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Info-Mac Digest             Sun, 14 Mar 93       Volume 11 : Issue 57

Today's Topics:

      [*] AGenT
      [*] a HyperCard FTP site (partial listing)
      [*] ApplWindows 2.0.1
      [*] Babylabyrinth_1.0.sea.hqx
      [*] Checksum 1.0
      [*] DiskDup+ 2.11
      [*] Easy Errors 1.0
      [*] Galaxis1.2.hqx
      [*] icons.sea.hqx...
      [*] info-mac/report/comp-sys-mac-comm-faq.txt
      [*] M&M III 1.02 update
      [*] MacKermit 0.99(188) submission
      [*] Mandella 8.6 -- fractal graphics program
      [*] More KNGPA Bolo maps
      [*] MovieMaker 1.2 -- PICTs to Movie program
      [*] please replace existing file
      [*] SE ROM Picture Program
      [*] Space Texture
      [*] startupscreen: robot dog
      [*] uchicago desktop textures
      [*] UPLOADING suntar 1.3.3
      [*] WhiteKnight script for CI$ v.06/01/92 (5th version)
      21 MP Flopticals: followup
      32-bit enabler solution (2 msgs)
      7.1 Fonts Folder outside of System Folder? (Q)
      [Q] Where's the best place for a microphone?
      Abaton InterFax (cont'd)
      An open letter to John Norstad (2 msgs)
      Apple's Educational Marketing Plan?
      AppleTalk Remote Access freeze [Q]
      article response submission
      Balloon Writer (?) wanted
      Best Open and Save As... dialog enhancers? (Summary)
      Can I get mail order by email (Q)
      CD-ROM driver needed to make Sun CD ROM work with Mac
      Changing the date in folder listings
      Compatibility CDEV
      Controlling Paragraph placing in Word (Q)
      Creating True Type Fonts
      Custom Sound in MS Mail
      DECnet for Mac...(R)
      DECnet for Mac w/System 7.1 (R)
      directory problem? (Q)
      DiskCopy
      DiskCopy apology (C)
      DiskDup+ vs Apple's DiskCopy
      downloading postscript (A)
      Driver for HP LaserJet IIIsi (A)
      Duo-Woes
      DuoDock and color screen > 16"
      FileGuard problem
      Formatting third-party hard drives with "Apple HD SC Setup" (Fol
      FTP problem (Q)
      Geneva-->Helvetica?
      Greg's Buttons and PowerPoint
      Greg's Buttons crashes PowerPoint 3.0?
      Hard Drive Stiction problems
      Help ClarisWorks & AppleWor
      HELP LC III and Apple-2 car
      Hints on preparing an archive for distribution
      How to avoid v____ in SEA's (R)
      How to save files in NCSA TELNET 2.5?
      Human Interface Guidelines
      Icon wanted...
      Info-Mac Digest V11 #56
      Intolerably slow HP DeskWriter printing in Texture.
      LC III VRAM & bit depth (correction)
      LC III VRAM, monitors & SIMMs (A)
      LCII vs. LCIII, software
      Looking for voice mail software that can make a call.
      Macsbug won't re-boot a MacPlus either...
      MacTel name change
      Mactivity'93 information
      Mouse/Caps lock problem?
      MYM 5.0 vs. MacMoney 3.52
      Oemga-SANE
      Partitioning A File ?
      Paw-paw After Dark module
      PB 170 refusing to power down HD
      PhotoShop JPEG Utils
      PICT display on desktop (R)
      Planet 4.0
      printing problems...(r)
      Question on Japanese system and system enablers
      Robs' PICS (?) AfterDark module
      screen depth switching under program control (R)
      suggestions
      Suggestions on which Mac to purchase(help soon)...
      Super Boomerang hang
      Unix-Mac connections
      Updating the path of an alias
      western style font (Q)
      Why not just buy it and not write a thesis (A)
      Word upgrade (C)
      wrapping startup icons (Q)
      WriteNow sold to Wordstar
      XRemote

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Date: 10 Mar 1993 09:17:47 -0500
From: "Sofer, William H" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] AGenT

Enclosed is AGenT, a piece of educational software that makes use of a
simulated laboratory to help middle and high school biology students
understand some areas of biochemical genetics.

AGenT is a stand-alone application created in SuperCard. It runs only on a
color-capable Macintosh.

AGenT stands for Automated Genetics Tutor. It was written by Bill Sofer of the
Waksman Institute at Rutgers University and Alan Gerstein of Pharmacia Biotech
Inc. It has been designed to supplement a "module" - a set of laboratory
exercises -  entitled "Molecular Aspects of Gene Activity" that was developed
under the auspices of NSF and Merck-sponsored grants to Bill Sofer and George
Pallrand of Rutgers. AGenT is SchoolWare (see the program and Readme file for
more information).

[Archived as /info-mac/app/agent.hqx; 624K]

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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 93 21:28:41 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Ian Feldman)
Subject: [*] a HyperCard FTP site (partial listing)

 Following a recent visit to Ken Fisher's anonymous FTP site
 <snyoneva.cc.oneonta.edu> [137.141.15.10] I've assembled a
 cleaned-up (and therefore readable ;-)) listing of sample
 3 HyperCard subdirectories there:

 Directory DISK$ACAD:[ANONYMOUS.PUB.MAC.HYPERCARD.SMALL_APPLS]
                    HYPERCARD.UTILITIES]
                    HYPERCARD.X]
__Ian

[Archived as /info-mac/report/hypercard-ftp-snyoneva.txt; 10K]

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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1993 11:52:44 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Tony Huang)
Subject: [*] ApplWindows 2.0.1

ApplWindow is an INIT that makes your Application Menu hierarchic (System 7
required, obviously), showing all open windows of every application. It is
the latest version and was downloaded from AOL.

I got into trouble last time I uploaded a program to the archive when I
commented on the program in relation to another program. So I'm not going
to do that again except to say that ApplWindows is my favorite INIT of its
kind. I've encountered no problem whatsoever (I use 50-60 INITs at a time
on my Mac). It doesn't take up addition space on your menu bar and doesn't
require you to hold down a modifier key to access it (you can disable it
temporarily by holding down the Shift key, though). And best of all, it's
free.

Tony Huang
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/cp/appl-window-201.hqx; 41K]

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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 93 12:34:28 MET
From: Simone Bettini 227678/il <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Babylabyrinth_1.0.sea.hqx

BabyLabyrinth1.0: ) 1993 Bettini Simone.
A simple game for children: a labyrinth to walk across with some nice
characters, to reach a little prize.
Bettini Simone : <[e-mail]>
( a new version of the game I sent you some days ago. It should replace the
previous one)
(it should be archived as game/BabyLabyrinth_1.0.sea.hqx)
(A binhexed self-extracting compact-pro 1.33 archive is attached)

[Archived as /info-mac/game/baby-labyrinth-10.hqx; 618K]

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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 93 00:20:00 PST
From: Geoff Walsh <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Checksum 1.0

Here is Checksum for the Macintosh, version 1.0.  Checksum is the
ultimate Macintosh application for calculating checksums for a
file.  This utility is fully compatible with the Unix(tm) "sum"
program (and the POSIX "cksum" program), and can be used to verify
that files transferred between machines match.  It is even smart
enough to translate end-of-line characters between Unix, MS-DOS and
Macintosh 'TEXT' files.  Checksum is the easiest way to compare
files on the Macintosh, either on the same system or on different
machines.

Fully System 7 and 32-bit addressing compatible, including balloon
help and "drag and drop" capability.  It will run under either
System 6 or System 7 on a Mac Plus or higher.

Checksum is business-ware: it is freeware for personal use on a
single CPU and for educational institutions for instructional uses,
but it is shareware ($5) for use in a business, corporation,
organization or government.

Geoff Walsh
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/util/checksum-10.hqx; 71K]

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Date: Fri, 12 Mar 93 08:07:03 MET
From: Christian F. Buser <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] DiskDup+ 2.11

This is DiskDup+ version 2.11, the floppy duplicating program
ba Roger Bates. Please note that I am only uploading this,
I am NOT the author. Binhexed Compact Pro archive. Enjoy!

Here is a list of the principal features of DiskDup+:

-  Performs sector duplication of either 400K, 800K, or
1440K floppies.

-  You can copy 800K Masters onto 1440K copies (with
increased free space)

-  Disk images may be Read/Written from a hard drive.

-  Disk images may be mounted from the Finder for direct
access to the file contents. You may also cuplicate or
mount file images for Apple's DiskCopy program.

-  Formats copies as single or double sided as necessary to
match the master disk.

-  Optionally performs a complete read back of the copy to
verify all data against the original in order to assure full
data integrity.

-  Requires only a single floppy disk drive (either
internal or external).  If you have two drives, you may
alternate between them for maximum efficiency.

-  A new master may be read in at any time without
exiting the program.

-  A Copy counter displays the number of duplications completed.

-  The entire disk data is held within the Mac if it has
sufficient memory.  With less memory, two passes may be
required to complete the operation.

-  An optional warning tells you if you are about to write
onto a formatted disk.

-  Master disk is never mounted, so viruses can never
propogate ONTO the master (and its copies) during the
duplication process.

-  Duplicates Macintosh MFS, Macintosh HFS, Apple A/UX,
and any other readable diskette.

-       Tolerates bad sectors if they do not involve actual
disk data.

-  Controls for easy use with "Jukebox Five" automatic
disk feeder.

[Archived as /info-mac/util/disk-dup-plus-211.hqx; 31K]

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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 93 02:00:00 EST
From: [e-mail] (Arthur Dent)
Subject: [*] Easy Errors 1.0

Easy Errors 1.0

   This application allows you to look up the descriptions for
System Errors by typing in the number.  Error descriptions
can easily be added or modify with ResEdit.  Freeware

[Archived as /info-mac/util/easy-errors-10.hqx; 37K]

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Date: Mon, 8 Mar 93 08:24:34 -0500
From: "Michael Dautermann" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Galaxis1.2.hqx

Galaxis Short Description
=========================
"Galaxis is a good cross of Battleships and Mines". Well, that's what a user
said. I don't really know if I can agree on that statement, but since I'm
only the author, I digress...:-)

Version 1.2 is primarily a bugfix release and should now run on SE and
powerbooks. Other changes to the last released 1.1 version are listed in
the Version History, below.

Galaxis is a game of strategy and some luck. You try to find four lost
capsules
in as few turns as possible. In a turn, you try to figure out the best
position
to send a probe to and analyse the data returned. If you use a good strategy,
this data may help you locating the capsules or the next position to send a
probe to.

Galaxis supports continuous stereo background music, comes in two versions
(B/W
and grayscale). The b/w version runs on any Mac, the gray versionon a Mac LC
or better.

The multiplayer network version will come if enough of you send in their
postcard. It's in alpha stage right now and I will probably make beta in a
fdew month.

Galaxis is distributed under XMas-Ware System: It was a XMas Gift for my
Girlfriend. If you like it, send her a postcard.


Galaxis-Version History

   *    1.2 March 8, 1993 (Prefs Edition)
    Introduced possibility to set Preferences. I supplied a TMPL resource
    for those of you who use ResEdit to play games.

    Removed bug when opening Galaxis through double-clicking on the
    Galaxis Theme.

    Removed an obscure bug that crashed Macs when switching from Stereo
    to Mono.

   *    1.11 Feb 3, 1993 (Gestalt Edition). Never released to public
    b/w version now checks to see if 68020 present for playing music since
    the SoundTrecker cannot support the 68000 (yet).

    Gray version now checks to see if ColorQD present and exits gracefully
    (finally!) if not.

    If Mac has stereo capabilities, you now can turn stereo sound on.

    b/w version refused to run on SE and Plus (OK, it didn't run on *any*
    of those 68000 machines, including the PB 100. This bug
    had me stumped for over eleven month until I hunted it down
    on an ancient SE running 7.1 with MacsBug since it *did* run in the
    development system) for some arcane reason. It didn't run because
    for some reason SetStdProc in QD doesn't work with the older Macs.

    Forgot to update the vers resource. Now this is done too.

    Enabled background processing (for keeping up music) and corrected
    the SIZE resource.

    Removed OK button from Hall Of Fame since it was superfluous.

    When opening Galaxis by doubleclicking on the 'Galaxis Theme' the
    program aborted. This is fixed now.

