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Info-Mac Digest             Mon, 19 Jul 93       Volume 11 : Issue 144

Today's Topics:

      Administrivia
      [!] Archive Directory Changes
      [*] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1.0
      [*] cardshellvol1-1.hqx
      [*] cardshellvol2.hqx
      [*] Charon 0.98
      [*] DailyDeeds Submission
      [*] Dockernaut 1.0
      [*] IM_Mac 1b27o
      [*] Monitor - System 7 Monitoring Tool
      [*] Monitor Switch 1.0 (2nd try)
      [*] no subject (file transmission)
      [*] Spectre Supreme Demo TEST UPLOAD PART ONE ONLY
      [*] Submission
      [*] Submission : skim
      [*] ViewIt 2.07 Shareware (replaces version 2.06 in Development)
      [*] Virex 3.x Virus Definitions
      (Q) Anchor Automation, Inc.'s address?
      2 3.5" Drives Inside IIcx (Q)
      AHED - Bishop and Hat
      American Heritage Dictionary - Word Hunter
      A New Jon Pugh
      Apple MacTCP status 7/17
      AppleTalk Problem, Missing Devices
      Backup onto Flopticals
      Built in ethernet - (Q)
      Crippledrive major disad
      Digital audio access on non-Apple CD-ROM?
      Duo external modem & docking station
      Duo Internal Hard Drives
      FastPath IV is unreliable on large networks
      Forms generation
      Full Impact (Q)
      IBM Disk Inserted INIT
      IBM DISK INSERTED INIT SUMMARY...
      Info-Mac digest to AOL
      Info on used mac pluses needed.
      Internal Modem for Powerbook 100
      keyboard troubles
      Local-and Ethertalk same time (Q)
      Location of Helix Express 1.0.1 updater
      MAC's and PaintJets
      Mac II video cards - helpp!
      Macintosh IDT boards, Mac on SGI emulation
      Mac or Dos Laptop? (Q)
      Macworld Expo Toronto
      Merriam-Wester 10th
      Need bad-block checker BADLY!
      Non-profit acc. prgm
      Norton Encrypt (& PGP)
      Page cross-referencing within Word? (R)
      PCs vs Macs and Word
      Prices of Macs in Japan?
      Pub. Domain Pascal Compiler
      Scroll bar control of varible field in Hypercard (Q)
      StuffIt! Expander 3.02 (C)
      Stuffit Viewer Engine updater (Q)
      System 7.1 and Mode 32 are incompatible
      System can't be installed onto a HD & a whimsical floppy drive.
      Too many users connected currently. Please try again later. (Q)
      TooSoftPC Crashes...
      Trash Folder from Hell
      Using Time in Excel 4.0...
      vertical axes with stylewriter
      What the HELL is goin' on here?!...
      Which Term Program? (A)
      Windows CDROMs on Macs
      Windowscript (Q)
      Word 4.0 running under 7.1 (A)
      Zmodem tools?

The Info-Mac newsgroup is moderated by Bill Lipa and Gordon Watts.

The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous,
any password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu
[36.44.0.6].  Help files and indices are in /info-mac/help.

Please send articles and binaries to [e-mail].
Send administrative mail to [e-mail].

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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1993 0:25:08 PDT
From: The Moderators <[e-mail]>
Subject: Administrivia

Sumex is effectively down for anonymous ftp and gopher access. There are
a couple of crazed processes that are thrashing the system. When the load
is too high, anonymous access is cut off. Sorry about that. Hopefully the
system will be back up on Monday.

Bill Lipa
[e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 18 Jul 93 17:42:29 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Liam Breck)
Subject: [!] Archive Directory Changes

We are continuing to adjust the directory structure at the archive as
we reorganize it.  Here is a summary of new changes.

--- Added --------------------------------------------------------------

Game/  (game)
  Arcade  (arc)
    Fast action games.
  Board  (brd)
    Games that would be played on a board if they weren't on your Mac.
    Chess, go, etc., unique originals, and tile games like dominos.
  Cards  (crd)
    From solitaire to bridge.  Any game that is played with cards.
  Commercial  (com)
    Demos, tips, editors, and anything that goes with commercial
    entertainment software.

Information/NonMacStuff  (info/nms)
    All kinds of stuff that has very little to do with Macs.
    Informational Hypercard stacks, literature, useful info, etc.

--- Removed --------------------------------------------------------------

Hypercard/ExternalCommand (card/xcmd)
    The files formerly in this dir have been moved to card/.

--- Redefined ------------------------------------------------------------

Hypercard  (card)
    Hypercard utilities, externals and info for Hypercard programmers.

Note: card/ will no longer contain informational stacks.  Stacks about
non-Mac topics will be moved to info/nms/, stacks about science and
math have been moved to sci/, stacks about Macs have been moved to the
appropriate topic directory

We are in the late stages of the reorg now.  There will be a pause in
reorganization activity between now and September.  util/ app/ font/
and comm/ will be cleaned up in the fall.

Liam Breck     [e-mail]          El Cazador de Ratones


PS: For a complete description of the archive's directories, see
    info-mac/help/directory-contents.txt

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Date: 16 Jul 93 02:03:29 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Matthew O. Williams)
Subject: [*] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1.0

'Adventures of S. Holmes 1.0' is a HyperCard version of the Sherlock Holmes
novel 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.  You
will need HyperCard version 2.1 (or later) to read the book.  The stack is
being released for free but is NOT in the public domain.  You may freely
distribute it but please do not distribute modified copies of this work.  If
you have any suggestions or comments, or or did not receive the entire file,
please send e-mail to:  <[e-mail]> and/or
<[e-mail]>.  Enjoy!

   -- Matthew Williams and Espen Koht

[Archived as /info-mac/info/nms/adventures-of-s-holmes-10-hc.hqx; 563K]

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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 93 15:03:43 -0600
From: Ralph Sutherland <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] cardshellvol1-1.hqx

ABOUT THE CARD SHELL GAMES VOLUME #1.
Code and Artwork (c)1992 Ralph S Sutherland.
Portions of code remain (c) Symantec Corp.

Welcome to the first of a series of solitaire card game releases.  Volume
#1 is the first four games to be developed with a new card game framework
called the Card Shell.  They all use full colour graphics including 40
pack designs and 60 background patterns.

This 1993 release fixes a few minor bugs.

*****System requirements

The games are designed to work best under system 7.0 or newer, although
they will still function with some loss of smoothness under system
6.0.7.  The games use full 256 colour colour graphics, but they
have optimisations to work well under all depths from B&W to
32bit colour.  However they require a mac with colour quickdraw.
At the moment this includes:

all Mac II computers (including the SE/30), all LCs, all Quadras
all powerbooks (except the PB100) and probably all newer macs.
(I am not sure about the Classic II).

They each want about 1MB of ram under system 7.0 and up to 1.5-2MB under
system 6 without 32bit Quickdraw

*****Credits

Design & programming: Ralph S Sutherland.
Testing: Neville Smythe and Kim Holburn.

Enjoy!

Ralph S Sutherland  July. 1993.

[Archived as /info-mac/game/card-shell-vol1.hqx; 354K]

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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 93 15:04:13 -0600
From: Ralph Sutherland <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] cardshellvol2.hqx

ABOUT THE CARD SHELL GAMES VOLUME #2
Code and Artwork (c)1992 Ralph S Sutherland.
Portions of code remain (c) Symantec Corp.

Welcome to a series of solitaire card game releases.  This is the second
release of three games, developed with a new card game framework called the
Card Shell.  They all use full colour graphics including 40 pack designs
and 60 background patterns.

Volume #2 consists of some more difficult games.  'The Towers' is based
on 'SeaHaven Towers', the best computer solitaire game ever.  'The Smith'
is a version of Spider, and 'The Prince' is just very difficult.
Examples of sucessful games are included so you can see how it is done.
I had to get my testers to do 'The Smith', I couldn't....

