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Info-Mac Digest             Thu, 16 Sep 93       Volume 11 : Issue 184

Today's Topics:

      14.4k modem from Technology Concepts
      14400 modem for $99
      40 Mhz Crashintosh SE
      AB box for a mac
      A dumb question (A?)
      alternatives to TeachText for downloaded files, another method (2 msgs)
      Apple Higher Ed Gopher Server
      Audio Spectrum Analysis software for Mac?
      Barnes and Noble won't sell you an Apple, so what!
      Canadian shareware fees
      Can PC's on Appletalk read data from a Mac HD?  How?
      CD ROM dictionary advise (Q)
      Change for change's sake?
      Change is ...
      Chipping and Card (Q)
      Comments from Duo230 owners (Q)
      Disk Copy / Disk Dup +
      Easy View (A)
      Easy View (R)
      EPSF files (Q)
      Eudora serial
      Fontographer 4.0 problems
      Gatekeeper problem
      GeoPort Utility?
      Ghost external floppy drive--help!
      Help: using ftp
      internal Hard Drive can't be found
      InterSLIP
      Jasmine 80meg HD not running on a Centris 660AV (Q)
      Keyboard commands for Special Menu
      LCIII-Appleii
      LCIII Freeze
      Looking for Paul Bourke, New Zealand
      MacTCP versions
      More on Think C 6 and C++, PLEASE
      No list of new postings? GREAT!!
      No list of new postings? GREAT!! (C)
      Old Weird IIci (R)
      Pathworks 1.2 and NSI 1.4
      Pathworks V1.2 compatible with NSI 1.4 ? (A)
      Paying Shareware Fees [R]
      Personal LaserWriter NT Memory Upgrade (Q)
      Pics of CPUs
      PopChar 2.6.1 Minor Anomaly
      PPP stuff
      QuickBASIC for Mac (A)
      Quicken 4 Report Crashes (C)
      Read only hard drives (how to fix?)
      SAY NO TO PIRACY
      Search for resource types (A)
      Selecting objects of the same colour in draw programs (Q)
      Serious GateKeeper problem? (Q)
      Shiva Dial in not releasing PowerPort fax modem
      SoftPC Win
      Start up icon mess
      Word 4.0 and Centris 660av
      Word 4.0 won't run on Centris 660 AV
      Word 4.0 won't run on Centris 660 AV (R)
      WordPerfect 5.1 to Mac conversion

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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 11:19:53 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Rocky Olive)
Subject: 14.4k modem from Technology Concepts

I called MacWareHouse and the $99 LineLink 14.4k modem (from Technology
Concepts) has a 90-day warranty.  They gave me a toll-free number for the
manufacturer, which is 1-800-477-3473.  If anyone decides to try this modem
out, please let everyone know what you think!

Rocky Olive <[e-mail]>       [phone]
Data General Corporation              fax: [phone]
Apex, NC  27502    USA

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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 10:25:07 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Rocky Olive)
Subject: 14400 modem for $99

> The cover of the latest MacWarehouse catalog advertises a 14400 baud modem
> that can be had for $99.  I don't have the catalog in front of me right now,
> so I don't know what the brand is.  Would any body out there happen to have
> the specs on this modem, especially is it a reliable modem?  This would be
> greatly appreciated as I am a student on a tight budget and a 14400 baud
modem
> for $99 sounds too good to be true.

I saw it, too.  It's a LineLink 14.4k.  It uses v.32bis.  It does not say
anything about v.42bis for quad compression, so I assume it doesn't have it.
It does not say anything about fax (CCIT) support, either.  It appears to be
(the first that I've seen) a plain vanilla 14.4k modem.  Nothing fancy.

However, the $99 price tag includes MacKnowledge (yippee) and AccuWeather,
which is probably just a modem number to a weather BBS.  I don't know for
sure, but they don't even tell you what AccuWeather is.

The LineLink modem is made by Technology Concepts.  I know nothing about the
quality or the length of the warranty.  You will probably have to purchase
a HS modem cable separately (I have an extra one, if anyone is interested).

That's all I know.  Hope it's helpful... and, yes, I'm considering it for
myself.  If anyone has actually purchased/used this modem before, please
post a review for the rest of us.  Thanks!

BTW, it *is* Hayes AT compatible.

Rocky Olive <[e-mail]>       [phone]
Data General Corporation              fax: [phone]
Apex, NC  27502    USA

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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 93 23:08:25 EDT
From: Allan Hunter <[e-mail]>
Subject: 40 Mhz Crashintosh SE

I have now carried out my threat and stuck an accelerator and lotsa RAM
into my little SE, so it's now sort of an SF (SE running at approx. IIfx
speeds via 40 MHz 68030 = SF?).  Courtesy of Applied Engineering and
their TransWarp.  I decided to gamble on their good reputation and I've
got 16 MB of RAM of which the machine only savvies 4, the other 12 to be
located when AE sends me the software they're still developing.

If that were only all of my problems!  But instead I have a very fast
little SE that crashes every time I look askance at it, or crosseyed,
or bugeyed, or with eyes in easy focus.  Tell me, O Knowledgable Ones,
which of the following suspected problems is most likely to be causing
the little white box to roll over and play dead at the slightest provo-
cation?

1.  Sick hard drive.  A distinct possibility.  I knew I had problems with
    the hard drive, but I was waiting for the accelerator so I could see
    if by reformatting it for 1/1 interleave ratio would stone the two
    birds simultaneously:  a faster disk drive that no longer had creepy
    probs or else a determination that the drive was history.  Instead, I
    got mixed messages.  First attempt to reformat with Apple HD SC got
    me an "unable to reformat" message; second attempt ran fine, and then
    I loaded all the software back onto it.  When crashes reappeared, I
    ran Disk First Aid which said it could not verify the disk, and
    MacTools Rescue wasn't fond of it either.  Third reformatting attempt
    also brought forth "unable to reformat" messages, and fourth was a
    success after which I very carefully reloaded software one folder at
    a time, checking in betweenst folders with Disk First Aid which gave
    disk a clean bill of health.  Seeking second opinions, I consulted
    NUM, MacTools Rescue, Golden Triangle's DiskMaker, and PLI Formatter
    all of which are in the incidental business of verifying disks and
    with the exception of DiskMaker passed the 2nd-time-around newly re-
    formatted HD; and even DiskMaker passed it on a follow-up try.  This
    is obviously shaky grounds for a clean bill of health for the disk,
    but it is also shaky grounds for condemning it, since whatever the
    problem I've got is, it gives major hassles to virtually every soft-
    ware imaginable...why not disk-verifying software, too?

2.  Sick original motherboard RAM chips.  I think there was at least one
    bad RAM SIMMS chip amongst the old 2.5 MB on the motherboard, but I
    figured they'd be out of the picture with the upgrade.  But no, they
    still receive a limited set of calls most of which have to do with
    the video or so I am told.  The assumption of sick SIMMSies on the
    Mommyboard is based on loose interp of Sad Macs I saw on screen before
    installing the accelerator.

    0000 000F          and       0000 0001      at various times...
    0000 0003                    0000 FFFF


3.  Sick motherboard.  Better not be any such thing.  It got replaced
    in February.  It was seeing ghost disks on internal and external
    drives that it couldn't read (not surprising, since they weren't
    there).  I tend to assume the new one isn't dead already...

