Mac-Source 1994 July/Mac-Source_July_1994.iso/Information/info mac digest v12/infomacv12-071.txt

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Date: Mon,  9 May 94 06:58:48 PDT
From: The Info-Mac Moderators <[e-mail]>
Reply-To: [e-mail]
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V12 #71
To: info-mac-list


Info-Mac Digest             Mon,  9 May 94       Volume 12 : Issue 71

Today's Topics:

      [*] A mini drag-and-drop archiver
      [*] Basic Black 1.3.3; a screen saver
      [*] BetMaster v.1.0; gambling statistics package
      [*] books-off-20; bypass searching books
      [*] BrewArt, volume 3--The Wood
      [*] Calypso 1.0.1; a CTB tool
      [*] color-icon-mania-10; colorises alert icons
      [*] csmp-digest-v3-024
      [*] Evocation 1.0 demo; an adventure game
      [*] ExerciseLog 1.09; a diary
      [*] FAQ: How can I send a fax from the Internet? (ver. 0.2)
      [*] Fast Case 1.0.2; creates font suitcases
      [*] Flower-Puzzle; a classic tile game
      [*] fs-atc-cdev-101 (Flight Simulator - Air Traffic Controller)
      [*] FWB Hard Disk Toolkit 1.5.1 updater
      [*] High School Curriculum Presentations
      [*] HTML.edit v1.1, an HTML (WWW format) editor
      [*] HyperCuber 2.0 Movie
      [*] HyperCuber 2.0 Source Code
      [*] HyperQWK 1.0; for QWK packets
      [*] IM/Mac1.0b27z; a communications program
      [*] Iris-Puzzle; a classic tile game
      [*] Jon's Commands 1.1.1
      [*] Lighthouse-Puzzle; the classic tile game
      [*] Mac Speccy 1.0 - a ZX Spectrum emulator
      [*] MacTracker1.20; a program for playing MOD files
      [*] MacTrackerSource1.20, C source code of the MOD player
      [*] Monitor 1.5.3; monitors processes and activity
      [*] MuEdit1.3; styled and world-scripted text editor
      [*] MungeImage 1.0; mount disk images as floppies
      [*] MungeImage 1.0; Pascal source
      [*] MyBattery 2.2.3; battery minder for Powerbooks
      [*] native-checker-10.hqx
      [*] NotifyMail 2.3.0 - Instant email notification (Eudora)
      [*] Old-Camera-Puzzle; a classic tile game
      [*] out-of-this-world-demo; a commercial adventure game
      [*] PDA Package Downloader 1.5 (for the Newton)
      [*] PhilateLISTER1.5; for stamp collectors
      [*] PlainText text editor
      [*] PowerPC-GoodasGold-Startup
      [*] Replace! extension (modifies "Replace existing <file>?" dialog)
      [*] ResTest; a resolution test pattern in postscript
      [*] Revelations 1.0.6; a relational database management system
      [*] Scripts to build multiple projects (CodeWarrior)
      [*] Script Tools 1.3-1; a collection of scripting additions
      [*] SpectreWrite; a word processor
      [*] SpriteWorld1.0b4; an animation development library
      [*] Sunflower-Puzzle; a classic tile game
      [*] Tax FKEY 1.0.1; adds tax to a number in the clipboard
      [*] WASTE 1.0a4; a text-editing library
      [*] What is gzip? What do I need? textfile
      [*] Word Find v1.2 - a word find puzzle creation program
      [*] WORF_GoodTea_NiceHouse.hqx (Sound file)
      [*] Wrapper 1.0; an AfetrDark module
      (A) HELP: corrupt Excel file
      [?] Stalker Lineshare
      [Q]  Printing to laserwriter from VMS with parameters
      CCL (communication control language) reference needed (A)
      CD-ROM 5.0.1
      DiskCopy
      DOS in Mac
      duh..help with LineLink
      Dvorak vs. Qwerty
      Elite+
      Every Man's Dream (?!?)
      FTP site for HP printer drivers (A)
      FTP site for HP printer drivers [A]
      GeoPort Official Word From Apple
      How does Appletalk get reset?
      HP ftp site
      HyperCard externals collection
      Identifying native PPC code or fat apps ?
      IDL Scientific Visualization Package for the Mac
      legality of obsolete s/w (A)
      Mac Netnews Readers for NNTP protocol
      Offline Mail Reader (A)
      Old System Disks
      OnLocation...Opinion!
      PowerMac 6100 no FPU? (A)
      Radious card
      Small system 7.1?
      Why is Illustrator88 called Illustrator88?
      Why is Illustrator88 called Illustrator88? [A]
      WriteNow & Finder crash (Q)

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Date: Thu, 5 May 1994 14:33:56 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Jonathan Kimmitt)
Subject: [*] A mini drag-and-drop archiver

Macintosh users might be interested in my attempt to evaluate
the performance of the power PC in a 'real' rather than a benchmark
situation. What follows is the source code and FAT binary for a mini
drag-and-drop archiver which uses the IEEE compress algorithm
and hence is compatible with the original "stuffit".

For maximum learning value I tried to make the source compatible with
both of the Metrowerks compilers and the traditional THINK_C style
of headers. The only real difference in a small program like this
is the use of universal proc pointers to handle the apple events
required for drag-and-drop operation.

Since I couldn't find a better way of doing it I made the FAT binary
by manually merging the 68000 version with the powerPC output of
the Metrowerks Linker using ResEdit. Despite the 'FAT' designation it
is only 24K which might be regarded as acceptable.

On a 6100/60 the emulated version of the program knocks an LC-III
into a cocked-hat, but the native version achieves possibly only
a 50% speedup over the emulated version. I attribute this surprising
result to the relatively frequent use of toolbox calls during the
operation in order to keep buffer sizes small, and of course the
fact that the compiler is only an alpha version.

No responsibility accepted for any data loss caused by using this
archiver on your files. It is only meant to be a benchmark remember.
You have been warned.

Your comments on bugs, performance tweaks, enhancements welcome
to [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/src/stuff-c.hqx; 57K]

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Date: Fri, 6 May 94 11:15:54 EDT
From: Mason Bliss <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Basic Black 1.3.3; a screen saver

At long last, here's Basic Black 1.3.3. It's a bit cleaner and the cdev is
a bit more stable. It also squashes a bug or two.

If you're not familiar with it, Basic Black is a small, efficient screen
saver for the Mac (currently only 68K Macs) that supports After Dark's
'SAVR' and 'SAVC' selectors, and is totally free for non-commercial use.

Mason L. Bliss  <>  Psych. Student and Random Hacker  <>  UMass Dartmouth
[e-mail]  <>  [e-mail]  <>  1:109/370.6

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/basic-black-133.hqx; 29K]

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Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 15:21:22 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Dr. Slothouber)
Subject: [*] BetMaster v.1.0; gambling statistics package

BetMaster (v.1.0) is a tool for the horse and dog racing enthusiast.
By performing a statistical analysis on the handicapping odds
provided by you, and the "WIN" odds posted at the horse/dog track
BetMaster estimates which bets are likely to generate the largest
payoffs.

Louis Slothouber
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/app/bet-master-10.hqx; 18K]

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Date: Sat, 7 May 1994 06:23:00 JST
From: Yosuke Suzuki <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] books-off-20; bypass searching books

It's a Newton Utility

BooksOff can save your life from long long waiting time when you
do "Find All". It add a checkbox "Don't Search in Books" on Find
Dialog. Generally information you want to get exists on "Names",
"Notes", "To Do" or any application specific data, not on Digital
Books. BooksOff can skip searching in books, so you can get result
more faster. It's easy to turn off this function, so no probrem
when you really want to get information in the book.

Version 2.0 : Now it's auto part. There's no icon in extras
drawer. This is like Macintosh's INIT file.

Freeware

[Archived as /info-mac/nwt/util/books-off-20.hqx; 8K]

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Date: Fri, 06 May 1994 11:14:55 +0000 (U)
From: George Tempel <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] BrewArt, volume 3--The Wood

              BrewArt, volume 3--The Woodcuts
Enclosed find my 3rd edition of BrewArt, the clip art
collection (for Macintosh) for homebrewing!

enjoy....
ty

BrewArt, vol #3
    "Beer" woodcut bottle.pict
    barrel.pict
    brewmaster stirring.pict
    erhlenmeyer flask.pict
    hopper.pict
    pilsner woodcut.pict
    stirring hand.pict
    thumb.pict
    woodcut brewvat.pict
    Read Me First! o3 (this file)

[Archived as /info-mac/grf/brew-art-collection-grp3.hqx; 62K]

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Date: 5 May 1994 15:04:36 -0800
From: "Stattenfield, Keith" <stattenfield#m#[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Calypso 1.0.1; a CTB tool

This is the 1.0.1 release of Calypso, an unsupported Communications Toolbox
tool from Apple.

Apple permits the non-commercial distribution of this tool.  Contact me with
any questions.

-Keith Stattenfield
 Apple Computer, Inc.
 [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/calypso-tool-101.hqx; 144K]

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Date: Sat, 7 May 1994 13:07:00 JST
From: Yosuke Suzuki <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] color-icon-mania-10; colorises alert icons

It's a Mac Control Panel.

