Date: Fri, 25 Mar 94 09:09:28 PST
From: The Info-Mac Moderators <info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Reply-To: Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V12 #49
To: info-mac-list


Info-Mac Digest             Fri, 25 Mar 94       Volume 12 : Issue 49

Today's Topics:

      [!] So, exactly how busy in sumex-aim?
      [!] WHAT'S WRONG WITH SUMEX???
      [*] Buzzword Bingo HC stack; a game :)
      [*] Drop Shadow Photoshop Plug-in Filter
      [*] easy-view-244; a text file browser
      [*] fix-icons-10d4.hqx
      [*] Fractal Hearts (card game)
      [*] Greg's Buttons 3.1.5; prettier controls
      [*] High Speed Modem Musings (v1.1)
      [*] Hyper Table Periodic table Stack
      [*] Internaut V1N1 available; a magazine
      [*] LetterHeader 1.3; a watermark utility
      [*] MacROT13--a rot13 translator for Macintosh
      [*] Malph (v1.1); an applications switcher
      [*] Mangia! demo; a recipe database
      [*] On the Edge--a fun, solitare card game
      [*] Outland TCP Tool 1.0d3
      [*] Poker--a small video-poker simulation
      [*] Power Mac Commercial QT movie
      [*] PowerMac pictures
      [*] puriTEXT1.1; strips the resource fork off of data documents
      [*] Quake94Photos4.sea
      [*] Quake94Photos5.sea
      [*] Quake94Photos6.sea
      [*] SMF Utilities 1.0b8 (repost complete package)
      [*] Traps Check 1.0; checks for implemented system traps
      [*] Trekbats font
      APL fonts for mac
      Apple kills services
      Apple kills services (not true)
      Apple Macintosh emulator on UNIX?
      Apple Talk Config.
      cc:Mail attachment format
      cc:mail attachment format (q) (from: David L. Hirschberg)
      cd-rom for Mac and PC
      Chessmaster 3000 (Q)
      ClarisWorks 2.1
      Color ANSI Comm Tlbx. Tool?
      Crystallography software
      Darkstar
      EPS Conversion by Word
      Excel-picture-Word
      Fax control software for Quadras?
      Filesaver and File Sharing conflict
      ftp.apple.com
      GeoPort? Con't do it!
      Graphic Simulations Relations
      Guests and how to get their real names??
      How do I put this 4M SIMM in this LW Select 310?
      Igor Mailing List [Was: Igor Pro ships!]
      Info-Mac Digest V12 #47
      Info-Mac Digest V12 #48
      Internet and ARA
      Just a Hypethetical question
      LaserWtiter 630 or 360?
      Letter Gothic(R) font summary
      list of lists
      MacPPP and DNS error
      Mac WorkGroup Servers
      Microsoft Wake-up call...
      Mirroring archive sites on a BBS
      Need AOL non '800' phone/fax numbers (Q)
      Personal LW LS Grayscale
      phonebooks (A)
      Possible to disable icon highlighting?
      REQ: Utility to mount ext. HD unattended
      Should I buy an LC 575?
      SLIP & MacTCP
      SLIP/PPP (fwd)
      SupraFAXmodem 144lc
      Text Munger (like Perl but Mac-ish)
      Using a Matrix PCR Film Recorder on a Mac?
      utilities to block out bad sectors on a floppy (A)
      Virus Warning
      Word 6.0 & Excel 5.0

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Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 10:58:50 -0600 (CST)
From: Gordon Watts -- U of Rochester <GWATTS@WHCDF.FNAL.GOV>
Subject: [!] So, exactly how busy in sumex-aim?

Hi all,
  In some recent conversation with our wonderful sysadmin, Mike, I found some
interesting statistics about the sumex-aim usage:

>While we manage to get up to 20,000 logged in ftp connections a
>day, there are hundreds of thousands of "attempts"; some days, I'm certain
it's
>millions -- but I don't even want to try and log things at that level because
>the log process itself ends up consuming vast amount of resources, and
>"influences the measurement". Each of the rejections must be processed at a
>minimum by the kernel, even if we never start a process for it. It's a no win
>situation. If we allow unrestricted access, we overload the system. If we
>restrict, we still overload the system, because the total number of
connections
>skyrockets due to retries.

Ouch.  Hundreds of thousands of attempts.

In the same line, it has come to our attention that there are a number (quite a
few) who have little processes that keep trying sumex-aim every second until
they get in.  Over and over and over.  Please, can you turn down the cycle time
of those guys?  To like 5 or 10 minutes or so?  And run those jobs at night
(night for sumex-aim). BETTER YET -- USE THE MIRRORS. :)  Another mail message
in this digest contains the mirror list.  Find one close to you that is stable,
please.  Thanks!  Have a good day.  It is going to snow here.  I hope it is
sunny where you are.

	Gordon (info-mac moderator)

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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 94 14:32:04 EST
From: udbrooks@mcs.drexel.edu (David Brooks ('93))
Subject: [!] WHAT'S WRONG WITH SUMEX???

  First, I get a message like "Too many users are logged into the system con-
currently".  Then, I see this message:  530 System load too high for con-
nection attempt.

 What is wrong with SUMEX???

--David Brooks (udbrooks@mcs.drexel.edu)

[Nothing is wrong with sumex. :(  The problem is there are soooo many users
out there trying to use the internet and info-mac.  Sumex-Aim just cannot
handle the load.  If we let everyone in at once the archives would never be
updated, you would never complete a file transfer (the last time we overflowed
the os' kernal buffers and crashed sumex-aim), and info-mac would be useless.
So, we implement load management.  That is a euphimism for kicking users off
the system when there are too many of them.  That is what you got up there.
You will also see messages saying "ftp connection refused".  Sorry, but to
keep sumex-aim operating at reasonable speeds, we have to do it.  Below is
a list of our mirrors.  Use 'em, they are good.  That is what there are here
for! -Gordon

Info-Mac Archive Mirror Sites   12 Feb 1994

We ask that you use our mirrors INSTEAD OF our server, because the
load there now makes it difficult for us to manage the archive!

We cannot vouch for the quality of any mirror sites that are not
listed here, since they are not in touch with us.  If you know of a
mirror site not listed here, please inform us by email to
info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.

Each entry in the list below contains:
internet address         internet number  archive directory           #/#
contents                                  access methods
organization, city, [state,] country
[notes about the site]

internet number
   Try using this number if the internet address doesn't work
#/#
   The number of updates made to the mirror per number of days.
   (ie: 1/1 is once a day, 1/14 is once every two weeks.)
contents
   ALL -- the site carries all directories in the archive
   RECENT -- the site only carries files added within the past year or so.
   VERY-RECENT -- the site only carries files added within the past few
   months.

... Public Mirror Sites
.......................................................

archie.au                139.130.4.6      micros/mac/info-mac            1/1
ALL                                       ftp gopher
AARNet, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

ftp.univie.ac.at         131.130.1.4      mac/info-mac                   1/1
ALL                                       ftp gopher
Vienna University, Vienna, Austria

ftp.ucs.ubc.ca           ?                pub/mac/info-mac                 ?
?                                         ftp
University of British Columbia, BC, Canada

ftp.funet.fi             128.214.248.6    pub/mac/info-mac               1/1
VERY-RECENT ALL                           ftp gopher
Finnish Academic and Research Network FUNET, Espoo, Finland

ftp.jyu.fi               130.234.1.1      info-mac                       2/1
RECENT ALL                                ftp
Jyvaskyla University, Jyvaskyla, Finland
all binhex converted to macbinary

ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de      130.14.17.7      pub/mac/info-mac               1/1
RECENT ALL                                ftp gopher email
Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
email service: mail-server@cs.tu-berlin.de

ftp.rrzn.uni-hannover.de 130.75.2.2       pub/info-mac                   3/7
RECENT ALL                                ftp
University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany

ftp.uni-kl.de            131.246.9.95     /pub/info-mac                  1/1
VERY-RECENT app cfg cmp comm dev disk gui nwt prn sci text vir  ftp gopher
University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
gopher available via gopher.uni-kl.de

ftp.uni-stuttgart.de     129.69.8.13      pub/systems/mac/info-mac       1/7
vir card gui comm sci cmp prn cfg text nwt  ftp
Rechenzentrum Universitaet Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

ftp.technion.ac.il       132.68.1.10      pub/unsupported/mac/info-mac   2/1
ALL                                       ftp gopher
Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
also GopherMail access

ftp.center.osaka-u.ac.jp 133.1.4.10       info-mac                       1/1
ALL                                       ftp
Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
updating from U of Tokyo

ftp.iij.ad.jp            192.244.176.50   pub/info-mac                   1/1
ALL                                       ftp email
Internet Initiative Japan Inc., Tokyo, Japan
email service: archive-server@iij.ad.jp ("help" in message body for info)

ftp.u-tokyo.ac.jp        130.69.254.254   pub/info-mac                   1/1
ALL                                       ftp
University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

ftp.fenk.wau.nl          137.224.129.4    pub/mac/info-mac               2/1
RECENT ALL                                ftp gopher
Wageningen Agricultural University, Wageningen, Netherlands

ftp.lth.se               130.235.20.3     mac/info-mac                   1/1
ALL                                       ftp
Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden
4 users allowed during work hours (8-5 GMT), 8 other times

ftp.sunet.se             130.238.127.3    pub/mac/info-mac               1/1
ALL                                       ftp gopher fsp
Swedish University Network, Sweden
email and web access will be added soon

nic.switch.ch            130.59.1.40      mirror/info-mac                1/1
ALL                                       ftp gopher
SWITCH, Zurich, Switzerland

imftp.mgt.ncu.edu.tw     140.115.83.90    /pub/mac/info-mac              6/7
ALL                                       ftp
National Central University, ChungLi, Taiwan

ftp.edu.tw               140.111.1.10     Macintosh/info-mac             1/1
ALL                                       ftp fsp afs
National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

src.doc.ic.ac.uk         146.169.2.10     packages/info-mac              1/1
ALL                                       ftp email gopher web fsp ftam telnet
Imperial College, London, UK
email service: wizards@doc.ic.ac.uk

amug.org                 165.247.10.2     pub/ftp1/info-mac              1/1
ALL                                       ftp email
Arizona Macintosh Users Group, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
email service: not running yet

ftp.hawaii.edu           128.171.44.70    mirrors/info-mac               1/1
ALL                                       ftp
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

grind.isca.uiowa.edu     128.255.21.233   mac/infomac                    1/1
ALL                                       ftp gopher telnet
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
macbinary; telnet access for kermit and zmodem download with search functions

gopher.lcs.mit.edu       18.111.0.152     /pub/INFO-MAC                  1/1
ALL                                       gopher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

wuarchive.wustl.edu      128.252.135.4    systems/mac/info-mac           1/1
ALL                                       ftp gopher fsp
Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

ricevm1.rice.edu         128.42.30.2      [NA]                           1/1
RECENT ALL                                email, Bitnet message/file
Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
email LISTSERV@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU with "$MACARCH HELP" in body for help info

ftp.uu.net               192.48.96.9      archive/systems/mac/info-mac   1/1
ALL (except: card grf snd)                ftp
UUNET Technologies, Falls Church, Virginia, USA

