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An Onipa'a Software Production        Vol. 2, No. 5 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Publisher & Editor.......................Ryan M. Suenaga, M.S.W., L.S.W. Internet Email....................................thelamp@sheppyware.net ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::                             TABLE OF CONTENTS                             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~                               May 15, 1999OPENING PITCH     Sultans Of Swing ----------------------------------------------- [OPN]A FUNNY THING HAPPENED                                                [FOR]     The Heat Is On ------------------------------------------------- [HET]     Miscellanea                                                      [MSC]     Rumor Mill ----------------------------------------------------- [RMR]     Public Postings                                                  [PUB]     Best Of The Best ----------------------------------------------- [BOB]A2Pro_DUCTIVITY     Checking out A2PRO on Delphi ----------------------------------- [A2P]THINKING KFEST     The KFest FAQ -------------------------------------------------- [KFE]EXTRA INNINGS     About The Lamp! ------------------------------------------------ [INN]                                [*] [*] [*]READING THE LAMP!   The index system used by The Lamp! is designed to make"""""""""""""""""   your reading easier.  To use this system, load thisissue into any word processor or text editor.  In the index you will findsomething like:EXTRA INNINGS     About The Lamp! ------------------------------------------------ [INN]To read this article, simply use your search or find command to locate[INN].  There is a similar tag at the end of each article: [EOA].         :: DISCUSSED ON DELPHI ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::         :                                                       :         :          "Who NEEDS four digits to a year!"           :         :                                                       :         :                   "Not comparable.                    :         :                                                       :         :          "You might ask who needs more than           :         :               640K of memory, though."                :         :                                                       :         :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::MBROUI11ETTE and UTTER :::::[EOA][OPN]------------------------------                     OPENING PITCH |-----------------------------------From The Editor"""""""""""""""by Ryan M. Suenaga, B.A., M.S.W., L.S.W.                [thelamp@sheppyware.net]                             SULTANS OF SWING                             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~     Don't forget where you came from.  An important lesson for all of usto learn, whether we're proud or ashamed of our origins.  It can inspire usand uplift us, whether we accomplish what we can out of not wanting to goback or making the old folk back home proud.     I started online on Genie.     It was nearly two years ago that I gave up the fight myself.  GEniehad become Genie, the most expensive service of its kind in the world, andDelphi had become a viable alternative for Apple II support.  Genie was nolonger unchallenged as the home of the best online Apple II support in theuniverse.  More and more Genie users left--many for Delphi, some for theunknown.  It was time for a change.  _GenieLamp A2_ was no more, andshortly thereafter, _The Lamp!_ rose from its ashes, with its new home onDelphi.     Not all of our friends followed, however.  Our Apple II brothers andsisters on Genie were a hardy bunch, and many steadfastly dug in, refusingto leave Genie.     They may not have counted on Genie leaving them.     I write this on May 10, 1999.  It's been about three weeks since theA2 RoundTable on Genie became inaccessible to both the staff and members ofGenie.  Not only was Genie's A2 one of the most popular places for Apple IIsupport anywhere, it was also among the busiest of Genie's RoundTables.You would think that fixing a problem with your fattest cash cow would benumber one on their list of priorities.     If it is, they're sure not acting like it.     I'm not declaring Genie dead--in fact, it's survived a lot longer thanI ever expected it to.  But if Genie's A2 has been inaccessible this longwithout it being repaired, it may be the final blow.  At the very least,they're certainly in dire straits.     So I make the plea again, to our old friends on Genie: come home toDelphi.     It may not be where you're from, but it'll be where you're at.                                [*] [*] [*]     Excuse Me Department: What you'll read about as a major Delphi "burp"in this issue was a strange occurrence that resulted in several hundredduplicate messages in the A2 Forum (among others).  Things could've beenworse, I guess--we didn't see mass deletion of messages, for instance,which would've been a disaster.     What fell somewhere between a disaster and an annoyance was editingthe messages in the A2 Forum for use in this issue of _The Lamp!_.  Myapologies for the tardiness of this issue.                                [*] [*] [*]     There's A New Club In Town Department: KansasFest 1999 is on for July1999, on the campus of Avila College in Kansas City, Missouri.  It's timeonce again to gear up for staying up all night and partying all day.  Youcan get the latest word on KFest 1999 at the KFest Home page athttp://www.kfest.org.  After many twists and turns, it finally seems that Iwill be there again, to shake your hand and talk II until the cows comehome. . . and go out again.     Keep the fire.  We'll be by in thirty.Ryanthelamp@sheppyware.netASCII ART BEGINS_________  _                     _                                      _|__   __| | |                   | |                                    | |   | |    | |                   | |                                    | |   | |    | |___     ____       | |       _____   __ ___ _   _ _____   | |   | |    | ___ \   / __ \      | |      /____ \  | v   v | | v ___ \  | |   | |    | |  | | | /__\ \     | |       ____| | | /\ /\ | |  /   \ \ | |   | |    | |  | | | _____|     | |      / ___  | | || || | | |    | | |_|   | |    | |  | | | |_____     | |____  | |__| | | || || | |  \___/ /  _   |_|    |_|  |_| \______|     |______| \____^_| |_||_||_| | |\____/  |_|                                                            | |                                                            | |                                                            |_|ASCII ART ENDS[EOA][OPN]------------------------------     A FUNNY THING HAPPENED. . . . |-----------------------------------Checking out A2 on Delphi"""""""""""""""""""""""""by Ryan M. Suenaga, B.A., M.S.W., L.S.W.                [thelamp@sheppyware.net]       * The Heat Is On              * Miscellanea                     * Rumor Mill                            * Public Postings                                        * Best Of The Best                              THE HEAT IS ON                              """"""""""""""     [*] Welcome to A2            ....... What's Happened To Genie A2?     [*] General Chatter          ....... apple2.org--Find FAQs There     [*] Apple Operating Systems  ....... ProSel TidBits     [*] Welcome to A2            ....... Reclassification Bonanza     [*] General Chatter          ....... How Many Hard Drive Partitions?                                MISCELLANEA                                """""""""""THAT SEVENTIES COMPUTER   As a follow up to my most recent Juiced.GS"""""""""""""""""""""""   column. . .http://members.home.net/dfgrant/index.htm- Ryan M. Suenaga, M.S.W., L.S.W.  --  rsuenaga@apple2.org Editor and Publisher, _The Lamp!_, published monthly on Delphi Posted by PTMM v2.5 - The integrated information solution                       (RSUENAGA, 21819, GO COM A2)RAMFAST LIMITATIONS IN THE LATE 1990'S   The RAMFast SCSI Card is limited""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""   in two ways:1) No Device larger than 1 GB (Contiguous blocks) (Greater than 1024   Cylinders) This is per device, not the sum of all devices. But it might   as well be:2) Only 12 Partitions per device. 12*32MB = 384MB in ProDOS Partitions.   One could use HFS, but when, not if, it crashes you'll wish you hadn't.   :)You can create up to 12 partitions per drive, and using the utilities,select and deselect them at boot time for a total of 12 active.You can not use more than 1 RAMFast per computer. The drivers do notsupport looking for an additional card, when they find one, that is thecard. This is both a driver and internal firmware limitation of theRAMFast.IE: You boot a RAMFast in slot 2, hold down the keypad zero to enter theutilities and it will find the card in slot 7. (Or the other way around, Iforget which direction it scans)These limitations are a result of shortcuts during development:"No one will have two of these... (probably thinking, they, and the harddisks are too expensive.. )""I don't want to write code to scroll the partition list in the utilities."(Which may have meant only supporting 14 devices at the time because theRAMFast physically mapped it's partitions to a slot prior to ProDOS 8 1.9and  support for more than just 2 or 4 hard disk partitions.Later version of ProDOS 8 phantom slotted starting at slot 1 and working upuntil either every slot/drive that was available was mapped or it ran outof partitions.In effect, Extended SmartPort operation like GS/OS supported was brought tothe ProDOS 8 environment. Physical slot assignments by the RAMFast was nolonger needed and if you are still using it you should actually turn it alloff. Unmap the partitions, leaving just Slot 7 D1 and D2 mapped. Orwhatever slot your RAMFast resides in. D2 is not even needed but it's nothurting anything.Tony                        (T_DIAZ, 21895, GO COM A2)>>>>>   It's easy to criticize now, but when a 1 gig drive cost over $2K,"""""   it was a hell of a lot more reasonable. There really WAS no pointin writing code to handle drives bigger than 1 gig.Gary R. Utter                         (UTTER, 21906, GO COM A2)>>>>>   Well, I've heard rumours that the RamFAST might have problems with"""""   larger drives but I'm currently using a Quantum 1.2 GB hard driveon my IIgs.9 ProDOS partitions (32 MB each) and 1 HFS partition (approximately 780MB).I haven't had any problems that I can attribute to using this large driveon a RamFAST (v3.01f ROM). <Knock on wood> Jeff Blakeney | Dean of the Apple II University in A2Pro | --------------+----------------------------------------------------+   sent via | HyperCard IIgs Course | GSoft BASIC Course |   COG v3.0 | now in session | now in session |                       (JBLAKENEY, 21965, GO COM A2)JUICED.GS ERRATA AND USING SSL WITH LYNX   Hey gang,""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""I need to clarify a bit of information that was in the latest issue ofJuiced.GS (March '99, Volume 4, Issue 1).In the Shareware Spotlight article on gsAIM, the author stated he wasunable to access the AOL Instant Messenger sign-up page using Lynx, sousers would need access to a graphical Web browser (Netscape Navigator,Explorer) to get an AIM account for use with their IIGS and gsAIM.It has been brought to my attention that the AIM sign-up page can indeed beaccessed from any version of Lynx with support for secure sockets. Ifyou're unsure that your ISP's version of Lynx is up-to-date enough tosupport secure sockets, don't hesitate to give it a try on the AIM pagelisted in the Juiced.GS article.My apologies for any confusion -- or any reluctance by users to try gsAIM-- that this may have caused. Max Jones Juiced.GS http://www.wbwip.com/juiced.gs                       (JUICEDGS, 21825, GO COM A2)>>>>>   Note that even in the latest version of Lynx, secure sockets"""""   support is an optional install; sysadmins have to download aseparate source package, merge it with the Lynx sources, then do thecompile and install. Because of that, it's fairly uncommon to find anSSL-enabled version of Lynx.Eric "Sheppy" Shepherdsheppy@sheppyware.nethttp://www.sheppyware.net                        (SHEPPY, 21828, GO COM A2)>>>>>   Yeah, it's a shame that due to ridiculous US encryption law"""""   (munition law, actually) it has to be such a runaround. It's reallyeasy to do the SSL installation, especially if the ISP already has thessleay package (many do.) You basically just replace a few files and changetwo lines in the makefile, which you have to modify anyway to get Lynxsetup the way you like it. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Tony Ward, A2 Database Manager - Fri Apr 02, 1999 11:10:07 am [Delivered with Spectrum v2.2 and Crock O' Gold v3.0] -- "He was a man, all and all.  I shall not look upon his like again."                        (TONYW1, 21842, GO COM A2)HARD DRIVE POWER SUPPLY BASICS FROM HAROLD AND TONY   There are so many of"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""   these, in differingphysical configurations, capacities, etc. that it is almost impossible totrack down an exact replacement for a failed one.That's the bad news.The good news: As long as you can find one that:1) Will physically fit the available space (may need mounting changes)2) Accepts the available input voltage3) Provides the needed output voltages and currentIt shouldn't be all that hard to manage to get it mounted and working.Note: One big problem I've run into many times with switching powersupplies and hard drives (tape, CD, etc) is RF being radiated by the supplyitself and messing up the operation of the device. When this is suspectedit can often be dealt with by enclosing the supply in a piece of draftingmylar that has had aluminum foil glued to it's outer surface. Make thisinto a "tunnel" that wraps around the supply, but be CERTAIN that yourmodification still allows for proper airflow for cooling or the new supplyWILL FAIL QUICKLY-HaroldHdwrNut on EFNet and AIMPosted by ProTERM Mac MessengerThe most damaging phrase in the language is: "It's always been done thatway."                       (HAROLD_H, 22130, GO COM A2)>>>>>   Not necessarily 'cheap', but definitely under loaded. Think of it"""""   as those times when you go up (or down) stairs blindly, perhapsyour carrying something and you can't see down or whatever, and you get tothe top and your still going up but the steps are done. Your foot goes up,and then wham, onto the floor and you nearly fall over if you did it'right'.The power supply is designed for a PC, and in fact there are some that willNOT work unless attached to a motherboard. Others will, but since all thevoltages are not being used, they are 'climbing stairs' that are not there.Pushing a lawn mower as if it were going up a hill when in fact there isdown hill and no grass. Two hard disks are nothing, the P/S is expecting amotherboard filled with cards using 4 different voltages. The hard diskuses two of them. So unless you have a lot of hard disks, that power supplyis under loaded and could, not will, could die at a moments notice.Apple used two vendors for power supplies for the IIgs, Astec and Dynacomp.the Dynacomp, (Richardson, TX) supplies at first were failing due to underloading. A typical IIgs system had the 1MB RAM card and the floppy drive.So the power supply was not loaded enough. They had a rash of failures andfigured out it was underloading and had to replace them all. Same thing asthe 'cheap' mini tower power supply.                        (T_DIAZ, 22799, GO COM A2)COPY II+ 9.1--CHAOS OR COOL FOR FORKED FILES?   9.1 is okay, but some older"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""   versions of C2+ do notunderstand forked files and will behave exactly as Joe has described it.I'm not sure which version of C2+ was the first to be able to dealappropriately with forked files, but it's best not to use any version otherthan the latest/last.Gary R. Utter                         (UTTER, 21915, GO COM A2)>>>>>   Copy II+ 9.1 is the first and only version to deal correctly with"""""   forked files.Eric (Sheppy) Shepherd {<mailto:sheppy@sheppyware.net> sheppy@sheppyware.net} {<http://www.sheppyware.net> http://www.sheppyware.net}                        (SHEPPY, 21922, GO COM A2)WHAT'S THE SPINDOWN ISSUE WITH THE ZIP DRIVE AND AHS?   The same as the"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""   "sleep problem"that others have mentioned. Zip drives go into sleep mode when the disk hasnot been accessed for a certain amount of time (I think the default is 15minutes), causing the Zip disk to stop rotating. With an Apple SCSI card,this causes the volumes on a sleeping Zip to sometimes not be recognizedwhen you go to access the disk again, as the standard driver does not waitlong enough for the disk to spin back up. I'm not sure if the same thinghappens with a RamFast.I also find that when I don't have a disk in the Zip drive, Finder windowssometimes don't draw initially (though they update fine when I scroll) andvolume listings in Standard File dialogs rapidly refresh themselves, makingit difficult to select things. Not a big deal once you get used to it, butit scared me at first -- I thought something was really wrong with mymachine when all my Finder windows kept opening up blank!Others have mentioned that the Tulin floptical driver solves both theseproblems, and I've been meaning to get it for ages, but I haven't beenusing my real GS much lately, so it hasn't been a priority. Like I said, Ijust got used to the little quirks and tried to be careful about notletting the drive go to sleep. I haven't had any significant problems,though.-- Michael                          (SAR, 22670, GO COM A2)THIS PART DELPHI PLANNED   *** NOTICE ***""""""""""""""""""""""""Delphi will be down Easter Sunday beginning 08:00 EDT for about an hourwhile the Delphi clock is reset for Daylight Saving time.Don't forget to reset your own clocks if you live in a time zone thatswitches to Daylight Saving Time. :)ChuckCHunk_S --- Your A2 Forum HostDelivered by OLRight! (v4.0) scripts for ANSITerm for the Apple IIgs                        (CHUNK_S, 21859, GO COM A2)>>>>>   **************** NOTICE **************"""""The Delphi engineering folks have installed some changes to the Forummessage software so that the Text and Web sides can work better together.These changes should be mostly 'invisible', with the exception of one:When you post a message from the Text side, instead of it immediately beingassigned a number, you will see the following message:> Response Message 1999999999 Stored.> (There is a short delay while the message is stored and a number is> assigned.)The message number is assigned within a couple of minutes. Until then, itis not available for reading.Apparently, the changes are being installed on a forum-by-forum basis, soyou may not see the effect in all forums that you visit until all of themhave been updated. They _are_ in effect here in A2 as of the date and timethat this message is posted.Don V. Zahniser (IronTooth)            Try my off-line reader scripts for ANSITerm...                          They're OLRight!                     (Version 4.0 Coming Soon...)                       (DZAHNISER, 21863, GO COM A2)THIS PART THEY DIDN'T   Well, as many of you have probably already found"""""""""""""""""""""   out. Delphi's new software has been "burping" thisweekend.We here in A2 got it today. My recent pass got 394 messages. Some of themwere even triplicates. But, at least at this time, we aren't having theproblems some other Forums have had. IE, Personal Law got hit twice. Firsttime had 250+ messages (Saturday), and today (Sunday) 567 messages.What is happening, is that OLD messages are being picked up and reposted asNEW messages. The only thing we can do is to try to wade through them ...and PRAY that it doesn't happen again. :)But there is a bit of silver lining ... There has been a problem with theinterface between Web and Text not "Following Thread". These latest passeshave had all messages following the thread. Whee!Hang in there ... It will get better.(Why does this kind of thing always happen on the weekends?)ChuckCHunk_S --- Your A2 Forum HostDelivered by OLRight! (v4.0) scripts for ANSITerm for the Apple IIgs                        (CHUNK_S, 22831, GO COM A2)>>>>>   For anyone who got 'burped' by Delphi:"""""One command that you can issue that can be extremely useful when entering aForum for the first time, or if you haven't visited one for a long time, isthe 'HIGH NEW' command. This resets your message pointers to the last 50messages in the Forum. When I got 'burped', I simply deleted the 452messages that I received, then on the next pass issued a 'HIGH NEW', and Ihad far fewer messages to wade thru...This command is one that you SHOULD use prior to reading messages in anyforum that you have not visited previously. It can save a lot ofaggravation.Don V. Zahniser (IronTooth)            Try my off-line reader scripts for ANSITerm...                          They're OLRight!                     (Version 4.0 Coming Soon...)                       (DZAHNISER, 22853, GO COM A2)>>>>>   As you may all have gathered, the new 'feature' on Delphi is to"""""   delay you seeing your messages for some hours after posting.The changes do not affect COG directly, but if you have been used to seeingyour message replies in the captured message stream directly after postingthem, you are going to be disappointed...If only we can get rid of all these people who read these Forums throughthe Web, we can get back to some decent response times! :) Ewen Wannop - Speccie - Mon 5 Apr 1999 - 107 days till KFest '99 Delivered without using a IIgs by Spectrum 2.2 & Crock O' Gold 3.0 Bernie ][ the Rescue 2.0 woofing at 55Mhz on a G3/350 http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/ewannop/                        (EWANNOP, 21907, GO COM A2)>>>>>   That turns out not to be the case."""""What you are seeing is a side effect. It's particularly annoying right now,because the delays in the appearance of newly posted messages have beensubstantial, but the installation process is in progress. Once they getthings fully installed and tuned, the delay should be down to a fewminutes.That will probably still be long enough so that an off line reader doesn'tpick up your freshly posted messages, but I can't find any way to see thatas a problem.:)Gary R. Utter                         (UTTER, 21916, GO COM A2)>>>>>   I sent a note to one of the Delphi engineering folks this morning."""""   He opined that it may have been related to rebooting the VAXes fromthe change to DST, and that he expects that it won't recur.We'll just have to see how things go...Don V. Zahniser (IronTooth)            Try my off-line reader scripts for ANSITerm...                          They're OLRight!                     (Version 4.0 Coming Soon...)                       (DZAHNISER, 21919, GO COM A2)>>>>>   I checked back after posting this while still online. The time"""""   stamp was about 3 minutes after I logged on. If it was time-stampedwhen the message number was assigned, that would make it about 2 minutesfrom the time I sent it. Worst case would be about 12 minutes, which iswhat was on the online clock when I came back in to check.Not bad in either case...Don V. Zahniser (IronTooth)            Try my off-line reader scripts for ANSITerm...                          They're OLRight!                     (Version 4.0 Coming Soon...)                       (DZAHNISER, 21926, GO COM A2)TROUBLESHOOTING TOUGH IIGS HARDWARE PROBLEMS   On those IIgs's that just""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""   seem to be awful crashy andthere is no reason that is particularly evident, what I usually do isremove the whole thing from the case, sit the P/S next to the board, on thetable, one at time add non essential cards, (if any, Quickie, Grappler,Sound, etc.) back into the system and if you can not duplicate a crash thenyou fixed your problem. Actually, the better thing is to first run itloaded, on the table. I find that a lot of times the case is to blame. TheFCC shield in the bottom rises just enough to interfere with themotherboard.If you have a Zip/TWGS and a large RAM card then you other problem may alsobe the power supply connector. If you notice subtle changes in theintensity of the background/border colors (this is really evident on adefault color set) that means your grounding connector is becomingcorroded. Removing the P/S connector and scraping it, and retensioning thepins will fix it. Hrmmmm.. Perhaps that's a mini KFest thing. .. PowerSupply / Monitor adjustment. (The monitor thing scares me though, it's tootouchy a subject for those not  in the know) We'll see.In cases of P/S connector trouble I also bend the pins on the motherboardat very slight angles to the left and right so when the connector isreplaced different tension points form. Also, a Papermate pen shoved at anangle so that the other end rests under the wire harness coming out of theP/S and the non-writing end wedged between the P/S and the connectorpushing on it.That will need a picture description I'm sure.Tony                        (T_DIAZ, 21896, GO COM A2)CAN YOU SET TOP AND BOTTOM MARGINS IN THE AWGS WORD PROCESSOR?   If memory""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""   serves,the way to alter top and bottom margins in the word processor is to viewthe header and footer of the page and add in an appropriate number ofcarriage returns. Left and right margins are set in the ruler.-Gareth                        (GARETH, 22044, GO COM A2)>>>>>   Try inserting a header and footer with the desired number of blank"""""   lines. Other than this, there is no specific provision in AWGS toset these margins.Paul.Paul Schultzschultp@delphi.comsent your way via Spectrum 2.2 and Crock O' Gold 3.0!                        (SCHULTP, 22206, GO COM A2)A TEMPLATE DTP TIP FROM THE JUICEDMEISTER   Here's a nifty way to use"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""   template files and not riskoverwriting them at some point in time .... -- Create your template in whatever DTP program you choose (AWGS PL,GraphicWriter III 2.x, Publish It! 4). -- Go back to the Finder, locate the template file, highlight it, andpress Apple-I on the keyboard. When the file info window opens, lock thefile by checking the appropriate box.The next time you open the template, a "Save As" won't be required in orderto preserve the template in its original form. Just do a normal "Save".Because your template file is locked, the "Save As" dialog window willappear. Pretty cool!That's the way I handle all of my Juiced.GS templates. It saves me fromlosing original template files, or having to recreate them, when I havebrain cramps during magazine production. :-) Max Jones Juiced.GS http://www.wbwip.com/juiced.gs                       (JUICEDGS, 22769, GO COM A2)CABLE MODEM COBBLING   Our local cable provider is in the process of adding""""""""""""""""""""   Cable Modem access. I wonder if the AsanteTalk wouldenable a IIGS to connect to the cable modem? (a cable modem requires anethernet card to talk to a computer).I was considering getting cable modem access (for my wife's PC) but withoutethernet capability to talk to the cable modem with the IIGS, I would stillneed to retain my current ISP for conventional modem capability for myIIGS.Any thoughts?Mark Welte [Doc]                        (WELTEM, 22117, GO COM A2)>>>>>   It can give you file services and printer services with the"""""   appropriate software, but at this point it won't give you TCP/IPservices (meaning Marinetti). What you would need for that is (1) some wayof serving TCP/IP over MacIP (aka MacIPNetRouter) and (2) the mythicalMacIP Marinetti module.What you -could- do, among other things, is use a Linux server for yourcable modem and serve SLIP or PPP out the serial port via a null modemconnect (I will have this set up sooner or later--actually, the Linux boxis set up, it's just a matter of getting the software and the null cableset up right now).