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Info-Mac Digest             Thu, 17 Jun 93       Volume 11 : Issue 124

Today's Topics:

      [*] A font utility
      [*] announcement of a freeware: Mandarin
      [*] AppMaker1.5.2->AppMaker1.5.4 Updater
      [*] ara commander
      [*] Ball & Stick 3.5 DEMO
      [*] Catch The Buzz 1.1.1 [1/5]
      [*] chucks-printer-driver-110.hqx
      [*] DarkShutdown 1.1
      [*] Disk Charmer 2.0.3
      [*] easy-view-233-patch.hqx
      [*] FaberZooms 1.1
      [*] Folder Icon Cleaner 1.0.4
      [*] Fonster
      [*] FW: Macintosh Tips 'n Tricks
      [*] Known Users newsletter archive 1.4
      [*] Mac & IBM Compare-Version 1.8.2
      [*] mac.ftp.list Version 3.6
      [*] mfzoom-2.hqx
      [*] Movie2Snd
      [*] NisusBugs3.47
      [*] NoteCard 2.4.7
      [*] OffHook 1.2
      [*] Pac-Man
      [*] Pac-Man Hack
      [*] Re: hyperplot
      [*] Spaceward Ho! 3.0 Demo
      [*] Stack Report version 1.1
      [*] Time Talker hypercard stack
      [*] util/uptodate-11.hqx
      [*] util/uptodate-11P.hqx
      (Q) Fetch and Dec Alpha...
      Accelerators
      AfterDark Globe module
      Any File Maker Pro pros out there?  HELP!! (Q)
      Bas Sectors
      broken centris on/off switch
      Can't do High speed uploads (R)
      CD Caddies
      Cheap ARAP server?
      Deskwriter 3.9 and 4.0 drivers: underlining (R)
      DiskTop Needs an Update (C)
      EasyView
      Eudora over a serial line
      f2c binary-debinhexing
      finder-info dialog
      Go back to 1985...
      HELP!!! Developer needs help getting started...
      Help with MacLayers
      hewlett packard laserjet series II
      HPIII printer - printing to from a Mac
      Jurassic Park comments, Macs in movies
      Localtalk and ARA on a Duo at same time?
      Looking for time sync software
      Mac LC III v.s. VX
      Macro procedure (A)
      MacX/MacTCP and system 7.1? (Q)
      Microsoft Co. - Cheapskates!
      Microsoft E-Mail Address (R)
      Microsoft Vaporware (interesting !)
      Modifying keymap in CTB Terminal Tool
      mouse microswitches, source (A)
      NFS, or sharing a folder with UNIX (A)
      num lock on standard keyboard lciii
      Panasonic Printer
      PC Board Design Programs (A)
      postings
      PowerBook in a Coma!
      printers
      Printing to QD: OzTeX vs. DirectTeX (R)
      PROBLEMS:  Sequence files to film recorder
      PS Writer usage (Q)
      SCCI Ethernet Problems
      Subject: Microsoft and INITS
      Summary of FS/FM Video Options
      TimesTwo Follow up (C)
      Time synch
      Uninterruptable Power Supplies (C)
      Using DeskWriter 3.1 again (no longer on 3.9 or 4.0)
      Video Sync Controls
      Viruses...new Mac user! (A)
      Voice Navigator
      Western Digital hard disk driver? (Q)
      what is an AUX.bin file?

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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1993 20:40:56 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Stewart Walker)
Subject: [*] A font utility

>>I think it would be very handy to have something that would whip through a
>>document and make a list of all the fonts (and possibly sizes and styles
>>thereof) used in that document. The list could be attached (electronically
or
>>physically) to a document that is being printed from a different Mac, so
that
>>the person doing the printing would be forewarned that certain fonts may
have
>>to
>>be added to the Mac doing the printing in order that the document come out
>all
>>right.
Varityper made such a thing freeware. I've attached it supposing it gets
thru OK.

[Archived as /info-mac/font/util/varityper.hqx; 174K]

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 14:08:00 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Liedong Zheng)
Subject: [*] announcement of a freeware: Mandarin

Dear netters:

Mandarin v 1.0, June 1993
==========================

Mandarin is a small Macintosh freeware program I wrote in the
past few weeks. It reads in a  Chinese (GB/BIG5 coded) text,
and *speaks* out mandarin through  Macintosh's speakers. It is an
asychronous sound player, running in the background.
It is also helpful for those who would want to
learn how to speak mandarin chinese, just run Mandarin in background,
and use any Chinese viewer in the front to display the characters.
This program is also a good tool for proofreading.

The program is uploaded as a "demo" version, because Mandarin tries to
access a sound library, and the complete sound library is about 12 MB.
This demo has everything you need to play the sample file, however the
sound library only has the sounds needed. A complete sound library
can be retrieved by anonymous ftp, please see readme file for details.


Acknowledgement
================

I would like to thank Jim Reekes for his DTS archive.


Legal stuff
===========

All rights reserved. This program can be freely distributed
provided the whole package is not altered, modified in any way.
The sound.lib may not be used without otherwise the
permission from the author.

Please send your suggestions as well as bug reports to me.


Liedong Zheng, June, 1993

[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/app/mandarin-10.hqx; 417K]

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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1993 11:14:38 +0600
From: (Brad Koehn) <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] AppMaker1.5.2->AppMaker1.5.4 Updater

Here is the AppMaker1.5.2->AppMaker1.5.4 Updater, please put it in the
archive. This updater fixes same minor bugs and allows for Symantec C++ for
Macintosh and THINK C 6 compatibility.

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/app-maker-152-to-154-updater.hqx; 70K]

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Date: 11 Jun 1993 16:38:07 -0800
From: "drew" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] ara commander

               Subject:                                Time: 4:27 PM
  OFFICE MEMO          ara commander                           Date: 6/11/93
ara commander by Ron Duritsch of Trilobyte Software, replaces client end of
apple's appletalk remote access (ARA).  you must first purchase apple's ara.
then, this control panel allows you to connect using a smaller, faster, more
configurable, easier to use utility.  reduce all your options to a
double-clickable-icon that silently and quickly connects you and dissapears.
options for prefix, credit card number, etc.

this demo runs for two weeks and then times out.  Pricing is as follows:
single user license    $19.95
10 user license        $149.95
20 user license        $239.95
50 user license        $459.95
100 user license      $799.95

To order please contact:
Ron Duritsch
Trilobyte Software
6982 Devon Drive
Middletown, OH 45044
513-777-6641
513-779-7760 fax
73740,2472 CIS
Trylobyte AOL

[i'm just posting for the author.  :)]
-drew wade
[e-mail]


[Archived as /info-mac/demo/ara-commander.hqx; 134K]

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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1993 19:50:19 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Norbert Mueller)
Subject: [*] Ball & Stick 3.5 DEMO

Hello,

this binhexed self-extracting CompactPro archive
is a demo of version 3.5 of Ball & Stick, a Macintosh molecular
graphics package, that has just been released. This demo version is
restricted to 40 atoms and overprints outputs with an ordering information.

Please replace all previous demo versions in your archives.

This is a molecular graphics application working on all Macintosh computers
>From MacPlus upward. It requires at least System 6.07, for color work
32-bit QuickDraw is heavily recommended.
It is System 7 friendly and supports the generation of QuickTime movies.

For those who know the previous 3.0 version here is a list of the main
changes - apart from bug fixes:

Completely new user interface for animation
Acceleration of all functions, especially reading of structure files
Extended automatic format recognition
Export of coordinate data in different formats
Better background operation
Better memory management
Better label positioning
Optional annotation text in images
Anti-aliasing
Precision real-time positioning ("nudge")
200+ organic structure collection (MM2+ minimized)
System 7 features (drag & drop)

The full version of Ball & Stick is published by

    Cherwell Scientific Publishing
    27 Park End Street
    Oxford OX1 1HU, UK

>From whom we receive royalties. The full package also
includes a 200+ organic structure collection and a
fpu-processor savvy version of the program.

"A Quick Guide to B&S" is a text document that accompanies this demo.
There you will find contact addresses for your region. Upgrades are
available from these places.

Norbert Mueller

Institut fuer Chemie
Johannes Kepler Universitaet
A-4040 Linz
Austria

Norbert Mueller
Institut fuer Chemie
Johannes Kepler Universitaet
A-4040 Linz
Austria

e-mail:

[e-mail] (preferred)

[e-mail]
NorbertM (AMDA-Link Linz)    ->FirstClass

[e-mail]                \
[e-mail]               > will expire in 1994
[e-mail] /

[Archived as /info-mac/demo/ball-and-stick-35.hqx; 296K]

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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 93 11:36:09 +0200
From: Lionel Cons <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Catch The Buzz 1.1.1 [1/5]

[Ctach The Buzz 1.1.1 part 1 of 5]

Here is the latest version of my game 'Catch The Buzz' (CTB).

Version 1.1.1 is a bug fix release; version 1.1 introduced a new
type of game: advanced trainning.

For those of you who don't know it, this game is a variant of
Tetris with a big difference: you must catch a little annoying beast
call the Buzz. Try it and you will throw away your copy of Tetris!

This game is shareware ($10). Have fun...

Lionel Cons
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/game/catch-the-buzz-111.hqx; 314K]

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 93 17:07:34 CDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] chucks-printer-driver-110.hqx

[*] Chuck's Printer Driver 1.1.0


The following is the latest version (1.1.0) of Chuck's Printer Driver.
A printer driver for Epson compatible 9-pin and 24-pin printers (and
configurable for most dot matrix printers).  Just drop the driver and
the spooler application into your system folder!

It fixes a few bugs:
    * problem with justified text
    * Print canceling
And has new features:
    * Can print to a file instead of to the printer
    * Background print spooling in Multifinder or Sys 7

    - Charles Rentmeesters
      [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/prn/chucks-printer-driver-110.hqx; 64K]

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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 93 14:12:29 +0200
From: [e-mail] ( Rodella-Morena)
Subject: [*] DarkShutdown 1.1

DarkShutdown is a Darkside 4.0 module which will restart/shut down your
Mac instead of darkening the screens after the given time has elapsed.
The Finder or At Ease must be running, because I restart/shut down
by telling them to do it (with Apple Events), so that all open
applications are closed correctly.
There is even an option for responding automatically to the
"Do you want to save..." dialog boxes, useful if the Mac is unattended.

