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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 2 Feb 93 Volume 11 : Issue 26
Today's Topics:
[*] after-dark-20x-updater.hqx
[*] MacLPR 1.3.2
[*] PowerLaunch 1.5
[*] Sad Mac codes
[*] TidBITS#161/01-Feb-93
[*] Update
[*] Victoire 1.0.1 Demo
[*] WORDTemplate_Formal1.0.hqx
$89 modem woes response summary
0xBD6BD6BD's legacy
2 HD inside a Mac II?
3 button mice on a Mac running as an X-terminal (A)
Abandoned Programs (R)
ADB rotary controller?
Adding color startup icons to inits and cdevs in sys. 7.1 (A)
Anal retentives vs. slobs and their impact on compression (c)
Apple's crippled LC040 machines (C)
Apple's war & crippled Centris (R)
Apple XMODEM Toll
Application that makes anagrams (A) (2 msgs)
ATM, Quadra and System 7.1 Problem (Q)
ATM: Latest version (R)
Bizarre startup problem (3 msgs)
Borland (C)
Chinese characters
DiskTop Extras?? (Q)
Displaying Postscript
DW Greyscale--hangout and apology
Editing Meta-files on a Mac.
FDHD Floppy for Mac SE
File trashing program for At Ease
General "debugging" ideas
Generic Icons possible Scores?
German-English Dictionary for the Mac?
hard disk renaming (A)
Icon Design contest from Inline/Microseeds
ICON DESIGNERS CONTEST!!!
Info-Mac Digest V11 #21
INFO-PC (A)
INTERNET ACCESS FROM PRODIGY
Internet Printing
Mac IIci won't boot and randomly crash (A)
Macs and a Unix box printer
mcvert
mouse switches (C)
New printers on Feb 10 (C)
Now Utilities 4.0.1
Offscreen windows and text searchers
Public Domain Software
Reading from Unix Floppy Disks with a Mac
S.C.OUT Help Needed
Sculley is Gone? [R]
Statistics (A--SPSS Macintosh)
Stylewriter II (Q)
Super Studio Session
Suspiciously low price on printer
SVGA Monitors for Mac IIsi
Tech Notes before '88
throughput decrease with compression turned off
Utility for getting a list
Whining Sony Triniton Monitor (R)
WorldScript??!! (Q)
ZIPper's for the MAC (A) (2 msgs)
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Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1993 22:13:28 PST
From: macmod@SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU (Info-Mac Moderator)
Subject: [*] after-dark-20x-updater.hqx
"This program will update After Dark version 2.0, 2.0h, 2.0s, 2.0t, 2.0u,
2.0v,
or 2.0w to version 2.0x. It will also update all of the modules from the
After
Dark 2.0 package.
After Dark 2.0x (like After Dark 2.0w) is completely compatible with system
software from 6.0.4 up to and including System 7.1. It is also compatible
with
the Mac Plus or later. This includes the Quadras, and Apples Fall 1992 models
- IIvx, IIvi, Performas, and PowerBooks & Duos.
NOTE: After Dark version 2.0x requires System 6.0.4 or later. If you have
System 6.0.3 or earlier, you will need to upgrade your system software before
this Updater will work."
[Archived as /info-mac/util/ad/after-dark-20x-updater.hqx; 179K]
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 93 14:37:12 GMT+0900
From: sumi@cuby.mis.hiroshima-u.ac.jp (SUMIYA Takahiro)
Subject: [*] MacLPR 1.3.2
MacLPR is a small utility which sends PostScript code to your printer
in background (with PrintMonitor). It also prints plain text files.
Changes from version 1.3:
1. Minor bug fixed. With 1.3, 'dictful' PS error may occurs on PS
files which include large amount of 'def' operators.
2. Printing job can be canceled with cmd-. while 'Print...' message is
appeared.
Now brief English instruction is enclosed.
FreeWare.
** MacLPR DOES NOT communicate with any unix lpr-daemon.
** It only works with PS printers on AppleTalk.
Takahiro Sumiya (sumi@cuby.mis.hiroshima-u.ac.jp)
[Archived as /info-mac/util/mac-lpr-132.hqx; 17K]
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Date: Mon, 1 Feb 93 22:22:10 EST
From: Roby Sherman <rsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
Subject: [*] PowerLaunch 1.5
I'm submitted the latest version of PowerLaunch : V1.5
Changes from previous version :
* PowerLaunch has the option of displaying the filenames of the
QuickApps (program Icons) as the cursor tracks.
* You can now alter your monitor and/or sound settings directly
>From PowerLaunch.
* PowerLaunch now supports group launching...
[Archived as /info-mac/util/power-launch-15.hqx; 169K]
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Date: Mon, 1 Feb 93 23:38:30 -0500
From: bww@po.CWRU.Edu (Brian W. Wolf)
Subject: [*] Sad Mac codes
Here is a complete list of sad mac codes (as far as I know there's no
problem with posting this) It's from the apple developers CD rom, if
I'm not mistaken. It's an excellent guide to sad codes. (it's in
MSword 4.0 format)
[Archived as /info-mac/misc/sad-mac-codes.hqx; 29K]
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Date: Mon, 1 Feb 93 22:51:34 PDT
From: ace@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: [*] TidBITS#161/01-Feb-93
TidBITS#161/01-Feb-93
It's been an eventful week. The TidBITS Forum on CompuServe opened
and Apple took HyperCard back from Claris and added it to the
Developer Tools group. We have the scoop on why the Apple Color
Printer is so lame, specs on new Macs due out in a few weeks,
lower prices on older Macs, an article on executives shuffling
all over the place, and news of an innovative marketing program
for CE Software's QuicKeys.
Topics:
MailBITS/01-Feb-93
TidBITS CompuServe Forum
QuicKeys Test Drive
HyperCard Folded Back Into Apple
Why The Lame Apple Color Printer?
Executive Turnovers
Macintosh Price Drops
Pumping The New Macs Out
Reviews/01-Feb-93
[Archived as /info-mac/digest/tb/tidbits-161.etx; 29K]
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Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1993 18:16:59 -0800 (PST)
From: ted? zach? <n9245804@henson.cc.wwu.edu>
Subject: [*] Update
PBHaxPak2.1.1: Contains two Keyboard maps, both of which support the inverted
T-bar and esc-tilde switch on the Macintosh PowerBook. New: Choose which map
you want to use - one has CapsLock enabled, one has CapsLock disabled.
Also contained are various finder hacks, a Keyboard Menu, and Cmd-Z for Sleep
under the Finder. Compact Pro, BinHex4, BozoWare (Write-The-Writer-Ware)
[Archived as /info-mac/misc/pb-hax-pack-211.hqx; 29K]
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Date: Mon, 1 Feb 93 18:48:29 CST
From: "Watch out! Dividing by Zero" <nygard@mailbox.mail.umn.edu>
Subject: [*] Victoire 1.0.1 Demo
Victoire is a Control Panel which allows one to cheat at
various games. Since this is a demo version, it only works
for the first five minutes of game play.
Standard disclaimer: I am not the author nor am I affiliated in any way
with this utility.
[Archived as /info-mac/demo/victoire-101.hqx; 43K]
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Date: 2 Feb 93 15:41:25 U
From: "Andrew Lee" <andrew_lee@macmail.bu.oz.au>
Subject: [*] WORDTemplate_Formal1.0.hqx
WORDTemp.Formal
(c)1993 Andrew Lee, All rights reserved.
WORDTemp.Formal is a pseudo-shareware Microsoft Word template for the
Macintosh. This template is suitable for all sorts of formal reports.
