Date: Fri, 28 Jan 94 00:56:03 PST From: The Info-Mac Moderators Reply-To: Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Subject: Info-Mac Digest V12 #16 To: info-mac-list Info-Mac Digest Fri, 28 Jan 94 Volume 12 : Issue 16 Today's Topics: [!] Info-Mac 3 CD-ROM Release [*] Alt.sources.mac Digest #02-94 [*] AutoBoot 1.3 [*] Basic Black 1.3 [*] Brainwave v1.00 [*] cc_converter11.hqx submission [*] ColourBlock CDEF [*] Convert!-20.hqx [*] Cron 1.0d13, execute commands at specified times [*] DIMPLES Ragtime MOD song [*] Excalibur 1.5 (Spelling Checker) [*] figgles utilities mac version [*] File Buddy 2.0.4 Submission [*] GrafSys 2.0 Submission [*] Here's the 1.05 system update for Newton [*] NET_Mac2.3.35.sea.hqx.text [*] NewtTurt-11.sit.hqx [*] Quiet Start 1.1 [*] The Stack O' Love 'Informed' Anyone? (Q) Help with Mac TCP/IP *Think Before You Zap!* 128 Mac 128 Mac - Did you buy one?(R) Accessing audio CD All modems are not created equal Apple Multi-media CD-ROM Offer Archiving Eudora mailboxes Big files from UNIX to Mac BinHex CRC error? (Q) CD 300 external - CD Bundle ripoff? (Q) Cross Stitch Program (A) cscw-groupware DeskPict replacement (Q) Finder's Find command High Speed Modems (Q) How do I fetch from home? Hubble deep sky image gif's hubble wide field planetary camera gif's Hypercard->Toolbook (A) Hyperdisaster INIT icon running off screen internet fax service (C) Keeping time on Quadra 610 LaserWriter Select 360 on serial Looking for Mac STEAM TABLES Mac286 & HDFD - Help? (R) macron problem>Japanese Mashed icon a la Novell? medical software (A) Memory problems on a PowerBook Duo 230 -- Help Help! MIDI Format more BeHierarchic question Nutritional Software ? Other mirrors for Sumex? Ouchie (AOCE) ain't all bad? PackIt III v1.3 Patch editor/librarian for Patch for Incredible Machine Personnel Management software (Q) PowerPC 94 obsolete? requesting the MACS application Search an shell for the mac Shut Down Programs (Q) SUBSCRIBE systems crashes on PB165c (help!) TCP/IP<->Appletalk Routing (Q) TCP/IP on an LC (2 msgs) TIFF, PICT, EPS Time travel Type and creator archives Wanted: a single A3 ribbon for a QMS ColorScript 100 30i printer What will the power-pc do to the laptop market Wrapping an image Zapping PRAM The Info-Mac newsgroup is moderated by Bill Lipa, Gordon Watts and Liam Breck. The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous, any password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6]. Help files and indices are in /info-mac/help. Mail articles for inclusion in the digest to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu. Send binaries to be placed in the archives to macgifts@sumex-aim.stanford.edu. Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 27 Jan 94 14:57:38 EST From: Cliff Miller <71175.3152@CompuServe.COM> Subject: [!] Info-Mac 3 CD-ROM Release Fans of the Info-Mac Archive! The latest version of the Info-Mac CD-ROM is now available. We just got the first batch back from the factory about an hour ago, and should be getting a larger shipment in a few days. I'm going to upload the interface to Sumex-Aim so that you can see what's on the CD. (It's a pretty hefty file -- sorry, but we work with CD-ROMs so we don't think a lot about space....) Regards, Cliff ===== FEATURES: - 570 MB - 10000+ files - Download Date: mid-December 1993 (most files uploaded June 93 - Dec 93) - Interface with short descriptions of all files - Indexed with Free Text, Easy View, and On Location PRICING: $49.95 Info-Mac 3 CD-ROM $ 5.00 Shipping & Handling US $ 9.00 Shipping & Handling Int'l We offer a $20 discount to registered owners of the Info-Mac 2 CD-ROM. Authors of programs on the CD are entitled to a free copy. (We appreciate it if authors pay the Shipping & Handling charge, but it's not a requirement.) Payment by VISA/MC/AmEx, money order, int'l money order, or US check is fine. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: We would like to thank the many people who have made this CD-ROM possible. In addition to the collective thanks we must give all of the authors and submittors of programs, reports, and other files to the archive, for this issue we'd like to give special thanks to the following people: Bill Lipa: Moderator of Info-Mac* Gordon Watts: Moderator of Info-Mac* Liam Breck: Moderator of Info-Mac* Mark Zimmerman: Author of Free Text Akif Eyler: Author of Easy View Adam Engst: Editor of Tidbits Murph Seawall: Editor of Vaporware Ken Seah: Author of Edit II *We have received generous advice and support directly and indirectly from the administrators of Info-Mac at sumex-aim. They are not, however, directly involved in the production of this CD-ROM, and neither sumex-aim nor Stanford University is responsible for any liability or damages incurred through the use or distribution of this disk. CONTACT INFO: You're welcome to send us email, but calling might be easier especially during the next week or so. Pacific HiTech 4530 Fortuna Way Salt Lake City, Utah 84124 Tel 1-800-765-8369 (orders) 1-801-278-2042 Fax 1-801-278-2666 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 19:47:35 GMT From: dnebing@andy.bgsu.edu (Dave Nebinger) Subject: [*] Alt.sources.mac Digest #02-94 alt.sources.mac digest #2-94 1/26/94 Welcome to the alt.sources.mac digest. Currently, I am the moderator of the archive. I thought I would post this message to show everyone what has been accumulating at the archive site. Your contributions are highly recommended and accepted. If you don't have access to the alt.sources.mac newsgroup, you can email your contribution to me (dnebing@andy.bgsu.edu) and I will add it to the archive, or you can upload it to the /ftp/pub/incoming directory at the archive site. I would also recommend to those programmers posting snippets to the comp.sys.mac.* heirarchy to also crosspost them to the alt.sources.mac group so that I can make sure that it gets added to the archive. A new addition to the digest is the Who's Who list found at the end of the digest. It contains the list of contributors for the digest. It will give you, at a glance, an idea about who is supporting the alt.sources.mac group. [Archived as /info-mac/dev/info/alt-sources-mac-digest-94-02.txt; 20K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 12:11:30 -0600 From: Karl.Pottie@uz.kuleuven.ac.be (Karl Pottie) Subject: [*] AutoBoot 1.3 AutoBoot version 1.3 (c) 1992-94 by Karl Pottie What is AutoBoot ? AutoBoot is a Control Panel/System extension which will reboot (restart) you Macintosh after a System Error or a Freeze-Up has occurred. This comes in handy when your Macintosh must be 'on-line' at all times, even when it is left unattended for long periods of time. Karl Pottie karl@uz.kuleuven.ac.be [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/auto-boot-13.hqx; 138K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 94 15:00:01 EST From: Mason Bliss Subject: [*] Basic Black 1.3 Here's the latest version of Basic Black. It has some nifty new features, like support for After Dark's gestalt selector and a nicer clock, while remaining incredibly efficient. If you're using any version of Basic Black prior to this one, then switch up to this - it's a lot nicer. If you're not familiar with it, Basic Black is a tiny, free screen saver that'll run on any Mac, new to old, without loading down the system at all. It'll run under any system, from seven back. You have the option of having a small clock bounce around your main screen, but many people prefer having the screen remain plain ol' black. Enjoy it! Note: This package is distributed under the enclosed Artistic License. Source code is enclosed. [Archived as /info-mac/gui/basic-black-13.hqx; 57K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 22:08:39 CST From: Tom Gooding Subject: [*] Brainwave v1.00 Brainwave v1.0 by Tom Gooding (tgooding@iastate.edu) Brainwave is Bolo cyborg that improves your Bolo abilities. Here's a list of its features. - Auto-Mapping - Radar - Auto Object Alignment - Stagger Mines - Clear Mines - Automatic and manual road, bridge, and boat building - Automatic tree gathering - Can restrict speed when Builder is outside of tank - Can display time till new builder lands. - Can transmit location to allies (upon request) - Can transmit current Brainwave version to all players - and More!!! *** This version may not work on a Quadra 840av *** [Archived as /info-mac/game/bolo/brainwave-10.hqx; 38K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 11:29:27 +1030 (CST) From: ksanders@waite.adelaide.edu.au (Kevin Sanderson) Subject: [*] cc_converter11.hqx submission CC converter is a utility that converts information downloaded from the online CAUL Current Contents database in Australia into Refer/BibIX format so it can be imported by bibliographic programs such as EndNote and ProCite. Changes in 1.1 Support for System 7 features such as drag and drop. Support for NCSA Telnet capture files. More user control over conversion and case changing. Better handling of source fields that are > 1 line. Better handling of source fields for references in supplemental issues. Kevin Sanderson Department of Crop Protection email: ksanders@waite.adelaide.edu.au University of Adelaide phone: 61-8-30 37495 [Archived as /info-mac/app/cc-converter-11.hqx; 95K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jan 94 13:25:58 GMT From: grantd@dcs.gla.ac.uk Subject: [*] ColourBlock CDEF ColourBlock CDEF is a CDEF for obtaining and displaying a block of colour from the user. To look at, it's a cross between the Colour and Labels Control Panels. Full THINK C 6.0 source and a compiled version are included in this archive. -dair [Archived as /info-mac/dev/src/colour-block-cdef-c.hqx; 17K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jan 94 12:22:31 NZD From: clinton@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz (Clinton Logan) Subject: [*] Convert!