Washington Apple Pi Journal, December 1987

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The Journal of Washington Apple Pi, Ltd.
Volume. 9 Deuembe,r 1987 number12

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• IIGS Stuff: More Finder
• Tech Tidbits
• Print Shop For the Apple IIGS
• C and the Apple II

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Officers & Staff. Editorial ........................ .................... 3 Views and Reviews ............................. Raymond Hobbs 44

President's Comer ..................................... Tom Warrick 4 Stock SIG News .......................... Andrew D. Thompson 46

General Information, Event Queue ................................. 4 Volunteer Profiles ................................... Peter Combes 46

WAP Calendar. SIO News ............................................ 5 WAP Acrostic ................................... Dana J. Schwartz 51

WAP Hotline .............................................................. 6 dPub SIG Meeting Report ..................... Cynthia Yockey 52

Classifieds. Commercial Classifieds, Job Mart ................. 7 AV-SIG News ......................................... Jay Williams 52

nos Stuff ................................................... Ted Meyer 8 MacNovice: Macintosh Filing Maze ..... Ralph J. Begleiter 54

IIOS SIG Meeting Report .............................. Ted Meyer 9 HyperCard Author at Special Meeting ...... Cynthia Yockey 56

Q & A ........................ Robert C. Piau & Bruce F. Field 14 Q & A with Bill Atkinson ..................... Robert C. Platt 57

Tech Tidbits: A Reprint from Apple, Inc.. ............ .......... 18 A Simple Script for HyperCard ................ Rick Chapman 60

Print Shop for the Apple nos: A Review ...... Chuck Ward 22 Letter to the Editor ................................... Arthur Baron 63

Sensible Grammar (Apple I1): A Review ....... Bob Oringel 24 A Long Word Wiser ............................ John A. Love m64

Printrix (Apple II); A Review ...................... Bob Oringel24 Softviews ....................................... David Morganstein 68

Ramup 3.0 (Apple II): A Review ................. Bob Oringel 25 Excelling on Your Mac: Part 16 ......... David Morganstein 72

PI-SIG News ......................................... Robert Golden 25 Bits and Bytes ...................................... Lynn R. Trusal 76

C and the Apple n.................................... John T. Bell 26 View from the Hill .................................. Rich Norling 80

The Musical Apple .............................. Raymond Hobbs 28 CMS SD-80 Group Buy: A Review .................. Eric Rall 81

Music SIO News ................................ Raymond Hobbs 31 Developer's View .......................................... Bill Hole 82

Best of the Apple Items from TCS ......... Alexander Barnes 32 Pascal News ........................................ Robert C. Platt 83

On-Line Offerings ........................................ Pat Kirby 36 MacMoney Part 3: Version 3.0 .................. Chuck Sicard 83

Computer Learning Month: Oct. 24 Meeting ..... Pat Kirby 37 Best of the Mac Items from TCS ................ Bill Baldridge 84

GameSIG News ...................................... Steven Payne 38 WAP Tutorials ..................................... Robert C. Platt 90

GameSIG Suggestions for Santa ................ Steven Payne 38 Mac Disketeria News ......... Marty Milrod & Dave Weikert 91

On the Trail of the Apple /II ..................... David Oualini 39 Disketeria Order Form ................................................. 95

Historical Chronology of Computers .... Joseph A. Hasson 42 Tutorial Registration. Indexes to Advertisers and Authors ... 96
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ISDITORIAL
Were you there? Ifnot, why not? We were indeed fortunate Baldridge for also capturing the animated discussion on the
to witness another excellent presentation by Bill Atkinson. We WAP TCS. A special thanks to Peter Combes for his photos.
were overwhelmed in 1984 when he, in the company of Burrell Now, all you Apple II owners out there, wouldn't it be nice if
Smith, Andy Hertzfeld, Randy Wiggington and the Woz, first some brightfolks in Silicon Valley (or elsewhere) would fashion
exposed us to the wonders of MacPainL We were fascinated by a card for the IIgs which could run all Mac programs including
Bill this time as he put his latest work, HyperCard, through its the HyperCard? Wooodn't that be lover-ly?
paces. So for you Mac folks, we have a dozen pages of articles, Let us know how you like the Tech Tidbits column. It comes
commentary and photos on HyperCard. Thank you Cynthia out frequently and is, to us, a labor of love by Sue Goodin and
Yockey, Rick Chapman and John Love for your articles, and others of Apple Computer in North Carolina. They also rover
thank you Robert Platt for capturing the Q & A session, and Bill Mac topics as well. Do you want more? Happy Holidays. ®
Washington Apple Pi -December 1987 3
PRESIDENT'S CORNER

