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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 94 11:19:53 PST
From: The Info-Mac Moderators <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Info-Mac Digest V12 #27
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Info-Mac Digest             Thu, 17 Feb 94       Volume 12 : Issue 27

Today's Topics:

      [*] Dateline 44
      [*] FrontDoor v1.1
      [*] HomerIRC_0.93.3.sit.hqx
      [*] MacGhostscript 2.5.2b3 Integrated No Font Release
      [*] MacGhostscript 2.5.2b3 Integrated Release
      [*] MacGhostscript 2.5.2b3 Integrated Source Release
      [*] Sound Master 1.7.4
      [*] SoundTrecker20eng4.sit.hqx
      [*] Symbionts 2.3.3
      [*] Symbionts 2.3.3 patch
      [*] Using Hypermedia to Navigate the Info Highway
      [*] ZapTheMenus XCMD Resent!
      [*] ZoomToCursor_FKEY_1.0.2
      "Unrecoverable disk error on file" (A)
      (A) INIT icon running off screen
      (A) Zapping PRAM
      *Think Before You Zap!*
      [Q] Adding sound to Power Point Presentations
      Accessing Internet through a Firewall (A)
      Accessing Internet through a Firewall (R)
      A closing Startup Screen the Answer
      Aliases, Repair of
      Apple CD300: device driver to hook it to a PC (q)
      AppleScript 1.0 to 1.1 updater?
      Appletalk over Ethernet (actually IP)
      Applications "lost" after desktop rebuilt
      APS response
      Best Shareware Payment
      Calculator DA replacements(A)
      Calculator DA replacements [A]
      CD Cataloger?
      Changing date modified/created on Mac files
      Chemical Compound Drawing
      ClarisWorks 2.0
      Composing E-mail Replies.
      Control Mac from PC?
      Crichton
      DA ID#'s
      DA ID Numbers
      Database
      Drag & Drop dosen't work with DropPS [Q]
      FaberFinder (Q)
      Finding Fabrizio Oddone?
      Folder from Hell
      Fried modem port?
      ftp.apple.com (Q)
      Gopher Tunnels into Resources (comment)
      How do you set default margins in Word 5.1 (Q)
      Info-Mac access via AFS?
      Info-Mac CD Profits (C)
      Is Typeit4Me author still supporting it?
      Jeopardy! for Mac
      Looking for a Mac file
      LZW decompression from Unix->Mac
      Mac Backup Device (8mm DAT or 4mm DAT)
      mathematica non-FPU version.
      Modems w/ RJ-45 Connections
      Mosaic/PPP (Q)
      MS Excel macro for two-way anova with unequal sizes
      MSWord Printing problem with Pasted Drawing (A)
      PB Cables
      Pinnacle R-CD Audio Formats Question
      PowerPC NON-upgrade for si?
      Printing PostScript file to Printer [A]
      Quicken-Another source for checks?
      Quicken-Another source for checks? (C) (2 msgs)
      RamDoubler/Stacker problem
      RAM Doubler; the discussion continues
      RamDoubler and Maxima compatible?
      security apps
      SITcomm (2 msgs)
      SQL Server Connectivity for Macintosh
      SupraFaxModem 144LC features
      System 7.1 v2.0.1 and NowToolBox v4

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Date: 16 Feb 1994 08:05:00 -0600 (CST)
From: "Robert E. Malick" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Dateline 44

Here is Dateline 44 from AOL (Star Trek interest with reviews of*
recently released commercial games, including Mac versions)...*
*
Enjoy,*
Rob Malick*
*
[e-mail]*
*

[Archived as /info-mac/per/dateline-44.txt; 23K]

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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 08:21:52 --100
From: [e-mail] (Brian K. Jacobsen)
Subject: [*] FrontDoor v1.1

FrontDoor v1.1 (C) 1994 by Brian K. Jacobsen

The alternative way of connecting to appleshare-servers :-)

Features:
* Mount the volumes, which the user have access to, from up to 16
preselected servers.
  - which can be placed in different zones !!!!! -
* ChangePassword on all servers which supports this
* Password protected preferencepart
* Optional: Paste ownername into username
* Optional: Allow guestaccess
* Optional: Change name of booting harddisk
 - the Optional's are set on/off in the preference-part

Shareware:
1 Licens: US$25
Site Licens: US$100

System requirements:
* System 7 and up (It has been tested under the danish versions of 7.0,
7.0.1 & 7.1)
* A network with access to one or more AppleShare servers
  (Supports AFPServer 1.1, 2.0 & 2.1)
* If using zones, then Phase 2

Documents are in Microsoft Word v5.1 & ASCII

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/front-door-11.hqx; 57K]

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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 94 15:02:17 EST
From: [e-mail] (The Hapless Knuckledragger)
Subject: [*] HomerIRC_0.93.3.sit.hqx

This here's Homer 0.93.3, a Mac IRC client.  IRC is the
Internet Relay Chat, a way to talk in a pretty much real-time
fashion to thousands of other people all around the world.
Homer tries to provide a friendly Mac-like interface to the
IRC jungle.  It features a funky-looking full-color interface
with all sorts of interesting buttons to push and things to
do.  You get to see little icon faces of other users, you can
have Homer speak to you (if you have Apple's Speech Manager
installed), and lots more.  Two versions of Homer are
included, one for people who use MacTCP-type connections to
the Internet, and one for people who dial into their unix
account using a modem.

This version of Homer requires a 68020 or better.  You can
FTP to zaphod.ee.pitt.edu if you need a version which runs on
a 68000-based Mac.

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/homer-0933.hqx; 1138K]

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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 94 18:41:44 PST
From: [e-mail] (Martin Fong)
Subject: [*] MacGhostscript 2.5.2b3 Integrated No Font Release

15 February 1994

This is a convenience re-release of MacGS 2.5.2b3 that *does not*
include fonts.  It also includes an 68020/FPU version and MacGS Menu
INIT.  If you've already gone through the trouble of integrating the
incremental release of 2.5.2b3 into the MacGS 2.5.2b2 distribution,
this release is identical.

     ...Martin Fong                     [e-mail]
     Senior Software Engineer           [phone]
     SRI International, EJ209
     333 Ravenswood Avenue
     Menlo Park, CA    94025

[Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/mac-ghostscript-252b3-no-fonts.hqx; 947K]

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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 94 18:41:23 PST
From: [e-mail] (Martin Fong)
Subject: [*] MacGhostscript 2.5.2b3 Integrated Release

15 February 1994

This is a convenience re-release of MacGS 2.5.2b3 that includes fonts.
It also includes an 68020/FPU version and MacGS Menu INIT.  If you've
already gone through the trouble of integrating the incremental
release of 2.5.2b3 into the MacGS 2.5.2b2 distribution, this release
is identical.

     ...Martin Fong                     [e-mail]
     Senior Software Engineer           [phone]
     SRI International, EJ209
     333 Ravenswood Avenue
     Menlo Park, CA    94025

[Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/mac-ghostscript-252b3.hqx; 3057K]

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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 94 18:40:38 PST
From: [e-mail] (Martin Fong)
Subject: [*] MacGhostscript 2.5.2b3 Integrated Source Release

15 February 1994

This is a convenience re-release of MacGS 2.5.2b3 source code that
includes the code for MacGS Menu INIT.  If you've already gone through
the trouble of integrating the incremental release of 2.5.2b3 into the
MacGS 2.5.2b2 source code distribution, this release is identical.

     ...Martin Fong                     [e-mail]
     Senior Software Engineer           [phone]
     SRI International, EJ209
     333 Ravenswood Avenue
     Menlo Park, CA    94025

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/src/mac-ghostscript-252b3-c.hqx; 1694K]

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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 94 18:31:52 EST
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Sound Master 1.7.4

This is the eagerly awaited (by me anyway) update of Sound Master. The list
of changes from 1.7.3 is lengthy and included in the submission. From my
admittedly warped perspective, the best thing about the new version is that
I now get my startup sound under the new Sound Manager. It warms my cockles,
whatever they may be, to hear an apparently sweet young thing say "Hello,
master. What can I do for you today?" upon startup. Not very politically
correct, to be sure, but cockle warming.

