4-Apr-93 1:47:32-GMT,65601;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU by CAMIS.Stanford.EDU (4.1/inc-1.0) id AA27368; Sat, 3 Apr 93 17:47:30 PST Full-Name: Info-Mac Moderator Received: by SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU (4.1/inc-1.0) id AA05563; Sat, 3 Apr 93 17:07:45 PST Message-Id: <9304040107.AA05563@SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU> Date: Sat, 3 Apr 93 17:07:37 PST From: The Moderators Reply-To: Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #72 To: info-mac-list@SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU Info-Mac Digest Sat, 3 Apr 93 Volume 11 : Issue 72 Today's Topics: [*] DeskMates 1.0 - utility app [*] MHA QM Forms IV [*] SchoolStat 1.0 - statistics app [*] Screen Play 1.2 Submission [*] SuperClock 4.0.3 Control Panel [*] update to my software ShalomPad [*] yams-10.hqx [*] zipit1.1.cpt.hqx (F)arewell, (o)ur (o)n-line (l)uminary me once... *** RADIUS ROCKET --> CHEAPEST PRICE??? *** : Email Retail Order Any noise problems with LCIII 160Mb HD (Q) Apple ][e card in LCIII? AppleCD SC Plus & Kodak's PhotoCD Problem Atari-Bozo slide shows...:-) (R) Automatic compression info needed Canvas Tools for creating geologic maps ColoQuickdraw on aplus Converting Apple //e Appleworks files File conversion FREE ALTERNATIVE TO QUICKKEYS (A) Help With Maps sought (Q) Hypercard and EtherTalk conflict followup Hypercard and Farallon EtherCard conflict Hypercard help needed Hypercard help needed (A) HyperCard Help needed (Deleteing a line) (A) Info-Mac Digest V11 #70 KataKana & HiraGana on Windows? Keyboard mapping & MountImage like software LFs (FAQ) - what are they? Logitech trackman problems M/O Drive Prices Macs not connecting to network on startup Memory and Extensions Network consulting advice (Q) Networking - Switching between EtherTalk and LocalTalk?? NFS server software for Mac? OutSpoken or OTHER speech output? Post to info-mac, Radius accelerator (Q) So, what's a MUD ? StarChart and MusicWOrks leads ThoughtPattern 2.0 (Q) Times Two Toshiba 3201 and CD Technology Porta-Drive CD-ROM (C) Virtual Sex? Weird font alignment (PostScript?) problem Which Modem to choose? (A) Windows and Mac together The Info-Mac newsgroup is moderated by Bill Lipa. The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous, any password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6]. Help files and indices are in /info-mac/help. Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu. Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 26 Mar 1993 10:01:03 U From: "Glenn Rosen" Subject: [*] DeskMates 1.0 - utility app Please not that I am not the author of this program, I am posting it for a friend whose email address is below. This compacted self-extracting archive of a shareware program containing: 1. An analog clock 2. A text editor not limited to 32,000 character with full grep 3. A stopwatch with 3 timers and 15 alarms 4. A calculator with extended features 5. A calendar with links to a personal notification system 6. An alarm clock with prior warning and recurrent alarm facility 7. On-line help system 8. Compatibility with Macintoshes with system 6.05 and above, including system 7, and will run on any screen depth (though note that the analog clock will not show on depths > 8 bit). It has been tested on PowerBooks, LC IIIs and Quadras. The application is set to 520K but will run in less in monochrome. Please enjoy! David Darby, WhiteAnt Occasional Publishing Current Address: 69 Saco St, Newton, MA 02164, USA (current address until 1994), phone 617-965-6506, email: darby@sprcore.bih.harvard.edu. [Archived as /info-mac/app/desk-mates-10.hqx; 338K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1993 20:31:00 EST From: mha@baka.ithaca.ny.us (Mark Anbinder) Subject: [*] MHA QM Forms IV Subject: MHA QM Forms IV MHA QuickMail Forms Collection IV 26 March 1993 The attached collection of QuickMail forms is being released for the enjoyment of QuickMail users everywhere. If you like these forms, PLEASE LET ME KNOW! I can be reached in any of several ways. If you've created a neat QuickMail form and would like it distributed, please feel free to mail it to me; I'll add it to my next collection. Please note that QuickMail is a trademark of CE Software, Inc. Also, some of the enclosed forms may include trademarks or registered trademarks of CE and other companies, and their use is intended only for personal enjoyment. Feel free to distribute these forms as a set, along with this note, or individually by mailing them to other QuickMail users. Please don't modify them except for your own personal use. Please do send me some e-mail or a postcard or get in touch some other way if you like these forms, so that I'll know that I should continue putting together these collections. The archive is a self-extracting StuffIt Deluxe 3.0 file. Given the choice between using StuffIt 1.5.1 format (which everyone can decode using a wide variety of free utilities) or a self-extracting archive of about the same size (which everyone can decode with NO additional utility) I chose the latter. Apologies if you disagree with my decision, but I could never have kept everyone happy. :-) Instructions for installing the forms themselves are provided in the Read Me file that's enclosed within the archive. This collection includes the following QM forms: 2.6 Bet you didn't know Bill the Cat BJ's Cat Bloom Kids Brain is Gone Crooked House Dancing in the Sleet Data Drain Eagle Frog of the Day Hand Regarding Happy Hate to be a bother How much? It ain't over... Joy! Let's Get Together Lion Locutus Mr. Chainsaw QuickMail 2.6 Quit Drinking Coffee ResEdit Clown Ren&Stimpy/Toasters Rose in Vase Thanx This is your brain... Travel Plans WDYW Your Eyes Only [Archived as /info-mac/misc/quickmail-forms-iv.hqx; 142K] ------------------------------ Date: 26 Mar 1993 10:05:18 U From: "Glenn Rosen" Subject: [*] SchoolStat 1.0 - statistics app Please note that I am not the author of this program. I am posting it for a friend whose email address can be found below: SchoolStat is a shareware program containing interactive statistical software. It is designed primarily for schools (hence the name!), especially teachers who wish to show how probability distributions can be brought alive with Macintosh graphics. It goes much further though, and has a spreadsheet, sorting, arithmetic and mathematical transformations (including N scores), statistical tests including descriptive statistics, confidence intervals, paired and independent comparisons (parametric and non-parametric), correlations, linear regression, contingency tables and more. It has a graphing facility for scatterplots, histograms, boxplots, stem and leaf diagrams, and pie charts. A log window keeps tally of your analyses. It accepts 30 columns by 1000 data points in each and will perform any of the functions on your own data. It includes both static probability tables (eg normal, inverse normal, t- and F-distribution, chi-square distribution, and others) and active tables which will plot the distributions and fill in the specified (by the user) probabilities as visible areas under the actual curve. These are in real time and have to be seen to be believed! A fully interactive help system is available (modeless windows) at all times accessed from the Apple menu (Command-/). Please feel free to offer me suggestions, via my email, and if you like and use it, please send me the shareware fee of $20. If there is any interest I will add extra things and hone it into any shape suggested. I could add ANOVA, multiple regression and others if there is enough interest. SchoolStat(tm) should be considered a competitor for MiniTab or StatView Student but with the friendly Mac interface and without the price tag. Compatibility: It is compatible with Macintoshes with system 6.05 and above, including system 7, and will run on any screen depth. It runs on SEs to