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Info-Mac Digest             Tue, 23 Feb 93       Volume 11 : Issue 43

Today's Topics:

      [*] an updated version of Tank Wars
      [*] bolo-random-map-generator.hqx
      [*] finder-to-front.hqx
      [*] FindIt 1.1.1
      [*] husky startupscreen
      [*] naff.hqx
      [*] rnMac 0.4b
      [*] Speed Message II (v2.0) - E-mail Utility
      [*] TE32K version 1.1
      [*] text-merge-2.hqx
      [*] the-wall-message.cpt.hqx
      [*] TidBITS#165/22-Feb-93
      (Q) Personal LaserWRiter LS 7.2 driver?
      3Com EtherLink/Se driver
      Apple tape backup device
      Apple Thought Police (C)
      At Ease file management solution
      Beware MacInTax, get the updates (Comment)
      Centris 800x600 16bit color  (Q)
      Disk Cache in Mac OS
      DoubleColor SX card in Centris 650?
      Econometrics and Neural Net Applications - suggestions?
      European Apple Sales...
      Ghostscript 2.5.2b1 woes
      ghostscript ?
      Hard Disk Failures on Mac
      Imagewriter problem
      Info-mac Mirors in Europe?
      Installing Quadra V-RAM (Q)
      Internet Networks in France?
      iq test
      Looking for MACRoad (sp ??)
      MacInTax problems, part 2 (much beter, this time!)
      Mac Plus Maximum Memory
      MATLAB and Error of Type 1 (Q)
      Microsoft Excel on MAC & PC
      MIDI software for Macintosh
      networking Quadras to IBM workstations (Q)
      Open square characters in Word 4 (2 msgs)
      out of memory in Finder (C)
      Photographic composites from Video [Q]
      Presentation Systems (A)
      Printer Driver for 512E
      Printing to ASCII files
      Radius MATH and Omega Sane
      Removing Balloon Help (A)
      Request for test of accelerated LC vs. LCIII
      rubbing Presidential shoulders
      Search for Memory-Ulitity
      Supra Fax Modem v.32bis (2 msgs)
      Supra Fax Modem v.32bis (F)
      TaxCut
      Tektronix Patent - Request for Info
      Thoughts on the Centris
      Updating Stuffit Deluxe to version 3.05
      V32bis and Zmodem
      Where is "PowerLess"? (A)
      Whistle from LC
      Word, RTF & e-mail

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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 18:11:03 +0600
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] an updated version of Tank Wars

    This is a newer and very much improved version of Tank Wars with
all of its reported bugs removed.  This program was checked with
Disinfectant 2.9, and compacted with Compact Pro 1.33 before it was sent.
The READ ME file attacked with this application, explains all.  Place this
file in the 'GAME' directory.  -Thank you

                 Sincerely Yours,

             Richard Ballantyne

[Archived as /info-mac/game/tank-wars.hqx; 109K]

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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 93 19:23:33 PST
From: [e-mail] (Info-Mac Moderator)
Subject: [*] bolo-random-map-generator.hqx

Hi All,

There are lots of Bolo editors around these days, but I haven't seen a
random map generator yet, so here's my first attempt at it.  Its a bit weak
at the moment, but we played one map, and the major complaint was the map
was too big (100*100 is too big for 5 or 6 people) (40*40 is way too small
for 16 pillboxes, that was my first map :-).

It currently produces maps with only grass and forrest.  I've got no good
ideas for placing roads, rivers, or buildings, so I ignored them for now.

You feed it numbers for rows, cols, %land, %forest, #bases, #pillboxes, and
the starting armour, shells and mines for the pillboxes (all settings have
a pair of values, and it will choose between them at random, or pick a
reasonable value if you don't give it any help).

BTW, one thing that I think might improve the start of the game is to have
all bases start off empty.  This negates (to a degree) the tactic of
running around grabbing them all, since others can just put a few shots
into them to take them back.  It also slows down the start of the game
which tends to make for a more even game.  It'd be better if Bolo didn't
increase the contents of bases until they were initially taken, otherwise
they tend to grow while you are waiting to get everyone connected (the game
start delay is nice, but it usually takes us a long time to get everyone
connected at the same time).

Please, please, please let me know how you think the map's could be
improved (preferably with ideas on HOW it can be done, but any ideas would
be good).

Enjoy,
   Peter - yet another Bolo enthusiast :-)

[Archived as /info-mac/game/bolo-random-map-generator.hqx; 13K]

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Date: Sun, 21 Feb 93 20:54:37 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Dominik Hoffmann)
Subject: [*] finder-to-front.hqx

This is Finder-To-Front a small application that when run will
put the Finder in the foreground and then quit. It is meant to
be put into the Startup folder if you have System 7. Starting
with a tilde (~) its file name will make sure that it is the
last item to be run in the Startup folder. That way you can au-
tomatically launch a lot of applications, accessories etc. on
startup and end up with the Finder in the foreground so you can
commence work.

Since this was not present in the archives anymore I thought I'd
repost it.

I am not the author.

Dominik Hoffmann ([e-mail])

[Archived as /info-mac/util/finder-to-front.hqx; 33K]

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Date: 22 Feb 93 14:17:00 EST
From: "EMIS2::CLEMENTSG" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] FindIt 1.1.1

Subject: FindIt 1.1.1

Hi,

    I'd like to replace FindIt1.1.0 with this new version. Version
1.1.1 of FindIt no longer has a bug in which older macs running system 7
would bomb while the program was starting up.

    FindIt still searches the text files in a folder full of files for
a text string you specify. FindIt supports case insensitive searches and
recursive folder searches.

Thanks

geoff
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/util/find-it-111.hqx; 42K]

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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 93 09:46:25 EST
From: Dr. G. Paul Savage <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] husky startupscreen

This is a 640x480 colour startupscreen of a husky in the snow. If
you have trouble getting this startupscreen to work please read the report
/info-mac/report/startup-deskpict-faq.txt before emailing me. On the other
hand, feel free to email me if you like this screen.

Cheers

Paul.

[Archived as /info-mac/art/husky-startup.hqx; 86K]

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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 08:06 CET
From: Christopher Garland CEC EUROTRA <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] naff.hqx

 Read file X.