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/util/sound-master-174.hqx; 63K]

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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 01:35:40 -0800 (PST)
From: San Andreas Barnert <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] SoundTrecker20eng4.sit.hqx

Hey, nifty, SoundTrecker 2.0! Oh no, it's all in German....

Not anymore! Now you too can use all the nifty new features of
SoundTrecker 2.0 without knowing a word of German (except Heizkorper,
which means radiator).

The SoundTrecker->English 3 patch was a good start, but there are some
mistakes and many things left untranslated (such as the shareware message
in the about box). This version contains all new mistakes by a different
translator, and much less stuff is left untranslated.

The manual and license are, unfortunately, still in German only. However,
there is a brief English-language doc file which will hopefully suffice
for now.

If anyone out there can complete the translation, or create a patch file
to turn version 2.0, 2.0e, and 2.0e3 into 2.0eng4, please contact me.

Andrew Barnert
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/util/sound-trecker-20-us.hqx; 190K]

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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 94 16:20:17 EST
From: Kevin Hardman -- Personal Account <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Symbionts 2.3.3

Symbionts is an extension that monitors the startup process.  Symbionts
displays the name and number of bytes of memory each system extension
allocates from the system heap.  The name and number appear beneath the
extension's icon, and since the name is usually truncated, Symbionts also
displays it in the menu bar.  Symbionts even shows the icons for those
extensions that don't normally reveal themselves.

Symbionts Control is a control panel that sets the preferences for the
Symbionts extension.  It also allows the review of the information collected
by the Symbionts extension.  Additionally, the control panel is used to
manage the loading of system extensions without having to dig around in the
System folder.  Extensions can be enabled and disabled simply by
double-clicking on the extension icon and name.

Version 2.3.3 corrects the following problems.

- Fixed problems with Quadra 840AV (although the extension sizes may not be
  exact with some ROM versions).
- Fixed incompatibility with Jasik's "The Debugger" who overlays low-memory
  globals used by the extension loader.
- Fixed problem with the Symbionts Control control panel which would hang on
  some machines if the desktop database was missing system icons.

--Kevin

[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/symbionts-233.hqx; 98K]

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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 94 16:22:38 EST
From: Kevin Hardman -- Personal Account <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Symbionts 2.3.3 patch

Symbionts is an extension that monitors the startup process.  Symbionts
displays the name and number of bytes of memory each system extension
allocates from the system heap.  The name and number appear beneath the
extension's icon, and since the name is usually truncated, Symbionts also
displays it in the menu bar.  Symbionts even shows the icons for those
extensions that don't normally reveal themselves.

Symbionts Control is a control panel that sets the preferences for the
Symbionts extension.  It also allows the review of the information collected
by the Symbionts extension.  Additionally, the control panel is used to
manage the loading of system extensions without having to dig around in the
System folder.  Extensions can be enabled and disabled simply by
double-clicking on the extension icon and name.

This patch updates Symbionts 2.3, 2.3.1, 2.3.1f1, 2.3.2, 2.3.3b1, and 2.3.3b2
to the current version 2.3.3.

Version 2.3.3 corrects the following problems.

- Fixed problems with Quadra 840AV (although the extension sizes may not be
  exact with some ROM versions).
- Fixed incompatibility with Jasik's "The Debugger" who overlays low-memory
  globals used by the extension loader.
- Fixed problem with the Symbionts Control control panel which would hang on
  some machines if the desktop database was missing system icons.

--Kevin

| B. Kevin Hardman                    | Internet: [e-mail]     |

[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/symbionts-233-updt.hqx; 60K]

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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 01:07:00 -0500
From: "GARY E. SADAVAGE" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Using Hypermedia to Navigate the Info Highway

Enclosed is a folder that I would like to submit for inclusioc software
archive.  It contains the presentation "Using Hypermedia to Navigate the
Information Highway of Interactive Technology" and MS PowerPoint Viewer.
The presentation was given at the annual meeting of the Association for
Educationbal Communications and Technology in Nashville, TN. If at all
possible I would like the archive to be stored in "/info-mac/Information"
as "Info-Highway.hqx".  It is a self-extracting archive.

Thanks!
Gary Sadavage

[Archived as /info-mac/info/nms/info-highway.hqx; 386K]

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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 18:04:24 -0600
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] ZapTheMenus XCMD Resent!

Welcome HyperTalk developers!

ZapTheMenus is a HyperCard external command that will erase the menu bar
in HyperCard 2.1 and 2.2 stacks.

All access to menus and menu items is no more possible in either English
and French versions of HyperCard. It even check for the new Color Menu
in HyperCard version 2.2

J.-Robert Thibault Ph.D.

[Archived as /info-mac/card/zap-the-menus.hqx; 122K]

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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 19:57:53 -0500
From: [e-mail] (David Kreindler)
Subject: [*] ZoomToCursor_FKEY_1.0.2

ZoomToCursor FKEY v1.0.2

My housemate just got a new PowerBook Duo 230, which she loves except for
the problem of the cursor sometimes being hard to find on the supertwist
(FSTN) liquid-crystal display. So I wrote a little FKEY for her.

ZoomToCursor is sort of like the homing device from a bad science-fiction
movie. When you press its key combination (cmd-shift-0), it quickly draws a
set of bold concentric circles of decreasing size onto the screen, centered
on the cursor. The effect is a little like the way the Finder "zooms"
windows open and closed, except without the Finder's subtlety.

Because ZoomToCursor is an FKEY, you need a copy of ResEdit or Resourcerer
to install it into your System file. If you are already using the
cmd-shift-0 combination, you can change ZoomToCursor's resource ID to
something else (preferably between 5 and 9).

ZoomToCursor FKEY is copyright =A91994 David Kreindler. All rights reserved.
ZoomToCursor is distributed under the freeware principal. You may copy it
and redistribute it freely, but you may not sell it, modify it or combine
it with a commercial product. That prohibition includes distribution on
CD-ROM.

If you like ZoomToCursor, send email to my housemate: [e-mail]
or to me: [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/zoom-to-cursor-102-fkey.hqx; 6K]

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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 08:56:43 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Juan M. Courcoul)
Subject: "Unrecoverable disk error on file" (A)

On 11 Feb 1994 11:01:55 +0000 (GMT), "F.J. Lalor" wrote:

>On scrolling through a Word 5.0 document I found that a table
>had becom badly mangled and at that point got the following
>rather apocalyptic error message (the items in round brackets
>are descriptions of symbols which I cannot reproduce in e-mail):
>
>Unrecoverable disk error on file:
...
>
>Unless I quit myself Word usually quits spontaneously at this
>point. Norton Utilities finds nothing amiss. Can anyone tell me
>what might have caused this problem and whether there is any
>way of fixing the file?

Due to some unfortunate reason, the file was corrupted on the disk.  This might
have
been due to a bad disk/diskette, a AC line spike while it was being written, a
bug in
a backgrounded application, a virus, bad karma, etc. In our experience, the
most
common point of corruption is where some external object was inserted (an Excel
graph
or table, a picture, an equation, etc.).

Perhaps some hotshot Microsoft wizard can come up with a utility to automate
this
recovery recipe, but what we've done is determine the exact spot where the
error
occurs. This entails crashing Word a couple of times, in order to establish
this from
both ends of the file, starting from the top and from the bottom of a copy of
the
damaged file. Once this is done, you place the insertion point as close to that
point
as you can, going from top to bottom, then go to the end of the file and scroll
back
as near as possible. Shift-clicking will select the damaged area, that can then
be
deleted, rendering most of the file usable.

Another approach is working with two copies. On the first one, you place the
insertion point as close to the error as possible, starting from top, then
delete the
rest of the file. On the second one, you start from the bottom and delete to
the
beginning, then you join the two surviving halves.

Basically, the trick is scrolling as close to the error as possible, without
letting
it be scrolled onto the visible region, which would cause Word to crash. With a
little luck and deft touch, you can usually get away with losing half a page or
less
(the area occupied by the corrupted external object), which is certainly much
better
than losing the whole document!

Hope this helps.