Enjoy yourself and remember the $5 shareware fee!

Fabrizio Oddone

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/darkside-shut-down-11.hqx; 7K]

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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 93 14:01:07 +0200
From: [e-mail] ( Rodella-Morena)
Subject: [*] Disk Charmer 2.0.3

Disk Charmer 2.0.x is a neat utility that lets you conveniently
initialize (or verify) floppy disks.
It *requires* at least System 7 to run.
It has a nice, modeless interface.
Help Balloons are everywhere.
It supports drag&drop (with the required Apple Events).
It is able to create larger disks: you gain 8.5K on a 800K disk,
18.5K on a HD disk (if you keep one large file filling the disk,
such as a Compact Pro segment).
It is the first disk formatter supporting the handy "Undo" feature
we all know and love.
It is the first disk formatter able to initialize and verify disks
(hold your breath) *in background*. To access this feature, you need
the Thread Manager Extension from Apple Computer.
It has even more features... but I am sure you are already impressed!

I have fixed a couple of cosmetic bugs from version 2.0.2,
and improved the interface again.

Enjoy yourself and remember the shareware fee!

Fabrizio Oddone

[Archived as /info-mac/disk/disk-charmer-203.hqx; 71K]

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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 93 10:51:15 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: [*] easy-view-233-patch.hqx

A serious bug in Easy View was discovered recently by Ian A.
McEachern from Ottawa. The bug will be effective only when a
styled view is closed. However, it is harmless most of the
time. (That's why it remained there for two months)

The clue toward a solution was found by Alan Coopersmith from
Utah. Both users refer to DoubleTrouble utility by Greg Marriott
>From Apple Computer. Thanks to all parties involved.

This patch is not needed if you do not use styled views at all.
Once applied, it will upgrade Easy View 2.32 by modifying a
single CODE resource. The bug corrected by this patch could be
the sole reason for the intermittent crashes mentioned in the
Easy View documents.

To quote from Greg Marriott:
> This kind of bug is very hard to track down, and usually
> difficult to reproduce, because master pointer blocks contain
> 64 handles (by default, some programs change this behavior).
> So, this situation only comes up about 1/64th of the time.
> When it happens, though, the results are inevitably
> catastrophic.

This patch may not work properly while some virus detection
software is running.

This patch application was made with _ResCompare_, a ~free~
resource comparison and patch generation utility. ResCompare
can be FTP'ed from most Macintosh archive sites. Send e-mail
inquiries regarding ResCompare to [e-mail].

Akif Eyler
Bilkent University
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/app/easy-view-233-patch.hqx; 19K]

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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 93 14:13:08 +0200
From: [e-mail] ( Rodella-Morena)
Subject: [*] FaberZooms 1.1

Enclosed is a Darkside 4.0 module which displays zooming
rectangles (in color if you have a color-capable Mac)
all over your screen(s).

This utility is FREE! Enjoy.

Fabrizio Oddone

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/darkside-40-faber-zooms-11.hqx; 6K]

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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 93 14:02:49 +0200
From: [e-mail] ( Rodella-Morena)
Subject: [*] Folder Icon Cleaner 1.0.4

Folder Icon Cleaner is a small utility that lets you get rid
correctly of those space and time wasting custom icons, sticked
right there on your folders.
The Finder keeps every folder icon in a separate hidden file.
The known versions of the Finder (7.0, 7.0.1, 7.1) do not
delete this file when removing a custom folder icon. They only
delete the icon resources from the file. Note that no other
information is kept into these Icon files. Folder Icon Cleaner
correctly removes the icon by deleting the file (and by updating
the Use custom icon attribute of the folder). No data is lost,
you only gain a little more free space on your disk.
You can even erase every custom folder icon on your disk.
Folder Icon Cleaner can only be used under System 7 or later;
however, it is rather useless on a System 6-or-older Macintosh.
Life is easier with a drag&drop interface.

Enjoy yourself and remember the shareware fee!

Fabrizio Oddone

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/folder-icon-clearner-104.hqx; 25K]

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 13:43:09 -0800 (PDT)
From: Dayne Miller <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Fonster

Okay, here we go again:

Please post the attached binary to /info-mac/util

Text blurb:

Fonster (release 1.0) is a "whateverware" (i.e. dirt cheap shareware) utility
that lists and displays examples of all fonts on Mac disks.

Thanks-

     Dayne Miller
       [e-mail]

P.S. My e-mail address *may* be off-line for a while.

[Archived as /info-mac/font/util/fonster-10.hqx; 59K]

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Date: 12 Jun 1993 16:02:46 -0600
From: "pfterry" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] FW: Macintosh Tips 'n Tricks

The May issue of Mac Tips & Tricks.

[Archived as /info-mac/per/mac-tips-n-tricks-93-05.txt; 147K]

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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 93 10:26:27 PDT
From: Kevin Savetz <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Known Users newsletter archive 1.4

This Hypercard stack is an archive of back issues of Known Users, the monthly
newsletter of the Sequoia Macintosh Users Group, located in Humboldt County,
California. Is most cases, the stack contains the full article text, which can
be read onscreen or printed.

I tried to maximize the number of articles of interest to the outside world,
keeping news from the bureaucracy at a minimum. The stack contains reviews,
columns, and tips on a plethora of subjects. You can search by keyword,
article
title or author, or just browse. You may reprint articles for your newsletter
(with restrictions, see the stack for details) or use our articles as ideas
for
articles of your own.

This is verison 1.4 of the stack, the first publicly-released version. It
contains articles printed from 1/87 through 6/92. Contact Kevin Savetz
(Internet: "[e-mail]" or America Online: "Savetz") for questions or
feedback. Freeware.

[Archived as /info-mac/per/known-users.hqx; 576K]

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Date: 12 Jun 93 09:24:52 EDT
From: bruce grubb <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Mac & IBM Compare-Version 1.8.2

Archive name: mac-ibm-compare182.txt
category: text

This is Version 1.8.2 of this report & should replace mac-ibm-compare181.txt.

Changes: QuickRing and PCI info consolidated. Due to the rapid changes in
computers I am interested in contributions from Digest and other readers to
flesh out, correct or point out confusing parts of the report.  Send comments
and information to CompuServe: 72130,3557; AOL: BruceG6069; or Internet:
[e-mail].
This report compares the Mac and IBM machines CPUs, hardware {monitor support
and expansion}, operating systems {includes number crunching}, networking &
printing; it covers not only present hardware/software statistics and features

but also future possibilities.
Despite its condensed and generalized format it still provides some thought-
provoking reading on the relative merits, problems, and deficiencies of Macs
and IBM PCs.  It also contains some FAQ answers about both machines.
Note:  for proper reading off line this document should be in 9 point Monaco.

[Archived as /info-mac/info/hdwr/mac-ibm-compare-182.txt; 45K]

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Date: 11 Jun 93 14:47:18 EDT
From: bruce grubb <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] mac.ftp.list Version 3.6

Archive name: mac-ftp-list36.txt
category: text

This is the latest version this report and should replace the previous version
of mac-ftp-list.txt.

This is a update to Mike Gleason's ftp list {He gave me permision to continue
it}.  It lists a good number of mac anonymous ftp sites with notes on some and

a little blurb on how to use anonymous ftp.

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/info/mac-ftp-list-36.txt; 31K]

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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1993 02:47:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Narayan R. Sainaney" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] mfzoom-2.hqx

MFZoom version 2.0
This is an INIT that sets the menu and window font size to 14pt. Useful
for people with big screen monitors. Freeware.

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/mfzoom-20.hqx; 6K]

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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 93 22:46:35 CDT
From: [e-mail] (Colin Law)
Subject: [*] Movie2Snd

This tiny app extracts sounds from Quicktime movies.  It was sent to me be
Scott Lindsey,
whose comments are below, in response to my request for something to create
System 7
sounds from a QT movie file created when I sampled an audio cd directly from
my
Quadra 800's cdrom drive.  The app is simple and has not crashed for
me....AND...it
extracts the sound file in STEREO if it was sampled as such with no
noticeable loss
in quality from the Quicktime version (which for instance SoundExtractor
would not do.)

Colin Law ([e-mail])
----
Movie2Snd is a very simple application which extracts soundtracks from
QuickTime movies.

Drop-launch a movie onto the application (or choose a movie from the open
dialog).
You will be prompted for a location for the resulting sound file. That sound
file is a plain ol' System 7 sound file that can be played by opening
(double clicking).

Movie2Snd does all of its work in memory, so you'll need to set the
application
memory size large enough to accommodate the sound. 1/2 of the target
movie's file
size is a good rule of thumb (use VM for large movies). Like I said, this is a
very simple program with practically no user interface. If an error occurs, it
just beeps at you (QuickTime isn't installed, not enough memory, etc.)

This program is freely distributable.

Scott Lindsey <[e-mail]>

[Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/movie-2-snd.hqx; 8K]

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 9:49:11 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Rick Sutcliffe)
Subject: [*] NisusBugs3.47

      NisusBugs3.47

NISUS bug registry

This is version 4.3 dated 1993 06 01

1. The NISUS bug registry will accept bug reports only on the current
version (now 3.47)
2. Bugs must be documented with an example.
3. Mail the information to me at [e-mail]
4. I will create a summary file and post to the internet archives. The file
will be updated periodically as I get additional reports.
5. I will forward a copy of each new version to Nisus.  Several previous
versions of this list have been available on the net and Compuserve, the
last being version 3.0 about 18 months ago) -all were mailed to Paragon.

