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Usenet Mac Digest          Sunday, 18 May 1986      Volume 2 : Issue 39

Today's Topics:
     Sequencer problems
     HW documentation on mac+ wanted
     Re: Ten Challenges
     Re: Problem with System 3.X (actually bad apple dealers)
     Mac Plus carrying cases
     re: challenge no.5 (DA copying)
     Re: printer problem
     Re: A question concerning the memory maneger .
     Finder tip
     Re: Problem with System 3.X
     cyrillic fonts
     Megamax Development System on MacPlusses
     right to left word processing
     Re: Copying 400K Copy Protected Files to 800K Mac+ ???
     Re: Current volume under SFGetFile ?
     MacWrite question
     Re: ICONS in buttons (HELP)?
     Re: Megamax Development System on MacPlusses
     Interrupt switch on Mac+
     Re: Megamax Development System on MacPlusses
     Source code for fractals?
     Music typesetting; Mac/MIDI/Casio CZ-101; Mac/Music SIG?
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From: hosoda@well.UUCP (Craig Hosoda)
Subject: Sequencer problems
Date: 14 May 86 21:51:50 GMT
Organization: Whole Earth Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA

Is anybody else having problems getting Darin Adler's Sequencer program
to autostart?  I've downloaded it, put it on my MacTerminal disk, used
ResEdit to insert my strings for the Document name and MacTerminal.

The Sequencer works fine when I double-click on it from the desktop.
If I select it, choose "Set Startup", shutdown and reinsert the disk,
Sequencer doesn't run and all I get is the desktop.

I'm using System 3.1.1.  Has anybody else tried to use it with similar
results?  I've tried both versions of the Sequencer.

Thanks, Craig Hosoda

------------------------------

From: jimt@tekig4.UUCP (Jim Tallman)
Subject: HW documentation on mac+ wanted
Date: 14 May 86 01:34:33 GMT
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR

My warrenty is about up.  I plan to get inside and upgrade to 4 megs.  
I need some documentation regarding so I can figure out what the pin out
of those memory slots is.  I hope to wire in the 'old' roms in parallel
with a switch on the chip select lines so the old games will play again.
I am also going to investigate adding a second floppy in the mechanical
space under the present one.

I probably will look at upgrading the power supply, adding a QUIET fan,
or heat sinking things.  

Any documentation on where to learn what I need to do this would be great.

thanks...jim tallman

phone 503-627-3663       home: 503-648-0808
net:  tektronix!tekig4!jimt
snail: Tektronix, PO BOX 500, MS 39-87, Beaverton, Oregon 97077

My cute saying:  Computers are completely magic.  You can't find anyone
in the world that knows all about any one of them.  So no one alone can
figure them out.  The magic divides into two catagories, good magic and
bad magic.  Good magic is defined to be having the computer do exactly
as you intended and hoped.  Everything else is bad magic.  It doesn't
matter if it's software, hardware, operator error, bad design;
they're all bad magic.  Now when anything goes wrong, the reason is simple:
It's bad magic.  It makes getting along with them much easier.

------------------------------

From: mkg@lzaz.UUCP (Marsh Gosnell)
Subject: Re: Ten Challenges
Date: 13 May 86 15:08:21 GMT
Organization: AT&T Information Systems, Lincroft
Summary: challenge #5 met by HFS Locater Plus

In addition to copying files, there are two HFS related functions that haven't
been duplicated in desk accessories until recently. They are creating new HFS
folders and launching documents.

There's a new DA called HFS Locater Plus from PBI Software that does all of
these and a lot more.  Locater is a DA that searches your HFS volumes for files
files by name (with wild cards) and/or by modification/creation date.  If you
run it with an application, Locater defaults to finding documents for that
application (e.g., find me MacPaint docs if I'm in MacPaint.).  The default
can be changed to any file or a different application.

Once you've found a file, you can do almost anything to it--copy it to another
folder or to a different volume for quick backups, you can move it to another
folder, rename it, delete it, show the Finder info, or launch it.  When you
launch a document, Locater finds the application and sets things up so that
when you quit the current application, the new application will be launched
and the selected document opened--exactly the same as double-clicking on the
desktop.  The launch is immediate if you use Locater from the Desktop.

