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Info-Mac Digest             Wed,  2 Mar 94       Volume 12 : Issue 34

Today's Topics:

      [*] Babylon 5 interactive presentation
      [*] Castles-Siege & Conquest Demo
      [*] F/A-18 demo
      [*] fmpro.dayplan94-98.v2.hqx; a daily planner
      [*] Indy 2.0.2; a BOLO brain
      [*] Inside Mac Games - Feb 94 Free Preview Edition
      [*] Mac & IBM compare-Version 1.9.3 pt1
      [*] mac.ftp.list Version 3.8.3
      [*] Macintosh Memory Guide
      [*] officepool2.hqx; a 64 NCAA Pool Manager
      [*] Patcher for GV Teleport to remove boot time disc space warnings
      [*] Spanish Mac Keyboard 1.1
      [*] TidBITS#215/28-Feb-94
      [*] Turnaround Textures vol V
      [*] Turnaround Textures vol VI
      [*] UltraFine 1.0.3
      [*] UParser 1.71a
      [*] Voyeur 1.1.1 (file utility)
      [*] Voyeur 1.1.1 (source code)
      (A) Frog Systems
      (A) Problems Upgrading to 7
      (Q) Dynamic system modellers for Mac?
      (Suggestion) Disk info in h
      660 av upgrade
      Any good ftp servers besides FTPd?
      Apple 40SC Cartridge Unit (R)
      Apple HD SC Setup on Quadra 700
      Apple PowerPC uplink?
      AppleSingle Decoder for PC?
      Appletalk Connection across Internet
      ATARI disks on Mac (r)
      Attention FullWrite users (C)
      AutoCAD R12 (Q)
      Avoid Astound
      Backup disk software ?
      Baud -vs- Megabyte
      Baud Confusion
      Carina Software Phone Number
      CD's 'n' file sharing
      Commercial demo presented as shareware [gripe]
      CopyDoubler (R)
      Decline and Fall of Mac Software Base
      decompressing .lha files from amiga
      Default paper tray changing
      FaberFinder
      File update postings
      Free to a Good Home....
      halftone screening
      Help!!!
      Help: pbs with a CD ROM
      How to read ATARI discs on Mac
      HP 4MP Graphics
      image file
      IntelliDraw
      Is Apple's MoviePlayer freeware?
      Laserwriter 360 and Quark
      LaserWriter V8.1 (Where?)
      LineLink 144e Modem
      Locked Folders?
      Looking for specific software packages
      Macintosh Easy Open 1.0.3 incompatible with AV Macintoshes
      Macintosh Plus and compatible software
      Mac net help (R)
      Mac net help [R]
      Mail question
      Metro 2.4 ?
      Midi Manager (Q)
      MIME decoding on Macs (summary)
      Modifying F3 key
      Moose
      multipule lanches
      Music/MIDI question
      Need low-cost tape backup unit
      NET_Mac2.3.37.sea.hqx.text
      Network Launch Fix fixed! Get version 1.0.2
      Newbie SLIP conundrums
      Personal Laserwriter -- Good Deal?
      Popup Folder and Other Launchers
      PostScript 2 => 1 (Q)
      PowerUser 2400mini modem.
      PPC CD Drive
      Project management??
      Pump & Snatch or other distribution program...
      Quattra (sic)
      RAMDoubler on an LC?
      Request for info about Mac's ADB
      request Handeze Gloves information
      SAM VIRUS DEFS
      Sending Mail to Someone on Prodigy [Q]
      SITcomm v. 1.0 - Instability of Character Set - Self toggles
      SLIP Problems
      Ten bits, an apology ;-)
      Text-based games for 8-year-olds
      The decline and fall of the Macintosh software base
      The game 'gwyddbwyll"
      The Mac is Dead? No, Lotus just can't compete!
      using VGA with Mac internal video
      Word - opening TIFF files

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Date: Tue, 01 Mar 1994 12:12:42 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Babylon 5 interactive presentation

Here is an interactive program for Babylon 5 that I downloaded from
AOL.  It gives some details about the characters, background, creators,
etc.

Kind of interesting if you like the show.  Hope you enjoy it.

[Archived as /info-mac/info/nms/babylon-5.hqx; 1047K]

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Date: 1 Mar 1994 17:02:22 +1100
From: "Andrew Jeffrey" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Castles-Siege & Conquest Demo

Hi, here's the newly release demo version of Castles. Its similar in style to
Warlords (from SSG) I guess. The following is from the very extensive readme
that accompanies it. The file is a binhexed self-extracting archive.

Enjoy

Andrew Jeffrey
Uni of Wollongong
Australia

[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/castles-demo.hqx; 1812K]

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Date: Tue, 01 Mar 1994 12:16:02 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] F/A-18 demo

Here is a playable demo of F/A 18 Hornet, a fighter simulation game, that
I downloaded from AOL.  It has a short read-me file that explains pretty
much what do do.  It is a self-extracting file.

The demo doesn't list minimum system requirements.  I believe at least a color
Mac is required, but have no idea about memory, screen size, etc.

This should probably go in game/com.

Butch Weber

[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/fa-18-demo.hqx; 1555K]

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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 23:34:29 -0500
From: [e-mail] (DEAL, DOUGLAS WAYNE)
Subject: [*] fmpro.dayplan94-98.v2.hqx; a daily planner

This is the full version of the demo posted a while back.  This is a
five year electronic daily planner, with the following features:

Yearly calendar view with week buttons for quickly finding dates.
Weekly calendar with daily summary field to find specific days.
Find option which seaches all fields for specific query.

Recommended:
14" color monitor
Faster Macintosh

Required
File-Maker Pro v2.0 or later

[Archived as /info-mac/app/fmpro-daily-planner-20.hqx; 118K]

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Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 16:15:12 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Backup Moderator)
Subject: [*] Indy 2.0.2; a BOLO brain

Here's Gersham William Meharg's latest BOLO brain Indy.

I pulled this off of ftp:/ftp.helix.net//pub/

[Archived as /info-mac/game/bolo/indy-202.hqx; 64K]

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Date: Tue, 1 Mar 94 14:29:29 PST
From: [e-mail] (Brian Thomas)
Subject: [*] Inside Mac Games - Feb 94 Free Preview Edition

Inside Mac Games is a complete color electronic magazine with news,
reviews, commentaries, interviews and many other features. This month's
Free Preview Edition features an exclusive sneak preview of. . .well, just
download it and find out! :-)

The magazine will work on any Mac and needs no other software to be
viewed. Complete information about subscriptions is included in this free
preview edition.

And check out the new IMG CD-ROM!

For more information, contact [e-mail].

[Archived as /info-mac/per/inside-mac-games-94-02.hqx; 842K]

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Date: 01 Mar 94 09:28:16 EST
From: bruce grubb <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Mac & IBM compare-Version 1.9.3 pt1

Archive name: mac-ibm-compare193.txt
category: general information, text

This is version 1.9.3 of this report & should replace mac-ibm-compare192.txt.
Changes: Pentium and PowerPC info updated. Due to the rapid changes in
computers I am interested in contributions from Digest and other readers to
flesh out, correct, or point out confusing parts in the report.  Send comments
and information to CompuServe: 72130,3557; AOL: BruceG6069; or Internet:
[e-mail].
This report compares the Mac and IBM machines CPUs, hardware {monitor
support and expansion}, operating systems {includes number crunching},
networking & printing; it covers not only present hardware/software
statistics and features but also future possibilities.
Despite its condensed and generalized format it still provides some thought-
provoking reading on the relative merits, problems, and deficiencies of Macs
and IBM PCs.  It also contains some FAQ answers about both machines and the
upcoming PowerPC line.
Note:  for proper reading off line this document should be in 9 point Monaco.

[Archived as /info-mac/info/hdwr/mac-ibm-compare-193.txt; 53K]

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Date: 01 Mar 94 09:24:07 EST
From: bruce grubb <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] mac.ftp.list Version 3.8.3

Archive name: mac-ftp-list383.txt
category: communication, text

This is the latest {March 1,1994} version this report and should replace the
previous version of mac-ftp-list.txt.

Changes:  ftp.rrzn.uni-hannover.de, src.doc.ic.ac.uk, and irisa.irisa.fr
      ip#s changed; ftp.rus.uni-stuttgart.de is now ftp.uni-stuttgart.de;
      mirror info added to ftp.technion.ac.il; beach.gal.utexas.edu,
      f.ms.uky.edu, slug.pws.bull.com, and peace.waikato.ac.nz moved from
     'I can't connect to these sites, which may have mac stuff' to other
      lists.

Added sites:  ftp.luth.se; ftp.univie.ac.at; ftp.ucs.ubc.ca; ftp.jyu.fi;
          ftp.uni-kl.de; ftp.center.osaka-u.ac.jp; ftp.iij.ad.jp;
          ftp.fenk.wau.nl; imftp.mgt.ncu.edu.tw; ftp.edu.tw; amug.org;
          ftp.hawaii.edu; ricevm1.rice.edu; spider.navsses.navy.mil;
          tp-boi.external.hp.com;

This is a update to Mike Gleason's ftp list {He gave me permision to continue
it}.  It lists a good number of mac anonymous ftp sites with notes on some and
a little blurb on how to use anonymous ftp.

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/info/mac-ftp-list-383.txt; 38K]

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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 22:21:16 -0800
From: Ed Reed <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Macintosh Memory Guide

The fifth edition of the guide from Connectix.

[Archived as /info-mac/info/hdwr/mac-memory-guide-5.hqx; 176K]

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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 18:40:20 -0600 (CST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] officepool2.hqx; a 64 NCAA Pool Manager

This program is a 64 NCAA Pool Manager. You put in the teams that are playing
and then you can enter players name. You tell the program what team the player
bets on and the program will find the winners after the tournement is over. It
also prints out nice reports to help the manager out.

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

[Archived as /info-mac/game/office-pool-20.hqx; 154K]

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Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 21:50:19 +1200
From: [e-mail] (Nigel Perry)
Subject: [*] Patcher for GV Teleport to remove boot time disc space warnings

The GV Teleport Serial control panel issues a warning a boot time if you
have less than 500K free on your system disc - just in case you plan to
receive a lot of faxes. This warning is a notification alert and requires
you to hit return for the boot to complete, a pain if you want your machine
to boot unattended. This program is a simple patcher, built with
ResCompare, which will patch Teleport Serial 2.0.8 to remove these boot
time warnings. Use on a copy and at your own risk. Free. By Nigel Perry,
[e-mail]

(For the technical all it does is change a conditional branch after the
test for 500K to an unconditional one...)