Disclaimer:  I have discovered many of these bugs myself, and verified most
of the others.  (Mac II & IIfx system 7.1 16M + 170M internal, 105M
external, Northgate keyboard, unMouse, trackball, lots of extensions
including NOW, Suitcase, QuickKeys, allowing 2M for Nisus)  I have
personally observed all the bug behaviour marked Still applies in 3.47 in
that version.  Because there are also a wide variety of different systems
available, I cannot claim that the information in this file is exhaustive or
accurate in all situations.  In any case, I take no responsibility for
anyone's use or misuse of this information.  The words "I" and "me" refer in
most cases either to myself, or to the submitter.  Original wording of
submitters has often been retained (even where I knew about the bug
already,) but names have been removed to protect the innocent.  Some of the
bugs (especially in the construction of macros and the operation of supplied
macros) were reported for version 3.05 or 3.06 and have not been verified by
me personally for version 3.06 or 3.47, nor have they been authoritatively
reported to me as fixed.  Many of those reported with respect to macros have
been deleted for this edition, as they were not sufficiently specific to be
able to understand and reproduce easily.

No attempt has been made yet to test the script capabilities of 3.47.

To remain authoritative, this and all versions of this "official" network
bug list are copyright ) by Rick Sutcliffe.  This document may be freely
copied and distributed provided it is not changed and no fee is charged for
its distribution with the exception of normal downloading costs.

Compiled by:
Rick Sutcliffe
Trinity Western University  [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/text/nisus-bugs-347.hqx; 18K]

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Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1993 9:53:04 -0500 (CDT)
From: "DALE H. MARSH, MD" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] NoteCard 2.4.7

     Enclosed is a BinHexed Compact Pro file that contains
NoteCard 2.4.7.  This is to replace the current file NoteCard
246.  This latest version of NoteCard fixes a few minor bugs
and can now import files from other databases.
     NoteCard 2.4.7 application is for creating
review questions to facilitate studying for examinations.
Included with this ShareWare package are about 700
pathology review questions based on medical school
lectures and pathology textbooks. These questions are
useful for studying for NBME part I (medical boards).
Persons paying the $15.00 ShareWare fee will receive an
additional 7000+ questions dealing with most all aspects
of NBME parts I and II.
     Reviewed in the April 1993 issue of Medical Software
Reviews:
     "The program covers a broad range of
     subjects and should be useful to students seeking a
     review in the format of multiple questions. It might
     be of even greater use to students who want to use the
     authoring system throughout medical school to prepare
     their own questions for ongoing study. At $15 it is
     a bargain."
     NoteCard is system 7 compatible, 32 bit compatible
and was developed on the Quadra (therefore 040 compatible)
and works on the Plus with System 6.0.x also. Code was
written with Think C 5.0 using the TCL 1.1.1.
Documentation is included.
     The review questions were written by a medical
student that received 700 (99th percentile) on
NBME part I.
Dale H. Marsh MD
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/app/note-card-247.hqx; 267K]

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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 93 13:39:30 EST
From: [e-mail] (Malcolm Davidson)
Subject: [*] OffHook 1.2

OffHook is a small application which will send a string to the modem and
wait for a specified time before launching another application.  Because
the serial driver can be specified by name, OffHook can invoke RAM drivers
such as those installed by QuadraLink software, as well as the usual modem
and printer drivers.

OffHook is intended to be used as part of a Tabby event. Version 1.2 now
supports the update to the Launch.Next file, and is Tabby compatible.

The author wishes to thank John Agapitos (Sysop of Club Mac BBS, Australia)
for helpful suggestions during the development of this program.

OffHook may be freely distributed, but remains copyright of the author.

OffHook 1.2 should replace the earlier OffHook 1.1 in the archives (where
Im not sure now) and preferably be placed in the comms area.

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/off-hook-12.hqx; 35K]

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 11:02:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Pac-Man

       This is an arcade replica of the game "Pac-Man" by M. Tsuji. It's been
out for a while; I believe you had it before. However, it had a bug which
would
not allow you to play it on any monitor with a size other than 640x480. With
smaller monitors, this was correct; however, with larger monitors, it would
not
run even though there were no problems.
       I have patched a small segment of code that will allow play on any
monitor size (and depth). Be forewarned, though: playing with the wrong color
depth WILL cause you to crash, 100% certain! I've never tried it with monitors
smaller than 640x480, but I wouldn't be surprised if that crashed too. But for
those of you who want to play PacMan on a larger screen, this is for you.
                            *Stiles
(PS: the change simply NOPs out some compare operations, and a little warning
dialog.)

    Have fun!

[Archived as /info-mac/game/pac-man-mod.hqx; 34K]

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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1993 14:13:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Pac-Man Hack

    Before, I uploaded a hacked version of the Pac-Man game which allowed
it to be played on large (greater than 640x480) monitors. It was rejected, as
apparently software which has been modified by someone other than the author
is not allowed.
    So, I'm sending a textfile which allows the user to fix their own
copy. I decided to simplify the operation, and in doing so, I actually made
the hacked copy more secure! It will now only start in the "correct"
situation,
that is, when it won't bomb or crash.
    This textfile carefully explains how to use ResEdit to get this game
to work on any monitor that Pac-Man will fit on. Have fun!
    (PS if you want to test it and make sure it works, Pac-Man is on
Sumex-aim.Stanford.Edu)

[Archived as /info-mac/game/pac-man-mod-inst.hqx; 4K]

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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 93 16:11:16 WST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Re: hyperplot

Hyperplot is an HC stack which can be used to plot as many mathematical
functions as the user wishes on the same card. It allows the user to
control the number of points to plot, to set the x-y range, to zoom in or
out by user-defined factor, to plot points and to obtain the coordinates of
points in the mathematical plane by clicking.

[Archived as /info-mac/card/hyperplot.hqx; 29K]

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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 93 1:14:42 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Eric Snider)
Subject: [*] Spaceward Ho! 3.0 Demo

Hey! Here's the Spaceward Ho! 3.0 Demo from Delta Tao Software... This
is a playable demo. This isn't one of those multi-megabyte disturbing
QuickTime movie demos. You can play against 2 computer opponents in a small
galaxy and amazingly enough the real version is even better. Anyway,
the demo runs in color or b&w and runs on any Mac that has 1 meg of
ram free as well as System 6.0.5 or greater.

The main limitation of the demo is that your tech levels are limited
and the computer players' levels aren't. See if you can beat 'em anyway...

Here's a blurb from the back of the real (non-demo) Spaceward Ho! packaging:

"Spaceward Ho! is a strategy game of awesome scope, casting you as the
leader of a spacefaring race. Your goal is to explore and to colonize
the galaxy. Of course, you are not alone. As you discover new worlds
to colonize and terraform or mine, you'll find aliens bent on their
own galactic conquest opposing your expanding empire. Ally with them,
or fight them using ships built with your latest technological
advances. And if you use your resources (both limited and renewable)
cleverly, you'll conquer the galaxy!

 * Play against up to 20 computer opponents, or against friends on an
AppleTalk network

 * Every game is unique: choose type of galaxy, number of stars, and
artificial intelligence level

 * Research new technologies (weapons, shields, miniaturization,
engines, and radical) to build custom spaceships

 * Runs in color on color Macintoshes"


Eric
Delta Tao
p.s. You can distribute this demo freely as long as you don't charge
money for it. Upload it, duplicate it, give it away. Knock yourself out.

Spaceward Ho! was written by Peter Commons and lots of it was designed
by Joe Williams. Art by Howard Vives and Bob Van de Walle.

Here it is:

[Archived as /info-mac/demo/spaceward-ho-30.hqx; 611K]

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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1993 11:54 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Stack Report version 1.1

Stack Report version 1.1
This is a HyperCard stack which collects from a stack all of the scripts
and all of the settings of all of the properties of all of the objects into
one handy-dandy report.  It then lets you save the report to a text file, read
it in a field, or print it.  You can choose to omit some (or even all)
properties
>From a report.

Stack report is shareware.  Try it for 10 days, and if you like it, send me
$10.
If you are a student, just send me a postcard.

Send comments and suggestions to [e-mail]

All of this information (and more) is given in the "about" field on the first
card of the stack.  Click the "About this Stack" button to show the field.

[Archived as /info-mac/card/stack-report-11.hqx; 25K]

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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 93 10:28:40 PDT
From: Kevin Savetz <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Time Talker hypercard stack

TIME TALKER: this is a small stack that makes your Mac speak the time. Using a
digitized voice, it breaks the system time into chunks, then speaks them. You
can use this as a stand-alone stack, or use the code in your own stack. If you
like my voice, fine, or use your own voice, or teach it Swedish, or whatever.
$5 shareware.

Send feedback to Kevin Savetz (Internet: "[e-mail]" or America
Online:
"Savetz")

[Archived as /info-mac/card/time-talker.hqx; 132K]

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Date: Sun, 13 Jun 93 13:33:44 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Ben Hekster)
Subject: [*] util/uptodate-11.hqx

UpToDate is a utility for keeping multiple, distributed copies of
documents up to date.  For instance, if you have a `main' Macintosh
at home and a portable for `on the road', UpToDate can help you ensure
that both machines have the most recent copy of any documents that you
have worked on.  Even if your Macs are not connected by a network,
UpToDate can help with transferring files from one Mac to another by
floppy disk.  UpToDate can also be useful when groups of documents are
being worked on by people in different places, and it can be used for
backing up files.

UpToDate lets you link pairs of files or folders.  It will help you
keep track of changes in linked files or folders by telling you when
files have changed, deleted, or new files have been created.  It can
automatically copy, create, or delete the corresponding file to keep
the link up to date.

UpToDate requires System 7.0.

Version 1.1 fixes a number of bugs in 1.0 and has some new features:
*       several improvements to the user interface, such as a
    graphical indication of suggested update actions
*       link filter provides control over which kinds of items should
    actually be updated
*       option to reset updated files' modification dates to the time
    of the original modification instead of the time of the update
*       a document can update its links, save and close itself, and
    quit the application, automatically
*       recognizes files copied by hand in the Finder as being
    up-to-date
*       works correctly across time zones and changing clocks
*       documents are loaded in temporary memory
*       script system awareness, with regard to writing direction and
    fonts
*       verifies files copied to floppy disks
*       no longer uses the separate SysErrs.Err file

UpToDate is happyware-- send me a post card if you like it!

