16-Dec-93 0:29:15-GMT,84170;000000000001 Return-Path: Received: from WATDCS.UWaterloo.ca by CAMIS.Stanford.EDU (4.1/inc-1.0) id AA22052; Wed, 15 Dec 93 16:29:15 PST Received: from WATDCS.UWaterloo.ca by WATDCS.UWaterloo.ca (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 9432; Wed, 15 Dec 93 19:28:58 EST Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1993 19:26 -0500 (EST) From: Paul Henderson Subject: info-mac Digest 233 To: The moderators Message-Id: <19931215192838.henders@watdcs.UWaterloo.ca> Here is a copy of 233. Received: from .UWATERLOO.CA by watdcs.UWaterloo.ca (Mailer R2.10uw ptf000) with BSMTP id 0595; Sat, 04 Dec 93 07:50:54 EST Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 09:28:49 PST Reply-To: Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Sender: INFO-MAC Digest From: The Moderators Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #233 Comments: To: info-mac-list@SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU To: Multiple recipients of list INFO-MAC Info-Mac Digest Fri, 3 Dec 93 Volume 11 : Issue 233 Today's Topics: [*] 3d Brick Bash! v1.1 [*] 3d Paddle Bash! v1.04 [*] alarm-book-131-demo.hqx [*] AV DSP Power Plug-in [*] cpoker.sit.hqx (network card game) [*] crlf.sit.hqx [*] Default Folder 2.45 Submission [*] Eric's Ultimate Solitaire Demo [*] Finder Liaison 1.1 submission [*] LabMaster 1.0 [*] LabMaster Docs (PS) [*] LabMaster Docs (RTF) [*] LabMaster Docs (WN3) [*] MacTracker1.1.1update.cpt.hqx [*] Movie Import Component Source Code [*] RSI Network News, plain Text, #14 [*] RSI Network Newsletters, 1-15 (12/93) [*] RSI Newsletter, text version [*] ShalomOldStyle 1.2 [*] ShalomScript.cpt.hqx [*] ShalomStick.cpt.hqx [*] Submission: "Static" QT Movie (Problem found) [*] SubtleWinterStartupscreen [*] Termy 2.3 sit [*] TEXX Release 0.3 [*] the MACS 1.0b5 [*] Universal Card Copier [*] UsenEdit -- A text editor [*] Word 4 Print Bugfix INIT [*] Zoom Lens 2.0 "xterm emulators for the Mac" -t114 error? A/UX Help needed Anybody successfully registered MAZ? (Q) ARA Hayes 144 modemscript A Sound Question... Attach printers to apps? Audio CD tracks -> ? AV Macs and System Update Beatles font request BOMBER(tm) 1.2 boomerang type utility? CEToolbox 1.7 and Now Utilities... (A) (fwd) Checking mail w/o running Eudora (Q) DesktopTextures Unexpectedly Quits (A) Ergo Mouse Gone To Pot ESL software for the Mac? Gold Disk E-Mail address ? Gold Disk E-mail or BBS address Golf handicap program Greg's Buttons & WP 3.0 Group Mail program (Question) Info-Mac Digest V11 #231 Internal Hard Drives LC -> LC 475: mystery deepens localtalk-ethertalk bridges Logitech mouse turns itself off long lines and word wrap from hell (c) Looking for a X-mas desktop pattern. Mac 512 and Mainframe Communications Macintosh Database Viewers Macintosh VUMeters Available for AV Macintosh webster client? Mac Word 5.1a Address file? MacWrite Pro - ability to Zoom ? MaxFax patch(Q) Microphone input on Quadra 605 Need help with Kennect Drive 2.4 w/Rapport! Novy Systems: RIP Offline Newsreader for the Mac [Thanks] Opinions on the new DeltaGraph v3.0 (Q) OptiMem PC Exchange Performa 450 quality (Q) PSWriter vs Native printer Re-naming hard drives (Q) Reinstalling System software Robert's Rules of Order Rodney King & LA Riots QuickTime movies available SetupPartitions (A) Small dbase engine SNMP Agents Summary Strange document System 7 family flag Text-cruncher Upgrading a LC to use a SuperDrive Using BOTH ethernet and AppleTalk (2 msgs) Why one might save bitmap files as EPS X11R5 server(s) for the Macintosh (Q) 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. Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu. Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 23:10:26 EST From: Matthew T Diamond Subject: [*] 3d Brick Bash! v1.1 3d Brick Bash! is a three-dimensional version of the old break-out game. Version 1.1 replaces previous versions. It requires: Color Quickdraw, System 6.0.5+ or 7.0+, 68020 CPU or greater, and 1,300K free memory to run in 256 colors (only 800K for 16,4, or 2 color). New features: enhancements to make levels progress faster... you can influence the ball speed, start play on any level previously reached, and random targets appear from time-to-time which award goodies. The ball generally moves and accelerates faster than before (unless you turn this off.) Not least, several bug fixes and an address change, too. Shareware. *Free for users who registered for previous versions.* [Archived as /info-mac/game/arc/three-d-brick-bash-11.hqx; 157K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 23:12:57 EST From: Matthew T Diamond Subject: [*] 3d Paddle Bash! v1.04 3d Paddle Bash! is a 3d version of pong, with customizable computer opponents. Described in passing by Compuserve Magazine (10/93, p.55) as "a wonderful implementation of Pong..." Version 1.04 replaces earlier versions. It requires: Color Quickdraw, System 6.0.5+ or 7.0+, 68020 CPU or greater, and 1,000K free memory to run in 256 colors (700K for less; works fine in 16, 4, or 2 colors.) 1.04 has no major differences from 1.03 (though my address changed), but it DOES fix several problems of version 1.0. Players with v.1.03 don't need this update, unless they plan on redistributing the files. Shareware (free to users who registered for a previous version.) [Archived as /info-mac/game/arc/three-d-paddle-bash-104.hqx; 139K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Dec 93 16:41:47 CST From: wizzkid@eagle.natinst.com (Dan Repich) Subject: [*] alarm-book-131-demo.hqx I apologize for the last submission of AlarmBook 1.3 and its destructive actions. I think I have resolved the problem. If for some reason this version is corrupt, or behaves in a similiar manner, can you please mail me a short description of your test environment and what action exactly caused the problem? Any information would greatly speed up my debugging process. You can reach me at my National Instruments IP address: wizzkid@natinst.com Thanks, and I apologize again. [Archived as /info-mac/app/alarm-book-131-demo.hqx; 957K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 93 12:15:44 PST From: kalexand@mailer.fsu.edu (Kevin Alexander) Subject: [*] AV DSP Power Plug-in Attached is a binhexed Stuffit self-extracting archive of Spectral Innovations' PhotoShop plug-in which uses the built-in DSPs of the 660 and 840 AV machines to accelerate filters such as Unsharp Mask, Gaussian Blur, and Find Edges, among others. Image Size, Scale, Skew, Perspective, Rotate and RGB to CMYK mode change are also accelerated. This plug-in was described in the 11/15/93 and 11/29/93 issues of MacWEEK. System requirements: AV Mac (or NuBus Mac w/ Spectral Innovations 3210 DSP card installed) and PhotoShop 2.5.1. This file was downloaded from the Adobe BBS. [Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/photoshop-av-dsp-filters.hqx; 119K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 14:31:12 -0800 From: David Blume Subject: [*] cpoker.sit.hqx (network card game) Chinese Poker 1.0 Freeware, by David Blume Requires: MacTCP. At least one other mac connected on a network. This game is derived from a card game in China. It is an addictive game that is easy to learn. (The goal is to discard your cards before your opponents do.) This computer version is an interactive network game between 2, 3 or 4 players. (Details are in the "about" box.) --David Blume [Archived as /info-mac/game/crd/chinese-poker-10.hqx; 71K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 1:13:02 -0500 (EST) From: SAKIMURA@vaxr.sscl.uwo.ca (Natsu Sakimura) Subject: [*] crlf.sit.hqx [Archived] please find a Sit&Hqxed file of CRLF. CRLF is a drag & drop application which performs the conversion of CR(Mac), LF(Unix) and CRLF(PC) files. It auto-detects the end of line code of the file which was dropped and converts to the desired file type. Once you have set up the preference, you will rarely need to make any interaction with CRLF later. CRLF converts the file "in place". The filename stays the same before and after the conversion. You will notice that it was converted just by looking at the icons. You can set up these icons by specifying the creator for each type of output file. Also, CRLF is capable of dealing with Japanese text, unlike some other similar utilities. This is a freeware. Natsu Sakimura [Archived as /info-mac/cmp/crlf.hqx; 27K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 00:54:29 -0500 From: gotow@ansoft.com (Jon Gotow) Subject: [*] Default Folder 2.45 Submission Following is the latest release of Default Folder, version 2.45. It fixes a bug which caused the rebound feature and folder history to occasionally stop working. It also adds the ability to switch and modify link sets from within a file dialog. Default Folder is a control panel device that allows you to set up default folders for specified applications and desk accessories (good for use with file launching utilities, and launching an app that's sitting on the desktop). It also provides a pop-up menu in the standard file dialog for navigating between often-used folders and disks, and provides a "rebound" feature which reselects the last file you chose in a file dialog. Default Folder is shareware, and is uploaded as a compact pro archive. [Archived as /info-mac/gui/default-folder-245.hqx; 138K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Nov 93 11:48:11 PST From: weasel@netcom.com (Eric Snider) Subject: [*] Eric's Ultimate Solitaire Demo This is version 1.0.1 of the Eric's Ultimate Solitaire Demo from Delta Tao software. It plays Eight Off which is one of the 17 solitaire games that the full version offers. It supports color and b&w and has lots of great features. You can move cards by dragging, double clicking, and "throwing." To throw a card you give it a flick towards a target and let go. Then it'll fly in a nice arc to the destination. Other features include unlimited undo/redo, statistics, and what we like to call "Weasel flavor." The artwork is by Howard