***********************
Not Another File Filter  - a comms/multi-OS environment utility.
***********************


NAFF is a no-frills, quick-and-dirty utility for converting between Mac,
Dos and Unix text file formats. Just drag the file(s) you wish to convert
over the NAFF icon, select the conversion required and the characters to
be added to construct the output file name(s) and let it go....

NAFF runs in the background under System 7 (which it requires), but in
any case is reasonably fast, so it should not often need to be
backgrounded, unless you have very large, or very many files to convert.
Double-clicking the NAFF icon will present an input file selection box
immediately for conversion of a single file.

Output files are in MacWrite text file format, still the lowest common
denominator format and readable by any text editor/word processor.

This program is free. Distribute it as you like, but only with this
documentation.

Future enhancements
 ------------------

NAFF does not accept whole folders in 'drag & drop' mode yet - this may
be a useful improvement. I might add a few options (setting file
type and creator, default conversion etc.). More than this would be
against the original idea of a simple tool which "does nothing very much,
but does it very well".

Bugs and suggestions to me please:

Chris Garland  Compuserve 100015,2216

[Archived as /info-mac/util/naff.hqx; 13K]

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Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1993 19:35:36 -0500
From: Roy Wood <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] rnMac 0.4b

Here's another update to rnMac.  This should replace /comm/rnmac03b.cpt.hqx,
and I guess the name should be /comm/rnmac04b.cpt.hqx.

Hopefully the nastiest bugs are now a thing of the past....

And for those of you just tuning in, rnMac is an offline newsreader,
designed to work with UUPC and ToadNews.

-Roy

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/rn-mac-04b.hqx; 100K]

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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 15:32:51 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Speed Message II (v2.0) - E-mail Utility

Speed Message II
version 2.0

This is a simple e-mail program created for small networks of Macs.

Self-Extracting Archive (once de-hqx'd)

Thanks,
Scott Johnson

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/speed-message-ii-20.hqx; 155K]

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Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1993 19:39:09 -0500
From: Roy Wood <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] TE32K version 1.1

Here's an update to TE32K.  I guess you'll call this one
/source/c/te32k11.cpt.hqx to replace the old version.

This one fixes a lot of bugs in the old version.

And if you're unfamiliar with TE32K, it is a replacement
for TextEdit, allowing for more than 32K text records.


-Roy

[Archived as /info-mac/source/c/te32k-11.hqx; 77K]

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Date: 22 Feb 1993 16:24:44 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (eric shelden (wadsworth))
Subject: [*] text-merge-2.hqx

Text-Merge2 or "Cat!" is an updated version of the original text-
merge program used for finding and combining text files. Like the
original program, this program allows users to specify the folder to
be searched and accepts a search string of characters which can
include the wild-card "?" character. Files with names containing the
search string (start, end, or anywhere can be specified) are copied to
an output file in the designated folder. In addition,

1)  The program is now modeless, allowing other programs to run
simultaneously.

2) The program now includes a multi-folder search option which
when selected causes the program to search both the designated
folder as well as any folders contained within this folder.

Registered users recieve the latest version of the program and
"Creator" a utility program that allows users to change the creator
type of specified text documents, thus
allowing multiple TEXT formatted documents to be automatically
loaded into any desired application. Has been run on systems 6.0.5 or
later on Classic, LC, IIsi, IIcx. Must be unstuffed with Stuffit.
Shareware 10$. Eric Shelden ([e-mail])

[Archived as /info-mac/util/text-merge-2.hqx; 35K]

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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 93 11:09:50 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Yair Elharrar)
Subject: [*] the-wall-message.cpt.hqx

Here it is at last. The wonderful backwards-masked message in The Wall,
in System 7 double-clickable format. See if you can understand the words
Roger Waters is saying there!

Taken from the instrumental opening of Empty Spaces.

Have fun, Floyd lovers!


        Yair Elharrar
        Bar-Ilan University

[Moderators: I'm sending it in 9 60K chunks]

[Archived as /info-mac/sound/backwards-wall-message.hqx; 505K]

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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 93 22:01:35 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: [*] TidBITS#165/22-Feb-93

TidBITS#165/22-Feb-93

 This week we look more closely at component level repair and
   whether or not it is reasonable to expect Apple to do it,
   report on a deal from Connectix that, in an unusual move, is
   only open to users of online services, and present much-awaited
   benchmarks on the just-released machines, again from Tom
   Thompson and BYTE Labs. Also, those of you on the Internet
   can check out parts of "The Internet Companion," available
   via anonymous FTP.

Topics:
    MailBITS/22-Feb-93
    Online Books
    Connectix Online Offer
    Apple Repair, Continued
    February Mac BYTE Benchmarks
    Reviews/22-Feb-93

[Archived as /info-mac/digest/tb/tidbits-165.etx; 28K]

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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 93 22:16:51 EST
From: [e-mail] (Alan Piszcz)
Subject: (Q) Personal LaserWRiter LS 7.2 driver?

Has anyone seen the LS 7.2 driver?  It was mentioned in MacWORLD
as being available on APPLELINK.

Thanks.

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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1993 15:12:08 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Pete Resnick)
Subject: 3Com EtherLink/Se driver

"Robert E. Front" <[e-mail]> writes:

>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

They should be available from ftp.3com.com in the adapters/drivers
subdirectory. If you can't get it, I think I may have a version I
downloaded from them a while back; don't know if it's the latest, but
it should work.

pr
--
Pete Resnick                         [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 93 09:23:58 MET
From: Christian F. Buser <[e-mail]>
Subject: Apple tape backup device

[e-mail] (John Muirhead) ASKED IN i-m # 42:
>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

Sure that both RETROSPECT (from Dantz Development) and FASTBACK (from
Fifth Generation Systems) would work with th Apple tape device. I don't
know about their current prices, but if you're lucky you shouldn't pay
more than $100 US mail order. If you need technical info about the
software, contact the companies direct; they both are very helpful (I'm
registered at home for Fastback and in the office for Retrospect)

Hope this helps, Christian.            [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 93 11:46 EST
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Apple Thought Police (C)

In 11-42, Jason Goodman comments on the Apple Guideline Manager of Sys 7. I
wonder:
1) How many people took him seriously and
2) How many people (like me) didn't but felt the urge to show they weren't
fooled <g>.
Good one, Jason; had me going for a second!
Jeff Needleman  <[e-mail]>

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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:32:24 CST
From: bq Mackintosh <[e-mail]>
Subject: At Ease file management solution

Anyone interested in file management software for At Ease (i.e. trashing
and copying of files on a floppy, accessing software on a floppy, etc.)
can contact the author of a such a package:  Mark Eaton
([e-mail].).  The software is currently in beta
testing in student labs at the University of Missouri, Columbia.


bq Mackintosh

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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1993 19:18:25 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Steve Strassmann)
Subject: Beware MacInTax, get the updates (Comment)

I've been more than a little upset at the makers of MacInTax
myself, both last year and this. There's a little crashing problem
in version 10.01 (what I have). Giving MacInTax more RAM helps, but
call ChipSoft for the free update, just the same.

