Date: Fri, 18 Feb 94 12:45:31 PST From: The Info-Mac Moderators Reply-To: Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Subject: Info-Mac Digest V12 #28 To: info-mac-list Info-Mac Digest Fri, 18 Feb 94 Volume 12 : Issue 28 Today's Topics: [*] Chef 1.1 (text utility) [*] Dialectic 1.1 (source code) [*] Dialectic 1.1 (text utility) [*] em.ruleset.stratos.2 [*] Fudd 1.1 (text utility) [*] hearts-21.hqx [*] HellFolder Fix [*] Hotlist-to-html (Updated version) [*] MacAnim Viewer 1.0 [*] PowerBook 170 screen problem (summary) [*] SoftwareFPU 2.45 [*] UULite Version 1.6 Release for the Mac [*] Version replacement? [*] WAREZ 1.1 (source code) [*] WAREZ 1.1 (text utility) [*] WinStacker 1.0 "Unrecoverable disk error on file" (A) [MR Nicholas . Shestople, DEH-: PageMaker translation] Accessing Internet through a Firewall (A) After Dark 2.0x passwords don't work on my 660av... A new show...and a plea for your help! Apple CD300i device driver to hook it to a PC (A) Apple Scanner PShop Plugin Applications "lost" after desktop rebuilt APS flame A Retrospect and Pyro problem Baud vs megabyte Booting From A CD ROM (A) booting from CD Can the Mac act as a Gopher server? CD audio & Mic on AVs vs. Non-AVs CD Plus Software Changing date modified/created on Mac files (R) Changing date modified/created on Mac files [R] composing email replies database (r) deleting files disk calculator Disk problems! Finder enhancements Finding Fabrizio Oddone? Fried modem port FTP Daemon (2 msgs) Fullwrite Pro and stylewriter II landscape HyperCard 2.2 bug? Info-Mac Digest V12 #22 Is there a "virtual desktop" utility? Is Typeit4Me author still supporting it? (A) Learning about Statistics Looking for a Mac file (C) (2 msgs) MSWord Printing problem with Pasted Drawing(A) news reader over the modem? Number of colors w/ 16-bit color PB Cables (R) Plotter and Color Printer Drivers for Mac Printer and Plotter drivers for Mac Problems with SITcomm RAMdoubler RamDoubler/Stacker problem (C) RAM Doubler and Disk access RamDoubler and Maxima compatible? (R) RE>Re: Info-Mac Digest V12 #27 Setting mail SITComm Snooper and Help! Software authors Supra FaxModem 144LC and Silent Answer There used to be a way for nice bitmap font printing... Tidbits 213 Typeit4Me Voice default on the Mac Wanted: to convert Mac sounds to text (integer) files weird LPd problem what is the current version of AMT Will E.T.O. include PowerPC tools? Will HFS change when the PowerMacs emerge? 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: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 00:41:01 -0500 From: f8dy@netaxs.com (Mark Pilgrim) Subject: [*] Chef 1.1 (text utility) Chef is a small utility to convert text files to mock Swedish, like the Swedish chef on the Muppets. Version 1.1 supports RTF files and fixes several technical bugs. This will be the last version of Chef; all future enhancements will be part of the larger text conversion program, Dialectic. Supports drag and drop of any number of text files of any length. C source code also available; check ftp sites or e-mail f8dy@netaxs.com. Finger f8dy@netaxs.com for complete program list. Copyright (C) 1994, Mark Pilgrim. Please read enclosed file "GNU General Public License" for licensing details. [Archived as /info-mac/text/chef-11.hqx; 52K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 00:44:38 -0500 From: f8dy@netaxs.com (Mark Pilgrim) Subject: [*] Dialectic 1.1 (source code) Dialectic is a general text conversion utility to pass text through a "dialect" filter of your choice. Version 1.1 supports RTF files and fixes several techincal bugs. This version includes the following dialects: Chef, Fudd, WAREZ, Ubby (underwater), and Olde (Middle English). Supports drag and drop of any number of text files of any length. This archive contains complete THINK C source code, project files, and resource files. Application also available; check ftp sites or e-mail f8dy@netaxs.com. Finger f8dy@netaxs.com for complete program list. Copyright (C) 1994, Mark Pilgrim. Please read enclosed file "GNU General Public License" for licensing details. [Archived as /info-mac/dev/src/dialectic-11-c.hqx; 133K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 00:42:07 -0500 From: f8dy@netaxs.com (Mark Pilgrim) Subject: [*] Dialectic 1.1 (text utility) Dialectic is a general text conversion utility to pass text through a "dialect" filter of your choice. Version 1.1 supports RTF files and fixes several technical bugs. This version includes the following dialects: Chef, Fudd, WAREZ, Ubby (underwater), and Olde (Middle English). Supports drag and drop of any number of text files of any length. C source code also available; check ftp sites or e-mail f8dy@netaxs.com. Finger f8dy@netaxs.com for complete program list. Copyright (C) 1994, Mark Pilgrim. Please read enclosed file "GNU General Public License" for licensing details. [Archived as /info-mac/text/dialectic-11.hqx; 40K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 22:15:25 -0600 From: Scott Patlin Subject: [*] em.ruleset.stratos.2 This is an update for the empire master rule set Stratos. [Archived as /info-mac/game/em-rules-stratos-2.hqx; 30K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 00:41:23 -0500 From: f8dy@netaxs.com (Mark Pilgrim) Subject: [*] Fudd 1.1 (text utility) Fudd is a small utility to convert text files to Elmer Fudd talk, like the character of the same name in the U.S. cartoon "Bugs Bunny." Version 1.1 supports RTF files and fixes several technical bugs. This will be the last version of Fudd; all future enhancements will be part of the larger text conversion program, Dialectic. Supports drag and drop of any number of text files of any length. C source code also available; check ftp sites or e-mail f8dy@netaxs.com. Finger f8dy@netaxs.com for complete program list. Copyright (C) 1994, Mark Pilgrim. Please read enclosed file "GNU General Public License" for licensing details. [Archived as /info-mac/text/fudd-11.hqx; 37K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 94 15:31:37 EST From: Josh.de.Cesare@VEGA.FAC.CS.CMU.EDU Subject: [*] hearts-21.hqx Hearts 2.1 (c)1994 Josh de Cesare There have been a few complaints about the self extractor I used, and a few other little things. This new file fixes the problems. Sorry for the confusion. This is the most recent version of my Hearts After Dark Module. There are several improvements which I spent many hours working on. I was even able to get it all done in time for Valentine's Day. Enjoy, and don't forget to fall in love. Send any comments to: jd5v@andrew.cmu.edu [Archived as /info-mac/gui/ad/hearts-21.hqx; 425K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 94 17:03:41 +0100 From: jew@language.ou.dk (=?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F8rn?= Erik =?iso-8859-1?Q?Wennerstr=F8m?=) Subject: [*] HellFolder Fix HellFolder Fix [Archived as /info-mac/disk/hell-folder-fix.hqx; 11K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 16:37:02 -0600 From: weimann@sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (Lutz Weimann) Subject: [*] Hotlist-to-html (Updated version) This is an updated version of Hotlist2HTML, which should replace the following two files: "cmp/hotlist-to-html.hqx" and "dev/src/hotlist-to-html-f.hqx". Thanks. This is Version 0.6.1 of Hotlist2HTML, a bug fix and additional small change to Version 0.6. 16. 2.94 V. 0.6.1 Corrected a bug which caused the program to produce bad output if URLs or menu-items longer than 127 character happen to appear in the Hotlist file. Creator of the HTML output file changed to ttxt (e.g.Teachtext). The program Hotlist2HTML converts a MacMosaic Hotlist (resource) file to a HTML-page, wherein each URL of the Hotlist is associated with it's corresponding Menu-Item name. The program should run on any Macintosh were System 7 is installed. The Fortran source is included. You need Language Systems Fortran 3.x and MPW 3.2 (or 3.2.3) to make use of the it. Lutz Weimann date: 16.02.94 e-mail: weimann@zib-berlin.de [Archived as /info-mac/cmp/hotlist-to-html-061.hqx; 78K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 94 11:55:14 PST From: mwfong@NISC.SRI.COM (Martin Fong) Subject: [*] MacAnim Viewer 1.0 This Compactor Pro archive contains MacAnim Viewer 1.0 (which displays GL, FLI/FLC, and DL animations, and GIF and PCX/PIC images, and automatically unzips .zip archives in search of the same), a THINK C port of glib (from the xgrasp 1.7 distribution), GL documentation, and sample images. MacAnim Viewer was built presupposing a 68020 and 32-bit QuickDraw and works best with an 8-bit color monitor. Finally, this distribution completely replaces the GL Viewer 1.1.x distributions. 