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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 94 01:07:47 PST
From: The Info-Mac Moderators <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Info-Mac Digest V12 #25
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Info-Mac Digest             Tue, 15 Feb 94       Volume 12 : Issue 25

Today's Topics:

      [*] AMT-More-Modems (2 msgs)
      [*] Aurora 3.0.2 (2 msgs)
      [*] CalConvert 1.1
      [*] Casablanca sounds (binary)
      [*] DBugR 1.1
      [*] Dialog View 1.0.8 (2 msgs)
      [*] DX7 Librarian 1.0.5 (2 msgs)
      [*] Fret-Navigator 1.2
      [*] Gossamer-2.0.sea.hqx
      [*] Incognito 1.1
      [*] Incognito 1.1 source
      [*] JUNO Librarian 1.0.3 (2 msgs)
      [*] List Files 2.0
      [*] MetroWerks CodeWarrior m680x0 Pascal update
      [*] MetroWerks CodeWarrior M68K C/C++ update
      [*] Metrowerks CodeWarrior PowerPC C/C++ update
      [*] MetroWerks CodeWarrior PowerPlant Update
      [*] MIDI Pack'en 1.0.3 (2 msgs)
      [*] Nstack 2.0a (2 msgs)
      [*] Open-wide 3.5.7 (2 msgs)
      [*] OtherMenu 1.3.1 (2 msgs)
      [*] OtherMenu 1.3 to 1.3.1 update (2 msgs)
      [*] SimpleName
      [*] sound-machine-202.hqx
      [*] SpeedyFinder7 1.5.9b
      [A] LZW decompression from Unix->Mac
      About this MacIntosh... RAM allocation
      Academic DataManager demo
      AppleTalk a'la serial cable (was: LaserWriter Select 360 on serial)
      AppleTalk over Ethernet (Long Distance) (A)
      ARA for LineLink?
      BackSplash 1.0.3 Problem (Solved!)
      Calculator DA replacements
      cc:mail (q)
      CD's with Apple CD Drive
      Email for Working Software (Spellswell)(a)
      Eudora Macro for Info-Mac posting
      fetch (and serial port) speed
      FTP Problems
      Grammar checker
      HTML convertor
      Hypertext History
      Info-Mac CD-ROM Profits (C)
      info-mac CD-ROM profits?
      Info-Mac CD Profits (C)
      Info-Mac Digest V12 #16
      Info-Mac Digest V12 #24
      INFORMED ANYONE (S)
      interslip (2 msgs)
      LC speeds
      Location of Thread Manager at ftp.apple.com
      Looking for a Mac file
      Looking for an audio clip...
      LZW decompression from Unix->Mac [A]
      Mac & VGA Monitor.
      Mac Plus "Killy Clips" (Summary)
      MacroMaker under System 7
      MDictUpdt.hqx
      MSWord Printing problem with Pasted Drawing
      NEC CD-ROM incompatibilities(Q)
      NEC Problems
      networking with Stylewriter II (Q)
      New PowerBooks
      New Quadra With Hiccups (Q)
      No more problems with LineLink 144e modem
      Online Dictionary (A)
      Postscript Error (Q)
      Postscript Previewer Wanted
      PowerBook Screen - Problems with Black & White Reversal(Q)
      Power User SyQuest Drives ?
      Printing a PostScript File ??
      Problem with Mac LC and text-editors [Q]
      Puny disk capacity, etc....
      questionable APS behaviour [comment]
      RAM Doubler
      RAM Doubler advice wanted (Q)
      RamDoubler vs FAXstf
      RAM Troubler, er... Doubler
      Recommended TCP/IP Applications
      Resolving names of Gopher hosts and their IP numbers [A]
      Running Mac and PC simultaneously ?
      SITcomm
      strange noise
      SW II Page Set-up
      TIFF file problem
      Troubles with InterSLIP
      Type 1s
      Unship for Macintosh
      VIDEO CARD FOR SE/30 ANYONE WITH INFO ?
      Webster's Dictionary via gopher (Q)
      Writing to 5.25" PC floppy?
      ZTerm Font Confusion (A)

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Date: 12 Feb 1994 16:35:43 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Jim Hebert)
Subject: [*] AMT-More-Modems

Attached please find a bin-hexed StuffIt archive that contains new Apple Modem
Tool resources for adding modems to the Apple Modem Tool.  I am the author of
these resources. I have developed them after extensive testing with the
respective modems.  These resources may be freely distributed.

AMT-PPI-14400FXSA is a modem resource that can be used in conjunction with
the Apple Modem Tool v1.5 to add the Practical Peripherals 14400FXSA modem to
the tool's list of choices available.  (Note to archivists: you may want to
delete the earlier version I posted some months ago.)