Plea: If you find this useful and you use it (directly or indirectly) and want
to encourage me to develop further templates: please send me a bank cheque
payable to Andrew Lee, or notes in your local currency, for any amount that
you
feel obliged to give.
Thank you.
Andrew Lee
[Archived as /info-mac/app/word-formal-report-templ.hqx; 5K]
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 93 15:23 PST
From: Philip Harriman <EGS2G1B@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU>
Subject: $89 modem woes response summary
I asked last week for help with a PowerUser Mini Modem that was
suffering from line noise. I got a number of responses, and they
were mixed. Some stated that they had used this model with no
trouble; others reported problems similar to those I did, and
said that the modem owner (my sister) would be much better served
by a modem with error correction.
My sister has been successful--with connections at 300 baud! To
me this sounds like a fate worse than death. I have advised her
to return the modem to MacWarehouse and use the credit toward a
more capable model.
Thanks to all who responded to my question privately and via
Info-Mac!
Phil
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1993 23:33:08 GMT
From: k044477@hobbes.kzoo.edu (Jamie R. McCarthy)
Subject: 0xBD6BD6BD's legacy
This is a followup article; last week, I mentioned that I found that
pattern of bytes scattered throughout my heap. I asked what might
cause that.
Since then--about sixteen hours before the app shipped, actually--I
found the bug I was looking for. Because I had Altered Something
And Not Changed Everything It Depended On (ASANCEIDO), I was writing
0x00FF into the word at byte-offset 16 in an 8-byte-long handle.
For some reason, this would not crash anything, and the memory manager
seemed to work reasonably correctly after that, sometimes for hours.
But eventually, as you might expect, bombsville.
As David Vangerov (dev@cats.ucsc.edu) pointed out, ...BD6... is the
bit pattern that's written into RAM at start-up, as a memory test.
Presumably, the memory manager somehow decided to BlockMove that into
some of my handles...I don't know why.
Anyway, mystery solved. If anyone wants to take a stab at figuring out
why writing that value in that place didn't corrupt the heap enough for
Macsbug's "hc" to catch it, I'd love to hear that story.
--
Jamie McCarthy Internet: k044477@kzoo.edu AppleLink: j.mccarthy
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1993 16:51:09 -0500
From: gustilo@pobox.upenn.edu
Subject: 2 HD inside a Mac II?
greetings,
sorry if this is a FAQ but is there any way to install 2 Hard Drives inside
a Mac II?
Pointers and advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 93 20:09:09 PST
From: Edan Kabatchnik <ekabatch@us.oracle.com>
Subject: 3 button mice on a Mac running as an X-terminal (A)
> A big problem with using a Mac as an X-terminal to a Unix box (eg Mac-X)
> is that Unix uses a 3 button mouse, and the solution to this in Mac-X is
> clumsy (using the arrow keys).
>
> Does anyone know about using a three button mouse on a Mac? I have seen
> them advertized, but apparently the other buttons can only be programmed
> to cut, paste etc... in normal Mac applications.
I purchased a Gravis Super Mouse and have been very happy with it. You can
program its middle and right buttons to line up with whatever MacX expects
rather easily. You can also program it to do other things in other
applications. Fine with System 7.
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 93 08:27:59 +0100
From: Jay Rolls <jrolls@frg.bbn.com>
Subject: Abandoned Programs (R)
Tom Scott writes:
> ... IMHO, MicroSoft is cutting their own throats by not continuing
> development on their Mac product. Now they're introducing FoxPro 2.5 for
DOS
> and Windows (ooooooooww, I used a couple of dirty words!! :-), but still no
> word on FoxPro/Mac 2.ANYTHING from that great vapor palace in the sky!
When I called MicroSoft last week about a Foxbase technical problem, they
promptly answered my questions. Also, when I asked about future versions,
they told me that a new version is under development, but that there was no
release date yet. Judging from past experience, it will probably be worth
the wait.
Jay Rolls
Stuttgart, Germany
------------------------------
Date: 2 Feb 93 16:01:00 CST
From: "JOHN S. CONRADER" <CONRADERJ@h8700a.boeing.com>
Subject: ADB rotary controller?
Hi all,
I was wondering if anyone has the ADB specs or knows where to find them.
I am interested in making a rotary controller for the game ARASHI. If
anyone has any info or suggestions, I would appreciate the inputs.
Email me directly because I do not always have access to the digests.
Thanks.
-John :)
conraderj@h8700a.boeing.com
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1993 08:40:16 -0800
From: Mike_Dustan@sfu.ca
Subject: Adding color startup icons to inits and cdevs in sys. 7.1 (A)
Gordon:
You ask about colourizing b/w startup icons...
It's quite easy to do with ResEdit under System 6 and 7.0.x, and I see no
reason why it shouldn't work with 7.1. Startup icons are stored as ICON
resources within the extensions, cdevs or whatevers. Whenever the system
has to draw an ICON, it will automatically look first for a cicn resource
with the same ID and draw that instead if it finds it. So all you need to
do is create a cicn with the same ID as the ICON, copy and paste the ICON
image into the cicn and colour as desired. Reboot and your new icon should
appear. Remember that case is significant in resource names.
Usual ResEdit caveats apply: work only on a COPY of a file, make sure you
know what you're doing and so on.
E-mail me if you need detailed step by steps.
Cheers
Mike Dustan, Computing Services, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC Canada
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1993 15:40:32 -0600
From: bwalls@marvin.msfc.nasa.gov
Subject: Anal retentives vs. slobs and their impact on compression (c)
On the other hand, there are people who have a tiny little 40Mb drive who
mostly just keep their applications and most current documents (in this
case newsletter in progress, last two to copy from, minimal clip art, some
address databases), while keeping everything else on floppies. With the 50%
increase in size from Autodoubler, I was able to have all my commonly used
apps on the drive, and added one I've been wanting to use (the whole KJV
Bible, with references - looks good so far). I'd really love to get a
120Mb, which would keep me for a while, but Autodoubler was $20 with my
upgrade to MacInTax. Hard to pass up! I want enough room to be a slob,
though!
Bryan Walls
bwalls@marvin.msfc.nasa.gov
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 93 01:02:42 -0500
From: brg@dgate.org (Brian Gaeke)
Subject: Apple's crippled LC040 machines (C)
In info-mac 11:25, hewat@ill.fr writes:
>You joking aren't you ? Pretending that crippled 486SX and LC040
> machines without FPU's are better than real 386 and 030 machines is
>just marketing hype, and anyway, that war is over. Generals always
>prepare to win the last war - Apple should be worrying more about the
>'war against the 586', and making their so-called 'power-user' machines
>more price+performance competitive.
I must agree-- Apple really ought not to release machines without FPUs.
They really ought to keep the IIci but lower its price by about $1500.
They're really great machines--32 bit data bus folks!-- and they're
priced the same (approx.) as the slower IIvx. (But they need to add a
sound input port.)
Besides, you need an FPU and a fast processor/bus to run today's big
iron apps like Word (no flames pls.) and Excel and Photoshop. Undeniably
these programs benefit from a fast Mac. People wanting to get lots of
work done quickly would benefit from a cheap, fast Mac.
Brian Gaeke, The Dimensional Gate, Inc. Internet: brg@dgate.org
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 93 19:00:27 CST
From: gray@cmgroup.engr.wisc.edu
Subject: Apple's war & crippled Centris (R)
In response to Alan Hewat's posting that said:
>Centris 610 - A 20MHz 68LC040, which is a 68040 with the FPU
>functions disabled. Apple says it should twice as fast as a IIci/IIvx.
Twice as fast as the LCIII ? Not for anything that uses an FPU of course.
I think there is no way of adding an FPU to the 68LC040 short of plugging
in an accelerator with a real 68040 chip on it.