16FEB94 Martin Fong (mwfong@nisc.sri.com) [Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/mac-anim-viewer-10.hqx; 776K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 19:49:29 +0100 From: martin@luc.ac.be Subject: [*] PowerBook 170 screen problem (summary) Dear net, on my query about a weird PowerBook 170 problem, where the screen image would start dancing around every so often and stop when I gave the machine a good shake, I got two long answers. Since they are instructive on how to open an PowerBook without "screwing" something to pieces, I am attaching them as a report. As it turned out, the problem was the display cable connector in the screen unit having come loose due to vibrations. Opening up the screen (by taking out the two screws that have rubber pads over them) and pushing the connector back in remedied the problem. Thanks to Keith Owens and Steven Taylor for answering! Jan M.L.Martin --- martin@luc.ac.be [Archived as /info-mac/info/hdwr/opening-powerbooks.txt; 5K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 21:42:30 -0800 From: johnneil@netcom.com (John M. Neil) Subject: [*] SoftwareFPU 2.45 A utility which allows applications requiring a Floating Point Unit (FPU) to work on computers without one, such as the LC, IIsi, Classic II, Color Classic, and some Quadra, PowerBook, and Performa models. Drop this control panel into your System folder and many applications that formerly crashed will begin working. SoftwareFPU requires a 68020, 68030, or 68LC040 processor. Version 2.45 fixes a bug on 68LC040 machines that prevented users from enabling SoftwareFPU in the control panel. SoftwareFPU is a shareware product. If you download it, please send $10 to: John Neil, P.O. Box 160699, Cupertino, CA 95016. [Note to the moderators: SoftwareFPU may be included on a commericially available CD-ROM of the archives] [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/software-fpu-245.hqx; 70K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 01:15:58 -0500 From: jstrobel@world.std.com (Jeff Strobel) Subject: [*] UULite Version 1.6 Release for the Mac I am pleased to announce the release of UULite version 1.6 for the Macintosh. UULite is the fastest, most powerful and easiest to use smart uudecoder available for the Macintosh. UULite is a highly optimized, single-pass, disk based uudecoder/ encoder. Because it's disk based, it's never necessary to adjust its memory partition to handle any file -- no matter how large. And because of its unique smart decoding algorithm, UULite is never fooled by non-standard "--cut here --" lines. Version 1.6 has the following features: * One-step "Smart" uudecoding: - Multipart file decoding with automatic article header/footer removal - no manual editing required - Source file may contain multiple output files, e.g., the source file may contain any number of gif files: all will be decoded - Configurable "Drag and Drop" decoding of any number of files (System 7 required) - "Super Smart" uudecoding for problem files. - File Merge and Decode for decoding images from multiple input files for news readers that don't support appending on the fly - Straight File Merge for merging text files * One-step uuencoding: - Auto file splitting to simplify Usenet posting - Auto file description insertion in first or all encoded parts. * Smart automatic file Type and Creator stamping - user configurable * Manual file Type and Creator editing on any file * UNIX To Mac text conversion * Mac To UNIX text conversion * Help * Usenet Read News Tutorial [Archived as /info-mac/cmp/uu-lite-16.hqx; 146K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 14:41:22 -0500 From: Matthew Hall Subject: [*] Version replacement? MacNews 1.1 )1993 by Matthew A. Hall MacNews 1.1 is a bug fix of version 1.0. the bug fixes include: --Fixed bug which caused crashes on 68000 machines whenever typing into a dialog box --Added support for hadware handshake for high-speed modems. --Fixed a bug which would occasionally cause a crash when removing a site --Fixed a bug which would, when a newsserver would disconnect, leave the menu bars dim --Some minor cosmetic enhancements (Click anywhere on a window to bring it to front, cursor doesn't get stuck in "stopwatch" mode, auto-centering of alerts in system 7) Just in case you don't know, here is the announcement of MacNews: I have just completed version [1.1] of MacNews, a shareware NNTP newsreader for non-TCP Mac's. If you use rn or GNUS from a dial-in host, you may want to consider MacNews instead. Features: Reads, Posts, and Follows-up, of course. Subscribe/Unsubscribe/Maintain newsgroups Save or append articles to a file on your drive Insert files, cut, copy, paste, when composing articles Maintains a list of several sites, each with it's own list of subscribed newsgroups - helpful if you read news from more than one site. Much faster, at 2400 baud, than EMACS Gnus. Works on any modem equipped Mac. On-line help. Besides all this, it's a growing product, and I am open to suggestions for the next version. So try it out and see if it suits your needs. -matt [Archived as /info-mac/comm/mac-news-11.hqx; 85K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 00:44:04 -0500 From: f8dy@netaxs.com (Mark Pilgrim) Subject: [*] WAREZ 1.1 (source code) WAREZ is a small utility to convert text files to WAREZ talk. Version 1.1 supports RTF files and fixes several technical bugs. This will be the last version of WAREZ; all future enhancements will be part of the larger text conversion program, Dialectic. Supports drag and drop of any number of text files of any length. This archive contains complete THINK C source code, project files, and resource files. Application also available; check ftp sites or e-mail f8dy@netaxs.com. Finger f8dy@netaxs.com for complete program list. Copyright (C) 1994, Mark Pilgrim. Please read enclosed file "GNU General Public License" for licensing details. [Archived as /info-mac/dev/src/warez-11-c.hqx; 121K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 00:41:45 -0500 From: f8dy@netaxs.com (Mark Pilgrim) Subject: [*] WAREZ 1.1 (text utility) WAREZ is a small utility to convert text files to WAREZ talk. Version 1.1 supports RTF files and fixes several technical bugs. This will be the last version of WAREZ; all future enhancements will be part of the larger text conversion program, Dialectic. Supports drag and drop of any number of text files of any length. C source code also available; check ftp sites or e-mail f8dy@netaxs.com. Finger f8dy@netaxs.com for complete program list. Copyright (C) 1994, Mark Pilgrim. Please read enclosed file "GNU General Public License" for licensing details. [Archived as /info-mac/text/warez-11.hqx; 37K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 10:56:19 -0500 (EST) From: CHEWEY@delphi.com Subject: [*] WinStacker 1.0 WinStacker is a Finder window arrangement utility that positions your folder windows as you open them. Finder Windows are "stacked" one on top of the other using a user defined pattern. Other positioning options are also available from the Control Panel. Requires a MacPlus or better and System 6.0.8 or newer or System 7.x.x. (This file requires binhex and something to decompress a CompactPro file.) [Archived as /info-mac/gui/win-stacker-10.hqx; 28K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 12:18:54 +0000 From: bebb@ferndown.ate.slb.com (Malcolm Bebb) Subject: "Unrecoverable disk error on file" (A) courcoul@itesmcq1.qro.itesm.mx (Juan M. Courcoul) wrote: >On 11 Feb 1994 11:01:55 +0000 (GMT), "F.J. Lalor" wrote: >Once this is done, you place the insertion point as close to that point >as you can, going from top to bottom, then go to the end of the file and >scroll back as near as possible. Shift-clicking will select the damaged >area, that can then be deleted, rendering most of the file usable. > >Another approach is working with two copies. On the first one, you place >the insertion point as close to the error as possible, starting from >top, then delete the rest of the file. On the second one, you start from >the bottom and delete to the beginning, then you join the two surviving >halves Shame about the word wrapping in the original! Just wanted to add that I too have used this method to recover damaged Word files. In general, it seems that if you can open it, you can recover most of it - with formatting. Another tactic is to open the file with a text editor (bye bye formatting), such as BBEdit, which has the ability to remove "gremlin" characters. You may still have some characters to remove manually, and you have to re-format, but I have used this to recover files that crashed Word on opening. Malcolm bebb@ferndown.ate.slb.com (Usual disclaimers apply) mbebb@cix.compulink.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 94 21:44:11 cet From: "MR Nicholas . Shestople, DEH-MP, Chief " Subject: [MR Nicholas . Shestople, DEH-: PageMaker translation] First time didn't go thru due to typo in address. ----- Forwarded message # 1: Date: Thu, 17 Feb 94 21:27:06 cet From: "MR Nicholas . Shestople, DEH-MP, Chief " To: info-mac <@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu:info-mac@sumex-aim.standford.edu> cc: aetvftgdehmp@frankfurt-emh2.army.mil Subject: PageMaker translation Need assistance in translating a PageMaker Windows 4.0 file to PM 5.0 for the Mac. Saw the recent article in MacWorld (User?) which restated what I though I knew, i.e., that files for the two platforms are compatible and convertable. But how? In despiration, I even read the PM manual, and it is as clear as mud. I have DataViz MacLink/PC, which I use all the time for desktop translations, but doing a PageMaker document isn't as clear cut as, say, Word Perfect to MS Word. Would appreciate a direct response, ASAP. Thanks, Nick Shestople, Frankfurt, Germany aetvftgdehmp@frankfurt-emh2.army.mil ----- End of forwarded messages ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 07:37:46 -0500 From: mingo@panix.com (Charlie Mingo) Subject: Accessing Internet through a Firewall (A) Subbarayudu writes: > Has anyone out there been able to access the Internet through a firewall ? > What we have is a Unix machine through which you can access the Internet > services including Telnet, FTP, Gopher, etc. But this is done only through a > VT100 emulation terminal. It depends on what signals the firewall is designed to pass. I note that Anarchie 1.1 appears to have a provision to try to go through a firewall for ftp and archie sessions. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Feb 94 14:26:18 -0500 From: ncalan2.straurig@mailgw.sanders.lockheed.com Subject: After Dark 2.0x passwords don't work on my 660av... Hi all, I happily made the upgrade to a Quadra 660av from my venerable 2si by simply installing the si's hard drive in the empty CDROM bay (after changing its SCSI address to something appropriate) and copying away. Unfortunately, while the 660av is way cool, all is not well. After Dark 2.0x keeps forgetting its password every few days, requiring me to reboot with extensions off and install a fresh copy. I am now trying it with the password off, but I really like the protection it gave me from casual fingers. I only use the "Fade Away" module. Does anyone have any specific suggestions (other than spending the rest of my life farting around with my other inits, cache modes, etc :-) ? Thanks, Scott Traurig (straurig@mailgw.sanders.lockheed.com) P.S. I use a lot of different inits and programs, and the only other problem I've come across on the 660av so far is the occasional crash in WordPerfect 3.0 when printing. ------------------------------ Date: 18 Feb 1994 11:12:02 -0500 From: "dlawrence" Subject: A new show...and a plea for your help! [For immediate release - moderators should consider this a submission] Contacts: David Lawrence.....301/854-5459 Matt Coates........202/337-3111 Jan Genzer.........202/364-0383 Washington (Feb. 16, 1994) - After almost a year and a half of preproduction planning and development, OnLine Tonight with David Lawrence is about to go on the air! OnLine Tonight is a two hour, internationally syndicated live radio talk show that revolves around personal computers and home entertainment, and combines the fun and spontaneity of a wacky, nutty morning show and the fast-breaking news and information of a high tech talk show. Hosted by radio veteran and Macintosh fanatic David Lawrence, Online Tonight with David Lawrence's cast includes Rita Daniels, resident DOS/Windows expert; Peter Burns (yes *that* Peter Burns), news anchor; and correspondents Frank Catalano in Seattle, Diana Kelly in San Francisco, Bob Becker in the Midwest and Brita Meng in Boston. Special correspondents include CD-ROM Specialist Matt Coates, Game and Cross-Platform Specialist Dave Mark, Network Director/Music Director Stuart Wetstein and Studio Director Megan McConnell. The show will debut on February 27th, 1994. We'll air Sunday evenings at 8PM Eastern, 5PM Pacific, and we're delivered via the ABC Satellite System on Satcom C-5, Transponder 23, SEDAT Channel 13. The show is produced at and originates from the studios of WTOP in Washington, DC. Dave Garner, Chief Engineer for WTOP commented, "Where's the food? Seriously, we're glad to have them at the facility, and we feel this is the beginning of something big." Matt Coates, Vice President, notes, "OnLine Tonight with David Lawrence is very different from any other computer show you've ever heard. It's fast, it's funny, and it's 100% geek-free. And we've got great JAM custom jingles!" David Lawrence has been in radio for over 20 years as a morning air personality and talk show host on stations like WNCI and WLVQ/Columbus, WGAR, WGCL, and WDMT/Cleveland, KC101/New Haven, WTAE/Pittsburgh and WMAL and WRQX/Washington DC. He is also a founding member and was executive producer of the American Comedy Network, the nation's hottest radio comedy group with over 300 station affiliates and countless commercial clients. Aside from all that, he's an Apple-certified Macintosh consultant with 10 years experience helping people use their Macs and having fun at the same time Lawrence said, "People have wondered what happened to me since the days on WMAL; Aside from devoting my time to my family and developing Online Tonight, I work during the week for a division of the Department of Defense evaluating new Macintosh software and hardware. I can't tell you more about my job, or I'd have to kill you." Rita Daniels, much to her credit, has never been in radio. Jan Genzer, OLT President notes, "We thank the stars for that." She brings a fresh perspective to Online Tonight while drawing on her years of DOS and Windows expertise as a support specialist for a major Mid Atlantic financial institution. She can't tell what else she does, or her employers would kill *her*. Peter Burns spent an eternity with Mutual News as an anchor and computer reviewer. Lawrence said, "He's probably the most scholarly among the team, has the most interesting beard and wouldn't kill a fly. Maim, maybe, but not kill." The rest of the team includes some of the funniest people in radio: Alan Ray, creator of TeleJoke, the goofiest daily comedy fax service ever written and Daily Dose, seen in a newspaper near you; Don DeWolf, whose Cookie Randolph persona on KGB101FM/San Diego has been the reason for major accidents in the morning in Southern California (people have actually driven off the road *while* wetting themselves from laughter) and Dave Sposito of KZZU/Spokane, whose impersonation of NBC's Nightly News anchor has been labeled "the most dead on, deranged impersonation ever" by people he lives near. And all of them are currently under investigation for a 1943 killing spree in the Northwest (just to run this "kill" joke out ad nauseam). Get ready for something completely different when you tune in OnLine Tonight with David Lawrence! -30- Folks... You know me from the American Comedy Network, a radio station I've worked at, I've talked to you about the show, or maybe: - You're a friend. - You're a fan of mine. - I'm a fan of yours. - You're not a fan, but you've been nice to me here online. - You've made vicious fun of me, but since I have no shame, I'm e-mailing anyway. - You're into computers. - You're into online services. - You're into online sex. :) - I work with you now. - I want to work with you in the near future. - I've always wanted to work with you, but haven't had the balls to call. - I used to work with you. You miss me. - I used to work with you. You fired me. You're not the only one. Whatever the reason, I'm the host of a new weekly syndicated radio show that is about to go on the air called Online Tonight, and I need your help. Since we're all subscribers to this newsgroup, and helping one another out is one of the things we do best, here's my plea: Please read the press release regarding the show above. If this show interests you, please reply to this message with your mailing address to get a demo kit. And if you could take a moment to go through your Rolodex and jot down the names and addresses of any of your colleagues or clients (or favorite newstalk/rocktalk stations) that you think might be able to use this show, please reply with *their* names and addresses. I'd really appreciate it. Also, please post this to any group you feel might find this show interesting. And if I can help in any way in the future, I'll be glad to do so. Thanks in advance. David Lawrence AOL: OLTDavid CIS: 75300,2460 PGY: ONLN22A INT: oltdavid@aol.com or dlawrence@arpa.mil ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 00:51:28 +0000 From: M.Choo@mya0101.wins.icl.co.uk Subject: Apple CD300i device driver to hook it to a PC (A) You will need a SCSI controller which is compatible with the driver. I use an ADAPTEC controller with CorelSCSI drivers. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Feb 94 9:55 GMT From: HFBB43@UJVAX.ULSTER.AC.UK Subject: Apple Scanner PShop Plugin Hi, Does anyone know where to find a Photoshop Plugin to use with the Apple Colour One Scanner? Please Email direct and I'll summerise. TIA, Peter Neill, Faculty of Art & Design, University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland HFBB43@UK.AC.ULSTER.UJVAX ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 94 14:36:30 -0800 From: Bill Rausch Subject: Applications "lost" after desktop rebuilt Bill Brideson says: >"document can't be opened because the application that created it can't >be found" would appear. This happened with ... >once again be automatically located if I moved the application (program) >from the folder it lives in to any other folder ... I've had this problem, caused by an incomplete (i.e., interrupted) desktop rebuild. The old desktop got erased but the new one was not completely built. ---- Bill Rausch, SW Engr, wnr@fred.nfuel.com, 509-943-0861 Numerical Applications, 825 Goethals #A, Richland, WA 99352 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 12:43:39 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Veenker Subject: APS flame Jeez what a snake! I tell ya, the way some companies treat their customers is simply outrageous! I love this part: # something we must try to avoid to remain viable. It's kind of # unreasonable when we advertise hundreds of prices for very much more # expensive products in our ads, and which Mark is also welcome to # inquire about, that we would intentionally mislead customers over a # $29 item. When