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Info-Mac Digest             Fri, 15 Jan 93       Volume 11 : Issue 11

Today's Topics:

      [*] ClipSave package
      [*] FileMaker_Contacts+2.0.hqx
      [*] FractalWizard.sit.hqx - Fractal generator app
      [*] HierPopup.cpt.hqx
      [*] MacGS 2.5.2
      [*] MandelTV.cpt.hqx - Mandelbrot generator DA
      [*] Sounds from "Princess Bride," grp. 3
      [*] Stuffit Expander 3.0.1
      [*] video out from macs report for the world
      AOL gateway back to normal
      Apple 16# monitor & CI & VX
      Application Quit Because of a Type 1 Error (Q)
      Biblo Program 4 word: Endnote
      Comment on software pricing policies
      connecting a Syquest rem. drive to Mac and PC
      Connecting non-ADB keypad to PowerBook?
      Consumer DTP and Money Management programs
      Davka Corporation Address?
      DEClaser 1152 (Q)
      Displaying fonts in the font menu-Word (2 msgs)
      Donald Glockzin on Malaysian mice
      Error -43 solved
      font hijinks
      Font with Fractions
      Ghostscript problems
      Hard Disk Spin Followup
      How to get Unix archive files to run
      Hypercard vs. Supercard
      Info-Mac Digest V11 #10
      Info-Mac Digest V11 #9
      Looking for shareware backup
      MAC D/L WITH MODEM
      Malaysian Mice vs. Mongolia
      Monitor Problemos
      More on StyleWriter II
      Norton for Mac vs? SUM
      no subject (file transmission)
      NOW Menus - like utility (A
      Now Startup Manager and 7.1
      Pegasus Mail
      Pegasus Mail sites (a)
      Performa 600 vs IIvi (Q)
      Personal LW-LS specification
      Photo CD (Info-Mac Digest V11 #5)
      Printing from Mac to PS-printer on UNIX workstation (Q)
      QWK offline mail readers again (Q)
      remote restart of a Quadra 950 (a)
      Sequencer & Score MIDI software (Q)
      SF-171
      Snooper vs. Norton Uts./Mac
      Star Trek: TNG Icons Anyone? (Q)
      System Enablers reference?
      telnet2.3
      Un-Choosing a non-existent AppleShare volume
      Unreliable foppy drive in SE/30
      Why does my hard drive spin
      WorldScript II, etc.
      WORM CD-ROM revisited

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Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 13:51:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: Russ Nelson <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] ClipSave package

    ClipSave is a utility to save the contents of the Clipboard
when you restart your Mac.  In other words, the contents of the
Clipboard never go away.  I wrote this package because I had a
need to save the Clipboard, and I didn't know of anything other
programs that did so.

Legalish stuff:
The author, Russ Nelson, is not responsible for anything done by
this program.  Use at your own risk.  It has been tested
somewhat, but no guarantees are made.

The ClipSave package is free, but it's not public domain. This
means that you can give it to anyone you want, but you can't
charge money for it without prior written authorization from the
author, and the distribution must include the entire package.

The ClipSave package is WhateverWare.  If you like it, send me a
postcard or some money, or donate to your favorite charity, or
bake some brownies, or call your grandmother, or whatever.
Hence the name.

ClipSave (c)1993  Russ Nelson
Bitnet: nelson@catlin         Internet: [e-mail]
SnailMail:                    US Wurst:
2108 SW Laurel St.            503/222-2494JJ3PM-10PM PST
Portland, OR   97201

[Archived as /info-mac/util/clip-save.hqx; 24K]

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Date: 11 Jan 93 10:32:44 U
From: "Andrew Lee" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] FileMaker_Contacts+2.0.hqx

CONTACTS+ is a `pseudo-shareware' Filemaker Pro (version 1.x) database. It's
main purpose is to allow proper address details to appear (even when some
components of the address are omitted such as the organization, country
etc...)

in Microsoft Word print-merge documents. Other than that, you should find
that CONTACTS+ is just about as powerful and usable as any other
`commercial' Contacts database/manager.

When exporting print-merge data, the FullAddress field would replace all the
individual fields that make up the receipient's address. You should also
export

the title, firstname and lastname fields, to be used in the greeting line, ie
Dear
[title] [firstname] [lastname]... Other fields do not have to be exported.

Plea: If you feel that CONTACTS+ has some useful
value and use it; and want to encourage me to improve my existing `products'
and develop other `affordable & useful' databases; and want to receive future
updates via email (personally sent by me); please Register yourself by sending
me a bank money order/draft payable to: Andrew Lee, or any currency; for
Any amount that you think is appropriate. All registered users will receive
(via
internet mail) the user's password that allows you to create or modify
layouts.

Please enclose a fax or internet email address so that I may be able to get in
touch with you instantly in the future.

Please do not distribute Contacts+ without all the original materials,
especially
this file. Contacts+ is not for commercial re-sale without my knowledge and
permission. Please inform me if you decide to place Contacts+ onto commercial
shareware CD-roms, disks etc...  If you do adopt ideas from Contacts+ in your
own database, don't forget to include me in the list of persons to inform and
thank :-). All suggestions for improvements are welcomed.


Regards,

Andrew Lee
School of Information and Computing Sciences
Bond University     Queensland
Australia       4229
Internet: [e-mail]
fax: [phone] (international)

[Archived as /info-mac/app/filemaker-pro-contacts-20.hqx; 51K]

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Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 19:41:32 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Richard A. Fowell)
Subject: [*] FractalWizard.sit.hqx - Fractal generator app

Supports several types of fractals, color tables.
Virus checked with Disinfectant 2.9, tested on Mac IIsi, System 7.01 tuned.

[Archived as /info-mac/app/fractal-wizard.hqx; 89K]

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Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 00:03:13 -0800
From: Jon Pugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] HierPopup.cpt.hqx

Here is HPopupMenu 2.9.1, the latest version of my popup menu for Hypercard.
This allows you to have a popup menu anywhere on a card with or without any
number of hierarchical menus.