If you plan to import tax information from Quicken 3.0 to
MacInTax, I just discovered you need Quicken 3.0 release 6 or greater
(currently they're at release 9). You can determine your release number
by typing option-r while the "About Quicken" box is open. The bug is
an incompatible change in MacinTax's file format (the STD template).
Intuit are being good sports about it, call them for a free update.

The lesson here is that if you wait till the last minute and expect
your tax software to pull you through in the clutch, don't count on it.

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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 18:21:04 -0600 (MDT)
From: "Eric H. Carter" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Centris 800x600 16bit color  (Q)

The press release on the Centris models states: "The built-in
video also allows both new Macintosh Centris computers to drive many
VGA and Super VGA monitors (commonly used with DOS PCs) in 32,768
colors up to 800 x 600 resolution."

Being a student, I am interested in the SVGA option because
of it's potential of being *cheaper* and the hope of 800x600 resolution
in 16 bit color. However, various mac publications have ominously
warned that not all Super VGA monitors will work with a Centris.

Can anyone recommend a good (cheap) SVGA monitor that will
work with a Centris in 16 bit color at 800 x 600 resolution, or even
better, explain the characteristics that identify a Super VGA monitor
as being one that will *work*.

Thanks,

Eric Carter
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1993 00:00 PST
From: "Tony Wong ......" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Disk Cache in Mac OS

It may be another FAQ, but I guess someone else will also be interested.

Is the disk cache in Mac OS a read-only cache? ( ie. Only cache the read
command, but wait until the write is complete. )

Also, it there any difference between write-back cache and write-through
cache?
Or there're other model of disk cache?

Part of the reason I ask was in Microsoft Window, it has read cache and write
cache, and the 68040 has a write-back cache, which improve its speed
dramatically. I also notice that the disk cache in a PC is much faster than a
Mac. ( Well, I'm comparing a 486DX-33 with a vintage Mac IIx, which is not
really fair. ) Just wondering how efficient/effective the Mac OS disk-cache
is, and if it is not efficient, is there any better alternatives.

Finally, how does the cache on the disk controller affects performance? Say
the disk has its own 128k cache, will a larger Mac OS cache help?


                            Thanks.

                            Tony

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Date: 23 Feb 1993 03:47:40 -0500 (EST)
From: "William P. Krauthammer" <[e-mail]>
Subject: DoubleColor SX card in Centris 650?

Hello to all.

I have a DoubleColor SX card installed in my IIsi. I hope to buy a C650 in
June (hopefully after a couple of price cuts :)) and I was wondering whether
I would gain any advantages by putting the card in the new machine. The
monitor is an E-Machines T16.

More specifically, I guess what I'm asking is whether the C650's onboard video
is as fast as my IIsi with the DoubleColor card? (This is my only basis for
comparison.)

Any informed advice, comments are sincerely appreciated.

Thank you kindly,

Bill Krauthammer

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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 93 8:53:16 GMT
From: Ron Burns <[e-mail]>
Subject: Econometrics and Neural Net Applications - suggestions?

A friend needs suggestions for econometrics and (separately) neural network
applications in order to repel an Intel attack....
Anybody help?
Will summarise and post responses..
TIA
________________________
 Ron Burns, Bournemouth University, UK
 [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1993 12:17:05 +0100
From: Elliot Bennett <[e-mail]>
Subject: European Apple Sales...

David Steiner <[e-mail]> writes :

>> I visited an Apple dealer in Bremen on the 11th and was told that
>> Apple Germany probably will wait until after CeBit in Hannover (the
>> end of March) before announcing the pricing here. In addition, they
>> were not interested in making any deals on the IIsi or ci since
>> (in Germany) they are not officially discontinued.

And Jean-Philippe NICAISE answered:

>In France the new official prices and machines are available. In fact
>the new machines could be seen as soon as Feb 12th (same date as
>Tokyo's MacWorld) on Apple booth at the PC Forum, Paris.

Well, I can't speak for Bremen, but we here in Koeln (Cologne) have had all
the new Mac products available since Feb 12 as well.  I can't speak for
availability (we're about to order a Quadra 800, so I guess I'll find out soon
enough), but all the new products are in the price list (though the ci/si are
not).

Just thought you'd like to know...
Elliot Bennett
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 93 17:10:55 CST
From: [e-mail] (Juan M. Courcoul)
Subject: Ghostscript 2.5.2b1 woes

During my latest foray into Info-Macland, I came across & downloaded the
Ghostscript 2.5.2b1 distribution; a fine piece of software, no doubts.

However, when I've used it on a PowerBook 180 w/System 7.1, I've run
across some troublesome snags. The first few id 28 failures were due to
lack of memory, promptly solved with more virtual memory. However, after
downloading the Laserprep, if I open any Postscript doc and have it
displayed onscreen, any attempt to use the menus will result in a
totally hung machine, needing a hard reset. I've experimented with
fooling around with the scrollbars and calling menu commands via
shortcut keys, which work fine. Funny thing, after doing that, the menus
then work fine too.

Are these Known Bugs, or is my machine/configuration to blame ?

Juan Courcoul
Monterrey Tech. - Queretaro Campus

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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 93 11:51:29 gmt
From: Mark Elliott <[e-mail]>
Subject: ghostscript ?

i have a small problem printing a word document with a ChemDraw diagram
 - on a laserwriter the diagrams are fine, but on a Stylewriter the
diagrams come out a bit poor

i think this is because the laserwriter is a postscript printer and because
i have selected the 'export postscript info to clipboard' pref in ChemDraw
it prints fine

heres where i make a few assumptions - because the Stylewriter is not a PS
printer does it print a screen bitmap ? if so will Mac Ghostscript
be able to help - someone told me that this would use postscript
information on a non postscript printer

if i am correct so far (a big if i know) then will i be able to use
ghostscript to print a word document directly, or will i have to mess
around with the file format first ?

thanks in advance

Mark Elliott

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Date: 23 Feb 1993 13:34:51 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Hard Disk Failures on Mac

I got a flyer in the mail today from Fifth Generation Systems pushing their
new
Public Utilities. They say "...Macs are simply more prone to hard disk failure
than MS-DOS systems." Does anyone know of proof to back up this claim?