Color ICON Mania is a small utility that adds colorful icons to
your tedious alert box, such as "Note", "Caution", and "Stop".
You can choose your favorite alert icons from included samples.
You can import someone else's icons, or create your owns if you
have ResEdit or some resource editor that can edit 'cicn'
resource.

Color ICON Mania does not modify your System file. It patchs some
Toolbox Traps on startup time, so your system file remains
untouched. If you decide not to use Color ICON Mania, just put
this file into Trash.

Freeware

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/color-icon-mania-10.hqx; 120K]

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Date: Sat, 7 May 94 13:07:29 MET DST
From: [e-mail] (Francois Pottier)
Subject: [*] csmp-digest-v3-024

C.S.M.P. Digest             Sat, 07 May 94       Volume 3 : Issue 24

Today's Topics:

    Anyone have routine for random numbers?
    Async CD-ROM Drivers?
    Comparing 2 LongDateTime's
    Copying graphics the fast way (in assembler)
    Favorite C++ Book?
    Native PPC Interrupt Control?
    SetDialogDefaultItem in a modal dialog
    Symantec has an FTP site!
    pascal and c libraries

The Comp.Sys.Mac.Programmer Digest is moderated by Francois Pottier
([e-mail]).

[Archived as /info-mac/per/csmp/csmp-v3-024.txt; 69K]

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Date: Sat, 7 May 1994 13:04:27 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Fabrizio Oddone)
Subject: [*] Evocation 1.0 demo; an adventure game

Evocation is a highly interactive adventure based on a surprising technique of
direct action between the player and the scenario.

Simple and intuitive, Evocation does not require the use of the keyboard.

The images, made using Computer Graphic techniques combined with traditional
drawing, are supported by impressive digital effects and stereo sound-track
that
accompanies you through the entire course of the game.

CHARACTERISTICS:

* GRAPHICS: over 30 graphic screens at a resolution of 510x275
* OBJECTS: more than 300 objects that assure maximum interactivity with the
various enviroments.
* TEXT: original scripts and texts written in multi-language with the function
of simultaneous translation.
* MUSIC: Impressive 4-channel stereophonic sound-track.
* SOUNDS: all sound effects sampled at 22 khz for high quality sound.


the Author: Albert Cobre
      Fax: [phone]
AppleLink: ITA0784


[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/evocation-10-demo.hqx; 1573K]

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Date: Fri, 6 May 94 16:23:42 -0400
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] ExerciseLog 1.09; a diary

Presenting a shareware EXERCISE LOG for the Macintosh (Hypercard).
Current version: 1.09 (3 May 1994).

By Maurits van der Veen.

New features & bug fixes
Version  Changes

1.09     - made compatible (I hope) with different-language systems
     - bug fixes in totals calculation and weekly log section
1.08     - allowed carry-over for cum. distance/time tally
1.07b    - fixed two minor bugs in time and pace display

General description
Exercise Log is a Hypercard-based activities log that lets you store
information about each workout you do in an unlimited number of sports.
It offers an attractive and useful middle ground between paper-based logs
(in which you have to do all the tallying, etc. yourself) and spread-sheet
models (which tend to be too rigid for free-form information entry).

[Archived as /info-mac/app/exercise-log-109-hc.hqx; 204K]

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Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 15:18:29 -0700
From: Kevin Savetz <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] FAQ: How can I send a fax from the Internet? (ver. 0.2)

FAQ: How can I send a fax from the Internet?
version 0.2 - 6 May 1994
Send comments & updates to Kevin Savetz <[e-mail]>.
This document is copyright 1994 by Kevin M. Savetz. All rights reserved.
More legal stuff is near the end of this file. This document is brand new
and in transition. If you notice that an Internet fax service is missing,
or information herein needs updating, please send e-mail to
"[e-mail]".

*** Table of Contents
Can I send a fax from the Internet?
   TPC.INT Remote Printing        <updated>
   Digital Chicken                <new>
   InterFax
   FAXiNET
   Unigate
   RadioMail                      <new>
Legal Stuff
Where to Find this Document       <updated>

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/info/internet-services-fax-faq-02.txt; 10K]

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Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 14:25:43 [phone] (WETDST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Fast Case 1.0.2; creates font suitcases

Hi there
I'm posting Fast Case 1.0.2 to the archives. It s already on umich.

Fast Case is an application made to create empty font suitcases.
It is Binhexed an CompactPro archived.

Hubert FIGUIERE
[e-mail] - (until the end of june 1994)
Student from IUT of Orsay, France

[Archived as /info-mac/font/util/fast-case-102.hqx; 10K]

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Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 14:16:52 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Paul Farry)
Subject: [*] Flower-Puzzle; a classic tile game

This is a self extracting Binhex file contain a small puzzle created with
Macromedia Director 4.0.

It is based on the old style puzzles square 1-15 games where every number
has to be in the correct order.

It should run on any COLOR 8bit + macintosh, people with 16bit will see the
enhanced pictures.

Regards

Paul Farry
Instructional Courseware Designer
Central Queensland University

[Archived as /info-mac/game/flower-puzzle.hqx; 919K]

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Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 13:27:47 +0300 (EET)
From: Miika Asunta <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] fs-atc-cdev-101 (Flight Simulator - Air Traffic Controller)

FS-ATC cdev 1.0.1

This compact pro archive contains a new version of the FS-ATC control
panel. It fixes a bug reported in version 1.0 that caused a bus error
during INIT time on some machines.

If you are a registered user of FS-ATC you have already received this
one.

FS-ATC is a shareware program by Miika Asunta, which adds air traffic
control to Microsoft Flight Simulator 4.0. It can be found for example
>From info-mac archives, path info-mac/game/com/fs-atc-21.hqx

[Archived as /info-mac/game/arc/fs-atc-cdev-101.hqx; 9K]

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Date: Fri, 06 May 1994 08:38:23 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Michael
=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Noldolant=EB=22?= Gaines)
Subject: [*] FWB Hard Disk Toolkit 1.5.1 updater

This archive contains the binhqx'd and stuffed FWB HDT 1.5.1 updater. It
will only update version 1.5. This update corrects some problems that
version 1.5 had when used on  Quantum drives.

[Archived as /info-mac/disk/fwb-hdt-15-to-151-updt.hqx; 230K]

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Date: Sun, 8 May 1994 11:53:58 -0500 (CDT)
From: Hollye Knox-Green <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] High School Curriculum Presentations

For folks who enjoy Aldus Persuasion, I have several slide shows high school
students have done in vocational classes and speech classes available.  (all
run on the freeware Persuasion Player)
Also included in the two files is the BEST IN STATE (TEXAS) award-winning
presentation, "Banking Services"  done by senior Bobby Stephens.

Students appreciate your feedback!

Thanks,
Hollye Knox-Green
Bryson ISD
Bryson, Tx
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/info/nms/hs-presentations-persuasion-1.hqx; 278K]

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Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 14:41:38 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] HTML.edit v1.1, an HTML (WWW format) editor

HTML.edit version 1.1 (r134)
c1994 by Murray Altheim, Equinox Development.
All Rights Reserved. The author retains all intellectual property rights
to this product and its documentation.

This product is freeware. May be freely distributed in its unmodified
state, and is licensed for use in educational, government, and
non-profit organizations. Commercial use of this product is prohibited
without license for use from its author.  HTML.edit is not to be
redistributed with commercial applications or in commercial CD-ROM
archives without the express, written consent of the author.

? PROJECT STRATEGY

HTML.edit is an editor for the HyperText Markup Language, the text-based
coding used for documents on World Wide Web (WWW). All HTML-coded
documents created by HTML.edit are saved external to the editor as ASCII
text files. World Wide Web servers follow HyperText Transfer Protocol
(HTTP) and deliver on demand HTML documents to remote clients using
browser programs like NCSA Mosaic.

? NEW FEATURES

Most of the new features are covered in more detail within HTML.edit
Help:

*  HTML.edit is a HyperCard-based standalone application and does not
require HyperCard to run. It's larger than a stack, as it includes the
HyperCard engine. The advantage is that HyperCard 2.2 is not required to
use it.

*  This version sports an Index card, with functions for saving and
deleting multiple documents.

*  The Editor Window is now sizeable up to 640 by 640 pixels.

*  Each document is now divided into a Header, Body, and Footer section.
This is in keeping with the proper format of an HTML document, and also
allows for documents larger than 30K characters.

*  A late-breaking feature (ie., somewhat operational) is the ability to
double-click on HTML.edit documents or drag text files onto the HTML.edit
icon to import the text files into HTML.edit. Note that the editor MUST
be open for this to work.

[Archived as /info-mac/text/html-editor-11r134.hqx; 692K]

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Date: Thu, 5 May 1994 15:59:56 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Greg Ferrar)
Subject: [*] HyperCuber 2.0 Movie

Hi,

  Attached is a QuickTime Movie created using HyperCuber 2.0, the latest
version of my program.  The movie shows a wire-frame antialiased hypercube
(four-dimensional cube) undergoing a four-dimensional rotation.  Two views
of the cube are displayed side-by-side to allow crossed-eye stereoscopic
viewing.  See the included README for more information.

