is writing.  Any
help comments etc. would be greatly appreciated.

Grant Delaney

    -======================================================-
                    H. Grant Delaney
                Pinawa, Manitoba Canada
                [phone] Ext. 3119
        Home        [phone]

cdn       [e-mail]
csnet  [e-mail] or [e-mail]
uucp      ubc-vision!ubc-ean![e-mail]
bitnet    delaney%wnre.aecl.cdn@water or [e-mail]
edu       [e-mail]

     COMPUSERVE       71640,1063
    -=======================================================-

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Date: Sun, 6 Mar 88 19:25 EST
From: "RSVAX::RSVAX::MRGATE::\"A1::HOLLAND,STEVEN W\""@gmr.com
Subject: Submission to INFO-MAC

From:    NAME: Steven W. Holland
    FUNC: Computer Science (50)
    TEL: [phone]        <HOLLAND,STEVEN W AT A1 AT RSVAX>

Subject:  Apple LaserWriter II SC

The current issue of MacWorld (March 88) gives a nice review of the
differences between the new LaserWriter II's (SC, NT, NTX).  I realize
that the SC is a QuickDraw printer and does not support PostScript.
However, since the SC is apparently commanded on a bit by bit basis, I
don't see why someone could not move the PostScript interpreter into the
host machine (at the expense of speed) and have the full functionality
at an attractive price ($2800 list).    Does anyone have any reason why
this could not be done?

Steve Holland
[e-mail]

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 23 Feb 88 19:55 CST
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Color QD -> ReGIS?

        Does anyone have information about converting Color QuickDraw
commands to ReGIS? I'm interested in sending ReGIS commands to a GiGi
(archaic color DEC terminal), in order to get (sort of) color on my SE.
Am I getting in deeper than I should? More to the point, has someone done this
already? The color part isn't too important, I could hack it myself if I had
the basic structure.
        Thanks,
                Petey Clark
                [e-mail]

        Opinions? Where do you see opinions?

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 23 Feb 88 11:15:17 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: IBM PC display font

Does anyone have a Macintosh font that displays characters as they
would be displayed on an IBM PC family (PS/2 also?) screen?

Names, addresses and other pointers appreciated.

Chris
ARPANET:  [e-mail]
Phone:  [phone]

------------------------------

Date: Wed, 24 Feb 88 09:10:12 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Satellite coverage program

I'm looking for a program, preferably shareware or public
domain, that overlays satellite spot antenna beam coutours
on an earth map using a Macintosh.

I'm making this inquiry for a friend.  Please send replies
to "[e-mail]".  Thanks very much.

Chris Perry

------------------------------

Date: 4 Mar 88 10:07:00 EST
From: "NRL::MCCOWAN" <[e-mail]>
Subject: NEC LC890


We have just received a NEC LC890 Postscript printer.  It seems to work fine
when we print from a Mac application over the AppleTalk network.  If, however,
I create a postscript file using Command-K, and try to send it to the printer
using SendPS, nothing happens.  Any ideas?

Thanks,

Bob McCowan
[e-mail]

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 7 Mar 88 08:32:41 PST
From: Steve Dennett <[e-mail]>
Subject: Non-Apple Printers for Mac


My query on non-Apple printers for the Mac generated only a few
responses.  The alternatives seem to be:

1) The Grappler by Orange Micro, which is a hardware solution, a
   box that converts Apple printer codes and serial to parallel so
   you can plug in non-Apple printers.  No one reported on how well
   or poorly this works (I don't think the LQ version has been released
   yet).

2) The company SoftStyle [808-396-6368] makes printer drivers for non-
   Apple printers.  One user reported that they were "reasonably
   satisfied" with the driver they make for the HP Laserjet.  I presume
   you have to rig up your own serial connection.

3) The Seikosha 1000 is a 9-pin printer that is compatible with the
   Imagewriter.  It was reviewed in the Feb. issue of Macazine as being
   better in some areas, worse in others than the Imagewriter II.  However
   it costs much less ($225 from Icon review).  Now if they would just
   come out with a 24-pin version...

Looks like there's a real opportunity there for Epson or one of the
other major printer companies to come out with a 24-pin, Mac
compatible printer.

Steve Dennett
  [e-mail]

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 7 Mar 88 21:09:37 PST
From: [e-mail] (Dave Platt)
Subject: Another Mac virus on the loose?

The following posting appeared in comp.sys.mac this evening.  If you have
any information about the virus reported in this posting, please speak up!

From: [e-mail] (Chris Borton)
Subject: I've got a virus and I don't like it
Keywords: virus
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 8 Mar 88 02:04:12 GMT
Sender: [e-mail]
Reply-To: [e-mail] (Chris Borton)
Organization: UCSD Network Operations Group
Lines: 36

This is a warning and plea for more information, if anyone has any. We just
discovered a virus in some of our systems (not all) at work today, and it has
permeated my system at home as well.  The symptoms are simple:

INIT 32 in System File

nVIR resources in various applications and the System File.

This sucker is tricky -- it is getting itself loaded before any INITs do (we
believe the INIT 32 is just a teaser), like PTCHs do, but it isn't in PTCH.
Our two best programmers spent today tracing through it and still haven't found
a real solution other than offloading and re-initializing.

To our knowledge it is non-malicious (yet).  The nVIR resources are usually
small, sometimes 8 bytes, sometimes ~360.  If you remove them from both
System and ResEdit, the virus won't let you run ResEdit because it is looking
for those resources and can't find them.  It occasionally beeps when running a
program.

We have no idea what installed this.  We are fairly certain it originated from
one of the many small programs that come over the net.  Many of these would be
perfect 'carriers' -- little demo program that's an "aww, that cute, now let's
trash it."  I'm not putting down these programs, just pointing out what I feel
is obvious.

I don't believe this is any cause for panic -- it hasn't done any known harm
yet.  I would, however, like to get to the bottom of this!  If it's a joke, I
don't find it very funny.  (unless it de-installs itself completely after April
Fool's Day :-)). If it is someone's graduate thesis, you get an A-.  But enough
is enough!

-cbb
Chris "Johann" Borton, UC San Diego     ...!sdcsvax!borton
                                        [e-mail] or [e-mail]
Letztes Jahr in Deutschland, nog een jaar hier, en dan naar Amsterdam!
"H = F cubed.  Happiness = Food, Fun, & Friends."  --Steve Wozniak

------------------------------

End of INFO-MAC Digest
**********************
14-Mar-88 23:27:39-PST,16343;000000000000
Mail-From: INFO-MAC-REQUEST created at 14-Mar-88 22:30:36
Date: 14 Mar 88 2230-PST
From: Moderators Jon Pugh, Dwayne Virnau, Lance Nakata
Reply-to: [e-mail]
Subject: INFO-MAC Digest   V6 #30
To: [e-mail]


INFO-MAC Digest          Tuesday, 15 Mar 1988      Volume 6 : Issue 30

Today's Topics:
                          Hard Disk Uploading..
                         Foreign Language Fonts
                       Boston II/WORD interaction
                              MACSERVE@PUCC
                      Anyone know of a Dimmer Cdev?
             have quiet Mac; seek silent external SCSI drive
                          2D function plotting
                             CMS hard disks
                             Fire Dept Macs?
                       Minor Wrinkle in "Suitcase"
                MacTeX and/or TeXtures (comments, please)
              Re: DA-TERMINAL DOCUMENT IS NOT READABLE. ..
                              MacDraft 1.2a
                        Downloading from Archive
                     Carrier boards for 256K SIMMS?
                         Klondike and Sound Init
                              Re: SCSI HELP
                             Softstyle bugs


----------------------------------------------------------------------

Date: Mon, 7 Mar 88 12:10:08 PST
From: [e-mail] (Norman Fong)
Subject: Hard Disk Uploading..


Someone asked about software to transfer copy-protected applications to a
hard disk.  For the few or exotic programs that are still protected,
you can try Copy II Mac from Central Point Software or Hard Disk Util
from FWB Software.  Copy II can upload about 20 programs, Hard Disk Util
supports many more, but costs more.  FWB handles updating of the program
by coming out with Paramter Disks.  (Number 6 is the lastest.)
Call 415-474-8055 for more information.

[e-mail]

Claimer:  My views are totally skewed because I work for FWB.. (HA!)

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 7 Mar 88 12:21:11 PST
From: Mark Richer <[e-mail]>
Subject: Foreign Language Fonts

Linguists' Software has both Laserwriter and Imagewriter fonts. My wife
tried to use Symbol (for the greek) with Times ROman, but the leading
gets all screwed up. She purchased the Greek Laser fonts from Linguists
and has been pleased with them so far. They also  have Hebrew and Korean
fonts.

Linguists' SOftware
106R Highland St.
South Hamilton, MA 01982

617-468-3037

Good luck,

Mark

P.S. Linguists' also claim their postscript (laser) fonts also work on
the linotronic - we haven't tried the one (Greek) font we have yet on
the Linotronic so it's a matter of trust at this point).

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 14 Mar 88 00:26:29 est
From: [e-mail] (Jonathan M. Levine)
Subject: Boston II/WORD interaction


  I'm using BostonII-Word, 12 point, and I'm running into a display oddity:
the tops of curved capital letters (eg P, Q, R) appear squished one or two
pixel lines.  The problem doesn't carry over into printing, so it's more
annoying than horrible.  Any suggestions as to solutions?  (Line spacing is
12 pt, by the way, and between paragraph spacing is 24 pt.)

                                Jonathan

------------------------------

Date: Mon,  7 Mar 88  14:28:42 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: MACSERVE@PUCC

  I have also noticed that it hasnt been getting new files. I am trying
to get a copy of Risk but Macserve@PUCC hasnt gotton it.. If any one is
willing to mail me the binhexed version can you let me know?
      Jason Rahaim
        [e-mail]

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 7 Mar 88 14:22:37 PST
From: Carl C. Hewitt <[e-mail]>
Subject: Anyone know of a Dimmer Cdev?

I found a wonderful CDEV a while back that would dim the screen on Mac II's
after it had been idle for a while, but the disk I had it on crashed, so
I lost it.  Does anyone know where that program may be found again?
Thanks for your help..
                    -- Carl
[
I posted a beta of Dimmer here some time ago.  It turns out that that beta was
not supposed to be posted, but since it is too late, the author even provided
a patch for the time fuse.  The patch is in one of the many digests residing
in the archives, but I don't have time to go look for it again.

Dimmer is supposed to go commercial sometime.  Watch for it.

JP
]
/---------------------------------------------------------------------------\
|   uucp:  ucbvax!ucscc!carl            |  Carl C. Hewitt                   |
| bitnet:  [e-mail]            |  UCSC Computer Center             |
|   arpa:  [e-mail]          |  Santa Cruz, California           |
\---------------------------------------------------------------------------/

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Date: Mon, 7 Mar 88 18:23:16 EST
From: David A. Levitt <[e-mail]>
Subject: have quiet Mac; seek silent external SCSI drive


I use MacIIs for music and must have quiet.  I have an external hard
drive on a 12' SCSI extension, and where I can, I disconnect the
MacII's internal fan.  I LEAVE THE COVER OFF and with the one bus card
for video and no internal hard disk, it stays cool and works just
fine.  I live in dusty Cambridge, so I'll have to carefully dust or
vaccuum the innards -- especially the floppy drive -- every so often.

Who's found a silent MacII SCSI disk?  How quiet is the one called
WhisperJet (or whatever)?  Any leads on a quiet internal fan?

The footprint and noise problems with the MacII are clearly its worst
elements, the sure signs that Steve Jobs contributed important
elements to the original Mac and left some holes when he departed.

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 7 Mar 88 22:34 AST
From: Stan Armstrong <[e-mail]>
Subject: 2D function plotting

A colleague in our physics department needs a program to plot functions in
one variable. We have a fine 3D program, but it has no way to do 2D plots.
To begin with he wants to illustrate fourier transforms by successively
overlaying sine curves and showing his students the results. He has been
doing this by hand!! He is willing to write a basic program to do what he
wants, but he is new to the Mac. I thought perhaps someone out there could
save him some trouble.

If you can help, reply direct to me, Stan Armstrong

[e-mail]

Thanks.

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 7 Mar 88 18:04:24 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: CMS hard disks

We're having strange problems with our CMS hard disks.  The problem is
pretty technical, but we're not sure where to turn at this point.
    1) The problem only occurs on Mac II's
    2) The problem only occurs when a CMS-80 is the startup disk.
    3) The problem is that the SCSI bus hangs whenever we make a request
       for data that returns an error (such as a check condition). The
       bus is hanging in the Status phase (it appears that the device
       is signalling the Mac that there is no more data to send and the
       Mac can't handle it).
    4) The problem occurs when we talk to ANY SCSI device, but only when
       the CMS disk is the startup.

(An easy way to test the problem is to do an Inquire and ask for 250 bytes,
the drive should return with an error but still have a valid number of
bytes returned).