**************************************************************************
IMPORTANT: You do not require Volume #1 to use Volume #2, but if you
already have Volume #1 then you only require one copy of the 'cards'  data
file.  It can be shared by all of the Card Shell games.  You can simply
remove the copy that comes with volume #1 and use the Volume #2 'cards'
file for all the games.  This will save about 350K of disk space.
**************************************************************************


*****System requirements

They are designed to work best under system 7.0 or newer, although
they will still function with some loss of smoothness under system
6.0.7.  The games use full 256 colour colour graphics, but they
have optimisations to work well under all depths from B&W to
32bit colour.  However they require a mac with colour quickdraw.
At the moment this includes:

all Mac II computers (including the SE/30), all LCs, all Quadras
all powerbooks (except the PB100) and probably all newer macs.
(I am not sure about the Classic II).

They each want about 1MB of ram under system 7.0 and up to 1.5-2MB under
system 6 without 32bit Quickdraw

*****Credits

Design & programming: Ralph S Sutherland.
Testing: Neville Smythe and Kim Holburn.

Enjoy!

Ralph S Sutherland  July. 1993.

[Archived as /info-mac/game/card-shell-vol2.hqx; 301K]

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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 93 13:13:14 MDT
From: [e-mail] (Stef Van Dessel)
Subject: [*] Charon 0.98

Hi,

Enclosed is a binhexed copy of Charon 0.98, a public BETA version of a
freeware pointmailer for the mac. It supports YooHoo/YooHoo2u2 & EMSI
handshaking, and uses ZedZap/ZedZip for transfering files..

Can be used together with MacWoof/CounterPoint/...

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/charon-098.hqx; 97K]

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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1993 13:10:33 +0000
From: Leo W <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] DailyDeeds Submission

What DailyDeeds Is

DailyDeeds is an application you use to track and report what you do with your
time on the job.  It is intended for hard working folks who have many
different tasks during their workday, and like to produce a periodic
accounting of how much time is spent on each of their tasks.

DailyDeeds is no-warranty as-is freeware.  You can copy it freely and give it
to anyone anywhere.

[Archived as /info-mac/app/daily-deeds.hqx; 111K]

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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1993 22:23:42 -0500
From: "Steven F. Martin" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Dockernaut 1.0

Dockernaut is a shareware control panel/extension by Steve Martin
(no, not THE Steve Martin) for users of the Duo and a dock when an
external monitor used as the main screen.  It allows you to have
different sets of preferences for the applications and extensions you
indicate, based on whether or not you are docked.  For example when
used with Now Startup Manager* you can have different sets of
extensions get loaded at startup time.  When used with Microsoft Word*
you can have the toolbar enabled when docked and off when you need the
screen space on your 640x400 LCD screen.

While designed for the Duo and Duo Dock, it may be useful with other
Powerbooks when you sometimes use an external monitor as your main screen.

Send comments, questions, and suggestions to Compuserve 72727,1471 or
internet [e-mail].

*Now Startup Manager is a trademark of Now Software.
 Microsoft Word is a trademark of Microsoft.

[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/dockernaut-10.hqx; 25K]

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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1993 10:22:54 -0500
From: Rick Nimtz <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] IM_Mac 1b27o

Resent-Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1993 16:59:30 PDT
Resent-From: Info-Mac Moderator <[e-mail]>

IM Mac is a mailer program for use with Packet on Ham radio.

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/im-mac-1b27o.hqx; 171K]

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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1993 08:17:32 -0800
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Monitor - System 7 Monitoring Tool

                Monitor 1.5-1
             Copyright   1991-1993 Mark Alldritt
                 All Rights Reserved

Monitor is a utility for the Macintosh which allows you to see the level of
activity taking place within your computer.  Monitor presents a number of
different types of information including CPU utilization, memory usage and
disk space availability.  Much of the information presented by Monitor is
displayed using simple graphs.

Monitor relies heavily on facilities of the Macintosh System 7 operating
system to gather data about your Macintosh.  As a result, Monitor will not
work with versions of the Macintosh operating system prior to System 7.

Changes for version 1.5-1:
- Corrected a bug which caused Monitor to hang in rare circumstances
- Removed redundant code - reduced partition size from 80 to 75K.

Changes for version 1.5:
- Added a Memory window which presents a summary of memory usage.  This
window
  displays memory usage information for the system as a whole and for each
  running application.  The Memory window is similar to the Finder's "About
  This Macintosh" window.
- Added new sorting options to the Volume Order menu.
- Changed menu highlighting for the Show Volumes and Show Applications
  menu items to make them conform more to the interface guidelines.
- Corrected a window redraw problem which caused the bars in the
Applications
  window to break up when foreground applications changed the color
palette.
- Corrected a rare problem which caused volume name changes and volume
  dismounts not to be reflected properly in the Volumes window.
- Added a limits check when adjusting window positions to avoid a problem
  where window title bars could move up under the menu bar when Resize
  Upwards is selected.
- Made Monitor sensitive to changes in the size of the desktop when
positioning
  windows at startup time.
- Corrected a problem where desk accessories were not sorted properly in
  the Applications window.
- Changed the way Pause operates.  It now pauses immediately as opposed to
  taking one more sample.  Also, windows are inverted while Monitor is
paused.

Monitor is freeware.  See Read Me file for conditions.

Thank you to all those that responded to Monitor 1.4 & 1.5 with words of
encouragement, suggestions and problem reports.  I've tried to address all
the problems and many of the suggestions I've received.  I apologize to
those
who reported problems or made suggestions I have not yet addressed.

-Mark
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/monitor-151.hqx; 34K]

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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1993 19:55:17 -0600
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Monitor Switch 1.0 (2nd try)

Monitor Switch is an application for the Macintosh which allows you to
switch resolutions on your multisync monitor without the hassle of changing
the cable that is connected to the built-in video. It is similar to
DPI-on-the-fly and Radius Resolutions, but it is more compatible with other
software (it is an application rather than an INIT/CDEV and it doesn't
patch any traps).

Monitor Switch currently works on the Centris and Quadra families of
computers. It should work on any future Macintoshes with similar built-in
video hardware.

[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/monitor-switch-10.hqx; 63K]

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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 93 17:06:27 PDT
From: Brian R. Gaeke <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] no subject (file transmission)

A version of the Eye Chart from an episode of Ren & Stimpy.
("Nurse Stimpy" maybe?)

This is a binhexed, stuffed Pict file
Print it and stick it on your wall(tm)

Enjoy....Brian

[Archived as /info-mac/grf/ren-n-stimpy-eye-chart.hqx; 4K]

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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 93 10:49 BST
From: RICHARD LIM <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Spectre Supreme Demo TEST UPLOAD PART ONE ONLY

Here is a demo of Spectre Supreme, the souped-up version of that old
favourite (of some) Spectre.  This happens to be a UK demo and so contains
UK distribution info.  Spectre Supreme features a new bunch of nasties
including slicer tanks, acid pools and auto-gun turrets (very hard to
destroy until you figure out how :-)).  You can even go into negative
cyberspace and zoom around underground.

Spectre Supreme is sluggish on an LC/Mac II class machine - if you are
playing on one of these, you can speed up the demo by not selecting Filled
Polygons and Complex Shapes.  This demo requires 1.8 Mb of memory for
itself.

[Archived as /info-mac/demo/spectre-supreme.hqx; 937K]

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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1993 09:52:54 +0000
From: [e-mail] (Ralph Martin)
Subject: [*] Submission

I tried sending this file about a week (or more) ago, but it still hasn't
shown up, and later ones have, so here goes again....

Here is release 1.5 of Password, my utility for preventing people from
using your Mac.

New in this release: Password can no longer be quit by CMD-OPT-ESCAPE, and
there are details for how to stop people bypassing Password at startup by
holding down shift.

This is shareware, single user fee 10 pounds, site licence 50 pounds.

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/password-15.hqx; 14K]

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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 93 19:37:52 MET DST
From: [e-mail] (Francois Pottier)
Subject: [*] Submission : skim

This an enhancement to the original "skim" program, written by
Craig Nevill-Manning. This program helps you browse through an
info-mac digest (such as those posted on comp.sys.mac.digest).
For each new file submission, it asks you whether you want to
download the file or not. Then it creates a script named
"download". Running this script connects automatically to the
info-mac ftp site (sumex) and does all the job for you.

This allows to you to download programs at night, by typing
something like :
  /bin/nohup at 0200am download

Attention : this program is designed for UNIX boxes, NOT Macs.]

To the archive maintainer : I have Craig's authorization to publish
this small hack, so everything's ok.

