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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?
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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
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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 89 11:29:38 EST
From: [email protected] (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
[email protected]
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Date: Wed, 8 Mar 89 08:51:04 PST
From: [email protected]
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 [email protected]
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
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Date: 9 Mar 89 22:14:13 GMT
From: [email protected] (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
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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
[email protected]
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Date: Fri 10 Mar 89 14:12:06-EST
From: [email protected]
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
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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 89 08:22:41 EST
From: [email protected] (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
[email protected]
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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 |
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[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]
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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
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Date: Tue, 7 Mar 89 15:38:13 PST
From: [email protected]
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
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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
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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
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