-20.hqx Convert! for the Newton Messagepad v 2.0 Just as Newton is a replacement for your diary, Convert! is a replacement for the conversion tables usually found at the front. Convert! 2.0 allows the user to enter and quickly convert between 107 common (and not so common) metric and imperial units. Once the value has been written into a field Convert! automatically calculates the corresponding units in the table. You can then simply overwrite any field with a new value and have the whole table recalculate. This new version includes: * complete rewrite from the ground up, much more efficient use of memory * user definable settings (US/UK volumes, result accuracy). * supports "whole unzit conversions" ie 300.6 cm = 3.28 yards or 3 yards, 0 ft, 10.35ins * 70 new conversions including Pressure,Energy,Time,Power,Velocity,Computing [Archived as /info-mac/nwt/util/convert-20.hqx; 64K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 94 20:55:47 +0000 From: px@fct.unl.pt (Joaquim Baptista [pxQuim]) Subject: [*] Cron 1.0d13, execute commands at specified times I am not the author, but I am quite enthusiastic about this daemon. No network server should be without it! This is posted WITHOUT the knowledge of the author. The author is Chris Johnson . The cron daemon executes commands at specified dates and times according to the instructions in the crontab file. Several simple programs are supplied, which enable you to: - Mount or unmount AFS volumes - Run disinfectant - Update the Mac's clock - Run uupc - Shutdown or restart - Play sounds - Fade the screen - Launch any application and make it open a file In addition, you can write your own commands, interface code for C and Pascal is included. [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/cron-10d13.hqx; 130K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 19:19:10 -0600 (CST) From: "Larry Rymal:T.E.M.U.G.-EAST_TEXAS-" Subject: [*] DIMPLES Ragtime MOD song This is a wonderful player piano MOD. It has possibly the best piano sounds I have heard from any MOD or MID. This is a definite keeper! Contributed by E.HALL3 on GEnie via the Amiga RT. Use SoundTreker or Player Pro to play. Decode and decompress with StuffIt Expander. --Larry Rymal [Archived as /info-mac/snd/dimples-ragtime-mod.hqx; 67K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 94 12:08:36 EST From: zaccone@sol.cs.bucknell.edu (Rick Zaccone) Subject: [*] Excalibur 1.5 (Spelling Checker) This is release 1.5 of Excalibur. 1/14/94 Excalibur is a Macintosh spelling checker for LaTeX documents. You can optionally turn off LaTeX parsing, so Excalibur is a good plain text spelling checker too. Features include: - Excalibur will offer suggestions for how to correct a word. - Excalibur can spell check the clipboard. This makes it a good spelling checker for any text based application such as Alpha, BBEdit, or Eudora. - You can teach it about new LaTeX commands and environments that you define. - Optionally spell checks text in the typewriter (\tt) font. - You can create your own dictionaries. - Works with Textures and OzTeX documents. It should work on any TEXT file. - You will need System 6.0.4 or higher to run Excalibur. - If you are running System 7 or greater, there is balloon help. - Excalibur is free. - British, Dutch, French, Germain, and Italian dictionaries are also available. Version 1.5 changes: - Added options that let the user choose how Excalibur should behave when you launch it. You may choose to present an "open file" dialog, open the clipboard if it has text, or do nothing. When the clipboard option is checked, Excalibur will also open the clipboard when it receives a resume event (if it contains text). - Adjusted a few of the dialogs so that they all appear and behave consistently. Hitting Return or Enter is the same as clicking the default button. Command period is the same as cancel. - Made some changes so that Excalibur's interactions with Alpha are smoother. - Fixed the Edit Commands dialog so that it is a bit more intuitive. - Fixed the Edit Environments dialog so that you no longer enter the number of arguments. Excalibur never used these values anyway. - You can now drag Excalibur's windows to another monitor. - Fixed a few minor bugs. Rick Zaccone zaccone@bucknell.edu [Archived as /info-mac/text/excalibur-15.hqx; 391K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jan 94 18:36:54 -0500 From: gt5052b@prism.gatech.edu Subject: [*] figgles utilities mac version [Some random Newton programs from Erica Sadun. --isl] [Archived as /info-mac/nwt/util/figgles.hqx; 189K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 11:35:59 +1100 (EST) From: Ken Simpson Subject: [*] File Buddy 2.0.4 Submission This is the lastest incremental update to File Buddy, Larry Harris' great file management utility. Do yourself a favour and have a look. I am not the author not in any way connected with the author. [Archived as /info-mac/disk/file-buddy-204.hqx; 208K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 18:50:51 --100 From: cfranz@iiic.ethz.ch (Christian Steffen Ove Franz) Subject: [*] GrafSys 2.0 Submission What is 3D GrafSys 2.0 GrafSys is a hierarchical object-oriented class library for THINK Pascal. It is designed to facilitate easy 3D graphics and animations in your programs. GrafSys supports full 3D control of graphical objects and electronic eye. Graphical objects can be independently rotated (around arbitrary axes), translated and scaled. Objects can inherit transformations (rotation, scaling and translation) >From other objects. GrafSys supports dynamic (i.e. on-the-fly) and multiple inheritance of transformations and an unlimited number of so-called operators (matrices) per object. The GrafSys provides objects for 3D points, lines and whole objects that can contain up to 8000 lines in full RGB color and more than 250'000 points. GrafSys also supports ultra-fast polygon filling using the triangulation approach. With it you can easily implement hidden-surface removal. Designed for fast and simple to program animations, GrafSys supports an AutoErase feature where the object automatically erases its previous image before redrawing itself. For flicker-free animations GrafSys also provides easy to use Off-Screen bit map handling. GrafSys is a combination of procedures and a powerful, extensible class library that can be easily curtailed to your specific needs. For example the general-purpose 3D object 'TSObject3D' understands over fifty messages for such diverse things as building a point/line database, rotating and drawing itself. The 2.0 version comes with full source code. Christian Franz [Archived as /info-mac/dev/src/graf-sys-p.hqx; 489K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 10:55:17 -0600 (CST) From: "Albert Everett, UALR Academic Computing" Subject: [*] Here's the 1.05 system update for Newton [The latest Newton System Update from Apple. --isl] [Archived as /info-mac/nwt/sys/newton-system-105-updt.hqx; 38K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 17:51:06 +0100 From: adam@igg.tno.nl (Adam van Gaalen PA2AGA) Subject: [*] NET_Mac2.3.35.sea.hqx.text The Netherlands, January 25, 1994. Hello dear reader, Today I distributed the file NET_Mac2.3.35.sea.hqx... In this version of NET/Mac I implemented the following: - New parameter for perform command - New: 'reboot_on_bad_date' } These new commands were implemen- - New: 'sourcewhendone' } ted to make it easier to maintain - New: 'resetsmtpto' } an unattended slip-telephone-link - Improved the generation of dynamic aliases - Some more 'enhancements' for q-and-d AppleTalk-fix - Some more 'enhancements' for