Date: Sun, 5 Dec 93 19:50:13 PST From: The Moderators Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #234 Info-Mac Digest Sun, 5 Dec 93 Volume 11 : Issue 234 Today's Topics: [!] Info-Mac III [*] cessna-simulation-0.3.hqx [*] comm - Anarchie 1.0.0 [*] CreditsDisplay XFCN 1.0 [*] Cyclone [*] Cyclone Beavis & Butt-head Sounds [*] DateCheck XFCN 1.0 [*] dev/MercutioMDEF-115.sea [*] DialogDisplay XFCN 1.5 [*] FileMaker Pro Demo [*] game - Morpion 1.0.0 (2 msgs) [*] IsMODPlaying XFCN 1.0 [*] LaserWriter 8.1 Patch [*] MacTranslit_1_2.hqx [*] Mousebroken 1.0 (control panel) [*] Mousebroken 1.0 (source code) [*] PlayMOD Bundle [*] QTCheck XFCN 1.0 [*] Re(ve)lations 1.05 database system [*] RenameRes XFCN 1.1 [*] Simpsons Sounds - Group 8 [*] SndVolume XFCN 1.0 [*] SpeakText XFCN 1.0 [*] src/pascal - Morpion 1.0.0 [*] T_Dolby.sea.hqx [*] TattleTale.1.7.4 [*] Threshold 1.0.0 for PowerBooks [*] touch-tone-decoder-11.hqx [*] VegieCard [*] VersionNumber XCMD 1.0 [*] Virus Reference 2.1.2 32-bit clean programming languages (R) (2 msgs) Advice on PC vs Mac networks ARA script for Ultima Home Office Modem (2 msgs) Choosing a monitor? cmd key, splat key, flower key, fan key... C Programming Creating BitMaps of Outline Fonts (How?) (2 msgs) Creator Change Tools Disk partitions Duo 210 Screen Contrast "locked" error in MasSlurp (Q) Faster LCII (2 msgs) French-English Dictionary Help reordering a Filemaker Pro database Icon Problems IIgs monitor on a Mac Info-Mac Digest V11 #231 Interleaved memory on 840av? internet news, email etc on the mac LineLink: problem with receiving FAX'es MacWrite dictionaries (2 msgs) MIDI on souped-up 512ke? (Q) MIDI on souped-up 512ke part II no icons? Offline NNTP newsreader (Q) OptiMem Performa 450 quality (A) Play Authoring Software (2 msgs) Postscript viewer. (2 msgs) Ram Disk on SE-30 with Sys 7. (2 msgs) RS-422 serial vs LocalTalk SndVolume XFCN 1.0 SoundEditPro spin cd rom drive statics shell Sys 7.1 Boot Disk System 7 sound --> mod format TCP/IP networking problems with LC520? Text editor for large files (S) Toolbook Typing tutor UMICH:/mac/documentation/INITInfo4.3.1Word.sit UMICH:/mac/graphics/gif UMICH:/mac/misc/documentation/mactcppatch.cpt.hqx Upgrading a LC to use a SuperDrive Using BOTH ethernet and AppleTalk Warning: Apple Software Dispatch (extension problem) Watermarks Word books The Info-Mac newsgroup is moderated by Bill Lipa, Gordon Watts and Liam Breck. The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous, any password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6]. Help files and indices are in /info-mac/help. Mail articles for inclusion in the digest to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu. Send binaries to be placed in the archives to macgifts@sumex-aim.stanford.edu. Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 05 Dec 93 12:50:54 EST From: Cliff Miller <71175.3152@CompuServe.COM> Subject: [!] Info-Mac III Dear Fans of the Info-Mac Archive, The Info-Mac CD-ROM III is now in the works and with a bit of luck will be out by January 1994. (I realize that it's long overdue....) The deadline for getting stuff on it is Dec 15. Please upload directly to the Info-Mac archive at sumex-aim by then if you'd like your program/files on the CD. PLEASE DO NOT try to send me your programs at my CompuServe account (it will break). I myself am going to be gone until about Dec 14, so unfortunately I won't be able to answer any email till I get back. As always, I appreciate your help and understanding! Cliff ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Dec 93 15:04:49 PST From: swaka@lynx.Stanford.EDU (Sean Wakayama) Subject: [*] cessna-simulation-0.3.hqx Cessna Simulation is a flight simulator depicting dynamic motions of the Cessna 172. This is an engineering simulation solving 6 degree of freedom aircraft motion. Data recording abilities of the simulator allow users to output flight data for plotting or analysis. [Archived as /info-mac/sci/cessna-simulation-03.hqx; 138K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 17:30:28 +0800 From: Peter N Lewis Subject: [*] comm - Anarchie 1.0.0 Anarchie v1.0.0 is an archie client for the Mac. It is (IMO) the easiest way for users with MacTCP to fetch a file with a partially known name from the anonymous FTP archives. Simply choose an archie server from the menu, tell it part of the name and have it return a list of matches - then double-click one to have it automatically downloaded to your Mac and if you have StuffIt Expander, it'll even decode it for you! And it works well with flaky archie servers or FTP sites that won't let you in, since you can just pick another server or host from the list. And as an added bonus, its Apple Scriptable and Recordable, and the scripting allows you to fetch and store files to/from FTP sites, so you can automate all sorts of routine FTP tasks. If you have Frontier, it supports Menu Sharing as well (and comes with a bunch of stuff from Leonard Rosenthol to get you started). Anarchie requires System 7, MacTCP, and is $10 shareware. Hope you like it, Peter. Anarchie v1.0.0 Copyright 1993 Peter N Lewis [Archived as /info-mac/comm/net/anarchie-100.hqx; 91K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri Dec 3, 1993 09:48 From: SPerspect@aol.com Subject: [*] CreditsDisplay XFCN 1.0 Attached you will find version 1.0 of our CreditsDisplay XFCN for HyperCard. CreditsDisplay allows developers of HyperCard based products to incorporate colorful about screens for their products. Thank you, Software Perspectives [Archived as /info-mac/card/credit-display-10.hqx; 75K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Dec 93 18:38:39 -0800 From: "(Michael A. Kelly)" Subject: [*] Cyclone High Risk Ventures is proud to present our first shareware game! Cyclone features way-cool graphics and sound, and addicting and challenging game play. It's based on an old arcade game called Star Castle, in which you fly a spaceship around on a wrap-around screen, and attack an enemy base which sits in the middle of screen. The base protects itself with three rotating shield rings, heat-seeking mines, and a nasty plasma cannon. We've added a few things to the original game, including weapons for your ship, shields, bonus points, a challenge level, and more. There's also an 'original game' mode for those who want to play the game as it was originally designed. This is a commercial-quality game, offered as shareware with a $10 registration fee. Call High Risk Ventures at (800) 927-0771 or email to highrisk@aol.com for more information. Enjoy! Michael A. Kelly High Risk Ventures [Archived as /info-mac/game/arc/cyclone.hqx; 1222K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Dec 93 19:20:54 -0800 From: "(Michael A. Kelly)" Subject: [*] Cyclone Beavis & Butt-head Sounds Here are some Beavis & Butt-head sounds, intended for use with Cyclone, the new shareware shoot-em-up from High Risk Ventures. They could also be used with Space Madness 1.1.3. These sounds are intended to replace the defaults for most or all of the non-game sounds, like the game over and high score sounds. Enjoy! Michael A. Kelly High Risk Ventures [Archived as /info-mac/game/arc/cyclone-bnb-sounds.hqx; 258K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri Dec 3, 1993 09:48 From: SPerspect@aol.com Subject: [*] DateCheck XFCN 1.0 Attached you will find version 1.0 of our DateCheck XFCN for HyperCard. This external allows you to check and see if a particular date has passed. Thank you, Software Perspectives [Archived as /info-mac/card/date-check-10.hqx; 29K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1993 21:47:18 -0800 From: felciano@summit.stanford.edu Subject: [*] dev/MercutioMDEF-115.sea Mercutio 1.1.5 is a replacement for the standard menu definition routine that supports menu item key equivalents with multiple-modifier keys. It allows four combinations of modifier keys: command, command-option, command-shift, and command-option-shift. Mercutio is fully compatible with System 7, and supports all the features of the system MDEF. Integrating the MDEF into your program is a very easy, and shouldn't take more than 15 minutes. Mercutio's features include: - System 7's Balloon Help and True Gray. - Color menus. - Small and large icons. - SICNs in hierarchical menu items. - 99% compatible with standard MDEF: the only thing Mercutio doesn't do is support the "condense" and "extended" character styles. MDEF Tester 1.4, a testing program, is also included in this package. Developers may use Mercutio free of charge as long as they give me credit and send me a copy of the final program. Other licensing terms are available. ABOUT THIS PACKAGE =================== Changes since 1.1.4: - Fixed Key equivalent conflict for menu items with the same command-key - Fixed Key equivalent conflict for disabled menu items - Change of mailing address and e-mail accounts. Ramon Felciano felciano@summit.stanford.edu Digital Alchemy December 1, 1993 Mercutio is copyright (c) 1992, 1993 by Ramon M. Felciano [Archived as /info-mac/dev/mercutio-115.hqx; 91K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri Dec 3, 1993 09:48 From: SPerspect@aol.com Subject: [*] DialogDisplay XFCN 1.5 Attached you will find version 1.5 of our DialogDisplay XFCN for HyperCard. DialogDisplay allows you to display a dialog window in your stacks. Includes support for up to three buttons and four strings of 32 character text. Thank you, Software Perspectives [Archived as /info-mac/card/dialog-display-15.hqx; 