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Date: Wed, 19 Oct 94 06:37:59 PDT
From: The Info-Mac Moderators <[e-mail]>
Reply-To: [e-mail]
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V12 #138
To: info-mac-list


Info-Mac Digest             Wed, 19 Oct 94       Volume 12 : Issue 138

Today's Topics:

      [*] ACL Whacker 1.0 Demo; an AppleTalk utility
      [*] BBEdit 3.0.1 Update Package
      [*] BBEdit 3.0 Extension Developer's Kit
      [*] BMAPEdit 2.0.1 patch; a Bolo map editor
      [*] CD Catalog (FileMaker Pro Database for Compact Discs)
      [*] coordinates 2.2; converts from geodetic to Cartesian coordinates
      [*] CRC Monitor Matrix 10/18/94
      [*] CSToggle 1.0.0 for Control Strip
      [*] Cycle Window FKEY
      [*] Help on Wheels 1.2; a help server system
      [*] Heritage 2.05; a Macintosh genealogy shareware program
      [*] HoW (Help on Wheels) Developer's Kit 1.2
      [*] KillFinderZooms 1.0; stops widnows from zooming open
      [*] Mail2000 v1.6 program to read e-mail files (update).
      [*] Maybe 1.4; an alias utility
      [*] Menu Events 1.2; a scripting interface to menus
      [*] Menu Grabber 1.2; controls another application's menus
      [*] NeoAccess Intro 3.0; a cross-platform object database engine
      [*] NET_Mac2.3.45; a communications program
      [*] New sound file for your archives!!
      [*] Opt-Tab Program Switcher, v1.0.1; cycles through running programs
      [*] pagekeys; m,ove the cursor with page keys
      [*] photoshop-one-scan-111; a plug-in for the Apple scanner
      [*] PictPocket 1.2; a graphics utility
      [*] Pro Predictor Week#7 Update; NFL data file
      [*] Riki Goes Easy; samples of three CD sound tracks
      [*] SF-171 Job Application Template for Filemaker
      [*] StartupLog.1.5; keeps a log of Mac starts
      [*] TidBITS#248/17-Oct-94
      [*] TRAX Demo [a multimedia control system]
      [*] Virtual Desktop 1.8; allows desktops greater than monitor area
      [Q] Accurate Time Sources
      [Q] Caere OmniScan Fax with USR modem
      [Q] MacSki color file?
      acrobat (R)
      Addresses wanted (Q)
      Alias Creation Program
      Antiviral software
      Capitalizing sentences
      Concordance query
      DeskTop Rebuild Fails (Part 2)
      Duo Dock II video info. needed (Q)
      ethertalk start up
      Eudora (?) changing tildes
      Eudora won't trash mail! (R)
      fixing pref files (Q)
      Geoport for Power Macintosh (1.0.2):  strange side-effects?
      HELP: Apple 17" & SuperMac Spectrum 24/III
      HELP: speedisk crashed my mac? err. -39?
      IMAP Clients? (2 msgs)
      Internet for kids
      InterSLIP with 28K8 modem
      Keyboards flaking out
      look for a font (A)
      microsoft cd packaging
      Mosaic 2.00A868k problem
      NET_Mac2.3.45.sea.hqx.text
      New PPP User (A)
      Openning Audio CD files
      PowerMac, Radius and Suitcase
      Removing a Macintosh's name
      scanning and printing
      Scheduling Software?
      Seeking help with concordance work[R]
      SNAFU'd Bernoulli Transportable Fan
      Speech output on a Mac
      Stackable clipboard
      Stackable clipboard (C)
      Star Trek DS9, TNG hypercard stacks
      Transwarp AE
      WordPerfect 3.0
      WP6.0 Windows -> MSWord 5.1a (Mac) - Help!!

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Date: 17 Oct 94 14:58:44 U
From: "Paul Adams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] ACL Whacker 1.0 Demo; an AppleTalk utility

> is a demo version of software that helps to manage Access Lists on AppleTalk
> Internets.  The submission includes the Demo version with Cut, Copy and Save
> disabled, as well as a read me file to detail it's workings and history.  It
is
> clearly labeled as DEMO software, both in the title and in the splash
screen.

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/atlk/acl-whacker-10-demo.hqx; 50K]

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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 20:50:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: [e-mail] (Bare Bones Software)
Subject: [*] BBEdit 3.0.1 Update Package

The attached StuffIt Deluxe archive contains an update for use by
owners of BBEdit 3.0, the popular text editor for programmers, online
service users, and others who need to edit and manipulate plain-text
files. The update contains a patcher application, new versions of the
BBEdit Power, BBEdit 3.0 Help, and some standard extensions, and
release notes.

This update to BBEdit fixes bugs, and adds various usability and
performance improvements. In particular, specific optimizations have
improved the performance of non-Grep Replace All by a minimum factor
of two, and a maximum factor of ten.

The update package cannot be used to update a demo, freeware, or beta
version of BBEdit, nor can it be used to update a version of BBEdit
older than 3.0.

The 3.0.1 update package is available immediately for anonymous FTP
>From ftp.netcom.com, in /pub/bbsw, and from ftp.std.com, in
/pub/bbedit.  If you have a URL-capable application such as Mosaic,
MacWEB, or Anarchie, you can access the update package with one of the
following URLs:

ftp://ftp.std.com/pub/bbedit/bbedit-301-upd.hqx
ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/bbsw/bbedit-301-upd.hqx

The update package is free for downloading and use by any owner of
BBEdit 3.0. For additional information, send mail to [e-mail].

Bare Bones Software, Inc.                          Internet: [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/text/bbedit-30-to-301-updt.hqx; 287K]

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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 19:22:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: [e-mail] (Bare Bones Software)
Subject: [*] BBEdit 3.0 Extension Developer's Kit

The attached StuffIt Deluxe archive contains documentation,
interfaces, and sample source code that developers can use to write
BBEdit extensions.  This updated version features revamped
documentation, a new "universal" include file, and information and
samples on how to write PowerPC-native extensions.

Extensions written with this kit are compatible with BBEdit and BBEdit
Lite, version 3.0, and, if properly written, are also
backward-compatible with older versions of BBEdit.

The extension developer's kit is also immediately for anonymous FTP
>From ftp.netcom.com, in /pub/bbsw, and from ftp.std.com, in
/pub/bbedit.  If you have a URL-aware utility such as MacWEB,
Anarchie, or Mosaic, you can directly access the developer's kit with
one of the following URLs:

ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/bbsw/bbedit-30-dev-kit.hqx
ftp://ftp.std.com/pub/bbedit/bbedit-30-dev-kit.hqx

Bare Bones Software, Inc.                          Internet: [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/src/bbedit-30-dev-kit.hqx; 75K]

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Date: 17 Oct 1994 13:03:49 -0700
From: "Carl O" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] BMAPEdit 2.0.1 patch; a Bolo map editor

Enclosed is file thats patches BMAPEdit version 2.0 to 2.0.1.  It
should be place in the same directory as the BMAPEdit application,
game/bolo.

This patch does the following:
 * changes 'M' keyboard terrain shortcut from Mines to swaMp
 * adds 'L' keyboard terrain shortcut for buiLdings (or waLLs)
 * fixes update display bug when setting base ownership
 * fixes bus error problem with ToolBox windoid WDEF
The ToolBox problem only caused problems on Macintoshes with Even
Better Bus Error installed.

Thank you,

Carl R. Osterwald
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/game/bolo/bmap-edit-20-to-201-updt.hqx; 44K]

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Date: Sun, 16 Oct 1994 23:22:11 -0500 (CDT)
From: Benjamin Goldstein <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] CD Catalog (FileMaker Pro Database for Compact Discs)

The CD Catalog
(c) Copyright 1994, Benjamin Goldstein

The CD Catalog is a simple yet powerful database to catalog your Compact
Discs.
It was made with FileMaker Pro version 2.1, you need the program to use it.
Not only may you search and print lists of your CD collection; but you can
generate reports and lists for specific categories of CDUs, such as only your
CDs that are Soundtracks or are longer than 65 minutes.