I have checked INITs, System differences, etc, and can't find anything
unique other than the CMS drives.  Apple and Jasmine 80 Meg disks work
fine (both use the same Qantum Q280 as CMS), and the Apple ROMs work
fine if placed in a CMS drive (so the problem is apparently either
the driver or the firmware).

Any suggestions?
   -Eric Shapiro
    MacTechnics
    & Rock Ridge Enterprises
    [phone] (Collect ok - or respond here)

------------------------------

Date: Tue 8 Mar 88 09:17:22-EST
From: "Wes Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Fire Dept Macs?

I am interested in obtaining mailing addresses for Mac users that operate
their machines with the primary purpose of Fire Department administration
and emergency service incident control. The list is being compiled with
the intent of future mailings to each listed organization for the purpose
of maintaining systems/software and new products/applications.

If readers of this section are aware of such address please forward
them to me direct.

If there are systems in operation that readers are aware of and they
have no machine net address, USSnail would be valuable also.
Thx,
[e-mail]@xx.lcs.mit.edu.arpa

Fire Departments are the only business that has successfully resisted
change for periods greater than 100 years.

------------------------------

Date: Tue 8 Mar 88 11:22:07-PST
From: A. E. Siegman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Minor Wrinkle in "Suitcase"

Mac 512KE, boot disks in both internal and external drives, System 3.2,
Finder 5.3, both have "Suitcase" (a great INIT), both bring up Suitcase if
you boot from them.  But if you launch an application from the nonboot
diskette which forces a transfer of the boot volume (like MS Basic on one
of my diskettes, or MacWrite 4.6 on the other), you no longer have Suitcase
after the transfer takes place.  Unfortunate...

------------------------------

Date: Wed, 9 Mar 88 08:47:23 EST
From: [e-mail] (Charles S. Roberson)
Subject: MacTeX and/or TeXtures (comments, please)


First, a note of thanks to all of those who replied to my request for
help on creating overlays with MacDraft.  The grouping and locking
method is working fine.

Second, we receive and produce dozens of mathematical/scientific
documents a year that are formatted using Knuth's TeX system.  The
people who originally write the documents generally don't have a
rough time massaging their documents on the Suns, but we are looking
for a WYSIWYG system for the rest of our staff.  [The WYSIWYG system
must read and write TeX].

Two names have been given to us:

    MacTeX                TeXtures
    FTL Systems, Inc.        Addison-Wesley Pub. Corp.
    $750                $495

for TeX on the Macintosh.  Has anybody used either of these or at least
seen a demo?  Are there any other packages out there for processing TeX
on the Mac.  We have seen a MathType demo which looks good, but it only
sets equations not text.

PLEASE, e-mail directly to me ([e-mail]) since I am NOT a member
of this mailing list!

Thanks in advance,
-chip
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Chip Roberson                ARPANET:  [e-mail]                 |
|1105 London Company Way      BITNET:   $[e-mail]              |
|Williamsburg, VA 23185       UUCP:     ...!uunet!pyrdc!gmu90x!wmcs!csrobe|
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
      "One world is enough, for all of us..."         - The Police.

------------------------------

Date: Wed, 9 Mar 88 18:28:16 MET
From: Norbert Lindenberg - U Karlsruhe <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: DA-TERMINAL DOCUMENT IS NOT READABLE. ..

As mentioned in info-mac digest v6 #023, the Terminal DA manual is a
WriteNow document. Type and creator should be nX^d and nX^n,
respectively.

-- Norbert
[
If someone with time could fix it and repost it, I think that might help some
people.

JP
] 9-Mar-88 15:05:31-PST,1089;000000000001

------------------------------

Date: Wed, 9 Mar 88 18:04:19 est
From: [e-mail] (Nathan Ulrich)
Subject: MacDraft 1.2a


I have a copy of MacDraft 1.2a which I use extensively.  However, I am having
problems running in on a Mac II.  Although it works fine in every other mode
(and utilizes the larger screen) I cannot enter more than two or three charac-
ters of text without it crashing.  The only info I have about the program is
that it is a product of Innovative Data Design--no address or phone number.

Does anyone have information on:  1) A solution to this crashing problem;
2) An address for I.D.D.; or 3) where I can get a newer version (?) of this
application for a Mac II?

Thanks.

Nathan Ulrich
[e-mail]

------------------------------

Date: 03/05/88  1025
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Downloading from Archive


   I am not familiar with Arpa, because on the Earn-Bitnet Network.
   Could someone tell me which command I should send to INFO-MAC
to download archived files ( if this is possible throught my Earn/Arpa
gateway)?
  Many Thanks.
  Jean-Marc Ottorini, Nancy, France.
FRCIIL71

[
You cannot download things from INFO-MAC without ARPAnet access.  You cannot
send mail here and have things sent back to you.  You must use FTP to get
file from here.  Could someone please explain how you access MacServe?

JP
]10-Mar-88 02:29:11-PST,657;000000000001

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 10 Mar 88 11:28:02 ECT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Carrier boards for 256K SIMMS?

Thanks in advance ! Chris

------------------------------

From: [e-mail]
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 88 21:08 CST
Subject: Klondike and Sound Init


I just read a review of a solitaire (sp?) game called Klondike.  The program
sounds real nice and I was wondering if there was anybody out there who had
it and could post it (I am new to this group so I do not know if it might
have been posted in the past.)

Also, I downloaded the sound init, but when I do a startup I get system
error id 12.  Has anybody else had any problems with the sound init program?

Thanks.

-Robert Lentz
 [e-mail]

------------------------------

From: [e-mail] (Mike Lampson, Central Area
From: Prove-It Delivery Specialist)
Date: 12 Mar 88 19:53
Subject: Re: SCSI HELP

From Delphi Mac Digest, V4 #5:
> I have a 512KE upgraded with a MacMemory RAM upgrade to 2 megs.  When I
> got the memory upgrade, I figured that eventually I'd add a SCSI port
> and a hard disk. Today I called my dealer and asked about th e MacMemory
> SCSI port, which is the only one compatible with my MacMemory RAM
> upgrade.  He told me that they weren'trecommending the SCSI port add-on
> because their customers who had gotten them pretty much indicated that
> they didn't wor k (!!!).  So now -- any suggestions as to what I can do?

MacMemory memory/SCSI compatibility problems had hit me too.  First, MacMemory
has two SCSI port products, TheMax and TheMax 2.  Only TheMax 2 works with
the memory upgrade.  Even after getting the proper SCSI kit, my dealer was
still unable to get it to work.  MacMemory, however, was willing the install
the SCSI port if I shipped my Mac to them.  I did so, and it works perfectly.

I have no affliation with MacMemory other than as a satisfied customer.

--
  Mike Lampson
  UUCP:  {allegra,decvax,hplabs,ihnp4,ucbvax,...}!decwrl!chgv04.dec.com!lampson
  ARPA:  [e-mail]  -or-  [e-mail]

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1988 02:45 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Softstyle bugs

Date: 14 March 1988, 11:00:57 SET
From: Jonathan Pool             49-521-106-2752      UZIFF003 at DBIUNI11

Has anyone found Softstyle (Honolulu) willing to respond usefully to
your queries about bugs in its software?  I purchased Printworks for the
Mac and received the Epson drivers.  The printing quality was
ridiculous, including even words that overlapped with each other (when
italics were used).  I documented the bugs in detail and gave Softstyle
months to reply, but the best it did was to send me a short letter
mainly ignoring the problems and offering no solution.  And this when
Printworks was released a whole year after Softstyle accepted my order
and charged my credit account.

------------------------------

End of INFO-MAC Digest
**********************
20-Mar-88 08:15:48-PST,20317;000000000000
Mail-From: INFO-MAC-REQUEST created at 18-Mar-88 21:28:43
Date: 14 Mar 88 2230-PST
From: Moderators Jon Pugh, Dwayne Virnau, Lance Nakata
Reply-to: [e-mail]
Subject: INFO-MAC Digest   V6 #27
To: [e-mail]


INFO-MAC Digest          Tuesday, 15 Mar 1988      Volume 6 : Issue 27

Today's Topics:
                         CheapBeep (in 2 parts)
                               Giffer 1.0
                              CSLI Reports
                               FarceFilms
                            More Venice Sizes
                   A&F Review -- Feb '88 (in 2 parts)
                         Dungeon of Doom Update
                      QuickerGraf 1.0 (in 3 parts)
                           1040EZ (in 4 parts)
                                 4D Say
                               Font Stack
                            Color Icon Editor
                              Paint DA 2.0
                         TN123 plus many others
                              FarceFilm 52
           HyperCard report on HyperTEXT workshop (in 4 parts)
                Collected bug reports (& patches) for CAP
                       Round window for Earth Idle
                            Password Utility
                              Proper Icons
                           [TEAC tape editor]


----------------------------------------------------------------------

Date: Tue 9 Feb 88 22:08:14-PDT
From: Jason Daida <[e-mail]>
Subject: CheapBeep (in 2 parts)

        "Here is an amusing way to add variety and personality to your
Macintosh.  Now you can easily choose several sounds to be randomly
selected from as a replacement for the old SysBeep.
        "CheapBeep is a Control Panel device file for System 4.1 and later.
These systems have a Control Panel desk accessory which can open files of
type 'cdev' and allow them to display information and accept commands
through the Control Panel window." - from CheapBeep's documentation.

[Moderator--These files contain CheapBeep and documentation plus sample
sounds.]  These files were stuffed and binhexed.  Enjoy!

Jason Daida
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

[archived as

[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>CDEV-CHEAPBEEP-PART1.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>CDEV-CHEAPBEEP-PART2.HQX

- Lance ]

------------------------------

Date: Thu 11 Feb 88 11:35:55-GMT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: Giffer 1.0

[ Uploaded from Delphi by Jeff Shulman (JEFFS) ]

Name: GIFFER 1.0
Date: 10-FEB-1988 21:16 by BEAUZEAU

[ Updated 10-FEB-1988 21:16 by BEAUZEAU. Giffer 1.0, a significant
improvement over 0.96.  This version is BeerWare. Please read the
documentation for details.  It's included in the StuffIt file. ]

  Here is Giffer for the Macintosh II only.  It will display GIF and Thunder-
Scan images, in full color or grays.  Here also are a few 256-color GIF files.
I have much more, so if there's interest, I'll post them.  Also, GIF files may
be found on CompuServe in the PICS forum.  These images look great...just like
photographs.
  GIF is Graphics Interchange Format, a graphics storage and compression
standard developed by CompuServe Information Service.  GIF files are
transferable across computer types, and there are programs available for many
different Micros to display them.
  Steve Blackstock, Mac II, Giffer.  Tell me if you like it!

[archived as

[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>GIFFER-10.HQX

This version replaces version 0.96.

- Lance ]

------------------------------

Date: Tue 9 Feb 88 22:49:29-PST
From: Ron Nash <[e-mail]>
Subject: CSLI Reports

A list of reports published by The Center for the Study of Language
and Information at Stanford University is now available in hypercard
format. Abstracts are included.

The stack is available by anonymous ftp from csli.stanford.edu.
The relevant file is: pub/csli-abstracts.hqx.

Those without internet access can send a 3.5" disk and a self-addressed
envelope to:

    Publications
    CSLI
    Ventura Hall
    Stanford University
    Stanford, CA  94305-4115


(CSLI was founded in 1983 by researchers from Stanford University,
 SRI International, and Xerox PARC to further research and development
 of integrated theories of language, information, and computation.)


Ron Nash
Center for the Study of Language and Information
[e-mail]

[archived as

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[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>HYPERCARD-CSLI-REPORT-PART2.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>HYPERCARD-CSLI-REPORT-PART3.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>HYPERCARD-CSLI-REPORT-PART4.HQX

- Lance ]

------------------------------

Date: Fri 12 Feb 88 10:47:31-GMT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: FarceFilms

The following messages contain, StuffIt'ed, FarceFilms 45 - 51:

FarceFilm 45: "Things Just Get Curiouser and Curiouser"
FarceFilm 46: "The Right Tool For The Job"
FarceFilm 47: "Holographic Education Pt. 1"
FarceFilm 48: "Holographic Education Part II"
FarceFilm 49: "Gamma Gamma Pu"
FarceFilm 50: "Holographic Education Part 3"
FarceFilm 51: "Virus! Cough?"

                                                        Jeff

[archived as

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[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>ARTS-FARCES-FILM-46.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>ARTS-FARCES-FILM-47.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>ARTS-FARCES-FILM-48.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>ARTS-FARCES-FILM-49.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>ARTS-FARCES-FILM-50.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>ARTS-FARCES-FILM-51.HQX

- Lance ]

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 16 Feb 88 13:25:41 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: More Venice Sizes

Some add'l sizes of Venice fonts, StuffIt format, for general consumption.

Godfrey DiGiorgi
[e-mail]
February 11, 1988

[archived as

[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>FONT-VENICE.HQX

- Lance ]

------------------------------

Date: Tue 16 Feb 88 10:17:14-GMT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: A&F Review -- Feb '88 (in 2 parts)

[ Uploaded from Delphi by Jeff Shulman ]

Name: ARTS & FARCES REVIEW -- FEB '88
Date: 15-FEB-1988 00:22 by ARTSFARCES

This is the Arts & Farces Review for February 1988.  It's in MicroFilm
format and as such requires MicroFilm Reader V1.0 or later for use.

