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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 93 20:36:58 PDT
From: The Moderators <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #170


Info-Mac Digest             Thu, 26 Aug 93       Volume 11 : Issue 170

Today's Topics:

      [*] Alias Director 3.5.1
      [*] Area-Codes-1.2.hqx
      [*] Carpetbag 1.4 package
      [*] Emacs_310.sit.hqx 1/3
      [*] Flight logbook for pilots (>3 monthes)
      [*] GammaZee file submission
      [*] Machine Icons 1.1
      [*] MSG Demo 1.0 (graphics demo)
      [*] Submission
      [*] Talking Clock - Source Code! 1.0b1
      [*] Talking Clock 1.0b1 Application
      [*] TechTool 1.0.2
      .mpg files help
      128MB MO Info Wanted
      ?Info on voice mail capability of Supra FaxModem?
      [[e-mail]: Re: Sound Manager Docs]
      Accelerator purchase frustrations (rant) (T)
      Aldus PPD needed for Laserjet 4ML
      Aliases in Sumex ftp server a good idea?
      APS SCSI-doc and SyQuest drives (Q)
      BinHex (Q)
      Can anyone there help?
      Commands After D/L
      Creating Tek 4010 or SIXEL graphics?
      ftp.apple.com
      HD Application List
      Home brewer's Excel macros?
      Imagewriter II and Built in Fonts
      LC to LCIII upgrade (Q)
      Looking for font called Paris
      LW IIG errors ?
      Mac X & MouseMan Config [A]
      Master Juggler/Sound Manager 3.0
      MaxFax INIT and Prefs problem
      MS word 5.1 and MS Excel 4.0 - S..L..O..W !
      Non-Powerbook File Synching?
      Original Mac II video card pin-out
      PageMaker Error Codes
      PopChar vs. MacWrite
      Pre-Owned Electronics
      Public Utilities demo (WARNING)
      Quantum 105S keep losing it's directory
      Quantum 210 GO drive?
      Rebuilding the desktop
      Screen Jitters (R)
      Slow Mac IIx
      SoftPC "Demo"  (C)
      Soft PC Demo (2 msgs)
      Sound Manager 3 and Speach Manager on an SE?
      Strange ARA problem
      The Sharp Wizard? (Q)
      Trouble installing SilverLining (A)
      WorldScript word processors

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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1993 05:59:42 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Marc Bizer)
Subject: [*] Alias Director 3.5.1

Dear Moderators,
    I'm enclosing a slightly later version of Alias Director than the
one you have in your archives. Hopefully CompuServe users will provide us
with even more up-to-date versions...
    Yours truly,
    Marc Bizer

[Archived as /info-mac/disk/alias-director-351.hqx; 75K]

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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 93 00:22:52 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Area-Codes-1.2.hqx

Area Codes 1.2

  This handy little application will look up the state an area
code is in.  It now tells you more information, such as the
region and/or cities the area code covers, and what time it
would be there.  Freeware.
   Also includes some bug fixes from previous versions.

[Archived as /info-mac/app/area-codes-12.hqx; 20K]

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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 93 22:13:58 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Jim Walker)
Subject: [*] Carpetbag 1.4 package

Carpetbag is a shareware ($5) control panel extension that makes resources
such as fonts, sounds, FKEYs, and keyboard layouts available to your
programs without installing the resources in the System file.  You specify
certain folders, and Carpetbag opens all resource files therein at boot
time.  It works under System 6, but is smarter about keeping track of
folders under System 7.  It should even be able to use a folder on a remote
Appleshare volume.

This file is in StuffIt 3.0 format.  It can be decompressed with StuffIt
Expander (freeware) or anything in the StuffIt 3.0 family.

v. 1.4  New feature:  A folder can be "postponed", which means that its
location is remembered but its files are not opened at startup.

 -- Jim Walker

[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/carpetbag-14.hqx; 88K]

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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 93 09:00:06 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Anders Stegen)
Subject: [*] Emacs_310.sit.hqx 1/3

This is a Mac implementation of the text editor microEmacs.
(For people like me who has it's somewhat cryptic command
interface solidly stuck in our brain patterns.)
It's from 1989 and must have come from the Internet originally,
I found it on some Swedish local BBS.

No bugs to my knowledge (I haven't tested it too hard either).  It
handles files 300-400 K without problems, though.
I still use system 6.0.5 and can't guarantee it's system 7 behaviour.
I'm using Disinfectant 3.2 for virus checking.

Archived by Stuff-it Lite.