It includes:

- An easy method of entry. Including fields for Artist/Album/Record Label/
Catalog #/Year of Release/SPARS Code (AAD etc.)/Classification (Rock etc.)
/Song/Song Time and a Comments field.
- Several (6) predesigned printable layouts.
-  A report layout that gives you lots of detailed info about your CD's:
such as the average/minimum/ and maximum time/year/and number of songs as
well as lots of other useless information (THERE ARE ABOUT 65 SUMMARY FIELDS)

[Archived as /info-mac/app/cd-catalog-12-fmpro.hqx; 139K]

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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 94 13:35:09 EDT
From: "John W Robbins" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] coordinates 2.2; converts from geodetic to Cartesian coordinates

Coordinates 2.2 is a Macintosh application which allows the user to convert
coordinates from geodetic to Cartesian coordinate systems, and vice-versa. It
will also compute distances along the ellipsoidal surface of the Earth and
baseline distances as well as chord distances. All of these concepts are
defined
and described in the accompanying MS Word Read-Me file. For conversion from
lat/lon to UTM grid coordinates, see Ken Hill's Geo Converter application.

The application was written in FutureBasic (from Zedcor, Inc. of Tucson, AZ)
and
was benchmarked on a Mac 660AV and an older Mac II (w/ Daystar 50 MHz
PowerCache
w/FPU). It has not been tested on PowerPC platforms, but presumably will work
in
68k emulation mode.

John Robbins
email: [e-mail]  or  [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/sci/coordinates-22.hqx; 112K]

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Date: 18 Oct 94 12:32:56 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Andy J. Williams)
Subject: [*] CRC Monitor Matrix 10/18/94

Enclosed is the latest version of the Dartmouth Computer Resource Center
Monitor Matrix. (10/18/94 version)

* What it is

This matrix is an Excel 4 format file which lists all Macintosh Monitors and
CPUs and the various bit-depths possible in all combinations. We believe it
to be error free.


* Changes from the previous version

1) The page setup size is now for an 8.5X11 page (older version was tabloid
size)
2) We fixed errors regarding the 630 series and the Multiscan monitors
3) Added licensing information (Now this can be reprinted freely for any
not-for-profit or non-profit use.)

[Archived as /info-mac/info/hdwr/monitor-matrix-94-10-18.hqx; 10K]

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Date: 17 Oct 1994 13:22:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Jeremy Kezer, [phone]" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] CSToggle 1.0.0 for Control Strip

Keywords:  POWERBOOK CONTROL STRIP

CSToggle 1.0.0 (by Jeremy Kezer)

CSToggle is a teeny application that has one purpose in life - to toggle on
and off the Control Strip display.  If you run it while the Control Strip is
showing, the Control Strip disappears.  If you run it while the Control Strip
is hiding, it re-appears.  That's all!

You can somewhat hide the Control Strip by clicking on the end tab, but even
if you do, a little tab still shows in the foreground, and can still eclipse
items behind it.  You can hide the entire Control Strip by going to the
Control Strip control panel and choosing "Hide Control Strip", but this
a bunch of extra steps.  I normally keep CSToggle in my Apple Menu, so
that it is always accessible.

If the Control Strip software isn't loaded (you haven't booted your computer
with the Control Strip control panel present) then running this program will
cause nothing to happen.

This program runs on any Macintosh that is running the Control Strip software.
It is freeware.

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

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/control-strip-toggle-100.hqx; 96K]

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Date: Sat, 15 Oct 1994 11:30:28 +1000
From: "Peter E. Middleton" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Cycle Window FKEY

Dear All

The included FKEY is a simple peice of code that I wrote many years ago
to cycle through the windows of the current application.

It is currently set as FKEY 5 (command-shift-5).

I hope this is useful to someone and give it totally free etc...

This is my *small* contribution to the net family.

Hope it is useful.

Peter E. Middleton
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/cycle-window-fkey.hqx; 2K]

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Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 02:13:49 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Ross Brown)
Subject: [*] Help on Wheels 1.2; a help server system

This generic help server, which springs from the help facility
in the famous Disinfectant program, offers on-line,
context-sensitive help service to all AWOL Utilities programs,
and potentially others to come.

Ross Brown
AWOL Software Productions
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/help-on-wheels-12.hqx; 100K]

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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 94 08:02:52 PDT
From: Tom Grandine [phone] <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Heritage 2.05; a Macintosh genealogy shareware program

Heritage is a Macintosh genealogy shareware program.  Heritage 2.05
replaces Heritage 2.00, and it offers the following enhancements to
that program:

* Printer support
* Record deletion and merge abilities
* Navigate to spouse function
* Progress meters for input, output, and reordering
* Custom color icons

The main features of earlier Heritage releases are still present:

* Arbitrary number of individuals and families
* Descendant and Ancestor charts for arbitrary numbers of generations
* Display relationship between any two individuals
* Photographs and free-form biographical data supported
* GEDCOM file import and export
* Family group sheets
* Data entry and editing screens

[Archived as /info-mac/app/heritage-205.hqx; 785K]

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Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 02:15:18 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Ross Brown)
Subject: [*] HoW (Help on Wheels) Developer's Kit 1.2

The Help on Wheels help server provides on-line, context-
sensitive help service to client applications, including all
AWOL Utilities programs, and potentially others to come.
(A later version of the server will be programmed to
co-operate with the Apple Guide.)

This Help on Wheels developer's kit includes a sample
application, and everything a developer would need to add help
service to an application, control panel, or extension.  The
client interface is designed to take the burden of display,
printing, saving, and other common help functions away from
the developer.  THE HELP SERVER IS A SEPARATE ARCHIVE,
NOT PART OF THIS ARCHIVE (except at umich, historically).

Ross Brown
AWOL Software Productions
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/how-developers-kit-12.hqx; 200K]

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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 13:18:18 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Jonathan Jacobs)
Subject: [*] KillFinderZooms 1.0; stops widnows from zooming open

Here is the latest bug-fix^H^H^H^H^H^H release of Kill FinderZooms.  This
is version 1.0 which fixes one occasional nasty bug which could prevent
your Finder from loading.  Please discard any earlier version of this
program.

What it does:
   The Finder has a routine that will draw a series of animated zoom
rectangles whenever you open an application (or a window) or whenever you
select "Clean Up" for a window that is being viewed by Icon or by Small
Icon.  I find this animation to be especially annoying and time consuming
(particularly when you are trying to clean up a window with a lot of items
in it).  So I wrote this hack to bypass these routines.

Is it safe?
   I've been using the hack for several months now (since late July) and
have seen no more crashes than I used to see.  Your mileage may vary.  I've
had one report that NowFiler may not be so happy, but that may also have
been due to a goofy problem that this version fixes.

Who can use it:
   Anyone who has Finder 7.1.3 or 7.1.4 (the versions that come with the
PowerMacs and with Systems 7.1Pro and 7.5) can apply this patch.

Please read the information file that is included.

jon

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/kill-finder-zooms-10.hqx; 31K]

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Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 15:11:19 +0100
From: x <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Mail2000 v1.6 program to read e-mail files (update).

New: Marking of mails. Appending (marked) mails to other files. Some
small bug fixes and cleaning-up.

Mail2000 is a small utility to read textfiles containing e-mail.  I wrote
it because I have lots of e-mail files and mailing list digests &c.  lying
around from over the last few years which I occasionally want to read.
Mail2000 can open up to four files, and provides threading of the subject
and of the sender, and easy navigation through the mails.  People who have
fancy high-speed modem connections with the rest of the world will probably
find this not very useful.  It needs system 7 to run.

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/mail-2000-16.hqx; 112K]

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Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 02:16:04 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Ross Brown)
Subject: [*] Maybe 1.4; an alias utility

This application picks up where Finder left off in its
implementation of aliases.  Maybe converts a Finder alias file
to give it an additional effect.

