Info-Mac 3/Info_Mac_1994-01.iso/Periodical/Info-Mac/InfoMac 11-217

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Date: Wed, 3 Nov 93 08:49:06 PST
From: The Moderators <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #217


Info-Mac Digest             Wed,  3 Nov 93       Volume 11 : Issue 217

Today's Topics:

      [*] charon_0.985.cpt.hqx
      [*] Desktop_file_Killer.cpt.hqx
      [*] Disney Repost #2
      [*] Drol
      [*] Find_Stuff_102.hqx
      [*] Gestalt Value Library submission
      [*] Inspirograph 1.0
      [*] MacToVax
      [*] matcalc21.hqx A Linear Algebra Package
      [*] Much Ado about Nothing (Shakespeare Stack)
      [*] NotifyMail v.1.1.1
      [*] Now Compress 1.01 Updater
      [*] OneNet World No. 2
      [*] Please replace 11/93 The Mac Report with this version!!
      [*] Space Madness 1.1.2 --> 1.1.3
      [*] Space Madness 1.1/1.1.1 --> 1.1.3
      [*] Space Madness Demo 1.1.3
      [*] Squiggley Font
      [*] Super Maze Wars Demo
      [*] TidBITS#200/01-Nov-93
      [*] Underground Mac Report#2
      [*] Very nice Glider-house!
      (fairly) primitive music software
      (Q) CloseView or similar screen magnifier?
      13" Monitor Woes - Chapter 2 (Q)
      1984 Commercial
      660 AV Questions
      Apple//c ==> Mac converting files by cable
      Appleshare mounting of CD device [Q]
      Archaeological App Needed (Q)
      A stupid question?
      Audiovision extension problem
      calendar/to-do list (Q)
      connecting my loud powerbook to a network
      connection from Europe
      Credit Card Validation via Mac
      DataVis Inc on Internet?
      digests
      directory listings on the macintosh
      Duo 230 Batteries
      EUDORA, VAX & MODEM
      Excel Macros
      extensions manager (Q)
      FGS acquisition by Symantec
      File type MPBN, Creator PLAN -- (A)
      FKEYS and Smartlauch (TY)
      Floppy Condoms (Arrrrgh! Or is that too sublte?)
      floppy drive repair suggestions (A)
      FTP umich
      greek apollo graphic
      Hayes Optima 288 V.FC + FAX Modem
      HD starts forever... more info
      HideAlways and System 7.1
      Info-Mac Digest V11 #216 (2 msgs)
      LaserWriter Driver 8.1.1 (fwd)
      LaserWriter Pro 630 & 8.1.1
      LC520 Finally hits Australia but is it a dead end?
      LC II VRAM
      Loodle printing problem (Q)
      LW 8.1.1 Problems with legal size paper.
      Mac CD drive on PC?
      Macintosh TV
      MacPerl weirdness [Q]
      MacTCP in NCSA Telnet
      MacTCP mystery
      Mail order Macs?
      NCSA Telnet 2.5 and control characters?
      Newton Development [Q]
      Nisus copy protection (C)
      Optima Technology.
      Packaging info Sought
      Postscript laser on a serial line but no driver
      powerbook to car battery
      printing postscript files over the internet
      PSPICE
      Quadra Cache Switch Secret!
      Quicken 4
      Quicken 4 (A) (2 msgs)
      Quicken 4 bugs?  (Q)
      Quicken 4 not THAT bad...
      RagTime List? Users? Books? And....The GUS Award
      repeated messages in the digest
      Salient
      Scrabble on a Mac (Q)
      Specmarks anyone?
      SuperDoubler
      SuperDoubler 1.0 (not so Super)
      SuperDoubler 1.0 (not so Super) (c)
      SuperDoubler Upgrade (2 msgs)
      Watermark software

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Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 13:59:50 +0100 (GMT+0100)
From: [e-mail] (Stef Van Dessel)
Subject: [*] charon_0.985.cpt.hqx

A Freeware fidonet mailer featuring EMSI, YooHoo and ZedZap.
(c) Oscar Vermeulen 1993

This is the second beta release, fixing a major bug that caused more
powerful Macs to crash, especially after hitting the Dial button or
at the end of a connect. Also, EMSI is able to accept multi-address packets
now. Balloon help has been added.

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/charon-0985.hqx; 105K]

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Date: Mon, 1 Nov 93 16:19:24 PST
From: [e-mail] (Arg0n)
Subject: [*] Desktop_file_Killer.cpt.hqx

All macintosh disk have on them a file called the desktop file. this file
helps
your
mac keep track of what files are on your disk. But when you delete a file from
a
disk
the finder doesnt remove that files intry in the desktop file. therefore the
desktop
file tends to get very unnessisarily large. Desktop File Killer will remove
this
file
and replace it with a new smaller file. Ive seen over 80K saved.

[Please try to format your text for not more than 80 columns.  --isl]

[Archived as /info-mac/disk/desktop-file-killer.hqx; 7K]

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Date: Tue, 2 Nov 93 10:21:53 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Disney Repost #2

I have had many complaints about my Disney Aladdin Sounds being corrupt.
This is the second reposting of this file.

[This repost is certified uncorrupt.  Inspector #157]

Thanx-Tony Hershey

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/disney-aladdin.hqx; 2014K]

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Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1993 10:10:42 -0500 (CDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Drol

This is a beta release of Drol

Drol is an arcade game that originally came out for the Apple ][ line of
computers.  It was one of my favorite games for the Apple ][, so I decided to
port it over to the Macintosh.

[Archived as /info-mac/game/arc/drol.hqx; 89K]

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Date: Mon, 1 Nov 93 23:01:54 EST
From: [e-mail] (David Sugar)
Subject: [*] Find_Stuff_102.hqx

This is version 1.0.2 of Find Stuff.  It fixes some bugs in the previous
release of Find Stuff and it should replace the previous version.
The bugs that wre fixed are:
  Find Stuff now works on non-color quickdraw machines.
  When searching by name if you match beginning or end of the name it works
  You can specify types and creators with a '^' in the name.
  Minor user interface modifications

Find Stuff does require System 7.0 to run and it looks better on
machines with color quickdraw but it will work fine with out it.

Find Stuff is a program which will search for you files.  It will
search most types of media (it works fine on local hard drives,
floppy disks and real AFP voluems)  You can search for files
type partial file name, label, type creator, date created and
date modified.  It shows a list of found items.

Dave Sugar
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/disk/find-stuff-102.hqx; 148K]

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Date: Mon, 1 Nov 93 11:13:56 MET
From: "Rene G.A. Ros" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Gestalt Value Library submission

Hi,

To my surprise the following piece of Apple software is not yet
available at the info-mac archives.

It are an object file and interface files which enable programmers to
install a gestalt selector which just returns the longint you specify.
This is the fixed one, the original checked for the wrong trap.

Permission for distribution from Apple:

> From [e-mail] Mon May 24 23:28:26 1993
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: Re:  GestaltValue Lib
>
> Rene,
>
> Here are the updated files.  You may distribute them as you see fit.
>
> Dave

Regards,
Rene

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/gestalt-value-lib.hqx; 10K]

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Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1993 14:42 EDT
From: Ronald Hale-Evans <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Inspirograph 1.0

Attached you will find version 1.0 of Singularity Software's
Inspirograph, a freeware freeform brainstorming tool. Similar
"morphological analysis" software has been sold to the U.S. military
for $75 a pop. Inspirograph is easy and fun to use. Try it and see!

Ron Hale-Evans
Editor, Singularity Magazine
(Ask me about Singularity Online!)

[Archived as /info-mac/app/inspirograph-10.hqx; 41K]

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Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1993 13:13:37 -0500 (CDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] MacToVax

a hyperCard 2.1 stack which will convert and MSWord fast [???]

[Archived as /info-mac/cmp/mac-to-vax-hc.hqx; 71K]

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Date: Mon, 1 Nov 93 18:09:52 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Tzong-Shuoh Yang)
Subject: [*] matcalc21.hqx A Linear Algebra Package

        University of New South Wales
            School of Mathematics

                  MATCALC

           AN EASY-TO-USE INTERACTIVE
        MATRIX AND LINEAR ALGEBRA PACKAGE

    The capabilities of MATCALC include matrix arithmetic,
triangular factorizations, solution of linear systems, determinants
and inverses, finding eigenvalues, eigenvectors and Jordan forms,
singular value decomposition, finding zeroes of polynomials,
polynomial arithmetic and other related problems.

    MATCALC may be used (as its name implies) as a simple matrix
calculator, but it is also a programming language in its own right
allowing the user to augment the extensive repertoire of predefined
MATCALC functions and procedures.  There is also a well defined
interface allowing users to extend the package by seamless integration
of C language routines.

    MATCALC is specially designed to handle singular matrices and
to permit selection of independent and dependent columns of a matrix.
Its design allows the user to analyze a problem in depth as well as
obtain a quick solution when necessary. These features make the package
particularly suitable for teaching linear algebra courses.

    MATCALC is compact, flexible and portable. Currently it runs on
several UNIX machines as well as under VAX/VMS and MS-DOS operating systems.
It is designed to run on any system that supports the C programming language.
The number and sizes of matrices used are determined solely by limitations
of the local system.

[Archived as /info-mac/sci/matcalc-21.hqx; 375K]

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Date: Mon, 1 Nov 93 05:01:50 PST
From: [e-mail] (Mark Edward Zimmerman)
Subject: [*] Much Ado about Nothing (Shakespeare Stack)

Appended below, mailer willing, is another Shakespeare Stack, the play
"Much Ado About Nothing" --- requires HC2.x --- free software, the
full text of the 400-year-old comedy arranged and edited and formatted
by me --- the file is a Compact Pro self-extracting archive, binhex'd
to about 132 kB.  Best, ^z ([e-mail], Mark Zimmermann)

[Archived as /info-mac/info/nms/much-ado-about-nothing-hc.hqx; 129K]

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Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1993 18:10:34 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Scott Gruby)
Subject: [*] NotifyMail v.1.1.1

(This version corrects an incompatibility between NotifyMail and the
AppleEvent Manager.) Please replace previous versions with this version.


NotifyMail v. 1.1.1 for Eudora
 -------------------------
Assembled and tested by Scott Gruby ([e-mail])
Source code by Peter N Lewis

NotifyMail is a background only application that listens for a telnet
connection to port 1035. When it receives the connection, it sends an
AppleEvent to Eudora to check your mail. The end result (when coupled with
a .forward file on your UNIX machine) is that you will almost immediately
receive your electronic mail when it arrives on your UNIX machine. You no
longer have to tell Eudora to check your mail every X minutes.

