Info-Mac 3/Info_Mac_1994-01.iso/Periodical/Info-Mac/InfoMac 11-206

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Date: Sun, 17 Oct 93 00:38:55 PDT
From: The Moderators <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #205


Info-Mac Digest             Sun, 17 Oct 93       Volume 11 : Issue 206

Today's Topics:

      [!] Attention mirror sites!
      [*] BBEdit HTML extensions beta 2
      [*] BeachText
      [*] CD Coyote 1.0.1
      [*] click-here-it-is-10.hqx
      [*] ColorSwitch 2.1
      [*] gzip-124.hqx
      [*] Newton Package Downloader
      [*] Nuntius version 1.1.3 available
      [*] PowerNotes 2.1
      [*] RayDream Designer Demo
      [*] rnMac.1.0.sea.hqx submission
      [*] rnmac0.99.cpt.hqx submission
      [*] SaintEdit 1.1
      [*] Two personality tests
      (A) appleCD300i
      Accessing Laser Printers on Sun Network
      ADA COMPILER
      After Dark module for DarkSide of the Mac? (Q)
      anxiously awaiting modem
      Apple, Intel, Ads, and Reality
      Apple Movie Shop (where to find)
      AppleShare Server 3.01 privilages
      ARA competes with the printer -- please help (2 msgs)
      A Scriptable Finder...
      binary: "Newton Package Downloader"
      Blackbird Rumors?
      Change system disk name?
      Chess on the Macintosh
      Color monitor suggestions? (Q)
      Connecting to SUMEX-AIM (busy)
      Controlling stereo sound on Mac w/ HyperCard
      Desperatly Seeking Newton
      Desperatly Seeking Newton (R)
      Fetch DOS FTP Problem
      Floppies from/to SONY NEWS worksation
      Flowcharting? (R)
      FrameMaker HELP!\
      Free Personal Press (Not!)
      FullWrite 1.5-->1.5s updater (C)
      Go (A)
      Graphic representation
      handling AppleDouble files
      HD SC and Silverlining
      high-speed modem transfers
      How do you turn off Appleshare's auto-mount? (A) (2 msgs)
      How to increase # on localtalk network? (A)
      Illustrator: Emperor without Clothes
      Info-Mac Digest V11 #203
      intercom software
      Is the Apple 8*24 GC video display board worth something?
      Laser Printer problem - help!
      Laserwriter Printer
      Looking for NetChoir
      Low level SCSI utility needed...
      MACARCH access
      Mac AVI viewer (Q)
      MacTCP Question, why is it an INIT???
      MacX 1.7.2: what does the Hosts file look like? (Q) I am trying to run
      MacX 1.7.2 on a Powerbook 160 with Sytem 7.1,
      Mechanical Drawing Font (Q)
      MIDI on Newton?
      mounting unmountable HD's?
      Newton ??
      Newton Info - Contrary Opinion
      NEWTON WANTED
      Nisus Limited Flag
      NowMenus-AppleShare-PC Exchange
      Now Toolbox (A)
      PopChar 2.6.2 & MacBench 1.0 conflict on 660av ("type 1" error)
      PowerBook Battery & charger
      PowerBook Opening (Q)
      Problem w/ Sys. 7 "Personal" Filesharing
      Programmers in Virtual Reality
      Quadra 800 memory problem
      Quadra 800 memory problem (A)
      RAM disk "danger" (C)
      Remote Access
      Rice Mirror (And Idiots)
      Screen shuffler (Q)
      SNMP Manager
      SoftPC (Insignia) Upgrade Notices...
      Spreadsheet ---> FORTRAN input
      StarStomer and a MOD editor
      Startup screen in b & w
      StuffIt Lite 3.0.7 (R)
      Supra FaxModem PB 144+
      System 7 Pro
      The Namer
      Turning off Appleshare's auto-mount
      Usage of Dialog Boxes
      UUENCODE
      Venn Diagram Software-does it exist?
      what's inside hp dj cartridges
      When you can't gopher to SUMEX-AIM

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Date: Fri, 15 Oct 93 12:25:12 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Liam Breck)
Subject: [!] Attention mirror sites!

Attention administrators of mirror sites:

We are compiling a list of Info-Mac mirror sites around the world, so
we can inform users where else our archive can be reached and so we
can stay in touch with our mirrors about important changes, such as
the recent file list format change.

If you are in charge of, or closely associated with an Info-Mac mirror
site, please email me the following information:

site Internet address
site location (include organization, city, state, country)
email address(es) of site administrator(s)
name(s) of site administrator(s)
site disk capacity
site operating system
how much of IM archive is available at site
how often site connects to Info-Mac for updates
method used to update site

Liam Breck
Info-Mac Reorganization Moderator

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Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 11:33:00 +0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] BBEdit HTML extensions beta 2

Release beta 2 of BBEdit HTML extensions corrects some bugs reported by
Kevin Altis <[e-mail]> and Jek Kian Jin <[e-mail]>
(many thanks).

Fixed features are:

- the comment extension now puts a --> at the end of
  commented line, not just >

- the header extension closes headers withn </Hn>, not </H>

And a new feature:

- the specials translation extension now gives you two choices:
  translating eight bit characters and/or "special" characters
  (<, >, &, and ") that must be quoted. Please note that you
  should translate these special characters *before* inserting
  any HTML tag that uses them.

Carles Bellver <[e-mail]>
Universitat Jaume I Web Gang

[Archived as /info-mac/text/bbedit-html-ext-b2.hqx; 35K]

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Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 0:30:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail] (Natsu Sakimura)
Subject: [*] BeachText

Attached please find the BinHexed CompactPro archive of
BeachText.

Regards,

Natsu Sakimura

What is BeachText?
 ++++++++++++++++++
BeachText is a DA TextEditor which allows to create and edit the
TeachText file with picture easily. It also allows egrep etc.
It can also deal with Japanese, and create a text file longer
than 32k.

Documentation is in Japanese only, but for most part, the operation
of the BeachText should be quite straight forward. At least,
I have never read them but I had no trouble^_^

This is freeware and is free to redistribute as long as you
keep all the file together and intact, and you don't make
any profit out of it.

Please note that I am not the author but just a content user.

Natsu Sakimura

[Archived as /info-mac/text/beach-text.hqx; 89K]

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Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 03:21:26 +0200 (EET)
From: [e-mail] (Esa Ristil{)
Subject: [*] CD Coyote 1.0.1

CD Coyote is a program for CD-ROM drive users who listen to audio
CD's and has written disc information to CD Remote DA and wish to
make a TEXT file of that information.  CD Coyote is FREE!

CD Coyote needs System 7 or later to run.  You also need to have
CD Remote (or to be precise the CD Remote Programs file) to get
the information from.

Changes from the first release:
- Added to look for CD Remote Programs file from System folder too.
- Removed automatic saving if drag-and-drop is used.

[Archived as /info-mac/disk/cd-coyote-101.hqx; 24K]

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Date: Fri, 15 Oct 93 7:20:01 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Richard Cardona)
Subject: [*] click-here-it-is-10.hqx

Click, there it is! 1.0
copyright (c) 1993, by Richard C. Cardona Utilities Group, Austin, Tx, USA.

Shareware: US$5.00, free to all Capitol Macintosh User Group members.
Requires System 7.0, works with System 7 Pro
RAM footprint: 3k of system heap.

What does it do?
Click, there it is! is something Apple should have done in the open/save
dialog since the invention of the Multifinder.  Have you ever wanted to
open/save a document into a place where the Finder already has a window
opened for it?  A certain popular utilities package got it half right with
one of their components except they don't let you click on the Finder
window's title bar.  Click, there it is! has no such restrictions.  If you
see the window in the Finder you can instantly make that your current
folder simply by clicking on it.  If want to select the desktop, simply
click on the desktop.  If the open/save dialog should happen to obscure the
Finder window you are looking for, then simply drag it out of the way by
dragging it from any point along the frame!

Enjoy,
Richard Cardona

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/click-here-it-is-10.hqx; 62K]

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Date: Sat, 16 Oct 93 12:52:48 PDT
From: "Derek Chee" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] ColorSwitch 2.1

Here's a copy of v2.1 of Andrew Welch's ColorSwitch Control Panel.
His description follows:

-- Derek


Version 2.1 allows you to selectively turn on/off either the Menu Bar
icon-menu and/or the modifier-keys popup menu, and has a few internal
changes for compatibility reasons.

ColorSwitch is a Control Panel that allows you to effortlessly switch
between the available color modes of any attached monitors.  Instead
of the inconvenience of using the Monitors Control Panel every time
you want to switch between color modes, you can simply hold down the
ColorSwitch modifier keys and click anywhere on the monitor you want
to change.  A menu will pop up listing the available color modes for
the monitor you clicked on; just select the color mode you want and
ColorSwitch will acquiesce.

Under System 7 or later, things are even easier: ColorSwitch installs
a Monitor icon-menu next to the Balloon Help menu, from which you can
simply choose the color mode you desire for your main monitor.

ColorSwitch comes in very handy for many day-to-day tasks.  Certain
programs require that your monitor be set to a certain color mode in
order to run, and using the Monitors control panel every time you need
to switch color modes grows tiresome quickly.  Your Macintosh will
also operate more quickly if you normally operate in black and white
mode, switching to a more colorful setting only when you need to.
ColorSwitch makes switching color modes so quick and convenient, you
will find yourself using it constantly to improve your quality of life
at the computer.

