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Date: Wed, 1 Sep 93 18:37:04 PDT
From: The Moderators <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #174


Info-Mac Digest             Wed,  1 Sep 93       Volume 11 : Issue 174

Today's Topics:

      [*] AD Module Bungee Submission
      [*] cam-11-demo.hqx
      [*] gradebook 1.4
      [*] HierPopup 3.2
      [*] Jotto Deluxe (word game)
      [*] JPEGView 3.0
      [*] Progression v1.7 Submission
      [*] Re: your mail
      [*] Ursinus College (Hypercard stack)
      1200dpi PICTs
      Backup to a unix box *without* ethernet
      Coca-Cola sign desktop
      cut and paste (C)
      FWD>WorldScript Question
      GateKeeper (Q)
      GNU Emacs on Mac?
      Hard Disk Icon Trouble (Q)
      how can I ftp macintalk? [C]
      How to get Excel 3 or 4 to limit #'s to 3 places (Q)
      IIcx --> Q700 upgrade?
      Info-Mac Digest V11 #173
      Keyboards - how do you uninstall them?
      LC 520 (Too good to be true?)
      linear programming [Q]
      Looking for Apple DiskCopy replacement
      Mac AV and Greek System 7.* (Q)
      Macs---to leave on, or not to leave on (Q)
      Macs in Engineering [Was: SPICE for Mac doesn't exist?]
      MacX (Q)
      Magic Modems
      Non-Powerbook File Synching (A)
      OzTeX
      Personal LaserWriter NTR
      PPD 4.x ??
      Problem with MacX and TCP/IP (R)
      Quickey 3.0
      Re- Thumbnail
      Sony Monitor Help!
      Stylewriter II Driver
      Stylewriter II driver with a Stylewriter I
      trash can won't un-swell
      Viewer for .src with HGopher
      What happened over the summer?

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Date: Wed, 01 Sep 93 14:43:55 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] AD Module Bungee Submission

In keeping with the serious professional nature of this forum, I submit
the BUNGEE After Dark module, downloaded from the Washington Apple Pi
bulletin board. Following is from the README:

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

No, I'm not the author


Bungee is a screen saver that depicts exactly what would happen if a
bungee jumper's cord suddenly snapped. Settings can be made to see a
man jump. When the cord breaks he falls to the ground with a grotesque
splat. You can also choose to see a cow jumping. When the cow hits
the ground it turns into a pile of steaks, hamburgers and sausages.
Another setting allows you to see what would happen if the cord didn't
snap but the man did instead. Of course for those that don't like the
blood and gore, a successful option is available where the jumper just
bounces on the cord.

Bungee requires After Dark 2.0u (or greater) for the Macintosh and
System 7 (or System 6 with 32 bit quickdraw) to run.

Bungee is shareware: $3.00 to Midnight Software.

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/ad/bungee.hqx; 64K]

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Date: Wed, 1 Sep 93 09:52:30 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Hussam A Dandashli)
Subject: [*] cam-11-demo.hqx

Cam v1.1Demo
Cam Analysis and Visualization
By: Hussam Dandashli
Purdue University

This is a demo version of Cam1.1 . It does analysis and animation of a cam
with
a follower. It is
limited to the cam presets where the user can change them but can't save them
as
an input file, or
open an existing input file.

The analysis is limited to displacements only. A sample output file is
included
to show the
numerical output given by the original version. (see the user manual for more
information)

The only system requirement is to have color QuickDraw (8 bit or 32 bit). This
demo is a non-
FPU version which will be a little slow. The full version will be a FPU
version
(unless requested
otherwise).

People most likely to benefit from it are undergraduate students (Design I
level) and educators
for a class demo.

I would like this application to be included on the archive CD-ROM.

[Archived as /info-mac/sci/cam-11-demo.hqx; 265K]

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Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1993 20:03:00 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Jim Witte)
Subject: [*] gradebook 1.4

Here is the latest shareware release of The Gradebook Stack v1.4

Features:

* Define your own grading system and grading scale
* Handles letter grades, numerical grades (25/30), or "Check-Plus-Minus"
* Calculates averages, tracks attendance, prints reports for you
  and your students
* Built-in Help and friendly interface make it easy to learn & use
* Shareware, $15

** v1.4

- no longer treats space as 0 on grading prefs card. You must use numbers.

- changed meaning of "X" score, added "M" score. Now, if you give a student
a student a "M" (missing), it is counted as a 0 for averaging purposes, and
appears on the list of missing assignments for that student. If you give a
"X", the score will be thrown out before averages are calculated, and will
not appear in the missing scores list. This gives you a way to excuse
students from certain assignments.

- printed manual is available to registered users for $5


This file replaces gradebook1.3.cpt.hqx at mac.archive and
the-gradebook-14-hc.hqx at sumex-aim.