    Fixed 'soft volume' bug that turned down background music even if
    sound was turned off.

    Introduced an (optional) addition visual remaining time dial in
    time limited games.

    Changed a subtle detail: Low-Score is now only possible if game was
    not loaded from disk...

    Changed the way the cursor flashed to a regular interval.

[Archived as /info-mac/game/galaxis-12.hqx; 564K]

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Date: Mon, 08 Mar 93 19:29:25 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] icons.sea.hqx...

Here is something that was forwarded to "[e-mail]"!


Subject: Icons
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 93 19:25:32 EST
From: Daniel N. Cook <[e-mail]>

I just uploaded to the incoming directory of mac.archive.umich.edu a Compact
Pro SEA file of about 40 256 color, system 7 icons.

I've included a README.txt inside the archive, but if you need a short blurb
I can send you one easily.

You have by far the easiest submission system, so you get these beauties first
of all the millions of Mac users in the world.  Thanks for providing such an
easy means of distributing my labor.

Sincerely,

Daniel Cook.
(aka: Danc)

[Archived as /info-mac/misc/dans-icons.hqx; 91K]

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Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1993 21:13:55 -0800
From: Eric Rosen <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] info-mac/report/comp-sys-mac-comm-faq.txt

This is the Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) list for comp.sys.mac.comm

This list of frequently asked questions and answers is intended to help
reduce the number of "often asked questions" that make the rounds here
in comp.sys.mac.comm. Since comp.sys.mac.comm is intended as a forum to
discuss telecommunication (and related issues) that are specific to the
Macintosh, most questions about modems, telecommunications in general,
and other non-Macintosh specific communication questions are not listed
here. The proper newsgroup for such questions is usually comp.dcom.modems.

[Archived as /info-mac/report/comp-sys-mac-comm-faq.txt; 112K]

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Date: Fri, 12 Mar 93 03:23:42 EST
From: [e-mail] (Svlad Cjelli)
Subject: [*] M&M III 1.02 update

   This updates Might & Magic III to version 1.02.

[Archived as /info-mac/game/might-and-magic-102-updater.hqx; 180K]

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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 93 18:51:15 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] MacKermit 0.99(188) submission

This is MacKermit 0.99(188) which I got from microlib.cc.utexas.edu.
It comes with macro files for UNIX, VMS, IBM3081 which I don't have the
chance to learn or use. However it seems to work with setting files from
old days of 0.98(40). This should replace files /comm/kermit-099-185.hqx
in the archive.

Liu

P.S. Sorry I don't know by which utility it was compressed becuase
StuffIt Expander had take care of it all. In case you got a problem
to debinhex and decompress it, try StuffIt Expander under /util/
directory. As Jeff Needleman always said, it is free and it works.
(Hope this quotation is correct!)

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/kermit-099-188.hqx; 253K]

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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 93 20:50:17 -0800
From: Jesse Jones <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Mandella 8.6 -- 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
8.6, 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 8.6 Changes
   1) Orbital fractals resume properly.
   2) The Mouse window now works properly with Line by Line.
   3) Fixed a memory leak in Interpolate.
   4) Worked on ZoomInto:
      a) Fractal parameters (like Constant, Lambda, and Bailout) are
     preserved.
      b) If No Shift is selected the first preset is now zoomed out
     by the correct ammount.
   5) The random bounding boxes for all the constants used by all the
      fractals have been given reasonable dimensions. Quite a few
      fractals had empty boxes for Perturb and Lambda.

[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/app/mandella-86.hqx; 688K]

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Date: 14 Mar 1993 22:38:29 -0600 (CST)
From: BERNIE FOULK <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] More KNGPA Bolo maps

olo map archive (~140k) containing 42 original Bolo maps created
y members of the Kansas Network Game Player's Association.
KNGPA Maps, Vol. 1 & 2 map files include:
ngry fish, Auto-bn!, Avant, bear sh*t on bolo map, bern's cubes,
ig Cross, Big Doughnut, Crazy Man Racetrack, Crop circles, damn
adger, DMZ - Barnhart, Empty Carcass, Golfing Hell, Happy Genital,
erpe-Dog, Highway to Shrubery, Hobblebush, IAMSOCRAZYMAP, Ireland
 UK, Island Hop, jcs flatulencamo, Landing Island, Municipal
leavage, Municipal Cleavage II, OHMIGOD, Old Wacky Cavern, Passive
enital, Pud River, Pud World, Quad Land, Refining of the
EWMAP!!!, Reoccuring Duck Theme, Resovoir Puppy, Satchmo, Semi
oughnut, semisymmetry, Spiral Monkey, Stock Piles, This way to
ell, Tollbooth, Urine Blanket, and Wild Bleeding Chickens.
Please e-mail any original bolo maps, errors to:
[e-mail]
hanks.  Enjoy.

[Archived as /info-mac/game/bolo-maps-kngpa.hqx; 140K]

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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 93 20:49:39 -0800
From: Jesse Jones <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] MovieMaker 1.2 -- PICTs to Movie program

   MovieMaker allows you to convert a sequence of PICT files into
QuickTime movies. It has a nice interface, includes balloon help,
lets you use a custom color palette, and allows you to add a sound
track.

[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/app/movie-maker-12.hqx; 185K]

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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1993 05:45:45 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] please replace existing file

Please replace the existing file info-mac/digest/inside-mac-games-2.hqx
with this file. Someone uploaded the present version from AOL in error,
and it contains no information about Internet user support (and therefore
I'm getting a lot of mail!). Below is a file description. I have never
posted to info-mac before, so if I have erred please let me know. Thank
you very much for your help.

Brian Thomas, Senior Editor, Inside Mac Games, [e-mail]
---
File Description:

Inside Mac Games is full-color electronic magazine covering all facets of
Macintosh gaming, including comprehensive software and hardware reviews,
in-depth interviews (this month it's Trey Smith from Graphic Simulations
(Hellcats, F/A-18 Hornet), sneak previews (Spectre Supreme this month),
strategy articles, patches, cheats--you name it. This month also features
the results of our game survey. Complete subscription information is
available in the e-magazine. Comments, suggestions, complaints, questions,
can be sent to:

Brian J. Thomas             | Internet: [e-mail]
Senior Editor               | America Online: Baba3
Inside Mac Games

[Archived as /info-mac/digest/inside-mac-games-2.hqx; 1518K]

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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1993 00:51:27 -0600 (CST)
From: "Anthony F. Gaudiano II" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] SE ROM Picture Program

This is a application which will display the pictures hidden in the ROM(s) of
the SE.  This application does not require you reboot your SE after displaying
the picts.  This is for a SE only!!!  It will not work on any other computer.
Don't think that it will work on a SE-30, but, if you are daring enough to
try, good luck.  I don't remember where I originally got this, so, I don't
know who to give credit to.

Anthony F. Gaudiano II
SFASU Apple Student Rep.
Applelink: ST0503
Internet: [e-mail]
Tenet: [e-mail]

Disclaimer: I will assume no responisibility for anything that this
program may cause to happen on your machine.  I didn't write it, don't
blame me, I am only a happy user of this program.

[Archived as /info-mac/app/se-rom-pict-display.hqx; 29K]

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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1993 12:02:52 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Tony Huang)
Subject: [*] Space Texture

Texture file for use with Before Dark or it's commercial counterpart.

Downloaded from AOL.

Tony Huang
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/util/before-dark-space-texture.hqx; 25K]

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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 93 15:33:09 EST
From: Dr. G. Paul Savage <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] startupscreen: robot dog

This is a 640x480 colour startupscreen of small child with a robot dog
(futureistic). This artwork is from the Japanese artist Hajime. 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/robot-dog-startup.hqx; 214K]

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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1993 19:15:23 -0600
From: [e-mail] (N.W. Choe)
Subject: [*] uchicago desktop textures

I made these desktop textures; the creator of Desktop Texture Installer
suggested that I submit them to archive sites; I think that this is the
place to go if I want them sent to a bunch of sites, right?

Anyhow, I'll be sending them following this message:

It's a .cpt archive, including a readme;

Freeware, though not in the public domain.

[Archived as /info-mac/util/desk-top-textures-uchicago.hqx; 107K]

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Date: Tue, 9 Mar 93 11:06:17 MET
From: [e-mail] (Sauro Speranza)
Subject: [*] UPLOADING suntar 1.3.3

This new release of suntar fixes a few minor bugs. It should
replace the previous file suntar1.3.2.sit.hqx.

[Archived as /info-mac/util/suntar-133.hqx; 103K]

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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 93 11:48:51 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] WhiteKnight script for CI$ v.06/01/92 (5th version)

What follows is extracted from the ReadMe file.

> WKAUTO.SEA is a set of White Knight scripts for automating access to the
> CompuServe Information Service.
>
> The set is shareware and a fee of $10 is payable to:
>   Alex Narvey
>   Thunder Enlightening Press
>   P.O. Box 332, 905 Corydon Ave.
>   Winnipeg, MB, Canada  R3M 3V3
>   Telephone & FAX [phone]
>   CompuServe ID #71041,132
>
>   WKAUTO.SEA - The complete set
>   WKCOST.SIT - PROCs for creating and maintaining cost/session logs
>   WKDOC.SIT  - The manual for the WKAUTO PROC set
>   WKDOWN.SIT - PROCs for automatic downloading
>   WKFAX.SIT  - PROCs for automating sending Faxes
>   WKMAIL.SIT - PROCs for automatic E-mail sending and retrieval
>   WKMENU.SIT - PROCs to generate custom menus to run the set
>   WKSUMM.SIT - PROCs to automatically download forum summaries
>   WKUP.SIT   - PROCs to automate uploading files
>   WKZMAC.SIT - PROCs to auto-download ZiffNet/MAC files and MacWEEK news.
>
> The individual files in the series are provided for convenience and for
those
> who have already previously downloaded the set and only wish to upgrade part
> of it - although I don't guarantee that partial upgrades will work. I
> reccommend downloading WKAUTO.SEA which includes the manual and all
> procedures - including some that don't make it into the individual series.

This submission only includes the complete set. I am not the author and just
found these in the CI$ Communication Forum a few days ago. I even have no
time to fully test drive it yet. If you have any question, please contact the
author.

  Alex Narvey
  Thunder Enlightening Press
  P.O. Box 332, 905 Corydon Ave.
  Winnipeg, MB, Canada  R3M 3V3
  Telephone & FAX [phone]
  CompuServe ID #71041,132

Liu

P.S. If there is interest from the net fo get individual file, I can try to
get them. However, there is no guarantee that I can finish it immediately.

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/whitenight-compuserve-scripts.hqx; 139K]

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Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 09:49:14 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Bandwidth Pig)
Subject: 21 MP Flopticals: followup

Thanks to the folks who replied to my question regarding 21MB flopticals,
both here and in prvate mail. Contrary to my assumption, the 21MB format is
not a dinosaur but is only now gaining steam and is starting to be accepted
all over. The PLI received good marks from one person, and several
indicated that the Iomega might be worth waiting for. Well, Iomega's unit
just arrived on the market: any experience with it yet?

Thanks,
-abh

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

Date: 12 Mar 1993 09:39:35 +0000 (U)
From: George Tempel <[e-mail]>
Subject: 32-bit enabler solution

              32-bit enabler solution

After much ado, I have, with the help of the ever-so-
cooperative Lisa Dronzek of Connectix Corp, apparently
solved some of the 32-bit enabler/Mode-32/Virtual Memory
problems.

While it is true that there is no new version of Mode32 for
system 7.1, the current version seems to work just fine
for most circumstances, and in most installations. I say most
because the order of events appears to be very important; the
same holds true for the 32-bit enabler.

To move from mode32 *to* the 32-bit enabler, the following
sequence of events appears to be necessary:

1. Select "Disable" from the mode32 control panel; verify that
it is disabled by looking at the memory control panel--if it doesn't
have the 32-bit on/off buttons, you have disabled mode32.

2. Remove mode 32 and place it on the desktop for safe keeping...
you just might need it or want it again after you've seen the
32-bit enabler in action.

3. Remove all non-apple inits/cp/extentions from your system
folder hierarchy...including stuff floating loose in your system
folder proper. It appears that sometimes one or more of these
will interfere with the enabler during the first boot sequence.