[archived as

[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>ARTS-FARCES-FEB88-PART1.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>ARTS-FARCES-FEB88-PART2.HQX

- Lance ]

------------------------------

Date: Tue 16 Feb 88 10:19:22-GMT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: Dungeon of Doom Update

[ Uploaded from Delphi by Jeff Shulman ]

Name: DOOM UPDATE
Date: 16-FEB-1988 00:51 by JONES

Doom Update updates The Dungeon of Doom version 3.0 to 5.3 and 4.0 to 5.4.
It installs important new information on the status of the dungeon into the
programs.

[archived as

[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>GAME-DUNGEON-OF-DOOM-UPDATE.HQX

- Lance ]

------------------------------

Date: Mon 22 Feb 88 09:56:15-GMT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: QuickerGraf 1.0 (in 3 parts)

[ Uploaded from Delphi by Jeff Shulman ]

Name: QUICKERGRAF 1.0
Date: 22-FEB-1988 07:18 by JEFFS

This is version 1.0 of QuickerGraf (formerly known as QuickerDraw) from
Andy Hertzfeld.  QuickerGraf is a high performance extension to Color
QuickDraw that speeds up many common operations by a factor of 3 or so.  It
comes in the form of a cdev that you drag into your system folder. It is
really only useful in the 8-bit mode on the Mac II.  Andy granted
permission to distribute it anywhere you like non-commercially; He is still
retaining all commercial rights.

Also included is a benchmark/demo program for QuickerGraf that demonstrates
some of the speed-ups.

[archived as

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[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>INIT-QUICKERGRAF-10-PART2.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>INIT-QUICKERGRAF-10-PART3.HQX

- Lance ]

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Date: Tue, 1 Mar 88 15:42:29 CST
From: [e-mail] (Dan LaLiberte)
Subject: 1040EZ (in 4 parts)

URGENT - get this out as soon as possible.  Dated material.

This Tax Stack contains everything you need to file the 1040EZ form
(tax form, tax table, worksheets, and complete IRS instructions).
The LaserWriter and ImageWriter printouts have been approved by the IRS.
If you find that this StackWorks stack works for you, please send the
shareware fee of $10.

[archived as

[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>HYPERCARD-TAXFORM-1040EZ-PART1.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>HYPERCARD-TAXFORM-1040EZ-PART2.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>HYPERCARD-TAXFORM-1040EZ-PART3.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>HYPERCARD-TAXFORM-1040EZ-PART4.HQX

- Lance ]

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Date: Fri 4 Mar 88 08:46:05-GMT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: 4D Say

[ Uploaded from Delphi by Jeff Shulman ]

Name: 4D SAY
Date: 3-MAR-1988 13:48 by NATURAL

4D Say 1.0.  4D Say is a hot little 4th Dimension External that allows the
use of the MacInTalk speech driver from within 4th Dimension.  Less than 4k
and solid as a rock.  Great for spoken error messages, alerts, welcomes,
greetings, etc.  A lot of fun, and free. A public-domain 4D External from
Djundi Karjadi and friends at Natural Intelligence Consulting.

[archived as

[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>4D-SAY-10.HQX

- Lance ]

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Date: Tue 16 Feb 88 10:20:15-GMT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: Font Stack

[ Uploaded from Delphi by Jeff Shulman ]

Name: FONT PREVIEW STACK
Date: 14-FEB-1988 08:49 by JIMWEINRICH

This 10K stack is a template for printing out the complete character set
for any font (ASCII 1 to ASCII 255, excluding delete) in a neat rectangular
array.  It is especially useful for printing out downloadable laser fonts,
because it will print characters that are not accessible from the keyboard.
For reasons I don't understand, it occasionally prints a few characters
bitmapped, and on some derived fonts (like Helvetica Fractions) it fails to
print at all.  But it does work on the vast majority of fonts.  Enjoy!
It's free.  --Jim Weinrich

[archived as

[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>HYPERCARD-FONT-PREVIEW.HQX

- Lance ]

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Date: Tue, 16 Feb 88 23:48:54 EST
From: [e-mail] (Julian Vrieslander)
Subject: Color Icon Editor

Icon Edit

This is an application for editing color icon resources (cicn's).
It runs only on a color-capable Mac.  After converting with BinHex,
you will need to unstuff with Stuffit.  Documentation file supplied.

This little gem comes from Ben Haller of AppleSauce Designs.  It is
shareware.

Posted by Julian Vrieslander
ARPA -  [e-mail]       BITNET - eacj@CRNLTHRY

[archived as

[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>COLOR-ICON-EDITOR.HQX

- Lance ]

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Date: Tue 16 Feb 88 13:20:33-GMT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: Paint DA 2.0

[ Uploaded from Delphi by Jeff Shulman ]

Name: PAINT VIEWER DA
Date: 14-FEB-1988 01:05 by PAGE1

[ Updated 14-FEB-1988 01:05 by PAGE1. This is version 2.0 of the Paint DA.
A small bug in the selection rectangle has been fixed.  Also this version
will only display the copyright and shareware notice once when you run the
DA. ]

This is a picture viewer DA that views a MacPaint/FullPaint document on the
full screen.  It is compatable with 512s, Pluses, and SEs. Also works under
DA FKEY and suitcase.  Features include:  Zoom in/out, scroll copy to
clipboard, and startupscreen production.  Shareware.

[archived as

[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>DA-PAINT-VIEWER-20.HQX

This version replaces the previous version.

- Lance ]

------------------------------

Date: Thu 18 Feb 88 15:43:54-PST
From: Bill Lipa <[e-mail]>
Subject: TN123 plus many others

The following are tech notes from July 1987.

Bill

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[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN120.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN123.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN126.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN131.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN132.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN133.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN134.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN135.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN136.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN137.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN138.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN139.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN140.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN141.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN142.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN143.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN144.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN145.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN146.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN147.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN148.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN149.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN150.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN151.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN152.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN153.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>TN154.HQX

Technotes 96, 120, 123, and 126 supersede previous versions.

- Lance ]

------------------------------

Date: Fri 19 Feb 88 10:49:02-GMT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: FarceFilm 52

[ Uploaded from Delphi by Jeff Shulman ]

Name: FARCEFILM 52.FILM
Date: 18-FEB-1988 21:21 by ARTSFARCES

It's in MicroFilm format and as such requires MicroFilm Reader V1.0 or
later for use. This week's topic is "The Bureaucratization of Macintosh."

[archived as

[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>ARTS-FARCES-FILM-52.HQX

- Lance ]

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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 88 15:37:08-2300
From: mcvax!iddth![e-mail] (Jakob Nielsen)
Subject: HyperCard report on HyperTEXT workshop (in 4 parts)

Enclosed is a HyperCard stack which is a hypertext trip report from the
HyperTEXTU87 workshop in Chapel Hill, NC in November 1987. It has been run
through Stuffit and BinHex 4.  Unfortunately the file is too large to send
all at once, so it has been split up into four parts which must be
concatenated together before converting back using BinHex 4.

[archived as

[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>HYPERCARD-HYPERTEXT-WORKSHOP-PART1.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>HYPERCARD-HYPERTEXT-WORKSHOP-PART2.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>HYPERCARD-HYPERTEXT-WORKSHOP-PART3.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>HYPERCARD-HYPERTEXT-WORKSHOP-PART4.HQX

- Lance ]

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Date: Mon, 15 Feb 88 16:33:14 PST
From: coherent![e-mail] (Dave Platt)
Subject: Collected bug reports (& patches) for CAP

This posting contains bug reports #0001 thru #0015 for the Columbia
University AppleTalk Package (CAP).  The patches in these reports should be
applied against the prerelease distribution #4 sources available on SUMEX,
*after* the PATCH5, PATCH6, and PATCH7 patches and source-file replacements
have been performed.

If you're using CAP, and _especially_ if you're using the papif
line-printer daemon "filter", you should definitely install these patches.


Dave Platt
  UUCP:    ...!{ames,sun,uunet}!coherent!dplatt     Domain: [e-mail]
      Internet: coherent![e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail]

[archived as

[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>AT-CAP4-BUGS-AND-PATCHES.SHAR

- Lance ]

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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 88 10:40:23 est
From: Oliver Steele <[e-mail]>
Subject: Round window for Earth Idle

Here are some resources to paste (with ResEdit) into the recently
posted Earth Idle program to give it a round window.

Oliver Steele                       ...!uunet!mcnc!unc!steele
                               [e-mail]

[archived as

[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>EARTH-IDLE-ROUND-WINDOW-RESOURCE.HQX

- Lance ]

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Date: Sun, 21 Feb 88 15:40:21 gmt
From: Ralph Martin
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Password Utility

Here is a small shareware program (and documentation) which stops random
people from booting up your Mac from its Hard Disk - at startup, a password
is requested and checked. If its not correct, the Mac just shuts down
again. This software is multifinder compatible.

Hope its useful! Ralph.

[archived as

[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>UTILITY-HARDDISK-PASSWORD.HQX

- Lance ]

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Date: Mon 22 Feb 88 09:55:10-GMT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: Proper Icons

[ Uploaded from Delphi by Jeff Shulman ]

Name: PROPER ICONS
Date: 20-FEB-1988 11:38 by ACOTE

These two icons of my own design are, which I feel Proper Icons for the
Trash can, and one for those of you who own Suitcase(tm). The suitcases
developed by Apple set a standard, and I believe that this new suitcase
icon follows this standard for the Suitcase INIT. use ResEdit to install
into the SuitCase(tm) INIT. The Trashcan ICN# must be install by ResEdit
into the Finder, remove the trashcan and then renumber the new one to
ID#130. This may not follow Apples standard, but IS in fact TRASH.  The
Suitcase Icon will also appear on bootup, I think you'll really like it.
Hey, Software Supply... Follow the Mac interface, after all these years.
Other than the Icon (cosmetic) buy Suitcase(tm), you will never waste time
looking for that DA that removed LF's... Whats it's name.

[archived as

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- Lance ]

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Date: 22 Feb 88   12:19 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [TEAC tape editor]

This program should be used with extreme caution as you could easily
destroy the contents of any device on the SCSI bus!

This program is an editor for the TEAC MT-2ST/20S Streaming Cassette
Magnetic Tape Unit. It allows you to exercise all of the commands
implemented on this unit.  It was written as an investigative tool for an
attempt to write a backup utility (forthcoming) that will use this device.
This program will probably be of no use to you if you don't have the TEAC
manuals to refer to. As it is my first effort in the Mac arena it probably
has many faults, after all it is intended to be only a tool.  Please feel
free if you would like to send comments but I have no intention of
supporting this.

The TEAC MTU that I have came from 1st Class Peripherals in their B-Sider
unit that I bought for an Apple //e system. When I discovered that the
interface was SCSI it seemed like fate that I should cable this hummer up
to my Mac so I can use it to back up my hard disk. Of course there was no
utility available and yet another project was born...

There are two added menus. The first is called "Commands" and has all of
the raw commands plus one that is called "Write RAM" which writes a
megabyte of memory starting at address 000000. This is all of the RAM on a
standard Mac+. The other menu is called "Target" and allows you to specify
the tape unit's SCSI bus address via the "Set Target" item. This is the
same dialog that comes up when the program is initially run. The other item
does an SCSI bus reset. The program also does this reset upon exit just to
be sure it has cleaned up after itself (and you).

I hope this proves to be useful to someone out there.

Steven J. Schaeffer
310 E. 17th St
Idaho Falls, ID  83404

Bitnet: B29165@ANLVM
GENIE: NYBBLESNBITS
DELPHI:NYBBLESNBITS

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- Lance ]

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End of INFO-MAC Digest
**********************
22-Mar-88 22:42:28-PST,27015;000000000000
Mail-From: INFO-MAC-REQUEST created at 22-Mar-88 22:07:42
Date: 22 Mar 88 2207-PST
From: Moderators Jon Pugh, Dwayne Virnau, Lance Nakata
Reply-to: [e-mail]
Subject: INFO-MAC Digest   V6 #31
To: [e-mail]


INFO-MAC Digest         Wednesday, 23 Mar 1988     Volume 6 : Issue 31

Today's Topics:
          Unsit - program for separating Stuffit files on Unix
               Fixed Lightspeed Pascal Standard Libraries
            Re: Remote LocalTalk (posting of Async AppleTalk)
                              Brickles 8.0
                              StdFile FKEY
                    Colorized cursor for Mac II users
                             Front & Center
                            AppleDraw DA V3.3
                      Genealogy stack (in 4 parts)
                             System Error DA
         Here's UW Version 4.2, in UNIX shar format (in 8 parts)
                   1987 1040A Tax Stack (in 10 parts)
                         StdFile stdio for LS C
                    GetClipboard / PutClipboard XCMDs
                         Dragon 2.1 (in 3 parts)
                        GIF pictures and program
                                 Vaccine
                              FarceFilm 53
                              FarceFilm 54
                        Usenet Mac Digest V4 #31
                        Usenet Mac Digest V4 #32
                        Usenet Mac Digest V4 #33


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Date: Tue 23 Feb 88 19:52:53-PST
From: Allan G. Weber <[e-mail]>
Subject: Unsit - program for separating Stuffit files on Unix

Some time ago I distributed a Unix program called "unpit" that would
unpack the data fork of a Packit file into the component files to
allow selective downloading.  Packit has since been replaced by
Stuffit as the file archiver of choice for most recent postings.  I've
included below a shar file containing the sources for "unsit", a
program that does the same thing to a Stuffit archive file.  It will
separate the components of the ".sit" file into the individual files
and leave them on the Unix system in the proper form for downloading
with "macput".