This version adds support for the use of the special formatting metacharacters
(, !, ^, <, and / in menu items, in addition to their use as formatting
characters.  This allows much more flexibility in the menus.

This is also on ftp.apple.com in /pub/pugh/hyperstuff/hierpopup.cpt.hqx

Jon

[Archived as /info-mac/card/x/hpopup-menu-291.hqx; 53K]

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Date: Fri, 15 Jan 93 10:21:01 PST
From: [e-mail] (Martin Fong)
Subject: [*] MacGS 2.5.2

13 January 1993

This Compactor Pro archive contains the source code need to build version
2.5.2 of Macintosh Ghostscript that runs on a Macintosh with at least
2 Megabytes of memory.  Because it does *not* contain the Ghostscript
fonts, you must also obtain and unarchive MacGS_2.5.x_Runtime.cpt to
obtain a testable development environment.

This implemention does not require 32-bit Color QuickDraw and should
run under both System 6 and System 7.  It should even run on black-
and-white displays (!).

This version does not presuppose a 68020 or better processor, nor does
it presuppose the existence of a 68881 FPU.  (Because the previous
versions were made on a Mac IIci, the associated projects were built
with this hardware configuration in mind.)

[Archived as /info-mac/util/ghostscript-252-runtime-1.hqx; 1964K
         /info-mac/util/ghostscript-252-runtime-2.hqx; 870K
         /info-mac/source/c/ghostscript-252.hqx; 1310K]

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Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 19:39:49 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Richard A. Fowell)
Subject: [*] MandelTV.cpt.hqx - Mandelbrot generator DA

Simple, but fast! Supports color animation, stored views.
Pull out of suitcase to use under System 7.
Virus checked with Disinfectant 2.9, tested on Mac IIsi, System 7.01 tuned.

[Archived as /info-mac/da/mandel-tv.hqx; 29K]

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Date: 10 Jan 1993 12:42:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: GREG HINSON <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Sounds from "Princess Bride," grp. 3

This is the 3rd (of 4) group of sounds sampled from the movie
"Princess Bride." Each are recorded in crisp, clear 22 kHz, and
saved as System 7, double-clickable sounds.
                --Greg Hinson
                Medical College of Virginia

[Archived as /info-mac/sound/pricess-bride-grp-3.hqx; 755K]

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Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 20:08:20 EST
From: Larry Wink <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Stuffit Expander 3.0.1

Stuffit Expander 3.0.1 download form GEnie where it was placed by Aladdin
Systems.

3.0.1  - Update to fix some bugs (12/18/92)
        * Improved usability of Watch Folders
        * Improved the decoding of BinHex files
        * Icons of expanded files are now always correct
        * Added support for folder expansion for System 6 users
        * Now includes a prettier about box!

This is a Stuffit Self-Extracting Archive. (Binhex 4.0 for transmission)

 --Larry Wink
 [e-mail] <or> [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/util/stuffit-expander-301.hqx; 128K]

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Date: 14 Jan 1993 20:51:14 -0700 (MST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] video out from macs report for the world

From: Nohl Lyons

Here is a lot of info from various sources including
manufacturers.  I actually have much more information, but I
thought that this alone might be overwhelming. If you need help
making choices, let me know.
-Nohl

[Archived as /info-mac/report/video-out.txt; 18K]

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Date: Fri, 15 Jan 93 07:40 EST
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <[e-mail]>
Subject: AOL gateway back to normal

Users of the Internet gateway from America on Line have had a lot of
problems in the past few weeks--there was a routing/software change that
caused Internet mail sent from AOL to have a double set of headers,
confusing listservs, ftpmailers, and all automated software. That problem's
been corrected. The gateway is now functioning as well as it ever
did--maybe better. <g>
Jeff Needleman  <[e-mail]>

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Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1993 17:29 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Apple 16# monitor & CI & VX

    Many thanks to the netters who replied to our query about the Apple
    16#
Monitors:

 We have just acquired several of these monitors, driven the
Apple endorsed E-machines DoubleColor 8 bit video card.

    When The screen has a long (most of the screen width) line of text in
an application such as TeachText or Word, there is significant distortion
toward the right side of the monitor, which could be described as
"scalloping".  Vertical lines, such as the edges of the text
window, becomes wiggly in a scallopped manner, as does the text itself.

    We have found that the problem occurs with Mac CI, and VX, but does
not seem to occur with Mac CX. The several folks who responded to our original
query suggested that the distortion might be caused by adjacent monitors or
other sources of electric or magnetic fields. We tried sevral locations, AND
found that if we ONLY swap the box from a CI to a CX, with NO other changes,
the problem is related to the CX in some way. We also tried several DIFFERENT
CI boxes, and the results were consistent. No one else reported having the
problem, but no one had the same configuration. So now a slightly different
form of the question:

Has anyone sucessfully used an apple 16# monitor with the E-machines 8 bit
Video board in a CI or a VX?

Thanks for the help already given and yet to come.
Victor Lukas
[e-mail]




    Have any other people experienced this problem?

Thanks in advance:
Victor Lukas
[e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 15 Jan 93 07:14:48 -0500
From: "Keith E Gatling" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Application Quit Because of a Type 1 Error (Q)

Okay, I've only noticed this happening when I run Word, and it doesn't
happen all the time, but when it *does* happen it's rather annoying because
it almost always seems to happen when I'm in a hurry.

Does anyone know what the deal is with Word 5.x occassionally either just
plain quitting in the middle of something, or not even successfully loading
because of a "Type 1 Error"?

Usually I've been able to get around this by just shutting down my Mac (an
LC with 10mb RAM) for a little bit and then coming back.  But it is starting
to really annoy me.

