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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 93 12:35:48 PDT
From: The Moderators <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #167


Info-Mac Digest             Tue, 24 Aug 93       Volume 11 : Issue 167

Today's Topics:

      [*] Adobe Acrobat Report
      [*] Change Charset, a BBEdit external
      [*] EnglishCalendar
      [*] FMAT Editor 1.0
      [*] Fortune 1.1 -- fortune speaker
      [*] HyperCuber 1.1.1
      [*] LeeMail Alias Utility 1.0
      [*] MAZv1.44.sit.hqx
      [*] MVL-Resumedia
      [*] ncsa-telnet-26.hqx
      [*] Peanuts-Icons-12
      [*] Poly-RC
      [*] PowerLaunch 2.3.1
      [*] Re: Tex-Edit 1.8.5
      [*] ResGenie 1.0 submission
      [*] speedometer-various-21.hqx
      [*] Tech Tool 1.0.1 Bug Fix
      [*] Template Collection 0.1
      (a)mac iix and 32-bit enabler
      12" Color Monitor "Discrimination" (R)
      8-bit to 7-bit conversions
      [A] NCSA Telnet 2.5 and control characters?
      A4 Paper size
      AppleShare File Server & PLI Cart drive (R)
      Beta testers wanted for PowerScan 2.0
      Bolo, what is it (Q)
      Canvas to AutoCAD converter? (Q)
      Centris 650 Won't Turnoff
      Centris network adapter
      cleaning local harddrives
      Comments on READ-IT! O.C.R. (Q)
      Default editor for TEXT files
      EtherNet card for LCIII (A)
      EtherNet card for LCIII. Who's got one? [A]
      Ethernet cards for Mac LC 520
      Flight Simulator (R)
      FPUs Into Centris 610s (Q)
      Ian McCall about ftp.apple.com
      Ian McCall about Photoshop 2.5.1 upgrade
      Info-Mac Digest V11 #166
      interprocess communication for idiots (Q)
      Jiggle..My Screen Is Jiggling (R)
      lc iii ethernet cards
      MacTCP
      Mac to PeeCee (R)
      New Postscript Error solver
      Novell fileservers
      Odesta (R)
      PowerBook 165 (R)
      Public Utilities Demo (C)
      Rescue 1.5.1
      Sound manager conflict ?
      Spanish Translaters
      Speech Manager
      Speed of PB 170 compared with PB 180c
      startup/reset weirdness with LC-III
      TCP/IP <-> AppleTalk translators? (Q)
      text editors for files > 32k
      Timbuktu (R--Demo available)
      Translation Software (R)

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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 14:45:38 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Adobe Acrobat Report

attached is a report/blurb from Adobe regarding Acrobat and its place in
the Grand Scheme.  FYI.

Paul Baim

[Archived as /info-mac/info/sft/adobe-acrobat.txt; 20K]

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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1993 01:45:18 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Sami-Jaakko Tikka)
Subject: [*] Change Charset, a BBEdit external

Hello!

This is my first posting of Macintosh software.  I hope everything that is
required is here...

Change Charset is an BBEdit external which allows one to convert characters
from/to the Macintosh charset to/from ISO-Latin-1 and to/from 7-bit
Scandinavian (which is still largely used in Scandinavian unix machines!).
This probably makes Change Charset interesting for Europeans only.  Still,
it never hurts to remind the English-speaking ASCII-world that there are
languages which DO need more than 7-bit characters ;-)

The conversion can be done in place, to a new window or the converted text
can be copied to the clipboard.  If there's a selection, Change Charset
will act on the selection, otherwise it will process the whole window.

This program can be freely copied for non-commercial purposes.

I can be reached by email at [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/text/bbedit-change-charset.hqx; 11K]

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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 12:28:52 -0400
From: Ian Fenton Macinnes <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] EnglishCalendar

This is a Hypercard stack designed to replace clumsy handbooks of
dates for students of English history and literature. It will
perform the following tasks:

1. It will calculate the date of Easter and six other major
moveable feasts based on Easter for any date from the council of
Nice (325 A.D.) to the present.

2. It will provide the dates for all saints days, and other
events of the liturgical year.

3. It will convert back and forth between Old and New style
dating.

4. It will find the day of the week for any date in the Christian
Era.

5. It will determine the number of days between any two dates, or
the date which occurs a given number of days before or after a
given date.

The stack is accurate for the English calendar, but it contains a
help feature with instructions on how to modify the stack for
students of Continental history and literature.

This stack is freeware.

comments to:
Ian MacInnes
English Department
Wilson Hall
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22903
e-mail [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/app/english-calander-hc.hqx; 31K]

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Date: 20 Aug 1993 14:09:49 -0500
From: "Michael Hecht" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] FMAT Editor 1.0

[*] FMAT Editor 1.0

For programmers:

FMAT Editor is a ResEdit editor for creating, and sample code for using
"canonical formats." With these formats and the Script Manager, you can easily
format 80-bit floating point values in an internationally correct fashion.

--Michael
  August 18, 1993

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/fmat-editor-10.hqx; 17K]

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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 93 22:36:27 PDT
From: Morgan Davis <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Fortune 1.1 -- fortune speaker

[ Archive manager: fortune-11-sea.hqx replaces fortune-10b1-sea.hqx ]

Fortune displays and reads aloud a random, hopefully humorous adage
in a small window on your screen.  It draws from a vast pool of more
than 1,600 "fortune cookie" phrases from its Fortunes File.

New in Fortune 1.1:

  + Supports user-assigned voices
  + Preferences dialog, saves settings in Fortune Prefs file
  + Remembers window locations
  + Clicking on parts of Fortune window opens relevant dialogs
  = Better fortune randomization
  = Cleaned up Fortune File (spelling, speakability of some words, etc.)
  = Nicer About info display
  = Better icons (Chinese "good luck" character; rebuild desktop to see them)
  = Smarter handling as a Startup Item vs. user-launched application
  - Smaller footprint (saved 40K by reducing the About picture)

Fortune 1.1 is distributed as shareware for $10.
(210 downloads in its first week on AOL)

[Archived as /info-mac/app/fortune-11.hqx; 104K]

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Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1993 00:35:19 -0400
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] HyperCuber 1.1.1

HyperCuber 1.1.1
by Greg Ferrar

HyperCuber is a program which draws a four-dimensional "hypercube" and
lets you view it from any direction.  It requires System 7 or better,
Color QuickDraw, and a Mac with a 68020 processor or better and a
math coprocessor (or a 68040).

Complete documentation for the program is contained in the HyperCuber
Manual file, which is in Microsoft Word 5.1 format.

Comments, suggestions, and error reports to Greg Ferrar by email at

  [e-mail]

or by snail mail at

  Greg Ferrar
  2300 N High Street
  Columbus OH  43202-2902

Enjoy!

  -Greg Ferrar ([e-mail])

[Archived as /info-mac/app/hyper-cube-111.hqx; 226K]

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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 93 21:37:01 EST
From: Lee Fyock <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] LeeMail Alias Utility 1.0

Here's a copy of the LeeMail Alias Utility 1.0.  This application
converts a unix .mailrc-style text file into LeeMail aliases and
vice versa.  It's useful for transferring aliases from a unix machine
to LeeMail, and for distributing text files of aliases to groups
of people.

(small plug :-)
This submission is in anticipation of the release of LeeMail 2.0
which will follow shortly.