Tom WarricK
by
r10": '''::~:'il he snows of Vet­ venture out, please don't.
!1i'='11
I erans' Day are Special interest group meetings are somewhat more likely
I!.~!!almost com­ to be cancelled because ofsnow. In case of doubt, contact the Pi
~r~:t~iY::'inelted as I write office, check the TCS, or contact a SIG officer.
these words, but the twelve Speaking of meetings, two other matters. We hope to
inches that fell in mid­ change our meeting location beginning in January. We do not
November serves to re­ have the details completely worked out, and, indeed, may still be
mind me to mention Wash­ at USUHS in January. We will make announcements at the
ington ApplePi'spolicy on November and December meetings, and will, of course, tell you
cancel/ation of general through the Journal.
meetings if there is snow. Finally, I am pleased to report to those (few) ofyou who did
Generally, we do not can­ not attend our special meeting on November 7 that Bill
cel meetings for bad Atkinson's visit here to show off HyperCard was a spectacular
weather. (This probably success. Many people came up to me afterward to say that it was
has something to do with one of the best Pi meetings yet. Before the meeting, Bill asked
the fact that many of the us how much time he would have-he was prepared to trim his
club's officers come from places like central Missouri, upstate presentation to whatever time we had available. Well, that was
New York and northern Illinois, where no one would think of an easy question to answer! But, alas, Bill would not stay for a
cancelling school or letting people off work early merely for month. Seriously, Bill, who has spent many ofhis working days
snow. Can you imagine what the Soviet leaders must think when on the road giving HyperCard presentations to user groups and
they hear that Washington, D.C. shuts down for a few inches of others, was most gracious to spend the (,~ntire morning with us,
snow?) Occasionally, when the snow accumulation is too much and to stay afterward for a lengthy question and answer session.
for the area 'sroad-clearingequipment, or when there isiceon the For those who were not able to attend, Pi memberJim 0'Brien' s
roads, we may have to cancel a meeting. Ifwedo, we will contact video firm was kind enough to tape the meeting at no charge to
these radio stations to ask them to pass the word: WETA (FM the Pi. We arc now working out the details as to how we can share
91), WMAL(AM630), WRC (AM 980) and WTOP(AM 1500). this tape with our members and other user groups. Watch this
We will also try to post a message on Board 1, Conference 1 of space for further details.
the Telecommunications System (TCS). Do not rely on the On another subject, let me ask a question going around my
answering machine at the Pi office-if we can't get to the house now: In the post-Black-Monday world, are people going
meeting, we can't get to the Pi office to change the message, to find a way to save up for one of Apple's new Macintoshes?
either. But most importantly, if you feel it would not be safe to The CD-ROM drive? New LaserWriters? Wait until January!®
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Saturday.
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* December 1987 *

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1 Apple ITgs 2 Mac. Progmrs. 3 4 5
Beginning 7:30 PM Office; GameSIG Word 3.0
Thtorial #1 dPubSIG 7:30 PM Thtorial
7:30-9PM Office 7:30 PM PEPCO Office 1-3 PM Office
6 Deadline for 7 8 Apple ITgs 9 10 11 12
Journal articles PI SIG Beginning Executive Board Stock SIG Frederick Slice
is Tuesday, 7:30 PM Tutorial #2 7:30 PM 8:00 PM Annapolis Slice
December 1. Office 7:30-9PM Office Office Office Music SIG
13 14 Intro<hlction 15 Apple II 16 17 --> 19
to Macintosh Beginning Apple 1/1 Pascal SIG HyperTalk WAP Garage
Thtorial -Office Thtorial #3 (AW) 7:30 PM 8:00 PM Thtorial, 1-4 PM Sale -Walt
7:15 - 10 PM 7:30-9PM Office Office Office Office, Dec. 19 Whitman HS
20 21 Intermediate 22 Mutual Fund 23 24 25 26
Mac Skills Sub Group Christmas Eve Christmas Day
Tutorial -Office (Stock SIG) Office Closed Office Closed
7:15 - 10 PM 8 PM Office HAPPY HOLIDAYS
27 28 Productivity 29 30 31
on Your Mac
Thtorial -Office
7:15 - 10 PM
* January 1988 *