[Archived as /info-mac/text/skim-digest-unix.txt; 3K]

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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1993 21:47:22 -0700 (MST)
From: [e-mail] (Terry Forrester)
Subject: [*] ViewIt 2.07 Shareware (replaces version 2.06 in Development)

ViewIt 2.05 -> 2.07 Improvements
-- new "Tutorial" program to help beginners
-- support for switching applications when modal windows are open
-- support for editing all resource types without quitting program
-- new debugging features added to main help window
-- new "Links" dialog showing all data links in a window
-- enhanced support for CDEF-based dial controls
-- more "3D" control examples

About ViewIt Shareware Version 2.07
A shareware version of ViewIt(TM) is being made available to the Macintosh
programming community as a way of introducing ViewIt and other programming
modules from FaceWare.  ViewIt is one of the best Mac programming tools
available for creating powerful windows containing many views and custom
controls.  In addition to ViewIt, this package includes a complete list and
description of other, non-shareware FaceWare modules that support advanced
custom controls, animation, communications, database management, QuickDraw(TM)
extensions, and 2D and 3D plotting.  FaceWare modules are reasonably priced,
do not require license fees, are compatible with all major languages and
compilers, and are called using a simple C function, Pascal procedure, or
Fortran subroutine (a HyperCard(R) interface is also available).

ViewIt consists of a powerful set of programming modules that help programmers
manage menus, windows, and other elements of the Macintosh interface in new or
existing programs.  ViewIt is uniquely designed to be much easier to use than
other "interface builders" by requiring a minimal amount of program code (as
little as 3 lines!), and supporting the on-line editing of windows from within
running programs (like HyperCard).  The combination of ViewIt plus Apple's
ResEdit(TM) can be used in place of tools such as MacApp(R) and AppMaker(TM),
or as an enhancement of such tools.  When you decide to purchase ViewIt, the
price is just $95.

ViewIt's major window-related features include:
-- support for editing modal and modeless windows from within running programs
-- multiple fonts, styles, and colors (w/o the limitations of standard ictb
   resources)
-- a variety of useful custom controls (lists, menus, ICON/PICT buttons, etc.)
-- support for extended controls that can be as powerful as complete graphic
   and text editors
-- a view hierarchy that supports scrolling and paging of groups of controls
-- direct links between program variables and control values
-- ability to override all control behavior
-- compatibility with existing CDEFs
-- imports existing dialog DITL resources
-- support for System 7 Balloon Help
The ViewIt package also includes a module that can be used to support standard
items in the main menu bar, tear-off menus, floating palettes, and the
required Apple events.

The complete text of an objective, professional review of ViewIt that appeared
in the Nov/Dec 92 issue of MacTutor is included in the ViewIt demo program,
along with comments from a wide range of programmers who are currently using
ViewIt.

If you have any problems decompressing the ViewIt Shareware file or getting
the demo programs in the package to run, contact us for help:

 USA: 217-328-5842, M-F, 9AM-5PM Central (Illinois)
 Europe: [+44]-(0)993-89-1407, M-F, 9AM-9PM GMT (England)
 AppleLink: D1323
 Internet: [e-mail]

ViewIt(TM) is a trademark of FaceWare.  Other product names mentioned above
are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective manufacturers.

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/viewit-207.hqx; 1054K]

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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 93 09:29:53 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Alan Coopersmith)
Subject: [*] Virex 3.x Virus Definitions

The following text file lists viruses detected by all versions of Virex since
1.0.  It also lists UDV codes for viruses discovered since version 3.5.  The
list came from the Datawatch forum on America Online.

Disclaimer: I have no relation to Datawatch/Virex other than being a
customer.  If you have any problems with Virex, please contact Datawatch
directly.

[Archived as /info-mac/vir/virex-viruses-detected.txt; 8K]

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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1993 18:49:24 -0400
From: Geoffrey Pay <[e-mail]>
Subject: (Q) Anchor Automation, Inc.'s address?

I need to send my 2400E modem because of a malfunction when dialing.
However, the only address I have is no longer in use. Can anyone help
w/ a phone no. or current address?

geoff pay -- [e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1993 09:24:35 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: 2 3.5" Drives Inside IIcx (Q)

greetings,

Is there any way to shoehorn 2 (two) 3.5" drives inside a IIcx without
losing the floppy drive?

Any pointers to suppliers of brackets, Y-SCSI and Y-power connectors
appreciated.

thanks in advance

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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1993 22:23:58 EDT
From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: AHED - Bishop and Hat

Kevin Patfield asks about AHED:

KP > So can somebody please tell me, does the latest version work for
KP>  "bishop AND hat"?

Yup, Kevin, it works!  I entered "bishop AND hat" (singular) into the Deluxe
version's Word Hunter and got:

miter (mh2tr) n.
1. Ecclesiastical. The liturgical headdress and part of the insignia of a
Christian bishop. In the Western church it is a tall pointed hat with peaks
in front and back, worn at all solemn functions.
2.a. A thong for binding the hair, worn by women in ancient Greece. b. The
ceremonial headdress worn by ancient Jewish high priests.
3.a. A miter joint. b. The edge of a piece of material that has been beveled
preparatory to making a miter joint. c. A miter square.

miter v. mitered, mitering, miters.
tr.
1. To bestow a miter upon.
2.a. To make (two pieces or surfaces) join with a miter joint. b. To bevel
the edges of for joining with a miter joint.
intr.
To meet in a miter joint. [Middle English mitre, from Old French, from
Medieval

Latin, from Latin mitra, headdress of the Jewish high priest, from Greek.]

Hope this helps!

Jeffrey Fritz
West Virginia University
[e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 93 08:27:38 EST
From: Richard Caccavale <[e-mail]>
Subject: American Heritage Dictionary - Word Hunter

When using the word hunter on the dictionary, or any other keyword bolean
search, use a truncation or blank character.  In this case you would type
"bishop? AND hat" and your search would find all words with "bishop" as
the first six letters.  You have to be reasonable with your truncations,
as you can imagine you would not want to use something like "th?" as a
truncation.  One last item is that I have the new version.  I don't know
if the older versions handle truncation but I would think that they do
because they are an essential part of all database searches.


Richard Caccavale
Homer Babbidge Library
The University of Connecticut
[e-mail]   or  [e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 93 20:38:10 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Jon Pugh)
Subject: A New Jon Pugh

Well, call me 20% of the workforce and lay me off.  You guessed it, I'm
toast and sporting a new user id at prestigous netcom.  I'll tell you,
facing life without net access is a lot scarier than looking for work.

Today was D-day and 2500 Apple employees found themselves suddenly on the
street.  At least it wasn't as harsh as a quick escort to the door, but
it certainly wasn't a lazy process.  I did get time for a last game of
Bolo to say goodbye to everyone, but it was only a couple of hours before
I was hitting the pavement with my personal effects.  The network computers
are all down so that we can't login, as is Remote Access, and Applelink
accounts are being deleted as I type. They are wasting no time.  There
were also some seriously burly unarmed rental cops hanging around, but I
saw no instances of trouble.  There were a lot of spontaneous going away
parties at the nearby restaurants though.

So, I'll be reissuing my software with my new mail and email addresses and
will have to place them on sumex since my ftp.apple.com file archive will be
going away, probably immediately.

If anyone has tips on places looking for an ex-AppleScript programmer,
feel free to drop them here at [e-mail].  I'll be taking some
time off and cruising around, but finding work is now my job description.

Thanks for your support.

Jon

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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1993 18:58:19 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Eric Okholm)
Subject: Apple MacTCP status 7/17

Judging from the volume of mail I have been receiving, many people have
read my recent postings.   This is a brief note to reiterate where we are
and what's coming in the future.

MacTCP 2.0 shipped on ETO #11.   Subsequently, we found and fixed problems
(mostly related to SNMP) and created MacTCP 2.0.2.   MacTCP 2.0.2 will be
shipped on ETO #12.   It is also bundled in the "TCP/IP Connection for
Macintosh" product which you can get through Apple retailers."   New site
licensing prices for this product have been announced (but I'm just a
developer so don't ask me...).   I hope that all of your price concerns
have been effectively addressed - but if not, please continue to email your
cards & letters campaigning for changes because it is works.