a misprint occurs, we tell the customer it was a What a jerk! Who cares how many products they sell!?! It was the one item that Mark wanted that was misleading. I would be willing to bet it is also one of their more popular items. Besides, people would make a HUGE fuss if APS falsely advertised one of their expensive products. I'm sorry. I don't buy this excuse at all. I spent several years working at [a well-known retailer] and we did everything we could to accomidate wrongly determined prices EVEN WHEN IT WAS A MISPRINT. It was OUR responsibility. Mark, I'd take this guy up on his offer. You HAVE been wronged. Take the free one, man! Brian Veenker ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 94 15:49:45 PST From: flynn@reed.edu (flynn) Subject: A Retrospect and Pyro problem Do you have Retrospect and Pyro? When Retrospect is finished backing up a machine, like a Classic, it should go to the screen that says "it is now safe to shutdown your mac" or something like that... or you can hit the "restart" button. My question is: Why doesn't Pyro kick in after that? All the machines in the building are getting that window burned into their screens... Anyone with information please mail me direct at flynn@reed.edu I will post any solutions to the digest. thank you ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 94 14:38:52 EST From: Pete Tamas Subject: Baud vs megabyte What is the relationship between a modem's baud rate and file size? Is there a way to determine roughly how long it will take to send a file of a certain size on a modem of a certain baud rate? Thanks, Pete Tamas ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 94 20:34:52 EST From: MOISEFF%UCONNVM.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU Subject: Booting From A CD ROM (A) To boot Macs like the 650 from the internal CD-ROM you need to hold down the command-shift-option and delete keys. Make sure CAPS LOCK is NOT DOWN!! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 94 22:40:01 PDT From: ace@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst) Subject: booting from CD In Regards to your letter <199402160851.AA19083@nwnexus.wa.com>: > I remember reading somewhere that is it possible to boot the newer > Macs (avs?) from a CD ROM. I can't seem to get my Quadra 840av with > built in CD ROM to do that--even with the install CD ROM that comes > with the machine. Works fine on my 660AV with internal CD. Just boot normally, insert the CD, select it in Startup Disk, reboot, and quickly shove the CD back in before the hard drive boots. I think there's also something to avoid mounting the internal hard drive if it's screwed up - a key combo like cmd-opt-shft-delete cheers ... -Adam -- Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor -- ace@tidbits.com -- info@tidbits.com Author of The Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh -- tisk@tidbits.com t Apple who have other jobs to keep them busy. cheers ... -Adam -- Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor -- ace@tidbits.com -- info@tidbits.com Author of The Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh -- tisk@tidbits.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 15:44:46 GMT From: gbaa02@udcf.gla.ac.uk (Julian Dow) Subject: Can the Mac act as a Gopher server? You know when you use turbo Gopher, and you start a Gopher search by clicking on a little Mac icon, and get a dialog box asking to enter a keyword? Is the machine at the other end UNIX, PC or Mac? What software is there to do it? I'm the editor of the "Dictionary of Cell Biology", and I was considering putting the second edition up as a Gopher server, such that if you requested a given keyword, you be shown (gratis) dictionary entries containing that keyword. Any help, etc, gratefully received. Julian Dow Dr Julian Dow -Dept Cell Biology -University of Glasgow -Glasgow G12 8QQ -UK Phone +44 (0)41 330 4616 FAX +44 (041) 330 4501 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Feb 94 05:47:33 PST From: herren@middlebury.edu (David Herren) Subject: CD audio & Mic on AVs vs. Non-AVs Explaining my "problem" is probably much more difficult than the problem itself. Background: I have written several hypercard stacks for the teaching of foreign languages. I take advantage of the the microphone and recording of sound, as well as the playback of audio CDs through the CD-ROM drive. Problem: On the Quadra 650s and 800s that we have, I can play an audio CD in the internal CD-ROM drive, while at the same time, the microphone is still connected and functioning. My users can switch back and forth from a stack in which they record their own voice and play it back, to a stack which plays segments of the audio CD, _without_ a trip to the Sound control panel. In fact, an audio CD can be playing at the same time that a user is recording his or her voice on the microphone (obviously no a great idea, but it points out the apparent differences between Quadras) On the Quadra 660AV, the sound from the audio CD will NOT play through the speaker or the audio out port unless one goes to the Sound control panel, selects the Audio CD as the input device, as well as clicking "passthrough". Then, if the user switches back to a stack in which I want them to record, the microphone is disabled and they have to go back to the Sound control panel to select the microphone again. Why is this? Are these two architectures really that different? I've tried reinstalling the software on the 660AV to no avail. The "getting started" manual for the 660AV seems to reinforce the fact that I cannot get both an active microphone and audio CD playback at the same time, or at least, not without a trip to the sound control panel. I consider this a limitation since I don't have to explain to users about the Sound control panel on any other machines. Is there a way to get around this? -David herren@middlebury.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 01:00:48 +0200 (EET) From: Guy Zaslavsky Subject: CD Plus Software A friend of mine recently recieved a new Quadra 650 with the new CD300i Plus (built in). We installed the cd-rom software that came with it (version 4.0.2), but it refused to mount any cds. I think it may be because of the old cd-rom version, which does not recognize the new model. I read that apple released version 4.0.5 of the cd-rom software, but I can't seem to find it anywhere, including at ftp.apple.com (bric-a-brac.apple.com), nor do they have it at the local Apple Center. If I'm right, how can it be that apple ships hardware with software that does not support it? Any information would be greatly appreciated, but if happen to have it at hand, please send me a copy. Thanks in advance ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 19:04:26 -0600 From: vinko@spss.com (Vinko Tsui (312) 329-3455) Subject: Changing date modified/created on Mac files (R) >rmposs@panix.com (Robert Poss) writes: > >As a former DOS/Windows user who has switched over to a Centris 650, I >have a very simple question (My apologies if this is not the proper >newsgroup for such a query....) -- I have transfered/translated many files >From my PC to my Mac. As a result, these files all have the same "date >modified." This, when I sort a folder's files by date,files created or >last modified in 1990 have the same recent date as files created/modified >in 1992 or whatever, and sorting by date is useless. On my DOS machine, >there were several utilties that allowed me to quickly/simply change the >date of (re-date) my files. Does such a utility exist for the Mac, and if >so, how can I obtain it? It strikes me as a simple, useful thing to be >able to do, especially if an old file is modified to correct an error >later discovered and one wants to still have the file's effective date to >correspond with the date of its creation. Thanks. > Robert, First of all, welcome to the happier side of computing! You can do what you want by using the Apple utility "ResEdit". This is an utility that allows you to modify the "resource" fork of any files. What is a "fork" you asked? Well on the Macintosh every file (documents or applications) have two forks; the Resource fork and the Data fork. Almost all applications only have information in the Resource fork (ie. the actual code for the application, dialogs and icons used within the application). Most documents only have information in the Data fork. The Data fork is similar to what is stored in a MS DOS/Windows files. Then each item on your hard drive has a set of "file attributes". These attributes indicate what type of item it is (the type of document, whether it is an application, an Extension, Control Panel, Driver, etc.), in the case of a document it will indicate the creator of the document, the item's Creation and Modification dates, etc. Since ResEdit changes the low level attributes (as compare to just the name or label of the file) you have to be very careful when using it. You can get this utility from Apple's FTP site (ftp.apple.com), at the path "/dts/mac/tools/resedit". If you do not have FTP service, let me know and I'll send it to you. For the manual you can by it at your local Mac book store, the title is "ResEdit Reference: For ResEdit version 2.1" distributed by Addison-Wesley, ISBN: 0-201-57767-4 (without disk) and 0-201-57768-2 (with disk). I hope this helps! If I can be of further assistance, please let me know. -- Vinko Vinko Enterprises, Oakville, Ontario, Canada, Vinko@applelink.apple.