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Bits and Pieces
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...................................By Dorman Bullard
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a host of on-line game areas, hobby and
special interest areas, Today's Closing
Stock Quotes, Charles Schwab Investors
Bulletin Board and more.
My guess is that GEnie was feeling the
competition from America online which
has a similar billing policy (although now
not as good as GEnie) and perhaps even
Prodigy, which for all the criticism
heaped on it, got some takers due to the
flat monthly rate of about $10.00.
Whatever the reason, for me it will mean a
smaller bill, and I will be able to access
some areas I by-passed before to keep costs
down. Those accessing at 1200 Baud will
not benefit as much, and depending on
usage might even experience a slight
increase. I believe (but don't hold me to
it) that they also are doing away with any
startup fee, which was pretty small as I
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recall anyhow.
Quick Compactor 1.2.1 for Stacks
If you have a lot of HyperCard Stacks,
here's a neat one that compresses other
stacks. It will compress a single stack, a
folder, or and entire volume (disk). It
keeps a running total of the disk space
recovered by listing each individual stack
before, after, and amount saved, and a
total. I managed to pickup over 300K on
my 80MEG hard disk drive (don't remember how many stacks this involved).
Surprise Startups
The teams producing new machines (and
sometimes new software) seem to like to
add their special
signatures in the
form of