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Info-Mac Digest             Wed, 27 Jan 93       Volume 11 : Issue 21

Today's Topics:

      [*] Global Village Teleport ARA slower-speed scripts
      [*] Macintosh DL Viewer 1.0b1
      "cyber" vs ??
      (q) good and cheap (pd or sw?) font editor
      (q) zoomed photo of a CD
      3 button mice on a Mac running as an X-terminal (Q)
      3M disks-How good are they?
      Access PC on a Plus
      After Dark Star Trek Screen Saver - crashes machine!
      Apple mice switches
      Appletalk v58
      Autosave programs (2 msgs)
      Backup Drives revisited
      Borland and the Mac (C)
      CanvasPostscriptView
      CTB: Wyse emulation
      Cyberspace
      Cyberspace (C)
      Diacritical Marks for Transliteration
      Disappearing color in StartUpScreen and General CDEV (A)
      Disinfectant and Gatekeeper (Q)
      Disk First Aid vs. Norton Utilities
      DiskLight Problems?
      DOS World
      Ethernet number of Quadra
      Fax/voice modems (A)
      Floptical users (Q)
      Font (A)
      Font ID Problems
      Font names in own font
      FTP novice problem...(Q)
      Gatekeeper
      GateKeeper - Applause and Query.
      growing System 6.0.5 application on Mac SE
      hebrew TT font?
      How to connect a Laserwriter II NTX on the modem-port?
      I Ching programs for mac
      Icon wrap utility
      IIsi Cache Cards (Q)
      Internet services: 2 questions
      is there something like an INFO-PC??
      jpeg help (A)
      JPEG revealed!
      Laser printers in a lab, HELP!-Info-Mac Digest V11 #20
      Looking for Author of Glypha-II
      Macro Maker
      Making chooser find a default printer
      Mathcad summary
      Mathematica [12 x 12]~(-1) (A)
      Memory on the Quadra (C)
      Memory on the Quadra 700: Oops!
      Modem Woes
      New 040 Macs crippled without an FPU ?
      New Apple Products in Feb 10
      new programs and updates...
      OSI for MAC
      POWERBOOK AND MIXED DRINKS
      PsFig package for including Mac figures in TeX (R)
      Quick CTB question...
      Radius Rockets etc
      Rotated text on Deskwriter C
      saveomatic
      single sided disks
      Sound: drum roll
      Statistics (Q)
      Updates on 2 questions I asked recently
      worldscript
      Z-modem on vms

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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:48:30 PST
From: The Moderators <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Global Village Teleport ARA slower-speed scripts

Since AppleTalk Remote Access apparently does not support varying the speed
of the connection, on marginal lines it is sometimes necessary to connect at
a slower speed. Otherwise, a burst of noise can cause the modems to attempt
to retrain and hang up the ARA connection.

These scripts from Global Village allow connections at various slower baud
rates for the Teleport modems.

Bill Lipa
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/ara-gv-teleport-slower.hqx; 15K]

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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 17:42:39 -0800
From: Bill Galcher <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Macintosh DL Viewer 1.0b1

Finally, a DL-style animation viewer for the Macintosh.

Enclosed is a StuffIt! archive containing a Macintosh application which will
allow Mac users to view DL-style animation files.  This program handles both
Version 1 and 2 file types, and handles format 0 (large, 320x200), 1 (medium,
160x100) and 2 (small, 80x50) animations.

DLViewer 1.0b1 is my first cut at providing an animation viewer for various
non-Macintosh animation files.  It does not use QuickTime(tm) so it should
work on any Macintosh that can support 256 (8-bit) color.  It does require
System 6.0.2 or beyond and Color QuickDraw 1.2.

The animation images are all read into memory for maximum display speed.  This
implies of course that for large animation files an equivalently large amount
of memory is used.

In addition to the animation itself, I have also provided the ability for
smaller images to be "zoomed" (160x100 -> 320x200; 80x50 -> 160x100 _and_
320x200).  The 80x50 images look very pixelated when zoomed up to 320x200, as
you might expect.  Up to 10 DL files can be opened (but not run!)
concurrently.  The real constraint will more likely be how much memory you
allocate to the viewer to run.

Finally, since DL animations do not have a built-in frame rate the frame rate
for each animation can be individually specified and adjusted.

Thanks to Mark Podlipec who wrote XANIM, an X-Windows animation viewer.  His
sources provided the insights and clues to decipher all the formats that DL
files use.

Bill Galcher    ([e-mail])
Midnight Oil Productions

[Archived as /info-mac/app/dl-viewer-10b1.hqx; 64K]

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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 23:56:33 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Brian Gaeke)
Subject: "cyber" vs ??

>While "cyberspace" has the
>right ring to it, I agree that it is a little off.  Perhaps "Metanet,"
>"Metaspace" or a variation thereof would do.

Why not just "the Net", "the Internet", or "net.land" ?

Brian

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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 17:27:16 ITA
From: maurizio lana <[e-mail]>
Subject: (q) good and cheap (pd or sw?) font editor

Perhaps it's a FAQ: does anyone know of a good font editor for TT characters?
I only heard till now of very big and costly programs (Fontographer & so on).
Any ideas?
Thank you. Maurizio

MAURIZIO LANA | E-MAIL: [e-mail]  | phone & fax [phone]
CISI - Universita' di Torino - V. S. Ottavio 20 - 10124 Torino Italy

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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 17:33:03 ITA
From: maurizio lana <[e-mail]>
Subject: (q) zoomed photo of a CD

I'd like to find, for a lecture I'll give, a photo of a CD that allow
to see the 'holes' on the surface of CD.
Any ideas?
Many thanks. Maurizio

MAURIZIO LANA | E-MAIL: [e-mail]  | phone & fax [phone]
CISI - Universita' di Torino - V. S. Ottavio 20 - 10124 Torino Italy

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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 10:15:54 -0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: 3 button mice on a Mac running as an X-terminal (Q)

A big problem with using a Mac as an X-terminal to a Unix box (eg Mac-X)
is that Unix uses a 3 button mouse, and the solution to this in Mac-X is
clumsy (using the arrow keys).

Does anyone know about using a three button mouse on a Mac?  I have seen
them advertized, but apparently the other buttons can only be programmed
to cut, paste etc... in normal Mac applications.

Alan Hewat, ILL Grenoble, FRANCE ([e-mail]) Fax (France=33).76.48.39.06

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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 12:22:20 EST
From: Pete Tamas <[e-mail]>
Subject: 3M disks-How good are they?

