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Info-Mac Digest             Mon, 22 Feb 93       Volume 11 : Issue 42

Today's Topics:

      [*] (submission)
      [*] Align Folders v1.0
      [*] ANEDOCTE TT FONT 1.0
      [*] BeforeDark 1.0.3 (a utility)
      [*] bird-of-prey.hqx
      [*] Birthday Stack
      [*] Central Point's Disk Bug Checker
      [*] comm/thenews-222.hqx
      [*] CompRes.cpt.hqx
      [*] CyberMac BBS Settings 410-668-3903
      [*] Death to NCSA! 1.0.hqx
      [*] Folder Icon Cleaner submission
      [*] GNU Indent for MPW version 1.7
      [*] Grapher 3.3
      [*] HierPopup 3.1
      [*] Inside Mac Games, Premier Edition
      [*] iq-test.hqx
      [*] kodak-photo-cd.txt
      [*] macmines.2.1.hqx
      [*] maia-20.hqx
      [*] Mandella 8.5 -- fractal graphics program
      [*] Oingo Boingo Sounds
      [*] pbst.sit.hqx
      [*] Programmer's Key 1.4.2 by Paul Mercer
      [*] random-dot-autostereograms-26.hqx
      [*] Reference Link 1.0
      [*] sierpinskis-gasket-11.hqx
      [*] Strip-Mac! v2.1 -- an 'adult' party game.
      [*] Submission
      [*] telefinder-301.hqx
      [*] Vocabulary Virtuoso Demo App.
      [*] warbird-decloaking.hqx
      'Border' in WORD5...
      'Sticking cursor'
      (Q) Apple Tape Backup 40SC
      (Q) Open square characters in Word 4
      16 Vs. 32bit w/accellerators
      3Com EtherLink/Se driver
      [Re: [Re: [Euro-Nomenclature Node (fwd)]]]
      Apple Menu Icons
      Apple Thought Police (A)
      Apple Thought Police (R)
      Apple Thought Police?
      ASCII images of formatted pages
      Beware MacInTax Index File!
      Can you upgrade Performa 400 to LC III?
      Cyclone...
      Free Demo Software
      Fried printer port -- I'm sure of it! Now what? (A)
      Ghostscript, how to print (Q)
      HELP!!!  More MacInTax problems... (long winded flame!)
      Info-Mac Digest V11 #40
      Internal-->External HD (A)
      Mac IIci "golf pants"
      MacLayers on HP-UX
      Maximum Memory on Mac Plus
      Midi software (A)
      Modem for a Classic
      PB 160 and VGA monitor
      Public Lab Utils
      Quickdraw printer drivers (R)
      Restoring a default configu
      SCSI Termination Resistors?
      Simpson episode ftp site
      SpaceSaver & Virus Blockade
      subscription
      Supra Fax Modem v.32bis (F)
      Terminal program comparison
      The DT's on a 14" color screen
      UNIX->Mac->UNIX->Mac PostScript (Q)
      Updating STuffit Engine to 3.0.5
      WaiStation
      Word 5.1/5.0 compatability (R)
      Word 5.1 compatible with 5.0? (A) (2 msgs)

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Date: Fri, 19 Feb 93 02:23:11 -0800
From: Michael Ross <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] (submission)

Here is a minor update to my Area Codes/Time Zones DA, which simply

lists area codes in numerical order, with the corresponding state or

province and time zone... It uses Bill Steinberg's Display DA.

908 had somehow "disappeared" from the list. Thanks to Dave Chou for

pointing this out. I guess this is a bug fix... :)

This version supercedes version 1.2 which should be removed from

sumex.

Michael Ross
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/da/area-code-time-zone-13.hqx; 19K]

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Date: 18 Feb 1993 13:04:52 +0800
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Align Folders v1.0

Do you forever find yourself moving and resizing your folders so that they
all line up neatly? If so, Align Folders is for you.

This small application allows you to select a folder (or entire volume)
and have all the subfolders within it neatly aligned with their parent
folder.
An options dialog allow you to vary the horizontal and vertical offsets and
also to have all folders forced to the same width and/or height as their
parent.

Align Folders is free! If you like it, I'd appreciate a postcard of your
home town.

Tim North.

[Archived as /info-mac/util/align-folders-10.hqx; 39K]

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Date: 21 Feb 1993 18:30:36 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] ANEDOCTE TT FONT 1.0

Here is a TT font that I have created because I was needing an elegant,
old-styled and fluent font. It contains only capital letters (at least
for the moment, maybe I will add the other letters and numbers one day).
It is Free but if you like it I would like to receive a postcard from you.
My home address is:
Giuseppe Levi
via G.Mameli 14
06124 PERUGIA
      ITALY

[Archived as /info-mac/font/tt/anedocte-10.hqx; 17K]

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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 93 15:22:31 -0600
From: Brian Lakeman <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] BeforeDark 1.0.3 (a utility)

Before Dark
In keeping with my NO INIT's or CDEV's philosophy here is a system 7 clean

application to collect and install desktop patterns (ppat resource's).

Before Dark installs ppat (PixelPattern) for your desktop background.

The interface is very elegant in both usage and esthetics.  By using 64 x 64

pixel ppat's you can create very complex background textures without having to

use a PICT the size of your screen which saves memory. Over the years I have

downloaded every public domain ppat resource I could find, and I

think you'll agree you've never seen ones of the likes of these.


The included patterns were designed by several professional graphic

designers to be elegant and easy on the eyes.

Before Dark Features:
 1. 30 HIGH QUALITY desktop patterns created by several professional graphic

    designers.
 2. No CDEVs or INITs.
 3. up to 128 by 128 pixel pattern size.
 4. Imports ppat resources out of any file.
 5. Balloon help.
 6. Installs patterns without having to mess with ResEdit or rebooting.
 7. Smart Window remembers it's position on screen (and multiple monitors).
 8. Ability to delete unwanted ppats from database.
 9. Comment feature lets you name patterns.
10. And moreI

Usage
It is very straight forward, use balloon help to find out the option

clicks and shortcuts...

Thank You For Your Support!

Comments/Bug Reports/Chit-Chat can be sent to:

AOL:TemplarDev
AppleLink: L.Solutions

Disclaimer.
The author takes absolutely NO responsibility for this software.

There is NO warranty!


Maintenance release of BeforeDark 1.0.3
2/16/1993

First off I would like to thank everybody who has registered or written to me,

your support has been wonderful. I appreciate it and as a token of my

appreciation I would like to extend a special offer...  Anyone who is

registered can get Chameleon the Commercial Version of BeforeDark for a
special

price of $29.95 by mailing in your BeforeDark registration number, I won't

offend anyone here with a sales pitch, if your interested contact:

Logical Solutions, Inc.
2124 University Ave. #102
Saint Paul,MN 55114
voice 612-659-2495
fax    [phone]

Of course any one who has previously registered does not have to re-register,
BeforeDark is still only $10.00

Changes from 1.0.2 to 1.0.3

1.  Rewrote entire import module. fixes some old bugs, and I added new

    features - patterns will retain names on imports - 6 new features in the

    module.
2.  A new address to send me mail.
3. Some NEW patterns....

Thanks For Your Support!

Craig Marciniak

Use the import function and open your old version of BeforeDark to grab your
favorite patterns and import them in to this new version....

[Archived as /info-mac/util/before-dark-app-103.hqx; 122K]

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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 93 08:43:04 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Wonko the Sane)
Subject: [*] bird-of-prey.hqx

For those of you that were fans of my original Bird of Prey movie (Hi
Dave, Ward, Rory, Matt and Jeff) here's the long-awaited upgrade.  A
few aesthetic changes have been made, like a much more convincing
photon torpedo and a starfield.
    For the rest of you who have no clue as to what I'm talking
about, this is a quicktime movie of a klingon cruiser flying past,
turning, and shooting.  All computer generated, pretty short, and
nice and compact.  Enjoy.
    Permission to use this for stuff is freely granted, as long as I'm
    informed and given credit.

Eric Oehler
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/art/qt/bird-of-prey.hqx; 189K]

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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 93 09:53:39 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Birthday Stack

Netters,

A while back I asked for suggestions for celebrating my boss's
birthday electronically (in true techno-weenie style).  I got a
paucity of responses -- apparently this is not done much.  An
officemate and I brain-stormed for a while and came up with the
enclosed HyperCard stack which we put in my boss's Startup Items
folder (I'm the Sys Admin so I can do whatever I want ;-).  He
got a real kick out of it.  I'm submitting this in the hopes that
this sort of "electronic birthday 'card'" will become more common
in the future.  Any copyrighted material (Music, Sound effects,
and art) has been given recognition.  I have substantially cut
the length of some of the music to reduce both the size of the
stack and the possibility of annoying anyone in the record
industry.  My special thanks goes to Weird Al, the London
Symphony Orchestra, and my officemates.  Have fun!

-- Glenn Fink

[Archived as /info-mac/card/birthday.hqx; 927K]

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Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1993 09:18:23 -0500 (EST)
From: Ric Ford <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Central Point's Disk Bug Checker

Central Point Software's Disk Bug Checker is designed to tell you
how susceptible your hard drives are to an HFS bug.  Simply run the
program, click your drive in the main window, and click Check.  Disk
Bug Checker displays a dialog to tell you how likely the bug is to
occur.


[Archived as /info-mac/util/disk-bug-checker.hqx; 215K]

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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1993 23:19:05 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (William D Cramer)
Subject: [*] comm/thenews-222.hqx

And now, the latest news...