This requires Eudora 1.4 or higher and MacTCP 1.1 or higher. Look at the
Readme file for installation instructions.

Please contact [e-mail] if you have questions or problems with
this.

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/net/notify-mail-111.hqx; 16K]

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Date: 1 Nov 1993 13:24:09 -0500
From: "dlawrence" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Now Compress 1.01 Updater

Please post this updater. It takes Now Compress from 1.0 to 1.01. I am posting
this on behalf of Now Software.

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

[Archived as /info-mac/cmp/now-compress-10-to-101-updt.hqx; 448K]

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Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1993 19:44:18 -0800 (PST)
From: Steven Heckler <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] OneNet World No. 2

     This is the latest issue of OneNet World, a publication
of the OneNet Member Network.  The OneNet Member Network is
the world's largest GUI-based distributed online system, serving
an estimated 250,000 users in 20 countries.  Local OneNet systems
can be found throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe,
and to a limited degree in the Far East, Australia, and New
Zealand--check this issue of OneNet World for the system nearest
you.

     This issue, our second, is in HyperCard format, and a 12"
or larger monitor is recommended, although not necessary.  We
hope you enjoy this issue--welcome to the OneNet World!

                 Steve Heckler
                 OneNet Member Network

[Archived as /info-mac/per/onenet-world-2-hc.hqx; 339K]

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Date: Mon, 1 Nov 93 09:27:26 EST
From: Lorne J. Kingsley <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Please replace 11/93 The Mac Report with this version!!

HowdY;

I noticed the November, 1883, edition of The Mac Report made it into the
archives. Thanks!

However, it seemed to have gotten munged in the transfer to you. It appears
that it has been binhexed twice, causing some confusion to the downloaders.

Please replace it with this one.

Thank you very much.

- Lorne

Lorne Kingsley
Editor, The Mac Report

[Archived as /info-mac/per/the-mac-report-93-11.hqx; 996K]

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Date: Mon, 01 Nov 93 23:39:02 -0800
From: "(Michael A. Kelly)" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Space Madness 1.1.2 --> 1.1.3

This program updates version 1.1.2 of Space Madness to version 1.1.3.
You must have a full working version of Space Madness 1.1.2 for this
patch to work; it will not work on earlier versions, and it will not
work on demo versions.  If you have an earlier version, you should get
the Space Madness 1.1/1.1.1 --> 1.1.3 updater instead.

This patch will not affect your preferences or high scores.

Registered users of Space Madness *will not* be receiving this update
in the mail. Call High Risk Ventures at [phone] or email to
[e-mail] for more information.

Notable Changes:

Fixed a few bugs in the collision detection code.
Added a sound editor to the Prefs screen.

Enjoy!

Michael A. Kelly
High Risk Ventures

[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/space-madness-112-to-113-updt.hqx; 285K]

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Date: Mon, 01 Nov 93 23:35:35 -0800
From: "(Michael A. Kelly)" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Space Madness 1.1/1.1.1 --> 1.1.3

This program updates version 1.1 or version 1.1.1 of Space Madness to
version 1.1.3.  You must have a full working version of Space Madness 1.1
or 1.1.1 for this patch to work; it will not work on earlier versions, and
it will not work on demo versions.  If you have version 1.1.2 you should
get the Space Madness 1.1.2 --> 1.1.3 updater instead.

This patch will not affect your preferences or high scores.

Registered users of Space Madness *will not* be receiving this update
in the mail. Call High Risk Ventures at [phone] or email to
[e-mail] for more information.

Notable changes:

Improved sound under Sound Manager 3.0.
Extra points and yummies when starting on a higher level.
You can switch into the background under System 7 or Multifinder.
Added a sound editor to the Prefs screen.
Other cool minor feature additions and changes....
This update is highly recommended!

Enjoy!

Michael A. Kelly
High Risk Ventures

[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/space-madness-11x-to-113-updt.hqx; 576K]

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Date: Mon, 01 Nov 93 23:29:19 -0800
From: "(Michael A. Kelly)" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Space Madness Demo 1.1.3

More evil nasties have invaded our galaxy!  Zillions of innocent people are
counting on you to save them from destruction, enslavement, and other fates
too horrible to contemplate!  Take the helm in this shoot-'em-up and blast
through space, destroying enemy ships and bases while gathering fuel, raw
materials for your ship's repairs, weapons, and machines that add to your
ship's capabilities.  Rated four joysticks by Inside Mac Games magazine!
(July 1993)

This demo lets you play levels 2, 4, and 10, which corresponds to about
10-15 minutes of game play for an experienced player.

Order Space Madness direct from High Risk Ventures and pay only $20!  That's
sixty percent off the suggested retail price of $49.95!  But hurry!  Offer
expires December 1, 1993.

Call [phone] or email to [e-mail] for more information.

Enjoy!

Michael A. Kelly
High Risk Ventures

[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/space-madness-113-demo.hqx; 990K]

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Date: 01 Nov 1993 08:53:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail] (David Susman)
Subject: [*] Squiggley Font

Squiggley font is a FREEWARE font I designed for use in copy design.  The
squiggley "letters" are used as dummy text so details do not distract from
the layout.

David Susman
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/font/squiggley.hqx; 35K]

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Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1993 09:51:14 -0500 (EST)
From: Robert D Harris <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Super Maze Wars Demo

Attached is a demo version of the commercial arcade game Super Maze Wars
from Callisto Corporation. Super Maze Wars is a network game (similar to
Spectre) that allows from 1 to 8 humans and/or robots to combat to the
death in a maze.  Players have a first person view down the corridors of
a number of mazes and scenarios.

Robert Harris
Callisto Corp
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/super-maze-wars-demo.hqx; 425K]

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Date: Mon, 1 Nov 93 22:02:58 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: [*] TidBITS#200/01-Nov-93

TidBITS#200/01-Nov-93

Welcome to our two hundredth issue! News this week includes a POP
   mail client for the Newton, the release of Aladdin's SITcomm
   communications program, a better PageMaker tip, and details on
   the new SuperDrive. We also have a report on the Seybold
   publishing conference in San Francisco, reader comments on the
   Handeze gloves (including non-800 numbers for overseas readers),
   and news of a chilling legal decision for RSI sufferers in
   Britain.

Topics:
    MailBITS/01-Nov-93
    New SuperDrive
    Two Hundred Issues?
    RSI & Handeze Gloves
    Seybold SF Pushes Publishing Even Farther
    Reviews/01-Nov-93

[Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-200.etx; 28K]

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

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Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1993 13:07:05 -0600 (CST)
From: Michael Shannon <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Underground Mac Report#2

Issue #2 of The Underground Mac Report is out!
Topics include:
Reviews of Illustrator 5.0, and The Internet Starter Kit (book/disk combo)
More on the new Mac's
Info on the new non-auto inject floppy drives
Errors in the Dec. issued of MacUser and MacWorld
The Saturday Night Live McIntosh Post-it Note commercial
Question and answer about "clock-chipping"
And the usual rumors, hot files, news and more...

[Archived as /info-mac/per/underground-mac-report-93-11-01.hqx; 11K]

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Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1993 17:19:46 +0100 (MET)
From: [e-mail] (Fritzsche Arthur)
Subject: [*] Very nice Glider-house!

Hello Glider-Fans!

Enclosed in this sit-archive is a very beautiful house with
more than 130 rooms which requires the commercial game Glider
(Version 4.0 and up).
My sister, now 12 years old (the easy, amusing rooms) and I (now 13)
(the hard ones :)) have created it around 1 1/2 years ago.
The names are in german; so keep the dictionary ready!
It's very funny to play it! :-)
To play, place them in the same folder as the game and drag
the first one ("Bloedelhaus") onto the Glider application,
otherwise it doesn't work, at least on my Mac.

Enjoy, it's highly recommended!

Arthur

[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/glider-house.hqx; 30K]

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Date: Tue, 02 Nov 93 08:07:05 EST
From: Steven Cantor <[e-mail]>
Subject: (fairly) primitive music software

a gentleman here has a very specific requirement.....he is looking for some
mac
software which will allow him to enter music from his mac keyboard (no midi
connection involved, and he needs to be able to enter piano parts), then have
the software transpose the music he has entered to a key of his choice, and
print out the result.  this is all he needs, and anything much more elaborate
would just be cumbersome both financially and practically. any suggestions?
thanks in advance,
s.

 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Steven Cantor                     [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 2 Nov 93 09:04:58 CST
From: [e-mail] (Peter Wollan)
Subject: (Q) CloseView or similar screen magnifier?

One of our secretaries finds the MS Word display of 12 pt type too small
(Wordperfect is ok).  There used to be an extension called CloseView, I think,
intended for the visually impaired, which would magnify the screen--but I
can't
find it.  She wants to expand the display just a little--is there anything
which will do this?

Peter Wollan
[e-mail]

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Date: 3 Nov 93 00:41:00 CST
From: "Mike Sisson  " <[e-mail]>
Subject: 13" Monitor Woes - Chapter 2 (Q)

Thanks to the 12 people who replied to my question about an Apple 13" Monitor
that keeps cutting out. The concensus seemed to be that a high voltage
capacitor has gone to parts heaven or is at least on its death bed.
Unfortunately, most people suggested that I get it repaired under the Apple
program that apparently was set up to take care of a batch of bad capacitors.
I neglected to state in my original message that my monitor was manufactured
in February 1988 and so is much older than the ones affected by the repair
program. (I have also checked the serial number and it doesn't match those
that qualify.)
I have called about five or six outfits that repair monitors and the going
rate for monitor repairs that DO NOT require replacement of the CRT or the
flyback transformer is $125-$130. I find it really hard to shell out those
bucks for a repair I am capable of doing myself when the part(s) will only
cost about a tenth of that. Therefore, I am repeating my request (plea) for
a schematic of the monitor or at least a simple diagram showing which
capacitor needs to be replaced (assuming it is the capacitor that is bad)
and possible sources for this part. I promise not to hold anyone liable
if I fry my monitor or myself.