... Private Mirror Sites
......................................................
  (These mirrors are only accessible from within their organizations)

DREA, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

LAAS - CNRS, Toulouse, France

Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel
accessible only via the Israeli Appletalk WAN

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA

Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA

Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA
accessible locally by ftp, gopher & appletalk; contact a CSR for information

Good luck!]

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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 23:32:03 -0600
From: browe@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Barry Rowe)
Subject: [*] Buzzword Bingo HC stack; a game :)

Dilbert inspired it!  This stack allows you to make bingo cards from a list
of words.  If you want to enjoy that next staff meeting, play buzzword
bingo!!  Included is a list of Educational Buzzwords.

This stack runs on HyperCard version 2.0 and later.  It is small and it is
pretty fast.  It is free and can be included on InfoMac  CDROMs. Please put
it into whatever directory it fits in.

barry

[Archived as /info-mac/game/brd/buzzword-bingo-hc.hqx; 13K]

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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 02:33:07 -0500 (EST)
From: Jeff Butterworth <jeffb@char.vnet.net>
Subject: [*] Drop Shadow Photoshop Plug-in Filter

Below is a binhex'ed Compact Pro archive containing two files.
They are:
"Read Me" - A brief description of the drop shadow Photoshop filter and
	    how to install it.
"Drop Shadow" - The drop shadow Photoshop filter.

This filter is absolutely free and I encourage you to distribute it as
widely as possible as long as it remains unmodified.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Jeff Butterworth
alien@vnet.net
(919) 832-4124

[Archived as /info-mac/app/photoshop-drop-shadow.hqx; 214K]

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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 14:49:00 -0800
From: tidbits@halcyon.com (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: [*] easy-view-244; a text file browser

Introduction

Easy View is a program for browsing of collections of structured (but
otherwise plain) text files, large or small. It allows very fast access by
recognizing the internal structure. All of the following text formats can
be viewed using Easy View:

* setext, including TidBITS and similar publications
* Info-Mac, c.s.m.p, or similar digests
* Mail collections: Internet, Navigator, Notebook, etc.
* Dictionaries
* Plain text

New Features

* Large sections are broken into 32K-byte chunks (in any text format)

* A view can be saved as setext or as outline (with the option key)

* Text files can be included from the menu or by dragging into EV
  (Such files are added to the active view)

* The backward/forward feature in a stack of 15 previous positions

Modified

* EV icon is colored slightly (may need to rebuild the Desktop)

* Last screen scrolls just enough to place the bottom line on top

* Copy/Clip operations are simplified: they apply on the selection,
  if any, on the entire section if none

* A finger cursor is displayed on clickable elements

* Clipped items are separated by CR's

* Command key is disabled with the arrows

Bug Fixes

* The infamous style bug seems to be gone

* The not-so-famous bug of empty files is fixed
  (You cannot include empty text files any more)

* The unneeded items in SFPut dialog are removed

[Archived as /info-mac/text/easy-view-244.hqx; 193K]

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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 94 09:17 +1300
From: "Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University, Hamilton, NZ"
<LDO@waikato.ac.nz>
Subject: [*] fix-icons-10d4.hqx

Here's an updated resubmission of my Fix Icons utility. It should work without
crashing on Power Macs now.

Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Info & Tech Services Division
University of Waikato
Hamilton
New Zealand
ldo@waikato.ac.nz

[Archived as /info-mac/disk/fix-icons-10d4.hqx; 24K]

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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 22:56:24 +0100
From: ingemar@lysator.liu.se
Subject: [*] Fractal Hearts (card game)

It's only black-and white, but I like it!

When the new Hearts game was uploaded, I noticed that this old gem isn't
available in any of the major archives, which is a shame, since it is one
of the best games I've ever played on the Mac. No color, no sounds, just
a straight and simple implementation of Hearts - but for some reason, it
has an excellent replay value. The opponents play rather well, which makes
it pretty hard to win.

The game is from 1987, I think, and works just fine under System 7.
(Someone has added a SIZE resource, setting it to 100k, which is too
little under Sys 7, but with 130k, it works.) Might conflict with MAZ.

Public Domain!

/Ingemar Ragnemalm (Not the author!)

[Archived as /info-mac/game/crd/fractal-hearts.hqx; 39K]

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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 21:01:20 +0000 (GMT)
From: Greg Landweber <gdl@maths.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: [*] Greg's Buttons 3.1.5; prettier controls

Greg's Buttons 3.1.5 (14 March 1994)        (c)1991-94 Gregory D. Landweber
Internet: gdl@maths.ox.ac.uk                            ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
CompuServe: 73131,3326                   REGISTRATION FEE: US $15 or UK L10

Do you think your Mac's interface looks flat and boring?  Do you wonder why
the push buttons are still in black and white, while the scroll bars and
windows are shaded with color tinges?  Are your eyes tired of staring at
white windows?  Does the blocky Chicago font get you down?  Maybe you just
yearn for a red stop sign.  If so, then you should try Greg's Buttons.  If
not, you should still try Greg's Buttons, and after a week or two you'll be
shocked by how plain your Mac looks without it!

Greg's Buttons is a control panel and requires System 7 and Color QuickDraw.
It works fine with both color and gray-scale monitors, and although it will
still work on a black and white screen, the effect will not be as impressive.

List of Features

o Replaces the standard flat black and white push buttons, check boxes,
  and radio buttons with tasteful 3-D color ones.  These buttons are
  designed to complement the windows and scroll bars in the System 7
  interface, and in particular they use the color tints that you can
  select in the "Color" control panel.  You can choose from two styles
  of push buttons and three styles of radio buttons and check boxes.
o Lets you select the background color of dialog boxes, menus (both the
  text and background colors), and Finder windows.
o Substitutes a font of your choice (chosen two versions each of Palatino
  and Helvetica) for Chicago as your system font.
o Colorizes the mini icons in Finder list views (View by Name, etc.).
  (This feature is enabled only under Systems 7.0, 7.0.1 or 7.1.)
o Colorizes the stop sign, caution, and note alert icons.

Changes since v3.1.4

o Version 3.1.4 accidentally brought back the conflict with Now Compress
  (sorry), and I have fixed it again.
o Changes to the "Substitute System Font" settings now take effect even
  more instantaneously than before.

"They don't look like buttons unless they're Greg's Buttons."

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/gregs-buttons-315.hqx; 69K]

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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 94 08:45:06 EST
From: iedh1@agt.gmeds.com ( Daniel J. Hofferth (317)230-4791/Allison Engine
Company)
Subject: [*] High Speed Modem Musings (v1.1)

High Speed Modem Musings (version 1.1)

Hi all,

I've now spent a number of months with a new V.32bis (14.4K) FAX/modem that
gave me a variety of little fits until I finally got everything running
just right.  Upgrading from a 2400 baud modem, I found I was mentally
unprepared for the many complications introduced by the much higher speeds.
The new modems are NOT always plug-n-play replacements for older models.

While quietly researching solutions, I noticed quite a few postings in
different lists/digests (such as this one) from people who are suffering
>From problems similar to those I puzzled over.  In the hope of helping
someone else, I posted the problems I had and solutions that worked for me.
Since that first posting in mid-January of '94, I've received a surprising
amount of feedback from others who shared my plight, those who still had
questions, and many offering alternative solutions.  This posting comprises
the original file with all of that feedback folded in.  Thanks to you all!

Think these are FAQ's?  Maybe so, but I couldn't find answers in any one
place.  Interesting thing is, these seem like perfectly natural problems
waiting for unsuspecting "slow" modem users who are about to move up.

 <As before, I'll say up front that I am no expert!  I am a neophyte.
  Although I've been a professional computer nerd for many years, I
  know almost zip about high speed modems (as I shamelessly prove below).
  Please feel free to comment, clarify, etc...>

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/info/high-speed-modem-musings-11.txt; 15K]

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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 23:32:25 -0600
From: browe@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Barry Rowe)
Subject: [*] Hyper Table Periodic table Stack

This large stack is a Periodic Table done by my HyperMedia students as a
project.  It should run on HyperCard 2.0 and greater.  It is free.  It may
be included on InfoMac CD roms.  Put it wherever it fits (HyperCard,
Info/nms?).

[Archived as /info-mac/sci/hyper-table-hc.hqx; 220K]

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Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 11:37:42 -0800
From: baboba@internaut.com (Bernard Aboba)
Subject: [*] Internaut V1N1 available; a magazine

Find enclosed the first issue of Internaut, an online magazine for Internet
users. This issue is a StuffIt archive that must be viewed using a Mosaic
browser.

To view the issue, use the Open Local... entry on the File menu, and open
index.html You do not need to be connected to the Internet or have MacTCP
to do this. Mosaic can be obtained via ftp ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu, cd
/Mac/Mosaic.

