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Info-Mac Digest             Sun, 12 Sep 93       Volume 11 : Issue 180

Today's Topics:

      [*] lemur-301.hqx
      AB box for a mac
      About IIvx vs. 660av, which to buy?
      A dumb question?
      Are there Telephony apps in Mkt?
      Are there Telephony apps in Mkt? (A)
      Best version of DW-C driver?
      BinHex 5.0 (R)
      bug alert! affects only docked Duos (I believe)
      Centris home-brew ugrades ?
      Clock chipped 660AV
      Colorado Memory Systems work with Macs?
      connecting my Mac to a unix system
      Desktop Bus Mouse II and PowerBooks
      DeskWriter trouble - Thanks!
      DiskExpress II [R]
      Electromagnetic Shielding for a Monitor
      Extra card needed?
      FastFinder( or other CLI's )for the Mac??
      FaxSTF Problems (SE/30 w/Daystar)
      Finding more room in menu bar/SuperClock
      Font with numbers in little squares (?)
      FTP over SLIP
      Gala Tea 1.0 on Bookmark CD Issue 15
      GeniScan GS-4000: what software can use it ?
      Hard Drive for Portable
      Harris Performer Pro Accelerator
      Has the PB165 (not the 165c) a FPU??
      Help contacting Rohan Cook, PowerLock author?
      Help please! Strange problem with ChemDraw 2.1.3 and Word 5.
      High-Quality Speech Demo
      How to connect 2 LC III's to both modem and Grayshare printer (A)
      Info-Mac Digest V11 #179
      Info about Nisus
      Internet access questions
      Is THINK C 6.0 really that bad?
      Jurassic Park logo
      Kermit initialization file
      MacAquarium - where can I get the plans?
      Mac emulator on Silicon Graphics running IRIX 4
      MacTCP 1.1 and System 7.1 (Q)
      MacWAIS 1.24 available
      Maelstrom 1.3 CRASHES on quit
      Magic Modem Revisited
      Memory Manager (sorry last Q slightly corrupted)
      Microsoft Word or Nisus or others?
      Music composition software
      Newton Mr. Assistant archive file corrupt ?
      NSI 1.4, sort of available on ftp.apple.com
      Oztex And Text Editors
      pagemaker filters
      Persian font for Windows (A)
      Phone trees on the Mac
      PixelFlipper v. 1.3.4 request
      pkzip for mac??
      Polish accents: how?
      PostScript file print utility
      PowerBook File Assistant Software (Q)
      PowerDraw-2 Byte System compatibility??
      Printer compatibility
      Programmer needed
      QuickBASIC for Mac
      SEAs on sumex
      slides in OzTeX (Q)
      Software Utilities v1.0--some interesting results
      Sound Manager 3.0 problem
      SPSS Macintosh WHY it often unexpec quits and how to avoid it!
      StyleWriter on a PC ???
      sumex directory organization (complaint)
      SuperClock and the help menu (A)
      Text in QuickTime Movies
      The Well
      tn3270 emulation (sum.)
      Unix's more or less on Mac?
      URGENT ADB KEYBOARD PROBLEMS! HELP! (A)
      UUDECODE on Mac (Q)
      Will Mac SIMMS Work In a PC? (A)
      Wish list for shareware/freeware
      WorldBlazers & Macs
      WriteNow vs. Nisus vs. MS Word (Q)

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Date: Fri, 3 Sep 93 10:32:31 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Kelly Fitz)
Subject: [*] lemur-301.hqx

Dear Moderator,

Please replace lemur-27.hqx, in snd/util, with this new version,
lemur-301.hqx. Thank you so much.

Kelly Fitz

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/util/lemur-301.hqx; 679K]

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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 22:07:45 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Zach K)
Subject: AB box for a mac

Does anyone know of a cheap a/b selector box for a mac's printer or
modem port? Such a thing would be very helpful about now.

Zach Kessin [e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 11 Sep 93 09:26:22 CDT
From: [e-mail] (Pete Jemian)
Subject: About IIvx vs. 660av, which to buy?

A professional musician nearby wants to purchase a new
Macintosh in the next week.  He's leaning towards
either the IIvx or the 660av.  I've recommended that he
avoid the IIvx.  The impression that I got from the network
was that it's a toad.  It's not even listed in the current
price list of the Univ. of Chicago Campus Computer Stores!

What's the scoop?  The price difference (at the store
he can buy from) is about US$1000.

Does Apple still support this model?
Upgradeability?  (Good word, no?)
Ease of use?
Just how important is voice recognition?  Stereo sound?

Heavy hitters can reply to me directly with full assurance
that a summary abstract will be posted back to Info-Mac.

Pete R. Jemian, [e-mail]

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Date: 10 Sep 1993 09:01:31 -0500
From: "dlawrence" <[e-mail]>
Subject: A dumb question?

I've noticed that when I read the digests (with Easy View 2.33, but of
course...) certain words have "greater than" signs concatenated to their
immediate left. For example, the word "from" comes out ">From". Other words
(which don't quickly come to mind) do the same thing. Is this something
you'all
do, or is it something Easy View does? Is it performed to distinguish regular
"From"s from header "from"s?

Another thing...has anyone who collects all the digests noticed that we had
two
issues that were numbered the same (161)? It played havoc with the
obsessive-compulsive side of me that has all of his issues neatly lined up
with
the same naming convention ("infomacv11-XXX.txt")!!! ;} When no one skipped a
number, I had to actually name a file "infomacv11-164a.txt"!!! Horrors! But,
alas, I survived... :)


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


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Date: 12 Sep 1993 10:26:47 -0400
From: [e-mail] (David Lerner)
Subject: Are there Telephony apps in Mkt?

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

>Hello:
>       Would anyone know if there are apps that will allow you to develop
>and execute one of those 'for info. press 1, to speak to a human, press 2'?
>telephony mazes?  We are being inundated by phone calls, and most of them
>could
>be taken care by routine, repetitive instructions.


Cypress Research PhonePro
Magnum Software tflx

As far as I know both are presently limited to a  single telephone line,
which is a pretty severe limitation.

--

David Lerner/Tekserve Corporation/Macintosh service and repair/212 929-3645
163 West 23rd St, New York, NY 10011 USA/fax [phone]/[e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1993 13:21:28 PDT
From: Kee Nethery <[e-mail]>
Subject: Are there Telephony apps in Mkt? (A)

>Would anyone know if there are apps that will allow you to develop and
execute one of those 'for info. press 1, to speak to a human, press 2'?
telephony mazes?  We are being inundated by phone calls, and most of them
could be taken care by routine, repetitive instructions.

The two companies that I know of that make Mac based products are:

Magnum Software Corporation
21115 Devonshire St. Suite 337
Chatsworth, CA 91311
818-701-5051
fax [phone]

Cypress Research
240 East Caribbean Dr.
Sunnyvale CA 94089
408-752-2700
fax [phone]
[e-mail]

No experience with either.

[e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 13:57:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail] (Natsu Sakimura)
Subject: Best version of DW-C driver?

Hi.

I read the article about the best version of DeskWriter driver.
Does anyone has any info on the best version of DeskWriter C
driver? I keep getting "Datacom buffer overrun - No DTR handshaking".

Any info is more than welcome.

If you could send me e-mail, I will summarize.

Thank you very much in advance.

Regards,

Natsu Sakimura

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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 09:30:05 -0800
From: Jerry Wilcox <[e-mail]>
Subject: BinHex 5.0 (R)

Ken Sayward writes (In Info-Mac V11#179):

> Could somebody please explain why BinHex 5.0 has been on the info-mac
> archive for about a year now, yet BinHex 4.0 seems to be the 'standard'
> used by netters (myself included)?
>

Well, BinHex 5.0 doesn't do the same thing as 4.0 and they are not
interchangeable. I'm taking the liberty of quoting the following sections
>From the latest FAC for comp.sys.mac.comm, a document I *highly* recommend
to anyone's
reading pleasure:

>         BinHex 4.0, by Yves Lempereur, is a binary to text translator
>         that can directly encode any Macintosh document (ie: it knows
>         how to convert information in both the resource and data forks).
>         BinHex files can be easily recognized since they begin with the
>         line:
>
>                 (This file must be converted with BinHex 4.0)
>
>         and are followed by a line starting with a colon, ':'. The
>         BinHex encoding of the file follows, and is ended with another
>         colon.
>

this is followed by much information on using other programs to decode the
binhex, etc. Then there is

>         There is also a program/format called "BinHex 5.0"; it is NOT
>         a more advanced version of "BinHex 4.0" but rather a separate
>         _binary_ format (it uses the entire eight-bit ASCII character
>         set and is thus not suitable for news postings or e-mail)
>         that was the precursor to MacBinary (see [2.2]). Converting
>         a file with BinHex 5.0 and then using BinHex 4.0 is another way
>         of converting a native Macintosh files with data and resource
>         forks into a format that can be e-mailed or posted (and then
>         reconstructed). MacBinary, however, is almost always used in
>         preference to BinHex 5.0.
>

Thanks to Eric C. Rosen who is the maintainer of this FAQ, which, by the
way, is available at sumex as

    ./comm/info/comp-sys-mac-comm-faq.txt

Highly Recommended!