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/gv-teleport-serial-208-patch.hqx; 33K]

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Date: Tue, 01 Mar 1994 14:35:13 -0700 (MST)
From: El Tio Guay <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Spanish Mac Keyboard 1.1

The attached file is the updated version of a keyboard layout which
I created.  It allows typing Spanish characters more easily.  This
time I DID NOT .sea the file, which should save on space.  If you
have any questions, I can be contacted at:
[e-mail]

Thank you.

Matt Warner

[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/spanish-mac-kbrd-11.hqx; 18K]

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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 94 21:42:55 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: [*] TidBITS#215/28-Feb-94

TidBITS#215/28-Feb-94

Where to start? We have news about a new Newton due out soon, an
   extremely cheap 300 dpi PostScript Level 2 printer, and even
   more information about the PowerPC-based Macs due in just two
   weeks. Mark Anbinder reports on an inexpensive network fax
   package and CE's acquisition of Powercore; Microsoft loses a
   lawsuit and $120 million to Stac; and finally ON Technology
   CEO Chris Risley replies to Dave Thompson's article on Meeting
   Maker last week.

Topics:
    MailBITS/28-Feb-94
    Newton, Take Two
    The Hidden Printer
    4-Sight Small Site
    Stac Wins Suit Against Microsoft
    CE Acquires Powercore
    Meeting Maker Followup
    More PowerPC Reports
    Reviews/28-Feb-94

[Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-215.etx; 30K]

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

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Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 14:54:52 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Steven Hatch)
Subject: [*] Turnaround Textures vol V

Turnaround Textures(tm) Volume V is part of a multi-volume collection of
professionally designed patterns to liven up your Macintosh desktop.

You can easily install Turnaround Textures with any utility that supports
standard desktop patterns including Chameleon and Desktop Textures.
Turnaround Textures requires a minimum of 256 colors.

StuffIt archive.

Enjoy...

-steve h.

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/grf/turnaround-textures-grp5.hqx; 333K]

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Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 15:03:37 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Steven Hatch)
Subject: [*] Turnaround Textures vol VI

Turnaround Textures(tm) Volume VI is part of a multi-volume collection of
professionally designed patterns to liven up your Macintosh desktop.

You can easily install Turnaround Textures with any utility that supports
standard desktop patterns including Chameleon and Desktop Textures.
Turnaround Textures requires a minimum of 256 colors.

StuffIt archive.

Enjoy...

-steve h.

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/grf/turnaround-textures-grp6.hqx; 282K]

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Date: 28 Feb 1994 14:55:32 -0200
From: "Eugene Poncelet" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] UltraFine 1.0.3

              Submission
Downloaded this from AOL using part of my free 10 hours:

UltraFind(tm)  Version 1.0.3

Designed and Programmed by Julian Linford and Steve Linford.
Copyright (c) 1993 UltraDesign Technology Ltd.  All Rights Reserved.

UltraFind is a powerful File Scanner utility specially developed for System 7
that can quickly find specific files or groups of related files - anywhere on
your computer or network - and move them to another location or network
volume (or open, copy, label, examine, backup and/or remove them).

Searching on just about any conceivable combination of Macintosh file
attribute, UltraFind is designed to go and get the exact document you need
>From among countless documents with similar file names or types, or
collect files from all over your system and move them to new locations.

UltraFind will scan any mounted media (hard disks, network volumes,
Syquests, CD-ROMS, Opticals, tape streamers, floppies etc.) looking for:

o Specific words, or parts of sentences anywhere WITHIN files
o Groups of files such as Fonts, Filters, Xtensions, TIFF, PICT, EPS etc.
o Unused files, duplicate files, invisible files, Aliases, obscure files etc.
o Files that need backing up (and it backs them up)
o Search by Name, Date, Label, Size, Creator, Type, Contents, etc.
o Look inside files of any kind and examine the raw data.

The User Licence fee is:  37 Dollars US or 25 Pounds UK

[Archived as /info-mac/disk/ultra-find-103.hqx; 327K]

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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 09:21:56 -0800
From: [e-mail] (John S. Lee)
Subject: [*] UParser 1.71a

Here is the latest version of UUParser.

It fixes problems with file locking after parsing.

New documenation and modified Help enclosed.

UUParser is a file parsing utility that uuencodes/codes files downloaded
>From usenet newsgroups.
Also features file joining/splitting as well as smart uuencoding/decoding.

Registered users get UUParser 1.72 which has features not available in 1.71
or 1.71a.

UUParser is shareware.

UUParser  1.71a replaces ALL previous versions.

If you are registred and have not received 1.72 please leave me e-mail!

Thanks,
John S. Lee
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/cmp/uu-parser-171a.hqx; 103K]

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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 13:28:16 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Mark Pilgrim)
Subject: [*] Voyeur 1.1.1 (file utility)

Voyeur 1.1.1 is a no-frills file viewer.  You may view the raw hex and ASCII
data of either fork of up to ten files at once.  Current features include
hex or ASCII find, modifying type/creator information, setting EOF of
either fork.  Version 1.1.1 fixes a bug which made "Set EOF" always return
an error.  C source code also available; check ftp sites or e-mail
[e-mail].  Finger [e-mail] for complete program list.
Copyright (C) 1993-4, Mark Pilgrim.  Please read enclosed file "GNU General
Public License" for licensing details.

[Archived as /info-mac/disk/voyeur-111.hqx; 53K]

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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 13:29:08 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Mark Pilgrim)
Subject: [*] Voyeur 1.1.1 (source code)

Voyeur 1.1.1 is a no-frills file viewer.  You may view the raw hex and ASCII
data of either fork of up to ten files at once.  Current features include
hex or ASCII find, modifying type/creator information, setting EOF of
either fork.  Version 1.1.1 fixes a bug that made "Set EOF" always return
an error.  This archive contains complete THINK C source code, project
files, and resource files.  Application also available; check ftp sites or
e-mail [e-mail].  Finger [e-mail] for complete program list.
Copyright (C) 1993-4, Mark Pilgrim.  Please read enclosed file "GNU General
Public License" for licensing details.

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/src/voyeur-111-c.hqx; 170K]

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Date: Tue, 1 Mar 94 9:53:36 GMT
From: "G.C.Q.Birch" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (A) Frog Systems

 Frog Systems Ltd.
 Dept. MU
 Highland House
 St. Catherine's Road
 Perth
    PH1 5YA
 Scotland
 U.K.

 Tel. [phone]

--
 Greg Birch
 University of Southampton

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Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 07:56:28 -0500
From: "Tom Scott" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (A) Problems Upgrading to 7

     (A) Problems Upgrading to 7.1
"George Boccanfuso" <[e-mail]> asks:

>I have been trying to upgrade to 7.1 and I have been getting an error:
>
>"Cannot overwrite a protected resource."
>
>I have tried to upgrade when booted up from the hard  drive I want to
>upgrade and from the diskette. With all extensions off.
>
>Any ideas what I should do?

I'm not sure what would cause this; you don't give enough info about
your setup.  But here's a suggestion....

You might need to do a clean reinstall/upgrade of your System.  The
easiest way to do this is to drag the Finder out of the System Folder
and rename your System Folder to something like System Folder (Old).
Then put in your System 7.1 Install 1 disk (or Install Me First disk,
depending on what CPU you're using) and boot off that.  Go through the
install process, and then restart afterwards.

After it comes back up, make sure you trash the Finder that you dragged
out of the original System Folder.  Now open up the System Folder (Old)
and the System Folder in side-by-side windows so you can reconcile your
System Folders.  Drag all your Extensions, Control Panels, Preferences,
Fonts, etc. from your System Folder (Old) that are *NOT* in your new
System Folder into the new System Folder.  Once you're convinced that
everything's copied over that needs to be, you can trash your old
System Folder.

Tom
***

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

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Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 14:18:14 +0000 (GMT)
From: "R.J. Forsyth" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (Q) Dynamic system modellers for Mac?

I am looking for software to enable dynamic systems' responses to state
changes to be modlled (particularly compartmental models with fairly
simple first order diff eqs defining the flows between them).

I have seen VisSim for Windows, which is the sort of thing I am looking
for. The only Mac product I have seen is called Stella, but the version I
have seen was written in 1988, and whilst adequate for my needs, its
interface shows its age, and it can't cope with '040 machines.

Ideally, I'd prefer a free- or shareware product (who wouldn't?!) but if
anyone can tell me of commercial packages (or whether Stella has been
updated at all) I'd be interested to hear of experience and recommendations.

Please reply directly to me and I'll summarise to info-mac if relevant.

Many thanks in advance

Rob Forsyth

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Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 07:55:00 -0500
From: "Tom Scott" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (Suggestion) Disk info in h

     (Suggestion) Disk info in header for System 6?
Robert Cradock <[e-mail]> asks:

>  I find it helpful to turn on "Show disk info in header"
>in the views control panel on my Mac at work running System7.
>However, I have a Plus at home running System 6.0.7.
> I was glad to find that With A View would let me imitate
>System 7 by clicking to change the view style, and I'm
>wondering if there is any similar init that lets me see
>disk info in System 6 list views.  I'd appreciate any
>suggestions at all.  Thanks.

It's not the same, but here's how I solved the problem way back when I
used System 6:

Create a new folder and name it something useful (I called mine
"Bytes").  Open the folder and put it in View by Icon (so you have the
bytes available in the window).  Size it down as small as possible so
you can still see all the byte info.  Now drag it down off the bottom
of the screen so only the title bar and bytes bar are visible.  If you
keep this open all the time, you can always see how many bytes are
being used and are free, and still have your other windows opened in
the list view of your choice!

Tom
***

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

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Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 17:30:04 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: 660 av upgrade

I have read that the 660 will not be pds-upgradable  to Power PC. The
reason is that the 660 does not permit a PDS card to act as a busmaster (
some connections on the pds where grounded to achieve this "feature"). I am
very disapointed. I think that apple is responsible for non telling his
buyers that the 660 av where crippled and that the only way to upgrade them
is to buy an expensive logic board instead of a pds.

Am I right to think so?

Please send answers to my mailbox. I will sumarize if necessary.
Benot De Nayer
Centre de Droit de la Consommation
Universit Catholique de Louvain
1, place des doyens
1348 Louvain la Neuve

tel: [phone]
fax: [phone]

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Date: 28 Feb 1994 21:34:40 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Stan Kerr)
Subject: Any good ftp servers besides FTPd?