Mike Sisson
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 10:59:57 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Michael Jensen)
Subject: 1984 Commercial

I'd like to thank Al Bloom for his efforts trying to allow others to FTP
the file.  I was one of those looking to dl it and enjoy, as were some of
my colleagues in our Graphics department.
Since most of us were unable to get it from Al,  is there anybody else who
has it somewhere?  Maybe in segments?  Anybody???
Thanks in advance,

Michael Jensen
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 09:33:04 +0000
From: [e-mail] (Alex Knight)
Subject: 660 AV Questions

Hi folks,

maybe someone out there can give me some help with these problems:

* Converting audio CD tracks to QT movies. Freezes the mac every time,
whether I use Fusion Recorder or Simple Player. The freeze sets in as soon
as you try to access the CD, either from the Play or Convert buttons. Am I
doing something wrong?

* We would like to get better-quality capture of single frames from video.
Preferably as TIFF and with at least 256 greys (greyscale input). Are there
hardware limitations, or is there software that will give better results?

Do we need an AV FAQ, or an AV newsgroup?

Thanks in advance for any help. I'll summarise to the net if people post me
some interesting answers.

Alex

P.S. These problems aside, the 660AV is a pretty neat machine.
_________________________________________________________________
Alex Knight                                [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 17:37:28 +0200
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Apple//c ==> Mac converting files by cable

Hi,

I've noticed some messages about converting files between Apple //c and
Macintoshes. Well, this is my experience: I WASN'T ABLE TO DO IT!!

Situation:

- Apple //c with Apple Access // communications program
- Powerbook 165 with communications module of Clarisworks 2.0
- Cable RS-422 (Mac) to RS-232
- Apple //c printer cable
- I don't have Apple //c 3.5 Inch drive

I needed to convert some Appleworks files (database and word processing type)
knowing that, once on my Mac HD, I would convert them using Apple File
Exchange.

I'm not an expert about transfer protocol but by setting the SAME parameters
on both machines (BAUD rate, xon/xoff, parity, but stop, terminal emulation)
I was able to "chat" in terminal mode between the two machines, seeing on
screen what I was typing on the other machine.

BUT: when I tried to Send a file from the Apple //c the only result was
to "dump" the file on the PB screen. NO Mac file created.

Apple Access // allow to send files in no particular protocol except the
"Christensen". Clarisworks accept Kermit and Xmodem tool. In both
standard I get error messages as "Too many attempts".

Please Help!!
Reply directly to me, please,
Thank you very much,
                            Federico

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Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1993 21:29:22 -0800 (PST)
From: Irv Wiswall <[e-mail]>
Subject: Appleshare mounting of CD device [Q]

I seem to remember a way that a CD could be shared with System 7 file
shareing, but I can't find what ever it takes to do this.  Can anyone
help me with this?

-Irv Wiswall
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue,  2 Nov 93 15:09:43 GMT
From: Fergus Sullivan (ITL Temp) <[e-mail]>
Subject: Archaeological App Needed (Q)

Does anyone know of any application that is specifically tailored for
use in drawing archaeological excavations?  I'm talking about simple
plans as well as complex stratigraphy.

Any info would be greatly appreciated.  Feel free to email me direct
and I'll post a summary of answeres to the net.

Thanks in advance


Fergus Sullivan
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 22:47:42 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: A stupid question?

This is probably a very stupid question, and I'll probably be shot down in
flames for asking it, but....

Why do we have to have TWO major archive sites, each with mirrors scattered
worldwide? Surely, life would be easier with one archive site and one set
of mirrors, since that way you'd only have one place to look?

It strikes me that there's an awful lot of redundant archiving work going
on, and ftp'ers hunting for files on umich when they've only reached sumex,
say. Could this all be rationalised, or am I dreaming?

L.

[:)  Currently, we at info-mac forward our uploads to the umich macgifts
list and vice versa.  That way, we try to keep the archives' contents the
same.  The centralized system that exists now (a few major archive sites like
info-mac and umich) along with their mirrors can't last forever.  The number
of people accessing the internet is growing too fast.  Many of you have
suffered the effects of this when attempting to connect to sumex-aim.  There
are a number of people that ware working on a distributed archive
system.  If, and when, we switch to that system, some of the redundancy will
be removed. -Gordon]

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

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 93 16:22 GMT
From: Daniel Bailey <[e-mail]>
Subject: Audiovision extension problem

>I have a 660 av with Apple's new audiovision monitor.  Occassionally, upon
>rebooting the machine the audiovision icon is Xed out at start up and the
>monitor brightness is lower than it should be.  On other ocassions this
>does not happen and things proceed as normal.  Has anyone else been
>blessed with this "problem" and, more importantly, does anyone know of a
>fix.  I have tried re-installing the av init to no avail.  Thanks in
advance.
>Ken

I own a Quadra 840AV & the Audiovision monitor and I experienced similar
problems.  I accidently noticed that the brightness problem was solved by
wiggling the mouse ADB cable which was plugged into the AV monitor.  It would
promptly go back to normal brightness. Why, I don't know.  The problem with
the
audiovision icon Xed out was solved by moving the audiovision icon to top of
the
startup list so it would load first. Initially it was loading 4th or 5th for
whatever reason.  (I use Now Utilities Startup manager to handle all the
control
panels and extensions).

Daniel S. Bailey    email: [e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 07:23:25 -0800 (PST)
From: John Thoo <[e-mail]>
Subject: calendar/to-do list (Q)

I grabbed the InControl 2.0 demo over the weekend, and was quite
impressed by its to-do list management.  (The outline style looked
like a perfect way for me to organize and keep track of my various
little projects.)  Unfortunately, InControl seems to lack a proper
calender, y'know, one that allows scheduling of recurring events,
etc.  My question is, Does anyone know of a good calendar program
that features a rich (InControl-like) to-do list?  Thanks muchh.

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

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

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 14:38:15 -0500
From: Steve Liu <[e-mail]>
Subject: connecting my loud powerbook to a network

Good day everyone,
    Well, ever since Ive gotten my PB165c, about a month ago, Ive
noticed that the sound is just plain too loud.  Before you all yell at me to
go to the sound cp, I have.  Setting it from 1 to 7 gives me settings
ranging from too loud to way way way too loud, and I need sound, so a
setting of 0 is well...  Anyways, anyone else have this problem?  Is there a
way to set the sound to something between 0 and 1?  Like maybe a control
panel that lets you use a slider control for sound volume.  If not, is it
easy to hack the sound cp to do this?  Am I asking too many questions? (dont
answer that!)
    Okay, now for a serious question.  I need to set up a very small lan
of around 4 macs (okay, its tiny).  Is there a faq I can ftp somewhere or
any recommendations on a book I could buy?  Ive tried looking in the
info-mac archives, but I couldn't find anything that seemed to fit.  Also, I
will need to be able to do remote (cross-country) management and upkeep of
this lan.  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Moof!

Steve Liu
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 93 15:12:33 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: connection from Europe

My wife is going to Germany with her Duo230.  We are considering using e-mail
through America Online to stay in touch.  I plan to get either Global Village
TelePort Bronze II (she has an ADB port in a dock) or Supra 144LC modem with
European power supply.  I know that some poeple do access AOL from Europe
and we would like to hear experiences and tips.  Most of all, what AOL's
access number is being used from Europe, Germany in particular?  AOL staff
says to call any of the US numbers.

Please, reply directly to me...

Robert Brenstein
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 93 14:28:46 +0100
From: Sak Wathanasin <[e-mail]>
Subject: Credit Card Validation via Mac

In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 26 Oct 1993 13:50:47 -0400 (EDT)

> Our company is looking for credit card validation packages for the Mac.
> Ideally we would like a package that we would batch process credit
> card validation if we fed it the correct information from our VAX.

Er, isn't the VAX better suited to batch processing? I'm not sure if
what you're asking is for something to dial up the credit card
validation centre for authorization, or if you just want to run a
simple check on the credit card number. I can't help you with the
former, but I whipped together a checksum XCMD for HyperCard in half an
hour using some PD code to help with processing credit card orders
here. We find that it saves time and suffering if we weed out the ones
that are clearly wrong before ringing up for authorization.

Yours for the asking.

Sak Wathanasin
Network Analysis Limited

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

Date: Tue Nov 2 06:56:26 1993
From: [e-mail] (Capt Jon Dagle;86OSS/DOW;480-2822;93-6194)
Subject: DataVis Inc on Internet?

Can anyone help me contact DataVis Inc, publishers of MacLink Plus,
via Internet?

Thanks in advance for all help,

Jonathan Dagle
86th Wing, Ramstein Germany
[e-mail]

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

Date: Wed, 3 Nov 93 13:37:06 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Dr. Hacklaender        )
Subject: digests

I am developing a program using both Think Pascal 4.0.2 as well as Think C
5.0.4
for some of the modules. The main part of the program is written in Pascal,
using the modules written in C as libraries. The development takes place on a
Quadra 700 under System 7.1, which is equipped with 20MByte of main memory.
While debugging, two problems with unknown reason appeared:

1.) One of the C modules uses a moveable modal dialog box as user interface.
The
appropriate DITL, DLOG and dctb resources were created using ResEdit 2.11,
which
shows the DLOG resource to be of the right type, ie. as a moveable modal box.
If one use a C environment to call the module which handles the dialog,
everything works just fine. But if exactly the same module is used as a
library
in the Pascal environment, using exactly the same resources as before, the
dialog box appears to be a non-moveable (standard) dialog box.
The listings below show the SADerez output of the corresponding resources.