Converted aliases do more than just point to the original
item.  They can:
-  play a sound
-  open or print every item in the target folder
-  open some other item (document, application, folder, or
   whatever) first
-  send an Apple event to another program
-  make a startup item optional, by questioning the user, or
   checking the state of a key

Maybe doesn't solve your problems directly, but it gives you
the power to do a lot of things you've been wanting to do.

Ross Brown
AWOL Software Productions
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/maybe-14.hqx; 157K]

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Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 02:16:55 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Ross Brown)
Subject: [*] Menu Events 1.2; a scripting interface to menus

This system extension bridges the gap between scripting
applications and the vast number of non-scriptable
applications.  It makes most, but not all, applications
controllable through their menu commands, using program
linking (Apple events).

Any script, or any program equipped to send Menu events, can
query and execute the menu commands of any compatible
application on any Macintosh on the network.

Version 1.2 adds an AppleScript scripting addition ('osax')
and a sample script that shows you how to control an
application through its menus.  It also supports script
recording by (optionally) making applications send Menu events
to themselves.  You can now record menu selection actions
directly into scripts!

Ross Brown
AWOL Software Productions
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/menu-events-12.hqx; 54K]

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Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 02:17:37 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Ross Brown)
Subject: [*] Menu Grabber 1.2; controls another application's menus

A fascinating illustration of the power of Menu Events, Menu
Grabber lets you pick an application from any Macintosh on the
network, and presents an identical copy of its menu bar on
your screen (but in bright red and white-on-black, just so you
realize what you might be getting into).  While grabbing an
application, you can pull down a menu or use a keyboard
equivalent to simulate the same action on the target
application.  MENU EVENTS IS A SEPARATE ARCHIVE, NOT PART OF
THIS ARCHIVE.

This application can be useful in network management, and to
people like me who sometimes forget to close a needed document
before leaving the office.

Ross Brown
AWOL Software Productions
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/menu-grabber-12.hqx; 64K]

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Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 11:54:57 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Bob Krause)
Subject: [*] NeoAccess Intro 3.0; a cross-platform object database engine

NeoAccess is a cross-platform object database engine. In much the same way
that application frameworks facilitate the development of an application's
user-interface, NeoAccess is a set of C++ classes that extend standard
application frameworks, such as the latest versions of PowerPlant, MacApp,
the THINK Class Library, zApp, MFC and ObjectWindows, to provide for the
development of an application's back-end or data model.

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/neo-access-30-demo-pp.hqx; 300K]
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/neo-access-30-demo-tcl.hqx; 936K]
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/neo-access-30-demo-sample.hqx; 201K]
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/neo-access-30-demo-docs.hqx; 273K]

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Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 12:13:17 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Adam van Gaalen PA2AGA)
Subject: [*] NET_Mac2.3.45; a communications program

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/radio-net-mac-2345.hqx; 374K]

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Date: Sun, 16 Oct 94 18:01:14 EDT
From: [e-mail] (David Brooks ('93))
Subject: [*] New sound file for your archives!!

"Before I Let You Go" - Performed by BLACKSTREET
(Recorded by David Brooks)

     This is a sample of the powerful ballad by BLACKSTREET (called
"Before I Let You Go".  The song sample is about 10.5 seconds long and
you can click on the System 7 icon to play the sound.  It makes a great
startup or shutdown sound.

 -- David Brooks
   ([e-mail])

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/blackstreet-let-go.hqx; 155K]

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Date: Sun, 16 Oct 1994 20:57:27 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Michael Kamprath)
Subject: [*] Opt-Tab Program Switcher, v1.0.1; cycles through running programs

by Michael F. Kamprath
Copyright *1994 by Michael F. Kamprath

Option-Tab Program Switcher (OTPS) is a useful little extension which allows
you to switch between the running programs on your System 7 or greater Mac
via simple "Option-Tab" keystroke.  This extension was inspired by Windows.
"Whoah!" you say, "Why write Windows functionality for a great machine like
the Macintosh?"  I use Windows at work and became fond of this functionality
(Well, actually, I got so use to it that I found myself doing it on my Mac).
So one afternoon I sat down and wrote an system extension to do this.

v1.0.1 fixes one of the problems that OTPS has with DAs.

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/option-tab-switcher-101.hqx; 11K]

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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 16:36:33 -0600
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] pagekeys; m,ove the cursor with page keys

Here is a little hack a friend wrote to move the cursor when you use
the page keys.

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

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Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 14:09:38 +0100 (BST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] photoshop-one-scan-111; a plug-in for the Apple scanner

After an initial cock-up with versions at my end, this is a newer and wholly
better version of my Apple OneScanner plug-in for Adobe Photoshop.  It has
a few improvements over version 0.1 which is the one I accidentally posted
last week (sorry).  This is what is better in version 1.1.1:

    Faster hi-res colour scanning
    Preview Scan
    Mouse-selectable scan-area
    Pixel inversion
    R/G/B sensor select for greyscale scans on Color OneScanners

Richard Parr [[e-mail]]

[Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/photoshop-one-scan-111.hqx; 38K]

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Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 02:22:17 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Ross Brown)
Subject: [*] PictPocket 1.2; a graphics utility

Here's a different kind of screen capture utility, great for
people who need to build a lot of window pictures into their
documents, but don't want to waste a lot of storage.

PictPocket "picks the pocket" of applications as they draw
their windows, not after they have been drawn.  This
difference allows it to place in the Clipboard a 'PICT' which
represents the actual elements drawn, rather than a bitmap
(raster) image.  (You choose whether or not to include the
window frame.)  Not only is a PictPocket 'PICT' smaller than a
bitmap 'PICT', and not proportional in size to the depth of
color, but you retain the ability to edit the picture later,
using an application such as Microsoft Word or PowerPoint.
Change text, colors, position of elements, whatever!  If you
need a blow-up of the picture, just change the Page Setup
scaling factor, and it will still print perfectly, with no
bitmap "jaggies."

Ross Brown
AWOL Software Productions
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/pict-pocket-12.hqx; 33K]

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Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 17:29:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail] (Chemaly Rene)
Subject: [*] Pro Predictor Week#7 Update; NFL data file

[Archived as /info-mac/game/pro/pro-predictor-94-07.hqx; 13K]

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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 12:15:21 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Riki Goes Easy; samples of three CD sound tracks

Samples of three tracks from my new CD; a picture of me that your Mom won't
like; and more info on my recording.  If you like the preview...

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/riki-goes-easy.hqx; 1015K]

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Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 10:46:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] SF-171 Job Application Template for Filemaker

This is version 6.2 of the SF-171 Job Application Template for FileMaker Pro
2.X. This version incorporates many new changes that make navigation through
this template easier. Additional Job pages have been added, know there is A-P.
This should give al
l you all the job pages you will need. All check boxes are now selectable with
a
mouse instead of using the X key. All in all this is a more professional
looking, cleaner template then past versions. If you've paid your $10.00
shareware fee for a past
 version and would like this version contact Cherokee Software at

America On-Line address:          The Bill
Internet Address:                       [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/info/nms/sf-171-62-fmpro.hqx; 196K]

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Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 10:43:17 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Brian Durand)
Subject: [*] StartupLog.1.5; keeps a log of Mac starts

StartupLog has one simple purpose - to let you keep track of when a
Macintosh has been started up.  Possible reasons for wanting this
information include wanting to know when a computer has crashed, whose been
using a computer they weren't supposed to be using, checking how often a
computer gets used, or whatever.

New Features for version 1.5

- Log now saved to file in Preferences folder instead of internally.

- Log display font is now in Monaco so that it is much easier to read.

- Log can be saved to a tab delimited text file.

- Got rid of the last startup time item since it was redundant.

- Added balloon help support.

- Put into documentation that StartupLog is a Control Panel and needs
  to be installed in the Control Panels folder.

- Fixed bug that caused crash when "Help" was selected in System 6.

