Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!amdahl!ames!mailrus!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 V7 #48 Message-ID: <8903110009.AA03364@sumex-aim.stanford.edu> Date: 11 Mar 89 00:08:20 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Organization: The Internet Lines: 300 Approved: info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest Fri, 10 Mar 89 Volume 7 : Issue 48 Today's Topics: A/UX Shutdown procedure for Non-superusers Answers to memory questions Books on Tutorials? CMS Disk Drives Databases capable of storing large amounts of text DOES APPLE HAVE A POC FOR DEALER COMPLAINTS? Interrupt on MacSE Screen fonts Unix mail for the Macintosh What have I done? Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa. 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]. Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu. Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 9 Mar 89 15:45:56 PST From: Chuq Von Rospach Subject: A/UX Shutdown procedure for Non-superusers > If a non-superuser comes in, powers up, logs on... how does he shut down? If you want this, the easiest way to allow it and still have some control is to set up a special reboot account. Create account 'reboot' with UID=0 and the login shell as /etc/reboot. You can then put a normal password on it so people can't reboot your machine without a password. When they're done, they log out, then log in as reboot. While rebooting from multi-user isn't necessarily the best thing to do, if the system is essentially quiet, there shouldn't be any problem. I've tried it a few times and haven't had any problems. A cleaner way that requires more steps is to use shutdown instead of reboot. Shutdown will take you single user (equivalent to "init 1"), and the user could execute the reboot command from there. That shouldn't have any problems doing this, but it's an extra step. Reboot shuts UNIX down and takes you back to the SASH partition. If you want to power it down completely, use "powerdown" instead of reboot. chuq ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Mar 89 11:29:38 EST From: jeff@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Jeffrey M White) Subject: Answers to memory questions In reply to: >From: John Salmento >Is it possible to use Mac simms in a 512KE, ie. does the 512KE macs have simms >slots? The answer to this question is no. The original Mac had 16 (2 rows of 8) 64k chips soldered onto the motherboard, for a total of 128k RAM. The 512k Mac switched to 256k chips, for a total of 512k RAM. Note that it was the soldering of the chips to the motherboard that made user upgrades very difficult, if not impossible. The Plus was the first machine to use simms. Jeff White Univ. of Penn. - CETS jeff@eniac.seas.upenn.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Mar 89 08:51:04 PST From: PUGH@nmfecc.arpa Subject: Books on Tutorials? My boss is looking for books on tutorials on the Mac. Does anyone have any pointers to such a beast? He claims to have seen an Apple publication once. Jon N L pugh@nmfecc.arpa 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 (415) 423-4239 ------------------------------ Date: 9 Mar 89 22:14:13 GMT From: rjc@ncsc1.att.com (Robert Cook consultant ncsc5) Subject: CMS Disk Drives Hey, I have owned a CMS 40M hard drive for almost a year now. Yes I did call for support one time and had a similiar experence (no response) as others have. However, the Neighborhood Computer Store (where I bought it) took a look and the only problem I had was duplicate file names in various folders. I fixed that and have enjoyed good performance and reliability with my particular disk. Maybe, I'm lucky or whatever, but I'm happy with the product. Not necessarily with the company support (or lack thereof). R. Cook ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Mar 89 01:17:53 EST From: Alexis Rosen Subject: Databases capable of storing large amounts of text I just tried FoxBase on a 155K text document. It absorbed it into a memo field without problems. So It could certainly handle 50 pages of text. However, memo handling in FoxBase is not currently very good. You can present it to the user for editing or examination, and the editor is very very nice. It's NOT textedit-based, so its swift even with 150K text fields. You can also search in the field for text. But that's it. Nothing else. Fortunately, the new FoxBase will support complete control over memo fields. You will be able to manipulate them however you like. These features may make it into V2.0 (available late April or early May), which I have in an early alpha form. They may wait until V2.1, though, which would mean waiting until July. (Note that they're quite accurate about ship dates, historically.) If that's good enough for you, get FoxBase. Otherwise, you're stuck, since as far as I remember the other databases all keep at maximum one TextEdit record's worth of text (This certainly applies to 4D and Helix. Omnis can't even do that much. Dbase is also limited to 32K). Alexis Rosen alexis@ccnysci.uucp ------------------------------ Date: Fri 10 Mar 89 14:12:06-EST From: FAUSETT@radc-tops20.arpa Subject: DOES APPLE HAVE A POC FOR DEALER COMPLAINTS? Earlier I asked for GSA sources other than Falcon microsystems for Apple equipment. I was deulged with responses saying 1. Falcon is the Only Apple-Authorized GSA source. 