We know that there are performance problems using MacTCP over serial lines.
 Judging from Beta test feedback, we had believed that these problems were
solved in MacTCP 2.0.   While MacTCP 2.0 alters performance in a few cases,
it is clear it did not fix the problem.   Recent (unsponsored, but
appreciated) patches on the net have helped some of you work around the
situation.  I am currently working on a fixed version of MacTCP to resolve
the issue.  The distribution mechanism has not been determined, but we will
not charge for the update.

Most of the development team's time is focused on moving forward on MacTCP
3.0.  This will be a new implementation of MacTCP which runs in a STREAMS
environment, is native for both 68K and PowerPC Macs, supports XTI and
sockets interfaces, retains backward compatibility with the PBControl
interface (on 68K only), provides full IP multicast support, has an
improved Domain Name Resolver, allows multihoming, and a few other
surprises.   We expect to provide a developer release of this software
later this year, followed by a general release of the product in the first
half of 1994.

The (direct) contacts for MacTCP are Alistair Woodman
([e-mail]) and myself ([e-mail]).   Alistair does
the marketing, I lead the development team.   We appreciate your mail, but
please be understanding if responses take awhile.  Alistair is on vacation
for another month, and I have been receiving quite a flood of mail since
"going public."

Regards,

Eric Okholm

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

Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1993 17:08:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Bruce Goldstein, [phone]" <[e-mail]>
Subject: AppleTalk Problem, Missing Devices

We have a very large (many zone) AppleTalk network, and our particular
ethernet cable is one such zone.  We have this connected to our LocalTalk
cable where our printers live with two routers, a FastPathIV (the latest
FastPath IV roms, but not upgraded to a FP V), and a Novell Netware
3.11 router with AppleTalk modules.  The FastPath is set up as a seed
router and the Novell Netware router I am not sure about.  Anyway,
at times people on the ethernet can not see ANY of the devices in
the LocalTalk zone.  I should mention that there is a bridge in the
ethernet and a TurboStar repeater in the LocalTalk system, I don't know
whether the repeater slows down the local talk but I know the ethernet
loses a factor of two in speed going across the bridge.  Anyway, during
periods of normal use (not heavy use) at times the printers can not
be seen from the ethernet side and at times they can.  Additionally,
sometimes the Chooser forgets which printer you are using when you
select LaserWriter 8.0 and remains with the Ethernet zone selected,
even when the Chooser actually is showing the LocalTalk zone and when
you select it your printer usually shows up.  This is all with System
7.1, Network 3.0.1, AppleTalk 58.0.2.  When the network is very lightly
loaded the problems seem to go away.  CAN ANYONE MAKE ANY SENSE OUT OF
THIS?  Are there problems with having two routers (we were told that this
should be OK and thought it would give us more redundancy and throughput)?
We want to keep both routers because the FastPath routes TCP/IP and
the Novell routes IPX.  Thanks, Bruce Goldstein

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

Date: Sat, 17 Jul 93 01:45:45 EDT
From: Allan Hunter <[e-mail]>
Subject: Backup onto Flopticals

Liu <[e-mail]> apparently wants to back up stuff
onto a floptical drive, which is apparently not recognized by Norton
and CP as a floppy (ejectable) drive...

Don't laugh until you've thought about it----have you considered using
Compact Pro to back up your material instead?  Compact Pro is quite
adept at knowing what is or is not ejectable, and in my experience
about half of the programs think of the floptical as a floppy even
though the other half think of it as a hard drive.  Go figure, mm?
The System 6 finder knows it as a floppy (can Eject using snowflake-
E) and dialogue boxes such as Open and Save As and Save have a live
Eject button handy.  I'd be surprised if Compact Pro didn't ask you
"where else" to put the rest of whatever you are compressing, and
the finder will probably let you eject and replace the floptical disk.
Since Compact Pro is less determined that you stay with the same medium
than are the specific Back-up programs, it probably won't mind even
if it does think you've skwunched half of a hard drive onto a hard
drive and then want to put the rest of it somewhere else.

-Allan Hunter
 <ahunter@sbccvm>

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

Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1993 02:22 EST
From: DON'T PANIC <[e-mail]>
Subject: Built in ethernet - (Q)

Dear Netters,
A dealer says that he carries Macintoshes with built in ethernet.
Does this mean I could have direct access to a faster than standard modem
(14,400 BAUD) international network the moment I purchased my machine?  Or do
I have to pay additional fees to wire the outside of my house to the nearest
fiberoptic cables?   Is this something that would give me direct access to
internet, or internet e-mail or, internet FTP?  Or are these all additional
charges to the purchase price of the built in ethernet Macintosh?  How can I
find out if I already have the outside cables to hook up to an ethernet
board?
Who would install the cables if I don't?
The only thing I know about ethernet is that it is superfast compared to
modems, because of fiberoptics.  In a sense I have been taking it for granted
the speeds I see when I log into the VAX/VMS system the university I go to,
and wondering what cost does it take to get such speeds directly to my Mac LC
to the internet links?
WHen I saw Centris machines being sold with built in for a $1000 more than non
ethernet Centris machines I wondered what this would mean if I had such a
machine in the future?
Just some curious questions:-)
Sincerely,
[e-mail]


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

Date: Sat, 17 Jul 93 10:25:32 -0500
From: Kenneth Prehoda <[e-mail]>
Subject: Crippledrive major disad

Greg Trimper writes in Info-Mac Digest V11 #143,

>For me, the major disad to a crippledrive is this:
>
>...
>
>On a mac, not that there is software that comes on that many floppies,
>but still, when doing multi-disk installs, you have the perfect audio
>cue of the sound of the disk ejecting to let you know when it is time to
>install the next. ...

If this is the major disadvantage then bring on the cripple drive.  It
would be extremely simple for apple (or the user) to associate a sound
with the disk-eject request dialog.

In my opinion, the major disadvantage to the cripple drive is that it makes
the interface a little less "clean".  Still perfectly alright, though.
But hey, Apples stock dropped 7 5/8 (30%) yesterday so I'd suggest
bringing on the inexpensive TEAC drives as soon as possible.  This current
profit amargin is killing 'em.

            Ken Prehoda     |
     Department of Biochemistry     |     [e-mail]
    University of Wisconsin-Madison     |

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

Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1993 19:27 EST
From: "Mitchell S. Cohen" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Digital audio access on non-Apple CD-ROM?

Quicktime 1.6, from what I understand, does a nifty thing with Apple's CD-300
CD-ROM drive.  Using most any Quicktime app, you can import a digital audio
file (track) from an audio CD.  Very cool, and something I'm interested in.

I'm wondering if anyone has tried this with other CD-ROM drives than can
access audio tracks, especially the Toshiba XM-3401 which seems very popular.
I don't imagine Apple put code into Quicktime for drives other than their
own.
Has anyone written a utility/hack to accomplish some type of importing of a CD
audio track on the 3401?

--Mitch Cohen, [e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1993 07:38:50 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Paul Kleeberg)
Subject: Duo external modem & docking station

1) Can one connect an external modem to the Duo without having any type of
docking station?  My hunch is yes but I bet it requires some control panel
silliness to turn off appletalk and reset the modem port.

2) Anyone seen a good compendium of docking stations available for the Duo?
I am in a rural location so I do not have access to much more than Macworld
or Mac User.

Paul Kleeberg, St. Peter MN
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1993 19:26:01 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Paul Kleeberg)
Subject: Duo Internal Hard Drives

Are there any third party hard drives for the PB Duo's.  I am considering
buying a 210 but an 80 MB drive is just too small.  I do not want to have to
pay for a 230 just to get 120MB.  Any suggestions?  Please copy me as I only
scan this digest.

Paul Kleeberg   St. Peter, Minnesota
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1993 21:19:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Bruce Goldstein, [phone]" <[e-mail]>
Subject: FastPath IV is unreliable on large networks

Earlier today I send the digest a query for help with flakey network
problems that we were having.  After a few further hours of experimentation
and inconvenience to all on the network, we have concluded that the FastPath
IV is unreliable on a "large" network and should not be used.  You will
notice delayed opening of the chooser, and devices missing from zones at
times.  A more modern router (PC with Novell Netware 3.11 works OK.
Unfortunately, it won't route TCP/IP to our local talk cable.

