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Usenet Mac Digest     Sunday, January 31, 1988       Volume 4 : Issue 17

Today's Topics:
     MacWorld Expo Report 2 (longer)
     caveat to PBHCreate users
     Re: Setting cursor position and mouse speed.
     Tempo vs. Quickkey
     Something that does fast expansion of text abbreviations?
     tape backup units
     Multifinder programming problem
     Help for the nearly blind
     Gemstone
     Where to get FORTH for macintosh
     Re: PD FORTH for the MAC?
     Re: Mac <--> UNIX file sharing needed
     Re: of mice and macs
     Anyone know how to make A/UX recognize tape drive?
     here's a MacLanding enter key patch
     Excel vs Font/DA Juggler
     Re: tcsh in AUX
     Re: Suitcase versus Font/DA Juggler
     Appletalk Conference/BBS program sources

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From: [e-mail] (Bill Petro - Program Management Office)
Subject: MacWorld Expo Report 2 (longer)
Date: 28 Jan 88 00:03:37 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View


    Macworld Expo 1988 - Review and Commentary
      by Bill Petro

    CONTENTS:
    The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
    Speakers
       John Sculley
       Gary Tooker
    Seminars
    Products
       FullWrite Professional
       Wingz
       VideoWorks II
       TOPS
       Apple printers
       WordPerfect
       Interleaf
       MacMoney
       MacNET


THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY

The Ugly part of the 1988 MacWorld Expo was that the keynote speech and
opening address was over booked in a major way.  The largest seminar
room that was used for the keynote speakers seats 2,000 people.  The
Expo was expecting 40,000 people.  Not all of them had paid the $40 to
get into the seminars.  Many had paid only $15 that entitled them to
only the exhibits.  Nevertheless, even though I arrived before the 9:00
am speech I was not admitted in.  I had friends that arrived at 8:30 am
who were not there early enough either.  For the extra $25, there were
thousands of disappointed show goers.  The PA system expressed regret,
and voiced the ruling of the Fire Marshall, but there were no other
seminars for another hour, and if you did not get to those early, you
were locked out of those.  The management did see fit to videotape the
keynote address and show it a number of times later in the show, but
that was either at the end of the day, or the beginning of the next, and
was of little consequence.  Additionally, it covered only thirty minutes
of the address, and skipped the big Apple/DEC announcement. The
assembled masses were not assuaged.

The Bad part came when it was learned that Ann Arbor Software still does
not have their FullWrite Professional word processing program ready.
They were featuring their product last year at the Expo and promised
shipment by April.  Following that, it kept slipping by a month.  It is
now considered one of the premier vaporware word processors.  I have a
number of friends who have sent in their money and even though they were
told their credit cards would not be charged until ship date, discovered
that they have been charged but still do not have the product.  At the
show, they said they are shipping a "pre-release" or "gamma" version to
those who have already ordered. Nevertheless, this is rather an
embarrassment for the company and it has not helped their credibility.
They were giving our copies of their "Demo" version, which did not allow
correct printing, and was missing the spell checker and thesaurus.
However, already there are reports of bugs in the demo on both MacPlus
and Mac II.  I must admit that

The Good part was the eagerly expected Wingz booth sponsored by
Innovative Software of Lenexa, Kansas.  It was rumored in MacWeek
magazine that this would be the one to see and shortly after the exhibit
doors opened at 11:00 am Friday, I fairly ran to their booth. I was
greeted by a large enclosed booth and a 30 minute line!  The attendants
were dressed up like space folk from the TV series "V".  The line was
worth the wait, the demo was shades of Disneyland.  There was a rather
"Captain EO" feel to it as you stepped into the booth and prepared for
your ride into the future.  There was a videotaped 9 minute tour by
Leonard Nimoy in a black turtle-neck sweater and a stoic visage.  Who
better to present computer software than Mr. Spock of Star Trek?  The
product, which was running on a color Macintosh II, is in a word a super
spreadsheet program.  It has a number of things, however, that go beyond
a spreadsheet.  It allows for text and graphics in the speadsheet,
showing possibilities in the desktop presentation market. There is a
limited text editor supporting fonts, and linked 3-D (color) graphics.
If you change a figure, the linked graphic will change as well.  It is
supposed to be 30% faster than Excel and can support a truly enormous
amount of data, a worksheet of over a billion cells . The worksheet
could be used as a database to sort, search, and query data.  At their
Hospitality Suite in a nearby P hotel I learned that they are working on
versions for other platforms, including the Sun and Apollo.  The
Macintosh version will be in Beta in March perhaps and released in May.
There was no information given about price. SmartWare developed the
package, and Innovative is publishing it.  The publisher is currently
undergoing a merger with another company and this might complicate the
schedule.