Are there any good ftp servers besides Peter Lewis's ftpd? By good
I mean something that at least provides password and directory
protection for anonymous ftp (i.e. there should be a root directory
for anonymous ftp that the client cannot escape from). Lewis's
program has two unfortunate features that I would like to improve on,
namely (a) it does not recognize Autodoubled files (which he says is
because files are accessed through Appleshare, which doesn't recognize
them); and (b) its support for aliases is very tenuous. The second would
be rather important to me, since I would like to make files available
for ftp just by moving aliases to the anonymous ftp folder.
--
-----
Stan Kerr <[e-mail]>  Phone:[phone]  Fax:[phone]
Computing & Communications Services Office, U of Illinois/Urbana

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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 15:37:22 EST
From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Apple 40SC Cartridge Unit (R)

Carlo Viviani <[e-mail]> said:

CV> I have a little problem. I got an old Apple 40sc cartridge backup
CV> unit, that came bundled with a little program (by Apple of course)
CV> to use it.

(Stuff deleted)

CV> Is anybody so kind to help me? If you tell me how to find a newer
CV> version of the program (or if you mail it to me directly :-)), or
CV> whether there is an alternative way to make the cartridge unit
CV> work, I would be VERY grateful to you all!

I don't know if Apple ever upgraded that software, but I can tell
you that Retrospect 2.x works very well with the SC-40 tape drives.
I have one at work and at home.  Retrospect handles them both very
well.

Jeffrey Fritz
West Virginia University
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 05:12:07 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Fnord)
Subject: Apple HD SC Setup on Quadra 700

    I've had a Quadra 700 since June of 1992, and since the day I
brought it home, Apple HD SC Setup has refused to recognize my
internal 105 meg hardisk.  I have no idea why.  When I run HD Setup,
it says scanning for SCSI devices and then tells me that I don't have
any.  Has anyone heard of anything like this before, or have an idea
about what might be happening?


--
+--     Heute die Welt,              /\   Aaron Greenhouse
+--     morgen das Sonnensystem!    /<>\  [e-mail]
| NORD    - = Echelon Two = -      /____\
GCS d-- p+(---) c++ !l u+ e+ m--- s+/ n-(---) h f+ g-(+++) w+ t@ r- !y

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Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 06:24:05 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <[e-mail]>
Subject: Apple PowerPC uplink?

Begin forwarded message:

Date:    Mon, 28 Feb 1994 23:13:11 GMT
From: mc/G=Brad/S=Hicks/OU1=[e-mail]
Subject: Apple PowerPC Uplink?

Date: 2/28/94    4:54 PM
Subj: Apple PowerPC Uplink?

Apple has announced that they will be unveiling the new Power Macintoshes
via live satellite uplink on Monday, March 14th, from 8:30 to 11:30 am CST
and from 2:00 to 5:00 pm CST.

Does anybody have any idea where this uplink will be?  When you find out,
would you post it here or email me at the address below?  aTdHvAnNcXe!


 J. Brad Hicks     Internet: mc![e-mail]
 X.400: c=US admd=ATTMail prmd=MasterCard sn=Hicks gn=Brad

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

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

Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 10:16:43 -0700 (MST)
From: Shannon V Spires <[e-mail]>
Subject: AppleSingle Decoder for PC?

Does anyone know of a decoder for the AppleSingle format which
runs on the PC, and which uses the data fork and ignores the
resource fork of the AppleSingle-encoded file? Some of our
(unfortunate) PC users occasionally get an email enclosure
sent by cc:Mail from a Mac, which encodes the file in AppleSingle
format. The ideal solution would be a program that runs under
DOS or Windows that disposes of the AppleSingle header junk and
throws away the resource fork. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Shannon Spires
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 10:45:06 -0600
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Appletalk Connection across Internet

Dear Sir,

Hello!  My name is Jude M. Mallawaaratchy, and I am a Proffessor of Mechanical
Engineering at Iowa State University.  I read your name on Internet in a
helpfile about Macintosh networking and wondered if you could please help me.

I own two Macintosh computers, one in Minnesota("MinnHD") and the other in
Iowa("IowaHD"), and both are connected to Internet and have their own IP
addresses.  IowaHD is serving as one of hundreds of campus-wide fileservers
in a network containing several Appletalk Zones.

Is it possible to somehow incorporate MinnHD into the Appletalk network in
Iowa State via Internet and thus allow me easy remote access to IowaHD and
other fileservers at Iowa State?

I currently use an ARA connection via modem to achieve this task.  But a
similar connection via Internet would be so much quicker and reliable than
any modem connection, and much more accessible than ftp.  I would really
appreciate any help or advice you could offer me on how to achieve my goal.

Thank you.
                Sincerely,
                Jude M. Mallawaaratchy
                [e-mail]

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

Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 13:14:28 -0600 (CST)
From: "Traci J. Ingram" <[e-mail]>
Subject: ATARI disks on Mac (r)

Regarding ATARI disks on Mac, Larry Rymal:T.E.M.U.G.-EAST_TEXAS-"
<[e-mail]> writes:

>That Atari definitely has not been updated in a very long time.
>Any Atari ST with an operating system of at least TOS 1.0.4 should format,
>read/write to standard DOS format disks.  TOS 1.0.4 was released, I think,
>about 1988.

TOS 1.4 (1991 or so) won't do the format, and the new Falcon's "DOS" disks
will mount on the Mac, but show "xxx Bytes in zero items" (where xxx is the
correct total for the files that *were* there on the Atari desktop).

>In lieu of that, try to find *somewhere* DoubleClick's DC Format
>720K.  Extended Atari format disks, such as those with 920k sizes on
double-
>density disks will not work.

This *will* work, but three of the program's four defaults need to be
toggled each time it is booted:  Sides to 2; Read Format to Normal (from
Skewed); and Tracks to 80 (from 82).

>If you can't find DC Format, go to a DOS clone (like roaches, they
>are everywhere), format a 3 1/2' disk to 720k format, and use that on the
>ST.  Transfer your files from the Atari disks to the DOS disks.  You can
>then get your files to the Mac.

I sent a reply to the author of the original posting that was too long and
Atari-specific for inclusion in Info-Mac.  The Atari operating system has
features (bugs?) that can make using true DOS disks hazardous.  In fact,
casually doing so can cause one's data to be seriously killed.

If anyone cares to know more about this, reply directly to my e-mail
address and I will forward the full reply (approx. 5k).

Traci J. Ingram

[e-mail]     | or |     [e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 16:27:42 -0600 (CST)
From: "Larry Rymal:T.E.M.U.G.-EAST_TEXAS-" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Attention FullWrite users (C)

    Hear!  Hear!  I already turned in my ballot(s).  grin

--Larry


On Mon, 28 Feb 1994, John Thoo wrote:

> Hello, all FullWrite users.  Just wanted to encourage you to vote for
> FullWrite in the 8th Annual Macworld World-Class Awards.  Ballots are in
> the April94 Macworld.  Here's to FullWrite's return!  :-)
>
> --John.
> J. B. THOO, Math Dept, Univ of California, Davis <[e-mail]>
>

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

Date: 1 Mar 94 03:58:44 GMT
From: [e-mail] (David K Dean)
Subject: AutoCAD R12 (Q)

    Does anyone have any experience with the Macintosh version of AutoCAD
Release 12? I have a friend who is thinking of buying it. Any info from people
using it would be great. I'll summarize and repost if there's enough interest.
Could someone also supply AutoDesk's address, both e-mail and postal mail.

                                Dave

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

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 15:50:00 EST
From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Avoid Astound

******** Flame On **********
For those who may be considering presentation software, think twice
before purchasing Astound by Gold Disk.  I've had nothing but problems
running it on a Quadra 700.  It crashes whenever I try to save my
files (even will all extensions turned off!) and has trashed files
on me.  (I am running Astound version 1.01.)

Now, I know that there are likely to be those who say that they've
been running Astound without any problems.  Fine.  I'm happy for you.
But as for me, I've not only been displeased with the performance of
the product--I've also been extremely unhappy with the service (or lack of
it.)  Despite repeated calls to Gold Disk Technical Support and to
the Product Managers, I've never received any satisfaction.  All I
get is promises to help--but nothing ever comes by way of real help.

It has been over 140 days since I brought my problems to Gold Disk's
attention.  Apparently, they are too busy to care.

I am sending a copy of this message to Kevin Conner, Astound's current
Product Manager.  So I am not saying anything that I am not saying
directly to Gold Disk.

BTW, I finally solved my problem myself.  I ordered a copy of PowerPoint 3.0!

***** Flame Off -- and Purchase Orders to Gold Disk Off Also! ****

Jeffrey Fritz
West Virginia University
[e-mail]

Disclaimer:  These are my opinions only and do not necessarily reflect
those of my employer.   Although...

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

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 15:46:41 +0000
From: Graham Allsopp <[e-mail]>
Subject: Backup disk software ?

I'm looking for something like SwitchBack that I can use to keep a backup
copy of a 128MB MO disk up to date (on another 128MB MO disk !). Of course,
I can only have one disk mounted at any time - the budget won't run to two
MO drives!

Any suggestions would be welcome.

Thanks, Graham

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

Date: Wed, 2 Mar 94 00:30:35 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Sak Wathanasin)
Subject: Baud -vs- Megabyte

In Info-Mac Digest V12 #32, Jeffrey N. Fritz"
<[e-mail]> writes:

 > Richard is correct.  I have been working too much with
 > synchronous circuits where a byte is indeed 8 bits.  In
 > asychronous communications, which most modems use, there are two
 > extra bits as Anders Stegen and Richard Smith both said.  So a
 > byte of data actually is ten bits. Sorry for the confusion!  :-(

Not necessarily! With v42(bis) enabled, the modems will perform start
and stop bit stripping, so you were right: the max effective rate of a
v32bis modem is 1800 bytes/sec on a compressed binary file.

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

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 18:58:16 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Ken B Kirksey)
Subject: Baud Confusion

> Here we rap Richard's knuckles: if there are eight data bits, there
> is NO parity bit. If there is a parity bit, then there are only seven
> data bits. Richard forgot the Start bit. So, to recap; there are TEN
> bits per byte:
>  One Start bit, either eight data bits or seven data bits and one
> parity bit,
>  and one stop bit.