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

Date: 17 Jul 1993 09:57:41 -0500 (EST)
From: Ernie Potenziani <potenziani@[144.252.1.85]>
Subject: Forms generation

    Does anyone in the Mac world have recommendations for "forms"
generators?  Something like Perform by Delrina which is in the DOS world.
Should allow you to generate and distribute "forms" to people that can only be
filled out in a specific way.  Thanks in advance for your help.

Ernie Potenziani
US Army Research Laboratory
Internet: [e-mail]

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

Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1993 23:03:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: John Thoo <[e-mail]>
Subject: Full Impact (Q)

Now that FullWrite Professional has been resurrected by Akimbo Systems
(hallalujah!), what's the word on the fate of Full Impact?

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

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

Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1993 09:04:08 -0400
From: Chris Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: IBM Disk Inserted INIT

>Date: Thu, 15 Jul 93 11:35:58 EDT
>From: [e-mail]
>Subject: IBM Disk Inserted INIT
>
>Alright, all you programmer types.  Here's an INIT I'd love to see.
>Whenever you stick in a disk the Mac doesn't recognize, check to see if
>it's been formatted IBM-style.  If so, either automatically run a user-
>selected software package such as SoftPC or Apple File Exchange, or give
>the user the option to continue with formatting or eject the disk.  At the
>very least the Mac user should be able to get a directory of the disk if
>it IS an IBM format.
>
>What say?  Or does this exist already?
>
>Brandon Munday
>[e-mail]
>Drive Defensively:  Buy a TANK.

I believe you will find Access PC, MacPC Exchange, and DOS Mount will
have at least some of the features you are looking for. None link
directly with SoftPC of course, but that makes sense to me. DOS
shouldn't know if you have a disk in there anyway. :-)

--Chris

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

Date: 16 Jul 93 08:05:00 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: IBM DISK INSERTED INIT SUMMARY...

Well, Gee...!  Ask a question around here and you'll know right away if you're
out of date!  About that INIT:  thanks for all your responses; here's a quick
rundown of what you said is available.

--MacSnoop, which will warn you if you insert a PC disk

--Insignia AccessPC:  It allows you to mount PC disks and work with them like
they were Mac disks, to assign applications to specified file types, and other
neat features. It even knows how to store mac files on them (I think resource
forks are put into a folder). So you can save your Lotus 1-2-3 files directly
onto a DOS disk.  The best solution if you already have SoftPC as the two work
together.

--DataViz MacLinkPlusPC.  It is the greatest bargain for connecting PCs and
Macintoshes via disk, via direct serial cable (circular din port on Mac side),
and via Modem.  Built in to the current version is a free copy of Apple's
PCExchange, Apple's EasyOpen (an INIT to automatically find the closest file
type on your Mac to both IBM and Mac files on any disk), and 700+ graphics,
spreadsheet, database, word processing translations that work through the
above
hardware/software.

--DosMounter works on more Dos disks than PCExchange.

And some price info:
Dayna's DosMounter $99.95 (list price from Dayna).
Apple's PCExchange $70 Mail order prices (rounded)
Insignia AccessPC $70 Mail order prices (rounded)

Thanks, gang...


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

Date: Sat, 17 Jul 93 11:21:36 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Info-Mac digest to AOL

Adam Engst made the good suggestion that I ask my question here.

That question is, does anyone reading this digest have access to AOL and the
willingness to upload InfoMac Digests to AOL? All uploads to AOL are rewarded
with free time. Paul Bain used to do this (into the Developer's forum area),
and he made a lot of people happy. Now however he has lost his Internet
access (I lost mine over a year ago), so AOL's users have lost their morning
Digest with coffee.

Could anyone help? If you're reading this digest, you might as well get some
free usage time on AOL & help us voracious Mac readers!

Drop me a line if you need help or have questions. Thanks.

Jim Bethin
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 15 Jul 93 13:54 CST
From: "Mark Dohm, Mac Information Technology" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info on used mac pluses needed.

Hey folks,

I need some feedback on purchasing used Mac pluses.

I have a client who needs about 5 pluses to do word processing on. It's a
newspaper that still has some old radio shack computers - the ones with the
8inch floppies. Well, those are all dead, and they do have a few macs for
doing word proc and some ad stuff - but nothing really great. So, it's time
to purchase some more machines - but they don't want to spend more than $400 -
$450 per machine. They really want used equip to keep costs down.

Right now, we are looking at getting them Mac Pluses with 1MB RAM (we will
upgrade them later hopefully) and 20MB hard drives. (We were surprised when
they said they would finally be willing to buy hard drives.)

We are currently planning to get them from Pre-Owned Electronics out of
Boston,
but I am looking for other suggestions. They can sell us refurbished pluses
(as
above) with 90 days P&L warranty for $339.

Comments, suggestions, etc. would be very helpful.

ps- our internet connection has been on/off lately, so please keep trying to
get a hold of me.

Thanks a bunch.
!! MarkMAD (Mark Dohm)
!! [e-mail] ([e-mail])
!! alternates: [e-mail]  AOL: MarkMAD  Applelink: STPLATT

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

Date: Fri, 16 Jul 93 15:28:06 MT
From: Roger Marks <[e-mail]>
Subject: Internal Modem for Powerbook 100

The August MacUser has a review of internal 10 PowerBook modems. I was
disappointed to see that they'd left out a few I was considering (e.g.
Supra).
But I was _extremely_ disappointed to read that "Sadly, none fits inside the
venerable PowerBook 100." Can this be? I've been under the impression that the
100 has the same modem slot as any other PowerBook. Why wouldn't these fit?
And
if they really don't, what choices do I have for my 100?

The review includes a few of the usual suspects (PSI, Global Village, and
Prometheus) as well as some pretty obscure names.

Roger
[e-mail]    NIST/Boulder,CO

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

Date: Fri, 16 Jul 93 09:58:53 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: keyboard troubles

In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
> I have  also seen this (and other) problems on several ADB keyboards.
> The word "top" is a common offender; it comes out as "to" and the next
> letter (even if it is other than "p") gets swallowed.  I also have
> troubles with "logout", where the "t" becomes a semi-colon.  I have
> observed this even when typing slowing and VERY carefully.  I never
> happened on the old MacPlus, but I have had it on a CI, SI, and II.
> Other folks here at Cornell also have seen it.
>
> Perhaps this is a case of "Malasian keyboards".

Actually, as it's been explained to me, four keys on a keyboard are
connected in some sort of matrix. When you type several keys from
the same matrix too quickly, the keyboard can get confused and will
sometimes send a code belonging to another key in the matrix. I see
this all the time with "out" becoming "ou;" as well, and I also have
trouble with "most" and a few other words. This is apparently a problem
in all keyboards, although individual keyboard design may ameliorate
the problem some, and only fast typists will see the problem anyway,
and only on specific words. Perhaps someone who knows how keyboards
are set up internally can clarify what I'm saying here...

cheers ... -Adam

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

Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1993 12:05:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail] (Eric Burger)
Subject: Local-and Ethertalk same time (Q)

We've got a bunch of Mac's connected together with both Ethertalk
and Localtalk.  The Mac's also communicate with Sun's over TCP/IP.
The Mac's run MacOS 6.0.7, 7.0.1, and 7.1 .

We also have a LaserWriter connected through LocalTalk, with a
GatorBox supplying lpd access to the LaserWriter for the Sun's.

Is there a way, from the Mac, to set our networking to Ethertalk
for AppleShare, but use LocalTalk for printing?  If I set Networking
to EtherTalk, then the Chooser doesn't see the printer.  If I set
Networking to LocalTalk, then the AppleShare connection goes over
LocalTalk as well.

What to do?

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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1993 08:36:27 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Charles Allen)
Subject: Location of Helix Express 1.0.1 updater

>Subject: [*] helix-101-updater.hqx
>
>Attached is the updater for updating Helix Express 1.0 to 1.0.1, in
>...
>[Archived as /info-mac/sci/helix-101-updater.hqx; 772K]

Hmmm... The dangers of just mailing to [e-mail]
are revealed :-).  Helix Express is a general purpose relational database
application, like 4D, FoxBase, or Omnis.  I suggest it go in the /dev
directory, although I see updaters for other products in /app and
/util.

