mcvert under SCO Xenix?
Roy Wood
compiles okay if you #define NOBYTEORDER and also #define NOBZEROCOPY in
mactypes.h, but then doesn't work correctly to binhex/unbinhex files (it
returns errors about writing too many bytes like this:
Input file test.cpt.hqx
Converting test.cpt type = "PACT", author = "CPCT"
Created Sun Jan 24 08:12:07 1993
Modified Sun Jan 24 08:12:07 1993
hqx_to_bin_fork: writing 170 too many bytes
last perror (may not be relevant): Error 0
mcvert: exiting
And the resulting file is considered to be "Damaged or in a format that this
version of Compact Pro does not recognize." And when I try to binhex the
Macbinary file, I get this:
Input file test.bin
Converting test.cpt type = "PACT", author = "CPCT"
Created Sun Jan 24 08:12:07 1993
Modified Sun Jan 24 08:12:07 1993
fread failed on binfile
last perror (may not be relevant): Error 0
mcvert: exiting
It would be nice if I could get mcvert running on my unix account so I could
reduce the size of the .hqx files before I try to donwload them, but so far
I've not met with what I would call overwhelming success.
Anybody have any suggestions? Oh-- I'm using mcvert 1.89, I believe. At any
rate, it's the one most-recently posted to sumex.
Thanks.....
-Roy
G.D. Landweber
and then they came back under new management around February of last year
with "Version 2.0". They seem to have produced issues up through October
1992, and then a joint November/December 1992 issue. I don't have a
subscription (since I haven't found it useful enough to merit the cost,
particularly since I'd have to pay $50 more to send it to England), but
I try to get a copy whenever I'm passing through Harvard Square (the only
newsstand I know that carries it). The reason that I ask is that I won
their August Programmer's Challenge, and in the November/December issue
they say they are going to send me the prize. I haven't heard anything
from them, and when I tried e-mailing their AppleLink address, my mail
was returned. Anybody know anything about this magazine?
-- Greg "Buttons" Landweber
Aaron L Dickey
magazine's name...to what, exactly, I can't remember. But I did just see
the latest issue on the newsstands in NYC last week. It was dated either
Jan or Feb '93.
--Aaron
Ted Johnson
>their August Programmer's Challenge, and in the November/December issue
>they say they are going to send me the prize. I haven't heard anything
>from them, and when I tried e-mailing their AppleLink address, my mail
>was returned. Anybody know anything about this magazine?
That sounds like the MacTutor before they went to new management.
I submitted an article to them in March 1988. I never heard anything
other than "thanks for the article, we'll keep it on file." I forgot
all about it until I saw my article appear in the July 1991 magazine (almost
3 *years* later -- when a fair amount of the material in the article had become
incompatible with the current System/Finder). I think that if I hadn't
noticed it, they never would have sent me a check. As it was, it took
over three weeks of me calling them every few days before they finally
mailed me a check ($400.). They kept coming up with lame excuses, which
included: "We don't mail out checks until a month after we publish someone's
article", "The person who signs the checks is on vacation", "Oops, we forgot
to mail it out", etc.
I hope you have better luck than I did.
-Ted
Harry Myhre
>Yes, MacTutor magazine is still in business, but they changed the
>magazine's name...to what, exactly, I can't remember. But I did just see
last time I checked the newstand near my house, they had something that looks
like MacTutor, but they've changed the title. It still *looks* like MacTutor
on the outside.
Brent Burton
The last issue I bought had the MacTutor name with a big X through it, and
"MacTech" was written above it. MacTech is now the name of the magazine,
going back to their original intentions.
-Brent
--
+-------------------------+
| Brent Burton N5VMG |
| bpb...@tamsun.tamu.edu |
+-------------------------+
Reza A. Tabib-Azar
In a previous article, se...@physc1.byu.edu () says:
>In article <wishart-26...@groucho.chm.bnl.gov>, wis...@bnl.gov
>> As of the January Issue, the name has been changed to "MacTech Magazine".
>> All of their addresses remain the same.
>>
>> Jim Wishart
>
>
>Ahh, not quite so. I tried their old MACT...@applelink.apple.com address,
>and it bounced back in my face. So, I thought I'd try MAC...@applelink.apple.
>com. Not very funny what happened, actually. Some poor guy in Norway has a
>mac consulting business called Mactech. This guy has an applelink account
>called, you guessed it, mac...@applelink.apple.com.
>Boy, I bet he gets it pretty often from people trying to call up mactech the
>magazine for subscription info.
>
>By the way, can anyone tell me what MacTech's (mag) real address is?
>
>Seth Leigh
>BYU Physics Dept.
>
>
>
Press Releases: pressr...@xplain.com
Orderes, Circulation and Customer Service: custs...@xplain.com
Editorial: edit...@xplain.com
Ad Sales: ads...@xplain.com
General: in...@xplain.com
They have over 20 more email addresses, I would have posted all but I am
20 wpr typist :(
Regards,
--
Reza A. Tabib-Azar |In the real world of programming, there is
Email:r...@po.cwru.edu |always something between you and a simple
asci...@pwrtools.wariat.org |solution, and this something is usually
|a big problem. E. Colombini
Art Min
For those who want the applelink addressses:
Orders, Circulation, and customer service: MT.CUSTSVC
Editorial: MT.EDITORIAL
Ad Sales: MT.ADSALES
Programmers Challenge: MT.PROGCHAL
GENERAL: MACTECHMAG <<<<<<<<<<< I guess the important one.