[Archived as /info-mac/disk/up-to-date-11.hqx; 141K]

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Date: Sun, 13 Jun 93 13:35:25 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Ben Hekster)
Subject: [*] util/uptodate-11P.hqx

UpToDate e' uma utilidade por conter consistente ("up to date", ou
actualizadas) maiores distribuidas co'pias de fichas.  Por exemplo,
se tenha um Macintosh em casa, e um portable por em via, UpToDate
pode ajudar-se assegurar que ambas ma'quinas te^m a co'pia mais recente
dos documentos com quais trabalhou.  Mesmo que os seus Macs na~o sa~o
aliasos por rede, UpToDate pode ajudar com deslocar documentos dum
lugar para outro por disco.  UpToDate tambe'm pode ser u'til quando
grupos de documentos foram trabalhados por pessoas em si'tios va'rios,
e pode ser empregado por fazer `back-ups'.

UpToDate habilita-se ligar pars de documentos ou pastas.  Ajudarei-se
manter em dia modificac,o~es nos documentos ou pastas ligadas para
notificar-se quando documentos sa~o mudados, afastados, ou novos
documentos criados.  Pode copiar, criar, ou afastar automa'ticamente o
documento para conter equiparada a ligac,a~o.

UpToDate necessita de Sistema 7.0.

Versa~o 1.1 repara um nu'mero de bugs de 1.0 e tem alguns features novos:
*       correc,o~es va'rias ao user interface, como uma indicac,a~o
    gra'fica das acc,o~es de actualizar necessa'rias
*       filtro de ligac,a~o da' controle sobre quais categorias de
    items de facto te^m que ser actualizadas
*       uma opc,a~o para restabelecer datas de modificac,o~es de fichas
    ao tempo da modificac,a~o original
*       um documento pode actualizar as suas ligac,o~es, saudar-se,
    fechar-se, e sair a aplicac,a~o, automa'ticamente
*       distingue que fichas copiadas a` ma~o no Finder sa~o actualizadas
*       funciona correctamente por zonas de tempo e sinos mudandos
*       documentos sa~o cargados em memo'ria tempora'ria
*       aludido das sistemas escritas, a respeito de direcc,a~o de
    escrir e fonts
*       verifica fichas copiadas para floppy disco
*       ja' na~o emprega a ficha separada SysErrs.Err

UpToDate e' `happyware'.  Se o goste, por favor envia-me um postal
ilustrado do seu domici'lio!

[Archived as /info-mac/disk/up-to-date-11p.hqx; 144K]

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 10:56:15 +0200
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (Q) Fetch and Dec Alpha...

Hallo,

Currently we have a DEC Alpha 3000 model 500 at the department for evaluation
purposes. Since it is intended to be used as a file server and as a machine
for the students to learn programming, file transfer is quite important.
For this, Fetch probably is one of the best programs due to its excellent
user interface. However, as soon as we try to connect to the Alpha, the macs
freeze completely, and have to be rebooted. This is regardless of which
type of mac is used. Connecting to other Unix machines on the network is no
problem (RS6000, SGI,...)
The Alpha is running OSF/1, the macs system 7.x.
Has anyone had the same experience with this or a similar setup?
All explanations or tips are greatly  appreciated.

                   Geert Jan Bex
                   dept. WNI, LUC
                   Diepenbeek, Belgium

PS: Please don't send any hatemail about wasting such a machine as a file
server instead of using it as a number cruncher, it was not my idea.

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 13:51:55 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Brozovic Douglas)
Subject: Accelerators

I am wondering about precisely what is involved in accelerating one's
Mac Classic II.

1)  The prices of the various brands of accelerators vary widely.  In
    particular, the AE TransWarp 2300 runs $399 (40MHz + FPU).

2)  What are the (if any) software requirements?  Do the hardware
    packages include the necessary software?

3)  What about pre-existing RAM chips?  That is, is it advisable to
    replace all the RAM chips with "faster" SIMMs?  If you
    don't                   what happens (or _doesn't happen :-)  )?

4)  Please include any advice and share any personal experience...


Thanks in Advance,
Doug Brozovic

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Date: 17 Jun 93 12:33:00 EST
From: "Troen, Bruce" <[e-mail]>
Subject: AfterDark Globe module

I've seen mention of an AfterDark Globe module written by Jack Eastman.  There
are two recent picts which use it to represent a spinning globe (a Martian
pict
and a pict from VanGogh).

Where can I obtain a copy of this module?  It does not seem to be at
Info-Mac.
Is it shareware/freeware or is it commercial?

TIA (Thanks in advance.)

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 16:22:20 -0700 (PDT)
From: Scott Wyant <[e-mail]>
Subject: Any File Maker Pro pros out there?  HELP!! (Q)

Help!  Some decent, overworked people at
my university need FileMaker Pro help,
so I turn to you.  They have a student
info database on FMPro, and a lot of
boilerplate university documents into
which they need to put the info.  The
documents are official, and so have to
have the official type face, logo, etc.
Many times only a few items (name,
address) need to be inserted into a huge
stet document.  My first thought was to
scan the documents, then use FileMaker
to insert the various tidbits of
information, then print the docs out,
looking perfectly official.  I don't
know File Maker pro very well, and TFM
is confusing.  Is the above the best way
to accomplish my goal?  Is there a
particular page number or section in TFM
where I should be looking?  I must use
FileMaker Pro, but beyond that, all
suggestions accepted.  Thanks.  Any
replies should be directed at me, and
I'll summarize, if anyone else wants to
know how to do this.  Thanks.

Scott Wyant
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 93 00:12:52 EDT
From: Pete Tamas <[e-mail]>
Subject: Bas Sectors

On Wed, 16 Jun 1993 22:04:17 -0500 Igor Livshits said:
>meant floppies.  System 7 allows you to format flopies with bad sectors by
>mapping them out -- a nice feature; so, yes, you may use them.  However, I
>am weary (sp?)

Oh boy! My chance to spell a word correctly! w-a-r-y

>of floppies with mapped out sectors.  You may tell that a
>floppy has mapped out blocks if after initializing it, you have more than
>3k in disk.
>
I found that some sectors may perform well enough to pass the verification
process in the Sys 7 OS. However, some sectors will go bad in a few hours.
These can be "zero-d out" with 911 Utilities' Sector Collector...a file
is written on all the bad sectors so the computer does not try to use
these sectors (but will try to copy the file if you drag the floppy to
the hard drive). I know Norton 1 could not find bad sectors. Don't know
about the current versions of MacTools or Norton. Once this process is done,
I have not had problems. So, I think if a sector will fail, it will fail soon
after formatting (days or hours).

>I found Maxell diskettes to be the most reliable over the years.  KAO is
>another popular brand that many companies (including MS) use for
>distribution of their software.  I have had extremely poor luck with KAO.

I know someone else who has said he dislikes KAO. Sonys and Fujis tend
to be good. -Pete Tamas
[e-mail], Temple Univ, Philadelphia (betw New York & Wash DC)

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 17:06:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Seth L. Ness" <[e-mail]>
Subject: broken centris on/off switch

help,
our brand new centris 610 is misbehaving.
when you push the on/off switch in it starts up ok, but when you take your
finger off the switch it pops up and the computer switches off! are we
going to have to send it back or is there another possibility?



Seth L. Ness                         Ness Gadol Hayah Sham
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 93 21:10:52 PDT
From: [e-mail] (John Thoo)
Subject: Can't do High speed uploads (R)

On 15 Jun 93 2d Lt Avram Dorfman <[e-mail]> wrote:
> I can't do high speed uploads. Anything faster than 2400 baud receives 2
> blocks
> successfully, and then get a ZRPOS=0 which it never recovers from. I have
> tried
> at 14.4 kbaud w/v.42bis, 9600 baud w/v.42bis, and 9600 without v.42bis.
>
> I have no trouble whatsoever with downloads, regardless of compression
mode.
>
> I have tried both ZTerm zmodem, and MacIntercomm Lite zmodem and xmodem.
>
> any ideas?

Lt, if you're downloading files using

  sz <filename>

try the following instead

  sz -w 2048 <filename>

If that doesn't help, try  -w 1024.  This limits the packet size, and I've
found that it cured for me the same symptoms that you described.

Hope this helps.
--John.
J. B. THOO, Math Dept, Univ of California, Davis <[e-mail]>
``My other machine is a Macintosh.''

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 93 14:33:54 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Dave Hirsh)
Subject: CD Caddies

Since mostt CD ROM drive manufacturers only provide 1 CD caddy with their
drives I thought I'd pass along the best source I've found so far for extra
caddies: The Apple Catalog (strange,isn't it ??). They sell a 5-pack for $39
with free shipping. Local stores are selling them for as much as $13 EACH.
With Apple cutting their CD300 prices I'd expect many more of these gems to
be sold. MacWeek's June 14th issue had a very favorable review of the CD300.
Just thought I'd pass it along......

Dave Hirsh
Cincinnati,OH

"The bank called to tell me that my reality check bounced ...."

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 93 08:40:19 -0400
From: Brian K. Kobleur <[e-mail]>
Subject: Cheap ARAP server?

Hello Info-Mac People!


Does anyone *know* if it's possible to have a nuBus capable dedicated Mac as
an ARAP server with a Hurdler card (gives you four more serial ports) and
four copies of ARAP running on it?  I guess this would be the equivalent of a
LanRover without the security features...but would it work?

Thanks!

Brian

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 93 07:49:12 EST
From: [e-mail] (Daniel           J.      Hofferth    [phone]
AGT/8896)
Subject: Deskwriter 3.9 and 4.0 drivers: underlining (R)

Hi all,

I was considering bringing this up with you fine folks, but Bill
Edwards beat me to it in IM11-123:

> The [HP-Deskwriter] 4.0 drivers *still* have problems underlining
> on my system.  They miss underlines on characters at the end of
> words, and add them spuriously.  Had the same problem with the
> 3.9 drivers.
> .
> .
> Given that the 3.1 drivers work fine, I doubt it's an init
> conflict. [...]