This is a bug-fix (er, functional enhancement) to TheNews V2.2, an NNTP
front end which enables you to read net-news via a friendly user interface.
If you're a new user, you might want to have a look at the "README" file
and the "User's Manual" for help in getting started.  If you're a grizzled
veteran user of TheNews, you might want to have a look at the V2.2 and
V2.22 changes/fixes in the file "V2.22 Changes"

Send vast sums of money (or at least your registration fee of $25:-)
to:

   TheNews
   1257 Worcester Road, Suite #196
   Framingham, MA  01701

and praises/complaints to:

   [e-mail]

Enjoy,
Bill Cramer

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/the-news-222.hqx; 388K]

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Date: Fri, 19 Feb 93 04:30:37 EST
From: [e-mail] (michael j darweesh)
Subject: [*] CompRes.cpt.hqx

CompRes is a Shareware Programmer's tool which allows nearly
transparent run-time resource decompression.

With CompRes, you can compress and decompress your resources
using the LZSS compression technology. This application is only
part of the package. With the program included, you can compress
your resources and see how well this compression technique will
do for you. I'm sure you'll find that if you're compressing PICT
or animation resources, you'll achieve very close to a 50% savings
in disk space. Run-time Decompression is quite quick and the
whole compression scheme can save plenty of disk space, especially
for graphics.

Anyhow, try it out. If you have any questions or comments, you can
contact me (the Author) via e-mail. My Address is in the documentaion.

-Mike Darweesh

[Note to Moderators: Although this might be considered a Demo, the
most appropriate place for this file is in the lang directory (I think).
It's certainly a programmers untility only.]

[Archived as /info-mac/demo/comp-res.hqx; 27K]

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Date: Sat, 20 Feb 93 12:53:06 EST
From: [e-mail] (LL Waire jr timothy a 410-882-7558)
Subject: [*] CyberMac BBS Settings 410-668-3903

Please find enclosed version 1.1 of the CyberMac BBS FirstClass settings
file.
This replaces the one current found in info-mac/comm.  FirstClass Client for
the Macintosh is required to use it.

FirstClass Client is a graphically based communications program for calling
FirstClass based BBSs.  It sports an interface that emulates the Macintosh
Finder.  Some FC features include multi-threaded operations to allow you to
simultaneously upload files, download files and read conferences; command
line user interface (CLUI) for PC users; gateways to other FC BBSs, Internet
and FidoNet; online viewers for graphics, sound and text; styled text in
messages; common functions on floating button palette; session status
window; multi file searching by file name, envelope or content..totally
support
the What You See Is What You Can Click On (WYSIWYCCO) philosophy!

The setup file is configured to dial my BBS, CyberMac, at 410-922-7743.  The
BBS is connected to both FidoNet and Internet.  One Hayes Ultra 144 and one
Hayes Optima 144 with fax are currently provided for your convenience.  These
provide CCITT V.32bis for 14.4 kbps data rates and CCITT V.42bis
data-compression for throughput up to 57.6 kbps.

P.S. - Client software for Windows 3.1 is coming later this spring!

Enjoy!

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/first-class-settings-11.hqx; 238K]

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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1993 19:29:54 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Wade Williams)
Subject: [*] Death to NCSA! 1.0.hqx

A program to automatically kill NCSA Telnet settings files.
By Wade Williams
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

Wade Williams holds copyright (1993) to this source code (such that it is).
You are free to distribute this utility. Full source is included, but
please don't distribute modified versions of the source.

NOTE TO USERS:  You probably have no use whatsoever for this application.

Why use this program?  If you're a network administrator who sets up NCSA
Telnet, you probably spend a lot of time deleting the NCSA Telnet Settings
file from the System Folder because sometimes it causes problems and it's
best just to let NCSA recreate it automatically. Rather than having to
delete it each time by opening the system folder and dragging it to the
trash, I wrote this quick hack which deletes the file.

NOTE TO BEGINNING PROGRAMMERS:  This is not terribly good style to learn
from.  I wrote this quickly, and for a very specific purpose.  As a
Macintosh application, it really violates a ton of guidelines.  There is no
interface, the error handling is minimal,there is no event handling, it
can't background, etc.

Again, this application has one purpose and one purpose only - to *quickly*
delete the NCSA Telnet Settings file.

Suggestions and bug reports (though I really hope there aren't any in
something this short) are welcome at the addresses shown above.

Wade Williams
Academic Computing Services
Auburn University
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/util/death-to-ncsa-10.hqx; 11K]

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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 93 11:59:41 +0100
From: [e-mail] (lab stp - Fabrizio Oddone - 181292 )
Subject: [*] Folder Icon Cleaner submission

Folder Icon Cleaner is a small utility that lets you get rid
correctly of those space and time wasting custom icons, sticked
right there on your folders.
The Finder keeps every folder icon in a separate hidden file.
The known versions of the Finder (7.0, 7.0.1, 7.1) do not
delete this file when removing a custom folder icon. They only
delete the icon resources from the file. Note that no other
information is kept into these Icon files. Folder Icon Cleaner
correctly removes the icon by deleting the file (and by updating
the Use custom icon attribute of the folder). No data is lost,
you only gain a little more free space on your disk.
Folder Icon Cleaner can only be used under System 7 or later;
however, it is rather useless on a System 6-or-older Macintosh.
Life is easier with a drag&drop interface.

For errors, suggestions, and others send mail to:
[e-mail]

Enjoy yourself and remember the shareware fee!

Fabrizio Oddone

[Archived as /info-mac/util/folder-icon-cleaner-11.hqx; 25K]

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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 93 16:54:48 MET
From: ROBERTO AVANZI 338188/SM <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] GNU Indent for MPW version 1.7

This is the latest version of GNU Indent (1,7) as ported
to the MPW environment. report Mac/MPW related
bugs to me and not to the authors on the original program.
They are GNU members and eat macintoshes for breakfast.
there is also a commando interface which  now works (in
previous ports I was doing wrong things).
Happy indenting
Roberto Avanzi
([e-mail])

[Archived as /info-mac/util/gnu-indent-17.hqx; 376K]

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Date: 18 Feb 1993 10:24:31 U
From: "Tom Rona" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Grapher 3.3

Contents of the README file:

          Grapher 3.3  Information

   Grapher is a function graphing program, intended as a low-cost (but
powerful) tool for students and researchers.  Functions are entered in the
standard BASIC notation (e.g. 2*x; cos(x^3); 3*x-sqrt(x)) with the usual order
of operations assumed.  Several functions may be graphed on the same set of
axes.  The program is shareware ($8 per individual, $25-$35 site license).
Registered users will receive updates upon request.

   The program supports the standard menus for saving and loading files,
printing, and copying graphs as PICT graphics to the clipboard.  Other
features
include zooming in on parts of the graph, zooming out, and locating solutions
and intercepts.

   The author is Tom Rona, 13210 42nd Ave NE, Seattle, WA. 98125, USA.  The
program is written in Think C (r) (Symantec Inc.) using the Think Class
Library
(r).

Entry: Type a function, or several functions, separated by semicolons,  e.g.
2*x;  cos(x^3); 3*x-sqrt(x), and click "Draw".  The functions will all be
graphed.

Symbols: You may use any of these: /  *  +  -  )  (  <any digits>   <spaces>
<decimal point>

Functions: You may use any of the functions from the "Use" pop-up menu.  This
menu will insert the chosen function at the cursor. You may also type the
function yourself.

Zooming: To zoom in on an area of the graph, select a rectangle with the
mouse.
 The new domain and range will be shown.  Then click on the "Draw" button. To
zoom out, click the "Zoom Out" button.  The new domain and range will be
shown.
 Then click on the "Draw" button.  You may also type in the domain and range
directly.

Copying: To copy the graph to the clipboard, select an area of the graph with
the mouse, or use "Select All" from the "Edit" menu.  Then use "Copy" from the
same menu.

Coordinates: To show the coordinates of any point, click on that point.  The
coordinates will be displayed in the domain and range boxes.

[Archived as /info-mac/app/grapher-33.hqx; 164K]

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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 93 23:03:25 -0800
From: Jon Pugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] HierPopup 3.1

So I said I was going to leave this alone, but I just couldn't.  Someone
asked for a feature that made sense, so I did it.  You can now create
hierarchical menus that are almost arbitrarily deep.  The only catch is
that you must use MENU resources.  One of the problems with deep menus was
the script syntax.  By using MENU resources, this problem is avoided.
This is for you people who _really_ want to abuse the interface.  Human
Interface guidelines tell us that hierarchical popups are a no-no anyhow,
so what's a few levels more?

This version also makes the alternate fonts more robust, in deference to
Microsoft Word and MacWrite II.  I had thought, when I heard about their
skankiness, that it was limited to their own layers, but NOOOOOO!!!!!
They slam bad values into the global Window Manager grafport that messes
up everyone else.  Gotta love 'em.

This is also available on ftp.apple.com in /pub/pugh/hyperstuff.

It should replace hpopupmenu-302.hqx.

Jon

[Archived as /info-mac/card/x/hpopup-menu-31.hqx; 62K]

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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1993 06:41:36 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Inside Mac Games, Premier Edition

Please post this file for public use. I've never submitted something to
your site before so if I have erred in some way please let me know.

Inside Mac Games is a new electronic magazine covering all facets of
Macintosh entertainment software and hardware, including in-depth reviews,
screen shots, hints and tips, Easter Eggs, and previews of upcoming
products. A free version such as this will be uploaded every month.

Brian Thomas
Senior Editor, IMG

Internet: n8348220
AOL: baba3

[Archived as /info-mac/digest/inside-mac-games-1.hqx; 641K]

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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 93 10:14:07 CST
From: "Conrad Halling" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] iq-test.hqx

"IQ Test" falls in the category of novelty or practical joke programs (it
would be a good candidate for Stupid Macintosh Tricks).  When the user
launches "IQ Test", the program displays a facsimile System Bomb alert
("Sorry, a system error occurred.").  When the user tries to click on the
Restart button, the button moves away from the cursor.  (To get out of the
program, type command-period.)  Give the program to a friend and watch the
response.

