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Info-Mac Digest             Wed,  8 Sep 93       Volume 11 : Issue 178

Today's Topics:

      [*] TidBITS#192/06-Sep-93
      Apple Remote ...
      Can I get a StyleWriter II driver legally?
      Clock Utility for the Mac.
      CorelSCSI Bundle - Big Things in Small Packages?
      DeskWriter trouble (Q)
      DiskExpress II (2 msgs)
      DiskExpress II (A)
      Downloading Binhex to a non-networked Mac [A]
      DREL from hell
      Electromagnetic Shielding for a Monitor
      Energy Conservation
      EtherWrite/LPR
      FaultrEASE - Anybody heard of it?
      FileMaker Pro sliding fields
      Font Problem
      FullWrite & Nisus
      hard drives for old portable
      HP DW 500C (A)
      Info-Mac Digest V11 #177 (2 msgs)
      Latest Stuffit?
      Macs---to leave on, or not to leave on (A)
      MacX and default files?
      Microsoft Word or Nisus?
      Microtek scanner driver problems...
      Monitor mahem
      MouseStick II (Advanced Gravis) on PowerBooks (Q)
      Nasty crash! Help!
      Nisus and EndNote (Q)
      NSI 1.4 Licensing Disk(Q).
      Parallel printing anyone? [Q]
      Partition Hard Drives (C)
      paying Canadian shareware fees (A)
      paying Canadian shareware fees (R)
      PB Duo/Express Modem/Stylewriter printing...
      PlainTalk voices
      reference points in Word
      Request for public domain dictionaries.
      screen savers and power consumption (C)
      SpeedyFinder7 future
      SPICE for Mac (C)
      Stylewriter II driver on a Stylewriter I
      System 7.1 and SuperPaint 2.0 (Q)
      Techpool Studios contact (a)
      text search [A]
      transfering files w/IND$FILE (Q)

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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 93 21:52:50 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: [*] TidBITS#192/06-Sep-93

TidBITS#192/06-Sep-93

News from Apple this week includes a request for feedback from
   ex-32-bit Enabler users, updated free utilities that all
   Macintosh users should have, and a fix for some LaserWriter
   NTR bugs. Digging through the Macworld information pile, I
   glance at some of the small products that make the Mac fun.
   Finally, if you're confused and irritated about the
   scatterbrained Macintosh product line, check out my editorial
   entitled Proliferation Polemic.

Topics:
    MailBITS/06-Sep-93
    CopyDoubler Bug
    32-bit Enabler Feedback Requested
    Apple Updates Several Utilities
    Upgrade Your NTR
    I Screen, You Screen
    Proliferation Polemic

[Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-192.etx; 30K]

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

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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1993 08:29:39 [phone] (EDT)
From: [e-mail] (Leslie E Murphy)
Subject: Apple Remote ...

Hi,

I am trying to configure Apple Remote for our site; we use data cards
rather than modems.  All this really means is that when Apple Remote
dials into our site it must give a sequence of commands to connect to
the "server's" extension.

Can someone tell me if there is a way to modify the script that AR
uses to establish the connection with another MAC.  I have been give
the theoretical way before but have been unable to find the alleged
script file that the Mac is supposedly running.

Thanks,
Les
--
Leslie E Murphy
[e-mail]

McGILL Comprehensive Cancer Centre
Tel.: [phone]
Fax.: [phone]

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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1993 10:03:42 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Tobias Kuipers)
Subject: Can I get a StyleWriter II driver legally?

Is it possible for a non-StyleWriter (SW) II owner to get a SW II
driver? I've got a SW I, and, from what I heard, the II driver makes for
faster printing. But, I do not seem to find any II drivers. Can I get
one? (FTP maybe?) Or do I have to buy a SW II first?

Any help appreciated,

Tobias Kuipers - University of Amsterdam - The Netherlands
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 93 10:27:27 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Suvrit Varshney)
Subject: Clock Utility for the Mac.

Hello is there any PD program like Now's Alarm Clock?
I've checked Superclock but it seems to be incompatible
with stuff like the Sound Manager.

Other than Superclock what programs are available? Thank
you.

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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1993 12:29:46 -0800
From: [e-mail]
Subject: CorelSCSI Bundle - Big Things in Small Packages?

Hello Net:
I just saw in MacWeek (08.23.93) a snippet about the new CorelSCSI for
Macintosh utility package, due to ship "next month", i.e. September. It
includes sundry SCSI bits for running WORMs, MOs and CD-ROMs, tools for
formatting WORMs and MOs, etc. etc. The price mentioned in the article is
$99.

What's interesting to me is that it includes "...CorelMosaic, an
image-management catalog that lets users catalog and search
graphics...CorelMosaic also comes with Corel Professional Photos, the
company's recently-announced CD-ROM-based stock-photo library (see MacWEEK,
July 19)." The July 19 article describes Corel Professional Photos as
"...intially compris[ing] 40  discs to be shipped by the end of summer...
Each $49.95 disc offers 100 royalty-free images...".