Locater also lets you:
	- make new folders at any time during a search,
	- save the full pathnames of matches in a text file (a mini-catalog),
	- restrict the search to a particular sub-tree or a particular folder,
	- and lots more.

One other nice thing Locater does for you is set up the Standard file routines
so that the next open will display the folder that contains the file that
you found.  This makes Locater nifty for finding a misplaced document and
then opening it in the application.
  Marsh Gosnell

------------------------------

From: dad@mit-vax.UUCP (David Duff)
Subject: Re: Problem with System 3.X (actually bad apple dealers)
Date: 14 May 86 13:59:54 GMT
Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA

I have had terrible luck with Apple dealers in my (Boston) area.  I'd
like to know if others have had similar problems.  

I've been trying to get an upgrade for my Macterminal program for
several months now and have had (almost) no success.  At one point, in
early April, I had visited a total of five Apple dealers and could not
come up with a copy of the upgrade.  One dealer was about to go out of
business, one had just gotten back in to business, but  the others
seemed to be completely oblivious to the fact that the upgrade existed
(It came out in mid-January, as I recall).  When I finally found a
dealer who had the upgrade, HE INSISTED THAT I PAY HIM FOR THE
UPGRADE!!  Needless to say, I was pissed off. 

I've had similar experiences with dealers in the past.  I once went
out in search of a replacement battery for my mac, only to have people
in three different stores insist that there was no battery in the mac
at all.  I can't believe the incompetence of the computer salespeople
that I've come across in this area.  

I later bumped in to an Apple rep at a demo and told her about what I
had observed and she didn't really seem to care much about it either
way.  I asked her whether it was "legal" for that dealer to charge for
the upgrade that was supposed to be free and she said that it was ok
with Apple.  She said Apple encouraged dealers to provide the upgrades
for free but could not force them.  

What I'd like to know is this:  1) Have other people had similar
problems with incompetent or uncooperative dealers?  2) Does Apple
really not care about this?  3) Can anyone suggest a good Apple dealer
in the Boston/Cambridge area?

Thanks.

------------------------------

From: jmm@cad.UUCP
Subject: Mac Plus carrying cases
Date: 14 May 86 14:19:16 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley

Anyone have any experiences with carrying cases for their Plus?  I need one
by this Sunday.  Brands I've seen are MacBag, MacTote, and West{something},
but I've never actually seen their bags, just adds.  Any info would be
appreciated.

James

------------------------------

From: bhyde@inmet.UUCP
Subject: re: challenge no.5 (DA copying)
Date: 15 May 86 01:31:00 GMT

Three more
1) The desk toy that, when active, provides cmd key shorthands
for dialog buttons, ala. Excel.
2) Background deamon, reads notes, uploads
my files, downloads my mail 
3) The script/macro program that takes scripts like:
     Await the dialog called "Communication Parms"
     Hit the Radio Button labeled "1200 baud"
     Hit the "OK" Button
     Resize the top window to 4 inch by 3 inch 
     ...

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From: stephenw@murdu.OZ (Stephen Withers)
Subject: Re: printer problem
Date: 15 May 86 01:37:31 GMT
Organization: University Computing Services, The University of Melbourne

This sounds like what happens if you use tractor feed paper with the
friction feed engaged.  Check the position of the lever.

Stephen Withers, 
Microcomputer Support Group, University Computing Services,
The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia.

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"The only thing I ever learned from experience was that I just made another
mistake."

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From: dwb@well.UUCP (David W. Berry)
Subject: Re: A question concerning the memory maneger .
Date: 15 May 86 11:15:43 GMT
Organization: Whole Earth Lectronic Link, Sausalito CA

The stack sniffer can be disabled by:

#define StkLowPt	(*(char **) 0x110)
	StkLowPt = 0;

------------------------------

From: sakw@cvaxa.UUCP (Sak Wathanasin)
Subject: Finder tip
Date: 14 May 86 21:37:18 GMT
Organization: Univ of Sussex, Cognitive Studies, UK

Got this off a UK BBS.
----------------------                     
Category:  1       MAC Information
Message #:  694
Submitted:  5/6/86 23:13
Submitted by:  BRUCE STIDSTON
Subject:  Finder finding.
 