The complete source code (THINK C 5.0) and resources are included.
Compressed with Compact Pro 1.33.  Uncompressed size is 36 k.

Conrad Halling
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/game/iq-test.hqx; 22K]

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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 93 17:04:46 PST
From: [e-mail] (Info-Mac Moderator)
Subject: [*] kodak-photo-cd.txt

Here is a informative article about the specifications of Photo CD.
PLEASE, followups to the appropriate newsgroups! Atari Falcon/030
applications mean little to IBM PS/2, and vice versa. This article
is of general interest.

This article is from Dealerscope Merchadising Magazine, a trade
publication for electronics retailers.


Photo CD: New Business Opportunities for Graphics and Photo
Professionals


[Archived as /info-mac/report/kodak-photo-cd.txt; 16K]

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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 93 15:33:35 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] macmines.2.1.hqx

MacMines v2.1 is a simple logic game in which the player attempts to locate
and reveal all the squares in a grid that DO NOT have mines in them.  This
is done by looking at numerical clues on the game board.  More info is in the
ReadMe file inside the archive.  --Erik

[Archived as /info-mac/game/mac-mines-21.hqx; 70K]

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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 93 13:27:39 EST
From: Tim DeBenedictis <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] maia-20.hqx

The following archive contains version 2.1 of MAIA (Mac Astronomical Image
Analysis), formerly MIRA (Mac Image Reduction and Analysis).  The name has
been changed to avoid a conflict with an image analysis program for IBM-PCs.

*** NOTE TO THE MODERATORS: PLEASE REMOVE THE OLD mira-20.hqx ARCHIVE SO I
DON'T GET SUED ***

In addition to the name change, I've added a bunch of new features, including
background subtraction, nonlinear least-squares model fitting, automatic
image registration and alignment, Fourier transforms, and complex arithmetic.
MAIA 2.1 still requires a Mac with a 68020 or higher processor, a math
coprocessor, and 16- or 256-color display.  The shareware fee is $20.00 (US).

Tim DeBenedictis
229 Commonwealth Av.
Boston MA 02116

[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/app/maia-21.hqx; 631K]

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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 93 20:14:26 -0800
From: Jesse Jones <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Mandella 8.5 -- fractal graphics program

   Mandella is a wonderful graphics program for color Macs. It draws
a wide array of different fractal images. This file contains Mandella
8.5, a 45-page MS-Word manual, and 31 sample files. Mandella is loaded
with features including: multiple Mac style fractal windows, seven special
purpose  windows, 69 fractal types, ten draw styles, eight transforms
(including 3D), four ways to automate drawing, a palette editor, etc.
The number of fractal windows is limited only by memory. Mandella works
on any color Mac with System 6 or later. Shareware $40.

   Version 8.5 Changes
    1) Fixed some problems with the new SavePict code in version 8.3:
      a) Copying a fractal window to the clipboard didn't work.
      b) SavePict only saved the visible portion of the fractal.
      c) Automated drawing would only save around 200 PICTs and then
     display an error message.
   2) The Save Positions command has been removed from the Window menu.
      It is now done automatically when the programm quits.
   3) Photo Mode can be turned off by pressing any key (except space).
   4) Starts up about twice as quickly.
   5) Random button works better with small palette ranges.
   6) The Shade and Random butttons ignore alternate and interleaved
      colors.
   7) Added MovieMaker to Other Programs dialog. MovieMaker is a program
      I wrote to convert PICT files into QuickTime movies.

[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/app/mandella-85.hqx; 676K]

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Date: Fri, 19 Feb 93 09:29:30 CST
From: "Steven Nygard" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Oingo Boingo Sounds

Oingo Boingo?  What is it?

Oingo Boingo is a band which started in California in the early 1980's
as best I can figure.  Never quite making the national scene, they
have enjoyed constant popularity in their home state.  I began
listening to the group in late 1982 and have been hooked ever since.

Their music is unlike any other.  My best guess would put it at a mix
of latino beat fused with disco on acid.  Very singable and danceable.  The
lyrics are often very shallow bordering on very deep, satirizing our society
to professing societal paranoyia.

The lead singer, Danny Elfman, has gained popularity for producing much of the
music for Batman, Dick Tracy, Edward Scissor Hands, the Simpsons theme, theme
song for Wierd Science, and many more.

Included in the archive are (trust me, it was hard to decide which...):

Goodbye
I Love Little Girls
Only a Lad Intro
Sweat Intro
Wild Sex in the Working Class

[Archived as /info-mac/sound/oingo-boingo.hqx; 709K]

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Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1993 23:31:58 -0600
From: "J. Scott Hofmann" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] pbst.sit.hqx

             PowerBook Screen Tester

            by J. Scott Hofmann and Kendall Miller
              two very bored computer students...

  PBST is a small program which flips the screen from black to white with each
click of the mouse. If the screen is white, any burnt-out pixels in an
active-matrix LCD display will show up as black holes in the white screen. If
the screen is black, any voided pixels will show up as white holes in the
black
screen. Take this program with you when you buy your Book to ensure that you
get the best Book in stock.
    Since the PowerBook 170 and the PowerBook 180 are the only Macintoshes
    with
active-matrix liquid-crystal displays (LCDs), they are the only machines on
which PBST serves any useful purpose.  However, there are several machines in
the pipe that will use this awesome LCD technology.
   PBST is compressed with Stuffit Lite 3.0.5 and encoded with BinHex 4.0. To
unmangle, either drag the file as is to Stuffit Expander and let Stuffit
Expander to the dirty work, or remove all the text above the --cut-here-- line
and then de-binhex and unstuff it manually.
   PBST is Email-ware. If you use it, drop one of us a line! Our address are
[e-mail] and [e-mail].

Legal Gobbledygook: PBST is (c) 1993, J. Scott Hofmann, Kniggets of the Round
Table.

   (For the terminally curious, "Kniggets of the Round Table" is a reference
   to
Monty Python, but you'll have to find the show yourself :-) )

[Archived as /info-mac/util/power-book-screen-tester.hqx; 7K]

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Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1993 19:59:47 -0500 (EST)
From: Bill Johnston <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Programmer's Key 1.4.2 by Paul Mercer

This is Programmer's Key 1.4.2 by Paul Mercer.  Please add to /info-mac/ex.

Description:

Programmer's Key is an INIT/extension that lets you restart or break
into MacsBug from the keyboard.  It is useful if your Mac doesn't have
a "Programmer's Switch", or the CPU is out of reach, etc.

 To Interrupt: Hold down the Command key and hit the PowerKey.
 To Reset:     Hold down the Control key (or tab)- and hit the PowerKey.
 To Restart:   Hold down the Command key and Shift key - and hit the
 PowerKey.
 To ShutDown:  Hold down the Command-Shift-Option keys - and hit the
 PowerKey.
 If no powerkey is available - use the "Tilde" (~) key instead.

[Archived as /info-mac/ex/programmers-key-142.hqx; 3K]

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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 93 09:59:59 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Jeff Slinker)
Subject: [*] random-dot-autostereograms-26.hqx

Please post this release of random dot autostereograms v2.6

RDA Viewer by Barton Stander.

Version 2.6

Text can be converted into an RDA. This version allows you to enter text, but
does not convert it to an RDA. This option is solely for the registered
versions.
For all of you that have registered, thank you. Please send a disk for free
upgrade.
For those of you that registered and purchased the source code, you will be
sent
the new code directly and there is no need to send a disk for this upgrade.

Thank you for all of your support, and those of you that haven't registered
should
join the rest.

For the educators using this product as a tool to help understand mathematical
equations, there is now available a special class room price for many copies.
Thank you for your support also.

If the image is damaged (RDA image), just hit applekey-r to redraw the image.
Damage to the image can occur if it is generated in the background and
something
is overlapping the RDA window.


The Subsample in the  Editor allows you to do a rough calculation to see
how it will look before doing the longer calculations for every pixel. Instead
of calculating a new Z value for every pixel (this would be 1), it could
calculate
the Z value for every 5 pixels ( a setting of 5). Another way to put it is
that if
the setting is 5, the resolution of one pixel is now the size of 5 pixels.
Experiment
and you will see. Do something easy like just plotting x (z = x).

The range of the x and y values are -1.0 to 1.0 for y, and -1.6 to 1.6 in x.

Files can now be opened on any drive in any folder.


 --------------------------------------
INTRODUCTION to RDAs

Random Dot Autostereograms (RDAs) are images that contain three dimensional
information in a single image instead of a pair of images typically refered to
as a stereo pair.

When the RDA is properly viewed, the random dots appear to come out of or go
into the viewing plane (Monitor, Paper, etc...).

To view an RDA one must focus infront of the viewing plane, or behind the
viewing plane. Focusing in front of the viewing plane is done by becoming
crossed eyed.
Focusing behind the viewing plane is done by becoming wall eyed.

The RDA Viewer can read RDA images. It can also display PICT images. The
Viewer can
generate the same RDA images as provided. Generation takes a considerable
amount of time. If
you are running a 68000 or a machine without the 68881 FPU, then you shouldn't
generate any
images unless you have plenty of time (30 minutes or more). The advantage of
generating images is that
you can display the contours of the data.

The RDA viewer has an equation editor. You can enter in your own mathematical
equations
and view their results as an RDA or as a contour.

The Viewer can save the images generated as PICT files, and examples can be
downloaded.

Open an RDA image with the Viewer Application. I suggest the file
"circle.PICT".

Under the View menu, select "Show Repition Rate". This is the amount the eyes
must be crossed
or wall eyed to view the image.