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1 Office Closed 2
New Year's Day
Best Wishes for
1988
3 Deadline for 4 5 Apple II +,e,c 6 Mac Progmrs. 7 8 9 WordPerfect
Journal articles PI SIG Beginning 7:30 PM Office; GameSIG for IIgs Thtor.
is Tuesday, 7:30 PM Tutorial #1 dPub SIG 7:30 PM 9-12 am Office;
January 5 --> Office 7:30-9PM Office 7:30 PM PEPCO Office Music SYG
10 11 Intro<hlction 12Apple IT +,e,c 13 14 15 16
to Macintosh Beginning Executive Board Stock SIG
Tutorial -Office Tutorial #2 7:30 PM 8:00 PM
7:15 - 10 PM 7:30-9PM Office Office Office
17 18 Intermediate 19 Apple II 20 21 22 23
Mac Skills Beginning Pascal SIG WAP Meeting.
Tutorial -Office Tutorial #3 (AW) 8:00 PM Location sub­
7:15 - 10 PM 7:30-9PM Office Office iect to change
24 25 Pro<hlctivity 26 Mutual Fund 27 28 29 30 Disk & File
on Your Mac SubGroup Apple 1/1 EDSIG Recovery for
Tutorial -Office (Stock SIG) 7:30 PM 7:30 PM Apple II Thtor.
7:15 - 10 PM 8 PM Office Office Office 9-12 am Office
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Fed(eral) SIG usually meets on the third Wednesday of the month.
Call the Chairman for details.
Apple JIGS SIG meets at8:00AM before theregularWAPmeeting GameSIG meets on the IstThursday ofthe month at the office, 7:30
in the USUHS cafeteria. For information call Ted Meyer at (703) 893­ PM. The next meeting will be on December 3.
6845. Mae Programmers meet on the lstWednesday ofthe month at the
Apple 11/ SIG meets on the 4th Wednesday at 7:30 PM in the WAP office, 7:30PM. Next meeting is December 2.
office. December meeting is Dec. 16 (3rd Wed.). MuslcSIG meets on the 2nd Saturday of each month. Call Bill
AppleWorks SIG offers two meeting options: 8:00AM before the Bittle [phone] for details.
regular WAP meeting and 12 Noon after the meeting. Attend either or PIG, the Pascal Interest Group, meets on the 3rd Thursday of each
both. month at 8:00 PM at the office. New and prospective users are welcome.
AV-SIG is the new SIG for arts and video. The next meeting is The next meeting will be on December 17.
December 2,6 pm, lt30-17th Sl NW, Suite 600. PI·SIG (Program Interface) meets on the lst Monday ofthe month
dPub SIG (Desktop Publishing) meets on the 1s t Wednesday of the at 7:30 PM at the office. See their news elsewhere.
month at 7:30 PM in the PEPCa Auditoriwn at 1900 Penn. Ave., NW. Stock SIG meetings are on the second Thursday of each month at
The next meeting is on December 2. the office, 8 PM. The next meeting is on Dec 10.
EDSIG (the education special interest group) meets on the 4th Telecom SIG meets after the regular meeting on the 4th Saturday of
Thursday of the month at 7:30 PM at the office. the month. ffi
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Accountant(Dec.Sup.) MarkPankin 703 524-0937 Telecommunications Dale Smith ~301 762-5158
BPI Programs JaxonBrown 301 350-3283 VIP-ProlMultlscribe Jim Frison 703 525-9395
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Home Accountant Leon Raesly
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Howardsoft (Tax) Leon Raesly
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Otis Greever 615 638-1525 General Donald Schmitt [phone]
APPLESSC Bernie Benson 301 951-5294 Art and Video Jay Williams (301) 9398910
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Charles Baumgardner 703 538-2316 Helix
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AppleWorks Data Base Morgan Jopling 301 261-3886 MS-File John Love 03 569-2294
Communications Packages Omnis 3 and 3+ Paul Tabler 03 278-8657
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Data Bases Tom Parrish 301 654·8784
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John Staples 703 255·6955 & Graphics Jay Rohr 301 655-0875
dBase II & III Ray Hobbs (BBS) 301 490-7484 ReadySeLGo Jim Graham 703 643-1848
Jim Kellock (day) 301 986-9522 Marty Milrod 301 464-5981
Leon Raesly 301 439-1799 Graphics Bill Baldridge 301 779-8271