Juan

P.S. Before I forget to mention this, it is an excellent idea to check out your
disk
immediately after Word or any other application crashes, using Disk First Aid
or
another good directory checker. This catches most directory corruption problems
at
the onset, before more serious damage and data loss occurs. DFA can be run in
"Verify
only" mode, if the system didn't crash; if damage is found, you can then reboot
using
the Disk Tools diskette to carry out the needed repairs. Norton can usually
carry out
repairs without needing to reboot.

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Date: 17 Feb 94 07:51:14 EST
From: Stephen Sayer <[e-mail]>
Subject: (A) INIT icon running off screen

>>I used to use IconWrap 1.2 (latest version I can find) to control the
>>display of startup icons, but under System 7, it doesn't seem to make
>>much difference.

You may wish to try Symbionts Control, which is a startup file manager but also
allows one to select what the author calls a new and improved icon display
format. I would agree with the author about it being an improvement. Basically
it shows extensions and control panels as they load in a very tidy white
background area at the bottom of the screen that scrolls up as more rows are
needed. It also shows the amount of memory each is using below the icon,
optionally shows the name under the icon and/or in the menu bar as they load,
optionally allows one to see items that don't normally display icons at startup
and last but certainly not least, shows the total system heap space used once
everything's been loaded. As if that weren't enough, it's a heck of a startup
document manager as well! A very elegant solution, IMHO.

Stephen Sayer
Sysop, Hijinx - 313-747-8352
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

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Date: 17 Feb 94 07:51:23 EST
From: Stephen Sayer <[e-mail]>
Subject: (A) Zapping PRAM

Holding down the command-option combination to rebuild desktops only works when
the Finder is trying to mount the volume in question and it brings up a
confirmation dialog so there's little worry of doing this unintentionally. When
sapping the PRAM, one needs to start or restart the Mac then immediately hold
the command-option-p-r key combination until the happy Mac icon comes up and
then the Mac bongs again and begins the restart sequence, at which time the
keys
should be released. I think you'll find no conflict between these two
exercises.

Stephen Sayer
Sysop, Hijinx - 313-747-8352
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

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Date: 17 Feb 94 06:56:43 EST
From: Stephen Sayer <[e-mail]>
Subject: *Think Before You Zap!*

>> Zapping the PRAM from the keyboard leaves that information untouched,
>> whereas the software zaps all 256 bytes.

In version 1.0.3 of TechTool, this issue has been addressed. TechTool stores
the
manufacture date and hours of use in an extension which restores those 4 bytes
into PRAM during the reboot following zapping the PRAM and then removes the
extension from your hard disk automatically.

It's so easy to get burned by blanket statements, isn't it?  ;)

Along with your caution regarding monitor settings there are other items users
may wish to reset following a PRAM zap as well. 32 bit addressing will usually
need to be turned back on in the Memory control panel and with older versions
of
Apple's Networking software (pre 1.4.1 I believe), ethernet will need to be
reselected in the Network control panel (if you're on ethernet of course).

Stephen Sayer
"When in doubt, RTFM!"
Sysop, Hijinx - 313-747-8352
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 13:32:20 +0000
From: [e-mail] (Michael Mitchell)
Subject: [Q] Adding sound to Power Point Presentations

I would like to add some sound(s) to an automatic slide show in Power
Point.
Has anybody got any ideas, help etc... the manual is as clear as mud.

Please reply by email, if enough people reply and there's enough interest,
I will endevour to compile and post a summary.

Thanx in advance,

Michael Mitchell

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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 11:02:50 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Kee Nethery [phone])
Subject: Accessing Internet through a Firewall (A)

>Has anyone out there been able to access the Internet through a firewall ?
>What we have is a Unix machine through which you can access the Internet
>services including Telnet, FTP, Gopher, etc. But this is done only through a
>VT100 emulation terminal. The Unix machine is connected to the internal
>network of our organization. So I can telnet to the Unix box from my
>Macintosh as well as my PC but not to the Internet. Is there anyway that I
>can use the graphical front end of Mosaic or Gopher on my Mac (or PC) and
>still be able to access the Internet ? Has any one attempted to tunnel
>through a firewall ? Any help would be appreciated ! Thx.

A firewall's purpose is to slow down someone who might be trying to break
into your corporate network from the internet. By their very nature, they
need to be difficult to get through. For this reason, many firewalls are
homebrewed on site. A cracker tries to get through it and since it is new
code to them, it will take them much longer to break through it.

So, when you ask "Has anyone out there been able to access the Internet
through a firewall?" the answer is "ours does that, how come yours
doesn't?"

The only way you are going to get through your firewall is if the powers
that be at ARCO decide to allow you to gain access through their firewall.
They have to rig it with that functionality.

Here are several technological ways they could do that.

They could change their code to allow connections initiated on the ARCO
side of the firewall to happen as long as the connection is active and the
machine on the ARCO side is in a database of valid machines.

They could have you telnet into the firewall access machine before trying
to get through. You would enter your firewall access password, and then for
a period of some time, it would allow connections from your machine to pass
through.

They could install a filtering router as a firewall bypass and individually
enter machine addresses that are allowed to communicate through the
filtering router.

Etc.

There are as many schemes for allowing access through a firewall as there
are firewalls. Basically it is a political problem not a technological
problem. If all you users at ARCO start a concerted effort to convince
management that this is something that needs to happen, it will.

Kee Nethery

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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 12:30:09 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Vinko Tsui [phone])
Subject: Accessing Internet through a Firewall (R)

>Has anyone out there been able to access the Internet through a firewall ?
>What we have is a Unix machine through which you can access the Internet
>services including Telnet, FTP, Gopher, etc. But this is done only through a
>VT100 emulation terminal. The Unix machine is connected to the internal
>network of our organization. So I can telnet to the Unix box from my
>Macintosh as well as my PC but not to the Internet. Is there anyway that I
>can use the graphical front end of Mosaic or Gopher on my Mac (or PC) and
>still be able to access the Internet ? Has any one attempted to tunnel
>through a firewall ? Any help would be appreciated ! Thx.
>
>Cheers

Subbarayudu,

I think I'm not quite clear on the exact problem you're having. Do you have
MacTCP from Apple installed? If you do than you should be able to use
Fetch, Turbo Gopher, NCSA Telnet, Mosaic and a like to acomplish all your
Internet needs.

I currently use all of the above for the various Internet access at my
client site; who also has a firewall for their Unix network.

I hope this helps!

-- Vinko

Vinko Enterprises, Oakville, Ontario, Canada, [e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 94 07:22:21 EST
From: Jeff <[e-mail]>
Subject: A closing Startup Screen the Answer

Thanks to [e-mail] I solved my closing startup screen problem.
basicaly My PRAM had a different monitor depth setting then my Monitors
control panel.  Probably due to a crash after using a video editing program.
Just reset your colors in the monitor cojntrol panel, to something else,
then set your colors back to the color you prefer.

Thaniks

Jeff

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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 09:35:52 +0000
From: Benjamin Grossman <Benjamin_Grossman@DATA_PROCESS>
Subject: Aliases, Repair of

Does anyone know of a modern, working utility for repairing Aliases?
    I have had to drop Alias Assassin because of memory errors and AliasBOSS
because of System Errors.
    Any specific working recomendations for System 7.1 on a 68040 would help.


Benjamin k Grossman

reply to: [e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 18:35:54 +0000 (GMT)
From: [e-mail] (Maurizio Lana)
Subject: Apple CD300: device driver to hook it to a PC (q)

Does anyone know it it exists a device driver to use the Apple CD300 from a
PC?

I think it should, because Apple sells the 300 in the Multimedia kit for
Windows
   , and because the CD300 is really a Sony CDU 541 (if I remember well).

Anyone can help me?


Many thanks.


Maurizio

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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 08:42:20 -0500 (EST)
From: Al Best <[e-mail]>
Subject: AppleScript 1.0 to 1.1 updater?

I bought "The Tao of AppleScript" and got AppleScript 1.0.
Now there is AppleScript 1.1.  How can I get an updated
version (without paying APDA full price)?

