Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU!Info-Mac-Request From: Info-Mac-Request@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (The Moderators) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest Subject: Info-Mac Digest V8 #58 Message-ID: <9003200047.AA10873@sumex-aim.stanford.edu> Date: 20 Mar 90 00:47:44 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Organization: The Internet Lines: 554 Approved: info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest Mon, 19 Mar 90 Volume 8 : Issue 58 Today's Topics: Apple Grants application not found message ATM 1.2 Upgrade Proble ATM patches needed Clip-art PD-shareware? Condordances/Text-base Programs Guide to Macintosh netnews reader Hard Disk Problems HP terminal emulation sought Internal Mac HD as external to another Mac; new questions. Laserwriter cover pages Looking for FileChange DA author Morse Code Music Programs NT/NTX compatibility under CAP password to hard disk Printing Books programming background task Quick Basic-Disk Express II conflict!! screen glare Your Info-Mac Moderators are Bill Lipa, Lance Nakata, and Jon Pugh. The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous, any password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6]. Help files are in /info-mac/help. Indicies are in /info-mac/help/recent-files.txt and /info-mac/help/all-files.txt. Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu. Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 16 Mar 90 00:55 PST From: Gann Matsuda Subject: Apple Grants For information and to request proposals for Apple Grants for non-profit organizations, call Apple's Community Affairs Department at Apple's main phone number in Cupertino, California. (408) 996-1010. Chances are, you'll reach their voicemail. By the way, I believe that all of the deadlines for grants have already passed. The voicemail will tell you. If you reach a real person when you call, I'd be extremely surprised. If Apple has a representative to your institution, he/she would be another person to get information from. Gann M. UCLA Graduate School of Education ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Mar 90 10:21:24 -0500 (EST) From: Braddock John Hathaway Subject: application not found message OK, net: The problem that I was having before: for the past month or two, I've been getting the message "application not found" whenever I try to open a document whose application is buried a couple of levels deep in the HFS. I thought that the Desktop file was supposed to keep track of this. I've tried fixing the desktop with the application "fix desktop" (yes, I had the "fix application list" option checked off), but to no avail. What am I doing wrong? Am I mistaken in any of my assumptions? the problem was that I was using DeskTop manager which uses a different file (or two) than the desktop to keep track of where applications (and icons and stuff) are found. When I rebuilt the desktop on startup (by holding down the command and option keys when the machine is booting), the problem was solved. Fix Desktop (the program I used to try to fix the desktop before) is an application (****ware, I believe) that tries to rebuild the desktop while the system is up and running. It finds applications, deletes unused icons ... that sort of thing. I hope this helps anybody else that runs into the problem. --Brad ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Mar 90 19:06 EST From: "NAME L.G. LEDUC" Subject: ATM 1.2 Upgrade Proble I was looking forward to receiving the new version of Adobe Type Manager (1.2) because I was really disappointed with the first version. The problem which plagues the ATM is the very poor spacing when printing from applications that don't support fractional widths (Microsoft Word 4.0). Although Adobe claims to have improved the spacing problems, I was extremely disappointed that it really has not changed. Thus, the poor spacing problem is still around for a few more months until the company really decides to improve it. I called Technical Support in California and have found them to be rather disintersted about the problem. In fact, they claim that spacing is normal on their Mac with ATM (1.2). Does anyone know of a solution to my problem? Am I the only one with this problem? Leo G. Leduc Department of Biology Laurentian University Sudbury, ONT CANADA ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Mar 90 13:15:27 PST From: gelphman@adobe.com (David Gelphman) Subject: ATM patches needed There was a question about how to get better character spacing using ATM with MicroSoft Word 3.x. The solution is to send in your coupon for the FREE upgrade to ATM version 1.2 AND turn off fractional widths. The 1.2 version does a much better job of spacing WHILE PRINTING when Fractional Widths can't be used (as is the case for MS Word printing to the ImageWriter). If you didn't get the upgrade information in the mail AND you sent in your registration card, call our Customer Support number at 415-961-0911. Please don't send me mail asking for help upgrading since all I can do is refer you to our Customer Support department. Hope this information helps, David Gelphman Adobe Systems Incorporated ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Mar 90 12:35:02 MEZ From: Ewald JENISCH Subject: Clip-art PD-shareware? Hi Mac-Users, Does anybody know of a source of PD/shareware clip-art? I'm especially