[Archived as /info-mac/grf/qt/hyper-cuber-20-movie.hqx; 683K]

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Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 16:12:55 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Greg Ferrar)
Subject: [*] HyperCuber 2.0 Source Code

HyperCuber 2.0 Source Code
 by Greg Ferrar

This contains the source code to HyperCuber 2.0, a freeware program
which can display and rotate objects of arbitrary dimension.  HyperCuber
2.0 is available separately from major Mac ftp sites, and includes complete
documentation.

HyperCuber 2.0 was written using Symantec C++ 6.0, which is a really nice
programming environment (7.0 is in the mail...).  You should be able to
compile and run it immediately.

I have not made any special attempt to prepare this code for
distribution, so it appears here exactly as I wrote it.  I tried to write
clear and well-documented code, but I don't guarantee anything.  I
especially don't guarantee that it all works properly, though I know of
no blantant bugs.

If you have any questions about my code, feel free to send me email at
[e-mail].  I will do my best to explain what
I have written.

  -Greg Ferrar ([e-mail])

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/src/hyper-cuber-20-cpp.hqx; 288K]

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Date: Sat, 7 May 1994 20:47:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: markw <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] HyperQWK 1.0; for QWK packets

HyperQWK 1.0
by Mark Wickens

HyperQWK is a stand-alone HyperCard 2.2 stack that lets you read
QWK packets. A QWK packet contains a bunch of messages from a
bulletin board system, archived
for offline reading.

HyperQWK is fast, easy to use, and supports message saving,
archiving, and printing. Replying is not yet implemented. Full
instructions are provided in the online help.

Shareware, $15. Requires System 7 or later.

Mark Wickens
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/hyper-qwk-10-hc.hqx; 525K]

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Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 14:18:07 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Adam van Gaalen PA2AGA)
Subject: [*] IM/Mac1.0b27z; a communications program

Release Notes - IM/Mac 1.0=A727z

- An address like 'WD1V @ [e-mail]' pasted
  in the special address dialog did crash IM/Mac. This could occur wh=
en
  copy/pasting an address.

- The temporary file 'Archive.sit' was not removed when unstuff is ca=
ncelled.

- On small screen Macintoshes: a window that was in its zoomed out st=
ate
  when used last time moved off screen when zoomed again next time.

- Added color resources to several dialogs that didn't got them befor=
e.

- The 'smtp' and 'mqueue' paths in the 'bm.rc' file can now have an a=
lias
  to the actual folders. Since such an alias is a file and not a fold=
er
  such a path should not end in a colon. For example:

  smtp :hd:projects:im/mac:spool:mail alias
  mqueue :hd:projects:im/mac:spool:mqueue alias

- Keywords in the 'bm.rc' file may contain upper case characters.

- The 'record' path in the 'bm.rc' file can now have an alias to the =
actual
  folder. For example:

  record :hd:projects:im/mac:record alias:archive

- IM/Mac can not run on write-protected volumes (e.g., CD-ROM). An al=
ert
  will show instead of a system error.

- Give more room for text in alert 21.

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/net/radio-im-mac-10b27z.hqx; 175K]

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Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 14:14:10 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Paul Farry)
Subject: [*] Iris-Puzzle; a classic tile game

This is a self extracting Binhex file contain a small puzzle created with
Macromedia Director 4.0.

It is based on the old style puzzles square 1-15 games where every number
has to be in the correct order.

It should run on any COLOR 8bit + macintosh, people with 16bit will see the
enhanced pictures.

Regards

Paul Farry
Instructional Courseware Designer
Central Queensland University

[Archived as /info-mac/game/iris-puzzle.hqx; 846K]

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Date: Sun, 8 May 1994 19:19:33 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Jon Pugh)
Subject: [*] Jon's Commands 1.1.1

Here are Jon's Commands 1.1.1, a set of AppleScript scripting additions which
provide system level functions in a convenient and delicious package.  Full
documentation is included and technical support is free.

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/jons-commands-111-as.hqx; 24K]

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Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 14:04:17 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Paul Farry)
Subject: [*] Lighthouse-Puzzle; the classic tile game

This is a self extracting Binhex file contain a small puzzle created with
Macromedia Director 4.0.

It is based on the old style puzzles square 1-15 games where every number
has to be in the correct order.

It should run on any COLOR 8bit + macintosh, people with 16bit will see the
enhanced pictures.

Regards

Paul Farry
Instructional Courseware Designer
Central Queensland University

[Archived as /info-mac/game/lighthouse-puzzle.hqx; 1325K]

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Date: Sat, 7 May 94 23:12:56 BST
From: Lloyd Wood <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Mac Speccy 1.0 - a ZX Spectrum emulator

This is MacSpeccy 1.0, a ZX Spectrum emulator for the Apple Mac. It runs
acceptably on a IIci-class machine, in my experience. Although this
is no means the final version, give the author your support. Since the site
this resides on is extremely difficult to connect to, I'm forwarding this -
and the author could do with encouragement in the form of shareware fees.

[Archived as /info-mac/app/mac-speccy-10.hqx; 185K]

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Date: Sun, 8 May 1994 10:33:12 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Thomas R. Lawrence)
Subject: [*] MacTracker1.20; a program for playing MOD files

Macintosh Tracker 1.20 is a program for playing MOD files.

It currently provides the following players:
  - Marc Espie's Tracker 4.0
  - Frank Seide's Sound-Trecker 2.01
  - Antoine Rosset's Player Pro 4.15

It also has some neat new icons designed by Skaven of Future Crew.

Direct all correspondence to:
Thomas R. Lawrence
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/util/macintosh-tracker-12.hqx; 171K]

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Date: Sun, 8 May 1994 10:33:34 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Thomas R. Lawrence)
Subject: [*] MacTrackerSource1.20, C source code of the MOD player

This is the source code for the Macintosh Tracker MOD player.

It includes Macintosh source to Marc Espie's Tracker 4.0 and
examples of how to call Frank Seide's Sound-Trecker and Antoine
Rosset's MADF-Library routines.

Project files were created with THINK C 6.0.

Direct all correspondence to:
Thomas R. Lawrence
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/src/macintosh-tracker-12-c.hqx; 565K]

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Date: Fri, 6 May 94 15:48 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Mark Alldritt)
Subject: [*] Monitor 1.5.3; monitors processes and activity

                Monitor 1.5-3
             Copyright  1991-1994 Mark Alldritt
                 All Rights Reserved

Monitor is a utility for the Macintosh which allows you to see the level of
activity taking place within your computer.  Monitor presents a number of
different types of information including CPU utilization, memory usage and
disk space availability.  Much of the information presented by Monitor is
displayed using simple graphs.

Monitor relies heavily on facilities of the Macintosh System 7 operating
system to gather data about your Macintosh.  As a result, Monitor will not
work with versions of the Macintosh operating system prior to System 7.

Monitor Version 1.5-3 is a maintenance release containing nothing more than
my corrected e-mail address.

Monitor is freeware.  See Read Me file for conditions.

-Mark
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/monitor-153.hqx; 33K]

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Date: Sat, 07 May 94 09:30:09 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Kamal Abdali)
Subject: [*] MuEdit1.3; styled and world-scripted text editor

This stuffed, binhexed file contains MuEdit1.3, a freeware Mac program
to edit text containing multiple styles and multiple scripts.  This
application has been successfully used for Roman/Arabic/Farsi/Urdu
and Roman/Hebrew editing.

[Archived as /info-mac/text/muedit-13.hqx; 52K]

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Date: Sat, 7 May 1994 05:38:19 +0800
From: Quinn <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] MungeImage 1.0; mount disk images as floppies

MungeImage =A9 Quinn & Peter N Lewis, 21:30 6 May 1994 - 5:30 7 May 1994

This mounts DiskCopy images as disk icons.
It's free, do whatever you want with it.

Warning: This was written in eight hours.

[Archived as /info-mac/disk/munge-image-10.hqx; 10K]

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Date: Sat, 7 May 1994 05:38:56 +0800
From: Quinn <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] MungeImage 1.0; Pascal source

MungeImage =A9 Quinn & Peter N Lewis, 21:30 6 May 1994 - 5:30 7 May 1994

Source to the rather suspect utility MungeImage
which mounts DiskCopy images as disk icons.
It's free, do whatever you want with it.

Warning: This was written in eight hours.

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/src/munge-image-10-p.hqx; 41K]

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Date: 06 May 1994 12:43:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Jeremy Kezer, [phone]" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] MyBattery 2.2.3; battery minder for Powerbooks

MyBattery 2.2.4 for PowerBooks (by Jeremy Kezer)

MyBattery is the essential battery monitoring utility for notebook
Macintoshes!
David Pogue of MacWorld loved it's "super-cool fuel gauge."  MyBattery lets you
monitor your internal battery, displaying the battery voltage in one of several
user-selectable displays.  MyBattery also provides an accurate estimate of how
much remaining time you have on your battery charge.  Color and gray scale
support, multiple battery support, status indicators for AppleTalk, modem and
CPU speed, external battery support, and much more!

Version 2.2.4 includes the following changes:
  - Fixed the "bug that would not die" - identification of Duo 250 and 270c.
  - Additional recovery logic for corrupted "MyBattery Link" file.
  - Increased updating of menu bar displays.

Shareware; $10 registration fee suggested.  Complete electronic manual is
included.