Jim Witte               German dept -- Univ. of Illinois
            email: [e-mail]
            Phone: [phone]

[Archived as /info-mac/app/the-gradebook-14-hc.hqx; 168K]

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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1993 23:31:55 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Jon Pugh)
Subject: [*] HierPopup 3.2

 HierPopup 3.2


This is the latest version of the world's best popup menu XFCN.

It has boatloads of features, including the ability to set the

font and size and to use arbitrarily deep MENU resources.  See

the stack for documentation and examples.


This update adds a parameter for the itemDelimiter which helps

Supercard and Hypercard 1.x users.


[e-mail]

[phone]

[Archived as /info-mac/card/hpopup-menu-32.hqx; 62K]

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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1993 23:48:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Jotto Deluxe (word game)

Jotto Deluxe is a word game based on logic and frustration.
The computer will pick a six-letter word from a 2800+ word
database, and you have 15 tries to guess it.  You will get
feedback on how many letters in your guess are in the actual
word, but beware: each guess must be a valid six-letter word,
or you will not get any feedback about it at all.

Jotto Deluxe is free; there is no shareware fee.  It supports color,
grayscale, and B/W monitors and works under system 6 or 7.
(For technical reasons, sounds may require system 6.0.7 or later.)
Please e-mail comments and suggestions to the author at
[e-mail] (Mark Pilgrim).

Jotto Deluxe is copyright 1993 Mark Pilgrim, MerriMac Software Group.

[Archived as /info-mac/game/jotto-deluxe.hqx; 304K]

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Date: Wed, 1 Sep 93 16:23:37 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Aaron Giles)
Subject: [*] JPEGView 3.0

Announcing the release of JPEGView 3.0 -- September 1, 1993

Enclosed is version 3.0 of my postcardware application JPEGView, a fast,
flexible JPEG, PICT, and GIF viewer for the Macintosh.  This latest release
adds a number of substantial new features, including full AppleScript support,
new high-quality dithering routines, a greatly improved slide show, floating
windows, and much much more!

IMPORTANT NOTE: JPEGView *requires* System 7.0 or later *and* any version of
    QuickTime to run.  The latest version of the QuickTime extension (1.6.1)
    can be found via anonymous FTP at ftp.apple.com in the
    /dts/mac/sys.soft/quicktime directory.

Briefly, here are the important new features in version 3.0:
  - full AppleEvent support, allowing scripting and recording with AppleScript
  - new dithering routines for better image quality on displays with
      at least 256 colors
  - floating windows showing image statistics, colors, and comments
  - vastly improved slide show functionality, including offscreen rendering
  - extensions to QuickTime to allow the display of JPEG/JFIF thumbnail images
  - support for creating custom icons when saving images
  - more time given to background applications during image decompression
  - looser restrictions on full-screen images, allowing selections to be made
  - better balloon help and freshly-updated on-line help
  - many, many other minor user interface improvements

And a general JPEGView overview:
  - it's free (well, postcardware), simple, and easy to use
  - requires only 600k, but will effectively use more memory to run faster
  - produces some of the highest-quality images available on the Macintosh
  - provides an excellent user-configurable slide show
  - automatically scales images to fit on your monitor
  - has handy full screen windows (without the menubar) for large images
  - supports multiple-monitor systems extremely well
  - includes exhaustive on-line documentation and balloon help
  - is System 7-studly, featuring full AppleScript support and 32-bit
      cleanliness
  - comes with a cool colorful JPEG test image :-)

Once again:
    JPEGView is postcardware.  The concept is simple:
    If you like it, you are obligated to send me a postcard of some sort.
    If you want a printed, bound manual and official release disk, register by
       sending in US$20.

Full details are available from the on-line help (in the help (aka
"Balloon") menu).

Enjoy!
Aaron Giles

[Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/jpeg-view-30.hqx; 417K]

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Date: Wed, 1 Sep 93 09:31:21 CDT
From: [e-mail] (Michael Wolf)
Subject: [*] Progression v1.7 Submission

Below is an update to the solitaire card game Progression.

This new version is 1.7.

The bug fix and a couple modifications are in the online help
section.

Enjoy.

MJW

[Archived as /info-mac/game/crd/progression-solitaire-17.hqx; 100K]

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Date: Wed, 1 Sep 93 2:44:35 EST
From: [e-mail] (Liz Thelen)
Subject: [*] Re: your mail

Sorry, I had problems including the binhex in a mail message (with a nice
little header/description) so by the time I got it to work, I forgot about
sending a description.   Anyway, the binhex I mailed you is of DepthMaster1.0
by the same author as SpeedyFinder7.  You tell it what depth you want for
different applications and it switches automagically as you run/switch
applications.  Andy I. mentioned it in the HelpFolder column about two
MacUsers
ago and I couldn't find it on any of the ftp sites, but I found it on AOL
and thought I would share.  Sorry again.  Thanks for all that y'all do.

tulip

[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/depth-master-10.hqx; 36K]

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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1993 23:50:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Ursinus College (Hypercard stack)

This archive contains a Hypercard stack giving an overview and tour
of Ursinus College, a very respectable liberal arts college
near Philadelphia, PA (USA).  It contains a multitude of color and
grayscale graphics of different areas of Ursinus College, as well as
lots of information about programs and activities at the College.
This stack will be sent out this fall to high school juniors all over
the country, particularly in New England.  I would recommend this stack
to anyone affiliated with any high school (to give students a chance to
experience Ursinus "hands-on") or anyone affiliated with any college (to
see the new generation of admissions literature).

