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Info-Mac Digest             Mon, 22 Mar 93       Volume 11 : Issue 63

Today's Topics:

      [*] mactools-defs-0393.hqx
      [*] PPDs for Xante Accel-A-Writer
      040 vs. 486
      4th Dimension FTP server????
      68040 write-through cache control
      [Gary Rodman <[e-mail]> : HP laserjet 4M ]
      Alias Changing (Q)
      Apple CD-ROM Driver Upgrade
      A simple alarm clock--SOMEWHERE (3 msgs)
      basic account keeping program
      Binary-decimal conversion package missing?
      bragging
      Bragging (or, "The System 7 Wish-List")
      Bragging?!?!?
      Brightness & TwiLight
      Building a little network !
      Can't install ARA on SE (Q)
      Cheap source for CD-ROMs?
      Clones
      Color and Hypercard
      Coloring windows
      Connecting home to work
      Control panels and extensions
      DECnet -> Appletalk v58 Question
      Disappearing font in IIg?
      DiskCopy images from folders?
      drag & drop unbinhexer?
      Electrophoretic data analysis software?
      E Mail order
      European pricing
      European software prices
      file back up . . . sort of
      Folder Capacity Limit (Q)
      for sale help
      Ham and Internet?
      IBM WDS-L160 Hard drive
      IIci internal video
      Importing US computers to UK
      Indexor (A)
      Info-Mac Digest V11 #61
      Info-Mac Digest V11 #62
      Japanese word processor
      Japanese Word Processor (R)
      Know I know what did it.
      Latest Version Full Write Pro? Where to Get?
      Let's hear it for FullWrite Pro!
      Let's hear it for FullWrite Pro! (R)
      Locking PB keyboard?
      MAC network printing
      MacRecorder problem on IIfx (A)
      MacRecorder problems on IIfx
      Macs in POINT OF NO RETURN
      MacWeek subscription
      Modem Lights DA?
      Modems on different systems
      More for Mac?
      MS Word- Pub&Sub & Apple Events (2 msgs)
      Murph-where is he?
      Mystery file (A)
      NeXT snd to Mac snd ?
      Nisus Upgrade: CAn it do...? (C)
      Numerical DAta from Graphs
      Numerical Data from Graphs ( A and Q ) (2 msgs)
      NuVista driver problem
      partitioning a hard disc
      Pascal programs
      PostScript -> EPSF (Source of my info)
      Public domain software (Q)
      rebuilding the desktop
      Reinstalling Network device driver (A) (2 msgs)
      ResEdit "^0" references...
      ResEdit "^O" references?
      Scrolling
      Simple music program
      Stolen 165C
      SW II driver on SW I summary
      System 6.0.8L
      System 7.01 & file connections
      TidBITS#166 - Apple Adjustable Keyboard
      TidBITS#168 - European prices
      TidBITS#168 - European pricing (4 msgs)
      Uncompressing SIT files from rigel.acs.oakland.edu (A)
      Uploading / downloading binary files with Kermit
      Word 5.0 (Q)
      Xferit and Steven Falkenburg (A)
      xxx.hqx.Z format (C)

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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1993 11:40:41 -0800
From: Chall Fry <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] mactools-defs-0393.hqx

Info-Mac Moderators,

Please place this file in /info-mac/virus. Thanks.

Users,

This file contains the latest antidote descriptions for MacTools
Antivirus. Instructions for loading the antidotes are contained
within. This file is compressed as a self extracting archive.

--Chall Fry
Central Point Software

[Archived as /info-mac/virus/mactools-defs-0393.hqx; 19K]

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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 93 23:04:35 MET
From: Christian F. Buser <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] PPDs for Xante Accel-A-Writer

These are the latest versions of Aldus PPD
Printer drivers for the Xante Accel-A-Writer
printers and upgrade boards.

[Archived as /info-mac/util/aldus-ppd-print-drivers.hqx; 22K]

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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1993 08:18:18 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Wade Williams)
Subject: 040 vs. 486

>Don't beat me up about the seeming inconsistencies in some of these times,
>cause I didn't run them! This is from a large collection of users of this
code
>who have reported back cpu times. My conclusion is that the 040 Macs with the
>absoft compiler are the equal of 486 machines that have twice the clock
>speed!
>(almost)

This doesn't surprise me one bit.  The only thing that I've found 486's to
be faster at is running DOS applications.  Put a graphical interface on top
of one, and even a 50 MHZ 486 runs about the same speed or slower than a 25
MHZ 68040.

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

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Date: Sat, 20 Mar 93 14:02:50 EST
From: [e-mail] (Juan A. Pons)
Subject: 4th Dimension FTP server????

Hi Netters!!

I am looking for sources of 4th Dimension database examples. Does anyone know
if there is an FTP site that has any of these??? I know that CI$ has a very
big section, but CI$ is too expensive for me. AOL has some stuff but must of
it is old and there is not much. Any way if anyone can point me towards any
leads I would really appreciate it.

I would prefer if you would respond direcly to me and I will summarize if
there is enough interest!

Thanks

Juan A. Pons

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Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1993 17:59:56 AST
From: John Corbit <[e-mail]>
Subject: 68040 write-through cache control

68040 write-through cache control:

I hope this request for information is appropriate to this forum. That
said, my question is the following.

I have just bought a Quadra 700 and am in the process of setting it up.
One major use for this machine will be rendering fractal images deep in
areas of the Mandelbrot set and elsewhere. Really I bought the Quadra
to effect a qualitative change in my life. There are some computations
that just take too long on a Mac II. Consequently they don't get done.

I am told that I can expect an 11-fold increase in speed on some of
these computations using a CDEV that allows you to set up a write-through
cache. Apple's cache control that comes with the computer only allows
2 settings: off, and copy-back.

I wonder why Apple does not provide full cache control. But more
importantly I wonder where I can get the cache control that allows full
control including write-through caching.

The last time I posted a question to this forum I received MANY HELPFUL
replies. Thank you for all that help, and I look forward to your help
on this caching question.

Thanks,  John         <[e-mail]>

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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1993 18:44 CDT
From: Gary Rodman <[e-mail]>
Subject: [Gary Rodman <[e-mail]> : HP laserjet 4M ]

We are thinking of purchasing an HP laserjet 4M for one our departments.

How does this printer compare with the Apple 600 series printers?  Are there
any FAQ documents avail via ftp that compare these printers?  Also, is the
laserwriter pro 600 now shipping already configured for 600 dpi or not?

Gary S. Rodman     Ripon College  [e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1993 00:01 GMT
From: Fergus Sullivan <[e-mail]>
Subject: Alias Changing (Q)

This is probably a simple question for all you alias fiends out there.  I use
aliases all the time, but am about to change the name of my main hard disk and
the organisation of the files and folders within it.  Rather than creating a
whole swath of new aliases with pathways beginning "Ferg's Hard
Disk:Applications:etc..." is there a quick and painless way of changing the
individual elements within those pathways?  I.e. can I do a search and
replace,
searching for "Ferg's Hard Disk" within a pathway and changing it to
"Periwinkle" (if "Periwinkle" is the name I choose to give the new volume)?

I realise that this may be something of a FAQ (in the fool-arsed question
sense
of the word), but it would be good to get a definitive best app from the
multitude of alias-related programs.

Thanks from chilly Dublin,
Fergus Sullivan.
[e-mail]

P.S.  Don't you just hate people who call there hard disks after themselves?
      Just how many "Dave's HD"s are there in the world, anyway?

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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1993 13:13:15 -0600
From: Neil Eric Mickelson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Apple CD-ROM Driver Upgrade

Hello again!

When I recently tried installing fonts from Adobe's Type On Call disc on my
IIvx with internal CD-ROM drive, I ran into some problems.  I called Adobe,
described the problem, and the first thing he asked was whether or not I was
using a IIvx or IIvi.  It seems that the 4.0 driver for the CD-ROM, as shipped
with my machine, is buggy.

He told me an upgrade (to v4.0.2) is available.  Can anyone point me to it on
the net, or can anyone get it from AppleLink and post it to Info-Mac?  I'm
sure many of us would be appreciative.

Thanks!

Neil E. Mickelson
[e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1993 21:20:26 -0600 (CST)
From: Larry Rymal <[e-mail]>
Subject: A simple alarm clock--SOMEWHERE

Folks,

    I'm probably missing something, and as long as I have been in the
business, surely I passed it by.  Anyway...
    Is there a SIMPLE, alarm clock program for the Mac that just
merely repeats sounds til it is acknowledged?  How about a beep on the
Apple Alarm Clock DA that sounds each time the alarm clock symbol flashes
at the left corner of the screen?
    My Casio alarm clock died and I just *KNEW* that there was a very
simple and primitive alarm clock audio program for the Mac that could take
its place.  No calendars, no appointment books, just a simple alarm clock
program for the Mac.  I looked high and low.  SuperClock flashes with no
re-occuring sound.  SoundMaster will do a chime just ONCE.  Boy, that will
do a LOT of good!
    Just a nice simple alarm clock program.  The funny thing is that
my Atari ST, ever faithful and so poorly marketted, abounded with
freeware, shareware, postcard-ware alarm clock programs.  Some were
complex, others were just a nice, neat, simple, no calendar, no
setting-reoccuring-appointment-reminders for the year 2010, just a simple
beeper.
    Surely, somewhere, there is something like this for the Mac.  Just
a nice reoccuring sound each time the Mac Alarm Clock DA flashes would be
just fine...  And it doesn't have to be a 400k program.  Just, nice and
simple.  SIGH...
    Someone please tell me I have missed something somewhere!

--Larry Rymal <[e-mail]>


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Date: Sun, 21 Mar 93 10:13:50 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Lonadar the Wanderer)
Subject: A simple alarm clock--SOMEWHERE

One note about an alarm clock, I've used Superclock for this before.
Instead of using it as an alarm clock, I would set the timer for however long
it was before I needed to wake up, and set the 'repeat until stopped' option.

Once the time ran out, it would ring out until I came over and clicked on it.

(Very similar to crossing the room to turn off an alarm.  And with this you
can't just slap at whatever is making the noise.)

I keep my timer set for about 7 hours for this eventuality.

Victor E Aldridge III
Lonadar the Wanderer
[e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1993 12:26:46 -0600 (CST)
From: Larry Rymal <[e-mail]>
Subject: A simple alarm clock--SOMEWHERE

On Sun, 21 Mar 1993, Lonadar the Wanderer wrote:

> One note about an alarm clock, I've used Superclock for this before.
> Instead of using it as an alarm clock, I would set the timer for however
long
> it was before I needed to wake up, and set the 'repeat until stopped'
option.

    The problem with that is if you need to get up every morning at
5:00am and go to bed at different times, then the timer would have to be
set each time.

--Larry Rymal <[e-mail]>

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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 93 14:50:24 PDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: basic account keeping program

I'm looking for a program like Quicken or Andrew Tobias Money that does
basic account keeping and stuff like that.  Is there a shareware program
that does this?

Dan Oppenheimer
[e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 20 Mar 93 11:00:29 PST
From: [e-mail] (Brian Gordon)
Subject: Binary-decimal conversion package missing?

After upgrading my standalone Mac II to 7.1, using the default load which
includes file sharing stuff, I backed it up and played with it for a while.
All seemed to go well.  In particular, I had no trouble with Last Resort, a
commercial package that "shadows" all your keystrokes to a file so that, if
you
blow away something critical, you can use that file to recover as a "last
resort".

Eventually I got around to throwing out all the file sharing stuff, adding the
CONNETIX extensions patch and rebooting.  The reboot failed because Last
Resort
could not load because the "Binary-decimal conversion package is not
installed".  After rebooting without extensions and moving that out of the
way,
I still had some other problems (complaints from SAM Intercept about
everything
the FINDER does).  I removed the extensions patch and the complaints about the
FINDER went away.  I reinstalled Last Resort -- and it still has the same
problem.

I'm already in touch with CONNECTIX on the apparent interaction with SAM
Intercept, and I have searched the backup log file for anything that _might_
have _some_ relationship to "binary-decimal conversion package"s, but have
found nothing.  Any guesses out there?