38K] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Dec 93 13:13:24 PST From: harrym@netcom.com (Harry Myhre) Subject: [*] FileMaker Pro Demo This is a "test drive" demo of Claris Corp. FileMaker Pro downloaded from the MacWarehouse BBS. It is functional enough to give you a good overview of FilMaker Pro. [Archived as /info-mac/app/filemaker-pro-demo.hqx; 724K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 14:27:44 +0800 From: Peter N Lewis Subject: [*] game - Morpion 1.0.0 --========================_16242186==_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" --========================_16242186==_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Morpion v1.0.0 is a simple solitaire game, initially designed by Henri Lamiraux. I saw it on a friends Newton and decided to write a Mac version (mostly to get out of watching some really boring videos that were on at the time). =20 The goal of Morpion is to draw as many horizonatal, vertical or diagonal line segments as possible. A segment can be drawn by using five existing dots or by adding a fifth dot to four=20 existing dots. Morpion requires System 6 or 7, and is free. Hope you like it, Peter. Morpion v1.0.0 Copyright 1993 Peter N Lewis=20 [Archived as /info-mac/game/arc/morpion-10.hqx; 25K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 14:27:44 +0800 From: Peter N Lewis Subject: [*] game - Morpion 1.0.0 --========================_16242186==_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" --========================_16242186==_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Morpion v1.0.0 is a simple solitaire game, initially designed by Henri Lamiraux. I saw it on a friends Newton and decided to write a Mac version (mostly to get out of watching some really boring videos that were on at the time). =20 The goal of Morpion is to draw as many horizonatal, vertical or diagonal line segments as possible. A segment can be drawn by using five existing dots or by adding a fifth dot to four=20 existing dots. Morpion requires System 6 or 7, and is free. Hope you like it, Peter. Morpion v1.0.0 Copyright 1993 Peter N Lewis=20 [Archived as /info-mac/game/arc/morpion-10.hqx; 25K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri Dec 3, 1993 09:48 From: SPerspect@aol.com Subject: [*] IsMODPlaying XFCN 1.0 Attached you will find version 1.0 of our IsMODPlaying XFCN for HyperCard. IsMODPlaying allows you to check and see if a MOD (SoundTrekker) file is playing. It is for use with our PlayMOD XFCN, version 1.1 or greater. Users who do not have PlayMOD 1.1 should download the PlayMOD Bundle. Thank you, Software Perspectives [Archived as /info-mac/card/is-mod-playing-10.hqx; 46K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1993 00:04:35 -0600 (CST) From: Neil Eric Mickelson Subject: [*] LaserWriter 8.1 Patch Hello again... LaserWriter 8.1 Patch is a program that applies a few "hacks" to Apple's LaserWriter 8.1 Driver, available from ftp.apple.com. The "hacks" include: - A Layout menu in the Print dialog box - Active SETUP button without having a printer selected - More "n-up" printing options (6,8,9, or 16 pages/sheet) This patch was written with ResCompare, and is based on information from LaserWriter Hacks, available as a text file from the infomac archives. This patch is freeware; any comments can be sent to my e-mail address. More complete documentation is included. Use at your own risk...and remember to back up your driver, first! ENJOY! Neil E. Mickelson n-mickelson@uiuc.edu [Archived as /info-mac/prn/laserwriter-81-patch.hqx; 35K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 17:57:51 -0500 From: fridberg@pfc.mit.edu (Mikhail Fridberg) Subject: [*] MacTranslit_1_2.hqx A utility for converting between different writing systems of text. This shareware ($25.00 US) version can convert among 3 different Cyrillic systems - Apple Standard Cyrillic, Russian KOI-8 Alternative Variant system and old Casady and Green unilingual Cyrillic system. More conversion tables are available for registered users. Required Sys 7. Drag and drop, baloon help, very fast and small. Tested on variety of macintoshes, from Mac 512 to Centris 610. 32 bit clean, virtual memory compatible. Probably should go into /info-mac/text directory. - Mike Fridberg (fridberg@pfc.mit.edu) [Archived as /info-mac/text/mac-translit-12.hqx; 53K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 05:28:15 -0500 (EST) From: f8dy@netaxs.com (Mark Pilgrim) Subject: [*] Mousebroken 1.0 (control panel) Mousebroken is a control panel which will give you greater control over your mouse (or less control, depending on how you look at it). It comes with 13 mouse modules, each designed to alter your mouse's behavior in a different way. New mouse modules can easily be designed and added to Mousebroken. The mouse modules in this archive are public domain; source code and instructions for designing your own modules will be uploaded in a separate archive. This control panel is free and is distributed under the GNU General Public License; complete C source code will be uploaded to the archive sites. If you do not have FTP access, e-mail the author for a copy of the control panel, the source code, or a list of other programs by the same author. The address is f8dy@netaxs.com. This control panel should work on any Macintosh, under either system 6 or 7. Some individual mouse modules may have problems on systems with multiple monitors. Please report any bugs/comments/suggestions to f8dy@netaxs.com. Mousebroken 1.0 is copyright 1993, Mark Pilgrim, MerriMac Software Group. [Archived as /info-mac/gui/mouse-broken-10.hqx; 57K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 05:29:34 -0500 (EST) From: f8dy@netaxs.com (Mark Pilgrim) Subject: [*] Mousebroken 1.0 (source code) Mousebroken is a control panel which will give you greater control over your mouse (or less control, depending on how you look at it). It comes with 13 mouse modules, each designed to alter your mouse's behavior in a different way. New mouse modules can easily be designed and added to Mousebroken. The mouse modules in this archive are public domain; feel free to design your own! The Mousebroken control panel is free and is distributed under the GNU General Public License. This archive contains complete THINK C 6.0.1 source code and project files for the control panel. This archive also contains source code to 13 sample mouse modules and a blank module prototype (quite well commented, too); these modules are public domain. If you do not have FTP access, e-mail the author for a copy of the control panel, the source code, or a list of other programs by the same author. The address is f8dy@netaxs.com. This control panel should work on any Macintosh, under either system 6 or 7. Some individual mouse modules may have problems on systems with multiple monitors. Please report any bugs/comments/suggestions to f8dy@netaxs.com. This code demonstrates the in's and out's of writing a control panel, advanced file maintenance, INIT installation, preference file maintenance, notification through the Notification Manager, VBL installation and removal, and lots and lots of mucking about with undocumented low-memory globals. Mousebroken 1.0 is copyright 1993, Mark Pilgrim, MerriMac Software Group. [Archived as /info-mac/dev/src/mouse-broken-10-c.hqx; 203K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri Dec 3, 1993 09:48 From: SPerspect@aol.com Subject: [*] PlayMOD Bundle Attached you will find our PlayMOD Bundle, which contains PlayMOD XFCN 1.1 and IsMODPlaying XFCN 1.0. PlayMOD allows you to play SoundTrekker (MOD) files from within HyperCard. IsMODPlaying, when used with PlayMOD allows you to monitor a MOD file and check if it is playing. Thank you, Software Perspectives [Archived as /info-mac/card/play-mod-bundle.hqx; 101K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri Dec 3, 1993 09:48 From: SPerspect@aol.com Subject: [*] QTCheck XFCN 1.0 Attached you will find version 1.0 of our QTCheck XFCN for HyperCard. This external allows you to check and see if QuickTime is installed. Thank you, Software Perspectives [Archived as /info-mac/card/qt-check-10.hqx; 28K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1993 10:37:23 +0100 From: michael@wiz.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Michael Bjorn) Subject: [*] Re(ve)lations 1.05 database system What is Re(ve)lations? A very simple - but VERY EASY TO USE - relational database system. Features: -> A basic set of relational algebra operations, which can be nested to produce complex queries. -> A graphical query language specially developed for Re(ve)lations. No support for character-based queries (e.g. queries in SQL format) - and good riddance to them! -> Data import and export in tab-delimited format. -> Access to multiple databases at the same time. -> Multi-user architecture. Re(ve)lations version 1.05 may be included on the info-mac CD-ROM or on any other non-profit CD-ROM. Michael Bjorn University of Tsukuba, JAPAN michael@wiz.