4. If you have it, drag the Connectix Enabler_patch extension
into your extensions folder...if you don't have it get it, it's
worth it, and it's free.

5. Now that you have a minimal system folder with just the enabler
and the enabler patch as extras, reboot. You'll notice a really
strange double boot sequence, and it'll sound like the hard disk
is recovering from a crash. It is, as Connectix engineers have
deduced that the enabler is invoking the same crash recovery
sequence that the system/finder does. Why, I dunno.

6. You *should* get the desktop and finder eventually. Part of
the problem lead to the finder never loading and the mac going
into a vegetative state. Now that you've got the finder,
pop into the control panel and check out the memory panel.
You should see the 32  bit on/off button. Set it to 32 bit "on"
and reboot.

7. You *should* once again eventually get to the finder after
the reboot; again check out the memory control panel and
verify that 32-bit is "on". NOTE: if you own Connectix's
Virtual 3.0, install it now while in a valid 32-bit mode. I
highly recommend this utility...i'm just a satisfied customer.
If you do use Connectix's Virtual, make sure you disable
Virtual memory from Apple's memory control panel...you
don't want 2 different virtual memory schemes at work here.

8. Reboot, verify that everything is in order, and begin to
drag your control panels/inits back into their proper places.
BEWARE, HOWEVER, that the current release of Macsbug,
v 6.2.2, does NOT work properly under 7.1 with enablers
present. Adam Engst, myself, and Connectix have verified
this; Apple does have an 040-LC version available via
ftp, but I haven't tried it (then again, if I had an 040 I
wouldn't be worried about Mode32 or the 32-bit enabler! :)

These steps worked for me last evening; cheers to Connectix
and Lisa Dronzek of their technical support staff for helping
me solve an annoying problem on their dime...even though
the 32-bit enabler isn't theirs.

I have subsequently removed the 3-bit enabler and moved
to Mode32 since I can't stand the annoying double boot & crash
sequence that the enabler causes. Your mileage may vary. The
upshot of all this is that it appears you must install from a
naked system in 24 bit mode, move to 32 bit mode, and replace
your zillions of inits/cp's in order for things to work out
properly.

I sincerely hope that this helps the network community.

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

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

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 93 10:59:45 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: 32-bit enabler solution

> 5. Now that you have a minimal system folder with just the enabler
> and the enabler patch as extras, reboot. You'll notice a really
> strange double boot sequence, and it'll sound like the hard disk
> is recovering from a crash. It is, as Connectix engineers have
> deduced that the enabler is invoking the same crash recovery
> sequence that the system/finder does. Why, I dunno.

> I have subsequently removed the 3-bit enabler and moved
> to Mode32 since I can't stand the annoying double boot & crash
> sequence that the enabler causes. Your mileage may vary. The
> upshot of all this is that it appears you must install from a
> naked system in 24 bit mode, move to 32 bit mode, and replace
> your zillions of inits/cp's in order for things to work out
> properly.
>
> I sincerely hope that this helps the network community.

Thanks for the steps, George. I'd like it if people who try this and
successfully solve their problems with the 32-bit Enabler would post
their results to the list or send them to me. I'd really like to know
if the problems are all solved by such a clean install process - I'm
not sure I see a heck of a lot of difference between this and pulling
MODE32 out of the System Folder, rebooting with the Shift key down,
installing the Enabler, and then seeing what happens, going through
an INIT conflict test if necessary.

I'm also curious about this double boot & crash sequence George is
seeing. I see a double-boot process with the 32-bit Enabler, but it
doesn't sound or look any different from what I see with MODE32. It
appears that the two things work the same, so perhaps it just doesn't
matter right now which one you use, although I could see that changing
in future systems.

cheers ... -Adam

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

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 93 05:36:42 -0800
From: [e-mail]
Subject: 7.1 Fonts Folder outside of System Folder? (Q)

Dear Denizens of The Netter World,

I recall reading, somewhere, that there is a way to have the Fonts folder
outside the System Folder in System 7.1.  Just moving it out doesn't seem
to work nor could I get an alias to work.  What's the trick?

David Van Nuys

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

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 21:21 GMT
From: Fergus Sullivan <[e-mail]>
Subject: [Q] Where's the best place for a microphone?

A simple question, this one.  Where is the best place to stick the Apple
Microphone holder.  I've seen them on the front top of a Mac, just below the
screen and stuck on the keyboard.  The most common place I've seen this holder
stuck is on the side of the Mac, but surely this must cause a large amount of
distortion?

Has anyone a definitive answer to this?  Has anyone got any comments on the
places I've mentioned above?  Any thoughts would be gratefully appreciated.
[I
have difficulties formulating any of my own :-)]

Fergus Sullivan,
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

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

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 93 13:06:20 EST
From: "Charles A. Patrick" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Abaton InterFax (cont'd)

In his March 10 posting, Paul Antaki tells us:

> . . . . .
> Abaton offers two upgrade options: a software upgrade to version 1.3 and a
> hardware upgrade to a class 2 Faxmodem which will permit other software
> packages to be used. If you need more info you can contact Everex at
> 510-683-2800 (tel - customer service) or
> 510-438-4654 (tel - Technical Support) or
> 510-438-5648 (fax).
>
> It's very clear from all this that Abaton is NOT supporting the InterFax
> anymore.

I spoke to Abaton Technical Support this morning:

1. The technical representative was totally unambiguous about Everex/Abaton's
   decision to jettison InterFax effective immediately.

2. I suspect that this means V1.31 beta of the software will remain so.
   (I forgot to ask this explicitly!)

3. The hardware upgrade consists of two chips. The user is responsible for the
   installation (presumably Comprehensive instructions are provided?!?!). Once
   these replace whatever is there now, the InterFax software will no longer
   be able to drive the modem. This replacement will in effect make the
   Fax Modem into a group II device. As far as the techrep knew the only group
   II software on the market was from STF, and that this would be able to
   drive the converted modem. The cost of this upgrade is US$35 or so, plus
   handling.

This raises several questions, at least for me:

1. The interFax manual boasted that the InterFax 24/96 was capable of sending
   and receiving from all Group III Fax machines.
   What is this grouping of Fax machines and modems? and what happens now?

2. I have not paid much attention to the information about the STF drivers:
   How good are they? What is the experience to date?
   Does the software support voice mail?

I should note in passing that the READ ME document for LineShare by Stalker
Software says in part:

  *only Hayes-compatible and Fax Class II modems are emulated in this version*

3. Does this mean that Class II fax machines are *better* than Class III ones
   and are compatible with them?

Since there are a number of InterFax users in NetLand, I recommend that all
discussion be posted to the digest.

Cheers.

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

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 93 17:39:15 PST
From: "John Saxton" <[e-mail]>
Subject: An open letter to John Norstad

Dear Mr. Norstad,

There is a virus that has thus far been ignored by the Macintosh community
that
we feel that Disinfectant needs to address.  This virus, although
non-destructive, consumes tremendous amounts of disk space.  What's even more
alarming is that our research has shown that it is being distributed on the
master disks of almost every major software vendor, include Apple Computer
itself!

The effects of this virus are twofold:  First, the aforementioned disk space
problem, due to the fact that a new copy of this 20k virus is created on your
hard drive every time you install software.  Second, due to some
incompatibilities, it causes PICT files to not open properly when double
clicked under system 7.x.

Currently, no virus protection package on the market addresses this virus,
known affectionately as "TeachText."  Our suggestion is that your next release
of disinfectant include code that would seek out and destroy all copies of
this
offending virus except one, a "blessed" copy that the user can specify,
perhaps
one per volume.  The Macintosh community would be forever in your debt,
actually, deeper than we already are.

Thank you for creating the best virus protection product on the market.

Sincerely,


Joel Lingenfelter & John Saxton
[e-mail]    &   [e-mail]
Biola University

Cross-posted to: Info-Mac & Mac-L

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

Date: Sat, 13 Mar 93 09:48:38 -0600
From: [e-mail] (John Norstad)
Subject: An open letter to John Norstad

At  5:39 PM 3/12/93 -0800, John Saxton wrote:

>There is a virus that has thus far been ignored by the Macintosh community
that
>we feel that Disinfectant needs to address.  This virus, although
>non-destructive, consumes tremendous amounts of disk space.  What's even more
>alarming is that our research has shown that it is being distributed on the
>master disks of almost every major software vendor, include Apple Computer
>itself!
>
>The effects of this virus are twofold:  First, the aforementioned disk space
>problem, due to the fact that a new copy of this 20k virus is created on your
>hard drive every time you install software.  Second, due to some
>incompatibilities, it causes PICT files to not open properly when double
>clicked under system 7.x.
>
>Currently, no virus protection package on the market addresses this virus,
>known affectionately as "TeachText."  Our suggestion is that your next
release
>of disinfectant include code that would seek out and destroy all copies of
this
>offending virus except one, a "blessed" copy that the user can specify,
perhaps
>one per volume.  The Macintosh community would be forever in your debt,
>actually, deeper than we already are.

In a similar vein, I once had a version of Disinfectant (never distributed
to the public -:) which identified all Microsoft software as follows:

    This file is infected with the Bill Gates virus.
    It is beyond repair.
    You should drag it to the trash.

John Norstad
Academic Computing and Network Services
Northwestern University
[e-mail]

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

Date: 13 Mar 1993 14:30:36 -0600 (CST)
From: Chip Eckardt <[e-mail]>
Subject: Apple's Educational Marketing Plan?

Hello,
Could you please tell me what you think of Apple's new Educational
Resellers Program that takes effect in April?  I would like to get as
many people's opinions as possible and then give a summery reply to the
net.  Please send responses to [e-mail]  Thanks!
-----
Chip Eckardt, Coordinator of Macintosh Support UofW-Eau Claire

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

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 11:14:36 +0000
From: Frank Tito <[e-mail]>
Subject: AppleTalk Remote Access freeze [Q]

Whenever ARA tries to hang up the phone, the Mac freezes completely.  I'm
using a Duo 230 (Sys7.1) and a Hayes Optima 96 modem.  This happens when using
both the Hayes Ultra 96 and Smartmodem 2400 drivers.  Any ideas, people?  It's
a real downer.

Frank D Tito
US Coast Guard Academy

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

Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1993 3:33:08 HST
From: John Churchill <[e-mail]>
Subject: article response submission

In the 5 March edition, [e-mail] (Stan Kerr) voiced his dispise
for PC Exchange.  I tried it as well, and found it inadequate, but for other
reasons.

I have two computers, a Powerbook 140 and a T386.  I frequently use both, and
transfer files back and forth.  I have no problem with conversion of
different types of text files, because I know how to set them up before
transfer.  I often transfer stereo sound files recorded with my Soundblaster
Pro, graphic images, and Binhexed files between the two.  Also, I can ZIP a
file on my PC, transfer it, and drag it into Stuffit Expander for automatic
expansion.

My problem with PC Exchange is that it is SLOW.  For the brief moment in time
that I withstood the torture of using it, I had to wait up to a minute for
the floppy drive while it assigned custom icons to every PC file.  Trashing
items was also extremely sluggish.  It was awful.

Enter Insignia SolutionUs miracle control panel, Access PC.  It is so fast,
itUs virtually transparent to use.  No delays, it simply reads DOS formatted
disks as if it were a built-in function of the Mac.  Also, at 99K, it is half
the size of PC Exchange.  This product has amazed all my friends in college
when I whip out my tiny powerbook and read their DOS disks.

Sorry Stan, it doesnUt do file conversion, but it does assign a creator to
certain extensions.  What do you need the translators in AFE for anyway?  PM4
reads all file types, as does MS Word 5.  I donUt think IUd ever use the
translator functions anyway.  Now all I need is Timbuktu for Windows and a
little network, and IUll be in cross-platform heaven.

John Churchill, University of Hawaii
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 93 15:44:59 EST
From: [e-mail] (Ron Gut)
Subject: Balloon Writer (?) wanted

I heard some time ago about a program called "balloon writer" (or
something along those lines) that was available from apple dts and that
eased the creation of balloon help. I could not find at ftp.apple.com,
or anywhere else for that matter. Does anyone out there know where it
is, or any other program that does the same thing?

please reply by email to me.

Thanks in advance,
Ron
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 93 12:34:39 EST
From: [e-mail] (Steve Rothman)
Subject: Best Open and Save As... dialog enhancers? (Summary)

A week ago or so I asked...