Jerry

-----
Jerry Wilcox - [e-mail]  or [e-mail]
All opinions are mine alone - the University can speak for itself.

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Date: 12 Sep 1993 18:57:24 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Werner Uhrig)
Subject: bug alert! affects only docked Duos (I believe)

[ the enclosed article was posted to csm.portables by Gene Spafford
  and given that I know how much time was wasted over trying to figure
  out the problem before getting through to Apple, I hope that reading
  about this here will save other people some time and nerves. --Werner
  p.s.: I encourage reports of such "known bugs" here - and I emphasize
    KNOWN (and acknowledged by Apple, preferably) ]


Originally-From: [e-mail] (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.portables
Subject: Disappearing harddisk
Date: 12 Sep 1993 13:06:15 -0500


I dunno if anyone else has commented on this here and I missed it.
However, my experience with this ate enough of my time that I want
to make sure no one else runs into this.

Configuration: Duo (230), and Duo dock with internal drive.

Symptoms: Duo boots fine stand-alone.  When docked, boots from the
internal *dock* drive and fails to mount the internal Duo drive.  Tools
like SCSIprobe find the Duo drive, can mount it, and everything is
fine thereafter.

After reformatting the drive several times, and trying for 2 days to
call Apple's 800-SOS number, I finally got the answer.

It seems that *on a Duo* if you format a drive with the Apple SC HD
Setup 7.2 program, or follow the instructions in the disk utilities
update to use the 7.2 Setup program to update your disk drivers, this
happens.  It is a known bug that people at Apple are working on.

Solutions: replace the driver with the older version (may only be
possible by reformatiing the drive with an old version of the utility;
I haven't tried this approach).
 Or, when rebooting the docked Duo, hold down the command key to force
the boot to be from the internal disk rather than the dock.

Tip: the option-key trick works the same way if you have the dock disk
set as your startup disk and you actually want to boot from the Duo
disk.

I hope some of you find this helpful....

--
Gene Spafford, COAST Project Director
Software Engineering Research Center & Dept. of Computer Sciences
Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-1398
Internet:  [e-mail]   phone:  [phone]

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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 12:46:11 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Ulf Dittmer)
Subject: Centris home-brew ugrades ?

Hi netters !

I've seen the question before, but no answers. So, once
again: What are the possibilities for a home-brew upgrade
of a Centris 610? (I know of the consequences in respect
to the warranty.) I'd like to have a real 68040, but how
fast a crystal can I choose? 25MHz? 33MHz? How fast is the
built-in RAM and how fast would I need it for a faster CPU?
I heard rumors that the motherboard can stand a 33MHz 68040
if the RAM supports that.
Many thanks in advance for any advice you can give.

Greetings,              Ulf

[e-mail]

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Date: 10 Sep 1993 20:31:37 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Joseph Lu)
Subject: Clock chipped 660AV

Just to report that I managed to get a KS Labs prerelease version of their
clip on clock chip for the 660AV and got my new machine running at 34.8
Mhz.  So far it's been very stable (I've had it for three weeks) and has
been working just great.  It's running faster than the stock Quadra 950 we
have at work.

Has anyone else chipped their 660AVs yet?  E-mail to me and I'll post a
summary.

J Lu  ([e-mail])

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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 93 11:51:21 -0600
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Colorado Memory Systems work with Macs?

    I was wondering if anyone knows if Colorado Memory Systems'
storage media can be used with Macs?  They advertise in all the PC
mags, but I have never seen them in a Mac mag.  Their prices are
very good.  I'm interested in a 250MB tape drive they have for $280.

Thank you,
Eric
 --------------
Eric J. Lorenzo
[e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1993 11:41:28 -0500
From: Bienvenu Sidney J <[e-mail]>
Subject: connecting my Mac to a unix system

Hi!  Love your digest!

Would anyone out there recommend a modem and software combination for hooking
up to the unix nextrok here?  I have an LCII in my dorm room and it would be
more convenient if I could use my account from there (not to mention getting
the ability to download).  Also, if I did this, what kind of phone bills could
I
expect?

                    Many thanks,
                    Jay Bienvenu
                    ([e-mail])

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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 08:22:35 EDT
From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Desktop Bus Mouse II and PowerBooks

In the past, Apple has manufactured two types of mice (square version).
One was for the desktop Macs and another was a low power version for
the Portable which I assume was also necessary for the PowerBooks.

Looking over the current Apple price list, I only spotted one mouse:
the Apple Desktop Bus Mouse II (Part number: M2706LL/A).  Does this
mean that there is one mouse that works on both the desktop and
PowerBooks?  I am planning to order a couple and would appreciate
knowing whether the mouse draws low enough power to be used on
all Macs.

Jeffrey Fritz
West Virginia University
[e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 11 Sep 93 00:05:35 CST
From: "Z. Sun" <[e-mail]>
Subject: DeskWriter trouble - Thanks!

Hi guys,

Thank you very much for the suggestions. I took your advice and tried a
direct serial calbe connection, and it worked!

But what's the theory behind all this, anyway? Does it mean that I cannot
use this DW on my AppleTalk net any more? Or was there a connection problem
with my AppleTalk wires? BTW, this serial cable was borrowd from a friend
and I really want to keep the DW on the localtalk wire...

Any comment is appreciated.

Jack

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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 14:12:43 -0500
From: "Michael L. Dickens" <[e-mail]>
Subject: DiskExpress II [R]

In article <[e-mail]>, you wrote:
> 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?

I've been using DEII for 4 or 5 years (!) now - almost since the original
first version.  It's been a constant part of my Mac, and at first I didn't
trust it either.  But then I thought - Why not TRY it & see what happens.

So I set up v2.20 to do the optimization overnight, while I'm NOT at work.
Full , largest cache, prioritize.  Not a problem.  I come in the next day &
things are PERFECT.  It did the work without any interference from me.

So now I leave it on ALL the time, and each morning my hard drives (all of
them!) are optimized & prioritized.

I've NEVER had a problem with DE, even version 1.  No conflicts.

The ONLY complaint I have is that DEII v2.20 takes up almost 213k of system
heap space! (This according to !Symbiots).

    MLD

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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 93 11:40:36 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Sridar Narayanan)
Subject: Electromagnetic Shielding for a Monitor

Hello,

Magnetic fields pose a large problem for some of the workstations in our
lab, those located in rooms next to or above a 1.5 Tesla Phillips MRI
unit.  We've managed to scavenge a few mu-metal shields that CT tubes
come wrapped in, so if you know someone in a Radiology department, you
could try that.  Otherwise, you could try shimming the monitor with small
magnets to restore the screen, but this is somewhat of an art and difficult
to do.  However, we still have a "no colour monitor" zone in the immediate
vicinity of the MRI, since the strong field can permanently misalign the
colour guns.  Only monochrome PCs and xterms are allowed in this zone.

Sridar

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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 08:56 CST
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Extra card needed?

I have a friend who wants to add a SuperMatch 20 Plus Color Display to a
Centris 650.  Can he do this without adding an extra card?  Even if the
Centris
650 will support that kind of monitor, will it perform well when he runs
sophisticated graphics packages?  Thanks for the help!

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

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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 93 15:34:12 CDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: FastFinder( or other CLI's )for the Mac??

    I've been trying to track down a program called Fast-finder( or
Fastfinder )thats from around 1987-88. It provides a command line interface
for the Mac, and I *think* it allows copying/moving/deleting/launching of
files and so forth. If it still exists in someone's dust lined shelves, could
they please upload it to Sumex-aim?
    Or...if you know of any other similar prodcucts, I'd be pleased to
know bout those as well. The October issue of Macworld had a review of
something called 'CLImate', but no mention was made about whether or not it
could launch apps.
    I know I'm a DOShead at heart, but what the heck...I'm curious
nevertheless :)

    Much appreciation for any leads

Tom( [e-mail] )

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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 21:26:44 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Ken Linger)
Subject: FaxSTF Problems (SE/30 w/Daystar)

I've noticed a lot of comments about Fax STF lately, specifically with
to Now 4.x, Autodoubler 2.0.2, and installed a Daystar 50/50 SE/30
accellerator, and Micron 24 bit color card from an 8 bit card.
The Daystar is the only major change.  The problem occurs with caching
the not-being-32-bit-clean problem.  However, shutting off 32 bit
addressing [and rebooting] doesn't help me.  First my symptoms, then
what I've tried to do:

When I go to the chooser and choose FaxPrint and then Setup, I get
the standard "control panel-like" interface.  All options can be
changed, except for the second, Fax Modem.  When I click this icon,
I get a message on the order of:  "Error.  You cannot change the
hardware settings until the Fax Monitor is loaded.  Make sure it is
in your system folder and reboot."  However, it is in my system
folder already.  On top of that, if someone were to call me with a
fax, the modem would answer on the third ring and successfully receive
it.  I know that it is loading also because at startup, after all
extensions have loaded, I get the dialog "Setting Up FaxModem".
When I call out in data modem, the modem successfully switches to
data mode and returns to fax mode at the time of disconnecting.  If
the FaxStatus DA is kept open, it always displays the correct
icon, ie, Idle, DataMode, Fax (when sending) etc.

I'd like to change it so that it answers on the 1st ring and not the
third but I can't get to that setting.