EXCEPT if you using V.42 or MNP4, both of which strip the start and
stop bits when they assemble the data into packets, bringing us back
to 8 bits per byte.  Just a little something to add to the confusion..
:-)

Ken

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

Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 03:01:04 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Matt X. Herbison)
Subject: Carina Software Phone Number

Hello.  Does anyone out there know the phone number for Carina Software,
makers of the Voyager II and Star Gazer programs.  If no one knows the
phone, how about email or an address.  Thanks for any help.

-Matt X. Herbison                       -Penn State University
[e-mail]                         -Apple Student Representative

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

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 22:15:47 -0600
From: [e-mail] (John R. Nash)
Subject: CD's 'n' file sharing

I have noticed that from time to time, my Centris 610 refuses to eject a
CD, complaining that it has been shared.  File sharing is on, but the disc
itself is not shared (as confirmed by the "Sharing..." menu item).
Manually disabling sharing from the Sharing control panel allows me to
eject the disc, but why is this happening in the first place?

Certainly related to this is the "File Sharing" folder I found hiding in my
"Preferences" folder.  This folder contains files named "<name of CD> PDF"
for CD's that it has claimed to be shared.  After R'ing The FM, I find no
mention of such things in Apple's CD documentation.  Surely someone out
there knows what these files are and why they are being created.

For reference, I am using CD-ROM driver 4.0.2 (for a 300i), which came with
my system 7.1.  I know that driver 5.0 is out, but I seem to remember that
it didn't work with all systems -- can I and should I upgrade the driver?

Thanks...

-===-John R. Nash-==[e-mail]-==-UW-Madison Chem. Dept-===-

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

Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 15:20:08 -0600
From: "Lewis Overton [phone]" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Commercial demo presented as shareware [gripe]

In info-mac digest v12 #22, Greg Stevenson describes a program
called CrossPuzzler and offers it for inclusion in the archives.
There is no mention in the blurb that the program is a demo of a
commercial program. If you download the program, however, you
discover a readme file offering CrossPuzzler from Focus Development
Corporation priced at $59/copy, $295/building license.

I don't mind people including demos of commercial programs in the
archives provided they are courteous enough to identify both the
demo status and the commercial nature of the program. I think it
at best VERY POOR TASTE to hide both of these facts from people
until they have spent the time and money to download the program.
If the program is any good, honesty won't hurt you. Concealing
that you have uploaded a commercial demo, however, just annoys
grouches like me. I voted with my wallet. I threw away the demo
untried.

--Lewis Overton, [e-mail]

 ------ text of the info-mac announcement and readme follow ------


Date: Tue, 08 Feb 1994 16:56:43 +0900
=46rom: [e-mail] (Greg Stevenson)
Subject: [*] CrossPuzzler

Hey all you CrossWord Puzzle Maniacs!

If you searching for the best crossword program on the market, THIS IS IT!
CrossPuzzler is loaded with all the latest and greated features.  I've also
got some other great news!  The creator of CrossPuzzler has now come up with=
 a
word search puzzle maker called WordPuzzler!  So check them both out!

CrossPuzzler is a new crossword puzzle generator that far surpasses
anything on the market.  It will automatically generate a puzzle from a
list of up to 100 words.  All you need to do is provide the words and
clues.  CrossPuzzler will print your puzzle in a number of
professional-looking layouts using any Macintosh font.  CrossPuzzler will
also export your puzzle to a publishing or drawing program where you can
add your own features.  See also WordPuzzler.

Greg Stevenson
Computer Science
Iowa State University
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/game/cross-puzzler.hqx; 189K]

--- the readme file ---

CrossPuzzler-Demo 1.10
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
Copyright =A9 1994 Patrick J Stevenson, all rights reserved.
Published by Focus Development Corporation.


Ordering Information
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
Pricing:
Single user                                       $59.00
Building License                                $295.00
District License                                                        call

To order the full working version of CrossPuzzler, contact your favorite
software dealer.  If they don't carry it yet, they should.  You can also cal=
l,
write or e-mail:

Greg Wentz
=46ocus Development Sales
6626 Buckingham Alcove
Woodbury, MN  55125
Telephone:  [phone]
=46AX:  [phone]
AppleLink: FOCUSDEV
GEnie: FOCUSDEV
CompuServe: 71035,2133

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

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 12:37:39 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Vinko Tsui [phone])
Subject: CopyDoubler (R)

>I downloaded the CopyDoubler 2.0.3 update from Sumex, and I found that it does
>
>NOT include the special updater for versions 1.x and lower.  Where can I find
>this over anonymous
>FTP or Gopher?  I have version 1.1 which came with Autodoubler 2.0,
>and would like to be able to update CopyDoubler the same way I did
>Autodoubler to version 2.0.3.  BTW is there anything significantly different
>From CopyDoubler 1.1 and 2.0.3?
>

Version 2.0 of CopuDoubler is a separate product from AutoDoubler or
DiskDoubler. Before this happened the full version was bundled with
AutoDoubler. Now you can consider the version you get with AutoDoubler as a
trial (feature reduced version).

I believe Symantec offers a special pricing for CopyDoubler to current
owners of AutoDoubler. It is not too much. In my personal opinion, I think
CopyDoubler is one of the most useful utility I have loaded on my Mac,
hence, I'll try my best to keep up to date. The small about Symantec ask
for the 2.0.x version is quite worth the price (Go for it!).

If after reading this you're still not convince about the 2.0.x version,
then you can try downloading the CopyDoubler Lite update package. I believe
it will update the 1.x version of CopyDoubler.

I hope this helps!

-- Vinko

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

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

Date: Wed, 2 Mar 94 16:12:19 JST
From: attjp4![e-mail]
Subject: Decline and Fall of Mac Software Base

Pete Jones writes:

 A final comment: Windows NT is a loser. OS/2 is a niche app,
 will do well for folks who have silicon to spare, but will not catch
 on. Windows 3.1 is a mature product which will be around for a long
 time; in that sense, it's much like the Mac...

I agree with Pete Jones' final comments, especially concerning NT, which is too
big!  BUT what about MicroSoft's new OS, Chicago?!?  What do you fine folks
think about its chances to "blow Mac System 7 away?" -- a quote from a PC
magazine I saw recently.

Larry Staples                                      Email: [e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 19:46:10 +0100
From: Luc Patiny <[e-mail]>
Subject: decompressing .lha files from amiga

Can somebody tell me how to decompress files from the amiga computer with
.lha at the end.

I would like to get some MOD files from amiga archives on the macintosh.

Thank you in advance. Luc Patiny.

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

Date: Tue, 1 Mar 94 12:00:48 +0100
From: "Ad Herweijer"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: Default paper tray changing

In Info-Mac Digest #32 Jason Coleman wrote:

>I had this same problem, and while this fix works, it seems to me that
>there should be a way to change the default paper tray by configuring the
>printer itself instead of the Laserwriter 8.1 driver on each machine (which
>might not be wanted on each machine).  As a matter of fact, by printing the
>configuration sheet for the printer with the Laserwriter Utility, it
>actually lists a "Default Tray" setting, which is set to the 250 sheet
>tray.  Does anyone know how to change this setting on the printer?  I can't
>find it in the LW Pro 630 manual or in the Laserwriter Utility.

It can be done, but Apple didn't make it easy for us. You will have to do some
PostScript programming of your printer. The value for the default papertray is
stored in the "persistent" memory of the LaserWriter. Other parameters that are
stored there are (a.o.) the boolean for the startup page, the printer's unique
name and its password. Utilities like LaserWriter Utility or Adobe's PSTool
allow changing some of these persistent parameters. But changing the default
paper tray has not (yet?) been implemented in these programs. Here is the trick
to change the default paper tray of your LW Pro 630.

Make a TeachText file with the following PostScript commands:

serverdict begin 0 exitserver
statusdict begin
2 setdefaultpapertray
end

Note: The "0" in line 1 is the printer's password, assuming that it has not
been
changed from Apple's default value. If it was changed (for instance by PSTool),
the new password should be used, of course. The "2" in line 3 refers to the 500
page papertray that you want to make default (the 250 page tray would have a
"0"
here and the multipurpose tray a "1").

Use a utility that allows downloading a PostScript file to the printer (i.e.
LaserWriter Utility, PSTool, etc.) to implement the change. Download the file.

To check if the program has done its job, send the following PostScript
commands
to the printer using the same procedure:

statusdict begin
defaultpapertray
stack
end

A log file will be created containing the current value of the parameter.

A more elegant way to change parameters (or communicate with the printer in
general) is by using terminal emulation software. The printer's responses are
sent directly to the screen. It requires disconnecting the printer from the
network, however, which will not be appreciated by your networked colleagues! A
(freeware) program that solves this problem is PostScript Tool by Helicon
Designs. It allows terminal emulation using AppleTalk connections and
protocol.
I have been told that Adobe's LaserTalk will do the same, but it is commercial
and I have not been able to try that out yet.

Have fun!

Ad Herweijer

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

Date: Wed, 2 Mar 94 16:04:57 +0100
From: "Fabrizio Oddone"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: FaberFinder

In message <[e-mail]> Jonathan Lundell writes:
>  Why doesn't it work? First, read the docs. The business
>  about leaving folders open is important. There's a kind
>  of catch-22 in making the disk: FaberFinder can't be
>  named "Finder", or it hangs trying to launch an app when
>  you use it [why is that?]

>  Fabrizio, this whole procedure would be lots simpler if
>  FaberFinder could retain the name "Finder"; no problem
>  with the System Folder, and no need for a boot-block
>  editor.

I honestly do not know the reasons behind the hang. I noticed that the Install
disks of Apple System Software have that trick on their boot blocks, so I tried
that with FaberFinder. No more hangs, so I decided to release FaberFinder.

--
Fabrizio Oddone

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

Date: Tue, 01 Mar 94 08:13:09 +0000 BST
From: Richard Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: File update postings

A request to people who send updated versions of software to (any) archive:

Could you please include the file description with the information about the
upgrade? It's all very well knowing that "this release fixes a bug in version
1.1.2 of my SuperGreatSoftwarePackage" but we can't all remember what the hell
your SGSP does!!

Of particular help to BBS sysops who trawl the archives regularly looking for
new stuff!

Cheers,
Richard Smith

Hardware & Systems Executive, NEMUG-UK,
Sysop - NEMUG-UK BBS

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

Date: Wed, 02 Mar 94 18:08:22 CET
From: [e-mail] (cc)
Subject: Free to a Good Home....