AMT-AT&T-Dataport is a modem resource that can be used in conjunction with
the Apple Modem Tool v1.5 to add the AT&T Dataport modem to the tool's list
of choices available.

You add these resources by using the Apple Modem Tool itself. In the pop-up
menu of modem choices, you select "Modify this menu". In the dialog box that
follows, select the "Import"  button. Point the file open dialog box at
either of these resources, and you will add four flavors of modem settings
for the selected modem.  The resources can be removed in a similar fashion.

The files include custom finder icons.

These files also contain a custom modem cable PICT resource, which makes a
minor correction to the one contained in the Apple Modem Tool itself.

These files may be freely distributed as long as they remain intact.

Changes since last distribution:

  --added "STR" resource to explain function when double- clicking on file in
Finder

  --added "vers" resource for "Get Info" appearance


Best regards,

Jim Hebert.

[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/amt-more-modems.hqx; 13K]

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Date: 12 Feb 1994 16:35:43 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Jim Hebert)
Subject: [*] AMT-More-Modems

Attached please find a bin-hexed StuffIt archive that contains new Apple Modem
Tool resources for adding modems to the Apple Modem Tool.  I am the author of
these resources. I have developed them after extensive testing with the
respective modems.  These resources may be freely distributed.

AMT-PPI-14400FXSA is a modem resource that can be used in conjunction with
the Apple Modem Tool v1.5 to add the Practical Peripherals 14400FXSA modem to
the tool's list of choices available.  (Note to archivists: you may want to
delete the earlier version I posted some months ago.)

AMT-AT&T-Dataport is a modem resource that can be used in conjunction with
the Apple Modem Tool v1.5 to add the AT&T Dataport modem to the tool's list
of choices available.

You add these resources by using the Apple Modem Tool itself. In the pop-up
menu of modem choices, you select "Modify this menu". In the dialog box that
follows, select the "Import"  button. Point the file open dialog box at
either of these resources, and you will add four flavors of modem settings
for the selected modem.  The resources can be removed in a similar fashion.

The files include custom finder icons.

These files also contain a custom modem cable PICT resource, which makes a
minor correction to the one contained in the Apple Modem Tool itself.

These files may be freely distributed as long as they remain intact.

Changes since last distribution:

  --added "STR" resource to explain function when double- clicking on file in
Finder

  --added "vers" resource for "Get Info" appearance


Best regards,

Jim Hebert.

[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/amt-more-modems.hqx; 13K]

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Date: Sun, 13 Feb 94 13:57:02 PST
From: [e-mail] (Mike Pinkerton)
Subject: [*] Aurora 3.0.2

To whom it may concern

Here is yet another fix to Aurora so that it doesn't crash on
machines w/out color quickdraw. The last "update" (v 3.0.1)
recognized the machine did not have CQD, but the function that put
up the alert to tell the user required CQD itself. Needless to say,
it should work now....

I'm sorry for all the inconvenience

Mike Pinkerton
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/aurora-302.hqx; 31K]

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Date: Sun, 13 Feb 94 13:57:02 PST
From: [e-mail] (Mike Pinkerton)
Subject: [*] Aurora 3.0.2

To whom it may concern

Here is yet another fix to Aurora so that it doesn't crash on
machines w/out color quickdraw. The last "update" (v 3.0.1)
recognized the machine did not have CQD, but the function that put
up the alert to tell the user required CQD itself. Needless to say,
it should work now....

I'm sorry for all the inconvenience

Mike Pinkerton
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/aurora-302.hqx; 31K]

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 94 13:05:08 +0100
From: "Fabrizio Oddone" <simula3@130.192.239.182>
Subject: [*] CalConvert 1.1

CalConvert (formerly QuickConvert) is a small shareware
utility that does integer arithmetic calculations and
converts integer values to different bases (decimal,
hexadecimal, binary, octal or any custom base between 2 and
32) or to an OSType (a sequence of four ASCII characters).
The conversion may be signed or unsigned (you can always
enter a signed value, it will be converted to unsigned if
needed); the result may be interpreted either as a word (2
bytes) or as a long word (4 bytes). The Return and Enter
keys start the conversion; Tab, shift-Tab and the four arrow
keys have their usual meaning.

New in 1.1: CalConvert no more requires System 7.

SHAREWARE - $5
Author: Alessandro Levi Montalcini

[Archived as /info-mac/sci/cal-convert-11.hqx; 21K]

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 94 10:02:18 EST
From: [e-mail] (Daniel L. McDonald)
Subject: [*] Casablanca sounds (binary)

Hello,

These are snippets from _Casablanca_.  Lots of great lines in here, and
I'm sure people would like to hear them on their Macs.  In this .sit.hqx
file there are 16 sample in double-clickable 'sfil' format, and a READ ME
file.