I've tried booting with a minimal system (7.1).  I've booted with (only)
FaxMonitor, FaxMenu, AutoDoubler, DiskDoubler, Now Extension (for Now 4.x.x),
Startup Manager and Memory Control Panel.  I've done this in both 32 bit
and 24 bit modes.  Always the same problem.  When I boot with AutoDoubler
off, I can't even run the Chooser Document (I get the message make sure
FaxSpool Folder is in the System Folder).

When did this start happening?  When I left school for the summer in May,
everything worked.  I didn't use it over the summer.  I did upgrade
>From Now 3 to Now 4, Copydoubler to Copydoubler 2, System 7.1 from 7.0.1*,
Micron Xceed 24 bit color from Xceed 8 bit, and I installed a Daystar
50/50 SE/30 specific accelerator.  The Daystar is the only real major
change and the problem occurs with the cache on or off.  There are
other upgrades (such as all new Quicktimes and Speechmanagers, but
this happens even with them off).

Now, I'm back at school and it doesn't work.  Turning just about
everything off and switching addressing modes doesn't help.  Any other
people have problems?  Any known solutions?

My System:  SE/30 w/20 meg RAM, Internal 210 Maxtor HD, Micron 24 bit
color, 32 bit enabler, Daystar 50/50, Sys 7.1, Zoom Fax Modem 14.4.

Thanks for any help anyone can offer!

Ken Linger
[e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 93 17:49:41 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Joe Yan)
Subject: Finding more room in menu bar/SuperClock

>
> Dear Netters,
> Just got SuperClock from a friend, yet I don't know how to turn off the help
> menu, so SuperClock shows up on applications that fill up the menu bar.
> Does anybody know how to do this?
> I don't mind ResEditing, if that is what it takes, and I have thrown away
> Finder Help (the prefs file).  In other words, I would like SuperClock to
> appear where the help menu icon appears now on applications with menus that
go
> right up to the help menu.
>

Although I don't know how to get rid of the help menu, I *do* have a
suggestion if you want to save menu bar space.  MICN (archived as
info-mac/gui/menu-icons-micn-19.hqx) or Menuette (archived as
info-mac/gui/menuette-112.hqx).  MICN is free, Menuette is shareware,
I'm not sure how much because I don't use it.  Anyway, both of these cdev's
(control panels) put icons into your menu bar instead of the names (e.g.
a pencil instead of the Edit menu, etc.).  This, besides making your Mac
look really cool :) , saves a lot of room in the menu bar.  This might
help those people with small screens or with applications that have
super-big, useless menus (Word comes to mind!).

Check 'em out.  (They're relatively small.)

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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 93 08:23:54 PDT
From: Paul Brians <[e-mail]>
Subject: Font with numbers in little squares (?)

A colleague is looking for a font, dingbat-type or otherwise, that
includes numbers inside little squares, for the markings that
musicians put on their scores to indicate bar numbers.  Suggestions?

Paul Brians, Washington State University, Pullman, WA  99164-5020

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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 93 09:15:14 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Wonko the Sane)
Subject: FTP over SLIP

I'm still debugging my SLIP connection.  Since the only real method of
transferring files is ftp, I'd like to get that working.  Unfortunately,
it's not.  The throughput is abysmal, and occasionally it kind of "gets stuck"
and doesn't send anything.  My current setup is
    PPI PM14400FXMT modem
    MacTCP 1.1.1 with the retransmit patch
    InterSLIP
    Xferit
I'm currently using the modem script for the PM144000FXMT modem on interslip.
I know a guy with a PeeCee (bleah) who can get it working fine with about
2.9kps throughput, which would be extremely nice if I could get it working.

Eric
[e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 12:55:00 -0500
From: PAUL M SHELDON <[e-mail]>
Subject: Gala Tea 1.0 on Bookmark CD Issue 15

    I may attempt to make a resource opener to post that will open the
huge voice resources on cd rather than clutter your hard drives. It was my
impression that the voices were almost natural when I maximized
modulation. Next, we might be using av machines to give more natural
modulation. Joined with a speech model of our own voices, we could tell
stories to each other over the internet!!!
    Later, midi story composition systems or even midi singers!
    A whole new old media.

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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 12:47:06 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Ulf Dittmer)
Subject: GeniScan GS-4000: what software can use it ?

Hi netters !

Recently a friend gave a handy scanner to me. It's called
GeniScan GS-4000. Now the question is, what software will
let me use it ? None of the scanner plug-ins that come with
Photoshop worked but they are for flatbed scanner I suppose.
It has to be software that can reconstruct an A4 page from
two scans. BTW, the device has a connector for a serial
port. Any advice is much appreciated, many thanks in advance.

Greetings,              Ulf

[e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 11 Sep 93 07:56:58 BST
From: Richard Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: Hard Drive for Portable

Dennis Davison writes:

>Conner Peripheral has a Drive that would meet your needs.  This
>internal drive has a special connector and different components than
>your standard SCSI Drive.  Conner was the Manufacturer of the
>Original Drive in the Portable.  I got my replacement thruogh
>SabreData (Local Repair Shop) (Cost $399.00).  You might want to call
>Shreve Systems for a replacement.  They sell new and refurbished
>equipment for almost every Mac configuration.  I also use Pre-Owned
>Electronics.  They carry the Drive you need for $399.00.  Of course
>this is half the cost of a replacement Portable (They are selling
>for around $799.00).

Wow!!!

Four hundred dollars for a 40 megabyte hard drive!!!!!!!

We can buy used Portables for $250 to $450 in the UK, complete and working!

Cheers,
Richard

Hardware & Systems Executive,
NorthEast Macintosh User Group

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

Date: Sat, 11 Sep 93 03:14:37 EDT
From: Patriock Hutchinson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Harris Performer Pro Accelerator

Hi. Does anyone have any experience with the new Harris Performer Pro
accelerator for the mac Classic? Thanks.

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

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 11:35:31 UTC+0200
From: Rafael Collantes <[e-mail]>
Subject: Has the PB165 (not the 165c) a FPU??

Hi everyone,
I have recently discovered that there is a PowerBook 165 with
gray-scale screen, instead of the color screen of the 165c. Has
anyone tried it?. I would appreciate a SpeedMeter chart.
On the specifications sheet edited by Apple it does not
mention the presence of FPU on the 165, while it does on the 165c
Is it an error or has Apple been able to produce 8 different
PowerBooks without being any of them the one I want? (FPU equipped
and unexpensive passive gray-scale screen)

Thank you very much.

Rafael Collantes
Instituto de Investigacion Tecnologica
Madrid, Spain

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

Date: 10 Sep 1993 10:33:48 +0000 (GMT)
From: "NAME \"Fergus J. Lalor\"" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Help contacting Rohan Cook, PowerLock author?

Does anyone out there have an e-mail address for Rohan Cook,
author of the security device PowerLock? I have tried
using the address given in the manual but have not
received a reply. Suggestions, if any, to the
address below please as I am several months behind
in reading InfoMac.
Thanks in advance -
Fergus J. Lalor, Chemistry Dept., University College, Cork, Ireland.
E-mail: [e-mail]

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

Date: 12 Sep 1993 14:33:14 +0000 (GMT)
From: "F.J. Lalor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Help please! Strange problem with ChemDraw 2.1.3 and Word 5.

Our graduate students type their research reports on a Mac (Classic
or SE) using Word 5 for text and the chemistry graphics program
ChemDraw 2.1.3 for diagrams. These have been working flawlessly in
tandem for well over a year. In the past week we have been
encountering a problem which is causing much hysteria since annual
progress reports are due in next week. As usual, graphics were
created in ChemDraw, pasted into the Word 5 text and the finished
Word documents were taken on disk to the Student Services LaserWriter
for printing. The first few pages of each document printed OK (even
if they contained graphics) but the printer then bombed out, in each
case giving a "Document Blahblah could not be printed because of a
postscript error" message. On the document itself, at the point where
printing aborted, is printed the message "ChemDraw Laser Prep not
loaded"

This problem also occurred when we tried printing the affected
documents from my own Quadra/LaserWriter II and so is clearly not a
problem of the original printer. It does not occur (so far) on
documents created on my Quadra using (different copies of) the same
software. I found that the affected documents WOULD print on my
machine if I cut the ChemDraw graphics from the Word text, pasted
them into a new ChemDraw document, then cut/pasted back into the
original Word document.

I have not had time to establish whether the problem affects all four
student Macs (I think not, though). I have run Norton Utilities and
several virus checks on the one Classic which I know to be affected
but nothing untoward emerged. The preference settings and all other
user-set variables for both applications were identical to those on
my own untroubled machine. The cut'n'paste workaround which allowed
printing from my machine did not work on the Classic even after
ChemDraw had been re-installed from the back-up disk.

Explanations and/or suggestion to solve the problem will be
gratefully recieved. Agitated postgrads are besieging my office and
my (somewhat undeserved) status as departmental MacGuru is about to
go down the tubes.