The two dots shown by Show Repition Rate are a guide to help you focus. Focus
your eyes (by
crossing of walling) util the two dots fuse to make three dots, on focused in
the middle, and
two fuzzy dots, one on each side of the focused middle dot.

If you see four dots you have not crossed or walled enough. Sometimes it helps
to put your
finger in front of the image and focus on it, and in the background notice if
there are three
dots yet. Move your finger closer and further away until you have three dots.

Once you have three dots, you must keep them focused and start to look down
and towards the
middle of the image. You will see the dots on different levels, at different
depths.


RDA Equation Examiner
ShareWare

By: Barton Stander
Mac Consulting by: Geoffrey Slinker

If you like this program send $10.00 to:
Barton Stander
K39 Nez Perce
Pullman, WA 99163

If you are foreign, please send $8.00 US (if you can) plus 2 of your dollars
for
mine and Geoff Slinker's collection of foreign currency.

Send $15.00 and a disk for source code. Source code is provided solely as
reference, not as
a license to use the code in any type of application without first consulting
Barton Stander.

This code is copyrighted by Barton Stander 1992, 1993.

There are no warranties to you or any other person for this product expressed
or implied. Any
such warranty is expressly and specifically denied. In no event shall anyone
be responsible for
any direct, indirect, incidental, or consequential damages. These damages
include loss of data,
damage to hardware or software, or to any person. No responsibility is implied
or accepted
for personal injury during the use of this software. No responsibility for
lost wages is
accepted.

[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/app/random-dot-autostereograms-26.hqx; 947K]

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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 93 21:20:25 EST
From: [e-mail] (Jim Walker)
Subject: [*] Reference Link 1.0

Reference Link is an INIT that makes THINK Reference 2.0
easier to use if you have System 7.  With Reference Link
installed, you can do a modified double-click on a word in
a text editor or word processor, whereupon the word will be
looked up in THINK Reference 2.0.  Alternately, you can
first select a word or phrase, and then type a certain
keystroke, and the selected text will be looked up in THINK
Reference.  Another keystroke hops you back to the editor.
Freeware by James W. Walker.

[Archived as /info-mac/ex/reference-link.hqx; 10K]

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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1993 22:40:46 -0700
From: [e-mail] (THE MIDGRAD)
Subject: [*] sierpinskis-gasket-11.hqx

Dear info-mac moderators,

This file should replace the file seirpenskis-gasket.hqx.
The new one should be called sierpinskis-gasket11.hqx
This is an after dark screen saver module.  It is based on a fractal
and seems to run errorless.  I have added a couple of new features
and is definitely worth downloading if you liked the last one.
Added some enhancements, as well as correcting the misspelling
of Sierpinski's name.
The athor:
       David L. Thompson
email: [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/util/ad/sierpinskis-gasket-11.hqx; 19K]

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Date: 18 Feb 1993 13:13:00 +0800
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Strip-Mac! v2.1 -- an 'adult' party game.

'Strip-Mac!' is a risque, computer-moderated card game for adults.
Briefly, the game plays as follows. Players take turns in drawing a playing
card from the deck. If a player fails to turn up an appropriate card then
s/he must choose between options that include:
    (a)  removing a piece of clothing;
    (b)  taking a 'punishment'; and
    (c)  purchasing a 'reward'.

Play continues until one or all players are naked. What happens next is up to
you.  :-)   Version 2.1 includes a number of new features.

Tim North.

[Archived as /info-mac/game/strip-mac-21.hqx; 374K]

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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 93 15:58:09 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Bernard Aboba)
Subject: [*] Submission

Find enclosed the verified clean version of The BMUG Online Services
Reference v1.0, a guide to FirstClass client, the Planet BMUG and
BMUG Boston systems, and the OneNet Member Network. Enclosed in
the archive is a copy of SuperViewer Classic, which is needed to
view and print out the document. For those of you that have color
Macs, several of the screen shots are done in color.

I would suggest that this document go in /info-mac/reports.

[Archived as /info-mac/report/bmug-online-services-10.hqx; 557K]

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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 93 15:16:17 CST
From: [e-mail] (Eric Hoffmann)
Subject: [*] telefinder-301.hqx

Here is the latest version of the TeleFinder GUI telecommunication client
software for the Macintosh. There are over 2,000 TeleFinder bulletin boards
around the world in Sweden, Germany, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Japan,
Canada, the Virgin Islands, or wherever you happen to live.

TeleFinder v3.01 runs on all Macs from the Plus through the Quadras, and is
32-bit clean, System 7.0 "Savvy," and includes full balloon help for the
new user.

Included with this archive is a listing of TeleFinder bulletin boards that
was compiled and checked for accuracy during January & February of this
year. TeleFinder's default phone number is set to the U. of Chicago's
bulletin board. You should examine the included list and change the number
to a board that is closer to where you live. To change the number,
highlight the modem setup and click on the "Change" button.

This version fixes a bug that affected pasting information into the
Auto-Dialer window, and it also eradicates a bug which caused a crash when
a modem setup file was deleted by the user.

Note to moderators: this file should replace telefinder-30.hqx

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/tele-finder-301.hqx; 479K]

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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 93 12:25:23 PST
From: [e-mail] (Paul Webber)
Subject: [*] Vocabulary Virtuoso Demo App.

*********  VOCABULARY VIRTUOSO* DEMO READ ME  **********

ABOUT VOCABULARY VIRTUOSOI

Vocabulary Virtuoso* is a learning aide that helps you build your vocabulary.
VV uses a variety of proven learning principles that help you make new words
part of your long term memory. The words VV uses are organized into vocabulary
sets, each containing 400 words. Several of these vocabulary sets contain
words commonly found in educated speech and writingQwords that often appear on
standardized tests like the SAT or the GRE. Other vocabulary sets contain
words from professional fields, like the legal or technical fields.

About the Vocabulary Virtuoso DemoI

This demonstration version of Vocabulary Virtuoso includes a shortened version
of a vocabulary set containing one unit of forty words. These words have been
selected from the Educated, Articulate, and Eloquent vocabulary sets. The
Educated Set is included with the VV application. The Articulate and Eloquent
Sets can be purchased separately, or as part of a bundled package.

[Archived as /info-mac/demo/vocabulary-virtuoso.hqx; 754K]

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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 93 08:39:12 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Wonko the Sane)
Subject: [*] warbird-decloaking.hqx

yes, just what the world needs, another Trek based QT movie.

This is a computer generated model of a Romulan Warbird de-cloaking as it
zooms away from a nebula.  Nebula looks a bit muddy in 256 or less colors
but it's still OK.  Short and sweet, since I'm pretty limited on processing
power.  Enjoy.
    Anyone has permission to use it for anything as long as I'm given
credit for the original movie.

Eric Oehler
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/art/qt/warbird-decloaking.hqx; 212K]

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Date: 23 Feb 93 02:28:00 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: 'Border' in WORD5...

Dear netters,
    Is there anyone know how to apply borderlines 'between the lines'
of documents? The commands 'Border' and 'Table' only support this to
paragraph. Is there any technology or tip for lines? Pls give some ideas !

                            W.H. Lee
                        [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 93 09:26:05 EDT
From: "M. Battista" <[e-mail]>
Subject: 'Sticking cursor'

Has anybody else experienced problems with their mouse cursor?  As I move the
mouse around, at times, the mouse cursor seems to momentarily freeze.  This is
happening to different Macs, an LC and a IIci.  Does anybody know what the
prob
lem might be?

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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 15:22:30 -0800
From: [e-mail] (John Muirhead)
Subject: (Q) Apple Tape Backup 40SC

 I have the opportunity of getting an apple 40mb tape backup unit (circa
1987) for next to nothing. The catch is there is no software.
Does anyone know how I can get the Apple software? (it's not at ftp.apple.com)
Alernatively, are there other drivers which would work with it? <$100

- John
John Muirhead - Sr Info Systems Auditor - UBC ( [e-mail] )

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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 93 11:03:34 GMT
From: P Browning <[e-mail]>
Subject: (Q) Open square characters in Word 4

I've got a mineralogist who needs an open square in Word 4 to
represent a vacancy in a chemical formula. There are squares
in Zapf Dingbats but they're all shaded on one side or other.
Putting a border round a space generates a square box but
you can't sub/superscript that. Any better suggestions
appreciated.

Paul Browning
Dept of Geology
University of Bristol, UK

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Date: Sun, 21 Feb 93 19:03 EST
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: 16 Vs. 32bit w/accellerators

Hello everyone. . .
     I have a question that I was hoping someone out there would be able to
help answer.  I am presently using a 50MHz Daystar Universal Powercache on a
LCII.  I am considering buying a IIcx for greater expansion capabilities, and
am wondering if my accellerator will work any faster in this new 32bit
environment.  Please email me with definitive answers or even just an
educated quess.  Thanks in advance. . . Andrew ([e-mail])

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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 21:06 CST
From: "Robert E. Front" <[e-mail]>
Subject: 3Com EtherLink/Se driver

I am looking for 3Com EtherLink/SE driver that will enable me to run under
system 7.0x Anyone with information leading to the capture of said beast will
receive the blessing. The old driver works under system 6.0x but it's a drag
to have to do my networking with system 6.0x and my other work under system
7.0x

r o b e r t

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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 93 17:17:27 EST
From: "Mel Martinez"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: [Re: [Re: [Euro-Nomenclature Node (fwd)]]]

Several responses @ once:

Mark Dodd <[e-mail]> asks:
>
> A couple of questions:
>
> 1. what problem do Quadra's have with MacTCP/IP?
>

None, so long as you are using at least version 1.1.1 of MacTCP.  SOME Quadras
in SOME circumstances seem to have ethernet problems in general communicating
with anything but another Quadra.  This is not a MacTCP problem as it persists
and and manifests on EtherTalk as well.  It is probably a problem with the
Ethernet Driver software on the Quadra (As it does not seem to manifest under
A/UX, which uses different drivers), but Apple is being really lame and slow
to
respond to this one.  Is anyone from Apple reading this?  I hope they hurry
and
fix this bug because it sure as heck affects me.  Grumble...