Data Perfect Leon Raesly
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Corvus & Omninet Tom Vier (BBS) 3011986-8085 LISAlMacXL John Day 301 621-7543
Corvus Leon Raesly 301 439-1799 MacDraw Tom Berilla 301 434-3256
Sider JaxonBrown 301 350-3283 Tom Parrish 301 654·8784
Otis Greever 16 15 638-1525 John Si>.Cncer 301 730-1084
Languages (A=Applesoft, I=Integer, P=Pascal, MacLion (DBMS) Mark Miani 202 333-0098
M=Maclilne)
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A Leon Raesly
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MA I ,M John Love
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Ray Hobbs (BBS)
301 490-7484 & Graphics Bob Pt!lgino 202 797·0879
P Michael Hartman
301 445-1583 Excel David M0rt~anstein 301 972-4263
Forth Bruce Field
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OperatIng Systems Jim Graham 703 643-1848
Apple DOS John Love 703 569-2294 Dick & Nancy Byrd 703 978-3440
Adam Robie 301 460·6537 Multiplan John Boblitz 301 356·9384
CP/M Ray Hobbs (BBS) 301 490-7484 John Love 703 569-2294
LeOn Raesly 301 439-1799 Walt Francis 202 966-5742
ProDOS Leon Raesly 301 439-1799 Sidekick Ray Hobbs (BBS) 301 490-7484
John Love 703 569-2294 ThinkTank Jim Graham 703 643-1848
Print Shop Thomas O'Hagan 301 593-9683 Tom Parrish 301 654-8784
Newsroom Carol Thomas 301 424-1266 Word Marty Milrod 301 464-5981
Spreadsheets Leon Raesly 301 439-1799 WriteNow Bill Baldrige 301 779-8271
Walt FranCIS
202 966-5742
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Sprdsht2.0(MagicCalc) Leon Raesly
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SuperCalc Ver.2.0 Loon Raesly
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Word Processors Walt Francis 202 966-5742 IDM Ray Hobbs (BBS) 3011490-7484
Leon Raesly 301 439·1799
Apple Writer II Dianne Lorenz 301 530-7881
Lotus 1-2-3 Walt francIS 202 966·5742
Loon Raesly
301 439-1799
&MSBASIC Ray Hobbs (BBS) 301 490-7484
Gutenberg Harris Silverstone
301 435-3582 Math/OR Applns. Mark Pankiit 1703 524-0937
Gutenberg & Jr. Neil Muncy Can.
416 298-3964 Modems
Letter & Simply Perfect Loon Raesly
301 439-1799 Anchr Mrk 12&BIZ CompJeremy Parker 301 229-2578
Magic WindOw and II Joyce C. lillIe
301 321-2989 Hayes Smartmodem Bemie Benson 301 951-5294
Apple PIE Jim Graham
703 643-1848 Smartcom I Harmon Pritchard 301 972-4667
ScreenWriter II Peter Combes
301 251-6369 Music Systems Ray Hobbs (BBS) 301 490-7484
Gene Carter
202 363-2342 Printers -General Wlilt Francis 202 966-5742
Word Handler Jon Vaupel
301 593-3316 Leon Raesly 301 439-1799
Word Perfect James Edwards
301 585-3002 IDS 460 Jeff SteteklUh 703 979·8249
Henry Donahoe
202 298-9107 MX-80 JefrDilion 301 662-2070
Word Star Leon Raesly
301 439-1799 Okidata Michael Proffitt 301 874-2270
Dana Riel
301 350-3283 Dan Robrish 301 530-4202
Apple lIes Stat. Packages David Morganstein 301 972-4263
GeneraUFlnder David Todd Stock Mar1(et Robert WoOd 703 893-9591
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GenerallMonltor Neil Walter 301 946-4526 TCS Eric Rail 301 596-0004
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GeneraUPalntworks Plus Paul Tarantino 703 455-7670 Tlme-Sbarlng Dave Harvey 703 578-5621
lie Upgrade Morgan Jopling 301 261-3886
• Calls until midnight are ok.
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cLAsSIFIEDS
1 MByte memory. Used by a little old Mac Disketeria Librarian
from Derwood in evenings and weekends. $1349. (5) Dat­
aFrame (XP-20) 20 MByte Hard Disk with LaserWriter and
WANTED: Apple lie/color monitor/disk drives. Our
ImageWriter print spoolers and Sentinel file encryption soft­
school's Special Needs Committee is optimistically searching
ware. $695. Call Dave at 948-9646 to help suppon my passion
for a donation for our special education students, both at the e
for a Mac II.
primary and secondary levels, of Apple equipment to enrich and
enhance their leamingpotential. Such donations are tax-deduct­ 1'90MMERCIALGLAS'sIFI'§[)S