No, not a cat, dog, or kid. In the spirit of generosity, I have a used but
not abused Mac which I no longer need. I am willing to give it away,
gratis, free, kostenlos, sans prix, to the first worthy tax-deductible
organization who asks for it. Before you get all hepped up, as my granny
used to say, here's what it is:

      Circa-1985 Mac 128K, modifed to 512K, then modified to Plus ROMS
      and 800K drive, then modified to 1.5MB with Dove memory board.
      Includes external 800K drive (not Apple). Original mouse and
      keyboard (not ADB). All cables and connectors that I can find.
      System 6.0.X on floppy disks. No printer. New power supply in
      1990, and the deflection yoke is not one of them bad ones (those
      who know what that means, know that it matters. If you don't
      know, don't worry.) I'll even throw in a copy of Macwrite (not
      II, not Pro, not nearly the latest), if I can find it in my
      basement. Might have earlier Systems/Finders, I'll have to check.
      110VAC, 60Hz, US plugs. Your mileage may vary.

I will ship it to you at my expense via US Postal service only. Also might
have an Ehman 65MB external hard drive (remember them?) which still works
but I'm not quite ready to get rid of until my new APS hard drive arrives.

Your cost? Only a signed receipt that you got it, and that you are a
bona-fide charity or otherwise neat bunch of guys/gals so I can take it off
my taxes.

Fine print: Only neat guys/gals need apply; no terrorists, radical
leftists, radical rightists, radical centrists, or lawng-haired hippie
freaks, please. Free offer for US only. European addresses, write for
alternative offer involving trade for four cases of your best local wine or
beer, traded at mutually convenient border crossing to northern Italy. This
offer is good only until I decide to revoke it or I decide to turn it into
an aquarium, as Andy Inhatko has suggested.

Pete Jones
[e-mail]

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

Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 10:58:35 +1000
From: Danny Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: halftone screening

in Info-Mac Digest V12 #31
Pete Tamas <[e-mail]> writes:
> In order to output at these angles, the halftone dot (measured in
> LPI) must be rotated. Because a matrix is rotated on a matrix, the
> dots will not overlap correctly. Therefore, the exact angles the
> printers want can not be output unless you have 3000+ DPI and even
> that is not exact enough for some things.  The limitation is on the
> power of the imagesetter.
I'm not sure whether the last sentence refers to the resolving power of the
imagesetter or to greater CPU power needed for modern screening algorithms,
but basically several improvements over the original Adobe technology for
digital screening have been available for several years. The original
technique was rational screening, and you had only a very few combinations
of screen angles for the process colours. Hell introduced High Quality
Screening and Adobe use a similar technology in PostScript level 2 - Adobe
Accurate Screening which is an unlocked rational algorithm described in a
book ("Adobe Accurate Screening"? by Adobe. I've seen it but didn't notice
the name). It seems that memory rather than CPU power is the limiting
factor in how close the screen angles are to what you request. A completely
different approach is Flamenco screening which does not mimic rotated
screens. It works best at low resolution because extreme colour shifts can
result from misregistration.
   I got this info from "Desktop Publishing in Color (sic)" by Michael
Kieran, Bantam ISBN 0-553-35140-0 which I recommend quite highly.

cheers,
Danny Thomas

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

Date: 28 Feb 1994 11:43:12 -0500 (EST)
From: "CHARLIE SPANN :*)" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Help!!!

Hello !

Thankyou to everyone who threw in suggestions for my font problems. The whole
deal is a lot clearer now. Any additional comments/suggestions are still
welcome!!

Would anyone happen to know of an extension which will require a password befor
e  someone is allowed to use a Mac ?  I know that AtEase will enable passwords,
but I am looking for something that is more basic. If possible, it would be
nice
to be
sure that someone could not get around it by using another system disk.

Any suggestions?

Thanks again.

Charlie Spann
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 17:16:39 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Michel Eytan, LILoL)
Subject: Help: pbs with a CD ROM

Hi Folks!

I just bought the Apple CD 300 reader and wanted to try it out. So I put in
a CD ROM I had bought some 4 months ago. It mounted with name 'Sans titre'
('Untitled' in French) and of course the soft that comes along with it
'Cannot find the CD ROM' and tells me 'You must first put the CD ROM into a
drive'. And one cannot change its name... Tried to use UnMount It and
ResEdit, to no avail. Anybody got an idea? Send *private* e-mail and I
shall eventually summarize.

Thanks to all the helpers out there.

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

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

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 22:48:45 -0600 (CST)
From: Robert H Yeo <[e-mail]>
Subject: How to read ATARI discs on Mac

J|rgen Bergstedt wrote:

"I have some discs fom a ATARI machine with some files I would like to read
on my Mac LC. PC disc are no problem to read with Apple Filekonverter but i=
t
can`t read ATARI discs. ATARI discs should be quite close to PC disk becaus=
e
ATRI mac=B7es can read and write on PC discs. Is there someone who has=20
managed to do this?..."
*****=20
There probably is an easier way to do this, but here is a method that=20
worked for me.  After six years, my department recently converted from=20
Atari to Mac, and we had hundreds of text files that needed to be accessibl=
e.

Each Atari file had to be opened from within their original=20
(wordprocessing) application then saved as ASCII to a double-sided,=20
double-density MS-DOS (not Atari) formatted disk.  They were then booted=20
up on a Mac with a Superdrive and AccessPC, then translated to MS-Word=20
via MacLinkPlus. All of the original formatting was retained.

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

Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 13:24:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Edwin Chee <[e-mail]>
Subject: HP 4MP Graphics

I have a HP LaserJet 4MP which has been printing superb text.  However,
one of the reasons I purchased this 600 dpi printer was for the graphics.
This has been disappointing as I am not able to reproduce the stunningly
detailed gray scaled print images as the demos that I originally saw.
Does anyone know how I can optimize my picts prior to printing so that I
can approach the quality of the demo images?

Please respond to me directly by email as I am often behind in my usenet
reading.


Edwin
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 12:41:06 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Veenker <[e-mail]>
Subject: image file

Many thanks to the *20* people who responded to my info-mac question
about .image files. As it turns out, 30 minutes after I posted the
original message, I found DiskCopy on my MacZone "Instant Access" CD and
figured it out all by my little self.

The best tip I got came from [can't remember his name] who said that he
uses diskcopy to archive his original disks when he buys a new piece of
software. Slick!

I once wondered if people see those messages and ignore them if the answer
is obvious. I was very impressed by the number of replies I received!

Thanks everyone,
Brian Veenker

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

Date: 02 Mar 1994 12:07:17 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Prof. Dwight K. Lemke)
Subject: IntelliDraw

MacWarehouse is advertising a special deal on IntelliDraw for only $39. Has
anyone any insight to offer into this program?  I am currently using
Deneba's UltraPaint for drawing tasks.  I'm really not in need of the power
of something like Canvas, or that would be my first choice.  How would
Intellidraw do?

-Dwight


|>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>| Dwight K. Lemke <[e-mail]>
|<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<| University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh

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Date: 28 Feb 94 09:44:15 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Georg Schwarz)
Subject: Is Apple's MoviePlayer freeware?

When I purchased my Performa it came with a bunch of software, among which
were Apple`s MoviePlayer 1.0 and Picture Compressor.
Both programs required entering your name ("personalizing them") the first
time they were run.

I was really astonished when I found some days ago on an FTP site a copy of
the US version of MoviePlayer 1.0 "registered" to some person at Apple.
The "get info" window for this application said that it was part of
QT Starter Kit 1.0, which I had previously thought was payware.

Is Apple now considering MoviePlayer 1.0 (which is very similar to their
SimplePlayer anyway) or perhaps all of the QT Starter Kit as
freeware just like they do for example with the QT extension?

If so, can I put my German copies of MoviePlayer and Picture Compressor
to an FTP site to make them available to other people?

Or (what I actually suspect) should that copy of MoviePlayer I found
rather not be on an FTP site and must legally consiered a pirated piece
of software?

comments are appreciated.

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Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 10:42:50 -0500 (CDT)
From: Wonko the Sane <[e-mail]>
Subject: Laserwriter 360 and Quark

Today I got a call from a frantic user who can't get any of her quark
documents to print on her LW Select 360.  It always goves a "Error:
offending command find font/ stack courier" which is an unusal error
considering there's no courier in the documents and there should be no
need to substitute any fonts (she's only using palatino).  To further
complicate things, when it does print it only prints all-black pages.  I
tired fiddling with the page setup command and got a cleaning page.  The
user has no other programs than quark and thus I can't test anything
other than teachtext (which works fine).  She's got a Q800 with 7.1 and
8MB.

Thanks to anyone who can help!

 |  Eric Oehler                          [e-mail]          |

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Date: Tue, 01 Mar 1994 13:20:03 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Charlie Mingo)
Subject: LaserWriter V8.1 (Where?)

[e-mail] (Paul Kleeberg) writes:

> Does anyone know where I can get LW v8.1?  V8.0 came with PageMaker 5.0
> and I have seen 8.1 fixes here on InfoMac but no 8.x either here or in
> the Apple Archives.  Can anyone help?

Do you know where laserwriter files are stored on the Apple archive?  LW
8.1.1 has been posted there since 5 October 93.

bric-a-brac.apple.com:/dts/mac/sys.soft/imaging/laserwriter.8.1
ncftp>ls -s
total 2579
1264 laserwriter-8-1-image-1440.hqx*     528
laserwriter-8-1-image-800-2.hqx*
 776 laserwriter-8-1-image-800-1.hqx*     11 laserwriter-8-1-readme.txt*

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

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 14:32:13 -0500 (EST)
From: "Neil Schulman, emeritus" <[e-mail]>
Subject: LineLink 144e Modem

A few things I've found out about the LineLink 144e modem from MacWarehouse:
First, it does not have a S95 register, so all your response codes will
perpetually be CONNECT 57600/LEM, there is no way to get an accurate
account of the actual speed or ARQ. Second, the modem is manufactured by
Prometheus, so if you have any problems MacWarehouse can't answer, bug the
people at Prometheus.

I read earlier that you can use faxSTF with the LineLink by using the
Rockwell chip set driver offered by faxSTF. Is it the class 2 14400 one?
the 9600 bps one? The class 1 9624 one?

Oh, I;ve discovered that if you store the active profile into non volatile
RAM, it won't store all the S Registers. It won't store S7, for instance.

Neil Schulman
[e-mail] / [e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 11:57:02 -0500
From: "Tom Scott" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Locked Folders?