At first glance, this may sound like a relatively useless program
since you can always download the ".sit" file and break it up on the
Mac.  However, I've found it to be a big help when dealing with the
Mac postings.  Also, if you have ever had to upload a large number of
files from the Mac to Unix, this is the program for you.  Use Stuffit
to put all the files in a single archive, upload it, and then
break it apart with "unsit".

The primary method of compression for Stuffit is the same as that used
by the Unix program "compress".  Unsit will only work if the compress
program is on the system since it uncompresses the file by opening a
pipe to the program and passing the data through compress and into the
output file.  If you don't have "compress" on your system, it can be
obtained from the comp.unix.sources archives.

                Allan Weber
                USC Signal and Image Processing Institute
                Arpa: [e-mail]
                uucp: ...sdcrdcf!usc-oberon!brand!weber

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- Lance ]

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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 88 15:13:50 -0500 (EST)
From: Richard Siegel <[e-mail]>
Subject: Fixed Lightspeed Pascal Standard Libraries

The attached BinHex file is a new copy of the "MacPasLib" standard
libraries for Lightspeed Pascal. This version of the library fixes
the bug that prevented the Enter key from being used for signalling
EOF from the keyboard. It has been tested and works on all Mac
keyboards.

        --Rich

===================================================================
Richard Siegel
THINK Technologies, QA Technician (on leave)

I'm not physically at THINK, so my information may be out
of date. Be forewarned.

Arpa: [e-mail]
UUCP: {decvax,ucbvax,sun}!andrew.cmu.edu!rich.siegel
==================================================================

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- Lance ]

------------------------------

Date: Fri, 26 Feb 88 02:11 N
From: Thomas Fruin <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Remote LocalTalk (posting of Async AppleTalk)

 > From: [e-mail]
 > Subject: Remote LocalTalk

 > Is anyone aware of a utility that allows a user to use AppleTalk
 > over the phone lines? For games like Maze Wars+ and NetTrek that
 > would be a great boon.
 >
 >      Thanks,
 >      Jesse Adelman

Jesse,

Maze Wars+  already  works  over phone lines ( check the dialogs and
menus again ),  but for the other programs:  yes, there is precisely
such a utility.  It's  called  Async AppleTalk,  and is a version of
the Link Access Protocol  in  the  AppleTalk drivers that works over
RS-232  lines.  It was  written by  Rich Brown  at Dartmouth College
and is free.

You have to realize, though, that many AppleTalk  applications don't
expect  to run  over slow phone lines.  There is a  special  utility
that  patches  Tops to work over 1200 bps  lines,  but NetTrek,  for
example, won't work well below  9600  bps.  However, it's an exiting
concept, so you might still want to experiment with it.

The file I'm posting includes Async AppleTalk ( a combination driver
and  desk  accessory ), Async Peek ( a utility  to help debug  Async
AppleTalk connections), and the Tops Compatibility Init that patches
Tops for the low speed.  And documentation of course.

-- Thomas Fruin

   [e-mail]                 Leiden University
   [e-mail]                  University of Amsterdam
   hol0057.AppleLink
   2:500/15.FidoNet                     The Netherlands

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- Lance ]

------------------------------

Date: Fri 26 Feb 88 09:31:03-GMT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: Brickles 8.0

[ Uploaded from Delphi by Jeff Shulman ]

Name: BRICKLES 8.0
Date: 25-FEB-1988 18:24 by KENWINOGRAD

Brickles (v8) is a completely rewritten and revised breakout game.
Brickles is now in color (if you have a Mac2) but useable on all Macs. (see
the FORMATS option in the Edit Menu).  Brickles also now supports any size
screen.  The Brickles window is re-sizeable (just drag the "invisible"
sizebox).  The bricks themselves are also automatically resizeable.  As in
past versions, you can customize the ball speed, paddle size, ball size,
etc Many other features have been added.  Check it out.  Thanks for your
support.

[archived as

[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>GAME-BRICKLES-80.HQX

This version replaces version 7.0.

- Lance ]

------------------------------

Date: Fri 26 Feb 88 09:32:21-GMT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: StdFile FKEY

[ Uploaded from Delphi by Jeff Shulman ]

Name: STDFILE FKEY 1.1
Date: 25-FEB-1988 02:15 by DEWI

This FKEY pops up a small dialog box that allows you to type in a pathname.
The Standard File package is then set to this folder, so that Open/Save
dialog boxes will open on that folder. It's meant to be used with QuicKeys
to make sequences position-independent.

[archived as

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- Lance ]

------------------------------

Date: Fri, 26 Feb 88 10:54:33 PST
From: [e-mail] (Dave Platt)
Subject: Colorized cursor for Mac II users

Enclosed is Color Cursor, an INIT written by Matthias Urlichs.  When
placed in the System folder on a Mac II, it will colorize the standard
arrowhead cursor... the effect is somewhat like taking a chunk out of
a rainbow.  I like it, and have had no problems with the INIT itself.

The INIT-file I downloaded from my local EchoMac BBS had some minor
problems with the bundle, and thus the file's icon didn't show up
under Finder.  I repaired the bundle with ResEdit, and also added the
ShowInit resource;  the icon is now visible under the Finder and
also appears on the screen during system startup.

Dave Platt
  UUCP: ...!{ames,sun,uunet}!coherent!dplatt     DOMAIN: [e-mail]
    INTERNET: coherent![e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail]

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- Lance ]

------------------------------

Date:       Fri, 26 Feb 88 15:24:26 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Front & Center

Here is Front & Center, a cdev that centers your dialog boxes
around your cursor.  Ideal for big screens.  It would be good
for multiple monitors too, but it won't move dialog boxes onto
other screens.  If anyone with CashWe$erve access could contact
the author about this, I would appreciate it.

Jon

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- Lance ]

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 29 Feb 88 10:04:46 SET
From: Guenther Blaschek <[e-mail]>
Subject: AppleDraw DA V3.3

This is AppleDraw V3.3 - a DA for object-oriented drawing that features:
 - rectangles, ovals, rounded rects, lines, arrows, text
 - line widths from 1 to 12 & HAIRLINES (for the LaserWriter)
 - various fill and pen patterns
 - framed text
 - grid
 - alignment of objects
 - (nearly) infinite drawing area
 - partial pictures (i.e. copies of rectangular parts of other objects)
 - picture files (may be used as libraries for frequently used elements)
 - etc.

AppleDraw is ShareWare (US$ 30.-). 5.5 pages MacWrite documentation
included.  Problems, Suggestions, Critics, ...: contact me via INFO-MAC,
MAC-USER or directly at <K331671@AEARN>.

The following file must be decoded with Binhex 4.0 / PackIt III.
Enjoy it
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This DA replaces DA-OBJECT-ORIENTED-DRAW.HQX.

- Lance ]

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 1 Mar 88 00:04:43 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Genealogy stack (in 4 parts)

This is a HyperCard stack for creating and maintaining a genealogical database.

Features:
    - Information for each person is one one card, including:
        -Father, mother, self, siblings, up to 4 spouses and issue
        -Fields for notes, sources, private (unchanging) info
    - Most names need be typed only once; use buttons to create cards
    - Click on any person to get to their card
    - Make lists of:
        - All appearances of a name in the stack
        - All exact matches of a name
        - Ancestors to a specified generation
        - Offspring to a specified generation
        - First cousins of any person
        - Any direct line of ancestory specified by Mother/Father key
    - Click on any person in created list to go to their card...

This stack is offered as $10 shareware; the stack is not locked and has
extensive help notes.

Nicholas Spies
Center for Design of Educational Computing
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
[phone]

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[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>HYPERCARD-GENEALOGY-PART2.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>HYPERCARD-GENEALOGY-PART3.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>HYPERCARD-GENEALOGY-PART4.HQX

- Lance ]

------------------------------

Date: Tue 1 Mar 88 09:19:32-GMT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: System Error DA

[ Uploaded from Delphi by Jeff Shulman ]

Name: SYSTEM ERRORS DA
Date: 29-FEB-1988 09:37 by BILLS

[ Updated 29-FEB-1988 09:37 by BILLS. Version 1.3 has a doc and
customization notes, a squarer window, keyboard support, and a more
flexable window customizing. ]

System Errors Table is a Desk Accessory that shows you a scrolling list of
all the Macintosh system errors. If you find any mistakes or have any
additions or suggestions, drop me a note. System Errors Table DA is free,
but copyright 1988 by Bill Steinberg. Stuffit required to decode.

Enjoy

BillS

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- Lance ]

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Date: Wed, 2 Mar 88 09:59:58 PST
From: [e-mail] (Edward Rothberg)
Subject: Here's UW Version 4.2, in UNIX shar format (in 8 parts)

                        UW Version 4.2
                        31 January 1988

This is version 4.2 of UW, a multiple-window interface to UNIX for
the Macintosh computer.  The distribution for UW consists of two
binary files for the Macintosh (in BinHex 4.0 format) and a number
of source files for the (BSD) UNIX server.

The distribution includes the following directories:

        h       - all UW include files
        server  - source code for the UW server
        lib     - source code for the UW programmer's library
        utility - source code for miscellaneous utility programs
        doc     - [nt]roff documentation (-ms and -man formats)
        hqx     - Macintosh binary files
        misc    - other things of possible interest

See the README file in the first shar file for more information.

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[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>UNIX-UW-42-PART4.SHAR
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>UNIX-UW-42-PART5.SHAR
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>UNIX-UW-42-PART6.SHAR
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>UNIX-UW-42-PART7.SHAR
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>UNIX-UW-42-PART8.SHAR

This version of UW replaces version 3.4 and 4.1.  It also is available to
ARPANET/MILNET sites via anonymous FTP from MORDOR.S1.GOV.  (Change to the
directory "uw" and retrieve "uw.shar.[1-8]".)  Each file is a complete shar
file; no joining is necessary.

- Lance ]

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Date: Thu, 17 Mar 88 20:10:44 CST
From: [e-mail] (Dan LaLiberte)
Subject: 1987 1040A Tax Stack (in 10 parts)

Here is a stack to help you prepare 1040A tax returns.  This is from the
same folks who created the 1040EZ stack.  1040A is $20 shareware.

[archived as

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[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>HYPERCARD-TAXFORM-1040A-PART2.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>HYPERCARD-TAXFORM-1040A-PART3.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>HYPERCARD-TAXFORM-1040A-PART4.HQX
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[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>HYPERCARD-TAXFORM-1040A-PART6.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>HYPERCARD-TAXFORM-1040A-PART7.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>HYPERCARD-TAXFORM-1040A-PART8.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>HYPERCARD-TAXFORM-1040A-PART9.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>HYPERCARD-TAXFORM-1040A-PART10.HQX

- Lance ]

------------------------------

Date: 4 Mar 88 05:27:24 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Chris Borton)
Subject: StdFile stdio for LS C

This is a little package I cooked up the other night to help me in writing
stdio programs for Unix with LS C.  I end up using stdin and stdout a lot,
and although redirecting these with LS C is possible, I find it is
cumbersome.  Sometimes this is easy to get around by just doing a

#ifdef Mac      /* I have a "#define Mac" in my stdio.h */
#define fgetc(stdin) getch()            /* this also handles getc()     */
#define fputc(c,stdout) putch()         /* ...and putc..                */
#endif

but other times I wanted to always use the same input file.  So I decided
to do it using SFGetFile and SFPutFile.  This StuffIt'd BinHex includes the
LS C project, sf_stdio.c, and sf_stdio.h.  The two functions for this are
sf_stdin() it using SFGetFile and SFPutFile.  This StuffIt'd BinHex
includes the LS C project, sf_stdio.c, and sf_stdio.h.  The two functions
for this are sf_stdin() and sf_stdout(), both of which prompt for a TEXT
file to use as stdin or stdout.  sf_stdio.c also includes the routines
GetFile() and PutFile(), which are good examples of how to use StdFile.
These are based upon routines supplied in the LS C examples; obviously
portions of this are (c) THINK Technologies.  The rest is (c) Chris Borton,
but is distributed with the intent of information-sharing and helping
other people.  Enjoy!!!

