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Info-Mac Digest             Tue, 22 Jun 93       Volume 11 : Issue 126

Today's Topics:

      [*] AfterDark 2.0x Updater v.1.0.2
      [*] TidBITS#181/21-Jun-93
      [*] usenet-acronyms-11.txt
      (Q) Credit Card Storage Devices.
      (Q) Mac IIsi sound problems...
      500 Rummy?
      Accounting for printing on Ashare network
      Address
      Alarm DA's
      Alarm DA's - anyone? (A)
      Alarm DA's - anyone? (V11 #125)
      ALARM DA s (A)
      Apple CD300 on SGI machines (Q)
      ATC - Commercial Version?
      Attn:  Ethertalk gurus (Q)
      Bad Sectors (C)
      BarneyScan Corporation whereabouts?
      Basic Color Monitor (Macintosh) (Q)
      bounce a "pict" around the screen?
      Can you help? - Deskwritter Problems
      carpentry?wood cutting program
      Chain (and lock) your Windows...N(O)T!
      Claris Resolve - AutoDoubler incompatibility? Obsolete?
      ClarisWorks 2 (C)
      CopyDoubler
      CrippleDrives lurking...
      DESKZAP--where is it?
      DeskZap?
      Desperately seeking Michael Conrad
      Duo Power Difficulties
      Excel 4.0 bug
      Farm Management Programs (Q)
      FDHD upgrade for SE; A little joke from Apple (Q)
      Fetch and Dec Alpha...
      finder-info dialog (A)
      Hot key wanted
      How RAM speed & CPU speed affect computer speed
      How to create a PostScript file with limited line length
      I *heart* Microsoft
      IBM-Apple cross platform communication thru network (Q)
      Info-Mac Digest V11 #125 (2 msgs)
      Investment Programs (Q)
      Jurassic Park After Dark...
      Jurassic Park QT More...
      KeyServer 3.1 Usage tracker
      LaserWriter 8.0
      Looking for an util like the "grep" command  of unix (R)
      Mac-o-phile's review of Jurassic Park (possible semi-spoilers!)
      MacWrite Pro
      Managing Your Money Roundtable
      Microsoft Vaporware (C)
      Microsoft Vaporware (interesting !) (R)
      MIDI and the Duos (Q)
      MUSIC FONT
      Phone ringer
      Please Explain DAL
      Powerbook and NEC 15G monitor
      Programing with Serius
      QuickTime for Windows
      Radius customer service - 2 thumbs up
      Reading through entire digest.
      Say it ain't so! Scully stepping down (R)
      Say it ain't so! Scully stepping down??
      sound site?
      Space Quest I Help Requested
      Stylewriter II and transparencies
      SURVEY STACK LOCATION (Q)
      System 7 Friendly True Basic
      TimesTwo Follow up (C)  (C)
      Time synchronization (almost) Q
      Unstuffing a file...Thanks
      VGA Monitor on Mac (A)
      Why are my icons changing?

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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1993 07:52:19 -0600 (MDT)
From: Bradley Nation <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] AfterDark 2.0x Updater v.1.0.2

Here is the After Dark 2.0x Updater v.1.0.2 that fixed the problem I was
having with it and Fileguard. It is very easy to use. Just double on the
updater icon, then go under the file menu and click "update". It will
update afterdark and all the mods.

I was having problems with Afterdark and Fileguard. Everytime I restarted my
Mac I had to reset all the Afterdark settings.
Here is the Afterdark updater that fixes the problem with Fileguard.

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/ad/after-dark-two-oh-updater-102.hqx; 204K]

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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 93 20:55:39 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: [*] TidBITS#181/21-Jun-93

TidBITS#181/21-Jun-93

 Read on for news of Apple's troubles and John Sculley's partial
   resignation, followed by Bill Dickson's look at Xtras for System
   7, an interesting attempt at avoiding standard software
   distribution methods. Jeff Needleman illuminates a subject we've
   never understood up to now, sharing SCSI devices between Macs
   and PCs, and finally, a look at why those PowerBook 170 screens
   break when you swear you weren't playing Postal Worker Volleyball
   with it in the back room.

Topics:
    MailBITS/21-Jun-93
    Sculley Steps Down
    Xtras for System 7
    SCSI Double Agents
    PowerBook 170 Screams, er, Screens
    Reviews/21-Jun-93

[Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-181.etx; 29K]

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Date: Tue, 22 Jun 93 10:46:19 EST
From: [e-mail] (Daniel           J.      Hofferth    [phone]
AGT/8896)
Subject: [*] usenet-acronyms-11.txt

Back in May ('93) I responded to an Info-Mac plea for an explanation of some
of
the more common acronyms used in E-mail messages.  Things such as BTW, TLA,
and
IMHO are crystal clear to some of us... and opaque to others.  The list I sent
was intentionally small - only the most common abbreviations were included.

Much to my surprise, rather than being posted to the list, my response was
archived as "/info-mac/comm/info/usenet-acronyms.txt".  This is a MINOR update
to that file.  It is still (intentionally) brief.

Please replace "usenet-acronyms.txt" with this file as
"usenet-acronyms-11.txt":

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

In IMv11-98 "ABRODY @ CLARKU" writes:

> Dear Netters,
> I have yet to receive replies #$%#$^ on abbreviations on the net!
> Sounds like an FAQ, yet I haven't the foggiest notion what BTW abbreviates.
> FAQ is simple enough, yet when BTW shows up I am at a lost.  Could someone
> kindly please send me a list of the most popular abbreviations on the net,
> as I don't always have access to Internet's FAQ list, nore do I necessarily
> have the time do a thorough reading of a 25K text file.  Thank you.

Goodness!

BTW = "By The Way"

It _is_ a common abbreviation on Internet... and I've grown so accustomed to
seeing it that I (like many others) use it without considering how opaque it
must seem to some.

BTW, FWIW, I once saw an amusing (IMHO) summary of common Email abbreviations
somewhere on Internet.  Apparently, it has been long forgotten or nobody
RTFM.  IAE, I kept thinking that I'd repost it again, RSN, to cut down on
these FAQ's re: TLAs.  Guess I could summarize now.  If, after reading it,
you find that you are SITD, remember that TANSTAAFL.

(Boy, that was fun. ;)

Popular (and clean) Internet acronyms:

    BTW       By the way
    FAQ       Frequently asked question
    FW        Freeware
    FWIW      For what it's worth
    FYI       For your information
    IAE       In any event
    IMHO      In my humble opinion (also IMO)
    JASE      Just another system error
    MFZ       Microsoft free zone
    OTOH      On the other hand
    PD        Public Domain
    RSN       Real soon now
    SITD      Still in the dark
    SW        Shareware
    TANSTAAFL There ain't no such thing as a free lunch
    TIA       Thanks in advance (also aTdHvAaNnKcSe)
    TLA       Three letter acronym (also FLA)
    TTFN      Ta ta for now

Excuse the language below... these _are_ also circulating:

    BTSOOM    Beats the S*** out of me
    FUBAR     F***ed up beyond all recognition
    PITA      Pain in the a**
    RTFM      Read the f***ing manual (or message)
    SNAFU     Situation normal, all f***ed up.
    SOL       S*** outta luck

I've tried to restrict this list to those acronyms I see regularly - the
ones that seem to have "stuck"... there are a great many others that seem
to come and go.  I have intentionally ignored acronyms that are primarily
hardware jargon (e.g. RAM, CD-ROM, etc.) - there are far too many to list.