Any clues, anyone?

keg

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Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 17:03:41 -0800
From: [e-mail] (David Valentine)
Subject: Biblo Program 4 word: Endnote

>Subject: Biblio Programs with Word?
>
> Can anyone suggest a decent Bibliography Database program that has hooks
>for Microsoft Word? Something easy to use is good, something public domain
>or shareware is good as well...

If you can spare the money, I'd reccomend Endnote. It works as a PIM (plug
in Module) in word 5. In Word 5 you can format citations, and create a
bibliography without leaving Word. It also works with any file with a XTND
translator.
I has a DOS/windoze version (the mac was the first). Niles has an online
presence, and  people interested in endnote have a listserv discussion list
(send mail to [e-mail] with body, Subscribe ENDNOTE). I don't
see  the demo on infomac, but there is a copy on the endnote archive I've
set-up: magic.ucsb.edu. The demo is the stand alone application, and does
not include the plug in module. The Word plug-in is the same as the
application, plus the ability to format citations, and create a
bibliography without leaving Word.

Dave Valentine
[e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 15 Jan 93 09:57:07 EET
From: Erkko Autio <[e-mail]>
Subject: Comment on software pricing policies

Sirs:

I read with interest the messages concerning the pricing policies of
American software companies in the European market. I fail to under-
stand the logic of some of these companies, if they sell their products
in the European market with double the price of the home market.

In many other countries, domestic companies charge higher prices in
the home market. They use the cash flow generated in the home market to
finance their international expansion. It looks like some software compa-
nies are doing just the opposite. They compete themselves near to death in
the home market, and in order to survive, they do their best to alienate
their foreign customers.

To me, it looks like it still hasn't  dawned to some American software
companies why the Japanese, Germans, and Koreans beat American industries
with hands down in their home market. If this trend continues, my prediction
is that some of these companies may be looking forward to a similar destiny
as General Motors, RCA, and Chevrolet.

PS I understand a reasonable price increase, if the product has to be custo-
   mized. This comment is with regard to uncustomized products.

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Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1993 01:46:12 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Alex Pournelle)
Subject: connecting a Syquest rem. drive to Mac and PC

[e-mail] writes:

>I'd like to use a Syquest drive to increase my storage resources, both for
Mac
>and PC. I already have SCSI ports and equipment: a NEC cdrom drive that is
>accessed (exchanging connection cables) from Mac and from PC.
>My questions:
>1) is it possible to connect the *same* Syquest drive to a Mac and/or to a PC

Yes.  SCSI is SCSI.  There are two good ways:

--Get Syquest's DOS Software (called "SY-DOS" in the US--NOT to be
  confused with SY-TOS) and their controller card.
--Get a Trantor SCSI-to-parallel port adapter and use its software; I
  think Trantor directly supports the Syquest now.

Another consideration: if the device is ASPI-compatible, you can use any
ASPI-compatible controller.  Many are.

    --Alex
--
        Alex Pournelle, freelance thinker
        Also: Workman & Associates, Data recovery for PCs, Macs,
        others
        ...elroy!grian!alex; voice: [phone]
        fax: [phone]  bbs: 791-1013; 8N1 2400/12/3

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Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 22:28:38 CST
From: "john vandyk" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Connecting non-ADB keypad to PowerBook?

I was digging around in the 'miscellaneous' closet today when I
discovered a numeric keypad which presumably plugged into a Mac 512
or Mac Plus at one time. Sure, it's a little clunky, but it sure
would come in handy with my PowerBook.

Anyone know if it's possible to go from the RC11 (?) jack on the
keypad to the ADB port on the back of my PowerBook?

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Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 15:41:54 PST
From: Kevin Purcell (Rho) <[e-mail]>
Subject: Consumer DTP and Money Management programs

I'm in the market for both a DTP program and a money management
program, so I'm soliciting reports from both users, avid review readers
(I have a stack of MacUsers and MacWorld which see to be having no
chance of getting read in the near future).

I have been looking at Publish It Easy 3.0 (I saw a nice demo yesterday
at Seattle dBUG -- lots of useful features plus a few dubious "kitchen
sink" features (slide show and so on). Their idea of publishing on CD
ROM (with a lot of extract stuff thrown in for no extra money) is an
interesting one.

Aldus' Personal Press. I looked at this one a while back and decided it
was the best of the crop, but never purchased it. Seemed to be better
integrated for the infrequent user (thumbnail sketches).

So which products are you using? Do you like its feature set? Does it
have any annoying quirks (I'll be running these on a Plus, so speed is
not unimportant)? What other products shoud I be considering? Are Aldus
preparing an upgrade?

I run a (very) small consulting/software development business (in
addition to my real job!) So far for money management I have only
really looked at Quicken. I am interested by it ability to export to
MacinTax (are any other sole proprietors using this combination?). Any
other suggestions?

Hope these don't seem like dumb questions. I'm more at home using MPW
and THINK C than any other applications on my Mac!

Either mail direct to me (preferred) or post here. If you want a
summary of the replies I receive send me a message.

Kevin Purcell
[e-mail]
"I speak only for myself"

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Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 19:15:56 -0800
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Davka Corporation Address?

Hello/Shalom!

Does anybody happen to know the address/phone/FAX/Email of a company called
Davka Corporation in the Chicago area? Among other things, they seem to
market a
word processor that can handle English (or other left-to-right languages)
and Hebrew (or other right-to-left languages) in the same document.
Please reply directly to me as I'm not on the distribution list. Many
thanks/toda rabbah in advance!

Jan Martin
San Diego Supercomputer Center
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 17:20:14 PST
From: [e-mail] (John Thoo)
Subject: DEClaser 1152 (Q)

Several digests ago, some folks wrote relating their satisfaction
with the new HP LaserJet 4M.  Unfortunately, the 4M is still out
of my budget; the DEClaser---presently at $999+ ---is just within
my reach.

Has anyone used the 1152?  Would you please share your impressions.