I've been having the same problem with 3.9 and 4.0 (I don't recall
if I saw this in 3.1 or not?).  What I see is something like the
following:

  On screen (in application and in HP's "print preview"):

     Underlined phrase     Underlined phrase     Underlined phrase
     -----------------     -----------------     -----------------

  On paper:

     Underlined phrase     Underlined phrase     Underlined phrase
     -----------------     --------------        -----------

The key here, perhaps, is that HP's own "print preview" shows the
underlining has been received properly, and rasterized properly for
the on-screen preview.  When it hits the paper, tho, it's gone bad.

My setup is significantly different from Bill's, so I agree with
his comment that it probably isn't related to INITs... though I
can imagine it may be related to HP's handling of TrueType fonts?
(Bill doesn't mention where his Palatino-12-bold came from.)

  Classic II 4/40 (+external 160MB-HD, +external 15" SCSI display)
  System 7.1 w/hardware update 1.0, 32-bit, no VM.
  ClarisWorks 1.0v3
  All TrueType fonts, and a modest handfull of rock-solid INITs.
  HP "Font Substitution" and "Precision Bitmap" are off, btw.

Is this possibly a bug in the printer?  Is there such a thing as a
ROM upgrade for the DeskWriter?  If the print driver does all of
the work, and the printer just spits bits on the page, why would
the screen preview look right, and the page appear wrong?  I guess
they could be different if the driver re-rasterizes a different way
for the printer than it does for the screen.

No... [he hangs his head sheepishly]... I've not contacted HP, I'm
at work without my contact sheet.  Tell you what... I'll collect
any responses I get from this posting (respond to me directly), go
home and cycle through the mundane things like INITs on/off, etc,
contact HP, and repost a report on what I find.  Deal?

Dan Hofferth
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 93 09:18:50 -0700
From: [e-mail] (steeper richard r)
Subject: DiskTop Needs an Update (C)

   I have found that CE Software's DiskTop (v 4.0.2) is a quicker and more
convenient alternative to many functions of the Finder. Unfortunately, the
company has neglected to update the utility package in far too long. The
last notable update was back when System 7 was introduced, and that one was
primarily to provide compatibility, not new features. DiskTop could be even
more useful if it were brought up to date, incorporating features like
navigating by bookmark or keeping track of recently accessed folders.
   When I voiced this opinion to a company rep, I received a reply that
indicated now is a good time for users to make their concerns heard. I got
the impression that they recently completed a major project (QuickMail) and
that they might now be persuaded to work on DiskTop. Is anyone else
dedicated to DiskTop but frustrated by feature envy? Email your comments to
their company rep:  [e-mail]

Dick Steeper
Sandia National Labs California

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 08:32:08 -0800
From: Jerry Wilcox <[e-mail]>
Subject: EasyView

After mentioning EasyView in my info-mac post yesterday, I have had several
inquiries as to what it is and where it may be found.

EasyView is a freeware viewing program that allows you to easily view
documents of various structures. It comes with "formats" for Info-Mac,
TidBITs and several other popular digests/documents.

It is a marvelous piece of software and I highly recommend it.

You can get the latest version from Info-Mac (sumex-aim) as

    ./app/easy-view-22.hqx

Jerry
-----
Jerry Wilcox - [e-mail]  or [e-mail]
All opinions are mine alone

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Date: 17 Jun 1993 10:21:11 -0700 (MST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Eudora over a serial line

Greetings,

I have successfully connected Eudora to a POP3 Server
on a VAX here for mail retrieval.  The hookup refuses,
however, to SEND mail (it hangs after the initial
connection is made, right where the Check Mail
routine starts to log onto the POP server).  Is there
something different about SENDing mail, as opposed
to Checking for mail, that I don't know about?
Please reply to me if you have any suggestions.

Peter Gerhardstein ([e-mail])

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 93 15:26:19 CDT
From: [e-mail] (A. Scott Hodel)
Subject: f2c binary-debinhexing

At least one individual has had trouble debinhexing the f2c (fortran to C)
program I submitted a day or so ago.  We were able to solve the problem
by debinhexing with Stuffit Lite; I don't understand why other programs
won't do the job, but if you're having trouble, try this route first.

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 11:34:37 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Karl Pottie)
Subject: finder-info dialog

We just discovered something funny. Select a file in the finder and press
cmd-I to get the info-box. The click on the file name besides the icon. The
name will change.

E.g. if the name of the file is "Startup Report", it will change to
"!Startup.RE"

Why does this happen? What does this alternative name signify ?


--
Karl Pottie                           e-mail: [e-mail]
Macintosh Consultant for the University Hospitals of Leuven, Belgium

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 14:40:59 -0600 (MDT)
From: [e-mail] (M. Todd Breslow)
Subject: Go back to 1985...

Does anyone know what is the "correct" system to use on a Mac 512ke?

Todd
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 16:13:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Susan Hassell, Systems & Networks, UNCG" <[e-mail]>
Subject: HELP!!! Developer needs help getting started...

Hi, I'm a former dos and VAX/VMS application and assembler programmer.  I have
this new job and they want me to be a MAC expert.  I've played with my IIci
for
about a year and now I want to really get into it.

I need to know the best place to seek out information about compilers, etc.
I called APDA yesterday, but don't have a clue from there.

Is MPW something I definitely need?  What about a C++ compiler?  Do I
need to learn the MAC Assembler or can C do most everything?  (I doubt I'll
be writting any drives, just accessing network toolkits)  Thanks in advance.

-susan hassell

[e-mail]
University of North Carolina Greensboro
[phone]

I'm sure hoping to get lots of responses so I'll be glad to compile them
and then submit them back to the list.

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 93 12:14:50 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Edward Wolpert)
Subject: Help with MacLayers

I have been having problems compiling the unix part of maclayers...
I run an esv mips, using bsd unix.  When I try to compile layers.c, my
utmp.h file calls ut_host ???UT_HOST NOT FOUND??? (Including question marks
and alll.)  Any ideas?  I've tried redefining ut_host, but to no avail.
(Please email me, since I don't read this board much.)
    Virtually,
    Edward Wolpert

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 15:41:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Seth L. Ness" <[e-mail]>
Subject: hewlett packard laserjet series II

hi,
how can i attach an HP laserjet series II printer from an IBM to my SE-30?
the secretaries are upgrading to macs and a hp 4M and i got the hand me
downs.



Seth L. Ness                         Ness Gadol Hayah Sham
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 93 08:09:42 BST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: HPIII printer - printing to from a Mac

>Date: Wed, 16 Jun 93 08:01:27 BST
>From: A.D'[e-mail]
>Subject: HPIII printer - printing to from a Mac (Q)
>
>I want to print to a HPIII printer which does NOT have a postscript module.
>Is this possible and if so what printer driver do I need?
>
>Regards, Tony D'Emanuele
>
>University of Manchester
>
>(A.D'[e-mail])

Check out PowerPrint, a driver set and conversion cable that connects most
Parallel laser and dot-matrix printers to a Mac - I quite happily use my
parallel NEC P7 printer from an LCII in this way. HP LaserJets are among
the several hundred non-postscript printers supported.

In the UK, it's available from Academy Software, 74-94 Cherry Orchard Road,
Croydon, CR0 6BA. Tel: [phone]. The salesperson I dealt with is John
Khoe. I paid #130.37 after educational discount and VAT.

They advertised earlier this year in MacWorld UK, but I can't tell you
which issue as I don't have them to hand.


Chris

Chris Reed                              c/o DTP Design Unit
Email: [e-mail]         University of Sheffield
Tel:   [phone] (direct line)        SHEFFIELD
Fax:   [phone]                      S10 2TN, United Kingdom

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 09:45:13 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Robert N. Winters)
Subject: Jurassic Park comments, Macs in movies

"dlawrence" <[e-mail]> writes:

>We are so close to the Mac interface that we would as a matter
>of course find that interface a touchstone. But I challenge you
>to find 100 everyday folk that would even pick that out as a mistake,
>let alone a stumbling point in their enjoyment of the movie.

This is probably the wrong forum to make that challenge! I'd guess
that half of Mac owners have seen QuickTime, and half of them know a
Simple Player box when they see one. Not a small number, and what's
the point of hiring high-priced consultants if they can't tell you
what's going to look "fake" to tens of thousands of movie-going
Mac users? We're talking an eight-figure budget, here. They
could have had *my* opinion for the price of a premiere ticket!

>BTW, congratulations are in order for Daniel Paul, whose sole function
>at Apple is to get Macs into films and TV. He is the main reason you
>see Macs on a lot of sitcoms and in films like Single White Female
>and Jurassic Park. There are even standards by which they allow Macs
>to be used (i.e. it was a close call as to whether or not they were
>going to let the "bad" robot have a Mac-based interface - remember
>the skull instead of the Apple as the first menu icon in the menu bar?)
>so that they can control the Mac's image on-screen.

They made a lousy choice in "Sliver", in which Sharon Stone's office
is one of the few in the world to buy Duos and DuoDocks ;-) Anyway,
apparently these Macintosh things are awful security risks! Your
whacked-out boyfriend can just dial into the office LAN, wipe out
your in-progress word processing session, and start drawing roses
on your screen. That office must support anonymous Timbuktu! To make
matters worse, the graphics were really crudely drawn. Not a good
ad for the Mac, IMHO.

Things are starting to get a little better in the media, but there's
still a lot of 24-point monospace fonts, 110 baud text displays, and
incessant beeping in movie computer scenes. Reminds me of the local
TV types who always wanted to do location shots at Goddard in front
of spinning tape drives. We used to start tape copy jobs, just so
something would *move* for 'em :-)

 /// Rob

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 93 16:51:49 -900
From: [e-mail] (Mark R Anderson)
Subject: Localtalk and ARA on a Duo at same time?

Is there any way to use localtalk and ARA at the same time on a Duo with
an internal Express Modem. Just now I have to have Network set to
'Remote Only' to use ARA, and this disconnects me from local talk.

This is a major pain.

Please email me and I will summarize responses.

Thanks,

Mark.

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 06:22:09 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Pete Resnick)
Subject: Looking for time sync software

"Donal Lynch" <[e-mail]> writes:

>I'm looking for some sort of software (control panel/extention) that would
>set the mac's clock and date via a TCP/IP timeserver runing on a UNIX box.