4.  Loose connections.  That would be a nice cheap thing to discover as
    the cause of the problem.  All the things that had to be snapped in
    or out to put in the accelerator, you know.  But if so, I have to
    believe that prior problems are unrelated to current ones--but the
    symptoms (random freezes occurring often) are identical even though
    they are occurring much more often with the accelerator installed.

5.  Sick accelerator.  Same objections as number 4 above, plus the annoy-
    ance of new hardware not working.  It is still under warranty, of
    course.

6.  Little fornits running around leaving little green footprints in my
    electronic space in order to punish me for not appreciating them as
    they run around behind my screen holding worn-out wired together with
    their little green teeth (do fornits have teeth?).

It is annoying to have spent this much money to get a fast little white box
that doesn't get things done very fast one crash time is counted.  I'm al-
ready sick of my own startup sounds I've had to reboot so often!

-Allan Hunter
<ahunter@sbccvm>

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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 18:45:02 -0500
From: PAUL M SHELDON <[e-mail]>
Subject: AB box for a mac

    Zach Kessin in digest 180 writes:
>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.
The people I deal with are Connect-It.
We experimented building a high speed modem cable together from apple spec's.
They were very helpful.
    Connect-It in Arlington, Texas has ABCD boxes for only $22.95.
    Their phone is 817-461-9400.
    Their e mail address is [e-mail].
Hope this helps!

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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 23:40:19 -0500
From: PAUL M SHELDON <[e-mail]>
Subject: A dumb question (A?)

    I'm confused, but I'm gonna put in my 2 cents.
Re: info mac digest (my abbr. imd) 180
>From: "dlawrence" <[e-mail]>
>Subject: A dumb question?
I just put those pointers in. See? I can be brain damaged, too!
The important thing is to be brain damaged meaningfully.
OK, now what do I mean by that?
It may well be that Unix is somewhat brain damaged and as
[e-mail] (Steve Strassmann) has
said in imd 181
>you cannot trust email to even send 7-bit ascii reliably
>without encrypting it first with something like uuencode or binhex.
The carrots pointing to the right always seemed to me like quotes, quotes
to distinguish the letter inside a letter from being an actual letter.
Whatever its history, not only do people
>document the bogosity rather than fix the implementations
but also, they absorb it into their language.
I believe settext has something to turn these buggers back into quotes.
Notice, if you try to port smart quotes from a word processor into an e
mail, you get unexpected characters. That's what I thought the sideways
carrots came from.
>the internet email standards (RFC822 & friends)

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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 93 18:22:11 CDT
From: [e-mail] (Pete Jemian)
Subject: alternatives to TeachText for downloaded files, another method

Some recent FAQs have addressed the topic of using other editors
for downloaded TEXT files, rather than the rapidly-reproducing
TeachText.  Once the selection of another editor has been made,
it still remains how to get the files to belong to that editor.
This is a FAQ addressed by

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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 93 18:25:47 CDT
From: [e-mail] (Pete Jemian)
Subject: alternatives to TeachText for downloaded files, another method

Some recent FAQs have addressed the topic of using other editors

for downloaded TEXT files, rather than the rapidly-reproducing

TeachText.  Once the selection of another editor has been made,

it still remains how to get the files to belong to that editor.

This is a FAQ addressed by a small but very elegant program

that is free (source code available).


That program is called   ctc   and it was in the sumex-aim

libraries the last time I looked.

ctc    will Change the Type & Creator

of whatever files are icon-dropped on it.  You downloaded

some files and they belong to TeachText (creator: ttro).

Now you want them to open Edit II (creator: EDIT) when you double-click them.

Then change their creator to EDIT and their type to TEXT.


You want to find out what is the creator signature of some

text editor?  Drop the application icon on  ctc  and you will

see that it is 1234 with type of APPL (where 1234 is the four-byte)

creator signature.


Your MPW/FORTRAN program just wrote a Nobel prize-winning

TEXT data file and you want to plot the data in it with KaleidaGraph.

Use  ctc  to change the creator from "MPS "  to "QKPT" and then

you can start KaleidaGraph by double-clicking that great file.


Drop a whole passel of files on   ctc  at once to change them all

to a particular type and creator.


Change binary files to type TEXT & try to interpret the data fork

as a work of Shakespeare.  Better than a Rohrschach (sp?) picture.


Other programs can also change the type and creator (e.g., ResEdit,

Alpha, & DiskInfo) but   ctc  is very compact and does this one job

nicely.  No monster interface.  No System 6 support.  Needs Sys7.


There will be a quiz on this on Monday.

Come to class with two sharp pencils.

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Date: 16 Sep 1993 18:29:40 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Judy Martinson)
Subject: Apple Higher Ed Gopher Server

APPLE GOPHER SERVER

RThe Apple Computer Higher Education Gopher ServerS is available through
Internet, on a gopher server that is housed at the University of Minnesota.


This program provides an innovative solution to the challenge of
maintaining
ongoing communication with the higher education community.  In addition to
Apple information and software, it provides a unique way (using a gopher
server) for users to interact and participate in discussions for seven
academic disciplines.  Each discipline has a chairperson, an expert in
their respective
fields, who write articles every other month about technology integration
in
their disciplines.  Dialog folders are available for each discipline to
share
information for:  1) Business, 2) Computer Science and Engineering,
3) Library and Information Systems, 4) Mechanical Engineering,
5) Medical and Health Sciences, 6) Schools of Education, and
7) Foreign Language.  Other disciplines will be added in the near future.

Apple also provides information on Apple Products, Regional Marketing News,

Apple Corporate News, HED Marketing Info, USA Service, Training and
Support, Macintosh Freeware and Shareware, Disability Solutions, NetNews
Groups of
Interest, Intellimation Software Catalog, Query Publications, and Syllabus
Publications.

We will be adding new information and services to this system on a
continuing basis.

HOW TO GET TO THE APPLE GOPHER SERVER:

    To gain access to the Apple Gopher server on Internet, you need to
obtain
Gopher client application from University of Minnesota which may be
downloaded
via annoymous ftp from boombox.micro.umn.edu under the directory
/pub/gopher/Macintosh_Turbo_Gopher.   To download use any ftp applications
available.  You also need MacTCP driver to work with the Gopher client
application.

    Macintosh users need to ftp the Macintosh Turbo Gopher application
"Turbo
Gopher.hqx" to their local drive.  Once the client application is copied,
the
user should decompress the application (un-binhex) with Stuffit or
equivalent
decompression tools.  Once uncompressed, the user may launch the Gopher
application and the application is configured to connect to the U of MN
campus
wide information system by default.

    In the main "Home Gopher Server" window, the user will find
"Information
about Gopher" icon.  This icon contains detailed description on Gopher
clients
and servers.  Double clicking the icon will drill down and open the
contents of
the folder.  You will find Apple's server under "Other Gopher and
Information
Servers... All the Gopher Servers in the world...Apple Computer Higher
Educaton
Gopher Server" path.