Jeremy Kezer
143 Songbird Lane
Farmington, CT  06032-3433 (USA)
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/my-battery-224.hqx; 153K]

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Date: Sat, 7 May 1994 06:24:00 JST
From: Yosuke Suzuki <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] native-checker-10.hqx

It's a Mac Application.

How do you know the application is for 68K app or PowerPC native
app? With NativeChecker, you can easily know that! Just drag &
drop the file into NativeChecker and at once you will see the
result dialog.

Freeware

[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/native-checker-10.hqx; 16K]

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Date: Thu, 5 May 1994 18:38:34 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Scott Gruby)
Subject: [*] NotifyMail 2.3.0 - Instant email notification (Eudora)

NotifyMail is a system extension that listens for a finger connection. When
it receives the connection (for the appropriate user), it will notify you
of new email. This can be done by having Eudora check your mail, display a
dialog box, play a sound, or run any file. This file could be an
AppleScript applet. If you aren't using Eudora and your email package is
scriptable, you can still use NotifyMail to have it automatically check for
mail.

System Requirements: System 7.0.0 or higher, MacTCP 1.1 or higher, Eudora 1.4
or higher (optional), POP account on a UNIX or VMS machine.

NotifyMail is distributed as shareware. Please see the documentation
for more instructions.

Changes/Enhancements from 2.2.5
-Now has the option to check for email at startup (primarily for users who
don't have an email package running all the time.)
-Has the ability to work with dynamic IP addressing (you receive a new IP
address each time you connect to your host, i.e. dialup connections)
-Fixed bug preventing return from being entered in dialog box message
(press option-return to put a normal return).

The latest version of NotifyMail can always be found via anonymous ftp to
ftp.hmc.edu in the /pub/mac directory.

Scott Gruby
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/net/notify-mail-23.hqx; 132K]

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Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 14:09:23 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Paul Farry)
Subject: [*] Old-Camera-Puzzle; a classic tile game

This is a self extracting Binhex file contain a small puzzle created with
Macromedia Director 4.0.

It is based on the old style puzzles square 1-15 games where every number
has to be in the correct order.

It should run on any COLOR 8bit + macintosh, people with 16bit will see the
enhanced pictures.

Regards

Paul Farry
Instructional Courseware Designer
Central Queensland University

[Archived as /info-mac/game/old-camera-puzzle.hqx; 1075K]

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Date: Fri, 06 May 94 22:08:28 -0700
From: Bill Dugan <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] out-of-this-world-demo; a commercial adventure game

Out of this World is a cool polygon-graphics action-adventure game with
rotoscoped animation, brought to you by MacPlay.  This demo lets you
play through the first level of the game (about 5 to 7 percent of the
entire commercial product), no holds barred.  You need a 256-color
Macintosh of any sort and 2200K free RAM.

Out of this World was the first game to win the "Platinum Triad Award"
>From "Computer Game Review" magazine.

This is version 1.0.1 of the demo, which fixes a bug in version 1.0 of
the demo where the game would crash if you tried using the menus when
Sound Manager 3.0 installed.  This affected the Centris and Quadra AV
computers, all Power Macintosh computers, and in fact anybody else who
happened to have the Sound Manager 3.0 extension installed.  (Oops!)

[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/out-of-this-world-101-demo.hqx; 1147K]

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Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 00:43:29 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Peter Kaas)
Subject: [*] PDA Package Downloader 1.5 (for the Newton)

Rotterdam, The Netherlands, May 5, 1994 - Lunatech Research announced the
immediate release of the "PDA Package Downloader 1.5" for Apple Computer's
family of Newton and Macintosh products. The "PDA Package Downloader 1.5"
(PPD) is the follow-up to the successful "Newton Package Downloader 1.0"
(NPD).

The PPD is a simple utility which allows the user to download Newton
Packages or Newton Updates from a Macintosh into a Newton. PPD now supports
serial connections, as well as AppleTalk, between a Macintosh and a Newton.
Further, PPD offers "background listening" operation: it will remain in the
background, silently listening for connections initiated by the Newton.

Some features in short:
- Drag and Drop installing of Newton Packages and Newton Updates;
- Support for AppleTalk and serial connections;
- Works in the background;
- No need to activate, will listen for connections all the time;
- Requires a minimum of disk and memory space;
- Will run on any Macintosh equipped with System 7 (or higher);
- Documentation in a stand-alone application.

The "PDA Package Downloader 1.5" is $20 shareware for one user. This small
fee encourages us to continue the development of PPD and other affordable
shareware utilities for the Newton. PPD licenses are also available.

 Peter Kaas (email: [e-mail])
 Lunatech Research

[Archived as /info-mac/nwt/util/pda-package-downloader-15.hqx; 109K]

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Date: Fri, 06 May 1994 00:42:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] PhilateLISTER1.5; for stamp collectors

The following is a binhex file containing the hypercard stack program
PhilateLISTER version 1.5 and its documentation.

The PhilateLISTER is a program I wrote to help fellow stamps collectors
organize their collections.  This new version will almost certainly be the
last release of the software as a "Stack."  The next one will be compiled.

This version add a lot of new features and cleans up some of the problems
people had with the display.

PhilateLISTER 1.5 requires Hypercard version 2.1 or later or the Hypercard
Player.  It uses all the "standard" fonts installed with system 7.1.  If you
have display problems, they are most likely result from some of these fonts
having been trashed and you will need to reinstall them.

I hope you like it, and please send any comments or criticisms to:

James A. Maloney

[Archived as /info-mac/app/philate-lister-15-hc.hqx; 577K]

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Date: Thu, 05 May 1994 11:11:08 -0600 (CST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] PlainText text editor

PlainText is a free text editor that is small and fast. It's feature-set
has been limited to those features I have found useful in many years of
experience with a number of commercial and share-ware editors. Most
importantly, PlainText has automatic word wrap and no 32K limit. Other
features are bookmarks and better than standard search and replace. You
can use PlainText to insert or remove hard carriage returns, convert
between Unix, MS/DOS, and Mac end-of-line conventions, convert between
straight and curly quotes, etc. Granted, the big, full-featured editors,
like Pete Keleher's Alpha and BBEdit, by Rich Siegel, have these features,
plus many more. PlainText incorporates a subset in a small, simple, and
fast editor. PlainText even incorporates a few operating system commands
in a command-line interface.

PlainText requires System 6.0.5 or greater and is System 7 saavy.

This is version 1.2.8. Users of version 1.2.5, or any other previous
versions should switch to this one in order to take advantage of the many
enhancements and a few bug fixes. Version 1.3 is in the works. It's major
change will be a modeless search and replace dialog.

    Mel Park
    University of Tennessee, Memphis
    [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/text/plain-text-128.hqx; 112K]

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Date: Thu, 5 May 1994 09:13:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: Chris Shaw <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] PowerPC-GoodasGold-Startup

[A startup screen.  --isl]

[Archived as /info-mac/grf/ppc-good-as-gold-startup.hqx; 59K]

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Date: Sun, 8 May 1994 11:53:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jim Walker <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Replace! extension (modifies "Replace existing <file>?" dialog)

When you save a file and get the "Replace existing <filename>?" dialog, this
extension will make the Replace button, rather than the Cancel button, be
the default.  Requires System 7.  Will not slow down your Mac.  Freeware.

 -- Jim Walker

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/replace.hqx; 7K]

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Date: Fri, 6 May 94 11:47 PDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] ResTest; a resolution test pattern in postscript

The following is an excerpt from the comments in the file:

% This chart started out with video cameras in mind, but can be used to
% test about any image input or output device.  Print it (it is a
% postscript file) or input it (scan it, frame grab it) from hard copy;
% note where the converging lines are no longer separate.  The patterns
% it has are: a circle of wedges, two long wedges, a series of line widths,
% and a range of font sizes.

% One nice thing about postscript is that it scales with the capabilities of
% the device.  This chart goes from 200 to over 5000 lines/image (from 35 to
% over 1000 lines/inch), whatever the device can do.

% Dan Tomandl; University of Washington. [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/prn/resolution-test-pattern-ps.txt; 12K]

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Date: Sun, 8 May 1994 17:30:13 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Michael Bjorn)
Subject: [*] Revelations 1.0.6; a relational database management system

Re(ve)lations Version History:
1.05    First public release.
1.06    Recompiled for compatibility with the PowerMac Modern Memory Manager
    Improved compatibility with two-byte characters (Japanese, etc).
    (Attribute names should still be written with 1-byte characters.)

DO NOT DOWNLOAD this version if you are using 1.05 and do not need PowerPC
or 2-byte character compatibility -- there are no other fixes or
enhancements.

What is Re(ve)lations?
A very simple - but VERY EASY TO USE - relational database management system.

Features:
-> A basic set of relational algebra operations, which can be nested to
produce complex queries.

-> A graphical query language specially developed for Re(ve)lations. No
support for character-based queries (e.g. queries in SQL format) - and good
riddance to them!

-> Access to multiple databases at the same time.

-> Data import and export in tab-delimited format.

-> Multi-user architecture.

Re(ve)lations version 1.06 may be included on the info-mac CD-ROM or on any
other non-profit CD-ROM.

