Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!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 #94 Message-ID: <8905232218.AA13699@sumex-aim.Stanford.EDU> Date: 23 May 89 22:17:39 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Organization: The Internet Lines: 227 Approved: info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest Tue, 23 May 89 Volume 7 : Issue 94 Today's Topics: 2 Questions Fortune II cdev Leading Clock Zeros New Version of Hypercard Problem Password Utility V1.2 Ram-cache Problems Spelling checker for Textures? SuperClock 3.3 bug? tektronics 420x emulator? Using Apple LaserWriter with MS-DOS? VirusDetective 3.0 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: Tue, 23 May 89 12:34:15 EDT From: Damian%UMass.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu Subject: 2 Questions Could someone please tell me how to disable the Cover page that the Laserprinter IInt prints out each time you turn it on? I am also interested in anyone's experience with CAD/CAM programs for the Mac. I am looking for something fairly cheap with most of the power of AutoCAD (PC...yeahgnh!) but with the better Mac interface. Thanks, Damian Roskill Damian@ucc.umass.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 May 89 23:37:16 +0200 From: Roland Mansson Subject: Fortune II cdev !Fortune II cdev Displays one of 3683 fortunes at startup. Online help is provided. FreeWare by Arthur Britto II. [Archived as /info-mac/cdev/fortune-part1.hqx; 168K /info-mac/cdev/fortune-part2.hqx; 169K /info-mac/cdev/fortune-part3.hqx; 140K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 May 89 08:28:59 PDT From: PUGH@ccc.mfecc.llnl.gov Subject: Leading Clock Zeros Dave Platt came up with a possible solution to the leading zero on the clock problem which has occasionally plagued mine and other's Mac IIs. Well, nice try Dave... I'm sitting here staring at the obnoxiously persistent leading zero on my clock as displayed by both Hypercard and SuperClock. It is now resisting even a reboot, which always cleared it up before. On your suggestion, I checked into the INTL resource, but sure enough, the leading zero flag is turned off. So there is something else going on... Jon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 May 89 08:43:37 PDT From: PUGH@ccc.mfecc.llnl.gov Subject: New Version of Hypercard Problem I also received the Hypercard message: "New file format requires new version of HyperCard" on one of my old stacks when I upgraded to Hypercard 1.2.2. I solved the problem by getting a backup that worked, so I have no clue as to the reason or cure for this message, but it has happened to others. Jon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 May 89 11:55:36 bst From: Ralph Martin Subject: Password Utility V1.2 Here is Version 1.2 of Password, a utility to prevent people from booting up your hard disk without first supplying a password. Changes from earlier versions: The password is now blanked out to stop people from reading it over your shoulder. This is shareware, but upgrading is free for people who have already paid the shareware fee. (With acknowledgements to Brian Bechtel of Apple for filterproc idea). [Archived as /info-mac/util/password-12.hqx; 11K] ------------------------------ Date: 89-05-23 08:16:07 MEZ From: TU80070%DHHUNI4.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu Subject: Ram-cache Problems Recently I could upgrade my Mac II to 5 MByte and I thought it to be a good idea, using a big ram-cache of 512 KByte. All worked fine and really the drive was speed up until some strange difficulties came up last week. I wanted to change a dialogue string in an application using FEdit and whatever I did, the dialogue refused to change. What happend was, that the old version was kept in the cache and lauching the application ment, lauching this old version. This part of the problem seems quite funny, but yesterday I had serious difficulties. I copied some files and, being succesfully copied on the hard disk, I deleted the originals. Then I ran an application that caused a complete crash, so that the RESET-button had to be pressed. The Mac's restart brought a big surprise: Not only that the original files were away, the copies had also dissapeared. The only safe solution seems not to use such a big cache, or does anyone out there know something better ? Klaus Schnathmeier Technische Universitaet Hamburg-Harburg W.Germany ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 May 1989 8:35:54 EDT From: LYONS@scri1.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Lyons) Subject: Spelling checker for Textures? Is there a spelling checker DA available which will work within Textures? Texture's source files are just ASCII text. Ideally the spelling checker would ignore words beginning with / and text between $'s, and would allow customization of the dictionary, word correction in place, etc. _____________________ Jim Lyons \ Supercomputer Computations Research Institute 904/644-4274 \ Florida State University lyons@gw.scri.fsu.edu \ Tallahassee, FL 32306-4052 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 May 89 22:54:48 PDT From: Jon Newman Subject: SuperClock 3.3 bug? I think I have found a bug in SuperClock 3.3. When I clear the check box for the new "chime" item, my Mac crashes. I am running an SE with System 6.0.2, SingleFinder, and all kinds of suspicious INITs and CDEVs, so this may not apply to everybody. Jon Newman _ /| \`o_O' ACKPHT! ( ) /U\ ||| O /|||\ O U='_M M_`=U ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 May 89 14:13 CDT From: Fred Schulz Subject: tektronics 420x emulator? Is there a tek 4205 or 4207 emulator available for the mac. I hate the idea of shelling out enough money to buy a IIx for a terminal... Thanks -Fred ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 May 89 8:49 MET From: "Willem van der Scheun, SARA, Afd. Netwerken" Subject: Using Apple LaserWriter with MS-DOS? We have some AppleTalk networks connected to an Ethernet backbone. On that Ethernet backbone we also have several MS-DOS systems. Does anyone know about possibilities for using the Apple LaserWriter from these MS-DOS systems? Willem van der Scheun SARA Amsterdam ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 May 89 18:34 EST From: Jeffrey Shulman Subject: VirusDetective 3.0 VirusDetective is a DA for tracking down viruses (or any resources) in files. You specify the resource type and various attributes. Once the offending resource is found it can optionally be removed from the file (use this feature with caution) or file deleted. The user can update the search list at any time. Shareware. Version 3.0 adds ability to read/write search list from/to a file; revamped help system (can even copy help to clipboard); multiple search criteria per string; file modification dates always reported/logged and still more! Unpack with StuffIt after downloading. [Archived as /info-mac/virus/virus-detective-30.hqx; 70K] ------------------------------ End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************