In this issue:

Net History

How the Internet Came to Be, by Vinton Cerf
How PC-IP Came to Be, by John Romkey
Community Memory, a History, by Lee Felsenstein
Information Ecology

How-To

Understanding Cable Internet
CU-SeeMe: Video Conferencing over the Internet
TCP/IP on the PC
Installing Taylor UUCP

Store and Forward Networks

OneNet
The State of the Matrix
BBSNet, by Brad Clements

Many people have asked whether we have a URL for this yet. The answer is
that we are looking to make the magazine available on many sites worldwide,
rather than just one. If you'd like your site to carry it, let me know.

[Archived as /info-mac/per/internaut-v1-01-html.hqx; 255K]

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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 94 18:57:56 EST
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <IRBLOOM@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject: [*] LetterHeader 1.3; a watermark utility

On ZIFNet Mac today, I found LetterHeader ($20 Shareware), a neat
extension that "flashes" a letterhead or watermark on an otherwise
pristine document when printing. It uses PICT files to flash below
or above (your choice) whatever document you are printing. You may
choose one flash to print on page 1 and one to print on subsequest
pages. Neat toy.

I've been patching our letterhead into my MacWrite Pro stationery. It'd
be neat if I didn't have to store the letterhead stuff in each document.
Also, printing a watermark, like "DRAFT" in big outline text, on each
page of the printout is useful. There is a commercial product that does
that (Working Software Something? I forget), but I'm fond of shareware.

Printing to a PICT file should be readily done via Print-2-Pict. Not in
MacWrite Pro (1.5v1). Major crash. But it doesn't seem to be P2P's fault.
P2P 3.5 works fine from Edit II and from (Oh yuck!) MS Word 5.1, so I
assume the fine folk at Claris did it again. PopChar needed revised to
work with MacWrite Pro, too. Kept my wife using MacWrite II for many
months until Gunther figured out what violence Claris was doing to
Apple's standards.

If you want to get a "flash" from MacWrite Pro, choose the "file" output
option and "print" the file as EPS with normal Mac header. Then you need
to use something like PICTuresque to convert the EPSF to a PICT. I have
written the author of P2P about the problem with MWP. Maybe a revision
will be forthcoming. Meanwhile, MWP users had best also get PICTuresque
and resign themselves to a two-stage process.

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

[Archived as /info-mac/text/letter-header-13.hqx; 62K]

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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 20:35:08 -0800 (PST)
From: John Stiles <LTAYLOR@academic.csubak.edu>
Subject: [*] MacROT13--a rot13 translator for Macintosh

[Archived as /info-mac/cmp/mac-rot13.hqx; 5K]

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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 94 13:04:04 -0800
From: Nitin Ganatra <ganatra@apple.com>
Subject: [*] Malph (v1.1); an applications switcher

Enclosed please find the latest version of Malph.  If you have
version 1.0,  please replace it with this one.

Use Malph to switch between applications under System 7 instead of
pulling down the application menu.  To switch to another app,
simply click on the application icon.  Malph also has a small
indicator showing what process is currently frontmost, which
updates even if you click in application windows to switch between
processes.

If you have the Drag Manager installed on your Macintosh, you can
drop Finder icons on an application icon, and the files will open
with that application.  This is handy when you want to quickly open
a file without using the "Open." command from within the
application.  Currently, the Drag Manager is only available through
APDA (1-800-282-2732) or with an application that licenses it for
distribution with their product.  Hopefully someday it will be
rolled it into System software.

Check out the README file included for information on the rest of
the features, and for a list of features added since 1.0.

This program is freely distributable, but do not
alter it, and please include the README.  If you have any questions
or feedback, I`d love to hear it.  Enjoy!

Copyright C1994 Nitin Ganatra

Internet: ganatra@apple.com
AppleLink: GANATRA

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/malph-11.hqx; 52K]

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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 22:58:04 -0800
From: upstill@netcom.com (Steve Upstill)
Subject: [*] Mangia! demo; a recipe database

This file, 'mangia-1.1-demo.hqx' is an update of a self-extracting
Compact Pro archive, generally posted as "mangia-demo.hqx" or
"mangia1.01.demo.hqx": the demo version of Mangia!, a
Macintosh cooking application for filing recipes, indexing a
recipe collection, planning meals, and making out shopping lists.
Mangia! is a commercial product, but this demo copy comes with no
strings attached, explicit permission to duplicate it, and no
expectation of any fees. It is identical to the released version
except that it includes many fewer recipes (40 vs. 340), and it
expires two months after first being launched (NOT after posting)
by the individual user. "Expires" simply means it politely quits
when launched.

Questions, hosannas and other feedback may be directed to
upstill@netcom.com.

[Archived as /info-mac/app/mangia-11-demo.hqx; 700K]

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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 20:35:42 -0800 (PST)
From: John Stiles <LTAYLOR@academic.csubak.edu>
Subject: [*] On the Edge--a fun, solitare card game

[Archived as /info-mac/game/crd/on-the-edge.hqx; 7K]

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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 15:10:49 PST
From: Bill Lipa <lipa@camis.stanford.edu>
Subject: [*] Outland TCP Tool 1.0d3

Outland TCP Tool
Copyright ) 1994 Outland, Inc.
All Rights Reserved

The Outland TCP Tool is a connection tool for the Communications Toolbox.
It uses the MacTCP driver to communicate over TCP/IP networks.  The tool
supports synchronous and asynchronous open, close, listen, read, and write.

In the settings dialog, you can enter an IP address and port number.
If you are using the tool to open a connection, the address and port
number are of the TCP port you are connecting to.  If you are using the
tool to listen for an incoming connection, the address is ignored (it is
always the local machine), and the port is the port number to listen on.
The port number 0 has a special meaning to the MacTCP driver; using it is
not recommended.

You may be freely copy and use this tool for personal, non-commercial
activities.  For all other uses, contact Outland.

Bill Lipa
outland@aol.com
415-328-5659

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/outland-tcp-tool-10d3.hqx; 67K]

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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 20:35:23 -0800 (PST)
From: John Stiles <LTAYLOR@academic.csubak.edu>
Subject: [*] Poker--a small video-poker simulation

[Archived as /info-mac/game/crd/video-poker.hqx; 6K]

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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 15:25:59 -0600
From: Kevin R Lesniewicz <kev@world.std.com>
Subject: [*] Power Mac Commercial QT movie

I made this QuickTime movie of an Apple Power Macintosh commercial
because I figured people would want it. There may be a better quality one
out there, I don't know. Enjoy!  (Requires QuickTime v1.5 or later)

[Archived as /info-mac/grf/qt/powermac-commercial.hqx; 935K]

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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 13:55:12 +0200
From: zviki@tx (Zviki Cohen)
Subject: [*] PowerMac pictures

	Hello !

	Attached are 3 pictures scanned from the Power Mac brochure. The 3
pictures include:

* All 3 models together.
* Large PowerMac 7100 (showing the fire picture on the monitor).
* The PPC601 chip (on the backround of the PowerMac factory or something
like that).

	As I said it was scanned from the Apple brochure, so all rights
reserved to Apple Computer Inc. (which I've got nothing to do with...).

	The pictures were scanned with an Apple Color OneScanner using
Ofoto, manipulated using ColorIt and than compressed into JPEG compression
using the Apple Picture Compressor. All 3 are packed in one StuffIt archive
and binhexed.

	Enjoy !

BTW: I saw a posting a couple of days ago, somebody complained that you
don't have the Apple logo on the archives. Of course, everybody knows what
you get on the clipboard when you open the "puzzle" in the apple menu and
choose copy...

		Zviki Cohen     Technion - Israel institue of technology
		Email: zviki@tx.technion.ac.il

[Archived as /info-mac/grf/the-powermacs.hqx; 404K]

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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 94 12:34:29 JST
From: Tetsuya Mizutori <mizutori@ai.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Subject: [*] puriTEXT1.1; strips the resource fork off of data documents

The puriTEXT purifies your TEXT documents from the vain resource forks.
Just drag and drop the documents onto the puriTEXT application icon, and
you can discard any resource forks involved in the documents completely.
This program requires System 7.0, or later.

I have produced this little program to save the disk space by reducing
the size of documents. Most text editors store their preference data,
like tab stops, font information and others, in the resource fork,
which may make up to about 300 - 500 bytes for each document. To be worse,
any fragment of data file occupies at least one block size of disk space,
which is to amount to 4 K bytes for 200 MB hard disks!

The puriTEXT discards the whole resource forks involved in the TEXT files.
You may write a briefing memo using familiar text editors for easy-editing
sake, while on saving it you will find out this tool is a great convenience.

Optional switches:
 * Change the Creator to [ttxt]
 * Preserve the Modified Date
 * Alert when Resource Fork is bigger than [10] KB
 * Don't purify the documents of creators [MzpT]

The archive file includes the program source codes written by THINK-C 6.0.
This is a freeware program. You can freely distribute this program.

Mizutori Tetsuya, RCAST, Univ. of Tokyo, JAPAN
Mizutori@ai.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp

[Archived as /info-mac/disk/puri-text-11.hqx; 85K]

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Date: 23 Mar 1994 18:17:35 -0800
From: kemsley@ipld01.hac.com (Dave Kemsley)
Subject: [*] Quake94Photos4.sea

I have scanned in several photos that either my wife, Jane, a friend, Terry
Beaumier and I took on 22 February 1994, just 5 days after the 6.8
Northridge/Reseda earthquake.  I thought there would be many people who
would like to see photos of some of the destruction other than what you can
get out of the media.  I scanned them on a Sun (ugh!) and saved them at the
highest quality JPEG allows (it was the only format that the software had
in common with the Mac).  I decided to sample them at 150 dpi in order to
keep the images large enough to show good detail but also small enough to
make it worth the download time.  All the images are less than 700 Kb (15
in all), but I have compressed those of the same site into one ".sea" file
to keep them together and save download time.  There are 7 sets of photos
in this series.  I hope others will also post some of their photos--I have
seen some really dramatic and disturbing shots.