Lee Larson    /    Department of Mathematics   /    University of Louisville

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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1993 10:28:52 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (LAN Supervisor)
Subject: Imagewriter problem

Hi,

We have several Imagewriters on a network. Unfortunately, one Imagewriter
seems
to have a problem. All output appears past the middle of the page. In other
words, text does not line up on the left margin. Rather, all text lines up
at "a margin" in the middle of the page.

Help!

Josephine Colmenares
Fordham University
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:10:09 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Nathalie JOSSO)
Subject: Info-mac Mirors in Europe?

I know this has been posted before but could someone tell me where I can find
Info-mac in Europe? Please E-mail directly.  Thanks
                            Martin Josso

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Date: 23 Feb 93 09:20:00 EST
From: "Dananberg, Jamie" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Installing Quadra V-RAM (Q)

We recently purchased 2 VRAM SIMMS (? 512K total, 256K each) to install into a
Quadra 700.
These are the Apple chips by the way. Given the Apple warning that this had to
be
installed by a Tech Services Rep for warranty reasons (it wasn't my computer
so I wasn't
about to fry the board, although that hasn't stopped me before), I dropped of
the
computer. On its return, I find out that the maximum screen depth is still 256
colors, the
same before and VRAM was added. I thought that the whole point of adding VRAM
was to
increase the bit depth of the monitor. We have a standard Apple 14" monitor. I
called the
Tech services individual who told me that he noticed that when he added the
VRAM. I asked
him whether he thought that was strange or not and if the VRAM was
functioning. He told me
he checked with someone who told him the VRAM was to speed up video intensive
tasks like
Quicktime movies. I told him that I was sure that wasn't the case; that the
VRAM was to
increase screen colors.

Do we need to add additional VRAM? The Quadra 700 has 8 VRAM SIMM slots of
which we have
filled only 2. What is the achievable screen depth for different size monitors
based on
the amount of VRAM added?

Jamie Dananberg
EMAIL:  [e-mail]   or    [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:14:26 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Nathalie JOSSO)
Subject: Internet Networks in France?

I am back in France from Michigan but I have yet to find a local Internet
network such as MichNet that I could call to reach local machines since the
machine modem is very slow. Is there such a thing? Please E-mail directly.
Thanks
                    Martin Josso, [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 93 09:30:47 EST
From: Clare Durst <[e-mail]>
Subject: iq test

I don't want to be a spoil sport, but the last thing in the world
that those of us out there in support land need is a pseudo-crasher.
I do not think it is funny, just juvenile. Something like that spreading
around can cause us hours of effort and time. I protest the IQ TEST
being on info-mac.

Put it back on high-schoolers' bboards where it belongs.

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Date: 23 Feb 93 08:53:02 AST
From: "Jocelyn Nadeau"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: Looking for MACRoad (sp ??)

Bonjour,

I'm looking for a piece of software called (I think) MACRoad.

Has someone heard of it?  If so, where can I get it? Is it free, share or
pay ware?

TIA

Jocelyn Nadeau          [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1993 09:17:20 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: MacInTax problems, part 2 (much beter, this time!)

part 2 of my installation saga...

    If you read my message yesterday, you know of my difficulty
    encountered
while trying to install MacInTax on my two drive system.  After I vented my
spleen to the net, I managed to get a phone call through to ChipSoft.  A
helpful person named Paul told me that they were "forced" to use the Apple
Installer, and that is what may have led to my problems.  MacInTax wants to
install its own fonts in your system and the installer apparently can't look
for it on any other disks.

    I have a nifty utility called "SystemSwitcher," so I copied my boot
system and finder over to my second drive, removed all the fonts and sounds
and
used SystemSwitcher to bless it.  I could now boot a completely clean and
minimal system, so I went through the installation process again, starting
with
the HeadStart stuff and then the v10.01 update.

    The HeadStart installed without a glitch, but v10.01 still got hung up
looking for a disk but not recognizing it, then loosing track of a convertor
segment.  (Refer to yesterday's message for more detail on this.)  I did again
what had worked before and this time the installation completed without
freezing or giving me a scary alert.  :-)

    I now had 21 new fonts in my formerly clear external system folder, so
I removed the ones with the same name from my original, internal system, saved
those in another folder so I can put them back later, and copied the MacInTax
fonts from my new system folder into my original.  (Paul at ChipSoft had
mentioned a potential font conflict, which is why I went through so much
trouble to replace the fonts manually.)  I then re-blessed my original system
and now everything seems to work ok.

    I still haven't tried printing with it, so I don't know if I have a
font conflict or not. Saw a message yesterday regarding poor printing on an
IM,
which is what I have, so I'm just a bit worried.  I'll know tonight if all is
finally well.

    BTW, Paul at ChipSoft was very pleasant on the phone and even offered
to look up my order for the state forms.  He seemed fairly knowledegable about
Macs, so overall I'm happy for now.  Consider this note to be a small amount
of
water thrown on yesterday's flame.

    If all this trouble is really due to Apple's Installer program, it
seems that someone over there ought to look into it.  It's not fair to s/w
vendors if their stuff looks bad due to an Apple problem.

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

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

Date: Tue, 23 Feb 93 09:25:08 MET
From: Christian F. Buser <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mac Plus Maximum Memory

[e-mail] (Alan Stein) asked in I-M # 42:
>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).

It's true that the Mac Plus is slow, but not only because its limitation
on memory. You can't increase a Plus to more than 4MB RAM; however you
could put in an accelerator upgrade (like Novy's) with a 68030 processor
which replaces the old 68000 and then you can add up to 16 MB RAM.
However, such upgrades are not cheap and you might be better off to sell
the Pluses and add newer Macs into your network.