Michael Bjorn
University of Tsukuba, JAPAN
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/app/revelations-106.hqx; 484K]

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Date: Sat, 7 May 1994 18:41:52 +0100
From: Richard Buckle <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Scripts to build multiple projects (CodeWarrior)

For those who find such things useful, here are couple of AppleScript
droplets to build all the CodeWarrior projects in a folder.
ReadMe included.

Public domain.

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/codewarrior-build-all-as.hqx; 18K]

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Date: Fri, 6 May 94 15:49 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Mark Alldritt)
Subject: [*] Script Tools 1.3-1; a collection of scripting additions

                  Script Tools 1.3-1
                 Copyright  1993-1994
              Mark Alldritt All Rights Reserved

This package contains a series of AppleScript additions which add functionality
to the AppleScript language.

ScriptTools is freeware for personal use.  See Read Me file for details.

Requirements:

You must have System 7 or later and AppleScript 1.0 or later installed on your
Macintosh to make use of the software in this package.  A Word Processor
capable of reading MS Word 5 format files is required to view the
documentation (you can also use the Open Dictionary command in the AppleScript
Script Editor to view a breif descrition of each Script Tools command).
    Apple's Speech Manager is required to use the Speak, List Voices, and Get
Voice commands.

Changes:

Version 1.3-1 corrects a small number of memory related bugs in the Regular
Expressions and Speech additions.  This release also contains my new e-mail
address.  My address changed at the beginning of the year, so I will not have
received any messages sent to the old address since then.

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/script-tools-131-as.hqx; 117K]

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Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 20:29:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Justin Higgins <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] SpectreWrite; a word processor

SpectreWrite is a word processor that does what word processors were meant
to do: Lets you type up stuff, unlike many word programs of today that bog
you down with features at the expense of size and price, and ease of use.
SpectreSoft has even added a doodle page to combat writer's block!  What
more can you ask for?

[Archived as /info-mac/text/spectre-write.hqx; 12K]

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Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 15:21:37 -0500
From: "Jeffrey M. Goff" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] SpriteWorld1.0b4; an animation development library

As Mr. Myles has limited Internet access, I am posting this, the latest
update to SpriteWorld on his behalf.

Without further ado, I'll let Tony himself explain what this includes.

SpriteWorld Version 1.0b4 includes
    *  Full native PowerPC support.
    *  Native PowerPC custom blitters (written in C)
    *  Improvements & optimizations to the 68k pixel blitting routines
       resulting in 25% faster frame rates than the previous version.
    *  A so called "mask compiler" that will generate 68k machine code to
draw
       a specific sprite's images resulting in an additional 15% frame rate
       boost over BlitPixie.  (4, 48x48 sprites bouncing around at 410
frames
       for second)
    *  Support for more compilers such as THINK C 5, 6, & 7, MetroWerks C,
       MPW C, and even GCC.
    *  Improvements to the core animation engine to improve the frame rate,
       and to lower the processing overhead associated with idle sprites
    *  Several bug fixes, and a few minor API changes.
    *  and some additional odd & ends.

Refer to the release notes for a more detailed change history.

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/sprite-world-10b4.hqx; 412K]

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Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 14:06:24 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Paul Farry)
Subject: [*] Sunflower-Puzzle; a classic tile game

This is a self extracting Binhex file contain a small puzzle created with
Macromedia Director 4.0.

It is based on the old style puzzles square 1-15 games where every number
has to be in the correct order.

It should run on any COLOR 8bit + macintosh, people with 16bit will see the
enhanced pictures.

Regards

Paul Farry
Instructional Courseware Designer
Central Queensland University

[Archived as /info-mac/game/sunflower-puzzle.hqx; 1493K]

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Date: Sat, 7 May 1994 17:14:01 -0500 (CDT)
From: HE KUER <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Tax FKEY 1.0.1; adds tax to a number in the clipboard

This is a re-submission of the Tax FKEY. This is version 1.0.1.
I only made minor changes in the documentation. I forgot to include
the hard-coded tax rate in the READ ME file last time. It's 8.25%.

Tax FKEY adds the tax to a number in the clipboard. See the READ
ME for more info, including a QuicKeys script to automatically read
in a number from a cell and replace it with the tax added onto it.

THINK Pascal 4 source code enclosed. Freeware.

Compacted and BinHexed with Compact Pro 1.34.

This may be included in the Info-Mac CD-ROM. Others interested in
commercial distribution should contact me first.

Enjoy,

David Alten
[e-mail]
HE KUER!!

[Archived as /info-mac/app/tax-101-fkey.hqx; 15K]

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Date: Thu, 5 May 1994 14:34:09 -0500
From: Marco Piovanelli <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] WASTE 1.0a4; a text-editing library

WASTE 1.0a4 is a text editing library for Macintosh programmers.
Features include:

  * Compatible with styled TextEdit.
  * Capable of handling more than 32K of text.
  * Requires System 7.0 or newer.
  * WorldScript-aware, with the exception of right-to-left
    script systems.
  * Built-in support for inline input (a method that makes it
    easier to enter ideographic characters in languages like
    Japanese).
  * Support for fully justified text.

The archive includes the library file in MPW .o format, header
files for C/C++ and Pascal, a simple demo application, full
documentation in MS Word 4.0 format and the complete Pascal
source code.
The WASTE library can be used freely in freeware, shareware and
commercial projects, subject to limitations listed in the
enclosed documentation.

For comments, suggestions and bug reports, send mail to:

  Marco Piovanelli ([e-mail])

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/waste-10a4.hqx; 203K]

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Date: Sat, 7 May 94 18:35:04 BST
From: Lloyd Wood <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] What is gzip? What do I need? textfile

What is gzip? What is .gz? is asked on a regular basis in the Mac newsgroups.
Attached is an information file I wrote, answering these questions. Although
this file is now part of the MacGzip distribution, first the Mac user
has to know that he or she needs MacGzip.

I hope that uploading this file into the information directories will go
some way towards addressing that.

[e-mail]     Email me for a copy of the Mac screensaver FAQ

[Archived as /info-mac/info/sft/what-is-gzip.txt; 11K]

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Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 10:27:25 -0400
From: "Brett C. Helbig" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Word Find v1.2 - a word find puzzle creation program

Word Find is a program that creates word find (aka word search) puzzles. It
allows words to be entered directly into the program or imported from a text
file. Puzzle options that can be changed include puzzle size, font, and the
method that is used to hide the words in the puzzle.

Word Find provides capabilities to print the puzzle or save it to a file. Files
created by Word Find are text files that can be directly imported into any word
processor.

Requires System 7.

FREEWARE

Author: Brett C. Helbig ([e-mail])

[Archived as /info-mac/game/word-find-12.hqx; 58K]

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Date: Thu, 5 May 1994 19:32:54 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Larry Rymal:T.E.M.U.G.-EAST_TEXAS-" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] WORF_GoodTea_NiceHouse.hqx (Sound file)

    The following System 7 sound file could be a classic
with Star Trek New Generation fans.  Picture Worf sitting in
a peaceful room.  The windows are open, and birds are
singing.  He has a cup of tea in his hands.  Sworn to his
duty of being at his best behavior and an officer with Star
Fleet, he politely takes a sip of the tea, involuntarily
wrinkles his nose and grimices as the Klingon blood in him
rebels at the taste of this human beverage.
    However, true to his call, he makes a verbal response:
"Good tea," and knowing that his host is watching him,
continues, "Nice house."  Most assuredly, the Klingon Empire
will be aghast at this behavior of his.
    Recorded in stereo, this file has Worf's voice sounding
off mainly in one speaker, and birds in the background chirping
in the other.  I regret that I do not have the title of the
episode that this file was recorded from.
    Process this file with StuffIt Expander.

--Larry Rymal <[e-mail]>

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/worf-good-tea.hqx; 50K]

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Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 13:12:49 +0000 (GMT)
From: [e-mail] (Eggert Thorlacius)
Subject: [*] Wrapper 1.0; an AfetrDark module

Wrapper 1.0

Included in this message is Wrapper 1.0, an AfterDark module
I wrote.  It simply scrolls the screen image around your
monitor(s) in a random fashion.  Thus I guess the term screen-"saver"
is a bit of a misnomer.

Wrapper is freeware

Eggert Thorlacius           | "I always thought that 'Intel Inside' was a
The Icelandic Patent Office | warning required by Truth in Advertising laws.."
[e-mail]            |                                  - anon

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/ad/wrapper-10-ad.hqx; 6K]

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Date: Fri, 06 May 1994 15:01:13 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Brad Stone)
Subject: (A) HELP: corrupt Excel file

>One of my colleagues has managed to develop a corrupt Excel worksheet, full
>of vital data. On reading it in, Excel 4 gets to about 47% and crashes with
>a Type 1 error. Turning caches on and off, and 32-bit addressing on and off
>doesn't change things. The file causes a general protection error when
>opened in the Windoze version of Excel, as well.
>
>Is there any way of salvaging the data, macros, etc. from the worksheet?

  Using WAIS you can search the digest for past postings.  For intance:

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

0017180MAC
920602
Info Mac Digest
Murph Sewall <[e-mail]>
Info-Mac Digest V10 #134:  Corrupted Excel 3.0 file

Date: Tue, 02 Jun 92 11:53:43 EST
From: Murph Sewall <[e-mail]>
Subject: Corrupted Excel 3.0 file

On Tue, 2 Jun 1992 08:02:22 CST you said:
>I have an Excel file (300K) that got corrupted due to a bad sector on a
>floppy disk.  Can anyone make any suggestions as how to recover _any_ of
>the data?
>
>In the PC version of Norton there is a utility called FileFix which will
>recover data from corrupted Lotus 123 files.  Is anyone aware of any such
>file for the Mac?