  Apple's Higher Education Gopher server is also available at
"info.hed.apple.com" Internet domain name address.  The user may setup
direct
access by using the pull down menu under "File... Another Gopher Server
at..."
and type in "info.hed.apple.com" to directly access Apple's server.  There
are
also book marks and "setup... configure gopher prefernces" menu available
for
automated log-on procedure.

    DOS or UNIX users may also retrieve the client application from
boombox.micro.umn.edu.


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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 16:59:05 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Bill Wyman)
Subject: Audio Spectrum Analysis software for Mac?

Anybody out there know of software for a Mac which will analyze musical
tones and produce a graphic showing the base tone and overtones up to the
5th or 6th level? Anything close?

Thanks.

Bill Wyman
Assistant Director for Operations
Office of Undergraduate Academic Affairs
University of Colorado at Boulder
Willard 223 - Campus Box 143
Boulder, CO   80309

303-492-0700

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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 23:03:00 -0500
From: PAUL M SHELDON <[e-mail]>
Subject: Barnes and Noble won't sell you an Apple, so what!

   Dr.Shrooms told me the secret for getting your academic discount coming
to you. Apple has a back to school promotion. Call 1-800-877-4433. I tried
it late at night to see and it said to call between 7AM and 9PM (I guess
Cupertino time). That promotion lasts until Oct.15,1973. Not everything is
on sale, but after all, would they be promoting old IIsi's or Sharp
Wizards? I doubt it.
   P.S. I spoke with Barnes and Noble (who seem to be taking over a few
campus bookstores) and reasoned with them. I said, you don't sell computers
right. They said right. But, you sell books about computers, right. And
they said right. You sell also computer software, right? They said right.
I said you want to sell those books and computer software to students with
computers who will know what to do with them, right? They said write. I
said then you want to discuss with the powers that be simply writing that
800 number in the bookstore. They said they would get back to me. That
feels good.
     Sometimes, you just got to move and shake, someone has got to and
people do like to make money, right?

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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 93 11:44:51 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Steve Portigal)
Subject: Canadian shareware fees

Most banks in Canada will charge a fee for cashing or depositing a cheque
in US funds. Most places in the US won't even accept a cheque in Canadian
funds. Money orders cost ~$5. When I can, I arrange to (gasp) send cash
through the mail, or even receive cash through the mail. It's important
the both parties agree on this, etc etc. It's one way of keeping the bank
>From profiting from your transaction. It's also one advantage of credit
cards...


Steve
--
|  Steve Portigal, Dep't of CIS, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1   |
|  email: [e-mail]    Phone: [phone] ext 3580  |

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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 8:42:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Can PC's on Appletalk read data from a Mac HD?  How?

We wish to have a few PC's access info on a central Mac hard disk as part
of an information collection function.  Other Macs and PC's in the network
will raed and write data to this central store.  The central Mac will then
provide analysis of the information gathered from the several outlier units
using Excel.

Is it possible for the PC's to read and write data files in this way to the
hard disk at the center?  We are alraedy doing so with other Macs which just
deposit their data as Excel files in folders at central and made accessible
by the Appletalk links.

The PC's have Appletalk cards and are already using the LaserWriters for
output.  Is there PC software to let them see the hard disk over the net and
access data there?  We can/will use Excel under Windows or the other OS or
if that's not doable, use perhaps Lotus or etc. to generate the data files.

In short, what programs and/or hardware are needed on the PC's and the
central Mac (System 7) to do this sort of thing?

I'll summarize useful reponses for the net.  Thank you for your help.

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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 23:02:58 PDT
From: Kee Nethery <[e-mail]>
Subject: CD ROM dictionary advise (Q)

My paper dictionary is very old and it's time for me to get a more up to
date dictionary. I use it infrequently so I am considering getting a CD ROM
version (I can wait for my Mac to boot up). I really though the NeXT
dictionary interface was cool. You could click on a word and it took you to
that definition. It was quite fun to randomly click and see where you ended
up. Anyway, I have seen one Mac dictionary and the interface s... well I
didn't like it. Is anyone using a Mac dictionary that they like? What about
it do you like and what others have you seen to compare it with? Anyone
used the OED CD ROM? Is it worth the $800+ cost?

Kee Nethery
[e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1993 00:13:04 -0500 (CDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Change for change's sake?

I must STRONGLY disagree with what Daniel Blystone says about the changes in
the Info-Mac directory structure.

Daniel asks: "Is change good"?
The correct answer is SOMETIMES!  or NOT NECESSARILY!

and...

"What if things did not change?"
The correct answer is THEY WOULD STAY THE SAME!

"Really good change must be drastically different."
Says who???  What ever happend to the slow and steady path?  I'm not
against drastic change all the time.  But to make the blanket statement
above is wrong.

"Then plain just don't like them"
This "Too bad, it's tought!" attitude is not a reasonablr response (as the
prompt of simply "not liking" it is not acceptable either).

"You will get used to them."
We get used to lots of things - but that does NOT make then GOOD!


The point I am trying to make, I guess, is that change is not always
for the best, as Daniel implies.  For example:  whaty if we just made
one large directory with ALL of the files in it, in NO particular order?
That WOULD be a CHANGE!  Would it be GOOD??  I doubt it!!!

I have to agree that the new filing system is inferior.  It lacks the
common sense the previous system had - something newcomers to the net
desperately need when trying to wade through all this "muck".

Just my $0.02 worth!

stj
Steven T. Jones
Assistant Professor of Design & Technology
Middle Tennessee State University

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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 08:35:44 EDT
From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Change is ...

Wallace Feldman said:
WF> Miles Abernathy posted strong regrets on the absence of new postings
WF> listings in the Info-mac digest. I beg to differ. It's refreshing
WF> not to have to wade through dozens of *--- lists before getting to
WF> the meat of the information in the day's journal. I would think anyone who
WF> tracks the arrival of new stuff is perfectlty capable of downloading the
WF> list as often as desired, without the rest of us having to wade through
WF> the daily clutter.

Hmmm.  I disagree with Wallace and agree with Miles.  I think change
is often needed, frequently productive and somewhat painful, but in
this case I think that Info-Mac has been harmed.

One of the biggest advantages of Info-Mac was that I could scan the new
file additions and decide *before hand* if I wanted to FTP to Sumex-aim
for any files.  This gave the advantage of not having the FTP just
to get a list--particularly since FTPing to Sumex-aim takes up time,
uses network bandwith and ties up Sumex-aim.  How many times do
we attempt to FTP or Gopher to Sumex-aim and find that the machine is
tied up with local users and won't let others in?  Unless you're
trying after 8 pm (Eastern time) or on weekends, the answer is
lots!  And the local users have *every* right to be given preference!

The new files were posted with a brief explanation of what each file
was about.  That was a tremendous help.  Again, it helped me glean the
interesting from the uninteresting.  What do you get now?

This is a list of all the files which have been created or modified in the
past three weeks. It is created every night at 2AM Pacific time.ed in the

Flags Size   Modified         File Name

-r      187 Sep 16 02:00 ./help/recent-files.txt
-r      154 Sep 16 02:00 ./help/all-files.txttxt
--    35565 Sep 15 22:25 ./in/mpruv10.sit.txt
-r   158533 Sep 15 22:09 ./recent/00recent-abstracts.abs
-r    58248 Sep 15 21:46 ./per/im/infomacv11-182.txt.abs
etc.