>Centris is overdue and probably a winner in the war against 486
You joking aren't you ? Pretending that crippled 486SX and LC040
machines without FPU's are better than real 386 and 030 machines is
just marketing hype, ...
I will begin by saying that the front page of the Feb. 1 MacWeek
states that the Centris 610 is available with the full-fledged
20 MHz '040 therefore making it a formidable machine. The Centris
650 comes in 5 different configurations, only one of which does not
have the full '040 (at 25 MHz, I might add). Therefore the Centris
is most certainly a winner at the prices listed ($3559 for an 8/230
configuration with ethernet and the full '040. This is list which
means street prices and academic prices will probably be ... this
is a guess ... about $2500-$2800.). The LC III may not have an
FPU, but they can be had quite inexpensively and for the price of an
LC III, I wouldn't mind paying for an FPU (a 4/160 configuration
lists for $1499!!!!!!! Street prices for less than $1000?).
Comments, opinions, and suggestions are welcome since I am going to
be getting one of these new machines when they are released on Feb.
10. Probably a Centris 650 or Quadra 800 if it is cheap enough
after the academic discount.
Best regards,
Gary L. Gray * Engineering Mechanics & Astronautics
gray@cmgroup.engr.wisc.edu * University of Wisconsin-Madison
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 93 22:20 CST
From: HOWES@bert.chem.wisc.edu
Subject: Apple XMODEM Toll
IN Info-Mac#25 Morris Balamut <balamut@morris.hac.com> writes:
> I understand that Apple announced a new version of it's XMODEM tool
> (one that works hopefully).
>
> Where is it. I heard that they were going to make it available at
> MacWorld, but I have not seen it.
>
>Anyone know the status.
XModem tool 1.1 was released a couple of weeks ago. It's available on
ftp.apple.com (I think in the dts/mac/sys.soft/netcomm directory in the
basic set disk image.)
That said, I'd like to put in a plug for my YModem tool (YModem Tool GH) which
is pretty much as fast as XModem and has bulk transfer capability (even
multi-file sends if your application supports it), doesn't require renaming
incoming files, and has a variety of auto-receive modes. Plus, its prettier.
Send in your shareware fee.
-- glenn howes
------------------------------
Date: 2 Feb 93 01:50:04 EST
From: David.M.Tillinghast@Dartmouth.EDU (David M. Tillinghast)
Subject: Application that makes anagrams (A)
- - - - - - You wrote...
Hello,
There used to be an application in the archive that made anagrams.
I didn't bother to download it then, but i need it now. I can't
remember how it was called. Can someone point me to it, and in case
it is not in the archive anymore upload a copy?
Thanks very much in advance !
Dimitri Boone
Belgium / Europe
boone@recht.rug.ac.be
- - - - - End quoted material.
I think the program you're thinking of is Ars Magna. It's a
barely-functioning program under systems 7.0.1 and 7.1, but it gets the job
done.
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 93 17:21:29 -0600
From: spectre@uiuc.edu (Ian)
Subject: Application that makes anagrams (A)
In comp.sys.mac.digest you write:
>There used to be an application in the archive that made anagrams.
>I didn't bother to download it then, but i need it now. I can't
>remember how it was called. Can someone point me to it, and in case
>it is not in the archive anymore upload a copy?
It's called "Ars Magna" and is in info-mac/game.
Ian
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1993 10:01:09 -0500
From: mac@VAX1.cmr.ca (responsable lab MacIntosh)
Subject: ATM, Quadra and System 7.1 Problem (Q)
We installed System 7.1 French Canadian version onto a Quadra 950. Since
then we have not been able to use Adobe Type Manager 2.0.3, regular or
fixed with the ATM Fixer. We are speculating whether this has to do with
the French system - the Fonts folder is called "Polices" in French and
cannot be changed; or does it have to do with the Quadra and its 68040
processor; or does it have to do with something else - wrong version of
ATM, Cache Control, etc..
If anyone has had similar problems or can offer advice/solution/alternative
I - and our graphic artist - anxiously await your help.
Please respond either through Info-Mac or to me directly at:
john@cmr.ca
Thanks.
Johannus (John) Olsthoorn
College militaire royal de Saint-Jean
Quebec, Canada
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 93 09:12:23 PST
From: HAUSMANN@SCRVM2.VNET.IBM.COM
Subject: ATM: Latest version (R)
Having just finished installing and testing it last week, I'd say it's
a good deal, if you want to recover disk space and can tolerate slight
differences in the printing of characters. I have 40 or so different
fonts, the accumulated disk space usage for all of the outline fonts
exceeded 7 MB. SuperATM can render, on the fly (and the impact, in time
is negligible), the outline fonts. After installing SuperATM, which
requires several MB of disk space on its own, and removing the outline
fonts, I was able to reclaim 4.5MB of disk space. Additionally, Type
Reunion adds to the value of the package (and if you have a CD ROM drive,
you get instant access to all the bitmapped fonts on the disk for even
grater value).
John Hausmann Internet - HAUSMANN@SCRVM2.VNET.IBM.COM
(or) - HAUSMANN@NETCOM.COM
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 93 21:34:08 CST
From: "bq Mackintosh" <UC489745%MIZZOU1.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Bizarre startup problem
Regarding the problem with starting the computer where the 'puter will only
start if the power cord is unplugged from the computer and plugged into the
monitor, the monitor is turned on, then off, and the power cords are once
again returned to their normal positions.
A power cord can retain a certain amount of charge, even when the machine it
is supplying is turned off. Over night, however, this charge will probably
trickle off. By using the cord to power up the monitor, the cord is given
a charge. It appears to me that there is a problem either with the cord
itself or with the power inlet of the computer which is overcome only when
the power cord is holding a charge.
Try the following: do your little trick to power up the 'puter, then shut
down, then -- without having switched any cords about -- power up again
immediately. If the problem doesn't manifest itself, you'll want to try a new
power cable and/or have your inlet examined.
bq Mackintosh
UC489745@Mizzou1.Missouri.Edu
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1993 12:42 EST
From: E=MC^2 <ABRODY@vax.clarku.edu>
Subject: Bizarre Startup Problem
Graeme, Sounds like a dead battery inside your computer. If the startup key
doesn't work then the lithium battery inside your machine is dead. Try taking
it to an Apple Authorized Dealer to get a replacement battery. Sincerely,
ABRODY @ CLARKU
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1993 15:47:55 -0600
From: bwalls@marvin.msfc.nasa.gov
Subject: Bizarre Startup Problem
I tend to think the problem is your little batteries on the motherboard are
dead. Some little capacitor needs to be charged up for the key-board switch
depression to work. The charge leaks out over night. Your monitor charges
up enough to fill it back up when you plug it in. Mine used to always come
up fine every morning, but wouldn't over the weekend until I hit the
programmer's switch. The it worked fine. You might find that easier than
the plugging and unplugging.
Note that mine was fixed by a technician changing out the power supply in
my IIx, not the batteries, so I may be all wet on needing batteries and/or
the capacitor thing. But I'll bet the programmer's switch trick works even
if it's just magic.
Bryan Walls
bwalls@marvin.msfc.nasa.gov
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Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1993 13:37 EST
From: E=MC^2 <ABRODY@vax.clarku.edu>
Subject: Borland (C)
Dear Netters:
I agree Borland needs revamping.
As to Full Impact, I can safely say that it isn't totally abandoned.