For months now, whenever I'd find myself in the Finder,
I'd fool around trying to crack a problem that's always
bugged my tidy mind.
 
The problem concerns the viewing of files in a heavily
populated folder. Having chosen the optimal sort criterion
for the View for that folder (that is, by date or by name or
by size or whatever, from the Finder's View menu), I prefer
to have the files presented to me in Icon format but
retaining the sequence dictated by the selected View method.
 
(To make that clearer: I wanted to have all my MacPaint files,
for instance, listed by Icon and presented in alphabetical
order from left to right, starting with the A's at the top and
the Z's at the bottom.)
 
Until now, the only way I'd found of achieving this was to move
the document icons around manually... a bit daft when you've
got the world's friendliest computer standing by watching. Now
there's a better way, thanks to the Put Away item that has
reappeared on the File menu in Finders 5.0 and above.
 
Here's how you do it: Select the View criterion you want the
icons to follow. Say you choose By Date. All the files are
now presented in Date order, names only, without their associated
icons. Now Select All, and drag all the files onto the Desktop.
Now, select the icon presentation you want: by Small Icon or
by Icon. Re-size the window to make room for the icon layout you
want: eg, three abreast. Now choose Put Away from the File menu
and watch as Finder neatly picks up the files from the desktop,
one by one, and restores them to the window in icon format,
RETAINING your selected View sequence!
 
A discovery of sorts?
 
(Yuk!)
 
> Bruce Stidston.
-- 
Sak Wathanasin, U of Sussex, Cognitive Studies, Falmer, Sussex BN1 9QN, UK
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janet: sakw@uk.ac.sussex.cvaxa

------------------------------

From: ix21@sdcc6.UUCP
Subject: Re: Problem with System 3.X
Date: 15 May 86 08:19:52 GMT
Organization: U.C. San Diego, Academic Computer Center

My Apple dealer recently mailed my a post card annoucing a system
upgrade -- he is distributing version 3.2b1 of the system.  Now I
thought under Apple's new numbering system that the "b" designates a
beta test version, but my dealer states that this is an official
version.  I noticed that the "D"  in ResEdit version 1.0D7 is upper
case while the "b" is lower case.  Does Apple's new numbering
system, D for development, A for alpha test, B for beta test, not
apply in this case?  Or is Apple distributing an official beta test
version?  My dealer told me that even version 3.1.1 has bugs.  How
long do the new ROM/ Mac Plus have to wait before a bug free system
is available?  

-- 
----
David Whiteman,
University of California, San Diego 

------------------------------

From: n9fik@pur-ee.UUCP (Mike Rosenberg)
Subject: cyrillic fonts
Date: 15 May 86 15:37:20 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computer Science Dept

I would like any recomendations on cyrillic fonts for the mac+.  I also would
like help in finding a good word processor I can use to type in Russian.

Thanks in advance,

Mike Rosenberg		ee.purdue.edu!n9fik

------------------------------

From: lewis@axiom.UUCP (Lewis Gordon Pringle Jr.)
Subject: Megamax Development System on MacPlusses
Date: 15 May 86 16:09:32 GMT
Organization: Axiom Technology, Newton MA

I just got my Mac upgraded, and was dissapointed to find out how
little of the Megamax software really works with MacPluses.  The batch
facility is completely useless (it doesn't know about file dates
anymore, and crashes frequenly).  All of the programs, header files,
etc, must be on MFS disks (or the root dir of HFS disks).  The editor
tends to die periodically.  When you get syntax errors compiling, it
loades the editor with the error.out file, and the offending source
file, and crashes.  (Yes I know, I shouldn't have syntax errors :-).
Of course, none of the new toolbox routines are supported.

Most of this is not so surprissing, as my version was purchased almost
a year ago.  The part I find frustrating is that that was Megamaxes
last release (or the last one I know of).  For almost that long, they
have been promissing a source level debugger (which I have heard
nothing but promises about).