So, does the bundle include none, one or all 40 CDs? Anyone have better
information? I know CorelDRAW is a steal with its 18000 clip-art images and
250 fonts, but SCSI utilities, an image catalogger and 4000 photos for $99
seems just a *bit* too good to be true.

Hopefully,
Mike Dustan, Computing Services, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC
Canada
[e-mail]  604-291-4810    "My other computer is also a Macintosh."

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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 93 15:01:55 CST
From: "Z. Sun" <[e-mail]>
Subject: DeskWriter trouble (Q)

Hi All,

My DeskWriter is no longer working: it does not show up on the chooser
window any more. Has been working fine for two years. I have checked the
cable connections but did not find anything suspicious.

Configuration: System 7.1, AppleTalk version of DeskWriter driver 3.9.
Worked fine for grayscale etc., and then quitted working for no apparent
reason. Even the error light does not show anything wrong.

Any help is appreciated.

Jack

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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1993 14:13:38 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Paul Kleeberg)
Subject: DiskExpress II

I have been using the program since it was DE I.  Since getting DEII, I have
allowed it to do nightly defragmantations with the read/write verify option
enabled and have never lost data as a result.  It has crashed during
optimization, stopped during power failures and encountered bad blocks on my
drive and never lost or damaged a file.  I often scour my drive for corrupted
files and directory enteries and can usually trace corruptions to dropped
SLIP connections during FTP's (with Fetch 2.1).  It is one of the most stable
products I have encountered.

Just a statisfied user.

Paul Kleeberg
St. Peter, Minnesota

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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1993 14:14:53 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Paul Kleeberg)
Subject: DiskExpress II

I have been using the program since it was DE I.  Since getting DEII, I have
allowed it to do nightly defragmantations with the read/write verify option
enabled and have never lost data as a result.  It has crashed during
optimization, stopped during power failures and encountered bad blocks on my
drive and never lost or damaged a file.  I often scour my drive for corrupted
files and directory enteries and can usually trace corruptions to dropped
SLIP connections during FTP's (with Fetch 2.1).  It is one of the most stable
products I have encountered.

Just a statisfied user.

Paul Kleeberg
St. Peter, Minnesota

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Date: 7 Sep 1993 12:20:32 U
From: "Kaufman Peter" <[e-mail]>
Subject: DiskExpress II (A)

>>I've been using DEII to defrag my hard discs for some time, now, and am
>>quite happy with it.  The thing is that I don't let DEII do its stuff
>>automatically; instead, I run DEII manually so that I'm around in case
>>anything goes wrong.  My question is, Am I being silly?  Those of you
>>who use DEII, Do you trust it _completely_ to do its stuff unattended?
>>Thanks.


I've used DiskExpress in its various incarnations for 3+ years, on a variety
of
machines, Mac Plus, IIci, IIcx. Never, repeat, never had a problem running in
automatic
mode. Even when the machine has crashed for an unrelated reason in the middle
of
an optimization, I have never lost a file. We have run it on an AppleShare
file
server with no problems too.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Peter Kaufman
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 93 16:18:24 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Jean-Francois Sygnet)
Subject: Downloading Binhex to a non-networked Mac [A]

>I want to use binhex in my Mac to use S/Ws in public domain.
>But, I don't know "HOW TO INSTALL BINHEX in My Mac".
>I use SunOS4.1.1 and Mac SE/30. The Mac is not connected to network,
>so I have to ftp in Sun WS and move programs ftped to Mac.
>Because Sun WS support only MSDOS formatted diskette, ...

If everything else fails there's an Italian guy who solved
"elegantly" the bootstrap problem just for Sun users:
Download /info-mac/cmp/suntar-* and use it ...

Jean-Francois Sygnet <[e-mail]>

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Date: 7 Sep 1993 23:46:27 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Dennis Brothers)
Subject: DREL from hell

Michael Everson writes:

>OK, what the heck is a DREL resource?

DREL, along with DATA and ZERO, is involved in setting up Think C/C++'s global
data. After the data portion of the A5 world has been initialized (using the
DATA and ZERO resources), each word in the DREL resource identifies the
A5-offset of a Data-RELative value, i.e., a longword that needs the A5 value
added to it so as to form the absolute address of another location in A5
space.

        - Dennis

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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1993 14:05:17 -0600
From: "Bill Wing" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Electromagnetic Shielding for a Monitor

We recently moved a large (19") monitor from one office to another, and
find that in the new location the unit suffers from a bad case of jitters.
I've seen the effect before, usually in offices with fluorescent lights
which have been wired with large, uncompensated wiring loops.  I've always
been able to kill the problem by repositioning the CRT, or killing the
fluorescent lights and installing some sort of incandasent light in their
place.  Alas, this time none of these methods work.  I used to see adds in
the back of MacWEEK and MacWorld for external electromagnetic shields
designed to clip on CRT's and protect the operator from excessive EM
radiation.  Note that what I'm talking about is NOT the clip-on-the-screen
filter sort of thing but a kind of hemispherical frame that wrapped around
the top and sides of a CRT.  Obviously, if it can keep EM radiation in, it
can keep EM radiation out as well.  Those adds seem to have disappeared now
that everyone sells CRTs that meet the Swedish standards.  So
(drum roll, The envelope please...) does anyone know where I could buy such
a shield these days?