SPEAKERS

John Sculley

The 30 minute videotape of the presentation by the president of Apple
stressed his vision for a modern Renaissance.  He believes that it
hinges on three core technologies - hypermedia, simulation, and
artificial intelligence.  He stressed the adventure of the future and
the need to "set a new course".  This vision is to "elevate the
individual and not subservience to institutions".  This is to be an
adventure of "passion and romance not just progress and profits". Toward
the end of his presentation, he featured a 5 minute video of the
"Knowledge Navigator" of the year 2010, a notebook-sized color
"Macintosh", with an AI "agent" interface, phone capabilities, graphics,
etc.  It was delightful, but Sculley warned that it was not scheduled to
ship this year.  He sent the assembled masses out "as enthusiasts and
evangelists we can make a difference in this new odyssey", a clear link
to his latest book.

I have heard Sculley speak before.  Last year he suggested that Apple
was going to change the world.  I have heard this in the religious
realm, but found it somewhat incongruous for a computer product.  This
year he was more polished, smoother.  I could not escape the impression
though that what I was hearing was somewhere between a campaign from a
political candidate, and a challenge from a preacher.  His delivery was
carefully paced and articulate, almost too smooth.  It was if anything
overwritten.  It struck me like a candidate without a personality.  His
spoke of a vision but it was like a sermon without a soul, without
spirit.  Although his challenge was appealing, I did not feel the
passion of the man, only a well tuned speech.  At least Jean-Louis
Gassee rights his own jokes!

Gary Tooker

The Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of
Motorola, Inc. gave a 20 minute presentation Saturday morning.  This
$6,000,000,000 company who supplies the CPU for the Macintosh has
95,000.  Tooker told how sixty years ago Paul Galvin developed a radio
to put in a car, a Victorola in a motorcar, and Motorola was born. Later
the company introduced the walkie-talkie in the world war.  It pioneered
CMOS for pagers and the rest, as they say, is history.  The CPU for the
Macintosh is only one of 50,000 products that Motorola sells.  He spoke
briefly of the 68030, and mentioned in passing the 68040.  He stated
Motorola's continued commitment to the industry, and indeed, Motorola
had one of the larger and more centrally located exhibits on the main
floor.

SEMINARS

There was a decided "marketing" feel to many of the seminars this year,
to a much greater extent than ever before at the MacWorld Expo.  One of
the first seminars was "The Software Entrepreneurs' Roundtable".  Marc
Canter, one of the developers of the early MusicWorks and now the later
VideoWorks and VideoWorks II was one of the more vocal panel members, as
ever.  He is currently writing the end column for Macintosh Today. Two
years ago when I met him at the MacWorld Expo, he was promoting
VideoWorks and wearing an Aloha shirt.  This year, he was wearing a
conservative gray suit.  He himself admitted that the Macintosh world is
changing and that he cannot afford to do anything that would hinder his
marketing his product, even if that should influence his attire.

There were the usual number of "Getting Started In ..." seminars,
covering word processing, relational databases, desktop publishing and
desktop presentations, as well as some in the new frontiers of CD ROM,
color graphics, and artificial intelligence.  There were also the
seminars for the more sophisticated users in programming as well as some
special interest groups like education, medicine, and law.  There were a
number of seminars on desktop communications, or connectivity to other
machines, including mainframes.  There was a special seminar on
connectivity to IBM's and a special one on connecting to the DEC world.
Perhaps the most interesting and entertaining seminars were with the
Macintosh gods, Scott Watson, developer of Red Ryder telecommunication
program, Don Brown of CE Software, and the outspoken and occasionally
controversial Andy Hertzfeld who was one of the original Macintosh
creators and author of Thunderscan, Switcher, and Servant (the precursor
and partial inspiration to MultiFinder).