Not very helpful and certainly not very Mac like!  :-(

Maybe I firing off because I really don't understand the change.  If
so, please correct me and I'll put a lid on it.  However, if I do
understand the change, IMHO it's a *big* mistake.   If Wallace doesn't
like wading through the list of files, fine, put them at the end
of the discussion section.  But please, please, please, restore the
old method of listing new files and the brief descriptions right in
Info-Mac.  It's not the same without it!

Jeffrey Fritz
West Virginia University
[e-mail]

These opinions are mine and do not represent my employer.

[There is no change. We have just been too busy to post any new files
 for a while. -Bill]

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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 93 19:16:14 -0400
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Chipping and Card (Q)

    I have asked this question to others of great knowledge and
they have all said it has not been done successfully. But on the chance
that it has...Has anyone replaced the crystal on a IIcx successfully?

    The next is a HyperCard question. I seem to remember a stack
that had various movie stars and the films they were in. You could
index it by film or by actor. But when I searched the archives I could
not find it. Can someone upload it, or tell me where it is?

    I also remember a similar version of X rated movies, does that
still exist?

Thanks,
    Mike    [e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 03:59:43 -0500
From: "Wayne K. Walrath" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Comments from Duo230 owners (Q)

I'm currently looking for a reasonably powerful machine for my
programming and development  work at home, something along
the lines of a Centris, but there are also times when I really
need a road machine. I'm interested in hearing from owners
of Duo230 who also have the dock, because I am leaning towards
choosing this as a cheaper solution to a desktop and road machine. The
point which has me stuck at the moment, is that having the processing
power needed to comfortably compile code and do a little graphics
work, is more important than mobility, is the 230 powerful enough
(completely relative, I know. Your subjectice opinions are good
enough).
    Suggestions...?

-wayne

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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 93 09:05:29 MET DST
From: Christian F. Buser <[e-mail]>
Subject: Disk Copy / Disk Dup +

In a recent digest I wrote:

> I use DiskCopy (shareware from Roger Bates, available on sumex) to mount
> the image files instead of MountImage.

Sorry for the confusion. Of course, Roger Bates' product is called
DiskDup+, and the current version is 2.22.

Regards, Christian.           [e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 93 11:11:18 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: Easy View (A)

In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
> I tried getting Easy View, so I could search comp.sys.mac.digest with much
> greater flexibility.  BUT when I downloaded the extracted text files from my
> newsreader (ASCII text) onto my Mac, EasyView's Open file did not recognize
> the downloaded file as being anywhere in the directory.  Where have I gone
> wrong?  Do I need TCP/IP on my Mac to run EasyView, or can I just download
> >From a TCP/IP machine to my Mac to run EasyView on a digest session?    I
> have
> a modem hookup from my Mac to a VAX/VMS that has TCP/IP.

No, you don't need any special connections for Easy View. The trick
is that Easy View creates "views" on text documents such as the InfoMac
Digest. So, save one or more digests in a folder, then create a New
document in Easy View and save that in the SAME FOLDER (that's necessary!).
Then choose Modify from the File menu, select Digest as the type from
the popup menu, and then add the files. Alternately, I think Easy
View comes with a folder pre-created for Info-Mac Digests, so you
can just save them in there and open the existing Easy View document
there as well.

Once again, Easy View does not OPEN text files. It creates View documents
that display the text of files in the same folder as the view.

cheers ... -Adam

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

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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 10:58:10 -0600
From: [e-mail] (John Antolak)
Subject: Easy View (R)

>Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 20:06 EST
>From: Don't Panic! <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Easy View (Q)
>
>Dear Netters,
>I tried getting Easy View, so I could search comp.sys.mac.digest with much
>greater flexibility.  BUT when I downloaded the extracted text files from my
>newsreader (ASCII text) onto my Mac, EasyView's Open file did not recognize
>the downloaded file as being anywhere in the directory.  Where have I gone
>wrong?  Do I need TCP/IP on my Mac to run EasyView, or can I just download
>>From a TCP/IP machine to my Mac to run EasyView on a digest session?    I
>have
>a modem hookup from my Mac to a VAX/VMS that has TCP/IP.
>Just curious.
>Sincerely,
>[e-mail]

There should be instructions with EasyView (RTFM), but here is a quick
summary.

You cannot open the text files directly. To create a "view", use the "New"
menu selection. Then you can "Modify View..." to include one or more text
files. There are options to set the up what defines the various sections
(eg. the line of dashes in the Info-Mac digest). You can also set the
"view" to automatically add any new files it finds in a certain directory.
For example, When I save my Info-Mac digest to the digest folder on my hard
disk. I can just open the view and the new digest is automatically added to
the view, and selected for browsing.

There should be example "views" in the package.

Hope this helps.

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

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

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 16:24:47 +0200
From: [e-mail]
Subject: EPSF files (Q)

Hi!
Problem: I want to print (or copy) my Macintosh graphics to EPSF file
format.

I have seen some (printer simulating) utilities that you choose in the
chooser, in order to print your graphics to PICT files. I need something
similar for EPSF files, or a utility that converts the Print dialog
PostScript files to EPSF format. I will then copy the EPSF files to UNIX
and use them in TeX documents.

I have tried to copy the graphics to Canvas, and let Canvas write the EPSF
file, but it doesn't work very well. Original Canvas drawings works fine,
however.

Anyone who knows how to do it?

Please answer to
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 93 17:37:24 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Andrew Vernon)
Subject: Eudora serial

>Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 9:53:37 -0400 (EDT)
>From: [e-mail] (MY KARMA RAN OVER MY DOGMA)
>Subject: Can anyone explain serial Eudora conn.?
>
>Hi:
>        I have a serial connection to a VMS VAX 8800. Usually just use Kermit
>for transfers, and the native FTP and Telnet utilities.  Can I benefit from
>Eudora?  Think I got all the parts: Eudora 1.3.1, MacTCP, AdminTCP, macapp
>(PPP, Config PPP). Please lemme hear from you if you have had similar exp. or
>can tell me if this is all worth it, or I should just stick with my plain
>vanilla?!

MacTCP and AdminTCP are of no use to you unless you have your Mac directly
connected to the Internet. I have no idea where you got the need for MacApp
from.  Eudora was originally designed to interface with a POP server to
dish-up your mail.  But, you CAN use Eudora as an offline reader (matter of
coincidence, I'm testing that kind of configuration now) by downloading your
mail spool file
to your Mac's Eudora Folder and then reading it as though it were a 'real'
Eudora mailbox.  Then, there's a program at Sumex
(/info-mac/comm/eudora-as-offline-reader-unix.shar) that you may be able to
modify so you can upload the Eudora 'Out' file and have it parsed and mail.
It was originally written for unix boxes, but with a little C experience, you
might be able to port it.

Andrew Vernon
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 93 11:30:32 GMT
From: Michael Everson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Fontographer 4.0 problems

Is there a list for Fontographer users? I'm having some serious problems
with version 4.0 and have not been able to get satisfactory response
>From Altsys. (Small flame there.)