data 'dctb' (210, "Modify Box") {
    $"0000 0000 0000 0004 0000 FFFF FFFF FFFF"      /* ................ */
    $"0001 0000 0000 0000 0002 AAAA AAAA AAAA"      /* ..........****** */
    $"0003 0000 0000 0000 0004 0000 0000 0000"      /* ................ */
};

data 'DITL' (210, "Modify Box") {
    $"0016 0000 0000 010D 018E 0121 01D9 0402"      /* .......B..!.... */
    $"4F4B 0000 0000 010D 0128 0121 0173 0406"      /* OK.....B.(.!.s.. */
    $"4361 6E63 656C 0000 0000 0021 000A 0121"      /* Cancel.....!...! */
    $"010A 0000 0000 0000 0021 010E 0121 011E"      /* .........!...!.. */
    $"0702 0190 0000 0000 0125 000A 0135 010A"      /* ........%...5.. */
    $"0702 0191 0000 0000 009E 013C 00B2 01D3"      /* .........<.2.S */
    $"0407 4D61 6E75 616C C965 0000 0000 00CA"      /* ..ManualIe.....J */
    $"0162 00DE 01B2 0405 5265 7365 743A 0000"      /* .b...2..Reset:.. */
    $"0000 007B 0139 008B 014D 0802 573A 0000"      /* ...{.9..M..W:.. */
    $"0000 007B 0152 008B 017F 0800 0000 0000"      /* ...{.R......... */
    $"007B 018E 008B 01A2 0802 433A 0000 0000"      /* .{..."..C:.... */
    $"007B 01A7 008B 01D4 0800 0000 0000 0044"      /* .{.'..T.......D */
    $"0139 0054 016B 0806 5661 6C75 653A 0000"      /* .9.T.k..Value:.. */
    $"0000 0044 0175 0054 01CF 0800 0000 0000"      /* ...D.u.T.O...... */
    $"0021 0139 0031 014D 0802 583A 0000 0000"      /* .!.9.1.M..X:.... */
    $"0021 0152 0031 017F 0800 0000 0000 0021"      /* .!.R.1.........! */
    $"018E 0031 01A2 0802 593A 0000 0000 0021"      /* ..1."..Y:.....! */
    $"01A7 0031 01D4 0800 0000 0000 0066 012A"      /* .'.1.T.......f.* */
    $"0067 01D9 8000 0000 0000 00F2 012A 00F3"      /* .g..........*.. */
    $"01D9 8000 0000 0000 010D 018E 0121 01D9"      /* ........B..!.. */
    $"8000 0000 0000 000A 000C 001A 00BB 081A"      /* ............;.. */
    $"5069 6374 7572 6520 4469 6D65 6E73 696F"      /* Picture Dimensio */
    $"6E20 2848 2078 2056 293A 0000 0000 000A"      /* n (H x V):...... */
    $"00BA 001A 011E 080B 2323 2323 2078 2023"      /* .:......#### x # */
    $"2323 2300 0000 0000 00E2 012A 00F2 015A"      /* ###........*...Z */
    $"0806 5620 232E 2323"  /* ..V #.## */
};

data 'DLOG' (210, "Modify Box", purgeable) {
    $"0032 0032 016D 0214 0005 0000 0000 0000"      /* .2.2.m.......... */
    $"0000 00D2 0000 0000"  /* ...R.... */
};

Now the question: What is the reason for the different behaviour in the two
cases and how can it be overcome?

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

Date: Tue, 02 Nov 93 16:15:24 EST
From: "James A. Connolly" <[e-mail]>
Subject: directory listings on the macintosh

I've been asked by a coworker how one gets a complete directory listing
of the macintosh file system.  Openning up a folder and selecting
"Print Window" works, but it wastes a lot of paper and some of the files
are literally split between the pages.

Is there a system tool or a utility which produces nicely formatted
directory listings for the printer (maybe even in two columns)?

Please reply via e-mail.  I will post a summer of the answers sent in
to me before next Tuesday 09 November 1993.

                           ...James
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 12:08:32 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Benjamin J. Turner)
Subject: Duo 230 Batteries

    OK, Apple is now shipping the new Duos with the new Type II batteries
that have a longer life than Type I's. The old Duos can take advantage of
these
new battereis if they have the new Power Manager, which has been included for
a while now. My question is: Does the Duo 230 currently ship with the old
Type I battery, or with the new Type II battery?

    Also, if anyone has experience (positive of negative) with taking
    class
or meeting notes on a Powerbook or Duo, I'd love to hear your comments. What
software do you find useful for taking notes, etc.

    Thanks in advance,
      Benjamin Turner
      [e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 93 12:55:17 GMT
From: [e-mail] (GUNNEROED)
Subject: EUDORA, VAX & MODEM

Reading VAX Mail in a Local Network (LAN) is best with Digital's "Mail for
Macintosh", (MfM). MfM however only works in LAN, and does not support MfM
over
modem.
I understand that Eudora (however mostly for UNIX) can also support VAX and
VAX Mail.

1.      Can Eudora be used to access VAX Mail over modem?
2.      What is required of software installation on the VAX?
3.      What is required on the Mac, other than Eudora?

>Terje Gunneroed - Norway               [e-mail]

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

Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1993 09:21:20 -0500 (EST)
From: "Me chief, slinging bull." <[e-mail]>
Subject: Excel Macros

Hi!, in response to the gentleman's request for a macro book, I have two`
suggestions:  Get the Excel 4 Handbook, or wait 4 months for my and my
friend's book on excel macros, it's still being written, but should be
done by December.  It'll cover logic, macros, and other cool stuff, too.

Anyone have anything they would like to see in an Excel book??

Neil Schulman
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 15:47:31 -0500 (EST)
From: MY KARMA RAN OVER MY DOGMA <[e-mail]>
Subject: extensions manager (Q)

High, Y'all!!
    I remember once awhile ago I was lurking on ftp.apple.com and I down
loaded a file, that among other things, had an extension manager.  Thing is,
I dont remember where it was ( I think it was concatenated with other stuff)
If anyone remembers, please email me.
    Gracias...

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

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 17:17:44 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Gary L. Gray)
Subject: FGS acquisition by Symantec

I just got this off of America Online. I am willing to be patient with
Symantec's acquisition of FGS, but this sounds a bit ominous.

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

Subj:  RE>  Fifth Product- new policies      93-11-02 10:11:08 EST
From:  FIFTHGEN

Hello,

Since Fifth Generation Systems has been acquired by Symantec, many of our
policies are changing to be more in line with Symantec policies.  The Five
Points pledge has been affected.  The fifth product is no longer free.  We
no longer have 24 hour tech support (which was going to happen merger or
not), the money back guarantee is now not one year but 60 days and  Barry
Bellue is no longer the CEO of the company and will not be personally
handling problems.

More policies may change during our transition period but hopefully we will
have it all wrapped up by the end of the year.  Please bear with us during
this transition period.


Thanks for your understanding,
Davidl,
Symantec/FGS Tech Support

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

Best regards,

Gary L. Gray
[e-mail]

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

Date: 2 Nov 1993 22:00:38 +1100
From: [e-mail] (David Vincent)
Subject: File type MPBN, Creator PLAN -- (A)

[e-mail] writes:

>A colleague has some old files, type MPBN, creator PLAN. The icon is a
>document with a grid on it, like a spreadsheet. When I showed him the
>Finder info, he said, "Microplan? Does that ring a bell?"

>Well, does anybody out there know what this is? Is there a current
>program that can open and make sense out of these documents?

I am pretty sure that the creator is Microsoft Multiplan, which was killed
by Excel back in the dark ages.  I do not think there is a current program
that can open them, unless perhaps an old version of Excel (but you asked
for current).  I have Multiplan 1.0 or 1.1, I forget which, but it breaks
on System 6.0.7.  I think you have to go back to 6.0.3 (?) or earlier before
it runs properly.  The PLAN is a spreadsheet document;  Multiplan can
also access its own help document, and create & read text documents
with information in the SYLK (symbolic link) format, which are read by all(?)
versions of Excel and probably most other spreadsheets.

...dav  David A Vincent  Information Specialist  [e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 17:42 EST
From: Don't Panic! <[e-mail]>
Subject: FKEYS and Smartlauch (TY)

Dear Netters,
Thank y'all for the info on FKEYS.   Hhahn
among others helped me solve the problem.  For anyone who doesn't know, FKEYS
are resources that one uses ResEdit to install in the System File.  They
refer to Apple (command)-Shift-number key macros that open specific software.
Smartlaunch, a great shareware program (only $5) has a command-shift-0 FKEY
that can be installed in the System File.  On its own, Smartlauch 3.0.8 can
load applications, control panels, folders without any extensions loaded - as
it is its own application.  It probably is the best piece of shareware I've
found.  Just thought other people might want to know about it.
Sincerely,
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 02 Nov 93 20:43:32 EST
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Floppy Condoms (Arrrrgh! Or is that too sublte?)

Sheesh! I ask for a source for 3.5" floppy sleeves, and I get all kinds
of advice (both public and private) to not bother. Not all responses,
mind. One person offered to sell me his used floppy condoms. Hoo boy,
did that tickle my funny bone. I mean there is recycling, and then there
is recycling.

Mostly I heard of what is doubtless an urban legend on how the static
electricity of the sleeves will wipe my disks. Right. It never actually
happened to any respondent, but each knows about it.

And Adam says the sleeves *introduce* crud into the disks? Help!

My experience: People see the hard-shell and think the disk is protected.
They do not note the opening in the back or the spaces around the shutter
or the vulnerablity of the shutter. I've seen crud in the openings, and
I have seen sprung shutters. The former has killed more than one disk and
at least one read head. The latter, when sufficiently subtle, gets a disk
nicely stuck in the drive.

I have never seen data loss from a sleeved disk. I have never seen crud
introduced by a sleeve. When I pass a disk to a colleague, I put it in a
sleeve. If a colleague gives me an unsleeved disk, I ream him or her. And
give the disk back in a sleeve.

Lordy, folks! Have your own religion and bless you for it. Don't try to
convert me. I live in a college town. I get enough religious types at my
door wanting to tell me God's truth. As an aside, I recall a chap who
wanted to sell me a book explaining Revelations. I told him that book was
where I found my pet. Apologies to Marty Feldman. He didn't get it. Do
none of these people have a sense of humor?

Yes, Adam et al, I know about the various commercial thingies that will
hold one or more disks. No, I will not pass them on to folks freebies.
That is goofy. I have enough problems with our budget. Besides, floppy
condoms have never given me a moment's problem. Why look elsewhere?

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

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

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 12:42:16 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Peter Kay)
Subject: floppy drive repair suggestions (A)

>Hi!  The infernal/internal 1.44 MB floppy drive on my old Mac IIcx
>hasn't worked for a couple of years now (I've survived by using file
>sharing with another Mac:-).  My wife & I recently removed it and
>cleaned out a lot of dust sucked in by the IIcx's fan, but the disk
>drive still doesn't work.  I have seen advertisements from folks who


Mark ..... You might like to try what seems to have worked on my IIcx.

When my floppy drive packed up a few weeks ago, I borrowed a special
cleaning floppy from our lab technicians (with some special alcohol). I
gave it two spins in the floppy drive and, presto, the drive was back in
the world of the living.

I don't know how long its second life will last, but so far so good. The
technicians have told me that they make up the cleaning disks from
discarded floppies, but they almost certainly can be purchased as well.




