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Info-Mac Digest             Mon, 29 Mar 93       Volume 11 : Issue 68

Today's Topics:

      [*] Apple Original Pict
      [*] AppleTalkOn Extension
      [*] auspice-25.hqx
      [*] betapeede.cpt.hqx - Centipede clone
      [*] PCalc 1.0.2
      [*] Pict of Duo
      [*] pinochle.hqx
      [*] Right On Time 2.0
      [*] Splitter3.0.cpt.hqx
      [*] System 7 Companion Pack! 2.0.
      ! Sticky Mouse Problem info
      "Hardware-Handshaking" Modem Cable
      (Q) Bitmap Font Editors
      (R) "Hardware-Handshaking" Modem Cable
      2 Print PostScript files on TI PS17? (A)
      33MHz MacIISi Seems To Work!
      aliases (revisited)
      Apple // to MAC
      AppleEvents
      ARA CCL File for Multitech 224E?
      Armenian fonts?
      a simple request for uploaders (C)
      Atari Emulator wanted & Gopher Unix client needed
      bad startup screen
      BBEdit, large files, and a retraction (C)
      Bill Gates Does Windows
      Bioacoustics analysis on the Mac
      Can localisation prevent US software being used in Europe?
      Can localisation prevent US software being used in Europe? (A)
      Can localisation prevent US software being used in Europe? (C)
      CDROM for both Mac and PC
      Chinese SW (Q)
      Connecting to Network at Startup
      Damn all MUD players!
      Deleting invisible files
      DirectTeX (MPW TeX etc. for the Mac)
      Display of DXF files
      Ethernet node address on Quadra 700?
      Fetch, Opening from prefs file
      Font utility
      Forced-exit in System 7
      FrameMaker and MacLinkPlus (A)
      FutureBasic Offer for academics
      Help in Italy
      Help needed from Okidata Laserline 6 users/owners
      Hiding LaserWriter
      How to make robotic voice? (Q)
      Info-Mac Digest V11 #67
      Info-Mac V11 #67  system 7 bug fix
      Internal SCSI HD for LWPro630?
      Large Files in Nisus
      Large Text Filesw
      LaserWRiter Drum Scratch (A)
      Launching utilities + Stat software
      looking for Forth compiler for Mac
      LWPro emulation-sw (R), IIg on novell (Q)
      Macs and Internet email
      MacTCP
      Math Programs (Q)
      MatLAB ver 4.0 (Q)
      mode32 (q)
      Need More Speed on Quadra 950
      Networking for Seniors
      Neural Networks (Q)
      New products--when?
      paint jet printers and macIIvx
      partitioning w/ Apple HD SC Setup (Q)
      Phone Number to order WriteMove II
      Photohop won't open some jpeg files (A)
      Powerbook 140 Screen Problem - a Solution!
      PowerLock author address correction
      Recycled Cartridges
      Report Generator for FoxBase+
      Shareware Database Program
      Slide-show viewer for GIFs? (C)
      SoftwareFPU 2.41
      Solution to "Drag-n-Drop" desktop clutter
      Someone killed the Dog...
      StyleWriter II and On Location conflict
      System 7.1 Monitor CP Problem
      TAR utility for Mac?
      TAR utility for Mac? (R)
      Text processor (C)
      Using Other SCSI Drives
      uupc for the Mac
      Version 2.0 of ClarisWorks ?????
      What is thick Ethernet (R)
      What is thick Ethernet?
      Where is GUSI?
      Which Modem to choose? (Q)
      Whither a telephone font
      Why macapp slow
      Word 5 problem
      Write protected Teach Text Files? (Q)
      XWindo graphics conversions and Software Locking...

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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 93 22:08:47 CST
From: Troy D Evans (SESInc)876-2291 <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Apple Original Pict

nal Apple is sitting at the Smithsonian.  Dave was kind enough to scan this in
and save in Photoshop Pict. I hope you enjoy it.
TroyE

[Archived as /info-mac/art/original-apple.hqx; 158K]

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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 13:53:09 PST
From: Jon Pugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] AppleTalkOn Extension

Here is a companion to my ToggleAT FKEY for PowerBooks (and other machines).
It is called AppleTalkOn and it is an appe (background application or
application extension) that runs all the time.  It snarfs very little CPU
time and about 20K of memory.  It basically does nothing except at shutdown
and launch.  At shutdown it records the state of AppleTalk, turns it on
and then quits.  When it starts back up on the next boot, it turns AppleTalk
back off if it was off when it quit and then goes to sleep.  Not too tricky
but it manages to keep AppleTalk loaded into memory, and that's its major
goal.

There are some minor caveats and side effects.  Most notably, if you have
File Sharing turned on then it will start up before the machine will restart.
This is bogus but I haven't felt the need to come up with a workaround.
Anything I did do would involve taking control of File Sharing and I am
hesitant to do that.  You will notice that your machine won't restart if you
are suffering from this problem.  Also, this will not work if you crash,
but AppleTalkOn will turn AT on, regardless, next time it boots and/or
restarts.

Anyhow, it's a hack and its free.  It's also available on ftp.apple.com in
/pub/pugh.

Jon

[Archived as /info-mac/util/apple-talk-on.hqx; 12K]

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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1993 7:15:49 PST
From: [e-mail] (Info-Mac Moderator)
Subject: [*] auspice-25.hqx

AUSPICE Version 3.0.1

Auspice is a reminder system which will automatically remind you of events
at any time the Auspice program is running, even if it is in the
"background" while you are using another application.  Normally you will
make Auspice a "startup" application (see below) allowing it to
automatically start and run all of the time your Mac is running.

Developed by Wayne K. Meyers, 1283 Mary Lee Way, San Jose, CA 95118.
[phone] or (infrequently) CompuServe 70771,3574.  The Internet
address is 70771,[e-mail].  Auspice was developed for my own
use and as an exercise in Macintosh C programming (Symantec's THINK C is
outstanding!). Auspice is free and you are welcome to distribute copies.
If you find it useful or if you find an annoying creature or feature, let
me know.
New features in version 3.0.1:
  Version 3.0.1 is a major rewrite eliminating the Auspice init and
allowing each Auspice reminder to be displayed at a specific time rather
than just at startup as in previous versions.  This requires the use of
MultiFinder with System 6 or the use  of System 7.
  Custom Holidays  you can now add "custom holidays" for holidays
outside of the USA or to display additional holidays, anniversaries etc.
The standard USA holidays can be turned on or off.  The holidays are
stored in the Auspice Preferences file along with other preference
information.
  There is now an option to automatically save (write to disk) after
every change to a reminder.
  Auspice can now be "iconized", closing all open windows and displaying
one small window.  It can be "deiconized" by clicking on the small icon
window.
  Improved the reminder entry dialog, allowing better use of "tab" to
move to next field, "shift tab" to move backwards, and "up" and "down"
arrow keys to change dates and times.
  A Find feature was added to allow searching for a reminder containing
a specified message, date, or time or portion thereof.
  An Export feature was added to allow all reminders to be copied to a
text file.  This was added primarily to allow the reminders to be printed
>From the exported text file since Auspice does not yet have printing
capability.

New features in version 3.0:
  This version, with extremely limited release, contains a bug in the pop
up memos.

New features in version 2.6:
  Weekday names and month names now obtained from System resource to get
the names in correct language if a non USA System is in use.
  New international version created with Netherlands holidays.

New features in version 2.5:
  An option to have the Auspice Init automatically write a record of each
reminder issued.  This record is written into a TEXT file.  The TEXT file
is selected via the "History" menu item in the Auspice application.

New features in version 2.4:
  An option to have the Auspice application access data files other than
the primary data file located in the startup System folder.  This was
primarily designed to allow access across a network to see the calendars
of others in a workgroup.
  Automatic handling of international dates in Day/Month/Year order if
appropriate for the country.
  New international version created with New Zealand holidays.

New features in version 2.1:
 Added a "Calendar" window to display calendar for selected month/year
and to show the number of warnings and events scheduled for each date.

[Archived as /info-mac/app/auspice-25.hqx; 101K]

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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1993 08:24:32 -0800 (PST)
From: [e-mail] (Derek Bosch)
Subject: [*] betapeede.cpt.hqx - Centipede clone

(A shareware version of the arcade game, Centipede - requires 256 colors)

[Archived as /info-mac/game/betapeede.hqx; 104K]


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AUSPICE Version 3.0.1

Auspice is a reminder system which will automatically remind you of events
at any time the Auspice program is running, even if it is in the
"background" while you are using another application.  Normally you will
make Auspice a "startup" application (see below) allowing it to
automatically start and run all of the time your Mac is running.

Developed by Wayne K. Meyers, 1283 Mary Lee Way, San Jose, CA 95118.
[phone] or (infrequently) CompuServe 70771,3574.  The Internet
address is 70771,[e-mail].  Auspice was developed for my own
use and as an exercise in Macintosh C programming (Symantec's THINK C is
outstanding!). Auspice is free and you are welcome to distribute copies.
If you find it useful or if you find an annoying creature or feature, From
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Subject: [*] Giger - Doppeltoro Mit Haken
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Doppeltorso Mit Haken
by H.R. Giger
Work No. 205

The accompanying PICT file is a 640x480 16-bit color scan of the above named
work, suitable for using as a background screen on a 13" or 14" monitor.  The
screen looks fantubulous when you set your screen depth to 16 bits, but it
looks
fine in 8-bit color or 8-bit greyscale.

[Archived as /info-mac/art/doppeltorso-mit-haken.hqx; 468K]

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Date: Fri, 26 Mar 93 13:54:46 GMT
From: thomsonj <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] PCalc 1.0.2

Enclosed is a binhex file containing a submission for your archives.
It should replace pcalc-101.hqx all over the world...

PCalc is a neat simulation of a programmable scientific calculator.