Requirements: any sized monitor displaying at least 256 colors;
Hypercard, version 2.0v2 or later; at least 1136K of memory available to
allocate to Hypercard.

This stack is free.  Feel free to redistribute it UNALTERED, but don't
charge anybody for it.  This stack is copyright 1993 Mark Pilgrim.
For more information on technical matters, contact the author at
[e-mail].  For more information about Ursinus College, call
215-489-4111 and ask for the Office of Admissions.

[Archived as /info-mac/info/nms/ursinus-college-hc.hqx; 818K]

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Date: Wed, 1 Sep 93 15:51 GMT0BST-1
From: Pindar Infotek Ltd <[e-mail]>
Subject: 1200dpi PICTs

>From Pindar user Ian McCallSubject: _1200dpi PICTs
Hello.

Does anyone know of any utility that will open a 1200dpi PICT file
and save it in TIFF?

I'll give the background to this problem in case anyone can think of
a better way of doing things than I have so far. I work for a company
that needs to produce a Framemaker document containing TeX output at
1200dpi.

Now, although TeX uses outline fonts it needs them to be generated at
specific point sizes (effectively bitmaps, really). So in order to
get the output, I've managed to get TeX to generate 1200dpi fonts
from its outlines and then used Print2Pict, which produces a 1200dpi
PICT file. The idea is that we would then convert the PICT to a TIFF
and then include the TIFF in the Framemaker document.

Originally I planned to use Photoshop, but this tells me I've run out
of scratch-disk space. This is absurd - it has 430megs allocated and
the file I'm trying to open is 220k. So then I thought maybe
GifConverter, but GifConverter first converts the PICT to 72dpi. I've
just finished trying GraphicsConverter, but that tells me there's an
error in the PICT file. There isn't - even TeachText will open it.
It's just that everything that's opened it so far has treated it as
72dpi. I know that Photoshop can handle PICTs greater than 72dpi, but
I've yet to find anything else.

Can someone help me convert? Or is there some Print2Tiff driver
lurking somewhere? Anyone??!!


Cheers,
      Ian



---
Please make 'Attn: Ian McCall' the first line of your reply to ensure
forwarding to the correct Pindar user.

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Date: Wed, 1 Sep 93 10:59:03 BST
From: Maurice Naftalin <[e-mail]>
Subject: Backup to a unix box *without* ethernet

Subject line says it: I have a Sparcstation, linked into our office
network by ethernet.  However, my Powerbook doesn't have an ethernet
card, and I don't see myself getting one soon.  What are the
possibilities for linking the two machines?  I have looked at the
Columbia Appletalk Package, but it seems to be ethernet-only.

Please reply direct to me, and I will post a summary of replies.

Thanks in advance

Maurice Naftalin                [e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1993 15:27:08 GMT
From: Sven Guckes <[e-mail]>
Subject: Coca-Cola sign desktop

[e-mail] writes:
[INGSI!]

>Years ago I had an animated Coca-cola sign that was patterned after
>a sign in Sidney, AU, I believe.  Is that thing still around?

Down under is perfectly right!
I remember this thingy and I think it's name is "King's Cross".
But I could not find it in the index files of either SUMEX or UMICH
(searching for "cross" and "king").

I think I still have it somewhere (no guarantees).
If it has disappeared from the archives I'll gladly upload it to UMICH.

Sven :)

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Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1993 20:08:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: cut and paste (C)

[e-mail] (Graeme Forbes) writes:

>Priyajeev Trika asks if there's an extension which allows you to pile up
>cuts on the clipboard before pasting the whole lot at once. I don't know if
>there's any way of implementing this at the system level, but one of the
>things Don Crabb had in mind when he said that there was a whole host of
>stuff in Nisus that you couldn't get elsewhere was its ability to append
>cuts or copies (using the Shift key). So you can build up a list of items
>from earlier in a document and then paste it as a list later.
>Alternatively, if you have up to ten frequently pasted items, you can
>assign them to up to ten different clipboards and select the cb you want
>for any given paste.

>I seem to do more writing in FrameMaker than Nisus nowadays; cut/copy
>accumulation and multiple clipboards are just two of the many conveniences
>I miss.

There is a commercial product called Multiclip (from Olduvai) that can be
obtained from most mail order companies. It allows multiple clipboards and
you can "paste the whole lot" by using the "sequential paste " option (after
re-sequencing the order, should you wish). You might want to give it a try.