q-and-d fix This version obsoletes all versions of info-mac/comm/radio-netmac in the Sumex-Aim archives. The new NET/Mac has been uploaded to ucsd.edu, to the directory /hamradio/packet/tcpip/incoming. If it's not there (anymore), then look at /hamradio/packet/tcpip/mac. Kind regards, [Archived as /info-mac/comm/net/radio-net-mac-2335.hqx; 260K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Dec 93 21:09:16 PST From: Steve Weyer Subject: [*] NewtTurt-11.sit.hqx Newt 1.1 a "turtle" graphics environment: draw patterns using gestures, buttons, and NewtonScript programs. Keywords: learning, graphics, mathematics, programming, NewtonScript, Logo. Shareware: see NewtNews.txt for help, examples, warnings and other info. [Archived as /info-mac/nwt/app/newt-11.hqx; 54K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jan 94 16:20:44 +0100 From: zxmbt07@student.uni-tuebingen.de (Thomas Bridgwater) Subject: [*] Quiet Start 1.1 Quiet Start version 1.1 This program replaces Quiet Start version 1.0 author's e-mail address: tbridgwa@cymbal.calpoly.edu Quiet Start is a system extension which will keep some Macintosh models from making the usual chime at startup or restart. I made it particularly for those PowerBook users who may really want to use their computer as a laptop and may find themselves in an environment where the chime would be disturbing to others (like in a classroom). [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/quiet-start-11.hqx; 6K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 22:16:21 -0800 From: lynsared@teleport.com (lynsa/mrhenry) Subject: [*] The Stack O' Love Enclosed please find The Stack O' Love, HyperCard freeware for Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans. This is *not* repackaged text; please unpack it and look at it before you decide not to post it. It contains information both original and from the Internet, graphics, sounds and a video tape cataloging feature, and has been a favorite in the alt.tv.mst3k newsgroup. It's my first program of any kind and I am astounded at the good response I've gotten to it. This file was binhexed using HQXer and compressed using CompactPro. Lynn Siprelle known on the net as Lynsa [Archived as /info-mac/info/nms/stack-o-love-hc.hqx; 1772K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 08:41:03 -0600 From: monty-hampton@uokhsc.edu (Monty Hampton) Subject: 'Informed' Anyone? Hello netters! I have been a long time user of Adobe's now defunct TrueForm. I think it is one of the most useful applications I own, so I was deeply disappointed when they dropped it. I use it for all government forms, but am now having need for improved databasing capabilities - so I am considering purchasing "Informed". Anyone out there have any experience with this app? What I am looking for is the ability to generate different report layouts using the information contained within the form program's database. As an example - we use TrueForm to complete the FDA's Adverse Drug Reaction forms in our hospital, but would like to be able to generate reports using any number of fields >From the FDA form so that we can look at monthly or quarterly summaries. This would involve being able to create different layouts for these reports within the forms program (pretty straight-forward in your average database program, but not possible in the TrueForm forms manager). Any feedback on the application 'Informed' (I believe it is by Shana), would be greatly appreciated! TYIA! Monty ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 16:49:20 +0000 From: gpaa20@udcf.gla.ac.uk (Dave Edmondson) Subject: (Q) Help with Mac TCP/IP Hi, I is there a terminal emulator package (either shareware or commercial) which is MacTCP/IP aware and also allows any key to be mapped. Please reply direct to me at the above address Ta.. Dave_Edmondson@udcf.gla.ac.uk ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jan 94 13:32:53 +0100 From: "Ad Herweijer" Subject: *Think Before You Zap!* One of the FAQ's that keep coming to the Digest is how one can "zap the PRAM". There is a choice here; (1) the Apple-supported procedure (pushing option-command-P-R at startup) and (2) the software way (among them TechTool and Zap!, both of which can be found in the info-mac/cfg directory). Few people seem to realise, though, that the two procedures are not equivalent. The PRAM is 256 bytes of battery supported RAM, 64 of which are documented by Apple. These contain defaults information like the startup disk and mouse/monitors settings. In the other 192 bytes Apple stores machine-specific information she -wrongly- considers unimportant to us, like the manufacture-date and the total hours our Macs have been used since that day (this information can be retrieved using programs like MacCheck and TattleTale). Zapping the PRAM from the keyboard leaves that information untouched, whereas the software zaps all 256 bytes. The manufacture date is lost (it is actually reset to something like today's date) and the runtime resets to a proud 0 hours. Unless you are considering selling your Mac to a used car dealer, you probably don't want that to happen! My advice: DON'T USE SOFTWARE TO ZAP THE PRAM. Just infiltrate a PC Users Group, get a boyfriend with big hands and ask him to push "option-command-P-R" while you restart your Mac: the thought of 4-key combinations turns them on! BTW: after zapping the PRAM (either way) you will find that the default monitor settings have been reset and an eventual startup screen will show up in monochrome. The original settings can be restored using the Monitors Control Panel, but be aware that using the SHORTCUT offered for instance by NowMenus (and maybe other hierarchical menu software too) DOES NOT CHANGE THE PRAM SETTINGS! You have to go to the Control Panels Folder and open the Monitors Control Panel from there. NowMenus' shortcut just affects the Monitors file, not the PRAM! (Does this answer your question of Jan 25, Arild Eugen Johansen?). ir. Ad Herweijer Delft University of Technology Fac. of Applied Physics Pattern Recognition Group Lorentzweg 1 2628 CJ Delft the Netherlands Phone: +31 15 782408 FAX: +31 15 626740 E-mail:ad@ph.tn.tudelft.nl ------------------------------ Date: 26 Jan 1994 10:01:11 +0000 (U) From: "Dees, Ted E." Subject: 128 Mac Larry Jensen wrote: >The other day I was going thru some old papers >and I found my receipt for my first Mac. I had forgotten >how soon after the Mac was announced that I ordered one. I took delivery of mine the first week of March '84; upgraded it to a Plus when that option became available; installed 4 meg RAM in preparation for System 7 (about a year before it actually became available); and finally retired it last January when I bought a floor demo Mac IIsi (doing MacInTax on a Plus was driving me crazy!). It now sits on my bookshelf, blankly staring while I mutter about the slowness of SimCity 2000 on the si. If we really want to talk pioneering computing, however, who still has their Apple II? Mine, purchased in 1979, now sits on my brother's bookshelf gathering dust -- while the 12" B&W TV that served as a monitor appears on the counter in my kitchen during the football playoffs and then vanishes back into the garage for another year. Ted Dees (ted.dees@stpete.honeywell.com) Palm Harbor, FL ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 19:59:14 EST From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" Subject: 128 Mac - Did you buy one?(R) Larry Jensen said: LJ> It being the TENTH anniversary of the Mac I wonder how many of you LJ> out there classify as Macintosh Pioneers? If you bought a 128 Mac LJ> BEFORE 1 May 1984 I think that would qualify. Does gazing in extreme desire at a Mac 128 at a Bay Area Apple dealer's store on February 4, 1984 qualify? I will never forget the feeling of overwhelming desire and total frustration I felt as I longingly watched the new Macs in the store. I also remember turning green with envy when some wealth San Franciscan walked out of the dealer's with a Mac under his arm. I was underprivileged--I just couldn't afford the megabucks that Steve J. wanted for his beautiful, new creation! What can I say? I was hooked but good! My wallet didn't get raided until September 1987 (eons later) when a new Mac Plus made it's way to my home. BTW, I still have the Mac preview article from Byte (November or December 1983, I think.) Happy Birthday Mac! :-) Jeffrey Fritz jfritz@wvnvm.wvnet.edu West Virginia University ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 13:37:41 -0800 From: spence@uclink.berkeley.edu (Andrew J. H. Spence) Subject: Accessing audio CD I am responding to: >Date: Fri, 21 Jan 94 14:28:20 EST >From: Tom Smyth >Subject: Accessing audio CD > >I've installed Apple CDROM Software v.4.0.5 on a Mac LCII with an older >AppleCD SC attached. Interactive CDs, with audio and video, work fine >(although understandably slow); however, I cannot access a regular audio >CD. When it is inserted, "This is not a Macintosh disk. Do you wish to >initialize it?" message appears. Any suggestions? (I'm stuck with the >drive for a while.) TIA > > Thomas J.C. Smyth, Ph.D. email: tcsmyth@univscvm.csd.scarolina.edu > School of Education fax: 803-641-3445 > USC-Aiken voice: 803-648-6851 > Aiken, South Carolina 29801 Well, here is a cruddy work-around you can use as a temporary solution: * Install the apple menu item called Music Box * Load Music Box * Switch to finder * Put audio CD in * When finder gives you "Initialize?" dialog you hit command-option-escape * Click the force quit button to force the finder to quit and reload, at which point it will have forgotten to try and mount the CD. * Switch to Music Box - the CD's stats should be up and you can hit play / whatever. This is a pretty shabby method. Hopefully someone else will have the correct method. Lates, Andy Andrew J. H. Spence "Beauty is in the eyes of the beer holder." ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 94 12:45:42 -0500 From: mikeg@endgame.gsfc.nasa.gov Subject: All modems are not created equal Sorry to hear about your poor experience with the $99 LL 14.4 modem. But as an owner of one in a very noisy (phone) area, I can say that they preform rather well. When I got my first one I too had very similar problems as to what said you experienced. Turned out that they shipped me either a bad modem cable, or a cable that was not Hardware Handshake compatible. The LL's are very sensitive to the cable. I tried my old modem cable that was on my old Avatex 2400 and it did not work even as well as the bad cable from MacWhareHouse. I would also note that MacWhareHouse's shipping department leaves a little to be desired. They shipped me out a replacement that did not have a modem in the box (ie. empty box, yes...). Some one else told me they sent him a PC style modem cable, but the Mac software. So I don't know if I would lay the blame on the LL to fast... NOte: this is Not a flame. Later, Mike mikeg@asylum.gsfc.nasa.gov ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 16:17:05 CST From: "Michael Cook, 124-211, x2792" Subject: Apple Multi-media CD-ROM Offer I recently received in the mail an offer for a multi-media system >From Apple. It includes 2 Apple speakers, an Apple CD-ROM drive (300D ?), and 3 free CD-disks from their given list. The whole system is $629, while supplies last. Is this a good offer? Is the CD-ROM drive a "good" one? I have a Performa 475, so compatability isn't a problem (is it?). Which free CD-disks would you choose (or avoid)? Sorry if this has been discussed before. I haven't seen any discussion, and just received the offer recently. Thanks for info, Michael Cook Internet: MLC@IBERIA.CCA.CR.ROCKWELL.COM ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 01:39:56 -0500 From: mxh160@psu.edu (Matt X. Herbison) Subject: Archiving Eudora mailboxes Howdy. Seeing as how my Eudora mailboxes are approaching the 10MB point, I was thinking to archive them. Is there a program out there that does this sort of thing easily, or should I just take them out of the Eudora Folder and store them elsewhere? Any suggestions, either to me or posted here, are greatly appreciated. -Matt X. Herbison -Penn State University -mxh160@psu.edu -Apple Student Representative ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 14:33:56 -0500 (EST) From: Sridar Narayanan Subject: Big files from UNIX to Mac Someone recently posted a note on this subject which began: >> So take the following steps for the file big_mac_ftped_file.hqx : 1. uuencode the file on unix: uuencode big_mac_ftped_file.hqx big_mac_ftped_file.hqx > bmfuu This will produce a file named bmfuu >> I should point out that a .hqx file is already in ASCII form, so it can be split using a Unix editor or the split command. Just remember to always transfer it as text from Unix->PC->Mac to keep the end-of-line characters straight. Sridar ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jan 94 15:49:41 EST From: Ken Pogran Subject: BinHex CRC error? (Q) What's the likely cause when BinHex 4.0 reports a CRC error in trying to convert a file (download -> application)? I've FTP'd system-update-2-0-1-image.hqx from ftp.apple.com (several times, now) and so far I've been unsuccessful at de-binhexing it, each time getting a "CRC ($5EE6) error". It's a pretty big file (over 950K). I'm FTP'ing it from the apple host to my Unix host, then accessing it via AppleShare from my Mac (or FTP'ing it to my Mac; the end result is the same). I know what a CRC is and what they're for. I would think that either the file is getting corrupted in the transfer (uniformly each time I've tried it!) or the file is corrupted at Apple, or there's something wrong with my trusty copy of BinHex (but I've successfully un-binhexed other large things today). I've tried FTP in both ASCII and IMAGE modes. Any suggestions? Thanks! Ken Pogran ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 94 00:37:42 EST From: wnnaaron@aol.com Subject: CD 300 external - CD Bundle ripoff? (Q) I recently acquired a CD300 External, and was rather dismayed to learn that the many CDs that were advertised as being bundled with the drive were missing. In their place were two advertising CDs, and two CDs of utter mediocrity...nothing compared to what was *supposed* to come with the player. I called 800-SOS-APPL, and, as usual, was given a completely wrong statement...the Customer Service rep told me to send the player back to where I'd bought it and request another drive. This sounded like complete BS, which was confirmed by both the store I'd bought the player from, and from other users I talked to who received their CD 300s at the exact same time. (These other users also confirmed that they received the full complement of discs as advertised.) So my question is this (especially to any Apple employees lurking out there who could possibly lead me in the right direction): What can I do to get the CDs I was *supposed* to get? I'm have this strange feeling that I'm just getting totally screwed on this, and I'm obviously not happy about it. Any assistance appreciated, --Aaron Dickey ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 00:26:35 PST From: kee@kagi.com (Kee Nethery +1 510 843 6140) Subject: Cross Stitch Program (A) >My girlfriend is looking for a cross stitch designer program. She'd like to be able to design a pattern in color, with little x's to just like the final product will look, then view/print it in the pattern that cross stitch people really use on a regular basis. She'd also like to have it give her standard DMC thread color numbers so she doesn't have to worry about matching colors These people make an embroidery machine that just whips through a design. Is cross stiich the same thing? If so, here's how to contact them. SofTeam USA Inc. baltimore MD 21211 410-243-1130 fax 410-467-9552 Embroidery Software and hardware signmaking equipment Kee Nethery ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 10:15:10 +0000 From: dehaan@NICI.KUN.NL (Ab de Haan) Subject: cscw-groupware Hello, Within some weeks I'm going to give a course on CSCW. I'de like to be informed on applications concerning this subject running on an Apple infra-structure. Who can help me to this information ???? Furthermore I'm interested in starting something like a newsgroup on this subject. Who joins. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 08:15:16 -0800 (PST) From: John Thoo Subject: DeskPict replacement (Q) I recently discovered that DeskPict (freeware for displaying a Desktop picture) is not 32-bit clean. Could someone please recommend a FREE, 32-bit clean replacement for DeskPict that is just as convenient to use? Thanks. --John. J. B. THOO, Math Dept, Univ of California, Davis ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 00:02:02 -0600 From: (Pete Chane) Subject: Finder's Find command Is there any way to modify the Finder's Find command so it avoids searching the Preferences folder? I hate it when I want to find an app and it finds its preferences first. PC. PETER CHANE PCHANEUW@macc.wisc.edu PCHANE@applelink.apple.com University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1994 Rose Bowl Champions. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 94 10:07:24 EST From: bling@NADC.NADC.NAVY.MIL (B. Ling) Subject: High Speed Modems (Q) It seems like there have been a lot of praises and condemnations of the LineLink modem (MacWarehouse), but from what I've seen, there are several other modems out there that are at least as good (advertised, anyway) that are only $50 more. O.K.... so that's 50% more, but are there any other _consistent_ modem recommendations out there? Murph Sewall had some good coments in IM #15, it would be nice to see more comments like that for those of us thinking about such a purchase. B.C. Ling bling@nadc.navy.mil ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jan 94 08:23:50 PST From: mbrodsky@lmumail.lmu.edu (Michael Brodsky) Subject: How do I fetch from home? In my office I have an Ethernetworked Mac runing MacTCP where I can happily fetch, gopher, xferit, and read my news from the Internet. I have Apple Remote Access 1.0, from which I can connect with my Duo from home. Here are the questions: 1. In simple language, how can I set it up so that I can use Fetch, New Reader, Gopher, etc. _from_home_? 2. Can I use ARA, or do I need Tinbuktu, or SlIP? 3. How do I configure MacTCP, the same as my office machine? 4. Am I missing something else obvious? Thank you all for your help. -Michael ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 13:47:12 -0600 From: Paul M Sheldon Subject: Hubble deep sky image gif's HST Faint Object Camera has a gopher site for HST deep sky images! There are txt and gif suffixes. I can read the gopher comments before I download and decide whether I want one for a background screen. Here's the sci.astro.hubble newsgroup post: --- odea@stsci.edu Chris O'dea at Space Telescope Science Institute Images from the Faint Object Camera plus Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement are now awailable on STEIS in gif format in the directory stsci/epa/gif and are called FOC* . You can access STEIS in the following ways. anonymous ftp: ftp stsci.edu anonymous psheldon@utdallas.edu cd stsci/epa/gif gopher: gopher stsci.edu 70 WWW: http://stsci.edu/top.html -- Chris O'Dea Space Telescope Science Institute ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 12:44:05 -0600 From: Paul M Sheldon Subject: hubble wide field planetary camera gif's Anonymous ftp site for this beautiful widefield gif's archive is : ftp pubinfo.jpl.nasa.gov cd images and look for wfpc...gif ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 00:25:56 PST From: kee@kagi.com (Kee Nethery +1 510 843 6140) Subject: Hypercard->Toolbook (A) >I thought there was a program to convert between Hypercard and Toolbook(for Windows).I even thought that I could find it on info-mac. and that it was called "Convertit" distributed by: Heizer Software 1941 Oak Park Blvd., Suite 30 Pleasant Hill Ca 94523 voice +1 510-943-7667 fax +1 510-943-6882 internet:remote-printer.Heizer_Software@2.8.8.6.3.4.9.0.1.5.1.tpc.int Kee Nethery ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 04:23:00 -0800 (PST) From: "Jay H. Nerenberg" Subject: Hyperdisaster > I have a question for those hypercard experts. A person in my graduate > class decided to use the protect command on her stack. When we access > the stack now the best we can do is browse, we can't even reset the user > level. We get a limited menu bar, that will not allow anything more than > browse. The stack is not locked in the get info box. What happened? > Thanx in advance to all your replies. And how do we get back in there so we can edit the program? > Signed, > > The Bafflemeister > Jay Nerenberg > Internet Address: jnerenb@ctp.org ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 08:54:09 -0600 From: gibhenry@cscns.com (Gib Henry) Subject: INIT icon running off screen In Info-Mac Digest #11, Jim Powlesland wrote: >I have so many extensions, etc. that the icons form two rows >across the bottom of the screen. The problem is that the bottom >row icons run right off the screen before continuing on the top >row. What is causing this? And, how can I fix it? I used to use IconWrap 1.2 (latest version I can find) to control the display of startup icons, but under System 7, it doesn't seem to make much difference. Some icons overlay others, and some appear to run off the right side of the screen. Does anyone know of a newer version of IconWrap, or a newer fix to this problem? -- --Gib Henry Mac Duo 230/MacTCP/SLIP ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 00:26:01 PST From: kee@kagi.com (Kee Nethery +1 510 843 6140) Subject: internet fax service (C) I've been using the internet fax service and I really like it. Basically you enter the fax number in reverse as an internet address and if there is a fax node that supports that exchange, it faxes it. If not you get a bounce. For gruesome details send mail to: tpc-faq@town.hall.org. A typical address looks like this: remote-printer.time_in_the_SF_Bay_Area/phone_number_spells_popcorn@6.7.6.2.7 .6.7.0.1.5.1.tpc.int Figured you all might want to know about this. It's great for adding non-computer users to distribution lists. :-) Kee Nethery ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 09:58:41 -0600 (CST) From: SWAECHTER@UTMEM1.UTMEM.EDU Subject: Keeping time on Quadra 610 I have a new Quadra 610, and it seems that the clock is always running fast. I have reset it several times, only for it to be "fast" by about 2-3 minutes just 24 hours later. Has anyone else noticed a similar problem? Any ideas on what can be done about something like this? Thanks for the help. Steve Waechter swaechter@utmem1 (bitnet) swaechter@utmem1.utmem.edu (internet) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jan 94 18:13:37 PST From: Tim D. Castle Subject: LaserWriter Select 360 on serial Does anyone know what it takes to connect a LaserWriter Select 360 to a Mac on a serial connection? I assume the proper cable, which should be a DIN-8 to RS-232, null modem cable, like the old Mac II to ImageWriter I cable. But what printer software should be used? It's PostScript printer, so you'd want something that produced PostScript, but that talked over a serial connection. Any ideas? Tim Castle tim.castle@mtv.gtegsc.com End-User Computing, GTE Gov't Systems, Mountain View, CA ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jan 94 07:35:33 CST From: beatty@twdd02.dme.nt.gov.au (Linda Beatty PAWA Library 827916) Subject: Looking for Mac STEAM TABLES Hello, We are seeking thermodynamic tables for water and steam in SI (metric units). It is preferable for these tables to be suitable for a Macinstosh computer. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Linda Beatty. E-Mail - beatty@twdd02.dme.nt.gov.au ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 00:57:04 -500 (EST) From: Colin Hunter Subject: Mac286 & HDFD - Help? (R) ehampton@rex.uokhsc.edu (Monty Hampton) writes: > I have an old style Mac286 card from Orange Micro (the kind that had 2 > cards and took up 2 slots). Haven't had much need for it lately, but > recently saw and purchased a Mutual Fund database that was DOS based and > shipped only on 3.5" HD disks. Well, I hadn't needed to load anything onto > the C-Drive of my Mac in ages, and sure enough - I can't get anything from > my HDFD to load into the C or D drive of the Mac286. > > Does anyone know of anyway I can access the HDFD from within Mac286 without > the hardware upgrade?? I would really hate to spend so much money just to > use a single $25 DOS applicaton. (BTW - the compressed INSTALL.EXE file is > larger than the low density 5.25" disks read by my current DOS drive). I don't know whether you can use DOS mounter or any of the other DOS-format disk readers to get HDFD files into your Mac286, but why don't you bypass the drive problem altogether and just use your old 360K 5.25" drive. I know you said that the INSTALL.EXE file is too big to fit on a single low density disk, but there is a DOS shareware app called "CROSS.EXE" that will split any file into small chunks over as many disks as you need. Just copy these into your C: drive, unCROSS them back into a single file and install into Mac286. Colin Hunter chunter@trout.ab.umd.