Enjoy!

Anders Stegen

[Archived as /info-mac/text/micro-emacs-310.hqx; 130K]

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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1993 07:16:49 +0000
From: Peter Kupferschmied <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Flight logbook for pilots (>3 monthes)

Flight Logbook for airplane and helicopter pilots
with useful features for hobby and professional pilots.
Requires Claris FileMaker Pro (version >= 1.0)

Thank you for distribution!

SHAREWARE (30.- Swiss Francs)
Peter Kupferscmied, Zurich, Switzerland
email:  [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/app/filemaker-pro-flight-log.hqx; 89K]

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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1993 16:19:02 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] GammaZee file submission

The attached file contains the game and a description of it

[Archived as /info-mac/game/gamma-zee.hqx; 920K]

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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 13:32:11 +0000
From: Graham Allsopp <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Machine Icons 1.1

Machine Icons 1.1
By Graham Allsopp (with acknowledgement to Apple Computer).

September 1993

Requires System 7 (obviously) and preferably a colour screen.

Version 1.1 already! Well, 9 months is a long time for Apple Computer
nowadays.

Machine Icons 1.1 contains a set of icons for all Macs (as at September
1993), and some peripheral hardware. Some have been drawn from scratch, and
some amended from System 7  (with acknowledgement to Apple Computer). A
full set of  ICN#, icl4, icl8, ics#, ics4 and ics8 resoures are provided.

These icons are free, but if you enjoyed them, please send me a postcard of
your home town and let me know.  Many thanks to everyone who has sent me a
postcard or a donation - I've been very pleasantly suprised by the
response.

(Gordon - this replaces /info-mac/gui/grf/machine-icons.hqx - and thanks
for all your help with the archives).

Also, I've never seen an LC520 (either a picture or 'in the plastic') - so
if anyone can drop me a picture of one I'd be grateful.

Graham

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/grf/machine-icons-11.hqx; 51K]

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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1993 08:17:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] MSG Demo 1.0 (graphics demo)

MSG Demo is a collection of graphic effects for putting a picture
onto the screen (into a window).  The collection started in Feb.
1992 and has since grown to include 32 different effects, including
8 scrolling effects.  Source for each effect is available and will
be uploaded to sumex-aim in a separate file.  (This file is only
the demo application which contains all 32 effects and 2 pictures.)

MSG Demo 1.0 is free; there is no shareware fee.  It should run
on any Mac, system 6 or 7.  Please report bugs/comments/suggestions
to the primary author at [e-mail] (Mark Pilgrim).

MSG Demo 1.0 is copyright (C) 1992-3 Mark Pilgrim & Dave Blumenthal,
MerriMac Software Group.

Share and enjoy.

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/src/msg-demo-10.hqx; 143K]

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Date: 26 Aug 1993 15:44:04 -0800
From: "Will Doolittle" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Submission

REGARDING                Submission
Attached to this QuickMail message -- let me know if this didn't work -- is a
compacted, binhexed QuickTime movie (along with a descriptive file) called
Double/yu ("Double/yu" on non-umlaut-capable systems).  My disks are protected
with Disinfectant 3.2.  Double/yu's logical home in your archives is
Info-mac/Graphics/QuickTime.  I hope you find it worthy of inclusion in the
archives.  The binhexed version is a scant 1,540 k.  The compacted version on
a
mac is a paltry 1,134 k.

Thanks,
Will Doolittle
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/grf/qt/double-yu.hqx; 1540K]

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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 93 01:06:08 +0200
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Talking Clock - Source Code! 1.0b1

For those of you more interested in the "why" than the "because,"
here comes source code for Talking Clock. It is structured so
is can work as a minimalistic application shell as basis for your
own applications, with a less than 10K overhead for windows and menu
management! Read the license; it's freeware.

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/src/talking-clock-10b1-c.hqx; 74K]

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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 93 01:03:54 +0200
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Talking Clock 1.0b1 Application

This is a simple desktop clock-as-application, but it also
has support for the Speech Manager. Freeware (but read the license)

Cheers,

[Archived as /info-mac/app/talking-clock-10b1.hqx; 44K]

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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1993 19:34:42 -0500 (CDT)
From: Joel E Callan <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] TechTool 1.0.2

Here is the latest version of TechTool 1.0.2, since you have a previous
version at your site. This version was picked up from comp.sys.mac.binaries

TechTool easily rebuilds the desktop and zaps the PRAM of your Mac, in
a way more effective than the standard methods built into the System.