Please note that it *requires* System 7.x.x.
If you use System 6.0.x or earlier, here is what you are missing:

  Programmable functions via a simple mini language.
  System 7.x.x savvy:
      Can be controlled & programmed via Apple Events.
      Balloon Help for every button, menu & dialog item.
      Resolves Aliases.
      32-bit clean.
      Multifinder aware.
  Large 16+3 digit display.
  Hierarchical menu of user functions.
  Includes many functions for converting between different weights and
  measures.
  Quick, one click, conversion between decimal, hexadecimal and binary
  numbers.
  AND, OR, NOT, XOR, ROL, ROR and other extra functions in hex and binary
  mode.
  30 named user constants, 10 for each mode.
  'Undo' of any action.
  'Minimize' button to shrink the calculator when not in use.
  Enhanced graphics when viewed on a 256 colour or 16 gray (or better)
  screen.
  Colour graphics and help screens are stored in separate plug-in extensions.
  Runs on any Mac with System 7.x.x or greater, with or without Color
  Quickdraw.

And of course it's freeware. If you only download one calculator this year,
give this a try...

Version 1.0.2 fixes some bugs that caused problems on colour macs, notably
those with 16 and 24-bit displays. Vast speed increases too on some 8-bit
screens. Shouldn't turn bright orange at inconvenient moments either. Some
other silent bug-fixes and support for the ',' key as a decimal separator.

(More importantly, there are a ton of new easter eggs ;-)

James Thomson ([e-mail])

[Archived as /info-mac/app/pcalc-102.hqx; 132K]

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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 93 22:16:09 CST
From: Troy D Evans (SESInc)876-2291 <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Pict of Duo

I have no idea where I got this pict of an open duo.  It is saved in Photoshop
pict.  Even though it is B/W, I am sure you will enjoy checking it out.
TroyE

[Archived as /info-mac/art/duo-pict.hqx; 54K]

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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 93 14:22:03 -0500
From: Eric Conger - Virex Developer <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] pinochle.hqx

Moderator:
     Here is the latest COLOR version of the card game Pinochle (this
is a double-deck version).  Besides color, this version includes many
more user selectable options and better bidding.
     Registered users have already received a free update, but this
version has a little more pollish than the one they got.

--Thanks

[Archived as /info-mac/game/pinochle.hqx; 192K]

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Date: 25 Mar 1993 11:00:12 -0800
From: "John Covele" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Right On Time 2.0

              [*] Right On Time 2.0
Right On Time is a personal time manager.  It features a calendar, To-Do list,
reminders, and even a menubar clock.  You can set up repeating events, be
warned ahead of time about upcoming events, archive old events, assign
categories to events, play sounds, manage your to-do list, etc. (similar
features as Now Up To Date, First Things First, DateBook, and others)  The
calendar is useful just by itself for looking up dates and printing out
monthly
calendars.  Right On Time requires system 6 or later, takes advantage of color
monitors, and is system 7 friendly (supports required AppleEvents, and 1
custom
AppleEvent).  No extensions are needed!  This is a demo version limited to 5
events.  The real version is shareware, $15.

Some new features in version 2.0 include:
You can double-click to edit events from the Monthly view, nicer List view,
to-do items, menubar clock, more preferences, hot key to bring to front,
easier
to enter times, many other enhancements, and a few bug fixes.

(this should replace both version 1.0 and 1.5, which are currently in the
archives)

John Covele
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/demo/right-on-time-20.hqx; 144K]

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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1993 23:58:07 -0700 (MST)
From: "J. Taggart Gorman" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Splitter3.0.cpt.hqx

  (This file replaces /util/splitter-20.hqx)

  Splitter 3.0 is the latest in a line of programs that allow me to avoid
responsibilty.

  Splitter allows one to split data forks of files (ie., text files) into
segments of a size selected by the user, or segments that fill disks (new
in v3.0).

  Spiltter works under System 6.0.5+ and 7.0+.  System 7 allows users to
spilt files by dropping the text file on Splitter's icon.

[Archived as /info-mac/util/splitter-30.hqx; 12K]

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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 93 10:36 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] System 7 Companion Pack! 2.0.

The System 7 Companion Pack!  2.0 contains six great utilities for System 7.

1. QuickFinder - Mini-Finder and application launcher that lets you rename,
copy, move, and get information about files. You can launch applications by
simply double-clicking on a scrolling application list. And with the new RAdd
All AppsS button, you

2. FKEY Master - Innovative program that lets you manage your FKEYs. You'll be
able to easily install and remove FKEY's in your System file.

3. SuperFind - A universal find and replace command for your Finder. You
specify search criteria (name, type, and/or creator) and SuperFind will change
all such files to the type, creator, and/or name that you request.

4. Alias ---> Apple Menu - Simply drag and drop a file on top of the Alias
---> Apple Menu icon and an alias to the file will be put into the Apple Menu
Items folder. From now on, you'll be able to access that file from the Apple
Menu!

5. MultiAlias - Simply drag and drop one or more files on top of the
MultiAlias icon. MultiAlias will then make aliases with the names and
locations you provide.

6. SuperAlias - Drag and drop one or more application files on top of the
SuperAlias file. SuperAlias will then create a "SuperAlias" file. SuperAlias
files contain more than one application. When opened from the Finder,
SuperAlias files can launch sev

[Archived as /info-mac/util/system-seven-companion-pack-20.hqx; 84K]

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Date: Sun, 28 Mar 93 11:44:02 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Liam Breck)
Subject: ! Sticky Mouse Problem info

For info about troublesome Malaysian mice, see the MacInTouch column in
Macweek, 15 March 93.  Also see TidBITS #169 (weekly electronic Mac
journal).  Tidbits is archived at Info-Mac in digest/tb and posted to
Usenet newsgroup comp.sys.mac.digest.

If you cannot get ahold of either of these sources, contact me (Liam
Breck) on Internet: [e-mail].

Once you have read one of these articles, contact Apple and complain.
(Phone numbers given in articles.)

Liam Breck     [e-mail]                    Cazador de
Ratones

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Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1993 09:38:31 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Ken Hancock)
Subject: "Hardware-Handshaking" Modem Cable

In Info-Mac Digest V11 #67, Mark <[e-mail]> asks:
> I am in the market for a high speed modem, 14.4 bps, v32.bis, v42.bis,
> etc. I keep reading that to use the higher transfer speeds, I will
> need a "hard-to-find" hardware-handshaking cable for my Mac IIsi. Do
> these cables come standard with such modems? If not, where would I get one?
> Thanks in Advance.

It depends from modem bundle to modem bundle.  Some modem mfgs sell just
the bare modem, some come with non-hardware-handshaking cable, some come
with a hardware-handshaking cable.

Not to worry, though.  MacConnection sells hardware-handshaking cables
that work just fine.  If you're buying it to run a BBS, though, you may
have to roll your own according to the special needs of the BBS software
you're running.

Ken

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            | your opinions are yours.  Simple, isn't it?

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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 16:59:08 +0000
From: [e-mail] (Kevin Quick)
Subject: (Q) Bitmap Font Editors

Can anybody suggest a bitmap font editor that is available on the net.

Thanks.

Kevin Quick
Computer Support Engineer
The Open University

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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 93 10:35:52 -0800
From: Jack Repenning <[e-mail]>
Subject: (R) "Hardware-Handshaking" Modem Cable

Hardware-handshaking cables are easier to find than they were when the
reports on the subject, available in the info-mac archives, were
written.  You can find them (clearly labelled as such) in the catalogs
and stores.  In fact, you may find that cables without such labels
actually are, as I did, but of course without the labelling, you can
hardly count on it.

I don't know whether any modems come with such a cable (in fact, I'm
so ignorant, I don't even know of any modems that come with Mac cables
at all - is anyone better informed?).  I also don't know of any
software that makes full use of the cable - everything I've tried
forces you to choose between flow control and reliable phone-line
hangup.  (Again, is anyone better informed than I?  I'd *love* to hear
different!)

Jack Repenning <[e-mail]>

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Date: Sun, 28 Mar 93 13:11 EST
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <[e-mail]>
Subject: 2 Print PostScript files on TI PS17? (A)

In 11-67, Ronen Mir reports problems printing a Canvas 3.0 document on his
TI PS17, although the document prints OK on the office Apple Personal
Laserwriter.

The error message given is "limitcheck" caused by the setscreen command.
Limitcheck errors usually mean the printer doesn't have enough memory to
handle the document. Solutions? Add memory to the printer, simplify the
original Canvas document, try to use alternate ways of printing (such as
placing the document into PageMaker and printing with the Aldus driver
instead of the Apple driver).

One method that is worth a try is to use the recently-posted Print2Pict 3.5
utility to print the document to a pict file and then, in turn, print that
pict file to the printer. Since the Personal Laserwriter handles the file
without problem, it's likely that the PICT format is easier to handle than
the complicated postscript code, so simplifying the document to a PICT
first might make printing easier for the TI PS17.

Jeff Needleman  <[e-mail]>

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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 22:01:42 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Ralph Durtschi)
Subject: 33MHz MacIISi Seems To Work!

Hi ya,

for what it's worth...

while reading comp.sys.mac.hardware, I read some articles about putting a
50MHz clock in place of the original 40MHz clock and putting heat sync's on
the processor chip and the other big chip near the processor. It seemed to
work just fine.
I then decided to get real piggy and try a 64MHz crystal (Since I had
installed
sockets so clock replacement was easy) and I'll be dipped if it didn't work.

I then modified my other MACIISi and it also worked with the 64MHz clock.
I have a math co-processor and 17MB of ram in one of the machines and 5MB
and no co-processor in the other.

The only thing that I couldn't get to work at the full 64MHz was a cash card
which did work with the 50MHZ clock.

Speedometer 3.05 shows the following information:

      40MHz     64MHz
cpu     5.47    8.72
Graf    8.07    10.81
disk    1.74    1.77
Math    14.59   20.33

so, for about $10. worth of parts, the thing runs significantly faster.

I have run all of my applications and everything runs correctly and *much*
faster. After a few days, all is still OK.