> 2. Does anyone have any recommendations on an X-Windows system for Macs.
>

MacX from Apple works very well.  I have recieved very favorable marks as well
>From others using Exodus from White Pine Software.  MacX gets the edge in
speed
and overall performance, but Exodus seems to be more flexible and has a few
more
configuration options.


Larry Rebarchik <[e-mail]> also responded:

> I'm using eXodus for the Mac from White Pines Software, it works very well
> over LocalTalk or Ethernet.  The only problem I see with it is the speed
> of the MacTCP interface, I suppose there is a limitation on the MacTCP
> software to run at 10Mbps, or somewhere close to that.  If I run X on a
> GraphOn Xterm across a 14.4K dial-up line, the graphon appears to be faster
> at screen refresh and menu drawing.  There probably is a trade-off with
> color on the Mac, but we've had other Xterminals, Tektronixs and NCD which
> do a lot better on the wire.


This is not "speed limitation" of MacTCP.  Regular ol' ETHERNET itself has a
bandwidth limit of 10 Megabits per second though such throughput is RARELY
achieved in the real world due to the fact that multiple users and processes
at
any one time are using up a share of that bandwidth.  Bad connections also can
cause lotsa bounced packets which slows everyone down as well.  If you are
getting MacTCP+Ethernet performance that is seemingly much slower than a
14.4kilobaud dial-up, then something is fundamentally wrong with your
configuration unless you are using a Quadra, in which case you may be
afflicted
by the bug I mentioned above.

I should point out that even though I AM afficted with the above bug and get
nowhere near the continuous throughput I should be getting (I am probably only
seeing an average throuput of about 40kilobytes/sec), when I have run MacX,
the
response is very near to that of running on the console of one of our
workstations.  Obviously, a faster Mac + a faster connection are important to
the overall performance of MacX or Exodus.

Finally,
Bob Socrates McWhirter <[e-mail]> asks:

> Are there any shareware X Windows programs?


None that I am aware of.  An X-Windows Server is not a trivial application to
write.  If you have a few free man-years to spare, why don't you give it a
hack
and see what you come up with.  We all would be thrilled and awed to see the
free/shareware result!  :-)  I suppose you could call it MacFreeX Server!

Cheers...

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

cross-posted: info-mac, mac-l

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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 93 18:15:38 GMT
From: "Ray Kallman" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Apple Menu Icons

Has anyone noticed that when using Suitcase 2.1.2 to display DA's in
System 7, the icons in the Apple menu are all generic?  I have divided
my DA's among several suitcases and when I install them using Suitcase, the
Da icons which appear on the apple menu are generic.  If I pull the Da's
out of the suitcases and put them in the apple menu folder, then the icons
are correct.  I'm interested if anyone else has had this problem and more
importantly if they have found a solution.

Ray Kallman
[e-mail]

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Date: 21 Feb 1993 18:47:11 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Thermite: our warm little exothermic friend" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Apple Thought Police (A)

The Apple Thought Police, mentioned in Mark&Reed's _Mac_Pascal
_Programming_Primer_, have become obsolete, like most Macintosh things, and
were among the large numbers of Apple employees laid off shortly after the
advent of System 7.0.  Apple used the excuse of Sys 7's balloon help to lay of
a large chunk of its phone support personnel: the same thing happened to the
Thought Police because of another, secret inclusion in system 7: the
Guideline Manager.
  The Guideline Manager is the main reason for System 7's large size.  It
searches the disk in the background, scanning applications for unorthodox
programming technique.  When it finds an instance of creative programming, it
either deletes the folder the file resides in (causing the disappearing
files/folders problem) or garbles the file, causing the random crashes so much
a part of every system 7 user's day.
  Apple says they have fixed the disappearing files/folders problem in System
7.1: in actuality they have modified the Guideline Manager to actually change
the files to conform to the guidelines.  The fact that this can cut program
performance in half is "not our problem."

                Jason Goodman
                [e-mail]


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Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1993 18:44:34 -0500
From: Bob Kerns <[e-mail]>
Subject: Apple Thought Police (R)

    Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1993 08:17 EST
    From: Dan Rolander <[e-mail]>

    What is the reality concerning the "Apple Thought Police"? I've been
    reading for years on the net and in various publications how Apple
    has "a little known squad of mercenaries whose mission it is to eradicate
    applications that don't meet the interface guidelines". Is this for
    real? Has anybody in Netland had any personal experience with them?
    I'd love to hear some stories.

I believe they're called "users", aided by their priests "the press",
"word of mouth", and "the net".

Unfortunately, some violators, such as the purveyors of "Font/DA Mover",
"Hypercard", and "The Finder" have proven obdurate, due to their political
connections, and have only slowly yielded to these pressures.

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

Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1993 16:16:35 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Lance K. Chun)
Subject: Apple Thought Police?

>What is the reality concerning the "Apple Thought Police"? I've been
>reading for years on the net and in various publications how Apple
>has "a little known squad of mercenaries whose mission it is to eradicate
>applications that don't meet the interface guidelines". Is this for
>real? Has anybody in Netland had any personal experience with them?
>I'd love to hear some stories.


I certainly hope that's true. Mac's are great because the interface is
great and it should definitely be consistant. Best of luck to that "squad"
if it is indeed real.

Lance

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Date: Sun, 21 Feb 93 23:52 EST
From: "David M. Rosenberg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: ASCII images of formatted pages

As I understand it, you have a formatted Macintosh document in
some Macintosh application and you want to create a text file that
presents that document preserving as much formatting as possible,
but subject to the constraint that the content consist of only
ASCII graphic characters and the ASCII format effectors Space,
Carriage-Return (with its standard Macintosh interpretation as
New-Line), Form-Feed, and possibly Backspace (used in conjunction
with an Underscore character to represent underlining). No further
interpretation or processing of this file is permitted. When the
text file is presented by printing the graphic characters in a
monospaced font and executing the normal Space, New-line, Form-Feed,
and Backspace functions for the format effectors, you want to get a
document that looks as close as possible to what you get when the
Macintosh application prints the formatted document on a LaserWriter.

Please add me (David M. Rosenberg <[e-mail]> ) to the list
of people interested in this problem and desirous of knowing the
best solution you find.

At first blush, it seems like a simple problem for which there
should be a simple solution. The reason there isn't a simple
solution is that it isn't such a simple problem.

Let me break it up into a number of smaller problems by asking a
few questions:
1. How do you want to handle graphic characters in the Macintosh
   character set that aren't in the ASCII character set?
2. How do you want to handle other printed rules (such as the grid
   lines that might be included as part of a table or spreadsheet)?
3. How do you want to handle vertical spacing that is a fraction of
   a line (such as for a superscript)?
4. How do you want to handle horizontal spacing that is a fraction
   of a character (such as might be required by the position of a
   tab stop in the ruler of a Microsoft Word document)?
5. How do you want to handle different font sizes?
6. How do you want to handle different fonts?
For completeness, I'll add some questions which I know you've
already answered, and I'll give your answer in square brackets.
7. How do you want to handle proportional fonts?
   [There won't be any proportional fonts.]
8. How do you want to handle Macintosh styles (such as bold,
   italic, condensed, underlined, etc.)?
   [Ignore all styles other than underline. For a simple solution,
   ignore underline also. For another (better?) solution,
   represent an underlined space by an Underscore character and
   represent an underlined graphic character "x" by an Underscore
   character, a Backspace, and the character "x".] If an entire
   line (with the possible exception of leading and/or trailing
   spaces) is underlined, that underlining might represent a
   horizontal rule - so perhaps it should be represented in the
   ASCII text file as a line of hyphens. /DMR

I understand what you are trying to do. I suspect you'd give the
following answers to questions 1 through 6:
1. Don't worry about character set issues here. Just copy graphic
   characters into the text file. (The character set issues could
   be dealt with either in the Macintosh application, or in some
   additional processing of the text file before it is sent.)
2. Try to represent vertical rules with Vertical-Bar ("|")
   characters. Try to represent horizontal rules either with
   "Backspace, Underscore" sequences or with a separate line of
   Hyphens. (When using hyphens for a horizontal rule, use a
   Plus-Sign in a character position where horizontal and
   vertical rules intersect.)
3. If there is enough room, put superscripts on a separate line
   above the baseline text and put subscripts on a separate line
   below the baseline text. If there isn't enough room, put them
   on the nearest baseline.
4. Put characters in the nearest character position. If this
   would result in putting two graphic characters in the same
   position, make the line one character longer to accommodate
   the extra character. If there are two or more consecutive
   spaces before or after a "double character" position, delete
   one of the spaces.
5. Ignore different font sizes.
6. Ignore different fonts.

It seems to me the cleanest way to accomplish what you want
(assuming that I correctly understand what you want) is to get a
Macintosh print driver which "prints" by writing an appropriate
text file. I don't know of a currently available print driver
that does this in a way that meets your requirements. If there
is interest in writing such a print driver, I'd be willing to
help by reformulating the above questions and answers as
specifications for the print driver. I hope that if a new
printer driver were to be written, it would have a Print Setup
dialog (or an associated Desk Accessory or Control Panel Device)
that would accept and use user-specified answers to some of the
above questions and some other important questions, such as:
How wide is a character position?
How many characters are there per line?
How tall is a character position?
How many lines are there per page?