--
Daniel L. McDonald | Internet: {danmcd,mcdonald}@itd.nrl.navy.mil

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/casablanca.hqx; 1587K]

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 94 13:04:48 +0100
From: "Fabrizio Oddone" <simula3@130.192.239.182>
Subject: [*] DBugR 1.1

DBugR is a cool Control Panel for programmers and hackers
who often have to break into MacsBug (or any other debugger
supporting the _DebugStr trap). It puts a floating "small
bomb" icon on your desktop which acts like a button. If the
mouse button is pressed and released inside the icon,
there's a user interrupt and MacsBug is called. DBugR can
show some basic info about the current application (name,
free memory, max free block) and/or send one of two
user-configurable MacsBug commands to be executed
immediately upon breaks (hold down the Option key when
clicking to send the alternate command). The icon may be
moved anywhere on any monitor by holding down the Shift key
and dragging it around.

New in 1.1: checks if a low-level debugger is running :-)

SHAREWARE - $3
Author: Alessandro Levi Montalcini

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/d-bug-r-11.hqx; 14K]

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Date: Sat, 12 Feb 1994 23:19:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Jim Walker <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Dialog View 1.0.8

Dialog View (formerly List Font) is a control panel that allows you to
change the font and size used in directory dialog file lists, and display
the real icons of files in such lists.  It requires System 7.  If you use it
together with my Open-wide program (version 3.5.7 or later for best results),
you will be able to use larger fonts without cramping the list.  Compatible
with Super Boomerang, not compatible with Norton's Directory Assistance.

1.0.8: Updated for compatibility with Macintosh Easy Open and Language Kit
Extension.

 -- Jim Walker

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/dialog-view-108.hqx; 29K]

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Date: Sat, 12 Feb 1994 23:19:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Jim Walker <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Dialog View 1.0.8

Dialog View (formerly List Font) is a control panel that allows you to
change the font and size used in directory dialog file lists, and display
the real icons of files in such lists.  It requires System 7.  If you use it
together with my Open-wide program (version 3.5.7 or later for best results),
you will be able to use larger fonts without cramping the list.  Compatible
with Super Boomerang, not compatible with Norton's Directory Assistance.

1.0.8: Updated for compatibility with Macintosh Easy Open and Language Kit
Extension.

 -- Jim Walker

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/dialog-view-108.hqx; 29K]

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 12:25:53 +0900
From: [e-mail] (Takashi Suzuki)
Subject: [*] DX7 Librarian 1.0.5

DX7 Librarian is an application for the Macintosh which allows you
to make up library of voice data for DX7. One window has one voice
data, and you can open windows as many as you want.
When this application receives bulk dump MIDI data, new window will
open and show you it's parameter. You can keep 32 voices in one file,
so it's easy to replace DX7's internal 32 voices.
Apple Script recordable.

What's changed in 1.0.5.
 Fixed the bug related to Windows menu.
 You can change connection with modem/printer port by Apple Script.

Requirement :
System7 + QuickTime + Apple MIDI Manager or
System7.1 + Apple MIDI Manager

Shareware.

Takashi Suzuki

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/util/dx7-librarian-105.hqx; 122K]

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 12:25:53 +0900
From: [e-mail] (Takashi Suzuki)
Subject: [*] DX7 Librarian 1.0.5

DX7 Librarian is an application for the Macintosh which allows you
to make up library of voice data for DX7. One window has one voice
data, and you can open windows as many as you want.
When this application receives bulk dump MIDI data, new window will
open and show you it's parameter. You can keep 32 voices in one file,
so it's easy to replace DX7's internal 32 voices.
Apple Script recordable.

What's changed in 1.0.5.
 Fixed the bug related to Windows menu.
 You can change connection with modem/printer port by Apple Script.

Requirement :
System7 + QuickTime + Apple MIDI Manager or
System7.1 + Apple MIDI Manager

Shareware.

Takashi Suzuki

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/util/dx7-librarian-105.hqx; 122K]

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Date: 11 Feb 1994 15:12:51 -0500
From: "Jack Herrington" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Fret-Navigator 1.2

This is a small bug-fix release to make Fret Navigator exit smoothly if the
macintosh doesn't have color quickdraw.  Thanks for the archiving.

-Jack
 [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/util/fret-navigator-12.hqx; 355K]

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Date: Sun, 13 Feb 94 14:47:14 PST
From: ingate![e-mail] (Jonathan Blossom)
Subject: [*] Gossamer-2.0.sea.hqx

Gossamer 2.0 is a fast, real-time virtual reality engine for the
Macintosh. It requires a 68020 processor or better, and a color
monitor is preferred (but not necessary). Also requires 32-bit
QuickDraw for now.