Is it somewhere where I can get it via FTP?
Can I call someone and have them ship an upgrade?
 -----------
Al Best, Dept of Biostatistics
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA 23298
804-786-9824

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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 94 01:40:51 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Matt Slot)
Subject: Appletalk over Ethernet (actually IP)

>Is it possible to log into a remote Mac (e.g. another country) over the
>ethernet and use Appletalk ie. I would like to be able to mount a remote
>disk as you can using ARA but over the network rather than a telephone
>line. I don't know if it is possible but it would be neat if it could be
>done. I imagine that if it is possible using a telephone line it should be
>possible over the ethernet.

Sorry for the long delay in responding... I am currently working on a
network extension (read adev) to connect macs (or routers) as an appletalk
network across an internet connection. (I understand that Apple Internet
Routers can do this, but there are advantages to this method) .This tool
currently works, but only with hardcoded addresses. I hope in the next week
to make a simple app to
admin the connecting of computers (and networks).

The program is called "UDPTalk" (for lack of a flashier name). The
connection speed (of computers on the same net) is about 50k/sec. I am
considering making the tool shareware, but I may decide to make go
commercial with it.

Matt Slot, Slot-Machines Software               [e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 14:20:27 -0500 (EST)
From: Bill Brideson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Applications "lost" after desktop rebuilt

Recently I rebuilt the desktop, for the first time, on the domestic Mac.
After that, when we would double-click on a document, the dialog box
"document can't be opened because the application that created it can't
be found" would appear. This happened with (at least) Fullwrite Pro 1.5s,
Aldus FreeHand 3.1, and Framemaker 3.  We were mystified.

Launching an application and then going back to the finder and double-
licking on a document created by the application would allow the docu-
ment to open just fine.  Later, I discovered that the appications could
once again be automatically located if I moved the application (program)
from the folder it lives in to any other folder or to the hard disk's
window.

This is a IIci running System 7 with the first two tune-ups (not up-
graded to 7.1 yet).  I keep an alias of each application (program) in
the hard disk's window; each application has a folder in which the
application (program) lives (I tend to do vanilla installations).

I hope this isn't a FAQ because I tried to consult all the references I
could before bothering this group, but I can't seem to find this behav-
ior explained anywhere.  Or is the "move your applications around" dance
just part of rebuilding your desktop?

Thanks in advance for *any* enlightenment!

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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 94 18:09:05 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: APS response

In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
> >i just called APS this morning to order a SCSI boy adapter for
> >my PB180; this was in response to their ad in the feb issue of
> >macworld announcing in a bright red flag "NEW LOW PRICES" and
> >a price of $19 for the SCSI boy... the sales person tried to
> >charge me $29, and i said the printed price was $19... she went
> >off to her supervisor and came back to say that it was a misprint;
> >that the price was $29... i said "well, you advertised $19" and
> >she said "we are not going to honor that advertisement."
> >
> >i find that marginal behaviour for a company; to advertise in
> >bold letters a "NEW LOW PRICE" and then claim it was a misprint...
> >even it if was a misprint and it should have been $29, then the
> >claim of lower prices was a crock...
>
> Hmmm....  Isn't it amazing, in this world of relative values, that when it
> affects us personally, we expect companies, individuals, and even
> politicians to live up to their words.  :-}

I forwarded the original complaint on to Paul McGraw, vice-president
at APS <[e-mail]>, and here's his response.

# I'm not sure how to respond. Unfortunately, when a new ad is placed
# every week or every month, there are occasional errors. Whether Mark
# agrees or finds it offensive, the reality is that all ads note that
# "all prices and specifications are subject to change without notice".
# When selling at a lower price is possible, we'll always try to
# accommodate  the customer. Intentionally selling at a loss is
# something we must try to avoid to remain viable. It's kind of
# unreasonable when we advertise hundreds of prices for very much more
# expensive products in our ads, and which Mark is also welcome to
# inquire about, that we would intentionally mislead customers over a
# $29 item. When a misprint occurs, we tell the customer it was a
# misprint. All ads are disclaimed, and I can only apologize that when
# a misprint occurs. Each ad goes through ten levels of checks, yet,
# occasionally a misprint nonetheless does occur. In the case of the
# SCSI Boy product, if Mark really feels that we've intentionally
# misled him (noting that we advertise several hundred much more highly
# priced products in any given ad and that is one of the few to have
# had an inaccurate insertion in the last year), please ask him to send
# me his address and phone and I'll be happy to provide him one at no
# charge.

Take that as you will... whether or not you agree, it seems pretty
up-front to me.

cheers ... -Adam

--
Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor -- [e-mail] -- [e-mail]
Author of The Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh -- [e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 08:56:52 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Juan M. Courcoul)
Subject: Best Shareware Payment

In v12-024, Robert L Mathews writes:
...
>I suspect you might get a rash of these reports... my best shareware
>payment was when Michael Crichton sent me a signed copy of "Sphere"
>along with $10 for Speed Beep. (This was in Sept. 1991.) Mine was
>only paperback, but he hadn't become quite so famous (and presumably
>immensely rich) by that time.

Nah, I guess he ran out of hardbounds...;-) Michael Crichton's fame and fortune
were established long before 1991: anyone remember the 60's/70's (?) thriller
"The Andromeda Strain" ? Or maybe "The Terminal Man" ?

>"Sphere" is an *excellent* book, by the way  :-)

Not surprised. Crichton's excellence, both in terms of plot as well as factual
correctness (VERY different from political correctness, mind you...;-) ) has
been consistent in virtually every work he's written.

Juan

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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 08:51:21 -0600 (CST)
From: BILL SIMPSON <[e-mail]>
Subject: Calculator DA replacements(A)

By far the best calculator I have seen (for scientist) is Dt calculator.
I got it from sumex years ago--hope it's still there because it's so
much better than others I've seen.  It is very small, works flawlessly,
and is a reverse polish calculator (like HP) which is a lot easier
to use (if you know how, that is) than the infix kind.

Bill Simpson

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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 10:57:13 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Hank Dolben)
Subject: Calculator DA replacements [A]

In Info-Mac Digest volume 12 #25, Dwight Lemke asked:

>Can someone recommend a replacement for the Calculator DA?  I am not
>looking for something that will do everything but walk the dog.

I recommend MathPad (version 2.1.5 - info-mac/sci/mathpad-215.hqx), which
is a relatively small application (can run in 150K) that evaluates
mathematical expressions in a text window rather than giving a graphical
simulation of a handheld calculator. This makes it possible to see and edit
your calculation. The truth is that it does more than you're asking for,
but the extra features really won't get in your way if you just want to do
something simple.

Disclaimer: I work and play volleyball with the author.

Regards,
Hank Dolben         Space Science Center         University of New Hampshire

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 9:28:22 EST
From: [e-mail] (Jonathan Kamien)
Subject: CD Cataloger?

 CD Cataloger?                                            2/17/94
                                   9:21 AM
I am looking for a Hypercard stack (or other program) for cataloging CD's.
As such, it should have fields for Artist, Label, tracks, etc.  If you know
of such a beast, please reply directly to [e-mail].  Thanks!!

------------------------------

Date: 16 Feb 1994 09:33:30 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Robert Poss)
Subject: Changing date modified/created on Mac files

As a former DOS/Windows user who has switched over to a Centris 650, I
have a very simple question (My apologies if this is not the proper
newsgroup for such a query....) -- I have transfered/translated many files
>From my PC to my Mac. As a result, these files all have the same "date
modified."  This, when I sort a folder's files by date,files created or
last modified in 1990 have the same recent date as files created/modified
in 1992 or whatever, and sorting by date is useless.  On my DOS machine,
there were several utilties that allowed me to quickly/simply change the
date of (re-date) my files. Does such a utility exist for the Mac, and if
so, how can I obtain it? It strikes me as a simple, useful thing to be
able to do, especially if an old file is modified to correct an error
later discovered and one wants to still have the file's effective date to
correspond with the date of its creation.  Thanks.

------------------------------

Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 22:52:44 +0000
From: [e-mail] (Martin Stoermer)
Subject: Chemical Compound Drawing

CSC Chemdraw is by far and away the best chemical structure drawing program
around.  Made by Canbridge Scientific Computing, they have an email support
line too.  Contact them at:  Cambridge Scientific Computing, Inc,
            875 Massachusetts Avenue, Sixth Floor
            Cambridge, Mass 02139 USA
            Phone: [phone]
            Fax: [phone]
            email: [e-mail]

I don't have the latest prices for Chemdraw 3.0 (a.k.a. Chemdraw Plus), but
it's pretty expensive.  A cheaper alternative is a program called Beaker by
Brooks/Cole publishing.  It is a student teaching aid mostly, and does moe
than just structures, for around $60.

