home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Date: Sat 7 Nov 87 09:43:19-GMT
- From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR>
- Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V3 #90
-
- Usenet Mac Digest Saturday, November 7, 1987 Volume 3 : Issue 90
-
- Today's Topics:
- Anyone seen SHOWInit???
- Re: Reducing fan noise from Macintosh II
- Re: Recommendation for a new "Paste" feature on ALL Mac So
- A few comments on Dataframe XP150i internal hard disk
- More on MacMaple...
- Re: CMS Drives
- bug in MacScheme 1.0
- Mail-order and warranties
- Re: Making sure PrGeneral exists
- Prodigy board vendors?
- small LSC ControlMgr.h problem
- Re: LSC and the bugs from hell
- SE Internal Hard Disk Size
- Re: small LSC ControlMgr.h problem
- Re: CMS Drives
- X-windows for the Mac? (question)
- A/UX and 3rd party disks?
- A Rather dumb question...
- Re: Compiler efficiency
- Re: LSC and the bugs from hell
- Re: X-windows for the Mac? (question)
- Maple - Symbolic math for Mac
- Apple Extended Keyboard Support
- INIT and CDEV resources
- Yet more INIT questions
- Re: Mac II Video Glitches
- Re: QuicKeys
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- From: hunt@firqb.dec.com (Phil Hunt)
- Subject: Anyone seen SHOWInit???
- Date: 31 Oct 87 00:32:47 GMT
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
-
- Hello all...
-
- Has anyone seen SHOWInit yet??? It is an INIT that displays the INITS
- icons as they run on startup... If not showinit, I seem to remember
- something similar posted about 6 months ago...
-
- Anyideas????
-
- Phil Hunt
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: dplatt@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Dave Platt)
- Subject: Re: Reducing fan noise from Macintosh II
- Date: 30 Oct 87 21:06:07 GMT
- Organization: Teknowledge, Inc., Palo Alto CA
-
- I mentioned a few days ago that I had been told that moving the video
- card on a Mac II from slot #1 (next to the power supply) to slot #6 (as
- far away from the power supply as possible) could reduce the noise of
- the Mac II's fan, by un-obstructing the fan's air passage and reducing
- turbulence. Well, I tried it, and it does seem to have made a
- difference; the amount of noise that escapes through the vents in the
- top of the Mac II's case has been reduced somewhat. It's not a stunning
- decrease, but it is noticable.
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: ws0n+@andrew.cmu.edu (Walter Smith)
- Subject: Re: Recommendation for a new "Paste" feature on ALL Mac So
- Date: 30 Oct 87 02:49:50 GMT
- Organization: Carnegie Mellon University
-
- I don't believe people are taking this seriously. Pressing a key while
- you select a menu item? If you type '3' and select "Duplicate", does it
- make three copies of the selection? If you type '8' and select "Save",
- does it save eight copies of the document? Think for a minute.
-
- If you want multiple pasting, how about a "Paste Multiple" menu item?
-
- - Walt
- --
- Walter Smith, CS graduate student, Carnegie-Mellon University
- uucp: ...!ucbvax!f.gp.cs.cmu.edu!wrs ? ARPA: wrs@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu
- usps: 5706 Darlington Rd.; Pittsburgh, PA 15217
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: eacj@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Julian Vrieslander)
- Subject: A few comments on Dataframe XP150i internal hard disk
- Date: 31 Oct 87 04:35:32 GMT
- Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
-
- I recently installed a SuperMac DataFrame XP150i in a Mac II. Here's a
- couple of quick observations.
-
- When I saw the external DataFrame XP150 at MacWorld, I noticed how large
- the case was, and wondered how the internal version could fit inside the
- Mac II box. Well, now I know. SuperMac supplies a replacement part for
- the metal stamping that serves as a tray for internal drives inside the
- Mac II. The replacement part still supports two floppy drives in their
- normal positions, but the rear half of the tray has a stepped recess
- that goes down an inch or two and accommodates the hard disk. It's a
- tight fit, but everything fit in OK (see note below) and works fine.
-
- The drive mechanism is a 5.25" unit manufactured by a division of
- Control Data Corporation. Disk timer results were as follows:
-
- 100 24kb reads 26 deciseconds
- 100 24kb writes 29 deciseconds
- Step time 7 deciseconds
-
- Subjectively, the disk seems a bit faster than the XP20 we were using
- temporarily. Noise is minimal, less than the Mac II's fan. I was
- pleased to find that SuperMac is now supplying nice glossy documentation
- with their drives - this used to be a weak area.