Charles Allen        UTexas-Austin Physics        [e-mail]

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

Date: Sat, 17 Jul 93 20:16:05 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: MAC's and PaintJets

Anyone had success interfacing a MAC network of IIci/cx's on
Ethernet (Ethertalk) with a HP PaintJet XL300?  Who's Ether
board and software/drivers did you use on the PaintJet?

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

Date: Sat, 17 Jul 93 07:06:14 BST
From: Richard Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mac II video cards - helpp!

Hello, folks.

I've just picked up a few NuBus video cards which have little or no
documentation with them, wondered if anyone could help to identify them:

1) Viking Controller: Mac II / 1024 x 768 Mono - appears to be a two-page
display card, 9-pin D connector

2) Relax Technology card - no identification except '19-651' on the ROM,
15-pin
D connector, 24 x 41264 RAM chips, 'Bt478KPJ35' video chip

3) Unidentified, label says 'BMAC-CHRO-000,  *  CHROMA  *, 895850/  3022,
9-pin
D connector, 24 x 24256 RAM chips, 'Bt473KPJ80' video chip

4) SuperMac card - cannot read the label on the ROM, 15-pin D connector,
mini-8
connector (like printer & modem on a Mac), 24 x TMS4461 RAM chips, Bt453KP66
video chip,

5) Sigma Designs 'LDA-MAC II', I think it's a card for a two-page display, has
a
9-pin D connector, 16 x 41264 RAM chips, so probably grey-scale,

6) As 5) above.

I think I've got items 1, 5 & 6 sussed, but I would still like to hear from
anyone who's got or had similar. I could also do with the drivers for the
Sigma
cards, if such an animal exists, I assume that the generic Apple 'Monitors'
Cdev
will not do!

Thanks in advance for any help.
Cheers,
Richard

Hardware & Systems Executive,
NorthEast Macintosh User Group
* a non-profit group for the support *
*        of geriatric Macs           *

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

Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1993 06:05:39 GMT
From: Dwayne Sandall <[e-mail]>
Subject: Macintosh IDT boards, Mac on SGI emulation

                    I am looking for information on the
                    IDT nubus board available for
the Macintosh. I heard a passing comment was made about it in a recent
Computer Graphics World, or one of the Mac magazines. I have also heard
about it in reference to a software solution for distributed rendering,
but alas, I have not come across any hard data on it. So if anyone knows
anything about it, I would appreciate a line or two.
                    Also in a similiar vein, I am also
                    interested in any comments about
Mac emulation on a SGI. I have heard rumours and mumblings about such
products, but if anybody has actually used any of them, I would like to
know how it worked for you, and what software you were using.
                    I would appreciate direct mail, as I
                    am cross-posting this, and I
don't read all of these groups on a regular basis. Please let me know if
you would like a copy of any received info. Thank you all for your time
and help.

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

Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1993 13:45:41 -0700
From: Milton D VanDyke <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mac or Dos Laptop? (Q)

This is for my sister, a Ph.D candidate in Political Science at UC Santa
Barbara.  She is looking for a laptop and would prefer a Powerbook, but
various people have suggested that to run the number-crunching statisti-
cal software she needs (SASS or SPSS) she'd be better off getting a 386
or 486-based laptop running Windows.

What do people think about this?  Should she buy a 486 laptop or a Power-
book?  She will also be writing rather lenghthy papers integrating data
she's crunched but this is easily done on either platform.  She currently
has a 512ke so she really needs to upgrade.

Please send comments, flames, and helpful suggestions to me at:

[e-mail] (rather than this e-mail address)

Thanks!

-Christopher Van Dyke
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 15 Jul 93 16:54:12 EDT
From: Dr. M.S. Silverstein <[e-mail]>
Subject: Macworld Expo Toronto

This message was misaddressed.

 ---------------------------Original message----------------------------
Can anyone tell me when Macworld - Toronto will be held
and who to contact for information...

Thanks...

Michael Silverstein
Materials Engineering

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

Date: Fri, 16 Jul 93 08:43:44 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Jeffrey A. Hallett)
Subject: Merriam-Wester 10th

Now that Merriam-Webster has released its 10th edition, does anyone know when
it will be available for spell checkers (like Coach Pro)?

In exchange, I offer this tip, there is an incompatibility between Magic
Menu 3.01 and Coach Pro 4.0 that cannot be fixed by reordering. You must
get an update from Deneba to version 4.01 to cure the problem.

Thx.


Jeffrey A. Hallett, Keane, Inc. [phone]
[e-mail]

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

Date: Sun, 18 Jul 93 01:28:29 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Wonko the Sane)
Subject: Need bad-block checker BADLY!

I'm trying to find a util that'll find and lock off bad blocks on a disk.
Recently I've been plagued with disk errors on my aging floppies and on a
Syquest cart that was the victim of an insidious mechanism crashed.  In
all cases the data already on the disks is OK, but the blank spaces are
aparently fried.  I've got an old version of Mactools, which merely
crashes before even checking for bad blocks.  I've gotta lock these suckers
off or I'm out of 10MB of free disk space for no good reason.

Help is GREATLY appreciated.

Eric
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1993 16:51:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: Garrett Mead <[e-mail]>
Subject: Non-profit acc. prgm

Hello,
First of all I hope this is an appropriate mail list to send my question
to. If it is not, please accept my apology and direct me where to send
it. My question is about the best commercial accounting programs
available. The organization that I work for is non-profit. It is a high
school band consisting of about 150 students. What I would like is a
program in which I can enter an account for each student under which
categories can be set up like "t-shirt" or "shoe orders" so that students
can pay all or some of the money and we can keep track. I hope this makes
sense. A non-profit program would be great, but any suggestions would be
wonderful. If possible please include rough price estimates. Thank you.

Please email me personally as I am not on the list yet.
<[e-mail]>

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

Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1993 12:22:29 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Povl H. Pedersen)
Subject: Norton Encrypt (& PGP)

PGP is better, but you should note that PGP uses the RSA algorithm for
encrypting the key or something like that, so it violates US patents, but
can be used in the rest of the world.
---
Povl H. Pedersen  -  Macintosh Consultant and Programmer
[e-mail] (prefered)   /   [e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1993 09:08:31 -0600
From: [e-mail] (John Antolak)
Subject: Page cross-referencing within Word? (R)

>Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1993 15:36:11 +0100
>From: [e-mail]
>Subject: Page cross-referencing within Word? (Q)
>
>Does anyone know of a way when writing a long document (thesis) in Word 5.1
>(Mac)
>to place cross references (ie "see page xxx") to other places in the text
>that will be dynamically updated as document changes alter the pagination?
>
>The stoneage way presumably is to leave "see page 000"'s everywhere and
>then search and replace right at the end, but there must be a more elegant
>way, surely?
>
>My initial research seems to suggest that Word for Windows *does* have such
>a feature (chapter 40 of the WFW manual). Perhaps it's one of those
>features (like Word Basic) that Microsoft haven't yet/don't intend to port?
>
>Any workarounds for a Mac-only (and wanting to stay that way if possible)
>set up welcome.

You're right when you say that it is one of the things that MS haven't got
to yet with the Mac version. I needed this feature about three years ago
when I did my thesis. I had been using a PC up to then, and DOS Word
(before WinWord) had cross-referencing several years before that. When I
switched to the Mac, I swore a blue streak when I found out that Mac Word
did not have that feature. When I talked to MS, it wasn't a high priority,
either. Another feature that the PC Word's have is automatic numbering of
user specified lists, such as table and figure numbering. You could then
compile a list of figures and tables in a similar fashion to the way table
of contents are compiled.

Anyways, the workaround. Insert an automatic page number on the page you
want to refer to. Copy the page number to the clipboard, and format it as
hidden text (or format then copy). Then go to the place you want the
cross-reference, and choose "Paste Special" from the "Edit" menu. Choose
"Picture" format, and then the "Paste Link" button. When you print, make
sure "Print hidden text" is off.

You could also try something like Word-Ref, which uses mail merge to insert
numbers and so on into the text. You can do figure numbers,
cross-references, and so on, but you have to use another program to
"post-process" your Word file.

Hope this helps.