The only problem I have encountered that will not go away is the startup
beep sounds ratty. After that, all sounds are OK.

bye for now,
Ralph Durtschi, Idaho State University

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Date: Sat, 27 Mar 93 14:55:58 PST
From: [e-mail] (John Thoo)
Subject: aliases (revisited)

There's been a small discussion on aliases in the last few digests,
so I hope you don't mind my adding to it.  Thank you :)

Here's a problem I've been having that I haven't been able to resolve:
I cannot open a file via drag&drop onto an app's alias *unless* the
alias resides on the same drive as the app.  If the alias resides on
a different hard drive, then the best I can do is double-click on it
to launch the parent app, but drag&drop fails to work---even after
rebuilding the Desktop.

Any suggestions for a fix?  Thanks.

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

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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 93 10:56:57 +0200
From: Vecoven Frederic <[e-mail]>
Subject: Apple // to MAC

Hello everyone,

Here is my problem : I have a lot of old files stored on floppies on an
Apple //e. Most of them are Appleworks docs. I'd like to get them on my
Macintosh. The only way I find is to get them with a RS-232 cable, and
make a text transfer using AppleAccess// on the Apple //e and a communication
software on the mac. But is there any translator to convert Appleworks file?
If so, where to find it ?

Thanks a lot.
Frederic Vecoven ([e-mail])

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Date: 29 Mar 1993 13:22:49 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Scott Allen Gruby)
Subject: AppleEvents

I am looking for a program or a Hypercard stack that will allow me to use
AppleEvents. What I want to do is tell the program (or stack) which machine
and which program I want to send events to (my machine and CEIAC for
QuicKeys) and then enter the event string to send. I then want to just
launch the program (or stack) and say run event. For example, if I am away
>From my machine and want to turn filesharing on, I was want to run this
program on a remote machine and have it send the filesharing on command to
QuicKeys.

Please respond via email and I will summarize if there is interest.

Thanks.

Scott Allen Gruby                          [e-mail]
Macintosh Student System Administrator
Academic Computing, Harvey Mudd College
Claremont, CA 91711

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Date: Sun, 28 Mar 93 19:33:15 CST
From: Alan Carney <[e-mail]>
Subject: ARA CCL File for Multitech 224E?

Howdy!
    I'm trying to locate a Apple Remote Access CCl file for a Multitech
224E 2400 baud modem.  I realize ARA prefers 9600+ baud but I'm trying to
isolate another problem and would like to get this modem to work in the
interim.  Thanks in advance for any leads!

                        Alan

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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 93 09:27:08 CST
From: Reverend John <[e-mail]>
Subject: Armenian fonts?

Does anyone know where I can find any fonts done in the Armenian
language? Shareware, commercial, whatever...just need one!

thanks!
Rev

p.s. reply to me, as this is probably not a topic of wide interest..

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Date: Sat, 27 Mar 93 12:09:39 PST
From: [e-mail] (John Thoo)
Subject: a simple request for uploaders (C)

This is not a flame; it is a simple request.  When you post
apps/utils/cps/exs/etc to <sumex-aim>, please, please say what
it does, even if you're posting an update.  For example, here's
the blurb that accompanies [./util/alias-director-332.hqx]
(I picked this at random---it's a typical example):

> deposited a copy of Alias Director 3.3.2, a bug-fix release
> that supersedes 3.3.1. If you should need to get in touch
> with Mr. Harris, his e-mail address is [e-mail].

OK, so I can guess from the name of the utility that it has something
to do with aliases, but many progs don't have such descriptive names.
It wouldn't hurt to say AGAIN what the prog is supposed to do, eh?

Now, I'm sure that I've been guilty of this, myself, but I promise to
be careful to include a (short) description of any upload from now on.

Thanks much.  I really appreciate it.
--John.
J. B. THOO, Math Dept, Univ of California, Davis <[e-mail]>

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Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1993 11:34:51 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Wayne K. Walrath)
Subject: Atari Emulator wanted & Gopher Unix client needed

two questions:
 Does anyone have any information on Atari emulators that run on Macs?

 Where can I find a not*too*hard*to*setup Gopher client that will run
on an IBM RS6000 workstation?

and finally a comment: anyone out there who has access to an HP or
Sparc workstation should download the "Liken" macintosh emulator demo
(from mac.archive.umich.edu and it's mirrors) and give it a try. It's
a lot of fun! But unfortunately not running sys7 or in color (yet, so
they say).

-wayne
[e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1993 20:33 EST
From: E=MC^2 <[e-mail]>
Subject: bad startup screen

Mr. Merkelson,
I don't know what PRAM is?   Normally startup screens are only black and
white, except when you create them using a color graphics program.  My
suggestion is to go back to the color graphics program you created your
startup screen with and make sure it appears in the correct colors, and
replace the old StartupScreen file in the System Folder.
 If however, you are referring to the Apple StartupScreen, "Welcome to
 Macintosh", then check the resources of a copy of FINDER using ResEdit
 to find out if the StartupScreen color version has disappeared.
  **** WORD OF WARNING ***
If you edit the FINDER resources, be sure to keep two extra copies of finder
in hand to reinstall on your machine, if your resource edited FINDER crashes.
If it is only the startup screen that is failing to appear in color, DON'T
PANIC!  "If it ain't broken, don't fix it."   If all your color graphics
programs, and color printouts appear in color, then the things that need to
opperate in color still are.  If you need a color startup screen to let you
know you are in color mode, simply time the startup in color and B & W, and
use these times to judge whether you are in color or B & W.
Good Luck.

Sincerely,

ABRODY @ CLARKU

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

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 93 14:30:39 -0500
From: WING W R <[e-mail]>
Subject: BBEdit, large files, and a retraction (C)

At the risk of running this one into the ground...  Peter Lewis' comment
in v11n065 that BBEdit is memory limited and needs a file-sized
partition for editing prompted me to investigate since I *knew* I had
never increased BBEdit's default 512kB partition.  (By way of explanation
I should mention that I come from a background in which disk-based editors
are common, and there is no practical limit on the size of editable file.)
In any case, the answer seems to be that BBEdit grabs temporary memory as
needed to open whatever sized file one is requesting.  Thus on my system
(IIci, 8MB physical, 16MB virtual), BBEdit is perfectly happy to open a
5MB file. as long as the amount of free memory exceeds 5MB.  If I load up
applications until the "largest unused block" is less then 5MB however,
it will refuse to open the file.  So the bottom line for editing really
big files is that one way or another, you have to have enough free disk
space to allow allocation of a second file's worth of space.  This could
either be used for System 7 virtual memory, which BBEdit will use, or it
must be used for a scratch copy of the file to be used by a true
disk-based editor.
                    Bill Wing

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

Date: 27 Mar 1993 16:46:18 -0500 (EST)
From: Mike Hutchinson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Bill Gates Does Windows

Did anyone obtain the After Dark-compatible version of MacUser's
screensaver "Bill Gates Does Windows?" while it was on Compuserve?
If so, please upload it to Sumex ... I believe it was supposed to
be freeware, and I've been waiting to get a look at it.

Thanks
-- Mike Hutchinson
   [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1993 14:24:23 +1200
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Bioacoustics analysis on the Mac

I am seeking further information on bioacoustics research systems based on
the Macintosh. While systems such as Engineering Design's Signal are
available for PC users, I'm not aware of equivalent systems for the Mac
that allow real-time spectrograms and cross-correlation analysis. We have
such systems as SoundEdit Pro, Canary and Signalyze, but is a system
available that allows real-time sonographic analysis of animal sounds,
speech etc.?

I should be grateful for any further information, or of systems under
development.

Thanks,

Ben Bell
School of Biological Sciences
Victoria University of Wellington
PO Box 600 Wellington NEW ZEALAND
Fax [phone]

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Date: Sun, 28 Mar 93 18:32:15 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Peter Stuer)
Subject: Can localisation prevent US software being used in Europe?

I don't know about the ROM checking, but Omnipage 3.0 apparantly checks
the system software. We bought this program in the US and everything
ran fine until we upgraded from system 7.0 to 7.0.1. The 7.0 was
a US system and the 7.0.1 a British. Omnipage would refuse to start
only displaying a message that this version of the program would only
work with a US system. At the time we bought the software the US price
for the program was ONE QUARTER the european price. Yes Sir, that is
four times more expensive in europe! When I called them about this, they
refered me to their belgian distributers. I called the number they gave
me five times during bisness hours over the next two weeks. They never
picked up the phone. I tell you, the first decent sidegrade that comes
along, they are off my harddisk.

Peter Stuer
Vrije Universiteit Brussel

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

Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1993 16:03:40 -0500
From: Bob Kerns <[e-mail]>
Subject: Can localisation prevent US software being used in Europe? (A)

    Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1993 15:39 GMT
    From: Fergus Sullivan <[e-mail]>
    I have lately been told that the way Fifth Generation (Salient?) prevent
    their
    US software being used in Europe is related to the software checking ROMs
    to
    see if they are American ROMs or European, thus ensuring that Europeans
    are
    obliged to buy software here at inflated prices, rather than ordering from
    Europe.

I don't think there are any differences in the ROMs at all.

However, if you're refering to AutoDoubler, at least an
earlier version checked the country code in the System File's
internationalization resources.  When I installed Japanese
software on my Mac, suddenly AutoDoubler would not load.
As you can imagine, I was rather pissed.

However, I don't think this has anything to do with inflating
software prices.  Fifth Generation offered to send me the
"international version" free.  They were kind of vague about
how it differed, although I got the impresion that the intent
was to handle compression in a language-specific way.  I let
them know in no uncertain terms that disabling an already-installed
copy was a serious fault, and besides, 99% of my files were
in English.

I never switched to the International version, however; instead
I changed my country code to 0 (USA) with ResEdit.  I haven't
seen any sign that they've repeated this mistake with 2.0, but
I haven't tried it myself, either.

In short, I don't think this is an anti-bootleg ploy, I think
it was just an isolated lapse into stupidity by an otherwise
well-meaning and reputable company.

(I don't know if it was Salient or Fifth Generation who made
this blooper; it was right around the time that Fifth Generation
bought them out...)