If I've missed some that you think should have been included, drop me a
note.  I'll add them to the list and periodically resubmit to Info-Mac if
interest warrants it.

Dan Hofferth.
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 22 Jun 93 04:16:56 edt
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (Q) Credit Card Storage Devices.

I read a while back "Last year" about a company in the Northwest
developing a credit card storage device which would hold 1-2 Gig. I
think it was in tidbits but I'm not sure, has anyone heard anything
else about this technology and/or the company?

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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 18:02:05 -0500 (CDT)
From: [e-mail] (Dan Harrington)
Subject: (Q) Mac IIsi sound problems...

I have a question about the sound output on a Mac IIsi.  On occasion, I just
won't get any sound from the thing!  I thought I had heard of this type of
problem before, but I can't remember specifics.  FYI, I don't have any
earphones or other devices plugged in the sound out port, and the problem
is, as I said, occasional.  During one work session, the system beep may
work fine, but during another session (or the same one), neither the system
beep, nor any programs that use it, nor any programs that use sound at all
are making any noise!  BTW, the sound level is not at zero.

I haven't done much significant testing as to when this occurs.  I think the
problem usually goes away once I open the control panel and check on the
system beep.  That solution works only for that session, though, I think.
My instinct tells me it's a software problem rather than a fault in the
speaker or its wiring.  But, your guess is as good as mine.  Any ideas would
be much appreciated!  Mail to me directly and I will summarize to the net if
necessary.  Thanks--

Dan Harrington
[e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 93 14:57:03 -0400
From: "Keith E Gatling" <[e-mail]>
Subject: 500 Rummy?

After seeing an excellent version of 500 Rummy written by an SU student for
Windows, I was wondering if there was a version anywhere for the Mac?  This
is one of my favorite card games.

keg

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

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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 93 23:57:10 EST
From: Martin Levins <[e-mail]>
Subject: Accounting for printing on Ashare network

I have asked this question of many gurus, but to no avail, so I'm
trying again.

I have two laserwriters connected to a 3.01 Print Server.

The Server log gives me a listing of print job and the *name of the machine*
which is doing the printing.

I use ChooserUser to put the logon name into the Machine name, but
people who want to print don't need to log on.

Is there any way known to humankind that the Print Server can be tweaked
to require logon before it will accept jobs?

I know of some other solutions to this problem - copytext cards and
LaserCharge (the server keeps a count of a users printing, but the user
needs to insert a disc (like a key disc) before printing is enabled.

Both of these things are too cumbersome for my needs.

Any Ideas?

Martin Levins

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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 93 12:21:19 +0200
From: Lars Gislen <[e-mail]>
Subject: Address

Could anyone supply me with an address to
Macintosh Users Group, Phoenix, Arizona??
Thanks in advance!

[e-mail]

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Date: 21 Jun 1993 09:01:39 -0500
From: "dlawrence" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Alarm DA's

>>> I'm looking for an alarm program for the Mac that has a few features that
>>> make it different from the standards like SuperClock and AlarmClock.
First,
>>> I need a program with multiple alarms - one that can be set for various
>>> times of the day and maybe even different times for different days.
Second,
>>> I need an alarm program that will send a dialogue box to the foreground
>>> alerting me of the alarm, rather than the simple single beep alert of the
>>> other programs I mentioned.

>>> If you know of any such creature, I'd be more than interested.  Thanks.

 -----------------------------
The reminder function of Now UpToDate will do just what you want...slick
interface, to-dos, etc. Worth the price.

David Lawrence
Online Tonight/ARPA

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Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1993 16:43:38 -0500 (EST)
From: CHRIS EDWARDS <[e-mail]>
Subject: Alarm DA's - anyone? (A)

Try using Remember? 2.3.2 by Dave Warker. It has multiple alarms, can be set
for different alarms on different days, has automatically repeating alarms,
and
has a datebook built in.

--Chris

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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 93 10:09:58 EDT
From: Paul Henderson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Alarm DA's - anyone? (V11 #125)

On Fri, 18 Jun 1993 10:09:01 EDT Todd Curtiss said:
>Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1993 10:09:01 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Todd Curtiss <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Alarm DA's - anyone?
>
>I'm looking for an alarm program for the Mac that has a few features that
>make it different from the standards like SuperClock and AlarmClock.  First,
>I need a program with multiple alarms - one that can be set for various
>times of the day and maybe even different times for different days.  Second,
>I need an alarm program that will send a dialogue box to the foreground
>alerting me of the alarm, rather than the simple single beep alert of the
>other programs I mentioned.
>
>If you know of any such creature, I'd be more than interested.  Thanks.
>
Remember may be what you may be looking for.  The current version as
of June 21, 1993 at sumex-aim.stanford.edu is
      206475 Sep 29 1992 info-mac/app/remember-232.hqx
I have been happily using Remember for quite some time now on my Mac IIx
(System 7.1).

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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 93 09:20:16 +0200
From: [e-mail] (J|rn Erik Wennerstr|m)
Subject: ALARM DA s (A)

Hello netters

I  used to work with a DA called NOTIFY for the purpose Todd Curtiss
mentions. NOTIFY permits you to work with different sounds and flashes a
message describing what the alarm is about. NOTIFY used to live in the
archives at SUMEX somewhere.

Best regards,

Joern Wennerstroem

Systems Manager
Faculty of the Humanities
University of Odense, Denmark



Venlig hilsen,

J|rn E. Wennerstr|m

                :-)

lok 2147

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Date: Tue, 22 Jun 93 18:07:52 SET
From: Matthias <[e-mail]>
Subject: Apple CD300 on SGI machines (Q)

Dear Netters,

I live in a wonderfull mixed environment with a lot of Macs and some
SGI workstations. Now I want to buy a CD-ROM drive that can be used on
both kind of machines and delivers a lot of functionality. I thought the
Apple CD300 with its double speed, phot-CD and whatsoever would be a
good deal. It also is able to use ISO9660 format, so the SGI's should be
able to read it.

But when I tried to connect it to an SGI, I can't read any directory.
The machine does see the drive, I can tell the drive to eject the disk
(which the drive also does...), but I can't see any data !!!!

Does anybody have any experience with this situation? Did anybody ever
try this out ? Are there any general considerations that lead to the
conclusion that this can not work ?

Of course I could just use any dump CDROM drive, but the Apple CD300 has
some quite nice features, but I am not going to buy it when I can't use
it on the SGI machines...

Since I already on ether, does anybody know if there is something like
the Info-Mac digest for Sicon Graphics systems? Any hint is appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
             Matthias

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Date: Sat, 19 Jun 93 22:35:27 CDT
From: Akira <[e-mail]>
Subject: ATC - Commercial Version?

Hello all,
      a few years ago, I have a friend that had a commercial version
of air traffic controller.  He has since lost it, and I have turned his
house inside-out looking for it.  IS there anyone out there who has it
or can tell me who makes it?  This is not the same as the module for
MS flight simulator.  It was a great game...and would love to find it.
TIA

Akira

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Date: 22 Jun 1993 9:21:57GMT
From: "Alun J. Carr" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Attn:  Ethertalk gurus (Q)

In the School of Engineering here at UCD there's an increasing number of
very frustrated Mac users.

The reason.
===========
Hooking into the campus-wide Ethernet so that we can access the Novell file
servers and Pegasus Mail system results in our machines being slowed down to
a crawl.