The seminar "Macintosh - Wizard of '88" was chaired by David Bunnell,
Editor-in-Chief of MacWorld Magazine, the host of the Expo.  His
comments were concerned mostly with Macintosh congratulations, back
patting, and HyperCard hyping.  His comments occasionally sounded like
the cheering section of auto-aggrandizement.  Philippe Kahn, president
of Borland International publishers stressed "more power plus more ease
of connectivity for data and databases without compromise of
throughput".  Paul Brainerd, president of Aldus Corp, promised "more
ease of use" for Pagemaker.  Gordon Eubanks, president of Symantec Corp,
encompassing Living VideoText (MORE) and Think Technologies (Lightspeed
C and Pascal) called the Macintosh the "quintessential personal computer
of the 80's".  He spoke of three priorities. "Interoperable applications
on a common network with the highest common denominator, would offer the
full advantage of Macintosh group productivity."  "The Zen of networking
- includes all of the personal computing ease of installation and
maintenance on a Macintosh." "System software would provide the best
hardware and software integration."

The most heavily attended seminars were the ones at the end of each day
of the Expo presented by Bill Atkinson, Apple Fellow and creator of
HyperCard, the flagship of Apple's latest evangelical campaign.  After
some technical difficulties with the projector on Friday, Bill wowed the
assembled masses with a brief but thorough journey through the various
levels of HyperCard's functionality.  It is billed as an "erector set"
though it is occasionally marketed as everything from a powerful
relational database to the neatest thing since sliced bread. There is no
doubt that this product is pretty impressive, and its potential is yet
to be realized, seeming at times to be a solution in search of a
problem.  A number of interesting applications were suggested, from
education to entertainment.  It was interesting to see the second
generation of Apple programmers, as Bill's little girl appeared and he
showed the crowd some of the programs he had put together for her on
HyperCard.  Bill at least was still wearing an Aloha shirt.

PRODUCTS

The people who come to the MacWorld Expo are people who regularly spend
money buying Macintosh hardware and software, and sometimes a lot of
money.  This last year saw the introduction of the Macintosh II, the
"open Mac", the "high-end Mac".  And with it, this year there were a
number of new, big ticket products.  There was a wide selection of
monitors, and an emphasis on color.  Graphics, and color graphics were
big, and VideoWorks had an MTV-esque booth with sound and beautiful
animation on a big color screen.  SuperMac had a large and popular
booth, having recently merged with Levco.  They were selling
accelerators and monitors.  Add-in cards of all kinds were available all
over the main exhibit floor, which took at least two days to get around.
 Plotters and scanners and high-end CAD programs abounded.

There was a bit more hucksterism this year than in years past.  In the
past, you might have seen an magician used to get attention, this year
there was much more.  This year, for example, the "MacInTax" people had
a slick young card shark right out of "Guys and Dolls".  He as smooth,
entertaining, and effective.  TOPS, formerly Centram West, now a
subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, had a guy and gal doing a song and dance
take-off of "Entertainment Tonight" and were roping them in. They
presented the power of TOPS as they gave out top hats, explaining that
it not only networked Macintoshes, but PC's and Sun's.  The sellers of
"Trapeze" were regularly holding drawings for lobster dinner for two,
Federal Expressed in from Legal Seafood of Boston.  I've eaten there and
it was almost worth standing through the demo for a chance to win!  HP
had a drawing for a LazerJet printer, indeed there was even a drawing
from Apple.  Jasmine Technologies, the hard disk people, had a laser
light show on the ceiling.

Both Apple and Claris, the recent software spin-off from Apple had their
own, prominently situated booths.  Apple was showing off its new line of
three laser printers and its finally available ImageWriter LQ (Letter
Quality).  The last one is the only one that will currently support
color, using a rainbow ribbon, and is rather impressive, especially
considering that it does not share the stratospheric price tag of the
new laser printers.

Some of the larger Macintosh user groups were represented, including
BMUG (Berkeley), Boston Computer Society, and the Association of Apple
32 Users (A32, Silicon Valley).  The were selling their newsletters and
public domain software from their considerable libraries.