Thanks,
Bill Wing,  [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1993 10:21:34 -0400
From: Ed Ver Hoef <[e-mail]>
Subject: Energy Conservation

Date: Thu,  2 Sep 1993 12:02:45 +0000
From: Elliot Bennett <[e-mail]>
Subject: Macs---to leave on, or not to leave on (R)

In Infomac VII #175, Elliot Bennett said:

>Personally, JUST considering the SIGNIFICANT impact on both electricity costs
>and the environment (remember that your power most likely comes from burning
>coal or fissioning nuclear material) I would STRONGLY recommend you NOT leave
>you mac on overnight.  Regardless of the impact on your circuits, it's
>environmentally irresponsible and just too expensive...

I strongly suspect that Elliot is right but I would add just one caution
regarding efforts to
take what often appears to be the obvious solution to environmentally
responsible energy
conservation.  There was an article in Scientific American several years ago
reporting on
research into the energy use of cars.  The startling (at least to me) news in
that article was
that the amount of energy used in the manufacture of a car far outweighed the
amount of
energy used by that car during its normal lifetime.  This took into
consideration the
energy used in the production and transportation of the raw materials from
which the car
was made as well as the actual manufacture and transportation of the car to
the dealer,
including the fuel consumed by the workers involved.  One aspect of the
significance of
this finding is that before one can make well-informed recommendations
regarding ways
to reduce energy consumption for a particular product, one should look at the
entire life
cycle of that product to see if there are adverse effects which would
adversely impact the
apparent benefit of the reduction in energy consumption.  This is especially
applicable if
there is the possibility of reduced product lifetime as a result of the
reduction in energy
consumption.  A second aspect (less applicable to the problem at hand) is that
often we
focus considerable effort to wring a small percentage of improvement from one
part of a
process and ignore areas where there is potential for much larger payoff,
possibly at even
lower cost.

Ed Ver Hoef

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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 93 10:53:23 EDT
From: Mark A. Saper <[e-mail]>
Subject: EtherWrite/LPR

Has anyone used Compatible Systems' EtherWrite/LPR ?  It is a TCP/IP to
Appletalk printing bridge.  Are there any competing products out there and/or
software solutions?

Thanks, Mark Saper      [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 93 16:25:48 MDT
From: [e-mail] (Stephen C. Harmony)
Subject: FaultrEASE - Anybody heard of it?

I have a friend who's looking for information on a program for fault-tree
analysis.  The program is named FaultrEASE (catchy, huh?).  Does anybody
out there have any up to date information on it?

Thanks in advance

Steve Harmony
Los Alamos, NM

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Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1993 19:53:00 -0500 (CDT)
From: "William M. Porter" <[e-mail]>
Subject: FileMaker Pro sliding fields

FileMaker Pro can handle what Donald Peterson of the UK wants to do very
easily, in fact, it can handle it in more than one way.

FileMaker Pro is quite adept at filling in the blank, unused space
between adjacent fields. The key is to format the fields using the "slide
objects..." dialog  found in the Arrange menu. This way empty space
(including entire empty fields) will simply disappear when you view the
records in "Preview" mode and when you print them.

Whether the data are stored in the same field or in different fields
doesn't matter much to this problem. If you want, you can put all the
phone numbers for a given record in the same field. If you wanted a
little organization here, you could make it a repeating field, but it
isn't necessary. Alternatively, you could create several different phone
number fields, like phone1, phone2, phone3, or (my preference) phoneWk,
phoneHm, phoneFx, and phoneXtra.

Oh, and it is quite possible to print records on Filofax forms. If simply
using the A4 letter "page setup" option doesn't work for you, you can
define custom page or label sizes when you create a new layout (which you
might need to do in any case since the default layout FMPro gives you
after you define fields is probably not what you want).

Will Porter / University of Houston, Houston, TX

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Date: Thu, 2 Sep 93 20:43 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Font Problem

I have a user using System 7.1 and the latest version of Adobe Type
Manager.  He says he's having problems with some of his older fonts
(or as he says, "The oldest fonts.").  I believe these are Adobe
Type 1 fonts from about 1987 or 88.  Generally, the Macintosh seems
to have problems consistently kerning the fonts and will not allow sizes
other that those that are installed to be used.

Has anyone else had these kind of problems, or does anyone have any
ideas?  Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks for your consideration.