>I've tried a copy of Directory Assistance II and Boomerang and they both seem
>quite nice, although they're both packaged with a lot of utilities that I
>don't need.  I've also tried DefaultD, but it's not quite as slick.  Are
there
>any other products like these out there that I should consider?  Anyone have
>any recommendations?

I got responses from Clare D., Benjamin T., Bryan W., and Ralph N.  There
were several recommendations for Default Folder 2.3, which is an updated
version of DefaultD.  I've tried it and it seems quite nice, but not
anywhere as functional as Directory Assistance II or Boomerang.  Since the
shareware fee for Default Folder is $20, compared to street prices of about
$95 for either Norton Utils or Now Utils, I think I'm going to have to go
with one of them (considering also how much else you get with the other
packages, in addition to the default directory stuff).

There were also some recommendations for Apollo, Shortcut, Open-Wide 3.3,
QuickFolder 0.6, and Dialog View 1.0.2.  These gizmos may all be very
handy, but they don't directly address the utility of DAII or Boomerang.
Thanks to everyone. -SR

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

Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1993 14:08 GMT
From: Fergus Sullivan <[e-mail]>
Subject: Can I get mail order by email (Q)

Can I order software through mail order houses via email?  I obviously don't
want them to send me the products by email--FedEx is fine--I just want to send
in my order and Visa Card # via email.  Has anyone any experience of this?

Fergus Sullivan.
Trinity College--in the heart of Sunny Dublin....

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

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 93 15:15:17 EST
From: Marie Rodriguez <[e-mail]>
Subject: CD-ROM driver needed to make Sun CD ROM work with Mac

Hi folks. We own a Sun CD ROM (which is manufactured by Sony, model
CDU-8012) and we are looking for a driver to make it work on our
macintosh (an SI). Sun support says that this drive was manufactured
by SOny to Sun specifications so they aren't sure that it runs on
anything else and why would we want to use it on anything other than a
sun anyway.

Any help would be much appreciated. I no longer get info-mac at our
site so please reply via email.

Thanks in advance,
   marie rodriguez
   oberon software

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

Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1993 05:23:12 GMT
From: Sven Guckes <[e-mail]>
Subject: Changing the date in folder listings

I'd like the dates in folder listing to show up like this:
930314 06:25
<DATE> <TIME>

Is there a way to do this ?  (Forget RedEditing!)

Sven :)

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

Date: Thu, 11 Mar 93 17:30:36 PST
From: [e-mail] (Dieder B.)
Subject: Compatibility CDEV

I have a friend with a Centris 610 who cannot get the 'compatibility' cdev
to work appropriately. He says that has read the instructions, but, it just
don't wanna work. I would suspect it is because the Compatibility cdev is
not recognizing the machine as a Quadra, it doesn't work. Any work arounds?
Or are we approaching this from a completely wrong perspective?

Thanks for any help.

Dieder

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

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 93  12:17 GMT
From: Big Nose <[e-mail]>
Subject: Controlling Paragraph placing in Word (Q)

Dear All,

I have a form letter that fits onto less than half a page. I want to fit
two copies onto the one page, and be able to cut them neatly into two
equal size separate pieces. I know how to use the <NEXT> command in words
mail merge facility etc and I can fit two copies on the page successfully.
The problem I have is positioning the second copy precisely so that it starts
just below the halfway point on the page.

If all the records were of equal length, I could calculate how much space to
leave after the last line of the first copy and do it that way, but unfort-
unately, the records are variable lengths, so the gap between the two is not
predictable.

I have tried poitioning paragraphs, but I don't want to have to position every
single paragraph in the second copy; if I try to position just the first one,
Word rather disconcertingly moves a following paragraph up above the one I
have
just positioned.

There must be someway (or kludge) to tell the bl**dy thing to start a
paragraph
at one point and then follow on with the rest, isn't there?

Thanks for any help in advance,

Andy Law
( LAWA @ IAPE.AFRC.AC.UK                    Big Nose in Edinburgh )

P.S. Please don't tell me to use Nisus or anything else; that won't be
helpful.

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

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 11:03 GMT
From: Jim Schenk <[e-mail]>
Subject: Creating True Type Fonts

Subj:  Creating True Type Fonts

Hello,

Does anyone out there know how to go about creating a True Type font?
Any information would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Jim        [e-mail]

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

Date: 12 Mar 1993 18:57:56 -0600
From: "Glockzin Donald" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Custom Sound in MS Mail

So you hate the MS Mail Chime...well, here's a little help to change that.

(See note below before starting)
1. Run ResEdit.
2. Open the System 7 sound that you desire to be your Mail chime.
3. Dbl-click the sound icon.
4. Select the sound and copy.
5. Open the MS Mail extension.
6. Dbl-click the sound icon.
7. Select paste.
8. Select the old chime and clear.
9. Select the new sound and then get resource info.
10. Edit the ID and name to be the same as the one that you just cleared.
[For me, it was 8192 and "Chime" and is probably the same for you]
(this does seem to be VERY important to keep the same name and ID)
11. Save and close.
12. Open the MS Mail Cache which is from the Preferences folder.
13. Repeat steps 6 thru 11.
14. Replace your old MS Mail extension and Cache with the new ones.
15. Reboot and go.
16. If the sound you hear is the system sound, then you screwed up somewhere.
MS Mail will use the system sound if something is wrong with its sound.

Notes: Normal ResEdit rules apply. Always have a copy of everything. You can't
work on the files in use. I didn't put down every little detail; you should
have some experience before attempting this. I am using MS MAil 3.1.

You may not need to change both the extension and cache, but it didn't work
when I only changed one. I don't really understand their relationship. The
size
of the new sound doesn't seem to matter, but it may bomb if the sound is too
large.
I have seen no effects to the mail server or any other networked part of the
mail system. Try your own method to find the minimum effort and post it.

FYI: The Star Trek beeps sounds are great replacements.

DISCLAIMER: Stop, don't do this. This is Microsoft's product and you shoud not
modify it. I didn't do any of this. I just dreamed how it might work if MS
wanted me to do it.

Good Luck -- DG
Donald Glockzin
Motorola
Ft. Worth, TX

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

Date: 12 Mar 1993 16:35:02 -0500 (EST)
From: Chris Haupt -- ISC/ACUS <[e-mail]>
Subject: DECnet for Mac...(R)

>Date: Tue,  9 Mar 1993 11:05:15 +0100
>From: Elliot Bennett <[e-mail]>
>Subject: DECnet for Mac w/System 7.1...
>
>Anyone know if DEC has and/or is planning to release an update to DECnet for
>Macintosh which is compatible with System 7.1 (we have a site license for ALL
>DEC software and receive upgrades via CD-ROM every 2 months- but I don't even
>know if "in the works" or to be released "real soon now", etc.).
>
>ANY info as to the status of DECnet for Mac would be GREATLY appreciated!
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Elliot Bennett
>[e-mail]

We have also been using the 1.1 Pathworks kit's decnet. There is a patch
available from DEC (1.1a) for other Systems 7.1 support. Here is the intro
>From the README on the patch kit:

Introduction

This PATHWORKS V1.1a kit was developed to support PATHWORKS for Macintosh
administrators upgrading to Apple's new System 7.1 Software. Users running
System 7.0.1 and earlier do not need to replace the components contained
herein.

The following components have been modified to work with System 7.1:

     o  Mail for Macintosh has been updated to version 1.1b

     o  MacTCP control panel has been upgraded to version 1.1.1

     o  AdminTCP control panel has been upgraded to version 1.1.1.

     o  MacTCP tool has been upgraded to version 1.2

     o  MacX has been upgraded to version 1.2


The kit came out in December 1992/ January 1993 from what I can tell.



Christopher Haupt--RIT:ISC\CS [[e-mail]|[e-mail]]*
RIT;ISC;One Lomb Memorial Dr.;PO BOX 9887;Rochester NY 14623-0887 USA

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

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 07:40:09 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: DECnet for Mac w/System 7.1 (R)

>Anyone know if DEC has and/or is planning to release an update to DECnet for
>Macintosh which is compatible with System 7.1 (we have a site license for ALL
>DEC software and receive upgrades via CD-ROM every 2 months- but I don't even
>know if "in the works" or to be released "real soon now", etc.).
>
>ANY info as to the status of DECnet for Mac would be GREATLY appreciated!
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Elliot Bennett
>[e-mail]

One thing you might try is setting up the security in NCP Executive settings.
I
recently read an artical on DSNlink that said DECnet will not work with MacX
unless you set up the security.  I tried it and it worked like a charm.  The
userid and password can be any thing and have nothing to do with logging in to
a users account.

Lisa Besko
MSU/NSCL


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

Date: 13 Mar 1993 17:49:52 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: directory problem? (Q)

I use a Powerbook 100 4/40 which I like very much, however last Thursday
I began having trouble using the hard drive.  When trying to boot, I
would often get the sad-mac or "?".  I was able to boot with a floppy, but
I usually did not get the HD icon to appear (I say "often" and "usually"
because the responses were not at all consistant).  Other changes that
I noticed at the same time I was having these problems was a change in
the appearance of several file icons.  MS word icons (I have both 4.0 and
5.0 on the disk) changed from a stack of paper to a single page with the
"W within a diamond" overlapping this single page.  Another icon that
changed is that of Glider v3.0.2.  It used to be a generic hand-holding-
pen icon to an elegant glider floating over an air vent.

Because I wasn't able to boot, I took my Powerbook to a local Apple
dealer for service.  When I picked up the computer yesterday, I was
told that this was a software problem.  The service person indicated a
problem with the directory, but the personnel at this store were
unable to explain the problem at all.

My question is then, if this is (was) a directory problem, what could
have caused it and will it happen again?  The icons have remained changed
>From those of 1 1/2 weeks ago.  Is this related / something to be concerned
about?  Has anyone seen icons that fit these sketchy descriptions?

Feel free to reply directly to me.  I will summarize to the .net if
necessary.
Thank you in advance.

Eric McClelland                EMCCLEL1@ITHACA
School of Heath Science and Human Performance
Ithaca College
Ithaca, NY

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

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 00:35:28 -0800 (PST)
From: "Peter C. Crayne" <[e-mail]>
Subject: DiskCopy

In a previous issue, Arvid Burns <[e-mail]> says:

>>I will further warn that DiskCopy is perhaps the worst program that
>>was ever written.
>>
>>For example, expect to put in a floppy, press the "make a copy"
>>button, and have it spit out the floppy and ask you "please
>>insert a floppy..."

>Silly Me. I have been using this program effectively and often for
>quite some time. It's a good thing I didn't have to pay for it cuz
>now I'll have to stop using it. I wouldn't want to be seen using
>"perhaps the worst program that was ever written".

>Nothing personal, but complaining about having to know when
>DiskCopy allows you to put a disk in is pretty trivial.

Actually, he's right, if perhaps for the wrong reason. Apple's DiskCopy
DOES qualify as one of the the worst programs ever written (at least for a
Mac). Just ask the people over in the Usenet group
'comp.sys.amiga.emulations'. It's notoriety has earned it a permanant place
in that group's FAQ file. (A dubious distinction at best.)
DiskCopy is one of a very few programs currently known that do not run
reliably on a non-standard mac, like an emulator, or a mac with a non-apple
drive. Not only does it not work, but it isn't capable of telling you in
advance that it doesn't work with your hardware. It's method of telling
that it has failed is to bomb.

It violates Apple's own guidelines by directly accessing hardware that it
assumes exists.

-Pete
[e-mail]
(Thank god for MountImage!)

[You think an *Apple* program whose purpose is to copy disks at or below the
 sector level should be blamed for not running on an *emulator*?  I doubt they
 are weeping at this news in Cupertino. -Bill]

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

Date: Thu, 11 Mar 93 23:57:12 EST
From: [e-mail] (2d Lt Avram Dorfman)
Subject: DiskCopy apology (C)

Ok. I guess I have to retract my harsh comment about DiskCopy. For those of
you who missed it, in my reply to somone who was looking for old system
software, I casually mentioned that "DiskCopy is perhaps the worst program
that
has ever been written".

I am sorry. I forgot about DOS. (just kidding)

Seriously, since this has become such an issue, let me explain that my main
objection to DiskCopy is that it requires so much free RAM that people (like
myself) who only have 1 MB of RAM just plain can't use it.