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Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1993 19:23:37 +1000
From: [e-mail] (John Quiggin)
Subject: bragging

>To Dan Garcia ([e-mail]) who wrote:
>
>Can anyone beat my record of 45 Extensions and Control Panels?
>
>I write:
>
>Why would anyone want to beat that? It sounds to me like you have
>a computer that is going to blow from keeping all those damn extensions
>and control panels in your sys.folder.

I have 47 items in my Control Panels folder and 220 in my Extensions
folder. I get some weird crashes, but I can't bear to give up the Grouch, I
really need SuperBoomerang and so on,  so the System Folderkeeps on filling
up.
John Q

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Date: Sat, 20 Mar 93 17:09 BST
From: RICHARD LIM <[e-mail]>
Subject: Bragging (or, "The System 7 Wish-List")

To me, the important issue is just why so many Mac users feel they need lots
of extra INITs.  Can this not be interpreted as a sign that System 7 still
has lots of minor defiencies and maybe a few major ones?  And every flaw and
omission is just grist to the mill of Apple's competitors and Mac detractors
on whatever platform.

Personally, I continue to be pretty disappointed that Apple don't bundle in:

(1)  Something offering Super Boomerang-like functionality
(2)  A virtual desktop rolled into the Monitors cdev
(3)  Hierarchical Apple menu, and a window menu dangling off the application
menu (cf the wonderful ApplWindows 2.0)
(4)  A streamlined (read: "completely reworked") Apple File Exchange
(5)  A less primitive text editor
(6)  Background file copying with larger memory buffers for more speed

Has anyone got more System 7 wanna-sees?  I'm pessimistic about these things,
but important people at Apple just might take notice.

PS:  It's an old gripe, but I do wish Apple would start bundling a full
version of Hypercard 2.1 with proper documentation!  A computer which you
can't write your own simple programs for is a rather lopsided creature

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Date: 22 Mar 1993 10:44:15 +0000 (U)
From: Aron <[e-mail]>
Subject: Bragging?!?!?

Gee, while we're at it, how's 56 control panels, 64 extensions, and a 66.2 meg
system file sound? Then again, who really cares. My Mac is a test environment
of sorts...if something's going to crash, it ought to crash on mine.
Remarkably
stable, in spite of that.

Aron
Radix Technologies
[e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1993 10:37:38 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Brightness & TwiLight


For Macs not supporting the Sys7.x Brightness control panel but working
with /info-mac/cp/brightness.hqx:

The latter one contains a DRVR resource with a driver named ".Screen".
Use your favorite resource editor to copy this driver into your System
file (attributes: "System Heap" and "Locked"), then restart. Now both
the 7.x Brightness cp and the TwiLight cp (a screen saver by Robert
Lukassen) will work! (Well, at least on *my* LC :-)

Give TwiLight a try! It's small, reliable and cheap (PostWare)!

Marc Huber ([e-mail])


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Date: 20 Mar 93 01:16:39 EST
From: Jim Haupt <[e-mail]>
Subject: Building a little network !

Well - I used to have 6 or 8 PC's on localtalk.  I had some PS/2's and some
ISA
(XT/AT types) as well.  I still have all the hardware and software.  I even
have one copy of Shiva Dial-in for DOS which will permit a dos computer to
dial
into a shiva netmodem or netserial device.  Pretty neat stuff.  (though not as
good as ASR is now).

Let me know what specific questions you have, I'll try to help.

If someone wants to make an offer on the hardware, I'd be interested in that
as
well.

Good luck
Jim haupt
[e-mail]  or
[e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 21 Mar 93 16:43:58 EST
From: Michael Craymer <[e-mail]>
Subject: Can't install ARA on SE (Q)

I finally got my copy of ARA v1.0 as well as the new System 7.1, but I
can't get ARA to work on my SE (it works okay under System 7.0.1 on my
ci).  I installed the new System after trashing the entire old system
to make sure I started fresh.  File sharing was installed.  I added no
additional extensions or control panels.  I then installed ARA.
Everything went fine until I tried to open the Remote Access Setup:  I
got the error message "A Remote Access Setup error hos occurred.  No
description."  I had a Hayes compatible 9600 baud modem plugged in the
phone port and nothing in the printer port.  Does anyone have any idea
what went wrong?  Do I have to select something in the Chooser before
setting up ARA?  The manual doesn't mention that I have to anything
other than use the installer and the Remote Access Setup.

Mike Craymer
Geodetic Survey of Canada
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
[e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1993 00:35 PST
From: KD6SWQ <[e-mail]>
Subject: Cheap source for CD-ROMs?

Hello everyone!

I just got a Toshiba 3401 CD-ROM drive the other day, and I promptly went over
to my friendly neighborhood computer store to pick up some CD-ROMs, and
when I saw the prices my jaw promptly dropped.

Do any of you out there in netland know of any (relatively) cheap places to
buy CD-ROMs?  Mail-order seems like the cheaper rout, but many places have
only a limited selection. I have an EduCorp catalog, but those prices aren't
exactly what I would call a great bargain...

I'm especially looking for stuff like Spaceship Warlock, Double Helix,
Screaming Metal, Just Grandma and Me, a good multimedia encyclopedia, things
like that...

Any ideas?  Thanks for any input, and please respond directly to me,

Phil Jung
[e-mail]    Santa Clara University...

SCU 64
Arizona 61     YEA!

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Date: Sat, 20 Mar 93 02:14:18 EST
From: [e-mail] (Arif Shaikh)
Subject: Clones

Dear Netters;

    I have to agree with Clinton Collins about Nutek Clones.  PC clones
have proved two things.  It in the short run spurs on the price race to
produce the cheapest computer.  However, the cost of cheaper clones comes
poor quality and no R&D.  These cheaper clones also end up hurting bigger
companies that engage in R&D and can't afford to compete on the same price
level.  This in the end hurts all of us, because the development of the
personal computer is brought to a stand still.
    Look at Apple, IBM, HP, and others who do R&D.  Not only are their
products overall superior, but they periodically are coming out with new
features to improve the overall computing experience.
    Look at Apple as an example.  They were first to combine text &
graphics on a personal computer; first to combine text, graphics, and
sound; and now text, graphics, sound, motion pictures on a personal
computer.  And of course, something that not many people now, they were
first to have a crude form of a network sense the first Macintosh, except
they didn't yet have printers to take advantage of it.  All this comes form
R&D.  It's not just created out of thin air.  I should know, I work in a
R&D, and it's a lot of work and money.....

                    .........Arif
PS
    Excuse the spelling.  It's late at night......
    I'm also trying to run a Microsoft free system.......

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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1993 10:32:43 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Rick Knowles)
Subject: Color and Hypercard

Hi,
I have Hypercard 2.1 and would like to use color in my stacks.  Is there an
XCMD or something to do this?  Working in B/W is getting real old!
Thanx in advance,

Richard Knowles
[e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 21 Mar 93 23:54:27 EST
From: Pete Tamas <[e-mail]>
Subject: Coloring windows

How can you color the background of windows? The users interested
in this have LC IIs. In other words, rather than a white background
in Word, the windows will have a ray background. Thanks, Pete
[e-mail], Temple Univ, Philadelphia (betw New York & Wash DC)

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Date: Sat, 20 Mar 93 10:26:16 -0600
From: [e-mail] (John Norstad)
Subject: Connecting home to work

Michael Silverstein writes:

>At work I have a mac connected to appletalk.  Our appletalk network is
>connected to our server (a *oh-no* PC running Novel).  We are also
>connected (through Fastpath?) to the various mainframes on campus.  Eudora
>seems to be one answer to my communication needs at work.
>
>Can I connect to the appletalk network from home (through the server?)?
>Can I connect to my Mac at work?
>Can I use Eudora from home?
>How much would this cost?
>
>I am a less than novice when it comes to communication protocols, but can
>understand things like: buy a modem with x, y, z features and hook it up to
>a, b, c.

I'm familiar with, and regularly use, two solutions. Both of them require
modems both at work and at home. Both of them work much better with good
high speed modems - 14.4 V.42bis is best.

The first is AppleTalk Remote Access (ARA). You need an ARA server at work,
and you need ARA and a modem at home. You only need to buy one copy of ARA
- the license is good for installation on up to 3 Macs. At work you need an
ARA server. If there isn't already one you can use (e.g., a LanRover or
other box in your department), you will have to buy a modem for your Mac at
work and install ARA on your Mac at work in server mode. On your Mac at
home, you need to install ARA in client mode and MacTCP in "LocalTalk
server" mode. MacTCP on your Mac at home will work just like MacTCP on your
LocalTalk Mac at work - it will get a dynamically assigned IP address from
the FastPath at work, and use the FastPath for TCP/IP service.

The second solution I use is MacSLIP from Hyde Park Software ($49.95). For
this, you need a SLIP server at work. I don't know if you have this. You
also need to install MacTCP on your Mac at home.

With ARA and MacTCP at home and with ARA and your FastPath or other
AppleTalk/IP gateway at work, you get full AppleTalk and TCP/IP
connectivity at home. All of the networking programs you use at work should
also work at home (including Eudora), just slower.

With MacSLIP and MacTCP, you only get TCP/IP connectivity, not AppleTalk
connectivity. All of the TCP/IP networking programs you use at work should
also work at home (including Eudora), just slower. In this case, to connect
to your Mac at work to transfer files, you can use the combination of the
Fetch FTP client on your Mac at home and the FTPd FTP server on your Mac at
work. It's not as slick as ARA, but it works just as well.

There's no way to use your Novell server at work for either of these
options. Novell doesn't support either ARA or SLIP dialup.

There's one more solution which I used to use but don't any more. Eudora
has its own dialup mode which uses Apple's Communications Toolbox. For this
you need a modem at home, plus some kind of terminal server or UNIX host at
work which you can dial into. See the Eudora reference manual for more
details on this. The drawback to this solution is that it only supports
Eudora, not any of your other networking programs.

In any case, you will probably need help from your local campus computer
center to get all this set up and working properly. Many good university
computer centers provide these kinds of dialup solutions for their campus
computing community. You should check with your local experts to see what
kind of dialup service they support, if any.

I don't know what prices are like outside the US, but here at Northwestern
University in the US I can give you a rough estimate.

First, let's assume the worst possible case - your university computer
center does not offer any kind of dialup service. In this case, you need to
purchase two modems, one for work and one for home, plus one copy of ARA.
Good high speed modems cost about $300 here in the US, and I think ARA is
$200 plus or minus $50 at our campus computer store (I have forgotten the
exact price). So the total cost would be about $800.

Now, let's assume the best possible case - your university computer center
offers SLIP dialup service. In this case, all you need is a modem at home
and a copy of MacSLIP. This would cost about $350.

In both of these cases, I am assuming you have access to MacTCP, either
because your university has a license, or because you have already
purchased a copy.

You could get by with cheaper plain 2400 baud modems, but I strongly
recommend spending the extra money for good fast modems. There's an
enormous difference between plain 2400 and 14.4 V.42bis.

In my case, I currently connect from work to home via MacSLIP, a high speed
modem at home, and a shared big Cisco terminal server at work. Indeed, I'm
using Eudora right now with this setup to send you this note. It works
wonderfully. I find that I can do almost everything from home just like I
do it from work. If it weren't for meetings, I'd almost never have to go
in! I find MacSLIP adequate for almost everything I do. I also have ARA,
but I rarely use it.

Hope this helps.


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

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Date: 21 Mar 1993 14:20:24 CST
From: "Harry Hahn"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: Control panels and extensions

There's been a lot of talk about the number of control panels and
extensions people are running. I agree that these gadgets are one of
the things that make the Macintosh great and without them, my
machine wouldn't be as FUN. If I wanted a safe, un-extended computer
and only computed with it (rather than PLAYED with it), I would
probably just use a PC ;-).