The names of the files are:

Quake94Photos1.sea
Quake94Photos2.sea
Quake94Photos3.sea
Quake94Photos4.sea
Quake94Photos5.sea
Quake94Photos6.sea
Quake94Photos7.sea

[Archived as /info-mac/grf/quake94-photos-grp4.hqx; 1770K]

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Date: 23 Mar 1994 18:20:09 -0800
From: kemsley@ipld01.hac.com (Dave Kemsley)
Subject: [*] Quake94Photos5.sea

I have scanned in several photos that either my wife, Jane, a friend, Terry
Beaumier and I took on 22 February 1994, just 5 days after the 6.8
Northridge/Reseda earthquake.  I thought there would be many people who
would like to see photos of some of the destruction other than what you can
get out of the media.  I scanned them on a Sun (ugh!) and saved them at the
highest quality JPEG allows (it was the only format that the software had
in common with the Mac).  I decided to sample them at 150 dpi in order to
keep the images large enough to show good detail but also small enough to
make it worth the download time.  All the images are less than 700 Kb (15
in all), but I have compressed those of the same site into one ".sea" file
to keep them together and save download time.  There are 7 sets of photos
in this series.  I hope others will also post some of their photos--I have
seen some really dramatic and disturbing shots.

The names of the files are:

Quake94Photos1.sea
Quake94Photos2.sea
Quake94Photos3.sea
Quake94Photos4.sea
Quake94Photos5.sea
Quake94Photos6.sea
Quake94Photos7.sea

[Archived as /info-mac/grf/quake94-photos-grp5.hqx; 1616K]

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Date: 23 Mar 1994 18:26:15 -0800
From: kemsley@ipld01.hac.com (Dave Kemsley)
Subject: [*] Quake94Photos6.sea

[Archived as /info-mac/grf/quake94-photos-grp6.hqx; 1871K]

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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 94 12:06:40 EST
From: bkirsch@NADC.NADC.NAVY.MIL (B. Kirsch)
Subject: [*] SMF Utilities 1.0b8 (repost complete package)

Standard MIDI File Utitities
	- Changes Type and Creator
	- Remaps General MIDI program numbers and drum notes.

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/util/smf-utilites-10b8.hqx; 53K]

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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 09:20:50 +0100
From: massimo@rock.CSELT.STET.IT
Subject: [*] Traps Check 1.0; checks for implemented system traps

Traps Check inspects all the documented toolbox and operating system traps and
tells whether they are implemented as native PowerPC code or as 680x0 code. The
results are saved in a text file with tabs (you may use your word processplay
or
print the list
better then woth texedit).
Traps Check is compiled as 680x0 code and runs both on standard and power
Macs.
On a standard 680x0 Mac it only shows 680x0 traps, but you can still use it to
see which traps are not implemented on your machine.
For those who dont have a Power Macintosh, a sample report generated by a
6100/60 running system 7.1.2 is included.
Traps Check is freeware. All forms of distribution are allowed, as long as this
documentation is included and the package is not modified in any way.
If you really like Traps Check, take a look at all my shareware utilities and
see if youre interested in some of them or just send me a postcard to say
hello.

Alessandro Levi Montalcini

sent by Massimo Gagliasso
massimo@rock.cselt.stet.it

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/traps-check-10.hqx; 38K]

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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 94 17:39:12 -0600
From: wonko@cs.wisc.edu (Wonko the Sane)
Subject: [*] Trekbats font

AT last, after much huffing about it in all my previous readmes
and in my correspondence with people, the long awaited, much over
budget, bigger than expected "Trekbats" font is finally here.  It's
a whoppingly big collection of symbols, logoes, and yes, even starship
diagrams from everyone's favorite Sci-fi TV show.  It's considered
a "work in progress" because even after three months of trying I couldn't
create or even find all the logoes I wanted.  So if anyone has
any suggestions on how to improve, expand, or generally make it
cooler, let me know.  Approx $10 shareware, Kiwi Media.

Eric Oehler
wonko@dax.cs.wisc.edu

[Archived as /info-mac/font/trekbats.hqx; 186K]

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Date: Fri, 25 Mar 94 18:01:09 LAT
From: Agris Krusts <SM20403%LVRULV11.LANET.LV@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: APL fonts for mac

Hello

Does anyone knows where can I get freeware or shareware APL fonts
for MAC

Agris

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

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 94 10:46:16 EST
From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@pica.army.mil>
Subject: Apple kills services

m.deyssenroth@ic.ac.uk wrote:
>hello info-macs
>
>probably all of you know the ftp.apple.com server. some of you may know the
>nice welcome: this server is for USA only - byebye rest of the world (free
>interpretation)
>anyway, you could log in there and get your Quicktime or Speechmanager or
>whatever.
>I tried to do this today : -sorry, we refuse to offer our services to unknown
>hosts.
>well, our src.doc server is one of the biggest mirrors (sumex etc.) under the
>european sky - so i just think they get serious about their anti-other-than-
>usa-behaviour. (oh sure, we get the stuff ftrom our dealers - if they have it
>and we've got the cash)
>So has anybody an explanation for this which could prevent me to become
>seriously pissed off with our loved Apple...

Hmmm. I'll try to be gentle here: The fact that ftp.apple.com does not
recognize your host via a reverse DNS lookup has nothing to do with your
size or status or anything of that nature.

It has to do with their nameserver lookup timing out before if finds out
the hostname which maps to your IP address. If ftp.apple.com cannot find a
hostname which corresponds tot he IP address you're logging in from, it
will give you the error msg you describe. I've gotten it from our very well
connected site in the US, so this is not unusual.

I'll bet the next line in the error msg told you to try again in a little
while. Did you?

	     tom coradeschi <+> tcora@pica.army.mil <+> DoD#413
			     Disco Still Sucks

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Date: 25 Mar 1994 14:10:21 +0000
From: hewat@ill.fr (Alan Hewat, ILL Grenoble)
Subject: Apple kills services (not true)

m.deyssenroth@ic.ac.uk wrote:
>probably all of you know the ftp.apple.com server.
>I tried to do this today : -sorry, we refuse to offer our services to unknown
>hosts.

Still works fine for me from France, even from my Mac.  I once enquired of
the administrator of ftp.apple.com about this USA-only thing.  He said it
wasn't
enforced.

Your problem must be because your machine name and IP number are not
registered correctly.  We once had a similar problem, and this was the reason.

Alan Hewat, ILL Grenoble, FRANCE (hewat@ill.fr) Fax (France=33).76.48.39.06

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

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 08:08:09 PST
From: Andrew_R_Melnyk.Wbst128@xerox.com
Subject: Apple Macintosh emulator on UNIX?

Friday, March 11 I recall reading somewhere that Apple has lisenced system 7 to
run under UNIX X-window and SUN and HP were offering this.  I dont believe it
was Liken but a closer to a port of the PowerPc system.  Unfortunately I cannot
find where I read this.  Did anyone else see this?  This is great news to Mac
lovers who have SUNs at work.
Andy

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

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 94 14:11:32 PST
From: Victor Zeve <VZEVE@intellicorp.com>
Subject: Apple Talk Config.

I have been tasked with upgrading our daisy chained Apple Talk to a new
topology. I currently have 5 zones of 25+ nodes. I'm considering either
a star or trunk topology. I need some information on performance on both the
star and trunk along with reliability informantion. We have each zone tied
into our ethernet via FastPath4's. I'm looking at the cost vice the
expanability of the network. I'm leaning towards a trunk because of the cost
and reliability. If anyone has any information on this please e-mail me at
vzeve@intellicorp.com .

Thank You

Victor Zeve
phone : 415-965-5591
fax   : 415-965-5647

 ------

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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 11:58:46 -0600
From: "W. R. Wing" <wrw@cosmail1.ctd.ornl.gov>
Subject: cc:Mail attachment format

David,
  What you are seeing is an example of UUencode, the UNIX-to-UNIX Encoding
scheme that is just as popular in the UNIX community as Binhex is in the
Mac world.  There are a couple of ways to encode and decode such files
including UUTool (available at better archive sites everywhere) and the new
commercial version of Eudora, which offers the choice of Binhex or
UUencoding of attached files.  Binhex is "smart" in dealing with both data
and resource fork information in the Mac world, UUencoding tries (by
default) to handle only the data fork so type and creator information tends
to get lost.  Commercial Eudora can assign them by using file-extension
mapping or they can easily be replaced by something like FileTyper (also at
Sumex).  Actually, as long as the files you are transferring are things
like Word, WordPerfect, and Excel or anything else that is available
accross platforms it probably doesn't make any difference; these can open
untyped files anyway.  UUencode was in existance long before Binhex, I'd
hesitate to declare that UUencode wasn't a "standard."

Bill Wing

wrw@ornl.gov (W. R. Wing, Office of Scientific Computing, Oak Ridge Nat.
Lab.)

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

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 14:09:08 -0600
From: dwyman@houston.geoquest.slb.com (Douglas Wyman)
Subject: cc:mail attachment format (q) (from: David L. Hirschberg)

recently Mr. Hirschberg writes

>I am hoping that last paragraph will wake up all those cc:mail fans out
>there or the makers of cc:mail who have not answered the 3 mails I have
>sent them.  If you are going to flame me for that last statement-flame me
>with some answers too!