Problems: Symbol encoding with sequential ordering for Windows TT doesn't
work; can't create styled TT families _with_ bitmaps which will print
on a Laserwriter 630 using driver 8.0; can't number TT fonts outside
an arbitrary numeric range.

Michael Everson
School of Architecture, UCD; Richview, Clonskeagh; Dublin 14; E/ire
Phone: [phone]  Fax: [phone]  Home: [phone]

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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 08:58:03 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Lisa L.W. Besko)
Subject: Gatekeeper problem

In the Sept. 15th digest Chris Pepper wrote about the following problem.

>        I've been installing GateKeeper 1.2.8 on several machines lately,
>and run into a problem on 3 (most are fine):
>
>        On two LC II's and one SE/30, I get notices from GK 1.2.8 that the
>System is trying to modify the Finder (SetResAttr, CODE 18).  I checked the
>Finder with ResEdit, and CODE resouce # 18 seems to be ApplEvent-related,
>so I'm not sure what's trying to modify it or why.
> ....

I noticed this problem on a IIci yesterday.  I had attributed the problem to a
Hard disk crash that occured when we had a power outage.  The crash had
damaged
the system file (which was replaced).  None of the IIsi's or Quadra's in the
building are having this problem or the other ci's.  The are all runing System
7.0.1 with tune-up 1.1.1.  Please keep me posted if anyone else has this
problem.

Lisa Besko

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

Date: 16 Sep 93 22:21 GMT
From: [e-mail] (U of Wisconsin, P Chane,STU)
Subject: GeoPort Utility?

I am looking for some utility that will enable my GeoPort to discern between a
voice, FAX or data call and process it accordingly.  Any help would be
appreciated.

I am using a Centris (Quadra?) 660av.


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

Date: 16 Sep 93 09:48:35
From: acpwvw!auxrcc![e-mail]
Subject: Ghost external floppy drive--help!

On 13 Sep 93 Alexander M. Davis <[e-mail]> wrote:
> My SE/30 seems to be convinced that it is connected to an external floppy
> drive; every few seconds I get a "Disk unreadable" dialog with a picture
> of an external drive. This happens even when I start up with a floppy,
> both systems 6 and 7. Basically I can't do anything. Does anyone have an
> idea what might be going on? Please respond by email, and thanks in
> advance...

Another "fix" is to hang a floppy drive on the SE/30.  Even a "dead" 400K
drive will keep it content.  This has worked on my son's SE/30.
--

Rich Clemens           [e-mail]
WV Wesleyan College    acpwvw!auxrcc![e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 19:28:00 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Michael Shelton)
Subject: Help: using ftp

This may not be the appropriate forum but you have to cast your net wide
to find a good samaritan these days. I have been trying to use ftp but I
keep running into problems after I upload software or text from the World
to my Mac. I have StuffitExpander, unzip, etc. but they don't even
acknowledge that the file is there.  I have a feeling that my file
transfer setup settings are incorrect but I'm not sure.

Any Mac ftp users out there who can give me some tips?
thanks in advance.

Mike Shelton
[e-mail]

--
Michael Shelton
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 93 12:29:23 MDT
From: "Roger B. Marks"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: internal Hard Drive can't be found

My PowerBook 100 internal hard drive has gone flaky. Sometimes (it's a
day-to-day thing), the PB just can't find the hard drive. I get a message to
that effect whenever I try to access an alias to the hard drive. Of course,
the
drive icon doesn't show up on the desktop either (by the way, I'm booting from
the RAMdisk). This doesn't strike me as a software problem. Does anyone out
there have a clue?

Thanks,



Roger
[e-mail]            NIST/Boulder, CO

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

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 93 11:13:30 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: InterSLIP

Sorry about that - although it's on the disk with my book, there's
no reason you can't download it yourself.

In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
> Hi, can anyone tell me where I can get a copy of Intercomm's freeware
> InterSLIP. It was mentioned in this weeks TIDBITS. thanks

Look on ftp.intercon.com in the directory /InterCon/sales

It's available as an SEA or in BinHex format, and either way when
you download it and expand, you get a disk image that you must copy
to floppy with Apple's DiskCopy or mount using MountImage.

cheers ... -Adam

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

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

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 93 16:49:46 -0600
From: [e-mail] (David Godbe Andersen)
Subject: Jasmine 80meg HD not running on a Centris 660AV (Q)

    I have a Jasmin 80 megabye hard disk that I purchaced a few years ago and
was happily running on both a Mac Plus and a Mac IIx (well, not at the same
time, obviously. :)
    I bought a Centris 660AV recently, and tried to hook up the HD to it
only to discover that once the computer had loaded to the finder level,
it froze.  (It would boot up, load extensions, and such, but no more).
The only extention other than the stock 660AV stuff I'm running is QuickKeys
(not the most recent version).
    I asked Apple about it, and they said that the best thing to do
would be to contact Jasmine, but I seem to have lost their phone number..
if anybody has any suggestions about what to do (or Jasmine's phone number. :)
I'd appreciate it.  Thanks,
      Dave
[e-mail]--   --moo--

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

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 23:53:52 -0800
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Keyboard commands for Special Menu

We are upgrading our Macs to 7.1 and I would like to be able to add
Command-S, Command-R and Command-T to the Special Menu.
I had this set up for 7.0.1, but the method I used with ResEdit doesn't
seem to work with 7.1.
Would someone please post or send me the steps for doing this to
System 7.1 using ResEdit.

Many thanks for any assistance.

Bill Colston
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 13:34:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail] (Kiepura Jean)
Subject: LCIII-Appleii

Hi!

A friend of mine needs to know if the LCIII supports the Apple // card?

Thanks

( Notice the economy of bandwidth? =:-> )

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

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 12:03:23 +0000
From: [e-mail] (Malcolm Bebb)
Subject: LCIII Freeze

>I have a friend who just got an LCIII, and she has had all kinds of problems
>with the machine freezing up.  For example, today she was in Microsoft Word
>(5.1a) and made some changes to a document.  She went to do something else,
>came back 5 minutes later, and found the screen frozen.  [stuff deleted]

I still find Word 5.1a crashing on Save with similar symptoms (Sys 7.0).
This seems to happen when I quit or close a document with unsaved changes,
and accept the invitation to save before quitting/closing.  If I save, then
quit/close, it doesn't (seem to) happen. The document gets saved Ok either
way.

So if she saved before she went away, this could be the problem.


Malcolm     [e-mail]  (Usual disclaimers apply)
       [e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1993 02:48:48 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Dwayne Sandall)
Subject: Looking for Paul Bourke, New Zealand

     The subject just about says it all, Paul if you are out there
I would appreciate hearing from you, or if anybody knows of his
current location, drop me a note.
    Thanks for your time.

ps. I am looking for any news on updates/modifications to some
gems he wrote a few years ago.

--
    Dwayne Sandall,
        Advanced Visualization Lab
            Faculty of Architecture
                University of Manitoba

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

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 93 11:27:37 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: MacTCP versions

A friend at Cornell sent me a document outlining the differences -
perhaps someone from Cornell could post that? I deleted my copy and
the DAT tape that contains that file backed up is currently off site.