Peter Kay, School of Information Sciences,     (tel. no. 0707 284 358)
University of Hertfordshire, UK, AL10  9AB     ([e-mail])

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

Date: 3 Nov 1993 07:27:11 GMT
From: [e-mail] (rick phillips)
Subject: FTP umich

Does "anonymous" not work as login at umich?
what are the login and password?

thanks

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

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 22:08:17 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Terry L. Hartman)
Subject: greek apollo graphic

I'm looking for a pict, eps, or startup screen of the greek god apollo.

thanx,

Terry L. Hartman
Coordinator - Microcomputer Services
U.T. - Pan American

[e-mail] (preferred)
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 2 Nov 93 15:10:15 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Hayes Optima 288 V.FC + FAX Modem

Just spotted a two-page ad in InfoWorld for the new Hayes modem, the
Optima 288 V.FC + FAX. It showed a list price of $579 and upgrades are
available. This puppy is supposed to go as high as 230 kbps under ideal
conditions, that's about 1 Mb/min. If APple has really gotten ARA Server
2.0 tuned up this should make the 'dialup desktop' more of a reality. Even
though the official V.34 standard hasn't been finalized these modems are
supposed to be able to communicate with other vendors who are supporting th
V.FC standard. When V.34 is finalized these will be upgradeable to that
standard and still maintain compatability with any V.FC modems in operation.
I'd say we're at the speeds where remote dialup backups for laptop owners is
becoming a realistic possibility.

No, I Don't Work For Hayes ..... I just love fast downloads.

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

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 93 16:42:55 EST
From: [e-mail] (J GAGNE)
Subject: HD starts forever... more info

Hello to all of you,

I think I will have to explain a little more my bootup problem. In our labs,
our disk drives are protected with AME software. So no student can write on
the drives. But some just boots from a floppy and then mess around in the
control panel changing defaults : date, hour, sound, etc. As this data is kept
in PRAM, AME don't stop them.

Since we couldn't find any way to lock the PRAM, and we can't just lock the
floppy drives, the only way I could think of of preventing the PRAM abuses
would be to force the Mac to boot from the disk drive EVEN if a system floppy
disk is in the floppy drive. If for some reason the Mac couldn't boot from its
disk drive, only then would it try booting from its floppy drive.

Would some of you know how to accomplish such a feat by hardware fix or soft-
ware? Or maybe another way to protect the PRAM from malicious users?

I hope this help better understand the problem.

Thanks in advance,

Louis Lavoie             <[e-mail]>

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

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 93 16:38:08 MST
From: "Roger B. Marks"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: HideAlways and System 7.1

It seems that HideAlways doesn't work with System 7.1. Does anyone have a
newer
version, or an alternative way to keep an application's windows hidden
whenever
it's in the background, regardless of how it got there?

Thanks,



Roger
[e-mail]            NIST/Boulder, CO

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

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 12:48:57 -0600 (CST)
From: Daniel Pollock <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #216

I am considering the purchase os system 7 pro, I already have system 7,  I
am interested in hearing arguments for and against this purchase.
Particularly, I am interested in knowing e-mail cpabilities via system 7
pro, I am not linked to any mac network.Nor do I intend to link to a
network at this time will I still be able to use system 7 pro email
functions?  please reply to [e-mail]
Thank-You, Dan P.

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

Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1993 15:44:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #216

A source for the jewel case storage boxes for 3.5" floppies is:

Tapette Corp.
15702 Producer Lane
Huntington Beach, CA 92649
714 638-7960
310 594-4454

The product is called "The Micro-Case."

Mike Kleper
RIT

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

Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1993 10:38:33 -0500 (EST)
From: STACEY Donahue <[e-mail]>
Subject: LaserWriter Driver 8.1.1 (fwd)

We just installed LaserWriter 8.1.1.  We are running only PostScript level
one printers > in an environment mixed with LW Driver 7.0 as well.

One person sent a MWord 5.0 document to one of the LaserWriters, that
included art created in MacDraw II and imported into Word 5.0.  It printed
fine with LW Driver 7.0.  When LW Driver 8.1.1 parts of the drawings were
actually repositioned.  I have copies of the printouts to document this.

Any suggestions?  I am not willing to switch over to 8.1.1. if the results
are so unreliable.

Stacey Donahue

[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 01:11:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brian Amira <[e-mail]>
Subject: LaserWriter Pro 630 & 8.1.1

Ok, so these might be stupid questions but this is my first laserwriter
and the documentation is very lacking. What does the button Substitute
Fonts really do? Does the printer always use the fonts built into it's ROM
even if you have a different version installed in your system? If so, is
there any way around this?

<|Brian M. Amira     | Internet E-Mail: [e-mail] |>

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

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 93 22:29:28 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Dr Balbin)
Subject: LC520 Finally hits Australia but is it a dead end?

The LC520 finally hit Australian shores (only the 80Mb version ... can
you believe it?).

It seems like a nice machine for home/kid use, however, it looks
like it is a dead end in that there appear to be no plans to have it
upgradeable to either the 040 or PowerPC.

Is there an 040 based new "520" type machine around the corner?

Any other minuses regarding the 520?

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

Date: Tue, 02 Nov 93 14:21:57 CST
From: Winston <[e-mail]>
Subject: LC II VRAM

I am planning on selling my LC II and getting a Quadra 605, and my
question is : can I remove the extra VRAM I bought for my LC II and have
it installed into my new Quadra?

-- Winston Baccus - Univ of Alabama

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

Date: Mon, 01 Nov 93 17:32:44 BST
From: Richard Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: Loodle printing problem (Q)

Has anyone experienced printing problems with Loodle?

I've tried version 4.0.3 and 5.2 recently, but both give me the dialog 'saving
to disk and printing . . .' and hang the machine when I try to print labels.
Even the Option/Command/Escape sequence won't get out of it. This happens
under
System 7.1 on an 8Mb IIcx and a 4Mb SE/30, maybe also on an SE (can't remember
if I tried it on that machine), extensions on or off.

I have an old version, 3.1 I think, which prints OK, but I'd like to use the
new
features of the latest version.

Printer is a HPII compatible laser, using PowerPrint and the Serial tool
driver.

TIA,

Richard Smith
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 02 Nov 93 11:01:45 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: LW 8.1.1 Problems with legal size paper.

    I saw a few posts about other having problems with
using the LW 8.1.1 print driver and printing to legal size paper.
I was wondering if one of them could contact me. I am having the
same problem and am about to go back to 7.x.

    One poster blasted the people who had problems with 8.1.1,
because it leaves the 7.x print driver installed. Well I tried
switching to the 7.x driver and had the same problem.

    I was in Aldus Freehand, printing some signs in landscape on
a legal size paper. I made sure the page setup matched the document
prefs that I had set in freehand. I tried both print drivers. What
would happen is the text, which filled the page on the screen, would
print down about 3.5 inches on the page and then be chopped off by the
edge of the paper. I tried scale to fit and it fit it on the page, but
It still printed this 3.5-4 inches down the page, but was small enough
to not be chopped by the edge of the page. The odd thing is that if I
took a letter size piece of paper and lined it up on the one edge with
the legal size. The text had been scaled to fit on the letter size
piece of paper (or so it seemed). Again I made sure that the page set
up knew about what size and orientation the paper was. It seems to
think everything is letter size...Anyone at Apple reading this?

    This worked fine before I installed the LW 8.1.1 driver.
My system is: Mac IIcx, 8M ram, system 7.0, Tunner 1.1.1, Freehand
v3.1 (I think), Laser Writer Plus (v4.22), Printing via localtalk over
phone net (But right now I only have one Mac and one printer connected,
so length is not a problem and the connectors are terminated).

thanks,
    Mike    [e-mail]

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Date: 02 Nov 1993 15:22:30 -0500 (CDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Mac CD drive on PC?

We would like to connect an Apple CD300 external drive to a PC.
A SCSI card for the PC would be easy to obtain but what about
a driver.  Does anybody out there know of a driver for the
PC that would allow us to use the Apple drive with it.
I realize we could use file sharing but we are afraid
that this might not work with some software.

Thank you,

Ken Brantley
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 12:19:16 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Benjamin J. Turner)
Subject: Macintosh TV

    It has arrived on my dear campus! The Macintosh TV is now on display
at the University of San Francisco, and boy is it a doozy. For those of you
just joining us, let me describe...

    Picture an LC 520 (you know, that big all-in-one hunk of Mac that has
a 13" monitor and a CD-ROM drive built in). Paint it black. Paint it _all_
black, including the keyboard and mouse (forget, however, to paint the CD-ROM
drive black... :). Put a television tuner inside the machine. Put video input
(for the TV) on the back and add an antenna jack. Now pick up the remote
control and get ready to switch between the Mac and the TV with the push of a
button. One click, and the Mac Finder fades away to be replaced with Channel
4.
Press the Power button on the remote and you'll see the TV fade back out and
the Finder comes back in. Watch all the applications quit and the Mac
shutdown.
Drool at the sexiness of this machine. Laugh at the silliness of this toy. For
extra kicks, take a screen snapshot while the TV is showing your favorite
movie
clip. Voila! you have an image of the scene sitting on your hard drive. Don't
forget, the remote also has basic controls for your CD-ROM drive when it's
playing audio CDs.

    OK, it's sort of a silly thing to do (perhaps less so for a university
environment, but...), but if you have the opportunity to look at one of these
things, go play with it for a while and you may find that it's really a neat,
fun idea that has a fair amount of consumer appeal (a friend of mine spent
over
an hour on the phone last night trying to convince someone that they shouldn't
hock their PB 160 and buy a Mac TV). Really, execution is pretty slick on this
baby. Anyone else care to comment?

    Benjamin Turner
    [e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 13:14:37 +0000 (GMT)
From: Charlie Stross <[e-mail]>
Subject: MacPerl weirdness [Q]

Hi there; here's one for all you Perl fans out there ...

I downloaded the latest release of MacPerl (4.10) late last week to work
on my Powerbook. It's a vast improvement over earlier versions; the
standalone app, in particular, is finally usable (with a built-in
editor and lots of nice features like AppleScript compatability). I'm
really looking forward to writing some simple TCP/IP clients with it.

However, I've got a couple of perplexing problems.  Firstly, I'm
running MacTCP 2.0.2 over MacPPP 2.0 to communicate with my IP
provider.  I'm not on an ethernet or running MacTCP over appletalk.
On starting up MacPerl, *most* of the time it tries to open PPP
twice.  Some of the time, for reasons beyond my ken, it doesn't.
I can't find any options to control this behavior, but it's a pain
in the neck. (On the one hand, I want TCP connections; on the other
hand, I pay by the minute for them so I don't want them when I'm not
using them.)