Perhaps the problem lies in his mail system.  I tried to send new mail
to him and to his postmaster but it all bounces with the following error:

   ----- The following addresses had delivery problems -----
<bnhirsch@weizmann.weizmann.ac.il>  (unrecoverable error)

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to weizmann.weizmann.ac.il.:
>>> MAIL From:<dwyman@houston.geoquest.slb.com@houston.geoquest.slb.com>
<<< 501 Syntax Error. Unexpected Token '@'
554 <bnhirsch@weizmann.weizmann.ac.il>... Remote protocol error

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

 ----------------------------------------------
Douglas Wyman
System Engineering
GeoQuest, 5247 Langfield Road, Houston TX 77040
USA 713 460-1260 phone
USA 713 460-9579 fax
Internet: wyman@houston.geoquest.slb.com
SINet:    m_sgqhou::wyman
 ----------------------------------------------

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Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 15:16:24 +0000 (CUT)
From: Maurizio Lana <lana%rs950.cisi.unito.it@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: cd-rom for Mac and PC

Yes, to your question.
I used a NEC CDR75 cdrom drived (changing the connected cable)
with Mac and PC; the trick is getting the drivers; usually it is best to
buy the driver in Mac flavour, and then to use Corel SCSI software
along with an Adaptec scsi card to connect it to the PC. The Adaptec
cards are someway the Rolls of scsi cards; a Trantor card could also go,
or a Future Domain one.
Now I use an Apple CD300: it is hooked to my Mac through the usual
software from Apple; to the PC it is connected through Adaptec 1522A card
and corel drivers.

If I can help anymore, ask freely!
maurizio
Maurizio Lana -  CISI - Universita' di Torino
lana@rs950.cisi.unito.it  fax: 39-11-8990458

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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 17:39 EST
From: Don't Panic! <ABRODY@vax.clarku.edu>
Subject: Chessmaster 3000 (Q)

Dear Netters,
I noticed Software Toolworks Chessmaster 3000 Macintosh versioon does not
 read the old games from Chessmaster 2100 for the mac.
Have they made a patch to solve this problem?
If not, could someone with AOL access post this question to the TOOLWORKS
section?  They apparantly have a tech support person on AOL.
Please let me know where ftp/gopher such a patch might exist?
My Chessmaster 2100 disk has corrupted beyond Norton Repairs abilities.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
ABRODY@VAX.CLARKU.EDU

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

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 20:31:14 -0600
From: (Pete Chane) <pchaneuw@vms2.macc.wisc.edu>
Subject: ClarisWorks 2.1

ClarisWorks 2.1 includes a non documented text-to-speech function.  You can
have text read back to you (on a PlainTalk machine) by using the "lips"
button in the shortcuts.  The speech button is the last one in the edit
shortcuts list.  You must install this shortcut manually.

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

Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 02:22:02 -0600
From: bkim@ddsw1.mcs.com (Brian Kim)
Subject: Color ANSI Comm Tlbx. Tool?

	Is there a color ANSI terminal emulator communications toolbox
tool? The only terminal tools I've seen so far emulate VT100 & 320's, at
the best.

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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 94 16:35:59 +0100
From: sz0374@cd4680fs.rrze.uni-erlangen.de
Subject: Crystallography software

[Dear Moderator: Please include this in the InfoMacDigest]

Dear people,

	    I am looking for a crystallographic application for interpreting
X-ray diffraction data. If anyone knows a (preferably shareware/public domain)
programme that is able to calculate the dimensions of a unit cell from
a given set of theta position values and/or assign hkl indices to individual
reflexes, I'd be grateful if he/she dropped me a line where to get such
software from.

	   It doesn't necessarily have to be Mac software, a programme
that runs under MS DOS would do as well.

	   Thanks in advance,

-Martin Fleischer

Please reply directly to sz0374@cd4680fs.rrze.uni-erlangen.de
or fleischr@anorganik.chemie.uni-erlangen.de

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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 15:33:47 -0500 (EST)
From: Scott Altschuler <sa3f+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Darkstar

Hello

    I was wondering where I can now find DarkStar.  I know that it is
Apple's but it is not on ftp.apple.com.  Who can I contact to get it.
Can I buy it?  Let me know where to go from here.  Thanks for your help
and info.

					Scott Altschuler

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

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 94 10:47:00
From: "rrs" <rrs@fwpa.com>
Subject: EPS Conversion by Word

Morris_Balamut@INS.COM (Morris Balamut) writes:

>I recently received several files that Word insists on converting from
>EPS. My problem is that when Word is finished 'converting' the file all that
>appears in the window is some of the % header info.

Take out the file called "EPS-TIFF-PICT" from the Word Commands folder and put
it in somewhere else, like a new folder call "unused commands".  This will stop
word from interpreting the EPS text.  I had the same problem.

Bob Sachs, rrs@fwpa.com

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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 20:00:34 -0800
From: tonya@tidbits.com (Tonya Engst)
Subject: Excel-picture-Word

>
>Date: 18 Mar 1994 16:32:27 MET1DST
>From: "Roger berglund"  <BERGLUND%virgo.ce.kth.se@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
>Subject: Excel-picture-Word
>
>I dont know my problem has been discussed before but it is very annoying.
>First I make my graphs in MS-Excel 4.0 then I try to copy it link it or even
>publish it to be able to add it into my MS-Word 5.1 document. No matter what
>method I try to use the result is the same. All thin (hair)line have become
>thicker and the graphs now looks terrible. My way of getting around the
>problem ist to redraw the graph in a drawingprogram and then paste it in
>Word but this i very time consuming.
>What's wrong????
>Is there any other solution?????
>(I have heard that the same problem ocurres in the PC-world!!!)

Roger,

What's to say? You are exactly correct in your description of the problem
with moving hairlines between Excel and Word - it just doesn't work. Or at
least - if it does - I haven't found the secret. Microsoft certainly
acknowledges that it doesn't work...

-tonya

Tonya Engst, TidBITS Editor -- tonya@tidbits.com --info@tidbits.com
My opinions are not necessarily those of my employer, Microsoft

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

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 16:45:42 +0100
From: Sappino_Stefano/Tecsiel_Roma_Utenti@tecpi.TECSIEL.IT
Subject: Fax control software for Quadras?

Hi, I have just received my new Quadra 650 and it works fine :), but...
The Abaton INIT that controls the Abaton Interfax/modem crashes at startup.
The Interfax software version is an old 1.1 (1988).
Is there anywhere a shareware fax/modem software able to automatically receive
faxes and to program send time?
Or, does anyone know the Abaton e-mail address or fax number?
Thanks,
Stefano

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

Date: Fri, 25 Mar 94 11:38:20 EST
From: Arel Yizhak Weisberg <weisberg@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Subject: Filesaver and File Sharing conflict

If I attempt to turn on File Sharing, or start up my machine with File
Sharing turned on I get a message "application unknown has unexpectadly quit
due to an error of type 33".  This only occurs if I have the Norton Utilities
2.0 Filesaver control panel turned on.  Also, File Sharing never starts up
when this error message shows up.

I have an LC 10/40 with an Asante Ethernet card w/FPU.  In addition to
an Ethertalk Appletalk connection I am running Mac TCP as well.

Thanks in advance for any help or pointers.
Arel Weisberg
weisberg@phoenix.princeton.edu

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

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 11:42:06 -0600
From: ifzd321@mcl.cc.utexas.edu (Richard Wackerbarth)
Subject: ftp.apple.com

Don't feel alone, I think apple has messed up! This does not appear to be
directed at those of you across the pond. In reaction to your message on
info-mac, I attempted to connect. In the past, I often got booted because
they restrict access to one per domain.  However, I could connect if the
timing was OK.  Today, however, the story is different.  See the following.
I assure you that utexas.edu is well connected to the net.

To: rick@akbar.cc.utexas.edu (Rick Watson)
From: ifzd321@mcl.cc.utexas.edu (Richard Wackerbarth)
Subject: DNS for SLIP accounts
Cc:
Bcc:
X-Attachments:

>From ftp.apple.com:

421- We have failed to find a hostname for your IP address [128.83.111.16]
421- in the Domain Name System. This is probably because your nameserver
421- does not have an IN-ADDR record for your address in its tables.
421- We refuse service to hosts whose names we cannot resolve. If this
421- is simply because your nameserver is hard to reach or slow to respond
421- then try again in a minute or so, and perhaps our nameserver will have
421- your hostname in its cache by then. If not, try reaching us from a host
421 that is in the DNS.

I thought all of the SLIP IP's had to have DNS names.  Who is confused?

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 94 11:18:13 -0600
From: rick@akbar.cc.utexas.edu (Rick Watson)
To: ifzd321@mcl.cc.utexas.edu
Subject: Re:  DNS for SLIP accounts

akbar> host 128.83.111.16 ns1
Using domain server:
Name: ns1.utexas.edu
Address: 128.83.185.40
Aliases:

Name: slip-15-16.ots.utexas.edu
Address: 128.83.111.16
Aliases:

All the other authoritative nameservers for utexas.edu also appear to
have the correct entry. Unless I missed something, Apple is confused.

--Rick

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

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 94 13:33:11 EST
From: Bill Harrigan <WHAR0739@URIACC.URI.EDU>
Subject: GeoPort? Con't do it!

Well, to tell you the truth, I've owned a Geoport for a little longer than
you have(about 2 1/2 months more) and I think I can give a little better
evaluation than someone that's only had it for 30 minutes.

I don't know what happened to you, but my Geoport Telecom Adapter has worked
fine from day 1 and has given no problems...let me qualify that...the
software has given me a slight problem, but that was in a special case.

The fax works fine, the modem works fine up to 14.4k, it accepts AT commands.

What more do you want?

Bill

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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 10:03:42 EST
From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" <JFRITZ%WVNVM.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Graphic Simulations Relations

I had a very bad experience with Graphic Simulations. They make an
excellent series of flight simulators (Hellcats, F/A-18) for the
Mac. Their software is fine, but their customer relations stink.

An attempt to communicate with Graphics Simulations about the copy
protection used in Hellcats and F/A-18 resulted in an abusive and
inflammatory response from them.  They insulted me and were most
unprofessional in their response.  No customer deserves to be treated
that way--no matter what the reason.  Obviously, I will not be purchasing
an additional products by Graphics Simulations--no matter how good
the software might be!

Here is the background:

I raised a question to Graphics Simulations regarding the copy protection
of the F/A-18 flight simulator. This was software that I purchased
personally. Graphic Simulations copy protects their software in a way
that requires users to look through a large manual for keywords every time
the program is started.  When a user sends in the registration card, Graphics
Simulations returns a unlock code that makes the look up unnecessary.