[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/startup-log-15-cdev.hqx; 16K]

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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 94 18:24:18 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: [*] TidBITS#248/17-Oct-94

TidBITS#248/17-Oct-94

Matt Neuburg weighs in with a hefty look at the latest version of
   one of the most popular utility packages of all time, the Now
   Utilities. Chuck Bartosch passes on news of Apple's financial
   results (they're good), and we announce several new Internet
   sites aimed at Mac Internet users and readers of Internet
   Starter Kit for Macintosh. Finally, we have MailBITS about
   Microsoft's purchase of Intuit, important new programs, and a
   super fast CD-ROM drive.

Topics:
    MailBITS/17-Oct-94
    Apple Expects Heavy Gains
    Adam's Internet Projects
    Living In the Now - Now Utilities 5.0, Newer and Better
    Reviews/17-Oct-94

[Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-248.etx; 30K]

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Date: Sun, 16 Oct 1994 16:52:06 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] TRAX Demo [a multimedia control system]

Enclosed is a demo of TRAX, a multimedia control system developed by
Dataton AB.

With TRAX and Dataton hardware, you can create shows using a multitude
of presentation media (e.g. spotlights, slide projectors and laserdisc
players), all synchronized and controlled down to hundredths of a
second. Dataton TRAX runs under System 6.0.7 or later and is fully
System 7 and PowerMac compatible.

See the Readme file for information on how to contact a Dataton reseller
in your area.

I have no connection to Dataton except that I know some of the nice guys
that work there!

-- Jonas Wallden
   [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/app/trax-demo.hqx; 317K]

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Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 02:23:00 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Ross Brown)
Subject: [*] Virtual Desktop 1.8; allows desktops greater than monitor area

The first and only of its kind, a virtual desktop manager for
the Macintosh that works on all types of Macs and all types of
monitors.  For 160K of memory, you can have a virtual desktop
as big as you like, in full color.  Excellent for PowerBooks
and other Macs with the ability to run many programs at once,
but nowhere to put the windows.

To get around, you have several options:
-  use the scroll bars on the sides of the screen
-  click a "door," or use the Door menu or Control Strip, to
   go to a preset location
-  see the entire virtual desktop in miniature, and rearrange
   your windows and icons
-  press a key combination to scroll in any direction
-  push a reference point on the virtual desktop from A to B
   using the mouse
-  shove the mouse against the edge of the screen to scroll in
   any direction

In addition to the new door access methods and usage options,
version 1.8 adds door options for item launching and color
depth switching.  With its many helpful features and options
for customization, Virtual Desktop is one exciting piece of
freeware!

Ross Brown
AWOL Software Productions
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/virtual-desktop-18.hqx; 168K]

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Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 14:20:04 +0000
From: [e-mail] (Dirk Thompson)
Subject: [Q] Accurate Time Sources

Is there an accurate "clock setter" that I can access through the
Internet--I was thinking of something like Clock Set, by Jim Leitch, that
does this via modem. (Incidently, is there a version of Clock Set out there
newer than 3.30?)

Thanks for any help.

Dirk Thompson
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 18:29:47 +0100
From: KWONG LEON <[e-mail]>
Subject: [Q] Caere OmniScan Fax with USR modem

Dear readers,
      Can you tell me if Caere's OmniScan FaxMaster software
supports the US Robotics Sportster Mac & Fax modem?
      Many thanks in advance for your info,

          K.W. Leon<[e-mail]>

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

Date: Tue, 18 Oct 94 09:07:08 EDT
From: Jerry Wolf <[e-mail]>
Subject: [Q] MacSki color file?

I downloaded MacSki 1.5 from Info-Mac.  When I got it home to my Mac with
a color display, I found that it expects a separate MacSki color file,
which wasn't included in the package.  Is it available?

Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 20:28:29 -0500
From: SIMPSON_HOMER_J <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] MacSki 1.5; a game

[Archived as /info-mac/game/arc/mac-ski-15.hqx; 733K]

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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 13:45:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: John Thoo <[e-mail]>
Subject: acrobat (R)

On 15 Oct 1994 [e-mail] (R.C.J. Kwakkenbos) wrote:
> we've bought the new acrobat progrram. This is really working fine if we
> would like this to print the pdf's to laserwriters.
> Only, when i want to print to a stylewriter 11, it's bugging.
> Anyone who has had this experience too and could solve it?

I don't know how to help you, Ruud, but I can relate what happened to me.

I, too, had trouble trying to print a PDF file to my DeskWriter 310
until I downloaded the very latest version of the free Acrobat Reader
from  <ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/Applications/Acrobat>.  With the
latest Reader, printing a PDF file to my DW310 works without a hitch.

You might also check to see if you have the latest StyleWriter II driver.

Good luck!

--John.
J. B. THOO, Math Dept, Univ of California, Davis, CA 95616-8633
Internet: <[e-mail]> or <[e-mail]>
Home Page: <http://math.ucdavis.edu/~jb2>

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Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 09:57:10 +0000
From: [e-mail] (Alun J. Carr)
Subject: Addresses wanted (Q)

Please could someone send me the names and addresses (possibly e-mail
addresses, fax or non-toll-free numbers as well) of the manufacturers of
both T-Script (which I've sometimes seen referred to as T-Print) and
Freedom of the Press? (Our campus microstore is incapable of locating
either of these products.)

Thanks in advance.

Alun

--
Dr A. J. Carr, Mech. Eng. Dept., UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Internet: [e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 19 Oct 94 07:36:45 -0400
From: [e-mail] (P. Meserole)
Subject: Alias Creation Program

Hello:

Once again I'm looking for a program that can create a large number of network
alias's from a data file containing a line for each alias in the format:
   ZONE:MACHINE:PATH
where ZONE is the AppleTalk zone name, MACHINE is the name of the macintosh
that is running System 7 file sharing and PATH is a colon-separated pathname to
the folder or file that I wish to alias.

I have tried ResEdit, but apparently Apple stores this information in some
unknown format as a long int or something.

Thanks for any help!

Paul

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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 16:27:46 -0500 (CDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Antiviral software

The top two s/w antiviral programs are Disinfectant and Gatekeeper.  What I'd
like to know is the effect of having both programs installed.  Would a
combination of Disinfectant and Gatekeeper be (a) advantageous, (b) redundant
but not harmful, or (c) disadvantageous and potential for conflicts?  Thanks
for the help.

Steve Waechter
Department of Family Medicine
University of Tennessee, Memphis
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 10:27:22 -0400
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Capitalizing sentences

>> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 94 12:22:25 +0100 (WET)
>> From: Marion GUNN <[e-mail]>
>> Subject: Seeking help with concordance work

>> I have a large quantity of text here, which was keyed in in ALL CAPS.
>> I need to do 2 things with it: translate the lot into lowercase, with
>> caps only on first letter of each sentence; make a concordance of it.
>> Advice on packages to execute these jobs will be greatly appreciated.
>> Marion Gunn

BBEdit Lite will do "Capitilize sentence". (Also "Capitalize words" and
"Capitalize lines") BBEdit Lite is shareware andwidely available.
It's a great text editor! You'll wonder how you lived without it...

