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Info-Mac Digest             Tue, 27 Jul 93       Volume 11 : Issue 151

Today's Topics:

      [*] arashi-11-c.hqx
      [*] AreacodeFinder v2.5.4
      [*] AstroLo-1.0a.hqx
      [*] BMUG Online Services Ref. v1.05
      [*] Brian's Sound Tool 1.2
      [*] broadcast21.sea.hqx
      [*] Can I Touch It? (pt 1 of 3)
      [*] CompRes 1.1
      [*] coordinator.hqx
      [*] Crab - Scrabble Program
      [*] DailyDeeds 1.2 Submission
      [*] data.hqx
      [*] Decor 0.9
      [*] demo/Argus-MeshMaker-Pro-Demo.sit.hqx
      [*] Dinosaur Glares (pt 1 of 3)
      [*] Disk Charmer 2.0.6
      [*] DRACULA-HTXT-1.0
      [*] Fractal Generating program.
      [*] Gamma Util Pascal Library
      [*] glidel-12.hqx
      [*] Graphics Converter 1.6.2 upload
      [*] Greg's Buttons 3.1
      [*] hazardous-1.0d.cpt.hqx
      [*] Hermes 2.2 docs (Word)
      [*] hpopup-menu-314.hqx
      [*] HyperDecisionTree-2.0.5
      [*] IConArtist
      [*] keep-your-hands-off-10.hqx
      [*] Logo 2.1
      [*] maia-21b.hqx
      [*] mcvert-212.shar
      [*] Monitor Switch 1.0.1
      [*] New Posting.
      [*] NumberCrunch Demo
      [*] Obolus 1.0 -- enhances the Charon mailer for Fidonet
      [*] possible replacement for /dev/app-maker-152-to-154-updater.hqx
      [*] Princess of Mars 1.0
      [*] professor-x.hqx
      [*] smart-launch-308.hqx
      [*] SoftKiss 1.8
      [*] SoftwareFPU 2.42
      [*] StuffIt Deluxe 3.0.6 Comprehensive Updater
      [*] Style 1.2
      [*] Submission
      [*] Submissions - PowerNotes 1.0
      [*] Suppl. Gestalt Selectors List
      [*] TidBITS#186/26-Jul-93
      [*] vvs3ddem.hqx
      [*] ZapTCP 1.2
      *RUMOR* Higher PC Prices Due Today (3 msgs)
      *rumour* of higher pc prices not a rumour.
      [A] GEnie <--> Internet email
      [Q] Where is the StartUp Sound Switcher
      accelerator for SE/30
      AOL-Internet mail
      AppleLink Packages (R)
      ARA and internet connections (A)
      Autolock(?) Program Whereabouts
      CPro vs. Stuffit on AOL
      data salvation?
      Do 8-bit fonts work in NCSA Telnet 2.5?
      Excel/Word paste-link bug/problem
      GEnie Internet addressing
      Hardware System Update 2.0?
      HD problem
      How to Mail from Internet to GEnie
      HP DeskWriter vs. ATM 3.0
      Internet connections
      LaserWriter 8.0 PPD's for HP Laserjet (Q)
      Lciii Monitor Woes!! (Ans)
      Looking for a Chinese Style Font
      Mac IIx Power On
      Mode 32 & 32bit enabler.
      MSWord Conversion...
      Passwords and Shift keys..
      Portable Stylewriter
      Powerbook hard disk problem
      Printing PostScript Files to a Network Printer?
      Protection software needed
      RAM disk problem
      RAM prices
      SoundManager 3.0 [A]
      Splitting Mac files (C)
      Stuffit, Deluxe or Lite?
      Stylewriter II and vertical axes (2 msgs)
      Suitcase/Carpetbag and System 7
      System 7.1, MODE32, 32 bit enabler, Mathematica 2.2
      Think C and C++ 6.0
      Uploading and VAXing
      Word conversion

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Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1993 23:07:20 GMT
From: Juri Munkki <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] arashi-11-c.hqx

Think C 5.04 source for Arashi 1.1, a vector graphics game that
requires 256 colors or shades of gray.

Juri Munkki
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/src/arashi-11-c.hqx; 1398K]

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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1993 16:56:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail] (Scott C. DeLucia)
Subject: [*] AreacodeFinder v2.5.4

I would like to upload this file to the INFO-MAC archives. This program is
called AreaCodeFinder and it is the latest version. The author, John
Calandi asked for me to post it.

[Archived as /info-mac/app/area-code-finder-254.hqx; 96K]

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Date: Tue, 20 Jul 93 03:27:02 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Chet Niewczyk)
Subject: [*] AstroLo-1.0a.hqx

I-Ching like program using planet/sign/house combinations picked
"psychicly" by the program based on your question.  Gives brief
interpretation.

[Archived as /info-mac/game/astro-lo-10a.hqx; 52K]

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Date: Thu, 22 Jul 93 06:47:53 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Bernard Aboba)
Subject: [*] BMUG Online Services Ref. v1.05

Find enclosed The BMUG Online Services Reference v1.05. This is a
guide to the OneNet Member Network, FirstClass Client (Windows and
Mac), and the bulletin board systems operated by BMUG, Inc. It
includes listings of OneNet conferences and BBSes.

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/info/bmug-online-services-105.hqx; 704K]

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Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1993 12:37:05 +1000
From: [e-mail] (Brian Scott)
Subject: [*] Brian's Sound Tool 1.2

This is an update to Brian's Sound Tool to add a little more flexibility
and usability features.

For those who came in late...

Brian's Sound tool is a small drag and drop sound coversion utility
designed mainly for transfering files between the Macintosh and Windoze.

It works under system 6 or 7, supporting the required Apple events under
system 7.

Output is a mac sound file if the input isn't from a mac, otherwise the
output is a Windoze file.  Input can be either of those plus a bunch of
others like sound blaster .VOC files, Sun/NeXT .au, FSSD (either HCOM or
not), 8SVX, and AIFF files.

Some (basic) doco is included.

The program is free.

Enjoy

Brian Scott
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/util/brians-sound-tool-12.hqx; 170K]

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Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1993 19:34:37 +0100 (BST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] broadcast21.sea.hqx

This is a latest (well, it's about 7 months old) of the Broadcast
program which lets you flash messages onto other Macs screens on your
localtalk network.

It's version 2.1 in a sea; the version in the archives is labelled 2.0
but is an alpha of this version; I just dled this from Germany and I
thought I'd send the latest one in.

It's shareware; see the readme file. I'm not the author and not
associated with him/her in any way.

Cheers,

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/broadcast-21.hqx; 52K]

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Date: Thu, 22 Jul 93 11:50 BST
From: RICHARD LIM <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Can I Touch It? (pt 1 of 3)

Ever wondered what a dinosaur snout feels like?  One of Dickie
Attenborough's grandchildren does.  Paleontologist Sam Neill has no
objections to a quick feel.

Another two-second 15 fps Cinepak clip from the Jurassic era.

[Archived as /info-mac/grf/qt/can-i-touch-it.hqx; 287K]

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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 93 12:30:37 EDT
From: [e-mail] (michael j darweesh)
Subject: [*] CompRes 1.1

CompRes is a Programmer's tool which allows nearly transparent
runtime resource decompression. This means that you can-for example-
compress your PICT or other large resources at compile time and
have them decompressed at runtime.

CompRes is shareware and there is plenty of on-line help.

This application is a demo which shows you exactly how much disk space
you'll save by compressing your resources. And, although this demo is
System 7.0 dependent, the CompRes runtime decompression is quite robust
and works under System 6 and later (and probably under most of the older
system versions too!).

This version of the demo adds significant features including:
drag-n-drop, on-line help, an improved status window, and support for
Apple Events.

Check it out. The demo is free. You only pay if you actually use CompRes
in one of your projects.
And feel free to send me your questions and comments at:

E-Mail: [e-mail]

-Mike Darweesh

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/comp-res-11-demo.hqx; 35K]

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Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1993 16:03:35 +1000
From: [e-mail] (Grant Gussie)
Subject: [*] coordinator.hqx

I would like to submit the attached program, called "Coordinator".
"Coordinator" is an astronomical utility that tranforms sky coordinates
between each of the four most commonly used coordinate systems. It also
converts velocity measurements among each of the four most commonly used
velocity standards. Finally, it provides a sidereal and solar (sundial)
clock and converts calendar dates to and from Julian day numbers.
Coordinator is intended for advanced amateur and professsional astronomers
and astronomy students. It is to distributed as freeware.

Grant Gussie

[Archived as /info-mac/sci/coordinator.hqx; 250K]

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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 93 16:20:10 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Rick Zaccone)
Subject: [*] Crab - Scrabble Program

Here is an implementation of Scrabble called Crab.  It was written by
Andrew W. Appel and Guy J. Jacobson and it employs their strategy for
playing Scrabble described in:

    Andrew W. Appel and Guy J. Jacobson.  The world's fastest Scrabble
    program.  Communications of the ACM, 31(5):572, May 1988.

Although the program is a bit old (1987) it still works nicely on my
Mac IIci running System 7.1.  My only complaint is that the level of
play isn't adjustable.  Crab always wins!

Please note that I am *not* the author!!

Rick Zaccone
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/game/crab.hqx; 252K]

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Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1993 10:31:58 +0000
From: Leo W <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] DailyDeeds 1.2 Submission

This submission is DailyDeeds version 1.2, which fixes the Page Setup bug
reported to me.  It should replace earlier versions of DailyDeeds.