Thanks very much,
Lee Fyock

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/lee-mail-alias-util-10.hqx; 9K]

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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 93 08:28:25 -0400
From: Graham Heyes <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] MAZv1.44.sit.hqx

This is version 1.44 of MaxAppleZoom. I had heard that there was
a newer version than the 1.43 in the info-mac archives. Here it is.

        Graham Heyes

[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/max-apple-zoom-144.hqx; 54K]

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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 93 22:58:43 EDT
From: Steven Hatch <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] MVL-Resumedia

I'm uploading this for my good friend Martin Leone. The compressed
self-extracting archive contains an interactive resume/portfolio. Its an
idea that I came up with many years ago when I first started to explore
multimedia. Martin (aka Martoon) coined its name, "Resumedia" And the
following is what he has to say about it...
:-steve hatch
  the turnaround team, inc.

 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
What the hell is Resumedia?
 --------------------------
Resumedia contains my work history, just as in a traditional resume, but
that's where the similarity ends. This is a non-linear resume/portfolio. It
not only contains my work history, but also samples of my traditional artwork,
computer generated images, 3D renders--some even require the red/blue 3D
glasses, computer generated animation, and some bitchin' tunes! Upon opening
this application, your eyes are immediately treated to some visual delights,
and then thrown into the main menu area which is equally stimulating! I really
am looking for a job; I'm even willing to relocate, CA maybe? :-) But I
encourage
anyone interested in multimedia to check it out and honestly critique it. I'd
love to hear from all of you! Seen me some e-mail...

ALLEgedly,
Martoon "The Assertive" Leone
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/info/nms/resumedia.hqx; 1917K]

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Date: Sun, 22 Aug 93 0:21:54 PDT
From: macmod (Info-Mac Moderator)
Subject: [*] ncsa-telnet-26.hqx

Much has changed in Telnet 2.6.  Here are a few quick notes to guide you
 through the new features and changes to existing features.

New Configuration Scheme:
    Telnet now requires no external configuration files
(i.e. config.tel and telpass/ftppass). All of the configuration options are
accessed via the "Preferences" heir menu under the Edit menu.  Following is a
brief description of each configuration dialog(s).

General Preferences Item:
    This item allows configuration of the preferences
that are global to the application. It is much like the old preferences item
in 2.5.  The major change being the button to select the creator type for
captured text files.

FTP Preferences Item:
    The major additions to the FTP server configuration are
as follows.  The FTP server now has three modes: Off, Anonymous (On, but no
passwords required), and Passwords (user login w/password required).  You can
set Telnet to open the FTP log window automatically on startup.  You can also
set the default creator type and filetype of files transfered in binary mode
to the Mac when Macbinary is off.  Selection of the creator type of text
files transfered when Macbinary is off is allowed as well.  If ISO
translation is on, the names of the files transfered via FTP will be
converted to or from the ISO text standard.

FTP Users Preferences Item:
    This dialog is the replacement of our dear
friend, Telpass.  From here you can set users logins, passwords and two other
options.  You can set the default directory that a user is put in when he/she
logs in to the FTP server.  In the final version of 2.6, you will also be
able to restrict users to one directory, but that is not yet implemented in
this beta version.

*       A quick explanation of the theory behind the new configuration scheme
for
*       hosts:  Each connection to a host is a "session".  Each "session" has
*       a preconfigured "terminal".  For instance, you most likely will have
*       two to four terminal configurations you use often.  One may by set up
*       for vi, with backspace being delete.  One may be set up for vi with
*       backspace being backspace.  And the other two may be set up for EMACS
*       with backspace being in either configuration.  Thus, if for hosts you
*       often connect to that have backspace=delete.  You would set up a
session
*       for each, selecting the appropriate terminal configuration and making
up
*       a short alias for that host.  For the hosts that prefer backspace=
*       backspace, you would set those session configurations to use a
different
*       preconfigured terminal.

*       The most important terminal and session configurations are
"<Default>".
*       When you create a new terminal or session record, the parameters in
*       those records are initialized to whatever you have set up the
"<Default>"
*       records to be.  The "<Default>" records may not be deleted.

Sessions Preferences Item:
    Allows you to edit "sessions".  New options here include: inhibiting
    TEK
screens, setting up the "localkeys", setting the default paste method,
enabling the display of low level errors, a popup menu to select the terminal
record associated with this session, and a popup menu to select the default
translation method.  Paste now has two modes, "quick" and "block".  If quick
is selected, all of the text to be pasted is sent at once.  This is fine
for hosts "close" to you, but can possibly cause crashes if done to slow
responding hosts.  If block is selected, the text to be pasted is sent in
small packets of a size determined by you.

Terminals Preferences Item:
    Most of these options are self explanatory.  The "CNTRL-COMMAND is
    EMACS
option key" is truncated.  To be fixed before release.

----

Other changes to Telnet that aren't obvious:

The keyboard now works differently.  If you are on a MacPlus, and have
commandkeys off, the command key acts as control.  If you have command keys
on, you have no control key.

For machines with keyboards with control keys, here is how it works:
Command + Control + key = EMACS meta key + key (if turned on in Terminal
    config)
commandkeys only affects wheter or not command key shortcuts are recognized.

The option key is no longer used for keyboard input, but is still used as
before with mouse input.  Telnet no longer changes with or uses a KCHR
resource.

TEK windows can be resized.  There is no grow icon in the lower right corner,
but trust us, it works.

If you hold down option, you can change the width and height of session
windows.

Regards,

Liu

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/ncsa-telnet-26.hqx; 167K]

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Date: Sat, 21 Aug 93 10:37:51 -0400
From: "Keith E Gatling" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Peanuts-Icons-12

Okay, maybe the third time will be the charm.  This time I actually included
my snailmail address in ReadMe file so you can send me those postcards.

keg

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

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/grf/peanuts-icons-12.hqx; 42K]

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Date: 20 Aug 1993 16:57:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Poly-RC

    Here is another low cost shareware game.
    Poly-RC is a game with falling rows and columns. The objective is to stay
    in game by removing blocks. Although it looks similar to Polytris, it is a
    different game.
    Rows or columns with 1 to 4 squares drop from top and stop when they hit
    the dropped blocks or bottom. The squares can be removed by arranging them
    sequences of 3 or more of the same color horizontally, vertically or
    diagonally.
    Poly-RC is more challenging because it has 1-4 block rows and columns,
    bombs, weights and radiation. Depending on your skill, you can adjust the
    difficulty of the game.

[Archived as /info-mac/game/arc/poly-rc.hqx; 218K]

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Date: Sun, 22 Aug 93 16:19:16 EDT
From: Roby Sherman <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] PowerLaunch 2.3.1

PowerLaunch 2.3.1s is now available on info-mac.

2.3.1s fixes all known bugs to exist in the previous 2.x versions as
well as sporting several new features...

Check it out, and enjoy!!