Version 1.0.2 fixes some extension conflicts from version 1.0.1.
Version 1.0.1 fixed an Apple Events/Finder bug.

[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/tech-tool-102.hqx; 102K]

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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 93 13:24:49 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Lou Casagrande)
Subject: .mpg files help

To the network,

Can anyone tell me what .mpg files are, and what I can use (if
anything) to view them on the Mac? Thanks in advance.

Lou Casagrande
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 93 11:01:13 EDT
From: "Michael Gallamore"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: 128MB MO Info Wanted

Hello,
   I am looking for information and advice concerning 3 1/2", 128MB MO
drives.  In particular I am looking at the Panasonic, Epson, NuDesign,
Fujitsu, and Pinnacle Tahoe.  Any information you have would be
appreciated, especially personal experience.  Please e-mail me at the
address below.  Thanks! :)



Michael Gallamore
NSWCDD  [phone]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 93 11:58:48 SET
From: Ronen Mir <[e-mail]>
Subject: ?Info on voice mail capability of Supra FaxModem?

Does anyone know of the promised addition to the Supra FaxModem
that enables Voice Mail?

When should it be available, and at what cost?

Has anyone actually (beta) tested the Supra with VoiceMail?

What is the telephone number for Supra?

And a last question, when it comes to new purchases, what is preferred:
Supra or Prometheus Ultima Home office ?

Send replies directly to me ([e-mail] and I will summarize.

Thank you, Ronen.

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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1993 16:28:19 -0400
From: Art Werschulz <[e-mail]>
Subject: [[e-mail]: Re: Sound Manager Docs]

Hi.

What application do I need for reading the Sound Manager docs?  The
creator or application type (I forget which) appears to be ONLN or
some such.

   Art Werschulz (8-{)}
   InterNet:  [e-mail]   ATTnet: [phone]

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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1993 16:40:57 -0600
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Accelerator purchase frustrations (rant) (T)

(T) for tangent: I've been kind of looking an Applied Engineering TransWarp
4300 board for my LC. This is a 40MHz 68030 with 128K static RAM cache
(basically the LC version of the board -- Applied Engineering (AE) board in
Allan Hunter's rant). All the comments I saw about it on the net were very
positive. LLB has it for about $370. When I called, though, the salesthing
told me they were getting lots of them coming back due to incompatibility
(due to the cache, I would guess), and it suggested a new Daystar 25MHz
68040 for about $410 which was guaranteed to have no incompatibilities and
would be faster than the TransWarp. I'm not convinced all these things are
true. Has anyone run speedometer on any of these, possibly in comparison to
the LCIII? Know of compatibility problems? With double processor speed (and
thus faster printing on my Personal LaserWriter LS), I could wait for the
PowerPC in comfort.



Bryan Walls                             My words are not NASA policy.
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1993 12:01:34 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Mike Lee)
Subject: Aldus PPD needed for Laserjet 4ML

Does such a thing exist? Can I substitute another PPD for it? Will I still
need an Aldus-specific PPD for PM 5.0? Inquiring CPUs want to know.

...Mike Lee, Old Oregon magazine, University of Oregon
...<[e-mail]>

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Date: 26 Aug 1993 13:09:41 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Thede Loder)
Subject: Aliases in Sumex ftp server a good idea?

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

>\begin{imho}
>Is it really a good idea to have those symbolic links (aliases in Mac terms)
>in the Sumex ftp server (such as, Compress-Translate, Disk-File,
>etc)? I, for one, could do without them, because they make every file
>appear twice in Gopher searches of the archives. That's probably the only
>problem with them, but I would like to know what others think regarding this
>topic, as well as of the directory restructuring in general.
>\end{imho}

>Brian

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

I agree.  The aliases are a bit of hastle.  For years the archives had
the same directory structure.  I will admit that some new catagories
(more specific directories) were needed, but I do not see the links
as necessary.

Just an opinion....
Thede
[e-mail]

test on my screen.

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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 93 16:09:14 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Robert Reeves)
Subject: APS SCSI-doc and SyQuest drives (Q)

Hi there!  I was wondering if anyone has gotten a SCSI-doc to work with
their 44MB SyQuest drives.