What a great excuse! :-) Good thing it's true...

cheers ... -Adam

PS: The basic gist is that there are some necessary reasons to upgrade
to depending on your setup, however, you'd know if that was true since
it wouldn't work. The one to get will supposedly be 2.0.3, which fixes
a timeout bug that has been there throughout. Otherwise you can stick
with the older version.

In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
>  I've seen mention of a new version (2.0.2?) of MacTCP. What is the deal
>  here?
> What is new, fixed, different, etc? Who is this version for? I know that
> 1.1 -> 1.1.1 was only a System 7.1 fix, and I'm wondering what if anything
> is going on with the new version, if it's worth trying to get
> (System 7.0.1, IIsi) or what...

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

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

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 21:28:54 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: More on Think C 6 and C++, PLEASE

I just got back from a long trip and found my shiny new copy of Symantec
C++, *but* before I even got it out of the shrink wrap I read the back
issues of infomac where this prodcut is being panned!! YIKES!! Can you
experts supply more details; just what is so bad???!! This poor 'ole
fortran programmer just decided to learn C++, objects, etc, so what am
I to do, use the MPW C++ to C translator. Ugh.

More details please! If it is too much for the digest, send to me and I
will summarize back.

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

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 17:43:24 -0600 (CDT)
From: Andrew Vernon <[e-mail]>
Subject: No list of new postings? GREAT!!

WALLACE FELDMAN <[e-mail]> said,

>Miles Abernathy posted strong regrets on the absence of new postings
>listings in the Info-mac digest. I beg to differ. It's refreshing
>not to have to wade through dozens of *--- lists before getting to
>the meat of the information in the day's journal. I would think anyone who
>tracks the arrival of new stuff is perfectlty capable of downloading the
>list as often as desired, without the rest of us having to wade through
>the daily clutter.

Quite frankly, having no new-upload announcements screws the way I work
with the digest.  I absolutely abhor trying to connect to Sumex. I abhor
having to dilligently enter "Name:anonymous Password:
[e-mail]" only to be greeted by "Sorry, too many anonymous
users. Please try again later." I get a similar response using gopher.
Most of the mirrors I know of are hideously out of date or incomplete.
The only way I can effectively use the Info-Mac archive is to extract the
new-file paths and use th em in a shell script that makes my FTP run
around 5 in the morning, when all the other hackers have finally gone to
bed. I would hope that there is some other alternative, like a secondary
list containing the new files, sent weekly to a smaller group of subscribers.

Besides, Wally, have you ever tried a digest browser? They're much better
than having to scroll around in the digest as a whole.

Andrew Vernon
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 93 05:34:14 PDT
From: [e-mail] (John Thoo)
Subject: No list of new postings? GREAT!! (C)

On 15 Sep 1993 WALLACE FELDMAN <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Miles Abernathy posted strong regrets on the absence of new postings
> listings in the Info-mac digest. I beg to differ. It's refreshing
> not to have to wade through dozens of *--- lists before getting to
> the meat of the information in the day's journal. I would think anyone who
> tracks the arrival of new stuff is perfectlty capable of downloading the
> list as often as desired, without the rest of us having to wade through
> the daily clutter.

I'd just like to say that I, for one, miss the list of newly archived
software,
and am looking forward to its return after Gordon gets a much-deserved break.
Just my opinion; please don't flame me :-)

--John.
<[e-mail]>    ``Still discovering the power of FullWrite.''

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

Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 23:03:06 PDT
From: Kee Nethery <[e-mail]>
Subject: Old Weird IIci (R)

>but all floppies formatted in this
machine cannot be read in any other Mac and any other formatted floppies
cannot be read by this machine (although it can read its own floppies OK).

Suggest you get a floppy cleaning kit and clean your floppy. Because the
floppy openning acts as the suction hose on the dust collector .. I mean
the cooling fan, I have plugged my floppy hole with a flexy piece of
plastic. Since doing that, the frequency for cleaning my Mac2ci floppy
drive has decreased drastically.

[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 93 06:08:51 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Paul Poncelet - Sedco Forex - 33 1 4746
7117)
Subject: Pathworks 1.2 and NSI 1.4

Hans Kroeger repeated his request for info on NSI 1.4:


>------------------------------
>
>Date: 15 Sep 1993 08:34:01 +0100 (MET)
>From: Hans Kroeger <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Pathworks V1.2 compatible with NSI 1.4 ? (Q)
>
>In Digest 179 I posted the following question:
>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>Does anybody know if the new NSI 1.4 (NSI = Network Software Installer)
>software is now compatible with Pathworks V1.2  ?
>
>Note: NSI 1.3 is not
><<<<<<<<<
>Since I didn't get any response P L E A S E take a minute and share your
>experiences. I know there is a number of people waiting for an answer to this
>question.
>
>Thanks for all replies !
>
>Hans Kroeger
>[e-mail]          (Internet)
>[e-mail]     (Internet)
>[e-mail]  (Compuserve)
>PSI%4575455310::KROEGER     (DATEX-P)


The problem with Pathworks and NSI 1.3 was corrected with NSI 1.3.2 / 1.3.3.
It was a problem with initialising DECnet when using an ethernet board, the
other elements of Pathworks worked fine.

I am currently using NSI 1.4 on my Mac IIci with Internation System 7.1
without
problems. Admittedly the machine was using NSI 1.3.3 before I installed 1.4,
so
it is possible (though unlikely) that this masked new DECnet bugs.

Regards

Paul Poncelet
Sedco Forex Schlumberger
Montrouge
France

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

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 09:15:12 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Lisa L.W. BeskoI)
Subject: Pathworks V1.2 compatible with NSI 1.4 ? (A)

On Sept. 15th  Hans Kroeger reposted the following message.

>In Digest 179 I posted the following question:
>
>>>>>>>>>>
>Does anybody know if the new NSI 1.4 (NSI = Network Software Installer)
>software is now compatible with Pathworks V1.2  ?
>
>Note: NSI 1.3 is not
<<<<<<<<<
>Since I didn't get any response P L E A S E take a minute and share your
>experiences. I know there is a number of people waiting for an answer to this
>question.

>Thanks for all replies !

I've been a bit busy and was hoping someone else would pick this up.

I use NSI 1.4 on a C650 the other day.  It does solve the problems that
Pathworks has with NSI 1.3.

If you have access to DSNlink their is an artical there that states you should
be using NSI 1.3.2 or later with Q800's, C610's, and C650's with Built in
ethernet and with LC/LCII/LCIII with System 7.1 and Apple's Ethernet card.


I hope this helps.

Lisa Besko

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

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 08:14:23 -0800
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Paying Shareware Fees [R]

A few people have mentioned difficulties in cross-border shareware fee
payment. What I do is go to the Post Office and buy a Postal Money Order in
US funds. I pay the exchange up front, there are no fees and never have any
complaints from the recipients.

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

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

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 93 07:16:21 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Carol Conti-Entin)
Subject: Personal LaserWriter NT Memory Upgrade (Q)

A side-effect of the upgrade to PageMaker 5.0 is that my most complex
documents no longer print.  These are the 8.5x14" fold-into-four-panels-
per-side brochures I created for a couple of nonprofit organizations. I
USED to be able to print 'em, after grouping all like items, by turning
off the printer between each page.  In other words, I was at the limit
of the printer's 2M of RAM before, and now either PM 5 or the required
switch to the LaserWriter 8.0 driver must've put me over that limit.