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Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1993 12:37:41 -0400
From: "Tom Scott" <[e-mail]>
Subject: FWD>WorldScript Question

Mail*Link(r) SMTP               FWD>WorldScript Question
Hi all!

I have a friend that posed the following problem:

---
From: "Chris Hindall" <[e-mail]>

>Hello!  I'm sorry to bother you, but I've got a problem not even Apple
>Support wants to deal with, so I'm checking with all the computer people I
>know to see if they can help.
>
>I recently bought the Apple Japanese Language Kit, was suitably impressed,
>and promptly wrote an e-mail message to my Japanese pen-pal.  He has a Unix
>machine using SHIFT-JIS or OLD-JIS.   He wrote back to tell me that he
>couldn't read it, and enclosed a line of kanji from his system which I
>couldn't read, either (I tried various methods using TeachText Japanese and
>Nisus).
>
>Both of us have since been trying to find some way of translating between
>our
platforms, without success.  The best I could come up with was a c-code >which
"supports SHIFT-JIS, EUC, NEW-JIS, OLD-JIS, and NEC-JIS for both >input  and
output," but I don't know which of these, if any, apply to >WorldScript, and
since I can't program, I can't do much with it anyway.  >I've called Apple
Support, but they seem to have decided that if he's not >using a Macintosh,
it's not their problem.
>
>Any ideas?  Any thoughts on where I might look for help?  It's not a major
>issue at the moment, since so far it's only private e-mail, and we can just
>keep using the roman alphabet as we always have.  But I have another friend
>in Japan who might need to send me business-related material in kanji, and
>it
seems more than likely this issue will come up with other people using
>WorldScript as well.

Can any of you net gurus that have worked with World Script help her out?
I've
included her e-mail address above so you can contact her directly, as she
isn't
on this list.  Thanks a bunch!   :-)

Thomas Scott, Systems Manager, College of Engineering
Cornell University, Carpenter Hall Annex, Ithaca, NY  14853

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Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1993 08:57 EST
From: Don't Panic! <[e-mail]>
Subject: GateKeeper (Q)

Dear Netters,
Where can I get Gatekeeper in its complete version?  Is it available via
Gopher or FTP?  I have seen that there are files at Sumex-aim, but the last
time I tried them, they appeared to be simple update-patches.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
[e-mail]
P.S. If there is a new version of Gatekeeper out, when will Disinfectant 3.2
be updated?

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Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1993 17:10:16 GMT
From: Sven Guckes <[e-mail]>
Subject: GNU Emacs on Mac?

[e-mail] writes:

>Does anyone know of a GNU Emacs port to the Mac?
>The other so-called "emacs" just aren't the same.

SUMEX           := sumex-aim.stanford.edu:info-mac
UMICH           :=  mac.archive.umich.edu:mac

SUMEX: 179243 Dec 23 1989     ./app/microemacs-310a.hqx
UMICH: 179717 Nov 14 1992 util/text/microemacs3.10a.sit.hqx

I don't really know whether this one is a GNU port.
Anybody done a review on that one?

Sven :)

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Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1993 13:24:08 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Graeme Forbes)
Subject: Hard Disk Icon Trouble (Q)

If I'd paid attention when this was discussed before I wouldn't be writing
this message now...

I accidentally installed a custom icon on the system partition of my
internal hard disk. So I made it visible with MacTools and trashed it.
Unfortunately, rather than revert to the icon that my disk formatter put
there (I/O Utilities) my Mac puts up the generic file icon as the hard disk
icon (or more accurately, I guess, the volume icon). The usual GetInfo
cutting and pasting doesn't work (System 7.1) but the I/O tech support guy
says that their icon is still there, it just isn't being found. Using
CustomIconKiller didn't help either.

So the question is: how do I get the original icon back, short of
reformatting the volume partition?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Graeme Forbes

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Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1993 18:09:36
From: [e-mail] (Charlie Mingo)
Subject: how can I ftp macintalk? [C]

[e-mail] writes:

> I connected to ftp.apple.com (after many attempts) to download
> macintalk. I found and downloaded the Speech Manager, but the
> macintalk pro file is larger than my vax account allows me
> to have on my disk. Is there some way I can break it into 1.5
> Mb chunks and get them one at a time so I can download them
> to my Mac?

This is really a question you should ask of your VAX sysadmin, but
I can tell you what I do in that situation:

One way around disk limitations is to use the scratch space on your VAX.
For example, assuming your system is running Unix, there is probably
a directory called /usr/tmp or just /tmp, which any user can write to,
and which is not counted against your disk quota.

To use it, you would 'cd /usr/tmp', ftp the file from Apple as usual,
and then download it at once.

One major drawback about saving files in scratch space is that the system
will tend to delete all files there, every day or so; however, this
wouldn't stop you from doing a quick download.  Also, the amount of
scratch space available is not infinite, so you might want to do a
'df /usr/tmp' beforehand to see how much space is free.  And don't
forget to delete the file after you have downloaded it, so as not to
waste space.