2. They typically give terrible service (although they appear to have improved in the southwest). Is there a person or organization at Apple responsible for dealer quality control? If so, I'd like to forward those responses in the hope that Apple will do something. Having the single GSA source be this bad reflects poorly upon Apple. When the service is bad enough, it makes other types of equipment look attractive. Mark Fausett ------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Mar 89 08:22:41 EST From: jonathan@starbase.mitre.org (Jonathan Leblang) Subject: Interrupt on MacSE the proper ExitToShell for the macintosh SE is G 409B24 at the debugger prompt. (for a cute slideshow, try G 41D89A to see the MacSE developers). jonathan leblang jonathan@mitre.org ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Mar 89 18:20:45 EST From: Asif T Subject: Screen fonts I noticed that Adobe posted a whole lot of fonts on this archive, I was excited about this, but when I tried to print out a document all I got was a bitmap representation of the screen fonts, does some one know of a way to download these fonts to the Laser Writer ?? Can it at all be done?? Please post your reply as I suspect your mail might have a bit of a problem in getting to me. Thanks Asif Taiyabi 1711 Whipple Drive, Apt #9 --------------------------------------------- Blacksburg, VA 24060 |"If the listener nods his head when you are| (703) 951-2689 | explaining your program, wake him up" | | -- Alan Perlis | --------------------------------------------- [The Adobe fonts we have in our archive are only screen fonts. They cannot be downloaded to the LaserWriter as PostScript outline fonts. You have to buy the PostScript fonts from Adobe. -Bill] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Mar 89 10:52:13 -0600 (CST) From: David Wilson Subject: Unix mail for the Macintosh > Could anyone give me pointers to Mac MH? I have MH, and am > interested in the Mac front end. I am looking for more information > on the program, how to get it, whether the source is public domain. MH stands for Message Handler. It is an alternative Unix mail system written by the Rand Corporation and which is in the public domain. The way to make Internet mail available to Macintosh users, without forcing them to log into another computer with Telnet, is to install MH on some mail server, and use Stanford University's SU-Mac/IP & SU-Mac/MH on the Macintosh. MH can use several different protocols to send mail between computers, including the popular SENDMAIL. MH contains a special version of POP (Post Office Protocol). SU-Mac/MH depends on the added features. Thus MH MUST BE installed on the machine that acts as mail server for the Macintoshes. A standard Unix mailer with POP2 is not good enough. MH6.6 is distributed by the Univ. of Delaware. Directions for getting MH are included when you order SU-Mac/MH. (FTP anonymously from louie.udel.edu:portal/mh-6.6.tar.Z) Macintosh mail users give the name of the mail server computer in their mail addresses, not the name of their own machine. Thus they can move between Macintoshes with ease. The Macintosh mail users do NOT have to be added to the mail server as legal Telnet users. MH keeps a database of Mail users separate from the list of legal users. Mac/MH provides for creation, editing, and filing of messages, and also includes an "address book" facility. A compatible PC version is also available. A site license for SU-Mac/IP and SU-Mac/MH is $100. The PC version costs another $100. A check must be send with the order; purchase orders cannot be used. This product is not in the public domain, but the cost is nominal. Send the order to: Laura Kenny Networking Systems 115 Pine Hall Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-4122 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Mar 89 15:38:13 PST From: PUGH@nmfecc.arpa Subject: What have I done? Someone asked me for a list of things that I have written and placed on Info-Mac and that got me to wondering, so I released a few things that I had been meaning to make public and put together this list. Jon Program Description ------- ----------- Pathname FKEY Places full pathname of a selected file onto clipboard. Randomizer Changes startup files (like screens and sounds). Lone Ranger Changes creator of any type of files on any HFS subtree. ShowSizes Displays relative sizes of folders & files in them. PlaySound World's simplest uncompressed sound file player. - For Hypercard Dinosaurs Pictures of dinosaurs and info about them. doFKEY Execute an FKEY from a script. SetDirectory Set Standard File dialogs to a certain directory. GetClipboard PutClipboard Get and put variables (and fields) to the clipboard. Black&White Tells whether the screen is black and white or not. PopUp Menu Definative Popup menu function. Filename NewFilename New and old filename functions. Includes SetDirectory too. GetVolume SetVolume Hypertalk control of the volume. Sets the control panel too. Program Name on Sumex-Aim.Stanford.Edu ------- ------------------------------ Pathname fkey/hfs-pathname.hqx Randomizer init/randomizer.hqx Lone Ranger util/loneranger-19.hqx ShowSizes util/showsizes.hqx PlaySound sound/playsound.hqx Dinosaurs hypercard/dinosaurs-part4.hqx doFKEY hypercard/xcmd-dofkey.hqx SetDirectory hypercard/xcmd-setdirectory.hqx GetClipboard hypercard/xcmd-get-put-clipboard.hqx PutClipboard hypercard/xcmd-get-put-clipboard.hqx Black&White hypercard/xfcn-black-and-white.hqx PopUp Menu hypercard/xfcn-hpopupmenu.hqx Filename hypercard/xfcn-filestuff.hqx NewFilename hypercard/xfcn-filestuff.hqx GetVolume hypercard/xcmd-volume.hqx SetVolume hypercard/xcmd-volume.hqx ------------------------------ End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************