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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 94 08:27:48 PDT
From: The Info-Mac Moderators <[e-mail]>
Reply-To: [e-mail]
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V12 #129
To: info-mac-list


Info-Mac Digest             Thu, 29 Sep 94       Volume 12 : Issue 129

Today's Topics:

      [*] All Midi 1.0 ; a MIDI to QuickTime convertor
      [*] ColorKnit 3.0.7; a design utility for knitters
      [*] commsService; a "rolodex" like communications facility
      [*] Dreamland Lite 2.5; a First Class Board in the 718 area code
      [*] First Things First 3.0.11 Update/Demo
      [*] GLMStat 1.2.3; a statistics application
      [*] Graf 2.1.0; a scientific plotting program
      [*] jims-demoCDEF-v120; example control definitions
      [*] Kay_Darling_Multimedia_Sampler [repost]
      [*] LinksToMac; convert DOS golf courses to Mac format
      [*] MacFIBS 1.0; the First Internet Backgammon Server
      [*] MailConverter 1.4; converts variopus formats to SMTP
      [*] mosaicon-111-hc; a game
      [*] SoundHandle10; a sound sample editing utility
      [*] Village font
      840AV extension mayhem
      [Q] How to automatically click the default button in a dialog
      Atari ST emulator for the Mac ?
      Autodoubler vs. Full Impact 2.0.3s
      Common Ground (A)
      Common Ground - not the best for Mac
      CPU 1.0.1 and Norton 3.0 Shutdown Conflict?
      Flickering Greys and Fish Underbellies
      HD on Mac from student lab asks for password: how to remove ?
      Help (with Eudora etc...)
      Info-Mac Digest V12 #127 (2 msgs)
      LaserWriter 630 Printer
      Laserwriter Pro 630 opinions wanted (reply)
      Mac IIci cache cards (A)
      MacMakeIndex (R)
      MacWEEK News article retrieval
      Network names and RevRdist (2 msgs)
      Newton mailing list
      Problem printing large files
      Strange sounding 660AVs
      Sys 7.5 &CTB VT100 bug, or Duo problem
      system 7.5 heap
      VM on PowerMacs
      Warbling speech manager voices
      World Script (A)
      WriteNow4 - comments?
      Xyplex/TIA/SLIP: Problems sending Eudora email, Mosaic freezes (Q)

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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 17:05:58 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Paul C.H. Ho)
Subject: [*] All Midi 1.0 ; a MIDI to QuickTime convertor

All Midi 1.0 940928
Copyright(c)1994 Paul C.H. Ho and Pink Elephant Technologies. All
rights reserved.
This is Freeware.

The fastest way to convert MIDI files to QuickTime Movies. No
need to change file type and press all those "Convert..." and
"Options..." button, just drag and drop!

All Midi convert general MIDI files to QuickTime music movies.
+ Batch processing: Drag and drop files or folder to the All Midi
Icon for automatic convert.
+ Identify Midi file by content: You can drop a Midi file with
any file type/creator/extension. All Midi will convert Midi files
base on its content, and ignore non-midi files. No need to change
file type.
+ Hold down option key before each convert to access the
Rearranget MIDI instruments dialog.
+ You can play the converted movie with my shareware program
QuickMovie or any other QuickTime movie player under QT 2.0.
QuickMovie allow you to rearrange MIDI instruments after
convert.

System Requirements
+ System 7 or later.
+ QuickTime 2.0 or later.

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/util/all-midi-10.hqx; 13K]

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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 12:50:27 -0500
From: Elaine Benfatto <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] ColorKnit 3.0.7; a design utility for knitters

ColorKnit is a simple grid-based program to help knitters create designs
and give them an accurate preview of how they will look when knitted up.

Elaine Benfatto                 "An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy
[e-mail]              of being called an idea at all."

[Archived as /info-mac/app/color-knit-307.hqx; 135K]

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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 07:11:17 +1000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] commsService; a "rolodex" like communications facility

commsService is a easy-to-use, point-and-click shareware application for
the Macintosh that provides a "rolodex" like communications facility. The
application provides facilities for recording the details of commonly used
communications connections/sessions as a series of parameters on an
individual "card".  Once the details have been recorded the name of the
card (connection/session) then appears in a scrolling list on the  menu
screen. Repeated connections may then be made simply by double clicking on
the name of the required connection in the scrolling list.

The ease of use of the interface and the power of the scripting language
make this an ideal communications application for the classroom and/or
computer lab.

The details recorded on a communications "card" are referred to as a
"service".  A service is  defined as any process running on a local or
remote computer, eg. an Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) or a Campus
Wide Information System (CWIS). Each service is uniquely defined via a
series of 15 parameters that describe attributes such as  the name,  the
method used to connect to the service, the login and logout scripts, etc.

The application permits multiple, simultaneous sessions to be active at any
one time. A typical session might therefore include a serial connection to
your local OPAC in one window, whilst another window displays information
from a CWIS, and a third displays a remote network connection to a second
OPAC.

The application utilises the power of  HyperCard's scripting language,
HyperTalk to provide a powerful communication scripting facility. It
achieves this  by defining a series of communication specific language
extensions that enable scripts to communicate directly with services.

commsService is based upon Apple's Communications Toolbox technology,
consequently connectivity is only limited by the range of Connection and
Terminal Emulation tools that are available on your machine. (NB. The
application comes bundled with several tools including a public domain
tcp/ip/telnet tool and Apple's VT102 terminal emulation tool).

commsService is AppleScriptable.