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

Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1993 04:26:19 +0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Can localisation prevent US software being used in Europe? (C)

Don't know anything about ROMs, but I believe some programs (e.g. from
Broederbund) check which language version of the operating system is running.
Thus a US version of a program would only run on a US version of the
operating system. Only non-European companies can do this. It would be illegal
under European Community competition law for, for example, a British company
to make version of its software which only run under say British, French and S
nish operating systems respectively, and charge more for the French and
Spanish versions.

[e-mail]1
[e-mail]
<C=es;A=mensatex;P=y-net;O=sp1;S=Kenyon;G=Bob>

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

Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1993 23:24:37 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Mike Craymer)
Subject: CDROM for both Mac and PC

Does anyone know if it's possible for both Macs and PCs to use
a CD-ROM connected to a Novell file server (486)?  The Macs are
connected to the server by both AppleTalk (via FastPath) and
Ethernet.  We would like the PCs to be able to read PC CD-ROMs
and the Macs to read Mac CD-ROMs on the same drive.  If this is
possible, does anyone have any suggestions/recommendations as
to some brand names that might support this?  What support
software (e.g., drivers) would be required?  Thanks in advance
for any help.

Mike Craymer
[e-mail]

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Date: 29 Mar 1993 12:34:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: Peter Jorgensen <[e-mail]>
Subject: Chinese SW (Q)

Greetings,

I am looking for recommendations for Chinese language software, particularly
word processors for the Mac. Something that might compare with TienMa on the
PC. I'll summarize and post a report.

Thanks,

Peter Jorgensen - Colgate University Research & Instructional Computing Spec.
        - Mac/DOS/VMS consultant, PMDF Postmaster, HyperTalker

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

Date: Sun, 28 Mar 93 14:47:23 CST
From: "Eric H. Durbrow" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Connecting to Network at Startup

Suddenly our Macs are unable to connect to our Novell network at boot-up.
We have to log them on to the network manually. We indicate that we want
them to remember the login name and password at at startup (a selection in
the Chooser dialog box). But all macs seem to forget. Would be grateful for
any suggestions.

P.S. the only change we made to the system was to upgrade Excel and Word.

System: Novell network, token-ring cards, IIsi and IIci, 5 MB of memory.
    With and without At Ease.
                      Eric

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

Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1993 12:55 EST
From: WALLACE FELDMAN <[e-mail]>
Subject: Damn all MUD players!

Date sent:  28-MAR-1993 12:54:23

I noted"Julian's" plea for MUD software on a recent info-mac digest. I
don't
know how it is on your campus, but on ours the MUD players are the bane of
the system. They tie up the dial-in modems so that faculty(and even
students!) trying to dial in and do some honest work are frozen  out. We
are taking steps here to curb this abuse. Frankly, the whole damned game
should be banned from the nets. Nobody would object to his frying his
brain with endless hours in front of his own machine playing a self-
contained version, but MUD players should not be allowed to waste
everyone's finite bandwidth resources to pursue their mindless mania.


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

Date: Sat, 27 Mar 93 23:50:09 EST
From: [e-mail] (Arthur Greene)
Subject: Deleting invisible files

A RAQ- a recently asked question was:

...how does one go about trashing an invisible file?

The trick is to first make it visible. It can then, like Sampson without his
hair, be dragged to the trash, so to speak. Two applications that will
accomplish this end are ResEdit and DiskTop; presumably there are others. You
need a Get Info command that gets more info than the Finder's. The file must
also be unlocked, of course.
--
=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=
 Arthur Greene - Internet: [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 93 15:32:20 -0100
From: [e-mail] (andrew jones)
Subject: DirectTeX (MPW TeX etc. for the Mac)

Dear Net people,

I have just found DirectTeX. This is a package running under MPW
that includes TeX, metafont, BibTeX, MakeIndex, LaTeX, and a
DVI previewer. The package is available for anonymous ftp from
tex.ac.uk [134.151.40.18]. The shareware fee is US$ 100 (or DM 150
in Europe) which allows you 3 full installations. For further
installations the cost is US$ 20 (DM 30) each. For more than 20
installations the basic shareware fee must be paid again.

I did not write this package (the author is Wilfried Ricken),
and ideed have only been playing with it for a few hours
so far. It does however seem very stable, and is in many
ways very nice to use. It is also the first reasonable
shareware version of metafont i have ever found!


If there is enough interest, i am sure that i could upload the
package to sumex-aim.

andrew ([e-mail])

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

Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1993 14:29:22 EST
From: Fred Remley <[e-mail]>
Subject: Display of DXF files

Is there a small application that will read and display (as a bit-map graphic)
DXF files produced by AutoCad or similar CAD programs?  The point is to
display
drawings that are produced by AutoCad and that related to text documents, in
this specific case video standards. No editing of the drawing is expected.
 ------

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Date: 29 Mar 1993 10:02:10 -0600 (CST)
From: Dan Lunderville <[e-mail]>
Subject: Ethernet node address on Quadra 700?

Path: uwrf.edu!acs_danl
From: [e-mail]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest
Subject: Ethernet node address on Quadra 700?
Message-ID: <1993Mar29.100151.906@rivers>
Date: 29 Mar 93 10:01:51 -0600
Organization: University of Wisconsin - River Falls
News-Moderator: Approval required for posting to comp.sys.mac.digest
Lines: 18

Hello,

Can anyone direct me to a free utility that will tell me the Ethernet node
address on the Macs with a built-in Ethernet connection, such as the Quadra
700, 800, 900, etc.?

I asked Apple's tech. folks on AppleLink and they told me I would have to
buy something like EtherPeek from the AG Group.  Asante provides a utility
with their Ethernet cards, so I assumed that Apple would have a utility as
well, but I guess not.  I know that you can find the node address with
MacTCP, but I don't have that yet.  I suspect someone has written a little
utility to find the node address.  I know that you can find the node addresses
of the Apple Laser printers with Ethernet connections by using the newest
version of the LaserWriter Font utility.

Thanks for your help.

Dan Lunderville                 [e-mail]


Dan Lunderville                         Internet:   [e-mail]
Academic Computing Center               AppleLink:  U0095
University of Wisconsin - River Falls
River Falls, WI  54022                  Telephone:  [phone]

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

Date: Sat, 27 Mar 93 14:39:06 PST
From: Paul Brians <[e-mail]>
Subject: Fetch, Opening from prefs file

In fact Fetch opens nicely from its prefs file.  You can even make an
alias of the prefs file, rename it Fetch, (just as a reminder) and use
that to launch the program.

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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 93 09:32:57 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Font utility

Does anyone know of a freeware or shareware utility that will let me map the
keyboard for picture fonts and dingbat fonts? In other words, is there some
utility that will automatically set up and print a chart that shows me that in
order to get a particular picture or symbol I press key so-and-so. The several
font utilities I know of - Font Printer and Font Clerk - give me information
about the fonts in my system and print specimen sheets but don't map the keys
in the manner I need. I know there's a commercial program that will do it -
TypeChart by Agfa - but I'm hoping there's something cheaper. If anybody knows
of such a thing, please let me know. Thanks in advance.

Norm Weiner
State University of New York, College at Oswego
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 93 13:36:21 -0600
From: [e-mail] ( Payson)
Subject: Forced-exit in System 7

Regarding the message:
 -------
Date: Friday, 26 Mar 1993 11:16:54 EST
From: [e-mail] (DUANE HARTGE ([e-mail]))
Subject: programmer's button restart in System 7

I have a code string for System 6 that will restart the finder from
the command line interface that appears when the programmer's switch
on my IIci is pressed.  That way when the system hangs, I could at least
get to the other applications and save whatever was open before rebooting.
The command "SM 0 A9F4 <CR>" followed by "G 0 <CR>" doesn't seem to work
for System 7 (I didn't really expect it to).  Is there an equivalent?

*        DUANE ([e-mail])
 ---------

Assuming Cmd-Option-Escape doesn't work, try
  SM 2 A9F4
  G 2

What the string is doing is putting an ExitToShell command in memory and
jumping to it.  On 68020 and later, jumping to address zero is illegal, so
the G 0 causes a system fault under system 6--seven likes it even less I
guess.

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

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 93 16:02:59 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: FrameMaker and MacLinkPlus (A)

Dr. Linares-Barranco writes:

 >Hello there,
 >I have MacLinkPlus 6.0 running on a Macintosh II/si (with operating
 >system E1-7.0). I often use it to translate FrameMaker MIF 3.0 to
 >(and from) Microsoft Word 5.0 files. I have FrameMaker 3.0 on a
 >Sparc WorkStation (UNIX) and Word 5.0 on that Mac.
 >Well, unless the file is text-only (no equations or figures), the
 >translation procedure is a pain: it crashes almost always. One time,
 >after one of the crashes, the directory structure of my Hard Drive got
 >corrupted and I had to initialize the whole HD.
 >Does anyone out there have experience with MacLinkPlus translating to/from
 >FrameMaker MIF format? Am I missing something? Any option set wrong?
 >Is there an update for MacLinkPlus that may overcome this?
 >If you have any idea or clue of something I might be doing wrong, please
 >let me know. Thanks a lot,

We do not use the MIF to MacWord converter.  However, I would suggest that
Dr. Linares-Barranco contact Frame to update to FrameMaker 3.0.1.  This is
the release that provides an MIF to RTF converter, along with some other
fixes.  This might improve the situation.  We've not had a lot of luck with
MacLink and the conversion of anything other than text and simple formatting.

Jim Hudson <[e-mail]>

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Date: 29 Mar 1993 15:39:38 -0700 (MST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: FutureBasic Offer for academics

Fellow students and Academics,
Get FutrueBasic for only $89.99. (suggested list $299.99)
(See below for details)

I recently had an opportunity to try a great programming
tool for the Macintosh: FutureBasic. It's like nothing I've
ever used. (I know this sounds like and Ad, but I'm
serious.)