-
- The only hitch in the installation came while the Mac II cover was going
- back on. There is a molded plastic post that extends from under the
- inside of the cover down to the metal tray that carries the disk drives
- - probably to support the case against the weight of large monitors.
- The replacement tray sits a bit higher, so the post was pushing the
- cover up enough to produce an unslightly bulge. Undaunted, I raided the
- toolbox and had at the post with a file. An officemate heard the noise
- and saw me working on the open Mac II in a cloud of plastic dust. Came
- the obvious question: "What's going on?"
-
- "File optimizing," I answered.
-
- --
- Julian Vrieslander (607) 255-3594
- Neurobiology & Behavior, W250 Mudd Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853
- UUCP: {cmcl2,decvax,rochester,uw-beaver,ihnp4}!cornell!batcomputer!eacj
- ARPA: eacj@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu BITNET: eacj@CRNLTHRY
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: evans@mhuxt.UUCP (Sukie Crandall)
- Subject: More on MacMaple...
- Date: 30 Oct 87 23:36:28 GMT
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ
-
-
- I have received numerous requests for info on MacMaple. ...
-
- The program is version 4.0 of the University of Waterloo's Maple. It
- will run on a Mac Plus with a hard disk, although this is minimal.
- (lots of RAM helps!!!). The program is currently a direct translation of
- the command line versions of Maple that run on other (larger) machines.
- Someone at Waterloo told me that they are considering working on a
- Macish version if they get a chance to get around to it.
-
- The cost (last April) was $1000 Canadian for a single user license.
- Contact them for info on possible educational discounts. You will need
- MPW to get the program running (just MPW - you won't need the
- languages).
-
- Symbolic Computation Group
- Dept of COmputer Science
- University of Waterloo
- Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1
- Canada
-
- I haven't tried their e-mail address for several months, it was:
- allegra!watmath!watdaisy!watmaple
-
- Benton Leong is the guru there.
-
-
- Good luck -- I think this is one of the more interesting ports to the
- micro world. It certainly saves me $$$ on calculations. I would tend to
- recommend it to people who have played with symbolic algebra programs as
- they all suffer a similar disease...
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: maddie@pnet01.cts.com (Tom Schenck)
- Subject: Re: CMS Drives
- Date: 31 Oct 87 03:16:51 GMT
- Organization: People-Net [pnet01], El Cajon, CA
-
-
- Well, considering that the maximum data transfer rate is 1.5 meg/sec,
- and that Apple is supposed to have an 80-meg drive at about the same
- speed as the CMS (seeing that they both use the same mechanical, and the
- EPROM contains similar code), I really don't see any difference in the
- two. In MY opinion, 26 ms is rather slow for an 80-meg drive, and
- BORDERLINE for a 40-meg...
-
- That *IS* just my opinion.
-
-
- UUCP: {cbosgd, hplabs!hp-sdd, sdcsvax, nosc}!crash!pnet01!maddie
- ARPA: crash!pnet01!maddie@nosc.mil
- INET: maddie@pnet01.CTS.COM
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: jh@tut.fi (Juha Hein{nen)
- Subject: bug in MacScheme 1.0
- Date: 31 Oct 87 15:51:21 GMT
- Organization: Tampere University of Technology, Finland
-
- MacScheme 1.0 doesn't evaluate correctly nested quasiquote's. For
- example
-
- `(a `(b ,(+ 1 2)))
-
- evaluates to
-
- (a `(b 3))
-
- instead of
-
- (a `(b ,(+ 1 2)))
- --
- Juha Heinanen
- Tampere Univ. of Technology
- Finland
- jh@tut.fi (Internet), tut!jh (UUCP)
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: osmigo@ut-ngp.UUCP (Ron Morgan)
- Subject: Mail-order and warranties
- Date: 1 Nov 87 02:25:42 GMT
- Organization: Speech Communication UT Austin
-
- This may have been brought up before, so feel free to hit "n." Many mail
- order companies in MacWorld/User have policies of "all sales final." I'm
- considering buying a hard disk from one of them, and was wondering if
- such purchases typically included the original manufacturers'
- warranties, especially the frequent "30-day-trial-money-back" type as
- advertised by Jasmine.