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [Archived as /info-mac/app/revelations-105.hqx; 478K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri Dec 3, 1993 09:48 From: SPerspect@aol.com Subject: [*] RenameRes XFCN 1.1 Attached you will find version 1.1 of our RenameRes XFCN for HyperCard. This external function allows you to rename resources within any file from HyperCard. Thank you, Software Perspectives [Archived as /info-mac/card/rename-res-11.hqx; 22K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 20:45:09 -0500 From: mfulmer@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Subject: [*] Simpsons Sounds - Group 8 --========================_19785062==_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" In my continuing quest to overrun every Mac in America with Simpsons sound bites, here is group 8, consisting of 11 samples, all but one from this season. Contained are: 1) Homer "That's right!" 2) Homer "Your point being?" 3) Marge "Your point being?" 4) Otto "Whoa, that bites!" 5) Patty "Holy crap!" 6) Ramones "I'd just like to say this gig sucks!" 7) Ramones "Hey, up yours Springfield!" 8) Ramones "Go to hell you old bastard" 9) Willy "Ehhhgh! Back to the loch with you Nessie!" (uttered after viewing Selma's video dating tape) 10) Desert Diner Employees "I hate it when the waffles stick together!" "Sticking together's what good waffles do!" 11) And finally, the Simpsons' finest/worst moment: the entire "Sideshow Bob & the Rakes" scene. Nine whacks. Eight too many? You decide. As usual, sfil format, recorded at 11KHz. The number-letter-number-number combo in brackets in each title is the production code of the episode from which it came. nJOY! "I just want attention." Michael J. Fulmer mfulmer@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu [Archived as /info-mac/snd/simpsons-grp8.hqx; 609K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri Dec 3, 1993 09:48 From: SPerspect@aol.com Subject: [*] SndVolume XFCN 1.0 Attached you will find version 1.0 of our SndVolume XFCN for HyperCard. This external allows you to set and retrieve the sound volume of the Macintosh. Thank you, Software Perspectives [Archived as /info-mac/card/snd-volume-10.hqx; 44K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri Dec 3, 1993 09:48 From: SPerspect@aol.com Subject: [*] SpeakText XFCN 1.0 Attached you will find version 1.0 of our SpeakText XFCN for HyperCard. SpeakText allows you to utilize Apple's Speech Manager and PlainTalk TTS. SpeakText includes features for rate, pitch and voice and does not contain any limits for the length of text to be spoken. Thank you, Software Perspectives [Archived as /info-mac/card/speak-text-10.hqx; 46K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 17:30:00 +0800 From: Peter N Lewis Subject: [*] src/pascal - Morpion 1.0.0 This is the Pascal source code for Morpion v1.0.0, a simple solitaire game, initially designed by Henri Lamiraux. The source code contains lots of interesting stuff: Demonstrates the usefulness of building library routines (only three of the included source files are particular to Morpion). Support for the core AppleEvents Support for FMenus which make you menu locations independent of the code that implements them. Supports for the TextToSpeech Manager. Demonstrates OO techniques for implementing windows as objects. Code for reading your own Version resource. And lots of useful general purpose routines. You can use this source code for any non-commercial purpose. Hope it is useful to someone, Peter. Morpion v1.0.0 Copyright 1993 Peter N Lewis [Archived as /info-mac/dev/src/morpion-100-p.hqx; 55K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Dec 93 1:02:36 PST From: higgs@netcom.com (Simon Higgs) Subject: [*] T_Dolby.sea.hqx "This QuickTime movie is footage of the last few moments of Thomas Dolby's set at the Electronic Cafe in Santa Monica on 11/18/93, as part of an Interactive TV Demo to demonstrate multi-site interactive performances. This was a live simultaneous event that ran not only at the Electronic Cafe in Santa Monica, but also at the Lodge in the Viacom building in New York, with interactive participation from Viacom, MTV, Nickolodeon, MTV Latino, and MTV Europe. Video conferencing equipment was on hand to enable guests at each site to talk and interact with each other. In the not-to-distant future, the bandwidth and technology will exist to enable two-way video between your home and the global community. What will you do with it?" Thanks, Simon Higgs =-> [Archived as /info-mac/grf/qt/thomas-dolby-93-11-18.hqx; 1005K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1993 00:06:57 -0700 (MST) From: "John G. Mancino" Subject: [*] TattleTale.1.7.4 RE: TattleTale 1.7.4 Locate in Configuration/ REQUIRES: Mac+ or > System 6.4 or >, Compact Pro to decompress DESCRIPTION: TattleTale is a system snooper and bug reporter application. The reports are particularly thorough under System 7. 1.7.4 UPDATE = Fixed bugs with Total In Use hours, disk capacity for disks over 2 gigabytes, other minor bug fixes. TattleTale Reports over 450 items of information specifically related to your system including the following Hardware+Software categories: General CPU/Hardware attributes; Volumes/Drives; Monitors; Nubus/PDS, ADB, SCSI devices (incl Manufacturer,ROM revisions,etc); Traps ; Application versions; DAs, Fonts, INITs, CDEVs, etc; Also Mount volumes; Close files; Send Standard+Bug reports to Screen, Printer or file. Balloon Help. Ref: MacWEEK 9/10/91, MacUser Shareware Awards 9/92 [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/tattle-tale-174.hqx; 262K] ------------------------------ Date: 03 Dec 1993 13:44:18 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jeremy Kezer, (203) 676-6151" Subject: [*] Threshold 1.0.0 for PowerBooks Keywords: POWERBOOK VST THINPACK TECHNOGGIN POWERPLATE BATTERY WARNINGS Threshold 1.0.0 for PowerBooks (by Jeremy Kezer) As we PowerBook owners all know, the PowerBook is smart enough to warn you when your battery is getting low. Unfortunately, these warnings can be conservative, especially with external batteries. Threshold changes all that! With Threshold, you can adjust the voltages at which the warnings occur. This allows you to alter the warnings so that they come up later than usual, giving you more productive battery time. In addition to the default Apple warnings, you can program up to three custom warning sets. Threshold sports a concise graphical display. It shows an analog graph representing current battery voltage, with the current warning points illustrated. There is also a battery status indicator, an elapsed timer, and a sleep button. You can also easily adjust the warning thresholds via up & down arrows. Shareware; $10 registration fee will activate all features. See enclosed docs for more information. author: Jeremy Kezer 143 Songbird Lane Farmington, CT 06032-3433 USA Email: jbkezer@aol.com or JBKezer on America Online [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/threshold-100.hqx; 118K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 14:41:22 -0500 From: gsmattes Subject: [*] touch-tone-decoder-11.hqx Touch Tone Decoder 1.1 allows you to determine which, if any, touch tones are in a sound file. It also recognizes rings, busy signals, and the dial tone. It supports direct recodring and the importation of AIF files. The friendly and pretty interface allows playback and analysis of portions of the sample, as well as the ability to save and print the results of the analysis. It is amazingly fast and accurate. Overall, it's a very neat hack. This is a full-featured version, except that it will not acknowledge three touch tones (randomly chosen each launch). To get the uncrippled version, you must register by sending the author a (reasonable) shareware fee. It requires System 7.0 or higher, and a sound input device. [Archived as /info-mac/snd/util/touch-tone-decoder-11.hqx; 107K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1993 11:45:44 -0700 (MST) From: Michael M Eilers Subject: [*] VegieCard Enclosed is a HyperCard 2.1 stack that's a little old, but was recently posted on AOL (where I grabbed it) and is probably one of the slickest, most intuitive and crsiply-designed stacks I have seen. I am re-submitting it because the final version never made it to the 'net. The stack deals with the subject of vegitarianism and vegan eating habits, covering everything from political/economic arguments against eating meat to a 60-recipie cookbook full of amazing food. Now if you have a sarcastic sneer on your face, wipe it off--this stack hits hard and swiftly, and will make the most bloodthirsty carnivore think twice before his or her next meal of flesh. Personally, i'd like to drop this stack in every mailbox on the 'net, but for now i reccomend it for anyone interested in health issues, enviroscience, agriculture, or well-executed hypercard design! I'm not the author, but carnivors can flame me if they want. Thanks for your time. "Eggs are MEAT!"