Not to toot my own horn, but my shareware control panel "Network Time"
is what you are looking for. It works with MacTCP and automatically
adjusts for daylight savings time.

Though version 1.1.1 is in the info-mac archives, I would recommend
waiting a couple of weeks for Network Time 2.0, which is now
completing beta test. It is fully System 7 Savvy and is a real NTP
(RFC 1305) client.

pr
--
Pete Resnick - [e-mail]
--
Pete Resnick             (...so what is a mojo, and why would one be rising?)
Graduate assistant - Philosophy Department, Gregory Hall, UIUC
System manager - Cognitive Science Group, Beckman Institute, UIUC
Internet: [e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 93 12:15:19 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Iain D. Dickey)
Subject: Mac LC III v.s. VX

Dear Michael,

I recently was in the same dilemma that you are.  I found that the best way
to go for my needs was the LC III route.  Its performance is better than
that of a IIci, and really moves along, at a great price.  I got an LC III
12/160 for $1295 U.S.  Not bad considering my CLassic was $1800 when it
first came out in January of 1991.  The pros of the LC III are its great
price and fantastic performance.  Cons would be only one PDS slot and only
one RAM slot, therefore every time you upgrade over the 4MB on the
motherboard, you will have to replace the old.  I got around this by
installing a fair amount of RAM (an 8MB SIMM) in the first place.
Depending on how much expansion you plan or will actually ever need, I
found the LC III the way to go.

Hope this helps!


Iain D. Dickey
Faculty of Medicine - U.B.C.
E-Mail: [e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 00:09:34 PDT
From: Kee Nethery <[e-mail]>
Subject: Macro procedure (A)

Someone else I know was once looking for a simple login kind of macro
capability and buying Quickeys for every mac in the office seemed way to
expensive. His solution was to find the demo version of quickeys that
allows one quickey. Since one was all he needed, that's what he used.

Kee Nethery
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 93 10:26:51 -0400
From: [e-mail]
Subject: MacX/MacTCP and system 7.1? (Q)

    This should be an easy one...I have an eval copy of
MacX v1.1.7 and MacTCP 1.1, I can get MacX to receive a window
>From a sun, but I cannot set the host in the command editor. When
I click host the window just goes away (no MacTCP window).
    I am hoping that this is just because the eval copy is
a version behind, but I can not find any written evidence. Can
someone give me the "black and white" that will prove (or dis-
prove) my solution. TIA.

Thanks,
    Mike    [e-mail]

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Date: 17 Jun 1993 14:36:40 GMT
From: [e-mail] (A. Tim Royappa)
Subject: Microsoft Co. - Cheapskates!

I just purchased a copy of Microsoft Word, and after several annoying
reminders during installation ("Now would be a good time for you to
fill out the registration card!"), I finally filled out the registration.
form. After I did so, I found to my even greater annoyance that the card
wasn't even postage paid. Here's the biggest software company in
the world, and they don't even enclose a prepaid postcard. Grumble ...

Perhaps this only happens with the heavily discounted academic version?

Dr. Tim Royappa
[e-mail]

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Date: 17 Jun 1993 07:21:00 -0600 (CST)
From: "Robert E. Malick [phone]" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Microsoft E-Mail Address (R)

Here is the FAQ from the list word-mac...

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

Subject: -15- What is Microsoft's email address???
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1993 09:32:02 +1000 (EST)

Q:      Does anyone have an email or even snail address for Microsoft?
I'm
    specifically looking for one dealing with submissions for
suggested
    improvements to Word. I know they advertised for submissions
some time
    ago, but I neglected to note the address.  From: Fergus Sullivan
    <[e-mail]>

A:      Suggestions that are posted to the Listserv are passed along to
the
    development team by me, so posting to the listserv is enough. As
far as
I
    know, there is no email address where suggestions can be
directed for
    MacWord specifically. There is a WordWish telephone number where
    suggestions can be left as voice mail. That number is 206-936-
WISH
    From: David Carson <[e-mail]> Microsoft is not
responsible
     for any advice that I give here on the
    Listserv. I do this for the fun of it and I do it on my own
time)

And From: Jay Poutine  <[e-mail]> A number of people from
outside
    the U.S. don't seem to have the alphabetic
    reference to telephone numbers, so I thought I would post it so
people
    can save it for future reference.

    1 = no corresponding alphabetic characters 2 = ABC 3= DEF 4= GHI
5= JKL
6=
    MNO 7= PRS 8= TUV 9= WXY 0= operator

    The recently posted WordWish number 206-936-WISH, would, then,
become
    206-936-9474.


And From: david mckinnis Mac Word Development <[e-mail]>
    I prefer to see suggestions sent to this mailing list so that
other
    interested Word users can comment on the suggestions, and so
that all of
    the Microsoft folks on the mailing list can see the suggestions.
There i
s
    no "official" contact point on internet (all of us read and
answer email
    in our "spare" time).

    A more official route is via letter. The following address would
work:

    Microsoft Word for the Macintosh Program Manager One Microsoft
Way Redmo
nd,
    WA 98052

And From: Steve Havens <[e-mail]>

    Microsoft has a BBS, tech support. number is: [phone] you
will ha
ve to
    work out an account on your own.  [Ed: note that this a US
number for th
ose
     of us outside the US of A]

And from: Tonya Engst <[e-mail]>

    To clarify the information about the Microsoft BBS (or the MS
Download
    Service [MSDL]), this BBS isn't for asking questions and
receiving
    answers. Instead, it is for downloading various Microsoft
patches, minor
    updates, converters, and application notes (detailed answers to
common
    questions that take some explaining, like Word 3 and 4 print
merges and
    mailing labels and working with tables).

    Most (if not all) Mac Word items on the Microsoft BBS should
also be at
    sumex, CompuServe, and (I believe) America Online, possibly
other
    locations as well... ?

    Here's the steps (clipped from our Knowledge Base) for logging
in:

    1. Dial MSDL at (206) 936-MSDL (6735) with these settings:

    Baud:   1200, 2400, or 9600 Data Bits: 8 Stop Bits: 1 Parity:
None

    2. When prompted, enter your full name.

    3. When prompted, enter your City and State.

    4. Enter the letter of your terminal, press ENTER (CR) if your
terminal
is
    not listed:

    5. MSDL will display New User Information.

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

The list information is...

send the message (in the body of the e-mail)...

SUBSCRIBE WORD-MAC your name here

to...

[e-mail]

Hope this helps,
Rob Malick
[e-mail]

P.S. standard disclaimers apply...

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 13:52:05 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Karl Pottie)
Subject: Microsoft Vaporware (interesting !)

Yesterday, we had a meeting with a representative of Microsoft Belgium. He
had some very interesting things to say. Some of his statements were
probably not official, but I still want to share the things he said:

(1) MsWord 6.0 is to be released by November.

(2) MsWord and Excel are currently being developed on MsDos (Windows)
machines and then ported to the Macintosh. MsWord 5.0 and Excel 4.0 were
NOT OPTIMIZED for the Mac, which explains why they are so big and slow.

(3) Unless the new versions will be optimized for the Mac, an LCII-class
machine will probably be too slow to run these new Microsoft products on.

My Conclusion: from now on, stay away from the LCII or Classic II, even for
low-end use. These machines will soon be rendered useless when Microsoft
releases their new "fatware".

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 93 08:43:49 EDT
From: "Michael S. Holtzman" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Modifying keymap in CTB Terminal Tool

Greetings. Is it possible to edit the keymap for a CTB Terminal Tool??
I need to change the chars sent by hitting a function key, so that it will
work
correctly thru our terminal server.

Thanx in advance.  Please answer directly, and I'll summarize.

 -------------------------------------------------------------------
Michael S. Holtzman      St. John's University    HOLTZMAN@SJUVM

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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 93 23:40:59 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: mouse microswitches, source (A)

For mouse switches (and - it seems - for other Mac parts) try:
    Soft Solutions
    907 River Road, Suite 98,
    Eugene, OR 97404-3228.
    Phone [phone].  Fax [phone].
   For mouse switches they offer 3 types:
(1) the "original and Lisa switch"
(2) "sub-miniature ADB switch"
(3) "sub-sub-miniature ADB switch"
for $6 each.  (Cheaper if you buy more.)
   The sub-miniature switch is approx. 2cm long, 0.6cm wide, and 1cm high.
The sub-sub-miniature switch is approx. 1.3cm long, 0.6cm high, and 0.6cm
wide.  I dunno the size of the Lisa switch.
   You can buy the switches individually (I ordered one each of the two ADB
types since I wasn't sure which I needed), or for $35 they'll sell you a kit
of 2 Lisa switches, 10 ADB switches, plus documentation on switch
specifications for every mouse variation.  The kit might be useful for
computer labs.
   They also seem to offer a good selection of other hard-to-find Macintosh
parts.  They'll send a list of what they offer if you ask.
       Regards, Philip "just-a-customer" Sharman, ([e-mail]).

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 93 11:11:05 +0200
From: Martin Jourdan <[e-mail]>
Subject: NFS, or sharing a folder with UNIX (A)

In Info-Mac Digest V11 #122, [e-mail] says:

        Preferably I would like the mac to mount the directory
    on the sun via NFS.

        Or have the sun mount a shared folder from the mac.

There is a freeware solution to this problem: the Columbia Appletalk
Package (CAP) comes with AUFS, an AppleShare File Server running on a
Unix workstation such that it serves its (Unix) disks to Macs without
any special software on the Mac side.  We at INRIA make heavy use of
this package every day and we're quite happy with it.  Be sure to get
version 6 of CAP, though, and beware that it's a pain to install.

CAP 6.0 is available by anonymous FTP from host ftp.inria.fr
[192.93.2.54], directory network/appletalk/cap+kip/cap60, files
cap60.tar.Z and others.  You probably can get it from hosts closer to
yours, too.