Brooks/Cole Publishing
511 Forest Lodge Road
Pacific Grove, CA 93950-5098
Phone: [phone]

Martin Stoermer, 3D Centre, University of Queensland, AUSTRALIA

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 06:58:01 -0800 (PST)
From: Richard Lim <[e-mail]>
Subject: ClarisWorks 2.0

In Info-Mac Digest #24, Pete Chane wrote
 >I run Monitor (watches all running processes) on my 660.  I have 8 apps
 >running in addition to the Finder and Express Modem.  When the Monitor
 >program is in the foreground, it lists ClarisWorks 2.0 as taking up 70-80%
 >of CPU even when it has no windows open and is hidden in the background.
 >Now, I love ClarisWorks 2.0 and I use it for everything, but what's the
 >deal?

Well much as I like ClarisWorks, I have to say I find it can be just that
little bit sluggish for what it is. This isn't inconsistent with the kind of
spurious CPU cycles Monitor attributes to it. I also find that QuickTime movies
become noticably jerky if ClarisWorks is open, even if it has no open
documents! Not even Word has such enervating effects! All of this is on an
LC475, mind, not exactly a slowish Mac. Anyone know if this behaviour
persists in ClarisWorks 2.1?

- Richard Lim - World Scientific Publishing, Singapore

------------------------------

Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 08:56:57 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Juan M. Courcoul)
Subject: Composing E-mail Replies.

On Fri, 11 Feb 94 10:48:49 EST (1548Z), MG John Fryer wrote:

>  Is  there  a  program  in  the  sumex   archives,   or   elsewhere,   that
>  automatically puts the "greater than" signs (>) in front of text  you  are
>  repeating in an e-mail reply? I notice that it's the convention  to  begin
>  a reply by repeating the originator's text, differentiating it by the  ">"
>  signs. I generally use Jolliwrite to compose responses, and I see  no  way
>  to do that. Further, when you reformat with Jolliwrite  (for  example,  to
>  justify the text within 80 characters), it would  reformat  the  >  signs,
>  and they would be all over the place.

If you use Eudora for your email needs, it has a "Paste as quotation" option,
that will do exactly what you want; matter of fact, that's how I composed this
reply. In will also reflow the text as needed, before pasting the > prefixes.

Another option would be using a desk-accessory text editor called McSink. It
has a prefix/suffix string option. It can autopaste the clipboard onto its
buffer upon opening it, let you munge the contents as needed, then autopaste it
back to the clipboard upon closing, which practically automates the process.

Last I checked, Sumex had the latest version, 7-something, an '88 venerable
pre-System7 relic (pre System6, for that matter !), which was quite happy to
run even on 7Pro. Goes to prove that good, well-written programs never die !

JMC

------------------------------

Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 16:25:20 -0800
From: Charles Chia-Hsing Hsieh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Control Mac from PC?

I'm going to have a PC and a Mac sitting on my desk and would like to
control my Mac from PC.  Basically I would like to run a program on PC
that displays Mac's desktop and controls it.  I prefer this program to
be a DOS program, although it probably has to be a Windows program.

Charles C. Hsieh

------------------------------

Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 22:48:04 EST
From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Crichton

What do we know about Michael Crichton?

   1.  He is a weathly, successful author.
   2.  He is a big Macintosh user.
   3.  His Mac (plus his talent) has made him famous.
   4.  He pays his shareware fees.

We should all do so well!  :-)

Jeffrey Fritz
[e-mail]
West Virginia University

------------------------------

Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 13:13:24 -0800 (PST)
From: TW <[e-mail]>
Subject: DA ID#'s

I am trying to get a SupraFAX Modem 144LC with the silent answer feature
to work properly in conjunction with my Panasonic answering machine.
When there are no messages, the answering machine answers on the forth
ring.  The FAXmodem is set to answer on the fifth ring.  When the modem
picks up (goes off hook), it listens for the CNG FAX signal.  If it hears
it, it is supposed to connect, but if it hears voices, it hangs up.

It isn't working that way.  The tech support says it should be working
fine.  It has worked from time to time, but not consistently.

I am wondering if two DA's have the same ID number, does it cause a
conflict of the DA's sharing the same number?  For example, by FaxStatus
is ID#12 and so is Suitcase II.  I am using system 6.08  on a Mac SE with
4megs of RAM and 105 meg hard drive with 5 megs free.

------------------------------

Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 13:33:20 -0800 (PST)
From: TW <[e-mail]>
Subject: DA ID Numbers

If two DA's have the same ID number, does that cause a conflict that
makes the DA's act up?  For example my FaxStatus is at 12 and so is
SuitecaseII

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 94 00:22:44 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Database

I am looking for a shareware database. It does not have to be very fancy at all
. The last database I used was called PC-File and something that simple would s
uit my needs just fine, but something with a little more jazz and a Mac interfa
ce would be nice. :)

------------------------------

Date: 16 Feb 1994 07:10:04 -0700
From: "John.Reed Maffeo" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Drag & Drop dosen't work with DropPS [Q]

I installed DropPS on my Centris 650 and it works great. I drag a file
over the icon, drop it and it prints. When I try to run it on my
co-worker's Centris 650, drag and drop does not work. I installed the
program three different ways:
1. Copied it to our Novell file server from my machine, then copied
   it from the server to the new machine.
2. Copied it to a diskette from my machine and then copied it to the
   new machine.
3. Copied the stuffed file from my machine and then copied it to the
   new machine and unstuffed it there.

I can print on the new machine using
the pull down menus. I can not drag and drop when the program is
on a diskette on my machine.

I would appreciate any enlightenment you can provide.

------------------------------

Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 20:29 EST
From: Don't Panic! <[e-mail]>
Subject: FaberFinder (Q)

Dear Netters,
I recentally remember reading in the digest something about the System 7
emergency disk called FaberFinder.  It was supposedly around 700k.  I tried
archie and veronica and couldn't find it.  Could someone please let me know if
such a beast exists somewhere in the world of anonymous FTP or Gopher, and
send me the site to communicate with?  E-mail info is preferable.  BTW if
you plan to send it binhexed as a favor, send it to my [e-mail]
internet address.  Thank you.
Sincerely,
[e-mail] (smaller than 50k e-mail quota)
[e-mail] (anything larger than 50k)

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 94 08:42:08 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Finding Fabrizio Oddone?

Try one of the following:

[e-mail]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

pls note that this address is in use by more than one person, so specify to
whom you want to address the message...

HTH
    Paolo

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 94 10:31:26 +0100
From: [e-mail] (=?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F8rn?= Erik
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Wennerstr=F8m?=)
Subject: Folder from Hell

Hello netters

Thanks to the net community for responses about a remedy for the=
 infamous
=46FH. The majority of the replies mentioned Hell Folder Fix - a=
 small
utility that fixes whatever it is - probably something in the directory
structure - which renders a given folder undeleteable.=20
Al Bloom <[e-mail]> was so kind as to attach the utility=
 so I
could try it out at once. It worked beautifully. I have been unsuccessful
in finding Hell Folder Fix anywhere on the net, so I ll upload it=
 to SUMEX
for the rest of you.=20
=46rom  [e-mail] I got the following:

> Try booting from floppy and then trashing folder and  let me know=
=20
> what happens.

Thanks, for the advice but I never got around to trying the advice.=
 I ll do
that the next time.=20

> [e-mail] (Wayne P. Robarge) writes:

>I do not have an
>answer but will pass along my experience with one of these
>beasts a number of years ago.  The Stuffit updater for one the
>versions they released was well known for generating one of the
>folders from Hell if you had any extensions running in background.
>The only solution that appeared to work was to set up a macro that
>would drag folders to the trash and then let it cycle until all=
 of the
>folders were gone.  It took somewhere over 2000 iterations on my
>SE before it finally was gone.  Others folders as deep as 15,000=
 were
>reported on the net.
>
>Of course you could always reformat the harddisk, but this is only=
 as a
>last resort.
>
>Good Luck!