Thanks much.
--John.  <[e-mail]>

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Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 16:46 PST
From: Terry Carroll <[e-mail]>
Subject: Displaying fonts in the font menu-Word

> > >In response to the question about making fonts in a font menu
> > >"appear" in their own font, I don't think you need a special
> > >extension or init -- it's my understanding that simply holding
> > >down the option key while selecting the font menu will
> > >accomplish this as well....
> >
> >     I had not heard this tip before, so I immediately fired up ClarisWorks
> and
> > tried it.  It didnt work.  But.....I tried holding down the command key
> > while selecting the font menu and that worked.  Thats great!
> >
> The option key works with Word 5.0. Command doesn't.-Pete Tamas

Really?  Neither does thist on my copy of Word 5.0.

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Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 20:40:47 EST
From: Pete Tamas <[e-mail]>
Subject: Displaying fonts in the font menu-Word

On Thu, 14 Jan 93 16:46 PST you said:
>> > >In response to the question about making fonts in a font menu
>> > >"appear" in their own font, I don't think you need a special
>> > >extension or init -- it's my understanding that simply holding
>> > >down the option key while selecting the font menu will
>> > >accomplish this as well....
>> >
>> The option key works with Word 5.0. Command doesn't.-Pete Tamas
>
>Really?  Neither does thist on my copy of Word 5.0.
>
Doh!
Doh! Doh! Doh!
That was Suitcase. I should have been more carefull when I tested it.-Pete
[e-mail], Temple Univ, Philadelphia (betw New York & Wash DC)

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Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1993 13:21 MET
From: "KUN - Phil. of Language dpt" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Donald Glockzin on Malaysian mice

Donald Glockzin in v11 # 09 asks:

> --->  Malaysian mice-what are their serial numbers

> How do the Malaysians catch the mice?
> Are they serialize at birth?
> Are there any BAD unserialized mice running around?
> How and where do they put the serial numbers?
> If you take your pet mouse with you on a trip, will they require you to put
a
> serial number on it?
> Are they the only country that has this law?

Maybe you can ask your brilliant questions to Dr. Zaharin Yussof,
who heads the Macintosh and Sun stuffed department of computer science
of the USM (Universiti Sains Malaysia) on the island of Penang.
One of the things they use mice for is automatic machine translation
(PTMK: Projek Terjemahan Melalui Komputer). Very friendly people too.

He wrote to me:

  __ As far as I know, Malaysia does not produce mice, except for live
  ones....
     But Singapore does...in fact, they produce Macs (eg. Classics).....

  ...I wish we did, even faulty ones.....

  Zarin

His e-mail address is: IN%"[e-mail]"

Bye, Henk Schotel

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Date: Fri, 15 Jan 93 2:15:00 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Lars H. Andersen)
Subject: Error -43 solved

I would like to thank very much all the people who reacted on my
question about error -43 while using Disinfectant to disinfect a file.
Unfortunately none of the methods mentioned by all these people was
sufficient.  John Norstad, the author of Disinfectant has been so kind
as to mention a lot of virus detectors and catchers in his references.
There I found Antipan.  Antipan managed to do the job.
Thanks again!
Best from Iceland    Lars

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Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 18:17:25 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: font hijinks

As a confirmed font addict, I love sifting through the DEVELOP CD looking
for the latest foreign fonts to make it to the TrueType format.  Some of
these raise a question:  Since I don't want to turn my Mac into a Hebrew
Mac, Kanji Mac, etc. just to use the fonts, is there any way to get the
necessary character handling functionality with a minimum of fuss?  For
Hebrew, Arabic,and their relatives, the TrueType characters are easy
enough, but without a right-to-left version of something like TeachText,
they're pretty painful to use.  The cp's and ex's and such in the
international system versions look interesting, but don't seem
straightforward to use without fully installing the foreign system version.
 The asian systems are even worse!  To accomodate the complex character
sets, the concept of a "font" seems to have been completely reinvented.  Am
I missing something?  Thanks.

Paul

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Date: 15 Jan 1993 11:02:04 -0700 (MST)
From: KC HUNDERE <[e-mail]>
Subject: Font with Fractions

I have a faculty member in need of a font with fractions in it.  My limited
connections have not found one either public or private.  Does anyone know
if such a beast?

Thanks.

    KC Hundere                    [e-mail]
    Glendale Community College          [e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1993 14:23:52 -0700
From: [e-mail] (John Daspit, C.U. LASP,
[phone])
Subject: Ghostscript problems

Hi all,
    Has anyone gotten Ghostscript to work? I really need the postscript-
to-PICT translation, but I haven't been able to get it to work on my stock
MAC II, system 6.0.5, no inits. I create a postscript file with the print
dialog's postscript option, but the program crashes id=01 a short way into
it. Trying to read their example file PS2IMAGE.PS displays a blank image
window, then crashes a few seconds later. Any ideas? Sorry if this has been
asked already, I am several weeks behind reading my info-macs. I need this
info or some other way to get my Postscript or EPS files into PICT format
yesterday, so any help is appreciated. JD

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Date: 15 Jan 1993 09:31:33 -0500
From: "Tom Scott" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Hard Disk Spin Followup

     Hard Disk Spin Followup
>If you come up with a solution, I'd like to hear it; I have one user
>that's experiencing the same thing on a IIcx (7.0.1 tuned with VM off,
>32-bit addressing off, but file sharing ON, even though she gets disk
>activity when noone's connected.
[...stuff deleted...]

After seeing a few suggestions after my comments to the question from
[e-mail], I looked at the IIcx that I was having problems
with, and found out that this machine had the "Calculate Folder Sizes"
option checked.  Once I unchecked it, my problem seems solved.  Thanks
for pointing me in the right direction!