Vives the same artist that drew everything for Spaceward Ho! That's it... Eric's Ultimate Solitaire demo is for free distribution only. The retail price of the full version is $59 and is available >From the big mail order places or from Delta Tao directly. Delta Tao's number is (800) 827-9316 or (408) 730-9336. If you are a registered user of one of my shareware games (Forty Thieves, Baker's Dozen, and Montana) then you can upgrade to Ultimate Solitaire for $25. Thanks, Eric Snider Delta Tao Software [Archived as /info-mac/game/crd/ultimate-solitaire-101-demo.hqx; 170K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1993 22:42:34 -0500 From: gc_wenger@ACAD.FANDM.EDU (Geoffrey C. Wenger) Subject: [*] Finder Liaison 1.1 submission Here's the latest version of Finder Liaison downloaded from AOL. I'm not the author, I'm just uploading it. [Note that this is the same Gregory H. Dow of THINK Class Library fame.] Geoffrey C. Wenger (gc_wenger@acad.fandm.edu) Here's an edited (for brevity) excerpt from the included read me file: Finder Liaison sends AppleEvents to the Finder. Requires System 7 or later. Usage: The System 7 Finder supports the Finder Suite of AppleEvents. Unfortunately, there is no way to explicitly send AppleEvents to the Finder from AppleScript. Finder Liaison acts as an intermediary between AppleScript and the Finder. [Archived as /info-mac/dev/finder-liaison-11-as.hqx; 24K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 12:21:21 -0600 From: peter@cs.uwa.edu.au (Peter Dodd) Subject: [*] LabMaster 1.0 Hello, [Abstract doctored. -isl] Files in this archive: LabMasterIntro (3k) contains and introduction to LabMaster LabMaster1-0.cpt (933k) contains the LabMaster software Files archived separately: LabMaster1-0DocsPS.cpt (789k) contains the LabMaster documentation in PostScript LabMaster1-0DocsRTF.cpt (729k) contains the LabMaster documentation in RTF format LabMaster1-0DocsWN3.cpt (515k) contains the LabMaster documentation in WriteNow 3.0 format Excerpt from the Intro: The basic premise behind LabMaster is to simplify the job of programming client-server software in a networked environment. The core of LabMaster is a network transportation system that allows code on a client Mac to easily communicate with code on a server Mac. A whole range of features can be implemented with little programming overhead and minimal knowledge of the underlying AppleTalk network. Each required feature is implemented as a LabMaster module. A module performs a specific function either independently or in cooperation with other modules. LabMaster can load these modules at any time and interacts with them through a well defined programming interface. Please mail MacDev@cs.uwa.edu.au if there are any problems. Thanks in advance. Peter Dodd e-mail: peter@cs.uwa.edu.au fax: +619 380 1089 The University of Western Australia, Computer Science Department MacLabs [Archived as /info-mac/dev/labmaster-10.hqx; 1143K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 13:18:21 -0600 From: peter@cs.uwa.edu.au (Peter Dodd) Subject: [*] LabMaster Docs (PS) LabMaster 1.0 documentation in Postscript. Peter Dodd e-mail: peter@cs.uwa.edu.au fax: +619 380 1089 The University of Western Australia, Computer Science Department MacLabs [Archived as /info-mac/dev/labmaster-10-docs-ps.hqx; 1073K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 13:09:00 -0600 From: peter@cs.uwa.edu.au (Peter Dodd) Subject: [*] LabMaster Docs (RTF) LabMaster 1.0 documentation in Rich Text Format. Peter Dodd e-mail: peter@cs.uwa.edu.au fax: +619 380 1089 The University of Western Australia, Computer Science Department MacLabs [Archived as /info-mac/dev/labmaster-10-docs-rtf.hqx; 991K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 13:07:51 -0600 From: peter@cs.uwa.edu.au (Peter Dodd) Subject: [*] LabMaster Docs (WN3) LabMaster 1.0 documentation in WN3. Peter Dodd e-mail: peter@cs.uwa.edu.au fax: +619 380 1089 The University of Western Australia, Computer Science Department MacLabs [Archived as /info-mac/dev/labmaster-10-docs-wn3.hqx; 700K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 13:42:58 -0500 From: tomlaw@world.std.com (Thomas R Lawrence) Subject: [*] MacTracker1.1.1update.cpt.hqx Suggested Name: MacTracker1.1.1Update.cpt.hqx This does NOT replace Macintosh Tracker 1.1.0, it merely updates it. Marc Espie has been working on his Tracker program and it is up to version 3.19. Therefore, I've obtained the new code and replaced the "Tracker Server" from Macintosh Tracker. There are some bug fixes, but no major changes. Note to 16MHz users: The new version uses a bit more processing power, so you might not be able to play songs with anti-aliasing and 22kHz without skipping. Don't throw away the old version until you're certain this one works. Thomas R. Lawrence tomlaw@world.std.com [Archived as /info-mac/snd/util/mac-tracker-111-updt.hqx; 48K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 16:07:50 +0800 From: Quinn Subject: [*] Movie Import Component Source Code Greetings EatAU is a QuickTime component that converts Suns audio (.au) files into QuickTime movies. It comes with full source code and is a simple example of how to write a component in Pascal. Share and Enjoy. [Archived as /info-mac/snd/util/eat-au.hqx; 17K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 11:30:46 -0600 From: backmod@camis.stanford.edu (Backup Moderator) Subject: [*] RSI Network News, plain Text, #14 RSI Network Newsletter #14/October 93 ===================================== The RSI Network Electronic Newsletter For People Concerned About Tendinitis, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, and Other Repetitive Strain Injuries Produced by: Caroline Rose, 970 Paradise Way, Palo Alto CA 94306 Setext formatting, electronic version editing, distribution by: Craig O'Donnell, Assistant Sysop, MacWEEK Forum on ZiffNet or <72511,240> on CIS. To subscribe, see "Electronic Subscriptions", below. To get old issues, see "Online Distribution". [Archived as /info-mac/per/rsi-network-news-14.txt; 33K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 11:31:03 -0600 From: "Craig O'Donnell" Subject: [*] RSI Network Newsletters, 1-15 (12/93) This self-extracting archive contains all RSI Network Newsletters to date, Issues 1-15. It supersedes the previous archive file with the same name. It also contains an EasyView index for browsing with EV. The Newsletters are standard Macintosh text documents. The Newsletter covers all aspects of wrist and arm pain related to keyboard use. It covers both Mac and PC products, magazines and books, exercise, and resources on and off-line. For a subscription send a message to . Note: PC-compatible text files are available by ftp to and are located in the directory /pub/rsi. [Archived as /info-mac/per/rsi-network-news-01-to-15.hqx; 223K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 11:30:36 -0600 From: "Craig O'Donnell" Subject: [*] RSI Newsletter, text version RSI Network Newsletter #15/December 93 ====================================== The RSI Network Electronic Newsletter For People Concerned About Tendinitis, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, and Other Repetitive Strain Injuries Produced by: Caroline Rose, 970 Paradise Way, Palo Alto CA 94306 Setext formatting, electronic version editing, distribution by: Craig O'Donnell, Assistant Sysop, MacWEEK Forum on ZiffNet or <72511,240> on CIS To subscribe, see "Electronic Subscriptions", below. To get old issues, see "Online Distribution". [Archived as /info-mac/per/rsi-network-news-15.txt; 31K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 12:02:27 +0100 From: dr. Jan Martin Subject: [*] ShalomOldStyle 1.2 These fonts are required with HebrewPad (formerly SHalomPad), but not in the archive. Some people will be happy. ShalomOldStyle, ShalomStick, and ShalomScript are Adobe Type 1 Hebrew fonts including vowel marks. ShalomOldStyle is the "tradi- tional" Hebrew typeface. ShalomStick is a "sans serif-like" modern typeface, ShalomScript simulates Hebrew handwriting (which looks quite different from the printed typefaces). I am enclosing the original blurbs to all files, Shareware by Jonathan Brecher. Enjoy! Jan Martin martin@luc.ac.be [Archived as /info-mac/font/ps/shalom-old-style-12.hqx; 43K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 12:04:42 +0100 From: dr. Jan Martin Subject: [*] ShalomScript.cpt.hqx ShalomScript is a PostScript Type 1 font containing a complete Hebrew and Yiddish character set, including vowels and punctuation. This font is informal, simulating a handwritten cursive style. Because this font functions under the standard American system software, it is constrained to a left-to- right text direction and as such is not suitable for long documents or letters. This file contains ShalomScript version 1.2. This supersedes and replaces any earlier versions of ShalomScript and my original font Shalom. Please remove these earlier versions from the archives. ShalomScript is copyright (c) 1990-1992 by Jonathan Brecher. All rights reserved. jonathan brecher brecher@husc.harvard.edu [Archived as /info-mac/font/ps/shalom-script-12.hqx; 44K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 12:03:50 +0100 From: dr. Jan Martin Subject: [*] ShalomStick.cpt.hqx ShalomStick is a PostScript Type 1 font containing a complete Hebrew and Yiddish character set, including vowels and punctuation. This font is in a modern, sans serif style. It is a monoweight font, with no curves. Because this font functions under the standard American system software, it is constrained to a left-to-right text direction and as such is not suitable for long documents or letters. This file contains ShalomStick version 1.2. This supersedes and replaces any earlier versions of ShalomScript and my original font Shalom. Please remove these earlier versions from the archives. ShalomStick is copyright (c) 1990-1992 by Jonathan Brecher. All rights reserved. jonathan brecher brecher@husc.harvard.edu [Archived as /info-mac/font/ps/shalom-stick-12.hqx; 34K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 21:50:05 -0500 (EST) From: Kevin R Lesniewicz Subject: [*] Submission: "Static" QT Movie (Problem found) If you've been aching to use that trendy "static hit" transition in your QuickTime movies, here's all you need. I created this static, complete with sound, entirely in software. It's like the 'snow' that fills a TV screen when you switch channels or go to a channel with no signal. Perhaps you may find a use for it *sometime*--feel free to use it. Let me know, okay? -kevin l. [Archived as /info-mac/grf/qt/static.hqx; 141K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 93 12:15:44 PST From: gas52r0@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Jay Boersma) Subject: [*] SubtleWinterStartupscreen Enclosed is SubtleWinterStartup, a seasonal variation of the Mac's standard startup screen with an evergreen & snowman in place of the little Mac picture, snow along the top of the window, and an icicle or two hanging down. Pleasant to look at in a quiet sort of way... To use it, just drop it into your System Folder and re-start. If you pass it on to anyone else, please keep this README with it. Jay Boersma gas52r0@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu America Online JayB47 [Archived as /info-mac/grf/subtle-winter-startup.hqx; 17K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 00:40:45 -0800 From: lance@shell.portal.com (Lance K. Chun) Subject: [*] Termy 2.3 sit >Browsing through the comm directory I noticed the version there not being >the latest one I have. According to an Archie search the latest version is >v2.1. Here it is. I retrieved it from ftp.msen.com and the pub/vendor/ice >directory there. > >Termy was written by Tim Endres. > >>tim endres - time@ice.com -or- tbomb!time >>ICE Engineering, Inc - 8840 Main St, Whitmore Lake, MI 48189 >>Phone (313) 449 8288 - FAX (313) 449-9208 > >He is also the author of the connection tool "TGE TCP Tool" in this >archive. Termy is unique in that it is the only free/shareware terminal >emulation program that uses the Communication Toolbox's Connection, >Terminal, and File Transfer tools. > >Dominik Hoffmann (hoffmann@macc.wisc.edu) Well, browsing again, I seem to have located v2.3 of Termy. Here you go folks. Enjoy the update! [Archived as /info-mac/comm/termy-23.hqx; 145K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 11:30:49 -0600 From: jose@borderbase.immm.ep.utexas.edu (Jose B. Aguirre) Subject: [*] TEXX Release 0.3 TEXX Release 0.3 11/14/93 This is the third release version of the Texx scripting interpreter. This scripting language is an attempt to implement a version of the Rexx interpreter that is commonly used on IBM's VM/CMS mainframe operating system. This version of Texx is far from a full implementation, so don't think that you can copy your CMS execs and run them on your Mac. This is a very minimal implementation, however, it still adds additional functionality to the Mac OS. My plans are to keep updating Texx and hopefully it will mimic the mainframe version very closely. [Archived as /info-mac/dev/texx-03.hqx; 128K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Dec 93 14:19:19 EST From: "M. David Greenspon" Subject: [*] the MACS 1.0b5 the MACS is a freeware application which displays a large number of specs for all Macs that have ever been released. For a more thorough description, see the help included in the application. the MACS supports all Macs from the Plus up and all Systems from 4.1 up. In October Apple introduced no fewer than *sixteen* new Mac models! That's more models than they introduced in Macintosh's first 7 1/2 years. the MACS 1.0b5 has entries for all the new *non-Performa* models: LC 475, Quadra 605, 610, 650, and 660AV, Duo 250 and 270c, Macintosh TV, and Color Classic II. The Performa 410, 460, 466, 467, 475, 476, and 550 will be added soon. The other improvements in version 1.0b5 are: -Filled in the empty "Speedometer speed" field for as many Macs as I could, and provided display and Search support for this field -Divided Help into bite-sized sections, with a pop-up menu to select them -Added more Help info -Fixed an incompatibility with LaserWriter Driver 8.x -Many minor changes, spec additions/corrections, and bug fixes Thanks to the many people who have sent me corrections and suggestions! This is still a beta version of the MACS. I don't have all the specs yet; some info is quite difficult to find. I would really like for people to send me bug reports, corrections, specs I don't have, and suggestions. --David [Archived as /info-mac/info/hdwr/the-macs-10b5.hqx; 114K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1993 14:45:00 -0400 (EDT) From: kfl Subject: [*] Universal Card Copier This is the first posting of the Universal Card Copier, a HyperCard stack/utility that makes cutting and pasting cards >From one stack to another real easy. You can copy a whole stack, only marked cards, or you can select the cards you want from a list of card names/ids. You can paste them anywhere you want in the stack you are copying to. (e.g. at the beginning, the end or at any point you specify) WARNING/discalimer: This is not the be-all, end-all of stack merging utilities! ALWAYS SAVE a copy of the stack you are copying cards INTO BEFORE attempting to copy any cards into it. This stack uses the HyperCard Menu commands of "Copy Card" and "Paste Card" just as if you were doing it manually. This may or may not be what you want to do when you say you want to "merge" two stacks. If the stacks are dissimilar and you paste a card(s) from one stack into the middle of a different stack, you can break the stack you are copying to since hypercard will create a new background in the middle of the stack and this may cause some scripts to not work correctly. This stack is freeware and may be distributed freely by any and all non-profit groups. Hope someone finds this useful... Kevin Forsberg-Lary [Archived as /info-mac/card/universal-card-copier.hqx; 39K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 16:50:40 -0500 From: evs1@cornell.edu (Erik Schwiebert) Subject: [*] UsenEdit -- A text editor Attached please find UsenEdit v1.1 (/ Yooz' ned it /), a Text-Edit based editor designed to work with Peter Speck's Nuntius in low-memory environments for the porpose of editing and posting of UseNet articles. UsenEdit requirews only 50k of RAM, allows up to 3 windows of 32k each open at a time, supports stationary, Apple Events, Undo, F1-F4 as Cut, Copy, etc... Due to the need for apple events, UsenEdit REQUIRES system 7. Note to all, especially the moderators -- This program is an update from my previous version NewsEdit v1.0. I was informed a few weeks ago that the name NewsEdit is already copyrighted, so I had to change the name. Update notes, bug fixes, and contact information are included in the archive. Thanx all, and happy posting! [Archived as /info-mac/text/usen-edit-11.hqx; 37K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 14:46:04 -0600 From: miles@mbs.telesys.utexas.edu (Miles Abernathy) Subject: [*] Word 4 Print Bugfix INIT Here is the official Microsoft INIT that fixes a bug in printing Word 4 docs to QuickDraw printers. Symptoms of the problem are that words get overprinted, mostly along the left side of the page. This is said to mainly happen under System 6, but I can vouch for the fact that it can also happen under 7.0.1. [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/word-4-print-bugfix.hqx; 18K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1993 14:16:26 EST From: takemoto@xtal0.harvard.edu Subject: [*] Zoom Lens 2.0 Enclosed is Zoom Lens 2.0, a neat app that displays a magnified view of everything around the mouse cursor in a window. You can change the degree of magnification from 1:1 (boring) to 24:1, the window size, and the window update rate. You can also copy the magnified image to the clipboard. Zoom Lens is freeware by Steve Crutchfield (stevec@imsa.edu). Darin Takemoto takemoto@xtal0.harvard.edu [Archived as /info-mac/gui/zoom-lens-20.hqx; 26K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 12:04 EDT From: LEKOJ@ROO.FIT.EDU (J. LEKO) Subject: "xterm emulators for the Mac" Dear Moderators: I have known and been using the sumex archives now for about two years, but I have only recently discovered your peroidical. Perhaps though you can help me. I have been attempting to locate an xwindows emulator for the Macintosh which would allow a user full connectivity to a Sun Unix workstation. Does such a thing exist, and if so, where can I find it? As I am new to this digest, please excuse me if I have posted this incorrectly. Thank you, J. Leko ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Dec 93 12:30:00 -0700 From: Bruce Carter Subject: -t114 error? Greetings Steve, >I have a HyperCard stack which runs perfectly on a an SE with an >accelerator and a IIcx, but generates a -t114 error (or similar) on a >Powerbook. Anyone know what this means? >Steve Tripp, ci52@ukanvax, ci52@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu Error T114 is "Expected stack here". Somewhere in a script something is expecting to see stack and sees something else. You must be using the Player, because full versions of HyperCard do not give these code phrases. If you have a full copy of HyperCard and a copy of ResEdit you can look these error codes up. Inside HyperCard, in STR# resource number 132 named "TalkErrors" are all of the English expansions of these error codes. Just take the number following the T and find the string in the STR# that has the same number. If someone who is more adept at resource manipulation than I am would write a little utility to extract all of those error messages into a nice little text report it would probably be useful to folks who are stuck with the Player. ------------------------------ Date: 01 Dec 1993 11:02:54 -0400 (EDT) From: "Peter Jorgensen - Colgate U." Subject: A/UX Help needed Greetings, I need some help setting up a Mac WorkGroup Server 95 as a netnews server for our campus. I've got TCP/IP running, but can't configure it to use our name server. If you could help me or tell me how to access another appropriate list I'd appreciate hearing from you. TIA PJORGENSEN@CENTER.COLGATE.EDU ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 93 17:29:45 +0100 From: ugrob@rzu.unizh.ch (Urs W. Grob) Subject: Anybody successfully registered MAZ? (Q) Dear Info-Mac Community A bit more than one year ago I 'registered' MaxAppleZoom 1.43 by sending the author (Naoto Horii in Bruxelles) the usual registration form and the amount of $25.