-
- I'd also like to hear what anybody knows regarding the integrity of
- Tussey Computer Products of State College, Pa., who have such an ad in
- the November MacWorld. ~r}i
-
- Considering the horrifying prices of HD's bought "off the shelf" in the
- typical computer store, I'm sure this information would be of interest
- to at least a few netters, so posted replies would certainly be apropos.
- Besides, (R)eplying via e-mail is about as reliable as the weather, at
- least in my case.
-
- Thanks in advance,
-
- Ron Morgan
-
- --
- UUCP: {ihnp4,allegra,ut-sally}!ut-ngp!osmigo
- osmigo@ut-ngp.UUCP
- ARPA: osmigo@ngp.utexas.edu
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: jww@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (Joel West)
- Subject: Re: Making sure PrGeneral exists
- Date: 1 Nov 87 04:08:14 GMT
- Organization: Palomar Software, Inc., Vista, CA
-
- If you consult Tech Note #128, about PrGeneral, it points out how to go
- about this.
-
- Call PrError. As always, NoErr means it worked. If ResNotFound is
- returned, then the PDEF #7 is missing and there's no PrGeneral
- implemented. This is probably why HyperCard complains with old printer
- drivers.
- --
- Joel West (c/o UCSD)
- Palomar Software, Inc., P.O. Box 2635, Vista, CA 92083
- {ucbvax,ihnp4}!sdcsvax!jww jww@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: PJA@PSUVM.BITNET
- Subject: Prodigy board vendors?
- Date: 30 Oct 87 21:47:34 GMT
- Organization: The Pennsylvania State University - Computation Center
-
- Does anyone know of a cheap source for a Prodigy SE board? Please
- respond directly to me: pja@psuvm.psu.edu.
-
- Thanks. Kenton C. Phillips Astro. Dept., Penn State
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: mms@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (John J. Chew III)
- Subject: small LSC ControlMgr.h problem
- Date: 31 Oct 87 04:03:09 GMT
- Organization: The Poslfit Committee
-
-
- A small problem I found while writing my Very First CDEF (in LSC
- 2.01)...
-
- In the definition of the typedef ControlRecord, field contrlHilite
- (among others) is of type char. If the control is to be inactive, this
- field should be set to 255. Unfortunately, if contrlHilite is
- subsequently compared to 255 or 0xff, the code generated sign-extends
- contrlHilite but not 255 and therefore does not find them to be equal.
-
- I believe contrlHilite should be of type unsigned char and not char.
-
- John Chew
- --
- john j. chew (v3.0) poslfit@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu
- +1 416 463 5403 (300/1200 bps) poslfit@utorgpu.bitnet
- {cbosgd,decvax,mnetor,utai,utcsri,{allegra,linus}!utzoo}!utgpu!poslfit
- "Script-G for open, sub-delta for durchschnitt"
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: raylau@dasys1.UUCP (Raymond Lau)
- Subject: Re: LSC and the bugs from hell
- Date: 31 Oct 87 21:23:56 GMT
- Organization: The Big Electric Cat
-
-
- Any of you have any opinions on Jasik's The Debugger? How does it
- compare to TMON, esp. when used with LightspeedC?
-
-
- Raymond Lau {allegra,philabs,cmcl2}!phri\ Big
- Electric Cat Public Unix {bellcore,cmcl2}!cucard!dasys1!raylau
- New York, NY, USA {sun}!hoptoad/
- GEnie:RayLau Delphi:RaymondLau CIS:76174,2617
- "Take it and StuffIt."
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: drew@wolf.UUCP (Drew Dean)
- Subject: SE Internal Hard Disk Size
- Date: 1 Nov 87 07:01:26 GMT
- Organization: Systems'n'Software San Diego, CA
-
- My SE with Apple's 20Mb drive formatted out to 19,019K (as reported in
- the title bar). For a supposedly 20Mb [formatted] drive, this is a lot of
- bad sectors. I've seen other SE's down in the 17000K range. How big is
- the drive, and should I be worried about the 1Mbyte I'm missing, or am I
- lucky to get 19,000K out? Email replies and I'll summarize....
-
- Drew Dean
- Disclaimer: Any organization I may or may not be affiliated with may or may not
- agree with my personal opinions, as expressed above....
- UUCP: {ihnp4, sdcsvax}!jack!wolf!drew
- This is my first posting to USENET, so I apologize if I messed anything up....