--Lauren my vegan friend. Michael Eilers eilersm@gas.uug.arizona.edu [Archived as /info-mac/info/nms/vegie-card-hc.hqx; 580K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri Dec 3, 1993 09:48 From: SPerspect@aol.com Subject: [*] VersionNumber XCMD 1.0 Attached you will find version 1.0 of our VersionNumber XCMD for HyperCard. VersionNumber allows you to retrieve the information contained in a 'vers' resource of ID 1. Thank you, Software Perspectives [Archived as /info-mac/card/version-number-10.hqx; 45K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri Dec 3, 1993 09:48 From: SPerspect@aol.com Subject: [*] Virus Reference 2.1.2 Attached you will find our free utility, Virus Reference. Virus Reference is an online guide to Mac viruses and trojan horses. It includes complete details on symptoms and includes search capabilities. This update adds information on the CODE-1 and MBDF-B viruses discovered Nov. 4, 1993. Thank you, Software Perspectives [Archived as /info-mac/vir/virus-reference-212.hqx; 51K] ------------------------------ Date: 3 Dec 1993 10:02:41 -0800 From: "Sandro Menzel" Subject: 32-bit clean programming languages (R) > However, I'm finding it surprisingly difficult to find a programming > language/development system to use. I first thought of Prolog, but the > Prolog for the Mac I have access to (LPA Prolog) is not 32-bit clean. > Then I tried Microsoft Basic; also not 32-bit clean. ... And preferably > nothing too expensive, as it comes out of my own pocket. Any > recommendations? You might consider FutureBasic by Zedcor. They've got the current BASIC product of choice these days. Rumor has it that they're running some kind of special right now. Sorry but I don't know any details. Sandro Network Administrator - Media Technologies, Inc. - Bothell, WA ------------------------------ Date: 3 Dec 1993 10:02:41 -0800 From: "Sandro Menzel" Subject: 32-bit clean programming languages (R) > However, I'm finding it surprisingly difficult to find a programming > language/development system to use. I first thought of Prolog, but the > Prolog for the Mac I have access to (LPA Prolog) is not 32-bit clean. > Then I tried Microsoft Basic; also not 32-bit clean. ... And preferably > nothing too expensive, as it comes out of my own pocket. Any > recommendations? You might consider FutureBasic by Zedcor. They've got the current BASIC product of choice these days. Rumor has it that they're running some kind of special right now. Sorry but I don't know any details. Sandro Network Administrator - Media Technologies, Inc. - Bothell, WA ------------------------------ Date: 04 Dec 1993 10:29:41 -0600 (CST) From: Chip Eckardt Subject: Advice on PC vs Mac networks We are looking at converting 375 Unisys B-20s that are on 40 LANs to PCs running WIndows and using Novell for the file servers. Questions-- Do any of you out there have hard facts on the costs of administering Windows/Novell vs Macs with AppleShare or have gone through this kind of conversion? What I am looking at is costs associated with building new networks/servers, time to add users, setup printers, route to Internet, mainframe data comm, multi-user databases, group calenders, e-mail, wp, custom programming, etc. Hopefully most of our programs can be converted to a 4GL (FoxPro,4th Dimension,Oracle, etc. and very little would have to be done in C, Pascal, etc.) Right now 4 of us administer our existing Unisys B-20 (CTOS) proprietary networks. That includes setting up user accounts, program development, training, hotline support, hardware repair, and designing-installing new networks. From everything I have seen we will need at least 6 people to do the same thing in the Windows/Novell area. If any of you can give me information or point me in the right direction it would be appreciated. -Chip- Coordinator Office Automation University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Dec 93 12:53:41 EST From: "Sid B. Bernstein" (AED-EWD) Subject: ARA script for Ultima Home Office Modem Hi, Does anybody have a working script for the Ultima Home Office modem? We can't get a few of them working properly. Thanx, Sid Bernstein sidb@pica.army.mil ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Dec 93 12:53:41 EST From: "Sid B. Bernstein" (AED-EWD) Subject: ARA script for Ultima Home Office Modem Hi, Does anybody have a working script for the Ultima Home Office modem? We can't get a few of them working properly. Thanx, Sid Bernstein sidb@pica.army.mil ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1993 15:18:54 -0500 (EST) From: "Michael R. Lutz" Subject: Choosing a monitor? I was looking to get a multisync monitor for my new Quadra 800. I am looking for a 14" or 15" monitor. I have heard that both the CPD-1430 >From Sony and the 4FGe from NEC are good monitors. Are there any other good ones? Which one is better? Thanks, Mike ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Dec 93 22:00:10 -0800 From: mclagan@sfu.ca (scott mclagan) Subject: cmd key, splat key, flower key, fan key... Darn it, could someone please remind me how to create the cmd-key character in the Chicago font. (This is a perfect example of those times when you foolishly say to yourself "I don't need to write this down - it's easy to remember...) Thanks, Scott McLagan Coordinator for Computers, School District #43 (Coquitlam), B. C., Canada ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 04 Dec 93 19:17:42 EST From: Richard Caccavale Subject: C Programming I am hoping to teach myself some simple programming on the Macintosh. Can someone recommend some good books on programming in Think C and C++. Also, what volumes of Inside the Macintosh are most important. I haven't programmed since I got rid of my Commodore 64 and have only had experience with Basic, Pascal, FORTRAN (on old IBMs and TRS 80s) and Assembly on the Commodore. Needless to say, its been a long time and I need to start at the beginning. Please send all responses to me directly. Thank you in advance. Richard Caccavale Hblad124@uconnvm.uconn.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 16:32:24 -0500 From: ai261%freenet.carleton.ca@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU (Matthew Ahrens) Subject: Creating BitMaps of Outline Fonts (How?) I use a utility caled BitFont to creat bitmap of PS and TT fonts. works fine + under sys 7.1. I might be able to try to mail it to you if you can't find it. -- My opinions are mine only and tentative, pending further data Matthew Ahrens ai261@Freenet.carleton.ca ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 16:32:24 -0500 From: ai261%freenet.carleton.ca@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU (Matthew Ahrens) Subject: Creating BitMaps of Outline Fonts (How?) I use a utility caled BitFont to creat bitmap of PS and TT fonts. works fine + under sys 7.1. I might be able to try to mail it to you if you can't find it. -- My opinions are mine only and tentative, pending further data Matthew Ahrens ai261@Freenet.carleton.ca ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1993 16:25:46 -0800 From: kroemer@apex.ece.ucsb.edu (Herb Kroemer) Subject: Creator Change Tools I have been using "Get More Info" to quickly display (and change) Creators for selected individual TEXT files. You simply select the file, press Shift-Option-I, and a dialog box pops up, to let you do your thing. Very fast and very convenient, but unfortunately, it doesn't work under System 7, at least not on my PB 180, which runs 7.1. Does anybody know of a similarly simple tool that works under 7.1? No drag-and-drops, please; I got several of those, and they are all FAR less convenient than "Get More Info." Regards, Herb K. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Dec 93 23:42:26 PDT From: ace@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst) Subject: Disk partitions In Regards to your letter <199312041247.AA14286@nwnexus.wa.com>: > 1. Does the newest version of Apple's HD formatter allow hard partitions? I believe not, but Fabrizzio Oddone (sp?) just posted a utility that does this - I think it's called Setup Partitions. > 2. What is the maximum partition size that I can have before I start > get large disk allocations from small files? (80 MB) The algorithm is 512 bytes per 32 MB partition size. As the partition grows by 32 MB, the block size grows by 512 bytes. So, on my 700+ MB partition, a block is 11K in size. Figure out the best choice for your purposes. > 3. I usually use Silverlining. However, I hear that the newer Quadras > use direct DMA which Silverlining does not support. Is this true? This is true, and the latest version of SL is 5.5 or something in the 5.5x range. However, according to La Cie, application support is required as well, and no applications currently support asynch reads and writes. That's hearsay and may be nonsense - I'm not knowledgeable enough to say for sure. I use Silverlining 5.5 on my 660AV with no problems. 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 1993 23:38:04 -0600 From: Paul@gac.edu (Paul Kleeberg) Subject: Duo 210 Screen Contrast "locked" I have a PB Duo 210 and have had very good luck with it. Today however I noticed that I was no longer able to adjust the contrast of the screen. Restarting without extensions and resetting parameter RAM had no effect. Anyone seen this before? Luckily it is locked in place at a comfortable level. Paul Kleeberg Paul@GAC.Edu ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1993 12:27:06 -0500 From: lt10@cornell.edu (Li-Hsiang Tu) Subject: error in MasSlurp (Q) I was trying MacSlurp to read news offline. The third day that I was using it, I got a error message. I was able to download news before. do_newsnews: NNTP protocal error: got 'NEWNEWS ... (the list of groups subscribed) Does anyone have a similar problem? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1993 11:57:50 -0700 (MST) From: Robin Machado Subject: Faster LCII I have an LCII 4/40 at work and we run programs like Excel 4.0 and Word 5. It has always been something of a dog with these programs. I was wondering if installing the 475 upgrade would make it run faster or should I explore an excelorator board of some kind? I've had a couple of MAC technicians look at the machine and they can't find anything wrong. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. Robin ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1993 11:57:50 -0700 (MST) From: Robin Machado Subject: Faster LCII I have an LCII 4/40 at work and we run programs like Excel 4.0 and Word 5. It has always been something of a dog with these programs. I was wondering if installing the 475 upgrade would make it run faster or should I explore an excelorator board of some kind? I've had a couple of MAC technicians look at the machine and they can't find anything wrong. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. Robin ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Dec 93 12:17:25 EST From: leo@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (Prof. L.G. Leduc) Subject: French-English Dictionary Some people have asked me to post the replies that I received about the French-English dictionary for the Mac. Unfortunately, I only received one reply - here it is: I have read ads for, but have not used, a product called "Key Into French," which is an English-French, French-English disctionary for the Mac. It costs $49 from Exceller Software Corp., 2 Graham Road West, Ithaca, NY 14850. Tel. (607) 257-5634. Cheers. Leo G. Leduc CANADA ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1993 13:20:34 +0800 From: Brian.Gordon@Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Gordon) Subject: Help reordering a Filemaker Pro database I've only owned Filemaker Pro (Mac) for 2 days, and have spent much of that time in RTFM mode, but don't see a solution to this common problem: 1) Create a database with fields A, B, C, X, Y, Z 2) Enter a bunch of data 3) Discover you need field D, and want it to appear between C and X Their instructions ofr reodering a database (by specifying custom order) changes the order of the fields when it lists them, but does not affect the data at all. I'd be happy to copy this DB to another one, for exanple, to get the reordering done, but don't see anything on doing that. Can someone either tell me how to do it, or at least point me the the right part of the "FM"? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1993 10:00:20 EST From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" Subject: Icon Problems Adam C. Engst writes: AE> I have a similar problem, although it's not all my icons - just the AE> ones on the desktop and some in the Apple Menu. And, even stranger, AE> it's only document icons on the desktop - apps are fine. I've done AE> all of the same stuff, and the only thing remaining is a reformat AE> of the entire hard disk unless anyone can suggest any other routes. This may not be the same thing, but I recently got zapped big time by installing the new version of Access PC (3.0) on my Quadra 700. I did the instructions per Hoyle (no extensions running). After rebooting all my icons (well most of them anyway) turned to generic document toast. Rebooting with option-command didn't help. Using Desktop Reset (usually very reliable) didn't help either. I had to use RedEdit to manually change all the desktop database files for each partition to visible and then manually trash them. That did it. Foo on you Insigna! :-( (To be a mite fair, I did the installation of Access PC right after installing the new version MacLink. However, rebooting after installing MacLink didn't seem to cause the problem. I don't feel like testing this again to see which one was really the cause. I have six disk partitions!) Jeffrey Fritz jfritz@wvnvm.wvnet.edu West Virginia University ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1993 16:28:42 -0600 (CST) From: "Mark Dohm, UW-P Information Technology" Subject: IIgs monitor on a Mac Will the Apple IIgs standard RGB monitor and/or keyboard work with any Macintosh models. If so, what is required? I am looking into purchasing a Mac and thought why not use some of the equipment that I currently own if possible. I realize it isn't an ideal situation, but I could stick my money into the box and get me by until I can afford a 17" monitor, etc. Any thoughts would be appreciated (even a flat out NO IT CAN'T BE DONE). Please respond to me directly, since I am not a member of this list. Brook Swenson swenson@uwplatt.edu ======================= End of forwarded message. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1993 01:44:44 -0600 (CST) From: Daniel Pollock Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #231 I am looking for a currency converter does anybody k know where I can find one through ftp is there one in the sumex archives? Please let me know pollock@ccu.umanitoba.ca ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Dec 93 15:30:44 EST From: Bob Crawford Subject: Interleaved memory on 840av? Can anyone confirm whether the Quadra 840av has interleaved memory (as does the 800)? I would guess yes, but cannot find a spec. Thanks. Bob Crawford ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 05 Dec 93 16:07:28 GMT From: Donald Peterson Subject: internet news, email etc on the mac For reading and sending news and email (which I do a lot), I have been using a Mac with a terminal emulator connected through to a Unix network on which I use trn (threaded news reder), Postnews (for posting news), and MH (for sending, receiving and filtering email). I also use ftp, gopher, archie, and now mosaic for the WWW. I now have to decide whether to move to the X-based versions of these Unix programs, and use MacX on the Mac, or to move to Mac-based products. Can anyone recommend Mac-based products (shareware or commercial) which do a good job of supporting these communications? (I recently saw Fetch, the Mac ftp client, and this is what inspired me, since it is so good.) It would be nice to have an integrated system rather than different programs for each type of comms. I have MacTCP running. Thanks in advance, Donald. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Dec 93 15:25:09 -0500 From: wse@server1.dfci.harvard.edu (William Edwards) Subject: LineLink: problem with receiving FAX'es I still cannot get MaxFax to receive a FAX that I send to it. The Linelink is hooked up to a Classic II running System 7.1, and I am trying to send from a Global Village Teleport 2400 baud data/9600 baud send FAX modem connected to a Powerbook 100 also running System 7.1. I have been able to get the Linelink to auto-answer at 2400 baud with Versaterm. I also can send FAX'es and dial into work with the Linelink. My theory about the receive problem is that it is not matching baud rate properly, since it tries several times to connect, and drops the line. I get an empty (spurious) FAX, and the Maxfax info button reports a connection at 2400 baud (!!!). Any ideas? Please respond by email and I will summarize. -- Bill Edwards Dana Farber Cancer Institute/ECOG 303 Boylston Street; Brookline MA 02146 (617) 632-2975; wse@jimmy.harvard.edu; wse@harvjmmy.bitnet ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 11:28:20 PST From: "EDWIN HORNEIJ" Subject: MacWrite dictionaries On AOL I read what I assume is an official statement from Claris that they have no plans to produce additional foreign-languages dictionaries. I want to go ahead and make a Portuguese user-defined dictionary on my own and just lock it in the Finder once I'm done. My problem is that it is not possible to have no main dictionary installed in MacWrite. One thought that occurred to me is to create an empty user dictionary and fool around with ResEdit to make it a main dictionary type document, so that I could install that and then use my Portuguese user-defined dictionary. However, I have no idea if this is even possible, let alone how to go about it. Could someone lend me a hand? Ed Horneij ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 11:28:20 PST From: "EDWIN HORNEIJ" Subject: MacWrite dictionaries On AOL I read what I assume is an official statement from Claris that they have no plans to produce additional foreign-languages dictionaries. I want to go ahead and make a Portuguese user-defined dictionary on my own and just lock it in the Finder once I'm done. My problem is that it is not possible to have no main dictionary installed in MacWrite. One thought that occurred to me is to create an empty user dictionary and fool around with ResEdit to make it a main dictionary type document, so that I could install that and then use my Portuguese user-defined dictionary. However, I have no idea if this is even possible, let alone how to go about it. Could someone lend me a hand? Ed Horneij ------------------------------ Date: 04 Dec 1993 14:36:10 -0700 From: CVANDYKE@pimacc.pima.edu Subject: MIDI on souped-up 512ke? (Q) MIDI gurus- I am trying to coax my upgraded 512ke (to a 4-meg plus) to control the new Yamaha Hello Music! (CBX-T3) general MIDI device. This has a built-in MIDI interface, so all you have to do is connect to the serial port of your Mac. The only problem is I have the old DB-9 serial ports. Will I be able to "do MIDI" on my machine? I have tried using my printer cable (it is to an ImageWriter II so it has the MINI DIN 8-PIN) to no avail. Do I simply need a different cable? Does the fact that I am missing pin #7 (the GP i) matter? I'd be happy to receive any info from MIDI users in the know, particularly any who are successfully connecting MIDI equipment to their machines. -Christopher Van Dyke Hohokam Middle School cvandyke@min.pima.edu ------------------------------ Date: 04 Dec 1993 21:02:14 -0700 From: CVANDYKE@pimacc.pima.edu Subject: MIDI on souped-up 512ke part II I was having a problem with my new MIDI setup because I have an original Mac upgraded to a 4-meg Plus though it still has the original DB-9 serial ports. I was told that all I need is a DB-9M/Din-8F Adapter for the serial cable shipped with my new Yamaha tone generator. I have an additional problem, however. Try as I might the MIDI manager and Patchbay will not work under system 7.1 on my machine. Even if I disable absolutely everything (extensions, control panels, fonts, etc.) I get a message stating that the driver did not load and to quit and disable applications and extensions. Everything works fine under system 6.08. Shouldn't I be able to load the MIDI driver on my 4-meg machine? Thanks for all who are helping keep my antiquated gear going. I figure I'll make it to the decade mark (from '85-'95) before I replace my trusty old Mac with a new one. Until then... -Christopher Van Dyke Hohokam Middle School cvandyke@min.pima.