Once a series of services have been defined, a copy of the application may
be made and then "locked" to prevent access to the service definition
cards. This is particularly useful for those circumstances where the end
users are to be prevented from seeing/modifying the service details.

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/term/comms-service-201-hc.hqx; 951K]

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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 15:40:53 -0400
From: Backup Moderator <backmod>
Subject: [*] Dreamland Lite 2.5; a First Class Board in the 718 area code

Dreamland
New York City, U.S.A.
A FirstClass Board in the 718 area code

* Free Membership * Macintosh Files * Adult File Access with proof of age *
Diversified Conferences and Related Files * Colorful Graphical Interface
for both Macintosh and Windows Users * High Speed Modem Access * "File
Finders" Service- You want it, we'll find it. * Online Artist Portfolio's *
Member Created Conferencing * If you're looking for something different...

Use your modem to call [phone]

These minimal settings will get you where you want to go, but the full
settings (900k) are *much* nicer to look at and hear. When you arrive at
our board, please download the full settings as soon as possible.

You'll need the FirstClass Client 2.5 or better to use these settings.

Dreamland offers diverse and exciting areas such as Coney Island,
Holocaust, Lego!, Adults Only and Bizarro.

We know you'll like it, so log on today!

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/bbs/first-class-dream-land-lite-25.hqx; 474K]

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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 14:16:12 -0500
From: Peter J Roberts <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] First Things First 3.0.11 Update/Demo

Enclosed is an archive containing First Things First 3.0.11 which I
downloaded from America On Line.  It is a later version than what seems
to be in the sumex archives.  This archive contains the extension and its
set of clocks.  A sample comparison of resources indicates that the
clocks have been updated since v3.0.8 although there is no version number
assigned to any of them.

The archive is both an update for current owners of FTF 3.0.x and a demo
for those who do not own FTF 3.0.x.  The demo will show the clock and
allow limited reminder activity.  Current owners can continue to use
their serial number on this version.

For me, I wish I had known that this update existed earlier (it is circa
1993).  Since installation my very complex system configuration has
become very stable.  Prior to installation I had regular, seemingly
random, crashes.  It seems that v3.0.8 corrupted memory.

I have no business connection with the FTF folks.

Pete Roberts             [e-mail]
MacPartners Development  [e-mail]
[phone] (Voice)    [phone] (Fax)

[Archived as /info-mac/app/first-things-first-3011-updt-demo.hqx; 370K]

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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 11:39:55 +1000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] GLMStat 1.2.3; a statistics application

GLMStat is a statistical program for analysing generalised linear models.
It provides  a macintosh interface but otherwise operates in a similar
fashion to GLIM but with less features (most of which you probably won't
miss). Features of GLMStat are
  - spreadsheet style data entry
  - Normal, Poisson, Binomial and Gamma models with appropriate links and
    specification of convergence parameters
  - Scatter and Residual plots
  - Output of deviance, parameter estimates, residuals and parameter
    correlations
  - Saving of data files complete with all model specifications.
  - printing of data, graph and results.
  - Online Help (under the apple menu) unfortunately there is currently no
    other documentation.
  - includes example data files for most examples in two of the texts.

The programme is shareware with a very reasonable fee of $AUD30 for
individual copies or $AUD120 for site licences. ($1AUD is
approximately $US0.70). Further details in the "read me" file.
Unregistered copies are initially fully functional but after 28th
February 1995 unregistered copies will have Save, Save As, Import and Paste
disabled.

This version of GLMStat (1.2.3) has the following changes
  - Improved fitting algorithm using LINPACK routines.
  - Fixed bug which caused conversion of estimates display to text to be
    incorrect for aliased parameters (ie when copying to clipboard).
  - Pad out parameter names in estimates display with blanks when converting
    to text to produce neater display.
  - Fixed bug which caused incorrect design matrix to be generated when
    only a single multifactor term in model (ie a.b.c instead of a*b*c)
  - Corrected bug which would have caused errors in reading files from
    future versions of GLMStat.

Version 1.3 with User Manual should be available this year or early next
year.

Ken Beath
[e-mail] (during 1994 only)

[Archived as /info-mac/sci/glm-stat-123.hqx; 240K]

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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 14:11:17 -0500
From: Ralph Sutherland <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Graf 2.1.0; a scientific plotting program

    Graf is a freeware scientific plotting program whose original
development was with help from the AUDF in Australia.  It allows you
to plot free form data files (as TEXT files) from many sources including
files with LF characters from mainframes.  It knows about FORTRAN
double precision 'd' exponent notation as well.  It can open as many
data files as memory allows and they can have as many data points
as you have memory for as well.  The interpreter is general, but the
interface currently limits you to 99 columns.

    Cheers
    Ralph Sutherland      Boulder, Sept. '94
    email: [e-mail]
           [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/sci/graf-210.hqx; 280K]

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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 13:17:02 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Jim Stout)
Subject: [*] jims-demoCDEF-v120; example control definitions

It is a collection of 10 CDEF (Control Definition) resources and some
bits of source code to demo their use.

