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Info-Mac Digest             Mon,  5 Apr 93       Volume 11 : Issue 74

Today's Topics:

      [*] bolo-nature-walk.hqx
      [*] conflict-catcher-139a.hqx
      [*] Experbib 1.0b1 - Bibliographic managing program
      [*] Initial Letter Icons
      [*] pb-battery-voltage-131.hqx
      ****WARNING: MACINTAX CALCULATES TAXES INCORRECTLY****
      19.2 Modems
      adding a second internal drive to IIsi - any pitfalls?
      apple-events with pascal
      Atari Bozoism (R)
      chiwriter -> MSWord
      copying file names with command-C (Q)
      Diskette structure (Q)
      Ergonomic keybd evaluation (long)
      FEA software for the Mac (Q)
      File: "INFO-MAC MAIL" being sent to you (2 msgs)
      Hypercard and EtherTalk conflict (C)
      INIT for floptical drives
      Microsoft/Norton Encrypt Translator Suggestion
      Orange Micro Card Summery
      Partitioning HDD Problem
      Shareware Wish List
      TCP/IP XCMD documentation [Q]
      Upgrading LC to 7.0?
      What is your favorite Text Editor > 32k
      X.11 Appliance Control software for the mac?

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Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1993 09:55:10 -0400
From: "Josh A. Goldfoot" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] bolo-nature-walk.hqx

Nature Walk is a full size (216 x 216) Bolo map designed for a
comfortable game between more than two Bolo players. This map
has no "gimmicks" that give one player an unfair advantage
early in the game. It has plenty of locations that allow for
secure bases.

[Archived as /info-mac/game/bolo-nature-walk.hqx; 14K]

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Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1993 21:26:41 -0600
From: "Jeffrey L. Robbin" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] conflict-catcher-139a.hqx

Conflict Catcher DEMO 1.39a
[Moderator:  Please replace version 1.39 with this 1.39a.]

New Demo Version!  Download Conflict Catcher and let's get to work
on your startup file problems!

Conflict Catcher(tm) is an intelligent INIT manager that can help
you to manage your startup files as well as tell you what startup
files are causing your Macintosh problem.

Whether your problem is:  A crash at startup time,  your favorite
word processor doesn't want to spell check anymore, or your
printer decides it is taking the day off, Conflict Catcher can
determine if INITS are causing your problem and which ones are
guilty.  Not relying on a built-in database that needs constant
and inconvenient updating like other INIT managing software,
Conflict Catcher guides you through a series of restarts, asking
you just one simple question:  Does your problem still exist?
Based on your responses (which it remembers), Conflict Catcher
decides what startup files to activate/deactivate.  When you are
finished, you'll know exactly what startup files were causing your
problem (if any).

Conflict Catcher doesn't just isolate a single bad guy at startup
time either.  If your problem is caused by an interaction between
startup files (INITs), Conflict Catcher will detect those too!

Conflict Catcher is also a full-fledged INIT manager.  It can
change the load order of your startup files, wrap those pesky
tartup icons along the bottom of your screen, and link sets of
commonly used startup files.  Conflict Catcher also links together
startup files that require each other to function.  You can even
view the startup files by load order, or according to the folders
they are in.

Conflict Catcher recognizes the Extensions, Control Panels,
System Folder, and the Startup Items folder.  It knows about
unusual files like the Tune-Up, and the Hardware System Update
(Conflict Catcher even shows files that load before it - in
italics!).

Conflict Catcher is a part of "Conflict Catcher and other
Innovative Utilities(tm)".  The package includes four other
utilities:  Color Coordinator (automatically switches color
depth), Memory Maxer (kills the Finder and reclaims all memory),
HotDA (hot keys), and Whiz-Bang Window Accelerator (speeds up
Finder zoom rectangles).  It retails for $79, and can be found in
many of the popular mail-order catalogs.  Just ask for it!