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-12.hqx; 111K]

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Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1993 15:55:16 +1000
From: [e-mail] (Grant Gussie)
Subject: [*] data.hqx

I would like to submit the attached program, called "Data", which was by
the way, not named after the android. "Data" provides several data
manipulation tools that are not commonly available, such as weighted
polynomial regressions, spline interpolation, numerical integration, and
smoothing (plus a few others). It also has the ability to work with data
that has associated error bars in both the x and the y axes. It is to
intended for the scientist or science student, and is most useful in
conjunction with a commercial plotting program. A Word 5.0 manual is
provided. A $20 shareware fee is required from commercial interests, but
not private (non-commercial) users or educational institutions.

Grant Gussie

[Archived as /info-mac/sci/data.hqx; 336K]

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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 93 17:37:13 MET DST
From: [e-mail] (Francois Pottier)
Subject: [*] Decor 0.9

Decor v0.9

This small control panel allows you to replace the desktop background pattern
by a full-screen picture. All you have to do is put Decor in your Control
Panels folder and restart. I know that there are already other utilities that
do the same thing, but I have found them to be buggy. So I decided to hack up
mine. It's certainly buggy too, only I haven't found the bugs yet :-)

REQUIRED : 32 bit QuickDraw

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/decor-09.hqx; 10K]

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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 93 18:36:42 +0300
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] demo/Argus-MeshMaker-Pro-Demo.sit.hqx

Argus MeshMaker (TM) Pro Demo

Argus MeshMaker (TM) Pro is a general purpose finite element
& finite difference pre-processor and mesh generator,
including a Geographical Information System and an on screen
interactive digitizer.
MeshMaker is simple to use and involves a very short learning
curve. This simplicity is achieved by complying with the
Macintosh Graphical User Interface (GUI) standards

Argus MeshMaker (TM) Pro special features:
* Integrating auto mesh generation, mesh editing, with
  navigation and orientation capabilities.
* Intuitive manipulation (editing & creation) of objects such
  as meshes, elements, nodes and contours by click & drag
  techniques.
* Mesh smoothing, renumbering and refinement.
* Automatic On-line validity checking of all user actions
  according to user defined criteria.
* Incorporating geographic information system (GIS)
  capabilities, implemented by multiple user definable
  layers, allowing you to incorporate topography, material
  properties, geographic information, etc., relate that
  information to the mesh, and query about your nodes',
  elements' or blocks' properties.
* Print on all Macintosh printers, and plot via Macintosh
  plotter drivers.

* Hardware and System Requirements *
- Argus MeshMaker requires System 7 or higher.
- You will need a Macintosh with a math coprocessor.
- You will need at least one megabyte of free RAM for
  MeshMaker, depending on the size of your projects.
- A Hard disk.

* On the Differences between MeshMaker Pro and MeshMaker *
MeshMaker Pro is intended for the engineer using both the
finite elements and the finite difference methods. MeshMaker
is intended for engineers using only the finite difference
method. When you purchase MeshMaker you receive the same
package as when purchasing MeshMaker Pro, but you will not be
able to save or export finite element meshes you create.


Argus Interware. Inc.
11 Merit Lane
Jericho NY. 11753
USA
Fax: [phone]

[Archived as /info-mac/sci/argus-meshmaker-pro-demo.hqx; 1208K]

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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 93 10:33 BST
From: RICHARD LIM <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Dinosaur Glares (pt 1 of 3)

A woman squirms in some kind of vehicle, obviously not enjoying the
rather inclement weather nor the unwelcome attentions of a dinosaur
glaring menacingly at her.

I wonder where one stumbles upon such nasty creatures.  (Note: this
is a rhetorical statement - the answer is apparently "off the coast
of Costa Rica", at least while a Mr Spielberg was there.)

This _very_ brief QuickTime clip (2 seconds) is 15 frames/sec, 160x120
pixels and uses Cinepak (the erstwhile Compact Video), 24-bit colour.

[Archived as /info-mac/grf/qt/dinosaur-glares.hqx; 272K]

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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 93 11:49:52 +0200
From: [e-mail] ( Rodella-Morena)
Subject: [*] Disk Charmer 2.0.6

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

New from version 2.0.5:
now the ~Erase disk~ option **works** with HD disks.
A bug fix introduced a new bug: shame, shame!

Enjoy yourself and remember the shareware fee!

Fabrizio Oddone

[Archived as /info-mac/disk/disk-charmer-206.hqx; 73K]

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Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1993 07:38:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] DRACULA-HTXT-1.0

    "Dracula-htxt" is a HyperCard edition of Bram
    Stoker's Transylvania Gothic.

    The h-text shell provides onscreen word/string
    indexing by page and line number;  double-
    clicking on an index entry takes you to that
    point in the text.  Indexes can be exported and
    imported.  Bookmarks can be set and cleared
    manually or automatically.

    The stack is designed for a 640x480 screen, with
    a built-in conversion utility for smaller
    displays.  Tested on a IIsi and LCII.

    Ken Fisher, <fisherkj@snyoneva>

[Archived as /info-mac/info/nms/dracula-hc.hqx; 587K]

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Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1993 9:54:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail] (RTK)
Subject: [*] Fractal Generating program.

This is a program to generate fractals using the IFS algorithm.
It is written in Pocket Forth and should run on any Mac.
Docs are included.

Ron Kneusel  ([e-mail])

July 22, 1993.

[Archived as /info-mac/app/fractal-generator.hqx; 80K]

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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1993 10:16:09 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Matthew Xavier Mora)
Subject: [*] Gamma Util Pascal Library

I converted Matt Slot's Gamma Library so that it can be used by Pascal
programmers like me.

Enclosed is Gamma util Pascal Library. This lets you do screen dimming
on monitors capable of doing dimming.


Matt

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/src/gamma-table-11-p.hqx; 35K]

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Date: Thu, 22 Jul 93 11:43:42 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Jean-Francois Sygnet)
Subject: [*] glidel-12.hqx

Glidel 1.2
July 19, 1993   by Gilles Berkovitch                 <[e-mail]>

Glidel 1.2 is a freeware INIT to Drag-and-Drop icons on Apple Menu Items
or File Menu Items THAT WORK EXCLUSIVELY WITH SYSTEM 7.x (and beyond ?).

Glidel 1.1  is derived from Fred Monroe's "Dropple Menu" that worked for
System 7.0 and 7.0.1 but broke under 7.1.

The action performed depends on where you drag-and-drop a selection to:
-- The Apple Menu Icon: move the selection to the AppleMenuItems folder.
-- A Folder in the Apple Menu:  move the selection to that folder [or
copy it if the Option key is pressed].
-- An Application in the Apple Menu:  same as drag-and-dropping the file
on the application's icon.
-- An Item in the File Menu:    same as selecting the file in the finder
then choosing a File Menu Item [One of: Open, Print, Get Info, Duplicate
or Make Alias or Put Away].

New in version 1.2: now works under System 7.0, 7.0.1 and 7.1

For more details, bug reports, questions ...   read the "Lisez moi" file
(in french, sorry :-) or send e-mail TO THE AUTHOR at: [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/glidel-12.hqx; 15K]

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Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1993 13:56 +0100 (MET)
From: Hans de Wolf <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Graphics Converter 1.6.2 upload

This upload contains the shareware GraphicsConverter version 1.6.2 created
by Thorsten Lemke.

Graphics Converter converts from:
PICT, StartupScreen, MacPaint, TIFF, RIFF, GIF, PCX/SCR, IMG, BMP,
PIC 16 bit, FLI, Truevision Targa, MSP, SHP, IFF/LBM, STAD, DEGAS,
NeoChrome, PIC, Spectrum 512, GEM MetaFile, Animated NeoChrome  and
Imagic

Converts to:
PICT, MacPaint, TIFF, GIF, IFF/LBM, PCX/SCR, Image and StartupScreen.

In addition to this you can do some image manipulation (including
user-defined filters) and print a catalog of your images.

Optionally, the icon of a saved image can be a thumbnail preview.

[Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/graphics-converter-162.hqx; 235K]

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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 93 22:26 BST
From: [e-mail] (G.D. Landweber)
Subject: [*] Greg's Buttons 3.1

Greg's Buttons v3.1 (21 July 1993)   (c)1991-93 Gregory D. Landweber
REGISTRATION FEE: US $15 or UK L10   Internet: [e-mail]

Greg's Buttons is a control panel that lets you customize the user interface
of a Macintosh running System 7.  Greg's Buttons requires that your Mac
support color, so it won't work on the Plus, SE, Classic, or PowerBook 100.
It works fine with both color and gray-scale monitors, and although it will
still work on a black and white screen, the effect will not be as impressive.

Changes since v3.0
 -----------------
o The buttons now look much nicer in 4-bit grayscale (16 shades of gray).
  (I just got a PowerBook Duo 210 with a grayscale screen, and I love it!)
o The "New Folder" button that appears in some "Save as..." dialog boxes
  is now colorized so that it matches the rest of the buttons in the box.
o Fixed the various conflicts with Now Compress, Timbuktu, Spaceward Ho!,
  MasterJuggler (version 1.58), and MacMoney.
o Improved the appearance of the push buttons in the ResEdit DLOG editor.
o The dialog box colorization feature is now more robust in its choice of
  dialog boxes.  In particular, it will colorize movable modal dialog boxes
  (such as the Finder "Find" and progress boxes) as well as the "Open..."
  and "Save..." boxes even with Dialog View installed.
o The exclusion list for the dialog box colorization feature now supports
  desk accessories as well as applications, and the list has been put in
  the prefs file (so you will not have to reconstruct it when you install
  a future version of Greg's Buttons).
o The documentation file contains updated contact information (I'll be in
  England for another year, but my address will change.  I still prefer to
  receive shareware registrations at my address in the USA, though).