But I am little bit confused about the counts that people have been
reporting. If we're going to look for a champion, then we need to
standardize how these are tabulated. I think the point of this whole
contest is to see who has tweaked their system the most so only
those with INIT code (occupy system RAM) should count. 'No-risk'
control panels aren't worth mentioning, IMO. I'm not impressed :-)
by Labels or Views, and I definitely don't think 'Finder Help'
should count.  So, short of using ResEdit to see exactly which do
have INIT resources, I submit that only those that display a startup
icon should count. I suppose there are true INITs that don't display
an icon so use your own discretion.

So how about it? I have 28 icons parading across my PB165c, four
short of two complete rows. I know that this is probably small
potatoes compared to a lot of you, but wait until memory modules
become available for my machine and I can break out of the 4MB
barrier ;-).

Peace,
Harry Hahn

[e-mail]     |
UW Madison, Dept. of AHABS  | GO BEARS!!!

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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 93 17:57:11 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: DECnet -> Appletalk v58 Question

Path: armageddon.bbn.com!user
From: [e-mail] (Michael L. Dickens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest
Subject: DECnet -> Appletalk v58 Question
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.digest
Date: 22 Mar 1993 22:57:08 GMT
Organization: BBN Inc.
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Distribution: world
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
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In article <[e-mail]>,
> From: [e-mail]
> Subject: DECnet -> Appletalk v58 known bug (FYI & Question)
>
> [...] I can verify that NCP and NetCopy do not work, CTERM
> and DECnet tool connections do not work, and MailforMacintosh works
> only with the Appletalk-DECnet tool.
>
> My question/problem is, can someone point me to the Appletalk v57
> installer? [...] Anyone know an Apple person who could
> put v57 on Applelink or ftp.apple.com?

It used to be available on ftp.apple.com in

/dts/mac/sys.soft/netcomm/net-soft-install-1-2-1.hqx

But as I check, it isn't anymore.  It's been upgraded to -1-3.hqx, which
contain Appletalk version 58.0 ... I still have the original downloaded
image if you'd like a copy.

A question I have is:  Where is the Appletalk-DECnet tool available?

Another question is:  There's all this talk about MacTCP v1.1.1 fixing the
Local/EtherTalk TCP problem. Where is it available?

    MLD

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

Date: 21 Mar 93 18:15:35 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Disappearing font in IIg?

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

>I thought Dingbats was one of the fonts that was burned into the IIg?  Help!

Originally, no.  Apple pulled it out of the IIg's internal font set.  A
ROM upgrade, released late last year, not only gives you Zapf Dingbats
in ROM, but also fixes a number of problems in the IIg.  The upgrade
is free -- see your dealer.

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

Date: Sat, 20 Mar 93 22:25:30 EST
From: Michael Craymer <[e-mail]>
Subject: DiskCopy images from folders?

Does anyone know of a utility that will create a DiskCopy-compatible
image file directly from a hard disk *folder* containing all the files
to be saved in the image file?  Is this even possible?

Mike Craymer
Geodetic Survey of Canada
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
[e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1993 17:25:58 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Howard S Shubs)
Subject: drag & drop unbinhexer?

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

>I am often sent binhexed files through email and I was wondering if there is
a
>drag & drop utility to unbinhex files? I am aware of the excellent
application
>"Downline" and I know just about every compression program will decode binhex
>but I'm looking for a quick drag & drop utility to avoid having to fire up an
>application every time I need to do a quick binhex decode.

Get a copy of Stuffit Expander.  This deals with Binhex, Stuffit, and Compact
Pro.
--
Howard S Shubs    [e-mail]          For to win 100 victories in 100
The Denim Adept   [e-mail]   battles is not the acme of skill.

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

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 93 20:53:25 WET
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Electrophoretic data analysis software?

  To all you biologists out there...

  Does anybody know of any Mac software (preferably in the public
  domain or shareware) for the analysis of electrophoretic data?
  Analyses required include such things as listing allele frequencies,
  looking at deviation from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, calculating
  the various genetic similarity and distance measures, performing
  hierarchical cluster analysis and so on.

  I am aware of a program called BioSys-1 on VAX, PC etc which does
  this, but is there a nicer Mac alternative? I have looked in the
  Umich and Sumex archives (as mirrored at src.doc.ic.ac.uk) but to
  no avail.

  Replies to me direct by e.mail would be much appreciated,
  Thanks


  Simon Fraser, Imperial College at Silwood Park, Ascot, Berks
  [e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1993 17:23:17 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Howard S Shubs)
Subject: E Mail order

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

>In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
>> 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?

>I know Mac's Place accepts some orders via email on their CompuServe
>account, but I don't know of any others that do. It's a bit surprising,
>I think. I don't know the details currently, but a friend of mine
>runs Mac's Place's QuickMail/CIS gateway, so I'll ask him.

You really want to send your credit card number with all information needed
though unsecured e-mail?  Why not just post a sign: steal me steal me?
--
Howard S Shubs    [e-mail]          For to win 100 victories in 100
The Denim Adept   [e-mail]   battles is not the acme of skill.

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

Date: Sun, 21 Mar 93 17:03:17 CST
From: bq Mackintosh <[e-mail]>
Subject: European pricing

Although higher tax rates and different cost-of-living balances, i.e. tax
support of basics (read health care, social net etc.) lead to luxuries
(read VCRs, televisions, stereos and hardware/software) being more expensive
in European countries, this is not the only nor not necessarily the main
cause.  Case in point:  jeans.  Blue jeans are not imported from the U.S. that
i know of, nor are material, labor, or distribution costs so outlandishly
high that they could justify the cost of jeans being up to 400% that of those
bought in the United States.  Further case:  opticians in Germany will tell
you that contact lenses made in Germany are of a higher quality and thus
more expensive.  Partially true.  This does not explain, however, why contact
care solutions -- simple buffered saline solution with a disinfectant
manufactured in Germany -- run about 400%-600% the cost of the SAME products
in the United States.
Please note that Apple Europe manufactures in Europe, and thus is not subject
to import taxes.  Until recently, the price difference in Apple hardware
could not have been justified by the somewhat higher sales tax rate.  Apple
has slashed its prices in Europe as of late, however.
Software is a different question, though.  Untranslated software often runs
at a comparable rate in Germany as opposed to translated versions.  Also, i
have noticed that translated versions -- usually released several months
after the original English version -- sometimes contain minor, almost
unnoticeable changes, although no note of a difference nor *any upgrade
in version number* is given.  Lastly, the vast majority of third party
software and hardware is subject to import fees.
But don't forget, folks:  in Capitalism, ya make money where and however
possible.  Part of that price difference is just the company making the
bucks -- er, making the marks, that is.

bq Mackintosh

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

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 93 09:06:04 EST
From: williams <[e-mail]>
Subject: European software prices

    Just received from the MacZone (France) today:
    Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Powerpoint and Mail in a bundle) priced
at 3794 FF - or approximately $625.
    This is typical of the prices we are starting to see in France now
    that
MacZone, Macwarehouse and the other Americal mail order houses are getting
their operations up and running in Europe, so lower prices can be achieved
even
if we Europeans impose high taxes on companies and goverments distribute
social
benefits unheard of in the US.
    There is still the translation problem.  The low prices are quite
    often
for US versions and some distibutors sell French versions for *twice* the
price
of the US product.  I find it hard to believe that the work involved in
translation equals the cost of developing a software product.  However, the
Microsoft Office bundle mentioned above consists of the French versions, so
Microsoft are showing that translating isn't that expensive.  Smaller
companies
may have a hard time competing with Uncle Bill's conglomerate, but I would
have
thought that a 10% add-on would be reasonable.

John Williams (INRA Station de Recherches Avicoles, C.R.Tours, Nouzilly,
France)
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1993 13:22 EST
From: Adam Zucker <[e-mail]>
Subject: file back up . . . sort of

Anyone who can help--

I am looking for a utility program (for my LC II) which would update a limited
number of floppy disks whose contents are also stored on my hard drive.  So,
as
I change and update and work with the files on my HD, the utility would update
the same files on a floppy.  Is there anything out there that does this? If so
what does it best?

E-mail replies appreciated.  Thanks in advance, Adam <[e-mail]>

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

Date: Sun, 21 Mar 93 21:28:44 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Folder Capacity Limit (Q)


 I have over 4000 text files nested about 4 levels deep on a 240 mb drive.
 Some of the folders now contain well over 200 files.
 Could one of the Mac wizards out there tell me if I am nearing some
  folder limit that is going to cause me grief?
 Does anyone know if there is a standard rule to follow?
 This data is critical to my research, but I would still be very messed
  up if the extents B-tree [or whatever it is called] becomes twisted.
 Thanks very much for any information you can provide.

 Dale


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

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 93 10:42:17 EST
From: "Christopher B. Hopkins (Wesley)" <[e-mail]>
Subject: for sale help

I have an LC II that I am trying to sell.  Someone mentioned to me that
somewhere on the 'Net that there is a listserv that sends out something
like "comp.mac.for.sale" where I can post an ad for it.  Does anyone
know where I can find that list?  Or, hey, if you really want to make
my day, anyone want an LC2??

:-)  Thanks, Christopher

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

Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1993 20:55:23 -0500
From: Jeffrey Rounsville <[e-mail]>
Subject: Ham and Internet?

Howdy everyone.  I have just seen hints and bits of stuff about HAM radio
and Internet connections.  Could someone please enlighten me on whether
this is a possibility for a person to connect.  What degree of license is
required, how much is the equipment, is there a connect fee at the
location you are radioing to?  Or maybe I am way off base.  Help me please.
All aid is much appreciated.
 Matt Herbison
 Penn State University

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

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 93 15:01:03 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: IBM WDS-L160 Hard drive

Dear Netters:

I got an internal hard drive from a LC II.  The name plate shows:
    IBM OEM
    Model: WDS - L160
    Make by IBm Japan.
    P/N 0666446
    MLL: 017905

I install this drive to a Mac IIci.

Could anyone tell me how to connect the LED (to which pin)?
The LCs don't use the activity LED, so I could not check this before
I remove from the LC II.

Thank you for your help.

Virtually,
Adik Soedarsono
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

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

Date: Sun, 21 Mar 93 15:46:51 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: IIci internal video

Will the built-in video on a IIci support the Apple 16" color monitor?
If so, what color depth will I get?  4 bit?  8 bit?

Thank you.

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

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

Date: Sun, 21 MAR 93 13:58:34 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Importing US computers to UK

In I-M 61 Henry Bloomfield asks about importing Macs bought at US
education prices to the UK.

I can't give US education prices, but would be extremely surprised if
they were NOT much lower than in the UK, even at the present unfavourable
exchange rate. Nor can I comment on what happens regarding guarantees from
Apple.

What I can say is that I have brought computer equipment back into the
UK, and declared them at customs. I would certainly recommend that you
do it in person rather than use a shipping company, who will also levy
a fee for doing it for you. Personally, I found customs at Heathrow
airport to be rather friendly, and prices tended to be rounded down a
bit before they imposed (a) import duty of 4.9%, and (b) value added
tax at 17.5%. Note that you pay VAT on the import duty! Payment is
very easy and quick, as they take credit cards.

My experience on getting education prices in the US is a bit mixed. For
some items (not Apple) at normal shops, all you need is some piece of
paper to show that you are really in education. Even my union card (AUT)
was acceptable, though something like an ID card or a library card would
be better. However, when
I tried to use a university computer shop I was not allowed in as I was
neither a student nor a staff member of that university. This made me a
bit annoyed, but I was then told that all I really had to do was find a
student to come in with me and make the purchase and all would be well.
I don't know how typical this was, but it clearly helps to shop at a
place where you know someone.

Eric Eisenhandler, Physics Dept., Queen Mary and Westfield College,
Univ. of London     [e-mail]
(This is not the first time that Info-Mac has allowed me to talk to
someone nearby via somewhere 6000 miles away!)

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

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 22:51:28 EST
From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Indexor (A)

Jaime Garmendia asked:

> >> Welcome to Indexor!

> >> Indexor file created by Seahaven Towers
> >> on Thu, Dec 17, 1992 at 9:57:09 AM.