MacWorld Magazine gave Conflict Catcher ****. (Four Stars!) and
had this to say, "Conflict Catcher's ability to track down INIT-
elated problems makes it a worthwhile investment even if you
already own an INIT manager." March 1993

This Demonstration version of Conflict Catcher will run for two
weeks, or until May 31, 1993, whichever comes first.  For more
information, please contact:

Casady & Greene, Inc.
22734 Portola Drive
Salinas, California 93908-1119
[phone] or [phone]

[Archived as /info-mac/demo/conflict-catcher-139a.hqx; 77K]

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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 93 10:54:06 +0200
From: Luc Patiny <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Experbib 1.0b1 - Bibliographic managing program

EXPERBIB is a bibliographic managing program that must be executed with 4
Dimension (4D) from Acius (version 2.1 or later). This application allows
you to consult, quickly and easily, a large database. For each reference,
you can add keywords and personal codes (which allow easy classification).
You can also import and export in EndNote format.

What are the differences between EXPERBIB and other commercial products ?

a.      A multi-user database in which every user is allowed to have personal
keywords (just a click to add it to a reference) and a personal search
profile ;

b.      A list of indexed keywords ;

c.      Every reference can have a personal code which is automatically
numbered
;

d.      The facility to paste a picture from other packages, Chemdraw for
example ;

e.      The ability to manage a large database. For example, one personal
database uses more than 80,000 references and 200,000 keywords (it uses ca.
160 Mb).

[Archived as /info-mac/app/dimension-experbib-1b1.hqx; 271K]

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Date: Sun, 4 Apr 93 09:10:54 EST
From: Jeremy Niemann <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Initial Letter Icons

Here are some Initial Icons that people might like.  They are like the big
blocked and decorative letters that you find at the beginning of book
chapters.

These Icons are created from some scanned images that I used when making a
book about Medieval Woodcuts.  I've updated them to include the entire
alphabet,
plus a few extra duplicate letters.  I believe they are from the 15th
century.
I noticed them getting passed around the university here quite a bit, so I
thought maybe others would find them enjoyable.  They are 256 grayscale, but
can still work in simple black and white, though they look really choppy if
you do.

I don't claim to own these images, nor do I want anyone to send me any money
for using them.  If you like them, send me E-Mail saying so, and I will try
to make more (I have some rather nice comic book ones I've made too) if
people would want them.

Archive is Stuffit Lite 3.0.3 Sea, and Binhex 4.0

Jeremy Niemann
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/misc/initial-letter-icons.hqx; 70K]

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Date: Sun, 4 Apr 93 01:43:27 PST
From: [e-mail] (Lawrence Anthony)
Subject: [*] pb-battery-voltage-131.hqx

Attn: Volts Users

Re: pb-battery-voltage-131.hqx (Volts) version 1.3.1

I am enclosing version 1.3.1 of Volts.  Changes since version 1.3
include more accurate estimates of the time remaining for PowerBooks
using Nickel-Cadmium and Nickel-Hydride batteries as well as a reduced
memory requirement.

Volts is a substitute application for the Battery desk accessory and
has the following features, among others:
    digital display of powerbook's (internal) battery voltage,
    alternate analog bar meter indicator of voltage level,
    accurate estimated remaining time of battery charge,
    ability to automatically calibrate battery usage
        on an individual basis,
    movable display window with 3 zoom states,
    pictorial status indicators for battery and battery charger,
    CPU clock speed, and
    chart of recent history of voltage level.

Please reread the manual pages for all the details, especially on how
to calibrate your powerbook battery.  Some of the battery status
indicators have changed since version 1.1.1.

Volts is a shareware product.  If you use it, please send your
shareware payment of US$5 to:
    Lawrence Anthony
    Keck Laboratories
    Caltech 138-78
    Pasadena, CA  91125
    U. S. A.

Please include your e-mail (Internet) address with your payment so
that you can be sent future updates and beta releases.  Thanks once
again to those of you who have already sent in your shareware
contributions.

Lawrence Anthony
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/util/pb-battery-voltage-131.hqx; 69K]

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Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1993 19:45:06 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: ****WARNING: MACINTAX CALCULATES TAXES INCORRECTLY****

I don't do "flames" any more, but these Chipsoft guys sure deserve one. With
great effort, I will remove (most of) the vitriol and state the facts. Some of
this might save you some pain if you are still struggling to get your taxes
finished with the damn thing.