PowerBooks, LC IIIs and Quadras. But note! It is large in disc space (approx 900K) and needs 860K of RAM at present. This makes it suitable for machines with 2MB RAM at minimum, though it will run in 1MB RAM with a modified system lacking bells and whistles. It should also run on a network. David Darby WhiteAnt Occasional Publishing Current Address: 69 Saco St, Newton, MA 02164, USA (current address until 1994) phone 617-965-6506 email darby@sprcore.bih.harvard.edu. [Archived as /info-mac/app/school-stat-10.hqx; 551K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1993 17:29:59 -0800 From: Jerry Wilcox Subject: [*] Screen Play 1.2 Submission Attached is a small Stuffit Archive containing Screen Play 1.2. Screen Play 1.2 is a startup screen randomizer. Several recent posts have indicated that some folks are unable to use Jon Pugh's "Randomizer" due to conflicts. I've used Screen Play for some time now, with no problems. It is certainly compatible with System 7.0.1 Tuned, but we haven't yet upgraded to 7.1 so I'm not sure of compatibility there. I'm sorry all I have is the extension itself. I have no documentation. According to the Get Info, Kevin Fong is the author, but there is no address. (Kevin, if you read this, you might want to upload a complete package, and please let me know if this was supposed to be shareware -- I've gotten so much pleasure from it I'll be happy to pay a reasonable fee!) The extension is very easy to use. Drop it onto your System Folder and allow the Finder to put it into your "Extensions" folder. Create a folder called "Screens" inside your System Folder, and place a collection of startup screens (give them real names) inside the "Screens" folder. The first time you restart with Screen Play active, it will copy one of the screens from the folder, name it "StartupScreen" and save it in the System Folder. Each time you restart, your current StartupScreen will be displayed, and Screen Play will randomly select another one of the screens, copy it, get rid of the old StartupScreen, and rename the new copy StartupScreen. If you do a "Get Info" on the StartupScreen, you'll see the title of the current screen file (the one you'll see next time you restart) at the top, next to the icon, and you'll see the name of the *last* screen file (the one you saw when you restarted this time) in the "Version" field. Enjoy, Jerry [Archived as /info-mac/ex/screen-play-12.hqx; 7K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1993 21:20:31 -0600 (CST) From: Larry Rymal Subject: [*] SuperClock 4.0.3 Control Panel SuperClock! 4.0.3 Control Panel Release Notes I ended up rewriting a lot of SuperClock! for the 4.0 release in order to c= lean up some stuff, but also to add and remove some features. The following lis= ts the major changes, effects, etc. Note that bugs have and will creep in, gi= ven the number of changes. Let me know what you find. [No repeat beep audio alarm feature. Sniff! --Larry Rymal] Revision Changes: =A5 4.0.3 - Fixed a bug that caused the Plus, SE, and Classic only to crash on installation. - Fixed a bug that could cause the clock to remain permanently hidden. - Made a change in displaying the list of fonts to work around a conflict with Suitcase II that was causing some of the fonts to be ignored. This was affecting people using Japanese system software (probably others as well) since they couldn't use kana/kanji fonts.=20 - SuperClock! should not stomp on the Timbuktu icon. - Sped things up a bit. - SpellFinder=AA for AppleLink=A8 causes the clock to be initially displa= yed in the wrong location on the menu bar. Clicking to another application and back (forces the menu bar to be redrawn) puts the clock in the righ= t place. This will not be fixed.=20 =A5 4.0.2 - Fixed a bug that was causing non-color Macs (i.e., Plus, SE, Classic, PowerBook 100) to crash on installation. - Fixed an editing problem with the alarm time. - Fixed a bug in the "chime same number of times..." option. =A5 4.0.1 - Fixed a bug in 4.0 (thanks, everyone) that caused the control panel to = crash in 32-bit mode (no, actually this was not a "32-bit clean" issue). Bug Fixes (4.0): - The battery indicator (for portables) will no longer flash, and should no= w show the correct battery level on all PowerBooks. - The clock will keep running while typing in Microsoft Word. In previous versions of SuperClock!, the clock display would stop updating until you clicked the mouse. This is actually a Word weirdness, but it was an easy thing to fix. - For those of you running 3.9 (not 3.9.1) on a Mac II, IIx, IIcx, o= r SE/30, there was a bug that could cause SuperClock! to crash when it was installing. This was fixed in 3.9.1 and is also fixed in 4.0.=20 New Features (4.0): - The battery indicator (for portables) is now optionally displayed. Also,= it will display the battery level even when charging. - Added the day of the week (optionally) to the time and date. - The clock can now chime on the quarter hours (:15, :30, :45) as well as o= n the hour (you're welcome, Owen). - All chimes now happen in the background so you won't have to wait for potentially long sounds to finish. - The old screen saver check has been replaced by a new Gestalt-based one initiated by Berkeley Systems for After Dark (2.0u and later). It's also used by Pyro!, and Darkside (if not now, soon). This may cause SuperClock! to display the clock at inappropriate times with older screen savers. I decided to follow this course because it's faster and more accurate than the old check. Removed Features (4.0): - SuperClock! now always checks for a screen saver, so the option was remov= ed. - Support for Stepping Out II=AA's fixed menu bar has been removed. If thi= s turns out to be a bad thing, please verbally flog me. Steve Christensen =D7 February 1993 America Online =09stevec44 CompuServe =09=09 76174,1712 [Archived as /info-mac/cp/super-clock-403.hqx; 29K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Mar 93 22:23 CST From: MATTHEW WEINSTEIN Subject: [*] update to my software ShalomPad Under separate cover I'm sending you the update to my program which allows right to left typing designed around the shalom fonts. This is the current version: 1.05b and should replace any other versions that you have. --Matthew Weinstein mgew@macc.wisc.edu [Archived as /info-mac/app/shalom-pad-105b.hqx; 42K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1993 14:49:01 -0500 (EST) From: hsch@veeble.han.de (Heinrich Schnermann) Subject: [*] yams-10.hqx ---8<------- YAMS! is short for "Yet another Minesweeper", and is a further version of the "Minesweeper" program supplied with Microsoft Windows 3.1. ---8<------- I hope this is enough. Add some text if you want, my English isn't good enough :-( Best Regards Heinrich h > > Cheers, PS: I hope I will learn a lot of tricks in the future, so I can release a better version in a few weeks. [Archived as /info-mac/game/yams-10.hqx; 194K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Mar 93 01:27:38 -0500 From: Nick Sklavounakis Subject: [*] zipit1.1.cpt.hqx ZipIt 1.1 by Tommy Brown. ZipIt will compress and decompress files in the Zip archive format, even those created on other platforms (even PKZip 2.0 for the PC). When you Zip a file on the Mac, it will retain its Mac information, even when moved across platforms. This is the first Zip utility for the Mac that actually has a Mac interface. ZipIt is fully System 7-savvy and and even supports special AppleEvents that will allow it to work with other applications. This versions fixes bugs and adds many features, like full PKZip 2.04g compatibility, selective linefeed stripping, and more. [Archived as /info-mac/util/zip-it-11.hqx; 172K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Apr 93 11:09:31 MST From: sharmony@nova.ta52.lanl.gov (Stephen C. Harmony) Subject: (F)arewell, (o)ur (o)n-line (l)uminary me once... I am saddened to see that Bill Lipa is retiring. How unfortunate