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/power-launch-231.hqx; 278K]

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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 13:12:40 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Robert Cohen)
Subject: [*] Re: Tex-Edit 1.8.5

2nd try!
Rob
           Tex-Edit
          by Tom Bender

Tex-Edit is a multi-window, styled text editor that includes a built-in
text reader.  I keep a copy in my Apple menu and an alias on the desktop
(for drag-and-drop operations).  Tex-Edit is fast, easy-to-use and requires
very little memory.  It is particularly adept at formatting text which is
transmitted to and from a BBS.  Tex-Edit 1.8.5 and its source code are
freely released to the public domain.  (7/10/93)

[Archived as /info-mac/text/tex-edit-185.hqx; 69K]

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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 11:33:08 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Albert Everett, UALR Academic Computing" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] ResGenie 1.0 submission

This is version 1.0 of ResGenie. ResGenie is a modeless resource utility for
adding, copying, deleting, renaming, importing, and recording resources into
HyperCard. You can move resources between *any* two files or the current stack
and any other file. I
t supports standard compression for sound recording.

This stack is for anyone who wants to use color, sounds, QuickTime movies, and
other resources that typically require ResEdit. Faster, simpler, better for
quick HyperCard color authoring.

Way cool stack, $10 shareware.

By the way, I didn't write this stack. I just got it and had to upload it.

[Archived as /info-mac/card/res-genie-10.hqx; 491K]

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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 14:46:05 +0200
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] speedometer-various-21.hqx

This an speedometer 3.2.3 machine-file with lots of records in it.

Including :
68000 (8MHz)           Plus, SE, Classic
      (16MHz)          Portable, PB100
68020 (16MHz)          SE, LC
      (16MHz+FPU)      SE, II, LC
68030 (16MHz)          Classic-II, LC-II, PB140,IIvi
      (16MHz+FPU)      LC + accel,IIcx, SE/30, LC-II,Color Classic,IIx
      (20MHz)          IIsi
      (20MHz+FPU)      IIsi
      (25MHz)          PB145, PB160, Duo210
      (25MHz+FPU)      PB170, IIci, Plus + accel,LC III
      (33MHz)          Duo230
      (33MHz+FPU)      LC + accel, IIvx,PB165c,PB180
      (40MHz+FPU)      IIfx
      (50MHz+FPU)      IIci + accel
68040 (20MHz)          Centris610
      (25MHz)          Centris650
      (25MHz+FPU)      Centris650, Quadra-700, Quadra-900
      (33MHz)          Quadra-700 + accel, Quadra-800, Quadra-950

Thanks to the people who send me their records.

People who have got records different from the one's
in the machine file are welcome to send them to me !!!

PS I'm not the author of speedometer, i'm just collecting the records.

This should replace cfg/speedometer-various-20.hqx

[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/speedometer-various-21.hqx; 47K]

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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 93 19:28:20 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Tech Tool 1.0.1 Bug Fix

This is version 1.0.1 of Tech Tool. Downloaded from AOL. The original
posting follows and describes the program. The built-in documentation
says this a a fix to a bug relateing to Apple Events and the Finder.
Works fine on all my machines now, and a few others.

David Ryeburn reports that it failed on the last three partitions of
his 5-partition 240M HD, but worked OK on the first two. On the last
three, the old desktops had not been deleted, just badly rebuilt.

Al Bloom, Virignia Tech

Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1993 09:14:59 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Brian Bechtel)
Subject: TechTool-Reset Desktop Database & Zap PRAM Utility

Downloaded from AppleLink:

Contact:
MicroMat Computer Systems
7075 Redwood Blvd
Novato, CA  94945
415-898-6227
MicroMatComp

TechTool is a small utility which automates two tasks Macintosh users often
need to perform:

* Rebuilding the desktop
* Zapping the PRAM.

While TechTool makes these tasks easier by allowing the user to perform them
without memorizing cryptic keystrokes, it also accomplishes these tasks better
than with traditional methods.

Desktop Rebuild:
Rebuilding the desktop is often necessary when documents fail to launch after
double-clicking, or when custom icons are unexpectedly replaced with generic
document or application icons. Traditionally, holding the option and command
keys before the Finder loads will force the invisible desktop file to
"rebuild"
itself. Quite often, this is not completely effective because the original
desktop file was corrupted, so rebuilding it only yields an updated desktop
file which is still damaged.

TechTool provides a better solution to rebuilding the desktop. It actually
deletes the original desktop. The next time the Finder loads, it will create a
brand new desktop file.

Zap the Parameter Ram:
The parameter RAM (PRAM) contains user-definable settings that must be
retained
after the computer has been deactivated. Settings such as time of day, mouse
scaling, keyboard repeat rate, and startup drive preferences are all stored in
the upper 64 bytes of PRAM. Traditionally, one could clear or "zap" these
upper
64 bytes of PRAM by holding a special key combination at startup or before
selecting the control panel.  This often cured behavioral anomalies which
could
not be remedied with software replacement.

Below the standard 64 bytes of PRAM lies another 192 bytes of memory which
are,
for the most part, publicly undocumented. These are secret storage areas that
Apple uses for such things as Manufacture Date and Factory Service settings.
When these portions of the PRAM become corrupted with invalid data, odd
problems can occur and sometimes the machine will fail to work at all.
Traditional PRAM zapping does not clear the lower 192 bytes of PRAM. The only
alternative is to remove the PRAM battery, which is often soldered to the
logic
board. TechTool clears all 256 bytes of PRAM memory without the need to remove
the battery. Once the system is rebooted, the Macintosh ROMs will replace the
PRAM contents with its default or factory settings.

This is a free utility which contains info/demo screens of MicroMat Products.

--Brian Bechtel    [e-mail]    "My opinion, not Apple's"

[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/tech-tool-101.hqx; 98K]

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Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1993 01:36:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: de slime god <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Template Collection 0.1

Please find enclosed (well, attached to end of this note)
a Compacted, Binhexed file I call Template Collection 0.1

It is supposed to be a collection of PICT2 graphics that can be
used as templates for graphics tasks. My initial offerings are :
1. cards - make business cards
2. cassette - for audio cassette covers

Contributions and suggestions for other templates are of
course welcome. FreeWare...well, ExampleWare really. I request
a sample of the things you made with these templates.
Well, I hope they are useful, and I hope I release a new, bigger
collection soon if there proves to be an interest.

Richard Sucgang
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/info/nms/graphics-templates.hqx; 6K]

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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 93 14:49:31 CEST
From: Marco Perici <[e-mail]>
Subject: (a)mac iix and 32-bit enabler

Hi Mike

You writes:

>Well, the beast no longer boots cleanly. It will boot briefly (for a
couple
>of seconds), then blank the screen and boot all over again. The problem
is
>that the second boot always includes a lengthy cleanup like that you get
>after a crash. I've isolated the cause to the 32-bit enabler.

I have note the same situation in my Mac IIx, but think that is normal. If
you do not want this, use MODE32 of Connetix, that i have used for more
time.

Bye

[e-mail]


\________ by Marco with dePressionist 1.0c4 (development version)

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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1993 09:20:11 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: 12" Color Monitor "Discrimination" (R)

>From: "NRN TIA :-)" <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Moniter being discriminated against (C)
>
>Dear Netters,
>It seems that people keep on creating software posted in info-mac
>that works with only 640 x 400 and above resolution or 13" Moniter (sp?)
>or larger size.  Essentially this leaves out a large group of people who
>purchased the 12" RGB (Apple) Moniter for its lowest price in color moniters
>for a moniter that supports 24bit Color.  Has anyone out there made an INIT,
>Application (that works with System 7.0.0) to reduce the number of pixels
into
>the 512 x 384 resolution of the 12" RGB from the 640 x 400 resolution, and
>essentially reduce the picture size to fool 640 x 400 programs into thinking
>they are running on a moniter of that size.  Either that, or is there a way
of
>removing the dialog box saying that the program only works on 640 x 400
>moniters so someone can ResEdit new pictures in and run these programs on a
>12" RGB.  Call it frustration, but support for this moniter could be better.
>I have already found that those programs without a warning dialog box about
>the resolution can have the window resources changed to fit the moniter, but
>no amount of simple ResEditting seems to cut a path through these warning
>dialog boxes.  Or am I wrong, and is there a ResEdit hack through those
dialog
>boxes?  Please e-mail directly to me at the internet address above.
>Thank you.
>Sincerely,
>[e-mail]
>P.S. If software does exist to fix this problem, please send the Gopher/FTP
>address where I can download it.  Thanks again.