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 94 13:54:03 GMT From: Mr Gordon S Byron Subject: macron problem>Japanese I have someone in Japanese who wants to generate oberbars aka macrons this is line above all vowels for the romanisation of Japanese fro a Dictionary. Using WorldSript for Jappanese. She can't get this character to print out. She's using English input mode and wants a one bit character. This font must be capable of being used by a type setter/Image setter? for bromides can anybody offer advice/help thanks in anticipation gordon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jan 94 19:37:05 +0100 From: Hans-Ulrik.Karlen@ics.lu.se Subject: Mashed icon a la Novell? Hello fellow netters! I have a problem with the Mac icons on our Novell 3.11 server (running NetWare/Mac 3.0 - the good people at Novell haven't offered us in Sweden any upgrade path but the 3.12 package). Being an educational institution we of course have to keep our programs on a server to save them from unofficial testing... My problem: the icons are all mashed up and you cannot see what they are supposed to look like. Your double click is as prone to hit empty air as an active pixel. My users are understandably somewhat miffed. I have heard that this is a known problem - but with no known solution Can the collective mind of the net give any hint on how to handle this - please?? :) Hans-Ulrik - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 8 - 8 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hans-Ulrik Karlen, Systems Manager Hans-Ulrik.Karlen@ics.lu.se Dept of Informatics, Lund University Sweden ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 00:25:44 PST From: kee@kagi.com (Kee Nethery +1 510 843 6140) Subject: medical software (A) >I am interested in getting some information about educational software that is primarily intended for medical studies. ... >I would like to know what is available for IBM-PC & clones and Macintosh. Included in this would be tutorials, graphical teaching material and preferably software that comes on CD's. There is a software package for MD's learning acupuncture. It runs on a Mac and the Windows version is due out any day now. I believe it is part of the course materials of an acupuncture class. It is called Acupunture Energetics (same name as the course). It has a reference section covering each acupuncture point and it has quite a few of the point selection methods built into it. No idea of the actual cost, but it is above $600 US Dollars. For details contact: Dr. Joseph Helms 2520 Milvia Berkeley, California USA voice +1 510-841-7600 fax +1 510-841-3240 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jan 94 08:02:22 -0500 From: clu@po.cwru.edu (Christopher L. Ursich) Subject: Memory problems on a PowerBook Duo 230 -- Help Help! I recently "upgraded" my Duo 230 from 4 megabytes of RAM to 24 megabytes. I figured my problems with memory were over-- WRONG! In order to access the memory, I have to turn on 32-bit addressing, no? I think this is wreaking havoc with my applications. When I run certain applications, my whole Mac just freezes. Forcing a Quit doesn't usually help, and I wind up having to manually turn off the power. The programs which I can remember crashing are: *Eudora 1.4.1 when trying to download Info-Mac digest *WriteNow 3.0 when just trying to load the application *Hungry Frog Ion Eaters after I type in my name. I get a few system beeps also, but I can't see what they are saying. *Speedometer 3.23 when loading *MacCheck 1.0.5 (written by Apple!) when loading. (I think I have fixed this problem with some new file 1.0.5a1 or something like that.) *System Errors 7.0.1 when loading. On the other hand, Mathematica and others run marvellously. Eudora only crashed when it tried to inhale a message as huge as IFMD. I am fairly certain that there are no physical problems with the RAM chips themselves--I tested them both with Walking Zeros and Walking Ones tests. I purchased the chips from Chip Merchant (the cheapest) and the chips are manufactured by Hitachi. Is this an instance of programs being "non 32-bit clean"? I don't know what that means, but it seems to fit here. Is there anything I can do to solve or even diagnose the problem? Thank you once again, Chris clu@po.cwru.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 94 19:31:37 EST From: Richard Caccavale Subject: MIDI Format I would like to paoe a queation to those of you who are experienced with. Midi format. As you may already know, Project Gutenberg has added a MIDI file of Beethoven's fifth to their collection of free "texts." There will be more. These files are binaries that are supposed to be able to be played with any MIDI program, but that means DOS MIDI. I don't have a MIDI, but I have a 660 AV and would like to utilize these files. Will a Mac MIDI play them? If not, is there any way to convert them. Please respond to me directly and I will summarize for this list and for the Project Gutenberg list. Thank you in advance. Richard Caccavale HBLAD124@uconn.vm.uconn.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jan 94 22:06:53 -0500 From: stevep@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca (Steve Portigal) Subject: more BeHierarchic question I've read already that this is a commercial version, and am aware that any downloaded copy is quite illegal. Before I was made aware of this, however, I installed it, and found that all of a sudden there were Gatekeeper warnings from System Heap trying to modify the system. I'm wondering if this is particular to this BeHierarchic OR if I have a virus someplace else. If someone who knows abou tthis could mail me, I'd appreciate knowing. Steve ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 23:39:56 -0500 (EST) From: EDHOLZER@delphi.com Subject: Nutritional Software ? Has anyone heard of a program which contains nutritional information about individual foods? I would like to use such a program in connection with the establishment of a strict nutritional regimen for someone with a heart problem. Any help and/or hints as to where to find such a program would be greatly appreciated. EDHOLZER ------------------------------ Date: 26 Jan 1994 15:00:31 GMT From: kerr@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Stan Kerr) Subject: Other mirrors for Sumex? Is there another mirror for the Sumex collection? I recall seeing a mention of a new one several weeks ago, but stupidly forgot to copy it down. Sumex is essentially unusable from here; I've been unable to get in for months. The wuarchive folks just had a disaster and are still recovering files. -- ----- Stan Kerr Phone:217-333-5217 Fax:217-244-7089 Computing & Communications Services Office, U of Illinois/Urbana ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 22:15:38 -0800 From: jonpugh@netcom.com (Jon Pugh) Subject: Ouchie (AOCE) ain't all bad? Well, I installed System 7 Pro and all things considered, it wasn't as evil as I might have thought it was going to be. Some of it's damn useful. What I don't like is the AppleMail program. First off, there's no way to get to it from the mailbox, unless you've got mail, I guess. I don't have any mail. Not in there. Mine's on the Internet at home and QuickMail at work. I don't have a PowerTalk gateway. I feel small and insignificant. Then there's the AppleMail program itself. It seems slow. Painfully slow. I'm on a Q800 here, fer cryin' out load. I just timed it. 2.5 seconds to pull down the File menu. It's instantaneous here in Eudora. Go figger. Let's ignore the mail. Maybe I'll never get any there. ;) PowerTalk has some very nice networking features though, and I think this is where it shows promise. First off, they've given us a Catalogs icon on the desktop. This holds a hierarchical windowed icon view of the network, just like the Finder does for disks. In fact, it looks like the Finder because of the PowerTalk extension to the Finder. Another Finder extension is the Scriptable Finder, which is sold seperately on the AppleScript 1.1 Development CD (and worth the money if you want to script the Finder, more on this in another article). PowerTalk extends (or replaces) the Alias Manager and adds the ability to create aliases of network entities, like servers. We have a server here at Storm Technology, where I'm now working (as if you were keeping track) which has a pair of CD ROM drives on it. We are always swapping CDs in and out, so it doesn't do any good to make an alias to the server, since you never would have the right one in (because you can't see what CDs are in without dragging the Chooser and a bunch of clicking or typing into this). Now you can just make an alias to the server! Just open up the network windows until you get to the server's parent. Make an alias (it appears on the desktop). Now double click that and you enter your password (well sometimes; more about the keychain later) and see all the volumes on that server (including whichever CDs are mounted). Very nice. Now you are only 2 double clicks from any arbitrary shared drive on the net. I made an alias of our zone too. It has all the servers listed. Lots faster than the Chooser, but just as scriptable. In other words, there's no scriptability in PowerTalk. So, I mentioned the keychain. It holds your passwords. PowerTalk bundles them all under your meta-password and uses them for you. When you enter a password PowerTalk asks you if you want to save it in your keychain. For some reason, the default is No. I would have thought the other way more common. Ah well. The cool thing is that you see the file sharing dialogs a lot less often. You retype your meta-password