I hope this helps.  Best regards,

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

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 14:12:27 -0600 (MDT)
From: Frosty MUG <[e-mail]>
Subject: num lock on standard keyboard lciii

Dear Info-Mac,
Hopefully an easy question? Is there a way (besides turning on mouse
keys) to toggle the keypad on a standard Apple keyboard(not extended)
to switch from numeric keys to application keys.  I am using Kermit
to talk to a VAX, I am running Oracle forms ok but other Oracle
products such as sqlreportwriter do not work very well and running
VAX VMS EDT will only use arrow keys not application keys. Can any
one help me or am I stuck buying an extended keyboard(if so any
recommendations besides Apple's)
Thanks,
john peterson
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 21:18:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Panasonic Printer

I have a Panasonic KX-P1091 dot maxtrix printer which is about eight years
old. Is it possible to use the printer with a Mac. What additional software or
cables would I need?
          Email: [e-mail]
          Thanx

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

Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 00:23:17 PDT
From: Kee Nethery <[e-mail]>
Subject: PC Board Design Programs (A)

>Does anyone know of a printed circuit board design program for the Mac
(share-
>ware or commercial)?

Douglas CAD/CAM Package is the only one I have ever seen used on the Mac.
Contact them at:
[e-mail]

[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 13:24:23 -0600 (MDT)
From: Bradley Nation <[e-mail]>
Subject: postings

I am not sure how to post(upload) a afterdark update, or any program for
that matter.  Yes, I have read the file on postings.  Am I supposed to
email the compacted file and message blerb to info-mac or am I supposed to
upload it. If I am supposed to email it, how do I email a file, I am using
VersaTerm Pro as my communication program, if that any help.
Thanks
Brad

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 93 09:43:12 EDT
From: "Alan D. Bulley" <[e-mail]>
Subject: PowerBook in a Coma!

Please note that I am forwarding this for a friend who would prefer that
all replies go directly to the address which he provides at the end of
his query. Thank you.

========================Forwarded Text==================================
Dear netters,

I am running a Powerbook 140  4/40 with System 7.0.1 and
encountering the following problem.

In part 3. "Creating a Document" of Macintosh Basics
tutorial, the 'host' writes out a sample memo.  This runs at
normal speed for 2 seconds then drops to a super-slow pace as
it completes the next two lines - taking about a minute to do
so.

The demo resumes normal speed at any time if there is any
keyboard or trackball activity.

I have the same problem in an audio-visual demo Hypercard 2.1
stack.  The hands-off  demo is supposed to play sounds and
progress through the stack's cards.  Sounds work fine.
However, after a couple of seconds, the script operates at
dead slow but will resume proper speed at any time given any
keyboard or trackball activity.  This feature has yet to
impress many viewers!

Does anyone have any idea how to prevent this comatose
condition?

thanks in advance,

Clive Grogono

REPLIES PLEASE TO:  [e-mail]
=====================End of Forwarded Text=========================


Alan D. Bulley
Saint Paul University/ Universite St-Paul

[e-mail]  [e-mail] (Internet)
458507@UOttawa  (Bitnet)

Fax: [phone]

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 93 14:21:04 BST
From: Donald Peterson <[e-mail]>
Subject: printers

I have a Mac Classic I with 2 Meg RAM and System 6 for home use (and I
could upgrade to 4 Meg and System 7 if need be). I'd appreciate advice
on chosing a printer. I've heard the HP Deskjet and the Apple
Stylewriter recommended. Some points are:

* it would be useful though not essential if a PC clone could also use
the printer occasionally

* I mostly produce straight text, not graphics

* at work I use a IIcx networked to a LaserWriter, and I'd like
compatibility --- so that everything except resolution quality is the
same for the home printer

* one programme I use is OzTeX (TeX) and this has PostScript output
--- not essential but it would be convenient to be able to print from
it

The StyleWriter seemed very quiet and very neat, but slow? Are the
TrueType fonts satisfactory? If I use postcript fonts with Adobe type
manager, do I have to buy extra fonts for the computer?

Any information much appreciated.

Donald Peterson.

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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 93 21:25:17 PDT
From: [e-mail] (John Thoo)
Subject: Printing to QD: OzTeX vs. DirectTeX (R)

On  15 Jun 1993 Tobias Kuipers <[e-mail]> wrote:
> I would like some advice on printing DVI-files to a non-PostScript
> printer (= StyleWriter I). I'm trying to decide whether to use OzTeX or
> DirectTeX.
>
> OzTeX doesn't print to non-PS itself, so I use the utility Oz.psprint.
> This a bit of a nuisance. (print to file, then read the file into
> Oz.psprint, and wait for some hours). Especially since for some dark
> reason, Oz.psprint cannot print in the background.

I believe that the latest incarnation of OzTeX (version 1.5) supports
the StyleWriter.  Check it out from <midway.uchicago.edu>.

Hope this helps.
--John.
J. B. THOO, Math Dept, Univ of California, Davis <[e-mail]>
``My other machine is a Macintosh.''

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 93 11:01:54 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Ellen Tal)
Subject: PROBLEMS:  Sequence files to film recorder

We are having problems making specific slides with our film recorder (Agfa
Slide Matrix as well as Lasergraphics).  These files are sequences (rows of
the letters ACGT)  originating from the VAX or Silicon Graphics, and are
subsequently ftp'd to the Macintosh.  Because these are ASCI files, they
are first read into a word processor, where additions may or may not be
made.  SuperGlue is then used to print the file as a PICT (necessary for
the film recorder).  The file is now opened in Canvas, Persuasion or
FreeHand  for additions and/or coloring.  Most often colored boxes are
drawn behind certain letters for emphasis.  Sometimes the emphasized
letters are written in a different color and placed on top of the original
letters.  (Altho one can color each letter a different color in graphics
programs, the camera only picks up one color per text box;  thus the
placing of letters on top of each other becomes necessary).  The screen
looks fine, usually the printout from the laserwriter is also fine but on
the slide, the boxes and/or letters shift position and sizes.  These
sequence files seem to improve when typed out instead of using the original
transferred file.  However this is extremely tedious work.  It seems as if
there are some hidden codes in these transferred files.  Any suggestions??
Ellen Tal                                [e-mail]
Biological Computing Division           work tel. [phone]
Weizmann Institute of Science           home tel. [phone]
Rehovot 76100, ISRAEL                   fax [phone]

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Date: 17 Jun 1993 22:07:43 GMT
From: baum/[e-mail] (Christopher F Baum)
Subject: PS Writer usage (Q)

A question re use of the 8.0 laserwriter driver, PS Writer-- the options to
print 2-up and 4-up are nifty. But how can you get it to print 8.5x11 pages
2-up in correct left-right order? I'm trying to print a MSWord file with
page numbers, and the 2-up portrait format gives me [ P.2 | P.1], [ P.4 |
P.3 ],
etc. I've tried all combinations of options, but none seem to flip the
left-right order of the panels in the 2-up display. Any ideas? Thanks as
always...

Christopher F Baum
baum/[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 93 13:18:46 +0200
From: [e-mail] (H}kon Klausen)
Subject: SCCI Ethernet Problems

For your info:  Apple is using a different SCSI chip in the
european-produced units of the PowerBook 180 and 165c.  Asante is working
on an upgrade of the driver version 5.1.1 to fix this.  Version 5.1.1 and
earlier causes the PowerBook to hang when trying to access the Asante EN/SC
SCSI Ethernet interface.

H}kon Klausen, Control Data Systems, Inc., Norway

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 93 09:35:13 +0100
From: [e-mail] (John Williams)
Subject: Subject: Microsoft and INITS

    This one looks as if it might be of general interest so I'm
re-submitting it to Info-Mac:

Spotted in comp.sys.mac.apps

***********************************
[e-mail] (C.Ramanathan) writes:

>I'm running Microsoft Word 5.1a on a Centris 650 and I have 32bit
>addressing turned on. Occasionally when I start up Word, it freezes leaving
>the Centris in a zombied state. The problem seems to go away when I
>turn 32bit addressing off, restart the machine and then turn 32bit
>addressing on again. Does anyone know what's causing this.

I just finished helping install 20 ethernetted 610s, each with 12 M RAM,
System 7.1, using the HP Laserjet 4M driver.  The deal is that if you
go into Page Setup the applications bomb with a "type 1" error.  Turning
off 32-bit mode, or using the standard Apple LJ driver mitigates the
problem. But that's only the beginning: on some of these "identical"
machines, extensions like SuperClock will trigger the problem,
and on all of the machines, removing A/ROSE and QuickTime prevents the
problem from occurring. It happens most frequently with MicroSoft Excel,
and only with MicroSoft products.

Fred Morris
[e-mail]

(submitted to Info-Mac by [e-mail])

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 93 10:15:29 EDT
From: Richard Goldsworthy <[e-mail]>
Subject: Summary of FS/FM Video Options

Video on the Macintosh
======================
Summary of responses to my question regarding full screen/full motion
video solutions for the Macintosh. Sorry about the delay in posting
this, but end of the school year life got a slight bit hectic.

---

Solutions from three major Macintosh peripherals were common to most
responses.

Radius makes the VideoVision board and has a new _Digital Media Studio_ which
lists for $4,499. This single slot solution claims to capture NTSC at
640x480 and accepts both composite and s-video input. Audio capture is 8-Bit.
DMS comes bundled with Premiere and Video Fusion. No respondents had
practical field experience with either Radius product (Radius also was the
manufacturer of the RadiusTV board which had both tuner and capture
capability).

RasterOps makes the _Editing Aces Suite_ for $4,697 (less if you already own
a compatible RasterOps video card). Editing Aces captures NTSC at 320x240.
Audio capture is CD quality (16bit). Adobe Premiere is bundled with EA. EA
uses software zoom to interpolate the 320x240 to an approximation of 640 x
480.