> RE>>Inexpensive 3.5 bulk dis
> Sorry for the hasty post before--those disks were 3M: very reliable.
>
My experience with 3M is pretty negative. Perhaps they have
improved in the last few years, but before we used high density
disks, the 800K (double density disks) seemed to go bad regularly.
Anyone else care to refute that with good results in the last few
years? Thanks, Pete Tamas
[e-mail], Temple Univ, Philadelphia (betw New York & Wash DC)

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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 09:17:39 PST
From: [e-mail] (Building 4 Simulation Group)
Subject: Access PC on a Plus

I recently went to COMP USA here in Los Angeles and looked at a high density
(1.44MB) floopy
drive for a Plus or SE form Applied Engineering (AE).  It was aroung $400, I
think.  I did not
get a chance to test it.  Good Luck...

Oleg Chaikovsky
Sun/Mac Systems Manager
Rockwell International
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 16:26:04 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: After Dark Star Trek Screen Saver - crashes machine!

Ever since I installed the Star Trek version of After Dark on my
Quadra 700 running 7.1 I've been having freeze-ups and bus errors
like crazy.  If I take the screen saver out everything runs correctly.
I read in the manual that the screen saver is known to be incompatible
with some games, but why only games?  Is it possible that it is just
incompatible with lots of things and they are trying to cover it up?

Has anyone else had problems like thse with AD?

Thanks

--
Jeff Tarr
Harvard University
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 22:55:26 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Apple mice switches

I seem to recall a discussion earlier about the problem Apple has been
having with some of the desktop bus mice, and that the switches have
been flaky at best.  Our school district has had necessity to replace
about twenty of them, and the machines are no longer on warranty, so
it's been a large expense for us.

Does anyone know of a source of supply for the microswitches?
Preferably in Canada or the USA!

Many thanks!


Eric

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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 20:58:01 est
From: "Maxwell Smart (Soell, Oliver)" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Appletalk v58

I've just been trying to upgrade my Appletalk to version 58 to no avail, and
it just dawned on me that the updater I'm using may not like system 7.1. I'm
using the "Network Software Installer 1.3" directly from Apple, and I've had
no success: it quits soon after starting the install process with the generic
message: "Something has gone wrong with the install process. blah blah blah."
Hints?
thanks bunches

Oliver Soell
Dickinson College
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 13:15:33 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: Autosave programs

In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
> One warning though. Autosavers can be more trouble than they're worth.
Imagine
> the following. You have a 100 page Word document and you highlight 20 pages
> that you want to run the spell checker through. Instead of hitting command-L
> you accidently hit shift-L and the whole 20 pages are replaced by an "L".
Just
> as you're about to use "undo typing" to get your 20 pages back the autosaver
> kicks in.... Scary thought huh?

A very good reason to use Nisus, which has multiple Undos that work
even past a save. I've done this sort of thing numerous times, but I just
Undo back a few more actions and everything is fine again. Nisus's
Undo capabilities do not of course work past closing a document, so
that's still a problem if you panic and close the document after erasing
all your work.

Sorry, I can't resist such comments and I love having my work autosaved. :-)

cheers ... -Adam

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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 19:50:10 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Thomas D. Halter)
Subject: Auto Save programs

Someone made a post several days ago looking for Sav-o-matic to
automatically save their documents in MS Word and MS Excel.  If you are
using recent versions of these programs (5.0 and 4.0,
respectivly), Auto save functions are already built in to these
programs.

In Word, Call up the preferences window.  Under the Open and Save
section, there is a check box for "Save Reminder," and a field you can
set for the delay.  Simply turn it on, set the delay, and you are in
business.

It is a little more complicated in Excel.  The Auto Save function is an
Add-in function in the macro library (you did install that, didn't
you?).  Call up the Add-in manager from the option menu, go get a cup of
coffee or a sandwich.  Five minutes later, when the Add-in manager has
finally loaded, It will show you a list of all the Add-in functions you
have installed.  Click on the add button, and locate the Auto Save
add-in in the Macro Library folder.  There should now be an AutoSave
item in the option menu. Select it, and you will be presented with a
dialog where you set the frequency, which for some reason gives you
nondescriptive choices like 'High' 'Medium' and 'Low', rather than
actual minutes.

Other nice features of using the built in save functions in Excel and
Word are that both ask you if you want to save first, rather than
blindly saving the file, perhaps at a bad time.  Also, both work on ALL
open documents, not just the currently selected one. In fact, they work
even when the application is in the background.

--

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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 13:13:31 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Andy Rollins)
Subject: Backup Drives revisited

Well, I received about four bites last time, so I'll rebait the hook and
recast.
We have a Quadra 700 running 7.0.1 with a 230 Mb hard drive.  We're looking
for
a suitable backup drive.  The three types I've been checking into include a
128kb magneto-optical drive, a Teac-type tape drive, and a DAT drive.  I'd
like
to stay under $2000 or so.  The last time I posted this question, I received
replies from four people, basically one per drive (I received two about one of
the drives, but I forget which one.).  If you have any experience/preference/
knowledge about any of these, please email me at [e-mail].  I'll
summarize and post to the list.  Also, I talked to a representative from
Iomega recently about their 150Mb removable Bernoulli drive.  Does anyone out
there have any personal experience with these?  I know that they're pretty
popular with the PeeCee crowd, but what about with us?  Thanks again in
advance!

Andy


[e-mail] or  |  Life is too important to be
[e-mail] or      |  taken seriously.
[e-mail]      |  -Oscar Wilde

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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 13:00:51 EST
From: [e-mail] (Hisham A. Abboud)
Subject: Borland and the Mac (C)

David Gutierrez writes:

> They dropped their utility package (Sidekick). They sold their database
> (dBase Mac). They've left the products they got when they bought Ashton-Tate
> (FullWrite Pro, Full Impact, and FullPaint) to wither away as changes in the
> operating system and new hardware make them stop working.

I'm afraid I have to agree with David.  One might argue that they made
a "strategic" decision to pull out of the Mac market, but they did the
same thing on the DOS side with Sprint, their word processor.  It
seems Borland can't take a deep breath, they are out for a quick buck.
If a product doesn't take off after introduction, they will have no
problem pulling the plug on it and leaving customers stranded.

                Hisham.

Hisham A. Abboud, Cedrus Corp.  [Internet: [e-mail]]

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Date: 27 Jan 1993 11:03:16 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: CanvasPostscriptView

I am trying to preview Encapsulated PostScript-drawings with Canvas 3.0,
but although even the manual tells me this can be done the $#*!! program
keeps giving me the view of a frame, and leaves the rest of the work to the
printer.

Has anybody come across this problem before?
Are there other (better) ways to preview EPS-drawings?

Thanks,

Martin Bos at Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands
[e-mail]

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Date: 27 Jan 93 21:35:00 EST
From: "UBSV01::RUSTY" <[e-mail]>
Subject: CTB: Wyse emulation

I'm looking for a Wyse emulation tool for the Communication Toolbox.
Commercial or public domain.