Once installed, ColorSwitch uses up 5K of memory.

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/color-switch-21.hqx; 84K]

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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 93 17:17:23 PDT
From: Jose A. Gutierrez <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] gzip-124.hqx

Enclosed: a first version of gzip 1.2.4 for Macintosh
version: 0.0b           SPDsoft 1993
                            J.A. Gutierrez E.

[Archived as /info-mac/cmp/gzip-124.hqx; 166K]

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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1993 23:41:52 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Peter Kaas)
Subject: [*] Newton Package Downloader

Hello,

Enclosed is the "Newton Package Downloader" version 1.0b3, an application
that enables you to download your Newton packages (.pkg) into your Newt.
The program uses an AppleTalk connection. "AppleTalk ADSP Tool" connection
tool, minimal system 7, and ofcourse, a Newt :), required

No additional titles required on the Newton, just use the build in
"Connection" title.

 Peter Kaas
 Internet E-Mail: [e-mail]
 Address: Penningkruid 32, 3984 BK  Odijk, The Netherlands

[Archived as /info-mac/nwt/util/newton-package-downloader-10b3.hqx; 55K]

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Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 10:44:26 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Igor Livshits)
Subject: [*] Nuntius version 1.1.3 available

Here's a bug fix release for Nuntius.

>From: <[e-mail]> (Peter Speck)
>To: Multiple recipients of list <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Nuntius version 1.1.3 available
>Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 10:42:29 -0400
>
>1.1.3
>      "Talk with system adm" bug fixed.
>      New splash screen with the real version number (read from vers
resource).

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/nuntius-113.hqx; 431K]

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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1993 20:25:11 +0000
From: [e-mail] (Robert Rumpf)
Subject: [*] PowerNotes 2.1

PowerNotes is a Hypercard stack designed to be an electronic notebook for
students and researchers alike.  Designed for use on a Powerbook (although
it will run on any Mac with a screen size of 640 x 400 or larger), it
organizes and stores information (ie, class notes, research notes,
diagrams, recipes, whatever), which can be textual or graphical in nature.
PowerNotes has various import and export functions. This stack is
exceptionally useful as an electronic notebook for students taking notes
directly onto their PowerBooks, or for researchers and experimenters who
need to keep track of experiments, projects, or information from primary
literature references.

What's new for Version 2.1?

 * Outliner Button to rapidly prepare an outline of all topics and
subtopics in the stack (great for generating an instant syllabus!)
 * Print Button provides formatted output of the entire contents of a given
 card
 * Textfile Button to allow for simple import and/or export of text between
an ascii file and PowerNotes
 * Time and Date fields are customizable
 * Minor Bug Fixes

[Archived as /info-mac/text/power-notes-21-hc.hqx; 28K]

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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1993 10:44:52 -0700
From: Kenneth Anderson <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] RayDream Designer Demo

This is a Stuffit Self-Extracting Archive containing a demo of
RayDream Designer.  The application is not included in the demo,
instead the output and features are presented in a "slideshow"
demo, where the user clicks on the arrow to see the next card.
The demo is very slick and very impressive. I'm actually
thinking of buying RayDream Designer after seeing this demo.

Ken

[Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/raydream-designer-demo.hqx; 1829K]

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Date: Tue, 12 Oct 93 14:03:37 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] rnMac.1.0.sea.hqx submission

Hi,

Here is rnMac 1.0. It is a offline news reader used with UUPC and
ToadNews. Please refer to previous upload for the message from the
author.

I am not the author and I found this by Archie.

Regards,

Liu

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/net/rnmac-099-to-10-updt.hqx; 97K]

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Date: Tue, 12 Oct 93 13:48:33 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] rnmac0.99.cpt.hqx submission

Hi,

Here is a offline news reader. This is found in archive.umich.edu.
There is a package of newer version that comes only with setting file
and application itself. I will upload that package separately.

Regards,

Liu

P.S. Following is the message from the author.

> Subject: rnMac 0.99 -- offline newsreader

> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1993 16:14:00 -0400 (EDT)

> From: Roy R Wood <[e-mail]>
>

> Here's v0.99 of rnMac, an offline usenet newsreader designed to be
> used in conjunction with UUPC and ToadNews.
>

> There have been MANY enhancements to rnMac, most notably the
> ability
> to use ToadNews' SUBJ headers, and the ability to create threaded
> news header files in the background while the user is reading other
> news.  rnMac now starts up IMMEDIATELY, rather than spending a long
> time grinding away at the disk while the user twiddles his/her
> thumbs.

> My email address has changed, so old users should note the new
> address.

> Also, rnMac now puts up an annoying registration screen, and
> registered users will have to mail me to get the key to make it go
> away permanently (no charge, of course).

> -Roy Wood ([e-mail])

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/net/rnmac-099.hqx; 138K]

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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 93 21:51:01 CDT
From: [e-mail] (Brian Lakeman)
Subject: [*] SaintEdit 1.1

Well it is finally here!

This is a major upgrade to SaintEdit there are a ton of new
features and many bug fixes, so please read the 1.1 release history!

SaintEdit is a System 7, squeaky clean, robust general purpose text
editor-not a word processor, not a page layout program, not a draw program.

Hidden behind the simple and intuitive user interface lies a rather complex
program representing years of work. I use it as a snazzy, efficient
replacement for Teach Text: Though it doesn't (yet) support graphics,
SaintEdit will read any text file and is loaded with features.

SaintEdit 1.1

- System 7 Savvy
- Multiple open windows
- Memory dependent file size limit (greater than 32K!)
- Extensive Undo/Redo support
- Safe file saving routines
- Extensive Search and replace
- Color Day/Night Settings (change background color too!)
- FastScrolls
- Drag and Drop any TEXT file
- Sleek Interface
- Printing Support
- Multiple Monitor Support
- Auto read UNIX and DOS files without messing with converters
- Save text files for Macintosh, UNIX, DOS, TeachText, TeachText
  Read Only
- Speech Manager Support
- And much, much more!

Thank you for your support...

Craig Marciniak         [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/text/saint-edit-11.hqx; 178K]

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Date: 15 Oct 1993 19:43:18 GMT
From: [e-mail] (phil johnson)
Subject: [*] Two personality tests

[e-mail] writes:

>Enclosed are two Hypercard stacks.  One is an abbreviated
>version of the Meyers-Briggs personality test; the stack is
>written by Michael Sanders M. D.

>The second is an "improved" version of the stack called the
>Swift-Buttle personality test, allegedly written by Carl M.
>Cuserbi M. D.  It may not be enlightening, but it is funny ;-)

>The stacks won't work using Hypercard 1.x

>Darin Takemoto
>[e-mail]

>[Archived as /info-mac/info/nms/mb-and-sb-personality-tests-hc.hqx; 80K]

I may be out of line here, but aren't those tests copyrighted
commercial products? (I'm talking about the test items and scoring,
etc., not the Hypercard stacks.)


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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1993 13:35:43 -0400
From: "Tom Scott" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (A) appleCD300i

     (A) appleCD300i
Ben Squire <[e-mail]> asks:

>I have a Centris 650 with AppleCD 300i CD ROM drive.  Here is my problem:
>When I tried to eject a CD ROM by dumping it in the trash, I got an error
>message along the lines of "this disk could not be put away because it is
>being shared."
>This disk, however was definitely not being shared.  In the sharing setup
>box, the "share this disk" box was not selected.  I was able to eject the
>disk by shutting down the computer but I am unable to eject the disk any
>other way.  I would appreciate if you have any ideas for a solution to
>email me and when I find a solution that works I will let you know.

When you start your computer up, there's a short time after the Finder comes
up
that your Mac is still pretty busy in the background.  It the period of time
that it takes for File Sharing to become fully active.  If you stick in a
CD-ROM while file sharing is coming up, it becomes a mounted volume, and any
mounted volume becomes "shareable" when file sharing finally finishes coming
up.  If you wait until file sharing is active, and then put your CD-ROM in,
it's not treated as a shareable volume.

You could kludge it by turning File Sharing off, unmounting your CD, and then
turning it back on, but there's a more elegant solution available at sumex.
This was discussed in I-M 11-196, and I'm pulling the quote directly from
there.  This was suggested by [e-mail] (Matt X. Herbison):

   Get the shareware "UnmountIt" from /info-mac/disk/UnmountIt.
   It will turn off File Sharing, unmount the volume, then turn
   File Sharing back on.  A more complete explanation is in MacWorld,
   October 1993, page 152.

There you go.  Good luck!

Thomas Scott, Systems Manager, College of Engineering
Cornell University, Carpenter Hall Annex, Ithaca, NY  14853

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Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 11:54:12 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Marcus Harvey)
Subject: Accessing Laser Printers on Sun Network

We have a network of SUN workstations connected to a colour A3 laser printer.

I would like to be able to print to this printer from our DTP Mac IIfx.

The Mac has an Ethernet connection.

Anyone know how I can do this? It seems CAP requires an Appletalk/Ethernet
box.
Is this the only way?


- [e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 06:37:59 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Garry Weil)
Subject: ADA COMPILER

[e-mail] writes:

Yes, There is one from a company called Merdian Software from
southern California. Do not have their number, :-(


>Have you ever heard of an ADA COMPILER for the Macintosh ?

>Please, mail replies to me and I'll post a summary if necessary.

>Thanks for any help in advance.

>PS: Shareware preferred.