Did they lose my registration card, and maybe thats why I haven't
heard of new releases ?  Did they go out of business ?  Are they just
out to lunch ?  Anybody out there know if there have been later
releases (later than 2.{0,1}b).  Does anyone know of patches, or
work-arounds for some of these problems?  Anyone know of other, more
subtle problems to be aware of (I hate finding subtle problems)?

Maybe its time to dig deep and shell out for a copy of Light-Speed C?

						Appropriate Remarks,
								Lewis.

PS: I am just waiting until I get a big enough file to compile, so
that it decides to run off and use Screen memory :-).

------------------------------

From: riddle@emory.UUCP (Larry Riddle)
Subject: right to left word processing
Date: 15 May 86 16:58:37 GMT
Organization: Math & Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta

I am posting this for a friend in the language department.
He just received a copy of the SuperHebrew fonts for using
with Macwrite.  The documentation talks about a right to left
desk accesory (i.e. allows you to type from the right side to the
left side, particularly important when doing Hebrew). 
Unfortunately, this DA was not included and a phone call to the
distributor of the SuperHebrew program revealed that the DA had
been full of probrems and had been withdrawn for further research.

Does anyone know of any applications or DA's that allow right to
left word processing and that are known to work?  My friend's
Hebrew fonts are no good to him without this capability (unless
he writes everything out first and then types it in "backward")

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.  Thanks.

-- 
Larry Riddle
Emory University
Dept of Math and CS
Atlanta, Ga 30322

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------------------------------

From: ix21@sdcc6.UUCP (David Whiteman)
Subject: Re: Copying 400K Copy Protected Files to 800K Mac+ ???
Date: 16 May 86 09:43:11 GMT
Organization: U.C. San Diego, Academic Computer Center

At an user group meeting last evening in which a representative from
Apple spoke the Apple rep stated that one of the many bugs that
system version 3.1 had was that a 400K MFS disk created on a 128K
rom machine can not be read on a 64K rom machine.  This may explain
the problem the Oregon user group had in duplicating disks on the
MacPlus.

-- 
----
David Whiteman,
University of California, San Diego 

------------------------------

From: mkg@lzaz.UUCP (M.GOSNELL)
Subject: Re: Current volume under SFGetFile ?
Date: 16 May 86 22:03:58 GMT
Organization: AT&T Information Systems, Lincroft

If you're running MFS, the volume currently being displayed is in the
word at $214 in low memory.  It's called SFSaveDisk in the suppliments.

If you're running HFS, getting the vRefNum is a little more difficult.
SFSaveDisk will contain -(vRefNum of the volume) and CurDirStore, a long
at $398, contains the WDDirid of the folder that's being displayed.  The
WDDirid and vRefNum of the volume can be turned into the vRefNum of the
folder using PBGetWDInfo.

You can force the SF display to start in a given folder by stuffing
SFSaveDisk and CurDirStore before calling the SF routine.
  Marsh Gosnell

------------------------------

From: david1@mhuxl.UUCP (Rick Nelson)
Subject: MacWrite question
Date: 16 May 86 13:22:54 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill

I somehow got a metric ruler on my MacWrite, version 4.5.  Does anyone know
how I did this?  More important, does anyone know how to undo this? 

------------------------------

From: rcopm@yabbie.oz (Paul Menon)
Subject: Re: ICONS in buttons (HELP)?
Date: 17 May 86 06:25:01 GMT
Organization: RMIT Comm & Elec Eng, Melbourne, Australia.

    There are a couple of other solutions...

    (i)	Create a user item (a la Dialog Manager) which can just be a rectangle.
    	You dictate exactly what happens when mousy poops in it. You have to 
	take care of drawing (via a user filter) updating etc... but at least 
	it is on the same (dialog) level.  An example of user items in dialog
	boxes can be found in MacTutor June '85. The code has some redundancies
	(controls being drawn twice... note that the DM takes care of drawing
	all controls in a window for an update event) and glaring 
	inconsistencies (illustrations are not a result of the program...
	take careful not of the scrollbar positions wrt the selection box).
	However, it gives one a good feel about what's happening at the highest
	level of the Mac, the only level (opinion only) to really be 
	programming at.  I wrote a TML Pascal example program using this as an
	outline, I might still have it somewhere...