- in cash. I never received an answer, but this didn't really bother me - 'til the appearance of MAZ 1.44. This latest version finally allowed me to enjoy the benefits of MAZ with my Apple 8.24 video card (version 1.43 refused to work with newer Apple 8.24 video interfaces). Great! - but... With the latest version of MAZ Naoto Horii obviously included some code that makes MAZ display a note at - say - every tenth startup telling the user he needs to register MAZ in order to get a code that suppresses the nagging message at startup. Well, I wrote N. Horii a kind snail-mail letter, asking for this secret code (for free - since I paid for the software), but again I didn't get an answer. So I'd like to ask you a) if anybody successfully managed to register MAZ (any version) and b) if anybody actually received the code needed to patch version 1.44. Any reply would be appreciated. Thank you in advance! Urs W. Grob ugrob@rzu.unizh.ch PS: I only have the address of N. Horii but no e-mail address. If you have one, please let me know. Thanx again! ------------------------------ Date: 3 Dec 1993 11:10:01 U From: "Mikael Hansen" Subject: ARA Hayes 144 modemscript REGARDING ARA Hayes 144 modemscript Using ARA 1.0 as dial-up server as well as client, we're looking for ARA Hayes 144 modemscripts (Optima or Ultra). ARA 1.0 merely offers Hayes 9600 baud. (PS: I don't know when 2.0 will arrive around here.) Mikael Hansen meh@admin.kb.bib.dk The Royal Library, Denmark ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 00:58:34 GMT+1 From: FRICCI@polito.it Subject: A Sound Question... Hello, everybody! I am writing a sound editor, and I need to work directly with the sound samples, I don't have to just pass some data to SndPlay. The problem is this: I noticed that, when the sound is an 8-bit 'snd ' resource, samples are, as for the wave table synthesizer described in Inside Mac, stored in such a way that the 'zero' or 'silence' value is 0x80, and the lower limit of the waveform is 0x00, and the upper limit if 0xFF. But, when it comes to 16-bit sounds, the 'silence' or 'zero' value is 0x0000, and then, treating every sample as a signed short integer, the upper limit is 0x7FFF ( 32767) and the lower limit is -32768. The 16-bit way of storing samples is the same for 'snd ' resources and for AIFF files, whereas 8-bit AIFF files don't store samples in the same way as 8-bit 'snd ' resources, instead they store them in the 16-bit way, i.e. like signed chars: silence is at 0x00, then 127 is the upper limit and -128 is the lower limit. I also noticed that all this is consistent with what SndPlay plays. I mean, I have to pass sounds stored in the described way to SndPlay for them to play correctly. I can't get the data from an 8-bit AIFF file, add a sound header and then play it with SndPlay: I need to convert all the samples first, so that 0x80 becomes the middle (silence) value, 0x00 the lower limit and 0xFF the upper one. Do you know if there is a way to pass data to SndPlay so that I can keep 8-bit sounds always in such a format that 0x00 is the middle (silence) value? Have you had any experience with 24-bit or 32-bit sounds? What if the sampling size is not a multiple of 8 bits, i.e. 12 bits? Do you know what are the silence, lower and upper limit values in these cases? I couldn't find an answer to these questions in Inside Mac VI... Thanks a lot! Best, - Alberto Ricci. fricci@polito.it P.S. Please reply directly to me, if you can, since I'm a bit late reading the digests... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Dec 93 10:28:29 PDT From: ace@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst) Subject: Attach printers to apps? Here's an odd one. A friend has some clients who have three printers, a networked LabelWriter, a networked StyleWriter, and a laser printer of some sort. They want to be able to have certain apps, like their address database, always print to the LabelWriter or one of the other printers, and they don't want to have to remember to switch the printer before they print or after they print, which rules out macro use. I can't offhand think of any way to do this without them at least being conscious of which printer is the selected one. Forgetting to change the printer is a big deal, since letters then print to the LabelWriter, etc. Any ideas? Will QuickDraw GX help with this specific problem? 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: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 10:22:11 -0500 From: baim@harpo.aaec.com Subject: Audio CD tracks -> ? OK, I have all the CDROM and Quicktime stuff loaded and I can open an Audio CD and see all the tracks as little icons. I have an older CDROM drive and the Quicktime readme says the conversion to MooV only works with the Apple CD300 drives and that seems to be correct: none of the MooV players I have even shows the tracks in the Open dialog, much less offers to convert them. Is there any way to get these tracks off the CD digitally? Replies to me please and I will summarize. Thanks. Paul Baim ------------------------------ Date: 2 Dec 93 09:08:00 EST From: "Dananberg, Jamie" Subject: AV Macs and System Update Here's some questions that I hope some wise soul on the net can probably answer. I have an 840AV and am wondering whether I should run System Update 2.0.1 on it. I've noticed that my Memory CP is newer then SU's (7.1.2 vs 7.1.1), my Express Modem Software is the same (1.1.2), but that the Sound CP is older (8.0 vs 8.0.1)! So: 1. Will the installer only replace the older stuff? 2. Also, are other patches installed that aren't as obvious and do these patches apply to the new AV ROMs? 3. Finally, is the Sound Manager routines built into the AV? (I assume so since there is no Sound Manager Extension requried). Thanks Jamie Dananberg University of Michigan E-mail: Jamie.Dananberg@um.cc.umich.edu OR Jdananberg@im.med.umich.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 16:22:16 +0200 From: giacanelli@bo.infn.it Subject: Beatles font request Hi, As the subject line says, is there a truetype font like the one used on The Beatles drums? Please reply directly to me, Thanks, Federico ------------------------------ Date: 1 Dec 1993 14:47:41 U From: "Harris Tom" Subject: BOMBER(tm) 1.2 I have a legal copy of BOMBER(tm) 1.2. I have a Performa 475 with the Hypercard 2.1 player. I can play this game but it will not allow me to save settings. It says that it needs to be converted. BOMBER(tm) is a protected stac. Does anyone know of a more recent release? Is there a way to unprotect this stac? Is there a way to convert the stac? I have tried to convert it using the player I have but nothing happens. BTW BOMBER(tm) was from Deadly Games, LTD Thanks in advance. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 17:20:47 -0500 (EST) From: Seth Ness Subject: boomerang type utility? hi, for a quadra 610, with system 7.1, are there any simple freeware or shareware extensions that will modify the open/save dialog box so you can move in one step to certain designated folders? I think superboomerang does this but its commercial. Seth L. Ness Ness Gadol Hayah Sham ness@aecom.yu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 10:07:02 -0600 From: Paul M Sheldon Subject: CEToolbox 1.7 and Now Utilities... (A) (fwd) Postmaster didn't like this address: Christian_Gingras :-} Christian said he was now running steady as a rock after the net helped him a bit. He didn't quite know why. I wrote the following so you all could understand a little more. Here is what evidentally happened and what I had tried to write Christian. Prefs files can get corrupted and cause a utility to crash. You have set things up so that your system is running w/o utility and you can delete the corrupted files while retaining the utility that utility will regenerate uncorrupted prefs files (without the work you put into informing the older other corrupted prefs file, of course). Instead of moving utility out of systems folder, you might have simply started with the shift key down and disabled all extensions. Then, you would have 1. rapidly started up without waiting for the init parade 2. bounce into your apple menu'd aliased pref's folder and 3. you could delete the prefs and wind up where you are now, stable as a rock. 4. for prefs with valuable information in them, like shortcuts that has frequently accessed folders in it, I sometimes back them up with a bunch of alias folders to help me in the apple menu. Hope this clarifies a bit more what is going on right and what more could be done. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 17:41:04 -0500 From: lt10@cornell.edu (Li-Hsiang Tu) Subject: Checking mail w/o running Eudora (Q) I thought I saw something that allows one to check mail without running Eudora in the previous Info-Mac digest. Does anyone remember what it is called? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Dec 93 21:32:42 PDT From: Paul Brians Subject: DesktopTextures Unexpectedly Quits (A) Thanks to three people who pointed out its existence to me, I downloaded Texture Installer 2.1, which is hidden inside Desktop Textures III. It opens the troublesome ppats easily and works fine. It's archived at SUMEX-AIM and mirrors as util/desktop-textures-21.hqx. The change in name and packaging made it easy to overlook. Paul Brians, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-5020 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Dec 93 00:06:02 EST From: Chris Gorski Subject: Ergo Mouse Gone To Pot Hi! I'm starting to have severe problems with my ADB Mouse II (the dreaded Ergo Mouse). Ever since I purchased my Centris, the mouse has had problems with the mouse button sticking and poor tracking. Lately, things have been getting much, much worse. I had heard talk that Apple was taking action to correct bad Ergo Mice. I've also heard that Apple vehemently denies that anything is wrong. Which is true and do I have any recourse in that matter? For what it's worth, I'm still under warranty. Please respond directly to me and I will post what I find out. Chris Gorski st001954@brownvm.brown.edu ------------------------------ Date: 1 Dec 1993 17:39:40 GMT From: cahoon@phoenix.cs.uga.edu (Brad Cahoon) Subject: ESL software for the Mac? On behalf of a friend who teaches English as a second language to students here at the University of Georgia, I'm trying to collect information about Macintosh software. We're interested in programs that teach English grammar from an ESL perspective or help students prepare for the TOEFL test. My friend has found some IBM-compatible products, but no Mac material. We are developing some HyperCard stacks for this purpose ourselves but would like to find or buy more Mac software. Thanks for any and all help! Brad Cahoon Georgia Center for Continuing Education The University of Georgia cahoon@phoenix.cs.uga.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 16:24:43 GMT From: Jan Robert Johnsen Subject: Gold Disk E-Mail address ? Does anyone know if Gold Disk have an e-mail address og BBS ? -- Jan Robert Johnsen janr@falch.no JR Design Studio Carl Jeppesens gt 22 N-0481 OSLO, Norway Tlf: +47 22 22 78 45 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 14:20:09 GMT From: Jan Robert Johnsen Subject: Gold Disk E-mail or BBS address Does anyone know if Gold Disk have an e-mail address og BBS ? -- Jan Robert Johnsen janr@falch.no Tlf: +47 22 22 78 45 JR Design Studio Carl Jeppesens gt 22 N-0481 OSLO, Norway ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Dec 93 13:42:59 PST From: poustie@sfu.ca Subject: Golf handicap program My assistant is looking for a program to help with the chore of maintaining the golf handicap stats for his group. Has anyone seen such a beast in free/shareware version for the Mac? Thanks in advance! Eric ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 10:07 CST From: Subject: Greg's Buttons & WP 3.0 There seems to be some conflict between Greg's Buttons 3.1.3 and WordPerfect 3.0. The pull-down menus lose their color and the menu bar goes white. I realize these are pretty minor problems (thank goodness), but it doesn't happen with my other applications. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 07:49:01 -0500 (EST) From: Al Silva 94 Subject: Group Mail program (Question) I have been searching the internet for an application program that would allow users on a network to send mail to each other. This is not your typical e-mail situation. The situation is that we have 7 groups of students, each group writes log entries that reply to log entries of their group members. This is somewhat of a community diary. Current situation is that we have a appletalk network setup and each group would access their own word processing file, append to it, and then save it. Problem: most students(freshmen) do not yet have enough computer experience to go about these steps without causing some problems. Therefore, if anyone can e-mail me about a application that would solve our problem or if you have any other ideas that might help, please let me know. Thank you for your time. Best to all, Alfred Silva silvaa@acad.bryant.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Dec 93 10:37:22 PDT From: ace@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst) Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #231 In Regards to your letter <199312021346.AA25171@nwnexus.wa.com>: > I hope that there is somebody out there who is able to give some clues > regarding > the SLIP-problem described below? Because I'm stuck. I tried everything I know > of and I'm out of inspiration now. It definitely sounds like a MacTCP DNS problem. I don't know about the specific bugs in 1.1.1, but it's possible that 2.0.4 would help. The main thing I would try is configuring the DNS part of MacTCP like this. machine.domain 130.90.111.111 (o) . 130.90.111.111 . 140.234.234.234 Those number are completely fictitious, replace them with your nameserver's IP address. The second nameserver address (the third number) is your backup nameserver - your sysadmin should be able to tell you of two of them. The dots instead of the names? It has something to do with queries outside of the domain listed in the first box, beyond that I don't really understand it. People over in comp.sys.mac.comm are good at this sort of thing. So, in summary. Make sure the first two numbers are the same, make sure that the first one is the default, and make sure to put the dots in. 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, 3 Dec 93 09:29:08 -0600 From: adamh@merle.acns.nwu.edu (Adam Hauerwas) Subject: Internal Hard Drives Hi everyone. I run a network with aging machines: SE's, II's, IIcx's, IIci's, IIsi's, a IIfx file server, and Centri. On my older machines, though, I've still got 20 meggers and 40 meggers, and the largest Apple-purchased drives I've got are 80 meggers. I will be moving to Word 6 and Excel 5 once they are bundled into the new version of Office, and I'm thinking to myself "Hmm. Word is going to be a monster. How am I going to fit it on the disks?" I've already lost two 20's to stiction, so I'm thinking about replacing most of my internal drives next year. For two workstations, I've already gone ahead and purchased 170MB LaCie internals because the price was good and I had been satisfied in the past by their externals. But other people have steered me clear of LaCie, saying that they are Quantum's B-level drives that fail the first tier of quality assurance. So, what kind of hard drives should I buy? Has anyone had experience with other companies for volume purchase agreements? I'm looking to buy somewhere in the neighborhood of 50, so please let me know. And how much is enough? Any pointers would be appreciated. Adam ---- Adam Hauerwas, Macintosh Specialist | adamh@merle.acns.nwu.edu Duff & Phelps Financial Consulting | 55 E. Monroe, Suite 3600, Chicago 60603 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 13:39:15 -0600 From: forbes@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu (Graeme Forbes) Subject: LC -> LC 475: mystery deepens I took MacWeek's advice and "asked David Ramsey" whether an LC -> LC 475 upgrade could be cobbled together from the logic board for the LCII/III upgrade, together with a new power supply (many people had suggested that the reason there is no LC upgrade is that the LC's power supply isn't robust enough). DR replied almost immediately (!) to the effect that as far as he knows the power supply in the LCII is the same as that in the LC. Therefore the power supply can't be the reason there's no upgrade being offered. He included the following exceprt from the developer notes on the differences between the LC and the LCII: * The Macintosh LC II uses a 68030 processor rather than the 68020 used in the Macintosh LC. * The Macintosh LC II comes standard with 4 MB RAM soldered to the main logic board, while the Macintosh LC has 2 MB soldered down. Both computers support a maximum of 10 MB RAM. * The Macintosh LC has a second internal floppy disk connector for the addition of a second (optional) 1.4 MB Apple SuperDrive. The Macintosh LC II does not support additional internal or external floppy disk drives. * The Macintosh LC II microphone kit does not include a phonograph adapter plug. * The Macintosh LC II uses a slightly modified version of the Macintosh LC case. No mention of power supply changes. Bearing in mind that you can upgrade an LC to an LCII, can anyone see anything in this list that would explain why you couldn't put an LCII-LC 475 upgrade board in an LC and expect the thing to work? Graeme Forbes ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 17:13:45 -0500 (EST) From: Seth Ness Subject: localtalk-ethertalk bridges hi, we have a hp 4M hooked up via local talk to a centris 610. the centris is also physically connected to the campus ethernet, but in order to print we don't keep it on ethertalk. we'd like to be able to print to the hp 4M from the other two computers in our lab (a centris 610 and quadra 610) and to keep the first centris on ethertalk. I know a software bridge will allow this, but then the printer will show up on the network and the business office will charge us for a full ethernet hookup (thats the policy). so, are there bridges that let you make the printer visible to only a few specific computers. Any suggestions welcome, also for bridges in general. thanks. Seth L. Ness Ness Gadol Hayah Sham ness@aecom.yu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1993 16:18:46 -0600 From: stankerr@uiuc.edu (Stan Kerr) Subject: Logitech mouse turns itself off Logitech makes a 3-button mouse, called the MouseMan, that works very well for X Windows, e.g. with MacX. Their current version of the driver, 1.11, has a problem with turning itself off periodically, so that the mouse key mappings are lost; when this happens, the left button still behaves like a regular Mac mouse. I've called Logitech about this a few times, and they say they haven't pinpointed the cause, but that things like extension conflicts and context switching appear to affect it; in my case, for instance, rapid and frequent switching between two of my applications (doing copy and paste) seems to cause it. They say a new driver is being released in a few months, but they don't know if it will fix the problem. I'd like to encourage anyone who has a Logitech mouse and who has experienced this problem to call their technical support number at 510-795-8100. If enough people express concern about this, perhaps it will be fixed (at least, assuming it's really a problem with their driver, and not with something else). -- Stan Kerr stankerr@uiuc.edu 217-333-5217 fax:217-244-7089 Computing and Communications Services Office U of Illinois/Urbana ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Dec 93 08:07:31 PST From: "Dave Leiner" Subject: long lines and word wrap from hell (c) I recently wrote: >The problem is that my mail client (VersaTerm-Link) does not support an >adjustable right margin. It uses the standard 80 column word wrap. I know I >could go through the extra step of using a text processor, but so far it hasn't >been worth the extra hassle. I just called VersaTerm developer, Synergy, and >they were unaware of the difficult caused by the fixed margins. Maybe this will >spur a fix, Pete. I already received the following reply from Synergy. Sounds like a responsive, customer-oriented company to me. Thanks, Synergy. Also, I was wrong with the wrap width on VersaTerm Link; apparently the fixed wrap works better with Info-Mac. A previous mail client I was using had an 80 column wrap. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dave, Link wraps at 72 to 76 characters if no carriage returns are encountered prior to this point in the string. I talked to the programmer and he told me to add a request to our "Requested Features" file to allow users the ability to specify a wrap or to specify no wrap. He will seriously consider adding this in the next version. ================================ + Diana Abelbeck + + Technical Support + + Abelbeck Software + + synergy1@tech.abelbeck.com + ================================ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ --Dave ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 13:04:34 -0500 (EST) From: dufours@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Dufour Stephen) Subject: Looking for a X-mas desktop pattern. Dear netters, Last year, I found a wonderful X-mas desktop pattern which contained a black background with golden bells and green (or red?) ribbons. Unfortunately, I lost it. Can someone tell me where I can find it. Or you can e-mail it to me at dufours@ere.umontreal.ca. Since it's X-mas time, I like to put my machine in the mood. Term projects work seems less difficult in an holiday environment. Thanks Steven ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 11:02:16 -0600 (CST) From: Eric Durbrow Subject: Mac 512 and Mainframe Communications Hi. A user wants to use MacKermit or Zterm to communicate with a mainframe. So she needs function keys and arrow keys. Her 512 keyboard does not have these keys. And MacKermit, I think, no longer has settings for nonABD keyboards. She can't use an escape sequence because she does not have an escape key. Any ideas? Would greatly appreciate help. Eric Durbrow University of Missouri-Columbia ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Dec 93 15:30:24 GMT From: selewach@sptvx2.SINet.SLB.COM (Michael Selewach 713 967-5251 selewach@sptvx1.sinet.slb.com) Subject: Macintosh Database Viewers Does anyone know of a product that will allow a Mac to read (or run reports) on Microsoft Access database files? The data will reside on a VAX and will be shared via DEC Pathworks. When (and if) I get some solutions, I'll post them on the board. Thanks in advance, Michael Selewach selewach@sptvx1.sinet.slb.com Rosharon, Texas ------------------------------ Date: 2 Dec 1993 22:53:02 -0800 From: malcolm@apple.com (Malcolm Slaney) Subject: Macintosh VUMeters Available for AV I'm happy to announce the availability of an application for displaying sound levels on the new Macintosh AV computers. This application uses the DSP chip built into the 660AV and 840AV to measure the level of sound coming into or leaving the machine. The sound level can be displayed as either a peak reading or the more conventional power reading. Sources are included. This should be a good example of how to program the DSP system. Thanks to the denizens of comp.dsp for providing the references to the original 1940 BSTJ articles that specified the behaviour of analog VU Meters. I've tried to simulate their behaviour as closely as possible. The application and sources are available via anonymous FTP or gopher from ears.atg.apple.com (17.255.4.17) as the file /pub/VUMeters.sit.hqx This is a BinHexed, StuffIt compressed archive. -- Malcolm Slaney Apple Advanced Technology Group ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 93 14:19:42 EST From: Phil Budne Subject: Macintosh webster client? Does anyone have a Macintosh webster client? Thanks! -phil ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Dec 93 16:05:47 -0500 From: Randy.Patton@vt.edu (Randy Patton) Subject: Mac Word 5.1a Address file? Does anyone know where MS Word stores the addresses entered into its envelope generator? A colleague of mine has compiled a fairly large body of addresses in Word and would like to export them to a file for separarte sorting and printing, but we've both searched in vain for the file(s) Word stashed the data in. Is there a quick and easy way to export Word's entire address list, or at least print it out? H. Randy Patton, Technical Coordinator,Virginia Tech English Department randy.patton@vt.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Dec 93 18:03:03 EST From: Mark A. Saper Subject: MacWrite Pro - ability to Zoom ? Could someone tell me if MacWrite Pro has the ability to view the window at different magnifications? I know that ClarisWorks has this capability but I don't think Word has it (at least 4.0). Thanks, Mark Saper ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Dec 93 23:43:39 JST From: awaji@gokumi.j.kisarazu.ac.jp (Yoshimasa Awaji) Subject: MaxFax patch(Q) Sorry if it's written in the summary just uploaded on the archive, but I'm not alble to get the file because I'm not allowed ftp from our site. What I'd like to know is if anyone knows how to patch the MaxFax so that it works with the Japanese system I'm using. The software seems to be searching for 'File','Print', or 'Page Setup' when it enables the Fax menu items. The problem is that in most applications as well as in Finder the menu names are written in Japanese. I changed the names into English with ResEdit, but it doesn't work properly. Menu items are enabled, but I can't print from the print menu. Appreciate any help. Thanks, Yoshi ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Dec 93 10:05:44 -0500 From: Steve Chamberlin Subject: Microphone input on Quadra 605 What gives with the mic input on the Quadra 605? I just bought a new Q605 (which comes without a microphone) and when I attach the mic from my old LC, I get nothing, zip, nada, zilch. The docs say it uses the PlainTalk Microphone, does this mean it won't work with the old mic? I thought microphones were microphones, more or less. Also, is there any kind of adapter I can get to let me record output from a stereo system or other music device instead of from the mic? Thanks! Steve Chamberlin slc@mak.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Dec 93 21:15:15 EST From: rmeadows@aol.com Subject: Need help with Kennect Drive 2.4 w/Rapport! This is a plea to anyone in the Washington DC metro area (or anything in a stretch that could be considered the DC area): I have a Kennect Technology Drive 2.4 with Rapport. A wonderful device, when it's working. When it's not working, dozens of 2.4 Mb floppies with lots of goodies and important stuff, all of them unreadable, is not that wonderful. That's the situation I've found myself in lately. My drive (as near as I can tell) has gone toes up, and now many, many hours of expensive download time lies dormant in my desk drawers. And it seems that Kennect Technology has gone under, or otherwise disappeared: I cannot reach them by telephone (no information is available), their AppleLink account is gone, and I can no longer find anything to do with Kennect on AOL (or anywhere else for that matter!). Does anyone out there know anything about Kennect? Have they been sold to another company? Anybody know the (former?) president's name and phone number? Bueller?? No? Well how 'bout this? Anyo ne even remotely near DC have one of these contraptions that they'd let me borrow for a couple of hours or days, at either your site or mine? I could make it worth your while (negotiable!). If you can help in even the smallest way, please contact me: Randy Meadows 310 Old Dominion Ave. Herndon, VA 22070 (703) 478-9881 (day) (202) 310-3110 (anytime) rmeadows on AOL rmeadows@aol.com Many thanks in advance! rbm ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1993 13:49:58 EST From: bouldin@anvil.nrl.navy.mil Subject: Novy Systems: RIP Novy Systems, vendors of quality accelerators boards for the last 8 years, has gone out of business. It isn't suprising, given Apple's price cuts over the last couple months, that the business is drying up. I expect that this is not the last such company to go away. Too bad, I liked their products, and they were a reasonably priced alternative to Apple back in the bad old days of overpriced Macs. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Dec 93 16:17:12 -0500 From: "Keith E Gatling" Subject: Offline Newsreader for the Mac [Thanks] Just a short (and overdue...but more on that shortly) note to thank all the people who responded to my request, both through Info-Mac and through direct email. The upshot is, as Adam Engst pointed out, that because I have a shell account, and not a direct UUCP or SLIP connection, I can't read news offline. Oh well, I guess this means I'll just have to continue tying up the phone line at home and using one SU's dial-in connections while I read and reply to stuff online. As far as my long overdue responses go...this is one of the "unfortunate" side effects of using EasyView. GREAT program...I can go through all the Info-Mac digests offline, and a lot faster...but it does sort of put a crimp into responding immediately. I'll try to get a little better at this. keg * kgatling@mailbox.syr.edu I've got plenty of opinions. Just ask my wife! * ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Dec 93 16:17:47 -0500 From: Paul Schwarz Subject: Opinions on the new DeltaGraph v3.0 (Q) Hi, I'm interested in hearing opinions about the latest release of DeltaGraph (v3.0). I'm primarily interested in using DeltaGraph for scientific applications (as opposed to business applications), and I'm not sure whether the new features/functionality in version 3.0 warrant an upgrade. For example, is it possible yet to include 2 different fonts in axis label e.g., text plus a greek symbol? Thanks. -Paul schwarz@tc.cornell.