Best,

Joern Wennerstroem      :-)

<[e-mail]>



Venlig hilsen,

J|rn Wennerstr|m

    :-)

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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 07:11:28 -0800 (PST)
From: Richard Lim <[e-mail]>
Subject: Fried modem port?

On the eve of Chinese New Year my Supra modem died during a
horrendous lightning storm (it has been very wet here in Singapore for
February!). Apparently it wasn't just the external transformer unit
that went; my dealer had to replace everything. Needless to say I
have now gone and got myself some surge protectors! Anyway, when
I got my revived modem home, I found my LC475 refused to talk to
it at all. The Mac certainly didn't seem to be seeing the modem even
at startup. However when I switched the cable from the modem port to
the serial port, everything was back to normal.

What does this mean? Is my modem port likely to have got fried, and if
so what kind of repairs to my Mac would be needed to fix it? MacCheck
doesn't explicitly raise any alarms over the modem port, and no, I
haven't chosen the wrong port in my fax/terminal software. Go on,
tell me the worst - I'm already expecting to hear it (sigh).

- Richard Lim - World Scientific Publishing, Singapore
[e-mail] (Preferred)/[e-mail]

------------------------------

Date: Wed, 16 Feb 94 10:07:43 EST
From: Tom Coradeschi <[e-mail]>
Subject: ftp.apple.com (Q)

"Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]> wrote:
>Can one or more of you Apple folk address this question? Is ftp.apple.com
>a tolerated stepchild?
>
>I ask because I very often see new Apple software announced in MacWeek or
>even worse announced as available on the Washington Apple Pi BBS in the
>printed WAP Journal, but the stuff doesn't show at the ftp site. As a
>recent example, the February WAPJ says that the CD-ROM 4.05 software is
>available on the user group BBS. Ftp.apple.com shows the 4.02 version.
>
>I recall a MacWeek notice of a new 7.1 updater of some stripe (Can y'all
>please stop? Every time I rebuild my system, I have to throw in 4 or 5
>updater disks after the install. Naughtywording goofy.) No new updater is
>in ftp.apple.com.
>
>Ftp.apple.com is far from useless. But is seems to be far from current.
>I, and maybe others on this forum, would appreciate knowing what's going
>on. Any enlightenment much appreciated.

Sorry for all the included text, but it seems appropriate to leave it be.

I do not work for Apple (no big surprise there), but can provide some
insight into ftp.apple.com. Apple paid for the hardware (a IIci), software
(A/UX) and the IP connection. That's about it (OK, the electricity to run
it, too).

All the work on supporting and maintaining the host is done on a purely
volunteer basis. The lead guy on this effort is Mark Johnson, who, last I
heard, was traipsing all over Europe, doing what Apple pays him to do.

So, the bottom line is: You can get it from ftp.apple.com. But you'll
probably have to wait for it. If you can't wait, go to your dealer and bust
him to get it off AppleLink (only a half-serious suggestion:-})

        tom coradeschi    <+>    [e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 94 09:39:18 PST
From: Paul Brians <[e-mail]>
Subject: Gopher Tunnels into Resources (comment)

The talk about looking for on-line dictionaries reminded me of a topic
I've wanted to raise for a while.  Many system administrators seem to
forget about Gopher when they are configuring new resources on
university servers.  Hence a Veronica search will locate and get you in
to a nice commercial package like the new OED until somebody notices
the draft and slams the door--usually in a week or two.  Depending on
what gopher client the user is employing, he/she may not even be aware
what server has mounted the resources being accessed, so this can be
quite innocent poaching.

However, one Canadian server (I forget which one) is programmed to give
unauthorised users an insulting message along the lines of "Thanks for
trying to illegally penetrate our server."  The authors of that message
obviously don't understand the world of gopher.  If you set one up and
it appears in people's menus, they have no reason to believe that they
shouldn't try it.

Paul Brians, Washington State University, Pullman, WA  99164-5020

------------------------------

Date: Wed Feb 16 16:03:28 1994
From: [e-mail] (Capt Jon Dagle;86OSS/DOW;480-2822;93-6194)
Subject: How do you set default margins in Word 5.1 (Q)

Does anyone know how to change the default margins in Microsoft Word (5.1) for
all new documents? I want the default to be 1-inch margins vs. the 1.25-inch
which is the standard.

Thanks in advance,


Jonathan Dagle,
Ramstein Air Base, Germany
[e-mail]

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 94 01:40:43 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Matt Slot)
Subject: Info-Mac access via AFS?

I have had considerable difficulty accessing Info-Mac resources during the
day via normal FTP or Gopher access. I am wondering how much benefit users
would find in getting AFS access to these resources? I know that there are
about 3 or 4 AFS mount points to *.stanford.edu in our /afs directory, and
so one more shouldn't be impossible?
Is there enough desire for this?

Matt

[We tried to do this, but we've been told, at stanford, that we can't, or
that it is too much trouble, or something like that (I'm not sure of the
details; I didn't make the inquery (sp?)).  You might try our mirrors.  There
is a posting on c.s.m.d and a file in the help directory (of course, you
can't get to the help directory because things are overloaded!).  This
problem is only going to become worse as more and more people join the
interent. :)  -Gordon]

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 94 16:27:06 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Sak Wathanasin)
Subject: Info-Mac CD Profits (C)

In Info-mac digests vol 12 no 25, [e-mail] (Kee Nethery) writes:

 > By my estimates, if he takes no salary and doesn't have to eat or
 > pay insurance or pay for gasoline for his car, doesn't need to
 > pay an electricity bill or rent, he breaks even after selling 353
 > copies of the CD-ROM. I sincerely hope he sells that many,

He will: we sold more than that many copies of IM2 in the UK alone, and
I expect IM3 will do just as well. There are many more people who
cannot access the Internet than there are who can. Those of you on this
list are, of course, the lucky ones (some of you don't even have to pay
for it), but the vast majority of the 10 million+ Mac owners have no
way of accessing the Sumex archive other than by using the CD.

By the way, you forgot that he has to give discounts to dealers and
distributors...

Speaking as a contributor to IM2 (though not, alas, to IM 3), I send my
stuff to Sumex in order to make them widely available (so I don't have
to keep emailing to people who ask for them). The IM CDs make them
available to even more people, so I don't see how I could possibly
object.

------------------------------

Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 9:58:35 -0500 (EST)
From: Mark London <[e-mail]>
Subject: Is Typeit4Me author still supporting it?

Does anyone know if the author of Typeit4Me still supporting it?  The latest
version for SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU is 3.2, I believe.  The problem I have with
it is that it takes a very long time for the menu to popup if you have a large
amount of words, and was going to send the author mail to ask him if this
could be fixed.  Also, I can't seem to get the menu to popup using a command
sequence rather than clicking on the icon.  Thanks.

Mark London
[e-mail]

------------------------------

Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 15:43:42 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Greg Lyzenga)
Subject: Jeopardy! for Mac

Back before Christmas, I asked for opinions or experience with the Jeopardy
game for Macintosh by GameTek.  I didn't hear from anyone who had played it
(understandable, since it was brand new) but various people were
encouraging and wanted to know my experience if I decided to get it.  Well,
I did, and this is what I have learned.

As I had been led to expect by others' comments on 'Wheel of Fortune', the
game is quite well done, and a good approximation of the TV show.  It's a
bit awkward with three people huddling around the same keyboard to enter
their responses, but it's good for togetherness! :-)  The single-keyboard
problem makes Final Jeopardy different (...now tell the others to close
their eyes while you type...) but I haven't thought of a better way to do
it.  Also, the pace of the game is a bit slow for my taste, perhaps because
of the relative slowness of my IIsi.  But on balance, the game is nice and
I recommend it.

There was one problem though, which prompts this message (the ending is
happy).  The version I got (which must have been the very first, or close
to it) had a nasty bug which clobbered the clues given during Final
Jeopardy.  Very frustrating!  The good news is that GameTek was *very*
accomodating in acknowledging the problem and fixing it.  I faxed them the
bug report one day, and had a response from them the next.  The new program
disk was in my mailbox very shortly thereafter.  Hooray for good support!
They have done a nice job on the game and on making me happy.  Bottom line:
if you like Jeopardy on TV, you won't go wrong with this version.