     Locked Folders?
I have an office that has a shared Mac, mostly being used by work study
students.  They also have several folders that are being shared with
all the staff in the office.  They would like to lock the students out
of all but a few folders.  I know that FolderBolt could do this, but
I've heard a lot of unhappiness about FB on various forums.  What else
do you suggest?  I don't want to go with a high-end (read: expensive)
solution to this, but would appreciate people's input on this topic.
TIA!

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

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

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 94 21:36:07 EST
From: Jeff Beaubien <[e-mail]>
Subject: Looking for specific software packages

Hi.  I'm looking for some software packages which may or may not exist.
Hopefully someone out there will tell me if they do, and if so, how to
get them.  Here we go...

1)  A file management utility, with two windows and user-defineable buttons.
    (Reminiscent of the Amiga's Directory Opus program.)

2)  A sound utility to play/convert Amiga IFF and MOD sound files.

Any help is appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

Jeff Beaubien
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 10:28:32 -0800 (PST)
From: "Bruce Goldstein, [phone]" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Macintosh Easy Open 1.0.3 incompatible with AV Macintoshes

I have been having memory allocation problems, Microsoft Word not
loading and unexpectedly quitting.  I ran Conflict Catcher and found
that the somewhat reproducbile cause was the Macintosh Easy Open 1.0.3
extension which is provided by Apple to 3rd party software manufacturers
and thence to customers.  I called DataViz (who sold me MacLink Plus 7.5
which included Macintosh Easy Open 1.0.3).  DataViz technical support
informed me that Macintosh Easy Open 1.0.3 is incompatible with the AV
Macintoshes, and they are going to send me a bug fix version.
Bruce Goldstein

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

Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 9:46:59 -0500 (EST)
From: LAN Supervisor <[e-mail]>
Subject: Macintosh Plus and compatible software

Hello,

One of my students approached me with a problem today. He has a part-time job
at the Boys Club. Apparently, they've received a donation of four Macintosh
Plus computers, but have no software (system or otherwise). Does anyone know
which version of the system software runs on a Macintosh? Also, can anyone
recommend other applications (word processors, games)---preferably public
domain or freeware---that also run on a a Plus?

Thanks in advance,

Josephine Colmenares / Fordham University
[e-mail] / [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 14:31:16 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Vinko Tsui [phone])
Subject: Mac net help (R)

>    i'm from michigan, and our professor at my univ. is a pc lover and hasn't
>    offered any help for anyone owning a mac.  is there a special process or
>    number that i can call to use my modem software for the mac instead of
>emulating a pc.
>    i love my mac and would perfer to use it, but i can get around with
>using my emulator.
>    please post. thanx. :)
>

Scott,

It all depends on what you're trying to connect to and how. If you're
connecting to a main frame (Unix, VAX, VMS, etc.), then you're stuck. When
you say "...emulating a pc.", do you mean terminal mode? You're not
actually using something like SoftPC are you? If you are using SoftPC, then
there are IBM PC software which you're using. If these are not custom
software then all you have to do is find a Macintosh software that will
generate compatible files for your Prof.

There is a common myth that compatibility means, the same hardware,
software/operating system. This is completely wrong. The only reason people
say this is because they either do not know better or that they're trying
to save their job or worst its organization politics.

The most important part of Compatibility is the information. In most cases
you're talking about the document you generated. Using whatever application
and hardware you have handy. The document is the end result, how you achive
it is not that important. For group envrionment purpose, the above
statement will hold true, as long as everyone has tools (software) that can
take advantage  (read/write) of the document you generate.

By forcing anyone to use a particular piece of hardware or sofware or even
brand name is unreasonable. It is almost like someone forcing a 20 years
carpenter to you Stanley screw driver and Back & Decker saw to build a
table. As you can see this absolutely unreasonable, no carpenter I know
will accept that sort of criteria neither should you or anyone else in the
Computer User community.

As you can see, you've touch on a soar point. This is because I've seen
this over and over again in many organization. Fortunately, managers and
employers are starting to realize this fact.

Good luck in your fight. I sympathize with you. Let me know if you need any
more assistance on the Mac.

-- Vinko

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

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

Date: Mon, 28 FEB 94 10:6:41 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Mac net help [R]

Scott Simons writes:

>   i'm from michigan, and our professor at my univ. is a pc lover and hasn't
>   offered any help for anyone owning a mac.  is there a special process or
>   number that i can call to use my modem software for the mac instead of
>emulating a pc.
>   i love my mac and would perfer to use it, but i can get around with
>using my emulator.
>   please post. thanx. :)

Scott,

    I'm not sure exactly what you're asking.  Are you looking for
communications software that presents a graphical user interface?  I don't
think that exists, except on some commercial on-line data services, like
America On-Line.  The problem is the server you log-in to doesn't know (or
care) that you love and use Macs, and will normally provide the
least-common-denominator ASCII response, or, if you're lucky, ANSI
character-based graphics.  Some Mac communications programs, such as ZTerm
0.9 will interpret and display ANSI graphics, so you're not out of luck
there.

    My questions boil down to the following:

    1.  What do you want or need to do with your Mac and modem?

    2.  What type of data do you want to display?

    3.  What service is providing this data on-line?

    4.  How do you want to display the data, understanding that your display
preferences may not be available?

    The net, and particularly the Info-Mac Digest, is a good place to post
for Mac help.  To get meaningful answers, you need to have specific
questions, and describe the configuration of your system in detail, including
extensions and control panels.

Hope this helps,

Bill Cameron (native Michigander, now resident of New Mexico and living in
Ohio)
[e-mail]
[e-mail]                                                  sdg


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

Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 12:17:59 -0600 (CST)
From: Daniel S Stromberg <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mail question

Hi everyone,

This is more a question out of curiosity than any sort of necessity, but I was
wondering if there was any simple (and inexpensive) way to set up a mac to
receive normal internet mail.  I have my own IP address and all the software to
connect to another machine, but I was wondering if there was any easy way to
mail (or even telnet, but I suspect that's asking too much) directly to my
mac.

Thanks,

Dan
--

Dan Stromberg
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 1 Mar 94 23:51:09 GMT
From: "J. Rossi" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Metro 2.4 ?

Hello Netters,

I grabbed the demo of the sequencer Metro found at mac.archive. The problem is
that there's no readme file, and nothing in 'about'. No one seems to know this
program in the UK.
Could somebody give me some info about it (contacts, price ...) ? Thanks.

Francois Rossi   [e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 1 Mar 94 08:00:18 CST
From: Mike Sisson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Midi Manager (Q)

Greetings-

A friend of mine has a son who is quite a musician and has done some work
with MIDI stuff on a desktop Mac. He is currently away at school and only
has access to a PowerBook 140. Both my friend and I remember reading about
PowerBooks and MIDI not getting along but since neither of us has an interest
in such subjects we purged our brain of all information regarding this. Can
any musicians out there tell us:

1.) Will MIDI devices work with a PowerBook?

2.) If so, is any extra software required? (I remember something called
    MIDI Manager but archie couldn't find it for me.)

3.) Where can the software be obtained?

Thanks in advance for your help.BTW, I don't know what version of System 7 the
PowerBook is running but I can find out if it is relevant.

Mike
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 23:42:57 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Joseph Alan Cerro)
Subject: MIME decoding on Macs (summary)

Thanks to all who responded to my question about decoding MIME messages on
Macs. I am always amazed at how many people take the time to respond to
questions on Info-Mac!

Anyway, everybody suggested using Eudora 1.41 for encoding and decoding
MIME-encoded email. It _is_ a great MacTCP-based email program, it works
great, and I recommend it.

I also came across the program IRIDE, which also lives in the Info-Mac
archives, and it does the job nicely as well. It has a simpler menu system,
but (at least on my machine) the cursor doesn't change to a watch when it
is fetching mail, so it can seem like it has crashed, even if it hasn't.
Also included in the package is an Italian version. With the one caveat
about the lack of progress indications, this is also a good program.

Thanks again for your advice!

(Standard disclaimers: I have no affiliation with any product mentioned)


Joseph Cerro * [e-mail] * [e-mail] *
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 11:39:51 -0500 (EST)
From: James Slater <[e-mail]>
Subject: Modifying F3 key

I am using a stock quote program which can be accessed through a Mac(PW
180). Using microphone II, early version. When an instruction comes up on
the screen requiring F3 key, nothing happens. apparently my keyboard
(Datadesk Extended) doesn't send the right impulse. Does anyone know how
I can reprogram my F3 key to send out the correct signal to the program,
which I think must be in Unix.? thanks for your help, anyone!!!

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

Date: Wed, 02 Mar 1994 09:45:51 -0600 (CST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Moose

This is a low level question or appeal for help. With Talking Moose my machine
b
eeps have to be set at rather high volume to get acceptable volume from Moose.
D
oes anyone out there know how to ResEdit or modify some code to get Moose to be
louder, so beeps can be softer? Appreciate your interest. By the way, I
surprisi
ngly got Moose to work with my Quadra 610 even with Disk Cache enabled, which
su
pport board says should not be the case.

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Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 23:21:46 +0000
From: [e-mail] (infidel)
Subject: multipule lanches

This may be an faq, but.... is there a way to launch multiple programs by
double-clicking on one icon.  For example, I'd like to launch DownLine
whenever I double-click on Fetch.  Granted, I may be just overly lazy, but
I'd be interested in a way to do this... it would be awefully versitile and
handy.

Thanks.
Corey
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 94 13:53:50 est
From: Grilled Cheese <[e-mail]> (Reid Spice)
Subject: Music/MIDI question

I was wondering if anyone could suggest some good composing software for the
Mac using MIDI.  Ideally, I'd like to input music at my keyboard and have the
computer quantize and then score it automatically (in rhythm).  I've been
using Performer 4.2 and Composer 2.3M but they are not horrendously
compatible together and exporting sequences from Performer to Composer is
nothing short of disasterous.  Is Finale still the standard for composing on
the Mac or has it been overtaken by another program?  I'm pretty much in the
dark as far as what's available for MIDI Macs today so any current info would
be appreciated.

Thanks,

Reid Spice
[e-mail]

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

Date: 01 Mar 1994 14:03:34 -0500 (EST)
From: "Mark Nutter, Apple Support" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Need low-cost tape backup unit

I've been given the job of finding an inexpensive tape backup unit for use on
Macintosh computers on campus.  My MS-DOS counterpart has found a device that
will only work on DOS-based machines.  Brand-new it cost about $400 (as I
recall), so I'm under some pressure to find a similar price for a device that
can be used on a Mac.

Surprise, surprise!  I'm sure there used to be such beasts, but I can't find
any now.  I've checked the major mailorder houses, the back of major Mac
magazines, and now I'm turning to the net.  Can someone point me to a vendor?