1. They lost my order. I foolishly ordered it again. Then they billed me
TWICE,
since it seems the billing dept. has a better memory than the shipping dept.
They still haven't credited my credit card although I am reassured that I have
been "grouped" for credit. I have NO idea what that means.

2. Their telephone support is terrible. I could *always* reach a "phone mail"
system, but never, ever a person. You could go round and round in a veritable
colossal cave in the phone mail system and accomplish nothing. If you have a
lost order, it wants to know your "customer number", which of course you can't
know cause the order was LOST!!! Oh, yah, this is all at your expense. At this
point, I think I have spent half the cost of the program in phone calls.

3. Finally,  I reached a person and got my order sent. They explained that
they
are in a "peak demand" season, so they are swamped. Well, YAH, the tax
business
is kinda *like* that isn't it? If you can't prepare for that, what are you
doing in the biz??

4. The program does work, but it is very unstable. Seems it is very sensitive
to
inits. The list that I can verify is  SuperBoomerang, Now Menus, and Mouse
Doubler.  I also gave it 2 megs instead of 1 and that seemed to help. Oh, yah,
it also seems that the program doesn't like things like InitPicker, so don't
just turn off the inits, you have to turn them off by removing them from the
system folder. &$!&ing unbelievable. When you have "bad" inits installed
the program CALCULATES YOUR TAXES INCORRECTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Let me be
clear:
When I selected "tax summary" the program changed numeric fields on my
schedule A form. The program insisted that the inserted values were
"calculated
values" but showed no cross-referenced form where the numbers came from and
would not let me change them!! Fortunately, the numbers were large enough that
the mistake was obvious. Don't count on it: check your forms!!!! Also, when
you
run Macintax, turn off every init that you can!

5. There is no list of the bad, bad inits in the readme file, which I did
read.
The tech support guy that I finally reached was quite suprised when I
suggested
that they might include such a list!! He said there are "thousands" of inits.
Well, boomerang and the Now Utilities are not exactly obscure and there is no
other program that I use  that has the least problem with them.

6. From the sound of the tech support guy and the remarks he made, it is clear
that these folks don't understand the Mac. It is also very clear that they did
not adequately test this program before they released  it. I think they are a
PC shop and they just don't know what they are doing on the Mac.

I apologize that this does read way to much like a flame, but this is the
worst experience that I have had with Mac software in years, and your tax
preparation is a case where you really want the thing to work.

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Date: 05 Apr 1993 08:15:20 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Jim Bradley)
Subject: 19.2 Modems

Now that we have a reliable means of dialing in, I need to get some much
faster modems for me and Chuck.  Do you have any suggestions?  I've seen
plenty of 14.4 modems, but no 19.2.

Does it matter given the port speed on the Mac?  I thought the modem port
only put out 9600 baud...

Jim

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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1993 13:20:54 PDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: adding a second internal drive to IIsi - any pitfalls?

HI, folks!

    I have a MacBottom 32M external drive I used to use with my Plus.  I
now have it attached as an external drive on my IIsi, but am growing tired of
having to remember to turn it on before lighting up my main system.  I would
like to hear any opinions on the possibility of installing it into my IIsi,
which already has an 80M drive in it.

    Will this work?  Does the power supply in the IIsi have enough
    overhead
to run this safely?  Anything else I might need to know?

    I'll gladly summarize responses for the net.  Thanks!

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

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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 93 16:40:35 +0200
From: [e-mail]
Subject: apple-events with pascal

I want to create a mathematical routine that will be called by a FILEMAKER
PRO's script. Is there a version of Pascal capable of dealing with apple
events?