ible and are immeasurable in terms of the benefits which will
accrue to our students. Wont you please help? If you have the
hardware, we can "bake-off' to buy our software. Call Laurice Everex products for sale! SCSI Hard Drives (20M, 40M,
Redhead at 946-3321, day or evening. 91M, 261M I) -internal & external; 60M SCSI Tape Backups;
COMPUTER DONATIONS WANTED: Non-profit Modems. WAP member discounts! Call Rusty at SUM DATA
Lafayette Afterschool Program (LAP) in Northwest D.C. would [phone] (Silver Spring).
appreciatecomputerdonationsO[+,/lc,/le,compatibles),moni­ WANTED: Used LISA in good working condition. Call
tors, drives, software, etc. for our kids (7 -11 years old). We will 332-3010.
provide a credit letter for tax purposes. Please call Ann Riviera, Bring me your SIMM Chips to be installed in your Mac.
Director, 3-6 PM, M-F, at 364-8756, or Jodie/Jerry Nachison, Gaithersburg, MD. [phone], 6-9 PM
evenings, at 966-8084. FOR SALE: Apple lie computer, 64K, Apple/l/ monitor, 80­
FOR SALE: Applied Engineering Apple /lc External Clock column card, 2 Apple drives, Transtar letter quality printer,
in mint condition with extra software. Asking $50 (negotiable). manuals, software. Rarely used. $1700/best offer. Printer
Call Howard at 460-5796, evenings. alone-S500/best offer. 277-2526 evenings.
FOR SALE: Comrex CR printer (ComWriter); Centronics FOR SALE: Macintosh II, keyboard, 1 MB RAM, 800K
e
parallel interface, 10 CPB "Brother" interchangeable daisy drive. Likenew,$2500/reasonableoffer. 281-0227.
wheel wide carriage 16.5" 98 characters/line 15 pitch wheel; cut
sheet friction feed-up to 50 copies; uses cassette ribbon, same
JOB MART
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as Selectric typewriter; 6,4 or 3 lines per inch. Weighs approx.
·· •. 1
351bs. Extra daisy wheels, complete with manual. Asking $275.
Call Ed Case at 770-1827. Volunteer Needed
FOR SALE: Apple H020 hard disk drive. Connects to Problems solving and troubleshooting a 6-station Mac
external floppy drive porL For 128Kand 512K macs which don't Appletalk Network with Laser Printer. Opportunity to work
have SCSI ports. Transferrable Applecare service contract. with a Neurology Team at NIH. For information contact V.
$800 or best offer. Call Susan Weber [phone] days or Geoffrey, 496-7993 days, 243-7181 evenings.
[phone] evenings. Help Wanted
FORSALE: New MacEnhancer. Expands one Mac RS-422 Omnis 3 Developer for helping to fmish application for
serial pon to four ports: a Mac RS-422 serial port; two RS-232 physicians (pathologists). Write M.S. Cockburn, P.O. Box
ports; and a serial-to-parallel Centronix pon for most IBS PC­ 1970, La Plata MD 20646. Phone [phone] or (301) 870­