-
- [ He shouldn't feel so bad, I got only 76Mb out of my 80Mb Apple - Jeff ]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: lippin@wheatena (The Apathist)
- Subject: Re: small LSC ControlMgr.h problem
- Date: 1 Nov 87 11:02:34 GMT
- Organization: UC Berkeley Math Department
-
- Recently mms@gpu.utcs.UUCP (John J. Chew III) said:
- >
- >In the definition of the typedef ControlRecord, field contrlHilite
- >(among others) is of type char. If the control is to be inactive,
- >this field should be set to 255. Unfortunately, if contrlHilite is
- >subsequently compared to 255 or 0xff, the code generated sign-extends
- >contrlHilite but not 255 and therefore does not find them to be equal.
- >
- >I believe contrlHilite should be of type unsigned char and not char.
-
- That wouldn't hurt (I never cared for sign in chars anyway), but you
- should be comparing it to (char)255, as it is a char after all.
-
- --Tom Lippincott
- ..ucbvax!bosco!lippin
-
- "If there were more people like you, there'd be less people like you!"
- --Hawkeye Pierce, of Colonel Flagg, M*A*S*H
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: cswarren@enzyme.berkeley.edu.BERKELEY.EDU (Warren Gish)
- Subject: Re: CMS Drives
- Date: 1 Nov 87 20:32:45 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
-
-
- I've heard the 80 MB CMS drives contain a 64 KB cache that drops the
- average access time from 26 ms down to 18 ms, which is good for a drive
- of this size. The CMS drivers were recently updated to perform "blind"
- reads and writes, which is how the SCSI port is purportedly saturated.
- This drive definitely *seems* faster than the 40 MB Apple drive. Apple's
- HD Backup (System 4.1 and 4.2) work fine; I've only used the verify
- function of Apple's First Aid and it seemed to work also. I've had my
- Pro80ii for almost 2 mos. now and had zero problems with it. The CMS
- drives are significantly less expensive than any other manufacturers'
- I've found. (Try M.A.C. in Berkeley where the Pro80i internal sells for
- $1180, or if you're an Apple Certified Developer you can buy the same
- drive for $999 directly from CMS [Tustin, CA]).
-
- --Warren
-
- Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with CMS, M.A.C., or Apple, and any
- opinions expressed herein are in the public domain.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: royt@gatech.edu (Roy M Turner)
- Subject: X-windows for the Mac? (question)
- Date: 1 Nov 87 19:51:33 GMT
- Organization: School of Information and Computer Science, Georgia Tech, Atlanta
-
- Hi--
-
- This is probably a pointless question, but is there or is there likely
- to be a version of X-windows for the Mac? We are using a SUN and some
- Lisp machines (although we don't have X up on the lispm's yet), and it
- would be nice to sit at home and use X.
-
- Thanks.
-
- Roy
- --
- Roy Turner
- School of Information and Computer Science
- Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
- ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo,ut-ngp}!ics.gatech.edu!royt
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: jjd@bbn.COM (James J Dempsey)
- Subject: A/UX and 3rd party disks?
- Date: 1 Nov 87 20:37:41 GMT
- Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc., Cambridge, MA
-
- I just bought a Mac II and I want to buy a hard disk for it. I want to
- be able to run A/UX when it comes out, but I'm not sure how to choose an
- appropriate disk.
-
- Given that:
- * Apple recommends at least 80MB for A/UX
- * I can't afford Apple's 80MB ($2699)
- * I want an internal drive
-
- I figure my only choices are the Jasmine 90MB internal, the CMS 80MB or
- the Warp Nine 80MB.
-
- Someone said that only Apple's drive will work with A/UX or that only
- Quantum drives will work with A/UX. Does anyone know the exact truth
- about this? My dealers know nothing, the drive makers know nothing, and
- a phone call to Apple just yielded "A/UX will be out the 1st of the
- year".
-
- If I buy a 3rd party drive, like the Jasmine Innerdrive 90MB, will I be
- able to use it to run A/UX? Perhaps some technical person at Apple can
- comment on this? I would hate to spend $1500 for a drive and find out
- it is useless for A/UX.
-
-
- --Jim Dempsey--
- BBN Communications
- Cambridge, MA
- jjd@bbn.com (INTERNET, preferred address)
- ..!{decvax, ihnp4, wjh12, harvard}!bbn!jjd (USENET)
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: maddie@pnet01.cts.com (Tom Schenck)
- Subject: A Rather dumb question...