Chris "Johann" Borton, UC San Diego    ...!sdcsvax!borton
                    [e-mail] or [e-mail]
Letztes Jahr in Deutschland, nog een jaar hier, en dan naar Amsterdam!
"H = F cubed.  Happiness = Food, Fun, & Friends."  --Steve Wozniak

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- Lance ]

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Date:       Sat, 5 Mar 88 18:32:34 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: GetClipboard / PutClipboard XCMDs

Here are an XCMD and an XFCN that will read and write to the clipboard from
HyperTalk.  They are simple and easy to use and save you from having to place
text into a field before copying it with that "click at with shiftkey" stuff.

These were written by yours truly and are released for your use.

By the way, I managed to avoid the MultiFinder Clipboard problem.  Whenever
you call PutScrap, simply call SystemEdit(3) to make MultiFinder change
everyone's clipboard.  It makes MF think that someone pulled down the Copy
menu item.

Jon

         N         L                          [e-mail]
          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                                [phone]

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- Lance ]

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Date: Mon, 7 Mar 88 01:55:08 CST
From: [e-mail] (Dan LaLiberte)
Subject: Dragon 2.1 (in 3 parts)

The following is an edited note from Kaihu Chen about Dragon 2.1, the
second place winner in the 19x19 category of the 1987 International
Computer Wei-Chi (Chinese for Go).

Dan LaLiberte
[e-mail]
uiucdcs!liberte
================================================================

My apology to all who have sent me requests for the long wait.  In light of
the ~60 requests that I have received, I think there is no better means of
distribution than posting it to the net.

It has been observed that the program has unimplemented features
(non-functioning menu entries), and crashes occaionally.

Dragon 2.1 is not shareware; it is public domain, with the only limitation
that it may not be used for commercial purposes.  You may freely distribute
it to any interested party.

If you are interested in getting the source, you may try contacting the
original author:

    Liu, Don-yuei
    Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
      National Taiwan University
    Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Mark Goldfain ([e-mail]) has volunteered to handle
requests the program on a disk if you cannot get it from the net.  You will
need to send him a blank diskette and a self-addressed stamped envelope.

As far as I know, the program is not officially rated.  Since I believe
Dragon 2.1 is in the same ballpark as Nemesis, and Nemesis was claimed to
be 17 kyu (or was it 15 kyu?), I guess it's safe to say that it is also
somewhere around 17 kyu.

Kaihu Chen
[e-mail]
======================================
Dragon is a binhexed stuffit file in three parts.

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[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>GAME-DRAGON-21-PART3.HQX

- Lance ]

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Date: Sun, 21 Feb 88 21:16:01 PST
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: GIF pictures and program

Here are some color pictures and the GIFFER 1.0 program to display them.
These are for the MacII only.

These images are all 320 by 200 in 256 colors.  They may look funny unless
you have expanded your video card to be able to display at least 256
colors. They were originally digitized on a Commodore Amiga using a
digitizer called DigiView.  Each original digitized image was 640 by 400 in
21-bit color (2 million colors) and took 768K of file space.  The 768K
files were transmitted from the Amiga to a Mac-II where a special purpose
program converted them to a 256 color "quantized DigiView file".  The
resulting quantized digiview files were then read in by the Giffer program,
and shrunk to one fourth their original size for convenience, and converted
to GIF files.  GIF is a graphics standard being promoted by Compuserve, and
display programs are available for a wide variety of machines.

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[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>GIF-DANIELLE.HQX
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[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>GIF-LISA_WELCH.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>GIF-MIKE.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>GIF-MIKKI.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>GIF-SONDRA.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>GIF-PICTURETOOLS.HQX
]

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Date: Mon 21 Mar 88 10:21:33-GMT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: Vaccine

[ Uploaded from Delphi by Jeff Shulman ]

Name: VACCINE
Date: 21-MAR-1988 01:11 by WDAVIS

This is Vaccine, a control panel device (cdev) to provide some protection
against viruses.  Put this in your system folder and reboot.  Instructions
included. Copyright 1988 CE Software, provided free as a service for our
customers.

Uploaded by Bill Davis / CE Software Customer Support

Written by Donald Brown / CE Software Programming Director

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- Lance ]

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Date: Fri 26 Feb 88 09:31:48-GMT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: FarceFilm 53

[ Uploaded from Delphi by Jeff Shulman ]

Name: FARCEFILM 53.FILM
Date: 25-FEB-1988 20:24 by ARTSFARCES

This is FarceFilm 53 for the week of 26 February 1988.  It's in MicroFilm
format and as such requires MicroFilm Reader V1.0 or later for use. This
week's topic is "Of HyperCartels, HyperCabals, and HyperBabble."

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- Lance ]

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Date: Fri 4 Mar 88 08:46:21-GMT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: FarceFilm 54

[ Uploaded from Delphi by Jeff Shulman ]

Name: FARCEFILM 54.FILM
Date: 3-MAR-1988 19:25 by ARTSFARCES

This is FarceFilm 54 for the week of 4 March 1988.  It's in MicroFilm
format and as such requires MicroFilm Reader V1.0 or later for use.  This
week's topic is "Synergetic HyperCard."

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- Lance ]

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Date: Mon 7 Mar 88 09:55:40-GMT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V4 #31

Usenet Mac Digest     Saturday, March 5, 1988        Volume 4 : Issue 31

Today's Topics:
     Re: SAS/Graph on a Mac
     Re: A/UX disk I/O (real numbers)
     Re: How about Epsilon for the MAC?
     A/UX troff (was Re: A/UX disk I/O (real numbers))
     Re: A/UX disk I/O (real numbers)
     WriteNow->MS Word?
     Re: SoundCap (Formerly: Short review of MacRecorder, by Farallon)
     Re: WriteNow format needed
     A/UX window systems, Mac toolbox, etc
     Re: A/UX disk I/O (real numbers)
     A/UX comments
     Plotter file (multi-pen) output to LW or LQ printers?
     New MacPaint core dumps/freezes under A/UX
     Re: Software for the Mac -- recommendations wanted.
     Maybe I'm dumb but...
     Software for the Mac: spreadsheets

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- Lance ]

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Date: Mon 7 Mar 88 09:57:12-GMT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V4 #32

Usenet Mac Digest     Saturday, March 5, 1988        Volume 4 : Issue 32

Today's Topics:
     Office Management for Plastic Surgery Solo Practice
     dqDrvSiz
     Re: Updating the Desktop
     How to calc. total RAM installed?
     VersaTerm-Pro bug.
     Mac+ hardware question: 2.5 Meg using 256k SIMMs only ?
     hardware question: source for carriers for 256k SIMMs ??
     C++ FOR MAC ANYONE? HOW ABOUT GNU C++?
     Looking for Scott's resource file...
     Re: Beginning Mac Programming
     Ehman 800k drive warning
     Re: Circular Windows
     Re: LSC: booleans != TRUE ??
     differences between Reflex+ and Filemaker+
     Packed Booleans=1 byte not 1 Bit Warning!
     Copy II Mac 7.1 problem
     Re: dqDrvSiz
     Re: differences between Reflex+ and Filemaker+
     New Question about the Serial Drivers
     NEON Caveat (was Re: Advice for starting programmers...)
     Re: Tool-Tool, "Prototyper"
     Re: NEON Caveat (was Re: Advice for starting programmers...)

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- Lance ]

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Date: Mon 7 Mar 88 09:59:10-GMT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V4 #33

Usenet Mac Digest     Saturday, March 5, 1988        Volume 4 : Issue 33

Today's Topics:
     Device driver status call with csCode == 1
     AUX SCSI driver question
     Accelerator/math coprocessor for Mac Plus
     Two Questions on programming 4D
     Re: Using a mac in a 220V/50Hz environment
     Has anyone done this?
     QuickerGraf 1.0 Performance Figures
     System/Finder patch available?? (2 messages)
     Re: Tandy Mac Clone?
     A/UX vs 4th Dimension
     Another book for beginners
     Mac II memory speed
     Re: some practical AppleShare questions
     Re: New Question about the Serial Drivers
     Datadesk Keyboard Info Wanted
     Re: Mac II ROM update
     MacInTax warning
     Re: Datadesk Keyboard Info Wanted
     Vertical Retrace
     dragging icons

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End of INFO-MAC Digest
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22-Mar-88 22:58:31-PST,20468;000000000000
Mail-From: INFO-MAC-REQUEST created at 22-Mar-88 22:15:43
Date: 22 Mar 88 2215-PST
From: Moderators Jon Pugh, Dwayne Virnau, Lance Nakata
Reply-to: [e-mail]
Subject: INFO-MAC Digest   V6 #32
To: [e-mail]


INFO-MAC Digest         Wednesday, 23 Mar 1988     Volume 6 : Issue 32

Today's Topics:
                MacMag virus infects commercial software
                         Hard disk write protect
                             Resource Editor
                     MPW Tools : StdFile and Select
                       Size = -1 Rmaker Template?
                            LightspeedC bug?
                       help this neophyte please!
                       Mouse Technolgy's A+ Mouse
                           Mail from Mac<->Mac
                         Re: Mail from Mac<->Mac
                          HELP TECHNICAL NOTES
                      QuickerGraf Benchmark results
                       beware quickergraf download
                           'snd ' -> SoundCap
                       Modifying Installer Scripts
           printing mac-postscript on unix-driven laserwriter
           Query: how do you make "cover page" on by default?


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Date: Tue, 15 Mar 88 09:13:14 PST
From: [e-mail] (Dave Platt)
Subject: MacMag virus infects commercial software

According to an article in this morning's San Jose Mercury News, the "DREW"
INIT-virus has been found to have infected a commercial software product.

The virus, which was a "benign" time-bomb designed to display a message of
world peace on March 2nd, is present on disks containing Aldus Freehand.
The virus was inadvertently passed to Aldus by Marc Canter, president of
MacroMind Inc., which makes training disks for Aldus.  Canter avisited
Canada some time ago, and was given a disk containing a program called
"Mr. Potato Head", which lets users play with a computerized version of the
toy character.  Canter ran the program only once, and his machine was
apparently infected by the virus at this time.  Subsequently, the virus
infected a disk of training software that Canter then delivered to Aldus;
at Aldus, the virus infected disks that were then sold to customers.

Although this virus was believed to be harmless, Canter reports that it forced
his Macintosh II computer to shut down and caused him to lose some computer
information.  "My system crashed," Canter said, "I was really angry."

    (( Not all that surprising... quite a few popular but nonstandard
           programming tricks used on the classic Mac don't work on the Mac II
           due to its different video card/monitor architecture...  many
           games, etc. don't run on the II for this reason and can cause some
           very impressive system crashes...  dcp ))

Canter fears that more of his customers may have been infected by the virus.
MacroMind's clients include Microsoft Corp., Lotus Development Corp., Apple
Computer Inc. and Ashton-Tate.

Microsoft has determined that none of its software has been infected, a
company spokeswoman said.  Apple and Lotus could not be reached for comment.
Ashton-Tate declined to comment.

Aldus would not comment on how many copies of FreeHand are infected, but
admits that a disk-duplicating machine copied the infected disk for three
days.  Half of the infected disks have been distributed to retail outlets;
the other half are in Aldus' warehouse.

Aldus will replace the infected disks with new, uninfected copies to any
FreeHand buyer who requests it, according to Aldus spokeswoman Laury Bryant.
The company will also replace the infected disks in its warehouse.

    (( As I recall, the DREW virus infects the System file on affected
           disks, but doesn't affect applications directly.  I suppose that
           Aldus could salvage the damaged disks by replacing the System
           folders with copies from a locked, uninfected disk... but it'll
           probably be faster for them to simply erase and reduplicate.

       I have no idea what Canadian liability laws are like these days...
           but I rather suspect that if MacMag were a United States company
           rather than a Canadian one, its publisher would now be extremely
           vulnerable to a liability-and-damages suit of some sort.  This
           escapade will probably cost Aldus a pretty piece of change in
           damage-control expenses and perhaps loss-of-sales or injury-to-
           reputation.

           Kids, don't try this sort of thing at home!

                    --- dcp ))

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Date: 19 Mar 88  0950 PST
From: Tovar <[e-mail]>
Subject: Hard disk write protect

This virus randomness just points out something that has bugged me ever since
the introduction of Mac hard disks.  It's real obvious to anyone who's ever
had to put a mangled file system back together.  Almost none of the current
generation of hard disks have a WRITE PROTECT switch!  Nevermind malicious
programs, it would be a wonderful thing for ordinary debugging to only be
able to write on a floppy.  Given appropriate software support, it might
even detect most, if not all, current viruses, and those trojan horses which
don't use AppleTalk to squirrel away their surreptiously gathered information.
(Viruses in an AppleShare environment are beyond the scope of this note).
I find it quite surprising about this recent omission, as for years, such a
switch was standard equipment on disk drives.

While i make no claim whatsoever about eliminating malicious programs using
a WRITE PROTECT switches, it will allow one to run "cute demos" without
putting one's data and/or organization at risk.  More importantly, it would
be a useful debugging aid ordinary circumstances.  Hard disk manufacturers
(and Apple):  Are you listening??