                            - Greg Lyzenga

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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 94 10:52:35 MST
From: Jim Powlesland <[e-mail]>
Subject: Looking for a Mac file

>
>Tracy Cummings <[e-mail]> writes:
>
>I am looking for a program that will remove all Microsoft Word
>temp files from a hard disk at start up??

The only shareware/freeware utility I have heard of is one called
Clean Sweep.  Unfortunately, it is only available through
Ziff/Net Mac (CLNSWP.SIT, Library 9). Beside removing Word temp
files, it also looks for multiple copies of TeachText,
preferences files from programs long deleted, etc.

Sure would be nice if someone would download it from Ziff/Net Mac
and put it in the Info-Mac or UMich archive....

--

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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 08:57:02 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Juan M. Courcoul)
Subject: LZW decompression from Unix->Mac

On Fri, 11 Feb 1994 18:09:12 -0500, Larry Innes wrote:

>Does one of you unix guru types have a magic app that will decompress data
>that has been subjected to Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) encoding via the Unix
>program "compress"? I am trying to use USGS DEM data on a Mac-based GIS
>program called MAP II. Unfortunately, it has all been compressed, and I
>don't have access to a unix box.

You can go the commercial route and acquire Stuffit Deluxe. It comes with a
Unix Compress translator, that will take care of your problems.

On the other hand, the Free Software Foundation decided to eschew the use of
the standard Unix compress, since it is based on propietary code, so they came
up with their own compressor, called gzip (no relation to the DOS .zip code).
It has the endearing qualities of being even more efficient than the standard
code (smaller end files), is capable of decoding files processed by the
standard "compress" and is totally free.

"OK, thanks for the trivia...", you say. Well, here comes the good part. A
fellow Mac enthusiast from Spain whose name I have forgotten right now has
ported the GNU code to the Mac and released MacGzip. The latest version found
at Sumex incorporates the last GNU release (1.2.4) and is quite capable of
uncompressing any Unix .Z, .z or .gz file you care to feed it.

Go for it !

JMC

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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 94 09:51:01 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Qiru Zhou)
Subject: Mac Backup Device (8mm DAT or 4mm DAT)

Could somebody give me information about a Mac Backup Device. I am thinking
to get a tape backup device can be used on Mac, PC and UNIX workstations.
The interface is a standard SCSI port (Mac SCSI, PC Adaptec 1542 SCSI card,
Unix SCSI port - like the port at the back of SGI or SUN Sparc boxes). I
know there is a 8mm drive device driver for UNIX. Is there a 4mm device
driver there? What is the difference among Mac, PC and UNIX 4mm and 8mm
tape drives? Are there only software difference? How about 4mm/8mm tape
software for PC (DOS and/or Window)?
I appreciate your suggestion. Please send your e-mail to
[e-mail]
I promise to summarize the info. if I get enough info to do so.

Thanx in advance.

Qiru Zhou
AT&T Bell Labs.
Murray Hill, New Jersey
USA

[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 11:15:22 +0100
From: "Gerlo Hesselink"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: mathematica non-FPU version.

Does anyone have a (old) normal! mathematica version (not the macII version!)
to
sell ? I need a version which runs on a computer without a FPU (and without
softwareFPU) and I know that version 1.0 and 1.1 were delivered in a normal and
a macII version. Please mail me directly.

Gerlo Hesselink                     University of Twente, Holland
e-mail: [e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 11:06:43 -0500
From: "Tom Scott" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Modems w/ RJ-45 Connections

     Modems w/ RJ-45 Connections?
Many of my administrators are looking to set up modems in their offices
to facilitate dial-in access, but unfortunately, they have digital
phones using the 8-wire RJ-45 jacks.  The modems I've seen so far just
have the 4-wire RJ-11 jacks.  Is there any modems that will accept a
digital RJ-45 jack?  Or is there an RJ-45-to-RJ-11 converter?  Is there
a reason for this restriction?  Thanks for any help you can provide.

Tom

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

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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 94 11:40:56 EST
From: [e-mail] (Alan Piszcz)
Subject: Mosaic/PPP (Q)

Does anyone have Mosaic running via a dialup PPP connection?
I have Mosaic running from ethernet connected macintoshes but
it will not connect to the www server when used through
PPP links.
Tried supply a route from the mac directly the local gateway
and it didn't help.

Anyone run into this already?

Thanks.

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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 94 07:38:34 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Kong Li)
Subject: MS Excel macro for two-way anova with unequal sizes

Hi,

I have bunch of data in MS Excel on Mac already.  I wish to do two-way anova
with unequal sizes, i.e., each cell has different number of samples.
MS Excel on Mac (4.0) does provide two-way anova under analysis tool, but it
requires each cell to be of equal number of samples.

Did any one write an Excel macro for two-way anova with unequal sizes?
How about any other public domain Mac program that can do the job? (assuming
it can import data from Excel...  I wish to avoid entering the data again.)

Any pointers will be appreciated.  Thanks.

Kong

Kong Li                 UCLA Computer Science Department
[e-mail]        ..!{uunet,ucbvax,rutgers,cepu}!cs.ucla.edu!kong

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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 13:34:14 +0000
From: [e-mail] (Gerald Ostheimer)
Subject: MSWord Printing problem with Pasted Drawing (A)

Hans Kroeger asks:

> If I copy and paste a drawing from Mac Draw Pro into Microsoft Word, and
> then print the Word document I get the text characters with odd spacing.
>
> Other shortcomings are that underlining of text is partly missing.
> I am using standard fonts like Helvetica 10....
>
> Any idea how to resolve this problem ....?

I am surprised not to see this kind of question more often. I've had a ton
of problems of this sort, and they are not restricted to either MacDraw Pro
or Microsoft Word. Other instances of the same problem are, for example,
misaligned arrow heads, gaps between what appear to be touching lines on
screen, etc.

As I understand it, the cause of the problem is the fact that the 'pict'
data on the clipboard stores 'control points' only at 72 dpi resolution.
While lines, curves, and characters are printed at any resolution the
printer provides, truncation of the control point coordinates makes the
object 'jump' to align to a 72 dpi grid. You can't see this jump on screen
which only has 72 dpi resolution.

Here are two solutions

1.  Export your drawing in encapsulated postscript (EPS) form

MacDraw Pro can produce EPS files and Word 5 (don't know about older
versions) can import them. This solution is cumbersome and requires a lot
of space for EPS data but works perfectly every time.

2.  While in the drawing package, make sure the 'autogrid' is switched on.

As long as the resolution of the grid you use is a divisor of 72 (e.g. 8,
9, 12 etc.) this will work fine. The maximal grid resolution of 72 dpi of
this method is really sufficient for most needs.


The whole thing is a serious flaw in the Mac interface IMHO (what you see
is almost what you get?) Simple 'cut and paste' shouldn't get you into
trouble like this. Hopefully, Quickdraw GX will make this problem go away.


--  Gerald


[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 08:39:04 -0800
From: "Carter, Michael H." <[e-mail]>
Subject: PB Cables

I have a PowerBook 140 and I can't figure out which cable is which.  I have
the System Cable as well as the Disk Adapter.  I am trying to use the
internal PB hard disk as an external hard disk.  I used the most logical
cable (the one with the 25-pin end) and plugged it into my desktop Mac and it
didn't work.  Am I supposed to use the other one?  If so, how and what is the
25-pin cable for?  I am confused!

Michael Carter
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 94 09:05:59 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Pinnacle R-CD Audio Formats Question

I have available to me a Pinnacle Micro Recordable CD Drive (it's a write-
once, read many (WORM) drive).  I'd like to try making an audio CD with it.
Does anyone out there have info on how to do this, how well it works, or
any tips 'n tricks?  The Pinnacle manual has exacly two pages on the subject,
one and one half of which is dedicated to describing the concept of digital
audio.  That leaves (yep...) one half page for HOW to do it.  Not enough
info for me to risk wasting a $35 blank CD on.  HELP...

Brandon
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 15:53:39 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Michel Eytan, LILoL)
Subject: PowerPC NON-upgrade for si?

Hi Netters!