- Date: 2 Nov 87 00:36:14 GMT
- Organization: People-Net [pnet01], El Cajon, CA
-
-
- Anyone out there know what the maximum Hard-Disk size is on the Mac
- before you have to partition? For some reason 4 gigabytes seems to pop
- into my head, can anyone tell me for certain?
-
- UUCP: {cbosgd, hplabs!hp-sdd, sdcsvax, nosc}!crash!pnet01!maddie
- ARPA: crash!pnet01!maddie@nosc.mil
- INET: maddie@pnet01.CTS.COM
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: stew@endor.harvard.edu (Stew Rubenstein)
- Subject: Re: Compiler efficiency
- Date: 2 Nov 87 02:23:06 GMT
- Organization: Aiken Computation Lab Harvard, Cambridge, MA
-
- Compared to other machines I've worked on, Macintosh C compilers (I
- don't have experience with other languages) are a big disappointment,
- even the professional MPW C from Green Hills. They don't even do simple
- peephole optimizations, let alone the global optimization necessary for
- really good code generation.
-
- Anyone want to work on porting Gnu C to MPW?
-
- Stew
- Stew Rubenstein
- Cambridge Scientific Computing, Inc.
- UUCPnet: seismo!harvard!rubenstein CompuServe: 76525,421
- Internet: rubenstein@harvard.harvard.edu MCIMail: CSC
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: stew@endor.harvard.edu (Stew Rubenstein)
- Subject: Re: LSC and the bugs from hell
- Date: 2 Nov 87 02:27:29 GMT
- Organization: Aiken Computation Lab Harvard, Cambridge, MA
-
- I have Jasik's Debugger, but I don't use it. I know people who use it
- all the time and love it, but it is way too fragile for me. Perhaps
- this is because I have a Hypercharger- and BigPicture-equipped SE, or
- perhaps I'm just trying to do things they aren't.
-
- The documentation is woefully inadequate.
-
- It doesn't have trap discipline, the single most important and useful
- feature of of TMON, in my opinion (the menu item is there, but says "Not
- yet").
-
- At present, I am using TMON and hoping that Jasik can finish his product
- so I can use it.
-
- Stew
- Stew Rubenstein
- Cambridge Scientific Computing, Inc.
- UUCPnet: seismo!harvard!rubenstein CompuServe: 76525,421
- Internet: rubenstein@harvard.harvard.edu MCIMail: CSC
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: stew@endor.harvard.edu (Stew Rubenstein)
- Subject: Re: X-windows for the Mac? (question)
- Date: 2 Nov 87 02:32:32 GMT
- Organization: Aiken Computation Lab Harvard, Cambridge, MA
-
- Yes, for certain it'll be part of A/UX. That may mean that the impetus
- will be there to port it to the current Mac O/S.
-
-
- Stew
- Stew Rubenstein
- Cambridge Scientific Computing, Inc.
- UUCPnet: seismo!harvard!rubenstein CompuServe: 76525,421
- Internet: rubenstein@harvard.harvard.edu MCIMail: CSC
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: hastings@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Mark Hastings)
- Subject: Maple - Symbolic math for Mac
- Date: 2 Nov 87 03:53:09 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
-
- I recently wrote to the Symbolic Computation Group at the University of
- Waterloo for more information about their symbolic math package "Maple."
-
- The response I got was that "McMaple 4.0" runs as a tool under MPW, and
- 1MB of memory is quite sufficient for all but really large problems.
- They may produce a stand-alone version later, but MPW is required now
- (they will have a upgrade policy when newer versions come out).
-
- The thing that really cooled me was the price -- $590.00 for individuals
- (with a 50% discount to educational institutions). This is probably a
- real bargain for such a powerful system (and all source to Maple
- libraries is included), but a bit much for a weekend experimenter. They
- have more elaborate policies for site-licensing.
-
- The person to contact at Waterloo is:
- Benton Leong
- Symbolic Computation Group, Department of Computer Science
- University of Waterloo
- Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1
- Canada
-
- (519) 885-1211 (x4474)
- blleong@watmath.UUCP
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Mark Hastings hastings@cory.BERKELEY.EDU
- ...!ucbvax!cory!hastings cory!hastings@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: jasst3@cisunx.UUCP (sullivan jeffrey a.)
- Subject: Apple Extended Keyboard Support
- Date: 1 Nov 87 22:47:05 GMT
- Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys
-
- Will Apple be releasing any kind of support for my Extended keyboard?