compatible printers. Works with Mac 512, 512E, Plus and SE. 3725, D.C.
Includes manuals, software, cables and warranty card. $145. Macintosh Experts: Our client, a small but agressive SW
CalI 340-7043 after 6 PM. devel. fll1ll, has 20 openings avail. for Mac programmer/analysts
FOR SALE: New Macintosh SE dual floppy, in the box with & proj. managers. Projects involve the areas ofdatabase manag­
all documentation and registration. Includes all software: Hy­ ment sys., text editing, educational SW, graphics/animation, and
perCard, MultiFinder, Word 3.0, Excel/MacCalc, PageMaker sound/synth. speech generation. Must have 3 yrs. exper. in Mac
2.0, Illustrator, CricketDraw, SuperPaint, MacDraft, MacPro­ SW development, solid knowledge ofHFS op. sys., Pascal, Mac
ject, and Mac II Copy: $2200. Call Curtis, home 244-5961 or Toolbox routines. Apple IIgs, IBM PS/2 exper. a plusl Call J.
work 686-9334. Wattenberg at [phone] or send resume to: Staffing
FOR SALE: Microsoft Excel v 1.04, $200; "Excel, A Power Consultants, 7700 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22043..
User's Guide" (book) by J.S. Hodgkins,$IO-list 19.95; "Hand­ The Training Department of Falcon Microsystems, Inc. is
On Excel, Shortcuts, etc." by Danny Goodman, $13-list21.95; requesting Macintosh instructors for classroom and on-site train­
Back to Basics Accounting System v 1.03, $100; "Microsoft ing. Experience in Quark Express, SuperPaint and Cricket
Word Made Easy" by Paul Hoffman,$IO-list 15.95. Call (202) Graph desired. Curriculum and course development experience
783-3639 daytime or [phone] nights and weekends. a plus. Call the Training Manager at 341-0100.
FOR SALE: (1) Mac XL with 2 MByte AST RAM Stack Individual for entry level pre-sales and post-sales sup­
(memory) card and 10 MByte Hard Disk running Apple's HFS port. Must have basic knowledge of Apple/Mac hardware and
(courtesy of Sun Systems). Upgraded to Mac screen ROMs for software. Position is for 4-5 weeks. Permanent position for
square pixels. 12-inch wide screen. Many other extras. Original AppleJMac Tech Manager with both sales management and
list price including RAM Stack over $5000; at $1295 it's a government contracting experience. If interested please send
bargain. (2) Apple 512 KBytememory card for Mac XL. $149. resume or contact Roben Bunat Mini-Systems Associates, 7620
(3) Mac Plus with 2 MByte memory (MacMemory) and internal Little River Turnpike, Suite 514, AnnandaleVA 22003, (703)
fan. Power supply recently replaced. $1449. (4) Mac Plus with 941-0266. conld. on pg 10
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fiGS Stuff: More Finder