If you are running VMS, then you should just ask the sysadmin, as none
of this advice will work.

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Date: Wed, 1 Sep 93 16:46:03 -0400
From: [e-mail] (mei deng)
Subject: How to get Excel 3 or 4 to limit #'s to 3 places (Q)

Hello- I was wondering if anyone knows how to limit the value of a number
to 3 digits after the decimal place?  Not just going under _Number_ and
formatting it as 0.000, but actually losing the extra numbers.  I am trying
to keep a record of investments, and find that my bank only goes to 3 dec-
imals, and if Excel goes to it's default 7 place accuracy, the numbers do
not match.

Thanks for any information!

[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1993 07:55:11 -0800
From: peake@152.18.1.1 (Steve Peake)
Subject: IIcx --> Q700 upgrade?

Apple used to offer an upgrade package to take a IIcx to a Quadra 700.
Since the Q700 was discontinued, Apple no longer offers this. Is there a
3rd-party source for this upgrade? Apologies if this is a FAQ.

Steve Peake
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1993 16:08:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #173

Dear Netters:
    In IM v11 #173  [e-mail] complains that his SE

    has lost sound after upgrading from a 20MB HD to an 80MB HD.


    If that is an internal HD it is possible that the speaker wire
    is disconnected.

    You probably had to remove the motherboard (or at least move
    it) to get in there. Those SE's are packed pretty tight! It
    is necessary to detatch the speaker wire from the motherboard
    to do this.

    I'd take another look at the instalation manual and check
    inside to see if you have a long dangling wire leading to your
    speaker.

            Hope that helps,
                Dan
PS:     remember to GROUND YOUSELF by touching the power suply before
    you touch anything else, and be careful of that monitor, it's
    delicate.

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Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1993 17:17:12 GMT
From: Sven Guckes <[e-mail]>
Subject: Keyboards - how do you uninstall them?

I wrote:
>Well, installing a keyboard is simple:
>Drag them onto the system folder and let them drop.
>But - how do you uninstall them?
>Is there an easy way?

Many people have suggested this:
1) Open the system suitcase.
2) Locate the keyboards and mark them.
3) Drag the keyboards out of the system suitcase.
4) Trash 'em!

Well, I already have trouble with step 2:
I can find no keyboards in the system suitcase.

Someone else told me that the US keyboard might be required by the system.
and thus does not show up.
Well, that still leaves the German keyboard to be shown.  But - no way.
Even if I assume that my system got so used to the German layout that it
won't give it away that easily - there's a whole lot of keyboards more
in the system of my IIvx that at least one of them could have the decency
to show up.

Maybe they're still drawing sticks.

Sven :)  [Maybe I'm keyboard blind.]

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Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1993 12:33:56 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Brian V. Hughes)
Subject: LC 520 (Too good to be true?)

Colglazier <[e-mail]> writes:

>MacWorld's 9/93 issue (p.109) list the Mac LC 520 at
>$1600 for:
>25mhz 68030 5/80
>built-in 14" color (Trinitron)
>380-KBps speed CD-ROM.

    Pretty amazing price for what you are getting isn't it. And all of
this only uses ONE cable, to plug the LC520 into the wall.

>The only drawback for most people seems to be that at this
>point it will only be available through education channels,
>although the review suggested that Apple will eventually
>realize that many people have been waiting for this animal
>for a long, LONG time.

    I just wanted to correct this statement. The LC520 is currently only
available to K-12 educational channels and not the general educational
market. Hopefully this will change once Apple's back-to-school promotion
ends in October.

-Hades

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Date: Wed, 1 Sep 93 15:10 N
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: linear programming [Q]

I would like to know if anybody knows if there is an application (free,
shareware or commercial) that solves a linear programming problem ?
Are the source codes available ?
Thanks

G. Collaud
[e-mail]

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Date: 1 Sep 1993 13:31:50 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Tom Tamlyn)
Subject: Looking for Apple DiskCopy replacement

>>My problem with Disk Copy is that I'm FORCED to copy an image to a
>>floppy disk.  I'd like to be able to copy the image to a folder on my hard
>>disk and then copy it to a floppy at my convenience.

Disk Copy has a menu option to save the disk image, which can be used to
save an image to the hard drive. Does this not work for you, or did you
just overlook the existance of the comand? (It's easy to forget to check
menu commands when the program displays a big palette of commonly-used
commands.)

Cheers,

TTT

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Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1993 17:02 EST
From: Bandis Athinodoros <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mac AV and Greek System 7.* (Q)

What communication software must one use in order to have the 9600 baud
fax/modem out of the Mac AV? Would VersaTerm do the job for the modem
part at least?

Does anybody know how I can find Greek system 7. and Greek WordPerfect
here in USA?