Desktop publishing was big again this year.  Claris is introducing an
update to the old faithful MacWrite that has a spelling checker.
FullWrite Professional from Ann Arbor Software will do everything but
wash your dishes when it is finally available.  It seems like a high
powered automobile that will pass anything but a gas station, the
current "gamma" version will do everything but work without bombing or
complaining about memory restrictions.  It was prominently mentioned in
the seminar "Why Use Vaporware (And Other Sleazy Marketing
Techniques)?".  WordPerfect, coming over from the PC world is taking a
different approach.  It is not ready for release yet, but is available
to the public as "Betaware".  The customer can buy it for $99 now,
knowing it is not perfect, and then get the final version along with the
completed documentation later for free, rather than for the proposed
list price of $395.  At the very high end of the desktop publishing
arena, indeed in the computer aided publishing market, is Interleaf from
Cambridge, MA.  This product is available on workstation platforms such
as Sun at a much higher price.  I was told the Sun could act as file
server for the Macintosh II.  Nevertheless, the $2495 price tag for this
product on the Macintosh II put it at the nose-bleed elevation for most
users at the Expo.  The Interleaf booth was showing a video of "The
Computer Show" featuring a demo of the product.  This is a high-end
product for the Macintosh world, allowing both graphics, word
processing, and page layout for very large and complex documents. The
workers at the booth were trying to explain what power that the high
price tag bought, though in vain at times.  This product will work on
nothing less than a Macintosh II with 5 to 8 megs of memory and a 40 to
80 megabyte hard disk, and would appeal less to the current installed
base of Macintosh Plus users and more to the corporate and sophisticated
publishing shop buyers.

MacMoney, from Survivor Software was represented by its developers, the
Farmers.  It originally came out as Home Accountant under another
publisher years ago, but is now under the control of Survivor Software
Ltd in Inglewood, CA.  It is a very nice home or small business
accounting package with a relatively easy interface.  They were were
giving a prevue of version 3.0, which will provide running balances in
the registers, the long awaited sort preference for registers (date,
number, etc.), delete and voiding functions, credit card reconciliation,
and variable tabs in report generation.

MacNET, a new online service that exploits the Macintosh interface
rather than using the command line interface of most services, debuted
at the Expo.  It is very much like the current AppleLink, which only
select developers and dealers have access to.  It provides stick
information, e-mail and Macintosh product support.  At a connect rate of
$4/hour, it weighs in as less expensive than either CompuServe or GEnie.
 The debut was marred by the inexperience of the booth workers. Three of
them could not tell me what protocols MacNET supported. Admittedly, it
is a new service, and some of the employees had only hours of experience
with the company.

CONCLUSION

The Macintosh market seems to have evolved, or at least changed. The
developer of "TopDesk", a powerful collection of desk accessories from
Berkeley, refreshingly wore an unadorned sweatshirt.  It was curious
though to see young people wearing power suits and ties who probably do
not remember what group Paul McCartney sang with before "Wings".
{cbosgd,decwrl,hplabs,seismo,ucbvax}!sun!warp!rock  Bill Petro


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From: [e-mail] (David Hayes)
Subject: caveat to PBHCreate users
Date: 27 Jan 88 15:52:53 GMT
Organization: Meta Software Corporation, Cambridge MA

After much thrashing i have found an error in IM 4 that led me to
incorrectly call PBHCreate.

    IM 4 lists the parameters for PBHCreate as:
        ioCompletion
        ioResult
        ioNamePtr
        ioVRefNum
        ioDirID

    when i created files using these parameters, my files showed
    up on the desktop but they were not seen by Mockwrite or
    the LSC editor or even my application. only when i included
    the parameter ioFVersNum (set to 0) did my files become
    visible to the above editors.

i hope this saves someone some time so that i will not have thrashed in
vain.

            [e-mail]


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From: [e-mail] (Alan Epstein)
Subject: Re: Setting cursor position and mouse speed.
Date: 27 Jan 88 22:37:33 GMT
Organization: Meta Software Corporation, Cambridge MA

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (David Goldsmith) writes:
> Changing the mouse position directly is an operation we do not support.

we are aware that apple does not support move movements. the question is
why not? i'm not ashamed to admit that we 'broke the rules' in
implementing PutMouse(), because we expected the interface to support us
in this. fortunately since the 512K it has NOT broken.

i'd like you to consider implementing the PutMouse() Trap and let us
criminals go free.