/David M. Rosenberg (Internet: [e-mail],
      MIT Phone: [phone], Home Phone: [phone])

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Date: Sunday, 21 Feb 1993 19:11:42 EST
From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Beware MacInTax Index File!

I've ordered the various versions of MacInTax since the beginning of
time.  Even though I've read of problems (primarily on this forum) I
somehow survived--until today.

MacInTax 10.01 has an interested and scary problem.  When I attempted
to open my tax file (with many hours of hard labor invested in it)
MacInTax freaked out.  As it launched I was greeted withg a dialog
box that said, "The document might be damaged..."  That was followed
by a second dialog box that reported, "This file refers to missing
forms, so it will be opened as read only."  The next thing that
happened was a crash of MacInTax (Type 4 error).  MacsBugs reported
various things such as zero divide errors and address errors.

Undaunted, I got out my backup tax data floppy and tried to open
my backup.  Same thing.  I then turned off all extensions and
turn off the Quadra's cache.  Same thing!  I was now really concerned
that my valuable data was toasted.

I spend three nervous hours trying to get through to ChipSoft.  Their
line was consistantly busy.  (Give them a D- for tech support!).
Finally, I got a hold of a support tech.  She was puzzeled by the
problem.  (My fuse was nearly gone by this time).  To her credit, she
stayed with my trying to find the solution.

Finally, she suggested that I trash the Forms Index file.  That did it.
Now all is normal again.

Flame On!

I appreciate being up and running but I most certainly do not appreciate:

   1.  Being snapped by poor programming.  If the program can't open
       a file, it should tell me which one it has problems with.  It
       most certainly should NOT crash the application!

   2.  Listening to three hours of buzz buzz buzz.  These guys need to
       add phone lines and support techs!  If it's this bad now, imagine
       what it will be like in April!

I am posting this in an attempt to save others the frightful experience
that I went through.

Flame off.

Jeffrey Fritz, [e-mail]
West Virginia University

(Disclaimer:  These are my opinions and not WVU's etc... )

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

Date: Mon, 22 Feb 93 14:43:43 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Can you upgrade Performa 400 to LC III?

Is there any procedural problem with this?  Is there something about the
Performas that Apple will not allow them to be upgraded?  I know that the only
difference was the name and the bundled programs, but you never know.

thanks
tim cera
[e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 21 Feb 93 22:03:59 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Wonko the Sane)
Subject: Cyclone...

    Here's what I've heard about the cyclone, or Mac III, or whatever.

*  68040 processor (full)
*  AT&T Digital signal processor chip (58-something)
*  S-video, NTSC, RGB video out
*  Radius and/or SuperMac video boards (I don't remember which, possibly both)

These cyclones will be very much aimed at graphics and multimedia
applications.
The DSP chip will mean versitile sound and communications handling, i.e. a
direct phone port, bypassing a modem altogether.  The sound should be
interesting.  It'll probably be on par with the NeXT (16-bit, stereo, just
generally nice)

Hope that answers any questions.

[e-mail]

P.S.  If anyone just wants to give me one to try out, I'll be glad to test
it!
        :-)

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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 12:21:19 -0500
From: James E Crawford <[e-mail]>
Subject: Free Demo Software

While paging through the March 1993 MacUser magazine, I made a note of all
the free demos that were available via 1-800 numbers. I'm posting them here
in the hopes that some of you out there might find this information useful.

AEC Software - demo of FastTrack Schedule 2.0 (1-800-346-9413)
SoftArc, Inc. - demo of FirstClass BBS software (1-416-299-4723)
Inspiration Software, Inc. - demo of Inspiration (1-800-877-4292)
Aldus - demo _VIDEO_ of Intellidraw (1-800-685-4161)
Kaetron - demos of TopDown and OrgChartExpress (1-800-938-8900)
Mainstay - demos of Markup and MarcoPolo (1-818-991-6540)
Specular International - demo of Infini-D (1-413-549-7600)

I hope these are useful to someone out there. If so, please e-mail me and
let me know, and I'll continue to post these numbers.

Jim Crawford
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 01:20:31 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Charlie Mingo)
Subject: Fried printer port -- I'm sure of it! Now what? (A)

[e-mail] (Aaron Barnhart) writes:

> In other words, friends, my printer port is fried.
>
> I MUST BE ABLE TO PRINT AND COMMUNICATE SIMULTANEOUSLY. WHAT
> ARE MY OPTIONS *BESIDES* SELLING MY MACINTOSH? It is a Classic.

Well, there are a number of options:

  -- get a switching cable that lets you have both printer and
     modem plugged into a single port, and switch between them.
     This is simple and cheap ($20-30), but doesn't let you use both
     peripherals _simutaneously_.  Do you really need to use both
     at the very same instant?

  -- if you know your way around an electronics workshop, you might
     try to replace the faulty chip.  Bill Lipa has a series of books
     on repairing broken Macintoshes.  Try "The Dead Mac Scrolls".

  -- if you find the idea of desoldering a chip too intimidating, but
     are confident enough to open the case and zap the power supply,
     you might just try replacing the entire logic board.  I think
     Shreve Electronics in Boissier City, LA, will sell you an new
     logic board (minus ROMS) for $150.  You can swap the boards in
     a 30 minute procedure.

  -- if the idea of repairing a Mac yourself is anathama, and you don't like
     using a cable to switch between the two perpherals, then you are
     limited to taking your Classic to a repair shop (might cost a lot
     to fix), or to selling it.

Hope this helps.

[Must be some other Bill Lipa.]


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

Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 01:10 MET
From: "E Hoenkamp, NICI" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Ghostscript, how to print (Q)

I downloaded MacGS 2.5.2, can preview postscript files, but cannot print
on my HP DeskWriter, not in 300 dpihat is. The older version (which I
threw away) allowed to set this. Anyone in the know? Edward.

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

Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 08:41:59 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: HELP!!!  More MacInTax problems... (long winded flame!)

    Well, I thought I had learned my lesson last year, but I took the
plunge again since I've been a loyal user of MacInTax for several years.  But,
these guys still don't get it!

    I put myself through a most agravating experience yesterday trying to
install MacInTax v10.01 on my IIsi.  I had ordered the HeadStart version
(v10.00) a bit ago, but hadn't installed it by the time I got I got the full
release, so I tried to install just the new one and it bombed every time.  I
thought maybe the Headstart stuff had to be there, so I tried to install THAT
first.

    I don't have enough room for it on my startup drive, so I plugged in
    an
external drive I had not been using and tried to install there.  The thing
balked, saying it couldn't find a system file.  So, I copied that over from my
startup drive, took all the fonts and sounds out of it (I'm running sys7
w/tuneup 1.1.1) so I could see what MacInTax is trying to install there and
tried again.  This worked, so I moved on to installing the v10.01 update.

    What a mess.  Several times, it kept getting to a point where it
    wanted
disk 3, but wouldn't accept anything I gave it, so I clicked the "stop"
button,
which produced a dialog saying I had a file error of some sort.  Clicked "OK"
again.  It wanted disk 1, but wouldn't recognize it.  I finally just fed it
disks, until I gave it disk 3 and it changed it's request to disk 2, which I
gave it.  This produced an openFile dialog, asking for "segment #1 of the
archive..."  (What archive??!!)  I searched around on the disks unitl I found
a
file called "convertor1" (seemed a good guess) which I opened and it took off
again.

    Finally, the main progress dialog says "finishing installation" so I
figured I was out of the woods, but no!  Suddenly I get an alert saying it had
found a problem w/my volume.  At this point, I had stopped being so anal
retentive in keeping track of the dialogs, since I thought it was now going to
finish ok.  So, I tried to repeat the process.  I did exactly the same things,
but now the @#$% thing froze after removing the Extractor dialog, a point I
had
gotten past the first time.   ARHG!!!  I had to push the main power button on
the rear panel to regain control!  (I HATE having to do that!!)

    Anyway, I tried running the app, and it loaded ok, but I haven't tried
looking at any forms yet, nor have I printed anything.  I drafted up a
description of the problems I had encounted with intent of FAXing it off to
ChipSoft's help FAX, but the line was constantly busy.  I even tried it at
3:30am this morning!!! (I have a new son, so I was up anyway...:-)  Not a good
sign, I think.

    So, what do I do?  Has anyone out there had a GOOD experience w/this
year's MacInTax?  (I just read a post regarding a font problem.)  Or, should I
try to get my money back and use something else?  Finally, what else is out
there that's any good?

    HELP!!!!

'til next we type
HAVE FUN!!      --      Jesse

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

Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 08:11:40 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Wade Williams)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #40

>i have a mac classic with 4 meg (system 7.0.1 tuned) and i would like
>to use a raytracing program

Let me get this straight....

You want to ray trace on a 4 meg Classic?  I hope your project is due
sometime next November.

Seriously, I would think more than twice about doing that kind of work on a
Classic.  That's not the kind of work for which a Classic is intended.

Wade Williams
Academic Computing Services
Auburn University - [e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 22 Feb 93 19:19:55 EST
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Internal-->External HD (A)

On Sat, 20 Feb, Steve Solnick posted at least the third question in a
week on "Internal-->External HD" conversions:

>   I have a IIsi, 40Meg Hard Drive.  If I purchase a larger internal
>hard drive and replace the 40M, what can I then do with the old drive?
>Paperweight is not the preferred answer.  Is there some non-complex
>way to turn it into an external SCSI drive?

Steve, et al: It can't be all that complicated if it was done twice by
Uncle Al The Kiddies' Pal (with apologies to Alan Soos or however he
spells it). Cost is about a hundred bucks.