Best regards, Christian.         [e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1993 11:50:31 -0500
From: [e-mail] (jeff schindall)
Subject: MATLAB and Error of Type 1 (Q)

I use MATLAB with system 7.0.dot on a Mac IIfx, with 20 Mb ram.
I frequently get the following error message:The application "unknown"
has unexpectedly quit because an error of type 1 has occurred. This causes
all my unsaved work to be lost.

The error occurs regardless of how much data I've loaded into MATLAB; it
may occur 5 min, or 5 hours after I've launched the program; there seems
to be no pattern (e.g., special key stroke, etc.) that causes the error.
I've tried re-installing MATLAB with no improvement--any suggestions out
there?

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

Date: Tue, 23 Feb 93 07:41:40 -0700
From: WANDERER_DAVID/[e-mail]
Subject: Microsoft Excel on MAC & PC

I was wonderinfg if anyone could explain why my Excel
documents change font size (almost unreadable) when I bring
home a document from my PC at work to my Mac at home.  It doesn't
say anything about it in the manual and I don't have time to call
Microsoft.

Is there any straight font conversion available?  If so, what fonts do
I need on the Mac side?

Also, I haven't tried Word 5.0 yet.....does it do the same thing?


Thanks

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

Date: Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:41:03 CST
From: bq Mackintosh <[e-mail]>
Subject: MIDI software for Macintosh

There are a couple of lists that apply to the subject at Auvm.American.
Edu on the bitnet.

Also, regarding MIDI interfaces:  It's best to go with a single-in,
single-out interface.  As many as 4 MIDI devices can be daisy-chained
without loss of data integrity.  If a person has more than four
devices, they can pick up a MIDI routing station (eight-in, eight-
out) that costs a little more than a multiple in/out interface, and
is infinitely more flexible.

bq Mackintosh

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

Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1993 16:16:12 +0100 (MET)
From: Mark Plesko Elettra Machine Physics Group
<[e-mail]>
Subject: networking Quadras to IBM workstations (Q)

A friend of mine has the following problem:

They have am AppleTalk network of Macintoshes used mainly for CAD,
but they were pressed to move their work to IBM RS6000 workstations.
In order not to redo all their work, they decided to buy a few
Quadras, run them under A/UX 3.0 and connect those Quadras via
Ethernet and TCP/IP to the workstations.

However, when they got the Quadras, the workstations' system manager
said, that Quadras can not be connected to the workstations. He
supposedly did all the installation according to the Apple manual,
but there was no connection (tested with ping).

My friend does not know much about such issues so this is all he told me.
He thinks, that the system manager doesn't like Macs and just did not
do his job thorougly. Despite the spare information, maybe somebody could
give me at least a hint or mention his/her own experiences:

Is there something tricky about establishing the network connection,
which is not mentioned readily in the manual, or did you connect your
machines without problems ?

Please send your answers directly to me at [e-mail]

Thank you all in advance,
                  Mark Plesko

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

Date: 23 Feb 1993 20:05:07AST
From: "Adrien BERUBE"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: Open square characters in Word 4

To draw an open square in Word 4, type character "n"
in Zapf Dingbats (i.e. a black box), then format with Outline.

Adrien BERUBE
Centre universitaire Saint-Louis-Maillet, Universite de Moncton
Edmundston, Nouveau-Brunswick, E3V 2S8

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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 93 15:27:20 CST
From: [e-mail] (Judith Haller)
Subject: Open square characters in Word 4

Here are two suggestions to try for making squares in Microsoft Word
without relying on fonts:

1) The Insert Graphics command
appear at the cursor (make sure Show Paragraphs is on). Select the graphic
and choose Outline from the font menu. Then click once on the graphic and
size the box by dragging the corner handle. The box can be used in a
formula or a paragraph.

2) The Formula construction
Using Word's mathematics typesetting tools (with Show Paragraphs on), just
type the formula character (command-option-backslash) followed by X(   )
with two or three spaces between the parentheses. Your screen should show

.\X(   )

Now turn Show Paragraphs off (by choosing Hide Paragraphs). You may get a
rectangle instead of a square, but tweak the number of spaces inside the
parentheses until you like the result. Even better, use command-spaces in
the parens to make sure the spaces stay a fixed size.

Either of these squares could be stored in the glossary for quick access.

Judith Haller
Institute for Geophysics, U Tx Austin

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

Date: 23 Feb 1993 07:40:16 U
From: "Tom Scott" <[e-mail]>
Subject: out of memory in Finder (C)

     out of memory in Finder (C)
<[e-mail]> asks:

(...stuff deleted...)
>I have never been able to find what software might be causing the problem.
>But the other day I got a call from someone whose System was taking 17MB
>(this on a 25 MB Quadra.


Does this person have 32-bit addressing on?  In 24-bit mode, the Mac can
only address 8MB of RAM.  Anything above 8MB is eaten by the System.

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

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

Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 17:27:26 -0755
From: [e-mail] (David Valentine)
Subject: Photographic composites from Video [Q]

I colleage wishes to make a composite photgraphic image from a series of
still images caputed from a Video, ie overlay a series of still images to
make a large mosaic. These will be mosaics of the seafloor bottom captured
by alvin, so a mosaicing of the video frames is really the only way to
generate large images. She has already done this using the campus video
facility, and photoshop. I think that it can be semi-automated. See below
for details.
   We are also  looking for input on what hardware to purchase to capture
frames. She wants the highest quality possible. Which video boards are
reccomended?  On the video tape side, what machines are reccommended. The
options are betacam 1/2 inch, S-Vhs,or Hi8. She leans towards Hi8, because
she already has a Hi8 video camcorder.

Proccedure:
o Capture video frames to pict images.
o Import frame into photoshop.
o paste frame into a layer
o rotate and resize each frame using transparency options.
o Transfer to base layer.

I think that the processing of the images could be automated using some
image processing techniques i.e. select three points, calculate the
rotation and size needed, and store in a file. Batch process images after
you are done with the sequence.

Questions:
Has anybody every done this type of compositing before?
Is there an image processing program with layers and transparency options,
and a scripting language?
Does the latest version of photoshop handle apple events?
Could an apple event aware program like Spyglass transform handle this?
What are the reccomended hardware options for video capture?