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 FEB 94 8:57:58 EST From: CAMEROWD@ml.wpafb.af.mil Subject: Changing date modified/created on Mac files [R] Robert Poss asks in Info-Mac V12 #27: >....On my DOS machine, there were several utilties that allowed me to >quickly/simply change the date of (re-date) my files. Does such a utility >exist for the Mac, and if so, how can I obtain it?... The utility that comes to mind is File Buddy, by Laurence Harris. It changes dates as well as creator, file type, flags, etc, as well as performs disk cleanup of unattached aliases and empty folders, files. Shareware, $25.00. You can find it at: ftp://sics.se/pub/info-mac/disk/file-buddy-204.hqx or ftp://plaza.aarnet.edu.au/micros/mac/info-mac/disk/file-buddy-204.hqx I also found this one: ftp://plaza.aarnet.edu.au/micros/mac/info-mac/disk/file-buddy-205.hqx but it wasn't posted by Mr. Harris, and showed up only days after version 2.0.4. Laurence, if you're listening, can you clarify which version is the most recent? Bill Cameron camerowd@ml.wpafb.af.mil billc55122@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 17:30:30 EST From: Jonathan.Kamien@uvm.edu (Jonathan Kamien) Subject: composing email replies 2/17/94 5:17 PM re>composing email replies Subject: Composing E-mail Replies. On Fri, 11 Feb 94 10:48:49 EST (1548Z), MG John Fryer wrote: > Is there a program in the sumex archives, or elsewhere, that > automatically puts the "greater than" signs (>) in front of text you are > repeating in an e-mail reply? I notice that it's the convention to begin > a reply by repeating the originator's text, differentiating it by the ">" > signs. I generally use Jolliwrite to compose responses, and I see no way > to do that. Further, when you reformat with Jolliwrite (for example, to > justify the text within 80 characters), it would reformat the > signs, > and they would be all over the place. Try "SignatureQuote" from Semicolon Software. From the accompanying documentation: > SignatureQuote is a utility for anyone who uses electronic mail or posts > to netnews or to an on-line bulletin board A variety of useful > text-processing features are only a button-click away: > > % Two styles of quoting % Two different signatures (or whatever other > text you commonly insert) % Lines can be joined into Mac-style > paragraphs % Paragraphs can be split into individual lines > > All of these features are fully customizable: you can set them up any > way you like. In addition, they can each be built into a customized FKEY > that behaves exactly the way you want it to behave. Your custom FKEYs > can be easily installed in your System file, or in your mail, news, or > bulletin board program. Email to rmh@taligent.com for more info and where to get it. ------------------------------ Date: 18 Feb 1994 12:47:12 -0400 (EDT) From: stjaffe@vaxsar.vassar.edu (Steve Jaffe) Subject: database (r) >Date: Thu, 17 Feb 94 00:22:44 EST >From: AMOSER@CCVM.sunysb.edu >Subject: Database > >I am looking for a shareware database. It does not have to be very fancy at all >. The last database I used was called PC-File and something that simple would s >uit my needs just fine, but something with a little more jazz and a Mac interfa >ce would be nice. :) I have only looked at this briefly, but it may just fit the bill. It's at sumex-aim, but you could easily overlook it since the name doesn't exactly shout "database." ====================== What is Re(ve)lations? A very simple - but VERY EASY TO USE - relational database management system. Features: -> A basic set of relational algebra operations, which can be nested to produce complex queries. -> A graphical query language specially developed for Re(ve)lations. No support for character-based queries (e.g. queries in SQL format) - and good riddance to them! -> Access to multiple databases at the same time. -> Data import and export in tab-delimited format. -> Multi-user architecture. Re(ve)lations version 1.05 may be included on the info-mac CD-ROM or on any other non-profit CD-ROM. Michael Bjorn University of Tsukuba, JAPAN michael@wiz.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Feb 94 10:33:50 -0800 From: schip@sgi428.msd.lmsc.lockheed.com (Jan Schipmolder) Subject: deleting files File Buddy 2.0.5 (on sumex) will perform cleanup and has an 'all' option whereby you first gather files that meat a criterion, then trash them. -- jan b schipmolder schip@lmsc.lockheed.com -- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 04:38:06 -0500 From: aldhahsk@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu (Saeed Al-Dhaheri) Subject: disk calculator Hi everybody; Does anyone out there knows the address or phone # of a supplier of the "Diskette calculator" like the one the Mac warehouse distribute as a gift when you order somthing from them. We are looking to buy a huge quantity of these Diskette calculators to use them as gifts and we would like to know who make them? Saeed AL-Dhaheri Biomedical Eng. & Science Inst. Drexel University e-mail: ALDHAHSK@DUNX1.OCS.DREXEL.EDU ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 94 13:31:26 PST From: Alex Metcalf Subject: Disk problems! When running Norton Utilities on my external Frog 120mb drive, I get the following message: "The extents directory on this disk contains an invalid node - node #34. It has an incorrect descriptor." I get this message either when I run Norton Utilities' Disk Doctor or when I check the files using Speed Disk. Disk Doctor says it can't fix the problem. Does this mean: * I won't be able to retrieve part of one (or more) of the files on my disk? or: * What the disk thinks is free space actually isn't (therefore I could damage files by copying new stuff on)? or: something else? Basically, I need to have a better idea of what the problem is, and whether or not I should backup and re-initialise. I'd prefer not to have to do that, but will do it if that's the only way to fix the problem. This may or may not be connected to a problem I was having a few weeks ago: I was unable to copy certain files onto the disk, due to an error -36 (I/O error). No, I wasn't copying from a floppy: it was from the internal HD, and only two files seemed to cause problems. Later on that night, they suddenly were able to copy, even though I had changed nothing (I'd added a few files to the external disk, though). At the time, Norton found nothing wrong with the disk. I also did a verify media test, which said the disk was fine. Is the I/O error a disguise for the current problem I have? Thanks in advance for any help, Alex Metcalf alex@metcalf.demon.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: 18 Feb 1994 10:41:14 -0800 From: "John Rosborough" Subject: Finder enhancements A long time ago in the days of System 6 there was an application that would allow a person to modify the grid that the Finder uses in placing large and small icons on the screen. When system 7 came out the finder had been changed and this could not be accomplished in the same way. I would have thought by now that someone would have figure how to do this. I sure wish small icons were closer together vertically and farther apart horizontally. Any possibilities for this? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 94 08:42:08 EST From: Paolo_Marini.LOTUSINT.LOTUS@CRD.lotus.com Subject: Finding Fabrizio Oddone? Try one of the following: simula3@di.unito.it simula3@itaca.di.unito.it simula3@pianeta.di.unito.it pls note that this address is in use by more than one person, so specify to whom you want to address the message... HTH Paolo ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 14:51:25 -0800 (PST) From: Richard Lim Subject: Fried modem port Oops, I think I was in one of my frequent bouts of incoherence when I wrote my posting in Digest 27. What I meant to say was that my recently lightninged, then replaced, modem now seems to work only off the _printer_ port and not the modem port. Does that mean the current surge could have knocked out my modem port, and if so what will it take to fix? Thanks in advance for any suggestions. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 00:00:37 -0600 From: chavey@beloit.edu (Darrah Chavey) Subject: FTP Daemon Tim Colson asks: >I'll be brief: I can't get on sumex (no news there) to hunt around. >And Anarchie is pulling up three billion hits for "FTP*daemon"...mostly >UNIX stuff. > >What I need is a small little tiny (get the picture) app to act as an FTP >server. I realllly like TCP/ConnectII's ability to serve multiple users >different folders, along with anonymous users too...but I can't afford to >buy it. So - I'm looking for as fancy as it gets shareware :-) > >Thanks all. >Timothy I recommend FTPd by Peter Lewis. Looks like its in the UMich archives in /util/comm. --Darrah Chavey Department of Math & Computer Science chavey@beloit.edu Beloit College; 700 College St; Beloit, Wisc. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 94 22:44:37 PDT From: ace@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst) Subject: FTP daemon In Regards to your letter <199402160851.AA19083@nwnexus.wa.com>: > I'll be brief: I can't get on sumex (no news there) to hunt around. > And Anarchie is pulling up three billion hits for "FTP*daemon"...mostly > UNIX stuff. > > What I need is a small little tiny (get the picture) app to act as an FTP > server. You need Peter Lewis's FTPd. ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/pub/tidbits/tisk/mactcp/ftp/ cheers ... -Adam -- Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor -- ace@tidbits.com -- info@tidbits.com Author of The Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh -- tisk@tidbits.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 09:41:25 +0200 From: michaels@techunix.technion.ac.il (Dr. Michael S. Silverstein) Subject: Fullwrite Pro and stylewriter II landscape I am trying to get a stylewriter II to print a Fullwrite Pro file in landscape orientation and it keeps printing in portrait. When I change the setting in page setup, click OK, then open page setup again the setting has returned to portrait. What gives? Thanks for any and all help....mike Michael Silverstein Materials Engineering Technion michaels@techunix.technion.ac.il ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 11:27:06 -0800 (PST) From: Magic Subject: HyperCard 2.2 bug? Tearing open my new copy of HyperCard 2.2, ready to dig into the new features, I discovered a small problem. I daren't say a "bug", but then again... The HyperCard 2.2 feature of creating a stand-alone application doesn't seem to work on my SE/30. I installed the program onto two other machines to see if it would work (a ci and a cx). Indeed it did. I notified apple of course, but I'd like to know if anyone using HyperCard 2.2 on a Mac SE/30 has seen this problem. Thanks! -Matt M_GOMES@KLA.COM ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 22:18:31 -0600 From: ehampton@rex.uokhsc.edu (Monty Hampton) Subject: Info-Mac Digest V12 #22 In IM Digest #22 Todd Seage writes: >On a good day I can run two scsi devises together never >3 and god forbid 4. I am by no means any sort of authority on SCSI, but I have been using a MacII with 4 SCSI devices (Scanner, Syquest 88, Protege HD and CD-150) connected for years without any difficulty. Could one or more of your devices be internally terminated? EMH ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 17:20:17 -0500 (EST) From: SQT2717@ACFcluster.NYU.EDU Subject: Is there a "virtual desktop" utility? I remember a utility that let a mac with a small monitor use applications that require large screens by scrolling the screen. The 13" monitor would thus be a small window that could scroll around what the Mac thinks is a larger screen. Can anyone please send me the name of that utility. It was popular when most users had the small 9" screens. Thanks. Stephen Tseng SQT2717@acfcluster.nyu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 17:28:05 -0500 (EST) From: usr4818a@tso.uc.EDU (Robert E. Winston) Subject: Is Typeit4Me author still supporting it? (A) > Does anyone know if the author of Typeit4Me still supporting > it? The latest version for SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU is 3.2 Version 4.0 is at mac.archive.umich.edu: mac/system.extensions/init/typeit4me4.0.cpt.hqx ------------------------------ Date: 18 Feb 1994 10:40:14 -0800 From: "John Rosborough" Subject: Learning about Statistics One of our Faculty members is looking for some simple introductory instructional material (HyperCard Stack) about statistics. Something that could be given to an undergrad or beginning grad student to point them in the right direction for further information. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 94 15:24:44 EST From: "Allan M. Bloom" Subject: Looking for a Mac file (C) On Thu, 17 Feb, Jim Powlesland answered Tracy Cummings thusly: >>I am looking for a program that will remove all Microsoft Word >>temp files from a hard disk at start up?? > >The only shareware/freeware utility I have heard of is one called >Clean Sweep. Unfortunately, it is only available through >Ziff/Net Mac (CLNSWP.SIT, Library 9). Beside removing Word temp >files, it also looks for multiple copies of TeachText, >preferences files from programs long deleted, etc. > >Sure would be nice if someone would download it from Ziff/Net Mac >and put it in the Info-Mac or UMich archive.... Naughty, Jim. It is illegal to post a "ZMac Exclusive" to any bulletin board. Don't even ask. It can be shared, but only on a "retail" basis. No wholesale distribution. I mailed Tracy a copy. Al Bloom, Virginia Tech ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Feb 94 08:05:15 PST From: jbthoo@ucdavis.edu (John Thoo) Subject: Looking for a Mac file (C) On 17 Feb 94 Jim Powlesland wrote: > > > >Tracy Cummings writes: > > > >I am looking for a program that will remove all Microsoft Word > >temp files from a hard disk at start up?? > > The only shareware/freeware utility I have heard of is one called > Clean Sweep. Unfortunately, it is only available through > Ziff/Net Mac (CLNSWP.SIT, Library 9). Beside removing Word temp > files, it also looks for multiple copies of TeachText, > preferences files from programs long deleted, etc. For just Word Temp files, try Temperament, which an archie search yielded Host plains.nodak.edu (134.129.111.64) Last updated 10:43 2 Dec 1993 Location: /pub/mac/pub/init FILE rw-rw-r-- 5199 Nov 3 1989 temperament-10.hqx Host uceng.uc.edu (129.137.33.1) Last updated 19:24 29 Jul 1993 Location: /pub/wuarchive/systems/mac/info-mac/Old/cp FILE rw-r--r-- 62571 Jul 4 1991 temperament-2.hqx.Z Location: /pub/wuarchive/systems/mac/info-mac/Old/cdev FILE rw-r--r-- 62571 Jul 4 1991 temperament-2.hqx.Z Host compute1.cc.ncsu.edu (152.1.10.81) Last updated 11:32 29 Jun 1993 Location: /mirrors/wustl/mirrors2/info-mac/Old/cp FILE rw-r--r-- 62571 Jul 4 1991 temperament-2.hqx.Z Location: /mirrors/wustl/mirrors2/info-mac/Old/cdev FILE rw-r--r-- 62571 Jul 4 1991 temperament-2.hqx.Z Host wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4) Last updated 03:20 13 Jun 1993 Location: /mirrors2/info-mac/Old/cp FILE rw-r--r-- 62571 Jul 4 1991 temperament-2.hqx.Z Location: /mirrors2/info-mac/Old/cdev FILE rw-r--r-- 62571 Jul 4 1991 temperament-2.hqx.Z Host ifi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (129.69.211.1) Last updated 06:12 13 Jun 1993 Location: /pub/mnt/mac/cdev FILE rw-rw-r-- 72074 Feb 12 1990 temperament-2.hqx I hope this helps. --John. J. B. THOO, Math Dept, Univ of California, Davis ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Feb 94 14:25:27 MST From: aheflich@fc.mcnet.com (Alan Heflich) Subject: MSWord Printing problem with Pasted Drawing(A) In Info-Mac Digest V12 #25 Hans Kroeger reported problems in copying from Mac Draw Pro and pasting into MS Word 5,x The problem in pasting from MacDraw Pro into MS Word is due to the fact that MS Word does not handle the PICT2 resource well. The fix is to go to the MacDraw Pro preferences and turn off Fractional Widths. You will notice that the text in MacDraw Pro will 'mess up' like it does in word. Fix it in MacDraw Pro before coping to the clipboard. =Alan <>=<>= ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 04:39:46 -0500 From: aldhahsk@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu (Saeed Al-Dhaheri) Subject: news reader over the modem? Hi folks; Does anybody knows of a good news reader software for the mac that works over a modem. I have a v32bis 14400 modem at home and access internet through my account on a unix server. I tried mac-news 1.0 by Matthew Hall but didn't work with me. Is there another shareware package? thanx. Saeed AL-Dhaheri Biomedical Eng. & Science Inst. Drexel University e-mail: ALDHAHSK@DUNX1.OCS.DREXEL.EDU ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 94 14:46:16 EST From: Pete Tamas Subject: Number of colors w/ 16-bit color I know that 65,536 addresses can be addressed with a 16-bit system. However, I thought I saw somewhere that certain monitors have 32,000+ colors. How many colors can be addressed with 16-bit color?-Pete Tamas Gnome@VM.Temple.edu or TempleVM.bitnet ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 00:55:56 +0000 From: M.Choo@mya0101.wins.icl.co.uk Subject: PB Cables (R) As far as I can tell, the PB140 does not support SCSI Disk Mode. There is a product that will do that for the PB140 tho.. It's called the Laptop Liberator, seen the review in a magazine... regards -Mike ------------------------------ Date: 18 Feb 1994 10:13:31 CST From: "Dr. Francis J. Van Wetering" Subject: Plotter and Color Printer Drivers for Mac I am looking for commercial, shareware, or public domain drivers for my Macintosh Centris 660AV to drive the following: Canon BJC-800 Color Bubble Jet Printer HP 7475A Graphics Plotter The need is immediate. Please forward responses directly to me. F. J. Van Wetering Management Information Systems INTERNET: fjvanwet@unomaha.edu ------------------------------ Date: 18 Feb 1994 10:27:20 CST From: "Dr. Francis J. Van Wetering" Subject: Printer and Plotter drivers for Mac I am looking for drivers for my Macintosh Centris 660AV for the following: HP 7475A Plotter Canon BJC-800 Color Printer Commericial or shareware is fine. Please reply directly to me. F. J. Van Wetering Management Information Systems INTERNET: fjvanwet@unomaha.