Notes
-----
o Directory Assistance II will prevent Greg's Buttons from colorizing the
  "New Folder" button that appears in some "Save As..." dialog boxes.
o Versions 1.57c and earlier of MasterJuggler are not compatible with the
  System Font Substitution feature of Greg's Buttons.  ALSoft has fixed
  this problem in MasterJuggler 1.58.  Contact ALSoft to obtain an upgrade.
o Now Fun! may be a user interface enhancement package with a philosophy
  similar to that of Greg's Buttons, but it is NOT a substitute for Greg's
  Buttons.  Users will find that the two programs complement each other,
  and the only overlap between the two is the menu colorization feature
  (for which I recommend you use Now Fun! instead of Greg's Buttons).

List of Features
 ---------------
o Replaces the standard flat black and white push buttons, check boxes,
  and radio buttons with tasteful 3-D color ones.  These buttons are
  designed to complement the windows and scroll bars in the System 7
  interface, and in particular they use the color tints that you can
  select in the "Color" control panel.  You can choose from two styles
  of push buttons and three styles of radio buttons and check boxes.
o Lets you select the background color of dialog boxes, menus (both
  the text and background colors), and Finder windows.
o Substitutes a font of your choice (chosen from Palatino and two
  versions of Helvetica) for Chicago as your system font.
o Colorizes the mini icons (the smallest size that you can select
  in the "Views" control panel) in Finder list views (View by Name,
  Date, Size, Kind, Label, Version, Comment, Astrological Sign, etc).
o Colorizes the stop sign, caution, and note alert icons.

"They don't look like buttons unless they're Greg's Buttons."

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/gregs-buttons-31.hqx; 65K]

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Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1993 18:44:30 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Thermonuclear Pervert)
Subject: [*] hazardous-1.0d.cpt.hqx

HAZARDOUS 1.0D
is an addictive arcade action game for all Macintosh computers running
System 6.0.7 or higher.  It requires at least 512K free RAM and if you want
sound, you'll have to run it under System 7 or higher (if not, the sound
will automagically be disabled).
It has been successfully tested on the following Macs: SE, SE/30, LC, LCII,
IIsi, IIcx.
There is a color version and a special B&W version for B&W-monitor users.

This is a DEMO VERSION of Hazardous, restricted to the first FIVE levels.
The full game has ten levels and unlimited rounds.  The number of different
enemy characters is  limited to eight, as opposed to twenty in the full
version.  As a final limitation of the demo game, the high score table will
not be saved.

The full version is available on disk from the author for $15.
HAVE FUN!!!!!

Directory: /info-mac/games/arcade

Note to Info-Mac moderators: if you like, you can include Hazardous 1.0D on
your Archive CD-Rom.  I'd like you to inform me when you do -- thanks!

-Roy Dictus, [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/game/arc/hazardous-10d.hqx; 406K]

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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1993 18:03:03 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Robert Pellerin)
Subject: [*] Hermes 2.2 docs (Word)

Somebody sent Hermes 2.2 to the archive the other day but didn't have the
docs. This is the M/S Word version. There is also a MacWrite II version
available at the Hermes support board.

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/hermes-22-docs.hqx; 141K]

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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1993 13:56:41 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Jon Pugh)
Subject: [*] hpopup-menu-314.hqx

Here is version 3.1.4 of my HierPopup stack and external command.  It fixes
the last known bug, er, limitation of this external.

This is the world's premiere popup menu XFCN.  It includes features not
found in any other external and is one of the only externals that allows
arbitrarily deep hierarchical popup menus (through the use of MENU
resources).

The list of way cool features:

* Regular popup menus
* Hierarchical popup menus
* No limit on number of menu items
* 300 Hierarchical menus
* Uses the itemDelimiter (so you can have commas in the menus)
* Pops up at specified items, drops down, or whatever
* Use any character to check items
* Can select menu items even if they have submenus
* Can use any font or size desired
* Menus items can be Bold, Shadow, Underline & Italic
* Use icons, color icons & SICNs
* Can use any and all metacharacters in menu items
* Dynamic resource menus (like FONT and Apple menus)
* MENU resources
* Arbitrarily deep menus (using MENU resources)
* Free for noncommercial use
* $25 commercial licence

What more could you want?

Jon Pugh
[e-mail]
[phone]

[Archived as /info-mac/card/hpopup-menu-314.hqx; 62K]

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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 93 10:06:52 EDT
From: "Mr. Troy Kelley" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] HyperDecisionTree-2.0.5

This is the latest version of HyperDecisionTree. It fixes a serious bug
>From version 2.0.4 which would cause a stack to become damaged if
the cancel button was selected while creating a new stack for a non-expert.

For those of you who have never used HyperDecisionTree, it is a
non-inferential expert system shell which allows an expert to
create a decision tree of their knowledge and then save the
decision tree as a separate stack in order to give to users in need
of the expertise contained within the stack. The stack primarily
serves as an overview of the decision tree, allowing the expert to
follow questions and answers down the road to specific conclusions.
The expert can even display graphics as part of a conclusion.

Troy Kelley

[Archived as /info-mac/card/hyper-decision-tree-205.hqx; 97K]

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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 93 10:18:25 EST
From: John West <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] IConArtist

IConArtist is a program for replacing the standard icons in the System file
without having to dabble with ResEdit. Unfortunately, there's no editing
function in the program, so you have to either download icons or use something
else to make them. You can, however, take icons out of any application.

IConArtist comes with a replacement trash can icon (a very well done wicker
basket), otherwise you're on you own.

I am not the author, I'm ony submitting this because the he doesn't seem to
have Internet access. The author's name is N. Jonas Englund and he can be
reached at [e-mail].

Use IConArtist with the 3D Folder icons I uploaded a few days ago to make your
Mac *really snazzy*.

$10 Shareware fee.

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/icon-artist.hqx; 45K]

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Date: Tue, 20 Jul 93 08:55:55 -0500
From: Terence P Higgins <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] keep-your-hands-off-10.hqx

This is Version 1.0 of Keep Your Hands Off My Mind, a hypercard stack
 containing information about book banning and censorship (it's bad).
It also contains information about a public access cable TV production of
 the same name.It requires Hypercard 2.0 or later, and Compact Pro.

[Archived as /info-mac/info/nms/keep-your-hands-off-10-hc.hqx; 167K]

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Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1993 21:53:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Logo 2.1

    Here is Logo 2.1 for HyperCard. After seeing them all, I think this
    one
is the best. It contains almost every command that the Apple II version did.
(It is, of course, lacking color.) BTW, semicolons must be placed between
multiple commands that are on one line; if otherwise, the time spent by the
interpreter would be way too much.
    Some example programs are included. $5 shareware would be appreciated
if you use Logo 2.1--it is highly polished and has undergone several major
revisions to its current, speedy state. Thanks!                 *Stiles

[Archived as /info-mac/card/logo-21.hqx; 33K]

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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 93 16:52:40 EDT
From: Tim C DeBenedictis <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] maia-21b.hqx

This mailing contains a BinHexed StuffIt archive of MAIA (Mac Astronomical
Image Analysis) version 2.1b.  It is an update of the current release, ver.
2.1a.
MAIA is an image enhancement and analysis program, designed espeically for
analyzing astronomical images.  It requires a Mac with a 68020 or higher
processor, a math coprocessor, and 16- or 256-color display.  The shareware
fee is $20.00 (US).

Tim DeBenedictis
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/sci/maia-21b.hqx; 655K]

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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 93 21:30:07 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Joseph Skudlarek)
Subject: [*] mcvert-212.shar

mcvert converts among Macintosh file formats used for file interchange,
including BinHex 4.0 (.hqx) and MacBinary (.bin).  mcvert is written
in C and runs on many popular UNIX boxes.  See mcvert.1/mcvert.man
(the man page) for program details.  See README for how to build mcvert.

Please replace mcvert-209.shar with mcvert-212.shar, which follows.
Major changes and current usage are described below.

<<Changes>>
 *
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 * External
 * -----
 * -----
 * Internal
 * -----
 * incorporate SCO UNIX requirements into the Makefile
 *    info from Fred Lenk, Camarillo, CA [[e-mail]]
 * backout intermediate XOBJ cleanup and continue to do what works for AT&T
 3B2
 *    belated & current thanks to Larry S. Staples [attjpn![e-mail]]
 *    for providing and proofing the working recipe for AT&T 3B2
 * change OTHER SOURCES to OTHER PROGRAMS in man page, and mention programs
 *    which run on the Mac, including CompactPro, StuffIt, and BinHex 4.0
 * ship the formatted ASCII version of the man page for those without nroff
 * -----
 * Joseph Skudlarek  Mentor Graphics  8005 SW Boeckman Rd  Wilsonville OR
 97070
 * [phone] (work)
 * {[e-mail],[e-mail]}
 * Version 2.12 19Jul93
 *
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

[Archived as /info-mac/cmp/mcvert-212.txt; 147K]

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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1993 15:10:33 -0600
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Monitor Switch 1.0.1

DESCRIPTION

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.

NEW IN VERSION 1.0.1

This release adds monitor files for the Quadra 800 and fixes a bug which
causes a crash on incompatible Macs.

[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/monitor-switch-101.hqx; 65K]

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Date: Thu, 22 Jul 93 15:40:01 PDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] New Posting.

QuickTime VCR version 3.6    Released 7-6-93

The QuickTime VCR is a simple QuickTime Movie Player that is FreeWare.

It requires that QuickTime and 32 Bit QuickDraw are installed.