>>>Solrain<<<
   Palm Springs, CA

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

Date: Tue, 18 Oct 94 12:05:47 +0100 (WET)
From: Marion GUNN <[e-mail]>
Subject: Concordance query

My thanks to all who mailed me in response to my concordance query. The
material in question is very old. It was (wait for it!) put up on PUNCH
CARDs. The attempts I made to change case resulted in the loss of a few
unreadable characters--rather important ones, containing page numbers,
line numbers (as in book) which I need. What I'd like is to convert this
material without losing this valuable info (some page nos convert to
asterisk, some to ligatures, some to semi-colons, etc., which obviously
cannot be globally converted, as the text itself has asterisks embedded in
it as control characters for searches). As to the concordance itself, many
people have recommened Conc, which is the program I usually use for quick
concordances--I am very fond of Conc, but I do not think it can generate
output with page nos., line nos, only words in context. I could be wrong--
not so long ago, a friend pointed out something else Conc could do, which
I just didn't realise! Long ago, I used to use a package called the
Oxford Concordance Programme, but that was for batch work, on mainframe.
I'd love to know whether there is a Mac version of OCP, and, if so,
how much it costs. Other suggestions are also welcome.
Best wishes,
Marion Gunn

[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 09:28:46 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Herb Kroemer)
Subject: DeskTop Rebuild Fails (Part 2)

Thanks to those who made suggestions how to fix the desktop rebuild failure
(missing icons) I reported in Digest # 134 -- but the problem persists. I
should have given a list of all the things I tried, because most people
suggested something I had already tried unsuccesfully, alone or in
combination. Here are some of the attempts made, going beyond what I
reported in #134:

  Making the desktop files visible and then trashing them, thereby forcing
a rebuild: It did, but the resulting DB and DF files were as crippled as
the original files.
  Restart and rebuild with all Extensions off: No change.
  Checking for viruses: Disinfectant 3.5 found none.
  Rebuilding the whole System Folder from Apple's System 7.1 master
floppies: No change.
  Disk too full?: 15 Megabytes are left.

Harold Polk ([e-mail]) reported that a friend of his had what looks like
the same problem. So I am not alone.

>From the various observation made, it appears that the problem is NOT due
to a defective Finder, but is specific to the particular volume involved,
which apparently got SOMEHOW damaged. If nothing else helps, I will
eventually re-initialize the whole hard disk, but with the machine not
acting up in any other way, I would prefer to understand this problem
before fixing it.

None of any other volumes that I are mounted give any trouble during DT
rebuilding, and the sick volume will not re-build regardless of which
volume I use as the startup volume. Nor have the APPLications etc. on the
sick volume lost their icon resources. ResEdit shows that everything is
present. If I drag, say,  an extension that has lost its icon to one of the
other volumes, and then re-build the DT on that other volume only, the
icons re-appear, even on the sick volume (provided the other volume is
mounted).

The following observation may contain a clue: One of my attempts involved
using a System 6.0.7 floppy as a startup, and with that I DID get a System
6 Desktop file with non-generic icons (I didn't do a detailed check,
though). But as soon as I reverted to System 7.1, the bad pair of DT files
got re-generated.

  "Though this be madness, yet there's method in't" (Polonius)

Any clues?

  Regards,
  Herb K.

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

Date: Tue, 18 Oct 94 13:26:16 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Steve Davidson)
Subject: Duo Dock II video info. needed (Q)

I'm all but ready to retire my Quadra 950 and get a Duo Dock II for my
Duo (end-of-the-day file transfers are a pain!).  However, I need to
know the following:

   - Will the built-in video in the Duo Dock II directly support
     the 1152x870 [multi-sync] monitor (in 8-bit color) I am currently
     using with my Q950?

   - Do a need an adapter for the Duo Dock II's built-in SCSI?

   - Other migration issues I should be aware of (besides the
     FPU/no-FPU issues)?

The documentation available from the Apple servers (WWW and Gopher)
are contradictory on the first question, so I need first-hand information.

                   Thank you,
                 Steve Davidson

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

Date: Tue, 18 Oct 94 08:59:21 MST
From: [e-mail] (Simon Radford)
Subject: ethertalk start up

We have a small ethernet network (2 Macs, one printer) and
have trouble with the builtin ethernet on one of the Macs.
When that Mac starts up, it looks to see if the ethernet
is already active. If it's active, it runs ethertalk, if not
it reverts to localtalk. Obviously this is a problem if
that Mac is turned on before the others. Anyone know of
a fix or workaround?

Thanks,  Simon Radford

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

Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 16:31:00 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Peter Jorgensen)
Subject: Eudora (?) changing tildes

Greetings. I use Eudora 1.4.2 here and just noticed on a recent posting of
mine to the Info-Mac digest that the tilde in my sig's URL has been changed
to a "c". What gives? I double checked my sig and it appears as a tilde.
Has anyone seen this. Am I overlooking something stupid? (quite possible ;)

TIA

Peter Jorgensen  <a href="http://lictor.acsu.buffalo.edu/pjorgens/">PEJ</a>
         The opinions expressed are those of the author.

[Well, here at my terminal, it appears as the character \323 (that is octal),
so it isn't the usual ascii "~" character... -Gordon]

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

Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 11:56:55 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Mel E. Martinez)
Subject: Eudora won't trash mail! (R)

On 10/9/94 at 6:15 PM, Joe Alvarez wrote:
>I am using Eudora 2.1 and have had an ongoing problem where items are being
>*copied* to the trash instead of moved. I discovered this by turning off
>the "empty trash at quit" setting. The table of contents does change, but
>upon trashing it and getting it rebuilt, the supposedly-trashed message
>reappears.


Deleting a message or moving it to the trash in Eudora does not really
delete the message.  It simply marks the message for deletion in the .toc
file and makes an entry for it in the Trash Folder's .toc file.  This
allows you to recover a message easily.  If you look at the bottom of a
table of contents window, such as your 'In' box, you should see 3 numbers
separated by slashes.  The first number is the number of messages in the
mailbox, the second is the total size of all the messages in the mailbox
and the third is the size of messages deleted from the mailbox.

A mailbox is just a long TEXT file (you can open it with any editor).
Since it is not a randomn-access file, when you move a message from one
mailbox to the another, Eudora must recreate a new file for each mailbox
(unless it can append the message to the end of the destination 'box).
This is why it takes so long to move a single message from the middle of a
real long In box.  To save time, when you delete a message, Eudora simply
makes note of the deletia in the .toc files.

Now, to actually 'delete' the trashed items (and recover the disk space
wasted in a mailbox with lots of deletions) you can either use the
'Compress Mailboxes' item under the 'Special' menu or you can leave 'Empty
Trash On Quit' checked ON.

Compressing the Mailboxes will result in updating the Mailboxes that have
deletia in them.  You should see the third number go to 0k after this.

One feature I wish Eudora had was the ability to Compress just the ONE
Mailbox that is frontmost.  I have a lot of mailboxes that I sort incoming
mail into.  The only one that really ever needs to be compressed is the In
box.  But to compress it, Eudora firsts wastes a lot of time looking at all
the other mailboxes to see if they need compressing or not.

Still, it is a great Mail client, so I ain't really complainin'!

I hope this is helpful,

Cheers,

Mel Martinez
The Johns Hopkins University
Dept. of Physics
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 11:07:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: John Thoo <[e-mail]>
Subject: fixing pref files (Q)

My apologies if this is a FAQ; I appreciate your help.

I would like to make sure that the Macs in a lab use a default set of
pref files so that programs will always start up with some base set of
prefs.  What I'm thinking of is creating a folder called "Preferences
Backup" (in the System Folder) in which I could keep a set of default pref
files, and then use an extension that would copy the default pref file
into the "Preferences" folder after an applicaation is Quit.

Does such an extension exist?  Or is there a more elegant solution?

Thanks so much.

--John.
J. B. THOO, Math Dept, Univ of California, Davis, CA 95616-8633
Internet: <[e-mail]> or <[e-mail]>
Home Page: <http://math.ucdavis.edu/~jb2>

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

Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 07:42:26 +0800
From: [e-mail] (Stephen Smoliar)
Subject: Geoport for Power Macintosh (1.0.2):  strange side-effects?