My setup is a PB100 2/20 (It's paid for!) running 7.1 with only speechmanager
(cool!) and AutoDoubler as extensions; and a Cutting Edge SyQuest drive.
Every
time I try and mount the cart (SCSI-probe), the mac lets me see it on the
desktop, but as soon as I try and open the disk, the whole mac freezes.  APS
tech support reccomended zapping the PRAM, booting w/o extensions.  Neither
of these fixes worked, in fact it ended up with me first destroying the
battery
monitor I had in the Startup items folder, and later, trashing the whole
system
(segment loader error).  The last thing he recommended was to initialize the
disks with the same software I used to format the HD.  The SyQ's were
formatted
with SilverLining, the HD is straight from Apple.

The adapter works fine in SCSI disk mode, in fact, that's how I reinstalled
the
system.  At least that half works!

Tips and suggestions are appreciated, I will pass along any info that others
may
request!

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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 93 13:19:01 PDT
From: [e-mail] (John Thoo)
Subject: BinHex (Q)

I'd never given it much thought before, but today I grabbed MacintalkPro
>From <ftp.apple.com>, a 6MB+ binhex'd file; however, de-hqx'ing the file
revealed a 2.5MB SEA.  My question is, How does binhexing work so that it
adds so much overhead to a file?  Thanks.

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

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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 93 11:57:43 EDT
From: Barre "S./Chothia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Can anyone there help?

Hi there!

I have recently learnt how to download Mac PD and Shareware from sumex via ftp
that I use on my Mac at home. I know my way round the archive now but I have
really come up against a problem finding two pieces of software that were
reviewed in the Mac magazine Mac Format. The first is Pretzel2.0 and the
second is !Dos. I have used archie within telnet to help locate these but to
no avail!! Do you know how I can locate something in the archive by any
other means than trail and error when logged on as a guest? I would
appreciate any advice you could give - or if you can point me in the
direction of someone who can help.
Thanks.

Samantha Barre
E-mail [e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1993 16:52:06 +0700
From: [e-mail] (Priyajeev Narain Trika)
Subject: Commands After D/L

Hello,

Is it possible for me to have a number of commands execute themselves after
the download on Zterm is over?   In other words, I sometimes go to sleep at
nights while my 2400 baud modem is downloading macintalk pro.  I would like
the command "exit" to be executed after the download.  Possible?

Thanx in advance.
Priyajeev Trika
[e-mail]

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Date: 26 Aug 1993 09:39:02 -0500 (EST)
From: Mark Nutter <[e-mail]>
Subject: Creating Tek 4010 or SIXEL graphics?

Is there any way I can use my Mac, possibly with my DecStation 5000, to
produce
TEK 4010 or SIXEL graphics?  I have Canvas and MacLink Plus.  Any clues
greatly
appreciated.  Please reply via Email.

Mark Nutter
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1993 10:39 CST
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: ftp.apple.com

I haven't been able to connect to ftp.apple.com for several days now.  Does
anybody know what's going on over there?  I'm trying to get the software
utility update 1.0; is there any other location to get that, other than
ftp.apple.com?  Thanks for the help.  If you post directly to me, I'll
summarize to the net.

Steve Waechter
swaechter@utmem1 (bitnet)
[e-mail] (internet)

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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1993 17:07:52 +0700
From: [e-mail] (Priyajeev Narain Trika)
Subject: HD Application List

Hello,

Is there a shareware program which will allow me to make a list of all the
applications on my Hard Disk and also claim the version of each application
on the list.  I have a shareware program which lists all files but that is not
what I need.  I just need the applications.  If you know of a certain
shareware
of such kind pls do inform.  Thanx.

Priyajeev Trika
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1993 08:10:41 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Charles Lakos)
Subject: Home brewer's Excel macros?

Some years ago an Excel spreadsheet was posted to the net for calculating
ingredients for home brewing.  Does anyone know if it is still available?
(It does not appear to be in the Info-mac archives.)
--
Charles Lakos.                               [e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 06:47:48 -0800
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Imagewriter II and Built in Fonts

Does anyone know what fonts, if any, are built into the
ImageWriter II?

Thanks in advance.

[e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 2 Jan 94 23:29:09 +0200
From: [e-mail] (David L. Hirschberg)
Subject: LC to LCIII upgrade (Q)

Dear List,

Can someone tell me what is involved in upgrading an LC to an LCIII.  Is it
a motherboard swap.  Someone here wants to upgrade and wants to know if
they can just buy the parts when they are in the states and bring them
back.  I would appreciate a fax and/or E-mail address of a source.

Thank you David
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 93 12:23:14 CDT
From: "Eric H. Durbrow" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Looking for font called Paris

Hi. A friend is desparately looking for a bitmap font called PARIS. Not
Paris Metro. Does anyone know about it? I did an Archie search and nada.
Does someone know if it is commercial? Thanks!