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Date: Fri, 18 Mar 88 16:20:11 EST
From: "William E. Williams"
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Resource Editor

I notice that there haven't been any updates of the freebie resource editor in
some time.  Does this mean that MPW has pre-empted the field?  Does anyone
know if it is legally possible to get a resource editor that will handle all
the new resources without shelling out the bucks to buy MPW (which I do not
need)?  Or is it a question of just getting templates for the new resources,
and if it is, where can I find the templates and instructions for their use?

                                       -B2

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Date:       Fri, 18 Mar 88 08:51:45 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: MPW Tools : StdFile and Select

I was reading Joel West's book "Programming with MPW" and it mentions two
tools that are not present in my copy of MPW 2.0.2, StdFile and Select.  Both
of these sound like easy add ons, but I am more interested in just using them
rather than rewriting them.  Does anyone have these?  Can they explain where
they came from?  I spoke with Joel at MacWorld and he seemed to think that
they came with MPW, but I do not believe this to be true.  Any other insights?

Jon

         N         L                          [e-mail]
          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                                [phone]

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Date: 21 Mar 88 11:32:00 EST
From: "NRL::MCCOWAN" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Size = -1 Rmaker Template?

Does anyone have an RMaker template for the Size Resource.  It would be
nice to not have to use Resedit to paste in the resource everytime we relink.
I am using Absoft fortran V2.3, and would like to make applications that
background with the least difficulty.  Thanks.

BobMcCowan
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 88  21:22:04 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: LightspeedC bug?

I have just created a text file using fprintf() in LightspeedC.  I had my
little program print out the first 100 even integers, then a "\n" linefeed,
followed by the next 100 integers, a linefeed, and so on.  Nothing
remarkable.  Afterwards I opened the datafile using the LSC editor.  To my
surprise I could not scroll horizontally to see all the numbers.  Specifically,
 I made the window as large as I could (Mac +) and then dragged the scroll box
all the way to the right.  I could only get as far as number 150 - three
fourths of the way across the file.  The data was there - I could see it by
moving the window to the left and then using the grow-box to make it wider.
Isn't scrolling supposed to allow me to see the entire window, no matter what?
Or am I missing something?  I am using LSC 2.01.

Any comments?

Glenn Sowell
[e-mail]

Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
Univ. of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE 68588-0111

[phone]

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Date: Sat 19 Mar 88 10:38-EST
From: Larry Kolodney <[e-mail]>
Subject: help this neophyte please!


I'm not on this list, but I'm desparately in need of some help.
When I turn on my MAC SE (With built in hard disk, 1 meg of memory) I get a
"frowning mac" symbol, along with two strings of hex digits, zeros ending
in 'F' and 'EF' respectively.  What does this mean?  Can I fix it myself
(by chip swapping?).


Thanks,
larry kolodney

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Date: Sat, 19 Mar 88  12:43:57 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Mouse Technolgy's A+ Mouse

  Has any one had any Experience with the A+ opticle Mouse? I am getting
frustrated with me old mouse (2+ years old) and am thinking of moving
to the A+ mouse. Has any one used any other Opticle Mice?
            Thanks,
               Jason
=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
  PS If my boss knew I had a Mac he'd cut my pay...

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From: shmuel browns <[e-mail]>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 88 17:15:24 JST
Subject: Mail from Mac<->Mac

    I've been looking at mail systems for Appletalked Macs and have been sadly
disappointed with what is currently available, which is as far as I can tell:
    i)  Videx
   ii)  Top Express
  iii)  InterMail
   iv)  InBox
If anyone knows of other programs, I'd appreciate knowing.

    I'm interested in being able to send multi-media messages, i.e. text with
various fonts, graphics, sound, animation, etc., a kind of cross between
Ready, Set, Go, HyperCard and VideoWorks II (BTW, does anyone know anything
about VideoWorks Interactive, the VW program that is supposed to interface to
HyperCard - is it available, price, etc.) from Mac to Mac over AppleTalk.

    I need to be able to transfer these messages, compressed would be nice,
unattended or in the background, over one of the university nets like
Usenet or Bitnet.

    I've come across 2 leads & would appreciate any information and a contact:
    i)  A Mac mail program (Stanford) that provides MH functionality using a
        UNIX mail server.
   ii)  MacMessages, a Mac program that integrates with the Andrew Message
        System (CMU).  (If you know about Andrew, could you tell me if there
        is a group like INFO-ANDREW or something where things are discussed -
        I'd sure like to subscribe).

    Thanks.     Shmuel

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Date: Fri, 18 Mar 88 10:02:22 -0500 (EST)
From: "Richard A. Jones" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Mail from Mac<->Mac

Here is some information on MacMessages...

MacMessages is a (limeted) port of the Andrew Message program to the Macintosh
so students can send and recieve mail from their Macintosh.  It is unlikely
that it will be multi-media because the media that Messages is 'multi' in are
all Andrew specific. True, they could be ported, but it unlikely that it will
happen.  This will not give you the solution you seek as it will not work with
Mac programs.

One idea i have for a soln is using Appleshare drop boxes - there are ways to
have Atalk going over internets (Cayman and Kinetics boxes), so conceivably,
you could 'drag' a message (read document from Hypercard etc) into the drop box
- then the message/document goes across the net.  there are indeed limitations,
and i can discuss them further if anyone is really interested.

in sort though, MacMessages, though what you want in spirit, isn't quite what
you want in reality.

rick jones

please note - i am not a part of the Andrew Message Group.  my knowledge comes
from being a part of the student led group that put the thorn in their side to
get MacMessages going.  for more official information, you can send mail to
[e-mail] - he/she then can/may refer you to a member of the
Messages group

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Date: 22 Feb 88 11:10:00 GMT-1:00
From: "" <mcvax!amolf![e-mail]>
Subject: HELP TECHNICAL NOTES

I am missing Tecnical notes nr. 106-117 and 138-154.
Is there anyone in MACLAND who can help me to get these notes.
Thanks,
      Jan van Elst
      Amolf
      Netherland

[e-mail]  (BITNET)
...MCVAX!AMOLF!VANELST         (UUCP)
[e-mail]
JNET%"VANELST%AMOLF.SURFNET@HASARA5"

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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 88 14:25:08 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: QuickerGraf Benchmark results

I've been using Andy Hertzfeld's "QuickerGraf v1.0" (and some of the
earlier releases in 0.9 and up format of QuickerDraw) on my Mac II with
SuperMac Spectrum/Ikegami (not Sony... I can never remember it correctly)
19" color monitor and I thought that the net folks would be interested in
his benchmark results.

Were not for QuickerGraf, I would use this monitor in B&W mode all the time
as it is just too unresponsive in multiBit color mode.   Sad but true.

 Simple pixel pattern fill no clip          281%
 Simple pixel pattern fill clip             325%
 fill oval unclipped simple pattern         239%
 fill roundRect unclipped simple pattern    269%
 unclipped unmapped copymode copyBits       160%
 copyBits with color mapping                307%
 1-8 copyBits no clipping                   195%
 addOver fill mode, simple pattern         1097%
 blend fill mode, simple pattern           2383%
 transparent fill mode, simple pattern      894%
 hilite mode, region clipped                267%

I don't know how variant these numbers are from the rest of the available
Mac II color monitor world, but if they are indicative of the performance
differences across the board, Apple should be pushed to incorporating these
improvements into the next version of the ROM or the next System/Finder
release as a Color QuickDraw patch.

I haven't found any programs that were incompatible with the INIT to date
and want to thank Andy for making my $3000 color video system useful at
last.

Godfrey DiGiorgi
[e-mail]
March 22, 1988

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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 88 21:54 EST
From: <[e-mail]> (DAVID A. BELSLEY)
Subject: beware quickergraf download

I just downloaded QuickerGraf from macserve.  All went well; binhex and
stuffit produced nice looking applications - the quickergraf init and the
benchmark application.  I installed quickergraf, rebooted, all worked well.
I ran the benchmark, and the results were impressive indeed.

Then I went into the control panel to check the effect of resetting the
desktop color.  The HD40 clicked and blicked.  The control panel finally
came up in about five times the normal time.  I changed colors, all worked
well.  I closed the control panel, and openned it again.  It still took a
longer than usual time.  So I took quickerdraw out of the system folder and
rebooted.  The smiley face appeared, but just momentarily.  The screen
flickered, cleared, and the question mark appeared.  No booting off the hard
disk.

I inserted a write protected system disk, and the machine booted.  I grabbed
my backup disk for the system (also write protected) and replaced the system
on the hard disk.  All seems OK again.  It booted.

The configuration is a Mac II with System stuff 5.0, 5megs and internal 40Meg
hard disk, color monitor, expansion card.  Of course, there are a number of
reasons such behavior could have arisen that have nothing to do with quicker-
graf.  The download could have been corrupted.  But beware.  And I would be
very interested in knowing if anyone else encounters similar problems.

[
Same configuration that I use.  I have no troubles.
   Jon
]

david a. belsley
boston college          [e-mail]

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Date: Tue 8 Mar 88 20:53:15-EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: 'snd ' -> SoundCap


Is there any utility out there which converts 'snd ' (Hypercard) resources
to SoundCap (data fork) sound files? All of the conversion programs that I have
encountered go from SoundCap to 'snd ', yet some programs still use the old
format... If anyone has made such a utility or knows of one that exists, please
send me mail or post a message here on INFO-MAC, please.

    Thanks,
    Jesse

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Jesse Adelman                Disclaimer: I have no money, so I don't
Network Administrator                    care if they sue me for
Macintosh Archive Maintainer                every penny I've got
Carnegie Mellon University
Internet: [e-mail]        USnail: 596 Dorseyville Road
BITNET: JA1W+%Andrew.CMU.EDU@CMUCCVB        Pittsburgh, Pa 15238
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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 88 17:57:04 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Modifying Installer Scripts

How does one change the installer scripts that come with the most recent
system upgrade? I want to set up a script that will allow novice users in our
department to update their System, Finder, and printer drivers, but I don't
want to install EasyAccess, Sticky Keys, and some of the other items.

The scripts can be opened with ResEdit. They contain a single 'insc'
resource, which ResEdit recognizes. I can see the items that I want to remove
in the resource. However, I don't know how to delete those items, and I am
not sure if I know everything to change. When deleting, I tried deleting the
**** between items, but then ResEdit gets confused. I also had mixed success
opening the resource in the general resource editor (hex) and deleting
certain portions. However, it is hard to know exactly where each item to be
installed starts, and files so modified yield an error message when trying to
run the Installer program.

I appreciate your help with this problem.

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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 88 21:31:01 EST
From: Yi Wan Wong <[e-mail]>
Subject: printing mac-postscript on unix-driven laserwriter

We have newly acquired a laserwriter II and has it hooked up to our SUN
network.  However, I would like to print MacDraw/MacDraft pictures
on this laserwriter too.  Does anybody have any experience with that?
I heard that postscript files generated by the Mac are not directly printable
on a unix-driven Apple Laserwriter.  Are there quick fixes?  Thanks.

Yiwan Wong
Department of Computer Science
Yale University
New Haven, CT06520.
email: [e-mail]

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Subject: Query: how do you make "cover page" on by default?
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 88 11:21:25 PST
From: [e-mail]

We have a large number of people sharing laser-writers on
our appletalk wire; does anyone know how I can tweak their
system/laserwriter files to make printing a cover page the
default?

Thanks,

-- Jim Guyton
   arpa:  [e-mail]
   uucp:  ....!randvax!guyton

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End of INFO-MAC Digest
**********************
27-Mar-88 12:48:30-PST,22661;000000000000
Mail-From: INFO-MAC-REQUEST created at 27-Mar-88 12:09:40
Date: 27 Mar 88 1209-PST
From: Moderators Jon Pugh, Dwayne Virnau, Lance Nakata
Reply-to: [e-mail]
Subject: INFO-MAC Digest   V6 #33
To: [e-mail]


INFO-MAC Digest          Monday, 28 Mar 1988       Volume 6 : Issue 33

Today's Topics:
                     kermit and red ryder questions
                              MAC/II timers
                               re: XC68881
                                Scanners
                         AppleTalk & 3COM system
                               mac ii bbs
                                 Prolog
              How to write superscript/subscript in EXCEL?
                          Brown Univ. Hypertext
                                A+ Mouse
                   PREC Resources for the LaserWriter
                  A RUN-TIME DATABASE FOR A DESIGN FIRM
                           Mythical EtherTalk?
                  IBM 3101 emulation *and* filetransfer
                              Public Domain
                        Envelopes, Quick and Easy
                  Interactive Fiction/David's Sling???
                BITNET access to released INFO-MAC files?
                       DECNET/Appletalk connection
                        Symbolic Math on the Mac
                              Stuffit 1.31
                           New BBS suggestions
                     Apple tech notes in IM archives


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Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1988 11:18 CST
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 88 11:18 CST
From: <OPTON@UHVAX1>
Subject: kermit and red ryder questions

I am using RED RYDER v9.2 and MacKermit v0.8(33).  What do these
programs use for a <break> key?