I have added some bundles (resource talk) to the application
so that more QT movies will have an ICON associated with them
on the desktop.

[Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/quicktime-vcr-36.hqx; 920K]

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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 93 18:51:06 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Herb Kroemer)
Subject: [*] NumberCrunch Demo

Number Crunch II is a fabulous programmable calculator, especially for
science and engineering, written by Jim Mahoney of the Physics Department
of Marlboro College. The real thing goes for $85; this upload is a demo of
the non-math chip version. It is fully functional; it differs from the real
thing only by periodically putting up obnoxious reminders with even more
obnoxious pauses. But you can test all its features, including saving and
printing. Runs under all system versions from 6.0.4 up.

To call it a programmable calculator really understates its capabilities.
It contains a  powerful yet fairly intuitive and forgiving Pascal-derived
programming language, with DO-Loops, IF statements, functions (even
recursive ones), in brief: The Works. It also makes nice plots of your
results. One of its remarkable features is that it can handle numbers with
attached units, like 1 cm, 10 kg, etc., on both input and output. You can
teach it that 2.54 cm = 1 inch, or that 1 eV = 1.602E-19 Joule, and once
taught the conversions, it will handle your inputs in whatever units you
give it have taught it. A must for physicists and the like.

Just download the thing, and see for yourself!

Standard disclaimers; I'm just a VERY happy user.

Herb Kroemer

[Archived as /info-mac/sci/number-crunch-ii-demo.hqx; 758K]

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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1993 16:45:45 -0400
From: Charles Mingo <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Obolus 1.0 -- enhances the Charon mailer for Fidonet

Obolus 1.0 is a mail program, designed to complement the Charon
mailer program, which was posted to sumex-aim recently.

Charon is designed to work with a "reader" program (eg, CounterPoint
or Alice), to allow a Mac user to operate as a Fido "point", calling
into a Fido hub to pick up and deliver mail and news, using the
Fido file transmission protocols.

Obolus is an adjunct to Charon, which allows Charon to properly
extract the outgoing mail and news from CounterPoint, including
the ability to compress outgoing mail.  Use of Obolus allows
Charon and CounterPoint to function as a fully integated "point"
package.

Both Obolus and Charon may be freely distributed and used.

[I am merely posting Obolus on behalf of its author; any questions
about Obolus should be directed to [e-mail].]

Regards.

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/obolus-10.hqx; 80K]

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Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1993 22:11:12 -0400
From: Sloan <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] possible replacement for /dev/app-maker-152-to-154-updater.hqx

The version of app-maker-152-to-154-updater.hqx currently in the /dev
directory appears to contain an empty subfolder (:Libraries:THINK).

The enclosed self-extracting file contains the complete updater,
including the Think C libraries missing in your version.

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/app-maker-152-to-154-updater.hqx; 184K]

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Date: 23 Jul 93 01:11:52 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Matthew O. Williams)
Subject: [*] Princess of Mars 1.0

'A Princess of Mars 1.0' is a HyperCard version of the Edgar Rice Burroughs
novel of the same name.  You will need HyperCard 2.1 (or HyperCard Player) 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 would like
to receive new books automatically as we publish them,  please send e-mail
to:  <[e-mail]> and/or <[e-mail]>.  Enjoy!

   -- Matthew Williams and Espen Koht

[Archived as /info-mac/info/nms/a-princess-of-mars-10.hqx; 348K]

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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 93 22:54:10 MDT
From: [e-mail] (Karl Thomas)
Subject: [*] professor-x.hqx

Have you ever talked to your computer, has your computer ever talked back?  If
you have used a program like Eliza then you probably were stunned at first and
then quickly became tired of limited responses and responses that didn't make
any sense.  If you haven't, then you are in for a treat.

Professor X simulates a very understanding, usually nonjudgemental,
psychotherapist.  It's a very short download give it try!

Cost of Registration:

All I'm asking for is that all downloaders please send me E-mail or snail
mail.

What's New About v.3.0

1) Over 150 more responses and many more subjects
2) Bug Fixes
3) Options to Load, Save, and Print Sessions
4) Pleading for E-mail throughout documentation.
5) Doesn't access hard drive after each response.
6) Includes Macintalk support as well as built in voice synthesis.
7) Less likely to crash your Mac

What's Old About v.3.0:

1) A HUGE number of responses and keywords. 2) UPGRADE option.  Minor changes
can be incorporated directly into the program. No need to download entire
file.
3) Excellent support for registered users.

[Archived as /info-mac/app/professor-x.hqx; 66K]

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Date: 20 Jul 1993 00:27:17 -0600
From: "pfterry" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] smart-launch-308.hqx

The lastest version of SmartLaunch (3.0.8).

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/smart-launch-308.hqx; 46K]

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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1993 15:15:54 -0500
From: Rick Nimtz <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] SoftKiss 1.8

SoftKiss is a Control Panel used for amateur radio packet operations.

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/soft-kiss.hqx; 117K]

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Date: Thu, 22 Jul 93 07:04:13 -0700
From: [e-mail] (John M. Neil)
Subject: [*] SoftwareFPU 2.42

A utility which allows applications requiring a Floating Point
Unit (FPU) to work on computers without one, such as the LC,
IIsi, Classic II, Color Classic, PowerBook, Performa, or Centris
models.  Drop this control panel into your System folder and
many applications that formerly crashed will begin working.

Version 2.42 fixes a bug that caused a crash at startup on some
Macintosh models.

SoftwareFPU is a shareware product.  If you download it, please
send $10 to: John Neil, P.O. Box 160699, Cupertino, CA 95016.

(MODERATOR: SoftwareFPU may be included on shareware CD-ROMs)

[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/software-fpu-242.hqx; 65K]

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Date: Thu, 22 Jul 93 14:21:10 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Leonard Rosenthol)
Subject: [*] StuffIt Deluxe 3.0.6 Comprehensive Updater

This is a file that updates ANY previous 3.0.x version of StuffIt Deluxe
to version 3.0.6. We recommend that all StuffIt Deluxe users upgrade to
3.0.6 since this new version has significant improvements over the
previous versions.

If you have version 3.0.5 then you should download our smaller "3.0.5->3.0.6"
updater instead of this file. This file is for users of StuffIt Deluxe, if you
have only SpaceSaver you must download the SpaceSaver update instead.

This file is virus free.

Leonard Rosenthol
Aladdin Systems, Inc.

[Archived as /info-mac/cmp/stuffit-deluxe-306-updater.hqx; 1895K]

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Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1993 12:28:51 +0100 (METDST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Style 1.2

This is Style 1.2, a simple application that lets you create
small (up to about 32,000 characters) styled text documents.

You can set font, font size, style attributes and color of
individual characters with easily accessible menus.
You can open any number of documents at the same time, the only
limit being available memory.  You can create small stand-alone
documents ('AutoViewers') that may be viewed and printed without
the application itself.  Finally, Style now fully supports
the Claris XTND architecture: you can import and export
documents in various word processor formats, provided you have
the Claris XTND System installed (not included).

Style takes advantage of most System 7 features and user
interface improvements (including Balloon Help, stationery pads,
movable modal dialogs, temporary memory, apple events, etc.)
but can work with any system starting from 6.0.4.

This version supersedes the previous 1.1b3 release.
Suggested placement in the info-mac hierarchy: info-mac/text.

This archive was compressed and binhexed with StuffIt Lite 3.0.5.

[Archived as /info-mac/text/style-12.hqx; 101K]

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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 93 10:55:56 EDT
From: Robert Rumpf <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Submission

Hi, archivist.  Sorry about this...but this should be the last version of this
program you'll get (at least I hope so).  Please replace all versions of
PowerNotes1.0 in your archives with this latest version.  Sorry about all the

[Archived as /info-mac/text/power-notes-10-hc.hqx; 20K]

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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 93 16:08:10 EDT
From: Robert Rumpf <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Submissions - PowerNotes 1.0

No PowerBook user should be without this - a hypercard stack used to organize
class notes/research notes/just about anything.  Designed as a note taker for
students or researchers, has import/export functions, easy to use menu
screens,
and full instructions built into the "Help" button.

[Archived as /info-mac/text/power-notes-10-hc.hqx; 43K]

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Date: Thu, 22 Jul 93 12:55:34 +0200
From: "Rene G.A. Ros" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Suppl. Gestalt Selectors List

Goodday,

Here is the latest version (2.0) of the
Supplemental Gestalt Selectors List.

It includes the latest gestaltMachineType values, even from not yet
released Macs. Also selectors from new Apple software like AppleScript
and KanjiTalk7.
Small pieces of Gestalt related code were added.

replaces: /dev/info/gestalt-selectors-16.txt
archived as: /dev/info/gestalt-selectors-20.etx (notice the '.etx' suffix!)

Below is the part of the list about the changes since version 1.6:


I changed the whole layout of the list. The persons who read this list
without special software won't notice too much. But the new layout also
complies with the setext specs for use with EasyView (Macintosh) or
setext-viewer (UNIX). These allow you to build automatically an index and
step thru the chapters. You can find both on sumex-aim.stanford.edu in the
text directory. Thanks to Marco Piovanelli for pointing me to these
applications.
The jump from 1.6 to 2.0 is because it's the first full version
wrapped as setext and it's the first one which will appear in the
Macintosh Developer Forum (MACDEV) on CompuServe.