Rather more serious is a definite repeatable bug. Drag-n-drop
launching of MacPerl scripts works fine. But when I use the Open File
... dialogue MacPerl invariably quits with an error of type 1. I've
messed around with the memory partition size and had a look at the
inits I've got, but I can't isolate anything that causes this (and I
don't know enough about Mac, as opposed to UNIX, programming to look
inside MacPerl).

Anyone got any idea what's going on here?

FYI, the environment is: PB145b 4/80, System 7.1, MacTCP 2.0.2, MacPPP
2.0. Loads of inits and cdevs. (It occurs to me that one possible
culprit in the Open ... bug is an init I use that helps open recently
used folders; I'll check this when I get back to the Mac.)



 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Charlie Stross is [e-mail], [e-mail]




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

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 93 11:03:28 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: MacTCP in NCSA Telnet

In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
> Not quite true, Adam. NCSA/BYU Telnet 2.5 has its own TCP/IP driver.It will
> quite happily let you FTP to a remote site, and will also act as an FTP
> server on the Mac. Admittedly, it is faster if you have MacTCP installed
> and use that as the TCP/IP driver, but it _does_ work on its own (it even
> supports SLIP connections).

Hmm, I'll take your word on the TCP/IP driver in 2.5 - I must have
missed that because I have had MacTCP around when using NCSA Telnet.
However, everyone, including the current author, has essentially said
that the SLIP features don't work, so I wouldn't depend on them.

> Of course, what we _really_ need is for someone to take the NCSA/BYU TCP/IP
> code and write a _freeware_ MacTCP clone (any takers?).

Even a shareware one would do well given the many ways in which Apple
tries to avoid letting anyone buy MacTCP. :-)

cheers ... -Adam

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

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

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 14:14:38 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Tim Neese)
Subject: MacTCP mystery

Hello,

For those who like to curl up with a good mystery, I thought I would share
one of the MacTCP variety that I've been experiencing and see if anyone has
any insights into how this one ends.

The story begins with MacTCP 1.1.1 (I know it's not the latest; our campus
is still negotiating the site licence for 2.0.x) on lab Macs running Telnet
2.5.1, TurboGopher 1.0.7, and Eudora 1.3.1.  The really odd part of this is
that the problem I'm about to describe seems to only occur on our lab
machines.  I also support around 45 Macs in our administrative office that
use MacTCP 1.1.1, Telnet 1.5.1, TurboGopher 1.0.7, and Eudora 1.3.1 and 1.4
quite regularly but never experience the problem.  I've also encountered
the problem when the lab machines were on Appletalk gatewayed to the campus
ethernet via Gatorboxes as well as now when they're directly connected to
the ethernet.

So here it is.  About three machines out of 15 a semester develop a problem
with MacTCP so that when you try to bring up Telnet or TurboGopher, you are
told that there is a problem opening the Resolver on Telnet or that
TurboGopher was unable to resolve the host name.  What's even weirder is
that Eudora will often continue to work fine!

About half of the time, deleting the MacTCP DNR file and, if present, the
MacTCP Prep file and restarting will clear it up.  The rest of the time it
can require deleting those files plus reloading MacTCP from a fresh copy to
get Telnet and TG to work again.  Sometimes, even doing this doesn't fix it
and it seems that only restoring the System Folder from a backup corrects
the problem, although recently I discovered that switching MacTCP from
ethernet to Appletalk and back, which requires completely reconfiguring
MacTCP, got it going again without having to replace the entire System
Folder!

I've talked to the support folks for other labs and they report that
they've encountered the same problem and have had to go through similar
steps to get MacTCP to work again, but they haven't been able to determine
what causes this to happen in the first place.  In my lab, it seems pretty
random in that different machines are affected by this from semester to
semester.

Has anyone else run into this vexing mystery?  If so, does MacTCP 2.0.4 fix
whatever causes it?  What is it that causes it and what are some other ways
to prevent it?

Thanks in advance for any insights or clues.
Tim

PS: I don't mind having the ending spoiled on this mystery!

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

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 20:25:27 -0500 (EST)
From: Kieran O'Connor <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mail order Macs?

Hi,

I'm plannign on buying a Quadra  650, 8/230, and I looked into Syracuse
University's deals. I can get the same deal from  one of the mail order
places in the back of Macuser and Macworld, and I wont have to wait( 2
months form the University place), or
pay NY State Sales tax (7%). Any thoughts on this?  My concerns are as
follows:

1) I dont want to pay wihtout using a credit card (allows me more
protection if theres a problem)

2) I'm wondering about good or bad suppliers--and expriences with
specific vendors? How about repairs--have these been handled?

3) I know that these are "gray market" so delaers will not fix them under
warranty--but will they for cash--and if they are out of warranty?

If you can, I would appreciate direct repsonses--but cc info-mac if you
feel it will be of general interest.

Kieran O'Connor

E-Mail Address: [e-mail]
Syracuse, N.Y. USA

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

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 18:00:06 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Juan M. Courcoul)
Subject: NCSA Telnet 2.5 and control characters?

Catching up my Info-Mac reading, on # 212 a mention is made regarding NCSA
Telnet and its keyboard which reminded me of a problem I have with it.

How can I generate the tilde (~) from the keyboard of a PB 180 (oh, ok,
with Spanish keycaps, but then Telnet never did are what keyboard resource
was being used, did it) ? I've reread the manual, but can't find any
mention.

Thanks for any tips.

Juan

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

Date: 02 Nov 1993 10:31:09 -0500 (EST)
From: "Andrew M. Sopchak" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Newton Development [Q]

    I am interested in developing some software for the Newton to
be applied to specific needs which I have. I have heard that there is a
development kit available. How do I obtain one of these beasts? Please
respond directly to me and I can summarize.

Andrew M. Sopchak
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 15:19:02 -0500
From: Charlie Mingo <[e-mail]>
Subject: Nisus copy protection (C)

Richard Lim <[e-mail]> writes:

> >Note that I think Nisus's goose will be cooked by WordPerfect's
> >competitive upgrade, which lets users of any other word processing
> >program to get WP for $79.  Since WP handles all WorldScript modules,
> >has no copy protection and costs much less, the choice seems clear.
>
> What - you mean it's clear people in (say) the Middle East will now buy one
> or two copies of Word Perfect to pirate?

I don't really care what they do, as long as I don't have to deal with a
dongle.  Talk about making Peter pay for Paul's sins.

> I was told by others on the net that though version 2.1
> was claimed to handle WorldScript, in practice it couldn't cope with right-
> to-left languages any better than other ordinary word processors.

Version 2.1 isn't WorldScript-friendly.  Version 2.1.3 is the first WS
version.  Version 3.0 is the currently-shipping version.

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

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 13:57:04 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Bo Holst-Christensen)
Subject: Optima Technology.

I usually find having demos on sumex to be a good service, but when a demo
is sent out without vital information, and when the producer doesn't reply
to queries about their products, it's quite irritating.

I have looked at the Optima Technology's DeskTape demo on sumex and found
it interesting.
Unfortunately I have not been able to get in contact with Optima
Technology, as they have not replied to my email (of October 9.) or FAX (of
October 20.).
As I can find no distributor of their products in Denmark, I have no way of
getting further information, including the price of the product, and how to
get it.

I would very much like to know where I can purchase a copy of DeskTape and
what the price of the product is, including shipping to Denmark.
I would be very thankful, if anyone could help me get this information.

Thanks


   Bo Holst-Christensen                                FAX: [phone]
   [e-mail]         [e-mail]         [e-mail]

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

Date: 02 Nov 1993 13:24:49 +0000
From: [e-mail] (Alan Hewat, ILL Grenoble)
Subject: Packaging info Sought

>In Info-Mac 216 Louis Mackey <[e-mail]> writes:
>
>About 3 years ago (or so) I purchased some sony 3.5 inch floppies and each
>can in its own Jewel box (slightly smaller than a CD box. I still have
>several of these but consider them "Collectables" you might try calling Sony

When I was last in Japan, the lab. floppy disks all came in individual plastic
cases.  I put it down to the usual Japanese attitude to product quality.


Alan Hewat, ILL Grenoble, FRANCE ([e-mail]) Fax (France=33).76.48.39.06

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

Date: 03 Nov 1993 11:39:15 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Juergen Last)
Subject: Postscript laser on a serial line but no driver

Dear info-mac subscribers,

I have a laser printer (a Dec LN07 with postscript) which does not have an
AppleTalk interface. There is just a serial line connection. Does anybody
know of some driver software to download postscript files to a non-apple
postscript printer on a serial line? Of course one could just use a
terminal program but this does not take care of the necessary
initializations.
May be there are even drivers for such a printer that could be plugged into
the chooser.

Juergen Last/[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 93 02:42:48 -0500
From: "r.   valentine" <[e-mail]>
Subject: powerbook to car battery

I'm wondering-- is there any potential harm to a PowerBook to
just buy a cheap 12volt DC adapter, say at a place like Radio
Shack, to run one's PB through a car's cigarette lighter? Or
does one need some fancy, razzle-dazzle 12V adapter?

Thanks.

Rand Valentine
[e-mail]

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

Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1993 10:24:11 +0200
From: [e-mail] (David L. Hirschberg)
Subject: printing postscript files over the internet

Dear list,

Is it possible to send a document to a printer over the internet?

I am going to be in the US and I would like to print documents on our HP4M
laser printer here.  The printer is connected to the same ethenet network
that my mac is.  My mac has a tcp/ip number, does my laserprinter also?

-david
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 08:52:16 GMT
From: [e-mail] (David Johnson)
Subject: PSPICE

[e-mail] writes:

>Wallace C. Patterson <[e-mail]> asks:
>>I'm looking for a MAC-based circuit simulator call PSPICE.
>>Please, tell me where I can find it.

>Archie says:

<list of old versions of pspice for the mac deleted>

Archie obviously doesn't know about mac.archive.umich.edu which is
where I uploaded pspice5.3.sit.hqx in the /mac/misc/compsci directory
around april this year.

--DAVE ([e-mail])

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

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 93 15:36:49 +0100
From: Sak Wathanasin <[e-mail]>
Subject: Quadra Cache Switch Secret!