> Anybody know what is this file about? Who or what is "Seahaven Towers"?

Seahaven Towers is a really terrific color Solitare game written for
the Mac by Art Cabral.  He wrote it way back in 1988, but it works
perfectly with System 7.0 and the newer Macs.  (I run my version on
a Quadra 700 running 7.1).

When I sent in my shareware fee I asked Art how his program ran so
well today on new systems and new machines.  He told me that he was
a former Apple employee and that Apple used Seahaven Towers to test
System 7.  He may of been kidding, but it makes a great story.

Indexor, by the way, keeps track of your scores.  Obviously someone
at some time had Seahaven Towers running on your machine.

Jeff Fritz
West Virginia University

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

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1993 07:03:18 +1000
From: [e-mail] (Colin McLaughlin)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #61

At  6:51 PM 18/3/93 -0800, The Moderators wrote:
>Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1993 07:50:19 -0800 (PST)
>From: [e-mail] (Matthew T. Schomer)
>Subject: bragging?
>
>To Dan Garcia ([e-mail]) who wrote:
>
>Can anyone beat my record of 45 Extensions and Control Panels?
>
>I write:
>
>Why would anyone want to beat that? It sounds to me like you have
>a computer that is going to blow from keeping all those damn extensions
>and control panels in your sys.folder.
>
>Sorry, but to me, that is hardly something to brag about. I feel that
>running a neat, clean computer is always the safest.
>
>see you in tech support,
>
>schomer

Don't be such a spoil sport. I am currently 90 with few problems. Where is
your sense of adventure.
Colin McLaughlin
University of Western Sydney
Booloobidja Aboriginal Education Centre
61 2 772 9415 PHONE     [phone] FAX
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1993 08:19:00 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Wade Williams)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #62

>Howdy.  Does anyone out there know if it is possible to find out what the
>"^O" is refering to in a DITL resource.  If so, how?  Plenty of thanks for
>any help.


That is parameter text.  During the run of the program, the programmer
specifies the text to go in that spot using the ParamText() toolbox call.

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

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

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 09:10:37 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: Japanese word processor

See TidBITS#168 for more information on Nisus 3.4L which will work
fine with KanjiTalk now and the kanji WorldScript module that Apple
is supposed to release April 15th.

  You can get more info from Nisus via email at:

    [e-mail]

cheers ... Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor

In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
> >I am looking for a Japanese Word Processor for the Mac.
> >Does anybody know where I can find one or where I can get more
> >info???

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

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 93 12:32:02 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Japanese Word Processor (R)

                    22/March
There are some way to use Japanese WP on Macs.

1)Install Kanji-Talk (6.07 or latest 7.1) and use Japanese WP like
MacWriteII-J, EG-Word, Wortzword and so on.
  In this case you have to buy, or ask someone the copy, Kanji-Talk and
  Japanese WP. Kanji-Talk 7.1 comes with Macs sold in Japan. However person
  who buys Macs from abroad can register to Apple Japan. It costs  70000 yen.
  If you want to know further how to contact with Apple Japan send me E-mail
  personally. Japanese WPs cost around 30000 ~ 50000 yen.

2)Install word-script and FEP, Front End Proccessor or Japanese fonts, and
Japanese Fonts to System 7.1-English and use Japanese WPs.
  In this case you can use Japanese fonts and FEP, called KOTOERI, under
  system 7.1 of English. However of course you cannot use Japanese font for
  finder like file names.

3)Install SweetJAM 7.0 to your System 7-English. SweetJAM is a software which
enable to use Japanese fonts under system 7-English. It comes with its
original FEP and Japanese Fonts.
  With SweetJAM 7.0 you can use Japanse fonts in some English version
  software, like Claris Works 1.0 and MS-Word 5.0.

4)Install SweetJAM 7.1 to your system 7.1-English. SweetJAM 7.1 is a version
of
SweetJAM only for System 7.1. It works same as 3). If you want to know in
detail, the list of software which SweetJAM supports and how to contact with
its developer, send me E-imail. SweetJAM 7.1 costs around 40000 yen.

In my case I use Kanji_talk 7.1 on my LC. However I plan to install SweetJAM
7.1 because I want to use MS-Word 5.0/5.1 as Japanese WP. If you can read
Japanese manuals, because I don't think there are English version of
Kanji-Talk and SweetJAM, you can use Japanese WP on your Mac with 4 ways
mentioned above.

Please note that there are some diffrences between Japanese WP and English WP.
Japanese WPs have some special functions for format like KIMSOKU_SHORI. Then
if you plan to use Japanese WP for your work or more serious work I recommend
to buy Kanji_talk and a Japanese WP. If you do not plan to do than, I
reccmmend to buy SweetJAM because you can use your English WP as Japanse WP.

I hope this info will help you.


Kimiaki Nakano
Imperial College, London
[e-mail]


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

Date: 22 Mar 93 13:53:27 U
From: Evans-CIC-IS <[e-mail]>
Subject: Know I know what did it.

Thanx to all that replied to me about the subject "I don't know what did it,
but it works".  What this concerned was that when I used ARA (Appletalk Remote
Access) I was unable to print to my stylewriter while connected.  Then one day
it did work.  I tried to figure out what I had done to make this happen, but
could not find this info from the release notes of the patches/upgrades I had
loaded lately.  Numerous responses came my way explaining that if I had
selected "Remote Only" in the Network Control Panels (this is loaded when ARA
is installed) to allow for a NCSA Telnet session/tn3270 session, this would
also allow for the stylewriter to be used while an ARA session is active.

Thanx to all that explained this little bit of info to me.
Troy

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

Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1993 21:36:38 -0600 (CST)
From: Larry Rymal <[e-mail]>
Subject: Latest Version Full Write Pro? Where to Get?

THE ARTSTONE COLLECTIVE <[e-mail]> writes:

> I have FullWrite Pro V1.0. When I purchased it I was
> supposed to receive an upgrade. At the time I called
> and wrote but to no avail.
>
> Does anyone one know where. I might get the upgrade now.
> The reason I ask is that I have been reading about
> all ther good things it can do and I am tired of
> strugglimg with Word 4.0.

    You could always try contacting Borland International which now
has rights to the program and to be frank, they are not too responsive
when dealing with FullWrite.
    Two years ago, we sent quite a few petitions to Borland, asking
them to either release FullWrite, resume development, or make a statement
about FullWrite's future.  Nothing really conclusive came from Borland. At
one time, you could get the latest update for about $55.00, I think.  I
doubt very seriously that any of the updates are even available but that
is mere speculation on my part.

Borland International
4585 Scotts Valley Drive
Scotts Valley, CA
95066  U.S.A.
1 408 438 8400

--Larry Rymal <[e-mail]>

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

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 21:04:55 PST
From: [e-mail] (John Thoo)
Subject: Let's hear it for FullWrite Pro!


On Fri, 19 Mar 1993 Larry Rymal <[e-mail]> said:
>         As many of you know, I have moaned over this service for a
> couple of years that I have not found a suitable replacement
> for the now abandoned-FullWrite Professional.

Hear, hear, Larry!  I agree with you 110%.  And, like you, I hope that
either

1. someone picks up FWP and continues to develop it (I still can't
believe how an `outdated' word processor like FWP is IMHO much better
than even the giant MSWord); or

2. FWP at least manages to continue working with System x.y as
(x,y) --> infinity.

Of course, I'm keeping my fingers crossed for Door Number 1 to open.

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

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

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 23:27:26 -0600 (CST)
From: Larry Rymal <[e-mail]>
Subject: Let's hear it for FullWrite Pro! (R)

On Fri, 19 Mar 1993, John Thoo wrote:

> 1. someone picks up FWP and continues to develop it (I still can't
> believe how an `outdated' word processor like FWP is IMHO much better
> than even the giant MSWord); or
> 2. FWP at least manages to continue working with System x.y as
> (x,y) --> infinity.
>
> Of course, I'm keeping my fingers crossed for Door Number 1 to open.

    Well, the addIT feature of MacWrite Pro introduces some
exciting possibilities which is one reason why I thought that MacWrite Pro
could offer some "PRO" possibilities.
    Perhaps enough rattling will occur that a decent market for addIT
modules which I need will be written.
    Of course, I'd rather someone pick up the code for FullWrite and
get it back from the dry dock of Borland Scrap Works.

--Larry

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

Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1993 14:12:00 -0500
From: Jeffrey Rounsville <[e-mail]>
Subject: Locking PB keyboard?

Howdy.  Can anyone tell me why why PowerBook145 keyboard periodically
totally locks up - any key I press does not register.  Thanks for any
help  :)
 Matt Herbison
 Penn State University

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

Date: Wed, 17 Mar 93 14:51:21 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: MAC network printing

Any help? this message from a friend of mine who's set up a network
at SUNY Buffalo. Please reply directly to him.
Problem:
    We've just installed a twisted pair ethernet network which
connects MACs (via AppleTalk) and PCs (via TCP/IP) to a Unix file
server.  The file server is a DECStation 5000 running Ultrix 4.3 and
the DEC Pathworks product which speaks TCP/IP with the PCs, and
AppleTalk with the MACS (via Pacer's Pacershare and Pacerprint).
MAC users are now faced with the choice of either choosing the
Localtalk port and using their local printers, or selecting the
Ethertalk network and participating in file sharing.  Simultaneous
access to Localtalk printing and Ethertalk file sharing does not
seem to be possible.

Goal:
    To have the MAC printers and file sharing services simultaneously
available to the MAC users.  It would be ideal if it were also possible
to access these printers from print queues on the Unix machine.

Considerations:
    IP terminal servers have been ruled out as too expensive (we'd
need almost one per printer, and the ones I've seen start around $1,500).
Software solutions (such as the Apple Internet Router) have been
considered, but we're afraid that they would place too large a
resource/processing demand on the host MACs.

Responses:
    [e-mail] (preferred)
    [e-mail]

A summary of solutions will be offered for posting.

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

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 93 02:20:11 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: MacRecorder problem on IIfx (A)

Greetings!

  Many thanks to the folks who responded to my problem making my
MacRecorder work on my new IIfx.  As it turns out, the MacRecorder
drivers don't work unless the IIfx serial ports are in "compatible"
mode.  I (finally) found the cdev on wuarchive (it seems to have
been deleted from info-mac), and now it works great.

Thanks!
--Mike

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

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 93 12:14:25 -0700
From: Bruce Carter <[e-mail]>
Subject: MacRecorder problems on IIfx

Greetings,

>  I recently acquired a Mac IIfx with 20Mb of RAM.  I swapped in
>this CPU in place of my old IIx, with my hard drives, video cards,
>etc.  left in place.  So, it's all the same stuff, except the IIfx
>itself.
>
>  Now, I find that I can't use my MacRecorder.  The MacRecorder
>extension comes up at startup with a big 'X' through it, so that I
>can't use SoundEdit Pro (needs the driver).
>
>  Can anybody tell me what's going on here?  I've got some stuff I
>really want to digitize, but I can't do it until I can get the
>driver to work.

Your system configuration is similar to mine, so I'm pretty sure all you need
to do is downshift the speed on your serial ports with the Serial Port
Selector control panel.  Open the control panel and set the ports to
"compatible" and the MacRecorder should start working (mine does).

If you don't have the control panel, you can get it from Apple or from
Macromind/Paracomp who now own the MacRecorder.  It was included with my
MacRecorder software, so check there first.

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

Date: Sun, 21 Mar 93 21:33:42 CST
From: Reverend John <[e-mail]>
Subject: Macs in POINT OF NO RETURN

Just for the curious or the Mac evangelist, Macintoshes are featured
prominently in the new movie POINT OF NO RETURN. In addition, almost
every time a Mac is seen, there are several software boxes next to
it -- notably After Dark, which is seen running a couple of times.

And to make it more blunt, the main character (a spy/assassin) has
a "cover" job: a salesperson for SuperMac!

As they say, "promotional considerations paid by..."