Thanks

Athinodoros

[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 1 Sep 93 05:14:14 PDT
From: [e-mail] (John Thoo)
Subject: Macs---to leave on, or not to leave on (Q)


I've read (here, in fact, I believe) that it's not a bad idea to leave
one's Mac on all the time because powering it up each time stresses its
circuits.  But in the Oct93 Macworld [p.139], Jim Heid states, ``Leaving
a Mac on 24 hours a day ... shortens a hard drive's life.''  Hmm ... that
sort of puts me between a rock and a hard place, it seems: switching my
Mac off/on each day is good for the hard drive, but not so good for the
circuits; leaving it on 24 hours is good for the circuits, but not so
good for the hard drive.  My question is, What's my best strategy?
To leave my Mac on all the time, or not?  (Presently, I leave my Mac on
24 hours, but switch off the (external) monitor at night.)  Thanks.

--John.
<[e-mail]>    ``My _real_ word processor is FullWrite.''

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Date: Wed, 1 Sep 93 8:27:56 EDT
From: Tom Coradeschi <[e-mail]>
Subject: Macs in Engineering [Was: SPICE for Mac doesn't exist?]

[e-mail] wrote:
>I need SPICE for some circuit analysis, and was told that the only version
>for the Mac doesn't have the schematic graphics interface like for Windows!
>Is this true or can I get a graphic interface for a Mac SPICE-I really don't
>want to type in all those commands myself.

You can get a version of SPICE for the Mac. It's called MicroCap and it
provides a gui to the SPICE solvers. Unfortunately, the developer
(Spectrum Software) doesn't really believe in Macs. The DOS version is up
to 3 or 4. Macs get to use version 2. Which doesn't even comprehend the
idea of system 7 print drivers (and as a result, I have a system 6 folder
on my HD and System Picker to switch between them:-{). All in all, a
pretty sorry scene.

Which brings me to another point, if I may: Why is it that we don't see
stuff like this developed for the Mac? The machine has great capabilities
(IMHO), which certainly don't need to be expounded upon here.

I've been corresponding with the sysop of the BBS run by the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) - he's looking toward IP access down
the road - and he really bemoans the lack of stuff on his BBS for macs. Why
is this? We have some great stuff - LabVIEW (ok now Windoze and Sun Sparc
can do it too) and Igor are two biggies which come to mind. Yet a quick
look thru Mechanical Engineer (ASME Monthly) or Scientific Computing and
Automation would have you believe that the Mac was never introduced 9+
years ago!

Comments?

        tom coradeschi    <+>    [e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 01 Sep 93 17:29:03 -0400
From: [e-mail]
Subject: MacX (Q)

    I have macX working with my unix box. In that it will
receive a xterm sent back to it from the unix box. My problem is
when I try to run emacs. Emacs brings up its own window which starts
fine but then I get this error:
emacs: X server unable to find requested font `Rom14.500'.

    I have gone into fonts (command-F) and clicked on the
update fonts button, but this is to no avail.

    The font exists on my unix box as a pcf file:
Rom14.iso1.pcf.Z through Rom14.iso9.pcf.Z skipping only iso6 and
iso8. There is also a Rom14.pcf.Z.

    Anyone know how to get that font to the mac?

Thanks,
    Mike    [e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1993 10:11:36 +0800 (PST)
From: Marshall McGowan <[e-mail]>
Subject: Magic Modems

Hello!

I am in the market for one of those there 14.4 wonder-modems. (ok, not all
that wonderful, but not shabby modems, hows that?) Anyway, I've narrowed
it down to three suspects:

    1.  SupraFaxModem 14.4 I've worked with Supras before, they are
        nice, they work good, and I like the cute lil numerical display.

    2.  USRobotics Sports Faxter (Or whatever that cute lil apellation
        is...) I've got a friend with one of these, happy as a clam
        with it, so no problem there.

    3.  MacProducts Magic VFX 14.4 modem, complete with the latest
        whiz-bang-techno-geek-lovin feature, VoiceMail. No clue here
        Never used one, don't know of anyone who has.

So, the question is:  Has anyone used this or other MagicModems? Can they
be reccomended, are they garbage, do they do (glass) windows? Will they,
in effect, make me a happy modem camper?

Your insights on this and many other ponderations greatly appreciated!
Marshall
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 01 Sep 93 09:28:43 -0400
From: Rob Chandhok <[e-mail]>
Subject: Non-Powerbook File Synching (A)

On Thu, 26 Aug 1993 15:49:22 +0000,  [e-mail]  (Patrick T. Pruyne)
wrote:

>I'm looking for the wisdom of experience;

Would you settle for my experience?

>During the course of any given day me and my data may start from my home
>Mac (not networked) and travel to a handful of guest-host (networked) Macs.
>I'd like to know what others do to make sure that duplicates of
>files-in-progress are all up to date.
>
>The Powerbook-crowd has Zync and other similar utilities. What do
>non-Powerbook users use?
>
>Are there any backup/archiving programs (eg DiskFit or Retrospect) that can
>be used for this purpose?

Here are some thoughts, and a solution.  First, DiskFit and Retrospect don't
synchronize, they back up.  And two backups (one from each direction) are
not the same as a synchronization.