- I'd hate to have to buy a product like QuickKeys just to use something
- that Apple should have for free.
-
- ..........................................................................
- Jeff Sullivan University of Pittsburgh
- pitt!cisunx!jasst3 Intelligent Systems Studies Program
- jasper@PittVMS (BITNET) Graduate Student
- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: pgn@usceast.UUCP (Paul Nevai)
- Subject: INIT and CDEV resources
- Date: 2 Nov 87 13:46:58 GMT
- Organization: University of South Carolina, Columbia
-
- I'd like to get info about CDEV and INIT resources. MacTutor has an
- article on "CDEV Examples Revisited" in 10/87. Are there any books or
- other articles discussing such stuff? Are there any code sources
- available? Could someone explain how and immortal stuff such as JClock
- is kept in the menubar? All help will be appreciated. (I speak mostly
- Pascal)
-
- If there is a lots of replies, I'll summarize them on the Net.
-
- Paul Nevai N410106@univscvm.BITNET (PREFERRED)
- Carolina Research Professor .../!wright/!usceast/!pgn (UUCP)
- Department of Mathematics pgn@cs.scarolina.edu.CSNET
- University of South Carolina 73057,172.Compu$erve
- Columbia, S.C. 29208 1-(803)-777-3776.office
- U.S.A. 1-(803)-777-4226.secy
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: palarson@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Paul Larson)
- Subject: Yet more INIT questions
- Date: 31 Oct 87 17:38:27 GMT
- Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
-
- I have two questions.
-
- 1. What should not be done by an INIT? Are there any managers or
- drivers which are not initialized at the time of INIT execution? Is
- there anything which is absolutely verboten?
-
- 2. How doest one go about installing a background task with an INIT (as
- per JClock (a clock in the menu-bar))? Any suggestions would be
- appreciated; source would be manna from heaven (Pascal preferred, but
- under duress, I'll read anything.)
-
- Thanx in advance,
- Johan Larson
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein)
- Subject: Re: Mac II Video Glitches
- Date: 2 Nov 87 17:13:18 GMT
- Organization: Advanced Technology Group, Apple Computer
-
- In article <4222@iuvax.UUCP> viking@iuvax.UUCP (Jon W. Backstrom)
- writes:
- >
- >I didn't notice it until I upgraded the Mac II to 5 Mb of memory. After
- >that, if I used *any* video mode with more than 2 colors, I get an
- >interesting video artifact...
- >
- >A CLOCK!! If I use the 4 color mode, I can see a tiny clock with full
-
- This indicates a program that is writing directly to the screen. The
- your monitor is set of more than 2 colors/grays, then the code which
- writes directly to the screen will not work properly because the display
- memory is organized differently.
-
- You will see this effect in other places (eg, MacPaint). Until the
- offending program is updated, there is nothing you can do but change
- your screen to 2 color mode.
-
- --
- Larry Rosenstein
-
- Object Specialist
- Apple Computer
-
- AppleLink: Rosenstein1
- UUCP: {sun, voder, nsc, mtxinu, dual}!apple!lsr
- CSNET: lsr@Apple.com
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
- Subject: Re: QuicKeys
- Date: 2 Nov 87 07:35:52 GMT
- Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA
-
- In article <2443@usceast.UUCP> pgn@usceast.uucp.UUCP (Paul Nevai)
- writes:
- >I have a demo version of QucKeys and it doesn't recognize the DataDesk 101
- >function keys.
- >Will the release version work with this keyboard? How? Are there any patches
- >available?
-
- The release version comes with an INIT file for the DataDesk 101 and the
- Tangent Keyboards, which gives full support to all their function keys.
-
- No time for a long review about QuicKeys -- but this is the kind of
- product which, by itself, could replace dozens of other utilities I
- have. When you think of a tool for "Power Users", this one comes to
- mind immediately. Well worth the bucks, and another feather in the cap
- of CE Software.
-
- "Everyone is entitled to an *informed*
- opinion."
- -- Harlan Ellison
-
- Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
- INTERNET: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM
- Manual UUCP: {uw-beaver, sun, allegra, hplsla, lbl-csam}!fluke!moriarty
- CREDO: You gotta be Cruel to be Kind...
- <*> DISCLAIMER: Do what you want with me, but leave my employers alone! <*>
-
- ------------------------------
-
- End of Usenet Mac Digest
- ************************
-