Jeff Luck
Continuing Education
Penn State University
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 93 11:41:03 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: FullWrite & Nisus

In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
> Dear Adam,
> Pick on some one your own size ;-)

But Word bashing is way too easy. :-)

Here's a cute one. If Smart Quotes in Word is off and you do a Find
& Replace searching for a single hash mark and replacing with a curly
apostrophe (which you get by typing option-shift-]), Word will search
through the document and claim that it is replacing stuff, but in
fact it won't do it. It works if Smart Quotes is on, but I consider
a Find/Replace that doesn't replace something I can type from the
keyboard a bug, especially since Smart Quotes doesn't work correctly
if you use hash marks for foot and inch marks.

And just for those of you who like searching in Word, trying creating
a document in Nisus with a first indent of something like 2.325 inches.
Then save as Word format, open in Word, and look at that ruler in
the Paragraph format box. It will show as 2.33 inches. But, go into
Find/Replace and try to search for a paragraph with a first indent
of 2.33 inches, and Word won't find anything. It won't let you type
in 2.325 inches either. There might be something else involved here,
but I was unable to figure it out - I had to convert my book chapters
to Word format with styles, not find bugs for Microsoft. :-)

> I couldn't resist to say that Fullwrite also changes all its menu names
> on the fly to reflect the current option key status.
> This holds for all items (even when being selected by the walk down
> keyboard equivalents (i.e. comm-1 3 gets the the third item on the first
> menu). arrow keys walk around the menu(s).

I should have known. :-) From John's original letter it sounded as
though the menu items didn't change, since if they do change (as they
should, even if you hold down the modifier key after dropping the
menu) it's usually easy to find all the "hidden" options.

My problem with FullWrite was that the last time I saw a copy, it
was in the days when almost all Macs had 1 MB, and FullWrite just
didn't shine in that environment. Still, I've heard so many good things
about it that I'm willing to believe it's a good program, especially
now that it _only_ wants 2 MB of RAM. :-)

Perhaps Akimbo and Nisus should get together and create one hot word
processor that really does blow Word out of the water?

cheers ... -Adam

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

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Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1993 18:49:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: O MH KATA MHXANHN <[e-mail]>
Subject: hard drives for old portable

Anyone know a vendor who can supply a replacement hard drive for the
old, old, so very old now original portable? Preferable would be
something internal (obviously, since I could just use the SCSI port)
which supports the sleep function. Any help would be greatly ap-
preciated.
bill mccarthy
washington
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1993 17:22:26 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Martin Jourdan)
Subject: HP DW 500C (A)

On Mon, 30 Aug 1993 10:19:43 -0700, John Owens wrote in Info-Mac:
> 1) Has anyone had any experience with the HP Deskwriter 500C? Is it
>    worthwhile? How is the color? Particularly, how is it at printing
>    transparencies (as advertised)?

We have one here in our office.  The quality of the result is nice,
*especially* transparencies.  It's quite well suited to produce attractive
presentations.

BUT you should be aware of two things before jumping on your feet to buy it:

1. It's painfully slow: 15 mn on average for printing one transparency.

2. The driver (which runs on *your* machine when printing) is awful: it
takes more than 2 Mb of memory and all the CPU it can, and it seems buggy
(some elements in some drawings appear out of place or not at all).

I wish I had a DW 1200C/PS...

Martin Jourdan, Projet ChLoE, INRIA, Rocquencourt, France

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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 93 09:04:20 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Sally Richter)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #177

Randy--

I'm going to be in touch with the MIT Press folks today and I would
like to let them know yea or nea on using our mailing list to
advertise their robotics journal. What did you think of the message I
sent suggesting that they send a general promo message to our email
list?

Sally

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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 93 14:39:18 +0100
From: Mr Gordon S Byron <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #177

A PowerBook 180 was connected to a Mac IICX . The attemp was a
failure. now the IICX thinks it is the powerbook nad so we can't get
at the Disk. Any advice welcome
thanks

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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 93 13:57:28 PDT
From: "Dennis Dufficy, L. 8268" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Latest Stuffit?

From: Dennis Dufficy, L. 8268
      MIS/Development Group
      Computer Resources

Hi,

I have UnStuffit 3.05 but don't seem to be able to decompress
applications lately. For instance, for Rescue15, I get the Open
Dialog box with the .sit file list but nothing happens when I
open the .sit archives!!! Is there a newer version of UnStuffit?

Thanks,
Dennis
[e-mail]
BCIT, MIS/Development
[phone]

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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 93 13:23:01 +0200
From: "Olaf F. Normann" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Macs---to leave on, or not to leave on (A)

> >But it would be a good idea either to turn off the power on the monitor,
> >or, (better:) install a small screen saver (f.i. BasicBlack).
>
> But do screen savers actually save power?
> If so, roughly what percentage?
> And do they actually lengthen the life of the monitor?

Screen savers will not save power, but the screen saver prevent that the
screen-image "burns" into the fluorecence layer on the catode ray tube.
So, it lengthen the life of the monitor.

Olaf

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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 93 14:59:08 CST
From: "Wade Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: MacX and default files?