byTed Meyer
Last month I described the Finder, and showed how to make done correctly the ZORK icon should turn black. When ZORK
a duplicate of System Disk Version 3.1 so we could play a little turns black,letgo ofthe button. The Finder will ask you whether
bit without worrying about destroying our only copy ofthe disk. you are sure you want to completely replace the contents of
This month I'll show you another way to make a copy of your ZORK with the contents of SYSTEM.DISK. Click in the "OK"
disk, talk about RAM Disks a little, and try a few of the simple Box. The Finder will ask you to place the System Disk in the
utilities that can be accomplished using the Finder. drive. Use the button on your drive to eject ZORK. Put the
I mentioned that the Finder is a combination start-up pro­ System Disk back into the drive.
gram, disk utility, and organizer program. I showed you how to TheFinder will spend some time copying some portion ofthe
use the Finder to start up the "FASTCOPY.SYSTEM" program disk into RAM memory and then ask for you to put ZORK back
and mentioned that most ProDOS applications can be started in in. Depending on how much memory you have available, you
the same way from the Finder. If the application program is may have to swap the disks from one to many times. A box will
designed correctly, quitting from the application should return show you how much left you have to copy at each swap. The
you to the Finder. Another function of the Finder is its ability to efficiency of this process is completely dependent on how much
easily transfer text, pictures, drawings, and other data between memory you have and whether you have a RAM disk set up.
application programs. Read this month's IIGS SIG Meeting When the Finder is finished copying disks the ZORK disk
Report about the WordPerfect GS program for more discussion will be in the drive. Ifit's not, eject the other and put it in. ZORK
on this subject is probably not your first choice for a name for this disk. Let's
Let's look at the Finder as a utility program. The Finder is change it Use the mouse to point carefully at the label ''ZORK''
great for copying files from one disk to another, copying disks, under the icon. Make sure the pointy end of the arrow is right in
rearranging files within folders (directories), deleting files and the middle of the word "ZORK." Click twice quickly. If done
folders, and renaming disks, folders, and files. Instead of starting correctly abox should form around the label and the label should
the Utilities program or Fastcopy to accomplish these tasks, you be black (chosen). Once you've done this,just type in whatever
can do them by using the Finder. name you want to give the disk. Then hit return. The name should
First let's try copying a disk. Boot System Disk V3.1 as we now be permanently changed.
did last month. The icon representing the System Disk should be The Finder requires more than 256K (but less than 512K) of
in the upper right comer of the screen. We'll make another copy RAM memory to run. Ifyou have 512K ofmemory in your nGS
of this just to demonstrate how it's done. then there is little room remaining for storing disk data while
Once the boot process is complete, eject the System Disk. copying. Ifyou have l024K of memory, and have a 800K RAM
This is done by simply pushing the button on the front of your disk set up then there is even less available for copying. Ifyou
3.5" disk drive. You can also eject your drive by first "choosing" have 1024K and a small or no RAM disk the entire copy will be
the System Disk (by pointing at it and clicking once) and then made very quickly in one pass. Extra memory can be very useful.
choosing "Eject" under the "Special" menu on the desktop menu What is a RAM disk? RAM memory is the memory that
bar,just like you chose "Open" from the "File" menu last month. resides inside your computer. Any program, in order to run, must
The System Disk will pop out of your drive and the icon first be moved from a disk into RAM memory. Any program or
representing the System Disk on the screen will turn grey. data that is in RAM memory when your computer is turned off
Now, put a blank, unformatted disk into the disk drive. After disappears. If you have enough RAM memory to run your
trying to read the disk the Finder will ask whether the disk should programs and still have some left over, you can treat that leftover
be ejected or initialized. Move your mouse so the arrow is in box as adata storage area. By having the right software available, you
marked "Initialize" and click once. After initializing the disk, the can treat that RAM memory exactly as you would a disk drive.
Finder will ask you for a name for you disk. A box will appear You can copy files from your regular drive into your RAM disk
withthediskname"BLANK"alreadydarkenedandchosen.]ust andbackjustasyou would with two regulardrives. There are two
type in the name you want to give the new disk, any name will do. differences between the RAM disk and a regular disk drive. First,
Let's call it "ZORK." After typing the new name, point the when the computer is turned off, the files, programs, and data on
mouse at the small box labeled "OK" and click. An icon of a 3.5" the RAM disk disappear forever, so you don't want to save your
disk with the label "ZORK" should now be some where on the data to a RAM drive without backing it up to a regular drive at
desktop. some point Second, the RAM disk is incredibly fast. Moving a
Now comes the easy part. Move the pointer so that it is on the program file from the RAM diskinto the"working" RAM, where
"grey" icon ofthe System Disk. Push the mouse button and don't programs need to be to run, can be done in a fraction of a second.
let go (i.e. hold the button down). The icon should darken when The RAM disk has no moving parts, doesn't need to spin, and
you push the mouse button. Still holding the buuon down move doesn't need to send the file, bit by bit,through a cable.
the mouse. You should see an outline of the System Disk icon Ifyou have a RAM card in your IIGS you can set up a RAM
with the pointer in it move across the screen. Place this outline disk very easily. Hold the control key and the open-apple key
and your pointer on top of the icon of the "ZORK" icon. When down and press the escape key. A desk accessory menu will be
conld. on pg 10
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