that he chose to announce his retirement on April 1 and suggest a subject line with "Fool" hidden in an acrostic ;-) ------------------------------ Date: 02 Apr 1993 15:28:13 -0500 (EST) From: "dchou@husc11.harvard.edu"@HUSC3.HARVARD.EDU Subject: *** RADIUS ROCKET --> CHEAPEST PRICE??? *** Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.0-3 14/03/90 VAX/VMS; site husc3.harvard.edu Path: husc.harvard.edu!dchou Newsgroups: misc.forsale.computers.mac,comp.sys.mac.wanted,misc.forsale.computers,ba.market.computers,comp.sys.mac.digest Subject: *** RADIUS ROCKET --> CHEAPEST PRICE??? *** Message-ID: From: dchou@husc11.harvard.edu (David Chou) Date: 2 Apr 93 20:24:21 GMT Distribution: usa Nntp-Posting-Host: husc11.harvard.edu Lines: 15 Hello folks. I would like to know the cheapest price anyone has seen for the Rocket 25Mhz version, either with or without FPU, and where I could get in contact with the vendor and/or seller. I wouldn't mind buying it used as well; so far, someone is trying to sell he his 25Mhz version with FPU for $870; however, I saw someone post an article about a 25i version for $500. If anyone has anymore information, I'd appreciate it. Thanks. -Dave -- This Is Not A Love Song... -PIL I'm here, you're there, but you can reach me: dchou@husc8.harvard.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1993 14:33:26 +0200 From: robertson@genvax.mpib-tuebingen.mpg.de (Brian Robertson) Subject: : Email Retail Order I read with the interest the message from Fergus Sullivan about ordering direct from the USA by Email, and decided to try it out. I sent requests for quotations to both Mac's Place and MacWarehouse for Symantec's THINK Reference. I haven't heard from Mac's Place yet but I got a reply from MacWarehouse fairly quickly. The contents of that message follow: ------------------------------MESSAGE BEGINS---------------------------------- Message From: MacWAREHOUSE Hello Brian, The following manufacturers prohibit exportaion of their products outside the United States: ACIUS, ALADDIN, ALDUS, ADOBE, AMAZE INC!, APPLE, ASD SOFTWARE, ASHTON-TATE, BORLAND, BROWN-WAUGH, BRODERBUND/MAXIS, CMS, CAERE, CE SOFTWARE, CENTRAL-POINT, CLARIS, DATAEASE, DENEBA, DIGITAL RESEARCH, FORSIGHT, GRYPHON, KENT-MARSH, MAGNA, MICROSOFT, PARACOMP, QUARTERDECK, SILICON-BEACH, SITKA/TOPS, SYMANTEC, TRAVELING-SOFTWARE Because of these restrictions, we cannot ship Symantec's THINK Reference program. (item LNG0050) at $89.00. For the above reasons, we can only ship to addresses in the USA. Is there an address we could ship to you within the United States? Sorry for the inconvenience and we thank you for your patience. Sincerely, ED Camilo and Allan Eclarinal MacWAREHOUSE Online Services -----------------------------MESSAGE ENDS------------------------------------- Well I guess that about covers most of the products I am likely to want, so unless some kind soul is prepared to let me use them as a mailing address, and then forward the stuff to me things look bad for Email ordering! I do know of an alternative, but they don't have an Email address, although they do have a fax machine, and until now have sent me things by DHL within a few days, including products by manufacturers on the above list. For obvious reasons I will not name them here, but if any other Europeans are interested please feel free to contact them directly. Does this also mean that these manufacturers will refuse upgrades to people outside the US, who don't happen to have cousins, aunties, or other relations there............ Bye for now! Brian Robertson Max-Planck-Institut fuer Biologie Tuebingen, Germany robertson@genvax.mpib-tuebingen.mpg.de ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1993 16:47 GMT From: Fergus Sullivan Subject: Any noise problems with LCIII 160Mb HD (Q) A friend of mine has just bought an LC III with 160MB hard disk. Everything is fine apart from the NOISE. It's almost as noisy as a PC! It's certainly very far from the usual quiet hum of a smaller Apple HD. Is this normal? Is it a function of the size of the HD? Is there anything that can be done? For example, is it possible that the drive was incorrectly aligned? Basically, I want to know whether this guy should return the Mac or just buy earplugs :) Any and all advice would be greatly appreciated. Fergus Sullivan. Dublin, Ireland. ------------------------------ Date: 2 Apr 1993 14:29:09 U From: "Anne" Subject: Apple ][e card in LCIII? Will the Apple ][e card which worked in the LC and LC II also work in the LCIII? -abh ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Apr 93 13:58:36 PRT From: Miguel Teixeira Gomes Pacheco Subject: AppleCD SC Plus & Kodak's PhotoCD Problem Hello I have a Mac IIsi 9/80 with system 7.01 (portuguese version) and I've been trying to "read" Kodak's photoCD with a AppleCD SC plus with the help of the Apple photo access extension but I don't seem to even see the CD on the desktop What I'm I doing wrong? Does not AppleCD SC Plus read Kodak's photoCD? Do I need some more software besides Apple photo access? Could it be some incompatibility with some init/program? Thank in advance Miguel Pacheco MMMIGUEL@PTEARN (BITNET) MMMIGUEL@PTEARN.FC.UL.PT (INTERNET) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1993 18:51:51 -0600 (CST) From: Larry Rymal Subject: Atari-Bozo slide shows...:-) (R) Jaime Garmendia writes: > Well, a Bozo is what I felt like after shelling out $800 to get an > Atari ST about 5 years ago, thinking that I'd got a real bargain, only to > give up in frustration trying to find software without bugs, or simple things > as hard drives and memory upgrades. I'm sure things have improved since > then, but that convinced me you get what you pay for. (I know, bad grammar). > The point here is that you always have to compromise, and so do the hardware > designers. Oh, well... Well, yes, things have improved amazingly for the ST platform series. Hard drives are easy to install (I bought a SeaGate 296n mechanism four years ago for mine---still works) and data transfers are very fast. Buggy programs? Naw....those are features. It depends on what software you buy, not only for the ST, but on any computer platform. I can document many bugs that irk me while using SoundEdit Pro for the Mac, for example. There is one error dialog box for that program that I simply cannot exit out of unless I brute force out. But, such objections about the ST, and probably for the Amiga are not really the true problem and the reason I moved to the Mac. The ST platform is a solid and fast 680xx-chipped machine. But the marketing for the computer is just flat awful. And that kills the ST. So, when I rave in my "bozo" fashion about wishing for a such-n-such program or utility on the Mac, it is because I wish for a similar version for the Mac that was on the ST, knowing that it would be simply awesome. Be patient with me. I know that I am NOT the only Atari STer on the net who has moved to the Mac and very happy with the decision to do so, but wishing for simple, but beeping alarm clocks, fast slide programs, built-in fast "README" text readers, and here's a new one: a software screen refresh accelerator. GRIN! And, oh yes, I was introduced to the Mac through the Atari ST. About five years ago, I bought the Mac Plus emulator for the ST and for all practical purposes, had a Plus with a 640 * 400 monochrome screen, and one that was about 15% faster than the real thing. Compatibility problems existed only with programs that deviated significantly from Apple's legal programing model calls. The thing even read Mac 800k disks. So, apologies for bringing all this up, but maybe it will explain some bozoism on my part. --Larry Rymal ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Apr 93 12:44:32 EST From: Don DeMaio Subject: Automatic compression info needed I'm looking for an update on the question of automatic compression, or disk expansion, or whatever...software. Now that DOS 6.0 has automatic file compression built-in, and Stacker has translated into software from the IBM to the Mac, I'm looking again at the question of expanding my 40-megger so that I can fit more sound or QuickTime files. I have heard about TimesTwo and am mulling that over, but what have you all heard, seen, etc. about Stacker for the Mac? I'd appreciate your input. Don ------------------------------ Date: 03 Apr 1993 12:29:49 -0500 (CDT) From: Mudd Rat Subject: Canvas Tools for creating geologic maps I was wondering if anybody out there in NetLand has any tools for creating geologic maps in Canvas. I'm specifically looking for things like lines indicating thrust faults, strike & dip symbols, etc, but something that had the USGS standardized age/type (ie. Archean Granite) colors/patterns would be good. Also, just curious; since I'm going to be disconted from the Internet (except for transcontinental phone lines, which get very expensive very fast) next year which online (Compuserve, AOL, etc.) service do people think is best (in both service, services, and $$$$)? Mail to me, since I don't read the digest except for about twice a month...:) Mike --- ungerm@carleton.