Somewhere in the storage vaults of Borland exists elusive upgrades to Full
Impact 2.0.2s. I managed to call their phone # in Silicon Valley, and get an
upgrade free of charge, and no shipping charge either. This newer version has
3 D graphs. Is System 7 compatible, and comes with a complete manual with
over a thousand pages. You must ask twice at that number to make sure you get
version 2.0.3s. All earlier versions have a half naked FILE menu when run in
System 7, leaving Quit and Print inaccessable. I called Borland technical
support, and they confirmed this bug, and told me to get version 2.0.3s.
In five days it arrived in the mail no questions asked. But this version is
not available in Software stores or mail order. As I said before it is only
available by contacting their main offices in Silicon Valley.
Perhaps Fullwrite 1.5 upgrade is also available through the same path at
Borland. Wish Ashton & Tate still was the sole owner of the Full*
applications. Thus I recommend contacting Borland directly, and perhaps you
will get similar treatment. I paid only $38 for Full Impact
2.0.2s at Dr. Mac. A free upgrade to a working spreadsheet sounds like the
best deal ever made on a spreadsheet. Good Luck, and remember sometimes
knowing where to persist really pays.
Sincerely,
ABRODY @ CLARKU
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 93 17:54:48 EST
From: Andrew Ross <058343@acadvm1.uottawa.ca>
Subject: Chinese characters
Hello,
Do you have/know of an available font for Chinese characters
that works on System 7? Preferably the simplified
characters but anything would be appreciated (including
a hypercard stack, etc.).
Xie xie in advance, Andrew Ross (058343@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA)
Dept of International Development
University of Ottawa
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1993 15:38:25 -0230
From: "Michael Coyne, Grenfell College, Memorial University of Newfoundland"
<mcoyne@kean.ucs.mun.ca>
Subject: DiskTop Extras?? (Q)
Can someone please tell me what CE Software's DiskTop Extras are? I find no
reference to them in the new Mac Products Registry or anywhere else.
Thanks
mcoyne@kean.ucs.mun.ca
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Date: Tue, 2 Feb 93 15:19:49 GMT
From: G Marsden (PG) <gma@compsci.stirling.ac.uk>
Subject: Displaying Postscript
Hi there,
Does anyone know of a way to reverse engineer a file of postscript
graphics back into a pretty diagram on my Mac screen? ( I am working
with the Mathematica kernel which produces graphics in a postscript file
and I need some way to display them ).
Many thanks,
Gary.
Gary Marsden,
Department of Computing Science
Stirling University
( gma@uk.ac.stir.cs )
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 93 09:00:40 CST
From: PULLMANN@VM1.TUCC.TRINITY.EDU
Subject: DW Greyscale--hangout and apology
Jim Hudson asks:
>In the Info-Mac Digest of a few days ago, someone described a "ResEdit hack"
> that would
>use the 300DPI capabilities of an HP Deskwriter to simulate greyscale
>printing.
> They
>called it "HP Deskwriter Greyscale Correction Resource". I've spent a
>half-hour
> hunting
>on sumex-aim.stanford.edu and another several minutes querying archie.unl.edu
> about this,
>all to no avail. Does anyone know the name and/or whereabouts of this
thing?
Mea culpa. That was me. I just bought my Deskwriter a few weeks ago and
naively assumed that everybody else out there had known about this resource
for ever and ever. I haven't been keeping track of the queries I've gotten
about it, but obviously, I was just a little mistaken...
To Jim and everyone else who's been frustrated looking for this thing,
my apologies. It lives at:
wuarchive.wustl.edu
/mirrors3/archive.umich.edu/mac/util/print/deskwritergrayscale.cpt.hqx
Hope this helps any and all fellow DW-owners out there.
Pat
Pat Ullmann PULLMANN@VM1.TUCC.TRINITY.EDU or PULLMANN@TRINITY (BITNET)
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1993 15:46:39 CST
From: "Tom Kirke (312) 413-5539" <U33515%UICVM.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Editing Meta-files on a Mac.
Howdy!
A faculty member here at UIC uses CA Displa on a SPARC 2 to create Meta-
files of graphs & plots. He wants to import these onto his MAC and there
edit them for presentation later. What MAC based software will edit
these Meta-files?
Thanks in advance,
Tom Kirke <U33515@UICVM.UIC.EDU>
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1993 14:46:05 EST
From: bouldin@anvil.nrl.navy.mil
Subject: FDHD Floppy for Mac SE
I have a Mac SE (with a Novy acclerator board installed in it). This makes
a fine computer, except for the 800K floppies. I wanna upgrade at least one
floppy to 1.4 meg. SO, does apple still sell such an upgrade for the SE?
If not, does anyone know what 3rd party solutions are available???
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 93 21:43:59 CST
From: "bq Mackintosh" <UC489745%MIZZOU1.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: File trashing program for At Ease
We at the University of Missouri, Columbia are as well using At Ease to
restrict user access to hard drives. The problem that inevitably crops up
is that users are unable to do file management on their own disks, nor
access any software on their disks, nor install any software on the hard
disk.
We are currently writing software that will add a button to the At Ease
interface which allows students to access their disks, thus solving the first
two problems mentioned above.
The problem we are left with is that users cannot install software on the
hard drive. While this only occurs on occasion (we offer a large variety of
software through site-license), some -- including myself -- need the option
of installing and accessing this software on the HD. Any suggestions
regarding
a possible solution to this problem would be appreciated.
bq Mackintosh
UC489745@Mizzou1.Missouri.Edu
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Date: Tue, 2 Feb 93 10:03 BST
From: RICHARD LIM <RTL@siva.bris.ac.uk>
Subject: General "debugging" ideas
I'm astounded by the number of people I've come across in the Digest who,
having hit a system error while running an application, seem to have the
time and energy to not only run Norton and every other disk diagnostic
utility under the sun, but to eventually reinstall their entire System
as well.
I think we ought to bear in mind that system errors are not often caused
by the sort of filing errors which Disk First Aid et al are intended to
catch. Nor do system errors necessarily come from a corrupted System - if
your System really was corrupted (which WOULD necessitate reinstalling it),
I doubt you would be able to boot the Mac successfully in the first place!
Personally, I think a much better strategy when you hit an apparently
frequent and reproducible system error is: (i) if it's a bus (Type 1) error,
try increasing the memory allocation for that application (ii) if it's
some other error, do look it up. If it doesn't correspond to something like
a filing or networking error, then look for an INIT conflict. Prune the
frills from your System Folder, restart, and try to reproduce the error.
Finally, it really doesn't take much expertise to start using Macsbug. If
Macsbug happens to give you a specific pointer to the cause of your problem,
eg it complains about certain resources or routines which could only exist
within a certain program/INIT, great. You might well be able to act on its
advice by removing that INIT or reinstalling the appropriate resource in
your System or replacing a certain file which might have got corrupted. At
least this way you're pursuing a strategy defined to fix a well-defined
problem, which to my mind is much more efficient than flailing around with
Norton and your System disks and making vague stabs at it.
Well, the above's just my approach - if anyone has any other strategies/
tactics they'd like to share, please do so!
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 93 09:21:51 -0500
From: Brian K. Kobleur <wk01803@worldlink.com>
Subject: Generic Icons possible Scores?
In a recent InfoMac Digest, I read the following...
agw@dsm.fordham.edu (Art Werschulz) asks:
>For some reason, the icons for the System, Finder, and Clipboard files
>in my System Folder are showing up as plain vanilla document icons,
>rather than the usual icons one expects for these files.
I've seen many suggestions as to how to fix the icon problem, but I reread,
and wonder if Art's Mac is infected with Scores...remember Scores? I know
it's been a while, but symptoms included generic icons for System, Finder,
and Clipboard, as well as creator/type of ERIC/VULT, I believe.
Worth checking out, I think.
Brian
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 93 16:26:33 PST
From: "Anthony E. Siegman" <siegman@sierra.stanford.edu>
Subject: German-English Dictionary for the Mac?