Fergus Lalor, Chemistry Dept., University College, Cork, Ireland.
[e-mail]



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

Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1993 15:19:59 -0500 (CDT)
From: Russell Cotton <[e-mail]>
Subject: High-Quality Speech Demo

Hello,

A few digests ago I saw a file that was a demo of the high quality voices
(Macintalk Pro) of the new Speech Manager. I cannot find these now. Could
someone please direct me as to where this is?
thanks

**********************
* Russell Cotton     *
* [e-mail]  *
**********************


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

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 09:48:54 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: How to connect 2 LC III's to both modem and Grayshare printer (A)

Wow, a note from Murph!  Blast from the past, or what?

The very best way to do this is with a Shiva Netserial. They run
around $200 or so I think, but it's been awhile since I bought one.
These are absolutely fantastic products that put ANY serial device
on the network, just as if it were a regular network device, but
the software will let your mac think that is communicating with the
modem OR printer port directly, all the while using AppleTalk
normally.  Software automatically connects to the serial device.
If you don't already have a modem, you might want to get a netmodem
instead, though it would probably cost at least as much as the
modem and netserial combo, and would be less flexible.

The Netserial is simple to set up.  Just plug in the transformer
power cord, attach it's AT port to the net, and attach the serial
device to it's serial port.  Install the control panel and RDEV,
select the device in the chooser, optionally configure the control
panel and Voila'!

One thing I am absolutely sure of is that there will be  no
noticeable slowdown of such a small network as your daughter's.
Appletalk is slow, but it can handle this with no problem.

--Brian Pickerill  <[e-mail]>

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

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 93 14:24:20 LCL
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #179

Apple is changing from HEPP to CPP (Collegiate Partners Program).  There are
three levels.  The first level requires the University to keep a significant
inventory, but the other two do not require the University to ever 'own' any
machine.  The committment for the third level is low enough that even a very
small school (we are only about 1,000 strong, and have similar state school
problems) can meet their requirements.  On the other hand, the Apple account
rep is _very_ non-responsive.  It appears to me that Apple is going to
refocus their attention onto the old HEPP I schools, and let any other school
tag along if they want and if they can take care of themselves.  This is not
so

different than the commercial sector.

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

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 93 10:32:49+010
From: [e-mail] (Alfonso Fuggetta)
Subject: Info about Nisus

Dear netters,

I have purchased Nisus a couple of years ago. At that time I received
version 3.0.1. Then I received two upgrades to versions 3.0.5 and 3.0.6.

After that, no new updates or news from Paragon Concepts.

Are they still in the business? What is the last version of Nisus?

Thanks for your attention,

Alfonso Fuggetta ([e-mail])

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

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 93 13:22:19 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: Internet access questions

In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
> 1) I would like to find out and obtain software that would allow my Mac to
> communicate with Internet better. Currently I am connected via a service
> provided by PSI (Precision Systems, Inc.). As front end SW I am using
> Worldlink program from Intercon, Inc. Unfortunately, this program has many
> limitations, the most notable one is that it does not provide a mechanism
for
> reading/writing Usenet News.

The problem you will run into here is that your link to PSI is only
enabled for use with WorldLink, as I understand the deal with InterCon
Systems, makers of WorldLink. So the issue is not whether there is
other software (there is gobs of it), but if you can get another account
that will provide the sort of access you need to use this other software.
That I can't tell you, since it depends on your physical location
and how much money you are willing to spend on it and long distance
phone calls each month. To find a list of providers, you want to read
the PDIAL list from Peter Kaminski. From that list, here's how to
get it in a variety of ways...

# From: PDIAL -7-
# Subject: How People Can Get The PDIAL (This List)
#
# EMAIL:
#
#   From the Information Deli archive server (most up-to-date):
#     To receive the current edition of the PDIAL, send email containing
#     the phrase "Send PDIAL" to "[e-mail]".  To be
#     put on a list of people who receive future editions as they are
#     published, send email containing the phrase "Subscribe PDIAL" to
#     "[e-mail]".  To receive both the most recent and
#     future editions, send both messages.
#
#   From the news.answers FAQ archive:
#     Send email with the message "send usenet/news.answers/pdial" to
#     "[e-mail]".  For help, send the message "help" to
#     "[e-mail]".
#
# USENET:
#
#   The PDIAL list is posted semi-regularly to alt.internet.access.wanted,
#   alt.bbs.lists, alt.online-service, ba.internet, and news.answers.
#
# FTP ARCHIVE SITES (PDIAL and other useful information):
#
#   Information Deli FTP site:
#     ftp.netcom.com:/pub/info-deli/public-access/pdial [192.100.81.100]
#
#   As part of a collection of public access lists:
#     VFL.Paramax.COM:/pub/pubnet/pdial [128.126.220.104]
#     (used to be GVL.Unisys.COM)
#
#   From the Merit Network Information Center Internet information archive:
#     nic.merit.edu:/internet/pdial [35.1.1.48]
#
#   As part of an Internet access compilation file:
#     liberty.uc.wlu.edu:/pub/lawlib/internet.access [137.113.10.35]
#
#   As part of the news.answers FAQ archive:
#     rtfm.mit.edu:/pub/usenet/news.answers/pdial [18.70.0.224]


> 1.1) Are there better programs? Freeware or shareware would be preferable,
as
> my funds are limited, but commercial products are of interest also.

There are programs that will knock your socks off, and for the most
part they're free. All of these programs that I mention below require
a MacTCP (and if you're using a modem, SLIP) connection.

Email - Eudora
News - NewsWatcher, Nuntius, InterNews
FTP - Fetch, XferIt
Gopher - TurboGopher (can also be used to FTP files)
WAIS - WAIS for Mac, MacWAIS
Archie - Archie 0.9

> 1.2) If there are such programs available, could someone mail me one (I
> believe that Worldlink can correctly decode an encoded binary)?

Someone could, but there's not really any point until you have
a different account.

Now, for a wee bit of shameless self-promotion. I've just
written a book called The Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh
for Hayden Books, which is scheduled to appear at the end of
September or the beginning of October, although I always assume
the latter of two dates. I hate mentioning specific details until
things are available, or at least beyond the point of no return, but
suffice it to say that the contents of the book and the contents of
the included disk should make getting on the Internet far easier for
an individual.

cheers ... -Adam

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

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

Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1993 19:57:05 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Pete Gontier)
Subject: Is THINK C 6.0 really that bad?

I remember when Symantec bought THINK. I thought "Gee, I hope they
leave the products pretty much the way they are. I hope they don't
forget people like THINK beta testers, like they forgot Norton Guides
(now THINK Reference) beta testers." I personally didn't get any
adverse fall-out from that, and THINK C 5 turned out to be a pretty
damn good release (I believe it was pretty much planned out before
Symantec started meddling).

I also remember when Symantec bought Zortech. My first thought was
"oh, shit!" We on the net knew that Zortech's C++ product on the Mac
was worthless. Nobody who bought it liked it. My greatest fear was
that Symantec would just dump it into a THINK environment and ship.
(That appears to be what they later did.)

Eventually I stewed and stewed to the point where I posted a rash
prediction. I posted, roughly, "Get your jollies out of THINK C 5,
because it will probably be the last usable version..." People were
so loyal (and justifiably, dammit!) to THINK that they laughed at
me.  Now we have a Symantec C++ which includes a THINK-5-era C
compiler and a C++ compiler that sucks rocks. There hasn't been a
6.0.1, months after the release of 6.0, when there were almost
immediate maintenance releases after 4.0 and 5.0 (when presumably
THINK was still largely in control).

Symantec/THINK no longer has Kahl or Siegel, their original
architects. They don't appear to be able to ship a fixed C++. And
they're supposed to be the official anointed toolsmith for
PowerPC/Mac? How silly. Now I'll make another rash statement:
Symantec is probably the biggest obstacle to the success of MacOS on
PowerPC. Symantec could kill PowerPC/Mac.

This all makes me feel like all those PC/DOS idiots who base anti-Mac
arguments on Apple being a single source, or, in this case, a single
authority on development tools, are right.  Microsoft won't be
building NT for PowerPC with Symantec tools, so it's not like Apple
will cease to exist.  But MacOS might. Who wants to run NT, even if
it is on Apple hardware? Ugh.

Then again all I have to look forward to today is a room full of
five-year-olds screaming "Happy Birthday" at the top of their lungs
and punching each other in the stomach, so maybe I'm just projecting
my anxiety.
--
 Pete Gontier // EC Technology // [e-mail]
 "Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft."

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

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 93 17:59:21 PDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Jurassic Park logo

A few months ago I saw some discussion on a posting of the Jurassic Park logo;
the red circle with the black T-rex skeleton and "Jurassic Park" lettered on
top.

I'd really like to get it (I believe it was scanned in & posted as a PICT
file),

but I can't find it in the archives.  Does anyone know where it is/what it's
called?

domo arigato

Chuck
[e-mail]

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

Date: Sun, 12 Sep 93 15:34:18 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Doug Hardie)
Subject: Kermit initialization file

My powerbook has the annoying habit of resetting the internal modem
configuration when I fax something.  Since I use both the fax and data
modems, this gets to be a pain to have to reset the configuration of the
data modem.  Does the mac kermit have any equivallent to the mskermit.ini
file that could be used to send modem commands when kermit starts up?

-- Doug

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

Date: 12 Sep 1993 06:56:26 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Ng Kim Guan)
Subject: MacAquarium - where can I get the plans?