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Dec 93 09:00:47 MST From: jlundell@opus.com (Jonathan Lundell) Subject: no icons? > We have a PowerBook Duo 230 with a strange problem: all of the file icons > are of the "blank" application or document type. I have re-installed the > System (including System Update 2.0.1 and NSI 1.4.1), re-installed all of > our locally used extensions (Macintosh Easy Open & PC Exchange, ATM, etc.), > run Norton Disk Doctor, Disinfectant, and Disk First Aid (the latter > reported Catalog BTree problems which it said it fixed) and re-built the > desktop after each operation, and *still* the icons are blank. Before reformatting, I'd try *deleting* the desktop file with TechTool or the like, or with ResEdit (with ResEdit, I imagine, you could rename it, make it visible, and trash it). Then restart to make a new desktop file. TechTool is free. Their doc describes your problem and says that under some circumstances the existing file can be corrupted in such a way that the rebuilt file inherits the same corruption. I've use TT for the heck of it, but not to solve your problem. I think I downloaded TechTool from CIS. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1993 04:30:25 -0500 From: lt10@cornell.edu (Li-Hsiang Tu) Subject: Offline NNTP newsreader (Q) Is there anything similar to MacSlurp that downloads news from NNTP server? MacSlurp stops working for me, and I don't think our site use UUTP. Thanks ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Dec 93 20:53:38 CST From: s-revuluri@uchicago.edu Subject: OptiMem Does anyone use the new Optimem product? Does it work? How well? Is it worth getting? Anyone with usage to report, I would love to hear from, and I think lotsa folks on infomac would also like to hear. From the advertising, I can't tell if this is a great product or pure snake oil! It is cheap, so if it works like it says, it would be great. A friend of mine did a review of it for our school's computing journal. I also looked at the package briefly, but have not used it. The way it works (I think) is by reducing the partitions statically allocated to eacg application open, and keeping a pool of memory to allocate to those which need it. My impression of it is that it will help if you have about 8MB of memory already and like to keep lots of applications (which would normally take more than 8MB) open at once -- a word processor, spreadsheet, mailer, graphics program and terminal emulator, for example. However, if you've got 4 or 5 MB and just have trouble opening 2 applications simultaneously, it might not help much. I decided to buy a hard drive one step up from the one I had been considering and use VM insted (at least until SIMM prices come down to a sane level). I think the bottom line is that your mileage may vary. If any actual OptiMem users think I'm panning it unfairly, please tell me so. Sendhil Revuluri (s-revuluri@uchicago.edu) University of Chicago ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 04 Dec 93 19:51:01 CST From: Andrew Vernon Subject: Performa 450 quality (A) On Thu, 02 Dec 93 10:58:23 CDT, Paul Koch asked us: >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? Electronically, the machines are identical. Anything the LC III can do the P450 can handle as well. >2. Can I run System 7.1? You'll get System 7.1P, a customized System 7 for the Performa line. Most of the changes are purely cosmetic, but you'll like how 7.1P auto-hides other applications when you switch between them. If you know which enablers you need, you can _try_ to install a standard System 7.1 for the LC III, but why bother? Everything should run under 7.1P as it does with the standard system software. >3. How good is the 14-inch monitor which comes with it? The Performa displays are the true dissapointments of the product line. Neither the Performa Display or the Performa Plus Display have the clarity and sharpness of the Macintosh 14" display or the vaunted AppleColor 13" High-Resolution display. Go to Sears and take a look at the Performas on the floor to get an idea of how the screen looks. If the price is _that_ good, you can always use the savings to by a better monitor. Andrew Vernon (avernon1@ua1ix.ua.edu) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 16:33:50 -0500 (EST) From: Ronald G Mackley Subject: Play Authoring Software Is there any software available for macintosh soley fr the purpose of authoring plays? Such software exists for DOS, but is there anything for us? Please respond via e-mail Thanks ---RGM ------ Ron Mackley kilgore+@pitt.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 16:33:50 -0500 (EST) From: Ronald G Mackley Subject: Play Authoring Software Is there any software available for macintosh soley fr the purpose of authoring plays? Such software exists for DOS, but is there anything for us? Please respond via e-mail Thanks ---RGM ------ Ron Mackley kilgore+@pitt.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 17:00:57 -0500 From: Marc_Dionne@UQTR.UQuebec.CA (Marc Dionne) Subject: Postscript viewer. We plan to offer a service use a Color postscript printer. Each user will create a postscript file of is printout and will send it over network to an dedicate station who will print and do comptabitity. We wish be able to verify if the printout is ok before print it. Does somebody can tell me if a product exist to View a postscript file in a screen. Marc Dionne Email: Marc_Dionne@uqtr.uquebec.ca Universit du Qubec Trois-Rivires Tlec: (819) 376-5153 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 17:00:57 -0500 From: Marc_Dionne@UQTR.UQuebec.CA (Marc Dionne) Subject: Postscript viewer. We plan to offer a service use a Color postscript printer. Each user will create a postscript file of is printout and will send it over network to an dedicate station who will print and do comptabitity. We wish be able to verify if the printout is ok before print it. Does somebody can tell me if a product exist to View a postscript file in a screen. Marc Dionne Email: Marc_Dionne@uqtr.uquebec.ca Universit du Qubec Trois-Rivires Tlec: (819) 376-5153 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 16:31:14 -0500 From: ai261%freenet.carleton.ca@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU (Matthew Ahrens) Subject: Ram Disk on SE-30 with Sys 7. the ram disk in the memmory control panel only works with macs that support ram + disks in ROM, which would be i think naything since about november 1992 or + something like that. oops, fergot, the origion PB's (140,170) might also + support the ram disk (october 1991). you could do a ram disk with one of those 3rd party options (ram+ or something) + but they might not work with sys 7. -- My opinions are mine only and tentative, pending further data Matthew Ahrens ai261@Freenet.carleton.ca ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 16:31:14 -0500 From: ai261%freenet.carleton.ca@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU (Matthew Ahrens) Subject: Ram Disk on SE-30 with Sys 7. the ram disk in the memmory control panel only works with macs that support ram + disks in ROM, which would be i think naything since about november 1992 or + something like that. oops, fergot, the origion PB's (140,170) might also + support the ram disk (october 1991). you could do a ram disk with one of those 3rd party options (ram+ or something) + but they might not work with sys 7. -- My opinions are mine only and tentative, pending further data Matthew Ahrens ai261@Freenet.carleton.ca ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Dec 93 16:24:07 EST From: Mark A. Saper Subject: RS-422 serial vs LocalTalk Could someone explain the difference between hooking a PostScript laser printer (HP 4ML) to my MAC's printer port via a direct DIN-8 to DIN-8 cable versus a Phonenet connection (2 phonenet connectors and telephone cable in between). HP technical support says that the DIN-8 to DIN-8 connection is only reliable to about 20 feet and is in general slower than the localtalk/phonenet connection. Is this true? Can the Mac port driver tell the difference? By the way I am not daisychaining anything else on Localtalk connection. Thanks, Mark Saper ------------------------------ Date: Fri Dec 3, 1993 09:48 From: SPerspect@aol.com Subject: SndVolume XFCN 1.0 Attached you will find version 1.0 of our SndVolume XFCN for HyperCard. This external allows you to set and retrieve the sound volume of the Macintosh. Thank you, Software Perspectives [Archived as /info-mac/card/snd-volume-10.hqx; 44K] ------------------------------ Date: Sun Dec 5 21:17:32 1993 From: jumbo@imp.ch (David Wechsler) Subject: SoundEditPro Hodwy Since I updated to