A professor is using MacX.  Everything works fine.  In fact, he can open a
rooted window and run the OpenLook Window Manager (olwm) if he wants.

But, a lot of paths and defaults are kept in files like .OWdefaults, .
desksetdefaults and .openwin-init.  Since it would appear that MacX does
not do a traditional login when executing remote commands, these files do
not seem to get executed.

Does anyone know of a way to use MacX and still have it read the various
default files for the Sun, the environment and the application?

Wade Williams
Network Support Specialist, Auburn University
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1993 19:01:28 +0200
From: Charles Roth <[e-mail]>
Subject: Microsoft Word or Nisus?

Normand,

    I used to be a Word user and I've changed to Nisus for most
things, but I think Word has some advantages for a thesis. Either
takes some time to learn but because it is a bit less powerful in some
areas, Word is probably easier. Word has a built in table module that
makes tables easily. You can get a separate table making program, Tyco
Table Maker which is very good to go with Nisus, but it's an extra
program. The biggest potential problem with Nisus is that it keeps
your entire document in memory. This is good because it can work
faster, but it makes it hard to have a big document like a thesis
unless you have an enormous amount of RAM. The work around to this is
to make each chapter a separate file, but then it is hard to change a
term throughout the thesis because you must open and change each
chapter separately.

    I like many of Nisus' unique features like multiple undos and
being able to select unconnected phrases into one clipboard, etc, but
the memory problem is a real limit for a thesis. I needed about 4
megas of RAM just for Nisus to open a 40 - 50 page document the other
day. It's nice to have both programs - Word for big things and Nisus
for general files.

    Good luck with your thesis,

        Charlie Roth

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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 93 23:02:32 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Wonko the Sane)
Subject: Microtek scanner driver problems...

We just plugged our venerable Microtek 300GS scanner into our brand-spanking
new Centris.  For some reason, it won't let us scan.  I keep getting messages
about "DRVR not installed" and such.  Our version is June 5, 1990, v1.2.  It's
pre-sys 7.0.  It used to work on our 7.0 IIsi, but it just doesn't like our
Centris.

Is there a newer version, or some patch I can apply to make this %^&#$% thing
work?

Eric
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed,  8 Sep 93 03:25:00 BST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Monitor mahem

[e-mail]



>2) My StartUpScreen (IIsi, 256colors) always appears in B/W on startup,
   while on other IIsi's it does not. Any StartUpScreen has this problem.
   Any suggestions?


I had a similar occurence when I did  a system reinstall on my IIcx.
I corrected the problem by going to the monitors control panel,
clicking on option while holding down the option key and selecting
use special gamma in the resulting dialog box.
Voila! The Welcome to Macintosh screen now appears in colour.


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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 93 08:28:13 BST
From: A.D'[e-mail]
Subject: MouseStick II (Advanced Gravis) on PowerBooks (Q)

I have tried to use the Advanced Gravis MouseStick II on a PB180 and had
many problems. The software seems unstable (the computer crashes whenever I
try to access certain features on the MouseStick control panel), also, when
I restart, the PB does not recognise that the MouseStick is plugged in. I
know that you should not use the MouseStick on PB's, but this is because of
the power requirements.  Anyone offer any help? Are there any joysticks
that will work with the PowerBook.

Regards, Tony D'Emanuele

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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 93 1:10:20 PDT
From: Rodney S. Harl <[e-mail]>
Subject: Nasty crash! Help!

I'm experiencing quite a problem with my Mac. It's characterized
by the loss of visible folders on the desktop among other things.

Symptoms:

- Booting from the 7.1 Install disk says that this startup disk won't
work on my Mac (PB 180) and to use the latest install disk to
update it.

- Norton Disk Doctor cannot fix the following problems:
  - Part of the directory (leaf sector #2224) found invalid
  information (invalid record type)
  - an fLINK error (whatever that is)

- Many of my folders are missing, both in my root directory and
elsewhere. I can find some of them by using Finder's "Find"
(they become visible) but this is not permanent.
Open windows of these lost folders close on their own.

- The Finder often restarts itself for no apparent reason.

I've tried rebuilding and resetting the desktop and reinstalling
the system. These don't work.

Any help would be *greatly* appreciated.

- Rod
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1993 10:58:45 -0700 (MST)
From: [e-mail] (Peter Gerhardstein)
Subject: Nisus and EndNote (Q)

YetAnotherNisusQuery:  Does Nisus allow the use of EndNote?

Thanks,
Peter Gerhardstein ([e-mail])
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721

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Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1993 13:20 PDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: NSI 1.4 Licensing Disk(Q).

Hi, netters. I have a question for you.
I just downloded "NSI 1.4 Licensing Disk" from ftp.apple.com.
However, I don't know how to "install" those upgrades onto my iici with
an ethernet card. I tried to launch the "Installer" but it told me it
needed a file to "instruct" it to move on.
My iici is hooked onto a Novell network with servers supporting IBM pcs,
and I use VersaTerm Pro 3.6.2 + MacTCP 1.1.1 to access my account in a Vax8530
getway to internet (and bitnet). I know almost nothing about networking.
Thanks.