Many of the synching tools for the Mac work on non-powerbooks, so that
shouldn't be an issue.

**** Here's the part I have to disclaim, since I wrote this software: ****

I think FileRunner(tm) for the Mac fit your needs exactly.  FileRunner is
designed to not only synchronize between 2 Macs - it will perform
*safe* synchronization between as many machines as you use.  In your
scenerio, you would use FileRunner to synch your data to a floppy at your
home in the morning.  Each "guest" machine that you walk up to is then
synched to the floppy, placing your data on the hard disk.  After you are
done, you synch again and the latest stuff is copied down to the right place
on the floppy.  FileRunner even has a command to clean all your data files
off of the guest hard disk for you (I thought it would be useful for students
using cluster machines)!  Repeat the synching process for every guest
machine, and when you get home, synch all the updated data back onto your
hard disk.

It is important to note a few things:  First, FileRunner is the only
synching application licensed to the USER, so it is perfectly legal to do
the above syching with one copy of FileRunner.  Other synching products
would require you to buy a license for their product for every 2 machines
you wish to sych.  Can you say "expensive"?  I thought you could.

Also, other synching products claim to be able to synch more than two
machines.  It is true, they can, but they don't do it safely.  One part of
synching involves making sure the files haven't changed on more than one
machine (a version conflict).  Only FileRunner detects these situations
properly when using a floppy or multiple machines (MacWeek got this wrong in
a recent article).

FileRunner also offers optional compression, so you can pack a lot on the
floppy.  And tuneable log files.  And a cool interface.

Finally, FileRunner is smart enough to sychronize deleted files, so, if
during the day you decide you are done with file and delete it, when you get
home FileRunner will offer to delete it for you there also.  Other
applications would simply re-copy it onto the floppy.

In any case, hope it hasn't sounded too much like an ad.  You can find out
about FileRunner by called MBS Technologies at 1 800 860-8700, NOT by
sending mail to me.  You can also reach MBS by fax at [phone].
Email to [e-mail] will also work.

Rob

ps: Yes, I use FileRunner daily.  Even to maintain its own source files.

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Date: Wed, 1 Sep 93 15:24:33 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Wolf Dieter Brandt)
Subject: OzTeX

Hi!

There is another shareware TeX version called DirectTex available
from hadron.tp2.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (anonymous FTP). It includes
BibTeX and Metafont, printer drivers for StyleWriter, HP DeskWriter,
Apple LaserWriter and Postscript printers.
Remember time shift when using connections to transfer (about 10MB),
this server is in germany.

You will need MPW, the shell only without compilers etc. will work.
The MPW Shell is available from ftp.apple.com (anonymous FTP).

If you have any questions, contact [e-mail].
He is the author of this TeX package.

Wolf Dieter Brandt.
smail:
III. Physikalisches Institut
der Universitaet Goettingen
Buergerstrasse 42-44
D 37073 Goettingen

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Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1993 14:59:38 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Dave Martin)
Subject: Personal LaserWriter NTR

[e-mail] (John Thoo) wrote:
>I noticed that, after rebates, the NTR can now be had for about $800.
>My question is, Any rumor on whether it might be discontinued soon?
>I.e. if one wanted an NTR, should one not wait too long?  Thanks.

My understanding is that it will be removed from the lists in October when
the new printers ship. It is still a very nice printer for the price, even
if it is being discontinued. Not too many Level 2 PostScript AppleTalk-based
printers (with parallel connection, autosensing, and HP PCL4 emulation) out
there for that price.
-- Dave Martin - TAMU/GERG - [e-mail] - [e-mail] --

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Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1993 09:20:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kermit's Buddy! <[e-mail]>
Subject: PPD 4.x ??

hey folks!

Is there a utility that converts a 3.0 PPD to 4.x? I'd like to use the
LaserWriter 8.0 chooser device for 'all' my printers (lab). I have
attempted to modify the 3.0 driver for use with the LW 8 chooser device,
however that hasn't quite worked.


-Bob Martin -- [e-mail] or [e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1993 8:32:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Bruce Goldstein, [phone]" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Problem with MacX and TCP/IP (R)

Summary of problem:Jens Eickhoff ([e-mail]) writes that he can
use DECNET and MacX to connect to his VAX (software supplied with Pathworks)
but that using TCPIP and MacX to connect fails.  The solution is documented
in the MacX/Pathworks somewhere, but this documentation is quite lengthy and
it is easy to miss.  The problem is that a VAX running VMS does not trace
back the address of the calling system the way it does with DECNET.  Here
is the solution.