If you're like me, you have studied both C and Pascal, and
have never created a satisfactory program that you could
distribute to my friends or submit to professors. Maybe
you're as tired as I am of HyperCard's excessive size or
SuperCard's sluggishness. Personally, I want a way to write
real Mac App's without having to learn everything in the
original six volumes of "Inside Macintosh."

Recently, Peter at Zedcor let me try FutureBasic. Was I
surprised. I expected it to be like the Basic I learned in
junior high. FutureBasic was much better. It has local
functions, records, arrays, 80 digit percision math,
QuickTime, Balloon Help, supports inline assembly, and much
more.

FutureBasic includes on-line help for built-in statements
and functions, on-line help that allows you to copy and
paste functions for common jobs (like accessing files or
drawing PICT's) and paste them into your program, and you
can personalize the help files. (Why couldn't Think C have
this feature included, instead of selling a separate
product?)

After four days of casual play and partially read manuals,
I've compiled a fully functioning appliction with icons,
color graphics and sound!

FutureBasic is cool. The included manuals explain the
concepts and techniques for writing real Mac programs. Most
of the examples in the manuals are provided on disk to speed
you along. (I think the manuals are the best part of the
package because they really do explain everything a
beginning Mac programmer needs to know and understand to
write real Mac App's.)

With FutureBasic you can create DA's, Extensions, Control
Panels, XCMD's, or even code resources. Better still, the
language can grow with you, so that when you want to write
something really complicated, FutureBasic can handle it.

If you're like me, you want a taste of real Mac programing, without
spending all your time learning how to program. Give FutrueBasic a try
(there's a 60 day money back guarantee). It's as easy as Basic and nearly
as powerful as C.

I told the guys at Zedcor that there were tons of students
and professors who could benefit from somthing so simple yet
powerful and they said, "OK, Tell them that they can get
FutrueBasic directly from us for $89.99." (That's $200.00
off retail for the full version.)

If your interested, call Peter at 1-800-482-4567 for details.

Or you can bother me.
If you have a technical question, send it to Frank at
[e-mail]

Sincerely,
Nohl Lyons

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

Date: Sun, 28 Mar 93 17:53:07 -0500
From: "Keith E Gatling" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Help in Italy

A colleague of mine will be taking her PowerBook to Florence for a year, and
I'm looking for anyone who can tell me about the electrical system (special
adaptors needed?) and the phone system there (she's wants to do email to the
states...does she need a special modem adaptor...will Kermit work just
fine?).

I'm a couple of weeks behind in reading my Digests, so direct mail would be
helpful.

Thanks a lot!

keg

* [e-mail]  I've got plenty of opinions.  Just ask my wife! *

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

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 08:26:22 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Help needed from Okidata Laserline 6 users/owners

I recently acquired a Okidata Laserline 6, and via Grappler LX I am able to
print text and a small amount of graphics from my SE.  What I would like to
know is the following:  1) Are 1 meg RAM upgrades available (I have only been
able to find 348k cartridges)?  2) Is it possible to get an appletalk adapter
for this printer (I currently have the IBM personality module installed)?  3)
What are some good sources for consumables?  4) Is there a ROM upgrade
available ( I am at F/W 1.20)?  5) Any and all information regarding this
printer would be useful.

Thanks
Bill Hardy
Xerox Corporation

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

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 93 11:43:55 PST
From: Dave Leiner <[e-mail]>
Subject: Hiding LaserWriter

Peter Jorgensen wrote on Info-Mac a while back about hiding a LaserWriter from
most users on a network:

"Yes, Two ways, on harddisk machines you can install LaserWriterLockOut. For
more complete protection, you can change the LaserWriter's type, so normal
LaserWriter RDEVs will not see it. You will also have to create a special RDEV
for choosing the changed LaserWriter. I don't know if this has been tried
under
System 7.0. It involves the use of ResEdit and some PostScript code to change
the LaserWriter's type. I'll send complete instructions directly to those who
want them."

I have the need to hide a LaserWriter from everyone except the users in one
area. LaserWriterLockout does the opposite: hides the printer from the Mac it
is running on. Unfortunately, Peters posted address
([e-mail]) no longer seems to work. If Peter is "listening"
or if anyone else received the "complete instructions", would you please post
them to the digest or send them to me directly. Presumably they include the
postscript code for changing the LaserWriter's type and the ResEdit info on
what to hack in the printer driver to match the new type.

Thanks alot.

--Dave Leiner

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

Date: 29 Mar 93 08:07:09 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Shaw, David P.)
Subject: How to make robotic voice? (Q)

>>I have a Centris 610 with a microphone.  Is there some public domain
software that would allow me to manipulate the wave form of my own
voice to produce a metallic, robot sound?  If so, any hints as to
the procedure would be appreicated<<<

I know that SoundEdit will do this, as will SoundEdit Pro, but they are not
shareware as far as I know.  However,I'm sure there is a shareware utility
with a similar feature set to SoundEdit.  Here's what to do:  Make a recording
of your voice.  Then add an echo with a short delay (about .016 seconds) at
about 60-70% strength.  Then, reduce to pitch and speed up the tempo as
necessary to give it the right tone...hope this helps.


--
David P. Shaw
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
uucp:     ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!gt0151c
Internet: [e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 93 08:32:15 LCL
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #67

If you are planning on placing a slide maker (A.K.A. film recorder) in your
lab, I recommend connecting it to a machine and leaving it there (i.e. do
not detach and reattach it).  This saves on wear-n-tear, but the font files
for the slide maker take up a lot of room, so there is no reason to have
them on many systems.  These fonts are used in place of the fonts you
normally use, there is special software to make the substitution.

I have MS DOS users of my slide maker (Montague FR-1) all the time.  They
bring their file to my lab on a floppy disk in TIFF (usually) format and
I open it in a graphics program (e.g. Canvas or PhotoShop) and print it.
Many other file types can also be opened by these programs.  Also, there
presentation packages that are on both platforms (MS PowerPoint, Alsu
Persuation).

In summary, it is easier to solve the problem using software to translate
files among platforms and software.  Put the recorder on a moderately fast
computer and leave it there.

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

Date: Sun, 28 Mar 93 01:41:39 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Info-Mac V11 #67  system 7 bug fix

[e-mail] wrote:
>A knowledgeable CompUSA salesperson told me the store does not sell 7.1
because of too many bugs, although he said that may change after Apple
releases its bug-fix disk next week.
...I have not heard any rumors of such a bug fix release to be released by
Apple, however, Apple recently released the Macintosh Hardware Extenion 1.0
to handle some rare problems to very specific hardware, it does not affect
every machine

> I use and enjoy 7.1, but am now starting to get weird crashes. For
instance,
several people I know (myself included) are now getting "Application unknown
has unexpectedly quit beause of a Type 1 error" crashes. What the heck is
an "application unknown" anyway?
  ... Apple has this program manager that is responsible for keeping track of
what application is running at the moment.  System 7 is not true multi
tasking, in which each application can run at the same time.  It constantly
has to switch between open applications, those in both the foreground and
those in the background, to see if it needs to do anything for that
application.. The foreground application just gets more CPU cycles aloted to
it than the background application.  The  program manager is responsible for
switching and keeping track of what is running.
 Ever do a force quit and the application name that it asks if you want to
quit is not the name you expected to see?  That is because in the instant you
pushed that button the Mac was cycling through the background applications
instead of those in front.  The same thing can happen during a Out of Memory
error.  (Type 1 is memory).  The mac looses track of where it is and cant
tell which application it is quitting,  because, it already has started
shutting it an application down due to a lack of memory , so the application
has been closed out of memory, and therfore it is not in memory for it to
check to see what application it was. TYpe ones are caused by many things.
If it is Quark you are using,  update to version 3.11, it corrects some out
of memory problems.  Otherwise, allocat some more ram to the application.
Hope this clears it up a bit without stirring up too much mud.
ALAN

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

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 20:39:10 -0500 (EST)
From: Kevin Laurent <[e-mail]>
Subject: Internal SCSI HD for LWPro630?

Has anybody equipped Apple's new LaserWriter Pro 630 with an INTERNAL SCSI
hard disk?  It looks from the specs like it is possible but my usual suppliers
are perplexed.  If you have this working, where did you get the disk, what
size is it, etc?  Thanks.

Kevin Laurent <[e-mail]>
U.S. Geological Survey

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

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 93 12:49:58 CST
From: Graeme Forbes <[e-mail]>
Subject: Large Files in Nisus

This is just to confirm Adam Engst's remark that Nisus has no problem
dealing with large files. I frequently work with files ranging from
1 meg to 2 meg in size. A Nisus partition of 3.5 meg is about the
lowest I can get away with.

It does take time for such files to open, e.g. a 2meg file with line
diagrams and EPS images might require 3 minutes to open on a Quadra
700. But once it's open editing is very fast - I've been surprised
at how quickly it can do complicated find/replace's (using grep) that
involve literally thousands of substitutions.

Graeme Forbes

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

Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1993 17:45:27 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Rich Siegel)
Subject: Large Text Filesw

>Last time I checked, BBEdit was memory limited, so you couldn't edit a
>5M file with a partition less than 5M, someone can correct me if I'm
>wrong, but I don't think Rich has done that yet...

Your information is out of date by about six months; BBEdit 2.2 and later
can read files larger than BBEdit's MultiFinder partition by making use
of temp memory. Files are still RAM-resident, so you need the memory
-somewhere- (either in real or virtual memory), but the maximum file
size is not constrained to BBEdit's partition size.

R.
--

Rich Siegel                              Internet: [e-mail]
Senior Software Engineer
GCC Technologies

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

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 08:48:54 -0600
From: [e-mail]
Subject: LaserWRiter Drum Scratch (A)

>>The drum, or cylinder on my laserwriter (Apple Personal Laserwriter LS) has
>>somehow acquired a tiny scratch or nick, which produces a little pattern of
>>flyspecks at regular intervals down the page. Is there a treatment short of
>>replacing the cartridge?
>>
>>Thanks, all.
>
>Unfortunately, the only solution I have seen is to replace the cartridge. I
...