The symptoms.
=============
The two-way arrow icon indicating Ethertalk activity appearing on the menu
bar for up to 30 seconds at a stretch (more typically 2--10 seconds). Those
of you who use Ethertalk will realise that the machine is locked up during
this network activity. At peak periods, this icon is displayed for at least
25% of the time (i.e. 15 seconds in every minute). This occurs on all
categories of Mac (from LCs with SCSI/Ethernet adaptors, to IIcxs with NuBus
Ethernet cards, to Centris 650s with built-in Ethernet connections).

The question.
=============
Is this normal Ethertalk behaviour? If not, does it indicate that our
campus-wide Ethernet is incorrectly set-up? If it is normal behaviour, what
the heck do Apple think they're selling as a networking product?

I look forward to some interesting responses. Particularly ones I can use to
club our computing services people around the head with ;-) .

Alun

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

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Date: Sat, 19 Jun 93 00:02:10 PDT
From: [e-mail] (John Thoo)
Subject: Bad Sectors (C)


On 17 Jun 93 Pete Tamas <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 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 believe that Speed Disk that is part of NUM 2.0 will `zero out' bad
sectors.

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

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Date: Tue, 22 Jun 93 16:10:23 EDT
From: Rob Smyser <[e-mail]>
Subject: BarneyScan Corporation whereabouts?

Hi, I've got a CIS*3515 slide scanner from BarneyScan Corporation that needs
some help but I can't find the company any more.
The latest papers from them I have on file list an Alameda CA address, and a
415
area code.  The area code is now 510 and the company is not listed in
555-1212.
   I seem to remember receiving a letter earlier this year perhaps that said
BarneyScan Corp. was being bought by someone, perhaps Xerox, but I don't have
that letter any more.

   Does anyone have the current whereabouts of what used to be known as
BarneyScan Corporation?  Thanks very, very much!

 ----------
    Rob Smyser      Manager, Computer Resource Laboratories
            MIT School of Architecture and Planning
    [e-mail]  [phone]

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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 23:27:15 -0500 (CDT)
From: Rick Gore <[e-mail]>
Subject: Basic Color Monitor (Macintosh) (Q)

Hello folks, I have a question for those of you who may have had a chance to
work with the new Apple _Basic_ Color Monitor.  I have a friend who has a
chance to get a real good deal on a LCIII system that includes the Basic Color
monitor.  The trouble is that I seem to remember hearing some pretty bad
things
about it from people on the net.  Can anyone confirm or deny?  Is the
Macintosh
Color Display (Trinitron) worth the $200 extra?
Please E-mail to me direct, and I will summarize to the digest if there is
enough interest.

Many Thanks in advance!

Rick Gore
in%"[e-mail]"

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Date: Tue, 22 Jun 93 9:18:08 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Steve Portigal)
Subject: bounce a "pict" around the screen?

  For purely entertainment purposes, I'd like to take a PICT (or other
  format..
I'll be scanning it in) of a face and have it bounce around the screen. In
fact, I'd realy like to have their face appear on a big sphere and then fly
arond the screen.

  Without coding this up, is there any simple (ie paste or paste resources)
way I might do this?

 Thanks!

Steve
--
|  Steve Portigal, Dep't of CIS, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1
|
|  email: [e-mail]    Phone: [phone] ext 3580
|

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Date: 19 Jun 93 14:36:06 GMT+7
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Can you help? - Deskwritter Problems

I recently upgrade my HP Deskwritter 500 print drivers from 01.00 to
4.0.  4.0 is really nice - but it does some wierd things.  It cuts
off the last line of the page and puts it on to a new page - so a two
page document takes 4 pages and looks bad.  Can anyone help?
    Thanks ahead of time,
    Mark Fitz


    [e-mail]

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Date: 21 JUN 93 18:04:35.83-GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: carpentry?wood cutting program

hello does anyone know of a program that lets one calculate how to cut
up a big sheet of plywood to get the maximum number of planks of certain
sizes out of it????
any help would be appreciated... maybe you want to email me direct
any ideas you have....  thanx

james benenson
[e-mail]

(in paris france.)

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Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1993 13:12:33 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Thomas R Lawrence)
Subject: Chain (and lock) your Windows...N(O)T!

>> In a few weeks you will receive 12.5 million lines of
>> NT source code, ready for compiling and linking.

What, by EMAIL???  (Hehe, just think about that for a minute or two!)

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Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1993 09:34:56 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Claris Resolve - AutoDoubler incompatibility? Obsolete?

Any advice please as to a workaround would be very gratefully accepted by
an increasingly desperate would-be Resolve user!
Please reply directly to me and I'll summarise if relevant...

I use (and really like) Resolve (was using version 1.0v2) - especially its
scriptability. HOWEVER, since adding AutoDoubler version 2.0i, I get a bomb
(bus error) whenever I try to save a file, or turn AutoSave on, or on
occasions open a file. Although I have a pile of INITS/extensions
shoehorned into my 8MB/40MB SE/30 (System 7.0.1 British), it's definitely
AutoDoubler that's the problem: disable it at startup and Resolve is rock
solid. However, as you can imagine, I bought AutoDoubler because with a
40MB HD I'm desperate for space and turning it off and having to manually
decompress everything with the DD Expand utility is a pain.
The UK distributors Frontline knew nothing of this incompatibility but did
(eventually) send an upgrade to version 1.1v1 which I'm told is current:
problem persists! Actually, it's a bit more interesting than that in that
for the first couple of times everything was fine, I *think* (not positive)
that it was after AD first did an automatic scan/compression session that
the problem returned.
Any thoughts? (No reply as yet from Claris.tech@applelink)

On a related subject: is there any basis to the rumour (I think I saw it in
Tidbits?) that Resolve development has been shelved? We are about to embark
on a major customised patient database project for which Resolve would have
made a good platform, but I don't want to be stuck on an obsolete platform
that won't keep up with hardware/system progress. I really *don't* want to
be forced to by Microsoft Excel...

Rob Forsyth                                     email:          r.j.forsyth @
newcastle.ac.uk
Department of Child Health              phone:        [phone] ext
7140
4th Floor,                                  fax:       [phone]
William Leech Bldg,
Framlington Place,
Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH
United Kingdom

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Date: 19 Jun 1993 21:51:58GMT
From: "Alun J. Carr" <[e-mail]>
Subject: ClarisWorks 2 (C)

I just had my copy of ClarisWorks upgraded to v.2. It looks really good,
with one glaring exception: it doesn't seem to understand about positioning
of equations from equation editors (Expressionist 3.01 in this case)---they
are positioned way too high above the baseline. I assume that Expressionist
includes baseline information in its output, so it must just be that
ClarisWorks is ignoring it. ClarisWorks isn't unique (didn't I read
something in the Digest some time ago about this problem in Nisus as well?),
as Micro$oft Word 5.0a positions Expressionist equations about 1 pt too high
(but you can adjust the height by subscripting the equation by 3 pt rather
than 2 pt---an option that isn't available in ClarisWorks). Claris *should*
do better than the others---after all, they're part of Apple.

Note that I intend to use ClarisWorks for producing slides, not papers or
technical documents (that's handled superbly by AmS-LaTeX).

Alun

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

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Date: 21 Jun 1993 09:18:13 U
From: "Anne" <[e-mail]>
Subject: CopyDoubler

Has Fifth Generation unbundled CopyDoubler from AutoDoubler?

-abh

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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 93 13:11:00 +0200
From: [e-mail] ( Rodella-Morena)
Subject: CrippleDrives lurking...