- Ryan M. Suenaga, M.S.W., L.S.W. -- rsuenaga@apple2.org Editor and Publisher, _The Lamp!_, published monthly on Delphi Posted by PTMM v2.5 - The integrated information solution                       (RSUENAGA, 22118, GO COM A2)>>>>>   There was a great article in the last Juiced.GS on how to get the"""""   GS on a TCP/IP ethernet network (highly recommended to subscribe toget interesting articles such as that). One solution not in the article isto build a box based on the instructions on {<http://www.linuxrouter.org>www.linuxrouter.org} (combined with info from the Juiced.GS article). It'snot trivial to set up, but looks very doable.Geoff                       (SISGEOFF, 22140, GO COM A2)MORE ON ETHERNET TO LOCALTALK HARDWARE BRIDGING   You are correct, the"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""   power up of *all*Ethernet to LocalTalk devices is very critical, every device that isreliant on the bridge, on both sides needs to be there and ready so whenthe device powers up it receives all net ID's from each and registers themfor each side of the network to see.I am really amazed at how *little* phone calls I receive as a result of theEthernet to LocalTalk bridges we sell, while mainly Dayna, some Asante,they all work the same.Since these devices are really intended for LaserWriters, the 4 stepprocess for power up that I stick on top of each one shipped is:In case of network problems, turn off the LaserWriter, unplug theEtherprint, (and any other LocalTalk devices), Turn on the LaserWriter,wait for it to become ready, plug in the Etherprint and wait 30 seconds. Goto the Chooser and select the printer. Then leave it alone. :)The Gatorbox CS is by far the best, (slim plastic tower, with a 'hole'under it between it and the base) this one is completely self sufficientand is compatible with every method and use of AppleTalk that I have everthrown at it. Works every time.There are other devices available such as AsanteTalk, Dayna Etherprint,Webster CC LT/Bridge and a few other less known such as FarallonEtherbridge.The IIgs can print with any of these devices, but will lock up ruthlesslywhen Appleshare is accessed. It will even lock the Mac up if you are doingjust the right thing. :)IIgs compatible choices, hardware wise are Farallon's EtherWave and theGatorbox CS, there are a few others but I can't think of the names right atthe moment. the Farallon EtherWave may exhibit a problem in that you willhave to cycle the power to the unit after a reboot. The EtherWave is for asingle computer solution, and each computer would require it's ownEtherWave. the Gatorbox and other likewise devices are for the entirenetwork. However an additional note on these devices, such as the DaynaEtherprint, they will only route up to 2 or three, depending on firmware,LocalTalk devices to an Ethernet network. You need to have the 'Plus' modelto get up to 8 devices on the LocalTalk side seeable by the Ethernet side.The Etherprint will seek out and zero in on a printer first if it isinstalled on the network with several other devices but the typicalinstallation is the Etherprint plugged into the hub and the printer pluggedinto it with nothing else on the LocalTalk side. This is the leastproblematic use. You can have up to 2 (or 3) IIgs, Mac Plus, SE, etccomputers w/o Ethernet on the LocalTalk side of these devices to access aprinter on the Ethernet side of the network, but the AppleShare servicesstill are a problem. I have been working with these on and off, but thelatter part of the beginning of the year was dedicated to a whole mess ofthings I just had to get done, and have not had much time to do anythingelse.I have about 10 different hardware bridges, FastPath 4 and 5, Dayna,Asante, Webster CC, Farallon, and a few others, everything does printers,one or two of them work with genuine AppleShare servers but not with System7 filesharing.The whole thing is Networking Voodoo at it's best. Closely related to 'SCSIVoodoo', but even worse. :)I hope to, by KFest, have a whole mess of this worked out and possibly do asession on this, but that wont be my main session, what that is, I don'tknow yet, last years was really well received and it was planned on a whim,a very last minute thing. When Richard was here, "Oh, I'll print this webpage and do this.. " Only to find out the HP Printer was going to EAT mytransparencies. That's ok.. Richard had a similar occurrence, so he musthave brought the curse with him. :) .. That night was a truly unique one.Between train stations, getting people, confusing Kinko's with a verysimple request at 1:30AM (laminate these three pages, back to back, in thisorder) so we don't crash our airplane for lack of checking the 'seat blets'in the correct order on the check list. Oh what fun. We left at 5:30 AMthat morning from an airport 25 miles inland from the coast, where Istashed the airplane the day before to get out from under the fog.Tony                        (T_DIAZ, 22810, GO COM A2)YOU DON'T NEED TO READ THIS   _The Lamp!_ is copyright Ryan M. Suenaga and"""""""""""""""""""""""""""   is published independently of Syndicomm; itdoes, however, draw the majority of its content (only with permission fromthe original authors) from the A2 and A2Pro Forums on Delphi.Current (as well as past) issues of _The Lamp!_ are available in theIIScribe database on Delphi at GO CUS 11.You can also obtain issues of _The Lamp!_ on disk from _Juiced.GS_ and_Shareware Solutions II_. I have also granted Alltech Electronics a licenseto distribute (and some other places I can't recall off the top of myhead).Past issues are available at the ftp site trenco.gno.org as well ashttp://lamp.sheppyware.net. These are at least one month old, if not older.btw, this is probably a good time to mention (to all, not to Mack, as hedoesn't fit into this category): the best way to make sure I don't updatethe webpage for _The Lamp!_ is to ask me about it, especially if in thesame communication there's something that also says "I don't get any otherApple II publications."  There is one thing that _The Lamp!_ is clearly-not- intended to do, and that is to replace _Juiced.GS_, _SSII_, or anyother kind of Apple II publication, and there is nothing that will get meto cease publication quicker than to hear that.  Off my soapbox, I will tryto get the April issues into the IIScribe database tonight before I sleep.- Ryan M. Suenaga, M.S.W., L.S.W. -- rsuenaga@apple2.org Editor and Publisher, _The Lamp!_, published monthly on Delphi Posted by PTMM v2.5 - The integrated information solution                       (RSUENAGA, 22155, GO COM A2)APPLE II SYSTEM SOFTWARE CHANGES ON APPLE'S FTP SITES   Today Apple posted"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""   a new Tech InfoLibrary article. Article #30959, "Macintosh Floppy Drives: Creating AppleIIGS Start Up Floppy Disks Issue".This article discusses problems using DiskCopy on the Mac to createfloppies of the System 6.0.1 disk images. In particular, manual-insert Macfloppy drives are known to often produce unusable floppies. These drivesare the kind that don't grab the disk and suck it in when the disk ishalf-inserted. You can usually tell you have one of these drives: ifthere's an indentation into which your fingers can go to push the disk allthe way into the drive, it's probably manual insert. Likewise,manual-insert drives often have a flap to keep dust out of the drive.Apple recommends using an older Mac to create the disks (contact a localApple service provider for help finding one to use).If one isn't available, they suggest transferring the files to a IIgs overa network and using ShrinkIt 1.1 to make the disks. ShrinkIt 1.1 can befound at {<http://asu.info.apple.com> http://asu.info.apple.com.} The AppleIIgs disk images can be found at{<http://asu.info.apple.com/swupdates.nsf/artnum/n10078>http://asu.info.apple.com/swupdates.nsf/artnum/n10078.}Eric (Sheppy) Shepherd {<mailto:sheppy@sheppyware.net> sheppy@sheppyware.net} {<http://www.sheppyware.net> http://www.sheppyware.net}                        (SHEPPY, 22159, GO COM A2)>>>>>   It should be noted that 1.4 meg high density disks work fine"""""   between these manual insert drives and a IIgs with a high densitydrive. I believe the problem is flaky 800k support with the drives and notan issue with disk copy.Geoff                       (SISGEOFF, 22161, GO COM A2)<<<<<   Yes, although Apple's article doesn't say that, that's the issue --"""""   Mac 1.4 MB floppy drives have had a long history of being unable toreliably produce 800k disks that the IIgs will read.Eric (Sheppy) Shepherd {<mailto:sheppy@sheppyware.net> sheppy@sheppyware.net} {<http://www.sheppyware.net> http://www.sheppyware.net}                        (SHEPPY, 22163, GO COM A2)>>>>>   That's nice of them but did you also notice that they have removed"""""   all the BXY archives from their site? You can only get the .sea.binfiles which are DiskCopy files I believe.This makes it impossible for me as a IIgs and IBM compatible user todownload the System Software for the IIgs. :/Good thing I already have it and can get it from several other placeseither on disk or as .BXY archives.  :) Jeff Blakeney |      Dean of the Apple II University in A2Pro      | --------------+----------------------------------------------------+   sent via    |   HyperCard IIgs Course   |   GSoft BASIC Course   |   COG v3.0    |      now in session       |     now in session     |                       (JBLAKENEY, 22170, GO COM A2)>>>>>   The DiskCopy files are still there. The ShrinkIt files appear to be"""""   gone though. I'll be releasing ImageMaker 1.1 hopefully sometimebefore this month is over, then, sometime this summer or early in the fall,ImageMaker Deluxe, which will support creating disks from disk images. Theupgrade from ImageMaker to ImageMaker Deluxe will be discounted for peoplethat buy ImageMaker before ImageMaker Deluxe ships.ImageMaker Deluxe will be very useful for people that need to regurgitatethe System 6 images from Apple, I hope.Eric (Sheppy) Shepherd {<mailto:sheppy@sheppyware.net> sheppy@sheppyware.net} {<http://www.sheppyware.net> http://www.sheppyware.net}                        (SHEPPY, 22175, GO COM A2)>>>>>   WRT the Tech Info Library article. Article #30959, "Macintosh"""""   Floppy Drives: Creating Apple IIGS Start Up Floppy Disks Issue".What's particularly amusing is that a lot of us have known about this forquite some time, and I never myself, inquired to Apple about it, figuringthey would just blow it off to user error.They addressed the issue, but it's not just an Apple II image problem, it's800K disk images in general.Up until the point of manual insert drives, Sony was the drive supplier forApple 3.5" drives. Budget stalemates and competition forced Apple to lookin other directions for drive sources. Since the dominant force is the PCmarket, all the drives in the marketplace are designed for MFM,(720K/1.44MB, 1/2MB 'unformatted'). These drives had to be modified tosupport Apple's own proprietary GCR format. 143K/400K/800K are all GCR. TheSony drives were designed with GCR in mind, the heads, mainly.If some of you may recall the "HFS Interchange Format" that was introducedaround System 7 Pro, System 7.1.2, just about the time the first PowerMac'sshipped. This was also about the same time as Apple was making a change touse other vendors drives. After no very long, HFS Interchange Format (a720K HFS volume) disappeared nearly as fast as it appeared. A systemrelease later, it was gone. To much, too fast, much more complicated thanthey envisioned to phase out the 800K, and GCR format all together.The drives just do not write GCR exactly the way the others do.Maybe it's all by the book, done per spec, but you know that, that doesn'tnecessarily mean it will work. Case in point, the BASIS 108, German AppleII+ clone was cloned by the book, it was 101% compatible. So much in thatthings did not work. The Franklin Ace 1000, the same way. The neat thingabout the Apple ][ design was that a lot of it was un-intentional,characteristics of using circuits in ways never thought of when they weredesigned. Double Hires is the best example, and most common. GCR isanother. Since only one vendor made the hardware it always worked.This problem (disks created by one not read by another) also existed in asmaller degree with the AppleDisk 3.5" and the UniDisk 3.5". That was moreof an interleave issue, and a ProDOS 'patience' thing. ProDOS would give upto easy, if the data it was 'waiting' for did not come in time.If you have a disk that does not read on the IIgs, format it first on theIIgs, write the disk image to the disk after the disk has been formattedonce.Or if you are moving files to a IIgs from a Mac, make your transit disk anHFS disk, again, format the disk on the IIgs if you have to.You should not write to ProDOS disks with a Mac, as *any* file will nowhave a resource fork, EVEN IF IT DID NOT WHILE IT WAS ON THE MAC VOLUME.Yes, you download a Shrinkit file on the Mac, unshrink it with Shrink II,then write the files to a ProDOS disk, they now have a resource fork. Ifthese were ProDOS 8 files, they are no longer usable. If they were GS/OSfiles, it's not as big of an issue, except that if the file did not have aresource fork to begin with, now it does and you just lessened the mobilityof that file because now it can not be copied with a ProDOS 8 utility. Notthat, that should be a big problem, those with more experience can and douse the P8 environment to move things around too, as they know what doesand does not have a resource fork.MacOS will NOT add resource forks to ProDOS files (non-resource forkedfiles) just at random, but only when it writes them to ProDOS disks. On MSDOS disks, the Mac writes the file and the resource goes in a folder called"RESOURCE.FRK" ..which means that the files do not get modified.Tony                        (T_DIAZ, 22676, GO COM A2)DELPHI DOT COMMANDS ON THE MESSAGE BOARDS   Uh - the so-called"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""   'dot-commands' have been aroundfor a long, long time.If you start a line with a period, Delphi will try to interpret the firstcouple of characters as a dot-command. I think from your note that youstarted a line with .BXY, which would tell Delphi that you wanted the lineto be blank (.B = blank line).There are a few dot-commands listed in the Delphi manual (dated 1994) thatI have. I suppose there is a list online somewhere, but I haven't runacross it.Don V. Zahniser (IronTooth)            Try my off-line reader scripts for ANSITerm...                          