ID      Name          Function
100     GroupBox      titled box, text in upperleft
101     PopUp Menu    System 7 style popup menu control
102     Spinner       "little arrows" control
103     Date & Time   Date & Time control using "little arrows"
104     Tog Button    new type of "one or many" control
105     HSlider       horizontal slider control
106     VSlider       vertical slider control
107     3D Buttons    3d replacement for the standard button CDEF
108     Progress Bar  "thermometer" or "barber pole" progress indicators
109     TabPanel      "Tab Panel" control as in MSWord

The source for the "3D Buttons" CDEF is included, along with some utility
routines common to all of the CDEF's.  A test harness to allow source level
debugging is also included.

Changes in v120 are:

- All work correctly in multiple monitor setups
- TabPanel control now can have up to 5 rows of 4 tabs each.
- All controls have a 3D variation.
- Slider controls will call an actionProc if set.
- Arrow (Spinner) & DateTime control now have 3D arrows.
- All controls "tweaked" to work correctly with TrackControl
  in non-dialog windows.
- many enhancements to the demoCDEF program to show:
    : Fractional increment in Spinner controls
    : "Live" display of control values for Sliders
    : Reset of DateTime controls to current time.
    : Linking of a Spinner control to Progress bar.

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/jims-demo-cdefs-120.hqx; 140K]

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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 11:14:14 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Kay_Darling_Multimedia_Sampler [repost]

Kay Darling
by Laura MacDonald and Alex Pugsley (*1994)
Online Sampler (*1994 by Nicholas Woolridge)

In this archive you will find a interactive online sampler of the novel Kay
Darling, by Laura MacDonald and Alex Pugsley. One partial and two complete
chapters are included, as well as some original visual material of several
of the locales mentioned in the book.

Kay Darling is the story of three frantic urbanites making their way in the
wilds of Toronto: Kay Prichard, an "uptight-straight-white-girl from New
Brunswick"; Claire, "Kay's spirited but spiritually disorganized younger
sister"; and Will, "a gay actor and Kay's long-time confidante."

To run this online sampler, you will need a colour-capable Macintosh
computer with a 13" or greater monitor, and 5 megabytes of RAM or more (it
may work with less, but no guarantees).

Please send inquiries and comments on the novel or the online sampler to
one of the following addresses, and I'll pass on relevant info to the
authors. Internet:

[e-mail]
or on CompuServe at:
70373,3715

[Archived as /info-mac/info/nms/kay-darling.hqx; 1507K]

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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 94 08:06:23 PDT
From: "Rich Love" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] LinksToMac; convert DOS golf courses to Mac format

Copyright 1994  Carnation Software, Inc.
By Rich Love

LinksToMac reads Links 386 DOS golf course disks and converts them to Links
Pro for Macintosh courses. You simply insert the DOS disks into your Mac and
LinksToMact does all the work for you. It will automatically find the 386
courses on DOS disks and ignore the older Links courses.

What You Need:

Any Macintosh.
2 Megs of free memory.
2 to 3 Megs of free disk space for each course you want to install.
System 6.05 or later.
Macintosh PC Exchange or similar INIT to enable your Mac to read DOS disks.
Super Drive
Links course disks containing a Links 386 course.

-- Rich Love                                     Carnation Software, Inc.
   MacToPic and SBMac - Macintosh to Host connectivity and file transfer.

[Archived as /info-mac/game/links-to-mac-112.hqx; 124K]

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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 18:19:16 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Paul Ferguson)
Subject: [*] MacFIBS 1.0; the First Internet Backgammon Server

With MacFIBS, you can play backgammon with other players around the world
on FIBS, the First Internet Backgammon Server.

MacFIBS provides a multi-window, graphical front end to FIBS, vastly
superior to the "dumb terminal" telnet scrolling text format that FIBS uses
underneath.  It makes excellent use of sound to reinforce the backgammon
playing experience. It's virtual backgammon the Macintosh Way.

MacFIBS is freeware, and requires a color Macintosh and MacTCP.  See you on
FIBS!

--fergy
  ([e-mail])

[Archived as /info-mac/game/brd/mac-fibs-10.hqx; 710K]

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Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 21:06:19 -0400
From: Richard Shapiro <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] MailConverter 1.4; converts variopus formats to SMTP

MailConverter converts mmdf and babyl mail files, and NewsWatcher save
files, into sendmail format, suitable for use with Eudora. It will also
burst Eudora
digests (if properly formatted).

Numerous changes have been made since 1.3, too many to list here, but one
is very important: Apple didn't give me my first choice of signature (or my
second)
so all earlier versions of MailConverter use a signature that presumably
belongs
to someone else. These earlier versions should probably be trashed, just to
be safe.  1.4 has an officially registered, proper signature -- and many
improvements and bug fixes.

[Archived as /info-mac/cmp/mail-converter-14.hqx; 45K]

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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 94 10:14:31 EST
From: Backup Moderator <backmod>
Subject: [*] mosaicon-111-hc; a game

Mosaicon is a game in 256 colors on HyperCard 2.0 (or 2.1), which includes the
Xcmd Colorizing HyperCard of BUNG DABBA.

Before opening the stack, allot the maximum of Ram you can to HyperCard.
Install the fonts CouRier, Helvetica, Symbol & Times in your system.

The game is very easy : you have to draw a mosaic with 6 colors (at least) on a
checkerboard by moving a cursor. This places a different color each time you
move it according to the direction it gets.

You can create (Drawing mode) or recreate (Playing mode) a mosaic, save it,
display it where when and as you want, play a blind game, with a limited number
of moves, a limited time, bonus/malus, inversion of moves I

You can also entirely customize the game and choose your cursor, background
color, checkerboard, pieces, keys for moving cursor, differents sounds to play
with I

Have a good time !