Rusty Rowell
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 13:08:09 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: Cyberspace

In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
> In fact, it doesn't really matter what the origins of a word are :-(, only
> what
> it means to the people using it. William Gibson, who coined it in the first
> place, used "cyberspace" to describe a place where computer concepts were
> given electronic flesh and bones and a truly visual interface.

That's certainly true, although I'm sure it would drive you nuts if
instead of calling a Mac a Mac, I called it a Mock every time I used
the word. It means the same thing to both of us, but I'm using the
word incorrectly. My father just started using a Mac and insists on
calling ClarisWorks "Claris" since it's the only Claris program he
owns. That's all fine and nice, and I know what he means, but he will
have trouble communicating with anyone else about it. So there is
a good reason to use sensible and common terms.

Cyberspace may be one of those terms through usage, but as Paul notes,
its meaning is wrong. "Cyber" comes from the Greek word (excuse my
ASCII here) Kubernates, which most directly relates to the captain
of a ship, kuber, controller, and nates, a form of the word for ship.

> Paul, your admonishment to 'keep our language accurate' with the threat of
> 'what
> are the media going to do?' [to language?] is unrealistic. As 'cyberspace,
at
> least Gibson's view of it, is not available yet, the word can only serve in
a
> jargonistic fashion anyway. Truth to tell, the most annoying terms seem to
> stick; How many people say "Hoover" instead of vaccuum cleaner?

In the US? I've never heard anyone use Hoover as a verb, certainly,
and only as a noun relating to the actual brand. Hoover is British
slang, I believe, and shows just how flexible language can be.

I do rather like the terms Rick Sutcliffe proposed, "Metanet" or "Metaspace."

Still, with the popularity of Gibson's cyberpunk (which is used in
a relatively correct manner) books, I doubt linguistic reason will
ever supplant the term cyberspace...

cheers ... -Adam

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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 08:27:52 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Joseph R. Matarese)
Subject: Cyberspace (C)

In my community, here's the up-and-coming definition of "cyberspace":

cyberspace - vt. to apply the scroll bar upon encountering the term
"cyber".
       - n. the act of cyberspacing.

;-)

Words *are* free to take on new meaning, even to the point of becoming
meaningless.

Cyberly yours,

joe
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 16:12:38 EST
From: Alan David Bulley <[e-mail]>
Subject: Diacritical Marks for Transliteration

Is there anyone on this list who is aware of a font which contains
diacritical marks, particularly those which are useful in the
transliterations of lanuages using non-Roman alphabets? I am particularly
interested in the characters necessary for transliterating Hebrew
consonants (sin, shin, etc.) and vowels (pointing for hireq and others)
and the like.

Would this require a special character set like those used in phonetic
alphabets, or is there a readily-available font which contains these
or similar markings?

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Alan D. Bulley
Saint Paul University/ Universite St-Paul

[e-mail]  (Internet)
458507@UOttawa             (Bitnet)

Fax: [phone]

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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 14:42:49 PST
From: Paul Brians <[e-mail]>
Subject: Disappearing color in StartUpScreen and General CDEV (A)

I got several helpful answers to my plea for help in
restoring color to my general CDEV and StartUpScreen.
Thanks to all who wrote.

The problem was that I had tried DesktopTextures, which
messed up my settings.  Zapping the PRAMs as several
people suggested (option-command-p-r) restored the
StartUpScreen to color but did not fix the general CDEV.
What did finally solve the problem was following the
directions sent me by Robert Winston on how to use
ResEdit to fix the problem.  Here is the note he sent me:

[e-mail] (Robert E. Winston)

Most likely, your desktop pattern, which is 'ppat' #16 in the
System file, is damaged. There are two ways to fix this.

1) Replace the system. If you do this be sure to drag the old
System file to the trash then startup with the System 7 Install
1 disk. If you don't trash the old system first, the installer
saves the desktop pattern from the old System file and puts it
in the new one. You will have accomplished nothing.

2) Use ResEdit.
<Insert your favorite ResEdit warning here>
Open the System file with ResEdit.
Double click 'ppat' and select and cut resource #16. This is
your current desktop pattern.
Double click 'ppt#'. This is where the color patterns live.
Double click resource #0, the only one.
On the right side of the picker, select any one of the color
patterns by single clicking it.
Copy and paste this pattern into 'ppat'.
Do a <Command> <I> or select "Get Resource Info" from the
Resource menu.
Change the ID# to 16.
Save and quit ResEdit.
You should now be able to select any of the color patterns in
the General Cdev.

  >  Even more interestingly, when I examined the cp[General
  > control panel] on the Tidbits disk (an official disk,
  > supplied by Apple), it lacked the color control as well.

The General doesn't really do anything itself and it doesn't
contain the desktop patterns. It's just a gateway to the System,
Finder, and PRAM. When you inserted the Tidbits disk and opened
the General cp, you were really looking into your System file.

  >  In addition, I cannot display startupscreens in color. When
  > I open them with a graphics program they look fine; but when
  > I do a startup they appear in black and white.

I could suggest zaping the PRAM to fix this problem, but the
apple.com types get all a twitter at the thought of promiscuous
PRAM zaping, so I won't.

Open the monitors cdev. Change the setting to B & W. Change it
back to color. Restart. Your startupscreen should be displayed in
glorious color. (And if that doesn't work, zap the PRAM)

________
Robert E. Winston       [e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 09:05:47 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Disinfectant and Gatekeeper (Q)

Jonathan Brecher writes:

>What an interesting attitude, especially considering that the author of
>Disinfectant has stated repeatedly that Disinfectant provides a SUBSET of the
>protection of Gatekeeper, and that if you're currently using both Gatekeeper
>and the Disinfectant INIT, you shouldn't.  His advice: remove the
>Disinfectant INIT, and just use Gatekeeper.  (I might have saved a copy of
>his original post if anyone cares).

Do you know if John Norstad meant that there was any problem between the
two (Gatekeeper and the Disinfectant INIT), like that one might interfere
with the other's operation?  Or was he just saying they're redundant?
I'm curious because I'm using both at present.

I remain very grateful to Norstad, Johnson, and everyone else out there
who is giving of their time and resources to make Macing more secure for
all of us.

Pat Ullmann  [e-mail] or PULLMANN@TRINITY (BITNET)

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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93   9:51 BST
From: RICHARD LIM <[e-mail]>
Subject: Disk First Aid vs. Norton Utilities

Oh no, not this one again!  If I may permitted 100 or fewer words to grind
one of my favorite axes: to the folks at Apple - Disk First Aid is often
more reliable than Norton at diagnosing serious faults accurately, but DFA
is FATALLY flawed unless you make it endeavour to MOUNT problem disks.  It
gives up too easily with non-mounting disks at the moment, which leaves you
in limbo unless you have access to commercial utilities.
(And while we're on the subject - why can't you folks at Apple beef up
Apple HD Setup as well?)