On the surface, this appears to be a reasonable policy.  The problem is that
Graphics Simulations is very, very slow processing the registrations cards.
I mailed my registration card in on Monday, February 21.  As of today
(March 24), I still do not have the code to unlock the software.

Because Graphic Simulations is so slow in processing cards, I suggested
that the take registrations by e-mail.  It is a faster, better process for
handling software registration.

Graphic Simulations responded that they do not accept registration by
e-mail.  A number of us now suspect that they are building a
mailing list and using the unlock code as an excuse to get names and
addresses.  There is nothing wrong with building a mailing list.  However,
Graphic Simulations is doing a disservice to their users by making them
wait for eons before they return the unlock code.

I realize that F/A-18 isn't Excel or FileMaker Pro.  I don't depend on
it to get my daily work done.  Still, there is something wrong with
taking someone's money and then not responding promptly with fully
enabled software.

In my e-mail to Graphics Simulations I said:

> We have paid the license fee for the F/A-18 and now must wait for
> snail mail and your turn around time (weeks at best) to return the
> code to us. This is unfair to us when we could get a much faster
> response by e-mail.

> Let me point out also that delays in receiving our unlock codes
> only encourage hackers into writing patches to defeat your copy
> protection schemes.

I have seen the result of this policy working against Graphics
Simulations. I was at a conference last week and one booth was
running F/A 18 as part of a demonstration. They had taken the
time to build an Excel spreadsheet with every keyword in the
manual. The reason they gave for doing this was the long wait
for Graphic Simulations to respond to the registration card. I
didn't ask and they didn't say, but clearly it would be
extremely easy for these enterprising folks to distribute this one
page document to anyone who requested it. This blows Graphics
Simulations copy protection wide open.

I purchased F/A-18 in good faith, paid for it, but still do not have use of
the application without having my manual at my side.  This is wrong and
patently unfair.  I've done my part (legally bought the software, sent in
the card), but Graphics Simulation hasn't done their part.

Jeffrey Fritz
West Virginia University
jfritz@wvnvm.wvnet.edu

Note:  This is personal software, not purchased by my employer.  Therefore
the opinions expressed are mine and are not my employer's.

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

Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 09:02:55 -0800
From: jverreau@sol.uvic.ca (John Verreault)
Subject: Guests and how to get their real names??

Does anyone know of a way to find out the actual machine name or even
network address of someone who is logged on to your Mac as Guest?  I use
this for a drop folder or public file distribution but some character has
setup his startup to gab my public folder for a volume on his/her Mac.  It
is slowing things up (I'm not running a quadra, yet) and I just want to
nudge the person to reset his startup volumes....

Thanks in advance.   ;->

John Verreault        jverreau@sol.uvic.ca
University of Victoria, School of Business

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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 94 10:21:24 -0600
From: tuc@cs.wisc.edu (Brian A. Cole)
Subject: How do I put this 4M SIMM in this LW Select 310?

Ok, I've got the proper 4M SIMM for a LaserWriter Select 310, and I have
an appointment with said LaserWriter 310 next week.  So tell me, how do
istall this puppy?

Do I need any special tools?  Do I have to take the machine completely
apart, or is there a particularly easy way to gain access to the SIMM
slot?  Where in the machine is the SIMM slot anyway?

Even skimpy information is better than none, so please send email.


thanks,
  brian
  tuc@cs.wisc.edu

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

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 94 10:54:21 EST
From: Igor List Maintainer <tcora@pica.army.mil>
Subject: Igor Mailing List [Was: Igor Pro ships!]

Melissa A. Hines <hines@cbnewsg.cb.att.com> wrote:
>The newest version of THE best scientific graphing and data analysis
>package, Igor Pro, is now shipping! As a very satisfied user since
[...]
>information, you can either contact them directly
>(WaveMetrics@AppleLink.Apple.com or (503) 620-3001) or download the
>demo available via ftp anonymous on d31rz0.stanford.edu. There are two
>versions currently available, Igor and Igor Pro (the latter being for
>power users). The guys at WaveMetrics can explain the differences.
>
>I will be happy to answer any questions about Igor via e-mail, as I
>have been beta-testing Igor Pro. The bottom line is that Igor got me
>through graduate school and a post-doc -- I'd give up my Mac before
>I'd give up Igor.

To add to this briefly: There is also a mailing list for Igor users. Send
mail to igor-request@pica.army.mil to be added.

		     Tom Coradeschi, Igor List Maintainer
			 <igor-request@pica.army.mil>

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

Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 15:15:33 +0000 (GMT)
From: "D. Scott" <ds10025@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V12 #47

I wonder if you can help me? I am looking for a tape streamer or a DAT
device, that can bACK UP DATA from a MAC, ALSO FROM A PC (with the right
software) via a parallel port or SCSI interface. Also, I want to back up
a intel server. Is this possible?

Dan

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

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 94 11:57:34 EST
From: Doffie Hochreich <HOCHREIC%UCONNVM.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V12 #48

Michael Carter's question re net access:

I, too,wanted to control my ethernet office Mac from my PB at home in order
to take advantage of programs like Fetch, NCSA Telnet, etc.  The best
solution I could find was to use Timbuktu Remote and hook up a Supra 14.4
modem to my office machine.  I dial that machine and press a button
called "Control" in the Timbuktu app and voila!  I can do ftp file
transfers to the desktop of my office machine and then copy them over
to my PB's hd at reasonably fast modem speed.  It ain't pretty, but
it's really more reliable than I would have guessed.

PS the new Timbuktu Pro is allegedly *much* faster -- can't afford it now
though.

Hope this helps.

Doffie
Here and at Compuserve:72567.1760

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

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 94 11:44:50 PDT
From: ace@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: Internet and ARA

In Regards to your letter <199403241735.AA15455@nwnexus.wa.com>:
> I have Internet access at my office and I want to use that access at home.
> Specifically I want to use NCSA Telnet for FTP access.  I have called my
> office with ARA and made a connection but MacTCP will not open.  I have a
> PowerBook 140 at home with MacTCP configured with the same way as the MacTCP
> at my office.  What am I doing wrong?  I heard at MacWorld Expo in San
> Francisco that there was a way to do this but I don't know how.  Thanks for
> any help you can give me.

I don't have this sort of setup, but I believe the trick is that you
have to get an IP address for your home Mac, which means getting it
assigned on your router somehow...

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, 25 Mar 1994 00:08:10 +0100
From: arild@oslonett.no (Arild Eugen Johansen)
Subject: Just a Hypethetical question

Let's say I have a friend who has two children, one girl of 12 and a boy
aged 16. They usually work happily on their own macs playing games like
Maelstrom, Lemmings and Tristan. Now, one day they happen to have to write
an essay in school and for some reason they are not able to write it in
Lemmings nor in Tristan. They ask their father, my friend, if they can use
Word-Write on their own mac, to better write the essay. My friend is a very
law abiding guy, so he refuses to illegally copy the program over to their
own macs, as they want to do it at the same time, and  _at the same time_
he has to finish writing his book on his own mac. He has had no need for
more than one copy of the 30 or so programs he owns. As they don't seem to
have to write many essays in school these days, it will be a new version
out before they will ask again. My friend understands a bit of legalese,
and does not want to go to prison for a mere $600-700. He will ask the
teachers to accept that they hand in the essays the day after so that he
can buy the two more copies of the programs the following day. Is my friend
doing the right thing?

Concerned citizen.

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

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 94 18:40:21 CST
From: Mack Willingham <ZU01988%UABDPO.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: LaserWtiter 630 or 360?

I ma in need of a printer.  I have narrowed the choices down to the 630 and
the 360.  I like the 630 for the ethernet and the scsi connection, but it
is on a 4 to 6 week backorder.  The 360 is techically faster beacuse of the
AMD RISC chip in it, right?  And is a little cheaper that the 630.  I have
ether on my 840, and that would speed things up with the 630, and I
do have a lot of fonts that I would love to d/l to an internal HD.  Any
suggestions?  Do I get the 360, or wait for the 630.  I do full page
postscript graphics, and page layout in my dorm room, and need the speed.
Is there anyone out there that has used both?  I have a 630 at work in
the bookstore, and am used to it.  How does it compare to the 360?
Suggestions?

Mack

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

Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 19:57:24 -0600 (CST)
From: "Traci J. Ingram" <tingram@services.dese.state.mo.us>
Subject: Letter Gothic(R) font summary

>From my recent Info-Mac posting:

> I am looking for a shareware or freeware version of Letter Gothic (or
> something similar), which is the fixed-pitch face found on many IBM
> Selectric typewriters.  Type 1 is preferred, TrueType is OK.
>
> I need a 12-point type that spaces at 12-pitch (Elite) *monospaced*.  A
> scan of the archives and summaries has yielded no likely suspects.

Since this item generated more interest than I had anticipated, I will
summarize while hoping that this is not a waste of "bandwidth":

Byron C Mayes <bcmayes%admin.admin.udl.udel.edu@udel.edu> and Christian F.
Buser <cbuser@ezinfo.vmsmail.ethz.ch> have already posted their responses
to Info-Mac, so I'll only repeat that both recommended the "Adobe TypeSet
Value Pack" (version 3.6), and Mr. Mayes also suggested the KeyFonts
collection, which includes a clone of the monospaced "Orator" called
"Oracle."  (See Don Shupe's comment below, however.)

Bill Rausch <t9365@cis13.nfuel.com> said, "I don't know of any free ones,
but I got mine as part of a 50 font package for $50 from KeyFonts? - you
might try MacWarehouse, etc."

Don Shupe <dshupe@cwu.edu> (in a series of notes) wrote:  "I've been
trying to find a True-Type font that will look good and keep spacing of
tables and downloads....  I'm not even that crazy about Letter Gothic as
it looks lousy on the screen [see footnote below].  With all the activity
on internet, it seems like more people, especially hackers, would be
interested in a good mono-spaced font.  Do they know something we don't?"
[Do they??]