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

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Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 20:44:52 EST
From: Michael Brzycki <[e-mail]>
Subject: How to get Unix archive files to run

I see a lot of Unix programs on Mac and MS-Dos archives that can do
things like convert from text to binary formats, etc.  The only problem
is that I haven't been successful in getting these files to run.  In
what way should I uncompress and compile these files so I make them
run on my machine (Sun670)? I appreciate any help out there.

                             Thanks,

                             Michael Brzycki

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Date: Fri, 15 Jan 93 13:13:10 NST
From: Dave G. Liverman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Hypercard vs. Supercard

I have recently been asked to prepare an interactive computer display for
exhibit at a local Nature centre, based on some examples I was able to show
them developed using Hypercard. My problem is that the exhibit will require
colour on a large monitor. I am aware of the various XCMD's enabling the
use of colour in HC 2.1, but was wondering if Supercard would be a more
practical alternative. I would be grateful if anyone could pass on their
experiences and opinions of the relative merits of Hypercard and
Supercard for this task.Thanks in advance
     Dave Liverman ([e-mail])
     Newfoundland Geological Survey, Canada

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

Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 18:56:21 PST
From: GreyStone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #10

I am trying to find an XFCN which allows Hypercard 2.1 to "speak" the
contents of a field using the macintalk speech driver.  Does such a thing
exist and if so how can I get a copy?

Thanks in advance,

M Martin
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1993 01:31:02 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Derek Andrew)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #9

[e-mail] (The Moderators):
>
> Alexei Tsvetov suggested using the sound control panel to mute a
> PowerBook's startup sound. Only the PB 160 and 180 have software to mute
> the startup chord. For older PowerBooks, you need to get a 1/8 inch
> phone plug (you can get one at a Radio Shack or cut one off a broken pair
> of headphones) and insert it into the sound-output jack. This makes the
> Mac route the sound to an external speaker, which just happens not to
> be there.

I have a PB160 and am at a loss to understand how I can mute
the startup chord. I have been through the manual and through
all supplied control panels without success. Would you please
give me a hint as to how to proceed? Thanks

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

Date: Fri, 15 Jan 93 14:50:39 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Looking for shareware backup

Hi!  I'm looking for a decent shareware backup program for the Mac that will
work with System 6.x.

If anyone has any ideas about where to look, please send e-mail to:

    [e-mail]

Thanks!

Aaron Delwiche
Public Interest Clearinghouse
[e-mail]

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

Date: 14 Jan 1993 14:01:33 +0800
From: [e-mail]
Subject: MAC D/L WITH MODEM

Hi pal .....

    I have an inquiry about downloading files from my university's
VAX system using a modem connected to my Mac II CX back home .....
    Is there any S/W for the Mac that allows that ? Thanks.

                        Chong

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

Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1993 10:27:29 CST
From: [e-mail] (David Gutierrez)
Subject: Malaysian Mice vs. Mongolia

Malaysian Mice vs. Mongolian Desert Racing Mice
>We have four Mongolian Desert Racing Mice (I swear that's what they're
>called). I've checked and, while there are no serial numbers, there
>is conclusive evidence that they are all males. Thanks to Info-Mac,
>I can confidently name at least one of them "Michel".

>Ciao4now

>Charles C. Schneider
>International Atomic Energy Agency
>Vienna, Austria
>sdz5@iaea1 (bitnet)

I think someone's been standing too close to a reactor...


David Gutierrez
Univ. Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

[e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 15 Jan 93 10:20 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Monitor Problemos

Hi,

I have a problem with my monitor on my IISI.  When its very dry, my monitor
wont turn on.  It seems to switch off when I turn on the Mac with the power
key.  I can hear a click when the computer is turned on.

Anyone have this problem?  Sometimes if I leave the computer on for a few
hours the monitor will then turn on.

Brian Bosch

[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 19:09:24 CST
From: "Eric H. Durbrow" <[e-mail]>
Subject: More on StyleWriter II

My Apple rep told me that the ink the SWII uses is still not water-fast. It
will smear when the paper gets moist or in very humid conditions. I believe
the DW has a water fast ink. The rep said that Apple is trying to develope a
water fast ink that is not toxic to the environment.

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

Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1993 01:51:26 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Alex Pournelle)
Subject: Norton for Mac vs? SUM

[e-mail] writes:

>I have Symantec Utilities for the Mac (SUM) and recently picked
>up a cheap copy of the Norton Utilities for the Mac (NUM?), now also
>>From Symantec.

>Can anyone tell me if the NUM directory backup obviates the need for
>the SUM directory backup? Does NUM replace SUM entirely?

Yes.  NUM 2.0 has all of the features of SUM, except that it doesn't
have all of the volume information files (.VIFs) which SUM came with.
This is, at least officially, because there are so many different drives
out that it would be very difficult to keep up with all of them.

    --Alex
--
        Alex Pournelle, freelance thinker
        Also: Workman & Associates, Data recovery for PCs, Macs,
        others
        ...elroy!grian!alex; voice: [phone]
        fax: [phone]  bbs: 791-1013; 8N1 2400/12/3

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

Date: Fri, 15 Jan 93 16:12:50 EST
From: "Dr. Daniel Arkin" <[e-mail]>
Subject: no subject (file transmission)

To: [e-mail]
Subject: Virtual Memory???
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest
Organization: Virginia's Public Education Network (Richmond)

I have a Macintosh IIsi and Powerbook 140 both running System
7.1.  In all the stuff that I have, I don't seem to have the
ability to create a RAM disk, although it seems that I should
be able to.

Also, is a RAM disk the same as Virtual Memory?  What is
Virtual Memory, and why do some Macs seem to have references to
it (like the IIvx) and not others?

Please reply direct.

Daniel Arkin    workSmart
        Richmond, Virginia
        [e-mail]

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

Date: 15 Jan 1993 09:31:05 -0500
From: "Tom Scott" <[e-mail]>
Subject: NOW Menus - like utility (A

     NOW Menus - like utility (A)
Arel Yizhak Weisberg <[e-mail]> asks:

>Is there a share/freeware utility that accomplishes what the NOW Menus
>utility does i.e. lets you select items inside folders under the Apple
>Menu?