>Philippe PERARD
>Student in computer engineering
>Universite de Technologie de Compiegne
>[e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 15 Oct 93 12:42:11 PDT
From: Paul Brians <[e-mail]>
Subject: After Dark module for DarkSide of the Mac? (Q)

Was I just dreaming, or was there some discussion recently of a
module for Darkside of the Mac which could run After Dark modules?
Or was it a denunciation of the possibility of such a thing?
I own AD but don't use it because of conflicts, would like to run
my modules under DarkSide.  I also wish more people would program
for DarkSide.  It's neat.

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

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Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 16:14:53 -0500
From: Bienvenu Sidney J <[e-mail]>
Subject: anxiously awaiting modem

I coulda sworn purchases from MacWarehouse took about a week to arrive.  I am
anxiously awaiting the arrival of my LineLink modem (the $99 one) and have
been since the previous Saturday, when I dropped the order form in the mail.
My
guess is they can't keep the modems in stock and its on back order.  I would
appreciate some testimonials from people who have purchased the modem from
*by mail* on how long it took them to receive their products.

Many thanx in advance.

 --------------
Jay Bienvenu
[e-mail]
 --------------

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Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1993 00:58:45 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Ken Linger)
Subject: Apple, Intel, Ads, and Reality

Ok, its time to face the facts.  I'll start by saying that until very
recently, I've been one of those making claims listed below.

Apple was first.  The interface now used on almost any successful platform
is either theirs or a bastardization of it.  The pointing device under the
palm of your left or right hand was used by Apple long before becoming
standard equipment with today's PCs.  Sound input, digitized playback, and
built in music that doesn't sound like you're trying to create voice
synthesis with a toy piano were all exploited by Apple before Compaq
released their DeskPro 486 series.

But this is past.  True, all this makes me proud to be a Mac owner, but the
fact is now, many people will buy the PCs that offer this before they buy a
Mac.  Simply telling them the Mac did it first might get you an, "Oh?"
response but that's it.

Through a decade of creative advertising, enough people have PC type
computers so they will now keep buying them.  After all, they invested so
much money on their 8086, they'd have to switch to Visicalc from Lotus if
they bought an Apple, so they'll upgrade to a 286, then a 386.  Now they
can run Windows, but they really wouldn't want to yet but 3.0 changed all
that.  Intel and Microsoft, through burst of smoke from which I'm still
coughing today, got us believing that if the code is poorly written and
things seem to take forever, we'll make the poorly written code run faster
with a faster machine (as opposed to optimizing it).

So I pose this challenge.  We on Info-Mac seem to constantly prove to
ourselves that we made the right choice in computers.  This is a pretty
safe place where you shouldn't meet too much opposition.  How would you
convince these following people, though (keep in mind if you go into a
computer store not knowing what you want, you will leave with a PC; if you
know you want a Mac, that's what you'll end up with; sales people are funny
that way):

- Someone buying a computer for the first time.  Has a PC at work (seems
nice--especially After Dark in Windows with those nice fish)

- A PC user.  Bought their first PC way back when.  The decision then was
tough between a Mac and PC but now that they have the PC, they like it a
lot better (of course, they're comparing their current PC to the 1984 Mac
128).  Has lots of time and money invested in software and hardware,
especially several IDE hard drives and "hard cards."  Windows is the
greatest thing.

- A PC user who buys the latest.  Has Windows NT running on their Pentium
and thinks it is the Messiah.

How do you fight to Macs to those people?  How would you talk to them?  How
would you target them in an ad?  We had Quicktime... first; we had a GUI...
first doesn't mean that much anymore.  And, given a choice between a Compaq
with decent sound and voice inputs and a "similar" desktop Mac, the Compaq
will be a lot less.  And, while Macs can run PC applications through things
like Soft PC [I'm not counting Orange PC just because you can also buy a
notebook and stick it next to your Quadra and run both at the same time
too] I'm not that impressed.  On my 50 Mhz SE/30, Soft PC becomes just
bearable.

As an aside, we have those Compaqs at work and it seems that the sounds of
the early to mid 80s from the Mac freeware market have reaching the PCs (7
years later).  Now PCs can play the sounds you had for a week and threw
out:  Twilight Zone theme, Looney Toons, etc.  Oh well.

Anyway, I'd be interested in valid pro-mac arguments because I deal with
the above type people on a daily basis.

Thanks for any responses or flames.  No, really, I mean it.

Ken


---
    Ken Linger                              [e-mail]
    School of Computer Science
    Purdue University                       AOL:  Zinger6

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Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 14:08:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Apple Movie Shop (where to find)

    Does anyone know where I can find Apple's QuickTime utility Movie
    Shop?
I'm about to start work on compressing some video that's going to be
transferred to CD-ROM and from what I've been told the best compression
schemes for CD-ROM playback are found in this utility.  If you happen to know
where I can find this, please e-mail me.  I've already tried to find it on
AppleLink, but haven't had any luck.
    Much thanks in advance,
                  Ryan Leasher
                  [e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1993 19:15:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: [e-mail] (Ryan Manwiller)
Subject: AppleShare Server 3.01 privilages

I am running appleshare server 3.01 on a classic II. I have shared
a folder, and created a number of users. Guests are not allowed.
The privileges for this folder are completely open, that is, all privileges
enabled for owner, group, and any-user. I have checked "Make all enclosed
folders like this one" and clicked implicit when it asks about privilege
inheritence. (I have also tried explicit).

However, when a user logs in and creates a new folder, that folder's
privileges are only enabled for owner (that user). Isn't this new
folder supposed to inherit the privileges from the enclosing folder?
(The enclosing folder's privileges are enabled for everyone (owner,group,
any-user)).

Any ideas why new folders created by users are not inheriting privileges?
If I create a new folder on the server machine, privileges are inherited
correctly.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks much,

Ryan Manwiller
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1993 20:31:53 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Matthew Ahrens)
Subject: ARA competes with the printer -- please help

try bringing up the "network" control panel and choosing "Remote Only". this
+ will cause the modem and Appletalk (via ARA) to use teh same serial port.
+ then you can use the other for a direct-connect (non appletalk) printer such
+ as teh SW II.

--
My opinions are mine only and tentative, pending further data
Matthew Ahrens                      [e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 17:58:56 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Matthew Ahrens)
Subject: ARA competes with the printer -- please help

try bringing up the "network" control panel and choosing "Remote Only". this
+ will cause the modem and Appletalk (via ARA) to use teh same serial port.
+ then you can use the other for a direct-connect (non appletalk) printer such
+ as teh SW II.

--
My opinions are mine only and tentative, pending further data
Matthew Ahrens                      [e-mail]

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

Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1993 12:09:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail] (W.K. Fry)
Subject: A Scriptable Finder...

When AppleScript first came out, I was very excited and purchased it.
Unfortunately, the low quantity of scriptable software was somewhat of a
disappointment, and FinderLib was buggy so I patiently waited for the
Scriptable Finder to arrive.

When I saw the AV's in the store and saw that they had the Dictionary
for the Finder, I again waited and purchased System 7 Pro as soon as it
came out.

Much to my dismay, there is not a single example anywhere on how to use
the commands for the Finder. . . I've tried again and again, and I still
can't even get it to Open a file!  I searched the AppleScript disk, and
there was FinderLib again!

This is next to useless.  I appreciate the people who have posted their
own AppleScript extensions for using Finder commands, but I was really
hoping to have the "Real McCoy".  The Finder isn't scriptable, neither
is AppleMail. . . the only thing I can do is script a text editor!  I
sorry, but Apple really left me cold with this one!

If anyone out there has figured out the proper syntax to use the Finder
commands, drop me a line.  The Finder just ignores everything I try.
Thanks!

-William K. Fry

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

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 12:30:12 -0400
From: "Robert Bruce" <[e-mail]>
Subject: binary: "Newton Package Downloader"

   This is fantastic.  I have been waiting for someone to write this. Thanks
   for
sending it to the archive as well as making it available for general use.
   What would it take to make it work with serial as well? If you decide not
   to
continue the project let me know, I have some people here who might be
interest
in picking up where you left off.

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

Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1993 12:52:09 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Benjamin J. Turner)
Subject: Blackbird Rumors?

    I just recently heard a few rumors about Apple's plans for a line
of notebooks code-named Blackbird. The details are pretty sketchy,
can anyone tell me more? I'm particularly interested in an estimate of
how much more expensive they'll be compared with the Duos, but any and
all information is greatly appreciated.
    Thanks in advance,
        Benjamin Turner
        [e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 10:18:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: Allison Greene <[e-mail]>
Subject: Change system disk name?

> IMHO, MacintoshHD is too long a name for a device.  On my Mac Classic,
running
> System 6.0.7, I changed it to HD.  But on my Quadra, running System 7.0, it
> won't allow the change, at least not in the usual straightforward way.  Is
> there a way to change the name of the hard drive/system disk?

    I want to thank everyone who responded to my disk re-naming problem.
    The solution was to turn off file-sharing, then rename the disk.
    Info-Mac people are awesome!

    Allison Greene

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

Date: 17 Oct 93 01:25 GMT
From: [e-mail] (U of Wisconsin, P Chane,STU)
Subject: Chess on the Macintosh

Could anyone please recommend a good chess program for Macs?  Preferably one
with color, 3-D, etc.  Shareware preferred.  Thanks.

Also looking for Go, Poker, Blackjack and other strategy games.