According to reviews of the Personal LaserWriter NT, its 2M are supposed
to be expandable to 8M.  I notice that the Personal LaserWriter NTR, its
successor, comes with 3M.  Does that mean I can just add a 1M SIMM or
replace just one 1M SIMM with a 2M SIMM, or does this model require me
to replace BOTH SIMMs with either 2M or 4M SIMMs?  And are the relevant
SIMMs the same as, say, for the IIsi, which was introduced at the same
time (3 years ago next month)?  Also, can those of you with nearly three-
year old Personal NTs tell me whether there's ill health soon to come,
such that I'd be better off investing in a new printer rather than a
memory upgrade?  It's been a fine machine for me so far, but I'm only at
<9,000 pages.        Many thanks!

--
Carol Conti-Entin  2878 Chadbourne Road, Shaker Heights, OH 44120-2215
216-561-8720   Internet: [e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 08:09:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Ricardo C. Davis" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Pics of CPUs

Are there sources of graphics of CPU's available by FTP on the Internet?
Does anyone have any pics (TIFF, PICT, EPS) of Macs, PCs, UNIX
workstations, super minicomputers (i.e. VAX) or supercomputers
they could share.  I picked up the "machine icons" submission last week
(very good art -- congrats to the artist).  I'm putting together a
schematic and need  some art.  It doesn't have to be very fancy.
Equipment vendors with art of their products:  please feel free to help,
your assistance will be properly recognized and referenced.


Ricardo C. Davis *** Freedom is not the right to choose, freedom is the result
of wise choices.

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

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 12:07:13 -0500
From: Pete Roberts <[e-mail]>
Subject: PopChar 2.6.1 Minor Anomaly

               Subject:                               Time:12:02 PM
  OFFICE MEMO          PopChar 2.6.1 Minor Anomaly            Date:9/16/93
Guenther Blaschek has graciously released another free upgrade to PopChar,
this
one version 2.6.1.  I have noticed one minor anomaly which has a trivial work
around.  I'm posting this just to save others some time.

On a Quadra 700, Sytstem 7.1, Hardware System Update 2.0, Now Toolbox 4.0.1p
and WYSIWYG Menus 4.0.1:

PopChar must load before WYSIWYG Menus.  If it does not, it will not "see" the
current font and will usually put up something in Geneva or Chicago.  No other
problems have been encountered, even with my other 50 extensions loaded.

-- Pete Roberts

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

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 93 11:08:12 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: PPP stuff

In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
> Hi:
>         I have a serial connection to a VMS VAX 8800. Usually just use
Kermit
> for transfers, and the native FTP and Telnet utilities.  Can I benefit from
> Eudora?  Think I got all the parts: Eudora 1.3.1, MacTCP, AdminTCP, macapp
> (PPP, Config PPP). Please lemme hear from you if you have had similar exp.
or
> can tell me if this is all worth it, or I should just stick with my plain
> vanilla?!
> --Thanx

Well, you need a PPP account on your Vax - your standard one won't
work. You'llhave to ask your sysadmin to set that up for you if you
haven't already.

After that, you can get Eudora 1.4 now - it's a little cleaner and
a bit faster, and supports MIME and Apple events to a certain extent.
You don't need AdminTCP - it's for setting and locking MacTCP settings
on user machines so the user can't mess with them. MacTCP can do the
same thing itself, but it lets you mess with the settings as well.

If you can get that PPP account, go for it. It's far nicer than VMS
ever thought of being (ducking the flames - I've never gotten along
with VMS :-)). Also check out Fetch, TurboGopher, NewsWatcher or Nuntius,
WAIS for Mac, and the other cool MacTCP-based programs.

cheers ... -Adam

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

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

Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 23:03:13 PDT
From: Kee Nethery <[e-mail]>
Subject: QuickBASIC for Mac (A)

>>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 ?
>
>
>Quickbasic actually isn't bad, but it's really been abandoned by Microsoft
>and is not supported much (no upgrades in years).  The intepreter/compiler
>is not 32 bit clean, but it appears that programs compiled with it are 32
>bit clean.
>
If you are into BASIC, MacWorld recommended Zedcor's FutureBASIC
602-881-8101. For an easy interface builder to go with FutureBASIC they
recommended PG:PRO from Staz Software 601-255-7085. And as software to help
debug your code the liked SoftPolish from Language Systems 703-478-0181.
Please note, I have never used any of these. I saved the reviews with an
eye towards writing an app or two. Good luck,

Kee Nethery
[e-mail]

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

Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 23:18:50 PDT
From: Kee Nethery <[e-mail]>
Subject: Quicken 4 Report Crashes (C)

Intuit has the annoying practice of not really displaying the true version
of their software. To find out which version of Quicken 4.0 you have,
select About Quicken in the Apple Menu. Then press Option-R (two keys,
Option and the letter R). It will add which release of 4.0 you have.

Kee Nethery
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 12:19:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Me chief, slinging bull." <[e-mail]>
Subject: Read only hard drives (how to fix?)

At work, we have a Hewlett-Packard SCSI-2 230MB internal drive that gives
us quite a problem.  Once in a while when we boot up, the drive acts liek
a read only drive, it's as if we were using an AppleShare volume!  Does
anyone know what causes this?  We 'fix' it by unplugging the machine for
five minutes and restarting.  Anyone know of a better way?  Here's the
specs on the Mac:

Quadra 700, 20/230 Internal, 240 External, floptical
Decnet 1.1 ethernet drivers (Yes they work with system 7.1 for us...)
Standard filesharing stuff with system 7.1
Hardware Update 2, Sound Manager 3
Everything's terminated correctly.

Thanks for any ideas you have.

Please e-mail (if you do) to [e-mail] or [e-mail] or
[e-mail]

Thanks,

Neil

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Date: 16 Sep 1993 13:37:48 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Bruce Grubb)
Subject: SAY NO TO PIRACY

[e-mail] (Robert Dorsett) writes:
>In article <[e-mail]> David H. Chait <[e-mail]>
writes:
>>[e-mail] (Jeffrey Crouch) writes:
>>Sorry, but that is NOT the way it works.  Most license agreements state
>>that you can make one archival copy of a program, but other than that you
>>should have only one usable copy in existance at any given point in time.

There is a good commercial program called 'Keyserver" that allow ONLY
the Number of copies you are licenced to to run one a network.

>Nothing to do with this sub-thread, but an acquaintance went to an SPA-
>influenced rah- rah seminar in Austin today.  The objective being to figure
>out ways to indoctrinate young children to believe that "piracy is bad."
>Sort of the computer industry's answer to "Just Say No."  "Don't Copy That
>Floppy." I kid you not.
C
C
>
>But it appears that the SPA audit software will not only scan a directory
>tree, but also the *desktop* file, such that it can find signatures of old
>software.  The guy presenting wanted to terrorize the non-tech audience into
>thinking that even if they "deleted" a file, they could still be caught.
>"Even after five years!"  Presumably, if the *signature* showed up, they'd
>be required to show proof of ownership.  Scary stuff, and without a shred of
>legal basis.
Not only no scred of legal basis, but what they are saying is IMPOSSIBLE.
On the Mac REQUARDLESS of system command-option rebuilds the desktop
file {fileS under system 7.0.x} ERASING ALL pointers or "signature".
They are setting themselves up for a '60 minutes' report, because this
whole thing is reminist of the radar guns that said the house was going
20 MPH and the TREE was going 30 MPH.  Only after the radar guns had been
improved so this did not happen did judges start using them again.