John A. Antolak           Internet: [e-mail]
Radiation Physics
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030

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

Date: Fri, 16 Jul 93 17:13:59 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: PCs vs Macs and Word

Dave Wanderer writes:
 >
 >This message goes out to those unfortunate folks like myself who
 >have to use a PC at work and a MAC at home.  Actually, a 486/66
 >isn't as bad as some..but still.
 >
 >The times when I work on Excel & Word in the office and like to bring
 >home things now and then....However the font substitution is
 >not even close.  Are there any fonts available for the MAC that
 >allow PC documents to look the same?  Actually, the main reason
 >is that I want it to look the same when I bring it back to the
 >office.

Word for Windows offers one facility.  If you have WfW 2.0 or higher, then you
can build a pair of .DAT files, place them into your MSWORD directory, and
have
Macintosh and Windows fonts automatically converted whenever the document is
converted.  They are called "Custom Font Conversions", and are documented
in a .DOC file that got installed with WfW 2.0 (CONVINFO.DOC).  What you do
is to edit two files (MW5_RTF.TXT and RTF_MW5.TXT which were also installed
in your MSWORD directory when you got WfW 2.0), and save the edited
remains as xxx.DAT.  When you tell WfW to open a Word for Macintosh file,
or tell it to "Save as" a WfM file, it will ask you if you want to use the
custom font converter.  Say yes.  Use MW5_RTF on Open and RTF_MW5 on SaveAs.

Reply to me personally if you'd like a copy of the files that I use - they
are simple text files, but too long to include here.  I use them all the
time, and have found them very useful.

Jim Hudson <[e-mail]>

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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1993 15:48:01 UTC+0200
From: Rafael Collantes <[e-mail]>
Subject: Prices of Macs in Japan?

Hi!
 Is anyone informed about how much can cost a LCIII 4/80 or a
Centris 610 4/80 in Japan? Actally, the price of any Mac will serve, since I
want to compare them with Spanish prices. I am going to travel to Japan
soon and I would like to know where should I buy my next Mac.

Thanks a lot.

Rafael Collantes.
Instituto de Investigacion Tecnologica
Madrid, Spain.

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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1993 0:51:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail] (MY KARMA RAN OVER MY DOGMA)
Subject: Pub. Domain Pascal Compiler

Hi:
Does anyone know of a public domain/shareware pascal compiler?  I'm taking
an intro course and find it a pain to go through the VMS VAX just to compile
a 20 line program. Plain vanilla Standard Pascal's all.
Thanx
--Luis

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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1993 15:58:09 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Scroll bar control of varible field in Hypercard (Q)

I am a novice HC programmer, trying to find an XCMD that will put up a scroll
bar control to allow me to adjust the numeric value of the contents of a
card field. I have tried writing my own "slider" control in HC, but I am not
happy with the results, nor have I found an XCMD that does what I want.

What I really want is just a standard scroll bar that adjusts a numeric
value.
Is such a thing available somewhere?

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Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1993 17:44:00 +0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: StuffIt! Expander 3.02 (C)

I know it seems churlish to complain about a piece of freeware, provided as
a public service, but I have noticed the following problems with StuffIt!
Expander 3.02 (compared with 3.0.1):

1)  If Fetch 2.1 is set to call StuffIt! Expander to decompress files, the
Expander does not quit once it has decompressed the file. It also only
seems to operate on the first file in a downloading session. This does not
happen with StuffIt! Expander 3.0.1.

2)  When dragging-and-dropping a group of files on to the Expander, the
first time it encounters a situation where the expansion process will
create a duplicate file name, it warns you and asks if you want to cancel,
but the next time it hits that situation, it carries out the expansion
anyway, adding a suffix `.1' to the filename. I don't know if this happened
with StuffIt! Expander 3.0.1.

As a result of the above, I have reverted to using StuffIt! Expander 3.0.1.

Has anyone else experienced these problems?

Alun

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

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Date: Sun, 18 Jul 93 15:28:08 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Steve Portigal)
Subject: Stuffit Viewer Engine updater (Q)

  WHERE is the file to be updated by the Viewer Engine updater? I can not
find a Viewer Engine file anywhere...

Steve

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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1993 21:14:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Bruce Goldstein, [phone]" <[e-mail]>
Subject: System 7.1 and Mode 32 are incompatible

On a SE/30 running System 7.1 and Mode 32, when I got Mathematica 2.2
it crashed and would not run.  Getting rid of Mode 32 and installing
the 32 bit enabler and the enabler patch fixed this problem and
everything works OK.  Do not use Mode 32 with System 7.1 (this is in
reference to someone who had problems with his video card, the above
combination and some other items, it may not be causing his video
problem but it can  cause problems).

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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1993 16:01 PDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: System can't be installed onto a HD & a whimsical floppy drive.

Hi, netters, please help me.
1) I recently reformated my external HD from Frog Systems (a Rodime mechanism)
   with SilverLining 5.4.2. Then I tried to install System 7.1 onto it. I
   kept getting message as such "There is a problem with the disk. No
   installation can take place (error # 2231)." No luck even after
    re-initializations. What's wrong with the HD?
2) Recently the floppy drive of my SE/30 keeps recognizing un-locked
   floppy disks (DD or HD) as "locked". What's is more annoying is
   it behaves not consistently. Sometimes I ejected and re-inserted the same
   disks and they came up as "un-locked." This SE/30 is installed a
   24-bit color card and with a configuration of 8/80. What should I do
   with the problem?

Thanks.

D-h Wang
Institute of History & Philology
Academia Sinica
Taipei, Taiwan

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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1993 18:58:47 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Too many users connected currently. Please try again later. (Q)

Since I get the above message all the time now, and a similar one from
archive.umich.edu, I have several questions:

1. Are there other sumex mirrors that *promptly* update the mirrors?

2. Is it possible to get files sent via email, thru some demon or other, so
that I don't have to login via ftp? Netlib works like that.

I guess this is the price of growth on the internet. Also, if a schedule
could be posted of when things are slack, and when the number of allowed
connections is increased, that would also help.

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Date: Sun, 18 Jul 93 11:58:06 EDT
From: Allan Hunter <[e-mail]>
Subject: TooSoftPC Crashes...

Every once in a rare while, I load Insignia Solutions' Entry-level
SoftPC in order to run that dinosaur WordPerfect 5.1 (to see if the file
I Saved As WP5.1 from my Mac wordprocessor is going to look okay, esp.
tab-and-pagination-wise, in the PeeCee environment) or to use the MSDOS
version of BinHex.

Problem--it seems that the copy I put on my hard disk is good for one
stable use, and then develops an interesting Mac-hating habit:  it won't
let me Quit.  The screen and keyboard freezes (the mouse, interestingly
enough, still works fine, but can't access any menus) and I have to turn
off the machine without shutting down first and then reboot.  So I go to
the program disk and recopy the SoftPC program back onto the hard drive;
take it for a test run.   Run a PeeCee program.  Quit.  Fine.  But next
time, it crashes again.  Except it's not really a full crash of the Mac,
(since mouse is alive), just of the program itself, which would rather
croak than quit.  Incidentally, the program will run again after display-
ing this behavior, although it will exhibit this Quitlessness forever
after unless I recopy from the program disk.

I've heard of INIT crashes that interfere with programs always or inter-
mittently, but always and only after one solitary trouble-free run?  What
is this behavior?  Anyone seen anything of the sort?

- Allan Hunter
 <ahunter@sbccvm>

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

Date: Fri, 16 Jul 93 23:22:59 PDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Trash Folder from Hell

Let me make a long story short.  After some system software problems -
I now have a smoothly running system (7.1) on my PB170 BUT with a
folder in my desktop trash icon - called 'trash'.  That's right - a
folder labelled 'trash' WITHIN my trash folder (just like those
Russian dolls).  Of course I can't get rid of it - I can't empty the
trash - I can't rename the 'trash' folder in my trash.  Rebuilding the
system and finder - and desktop - did not help.  Anybody know how to
get rid of this monster???  Your help would be much appreciated.

Regards,

[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1993 20:55:33 +0100
From: Elliot Bennett <[e-mail]>
Subject: Using Time in Excel 4.0...

Ok all you lovers of Micro$oft, help me out of this one:

It seems that NO MATTER WHAT I do, if I have a colon (:) in a cell with
numbers, XL assumes it's a "time" if the number is less than 24 (e.g., 14:30
is assumed to be 2:30 in the afternoon on Jan 1, 1904 REGARDLESS of what you
use to display the number in the Format menu using Number..., whereas 25:00 is
assumed to be text and there's NO changing it to ANYTHING else [at least as
far as I can tell]).