after each boot and then just double-click on an alias to access your servers. It has even remembered the password to my PowerBook overnight. Granted, that's not the most secure thing, but physical security is more important at work. Nevertheless, PowerTalk can deal with that. There's an option to lock your keychain after N minutes, so you won't leave it unlocked all the time. I don't use it. Then there's the Personal Catalog. It's part of mail. I don't really use it. I added my wife into it, and put a cute picture of the baby in here card, but otherwise, it's a snooze without someone to talk to. We're entrenched in QuickMail at work and I just don't see the need for AppleMail. Someone who's been there and done that needs to explain the cool things it does. I know there are people out there who believe that Ouchie, er, PowerTalk has simplified their lives. Speak up. Another part of PowerTalk that I haven't played with is the digital signature stuff. I haven't gotten a signature and don't know anyone who has. How does this procedure work. Has anyone gotten one? What's involved? I think the Drag Manager can be thrown in here, but it's simply some additional visual feedback and manipulation that isn't really used by anything except AppleMail, and we know how I'm doing on that. As more draggable stuff gets out it'll get cooler. PowerTalk comes with 5 (!) extensions, AppleTalk Service, Catalogs Extension, Mailbox Extension, PowerTalk Extension and PowerTalk Manager, and a control panel, PowerTalk Setup. That doesn't count the AppleMail app and the digital signature stuff. So, I installed PowerTalk because I'm too stupid to know better, but I haven't died yet. The keychain and the aliases are nice, but I just feel like it's a little bigger than just all that. ;) What do you folks think? Jon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jan 94 11:03:16 EST From: crey@ARPA.MIL (Catherine Rey) Subject: PackIt III v1.3 I've been looking for the application PackIt for a long time. Found it this morning at ftp.cso.uiuc.edu in /mac/MUG/Utilities2.0.sit.hqx. Can't get it to work, though. It either crashes my machine, tells me "bad F-line instruction", or I get an error of "type 1". Anyone else using PackIt? Any suggestions? Catherine Rey crey@arpa.mil ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 94 12:53 GMT0 From: Pindar Infotek Ltd Subject: Patch editor/librarian for >From Pindar user Ian McCall Subject: _Patch editor/librarian for the Roland D-20? Hello. Is there a public domain or shareware patch editor for the Roland D-20 keyboard around anywhere? I'd also be interested in hearing about commercial software, but only if it's inexpensive. Additionally, does anyone know the format of a Roland disk? I'd like to be able to copy MIDI files directly on to it. Cheers, Ian --- Please make 'Attn:Ian McCall' the first line of your reply (not the subject) to ensure automatic forwarding to the correct Pindar user. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 22:19:18 -0700 (MST) From: Todd Kennedy Subject: Patch for Incredible Machine A friend of mine has EVEN More Incredible Machine for her VX. However, it doesn't work. Is there a patch available? Also looking for a patch for Leisure Suit Larry I think it's version 5. Anyone heard of it? thanks todd tkennedy@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 13:18:30 +0100 (WET) From: "Mauro Straulino, ext 244 (bp 19)" Subject: Personnel Management software (Q) I am interested in getting some information about Personnel Mngt and/or Humane Resource software. I would like to know what is available for Macintosh. If anyone has any information please answer by email. Thanks in advance Mauro Straulino Straulino@IRBM.IT ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 09:31:35 PST From: Hassan_Abu-Hassanyn.El_Segundo@xerox.com Subject: PowerPC 94 obsolete? >From what I have been reading in papers particularly about the PREP spec and how Apple will ignore that at least for the 94 products, and that the survival of the product or at least getting those PC users to switch to apple relies heavily on Insigna solutions $499 product to emulate a 286 environment... all of that make me wonder that Apple always manage to make their product obsolete before they hit the market. It has been almost a year of waiting for the PowerPC now are they asking to wait another year? ------------------------------ Date: 26 Jan 1994 09:14:59 -0800 From: "Van Saun, Mark" Subject: requesting the MACS application The MACS application representative, I have the-MACS application version-10b4 and it won't let me use it any more (possibly due to it being out of date?). Would you please send me the latest version or tell me where I can obtain it? Thank you. - Mark Van Saun, Apple Sacramento ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 15:07:26 +0100 From: Francisco-Xavieri Subject: Search an shell for the mac Good morning. My name is JEAN Francois-Xavier, i am a french boy, and i studying in Nice (France). My english isn't very good.. I am searching an shell for my macintosh (LC 4/40 upgrade with an 68030/68882 33 Mhz) like ksh or zsh with some unix commands. I don't really want an UNIX operating system, but only an shell with ls,more,grep,... for work my unix's project of final year. You server is the best than i know, and it's for this reason which i am send an Email to you. i hope an answer. Sincerement votre F-Xavier. ^ | --------------------- | it's an french expression... ------------------------------ Date: 27 Jan 94 09:15:00 CST From: "Mike Sisson " Subject: Shut Down Programs (Q) Greetings- I am looking for an application(preferably)/cp/extension that will shut down the mac after a user specified period of inactivity. It should also be able to answer the "Do you want to save" dialog boxes that appear when an application is shut down with unsaved work. I have looked at Shutdown Items, ShutDown Later and Shutdowner and none of them seem to have a way to act based on user activity level. I have also looked at DarkShutDown which works with DarkSide of the Mac. It has an option to shutdown a certain amount of time after a fade which I could use but using this fader keeps me from using all of the other way cool faders. (I know-- Make a decision which is more important to me, faders or autoshutdown. Darn it, this is a Mac and I shouldn't have to make those decisions!!!) Anyway, does anyone know of a beastie which fits the requirements outlined above? Freeware, shareware or commercial, preferably in that order. Thanks, Mike sisson_md@brutus.vought.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jan 94 11:16:24 From: eric.poustie@deepcove.com Subject: SUBSCRIBE I've tried to subscribe via LISTSERV@RICEVM1, but I get the mailed kicked back saying it's a wrong address. Is that a complete address, or do I have to add a suffix of some kind? Thanks! Eric ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 08:01:58 -0800 (PST) From: John Thoo Subject: systems crashes on PB165c (help!) I'm forwarding an e-mail I received from a friend re her PB165c. Her PB's been crashing a lot, lately, and I'm not sure how to help. If you have any suggestions at all, please e-mail her, Betsy Cochran, directly at . Thanks much for your help. --John. J. B. THOO, Math Dept, Univ of California, Davis --------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 21:45:13 -0600 (CST) From:COCHRAN@NSULA.EDU To: jb2@ucdmath.ucdavis.edu Subject: systems crashes and forwarded messages Hi John! I hope Carole didn't bug you too much about my mini-disasters. I've tried many things and my local Mac guru has tried a few more and I'm still having problems. Here's the setup: A PB165c with 14 Mb RAM and internal fax modem (both Apple, installed by an Apple service rep). THe machine was new in September and had the latest system release (7.1). Most of the software is the newest upgrade available (Excel, StatView, VersaTerm Pro, MacWrite Pro MacDraw Pro). All software checks out as system 7.1 compatible. Last week's Virex shows nothing. Norton Utilities shows nothing. Disk First Aid shows nothing. (The Quick TIme extension did start hanging up yesterday so the system wouldn't boot--I got rid of it since I don't use it.) I have rebuilt the desktop several times. Problems recur (maybe not so often, but it's hard to say) with all extensions off. Of course, the modem won't work with the extentions off. What kind of problems? First, STatView and Excel began to quit unexpectedly. The StatView problem seemed to occur with probability 1, but not following any set pattern of keystrokes. On different occassions it gave different system error messages. Next, VersaTerm began to hang, sometimes on loading (after establishing a connection