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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 11:45:42 PST
From: "Anthony E. Siegman" <[e-mail]>
Subject: DiskLight Problems?

   Some time back I installed in my Mac II (running System 6 and
Multifinder) the "DiskLight" CDEV, which flashes a small icon in the
upper right corner of the menu bar every time your Mac does a disk
access.  This can be helpful to let you know that your Mac is working
away, and not frozen or crashed.

   In recent months I started having various system problems,
including in particular:

* I'd double-click on a document and get an "application missing"
message; double-click the same document a second time and it would
start right up.

* When I tried to print, especially longer documents from Textures, or
documents from larger applications like Mathematica, my Mac would
freeze partway through the handover process to PrintMonitor, and havbe
to be restarted

* Mathematica on my machine uses 6.4 MB of the 8 MB installed.  Of ten
when I'd try to start up mma, with nothing else running, my machine
would freeze halfway through the loading process.  After a restart,
mma would load fine.

   Somewhere recently in the newsgroups I saw a hint that there might
be problems with DiskLight, so I removed it from my system; and since
then all the above problems have (knock on wood) disappeared.

   I'm reluctant to post a negative message concerning DiskLight based
on just this one experience; but simply removing it did seem to
resolve all my difficulties.  So, others might want to watch out for
similar problems; and perhaps the list of specific difficulties above
can give the author(s) of DiskLight some indication of what the
problem (if any) is with this CDEV.

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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:57:36 -0500
From: [e-mail] (William Homer Waits)
Subject: DOS World

I know this is may be common knowledge to some, but could anyoe tell me where
I could post a classified for Paradox Engine for DOS.  I know that this is a
Mac forum (I am a Mac guru), but I have run across this program I don't need
(for obvious reasons).  Does such a place exits where one can basically
post a classified for selling/trading?  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks
in advance.

--Bill

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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 15:48:56 WET
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Ethernet number of Quadra

>Can someone tell me how can I find out the ethernet number our Quadra 700?
>Any software tips? (I was hoping for MacEnvy until I realized it is too
>old.) If I open the casing, can I find the number on the Ethernet "card"?

Several ways: Etherlook or Get My Address are software that tell you the
ethercard number. If you install Telnet it'll tell you the Ethercard
number too. You have to be careful as for some reason I can't remeber
(if I ever knew) these means can make up numbers. The administrator can
check the number from his end by using EtherPeek across the Ethernet.

Helen Sargan
Edinburgh University
UK

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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 9:59:36 EST
From: Stephen Wall (SFAE-AR-HIP-SY) <[e-mail]>
Subject: Fax/voice modems (A)

Jerome Breslin asks:
> (1) does anyone know whether the Suprafax modem (14.4) can automatically
> distinguish between incoming fax and data signals?
>
To the best of my knowledge, it won't.  The modem is designed to distinguish
incoming faxes from voice, but even this is a problem for Macs.

The most recent ROM upgrade for the SupraFaxModem V.32bis (14.4k) is
advertised
as supporting what is referred to as Silent Answer, which will quietly
monitor an incoming call and listen for fax carrier signals.  If it hears them
it'll then explicitly answer the call, interrupting any person or answering
machine that picked up first.  This was designed to allow you to use
one line for voice and sending/receiving faxes. The problem
is that this doesn't work with the Fax software for the Mac, FaxSTF.  I've
called both STF Technologies and Supra about the problem, and was told
(by STF) that they're presently stumped.  They did all the program changes
Supra instructed them to do for Silent Answer in an unreleased SW version, but
it refuses to work.  They continue to work with Supra and will hopefully solve
this problem.

I've also heard rumors of a user devised 'hack' that makes Silent
Answer work with FaxSTF, and would appreciate anyone passing it on.

> (2) does the Suprafax modem support voice mail features?

They've advertised this as a planned upgrade, which is not yet unreleased.

Steve Wall

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

Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 16:02 CST
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Floptical users (Q)

Date:           Wed 27 Jan 93, 15:21:16
From:           Lige Harris <[e-mail]>
Subject:        Floptical users (Q)
To:             [e-mail]

Has anyone had any experience with the PLI floptical 21meg drives?  I haven't
seen anything in MacUser except the small sidebar coverage last summer.  This
seems like a reasonable alternative to Syquest removable.......

Lige Harris  [e-mail]

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

Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 09:14:06 +0100 (MET)
From: [e-mail] (Michael Bach)
Subject: Font (A)

Dear colleagues:
As all our secretaries write on the Mac, we were also confronted
with the question of a good-looking & screen-readable font. We settled
on Palatino. It is slightly larger than Times in printing and much
more readable on the screen. Generally, all city fonts (New York,
Geneva etc.) are fine on the screen, but look aesthetically poorer in
printing compared to historically proven printer fonts. Palatino is
available from Apple as TrueType and built-in in postscript
laserprinters.     -- Greetings, Michael.
--
Dr. Michael Bach, Dept. of Ophthalmology,
University of Freiburg, D-7800 Freiburg, Germany
(049)[phone] <[e-mail]>

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

Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 11:50:52 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Paul Antaki)
Subject: Font ID Problems

Hello All!

I've been having a small problem with fonts that I've resolved but I really
don't know why it happened. Maybe someone out there can shed some light on
it!

I just upgraded to System 7.1 and hacked ATM so it would recognize the Fonts
folder. I then proceeded to put all my fonts (bitmap and postcript) into the
Fonts folder.

Whenever I use Zterm, instead of getting the correct Zterm font I always got
Helvetica 14. So, I checked the Font ID numbers and found that the Zterm
screen
font was 19337 and my Helvetica 14 was also 19337.

I removed Helvetica 14 from the Fonts folder and my problem was resolved.
Here are my questions:

(1) Why did the font conflict occur, it never had in the past? Are font
numbers
assigned dynamically?

(2) What can I do to make sure this doesn't happen again? Can I manually
change
Font ID numbers?

(3) I've noticed that each bitmapped size in my Helvetica Font has an ID
number
while some fonts only have one ID number for the entire family. Does this have
something to do with NFNT and old and new font formats?

Thank you very much for your assistance and I hope that many others will
benefit from your responses to this message.

Paul Antaki
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 14:50:36 EDT
From: "Lyman Chapin" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Font names in own font

Although some apps provide a way to display the font names
in the "fonts" menu in their own fonts, there is a shareware
system extension called WizzyFonts (archived at info-mac as
/info-mac/ex/wizzy-fonts-05.hqx; 10K) which, when dropped
into your Extensions folder, causes fonts to show up in
their own font in "fonts" menus.  I'm not sure how this
interacts with apps that have their own means of displaying
font names in their own font, but it works for the apps
I use (MS Word, MacDraw, Canvas, and PowerPoint).