When Leslye outgrew her stock Mac II 40M back in the dark ages, I called
LaCie and (1) ordered an 80M -- silly me for thinking that'd be adequate
for any length of time and (2) asked if they had anything for the 40M.
They sold me a ZFP drive box. Three problems: The short ribbon cable had
the notch on the "wrong" side, so I had to put the drive in upside down
until those fine folk at LaCie sent me a longer cable that could twist so
I could screw the drive down. Ask for the long cable up front. Then it
was a thrill figuring out how to change the SCSI address. I saw the SCSI
jumper block, but it was not obvious which did what. So I diddled them,
with the drive the only thing on the SCSI chain -- and seeing what SCSI
Probe told me the address was -- until an acceptable number came up. The
last hurdle was the internal SCSI termination. I couldn't find out what
the terminating resistors were, so I kept the ZFP box at the end of the
SCSI chain.

The second time I did that -- replacing the internal 80M with a 230M and
putting the 80M in the ZFP box and propping my office door open with the
40M, I didn't have the third problem. I kept the 80's documentation, so
I knew where the terminating resistors were. I didn't have the first one
either. I already had a ribbon cable that'd go up or down. Still had the
second problem. Same solution.

LaCie has noted in recent MacWeek ads that it is phasing out its ZFP
drive, so act now and maybe get a deal. I suspect they still have cases
for the modern internal drives. APS also sells external boxes into which
you can insert a previously internal drive.

Don't forget to buy the cable. And maybe a terminating resistor.

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

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

Date: 22 Feb 1993 10:11:32 +0000 (U)
From: George Tempel <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mac IIci "golf pants"

              Mac IIci "golf pants"
I've developed a problem (well, not really me but...) with a IIci
running system 7.0.1 and tuneup 1.1.1 with 4 MB ram, 80 MB
hard drive, running with the onboard video.

Under all conditions the mac will be fine for about 10 to 20 seconds,
interacting with the user as normal, then WHAM, a random video
memory pattern (much like when you restart a mac, you know,
various regularly spaced vertical lines from the video memory).
and the mac is dead in the water. Only a reset or power cycling
will help (i always use reset, the user seems to like the power
cycling...sigh).

This behaviour doesn't vary with changes in extensions or even
the shift/no-extensions bypass key. I'll try booting from an external
floppy to see if it is a problem within the system, but it strikes
me as a hardware problem. The mac *was* incredibly dusty, and
I dis/re-assembled it for a cleaning, but this only provoked an
allergy attack and no improvement in the mac's behaviour.

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance

george f tempel
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 22 Feb 93 13:00:22 -0600
From: [e-mail]
Subject: MacLayers on HP-UX

There is a version of MacLayers that works on HP-UX at rascal.ics.utexas.edu.
It appears to only compile under release 8, not 7.  I didn't write it.  I
just sent the thing to rascal.  It's not 100% compatible, but it's workable.

Charles C. Hsieh

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

Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 20:13:59 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Alan Stein)
Subject: Maximum Memory on Mac Plus

What's the maximum memory on a Mac Plus?  I thought it was 4 megs, but
someone told me that one reason a network was running slowly was the
there wasn't enough memory on the Mac Plusses on the network (there
are three of them, and they all have 4 megs).

While I'm on the subject, I have the same question about Classics and
LCs.

--
Alan H. Stein                     [e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 22 Feb 93 01:24 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Midi software (A)

> I have been wondering for awhile now to buy a MIDI software.  I would
> actually type in a song from a music sheet, so that I could play my dr
> with it.

Yes, you can do that (and a lot more. Ah, technology!  ;~)
Items required:
1.  Midi interface (1 in, 3 out would be a good begining configuration).
    Expect to spend about $50 for this one (including cables).

2.  MIDI keyboard/sequencer.  I presume you have one (or both) of these.

3.  MIDI software.  If the music is to be entered by transcription (not
    live sequencing), try ConcertWare+MIDI or  Delux Music Construction
    Set.  I use CW+MIDI for composition and playback. While it is not th
    king of the MIDI-heap, I would rate its performance as solid and
    satisfactory.  Besides,for a street price of $99, it can also be
    rated as one of the less  expensive music notation applications
    for the mac.

Watch out for a Mac-MIDI software report (currently being compiled by
various net folks) which will be uploaded to sumex when released.

Cheers- Shekhar Govind                   [e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 12:52:22 -0500
From: [e-mail] (John Violette)
Subject: Modem for a Classic

Info-mac,

  A friend of mine is thinking about purchasing a modem for his Classic.  He
has a brother and sister in Spain, both of which have Mac's and access to
Compuserve.  My friend is considering subscribing to Compuserve to communicate
with them.  What would be the least expensive modem for him?  I've read the
reports on modems on Sumex as well as an issue of tidbits on modems.  I don't
know if he is willing to pay $300 for a modem, yet.  What he get's, if he
get's,
would have to come with the simplest software to use.  He is not a power
user.
Please respond to me privately if possible.  I'd like some information for
him by Wednesday, Feb. 24 if possible.  Thanks in advance.

John <><

[e-mail]

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

Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1993 17:08:40 MST
From: RANDY GROW <[e-mail]>
Subject: PB 160 and VGA monitor

Hi!

I just bought a PB 160, and I'm trying to connect to my father's VGA
monitor. The manual says it should hook up with an adapter. Well, I got
an adapter which allowed all the cords to connect, but the monitor output
was badly garbled.

Any suggestions?
Do I need an adapter with special circuitry?
Has anyone hooked these up successfully?
TIA

Randy Grow
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 22 Feb 93 15:01:26 CST
From: Andrew Vernon <[e-mail]>
Subject: Public Lab Utils

    My user group is consulting a new public Mac lab in our student center.
But, since this is the first public Mac lab on campus, they have been
experiencing trouble with users trashing systems, smuggling in pirateware
and leaving artifacts on the hard drives. My question to all of you is:
What are the most helpful tools for lab administrators?  I would prefer
to hear about only free/shareware products, since our budget may not allow
for a number of software purposes.

--Andrew Vernon ([e-mail])

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

Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1993 13:59-0500
From: "Brian K. Ogilvie" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Quickdraw printer drivers (R)

>Date: 17 Feb 1993 22:14:58 -0600 (CST)
>From: "William M. Porter" <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Quickdraw printer drivers
>[...]
>What puzzles me is that the StyleWriter does not seem to be able to print a
>hairline (very thin), while the PLPII can, even though the StyleWriter has
>a finer resolution (360 dpi) than the PLPII (which is only 300 dpi). I
>assume the difference lies in the software driver, not in the capabilities
>of the hardware. If so, why didn't Apple (or someone else) write a driver
>for the StyleWriter that is capable of printing a hairline? I've tried the
>GDT BetterWriter drivers, by the way, and they don't cut it either.
>Any suggestions? I'm going to lose the laser printer in a few days, and I'm
>afraid I won't respect my StyleWriter any more.
>
>Will Porter / University of Houston

I have a Stylewriter (I) and can print hairlines just fine.  I set the
"pen-size" in my drawing program to be small, say 0.2pt, rather than the
default 1pt line thickness.  On the screen these get rasterized as the
same thickness, but in hardcopy they are very different.  I can also
report that PICT files of images scanned at 400dpi and then printed at
360dpi on the Stylewriter contain hairlines (and look better than 300dpi
laser printer output to my eye).  I should further note that the test
page the Stylewriter prints when you hold down the required magic keys
contains several minimum width lines that you can use for a size
comparison.  I use standard Apple drivers, as well.

>(BTW: the GDT PLP II so far seems to be a real ace, at a cost just a little
>above $800--and toner cartridges are only $25!)

I paid about $300 for my Stylewriter several years ago and am still
using the original cartridge, which I have refilled twice now.
Stylewriter's definitely can have a downside, but the bang for the buck
is tremendous.

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

Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 13:16:49 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Stewart Walker)
Subject: Restoring a default configu

              Restoring a default configuration (A)
Our Maclab uses bootp to remote boot the lab machines (which have no hard
disks) from a UNIX box (A/UX in our case). Sonic Systems make ROMs for
several makes of Ethernet cards. They set up a RAM disk at startup,
download a fresh copy of sytem software, & boot from the RAM disk. I also
use a utility to reset the PRAM automatically each time the machine is
shutdown. Makes for a maintenance-free lab. Carpetbag allows us to store
most of the fonts on a server, and many of the control panels are also
aliased to the server to keep the size of the RAM disk down.

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

Date: Mon, 22 Feb 93 09:51:13 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Francis Knight, SIEM UK Felixstowe)
Subject: SCSI Termination Resistors?

   I've been passed an incompetently repaired compact Mac. It contains an
Apple/Quantum 40 MB drive MINUS SCSI termination resistors. I suspect the
drive was just swapped out of an external drive case (_especially_ as the
Mac when I knew it previously had boasted a Seagate drive).

   Can anyone enlighten me as to the value and configuration of the SIL
resistor packs for this drive, please?

Cheers,
Francis K.

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

Date: Mon, 22 Feb 93 13:14:33 EST
From: Kenneth Sussmann (PBMA) <[e-mail]>
Subject: Simpson episode ftp site

For extensive information on the TV show "The Simpsons", use
anonymous ftp to ftp.cs.widener.edu. The proper directory is
/pub/simpsons. Everything and more for the Simpson fanatic.

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

Date: Sun, 21 Feb 93 16:38:37 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Jeffrey S. Shulman)
Subject: SpaceSaver & Virus Blockade

[e-mail] writes:

>       This particular situation (SpaceSaver & Virus Blockade) was one where
>each product was written in such a way that there wasn't an easy way for the
>two to work together happily without major changes to one or the other. I
wish
>it could be different since I like VB and applaud Jeff's support of it over
>the years.

VirusBlockade works by intercepting some file creation calls to detect when
a file is created. These calls are also used by SpaceSaver when it
decompresses
a file on the fly. Since there is no way for VirusBlockade to tell it was
really SpaceSaver and not a virus it queus up the file for scanning which
starts the cycle over again.