Just my $0.02 on the ~CrippleDrive~ story:

> * The new floppy disk drives will only read diskettes with data
> that has been written according to the MFM recording standard,
> which is commonly used by IBM-PC compatible computers.

Are they joking? I thought that companies like Apple(R) aimed at
solving problems. This silly idea only creates new problems:
1) to the users: it is very handy to carry with you 800K disks, being
sure that _every_ Mac is able to read it. This will not be true in the
future, with CrippleDrives laughing at you.
2) to the developers and software companies: instead of shipping a
single version on 800K disks, you will need two versions however.
Last summer I went to the US with a couple of friends (one is
Alessandro Levi Montalcini, a well-known shareware author). We brought
with us a tad of 800K disks with our software on it. We gave away the
disks throughout the States. Imagine the same journey with the
CrippleDrives around. We would have had to bring with us both 800K and
HD disks and ask everybody: do you own a SuperDrive or a CrippleDrive?
As an example, most Mac users (users, not programmers) here in Italy
really do not know how much memory is installed into their Macs. The
typical Mac Classic user will tell you he has got 40Mb of memory.
Imagine asking people about the SuperDrive and the CrippleDrive.

> * The new drives do not employ the automatic ejection feature
> used by SuperDrive disk drives. Instead, disks will have to be
> ejected via a manual eject button.

This is incredible to say the least! A Mac without the automatic
ejection feature is not a Mac, just as a Microsloth program without a
plenty of bugs is not a Microsloth program. But somebody suggested
that the new Apple machines would not be Macs. OK. I rephrase: an
Apple computer without the automatic ejection feature is no more an
Apple computer. They talk us about the Guidelines. They print books on
"Human Interface Guidelines" while themselves start following the
WC-DOS guidelines. The removal of the auto-ejection feature is a
**bad** idea. This is one of the key features of the Macintosh
user-friendliness! They should feel ashamed of having printed that
junk-directions on their publications. I wish I were John Sculley: I
would fire the people who proposed these ideas straight away. They
would have no problems in finding a job at Microsloth.

In order to avoid the gradual undermining of the Mac key concepts, if
Apple ever ships a computer with the CrippleDrive, my attitude will be
the following:
as I am the author of Disk Charmer, a (hopefully) nice and
user-friendly disk initializing and verifying utility, I will **not**
update Disk Charmer to accommodate for the new CrippleDrives; I do not
bypass the Operating System, nor the Disk Driver, but if ever Disk
Charmer requires changes to work properly with the CrippleDrives, I
will not make these changes on purpose;
dozens of people bought Macs because I recommended Macs; I will not
recommend Macs any more, guys.

I hope that the Mac community reacts promptly before it is too late.
People in contact with key decision-makers at Apple might forward them
my opinion.

We do not want or need the CrippleDrive. A serious hardware company
would announce: here is the SuperDuperDrive, capable of using GCR on
high-density media and achieving 1600K of storage, while retaining all
the old features; upgrade options for every Mac model.

Besides, the Apple article contains a false statement:
> 1.44MB media, since data on 720K disks requires conversion by
> Apple File Exchange before it can be read by the Macintosh
> Operating System.

The correct statement is: 720K WC-DOS disks requires conversion etc.
If you have Disk Charmer 2.0.x, you can make a perfectly working 720K
Mac HFS disk. The ~ReadMe~ document bundled with Disk Charmer explains
how to make it.

Fabrizio Oddone

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

Date: Sat, 19 Jun 93 18:05:02 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: DESKZAP--where is it?

>Why not use DeskZap.  I have Disktop but find DeskZap better and it is
>shareware.

Where is DeskZap?

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

Date: 21 Jun 1993 09:07:28 -0500
From: "dlawrence" <[e-mail]>
Subject: DeskZap?

>From: [e-mail] (steeper richard r)

>   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... 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


> Why not use DeskZap. I have Disktop but find Deskzap better and it is
> shareware.

> Colin McLaughlin

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

DeskZap? Vos is dis? I can't seem to locate it anywhere in the archives.
Please
advise.

David Lawrence
Online Tonight/ARPA

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

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 09:06:55 +0100 (MET)
From: "Ed van Zon, TFDL-DLO" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Desperately seeking Michael Conrad

Does anyone out there know a sure way to get in touch with Michael Conrad,
author of the shareware utility 'AutoMenus II'.

Having sent the registration fee and a follow up letter to the adress included
in the InfoMac archive (resp. 12 and 6 weeks ago) and not getting any answer,
I now turn to you, the net, to help me out.
'AutoMenus' is great, but every time I startup, it reminds me that I have not
paid (wich is not true!), grinding the bootstrap to a complete halt. So I'm
desperately wanting the key code to get rid of that message.

Thanks in advance,

Ed van Zon
[e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1993 22:48:08 -0700
From: Just brew it. <[e-mail]>
Subject: Duo Power Difficulties

If anybody has any ideas on this, I'd love to hear them.  I've got a Duo
210, 8/80, Express Modem, and two similar, but I suspect separate,
problems.

First, when the machine is running on battery power, it sometimes shuts
itself down in a manner best described as "suddenly and without warning."
Usually this occurs within a minute of a cold start, a restart, or a wake.
Every once in a while, it happens later.

The other problem occurs in or out of the dock, on battery or AC, and is
much more rare:  The Express Modem dials, and the instant it connects, the
machine shuts down.

I've tried resetting the Power Manager innumerable times, draining and
recharging the battery (although I'm told the Duo batteries don't have a
memory problem), and removing *all* my inits (except the Express Modem
ones).  And though removing my inits *has* stopped a plague of other, more
frequent crashes, these two remain.

I'm hoping somebody can suggest a solution that doesn't involve bringing it
in for service, because service in this town is backed up for a week.  I'm
not positive, but I suspect I would turn to dust if I was without my
machine for a week.

Thanks in advance,

Bill Dickson
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 9:44:40 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Rick Sutcliffe)
Subject: Excel 4.0 bug

      Excel 4.0 bug
I have an Excel 2.2a file of macros that I am unable to save in 4.0 format.
Any attempt to do so results in a crash with a Microsoft Address Error.
This happens on a Mac II with 8M of memory.  Other worksheets (not macros)
convert OK.  Excel will save the Macros in 2.2 format, just not in 4.0
format.  Happens with all extensions off.  I also tried rebuilding the
desktop to no avail.  Any suggestions?

Rick

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

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

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 23:32:16 -0500 (CDT)
From: Rick Gore <[e-mail]>
Subject: Farm Management Programs (Q)

Does anybody know of any farm-management programs for the Mac?  I know of
quite
a few for Messy-DOS machines, but we are a Mac family and would like to stay
that way!  Please E-mail me direct, and I will summarize to the net if there
is
enough interest.
Many Thanks in advance!

Rick Gore
in%"[e-mail]"

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

Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1993 16:57:07 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: FDHD upgrade for SE; A little joke from Apple (Q)

I just got my upgrade kit to modify my SE to an FDHD drive. The kit is the
disc drive itself, and two roms and an "integrated Woz machine" chip. At
least, I assume that is what it is, since the joke is.....no directions!!!
Does anyone have, or know where to find, a diagram of the SE logic board???
I can't quite tell which chip is which on the basis of the part #'s and I
don't want to install things till I'm sure!

Yes, I will call the vendor, but sometimes they get real weird about telling
you things that only a "certified technician" is supposed to know. (As if I
can't use a screwdriver and chip extractor) Help appreciated.

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

Date: 21 Jun 1993 09:40:19 U
From: "David Gutierrez" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Fetch and Dec Alpha...