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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 93 13:32:15 EDT
From: [e-mail] (William Grant)
Subject: LW IIG errors ?

Does anyone have a list of the errors that the optional upgrade to the
LW IIG ROMs was supposed to fix?  I know they added back one of the
Zapf fonts, but I was looking for a list of errors.

       Please reply direct to me at "[e-mail]" and
I will summarize for info-mac.

Liam Grant, NRL, Code 5541, Washington, DC 20375-5337, [phone]

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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 93 08:54:57 EDT
From: "Michael L. Dickens" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mac X & MouseMan Config [A]

> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 93 18:08:53 EDT
> From: "/\\\\att" <[e-mail]>
> Subject: Mac X
>
> I've recently set up MacX running on a Quadra 950.  I have a Logitech
Mouseman
> and was wondering how I should program the buttons to be the equivelent of a
> Unix type mouse.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I use MacX 1.1.7 and a Logitech MouseMan (MouseKey 1.0 Control Panel) on
my IIci.  My final mouse button setup was to leave things the way they
are for the rest of the applications.

Ideally, the cursor keys should do what they do on any keyboard - move
the cursor left, right, up, or down.  To do this in MacX, you have to
select the "Mouse Buttons Simulated By" "Option + Arrow Keys".  This
means that the middle button is simulated by option+left-arrow, etc...
And that the left cursor move is just the left-arrow.

If you go into the MouseKey control panel, you can change the function
of the middle and right buttons to simulate the option+key for MacX
alone.

But somewhere between the MouseKey conversion and the MacX
interpretation of the middle-button-click, things get messed up.  I
found that both the middle and right buttons worked sometimes, but in
general created more of a problem than they were worth.  After clicking,
the button would get "stuck", like a click-lock, and in order to get out
I'd have to play with the option and first button.

One reason this might be happening is the use of the option key in MacX
- which is usually reserved for moving windows around - is confusing
when used in combination with other keys.  Another possibility is that
the MouseKey CP is not interpreting the button clicks properly.

I'd be interested to find out other's (and your) solutions to this.

    MLD

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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1993 11:40:00 -0400
From: Kevin Lesniewicz <[e-mail]>
Subject: Master Juggler/Sound Manager 3.0

I've gotten no direct response on Usenet, so I thought I'd ask you all:
Has anyone else noticed Master Juggler's sound control functions breaking
under
the new Sound Manager? I've contacted Alsoft and they don't seem too
tuned-in...not a good sign.

-kevin (Internet: [e-mail])

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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1993 13:03:18 -0500
From: "Tom Wilson" <[e-mail]> (Tom Wilson)
Subject: MaxFax INIT and Prefs problem

I recently bought the Prometheus Ultima Home Office for use with my SE/30
and have been tormented by a reoccuring crash on boot-up.  The problem
points to the MaxFax INIT that came with the latest version of the MaxFax
software.  If the INIT is the only INIT in the Extensions folder, the
system crashes on boot-up.  IF the INIT is removed, everything is fine.  If
I leave the INIT in the Extensions folder and trash the MaxFax Prefs file
(which is stored in the MaxFax Application folder, incidently) the system
will reboot normally.

I contacted Prometheus about this and it apparently is not a wide-spread
problem, although the applications engineer who talked with me, had the
same experience only a week prior to our conversation.

Am I looking at a bug or a non-feature?

?????????????????????

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Date: Thu,  26 Aug 93 14:01 +0200
From: [e-mail]
Subject: MS word 5.1 and MS Excel 4.0 - S..L..O..W !

Hello netters

I have no choice but to return to this beaten up theme.
After installing the upgrades to Word and Excel I understand why people are
flaming Micro$oft. The new programs are unacceptably slow on LC & LCII.

All the nice features are worth NOTHING if one has to wait for "ages" for
anything to happen. We have the same programs on PC Windows and they work
remarkably faster.

Until Micro$oft COMPILEs their programs for the Macintosh (instead of using
P-Code with interpreter) I can not recommend these products to anyone; no
matter how nice are the features they offer ;^|

I would like to join the MFZ league.

[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1993 15:49:22 +0000
From: [e-mail]  (Patrick T. Pruyne)
Subject: Non-Powerbook File Synching?

I'm looking for the wisdom of experience;

During the course of any given day me and my data may start from my home
Mac (not networked) and travel to a handful of guest-host (networked) Macs.
I'd like to know what others do to make sure that duplicates of
files-in-progress are all up to date.