The New Central Point MacTools 2.0 FileFix program has explicit options
for repairing Excel files (including an "expert mode" which will let you
extract undamaged info if the automatic repairs can't solve the whole
problem).  I suspect MacTools version 2 is your best bet.

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

  Or how about this one.  I've done this with excellent results.

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

0017416MAC
920605
Info Mac Digest
Date: 5 Jun 92 14:07:00 EST
From: "GINBOX::"Bob_Greenlaw-2141_EMail""
<"Bob_Greenlaw-2141_EMail"[e-mail]>
Subject: RECOVERING EXCEL DATA (A)

 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date:    Fri, Jun 5, 1992 @ 11:59:02 AM
Re:      RECOVERING EXCEL DATA (A)
to recover data from a corrupted excel spreadsheet, try this:

open a new worksheet
select a range of cells the same size that you want to recover from the
corrupted sheet (for example A1:Z50)
enter the following formula (while the range is still selected)

=filename!$A$1:$Z$50      apple-enter

where filename is the name of the file to recover the data from
$A$1:$Z$50  matches the dimensions of the selected range in the new worksheet
and identifies the range of cells in the original file to recover from.  The
range need not begin at $A$1
apple-enter  means to hold down the apple key (some call it the command key)
while typing the enter key

this method very often works, but is limited to recovering the values (not the
formulas) of the corrupted file.  You may have to vary the size of the range in
order to skip-over the corrupted range of data in the original file.

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

  Hope this helps.

     - Brad

[e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 17:59:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail] (Donald E. Carver)
Subject: [?] Stalker Lineshare

 Does anyone have contact or ordering information concerning Stalker
 Lineshare, which is similar in functionality to the Line Manager in
 FaxSTF 3.0?  If you have it, other comments about the software would
 be welcomed as well.

 Thanx,
 don

 [e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 19:57:05 -0500
From: [e-mail] (John R. Nash)
Subject: [Q]  Printing to laserwriter from VMS with parameters

    The sysadmin of our computer center has set up a VMS queue so that
we can print output from the VAXen on our AppleTalked LaserWriter IINT.
This works fine.  My question is this: can I send commands to the printer
in some way, as I can to some of the other printers?  As an example, I can
type

$ PRINT/QUEUE=BERTHA_LN/PARAM=(NUMBER_UP=8)

...and get the printer "BERTHA_LN" to print eight-to-a-page.  I know that
the LaserWriter 8 driver can do "2-up" and "4-up" printing -- can I send a
parameter to the printer from VMS?  ("PARAM=(NUMBER_UP=4)" does not work)

Also, can one print "8-up" from the Mac (or anywhere) to the IINT, or is
4-up the maximum?  Thanks for any input!


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

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

Date: Sun, 8 May 1994 17:47:11 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Michael Bradshaw)
Subject: CCL (communication control language) reference needed (A)

>In order to connect my Mac to the departmental RISC I'm planning to use
>InterSLIP, MacTCP and Eudora, TurboGopher, etc.
>The gateway scripts coming with InterSLIP don't work perfectly (obvious!)
>with the server I'm connecting to, so I'd like to modify them.
>They are written in CCL (Communication Control Language), that is a quite
>common language in this field. Only I have no idea where I may find a
>reference manual for it.

Maurizio,

    Try looking at the documentation file included with InterSLIP
(called "InterSLIP Docs"). Go to the Scripting section - it includes a CCL
Quick Reference. It is quite thorough, and was more than enough to get me
started hacking my dialing and gateway scripts. It also says to consult the
Appletalk Remote Access Modem Developer's Guide for detailed information.

    Hope this helps!

Michael Bradshaw   [e-mail] (preferred)
6222 Cypress #1    [e-mail]
PCB, FL 32408      904-230-8615

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

Date: Sat, 7 May 1994 14:32:40 -0600
From: (Pete Chane) <[e-mail]>
Subject: CD-ROM 5.0.1

I just installed CD ROM 5.0.1 on my 660av.  Whenever I put a music CD in it
tells me that it cannot recognize this disk, but I have he Audio CD Access
extension loaded.  HELP!

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

Date: Sat, 7 May 1994 09:43:38 -0600
From: (Pete Chane) <[e-mail]>
Subject: DiskCopy

Anyone know what it means when DiskCopy says it got a -72 error when making
a disk from an image?

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

Date: Sat, 7 May 1994 19:03:23 -0600
From: (Pete Chane) <[e-mail]>
Subject: DOS in Mac

Any owners of the Apple 610 DOS Mac/card or the OrangePC 486 cards wish to
fill me in on their systems?  Do you like the cards, compatibility, speed,
etc.

Thanks.

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

Date: Sun, 08 May 94 20:16:15 EDT
From: "Christopher B. Hopkins (Wesley)" <[e-mail]>
Subject: duh..help with LineLink

Help.  I screwed something up.  I have a PB165 and a fairly new faxmodem,
the LineLink 144e.  I've flipped through a lot of the FAQs and I know
that these things have a history of being troublesome.  In this case, though,
I don't know if its the modem or me.

A friend of mine encoruaged me to try this fax software instead of the
MaxFax which comes with the modem (which is what I've been using).  I
installed the other program (after taking out the MaxFax extensions and
whatnot) and played with it for a few minutes but decided I like my
old one better.  So, I trashed it and got rid of all of the extensions,
control panels and various other things.

Now the modem doesn't work.  It *does* work with my SE as normal but it
fails to work now with the Powerbook.  When I try to fax, MaxFax tells me
I have the wrong "initialization string" but its the same as it always was.
I tried an "option-reset" as the manual prescribes, but that didn't change
a thing (an "option reset" is just holding down the OPTION key while
selecting RESET from the menubar, right?).  When I use Kermit or any
other terminal, it gives me the OK when I type "AT" but it won't dial

I also recently had more memory put in the PB -- could that be it?

Please help.

Christopher
(and I thought I knew what I was doing)

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

Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 21:23:16 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Geoffrey C. Hoffman)
Subject: Dvorak vs. Qwerty

This is for those of who are experienced with the Dvorak keyboard map or have
experienced both it and Qwerty. I was wondering, is Dvorak that much better?
How
much did it speed you up/make it easier? Are there those of you who have tried
out Dvorak and like Qwerty better? What are the advantages and disadvantages of
each? For what reasons should I go over to Dvorak or stay with Qwerty? For the
Dvorak likers, what programs are good for remapping the keyboard? This would be
Sys. 7.1, on a IIsi, so no PPC stuff yet...

Also, what about a good typing program (posibly one for Dvoark?)
shareware/commercial?

Thanks,
    Geoff Hoffman <[e-mail]>

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

Date: Sun, 8 May 1994 01:54:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brian Veenker <[e-mail]>
Subject: Elite+

Hey! Anybody remember that classic game Elite+? Was it ever made for the
Mac? Anybody know where I could obtain a copy?

Thanks!
Brian Veenker

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

Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 09:20:35 +0200
From: [e-mail] (David Steiner)
Subject: Every Man's Dream (?!?)

Hello, Info-Macers.

Ok, I may be a littles slow, but I have now read the post in IM-62 3 times
and I still don't see anything in this post that indicates _exactly_ what this
thing is. I know, I know...icons.

Like many folks out there, I collect icons from time to time to make the old
desktop a little more interesting. So, upon seeing this post, I decided that
maybe I should take a look at this "collection of finest quality icons". After
I had spent time downloading and unpacking these beauts, I finally made the
"Every Man's Dream" connection - sex, handguns and fast cars.

Before any of you freedom of expression and anti-censorship types start getting
your hackles up, this is _not_ a call to remove this post and ban Mr. Mad Dog
(Al Bloom must love this guy ;-) to some Internet purgatory. There are those
out there that like this stuff, no matter what I think of it.

There are 2 issues that bother me here. The first is public and that is, how
about a little truth in advertising, folks? If you are going to post this
kind of art, let us know in advance. Then, at least, we can decide whether or
not we want to download it. (I'm one of the lucky ones who only wasted a bit
of time but there are those who spend real cash to download stuff.)

The second issue is a personal one and I won't go into it in great detail since
it may not not be suitable for this list. Is there anyone else who feels that
this is a rather sad commentary on the ideals of modern man? I'll admit it...
I'm not your "American Everyman" (having left for a job in Europe), but I
am bit uneasy with Mad's implication that, for the majority of men, this is the
stuff that dreams are made of.

BTW, adding insult to waste of time, when I trashed these things, I ended up
with 40 some-odd items that could not be thrown away because they were locked.
Nice way to make freinds and influence people.

Thanks for putting up with this minor rant.

David R. Steiner,                 ISPA
Research Assoc.                   Uni. Osnabrueck-Vechta
Remote Sensing/GIS                Vechta, Germany
[e-mail]   fax:[phone]

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

Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 15:15:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lisa Bjarke <[e-mail]>
Subject: FTP site for HP printer drivers (A)

The Hewlett-Packard anonymous ftp site is ftp-boi.external.hp.com and the
printer drivers can be found in /pub/printers.