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Apr 93 16:43:41 +0200 From: stef%inf47.az.vub.ac.be@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU (stefan kuypers) Subject: ColoQuickdraw on aplus Hello everyone out there. I've got the following problem: I own a Mac plus and I want to run an application that appears to check for the presence of ColorQuickdraw. Is there a patch somewhere wich makes it possible to have ColorQuickdraw on a Mac Plus? I have no intentions on using colors (for that would be technically impossible), I just want to run the application in black and white. I am running system 7.0. Can anyone help me out? Thanks, Stef ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Apr 93 12:33:40 +0200 From: Vecoven Frederic Subject: Converting Apple //e Appleworks files Hello, A few days ago, I asked the net to know how to convert AppleWorks files... Many thanks to those who answer me. The summay is : Get the files on the mac, either with an Apple //GS (using the 3 1/2 disk drive) and use Apple File Exchange, either by RS-232 connection. Once you have the files, you can open it by ClarisWorks. Quite everybody told me that ClarisWorks was the only program which can open AppleWorks files, but somebody told me there exists a convertor for Microsoft Works. Bye. Frederic Vecoven (u514303@vm1.ulg.ac.be) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Apr 93 08:40:20 -0600 From: oehler@picard.cs.wisc.edu (Eric Oehler) Subject: File conversion Does anyone know of a way to convert TTDDD modeling files to either DXF or Swivel3D and vice versa? Wuarchive has a pretty big bank of model data-bases but most are in TTDDD format. I have a few of my own to post, too. Thanx Eric Oehler oehler@picard.cs.wisc.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1993 13:54 EST From: E=MC^2 Subject: FREE ALTERNATIVE TO QUICKKEYS (A) Dear Netters: Many people have recentally asked on the net how to create Macros without the cost of QuickKeys. Here is one possible solution: There is one non-recommended by Apple way to do this. MacroMaker 1.0.2 which came with System (6.0.7) Additions Disk has the capability in System 7 to load any Menu bar item, assuming the location of the menu item remains in a constant location. This is true for every menu item except the Balloon Help. Apple does not recommend the use of MacroMaker with System 7, though it is mostly compatible. Installation: 1. Put System (6.0.7) Additions disk in your disk drive 2. Open MacroMaker Folder from System Additions Disk 3. Open Hard Disk System Folder 4. Drag the contents of MacroMaker Folder into the open System Folder. 5. If you have Extension Manager, be sure that MacroMaker is highlighted. 6. Restart your machine. Creating (Recording Macros): 1. Click on tape icon in your Menu Bar 2. Click on Open MacroMaker 3. You will notice the possibility of recording Global/Finder/or Application/Desk Accessory Macros. Global Macros work with every application/desk accessory and finder item except balloon help. Application/Desk Accessory Macros work only to the specific Application you record it for. Be sure these macros don't conflict with global macros, or command keys that are preassigned to the application. i.e. Don't assign command-c as a new global macro as you won't be able to do the copy command any more. **** WARNING ***** 4. As recording a macro is equivalent to writing a short computer program, be careful of macros that are played, and end up in an endless loop. I.e. macros that force you to interrupt them. If they say interrupt, reboot your machine. This bug is the only incompatibility with System 7, it leads to BusErrors and Type 2, 3 System errors. Thus test run your global and application macros on each application with its "Untitled" or "Untitled-1" file shown to make sure it completes its playing, before attempting to do another command. The playing will be complete, when the highlighted Tape icon reverts to no-highlighting like the other menu bar items. This bug may be why it was listed as unnecessary for System 7 with the compatibility checker. **** If you don't test run your macros, you run the risk of losing your data, or corrupting your files. Periodically the resource map of MacroMaker goes bad, so keep a copy of the Macros file backed up everytime you record a new one. 5. Recording the Macro - keystrokes/ mouse movements/ and mouse button pressing are all recorded into the macro. This means the mouse position when it is pressed will be remembered when the macro is recorded. If you record a Menu Bar Macro, be sure when you click on the Menu Item it is fully highlighted, and not flickering, or else the mouse pressing won't be recorded. When that is done return to the tape menu, select the only darkened item. 6. Back in MacroMaker click in the command window and select a command of your choice, assuming it doesn't conflict with any previous macro/command key, and give the macro a Name, and finally, click the Store button in the MacroMaker Window. Please note that you can combine Caps Lock, Shift, Option, Control, Command to make thousands of possible combinations in creating these macros. It also distinguishes Numeric Keypad keys from the normal number and arithmetic function keys on top of the main body of the keyboard. ******* Warning ******* If you installed System 7 on your machine using the Easy Install, or custom installation then the opperation of MacroMaker becomes impossible. Only the full installation using the installler works, and I have only tested MacroMaker on System 7.0.0. I know it sounds like there are too many bugs, but it is FREE, and has goods that well outweigh the bugs. I use MacroMaker to have command keys for launching all my folders,applications,and cdevs straight from Apple Menu aliases. Thus it is a free application launcher. All of the above is my past experience of using MacroMaker with System 7.0.0 on a Mac LC I. Hope it works as well on your Mac. Good Luck. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. However, I can't bin/hex or ftp the program to you. Disclaimer: Apple doesn't recommend the use of MacroMaker in System 7. Apple, MacroMaker, System Additions, may all be trademarks of Apple Computer inc. The warnings above should be taken seriously, as you could lose all your open files when running an endless Macro. Sincerely, ABRODY @ CLARKU ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1993 07:41:51 PST From: Dimitri_Katsaros.Wbst139@xerox.com Subject: Help With Maps sought (Q) Hello, I have a whole bunch of telephone numbers of places that I call (about 250) and I was wondering if there was an electronic product (possibly on a cd or lots and lots of floppies :-)) that would look at these numbers` area codes and prefixes and then place virtual 'pins` or flags on the area on a world and/or North American map..... if there are many numbers to a particular area, then a flag of a different color would be placed there-- possibly building a "topograhic" map of sorts... Would anyone out there be able to tell me of such a thing? Thanks in advance Dimitri Katsaros ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Apr 93 15:40:46 EST From: stevep@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca (Steve Portigal) Subject: Hypercard and EtherTalk conflict followup To add a bit more to my previous post: I tried installing Apple's EtherTalk software rather than Farallon's. Exactly the same problem. What I did discover was that if I open the MacTCP control panel and switch to LocalTalk, upon reboot, the HyperCard will work fine (the message box accepts commands), but no macTCP connections through EtherTalk. And if I open the control panel and switch back, then HyperCard bombs as before while EtherTalk is fine. So now it seems like Apple's two pieces of software are conflicting with each other. This is interesting, isn't it? Frustratedly, Steve -- | Steve Portigal, Dep't of CIS, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1 | | email: stevep@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext 3580 | ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Apr 93 14:36:39 EST From: stevep@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca (Steve Portigal) Subject: Hypercard and Farallon EtherCard conflict I've discovered through a fair amount of detective work that I'm experiencing a conflict between Hypercard 2.1 and the EtherMac software used to run my Farallon IIsi Ethernet card. HyperCard works fine, until I try to use the Message Box. At that point, everything I type into is rejected. Without going into the route I went in laborious detail, suffice to say that reinstalling the system solved the hypercard problem, but I was unable to use my ethernet connection. I reinstalled the ethernet software, and immediately was unable to use HyperCard as I outlined above. I did this twice and determined this was the problem. It's not extensions, etc, it's the resources (?) that the Farallon Installer puts in. Has anyone else found this? Had any success getting a company to support them when such a problem occurs? Thanks for any info, and to anyone who sent suggestions before.. Steve stevep@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca -- | Steve Portigal, Dep't of CIS, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1 | ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Apr 93 11:56:56 -0700 From: Bruce Carter Subject: Hypercard help needed Greetings, >I need to know how to delete a line in a Hypercard field. When >I say line, I mean the whole line, not just the text. I can >blow the text away, but the blank line still remains. I'm >looking for an easier way than: > >repeat with x = curline to maxline > put line x into line (x-1) >end repeat > >That's probably not exactly correct; I don't have my handy-dandy >reference manual with me. This method of moving every subsequent >line up seems to be rather poor, there has to be a better way. >Can you delete the in a field line? delete line x of field "whatever" Sometimes things are simple, eh? If you need to search a current field for empty lines you can do something like the following: on mouseUp repeat with lineCount = (the number of lines in card field "test") down to 1 if line lineCount of card field "test" is empty then delete line lineCount of card field "test" end if end repeat end mouseUp The reason you count down is so that deleting the lines doesn't foul up your count. There is probably a faster method to do this using offset, but I didn't have time to play with it. <-> Bruce Carter, CBI Product Development bcarter@claven.idbsu.edu Simplot/Micron Instructional Technology Center amccarte@idbsu (Bitnet) Boise State University, Boise, ID 83725 (208)385-1851@phone ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1993 10:18:45 PDT From: Kee Nethery Subject: Hypercard help needed (A) put "1234567890" into replaceText put replaceText into line x of theField-- the line you want to delete is line x put empty into char (offset(replaceText,theField)) to (the number of chars in replaceText +1) of theField The +1 gets the return Kee Nethery@parc.xerox.com ------------------------------ Date: 02 Apr 1993 11:56:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Jorgensen Subject: HyperCard Help needed (Deleteing a line) (A) The command DELETE LINE n OF FLD x will delete the entire line, including the carriage return that separates it from the next line. (HyperCard 2.1 and I believe earlier versions, as well) Peter Jorgensen - Colgate University Research & Instructional Computing Spec. - Mac/DOS/VMS consultant, PMDF Postmaster, HyperTalker ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Apr 93 22:29:30 PDT From: ace@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst) Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #70 In Regards to your letter <199304010933.AA24395@nwnexus.wa.com>: > Is ThoughtPattern 2.0 released yet? If so, how well does the calender > feature work with database portion of the program? Is there a demo, or is > there any offer by some company that I can try the program before I buy it? > I can't find it in our campus store. Unfortunately, Bananafish Software is no more, and the same then applies to ThoughtPattern 2.0, a problem I thought highly of... :-( -Adam ------------------------------ Date: 02 Apr 1993 10:21:38 -0600 (CST) From: "Mak, Tin Lun" Subject: KataKana & HiraGana on Windows? I need to contact the author of the KataKana and HiraKana font author to discuss porting the fonts to Windows 3.1 so that I can use the fonts at home. I tried contacting him at the addresses he specified in the readme file but all the mail messages bounced. I know, I am ot supposed to pose anything related to the PeeCee on this list, adn I apopologize for that. (I mean I'm not suppose to) Will the author send me email directly? Appreciated it. Thanks for all your time. Max ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1993 15:30:05 -0500 (EST) From: Ronald G Mackley Subject: Keyboard mapping & MountImage like software I have two questions: I: is there a way to "map" the Apple Keyboard II, or any keyboard for that matter, so that it can produce the Pg Up , Pg. Down, Home, End, &c... keycodes? I would like to be able to do this using a layout similar to the (gasp!) IBM tinykeyboard layout--and although I can configure Word to do that for me, I'd like to be able to add that functionality to all programs that can take advantage of it. It doesn't look so simple as hacking System's 'kchr' and I looked at functionkeys (the init which will do this and also emulate F1-15, it just didn't float my boat, not quite what I was looking for. II. Does there exist some beast that will allow me to mount disk images created by Norton Floppier? It is a handy utility and since I paid for it, I'd like to be able to use it..Especially since it can outdo Disk Duplicator by copying only occupied sectors. (come to think of it, it would be a pain to write to an image file and have to dynamically resize it to add sectors, but even mounting as read-only would be usefull for restoring backups). Thanx --rgm ------ Ron Mackley kilgore+@pitt.