Dogliani Patrick
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/game/mosaicon-111-hc.hqx; 1968K]

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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 12:44:11 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Dale Veeneman)
Subject: [*] SoundHandle10; a sound sample editing utility

This application allows you to record, play, display, analyze, modify and save
sound samples.  You can also generate waveforms, read 'snd ' resources from
other applications, save sounds as System 7 sound files and convert sounds to
and from ASCII text files.  The application operates somewhat like a text
editor, allowing you to cut and paste portions of sounds at will (including
between multiple windows).  Frequency spectra may be displayed, as well as
gray-scale or full-color spectrograms.  Modifications such as reversing, adding
echo, amplitude scaling, resampling (changing the bandwidth/sampling rate),
time scaling (changing the rate of play without changing the pitch) and
frequency scaling (changing the pitch without changing the rate of play) are
possible.  The waveforms may be printed or copied to the clipboard as PICT's,
there to be pasted into other applications.

SoundHandle requires System 7, was compiled only for the Motorola 68000 family
and supports 8-bit, monophonic sounds.  (Someday, perhaps it will support the
newer 16-bit, stereo sound format and be compiled for the PowerMac.)  If
available, it uses the FPU for intensive signal processing operations.  For
help, see the About Box.

This application may be used freely, however it is copyrighted and is not in
the public domain.  Send bug reports to [e-mail].

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/util/sound-handle-10.hqx; 147K]

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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 13:45:43 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Mark F. Heiman, Information Coordinator)
Subject: [*] Village font

This font was designed to closely resemble that used in the cult TV classic
"The Prisoner," created by and starring Patrick McGoohan. The letterforms
are mostly based on the "Albertus" typeface, with a few modifications and
special characters.

This archive contains both TrueType and Type 1 Postscript versions of the
font.

Village is freeware.  It may be used and distributed at no cost.

Mark F. Heiman
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/font/village.hqx; 116K]

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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 18:58:54 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Sean P.E. Takats)
Subject: 840AV extension mayhem

During startup, the extension icons on my 840AV do not line up properly and
overlap, making it difficult to see which extensions are loading.  Not a
major problem, but annoying.  Anyway to fix this?  Thanks.

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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 94 16:40:02 PDT
From: Deepak Seth <[e-mail]>
Subject: [Q] How to automatically click the default button in a dialog

Hi,

I am trying to find a way to click the OK (or default) button in a Mac
Application's dialog automatically.  I need to do this because I am
trying to Automate the process of approving this dialog in my task.  Is
there any application or extention that will allow me to do this.  If
not how could I do this programmitically (applescript, keyquencer, mpw
shell, c ??)

thanks for your help,

Deepak Seth
([e-mail])

Disclaimer:  All opinions expressed above are my own.

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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 94 06:58:38 +0100
From: "J. Rossi" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Atari ST emulator for the Mac ?

Is there any Atari ST emulator for the Mac ?

Thanks

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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 21:59 EST
From: "Don't Panic!" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Autodoubler vs. Full Impact 2.0.3s

Dear Info-mac readers,
After years of problems with Full Impact, I finally isolated the bug causing
its files to corrupt quite often.   Full Impact 2.0.3 (FI) should have its
accompanied Untitled file deleted every time it gets used.  In addition, if
you use Autodoubler 2.0.4 (AD), don't allow AD to compress FI documents or FI
itself.   Otherwise FI will crash, and corrupt the files that are open while
it crashes.   This may be true of other files that crash while using
Autodoubler, so if you have it installed, that may be one place to look if a
file or application appears to corrupt.  If that happens, reinstall the
application into a folder that is excluded in the AD settings, and
set the folder that has that application's documents also excluded from
AD.   Hope this helps anyone out there who uses AD, or any other file level
compression program.
Sincerely,
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 13:39:14 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Graeme Forbes)
Subject: Common Ground (A)

"Does anyone know anything about a program named "Common Ground".  I've
heard of it, and I'll tell you why I'm interested...I'd like to be able to
distribute a publication which has been layed out in something like
PageMaker or QuarkXPress..."

Yes, Common Ground is probably your best bet, at least if you use
PostScript fonts. Send your files to Mac users with the Mac mininviewer
embedded, to Windows users with the Windows miniviewer embedded. The view
on screen will be pretty much indistinguishable from what you see in the
creating app, and the print quality is about DeskWriter inkjet level.

The main alternatives are Adobe Acrobat, Farallon Replica and WordPerfect
Envoy. You'll have to wait until version 2 of Acrobat before you can send
your readers a free viewer. Replica and Envoy work best with TrueType
fonts: Replica creates 4x bitmaps of Type 1 fonts, and the print output is
not good (unless the recipient has the same fonts installed on his/her
machine), while Envoy tries to match with currently installed Type 1 fonts
- hopeless if any of your fonts are "unusual", eg a math font or an Asian
language font. Neither the Mac Replica nor the Mac Envoy can create
Windows-readable files. (On the other hand, if your fonts are all TrueType
or straight Type 1 text fonts, an Envoy file with embedded viewer is most
fun for the recipient - it's got the best collection of  tools. Graphics
printing is not great, tho'.)

You can get some idea of what CG can do by downloading the full
documentation for NCSA Mosaic
(http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/MacMosaic/Docs), or else an issue of
Apple Customer Services's biweekly newsletter InfoAlley
(http://www.info.apple.com/info.alley/info.alley.html, or gopher to
info.hed. apple.com/apple.support.area). Because of some printing glitches,
I suspect that my version of the Mosaic documentation was created with
Common Ground 1.0 rather than 1.1.