looking for pictures of people, landscape and nature. If anybody out there knows of such a software respository please drop me a note where I can find it. Thanks in advance, Ewald Jenisch Univ. of Vienna, Austria ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Mar 1990 08:08:59 EDT From: FAC0395%UOFT01.BITNET@jade.berkeley.edu (J. Feustle) Subject: Condordances/Text-base Programs A colleague has raised the question of software available for the Mac to create a concordance to several literary texts. Were this for the PC, I could immediately suggest 3 or 4 programs off the top of my head. But that's not the case. Is there a Mac equivalent to WordCruncher and ZyIndex? Something that will index large amounts of text? Cordially, J. Feustle FAC0395@UOFT01 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Mar 90 15:50:52 -0500 From: Don Gilbert Subject: Guide to Macintosh netnews reader A brief guide to installing and reading Internet news from a networked Macintosh: Macs that are connected to a network that includes tcp/ip links to the Internet can be set up to let you easily read and post network news, including the bionet.* newsgroups for research biologists. The netnews reader stack is easy to use, but requires some network knowledge to install. Requirements: * Macintosh with an appletalk or ethernet connection * MacTCP software to provide the Mac with the tcp/ip communications link * Harry Chesley's netnews reader hypercard stack * A local area NNTP netnews server computer Does your mac have an appletalk or ethernet connection to the internet? If you are using NCSA Telnet for logins to mini or mainframe computers then you probably have the right connections. Do you have a local netnews server computer? This is probably a Unix computer which runs netnews software and serves out news messages following NNTP protocols. You need to check with your campus computer administrators for the IP address of a local server that you can read news from. The NNTP server must support the XHDR command. How to get and install MacTCP software: This is Apple Computer software that provides the underlying tcp/ip communication connection. A new version 1.0.1 is due for release about the end of March. It is currently available in a single-user licence thru Apple Prog. and Developers Association (APDA) as part M0230LL/B for $100, or as a university (about $1000) or commercial site license. APDA sells only to individuals or groups who have an account, for an annual fee is $20. APDA can be reached at APDA, Apple Computer, Inc. 20525 Mariani Ave, M/S 33G, Cupertino, CA 95014-6229 Applelink: APDA Internet : APDA@applelink.apple.com A site license can be obtained thru Apple Computer Software Licensing 20525 Mariani Ave., M/S 380I, Cupertino, CA 95014-6229 MacTCP is best installed with help of a network administrator. You need to be assigned an IP address for your mac (something like 123.45.67.89 where 123.45 is your campus network address, 67 is your building subnet address, and 89 is your mac's address), and to know some technical details of your network configuration (is the address dynamic or static? What is the ip mask? What are your local nameserver addresses?). If you are using NCSA Telnet, this is essentially the same configuration info. How to get and install the newsreader stack: This hypercard stack and complete xcmd source code is available thru APDA for $20 as part M0228LL/A. It is also available thru anonymous ftp to apple.apple.com, in directory pub/dts/mac/stacks/. The newsreader stack by itself can be obtained by anonymous ftp to iubio.bio.indiana.edu, in diretory [archive.util.mac]netnews-reader.hqx. Once you have the stack, directions for installing and using it are contained in the stack. You need to know the IP address of your local netnews server at this point, and have MacTCP installed. Don Gilbert biocomputing office / archive for gilbertd@iubio.bio.indiana.edu / molecular & general biology biology dept., indiana univ., / ftp iubio.bio.indiana.edu bloomington, in 47405, usa / (129.79.1.101) user anonymous ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Mar 90 10:52:13 +0100 From: Pauwels Luc Subject: Hard Disk Problems Hi, Some months ago, I bought an external harddisk for my Mac Plus. When I received it, is was formatted with system 6.0.2 installed. Two weeks ago, I ran a utility to check disk fragmentation and it was so bad, I decided it would be better to reformat the disk. I tried to use Apple's SCSI utilities but they didn't recognize my harddisk. Does anybody know a program that will format my harddisk? My harddisk is a 30Mb Seagate ST138N, installed as SCSI device 1 Thanx! Luc Pauwels GHGAPAO@BLEKUL11.BITNET GUTEST6@BLEKUL10.BITNET ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Mar 90 17:44 EST From: "Roger Marks, NIST, Boulder, CO. 303-497-3037" Subject: HP terminal emulation sought Does anyone know of software that will emulate an HP terminal? A VT100 emulator works fine for Unix [on a Series 300 workstation]. But when you try running Basic, the terminal can't handle the special characters used to set up softkey menus and such on screen. I haven't been able to find any terminal other than an HP brand that will work, but I thought that maybe the software exists to let a Mac do the job. Thanks, Roger MARKS@ENH.NIST.GOV MARKS@NBSENH.BITNET ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Mar 90 23:29 EST From: CHGARNETT%AMHERST.