It is true that I also believe that the interface was poorly thought out, but
that wasn't my serious complaint. It was a poor decision on apple's part to
offer archives in a format that 1 MB users can't extract. Nonetheless, it
wouldn't have been hard for DiskCopy to use what memory was available, and do
multiple passes if necessary.

There are lots of reasons to buy extra RAM, but being able to use DiskCopy
shouldn't have to be one of them.

Furthermore, I assume that everyone knows that if you drag a disk icon to
another disk icon, the system automatically makes a new folder on the object
disk, and puts a complete file structure copy of the first disk in that
folder.
What is the benefit of a disk image over this sort of copy?

In other words, why does anyone use DiskCopy at all?

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

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 93 00:07:10 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Harold Herchen)
Subject: DiskDup+ vs Apple's DiskCopy

>Following Christian Buser's strong praise (in #55) for DiskDup+ as an
>alternative to Apple's Disk Copy (which I don't think is anywhere near as
>bad as Avram Dorfman claims in #54), I downloaded the DiskDup+ version
>currently on SUMEX. All I got for my trouble was a program that crashed my
>Mac II fx (System 6.0.7) everytime I tried to use it. Makes Apple's Disk
>Copy appear positively brilliant by comparison.

DiskDup+ does deserve the strong praise it receives from Buser.  I avoid the
system crash by first selecting the Simple Beep sound.  Then it works
superbly.

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

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 93 08:54 MET
From: Hans de Wolf <[e-mail]>
Subject: downloading postscript (A)

Cees Baarda asked in Infomac issue 55 about a way to download postscript
files (easier than the laserwriter utility).
The solution to the problem: MacLPR (available from the infomac archives)
Just put it on your desktop a drop any postscript file on it.
It is much better than LW Utility, because files are printed via the
print monitor in the background.

Hans de Wolf

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

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 93 14:23:36 EST
From: [e-mail] (John F. Whitehead)
Subject: Driver for HP LaserJet IIIsi (A)

[e-mail] wrote:

    On the mac we use the LaserWriter driver, but this does
    not always works. So, my question is: Does anybody know if there exist
    an special driver for this printer for the Mac?

There is a special driver.  When we encountered this problem, HP sent us
two disks of "LaserJet Printing Tools for the Macintosh" that included
the correct driver.  Contact your HP rep.

While I'm on the subject?  Does anyone know how to get CAP to not send
the giant font dicts to the HPIIIsi?  DMM-LW doesn't work, stripfonts
doesn't work (because that just works when saving to a PS file), and
the CAP FAQ has nothing to add.

Hasn't anyone gotten an HP to work with Macs, via a Unix box, that
doesn't send 300K files for one-line printing jobs?

|   John      [e-mail]          Duke University Medical Center |
| Whitehead   [e-mail]           Department of Neurobiology     |

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

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 93 08:09:56 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Duo-Woes

I have just recently purchased a Duo 230 4mb 110hd (waiting for the 8mb
upgrade to come in) and I am having some problems.
1. I have had several crashes after which upon booting, the system appears
to hang at the "welcome to Macintosh" window for an extremely long period
of time (minutes) before the extensions start to load.  Also, this appears
more frequently when the system is docked than when it is not docked.

2. This is the most annoying bug.  It has only happened to me when the
system is docked, but occasionally, the entire system goes into slow
motion.  Everything takes forever to happen.  Screen refreshing and zooming
is painfully slow and eventually the system hangs.  I reboot, and things
are back to normal.

Can anyone explain this?

***********************************
Stewart Lynch
Director of Technology
North Vancouver School District
North Vancouver, BC Canada

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

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 93 16:14:42 +0100
From: Martin Jourdan <[e-mail]>
Subject: DuoDock and color screen > 16"

Dear netters,

I am considering replacing both my PowerBook 170 (a great machine,
just a bit heavy) and my Sun workstation, which I'm far from using at
its full capabilities (I don't have the time to program any more,
alas, only e-mail and text processing), by a PowerBook Duo (for light
weight) and a DuoDock (for comfort and connectivity) with an Ethernet
card and some X-server software to connect to my Unix server (I know
both MacX and eXodus, each is enough to satisfy my needs).

My problem is that I consider essential to have a *big* color screen
attached to the DuoDock when I use it as an X-terminal (my Sun screen
is a 19", 1152*900 8-bit color, and I use *it* at its full
capabilities).  In particular, the built-in video which, as far as I
know, is limited to 16", 832*624 screens, is insufficient for me.

The obvious solution is to install a video card such as the Radius 8Xj
(I'm not involved with Radius, only a satisfied user of an *Xj and a
PCD/20 on a IIsi) in a Nu-bus slot and have it drive a 19" or 20"
screen at 1152*870, as it possible on all Mac IIs with Nu-bus slots.
But I have heard that this configuration (Duo + DuoDock + video card +
big screen) does not work.

Can any of you confirm or infirm this rumor, preferably from living
experience?  Any relevant information would be appreciated, too.

Please e-mail directly, and I'll post a summary.  Many thanks in
advance.

Martin Jourdan <[e-mail]>, INRIA, Rocquencourt, France.
    Phone [phone], fax [phone]
#include <std_disclaimer.h>

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

Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1993 20:17:37 -0500 (EST)
From: LAN Supervisor <[e-mail]>
Subject: FileGuard problem

Our lab consists of the following Macintoshes.
    Macintosh SE / System 6.0.8
    Macintosh IIsi / System 7, Tune-up 1.1.1
FileGuard 2.7.4 is installed on each individual workstation.

Here's the problem. I want to protect the items on the hard disk from
deletion,
movement and modification. However, doing so prevents users from using the
Trash can. If I unprotect the desktop, users can use the Trash can. I then
protect the individual folders to prevent modification to their contents.
However, doing so does not protect folder names or placement. In other words,
although users cannot modify the contents of the folders, they can modify the
folders' names, and they can move the icons around the desktop. Is there a way
to "freeze" the icons on the hard disk without "freezing" the Trash.

Josephine Colmenares / Fordham University
[e-mail] / [e-mail]

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

Date: Sun, 14 Mar 93 15:56 CST
From: Dominik Hoffmann <[e-mail]>
Subject: Formatting third-party hard drives with "Apple HD SC Setup" (Fol

In infomacv11-053 I had posted the question of how to format a third-party
hard
drive with Apple's "Apple HD SC Setup". I received a few responses which told
me
that the problem had been discussed in info-mac before and that I should make
a
copy of "Apple HD SC Setup" and with ResEdit patch the code resource "%A5Init"
where it says "8 SEAGATE", that is change the $38 for ASCII "8" to $00.

This in fact made the utility recognize my removable hard drive, which
proceeded
to format and verify it. It wrote the directory information and then failed to
mount the cartridge. Even SCSIProbe couldn't do anything about that. I guess
the
reason is that there are fundamental differences between removable and non-
removable SCSI hard drives. "Apple HD SC Setup" was never meant to format
removables.

I tried it again on a La Cie external drive with a Quantum LP240S mechanism.
This, I thought, would work then. However, now the formatter didn't get past
the
verification stage.

Maybe this "Apple HD SC Setup"-patch isn't that reliable.

Dominik Hoffmann ([e-mail])

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

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 93 09:28 CDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: FTP problem (Q)

Hello netters,

This is my first post, so I hope everything goes well.

If there's anyone out there who finds the following situation familiar,
please let me know, regardless of whether you've found a solution.
At least, I won't feel so alone with this problem.

We have three IIci's and a Quadra attached to ethernet. The IIci's all
have Asante Nubus cards installed, and all four Macs are using Intercon's
TCP/Connect II. The problem is this: the IIci's are unable to put files
through FTP to the Quadra (or to our VAX for that matter), but are able
to get files from any machine without problem.  When putting files from
the IIci's, FTP hangs for a long period (during which time the file is
visible on the remote host), then abrubtly stops, after which the file
either has been transferred largely incomplete (usually only a portion
of one line of text!), or disappears altogether from the remote host
directory. When I run FTP from the Quadra or the VAX and try getting
files from the IIci's, I experience the same problem; the files
after a lengthy amount of time just do not transfer completely.

Oddly, the IIci's are able to put and get files amongst themselves
without any problem.  And the Quadra (with its built-in ethernet card)
is FTP'ing without problem (except in getting files from the IIci's).

Of course, it would be easier to do file sharing through the Chooser
amongst all of our Macs, but we need FTP to put files to our VAX.
It becomes a bit tedious to first place the files on the Quadra in
order to FTP them to the VAX, which is what I've resorted to.

Tech support at Intercon have not been able to come up with a solution.
The problem may not be in TCP/Connect anyway, as I've tested different
FTP servers on our IIci's, and they all experience the same problem.
Now we've asked for help from Asante, but they've never seen this
problem before, and I am at present anxiously awaiting their response.
Both Intercon and Asante have sent us their latest release of
relevant software, but this has not made a difference. My only
thought now is that we've received faulty Nubus cards.

If anyone has any insight into this, please respond privately, unless
you feel this of general interest. Thanks in advance!

--Vincent Fuh
University of Wisconsin--Madison
[e-mail]

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

Date: Sun, 14 Mar 93 12:06:01 -0500
From: "Tad Davis" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Geneva-->Helvetica?

I just noticed that my Geneva is getting converted to Helvetica when it
prints. This is something new, though I'm not sure when it first began; I
haven't done any printing in Geneva for awhile. It may be that it started
when I switched to System 7.1 with the Fonts folder. I'm using all TrueType
fonts from said folder, and a DeskWriter with the 3.1 drivers. I tried
reinstalling the drivers and the Geneva and Helvetica fonts; no effect so
far. Anybody run into this problem? (Before you suggest it, I know the DW
has a "font substitution" mechanism that can do this; but (a) that option
is NOT checked for any of the documents in question, and (b) the special HP
fonts the option uses are NOT installed anywhere on my hard disk. So I
doubt that's what's going on.)

Tad Davis
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 93 16:19 GMT
From: [e-mail] (G.D. Landweber)
Subject: Greg's Buttons and PowerPoint

In the Info-Mac Digest Volume 11:Issue 56, I read:
>Greg Buttons seems to crash PowerPoint 3.0. If you access the PowerPoint
>text menu to change the font, the system crashes. Microsoft Tech Support
>suggests    Greg Buttons does not make "standard system calls." They contend

If PowerPoint were using standard system calls to build its font menu,
there wouldn't be any problem!  But seriously, Greg's Buttons does some
intense fiddling with the user interface, and certain programs just assume
that the interface will never change.  So, they don't bother to check the
font information or color information.  If a program follows Apple's
guidelines, it should work fine with Greg's Buttons.  From past experience,
Microsoft tends not to follow Apple's guidelines.

To fix the problem, I suggest that you turn off the "Substitute System
Font" feature.  If that does not work, please e-mail me.  If I can duplicate
a bug on my machine, I will fix it.  Even if it a bug in some other program,
I can usually find a work-around, or at worst I'll disable the feature for
the offending program.

-- Greg "Buttons" Landweber
   [e-mail]

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

Date: Sat, 13 Mar 93 21:10 GMT
From: [e-mail] (G.D. Landweber)
Subject: Greg's Buttons crashes PowerPoint 3.0?

"Eric H. Durbrow" <[e-mail]> wrote:
>Greg Buttons seems to crash PowerPoint 3.0. If you access the PowerPoint
>text menu to change the font, the system crashes. Microsoft Tech Support
>suggests    Greg Buttons does not make "standard system calls." They contend
>that their extensions (Shared Code, MTExt, etc) do make correct calls.
>Unfortunately, the tech support engineer could give little info on the
>Microsoft extensions. Would appreciate hearing from anyone who is getting
>frequent crashes in PowerPoint. Thanks in advance. Eric.

other than tell you to restart with extensions off and re-install your
system file.  Has anybody had any good experiences with Microsoft?

(Actually, once I got e-mail from some folks at Microsoft who had found
a bug in Greg's Buttons.  They disassembled the code and told me what I
should do to fix it.  Now that's tech support!  Unfortunately they had
disclaimers that said that they do not speak for Microsoft.  Too bad.)

First of all, "MTExt" stands for "MathType Extra" -- it is a postscript
font so it does not make any system calls at all.  I actually find it
extremely annoying that Microsoft automatically installs this font in
my system file, since I cannot use it in anything but the equation editor.