There is also a portable digital document program called WorldView from
InterLeaf, but apparently InterLeaf doesn't want anyone to know about it.
And then there's Apple's contribution, PDD Maker GX, which comes with
System 7.5 (and so in some sense is "free"), but only users of GX can open
the files you create with it.

Common Ground will cost you a little less than $100 mail order.

Graeme Forbes

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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 94 13:44:39 EST
From: Btroen <[e-mail]>
Subject: Common Ground - not the best for Mac

From: [e-mail] (Scott Kaplan)
Subject: Common Ground

In IM V12 #127, Scott Kaplan asks about Common Ground.  The main adavantage of
Common Ground is its cross-platform utility.  In other words, Mac, DOS, and
other platforms can view the same document with a machine specific reader.

However, if your readers will be on just Macs, then Common Ground is
unequivocally inferior to DOCMaker from Green Mountain Software.  DocMaker is a
shareware program that creates standalone documents.  Examples can be found in
the some of the periodicals available at Info-Mac, such as the Ambrosia Times
and the Inside Mac Games issues.  Perhaps the main advantage of DocMaker
documents is the presence of a table of contents menu which allows the reader
to easily move about the document.  The one major Common Ground document that
I've viewed (the MacMosaic documentation guide) does not have this feature.

Another program for generating stand alone documents that can be viewed with
the original application is Print-to-Pict 3.5 with its PostCard accessory.
This works very easily from within the Chooser.  Instead of printing to a paper
output device, you "print" to a PostCard file (or for that matter to any of a
number of formats, including Pict files).

Bruce Troen

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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 20:08:16 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Hisashi T Fujinaka)
Subject: CPU 1.0.1 and Norton 3.0 Shutdown Conflict?

CPU won't shut down my Mac now that I've installed the new Norton
Utilities. (or is it SUM?)  I've turned off the periodic disk checking, but
it still doesn't shut down the Mac. Anyone know anything?

Hisashi T Fujinaka ([e-mail])
My name is Inigo Montoya, millionaire. I own a mansion and a yacht.

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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 14:09:58 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Dr. Michael S. Silverstein)
Subject: Flickering Greys and Fish Underbellies

I asked this before and received no response, so I am going to try again:

I used a grey background on my Sony Trinitron 14" monitor for several
years. Recently I noticed that there were tiny dots flickering all over the
place. I changed to a pink background and the flickering stopped, although
there a sometimes red dots where there should be pink.

Now when the fish emerge on my screensaver then all the coloured fish are
fine but the underbellies of the grey fish flicker in the same way and the
flickering moves with the fish, i.e. it is not restricted to a particular
place but appears wherever the grey is.

I pushed the degauss button, but no luck there.

Anyone have any idea what this is? What I can do about it? How long I have
before my monitor goes kerblooie (the problem is several months old...)?

Thanks, in advance, for any help...

M.S. Silverstein
Materials Engineering
Technion

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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 09:07:42 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Juan M. Courcoul)
Subject: HD on Mac from student lab asks for password: how to remove ?

Here goes another war story for the annals of student lab administration...

Early today we discovered a Mac Classic II from our student lab that asks
for a password  before mounting the hard disk. We do not use any such
software on any Mac on campus: apparently some enterprising student who
wanted a Mac all for himself must have installed some sort of passwording
program.

Since we don't know the password, we attempted to boot from a floppy, only
to have the thing ask for the password again. Since we cannot provide it,
the startup continues, but the hard disk is not mounted. Trying to mount it
using HD Setup or SCSIProbe doesn't work, with the program announcing that
there is no SCSI drive on the bus.  The guys on our Service Center had a
crack at it using their service tools, with no success.

What can we try to regain use of the machine ? Reformatting the hard disk
is ok with us; what we want is to be able to use the machine again !

TIA for any tips or tricks.

Juan

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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 22:04:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail] (Gregory G. Woodbury)
Subject: Help (with Eudora etc...)

> some difficulties.  I have a Macintosh with a PPP connection, and am using
> NewsWatcher 1.0b13 for a newsreader and Eudora 1.4 for a mail reader.  The
> difficulty seems is with changing the "from" line.  It seems there may also
> be future difficulty making and "approved" entry into the header.  The last
> test I sent in which I redirected the message using Eudora had a (by Dave)
> attached to the "from" line.

Notwithstanding the twit replies (like "go get a real account") there
are some suggestions to make.

Eudora has a whole mess of "preferences" and options that affect its
behaviour, especially with respect to the headers of messages.  You need
to examine the preferences and setups to make sure that it inserts your
proper email address in the message.

Newswatcher also has it particular strangenesses, but it should allow you to
manipulate the articles to the extent that you can insert an approved header
when necessary - you again may need to adjust the preferences options to get
it to do what you want.

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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 16:06:56 -0600 (MDT)
From: Ed=[e-mail]
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V12 #127

We have an OS/2 machine running a Lotus Notes server.  I cannot connect to the
notes server via ethernet.  Is their something special about OS/2 that has to
be setup so that macs can find it on the network.

All of our network programs don't list the server as a node on the network.