Some chapter and section names have changed, but not beyond recognition.
gestaltComponentMgr (cpnt) was previously listed as 'additional software',
but it is also installed by the System since version 7.1. So it is now
listed as 'System Software'.
Some other selectors were confirmed by Technical Notes I all went thru.
There is one new chapter: Kilo-liners. This is meant for very small pieces
of code related to gestalt. Lawrence D'Oliviero contributed
'GestaltSelectorZero' and direct calls to the Gestalt traps.
Mark Dawson provided new MachineType IDs and some info regarding the
MachineNameStr. It's included with the gestaltMachineType (mach) selector.

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/info/gestalt-selectors-20.txt; 79K]

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Date: Mon, 26 Jul 93 22:13:31 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: [*] TidBITS#186/26-Jul-93

TidBITS#186/26-Jul-93

 This week brings several corrections and clarifications of
   previous articles, RAM prices increasing, the pen-based
   PowerBook project disappearing, and the postponement of the
   online Congressional hearing. In the rumor department, Apple
   releases another hardware update and Prodigy appears on the
   Internet. Finally, Roy McDonald of Connectix anchors the
   issue with a thoughtful paper on software acceleration.

Topics:
    MailBITS/26-Jul-93
    RAM Prices Increase
    Pen-Based PowerBook Crossed Out
    Online Congressional Hearing Postponed
    Software Acceleration
    Reviews/26-Jul-93

[Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-186.etx; 30K]

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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1993 23:15:56 -0600 (CST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] vvs3ddem.hqx

Demonstration application for ViviStar Consulting's Qd3d, 3dPane, and
SmartPane source code libraries.  Qd3d provides 3d graphic primitives
with stereoscopic projections, Gouraud shading, z-buffering, and fast
wireframe and OnlyQD modes.  3dPane provides view orientation control.
SmartPane provides image buffering, and QuickTime movie recording.

Demo includes static scenes, simple animation, and triad mouse
interaction using a triangular Bezier patch.

This demo requires a fp coprocessor.

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/vivi-star-qd3d-demo.hqx; 228K]

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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1993 11:38:02 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Marc Bizer)
Subject: [*] ZapTCP 1.2

Dear Moderators,
    I'm enclosing a heavily-demanded TCP utility extension which does
the following:

>The INIT works by installing a system-wide patch which takes control when
>an application quits (or is quit by a forced MacsBug "es").  When it runs,
>the code scans through all of the currently open MacTCP streams and
>connections, looking for those that have their stream buffers allocated
>within the heap that is about to disappear.  When ZapTCP finds a stream
>whose buffers are about to become no-man's land, it forces the connection
>closed and releases the stream, posting a notification to the user.

    Yours truly,
    Marc

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/net/zap-tcp-12.hqx; 7K]

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Date: Mon, 26 Jul 93 21:51:41 CDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: *RUMOR* Higher PC Prices Due Today

Nothing new there!  RAM prices at our bookstore have gone up 100% in the
last week.  The factory that blew up supplied raw materials in the manufacture
of chip casings.  They supply 60% of all RAM manufacturers, and as such, RAM
prices will go up...
Check out this weeks MacWeek.  It says :
"Spot-market RAM prices nearly doubled this month as torrid PC sales
continued to put a strain on supplies and a fire destroyed the Japanese
factory that makes most of the material used to encase chips
Mac memory modules were hardest hit; at Fry's Electronics in sunnyvale,
Calif.,
a 4-Mbyte module rose to $219 last week, an increase of $95"

And so on...  The above snippet was reproduced without permission, but is
copyright 1993 Coastal Associates, L.P

No mention here of computer prices rising though.  I would not expect Apple
to raise prices now, after two months of constant price drops and rebates.
I'll take the wait-and-see attitude (but I am ordering my Duo this week to
avoid any increases if they do actually happen!!! ;-) )

My $.02
--
| David A. denBoer                                     | Musi Computer
Products
| E-mail:[e-mail]                     | 9 Abington Road
| Manitoba Macintosh Developers Assn                   | Winnipeg, MB
|                                                      | Canada, R2J 3S7

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Date: 27 Jul 93 04:05:59 GMT
From: [e-mail] (David Shaw)
Subject: *RUMOR* Higher PC Prices Due Today

In digest <[e-mail]>
[e-mail] writes:

>I heard from a government PC buyer that PC prices (and Macs too, I assume)
>are scheduled to go up today (Monday). According to this rumor, the major
>manufacturer of RAM had their factory go up in smoke. This vendor
>reportedly represents 85% of the RAM manufacturing in the world.
>According to the rumor, RAM prices will sour and PC prices will follow

Actually, it was a resin factory that exploded, which is a major component
of SIMMs and circuitboards.  The price of 4 meg SIMMs has already jumped from
$125 to about $170 each.  I don't know that computer prices (especially Macs,
which have historically never increased in price across the board as far as I
know...

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Date: Tue, 27 Jul 93 08:41:09 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Nicolas Tamburri)
Subject: *RUMOR* Higher PC Prices Due Today

>From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" <[e-mail]>

>I heard from a government PC buyer that PC prices (and Macs too, I assume)
>are scheduled to go up today (Monday). According to this rumor, the major
>manufacturer of RAM had their factory go up in smoke. This vendor
>reportedly represents 85% of the RAM manufacturing in the world.

>According to the rumor, RAM prices will sour and PC prices will follow.

>Does anyone heard the same thing and, if so, has it been verified?

Apparently, one of the major manufacturers of PLASTIC IC CASINGS (I forget the
name,
but it was not someone I immediately recognized,) had a bad fire at their
main manufacturing facility in Japan.  The figure I heard on CNN was that
they represented 50% of the IC casing market, (not 85%, but still
substantial.)

                                /nt

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Date: Tue, 27 Jul 93 08:58:21 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Gordon Laqua)
Subject: *rumour* of higher pc prices not a rumour.

There have been a lot of rumours flying about this around here.  I will
try to provide what I have heard for fact.

An explosion ripped through the Sumitomo Chemical Co. plant in Tokyo,
Japan this last July 4, killing one person and injuring three others.
I do not know the cause of the explosion, but rumour has it that it was
sabotage.

The Sumitomo plant accounted for 60% of the world's productivity of
high-grade epoxy resin.  This black material is used to make the
packaging for semiconductors.  The result is that component prices have
skyrocketed.

One month ago, in Calgary, you could by 1MB SIMM's for approx $45/meg
(canadian).  When I purchased more memory on saturday, july 24, it had
already jumped to $85/mb.  On monday, I overheard a saleman quoting
$98/mb.

This is the lowest price that I have found.  Some other places were
quoting up to $150/mb.

In other words, that Centris 650 with 8 mb of memory you wanted to buy
just went up by approx $800.  (remember, this is the canadian prices,
so you can probably get a better price. Be sure to shop around, and the
prices will vary widely for the next month or so, as previous
inventories are used up.)

While Sumitomo has asked DOW chemical, among others, to help fill the
demand for epoxy resin, don't expect lower prices soon.  The rumour is
that previous production levels will not be reached for 3 to 5 years.


Regds,
Gordon Laqua, technical analyst
Tecknowledge Consulting Inc   ([e-mail])

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Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1993 20:40:13 -0600 (PDT)
From: Irving Wiswall   <[e-mail]>
Subject: [A] GEnie <--> Internet email

The latest version of the email gateway file has the following entry for
Internet <-> GEnie

#FROM: internet
#TO: genie
#RECIPIENT: user
#CONTACT: [e-mail]
#INSTR: send to [e-mail]

Note that the archive doesn't have the most recent version of this file.
I'll process and send it in the next day or so.

-Irv Wiswall

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Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1993 18:05:26 +1000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [Q] Where is the StartUp Sound Switcher

Hi netters,

    When I zapped the PRAM a couple of days ago, I also lost the bootup
sound with it on my Quadra 700. Yes, there was this little cdev around some
time ago with which one could switch between the bootup sound - and which
also showed the pricture which is in the ROM. - Unfortunately, this cdev
has disappeared from my harddisk. Since I like the second sound much better
(more decent) I tried to find it on sumex-aim - but did not have any luck.
I simply have forgotten the name of the cdev. Can anybody remember that
name?

    Any comments  will be appreciated. Thank you

                Christian - from Down Under.

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Date: Tue, 27 Jul 93 16:13:49 -0700
From: [e-mail]
Subject: accelerator for SE/30

Dear netters, what is the best choice to upgrade my
Mac SE/30? Which accelerator cards are available on
the market?
I read already the /info/hdwr/daystar-se30-powercache.txt
of last July 1992, there are new products and price?
        Davide

 e-mail: [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 27 Jul 93 08:23:26 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: AOL-Internet mail

In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
> >Is it possible to e-mail a user on
> >America-Online or Prodigy from the internet?
>
> I believe the AOL format is [e-mail].  For instance, "Dilbert"
> cartoonist
> Scott Adams is [e-mail] (he usually includes his Internet address
in
> the cartoon, along with his signature).

More interestingly, America Online has started to split big messages,
which means that if you get a file mailed to you, you can piece it
back together rather than just losing everything after 25K. It's still
a bit of a pain, but at least people can subscribe to TidBITS on AOL
now without losing the last bit each week.

> Last time I heard, Prodigy users don't have an Internet address--is that
still
> correct?

I just heard that Prodigy had opened a beta gateway at prodigy.com.
You just prepend the userid to that addresss. The trick is that Prodigy
users need new software and have to sign up to receive Internet email
at something called JUMP INTERNET. If you send them mail before they
have done this, they won't get your mail, but they will get a notice
telling them how to go about getting Internet access. No word on if
it costs anything yet. That's about all I know right now - I mentioned
it briefly in TidBITS#186, but I had no more details then.

cheers ... Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor

Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor -- [e-mail] -- [e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 93 10:48:53 MET DST
From: Christian F. Buser <[e-mail]>
Subject: AppleLink Packages (R)

Akira <[e-mail]> asked:
>Is there any app that will expand an AppleLink Pkg? I havetries CP and
>stuffit to no avail. Any suggestions?