Lisa
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 19:34:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jeff Fischer <[e-mail]>
Subject: FTP site for HP printer drivers [A]

>>... does anybody know where the latest HP drivers are kept?

Yes. It is:

ftp-boi.external.hp.com
 /pub... for HP DeskWriter software

Jeff Fischer   The Fischer Group   [e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 08:53:40 EDT
From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: GeoPort Official Word From Apple

I am told that Apple now has an official response regarding user
problems with the Geoport Telecom Adapter. According to our Apple
Systems engineer:

> The service repair extension is in place and it should be no problem
> exchanging any defective GeoPorts.

Here are the details. Thanks to David Harrington, Apple Systems Engineer
for this information:

TOPIC ---------------------------------------------------------

Some GeoPort Telecom Adapters will intermittently produce static noise and
thereafter fail to communicate. Symptoms involve a buzzing noise, system
crash, and general unpredictable operation of the GeoPort Telecom Adapter.

DISCUSSION ----------------------------------------------------

The source of the problem has been identified as a separation of the EMI
shield from the chassis connection on the board. When this happens, the
unit is more susceptible to noise coming in, and will not pass FCC
regulations.

The vendor has modified all GeoPort Telecom Adapters. They can be identified
by an indelible blue dot mark on the label. This mark is a temporary solution
until a new label is created, at which time the label marking will
discontinue.

The GeoPort Telecom Adapter label part number will change from: 825-2362-A to
825-2362-B.

All GeoPort Telecom Adapters in the service inventory have been upgraded.

How To Test

 ----------
Look at the GeoPort 9 pin plug on the unit, you should see three pins on top,
two on the bottom and four in the middle. With an ohmmeter, measure the
resistance between the shield (the circular ring enclosing the 9 pins) and the
second pin from the left in the middle row.

This resistance should be less than five ohms. If the reading is greater than
five ohms, the unit should be replaced with a modified unit from the factory.
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Disclaimer:  I am just passing this along from Apple.  I have no direct
experience with GeoPort problems or testing.

Jeffrey Fritz
Telecommunications and Network Services
West Virginia University
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 02:51:30 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Clark R. Wilkins)
Subject: How does Appletalk get reset?

I have noted repeatedly that after I finish using Interslip, the Chooser
always says "Appletalk cannot be opened". I note this on two systems: (a) a
ci which has a blown modem port so all serial traffic goes out the printer
port. This, of course, means that Appletalk is turned off before I boot
Interslip; and, (b) a Duo 210 which uses a common port for modem and
printer [I do not have an internal modem].

The ci requires a reboot to an alternate system folder using Switcher 1.1.
After rebooting, I open Chooser and Appletalk. The dialog box gives the
options "Active on restart" and "Inactive". If I reboot to the same system
folder, Appletalk is up and running. However, I can reboot to the other
(main) system folder by invoking the Switcher again, and Appletalk is up
and running!

In the case of the Duo, a simple reboot is sufficient to free up the port
for use by Appletalk and other applications. Prior to the reboot, however,
invoking any port-accessing application, such as another telecom program,
results in the message "Port is busy now".

Question1: It appears that some manner of flag is set regarding the
operating status of Appletalk in a file that is outside of the system
folder. Can anyone confirm this and how it is done?

Question 2: Is there any F-key or other software that can reset this flag
on the fly?

Question 3: Is there a way to reset the flag that indicates the printer
port is in use after Interslip is disconnected and has quit?

Question 4: What is the essential difference between the ci and the Duo
that allows the Duo to recover its operating state after a simple reboot?
The ci will not recover Appletalk until a system folder switch is executed.

Thanks for your assistance.


Clark R. Wilkins <[e-mail]>
-My words are responsible for themselves-

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

Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 14:24:24 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Graeme Forbes)
Subject: HP ftp site

The HP ftp site is ftp-boi.external.hp.com

Graeme Forbes

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

Date: Sat, 7 May 1994 05:12:36 -0700
From: Alex Metcalf <[e-mail]>
Subject: HyperCard externals collection

    Just a quick note to tell you that most of my XCMD and XFCN
collection are now available either by direct email or by anonymous
FTP. If you have any questions or comments, or would like a copy of
any of my externals sent to you, feel free to get in touch!


MusicBox XCMD v2.1
 ------------

FTP:            [e-mail]
Directory:      /info-mac/card/music-box-21.hqx
Size:           265K

    MusicBox is an XCMD for adding a number of enhanced sound
capabilities to any HyperCard stack. You can do such things as:

o  Play up to 4 sounds simultaneously (and have individual control
      over each)
o  Play MOD music files (high quality music files in only 100k of
      disk space)
o  Fade sounds in and out
o  Pause sound playback
o  Play AIFF sound files
o  Play a sound at any volume level
o  Start multiple sounds simultaneously
o  and more....

    MusicBox requires System 6.0.7 or later and HyperCard 2.0 or
later. Some parts of the stack require HyperCard 2.1 or later. Although
some MusicBox commands will work on a 68000 Mac, MusicBox prefers a
68020 Mac or better.

    Shareware fee for using MusicBox in any public domain or
shareware stack is 10 British pounds, about $15 U.S or $20 Canadian.
People interested in commercial use should contact me for more
information.


Vocalise XCMD v1.0
 ------------

FTP:            [e-mail]
Directory:      /info-mac/card/vocalize.hqx
Size:           23K

    Vocalise is an XCMD which lets you have high quality speech in
any of your HyperCard stacks using Apple's PlainTalk speech technology.

    Using simple commands such as "pause, at end of sentence" and
"speak faster", you can control the speaking voice. You can ask for a
list of the available voices, and can add speech to your stacks with
as little as one line in your script.

    Vocalise is free for use in any stack. Commercial users should
notify me before using Vocalise.


CommConnect XFCN v1.0
 ---------------

FTP:            [e-mail]
Directory:      /info-mac/card/comm-connect.hqx
Size:           26K

    CommConnect is an XFCN for simplifying communications within
HyperCard by using Apple's Communications Toolbox software.

    Using dialog boxes to configure your connection, you can use
connection tools (such as the Serial Tool or Apple Modem Tool) to make
connections to other Macs (or devices).

    Unlike many other communications externals, CommConnect works
with PowerBooks, Duos, AV Macs, and third party communications products
(such as those which provide three serial ports through one).

    CommConnect requires System 7.0, or System 6 with the
Communications Toolbox installed. In addition, you'll need at least 1
connection tool, such as the Serial Tool or Apple Modem Tool.

    The shareware fee for using CommConnect in any shareware or
public domain stack is 10 British pounds, about $15 U.S. or $20 Canadian.
Commercial users should contact me for more information.


Inflate XCMD v1.1
 -----------

FTP:            [e-mail]
Directory:      /info-mac/card/inflate-11.hqx
Size:           28k

    Inflate is an XCMD for adding balloon help to any of your
HyperCard stacks. Balloons can be added to buttons, fields, or other
HyperCard objects.

    Some features of Inflate include:

o  Support for displaying pictures, styled text, text in your script,
      and string resources

o  Easy to use commands (all commands are through words rather than
      meaningless codes and numbers)

o  Intuitive use (e.g. a balloon moves round to another corner of your
      button if it can't fit on the side you specify)

    The Inflate stack contains detailed help as well as simple
examples of how easy it is to add balloon help to your stacks.

    Inflate requires System 7.0 or later.

    The shareware fee for using Inflate in any shareware or public
domain stack is 10 British pounds, about $15 U.S. or $20 Canadian.
Commercial users should contact me for more information.



    Thanks for your time!



    Alex

--
Alex Metcalf, Best Before Yesterday
Mac programmer in C, C++, HyperTalk, assembler
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 9 May 94 10:45:28 BST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Identifying native PPC code or fat apps ?

Maybe the answer to this has been publicised elsewhere and I missed it, but
now that we have a PowerMac in the department and many freeware and shareware
packages are being recompiled to run native, how can I tell which is which ?

Given that only parts of an application need be native PPC code (if I
understood the last announcement by Greg Landweber, this is true for Greg's
Buttons), it's not as simple as ``Get Info''.

Do I have to look through CODE resources with ResEdit ?

[e-mail]  +++ Centre for Cognitive Science/HCRC,
University of Edinburgh, 2 Buccleuch Place, EH8 9LW +++ [phone]

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

Date: Mon, 09 May 94 14:56:18 SET
From: "Olaf Guennewig, Univ. of Dortmund, Germany"
<[e-mail]>
Subject: IDL Scientific Visualization Package for the Mac

Hello all,
IDL (Interactive Data Language from RSI), an extremly powerful visualization
package is available now also fot the Mac.
You'll find a full functional demo version (runs 15 Min.) on:
ftp.germany.eu.net
in the directory pub/shop/CreaSo/IDL/macintosh (MAC_IDL.hqx)
The full documentation (PS-files) is in the directory:
pub/shop/CreaSo/IDL/manuals
The program is the ideal tool for all kinds of scientific visualization:
- interactive programming language
- many mathematical functions (incl. Numerical Recipes)
- Widgets (a Window-based programming tool, very nice)
- 3D-Shading is possible .....
- Prices are extremly fair, especially for students.