Please E-mail me DIRECTLY at [e-mail]


Edward Jacobs
Macintosh Lab Coordinator

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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 17:25:40 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Bill Cummins)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V12 #127

In article <36c0h1$[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
wrote:

> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 1994 18:19:09 -0500
> From: [e-mail] (Scott Kaplan)
> Subject: Common Ground
>
> Does anyone know anything about a program named "Common Ground".  I've

We've used Common Ground for some limited publishing and we've always
hoped to more widely distribute it.  I'm also looking into using a www
server and html, by using print-to-pict and .gif converter to create .gifs
for mosaic.

Check out two documents by ftp or gopher to 138.87.10.1 and look in the
ISUIR:retention directory for a file with common ground, and www to
138.87.10.1 (Mosaic?) to see the .gif style.
>
> Scott Kaplan
> [e-mail]

--
Bill Cummins, 3490 Planning, Policy Studies and Information Systems
Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61790-3490
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 20:07:15 -0300
From: [e-mail] (Roger Cole)
Subject: LaserWriter 630 Printer

I have been using a 630 since they were introduced and have been very
satisfied with output and performance (my reference would be a II NT). I
put a bigger drive in my PowerBook and placed the 80 MB drive from it into
the 630. It works well, but I believe I have to keep copies of my
postscript printer files on my computer's hard drive because Adobe Type
manager needs them to draw the screen fonts. Is this correct...and is there
any way around this? Thanks in advance for replies.

Roger Cole
School District 6
P.O. Box 820
70 Hampton Road
Rothesay, NB   CANADA
E2E 5A8

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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 20:30:52 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Traci J. Ingram" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Laserwriter Pro 630 opinions wanted (reply)

> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 07:44:30 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Richard Lim <[e-mail]>
> Subject: Laserwriter Pro 630 opinions wanted

> Further to my query about the Select 360, I'd also appreciate some
> feedback on the Laserwriter Pro 630. The Select 360, it turns out, has
> one big drawback from our point of view: you can't attach a SCSI hard
> disk (or can you?). So it looks like we might go for the 630 instead.

> Thanks.

Richard,

Our school has had good luck with the L/W Pro 630 in an all-Mac setting,
using the printer's built-in ethernet.  However, I am fairly certain that
we will experience "manual hair loss" after adding DOS/Windoze clients:
The 630 apparently must be explicitly changed back and forth  (via
software commands) between each different-protocol print job -- instead of
being automatically re-configured, as is done with most competing printers
in this price category.

This is a fine printer with one serious -- and perhaps fatal --
shortcoming.

Regards,

Traci J. Ingram

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

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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 14:53:30 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Kee Nethery [phone])
Subject: Mac IIci cache cards (A)

>I'm thinking about buying a cache card for my Mac IIci.
>There is the Apple's, sold at $49: it has 32K of ram.
>But Peripheral Outlet sells a ci cache card at $ 125: is that card
>provided with more memory: 64K? or a wonderful 128K?

I purchased a 2ci cache card a while back and from what I recall, all the
magazine reviews at the time pretty much said the same thing, it's not too
important how big it is but rather that you have one. Their timing tests
showed that they all provided about the same performance boost. So I'd say
get the cheapest.

Kee Nethery

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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 14:51:42 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Gary L. Gray)
Subject: MacMakeIndex (R)

>   Where can I find a copy of MacMakeIndex to build the index of
> my latest latex book on my mac?
>   Francois

Here is where you can find it:

ftp://pip.shsu.edu//tex-archive/systems/mac/macmakeindex2.12.sea.hqx

--
Gary L. Gray         |  Engineering Science & Mechanics
Assistant Professor  |  Penn State University

--
Gary L. Gray                     |  [phone]
Assistant Professor              |  [phone] (fax)
Engineering Science & Mechanics  |  [e-mail]
Penn State University            |  AOL: GLGray

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

Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 14:17:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Rob 'Doc' Walker" <[e-mail]>
Subject: MacWEEK News article retrieval

Does anyone know where I can retrieve the text of MacWEEK News
articles (aside from commercial on-line services)?

Rob 'Doc' Walker

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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 16:49:14 +0100
From: Mike Brudenell <[e-mail]>
Subject: Network names and RevRdist

We are using RevRdist to keep "clean" a set of Macs in an open access
classroom.  As part of the cleaning process the files on the local hard
disks get replaced (if necessary) by fresh copies from a file server.

All well and good, but one of the files that gets replaced is "System"
and, stored in here, is the "Macintosh Name" (as normally set by the
Sharing Setup control panel).

This means that each Mac ends up thinking it has the same name as the
others which causes slight problems when it tries to place itself on the
network (it finds the name is already in use, so tries to find a suffix
to append to the name to make it unique).

This wouldn't matter so much, except we'd like to be able to check whether
any given Mac is up or not.  With their names changing at every reboot
this becomes impossible.

So what do other sites using RevRdist do about this?  Do you have some
sneaky way of setting the name of the Mac using an Extension or something?

Any help very gratefully received!

 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mike Brudenell                          E-mail: [e-mail]
The Computing Service                   Phone:  [phone]
University of York                      FAX:    [phone]
Heslington
York  YO1 5DD  U.K.

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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 16:12:50 +0100
From: Mike Brudenell <[e-mail]>
Subject: Network names and RevRdist

We are using RevRdist to keep "clean" a set of Macs in an open access
classroom.  As part of the cleaning process the files on the local hard
disks get replaced (if necessary) by fresh copies from a file server.

All well and good, but one of the files that gets replaced is "System"
and, stored in here, is the "Macintosh Name" (as normally set by the
Sharing Setup control panel).