The Powerbook-crowd has Zync and other similar utilities. What do
non-Powerbook users use?

Are there any backup/archiving programs (eg DiskFit or Retrospect) that can
be used for this purpose?

Given enough response I'll summarize in a FAQ format.

Thanks!

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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 93 06:54:57 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Jaime Garmendia - DuPont Argentina)
Subject: Original Mac II video card pin-out

Mac Gurus,

I need to get info on how to connect a Multisync monitor to a Mac IIX
with a High Resolution Display Video Card (the original card for the
Mac II line, I believe). My monitor gave up the ghost, and down here
in Argentina it is prohibitively expensive to have it repaired. I do
however, have access to a variety of PeeCee type monitors, both
VGA, SVGA and multisync types. Since my assignment here is about
to end, I want to borrow one of those for the time being. My problem
is that I dont have the proper pinout to connect such beasts.

Anyone out there ?

Thanks,

Jaime Garmendia
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1993 15:38 EDT
From: "Nicky ... 966-4032" <[e-mail]>
Subject: PageMaker Error Codes

Does anyone know where I can get a brief description of the
PageMaker error codes?

Thanks for the help,
N. Turner
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1993 21:21:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: PopChar vs. MacWrite

Is there a version of PopChar which will operate with
MacWrite on a Quadra 700 running 7.1?  Mine quits
whenever I attempt to use it although it seems to
work OK with other programs.  Any info?  Ideas?
Thanks.  [e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 93 09:02:12 EDT
From: "Michael L. Dickens" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Pre-Owned Electronics

> Could someone from the Boston area send me info on "Pre-Owned Electronics"?

Pre-Owned Electronics Incorporated
205 Burlington Road
Bedford, MA  01730

    1-800-274-5343
fax : [phone]
intl: 617-275-4600

THE LARGEST independent supplier of Apple II & Macintosh systems,
replacement parts & repair service.  RELIABILITY!  QUALITY!  VALUE!

COMPUTER SYSTEMS
    We sell refurbished systems
    We are volume buyers of used systems

APPLE DEPOT REPAIR
    24-hour turn-around
    Advance exchange

APPLE SERVICE PARTS
    Extensive inventory
    Warrenty protection
 -------------------

    MLD

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Date: Thu,  26 Aug 93 9:23 +0200
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Public Utilities demo (WARNING)

I also tried this demo, and I must report the problems caused by this
software.

I have a MacPlus (don't laugh, a Centris 650 is on the way :-> )
system 6.0.7 and a 105MB disk partitioned with SilverLining.
Oh, yes, and I have Norton Utilities since it was first offered, including
the last upgrades (yes, I know the "version numbers by the hour" - dirty
trick).

1. Public Utilities demo was VERY slow on my machine.
2. It stopped dead (well, crashed) just after finishing the first test
   (volume info)
3. After 15 "dead" minutes I rebooted - My system disappeared!
   All 3 partitions were recognized, but my mac sat there
   showing me a question mark.
4. Rebooted from Norton Utilities Emergency diskette. All partitions seen..
5. Run DiskDoctor - The Boot Blocks and Volume Information Blocks
   were DAMAGED!
6. After repairing this - Reboot failed again.
7. Rebooted from system 6.07 install kit.
8. The system folder on my system disk was NOT "blessed".
   I "touched" the finder/system and saw the folder "blessed" again.
9. Now my MAC works as before.

OK. I have an ancient computer with an old system. But I expect a disk
REPAIR utility to check its environment and behave properly.

This is not to say that Norton Utilities are perfect. The contrary is true!
I had Norton Utilities DESTROY my disk TWICE.  When the disks are FULL to
the brim, any replacement of the DeskTop or other control files is bound to
get stuck without enough disk space. NU crashed me in these situations
causing total loss of all data. That's the reason I tried the "other one".

So be warned

Ilan Szekely
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 93 09:52:17 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Oleg Chaikovsky)
Subject: Quantum 105S keep losing it's directory

Hello all Mac dudes...

    We recently installed a Quantum 105S (104MB) as the internal drive in
    a Mac SE.  However, it crashed a few weeks ago for some unexplained
    reason (on a weekend) and we had to re-format the drive an re-install
    all system and application software.

    Not two weeks after this, the disk lost its directory tree again (not
    lost, I mean damaged).  Is there a conflict between the SE and the
    105S?  Apple's formatter won't work on the drive, and I tried Drive 7
    but the software will not run (tells me not enough memory - try
    closing some windows).  The SE has 4 MB RAM.