Dr. Daw-hwan Wang
Institute of History & Philology
Academia Sinica
Nankang, Taipei
Taiwan 11529
Internet address: [e-mail]

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Date: Tue,  7 Sep 1993 15:48:23 +0000
From: Elliot Bennett <[e-mail]>
Subject: Parallel printing anyone? [Q]

I just had a crazy idea.  I was watching in wonder as COPYright copied files
in the background.  "Big deal," you say? Well, it doesn't just copy one set of
files and que the next, it actually copies different sets of files
simultaneously (drag and drop one set, then drag and drop another- you get two
"thermometer" bars showing the progress of each set being copied).

Then I thought: why not have PrintMonitor work this way.  Namely, I had this
huge document I wanted to print out on Printer A and an number of smaller (
circa 1 page) documents I wanted to print out on Printer B (on our Ethernet
network).  The question is: why shouldn't I be able to do this?

Now, I would imaging that overall printing would slow down (as does overall
copying), but, like copying files, the small ones should finish faster than
the big ones.  And if you've ever made the mistake of printing a long document
and then realized you needed to print out something short in a hurry- you're
outta luck.

So, any comments, criticisms, questions, or suggestions?

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

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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 93 13:42:31 EDT
From: David Smith (GE) <[e-mail]>
Subject: Partition Hard Drives (C)

Yes, Silverlining can resize partitions both larger and smaller, It does
have the problem that you set a max size (which sets the block size)
since the BAM and other components are a set size, so you can loose
the advantage of partitions be setting this to large.

The max size (which isn't very well covered in the manual) is the largest
size (minus the driver info) that you can set it too, it also sets the
size of the blocks.  A 64meg partition is the largest that allows 1k blocks,
121megs or so is 2 blocks, etc.  This max size cannot be changed without
reformating, so you want a size that is large enought, so you can set it
really
high, but the higher you set it, the larger the smallest file is going to take
up.

Also SL allows you to partition more than one drive into one partition, so
you can think about that too.

What I do is have two partitions with max set at 64 for documents and
programming, while my applications run on the large partition (with a maz size
of 700 megs, it has a min block of 11k!)  Silverlining can also "take over"
a disk with another driver if there is enough space.  I havn'e tried this,
I copied my drive and reformated first.

The partitions have saved me (with a lot of small files) over 20 megs
I belive, so consider it carfully.

-David Smith
[e-mail]

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Date: 7 Sep 1993 14:52:53 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Charlie Mingo)
Subject: paying Canadian shareware fees (A)

[e-mail] (John Thoo) writes:
>
>I've never had to pay out-of-country (US) shareware fees before, and
>was wondering how I should pay for the game Rescue!, which asks for
>``$10 in US or Canadian funds.''  Is it OK simply to send a personal
>cheque (drawn on a US bank) to our neighbours to the north?  Thanks.

Generally, that's exactly what you do.  There are five big Canadian
banks that handle over 90% of the market, and they have no trouble
converting your check to Canadian funds and negotiating it, often
clearing in the US they received it in Canada.  (How, I do not know.)

If you really want to be correct, then prefix the "$" (where you write
the numerical amount) with "U.S.", and prefix the "Dollars" (where you
write the verbal amount) with "United States".  But, even if you don't
do this, Canadian banks know that checks from the US are presumed to
be in US dollars.

On a few occasions, I've seen smaller US banks charge the check-writer
a whopping fee for writing a check that was cashed outside the US.
You might want to ask your bank if they have any such policy.

BTW: if you spell check as "cheque", then you can't be a complete
stranger to Canada, can you?

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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1993 12:14:29 -0600
From: [e-mail] (John Antolak)
Subject: paying Canadian shareware fees (R)

>Date: Mon, 6 Sep 93 20:42:49 PDT
>From: [e-mail] (John Thoo)
>Subject: paying Canadian shareware fees (Q)
>
>I've never had to pay out-of-country (US) shareware fees before, and
>was wondering how I should pay for the game Rescue!, which asks for
>``$10 in US or Canadian funds.''  Is it OK simply to send a personal
>cheque (drawn on a US bank) to our neighbours to the north?  Thanks.

I'm sure that would be OK. Canadian banks will cash US checks with no
problems, at least the banks I dealt with when I lived there. However,
going the other way is not as easy. When I tried to cash a $18CAN check at
my bank here in the US, I was charged a $5US fee, in addition to suffering
a really bad exchange rate and waiting three weeks for the check to be
deposited into my account. The bank said it was just passing on the
standard(?) fee for foreign checks.

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

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Date: Tue,  7 Sep 1993 09:52:37 +0000
From: Elliot Bennett <[e-mail]>
Subject: PB Duo/Express Modem/Stylewriter printing...

Here's a funny one:

Situation:

PB Duo 230 12/120 w/internal Express Modem and (external :-) StyleWriter I.