The "Shared Code" file doesn't load anything at startup (I think, please
correct me or ignore what I'm saying if I'm wrong).  It is just a chunk
of code that happens to be used by more than one Microsoft program.  So,
they put it in the extensions folder (where it is easy to find) instead
of duplicating it in each of the application packages.  Seems a good idea.

As for your problems with Greg's Buttons, I suggest that you
 1) Turn off the "Substitute system font" feature
 2) Upgrade to version 2.4 of Greg's Buttons
 3) Get in touch with me via e-mail, and I'll send you a beta version
    of 2.5.  My hunch is that it will fix the problem.  Version 2.5
    final should be available on the archives by the end of the month.

-- Greg "Buttons" Landweber
   [e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 03:16:32 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Steven Arthur Sivier)
Subject: Hard Drive Stiction problems

[e-mail] writes:

>I tracked down the report old-quantum-drive-fix and found it referred only
>to the Sony SRD 20x0 problem! Was there really an Apple- or
>Quantum-supported zero outlay revival program? Various posts a couple of
>years ago mentioned some sort of SupaTork ROM exchange: was that just
>mythology?

You mean its Sony drives that have the stiction problems? I thought it
only affected Quantum drives. It happens I have an old 40 Meg Sony drive
(Model SRD2040A-02) from out of a IIcx that refuses to spin anymore. Can
I get this repaired (or replaced) for free or should I just toss it?

Thanks for any help,
Steve Sivier
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 16:58:44 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Rick Sutcliffe)
Subject: Help ClarisWorks & AppleWor

      Help ClarisWorks & AppleWorks (Q)
Try this:
Fire up ClarisWorks.  File-Open-toggle import options select word processor
and AppleWorks.  Insert AppleWorks disk.  The files of type pn{ (hope those
odd chars got through) display, but nothing else.  Filen.  Read and
translate a file, then select save as and save as an AppleWorks file to the
same disk  Now try to import it back.  Can't.  Look up the type.  It is
BINA.  If I zap the type with a utility back to the funny type from before,
I can see it again in the import box.

Summary: The translator used by Claris Works to save files (called
AppleWorks 2.0 on the menyu) saves files with a different type than the
translator used to read such files (called AppleWorks in the menu) can read.
 What in the blazes is going on and what do I do about it?  I bought this
machine to allow users to transport ProDOS files back and forth to a Mac.
This apparent screw-up prevents me from doing that because a file allegedly
saved in AppleWorks format cannot be read as such either by Claris Works or
by AppleWorks.  Problem works the same way on Mac LCIII, Mac II, and Mac
IIfx

Before you say, use AFE to change the file, keep in mind that a ProDOS disk
mounted by the ProDOS extension appears to the Mac as a Mac disk, not as a
ProDOS disk.  AFE does not even see it as a ProDOS disk, and will not offer
translation services as such.  Besides, it is ridiculous to have to take
this extra step.

In another post, I indicate that I cannot get the Apple ][e card to display
properly either.  Surely someone out there is using this software correctly.
 What is the trick?

Any advice?

Please respond directly to [e-mail]

 Rick Sutcliffe-Trinity Western University Langley B.C. [e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 8:57:42 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Rick Sutcliffe)
Subject: HELP LC III and Apple-2 car

      HELP LC III and Apple-2 card
I posted this message two days ago and received no useful replies.  Hasn't
anyone installed a ][e card in an LC III?

I installed a new Apple ][e card in an LCIII (with the new "14" inch colour
monitor) I bought for our church.  Starting up the ][e brings up a blackened
screen and the Applesoft prompt, but it is in such large print that only the
top left hand corner of the ][e screen can be seen.  The rest is invisible
off to the lower and right regions.  There were no installation instructions
with the packeage, and the manual is the most obtuse and unhelpful I have
seen yet from mother Apple ("if you are a floppy disk startup person, ...").
 What is the obvious thing I have missed here?

Rick


 Rick Sutcliffe-Trinity Western University Langley B.C. [e-mail]

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

Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1993 04:07:39 GMT
From: Sven Guckes <[e-mail]>
Subject: Hints on preparing an archive for distribution

Hints on preparing an archive for distribution

As the user of an inventory program I usually sort the list of all files
in lexicographic order.  But usually the files that belong to one package,
archive or whatever fall apart in this sort order.
To keep them together I suggest this:

Always give the full name at the beginning of each file!

The full name should include the version number of the
program/init/cdev/whatever you are distributing.

Please give every release a version number, no matter whether it's the
first alpha of a silly test version.

This makes it MUCH easier for maintaining files on big media
(read: my hard disk) and allows faster updates. :-)

Please add a version resource (if that's how it's called) so that the info
window can show the version even if it has been deleted from the name.
Hey, it even makes sense for folder listings that show the version numbers !

Furthermore, please cut additonal text files into different parts that
allow a fast way to access the necessary data.
Here are some examples of what structure these may have:

MyProg 1.1.1.cpt                MyProg 1.1.1 as CompactPro file
MyProg 1.1.1.sit                MyProg 1.1.1 as StuffIt    file
MyProg 1.1.1                    The application/init/cdev
MyProg 1.1.1 Balloon            Ballon help texts
MyProg 1.1.1 Changes            Bug report+fixes, new features, ideas
MyProg 1.1.1 Contents           List of all files within the archive
MyProg 1.1.1 Docs               Detailed information on the use of it all
MyProg 1.1.1 History            List of all changes
MyProg 1.1.1 Order Form         The order form - ready for printing
MyProg 1.1.1 Prefs              Standard preferences file
MyProg 1.1.1 Readme             Short description (upload announcement)

MyProg 1.1.1 Documentation
MyProg 1.1.1 Intro
MyProg 1.1.1 Manual
MyProg 1.1.1 Release Notes
MyProg 1.1.1 Registration Form
MyProg 1.1.1 User's Guide

Whether it's "Documentation", "Manual" or "User's Guide" -
"Docs" is probably the best as it's the shortest form.
So I suggest using "Docs" to name your document files.

If you can, please provide information that can be read by most editors,
preferrably TeachText, as it is shipped with every Mac.
If you don't want to use TeachText then please use one of those programs
which allow creation of standalone documents.
There are a pretty bunch of them available and I have seen really nice ones.
Some of them even allow saving the text in TeachText format.
Just don't expect everyone to have a copy of Word to view docs of 4K
length...

Plead to archive maintainers:

Please make your hqx files translate into archive file name that
_include_ version number and archive program suffix!
It's a drag to unpack archives just to find out which version it is
or which archiver was used.

Happy archiving!
Sven :)

========================================
Just to tell you WHY I wrote this:

Index progs says:
"There are 2500+ files on your disk:
 ...
 Readme
 ReadMe
 Readme!
 README
 Read me
 Read me first
 ...
 Will you ever read me ?"

AUGH! :-(

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

Date: 12 Mar 1993 09:26:05 -0600 (CST)
From: "John A." <[e-mail]>
Subject: How to avoid v____ in SEA's (R)

Stephen Wall writes:

> This still leaves you vulnerable to a Trojan Horse disguished as an SEA.
[stuff deleted]

I beg to differ. If you don't execute the trojan or virus, then it can't
affect your system. You can only be vulnerable to a virus (or trojan) in
the self-extrascting code if you execute it (by double-clicking...). As I
said (an you quoted), using Stuffit Expander bypasses the (supposed) self
extracting code. Therefore, you just have to check the extracted
(unstuffed) files for viruses using Disinfectant or similar, which is a
very good habit to get into anyways.

I think what everyone has to remember is that there are two places for a
virus (or trojan) to hide in a SEA. It could be in the self extracting
code (use Stuffit Expander to bypass), or in the archived files (use
Disinfectant or similar after expanding). The commercial SAM would allow
you to scan the whole thing without expanding, but if I can bypass the
self extracting code, then I only need to scan the files in the archive.

Lets stop beating a dead (trojan) horse. 8-)    John A.

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

Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1993 22:47 EST
From: Gordon Dohle <[e-mail]>
Subject: How to save files in NCSA TELNET 2.5?

Does anyone know how to enable a standard dialogue box in the
'save text' mode of NCSA Telnet? The menu bar item is there, but
when dragged to, it simply ignores the command and there appears
to be no way to save a session to disk (ala 'Start Capture in zterm).

Thanks for any advice

Gordon
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 09:23:39 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Wade Williams)
Subject: Human Interface Guidelines

>In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
>> Actually, Apple can't escape blame for this one, since their human
>> interface guidelines forbid programs from changing the bit-depth
>> for the user. If Spectrum does this, they are breaking Apple's rules.
>
>Hmm, I understand the problems involved, but it's such a pain that
>I see no real problem as long as the game sets it back when it's done.
>Even ResEdit screws with the System Palette when you run it. :-)

Athough I agree it can be a pain, there is a good reason for it.

What if you're running a program in the background that requires 256
colors?  The system will have no way of knowing that, thus programmers are
discouraged from changing it behind the user's back.  However, better
programs notify you that you're in the wrong color mode and simply say,
"should I switch to xx color mode for you?"

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

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

Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1993 23:12:04 +0100
From: Elliot Bennett <[e-mail]>
Subject: Icon wanted...

Besides being a COMPLETE waste of bandwidth, totally irrelavent, AND extremely
kitsch, would someone like to send me a (preferable color) icon of the Bat
signal (from Batman) for my Duo's hard disk icon (get it? Dynamic Duo! - bad,
huh?).

Just thought I'd ask (and MANY thanks in advance!) ...

Elliot Bennett
DLR, Cologne, Germany
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 93 06:11:33 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #56

In article <[e-mail]>, you write:
>Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1993 17:04:17 -0500
>From: [e-mail] (Drew Pommet)
>Subject: printing problems...
>
>Hi,
>
>  Does anybody at your site know of a way to transparently print files from
>a mac to a unix queue (hplj)?  I know that lpr1.2 and lpr allow you to ship
>text files, but I am looking for a package that will allow you to select
>the unix queue from the chooser.
>  If that is to much of task, then is there a package that will send a
>PostScript file to the UNIX queue?
>  Thanks for your time.
>
>       Drew Pommet


InterCon Systems Corp. ([e-mail] or [e-mail])
markets InterPrint, a Mac lpr chooser-document driver.
Bob Blackmun
Director of Computing Services
UNC Charlotte
Charlotte NC 28223
[phone] / fax [phone]
Internet: [e-mail]

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

Date: Sat, 13 Mar 93 16:01:52 CST
From: [e-mail] (Cheng-Chin Chiang)
Subject: Intolerably slow HP DeskWriter printing in Texture.

    I have a problem on HP Desk Writer printing.  When I use the HP Desk
    Writer
to print the typesetted files of Textures, the printing speed is very very
slow.
The estimated average printing speed is about 5-6 min/page.  Undoubtedly, this
printing speed makes my thesis printing (about 150 pages) an awful job.  I
find
that the printer driver (DW 3.1) spends much time on "spooling to disk"
process.
I don't know why this process takes such a long time.  Is this problem caused
by
the slow CPU speed of my LC II (with FPU emulator)?  Is it useful if I use a
FPU
to accelerate the processing speed?  I hope someone can help me out.  Thanks
in
advance.

BTW, a friend of mine wants to connect the HP Desk Writer (for Macintosh) to a
PC, is it possible?

Cheng-Chin Chiang
Department of Computer Science & Information Engineering
National Chiao-Tung University
Hsinchu, Taiwan 300, ROC
Email: [e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 14:43:29 +0100 (MET)
From: [e-mail] (Michael Bach)
Subject: LC III VRAM & bit depth (correction)

Dear colleagues:
I apologize for my recent blunder: The LC III does never
support "Millions" of colors, but rather "Thousands", depending
on VRAM and monitor resolution:
Monitor    resolution   pixel depth   # of colors      VRAM [KB]
12"         512x384        1-16       2-thousands    standard 512
13/14"&VGA  640x480        1-8        2-256          standard 512
   "           "           1-16       2-thousands        768
Portrait    640x870        1-8        2-256          standard 512
16"         832x624        1-8        2-256          standard 512.
Thus, the 16" monitor is supported without the need to install an
additional VRAM module. Additional VRAM is effective only in the
640x480 resolutions, where it gives the "Thousands of colors" option.
This is supposedly the best setting for QuickTime movies.
Greetings, Michael.