[e-mail]


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Tempo vs. Quickkey
Date: 27 Jan 88 05:14:00 GMT



A friend of mine is thinking of getting some software for his upcoming
birthday and requested me to post a question for him on the net.  He
just bought a Mac II a while ago with the extended keyboard and he wants
to purchase a program that will let him assign macros to these keys.  He
has heard of two programs Tempo and Quickkeys (I think I have the names
right). Could anyone with comments mail me them so I can pass them on.
Thanks in advance.

       U.S  Mail:        Paul Fons
                Univerity of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
                Coordinated Science Laboratory
                1101 W. Springfield
                Urbana, Illinois 61801 (207)-333-7080
--
Internet:  [e-mail] or [e-mail]
Bitnet:    Fons@uiucvmd
CSnet:     [e-mail]  [e-mail]
UUCP:      [ihnp4,uunet]!uiucuxc!fons@vmd  [ihnp4,uunet]!uiucuxc!uiucuxe!fons


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From: [e-mail] (Derek Austin)
Subject: Something that does fast expansion of text abbreviations?
Date: 25 Jan 88 07:53:44 GMT
Organization: The Byte Centre, 49 Park Rd., Milton, 4064. AUSTRALIA.

In the dim dark world that was the pre-megabyte mac, there was a nifty
DA that let you store a table of abbreviations and that DA would then
expand them for you, wherever you were. This sort of thing was useful in
MacWrite, for example, which doesn't have any sort of glossary facility.

Now with the coming of the SEs etc, this DA no longer worked (I can't
remember its name).

Does anyone know of either a similar DA or a word processor that will
let you type  in an abbreviation that will be automatically expanded as
soon as  you type white space? OR, a word processor that does the same?
OR, a word processor that had a glossary facility similar to the old
Microsoft Word 1.05 where you typed one keystroke after the abbreviation
to expand it?

I need this for an application where typing speed is of the essence. It
must run on a Macintosh SE.


Any help would be very appreciated.

Thanks,

    derek
--
Derek Austin        ACSnet:        [e-mail]
The Byte Centre        ARPA:        [e-mail]
49 Park Road        CSNET:        [e-mail]
Milton  4064        JANET:        gucis.oz!derek@ukc
Australia        PHONE:      [phone]
UUCP:    {seismo,hplabs,mcvax,ukc,nttlab}!munnari!gucis.oz!derek


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From: [e-mail] (Henry Kautz's mailnews program)
Subject: tape backup units
Date: 28 Jan 88 14:34:59 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill

Does anyone have any personal experience with tape backup units?  In
particular, how fast does your unit *really* transfer data?  Tecmar is
*claiming* in their ads to have a unit which backs up at 3 MB @ minute,
using Apple-compatible cassettes.  Any experience?  Mail to me, and if
there are any responses, I'll summarize to the net.
--
---- Henry Kautz
:uucp:    allegra!kautz
:arpa: or :csnet: [e-mail]
:old style csnet: [e-mail]
:mail:  AT&T Bell Laboratories
    Room 3C-402A
    600 Mountain Ave.
    Murray Hill, N.J. 07974
:office phone: [phone]


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From: [e-mail] (Neil Radisch)
Subject: Multifinder programming problem
Date: 28 Jan 88 15:46:44 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

I've written an application that works fine under Multifinder except I
can only switch it out by using the 'apple' menu. The program does not
respond to a click on the little icon in the upper right hand corner.
Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong .....or better yet if you have
tech notes on multifinder I would appreciate a copy (so when are we
gonna get Inside Mac Vol 5?). Please email all responses

thank you
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From: [e-mail] (Doug Moore)
Subject: Help for the nearly blind
Date: 28 Jan 88 18:12:44 GMT
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY

I finally brought my parents into the computer age.  My dad has taken to
it fine, but my mom can't see well enough to use it.  I'm looking for
suggestions on how to make the Mac useful for her too.

I know of two software possibilities.  I have a copy of the "Magnify" DA
by Scott Gillespie of Reed College, which provides a fixed size, movable
window which displays a 3x (I think) magnification of a circular area.
You click in the window, the cursor becomes a circle, and as you drag
the circle around, the part of the screen covered by the circle is
magnified.  Its shortcomings are its awkward shape and inflexibility,
but it's the best I have right now.