In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 26 Oct 1993 22:09:22 +0000

> > The following steps corrupt high-density floppies on the Quadra 800 and
> > Centris 650: (1) In the Cache Switch control panel, hold down the option
> > key while clicking on the More Compatible button- this allows you to
> > change the setting without a restart; and (2) Put in a high-density
> > floppy and eject it. The disk is now unreadable. Apple is not currently
> > offering a fix.

Doesn't surprise me: the LocalTalk and floppy drivers have timing loops
in them. These go badly wrong if you toggle the cache without
rebooting. Do people really think that Apple makes them reboot the Mac
after toggling the cache just to annoy them?


Sak Wathanasin
Network Analysis Limited

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

Date: Tuesday, 02 Nov 1993 10:51 CST
From: Joel Cunningham <[e-mail]>
Subject: Quicken 4

Larry Wink writes:

>SEND IT BACK IMMEDIATELY.  Quicken 4 has more bugs than the Amazon basin.
>It is unstable and unpredictable.  Intuit technical support is total
>inadequate and they DO NOT inform their customers of the availability of
>bug fixes (few though these have been).  Intuit was reachable
>on the Internet, but, since the release of Quicken 4, their site
>(intuit.com) no longer exists.  Well, they can run but they can't
>hide.  For those "happy" Quicken 4 users, the President of Intuit is
>Scott Cook and his snail mail address is:
>
>    Scott Cook
>    President, Intuit
>    MS 66
>    P.O. Box 3014
>    Menlo Park, CA 94026.
>
>What say we let him know what we think of this product?

I'll let him know I like it...
I've been using Quicken for 2+ years and version 4 since it came
out. I've never had *any* problems. Could you be more specific?


                  -- Joel Cunningham

                  "Push the button, Frank."

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

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 08:17:59 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Quicken 4 (A)

Hi, folks!

    Larry Wink <[e-mail]> writes:
>SEND IT BACK IMMEDIATELY.  Quicken 4 has more bugs than the Amazon
>basin. It is unstable and unpredictable.Intuit technical support is total
>inadequate and they DO NOT inform their customers of the availability of
>bug fixes (few though these have been).

    I'm a very satisfied user of QKN4 and have not noticed anything that
seems unstable and unpredictable about it.  I'm not doubting your word, but I
would ask you to please let us know more about the problems and bug fixes you
may know of.

'til next we type
HAVE FUN!!      --      Jesse
<[e-mail]>
[e-mail]>

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

Date: Mon,  1 Nov 93 23:12:00 EST
From: [e-mail] (Jim Kauffman)
Subject: Quicken 4(A)

On Sun, 31 Oct. 1993 Akira wrote:

A> Is there any way that I can set Quicken up to automatically take
A> out bank fees from my account? In the manual, it works by
A> reminding YOU to do it.  I thought that it would do that on its
A> own.  If I can't get it to do this I will have to send it back.
     ---------------------------------------------------------
Whoa!

Don't throw the baby out with the bath water.

Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.

Don't use overused hackneyed cliches.{:>

Seriously, even if it didn't do this one thing, Quicken would
still be a keeper. I hope this is not the most important use you
have for it, because it will do so many other great things. It
will ... well, you have the manual, look and see.

Although I have not tried it myself, I believe from my reading of
the manual that Quicken will do what you want. Try entering a
bank fee transaction by hand and then memorize it. Create a new
transaction group and schedule it to "Enter Automatically" every
month on the date of your bank statement (See the Using
Transaction Groups section of Chapter 11). Then select the
aforementioned memorized transaction to be a member of this
group. That should do it, assuming you have the same fixed fee
each month. If it varies, you are stuck with editing the
automatically entered transaction manually to enter the correct
amount.

Jim K.
----
ProLine:  jimk@pro-scat
Internet: [e-mail]
UUCP:     crash!pro-scat!jimk

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

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 21:31:45 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Richard Austin)
Subject: Quicken 4 bugs?  (Q)

In answering another question about Quicken 4, Larry Wink
<[e-mail]> writes:

>SEND IT BACK IMMEDIATELY.  Quicken 4 has more bugs than the Amazon basin.
>It is unstable and unpredictable.  Intuit technical support is total
>inadequate and they DO NOT inform their customers of the availability of
>bug fixes (few though these have been).  Intuit was reachable
>on the Internet, but, since the release of Quicken 4, their site
>(intuit.com) no longer exists.  Well, they can run but they can't
>hide.  For those "happy" Quicken 4 users, the President of Intuit is
>Scott Cook and his snail mail address is:
>
>    Scott Cook
>    President, Intuit
>    MS 66
>    P.O. Box 3014
>    Menlo Park, CA 94026.
>
>What say we let him know what we think of this product?

Can you be more specific?  What bugs?  I have just upgraded from v.3, and
haven't seen any problems yet (though admittedly, I haven't used v.4 that
much yet).  I was always very happy with version 3, and assumed that
version 4 would be quite useful.

Richard Austin <[e-mail]>

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

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 93 13:53:20 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Quicken 4 not THAT bad...

Regarding Quicken 4, Larry Wink writes to Info-mac:

>SEND IT BACK IMMEDIATELY.  Quicken 4 has more bugs than the Amazon basin.
>It is unstable and unpredictable.  Intuit technical support is total
>inadequate and they DO NOT inform their customers of the availability of
>bug fixes (few though these have been).  Intuit was reachable
>on the Internet, but, since the release of Quicken 4, their site
>(intuit.com) no longer exists.  Well, they can run but they can't
>hide.

...  Sorry to disagree, Larry, but I've had a wonderful time with Quicken 4.
In 6 months of use, I've only had one crash, and I didn't lose ANY data.
I've used Q4 on an accelerated MacPlus with Sys7, and on a Quadra 950, and
a couple friends have been using it on Mac IIci's with Daystar PowerCaches and
a Quadra 800, also with no gripes.  In fact, we're all quite happy with Q4
and don't hesitate to recommend it to other checkbook-balanced-out Mac users.
It's quite useful, has a ton of neat features, and really makes tracking my
money very easy and efficient.  I give Q4 two thumbs up.

Brandon Munday
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 15:26:04 -0500 (EST)
From: Bernard Glassman <[e-mail]>
Subject: RagTime List? Users? Books? And....The GUS Award

In part because this list has a good international readership, I'm posting
a request here for information about RagTime, an integrated package that
has had little success in the US and much greater success in Europe.
Specifically, I'm looking for lists or usenet groups, and for information
about third-party books.

And speaking of RagTime, I am nominating it for an award that I have
created solely for the purpose, the GUS--greatly underrated software. I
would be delighted to accept, off-list, your own nominations. Laserauthor
and Scoop come to mind as programs that never quite made it off the ground
but that were way ahead of their time. Once I have your nominations, I
will try to find out the story behind why they never really made it. Those
that make good reading will be compiled, as time permits, either into a
series of columns that I will upload to somewhere (ideas?) or make into an
electronic publication.

Thanks for your help on either of these quests.
Bernard Glassman   [e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 12:56:12 -0600
From: Bienvenu Sidney J <[e-mail]>
Subject: repeated messages in the digest

Have you noticed that every once in a while there are double messages in the
digest?  I't pretty annoying to read a message and see the exact same message
right after.

[Yes, we know about this.  I suspect it has to do with both Bill and I doing
the digest messages.  Sometimes we step on each others toes.  We are trying
to figure out someway of prebenting this.  Sorry for the problems. -Gordon]

                -- Jay

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

Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1993 00:45:09 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Kuang-Yu Liu)
Subject: Salient

The following message appeared on comp.sys.mac.xxx.

> Salient.com will cease operations effective 12 November 1993.
>
> Subscription service is terminated effective 12 November 1993.
>
> It is possible that Symantec may initiate a similar service at a later
> time.
>
> The 1-800-766-7283 tech support line will continue to operate but the
> hours for support will be 7am-7pm central time U.S. (that's zulu -6)
> Monday-Friday.  This number is for Fifth Generation Systems products.
>
> Customer service for all Symantec products can be reached at
> 800-441-7234 in the U.S. and Canada, and at 503-334-6054 elsewhere.
> Dealer and corporate customers should also use the 800 number above to
> reach their sales representative.
>
> Harri Rehnberg
> Salient Software
> 931102 16:11:08 (GMT-7)

Could someone shine some light on this subject? What will happen to
AutoDoubler, CopyDoubler, DiskDoubler? What is the fate of other Fifth
Generation's utilities?

Thanks in advance.

--
Liu
[e-mail]

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

Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1993 04:14:49 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Alvin Croll)
Subject: Scrabble on a Mac (Q)

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

>> I'm looking for a Scrabble game for the Mac.  Has anyone out there ever
seen
>> one?  Do you know where I can find one (commercial, share, or freeware)?

>There is a game called CRAB. It's available in the sumex archives.

>Josephine Colmenares / Fordham University
>[e-mail] / [e-mail]


There is an official Scrabble game for the Mac put out by Virgin software.
It is available through the usual mail order companies like MacWarehouse.

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

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 93 16:52:25 EST
From: [e-mail] (J GAGNE)
Subject: Specmarks anyone?

Hi, fellow netters,

A few days ago, I read an ad about the soon to come PowerPCs saying that the
PowerPC 601 was "60-80 Specmark" fast and that the future PowerPC 620 would be
200 to 400 Specmark capable. Sure, must beat Slowpoke Sam! But how fast is
fast?

Looking in my old dictionary, I could not find neither Specmark nor
Speckmark.
I know it is a kind of processor speed measure, but then? What is exactly a
Specmark? Could you guide me to a table comparing a few machines, old and
actual, giving the Specmark count for each?

Thank you,

Louis Lavoie             <[e-mail]>

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

Date: Tue, 02 Nov 93 16:35:32 EST
From: Murph Sewall <[e-mail]>
Subject: SuperDoubler

On Tue, 2 Nov 1993 13:54:54 -0500 you said:
>If you're a registered user of CopyDoubler 2.x and AutoDoubler 2.x, you
>should try to return the SuperDoubler 'upgrade' for a refund.  The
>upgrade offer included an offer for DiskDoubler 4.0 by itself for $30,
>(the ordinary price is somewhat higher, $55 alone, I think, or $85
>bundled with AutoDoubler).  For them to sell you two packages that you
>already own plus DD 4.0 for more than they charge for DD 4.0 itself
>seems to border on being fraudulent.