V7.1 the SoundEdit Pro V1.05 run in an error during startup.Under V7.0 all works fine. My configuration: Centris650,16 ram,CD-ROM. I try with no extension(shift-restart),32 bit off,no cache - all the same errors. Have someone the same experience? -David jumbo@imp.ch ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Dec 93 07:18 EST From: Subject: spin cd rom drive I noticed in Macweek that a company called Spin Peripherals (division of Spirit Tecnologies, Newton Upper Falls, MA) is offering a "$299 double speed MultiSession Photo-CD compatible CD-ROM drive. State of the art performance lets you blaze throught your favorite Quicktime movies at 300kb/sec Includes all necessary cabling and free Voyager CD-ROM disc." Has anyone had experience with this company, this drive etc? I note that on the same page, they are offering a drive with an NEC mechanism (2x) at $449. Jim Clark ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1993 11:50:48 -0600 (CST) From: wjohnson@rouge.phys.lsu.edu (Wyatt Johnson) Subject: statics shell For our last csc assignment, we got into groups and had to write a program that plays nim against you. I decided to do the user interface using Borland's BGI. I finished last night (took me from about 6:00 pm to 2:00 am). Anyway, I can use a lot of that code (with some modifications) in the statics shell. Doing this also gave me some ideas on improving the mouse support, plans for people that don't have color monitors (although VGA is required), allowing for "hot" keys for people that don't have/use mouse, button highlighting, and a few other things that I can plan in advance for when I write the shell. Later Wyatt ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 04 Dec 93 10:47:06 EST From: "Allan M. Bloom" Subject: Sys 7.1 Boot Disk On Tue, 30 Nov 93, Robert Shaw asked > Is there a MacTools 2.0 Emergency Disk with minSys7.1? Sure, Robert. But you have to make your own. Hie thee to the smex-aim archives and get UTIL/MIN-SYSTEM-INSTALLER-101.HQX, 84K. It makes a stripped system (715K) system 7.1 that leaves lots of room for enablers and an app. Once you get a stripped disk that boots properly with a finder on it, replace the finder with the app you want. Then use MacTools DiskEdit to examine the boot blocks and change Finder = Finder to Finder = app name and StartupApp = app. BTW, folk. MacTools 3 doesn't include DiskEdit. Keep your copy from version 2. Heck, I even keep FileEdit from version 1. There are other options. LaCie's SilverLining boot disk has a cute little (2K) "finder." All it does is let you transfer to whatever apps are on the disk. Quitting an app returns you to the finderlet, from which you can launch another app, restart, or shut down. Or you can rename your app Finder and diddle its type/creator. Doesn't work in some cases, but it's fairly reliable. Al Bloom, Virginia Tech ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 05 Dec 93 00:41:35 EST From: jakesog@aol.com Subject: System 7 sound --> mod format What kind of program do I need in order to convert a System 7 sound file to .mod file format so that I can use Sound Tracker to play sound in the background. Or is there ant sound utility which I can use to convert system 7 sound file to anything that I can play in the background. Thanks in advance! JAKE ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 14:26:15 -0500 (EST) From: Sridar Narayanan Subject: TCP/IP networking problems with LC520? Hello, The lab next door just got an LC520 which they wish to connect to a TCP/IP network and to a DECnet VAX. They have an Asante ethernet card, MacTCP and an IP address. They seem to have MacTCP correctly configured, but are not recognized on the net. That is to say, they cannot ping out or be pinged, nor do Fetch or Xferit work. A Quadra in another lab works fine. They've tried all the usual things, (MacTCP 2.0.2, 2.0.4, 1.1.1), AppleTalk on/off, reinstalling with the latest Network Installer Disk, reseating the Ethernet card, reinstalling the Asante drivers, etc. Calls to Apple and Asante tech support were fruitless. The Question: I seem to recall reading in Info-mac that there are networking problems specific to the LC520. Is this the case? If so, what's the fix? E-mail replies are preferred. Thanks in advance, Sridar sridar@nil.mni.mcgill.ca ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1993 01:24:32 +0200 (EET) From: Matti Haveri Subject: Text editor for large files (S) I asked what is the best application to view and edit large text-files _without huge amounts of memory_ and with the option to automatically wrap lines longer than the screen _without adding LF/CR_ (auto-wrap)? Search and replace would be nice too. **TeachText** and **TexEdit** have auto-wrap but they can open only <30K files. **SaintEdit** has auto-wrap but it needs much application memory when opening big files. **Edit II** is also memory-hungry with large files. It has auto-wrap-option but there it means that it just inserts CR's at the right margin automatically. It turns out that **BBEdit** is also memory-dependent so it can't open huge files with little available memory. Even though its application memory is only 300K it uses System memory when dealing with large files. BBEdit 2.2.2's manual says: > File size limited only by available memory. BBEdit's default > partition size is 512K of RAM. This can be set as low as 300K, to > make BBEdit the ideal constantly-resident editor for small to > moderate tasks, or turned up as high as necessary to edit many large > files or perform large-scale search-and-replace operations. If youUre > running under System 7.0, BBEdit automatically _takes advantage of_ > _available system memory_, so that you donUt have to adjust its > partition size to edit large files. So my 1.3M test file (which, by the way, was "interest-groups") was about the largest file BBEdit could open with 2500K of free memory. **Quick View** could open the 1.3M test-file _very fast_ and with just 20K of free memory it uses by itself. However, it crashed the system if Cancel-button was pressed in open file dialog box. Without those bad crashes (7.0.1, shift-boot) this small DA would be nice although it lacks auto-wrap (in fact it lacks everything except the ability to view text - copying and pasting are missing too). **McSink** also takes advantage of available system memory so it couldn't open the 1.3M file when there wasn't enough memory and it lacks auto-wrap too. McSink's commercial version **Vantage** (Signature Software for Preferred Publishers) has automatic word wrap but I don't know if it is still sold as McSink's date is as old as 1/25/90. And I'm not sure if its auto-wrap is similar to Edit II. I tried **Alpha 5.63** and it, too, used System memory and inserted CR's when converting from paragraph format. > ~John W. LeBlanc:~ I have sucessfully used McSink (shareware) for this > it features "Wrap to length" and "Wrap to Window", and can "Form > Paragraphs" from CR laden text. The commercial version is Vantage, > which offers automatic word wrap and filters for word procesing > documents. > > ~Dr Alun J. Carr:~ ...the one I tend to use most is Alpha (mostly > because it has superb facilities for LaTeX users). > > ~Larry K. Smith:~ You want Alpha, a great shareware text editor. ~Dieter Shirley~ keeps "Mac Text Editor Christmas Wish List" in comp.sys.mac.programming and comp.sys.mac.apps: >It seems that many Mac users, particularily programmers, have some >really good ideas about what an ideal text editor would do. It also >seems that several text editors come close but not close enough. > >Let's make the Mac Text Editor Christmas Wish List. I'm willing to >compile the thing, assuming it doesn't take *too* much of my time. >And just before Christmas, I'll post the whole list. Bare Bones >software, creators of BBEdit, have expressed an interest in seeing >this list, and Pete Keleher, author of Alpha, also appears to be >following this thread. > >So, mail me (**shirleyd@cognos.com**) with one of four subject lines. >(This isn't a mailer daemon, so you do have some flexiblity, it's >just so I can file the replies easily.) > >TE Ideas - Fill the body with things you'd like to see in your ideal >text editor. I'll also be following c.s.m.programming. If possible, >try to help with nifty interface ideas. It would nice to have a good >interface to these powerful features (I know that I always have to >keep a vi reference close by... you shouldn't need that for a Mac >application.)) > >TE Request - To be sent the current incarnation of the TE X-mas wish. >I'll also try to post the list at regular intervals to both >c.s.m.programming and c.s.m.apps. > >TE Support - Fill the body with the items that you *like* that are >currently on the list and why. (Please don't gripe about features >unless you find them really offensive. eg. Don't send a message >saying that you think vi is stupid, or that no Mac text editor should >be under control of the keyboard. Any decent Mac developer knows not >to abandon the mouse interface, but may not realize how many users >would like to circumvent it.) I hope the final list to contain >reasons for certain features as well as what those features are. >Points will be awarded based on literary merit and style. :-) > >TE Errors - Errors that I've made, particulaily when referring to >what BBEdit, Alpha and MPW can and can't do. In particular, I invite >the developers to mail/post with info on there own product. Thanks for the replies. It seems that at the moment there isn't such shareware text-editor available. Matti Haveri ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 04 Dec 93 08:43:30 EST From: Pete Tamas Subject: Toolbook Anyone familier with some software called Toolbook? I believe it is for creating interactive multimedia. Thanks, Pete Tamas Gnome@VM.Temple.edu or TempleVM.bitnet ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1993 11:44:21 -0600 From: "Hemachandran P. R." Subject: Typing tutor Hi, I am not sure whether I am writing to the right people, if not please pardon me. I am looking for a Typing Tutor program. Wonder it is available as a share ware. Thanks, -Heman ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1993 02:56:50 GMT From: Sven Guckes Subject: UMICH:/mac/documentation/INITInfo4.3.1Word.sit UMICH:/mac/documentation/INITInfo4.3.1Word.sit Yet another documentation from hell - Word formatted! While the info is quite comprehensive I had to wonder about two things: 1) No pictures. While there are obviously pictures in this document, I can only see gray boxes. :-( 2) The index says something about 83 pages. However, there seem to be only 73 pages. :-( Before you ask - it's "Word 5.1a". Sven :) [Why do they have to use Word, anyway??] -- Useful sigs, part 1: If you followup to this post then please send me a copy. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1993 02:26:21 GMT From: Sven Guckes Subject: UMICH:/mac/graphics/gif What about "UMICH:/mac/graphics/gif" ? Is there really only one file? Where are those Gifs? Sven :) [Pointer to a FAQ suffices!] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1993 03:35:42 GMT From: Sven Guckes Subject: UMICH:/mac/misc/documentation/mactcppatch.cpt.hqx UMICH:/mac/misc/documentation/mactcppatch.cpt.hqx Alright, an updater to MacTCP 1.1.1. But it's just the updater application! No docs included with the (CompactPro) archive, nor with the application. OK, there is some text in the hqx file; but that one doesn't explain what is fixed, nor what the result will be. Dear MacApplicationUpdaters, please, please, please - include some information!!! Thank you! Sven :) [I feel much better now!] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 04 Dec 93 20:01:25 CST From: Andrew Vernon Subject: Upgrading a LC to use a SuperDrive bouldin@anvil.nrl.navy.mil asked: >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??? Whoa! The LC came with a SuperDrive originally. If your LC can't read high- density diskettes, the drive needs servicing. In fact, the most common problem I've found with the SuperDrive is that it will get mucked up to the point where it can't read high-density Mac or MS-DOS disks (no MFM-standard disks will work). This has been corrected in the new manual-inject SuperDrive, which has a door covering the drive opening. The SuperDrive has always been prone to eating dust-bunnies through its opening because the exhaust fan draws dirt and grunge into the Mac. We had a SuperDrive in a IIcx die completely at the hands of a two-pack-a-day smoker in a dirty room. --------- Andrew Vernon (avernon1@ua1ix.ua.edu) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Dec 93 10:18:41 MST From: jlundell@opus.com (Jonathan Lundell) Subject: Using BOTH ethernet and AppleTalk Al Best writes: >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 I'm using AppleTalk over LocalTalk to talk to my LW IINT and a Duo. I also use Ethernet to run TCP/IP to talk to a local SPARCstation. This should work FINE for you. For your network connection, select LocalTalk, not EtherTalk. What's confusing is that you now have two physical media (LocalTalk and Ethernet). You can run AppleTalk protocol on either (or both with Apple's router). You can run IP protocol (used by TCP/IP) on either medium as well, but typically don't need to run it on LocalTalk. MacTCP can be set to use the Ethernet connection (you are using MacTCP?) while AppleTalk should remain on LocalTalk. At least it sounds like that's what you want. If you really want to run AppleTalk on both media, my dealer says Apple's router will do the trick. I was asking in anticipation of adding a printer that had an Ethernet connection. ------------------------------ Date: 3 Dec 1993 11:50:49 -0600 From: saul@hnrc.tufts.edu (Saul Tannenbaum) Subject: Warning: Apple Software Dispatch (extension problem) [ found on another newsgroup, but I removed "Trojan Horse" from the Subject-header. otherwise the article is original. While I do not myself know anything about the problem nor the symptoms (and extension problems are nothing if not 'a normal experience' for many of us, there are some aspects of this report which most (potential) users might want to be aware of BEFORE first using this... ---Werner ] Warning - Apple Software Dispatch is a Trojan Horse Apple Software Dispatch is Apple's new way to buy application software. They send you a CD (mine came unsolicited in the mail). You run an application on the CD, register your CD by a code that comes with the package, and then you can call an 800 number to purchase applications on the CD. You give them a credit card number - they give you some code number that unlocks/decrypts the application. While the documentation nowhere says so, THE SOFTWARE DISPATCH APPLICATION INSTALLS AN EXTENSION IN YOUR SYSTEM. On my system, this extension clearly conflicted with something, rendering my disks (hard, floppy _and_ CD-ROM) unmountable. Removing the extension fixed the problem. Booting with Software Dispatch as the only extension also worked, so Software Dispatch is not inherently buggy - it just suffers from classic Mac extension conflict problems. However, since this extension is not mentioned in the documentation, there are people who are in for a rude shock. And, since the symptoms for this problem are just a dialog saying "This disk is unreadable on this Macintosh. Would you like to initialize it?", there are people who are going to waste endless amounts of time, restoring and rebuilding their disks needlessly. After they do that, if they still don't notice the Software Dispatch extension, they still won't have fixed the problem. I called the Apple Software Dispatch 800 number to report this problem. After convincing them that I was calling for technical support for Software Dispatch itself, not an application I purchased through Software Dispatch, I ended up playing 3 days of phone tag with a support person. The end result: "We'll report this to a technician. I can't say when they will get back to you - but it's apt to be a few weeks." My flames: * You don't install software on someone's machine without informing them in documentation and during the installation process. I _assume_ that the Software Dispatch extension is benign. I don't _know_ that it is. Indeed, I had to stumble across its very existence. It's stuff like this that starts ugly rumors and very, very bad PR. * If you are in the software distribution and installation business, you do tech support better than Apple Software Dispatch, especially given the point above. * You take reports of "this makes my machine unusable" a little more seriously, especially when you're launching a new means of software distribution. Doing otherwise only ends up shooting yourself in the foot. I can't believe that I'm the only person to whom this has happened. While I run a fairly complex Mac, I am relatively conservative about system extensions - with one or two exceptions, the extensions I have aren't particularly funky, they're from Apple or 3rd party vendors. I expect that Apple will be suffering from real grief about this, and, regrettably, they deserve every little bit of it. - Saul, who is clearly speaking _only_ for himself ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Dec 93 23:52:18 PDT From: ace@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst) Subject: Watermarks In Regards to your letter <199312041247.AA14286@nwnexus.wa.com>: > I know that Word for Windoze allows you to add a watermark. How about Word for > Mac? Working Watermarker from Working Software enables you to have watermarks in all applications, although it doesn't have an unlimited list of them - just the standard things I guess. I'll have to look more closely. 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: Sat, 4 Dec 93 08:43:36 MST From: jlundell@opus.com (Jonathan Lundell) Subject: Word books > Steve Greenfield asks: > Are there any good books on how to use Word? When I first bought Word, I bought a copy of "Working With Word", Kinata & McComb, Microsoft Press. The 2nd edition covers Word 4; I haven't looked to see a later version. I've looked at a few, and this is IMO the best--IF you want a complete reference rather than an intro. > I am going to buy Word 5.1 (isn't this the latest release?) for myself > for Christmas. It will cost $81. Does anyone know if I should wait for > a newer release to come out soon? I'd hate to spend the $81 and find out > a new release is coming out within a couple of months! Word 4 was the first reliable version; don't feel compelled to upgrade (though I did and don't regret it). The new version is due shortly; for the first time it shares most of its source with the Windows version 6.0, which has had a lot of press coverage recently. Reports are that 6.0 is VERY buggy. My advice would be to buy 5.1, wait for 6.0 to come out and see how it works, and probably wait for 6.1. ------------------------------ End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************