Please help. I have been searching for the plans to convert an old
compact Mac to an aquarium with no success. Have tried archie and WAIS
with no success. Found a lead using Veronica, but got a message to say
that the posts had been moved to tape and were not accessible.

If someone knows how to get hold of the plans, please mail me!

Thanks in advance,
-Kim

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

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 93 11:20:15 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Christian Page)
Subject: Mac emulator on Silicon Graphics running IRIX 4

I've heard a little about a mac emulator that would run on unix machines. Does
anyone have more informations (price, company, compatibility) ??? We could
consider buying one if it is available...

Christian Page
Physic department
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 93 09:30:35 BST
From: A.D'[e-mail] (Antony D'Emanuele)
Subject: MacTCP 1.1 and System 7.1 (Q)

Are there any problems running MacTCP 1.1 with System 7.1?

Regards, Tony D'Emanuele, University of Manchester

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

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 93 23:21:49 CDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: MacWAIS 1.24 available

The following piece is from Usenet News.

Liu

>>From: [e-mail] (John Hardin)
>>Subject: MacWAIS 1.24 available
>>Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1993 17:46:16 GMT
>>Lines: 25
>>
>>I've just made a new release of MacWAIS available on ftp.einet.net
>>(/einet/mac/macwais1.24.sea.hqx).  This release fixes the inadvertent
>>dependencies on Color QuickDraw, thus, allowing it to run on
>>"Classic" QuickDraw systems (i.e., PB100, SE, etc.).  Thanks to
>>[e-mail], [e-mail] and
>>[e-mail] for reporting the incompatibility.
>>
>>Other features include: the ability to search local sources, faster
>>throughput (~1.5-2x), and miscellaneous UI fixes.  See the
>>accompanying README for more details.
>>
>>As a plug, I'm working on porting the indexer to the Mac.  The basic
>>port is done (and it works!).  I'm now working on the UI.  More
>>details later.
>>
>>As always, report any questions or problems to
>>[e-mail].
>>
>>-jwh
>>--
>>John W. Hardin                    phone:  [phone]
>>MCC                       email:  [e-mail]
>>3500 W. Balcones Center Dr  fax:    [phone]
>>Austin, TX  78759-6509            uucp:   ...!cs.utexas.edu!milano!hardin

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

Date: Fri, 10 SEP 93 13:34 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Maelstrom 1.3 CRASHES on quit

Hi,

The version 1.3 of the wonderful Maeltrom crashes on quit!!
I've tried it on my Mac LC 4MB HD80 with *all* extensions
turned off (strtup with SHIFT key pressed): it lets you play all the game,
it gives you the code for the Maeltrom contest but when you choose
Q for Quit, it freezes on a black screen.

Please help! I would like to register and send my scores to the contest!!
Greetings,
                            Federico



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

Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1993 15:14:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: Marshall McGowan <[e-mail]>
Subject: Magic Modem Revisited

Sit right down and I'll tell you a tale, a tale of disgusting woe...

So, I wanted to buy a modem, a real modem, a fast modem, a macho fax/modem.
I had it narrowed down to two contenders, the USRobotics Fax Sporster
(cute lil appelation, that, huh?) and the Supra 14.4 fax/modem with that
cute little LED display for the speed and stuff. The USR was cheaper than
the Supra, so I was most likely gonna go for that one. Well, I was
wandering through a Mac mag one day, in the mer month of August.
(just doesn't have the correct scansion does it?)
Anyway, there was this ad you see, an add for a beautiful
brand-spanking-new modem. The type, a Magic Modem, the company,
MacProducts USA. This is a 14.400 baud fax/modem with voice capabilities,
and all for $318!! Ohh!  Joyous rapture! I can make my computer talk to
people on the phone, I can have voice mail, oh, joy is me, joy is me. I
ordered the puppy, after looking in a MacUser to see that while magic
modems were not the best in the world, they were also not the worst.

The modem came yesturday, so I unpacked it (doesn't work in the box very
well, you know) and tried to set it up. This was the start of my problems.

Problems with the Magic Modem VFX 14.4:

    a)  The power supply. The power supply was supplied with a
    cord, that instead of having a plug you could plug in the wall, it
    had a socket, for a regular computer/printer type power cord. I
    should have suspected something there. But, I got the cord from the
    copy machine I have, and used it. Ok so it plugs in now. This is
    good. I turned it on.

    b)  The modem, when it is on is always on. Meaning, for
    instance, when you pick up a phone, and you hear the dial-tone,
    when you turn on this modem, and it is hooked into the phone line
    (useless otherwise, isn't it?) the modem immediately has a
    dial-tone. So. Interesting. Makes it bloody impossible for the
    modem to answer the phone, doesn't it?? Well... ok, I think maybe I
    can send it some sort of setting that will fix this. But, I'll try
    to dial another computer and see what happens.

    c)  So, I start up my ZTerm program, and set it up for a nice zippy
    fast
    14.4 Hayes Compatable modem (says so, right here on the box, Hayes
    command set compatable.) Then I tell it to dial my normal number. No
    effect. No, not true, the modem has been on the phone for so long,
    that
    the little lady comes on and says, "If you want to dial a number,
    please
    hang up and try again." Ok. Fine. I can work around this too. So, I
    turn
    the modem off, get ready to have ZTerm dial the number, and turn the
    modem back on, and send the dial command just a second later. Still no
    dialing going on. The little lady comes back on the phone and says,
    "If
    you want to dial a computer please use a real modem." No, not really
    she
    didn't say that. But, she was thinking it, I could hear it in her
    little
    recorded voice.

So, after this, I give up and decide that this modem is not worth the
silicon it's chips were melted from and try to call up the customer support
line of MacProducts. No luck, they have the unmitigated gall to go home at
5pm EST. Bummer. So I wait until the next day, and then I call them up. I
talk to a very nice girl there, who asks what's wrong with it. I barely
refrain to say, "It's a dead modem, it's not resting, it's dead. A dead
modem." Instead, I outline, in my inordinately humorous way, the problems I
have with the modem, and I tell her that I want to send it back to MacProducts
for a full refund. She asks if I would rather get another Magic Modem, but
I (wisely, I think) decline. They let me know that they will issue me a
full credit, and they will even re-imburse me for the UPS shipping costs if
I fax them a copy of my UPS receipt to them. They really do have nice
people working thier phones, the salesman that I talked with prior to
ordering seemed to be knowledgable, and the girl I spoke with at the
customer service line (not an 800 number, but this is nit-picking) was very
nice, and was happy to help me out and get me a refund.

The grist of all this (really, there is a moral, or point to this, honest.)
is that the Magic Modem, in my opinion, sucks big rocks, and I wouldn't
even wish it on George Bush.

Now, Supra just  lowered thier prices on thier modems to unbelievable lows,
so I was able to get a Supra 14.4 fax/modem for a mere $249 including next
day air shipping. (That was another thing, the Airborne Express Second day
air from MacProducts cost me $11, Mac Zone (where I am getting the Supra
from) only cost $3!) So, hopefully, the next time I telecompute from my
home, I'll be on my brand new zippy zippy Supra Modem. (Sounds like a
comics character. Look, down through the tele-wires, it's, it's it's Supra
Modem!!)

I would also like to add that I did get several replies to my earlier
inquiry about Magic Modem. One person said they were good, one said they
were bad. One person said they were the same as the Zoom modem (It's
really a TwinCom modem, both Zoom and MacProducts USA relabel it.) And why
wasn't I getting the Zoom modem because they had a seven year warranty. A
couple people were happy with thier USRobotics modems, and several said
they were happy with thier Zupra modems.

Marshall
[e-mail]

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

Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1993 20:44 EST
From: Don't Panic! <[e-mail]>
Subject: Memory Manager (sorry last Q slightly corrupted)

Dear Netters,
Is there a shareware/freeware available anonymous FTP/Gopher that will allow
any open Application/Control Panel/DA to control how much RAM the open
application uses?  Or are there no other sollutions other than to quit the
program before one controls how much RAM is used from the Get Info box?  It
seems tedious to have to close an application, only to change the memory
allotment to fit a document one wants to open.  BTW if such a beast works with
the vanilla version of System 7, all the better.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
[e-mail]
P.S. Thanks to those netters who replied to my earlier problem of hiding the
help menu.  The solution reached a concensus, at getting Menuette, which does
just as it claims to do.  In summary it  makes the repetative menu items
icons, and allows you to pick a shorter width font for the other items.
Between that and SpeedyFinder 1.5.4 which actually has the option of hiding
Balloon Help, SuperClock is now visible all the time.
- I believe they are both shareware.

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

Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1993 04:30:46 -0400
From: Normand Beaudoin <[e-mail]>
Subject: Microsoft Word or Nisus or others?

Hi! netters!

I plan to buy, learn, and use a word processor, particularly
for a doctoral thesis which will contain text, graphics and
pictures. I have a limited time for that job, so I absolutely
must not do a mistake with the choice of the word
processor I will use. Is there other word processors better
than Word or Nisus? What Nisus can do that Word cannot and
vice versa? Which one should I choose?????

Thank you very much!

Normand Beaudoin

[e-mail]

Note: I sent this same message few days ago but I did a
     mistake which placed it at a wrong place in info-mac.
                That is why I try it once again. Excuse me and
                thank
                you to those who sent me answers in spite of
                that
                mistake.