I just upgraded to System 7.5 and accompanied this installation on my Power
Macintosh 7100/66AV with the installation of the Geoport for Power Macintosh
(1.0.2) software.  Ever since this transition, the GeoPort has started
exhibiting funny modem behavior.  Most important is the speed problem.
It is set to run at maximum speed with full compression.  I use it with
a dial-back facility;  and therein lies the peculiar behavior.  When I dial
in to give my password, I get the usually 14400 connection;  but when I get
called back, I am only connected at 7200.  Since to do NOT experience this
problem with my PowerBook, I am inclined to point the finger of blame at the
GeoPort software (since I cannot imagine this to be a hardware problem).  The
other problem is that the modem now initializes to M0, which does not do my
Macintosh loudspeaker very much good;  so I have to keep manually restoring
the M1 (allegedly default) setting.  Does anyone know what is going on here?
Given that I am stuck out in Singapore, is there an electronic mail address
within Apple to which I can direct an account of these problems?

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

Date: Wed, 19 Oct 1994 09:26:29 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Lance K. Chun)
Subject: HELP: Apple 17" & SuperMac Spectrum 24/III

Anyone have a Apple 17" Multiscan working with SuperMac Sectrum 24/ Series
III graphics card? Have you gotten it to work? I'm having a hell of a time
trying to get these two working together. Any help would be greatly
apprecaited.

THANKS!!

Please e-mail me!!!

[e-mail]

Lance

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

Date: Wed, 19 Oct 1994 02:49:36 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Stephen Grady)
Subject: HELP: speedisk crashed my mac? err. -39?

In Info-Mac Digest Mon, 17 Oct 94 Volume 12 : Issue 137

From: [e-mail] (Jeffrey Fritz)

>From: [e-mail] (bmilner) said:
>
>BM> - I ran Norton Utilities Speed disk on my quadra 650 running 7.1
>BM> after deleting an old 50 MB file I no longer needed.
>
>What version of Speed Disk are you running?  There is a well
>publicized bug in version 3.0 that trashes disks.  Norton has
>released an update (3.1) to fix the problem.
>
>I can't say if their fix worked.  I'm too afraid to try it
>on my 1 GB drive!

I have used Speed Disk 3.1 on my piddly 170mb without any problems.  But
then I had also used 3.0 on it, and the pinhole-size 40mb, I have without
any problems before I heard about the problems with 3.0.

Don't know how far this goes for recommending 3.1 use.  Maybe backup (oops!
what does that mean?  I always forget!;) before you try it?

Stephen Grady

Stephen Grady
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 17:57:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Bret M. Laskarzewski" <[e-mail]>
Subject: IMAP Clients?

Peter Loron wrote,
> Howdy. I am currently stuck using Mailstrom over a somewhat erratic
> (bandwidth-wise) link to the net and thus to my mailserver. Mailstrom has
> a nice interface, but it has proven to be quite unreliable when it doesn't
> always have immediate access to the net...can anyone suggest another IMAP
> mail client package? Thanks.

The only other semi-IMAP client I've heard of and tried is POPmail II.  I say
semi because it uses IMAP in a POP manner, and sucks the mail to the local
machine.  If this is something you'd like, I'd be happy to send it to you
(the latest version is 2.10).


Bret M. Laskarzewski
Macintosh Technical Assistant
University of Rochester Computing Center User Services
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 15:13:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: Peter Loron <[e-mail]>
Subject: IMAP Clients?

> The only other semi-IMAP client I've heard of and tried is POPmail II.  I say
> semi because it uses IMAP in a POP manner, and sucks the mail to the local
> machine.  If this is something you'd like, I'd be happy to send it to you
> (the latest version is 2.10).

Yeah..I looked at it. The problem with POPMail (and POP in general) is
that I read mail on multiple machines and don't want to have it scattered
around. POPMail was also not very happy with the lousy bandwidth I get
here sometimes. I wish Star*Nine would make their AOCE/Internet gateway
for IMAP. Sigh. Thanks for the suggestion.

-Pete

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

Date: Mon, 17 Oct 94 20:24:51 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Eric Durbrow)
Subject: Internet for kids

I am at volunteer for an afterschool program at the YWCA. Could some kind
soul recommend what to visit on the Internet with kids using Mosaic or
MacWeb? Could some one suggest some semi-educational games to download from
the Internet? Thanks. Please address responses to me at:
[e-mail].

Eric Durbrow
Institute of Child Development
51 East River Road
University of Minnesota
MN 55455 USA
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 19 Oct 1994 13:52:25 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Mark Dols)
Subject: InterSLIP with 28K8 modem

I'm trying to get a 28K8 slip-connection (SupraFAX 28K8 modem) with
InterSLIP 1.0.1, but 14K4 seems the highest speed which the software
supports. With Zterm I can use 28K8 without a problem. Has anyone managed
to get a 28K8 connection with InterSLIP?

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

Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 10:24:16 -0400
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Keyboards flaking out

>> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 12:41:51 [phone] (HST)
>> From: Michael Blasco <[e-mail]>
>> Subject: Apple Adjustable Keyboards flaking out!

>> I've recently run into three Apple Adjustable Keyboards that have been
>> producing extra characters on different keys.

Same here! We've had to replace 4 or 5 adjustable keyboards. Lucky four us
they
failed while still under warranty. In all the years prior we *never* had a
standard or extended keyboard fail.

>>>Solrain<<<
   Palm Springs, CA

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

Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 13:23:09 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Graeme Forbes)
Subject: look for a font (A)

"I am looking for a font with a circle with a minus sign in middle"

Unfortunately, the freeware Zed font that was mentioned here recently
doesn't have this character (unless I'm blind).

There are freeware Mac versions of the 7-bit Computer Modern fonts where
you might be able to find it (try the tex archive at midway.uchicago.edu).
I have been unable to get these fonts to work properly. And not all the cm
fonts have been converted to Type 1 format.

The commercial Lucida NewMath fonts from Y&Y (800-742-4059, 508-371-3286,
fax [phone]) have two such characters, one in which the minus sign
meets the circumference of the circle and one in which there are small gaps
at each end.

Graeme Forbes

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

Date: Wed, 19 Oct 1994 03:16:32 -0400
From: [e-mail]
Subject: microsoft cd packaging

Encarta Program Manager
1994 Edition
Consumer Division
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052-6399

October 18, 1994

Dear Microsoft,

Recently I received as a gift a copy of your Encarta CD shipped directly to
me by CD-Rom Warehouse in Lakewood, NJ.

The software itself is fine, but I was appalled by the volume of disposable
packaging. The plastic CD case is 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4 inches, or 11 cubic inches.
A three leaf corrugated spacer
held this case in a cardboard display box 9.5 x 7.8 x 1.4 inches, or 104
cubic inches. This display box was then shipped in a corrugated shipping box
11 x 9 x 4 inches, or 396 cubic
inches. Furthermore, this shipping box was stuffed with foam pellets,
labeled, perhaps jokingly, as eco-foam.

Although I appreciate your need to package your product attractively and to
protect it during shipping, it seems ludicrous to use packaging thirty six
times larger than the
product. Mail order record stores routinely ship audio CDs without incident
in simple corrugated mailers not much larger than the plastic case.

I am reminded of the debate about the wastefulness of the long boxes in which
 audio CDs were initially packaged. Those have largely disappeared from
record stores, but they were
paragons of minimalism compared with your bloated packaging.

I hope Microsoft will bear these concerns in mind when you design future CD
packages.

Sincerely,  Simon Radford, Tucson

   cc: CD-Rom Warehouse, [e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 07:18 EST
From: "Don't Panic!" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mosaic 2.00A868k problem

Greetings,
Anybody know why the pictures that used to load automatically in mosaic now
don't?   The only paint program I have is ColorIT, and I don't know which icon
to select for the pictures in html when setting the helper
applications.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 12:13:15 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Adam van Gaalen PA2AGA)
Subject: NET_Mac2.3.45.sea.hqx.text


                      The Netherlands, October 18, 1994.
Hello dear reader,

Today I distributed NET_Mac2.3.45.sea.hqx...

For those who don't know NET/Mac...   NET/Mac is the application that
supports TCP/IP over packet-radio, which means, that hamradio operators
can use NET/Mac for their wireless TCP/IP network...