Later, he says, ...I just checked out Oracle/Orator font.  Its all caps
(big and small - but caps nevertheless).  Ugly.  Not what I wanted."

Thanks especially to the very gracious Larry Fish <lwf@inel.gov>, of EG&G
Idaho, for obtaining permission to post to the archives their version of
Letter Gothic, which they call EGGFONT.  He explains how they came to
develop their own in-house variant of this typeface:

Quoting Larry Fish (from more than one e-mail message):----------------

"These fonts were developed by the PC support group in EG&G Idaho to allow
us Mac users to print documents in the (until recently, company standard)
Letter Gothic, font. This arose from the desire to make documents look
like the old typewriter font. The old IBM PC's with Multimate used a
Letter Gothic font from Hewlett Packard that printed on HP Laserjets. Now,
The PC users have Word Perfect with proportional fonts, and the
publications department uses Times and Helvetica for reports.

"These files were made freely available to us. I was told as long as
they're not sold, they can be considered freeware.... I don't think
there's any problem with crediting EG&G Idaho with the font, but don't
imply any off-site support....  However, I shall forward any improvements
that you may perform to our PC support group.[1] Several people in my
group still use it."

"Again, I'm glad that I could help you, as I've received lots of help from
the net."
<--------------------------------------------------------------------->
Larry Fish                                    EG&G Idaho, Inc.
End of quote----------------------

[1]Since a few of the characters (such as # and $) have some overlapping
elements, a practice considered "illegal" in PostScript, I will attempt to
shine the font up a bit, generate both PostScript and TrueType versions,
and then post them to the archives (using a name like "Let Goth EGG,"
hoping to be descriptive, safe as to a copyright, and acknowledging of its
source - all at the same time).

Please be patient, however, as these things always take more time than one
can ever imagine in the planning stages.

BTW, this version of Letter Gothic looks quite decent on the screen, IMO,
and I like the printed output from online sessions *much* better than any
documents using either Monaco (argh!) or my custom "fat" Courier.

Traci J. Ingram

tingram@services.dese.state.mo.us     | or |     101-8673@MCIMail.com

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

Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 06:38:39 -0500 (EST)
From: EDHOLZER@delphi.com
Subject: list of lists

Does anyone know where to find the current
"list of Lists" ?  I tried the old address
<ftp.nisc.sri.com> and cannot find the
right directory which last year was called
<netinfo/interest-groups>.
It is always possible of course, that the
List of Lists no longer exists.
Can anyone help?  Thanks much.
edholzer@delphi.com

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

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 94 11:52:33 PDT
From: ace@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: MacPPP and DNS error

In Regards to your letter <199403241735.AA15455@nwnexus.wa.com>:
> Upon a "successful" connection by MacPPP, why MacTCP just could not get the
> right IP?  The MacPPP "Stats" field showed everything correct, and even
tn3270
> had picked up the right IP number, but MacTCP only had this number in the
> front box, not in the up-right area where the "Class" and "Subnet Mask" stuff
> were shown.
>
> The result was that internet client programs couldn't find a name server, and
> reported something like "host unreachable" ...
>
> Configuration: MacPPP 2.0.1, MacTCP 1.1.1 AND 2.0.4, System 7.1.

This sounds like the dreaded domain nameserver error. It can be related
to a lot of things, but my latest best guess is that your modem uses
XON/XOFF for handshaking by default, so even if you set CTS & RTS
(DTR) hardware handshaking in MacPPP, this might be causing problems.
I found that a Telebit QBlazer set S58=3, which was XON/XOFF, by default,
and just switching to my WorldBlazer solved the problem. Similarly
setting S58=2 on the QBlazer solved the problem. Check your modem
manual and explicity set anything related to flow control to CTS &
RTS or DTR or hardware or whatever your manual calls it.

The problem seems to be, interestingly enough, with the gateway address
on my server-addressed account. I don't know what might cause this
on a manual-addressed account.

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, 25 Mar 1994 09:33:25 -0600 (CST)
From: "Traci J. Ingram" <tingram@services.dese.state.mo.us>
Subject: Mac WorkGroup Servers

A while back I solicited comments on Apple's WorkGroup Servers, asking
whether they would be a good choice for a school library, and if so,
whether they should run under A/UX.  I didn't hear from anybody at all!

Does nobody out there have any experience with these?  Are they just so
horrible that you don't want to say anything at all?  Are you afraid
Apple might be listening?

Traci J. Ingram

tingram@services.dese.state.mo.us     | or |     101-8673@MCIMail.com

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Date: Fri, 25 Mar 94 05:45:52 EST
From: The Moderators <AHUNTER@CCVM.sunysb.edu>
Subject: Microsoft Wake-up call...

Well, I managed to fire off a half-completed thought yesterday (on how
the menace to the Mac is Microsoft, i.e., the Windows platform, not the
competing hardware) and as a result I'm sure to receive comments about
how the Mac platform makes a lot of money for Microsoft which has a
larger percentage of the Mac market than it does of the Windows market
(not counting Windows and DOS themselves, I presume)...

The point I was trying to make was that insofar as other hardware,
e.g., IBM, Compaq, Dell, etc., (IF we limit our discussion to PowerPC
based machines) may have a choice of depending on the Mac OS (!) or the
Windows NT system as their native operating environments, the former
isolation of the Mac as sole user of an outflanked and outnumbered
operating system will be broken at the same moment that DOS ceases to
be a major contender, Windows as we know it ceases to be a native OS
(this is my understanding:  the IBM-PPC machines will run Windows NT
native, not "regular" Windows-that-runs-on-DOS), and PowerMacs gain the
ability to run Windows apps at a reasonable (as fast as all but a tiny
percent of the IBM-compatibles in use out there) speed--

In other words, rather than the Mac op system facing the prospect of
going the way of the BetaMax (to use an oft-used comparison), the Windows
operating system may go the way of the 8-track tape.

Probably not any too soon, not realistically until one can launch the
Windows applications from the Mac OS (or the forthcoming Taligent thing)
without having to first load SoftWindows, but as long as people can
choose between the op systems, who the hell wants to deal with Windows'
arcane disk-copying / directory-managing / klutzy windows-managing
habits?  Why not run the Mac OS on their 1995 Dell PowerPC, use both
Windows and Mac native-PPC apps?

-Allan Hunter
<ahunter@sbccvm>
<ahunter@ccvm.sunysb.edu>

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

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 94 15:00:53 -0700
From: Bruce Carter <bcarter@claven.idbsu.edu>
Subject: Mirroring archive sites on a BBS

Greetings folks,

Is anyone mirroring either of the two major Mac archives (Info-Mac or the UMich
archive) using a Macintosh?  I have recently been able to dedicate a Macintosh
IIcx 8/80 with a 2Gig HP external hard drive, a direct ethernet connection, a
static IP address, and a tape backup system to the task of bringing Mac
resources to the local K-12 folks who don't have Internet access.  It's running
TeleFinder as a BBS, and I thought I could mirror one of the major Mac archives
on it, thereby providing the dual service of making the files available both to
the BBS users and as a low traffic capacity mirror archive.

I've already emailed with some of the archive maintainers about this, but they
are understandably pretty busy right now.  If anyone is already doing this, and
can get me started on tracking down the software necessary, I would appreciate
it.  Thanks!

[Hmmm... now there is a thought.  Here we are with all these macs and we do
all our mirrors on UNIX like machines.  Perhaps with the PowerPC we will have
enough cpu power to do a mirror on a Mac finally! -Gordon]

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

Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 11:36:41 +0100
From: "David C. Roessli" <roessli@sc2a.unige.ch>
Subject: Need AOL non '800' phone/fax numbers (Q)

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest
Path: usenet
From: David C. Roessli <roessli@sc2a.unige.ch>
Subject: Need AOL non '800' phone/fax numbers (Q)
Message-ID: <1994Mar25.103636.21892@news.unige.ch>
X-Xxdate: Fri, 25 Mar 94 10:34:32 GMT
Sender: usenet@news.unige.ch
Organization: Dpt. Anthropology, U of Geneva, Switzerland
X-Useragent: Version 1.1.3
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 10:36:36 GMT

Hello world,

Could someone email me AOL non '800' phone and/or fax numbers
please ? Or give me a valid AOL/Internet address where I could
reach AOL's administration. I wish to resign my account (Switzerland
*is* too far, and there's no European Tymnet access to it).

Thanks in advance.
--
David Roessli - Dpt. Anthropology & Ecology, U of Geneva, Switzerland
Email roessli@sc2a.unige.ch  Tel +41(22)702.6966  Fax +41(22)300.0351

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

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 10:13:54 -0500
From: ai158@freenet.buffalo.edu (Matthew Ahrens)
Subject: Personal LW LS Grayscale

could someone PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE send me the driver for the
300, which i hear works on the LW LS. pretty please with sugar and
a cherry on top?

it is available via gopher to "info.hed.apple.com" in the
"USA Service, Support and Training/Apple SW Updates/Printing
Software/LW 300 v1.2.sea.Hqx" directory.

Thanx so much!

--
My opinions are mine only and tentative, pending further data
			Matthew Ahrens
ai261@FreeNet.Carleton.ca           ai158@FreeNet.Buffalo.edu
MacRules2@aol.com     <-Last Resorts->     Matthew210@aol.com

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

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 94 17:40:21 GMT
From: m.deyssenroth@ic.ac.uk
Subject: phonebooks (A)

i've just got to give my own mustard for that: (as some might say...)

> Are you thinking of the same Inside Mac books that I am?  In the US of A,
> phonebooks for most communities are 2-3 inches thick.  Even the larger rural
> phonebooks are about 1 inch thick.  I thought most of the inside Mac books
> on the order of 1/2 - 3/4 inch thick.  Or are UK phonebooks different?
>
> Michael J. Kress

yeah! ours are holographic.
and as the brithish telecom system is even worse than AT+T it doesn't matter
how thick, mentally happy or where in which space-time they are...

miron

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

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 19:26:49 -0500 (EST)
From: kim3@husc.harvard.edu
Subject: Possible to disable icon highlighting?