Fetch and Dec Alpha...
In Info-Mac Digest V11 #124, [e-mail]
writes:
> 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,...)

Ours does the same thing. It also does it when I use NCSA/BYU Telnet to
establish an ftp session. It doesn't object to telnet sessions, though. It
also
likes X window sessions.

David Gutierrez
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1993 23:33:40 PDT
From: Kee Nethery <[e-mail]>
Subject: finder-info dialog (A)

>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 ?

Can you say DOS? If it was to be stored on a DOS machine, that would be
it's truncated name.

Kee Nethery
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 93 01:59:05 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Hot key wanted

Does anyone have or know of a way to hot-key between applications, a la the
Alt-Tab combination in windows?  I do a lot of work sans mouse and find it a
bother to leave the keyboard, move to the upper-right corner, and change
applications.  Thanks for any help

Ed Lally :)

--
==========================================
| Ed Lally III          <[e-mail]> |
| My PGP 2.x key is available on request |
==========================================

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

Date: Tue, 22 Jun 93 16:27:55 EDT
From: [e-mail] (2d Lt Avram Dorfman)
Subject: How RAM speed & CPU speed affect computer speed

Brozovic Douglas wrote in asking if he had to get "faster" RAM for an
accelerated machine. I was confused for a while about how RAM speed relates
to CPU speed, and how they both relate to how fast the resulting computer is.
I did some research, and here is the story (Please email questions and
corrections to me directly, and I will post an update if necessary):

 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Doug (is that right?),

I think I can give you a fairly clear answer about "faster" RAM simms: Simms
are rated in terms of how long it takes for them to produce (or set) the
contents of a memory location, from the time they were asked to do it by the
CPU. This is measured in nanoseconds (10^-9 seconds).

The amount of time that it takes a CPU to do one "thing" (not necessarily one
instruction) is measured in megahertz. This is too bad, because megahertz
can be directly converted into nanoseconds (1000/MHz = nanoseconds). It would
make more sense if we said "This is a 25 nanosecond processor, and these are
80 nanosecond SIMMs." Then we could see directly how many processor ticks it
takes to get info from RAM.

For example, if your processor ticks ever 25 nanoseconds, and your RAM takes
60 nanoseconds to produce a result, then it is going to take at least 3 ticks
to get an answer. Thus, 75 nanosecond RAM is just as good for you as 60 nano-
second RAM.

A 40 MHz processor ticks once every 25 nanoseconds, a 33MHz one
ticks every 30 nanoseconds. Thus, a 40MHz processor with 60 nanosecond RAM
would actually be slower than a 33MHz processor with the same RAM - the
33 can get its info in 2 ticks (60 nanoseconds), but the 40 has to spend 3
ticks (75 nanoseconds). BTW, I don't think there is such a thing as 60
nanosecond RAM (other than in caches). I think 70 is the best there is.

This is why a 33MHz Mac IIvx is not faster than a 25MHz LC III. It is because
We can't make RAM fast enough to keep up with the faster processor. The reason
a 20MHz Centris (68040) is faster than a 33MHz is that it has a RAM cache -
a little bit of RAM that IS 60 nanoseconds or better (it would be too
expensive
to make all RAM as fast a cache RAM).

Hope this helps...

-Avram ([e-mail])

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

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 10:10 +0100 (MET)
From: Hans de Wolf <[e-mail]>
Subject: How to create a PostScript file with limited line length

Does anybody out there in netland know how I can create a PostScript file
with line of limited length (preferable 80 or 132 characters, but in any way
less than 255).

Let me explain why I need this:

We want to write calculation results from a FORTRAN program in a picture.

The picture of a piece of equipment is created in MacDraw Pro and printed
to a PostScript file. On the spots where a calculation result (temperature)
must be inserted a text label (like @TEMP11) is put in the picture.

The created postscript file is processed by a FORTRAN program (on a VAX)
which replaces the text labels @TEMP11 by the calculated value (273.15).
After this, the PostScript file is sent to a PostScript printer.

The problem: FORTRAN uses record I/O, not character I/O. The PostScript
file with the labels in it looks like one big line (one record) and cannot
be processed by the FORTRAN program.

Is there any trick to modify the LaserWriter driver to set a limit to the
length of the lines in generated postscript file ?

Thanks in Advance
Hans de Wolf
([e-mail])

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

Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1993 16:48:23 -0500 (EST)
From: CHRIS EDWARDS <[e-mail]>
Subject: I *heart* Microsoft

I am beginng to feel like the dissenting opinion, but I like Microsoft. For my
money there is no other software out there that is as powerful, user-friendly,
or more widely used. Besides that, it is just FUN to use. Is there *anyone*
else who still likes Microsoft?

--Chris

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

Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1993 19:11:17 -0500
From: "Paul M. Sheldon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: IBM-Apple cross platform communication thru network (Q)

    My Godfather, Al, said that he knew of a junior high with apples and a
    high
school with ibms. Can they be connected with a network? Please some names of
companies, telephone numbers, e mail addresses preferably in the Jersey area.

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

Date: Sat, 19 Jun 93 00:53:52 PDT
From: monica <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #125

in the spindler announcement, john scully is labelled "chairman"
of Apple.

does the hip sensitive apple really still use the archaic
gender specific term "chairman"?
rather than the all-acceptable, multi -purpose "chair"?

amazing.
m.c. schraefel
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 93 13:23:09 EST
From: GRENDEL <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #125

    I have a beautiful, bouncing baby Color Classic. It's so cute, it
looks just like its father. I'd show you pictures if I could. However, there
seem to be a couple problems I'm having, that are connected with it.
    1) I like the feature (I'm not sure whether it's a C.C. feature or a
Sys7.1 feature, since I'm new to both) that allows you to shut down by
pressing
the power key. Unfortunately, I also like the PowerSwitcher extension, which
allows me to cycle the windows with the power key. In fact, I like the
extension
better than the shutdown feature. Is there any way to disable the shutdown
feature so I can get PowerSwitcher to work again?
    2) This may not be a C.C. problem, but I first noticed it while trans
transferring files from my old Mac to the new one. The desktop files on my
floppies are growing. And I mean to monstrous size--one is over 250k, others
top 100k, and every time (it seems) I copy things, the desktop grows. There's
nothing physically wrong with the disks, and rebuilding the desktop doesn't
do anything. All are clear of viruses via Disinfectant 3.2. What's the deal?
    Oh, one more annoyance, SoftwareFPU crashes on startup, but I suppose
I should mention that to the author of that program.
    Thanks for your help.

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

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 23:30:10 -0500 (CDT)
From: Rick Gore <[e-mail]>
Subject: Investment Programs (Q)

Anyone have any experience with programs that help a user manage investments
like stocks, bonds and mutual funds?  I have a friend that is looking to
purchase a Mac and wants something that can help him track trends and costs.
Please E-mail to me direct, and I will summarize to the net if there is enough
interest.
Many Thanks in advance!

Rick Gore
in%"[e-mail]"

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

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 93 14:59:20 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Jurassic Park After Dark...

You know, it occurred to me that the Boris module for After Dark could be
modified fairly easily to have velociraptors chasing around a pterodactyl...
that is, if you're good with a paint program.  I spent some time trying with
Resedit, and then decided to suggest it in case someone with more time
(read here, College Student) wanted to try.

Question:  does anyone have the address for the creators of Boris (aka
Rob Vaterlaus & Igor Gasowski)?  Preferrably an email address?  Maybe it could
be an official modification by Berkeley Systems...