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

- Enhance the test for bad AX.25 headers
- mac-tools.c was cleaned up by Ivo ON1XK
- Enhance the reboot_on_bad_date decision method
- Speed-up hostname lookups from the hosts.net file
- Let the watchcursor spin while copying mail-files
- In case of problems send a more explaining message to the screen
- Don't accept 'tcp reset' commands for sockets in 'Listen' state

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

The new NET/Mac has (hopefully) been uploaded to:
ftp.ucsd.edu, to the directory hamradio/packet/tcpip/incoming.
If it's not there then look at hamradio/packet/tcpip/mac.

Scott WY1Z may have also uploaded the new version to:
oak.oakland.edu, to the directory pub/hamradio/mac/digital

Kind regards,

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

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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 16:40:36 -0600
From: [e-mail] (J. Witte)
Subject: New PPP User (A)

A grey "open" button on the configPPP control panel can be caused by:

PPP init not installed
macTCP not set correctly
a corrupted preferences file (toss into trash and try again)

In my configuration, I have TCP set to get the ip address from "server".



 -------------------
Jim Witte
Univ. of Illinois
[e-mail]

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Date: 17 Oct 1994 17:04:23 U
From: "David Dantowitz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Openning Audio CD files

               Subject:                               Time:5:00 PM
  OFFICE MEMO          Openning Audio CD files                Date:10/17/94

Is there a straight-forward way to open an audio CD track?

I'd like a more direct method than digitizing through the Mac's microphone
port.

Thanks.

David Dantowitz
Ehrlich Multimedia

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Date: Wed, 19 Oct 1994 06:45:57 +0100 (BST)
From: [e-mail] (Conrad Gempf)
Subject: PowerMac, Radius and Suitcase

A colleague just bought a PowerMac 6100 with CD drive and I have two questions
about the problems he's having with it. One concerns Suitcase not working and
the other concerns a Radius monitor that's unbearable to read.

____SUITCASE____
We can't get suitcase to work properly. He's got Suitcase 2.1.4 and is running
System 7.1.2 (I don't know why 7.5 was installed, but it wasn't). When we
select Suitcase from the Apple menu, we get a beep and nothing. Anyone have
Suitcase running on a PowerMac?

____RADIUS____
He wanted a full page monitor, and Radius appeared to be all that the dealers
were offering. He got a Pivot, although he doesn't really need the pivot
function. It's a 'Colour Precision'. The quality of the screen image is awful!
It's fuzzy as anything, especially at the top. It's worse than the cheap small
Performa screens. He's mostly concerned about reading the text of the book he's
writing -- in 12 and 10 point Palatino. That was fine on his previous
monitor--a cheap Korean full-page B&W branded Lapis, though I had one branded
Sunkyong. Is this a problem with all Radiuses? ...all colour precision pivots?
...just this particular box? Apparently the purchase of a card will allow him
more options with screen resolution... but that will just make the image
smaller, no?

Thanks for your help.

Conrad
Dr Conrad Gempf, LBC, Green Lane, Northwood, Middlesex HA6 2UW England UK
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 14:48:44 GMT
From: Nigel Bruce <[e-mail]>
Subject: Removing a Macintosh's name

Hi

We have 7 PowerMacs in a public area for which I have created a
common identical software set. Unfortunately I made the mistake of
giving the Macintosh I used to install all the softweare a name. Now
when I load this Macs system folder onto all the other Macs they
complain, when booting, that there is already a Mac with that name on
the network.

The 'Sharing Setup' Control Panel won't let me delete the name
altogether. My question is - Is there anyway, perhaps using resedit,
to delete the Macs name? I don't want to have to start again and re-
install the whole system.


Thanks for your help

Nigel

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Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 11:19:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: Seth Ness <[e-mail]>
Subject: scanning and printing

hi,

whats the best settings for scanning on an apple color one scanner,
grayscale photographs, to be printed on an HP laserjet 4M (600 dpi)?

and what are the best settings within photoshop for printing the
scans(lpi, screen)?


---

Seth L. Ness                         Ness Gadol Hayah Sham
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 94 15:15:08 -0400
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Scheduling Software?

Apparently-To: <@rapnet.sanders.lockheed.com:[e-mail]>

In article <Scheduling Software, Info-Mac Digest V12 #136>, Miles
Abernathy, [e-mail], wrote:

<I am looking for some Mac software, or perhaps an add-on to Excel, that can
<draw schedules like this. The person enters the start and ending dates, and
<the software puts bars of the proper lengths in the appropriate cells:
<
<      Flight to Mars -- Schedule
<  Begin  |  End    | Activity |  93     94     95     96
< 3-15-93 | 2-28-94 | Training |  xxxx|xx    |      |      |


Miles,

I use FastTrack Scheduler by AEC Management Systems (available from the
regular software mail order houses and recently reviewed in MacWorld).

FastTrack allows you to draw the lines and it will tell you resultant
start and end dates or you can input start and end dates and it will draw
the lines.

Good luck.
--
Christopher F. Cole ([e-mail])

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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 18:20:52 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Capt Bill Cameron)
Subject: Seeking help with concordance work[R]

Marion Gunn writes:

>I have a large quantity of text here, which was keyed in in ALL CAPS.
>I need to do 2 things with it: translate the lot into lowercase, with
>caps only on first letter of each sentence; make a concordance of it.
>Advice on packages to execute these jobs will be greatly appreciated.

I haven't looked at Concordance 1.7.1 for a while, but I believe it will
produce the concordance you require.  Available at:

    ftp://sumex-aim.stanford.edu//info-mac/app/concordance-171.hqx
or
    ftp://ftp.sunet.se//pub/mac/info-mac/app/concordance-171.hqx

For changing case, try BBEdit or BBEdit Lite.  Also useful for many text
manipulation tasks.  Available at:

    ftp://sumex-aim.stanford.edu//info-mac/text/bbedit-lite-30.hqx
or
    ftp://plaza.aarnet.edu.au//micros/mac/info-mac/text/bbedit-lite-30.hqx

Hope this helps.

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

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Date: Wed, 19 Oct 1994 11:24:07 +0100
From: Roland Whitehead <[e-mail]>
Subject: SNAFU'd Bernoulli Transportable Fan

I've had a tried and tested Bernoulli Transportable 44MB drive for=
 about 4
years and its fan is about to die.  Why do I say that? - beacuse=
 its
getting noisy!

I rang Iomega and to repair it they want =A3180 (say $US 270).  Their=
 new
230MB Transportable only costs =A3430 ($645) and as I have only 4=
 44MB
cartidges (they're very expensive over here) I would be able to move=
 all my
stuff onto just the one cartridge OR I could purchase a new 425MB=
 hard disk
for just =A3249!

Anyway, I don't want to do any of this.  I want to fix the fan and=
 do it
cheap.  I can get a replacement fan (right size, right rating) from=
 an
electronic supplies co locally but I am hesitant about taking the=
 drive
apart.  Has anyone done it?  Is it very dangerous?  How do I do it?

By the way, I'm used to taking Macs and other drives apart down to=
 dust
sealed level so I am no novice at it - just cautious...

Roland Whitehead

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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 12:17:36 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Tim Neese)
Subject: Speech output on a Mac

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone could offer some advice regarding speech output
on the Mac.  I have 8 MB of RAM and a Quadra 630 so I thought I would try
out the Macintalk Pro stuff from the Apple server(fpt.apple.support.com).
I installed the Macintalk Pro extension and the better quality voices.  I
was disappointed, though, at how poor they still sounded.

I even downloaded the "high quality" ones that are around 3MB each but they
didn't sound any better.  Is the poor vocalization a limitation of
Macintalk or is it in the degree of phonetic detail in the voice file?
Does anyone know if the "high quality" voices are so named because they
sound much more natural or because the sound quality itself is just more
clear?  If the former is the case, do you have to allocate more memory to
the application playing the sound to hear the results or is there anything
else that must be done for them to work and what kind of memory must be
allocated for the "high quality" voices to work well?