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

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

Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1993 11:46:57 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Brian V. Hughes)
Subject: LC III VRAM, monitors & SIMMs (A)

In comp.sys.mac.digest Michael Bach writes:

>1. VRAM can be expanded up to 700odd kB. Thus: try to weasel
>a LC ownwer off her/his 256kB VRAM and stick it into your LC III.
>You get: "Millions" of colors with the 14" montor (640x480 pixels)
>and the option of the 16" monitor (832x634 pixels, 256 colors)

    The actual amount of VRAM that the LCIII can be expanded to is 768k.
This is enough to give "Thousands" of colors on monitors up to 640x480
but does not add anything to the 256 colors already possible on larger
monitors up to 832x624 with the base 512k VRAM.

-Hades

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Date: Fri, 12 Mar 93 07:27:54 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: LCII vs. LCIII, software

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Date: 12 March 1993, 10:16:08 EST
From: Robert E. Moore           404-651-3990         PRPREM   at GSUVM1
To:   INFO-MAC at RICEVM1
Subject: LCII vs. LCIII, software
   Thanks to all those that responded to my question (too many to list).
The concensus seems to be that the improved speed etc. of the LCIII make
it too good to pass up, even though the LCII is now much cheaper than before,
 but not that much cheaper than an LCIII.  Also the LCIII comes with 512k of
VRAM which supports 256 colors on a 14" monitor.  It is upgradable to 768k of
VRAM (32,768 colors).

   As far as software, the Claris works is consistently recommended over
Microsoft works.  MYM and Quicken receive about equal support, with Quicken
being easier to learn but MYM providing more functions.  Thanks to everyone,
you've been a big help.

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Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 10:39 EST
From: "In Taberna quando sumus, non curamus quid sit humus, sed ad ludum
properamus, cui semper insudamus." <[e-mail]>
Subject: Looking for voice mail software that can make a call.

Hi.

Right now I have the Prometheus home office answering my phone at home.  It is
O.k., but I would rather have a better program than MaxFax (that came with
it)

What I would really like is a program that will call a certain phone number
whenever a certain mailbox gets a message.  Essentially, I want the computer
to beep me when I get a message.

I remember seeing a friend's ibm compat pc do something like this about 3
years ago.  So, is there such an animal for the Mac?  And will other
fax/voice-mail software work on the Prometheus modem.

Thanks.

Loren Finkelstein
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 93 09:04:21 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: Macsbug won't re-boot a MacPlus either...

In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
> Sorry I took so long to catch up on my email. Curiousity got the best of me,
> and I installed Macsbug on a MacPlus at work that also runs Sys7.0.1  It's
> not a machine I ever use so I consider it a "statistically independent"
> version of Sys7.0.1 (tuned of course).  Same thing, MacsBug won't re-boot
> it either.
>
> I suspect it is a macPlus thing.  Don't have a sys6.0.x Plus anywhere handy
> to test.
>
> Just thought you'd like to know.
>
> Regards,
>
> Igor

That's interesting - I wonder what MacsBug has against the Plus. Well,
just so people know, I'm forwarding this to Info-Mac as well...

cheers ... -Adam

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

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 93 13:16:03 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Allen Kitchen)
Subject: MacTel name change

    Just for your info,  MacTel is now known as MTT.  Their 800 number
is unchanged at 950-8411.   In addition to good prices on Simms, they also
sell an External Hard Drive case (with internal cables) for 99$.  They are
based in Austin Texas.

[e-mail]
(( Note:  I have no contact with the company other than as a customer ))

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

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 93 11:55:47 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Brian Hall)
Subject: Mactivity'93 information

[e-mail] writes:
>So spread the word, Mactivity'93 is about 4 months away! We have lots of
>surprises and fun things to help make the conference 'aura' enjoyable. The
>high
>level of the content (low signal:to: noise ratio) continues.

I have to second that comment.  Having attended the first Mactivity, and
exhibited at the second, I can attest to the low signal to noise ratio.
As an attendee you can expect the fancy booths, big names, and important
product announcements that a MacWorld generates.  As an exhibitor you
reach the people who matter (instead of having to figure out the one in ten
people who are in a position to purchase your product at a general
purpose trade show).

And the parties aren't all that bad either ;-?

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

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 93 11:41:47 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Mouse/Caps lock problem?

This problem has been happening to me recurrently, about once a week,
with no consistent cause that I have been able to trace.  Like all
intermittent problems, it's a bear to track down because it's not
reproducible on demand.

If I'm in Word, suddenly the insertion point refuses to budge.  It's
as if the mouse button were being held down.  Clicking to the left
or right of the insertion point produces a selection between where
the parked insertion point is and where I have clicked.  No matter
where I click the cursor, the insertion point refuses to move.  I use
a Microspeed Trackball, so at first I thought maybe somehow the click
lock was getting stuck, but no amount of pushing on the three keys of
the trackball has any effect.

A second, related problem is that occasionally as I type all letters
begin to appear in CAPS, as if the caps lock key were down, but it's
not.  And no amount of clicking on the caps or caps lock key changes
anything.

Both of these problems disappear, at least temporarily, if I restart.

Yesterday I was working with both Word 5.0 and FileMaker Pro, and
found to my astonishment that when the ALL CAPS business started in
FMPro and I switched over to Word, I had the stuck insertion point
problem.  I  have never experienced the stuck insertion point in
FileMaker or any other program: only Word.  As usual, rebooting
made both problems go away.

I wonder whether my newly-installed upgrade of QuicKeys is
invoking something screwy, but I can't spot anything.  I can
try running for a while without QK, but since the problem is so
intermittent, that won't prove anything.  If I have no problems for
two weeks without QK I still won't know whether it was the culprit.
The same applies in spades to init/cdev conflicts.  I run a LOT of
them, and shutting them off one by one then waiting a suitable
length of time to see if my problem has disappeared could take
years!  Since rebooting always solves the problem, there is no way
to eliminate a suspected baddie when the problem occurs so as to
be able to confirm the suspect.

Anybody ever experienced this sort of bizarrerie and have any
suggestions?  I'm using a IIsi with 20 megs of RAM installed,
running 17 of them under Maxima, with System 7.0 and Tuner 1.1.1.
Virtual Memory and 32-bit addressing are off.

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

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 93 10:50:44 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: MYM 5.0 vs. MacMoney 3.52

In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
> I saw your 9 March message on Info-Mac #56, where you mentioned
> switching over to Managing Your MOney 5.0 after having used
> MacMoney for several years.
>
> I am thinking of doing the same, because MYM 5.0 supposedly tracks
> stocks and bonds. However, the demo disk for an earlier version
> of MYM (4.0) was not convincing on that score. No demo disks were
> available for MYM 5.0, but the voice at MECA said it included
> a module called "Managing the Market."

I gather MYM 5.0 is a bit different. It doesn't necessarily help you
analyze your stocks and bonds, but it does let you set up portfolios,
update prices, calculate values based on employee purchase plan contributions,
and generally include your portfolio in any planning you might want
to do. For instance, if you wanted to buy a house, you'd want to know
how much cash you had on hand for the down payment. MacMoney had no
real way of tracking stocks such that you just had to add that in
separately. In MYM everything is properly deducted out of the paycheck,
and the part that goes into stocks is put in that account, to be converted
into stock every six months. That stock then takes on the value of
the stock shares, and that number (because you can liquidate it) is
then included in your cash forecast.

> What is your opinion of that part of MYM 5.0? I don't have a large
> portfolio but I would like to keep better track of it, and I was
> considering buying Dow Jones's Market Manager Plus 2.03.

I don't think there's any compeition between MYM and something more
sophisticated that will graph stock movements and all that. For what
I wanted - inclusion of stocks in my financial picture (small as that
may be), MYM seems to work fine.

> In general, what made you move leave MacMoney? On the basis
> of the MYM 4.0 demo disk, they seemed quite similar.

The interface drove me nuts after a while - there were some good things,
but on the whole it was very modal and didn't use standard Mac ways
of doing things. MYM is just the opposite - very non-modal, heavily
internally linked (so that reports allow you to get more information
by clicking on a number to see where it comes from).

Also, MacMoney doesn't do any tax estimation, and things tend not
to import it as well since it's less known. Also, I think they've
been needing an update for several years now, and it's been promised
with no delivery as yet. Survivor Software is small, and MacMoney
works fine under System 7, but I'd still like some new features every
now and then.

> I am sorry to bother you with these questions, but they don't get
> much air, screen or print time in the media. Perhaps you might
> post your reply on mac- or info-mac. Thanks very much for
> replying.

I'll be writing somethng short about MYM, Best Books, and MYOB in
TidBITS soon. Part of the reason why financial stuff doesn't get much
airtime is that it's hard to write about for non-experts, me included.
I can only say what I liked and disliked - I don't know how that compares
to the way it _should_ be done or anything like that. It seems to
do the job for me - I was duplicating effort in MacMoney for the first
month of the switchover; I stopped that because MYM told me just as
much and more.

At $8.50 for a test drive of the real program, it's hard to go wrong.
(If they still have that program - it's not expensive even normally.)

cheers ... -Adam

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

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 93 16:03:31 EST
From: "James A. Connolly" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Oemga-SANE

FAQ (probably)

I have an Se, 2xSe/30, Classic-II, PB180, and Q700.
All are running System 7.0.1 with Tune-up.

a) What is the Omega-Sane patch?
b) Which of these computers could benefit?
c) Where does one obtain the patch?
d) Is there a significant benefit?

                      ...James

[e-mail]      phone [phone]      fax [phone]

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

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 93 10:13:31 EST
From: [e-mail] (Douglas Ramsay)
Subject: Partitioning A File ?

I recently downloaded a large Hypercard stack to my hard drive and
after expanding it, the final size was 2.1 MB. How can I break this
file up to copy it to floppy disks and then be able to then reload it
to my hard drive later on. I've heard somewhere about being able to
"partition" large files for this purpose. Any help would be
appreciated.

Thanks!

Doug

[e-mail]         [e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 93 12:36:37 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Paw-paw After Dark module

I downloaded the paw-paw After Dark module from sumex, and found that on my
setup (After Dark 2.0x, IIsi 17/80, 7.1, 32-bit mode) that it would work fine
in demo mode, but just blanked the screen with continuous disk access or
wake instantly once selected. The continuous disk access turned out to be the
Randomiser set to something like less than a second per module, and this
couldn't be changed until I shift-booted and reinstalled After Dark from my
master disk.

I've contacted the author, who says that he hasn't heard of this problem.
Has anyone else had trouble in attempting to use this module?

Lloyd Wood
[e-mail]
[Author of After dark FAQ]

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

Date: 13 Mar 1993 18:47:42 U
From: "Anne" <[e-mail]>
Subject: PB 170 refusing to power down HD

Does anyone have any information on an instance with a PB 170 in which the
drive tries to power down after x minutes of non-use, but is immediately spun
back up? This happens over and over without end. As you might imagine, it
shortens battery life terribly. I have a hunch that some software might be
making a reqqest of the hard drive just as it peins down. This phenomenon
started after we installed MS Mail 3.1.

Any help would be most appreicated,
-abh

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

Date: Thu, 11 Mar 93 21:55:03 CST
From: David A. Denboer <[e-mail]>
Subject: PhotoShop JPEG Utils

Our computer services department would like to place the Photoshop JPEG
filters, which I downloaded from Sumex, on our FineArts AppleShare server.
What we would like to know, is if there are any special licensing information
we should be aware of first.  Our campus is very serious about copyrighted
software, and we would not want to put anything we do not have the right to
on our servers.
If there is licensing information, could you please forward it to me.
Thank you very much!
--
| David A. denBoer                                     | Musi Computer
Products
| E-mail: [e-mail] (NeXTMail OK)     | 9 Abington Road
| Manitoba Macintosh Developers Assn                   | Winnipeg, MB
| [e-mail]                 | Canada, R2J 3S7

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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 93 20:25:03 PST
From: [e-mail] (John Thoo)
Subject: PICT display on desktop (R)


On Thu, 11 Mar 93 15:31:02 PST
<[e-mail]> (Erik Jonson - EECS) said:
>         Do you know of any application that will allow me to use a PICT file
> as my background on the desktop instead of the patter that is set in the
> general control panel?