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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1993 19:44:04 -0500 (CDT)
From: Larry Rymal <[e-mail]>
Subject: Atari Bozoism (R)

"Mark V. Flegg" <[e-mail]> writes:

> I also moved to the Mac, mainly because it
> was becoming more and more difficult to remain compatible with the
> outside world using my Spectre GCR.  If they had set it up to run
> System 7, I'd probably still be using it!
>
> BTW: I have an old Toadfile Syquest removable media hard drive from
> my Atari system that I'd love to use on the mac, but I have had no
> luck in getting it up and running.  Do you know of anywhere I could
> contact? syquest was no help, unfortunately.

    Greetings back to you!!!  Yeah, I wish Dave would get System 7 up
on the Spectre.  I have my Mega ST mounted in a clone case with the
Spectre INSIDE of the case.  It has sat in the closet for over a year now,
waiting on Dave.  If 7 starts working on it, I might either get the
MegaTalk board and network it to my Mac or just null modem cable it to my
Mac.  Anyway, she's mothballed til Dave gets 7 working.
    Ok, I'll bet your SyQuest drive is in a Toad case and it plugs
directly into your ST.  Inside of the Toad case is the Atari DMA port host
adaptor.  That adaptor is why the ST is so incredibly fast with hard drive
access when compared to the Mac.  DMA architecture....
    Anyway, you need to go inside and remove the host adaptor.  Your next
problem will be to get the correct connectors to go from the SyQuest to
the Mac.  This is where you'll need to get some help, hence the reason I'm
posting this publically.
    The first reaction would be to scan the ads in the larger Mac
    magazines
for external drive Mac drive cases.  Relax and Mirror are quite good and
it might be worth a phone call to them, telling them that you already have
a case, what computer it used to hook up to, that it had a non-Mac host
adaptor, and you just need the correct cables, etc., to modify it for the
Mac.  There is no need to buy a new case when you already have one.  You
just need to modify the hookup since the host adapter is now removed.
    Second reaction would be to contact Toad Computers which, in spite
of the off-beat name, is a very active computer hardware company for Atari
components and custom Atari systems.  They might have a suggestion on
where to get the correct cable hookups for Mac hookup.

--Larry Rymal <[e-mail]>

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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1993 08:53:02 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: chiwriter -> MSWord

Hi everyone,
one of our foreign scientists arrived with a couple of chiwriter
(MSDOS) disks and would like to transfer it to MS Word (Mac).
Is there a translator to achieve this. Even a multi-step solution
like chiwriter -> word (PC) -> word (Mac) would be acceptable.
Thanks for any cues!

Norbert Muller
Institut fuer Chemie
Johannes Kepler Universitat
A-4040 Linz
Austria
Norbert Muller
Institut fuer Chemie
Johannes Kepler Universitat
A-4040 Linz
Austria

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Date: 05 Apr 1993 10:05 +0100 (MET)
From: "A.L. SMIT" <[e-mail]>
Subject: copying file names with command-C (Q)

In an application I need the filenames of the files (to be processed) in a
separate file.
I found out that  this can be done with the command-C command: first
select the files then apply command-C and paste it with command-V (e.g.
in Teach Text). For some unknown reason this works only when the number
of files is less than about 15.
More filenames are not pasted.
Could someone tell me why this is the case?

bert smit

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Date: 05 Apr 1993 15:22:57 +0200
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Diskette structure (Q)

Hi!
I'd like to read/write Mac 1.44Meg diskettes on my SparcStation. The physical
format is not a problem, as it is standard, but I have no idea about which
structure has a Mac diskette (I barely know that there is a Desktop on it :-)
)

Does someone have some info about it?
thanks, .mau.
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Phone: [phone]              Fax: [phone]

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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1993 14:17:38 -0600
From: "Earl Misanchuk"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: Ergonomic keybd evaluation (long)

Perhaps INFO-MAC readers will be interested in one person's opinions about
Apple's new ergonomic keyboard. I have for a couple of years now occasionally
felt what I suspect are the beginning signs of repetetive strain
injury--tightness and tingling of the tendons (I think--I'm no anatomist) on
the
back of my hands. Chi balls help, as do frequent rests, but I jumped at the
chance to order a new Apple ergonomic keyboard, even before our local store
got
a demonstrator. I am, I think, exactly the kind of user Apple designed this
new
keyboard for. I'm at my Mac many hours per days, every day of the week. I sit
there too long without taking a break, often without even taking my hands off
the keyboard. (I know that's my problem, not Apple's.)