Thanks for any suggestions.  I could live with Fred's voice if I had to,
which I thought sounded the best (or at least was the easiest to
understand) of the set but I would like to see if I could find a more
natural sounding, easier to understand one if possible.  Are there any
voice archives?

Tim

PS: Does anyone think the speech recognition is good enough to be worth the
cost of a Plaintalk microphone and does it run ok on a Quadra or is it only
practical for PowerMacs?

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Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 10:24:20 -0400
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Stackable clipboard

>> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 94 20:05:29 +0100
>> From: Matti Zemack <[e-mail]>
>> Subject: Stackable clipboard?

Clipfolio shareware from Ootinta software will let you cut and paste up
to 20 sepparate clipboards. I got my copy from AOL. Should be in
Info-Mac archives also. If not, I'd be happy to upload.

>>>Solrain<<<
Palm Springs, CA

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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 13:27:33 -0700
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Stackable clipboard (C)

Matti Zemack <[e-mail]> asked:

>I'm searching for a clipboard-like INIT (or CDEV). It should work something
>as follows:
>1. I Copy something out with CMD-C and it's put on a stack.(*1)
>2. I Copy something else out with CMD-C and it's put on the stack.(*2)
>3. I Paste (CMD-V) and out comes what I copied out in (*2).
>4. I Paste again (CMD-V) and out should come what I copied in (*1).
>
>Has anybody heard of something like this? (or could program this)

QUED/M supports multiple clipboards, and so should be able to do
essentially what you want, provided you can do it in QUED/M.  But it is no
help if you must work with other applications.

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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 13:43:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Burton L. Palmer" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Star Trek DS9, TNG hypercard stacks

 I am looking for the hypercard stacks that once appeared in the sumex
 archive.
There were three in all, DS9, TOS and TNG, but now since the new seasons have
started and TNG is over I am looking fo updates and can't find them.

 Then horror upon horror I found out that the stacks I did have were faulty. If
you know of were to send for these or if you can send them to me I will be
greatful.

Burton Palmer

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Date: Tue, 18 Oct 94 13:20:02 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Norberto Jorge Goncalves)
Subject: Transwarp AE

    Dear Sir,

            I am a Macintosh Classic owner. Since I haven't the
            possibility to
chance the computer for a better one, I endeed up by buying an accelerator
board. In my case, I chose a "Transwarp 2340C EC40 MHz W/CACHE and W/FPU\
from Applied Engeneering.
        Hoever, that purchase was made one month before Applied Engeneering
shut down its operation and it came with no FPU.
        Aparently, it should work, but the computer ask for the FPU every
time I open a desktop software and the aceletor board specific software,
"warp 030 v1.5", doesn't have an option to turn off the FPU.
        The FPU reference for this board is MC68882FN (PLCC package) and
Itried to buy it. Till now, I didn't had any luck.
        My question is how can I get a FPU, in case you could Know Of a
comercial house, or how can I over come the problem?

        I'd like you to answer me diredtly since I'm not a frequently
Info-Mac user. I became aware of your service through a collegue of mine.
        I would appreciate an answer since I can't work with my Macintosh.
        P
Please!

            Norberto Goncalves

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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 23:25:13 -0500 (CDT)
From: "William M. Porter" <[e-mail]>
Subject: WordPerfect 3.0

I have recently purchased WordPerfect 3.0, which I thought I would try
out in the hope that it might provide a complement to MacWrite Pro, which
is still my main word processor. I am profoundly disappointed in WP 3.0
and have begun to appreciate MacWrite Pro 1.5 even more than I did
before. I'm hoping that somebody on the list here can help me out with a
couple questions about WP. I have read the manual and the online help
already, to no avail, and am strongly inclined to think that the answer
to most of my questions is a simple NO. But I would be happy to be wrong
about any or all. Anyone willing to help me could respond either to me
directly ([e-mail]) or to the Digest. I will be happy to
summarize responses sent directly to me and post them all at once.

1. Is there no way to tell that modifications have been made in the
formatting of a paragraph to which a defined style had earlier been
applied? In Word and MacWrite Pro, the place on the screen which displays
the style name of the paragraph containing the insertion point adds a
mark to indicate that some change has been made that overrides the style
definition, e.g. a paragraph formatted with style "body" which is then
slightly (or significantly) changed will be displayed as having style
"body+", where the plus-sign notes the modification. As far as I can
tell, WP doesn't do anything like this, which is so unhelpful that it
almost makes using styles pointless.

2. Is there really no way to apply a "space before" format to a
paragraph? As near as I can tell, WP requires that you use blank
paragraphs to get space-before formatting.

3. Is there really no way to have available at once two commands, one of
which inserts the date and the other of which inserts the time?
Apparently WP 3.0 provides only a unified "date/time" variable, which
gives you only what you have set it up to give in the Preferences for the
program. Moreover there don't seem to be many options for date and time.
MacWrite Pro shines here: it lets you enter variables that indicate when
the document was last modified, last opened, etc. Anything like this in
WP?

4. Is there really no way to get information about word count, etc. for a
*selection*? Apparently WP will only tell you about the entire document.

5. Is there really no way to number paragraphs in WP? I feel almost
certain I must be overlooking something here.

6. Is it really the case that WP's so-called outlining mode doesn't allow
you to collapse child paragraphs underneath parent paragraphs?

I am hoping to be wrong about some or all of these, but if I'm not, then
this really is a strange program. What is the point of a program that
allows you to use overlays to write "draft" on a document but will not
let you easily date & time the draft as well? What is the point of a
feature that counts words in the entire document, but won't let you count
words in a selection? (Writers who are interested in counting words
usually want to be able to figure out how much they need to cut to get
within their target limits.)

Thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer.

Will Porter / Houston, Texas
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 19 Oct 1994 02:49:44 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Stephen Grady)
Subject: WP6.0 Windows -> MSWord 5.1a (Mac) - Help!!

I have looked in the mirror sites, and on CompuServe for a convertor that
will allow me to open a WordPerfect 6.0 for Windows document into Word for
Mac 5.1a.
I have not had any luck.  Is there such a convertor somewhere?

I am using AccessPC to read the DOS disk, and Macintosh Easy Open extension
which came with it.  Opening from the desktop, or from within Word, I am
give the chance to use WP5.0 filters which invariable crash my system.

I know MacLink has a filter for its version of Easy Open.  I don't have
MacLink. And I don't want to have to go buy it.  Insignia has replied that
they don't have any plans at the moment to create a convertor for WP6.0
(Windows) -> MSWord (Mac).

The easy solution would be to have the individuals who are giving me these
files save them as WP5.1.  Or one would think so.  When I phoned today to
ask what format the files were in (already guessing the answer), I was
told, "Why, WordPerfect 6.0 of course."  My grunt got me another response
of "I thought that might cause a problem."  I felt like going over to them,
knocking on their head and asking if anybody was home in there!!

Thank you for your help (and listening to my complaints about Windoze users)

Stephen Grady

Stephen Grady
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 18 Oct 94 15:29:53 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Zhang Yuan)

Hi, I wonder whether I am in the right place to ask technical questions about
my Mac.  Please help me.

Problem:
    I upgraded my mac from system 6.1 to system 7.0, but everytime I
start my computer, it gives me a default setting--black & white screen, time
being 12:33 9/17/1956, etc.  Even if I change the setting in "General Control"
Panel, but next time I turn on the computer, it goes back to the default
setting.  I even reinstalled the system, but doesn't help.

I would deeply appreciate your help.

Yuan Zhang
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 19 Oct 94 08:35:34 -0400
From: [e-mail]

Carib>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 1994 08:38:06 -0400
From: Michael Sullivan <[e-mail]>
To: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Appletalk over internet

I saw it on the net earlier.... but didn't save it! Does anyone know how to
  get appletalk to work over tcp/ip? (not the otherway around!) Want to
  establish a slip connection and then appletalk file share to a mac on a
local
  internet.
  Thanks,
  Mike

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