I had exactly this problem, and it was just caused be spots of toner on the
drum. What I did was to open the PLW LS slightly, so that the toner
cartridge cover didn't close and I could see the roller. Then I spat on a
kleenex and rubbed off the speck. I had to reclose it and do something to
get the roller to move to get all sides. There is probably some way to take
out the cartridge, open it, and turn the roller to get to all of it, and to
use a more acceptable (socially and functionally) cleaner, but this worked
for me and I quit looking for an answer. Obviously this won't help on a
scratch. Be careful not to scratch the roller!
Bryan Walls                             My words are not NASA policy.
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 10:20:54 EST
From: Jean-Pierre Gattuso <[e-mail]>
Subject: Launching utilities + Stat software

Hi,

I am a registered user of Apollo, which I like very much, and would like to
know how other launching utilities like PowerLaunch and LaunchPad compare with
it.

I am also looking for fax or email address of the following statistical
software companies: SPSS,BMDP and SAS institute. I am trying to know whether
their software is available on Macintosh (I am desperately seeking for a
program dealing with repeated measures ANOVA and MANOVA).

Thanks in advance for your help.

Jean-Pierre Gattuso ([e-mail])

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

Date: 28 Mar 1993 23:34:11 -0500 (EST)
From: Zsuzsanna Bencsath-Makkai <[e-mail]>
Subject: looking for Forth compiler for Mac

Subject line says it:
anyone knows of a Forth compiler for the Mac?

Thanks,


 ------------------------
Zsuzsanna Bencsath-Makkai
[e-mail]
Medical Computing/ McGill U/ Montreal

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

Date: Sun, 28 Mar 93 13:05 CST
From: "Mark Dohm, UW-P Information Technology" <[e-mail]>
Subject: LWPro emulation-sw (R), IIg on novell (Q)

<> In response to many recent inquiries:

The LW Pro's do NOT have automatic emulation switching . . .
Apple's response: "Emulation switching (to PCL) would be only needed for
MS-DOS
applications that don't support postcript. Because most MS-DOS and Windows
applications are now Postscript compatible, Emulation switching is not needed
in this printer."

<> On a related note:

We are currently testing out a IIg to do auto-switching, but can't seem to
find
a driver for Windows or Novell to do the trick. Does anyone out there have
drivers or know where to get them. We CAN print PS to the IIg from Windows,
but
not PCL docs.
Some people have been claiming auto-switching by means of Poscript
to the Ether port and PCL to the Serial port - that's not what we want. Yes,
the IIg does automatically switch from serial to localtalk to ethernet when it
senses something coming, but I am referring to the actual printing language
that is sent to the printer.

<> Is anyone running a IIg on Novell with PC's & Macs printing to it
successfull
   y?
I'd like to hear from you if so.

Thanks a bunch.    8^)
!MarkMAD!  (Mark Dohm)   [e-mail]   AOL: MarkMAD

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

Date: Sun, 28 Mar 93 21:41:20 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: Macs and Internet email

In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
> > I'm using a VM/CMS system, with R. A. Schaffer (Rice)
> > (Why can't we connect our Macs straight to Internet!!!)

We can, just not to age-old brain-damaged systems like VM/CMS.

Try UUCP or SLIP, both of which have Mac implementations.

cheers ... -Adam

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

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 08:29:46 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Wade Williams)
Subject: MacTCP

>I need to get MacTCP. having lost some info I used to have about
>how/where, could someone tell me? I recently saw a note suggesting it
>is ftp'able, but I don't know precisely where.
>
>as always, please reply direct...
>
> -- clint               [e-mail]


It is not and to my knowledge, never has been.  It is a commercial product,
now available on the Apple price lists as TCP/IP Connection for Macintosh
($32).  Quite reasonable.

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

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

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 93 13:26:51 BST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Math Programs (Q)

Dear everyone

I am using MatLab ver 3.5 for my research.
However I haven't used other math programs.
If you have used other math programs than MatLab, please tell me your
experience and opinion about the programs.
Especially I would like to know about,,,
    \Mathematica
    \MathCad
    \Labview
    \DADiSP(for PC)
    \Satistica/Mac
    \SPYGLASS

My area of research is signal processing, control and instrumentation, and
neural netowrks.

Thanks in advance,

kimiaki Nakano
Imperial College, London
[e-mail]

Please reply to my E-mail address.

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

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 93 13:26:21 BST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: MatLAB ver 4.0 (Q)

Dear everyone

Does anyone know when new version, ver 4.0, of MatLab for Macintosh is
released ?

Six months ago, I heard that it would be released in Feb 93. However it
hasn't.
Although I asked the MathWorks directrly, they didn't say clearly.

Thanks in advance,

kimiaki Nakano
Imperial College, London
[e-mail]

Please reply to my E-mail address.

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

Date: 29 Mar 1993 15:43:11 -0700 (MST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: mode32 (q)

has performance enhancement on Macs with dirty roms when
they used mode32 and 32 biprocessing on system 7?

I think I did.  Is it possible that system 7 prefers to operate in 32 bit
mode?
Thanks in advance for any insights,
Nohl

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

Date: 29 Mar 1993 13:09:45 +0200
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Need More Speed on Quadra 950

Although the MPW C programming environment is a LOT more comfortable than
programming on a remote Sparc2 using Telnet and VI, the execution speed is
about three times slower. Recent tests on info-mac give a slightly
different picture of Quadra power, so somewhere I get the idea that a lot
of time is spent on overhead or user-friendliness while I am doing bold
calculations standalone at night. Does anyone have a suggestion as to how I
can get around this? I am running my program (molecular dynamics...) as a
Tool.

Are other compilers like THINK C any better at this?

Thanks a lot,

Martin Bos
Dept. of Physical and Colloid Science
Wageningen Agricultural Univ, the Netherlands

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

Date: 27 Mar 1993 15:08:42 -0500 (CDT)
From: Ken Wedding <[e-mail]>
Subject: Networking for Seniors

Dear Netters,  My retired mother and her Apple IIc might enjoy the
"activities"
of the network and I just saw a post about a Senior Net at AOL.  Any
suggestions about the most appropriate service for her and whether it is
possible to access them through her old Apple.  Replies to me will be
summarized and posted back here.  Ken Wedding  <[e-mail]>

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

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 93 13:27:14 BST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Neural Networks (Q)

Dear everyone

I am currently working with neural networks.
If you know any Mac's commercial, PDS or shareware products for nerual
networks, please tell me the name of products, the developer and how to get
them.
Especially I am interested in ART2(Adaptive Resonance Theory) and other
unsupervised networks.

Thanks in advance,

Kimiaki Nakano
Imperial College, London
[e-mail]

Please reply to my E-mail address.

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

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 09:47:46 -0600
From: "Earl Misanchuk"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: New products--when?

INFO-MAC readers seemed to know quite precisely when the last round of new
product announcements came out of Apple (Feb 10).

Does anyone know when the next round will be?

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

Date: Sun,  28 Mar 93 9:31 +0200
From: Dvorah Art <[e-mail]>
Subject: paint jet printers and macIIvx

We have a Digital Color Companion Printer LJ250 which we use in
HP Paint Jet mode with PC's. We just got a macintosh paint jet driver
and serial cable from the local reps to use with our mac IIvx running
system 7.1.
Something is wrong- the pictures start printing fine, but about a
quarter of the way through, all sorts of garbage gets printed
instead of the picture, as if there were a parity or handshake
problem.
On the mac there isn't any obvious way to adjust such parameters
and the printer is set on 9600, 8 xon/xoff.
The driver came with an application called compatibility which
won't run on our mac.
Any suggestions?
Please send directly to me, I'll repost what works.
Thanks
[e-mail]

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

Date: Sat, 27 Mar 93 16:37:04 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: partitioning w/ Apple HD SC Setup (Q)

I just got a Quadra 800 with a 500MB HD and I would like to create
2-4 partitions on it to keep things a little easier to manage.  I
tried partitioning with Apple HD SC Setup and the first partition
had the option of creating a "Macintosh HD", but subsequent
partitions only allowed "Scratch", A/UX, or DOS partitions.  I
thought that "Scratch" was the way to go so I created one parition
that was "Macintosh HD" and two others that were "Scratch".  After
quiting Apple HD SC Setup, I could not get the Scratch partitions
to mount no matter what I did.  Am I doing something wrong or am I
attempting the impossible?

I would prefer to not have to buy a third party formatter, but is I
have to, what would you recommend?  The Jan MacWorld claims that
Apple HD SC Setup can do what I am attempting (see p. 188), but they
are often wrong.

Thank you.

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

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

Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1993 14:22:04 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Lance K. Chun)
Subject: Phone Number to order WriteMove II

Dear Info-Mac Readers,

I'm currently in the markert for this little ink-jet printer by GCC Tech
but unfortunately, I don't have their catalog or their 800 number, so if
any of you out there have their number to order the WriteMove II, I'd
really appreciate it if you'd e-mail it to me. No need to waste space
posting it here unless others also want the number.

Sincerely,
Lance

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

Date: Sat, 27 Mar 93 14:34:24 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Photohop won't open some jpeg files (A)

All hail the power of Info-Mac Digest!  What two long, expensive calls
to Adobe support (involving three staff members) couldn't resolve, was
fixed when Matthew Merkelson directed me to a Photoshop plugin which
opens the troublesome jpeg files like a charm.

It's at the UMICH archives in the directory /mac/graphics/graphicsutil/
and is called photoshopjpeg.cpt.hqx

Now why didn't those silly people at Adobe know about this?  I'm not
about to pay for another half hour on hold to tell them though.

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

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 18:20:29 +0100
From: Mike Reddy <[e-mail]>
Subject: Powerbook 140 Screen Problem - a Solution!

In reply to Larry Staples' query about PB140 screen problems. I made a similar
request 6 months ago and got NO REPLY! 8-( On my own bat, with the help of a
long suffering Quodport dealer, we worked out what the problem was, after
another apple dealer had ripped me off with THREE attempts to 'repair' the
fault.