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

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 12:01:20 -0500 (CDT)
From: Philip Nelson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Music composition software

I use Finale from Coda.  It's a high end do everything kind of product and
challenging to use when I've been away for awhile but I've haven't seen a
better package.

Philip Nelson/UW-Green Bay/[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 12:48:58 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Ulf Dittmer)
Subject: Newton Mr. Assistant archive file corrupt ?

Hi netters !

On Sumex there is something in the Newton Directory called
Mr. Assistant. After downloading I deBinHexed it and got
another BinHex file which none of my defunkers could make
sense of. Would some kind soul please upload it again or
send my a copy of it ? Many thanks in advance.

Greetings,              Ulf

[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 10:08:33 +0000
From: Fearghas McKay <[e-mail]>
Subject: NSI 1.4, sort of available on ftp.apple.com

Subject: Re: NSI 1.4, sort of available on ftp.apple.com
From: Jerry Goldstein, [e-mail]
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1993 10:24:00 GMT
In article <[e-mail]> Jerry Goldstein,
[e-mail] writes:
>In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
>(Mike Shoemaker) wrote:
>
>
>>
>> No the disk is fine. It's just the wrong one... I'll send up a flare
>> locally and see what can be done to get the right one up there.
>> --
>> Mike Shoemaker               [e-mail]
>> Apple Computer, Inc.
>
>I checked ftp.apple.com earlier this evening and saw the correct NSI 1.4.
>It indeed had the installer script and was the correct disk image. I think
>a lot of people who downloaded it were probably confused, especially
>considering that this week's issue of MacWeek mentioned it, so there was
>probably a flurry of downloads befor the correct one appeard.
>
>--
>Jerry Goldstein      Internet: [e-mail]
>"All of my thoughts, opinions, etc. come from me....
>or someone just like me."  anonomyous


/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\

Cheers

Fearghas McKay

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

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 93 10:09:45 CEST
From: Carlo Viviani <[e-mail]>
Subject: Oztex And Text Editors

I know, I know this is a FAQ, but please don't flame me... :-))

Anyone can suggest a good text editor to use with OzTeX? I currently use
Word 5.1, and I heard that OzTeX is better at handling equations etc...:
but it lacks a text editor! So I don't know whether to pass or not to
OzTeX. Word's equation editor is nice, is there something similar for
OzTeX?

Thanks a lot,

Carlo

PS: answer to mailbox, please! <[e-mail]>

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

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 21:59:03 -0500 (CDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: pagemaker filters

I am searching for import/export filters for Microsoft Works 3.0 to
PageMaker5.  A fellow teacher said you might know of a source. Thank you

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

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 93 12:02:32 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Persian font for Windows (A)

>But, does anyone know if there is a place to get fonts and >such for
>PC's running Windows, and specifically a Persian - type font?

Dear Ellen,
There is a font conversion utility available that will let you convert
windows to mac and vice versa. The utility is available on sumex, it is
called tt-converter-13.hqx and is available in the util directory.

sk

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

Date: 10 Sep 1993 09:36:39 -0500
From: "dlawrence" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Phone trees on the Mac

Try Phone Pro from Cypress Research...it works great! I do script writing and
the voicing for corporate voicemail tree front ends (America OnLine and Paper
Direct are among my clients) and I've used this product with great success.

Cypress Research Corporation
240 East Caribbean Drive
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
408/752-2700
408/752-2735 Fax

Good luck!

David Lawrence
Online Tonight  <-- debuts Sun Oct 17 1993 8PM ET
            (check your local listings!)

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

Date: Sat, 11 Sep 93 17:50:22 EDT
From: Martin Charest <[e-mail]>
Subject: PixelFlipper v. 1.3.4 request

Hi,
     I need the cdev "PixelFlipper 1.3.4".  I found version 1.3
at mac.archive.umich.edu, but it is buggy, and someone told me that
it was corrected in the latest version (1.3.4).  I don't have access
to AmericaOnline.

I tried ALL the other cdev that can do the same thing (DepthGauge,
ColorSwitch, ScreenDepth, etc, etc...), but they all have some
conflict or problems on my system.  So the latest version of PixelFlipper
is my only hope!
Thanks a lot in advance,


                Martin.

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

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 06:24:19 PDT
From: pslvax!siva![e-mail] (Sadhunathan Nadesan)
Subject: pkzip for mac??

Aloha gentlement:

I've read a posting about gzip which mentions you, and I have a question
I hope you can help me with.  Is there a compression program I can
get for sending compressed files between a Mac and a MS-Dos PC?  Would
gzip do that?

The application is, the newspaper Hinduism Today is written in Hawaii
on  a network of Macs.  The editors send it to me for archiving on
the HT mail server over MCI mail, full text.  We'd like to compress it
and send as binary attachments on the MCI.  The machine I receive it
on is a PC.

Actually what i am looking for is compression that is compatible on
3 platforms, Mac, Dos, and Unix.  We use compress or GNU zip on unix,
pkzip on dos, and stuffit on the mac .. all incompatible.

Can you help?

Thanks in advance


Om Namasivaya
sadhu nadesan

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

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 93 16:54:55 BST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Polish accents: how?

I would like to be able to insert Polish accents
into a document I am producing (in Word, preferably, or
Quark Xpress). The document as a whole is not in Polish, only
parts of it (so I do not want to change the whole keyboard
layout necessarily). The troublesome accents are the ogonek
(which is like a backward cedilla) and the l with a line
through it. Anybody have any solutions (preferably quick ones)?

Graham White
International Academy for Philosophy,
Liechtenstein

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

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 13:12:30 -0600 (MDT)
From: Bradley Nation <[e-mail]>
Subject: PostScript file print utility

Is there a PostScript file utility that works under System 7 analogous to
the SendPS utility.  Send replys to [e-mail]. I will summerize
for the net.

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

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 13:43:44 -0600
From: "Earl Misanchuk"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: PowerBook File Assistant Software (Q)

Our campus computer store Apple price list includes an item labelled  M1813Z/A
PowerBook File Assistant Software, with the following description:
Provides file synchronization between PowerBook and other Macintosh computers
as
well as battery management utilities and other convenience features.

The computer store price is $CDN 95.00.

It sounds to me like this might be a useful bit of software (since I tend to
co-operate my PowerBook and two other Macs on a regular basis), but I can't
find
any information on it, how it works, how it compares to any of the other
file-synchronizing packages, etc.

Can anyone shed any light?

ADVthanxANCE

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

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 93 21:17 PDT
From: [e-mail] (George Wade)
Subject: PowerDraw-2 Byte System compatibility??

     We hope to use PowerDraw - Engineered Software - with lables;
     explanations; misc. text: in two languages. One of the languages is
     Japanese.

       Does anybody have experience of the degree of compatibility
       of PowerDraw with either KanjiTalk 7.1 or with the Japanese
       Language Kit for S 7.1?  - - Or of compatibility of PowerDraw with
       any 2 byte language?

         Engineered Software have a Script Manager "clean" version
'in
         the works'. No date! The future, at least, is hopeful.

          George Wade

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

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 09:09 CST
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Printer compatibility

Is the Epson Action Laser 1000 compatible with the Centris 650?  Thanks for
the
help.

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

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

Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1993 08:58:33 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Chuck Goelzer Lyons)
Subject: Programmer needed

Greetings!

I am working with Brad Scott of the Vegetarian Resource Group to try and
find a Mac Programmer willing to convert The Vegetarian Game the group
created in the IBM environment to a Mac environment. As the
co-owner/administrator for VegLife, none of our 700+ members took the bate.
Where does one find a knowledgeable Mac programmer? Any help in finding
someone would be greatly appreciated.

The following is a quote from the game's readme file:

The files VEGGAME.EXE and VEGGAME.DAT must be in the same DOS
directory.  The game can be played faster if these files are copied
onto a hard disk.  To start the game, type VEGGAME from the DOS
prompt.

The Vegetarian Game presents questions relating to vegetarianism
>From any of six categories:
     Health:             Health and nutrition
     Environment:        How food choices affect the environment
     Animal / Ethics:    Animal rights or ethical choices
     Food:               Vegetarian foods
     Famous Vegetarians: Vegetarians from sports, entertainment,
             history, etc.
     Pot Luck:           Any of the above categories


Selecting a difficulty level:
     Level 1 (Easiest)  is for children age 5 to 9
     Level 2 (Moderate) is for people age 10 or over or people new
            to vegetarianism
     Level 3 (Hardest)  is for anyone with an advanced knowledge of
            vegetarianism or anyone looking for a
            challenge


Selecting a category:
     When prompted, hit Q to quit, or hit any other key to randomly
     select a category.

Answering the questions:
     When the question is displayed, select your answer by hitting
     1, 2, 3, or 4. If you are right, a message will say so.  If
     you are wrong, you will be told the correct answer.

     The game ends after you quit or after you have been asked 25
     questions.  A summary will appear telling you how many
     questions you got right and how many questions you were asked.
     You may then play again, if you choose, by entering S when prompted.

 -------------------end of readme file--------------------

Thanks for any leads, tips, or help!