Rev

p.s. for those curious, POINT isn't bad but, as if to live up to the
cliche, the ending is changed and "Americanized" from the original
French film, "La Femme Nikita," of which this is a remake.

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

Date: Sun, 21 Mar 93 15:23:23 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: MacWeek subscription

write to:

Customer Service Dept.
MacWeek, c/o JCI
P.O. Box 1766
Riverton, NJ  08077-7366

The one year rate is $99.  Free subscription are available for those
that qualify.  The criteria for qualification are a little unclear.

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

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

Date: Sat, 20 Mar 93 02:44 CST
From: [e-mail] (Greg Trimper)
Subject: Modem Lights DA?

I think I remember hearing of a DA called "Modem Lights" that gave you
a little picture of a modem with the status LEDS.  I can't seem to
find it with archie or through AOL.  Does anybody know of/know where to
get this software?  I have found myself frustrated by the lack of
feedback from this new internal powerbook modem.

please email any responses, and post if you see fit.
Thanks,
Greg Trimper   [e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 93 12:21:07 -0700
From: Bruce Carter <[e-mail]>
Subject: Modems on different systems

Greetings,

>I want to buy a modem, but I don't seem to be able to get a straight answer
>to my question: Is it possible to connect any modem (with an rs232) to any
>machine. I have a Macintosh, an Commodore Amiga and a PC - sorry about the
>last one ;) - assuming I got the right software to each computer?

I hesitate to ever use "any" as there is always some blasted exception, but
yes, you should be able to connect any general external modem to any personal
computer with the right cables and have it work.  If it is something made
specifically for some obscure computer, then possibly not, but all major
brands of modems will work on just about anything.  This is why I always buy
external modems rather than internal.  I have one old Hayes 2400 that has been
hooked to everything from an ADM3A terminal to a Centris 650.

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

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1993 06:12:45 GMT
From: [e-mail] (p-m agapow)
Subject: More for Mac?

Having accquired several very large text files lately that i need to
peruse (but not edit), i've run into a few problems. To wit, _no_ text
processor wants to handle a megabyte long file. Not wanting to split the
files up (they're alamanac and encyclopedia type references dowloaded from
a Unix mainframe) is there any convenient way to browse them on the Mac?
Ideally there'd be something like "more" but i have a hunch that i may
have a programming task on my hands ...

p-m

 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
paul-michael agapow ([e-mail]) Machine Intelligence Lab, LaTrobe
Uni

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

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 20:23:52 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Benjamin J. Turner)
Subject: MS Word- Pub&Sub & Apple Events

Last time, we saw...
>> Sorry Francis, Nisus 3.4 is not Nisus XS. Nisus XS has now been renamed
>> Nisus Writer, and won't be shipped until later this year at best. If you
>> want Pub&Sub and AE's, you'll have to wait. And wait. And wait....

> It should be noted that MS Word does not support Pub&Sub & Apple Events yet
> either.

    This is *not* true! I've been using Publish & Subscribe in Microsoft
    Word
5.0 for about a year now, and it works just fine. As for Apple Events, it
supports the required Apple Events, though I don't think it has any of its
own. I could be wrong about the Apple Events, but as I understand it, the
required ones are supported in MS Word 5.x.

        Benjamin Turner
        [e-mail]

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

Date: Sat, 20 Mar 93 14:28:22 EST
From: "Mel Martinez"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: MS Word- Pub&Sub & Apple Events

In message <[e-mail]> Benjamin J. Turner writes:
>
> Last time, we saw...
> >> Sorry Francis, Nisus 3.4 is not Nisus XS. Nisus XS has now been renamed
> >> Nisus Writer, and won't be shipped until later this year at best. If you
> >> want Pub&Sub and AE's, you'll have to wait. And wait. And wait....
>
> > It should be noted that MS Word does not support Pub&Sub & Apple Events
yet
> > either.
>
>       This is *not* true! I've been using Publish & Subscribe in Microsoft
Word
> 5.0 for about a year now, and it works just fine. As for Apple Events, it
> supports the required Apple Events, though I don't think it has any of its
> own. I could be wrong about the Apple Events, but as I understand it, the
> required ones are supported in MS Word 5.x.
>
>               Benjamin Turner
>               [e-mail]
>
>

Hmm.. you are apparently correct about pub&sub.  I wonder why the brochure
list
of features I have for word 5.1 does not list it, though?  Seems like
something
MS would like to mention.  My mistake there.

Word only supports Open and Quit, basically.  That is not quite what we meant
in
the original by AE support, though that is not really made clear.   Word
instead
uses MS's own embedded-object-linking technology that MS developped on the
Windows platform.

Ideally, a word processor should support the whole SUITE of Apple Events
defined
for word/text processing tasks.  So far, unfortunately, no one does.

Thanks for the correction.

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

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

Date: Sun, 21 Mar 93 23:52:39 EST
From: Pete Tamas <[e-mail]>
Subject: Murph-where is he?

> TidBITS#167/08-Mar-93
> Murph Sewall's long-running but soon-ending Vaporware.

So what's the straight story? What's up with Murph?-Pete Tamas
[e-mail], Temple Univ, Philadelphia (betw New York & Wash DC)

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

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1993 12:03:25 -0600
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Mystery file (A)

Seahaven Towers is a very nice shareware card game. It was the first piece
of shareware I ever registered, and I figure I played enough to get it down
to $.10 a game or less. I only works on color macs, but is a fun and
aesthetically attractive game. Looks like it uses Indexor.
Bryan Walls                             My words are not NASA policy.
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 18:23:01 GMT
From: "J. Rossi" <[e-mail]>
Subject: NeXT snd to Mac snd ?

Hi netters

I grabbed Sound Hack 0.63 in the sound directory as it is supposed to
transform NeXT snd files. True indeed but not to system 7 files. It can
convert to AIFF, Sound Edit and other formats all of which are useless
to me since I don't have any of the required application to read the
converted files.

Would someone know of an application which could convert from NeXT snd to
Mac snd, or something to convert between Mac AIFF to Mac snd ?

Thanks

Francois Rossi    [e-mail]

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

Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1993 12:31:56 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Charlie Mingo)
Subject: Nisus Upgrade: CAn it do...? (C)

"Mel Martinez" <[e-mail]> writes:

> In info mac v11 #60 Graeme Forbes <[e-mail]> writes:

> > If you
> > want Pub&Sub and AE's, you'll have to wait. And wait. And wait....
>
> It should be noted that MS Word does not support Pub&Sub &
> Apple Events yet either.

<Ahem>

My copy of MS Word 5 has supported Pub&Sub since it was released in November
1991.  I'm not sure if it supports AppleEvents, but it does have OLE and DDE,
which appear to be some MS version of IAC.

Oh, and Word 6 is due out before summer.

Regards.



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

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 93 08:46:55 PST
From: [e-mail] (Robert A Managan)
Subject: Numerical DAta from Graphs

I have used digiGraf for this purpose. You scan the plot and get it on the
screen and then fire up digiGraf. You locate the end of the axes and
then pick the points you want. Works well. It even handles log axes.

The alternative is dataThief; I have not used this and forget why!

Rob Managan             ([e-mail])

PS Both should be available at sumex or umish.

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

Date: Sat, 20 Mar 93 09:47:20 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Bernard Seront)
Subject: Numerical Data from Graphs ( A and Q )

The freeware program DataThief ( current version 1.0.8) makes that very well.

Does someone know if I can use DataThief with an image opened in another
program on the background (for example: I open my scanned image with
photoshop, adjust the size, and then switch to datathief to work with the
image in photoshop).

Thank's

Bernard Seront

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

Date: Sat, 20 Mar 93 09:59:14 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Bernard Seront)
Subject: Numerical Data from Graphs ( A and Q )

#Greetings O Wise Nettlings!

#I can't seem to remember the name of software that will provide numerical
#data based on a scanned in graph.  I seem to remember seeing that this was a
#commercial item, but can anyone give me a pointer?

#Thanks much!

#Brian

The freeware program DataThief ( current version 1.0.8) makes that very well.

Does someone know if I can use DataThief with an image opened in another
program on the background (for example: I open my scanned image with
photoshop, adjust the size, and then switch to datathief to work with the
image in photoshop).

Thank's

Bernard Seront

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

Date: Sat, 20 Mar 93 17:04 +8
From: "Andes K.M.Cheung" <[e-mail]>
Subject: NuVista driver problem

I have downloaded the new driver(s) for TrueVision's NuVista cards.
Yet among the files, I can't find the driver for NuVista Classic. Although
there are two similar archive files at info-mac/util, they look identical and
only NuVista+ driver is provided.

Our department have two NuVista classic and want to create QuickTime movies
out of the new drivers.  Do anybody in this discussion list has such
experience with the new drivers?

Where can we find the missing driver? Can someone tell?

Thanks in advance.

Andes K M Cheung
Educational Technology Centre
City Polytechnic of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

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

Date: Sun, 21 Mar 93 14:37:04 PST
From: [e-mail] (John Thoo)
Subject: partitioning a hard disc

I would like to partition my SE/30's internal 40MB disc into
two partitions---one for my System/apps; and one for my work.
Can I use Apple's HD setup(?) to do this, or will I have to
use some third party utility (e.g. Silverlining)?

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

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

Date: Sun, 21 Mar 93  11:55:35 EST
From: Chris Tanski <[e-mail]>
Subject: Pascal programs

Does anyone know of any Pascal programs (compilers, etc.) for the Mac and
available via FTP? Similar to Think Pascal. Please reply directly to
[e-mail]. Thanks in advance.

Chris Tanski

Owner of GOLF-L
ctanski@onondaga (preferred address)
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 93 11:26:43 MST
From: [e-mail] (Stephen C. Harmony)
Subject: PostScript -> EPSF (Source of my info)

Oops. In Info-Mac V11 #61 I gave the bare bones requirement for an
encapsulated PostScript file. Unfortunately when I copied my reply from MS
Word and pasted it into VersaTerm PRO, I somehow left out some of the lines
of my reply. The most important of these missing lines credit my source for
the EPS info, the book _Understanding PostScript Programming_ by David A.
Holzgang, Sybex Books, ISBN 0-89588-566-2. I have found it very helpful in
dealing with PostScript.

Steve Harmony
Los Alamos, NM

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

Date: Sun, 21 Mar 93 15:48:52 ITA
From: Maura Cerioli <[e-mail]>
Subject: Public domain software (Q)

Dear networkers,
our department is organizing a lab for our undergraduated
students (mostly for thesis typing).

We are looking for public domain/ free share/
VERY CHEAP software. We will be very grateful for every
suggestion about the available software and how to get it.
The technicalities about our needs and configuration
follow.

Please address your answers directly at the following address:
       [e-mail]
Thanks in advance and ciao
Maura Cerioli

================ Technicalities ==================================
Our net consists of:
4 Plus (2 of them with hard disk)
2 Classic (I)
3 (plain) SE
1 LaserPlus
The computers are connected through an Appletalk tokenring net.

We are using system 6.0.7, as the plus without HD cannot use
system 7, due to the lack of space on the sturtup disk (and
not to slow down too much the performances)

We need software for:
1 TeX/LaTeX/AMSTeX, able to compile, edit and print, preferably to
  see the preview too, but this is not indispensable.
  A collegue suggested to use OzTex (is it public domain, correct?),
  but the copy that she has given us is just able to compile, not
  even to print the result. We would prefer to have just one
  application able to do all jobs, but it is also acceptable to use
  different applications for editing, compiling and printing (and
  previewing).
2 Making pictures that can be imported in (la)tex.
  Our students need mainly geometrical drawing, graphs with circular/
  elliptical nodes and possibly curve edges. Something like MacDraw
  would be fine.
3 Building the net.
  Presently we have 3 copies of Tops (that we bought with the macs),
  that are not sufficient to create our net.
  We could have two subnets, one using tops on the plus without hd,
  and the other upgrading the left computers to system 7. But
  having just one printer to share it would mean to reinitialize
  the printer every time the "other" net needs to print...