Problem is, it just isn't fixable.  There's no way to simulate resolution. The
12" grey monitor is a better one for most games, since it is at least  480x640
resolution.  The problem is not with the software authors not supporting the
monitor, but with the fact that this one of the only if not the only color
monitor with such small pixel dimensions.  OK, so you could say it isn't
well supported, but for good reason, IMHO.  Sorry, but you really need a new
monitor if you want to play most color games.

Sorry too, for the late reply.

--Brian Pickerill  <[e-mail]>

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Date: 23 Aug 1993 07:35:26 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Dwight Lemke @ Wisconsin Oshkosh" <[e-mail]>
Subject: 8-bit to 7-bit conversions

Those of you who are cross-platform gurus--which format would you
recommend for transmitting documents across the internet which will
be used on both Macs and Pcs?  BinHex or UUCode?

Thanks!

-Dwight

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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1993 06:20:54 GMT
From: Sven Guckes <[e-mail]>
Subject: [A] NCSA Telnet 2.5 and control characters?

Someone writes:

>In your Telnet Configuration file (telnet.cfg), ...

Hm, we don't seem to have such a file.
What do I do now?

Sven :)

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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 93 09:39:05 MET DST
From: Christian F. Buser <[e-mail]>
Subject: A4 Paper size

[e-mail] (Norman Friedman) asked:
>Stupid question, I know--but--what size paper is A4? What is different
>from US Letter?

A4 is 210 mm wide and 297 mm high.

A0 is exactly 1 square meter. By cutting A0 into 2 halves, you get A1,
etc. The relations between the short and the long side remain always the
same: 1 : 1,414... (square root of 2).

A4 is the standard letter size in almost all civilized countries, except
north america.

Greetings, Christian.          [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1993 09:17:34 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: AppleShare File Server & PLI Cart drive (R)

>Subject: AppleShare File Server and PLI cartridges
>
>Does anyone out there have experience using PLI Infinity 88 removable
>cartridges with AppleShare File Server 2.0.1?  We recently purchased
>one from PLI.   Before we purchased it, I called PLI and asked them if
>it would work on an AppleShare network, such that we could hook it up
>to the file server and everyone could access it from their computers.
>They told me no problem, just hook it up to the server and everyone will
>see in in the Chooser.
>
>Alas, it was not so :-(.  We got the drive, hooked it up to the file
>server, and it worked fine.  Then, we got a second cartridge, formatted it
>(using PLI's formatter), named it "Backup Cartridge 1", and when we
>restarted, we get the message "Backup Cartridge 1 is not a valid server
>volume".                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 ^^^^^^
Right.  This is a completely normal message, that you will get with any
new volume.  You simply need to run the Admin application to set it
up as a 'valid server volume.'

As an aside, it's too bad you don't have AFS 3.0.1, since it is MUCH better
at handling removable volumes.  There is no mount/unmount facility with
2.0.1--you have to terminate file service entirely to change volumes. The
upgrade was a deal compared to the outright price of 3.0, but is long since
unavailable.  Maybe you could get a deal on AFS Pro now, I don't know.

>   If we boot the file server from a floppy disk, the cartridge
>mounts just fine.  But the AppleShare file server software won't recognize
>it.  We tried a third cartridge, in case the second one was bad, with
>the same results.  The cartridge that came with the drive works fine,
>but AppleShare won't recognize any other cartridge.

Let me guess.  You set up the server following the instructions, etc... or
ran the admin app (naturally) to set up users and groups, etc... before
trying to mount the first cart via AppleShare?

>Anyway, to make a long story short, we tried all the usual troubleshooting
>techniques, and we called PLI, who after two weeks of not returning my
>calls, finally told me that they were able to re-create my results, with
>both AppleShare 2.0.1 and with 3.0.1, and so they concluded that AppleShare
>doesn't work with PLI cartridges, and its Apple's problem, and they can't
>even figure out why our first cartridge DOES work.  Needless to say, PLI
>is at the top of my shit list.

Well, I think it'll be OK after all. The part about it being "Apple's fault"
is more than a little strange.  Seems they were grasping at straws.  Sometimes
tech support folks will tell you anything to get you off the line.

Sorry this is a late reply,

Brian Pickerill <[e-mail]>

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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1993 16:59:51 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Jonas Wallden)
Subject: Beta testers wanted for PowerScan 2.0

Hello! I'm the author of the shareware program PowerScan and right now
I'm finishing version 2.0 which I hope to release later this fall.

I would like to get some help from experienced Mac users (preferrably
programmers) who want to beta test v2.0. To avoid serious problems you
should have MacsBug installed; MacsBug logging is also helpful when I
need to track down obscure bugs.

System 7 or later is required just as in previous version.

Some highlights of new features in 2.0:

* Supports Apple's Threads Manager! Yes, PowerScan will now run several
  scan and find duplicates operations simultaneously, even when in
  background.

  Note: You will have to download the Thread Manager extension by yourself
    as I don't have the right to distribute it with PowerScan. This
    may change in the future if I get enough shareware money to pay
    Apple's licensing fees.

* Greatly improved filtering. V1.0 could only filter type and creator
  information; this version also handles filename, size, creation and
  modification dates in any combination. Group filter components for
  logical-AND in addition to the default OR.

* Support for external plug-in modules. Filters can be installed just by
  placing them in a folder. Also supports external pre-processors which
  e.g. can scan Compact Pro archives. I have written an external Finder
  Label filter and a Compact Pro archive scanner. I would also like to
  support the StuffIt format but I can't find any information on it. If
  anyone has the file structure for StuffIt files, please mail me! (I only
  need to read the directory contents -- not to extract the files.)

* All new user interface. Select font and size for display and printing,
  resizable columns, new floating palette where most options can be accessed.

* Saving and printing. PowerScan can now save and open directory listings.
  Print options include margins, print font and page header. On-screen
  preview available.

* Many small improvements. Send select/open Apple Events to the Finder,
  movable dialog boxes, better Search function, apply filter after
  scanning...

If this sounds interesting, mail me and I'll send you the program. Please
include some information on your system (Mac model, memory, display, system
version,...). Don't worry if I don't reply within a couple of days or so --
I'm very busy right now. I will try to answer all mails as soon as I get
time.

Version 1.0 was postcardware/$10 for commercial use. Because I received a
total of $0 and because of the enormous work I've put into this upgrade I
have changed the shareware policy to $10 for all users. (This doesn't affect
those who registered v1.0.)
--
-- Jonas Wallden -- Internet: [e-mail] -- AppleLink: sw1369 --

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

Date: 23 Aug 1993 08:02:52 +0100 (MET)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Bolo, what is it (Q)

I see frequent postings for Bolo Maps. The abstracts in the Game directory
of sumex do not include a description of the game itself.
Can someone drop a line and enlighten me ?