Check out the following at sumex: info-mac/cp/be-hierarchic-105.hqx


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

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

Date: 15 Jan 93 08:29:45 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Now Startup Manager and 7.1

I upgraded to System 7.1 on both a IIci and a IIsi running very similar
extensions and other things.  Everything worked beautifully on my IIci, but I
had a whole lot of problems with the IIsi.  When extensions began to load,
the machine told me that two copies of AppleShare were in my system and to
remove one of them.  It then said the same thing about File Sharing
Extension.  As the icons rolled across the screen, some appeared twice.  Some
of these were X-d out but not all of them.  When it finished displaying all
of the icons, the machine froze.  I was able to start up without problems if
I blocked the loading of the extensions.   I ultimately saved in another
folder everything that wasn't from Apple, threw out the Apple System 7.1
material, and recreated it from my floppy disks.  Everything then worked
smootly but one the second or third restart, the same problem appeared.  I
noticed that the first icon to appear twice was Now Utilities Startup Manager
so I removed it from my Control Panel folder, and now everything appears to
work without problems.  Thus, there appears to be a conflict between Startup
Manager and something that causes System 7.1 to crash.  What's strange is
that this doesn't happen on my other system. Has anyone else seen this sort
of problem?  Please respond via e-mail as I often don't monitor this
newsgroup.  Thanks.

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

Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1993 09:06:08 -0600 (CST)
From: "Francis J. Van Wetering" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Pegasus Mail

Pegasus Mail version 2.0.2 for the Macintosh has been released, and is
now available from risc.ua.edu (130.160.4.7), as

        /pub/network/pegasus/pmmac202.hqx

It should also be available from the following sites:

      omnigate.clarkson.edu
      tyr.let.rug.nl         (European users)

As an experiment, it is available to NEW ZEALAND SITES ONLY from

      urania.pmail.gen.nz (192.156.225.16)

This was pulled from the pegasus-mail LIST.

F. J.  Van Wetering, Ph.D.     INTERNET: [e-mail]
Lobarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology:  There's always one more bug --

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

Date: Fri, 15 Jan 93 10:25:16 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Pegasus Mail sites (a)

Pegasus Mail is available at all simtel20 mirror sites. You should be able
to ftp it from wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4). It is in the
/mirrors/msdos/lan directory. The file name is pmail234.zip.

You can also try wsmr-simtel20.army.mil (26.2.0.74) or plains.nodak.edu
(134.129.111.64).

=========================================================================
Thomas B. Thomas
Director of Computing Services
Pace University School of Law, NY

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

Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 22:44:49 EST
From: [e-mail] (Prof. L.G. Leduc)
Subject: Performa 600 vs IIvi (Q)

Hello netters,

Could someone please tell me if there is a difference between
the Performa 600 and the IIvi. My understanding was that there was none
except for the fact that the IIvi is not sold in the US.

Please edify me.

Thanks a lot.

Leo G. Leduc
CANADA
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1993 14:02:29 -0500 (EST)
From: Nico Tjandra <[e-mail]>
Subject: Personal LW-LS specification

Hi,
    I am looking for the communication spec. for personal LW-LS, i.e:
baud rate, handshake, etc. I remember reading about data compression
used to speed up the communication link between the mac and LW-LS. If
that is true, is it done by hardware or software, and is it possible to
overide it. I would appreciate any help or pointer to where I can find
some info. I just thought it would be nice to hook one up to a Risc
workstation that does the postcript (ghostcript) rendering, and use it
as a print server for the macs.

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

Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1993 01:42:12 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Alex Pournelle)
Subject: Photo CD (Info-Mac Digest V11 #5)

[e-mail] writes:

>> You get back on your CD 5 copies of each photo at different resolutions:
>>

>To give you an idea what this means:

>Newspapers are ra[s]terized with about    90 lines/inch
>Magazines                             150
>high-quality prints                   200

>To achieve a qualitatively good result, your file must have a resolution
>of roughly twice the raster lines. Go and calculate the maximum size of
>the printed photo. Keep in mind that you probably will want to crop it.

I wonder if Photo-CDs will be used to send out publicity pictures--it's
the perfect medium for flacks to be reasonably sure that their clients
will look good!

    --Alex
--
        Alex Pournelle, freelance thinker
        Also: Workman & Associates, Data recovery for PCs, Macs,
        others
        ...elroy!grian!alex; voice: [phone]
        fax: [phone]  bbs: 791-1013; 8N1 2400/12/3

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

Date: Fri, 15 Jan 93 17:00:19 MEZ
From: "Dr. Stefan P. Mueller"
<[e-mail]>
Subject: Printing from Mac to PS-printer on UNIX workstation (Q)

A few days ago David Hartmann ([e-mail]) inquired about
solutions for printing from Macintoshes connected via Ethernet on
Postscript printers attached to UNIX workstations.
We are having a similar problem at hand here. We are trying to use a
LaserWriter II NT which is connected to a Sun SPARC-1. We want to print
>From a Quadra 700 and a LC II (both on Ethernet). Currently we are only
accessing the Sun's via NFS/Share and Telnet.
I have not seen any responses to David's question yet, that's why I am
asking again. Please, networking gurus, share your wisdom!

Thank you very much!