I would guess that your PB is suffering the same thing that mine did: namely a
loose connection at the back of the LCD display. Apparently Apple acknowledges
that this problem - faulty cable grips - and has a shim which increases the
tension on the plug and stops it from working loose. However, the dealer had
to
work hard to get this information!

Hope this helps
Mike Reddy ([e-mail] OR [e-mail])

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

Date: 29 Mar 1993 19:44:31 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Allen Kitchen)
Subject: PowerLock author address correction

    While proceding to register our site to use PowerLock (a security
init available on Sumex-Aim), I noticed that the Internet address within
the documentation is wrong. Please correct your EMail address of Rohan
Cook to

    [e-mail]

The letter "C" somehow snuck into the word "ausom".

Allen Kitchen
[e-mail]
****  Is thinking about something you are going to type called prototyping?***

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

Date: Sun, 28 Mar 93 19:56:07 EST
From: Gene Mayro <[e-mail]>
Subject: Recycled Cartridges

>We currently use SpringPoint recycled laser toner cartridges. Has anyone
>else had experience with them (good or bad)? Also, in general, are recycled
>cartridges "inferior" to new cartridges?

We use recycled cartridges in our HP III and HP II laser printers, and
our IINTX. For text, the recycled cartridges are, for the most part,
excellent. We use a company called QLC. They use a denser toner
which gives us 4000-6500 printed text pages per cartridge. Our
maintenance people tell us that the recycled cartridges are not good
for the printers. We do have a problem with "bleeding" on dark
graphics from our NTX. We have determined that the problem is with
the printer itself, not the recycled cartiridges, but we cannot be
sure if the recycled cartridges are to blame, or the fact that we
have printed 100,000 pages in two years, and not always with paper
that is "laser compatible."

In short, aside from the environmental and cost benefits, I would
recommend using recycled cartridges, and would say that they are
not inferior to new ones.

- Gene Mayro (V5356e@TempleVM)

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

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 93 09:31 EST
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Report Generator for FoxBase+

 Folks:

I'm searching for a report generator that will run against FoxBase files.
We're developing a FoxBase application and we're finding the reporting
facilities a "little" less than friendly.

Can anyone offer any suggestions?

Thanks much.

Cindy
CES Systems Office
Penn State Universiy
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 93 10:50:58 -0600
From: [e-mail] (NUBI ACHEBO ext 4389)
Subject: Shareware Database Program

Gurus of the ftp world: Where can I get a shareware database program that
would run on system7?  Please email me directly.  Thanks in advance to all
respondents.

Nubi Achebo.
[e-mail]

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

Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1993 09:52:35 -0600 (CST)
From: Larry Rymal <[e-mail]>
Subject: Slide-show viewer for GIFs? (C)

KD6SWQ <[e-mail]> writes:

> I borrowed a CD-ROM from a friend of mine that had a ton of GIFs on it,
> and the only way I could look at them was to open them, ONE BY ONE,
> using a GIF viewing program, or PhotoShop, or something like that.
>
> My friend popped it into his PC, ran some little program, selected a
> directory, and it quickly zipped all the images onto the screen

    I also wish we had a fast slide viewer for the Mac and one that
didn't cost the equivalent of a week's pay.  My apologies for bringing
up the Atari ST lately, but I keep wishing for items that I had for it
which I don't for the Mac.  One program for the ST is called BLASTER and
can shoot, in auto-blast mode, about five pictures a second (!!!)
across the screen.  It is smooth and there is no hesitation.  Cranking
the rate down to a more viewable 1 picture/second is a mere user command
on a radio button with the mouse.  The ST, by the way, was an 8mhz,
68000 brained machine.  It is amazing to me how a $450.00 computer can do
this.
    Surely, QuickTime could possibly be configured for quick slide
    viewing.
My LC has some hesitation that is slightly annoying when using QuickTime but
for a slide show, I'd bet the results would be nice.  Perhaps it is in
the Mac FAQs, the steps to convert GIFs to Quicktime frames, --- maybe
full screen frames, also?

--Larry Rymal <[e-mail]>

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

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 93 15:47:54 CST
From: Robert McAlhany <[e-mail]>
Subject: SoftwareFPU 2.41

I just downloaded the new version of SoftwareFPU 2.41 and installed it
(throwin
g away the old version in the process.  Now when I startup my LC II crashes.
D
oes anyone have an idea on how to correct this problem or how to get in touch
w
ith the author: John M. Neil?  I am running 7.0 with 4 meg RAM and
Appleshare.
 I haven't tried to see if there is a conflict with my other INITs though.
 Any
 response will help.  Thanks.

 Robert E. McAlhany
 [e-mail]

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

Date: 29 Mar 1993 16:42:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Solution to "Drag-n-Drop" desktop clutter

A number of suggestions have been made to solve the following problem:

>> Also, with all the drag-n-drop applications littering my desktop is there a
>> way to make just the names appear (ie. with no icon) or reduce the icon
>> size? I also remember seeing this discussed but at the time I thought that
>> there would be no way I'd have that many utilities to bother about. I
>> suppose another monitor would solve the problem :-)

Why not just make a folder, called say "Drop launch", and put all your
drag-n -drop aliases (or applications themselves) there.  Put the folder
itself
in the Startup Items folder.  Open the folder, view by name, size it so it
just
shows the names, position where  you like it on the screen, and you've got a
drag-n-drop launch bay that will be there every time you start up.

Steve Jaffe, Math Dept, Vassar College, [e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 93 20:38:35 EST
From: Allan Hunter <[e-mail]>
Subject: Someone killed the Dog...

At school, there is a Mac hooked up to the networks, which DID have a
copy of Fetch and whatever else was necessary for its operation (MacTCP,
I think, maybe something else???).  Anyway, it isn't Gatekeepered or in
any way protected from people's various whims, and some time last night
it was somebody's whim to throw away Fetch, MacTCP, and about 35 megs
worth of other programs that were available for semipublic (student)
use.  Would someone be so kind as to send me the necessary programs &tc.
in mac BinHexxed form, so I can carry my own copies and put them on the
school machine?  (I know they are probably available by tcp from the
same machine I'm typing this on, but it is an IBM dinosaur with NO user
interface for getting files, and I've given up on that possibility for
now).

Thanks for the trouble,

- Allan Hunter
 <ahunter@sbccvm> or
 <[e-mail]>

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

Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1993 11:05:23 -0600 (CST)
From: Kurt Klaus <[e-mail]>
Subject: StyleWriter II and On Location conflict

After adding the StyleWriter II extension to my system I began getting
an error when using On Location.  The On Location error is "902 Unable to
locate Resource".  I contacted On Technology and they mentioned a conflict
with the StyleWriter II driver.  The solution for me was to add back in the
StyleWriter I extension and select it when I want to use On Location.  No
word from either Apple or On Technoloy as to who's going to provide the
'fix'.

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

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 93 17:04:27 EST
From: [e-mail] (przeslawski)
Subject: System 7.1 Monitor CP Problem

Here's an odd problem I hope someone has an answer for:

I recently gave in and installed System 7.1 (from 7.0.1).  The first thing I
noticed is that upon selecting DepthGuage 2.5.4, it responded that the monitor
settings could not be found and I should create them (or something to that
effect) using the Monitors CP. When I selected the Monitors CP and hit the
"Options" button, I got a response that "Sorry there is not enough memory
available to show the options right now."  I tried turning off all the exten-
sions to no avail.  I have never seen the problem with DepthGuage again, but I
always get the Monitors problem.  I say it is a problem since I have 20 Meg
of real RAM, of which over 17 Meg is free for the Monitors CP to use.

I have a Quadra 700 with a VRAM expansion installed.

Thanks for any advice,
Mark Przeslawski
E.R.I.M.

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

Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1993 14:56:43 +0100
From: Elliot Bennett <[e-mail]>
Subject: TAR utility for Mac?

    I've been asked to investigate the availability of a program that can
    decompress unix "tar" files.  Does such a thing exist for the mac?

    As usual, much thanks in advance,

    Elliot Bennett
    DLR, Cologne, Germany
    [e-mail]
try suntar, it works wonderfully!  I regularly tar files on my Sparc
at work, bring them home and untar them with suntar. It even runs
under Liken, the macintosh emulator for sparcs. There may be some
limitations on whether it handles all versions of tar, but it seems to
work in most cases.

..wayne
 ------
Wayne Walrath            [e-mail]
Research Inst. for Applied Knowledge Processing
                   Ulm, Germany

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

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 09:50:12 -0800
From: Jerry Wilcox <[e-mail]>
Subject: TAR utility for Mac? (R)

Elliot Bennett writes:
>I've been asked to investigate the availability of a program that can
>decompress unix "tar" files.  Does such a thing exist for the mac?
>

Yes, there are several choices:

    Stuffit Deluxe includes a tar translator

There are also the following available at sumex-aim (Info-Mac archives):

    ./util/suntar-132.hqx
    ./util/tar-30.hqx

One of these should fill the bill for you.
-----
Jerry Wilcox - [e-mail]   All opinions are mine alone
Support shared development with TopSoft, write [e-mail]

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

Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1993 15:20 EST
From: E=MC^2 <[e-mail]>
Subject: Text processor (C)

Mr. Rolander,
Have you tried Teachtext 7.0 ?  It is free with System 7.  This is as simple
as text processors get, plus it reads screen dumps of graphics.
Sincerely, ABRODY @ CLARKU

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

Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1993 21:46 EST
From: Bob Annechiarico <[e-mail]>
Subject: Using Other SCSI Drives

Hi.

I have an Everex 20 external HD that I would like to replace with a Connor
121MB SCSI HD that was left over from a dismantled VAX.  All of the connectors
seem to fit (power and SCSI) but before I get to deeply into this, has
anybody out there ever done this.  The big question I have relates to
SCSI termination.  WIll this drive terminate like the other?  I am not
a hardware type but I am desparately trying to find a HD upgrade to my
Plus without sinking a lot of bucks into it.  It's been a good machine
but putting money into it doesn't seem smart.

Thanks in advance.