Thanks to Jonathan Brecher, who pointed this out in an
earlier posting to info-mac.

Updating the chart:


WordProcessors/Works programs that DO display the font menu in the
indicated fonts:

    Nisus                                (Option-key)
    WriteNow                             (Option-key?)
    ClarisWorks                          (Default, Option-key disables)
    WordPerfect                          (Preferences option)

WPs that DON'T:

    MS Word
    MacWrite

Unknown major apps:

    MS Works
    GreatWorks
    MacWrite Pro(vaporware)

Tools to add this feature to you poor suffering MS Word & MacWrite users:

    Suitcase
    Now Utilities
    WizzyFonts (shareware - $9)


- Lyman Chapin

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

Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 19:48:07 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Ian)
Subject: FTP novice problem...(Q)

In comp.sys.mac.digest you write:
>We have just hooked up to the internet here in the last day or so.  I was
used
>to getting everything I needed done by using our Bitnet connection.  I can
now
>use FTP and am exploring this.  But when I FTP to apple.com, I get the
>following result:

>ACAD1:: $ ftp ftp.apple.com

>421- We have failed to find a hostname for your IP address [161.45.64.1]
>421- in the Domain Name System. This is probably because your nameserver
>421- does not have an IN-ADDR record for your address in its tables.
>421- We refuse service to hosts whose names we cannot resolve. If this
>421- is simply because your nameserver is hard to reach or slow to respond
>421- then try again in a minute or so, and perhaps our nameserver will have
>421- your hostname in its cache by then. If not, try reaching us from a host
>421 that is in the DNS.

This means that your machine doesn't have its symbolic name registered
with a nameserver -- Apple's lawyers won't let them let people get
their software without being able to verify who is getting them. So
since your machine isn't registered with your organization's
nameserver, they won't let you on.

The only way around this is to ftp from a machine that *is* registered
on a nameserver -- ie. a machine someone from somewhere else can find
by using a symbolic name like mymac.mydept.myuniv.edu instead of a
numerical name like 161.45.64.1 which is your case right now. (Or, get
your sysadmin to add your machine to the nameserver.)

Ian

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

Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:51:33 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Geoff Bronner)
Subject: Gatekeeper

In comp.sys.mac.digest [e-mail] writes:

>What an interesting attitude, especially considering that the author of
>Disinfectant has stated repeatedly that Disinfectant provides a SUBSET of the
>protection of Gatekeeper, and that if you're currently using both Gatekeeper
>and the Disinfectant INIT, you shouldn't.  His advice: remove the
>Disinfectant INIT, and just use Gatekeeper.  (I might have saved a copy of
>his original post if anyone cares).

I've found that combining Disinfectant INIT and Gatekeeper Aid will
provide enough protection for most people. But you're right, if you have
Gatekeeper up and running, you don't need much else.

-Geoff

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

Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:10 GMT
From: "NAME \"Fergus J. Lalor\""
<[e-mail]>
Subject: GateKeeper - Applause and Query.

I have used GK for nearly a year now on Mac's which are customised to death
and
   festooned with thingummy's. With the exception of the latest upgrade to
   Disk
Doubler (I do not have AD) I have not had a single problem episode tracable
to GK - while in the same period I have had numerous other conflicts. IF GK
actually does what it claims to do - and I am not qualified to judge on that -
then it seems to me to be a first-class product.
  Now - a query. The latest upgrade to GK claims to have customisable
  switchoff
- but the CP in my version has the same uncustomisable switch as the previous
version. Am I missing something?
Fergus Lalor. Bitnet: [e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 26 JAN 93 19:24:09 PST
From: ""Micro Mauler"" <[e-mail]>
Subject: growing System 6.0.5 application on Mac SE

     Over the past two weeks my System (v 6.0.5) file on my Mac
SE has grown by +200K and I havn't added any software? I notice I
was running out of memory to load multilpe applications under
multifinder and noticed my System application was quite large.
I've been monitoring it for the past two weeks and it continues
to grow.

     I seem to recall some discussion of this phenomena awhile
back, but I don't recall the specifics.  --Len Schwer
             [e-mail]

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

Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 23:40:12 ITA
From: maurizio lana <[e-mail]>
Subject: hebrew TT font?

Can I find a font for hebrew, on the net?
Thank you.
Maurizio

MAURIZIO LANA | E-MAIL: [e-mail]  | phone & fax [phone]
CISI - Universita' di Torino - V. S. Ottavio 20 - 10124 Torino Italy

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

Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 12:52:54 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: How to connect a Laserwriter II NTX on the modem-port?

Hello,

I need some help from you all!

I work on a Mac SE/30 with System 7.0 and a Laserwriter II NTX. Here are
the
facts of my problem:

The printer-port is used by an external Dayna Ethernet Adapter (that can't
be connected to the modem port). Now I want to connect the Laserwriter to
the communication port. But in both Laserwriter drivers (7.0 and the
included 5.2) you can`t select the port.

Are there any newer driver-versions or any utilities to switch the ports?


    "Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."   JFK

University of the Saarland
Department of Information Science
Angelika Schulz
D-6600 Saarbruecken
e-mail: [e-mail]

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

Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 21:29:58 -0500
From: Gregory Eng Yee <[e-mail]>
Subject: I Ching programs for mac

I'm looking for I Ching programs for the mac
Please forward any you find to wk01858.worldlink.com
My name is Gregory E. Yee

            Thanks :-)

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

Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 12:46:39 MST
From: COBURN  NICHOLAS SCO <[e-mail]>
Subject: Icon wrap utility

I remember some time back seeing a utility that would wrap the
startup icons so that they do not overlap each other.  Anyone
remember what this was called/where it can be found?

Thanks,
Nick

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

Date: 27 Jan 1993 01:11:34 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Steven Hodas)
Subject: IIsi Cache Cards (Q)

I purchased a Logicache card for my IIsi over a year ago and I'm very
pleased. Theere's a significant increase in speed, the CDEV is
non-conflictual (and I run about 40 inits), and at ~$200 you can't beat it.

Steven



[e-mail] writes:

>Hello world.

>Seems I have some money with which to upgrade my si. More memory is the
>first order of business, but I'm also thinking of adding a cache card --
>they seem the most affordable of the other possible enhancements. Does
>anyone have experience with the various products on the market? Is there a
>marked improvement in performance? Any possible compatibility problems? Are
>they all created equal, or should I go for some specific brand name?

>Thanks
>Omar ([e-mail])

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

Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 12:49:46 CST
From: Graeme Forbes <[e-mail]>
Subject: Internet services: 2 questions

In the current MacWeek there's an article (p. 22) on free databases
available via Wide Area Information Server (WAIS). According to the
article, "with a WAIS Mac interface already available, users can
begin datasurfing WAIS servers today."

No further details are given. Can anyone expand on this? Where is
the interface to be found, and how do you access the databases?