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 18:07:48 GMT From: isis@netcom.com (Mike Cohen) Subject: Problems with SITcomm Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu writes: >>You need additional software to create "macros". The included Frontier >>stuff will do it, but it is awkward to have to launch both SITcomm and >>Frontier Runtime (included with SITcomm), and remember to quit Frontier RT >>when you've quit your SITcomm session. I don't yet have AppleScript, so I >>can't discuss that option here. >Yes, but it's much more powerful, and you don't have to learn another >macro language once you learn AppleScript--it will work with a great >many programs, even between programs. For example, you can link SITcomm, >StuffIt, PageMaker 5, Excel 4, MicroPhone II 4.0... all via AppleScript, >right now, with more programs to come. Plus, it's a standard, set by >Apple. You can get AppleScript for $24 with several good books about >AppleScript programming--$24 for book AND disk. AppleScript lets you do cool things that built-in scripting languages can't do. For example, I wrote a droplet that uses SITcomm to send a tab delimited file to an application on a Newton. -- Mike Cohen - isis@netcom.com NewtonMail: MikeC49506 / ALink: D6734 / AOL: MikeC20 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 17:36:45 EST From: Jonathan.Kamien@uvm.edu (Jonathan Kamien) Subject: RAMdoubler RAMdoubler 2/17/94 5:31 PM Will RamDoubler work with system 6? With Mac Pluses? With SE's? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 94 14:25:59 PST From: jbthoo@ucdavis.edu (John Thoo) Subject: RamDoubler/Stacker problem (C) On 16 Feb 94 "Ad Herweijer" wrote: > Having seen so much enthousiasm for RamDoubler, here's one tiny little > problem I had with it. If I try to use Stacker while RamDoubler is active > I get a message that Virtual Memory should be turned off first. Apparently > RamDoubler has set a Virtual Memory Flag somehow (which seems logical, > considering what it is doing) and Stacker doesn't like that. Hmm ... I haven't had any trouble with RAM Doubler and Stacker on my PB170 4/40 (knock on wood :-) --John. J. B. THOO, Math Dept, Univ of California, Davis ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 94 14:43:51 EST From: Pete Tamas Subject: RAM Doubler and Disk access If someone wants to use RAM doubler on a Powerbook and put the drive to sleep, will using RAM Doubler thwart the plans? I understand that RAM Doubler uses an efficient type of virtual memory.-Pete Tamas Gnome@VM.Temple.edu or TempleVM.bitnet ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Feb 94 07:52:31 PST From: jbthoo@ucdavis.edu (John Thoo) Subject: RamDoubler and Maxima compatible? (R) On 16 Feb 94 Paul Brians wrote: > Is anyone successfully using RamDoubler and Maxima? As I understand it, RAM Doubler and Maxima are not currently compatible, but that Connectix will sonn be releasing an update to Maxima that will be compatible, and will also allow one to create larger RAM discs, too. (Someone please correct me if I'm mistaken.) --John. J. B. THOO, Math Dept, Univ of California, Davis ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 10:35:07 +0000 From: Jonathan Brecher Subject: RE>Re: Info-Mac Digest V12 #27 Date 2/18/94 Subject RE>Re- Info-Mac Digest V12 >From Jonathan Brecher To Info-Mac Digest Reply to: RE>Re: Info-Mac Digest V12 #27 m.stoermer@mailbox.uq.oz.au (Martin Stoermer) writes: >CSC Chemdraw is by far and away the best chemical structure drawing program >around. Made by Canbridge Scientific Computing, they have an email support >line too. Contact them at: Cambridge Scientific Computing, Inc, > 875 Massachusetts Avenue, Sixth Floor > Cambridge, Mass 02139 USA > Phone: 617 491-6862 > Fax: 617 491-8208 > email: support@camsci.com > >I don't have the latest prices for Chemdraw 3.0 (a.k.a. Chemdraw Plus), but >it's pretty expensive Well, it depends on what you mean by expensive, and what you want to buy. Our top-of-the-line package does cost more than $2000 when you include international shipping costs. On the other hand, a student version of CSC ChemDraw costs only $99. To keep the commercial nature of this post to a minimum, I would request that anyone interested in any of my products (CSC ChemOffice, CSC ChemDraw, CSC Chem3D, and CSC ChemFinder) contact me directly. Please don't send mail to the nice people in Tech Support if you are only interested in product information, as your message might get delayed. Messages sent to info@camsci.com will receive the fastest response. The latest version of ChemDraw is 3.1, not 3.0. ChemDraw Plus 3.1 is a separate program with additional features (and a more expensive price tag). Jonathan Brecher International Marketing Manager Cambridge Scientific Computing, Inc. jonathan_brecher@camsci.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 94 20:42:42 CST From: Mack Willingham Subject: Setting mail I am leaving for the weekend (Annual roadtrip to DC). Is there a way to set nomail on all the lists that I sub to with one command? Mack ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 19:01:37 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Amira Subject: SITComm Well, my version of SITComm dials in the background just fine. Why do other seem to have problems? --Brian ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Feb 94 10:56:05 +0100 From: Karl.Pottie@uz.kuleuven.ac.be (Karl Pottie) Subject: Snooper and Help! Can anybody tell me the most recent version numbers of Snooper and Help! ? Karl ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 12:56:36 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Veenker Subject: Software authors Info-mac gives out a free CD to it's software authors? Really? What are the qualifications for that? Brian Veenker ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Feb 94 15:49:46 EST From: alon@cnm1.med.nyu.edu (Alon Mogilner) Subject: Supra FaxModem 144LC and Silent Answer I noticed two recent postings discussing the Supra 144LC and its silent answer feature. I recently purchased this modem, which came with a large sticker on the box saying "Includes SILENT ANSWER" - so, I guess its included. Silent answer is a feature which is supposed to allow shared usage of one phone line between the faxmodem and a voice phone/answering machine. Basically, when the phone rings, the modem picks up and "listens in". If it hears specific fax tones, called CNG tones, it then picks up and receives the fax. If not, it listens for a while, hoping to hear CNG tones, and then hangs up if it doesn't hear any. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 94 20:21:17 EST From: AHUNTER@CCVM.sunysb.edu Subject: There used to be a way for nice bitmap font printing... I asked this once before and got some incorrect responses pointing me towards Adobe Type Manager. ATM doesn't help. That isn't it... Question is: What is the secret that is used by LaserPrinters (at least circa 1988) to print bitmap-only fonts in such a way that significantly larger point sizes than anything installed in the system still come out looking nearly as nice as if they were TrueTypes or PostScripts? Yes, they did. I had, back then, a collection of bitmap fonts that would have gone down to my kneecaps if the bottom of the screen hadn't inter- fered. I know that LaserPrinters had a few PS-fonts installed, such as Palatino, Times, etc...but I doubt if they had Toronto, and with only Toronto 12 on my disk's system I printed an elegant jaggie-less 48- point bold-outline-shadow Toronto. That's a ferinstance. Had similar good fortunes with a long list of fonts. The list of bitmapped fonts for which I have no PS or TT version now extends to my toenails (or would if...), but on my StyleWriter I they come out pretty ragged even at their native point size, and horrible if you shoot for higher sizes. I'd be somewhat grouchily willing to fetch and shareware or buy the TT versions of my favorites if that was the only solution, but unfortunately 95 % of them don't seem to exist anywhere even if I could afford them all. And artistically and in terms of variety, my growing collection of TT's just doesn't hold a candle. Is it perhaps the driver-level checkbox for "font smoothing"? Is it some- thing I can add or replicate on my StyleWriter? Is Allan hallucinating very badly? Why did my wonderful collection of wonderful fonts which were so nice in 1988 become virtually useless to me in 1994? [As I said, it isn't an ATM-able solution. ATM doesn't do a damn thing unless you have a PostScript font somewhere for it to draw on. So now I've got a copy of ATM, no PostScript fonts, and no improvement in my bitmap font printing capabilities!] -Allan Hunter ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 09:36:20 +0000 From: Big Nose Subject: Tidbits 213 Where is Tidbits 213? It ain't in the archives, even though digest 25 or 26 says it is. Andy Law ( LAWA @ afrc.ac.uk Big Nose in Edinburgh ) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 12:35:08 +0100 (MET) From: bach@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Michael Bach) Subject: Typeit4Me Dear colleagues: in issue 27 of info-mac Mark London enquires about "Typeit4Me". I am happy to report that the author, Ricardo Ettore, is still supporting it. When you pay your shareware fee, you will get the latest version (I have 4.1.2). It is still improving and a very nifty way to integrate phrase-shortcuts with any program. A brief description: "Typeit4Me" looks at everything you are typing, and when a sequence matches its directory of shortcuts it replaces the sequence with the expanded entry. An examply: our secretaries have address lists