Thanks

Lee Thomison
BITNET: OPTON@UHVAX1
landline: [phone]

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Date: 15 Mar 88 13:14:25 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: MAC/II timers

I am interested in finding out the number and type of
timer/counter chips available to the programmer on the Macintosh/II.
Would anyone know either
    - the answer to this question, or
    - how to go about finding out the answer?

Thank you.

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 15 Mar 88 10:01:25 EST
From: Jack Hill <[e-mail]>
Subject: re: XC68881


    As I understand it, the XC prefix designates these chips as engineering
samples or proto-types. We had experience with the XC68881s a while back and
discovered they were producing incorrect results for some floating point
functions. FLOGN and FSQRT are the instructions that come to mind. You should
be able to get an errata sheet from Motorola if you want the details.

Jack Hill
BBN Advanced Computers, Inc.

------------------------------

Date: 15 Mar 88 17:01:42 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Scanners

Does anyone have any recommendations on scanners to be used with the Mac II?
I would like to archive several thousand documents, and am interested in any
reports on the qualities/capabilities of scanning hardware/software.
Thanks.
Rich Quadrel
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1988 10:46:14 CET
From: Guido Dilles <[e-mail]>
Subject: AppleTalk & 3COM system


We're planning to set up a small network of about 7 Mac SE / Mac II's, all
with hard disks.  We're considering using a 3Com server as the network file,
print and backup server using AppleTalk (or Ethernet ?).
If you are using a 3Com server with Mac's attached, I invite your comments,
good or bad experiences, caveat's, appreciations of speed, compatibility, etc.

Please respond directly to me, and I'll summarize to the list.

Guido Dilles  <[e-mail]>
University Psychiatric Hospital St.-Kamillus
Catholic University Leuven - Belgium
Acknowledge-To: <KAMBVL@BLEKUL13>

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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 88 21:18 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: mac ii bbs

Hi, Washington Apple Pie , the Wash DC area user group is considering
upgrading its current system of 8 networked apple IIs on a corvus net.
It may be the only multiuser club system.  One possibility is to go to
networked Mac IIs .  Does anything of this kind exist or is being
written??  We feel that we would like to run many users on each Mac II.
We currently support about 330meg of download (DOS 3.3 , Prodos , cpm
,mac) as well as 4 conferences of 32 selectable boards.  Hopefully we
can get something almost off the shelf.  Regards, Allan E.  Levy

------------------------------

Date: Fri, 18 Mar 88 09:38:07
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Prolog


Hi everyone,

 I'm interested in finding out about versions of PROLOG that run on the MAC.
Perhaps someone has had some/lots-of experience with MAC PROLOGs - any
recommendations for a 'good' version (whatever that is!)? I am interested
also in PROLOG's that may contain some form of in built teaching facility-
any help would be much appreciated.

  Pat Herde

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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 88 19:22 EST
From: "Kang Sun <[e-mail],[e-mail]>"
Subject: How to write superscript/subscript in EXCEL?

Is it possible to draw superscripts and subscripts in EXCEL ?
--- Kang Sun
    sun@yalevms

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Date:       Mon, 21 Mar 88 11:26:51 PST
From: grow#[e-mail]
Subject: Brown Univ. Hypertext

From: [e-mail] (Jerry Grow)
Subject: Hypertext at Brown University
Date: March 20, 1988
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab

[e-mail] (John Gilmore) wrote on Feb 26, 1988:
> The fourth [picture of a Mac screen] is running
> unavailable software from Brown University that brings
> up pictures and text from British novels using the
> Toolbox. (By the way, they are calling the Brown stuff
> "hypertext" and taking Ted Nelson's name in vain. It
> ain't hypertext, it's just hype.)

To the contrary, Brown University's "stuff" is true
hypertext and has roots going directly back to Ted Nelson.
Andy van Dam, who founded Brown's computer science dept,
has been developing hypertext systems for more than 20
years. He worked with Ted Nelson in 1967 and 1968 in
developing the Hypertext Editing System.

Brown U. has been working with hypertext for more than 15
years and established IRIS (Institute for Research in
Information Scholarship) in 1983. IRIS is now working on
Intermedia, a true hypertext system that runs on an IBM RT
under UNIX 4.2; it's now being ported to a Mac II using
A/UX.

To quote from Jeff Conklin's "Hypertext: An Introduction
and Survey" (IEEE Computer Magazine, Sept. 1987, pp 28-29):
"One of the oldest and largest hypertext research groups
exists at Brown University's Institute for Research in
Information Scholarship (IRIS). The Intermedia project
builds on two decades of work and three prior generations
of hypertext systems."

Since Gilmore brought up Ted Nelson's name, it is only fair
to point out that Nelson was not the only pioneer working
on hypertext. Douglas Engelbart started his hypertext work
at the same time Nelson did (each man worked independently),
but Douglas is a very modest individual who does not seek
the limelight. Consequently, he is not nearly so well known
as Nelson.

Doug Engelbart, among his other accomplishments, invented
the mouse. In 1968, he gave a presentation to several
thousand computer experts of the day, at the Fall Joint
Computer Conference in San Francisco, in which he vividly
demonstrated the concept of an interactive desktop personal
computer using windowing effects.

In those days, Doug worked at Stanford Research Institute
(SRI) in Menlo Park. When SRI management, in their infinite
wisdom, decided not to support such foolishness any longer,
many of Doug's group moved to Xerox PARC, where they
continued their work. Eventually, Apple Computer picked up
the work that Doug and his people had begun and came out
with -- guess what -- the Macintosh!

Doug moved to Tymshare, where he continued working on his
own hypertext system, called Augment. Today, Augment is
owned by McDonnell Douglas Information Systems and faces
an uncertain future.

Finally, giving credit where credit is due, neither Ted
Nelson nor Doug Engelbart originated the concept of
hypertext. That honor belongs to Vannevar Bush, who wrote
his famous article, "As We May Think" in 1945. This article
has been reprinted in "The New Papyrus: CD ROM, published
by Microsoft Press in 1986 (ISBN 0-914845-75-6). Bush's
article is well worth reading, even today.

I hope these comments set the record straight. If anyone
is still skeptical about Brown University's hypertext, or
about Ted Nelson sharing his pioneering honors with Doug
Engelbart, all I can suggest is that the skeptics check
the literature. It's all there.

 --Jerry Grow

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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 88 09:35:20 EST
From: Bill Apgar <OEPAPGAR@UOGUELPH>
Subject: A+ Mouse


Jason  ([e-mail]):
I use the A+ optical mouse - have done so for about a year or so.  I
didn't think I would find it useful at first, but have never gone
back to the original - difference is like that between a "Star Wars"
(the movie) hovercraft and a WWII Jeep.  Very smooth and has never
required any maintenance except a little alcohol to clean the metal
plate it rides on.  I am working in a mostly IBM PC environment - brought
my Mac Plus in to work.  Macs are still in the shadows, but they are
doing a lot of work on this campus and others!  P.S.  - I am researching
course authoring software, CBI, technology in the classroom and aiding
faculty in exploring new teaching methods.  Your perspective, whether
you are staff, faculty or student would be welcomed.  Also any ideas
or reference citations you may uncover of interest would be appreciated!
Send me a note!   Bill Apgar
(I would appreciate any input from others as well ...)
oepapgar@uoguelph

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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 88 13:28:52 EST
From: Tom Downey x2558 11/321 <[e-mail]>
Subject: PREC Resources for the LaserWriter

Can anyone point me at information about editing PREC resources for the
LaserWriter? We have a QMS Postscript printer that accepts 11x17 paper and
I would like to be able to use it from various Mac programs. The PREC
resources in the LaserWriter file look significantly different from the
PREC 3 in the Imagewriter file.

Tom Downey
BBN Advanced Computers
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 88 17:22 AST
From: Stan Armstrong <[e-mail]>
Subject: A RUN-TIME DATABASE FOR A DESIGN FIRM

Anyone out there seen a run-time database designed
to help run a design/production house (i.e. track
jobs, keep track of artwork, bill for services, keep
track of subcontractors, issue invoices & the whole
ball of rubber cement)?  I'm looking for one that
will run on Macintosh or IBM PC.

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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 88 19:02:17 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Mythical EtherTalk?


Apple's EtherTalk card for the Mac II

I keep hearing all about people experimenting with the EtherTalk card and
TCP/IP and all that hooey on the nets... I ordered one of these cards way back
in September or so when I ordered the II for my current project and it still
hasn't arrived.  Every time I call the buyer on it, I get told "the dealer
says Apple isn't shipping yet".

How come everybody else got theirs?  Is Apple actually shipping or is it all a
myth that lots of folks are sharing?

grrr.

Godfrey DiGiorgi
[e-mail]
23 Mar 1988

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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 88 12:23:41 CET
From: Guido Dilles <[e-mail]>
Subject: IBM 3101 emulation *and* filetransfer


We have to dial-in to our university IBM-mainframe through a protocol
convertor that only accepts IBM 3101 (?) terminal emulation.
The people over there know of several packages for IBM PC's that can do
3101 *screen-emulation* but of only one (IBM's own FTTERM) that can also
do 3101 *file-transfer* (and which, of course, only runs on PC's).

Does anybody know a terminal emulation package for the MacIntosh that
that can do both 3101 terminal emulation *AND* 3101 file transfer ?
If so, please send me a note |

Guido Dilles       Bitnet/Earn : KAMBVL@BLEKUL13
                   Internet    : [e-mail])
University Psychiatric Centre St.-Kamillus
Catholic University Leuven - Belgium
Acknowledge-To: <KAMBVL@BLEKUL13>

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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 88 07:44:14 EST
From: [e-mail] (McQueen)
Subject: Public Domain

Kaihu Chen writes:
>Dragon 2.1 is not shareware; it is public domain, with the only limitation
>that it may not be used for commercial purposes.  You may freely distribute
>it to any interested party.

My understanding of the meaning of "public domain" is that, having placed a
work in the public domain, an author has no control over future uses of that
work.  One cannot simultaneously place a work in the public domain and restrict
its use.

                        Stan McQueen
                        [e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 88 08:08:53 EST
From: [e-mail] (C. Koch)
Subject: Envelopes, Quick and Easy


A note in Macintosh today mentioned a DA for addressing envelopes.  Named
Kiwi Envelopes, it is said to be shareware and available through bulletin
boards.  However, I can't find it.  Can anyone help?

Even with Hypercard (label fields in reports) I've found envelope addressing
a frustrating task.  Sound like this DA would help.

Thanks,

    Chuck Koch
    [e-mail]
    215-441-2462

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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 88 18:02 EST
From: "Jeff Perkinson"
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Interactive Fiction/David's Sling???

Help!!!!
    I've got a project due real soon and need all the
    information I can get re: interactive fiction on
    the Mac.  I've heard of a commercial Hypercard
    stack called David's Sling published by HyperMedia.
    I haven't seen this stack but would appreciate
    any info on it, or any other programs/stacks that
    pertain to, or are interactive fiction.
                        Thanks
                        Jeff Perkinson
                        [e-mail]

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From: [e-mail]
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 88 20:34:03 MEZ
Subject: BITNET access to released INFO-MAC files?

Date: 25 March 1988, 20:26:06 MEZ
From: Michael Hartje            [phone]     MAMI     at DHVRRZN1
To:   INFO-MAC at SUMEX-AIM

Can anyone explain to me BITNET-user how to obtain the uploaded
files with date after 310188??? The old and very fine managed
MACSERVE at PUCC has closed now an the new one at IRLEARN is
with a file release of 310188 active since weeks. Does anybody
know something about that? When will it be released?

Thanks for help

Michael Hartje, Schering-Institute for High voltage engeneering
and high voltage plants at University of Hannover W-Germany.

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Date: Fri, 25 Mar 88 15:32:07 PST
From: Peter Scott <[e-mail]>
Subject: DECNET/Appletalk connection

solution off-the-shelf for yet: we want to have a bunch of Macs connected
together with Appletalk, and for one of them also to act as a DECNET
node (running something like either Technology Concepts' CommUnity
or Alisa Systems' TSSNet), connected to a VAX, with the ability to
submit batch jobs to the VAX using input and output files located on
the dual-networked Mac (yes, we know this could be simulated with a
script doing remote login behind the scenes).  So far it appears
that you can't have Appletalk and the DECNET connections coexisting
on the same Mac; does anyone know different?

Please reply to:  Mike Hanna ([e-mail])

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Date: 26 Mar 88 17:23:00 EST
From: "Charles E. Bouldin" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Symbolic Math on the Mac
Reply-to: "Charles E. Bouldin" <[e-mail]>

I have seen the future and it runs on a Macintosh.

I just got back from the American Physcial Society meeting in New Orleans,
where I was fortunate enough to see Stephen Wolfraum demonstrating Mathematica,
a symbolic math program. I am very, very impressed with this program.