Anyone aware of a German-English dictionary for the Mac?
(Type in the German word, get the English definition.)
------------------------------
Date: 2 Feb 1993 09:57:25 -0500
From: "Tom Scott" <Tom_Scott@qmrelay.mail.cornell.edu>
Subject: hard disk renaming (A)
hard disk renaming (A)
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 93 13:58 MET
"HUGO BARBOSA V. AT FOKKER SPACE & SYSTEMS" <HB55745@NLR.NL> asks:
>Well, I have a question about renaming your hard disk. I have an IIsi
>running with system 7.0 Tune, and I would like to rename my hard disk.
>I have already opened the menu sharing (under file) and I have stopped
>sharing (control panels). Normally I should be able at this stage to
>rename the hard disk. However it is not possible. Do you have any idea
>for that?
This problem was answered a couple of times recently. Once in Info-Mac
V10 #244 (Oct 9, 1992) where a program called Unlock Folder was referenced
(it was thought to be at ftp.apple.com).
More recently, on January 5, 1993, in Info-Mac V11 #3, I answered this
question:
Make sure you have file sharing turned off before you try renaming the hard
drive. It makes sense that you can't rename a volume that people might
already
be connected to.
If you still can't rename the volume, download from sumex:
info-mac/app/system7-unlock.hqx. Here's the blurb from system7-unlock.hqx:
"Unlock Folder: System 7 required. This can help System 7 users who've come
across the "Name Locked Hard Drive" issue that occurs after having a System 6
user log onto the System 7 File Sharing server. The symptoms of this issue are
that you cannot change the name of the hard drive even after you've turned off
the personal File Sharing. Additionally, you will unable to paste a custom
icon
on that hard drive. This program has no documentation, but simply select
UNLOCK
>From the File menu and select a folder or hard drive to have it make its
magic
upon."
Hope this helps! :-)
Thomas Scott, Systems Manager, College of Engineering
Cornell University, Carpenter Hall Annex, Ithaca, NY 14853
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 93 11:37:35 EST
From: looker1@aol.com
Subject: Icon Design contest from Inline/Microseeds
One other thing which I forgot to put into the previous post is the message
length for the America Online gateway. Messages are limited to around 27K,
so please send files in chunks of 24K or less.
Also make sure to compress the icon libraries with StuffIt or Compact Pro
(don't make them self extracting) and then BinHex them for mail.
Shane Looker
Looker1@aol.com
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 93 02:49:28 EST
From: looker1@aol.com
Subject: ICON DESIGNERS CONTEST!!!
Icon designers to win $10,000 in software prizes
Inline Design and Microseeds, publishers of Icon 7, are sponsoring an icon
design contest from February 1-28, 1993. Macintosh users are encouraged to
enter as many icons as they wish; the top ten icon designers will be chosen
on March 15, 1993. Each of the ten winners will receive over $1000 worth of
software from Inline Design and Microseeds, including the utilities Icon 7,
Redux, Inline Sync, INITPicker, PBTools, HAM, and Screen Gems; plus the games
Darwin's Dilemma, Tesserae, 3-in-3, Swamp Gas USA, Swamp Gas Europe, Mutant
Beach, The Tinies, Cogito, and S.C.Out.
If you don't already have a copy of Icon 7, contact Inline Design at
1-800-453-7671 for the location of the dealer nearest you. Users will find it
probably find it easiest to create icons using Icon 7 itself, but a limited
functionality demo version of Icon 7 does allow the user to design and store
icons in an Icon 7 library. The Icon 7 Demo can be downloaded from the
Microseeds library here.
For more information about the contest, call Microseeds at 802-879-3365.
Contest Rules:
1. Contest submissions must be icons designed using Icon 7 (or the Icon 7
Demo), stored in the form of an Icon 7 library. Each library may contain as
many icons as you wish to enter in the contest, but each library you submit
must include your name, address and phone number. Submissions must be
received by February 28, 1993, and may be sent via electronic mail
(MICROSEEDS@AOL.COM) or on disk to Microseeds, 2A Dorset Lane, Williston VT
05495.
2. Categories for submission are: disk icons, folder icons, document icons,
and "other."
You may submit as many icons as you wish, but each icon must include designs
for the entire icon family (regular icon, small icon, mask, etc.). Icons do
not have to include color. Icons must be stored in an Icon 7 library to be
eligible for the contest.
3. Submissions will be judged by the support staff of Icon 7, who will be
choose the top ten icon designers as winners. Contest entrants will be
judged on all the icons they submit, and judges will select as winners
designers whose icons show creativity, appropriate functionality, and
adherence to Apple's human interface guidelines; favorable marks are also
given to prolific entrants who submit a number of icons. Contest results
will be announced on March 15. Winners will be notified at that time. All
judges' decisions are final.
4. All submissions become the property of Microseeds; make sure you keep
copies of your submission, because we will not be able to return your
submissions to you.
5. No purchase necessary. If you don't already own Icon 7, you can use the
Icon 7 Demo to design and store icons in an Icon 7 library (the demo does not
permit you to save the designs as file icons, however). You must be 18 or
older to enter this contest.
================
A few notes on this contest: If you are under 18, get a parent to enter the
contest with your icons. Contest rules are a real pain about ages, but there
is nothing in the rules saying that somebody can't enter your work.
The demo version of Icon 7 works great for creating a library, but you can't
save the icons onto real files/folders/etc. If the demo isn't in the
Info-Mac archives yet it should be showing up soon. (I don't have ftp
access, so I can't check directly.)
Shane Looker
Looker1@aol.com
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 93 09:49:22 LCL
From: ZOOEY%SUVM.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #21
I must agree with Adam, and others. One of the beauties of spoken English
is that it is an active and growing language. This is particularly important
in our areas of common interest, for which Queen Elizabeth's English is not
always well suited. I love the etymology of 'cyber' and was pleased to see
it here. But words may have multiple meanings and derivations. Rather than
not use cyberspace, let us agree on what it means. Then let us move on to
the many other concepts for which we do not yet have good words.
------------------------------
Date: 2 Feb 1993 09:56:55 -0500
From: "Tom Scott" <Tom_Scott@qmrelay.mail.cornell.edu>
Subject: INFO-PC (A)
INFO-PC (A)
maurizio lana <LANA%ITOCSIVM.CSI.IT@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU> asks:
>THere are various lists, on the net, devoted to PC, like INFO-MAC is
>devoted to Macs. I tried one, but with no success: discussions are
>slooooowly coming, the last posting from that list came two months
>ago...! Does anyone have any experience with a PC-oriented list as
>good as Info-mac? or at least quite as good as Info-mac...?
I covered this question back in December in, ironically, I-M #286! ;-)
Some of the names have changed to protect the innocent! (Actually, some
of the subscription info HAS changed, so here is the most recent info:
I subscribe to the PC equivalent to Info-Mac, called Info-IBMPC. I've
extracted the subscription info from a recent issue:
Send Replies or notes for publication to: <INFO-IBMPC@brl.mil>
Send requests of an administrative nature (addition to, deletion
from the distribution list, et al) to: <INFO-IBMPC-REQUEST@brl.mil>
Addition and Deletion requests for UK readers should be sent to:
<INFO-IBMPC-REQUEST@DARESBURY.AC.UK>
Archives of past issues of the Info-IBMPC Digest are available by FTP
ONLY from WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL in directory PD2:<ARCHIVES.IBMPC>.
Besides the WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL archive, you can also download files listed
in the digest from wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/msdos/....
Happy PeeCeeing! (Or PeeEss2ing, whatever the case may be!)