This means that each Mac ends up thinking it has the same name as the
others which causes slight problems when it tries to place itself on the
network (it finds the name is already in use, so tries to find a suffix
to append to the name to make it unique).

This wouldn't matter so much, except we'd like to be able to check whether
any given Mac is up or not.  With their names changing at every reboot
this becomes impossible.

So what do other sites using RevRdist do about this?  Do you have some
sneaky way of setting the name of the Mac using an Extension or something?

Any help very gratefully received!

Mike Brudenell                          E-mail: [e-mail]
The Computing Service, University of York, Heslington, York  YO1 5DD  U.K.

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

Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 21:43:17 +1000
From: DAVID.D.F.O'[e-mail]
Subject: Newton mailing list

Some time ago I posted a query to this forum asking about the existence of a
Newton mailing list. Some people wrote to me and asked me to pass on my answers
however I subsequently deleted (accidentally) the file I stored these addresses
in.

I did eventually find a Newton mailing list so anyone requiring the address
should E-Mail me at the address below.

David O'Keefe --> Internet: david.d.f.o'[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 13:51:47 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Jay L. Cross)
Subject: Problem printing large files

In brief, a non-profit group I work with has a problem printing large
files.  The specifics:

They've got an LC, two LCIIs (8 or 10 meg) and a PM 6100 (8 meg), all on an
AppleTalk backbone, using System 7 (7.01 tuned on the LCs, 7.1.2 on the PM)
file sharing.  There are two laser printers - an NEC SilentWriter 95 with
extra RAM (don't know how much) and a T.I. MicroLaser Pro 600 PS23
(standard RAM).  The problem is with a FileMaker Pro (FMP) DB with about
8500 records.  Once a month they print mailing labels on the NEC from all
records in the DB.  This is by far the largest document they print.  This
is printed from the PM, which is where the DB file is located (internal 160
meg, lots of free space).  BTW, we had no problem with this at all until
the DB exceeded about 7100 records.

The problem:  when the print job is run, only 300 to 1000 labels (there are
20 per page) will print.  At that point, the status panel on the NEC
indicates the printer is "waiting", which eventually changes to "ready".
Both the PM and the printer seem to "think" the job is finished.  When
using Printmonitor, I discovered, in the Print Monitor Items folder in the
System folder, that the icon for the print job eventually changes from the
"document" icon, to one with a large "X" through it.  Printing with
PrintMonitor off eliminates this, of course, but the complete job still
won't print.

After a lot of trial and error, I finally decided that the problem was with
FileMaker Pro, and called Claris.  The first tech. person offered the
ridiculous solution of printing the file 300 records at a time, because
that was FMP's limit.  I posted a (mild) flame on C.S.M.Databases, and
later received a call from someone else at Claris.  He suggested buying and
installing the LW 8.1.1 package, and doubling PrintMonitor's memory
partition.  This was done, with no success.  Another call to Claris
resulted in a repeat of the earlier suggestion - just print a few hundred
records at a time.

Now, however, after working with some very large HyperCard stacks, and
finding that they, too, won't print, I think the problem is not with FMP,
but with large files generally.  The HyperCard stack, about 5.5 meg, won't
print at all, although the NEC displays "processing" for a while, then
changes to "waiting" or "ready" without producing paper.  We've not printed
these large jobs on the TI, because it's nasty paper path is not
label-friendly (we use a "straight through" tray on the NEC).  We've tried
lots of things, like setting FMP to single-user, taking the PM and the NEC
off the network and directly connecting them, increasing the memory
partition of FMP (or HyperCard), quitting all apps but the one printing,
etc.  BTW, the FMP and HC files used only Courier (TrueType), upper case.
Note that smaller docs, like word processor docs from MS Works,
several-page PageMaker docs, etc. print just fine.

Sorry for the length of this - I wanted to provide as much info as
possible.  Anybody had this problem (or similar) and solved it?  Any hints
would be much appreciated.  Respond here or directly to me, as you prefer.

--
Jay Cross CROSS Resources [phone]  [e-mail]

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

Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 13:51:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Peter Hoo <[e-mail]>
Subject: Strange sounding 660AVs

Hello,

I have 10 new Macintosh 660AVs with 500MB hard drives. When they are powered
up it sounds like the hard drive starts up, slows down, and then speeds back
up again.  The monitor light goes out during the slow down process.  They all
do it.  I would like to know if anyone else has this problem, if it is a
problem that is.

Peter

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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 23:10:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Dave Valentine;GS 2012;3471" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Sys 7.5 &CTB VT100 bug, or Duo problem

I have had the misfortune of upgrading to system 7.5 at the same time I
got a modem (inexpensive external) for my duo. I have a problem with
getting the vt100 tool to send the proper escape sequences for the arrow
keys on keyboard. The arrow keypad menus send the proper keystrokes.
I'm curious to know if this is a system 7.5 problem, a comm toolbox vt100
tool problem, or a duo problem.
I've tried different comm toolbox programs, replacing the vt100 tool, and
disabling nearly all extensions.
Equipment: Duo 230, Duo dock, MDS 144 modem, VT100 1.02, system 7.5
Hopefully someone else knows the answer.
dave valentine
[e-mail]

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Date: 29 Sep 1994 00:38:43 -0000
From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
Subject: system 7.5 heap

[e-mail] writes:

>I recently installed System 7.5 without Powertalk and QuickdrawGX on my
>PowerBook 180c.  At startup the system consumes 3.6Mb but as I work on my
>computer the system slowly grows.  After an hour it is up to 4.6 Mb.  Is
>this a bug?  What's going on?  System 7.1 did not seem to do this. Thanks.