Just an idea...

Brandon Munday
[e-mail]
Drive Defensively:  Buy a TANK.

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

Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1993 10:42:16 EDT
From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Jurassic Park QT More...

David "TRex" Lawrence and Steve Portiga commented on the QT video used
in Jurassic Park.

SP> There are a LOT of Mac users out there, many of whom are familiar
SP> enough with QuickTime to see the gaffe. It's jarring, it reminds
SP> you that it IS just an effect, which is the opposite of what they
SP> are trying to achieve. I think it's just sloppiness....

This comment is interesting (especially since I finally saw Jurassic
Park yesterday.  (I read the book a few weeks ago.)  I was also appauled
by the jerky, bloctchy quality of the QT video.  (I was also disconcerting
to see all the omissions from the book--but that's another story.)  I should
remind us all that Jurassic Park (according to the book) is set in 1989.  So
the technology (if fiction was real) is now four years old!  (QT beta 0.8?)

Jeffrey Fritz
West Virginia University
Telecommunications
Internet: [e-mail]
AppleLink: WVUISDN
America On Line: ISDN Man

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Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1993 12:31:40 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Ed Siegfried)
Subject: KeyServer 3.1 Usage tracker

[e-mail] writes:

>Would appreciate hearing from anyone who has been using KeyServer 3.1 made
>by Sassafras Software, in a lab setting. Problems? Comments? We are trying to
>ditch our current usage tracking system, Macinuse, because of
>incompatibilities
>THanks.

We have used it with no problems on about 20 apps in a 40-station
LocalTalk network. However, we have not attempted to do any *tracking*;
for that I think you need to extract data from KS's log files.

Ed Siegfried
Milton Academy, Massachusetts
[e-mail]

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

Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1993 21:01:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail] (Donald E. Carver)
Subject: LaserWriter 8.0

> I downloaded the new LW 8.0 driver 1440k disk image from ftp.apple.com
>
> I have a Mac IIsi, 17Mb RAM, ....
>
> I kept getting a Heap error during the decompression of the LW8.0 driver
> itself, even though System 7.1 is supposed to manage the heap
automatically.
> (I have the H/W update installed as well.)
>
> After calling 1 800 SOS APPL, re-downloading the file, re-installing my
> system software twice, and starting up with the Shift-key down,...
> I still kept getting the same error.
>
> My solution:  I tried downloading the two 800k disk images, and they worked
> fine, even though they are supposedly the same programs, etc.....
>
> The guys at the Apple help desk didn't know what was wrong, why the 800k
> stuff worked and the 1440k didn't for me.  They said mine was the first
> problem like that they heard of; their IIsi handled it fine.
>
> Just in case anyone else was having the same problem, or in case you
> see what was wrong that I could have overlooked,

Don Carver, [e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 10:07:36 -0800
From: Jerry Wilcox <[e-mail]>
Subject: Looking for an util like the "grep" command  of unix (R)

> Somebody knows where I can find a free/shareware programm to find a
> string in a set of Text files ?? (like the "grep" command of unix)

BBEdit Lite has a grep search mechanism that can search multiple files at a
time. It is available at Info-Mac as

    ./text/bbedit-23.hqx

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

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Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1993 20:27:34 -0500
From: alfred!vicstoy!n1mnb.oau.org![e-mail] (Brad Ackerman)
Subject: Mac-o-phile's review of Jurassic Park (possible semi-spoilers!)

>o Lots of Macintoshes!  Apple computer is cited in the credits, as is
>  SuperMac Technology, which means that not only are there Macs (I caught
>  a IIci, or maybe a Quadra standing on its end), but some pretty impressive
>  large-screen displays.  There's a sequence where you see a quicktime movie
>  on screen, and you can clearly see Mac icons & windows (and some variations
>  on the user interface we all love).

That was a Quadra 700.  The impressive displays are from SuperMac, and cost
US$2.000 (DM5.000, LB1.250, etc.) each.

>o One bad guy is a computer nerd, one good guy (actually a little girl) is
>  too ("Hacker, not nerd," she complains).
>
>Though Apple gets a lot of publicity (and I'm sure it wasn't free...), one
>of the better lines that breaks a cliffhanger type of situation is "Hey,
>this is UNIX, I know this!"  Perhaps Apple didn't pay enough, or maybe
>AT&T or Novell paid 'em something.

"It's a UNIX system...I know this!"
Wrong...it's obviously using MacOS.  If it were U**X, it would have an
OSF/Motif or similar interface.

BTW, what's with that extremely un-Mac (and un-U**X) interface in the final
scene (the main menu)?  And why does the Mac have a 2-button mouse?  Has
anyone *ever* seen a Mac with anything but a 1- or 3-button?  Ugh. :(

>Otherwise, if you like special effects, it's the movie of the decade.
>It's not a particularly thoughtful or intellegent movie, but lots of
>thrills, chills, and dinos chomping on defenseless mammals of every
>persuasion.

Courtesy of sgi.com.  Would love one of those Indigo2 beasts.  Would love
to be able to fork over the $30.000 sticker price. :)

Also, the movie was a lot different from the book.  Should have been at
least 4 hours long to get the whole book in.  Left out some good parts, and
completely changed the ending. :(

Brad Ackerman ** [e-mail] ** "It is coporeal...a physical entity."

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

Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1993 21:00 EST
From: the eagle has landed <[e-mail]>
Subject: MacWrite Pro

Greetings,
  I recently bought macwrite Pro and any time I attempt to open a MacWrite II
doc. either from MacWrite Pro or Drag and Drop, Pro shuts down and gives
me a type 1 error.  I called the tech support and the guy there thought
I had a corrupt system.  I installed a new system, Twice, and reinstalled
MacWrite Pro.  Nothing changed. I turned off all extentions and any thing
else that I could think of that might conflict.
The tech guy finnaly said "thats really wierd" and keeps blaming my system.
Any help would be appreciated.
  I'm running a Classic II with system 7.0, tune up 1.1.1, 4 Meg RAM.
  Both MacWrite II and MacDraw Pro work with no problems.

Thanks in Advance

Tom
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1993 13:32:49 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Monty Hampton)
Subject: Managing Your Money Roundtable

Hi! I'm new to the net and to info-mac, but am a long time Mac user. I am
not certain that this is the way to go about this, but I'd thought I'd give
it a try.

After years of using mulitple personal finance packages
(concurrently), I decided to try the monumentous task of consolidating
everything into MYM and now I need someone to commiserate with. I am sure
that MYM can do the many things it is touted to do, but I have found many
limitations and some bugs. Also, knowing how someone else did it right
would save the new user HOURS (perhaps days) of wasted work. I am wondering
if there is a Newsgroup or Support Group or a Roundtable anywhere for MYM
users. I know that MECCA (and now Chipsoft) is not on the net. If there
are those of you that are interested in forming such a group, please let me
know and perhaps we can get someting going.

I'd appreciate any information, advice, suggestions, etc. anyone could
provide. If you rather correspond with me directly rather than posting,
please feel free to do so.

Thanks much!  :-)
E.M. Hampton, OUHSC College of Pharmacy & OKC DVAMC
921 NE 13th Street,Oklahoma City, OK 73104 [phone]
[e-mail]

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

Date: Sat, 19 Jun 93 10:16 BST
From: RICHARD LIM <[e-mail]>
Subject: Microsoft Vaporware (C)

Karl Pottie wrote that his local Microsoft rep had told him:

>(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.