of all doctors. The shortcut is the name with the first letter doubled. Thus, it is unlikely that the key will crop up in normal writing. They position the cursor in the address field, type NNAME, and, voila, the full address sits there. I'm just a happy user... Greetings, Michael. -- Dr. Michael Bach, Dept. of Ophthalmology, University of Freiburg, D-79106 Freiburg, Germany. ++049(761)270-4060 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 09:46:53 +0200 From: michaels@techunix.technion.ac.il (Dr. Michael S. Silverstein) Subject: Voice default on the Mac I have placed all the various extension etc. in my system folder and do indeed get speech with a variety of voices. There are various applications, extensions etc. that use the speech capability of the Mac, but the default is always the same robot voice. Is there anyway to pick a default voice (like picking a beep or background)? Thanks, mike. Michael Silverstein Materials Engineering Technion michaels@techunix.technion.ac.il ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 15:15:12 CST From: Chip Sample Subject: Wanted: to convert Mac sounds to text (integer) files That's it. I would like to find a program that can read an ordinary mac sound recording made through the control panel and write a text file of the corresponding integers (0 to 128 or 256, I think) so I can read them into spreadsheet for example. I'm not a REAL mac programmer. Any ideas? Chip ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 16:25:09 -0500 (EST) From: Seth Ness Subject: weird LPd problem ok, here is an incredibly obscure problem for you all to solve. The setup: centris 610, system 7.1 named exodus HP laserjet 4M named pYAC, using laserwriter 8.0 driver and appropriate ppd mac is on campus ethernet, set for ethertalk, in zone Ullmann. printer is localtalked to mac and used via 'laserbridge' from sonic systems. laserbridge is set for password protection (this is the host mac so theres no bridgepass extension, i'm not sure if thats relevent) another mac in the zone is running laserbridge, without password protection, its printer is 'silentwriter' or something similar. now the problem. we can't print directly from a Sun machine(leper1) over the net because of the password protection on laserbridge. so i got LPdaemon to for the mac. but i can't get it to work, either it says its looking for the printer and then it dies. or it tries to print to the silentwriter (the other printer using laserbridge). i have no idea where it gets silentwriter from. the print jobs appear in the lpd spool folder, though. here are the key parts of the lpd.config file ####################################################################################### # lpDaemon looks in the Laser Writer driver file for the PAP resources as #well as the # selected printer. The default is to look for a file called #"LaserWriter" in the # System Folder under < sys 7 or in the Extensions folder >= 7. If your #laser writer # driver is called something other than LaserWriter uncomment the #following and change # the name. # LASERWRITER "LaserWriter 8.0" # the default is LaserWriter # ####################################################################################### and... # Each PRINTER defines a name by which a printer is known and some # information about the printer. If a name contains spaces the # name string should be quoted with the " # # The syntax is : # PRINTER PAP|SERIAL [baud stop parity bits] [POSTSCRIPT] # where : # is the name by which the printer is addressed from the #unix host # this would be the rn entry in the printcap file # PAP|SERIAL defines whether the printer is connected by AppleTalk or # a serial connection # is the NBP name, or the name of the serial driver # [baud stop parity bits] is only for SERIAL printers. Vaild etc.. heres a sample line.. #PRINTER pslaser PAP "" POSTSCRIPT # default and another... #PRINTER laser3 PAP "PersonalLaserWriter NT:@Zone2" POSTSCRIPT # and here is how i have it... PRINTER pYAC PAP "pYAC:LaserWriter 8.0@Ullmann" # default with this config it just looked for the printer and died PRINTER pYAC PAP "" # default like this, it tried to print to the silentwriter, which doesn't show up in the chooser, by the way. heres some of the log file from the 2nd version... [1] request from 129.98.50.235 on port 1023 3:58:49 PM 2/17/94 [1] GotSomeData: length 6 [1] Got a command length 6 "(3)pYAC " [1] request from 129.98.50.235 on port 1023 3:59:04 PM 2/17/94 [1] GotSomeData: length 6 [1] Got a command length 6 "(2)pYAC " [1] GotSomeData: length 19 [1] Got a sub-command length 19 "(3)2506 dfA000leper1 " Creating spool file dfA000leper1 [1] Expecting 2506 Bytes [1] GotSomeData: length 2507 [1] Received 2506 Bytes [1] GotSomeData: length 17 [1] Got a sub-command length 17 "(2)74 cfA000leper1 " Creating spool file cfA000leper1 [1] Expecting 74 Bytes [1] GotSomeData: length 75 [1] Received 74 Bytes TCPSRead Done result -23005 [1] GotSomeData: length 0 Printing file cfA000leper1 Printing printcap for ksk@leper1 on "pYAC" Now starting dfA000leper1, (5548) new print file (5548) size 2506 Looking for LaserWriter "Silentwriter2 90:LaserWriter@*" Cannot open "Silentwriter2 90:LaserWriter@*" [2] request from 129.98.50.235 on port 1022 3:59:29 PM 2/17/94 [2] GotSomeData: length 6 [2] Got a command length 6 "(3)pYAC " Generated entity ""Silentwriter2 90:LaserWriter@*"" for ""Silentwriter2 90:LaserWriter@*"" Dequeue dfA000leper1 Dequeue cfA000leper1 [1] request from 129.98.50.235 on port 1023 4:00:11 PM 2/17/94 [1] GotSomeData: length 6 [1] Got a command length 6 "(3)pYAC " and with the first version of the PRINTER line.. Printing printcap for ksk@leper1 on "pYAC" Cannot open "pYAC:LaserWriter 8.0@Ullmann" so does anyone have any idea whats going on and how to fix it? thanks alot. -- Seth L. Ness Ness Gadol Hayah Sham ness@aecom.yu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 04:39:43 -0500 From: aldhahsk@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu (Saeed Al-Dhaheri) Subject: what is the current version of AMT Hi; A few days ago, someone mentioned in his upload to info-mac apple modem tool ver. 1.5. I checked archie for this version and couldn't find it. Is this a new release? the current version I found in the archive is AMT 1.1.1. If there is a new version? where to find it if so? Saeed AL-Dhaheri Biomedical Eng. & Science Inst. Drexel University e-mail: ALDHAHSK@DUNX1.OCS.DREXEL.EDU ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 08:57:31 +0100 From: Lars.Farm@nts.mh.se (Lars Farm) Subject: Will E.T.O. include PowerPC tools? In article <2k0npv$3g0@recycle.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>, kobylins@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Rafael Kobylinski) wrote: > Will the currently offered PowerPC tools like CodeWorrior Gold and the > Mac on RISC SDK be included in the E.T.O. package? > By now, you have to order E.T.O. and the PowerPC tools separately in > order to have all the tools, although the reason for subscribing to > E.T.O. is to have ALL the neccessery programs to develop. > E.T.O. hasn't provided any news for a loooooooooong time. Except Symantec stuff. Not very popular among those of us that already had Symantecs things. Price of E.T.O. went up and 4 CD's per year turned into 3 (that's another price increase) because of that compiler we already had, knew and loved :-( We have paid twice for SC++ :-( (And will most likely be asked to pay again soon when their PPC things comes around) E.T.O. was once the collection of _all_ Apple dev tools and a good buy. As it is now you'll have to buy E.T.O., RISC SDK and a _large_ number of separate dev toolkits to fully support the OS (I can't even keep up with what is and what isn't the OS any longer). Would be interesting to see a list of all such toolkits, their prices and a total. > Does Apple plan to replace E.T.O. with something new? I sure hope Apple will get their act together, and soon. Somehow I doubt it though:-( I think E.T.O. is dying. Apple has abandoned it and they just keep sending out the same CD over and over and over and over again as long as I am and other are stupid enough to pay for it. Lars -- Lars.Farm@nts.mh.se ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 10:58:59 -0500 (EST) From: KVS Subject: Will HFS change when the PowerMacs emerge? Hi, I've been wondering about the new Power PC Macs. Will I be able to exchange disks with someone with a PPC Mac? Thanx in advance! -kvs? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 19:30:15 GMT From: news Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest Path: link-1.ts.bcc.ac.uk!ucca021 From: ucca021@ucl.ac.uk (L C Willoughby) Subject: StuffIt Lite v3.0.7 BinHex Problem Message-ID: <1994Feb17.193000.46784@ucl.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 19:30:00 GMT Organization: Bloomsbury Computing Consortium Lines: 17 I've just started to use StuffIt Lite v3.0.7 but when I try to encode a file using BinHex in the translators menu the program crahes with the message: The application "unknown" has unexpectedly quit, because an error of type 25 occurred This happens on a Mac SE and Quadra 610 both running System 7. Any ideas or solutions? Thanks Charles Willoughby Department of Chemistry University College London ------------------------------ End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************