Please reply directly to me via Email.  If there is sufficient demand I will
post a summary.

Mark Nutter
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 02 Mar 1994 14:03:32 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Adam van Gaalen PA2AGA)
Subject: NET_Mac2.3.37.sea.hqx.text


                        The Netherlands, March 2, 1994.
Hello dear reader,

Today I distributed the file NET_Mac2.3.37.sea.hqx...

In this version of NET/Mac I implemented the following:

- Added Text Capture FKEY (see: HELP window, option *Text Capture FKEY*)
- Added some more improvements for the 'sourcewhendone' command
- Improved the generation of From addresses for hop-to-hop delivery

The 'Text Capture FKEY' cannot be used yet in a split-window environment, like
TELNET-sessions... In NET/Mac 2.3.38 I will try to change that so that you can
COPY/PASTE any data that appears on the screen.

This version obsoletes all versions of info-mac/comm/net/radio-netmac in
the Sumex-Aim archives.

The new NET/Mac has been uploaded to:
1) ucsd.edu, to the directory hamradio/packet/tcpip/incoming.
   If it's not there then look at hamradio/packet/tcpip/mac.
2) world.std.com, to the directory pub/hamradio/mac/packet.

Kind regards,

Adam PA2AGA  (e-mail: [e-mail]  )
         (    or: [e-mail]  for letters only, NO BIG files here)

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

Date: Wed, 02 Mar 94 17:43:39 MEZ
From: "Dr. Stefan P. Mueller"
<[e-mail]>
Subject: Network Launch Fix fixed! Get version 1.0.2

The new Network Launch Fix v. 1.0.2 is on ftp.apple.com in:

   /dts/mac/sys.soft/7.system.updates

I ran Language Systems Fortran under MPW without problems on a Q700 under
System 7.1. Good luck!

Stefan

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

Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 07:57:08 -0500
From: "Tom Scott" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Newbie SLIP conundrums

     Newbie SLIP conundrums
[e-mail] asks:

>I'm a newbie that's taken advantage of Northwest Nexus' special
two-weeks
>free access offer through Adam Engst's Internet Starter Kit.  So far
I've
>been able to use ftp, gopher, wais, etc. with relatively few problems
(in >the Unix shell -- blechh! <g>).
>
>My problem is getting Fetch, Eudora, and TurboGopher to work correctly
with >a SLIP connection, and if anyone has any ideas why I'd love to
hear them.
>
>With TurboGopher I get the error "Unable to resolve host name."  With
Fetch,
>"Error: No name server can be found to help locate this host.  If you
know
>the host's IP address you should enter it directly."
>
>I'm at a loss after rechecking my MacTCP, InterSLIP and program
settings >(and using all the online help I can find).  I can't get a
newsreader to >work either, so could you mail responses to
[e-mail]?  I'd really
>appreciate it, and I'll pass whatever I learn back to this list.

If you don't have the luxury of a DNS (Domain Name Server), then you
can't use host NAMES (like sumex-aim.stanford.edu).  You'll have to
enter their numeric IP address.  The DNS allows a translation between a
nice hostname and the sometimes cryptic IP address.  Many universities
and companies have a DNS in place, so ask around.  If they allow you,
you can use their DNS.  Maybe some service providers like Delphi might
have DNS facilities as well.  Then you just configure the IP address of
the DNS in your Domain Name Server portion of your MacTCP window.

Tom
***

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

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

Date: Tue, 01 Mar 94 14:01:03 CET
From: [e-mail] (cc)
Subject: Personal Laserwriter -- Good Deal?

Would appreciate opinions this time. My trusty GCC PLP II has finally bit
the dust; repair costs >US$400 (molte grazie to the Italian power company
and their lightning-attracting system). Instead of repairs, a German vendor
has offered me a Personal Laserwriter NT for the price of US$749 plus
shipping. Not familiar with this printer. Is this a good deal? Issues:
reliability, maintainability, fatal flaws, incipient obsolescence.

TIA //Pete Jones

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

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 94 23:59:41 EST
From: Doffie Hochreich <[e-mail]>
Subject: Popup Folder and Other Launchers

Norm Weiner, having seen an article re Inline Design's new program, Popup
Folder, asks if there is something like it available as shareware.  Yes.
James Walker's program, Other Menus, gives you hierarchical access (five
layers deep, I believe) to all the folders/files on your drive from a
special pull-down menu.  The program does a lot of other things besides --
with all the externals he has added, it's kind of a "Swiss Army Knife
Program."  I haven't yet decided whether to pay the shareware fee and
keep Other Menus because I'm a launching/navigation utilities junkie and I'm
pretty soon even Stacker won't be able to bail me out of a too-full hd.

I've been beta-testing Popup Folder -- just got permission to talk about it
openly -- and it is a _very_ handy and cool program.  PF gives you hierarchic-
al access from the Finder, the Apple Menu, and diaglog boxes!  Should be
released rsn.

Doffie Hochreich
Here and [e-mail]

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

Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 10:58:38 +1000
From: Danny Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: PostScript 2 => 1 (Q)

David Steiner <[e-mail]> writes:
> Here's another one of the persistent PS questions:
>
> We have several software packages here that are capable of outputing only
> PostScript 2 output and we have access to a couple of output devices that
> are only understand PostScript 1. I know that PS2 devices can understand
> PS1 output but not the reverse. Does anyone out there know of a PS2 => PS1
> converter?  It does not have to run on a Mac as I have access to UNIX and
> DOS.

I don't know of a converter, though you might want to look at the
comp.lang.postscript faq from wilma.cs.brown.edu. The Adobe Red book (see
appendix D) describes ways of implementing many level-2 capabilities on a
level-1 printer, but not everything can be converted. I would have thought
most serious commercial applications that generate their own PostScript (eg
PageMaker, XPress, Photoshop) would use a ppd file for the target printer
to make best use of the printer's capabilities. The ppd file would specify
whether the printer was a level 1 or level 2 device so the application
would use level 2 capabilities when it could. It may be that only level 2
is generated because level 1 can't cut it (lack of support for quality
halftoning, colour spaces, etc). The LW8 driver can generate level 1
output.

cheers,
Danny Thomas

BTW what are the applications?

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

Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 11:39:01 --800
From: [e-mail] (14@Daw-hwan Wang)
Subject: PowerUser 2400mini modem.

Hi, dear netters,

I have a question for you. I bought FaxSTF 3.0 recently & I don't find the
name of my send-fax-only modem in the config. window of FaxSTF. And I don't
know which driver I should choose from the driver type window.

The modem I use is a PowerUser 2400minimodem ordered from MacWarehouse about
3.5 years ago. It's a 24/96 type.

Do you have any idea how I can use FasSTF to send fax via my modem? Thanks.


Daw-hwan Wang
Biological Anthropology Lab.
Academia Sinica
Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan 11529

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

Date: Tue, 01 Mar 94 07:44:46 CST
From: MAck Willingham <[e-mail]>
Subject: PPC CD Drive

With all the news of the PPC, there may be a small tidbit that has been
left out.  I was looking at a sheet, on the new batch of 840's that
came out, being that the 16/1000 is no longer available (here at least),
the (new?) CD rom drives will be caddyless.  This is not offical, it is
just what I read about the new 840's.  I would just assume that this will
carry over to the PPC.  At the demo, the rom drives were not discussed or
demonstrated, a cover-up?  If I am off base on this, let me know.

Mack Willingham

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

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 13:17:45 -0500 (EST)
From: Arif Shaikh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Project management??

Hello netters....

Do any of you net gurus know of any good project management programs on
Macs and PCs (I know, I know, that word is forbidden in this digest.)
What I need is names and companies of these applications.  Also, I wouuld
like to find some kind of article from any magazine that compares these
applications...

Thank you in advance...

                ......Arif

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

Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 17:15:07 -0500
From: Edward Brown Shipe <[e-mail]>
Subject: Pump & Snatch or other distribution program...

     Hi, I have been trying, without success, to get a program called
Pump & Snatch to work on the network at my school.  Unfortunately though, it
was created before the time of system 7, and there is a bit of a problem.
After a random amount of time, the sending machine just stops and quits
Pump and Snatch!  At our school, we have no system-6 capable machine with
enough disk space to hold what we want to distribute, so we are kind of stuck.
I have searched and searched for a program that will distribute whole volumes
to many machines on a network at once, but I can find one.  Can anyone help
me?  We need to either distribute whole volumes, or find some other way to
send files that are in use by the operating system on the sending and
receiving computers.  I don't think that it is possible to do that without
doing a whole volume copy.  Thanx!

BTW:  I can be reached at [e-mail].

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

Date: Mon, 28 FEB 94 11:56:11 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Quattra (sic)

Scott Kelsey rites:

>Hi All - In a previous message I spelled Quattra instead of Quadra. I
>should've had a cup of coffee before I started writing.

Scott,

    Most of us were politely ignoring your precaffeinated lexical lapses.
After all, communication of ideas is the important point. :->

Bill Cameron                                              sdg
[e-mail]
[e-mail]


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

Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 11:14:19 -0500
From: "Tom Scott" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RAMDoubler on an LC?

     RAMDoubler on an LC?
I've heard stories that RAMDoubler only works on '030 machines.  I also
heard that it's not the processor that's important, but the presence of
a PMMU.  Which leads me to the question:  Will RAMDoubler (an original)
'020 LC with a PMMU?

Tom
***

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

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

Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 11:43:56 +0100 (WET)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Request for info about Mac's ADB

Hallo!I'm an italian student of the University of Trieste ; I'm preparing a
task concerning the APPLE DESKTOP BUS for the "Electronic Calculators II" exam
with theacher named M. Hmeliak. I need info about ADB and I'm searching for it
using my Email.Can you help me ? Thank you !

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

Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 10:24:02 +1100
From: "Michael.Smith" <[e-mail]>
Subject: request Handeze Gloves information

Adam Engst wrote about the Handeze Gloves in issue 199 of the wonderful
TidBits publication. At the time he gave them the thumbs up (hopefully
without too much pain :-)).

I'd like to know how many people tried and are using these gloves and
finding them useful. Comments on Handeze, or pointers to better products,
are greatly appreciated.

Also, can anyone supply an address or non-800 phone number (of use to
overseas callers) for the makers of Handeze, a company called Dome. Or even
better, an international Fax number.

Thanks,
Michael.