I'm now asking the store to take back the keybaord, after only a couple of
days'
use. If some readers think that what's below is flaming, I apologize in
advance,
but what follows are honest, considered judgments, not ones made in the white
heat of passionate reaction.

I regret to say that I have not been as disappointed with a Macintosh product
since the introduction of the ImageWriter LQ. The keys are mushy, and have a
discomforting feel to their action. Maybe I could get used to that.

The caps lock key doesn't (lock that is; instead a little light on the key
goes
on--right where you can't see it if your left hand is anywhere near where it's
supposed to be), making it just as "functional" as the ones on PowerBooks, and
I
suspect you know how most PowerBook owners feel about them--they hate them!.
One
of the first things I got for my PowerBook was an extension that completely
disabled the caps lock key, because one can never determine when its been
turned
on accidentally until one looks up at a screenul of capitalized text. Of
course,
if it's disabled, why have it? Apparently Apple didn't consult anybody who
owned
a PowerBook when they designed this new keyboard. This "feature" I *cannot*
get
used to! It's absolutely maddening.

The replacement of the right control and options keys was, IMHO, a bad move. I
used those keys often. (They replaced them with a second set of cursor keys, a
la standard keyboard. I guess they felt they had to, since they placed the
usual
cursor key cluster on an extended keyboard completely out of reach (see
below))

The unit is also too darn big and clunky. I cannot believe that anyone who
does
work that involves paper documents and the Mac (together) can make use of it.
Why in the world they broke it into two separate parts, then made each of them
so much larger than they had to be, I cannot figure out. They could have kept
the F-keys (or buttons; they're OK) along the top, as on the extended
keyboard,
and moved the new "multi-media" buttons to the left "margin" if they had to
have
them (do the designers REALLY think they're going to be that useful? I
personally doubt it.). It seems to me that they could have had a normal
extended
keyboard that was hinged. That would have been functional; instead they went
for
symmetry. It seems to me that the designers were more concerned with how the
unit looks than with how functional it is.

If you put the keypad on the right, you can't use your mouse unless your arm
is
as long as an orangutan's. If you put it on the left, you can't read from a
document as you work (please don't tell me to put the document in the middle,
above the keyboard; only someone without trifocals would suggest that!). If
you
put the keypad in the middle, above the keyboard, you have to reach too far to
use the F-keys and the adjoining constellation (and of course, the designers
must never have conceived of this arrangement, because the connecting cord are
not designed to accomodate it neatly). And of course, the numeric keypad is
completely unusable if the unit is above the keyboard--it's just too far away
for comfortable use. I use ALL the keys on my extended keyboard. If I didn't,
I'd have one of those little wussie keyboards that they call the "standard".
IMHO, they really blew it with this design. Ergonomic it may be; useful it's
not.

Finally, the ultimate insult: the little "wings" that you're supposed to rest
your hands on. They're a good idea, and even only a couple of days' use has
convinced me that they are worthwhile. However, the manner in which they are
"attached" is ludicrous. They don't even snap into place--the depend on
gravity
alone to keep them in position. Of course, if you should happen to
accidentally
move the keyboard too close to yourself, such that the "wings" hang out over
the
edge of the desktop, they fall to the floor with an amazing clatter (it's
happened to me several times within a couple of days, so don't think it can't
happen). I really can't believe that they did something this Mickey Mouse!!!
Surely that plastic tab could have had a latching mechanism.

I gave the keyboard a couple of days' use to determine whetherI could live
with
its shortcomings in order to gain the benefits of the angled keys. I regret
that
I can't. I do like the angled keys, and found it easy to get used to their new
location, even in this short a time. But as far as an overall product, I'm
afraid Apple has blown it. About the only thing they did right, IMHO, was to
try. I also hope they try again--it took them a little while to get the
extended
keyboard out, too. Until, then, the latter will remain my choice, RSI and
all.