    (ii)If you are lucky enough to have a MacPlus (grrrr!!), then you can make
	full use of the List Manager (huh? I hear the replies already).  A
	good example can be found in Mactutor (once again) May '86.  I have
	not examined it thoroughly or even implemented it.  Further, since the
	List Manager is a relatively new arrival, I am still naive on the
	subject.  It seems a powerful package though, and could satisfy your
	needs.

			GOOD LUCK

Paul Menon.

    Dept of Communication & Electronic Engineering,
    Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,
    124 Latrobe St, Melbourne, 3000, Australia
 
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	  claim them".

------------------------------

From: barnett@im4u.UUCP (Lewis Barnett)
Subject: Re: Megamax Development System on MacPlusses
Date: 17 May 86 16:20:54 GMT
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas

I'm curious, too.  I sent my disks and a check for $15 to Megamax back in
March for the most recent upgrade, and have heard nothing since.  Not even
"We got your correspondence and will reply as soon as possible," or "Due
to unavoidable delays... etc."  After all the good stuff we heard about
Megamax support in the early days, this surprises me somewhat.  Anyone
know the story, or have similar tales of woe?

Lewis Barnett,CS Dept, Painter Hall 3.28, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX 78712

"Frankly, there's something about reality that gives me the shivering willies!"
						-- Hank the Hallucination --

-- barnett@im4u.CS.UTEXAS.EDU, barnett@im4u.UUCP,
      {ihnp4,harvard,seismo,gatech,ctvax}!im4u!barnett

------------------------------

From: mazur@harvard.UUCP (Eric Mazur)
Subject: Interrupt switch on Mac+
Date: 18 May 86 02:21:58 GMT
Organization: Aiken Comp Lab, Harvard

I received two responses to my previous posting regarding problems with
the interrupt switch. The two people who replied said they had traced
the problem back to their Apple modems. One had a modem 1200, the other
the Personal modem (the one you plug in the wall). Both said they had en-
countered similar problems as I had (i.e., only a frozen mouse after
depressing the interrupt switch, no mini-debugger), but ONLY when their
modems were connected and powered on. Since I have an Apple modem 1200
too, I checked the interrupt switch with modem on and off (leaving the
cables in place). With the modem off everything worked fine, but when
I turned it on there was no way I could get the mini-debugger! So that
seems to be the problem.

Does anybody else have this problem with other modems? What could it be,
that causes this annoying behavior?


Eric Mazur

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-- 
Eric Mazur

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							 \	molphy!mazur

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From: werner@ut-ngp.UUCP (Werner Uhrig)
Subject: Re: Megamax Development System on MacPlusses
Date: 17 May 86 22:06:19 GMT
Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas
Summary: Megamax presentation to Austin Developers' Group
	 we came away with a lot of doubts about their future


We had a presentation from the folks in Richardson in the meeting nearly
a month ago now, and, to sum it up, we came away very much in doubt about
that companies future.  I hope I may be forgiven for just glossing over the
details, but they did not inspire any faith in me and most of those present
that they are in control of the problems they are confronting to keep
up with the Mac's evolution.

My impression is that if you have to choose which compiler to go with,
Megamax-C does not come out looking well.  And if you are able to consider
changing from Megamax to something else, you probably should; the sooner the
better.  In the past, price was their biggest Plus - but with Lightspeed-C
out, there now is another choice.

I don't care to discuss this matter in details, but recommend that
interested parties take a hard look at alternatives to Megamax also.

	Cheers,		---Werner

------------------------------

From: padraig@utastro.UUCP (Padraig Houlahan)
Subject: Source code for fractals?
Date: 17 May 86 17:12:45 GMT
Organization: U. Texas, Astronomy, Austin, TX

Does anyone know of, or have, code for generating fractals? I would
appreciate being mailed a copy, or information as to where it may be obtained.

Thanks in advance,

Padraig Houlahan.