Thomas Scott, Systems Manager, College of Engineering
Cornell University, Carpenter Hall Annex, Ithaca, NY 14853
------------------------------
Date: 2 Feb 93 15:45:00 EST
From: "GINBOX::"Bob_Greenlaw-2141_EMail""
<"Bob_Greenlaw-2141_EMail"%GINBOX.decnet@nl.nusc.navy.mil>
Subject: INTERNET ACCESS FROM PRODIGY
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Tue, Feb 2, 1993 @ 2:29:30 PM
Re: INTERNET ACCESS FROM PRODIGY
DOES ANY ONE KNOW IF PRODIGY USERS CAN SEND/RECEIVE INTERNET MAIL? I KNOW
COMPUSERVE CAN, BUT DON'T KNOW ABOUT PRODIGY. DOES ANY ONE KNOW WHAT THE
COSTS
ARE?
THANKS IN ADVANCE
ROBERT T GREENLAW, NUWC
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 93 11:15:09 EST
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <IRBLOOM%VTVM1.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Internet Printing
Folks, I have a LaserWriter IIg hooked to the campus ethernet. It has its
own IP (128.173.53.246) and symbolic (lw2g1.irpa.vt.edu) addresses. I was
under the impression that I could print to it from another spot on the
internet. Probably got the idea by (1) reading about LPR or (2) getting
a copy of Brown LPR 1.2 with the TCP/IP applications our Comp Center is
passing out. I've had no luck with (1) anything I've tried or (2) asking
everyone I know to ask here at the university.
If I try to LPR (via either Brown or VM programs) with vtvm1.cc.vt.edu as
the host, I'm told the printer doesn't exist. No other host gets me that
far. Do any of y'all have a suggestion? Feel free to try to print some-
thing on the beast to check your suggestion first. The best "something"
would be a note telling me how you did it.
By the way, has anyone figured out what format the README file is in the
MAC-LPR-13 file in the archive?
-r 19584 Jan 13 15:29 ./util/mac-lpr-13.hqx
It claims to be text/teachtext, but text is one thing it isn't. Try it.
You won't like it.
Al Bloom, Virginia Tech
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 93 11:05 WET
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <needje@msen.com>
Subject: Mac IIci won't boot and randomly crash (A)
In 11-25, Eckehard Scharein wonders why his IIci is crashing and unbootable.
You'll have to check some things out. From reading your description of the
problems, I suspect an old hard disk driver incompatible with System 7.x.
You say you're using Silverlining. It's a wonderful program, but the first
System 7-compatible version was 5.28 (and, IMHO, 5.31 was the first REALLY
compatible version). If you formatted your drive with version 5.27 or
earlier, look no further for an explanation.
Also, try booting from a System 6 floppy and see if the problems disappear.
If so, something you're using isn't System 7.1 compatible. Try System 7.0
or 7.0.1 with tuner instead; if problems persist, you'll just have to check
out the versions of your applications. If you still have problems with
System 6 booted, hardware problems are most likely--possibly a memory chip
going bad...
Jeff Needleman <needje@msen.com>
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 93 15:10:09 EST
From: stevep@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca (Steve Portigal)
Subject: Macs and a Unix box printer
I realize versions of this question come up rather frequently. Let me
say that I've checked the info-mac/report directory and there is some
pertinent info there, but not really for my situation.
We have several Macs in our department offices. They are connected by
ethernet cards to our Unix mainframe. The Unix box has a printer attached
to it. Right now to print, we have to print the file, upload it to
Unix and then print with a special script.
What we'd like to do is be able to print from our Macs right to that
printer, ie select it using the chooser. (this is a postscript printer).
Can anyone clearly explain the issues here? I don't know what routers are.
I realize that Mac PostScript is NOT the same as generic postscript. I
know that a GatorBBox might be one thing which would solve our problem, but
maybe not.
Thanks to anyone who helps out here..
Steve Portigal
--
| Steve Portigal University of Guelph Guelph, Ontario, Canada |
| stevep@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca Phone: 519 824-4120 ext 3580 |
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 93 13:17:55 EST
From: carl stjernfeldt <cstjernf@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu>
Subject: mcvert
Hi,
I got a question regarding mcvert. I have that on my home directory, but
how do I use it?
It is a nonexecutable file.
Thanks,
Carl
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 93 14:45 CST
From: <ROSS%TAMPHYS.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: mouse switches (C)
Regarding the question of replacement switches for the Apple mouses (mice?):
It is true that the Omron D2F switch (Allied stock number 829-4001) will
replace the Apple mouse switch. However, the word I have is that this part
is not quite identical in specs, since the contacts are silver and may not
give quite as reliable a connection. The Apple part has gold contacts, but
naturally is proprietary and Omron will not sell it to us. However, there
is switch D2F-01L which becomes exactly the same as the Apple part if you
pop off the external lever. Allied can sell this part if requested, and I
was quoted $1.10 each (still with a $25 minimum).
Joe Ross
Ross@tamphys.bitnet
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 93 11:42:41 CST
From: Graeme Forbes <PL0BALF@VM.TCS.Tulane.EDU>
Subject: New printers on Feb 10 (C)
Apple's January shipment of new Lasers was also a bit confusing. The Pro
600 and the Pro 630 are the 600dpi machines that are to go head-to-head
with HP's LaserJet 4M. There was a comparative review in the March MacWorld.
The real-world performance of the Pro 630 is about the same as the 4M in
some tests and a bit better in other.
However, if you're buying a 600dpi printer then presumably text quality
matters to you. The MacWorld blow-ups show that the 4M is strikingly
superior in this respect. The magazine commented that even at 300dpi
the 4M is "as good as" the Pro at 600 dpi. Looking at the pictures,
my eyes tell me that the 4M at 300dpi is *better* than the Pro at 600dpi.
HP's resolution enhancement technology is quite something.
Here is what the article said about greyscale images: "The 630's Photo-
Grade-enhanced output (available only at 300dpi) provides a finer halftone
screen and gray levels equivalent to the 4M printing at 600dpi with RET. At
600
dpi, however, the 4M's RET offers slightly better gray shades with an
equivalent screen." Not the clearest statement. It seems to mean that
the 4M's shades are "better" (?) than the 630's at the same number of
lines per inch, but you can get more lines per inch, hence a less grainy
image, for the same number of shades, on the Pro. But then if you have a
page that mixes text and graphics, you have to put up with the Pro's
stairstepping on character curves and fuzziness on straight edges.
Graeme Forbes
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1993 21:11:58 -0600
From: mlbizer@mcl.cc.utexas.edu (Marc Bizer)
Subject: Now Utilities 4.0.1
To whom it may concern,
I'm experiencing a conflict between Now Menus and Microsoft Word
4.0e and 5.1a. In Microsoft Word 4, show/hide paragraphs is defined as
command-Y, and I redefined it as the same in Word 5.1a using the Word
"Commands" command. When I type command-Y in either of the programs, I hear
a loud beep and nothing happens. As far as I can tell, there are no
command-key conflicts with Apple Menu items. In Word, choosing show/hide
paragraphs with the mouse executes correctly without a beep. This seems all
the stranger since I have Now Menus set to exclude Microsoft Word!! If I
tell Now Startup Manager not to load Now Menus, the problem goes away.
Has anyone else experienced this problem?
Sincerely yours,
Marc Bizer
P.S. Please respond to me directly and to the list.