Any clues, please let me know.

Oleg Chaikovsky
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1993 23:09:01 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Lance K. Chun)
Subject: Quantum 210 GO drive?

Is there such a creature? I thought I saw someone advertise a Quantum 210
2.5" GO drive for the PowerBooks. Is it true?

Lance

Email reponse please.

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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1993 23:38:56 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Jon Pugh)
Subject: Rebuilding the desktop

[e-mail] (Salient Software) said:
>
> DesktopReset doesn't do anything shakey.  It uses standard documented
> system calls to do its job and it occupies _no_ memory after it's done.
> When the Finder comes up and fails to find its data bases it creates new
> ones.

I didn't mean to malign Desktop Reset (I was maligning Reset DTDBs ;) but
my technique still saves you from having to hold down the Command and
Option keys, which is a pain on my system which has 125 inits.  I've got
better things to do than watch icons crawl across my screen.  There's
diapers to be changed!  ;)

Jon

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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1993 16:57:29 EDT
From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Screen Jitters (R)

I had that problem until recently with a series of Macs and PCs.
The screens would vibrate like jello.  Very annoying.

The problem was due to "bad power" in the building.  It is an old
dorm that was converted (not very well, though) to a University
adminstrative office building.  The wiring was exposed, unshielded
and not in conduit.  The electric supply was tasked by hundreds of
PC and a main air conditioning unit--none of which was envisioned
when the building was constructed, of course.

The problem actually was low frequency RF radiated from the wiring
to the monitor.  (We know this because we had the problem even when
the computers were operated on a UPS and completely disconnected from
building power.)  Lots of solutions were proposed and attempted.
None worked.

We solve the problem just this week.  It wasn't a cheap solution, but
it was the only thing that worked.  We moved.  We are now in a modern
building with adaquate power running in conduit.  We have cable trays,
conduit and power separated from communications wiring.  The screen is
solid as a rock!

Jeffrey Fritz
[e-mail]
West Virginia University

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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 93 17:57:07 PDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Slow Mac IIx

Does anyone know why a Mac IIx would slow down over the course of a year? I
have tried just about everything and nothing seems to get it back up to
speed.  A friend of mine added an external HD and made that the startup and
it seemed to help tremedously.  When I did that, it had no effect.  Ideas
anyone?

Tom Wilson <ctw.ppp.ornl.gov>

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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1993 09:21:18 +0200
From: [e-mail]
Subject: SoftPC "Demo"  (C)

>> Awhile ago, there was a demo version of SoftPC available at
>> a couple of ftp sites. I can't seem to find it with Archie
>> anywhere. Could anyone give me the scoop on this?
>
>Sure.  There is not and never has been any "demo" of SoftPC (this
>is according to Insignia).
>

There is a demo of SoftPC on the Macintosh Demo Applications CD,
which comes with the new CD equiped Mac's.

Gerrit.

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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 93 9:01 BST
From: RICHARD LIM <[e-mail]>
Subject: Soft PC Demo

Charlie Mingo writes in Digest #169:

>There is not and never has been any "demo" of SoftPC (this
>is according to Insignia).

Well, over a year ago now, I tried out a demo version of SoftPC (I
think it was SoftAT, in fact) at a local dealer.  The demo was marked
for CD-ROM distribution and indeed shipped on a CD-ROM; it was fully
functional other than that it would automatically quit after 10 minutes,
and didn't include the drivers for PC CD-ROMs.  So demos do exist (or have
existed) and Insignia may well not mind them appearing on archive sites.

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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1993 13:38:53
From: [e-mail] (Charlie Mingo)
Subject: Soft PC Demo

>There is not and never has been any "demo" of SoftPC (this
>is according to Insignia).

>  Well, over a year ago now, I tried out a demo version of SoftPC
> (I think it was SoftAT, in fact) at a local dealer. The demo
> was marked for CD-ROM distribution and indeed shipped on a
> CD-ROM; it was fully functional other than that it would automatically
> quit after 10 minutes, and didn't include the drivers for PC
> CD-ROMs. So demos do exist (or have existed) and Insignia may
> well not mind them appearing on archive sites.

According to Insignia, that version was fully-functional (no 10 minute
limit) and not a "demo".  It was never available to the public, either.

I repeat: I have talked to Insignia, there is no "demo" version of
SoftPC, and they really, really do mind if it is distributed publicly.