Thanks in advance.

Hans

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

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1993 12:39:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Glen A. Warren" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Canvas to AutoCAD converter? (Q)

I was wondering if a file converter from Canvas 3.0 to AutoCAD exists?
Responses can be sent to [e-mail].   Thanks,   GAW

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

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 93 06:56:42 EDT
From: Steve Greenfield <[e-mail]>
Subject: Centris 650 Won't Turnoff

I wanted to thank all those people you responded to my question.  But it
isn't the power button in the back.  I checked that first thing and it is
set at the horizontal position.  I have tried it at both positions and it
will not stay shutdown!  Sometimes when I select shutdown from the Special
Menu, it won't do anything; just sits there as if I have selected nothing.

I guess the power plug is my solution.  Thanks again everyone!




[e-mail]

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

Date: 24 Aug 1993 17:14:56 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Arthur Keating)
Subject: Centris network adapter

I find it somewhat annoying that Apple would have the good sense to place
Ethernet hardware on the motherboard of their new Centris computers but
not provide the few passive components necessary for the transceiver.
Instead, you have to buy an adapter that costs nearly as much as an Ethernet
board!!  Has anyone worked out the hardware/connector stuff so that one with
a little skill with a soldering iron could make this network adapter.

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

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1993 11:13:48 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Jamie Lawrence)
Subject: cleaning local harddrives

I'm trying to locate some utility that will let me delete all the files
(bar Desktop files, etc.) from the hard drives of the Macs in our
forthcoming classroom.

For a commercial option, you could use Frontier to make 'droplets' (think
that's what they are called- anyone?)- little applications to do all those
things- and put them in the startup items folder in you image file.
jamie

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

Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1993 11:10:15 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Comments on READ-IT! O.C.R. (Q)

greetings,

I am looking for your comments on this OCR software from Olduvai Corp.

Pros, cons, performance, % correct character recognition would be most
welcome.

thanks in advance

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

Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1993 8:16:34 -0300 (ADT)
From: Mark Hazen <[e-mail]>
Subject: Default editor for TEXT files

  I have a problem, I am extremely tired of trying to open files from
  the archives and having Teachtext come up and say the file is too large.
  I have brought down BBEDIT and it seems like a nice editor for these
  files.  However, I would like to double click to open a file not click
  and drag to BBEDIT.  I have been told that Teachtext is the default
  editor for systems 7.+ when the creator is unkown.

  Two questions:
  1.    Why are all text files from info-mac of creator unknown, would it
  not be better to pick an editor that can read them and if people do not
  have that editor it would default to Teachtext as is now the case.
  2.    How do I change this default editor to something else like BBEDIT
  within my system?

  I will summarize answers I get for the net if it seems worthwhile.  Oh yeah
  I am cheap so would like to avoid buying a large set of utilities just to
  get one small feature. Of course that may be the thing to do <shrug>

Mark Hazen
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1993 12:16:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Dave Muth [phone]" <[e-mail]>
Subject: EtherNet card for LCIII (A)

> Pete Jemian, in Digest 166 asks:
> Is there an EtherNet card compatible with the LCIII?
> Who makes it?  How much?

Yes there are cards available. My company bought 4 from FOCUS
enhancements, 800-538-8865. (We've bought lots of products from them.)
The cards work fine. They cost about $180.

Dave Muth <[e-mail]>

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

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 93 11:02:51 EDT
From: Tony Silva <[e-mail]>
Subject: EtherNet card for LCIII. Who's got one? [A]

I have an LC III with an Apple Ethernet LC card ($157) in it and an
Asante Ethernet AUI (thicknet) adapter/cable ($65) hanging off of the
card. I've been using this setup with Mac X for about 4 months with no
problems.

Tony Silva, Atlantic Aerospace Elec. Corp., [phone], [e-mail]

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

Date: 24 Aug 93 10:40:00 CST
From: "Eugene Cohen" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Ethernet cards for Mac LC 520

I have been setting up a lab of about 20 LC 520's in a high school and we
want to hook them up onto ethernet.  For those who missed the review in
MacWorld, the LC 520 is essentially an LC III with a built-in 14" trinitron
monitor, built-in stereo speakers, built-in CD 300i.  Currently, Apple only
sells them to educational institutions, and they are a _real_ value, esp.
for schools wanting to use CD-ROM based curriculum.

But back to the problem: We ordered ethernet (thinnet) cards from Focus, with
whom we have been very happy in the past.  They assured us that, while their
tech department hadn't been given an LC 520 on which to test their LC series
cards that they *ought* to work.  Well, they didn't (in fact, I just finished
boxing them up to be returned).  They would connect to the network fine, but
would frequently cause corruption in the files transfered with them.  So....

Is there anybody out there using LC 520s on an ethernet network successfully?
Any other horror stories you want to share?  We've heard about Dayna cards
not working in LC IIIs, and other problems...Is this Apple's fault for not
keeping the LC III & LC 520 design fully compatible with the original LC?
Now, since school hasn't quite started yet, and since the LC 520s are only
sold
to educational institutions, I realize there may be several labs set up, but
not subjected to the rigors of daily use by a few hundred kids.  Please reply
directly to me, and if there seeem to be a large number of problems getting
the LC III type PDS slot (supposedly that's also what the LC 520 has...) to
accept an ethernet card, I'll summarize for the digest.

Thanks for any help you can provide--we'd really like to find a vendor who
can get us up and running in time for school.

Eugene Cohen
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1993 09:25:40 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Flight Simulator (R)

>Subject: FlightSimulator 4.0
>
>On Mon, 16 Aug 1993, Darrell A. Early wrote:
>
>> Would someone be so kind and send me the address/phone where they obtained
>the
>> FlightSimulator 4.0 for the Mac.
>>
>> How does this compare to the PC version?  Cost?
>
>        I purchased my Flight Simulator 4.0 from Office Depot, a fairly
>popular chain of stores located in the U.S. south.  The cost was $37.00.
>You might check MacWareHouse at 1-800 255 6227.  Their cost is $45.00.
>Prices at different places change with the season so check around.
>        As far as comparing to the PC version...I dunno.  I avoid the
>PeeCee like I avoid a viral infection.  I spent two years programming on
>PeeCees and vowed never again...  Give me an Atari ST to program on.  That
>machine is a blast, but that's another topic.
>        I am disturbed at one feature that is missing:  modem support.
>The Atari ST and the Commodore Amiga versions have modem support so that
>one can fly in formation or in dual cross country flying with a friend
>located elsewhere via the telephone.  Several years ago, a bunch of us
>with Atari STs and Commodore Amigas would hook up by phone and fly against
>each other.  I find it amazing that this, the modem feature, is not
>available on the Mac version.  I find it especially amazing since the
>Atari and Commodore verisons were 1986 products and in most ways are more
>advanced than the current Mac version.  OH well...raving does as much good
>as complaining about the weather does.

I don't know about Darrell, but Larry, you ought to know from reading this
list that MicroSquish always leaves features out of their Mac software.
Even when a product is originally written on the Mac (Word), it is always
given more attention on the PeeCee, and it seems, other platforms as well.
Hell, even the ANCIENT 8-bit Ataris supported modem games.  (Larry, I want
you to know that I mentioned this bit about Atari just for you...  ;-))

Yeah, this one's late, too.