Hi,

Easiest way is to ask someone who is using AppleLink to expand the
packages for you. There are many individuals, and most Apple dealers
who could do this for you. I think it's not worth to subscribe to AL
yourself, if this is a "one-time problem".

Best regards, Christian        [e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1993 20:31:25 PDT
From: Kee Nethery <[e-mail]>
Subject: ARA and internet connections (A)

>Here's the question:  When we dial-in, using ARA, we can no
>longer get out to sumex or other
>sites, we are stuck in our network.

ARA uses AppleTalk protocols. To access sumex you use TCP/IP protocols. To
use TCP/IP through your AppleTalk only dial in connection you need to
switch your MacTCP control panel to MacIP instead of the direct connection.
Then you will need to have some gateway (such as a FastPath) convert the
MacIP into TCP/IP. Then it'll work fine.

AppleTalk is the only packet type that will go through the dialup link.
MacIP puts TCP/IP packets inside AppleTalk packets. Thus, via dialup,
you'll be able to speak TCP to sumex.

Kee Nethery
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 93 08:42:56 EDT
From: [e-mail] (przeslawski)
Subject: Autolock(?) Program Whereabouts

I seem to remember there was a program (demo/shareware?) that allowed one to
lock the current window in the foreground even if one clicked off of the
window. I looked all over the new and improving sumex archives, but could
not find it. I believe it was called Autolock.

TIA,

Mark Przeslawski
E.R.I.M.

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

Date: 27 Jul 1993 11:47:43 -0500
From: "dlawrence" <[e-mail]>
Subject: CPro vs. Stuffit on AOL

-> dlawrence <[e-mail]> writes
->
-> > If you need Stuffit Lite or Stuffit Classic, they're both available >
-> on AOL.
->
-> And there are both shareware. I already own Compact-Pro.  Are you
-> offering to buy the Stuffit(tm) products for me?
->
-> > It's really no big deal, and certainly no conspiracy. It just lets
-> those > users who aren't as savvy as some get automatic decompression
-> without > having to think about it.
->
-> I will not subsidize the ignorance of others with my money.  If AOL
-> would keep its software up-to-date (Stuffit 3.x) then the format for
-> archives would not be a question.
->
-> --Larry Wink <[e-mail]> or <[e-mail]>

OK, Larry, I give up. You win. You're right. I'm wrong. Let's just agree to
disagree.

It seems to be impossible to explain to you the difference between a released
versioned product (Stuffit x.x) and the licensing of the compression
technology
itself. I *think* I can explain it; that AOL software, written in C,
incorporates the *technology*, not the *application*, so there's no "software
(Stuffit 3.x)" to keep up-to-date, other than revs of AOL's software, which
*is* updated every few weeks or months, and your software is automatically
updated the next time you sign on. But if that isn't clear, mea culpa. I also
don't seem to be able to adequately explain the difference between a problem
for you (stuffing a file) and a convenience for a 350,000 plus member base
(auto-unstuffing after a download). I *thought* I could explain it. But mea
culpa there too.

Actually, it's all pretty much moot at this point...Wayne has somebody else
doing the uploads anyway...

David Lawrence
Macintosh Product Evaluation Specialist <-- coolest job
CAC/ARPA                                   *in* the world
Internet: [e-mail]
CIS: 75300,2460     AOL: OLTDavid or DoctorMac

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

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1993 16:37:44 +0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: data salvation?

Hi all,

Has anybody had any success in resurrecting data from a hard drive with
corrupt/missing partition info? If so, might I ask what utilities you've
tried? Norton won't touch a recently deceased drive with this affliction, I
wonder if something like Public Utilities (Fifth Generation) would get
better results?

Any thoughts and ideas much appreciated folks,

STeve
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1993 09:41:42 BST
From: "G.Soundy, ICRF-CCU System Support" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Do 8-bit fonts work in NCSA Telnet 2.5?

Path: wheel!g_soundy
From: [e-mail] (G.Soundy, ICRF-CCU System Support)
Newsgroups: info-mac
Subject: Do 8-bit fonts work in NCSA Telnet 2.5?
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 27 Jul 93 09:41:16 GMT
Organization: Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, UK
Lines: 14


Anyone one there know if the 8-bit font option works in NCSA Telnet 2.5?

I find that Telnet 2.5 communicates ok in 8-bit mode (with for example
host machines running VMS 5.2 and OSF/1), but the 8-bit characters are
simply not displayed, not even a space, or the 7-bit equivalent...

Yours in puzzlement...

Graham Soundy
Imperial Cancer Research Fund
London, UK.

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

Date: Mon, 26 Jul 93 18:04:47 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Excel/Word paste-link bug/problem

If you create an Excel 4 spreadsheet with a name that has an apostrophe
in it, then try to paste link a table into a MS Word 5.1 document, the
paste link will fail. If you click 'no' on the first "unavailable" query, you
will get a message that shows a NULL and indicates that the file name
may have been changed, the program is not available, etc.-apparently
the poor little dear can't handle the apostrophe in the file name and
loses the rest of the file name. Just delete the apostrophe from the Excel
file name and everything will work fine. This must be some kind of DOS
effect....given the common code that MS seems to be so proud of.
  Jon Muller, Anthropology         Bitnet:  GA0048@SIUCVMB

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

Date: 27 Jul 1993 11:22:49 +0000 (U)
From: "Dees, Ted E." <[e-mail]>
Subject: GEnie Internet addressing

GEnie Internet addressing should be [e-mail].  I think this goes
directly through to regular GEnie mail but I haven't verified that.

Regards Warren's question:
> Can I post to someone on GEnie via my Internet email account even though my
> friend does not have the Internet-access part of GEnie?
The Internet RT Sysops say:  "As of July 1 there is no need to register for
any
portion of GEnie's Internet Gateway.  Electronic mail with the Internet is now
included in your GEnie monthly subscription package."

Ted Dees

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

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 93 10:25:34 EDT
From: Nathan Y Pearlstein <[e-mail]>
Subject: Hardware System Update 2.0?

Hi, I would like to know where I can get the new hardware system update 2.0
It is not at ftp.apple.com and my dealer tried on applelink for me but
couldn't
locate it.  So, could some one point me toward it?  Or post it so that the
rest
of us deprived netters can get our mitts on it?  Now I am almost convinced
that there is a conspiracy to make me think it exists when it may not.
--
DarkNater

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

Date: 27 Jul 1993 11:21:38 +0200
From: [e-mail]
Subject: HD problem

Hi,
I have problem renaming some HDs under system 7.01 and 7.1 .
My friends told me to verify that the filesharing was off...but still doesn't
work.
I'm searching a way to rename HD without reformatting...can you help me??
Thanks

Massimo Gagliasso
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 93 11:08:15 PDT
From: Brian R. Gaeke <[e-mail]>
Subject: How to Mail from Internet to GEnie

To send mail from the Internet to GEnie,

first try:

    [e-mail]

this works in most cases.

or if that doesn't work, as a last resort try

    [e-mail]
        or
    [e-mail]

(this is not an "officially" supported method but I have found that
it works when I am having trouble.)
Brian

--
Brian Gaeke, The Dimensional Gate Company   Internet E-Mail: [e-mail]
Finger my account for my PGP public key.

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

Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1993 22:26:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: "William R. Dickson" <[e-mail]>
Subject: HP DeskWriter vs. ATM 3.0

Hi there,

     I'm experiencing unpleasantness with ATM and my DeskWriter.
Although, come to think of it, PageMaker 4.2 may be at fault.  I'm fishing
for information, and if you've got any, a solution.
     Problem Number One, which is the most significant by far, is that
whenever I use any kind of tracking the character spacing gets thoroughly
munged.  Characters run together and space far apart, spaces between words
vanish, and it just generally looks as though I set it for "Tracking:
Worst Imaginable".
     Problem Number Two is the irritating "character shapes or line
spacing" preservation choice.  I rather figured this was for display
purposes only, but it seems to have major effects on final output, as
well: with character shapes preserved, page length often changes by as
much as 25% (!), and with line length preserved I lose descenders.  It
seems as though that shouldn't be.
     Problem Number Three was a surprise: a text block, rotated 180
degrees, crashed the print drivers (and eventually the machine).  Printing
the same document without rotating the text worked fine; printing it with
the text rotated but switched to a TrueType font also worked fine.
     The BMUG newsletter says the DeskWriter works very well with ATM.
Are they talking about the same DeskWriter?  The same ATM?  Could these
problems be yet another drawback of the new and improved DW 4.0 drivers?

Any insight into these problems is more than welcome.

Thanks,

Bill Dickson
[e-mail]

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

Date: 27 Jul 1993 13:11:33 U
From: "Charlott Low" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Internet connections

I know I've seen some Q/As related to what you need to access Internet from
your home and can't remember where.   (The brain cells start dying at 21, you
know)  Ok, so I blithely deleted all the info I had and now I need it -- hang
me up by my ears.

Would some charitable person recap the bottom line or post to me?  If someone
has seen this written up in a FAQ, would you point me in the right direction?

Purty Puhleeze.  <-- Texas idiom meaning, "Please don't make me grovel
                because my knees are raw from the last time I
                screwed up."  Note:  alternative meanings
available.

Obsequiously, Charlott Low
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1993 22:27:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Peter Macdonald <[e-mail]>
Subject: LaserWriter 8.0 PPD's for HP Laserjet (Q)

Does anyone know where I can find LaserWriter 8.0 PPD's "HP Laserjet IIP"
or "HP Laserjet IIP v52.2"? The "Generic" PPD seems to work OK but I would
like to try our HP printer with the "official" driver.