SuperMac makes a one slot solutions called the _DigitalFilm_ (SuperMac also
makes a full line of low end video capture devices under the product label
*VideoSpigot*). The DigitalFilm card captures NTSC at 640x480 and PAL at
768x28
8 and accepts composite and s-video signals. The DigitalFilm card captures
30fps, which implies full motion video; however, it really only captures half
of the full information since *fps* here refers to fields per second, not
frames (true NTSC video has 2 fields per frame, or a frame every 1/60 of
a second). At $5,999, the DigitalFilm card comes bundled with Adobe Premiere
and CoSA's After Effects. Unlike the Radius and RasterOps solutions which
don't
have very hefty requirements (basically any nubus machine, although RasterOps'
card does require System 7)--the DigitalFilm card has some fairly high-end
requirements: a Quadra 950, 64MB of RAM, and an array drive. These
requirements
 hold for version 1.0 Rumor has it the latest release, 1.1, isn't quite
so bad but no solid facts have surfaced yet (when I get around to making
a decision, I'll call SuperMac, and pass the word on).

In addition to these *big three*, several other less mainstream solutions were
mentioned.

Digital F/X (415.961.2800) makes several solutions for video editing on the
Macintosh. For $7,995, _Hitchcock_ captures NTSC at 640x480 from composite,
S-Video, or Digital RGB. It has RS-422 control of compatible devices
and captures stereo audio.

Avid Technology (508.640.6789) makes the Media Suite Pro, a bundle of four
cards, for $9,995. Captures at 640x480, RGB, S-Video, Composite. Controls
video devices through RS-422 (Sony) and others utilizing V-LAN. Requires
a IIFX or better, 16MB RAM, and 2GB hard drive, and of course four free
nubus slots.

That's everything that was mentioned; there are others available, maybe I'll
talk about them later. Very few individuals actually had experience with
any of the solutions, altough many had seen them demonstrated. As Chris
Weyers said, *I'm always a little skeptical of demos.* Of all the devices,
the SuperMac DigitalFilm drew the most recommendations, mostly on received
knowledge.

Surely people out there in netland have had actual field experiences with
these (and other) video devices for fm/fs. If you would be so kind as to send
your stories, I will continue to compile the information, post the results
>From time to time on InfoMac, and eventually upload a completed survey.

My thanks to all who have contributed their thoughts and considerations. I've
misplaced many a name and address by losing a log file but everyone who
responded was very helpful.

============================================================
= Richard Goldsworthy         ==               PO Box 4363 =
= Technology Coordinator      ==          Midway, KY 40347 =
= Woodbridge Academy          ==              606.846.5233 =
= [e-mail]         ==        (fax) 606.846.4520 =
============================================================

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Date: 17 Jun 1993 11:14:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: Peter Jorgensen <[e-mail]>
Subject: TimesTwo Follow up (C)

I recently posted a message concerning my experiences with TimesTwo, a
driver-level data compressor for Macs. (Vol 11, Issue 119). Here is a
follow up to that.

Summary: TimesTwo has given my 20MB drive on my PowerBook 100 a new lease
on life. I had to repartition the drive to the standard (default)
partition using Apple's HD SC Setup program before installing TimesTwo.
The system operates slightly slower, as expected, but not annoyingly so.
Incompatiblities are minimal and can be worked-around.

Gory Details:I called Golden Triangle several times. They always managed
to call back after I'd gone home for the day, despite the fact that I left
a message with the time that I would be available... but they DID call
back.

One of the messages they left was very useful providing a work-around for
the Kiwi PowerMenus problem. They suggested that I force Kiwi to rebuild
the apple menu during startup by holding down the delete key while the
Control Panel INIT is loading. This works fine. The menu still won't
rebuild dynamically once the Mac is up and running, but I can live with
this solution.

The PSI FAX modem Extension and Control Panel suddenly started working,
and have worked ever since, don't ask...

Peter Jorgensen MS-IRM                                  Colgate University
13 Oak Drive                 Research & Instructional Computing Specialist
Hamilton, NY 13346                Mac/DOS/VMS/PMDF consultant, HyperTalker
315-824-7742

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 93 08:20:48 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: Time synch

Looks to me from the docs that the VersaTilities from Synergy Software
will do this; they are available separately from the usual sources
and are bundled with VersaTerm.

cheers ... -Adam

In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
> I'm looking for some sort of software (control panel/extention) that would
> set the mac's clock and date via a TCP/IP timeserver runing on a UNIX box.
>
> If anybody knows of something that does this I would really appreciate
> hearing about it.

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 93 07:04:55 BST
From: Richard Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: Uninterruptable Power Supplies (C)

Adam C. Engst writes:
>the power here is a bit flaky too (Seattle metropolitan area)
>and after that incident, I bought a $342 APC 370ci uninterruptable
>power supply that I like a great deal. I've never had the slightest
>concern since then, because every time the power goes out long enough,
>the UPS kicks in. I can't count how many times it's done this, especially
>with the quick drops that can really hurt things.

Rick Russell says:
>In the life of my computers (SE/30 and IIfx), I've never connected
>them directly to the wall power... I always used a UPS or surge
>suppressor.

My two-penn'orth:

I can't understand what all the fuss is about. I live a good few miles from
the
nearest 'mains' electricity, and use a diesel generator for power, backed up
by
a huge bank of batteries and an inverter for when the generator is not
running.
My Macs, screens, hard drives etc all sit quite happily on this supply, which
not only varies in voltage and frequency but also in waveform.

The generator varies speed with load, so the frequency goes from about 46Hz to
about 55Hz (I'm in England, remember, where our 'standard' supply is 240V at
50Hz), and the voltage varies from about 200 to about 235. It's also a
sine-wave
output (of course).

The inverter produces a steady 52Hz output at about 255 volts, but it's
square-wave, so there's more energy in the wave-form. The voltage here does
vary, as the batteries are discharged, but it never gets chance to drop a
great
deal. Also, it never really gets loaded to the extent that the generator
does.

One point about Apple computers is that they have incredibly robust power
supplies. (OK, we'll forget for now about the old 512 and the Plus :-)). They
will survive all sorts of spikes and brown-outs on the mains supply, and the
output voltage will stay up for several milliseconds after the input has
failed.

My point (finally) is that not only do the Macs in my abode never misbehave
because of this awful dirty power I'm feeding them, but they even survive the
changeover from generator to inverter power, which involves the generator
being
stopped, so the output voltage quickly falls until the contactor can no longer
hold in, at which point there is a momentary loss of power (all the lights
will
go out briefly) until the contactor has fully relaxed and switched in the
inverter power. The Macs could have been running anything at this time, and
they
still will be after.


Cheers,
Richard

Hardware & Systems executive,
NorthEast Macintosh User Group.

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 93 20:59:02 EDT
From: "James A. Connolly" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Using DeskWriter 3.1 again (no longer on 3.9 or 4.0)

I've reinstalled my DW3.1 drivers.  Everything works fine again (maybe
it's slow, but it works... that's what I've always said about my Mac
versus a 486 :-)

The 3.9 and the 4.0 drivers just don't handle changes of paper formats
and they have locked up my system more than once.  I'm happy to stay
behind.  I've received several messages from other users who have
had similar problems with the DW3.9 and DW4.0 drivers.

How does one inform HP?


                  ...James

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

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 93 14:34:34 EST
From: "Mr. Troy Kelley" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Video Sync Controls

I have an old NTSC Converter box and I am trying to record video from
a mac onto a VHS Video Tape machine. It appears from the picture on
the television monitor that the sync from my mac is all wrong, and that
is why I am getting a bad picture. I downloaded the Macintosh Video Utility
but I can't seem to get it to work with System 7. Does anyone out there
know of any public domain software that will change the sync on a standard
Mac II Video Card, and also it would be nice to change the interlace setting
as well?

Thanks
Troy Kelley

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 00:23:30 PDT
From: Kee Nethery <[e-mail]>
Subject: Viruses...new Mac user! (A)

>        What constitutes some signs of virii, what are the most likely
viruses
>I'd get hit with( if they are common at all ), and what are the best programs
>out there to use to detect or eradicate viruses? I've got Disinfectant 3.2(
>and use it ), and Gatekeeper( but have no idea how to set it up ).

Each virus has a different mechanism. When you get used to using the Mac
and things that used to work suddenly start being wierd (no good
definition, just not quite right) then it's worthwhile to check for a
virus.

Read the help and info stuff in Disinfectant. It is the best summary of Mac
viruses that I know of.

Kee Nethery
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 93 15:36:30 -0200
From: Peter Kay <[e-mail]>
Subject: Voice Navigator

I have been told (by a salesman) that there is now a software-only version
of the Voice Navigator, which has been specially designed for the more
recent Macs that are able to accept and process sound input.

Has anyone had experience of this product; good or bad? In your opinion,
is it reasonably good value for money? What is the latest version number?

I would be particularly interested to hear from anyone who started off
with the hardware-based VN and upgraded (downgraded?) to the software-
only version.

If I get sufficient information, I will summarise for the net.

Peter Kay, University of Hertfordshire
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 07:47:19 +0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Western Digital hard disk driver? (Q)

Dear net,

I have bought a second hand external hard disk.
It says "Preference Western Digital" on the front and
"Western Digital model WD40AP" on the back.
SCSI Probe 3.4 says that the vendor is "WesDigtl",
the product is 1006V-SCS and the version is 45.
It has two 25 pin SCSI ports.

I don't have any setup software (nor documentation), and I think I would like
to get some because my Mac has begun crashing occasionally
since I connected the disk and I think the interleaving may need changing.
(Before I bought it, it used to be connected to a MacPlus and it is now
connected to an SE with internal hard disk and system 6.0.5.)

Anyone know where I could get setup software for this?
I hear that you can patch Apple's HD setup with ResEdit
to enable it to setup non-Apple disks. Anyone know how to do that
and whether it would let me change the interleaving?

Anyone know for sure that it has internal termination? I assume
it has because it normally works. And finally, anyone know if it would
support system 7 virtual memory?

Thanks in advance,

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

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 93 15:35:06 -0100
From: [e-mail] (andrew jones)
Subject: what is an AUX.bin file?

Hi netpeople, i have just grabbed the gcc1.37 compiler for aux from
ftp.apple.com. This comes as a .aux.bin.Z file. The uncompress goes
fine leaving me with a .bin file ... then i am stuck! what do i do?
i am new to UNIX, but must admit that i do like A/UX, but i do not
know what all these new filetypes are.
many thanks in advance
andrew ([e-mail])

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