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

Date: Sun, 21 Mar 93 23:56:36 EST
From: Pete Tamas <[e-mail]>
Subject: rebuilding the desktop

> As of a little while ago, my computer refuses to recognize
> Microsoft Word files as actual MS Word files, but instead
> lists them as documents.  All old MS Word files are listed as
> "document."  New ones I create are treated the same.

(This has probably been answered, but since its a common
problem, it bears repeating). This is the classic symptoms of
a bad desktop file. Hold down command (aka clover or splat)-
and option while the Finder is loading. The easiest way to do
that is to restart the machine and hold down command-option.
When it asks if you want to rebuild the desktop, say Yes.-Pete Tamas
[e-mail], Temple Univ, Philadelphia (betw New York & Wash DC)

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

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 22:34:38 EST
From: [e-mail] (Klaus P. Fechner)
Subject: Reinstalling Network device driver (A)

On Thu, 18 Mar 1993 13:32:38 EST [e-mail] wrote:


Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1993 13:32:38 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Reinstalling Network device driver

I'm getting desperate here and I hope someone out there can help or enlighten
me. I have a MacIIsi that I recently zapped the PRAM on.  After the Zap the
network device driver nolonger worked.  When I go to the Control Panel and
Select the Network Icon the following message comes back:


       "The Network software has not been intalled correctly.  Be sure
        to use the installer and then restart"

....
 -----------------------------

 I bet you are running system 7.x and NOTHING is wrong with your network
installation. I ran into the exact same problem a while ago and spent
several hours figuring it out, several times reinstalling various versions
of network software, completely reinstalling the system software, and
several times questioning my sanity.

Actually it is an indication of some of Apple's software guys/gals'
(in)sanity:

*You need to turn Appletalk back on in the chooser and then restart.*

The Appletalk code is not loaded when it is off on reboot. The network
software doesn't find the drivers to talk to and complains in this totally
IDIOTIC way. This is a beautiful example of how a well intended feature
(not wasting system heap space for the AppleTalk code when it is not
needed) turns into a nightmare for someone else, because the programmers
didn't finish thinking through the implications or test the "feature"
thoroughly. (I have done silly things like that myself often enough).

Hope this helps,

Klaus

Klaus Fechner   -----     [e-mail], [e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1993 10:12:51 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Reinstalling Network device driver (A)

Thank you to every one that responed to my recent post.  The following is a
description of the problem:

>I have a MacIIsi that I recently zapped the PRAM on.  After the Zap the
>network device driver nolonger worked.  When I go to the Control Panel and
>Select the Network Icon the following message comes back:
>
>
>           "The Network software has not been intalled correctly.  Be sure
>            to use the installer and then restart"


As everyone who responded pointed out, this message is VERY misleading.
Rather than
reinstalling the Network software you really just need to go to the Chooser,
reactivate Appletalk and restart the Mac.

Thanks again to everyone that responded I was starting to tear my hair out.

Lisa Besko

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

Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1993 00:05:40 -0500 (EST)
From: Scott Kaplan <[e-mail]>
Subject: ResEdit "^0" references...

The "^0" things that you find in DITLs resources (note that it is
carat-zero, not carat-O), is for use with a Mac ToolBox call known
as ParamText.  A programmer can create a DITL with up to four static
text items.  (So you may find ^0, ^1, ^2, or ^3 in ResEdit when looking
at these resources).  Then, using a ParamText call, some text (usually
some variable string) can be placed into that DITL.  It is just a
convenient way to define one DITL and not have to spell out exactly
what it would say during runtime.

Scott Kaplan
Amherst College
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1993 01:10:58 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Bill Stewart-Cole)
Subject: ResEdit "^O" references?

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

>Howdy.  Does anyone out there know if it is possible to find out what the
>"^O" is refering to in a DITL resource.  If so, how?  Plenty of thanks for
>any help.
> Matt Herbison
> Penn State University

There really is no way. The '^0' (and ^1-3 also) references are tokens that
tell the dialog manager and some other managers to insert a string that has
been passed to the ParamText function. There are always 4 such strings that
the
Mac will use for inserting in such spots (like dialogs that present a variety
of error messages) and so each reference will get a different string inserted
depending on what string(s) the program has most recently passed to
Paramtext.
This allows programmers to have just one dialog resource (or string resource)
that gets used over and over for different uses, instead of having to
construct
a slew of nearly identical ones.

To see how hard finding that reference would be, I'll explain what I did in a
recent program. There were essentially 6 ways that my program could run into
an
error that was intrinsic to my program (i.e. the rest of the mac wouldn't
care)
and which I had to either code heavily to let thge user pick a r4esolution or
just tell the user about the problem and what it meant, and let him fiddle
thru
normal patrhs to change it. I picked the latter. Whenever I hit an error, I
just pass a number to my 'TellUser()' function, which uses the number to go
find the warning strings in a large STR# resource, and then passes them to
ParamText() and calls a sim,ple informative alert dial;og box. 95% of the
time,
that reference is meaningless, because the program is not in an error state,
and when it is meaningful, there is about a 20 mSec delay before the message
actually comes onscreen, and then it is dismissed and becomes meaningless
again.

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

Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1993 22:18:17 +0000
From: Nick Rothwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: Scrolling

>                     **   Bug in Scroll_term( )    **
>                     ** new_topline out of range:2 **
>                     **            OK              **

Sounds like a problem with whatever software you were running (which you
don't mention) rather than Scrolling. Scroll_term sounds like a terminal
scrolling routine to me.

>Am I to be the first one to be credited with the discovery of this feature?

Nope. Scrolling in conjunction with (say) Scroll2 and double-ended
scrollbars causes some applications to over-scroll (due to the arithmetic
of the elevator area being different).

Only problem I have with Scrolling is that the control panel won't open (it
claims not be installed). It works nonetheless.

            Nick Rothwell   |   [e-mail]
     CASSIEL Contemporary Music/Dance   |   [e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 93 22:05:42 GMT
From: Borre Ludvigsen <[e-mail]>
Subject: Simple music program

I have a group students working on an electronic book. It's the second half of
the autobiography of the Norwegian composer Signe Lund who was famous between
the wars, but unknown after. We have her manuscript written in the late '40s.
We also have some illustrations and notes. But we need a simple "music"
program
that will allow us to recreate an impression of her music without actually
having to digitize it. We've tried HyperCard's play harpsichord, but it's just
too limited. Our aim is to pack the whole book onto a 1.4 MB diskette. The
text
and illustrations will be wrapped into a HyperCard or SuperCard stack. We want
it to run on a Powerbook, and SE or Classic. Nothing complicated, but
hopefully
readable. As she was a composer we want to be able to give an impression of
her
music. We would certainly appreciate any suggestions.

Barre Ludvigsen, Associate Professor - Ostfold Regional College, Halden,
Norway

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

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 09:16:43 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: Stolen 165C

If anyone offers you a great deal on a used 165c, check that serial
number...

cheers ... -Adam

Forward of letter <[e-mail]> from
[e-mail] (Mark Anbinder):

STOLEN POWERBOOK 165C 4/80 SERIAL #FC3051LZ490 ONLY CPU TOOK
SHOPLIFFTED ON 3/15/93 ABOUT 3PM FROM
HOME & BUSINESS COMPUTER CENTER/CONNECTING POINT
1807H SANTA RITA ROAD
PLEASANTON, CA  94566
[phone]
IF ANY YOU LEARN INFOMATION ABOUT THIS UNIT OR IT IS SERVICED
PLEASE CONTACT BILL WILSON AT STORE OR
 CITY OF PLEASANTON POLICE DEPT.
AT [phone] CASE REPORT #93-1598

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

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 93 00:28:22 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Stefano Pelli)
Subject: SW II driver on SW I summary

Hi netters,
           I briefly summarize the answers I got to my
question concerning the use of the SW II printer driver with
a SW I.
First of all, all response were positive.Yes, it can be used and
it works.
Only concern, the software head cleaning option,which _must not_
be used,othwerwise there is a risk to damage the printer,as the
printer head is ordered to go in a non-exsistent place.
As  Aaron Schrab  suggested to me,it is better to disable such option
with Resedit.It is very simple,it took me just 2 minutes to do the job(just
open resource DITL 8191, double click on the "option" button
22,and disable the button). He also found a small speed increase.
It is not clear if the print speed improves,but certainly the
printing capabilites with the gray-shading option improve dramatically.

Grant Bowman who went to the Berkeley Macintosh User's Group meeting,says:
>      Steve Costa, resident guru mentioned, the reason that the SWII drivers
are
>      not officially supported on the SWI is because it has a much smaller
buffer
>      built into it compared to the SWII.

>      This causes problems when printing very long documents (crashes, I
heard), but
>      other than the cleaning of the print head option (that is supposed to
damage
>      the SWI cartridges), then the SWI is perfect for use with the SWII
grayshare
>      drivers.

David Ray noted in the Digest # 60 that using a trick in Photoshop,things
work even better:

>      Open a grayscale doc, change resolution to 360 DPI (without changing
>      physical size in inches -- this will require more disk space);
>      When converting, select halftone screen, and dither it using the
maximum
>      lines/inch (999 I think).
>     What happens is that it produces a halftone screen which is smaller than
>     the resolution (999 lines/inch screen, 360 dots/inch resolution). This
results
>     in a pure B&W bitmap image which "looks" like gray scale when printed on
>     a stylewriter. The SWII driver does a similar type of dithering, except
that
>     it does it at somewhat lower resolution than 360DPI, so you can see the
>     "dot pattern" much more easily with the SWII grayscale vs. the Photoshop
>     trick. The Photoshop trick produces a B&W image, which can be printed
>     with the original SWI driver.

I believe anyway that the easy of use of  integrated
grayscale printing is worth at this stage paying a little loss of quality.
Anyway,thanks for the advice,in special occasions it could be
very useful!  ;-)

For the bad news, Jose M. Payo warns :
>  - You only can do grayshading with SW I or II when your Mac has 32 Bit
>     QuickDraw, that is, you can not do grayshading from a Mac with 68000 as
>     microprocesor (Plus, Classic, SE, Portable, PowerBook 100).
but may be this problem can be fixed with the software enablers.

Perry Phillips uses succesfully also the sharing capabilities
of the new driver, although things are rather slow.

For my personal use,I am quite satisfied,things work beyond expectations!
Only flaw is the presence (due to the imperfections of the printing
head I believe) of horizontal (in portrait printing) line patterns,but
I don't take this problem in great consideration!

Let's hope Apple will release a SW I driver update,so that we
could use the new features without fearing because of our "risky"
behavior ;-) !!

Many thanks also to Anthony F. Gaudiano,Dean C. Jones and  Jason R. Mihalick
for their answers.

Thats'all,folks!

              Stefano Pelli    [e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 93 16:44:25 -0100
From: Peter Kay <[e-mail]>
Subject: System 6.0.8L

A colleague wants to run System 6 on one of the new Macs which require
System 7.

The Mac-IBM PC Comparison report, which I obtained from Sumex,
states that System 6.0.8L allows one to do this. I browsed around
ftp.apple.com but was unable to find the "L" suffix. I contacted
the author of the above report and he didn't know of a possible
source for this system.

Are any of you able to help?

Peter Kay, University of Hertfordshire

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

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 93 11:48:23 PST
From: [e-mail] (Joe Driear)
Subject: System 7.01 & file connections

I just updated my Mac to system 7.01 (not 7.1) and now some of my apps
don't see my data files.  When I double click on a data file the app
launches but opens a new file rather than the old one I double clicked.
I've tried trashing my desktop files and rebuilding them on a restart
but this didn't change anything.