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Date: 5 Apr 1993 21:35:47GMT
From: "Alun J. Carr" <[e-mail]>
Subject: FEA software for the Mac (Q)

Does anybody out there know if there are any finite element analysis
packages available for the Mac (preferably 3D)? Please let me have the
manufacturers name and if possible (in order of preference) e-mail address,
fax number (not toll-free, as we can't use them from Europe), snail-mail
address and/or phone number.

If there are enough responses, I'll summarize and post a report.

Please let there be at least *one* package out there, otherwise the
smart-arse PC types are going to turn around and thumb their noses (they
have LUSAS, ANSYS and heaven only knows what else to play with), and a
colleague of mine is going to have to use his Centris 650 as a dumb terminal
into an overloaded VAX.

Thanks in advance,

Alun

Alun J. Carr, Mech. Eng. Dept., UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Internet: [e-mail] OR [e-mail]

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Date: 05 Apr 1993 12:28:13 +0100
From: ROB KOUWENBERG <[e-mail]>
Subject: Gamma correction ? (Q)
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Howdy !
I was fiddling around with some control panels. With the monitor control pnael
I pushed the option key and then clicked on the happy mac icon in the monitor
screen. Guess what ? An optional control panel popped up with choices for
'gamma' correction !
Nowhere in the manuals I did read was any mentioning of this feature ! I then
st
   arted doing a text search on my entire archive to find I owned a gamma
   contro
   l
DA. As this was encapsulated in a DA I hadn't seen it before. With this gamma
correction DA I can create a gamma resource which I can place into the system
or the monitor control panel. Woww! My 4 year old 14" monitor can be adjusted
to look like new !

Has anyone else read/used this feature ? Is it only available on 'some' color
interfaces ? What about the relation with color synchronization ?

FYI : my system : SE/30, Rasterops 264/PDS SE/30

Best regards, Rob Kouwenberg
[e-mail]

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From: ROB KOUWENBERG <[e-mail]>
Subject: PowerCD comment ?
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Howdy ! ( the second one -:))
I recently visited the CEBIT show in Hannover, Germany. A neat show was put up
by Apple Germany ( nice ballet dansers ! ). In one of the demonstration I
saw a new product from Apple : the POWER CD. It's an external device, with
TV hookup capability as to serve as a photo Cd player, with IR remote
control.
But it's also transportable ( as in walkman & beach ), together with an
optional
SCSI port. They however couldn't give a price tag. They wouldn't give me a
technical comparison of the apple 300 CD and this new power CD.

The question therefore is : Has anyone else seen this thing in the US, at what
price, with what kind of performance ?

Best Regards, Rob Kouwenberg
[e-mail]

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Date: 05 Apr 1993 11:29:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Peter Jorgensen <[e-mail]>
Subject: Hypercard and EtherTalk conflict (C)

Steve Portigal is having some kind of conflict between HyperCard and his
EtherTalk software.

Perhaps his copy of HyperCard or his Home Stack has a TCP XCMD or XFCN that is
causing the conflict. He should try reinstalling HyperCard and Home from the
original distribution disks. Hundreds, if not thousands, of us use hyperCard
and EtherTalk without problem.

Hope this helps.

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

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Date: Mon, 05 Apr 93 17:23:35 ITA
From: maurizio lana <[e-mail]>
Subject: INIT for floptical drives

I have a floptical drive from Grassroots. It came with a strange INIT called
MultiWare that revealed (examined with Resedit) to be a demo version of an
INIT
 able to read SONY CDROMs, floptical disks and Syquest cartridges.
It is not able to read-format 800k normal disks while it is able to format
1.44
 disks; even if I have DosMounter from Dataviz, it is not able to read DOS
 disk
s.
I wonder if other INIT(s) exist(s) that allow me to format and read 800K disks
and to read and format DOS disks through DosMounter.
Many thanks.
Maurizio

MAURIZIO LANA | E-MAIL: [e-mail] | fax [phone]
CISI - Universita' di Torino - V. S. Ottavio 20 - 10124 Torino Italy