I also have a copy of the "Stepping out" demo.  I don't know if the
complete version has the flexibility I want or not.  The demo only
allows the screen to be divided into left and right halves, with 4x
magnification on the right half. At the very least, an option to allow
division into top and bottom halves instead would make text editing
easier, I think.

Has anyone come up with a good solution for this problem?  I like a DA
solution, because the ability to move quickly from blind user's mode to
normal mode is important.  If you have suggestions, please mail them to
me.  If I get any interesting responses, I will summarize to the net in
a couple of weeks.
--
Doug Moore
[e-mail]


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From: [e-mail] (Frank Blaise Modruson)
Subject: Gemstone
Date: 28 Jan 88 17:07:44 GMT
Organization: Arthur Andersen TSO-Chicago

what do you think of this product?  How have you used it?

Thanks in advance for any information you can provide. --->fbm>

My UUCP address is:  ...oddjob!arthur!blaise from internet:
arthur![e-mail]  my phone is: [phone] (I can
call you back)


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From: [e-mail] (Maurice Ling)
Subject: Where to get FORTH for macintosh
Date: 29 Jan 88 02:43:01 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Rochester Computing Center

Hello,

I'm interested in getting the FORTH programming language for Macintosh.
Could someone give me some pointers on where to get it?  Preferably
Public Domain or Shareware.

Thanks,

Maurice


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From: [e-mail] (Nicholas Spies)
Subject: Re: PD FORTH for the MAC?
Date: 29 Jan 88 03:06:44 GMT
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (The Druid) writes:
...(question about public domain FORTH for mac).

Mountain View Press has one, but the version I saw was very buggy and
wasn't nearly as good as MacForth or (particularly) Mach2. Mach2
supports ALL ROM routines by using CALL or (CALL), which makes
translating Pascal listings to Forth code relatively easy. See Dec Mac
Tutor for Mach2 listing for creating HyperCard XCMD. (Only a satisfied
customer).
--
Nicholas Spies            [e-mail]
Center for Design
of Educational Computing
Carnegie Mellon University


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From: [e-mail] (;;;;YF37)
Subject: Re: Mac <--> UNIX file sharing needed
Date: 28 Jan 88 19:25:37 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Adam S. Moskowitz)
writes:
>We have a couple of UNIX machines and some Mac's on our ethernet.  Most
>people use one or the other, but some people would like to share files
>between the Mac's and the UNIX systems.  Specfically, they'd like to use the
>editors/formatters on the Mac, but still have the files available to people
>on the UNIX systems who prefer to use vi or emacs or whatever.  I know that
>there are systems around that will let the UNIX systems act as a file server
>for the MAC's, but I don't think they address the problem of file format
>compatability.  Is there a package that will let us do this sort of thing?

At Berkeley, we have been testing the CAP code from Columbia that allows
a Unix machine to act as an AppleShare server.  When we first got it
running, I was amazed the first time I used the SigmaEdit DA to edit my
.login file on Unix!

AUFS (AppleTalk to Unix File Server), the part of CAP that does this,
displays subdirectories as folders as you'd expect in a Finder window.
The folders can be of two types, Unix folders and Mac folders.  All
files in a Unix folder is treated as a text file, with automatic
conversion of line termination characters (CR <-> LF).  In a Mac folder,
files are treated like they are on a Mac, with separate resource and
data forks and no conversion, unless the file is a Unix text file.

You will need a Kinetic FastPath box and the KIP code from Stanford to
complete the package.  The best part is that all this code is free and
available via anonymous ftp from sumex-aim.stanford.edu (cd to
<info-mac>).

Also included in CAP is the ability print from from a Mac or from Unix
to either a Unix-connected LaserWriter or an AppleTalk-connected
LaserWriter, using the Unix lpr spooling system.

I'll post a more complete report when have completed a full-blown
installation test.
--
Edward Moy
Workstation Software Support Group
University of California
Berkeley, CA  94720

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From: [e-mail] (Robert Joseph Hammen)
Subject: Re: of mice and macs
Date: 28 Jan 88 22:56:39 GMT
Organization: Computer Applications

Another solution would be to get Olduvai's ADBridge, which lets you
connect ADB peripherals to old Macs and old peripherals to ADB Macs. I
don't recall the price of the bridge, but I think it's around $129 list.
If anyone out there has one, I'd like to hear their experiences with it
(I can just see using an Extended Keyboard on a Mac Plus...)
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From: [e-mail] (Mahboud Zabetian)
Subject: Anyone know how to make A/UX recognize tape drive?
Date: 28 Jan 88 22:45:40 GMT
Organization: Advanced Technology, Princeton University


I want to backup the filesystem of our A/UX onto the apple tape drive.