I know this is only suppose to work on PowerMacs, but when I had the
problem I turned VM on and didn't happen anymore.  The strangest thing is
that my computer (well my accelerator) doesn't even support VM.

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

Date: Wed, 28 Sep 94 12:25:13 PST
From: "Tim D. Castle" <[e-mail]>
Subject: VM on PowerMacs

Okay, I may have missed this FAQ, but I'll endure the loathing somehow...

Do a "Get Info" on a native or fat application on a PowerMac with Virtual
Memory
OFF. At the bottom, you'll see it say something to the effect of "Memory
requirements will decrease by <some big-dog number> if Virtual Memory is turned
on in the Memory Control Panel." Turn VM on, and it will state the obverse:
"Memory requirements will increase by <some big-dog number> if Virtual Memory
is
turned off in the Memory Control Panel."

Can anyone explain why this is true? It's a real pain if you get a PowerMac
with
16 MB of RAM and a 250 MB hard disk: If you don't turn on VM, your native/fat
apps take more RAM; if you DO turn on VM, you have to soak up at least 17 MB of
your hard disk space for the VM file; heaven forfend you should have even more
RAM!

      -T.C.

Tim Castle       [e-mail]
End-User Computing, GTE Gov't Systems, Mountain View, CA
Did I state an opinion? Well, it's mine, not my company's!

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

Date: Thu, 29 Sep 94 08:27:46 EST
From: [e-mail] ( Daniel J. Hofferth   [phone]/Allison Engine
Company)
Subject: Warbling speech manager voices

Responding to:

> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 94 12:13:56 EDT
> From: [e-mail] (Derrick Bass)
>
> I hope this isn't a FAQ, but here goes. . .
> I have a Mac IIsi, souped up to 25MHz.  Yet with all that incredible
> power ;-) most of the Speech Manager voices seem to warble:
> I perceive a tiny pause in the speech every second or so.
> The giant voices, Agnes, Victoria, and Bob (?) don't seem to have this
> problem, even in their smaller incarnations.
>
> Any suggestions?

Don't know that this will help you, but it may help others:

I've got a new Performa 630CD that briefly suffered from this same
problem (a 68LC040 at 33 MHz).  What troubled me most was that I had
just installed the latest version of Macintalk Pro/Speech Manager a
few days earlier, and everything sounded beautiful.  What had I just
changed?...  Ah... Trying to pin down a problem I was having with
another piece of software, I had just recently turned off the 040
cache.  Turned it back on, rebooted, and the voices were back to
normal.

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

Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 15:42:00 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Charlie Mingo)
Subject: World Script (A)

[e-mail] writes:

>I heard that World Script is available from Apple, but I cannot seem to
>find it anywhere on their ftp.support.apple.com, any clues to the path.

WorldScript enabling technology is built into System 7.1, but to actually
use a non-roman script you would need the appropriate language kit, which I
believe you have to purchase.

I have seen the Japanese and Chinese language kits on sale for $190 each.
I haven't seen any mention of Arabic or Hebrew, but I heard you can get
them from Nisus for $40 a pop.

>Also I tried retrieving
>pub/Apple SW Updates/Macintosh/Supplemental System Software/QuickTime
>(1.6.1).hqx, just to see if I can retrieve, the ftp I am using (ftptool, sun,
>unix) claims the file is not there, I must be missing something, any ideas?

I don't think you've spelled the name correctly, as I don't recall those
parenthesis signs. Why not use a regular ftp clinet (eg, /usr/ucb/ftp) and
see if it works.  It sounds like you haven't got ftptool configured
correctly, but that is really beyond the scope of the info-mac digest.

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

Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 03:58:31 GMT
From: Sven Guckes <[e-mail]>
Subject: WriteNow4 - comments?

Hi, all!

In comp.sys.mac.digest I see:

>Chris Abraham     |     [e-mail]     |     Washington, DC
>[Archived as /info-mac/app/write-now-4-demo.hqx; 597K]

Any good?  Please send me your comments.

Sven

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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 00:16:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Xyplex/TIA/SLIP: Problems sending Eudora email, Mosaic freezes (Q)

I have a question regarding TIA and InterSLIP. I am accessing a Sun
SparcStation through Xyplex terminal servers over a 9600 bps serial
connection. I disable software flow control (XON/XOFF) at the Xyplex
terminal prompt and establish a SLIP connection using TIA. For the most
part this works - Finger, Anarchie, Fetch, NCSA Telnet seem to function
as they should.

But there are several applications that refuse to work using this
configuration. When I run Eudora, I am able to receive email messages,
but when I try to send them, I get timeout errors. It starts sending the
message and then never finishes. I tried POPMail to see if it was Eudora
specific, and POPMail also has problems sending email.

NSCA Mosaic and MacWeb both don't work properly. They connect to the
remote site and then that status message says, "Sending HTTP request".
Then the globe spins around forever. I have to do a CMD-period to break
out, and then it says, "Unknown error."

I am beginning to suspect that it has something to do with the Xyplex
terminal servers and the way that TIA works. Can anyone enlighten me with
a possible cause, and solutions? I am desperate to get this to work
because I want to be able to send email with Eudora and use Mosaic.

Thanks in advance.
Nate

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