Chuck Goelzer Lyons,  [e-mail],  607 255-4951
Cornell University, Newman Lab, Ithaca, NY 14853-5001

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

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 93 18:04:14 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: QuickBASIC for Mac

Mac.gang,

Has anyone used Microsoft's QuickBASIC interpreter/compiler ? I need to
do development of several small, stand-alone Mac applications and noticed
the attractive price for this development package. How does QuickBASIC
stack up against other Mac development environments ?

TIA,

Rich
([e-mail])

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

Date: Sat, 11 Sep 93 07:55:54 BST
From: Richard Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: SEAs on sumex

L.H. Wood from England writes:

>I see that SEAs are appearing on sumex - it's annoying, downloading a
>small After Dark module from your unix box via a 2400 baud telephone
>connection that costs, only to find that 1/3 of the downloaded file
>was a totally unnecessary self-extracting code segment.
>
>Surely the only things we need SEA'd on sumex are the compression
>programs themselves?
>
>Please don't submit SEAs! .cpt or .sit (v3.0) is fine.

Just shows, you can't please all of the people all of the time!

Personally I think SEAs are useful, not everyone has all the necessary
expanders
(although I keep Stuffit Expander on my desktop) and it's a real mother to
download a huge file only to find that you then have to go and hunt for some
utility to unpack the archive.

I also can't understand anyone in the UK using a 2400 baud modem - even at our
cheapest rate, it costs 0.07 (10 cents) a minute to connect, and a 2400 modem
will only do transfers at 250 bytes per second, maximum. For a 64K file, that
means at least four and a half minutes, whereas a 14,400 modem will do it in
45
seconds. Can't wait for V.FAST, myself.

Cheers,
Richard

Hardware & Systems Executive
NorthEast Macintosh User Group - UK

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

Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1993 13:03 MET
From: "E Hoenkamp, NICI" <[e-mail]>
Subject: slides in OzTeX (Q)

Anyone experience with SliTeX under OzTeX? I followed Lamport's book, and the
files :OzTeX:TeX-inputs:LaTeX:slides.* are present, w/o luck. Thanks, Edward.

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

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 93 12:02:20 EST
From: Murph Sewall <[e-mail]>
Subject: Software Utilities v1.0--some interesting results

Sure enough Disk First Aid 7.2 found a problem on one my HD's that it
said it couldn't fix :-(  Soooo....I tried Central Point's MacTools 2.0.
MacTools offered to repair the problem, read the drive for a couple of
minutes, spent nearly ten minutes churning the CPU, the wrote back to
the drive for a couple of minutes, only to conclude at the end that it
was "unable to analyze the directory" :-(

I resorted to Norton's Disk Doctor (the one that persistently disagrees
with Disk First Aid and PC Tools about the B-Tree header record).  Norton's
Emergency Disk started in on the problem and then complained about not
having enough memory (apparently, too many files on the disk??).  So, I
tried running Norton off another HD with the RAM allocation set to 2MB and
THAT fixed the problem (Thank goodness!!).  DFA 7.2 is now happy with all
my drives.

The one thing I don't like about DFA 7.2 is that if Verify finds a problem
it doesn't offer to repair, and running repair starts the whole analysis
over from the beginning.  It appears that running 'repair' in the first
place is the desirable action.

I've noticed two interesting quirks with MacCheck:

1. If one double clicks the data file or clicks both the app and data and
then launches, MacCheck says that it is "unable to read MacCheck.data
because it is "the wrong type of document" (it lies--It's already read
the data by the time that message appears).  Launching just the app
avoids the message.

2. MacCheck also often incorrectly pronounces applications "not 32-bit clean"
(I'm running a 20 MByte system and have 32-bit enabled all the time as a
consequence; hence all my apps work just fine--including the dozen or
so MacCheck says aren't 32-bit clean).  I take it that older apps haven't
set some bit that 'certifies' the app as 32-bit clean??  I conclude that
the correct reading of the message should be "MAY not be 32-bit clean"
(some of those apps my not like virtual, I haven't cleared enough HD
space to try that).

/s Murph Sewall <[e-mail]>

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

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 12:06:00 -0600 (CST)
From: "Barry Markovitz, M.D. 454-6215" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Sound Manager 3.0 problem

Greetings:

I installed the Hardware System Update 2.0 on my Centris 650 and IIvx with the
Easy Install option.  With extensions off, the sound control panel works fine,
but if I let my extension/control panels load, opening the sound control panel
results in either a bomb box with a bad F-line or a complete blanking of the
screen and a frozen system (the mouse moves the pointer but that's it).
MacCheck, Disk First Aid 7.2, and Norton Utilities 2.0 report no problems.
Rebuilding the desktop doesn't help, and even disabling the "Record button"
and
"Sound Manager" with Extension Manager 2.0 doesn't help either.

The Centris has system 7.1, 8 megs RAM, 32 bit and VM off, with the following
extensions/control panels: Virex 4.0, Norton Backup 2.0, EM extension 2.0, CE
toolbox 1.6.1, Quicktime 1.6.1, Remember 2.3.2, Adobe type align 1.03, ATM
3.0,
After Dark 2.0w, BeHierarchic 1.05, Kolor 2.0, Quickeys 2.1.2, AdminLAT 1.2,
AdminTCP 1.1.1, MacTCP 1.1.1, LAT 1.2, DECnet control 1.2, Filesaver 2.0 and
other routine system 7.1 stuff.

The IIvx has system 7.1, 12 megs RAM, VM off, 32 bit on, and fewer of the
above
extensions (no network, Remember or Backup stuff).

Anyone else having problems with Sound Manager or any help would be
appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Barry Markovitz
<[e-mail]>

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

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 10:11:32 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: SPSS Macintosh WHY it often unexpec quits and how to avoid it!

I've been getting unexpectedly quit crashes in SPSS Macintosh
since I started using system 7 way back when.  It was sporradic,
so, I put up with it, not wanting to use the otherwise excellent
product on another platform, or with sytem 6.  Not that that sytem
6 is an option now with my Quadra anyway.

I've called SPSS about this from the start.  I never got a good
expanation for it until about a week ago.  I lost some work then,
was a bit miffed, and called to see if anyone there had figured it
out yet, or if we lowly Mac users would see the new, version 6 SPSS
anytime soon.  (Not until mid to late 1994 is the new version
expected to ship.  Apparently there is still a lot of work to be
done.  Of course, the Windoze product isn't half as old as the Mac
one and has alread undergone 2 major revisons.  Hense the skip of
the Mac version from 4.04 (current) to 6.0.)

OK, so I'm taking awhile to get to the point.  Sorry.  If you have
any window other than a command (text) or output window active when
you click to the finder (I think other programs, too--any "context
switch") you will get the dreaded quit quite unexpectedly.  Of course,
now you know WHY, so it should be QUITE so unexpected.

BTW, they're only suggestion is to maximize the window settings such
that you are less likely to click elsewhere without thinking of it.
This is a pathetic attempt to deal with the problem, IMHO.  Sorry
to flame, but even calling up the command generator CAUSES the windows
to "unmaximize" and that's one of the very windows that cause the
problem in the first place.

Now I just try to close any of these accessory windows right after
using them.  Find/Replace were the only ones I really used that
much anyway.

--Brian Pickerill  <[e-mail]>

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

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 17:40:51 +0200
From: Jordi Steve <[e-mail]>
Subject: StyleWriter on a PC ???

Hello,

I have seen in these columns, that a Mac ImageWriter printer
can be connected to a PC through the parallel port.
I was wondering if the StyleWriter, which is normally a serial
Canon BJ10e printer, can also be connected to a PC.
Then using the Canon driver under Windows, it could be able
to print texts...

Does anybody have tried such a thing ? If you got success,
how to process ?

I thank you for any help.

Sincerely,
Steve Jordi-Dpt of Geophysics-U of [e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 93 09:05:24 PDT
From: [e-mail] (David Herren)
Subject: sumex directory organization (complaint)

Am I the only one who dislikes the "new" organization of the sumex
directories? I used to be able to find things in under a minute. Now is
seems I have to search and search and search, often not finding what I want
and having to send messages to the posters that have mentioned this or that
to find out where they found things. For example. I just spent 15 minutes
trying to find the latest version of SuperClock. I looked everywhere.
"configuration, "user interface", "utilities", etc. The very last place I
would think to look would be "application" since a control panel is NOT an
application. And in fact, after searching EVERY directory before
application, I thought "what the heck, maybe someone made a mistake and put
it in there not knowing that it's not an application."

What was wrong with looking for DAs under DAs? Control Panels under Control
Panels? At least then you had a pretty good idea. I mean, SuperClock. Hmm.
It effects the user interface of my computer. It is a means of configuring
my computer. It's a utility thing. It's all of these things. It is a
Control Panel. It is NOT an application.

respectfully,
David Herren, [e-mail]

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

Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1993 16:32:38 -0500
From: Bienvenu Sidney J <[e-mail]>
Subject: SuperClock and the help menu (A)

In the options, one of the check boxes allows you to move the lock over to the
left
enough to allow the application icon to show.  It still covers the help menu,
but judging by your letter this is what you want.

If anyone knows how to move the clock even more to the left so that it doesn't
block
the help menu (even if this involves ResEditing), let me know.