The app's developer said "open each one, make a change, and save it"
which works but I've got hundreds of data files.  Anyone got an easier
way to remake the connections or know what's going on?
--joe ([e-mail])

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

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 93 09:26:32 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: TidBITS#166 - Apple Adjustable Keyboard

Forwarded from TidBITS.

cheers ... Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor


# Date: Wed, 17 Mar 93 12:28:01 -0500
# From: "Charles A Reeves Jr" <[e-mail]>
# Subject: Apple Adjustable Keyboard
#
# I'm afraid I have to agree with Joe Clark's comments in
# TidBITS#166 and follow-up comments in #168 about the new Apple
# Adjustable Keyboard.  The keyboard is a noble idea, but Apple
# just took  too many liberties with what most of us have grown
# to accept as the  "standard" layout for extended keyboards and
# the type of keys used on  these keyboards.
#
# I use the function keys extensively, along with the six keys
# above the  cursor keys on the Extended Keyboard (Help, Home,
# etc.).  WordPerfect  uses all these, as do many terminal
# emulation programs (e.g.,  VersaTerm), as Joe reports.  I do
# not look forward to using a keyboard  with "Chiclet" keys for
# some of these functions.  Also, it is pretty  standard for the
# function keys to reside across the top of the alpha  section
# these days, and most keyboard templates fit this configuration.
#
# One manufacturer I can recall that tried to come out with an
# "original"  keyboard design in the past is IBM with their
# initial design that came  with the first release of the PC; it
# had an extra key between the "Z"  and the left Shift key, an
# extra one between the Return key and the  apostrophe/quote key,
# and the delete (what I call Backspace) key was one  key to the
# right of where was on most keyboards at the time.  I believe
# they were attempting to duplicate what was in use in Europe at
# the time.   Thank goodness cooler heads prevailed and we have
# the layout used in the  Extended Keyboard and most keyboards in
# use in the U.S. today on PCs.


PS: I tried this keyboard this weekend, and I found that the keyboard
itself was OK, although it forces you to touch type correctly (I type
the B key with the wrong hand, as it turns out), and I was continually
hitting the Caps Lock key by mistake when I wanted Shift. The keypad,
on the other hand was utterly abysmal. I've been spending my free
time thinking up creative forms of torture for the person who's responsible
for those damn little chiclet keys. Even if I was perfectly healthy,
the nasty little things hurt to press since they require a fair amount
of force and you are concentrating that force in a very small part
of your finger.

cheers ... -Adam

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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 93 08:40:45 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: TidBITS#168 - European prices

Forwarded from TidBITS.

cheers ... Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor

# Date:    Fri, 19 Mar 1993 16:28:59 +1100 (EST)
# From: [e-mail] (Philip FX Ryan)
# Subject: 'Foreign' software distribution
#
# Tidbits #168 had an interesting article about software
# distribution in  Europe and other 'foreign' markets (although
# focused on Europe, I admit).
#
# One item that continually comes up is the mythical 'dealer
# support' or  'distributor support'. I call it mythical because
# the companies selling the  software do not know anything about
# it. One case I remember is of getting  the Grappler LS software
# to make a DeskJet work with a Macintosh. The  dealer (who sold
# PCs, Macs and HP equipment) said: 'no way... it can't be
# done.. this is a PC printer only'. As he was saying this, I
# connected it up  and got out some 300 dpi MS-Word text with
# different fonts and a picture -  something that he had never
# seen the DeskJet do.
#
# Dealers and distributors are ONLY interested in getting as much
# $$$ as they  can out of the consumer - I realize that the world
# is a rat-race everywhere  and that their _motives_ are no
# different than any other business people  the world over -
# HOWEVER, they do not even inform themselves by reading  even
# the Australian computer magazines, let alone the press releases
# and  the US computer mags.
#
# Here in Australia, we regularly pay much more than the US value
# for  software to dealers and distributors who wouldn't know
# whether a Macintosh  product comes on a 5 1/4 inch disk (I
# exagerate, but not much).
#
# What really gets me is that, in 'official' comparisons of the
# Australian price  with the US price, the comparison is made
# between the Aust. price and the US  RRP, not the mail-order
# price. The actual price that you will pay in  Australia
# compared to the US mail order price is huge. An example:
# February 1993 US Macuser has a MacConnection ad price for a
# series of  products which I will compare to Australian
# Macworld's price for the same  products:
#                            MacConnection   Aust. dealers  - in US dollars
# SimCity       Supreme      35      105
# MS Word              295      320
# Think Pascal         165      220
# Adobe Illustrator    368      560
#
# Now we speak an americanized form of English here - no
# translation required  (in fact, companies like Nisus who assume
# that we want the British version  of the software really get up
# my nose; about the only things that Australia  doesn't follow
# the US in is that we use a metric system, so that A4 is the
# standard page setup).
#
# What this means is that if I want to buy ONE SINGLE GAME
# PROGRAM, it is  usually cheaper to TELEPHONE INTERNATIONALLY to
# some US mail-order place,  pay for INTERNATIONAL FEDERAL
# EXPRESS freight and get better and often  quicker service!
#
# So, software purchasers in Australia have voted with their
# wallets and - at  least for Mac software - have very often
# bought from US mail-order places.
#
# Local support, other than from companies like Borland, Apple and
# Microsoft,  is virtually non-existent. Even these company's
# head offices are usually in  Sydney, which is $1 per minute
# away on long-distance phone charges, not  that much cheaper
# than the $2 per minute international charges to the US.
#
# It seems to me that these companies are really wasting their
# time having  local distributors. They would save money by
# providing international  toll-free or electronic mail support
# to their international customers, and  cut out the middle men.
#
# Phil Ryan
# Melbourne, Australia
# (Sydney is about 1000 km away, California is about 15,000 km
# away - but  phone and fax links are not much more expensive for
# the different  distances)

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 09:25:56 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: TidBITS#168 - European pricing

Forwarded from TidBITS so others can have the benefit of seeing these
interesting comments even if we can't afford the space to publish
all of the ones we receive. Please continue the discussion here; I
will be listening in. Thanks for thinking about what we write!

cheers ... Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor

# From: [e-mail] (Rick Sutcliffe)
# Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1993 8:37:15 PDT
# Subject: pricing
#
# >  Europeans are not alone, however. All countries but the U.S. and
# >  Canada suffer from the same pricing structures.
#
# Canadians often get shafted too, especially when manufacturers
# sign an exclusive deal with a Canadian distribuuter (usually
# located in the self-styled centre of the universe known as
# Toronto)  When this happens, it is not uncommon for the
# Canadian retail price to be double the US one (When taking
# exchange into consideration, the actual should be not more than
# 25% higher.)  The knowledgeable buy from US mail order houses;
# others get soaked.  The 100% premium is (not so affectionately)
# known here as the ROF (ripoff factor.)
#
# Rick
#
#  Rick Sutcliffe
#  Associate Professor
#  Math & Computing Science
#  Trinity Western University
#  7600 Glover Rd.,
#  Langley B.C. Canada
#  V3A 6H4                     (604 8887511)  [e-mail]
#

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 09:29:15 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: TidBITS#168 - European pricing

Forwarded from TidBITS...

cheers ... Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor

# From: [e-mail] (Tobias Kuipers)
# Subject: Re: TidBITS#168 - Software in Europe
# Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1993 16:11:14 +0100 (MET)
#
# I have a few remarks on the SoftwareInEurope article in the
# last issue of  TidBITS. There's a lot of truth in the article,
# but a couple of things  got me quite upset. As the author
# stated in the article, Europe is NOT  one country (yet, thank
# God). However, once this fact was put forward,  the author goes
# on thinking about AS one country. The facts he lays down  give
# rise to the suspicion that he only visited rural, remote areas
# in  Europe.
#
# Where I am living, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands things are
# quite  different. The last time I checked the statistics, there
# were something  like 500 ATMs in Amsterdam, and literally
# thousands throughout the  country. (There are 8 ATMs on less
# than a quarter of a mile from my  house, and I don't even live
# at the center of town.)
#
# Tandy had a chain of stores (called Tandy, what a surprise),
# retailing  basically the same stuff RadioShack sells on the
# other side of the  Atlantic. All of these shops were closed
# some three months ago, because  they couldn't make a profit.
# This is not because there's no demand. To be  honest, the Tandy
# stores were crap. If you wanted to buy some small item,  say a
# transistor, you had to buy ten. The people who worked there
# didn't  know the difference between a 80468 and a 68040 (:))
# and there are lots  of (bigger) stores who DO give service.
#
# About the distribution system: Dutch mail delivers anything next
# morning  before 9 AM for something like 1 dollar per pound
# (weight). Okay, okay,  The Netherlands IS a small country
# (about as big as New York State).  But... FedEx (and similar
# corporations like DHL and EMS) promise to  deliver anything
# overnight in the whole of Europe and the US. (And they  do, at
# least they did it for the company I was working for, but maybe
# my  boss bribed them :)). So I don't see your distribution
# problem. Telecommunications are no problem either, except maybe
# in the former  Communist Countries. (There are 10 million
# telephones in The Netherlands,  on a population of 15 million).
#
# Maybe all of this got through to the big software vendors. Just
# this  week, major players MicroSoft and Lotus started off a
# full scale price war. You can now buy packages of either Word,
# Excel, PowerPoint and a license  to MS Mail, or 1-2-3, Ami Pro,
# Freelance Graphics and a license to  cc:Mail for 995 Dutch
# Guilder (which is US$ 533), excluding 17,5% sales  tax.
#
# By the way, the Lotus package only comes for a Windows platform
# (quite  cynical, to attack Microsoft on a platform they
# designed :)), but they  promise to get a similar deal for the
# Mac in the future.
#
# So, as far as software prices go, there is light at the horizon
# (at least  in The Netherlands, I don't if this war is raging on
# in other European  countries aswell.)
#
# Cheers,
# Tobias
# --
# "I am by now completely convinced that my downfall in life is
# going to be my  inability to achieve computer nirvana like a
# true hacker or hackette."
# ------Tyler Johnson in Shampoo Planet by Douglas Coupland
#
# Tobias Kuipers - [e-mail] - University of Amsterdam - Netherlands

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 09:31:48 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: TidBITS#168 - European pricing

Forwarded from TidBITS...