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

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 93 17:19:25 CEST
From: Carlo Viviani <[e-mail]>
Subject: Lciii Monitor Woes!! (Ans)

Iain,
in the Monitors Control Panel, click the "options" button and set the
monitor size to 640x480 Hi-res Col. Display. At the moment, it should be
set to 640x400, which allows you to display 32768 colors on your screen,
but makes you lose 80 pixels.

Hope this helps,

Carlo <[e-mail]>

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

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 93 13:00:25 MEZ
From: Andrew Maier <[e-mail]>
Subject: Looking for a Chinese Style Font

Hello out there,
I am looking for a chinese style font for a title of a game which will be

be called <The Chinese Wall> or something like that. So I am look for
something
 apropriate. I have looked through the font list stack which is available at
macarchive.umich.edu but with no success.
I hope somebody has any suggestions. Any font type will do (TrueType, Type 1
or
 3 Postscript)  Also I would prefer a shareware or freeware font, since I only
want to use it for a title.
          Thanks in advance      Andrew
          [e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1993 00:02:23 PDT
From: Kee Nethery <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mac IIx Power On

>We have a Mac IIx which we use as a SNA-PS server. This machine is sitting
in a remote location, and is not easily accessible. The problem occurs when
the A.C. power goes down for a while, after which the Mac will not power on
again. Newer Macs can be set to always power on by rotating the power
button at the back by 90 degrees, but the old Mac IIx doesn't have this
option.

>We're looking for some scheme to modify the power supply in such a way that
the Mac will always be switched on after a power-down.

The PowerSwitch LT is a device that can be used to control power to network
devices. There are two ways you can use the PowerSwitch with your server.
If you have access to the remote network you can attach a PowerSwitch LT to
a LocalTalk network at the remote site, connect it's ADB port to the SNA-PS
Server ADB port and then you can manually send a Power On command to the
PowerSwitch via AppleTalk. It will toggle on the ADB and thus power on the
Mac. If the server froze, you could toggle power to the server by running
it's power through the PowerSwitch power outlet (up to 20 amps).

A second way to use the PowerSwitch LT is to modify the HyperCard stack
that talks to the PowerSwitch to watch for the SNA-PS server. If the
HyperCard stack no longer sees the SNA-PS Server (using NBP lookups in the
stack) then the stack can talk to the PowerSwitch connected to the server,
power cycle the server and then restart it with the ADB command.

A third way to use the PowerSwitch LT is to give the SNA-PS server some
process that causes it to send packets out LocalTalk (I assume it is either
on ethernet or Token Ring) on a periodic basis (such as the Apple Internet
Router or Farallon's software router) and then configure the PowerSwitch to
watch for packets coming from the SNA-PS server. When the PowerSwitch no
longer sees packets coming from the SNA-PS server, it will toggle power to
the server and then hit the ADB to restart it.

The PowerSwitch LT is an intelligent networked power controller and you can
configure it to do quite a few things automatically, such as keep your
SNA-PS Server online. It also can be used for ARA users who wish to power
on their office Macintosh.

Contact Radiant Enterprises Inc. at 415-296-8040 or at
[e-mail] for more information.

Kee Nethery
[e-mail]

Disclaimer, I helped design the PowerSwitch LT so my opinion is biased.

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

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1993 11:40:31 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Bo Holst-Christensen)
Subject: Mode 32 & 32bit enabler.

In the last few issues of info-mac there has been several messages about
System 7.1 with Mode 32 or the 32bit enabler.
The big problem is that both Mode 32 and the 32bit enabler nearly works.
In some situations Mode 32 works best and in others the 32bit enabler works
best.
No matter which of the two extensions I use with System 7.1, I can find
problems. I just choose the one that works best for me, on the machine I
install it on.

   Bo Holst-Christensen
   [e-mail]      [e-mail]      FAX: [phone]

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

Date: 27 Jul 1993 09:28:58 -0500
From: "dlawrence" <[e-mail]>
Subject: MSWord Conversion...

-> I have an MS Word 5.1a document. I'd like to upload it to an archive
-> site, and cant seem to figure out how to save it as ASCII. I know how to
-> save it and binhex it for Mac users, this verison, the ASCII version is
-> for IBM users who dont have unzip, etc.

I'm sure I'm not the first to tell you, but the Save As... menu item under the
File menu brings up a dialog box. In th dialog box, there is a drop down menu
below the file list that allows you to change the format of the file. It
usually says "Normal", but you should choose the Text option, or better yet,
RTF. RTF = Rich Text Format, and can be read by most DOS/Win word processors.
THis will help you retain at least *some* of the formatting...

David Lawrence
Macintosh Product Evaluation Specialist <-- coolest job
CAC/ARPA                                   *in* the world
Internet: [e-mail]
CIS: 75300,2460     AOL: OLTDavid or DoctorMac

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

Date: 27 Jul 93 02:03:36 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Don't even bother)
Subject: Passwords and Shift keys..

I've got a big question.

I have a VERY nosy roommate, and no matter what I tell him, I know he messes
around on my computer, to the point where it takes me about 30 minutes
sometimes
to figure out why I can't connec t or print because of the antics he pulls on
my computer whenever he gets on it

(He also did this on my computer account once when I left the room to go help
a
friend and he cut my telnet access off from the system, and I not being a
great
Unix user took 3 days to get it going again.)

So what I'm looking for is a password program that can't be bypassed by
holding
down both shift keys at start up.

No Freeware or shareware program I've found yet has stopped this or a disk
with
a system installed as the boot yet.

Thanx in advance.

--Michael aka Goof

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

Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1993 03:31:40 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Lance K. Chun)
Subject: Portable Stylewriter

Anyone have one yet? If so, what is your conclusion. Please direct response
to private e-mail.

Thanks,
Lance

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

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1993 17:53:20 +0200
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Powerbook hard disk problem

Dear fellow-mackers,

has anyone encountered a similar problem? I have a Powerbook 170 with 8 MB
RAM and an 80 MB hard disk (the so-called "IBM 85"). After about an hour,
the hard disk dismounts itself, which freezes the Powerbook. Silverlining's
"short tests" fail to read it properly. After about two hours of being turned
off and unplugged from the mains, the thing works fine for another hour. If
I put the machine in "power save" mode (i.e., take it down from 25 to 16 MHz),
no problem at all occurs. Possibly the problem is overheating-related as the
machine always feels somewhat hot when it starts fouling up.
Please reply directly to me as I don't subscribe to Info-Mac.
                     Many thanks in advance,
dr. Jan M.L. Martin                 [e-mail]
                    [e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 93 09:04:25 BST
From: A.D'[e-mail]
Subject: Printing PostScript Files to a Network Printer?

I would like to download a postscript file to a postscript printer on our
network (Novell). The LaserWriter Font Utility does not seem to work with
networks printers (the utility hangs up when checking the characterisitics
of the network printer). The only way I can get postscript files printed is
to run SoftPC (pc emulator) and to log into the file server and type
"nprint filename". This is obviously unsatisfactory (SoftPC is slow and
uses a lot of memory). Does anyone know of a better way of doing this?

Tony D'Emanuele, University of Manchester.

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

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 93 08:16:58 EDT
From: Ray Coco <[e-mail]>
Subject: Protection software needed

Is there any software  (other than MacPassword) for protecting HD on LCIII
>From copying.  We are starting a Mac Lab and wish to keep software from
being copied by students.

*******    Raymond P. Coco    *******
Computing Services Center, Room CS-21
State University of New York at Albany
       1400 Washington Avenue
Albany, New York 12222  (518-442-3732)

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

Date: 27 Jul 93 13:55 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Mark Dols,NL,IVC)
Subject: RAM disk problem

I'm trying to create a RAM disk on my PowerBook 100 4/20 (System 7.1, Memory
Control Panel v7.1.1, internal PowerPort V32 modem). The on/off radio buttons
are disabled. Balloon help tells me 'The RAM disk settings cannot be changed
because there are files on the RAM disk. To change this settings, first remove
all files from the RAM disk.' This doesn't make sense because there is no RAM
disk.

I've tried:
- zapping the PRAM
- removing both batteries
- deleting the Finder Preferences file
- restarting with extensions off

Nothing seems to help. Has anyone seen this problem before? What might be the
cause and is there a solution?

Mark Dols               tel: [phone]
Herengracht 51          fax: [phone]
1015 BC Amsterdam       [e-mail]
Netherlands             CompuServe: 100041,2301


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

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 93 08:13:52 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: RAM prices

In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
> I heard from a government PC buyer that PC prices (and Macs too, I assume)
> are scheduled to go up today (Monday). According to this rumor, the major
> manufacturer of RAM had their factory go up in smoke. This vendor
> reportedly represents 85% of the RAM manufacturing in the world.

Yup, it's true as far as I know.

> According to the rumor, RAM prices will sour and PC prices will follow.

We wish they would sour. :-)

> Let me be clear in saying that I have *not* seen any confirmation
> of this on the Internet or in any of the trades. I just heard
> about this yesterday evening.
>
> Does anyone heard the same thing and, if so, has it been verified?

I did a very short article on it for TidBITS#186, and it was in both
MacWEEK and InfoWorld this week... I don't believe there's anything
anyone can do, other than perhaps hold off on buying RAM for a bit.

cheers ... -Adam

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

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1993 14:45 +0100 (MET)
From: Hans de Wolf <[e-mail]>
Subject: SoundManager 3.0 [A]

Info-Mac #149 contained question about SoundManager 3.0. I do not know
all the answer but I have discovered some of the possibilities:

SoundManager 3.0 seems to be part of QuickTime 1.6.x
You do not need a new sound control panel to make use of SoundManager 3.0
(there may be a new sound control panel - I don't know).