Brian Pickerill <[e-mail]>

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

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1993 12:04:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Dave Muth [phone]" <[e-mail]>
Subject: FPUs Into Centris 610s (Q)

What's the best way to get an FPU into a Centris 610?  It's needed to run
SPSS, for example.

We got them into IIsi machines by adding an ethernet card with one.  We
got the cards from FOCUS, who said they don't reccommend the cards for
this purpose; but they work fine.

The Centris already HAS ethernet.

I've heard that one can buy a 68040 to replace the 69LC040.  Supposedly
getting a heak sink onto the replacement CPU is tricky.  I read somewhere
that you might as well get a new clock chip as well.  I figure the cost
for this to be around $400.

Does anyone have real experience with this?

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

Date: Tue, 24 Aug 93 13:52 GMT0BST-1
From: Pindar Infotek Ltd <[e-mail]>
Subject: Ian McCall about ftp.apple.com

Subject: _ftp.apple.com
Hello.

Has anyone had any trouble ftp'ing to ftp.apple.com recently? I'm
using the Demon service, and every time I try to ftp it just says
'SYM sent' and then hangs. Normally, it would pause for a momen t and
then say 'Established'.

Anyone had any better luck? I've used it in the past without any
problems.


Cheers,
       Ian



---
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your message gets to the correct Pindar user.

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

Date: Tue, 24 Aug 93 13:52 GMT0BST-1
From: Pindar Infotek Ltd <[e-mail]>
Subject: Ian McCall about Photoshop 2.5.1 upgrade

Subject: _Photoshop 2.5.1 upgrade
Can anyone tell me what the recently posted Photoshop upgrade
actually does? It's a huge file for an increment of 0.0.1, and if
possible I'd like to avoid the cost of downloading 1.7megs worth!

Cheers,
    Ian



---
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your message gets to the correct Pindar user.

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

Date: Tue, 24 Aug 93 15:36:41 EST
From: [e-mail] (Jacek Gibert)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #166

[e-mail] (The Moderators):
>
> Quite some time ago I posted a query asking what to do now that my SE/30
> is seeing a phantom external 800K floppy drive.  Many folks responded
> telling me that I had a logic board problem, and that replacement was the
> only real solution; however, Mark Nutter provided me with a System hack
> that effectively suppresses the symptoms most of the time.  My question
> now is, Would it help if I plugged a terminator into my external floppy
> port?  Does such a terminator even exist?
>
> As you can tell, I'm trying like heck to put off replacing the logic board
> ($350+) for as long as possible.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> --John.
> <[e-mail]>  ``My _real_ word processor is FullWrite.''
>

You simply need to replace 1 Bourns filter (I/O filter) on the logic board.
The part costs around $12 but the successful replacement requires some
familiarity with the soldering iron.
Refer to the book titled The Dead Mac Scrolls for more info.

Good luck!

Jacek Gibert

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

Date: 23 Aug 93 09:55 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Mark Zimmermann)
Subject: interprocess communication for idiots (Q)

I ask this every year, but haven't gotten an answer simple enough for
me to comprehend yet --- but maybe this time?! :-)

How can I set up text-only pipes to/from a process on the Mac so that
I can send it characters from another process and get characters back?

This is rather trivial under UNIX, and would be an extraordinarily nice
thing to be able to do on the Mac --- I could then run my generic free-text
information retrieval program as one process, and have the user interface
completely separate (perhaps using HyperCard?)....

Tnx for any advice or (esp.) simpleminded explicit examples!  Something
as simple as a prog to reply "Hello world" to any msgs it got might
suffice to get me started.

Best,  ^z  (Mark Zimmermann; alt. addr "[e-mail]")
 ------

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

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 93 05:32:58 PDT
From: [e-mail] (John Thoo)
Subject: Jiggle..My Screen Is Jiggling (R)


On 22 Aug 93 you wrote:
>         I've been gone for a week, having boxed up my mac before I left
> and then I just moved into my new place for the year.  The image on my
> 14" Color Display is now jiggling ever so slightly.  The picture is fine,
> just the whole damn picture is waving back and forth.  I can ignore it
> sometimes, but I want to know what might have caused it since it was working
> fine before I left.  Could something about the power lines in this building
> cause this to happen?
>         Any suggestions are appreciated.

Hello, Eric.  I'm not sure what you mean by `jiggling,' but a few weeks ago,
my Radius monitor's image started shrinking-expanding-shrinking-expanding-etc
ever so slightly.  While it wasn't a crippling problem, it was certainly very
annoying.  Anyhow, I rang Radius tech supp, and they said the problem was
likely a failing power supply.  Their proposed solution was to replace the
power supply, which could be done at any local repair shop; however, since
my monitor was still under warranty (with only a few weeks to spare!), they
shipped me a replacement.

I hope this helps.  Good luck!

--John.
<[e-mail]>  ``My _real_ word processor is FullWrite.''

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

Date: 23 Aug 1993 10:26:20 CST6CDT
From: "Jay Larsen"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: lc iii ethernet cards

With regard to the question about getting lc iii's on ethernet, it is really
quite simple...any card that works in an lc ii is supposed to work!  Any lc
ii card won't take advantage of the extra pins available to an lc iii card,
and it will work as a 16-bit card instead of a 32-bit one, but thats no big
deal for a net card.  I threw an extra asante ether-con-lc into our new lc
iii and it is a beaut!!  We can play quicktime off of our novell server 100%
smooth!!

Jay


================================
Jay R. Larsen
College of Human Ecology
316 McNeal
624-6239

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

Date: Tue, 24 Aug 93 13:38:22 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: MacTCP

Does anyone happen to know where to find MacTCP, and how hard is it to install
and configure? I'm using a Mac IIsi with system 7. Thanks.
   -Ben Levin
    George Washington Univ.

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

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1993 09:27:22 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Mac to PeeCee (R)

>Subject: big help: Mac to IBM
>
>This is hardly an advanced technical question so I'm sure someone
>can help us:
>
>We're trying to get it so that we can edit several documents between
>Macs and IBMs.  For example, we might write part one on a Mac, bring
>it to a new location with IBMs, add more, and still be able to return
>to the Mac with the revisions intact.
>
>We tried Apple File Exchange but I am told that when you get an IBM
>document back after its been editted by the Mac, the IBM will only
>read the document (it won't let you write more).

Not true in my experience.  Don't know of anything that would explain
that!

>(I hope this is clear!)

crystal.

>We are using a Mac IIsi with Microsoft WORD 5.1 on one end and a Compac
>running MS-DOS and WordPerfect 5.0 on the other.
>
>What's the simplest solution? (commercial s/w, shareware, ideas about
>Apple File Exchange... anything would help)

File Exchange should work fine.  A 'default' (binary) translation is
what you want.  You will likely avoid considerable grief though, if you simply
use the same software vendor on both the Mac and the wimpy makeup machine.
If not, I rather doubt that PeeCee WordPerfect (if it's so damned PERFECT, why
are they still upgrading it?) will read Mac Word files, so I'd probably
save the file in some PeeCee WP format on the Macintosh.

Sorry for the late date of this reply.