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1993 10:49 EST From: E=MC^2 Subject: LFs (FAQ) - what are they? Dear knowledgeable netters, I know this must seem to be a FAQ, however, what are LFs as opposed to CR (carriage returns). Are these Line Feeds? And if so what is a line feed as seen by a text file. Sincerely, ABRODY @ CLARKU ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1993 11:26:57 -0500 From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Brian V. Hughes) Subject: Logitech trackman problems In comp.sys.mac.digest John Rosborough writes: >We have a Logitech Trackman which has worked very nice for some time, but >we have just got a powerbook DuoDock and it won't work with this machine. >When it is attached and the machine is restarted, the trackball only moves >the pointer down and to the right, and that only very slowly. The buttons >act like one is depressed all the time. I have tried removing almost all >other extensions but still no go. >Is there a newer version of the MouseMan software than v1.0? Has anyone >else bee successful in this environment? Exactly the same thing happens with my TrackMan and my Q800. If anyone as the number for Logitech, as AI seem to have thrown away my manual, I would appreciate it. -Hades ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Apr 93 20:11:23 EST From: "Allan M. Bloom" Subject: M/O Drive Prices Y'all may recall my question of last month about M/O drives. The I-M experts alleviated the fears generated by the MacUser article, and I've been thinking real seriously about one of those puppies ever since. As you may have noticed, prices vary widely. I was tempted by the sub-$K prices in (1) a few no-name outfits who advertise in MacWeek and (2) the MacWarehouse poweruser product. But I'm not all that happy with the TEAC poweruser tape I got from MW, and I'm not real brave when it comes to outfits I've never heard of. And the sub-$K drives seemed to all be the slower 45ms TEAC mechanism instead of the 35ms Epson. Among the reputable outfits, APS seemed the best: a drive for $1199 and a ten-pack of disks at $40 each. OK, I'll spend an extra $200 for peace of mind. I called. The price of the APS external 128 M/O is now $999. I of course insisted on my right to pay $1199 for it. Sure I did. I have not seen the toy yet, but I thought some of you price-conscious types might like to know that at least one of the good vendors is down to the price of house brands and no-names. The original APS selling points seem to be the same: Epson mechanism, special cooling, excellent brand. Just watch. The price will be down to $475 next week. Al Bloom, Virginia Tech ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Apr 93 14:18:34 CST From: "Eric H. Durbrow" Subject: Macs not connecting to network on startup Our Macs are suddenly unable to connect with our Novell network at start-up. We have to log them in manually. Everything seems to be in order. Cables connected. Token ring cards configured. No weird extensions. And sometimes one of them manages to connect. Would greatly appreciate any suggestions. Eric System: Novell network, Token ring cards, IIsi and IIci, 5 MB RAM, 80 MB of storage. Extensions: At Ease, SAM, Disinfectant, Macinuse (tried deactivating them). ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Apr 93 18:34:54 EST From: linger@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Ken Linger) Subject: Memory and Extensions I've recently noticed something on my SE/30. First, here are my stats: - Mac SE/30 with 20 Meg Real RAM (not virtual) - 3 hard drives at 40 meg (internal), 105 meg and 88 meg SyQuest - Mode 32 On - System 7.0.1* - Built in monitor in addition to a 14" NEC monitor with a Micron Xceed Card When booting up, I've discovered that I can run out of memory while the inits are loading. No, not the whole 20 megs, which is why things are strange. I have a lot of inits and all seem to work well together. Unless... I increase the amount of memory used by an init. For example, increasing the number of sounds or sound sizes used by a Sound Manager type program. Or if I increase my Disk Cache control panel. I figured all this by increasing my cache by a large amount (from 256K per volume to 2 meg per volume). At the last init (Mac EKG) the system crashed. I changed the cache back to 256K and everything worked. Then I slowly increased the cache by 256K increments and at one point, control panels started popping up windows when loading saying something like "Out of System Memory." One step further, and the same control panel would crash. To make sure it wasn't just the cache control panel, I put that back to 256K and increased the number of sounds used and the same type of crash happened. If I keep the cache high and turn off everything else, it works. As I slowly add more things, I get over a certain threshold and find I've run out of memory again. Just a note: I never had it set up to use more than 14 meg of my 20 meg RAM. What's wrong; how can I fix this; why does this happen? Any help would be appreciated. Ken Ken Linger Linger@starsys.laf.in.us School of Computer Science linger@sage.cc.purdue.edu Purdue University AOL: Ken Linger ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Apr 93 17:50:53 -0500 From: Michael Grabenstein Subject: Network consulting advice (Q) This comming week I and another fellow employee are going to a customer and want to advise him of the best direction he should take with his good sized Mac installation. We want to upgrade his network (because of the dollar signs we see), but we really want to do what is best for him. His setup is either a bunch of Macs that are networked together to share the printer, and not much else right now. Or a bunch of small appletalk networks, that are going to become one large ethertalk network. Is there a FAQ about this? Does the comm faq cover this? Any help with the pros and cons would be much appreciated. If there is a rating sheet I can lay my hand on that shows the throughput of various network connectivity devices. I would die for that too. And suggestions, or personal recommendations of different brands. Thank you, in advance. I have the Netowrk Solutions Guide, Distributed Computing for the 1990s from Apple. But with less than a week to prepare, I don't think I can summarize a 280 page book on networking. :-) Thank again, Mike mikeg@asylum.gsfc.nasa.gov ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Apr 93 12:19:00 BST From: A.D'Emanuele@manchester-computing-centre.ac.uk Subject: Networking - Switching between EtherTalk and LocalTalk?? I I have installed Novell Netware for Macintosh to enable me to have access to a Departmental fileserver via our ethernet. However, in order to do this, I have to use the Network Control Panel and select EtherTalk. I then go into Chooser, select AppleShare, and select our fileserver and then mount a volume. However, if I wish to print a document, from Word for example, using my LaserPrinter, I have to go back into the Network CP and go back to LocalTalk, which then cuts off my network connection. Is there a way around this? I have been told that Apple Internet Router will solve the problem, but apparently this is expensive andhas many feature I will not use. Does anyone know of any other software. Regards, Tony D'Emanuele, University of Manchester. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1993 16:24:50 UTC+0200 From: Rafael Collantes Subject: NFS server software for Mac? Hi! Does anyone know if there exists such a thing? We have an old DG Aviion (UNIX Machine) with a 600 Mb HD. I am trying to set it up as a server for the Mac Network, but for the moment I am able to access the Aviion via FTP, which is not easy enough to be usable. I am looking for something that should make the Aviion HD look like a remote Mac HD. Does anyone ever tried such a thing? Is there any commercial software avaliable? Any help appreciated. Regards from Spain. Rafael Collantes Instituto de Investigacion Tecnologica ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Apr 93 13:41:12 EST From: stevep@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca (Steve Portigal) Subject: OutSpoken or OTHER speech output? I've been told that the only speech synthesizer software for the Macintosh is OutSpoken from Berkeley (the makers of AfterDark). I need something for some research I'm doing. This software is reportedly $495! A sizable chunk of funding for some software. I've considered using MacInTalk for my project, but it's known as very unreliable, esp in conjunction with other sound output (which is exactly what I need to do). Does anyone know of anyplace else to get OutSpoken besides direct form Berkeley, and of any alternatives? I know that Apple is supposed to be releasing something this summer, but that won't help me much as I need it VERY soon. Thanks, Steve -- | Steve Portigal, Dep't of CIS, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1 | | email: stevep@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext 3580 | ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Apr 93 22:34 AST From: "JESUS A. RODRIGUEZ" Subject: Post to info-mac, 3/30/93 Info-mac friends: Last night I was reading some articles about the Macintosh Centris 650. I know the basic configuration comes with 4MB RAM on board. Theres another option that comes with 8MB RAM on board. I read this information in two populars magazine, MacUser and MACWORLD. The article "Mainstream Marvels" in MacUser (April 1993), at page 106, mention that the Centris 610 and 650 comes with 4MB or 8MB on motherboard. Also in MACWORLD is another article that mention that the Centris 650 comes with 4MB or 8MB on board. The dealers in Puerto Rico saids that the 8MB in board don't exist. Can somebody explain me what information is correct. Thanks in advance... Jesus A. Rodriguez internet: j_rodriguez@rrpad.upr.clu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1993 17:58:26 -0500 From: lt10@cornell.edu (Li-Hsiang Tu) Subject: Radius accelerator (Q) Radius accelerator can run independent of the main CPU. So is it true that I will have two desktops if I install a Radius accelerator? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Apr 93 09:33:34 EST From: stngiam@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: So, what's a MUD ? Could someone tell us bystanders what exactly a MUD is? Shih Tung Chem E Best l'il Tech School on the Charles ------------------------------ Date: 2 Apr 93 07:43:19 GMT From: jeg@Apple.COM (Julian Gomez) Subject: StarChart and MusicWOrks leads > Date: 23 Mar 1993 17:43:41 -0700 (MST) > From: wentzel@atlas.lpl.Arizona.EDU (Tom Wentzel) > Subject: StarChart and MusicWorks leads > > I have two old programs which a friend used to run on his Mac Plus > under the Finder in System 6. They both looked like fun and I wanted > to see if they would run on my Classic II (System 7.0.1 w/ Sys 7 > ... > The second program is called MusicWorks V. 0.42, by Jay Fenton, Marc > A. Canter, and Mark S. Pierce of MacroMind. It's dated October > 11,1984. It's not clear to me whether it was commercial software or > shareware or a demo version, and my friend who gave me his copy of the > old program has long ago lost all documentation. I had a tip that > MacroMind turned into MacroMedia, the maker of MacRecorder Sound System > and SoundEdit Pro. I tried calling this company twice, leaving > messages in Infernal Voice Mail, and never heard back from them by > phone or letter. Don't feel special, you aren't the only one they treat that way. MusicWorks was a commercial product from MacroMind; it was definitely not shareware. Unfortunately, it was discontinued years ago. It will only run on an old Mac: 128, 512, Plus, SE. MacroMind did indeed become today's MacroMedia. With all the turnover the company's gone through, the chances are very good that nobody there now has ever even heard of MusicWorks. Dr. Julian "a tribble took it" Gomez (a former MacroMind employee) Apple Computer, Inc. 408/862-1289 or 996-1010 jeg@apple.com julian.g@applelink.apple.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1993 17:56:36 -0500 From: lt10@cornell.edu (Li-Hsiang Tu) Subject: ThoughtPattern 2.0 (Q) Is ThoughtPattern 2.0 released yet? If so, how well does the calender feature work with database portion of the program? Is there a demo, or is there any offer by some company that I can try the program before I buy it? I can't find it in our campus store. Thank you. ------------------------------ Date: 02 Apr 1993 08:20:33 -0600 (CST) From: "Dwight Lemke @ Wisconsin Oshkosh" Subject: Times Two Has anyone had an opportunity to evaluate TImes Two--expecially in comparison to Autodoubler? I would like to actually (^ sorry 's') double the size of my PB disk. This question has been posted before by others, but I don't recall seeing any replies. -Dwight ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Apr 93 13:47:48 MST From: sharmony@nova.ta52.lanl.gov (Stephen C. Harmony) Subject: Toshiba 3201 and CD Technology Porta-Drive CD-ROM (C) Info-Mac V11 #65 contained this message: > For those of us who were unfortunate enough to choose Toshiba as our CD- > ROM drive vendor, Toshiba tells us we are out of luck if we have a 3201 > mechanism and want even single-session Photo-CD compatibility. This > mechanism is one of the very few drive which cannot (or will not) be > upgraded with software to provide this capability. Toshiba offers no > reason for this and does not plan to offer a trade-in such as the one > recently announced by NEC. CD Technology, who packaged the mechanism as > the CD Porta-Drive, is also no help. I'm still hoping that CD-ROM > Toolkit by FWB will solve the problem (they say they are working on it), > but so far they have not included the 3201 in the product. I, for one, > will think long and hard before considering another Toshiba product. > Comments or other info? This is bad news about the 3201 mechanism, but it doesn't tell the whole story about Toshiba-based CD-ROM drives. Some owners of Toshiba and CD Technology drives _will_ be able to upgrade to Photo CD capability. Page 12 of the March 22 issue of Mac Week contains a news brief saying that Toshiba has released a new version of their driver software that will give single-session Photo CD capability to its TXM3301 mechanism. The new driver, version 1.5.2, is available for $15, or free for users who bought their drives in the past 90 days. In addition, there is a ROM upgrade that will give multi-session capability. The ROM upgrade and the new driver together cost $99. Call Toshiba at 714-583-3129. My CD Porta-Drive, bought in mid-1992, has the 3301 mechanism, so I called CD Technology customer service at 408-752-8500 and asked about Photo CD. CD Technology customers can buy the new driver from CD Technology, or send their drives to Toshiba for the same $99 ROM/driver upgrade. So even though Toshiba appears to have abandoned the pioneering 3201 owners, they have provided an upgrade path for 3301 owners. CD Porta-Drive owners can find out which mechanism they have by running SCSI Probe. Steve Harmony Disclaimer: I don't work for either CD Los Alamos, NM Technology or Toshiba ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1993 17:57:15 -0500 From: Edgar Matias Subject: Virtual Sex? > Virtual Sex? To my knowledge virtual sex is not even available yet (possible?), and you people are already talking about regulating it. What's more absurd is that you are making these statements without ever having tried virtual sex. Thoughts of "No, I haven't read the _Satanic_Verses_, but I still think it should be banned" come to mind. Sound familiar? You wrote: "In fact, we are creating the perfect device to transform people into sex-obsessed schizophrenics, people who can't distinguish reality from fiction. These devices could cause serious mental and sociological problems." What evidence do you have to support this believe? Edgar -- Edgar Matias Input Research Group University of Toronto -- I speak for no one... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Apr 93 09:20:44 CST From: pflinn@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Paul W Flinn) Subject: Weird font alignment (PostScript?) problem Path: matt.ksu.ksu.edu!news From: pflinn@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Paul W Flinn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest Subject: Re: Weird font alignment (PostScript?) problem Date: 2 Apr 1993 09:20:42 -0600 Organization: Kansas State University Lines: 43 Message-ID: <1phlkaINN85k@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> References: <9304010929.AA26038@SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU> Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu writes: >We've been having strange problems trying to print to our Apple >LaserWriter II from a particular Mac today. All the font alignment has >gone weird, which means that Word docs which used to be justified at both >margins no longer are, underlines shoot out beyond what they're meant to >underline, and so on and so on. >Further symptoms: >(1) It used to be that when we printed font samples using Apple's >Laserwriter Utility, we would get the list of font names in what looks >like Helvetica 14, and "The quick brown fox..." in the appropriate >font in a neat column to the right of the font names. But now, the second >column is not correctly aligned at its left-hand edge. This may be >because the Helvetica 14 used for the font names is now slightly condensed! >(2) In Word 5.1, docs appear correctly justified when viewed in Page Layout >mode. However in the Print Preview, they do exhibit the jagged right-hand >edge. But when we print, the text is not only poorly aligned, but it's >misaligned in a different way to what's shown in Print Preview (which >suggests Print Preview does this all the time). >Needless to say I've tried changing the Font Substitution and Fractional >Widths options (the latter applies to Word only) and nothing produces >correctly aligned text. I'm beginning to think it's some kind of weird >PostScript error, as our docs print fine from different Macs - only our >Mac produces these results whichever PostScript printer we use. The fonts >on our Mac are the standard Apple-supplied ones, are all present in our >printer's ROMs, and we have hardly any TrueType fonts in the System file. >Suggestions please! I had the same problem with Word 5.1a. Conditions: System 7.1, Laserwriter IIg, font palatino. justification right and left. The right edge became jagged when I use a word that was bold and italic. I was finally able to fix the problem by taking all palantino truetype fonts out of my system folder. I called microsoft about the problem and they were no help. Paul Flinn Department of Entomology Kansas State University ------------------------------ Date: 2 Apr 1993 9:57:04 CST6CDT From: "Michael S. Dawson" Subject: Which Modem to choose? (A) In IM-68 Chris Montague asks which modem to choose. Well this is my experience with a Practical Peripherals 14400FXSA modem and the staff there at PP. I originally responded last year with this blurb. I'll try to make this as short as possible while still not omitting some key details as to why they pissed me off so bad. The modem was purchased in July 1992 for approx 425$. Thought it was a good price. At the time of purchase, the FAX software for the MAC was not available (only for PC). So I waited around without fax capabilities for about 4 months until they said some FAX SW was available. I asked them to send it to me (for 25$). When I got the SW, a note saying "we have decided to provide you with a complementary copy of Quicklink II/fax (version1.2.1)" was in the box. A week later I got my visa bill and sure enough, they charge me for it. I'm not one to snibble and I blew it off assuming it was a mistake. I JUST WANTED TO GET THE MODEM TO WORK WITH THE SW. After several attempts to send/receive faxes, I determined that you could receive OK but sending was another matter. All of the send faxes were reduced in size 30% to 60% (yes I have tried every setting). So I call tech support (4 times). The first three times the guy comes on the phone saying "I don't know anything about Macs and no one here right now that knows them either". When I asked to leave a message for someone to call me back he informed me "the Mac guy is really busy and I don't think he'll have time to call you". After repeated attempts, I finally talked to a manager named Mark who told me to talk to Dan. Dan informed me that he had no problems on a IIsi (as is my machine) but he didn't have 32bit and VM on. After turning these on his machine crashed. In the mean time he sent me an EPROM version 1.15M to replace my older one. Being an EE and having no choice, I swapped out the EPROM easily. Didn't help. I called Dan a week later and he said he finally got the machine running in 32bit mode but ==> HE TOO EXPERIENCED THE SAME PROBLEMS I DID with the shrinking FAX. I asked him if he told development about it and he said NO, "they were kind-of busy". Well after all of this, the thing still doesn't work and I've bitched so loud that they've decided to refund my money. My warning........ DO NOT BUY PRACTICAL PERIPHERALS modems for use with a MAC. They seem to work OK on PCs but not on Macs ! The staff doesn't seem to give a crap either that they have a bad product !!#&*@%@# As to which modem you might consider, Global Village has some very nice products which are consistently ranked very high by the Mags. I would try to stay away from PowerUser type brands which are simply someones OEM out-of-date hardware in a different package. Stick with compaies whose sole business is in communications and modems. Usually cost slightly more but in the long run you'll be glad you did. One exception is when talking about a company which deals with PC exclusively and then trys to get into the Mac market (such as Practical Periphs). Sincerely, Michael Dawson Dawson@EENoveLL2.uta.edu (817) 273-2641 The University of Texas at Arlington Department of Electrical Engineering 416 Yates St. Arlington, TX 76019 (specializing in Neural Networks and Remote Sensing) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Apr 93 15:57:34 EDT From: Christophe CHAUVIN Subject: Windows and Mac together Hello, I'm looking for tools wich would allow me to let PC (Windows) and Mac to share the same SQL database. This is quite simple. It will be more difficult to find those tools because I really need another feature : I want to write code once. Ok for compiling twice (one time for Mac another for Windows). I'd like the two worlds to share the same code. Any suggestions, experiences are welcome Christophe CHAUVIN CHAUVIN at FRESCP11.BITNET sorry for my poor english ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Apr 93 08:33:53 -0500 From: daveh@msd.measurex.com (Dave Hirsh) I've been reading with some alarm the recent stories of Powerbook owners who wind up with phenominal repair bills for breakage due to 'alleged misuse'. One PB 170 owner who found a crack in the lower corner of his screen took it to an Appple shop where the technician examined it and, with no visible signs of external damage, determined the crack was caused by 'misuse'. The repair bill was nearly $1400. And AppleCare DIDN'T cover it. It's one thing if the case is banged up and/or cracked but Apple is clearly engaged in some badwill dealing. If the PBs are that sensitive then Apple needs to come right out and say that the PBs are NOT portable and should not be moved unnecessarily. Apple also needs to define clearly (before purchase) what constitutes 'misuse/abuse'. Unfortunately, I feel that these types of problems will increase with the Duo models as their construction, especially screen assemblies, don't feel as solid as the PB models. By the way, you folks who bought those super discount PB 100s should consider them as 'disposables'. If your screen goes, the repair bill will exceed the cost of the PB itself. The only immediate solution I can offer is to see if you can get an 'all risk' insurance policy from your insurance company. Most homeowner policies can have this rider attached for a small cost. Dave Hirsh Cincinnati,OH ------------------------------ End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************