Hope this helps.
Art
Brent Burton
|
|In a previous article, se...@physc1.byu.edu () says:
|
|>In article <wishart-26...@groucho.chm.bnl.gov>, wis...@bnl.gov
|> (James Wishart) writes:
|>>> Is MacTutor magazine still in business? I know they went out of business
|>>
|>
|>and it bounced back in my face. So, I thought I'd try MAC...@applelink.apple.
|>
|
|Orderes, Circulation and Customer Service: custs...@xplain.com
|Editorial: edit...@xplain.com
|Ad Sales: ads...@xplain.com
|General: in...@xplain.com
From the January issue, mag information page:
"...we are trying to provide as many ways as possible for you to
communicate with us."
and since checks don't flow through the 'net very well, their tangible-mail
address is:
Postal Service:
Xplain Corporation,
P.O. Box 250055
Los Angeles, CA 90025-9555
Calls:
voice: 310/575-4343
fax: 310/575-0925 (international calls to here, to; replies given)
"Applelink users can reach us at 'MACTUTOR'"
Genie users can send messages to 'MACTUTOR'
internet users can send mail to "mact...@applelink.apple.com"
-----------------
All the above was taken from the January 1993 issue of MacTech.
The issue was known as "The Alias Issue" ;-)
Paul Potts
>
> I think that if I hadn't
>noticed it, they never would have sent me a check. As it was, it took
>over three weeks of me calling them every few days before they finally
>mailed me a check ($400.). They kept coming up with lame excuses, which
>included: "We don't mail out checks until a month after we publish someone's
>article", "The person who signs the checks is on vacation", "Oops, we forgot
>to mail it out", etc.
If it's any consolation, I think their policy really _is_ not to send out
checks until after the article is published. At least, when I got an article
published in it in 88 or 89, that's how it worked. It also took them many
months between submission and publication of the article.
Mine is pretty much out of date too by now...
--
Politics is crime pursued by other means.
po...@oit.itd.umich.edu CI$ 71561,3362 (rarely)
Bill Williams
THIS IS NOT TRUE!!! In Ann Arbor Michigan the Mac user group newsletter in
1984 tried to call itself MacTech and got hassled legally to change it to
MacTechnics instead.
MacTutor (I Think) also tried to call itself MacTech once and could not
because of legal reasons.
WHY??? Because there is an organization called MacTech already and
aggressively protects their name. That Is why I examined MacTech Magazine
and confirmed to myself that it IS NOT CALLED MACTECH, IT IS CALLED
"MACTECH MAGAZINE"
There is a big legal distinction and if people on the Internet such as
brent in his two posts refer to it as MacTech frequently enough by mistake
the REAL MacTech organization will be able to use that as evidence in
court to force MacTech Magazine to use another less confusing name.
If you do not want the name to change again, then call the journal by its
proper name.
-- Bill Williams
James MacPhail
>with "Version 2.0". They seem to have produced issues up through October
>1992, and then a joint November/December 1992 issue. I don't have a
>subscription (since I haven't found it useful enough to merit the cost,
>particularly since I'd have to pay $50 more to send it to England), but
>-- Greg "Buttons" Landweber
I have the January 93 issue here. They have resolved the conflict and
reverted to the original name of MacTech Magazine.
They supply the following contact info:
AppleLink: MacTutor
GEnie: MacTutor
Internet: Mact...@applelink.apple.com
QuickMail GateWay (30) 575-4457
Voice: (310) 575-4343 fax: (310) 575-0925
I think I read a comment that the prizes were out of stock and they
apologized for the delay, but I can't find that comment now and it might
have been for a completely different mag.
James MacPhail jmac...@cue.bc.ca ja...@mirg2.phy.queensu.ca
Walt Davis
>>t...@hpkslx.mayfield.HP.COM (Ted Johnson) writes:
>> I think that if I hadn't
>>noticed it, they never would have sent me a check. As it was, it took
>>over three weeks of me calling them every few days before they finally
>>mailed me a check ($400.). They kept coming up with lame excuses, which
>>included: "We don't mail out checks until a month after we publish someone's
>>article", "The person who signs the checks is on vacation", "Oops, we forgot
>>to mail it out", etc.
>If it's any consolation, I think their policy really _is_ not to send out
>checks until after the article is published. At least, when I got an article
>published in it in 88 or 89, that's how it worked. It also took them many
>months between submission and publication of the article.
Back in my younger day, I wrote an article based on some work I was
doing and submitted it to MacTutor. It was fun to see it published in
the Sept or Oct '91 issue, just before their hiatus and subsequent
metamorphosis. Months passed and I never saw a dime from them (they
said I was due $300 for the article). I called the new MacTutor folks
a couple-three times for resolution and finally was told that they had
a huge list of creditors from the previous administration [sound
familiar] and that, although I was on the list, I was no where near the
top. No problem, I thought, just give me credit toward my subscription
[I had already spent 3 times the amount in anticipation]. They
agreed. Can't understand why I've been getting all these renewal
notices...
The moral of the story: If you write an article for submission, do it
for fun or ego, you'll never make a living at it.
Walt Davis
davisw%aurfs1%aur...@mcnc.org