PC


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

Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1993 20:53:22 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Color monitor suggestions? (Q)

I am in the market for a large color monitor. My price range is ~$1000-$1200.
Suggestions, anyone? Recommendations or horror stories appreciated! I am
inclined towards the NEC 5FG or 5FGe or Sony 1730, which are all 17"
monitors.
There are 19" Mitsubishi's for the same ~$1000, but I haven't seen one and I
don't know if they are as good.

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

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 93 08:26:08 PDT
From: Paul Brians <[e-mail]>
Subject: Connecting to SUMEX-AIM (busy)

Well-meaning folks have been telling frustrated ftp'ers to try Gopher
when they can't get through to SUMEX-AIM.  In my recent experience,
Gopher connections are very difficult to get too.  Busy messages are
more common than not, early in the day or late, weekdays, weekends,
and evenings.  I'm not fanatical enough to stay up all night
downloading so I can't speak for 3:00 am.  The fact is that the
current system is not simply victimized by a bunch of self-indulgent
greedheads: the traffic has just increased beyond the ability of
current systems to support it.  UMICH is similarly hard to connect with;
and far from being a "mirror" of SUMEX-AIM has its own structure which
needs time to learn and negotiate.  Are there any other gopherable
Mac software sites that are not similarly clogged up?

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

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

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 11:39:49 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mark Christal <[e-mail]>
Subject: Controlling stereo sound on Mac w/ HyperCard

    I am working with a professor at the University of Texas who is
running experiments involving the short-term memory of children for
strings of numbers presented in different ways (flashed on the screen,
sound only, flashed + sound) and reported by the subject in a couple ways
(orally, with touch screen). The experiment is given with a HC tool that
presents random strings, collects the subject responses, and writes the
responses to a file.
    The professor now wants to do a new set of experiments involving
sound given either left, right, or both stereo channels. For this
new experiment, I will need some XCMD extensions that
will allow me to control the stereo channel the sound goes through. I'm
not really sure if the Mac has true stereo without additional hardware. I
believe we will be using a Quadra for the experiment.
    If anyone knows what it takes to get control of left and right
stereo channels over the Mac with HyperCard--XCMD's and, if
necessary, add-on soundboards--please let me know.

    --Mark Christal, Grad. Research Asst., UT, Austin,Texas


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

Date: 16 Oct 1993 18:36:50 -0400
From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
Subject: Desperatly Seeking Newton

The Newton is readily available from MacWarehouse.

So is the Sharp ExpertPad.

$3 overnight shipping.

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

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 17:32:38 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Desperatly Seeking Newton (R)

>> My how times have changed (or have they?). Here I am with 700 big
>> ones in my handing looking to buy a Newton MessagePad. An easy
>> assignment? Think again. It's easier to find a needle in a
>> haystack.

If you can live without the Apple brand name, the newly arrived MacConnection
catalog features the Sharp Expert Pad. Of course, no guarantee it's in
stock...
-BMUG Boston 617-721-5840, East Coast BBS of The World's Largest Mac User
Group

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

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 11:21:09 EDT
From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Fetch DOS FTP Problem

In a previous posting I described a problem where Fetch accessing
a DOS based server can not present the directory list in the main window.
I said:

> I might add that other DOS clients and Unix clients do not have trouble
> accessing the FTP server and seeing the directories. The problem
> seems to be unique to Fetch.

Unfortunately, that was lack of experience talking!  Jim Matthews
([e-mail]) offered the following clarification:

JM> This kind of server will fail for any "point-and-click" FTP client
JM> that does not have special code for parsing its verbose file list
JM> (the one that View File List shows you). That includes XferIt,
JM> TCP/Connect II, VersaLink, HyperFTP, and many others. The problem
JM> may be unique to this sort of FTP client, but it is not unique to
JM> Fetch.

That makes great sense.  I stand corrected!  I appologize to the
folks at Dartmouth.  Fetch is a great software tool and the problem,
as Jim described, is *not* unique to Fetch.

We are trying to find a DOS server that does support NLST so that
Fetch (and the others) can see the directory structure.  Any suggestions
>From the net are appreciated.

Jeffrey Fritz
West Virginia University
[e-mail]

(Right now I am *really* glad that I said that the comments were mine
and did not represent my employer's point of view!  ;-)

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

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 93 16:16:09 +0900
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Floppies from/to SONY NEWS worksation

Hi !

 I have just arrived to Japan, and I have found that the only machine on the
laboratory with a 3.5 inch floppy drive is a Sony News Workstation. Does
anyone
 know
if there is a way to
a) read NEWS floppies on a Mac
b) allow the NEWS Workstation to work with Mac or MS-DOS Floppies

Thank you very much.

Rafael Collantes
Nagoya University
Japan

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

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 17:35:38 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Flowcharting? (R)

>> One of my users is looking at doing some flowcharting, and was
>> wondering if there was a shareware flowcharting program out there
>> with the standard flowchart symbols.

Look for DesignerDraw - I believe it has what you need. Sorry, don't know
off-hand where to find it.

Mitch
-BMUG Boston 617-721-5840, East Coast BBS of The World's Largest Mac User
Group

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

Date: 15 Oct 1993 16:55:26 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Paul J. Pearah)
Subject: FrameMaker HELP!\

hi -

i'm about to start writing my ph.d. thesis, with lots of graphs and
equations.
i have MS Word 5.1 and FrameMaker 3.0.  which will serve me better?

please reply via e-mail to:  [e-mail]

thanks,
        paul

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

Date: Thu, 14 Oct 93 19:22:59 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Free Personal Press (Not!)

For those of you who saw the note in MacWeek's "Knife" column about getting
a freebie copy of Aldus Personal Press 2.01, I can only be charitable and
assume The Knife was told that by a colleague he or she trusted enough not
to bother checking. Knife should have checked.

For those of you without MacWeek subscriptions, the columnist thought it
was a hoot that the generally available updater, with slight type/creator
diddling would yield a perfectly functional PP 2.01 via Stuffit.

Yes, indeed. You can change the type/creator of the 2.0-to-2.01 updater
app to SITD/SIT!, and you can drop it onto Stuffit Expander and get the
PP app and a folder of goodies. However, launching PP yields an apologetic
message saying that "personalization" failed, begging your pardon for the
inconvenience, and asking you to reinstall.

I suspect a thoughtless kneejerk reaction caused the updater's removal
>From the usual on-line suspects. It sure doesn't look to me as if some
nerd off the street can get a working copy of PP 2.01 from the updater.
But I've been wrong before.

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

[At the moment, personal-press isn't in our archives -- I had removed it after
several people mentioned the mac week article.  If we could get someone from
personal press to say that it is ok to post this updater, I would be much
obliged.  I don't want to put it back till I see such a mail message. :)
--Gordon]

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

Date: Sat, 16 Oct 93 10:20:30 PDT
From: [e-mail] (John Thoo)
Subject: FullWrite 1.5-->1.5s updater (C)


On 14 Oct 93 I wrote:
> On 13 Oct 1993 <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > Does anyone have the FullWrite 1.5-->1.5s updater? I own version 1.5 but
> > can't make use of the new updaters to version 1.7 because they only
> > support versions 1.5s and 1.6. I'd be most grateful if anyone having
> > the 1.5-->1.5s updater would upload it to info-mac.
>
> Grab [./app/fullwrite-pro-15s-patch.hqx].

I must apologise, for <[e-mail]> reported back to me that this
patch updates FWP 1.5s to 1.6(p1) only, and not 1.5 to 1.5s.  Thus, the
only recourse I see is to contact Akimbo <[e-mail]> to obtain
the necessary update.  [Personal note: I've always found Akimbo to be
very responsive to my e-mail.]

Sorry for the bug-a-boo.

--John.
J. B. THOO, Math Dept, Univ of California, Davis <[e-mail]>

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

Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1993 15:48 EST
From: "Ethan J. Benatan" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Go (A)

About a year and a half ago, I got Nemesis Go Master from Toyogo.
It has a nice interface, and plays pretty well too- better than
I did when I got it!  Excellent tools are available for
studying and annotating games, too.

Toyogo: 1-800-Toyogo9  or
Toyogo INc. P.O. Box 25460, Honolulu, HI 96825-0460

This info is from when I bought the program, I do not know if it
is still correct.

Ethan Benatan
[e-mail]

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

Date: Sat, 16 Oct 93 21:07:06 BST
From: Antonio Garcia-Bellido <[e-mail]>
Subject: Graphic representation

Dear friends of Info-Mac:

I am interested in representing graphically the degree of overlap of plots
of
different spots of particular profiles contained within a constant area.
The
representation should give a different degree of gray (or different
symbols) for
regions with the same amount of overlapping (i.e. an area with 2
overlappings a
light grey, an area of 3 overlapping areas a darker grey, etc...).
(equivalent
to isotherms in a terrestrial surface map).  Ideally I would also like to
define
the areas of different degree of overlapping in order to represent and to
numerically evaluate them.

Could anyone help me? Any ideas? What program(s) should I use?

Antonio Garcia-Bellido
Please Reply to [e-mail]

Thank you for your help in advance.

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

Date: 16 Oct 1993 23:05:54 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Derek Rose)
Subject: handling AppleDouble files

Can anyone tell me how to translate a AppleDouble file to a Mac file?  A
friend sent me something using Eudora 1.4, and I haven't been able to
translate it. I've searched Sumex, tried using archie, and have been unable
to find anything that will work.

Thanks in advance for any help anyone can give me.