cheers ... Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor

# From: Charlie Stross <[e-mail]>
# Subject: re: TidBITS#168/15-Mar-93
# Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1993 11:26:40 +0000 (GMT)
#
# "Adam C. Engst" <[e-mail]> wrote in:
# TidBITS - a newsletter for Mac users <[e-mail]>
#
# ... quite a lot about the price of software in Europe.
#
# I'd like to comment on some of the observations you made about
# the price of software over here (I live in the UK).  In
# general, you're correct; the European market is fragmented into
# many areas, distribution via distributors places added
# overheads on whoever is providing local support and
# internationalization, and there are tax and economic problems
# which conspire to drive up the price of goods.
#
# However.
#
# I recently purchased a copy of AutoDoubler, by Salient Software.
# I should say at this point that I've got no complaints with the
# product, or its manufacturers; it does exactly what I want it
# to, and in my opinion is an excellent program.  (I'm just using
# it as an example.) I ordered the package from MacWarehouse UK:
# it arrived within 24 hours of me phoning the order through to
# their 14-hour-a-day number.  It's instructive to note that the
# mail-order distribution chains are quite well established in
# the UK, and are capable of providing excellent round the clock
# service. It's also instructive to note that the product cost me
# UK pounds 72! This translates, at the current exchange rate, to
# US $100 (plus or minus a little), for a product which retails
# in the US at $49.
#
# Where did my money go?
#
# Well, a whopping 17.5% of it went in VAT -- value added tax.
# VAT is common in the EC, and is slowly being harmonized between
# member nations.  It's actually responsible for a large chunk of
# total government tax revenues, almost on a par with income tax
# in some states.  That accounts for UK pounds 10.  Then there
# was an element to cover postage and packing.  Delivery within
# the UK -- or any other European state -- can be fast and
# efficient, and is not necessarily expensive: let's say, 5
# pounds for local overnight delivery of a small package.  That
# leaves a notional price of around 58 pounds (or 75-80 dollars).
#  Which boils down to the price of the product, plus the dealer
# mark-up; which was  the straw that broke the camel's back.
#
# To tell the truth, I'd have been better off ordering the product
# by mail order from the US, and paying the extra 4% customs duty
# on direct imports.  Remember, no localization is required for
# the UK market -- most of us speak English, and AD doesn't
# handle country-dependant variables like currency or date
# formats.  There was no national support number in the pack I
# received, and the registration card was addressed to a US
# address; indeed, I doubt that the product I bought was any
# different to the one I could have bought direct from the US.
# The cost of an import would have been $49 plus VAT and duty at
# 22.5% (or about $10) plus shipping (about $20), for a total of
# $80, or about UK pounds 55. A saving on the order of 25% of the
# total, gained by cutting the local distributor out of the
# picture.
#
# I wound up paying a premium price because the product had been
# shipped through two or more extra filters in the supply chain.
# In general, in any industry which relies on broad distribution,
# when you add another intermediary in the distribution chain it
# drives up the prices by a large margin.  (Typical mark-ups in
# the publishing industry, for example, are on the order of
# 30-50% at each step in the chain from publisher to reader.)
# Exporting a product which goes through distributors is a
# sure-fire way to drive up prices -- if for no other reason than
# because the distributor must arrange for the export and import
# of the consignments and make a profit on top of it.
#
# If I was advising a US company trying to sell abroad [*], I'd be
# wary of giving an exclusive license to a foreign distributor.
# Assuming that issues of language and currency localization were
# not major concerns, I'd concentrate on providing direct support
# and purchase facilities from US soil; support via fax, email
# and telephone, and direct orders (including both retail and
# wholesale) via credit card.  By minimizing the number of steps
# in the distribution pipeline, the cost to the end users would
# be low and my sales volume wouldn't suffer.  For products
# requiring extensive localization, it would be more profitable
# to establish local subsidiaries, or to license the source code
# to local software companies on a royalty basis; but above all,
# the top priority would be to keep the number of middle-men
# down!
#
# There's no law of nature that says software in Europe must be
# expensive.  Certainly, hardware isn't; vicious price
# competition has driven down the cost of PC's until, if you
# exclude VAT from the equation, they're more or less on a par
# with prices in the US.  Software should be the same.  And,
# given time, it will be.
#
# ------------------------------------------------------------
# [*] no, I have nothing to do with SCO's marketing strategy. I'm
# nothing to do with that end of things whatsoever. And no, SCO
# has nothing to do with the Mac business. And this is my
# opinion, not SCO's, so don't complain to them if you don't like
# it!!
# ----------------------------------------------------------------
# Charlie Stross aka [e-mail] .....

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Date: Sun, 21 Mar 93 18:42:21 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: TidBITS#168 - European pricing

Forwarded from TidBITS...

cheers ... Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor

# Date: 18 Mar 93 14:05:15 EST
# From: [e-mail] (Tilmann Steinberg)
# Subject: European Software Bargains
#
# here's the DM 0.03 (ie two US cents) worth from a German who
# spent some time in the US and is usually confronted with the
# problem discussed in your article:
#
# Most software I use is bought in the US, and with one exception,
# I will be dealing with the US company rather than the
# representative in Germany when it comes to upgrades or tech
# support -- simply because for the German price of the upgrade,
# I sometimes can get the new version in the US.
#
# The one exception for me is Claris. They are one of the very few
# companies offering free support world-wide, even if you bought
# the software in another country. I originally bought MacWrite
# II in the US, got the first upgrade from the German outlet and
# the second from the British, and am now waiting for MW Pro to
# be delivered here to Hanover. Still, I wouldn't buy Claris
# products in Germany unless I had no other choice.
#
# Coming close to this example is Prescience, probably because
# they don't have European representatives. They offered to ship
# upgrades to Germany for an extra $30 or so, which is completely
# reasonable for overseas shipping.
#
# Other companies like Symantec and Microsoft, however, will never
# get to see my address in Germany. Unlike Claris or Prescience,
# these companies strictly defer all inquiries to the local
# representatives. From what I hear, it can be difficult to have
# them accept that you bought their product in the US and now ask
# for service overseas.
#
# Conclusion: Know what the software companies will do for you
# before you decide to buy something. You may end up with your
# second choice program, but at least you're not left out in the
# cold (or the expensive). (Hmmm... Did I just say "Claris"? ;-)
#
# ciao,
# Tilmann,
# glad that there is the InterNet...

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Date: Sun, 21 Mar 93 17:01:27 -0800
From: [e-mail] (David Ryeburn)
Subject: Uncompressing SIT files from rigel.acs.oakland.edu (A)

These files when downloaded have creator and type indicating they are
StuffIt 1.5 archives but they are not. I sampled a half dozen and they all
turned out to be in MacBinary format. First use Finder Info 1.1.1 or
something similar to change the file type to TEXT. (Otherwise StuffIt will
not recognize the file as a MacBinary file.) Also change the name of the
file slightly since StuffIt will soon be converting the file to a new
StuffIt 1.5 file with the same name it originally had, and you will be
asked whether to replace the old file. Things may not go smoothly if you
agree, and even if things do appear to go smoothly you then won't have the
original MacBinary file any more in case things really didn't go smoothly
and you need it. It is not necessary to change the creator to MBin but you
can do that too if having a MacBinary file with the wrong creator bothers
you! It won't bother StuffIt. Then use StuffIt as follows. First select
MacBinary under the Translate menu. Then select Decode, and take StuffIt to
the MacBinary file whose name and type you have just changed. Decode it,
and proceed as usual to UnStuff the resulting StuffIt 1.5 archive.

I have downloaded .zip archives from rigel.acs.oakland.edu before and had
trouble with them; StuffIt was not able to unzip them. A colleague with a
PC then downloaded and unzipped them without any difficulty. No doubt
something comparable to what I did to the MacBinary files can be done with
the .zip files which I now presume are not really .zip files. (I have used
StuffIt successfully to unzip .zip files from other ftp sites.) How did I
discover what the alleged StuffIt 1.5 archives really were? I made a few
copies and just tried everything available under the Translate menu. When
some options wouldn't recognize the files, I had StuffIt create new files
in those formats, and had a look with Finder Info 1.1.1 to see what their
types were. MacBinary files have type TEXT, and when I tried that, it
worked.

 ---------------------------------------
David Ryeburn
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C., Canada  V5A 1S6

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Date: Sat, 20 Mar 93 10:16:33 EST
From: Allan Hunter <[e-mail]>
Subject: Uploading / downloading binary files with Kermit

I'm in phase 6 or 7 of what has become an embarrassingly major project:
trying to send fully formatted WordPerfect documents with graphics over
to friends on the internet who have the poor fortune to have a PC as
their home computer.  My original assumption was that the MS-DOS world
would have an equivalent of BinHex or Compact Pro (which has BinHex
capacities)--that's what I use if the recipient is also a Mac user:
BinHex whatever file I want to send, Kermit it up as text / data, and
send as e-mail; the other person downloads it as text / data, erases
the email headers and end-of-file thingies, and then un-BinHexxes it,
and there is sits!  But PC folks apparently don't have a commonly used
equivalent of BinHex, as far as I can tell.  (I have SoftPC (intro), so
if such a program were not as big as a barn I could run it, but no such
luck).  So then I found out that I could use the ENCODF command once I
had the file uploaded into the mainframe (an IBM-VM), which could be
"DECODF'ed" on the other end, but that required me to upload the file as
a Binary file.  Well, my Kermits {I have two buggy versions, 0.98(62) and
0.99(91)} both have problems, apparently:  what goes up as a binary file
does not come back down and land intact (using a simple MacWrite file
with some formatted text and graphics as a test file) when I use the
"Binary" setting; when I use MacBinary, I can upload, but not download;
I get an error message about some kind of character it doesn't want to
see, and it switches to Binary.  Either way, I don't get the intact file
back to my desktop.  Questions:  Is there a more recent, less buggy,
version of Kermit out yonder yet, like (gasp!) 1.0?  Is there any reason
to assume that the file is at least uploading correctly?  Should I be
using Binary or MacBinary mode (don't laugh, I'm new at this)?  And are
the any ex-PC or ambidextrous folks out there who know of a PC equiv
to BinHex that would be common shareware or PC industry standard so I
could send the file as text /data the way I do if I'm sending a file to
another Mac User?  Thanxxx,

- Allan Hunter
 <ahunter@sbccvm>

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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 93  12:06 GMT
From: Big Nose <[e-mail]>
Subject: Word 5.0 (Q)

Dear All,
Firstly, many thanks to all those who replied to my query regarding paragraph
positioning in Word 4.0. I have now solved the problem. However, I managed to
get my hands on a copy of Word 5.0 over the weekend and I now have a new
problem.
Basically, the screen display is cr*p. I use Times 12pt as my default font,
and the display, whilst it is perfectly legible, is very difficult to edit
because the characters are not aligned properly to the insertion point. For
example, if I type in an exclamation mark, the correct character appears in
the
text, but the insertion point flashing cursor appears to be to the left of the
last character (the exclamation mark). Spaces, commas and other characters
(the
'i' for example) are equally difficult to aim at when attempting to block
select text. Forgive me if this is old ground, but is this a known fault?
Is it repaired in 5.1? I know it wasn't a problem in v4.0 and I shall go
back to that version if I can't get a fix for it.

Thanks in advance

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

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Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1993 18:31:52 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Michel Eytan, LILoL)
Subject: Xferit and Steven Falkenburg (A)

>Date: Thu, 18 Mar 93 09:17:38 EST
>From: [e-mail] (Rick Haubenstricker)
>Subject: Xferit and Steven Falkenburg

[deleted]
>any reply from those either. Does he still exist? Does anyone at Apple know
of
>>his whereabouts? I say that, because his e-mail address is
[e-mail].
>>Any information would be appreciated. We are anxious to get our registration
>>number for the software.

>thanks, Rick ([e-mail])

Address for Steven Falkenbourg:

[e-mail] (Falkenburg, Steven)

(this dates from Nov. 92!)

 ~=michel [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 93 12:00:07 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: xxx.hqx.Z format (C)

In Info-Mac Digest V11 #61, Eric and Simon write:
>I am not sure why they do this, since the files are already compressed
>which makes the space saving minimal. And it is slightly annoying that
>after using MacCompress you still have to do the usual decompression
>using, for example, the Stuffit Expander.

>An alternative that works at src.doc.ic.ac.uk is to ask for the file
>"xxx.hqx" rather than "xxx.hqx.Z".  The FTP daemon on this machine will
>then automatically uncompress it for you before sending it.  Note however
>that you will be transferring roughly twice as much data then the compressed
>file.

As Simon has pointed out, the .hqx files are not compressed to a minimum
size. In fact, the .hqx.z files are about half the size of the .hqx files.
That means they can store twice as much in the same storage system.

As Simon has pointed out, the .hqx files are not compressed to a minimum
size. In fact, the .hqx.z files are about half the size of the .hqx files.
That means they can store twice as much in the same storage system.

Moreover, if people download programs using UNIX systems, they can save
the downloading time by half and more importantly the downloading cost
by half. Uncompress .Z files in UNIX does not take long. Especially for
large files like movies, the time saved is quite significant.

For people downloading directly to their mac (I think most of you are), or
for people who don't like taking another step to uncompress a file, simply
have the file uncompressed by their daemon with the methods mentioned
above. It is easy. The only difficulty is to
know how. In fact, the solution(s) is in the readme file. They do tell
people to read it when they log-in. (I understand that not much people will
read the readme file. But it cost me few hours for not doing that. My
personal advice is: when you log-in to a new site, read the instructions
of the system, and do it. Sometimes the readme files(..etc) is so general
that you have known everything already, but it will only cost you a minute
or so.)

At last, I would like to advise people in Europe:

    To get files from info-mac or umich, ftp from mirror sites in
    Europe. (eg src.doc.ic.ac.uk  or  ftp.funet.fi) The downloading
    time is very much shorter.

    The location of the mac files in src.doc.ic.ac.uk may be
    difficult to find. It is in computing/systems/mac. Then you
    can find directories sumex and umich.

    Since mirror sites may updates their site only once a day, you
    may not be able to find the programs you just read from this digest.
    But you can certainly find them in the next day.

Having Downloading to every Mac Users

Ricky

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