Next: in last Sunday's NYT another piece on the Internet described
"Michael Hawley, a graduate student at MIT" who, when he finds a
book he wants, orders it from a bookstore connected to the Internet
and it arrives next day by overnight mail. Does anyone know what
the mechanics of *this* process are? Sure beats the usual 4-6 week
wait if you order from yr local store or the publisher.


Graeme Forbes

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

Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 17:29:19 ITA
From: maurizio lana <[e-mail]>
Subject: is there something like an INFO-PC??

THere are various lists, on the net, devoted to PC, like INFO-MAC is devoted
to
 Macs. I tried one, but with no success: discussions are slooooowly coming,
 the
 last posting from that list came two months ago...!
Does anyone have any experience with a PC-oriented list as good as Info-mac?
or at least quite as good as Info-mac...?
Thank you. Maurizio

MAURIZIO LANA | E-MAIL: [e-mail]  | phone & fax [phone]
CISI - Universita' di Torino - V. S. Ottavio 20 - 10124 Torino Italy

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

Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 09:15:05 +0100 (MET)
From: [e-mail] (Michael Bach)
Subject: jpeg help (A)

Dear colleagues:
To view files in JPEG graphics format, you might want to try the
excellent (INMHO) "JPEGView 2.0" that is available on Sumex. One
caveat: It requires System 7 and QuickTime, as it uses QuickTime's
compressors.  -- Greetings, Michael.

--
Dr. Michael Bach, Dept. of Ophthalmology,
University of Freiburg, D-7800 Freiburg, Germany
(049)[phone] <[e-mail]>

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

Date: 27 Jan 1993 16:58:04 -0600 (CST)
From: "William M. Porter" <[e-mail]>
Subject: JPEG revealed!

Many thanks to all those who replied to my request for info about JPEG.
The nearly unanimous recommendation of over twenty knowledgable respondents
was that I get JPEGView 2.0 from Sumex, which I did. (It requires QuickTime
to run, & I got that from ftp.apple.com without difficulty.) I was worried
that the files I was downloading, which I am pretty sure were not created
on a Mac, would not be readable, but JPEGView 2.0 apparently has file-
format translation built in and was able to read the files without a hitch.
It's a great piece of software (I need to send the author a postcard now!)
and, with the help of the many gurus here, I've opened up a new dimension
of my Mac to explore. Thanks again to you all.

William Porter / Classical Languages, University of Houston

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

Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 13:25:40 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Laser printers in a lab, HELP!-Info-Mac Digest V11 #20

Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:58 EST
From: Fritz Morgan <[e-mail]>
Subject: Laser printers in a lab, HELP!

Greeting fellow netters.  We are currently trying to offer laser printing
to
the computer labs on campus but have a number of problems to solve before
we
can do so.  They are as follows:

    o  Laser printing is very expensive, how do we charge the users for
    it?

    o  We need to be able to have both IBM's and Mac's connected to the
       printer.

    o  How do we keep track of who is printing and how many pages?

We currently are running DEC Pathworks for networking all of our computers
together in the labs, so we can use Pathworks as a print spooler.  What I
was
wondering is how other people have tackled the problem of billing. Are
there
any programs for both the Mac and IBM's that require a user to type in an
identification number before they can print?  Is there some form of a devit
card
system like commonly used on copy machines?  Any information on how to
manage
laser printers in a lab would be greatly appreciated!  Also if anyone can
recommend a good lab laser printer that would also be very helpful!  Thank
you
very much for your time!


                Fritz Morgan
                [e-mail]
 ------------------------------------
I've done some research into this and found two alternatives for my labs.

a) you can use a debit card system like photocopiers, but it means
dedicating a machine (two-, 1 mac & 1 pc if you want to service both), and
the card reading equipment isn't cheap (I've seen prices starting at $1000
CDN., and going steadily up from there), let alone the machine that you
need to add money to cards.

b) there is a program for novell netware called PSERV (it is available from
a number of ftp sites) the fee is something like $150 NZ (whatever that
works out to), and requires a dedicated machine (an XT works).  Then using
standard novell queues both Macs and PCs can print to the PSERV (of course
this assumes that you have mac support for your novell server).  Using
either Novell accounting or btrieve, you simply credit a users account for
X dollars, and then the PSERV debits their account by y per page. At the
end of each job the PSERV prints a banner page with job costs and account
balances.

I'm currently working on the PSERV option here. We already have Novell, so
this makes life fairly simple.  Students just see the lab monitors, request
an  account, and then credit their accounts (via the monitors) with money
as needed.

Hope this helps.

  Donal

 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Donal Lynch, Project Coordinator                 [e-mail]
Calumet College, York University            [phone] (ext.-66576)

       Due to budget cutbacks the light at the end of the tunnel
         has temporarily been turned off.

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

Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:14:22 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Looking for Author of Glypha-II

Received: by alynn.isdl (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA08167; Wed, 27 Jan 93 17:14:17 EST

Folx,

    does anyone know the whereabouts of John Calhoun, the author of
Glypha II? I sent my shareware check to the address listed in the software
months
ago, but have not heard hide nor hair from him. (The address listed is
P.O. box 442258, Lawrence, Kansas 66044). I would like to get the software
key,
or my checkbook reconciled ;). Thanks.

-- Steve ([e-mail])

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

Date: 27 Jan 1993 10:04:28 -0500
From: [e-mail] (John Wiley)
Subject: Macro Maker

Is there a Macro Maker (or something like it) available that will work with
Sys 7 and Word 5.0? Thanks for any help on this.

-John Wiley, Franklin and Marshall College

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

Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:03:45 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Kyle Barger)
Subject: Making chooser find a default printer

We would like to have certain Macintoshes in our public lab areas default
to one printer.  In other words, if we choose Printer A, and a user changes
it to Printer B, it will still be on Printer B after a reboot.  Is it
possible to make the Chooser point back to Printer A after restarting?  We
don't actually mind people changing printers, but it's a problem when
somebody new comes in and assumes their document is going to the local
printer, and it isn't.  So we don't want to lock out the capability all
together.  Any suggestions?