Bob

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

Date: Sat, 27 Mar 93 14:29:27 PST
From: [e-mail] (Paul Antaki)
Subject: uupc for the Mac

I'm trying to set up a uucp connection using uupc 3.0 for Mac. I've been
having some major problems finding a way to send commands to the remote system
(such as uux van-bc\!rsys -help) to add and remove the newsgroups that I
receive.

Since it appears that uupc does not provide access to a command-line interface
I was wondering if anyone might know how I can get around this problem (I've
considered using gnuucp but it doesn't work as well and the copy a I have is
shareware not reeware)

Thanks,

Paul

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

Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1993 14:28:03 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Brian Robertson)
Subject: Version 2.0 of ClarisWorks ?????

I heard a rumour a few days ago about a new version of ClarisWorks (v2).
Has anyone seen it, used it or read about it? What has been upgraded and what
has does it cost, and whe is it available ?

Yours, in anticipation!
            Brian Robertson
            [e-mail]

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

Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1993 17:04 EST
From: Dan Rolander <[e-mail]>
Subject: What is thick Ethernet (R)

Dominick,

In reference to your post> Subject: What is thick Ethernet?

Ethernet wiring comes in three flavors:

1) 10Base2, also known as Thinwire. Uses RG/58/U coax cable, with BNC
   connectors. This is the most common type of ethernet cabling. It
   uses 'T' connectors to tap in the various devices and both ends of
   each segment must be terminated with 50 ohm BNC terminators.

2) 10Base5, also known as Thickwire. Uses "standard ethernet coax", a
   much beefier cable than the Thinwire stuff. It is not, however,
   Twinax! Both ends of the segment are terminated with 50 ohm N-series
   terminators. The cables with DB-15 connectors on them are known as
   AUI (Access Unit Interface) cables, and are used to connect a device,
   such as a computer, with a DB-15 interface on it to a transceiver,
   which then taps directly into the Thickwire cable. There are also
   transceivers which will convert the DB-15 interface to 10Base2 or
   10Base-T.

3) 10BaseT, which uses 4-wire twisted pair (telco cable) and RJ-45
   (wide-body modular plug) connectors. This is convenient because it
   allows the use of standard telephone wiring, and can be 'punched
   down' on standard telco blocks to connect the various devices.

Which one you use depends on what equipment you own, how it's configured,
and what your needs are. They each have different specs in terms of
what the max segment lengths and network spans are, and how many nodes
per segment they allow.

This is just a brief overview. For more info, there are a lot of good
books on the subject. Check your library.

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Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1993 16:38:58 -0500
From: Bob Kerns <[e-mail]>
Subject: What is thick Ethernet?

    Date: Sat, 27 Mar 93 00:57 CST
    From: Dominik Hoffmann <[e-mail]>
    Subject: What is thick Ethernet?

Thick Ethernet is the original type of ethernet.  I think it's
still useful for long runs; I don't think either 10Base-T or
thin ethernet allow the same long runs that the original did.

However, it is expensive and awkward.

    that thicknet wiring typically has DB-15 connectors on either end.

No, that's just the connection betwen the interface and
the transceiver.  The real ethernet connection is via
a large-diameter coaxial cable.

    1. Are those called AUI-connectors?
Yes.
    2. What does AUI stand for?
Dunno.

    Thicknet wiring consists of twinax cable.

No it doesn't!  It is a single coaxial cable.

    3. Is there a designation for it that's comparable to "RB-58"?

Maybe.  The stuff I've always used has been labeled as being
"Ethernet cable", complete with markings for where to cut it
for minimum-length segments.

    4. How do you hook up twinax to the DB-15 connectors?

You hook the interface to the coax via an external box called
a transceiver.  Thinnet uses these too, but usually these days
it comes on the board.  Still, if you have something with the
AUI interface and no Thinnet connector, you can get an external
transceiver for thinnet, to.

    Networking mailorder catalogs I've looked through offer Ts, terminators,
    etc.
    for thicknet wiring. So far I haven't seen any Ethernet equipment that was
    rigged for this standard. If it accommodates thick Ethernet it is
    typically
    through a DB-15.

Believe me, you wouldn't want to have to run the thicknet directly to
the back of your computer.  It is stiff and heavy and difficult to
manage.  A lot of computers these days, it would just flip over due to
its weight and stiffness!  That's why the transceiver is separate;
you can put the coas cable where it's convenient to put the cable, and
then the transciever cable to the computer where it's convenient to
put the computer.

Thinnet is so much more flexible this isn't a issue, and so
all you need is to run the cable directly to the computer,
stick in a T and hook it to the computer.

    5. In which instances are those connectors used instead of the DB-15s?

Always.

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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 14:24:43 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Where is GUSI?

In a note to Chuck Hoffman ([e-mail]), Peter Lewis
([e-mail]) mentioned that the supposedly shareware GUSI (Grand
Unified Socket Interface) package implements a socket interface to be run on
top of MacTCP, but neither Chuck nor Peter knows where to get it.

Would someone on the net kindly give me a pointer on where/how to get GUSI?  I
have looked in sumex@standford and other MAC archives site to no avail.

Sorry if this is the wrong newsgroup.  I read comp.sys.mac.comm and
comp.sys.mac.programmer  but I must post to a MAC gatewayed list as I cannot
post to Usenet.

ThanksInAdvance,

THT

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Date: Sun, 28 Mar 93 15:50:53 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Christopher N. Montague)
Subject: Which Modem to choose? (Q)

Hello everyone in Net land, I'm thinking of upping to a faster
modem, and I'm wondering which are the ones that I should be
looking into/avoiding...  I'm looking at the ones in the
MacWarehouse catalogue, Ie: PowerUser, Zoom, and SupraFax...
If you've had any problems with these modems or have any
suggestions, I'd like to hear from you,

Thanks,

Chris "Monte" Montague
Cal Poly State University
IT Department, School of Business
San Luis Obispo

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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 16:14:19 -0600 (MDT)
From: "Eric H. Carter" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Whither a telephone font

I am working on an information sheet for a touch-tone phone system.  I am
trying to find a font (preferrably shareware, postscript) that simulates
phone buttons, i.e.
                            -----        -----
Press  | 1 |  then  | # |   (a rough simulation)
                            -----        -----

Please e-mail input to [e-mail]

Many thanks in advance :)
Eric H. Carter
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 00:01:07 -0600
From: "Paul M. Sheldon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Why macapp slow

    OK. I downloaded and scanned your doc's. You made it in oopl macapp.I
    noted
something in the object oriented course that I suspect was inherited by
macapp.
They had scripts that erased all *.o files to 'avoid confusion'. Units should
be separately compilable and save you time in that you don't have to recompile
everything when you test an implementation. I got away with modifying the
scripts so I wouldn't have to start from scratch each time.
    Object pascal makes programmer put into main program all units used by
used units. Not so object modula which the browswer I got would also parse.
Apple should then be familiar with Modula feature that the import ( uses
analogy in modula) in the implementation may be 'hidden' and not force
recapitulation in the main program. I suspect that this is related to the
play its safe and avoid confusion attitude of before.
    I heard that apple-ibm was going to make pink less fussy than macapp,
perhaps without any royalty contract of macapp. All my knowledge is vague from
old info-mac digests and computer club meetings. Maybe apple mill find the
need
to make the same improvements that Wirth did in his language.
    I hope macapp isn't only in C because I have developed an affection for
modula and pascal.

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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 93 13:22:22 BST
From: [e-mail] (Malcolm Bebb)
Subject: Word 5 problem

LAWA @ IAPE.AFRC.AC.UK describes a problem with cursor positioning in Word 5.

"the insertion point flashing cursor appears to be to the left of the
last character"

I've only seen this in italics, when it can be very difficult to identify
the real cursor position.  However, I wonder if the problem he describes
is related to the one I'm having.

This happens (mostly?) in paragraphs formatted with an "ALL CAPS" or small
caps style.  As I add characters, the text already entered alternately
changes between the caps style and the actual case entered (usually Initial
Caps/Title Case).  Looks wierd as I do it.

Existing text is sometimes displayed incorrectly, lacking only the caps
attribute of the style.  Reapplying the style often corrects it, but it can
change back when I put the insertion point somewhere else.

Files print OK and display OK on other Macs.  Removing all extensions
provided a temporary cure - putting them back did not cause the problem
to re-occur until a few days after I'd put them ALL back.  Not much help.

Anyone seen this one? All ideas welcome!  I'll supply more detail if
anyone needs it, and summarize if appropriate.

System: IISi, 7.01 tuned 1.1, Word 5.1a.  9M RAM, 32 bit ON.

TIA,
Malcolm    [e-mail]
(Don't reply to the header address, it is not reliable).

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Date: Sat, 27 Mar 93 21:02:42 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Write protected Teach Text Files? (Q)

Hi Netters --

Has anyone ever gotten stuck with a write protected read me file with useful
information that won't open properly with a normal word processor and that
you can't copy or paste from?

Opcode's StudioVision comes with such a file.  There must be a way to defeat
the write protection so I can cut what I need out of the file and avoid
having to print out pages and pages of what I don't need -- and a way to get
it into a useful word processor like Nisus or WordPerfect so that I can
search the file efficiently.

Any ideas?

Please reply directly.  Thanks!

Jonathan Bauer ([e-mail])

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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 93 15:10:42 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Wonko the Sane)
Subject: XWindo graphics conversions and Software Locking...

Two questions:

    1)  Is there anything that exists (PD, FW, SW, etc) to perform
    software
    locks on individual folders? To keep prying hands out of the folder,
    but still keep it visible (yes, I admit it.  I don't want people
    rummaging through certain system folders.)

    2) is there a way of converting mac files to XWindows background
    bitmaps, as well as XDO and any other major Unix graphics formats?
    Conversion on either end would work.  I have access to photoshop
    if I need to do some format conversions, but that won't do anything
    usable other than TIFF and GIF for XWindows, as far as I can tell.


Thanx a BNDL.  (a little ResEdit humour there)

Eric Oehler
[e-mail]

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