--Brian Pickerill  <[e-mail]>

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

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 93 11:41:43 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: New Postscript Error solver

I am in the process of creating a Filemaker Pro database of Postscript Errors
and remedies, and would appreciate any input.   The final product will be
shareware; all contributors will automatically be registered users.  I am
looking for any specific Software /hardware problems, and solutions if
possible.  This could include printer ROM problems, software/PPD conflicts,
known causes of Postscript errors and solutions, and even general tips. Some
problems, such as a bug in a certain application that causes errors, are hard
to track and can drive you nuts.  I am trying to create a tool to track these
anomolies.
   Some specific, known errors are generated between some software and
hardware, such as the interaction of certain versions of Quark with certain
version PDF with with on a specific brand or model printer. I am trying to
save people time hunting down problems by putting these specifications in a
single database.   Do you have any info like this you can share?  Are there
any sources or utilities you can think of?  Any PD definitions of Postscript
errors in general?  Any specific hardware problems you can share? I think
this is a valuable rescource, and would love your input.
  I am aware of the System of Merritt  and the PinPoint Reporter products,
both very good, but I am trying to be more hardware/software specific.  These
software products basically just intercept the code and explain the errors
better thatn the Mac does. My database  is not a replacement to these, it
will offer some extra insight, and can be used in conjunction. I already have
40 records in the database; it is coming along nicely.  I would appreciate
any contributions , or comments, that you can make.
ALAN GORDON
ALAN123 @ AOL.Com

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

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1993 14:54:56 -0400
From: Robert Scott Lillard <[e-mail]>
Subject: Novell fileservers

Dear info-mac:
(just kidding) ... Several months ago there was some "talk" on
the net about using Macs on a Novell fileserver.  The name I
pulled off the post was Tony D'Emanuele.  Anyway there is some
SNAFU with his address (or at least the one I pulled
A.D'[e-mail]) and I have not been able to reach him ...
so Tony if you are out there how about dropping me a note.
here's the skinny ........ I have an LC and want to gain access
to our groups Novell fileserver (which is running a couple dozen
clones on Novell Advanced Netware 286 V2.15.  WE will be updating
to V3.11 shortly).  Anyway is it possible to
1) use laserprinters on the filserver
2) access dos data files (I am presently using AccessPC)
... without changing the NetWare! I, of course, will need an
ethernet card/box.
Any informed or 2-"bit" opinion welcome.

'keep circulating the tapes'
scott

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

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 93 09:40:25 MET DST
From: Christian F. Buser <[e-mail]>
Subject: Odesta (R)

Joe Heck <[e-mail]> asked:
> I'm trying to find out what company bought out Odesta software - the
> writers of "Double Helix" for the macintosh. A department on the
> University bought the program quite a while ago and now needs support
> from it.

I don't have th FULL address with me, but the company is now called
HELIX TECHNOLOGIES and is still at the same address in Northbrook, IL.
(I'm not sure, but I believe it was 200 Commercial Avenue).

The new version of Helix is called HELIX EXPRESS. Double Helix 3.5 is
still supported by them, but earlier versions of Helix and Double Helix
are not.

If you can't find their address, try contacting their European
representative office in England. They can be reached electronically
as    [e-mail]

Greetings, Christian.    [e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1993 09:28:42 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: PowerBook 165 (R)

>Subject: a new pb in Sept (q
>
>A week or so ago, MacWeek ran an article about a new powerbook that, in
>the tradtion of the 145, is supposed to be a faster, cheaper 160.  It
>even went so far (the article, that is) to say that it would be a 165
>(not to be confused with the 165c I presume).
>
>I was going to make a move on a 160 but now I'm tempted to wait.  I've
>also noticed (coincidence?) that the prices on the 160s have gone down
>significantly (beyond the Apple cuts).
>
>Any thoughts?  Dirt?  Rumor? Speculation?

MacWeek 8/16 says that it's was due out THAT WEEK.  That qualifies as Rumor
and Speculation, but it's correct about 95% of the time.  ;-)

Can someone confirm that this one is out yet?

Sorry for the late reply.

Brian Pickerill <[e-mail]>

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

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1993 09:33:32 -0600
From: [e-mail] (John Antolak)
Subject: Public Utilities Demo (C)

I tried the PU demo out of curiousity, and it gave me some errors, like bad
bundle bits (even though icons were showing up properly), bad modification
dates (modified date was slightly before created dates by a few minutes),
and a damaged resource fork in my Scrapbook. All of these errors were
missed by a Norton Utitilies scan.

I fixed the bad bundle bits using ResEdit, and the bad dates. PU suggested
replacing the Scrapbook with the damaged resource fork. When I opened the
file in ResEdit, ResEdit reported that there was minor damage in the
resource fork, which it had fixed. After that, PU reported no errors on the
disk. I used the Scrapbook without error (it had crashed the Mac before
that).

The moral of the story is that the disk diagnosis utilities can't do
everything, and something as simple as opening the file in ResEdit can
rescue damaged resource forks.

I am now considering PU to supplement the NU on my disk. Can anyone tell me
how (un)obtrusive it is? I would probably want it to run in the background.
The ads imply that a dialog box comes up every time an error is found,
which could be annoying. Can it be set to automatically fix some minor
types of errors (like bad dates), and just log a record of the repair to a
file?

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

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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1993 16:25:23 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Charette Frederick)
Subject: Rescue 1.5.1

I have taken the time to write the author about the problem with SE
machines. I am no programmer, but my guess is that it may have to do with
the lack of ColorQD on the SE logic board, accelerated or not. I don't
know if the PB100 has ColorQD routines, but if not, it seems logical.

>On 18 Aug 93 K. B. Lawton wrote:

> Contrary to the documentation, the new upload of the Star Trek game,
> Rescue 1.5 does not seem to work on BW macs.  I got the
> same unimplemented trap error on my PB100 and accelerated SE.
> The older version (1.0) worked fine on both machines.  I would
> notify the author, but he doesn't include an electronic address.

Frederick Charette
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1993 08:22:55 +0000
From: [e-mail] (Robin Dover)
Subject: Sound manager conflict ?

I note there have been one or two reported conflicts with the sound
manager. Recently The Playroom (colour version) has crashed much to my
childrens annoyance. The only recent change was the addition of the sound
manager- can anyone confirm or refute that it is responsible?
(I'm still running system 7.01 tuned).


Robin Dover, QMW/ICRF London, UK.

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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1993 11:57:00 +0000
From: "Steve (S.L.) Dunik" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Spanish Translaters

Looking for any information on Spanish/English Mac translation
programs (preferrably shareware/freeware).

Please forward any recommendations or ideas to me.


Steve Dunik
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 93 15:54 BST
From: RICHARD LIM <[e-mail]>
Subject: Speech Manager

Gosh, it's been a while since I saw so many postings in one Digest
(#166) on one subject!  Anyway, my version of "Let's All Play with the
New Speech Manager" goes like this:

1.  You'll need the Speech Manager and Macintalk Voices files, which
you drag-install in your System Folder.

2.  IF you want the high-quality voices also, you'll probably need 3 Mb or
so of RAM available for the system heap to expand into.  Again, drag-
install the Plain Talk Text-to-Speech extension and the TTS voices into
your System Folder.

3.  Now grab some applications - my personal favourite by far is Povl
Pedersen's Speecher 1.1.1.  If the apps you try don't work when you have
the high-quality voices installed, it's probably because they're running
out of memory.  In that case, try upping the memory partition by a factor
of 5 or more.  They should work fine with the default memory settings if
you only have the basic Macintalk Voices.