P.P.S. Here are my INITs/CDEVs:
> Extension loading order
>
>This boot, the following Extensions load in this order:
>
>Extension Version 'sysz' Sys Heap Other
>=======================================================================
>($1)Disinfectant INIT 2.9 20k (NA) (NA)
> Now Toolbox 4.0.1p 160k (NA) (NA)
>Startup Manager 4.0.1 64k 1886 0
>Caps Lock 7.1 2k 1440 0
>Desktop ResetT 1.2 256k -228 0
>DiskExpress II 2.11 96k 84880 0
>FileSaver 2.0 52k 51408 0
>MacSLIP 1.01 29k 0 0
>MacTCP 1.1.1 97k 116132 0
>Memory 7.1 (NA) 0 0
>MICN 1.8 (NA) 4916 0
>NowMenus 4.0.1 80k 51800 0
>PB Backlight Control 1.0a3 (NA) 916 0
>PowerBook 7.1 (NA) 0 0
>PowerPort 2.06 185k 139280 4008
>Scroll2 v2.1 Scroll2 v 2.1.12 16k 8028 0
>SpeedyFinder7 1.5.8a1 32k 31604 0
>Super Boomerang 4.0.1p 72k 98080 0
>SuperClock! 4.0.2 16k 7312 0
>WYSIWYG Menus 4.0.1 75k 52228 0
>~ATMT 3.0 184k 147108 196608
>
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1993 02:40 EST
From: Dan Rolander <DROLANDER@LANDO.HNS.COM>
Subject: Offscreen windows and text searchers
In response to a recent post I made about offscreen window problems
with the app Bat Filer, Jeffrey L. Needleman <needje@msen.com>
suggested a DA named WindowGrabber. I downloaded it, and although it
may help in some situations, I was trying to reposition a modal dialog
window, and I couldn't open the DA while the dialog was still open.
A better solution was offered by <SATRE@cisco.nosc.mil> (no name...),
who sent me an awesome little Fkey named WindowMover, which works
perfectly to reposition the open window with a simple command-shift-key
combination. I'd like to thank him or her for it, and with Satre's
permission, I'd like to post it to the archives soon.
In response to my second question about text searching, both Jeffrey
and Chris Webster <WEBSTER@ac.dal.ca> suggested BBEdit, and I have to
say it is the best (and cheapest!) text editor I've ever used. Going
back to the floppies are my copies of Vantage and Alpha. I really like
BBEdit, and its text searching capabilities are the best I've found
for the Mac so far, but I'm still looking for something that will show
at least one line of context above and below the string that contains
the match. If there isn't anything out there maybe I'll try to write
it myself, but I'd like to see if there is something available first.
Thanks again for those that offered their help!
Dan
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 93 11:51:41 -0800
From: ycui@leland.stanford.edu
Subject: Public Domain Software
I 'm searching for public domain software for research recently.
Unfortunately, I have very few knowledge on this area. Does
anybody on the net know anything about public domain software
(where and how to get such software). Specifically, I'm interested
in software for scheduling(project, task, plan) and transportation.
Any hints?
Best from Yugang Cui ycui@leland
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 93 13:50:33 JST
From: huub@oxide.ntt.jp (Huub Appelboom)
Subject: Reading from Unix Floppy Disks with a Mac
Hello Everybody !
I have some files on Unix floppy disks that I want to put on the Hard
Drive of my Mac. Does anybody know of a program for the Mac which can
actually read these disks and copy the files to the Mac ?
Regards, Huub Appelboom
huub@oxide.ntt.jp
------------------------------
Date: 2 Feb 1993 11:11:35 -0600
From: "Glockzin Donald" <Glockzin_Donald@macmail1.fwrdc.rtsg.mot.com>
Subject: S.C.OUT Help Needed
(I've tried the news server under c.s.mac.games, but got no response.)
I need some help on level 67 of S.C.Out. The code is NODOTI.
Hints are preferred over out right answers.
I can get to the bottom and around to the top for the key. After opening the
area with the worms with the key, I go down (one-way) and kill all of the
worms. But now I'm stuck since I can't go across the section to the left. I
can't find another method of attacking this level. Please help.
THANKS -- DG
Donald Glockzin
glockzin_donald@macmail1.fwrdc.rtsg.mot.com
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1993 13:30:07 +0000
From: Elliot Bennett <Elliot.Bennett@europa.rs.kp.dlr.de>
Subject: Sculley is Gone? [R]
Oleg Chaikovsky wrote:
>My wife (who loves PC-clones) told me she heard a report this
>morning on our news radio station in LA that Joh Sculley is
>moving his home to Greenwich, Conn., home of many IBM top brass...
>Is this a bad sign? (only if it's true, I guess).
Funny he should mention this. I read just a couple days ago in the
International Herald Tribune that one of the top contenders for CEO of IBM (
and perhaps one of the best possible choices) was none other than John
Sculley.
The article went on to say that it was unlikely that IBM could pry him away
>From Apple- but who knows...
We can only hope that these are absolutely false rumors...
Elliot Bennett
elliot@europa.rs.kp.dlr.de
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Date: 02 Feb 1993 10:47:00 -0500 (EST)
From: 00bkpickeril@leo.bsuvc.BSU.EDU
Subject: Statistics (A--SPSS Macintosh)
>Does anybody on the net know anything about software, preferably
>shareware, for the Mac which is similar to SSPS for PC's. A friend of
>mine needs to do some statistical work around questionnaires.
>Any hints?
>Best from Iceland Lars lars@ismennt.is
Well, considering that SPSS isn't shareware on either platform, I
guess it would be worth stating the obvious. SPSS on the MAC is
*MUCH* better than what your friend has likely used. Wimpy SPSS/PC+
was all that was available there until lately. The current PeeCee
product, SPSS/Windows is however, the current state of the art
SPSS program.
SPSS Macintosh (unlike SPSS/PC+) is the complete, mainframe version
of this venerable statistical programming language. I use it
daily, and am reasonably happy with it. Sorry for the delay in
writing.
--Brian Pickerill <00bkpickeril@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu>
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Date: Tue, 02 Feb 93 14:42:39 EST
From: "LaUrIoN d. BuRcHaLl" <ST201136@BROWNVM.brown.edu>
Subject: Stylewriter II (Q)
I have some questions about the Stylewriter II and its drivers.
1. I know the Stylewriter II drivers can be used with the original
Stylewriter. Does the new driver allow a Stylewriter to be shared
on a network, or is that a hardware function.
2. Can I buy a Stylewriter II driver without buying a Stylewriter II?
3. When you are printing over a network to a Stylewriter II how much
extra load is placed on the computer connected to the printer?
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Date: Tue, 2 Feb 93 12:13:46 PDT
From: antaki@outb.wimsey.bc.ca (Paul Antaki)
Subject: Super Studio Session
There's been some discussion recently about Super Studio Session so I thought
I
would add what I knew. The Latest Version (to my knowledge) is 2.1 and was
released to fix problems with System 7. I have just upgraded to System 7.1 and
Super Studio Session still works.
It is produced by Bogas Productions
751 Laurel Street, Suite 213
San Carlos, CA 94070
(415) 592-5129
Paul
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Date: Tue, 02 Feb 93 15:37:22 EST
From: Pete Tamas <GNOME%TEMPLEVM.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Suspiciously low price on printer
On Tue, 2 Feb 93 09:39:26 EST you said:
>I got the mailings from Microcenter also. But my copies reads "no mail
order"
>or "no phone orders" or something to that effect. Shouldn't you warn the
>info-mac community before people start spending their money, calling from
>all over the U.S.
>
>Jack Lum
OOPS! I must have been tired when I replied. Sorry if anyone
wasted time or money calling.-Pete Tamas
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Date: Tue, 2 Feb 93 12:26:18 -0600
From: loyd@ap040.dseg.ti.com (Loyd)
Subject: SVGA Monitors for Mac IIsi
I recently purchased a IIsi and I'm looking for a monitor. I have
heard that SVGA monitors can be used with a convertor. I need to
know where to purchase or instructions on building this convertor.