Kyle Barger                         Haverford College Academic Computing

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

Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 16:52:08 -0700
From: [e-mail] (dylan k kuhn)
Subject: Mathcad summary

    The general consensus is that the Mathcad for $79 offer
is genuine and common in the educational-scientific community.  Many
of those who responded favored Mathematica, but I am in the company of
many who can't afford Mathematica.
    One important thing to note is that a lot of people have
been offered Mathcad 2.0 for $79 or less, but Mathcad 3.1 is now
available on Mac, and is advertised as "Maple-based" whatever that
means.  I got some negative feedback about version 2.0, so steer clear
of that one.  It apparently does not work w/ system 7 and is not 32-bit
clean.  Mathcad 3.1 claims to be sys 7 savvy, but does not say anything
about 32-bit addressing.
    There is a 60 day money back guarantee, so for ~$10 shipping
you can try it out for a couple of months, which seems to be a decent
offer.  (I still can't afford to give it a whirl for a month or so,
so if you do before that drop me a line!)  ;->

    Dylan
    ([e-mail])

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

Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 19:43:50 MEZ
From: "Dr. Stefan P. Mueller"
<[e-mail]>
Subject: Mathematica [12 x 12]~(-1) (A)

Tom,

there is no general answer to your question about the inversion of a
symbolic 12x12 matrix. If the elements are complicated symbolic
expressions themselves, this task can exceed by far the resources of a
very fast workstation with very large RAM not to mention a Mac (just try
to simplify algebraically the inversion of a 4x4 matrix with simple
elements like a,b,c, etc.). There is, however, the possibility of a
problem in Mathematica. Why don't you contact the very active
Mathematica discussion forum, attended by members from Wolfram Research,
by sending a question to [e-mail] ? You can join
the list by writing to [e-mail]. Wolfram
also has support through e-mail, look in you documentation. Good luck!

Stefan

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

Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 12:15:46 CST
From: Graeme Forbes <[e-mail]>
Subject: Memory on the Quadra (C)

As I read the posting, it seemed that the Quadra 700 owner had tried
to put just one SIMM into his machine. There are four slots and all 4
have to be filled with SIMMs of the same size and speed. You can use
1, 4, 8 and 16 meg simms. 2 meg SIMMs are not recommended.

Graeme Forbes

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

Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 10:04:46 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Thumper)
Subject: Memory on the Quadra 700: Oops!

In comp.sys.mac.digest Steven Taylor writes:

>But was I right in remembering that the Quadra 700 will only accept up to
>4MB SIMMS? There was a list called 'Macintosh Memory Configurations' or
>something on Sumex with a table of these in. I'm not so sure 8Meg was on
>the cards! But do please lash me with vigour should I prove to be in error.

Apple only supports the Q700 up to 4MB SIMMs but 8MB and 16MB SIMMs are
theoretically possible (and mentioned in TN 176).

What is important here is that the 4 SIMM slots in the Q700 must ALL be
populated. Placing a single 8MB SIMM in one of the 4 slots won't get you
very far!

-Geoff

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

Date: 27 Jan 1993 23:07:08EST
From: "Jeff Kline"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: Modem Woes

Philip Harriman
"I bought a PowerUser 2400 Baud Mini Modem from MacWarehouse for
$89 for my sister and brother-in-law for Christmas. They just had
a chance to test it over the weekend, and while connecting to MCI
Mail they had a terrible problem with line noise (1 garbage
character for every two characters typed). "

Well i have been using a PowerUser 2400 Baud Mini modem for about 2
years and have had no problems at all.  I have had line noise
problems but it is invariably either the house wires or some other
interference.  You can get a better modem that has error correction
or you can ask your local phone company to "Clean" the lines.  THis
is NOT a service call to your home rather it has something to do
with the lines after they leave your house.  I do not know what they
do but a friend convinced GTE in Central Missouri to do this and it
did not cost him a dime (he does not have one of those phone service
line contracts).
 SWometimes I would have problems and just wait 20 minutes and it
would be better.  Also make sure there are no electrical components
effecting this I have heard that some dimmer switches can cause
problems.

Jeff Kline

[e-mail]

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

Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 10:09:09 -0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: New 040 Macs crippled without an FPU ?

>    Well, definately wait til the new machines are released in Feb. The
>new machines for Feb. are the LCIII (IIci in LC case), the Centris 610
>(LC-like 20 Mhz 68LC040), the Centris 650 (25Mhz 68LC040 in vx case),
>and the Quadra 800 (Mini-Tower version of the Q950).

The 68LC040 is the neutered 68040 without the FPU no ?  Is there even
an FPU chip that will work with it ?  Apple still doesn't understand that
if we need an FPU for only 10% of applications, then we need an FPU, full
stop !

Alan Hewat, ILL Grenoble, FRANCE ([e-mail]) Fax (France=33).76.48.39.06

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

Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 12:21:46 -0500
From: Sam Swett <[e-mail]>
Subject: New Apple Products in Feb 10

The pricing information here may be a little out of date, but should be
fairly accurate:

Color Classic 4/80    color compact mac                         $1499
LCIII 4/80            25 mHz '030                               $1379
Powerbook 165C        passive matrix color LCD                  $3599
Centris 610           20 mHz'040                                $1859
Centris 650           25 mHz'040                                $2699
Quadra 800            33 mHz'040 w/ ethernet, 3 slots           $4679
LaserWriter Select 300 300 dpi quickdraw printer                $ 819
LaserWriter Select 310 300 dpi postscript printer               $1079

The screen on the 165c is rumored to be disappointing, but at least it's
color.

-sam

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

Date: 26 Jan 1993 15:25:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: BRYAN SMITH <[e-mail]>
Subject: new programs and updates...

I accidently erased my info-mac
files from December and January
before I got a chance to read them.
I was wondering if anyone could tell me
if there were any important new programs
or program updates during this period which
should be noted.
Thank you for your time and effort.

Bryan Smith
Colgate University
internet: [e-mail]
bitnet:   bsmith@colgateu

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

Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 10:54:44 -0600 (CST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: OSI for MAC

Is anyone using this product from Apple?  We are interested in evaluating
it.  Also,  is there an e-mail address for the Apple network group?
It is difficult to reach them by phone.

                        Mark Spooner/Boeing/Houston

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

Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 01:17:59 -0600
From: [e-mail]
Subject: POWERBOOK AND MIXED DRINKS

Right now I am dialing in from Hawaii and since I still remember info-mac
as the best and most popular forum for Mac questions I decided a long
distance call would be worth the trouble and expense.

One:
Here's a word from a friend of mine that does not have Internet access:

Hey, don't you want to upgrade to one of those fabulous new Powerbooks?
If so, I want your old 100. Any configuration. I am moving to another
island for a few months and need a basic portable Mac-the 100 would suit
my needs perfect. January 26 is my deadline. Thanks!

Don't worry about the deadline, but if you are interested contact me as soon
as possible, I try to check my e-mail about every two to three days.


Two:
Does anyone know of a Macintos specific document (Hypercard perhaps?) that
would have an extensive list of recipes for mixed alcoholic drinks.  If you do
p
please let me know the location and file name.

Three:
Right now I am on the island of Maui.  I have to say that I think everyone
shoul
d come to this island at least once in their lives.  i've been here for a
five or six months and just being here gives you a healthier perspective
on life (not to mention the constant smile on your face).

Thanks for any replies that I might get.