I use [./ex/deskpict-11.hqx] myself, and am quite happy with it.
(It's FREE, btw.)

--John.
J. B. THOO, Math Dept, Univ of California, Davis <[e-mail]>

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

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 93 11:10:04 MST
From: [e-mail] (Stephen C. Harmony)
Subject: Planet 4.0

In v11 #56, Paul ([e-mail]) recommended MacAstro for people
wanting to duplicate some of the features of Expert Astronomer with a
shareware product. I've tried MacAstro and really enjoy using it. My
shareware check's in the mail. The recently uploaded Planet 4.0 adds
another Expert Astronomer feature, the ability to predict solar and lunar
eclipses and watch them in animation from anywhere on Earth (it will tell
you if the eclipse is below the horizon). Planet will also display a map
showing the path of total and annular solar eclipses. Eclipse calculations
are dreadfully slow if you don't have a math coprocessor, but they breeze
by if you do.

I did encounter one bug in Planet, but it's easily circumnavigated. Planet
allows you to add locations to its Location menu. I tried to enter my home
town, Los Alamos, and got an "unimplemented trap" error that crashed my
system when I quit Planet and tried to restart it. Turns out Planet choked
on the space between "Los" and "Alamos." I replaced it with an underscore
and it worked like a charm.

In conclusion, I found Planet to be well worth its $25 shareware fee.

Steve Harmony
Los_Alamos ;-) NM

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

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 07:49:17 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: printing problems...(r)

>Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1993 17:04:17 -0500
>From: [e-mail] (Drew Pommet)
>
>
>Hi,
>
>  Does anybody at your site know of a way to transparently print files from
>a mac to a unix queue (hplj)?  I know that lpr1.2 and lpr allow you to ship
>text files, but I am looking for a package that will allow you to select
>the unix queue from the chooser.
>  If that is to much of task, then is there a package that will send a
>PostScript file to the UNIX queue?
>  Thanks for your time.
>
>        Drew Pommet

We use PacerShare which is on one of our ULTRIX boxes (DEC UNIX).  This lets
us mount
Unix volumes on a Mac and printer queues can be setup on the Unix box that are
visable
to Mac's via the Chooser.  It works rather well, it's alittle slow but it's
more
dependable than the queues we have set up in Pathworks.

PacerShare might be from DEC but I'm not positive.

Lisa Besko
MSU/NSCL

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

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 93 13:05:48 JST
From: [e-mail] (Paul Fons)
Subject: Question on Japanese system and system enablers

  I was curious if anyone knew anything more about the Japanese system
enabler for the English system 7.1.  Purportedly this allows the English
system to have Japanese input/output capabilities much like the real
KanjiTalk 7 but using the English system as a base.  I already purchased a
copy of the real Japanese KanjiTalk system, but have heard it has problems
printing with the NTX-J and was hoping that since the English system has
bugs fixed much more readily that it would be more effective to use this.
Any comments?

Dr. Paul Fons                         email: [e-mail]
PhotonProcess Section                 phone: [phone]
Electrotechnical Laboratory           fax:   [phone]
1-1-4 Umezono
Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken
JAPAN  305

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

Date: Sat, 13 Mar 93 20:48:28 PST
From: [e-mail] (John Thoo)
Subject: Robs' PICS (?) AfterDark module

There used to be an AD module called Rob's PICS (or something close
to that) at sumex-aim, but I can't seem to find it now.  Would someone
who has the module please post it again?  I would appreciate that very
much.  Thanks.

--John.
J. B. THOO, Math Dept, Univ of California, Davis <[e-mail]>

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

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 93 10:24:10 +0100
From: Reinder Verlinde <[e-mail]>
Subject: screen depth switching under program control (R)

>In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
>> Actually, Apple can't escape blame for this one, since their human
>> interface guidelines forbid programs from changing the bit-depth
>> for the user. If Spectrum does this, they are breaking Apple's rules.
>
>Hmm, I understand the problems involved, but it's such a pain that
>I see no real problem as long as the game sets it back when it's done.
>Even ResEdit screws with the System Palette when you run it. :-)

The real problem is: what happens when you run two applications simultaneously
which require (and bluntly set) different screen depths? This is the IMHO
reason
Apple first stated "don't set the screen depth from your program" which later
got relaxed to "don't set the screen depth from your program without asking
the user"

Reinder Verlinde

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

Date: Thu, 11 Mar 93 09:11:05 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: suggestions

In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
> I also am recommending Microsoft Works as their first software purchase,
> because it has a word processor and a spreadsheet built-in.  Does anyone
> suggest other software as more appropriate for novice users?

ClarisWorks would be more appropriate I'd think, given that it's much
less modal, which tends to confuse new users.

>My mother
> intends to write letters and short stories.  My father will also use the
> word processor and intends to keeps some of his more active personal
> financial accounts(for example his checking account) on the computer.
> I was considering MYM 5.0 for the latter task.  Again suggestions for
> more appropriate software for novice users would be appreciated.

MYM is probably fine, although with people in the 60s they might need
a good deal of handholding and the like. I remember long conversations
with my grandmother as to why it made a difference whether you type
a 1 (one) or an l (ell) on a computer.

> [I just saw my first 14" Apple monitor today. It has a nice case, but I
wasn't
>  that impressed with the display itself.

Interesting, since my parents got one of those last December, and
I was very impressed, both with the sharpness and the overal quality.
Perhaps you just a bum model.

cheers ... -Adam

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

Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1993 23:47:53 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Ed Slifer)
Subject: Suggestions on which Mac to purchase(help soon)...

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this.  But, I was wondering
which Mac would be a good system to go to.  Here where I stand now.  I have
and SE/30 with 4/80.  I would want at least 4/120 and a color monitor.  I
would also like to have performance comparable or (of course) better to my
SE/30.  I don't need a printer (I'm stuck with an Imagewriter LQ /no
flames/).
Since I'm a student, I think I get the 'student' discounts through the
University.  Now here's the bottom line.  Can I get a system like this for
well under $3000?  Or am I asking too much?  I have a 2-and-1/2-year-old son
andwould like the color monitor to use for educational software, games, etc...
I   don't think I need any video or big screen (14" or 15" is enough).  Please
mail me soon!  I don't read this group very often.  Sorry if this is a FAQ.

Thanks,
ed
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 11 Mar 93 09:19:03 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: Super Boomerang hang

I've seen this too, but at some point I reordered it with Conflict
Catcher and the problem went away, even though I subsequently put
the order back. It was a very weird intermittent problem and I couldn't
track it down even with Conflict Catcher because of the intermittency.

cheers ... -Adam

In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
> Sometimes at boot-up time, my IIci freezes up at SuperBoomerang 4.01p.
After
> I press the hardware reset, Startup Manager offers to turn off
SuperBoomerang,
> but I turn it back on and then this time SuperBoomerang loads fine.  This
> happens periodically.  Not a vital problem, but annoying.

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

Date: Thu, 11 Mar 93 21:52:18 EST
From: Gary Marcus <[e-mail]>
Subject: Unix-Mac connections

Hi. Does anybody out there have experience with running A/UX, MacX
or eXodus?  I'll post a summary of responses to the net. Thanks very much,
Gary Marcus

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

Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1993 01:25:00 GMT
From: Sven Guckes <[e-mail]>
Subject: Updating the path of an alias

Scenario:
So I made an alias.
So I moved the original.
So I looked at the info window of the alias.
And the info window showed that the old path of the original.

How do I enforce an update ?
This sounds like basic stuff. Should I RTFM ?

Sven :)
Email copy!  (Read: If you followup - please send a copy via email. Thanks!]

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

Date: Sat, 13 Mar 93 11:14:07 MST
From: David Clark <[e-mail]>
Subject: western style font (Q)

I have a friend who is looking for a western style font-such as one that
might be in the title of a John Wayne film.  Any suggestions of downloadable
fonts would be appreciated.

David Clark
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 19:40:35 -0600
From: "Paul M. Sheldon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Why not just buy it and not write a thesis (A)

    Awhile back in infomac digest #30 this year, I sent a passionate plea to
the hackers of the world for inspiration. Many gave me positive feedback.
I sent them personal thanks.
    Now, in bumping around the internet after initial inquiry to people at
Wolfram, I found out the answer. The precursor to the ordinary differential
equation system solver, NDSolve, where you just write each equation into an
argument slot of NDSolve, was called DSolve in 1989 and was rather buggy.
Version 2.1 mathematica has the source code for it. But, the real punchline to
the gag was it was a thesis by Victor S. Adamchik , 1987 !!!!!!!!
    Well, I guess I'll just go back to my alternate universes and fool around
with getting "Partial Differential Equations with Mathematica", by
Dimitri Vvedensky, 1992 Addison-Wesley so I could get into superposition.
    But, I shall be severely tempted away from programming by Gell-mann and
Hartle's paper dealing with alternate histories, zounds graduate school is
fun!
    So, alas poor hyperspace and internet hackers, no immediate object
    oriented
alternate universe navigators (called minisuperspace in the sumex archives)
are probably immediately forthcoming. Code developement time of days rather
than months not withstanding, I got to understand what it is I am going to do
first and today I am merely exhilirated to find the answer:
    Victor S. Adamchik didn't ask the dumb question, he sold his thesis!

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

Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1993 14:22:41 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Charlie Mingo)
Subject: Word upgrade (C)

[e-mail] (Adam C. Engst) writes:

> Word 5.1's "hot" new features...

>                 *  Integrated MicroSoft Graph
>  Get real - anyone who really uses graphs in Word will use
> Excel or something real to create them.

Not as useless as you think.  Someone who is running on a memory-
constrained system can open the small Graph application much more
easily than having Word and Excel open at the same time.  It's also
much faster than launching Excel, and not every person who owns Word
also owns Excel (or "something real").

Something of an anti-MS diatribe....



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

Date: Sat, 13 Mar 93 20:15:13 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: wrapping startup icons (Q)

I seem to remember seeing a reference to a utility that will wrap
startup icons to multiple rows if there are too many to fit on one
line.  Does such a beast exist?  If so, what is it and where can I
find it?

Thank you.

Gary L. Gray                *  Engineering Mechanics & Astronautics
[e-mail]  *  University of Wisconsin-Madison

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

Date: Sat, 13 Mar 93 13:18:11 CST
From: Reverend John <[e-mail]>
Subject: WriteNow sold to Wordstar

I just read a press release on AOL's T/Maker forum that T/Maker's
word processor WriteNow has been sold to Wordstar, which is apparently
Wordstar's first entry into the Mac market (I think?).

The WriteNow development team will continue to do work on the program,
and have joined Wordstar (though they will apparently stay in their
offices at T/Maker...don't ask me!).

As of March 15, Wordstar will be responsible for customer service, etc.
I suppose calling T/Maker will get you the correct phone number.

As a very satisfied WriteNow user, I'm not sure how to take this. I
suppose Wordstar has substantially more backing for development, but
we'll see what happens...

Rev

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

Date: Sat, 13 Mar 93 10:34:51 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Christian Page)
Subject: XRemote

I have access to the XRemote protocol, and I want to know if there's a mac
application that supports it. XRemote is an Xwindow protocol optimized for
14400 bps connections. Or is there an extension to MacTCP for this? I know
PC users can use this protocol, can mac users use it also???

Christian Page
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 8:35:47 PST
From: backmod (Info-Mac Moderator )

Subject: [*] rep-tiles-15.hqx
Resent-To: info-mac@sumex-aim
Resent-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 8:35:47 PST
Resent-From: Backup Moderator <[e-mail]>
Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
Apparently-To: info-mac@sumex-aim

Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1993 12:11:35 +0100
From: Daniel Huson <[e-mail]>
Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: RepTiles
Resent-To: [e-mail]
Resent-Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1993 11:43:47 PST
Resent-From: Info-Mac Moderator <[e-mail]>

Please post our macintosh program reptiles:

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RepTiles1.5 -
    an interactive Macintosh Application for designing and systematically
    generating all possible periodic tilings of the plane, by applying
    "topological transformations" and "symmetry-breaking and -making".
    1992-93 by Daniel H. Huson & Olaf Delgado Friedrichs
    Email: huson or delgado @mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de
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[Archived as /info-mac/app/rep-tiles-15.hqx; 563K]

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