Thanks,
david valentine
[e-mail]
Geological Sciences UC Santa Barbara

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

Date: 23 Feb 1993 07:39:57 U
From: "Tom Scott" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Presentation Systems (A)

     Presentation Systems (A)
Matthew B Cravit <[e-mail]> asks:

>He has pretty much decided to go with an overhead projector panel,
>as he likes the ability to be able to take his presentation system
>with him.  I now need recommendations of panels that people have
>used because I myself have had no experience with them.
>
>If the computer he plans to use to drive the thing (a PowerBook 160)
>is capable of outputting color on its video-out port (is it?), then
>he would be looking for a color panel. If not, he would probably like
>a portable system that can do color.
>
>So, my questions are:
>
>  1. Can a Powerbook 160 (4/80, probably) output color from its video
>     output port?  Can a 180?
>
>  2. Can anyone recommend specific panels that they have used that
>     produce high quality results?  My father wants quite high quality,
>     and is willing to spend some money to get it (his budget for the
>     panel and CPU is between $6,000 and $10,000).


Both the PB 160 and the PB 180 can output color from its video port.

HOWEVER, it is limited to 8 bit color which limits you to 256 (2^8)
colors.  Many of the overhead LCD color projection panels have the
capability of displaying thousands of colors.  If you don't mind
those limitations, then go with one of the three systems mentioned
below.

For a more complete look at color LCD panels, download the report I
submitted to sumex a few weeks ago:
       info-mac/report/color-lcd-projection.txt
The information is about ten months old, but it still contains some
very good info.  I still would like people to send me more up-to-date
data so I can revise the report.  What follows is a small excerpt from
that report:

  Provided by Dave Faulkner Academic Computing <[e-mail]>

  "I have recently read a variety of literature on LCD's as we also
  are looking to purchase.  The three highest rated that I found that
  handled video and digital were nView Media Pro ($10K list price),
  Proxima Ovation ($8,500) and Sharp QA-1050 ($6500).  These are ranked
  from top choice down.  I suspect that the educational pricing is
  considerably less then the list price, however, I have not yet
  obtained that info.  My recommendation is the Ovation because:
  capable of displaying live video without an addin computer video
  board or external adapter box; it supports connection of optional
  powered speakers; hand held remote control unit; works with Mac or
  PC platform; supports NTSC and PAL based VCR's video disc and TV;
  capable of 24,389 colors; can have all 4 inputs filled and the LCD
  can automatically detect signal type.

  Media Pro - nView Corp. - [phone]
  Ovation   - Proxima Corp. - [phone]
  QA        - Sharp Elec. Corp - [phone]

  If you are looking for cheaper, but less capabilities, checkout
  InFocus.  They have color LCD's for under $4500 which are decent.
  [phone]."


If you get any info in your search that could help bring this report
more up-to-date, please forward it to me so I can include it in the next
revision.  Anyone else that has info relating to the capabilities of
either the October or the February releases and their compatability with
recent LCD panels, please send them to me.  Thanks!!  :-)

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

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

Date: Tue, 23 Feb 93 11:56:32 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Printer Driver for 512E

Dear Netters:

A friend of mine has been given a 512E. He also has some old printers: an
Epson LQ 1500, an IBM Proprinter, and an HP Thinkjet. Does anyone know of any
way to use any of these with the 512? Is it possible to do? Will he need a
special cable? Where could he get such a cable? I assume he would need a
printer driver for each printer. Do they exist? How could we get them? I'd be
grateful if anyone can help. Thanks very much.

Norm Weiner
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 23 Feb 93 08:47 MET
From: Hans de Wolf <[e-mail]>
Subject: Printing to ASCII files

Maybe the new version of Print-2-PICT may solve the problem of producing
formatted RFCs in ASCII: version 3.4 contains a module to print to
a TEXT file. I have not used this module myself, but it sounds like it
may solve the problem.

Hans de Wolf
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 23 Feb 93 10:22:49 -0500
From: Arel Yizhak Weisberg <[e-mail]>
Subject: Radius MATH and Omega Sane

What, if any, is the difference between installing the Omega Sane patch and
installing the Radius MATH extension.  Are they complementary or redundant?


Thanks for the info,
Arel Weisberg
[e-mail]

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

Date: 23 Feb 1993 07:40:27 U
From: "Tom Scott" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Removing Balloon Help (A)

     Removing Balloon Help (A)
[e-mail] asks:

>I remember reading of a utility that would remove the 'Balloon Help' icon
>from the menubar of the System7 Finder, but I'm having a problem locating
>this little item.

SpeedyFinder does this, and much, much more.  Look at
     sumex:info-mac/cp/speedy-finder7-154.hqx

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

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

Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 20:53:09 -0600 (CST)
From: Larry Rymal <[e-mail]>
Subject: Request for test of accelerated LC vs. LCIII

    With the marvelous Speedometer tests that have been occuring
lately, I wondering if someone could test a Mac LC020 that has been
accelerated and compared against a Mac LCIII.  Either both should have or
both should not have an FPU.
    The test would be helpful if window scrolls were done at 16bit
color on identical monitors.  A good test would be to log on with an
identical terminal program on a net service of sorts with a 14400 baud
modem at 16bit color and observe how fast the screen scrolls as the net's
info scrolls (16bit color scrolls of text vs. 1 bit color scrolls is much
much slower).
    I think the point is to see if it would really be an advantage if
an LCIII upgrade is done, rather than a 33 mhz accelerator.  Assume that a
a pds slot expansion box would be used.  Also, assume that ten megs is
plenty memory.
    With these parameters, would an LCIII upgrade offer advantages
over an accelerated LC020?
    Many thanks!!!

--Larry Rymal <[e-mail]>

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

Date: Wed, 24 Feb 93 06:22:13+080
From: [e-mail] (Stephen Smoliar)
Subject: rubbing Presidential shoulders

I just saw the note about John Sculley's conspicuous presence at Clinton's
talk.  Lest the Mac lovers get their hopes too high, the CNN Headline News
I saw this evening featured a visit by both Clinton and Gore to Silicon
Graphics (described, with true CNN accuracy, as "a computer graphics company
responsible for the special effects in TERMINATOR 2").  Perhaps the FOH's
have Macintosh equipment;  and the FOB's have Indigos.

Steve Smoliar

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

Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1993 12:58:34 +0100 (MET)
From: Achim Voermanek <[e-mail]>
Subject: Search for Memory-Ulitity

Hello,

I need a utility that shows me the installed extensions and the
their used memory (like the DOS-command mem /programs) in a list.