 -----------------------------/|-|--|-|--|----Michael-Smith-------------------
  [e-mail]     /-| |\ | |  |    Mathematics (CMA)
 ---------------------------/--|-|-\|-|_/|----Australian-National-University--

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Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 20:08:13 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Matt Bancroft)
Subject: SAM VIRUS DEFS

Which ftp sites carry the updates of Sam Intercept virus definitions and in
which directories are they located?

Matt Bancroft
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 01 Mar 94 06:02:46 -0500
From: "Keith E Gatling" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Sending Mail to Someone on Prodigy [Q]

Can anyone out there tell me how to send mail from the Internet to someone
on Prodigy?

Thanks!

keg

* [e-mail]   I've got plenty of opinions.  Just ask my wife! *

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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 18:10:02 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Mike Cohen)
Subject: SITcomm v. 1.0 - Instability of Character Set - Self toggles

[e-mail] writes:

>When I use Aladdin SITcomm v. 1.0 I get a toggling action between GO and GI
>going from ASCII to Graphics. When this occurs I get a lot of gibberish on
>the screen in the form of numbers, letters, and symbols. What would cause this
>to occur. I am using a Macintosh IIsi with 17M RAM. Using Kermit protocol,
>and a baud rate of 9600. Transfer is Macbinary and Packet lenth 256. Any
>thoughts as to why this happens. Thanks for any assistance.

>Bob Penman

The VT-100 emulation includes an escape sequence that switches character sets.
Some application (or perhaps some line noise) probably sent that sequence. One
work around is to set all of the character sets to ASCII rather than Graphics.
--
Mike Cohen - [e-mail]
NewtonMail: MikeC49506 / ALink: D6734 / AOL: MikeC20

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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 94 21:50:43 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: SLIP Problems

Hello Info-Mac (especially Mike Dustan and Adam Engst!),

Thanks for the mail!  Mike mentioned that my problem was probably a bad
configuration -- I could certainly believe that, but after double-checking (
and reinstalling MacTCP and setting it up once again), Adam Engst wrote back
to say...

>Simple solution, Chuck. If you can call up Northwest Nexus with a
x>terminal emulator and use all the command line progrmas from the
>shell, you don't have a SLIP account! :-) Just call the folks at
>Northwest Nexus or send them email and ask them to switch your
>account over to a SLIP account from a shell account. Note that at
>that point, you will ONLY be able to connect with InterSLIP or
>another SLIP program.

Drat!  I was careful to specify a SLIP account, but they must be overrun with
new customers, thanks to Adam.  (Thought I was going a bit cuckoo, though.)
I still wonder why MacTCP returned a -23004 error (error getting address from
server) but I assume it was trying to interpret the command line stuff
intended for me.  And of course MacTCP doesn't know if I am or am not using a
SLIP account (should InterSLIP be able to?), so it can't give me intelligent
feedback.

Thanks again,

- Chuck Wiltgen

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Date: Tue, 01 Mar 94 08:30:08 +0000 BST
From: Richard Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: Ten bits, an apology ;-)

Ouch! Here I am trying to type with raw, bleeding knuckles - Jonathan
Lundell and Roger D. Parish both have rapped my knuckles for the error
in my reply to the post about modem speeds.

OK, guys, I got it wrong (well, it was more of a temporary abberation,
brainRAM failure, glitch, whatever) when I suggested that a datastream
may have a parity bit. Of course it doesn't in modern modem
communications, can't think why I wrote it, that bit of my post looks
ridiculous when I go back to it now.

I should have said "there are ten bits - one start bit, eight data bits,
and one stop bit" but somehow my past caught up with me and 'start bit'
got typed as 'parity bit'.

Richard Smith

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Date: Tue, 01 Mar 94 19:42:31 GMT
From: Michael Everson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Text-based games for 8-year-olds

I don't play text-based games much, but some of you must....

What's a good one in the sumex archives for an 8-year-old?

Please reply directly to me. Thanks,
Michael Everson
School of Architecture, UCD; Richview, Clonskeagh; Dublin 14; E/ire
Phone: [phone]  Fax: [phone]  Home: [phone]

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Date: 2 Mar 1994 21:42:55 +1100
From: [e-mail] (David A Vincent)
Subject: The decline and fall of the Macintosh software base

In digest <[e-mail]>
[e-mail] writes:

>A friend at Lotus tells me that they think the Mac is dead, so they
>will not be bringing out anymore Mac software.  His belief is that
>everyone will move to IBM-compatibles. This isn't an official
>announcement, but he's in a position where he should know.

If his definition of IBM-compatibles includes the PowerPC, he's quite right
that everyone will move to them.  However, the Mac will not be dead.  Just
IBM 'compatible'.  (I leave it as an exercise for the reader to determine
the difference, if any, between the two fates. :-)

>--David Wittenberg
>[e-mail]

...dav
--
Ph: (h) [phone]        David A Vincent  Software Development Engineer
Ph: (w) [phone]             Atlas Elektronik (Australia) Pty Ltd
[e-mail]     * I do not speak on behalf of Atlas. *
    "...break my legs politely; I'll spit my gold teeth out at you..."

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Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 19:44:17 -0600
From: Joseph Heck <[e-mail]>
Subject: The game 'gwyddbwyll"

Forwarded from WELSH-L. OK, you games programmers, who wants to try
this one? I'd be willing to help with graphical interface and
localizability. Mail me directly.

Michael Everson
School of Architecture, UCD; Richview, Clonskeagh; Dublin 14; E/ire
Phone: [phone]  Fax: [phone]  Home: [phone]

 ---------------------------Original message----------------------------
> Does anyone have knowledge of the game 'gwyddbwyll' mentioned in The
> Mabinogion? e.g. in 'The Dream of Macsen Wledig'. Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones
> in their translation have a footnote that it is not chess, but a hunt-game
> like the Icelandic 'hnefatafl'.

hnefatafl is a common medieval game played on a board of odd numbered squares.
The pieces all move like rooks (orthoganally), and they capture opponent's
pieces by moving on two or more sides of the opponent. A piece, however, can
move between to opponents pieces without being captured. The pieces are always
set up with the 'attacker' having twice the number of pieces of the defender,
and the 'king' the central piece of the defenders' arsenal.

Lord, I'm not writing this well - sorry. The layout is something like this:

_ _ _ _ * * * _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ * _ _ _ _ _   This is only one version of the game - a number exist.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _   More details can be found in "The History of Chess",
* _ _ _ _ x _ _ _ _ *   by H. J. R. Murray.
* _ _ _ x x x _ _ _ *
* * _ x x K x x _ * *
* _ _ _ x x x _ _ _ *
* _ _ _ _ x _ _ _ _ *
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ * _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ * * * _ _ _ _

as a side note, there's also an article:

Lewis, Frank, Gwerin Ffistial a Thawlbwrdd, Transactions of the Honourable
Society of Cymmrodorion, Session 1941, London, 1943.

Well - at least some references.
--
 joe                          [phone]
 [e-mail]    University of Missouri - Columbia
 "with a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and
 imprenetrable fog!" -- Calvin

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Date: Tue, 01 Mar 94 23:42:15 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: The Mac is Dead? No, Lotus just can't compete!

Don't believe everything people tell you (yes, even friends)!

> A friend at Lotus tells me that they think the Mac is dead, so
> they will not be bringing out anymore Mac software.  His belief > is that
everyone will move to IBM-compatibles. This isn't an
> official announcement, but he's in a position where he should
> know.

I've been noticing that for the past several months Lotus is practically
giving away Lotus 1-2-3. I would suggest that Lotus is unsuccessful at
competing against MS Excel, and thus, concludes that the Mac is dead (i.e.,
just wishful thinking on their part). After all, when no one wants your
product at almost give-away prices about the only way to feel better is to
tell yourself that it doesn't matter, anyway.

JMO - Tom Burris

(BTW, I don't use Lotus and never have. But, I do peruse the mail-order
catalogs on a regular basis and read the major Mac magazines from cover to
cover.)

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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 94 10:10:42 MST
From: "Roger B. Marks"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: using VGA with Mac internal video

Just what are the rules for using a VGA monitor with Mac internal video? The
manuals don't say anything, and all of the many dealers I've visited are
clueless.

I bought a little adaptor that claims to connect a VGA to a Mac LC. When used
with my Quadra 650, it fits, physically. However, it doesn't work electrically
with two multiscan monitors I've tried. One gives a black screen. The other
displays the image, but it "rolls" vertically (as if the vertical hold on your
TV were out of whack).

Looking through a catalog from the store that sold me the adaptor, I noticed
that they sell two versions: one for "LC" and one for "Mac II." I probably
would
have bought the Mac II version, had they carried it, but I am skeptical about
there being any difference.

So, what gives?



Roger
[e-mail]            NIST/Boulder, CO

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Date: Sun, 27 Feb 1994 19:07:12 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Tonya Engst)
Subject: Word - opening TIFF files

Tom,

As far as Word goes, it can handle PICT, PAINT, TIFF, and EPS, though as
you've noticed, the TIFF converter sometimes chokes - I gather there are a
number of types of TIFFs out there, though I'm no expert.

The most common choking on a TIFF, though, occurs with an out of memory
message - and I bet a bunch of Info-Mac people have run out of memory while
importing TIFF images. You may need to allocate an outrageous amount of RAM
to Word, say 6 MB or so to bring in the image.

If you are not getting an out of memory message, make sure you've tried
Word 5.1. The TIFF part of the EPT-PICT-TIFF converter for 5.1 has a few
tweaks.

Perhaps someone who knows more about the ins and outs of the TIFF file
formats can provide more insight...

cheers,

tonya engst


>From: "Tom Egan" <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Subject- (Q) Images to Word
>
>Subject: (Q) Images to Word?
>I am using an image processing software (KHOROS) that is capable of producing
>the following output formats:
>   BIG, FITS, PBM, Sun Raster, raw binary, X11 bitmap (xbm), TIFF (verbose,
>boolean, compressed -> LZW, CCITTFAX3, CCITTRLEW, PACKBITS).
>
>I want to bring the images into MacDraw or Word.  I have tried several of the
>TIFF formats but none of them worked.  Is it possible to get MacDraw or Word
to
>read any of these formats?

Tonya Engst, TidBITS Editor -- [e-mail] [e-mail]
My opinions are not necessarily those of my employer, Microsoft

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Date: Tue, 1 Mar 94 18:32:40 CST
From: [e-mail] (u8036085)

Sir,
   Could you teach me how to make the files that I got on Unix which manes
are *.sit runable ? Thank you !

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