Now it turns out that this is MOST inconvenient for me.  I'm trying to make a
time card in XL and I have thus far found it easiest to convert all Hours:
minutes into minutes to do the math, since I have to add up the total number
of hours:minutes worked each week and this number is way over 24 (since I work
more than 3 8-hour days a week ;-).

The only solution I've found is to take the total number of minutes in a week,
calculate how many hours and minutes it is and concatinate the two numbers
with a colon in between and let it be text.

The obvious question is:
is it possible to use a format where you can have hours > 24 (e.g., hhh:mm or
36:25 which is 1 day 12 hours and 25 minutes but calculated in
hours:minutes)??
  I don't enjoy having to resort to text, but if that's the only solution...

MUCH thanks in advance for anyone who can help...

Elliot Bennett
DLR, Cologne, Germany
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 93 16:52:17 EDT
From: Dr. M.S. Silverstein <[e-mail]>
Subject: vertical axes with stylewriter

This message was misaddressed.

 ---------------------------Original message----------------------------
The lettering on vertical graph axes print out all
jagged on the stylewriter.  What can I do to correct
this?

Thanks for your help...I am sure there must be an easy
solution out there somewhere....

Michael Silverstein
Materials Engineering

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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1993 16:13:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail] (FIRST CLASS EMAIL)
Subject: What the HELL is goin' on here?!...

Hello Netters:
See if anyone can figure this one out:
MacIIci 12Mb RAM running 7.01 & Tuner.  No apparent problems. Ran Norton &
fixed
some minor dates, inited bits, etc.  About a week ago, I tried to remove some
sounds from the system file. DLOGs indicating the move was taking place, but
when it was done, BEEP and it tells me that it could not complete the opera-
tion because there was not enough memory and that I should try closing some
windows and maybe picking up my room.  Did both, but to no avail. I KNOW i
have
enough RAM...Strangely enough (as if it wasn't weird enough that IT knew my
room was a mess) the icon of the copied (or moved, tried both) file was
visible
at the target location.  Double clicking this icon would result in a DLOG
stating that the file could not be found.  Well, if YOU don't know where it
is (I was talking to my mac)...And I left it at that.  So my friend wouldn't
get a copy of a cool body sound I made...
THEN... This week, I'm installing FWB (I wonder what that means?) CDT remote,
a prog to play AudioCD's on my spiffy (inexpensive, not cheap) new $299 CD
player from MacWarehouse (Has an NEC 55 or 58 mechanism 400ms access)
well, ok, maybe its cheap, but so am I!! AND (get to it already) AND I
couldn't
remove a file from the suitcase I was gonna instal the CDT remote into.
I guess this would be a good chance to say that I use SuitcaseII 1.2.12
(all right, so I'm pushing it, but I said I was cheap (FYI Suitcase is now
running v.2.x.x or something)).  So I just keep getting an error of -192
which is something like resource not found (what does that mean, I dunno)
I do a couple of restarts (always do an odd number of restarts to ward off the
evil eye) and presto! the file I wanted to off is 86'ed.
What does this all mean? I dunno
What do I know? I dunno
If you know the answers to my queries, lemme know.
-Luis
PS-Does anybody know if there is a file on the net dealing with MacVoodoo?
If anyone has any voodoo stories, send'em in and I'll compile em.  The unexpl-
ained also lurks on the net, you know!!
PPS-
Save them ckicken bones   ]:-)

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Date: 15 Jul 1993 18:09:03 U
From: "Kaufman Peter" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Which Term Program? (A)

I definitely prefer MicroPhone II. It does what it say, and that's a lot of
stuff. The Pro version has TCP/IP tools. Scripting is powerful, though you
have
to get used to the syntax (like anything else, I suppose).

Smartcom is overpriced, and even at a fair price, I never really cared for
it.

One man's opinion.

Regards,
Peter Kaufman
[e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 93 08:44:29 pst
From: "Peter Chane" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Windows CDROMs on Macs

How can I run IBM/Windows CDROMs on my Centris 610 and 650?

Do I need one of the Insignia products?

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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 93 20:00:26 CDT
From: Graeme Forbes <[e-mail]>
Subject: Windowscript (Q)

Does anyone know anything/have anything to report about a program called
WindowScript (I think) from Heizer Software? I understand it allows you
to put Mac-program-style interfaces on Hypercard stacks - pull-down
menus and so on.

Graeme Forbes

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

Date: 16 Jul 93 15:04:00 EST
From: "MIKE TAPPY" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Word 4.0 running under 7.1 (A)

Steve writes:

>I just upgraded to a Centris 650 running System 7.1 and when I try and
>startup Word 4.0 I get the following:
>
>          The application "Microsoft Word" has
>          unexpectedly quit, because and error of
>          type 3 occurred.

A temporary solution is to run with the cache turned off.  It worked for
me.

If you want a permanent fix, call Microsoft at 1-800-426-9400 and ask
for a free upgraded to version 4.0e (rev i).  If they tell you that the
latest version is 4.0d (rev h), (as they did with me) tell them no thanks
and call their tech support number at 206-635-7200 and explain your problem.
Tech support should be able to get you version 4.0e (rev i).


Michael G. Tappy           [e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1993 13:06:54 -0500 (CDT)
From: Anne Harwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: Zmodem tools?

Are there any zmodem tools out there for the Communications Toolbox?

Thanks,
-abh

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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1993 13:54:44 -0400
From: "Marshall L. McCall" <[e-mail]>

My Powerbook 170 has a problem.  When I either type hard on the
keyboard or move the screen or drop something on the table on which
the computer sits, then the system crashes.  This happens regardless
of the software in use.  The error message is always
"The application 'unknown' has unexpectedly quit because an error
of type x has occurred", where x is usually 3 or 25.  On other
occasions, while WORD was in use, a bomb appeared with the message
"Sorry a system error occurred-- Microsoft Word Bus Error".
After any one of these messages, the computer has to be restarted
with the power button.  A call to a Macintosh service repairperson
resulted in him saying that I should re-install System 7 or WORD.
This is a software solution to what I think is a hardware problem.
Before spending any money, I would be grateful if someone might
be able to give me more advice about my problem.  For instance,
if Powerbooks are notoriously sensitive to the kinds of things I
described, it is probably not worth spending any money on repairs
which might not solve anything.  The manual hasn't provided much
help except in saying that one shouldn't bump, jar, or move
the computer while the hard disk is in use.  However, in my
opinion the forces involved aren't that severe.

I should point out that I am running System 7.0.1 with an 80 Mbyte
hard disk and 6 Mbytes of RAM.  Thanks in advance for your help.

Susan McCall
Thornhill, Ontario
Canada
email:  [e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1993 08:21:23 -0600
From: USENET News System <[e-mail]>

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest
Path: rintintin.Colorado.EDU!lorenzo
From: [e-mail] (Eric Lorenzo)
Subject: Better ways of "background" printing with SWII?
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1993 14:21:19 GMT
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    Well, I got my SW II up and running fine and just recently learned
that when an ink jet runs out of ink, it just stops i.e. no loss of print
quiality.
    My question/peeve is that background printing on my C610 doesn't
really seem to be background printing.  What it (printmonitor) seems to do
is to write the file to my hard drive and then feed the file as the printer
needs it.  The thing is, whenever printmonitor sends something to the SW II
it freezes up my computer: what I type doesn't show up on the screen, clicking
the mouse on something doesn't do anything.  This problem is most noticable
in between pages.
    Can people suggest solutions or alternatives (shareware or commercial)
that might make background printing less painless?  As is, I find it crippling
and don't even try to accomplish anything when I'm printing.

Thanks a bunch,
Eric
--
Eric J. Lorenzo
[e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1993 03:25:02 -0600
From: USENET News System <[e-mail]>

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest
Path: rintintin.Colorado.EDU!lorenzo
From: [e-mail] (Eric Lorenzo)
Subject: email address for author of Easy Envelopes+?
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
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    Does anyone have the e-mail address of Easy Envelopes+'s author?

Thanks,
Eric
--
Eric J. Lorenzo
[e-mail]

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