Thanks in advance

Achim Voermanek

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

Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 20:12:33 -0600 (CST)
From: Larry Rymal <[e-mail]>
Subject: Supra Fax Modem v.32bis

"Peter D.M. Macdonald" <[e-mail]> writes:

> 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.

    I have the Supra FAX Modem 14400 v.32bis and use it almost daily
with Fax STF software.  I have yet to experience difficulty with sends or
receives.  Typical "standard" numbers that I learned to receive on were the
Apple 800 number customer support line which has fax tech sheets for
products and MacWareHouse's fax number.
    I live in a rural area where one could assume that phone lines
would be "dirty".  Equipment here is a Mac LC 020, no acceleration (obviously
no virtual), with the modem using the modem port and a HP DeskJet printer
connected to the printer port, and on.
    I am using System 7.0.1 with the latest release of TuneUp.
    I'd suggest checking:

1) your computer to modem cable (hardware handshake cable?)
2) phone line quality
3) phone connector quality
4) try this with a friend's Supra modem for a few sessions

    Don't fault the modem unless you can better isolate things.  It
works fantastic for me on this LC 020.

--Larry Rymal <[e-mail]>

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

Date: Tue, 23 Feb 93 06:50:56 PST
From: Tim Castle <[e-mail]>
Subject: Supra Fax Modem v.32bis

Peter D.M. Macdonald <[e-mail]> writes:

> I wonder if there is anyone, anywhere, with a Supra Fax Modem v.32bis
> who is able to send and receive faxes reliably.

There's at least one. I've had very good success with my modem sending to and
receiving from FAX machines/modems all over the U.S, at least. I haven't tried
anywhere overseas yet.

> 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.

I disagree, and so do a lot of other Supra modem owners. Yes, there are a lot
of problems with different modems; I'm finding that a lot of them have to do
with the phone lines the modems are connected to. One user I support has
recently discovered that the long-distance service his site uses connected
their lines at 30 KHz instead of 60 KHz, so he can't go over 14.4 most of the
time. When my site's long-distance service changed, I couldn't connect to
anything at any speed, nor could a coworker with a Hayes SmartModem 9600, or
our Help Desk's Hayes SmartModem 2400! Another coworker, also with the Hayes
2400, had no trouble.

Our phone techs tested it the way they know how -- they listened to make sure
there was "tone" on the line that "sounded clean." That's not good enough for
high-speed data, though. We finally convinced them to move our lines to a
different line frame, with better A-D/D-A converters, and things cleared up
immediately.

When I had trouble connecting from home, I checked under my house and found
that instead of using good station wire to connect the phone jacks to the
junction box, the cheapos who built the place used standard line cord, which
is
inferior.

If you have any way of improving your phone line, or any way of griping at the
phone company, or on-site phone techs, do that. It can't hurt.

Tim Castle       [e-mail]
End-User Computing, GTE Gov't Systems, Mountain View, CA

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

Date: 23 Feb 1993 00:26:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Peter D.M. Macdonald" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Supra Fax Modem v.32bis (F)

A response to my posting in Volume 11 : Issue 42

From:   IN%"[e-mail]"  "Bob Beaton" 22-FEB-1993 21:07:33.74
To:     IN%"[e-mail]"  "Peter"
CC:
Subj:   Supra FaxModem V.32bis

Hi Peter,

I read your note on sumex-aim.stanford.edu today.  I would have replied
to your note via the board, but I do not know how to extract your
message and paste it into a posting.  Sorry.  Feel free to post my
comments below to the board if you think they might help other Supra
users.

I own five Supra FaxModem V.32bis devices.  Four are used on Macs, while
one is used with an IBM PC-compatible.  I have trouble with all of them!

To be clear, all of the modems use Supra's latest ROMs (i.e., version
"H" without CALLER ID and version "J" with CALLER ID).  On  the Macs,
I use FaxSTF software (version 2.2.3).  On the PC, I use WinFAX (version ??).

The problems that I experience are quite simple.  The Supra modems rarely
connect in fax mode to another Supra V.32bis modem.  They do connect to
other brands of fax machines.  Moreover, in data mode using Apple Remote
Access (version 1.0), two Supra V.32bis modems only connect at 2400 BAUD.

My problem is not unique.  If you read Supra's Tech Support board, you will
find at least 100 messages complaining about this type of problem.  Supra's
moderator has his hands full!  Unfortunately, Supra's only response to date
has been to blame the problem on poor telephone lines (i.e., too much
noise, low speed rating).  Supra is maintaining this position despite
numerous user reports that other brands on FaxModems work just fine over
the same hardware and software configurations.

I have wasted at least 40 hours trying to debug this problem.  I have not
succeeded.  I have spent at least $50.00 talking with technical support
at Supra as well as STF Technologies.  They have not succeeded in solving
the problem.  I guess that I also have wasted about $1,745 buying the
five Supra FaxModems.  They simply do not work as advertised!

There is one ray of hope here.  The last time I logged into Supra's BBS,
the moderator mentioned that Supra is working on a new ROM set.  Although
Supra still has not acknowledged the problem, they appear to be working
on a "user configurable" parameter that adjusts the modem's sensitivity
to telephone line noise.  I have no knowledge that this adjustment will
fix the problem.

I am very unhappy with the Supra FaxModem V.32bis product.  In fact, I
am angry that Supra does not admit to the problem.  I would like to
organize (or participate in) a letter writing campaign to Supra's
President and Board of Directors.  Given the massive sales of this
product, there must be thousands of unhappy users who are willing
to write a letter of complaint.

Please keep me informed on your thoughts in this matter.

Good luck,
Bob Beaton
Virginia Tech
[e-mail]

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

Date: 23 Feb 1993 08:49:30 -0700 (MST)
From: "Mark V. Flegg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: TaxCut

Has anyone had any experience with TaxCut from MECA Software?  I have seen
several negative postings regarding MacinTax, but nothing either way about
this
package.

Specifically, I am wondering if the program is advanced enough for "unusual"
circumstances.  I am a free-lance musician, and will likely qualify for the
"starving artists" deduction this year.  Would the program be likely to
handle this?   thanks for any help!