Has anyone ever devised a hack to turn off the Finder's icon highlighting?
I find it really annoying to click on a custom icon and see some of its colors
change while the others stay the same.

There must be a way to disable icon highlighting, while preserving caption
highlighting.  Simply avoiding the System palette is not a very satisfying
solution.

Any takers?

			      ~  Jason Y. Kim  ~
				     ~=@=~

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

Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 00:37:13 GMT
From: charette@ere.umontreal.ca (Frederick Charette)
Subject: REQ: Utility to mount ext. HD unattended

Subject says it all: I'm looking for an application or a control panel
that will mount an external SCSI hard drive on the desktop everyday at a
specified time, so that Retrospect could proceed with backup. I have tried
setting a QuicKey to open PowerTools and try to mount the drive, but it
fails one time out of three. The hard drive is not powered up until late
at night to keep noise level as low as possible during the day :-)

Thanks

Frederick Charette
Universite de Montreal

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

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 16:36:58 -0600
From: Bienvenu Jay  <sjb8502@usl.edu>
Subject: Should I buy an LC 575?

The time for me to replace my aging LC II has come.  I am interested in the
LC 575, but the lack of press coverage on this machine is starting to concern
me.  I've heard very little about it since it debuted several weeks ago.  (For
example, in the May issue, MacUser doesn't list prices for the newer LCs, and
in their article on PowerPC upgrades, they only mention the 475 and its
Performa
counterparts.)

Should I get the 575 or spend a little more for a base PowerMac 6100?
Please respond directly as I need to decied for sure _soon_.

						-- Jay

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

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 22:14:11 +0100
From: vetah@vinga.hum.gu.se (Anders Alvers)
Subject: SLIP & MacTCP

Hi,
Can somebody help me get some things straight.
When using a SLIP connection to internet, is it possible to run Eudora,
Fetch and other MacTCP dependant software? At the moment i am using ARA to
access internet, what is the advantage using SLIP over ARA.
Which of the two is faster? Thanks in advance;-)

_____________________________
Anders Alvers  /vetah@hum.gu.se/
<<"I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them." I.A.>>

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

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 16:13:43 -0600 (CST)
From: "Traci J. Ingram" <tingram@services.dese.state.mo.us>
Subject: SLIP/PPP (fwd)

Alan Piszcz's reply to my PPP question was basically in agreement with
what several writers said, and offered some additional details that I
thought were interesting.  I also replied:

The only thing I'm trying to figure out now is what to do with a PPP
connection once I've been able to establish it.

I telnet to a server that allows access only through a menu-based system
called FreePort, so I don't know what program I can use for a VT-102
terminal emulation.  (The host supports PPP, of course, or I wouldn't
have asked the question in the first place.)

Traci J. Ingram

tingram@services.dese.state.mo.us     | or |     101-8673@MCIMail.com

 --------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 94 14:00:35 EST
From: Alan Piszcz <alan@mach10.utica1.kaman.com>
To: tingram@services.dese.state.mo.us
Subject: SLIP/PPP

I've used both for >1 year.

PPP is slower on the MAC but it is the standard INTERNET approves.

SLIP is faster but not a STANDARD.

PPP runs about 2/3 the speed of SLIP for screen I/O.

For file transfers they are identical.

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

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 10:16:13 -0500
From: ai158@freenet.buffalo.edu (Matthew Ahrens)
Subject: SupraFAXmodem 144lc

as far as i knoe, there is no modem that can redirect calls to your
answering machine while you are on-line. the 144lc has all the
other features you mentioned.

****
Dear Netters,
I was considering trading my old QuickTel Xeba 9696XV for a SupraFAXModem
144LC, or a modem that has some things I would need.  I would like to know if
the SupraFAXModem 144LC or other modems have the following capaibilities:
1. It would have to be able to use the call-waiting feature to redirect phone
calls to my answering machine when I am logged in from my modem elsewhere -
i.e. so people don't get a busy signal when I use my modem.
2. V. 42bis MNP 5 compression, equivalent or better reliability
3. Hayes Command set compatibility (such as AT%Q%L, and +++)
4. FaxSTF v. 2.2 compatible.

Please let me know via e-mail if there are modems that you know of that can do
all of the above.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
ABRODY@VAX.CLARKU.EDU

--
My opinions are mine only and tentative, pending further data
			Matthew Ahrens
ai261@FreeNet.Carleton.ca           ai158@FreeNet.Buffalo.edu
MacRules2@aol.com     <-Last Resorts->     Matthew210@aol.com

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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 13:54:20 -0500 (EST)
From: "Russell S. Aminzade: Trinity College of VT" <aminzade@moose.uvm.edu>
Subject: Text Munger (like Perl but Mac-ish)

I colleague of mine has some very LARGE text files that he would like to
parse in an odd way -- based on a set of rules chop them up into a lot of
smaller files.  I know that UNIX utilities like PERL (or even the one I
used, sed) could do this, but this person would like something a bit more
macintosh-like.

Any suggestions?

Russell Aminzade: Academic Computing Coordinator, Trinity College of Vermont

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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 12:03:07 -0500
From: rjenning@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Robert Jennings)
Subject: Using a Matrix PCR Film Recorder on a Mac?

Does anyone have any experience using a Matrix PCR film recorder (high
technology from 1986) on a Macintosh? I have the opportunity to make use of
the PCR if I can get it to work!

The PCR has a GPIB connector (IEEE-488 standard interface) as its only
input. I assume that I will need some sort of NuBus vector processor or
other interface in order to send data to the film recorder. Who makes such
an interface and where can it be purchased? What type of device
driver/extension is necessary for a PCR?

Any advice from those using a PCR (Mac or DOS) would be most appreciated.
Any advice from someone at Agfa would be wonderful (Agfa bought/acquired
Matrix.) Thanks in advance for the help!

****Bob****


--
Robert Jennings                  rjenning@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
The Ohio State University        VOICE  (614) 292-5235
Department of Industrial Design
128, N. Oval Mall, 380 Hopkins Hall, Columbus, OH 43210

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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 18:05:26 +0100
From: simula3@pianeta.di.unito.it (Fabrizio Oddone)
Subject: utilities to block out bad sectors on a floppy (A)

lt10@cornell.edu (Tim) writes in InfoMac #44:
>Is there any utility that will block out back sectors on a floppy better
>than Finder?  Somehow, I don't feel that Finder is very reliable in doing
>this job.

Dollars Shameless_plug {
You may want to try my shareware utility Disk Charmer. Version 1 had a=
 custom algorithm to accomplish that job. I do not know if it is still in=
 the archives, because when I started submitting version 2 the moderators=
 may have removed version 1. I will re-submit version 1.4.x next week if it=
 is missing.
The version 1 user interface is very ugly, compared to version 2,=
 nonetheless the bad sector algorithm I used proved to be quite efficient.=
 If you read the enclosed note, you will learn about further details.
I answer now to the obvious questions: why should I use Disk Charmer 2.x=
 instead of the 1.x? The latter even runs under System 6.x and System 4.3,=
 yet it offers a proprietary, supposedly better working algorithm. Why=
 didn't you implement the algorithm in version 2?
My algorithm only tells the System that the bad sectors are used. Full stop.=
 The System 7 algorithm locks out entire tracks instead of individual=
 sectors, then marks the floppy in a special way, and writes in a special=
 way in the disk directory, so that Disk First Aid and related utilities=
 will not complain while examining a "bad" disk. I cannot replicate easily=
 the latter part of the System 7 algorithm because it is undocumented; that=
 is why there is not a custom algorithm in Disk Charmer 2.x.
One advantage of Disk Charmer 1.x over System 7's method:
Disk Charmer summarizes where bad sectors are found; if a boot sector is=
 bad, Disk Charmer does not complain: it informs you the boot sector is bad=
 so that (hopefully) you will not use that disk as a startup disk. System 7=
 in that situation would say "initialization failed". Since 99% of my=
 floppies are NOT startup disks, I usually wish to use a bad disk, if only=
 the first sector is bad.

=46eatures in Disk Charmer 1 but NOT in 2:
- runs under System 4.3 and 6.x (and 7, but Disk Charmer 2.x is a better cho=
ice);
- totally un-cool, modal, user-unfriendly interface;
- proprietary, but not System 7 compliant, bad sector lock out method.

=46eatures in Disk Charmer 2 but NOT in 1:
- runs in the background if you have the Apple Thread Manager installed;
- undo;
- totally cool, modeless, user-friendly interface;
- drag&drop with Apple Events;
- saves its settings :-)
- renames/does not rename the disk on your behalf;
- different names for normal vs. larger disks, and good vs. bad disks;
- cool about box :-)

=46eatures in both Disk Charmer 2 and in 1:
- Larger disks by reducing directory space;
- warn/do not warn on disk insertion;
- Balloon Help (if you run under System 7).

} /* end shameless plug */

--
=46abrizio Oddone
simula3@di.unito.it

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Date: 24 Mar 94 08:25:52 EST
From: Jonathan Hachey <73112.2554@CompuServe.COM>
Subject: Virus Warning

Font Library 1.3 in the /info-mac/rec directory has been infected with the
Merry
Xmas virus.

[I think it has been removed.  Anyone who downloaded this should check (we
have had more than one person notify us about this) -Gordon]

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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 10:32:52 -0800
From: jamiel@sybase.com (Jamie Lawrence)
Subject: Word 6.0 & Excel 5.0

>Word 6.0 on the 68K machines needs 3 Mb of memory and Excel 5.0 needs 5Mb.
>The salesperson also said that speedwise an LCIII with 8Mb of RAM is the
>BARE minimum to run either of these programs and you need a 10Mb machine to

...and for functionality that isn't an order of magnitude greater than
teachtext. *That* is nuts.

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