GET-IT, TRY-IT, and let me know what's your opinion about it (I don't know
any other package for the Mac which is so powerful and flexible).

Greetings from Germany,
Olaf Guennewig
Univ. of Dortmund
Inst. of Physics
EMail: [e-mail]
       [e-mail]

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

Date: Sat, 7 May 1994 18:34:16 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Charlie Mingo)
Subject: legality of obsolete s/w (A)

[e-mail] (Titterington, Christopher I) writes:

>What is the legal status of
>an application made by a company that has either gone broke or is otherwise
>defunct, particularly, ... if the copy of the
>application was not entirely legal in the first place.

The author's copyright continues for around 75 years.  Just because the
company is defunct doesn't make the copyright invalid.

>For instance if a chap
>was to come across a [pirated] copy of something
>really useful that cannot any longer be legally obtained or upgraded,
>how does said... chap go about getting legal?

The only way to get a legal copy would be to contact the authors/developers
(or their legal successors), or look for a copy in the back of some dusty
shop, or buy a used copy (perhaps by posting an ad in a usenet agroup).

>What if the
>company is still viable but the product is no longer sold or supported?

The copyright is still valid, even if they don't actively sell or support
the product.

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

Date: Fri, 6 May 94 16:41:27 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Mac Netnews Readers for NNTP protocol

Are there any Macintosh Netnews readers that work with
news servers using the NNTP protocol?

Thanks in Advance.

Max Miller
[e-mail]

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

Date: Sun, 8 May 1994 17:47:35 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Michael Bradshaw)
Subject: Offline Mail Reader (A)

>I am seeking an offline reader for mail for my Mac. I have a dial-up account,
>not SLIP or PPP.

George,
    I'd definitely recommend the freeware program Eudora. The latest
version I've seen is 1.4.2, and it is available at most mac ftp sites as
well as ftp.qualcomm.com. Although I have not used Eudora over a dialup
connection, It's GREAT with MacTCP. I've edited a couple of paragraphs from
the Eudora Manual (Copyright 1992-1993 by QUALCOMM Incorporated) to give
you an idea if it might work for you. I highly recommend Eudora!


>Eudora is designed for use with MacTCP or for dialup to Cisco terminal
>servers. It can be used with other dialup connections as well.  Complicated
>setups are likely to be unreliable, but if the setup commands to connect are
>simple, Eudora works well.
>
>To use Eudora over a dialup connection, you must have the Communications
>Toolbox installed.  System 7 has it built in.
>
>Eudora needs a "transparent" connection to your POP, SMTP, and (optionally) Ph
>servers.  Transparent means primarily two things:
>
>1.      Characters Eudora sends should NOT be echoed back to Eudora.  Most
>systems do echo characters, so something special may need to be done to
>achieve this.
>
>2.      You must pay close attention to how carriage returns are treated.
>UNIX systems routinely translate carriage returns into linefeeds; you must
>either disable this on your system or teach Eudora how to deal with it.

Michael Bradshaw   [e-mail] (preferred)
6222 Cypress #1    [e-mail]
PCB, FL 32408      904-230-8615

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

Date: Sun, 08 May 94 17:58:35 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Old System Disks

I've seen recent notes to I-M asking for old System disks. I've not
responded because my files had nothing older than System 5. No more.
Leslye spent part of the weekend cleaning out her files and unearthed
a CD-ROM we got in the dark ages of 1990, Develop #2. It is a treasure
trove of archaeological information. The thing has Systems of the 0.x
persuasion going through System 5 disk images. If any of y'all are still
looking for old install disks, give me a whistle.

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

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

Date: Fri, 6 May 94 16:15:54 EDT
From: Byron C Mayes <[e-mail]>
Subject: OnLocation...Opinion!

> we're looking for a good search engine/catalogue program and have heard
> very good things about onLocation -- that it does text searches as well as
> filename searches and is very fast.

M.C.,

Be aware that ON Technology hasn't updated OnLocation for about four years and
at my last communication with them (about 4 months ago) they had no intention
of
further doing so. They will not even do so much as update to the current Apple
Events architechture (which compeletely negates one of OnLoc's prime
features!).
QuicKeys, for example, will not work with it as QK HAS been updated.

At the above news, I promptly eliminated OnLoc from my harddrive forever. If
you
can find anything else that works -- preferably from a company that plans to
support and keep current -- opt for it instead.

Byron C. Mayes
University of Delaware
[e-mail]

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

Date: Sun, 8 May 1994 14:00:45 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Murph Sewall)
Subject: PowerMac 6100 no FPU? (A)

On Thu, 5 May 1994 14:13:31 -0400, Joe Discenza wrote:
>Can anyone help me with this? I thought the PPC601 had a built-in FPU,
>but when I've tried to run stuff that requires an FPU (including
>CHAOS Continuum), it crashes with a "could not find FPU" or something
>like that.

The PowerMac FPU *ONLY* works for NATIVE code.  It does NOT recognize 68881
FPU calls :-(  Why Apple couldn't have simply wrote and FPU emulator that
passes those calls to the PowerPC FPU is beyond me.

You can try SoftFPU, but since SoftFPU assumes there's no FPU hardware in
the Mac, it'll emulate (very slow).  Perhaps someone can write a SoftFPU
specifically for the PowerMacs that calls the PowerPC FPU hardware (call it
SemiSoftFPU ?)

Only 10 percent of Mac users may use software that requires and FPU, but
that's precisely the type of user who'd be interested in upgrading to the
PowerMac ASAP.

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

Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 14:24:30 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Graeme Forbes)
Subject: Radious card

Maurizio Lana asks:

"Any advice about the Radius Universal 24xp card that CRA systems sell
for $299 (Mac User April 1994, page 190), which is incredibly low price,
as I can understand?"

CRC no longer has this card, but they do have a newer Radius card that's
supposed to have the same functionality and to be a bit faster. The new
card is about $50 more.

I'd like to tell you how it performs but right now it looks as if UPS has
lost my package.

Graeme Forbes

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

Date: Sun, 8 May 1994 22:53:11 -0700
From: Richard Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: Small system 7.1?

Can anyone give me any pointers to which resources I can chop out of S7.1
(with ResEdit) to make a very small system to go on a 1.44 floppy as a
repair disk?

Obviously, the system won't need any printing or comms bits, and I can do
without the colour icons etc but these represent a small fraction of the
size of the system file.

Is there a FAQ I've missed?

Thanks,
Richard Smith ([e-mail])

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

Date: Sun, 8 May 1994 16:24:25 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Charlie Mingo)
Subject: Why is Illustrator88 called Illustrator88?

[e-mail] (Harald Timm) writes:

>Could anyone tell me why Adobe's Illustrator ealier version was called
>Illustrator88?

I feel it is unwise to pry too deeply into the mind of a marketing
department, but anyway:

The first version of Illustrator came out in 1987; when Adobe revised it in
1988, they chose to call the new version "Illustrator 88" instead of
"Illustrator 2.0".

Eventually they decided that "Illustrator 88" sounded, well, dated...

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

Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 19:38:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jeff Fischer <[e-mail]>
Subject: Why is Illustrator88 called Illustrator88? [A]

Ah, that would be for the same reason Sergio Mendez's band was called
Brazil 66. Then a decade later it was Brazil 77, etc. In other words, the
program first appeared in 1988. (I remains to be seen if Illustrator will
have the same longevity as Sergio Mendez. If so, perhaps there will be an
Illustrator 99.)

Jeff Fischer   The Fischer Group   [e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 01:05 EST
From: "Don't Panic!" <[e-mail]>
Subject: WriteNow & Finder crash (Q)

Dear Netters,
Symptoms:
I had just translated a Microsoft Word 3.0 document into WriteNow 2.2, which
then promptly converted it to WriteNow 4.0.  The first translation was done by
MacLinkPlus/PC translators.  Then I went on to read the new WriteNow document
and clicked on the scroll bar to go down.  Macsbug 1.6.1 interrupted and told
me I had a BusError and that WriteNow was still open.  I tried 'g' to continue
my events with no luck, then tried 'es' to quit WriteNow 4.0.  With that I got
an address error.  Tried quiting once again, and poof, my entire screen went
white with green poka dots (sp?).  Rebooted the machine, ran disinfectant 3.5
to find I had a damaged Finder resource fork, with no viruses.
Current system extensions:

Disinfectant Init
EM Extensions
FaxMonitor
FaxPrint
Macintosh Easy Open
PrintMonitor
Stylewriter
Stylewriter I+
After Dark
Autodoubler
ColorSwitch 2.1
Copydoubler Lite
FaxMenu
MacLinkPlus Setup
PC Exchange
System 7 Pack! Extras
MacroMaker
MacsBug

Macintosh LC/10 MB of RAM.

I have been running this set of extensions for 2 weeks without any problems.
Any idea what may have caused the resource fork to be damaged to the Finder?
Was a System 7 Pack modified finder.  Also I know MacroMaker isn't the
culprit, as it has never before given me more than a few BusErrors, without
any green screens.
I want to prevent this bug if possible in the future.
I have since replaced it with an original copy from my System disks.

Disclaimer: Usual apply, I am an enduser of all these software.

Sincerely,
[e-mail]

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