Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!bruce!monu1!vaxc!phs172m From: phs172m@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen Harker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: TeX & Chinook utilities Re: Determining whether a drive has "auto park" Message-ID: <43550.26e149a4@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> Date: 2 Sep 90 08:04:20 GMT References: <9008241522.AA21243@apple.com> <4555UD182050@NDSUVM1> <42237.26da2eaf@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> Organization: Computer Centre, Monash University, Australia Lines: 37 This is a retry at posting this, as it does not seem to have gone far. In article <42237.26da2eaf@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>, phs172m@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen Harker) writes: > In article <4555UD182050@NDSUVM1>, UD182050@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Mike Aos) writes: >> In article <9008241522.AA21243@apple.com>, STEIN@UCONNVM.BITNET (Alan Stein) says: >>> >>>On Thu, 23 Aug 90 08:35:40 EST Stan Planton said: >>>>Most "manufacturers" are really assemblers, using other people's drives. One >>>>approach is to take the housing apart, note the model and serial number from >>>>the stickers on the drive itself. >>> >>> There is software which also gives the manufacturer and model number. >>>I'm not certain whether it's Apple's hard disk utility or one of the >>>public domain disk formatters, but I remember seeing the name and model >>>of my hard drive displayed on my screen when I was setting it up. >>> >> >> Yeah, the Chinook Utilties will tell you exactly what your drive is. >> >> ------- >> Mike >> > This reminds me that a friend asked me to find out whether the Chinook > Utilities have been updated to cope with the DMA SCSI card as yet? He was told > earlier this year that this was under way, but has not heard as yet. Apparently > the utilities are one of the best for SCSI on the Apple 2. > > On the note of software, I see in a recent TeXHaX that Albert Chin is getting > somewhere with porting TeX to the GS. This is good to see, I remember a few > posts along that line last year. Guess that the C compiler problems have caused > a delay. Now that ORCA/C 1.1 is out maybe it will work out (I hope, I would > love to have TeX on the GS). > -- > Stephen Harker > Monash University -- Stephen Harker Monash University