To record sound from an audio CD, you need the QuickTime MoviePlayer:

Start the MoviePlayer and open a track on an audio CD. The Play button
will change into a Convert button. Select Option, and you will have
access to the Sound Manager 3.0 functions: select sample rate (44, 22 or 11
kHz), mono/stereo and 8 or 16 bits samples. Use the slider or time fields
to select the part of the track to be processed. You can use the Play button
to play CD-audio sound through the built-in speaker of your Mac.

The sound can be stored as an image-less QT movie.

Warning: creating a full stereo, 44 kHz 16 bits sound movie requires a lot
of disk space.
Note: this procedure works with the Apple CD-300 player. I do not know which
other CD players support this ...

Hans de Wolf
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 93 9:21 BST
From: RICHARD LIM <[e-mail]>
Subject: Splitting Mac files (C)

With regard to Larry Wink's ([e-mail]) suggestion of
splitting a file's data fork using Splitter 3.0, can I just point out
that Splitter is slightly flawed in one respect: it doesn't keep to a
fixed line length.  This means when you're splitting binhex, the first
and last lines of the segments won't be kept to whatever the usual number
of characters/line for binhex is; they'll be sliced at random.  And this
could be a problem for certain binhex decoders.  Thanks to our faithful
Backmod Gordon Watts for pointing this out to me

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

Date: Tue, 27 JUL 93 12:07 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Stuffit, Deluxe or Lite?

Hi,

Thanks for the first answers I received about my help request about
buying a Powerbook.

Now a little related question: compressing a PB hard disk. A friend of
mine has bought Stuffit deluxe with Spacesaver saying it's safer than
AutoDoubler, TimesTwo, etc. I would try it too. I'm interested in
Spacesaver only because Stuffit Lite is cheaper than the Deluxe version.

Do you know if StuffIt Deluxe and Stuffit Lite have the *same*
compression rates? Is the price difference due only to script capability,
multiple archive handling and to SpaceSaver bundle or the Deluxe version
can compress *more* than the Lite version?

Please reply directly to me
Thanks in Advance,
                            Federico

[e-mail]
[e-mail]



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

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1993 02:29 EST
From: DON'T PANIC <[e-mail]>
Subject: Stylewriter II and vertical axes

Mr. Silverstein,
Stylewriter & verticle axis problem is a lack of truetype fonts being accessed
by your graphics program.  If you can post your true internet address without
% signs maybe someone would reply, as mailers can't reach your address.
Sincerely, [e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 93 08:30:57 BST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Stylewriter II and vertical axes

>Date: Mon, 26 Jul 93 17:25:20 EDT
>From: Dr. M.S. Silverstein <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Stylewriter II and vertical axes
>
>Sorry to be so persistant, but I have not yet received
>an answer, so I thought I would try again...
>
>The vertical axes with a program like kalidagraph turn
>out jagged with a stylewriter II.  Does anyone know how
>to get smooth axes when the letters are pointing up and
>down??
>
>Thanks

Have you turned off bi-directional printing? The GDT PowerPrint docs
suggest this solution in their troubleshooting section.

Hope it helps...



Chris

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

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

Date: 27 Jul 1993 07:52:46 -0500
From: [e-mail] (SYSTEM)
Subject: Suitcase/Carpetbag and System 7

Since fonts in system 7 are already not kept in the system file, what is the
advantage of using suitcase/carpetbag?

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

Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1993 20:55:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Bruce Goldstein, [phone]" <[e-mail]>
Subject: System 7.1, MODE32, 32 bit enabler, Mathematica 2.2

About a week ago I posted a message saying that the combination of Mode 32,
System 7.1, and Mathematica 2.2 was incompatible.  This was based upon
Mathematica 2.2 not launching after I put on MODE32 on line, and running OK
when I went to the 32 bit enabler.  However, in Infomacv11-150.txt there was a
report that this combination is OK, so I went back to check and in fact the
problem, whatever it was, can not be reproduced.  I also received some
interesting email from [e-mail] (Bo Holst-Christensen) which I include
below since I think it would be of general interest.  I have edited his
message
slightly to reduce its length. I found of particular interest his explanation
towards the end of his message about why some people may be having problems
with the 32 bit enabler; apparently a complicated sequence of reboots is
needed to properly DEINSTALL MODE32, just DRAGGING it out of the Control Panel
folder DOES NOT WORK and can cause the 32 bit enabler to crash the system.
MESSAGE from [e-mail] follows:

I have seen press releases from both Apple and Connectix just after the
release
of System 7.1, stating that the combination of Mode 32 and System 7.1 was
unstable at best. The main problem is, that if both 32bit and VM are turned on
>From Mode 32, most machines will bomb during booting System 7.1, with most
disk
drivers - including Apples own. I have knowledge of at least one driver where
this is not the case, resulting in a user stating that another disk driver was
faulty, as he could not boot from that drive with Mode 32 on. I know from
experiance, that the Apple, Ontrack, Surf City, and FWB drivers bombs with
System 7.1 and Mode 32 with both 32bit and VM on. Connectix's quick fix was to
have the user shuffle the NuBus cards. This could in some (but not all)
situations solve the problem. As an SE/30 has no NuBus cards, there was no way
an SE/30 user could try to solve the problem. Connectix and Apple made a joint
press release stating that Apple (not Connectix) would come with a replacement
for Mode 32. The 32bit enabler is that fix. Both Apple and Connectix warns
against using Mode 32 with System 7.1.

When the 32bit enabler was released there was a lot of noice about the enabler
just not working. Later it turned out that the way most people installed the
32bit enabler resulted in the problems. Connectix has always plays tricks with
the PRAM and system file in some situations they also install a hidden init,
when rebooting or shutting down. The way the 32bit enabler was installed by
most people was that they just removed Mode 32 from and put the enabler in the
system folder. When the system is rebooted, the things left over from Mode 32
tries to find Mode 32, and when it cannot be found, the system is left in very
bad shape. The way to remove Mode 32 is to first turn everything off from the
Mode 32 control panel, reboot, remove Mode 32 from the system folder, reboot,
put the enabler into the system folder, reboot, turn 32bit/VM on, and finally
reboot to get 32bit/VM. In some situations you may even have to replace the
system. This is not Apples fault, but Connectix'.

If all you need is 32bit, or VM alone, Mode 32 will probably work with no
problems. Unfortunately the 32bit enabler also fixes a few other problems with
the II and IIx-IIcx-SE/30 ROMs. The fix I need is the fix to the SCSI driver,
so that I can boot from my external MO drive, without disabling the system on
my internal harddisk.

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Date: Tue, 27 Jul 93 11:11:14 PDT
From: Brian R. Gaeke <[e-mail]>
Subject: Think C and C++ 6.0

Think C 5.0.4 (an excellent product, btw) was recently obsoleted
by Think C 6.0 and Symantec C++ 6.0. Symantec C++ 6.0 is a
package that includes all the functionality of Think C 6.0,
and includes a (rather buggy, from what I hear from
comp.sys.mac.programmer) C++ compiler as well.

--
Brian Gaeke, The Dimensional Gate Company   Internet E-Mail: [e-mail]
Finger my account for my PGP public key.

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Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1993 23:21:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail] (MY KARMA RAN OVER MY DOGMA)
Subject: Uploading and VAXing

Hi:
I passed the trials of fire in learning the finer points of downloading
software from the NET. However, my attempts at UPLOADING have been foiled
by the VAX. Using my mac running kermit, and running kermit on the vax I
tried to upload a small sound file test.  I stuffed and binhexed and sent,
but I kept getting an error.  The file was being truncated.  Anyone know
how I can set the VAX to accept larger files.  Or is it something as simple
as inserting line feeds into your doc (allright, so I'm reaching here...)
I got an error that said that the line was being truncated to 255? chars.
Whats the trick. and why don't I have a problem sending text files to the
VAX?
--Luis

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Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1993 08:30 EST
From: Bob Beason <[e-mail]>
Subject: Word conversion

The simplest way is to save your document as "text with line breaks" in the
format menu of the save dialog box.  I use this technique regularly to send
large documents through email.

Bob Beason
[e-mail]

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EBook is my answer to the growing collection of electronic text "front
ends" available for fee or free.  Many of these front ends are based on
Hypercard, as is EBook.  Where EBook differs, however, is in basic
philosophy.  My goal was to create a simple, self-configuring stack that
would turn a plain text file into the electronic equivalent of a paperback
book: no frills, compact, and easy to read.  You will not find elegant page
layout, provision for margin notes, or other special features.  You will
find:

o       Bookmarks you can set on each page.
o       Simple text search.
o       "Open where I quit!"  A possibly unique feature that remembers the
page you were on when you quit and returns to that page when you next
startup.

For those of you travelling with PowerBooks or simply looking for a way to
read the growing number of fine works becoming available as plain text
files, I hope EBook provides a simple way to enjoy yourself.

EBook is implemented using Hypercard 2.1

EBook is freeware.  However, EBook is NOT released into the public domain.
I reserve all rights to the layout and script features.  No third party may
use EBook in whole or in part to produce a library of works for sale at any
price except minimal cost to defray the expense of materials and handling.
This explicitly excludes companies such as EduCorp that sell collections of
free and shareware for a fee.  I do authorize the release of EBook as part
of the sumex CDROM collection.

Paul W Baim

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