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu Subject: Internal Mac HD as external to another Mac; new questions. Hello all. A while back I asked about connecting two Macs so that the HD in one was controllable by the other. All the answers I got indicate that this is impossible, since while I could change the SCSI numbers of the drives themselves, I can't change the addresses of the Macs, which both will be SCSI 7 and would conflict in spectacular way. The most popular suggestion was to set up one of the machines as an AppleShare file server and copy things across that way. I'll probably get the boss to fork over for an external HD for this purpose, but these suggestions brought a new question to mind.... For the past year I've been managing a room full of HD20 SE's that are for public use. This was a big pain at first, running down viruses and keeping unauthorized software off the HD's. I've solved most of these problems, but as the number of Macs increases, I really don't want to keep doing things this way. So an AppleShare file server seems to be in the near future. Does anyone out there have tips, hints, etc, for how to best make AppleShare work well? INITs that will let me minimize the amount of stuff I will need on the client HD's, ways to completely lock the client HD's, minimum amount of memory the clients will want to run happily, etc? These Macs don't have ethernet cards, so they will be doing this across LocalTalk...is there some way I can make launching applications across the network less painful? Will using a FlashTalk connector on the file server give me better speed, etc? I really don't have more than a vague idea of exactly how AppleShare works, so any suggestions from folks already doing this would be most appreciated. Craig Garnett Microcomputer Specialist Amherst College CHGARNET@AMHERST (BITnet) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Mar 90 11:36:10 GMT From: JDM16%PHOENIX.CAMBRIDGE.AC.UK@ricevm1.rice.edu Subject: Laserwriter cover pages Hello NetLand, Some time back, I sent a query asking if there was any way of setting up a simple Appletalk network such that a cover page was printed with every document on an attached Laserwriter (sent about 19 Dec 1989). This cover page should show the number of pages in the document, and is to be used for billing purposes, since I run a printing service here. Investigation of the reply I had (thanks, Mark McBride), and other suggestions, lead nowhere. I am very suprised that no-one, least of all Apple itself, has come up with a way to do this. It seems to me such a common arrangement - shared Laserwriters with a billing system. Anyway, can I throw it back with some further thoughts? 1) Hacking the Laser Prep file seems to be a nightmare: a friend of mine had a look at it, and thought that it might be possible to have a main loop which checked on incoming documents and then appended a cover page to them, but could not really get anywhere. 2) Having thought about it a bit more, there might be another way: how about a small init, using similar code to a screen saver or clock, which runs itself periodically, and checks the status of the networked Laserwriter, recording the value in the Laserwriter's internal page counter. Then, if it finds the printer busy, it sets itself up to print a single page when the printer next becomes free and puts the number of pages printed on the cover page (which is the difference in the value of the internal counter) - viola, one cover page. Simple, really. Well, I can see some immediate problems: i) The init would have to recognise when a cover page was being printed, since otherwise it would print a cover page for the cover page (and so on); ii) On a busy network, the init might get beaten to access to the printer, and that would really mess things up; iii) Checking the printer status while it is busy could affect the current document; iv) It would not work where there was a print spooler, or (I suppose) a network server. v) If lots of small documents are being printed, then the network traffic and the cost per useful copy goes up significantly. That said, my specific set-up means that it might be feasible - two SE's, one for public use to print from and the other for office use (which are both physically seperate from the printer); cover pages are only required for documents printed from the public machine, so the init would be installed on this only. The machines are only switched on when someone wants to print something, so installation has to be automatic in some way, and also not specific to particular applications. The init could be set up to append cover pages only to documents longer than (say) ten pages, and only if the documents originated from the machine that the init is running on. I won't be expanding the network much, and won't be putting in server software (I hope). Any comments? Are there any other problems, or maybe another way to go about it? Is it feasible/workable, and would anyone like to write it (aha!) - my own programming skills are minimal. Direct replies are preffered, as I don't log on to info-mac very often. Yours in hope, John McKinley (jdm16@phx.cam.ac.uk) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Mar 90 12:39 PST From: Tigger Subject: Looking for FileChange DA author In the DA section of the Info-Mac archives there exists an interesting DA called FileChanger. In the docs, the author gives the address to which shareware payments should be sent. However, he also says that the address will only be good until May 15, 1986! The author's name is Tom Dowdy. Tom, are you out there? Does anyone know where to get in contact with him? Greg Orman greg@pomona.claremont.edu Systems Manager greg@pomona.bitnet Seaver Academic Computing Services Pomona College Standard disclaimer-type stuff. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Mar 90 22:20 PST From: JOHN LOUCH Subject: Morse Code Netters, I'm looking for some good morse code programs. Something that could test me on morse code. Anything will be sufficient. If there is enough interest I'l respond to net!! John Louch [LOUCHA@CLARGRAD] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Mar 90 19:00:05 EST From: "Chris Khoury (Sari's Son)" <3XMQGAA%CMUVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> Subject: Music Programs Can anyone recommend any good music composition programs? I don't need MID I or any DTP features, just one that has a lot of instraments, can do chords, a nd has great sound. Thanks in advanced. Chris Khoury 3XMQGAA@CMUVM Acknowledge-To: <3XMQGAA@CMUVM> ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Mar 90 15:22:19 GMT From: Jeremy Olsen Subject: NT/NTX compatibility under CAP We currently print UNIX and Mac files to a Laserwriter IINTX from a Sun running OS3.5. Lpr uses transcript stuff and the Mac files are spooled via CAP's lwsrv (5.0). Everything works fine. The NTX went wrong. While waiting to get it fixed we temporarily redeployed a new IINT (not X). This literally meant swapping the serial line from the NTX to the NT. Unix-spooled files print fine; however, print jobs >From the Mac are sent to the printer but nothing comes out. To be specific, a job appears in the spool queue, the 'printer ready' flashes for a while and then stops and the job disappears from the spool queue. As far as we understand, the NT and NTX are supposed to be compatible in every respect (ours are each fitted with 2Mb RAM). Has anybody any suggestions as to why the NT should be 'ignoring' these files? Jeremy Jeremy Olsen Phone: +44 31 667 1011 x6470 | University of Edinburgh UUCP: ...!uunet!mcvax!ukc!its63b!cogsci!jmho | Centre for Cognitive Science ARPA: jmho%cogsci.ed.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk | 2 Buccleuch Place JANET: jmho@uk.ac.ed.cogsci | Edinburgh EH8 9LW Scotland ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Mar 90 23:21:05 -0800 From: vito@ucscb.ucsc.edu (66115000) Subject: password to hard disk I am in need of a program to prevent my roomates from using my hard drive. Is there a program that asks for a password before allowing access? Thanks you very much! Nick Kopsinis p.s. Please address mail to "feedme" rather than "vito". (at the same machine) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Mar 90 04:41:02 EST From: joseph@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Seymour Joseph) Subject: Printing Books Francis Taylor: There is a shareware program called pocket book writer. It will make a booklet out of the postscript output of any program that uses the Apple LaserWRITER driver. (Not PageMaker). It crashes my Mac II but on an SE near our LaserWriter it works fine. I have done two booklets with it and it was amazingly easy to use once I got the hang of it. If someone can tell me how to post it to INFO-MAC I would be happy to if it isn't already there. Seymour ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Mar 90 15:33:04 EST From: Peter Griffith Subject: programming background task Can someone recommend a reference or source of information on writing a program that can execute a background task in Multifinder? I have seen some general introductory examples (for instance in Byte Mac special issue) but nothing specific enough to show me the shell of actual code that will execute in the background. I am writing a data acquisition program that uses the serial port, and I would like to make it read in the serial port buffer while in the background. Thanks, Peter Griffith (comb6@umdc.umd.edu) [Moderator's Note: This is easy. Use WaitNextEvent in your event loop and specify a short time. Set the CanBackground bit in your SIZE resource. Don't put up a modal dialog. You are now multitasking. -- Jon] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Mar 90 10:38 EST From: "Harry E. Bates" Subject: Quick Basic-Disk Express II conflict!! I recently wrote a compiled application using Microsoft's Quick Basic. I found that Disk Express INIT prevents the compiled version from doing simple sequential file save and retrieve operations. If you try to write a sequential file or read one, the program crashes. The interpreted version works fine. Does anyone know how to alter the compiler to get around this problem? Harry E. Bates Department of Physics Towson State University Baltimore, MD 21204 (301) 830 - 2441 Bitnet: HBATES@TOWSONVX ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Mar 90 00:45:26 PDT From: Gregg Kasten Subject: screen glare Does the MAC SE standard display monitor have an anti-glare coating? I've been told that it does, but I tend to disbelieve this, as I have plenty of glare reflecting from my screen. Any feedback would be much appreciated. Thanks. Gregg Kasten ------------------------------ End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************