Derek Rose
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 09:08:22 EDT
From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: HD SC and Silverlining

Recently, I responded to a post from W. Rowe about Apple's HD SC and
Silverlining hard drive formatters.  In my response, I glibly said:

>I don't know if that's true or not, but if W. Rowe already
>owns a current version of Silverlining, why should he even bother
>with Apple's drive format application. Silverlining is 100%
>better IMHO.

Well, now I've been given cause to reconsider my position.  I received
a message from an "an anonymous correspondent" (who sounds very
knowledgable).  I was told:

> The reason that the owner of a non-Apple drive, even a Silverlining
> owner such as myself, is interested in the hack to Apple HD SC
> Setup is that the latter implements DMA to SCSI on a Quadra (and
> maybe even a IIfx, although I can't confirm that). Silverlining
> uses programmed IO, where every SCSI byte goes through the CPU, and
> my discussions with LaCie tech support indicate that Apple are
> balking on giving them access to the DMA details.

Hmmmmm.  If that is the case, it could make a significant difference
in throughput for raw data transfers.  Can anyone else confirm this?

Jeffrey Fritz
West Virginia University
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 12:41:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: "J. David Stradley" <[e-mail]>
Subject: high-speed modem transfers

As a law student, I use Westlaw to download cases to my mac for printing.
Westlaw software will format the text as postscript so that the printout
is in multiple fonts and dual columns, etc.

I have had trouble getting this capability to work. I finally figured out
what was happening. During transmission, strings of characters are getting
lost. This causes there to be fewer characters in a line than postscript
is expecting and a postscript error is generated.

I use a 14.4 kBaud modem with all the bells and whistles. I'm wondering if
something is wrong with the way I've got compression, error-correction,
and/or flow-control set up. I have been using v.32, v.42, etc. along with
hardware flow-control. I thought I had a hardware-handshaking cable, but
now I've begun to wonder. Is there any way I can tell from software?
Should error-correction eliminate strings of missing characters? Finally,
am I barking up the wrong tree? As usual, the folks at Westlaw, as with
most other places, have no clue what makes a mac tick.

One more bit of info. My roommate is using the same software with the same
version of the system, same lw driver (8.0). The only difference is that
he is using an SE with a 2400 baud modem. We also print to the same
lwpro600. He does not get PS errors. I have also tried re-installing the
Westlaw software and that doesn't solve the problem. I have also check for
init conflicts. That is not the problem.

Please help me by responding directly to me. If anybody is interested in
the answer, drop me a line and I'll summarize to the net.

Thanks in advance,
David.


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
J. David Stradley
<[e-mail]>
<[e-mail]> or
<[e-mail]>
[phone]

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

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 12:27:39 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Darrah Chavey)
Subject: How do you turn off Appleshare's auto-mount? (A)

Pete Tamas <[e-mail]> asks:
>In some of the labs I have seen, the students experiment with
>Appleshare and select the "Checked items will be opened at System
>Startup time." Often, the target (fileserver) Mac will be moved or
>renamed but the student machine will try to access it at startup and
>ask for a password. Is there any way to stop this or should I reinstall
>Appleshare? Thanks, Pete Tamas
>[e-mail] or TempleVM.bitnet

We've found two ways to do this. At first, we set the AppleShare Prep
file the way we wanted it (no auto-mounts), and then lock that file in
the System folder. That stopped them from setting auto-mount, but
unfortunately every time you went to AppleShare to connect to anything,
it would beep at you and say it couldn't save your changes (even if you
HADN'T clicked any auto-mount boxes, or anything else).
    Since that didn't work as well as we hoped, we have switched to using
RevRDist to replace the AppleShare Prep file whenever the one on the local
machine is newer than the one on our hard disk image. Since we have
RevRDist run at shutdown time (not startup time), anyone checking that box
will have their preferences file replaced as soon as they shut down.
    By the way, I did all kinds of things in ResEdit to try to disable
that button. As I recall, you can create a static text field that sits on
top of the entire area where those check items are, and enable it, and it
will absorb MOST of the clicks in that region and prevent people from
being able to click those boxes. Unfortunately, in our case there were
more than 5 remote volumes they could mount to, so the scroll bar would
come up, and I couldn't stop it from absorbing clicks, and then the
whole click override stopped working. That might work though if you had
only a few remote mountable volumes.

--Darrah Chavey            Department of Math & Computer Science
  [e-mail]        Beloit College; 700 College St; Beloit, Wisc.

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

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 17:38:33 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: How do you turn off Appleshare's auto-mount? (A)

>> Often, the target (fileserver) Mac will be moved or renamed but
>> the student machine will try to access it at startup and ask for a
>> password. Is there any way to stop this or should I reinstall
>> Appleshare?

The easiest way to get rid of this is to trash the AppleShare Prep file.

Mitch
-BMUG Boston 617-721-5840, East Coast BBS of The World's Largest Mac User
Group

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

Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1993 22:38:50 PDT
From: Kee Nethery <[e-mail]>
Subject: How to increase # on localtalk network? (A)

> To be able to use Daedalus I need to
have the server's Daedalus folder on all of the workstations, but after
connecting 10 computers, I get a message saying the server can accept no
more users, try again later. .....
> Does anyone out there have any ideas as to how to correct
these problems so I can network the entire lab with the System 7.1
Appleshare extension? The users guide seems to indicate that I should be
able to network up to 100, with less than 50 recommended. Is this wrong?

You must set up an AppleShare File Server using the AppleShare File Server
Software Application in order to allow more than 10 users to access a
single Mac File Server. You are using Personal File Sharing which was never
intended to be a replacement for a file server. Personal File Sharing has a
limit of ten users, AppleShare Server Software does not have that limit.

Kee Nethery
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1993 18:31:05 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Herb Kroemer)
Subject: Illustrator: Emperor without Clothes

Quick: In one line or less, name the graphics program that meets all three
of the following criteria:

     1) It is one of the most expensive programs of its kind.
     2) In recent reviews, its latest version has been widely hailed as
outdistancing its arch-competition (or some hype to that effect).
     3) It still cannot handle one of the simplest tasks, one that even the
cheapest graphics program can handle with ease: Importing PICTs from the
clipboard.

The envelope, please:

     It's Adobe Illustrator 5!

I need PICT pastes in much of my work, and it never even occurred to me
that this program could not handle such an elementaryy task, so I bought it
to replace my old Aldus Freehand 2.2. What a waste of money!

Back to Freehand, even that old version (but of course, I'm going to
upgrade that one now).

Herb K.

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

Date: 15 Oct 1993 08:53:24 -0500
From: "dlawrence" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #203

Your issue number is not incrementing again...forget to feed the hamster? :)

David
_______________________________________________________________________________
From: [e-mail] on Fri, Oct 15, 1993 7:52 AM
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #203
To: [e-mail]
File(s): D.smtp.in.6311

[You bet!  Something funny is up.  The last three digests all had the same
number.  I'll archive them in the digest area correctly -- and force an
update of incrementer and see if I can't fix this problem forever!  This
issue should be back on track.  I think the last three issues have been
labeled 203 -- so 204 and 205 were mislabeled.  This is, as you can see,
issue 206 (I hope!) :) - Gordon]

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

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 93 10:39:07 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Tom J. Tabone)
Subject: intercom software

[e-mail] (steve jaffe) replied:
>> (Steven Hodas) wrote:
>>============
>>Are there any sharweare or low-cost commercial programs that let you use
>>a LocalTalk netowrk as an intercom? In other words, instead of shouting
>>>From one room to the other I'd like to send a sound file in some way that
>>more interactive than recording it, dragging it, waiting for the
>>recipient to open it, having them record a response, etc.

I've used Talko2oMe.  shareware $10, close to realtime.  I believe it can
still be found at sumex.


Tom J. Tabone                   CALS Computing & Biometry
[e-mail]     Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison
[phone]                  Madison, WI  53706

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

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 16:12:31 +0100
From: Dominique Petitpierre <[e-mail]>
Subject: Is the Apple 8*24 GC video display board worth something?

I have the opportunity to buy a second hand accelerated color video display
board, the Apple 8*24GC, to use in my MacIIx with an Apple 13" monitor.  It
seems a good deal:  it is sold for $ 400 when the list price is $ 1340.

But then I read the review "24-bit Color Graphics" in the February 1993 issue
of MacWorld (p 153).  Their benchmark table show no real improvement between
the non accelerated and accelerated Apple boards:  (+ 10% to + 20% for
low-level QuickDraw tests, at best +10% in real-world tests, even 6% slower
for horizontal scrolling). But the boards description claims Quickdraw
acceleration by a factor 5 to 30?

Where is the mistake?

On the board there are two slots for DRAM.  The description is quite vague
about their purpose:  some programs can use this memory to store "off display"
images.  What programs know how to take advantage of this?  Is it worth buying
the DRAM for it?

I intend to use this card for graphic applications such as FreeHand,
Illustrator, PageMaker and Photoshop, with images from Kodak CDs and from a
256 levels of grey scanner (HP Scanjet).  Will this card really speed
operations of these tools?

Thanks in advance for your comments.
I'll post a summary of the answers to this group.

Dominique

Mr. Dominique Petitpierre / ISSCO, University of Geneva, Switzerland
[e-mail] /
S=petitp;OU=divsun;O=unige;PRMD=switch;ADMD=arcom;C=ch

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

Date: Thu, 14 Oct 93 20:11:55 BST
From: Richard Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: Laser Printer problem - help!

Can anyone help with a problem with a laser printer?