Stefan

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

Date: Fri, 15 Jan 93 10:17:13 EST
From: Clinton Collins <[e-mail]>
Subject: QWK offline mail readers again (Q)

I have evaluated both Freddie and Counterpoint QWK offline mail readers
and would like to try something else. Freddie is too slow and
Counterpoint is too bloated with features, has poor documentation, and
the author wants a *45.00* shareware fee. I realize that Counterpoint
does many other things than read QWK packets, but that is all I want to
do. I have heard of another package called Alice. Are there others?
Where can I find Alice?

send help to Clinton Collins, [e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1993 09:09:27 -0500
From: Bob Kerns <[e-mail]>
Subject: remote restart of a Quadra 950 (a)

    Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 20:40:32 PST
    From: Kee Nethery <[e-mail]>
    Subject: remote restart of a Quadra 950 (a)
    >Is there a way to cycle a Quadra 950 remotely through an ARA session or
    >over the network.
    Yes. There is a LocalTalk device called the PowerSwitch LT that is a power
    outlet and ADB port controllable through AppleTalk commands.

This may (or may not) be way too big a hammer for the stated question.
I don't remember the original context for the question, but if it's
enough just to be able to restart or shutdown, but not power up, then
using QuickKeys and apple events can easily get you this.

Also, there are various devices to hook to modems to power up your
computer when you call in; this in conjunction with ARA may do what
you need.

Still, sometimes you need a hammer, and this sounds like a useful
device.  The problem with using apple events to shut down or reboot
is that applications may refuse to exit (as, for example, when you
have modified documents that need to be saved), or the system may
be wedged.  Or turned off (after a power failure, for example).

For true unattended operation, your LocalTalk device could be a very
useful, if big, hammer.  But first I'd recommend always trying to
shutdown/restart via apple events first, and then resorting to
the bigger hammer if that doesn't work.

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

Date: Fri, 15 Jan 93 15:54:28 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Ian Chai)
Subject: Sequencer & Score MIDI software (Q)

I recently decided to get into MIDI music at an amature level. I bought
a small MIDI keyboard and a MIDI interface for my Mac.

I now need some MIDI software. Nothing fancy... I'm not a professional.
I would like something that I can record tracks separately, edit the
tracks, and play the arrangement back, using different channels for
different instruments. I would also like to be able to transform the
MIDI data into music scores for printing. (Yes, I know some cleaning-up
will be necessary.)

Finally, I have not much money, so I can't go out and spend another
$1,000 on software...

I would like to hear recommendations, based on the above criterea. I
would weigh more heavily on "cheap" than "professional performance"...

Please email and I can summarize.

Thanks,

Ian Chai <[e-mail]>

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

Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 21:19 CDT
From: "Dwight Lemke @ Wisconsin Oshkosh" <[e-mail]>
Subject: SF-171

The subject line says it all--do any of you GS or GM types out there have
a template for the SF-171 government employment application?

Thanks!

-Dwight

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

Date: 15 Jan 1993 09:41:22 -0500
From: "Tom Scott" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Snooper vs. Norton Uts./Mac

     Snooper vs. Norton Uts./MacTools (A)
[e-mail] (Terry L. Hartman) asks:

>Just wondering where Snooper ranks compared to Norton Utilities 2.0
>and/or MacTools 2.0.  Is it better, just as good, ......???

It's like comparing apples to oranges!!  ;-)

Snooper is a HARDWARE diagnostic; NU/MacTools are SOFTWARE diagnostics.

Snooper is supposed to be able to help you track down a hardware failure
by testing the various subsystems (video, RAM, ADB, SCSI, etc.) and the
Snooper package with diagnostic board helps test for power supply
problems.  I have the Snooper+board package and I haven't had many
chances to use it (I used to have a lot of hardware problems, which
prompted me to get Snooper; since I've gotten it, I haven't had
hardly any problems!  :-O)

The other two handles diagnostics from primarily a software point-of-view.
They analyze directory structure, file corruption, file bundle resources,
volume information, hierarchy and other SW-related problems.  They could
"loosely" be called a hardware diagnostic in that they check for bad
blocks on the disk you're analyzing, but that about the extent of it.

The other major competition that Snooper has in the HW diagnostic field
is MacEKG.  I heard recently of another one called "Peace of Mind".
There is a demo at sumex:/info-mac/demo/peace-of-mind-lite.hqx.
Hope this helps!  :-)

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

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

Date: Fri, 15 Jan 93 07:17:38 -0500
From: "Keith E Gatling" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Star Trek: TNG Icons Anyone? (Q)

After creating my own little icon of Geordi LaForge, and doing a bad enough
version of Picard that I really don't even want to tell people that that was
what I was trying to do, I decided to just ask to see if anyone out there
was artistically inclined enough to try making icons related to ST:TNG and
would like to share them with the rest of us.

keg

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

Date: 15 Jan 93 19:39:36 GMT
From: goofy.appple.com (James Glanville)
Subject: System Enablers reference?

In article <daniels-130193100306@175.175.10.2>, [e-mail] (Daniel A.
Segel) writes:
>
> The new System Enablers for system 7.1 all have a 3-digit number ID like
> "111" or "201".  Does anybody have a reference that says which enabler is to
be used for
> which Mac model?
>
> Daniel S.

Sure.  For the currently released products:

Enabler #       Macintosh name

      001       Macintosh IIvi, IIvx, Performa 600
      111       Macintosh PowerBook 160, 180
      201       Macintosh PowerBook Duo 210, 230

These CPU enablers are available on the "Install Me First for ..." Disk
which come with each CPU.  The Install Me First Disks can also contain
CPU specific control panels like the PowerBook CDEV.  It is possible
to create a startup disk that boots on any CPU by dragging all the CPU
enablers into a System 7.1 folder.

- James Glanville
  Central Software, MSD
  Apple Computer, Inc.

Standard Internet Disclaimers of not officially representing Apple apply.

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

Date: Fri, 15 Jan 93 15:17:17 -0600
From: [e-mail]
Subject: telnet2.3

I've been using telnet2.3-MacTCP on my SE's running system6.07 with
no problems.  I never upgraded to telnet 2.5 because the tek4014 graphics
screen that comes up under 2.5 is about 2/3 the size of the one that comes
up with 2.3 and cuts the picture off.
Now, however, I am trying to upgrade the systems to 7.01, but telnet 2.3
will no longer work.  It bombs everytime with some unimplemented trap
error.  Telnet 2.5 works fine but the graphics screen is still screwed up.
Can somebody tell me what is going on?