Aloha and Mahalos,
Mel

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

Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 21:22:35 EST
From: Tony Silva <[e-mail]>
Subject: PsFig package for including Mac figures in TeX (R)

Does anybody know where I can get the latest version (preferably by FTP)?

Tony Silva, Atlantic Aerospace Elec. Corp., [phone], [e-mail]

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

Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 10:34:07 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Wonko the Sane)
Subject: Quick CTB question...

Anyone know where I can find one or more of the following?
    1) a VT420 tool?
    2) an IBM 3270 tool?

Thanx mucho.

Eric
[e-mail]

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

Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93  12:11 BST
From: RICHARD LIM <[e-mail]>
Subject: Radius Rockets etc

An acquaintance of mine has a rather involved problem involving Radius
Rocket boards.  He's trying to drive an Agfa Imagesetter using a IIcx with
a 25 MHz RadiusRocket board, and he finds that the performance he's getting
just isn't fast enough to satisfy his needs, whether the Rocket drives the
Imagesetter or whether it's the IIcx that's driving the Imagesetter (in
which case the Rocket is actually serving the user).  When the Imagesetter
is in action, he says, juddering mouse movements and halting typing show
the Mac is under great strain.
Money is pretty tight but he was thinking of selling the IIcx to buy a much
faster Mac on which to install the Rocket to drive the Imagesetter.  I have
some doubts about whether this will satisfy his needs, even if he goes for a
Quadra 950, because it sounds to me like the performance hit caused by the
Imagesetter is too great for one Mac to cope with, even augmented by a
Rocket board - it would be better in my view to have the IIcx drive the
Imagesetter more or less exclusively, and to buy another, not necessarily
blindingly fast Mac to be used for most of the ordinary work.
But then I know little about Imagesetters or Radius Rockets, so I may be
telling him pretty silly things.  What do others think?

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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 10:13:21 EST
From: Gene Mayro <[e-mail]>
Subject: Rotated text on Deskwriter C

I am trying to print rotated text from Freehand 2.02 on an HP DeskWriter
500C. The Mac IIci is using System 6.0.8 with ATM. The font is Times, 14
point, the orientation is landscape, the ink is black. The problem is
that the text that is at a 90 degree angle is jagged, as if it were
printed on an ImageWriter. The text which is in a standard orientation
is fine. I have not seen this problem in PageMaker. Does anyone know how
to resolve this problem?

- Gene Mayro <V5356E@TempleVM>

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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 14:49:34 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Ian Chai)
Subject: saveomatic

[e-mail] writes:
>One warning though. Autosavers can be more trouble than they're worth.
Imagine
>the following. You have a 100 page Word document and you highlight 20 pages
>that you want to run the spell checker through. Instead of hitting command-L
>you accidently hit shift-L and the whole 20 pages are replaced by an "L".
Just
>as you're about to use "undo typing" to get your 20 pages back the autosaver
>kicks in.... Scary thought huh?

Not only is it scary, it's *true*... I used to use "Saviour" which does
the same thing... and once lost 2 pages that way. Now I just command-s
often...

Ian

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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 16:34:06 PST
From: Larry <[e-mail]>
Subject: single sided disks

My wide's school has a couple of old Mac 512's with 400k drives. We
haven't bought diskettes in a year or two, and can't find anybody in
town who has them any more. I put a piece of tape over the other hole on an HD
diskette, but the old Macs wdn't buy it. Anybody have a source for
Single sided, or a way to use double sided in 400k drives? Please mail
to me; I'm not on the list. Thanks!

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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 12:58:09 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (VAX Academic Support)
Subject: Sound: drum roll

The subject sez it all.

Anyone have a sound, or know where I can get one, of a drum roll?

Much obliged!

j
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 9:48:19 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Lars H. Andersen)
Subject: Statistics (Q)

Does anybody on the net know anything about software, preferably
shareware, for the Mac which is similar to SSPS for PC's.  A friend of
mine needs to do some statistical work around questionnaires.
Any hints?
Best from Iceland  Lars  [e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 10:39:22 PST
From: [e-mail] (Brian Gordon)
Subject: Updates on 2 questions I asked recently

Over the last few weeks, I have asked -- and received answers to -- two
separate questions, one of lost icons and one on AutoClock's death.  This is
just a quick note to report what the answers were -- both stock, of course.

1: Missing icons after rebuilding disks.  The disk rebuild, of course, caused
   the desktop(s) to rebuild.  The stock suggestion was to use command-option-
   esc, etc. to force a rebuild.  The next time I rebooted I held down the
   magic keys until it asked if I wanted my first disk's desktop rebuilt (yes)
   and then the second's (yes).  It said it would do it as soon as it was
   finished rebooting, and went merrily on for a while.  I didn't watch the
   whole process but, after getting coffee or whatever, found the reboot
   complete and the icons still generic instead of application specific.  It
   was not until I used one of the "anti-finders" and skipped disk 1 but
   forced
   disk 2 (and watched it really rebuild) that it was fixed.  The solution was
   the obvious one, but I had some trouble making it happen (despite onscreen
   assurances that it would be ...).

2: AutoClock ran finew for months and then died.  Replacing the application
and
   then the OS from backups didn't change it.  The vbersion that didn't work
   under System 7 worked fine if I rebooted under System 6.  Obviously some
   related file (data, preferences, whatever) was bad -- but I couldn't find
   one.  The file turned out to be the Preferences for AutoClock Extension,
   _not_ the actual application.  The application eveidently interacts with
   its
   extension (which does the autodialing for updating, etc.) on startup, and
   deleting that extension was what was needed.

As always, thanks for the posted and e-mailed advice from all.

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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:07:02 -0500 (EST)
From: Seth Ness <[e-mail]>
Subject: worldscript

well know that its february, does anyone know anything new about the
availability of the worldscript extensions and scripts?



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

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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 06:43:02 EST
From: "Paul D. Bain" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Z-modem on vms

Does anyone know how to set up Z-modem on VMS?  The staff at the university
here are not that vms intensive (I really didn't think that modem protocol
was that intensive, but what should I expect from a state school?) and I am
in great need of some expert advice out there.

Thanks.
Kermitting along Slowly,
Paul D. Bain

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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 11:37:34 -0500
From: Marc Dionne <[e-mail]>

Subject: Pop Server installation on IBM RS/6000

We plan to install Eudora in our Campus.

According to the documentation, I have to install a POP3 Server in our Unix
Machin.  Our Unix machin is an IBM RS/6000. I download popper-1.831beta from
ftp.cc.berkeley.edu.  In the documentation, I see that this software has been
successfully tested on some operating systems.  But AIX is not in this list.

So I have some questions about that.

Does someboby have already install this software (or an other POP3 Server
software) on AIX?

Is it really hard or easy to install it on AIX?


Thank's in advance.


Marc Dionne Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres
Bitnet: [e-mail]  Tel.: [phone]  Fax.: [phone]

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