It's an OKI LaserLine 6 (Ricoh engine, same as GCC PLP and Epson 3500).

It has a new drum, new toner and new developer cartridge. Copy count is 9000.

The right-hand side of every page appears gray, as though there's not enough
toner getting to it. It's getting worse i.e. the transition from black to gray
is moving further to the left as time (and the copy count) goes on.

Apologies for posting to Info-Mac, but I am driving it from a Mac, and I
couldn't think where else to post! Please respond direct to me.

TIA

Richard Smith ([e-mail])
Hardware & Systems Executive
NorthEast Macintosh User Group - UK

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

Date: 15 Oct 1993 14:54:14 -0500 (CDT)
From: [e-mail] (Vijaya  Reddy)
Subject: Laserwriter Printer

I want buy used Laser Writer Printer, if anybody(who lives close to
Alabama) is selling, would you please send me email with the  details like
what type of printer and the price. I would appreciate any help.  Thankyou

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

Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1993 15:02:31 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Michael Moores)
Subject: Looking for NetChoir

Hi, I have looked using archie for a program a friend would like. It is
called NetChoir, apparently it plays music over a net or something. He says
it is on compuserve, but do not have an account. Please let me know if you
have it or know where to find it.
Thank you,
Mike

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

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 19:50:38 +0100
From: Elliot Bennett <[e-mail]>
Subject: Low level SCSI utility needed...

Net-affectiandos [sic] might remember my having problems a while back with a
DEC hard disk which (still) won't spin up on its own when connected to a Mac.
Many kind people replied insisting that all I had to do was put a jumper (
somewhere) on the drive and that would tell it to spin up all by itself.
Well,
 I've tried all possible jumpers (though only single jumpers- never multiple
jumpters in combination) and the thing just wont spin up (it does, however,
work just fine on a VAX-Station).

Anyway, according to DEC, we need a low level SCSI utility which would let us
send commands to set a bit representing the mode for spin-up.  Alternatively
we could use a SCSI driver (if someone knew of one) which would set this bit,
but I think the former is more likely to exist.

So, anyone have any ideas where we might find such a beast?  (We'll even pay
[!
!} for it :-)

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

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

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 05:25:01 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: MACARCH access

 ----------------------------- Start of body part 1

I tried to access the info-mac archives using MACARCH, my
problem is, my mail gateway converts the dollar ($) sign into
Ctrl-O before when routing mails to the Internet.
Can anyone please provide me addresses of some ftpmail servers I
can use instead? I've tried [e-mail] but its job
queue has grown substantially since I last used it in '91.

 ----------------------------- Start of body part 2







     I don't have ftp access, so I have to depend on mail-only access.

     regards
     Michael Choo
     E-Mail: [e-mail]

 ----------------------------- End of body part 2

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

Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1993 11:44:34 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Li-Hsiang Tu)
Subject: Mac AVI viewer (Q)

Is there a Mac application that allows you to read .avi files?

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

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 12:49:46 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: MacTCP Question, why is it an INIT???

Why does MacTCP have to be an INIT? I would like to be able to make
changes without rebooting the system. What is it doing that has to be done
at boot time?? (The reason for the question: I use SLIP at home, then carry
the same external drive into work in the morning, where I use localtalk, so I
have to change the MacTCP Prep file and reboot. This is a pain. Is there a
better approach?)

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

Date: Thu, 14 Oct 93 22:25:48 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Renaud Dreyer)
Subject: MacX 1.7.2: what does the Hosts file look like? (Q) I am trying to
run MacX 1.7.2 on a Powerbook 160 with Sytem 7.1,

which you normally can't do (because you can't save or enter your
hosts). However I've been told that it could be done if one had the
Hosts file already saved (presumably from another Macintosh running
MacX). So I would like to know the exact format for this Hosts file,
so that I could make it "manually". Or, even better yet, could someone
mail me or post a copy/sample of their Hosts file for MacX?
   Thank you very much,

          Renaud Dreyer
          [e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 19:06:15 GMT
From: Clint.Laskowski <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mechanical Drawing Font (Q)

Can anyone tell me where to find a font which looks like the
Adobe font called Tekton? I know a shareware version exis, but
don't know what it is called. I think it is a TrueType font.

Thanks!
--
============================
CLINT LASKOWSKI
P. O. Box 552
Cudahy, Wisconsin 53110-552
[phone]
<[e-mail]>
============================

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Date: Fri, 15 Oct 93 12:45:42 EDT
From: [e-mail] (B. Kirsch)
Subject: MIDI on Newton?

    Is anyone working on MIDI drivers for the Newton?  I can think of
a lot of applications for it.
Thanks in advance,
Barry Kirsch
[e-mail]

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

Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1993 20:08:31 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Matthew Ahrens)
Subject: mounting unmountable HD's?

does aanyone know a descent utility that will see my HD, which can't be
mounted, and either let me mount it, or recover the text from it?

the story:
the HD is  50mb quantum, and apprears to have no physical defects (checked
with SilverLining). when i boot up from a floppy, it sez that my disk is
screwed, do i waant to initilize it. i can't figure out what started after
i was moving around the desktop Files. the desktop files are supposed to
rebuild themselves. (right?) the hd is connected to a maac plus w/4 mb ram,
was running system 7.1, but has been booted from sys 6 flopys. btw, i need
help QUICK. hopefully i could getsomething shareware, but i ws wondering if
anyone has experience ressurecting a volume using  commericl product either
(norton, DiskTools, etc.)

any comments appreciated--now donning asbestos suit...

tia!

--
My opinions are mine only and tentative, pending further data
Matthew Ahrens                      [e-mail]

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

Date: 15 Oct 93 21:18:06 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Mike Pinkerton)
Subject: Newton ??

I've fallen in love with the Newton I saw in the campus bookstore,
and I really, really want one! My question is, are they really that
great or are they just another electronic gizmo that will disappear
in a few months? (you know what I mean).

Also, does anyone know how easy they are to train for an
individual's handwriting? The demo copy on campus was quite confused
after having everybody and their brother play with it.

Any opinions/comments would be appreciated!

Mike Pinkerton
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1993 21:40:38 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Monty Hampton)
Subject: Newton Info - Contrary Opinion

In V11#202 Curt from Hawaii writes:

>What is Newton stuff doing in comp.sys.mac.digest?
>
>Frankly, most Mac people could care less about this $700 paper weight. How
>about saving time and energy and leave all Newton public domain software
>and announcements to a PDA newsgroup, eh?
>
>Newton, Schmoot-un


I disagree. Accordingly, I *must* not be like 'MOST' Mac people. Cast my
vote to continue the Newton related postings *HERE*. As a hard core and 9
year Mac user/supporter I would like Apple to  sell products and remain
solvent. Besides - I am impressed by the Newton.

EMH



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

Date: 15 Oct 1993 08:48:03 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Tony Roberts)
Subject: NEWTON WANTED

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

>I am looking for an exact screen shot of a Newton MessagePad.  Or an
excellent
>photo of one taken from above it, looking down.

There is a very nice Newton demo - I think on Sumex-aim - which could
yield some nice screen shots if you used Flash-it (at sumex also) or
some other screen-shot utility. Hope this helps,

cheers,

Tony

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

Date: Sat, 16 Oct 93 10:05:49 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: Nisus Limited Flag

In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
> Unless you're interested in doing some Arabic and Kanji on your Duo,
> Bill, you can get away with the Limited Flag version. Thus, no dongle
> problem.

The Limited Flag version does Kanji - just no other script systems
like Arabic or Hebrew...

cheers ... -Adam

Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor -- [e-mail] -- [e-mail]
Author of The Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh -- [e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1993 22:09:36 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Monty Hampton)
Subject: NowMenus-AppleShare-PC Exchange

Anyone know about this? For some reason everytime I mount a PC disk with
PCExchange it gets added to the ApppleShare NOWMenus list. I don't
understand why this happens and find it odd. If there is a way to prevent
it I'd like to know. If it is a bug, I hope NOW Software fixes it in a
upgrade. For now, does anyone know how you get the listings from the
AppleShare pull down (Now)menu to disappear besides trashing the NowMenus
preference file? The delete key doesn't work.

Thank you in advance for your expert input!

Monty

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

Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1993 11:43:36 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Li-Hsiang Tu)
Subject: Now Toolbox (A)

I posted a question about mysterious crash on my Mac by Now Toolbox.  I
think I found the cause of the crash - a corrupted preference file.  After
I deleted the preference file, everything worked.

Thanks to the people who have replied.

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

Date: Sat, 16 Oct 93 10:30:05 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: PopChar 2.6.2 & MacBench 1.0 conflict on 660av ("type 1" error)

One of my friends recently brought over his copy of MacBench 1.0 to see
how my new 660av performed.  The application started fine and ran all
the tests with no problem.  However, when I selected "About MacBench..."
>From the Apple Menu and then clicked on the window to release it,
MacBench "unexpectedly quit" with this error message:

     The application "MacBench" has unexpectedly
     quit, because an error of type 1 occurred.

If I tried to restart MacBench (or any other application for that
matter), one of two things would happen:

(1) the application would start up normally, or
(2) the application would start up, then "unexpectedly quit" with the
    same "error of type 1" message.

I assumed it was an Extension problem, so I rebooted with Extensions off
and sure enough, I had no trouble closing the "About MacBench..."
screen.  Then I removed all the non-Apple extensions, rebooted with
Extensions on, and everything was still okay.  Finally, I started adding
Extensions and Control Panels back into their respective System folders,
and once I put PopChar 2.6.2 back in, the problem appeared again.  I
took PopChar back out again, rebooted, and the problem went away.