Also, I would like to hear any pros and cons or recommendations
>From users who have experience with these convertors.
Thanks
Rob
--
Robert Loyd | NNNNNNNnooooobody's | Texas Instruments
loyd@ap040.dseg.ti.com | fault but mine - LZ | Dallas, Texas
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Date: 2 Feb 93 21:25:00 GMT
From: NVG8105@mvax31.ntou.edu.tw
Subject: Tech Notes before '88
Hi Netter,
I'm looking for some technical notes for 1984-1987, and it seems
that they are no more available on the net. Could anyone tell me where
(or how ) I could find them ?
Thanx in advance!
Lee.
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Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1993 21:12:19 -0600
From: mlbizer@mcl.cc.utexas.edu (Marc Bizer)
Subject: throughput decrease with compression turned off
Dear PowerPort users,
I continually experience a decrease in throughput when downloading
anything except pure text files if I have compression set on my GV
PowerPort Gold v.32bis/v.42bis modem. This occurs with Fetch running over
MacSLIP+MacTCP with header compression turned on. Typically, with the
PowerPort Gold compression off, I get 1500 bytes/sec transfer rate in Fetch
and around 1000 with compression on, if the file has been compressed with
Compact Pro or StuffIt. Of course, this transfer rate must reflect
de-binhexing and whatever else Fetch is doing.
Is this weird or what? The people at Global Village don't really
seem to have an opinion.
Thanks,
Marc (mlbizer@bongo.cc.utexas.edu)
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Date: 2 Feb 1993 09:55:39 -0500
From: "Tom Scott" <Tom_Scott@qmrelay.mail.cornell.edu>
Subject: Utility for getting a list
Utility for getting a list of network users (A)
<WISMER%CFRUNI51.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU> asks:
>I remember that there was a utility, that put together a list of all
>users or servers on the net. I completely forgot the name and didn't
>find a catching name in the /comm directory. Could please someone
>give me a hint, what the name is/was ?
Well, there IS a utility that compiles a list of user names on your
network, and since it IS a utility, that's the directory it's in.
Try sumex: /util/members-only-11.hqx
And my ever-happy blurb nature lets you know what it is:
Members Only 1.1
Here's the latest version of Members Only, a FREE utility that
will scan your network for other Macintoshes, and build a list
of their users' names. You can select users from this list and
add them to your Users & Groups.
Version 1.1 adds support for AppleShare 3.0, and an Import
command that lets you easily add the same users and groups
to multiple file servers. There are also several other minor
bug fixes and enhancements.
There's another that might be up your alley as well.
Sumex: /comm/appletalk-manager-05.hqx
Obligatory blurb:
APPLETALK MANAGER v0.5
----------------------
Fixes for demo version ATM 0.5:
1. Now creates its own Network Data folder if its not found, this
means you can run ATM from anywhere on your disk. The program
will not bomb if this folder is not found.
2. The Application memory size has been pre-set to 750k, this
allows ATM to run under Multifinder.
3. The "Echo" function has been improved. Echo as an implemen-
tation under DDP does not seem to work in the prescribed manner
in "Inside Mac" Vols II and V, and also Inside Appletalk. I
have developed an algorhthym that takes care of about 99% of
ECHO, some errors still occur but very few.
==================================
ATM 0.4
This little program was developed as an exercise, just like a lot
of other peoples I guess. In the writting of this program I learnt
that there are a few untruths or things just plain left unsaid. For
instance you would think that all Macs and LaserWriters would have AEP
(AppleTalk Echo Protocol) built in, this seems not to be the case.
When you activate this program and after the Mac has finished making
its report of the network, you can double click on the desired node
in the list and 100 packets are sent to that node using AEP. AEP is a
possible test of the line quality between nodes, this is not strictly
true, ie. if a PC node is busy packets can be lost and therefore alter
your interpretation of the results.
The display consists of Bridge data, Zone data, currently visible
entities, an AEP dissplay and two fake boxes. There are also a
couple of fake menus, as you will see the interface kind of evolved
in the writting. Its a simple matter to remove the unwanted stuff.
The program sorts all the NVE's (Network Visible Entities) Alphabeti-
cally and by Node address, other information is provided along with
these files,ie, numbers of nodes,data and time etc and Zone plus
Bridge data. The program has been of use at this site because there
are well over 150 NVE's to deal with.
I would have liked to implement a graphic load averager, but I get
too busy these days to sit down and concentrate on it. Anyway hope
its of use to you, I can be reached (312)-702-3674 (work) or
(312)-955-1932 (home). My email address: jackson@biovax.uchicago.edu.
I have a few more that might be of use to you if you don't find these two
useful. Let me know. Enjoy! :-)
Thomas Scott, Systems Manager, College of Engineering
Cornell University, Carpenter Hall Annex, Ithaca, NY 14853
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Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1993 10:03:39 -0500
From: Ed Ver Hoef <verhoef@europa.eng.gtefsd.com>
Subject: Whining Sony Triniton Monitor (R)
In INFOMAC V11 #23, John Daspit aksed if anyone had the same problem as he
with regard to his Sony Trinitron monitors, i.e., they emit an obnoxious high-
pitched whine. I had a similar problem with my Sony monitor and found that
it was the flyback transformer. You can have your service people replace the
transformer, or, if you are feeling a bit more adventurous (or more
pecuniously disadvantaged), you can simply administer a little epoxy cement
in the right places on the transformer. It's a mechanical problem, not
electronic.
Ed Ver Hoef
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Date: Mon, 01 Feb 93 22:25:02 EST
From: Todd Breslow <V5149U%TEMPLEVM.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: WorldScript??!! (Q)
I distinctly remember reading in IM several months ago that
someone was playing with one of the scripts for WorldScript
(I believe it was the Thai script). I assumed that the script
was taken off the develop CD but, low-and-behold, there aren't
any such scripts on the Nov/Dec CD (at least none that I can
find). There are, however, several localized versions of
system 7.1.
The question is, has anyone actually seen the worldscript
scripts? Apple has been talking about this for so long
that I was surprised that I didn't see it on the CD.
I would very much appreciate it if someone who knew what
was going on here would let me know what worldscript's status
is. For the record, I'm interested in the Russian script and
Chinese localization.
Thanks,
Todd Breslow
v5149u@vm.temple.edu or v5149u@templevm
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Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1993 22:07:57 -0600
From: chavey@beloit.edu (Darrah Chavey)
Subject: ZIPper's for the MAC (A)
Norm Steffen (nsteffen@tecnet1.jcte.jcs.mil) asks:
>I would like to be able to ZIP ASCII files on a MAC for uploading to a
>host where the un-enlightened could get at them. So far all I have found
>have been able to find are UnZIPpers.
>
>If anyone is aware of such an application I would appreciate a lead.
>
>Thanks in advance,
You probably noticed, but just in case, the previous edition of Info-Mac
included a notice for a Macintosh zipper, which can be found as
[/info-mac/util/zip-it-10.hqx]
--Darrah Chavey Department of Math & Computer Science
chavey@beloit.edu Beloit College, Beloit, Wisc.
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Date: Tue, 2 Feb 93 11:09 WET
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <needje@msen.com>
Subject: ZIPper's for the MAC (A)
In 11-25, Norm Steffen asks for Mac zippers. [I almost resisted the
temptation to ask Norm if his Mac fly is open. Forgive me.]
archive.umich.edu has:
/mac/util/compression/maczip1.0.sit.hqx and
/mac/util/compression/zipit1.0.cpt.hqx which was just released and is much
better than maczip IMHO.
Jeff Needleman <needje@msen.com>
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