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

Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1993 17:20:10 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Jack Smith)
Subject: Un-Choosing a non-existent AppleShare volume

   I have an AppleShare volume (actually an NFS volume AppleShare-d through
a GatorBox) that I had at one point marked to be automatically mounted at
startup.  That worked great until that server/volume was no longer
available (although the host/server still appears in the Chooser list).
The problem is that I can not get to the volume selection dialog box under
Chooser to un-mark that option.  Instead, on startup I have to wait for
about a minute (seems like several) for it to fail and then I have to
Cancel the host/server password dialog request before my Mac can finish
booting.  How do I un-mark the startup option on this volume?

- Jack Smith

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

Date: 15 Jan 1993 01:14:01 -0800 (PST)
From: MacCrusader <[e-mail]>
Subject: Unreliable foppy drive in SE/30

      There are a couple of common problems with floppy drives.  If a disk
      is formatted in a DD drive, but can't be read by a HD drive, the
      first thing to do is check to see what kind of disk it is.  If it is
      a HD disk, as evinced by the two holes in the corners (vs 1 in DD),
      and possibly HD printed somewhere, then put a piece of tape over the
      hole without the plastic "lock" switch.  Voila!  The HD drive now
      reads the floppy.  It's important NOT to try to format this as a HD
      disk now, because it is no longer reliable as such.

      The second common problem is dirty heads.  For an "Older" machine,
      dirt has built up in the drive.  The best bet is to get one of those
      disk drive cleaning kits and clean your heads.  For years, I thought
      that this was just a hoax, but cleaning the head on an old SE in our
      lab was a miracle.  It used to format disks that couldn't be read by
      anyone else, and other disks absolutely refused to work on it.
      Cleaning the head took care of it!  I read about this in Larry Pina's
      great book, "The Dead Mac Scrolls", which gives you possible
      solutions to carious hardware problems, and even shows you how to
      align the read/write head on a messed up floppy drive!

      Roger Lai

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

Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1993 19:10:36 GMT
From: "Tom Scott" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Why does my hard drive spin

[e-mail] asks:
>I am sorry if this is a FAQ, but I have a LC II with a stock 80 MB
>Apple HD (Quantum) that spins (reads?) my hard drive during inactivity
>for no reason.

Calculate Folder Sizes in the Views control panel can cause this.
--
William C. DenBesten is [e-mail] or [e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1993 19:17:48 -0500
From: Bob Kerns <[e-mail]>
Subject: WorldScript II, etc.

This is becoming a FAQ...

    Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1993 12:57:08 EST
    From: [e-mail]
    Hello, I'm sorry to bother you with such a strange question, but I believe
    that you mentioned in the InfoMac Digest that there was a copy of
    everything
    necessary for Japanese WorldScript usage (TrueType fonts as well?) in the
    Nov/Dec Developer's CD-ROM.

Dev.CD Nov/Dec 92:System Software:WorldScript:WorldScript II:Japanese
contain the Japanese stuff; there's a couple of extensions and a file
of instructions in the WorldScript II.

However, I've had reports of it not being there.  In particular,
it may be that there is a special Japan version that lacks this.
(This would reflect very poorly an Apple Japan's support of developers
if it's true, I think).  Or perhaps only the ones mailed directly to
registered developers (but still named the same).

If anyone can explain the discrepancy, please do.

    I have this CD, but, with hours of searching, can't find anything remotely
    related to WorldScript. I am wondering if you could possible give the the
    me the path to the folder which it is all in? (Or paths, I am not sure.)
    Does
    this CD also include KanjiTalk 7.1? Doubtful, I suppose.

Well, if by KanjiTalk 7.1 you mean the input support, there's a
new input interface called Koteri, which is certainly easier to
use.  I don't know if it has improved dictionaries and syntactic
analysis, but it certainly works more smoothly.  (Unfortunately,
all the help and menus related to the input stuff are in Japanese,
which is going to be a real problem for a lot of US developers
who aren't fluent enough to handle such material.  I can get by,
and perhaps could answer a few questions if I don't get flooded,
but I haven't the time to do a translation, since I'm going to
Japan in a few days.)

    Thank you VERY much for you time.

    Oh, sorry, one more thing, do you know of any ShareWare Japanese TrueType
    fonts, other than those which may be on the CD? Thanks.

No, I don't.  The font on the CD is Kyoto, and I don't like it.
It appears to be totally unhinted, and looks really bad at any
small sizes other than the ones for which there are explicit
bitmaps.  The bitmaps are usable down to 10 point (or is it 9?)
but are unaesthetic and sometimes difficult to read in the smaller
sizes.  In between the bitmap sizes, where the truetype font is
used, they are often unreadable.  (Native Japanese can often
understand these undistinguishable blobs from context, but I'm
still aquiring that skill).  Don't get me wrong; it's a big
improvement; just don't set your expectation too high for it
on the screen in arbitrary sizes.

Printing should be adaquate, but I sure would prefer a non-fixed-width
stroke font.  A lot more aesthetic, readable, and besides it would
help educate me in the correct way to draw them.

(It sure beats the KanjiTalk 6 "postscript" fonts).

I guess I'll have a look at the other fonts in Japan.

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

Date: Fri, 15 Jan 93 07:27:12 CST
From: Robert Blystone <[e-mail]>
Subject: WORM CD-ROM revisited

One week ago I posted a request for information concerning the experience
of others with WORM CD-ROMs.  To date I received one response asking me
what I learned.  Not much is the answer.  Once I again I would like to ask
do any info-mac netters have any experience with WORM CD-ROMs?  I am
especially interested in the Kodak product.  Thanks for any information and
time spent in responding.  Blystone in Texas

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