I assume this is a problem with PopChar 2.6.2, and not MacBench, my
660av, or System 7.1.  Has anyone else had similar problems or ever
gotten the "type 1 error" message?

What exactly is a "type 1 error", anyway?

Dave

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

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 12:01:05 -0500 (CDT)
From: Joel E Callan <[e-mail]>
Subject: PowerBook Battery & charger

Hello netters, any advice on where to pick up an additional battery and
charger for a PB 180? (yes, I'm looking for the best deal around).
All responses appreciated (TIA).
    Joel E Callan               internet:  [e-mail]

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

Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1993 14:29:23 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: PowerBook Opening (Q)

Mac Community:

Can someone point me to directions for opening powerbooks of the 140-180
variety?  I looked in the faq and info stuff for powerbooks at Sumex and

came up with only some incomplete directions.  Thanks.

Dave Griffey  ::  [e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 11:24:38 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mark Christal <[e-mail]>
Subject: Problem w/ Sys. 7 "Personal" Filesharing

I'd like to thank everyone for their responses to my problems about the
limit on System 7 "personal" filesharing and it's 10 workstation limit.
It's been a crash course in some details I need to master for my work with
the DOE grant for infusion of computer-supported collaborative learning
into two school communities. I'd like to sum up some of the things I've
learned:

    System 7 permits "personal" filesharing of 10 computers w/ from
any single computer. I'd like to stress that this means that a classroom
in a technology rich school may have mini-LANS of 11 Macs without having
to shell out $400-$700+ for AppleShare Fileserver software. There IS a
place for such LANS in schools right now. CSILE, for instance, is
experimental software that has been used in schools since 1987 w/ 6-8
networked computers. Secondary teacher teams have shared the small
networks for "thematic" multidisicpinary projects.
    There's a limited range of networking software to choose from.
AppleShare 3.0.1 with permit up to 25 workstations for a cost in the $400
range. For more, you need 4.0 which goes for $719, educational pricing.
Others pay over $1,100.
    Jeff Carney was right: I was using At Ease, not Easy Access.
Teachers blanch at the prospect of managing a mini-LAN without
simply-managed security software, which may pose its own problems. I've
been lucky, but another researcher at our second high school has been
fighting apparent collisions between Daedalus at At Ease. I'd also like to
inform Jeff that Daedalus works with a client-server relationship with the
main Daedalus programs residing on each workstation. We haven't put it
through it's paces in the Classic II lab yet, but will as soon as we get
it fully networked.
    Now our 20-station lab is split into two networks using the System
7 filesharing until we figure out how to get AppleShare (not allowed for
in the grant budget--ughh!)
    Thank's again, All!
    Mark Christal, Graduate Research Asst., Project CIRCLE

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

Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1993 07:56 IST
From: Michael Green <[e-mail]>
Subject: Programmers in Virtual Reality

Slightly off-centre query, but I didn't know where else to look:

Does anyone have information about companies who are designing and marketing
virtual reality software? I am looking for people who could develop a medical
application using VR.

All suggestions appreciated.

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

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 93 10:45 GMT
From: "CADVAX::JOHN"@LEVA.ICF.LEEDS.AC.UK
Subject: Quadra 800 memory problem

I would like to thank all the people who repsonded to what turned out
to be a dumb question on 32-bit addressing.  Our faces are suitably
red over here!

Out of over 20 replies I received only one was of the "well what on
earth do you expect" sort and only one "why don't you read the digests
more carefully" sort.  To all the other people I thank you for your
patience as much as I do for your answers.

We are not really "Mac system"-wise here yet - we don't make a lot of
use of them at present, and most of our system experience is with Vaxes
and Unix boxes.  So it is easy for us to overlook the obvious things
like 32-bit addressing.  The user manual isn't too helpful in that respect
either.  Now I now the answer I recall having read the problem several
times already in Info-Mac!

John
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 16:44:06 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Quadra 800 memory problem (A)

In IM 203, John Armstrong <[e-mail]>, said:
> I have a Quadra 800 with 24Mb memory and a 500Mb hard disk, running
> System 7.1.1.  When I look at the memory usage I find that System
> Software uses about 20Mb.  (No wonder some of our applications run out
> of memory!)  On our LCII running 7.0.1 the system software uses 2.2Mb.
>
> Restarting the Quadra without extensions reduces the usage to around
> 18.5 Mb.  I have reformatted the disk with Apple HD SC Setup and reduced
> the Macintosh partition to 50%, then reinstalled the operating system
> from the installation disks.  System software is still using 18.5 Mb.
>
> (I don't know if this is relevant, but we have disk cache at 768Kb,
> VM on, 32-bit addressing off and RAM disk off.)

That third item is relevant.  That's the problem, in FAQt.  ;-)

VM with 24MB of RAM?

> Please can anyone throw any light on why the Quadra's system software
> is using 10 times as much memory as the LCII and what I do about it?
>
> John Armstrong
> [e-mail]

Turn on 32 bit addressing.

--Brian Pickerill  <[e-mail]> Ball State University

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

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 16:38:23 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: RAM disk "danger" (C)

In IM Volume 11 : Issue 203, Mike Basham ([e-mail]) said:
> This guy wanted to re-partition his hard disk on a Quadra 950. He
> discovered that he couldn't do it without booting to another disk, so he
> configured a RAM disk with the system and Apple HD SC Setup. He booted to
> the RAM disk and re-partitioned the hard disk.

Nothing remotely dangerous or unorthodox about this.  In fact, it should
be about the best way to go!  Built-in CD with system would be sweet though.

> As you would expect, he ran into problems with this un-orthodox procedure.
> By the time he called me, his machine wouldn't boot and was showing a disk
> icon with a question mark. This didn't surprise me, but what did surprise
> me was that he couldn't boot even from a floppy.

I wouldn't expect that.  I'm curious why you do.  I suppose the more relevant
question is, "What formatting software was he using?"  Some older versions
of good programs can cause real trouble with newer system software.  What kind
of inits was he running, etc...

> As we all know, if you boot from a floppy with a valid system folder, the
> Mac will use it instead of the hard disk. In this case, however, the badly
> corrupted hard disk was hanging up the startup process before it got to the
> floppy.
>
> No problem, I thought, because there is a special startup key sequence to
> get the Mac to ignore the hard disk altogether. This sequence is
> Command-Option-Shift-Delete. (The real reason to do this is to force a boot
> from a device that is not a floppy, like a CD ROM) When he tried this, the
> Mac got through the flashing disk icon, but then displayed a sad Mac. It
> never appeared to read the floppy disk (he was trying to boot from a
> confirmed disk tools disk).
>
> To make a long story short, on advice from a colleague of mine, I advised
> the guy to physically disconnect his hard disk and try to boot. This
> worked, but only when he held down Command-Option-Shift-Delete. When he
> finally booted to disk tools he was surprised to find that the RAM disk was
> still there. Apparently, the presence of the RAM disk was screwing up the
> boot-up process. He got rid of the RAM disk, shut the computer down,
> plugged in the hard drive, and was finally able to boot.

I'd be inclined to reformat the drive and start over.  Check the formatting
utility and be certain it's up-to-date.

> All this goes to show that RAM disks can be dangerous. I tried setting up a
> RAM disk at one point when I had a Quadra 700 with 68 megs of RAM, but I
> stopped using it because my Mac would crash and burn every five minutes. Is
> something about Apple's System 7 RAM disk seriously buggy? Don't know, but
> I'll avoid them.

Nothing at all buggy about them in my experience, I use mine all the time on
my 950.

--Brian Pickerill  <[e-mail]> Ball State University

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

Date: 16 Oct 1993 15:41:51 -0500
From: "John Blanco-Losada" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Remote Access

I tried answering Al directly but got an error, so I'll post this to the
Digest.

<From: [e-mail]
<Subject: Remote Access

<      I have a networking problem that I hope someone can assist with.

<      I need to dial-in from my Mac at home to my Mac at
<      work (which is on a LAN) and be able to control the work mac.

<      I need to be able to access my cc:mail and Telnet
<      capabilities as well as download to my home mac.

<      I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has done this.

<      Thanks,
<          Al

Al -

This is easy to do, once you have all the pieces in place.

At work, you will need a modem to dial into (I recommend anything from Global
Village).  This can either be connected directly to a Mac on the network, or
connected to a Shiva LANrover which is connected to the network.  The latter,
in my experience, provides a more stable connection, but either way, once you
dial in with Remote Access you become a node on the office network.  If you
have cc:Mail and Telnet installed on your home Mac you will be able to use
them
as if you were in the office (although they will be slower).  You can download
>From one Mac to the other by enabling file sharing and mounting one machine
>From the other.  You will also need to install Farallon's Timbuktu on your
Mac
at work and on your home Mac to be able to control one machine from the
other.

At home you will need another modem, and Remote Access must be installed on
your home Mac.

Good luck!

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

Date: Thu, 14 Oct 93 20:53:22 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Rice Mirror (And Idiots)

On Wed, 13 Oct, Healthier More Manageable Hair (Oh fer chrissake!) wrote

>I'm one of those poeple dependent on the mail
>server([e-mail]). Due to a screwup in writing my commands
>and the inclusion of a .sig, I lost access for a while, but got it back
>yesterday. I sent for the list of all files, and got back a 72 page list of
>full of this-
>
>*NOTHELD *NOROOM    0 92/08/10
>*NOTHELD *TOOOLD*   0 92/05/05
>*NOTHELD *NOROOM    0 93/05/08
>
>Does this mean that the mail server is no longer serving?

