Conference 7.286::macintosh

    I need a tutor.  The Mac I bought before Christmas is still sitting
    pretty much untouched.  I took a one day Intro to Mac at a place in
    Woburn, but didn't get as much out of it as I expected.  
    
    In addition, I just do not have the time and patience to put into self
    teaching/trial and error.  I would like to find a person willing to
    come to my home and spend a couple of days with me and my Mac to show
    me around, answer some questions, etc.; a Saturday or Sunday, maybe 
    even a weekday; my job is flexible.  Even if someone knows a young 
    person who's good with a Mac, I don't care.  I will pay something 
    reasonably reasonable, but I guess that would have to be discussed 
    because I wouldn't know where to start with an offer.
    
    My girlfriend in Florida is too far away to help, but she's been in
    charge of a computer lab using Macs at a Florida school for a number 
    of years now.  It's not that easy doing stuff over the phone.
    
    I live north of Boston in the vicinity of the intersections of Rte 114
    and Rte 128.
    
    I'm open to any suggestions, ideas, offers, etc., etc.
    
    Thanks,
    Lorraine Maguire
    dtn 257-3804
    Lorraine Maguire@gem

    By the way, I guess I should tell you my machine is a Performer 6360
    and I'm not a total novice with pc's....Macs, yes, but I can find my
    way around the pc in my office.
    
    Lorraine

> I need a tutor.  The Mac I bought before Christmas is still sitting
> pretty much untouched.     
> I'm not a total novice with pc's....Macs, yes, but I can find my
> way around the pc in my office.

	If you can run Windows 95, you can run a Macintosh.  The main
	differences are:

		Your disks appear along the right side of the desktop 
		instead of hiding within "My Computer".

		Applications share the menu bar at the top of the 
		screen rather than having a menu bar on each window.

		The "Apple" menu in the upper-left corner acts 
		much like the "Start" button in W95 and the icon
		in the upper right corner acts like the tool (status?)
		bar in w95, allowing you to switch between applications
		even wne the application's windows are hidden.

		You mark a file for deletion by dropping it on the
		trash icon.

		You eject a floppy or CD-ROM by dragging it to the
		trash icon.

		You select a printer using the "Chooser" from the
		Apple menu.

    If by any chance you don't find anyone to make a house call to the
    Peabody area, just come back to this conference with questions.  There
    are lots of us Mac types in Digital Around the World that are ready,
    willing, and able to answer lots of your questions.  And we don't give
    up easily.  We can help by pointing you to various applications,
    shareware, comm utilities, and guide you through connecting to work via
    a PPP connection so that you can browse the web, telnet into the office
    to read your mail, etc...
    
    Just ask.
    
    					Bob Harris

    
    Or you could pay my fare to Boston, pick me up at the airport and feed
    me for the time it takes...I'd love to come out there (from Colorado)
    for a while. 
    
    Mario
    PS Eventually, you gotta send me home again too! 8)

>    Or you could pay my fare to Boston, pick me up at the airport and feed
>    me for the time it takes...I'd love to come out there (from Colorado)
>    for a while.
    
    Maybe she would like to go to Colorado for a spring ski trip.  Days
    skiing, nights working on the Mac.  Or at least the weekends before and
    after the trip.
    
    Just how close do you live to a ski area? :-)
    
    					Bob Harris

    
    About 1.5 hours from the slopes and I work weekends so she needs to ski
    while I work...and then we need to discuss the fee. 8) I am open to the
    idea though.
    
    Mario

    Yeah, I was kind of thinking I'd rather see Colorado than stick around
    in Boston....but, I'd have to drive....hate flying, wish I didn't but
    that's the way it is.  Sounds wonderful........

    this place is sounding like an AOL chat room!

Why does ostensibly the same piece of code vary in size?

When I installed Adobe Type Reunion v2.0, Adobe's installer added an extension
"Macintosh Drag and Drop 1.1.1" to my System folder.  OK, thank you, I always
wanted to do drag and drop while running System 7.01. 

Then I upgraded to America Online v3.0.1.  Their installer replaced that same 
extension with an identically named one.

I imagine the AOL installer figured that was the right move because even though
the version number of the extension was the same, the Modification date was
later: 

  Installer		Name			Vers	Modified  Size
------------	-----------------------------	----	--------  ----	
Type Reunion	Macintosh Drag and Drop 1.1.1	v1.1	3/21/94	  36K
AOL		Macintosh Drag and Drop 1.1.1	v1.1	3/22/94	  44K

Both versions of the extension appear to work satisfactorily.  Yet the one 
created 24 hours later is 22% bigger.  Why?

    It could be that they are not exactly the same, just have the same
    name.
    
    It could be because AOL added a resource to the file.  Something that
    their service needs/wants.
    
    Finally, I don't know if you are looking at the byte sizes of the 2
    files and just giving use the rounded K value or if these are the K
    values reported by the Finder.  Since the Mac allocates memory in
    allocation units that are a function of the size of the disk, it could
    be that the AOL file is just a few bytes larger than the Type Reunion
    file, but the extra bytes caused the file to require an additional
    allocation unit which the bumped the allocation of the file up to the
    next larger size (assuming your disk allocates storage in units of 8
    blocks - 8192 bytes).
    
    You could use ResEdit to examine the various resources in the 2 files
    and figure it out, but I wouldn't worry about it too much.
    
    					Bob Harris

    Does one contain Fat binary resources and the other not?
    
       erik

    re .746:
    
    Since I downloaded the 68K version of AOL, I presume they only sent me
    68K code, not a fat binary.

    
    That still is just an assumption though. They could have specific
    versions of their own code and a fat version of Apple's code? But
    that's a guess too. I would expect that versions with the same number
    would be the same size, but AOL may have done something or could be
    releasing a version that was not meant for release...they did this with
    the ObjectSupportLib files too and created a lot of confusion.
    
    Mario