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 93 14:27:01 MST From: jlundell@opus.com (Jonathan Lundell) Subject: OptiMem I did a little checking on the CIS forums before buying OptiMem; seems like the real thing. I'm using a copy on my 4MB Duo 210 while I wait for RAM prices to come back down, and it seems to work fine. It can be enabled or disabled for specific apps; my primary use is Word and Excel; now I can have them both in memory at once (obviously you don't want to use virtual on a PowerBook, at least not with batteries). I'll probably keep using it once I expand my memory, and will probably expand only to 8MB instead of 12-16MB as I had originally planned. Some apps apparently don't benefit, due to the way they obtain their memory. ------------------------------ Date: 2 Dec 1993 13:01:27 -0500 From: "dlawrence" Subject: PC Exchange => Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1993 18:20:04 -0500 (EST) => From: David Garrett => Subject: PC Exchange incompatibility? => => Running PC Exchange 1.0.1 on my Centris with the processor caches => turned on, Word 5.1a hangs when I try to run it. => If I remove PC Exchange or shut off the processor caches, Word runs => fine. I suspect that a more recent version of PCX exists that would => solve this problem. Can anyone confirm or deny this hypothesis? Current version is 1.0.3, available to registered users by calling 1-800-SOS-APPL. David Lawrence -> dlawrence@arpa.mil...CIS:75300,2460...AOL: OLTDavid/DoctorMac *** Macintosh Product Evaluation Specialist <-- coolest job *in* the world *** ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Dec 93 10:58:23 CDT From: Paul Koch Subject: Performa 450 quality (Q) I have an opportunity to buy a 'refurbished' Performa 450 at a tempting price. Before I bite, I would like to know: 1. How close is it, really, to the LC III? 2. Can I run System 7.1? 3. How good is the 14-inch monitor which comes with it? Any advice would be much appreciated. If there is a faq file which addresses these questions, please point the way. Kindly respond to bsen046@unlvm.unl.edu directly. Thank you! --Paul Koch ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 93 18:44 GMT0 From: Pindar Infotek Ltd Subject: PSWriter vs Native printer >From Pindar user Ian McCall Subject: _PSWriter vs Native printer drivers I'm using a LaserJet 4M, for which Hewlett-Packard provide a printer driver. However, I also have a .PPD to use with PSWriter. Which driver is likely to prove better in terms of both performance and quality? I'd tend towards the native mode one myself, since this must surely have been specifically designed around the particular printer in question. I'm not sure though, so if anyone has any information I'd be glad to here it. Cheers, Ian --- Please make 'Attn:Ian McCall' the first line of your reply (not the subject) to ensure automatic forwarding to the correct Pindar user. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Dec 93 00:08:41 +0000 BST From: Richard Smith Subject: Re-naming hard drives (Q) I know I've seen this before but I can't find the gen in my Info-Mac archive. How do I change the name of my hard drives? (system 7.1) Why can I change the name of one of my drives, but not the other two? I really need to do this, I'm using an SE/30 at the moment, and it's getting fed up with my boot drive which is called 'Mac IIcx'. I think the machine's suffering a kind of electronic identity crisis, so I thought that if I named my drives after something less identifiable I could happily transfer them from machine to machine without trouble! (I regularly change the Mac I'm using, so I find it easier to install my boot drive in the fresh machine, rather than setting a new one up for all the INITs and networking stuff every time) Please reply to me. Thanks, Richard Smith (richard@mole.demon.co.uk) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Dec 93 10:30:02 EST From: Pete Tamas Subject: Reinstalling System software Try to make sure the old System and Finder files are removed before you try installing the new system. If the old System is not removed, the new one just updates the resources, generally keeping the corrupted sections you want to get rid of.-Pete Tamas Gnome@VM.Temple.edu or TempleVM.bitnet > From: Oliver Fross > OK: Here's the current problem (just as finals roll around, > right? :-)) My neighbor's IIci w/ the cache card, 8x1meg SIMMs > and nothing else non-standard inside the case and 7.1, the > usual software etc on the drive will NOT start up. He gets to > the "Welcome to Macintosh" screen and it stops there. It is > possible to get the system going with a IIci specific start-up > disk, but things run pretty slowly... SO, you say "re-install the > system, you fool!" right? Well I tried that, and the error still > occours...and there's no chance that the system is corrupted as > it is being installed from a CD (can't write to it, can't corrupt > it...) > > SO: Any ideas on why / how to fix this startup problem? > TIA. > --oliver > > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 08:40:48 -0800 From: John_Rosborough@sfu.ca (John Rosborough) Subject: Robert's Rules of Order Anybody know of an electronic version of this book? Something that would work with is Mac would be preferable. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 21:21:49 -0800 From: jaimev@netcom.com (Jaime C. Villacorte) Subject: Rodney King & LA Riots QuickTime movies available I have 2 sort-of-related QuickTime movies that I'm making available *temporarily* via anonymous ftp. The first is of George Holliday's home video of the Rodney King beating. It runs about 1 min 15 seconds at a frame size of 200x118 at a frame rate of 10fps. Uses Cinepak compression, 256 grayscale (it's not color, so I'd suggest switching your monitor to display gray scales when watching the movie). It has no audio track. It's about 3.3 Mb. The second piece is called "LA '92" It's a QuickTime movie I put together from clips of local news coverage during the 1992 Los Angeles riots. I had left my VCR on for about 18 hours over the span of 3 days, recording various local TV channels during most of the riot. Back in October, I quickly scanned through the tapes, digitizing interesting bits of video, and added a classical music sound track (Delibes' Lakme - Viens, Mallika...Dome epais). Runs about 1 min 24 sec at a frame size of 200x150. Uses the Cinepak video compression (16-bit color). It has an 11 Khz audio track. It's about 5 Mb. The movies are available via anonymous ftp *temporarily* from Netcom in the directory /pub/jaimev. For space reasons, both files will be deleted after Friday, Nov 10. The Rodney King movie is broken into 3 binhex files: rodney_king_1.hqx, rodney_king_2.hqx, and rodney_king_3.hqx. Unbinhex them and then use Stuffit Lite to join the 3 segment files together to form the movie. LA '92 is broken into 4 binhex files: la_92_1.hqx, la_92_2.hqx, la_92_3.hqx, and la_92_4.hqx. Unbinhex them and then use Stuffit Lite to join the 4 segment files together to form the movie. Use any of the Netcom machines below to access the movies. netcom.com 192.100.81.100 netcom2.netcom.com 192.100.81.108 netcom3.netcom.com 192.100.81.103 netcom4.netcom.com 192.100.81.107 netcom5.netcom.com 192.100.81.113 netcom6.netcom.com 192.100.81.114 netcom7.netcom.com 192.100.81.115 - jaime villacorte Apathetic Surfers Association jaimev@netcom.com "We don't care if we don't surf." ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Dec 93 13:08:06 +0100 From: simula3@di.unito.it (Alex Rodella) Subject: SetupPartitions (A) FO> Quadra AV users will particularly appreciate SetupPartitions: in FO> fact, it seems that the only driver exploiting the new awesome FO> hardware capabilities of the AVs is the Apple one. So you want FO> to format with Apple HD SC Setup. Since these days hard disks FO> are pretty huge, you also want to partition. So you want FO> SetupPartitions. In Info-Mac Digest V11 #230 Jeffrey Fritz (jfritz@wvnvm.wvnet.edu) wrote: > My preference is to do a "hard" partition (creating > several logical partitions) as opposed to a soft > partition (a large file(s) that fools the Mac OS into > thinking that the drive is partitioned.) Does > SetupPartitions support hard partitioning? Yes. SetupPartitions allows **hard** (as opposed to soft) partitioning. You no more need Silverlining, HDT, or other third-party formatters in order to "hard" partition your drive. You still need Apple HD SC Setup, but since every Mac user can freely obtain a copy of it, this is not a problem, of course. I admit my blurb is not clear; I will mention the hard vs. soft issue in the next release. Fabrizio Oddone ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Dec 93 11:53:20 EET From: Sot.Mpantas - NTUA Subject: Small dbase engine Simple: I am looking for a small database application, DA-like, that will perform text searches in a given file of suitable format (tab-separated text, CSV etc.). Is there anything of this sort in the archives? Elsewhere? Thanx. Sotiris Bantas - Athens, Greece *e-mail: smpa@leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Dec 93 07:32:18 EST From: waxman@tecnet1.jcte.jcs.mil Subject: SNMP Agents Summary A while back I posted I request for info on SNMP