No, Hair. It means that the Rice mirror does not have as much space as
the sumex-aim master does. So Rice doesn't pick up anything earlier than
whatever date. Even if a file is after whatever date, it may not be inc-
luded because of lack of space. Rice isn't broke. It is limited.

Next time you drop us a line would you mind horribly offering your real
name? I understand aliases on the alt/binaries/picts/erotica or whatever
that newsgroup is called, but it seems somewhere between childish and
stupid to do that here. How do you want us to think of you? Childish?
Stupid? A person? Pick one.

And is it asking too much to put a "subject" line on your missives?

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

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

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 93 08:07:22 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Michael Mitchell)
Subject: Screen shuffler (Q)

I currently use Screen Play to randomly choose a new StartupScreen
and DeskPict to display it instead of a desktop pattern or texture.
My current Mac is now a fileserver and so rarely gets restarted, I
would like to have the desktop picture change periodically, is there
a way of doing this - perhaps something like Slider on Unix boxes?

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

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 93 14:39:15 +1000
From: [e-mail] (Merv Connell)
Subject: SNMP Manager

In the MacTCP v 2.0  "MAC TCP SNMP" folder there are SNMP Manager Doc's.
Where do I get the application that uses these doc's?

Any other info on SNMP (Shareware) applications which run on a Mac would be
appreciated.
(I have MPWSNMPTool 1.07b)

Please reply to [e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 14 Oct 93 21:04:25 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Carol Conti-Entin)
Subject: SoftPC (Insignia) Upgrade Notices...

(...or lack thereof) -- I purchased SoftPC nearly 3 years ago and promptly
mailed in the registration form. I've never received an upgrade notice
either.
Glad/sad to know I'm not the only one.

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

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

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 93 15:04:36 CDT
From: Paul Koch <[e-mail]>
Subject: Spreadsheet ---> FORTRAN input

I am trying to convert tab-delimited spreadsheet data to
format suitable for LS FORTRAN input.  Spaces must fill in tabs
but each column must remain right-justified. (Shareware product
called Columnbo is designed for this but it
does not handle my long rows of data -- 500 characters each.)

Suggestions directly to [e-mail] would be much
appreciated.  Thank you.

--Paul Koch

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

Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1993 20:35:50 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: StarStomer and a MOD editor

I submitted StarStormer 0.24 (not 32-bit clean) to the archives a week back,
and asked if anyone has seen a later version. Turns out, according to the
about box of a MOD-file editor/creator called the Player Pro beta 4.05 I'm
looking at, that StarStormer is up to version 2, at least.

Anyone out there know what the latest versions of the Player Pro and Star-
Stormer are, and do they have copies they can submit?

L.

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

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 13:58:53 CDT
From: Anne Harwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: Startup screen in b & w

What would cause a startup screen suddenly to begin displaying in
blakc and white (1 bit)?

-abh

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

Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1993 13:31:56 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: StuffIt Lite 3.0.7 (R)

>>
>> Has anyone else noticed that the BinHex4 translator in Stuffit Lite
>> 3.0.7 doesn't work? If you attempt to encode it "unexpectedly quits"
>> [...] I e-mailed this to Alladin a few days ago but have had no
>> response.
>
>I too can't decode or encode BinHex4, not only with v3.0.7 but also with
>v3.0.6
>and v3.0.5!  It's not much problem for me, though -- I use Compact Pro ;-)

Since VERY long I have been complaining about all kinds of "unexpectedly
quits" in ALL versions of StuffIt DeLuxe (3.0.2 - 3.0.7)...

I feel that these kinds of problems occur most on 68000 Macs. Usually it
crashes on my PowerBook 100, and sometimes even the PowerBook crashes just
some time after I quit StuffIt. I feel that maybe the StuffIt engine, which
runs in the background, causes this...

I get the best results when I restart the Mac, and then start up StuffIt.

After using StuffIt I restart the Mac again, just to make sure StuffIt
does not leave any running processes behind...

Oh, the "unexpectedly quit" errors usually also freeze the Mac, which
means that I cannot press the OK button when this happens...

I'm still a registered user of StuffIt DeLuxe, but I'm not happy with it
AT ALL!

Regards,
Adam van Gaalen (  [e-mail])
         or ([e-mail])

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

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 05:31:09 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Supra FaxModem PB 144+

 ----------------------------- Start of body part 1

Hi there,
I've got a PowerBook 160 and am considering purchasing the Supra
FaxModem PB144+ (internal modem). Can anyone out there tell me
more about the 'voice' facility it has. I can't seem to get any
information or reviews anywhere.
Will it be an easy installation?

 ----------------------------- Start of body part 2







     I heard that Applied Engineering's DataLink PB requires some
     soldering onto the PowerBook's system board.

     regards
     Michael Choo
     E-Mail: [e-mail]

 ----------------------------- End of body part 2

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

Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1993 18:54 EST
From: Don't Panic! <[e-mail]>
Subject: System 7 Pro

Dear Netters,
Sorry for these FAQs.
What is the difference between System 7 Pro and vanilla System 7.0?
Is it possible to run System 7 Pro
 on a vanilla LC with 10 MB RAM, and less than 5 MB available
 for Sytem Software space on the hard drive?
Curious as always.
Sincerely,
[e-mail] (considering the amount of mail this might generate,
please do not send to my VAX account).

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

Date: Thu, 14 Oct 93 18:43:58 PDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: The Namer

Remember The Namer? Apple's Sys 6 utility for naming AppleTalk printers.
It won't rename AppleTalk ImageWriters if your computer is using Sys 7.x
because it can't find the device drivers (Obviously, it's not aware of the
the extensions folder).

Does anyone know how to rename AppleTalk ImageWriters from a Sys 7
computer? Believe it or not, I need to do this often.

Thanks,

Scott McLagan <[e-mail]>
Coordinator for Computers, School District #43 (Coquitlam)
Winslow Centre, 1100B Winslow Ave., Coquitlam, B.C., V3J 2G3, Canada
voice: 604-936-0491  fax: [phone]

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

Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1993 12:01:39 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Darrah Chavey)
Subject: Turning off Appleshare's auto-mount

>Pete Tamas <[e-mail]> asks:
>
>>In some of the labs I have seen, the students experiment with
>>Appleshare and select the "Checked items will be opened at System
>>Startup time." Often, the target (fileserver) Mac will be moved or
>>renamed but the student machine will try to access it at startup and
>>ask for a password. Is there any way to stop this or should I reinstall
>>Appleshare? Thanks, Pete Tamas

Thomas Scott responds:
>Nah, just delete the AppleShare Prep file from your System Folder.
>That's the easiest way.

That only works if you continually remove the AppleShare Prep file.
The next person who clicks the auto-mount will reinstall that Prep
file. If you have RevRDist (or something similar) set to always
delete that file on startup or shutdown, this should work.

--Darrah Chavey            Department of Math & Computer Science
  [e-mail]        Beloit College; 700 College St; Beloit, Wisc.

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

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 93 07:15:13 EDT
From: "Michael Thoms" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Usage of Dialog Boxes

  I have been looking though applications with ResEdit
  and have come across the DITL resource which contains
  all the dialog boxes for the application.

  My question is how can I make one of these dialog boxes
  come up when I launch an application.

  Can this be accomplished without seeing the source code
  of the application?


 -Michael Thoms

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Date: 15 Oct 93 21:57 GMT
From: [e-mail] (U of Wisconsin, P Chane,STU)
Subject: UUENCODE

After I DL 4 uuencoded files from a newsgroup that are 1/4, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4 and
decode them with Stuffit Deluxe, how do I join the parts?

PETER CHANE


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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 93 17:35:35 EDT
From: Jonathan Kamien <[e-mail]>
Subject: Venn Diagram Software-does it exist?

I am looking for software to produce Venn Diagrams (sort of overlapping
circles that look like the Olympic Ring emblem).  I'd prefer Mac, but at
this point, software that would do these in DOS would be OK, too! Help!

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Date: Fri, 15 Oct 93 23:57:01 ITA
From: maurizio lana <[e-mail]>
Subject: what's inside hp dj cartridges

I brutally opened one cartridge of my HP deskjet.
it contains: plastic sponge that hold the ink;
         1 filter just above the holes that spray the bubbles of ink.
Nothing else.
I did it, obviously, with a dead cartridge...
Maurizio

MAURIZIO LANA | E-MAIL: [e-mail] | fax [phone]
CISI - Universita' di Torino - V. S. Ottavio 20 - 10124 Torino Italy

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Date: Fri, 15 Oct 93 12:07:17 PDT
From: Paul Brians <[e-mail]>
Subject: When you can't gopher to SUMEX-AIM

In answer to my own query: I did manage to get in, even during the day,
fairly successfully to gopher.archive.merit.edu.  It's not entirely
up to date, but is a pretty good alternative if you have a gopher
connection.

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

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Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1993 09:27:02 +0200
From: [e-mail]

Query: Please Post:

I would like to contact, Eric Huffman,  the author of the program
MEGALOMANIA to find out about current versions, updates etc.  His bitnet,
[e-mail], no longer is active.  If you know of his whereabouts,
or that of the program, please let me know.  Thanks

Sam Safran
[e-mail]

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