They're OLRight!                     (Version 4.0 Coming Soon...)                       (DZAHNISER, 22698, GO COM A2)>>>>>   I guess this would be a new feature I could ask Ewen to put into"""""   COG. Check to see if any line starts with a period and add a spaceor something if it does.I guess this is just the first time it has hit me and it is definitely thefirst time I've seen a message here get messed up like that. Jeff Blakeney |      Dean of the Apple II University in A2Pro      | --------------+----------------------------------------------------+   sent via    |   HyperCard IIgs Course   |   GSoft BASIC Course   |   COG v3.0    |      now in session       |     now in session     |                       (JBLAKENEY, 22772, GO COM A2)>>>>>   I have noted the problem and will see what I can do..."""""But what if a dot command was deliberately and correctly added to amessage. You would not want that to be removed. I guess the best solutionwould be just a warning as you queued the message, so you could go back andcorrect it if needed... Ewen Wannop - Speccie - Thu 22 Apr 1999 - 90 days till KFest '99 Delivered without using a IIgs by Spectrum 2.2 & Crock O' Gold 3.0 Bernie ][ the Rescue 2.0 woofing at 55Mhz on a G3/350 http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/ewannop/                        (EWANNOP, 22774, GO COM A2)<<<<<   I would suggest instead that an alert be put up, because there are"""""   situations in which you might _want_ to use dot-commands.For example:> Jeff Blakeney | Dean of the Apple II University in A2Pro |> --------------+----------------------------------------------------+> sent via | HyperCard IIgs Course | GSoft BASIC Course |> COG v3.0 | now in session | now in session |Web browsers will probably show the above in a proportional font, insteadof the monospace font (Spectrum 8, most likely) that you used whencomposing your 'signature'. It won't have the desired visual effect. Topreserve the formatting, a textsider would use two dot-commands: Justbefore the text, you would use the '.pre' command, and after the text, ifyou want to reset the note back to the default, you would use '.end pre'.Don V. Zahniser (IronTooth)            Try my off-line reader scripts for ANSITerm...                          They're OLRight!                     (Version 4.0 Coming Soon...)                       (DZAHNISER, 22773, GO COM A2)>>>>>   How many dot commands are there? If there aren't too many, maybe"""""   you could check for those commands and allow them, otherwise addthe space...---Eric (Sheppy) Shepherdsheppy@sheppyware.nethttp://www.sheppyware.net                        (SHEPPY, 22775, GO COM A2)>>>>>   From my archives, here are the listed dot commands:"""""----------ONLINE .DOT COMMANDSAll commands MUST be typed on a line by themselves in the first space of aline unless otherwise indicated.--| commands |------------| descriptions |-------------------------------  .blank # Insert # blank lines.  .b #---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---  .break Break text of next line to left margin set.  .br #---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---  .center "text" Center "text." Must be on same line as text.  .c "text"---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---  .end literal Ends literal text formatting. (cancels .lt) and  .el enables auto line wrap features.---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---  .indent # Indent text of next line # spaces.  .i #---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---  .left margin # Set left margin # spaces to right.  .lm #---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---  .lm # /annotate="text" Set left margin # spaces to right & insert  .lm # /a="text" "text" in left margin on each line.---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---  .literal Everything typed on lines following this command  .lt will be exactly how you type it in. Disables                          forum auto line wrap features.---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---  .line wrap # Set line wrap at # spaces from left margin.  .lw # (does not seem to work properly at this time)---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---  .paragraph Inserts single blank line for new paragraph.  .p---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---  .page Pauses text display with a "more?" prompt.---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---  .page "text" Pauses text display with "text" replacing                          the "more?" prompt.---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---  .pre Maintain formatting with monospaced font  .end pre End monospaced formatting---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---  .right margin # Set right margin # spaces from left.  .rm # (does not seem to work properly at this time)---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---  .wrap margin # This sets all lines after the first line to be  .wm # indented by the value indicated on all follow-                          ing lines.---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---  .! "text" Comment line, the "text" does not show during                          text display in forum.---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---<Editors Note: These commands do NOT work in Email.>I found these in my archives from when we first set up A2. I cannot vouchfor the accuracy of them, at this time, because of the many changes thatare going on. But, I offer them to this discussion. :)ChuckCHunk_S --- Your A2 Forum HostDelivered by OLRight! (v4.0) scripts for ANSITerm for the Apple IIgs                        (CHUNK_S, 22776, GO COM A2)DEALING WITH PRODOS DISKS ON THE MAC AND WITH THE DOG   If you partitioned"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""   the Zip Disk on theMac, you ought to be able to mount the partitions using SCSI probe.If you partitioned it on a II using a RamFAST, I think you have very littlechance of mounting them on the Mac.I haven't used an Apple branded SCSI card for an Apple II in years, soyou'll have to research that on your own. . .- Ryan M. Suenaga, M.S.W., L.S.W. -- rsuenaga@apple2.org Editor and Publisher, _The Lamp!_, published monthly on Delphi Posted by PTMM v2.5 - The integrated information solution                       (RSUENAGA, 22266, GO COM A2)>>>>>   To mount a ProDOS formatted disk, you need a good tool or your name"""""   is Copperfield. Since only few can claim the latter one, you need agood tool.Basically, you need a tool such as FWB's Hard Disk Toolkit. This softwareis a commercial package, but worth every cent.We have prepared a tutorial that shows how disks can be mounted and sharedin Bernie. Please have a look at the online tutorial at: {<http://www.magnet.ch/emutech/SupportCenter/>http://www.magnet.ch/emutech/SupportCenter/}(requires a frames-enabled browser)Also, if you have problems with having AppleWorks recognize a disk imagethat _did_ mount properly in Bernie, make sure the option "Low-Level DiskSupport" Setup menu) is disabled, i.e. does not have a checkmark.regards,henrik                        (GUDATH, 22325, GO COM A2)>>>>>   Once a Zip appeared on the Mac desktop, Bernie will eat it happily."""""   From that point of view - whatever is required for mounting aProDOS zip on the Mac does also apply for Bernie and vice versa.Just as a reminder, our "Dr. Magic" Ryan described in The Lamp (Dec 98issue) how to mount Zips on RAMfastened IIs and Macs (and dogs). The basictrick is to teach Macs to mount them (by letting them initialize the media)and have the II deal with it as the latter seems more flexible in terms ofpartitioning.For a yet unknown reason Ryan gave permission to repost that article on theWoof Woof Web, so in case the December issue of the Lamp is sitting on aZip you are unable to access, you'll find a copy in the dog's supportsection.Henrik Woof Gudat                        (GUDATH, 22270, GO COM A2)>>>>>   Actually, I was able to make a Zip with multiple ProDOS partitions"""""   that all mounted on the Mac. It was pretty much just trial anderror (some hints from Ryan's article), but eventually I found thatinitializing a Zip with the Zip Tools, then partitioning it with Hard DiskToolkit (PE), then moving the disk to the GS and doing volume copies of anumber of ProDOS partitions to the Zip partitions, resulted in allpartitions mounting when the disk was brought back to the Mac. This waswith an Apple HS SCSI card; I don't know if it would work the same with aRamFast.The trick, I found, was =not= to erase or format the partitions on the GS.Doing that first always resulted in a disk that was unreadable by the Mac.But for some reason, the volume copies worked. (You can safely trash allthe files after copying if you wanted a blank volume.) I think it had to dowith the type of the partition not being changed from HFS to ProDOS in thepartition map. I don't know if the disks are safe to use in this form, butit worked for transferring volumes over to make disk images for Bernie. (Ofcourse, a few days later, Sheppy released his ImageMaker program and madeall my work obsolete! :-)-- Michael                          (SAR, 22313, GO COM A2)<<<<<   As well as my article. I now recommend ImageMaker as -the- way to"""""   move IIgs disks over to Bernie. . .- Ryan M. Suenaga, M.S.W., L.S.W. -- rsuenaga@apple2.org Editor and Publisher, _The Lamp!_, published monthly on Delphi Posted by PTMM v2.5 - The integrated information solution                       (RSUENAGA, 22319, GO COM A2)SO, HOW DO I REACH SHREVE SYSTEMS?""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""   Shreve Systems   1200 Marshall Street   Shreveport LA 71101   1-800-227-3971 to order   (318) 424-9777 International   (318) 424-9771 FaxKeep in mind: they have no concept of time zones. . .- Ryan M. Suenaga, M.S.W., L.S.W. -- rsuenaga@apple2.org Editor and Publisher, _The Lamp!_, published monthly on Delphi Posted by PTMM v2.5 - The integrated information solution                       (RSUENAGA, 22882, GO COM A2)DO YOU REMEMBER A2-CENTRAL?   Hmmm...I guess I never promoted on my web"""""""""""""""""""""""""""   site the availability of theA2-Central-On-Disk collection, in part, because if anyone ordered it, it'dmean that I'd have to copy a massive amount of disks, but...Subscribers to SSII who might be interested in that collection, the detailscan be found in the "Such A Deal" column in Volume 3, Issue 5.Because of royalties paid to Tom Weishaar on each sale, my price can neverapproach what Charlie is offering his complete set for...so, this is reallyjust a reminder that the complete A2/Resource Central collection is stillavailable from Shareware Solutions II. Along with many of the otherResource Central materials; the other collections _are_ detailed athttp://www.concentric.net/~jokoJoe Kohn                       (JOE_KOHN, 22929, GO COM A2)DIFFERENT FONTS WITH APPLEWORKS   Actually, you can use almost any font"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""   size you want with AppleWorks, if yourprinter can handle them. Years ago, I wrote an article for NAUG aboutdownloading softfonts to a laser printer and then choosing those fonts fromAW. It does take some getting used to, and the ratio you think you'regetting isn't exact (actually, they print, if memory serves, about 4xsmaller than you'd expect, so you need larger fonts), AND you have to playaround with margins and spacing, but it can turn out good quality printing.There was, and I thought I put it up in the library here, a font downloaderprogram that would take any GS font and load it to a HP-compatible laserprinter. The program came both in an 8-bit format (for which you also needto use the Beagle.Bros Triple Dump) or as a GS/OS NDA. The program is/wasshareware; I haven't been in contact with the author for a while to see ifhe's even in the same location (John Majka). If it's not in the library,I'll get it there soon. :)Later...........Howard                         (HKATZ, 22951, GO COM A2)                                RUMOR MILL                                """"""""""SSII REVEALS HEWLETT PACKARD ALTERNATIVE   If anyone here is thinking about""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""   buying a DeskJet in the nextcouple of days, DON'T!Please wait until after the next issue of Shareware Solutions II arrives,as I have uncovered an amazing bit of (money saving) information thatHewlett-Packard really doesn't want you (or anyone else) to know about. My"scoop" is so monumental that not even the big mainstream computermagazines know what Shareware Solutions II readers will soon know.I knew that I stumbled onto a story that would save Apple II owners somemoney, and I certainly wasn't going to let HP's denials stop me fromuncovering the entire story.That story will be arriving in subscriber's mailboxes very soon.Actually, the article you'll read contains just factual information, andsays not a word about Joe the Investigative Reporter ;-)After every one has had a chance to read it, I'd love to tell you theentire story. I'd have to use a lot of journalistic cliches, I imagine,such as "HP's PR department refused to return phone calls" and "HP'scorporate  operator denied that such a department existed" and of course,I'd have to mention "the HP representative who spoke only after hisanonymity was assured."In any case, Shareware Solutions II will be going into the mail before theweek is over.Joe Kohn                       (JOE_KOHN, 22197, GO COM A2)<<<<<   I thought that I had a 'scoop,' but now I know it..."""""I just received an e-mail from an SSII subscriber who also happens to be adistributor for that printer, and until he read SSII, he had absolutely noidea ;-)That warmed my heart.Joe Kohn                       (JOE_KOHN, 22964, GO COM A2)SSII CHAT GOES FROM MULTI-SYSTEM TO MONO-SYSTEM   Apple IIGS owners will"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""   soon have one more reasonto celebrate.Find out all about it at the next Monday (4/26/99) multi-system chat, wheresome special guests will tell you all about it.Anyone and everyone who has the ability to read this message will beinterested in the software that our guests plan to announce on Mondaynight. Joe Kohn http://www.concentric.net/~joko                       (JOE_KOHN, 22339, GO COM A2)>>>>>   Don't count on it being multi-system. I found today that I couldn't"""""   get past the main menu of the A2 area on Genie. No Roundtable, nolibrary, no conference.  -- Carl Knoblock - Telephone Tech - Fri 23 Apr 99 7:55:58 pm cknoblo@novia.net - Via Spectrum v2.2 & Crock O' Gold v3.0 KansasFest 11, July 21-25, 1999 - 89 days till KFest Using Marinetti 2.0 - Thank you, Richard.                        (CKNOBLO, 22341, GO COM A2)<<<<<   I've also been unable to get past Genie's A2 menu. But, I"""""   understand that the problem has been reported to Genie, andhopefully, they'll fix it soon.In any case, I think I can safely say that it's the IIGS folks here onDelphi who will be the most excited about the news that the special guestswill broadcast on Monday night.Coincidentally, I'll be picking up the completed SSII newsletter, V4, #3,sometime on Monday. As pleased as I am with this latest issue, SSII is notthe cause for celebration on Monday ;-)There's some new software coming real soon now, but I'll let the gueststell you all about it. On Monday night.Joe Kohn                       (JOE_KOHN, 22349, GO COM A2)<<<<<   The Monday night multi-system chat wasn't really a multi-system"""""   chat as Genie's A2 is currently missing-in-action, but it was greatnonetheless. At one point, we had 20 people in attendance.The special guests were Ewen Wannop and Geoff Weiss, and they were pleasedto announce that Spectrum Internet Suite v1.1 is completed, and on thebrink of shipping.For those who already own SIS v1.0, the update price is only $15.The new feature list is quite extensive, so I'll just mention one newoption that I know you'll like...SIS v1.1 now works from Delphi.To help commemorate this momentous news, Cindy Adams also announced thatSir Ewen Wannop will be the guest of (dis)honor at the Kfest 99 Roast;-) Joe Kohn http://www.concentric.net/~joko                       (JOE_KOHN, 22860, GO COM A2)A2'S THOUGHTS ON NEW FSTS   At this point, if a new FST were ever to see"""""""""""""""""""""""""   the light of day it would probably bereasonable to base it on a disassembled ProDOS FST. But, change thepertinent parameters you have mentioned. Same basic structure but bigger ina sense. Obviously, it would not be backwards compatible.I believe that Brutal Deluxe currently has the ProDOS FST disassembled.They posted to this effect in the past year on csa2. Perhaps this could bea good launching point.Paul.Paul Schultzschultp@delphi.comsent your way via Spectrum 2.2 and Crock O' Gold 3.0!                        (SCHULTP, 22204, GO COM A2)<<<<<   The drawback with HFS is that it is so darn complex compared to the"""""   ProDOS file system and the MS-DOS file system. Disassembling thisFST and making sense of it would be VERY time consuming compared to using aProDOS FST disassembly as a base. There are still IIgs programmers aroundwho are VERY well acquainted with the design and underpinnings of ProDOS.Paul.Paul Schultzschultp@delphi.comsent your way via Spectrum 2.2 and Crock O' Gold 3.0!                        (SCHULTP, 22205, GO COM A2)>>>>>   Probably the best way to do this would be to increase the maximum"""""   number of blocks in a filesystem. It's currently 65536, but addinganother byte to the block number would bump this up to 16777216. This wouldallow for filesystems of up to 8GB while keeping the block size at 512bytes. (Yes, I know that bigger drives than that are already on the market,but what are the odds that you'll ever hook one of those to a II?) -=IIGS=- Scott Alfter ( {<mailto:salfter@delphi.com> salfter@delphi.com}) {<http://people.delphi.com/salfter> http://people.delphi.com/salfter}                        (SALFTER, 22669, GO COM A2)>>>>>   It wouldn't have to be backwards compatible if it were written as a"""""   separate FST. However, if we can make it close enough to ProDOS wemight be able to get away with booting from this new file system as well.Even if we can't boot from it, I can live with one or more ProDOSpartitions for my boot partition and 8 bit programs. :-)Now that you mention it, I may have captured a post to usenet a while backthat was the disassembly of an FST. I'll have to look through my messagearchives again. Jeff Blakeney |      Dean of the Apple II University in A2Pro      | --------------+----------------------------------------------------+   sent via    |   HyperCard IIgs Course   |   GSoft BASIC Course   |   COG v3.0    |      now in session       |     now in session     |                       (JBLAKENEY, 22685, GO COM A2)>>>>>   Also, keep in mind that the total number of blocks is per partition"""""   and not per drive. Being able to access 8 GB volumes with aRamFAST, means you could have up to 12 partitions that are each 8 GB whichworks out to 96 GB of accessible drive space. Even more with the Apple SCSIcards.No need to worry about the big drives that are out there right now.  :-) Jeff Blakeney |      Dean of the Apple II University in A2Pro      | --------------+----------------------------------------------------+   sent via    |   HyperCard IIgs Course   |   GSoft BASIC Course   |   COG v3.0    |      now in session       |     now in session     |                       (JBLAKENEY, 22686, GO COM A2)>>>>>   Doing what you suggest would be nice, and is doable in theory, but"""""   since we don't have any information on how to write an FST, it'snot very practical in reality. Patching the ProDOS FST to do it would bevery hard (if not impossible), because structures on the disk would have tobe resized, which changes a lot inside the code.Eric (Sheppy) Shepherd {<mailto:sheppy@sheppyware.net> sheppy@sheppyware.net} {<http://www.sheppyware.net> http://www.sheppyware.net}                        (SHEPPY, 22688, GO COM A2)>>>>>   If I may add my 2 cents to this talk of FSTs..."""""Although GS/OS is better designed (IMO) than MacOS or WindowsXX, FSTs are,shall we say, a little too intimate with a specific version of GS/OS.Hacking the ProDOS FST would be stupid in the same way that windows 95'shack of FAT to support long file names is stupid. Quite frankly, we'relucky that ProDOS could be hacked to support lower case letters.Using a newly designed unix-ish filesystem would be much better (because ofthe simplicity and they're known to work). Adding a boot block is rathertrivial. The real problem is understanding the intricate details of how anFST works. Having a disassembly  of GS/OS and the ProDOS FST would help,but without insider knowledge from (ex)Apple employees, a new FST isprobably a pipe dream.                          (KWS, 22705, GO COM A2)>>>>>   This discussion is probably best moved to A2Pro, however....I'm"""""   never one to ignore a good topic. :-)Obviously there are some reasons for updating the ProDOS filing structureto support larger hard drives, but the project would have to be done forthe love of it, because I think most people would be using HFS, which isgood enough for most uses on an Apple IIgs.As for the actual implementation, reverse engineering the FST is not theway to go about it. The first step is sitting down in front of a hard copyof the ProDOS file structure, and designing on paper the new architecture.Once this is complete, you would move on to working out how to implementthe changes, whether that me by modifying the FST or whatever.Any project which starts by disassembling the FST is fooling itself intothinking it is redesigning ProDOS when in reality it is a project toreverse engineer the FSTs. And from a standpoint of writing new FSTs, Ithink you'll find that for the most part  this is not a straightforwardthing to do. FSTs are NOT as standard in calling interface as you wouldimagine them to be.Regards, Richard                       (RICHARD_B, 22906, GO COM A2)SHEPPY ON THE APPLE (NOT PENTIUM) ///   The /// was a great machine that"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""   was shipped about three monthsbefore it was really ready for prime time.Eric (Sheppy) Shepherd {<mailto:sheppy@sheppyware.net> sheppy@sheppyware.net} {<http://www.sheppyware.net> http://www.sheppyware.net}                        (SHEPPY, 21964, GO COM A2)                              PUBLIC POSTINGS                              """""""""""""""NEWLY FOUND LOST CLASSICS   The files have already started to hit the A2"""""""""""""""""""""""""   Database, so...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IMPORTANT DATABASE ANNOUNCEMENT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!In recent months, Howard Katz of the A2 staff has been working tirelesslyto contact software publishers and authors for permission to reclassifyApple II software from commercial to freeware or public domain status. Hisefforts have begun to pay off! Howard recently received confirmation fromScantron Quality Computers that the entire line of software formerlypublished by SQC under the Q Labs label is now reclassified as "Freeware".The Q Labs titles represent some of the finest software published for theApple II market. These titles have already started appearing in the A2database here on Delphi, with more on the way! For websiders, we'll try toget them uploaded to public ftp archives - take a look, for example, atftp://trenco.gno.org/pub/apple2/companies/qlabs.And - if that were not enough, look for more -significant- Apple IIsoftware to be announced as reclassified in the very near future.Stay tuned to Delphi A2 as this project bears more fruit...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Don V. ZahniserA2 Forum Archivist                       (DZAHNISER, 22918, GO COM A2)>>>>>   Howard really does deserve our community's heart-felt thanks for"""""   his efforts. Otherwise, many of us, especially newcomers to ourcommunity, would only know about these "little gems" through old ads inmagazines and other's comments.Howard has continued in the spirit of the "Lost Classics" project that wasstarted on our other home/site. Thanks to him they will now, not disappear,but continue to be used.Again, congratulations, Howard ... and ::MEGA-HUGS::"Apple II Forever!"ChuckCHunk_S --- Your A2 Forum HostDelivered by OLRight! (v4.0) scripts for ANSITerm for the Apple IIgs                        (CHUNK_S, 22924, GO COM A2)>>>>>   Actually, I'm doing this for selfish reasons - the more software I"""""   can get available to Apple II users thru legitimate channels, thelonger I can keep my Apple //e a fun and productive computer. :)(BTW--all you ProSel users out there - if you're using it to launch yourprograms from your hard drive, check out EasyDrive's interface. :) )Later...........Howard                         (HKATZ, 22952, GO COM A2)>>>>>   There's more on the way, but the titles we've gotten ready and"""""   released for public consumption are:SixPackSignatureGS (HD and 3.5" versions) plus the sigma patch for itEasyDrive (suite of software)RepairworksQDriveQRamA few others are forthcoming - just either haven't been uploaded orreleased yet.Later............Howard                         (HKATZ, 22963, GO COM A2)NEW ONLINE HOME FOR GERMAN HARDWARE   The ///SHH Systeme web site is now at"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""   a new address: {<http://www.wbwip.com/shh/> http://www.wbwip.com/shh/}The old address will now automatically zap you to the new one.///SHH Systeme products, sales & support information can be found on thisweb site, supporting Apple II peripheral interface hardware:     *  FaST506 hard disk controller (out of production, but supported)     *  Turbo IDE Card hard disk controller     *  MicroDrive Card hard disk controller     *  MicroDrive/Turbo Card hard disk controller     *  BlueDisk Card floppy disk controller     *  Transwarp GS 32K cache ("second source") {<http://www0.delphi.com/powermac/> The POWER Forum } David K.                       (DKERWOOD, 22024, GO COM A2)CHUNK STOCKS UP ON HIGH SPEED 65C816'S   I'm posting this here, since this""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""   is where discussion has been aboutgetting the faster Western Design W65816S8PL-14's for accelerators.I have 15 of these beauties for sale. I am pricing them at $15-US or$20CDN. This includes postage, packaging, and insurance. Money orders arepreferred, please.Please send me email here on Delphi. I will then email you with my address.ChuckCHunk_S --- Your A2 Forum HostDelivered by OLRight! (v4.0) scripts for ANSITerm for the Apple IIgs                        (CHUNK_S, 22100, GO COM A2)KFEST BLATANT PLUG FOR THE MASSES   Hey gang,"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""Less than two weeks remain before the Kfest '99 Early Bird registrationdeadline. If you have not yet registered, now is the time to do so in orderto take advantage of the savings this special offer will bring you.Things are looking VERY good for Kfest '99. Registrations are strong, andplanning is under way to make this the best Kfest ever. We've got somegreat plans for this event, and we'd like for all of you to join us inKansas City to celebrate the Apple II community and learn more about thesecomputers we love.We are reposting, for your convenience, the Kfest '99 Announcement, Ratesand Registration Form below. +++++ ______      _____(      )   (      )     ____________________________________________ |     |  /     /      (        _____________________________'99____) |     | /     /        |      | |     |/     /         |      |                         II Infinitum!! |           /          |      |______ |     |\     \         |      _______) __________    ________   ________ |     | \     \        |      |       (     _____)  (     ___) (__    __) |     |  \     \       |      |        |   |__       \    \       |   | |     |   \     \      |      |        |    __)       \    \      |   | |     |    \      \    |      |        |   |_____   ___\    \     |   |(______)    (________) (_______)       (__________) (_________)    |___|Experience The Magic!! When: July 21-25, 1999 Where: Avila College, Kansas City, Missouri+++KFest is back ... and it's never been more affordable!Check out these rates, which include room and meals from Wednesday evening(dinner) on July 21, through Sunday morning (breakfast) on July 25.(Saturday evening dinner not included. That's Kfesters' Night Out On TheTown!)+++  Early Bird rates (good if you register BEFORE April 15)  +++ Double room:  $225 Single room:  $275 Spouse rate (in case you want to bring that special person along):  $175 Registration only (no dorm room or meals):  $175+++  Regular Attendee rates (if you register AFTER April 15)  +++ Double room:  $275 Single room:  $325 Spouse rate (in case you want to bring that special person along):  $225 Registration only (no dorm room or meals):  $225Those cool Kfest T-shirts will also be available again this year for $15,but ONLY if you order in advance. (See registration form below.)+++  Special Early Arrivals rate  +++For the very first time, Kfest will start early for those who'd like toarrive a little sooner. Avila dorms will be available for occupancy onTuesday night for a small extra fee. No formal activities will be planned,although the day may include the annual trek to KC Masterpiece Restaurantfor some of that world-famous Kansas City barbecue!The rate for early arrivals (Tuesday night dorm room only): Double room:  $25 Single room:  $33For attendees planning to arrive at the normal time on Wednesday, check-inwill be on from 1-4 pm. Check-out will be from 11 am-1 pm on Sunday.Current plans call for formal Kfest sessions to begin with dinner in theAvila cafeteria on Wednesday evening (time to be announced), followed bythe traditional opening event, the Kfest Keynote Address. We've got somegreat plans for that opening night activity. Stay tuned!!Computer sessions will be conducted on Thursday and Friday. Software andhardware demos are scheduled for Saturday morning, with a vendor fairslated for Saturday afternoon.Reminder: Meals included in the registration price are Wednesday dinnerthrough Sunday breakfast, with the exception of Saturday dinner.On Saturday night, attendees can dine on their own at one of the many finerestaurants near the Avila campus, or join groups of Kfesters at Jess &Jim's Steak House or other local favorites.All children under 18 years must be accompanied by a parent or legalguardian. ***KFest this year is again being sponsored by InTrec Software, Inc., makersof ProTERM telecommunications software for the Apple II and Macintosh.If you have questions about KFest, or wish to make suggestions, you canfind answers via the Internet. 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Checks & money orders must be payable to InTrec Software, and must  be in US dollars from a US bank.  _______________________________   ____________________________________  First Name                         Last Name  ______________________________________________________________________  Organization (if applicable to Kfest)  ______________________________________________________________________  Shipping Address  ______________________________________________________________________  City  _______________________________________________  _____________________  State/Province                                   Zip+4 or Postal Code  _______/_______________________  _______/_____________________________  Day Phone                        Eve Phone  [______________________________________________________________________  Internet Mail Address  [                                                ]     [      /      ]  Credit Card Number (Mastercard-Visa-Discovery-Amex)    Expiration Date  ______________________________________________________________________  Name on Card (please print clearly)  ______________________________________________________________________  Authorized Signature (If printed, and mailed or faxed.)  If you feel that using a credit card number via email may not be secure,  considering mailing via postal service, fax, or call voice. Sponsored by:  InTrec Software, Inc.  3035 E Topaz Circle  Phoenix, AZ 85028-4423  Voc:602/992-1345  Fax:602/992-0232  <kfest@intrec.com>  <http://www.intrec.com/a2.html/kfest.txt>  ---[ End of Form ]-----------[ Cut Here ]---------[ Print Clearly ]---                       (JUICEDGS, 21882, GO COM A2)SHEPPY UPDATES IMAGEMAKER TO 1.1   ImageMaker 1.1 has just been released.""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""   You can get it at{<http://www.sheppyware.net/software/imagemaker_gs/>http://www.sheppyware.net/software/imagemaker_gs/.}The new version supports creating DiskCopy 6 and "raw" disk images,supports creating images from disks that GS/OS won't mount (like custom OSdisks, such as those demos), and fixes a couple of minor bugs.In addition, there's an option to prevent the addition of Mac filetype andcreator information (adding these puts a resource fork on the createdfiles, and sometimes you don't want one).Current ImageMaker owners can use the new version without any upgrade fee.If you don't already own this valuable utility, you can register it forjust US $5 at {<http://order.kagi.com/?QGC> http://order.kagi.com/?QGC.}---Eric (Sheppy) Shepherdsheppy@sheppyware.nethttp://www.sheppyware.net                        (SHEPPY, 22834, GO COM A2)SPECIAL OFFER FROM SHEPPY: FREE SHEPPYWARE FOR LIFE?   I'm making an""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""   unusual specialoffer:RSA, the company that provides the standard security encryption protocolused most frequently on the Internet, is sponsoring a contest, known as theRC5 cracking contest, to test its protocol. This contest is participated inby downloading a piece of software that attempts to break the code.Participants download the software, install it, and run it. It receivesassignments from a central computer, and works on crunching that data. Whenit's done, it sends its results back to the central computer and obtainsanother block to work on.To make things more interesting, teams have been established to add to thefun and competitiveness. The team that cracks the code wins a cash prize,and the individual that cracks the code gets a $1000 cash prize. You canread specific information about this at {<http://www.distributed.net>http://www.distributed.net.} Teams are ranked against each other, and everynight you can see the latest rankings.I have my own team (Team SheppyWare), which has a few membersparticipating. You can see my team's current score at{<http://rc5stats.distributed.net /tmsummary.idc?TM=4034>http://rc5stats.distributed.net/tmsummary.idc?TM=4034.}We've done pretty well so far, advancing to about 785th place (out of some6,000 teams), but we've finally hit a brick wall. We don't have enoughparticipants to gain in the rankings. So that brings me to the specialoffer:Join my RC5 team, and you could win free SheppyWare for life ("SheppyWare"is defined as freeware or shareware products released by Eric Shepherd forany platform, and any commercial software released for the Apple II or IIgscomputer by Eric Shepherd; this does not imply that you'll receive refundsfor products already purchased (you won't), and I reserve the right tocancel the free software if I go bankrupt or something unpleasant likethat).The three participants in Team SheppyWare (not including members of my testteam, who aren't eligible) that have the highest number of contributedblocks when the contest ends (in other words, when it's announced by RSAthat the code has been broken) will receive the free SheppyWare for life.The steps involved in joining my team are:1. Go to {<http://rc5.distributed.net> http://rc5.distributed.net} and   download the client software for your computer. You'll need a PC, Mac,   or the like (there's no Apple II software).2. Install and configure the software. Be sure to set your email address.3. Run the software.4. Once you've submitted your first batch of blocks, you can join my team.   Go to the Team SheppyWare status link listed above   (http://rc5stats.distributed.net/tmsummary.idc?TM=4034) and then use the   "Participant Search" at the top of the page to find yourself; enter your   email address and click Search. Then click the "Email me my password"   button to get your password. Then you can go to the following link to   join the team; enter your email address as the username and your   password:{<http://stats.distributed.net/pjointeam.php3?team=4034>http://stats.distributed.net/pjointeam.php3?team=4034.}All your blocks (including those you've already submitted) will then beassigned to the team, starting with the next nightly stats update.You can get more information from rc5.distributed.net, and these links areduplicated on my main web site at {<http://www.sheppyware.net>http://www.sheppyware.net.}You can use as many computers as you want (and have access to). You don'tneed a full-time Internet connection (PPP is fine). If you need helpgetting joined up, feel free to ask. Also, feel free to ask if you havequestions about my prize offer.---Eric (Sheppy) Shepherdsheppy@sheppyware.nethttp://www.sheppyware.net                        (SHEPPY, 22940, GO COM A2)<<<<<   You can get more information on joining RC5 teams (a step-by-step"""""   guide, in fact) at {<http://rc5.distributed.net/FAQ/team.html>http://rc5.distributed.net/FAQ/team.html.}---Eric (Sheppy) Shepherdsheppy@sheppyware.nethttp://www.sheppyware.net                        (SHEPPY, 22941, GO COM A2)<<<<<   I should point out that the RC5 software only uses processor time"""""   you're not using; as a general rule you rarely notice anysignificant performance impact while it's running. It just sits therechugging away in the background when your computer would otherwise be idle.---Eric (Sheppy) Shepherdsheppy@sheppyware.nethttp://www.sheppyware.net                        (SHEPPY, 22957, GO COM A2)SSII MOVES TO A NEW ONLINE HOME   Although it'll probably take me a while"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""   to get fully moved in, I have a new ISP.The new e-mail address is joko@concentric.net and the URL for the SharewareSolutions II web site is www.concentric.net/~jokoI'll maintain the address at crl.com long enough for everyone to memorizethe new e-mail address and URL.Joe Kohn                       (JOE_KOHN, 22166, GO COM A2)SSII VOLUME 4, ISSUE 3--IN YOUR MAILBOX   Volume 4, Issue 3"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""The latest issue of the Shareware Solutions II newsletter is currentlybeing mailed to subscribers world-wide. In this 20 page issue, subscriberswill read about:DeskJet Alert - A discussion about why some DeskJets won't work on theApple II, and a description of how you can easily find out if anyparticular DeskJet is Apple II compatible. The article also answers theenigma: "The least expensive HP DeskJet available isn't a DeskJet and it'snot from HP, or is it?"Bernie ][ The Printer - Or, Everything You Ever Wanted To Know AboutPrinting With Bernie. Woof, woof.Y2K and the Apple II - A description of the few Y2K problems that willexist for Apple II users, with information about the wonderfully effectiveY2K solutions available from Bev Cadieux of TEXAS II.ProSel - A historical over-view of ProSel, along with a description of itsmost powerful and useful features.In addition, subscribers will learn about some amusing Easter Eggs inSpectrum and GraphicWriter III, and they'll learn how to become invinciblewhile playing Space Fox. They'll also learn about more than a dozen newlyreclassified-as-freeware Apple II programs. There are other news itemsabout KansasFest 99, Inits that can cause havoc on your IIGS, and readersare offered at least 6 new freeware/shareware disks.Shareware Solutions II is available by subscription only.Please visit http://www.concentric.net/~joko or http://www.crl.com/~jokofor additional information.Joe Kohn                       (JOE_KOHN, 22857, GO COM A2)SPECTRUM INTERNET SUITE 1.1 RELEASED   To purchase SIS 1.1 or any other""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""   Seven Hills product, please use anyof the following methods:Fax: 904-575-2015, anytimePhone: 904-575-0566, 9am-5pm ET, Monday through FridayMail: 1254 Ocala Road, Tallahassee, FL 32304-1548Ordering InformationWhen ordering any product we need:Your nameYour shipping addressYour area code and phone number (optional)Your preferred email address if you have one (optional)A list of the items you are orderingPayment informationVisa/Mastercard/Discover credit card orders can be placed by email, fax, orregular mail (see Contact Information above). Be sure to include your cardnumber and expiration date. You may also call and leave a voice mailmessage with the details of your order if our phone is busy. Just press "7"when you hear the greeting to leave your message. However we receive yourorder, we will fill it promptly.We also accept personal checks and money orders by regular mail.For all orders add $3.50 shipping and handling per order, not per item(foreign shipping is charged at actual airmail cost, minimum of $3.50,charged to a credit card unless otherwise arranged).Florida residents add 7% tax.Geoff                       (SISGEOFF, 22869, GO COM A2)CHANGES AT SEVEN HILLS   Seven Hills have changed their name, and are in""""""""""""""""""""""   the process of changing their web site.Please point your browsers at <http://www.myesource.com> for the main page,or <http://www.myesource.com/sevenhills> to get directly to the Seven HillsSoftware section.Send email to <email@myesource.com>, sales enquiries to<sales@myesource.com> and for support contact <support@myesource.com> Ewen Wannop - Speccie - Fri 30 Apr 1999 - 82 days till KFest '99 Delivered without using a IIgs by Spectrum 2.2 & Crock O' Gold 3.0 Bernie ][ the Rescue 2.0 woofing at 55Mhz on a G3/350 http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/ewannop/                        (EWANNOP, 22949, GO COM A2)                             BEST OF THE BEST                             """"""""""""""""22871 27-APR 22:56 Hardware Hacker     IIGS error (Re: Msg 22065)     From: MBROUI11ETTE To: DZAHNISER..To the tune of 'My Favorite Things" from the "Sound of Music"Micro-cracks in the solder of connections,Broken wires inside molded connectors,Heat-damaged insulation, leakin' voltage.These are the things that make young techies age!When the 'dead' wire 'bites',after the probe says safe,with no voltage, signal, or poll.I remember the mystical 'repair' of some things,that I never touched,at all!  __,2__    Mike Brouillette / _   _\   "Alas, poor Apple II of yore. I knew it well, & hoarded." \(o)m(_,   Delivered via Spectrum v2.1 & Crock 'O Gold v2.5  `boood    Tue 27 Apr 99 1:13:10 pm[EOA][A2P]------------------------------                   A2Pro_DUCTIVITY |-----------------------------------Checking out A2PRO on Delphi""""""""""""""""""""""""""""by Ryan M. Suenaga, B.A., M.S.W., L.S.W.                [thelamp@sheppyware.net]ON IIGS GRAPHICS   The Apple IIGS only has one screen buffer, at least""""""""""""""""   there is only one for the SHR screen. The hardwaresupport isn't there for double-buffering.As a result, you basically have to use other techniques for animating.These center around reducing the amount of information you actually change,changing it as fast as possible, and timing the changes with the verticalblanking interrupt to reduce or eliminate tearing.There are some pretty good FAQs floating around. If you're interested, someof the graphics folks can doubtless point you to them. My specialty wasn'tgraphics, though. :)Mike Westerfield                       (BYTEWORKS, 2566, GO COM A2)>>>>>   Well, the IIgs does have a double buffer of sorts. If you use the"""""   shadow register correctly you will be able to modify screen memorywhile displaying something else. Regular screen memory is at $E1/2000 butthe shadow screen memory is at $01/2000.However, my memory is kind of rusty on this point but I do believe theremight be some problems trying to use the shadow register while running in aGS/OS program.I'm sure someone more knowledgeable will jump in eventually. Jeff Blakeney | Dean of the Apple II University in A2Pro | --------------+----------------------------------------------------+   sent via | HyperCard IIgs Course | GSoft BASIC Course |   COG v3.0 | now in session | now in session |                      (JBLAKENEY, 2567, GO COM A2PRO)<<<<<   I had forgotten about the shadow register. It's not a true"""""   double-buffer in the traditional sense, but I can see how you mightuse it almost the same way. Of course, it means you'll have to draw thechanges twice per frame; with a true double-buffer like you have for thetext and high-res screens you don't have to do that.Mike Westerfield                      (BYTEWORKS, 2569, GO COM A2PRO)>>>>>   Wolf 3D uses the shadow register. It works like this..."""""Each pass through the game loop, shadowing is disabled. Then the variousrendering functions are called:1. Render the walls.2. Render the floor.3. Render the ceiling.4. Render the sprites.Then shadowing is turned on, and a PEI-slamming function (different onesdepending on the screen size setting) is used to copy the screen memoryonto itself. This makes the updated screen visible.Then the score panel is updated. Finally, shadowing is disabled again.This gets pretty good speed. The lowest levels of the rendering are alldone in assembly, but the preparatory work is in C.Eric (Sheppy) Shepherdsheppy@sheppyware.nethttp://www.sheppyware.net                       (SHEPPY, 2578, GO COM A2PRO)>>>>>   Actually, using the shadow register acts pretty much the same as"""""   using text screens or high-res screens pages 1 and 2. You write youscreen data to $01/2000+ then turn on shadowing, the hardware then takescare of copying that data to $E1/2000+, you then turn shadowing off andchange $01/2000+ again while that first image continues to be displayedthen turn shadowing back on again to replace the first image with thesecond and so on.Instead of changing the memory locations that are being used as screenmemory ($2000-$3FFF for HR page 1 and $4000-$5FFF for HR page 2) thehardware takes care of copying the data from your buffer to screen memory. Jeff Blakeney |      Dean of the Apple II University in A2Pro      | --------------+----------------------------------------------------+   sent via    |   HyperCard IIgs Course   |   GSoft BASIC Course   |   COG v3.0    |      now in session       |     now in session     |                      (JBLAKENEY, 2579, GO COM A2PRO)>>>>>   Jeff, just turning on the shadow register isn't enough. It won't"""""   automatically update the slow RAM from the fast RAM; you have tocopy the data from fast RAM onto the same locations in fast RAM in order toforce the update.The only value of the shadow register is that it lets you preconstruct thescreen image in the fast RAM before doing the copy to slow RAM.Eric (Sheppy) Shepherd {<mailto:sheppy@sheppyware.net> sheppy@sheppyware.net} {<http://www.sheppyware.net> http://www.sheppyware.net}                       (SHEPPY, 2582, GO COM A2PRO)JUST WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH DRAWSTRING?   DrawString (as its name implies)"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""   draws a NULL (0) terminated string.You can convert integers into strings with the Integer Math toolset.Int2Dec/Int2Hex will convert an integer to a string.  You'll need to NULLterminate it (either before or after)    ph2 theNumber       ; the number to convert    ph4 #theString      ; where to store it    ph2 #5              ; length of the buffer ( 6 if signed)    ph2 #0              ; or 1 if it is a signed integer    _Int2Dec    ph4 #theString    _DrawString    ...theString       dc c'xxxxx'     ; 6 xs if signed        dc i1'0'        ; NULL terminated                         (KWS, 2573, GO COM A2PRO)>>>>>   I believe you are thinking about DrawCString. DrawString uses"""""   Pascal strings which have a length byte followed by the text of thestring.Your example program would work if you change the DrawString macro to aDrawCString.If DrawString is going to be used, the string must be preceded by a lengthbyte so your program would look like this:      ph2 theNumber ; the number to convert      ph4 #theString ; where to store it      ph2 #5 ; length of the buffer ( 6 if signed)      ph2 #0 ; or 1 if it is a signed integer      _Int2Dec      ph4 #theString      _DrawString   ...   theString dc i1'4' ; use a 6 if signed      dc c'xxxxx' ; 6 xs if signedOf course, you could always leave in this line:      dc i1'0' ; NULL terminatedand then you would have you choice of using DrawString or DrawCStringwithout having to modify the theString. :)Oh and the program above could be simplified if using a later version ofOrca/M if you use the newer macro style:      ~Int2Dec theNumber,#theString,#5,#0 ; use #6,#0 if signed      ~DrawString #theString   ...   theString dc i1'4' ; use 6 if signed      dc c'xxxx'                          ; use 6 x's if signed Jeff Blakeney |      Dean of the Apple II University in A2Pro      | --------------+----------------------------------------------------+   sent via    |   HyperCard IIgs Course   |   GSoft BASIC Course   |   COG v3.0    |      now in session       |     now in session     |                      (JBLAKENEY, 2580, GO COM A2PRO)THE IIGS COMPILES SUPER NINTENDO?   I didn't see the original post, but if"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""   you are talking about using an AppleIIGS compiler to create SNES programs, yes, it works, as long as you havethe source for the run-time libraries so you can make the appropriateenvironment adjustments. At least 3 teams have used ORCA/C for SNESdevelopment.Mike Westerfield                      (BYTEWORKS, 2576, GO COM A2PRO)CAN YOU MULTITASK IN APPLESOFT?   The Apple II's not a multitasking machine"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""   (although the IIgs sometimes fakes itpretty well). There's no known way to multi task in Applesoft.- Ryan M. Suenaga, M.S.W., L.S.W. -- rsuenaga@apple2.org Editor and Publisher, _The Lamp!_, published monthly on Delphi Posted by PTMM v2.5 - The integrated information solution                      (RSUENAGA, 2587, GO COM A2PRO)>>>>>   Sure. Get more than one Apple II and set them up side by side. Run"""""   your program on both machines. :)Eric (Sheppy) Shepherdsheppy@sheppyware.nethttp://www.sheppyware.net                       (SHEPPY, 2590, GO COM A2PRO)>>>>>   While it can't be done in Applesoft Basic (ok, with some....a lot"""""   of assembly it could be done) I'm sure it would be able to be donein GSoft Basic available from The Byteworks. Mike will be along any momentto give you all the detail you need to add this piece of software to yourGS, or you could check out {<http://www.hypermall.com/byteworks>http://www.hypermall.com/byteworks}Chris                      (CVAVRUSKA, 2588, GO COM A2PRO)CONTEMPLATING A NEW FST   As we discussed in conference, I strongly believe"""""""""""""""""""""""   that an attempt to reverse-engineer the FSTmechanism and produce new FSTs will fail.I've been involved in several attempts to do this in the past, with nosuccess. The Apple II world has too few top-grade programmers left (I thinkthere are five, maybe seven serious expert-level programmers left) to pullthis off.I believe our efforts would best be spent organizing a letter-writingcampaign to ask Apple to either release the sources to Syndicomm, or makethe System 6.0.1 sources open source.I would participate in such an effort, and would gladly work on updatingthe system using those sources. I will not participate in an attempt toreverse-engineer the FST mechanism as I have enough frustration in my lifealready.---Eric (Sheppy) Shepherdsheppy@sheppyware.nethttp://www.sheppyware.net                       (SHEPPY, 2600, GO COM A2PRO)>>>>>   The reason why there is a limitation of 32 Mb is that only two"""""   bytes are allocated for most entries in the directory lists. Tochange this, would mean a restructuring of the entries for all directoryand file lists.This would make the drive structure dependent on a new FST. The drive wouldnot be readable from an Apple //e or a Mac for instance.We already have an HFS FST that handles larger drives, though it is not asefficient as it might be.I think that if any new FST is to be written, it would make more sense toconcentrate on building an HFS+ FST instead. That way you would still havea standard volume that could be interchanged with a Macintosh, but have allthe advantages of a modern disk structure with small block sizes. Ewen Wannop - Speccie - Fri 30 Apr 1999 - 82 days till KFest '99 Delivered without using a IIgs by Spectrum 2.2 & Crock O' Gold 3.0 Bernie ][ the Rescue 2.0 woofing at 55Mhz on a G3/350 http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/ewannop/                       (EWANNOP, 2601, GO COM A2PRO)>>>>>   Personally, I think the ProDOS naming standard is more of a"""""   limitation than the 32MB partition size. I would much rather seesupport for long filenames built into ProDOS. Of course HFS alreadyprovides that, but there are no volume repair utilities that works withHFS, not to mention the fact that HFS is noticeably slower than ProDOS. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Tony Ward, A2 Database Manager - Fri Apr 30, 1999 8:26:26 pm [Delivered with Spectrum v2.2 and Crock O' Gold v3.0] -- "A hospital is no place to be sick." -- Samuel Goldwyn                       (TONYW1, 2602, GO COM A2PRO)[EOA][KFE]------------------------------                    THINKING KFEST |-----------------------------------The KFest FAQ~~~~~~~~~~~~~by Ryan M. Suenaga, M.S.W., L.S.W.          [thelamp@sheppyware.net]                               The KFest FAQ                               ~~~~~~~~~~~~~     The following article is set up in a form commonly seen on theInternet, called Frequently Asked Questions.  It is designed to answer someof the most common questions people have about KansasFest, the Apple IIevent of the year.  It is not designed to answer general questions aboutthe Apple II, although there may be some overlap.     Any questions about this article can be sent via email tothelamp@delphi.com.Q: What's a FAQ, and how is it pronounced?A: The letters "FAQ" stand for _F_requently _A_sked _Q_uestions.  When   people first hear of or learn of a subject, such as KansasFest, they   often have a number of questions which others before them did when they   also first learned of the same subject.  A FAQ is a document listing   both the questions and answers most frequently associated with new   users, to save themselves (and others trying to assist them) time and   frustration.   And by the way, it's pronounced "fack", nearly identical to "fact".Q: What is the purpose of this FAQ?A: This FAQ is set up to assist people interested in KansasFest, also known   as KFest.  Many Apple II enthusiasts are interested in attending or just   want some information about this event, so the most common questions are   answered here.Q: How can this FAQ be distributed?A: The content of this FAQ is copyright 1999 by Ryan M. Suenaga, the editor   and publisher of _The Lamp!_.  Distribution without the expressed   written consent of the copyright holder is prohibited.Q: What is KFest?A: KansasFest, abbreviated "KFest", is a computing conference held every   summer at Avila College in Kansas City, Missouri.  Its original formal   name was "The Apple II Summer Conference" while its nickname was   "KansasFest", which was abbreviated to "KFest".Q: When was the first KFest held?A: The first KansasFest was held in 1989.  It was originally sponsored by   Resource-Central, the folks who brought you the wonderful _Open-Apple_   and _A2-Central_ (among several other Apple II) publications.  After   Resource-Central became ICON, The Apple II Summer Conference became   ICONference.  This lasted one summer until ICON shut down.  Two   different companies sponsored KFest before Intrec Software, publishers   of _ProTERM_, took over a few years back.  This July will welcome the   11th KFest.Q: When is KFest this year?A: KansasFest 1999 is July 21-25, 1999.  For the first time, KFesters are   being offered an extra night, July 20, at the Avila dorms if they want   to come into town a day early.Q: Where is KFest held?A: KFest is held at Avila College in Kansas City, Missouri.  The address   and phone number are:          Avila College          11901 Wornall Road          Kansas City, Missouri  64145          United States of America          (816) 942-8400Q: If it's held in Missouri, why is it called KansasFest?A: I dunno.  If it makes you feel better, the Kansas border is very close   to Avila College.Q: Who comes to KFest?A: While KFest was originally devoted to programmers, nowadays all kinds of   folk from all over the world show up at Avila College.  Programmers,   users, newsletter publishers, and everyday folk show up from Europe,   Canada, Australia, and all over the United States to celebrate the Apple   II.Q: Who organizes KFest?A: Currently, KFest is organized by a committee headed by The Big Cheese,   Cindy Adams.  The scheduling is done by Steve "Godzilla" Gozdziewski.   There are several other folks on the committee as well: Jerry Cline, Max   Jones, and Stan Marks all pitch in.  In addition to those good folk on   the committee, David Kerwood handles the maintenance of the World Wide   Web site, Devin Reade maintains the email lists, and Eric "Sheppy"   Shepherd provides World Wide Web hosting services and organizes   HackFest, the programming contest.  KFest is sponsored by Intrec   Software.Q: How do I register for KFest?  How much does it cost?A: Depending on when you register, registration prices vary.  Please check   the KFest Home Page at http://www.kfest.org/ for the most current   information.Q: What kind of official activities go on at KFest?A: Officially, there is a keynote speech (this year given by Max Jones of   _Juiced.GS_), sessions on various computing topics, HackFest, a   celebrity roast (_Spectrum_ author Ewen Wannop being the victim of honor   this year), product demonstrations, and a vendor fair.Q: What kind of unofficial activities go on at KFest?A: Unofficially, there's been movie outings, pizza nights, Bite The Bag   contests, late night eating at Denny's, and huge groups of folks going   to steak dinners at K.C. Masterpiece and Jess and Jim's restaurants.Q: Has anyone attended every KFest?A: Two people have attended every KFest so far: Tony Diaz of Alltech   Electronics and Mike Westerfield of Byte Works.Q: I hear that the Avila College dorm is wired for ethernet.  Is there a   way I can access that while I'm there?A: Yes.  You can get the information in the following article:     While Apple Computer, Inc. never produced an Apple II that was trulyportable nor an ethernet solution for the masses (emulated IIs andprototypes notwithstanding), ethernet has become a popular networkingsolution for the computing world at large--so popular, in fact, thatethernet has even invaded that Apple II mecca known as Avila College.     In each dorm room in the halls of Avila are two outlets that seem tobe phone jacks.  These _aren't_ phone jacks.  They're ethernet ports--to beexact, they're RJ-45 connectors that are compatible with 10 Base-Tethernet.  The entire Avila dorm is connected to the Internet this way,making for high speed World Wide Web browsing, electronic mail, and ftpconnections for KansasFesters during their stay!     While those bringing their true blue Apple IIs will be needing to gothe tried and true modem route, those KFesters who bring ethernet-capablecomputers can make full use of these high speed connections.  Let's look atwhat hardware and software is needed to get this high speed resourceworking with your non-Apple II.THE HARDWARE   All Avila provides is the RJ-45 jack.  This looks like an""""""""""""   overgrown RJ-11 jack (the kind your telephone plugs into),and in fact, it's a close relative.  What you need to bring is a computerwith an appropriate 10 Base-T ethernet interface and a cable that ends in amale RJ-45 jack.  There are many, many of these cables on the market.  Ifyou are going to purchase one, be sure it's a straight-through class 5cable, not a crossover cable.  Additionally, due to the way the RJ-45 jackis mounted, you will need a cable ending with a RJ-45 male jack that is notmolded with a surrounding sheath, as the cable will not fit properly.  Youwant a cable end that looks like this:ASCII ART BEGINS      ___________     |   |   |   |     |   |   |   |  <--- Male RJ-45     |   |   |   |     |   |___| <-|------ Locking tab     |           |     |           |     |           |     |___________|       |       |       |       | <------ Cable       |       |as opposed to this:      ___________     |   |   |   |     |   |   |   |  <--- Male RJ-45     |   |   |   |     |   |___| <-|------ Locking tab     |           |     |           |    _|___________|_   |               |   |               |   |               |   |               | <-- Large, molded sheath   |               |   |               |   |_______________|       |       |       |       | <------ Cable       |       |ASCII ART ENDS     I had problems with this at KFest 1998.  If you need to get differentcables (or need other hardware in general) you can ask your fellowattendees if they have extras, or you can run over to the CompUSA in thearea to get what you need.     Once you have this equipment, simply plug in your RJ-45 cable into theprovided jack.  You do not need an ethernet hub unless you'll be runningmore than two devices in your room.THE SOFTWARE   The Avila ethernet server uses a protocol called Dynamic""""""""""""   Host Configuration Protocol, or DHCP, for short.  Those ofyou who have set up TCP/IP connections with Windows or Macintosh computers(or, for that matter, the Apple IIgs) probably have some familiarity withinserting IP addresses, DNS addresses, and Gateway addresses.  The beautyof DHCP is that it sets up nearly everything you need dynamically, meaningthat the server assigns these addresses--all you need to do is set upTCP/IP on your computer and choose the DHCP protocol.  I am much morefamillar with the setup of DHCP for Macintosh computers than for Windowsmachines, and am taking the instructions from a reference.MAC   To set up a Macintosh running Open Transport networking for DHCP, all'''   that needs to be done is to switch the TCP/IP protocol to DHCPServer.  So:(1) Get into your TCP/IP Control Panel;(2) Select "Ethernet" (or "Built-in Ethernet" or "Alternate Ethernet" as    appropriate) in the "Connect via:" field;(3) Select "DHCP Server" in the "Configure" field;(4) Quit and save the changes.WINDOWS 95   To set up a Windows 95 machine for DHCP, there are several''''''''''   additional steps:(1) Get into your Network Control panel;(2) Add or select the appropriate ethernet interface;(3) Set the "Obtain an IP address automatically" control in the "IP    Address" tab of the TCP/IP Properties window;(4) Remove any existing setting for a Gateway address in the "Gateway" tab    of the TCP/IP Properties window;(5) Disable DNS in the "DNS Configuration" tab of the TCP/IP Properties    window;(6) Save the settings and reboot the computer.     Regardless of which platform you use, if you have software set up toshare your hard drive with other computers, you probably ought to disableit--unless you like everyone in the Avila ethernet having access to yourfiles.     At this point, you ought to be connected.  If you previously had anyproxy servers set up for use with your setup before Avila, disable them.You ought to have easy access for checking mail, browsing the Web, or usingfile transfer protocol--and very high speeds.  One last caveat:THE SMTP SERVER   As Spam on the Internet proliferates, it has become"""""""""""""""   accepted practice to close off an Internet ServiceProvider's mail sending server--usually using Simple Mail TransferProtocol, or smtp--to access from anyone who is not directly connected tothe ISP.  In other words, no one wants to be a relaying point for Spam.     Because of this, it's likely you will not be able to use the same smtpserver you use at home to send mail while at Avila.  We encountered thisproblem briefly last year and solved it by using the smtp.delphi.com smtpserver--however, in the last year, Delphi also closed its server to access.     It is hoped that there is a smtp.avila.edu or similar server that canbe used while at Avila, but this has not been researched yet.  See me whileyou're at KFest for the latest developments.     So, for those of you bringing ethernet-capable computers toKansasFest, you now have some idea on how to hook them up for high-speedInternet access.  On to the yellow brick road.     On to KansasFest.Q: How can I learn more about KFest?A: You can get more information on KansasFest by visiting the KansasFest   World Wide Web site at http://www.kfest.org/ or sending email to   kfest-help@kfest.org.  You could also subscribe to the KFest mailing   list by sending email to majordomo@kfest.org.  In the body of the email   include the text:          subscribe kfest   You will receive a confirmation email with instructions on finalizing   your subscription.Q: Should I go to KFest?A: Need you ask?  KFest is a must for the serious Apple II fanatic.  Do   yourself a favor--you're worth it.  Show up at KFest '99!         :: DISCUSSED ON DELPHI ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::         :                                                       :         :     For real sponge cake, borrow all ingredients      :         :                                                       :         ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: LUMITECH ::::::[EOA][INN]------------------------------                     EXTRA INNINGS |-----------------------------------About The Lamp!   The Lamp! is published on the fifteenth of every month in"""""""""""""""   the Database of the II Scribe Forum on the Delphi onlineservice (GO CUS 11).This publication produced entirely with real or emulated Apple II computersusing Appleworks 5.1 and Hermes.  Apple II Forever!     * The Lamp! is (c) copyright 1999 by Ryan M. Suenaga, M.S.W.  All       rights reserved.     * To reach The Lamp! on Internet email send mail to       thelamp@sheppyware.net     * Back issues of The Lamp! are available in the II Scribe Forum on       Delphi as well as The Lamp! Home Page,       http://lamp.sheppyware.net.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Opinions expressed herein are those of  the individual authors, and do  notnecessarily  represent  the  opinions   of  the  Delphi  Online   Services,Syndicomm, Inc.,  or  Ryan M.  Suenaga.     Forum  messages  are  reprintedverbatim and  are included  in this  publication with  permission from  theindividual authors.   Delphi Online Services,  Syndicomm, Inc. and  Ryan M.Suenaga  do not guarantee  the accuracy or  suitability of any  informationincluded herein.  We reserve the right to edit all letters and copy.Material published  in  this  edition  may not  be  reprinted  without  theexpressed  written consent  of the  publisher.   Registered  computer  usergroups, not  for profit  publications ,  and other  interested parties  maywrite the publisher to apply for permission to reprint any or all material.<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<[EOF]
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