There are two solutions to this problem: 1) Remove that feature from VB or
2) add something to SpaceSaver that VB can check.

With solution (1) I would be compromising VB's security which I won't do.
I thought of adding a loophole as an option but how do I go about telling
a user they intentionally let virus XYZ into their Mac by checking it.

This leaves #2. Do note that the same situation happens with AutoDoubler.
However the AutoDoubler people provided me with a way to detect their code.
Leonard does not like their method since it may, or may not, continue to
always work. Thus I am waiting for Alladin to come up with a better way than
Fifth Generation and I would be happy to add it to a future VirusBlockade
release.

So yes, Leonard and I have spoken and we respect each other, but the ball is
really in their court right now.

 Jeff Shulman
 VirusDetective / VirusBlockade author

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

Date: Mon, 22 Feb 93 14:04:40 EST
From: Armel A. Agbodjan <[e-mail]>
Subject: subscription

  Hello can you please give informations about have to access your
daily infoMac digest, I am a graduate student in chemistry and I have
just get the LCIII. Armel

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

Date: 21 Feb 1993 19:25:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Peter D.M. Macdonald" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Supra Fax Modem v.32bis (F)

I wonder if there is anyone, anywhere, with a Supra Fax Modem v.32bis who is
able to send and receive faxes reliably. I find that locally, within my own
city, faxes go out successfuly on about 4 out of every 5 attempts. Within
North America they work about 3 times in 5. To Australia and New Zealand,
however, less than 1 try in 5 works and there are some fax machines I have
never succeeded in connecting with. This amounts to a lot of wasted money in
overseas calls, as I pay $1-$3 for a 1-minute call every time the connection
fails. Disconnecting every telephone in the house and using a different phone
jack doesn't help. The problem isn't at the other end because when I try the
same number from a real fax machine the connection is made right away with no
problem.

Tech Support at STF Technologies, who provide the FaxSTF software, have been
helpful; they recommend not using a baud rate faster than 9600 (so much for
14.4 capability!) and setting the modem to wait at least 90 sec for the
connection to be established. This solves the problem for most calls within
North America, but when I call Australia or New Zealand I can see the modem
trying slower and slower rates until it hits its minumum, 2400 baud, and gives
up. But sometimes it does work...

Supra offers free ROM upgrades, but last time I checked I had the most recent
ROM. No problem whatsoever using it as a data modem at any speed.

I think MacUser did us all a great disservice by publishing a review extolling
this modem. As far as I can see, it does not perform as advertised.

Peter Macdonald
Mathematics and Statistics
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario Canada

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

Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1993 19:57 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Terminal program comparison

Has anyone or any magazine done a comparison of terminal emulation software
for
the Macintosh?  I have two macs, and I have both White Knight and Versa Term,
for different purposes.  White Knight serves most of my purposes, but I need
Versa Term to do DG210 emulation.  I am wondering if a comparison has ever
been
done of all of the big terminal programs.

Thank You.

                Greg Sachs
                [e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 22 Feb 93 13:59:53 EST
From: [e-mail] (David Kline)
Subject: The DT's on a 14" color screen

The screen on my PeeCee (VGA) has done this for years.  In the
past month, I purchased a IIci and a LCIII (both with a Apple
14" color CPU) and they do it. I also use a powerbook 140, but
it does not do it.   Shimmer, move constantly, the DT's,
squiggle--all these terms come to mind whenever I turn on the
overhead track lights in my office or the track lights in my
adjacent kitchen (20 feet away).  Bulbs are good, polarity is
fine.  It all checked out.  The electrician even ran a new
dedicated circuit to the track lights, but that didn't help.
Depending upon the susceptibility of the fly-back circuit in the
monitor, and the amount of electrical noise from local equipment
(in this case, track lights), I am experiencing that "marginal"
behavior where the monitor and associated video card pass
inspection but are marginal so with a little age and/or in a
noisy environment, they "squirm." I have an RFI problem that I
am afraid will have to be corrected by ripping out all of the track lights
in the house or else I should keep the lights and buy better monitors.
Constructive suggestions would be sincerely appreciated.

[e-mail]    [e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 08:02:41 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Joseph R. Matarese)
Subject: UNIX->Mac->UNIX->Mac PostScript (Q)

(Sorry for putting so many trademarks in one subject line.)

Here's a question for people who brazenly toss PostScript files
between Macs and UNIX boxes:

I create PS files on a UNIX workstation, input them into Adobe
Illustrator on the Mac, annotate them and save them to a PS file, send
them back to UNIX to incorporate them into a TeX document via dvips
(Rokicki's), and then print them through a GatorBox to various
laserwriters.  Why exactly don't the figures come out?  I get the
captions, but otherwise nada.  When I used to print to a UNIX
laserwriter, it worked fine.  Do the Appletalk printers get confused
at seeing LaserPrep info encapsulated by the dvips output?  Does that
last sentence even make sense?

If I figure out the answer first, I'll post it.  Since I'm in thesis
mode however, I might just take the laserwriter off of Appletalk and
put it back on the UNIX box.

Thanks
joe matarese (@erl.mit.edu)

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

Date: Mon, 22 Feb 93 10:27:43 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Sak Wathanasin)
Subject: Updating STuffit Engine to 3.0.5

I downloaded the Stuffit Deluxe 3.0.4->3.0.5 patches kindly provided by
Aladdin, but found that I could could not update my Stuffit Engine to
3.0.5. This was because my Stuffit Engine was still at 3.0.3 instead of
3.0.4 as the updater wanted. Unfortunately, the previous 3.0.3->3.0.4
update package only contained an updater for Stuffit Deluxe itself.

A mail message to Leonard Rosenthol revealed that the Stuffit Engine
3.0.3->3.0.4 updater was included in the Space Saver 3.0.4 update package.
I had not downloaded this previously because I don't use SS.

I thought I'd pass this on in case anyone else had the problem, and also to
thank Leonard for the fine service that Aladdin provides.

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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 11:16:14 +0300
From: [e-mail] (Anders Alvers)
Subject: WaiStation

Hi out there hyperneters,
I would like to know how to put up a WAISstation on my mac, I have a
journal, at the moment only on paper but I would like to have it
electrinic, so one could search for singel words or whole sentences, just
like one can do with Wais. Please help.
Thanks folks.

Cheers Nille

_________________________________________
Anders Alvers  /Anders.Alvers@[e-mail]/

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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 93 12:44:26 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Word 5.1/5.0 compatability (R)

Paul Brians asks:

>One of the nice touches in Word 5.0 is its transparent compatibility
>with 4.0.  Any document created in one version can be opened and read
>by the other without altering it so it needs any kind of "conversion."
>I got my inexpensive upgrade offer from Microsoft for 5.1 but I use
>many computers at work which may not upgrade.  Will I run into any
>compatibility problems if I create documents at home on 5.1 and then
>use them at work with 5.0 and vice versa?

I experimented with two machines in our office, one with 5.0 and one
with 5.1a.  5.0 will certainly open a 5.1a document and allow you to
work with it, with no apparent problems.  This is not to say, however,
that there might not be very subtle changes in things such as format-
ting. I didn't observe any, though.

Of course, there are changes between the two packages that will show
up if you open a doc made with the newer in the older. One that comes
to mind is the comment feature, or whatever they call that thing, which
wouldn't translate downward since I don't believe Word 5.0 had that
(I tend to get lost in version numbers, but I think that's new to 5.1.)
So while you can open your document and work with it, some things added
or entered in 5.1 will not show up in 5.0.

This is all just my off-the-cuff impression.
                          Pat

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

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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 93 11:00 EST
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Word 5.1 compatible with 5.0? (A)

In 11-41, Paul Brians <[e-mail]> says:
>One of the nice touches in Word 5.0 is its transparent compatibility
>with 4.0.  Any document created in one version can be opened and read
>by the other without altering it so it needs any kind of "conversion."
and asks if 5.1 is compatible with 5.0. The answer to that question is yes.

But the early part of the question is actually wrong.  The file format of
version 4.0 is not the same as 5.0.  There's a minor difference in the
header info--a difference great enough so that PageMaker could not place
SOME 5.0 documents although it could handle all 4.0 documents.  (PageMaker
Word add-on was updated so this is no longer a problem. The problem
occurred when a 4.0 document was edited and re-saved in 5.0.)
Jeff Needleman  <[e-mail]>

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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 17:06:52 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Thumper)
Subject: Word 5.1 compatible with 5.0? (A)

Paul Brians writes:

>I got my inexpensive upgrade offer from Microsoft for 5.1 but I use
>many computers at work which may not upgrade.  Will I run into any
>compatibility problems if I create documents at home on 5.1 and then
>use them at work with 5.0 and vice versa?

You should not have any problems. v5.1 uses the same file format as 5.0
and 4.0. I work in 5.1 and share files with 5.0 users every single day.

But, I'd advise that you avoid the Fast Save feature if you bounce between
those different versions on a regular basis. In fact, I advise people to
avoid Fast Save at all costs.

-Geoff
--
[e-mail] - Computing Support Consultant, Tuck School of Business

    "Don't believe the hype!"
        -Public Enemy

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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 7:44:03 PST
From: backmod (Info-Mac Moderator )

Subject: [*] mario-world-startup.hqx
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Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1993 23:32 EST
From: "PROF. L.G. LEDUC" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Mario-Yoshi Startupscreen
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For those who love to play Mario World here is a color startupscreen
(640 x 480) which shows Mario riding his Yoshi. Thanks to my children,
Julie and Paul, who spent a few hours making it. If you like it, send
Email to me and I'll tell them that their work was appreciated.

Leo G. Leduc
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/art/mario-world-startup.hqx; 17K]

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