If you don't believe me, call and ask them yourself.  (Or write insignia@
netcom.com.)

BTW: The version that was posted to mac.archive.umich.edu was rather
obviously a commercial version.  It had a regular serial number
(AT-290024309/001), and was licensed to "xf" of company "fdgf" (which
suggests someone had to enter a name, but didn't want to use his own).

Also, the title of the main window was changed to read "SoftAT - For
Demonstration Only".  Insignia has told me that _they_ never made any
version like that, and they confirmed to me, after seeing a copy of the
umich file, that it was a crude alteration of their commercial product.

I guess the moral is: if you do send in files to the archives, make sure they
are legally distributable.  If the archives are found to contain major
commercial applications like SOftPC, the sites running them might get sued.

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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 93 04:37:07 EST
From: "Kirke B. Lawton" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Sound Manager 3 and Speach Manager on an SE?

After reading that the new sound goodies work on a lowly SE, I
downloaded the various files to give it a try.  I didn't get
much for my efforts.  Keep in mind that I am using an accelerated
Mac SE (Mobius '030) and System 7.0.1*.  The Speach Manager init
caused an unimplemented trap error on startup.  And the sound
control panel "Cannot be used with this Macintosh."  I.e., nothing worked.

Any idea if I can use SM3 and Speach Manager on my machine?  Thanks,
Kirke

[e-mail]      or   [e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1993 11:55:18 -0400
From: "Brian Gerstel"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: Strange ARA problem

We have a single Mac IIci acting as an ARA server for our department.
Recently,
because we wanted to move the machine to a different location, we switched the
network card in it from an Asante MacCon II+64T (10-BaseT) to the II+64
(ThinNet).

The local user of that machine says everything works fine with the ThinNet
card,
but remote users have problems:  certain machines don't show up in the Chooser
(or take a very long time), and -- far more importantly -- they can't log in
to
our mail server (WP Office 3.0.1, which uses the ADSP portion of the DAL
extension).  Switching back to the 10-BaseT card (which involves stringing a
wire across a doorway, so it's not a permanent solution) makes everything work
right again.

I've tried everything:  re-installing ARA, re-installing the
Ethernet/EtherTalk
drivers, and so forth.  Called Asante and the technician had no suggestions
that
helped.

If anyone has any kind of suggestion, I'd be glad to hear it; this one has me
baffled.

Brian Gerstel
The Institute for Research on Higher Education
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1993 14:49:09 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Loren Finkelstein (-Rocky-))
Subject: The Sharp Wizard? (Q)

Anyone have any experience with the Sharp WIzard (any of them), or their
Casio counterpart?

I am trying to decide which one to get.

How about their Macintosh interfaces?  Any good?  Am I better off with a
Filofax?  Or maybe a Newton?

Thanks.

Loren Finkelstein
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 93 08:47:59 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Trouble installing SilverLining (A)

On Wed, 25 Aug, Daniel van Kraalingen wrote:

>I have trouble installing Silverlining 5.31 software on a new 125 Mb disk.
>After installation, Apple HD SC Setup won't even see the SCSI #0 id. What's
>worse is that the machine won't boot after a succesfull system 7.01
>installation
>
>After these troubles I tried to install ETC disk driver software. The result
>is a working machine (machine boots fine with sys 7.01) but during the
>ETC installation several SCSI errors were reported. Also now the
>Apple HD SC Setup program doesn't recognize the SCSI #0 id.

Daniel, SilverLining 5.31 is not a real good choice for System 7. Try
the 5.42 version, the latest I have.

And whether you initialize a disk with SilverLining or ETC or whatever
else, Apple's HD SC Setup refuses to see the drive. It's a feature.

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 93 09:38:39 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: WorldScript word processors

Not that I've heard...

In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
> I'll assume Word 6 will be..  Let us pray.

cheers ... -Adam

(Don't expect prompt responses for several weeks until I finish the book.)
   Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor -- [e-mail] -- [e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 93 17:13:06 BST
From: [e-mail] (Peter Thompson)

Steve,

I had a similar problem on my IIvi.   I finally tracked it down to the
Apple keyboard - it had a dry joint on one of the ADB sockets.
The Power on line is pulled high (or low - I can't remember) by the keyboard
so a bad connection on this line allows the line to float and switch on
randomly or always.

Just re-solder all the connections of the ADB sockets on the keyboard.

Of course there could be a keyboard cable problem or even an ADB socket
problem on the motherboard (God forbid!)

Good Luck

Peter

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