According to the local press in France, *all* the Macs in the Mac II
family, EXCEPT the si, will be offered a "cheap" (3 000FF = $500) upgrade
to a PowerPC. Apple France Customer Service has declined to confirm.

Is this true in the US too? If this be indeed the case I propose we join
all of us forces to *protest* very strongly. I consider that Apple has
s..ed all the si owners anyway.

--
Michel Eytan, U Strasbourg II           [e-mail]
        "Je dis ce que je pense et je pense ce que je dis"

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Date: 16 Feb 1994 07:01:02 -0700
From: "John.Reed Maffeo" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Printing PostScript file to Printer [A]

The responses to my question were:


>From:   Bernard Celerier (BERNARD)
>look for either
>dropps in sumex
>or laserwriter utilities that will send a ps file to the printer
>
>| Robert G. Buice, Jr.                | University of Kentucky        |
>You need a freeware utility called DropPS Or PSTool.  I find that PSTool
>works better.  It came with my HP1200C printer, but you might be able to
>get it from HP's anonymous FTP server. (192.6.71.2).

I tried DropPS and it worked well for me. I did not try PSTool.
Thanks for your help.

John-Reed

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Date: 16 Feb 1994 09:03:48 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Pete Resnick)
Subject: Quicken-Another source for checks?

[e-mail] (Mark A. Saper) writes:

>Does anyone know of any other vendors for checks suitable for Quicken 4 ?  I
>think the $48 / 250 that Intuit charges isn't very reasonable.

Call up a large local office supply place. I got our checks at the
local Reliable Office Superstore (a chain around here) for $45 / 500.

pr
--
Pete Resnick             (...so what is a mojo, and why would one be rising?)
Internet: [e-mail]
--
Pete Resnick             (...so what is a mojo, and why would one be rising?)
Graduate assistant - Philosophy Department, Gregory Hall, UIUC
System manager - Cognitive Science Group, Beckman Institute, UIUC
Internet: [e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 13:08:41 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Kee Nethery [phone])
Subject: Quicken-Another source for checks? (C)

Ooops, a correction from Mark Saper:

>With the price info received with my current Quicken, Checkfree costs $10 for
>20 checks per month, so thats $0.50/check or less postage ~$0.20/check. 250
>checks would be $50, and that's assuming I use the full 20 checks allocated
>per month.

He's correct so my 4 cents per check using Checkfree is incorrect.
Checkfree is more expensive than printing Intuit Checks. But, I still find
the convienience worth the cost.

Kee Nethery

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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 11:03:06 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Kee Nethery [phone])
Subject: Quicken-Another source for checks? (C)

>Does anyone know of any other vendors for checks suitable for Quicken 4 ?  I
>think the $48 / 250 that Intuit charges isn't very reasonable.

I use Checkfree with Quicken and thus don't need to print any checks.
Quicken sends the payment info to Checkfree and Checkfree cuts the check
and mails it to the payee for you. For $10 a month, I send up to 30 checks.
That is 33 cents per check which includes postage. If you subtract out the
postage that Checkfree pays, I end up paying 4 cents per check for the
privledge of using Checkfree.

So, you could say that Checkfree charges $10 / 250 checks which is a tad
more reasonable than Intuit's fee. Plus, Checkfree "mails" the payment at
the last moment so that you earn more interest on your checking balance and
never make a late payment.

Just a happy customer,
Kee Nethery

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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 94 12:21:36 +0100
From: "Ad Herweijer"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: RamDoubler/Stacker problem

Having seen so much enthousiasm for RamDoubler, here's one tiny little problem
I
had with it. If I try to use Stacker while RamDoubler is active I get a message
that Virtual Memory should be turned off first. Apparently RamDoubler has set a
Virtual Memory Flag somehow (which seems logical, considering what it is doing)
and Stacker doesn't like that. The solution is obvious: remove RamDoubler for a
while, Stacker your disk and restore RamDoubler immediately after that, because
it does miracles!

RamDoubler is definitely the most surprising piece of software I have seen in
years.

Ad Herweijer

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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 94 07:11:33 PST
From: Tim D. Castle <[e-mail]>
Subject: RAM Doubler; the discussion continues

I whine:
>RAM Doubler...error dialog that said "The System file is damaged..."

Adam Engst patiently replies:
>...have you considered the possibility that your System really is damaged,
>and that the presence of RAM Doubler is merely the trigger necessary to
>display that fact to you? Frankly, if anything told me my System was
>damaged, I'd tend to believe it, since it's pretty easy to replace a damaged
>System, ... System files get corrupted - there's nothing shocking
>in that...

Indeed, sir, you are correct, and I DID re-install the System (clean
re-install; deleted old System and Finder). To no avail. Right now I'm
suspecting some kind of INIT conflict, but I have neither the time nor
the Tums to deal with it; maybe next week.

Tim Castle       [e-mail]
End-User Computing, GTE Gov't Systems, Mountain View, CA

------------------------------

Date: Wed, 16 Feb 94 09:35:37 PST
From: Paul Brians <[e-mail]>
Subject: RamDoubler and Maxima compatible?

Is anyone successfully using RamDoubler and Maxima?  Since both do
funny things with memory, I would expect trouble; but I'd like to run
both if it will work, since my configuration doesn't pose any of
the other problems cited here.  I use Maxima solely to access more
RAM, don't use the RAM disk option (I'm still not 32-bit clean); but
I'd like more than the 17 megs Maxima gives me--I tend to run lots of
applications at once, and big ones at that.

Paul Brians, Washington State University, Pullman, WA  99164-5020

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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 23:25:33 -0500 (CDT)
From: Vincent Iannelli <[e-mail]>
Subject: security apps

I am looking for a security program that will let me open an encrypted file,
and after I enter the password, launch the file and then automatically encrypt
the file again when i'm done with it.  Is there such a program?

------------------------------

Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 01:55:13 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Kiran Wagle)
Subject: SITcomm

Adam Engst writes:
>In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:

>> SITcomm will not dial unless it is the front-most application - it won't
>> dial in the background.

>This may be a CTB limitation as well.

Don't think so, because Eudora sure seems to dial in the background.

~ Kiran

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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 20:26:32 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Brian Hall)
Subject: SITcomm

[e-mail] writes:

>> SITcomm will not dial unless it is the front-most application - it won't
>> dial in the background.

>This may be a CTB limitation as well.

No, there are (other) CTB apps that can dial/hangup/wait for calls in the
background and/or while you do other tasks (a requirement IMHO for
multi-session terminal apps).

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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 94 11:54:30 EST
From: [e-mail] (Wendy L. May)
Subject: SQL Server Connectivity for Macintosh

Hello netters,

Does anyone out there have experience writing Macintosh front-ends to Microsoft
SQL Server?  My organization is looking for connectivity and front-end tools
that will allow us to build applications for the Macintosh utilizing the SQL
Server database engine.  While our Windows machines are moving right along with
Q+E and Visual Basic, we are having trouble finding a suitable tool for the
Mac.  So far we have evaluated UniFace and Omnis 7.  Does anyone have
experiences with these or other products?  Please respond directly to me and if
there is interest I will summarize.

Thanks,
Wendy L. May
Fleet Systems Department
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 18:22:13 +0100 (MET)
From: Dimitri Boone <[e-mail]>
Subject: SupraFaxModem 144LC features


 Hello all,

 I'm a bit confused here.
 Could someone tell me what features the SupraFaxModem 144LC has. I see in
 local mail-order catalogs that it does NOT have the SilentAnswer feature,
 but when i look to US catalogs it has ?? What is it? Is it possible they
 could leave out that feature? Is it hard or software based? And BTW what
 does SilentAnswer do, exactly?

 Thanks very much in advance!

 Dimitri Boone                                            |
 [e-mail]                                  |

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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 08:37:15 +0100
From: Hans Magnus Aus <[e-mail]>
Subject: System 7.1 v2.0.1 and NowToolBox v4

Has anyone else had problems with System 7.1 v2.0.1 and
the NowToolBox from NOWv4?

System 7.1 v2.0.1 has eliminated several problems that I
had. But now I can't open a new database in FileMakerPro 2.1.
without removing the NowToolBox.

Cheers, Hans Aus, [e-mail]

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