I don't know about Excel, but I thought Word was slow-ish because it's
pseudocode.  This isn't a big secret.

>(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".

I seem to remember Murph Sewall writing in Vaporware that Word 6.0 would
not be pseudocode like Word 5.x, and that this time the Windows and Mac
versions would have practically identical feature sets, as they would
have a large amount of code in common.  This makes a lot more sense to
me than the stuff quoted above - I think Murph and his magazine/net
sources were probably a lot more reliable than what company reps think
they know.  Besides, Microsoft care about profit above all else, and
they realise that the installed base of LCII-type machines is just too
large for them to ignore.

My conclusion: Stay away from Microsoft products if you think there's an
equivalent/better alternative - this is what frustrates me, that their
competition is so poor sometimes.  And don't jump to any conclusions based
on hearsay; it would be better to wait for betas (and attendant gossip)

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

Date: Tue, 22 Jun 93 03:32:34 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Microsoft Vaporware (interesting !) (R)

Karl Pottie writes:

>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".

Interesting conclusion. I think I prefer an alternate conclusion, stay away
>From software vendors that require mid-level platforms for basic computing
needs.  There is still plenty of "leanware" available to get the job done.
You might even avoid getting hit with high-priced upgrades every year. Just a
thought.

Tom

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

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 93 13:16:45 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Sean M. Joyce)
Subject: MIDI and the Duos (Q)

Hello again!

I was wondering if anyone had any experience using a PowerBook Duo system
(docked or undocked) with MIDI equipment for electronic music.  I remember
reading several places about trouble using standard PowerBooks with MIDI
(although I don't quite recall what caused the problems).  But I don't recall
whether there have been reports of difficulty with the Duo line.
----
Sean M. Joyce
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 22 Jun 93 07:18:25 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Dolores Stanko)
Subject: MUSIC FONT

Would you be able to help me find a font that I thought I saw
described in a fairly recent IFMD (since March '93), please?  I
don't have access to the IFMD CD.  I do have an ftp connection
to SUMEX-AIM (via Tallahassee Free-Net) but was not able to
locate any font that had a name that hinted of music or music
symbols.  If you know anything about such a font or can tell me
where to look, I'd be grateful.  Thanks very much!  You do a
fantastic job with these archives and IFMD.

--
Dolores Stanko, SND(Sisters of Notre Dame)
Notre Dame Educational Center      //One lifetime isn't long
Chardon, Ohio                        enough--there must be more!//

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Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1993 09:41:38 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Paul Westbrook)
Subject: Phone ringer

   A while ago I saw a program that made a mac beep, when the phone
rang, using a modem.  Does anyone know where to find that program?
Please send me e-mail with that informtion

                    Thanks,
                    --Paul

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Date: Tue, 22 Jun 93 11:32:06 -0500
From: Todd E. Frenzel <[e-mail]>
Subject: Please Explain DAL

Could someone please fill in the missing pieces about DAL.

I am currently writing a complex disease tracking database in Foxbase+/Mac.
I
would like to integrate remote SQL queries to an Oracle database running on a
Vax, and Sybase running on a Sun Sparc-10 or a NeXT.  Preferably the "DAL"
middleware should open the connection, make the query, and return the answer
all in the background.  The user need not know where the information came
from,
but just that it has been retrieved.


Are there products that interface on the Mac with Foxbase?  Or are the product
software dependant at all?  Do I need seperate software for the Sun and the
Vax?


I've development a remote query system for Hypercard stacks and Sybase with
TCP
and FTP xcmds, but this does not use the DAL extension.   I'm trying to
incorperate system 7 feature and remote access standards into my software for
future compatibility and ease of development and maintenance.

I would appreciate information or the location of information about
mac/sun/next software, as well as a technical description of how the DAL
remote
connection works, and even C or pascal ( preferably C ) source would be nice.


Thanks in advance,

Todd Frenzel
Texas Animal Health Commission
Austin, TX
<[e-mail]>

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Date: 20 Jun 1993 23:56:11 -0500 (EST)
From: Zsuzsanna Bencsath-Makkai <[e-mail]>
Subject: Powerbook and NEC 15G monitor

How could I connect a NEC 15G monitor to a PowerBook 160?



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

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Date: 20 Jun 1993 15:23:28 U
From: "Bruce Henderson" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Programing with Serius

               Subject:                               Time:3:22 PM
  OFFICE MEMO          Programing with Serius                 Date:6/20/93
I'm looking for comments on Serius Workshop and Serius Pro programming
applications.  Ease of use, speed of applications, etc.

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Date: 22 Jun 1993 09:32:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: Fred Condo <[e-mail]>
Subject: QuickTime for Windows

Apple has been generously giving away QuickTime for Macintosh. What is the
pricing of QuickTime for Windows? I can't find it on Apple's ftp site, and
the only pricing information I have on QT for Windows is the APDA price for
the developer's kit. Any information will be gratefully received! Thanks.

Fred Condo + [e-mail] + [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 93 11:55:41 CDT
From: Graeme Forbes <[e-mail]>
Subject: Radius customer service - 2 thumbs up

Some of you may have seen the new ads from Radius about their "instant
turnaround" on defective monitors. Well, it actually works. I got a
21" monochrome monitor from Syex last week ($820, discounted from the
new list price of $999) that had blurry areas that made me want to rub
my eyes when I looked at it. I called Radius and next day found a
new monitor waiting for me at the office. The day after, a shipping
company arrived and took away the old one. Impressively efficient and
cost me nothing.

Graeme Forbes

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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 93 9:24:51 EDT
From: Tom Coradeschi <[e-mail]>
Subject: Reading through entire digest.

Peter Jorgensen <[e-mail]> wrote:
>[e-mail] writes:
>>do you have to read thru ALL the articles to get the one you want?
>>How does one access an article say, half-way down the list, without
>>scrolling thru many articles of lesser interest?
>>Thanks- Ellen
>
>You have two choices that require you to download each issue to a disk
>that your Mac can access, its local hard disk or a file server for
>instance.
>
>1) Import the digests into the InfoMac Digest Stack. This has navigation
>   tools that make it easy to skip to articles of interest. It is
>   available from the archives as card/mac-digest-stack-11.hqx.
>
>2) Use EasyView. This application breaks down the digest into individual
>   articles which you can see by clicking on their subjects. It has some
>   other features, too.

Another choice it to look into the features of the mail reader on your
Unix/whatever box, assuming that's where it gets sent to. Look for a
command to "undigestify" or "unburst" mail. This will break a digest into
its constituent msgs. (The 'msg' reader uses the '@' command to undigest,
for example)

        tom coradeschi    <+>    [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 14:05:00 -0500
From: "Paul M. Sheldon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Say it ain't so! Scully stepping down (R)

    Long ago I read here that he was shopping for real estate in IBM country.
Can anyone do a ways search to see if that real estate has an eject button?
What would one do with an eject button on real estate?
    If John Detroi is reading this, my paper clip still don't woik and I can't
figure out how I wrecked its internal mechanism.

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Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1993 14:36:00 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Terry Thiel)
Subject: Say it ain't so! Scully stepping down??

[e-mail] writes:

>I just read in comp.sys.mac that according to prudential information that
John
>Scully is stepping down as President and CEO but will remain Chairman of the
>Bo
>ard. The COO guy is moving up to President and CEO and according to the
report
>a "tough leader" and may start "a badly needed reorgnization" of the
company.
>T
>he article stated that Scully was the  company's main visionary after they
>kick
>ed out Jobs. What's going on here? Why get rid of someone as bright and on
the
>ball as Scully? Can't reorganiztions happen without having Scully step down.
>Di
>d anyone else see this coming or am I the only one that's suprized?