SPA better tred softly as if they go TOO far there WILL be a backlash.
All they need happen is their detection software go goofy and say something
has been that has NOT been there at major company.  Major Company would
be in its perfect rights to SUE SPA {and likely win} for LIBEL and depending
on what the software does and what they say it does maybe FRAUD.

>It's indicative of the more unattractive aspects of the
SPA--heavy-handedness,
>and its goon-squad mentality.
I have a better set of words for it: Sine Hiel, McCarthism, Salem witch
trials,
present misuse of sexual abust, you get the idea.  In general the Constitution
goes bye bye.

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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 08:24:53 -0800
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Search for resource types (A)

Dan Wismer writes:
>I am looking for a utility that searches all applications on my harddisk
>for a specific resource type and gives me a list of the applications that
>carry this resource.
>Do you know of such a program ?

Yup. RezSearch, by Wade S. Blomgren does exactly this. It may still be at
Sumex. It (at least the version I have - 1.08b) is free. If Sumex doesn't
have it, you could try emailing the author at [e-mail]. The
thing dates back to 1988 but still seems to work.
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: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 13:37:13 +0100
From: [e-mail] (John Williams)
Subject: Selecting objects of the same colour in draw programs (Q)

    We quite frequently find the need to select, say, all blocks of
text with blue charcters to change them all to another colour.
Unfortunately, neither of our present 'draw' programs, MacDraw Pro and
Superpaint 3, have the ability to do this.  I have a recollection that
Canvas 3 can, but can anyone confirm this or suggest something else which
would suit (except Freehand or Illustrator).  Many thanks for your help


John Williams

INRA Station de Recherches Avicoles, Centre de Recherches de Tours, 37380
Nouzilly, France

Tel [phone]    Fax/telecopie (33) 47 42 77 78

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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 93 11:56:28 -0700
From: Jack Repenning <[e-mail]>
Subject: Serious GateKeeper problem? (Q)

I have this same problem on an SE/30, 7.0.1*, using these INITs:

    GK 1.2.8, AppleShare 7.0, File Sharing 7.0.2, Suitcase II
    1.2.6, AutoDoubler 2.0.1, CopyDoubler 1.0.1A, Easy Access 7.0,
    SuperClock! 3.9

I'd like to hear whatever you learn; posting to Info-Mac is fine.

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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 93 15:23 PDT
From: Philip Harriman                      <[e-mail]>
Subject: Shiva Dial in not releasing PowerPort fax modem

I have a PowerBook 160 with a Global Village PowerPort Gold
internal fax/modem. I am using Shiva's Dial in software, v. 3.7.6,
to dial into a Shiva NetModem to access an AppleTalk net. The Dial
in works fine; however, once I use the Dial in software, I can no
longer use the modem with standard comm. software (I use TinCan),
nor can I use the Global Village fax software to send or receive
faxes: both TinCan and the fax software see the modem as busy.

I have found through trial and error that if I commence a Dial in,
then cancel before the remote modem answers the phone, that I can
free up the modem. This is an awkward work-around, not suitable for
my end users.

Is there a way I can fix this?

Thanks,

Phil Harriman
[e-mail]

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Date: 16 Sep 93 22:21 GMT
From: [e-mail] (U of Wisconsin, P Chane,STU)
Subject: SoftPC Win

Is it possible under any circumstances to bring up Soft PC Windows on an 8 meg
Centris 660av?  I don't care about the speed, I just want to see it work.


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Date: 16 Sep 1993 18:02:38 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Jonathan Kurtis)
Subject: Start up icon mess

When I start up my mac, I get 2 rows of startup icons (extentions, control
pannels etc.) which unfortunately overlap, resulting in a mess. They all
work properly, they just look terrible. Is there a fix for this. Is there a
manager which lets you set the startup order? thanks

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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 93 8:48:59 PDT
From: Dieder A. Bylsma <[e-mail]>
Subject: Word 4.0 and Centris 660av

Re: problems that a Centris 660AV user was experiencing upon running MSWord
4.0

In short, upgrade to 4.0e for free, or pay an 'upgrade fee' and get Word 5.1a
which has some advantages over 4.0x, but pales in a number of crucial
respects IMHO to its predecessor. But you have a fast machine so at least
here,
Word 5.1a shouldn't be too much of a hassle to run.

D.
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 17:44:41 -0600 (CDT)
From: Andrew Vernon <[e-mail]>
Subject: Word 4.0 won't run on Centris 660 AV

"F. J. Van Wetering" <[e-mail]> asked:

>My new Centris 660 AV arrived on Monday, and yesterday I discovered that
>Microsoft Word 4.0 won't run.  I brought the original diskettes in today
>and loaded it again, and I STILL get the same type of error.  What happens:
>
>double-click on the Microsoft Word icon
>MS-Word icon 'zooms' open and then 'zooms' closed again.
>Dialog box appears that says:
>    The application "Mircrosoft Word" has
>    unexpectedly quit, because an error of
>    type 3 occurred.
>                               <OK>

Word 4 doesn't like Quadras either. It can't deal with 68040 caching and
the newer models don't even run Word 4 well with the cache off.  Best to bite
the bullet and go to Word 5.1

Andrew Vernon
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 93 11:02:52 CDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Word 4.0 won't run on Centris 660 AV (R)

>My new Centris 660 AV arrived on Monday, and yesterday I discovered that
>Microsoft Word 4.0 won't run.  I brought the original diskettes in today
>and loaded it again, and I STILL get the same type of error.  What happens:
>
>double-click on the Microsoft Word icon
>MS-Word icon 'zooms' open and then 'zooms' closed again.
>Dialog box appears that says:
>    The application "Mircrosoft Word" has
>    unexpectedly quit, because an error of
>    type 3 occurred.
>                               <OK>
>
>Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.  Configuration is:
>Centris 660 AV, 8M RAM

F. J.  Van Wetering,

I think your only option is to upgrade your copy of MS Word. I've
experienced similar problems with MS Word on PowerBooks 180, and
Quadra 800. I think the problem is Word's compatibility with Sys 7.1

I hope this helps!

-- Vinko
Vinko Enterprises, Oakville, Ontario, Canada, ALink: CDA1051

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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 93 09:42:48 CDT
From: Michael Conwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: WordPerfect 5.1 to Mac conversion

Hi-

I have alot of MS-DOS WordPerfect 5.1 files and more people give me
these files than I want to mention.  The problem is that I use a Mac
and specifically Write Now 3.0 at school.  Write Now doesn't handle
the conversion that I require.

Does any one know of a product, especially free/shareware that will
convert the Wordperfect format (PC) to any Mac format?  Using
Wordperfect for the Mac is not an option.

Thanks.

Michael Conwell
[e-mail]

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