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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1993 18:45 GMT
From: Fergus Sullivan <[e-mail]>
Subject: Microsoft/Norton Encrypt Translator Suggestion

I use Norton Encrypt, part of Norton Utilities 2.0, to protect all of my most
sensitive Microsoft Word files.  At present, I do this with the following
step-by-step technique that other users may find familiar:
    1.  Save Word document to desktop.
    2.  Drop Word document icon onto Drag & Drop Encrypt alias item on
        desktop.
    3.  Enter and confirm password.
    4.  Drop newly-encrypted document icon onto alias of Letters Folder,
        the destination of most of my encrypted files.
     Reopening these files essentially involves the reverse of the above.
     That
way I ensure I don't inadvertantly leave an item unprotected.
     Now, wouldn't it be _much_ more straightforward to simply save the file
     in
its destination folder (e.g. Letters f) using a Norton Encrypt translator like
the WordPerfect translators already included in the Word Package.  Such a
translator would of course maintain the same password protection as the other
method.
    I imagine this would be as much an issue for Symantic, authors of Norton
Encrypt, as it would be a matter for Microsoft.  Either way, both companies
monitor this newsthread.  If they see a lot of comment on it in this newsgroup
it is much more likely that they might incorporate such a feature in time for
Word 6.0.

Fergus Sullivan.

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Date: Mon, 05 Apr 93 14:55:35 EST
From: David Norris <[e-mail]>
Subject: Orange Micro Card Summery

I am summerizing a post I did about a week ago about the Orange Micro Inc.'s
PC
NuBus card. Seems to me and to the people that responded that it is much
cheape
r to go ahead and just buy a seperate brand new PC. After I started to get
resp
onces I noticed some commercials on TV from SUN electronics store. They had a
'486 with a 230MB hard drive, 14" monitor, 3.5 and 5.25" drives, a mouse, with
windows and dos 5.0 preinstalled for about $999. I guess if you compare that
to
Orange Mico's starting price for a '386 card at $1099, the choice is clear.
Wha
t I don't understand is what exactly are you paying for in the card that is so
expensive? If they can include a monitor ($200-$300) a decent sized HD
($300-$4
00) and a '486 with a power supply, mouse, and box for less, how come the card
isn't about $300-$400. I guess that's the price you pay for integration. (read
that sarcasticly) Maybe Orange Micro doesn't expect the Mac community to see
th
e outrageous price they are charging for their product.

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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1993 18:34 GMT
From: Fergus Sullivan <[e-mail]>
Subject: Partitioning HDD Problem

I've been trying to partition my internal 80Mb HDD using Apple HD SC Setup
(the
standard app that comes on the Disk Tools disk) without any success.  I can
use
the default options to partition it to 50% Mac, 50% AUX, various other
combinations of A/UX, Mac, ProDOS and Scratch but even using the Customs
settings I can't split the HDD into 2-3 large Macintosh partitions.

What am I doing wrong?

I've even tried it on a friend's 160Mb LC III without any success.  My main
aim
is to ensure smaller block sizes on these disks--3Kb allows too much wasted
space.  This obviously precludes the use of Norton Partition or any other soft
partitioning software.  I'd rather use standard Apple stuff or at least a
method that doesn't require obscure drivers or mounters.  Any suggestions?

Fergus Sullivan.

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Date: Mon, 05 Apr 93 16:15:10 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Shareware Wish List

W I S H L I S T  for  S H A R E W A R E



Thanks to those hard-working programmers who keep churning out
shareware and freeware and putting it in places I can get to, I've come very
close to being able to customize my Mac to run the way I want it to even
though I don't do any programming myself.  There's still a couple of
things I wish someone would write or add into existing shareware cdevs
and inits and such.  If I promise to get up-to-date with my shareware fees,
perhaps some of them folks will take these suggestions to heart?



1.  DiskInfo (David Dunham / Maitreya Design) is positively wonderful,
leaves commercial MacTools' Locate and stand-alone FileList in the dust
as far as doing what I want it to do, & many cheers for that, BUT it sure
would be nice if it would also include the capacity to duplicate a selected
file somewhere else and/or under a new name.  That's the only remaining
reason I find it necessary to go storming down through the morass of
folders on the Finder desktop:  if I want to copy something or move it to a
different place.