------------------------------

From: Mike Wirth <mcw@lll-crg.ARPA>
Subject: Music typesetting; Mac/MIDI/Casio CZ-101; Mac/Music SIG?
Date: Thu, 15 May 86 13:23:48 pdt

Music Typesetting
-----------------
In response to the recent inquiry on music typesetting systems, here are
some further references (for those who wish to delve into the interesting
technical issues associated with this problem):

1.  I just received the May issue of the Communications of the ACM with an
article by John S. Gourlay, "A Language for Music Printing," pages 388 to
401.  His references are quite complete; I recommend that you get the
article just for them.  In particular, he lists my #2 and says about the
Professional Composer program from Mark of the Unicorn, "Its typography,
although relatively good, is still not up to the standards of published
scores, ..."  Hmm....

2.  A very interesting paper is contained in Byte, Vol. 9, January, 1984,
by J. T. Maxwell and S. M. Ornstein, "Mockingbird: A Composer's
Amanuensis."  I originally saw this paper as a Xerox PARC report -- I
presume the Byte article is the same.  It has an excellent discussion of
the problems associated with manipulating musical compositions.

3.  Sometime within the last year, an issue of the ACM's Computing Surveys
contained a number of articles on the use of computers in music.  Most
seemed to be fairly theoretical (i.e., computer generated compositions)
and somewhat dated (e.g., MIDI was only mentioned briefly in one spot).
Sorry, but I can't remember the date of the issue and can't find it; I've
moved offices once too often.

The Mac, MIDI and Casio
-----------------------
     For those who are interested in MIDI, there's a whole new world of
stuff out there for you.  Just visit your local (electronic) music store!
Some sources that I've found useful in my Mac/MIDI/Casio CZ-101 interests
are:

4.  Keyboard Magazine:  At your local music store.  See especially the 
January '86 special issue on MIDI.  Lots of info from the musician's 
perspective.

5.  Electronic Musician:  A new magazine, more at the hobbiest level.  Has
regular articles on building your own hardware interfaces and MIDI gizmos.

6.  The Detailed MIDI Spec:  Obtainable for approx. $30 from:
        International MIDI Association
        11857 Hartsook St.
        North Hollywood, CA  91607
        (818) 505-8964 (Usually get's a tape machine!!!)
You can also join their association and get newletters, etc.  I have the
spec. if you need the answer to a specific question and don't want to spend
$30.  It contains the encoding for the general (non-machine specific) MIDI
codes and a short(!) description of the electrical spec. with a simple
schematic.  (By the way, does anyone know where to get the Sharp PC900
opto-isolator called for by the spec? I called the standard electronic
distributors in Silicon Valley and could never find it.)

7.  If you're interested in Casio synthesizers, you can get the machine-
specific MIDI codes (called "system exclusive data") by contacting:
        Jerry Kovarsky
        Product Manager E.M.I.
        Casio, Inc.
        15 Gardner Road
        Fairfield, NJ  07006
        (201) 575-7400
and he'll send you a 1/4" thick stack of photocopied notes.  Be sure to
specify synthesizer model (I said "all").  This turned out to be a hard-to-
find reference, because the local MIDI equipment dealers don't deal with
Casio directly and the MIDI software houses probably don't want you to
find out this info.

Special Interest Group?
-----------------------
Is anyone out there interested in a network special interest group on the
Mac and MIDI?  On Casio (or other) synthesizers?  Send me mail.  When I can
find the time, I'm working on a Mac-to-MIDI interface based on a simple
schematic in the Berkeley MUG newsletter of two issues ago (Spring '85?).
(Yes, I know; you can buy them.  But I (a) am too cheap having just spent
my money on music software {ConcertWare+ is great!}, and (b) like to
hack hardware occasionally.  Problem is that Sharp PC900 -- drat!  I have
a candidate substitute if all else fails.)  Is anyone out there writing
utility software, e.g., patch librarians or editors?  (That's "MIDI talk"
-- see the Jan. '86 Keyboard for a translation).  Has anyone used the
Opcode Systems patch editor/librarian for the Mac and the CZ-101?  For
the Yamaha DX-7?

Mike Wirth
ARPAnet:  mcw@lll-crg.arpa

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