                        Sincerly,
                        Jay Bienvenu
                        [e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1993 16:42:05 JST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Text in QuickTime Movies

I need to insert a line of text, much like a caption, in the bottom of several
movies, and cannot figure out how to do it. My main editors are Premiere 1.0
and VideoShop 1.0, neither of which handle text. I can paste frames in using
MoviePlayer, which I got off the QuickTime CD-ROM, but that only lets me
paste in whole frames of text, and doesn't let me paste the text into video
frames themselves.

Can anybody help me? Please send e-mail directly to me, and I will post back
to the digest as neccesary.

Thanks,

Scott Papenfuss

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

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 93 11:02:45 CDT
From: Akira <[e-mail]>
Subject: The Well

What is the email address for the well.  I have a friend there, and need to
drop him a line.  TIA

Akira

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

Date: Sun, 12 Sep 93 17:01:05 IST
From: "N. Tsouk ([e-mail])"
<[e-mail]>
Subject: tn3270 emulation (sum.)

The problem:
3270 emulation for TCP connected macs.

Thanks to:
Alain Golan-Goldberg; Michel Lewinger; Denis Gauthier; Sylvia Elliott;
Al Bloom;  Eric William Burger ;
Chuck McDaniels;



Summary:
The majority of the answers indicated tn3270 from brown university (freeware)
to be the prefered product for this. It is built around the kernel of NCSA
Telne
It can be downloaded in severl ways, and from different Hosts.
I downloaded it from its home host -   "brownvm.brown.edu".
The current version is 2.4a4 which is an update to version 2.3d26. You have to
download both to have the complete set. The 2.3d26 comes in three versions:
tn3d26.seabin ; tn3d26im.seabin (an image file) ; and tn3d26.seahqx (and of
cour
also tn3d26im.seahqx). I didn't manage to  download tn3d26.bin as binary,
using
Fetch, and had to download the tn3d26.seahqx instead.
The tn24a4.seahqx comes only in .hqx format, so no choices here. There are
also
source files for all.
Two additional file sets allows you to download and upload files between the
mac
and the CMSmachine: WMAC and RMAC.  Download the read-me files to find
more about these.

Alternatley you can get the files (as suggested):
By FTP from "ftp.brown.edu" in pub/mac/tn3270
By Email to      [e-mail]
               (subject ignored)
               GET TN3270 $PACKAGE .
By FTP from "ftp.ncsc.uiuc.edu"
By Gopher from University of Minnesota.

A different set of aplications, suggested (and made) by Apple, are "SNA*ps
3270"
 a 3287 emulator , a 5250 emulator and a 3812 emulator.

Connecting by phone: suggestions indicated "Microphone II" and "Smartcom II".


    N. TSOUK    ([e-mail])
    COMPUTING ADVISOR - SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
    UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA - ISRAEL

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

Date: 11 Sep 1993 18:09:05 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Joung-woo John Kim)
Subject: Unix's more or less on Mac?

Is there a free/shareware that is an equivalent to UNIX's "more" or "less"?
What I want is a document reader that will let me read through the document
one page at a time as I type spacebar. A less-like program will be even more
convenient by letting me back up one page when I type 'b' or half a page when
I type 'u'. Between two neighboring pages there should be a one or two lines
overlap so I won't be lost at all. (Optionally, this program will let me do
search on the file: / for forward search and ? for backward search.)

If anyone knows of something like this on MacOS (ie, w/o MPW or A/UX), please
email me.

Thank you.

John
--
Joung-woo John Kim                              [e-mail]
CS Dept.,Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0781

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

Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1993 13:21:36 PDT
From: Kee Nethery <[e-mail]>
Subject: URGENT ADB KEYBOARD PROBLEMS! HELP! (A)

>Using Keycaps, I can see that all the other keys work fine, 'cept for that
one darn key...this is very very VERY aggravating, since I cannot type
anything with that key held down. I need some help, any help! I would be
willing to open up the keyboard to examine switches if someone would show me
how to do such a thing....

Keyboards are really easy to open up. I'll bet that you have something
shorting across the contacts for that particular key. Get a screw driver
that fits the keyboard screws and unscrew all the screws. The keyboard
should just open and you should be able to remove the plastic top and
bottom. Pay attenion to how it folds into the plastic shells so that you
can put it back together again.

You should not need to remove any of the key caps off of the switches (and
in fact, without the proper tools I suggest that you do not even attempt to
remove any key caps, too easy to break the key stems or lose or bend small
parts).

Shake the keyboard, and see if you can clean away any junk in the plastic
shells and on the keyboard circuit board.

As always, don't shuffle your feet on wool carpet (or any other movement
that creates static) while working with the keyboard. Just sit down, open
it, touch the circuit board to equalize your potential with the keyboard,
do what you need to do and then put it back together again.

You might wonder why I openned my keyboard, well, I spilled Coca Cola into
my keyboard and believe me, Coke and keyboards are a bad combination. I had
to remove all the keycaps (my wife has a key cap pulling tool), take apart
all the key switches, and clean every teeny tiny part with rubbing alcohol.
A couple of switches were beyond repair and I scavanged replacements off a
dead keyboard. Finally got it back in shape and working. But, in over 15
years of setting drinks down near keyboards, one event is not too bad a
record. I'm a bit more careful with Coca Cola but otherwise business as
usual.

Kee Nethery
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 13:30:19 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Brian Thomas)
Subject: UUDECODE on Mac (Q)

[e-mail] writes:

>Can anyone tell me how to uudecode on a Mac files that have been
>uuencoded on another platform?  Is there a specific application that does
>this?

>Sorry if this is a dumb question, but thanks in advance regardless.

I've found the most consistent application to be UUTool, from Bernie Wieser.
I believe I got it at sumex. It's freeware. If it's not there I can upload
it.

Brian Thomas
SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
[e-mail]

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

Date: 10 Sep 1993 09:34:54 U
From: "Kaufman Peter" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Will Mac SIMMS Work In a PC? (A)

>>Can anyone tell me if 256K 80 nanosecond 30 Pin SIMMs work in
>>a PC (386, 486)? What does 8x256 vs 9x256 mean?

Generally, no. The difference between 8x256 and 9x256 (or 8x1024 or whatever
density for that matter) is that PCs have an extra chip that is used for a
parity check. The only Macs that had that were a special variant of the IIfx,
which Apple produced to meet government purchasing specs.

Regards,
Peter Kaufman
[e-mail]

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

Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1993 02:30 EST
From: Don't Panic! <[e-mail]>
Subject: Wish list for shareware/freeware

Dear Netters,
Is there any shareware/freeware available via anonymous FTP/Gopher
 that does the following:
1. Turn off those startup extension icons of the extensions that don't offer
an
off switch?
2. A method of clipping off the menu bar items into windows of there own that
works globally?
3. MacroMaker at a version later than 1.0.2?
4. Automatic compression/decompression like AutoDoubler, in order to save disk
space, but not at the driver level?
5. A file recovery program?
6. A program to reduce the pixel size from 640 x 480 to 512 x 384 for us
"unforetunate" owners of the 12" RGB?  Still a great screen, but surprisingly
people are still posting to sumex-aim.stanford.edu archives shareware/freeware
that only works with 640 x 400 minimum, or 640 x 480 minimum.  Such a program
would only need to do 8bit (256 color) graphics.  Buying a 13" or larger
screen isn't an option for me as I am barely able to carry my Macintosh as it
is in my I/O design bag due to the weight of the machine with the monitor.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
[e-mail]
Disclaimer: 12" RGB is referring to Apple's 12" RGB Monitor released in 1991
and soon discontinued by some point in 1992.
I/O design is simply the bag I use, and I have no other relation to that
company.

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

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 93 13:24:13 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: WorldBlazers & Macs

In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
> I can't get my Mac to work with the Telebit Worldblazer modem, though
> I managed to get the modem to work with Sun Workstation and DOS PC/AT. The
> modem just does not seem to respond (even when I use Kermit to issue "AT"
> commands directly).

I have a WorldBlazer and it generally works fine. However, there were
some early problems with the WorldBlazers, so you might want to give
Telebit a call and ask about an upgrade. It's also entirely possible
that the cable is bad - try a couple of others (but you'll need a
hardware handshaking cable to use the full speed of the WorldBlazer).

cheers ... -Adam

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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 09:22 EST
From: Don't Panic! <[e-mail]>
Subject: WriteNow vs. Nisus vs. MS Word (Q)

Dear Netters,
has anyone made a good comparison of these three word processors in terms of
features?
For anyone still looking for a simple and fast word processor, at least now,
nobody can beat the price MacZone is selling WriteNow 3.0 at:  $35.98 +
shipping and handeling of $3.  See there current catalog (with sale dated to
end September 15th).  1-800-248-0800.   I mention this as people can't seem to
decide whether Nisus or MS Word is better, from what I read here, and I
thought WriteNow would be some interesting fuel to add to the debate.
I have used WriteNow for 3 years now, finding the spell checker extremely
fast, though from what I hear Nisus uses many of the same features as
WriteNow.  So what can Nisus do more than WriteNow in addition to multiple
undos and multi-document searches not being on WriteNow?
Just curious as ever.
Sincerely,
[e-mail]

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