2.  It sure would be nice if locked documents (e.g., wordprocessing
documents) could be 'Opened As' something else for immediate editing
instead of having to be 'Saved As' in their often cumbersome entirety.



3.  I sure do love those cdevs!  I may not have the hundred-or-so
extensions that some folks were bragging about here of late, but I run
enough of them that my little 68000-powered SE isn't too swift about
tossing the CP up onto the screen when I ask it to.  Gee, wouldn't it be nice
if someone would write a System-6 CP interface so that System-6 users
could get to the cdev controls they want without having to raise up the
whole zoo in the process?  Richard Harvey's AliasInstall is a good start;
now if there was a way to con System 6 into tossing those aliases up into
the Apple-DA menu as System 7 would, so that the most commonly
needed CP's become DA's, that would be an entirely workable solution,
especially in conjunction with that INIT that lets more than 15 DA's be
working under the Apple menu (speaking of which, where the hell did it
go?  I know it's hiding in the archives somewhere...)



4.  Yeah, I know, several people are probably saying, "Then why don't you
just RUN System 7 if you want System 6 to run LIKE System 7?"  That's
a little like saying I should ditch my Toyota Corolla and buy a Cadillac
Sedan de Ville limo if I want soft cushy seats--I only run MultiFinder
about twice a month and I think small is elegant--but, yeah, eventually I
suppose I'll break down and install the damn storage-space-eating,
memory-hogging thing.  But if and only if someone writes an INIT or
something that will tell System 7 to use my old System 6 MacroMaker
and its Macros without horrible accompanying glitches (as recently
attested to), or writes something to replace it.



If these things have already been written or accomplished, so much the
better, especially if ya let me know where to get 'em!



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

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Date: Mon,  5 Apr 1993 13:01:47 +0000
From: Frank Tito <[e-mail]>
Subject: TCP/IP XCMD documentation [Q]

Does anyone have documentation for the CatInfo and other XCMDs that appear in
the internet Gopher stack from UMinn?  I'm writing my own little Gopher client
>From pieces torn from this stack (which does work well, but the code is a
complete mess).  If you have the docs in electronic form, by all means, feel
free to email 'em.  I'll summarize and post to the digest.

Frank D Tito
US Coast Guard Academy
New London CT

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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1993 15:22:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail] (ANGELA E. TAYLOR)
Subject: Upgrading LC to 7.0?

I'm querying on behalf of someone who is moderately in charge of 8 Macs
in a school setting. He has 2 Pluses,2 SEs, 4 LCs--none of which are
networked.

He wants to upgrade the LCs to system 7; is there any problem w/that?
For some reason, I thought I'd heard that the LCs (not the LC II) did
not run under system 7. The impetus for his wanting to upgrade was
that the only software he'd heard of that could endeavor to lock
folders etc. was At Ease, which he says requires 7. I have since
found info on at least one program (MacSecure 1.7) which runs under
system 6.

Angela E. Taylor                [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1993 08:18:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alex Sirota <[e-mail]>
Subject: What is your favorite Text Editor > 32k

> I was wondering what people felt their favorite small and easy text editor
> was? I am looking for something like TeachText but I need to handle files
> greater than  32K. Anyone have suggesions. I would prefer something that
> works in a really small memory partition. Thanks. Reply via email.
>
:: X.500 - [e-mail]    ::

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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 93 04:19 CDT
From: [e-mail] (Greg Trimper)
Subject: X.11 Appliance Control software for the mac?

Is there out there somewhere software that will allow you to use your
mac to control the X.11 (I think that is what it is called) remote
appliance switching system?  I've seen this stuff at radio shack with
some DOS software, and I know someone who wrote a windows program
that controls the boxes.  If anyone could point me to Mac versions of the
software, or a similar system that works with the mac, I would appreciate it.

please email and post if you think there is interest.

Greg Trimper   [e-mail]

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