The ONLY way to print is tp go to the Powerbook control panel and switch from
Internal to External Modem.

Question: why should this be?  Apparently I can EITHER print OR fax/modem
DESPITE the fact that, technically, I have 2 ports.  Must this be?

Any ideas would be MOST welcome...

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

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Date: 07 Sep 93 08:57 GMT
From: [e-mail] (M Bointon, AppleUK Tech Supt,GB,IBR)
Subject: PlainTalk voices

Hi

Just looking at the PlainTalk voices, it strikes me that it should not be too
hard to assemble another collection of phonemes and substitute them into
another voice. I would have thought this possible with resedit. However, it
seems that the voices are assembled at a lower level than this. I have the TTS
developer kit, but this deals only with using existing voices, though it lists
the phoneme operand codes and prosodic controls.
Anyone got any better idea?

Thanks,
Marcus Bointon


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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 93 09:16:20 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Bruce E. Wilson, Eastman Chemical Company,
([e-mail]))
Subject: reference points in Word

> Do you know if there is a way to "mark" a place in the text and have a
> page number reference to that place somewhere else, where Word itself
> keeps track of any change of page of the mark.

I've been using Word since 1.05 (no flames, please :-) ), and that is
one of my more persistent gripes.  There is not, and I have bitched
to customer support several times about this, any way to do what you
want, except manually.  Pro-Cite and BiblioLink help the problem of
keeping citation numbers up to date, but page, section, table, figure,
and equation numbering have to be done manually.

It's an awful learning curve, but that's why I finally wound up using
LaTeX for heavy duty writing.  Both OzTeX and TeXtures are nice packages,
for using LaTeX (and OzTeX is even free).

        Bruce Wilson ([e-mail])

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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1993 12:01:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Request for public domain dictionaries.

    I've written a program to lookup words in a foreign language
dictionary, where the dictionary is simply a text file containing the
translations of words between two languages.  It is World Script
compatible.  It is a stripped down version of MacJDic (which is specific
for a set of English-Japanese dictionaries), which I posted previously,
but gets rid of all of the japanese specific options.  I have tested it
with a english-german dictionary (which someone emailed to me - I don't
know it's original source, or if it is public domain).  What I'm looking
for is more dictionaries to test the program with.  If you know of any
dictionaries between any two languages, please send me some email telling
me where I can find it.

Thanks

Dan ([e-mail])

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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 93 23:26:58 -0400
From: [e-mail] (David B. Reiser)
Subject: screen savers and power consumption (C)

I have just measured my computer power consumption because I think all the
financial claims I've seen for power savings are wacko. I agree with the idea
that it is worthwhile to turn the beast off overnight, but the $ involved are
much smaller than what several published reports have said.

Anyway, I use After Dark on a IIci with a Magnavox 13 inch monitor, 8 megs of
memory, cache card and Quantum 105 meg drive. I used an AC clamp meter with
a 10X probe for increased sensitivity. The computer and monitor, both going
at full tilt use 0.60 to 0.62 amps at 120 - 125 volts. i.e. 77.5 watts,
approximately. When AD kicks in, the current consumption goes down about
0.06 amps, or about 10%. Enough to notice, anyway.

If you do the math, you'll see my IIci would only use 680 kwh per year if I
left it on all the time (I don't). That's about $41 a year at my electricity
use charges.

Turn your computer off to save electricity because it makes sense to save
resorces, but don't expect to be able to buy much software with your savings.

Dave Reiser
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 8 Sep 93 09:49:43 EST
From: [e-mail] (Ken Simpson)
Subject: SpeedyFinder7 future

This is a news release regarding Victor Tan's SpeedyFinder7. The latest
version
on the nets is 1.5.4. The latest registered version is 1.5.8M. Aladdin Systems
(of Stuffit) fame have gotten Victor to work on SpeedyFinder and it is now
incorporated in to a package called "DeskTop Tools". Victor sent me the
press release below. Please do with it on info-mac as you see fit. Post it as
a letter in the digest or put it in the archive somewhere as an info file or
something.

release notes begin here
=============================================================

    You will be happy to know that we will now be handling all
support for the new product (which will be part of our forthcoming Desktop
Tools package) and there will be a very nice upgrade path for all
registered users of SF7.

    Thanks for your support of shareware and I think you will be quite
happy with the new improved SpeedyFinder and our Desktop Tools package. If
you have specific questions about the package, etc. feel free to drop me a
line.

    The goal of the package is to help users better work in the
Finder and open/save dialogs, and to that end we provide 8 utilities a
combination of control panels & applications.

    Desktop Speedboost, derived from SF7, provides for background
copying & trashing.  It is faster & more intelligent than SF7 and CD2,
though does not provide for scheduling (we don't see that as part of our
market) but it does have a viewable/editable queue and features such as
"smart replace" which does a complete one-way file sync.