agents for the Mac. Sadly, it does seem that the Mac does not have the corporate influence that the PC does - while I found dozens of low cost Windows based agents, there was only two leads on SNMP products for the Mac: Thanks to Kee Nethery: WatchTower from InterCon Systems 703-709-550 (US) or info@intercon.com - around $2K, a full fledged agent Thanks to Bill Vilberg: NetWorks JR from Caravelle 613-596-2802 (CA) or 800-363-5292 (US) - around $500, an SNMP monitor (traffic, collisions, addresses, etc.) Both companies seem willing to send demos (I am waiting to receive). If anyone else finds other products, please let me know. Thanks, paul waxman waxman@tecnet1.jcte.jcs.mil ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 14:31:19 -0500 From: norm@helix.nih.gov (Norm Friedman) Subject: Strange document I find that I have "obtained" (how?) a document in Word 5.0 with the title consisting of numbers, letters, symbols, etc. When I am in Word and open to view documents, this name does not appear as a readable file; but it will open with all files. It then opens to a blank page with notation of "locked file". I cannot seem to trash or get rid of this thing. Keeps coming back like a sore tooth. Anyone know how it came about and How To Get Rid Of It?? Thanks to everyone in advance.. norm@helix.nih.gov ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Dec 93 16:08:11 GMT From: calimero%CRYPT.u-strasbg.fr@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU (Guy BRAND) Subject: System 7 family flag Hi, I'm very fond of Macintosh since the beginning. This means also that I'm very interested in modifying or implementing what is still missing to MacOS : multi- user features ! When Apple released System 7, I was wondering why they9ve added a family Finder flag and what applications could do with this flags. The only utility that I know for using this flag is Auto Doubler from ??? this CDEV compresses files automatically when they9ve not be modified since xx/xx/xx, except if you set their family flag to something different from "none" and ask Auto-Doubler not to compress these 3flagged2 file !!! In my idea, Apple could have given this family flag an other sense in MacOS : owner9s protection. Used in conjunction with AppleShare9s users, one could have expected a kind of 3local file sharing system2 in which you could give read-write-execution priorities to family/owner 3flagged2 files or folders. On setting a family/owner flag for a file or a folder, the password entered in the 3User and Groups2 CDEV, could have been asked to the user. Same of course when a user wants to open such a 3flagged2 file or folder from either the Finder or another applications. Even if an application is not written to handle this flag, it should be able to ask the Finder to check for it before processing any further. My question is how can I know if such a project is already studied by Apple or by a team of developpers ? Is there a released System planned including such multi-user features ? Where to get these informations ? APDA ? Maybe here... I'm not a developper and such a nice project goes too far for me ! Quite a similar question comes to my mind when I think about the coming PowerPC chips inside Macintoshes... is System 7 going to be fully multi-user ? Is Apple's System 7 just going to be the File/Window Manager of a modified Unix system like the one of Carnegie Mellon ? If System 7 is kept, I guess multi-user features are going to be implemented, but where and how ? That's not so secret at all, but it's worthy ! Can you give some informations ? Last question about System 7 family flag... in which struct does it appear ? Thanks for any reply ! Regards, Guy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Dec 93 11:56:38 EET From: Sot.Mpantas - NTUA Subject: Text-cruncher I am looking for a fast _text-cruncher_ program, that will open (large) text files(preferrably by drag'n'drop), and perform such tasks as find/replace, line-sorting etc. on them. General-purpose text editors won't do, because they usually display the file in their text-edit window and that slows down find/replace processes a lot. Instead, I am looking for something that works off-line on the file and maybe displays a progress bar for the process. Is there anything of this sort in the archives? Elsewhere? Thanx. Sotiris Bantas - Athens, Greece *e-mail: smpa@leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1993 13:47:08 EST From: bouldin@anvil.nrl.navy.mil Subject: Upgrading a LC to use a SuperDrive I have an old LC, I also have an old SE that I don't use. The SE has a high density drive, while the LC has an 800K drive. I would like to transplant the drive from the SE to the LC. Will this work? Do I need a ROM upgrade? Is such a thing available??? I know, I know, this is, at best an obsolet configuration that I shouldn't be wasting my time on anyway, but you gotta work with whatcha got! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 11:23:01 -0600 From: vinko@spss.com (Vinko Tsui (312) 329-3455) Subject: Using BOTH ethernet and AppleTalk >I just bought an ethernet board to hook into >our Vax mainframe - TCP/IP, FTP and all that. >I just assumed that the board (and my software) >would talk to the wire hanging out of the wall >AND EVERYTHING ELSE would be the same. > >Not. > >In particular, I use AppleTalk to print stuff >out on my own LaserWriter and to share a disk >with my powerbook using AppleShare. I just assumed >that my printer port would continue to talk to >these other two machines (LW and PB) and >Ethernet would talk to the "phoneline". > >Apparently, I could buy a bunch more hardware and >cables to do everything in Ether - BUT I don't want >to! Isn't there some way to make this work? > >Question: >I understand that Apple and Farallon each have >some sort of software solution that will solve my >problem. Will it? >How much will it cost? >Does anyone have any experience with this situation >and can you give me any advice on how to choose >between the two? > Al, >From your discription, it sounds like you want to run AppleTalk via two seperate medium, Ether and LocalTalk. This is not possible. Your Mac wants to talk one form of AppleTalk at a time. It can either be EtherTalk or LocalTalk. That's what you choose in your Network control panel. As to the solutions from Apple and Farallon. I do not believe that Apple or Farallon have any software solution that will allow for the above. There are 3rd party devices that will allow LocalTalk printers be shared on a EtherTalk network, that may be what you're looking for, for your printer. As to your PowerBook, Apple definitely do not have a software solution to your delima. Farallon on the other hand do have their new EtherWave products that will offer one of many solutions. Farallon's EtherWave device for the PowerBook will not be available until the end of the month. You should look at other solutions to your PowerBook. Like the ones from Asante, Dyna, Focus, etc., before deciding on Farallon's solution. Even Farallon themself has alternatives to the EtherWave. Be prepare to spend some time with this. Good Luck! -- Vinko Vinko Enterprises, Oakville, Ontario, Canada, (905) 338-7836, vinko@applelink.apple.com Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., (312) 329-3455, vinko@spss.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1993 10:38:23 GMT From: Dylan the Hippy Wabbit Subject: Using BOTH ethernet and AppleTalk Path: wheel!d_spacey From: d_spacey@icrf.icnet.uk (Dylan the Hippy Wabbit) Newsgroups: info-mac Subject: RE:Using BOTH ethernet and AppleTalk Message-ID: <69949@icrf.icnet.uk> Date: 3 Dec 93 10:37:52 GMT Organization: Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, UK Lines: 20 Al Best recently wrote:- >I just bought an ethernet board to hook into >our Vax mainframe - TCP/IP, FTP and all that. >In particular, I use AppleTalk to print stuff >out on my own LaserWriter and to share a disk If that's all you want ethernet for it's quite easy. Telnet, which is free of charge from the usual archives, will talk to the VAX down the ethernet card even if the rest of the MAC is using the Appletalk port. No extra anything required. :-) That's how I'm using it, and also to talk to a VAX. *HINT* If any one at Apple is reading this, I'd like the ability to use both networks to be in the next version of the system please. Dave Spacey ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Dec 93 10:32:50 EST From: Pete Tamas Subject: Why one might save bitmap files as EPS EPS files print more easily on imagesetters (those 1270/2540, etc. dpi things that output on paper or film). Also, the EPS files can be resized more accurately, even if the original was a bitmap (scanned image). If you resize TIFF files at the wrong percentages, you may get a moire pattern.-Pete Tamas Gnome@VM.Temple.edu or TempleVM.bitnet > > From: Brian Amira > > I have been using Color It! and PicturePress and have noticed that they > both have EPS Options (Color It! Saying EPSF) and was wondering why I > might want to save in EPS format. What does it come in handy for? I > know why I might Print to a PostSript File useing the print driver, > but why Save as EPS? > > --Brian > > ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 11:55:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Mike Brudenell Subject: X11R5 server(s) for the Macintosh (Q) I have been having a play with the MacX 1.2 X server for the macintosh. However it (at least, this version) is an X11R4 server, and we are looking at moving our systems to X11R5. Can anyone: * Say if they have heard any rumours of a future version of MacX supporting X11R5 in the not too distant future? * Tell me if there are any reasonable (price, speed, etc.) alternatives to MacX that are X11R5 servers? (I have only heard of Exodus, and don't know whether it is X11R4 or X11R5) Thanks in advance, Mike B-) University of York, UK ------------------------------ End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************