It does symbolic math. Integration, differentiation, algebra, trig, expansions,
and on and on. More, it runs a standard "kernel" on all computers and a custom
"front end" is provided for each machine separately. I strongly suspect that
this program will become a standard since it will be out for: Mac+, Mac II,
Sun, Apollo, Dec, Alliant and just about any machine with 2.0 megs of memory
and a decent C compiler. It likely will come bundled with some machines.
(Parenthetically, it does NOT run on any MS-DOS PC, 640K limit is just too
much to overcome)

Mathematica files can be moved between any 2 computers running Mathematica.
Files are all ascii, graphics are all done in postscript. Machine specific
extensions (color) are kept separte from the rest of the file (resource fork
vs. data fork on the Mac). The Mac can run its Mathematica front end and
talk to a VAX or Cray over a net. The Mac does the interface, the Cray does
the crunching.

Any expression can be converted to C code, Fortran code or input for TeX.

Mathematica can be taught new things that it doesn't understand to begin with.
For example you can teach it commutators and then have it simplify complex
expressions of nested commutators. Just tell it the rules.

It does math to arbitary precision. PI to 100s of places, 300!, etc, etc.

It will plot (2D and 3D) expressions that you type in like sin(x)/x or
whatever. You can double click on a plot and it turns into the postscript code
that is "behind" the plot so you can edit the postscript or copy it to the
clipboard.

This is a BIG program, however. Don't even *think* about without a Mac+ with
2.5 megs of memory. More would be better. It doesn't yet use the 68881 hardware
floats, but it was "acceptable" in speed on a Mac II. Symbolic stuff is fast,
the plotting, which uses a postscript>Mac Screen interpreter was slow. (This
also gives some taste of how slow display postscript is likely to be)

This thing is supposed to cost around $300-500, although pricing is not yet
set.

To summarize, I was blown away. This does everything that I have wanted for
symbolic math and it does it with a decent Mac interface. There is still a lot
of typing in commands, but I think this is like TeXtures, kind of unavoidable
in a program with this many degrees of freedom. I don't yet know how you get
in touch with the creators of Mathematica to inquire about this program.
Release is supposed to be in May, which is credible since the beta version
that ran at the show crashed once in the course of 3-5 hours of demoing. At
the moment I suggest contacting Wolfraum directly at the University of Illinois
and I will post new info as I am able to find it out.

------------------------------

Date: Sat, 26 Mar 88 18:19:06 PLT
From: Will Fitzpatrick <[e-mail]>
Subject: Stuffit 1.31

There seems to be an error in the lastest version of Stuffit (1.31)
specifically, files that are Binhexed with Stuffit, are NOT decodable
with regular Binhex 4.0.  The converse works fine (Binhex created
files opened by Stuffit).  This has created problems and confusion
for me, and several other persons whom I know of.

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Date: Sun, 27 Mar 88 00:17 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: New BBS suggestions

Hi, Washingon apple Pi (5000 member user group) is planning its next
generation bbs.  Currently we run 8 lines on 8 apple iie networked to
several hundred meg of corvus.  We have been thinking about a system
that would have several Mac II systems running a unix like system.
Requirements are:  User friendly Support large number of conferences
Support uploads and downloads of dos, prodos, cpm(?), and mac stuff.
Large number of lines (>8) Redundant if possible Interface other nets
for feeds and downloads Off the shelf if possible Any ideas or
recommendations would be greatly appreciated.  Regards, Allan Oh yes
Email also

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From: [e-mail]
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 88  12:38:30 EST
Subject: Apple tech notes in IM archives

The Info-Mac archives have holes in their collection of Apple tech notes.
The following tech notes are not in the archives...

    TN 25, 31, 33, 35, 37, 38
    TN 47-49
    TN 77-83
    TN 107-117

Could some kindly soul please upload these?  Being a poor student I'm not
willing to spend the bucks for joining APDA just for the tech notes, and
then spending lots more bucks for back issues and subscriptions.  Ergo I've
been extremely glad that people have troubled to make them available here.

On a different note, the tech note collection in the archives is quite
disorganized.  For example, a lot of the files marked TNxx-yy.HQX do not
actually contain all the note in that range. (Hence some of the holes)

If there is interest, I'm willing to reorganize all of the tech notes
(once someone uploads the missing ones) into "StuffIt" archives of 10
or so each, and re-upload the whole set from day one.  (Info-Mac manager,
please comment on this proposition)

[
It sounds good to me.  I suppose Lance could even cope although he is the one
who would end up dealing with it and should have his say.  I'm going to send
this before asking him though, so we shall have to wait, although waiting is
necessary before we can get the missing tech notes too.  I would post xeroxes
of my copies, but they don't show up in StuffIt's SFGetFile dialog box.  :-)

Jon
]

 - Jurgen E Botz

   Bitnet: Jurgen@UMass
   ARPA:   [e-mail]

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27-Mar-88 13:12:09-PST,9040;000000000001
Mail-From: INFO-MAC-REQUEST created at 27-Mar-88 12:13:17
Date: 27 Mar 88 1213-PST
From: Moderators Jon Pugh, Dwayne Virnau, Lance Nakata
Reply-to: [e-mail]
Subject: INFO-MAC Digest   V6 #34
To: [e-mail]


INFO-MAC Digest          Monday, 28 Mar 1988       Volume 6 : Issue 34

Today's Topics:
                            I found a virus.
                         Wallpaper for the Mind
                          Mac II PRAM fix INIT
                             Dir-Acta-Ry 1.0
                          HyperBBS (in 9 parts)
                         VisionLab (in 7 parts)
                         McSink 4.2 (in 2 parts)
                                 Playsnd
                              FarceFilm #55
                              DeskPict INIT


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Subject: I found a virus.
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 88 15:40:09 PST
From: James Jennings <[e-mail]>


        With all the talk about a Mac computer virus that was associated
with a 'nVIR' resource, I decided to check everything I down-loaded with
ResEdit before I ran it.
    I found one.

The infected program was identified by:

[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>LIGHTSPEEDC-STDFILE-STDIO.HQX

I didn't probe any further so forgive me if I missed something.

                    James Jennings

[Moderator's Note:  Thank you for checking this one out, James.  We do not
have the time to do so ourselves.  To all people who submit binaries:  if
you have the chance, please check out anything you send to Info-Mac; do NOT
assume that our posting of a program means we've inspected it.  Also, if a
virus/Trojan Horse/time bomb gets by us, please send a note ASAP and warn
us!  I've already removed the aforementioned file.  It's sad that we have
to be so vigilant.  - Lance ]

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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 88 11:33:36 pst
From: John Peterson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Wallpaper for the Mind

This is a very fast implementation of the "Wallpaper for the mind"
algorithm that appeared in Scientific American's "Computer Recreations"
column (September, 1986).

Have fun with it,
John Peterson

[archived as

[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>WALLPAPER-FOR-THE-MIND.HQX

- Lance ]

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Date: Sun, 6 Mar 88 15:22:51 EST
From: [e-mail] (Jeffrey A. Sullivan)
Subject: Mac II PRAM fix INIT

This file contains the PRAM patch for a Mac II in INIT form.  It (I don't
know how) keeps PRAM mess-ups resulting from bombs from causing your Mac II
to fail to recognize your hard disk at startup.

I received this from someone over the net, but can't find the name now to
give them credit.

To use this, just un-binhex it and put it in your system folder and reboot.
See the "get info" box for more info.

Jas

[archived as

[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>INIT-MACII-PRAM-PATCH.HQX

- Lance ]

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Date: Mon 7 Mar 88 10:02:11-GMT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: Dir-Acta-Ry 1.0

[ Uploaded from Delphi by Jeff Shulman ]

Name: DIR-ACTA-RY 1.0
Date: 5-MAR-1988 21:15 by DDUNHAM

Dir-Acta-ry is a free program which makes an Acta document from a disk or
folder directory.  (Read Acta outlines with the Acta desk accessory, or the
free Acta Reader program.)  Dir-Acta-ry has many options, including "Get
Info" comments in the output.  It also converts documents from "by folder"
to "by file," making it handy for user group librarians.  Version 1.0 by
James Owen; original version by David Dunham.

[archived as

[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>DIR-ACTA-RY-10.HQX

This version replaces version 0.41.

- Lance ]

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Date: Mon 7 Mar 88 10:05:06-GMT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: HyperBBS (in 9 parts)

[ Uploaded from Delphi by Jeff Shulman ]

Name: HYPERBBS 1.0
Date: 14-FEB-1988 18:17 by CHESLEY

HyperBBS is a bulletin board system written entirely in HyperCard. It's
primary purpose is to be so easy to set up and run that anyone who wants to
can be a Sysop. It's secondary purpose is to allow Sysops to tailor the BBS
however they like.

[archived as

[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>HYPERCARD-BBS-10-PART1.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>HYPERCARD-BBS-10-PART2.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>HYPERCARD-BBS-10-PART3.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>HYPERCARD-BBS-10-PART4.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>HYPERCARD-BBS-10-PART5.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>HYPERCARD-BBS-10-PART6.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>HYPERCARD-BBS-10-PART7.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>HYPERCARD-BBS-10-PART8.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>HYPERCARD-BBS-10-PART9.HQX

- Lance ]

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Date: Mon 7 Mar 88 10:24:06-GMT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: VisionLab (in 7 parts)

[ Uploaded from Delphi by Jeff Shulman ]

Name: VISION LAB
Date: 3-MAR-1988 01:50 by JONES

[ All files updated 3-MAR-1988 01:50 by JONES.  Version 0.67 adds a few new
features and fixes a couple of bugs. ]

Vision Lab - For all Macs with at least the 128ROMs.  Works best on a Mac
II.  Opens Thunder Scan, MacPaint, PICT, and GIF files.  Also works with
the Koala MacVision hardware.  (Vision Lab replaces SuperVision)

[archived as

[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>VISION-LAB-067-PART1.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>VISION-LAB-067-PART2.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>VISION-LAB-067-PART3.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>VISION-LAB-067-PART4.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>VISION-LAB-067-PART5.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>VISION-LAB-067-PART6.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>VISION-LAB-067-PART7.HQX

This version replaces the previous version of Vision Lab and SuperVision
0.41.

- Lance ]

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Date: Thu 10 Mar 88 08:50:36-GMT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: McSink 4.2 (in 2 parts)

[ Uploaded from Delphi by Jeff Shulman ]

Name: MCSINK V4.2
Date: 9-MAR-1988 19:01 by DMCWHERTER

[ Updated 9-MAR-1988 19:01 by DMCWHERTER to version 4.2. Fixes all reported
bugs in V4.1. ]

McSink V4.1. A shareware text editing and file access DA. This version
supports >32k text files and up to 16 windows. Many unusual text editing
commands. In StuffIt format. Docs in MacWrite format.

[archived as

[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>DA-MCSINK-42-PART1.HQX
[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>DA-MCSINK-42-PART2.HQX

- Lance ]

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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 88 15:53 GMT
From: Ralph <[e-mail]>
Subject: Playsnd

Here is a little shareware utility I have knocked up for playing 'snd '
resources.  Initially, the snd's from the system file are loaded, and you
can get snd's from other files by using open in the file menu.  Just choose
the snd you want to hear in the sounds menu.  This will only work on a mac
II, to save people from needlessly downloading it.  Ralph

[archived as

[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>UTILITY-PLAYSND.HQX

- Lance ]

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Date: Fri 11 Mar 88 09:24:59-GMT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
Subject: FarceFilm #55

[ Uploaded from Delphi by Jeff Shulman ]

Name: FARCEFILM 55.FILM
Date: 10-MAR-1988 19:53 by ARTSFARCES

This is FarceFilm 55 for the week of 11 March 1988.  It's in MicroFilm
format and as such requires MicroFilm Reader V1.0 or later for use.  This
week's topic is "CDing the Future."

[archived as

[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>ARTS-FARCES-FILM-55.HQX

- Lance ]

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Date: Sat, 5 Mar 88 20:26:21 PST
From: [e-mail] (Dave Platt)
Subject: DeskPict INIT

This is the DeskPict INIT.  I think its Read Me file says it best:

        ----

This is my first init to go public anywhere so hopefully things will work
out.  This is an init that will put up a color background picture on a Mac
II. So far it seems to work on any size monitor, any number, and any depth.
The picture put on the screen has to be in a file named StartUpScreen or
DeskPicture and contain a PICT resource of ID 0 in the resource fork (i.e.
A normal Mac II startup screen file or a GrayView document).  The picture
in the file named DeskPicture will be scaled to the size of the main
monitor and will be prefered over that of the the startup screen (which is
not scaled but centered). The init was also packed with StuffIt and I am
asking no money for it. Enjoy and send any praise, flames, comments, or
wish lists to me.

Clay Maeckel
CompuServe:     73057,255
UUCP:           {decwrl!apple,voder,sun,portal}!claris!clay
AppleLink:      Maeckel1

[archived as

[SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU]<INFO-MAC>INIT-DESKPICT.HQX

- Lance ]

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