I knew what I was buying--I asked what else I got besides DD 4.0 when
I made the order.  For the extra $10 I get 1) upgrade from CopyDoubler
Lite to CopyDoubler, and 2) the latest versions of AutoDoubler and
CopyDoubler.  Item 2) isn't that big a deal, but two weeks ago my PowerBook
decided to trash the hard disk instead of going to sleep (I hold Norton's
FileSaver suspect and no longer use it on the PB).  One of AutoDoubler's
"features" is that if it's restored from a backup disk (a Sysquest in my
case) it complains.  Hence, AutoDoubler/CopyDoubler has to be restored from
an original disk and patched again.  So, I not only had to dig out the
original AD disk but also a copy of the 2.0.2 patchers for AD and CD.

On the whole, the CD upgrade and latest version seemed worth the $10.
My complaint is being charged for DD 4.0 and receiving 3.7.7 without any
note of explanation.  Salient/5th Generation/Symantec may take the
position that they did not intend to create a 'vaporware' situation, and
I'm prepared to concede their good intentions (remembering what the road
to Hell is paved with :) but the fact is they HAVE created a vaporware
situation.

A shrewder marketing move would have been to mail the SuperDoubler
disk with a card saying the upgrade to DD 4.0 would be shipped as soon
as it is ready and the credit card account would NOT be charged until
DD 4 shipped.

/s Murph Sewall <[e-mail]>

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Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 16:36:58 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Gary L. Gray)
Subject: SuperDoubler 1.0 (not so Super)

>I received the SuperDoubler package today that I ordered on 9/20/93.
>It DOES NOT contain the promised DiskDoubler 4.0 (promised in the flyer).
>It installs DD 3.7.7, CopyDoubler 2.0.2, and AutoDoubler 2.0.2. The
>ONLY new thing seems to be CopyDoubler 2.0.2 in place of CopyDoubler Lite
>2.0.2 that I already had.
>
>I do not seem to have received $42.99 worth of upgrade.  What can you
>tell me about DD 4.0?

First of all, I hope you didn't already own AD 2.0 and CD 2.0 when you
ordered SD, because then you could have just ordered the DD 4.0 upgrade for
$20. If so, FGS/Symantec will let you return it for the DD 4.0 upgrade on
their 1 year MBG.

That aside, here is what is happening (from info found on AOL):

A few weeks ago, Symantec "gobbled up"/merged with Fifth Generation
Systems. This has caused a number of delays in new product releases. FGS
was also supposed to release an upgrade to Public Utilities 2.0, but that
has also been delayed. Since the merger with Symantec, they have had to
re-print manuals, change splash screens and the like within the software,
and also put all if the products through Symantec's quality assurance
procedures. This has caused the delay.

I already owned AD 2.0.2 and CD 2.0.2, so I just ordered the DD 4.0
upgrade. On the other hand, for people that didn't own CD and AD
beforehand, this is a REALLY good deal! Just be patient and your SD 1.0
will be worth it.

By the way, I have no affiliation with FGS/Symantec, except that I happen
to like AD, CD, DD, and PU very much.

Best regards,

Gary L. Gray
[e-mail]

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Date: 2 Nov 1993 10:18:03 -0500
From: "Cerro, Joseph A" <[e-mail]>
Subject: SuperDoubler 1.0 (not so Super) (c)

Murph Sewall ([e-mail]) wrote...

> I received the SuperDoubler package today that I ordered on 9/20/93. It
> DOES NOT contain the promised DiskDoubler 4.0 (promised in the flyer).
> It installs DD 3.7.7, CopyDoubler 2.0.2, and AutoDoubler 2.0.2. The ONLY
> new thing seems to be CopyDoubler 2.0.2 in place of CopyDoubler Lite
> 2.0.2 that I already had.
>
> I do not seem to have received $42.99 worth of upgrade.  What can you
> tell me about DD 4.0?

The following are bits & pieces from the Fifth Generation Systems support
board on America Online. All are paraphrased by me from comments made by
FGS/Symantec personnel (I apologize if I didnt get something right). The
upshot of it all is that SuperDoubler was heavily delayed by Symantec's
acquisition of Fifth Generation Systems, the previous publisher of
SuperDoubler. DD 4.0 itself was most substantially delayed, but is expected
to be out in early December, and will be sent to all who ordered SD 1.0.

--tightest currently available compression method (says Symantec)
--much faster compression than currently available version DD
--option to create archives and remove a single file from an archive from the
  Finder.
--view the compressed and uncompressed sizes of files and compression method
  (in the Finder?)
--11 different options (which vary in size and speed) to select for
compression.
--new Savings dialog has been added (with an easy to read graphical
interface).
--drag a file out of the archive and drop it and it will expand
--If you already have AD, CD, or old DD you can get DD 4.0 for 19.99.

Joseph Cerro * [e-mail]
(I have no affiliation with FGS/Symantec. I am just a customer)

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Date: Tue, 2 Nov 93 8:26:55 PST
From: [e-mail] (Kevin Fairchild)
Subject: SuperDoubler Upgrade

Murph Sewall <[e-mail]> writes

>I received the SuperDoubler package today that I ordered on 9/20/93.
>It DOES NOT contain the promised DiskDoubler 4.0 (promised in the flyer).
>It installs DD 3.7.7, CopyDoubler 2.0.2, and AutoDoubler 2.0.2. The
>ONLY new thing seems to be CopyDoubler 2.0.2 in place of CopyDoubler Lite
>2.0.2 that I already had.
>
>I do not seem to have received $42.99 worth of upgrade.  What can you
>tell me about DD 4.0?
>
>/s Murph Sewall <[e-mail]>

Over in the Fifth Generation forum on AOL, the ubiquitous "THEY" are saying
that DD 4.0 will be out at the beginning of December and will be free to those
of us who bought the SuperDoubler upgrade.  "THEY" are also saying that the
delay in the orders comes from FifthGen's merger with Symantec and they have
to redo the documentation somehow.  "THEY" are also saying that DD 4.0 will be
the coolest things on wheels, faster, tighter, and easier to use than any
other compression product (kind of a bionic compressor.)  That's just what
"THEY" are saying.  ("THEY" in this case are the FifthGen tech and marketing
reps in the forum; I'm not using their names because I don't want to
misattribute or put words in their mouths.)

"I" am now saying that I'm with you, Murph; their flyer promised DD 4.0.  If
4.0 wasn't ready to ship, they shouldn't have advertised it.  I've always
liked Salient/FifthGen and the Doublers, but this whole episode has me a bit
perturbed.  The only thing we can hope for is that DD 4.0 is worth the wait.

--
Kevin Fairchild
[e-mail]     [e-mail]     [e-mail]

And now for something completely different...

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Date: Tue, 02 Nov 93 16:29:04 EST
From: Murph Sewall <[e-mail]>
Subject: SuperDoubler Upgrade

On Tue, 2 Nov 93 8:26:55 PST you said:
>Murph Sewall <[e-mail]> writes
>>I do not seem to have received $42.99 worth of upgrade.  What can you
>>tell me about DD 4.0?
>
>"I" am now saying that I'm with you, Murph; their flyer promised DD 4.0.  If
>4.0 wasn't ready to ship, they shouldn't have advertised it.  I've always
>liked Salient/FifthGen and the Doublers, but this whole episode has me a bit
>perturbed.  The only thing we can hope for is that DD 4.0 is worth the wait.

I'm only moderately perturbed. I DID get a reply from Salient/5th Generation/
Symantec indicating that DD 4.0 would ship to me free when it's really
ready.  In the meantime, I did get a CopyDoubler Lite to CopyDoubler
upgrade (I can now copy in background--nice--and get it to say "Makin
Copies" :-)

I guess if I have a complaint it's that my credit card has been billed
for something I haven't received (a payment I have 11 months to cancel).
I think I'll give them the benefit of the doubt; if I haven't received
DD 4.0 by January, I file the form to dispute the payment and get my
money back.

/s Murph Sewall <[e-mail]>

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Date: Wed, 3 Nov 93 08:34:59 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Scott T. Spencer)
Subject: Watermark software

At a recent BMUG-South meeting, we heard a description of "Working
Watermarker" -- a piece of software from a company called Working Software
that's located in Santa Cruz, CA. It somehow merges a "watermark image"
along with the output of any Mac program with the resulting output appearing
to have been printed on paper with a watermark. Samples passed around
the meeting ranged from utilitarian to humorous. As I understood it, one
can use bundled watermarks (DRAFT, PRIVATE, etc.) or produce your own
>From (possibly) pict or eps files.  During our meeting, we were shown a
demo of simulated usage where an app's print dialog box had been
enhanced to include a menu of available watermarks. However, most clubs
don't bring printers to their meetings -- so this was as far as we got.

They also talked about an interesting second product called "Toner Tuner"
which allows one to print draft material at a lower "toner intensity"
which has the net effect of stretching the life of your toner cartridge.

Both products are supposed to run with most products to most printers
(including inkjet printers for the watermark app.) SRPs around $50 for
first product, $25 for the tuner.

The company is at 800.229.9675, CIS 76004,2072, or AppleLink D0140. I've
no connection with them -- just thought they were novel products (almost
mindboggling actually.) Their principal line of business seems to be along
lines of spell checkers and the like.

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Date: Tue, 02 Nov 93 21:19:29 EST
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>

I asked about file sync software. The freeware and demos in the sumex-aim
archives did not thrill me. Peter Chane recommended Apple's "PowerBook
File Assistant." I am not in a position to test that recommendation. We
spent some $3K to attend my folks' 50th anniversary party in Albuquerque
last month, and I get really tight jaws about spending even the $79 for
PFA. That attitude will change, but not this month. It bothers me writing
a check to Masterplastic that big.

For now I'd really like to hear from any of y'all who use PFA. It got a
cursory review in this month's MacWorld that told me nothing. Probably
why I get the thing freebies. It is worth what I pay.

A thorough review would be most welcome.

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

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Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1993 13:20:59 +0100
From: [e-mail] (SOTER MULE)

Dear friends,
I am very ill; I want to buy a PC for my Macintosh, a real PC, not a emulation
or slave card.
I am exploring various solutions, but the biggest problem is the monitor: I
want
to use my "Apple Color Display", the 14'' version, and I don't want to buy a
megaVGA monitor;
It is possible? Did someone succeded in this?
If you want to submit directly to me possible solutions I'll make a resume of
the results.
Thanks a lot,
Soter Mule'
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica
Universita''z di Tor Vergata, Roma, Italia

(Alberto, Vic, sono qui, sono su Info-Mac!!!)

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