The tape drive is connected to the Mac II, but I don't seem to be able
to  access it.

Any UNIX people out tthere know how to mount it?  Thank you.
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From: [e-mail] (John J. Chew III)
Subject: here's a MacLanding enter key patch
Date: 28 Jan 88 06:59:51 GMT
Organization: The Poslfit Committee


In response to questions by Evan Bauman, Ken Hancock and others...

MacLanding (a Defender-like shareware game for the Mac) uses calls to
GetKeyMap() to read key codes "directly" so that you can (for example)
fire, move and bomb simultaneously.  The key to detonate a smart bomb
has key code 03, which is the enter key on an old Mac keyboard and
nothing on any keyboard since the Mac+. Soooo... to patch this, run the
game with a debugger trapping for calls to GetKeyMap(), trace manually
from there and look for things that look like entries in a key map being
masked and tested.

Well, actually, you don't have to.  I did it this afternoon.  Using
FEdit, search for the hex string 0010 6758.  There should only be one.
The 0010 is used to mask the Enter key's entry in the key map. Changing
it to 0008 will make Backspace (Delete) the smart bomb key, which seems
more appropriate anyway.

Hope this is of help.

john chew
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From: [e-mail] (Alan Takahashi)
Subject: Excel vs Font/DA Juggler
Date: 28 Jan 88 21:45:20 GMT
Organization: Bell Northern Research, Mtn. View, CA

Try this trick:
  Install Font/DA Juggler Plus (not version 2.0) on your hard disk.
  Reboot your system.

  Start up Microsoft Excel v1.04
  When the untitled spreadsheet comes up, enter two columns of 10
numbers
  Go to the File menu and select New...
  Select type "Chart" and click OK
  After the chart comes up, go to ANY menu item and click on it

  *CRASH*  [ID=02]

So much for the trick.  The gist of this is that Microsoft Excel will
crash doing a relatively simple thing.  If I were to remove Font/DA
Juggler Plus, Excel will run OK.  My system configuration was: System
4.2 with Finder 6.0.  System 4.1 with Finder 5.5 does the same thing.

Now, I already know that Excel has some problems with Multifinder.  On
the other hand, Font/DA Juggler Plus is a relatively new product (I got
mine at the MacWorld Expo).

Anyone else having problems or any ideas?
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From: [e-mail] (David W. Berry)
Subject: Re: tcsh in AUX
Date: 28 Jan 88 23:30:55 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, USA

    Just to settle the rumours floating around, and perhaps limit the
number of requests for various shells, the supported and provided shells
under A/UX are Bourne Shell (sh), Korn Shell (ksh), and C-Shell (csh).
The Tenex C-Shell is not supported by apple, but various folks at
various places have ported it.
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From: [e-mail] (Ken Hancock)
Subject: Re: Suitcase versus Font/DA Juggler
Date: 28 Jan 88 05:10:23 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

After using both, I would have to agree.  I switched over to Font/DA
Juggler Plus.  The font list is one of the nicest features -- gives you
a list on the screen of each font -USING THE FONT-.  Don't know which
font to choose? It'll show you what each looks like.  The Beep sounds is
very nice also -- I'd recommend getting the Sound->Snd converter from
INFO-MAC archives. Works with QuicKeys and everything else, allows you
to insert a cmd-key equivalent for opening up F/DA Juggler.

Ken

Disclaimer:  I beta-tested for Font/DA Juggler v2.0.  Back then I would
have
             gone with Suitcase.  Not anymore...


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From: [e-mail] (Andy J. Williams)
Subject: Appletalk Conference/BBS program sources
Date: 28 Jan 88 15:46:37 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

I am writing a Macintosh BBS program to work accross a multi-node
environment which will use a central mailframe as it's file server. Does
anyone know of any sources for a conference program or bbs program which
are PD?  I would be very interested in seeing how others have done this.
 Even if the programs work in only one node too.

Thanks in advance...

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