4.  You'll find the Speech Manager and Macintalk Pro (which contains the
text-to-speech part of PlainTalk) at ftp.apple.com (look in dts/help for
a listing of recent files and where they're archived).  There have been
lots of problems with ftp.apple.com in the last couple of weeks (which
may well be related to the appearance of a pretty big Macintalk Pro
archive there) so keep trying rather than flaming the net (as others have
been doing).

I believe the Speech Manager requires a 68020 Mac or better but I'd be
happy to be proved wrong.  I don't know if you'll also need the new Sound
Manager 3.0 or the Component Manager of System 7.1 and QuickTime 1.5
however.

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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1993 13:37:05 +0000
From: [e-mail] (Rob Griffiths)
Subject: Speed of PB 170 compared with PB 180c

Has anyone else found the following problems with a Powerbook 180c:

* Mouse tracking dreadfully slow (even in b+w).
* Repeated-key input dreadfully slow (even in b+w).
* Scrolling very jumpy (lines 'ripple').
* Processing in black and white slightly slower than the
  170; processing in colour HUGELY slower, based on the following 2 tests:

  -- OzTeX processed a 30,000 word document (using about 50 files)
       PB 170          : 210 sec
       PB 180c (in b+w): 216 sec

  -- Stuffit processed 76 files (5.9Mbytes)
       PB 170:         59 minutes
       PB 180c (B+W):  62 minutes
       PB 180c (col): 112 minutes

The system software appeared to be the same on both the 170 and 180c.

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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 93 08:34:50 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Mike O'Dell)
Subject: startup/reset weirdness with LC-III

I have an odd problem with restarting my LC-III.  Generally, if
I choose "Restart" on the finder menu, several of my inits
"X" themselves out and don't load when it restarts.  If, on
the other hand, I power-cycle the machine, they load just
fine.  clearly someone is looking at something he shouldn't,
but this all seems very strange.  anyone else seeing
anything like this?

    -Mike

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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1993 08:51:03 +0200 (MET DST)
From: [e-mail] (Michael Bach)
Subject: TCP/IP <-> AppleTalk translators? (Q)

Dear colleagues:
I am confronted with a network problem with which I have no experience so
far. We want to use campus-wide services that are accessed via TCP/IP
protocols. The 30odd Macs in my department are connected with PhoneNet,
running AppleTalk protocols of course. My understanding is that we need a
gateway for protocol translation, such as Shiva Fastpath. However, this
appears an overkill to me: The device is expensive (at least in Germany),
expected traffic is low, a Mac dedicated to routing would be available.
Apple's internet router unfortunately does only AppleTalk tunneling through
TCP/IP, no translation. Question: Are there any software-based multiprotocol
routers available? Your advice is appreciated.
Thanks in advance, Michael.

--
Dr. Michael Bach, Dept. of Ophthalmology,
University of Freiburg, D-7800 Freiburg, Germany
(049)[phone] <[e-mail]>

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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1993 11:28:22 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Marc Bizer)
Subject: text editors for files > 32k

Hi everyone,
    Matasugu Nagata ([e-mail]) kindly sent me a
descriptive list of text editors which I thought I should share with you
all.
    Yours truly,
    Marc


About the text editors, I know a few more than you listed (Alpha, BBEdit,
SaintEdit), that can handle big files.

(Warning.  If a file has more than 32,000 lines of text (which is easily
 attained with files of two-megabytes in size), then nothing is guaranteed.
 I'm almost positive that QUED/M has no problem with files larger than 2MB.
 Alpha and BBEdit claim to handle that huge files (I haven't tested).
 I'd guess all others fail for multi-megabyte files.)

(1)  QUED/M 2.5.   commercial  (about $50), from Nisus Software.
This is "little brother" to Nisus, the word-processor.  Reliable, rubust,
powerful.   Search/Replace and Compare/diff features are wonderful, and
no other text editors can compete with QUED/M with these two features.

(2)  McSink/Vantage.   Vantage is commercial from Baseline Publishing
company, but not well-supported these days.  Rumor says that the author
has quit Mac programming.   McSink is the shareware version, and should
be found somewhere in Sumex (used to be in info-mac/da/, but the DA
directory has vanished, so...)   It's kind of old, but still a good and
powerful Desk Accessory text editor.

[QUED/M and Vantage have "live wrapping" a la TeachText, that is, they
 wrap the lines in the window WITHOUT inserting carriage returns.]

(3)  Edit II 2.1.4.  shareware.  small (the application is only 72K in size).
Doesn't "live wrap", but inserts carriage return to wrap the whole file
in one menu selection, and also does "auto-wrap" (auto-inserts CR as you
type)   (which feature is equivalent to Alpha, and the INIT-patched-BBEdit).

I'd say Edit II deserves to be called "TeachText replacement" that can
open any number of any sized files (limited only by RAM), has GREP
find/replace (does multi-file, too), has font/size settings.

Edit II used to be in info-mac/app/, but may have moved to text/, I don't
know.

(4)  ASLEdit+ 1.0a35.  freeware.  Meant as a Japanese language programming
editor.  But useful for other countries, too, of course.
Doesn't wrap text at all (because of the nature of Japanese script),
but the aforementioned "text editor patches" of Jim Walker, you can set
any font as its default font, and also you can force it to auto-wrap text.

ASLEdit+ used to be in info-mac/app/, but may have moved to text/, I don't
know.


(5)  An anonymous program that I'm currently beta-testing.
It's not released yet, but it's written by someone who is well-known on
the net, and it is going to have some amazing features.
   (I'd assure you, really, really amazing!)
Best of all, it will be freeware.

The scheduled released date is said to be early-September, so ...
don't miss it!

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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1993 09:32:20 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Timbuktu (R--Demo available)

>Subject: Is Timbuktu good?
>
>Hello:
>     Has anyone used Timbuktu for Macintosh and Windows? Is it good?

Yes.

>     Timbuktus is a product from Farallon to connect a network between
>Mac and PC. It is said that Timbuktus can share printers and exchange files
>easily.OOC.
>     It is something like a net but the users can view both sides' screen.
>     Is it true? Is it good enough? Is it fast enough?
>     Any suggestion will be appreciated.

They have a free demo for the Mac.  I don't know that it's "FTP'able", but
I got a demo from them very quickly by calling them at [phone].

Brian Pickerill <[e-mail]>

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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1993 18:20:00 EDT
From: "Paul D. Bain" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Translation Software (R)

I was just at a trade show and saw software for language conversion.
There was a separate program for French, Spanish, and German. The publisher
was TimeWorks. They also make Publish It Easy if that helps you locate them.

--Rick (at PDBAIN)

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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1993 16:04:57 +1000
From: Jacek Gibert <[e-mail]>

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest,aus.mac,comp.sys.mac.hardware,aus.mac
Path: jacek
From: [e-mail] (Jacek Gibert)
Subject: Powerbook keyboard problem *HELP*
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1993 06:04:50 GMT
Lines: 20

G'Day

Another faulty powerbook membrane keyboard?

The symptoms are:
    pressing 0 key results in 0. being entered
    pressing - key results in -9 being entered
    pressing . key results in .b being entered
    etc...
Selecting Mouse keys in Easy Access cdev fixes some of the problem keys,
but not all.
However, an external ADB keyboard does not show any problems at
all.

Do I just need to replace the faulty membrane keyboard, or is there more to
it?

Thanks in advance,

Jacek Gibert

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