First, make sure that MacTCP itself is working OK (you can telnet elsewhere,
you can get address from local nameserver, etc.).  Suppose you want to
open a DEC Windows session on your Mac.  In your home directory on the
VAX create a file which for clarity is called DECW_CREATE_SESSION.COM
This file should contain the following:

$ SET DISPLAY /CREATE /NODE=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx /TRANSPORT=TCPIP
$ SPAWN RUN SYS$SYSTEM:DECW$SESSION
$ EXIT

Here, xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the TCP/IP address of your Mac.  Then, within
MacX, the command that you execute should be:

@DECW_CREATE_SESSION.COM

That's all there is to it.  Also, be sure that you are using the MacTCP
Tool when configuring the connection to the host.

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Date: Wed, 01 Sep 93 11:37:10 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Quickey 3.0

>Does QK 3.0 really use significantly less RAM?

The QK extensions themselves seem to use less RAM. There si now a control
panel (Quickeys) and a Quickeys Toolbox installed. Quickeys Toolbox is always
running (it starts everytime you restart) and takes about 320K the way i have
it configured.

I still have'nt figured out if it takes less RAM in total.
I do have to say that the new interface is much nicer and the QK extensions a
lot more powerful. There are some conditionals ,jump and gosub extensions.

You did'nt ask but if you had, it is worth upgrading.
sk

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Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1993 09:25:13 +0000 (U)
From: George Tempel <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re- Thumbnail

              Re: Thumbnail
Thanks to all who so willingly helped in sending
me a copy of Thumbnail...i'll play around with it
and check it out to see if it'll do what/how i want.

george

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Date: 01 Sep 93 16:45:51 EDT
From: Charlie Summers <[e-mail]>
Subject: Sony Monitor Help!

Folks;

   Got a problem...

   Ordered a Sony monitor, got it today. Discovered when it got here that the
1320 is a VGA monitor with a DB15-HDP. The XCEED 24-bit card on my SE/30
requires a DB-15P.

   Two questions:

   1) Can I use this monitor (clames to be a VGA monitor) with the XCEED
   card?

   2) If so, any kind soul have the pinouts so I can make a cable?

   Much thanks in advance; please reply to [e-mail], as I am
somewhat behind in reading the digests...

     Charlie Summers

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Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1993 15:20:54 -0600 (CST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Stylewriter II Driver

To use Stylewriter Driver II with SW I you need installation discs.
If using System 6.0.7 or 8 you go to Customize. For background
printing
you need Backgrounder in System Folder, and you must load TrueType
Init even if only using ATM fonts. But, does anyone know if you need
32-bit Quickdraw (on Classic with 4 mgs). I imagine you need on some
machines. Also, good idea to use Stylewriter Hack+ in archive to
disable cartridge cleaning on Stylewriter I which should not be used.
Thanks to all for your assistance. Dr. Marvin R. Bensman, Memphis
State University (to be University of Memphis next year).

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Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1993 09:57:11 -0400
From: Arel Yizhak Weisberg <[e-mail]>
Subject: Stylewriter II driver with a Stylewriter I

After putting the Stylewriter II driver in my extensions folder and rebooting
and then selecting it from the Chooser I get a message that I need a new
version of the Chooser.  I'm running System 7.1 with the hardware update 2.0
on a Mac LC 10/40 w/FPU.  Is there a new chooser out there? If so can I
download it from somewhere?  If not, what am I doing wrong?

BTW, the driver I'm trying to use has been modified with the SWII hack on
Sumex

Thanks in advance,
Arel Weisberg
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1993 11:46:19 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Marc Bizer)
Subject: trash can won't un-swell

Hi everyone,
    I put an item in the trash, chose "empty," but the can is still
swollen. Background trashing is off (I have CopyDoubler 2.0.1). Rebuilding
the desktop or restarting fixes the problem. Can anyone help me? Do I have
to reformat?
    Thanks.
    Yours truly,
    Marc Bizer

P.S. Please respond directly and post to the digest

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Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1993 13:49:36 -0500
From: "Tom Wilson" <[e-mail]> (Tom Wilson)
Subject: Viewer for .src with HGopher

Do any of you multi-platform Gopher users know of a suitable viewer for the
.src databases that are so prevalent on WAIS?  Apparently the Mac platform
handles it transparently, but the PC have to be told.  Anyone know for
sure?

<[e-mail]>

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Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1993 17:22:30 GMT
From: Sven Guckes <[e-mail]>
Subject: What happened over the summer?

[e-mail] writes:

>Now I'm hearing about all sorts of wacky and wonderful new things
>(speech manager?) ...

I think this SpeechManager has become some hell of a FAQ.
Could we have an info collection with the next FAQ, please?
Or a seperate FAQ that lists the new applications that make use of it, too?

Sven :)

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Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1993 11:31:24 -0400
From: Normand Beaudoin <[e-mail]>

Subject: Microsoft Word or Nisus?

I plan to buy, learn, and use a word processor, particularly
for a doctoral thesis which will contain text, graphics and
pictures. I have a limited time for that job, so I absolutely
must not do a mistake with the choice of the word
processor I will use. Is there other word processors better
than Word or Nisus? What Nisus can do that Word cannot and
vice versa? Which one should I choose?????

Thank you very much!

Normand Beaudoin

[e-mail]

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