Mark Flegg  -- [e-mail]  OR asmvf@asuacad

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

Date: Tue, 23 Feb 93 08:53 MET
From: Hans de Wolf <[e-mail]>
Subject: Tektronix Patent - Request for Info

I remember that I read an article about an adventure game that used a
laserdisk to play video scenes while I was at university. This must have been
between 1976 and 1983, probably between 1979 and 1981.
In article appeared in BYTE or in Creative Computing.
The adventure game was written in BASIC, ran on an IBM-PC or on an Apple-II
(I'm not sure about which one) and controlled a laserdisk with the
movie 'Rollercoaster', in order to play the appropriate scenes depending
on what was going on in the adventure game.
I think the magazine contained two articles about this adventure: one
explaining how to play, the other explaining the techniques (I think this
one was called 'the rollercoaster game dissected').
Hope this helps.

Hans de Wolf
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1993 05:15:52 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Garry Burgess)
Subject: Thoughts on the Centris

Hi Mac people,

I thought that perhaps I was lucky enough to somehow get a Centris 610
just as they were released, so that I could give you my thoughts.

I love it.  The machine is FAST, very very FAST.  It just does things.
What more discussion is needed, really?  We've already talked about the
FPU to death, we know that we can't really afford a Quadra, or else we
would have one, that is why we went to the Centris.  Let's admit it now!

So the Centris, is a poor man's Quadra (if there is such a thing)  Someone
mentioned the horrors of the hardware on/off switch, but it's right at the
front, so what's the big deal about that?

I'm very familiar with IIci speeds, and I can tell you that I would't
touch anything like II line macs, after tasting this Centris.  It really
is nice.

Nothing I've used has crashed so far, and I've tested a wide variety of
software. So I think that it's pretty safe, especially considering that
Cache switch in the control panel, which can turn off the weird way that
the 040 handles the cache. (I don't understand it, so don't ask me about
that)  Anyway, I've never needed to turn it off.

Garry

If you have any question, ask.  If you want me to run a benchmark for you,
then send me the file, and the instructions, and I'll try to measure the
Centris's speed for you.

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

Date: Tue, 23 Feb 93 15:37:03 CST
From: [e-mail] (Juan M. Courcoul)
Subject: Updating Stuffit Deluxe to version 3.05

A colleague of mine acquired Stuffit Deluxe a while back, and I've been
getting him copies of the upgrades for the product, published in
comp.bin.mac and available on info-mac peers.

However, with the newest 3.05 upgrade, he is having a problem.
Apparently, the 3.04 upgrader only patched the Stuffit Deluxe
application, leaving the Stuffit Engine at a 3.03 level. The 3.05
upgrade kit has an Engine upgrader but this refuses to run, since it
expects the engine to be at 3.04 level.

Has anyone else run into this problem ?

Thanks,

Juan Courcoul
Monterrey Tech. / Queretaro Campus

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

Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 21:38:12 -0500
From: [e-mail] (David Moxon)
Subject: V32bis and Zmodem

Ok, I know this is a FAQ because I've seen it before.  However, I never paid
attention because it relate to me.  I just bought a Zoom V32bis modem and
so far I have been able to connect at 14,400 with V42bis compression and
Arq data correction.  My problem is that I need to download files from
Unix systems (Text files in hqx format) running ultrix.  I am using the
sz program available on sumex to do the transfers.  My problem is that I
am getting CRC data errors way to often which is cutting my CPS efficiency
rate down to about 300 CPS.  Is this because I have V42bis and /ARQ on
I tried the connection without hardware handshaking (yes I have the correct
cable) and it did work a little bit better.  (5-6 errors for a 100Kb file
as opposed to 10 or more CRC errors)  But still the errors and retries
kept the efficiency way down.  I just got the modem and its settings are
all straight from the factory.  I need all the help I can get.  I know this
can be done.  I have discovered FAQ textfiles on the subject but they were
referring to HST modems.  However they were able to get much better
throughput using Zterm and the unix zmodem program sz, which is exactly
what I'm using.  Is there some option I need to set when I use sz?  I've
tried almost everything.  I'd appreciate all the help I could get.  Please
send replies to me through Email and I will sumarize to the digest.
Thank you so much.
-Dave M.    ([e-mail])

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Date: 23 Feb 93 10:39:11 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Where is "PowerLess"? (A)

In digest <[e-mail]>
[e-mail] writes:

>A followup on this:
>I did an Archie search for PowerLess, and you can find 1.0b1 at . . .

Hold off on this until I get 1.0b3 onto sumex.  b3 is light years better
and is worth waiting for.  If you have access to AOL, BIX or GEnie,
Powerless 1.0b3 is already there.

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Date: Tue, 23 FEB 93 13:18 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Whistle from LC


>Date: Sun, 21 Feb 93 09:59:35 PST
>From: [e-mail] (Andy Lee)
>Subject: Whirling noise from LC

>My LC has had an occassional problem upon booting which now
>seems to be getting worse.  Every so often when the computer is
>turned on, there is a whirling sound which seems to be coming
>From inside the computer.  It starts out as a low pitched
>whirl and makes its way up to a high pitch whine, after which
>point the noise disappears.  It sounds as if something is
>trying very hard to get spinning.  Could this be a problem with
>the internal hard drive or a problem with the fan?  Recently, upon
>booting a sad mac icon has appeared with the codes  0000000F
>and 00000003.  Has anyone else seen or heard of such a problem?
>Any info would be much appreciated.  Please respond by e-mail as
>my access to info-mac digest is limited.  Thanks in advance.
>
>Andy Lee        [e-mail]

Hi everybody!

I'm new here so hello to all of you.
I had the same problem with a Mac LC one year after I've bought it!
But I hadn't the booting problem.
In my opinion it's a very "mechanical" sound so I think it comes from the
fan; more: during these days it went down and now I hardly can hear it.
Sorry but I haven't any more precise idea!
regards,
                    Federico Giacanelli

[e-mail]

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Date: 23 Feb 1993 08:19:20 -0600 (CST)
From: "John A." <[e-mail]>
Subject: Word, RTF & e-mail

A couple of issues ago, [e-mail] suggested using RTF to
exchange info between Macs and PC's using e-mail. Using a floppy, RTF
is very good. However, the RTF format uses trailing spaces if Word
wants to break a line in the RTF file and the paragraph is not ended,
and some mailers strip those spaces. You can end up with concatenated
words everywhere.

John A.

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