with the Vax, it would fail to open), sometimes when printing, and sometimes when closing. If you force quit, the Finder would hang up and you had to restart manually. MacWrite began to hang up when spell checking or printing. Who knows what will happen next? Virtual memory is off. I almost never have more than the FInder and one application open at a time. I have reinstalled each of the programs that hang up. I was trying to avoid reinstalling my system because the backup disks that came with my machine claim to have an older version of the system than is currently on my machine. While searching for weird things yesterday I noticed that the date on my system suitcase has been reset to last Monday (Martine Luther King Day). I did use the machine that day, but I don't recall doing anything to my system. (This is why I first suspected a virus--but the problems began before then.) So, have you heard of any such thing? Is there any easy way to determine why my system suitcase has this date? Is it safe to replace it? Do I have to call Apple? Any and all advice is warmly welcomed. Thanks, Betsy ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 17:28:45 -0500 From: barnett@amnh.org (Bill Barnett-Interdepartmental Labs) Subject: TCP/IP<->Appletalk Routing (Q) We are looking for a router to hook a network of about 30 Macs (workstations, file servers, printers - star config. locally) running appletalk over ethernet into our TCP/IP ethernet backbone (all copper for now, no fiber). Our TCP/IP network has a single communications server that runs DNS and our Internet connection and delivers mail mostly through POP3d to Macs and PCs around the Museum (Eudora, of course!). Our appletalk network uses QuickMail (v.2.6-Online Mail Server mode) for internal mail, but only 5 machines on the appletalk side really need to access the greater network and the Internet. As these Macs transmit a lot of graphics, we need to keep all their appletalk packets off our TCP/IP network and still allow connectivity to those who need it. They might also like to run Novell NLMs and access Novell servers on the other side (ultimately). Erego, we are looking at routers to perform this function; specifically: -Compatible Systems RISC Router 3000E -Shiva FastPath 5 -Cayman Systems GatorBox EX -Others??? Questions: 1-Has anyone else out there set up this kind of system and have any suggestions? 2-Can anyone provide recommendations for the above or other routers? 3-Can these routers be configured to provide the network isolation/connectivity we need? 4-Can a QuickMail server route mail to a unix server and visa versa? If not can a POP3 server be set up on the Mac mail server? Are there other products that can route appletalk type mail to TCP/IP and out to the Internet? Any replies/responses/recommendations would be greatly appreciated! -Bill Barnett American Museum of Natural History ------------------------------ Date: 26 Jan 1994 07:43:36 -0500 (CDT) From: Dwight Lemke at Wisconsin Oshkosh Subject: TCP/IP on an LC Christofer said: >Obviously we can't get an ethernet card into the LC Why not? I have an Asante ether card in my office Mac and have a direct TCP/IP link to the VAX. I use Eudora, Turbogopher and Mosaic on that LC. -Dwight ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 13:44:12 +1030 From: Simon Hackett Subject: TCP/IP on an LC In comp.sys.mac.digest you write: >Does anyone know if you can run TCP/IP based applications such as Mosaic >and/or Fetch on an LC >using Apple Talk? Obviously we can't get an ethernet card into the LC. I >see that MAC/TCP gives the selection of local talk on the LC rather than >the ethertalk selction on other Mac's with an ethernet card. Chris, You're mistaken. You *can* put an Ethernet card into an LC. I run an LC and an LC-II here and they both have ethernet cards in them. Works fine. You just need to buy an LC or LC-II specfic ethernet card, either from Apple or from a third party hardware vendor like Asante'. Simon Hackett simon@internode.com.au ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 14:46:36 +0200 From: michaels@techunix.technion.ac.il (Dr. Michael S. Silverstein) Subject: TIFF, PICT, EPS We are trying to work with scanned B&W (greyscale) micrographs and prepare them for presenation on transparencies. I have some BASIC questions regarding TIFF, PICT and EPS formats. What is the difference between the formats? Which is best for greyscale? We can work with photoshop, freehand, and/or canvas. A file scanned in TIFF format of 1MB, adjusted in photoshop remains 1MB (still TIFF), when saved as a freehand document becomes 100KB. Where did the other 900KB go? Will the lost information affect the quality of the print-out? We are currently working with a LaserWriter IIG, but a dye sublimation printer may be in the cards.... Thanks in advance for the enlightenment... Michael Silverstein Materials Engineering Technion ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 94 10:37:25 GMT From: "G.C.Q.Birch" Subject: Time travel jensen@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Larry Jensen) writes > Subject: Required Reading for Info-Macers > > For those of you who have bought or used your first > Macintosh in the last five years, you might find > reading an article in the IEEE Spectrum of Dec. 1984 > titled "Design case history: Apple's Macintosh" by > Fred Guterl ... An interesting problem in time travel? *8-) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 1:50:50 +1300 (NZDT) From: STDNTGH@wnmeds.ac.nz (GLEN HAWKINS) Subject: Type and creator archives Howdy to all..... Is there a program or file list that gives the types and creators of programs and then tells you what the original program was? I can use FileBuddy or file typer to get the type and creator of files but then some codes confuse me as there is very little obvious answers in a set of 4 letter codes. If there is not one available I would be interested in starting one if I have co-operation from programmers that can be posted periodically and may be useful to people in my predicament. Thanks for your help and if there is no file, could you start sending the type and creator files to "stdntgh@wnmeds.ac.nz". I'll need type creator program_name. Cheers Glen ------------------------------ Date: 27 Jan 1994 13:47:53 +1100 From: keithm@uow.edu.au (Keith Marshall) Subject: Wanted: a single A3 ribbon for a QMS ColorScript 100 30i printer I need a single A3 ribbon for a QMS ColorScript 100 30i printer (I'm too poor to buy a new set). I'm happy to pay for postage to Australia as there aren't many QMS ColorScripts here. My email address is keithm@wampyr.cc.uow.edu.au ------------------------------ Date: 27 Jan 1994 22:30:16 GMT From: scott@ames.ucsd.edu (Scott Schoenfeld) Subject: What will the power-pc do to the laptop market Help - I would like to purchase a laptop - specifically I've decided to purchase a mac Powerbook 180 4/120. I have chosen it because I like the active greyscale display (the largest display mac makes in the Powerbooks), the speed, and the port and expansion slot configuration. The reason I am now hesitating is that I have heard about the aledged power-PC to come out soon and was wondering if someone could share some info with me about the implications that this may have one my purchase. Here are the questions that I have. 1) Will there be a mac (I want to stick with mac because of all the software that I have) power-pc configuration similar to the Powerbook 180 - ie. active grey scale display, can handle external monitor, modem, printer, etc.. 2) Will the Powerbook line of laptops change signifigantly ? If so how ? 3) How much $$$ will the above described Power-pc cost and what will (quantitatively) happen to the cost of the Powerbook that I want to purchase. Thank you in advance, Scott Please post responce or email me as scott@ames.ucsd.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 94 21:14:49 CST From: Akira Subject: Wrapping an image I have a question for ya. I have a scanned in TIFF image that I wish to wrap around an eps image of a coffee cup. Ant suggestions on how I should go about it? Akira ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jan 94 07:45:22 -0500 From: clu@po.cwru.edu (Christopher L. Ursich) Subject: Zapping PRAM I wanted to thank all the people who responded to my question about zapping PRAM. I tried every key combination EXCEPT CMD-OPT-P-R because I thought CMD-OPT would rebuild the desktop, and I didn't want to do that. Thanks go to mbrad@halcyon.com (Michael Bradshaw) and also others who responded on info-mac itself. (I lost track of all of the names.) Thanks to all. Chris clu@po.cwru.edu ------------------------------ End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************