    Desktop Printer, allows you to drag & drop documents on your
printer icons to quickly print to the printer of your choice.  You can also
just double-click on a printer to switch to it.

    Desktop Shortcut, adds commands to the open & save dialog boxes
(like SuperBoomerang, etc. but much cooler!) as well as allowing you to
"walk into" a StuffIt archive like it was a folder.

    Desktop Makeover, the other parts of SF7, provide things like the
removal of the rename delay & zoom rects, cmdKey assignment for ANY Finder
Menu item (and Magic Menu item), document linking, etc.

    Desktop MagicTools, includes a new version of Magic Menu and a set
of new commands for things such as "Get More Info", "Gather Selection" and
more.

    Desktop Secure Delete provides a "shredding" function for documents
that you want to make sure can not be recovered.

    Desktop Toys adds a collection of icons & an Icon Maker for
prettying up the desktop.

    and StuffIt Expander for dealing with all your downloads.

Leonard Rosenthol
Aladdin Systems, Inc.
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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 93 14:04:46 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Norman Chretien)
Subject: SPICE for Mac (C)

Previously seen in Info_Mac:

>>I need SPICE for some circuit analysis, and was told that the only version
>>for the Mac doesn't have the schematic graphics interface like for Windows!
>
>You can get a version of SPICE for the Mac. It's called MicroCap and it
>provides a gui to the SPICE solvers.
>
.
.
.
>
>Comments?
>

The last time I used MicroCAP was in college, four years ago.  It was the
DOS version.  We used it for very _basic_ circuit simulations/analysis.  We
used Viewlogic (DOS) for more complex digital circuits and SPICE on a Data
General mini computer for the involved analog stuff.  We never used
MicroCAP with SPICE files.  Maybe the program didn't do that then.  Does it
do that now, or is it just an alternative to SPICE?  There is a PSPICE for
the Macintosh.  Has anybody used it?  Comments?

Norm
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 93 16:08:36 -0400
From: Arel Yizhak Weisberg <[e-mail]>
Subject: Stylewriter II driver on a Stylewriter I

Much thanks to the individual who e-mailed me a copy of Chooser 7.3 so that
I can use the SWII driver on my SW I.  Unfortunately in the e-mail to mac
route I lost his/her address and name.  It works fine

Arel Weisberg
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1993 15:03:51 -0500
From: Ping-Chung Li <[e-mail]>
Subject: System 7.1 and SuperPaint 2.0 (Q)

Dear Netters,

    Does anyone of you encounter the following problem?
    My wife purchased a Centris 650 equipped with system 7.1. However,
it fails to run two application programs, Excel 3.0 and SuperPaint 2.0.
After I Launch these two programs, the screen freezes immediately (SuperPaint)
or after I type in the first data (Excel). I did a test in my office, both
programs work fine on a Mac II with system 7.0.
    I would like to know if there's compatibility problem between these
two programs and 7.1, should I go back to 7.0?
    Thanks a lot.

Ping Li
[e-mail]
ps: I also installed 7.1.hardware.update but everything is still the same.

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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 93 23:11:22 -0400
From: [e-mail] (David B. Reiser)
Subject: Techpool Studios contact (a)

The address on the back of my manual says:

Techpool Studios
1463 Warrensville Centr Road
Cleveland, OH  44121
216-382-1234 voice
216-382-1915 fax

actually that's "Center" not "Centr"...

I've had the LifeArt collection for a couple years, but I don't think they
have moved.

Dave
[e-mail]

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Date: 7 Sep 93 08:03 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Mark Zimmermann)
Subject: text search [A]

depending on your text-search needs, you might want to experiment with
my free indexer/browser stuff ... there's pretty good documentation
and a HyperCard interface to it (called "Free Text") in the info-mac
archives on sumex-aim.stanford.edu (probably under /info-mac/card/,
with a name like "ft103.cpt.hqx" or maybe "freetext.103.cpt.hqx" or
suchlike) --- progs let you look at alphabetized lists of all the
words in your database, call up instances of words with half a line of
context on each side (key-word-in-context view), and retrieve full
text --- note that current versions require all data to be in a single
text file (utilities included to do that easily) and require
pre-indexing of the file to enable real-time retrieval from
multi-megabyte text files (also easy to do with a button-press; index
inversion rate is >15 MB/hour typically on a 68030 Mac) --- the recent
Pacific HiTech INFO-MAC CD-ROM has a 35 MB or so collection of
Info-Mac digests indexed up with Free Text, and it's quite nice to
browse and do retrospective search on (IMHO!).... ^z
([e-mail])
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Date: Tue, 07 Sep 93 22:24:13 CDT
From: "Dr. Shrooms" <[e-mail]>
Subject: transfering files w/IND$FILE (Q)

In order to transfer files btween my campus network and my
Mac, I need a communications programs that supports the
IND$FILE file transfer method.  Does anybody know of a share ware
or cheap commercial program that does this?  Aslo, where can I get
it, since I am unable to download via thi internet intil I get it?
Thanks much in advance.

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