You've gotta be kidding me.  They should have gotten rid of Sculley when
they got rid of Gasee.  They were behind the astronomically high prices of
Macs as well as stupid machines like the SE and the "Portable".  Good
riddance.
-Terry

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Date: 22 Jun 93 12:13:00 CST
From: "JOHN S. CONRADER" <[e-mail]>
Subject: sound site?

Hi,
 Just wondering if anyone knows of a ftp site with lots of sound files.
I tried audio.cc.rochester.edu which used to have some, but I am having
difficulty connecting(I have to use ftpmail).  Is this one still around?

thanks for the help.
-John :)

[e-mail]

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Date: 20 Jun 1993 17:18:35 -0600
From: "Glockzin Donald" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Space Quest I Help Requested

I need help on this game. Here's my situation:

I am stuck on the dessert.  I've been thru the underground.
I can't understand the head in the dark room.  I've killed Orat and
the spiderdoid. Help!
-- Gene
(I'm using my son's acct, please send email response to him. Thanks)

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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 93 11:30:01 +0300
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Stylewriter II and transparencies

I just tried printing on a transparency, the kind that we use for
photocopying, on my stylewriter II and the result was a mess.  Big drops,
little drops, some sort of Andy Warhol style thing.  The same file printed
out fine on paper.  Does one have to use special transparencies?  Is the
water soluble ink responsible for this problem (ie should I use a
Deskwriter?).  Would I be better off using a LaserWriter?

Any and all help appreciated....

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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 18:12:40 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Larry Pickett)
Subject: SURVEY STACK LOCATION (Q)

I may have dreamed this but I remember seeing a HC stack that would allow
one to design a survey that anyone with access to a file server could take
and the results would be put in a designated folder.  The stack would also
summarize the survey results.  Anyone have any idea where such a beast
might be - info-mac?  developers cd's?  someplace I shouldn't have been
looking? I can't find it but may have looked right at it.  Thanks.

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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 14:58:06 EDT
From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: System 7 Friendly True Basic

I just inherited a copy of True Basic which doesn't seem to like
running on System 7.  It crashes big time upon launch.  The version
is 2.01 dated April 24, 1987.

Is there a newer version that works with System 7?  Is True Basic
Inc. still alive?

Jeffrey Fritz
West Virginia University
[e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 19 Jun 93 00:01:28 PDT
From: [e-mail] (John Thoo)
Subject: TimesTwo Follow up (C)  (C)


On 17 Jun 1993 Peter Jorgensen <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 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.

I'm happy to say that Stacker is able to handle partitions quite nicely.
I'm using Stacker on my PB, and am thus far very happy with it.

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

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Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1993 18:41:03 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Pete Resnick)
Subject: Time synchronization (almost) Q

In comp.sys.mac.digest, Phillip Hicks <[e-mail]> writes:

>       I have followed with interest the dialog on setting time and time
>synchronization. Does anyone know of a application/init/cp, etc. that will
>read the time from some standard, add an offset of x seconds and then set the
>Mac's clock.
>       Why would someone want to do this? I work at a radio telescope
>installation in New Mexico and we use a time standard IAT (International
>Atomic Time) which is current offset by 27 seconds from CUT (Coordinated
>Universal Time). Obtaining UT time is easy, but how do I add the offset?

First the bad news: the current version of Network Time (1.1.1) does
not have user configurable time offset. No way no how.

Some good news: Network Time 2.0, which is now completing beta test,
does have a user configurable time offset.

Further bad news: The current interface for setting up a time zone
only includes hours and minutes, but not seconds.

Further good news: The settings for the time zones are ResEdit
configurable and are kept in seconds, so you could change them by hand
if you wanted to.

Now the question: Before Network Time 2.0 is released, is it necessary
to include user adjustable seconds in the offset fields? The Map
control panel does not provide such a field, and I think it would be a
very specialized case like this that would require it. Any opinions?

pr
--
Pete Resnick - [e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 93 17:26:58 MDT
From: Jon Kamler 208-756-5400 <[e-mail]>
Subject: Unstuffing a file...Thanks

Greetings Netters,

I just wanted to express my thanks to all those who
responded to my request for information on Stuffit.

--Jon Kamler

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Date: 21 Jun 1993 09:47:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Peter Jorgensen <[e-mail]>
Subject: VGA Monitor on Mac (A)

Alan H. Stein wonders about connecting a Zenith VGA monitor to a Mac using
a $5 adapter (Issue 125).

I have found that some of these adapters are not wired quite right. I
"fixed" one (a Computer Care) by shorting pins 4 and 11 (monitor sense and
GND). I did this by wrapping a short length of THIN copper wire (one
strand from a multi strand wire) around the two pins. It wasn't easy, but
with a little fiddling (Olde Timey is best, but Bluegrass will do) I got
the wire in there and it did the trick. There's still some looseness, and
ocassionally I have to wiggle the adapter to get a good image on the
display (instead of an image that is double width and "wraps around" the
picture tube.)

Hope this helps.

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: Sun, 20 Jun 1993 18:26:53 -0230
From: "Michael Coyne, Grenfell College, Memorial University of Newfoundland"
<[e-mail]>
Subject: Why are my icons changing?

Can someone please tell me why my program icons are disappearing and being
replaced by the generic 'pencil-in-hand' icon. I rebuilt my desktop yesterday
and cured it temporarily, but today the problem has reappeared. Any
suggestions
would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Michael Coyne

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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 93 13:43:23 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Blair Nonnecke)

I need some quantitative information on the mouse tracking settings in
the mouse control panel.  If anyone has information on what these
settings mean in terms of the velocity of the cursor with respect to
movement of the mouse I would like to hear from you.  A published source
would be very useful.

I am not a regular reader of this list, so would you please respond
to me at:  [e-mail]

Thanks in advance.

Blair Nonnecke
HCI Laboratory, University of Guelph

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Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1993 11:16:36 -0400
From: Jonathan Su <[e-mail]>

Hello.  I just got a Mac LC III, and I'm trying to get DarkSide of the Mac,
MacLayers, and OzTeX (from midway.uchicago.edu).  I have a UNIX account here
at Georgia Tech and I can ftp from your site to my account.  I ftp-ed mcvert
and compiled it; it seems to work fine.  I have decompressed DarkSide and
MacLayers (as well as UnStuffIt).

However, I am not able to download from my Tech account to my LC III.  I have
been using Kermit 0.9, which is not capable of transferring MacBinaries.  It
can transfer data or resource forks, but not both.  I am hunting around here
at Georgia Tech to locate software that can transfer MacBinaries, but with
little success.  Do you have any advice which could get me started?

Thanks in advance.

Jonathan Su
[e-mail]

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Date: 21 Jun 1993 09:14:45 -0500
From: "dlawrence" <[e-mail]>

> Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1993 08:04:30 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "Michael A. McGuire" <[e-mail]>
> Subject: Mac -> IBM snd translation (Q)

> I am looking for an application or a way to translate digital sound files on
> a Mac to sound files that can be used on an IBM/PC under Windows. (Yes I
> know, but it not for me so don't jump on me.) MIDI or Wav is the IBM formats
> they are interested in.

 ------

Try Brian's Sound Tool in the info-mac/snd/util folder. It works like a champ
and converts both ways with a drag and drop interface.

David Lawrence
Online Tonight

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