Gossamer 20 is compatible with Rend386 format PLG and WLD files
for transferring objects and worlds from the PC to the Mac.

[Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/gossamer-20.hqx; 302K]

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 17:42:28 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Manuel Veloso)
Subject: [*] Incognito 1.1

Hi there,

this is the new, final version of Incognito.

Enjoy,
Manuel

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/net/incognito-11.hqx; 23K]

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 17:42:38 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Manuel Veloso)
Subject: [*] Incognito 1.1 source

Hi there,

attached is the source code for Incognito 1.1.

Enjoy,
Manuel

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/src/incognito-11-cp.hqx; 78K]

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 12:30:27 +0900
From: [e-mail] (Takashi Suzuki)
Subject: [*] JUNO Librarian 1.0.3

JUNO Librarian is an application for the Macintosh which allows you
to make up library of voice data for JUNO106. One window has one voice
data, and you can open windows as many as you want.
When this application receives bulk dump MIDI data, new window will
open and show you it's parameter.

What's changed in 1.0.3.
 Fixed the bug related to Windows menu.
 You can change connection with modem/printer port by Apple Script.

Requirement :
System7 + QuickTime + Apple MIDI Manager or
System7.1 + Apple MIDI Manager

Shareware.

Takashi Suzuki

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/util/juno-librarian-103.hqx; 90K]

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 12:30:27 +0900
From: [e-mail] (Takashi Suzuki)
Subject: [*] JUNO Librarian 1.0.3

JUNO Librarian is an application for the Macintosh which allows you
to make up library of voice data for JUNO106. One window has one voice
data, and you can open windows as many as you want.
When this application receives bulk dump MIDI data, new window will
open and show you it's parameter.

What's changed in 1.0.3.
 Fixed the bug related to Windows menu.
 You can change connection with modem/printer port by Apple Script.

Requirement :
System7 + QuickTime + Apple MIDI Manager or
System7.1 + Apple MIDI Manager

Shareware.

Takashi Suzuki

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/util/juno-librarian-103.hqx; 90K]

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 94 13:03:49 +0100
From: "Fabrizio Oddone" <simula3@130.192.239.182>
Subject: [*] List Files 2.0

List Files creates text catalogs of any folder or disk you drag on it.
The text file can be edited and saved for later use (you'll be able
to read or print it with any word processor or text editor).
Text catalogs are a very convenient way to keep track of
unmounted volumes (like floppies or SyQuest's) because they
are small, easy to read and easy to search.

List Files 2.0 has lots of new features, too long to be listed here.

Moderators: please remove the application named "Find Fat Projects"
by Alessandro Levi Montalcini from the archives because you can look for
fat THINK C project faster and better with List Files 2.0.

SHAREWARE - $5
Author: Alessandro Levi Montalcini

[Archived as /info-mac/disk/list-files-20.hqx; 58K]

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Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 16:55:56 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Ronald E Wilhelm)
Subject: [*] MetroWerks CodeWarrior m680x0 Pascal update

First update to DR1 of Metrowerks' CodeWarrior motorolla 680x0 pascal compiler
>From AOL.

Ron
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/metrowerks-680x0-pascal-updt.hqx; 476K]

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Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 16:54:05 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Ronald E Wilhelm)
Subject: [*] MetroWerks CodeWarrior M68K C/C++ update

Here's the first update to Metrowerks' CodeWarror Motorola 680x0 C/C++
compiler from AOL.

Ron
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/metrowerks-680x0-c-cpp-updt.hqx; 312K]

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Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 16:52:11 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Ronald E Wilhelm)
Subject: [*] Metrowerks CodeWarrior PowerPC C/C++ update

First update to DR1 of Metrowerks' CodeWarrior PowerPC C/C++ compiler. From AOL

Ron
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/metrowerks-ppc-c-cpp-updt.hqx; 585K]

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Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 16:49:39 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Ronald E Wilhelm)
Subject: [*] MetroWerks CodeWarrior PowerPlant Update

Here's the first update to Metrowerks' PowerPlant library. You need
CodeWarrior DR1 to use this update. From AOL.

Ron
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/metrowerks-powerplant-updt.hqx; 51K]

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 12:25:11 +0900
From: [e-mail] (Takashi Suzuki)
Subject: [*] MIDI Pack'en 1.0.3

MIDI Pack'en is an application for the Macintosh which allows you to
keep system exclusive data in files. (So called MIDI Data Filer.)
When this application receives system exclusive data, a new window'll
tell you the datasize and manufacturer.
MIDI Pack'en can handle any kind of system exclusive data.
Apple Script recordable.

What's changed in 1.0.3.
 Fixed the bug related to Windows menu.
 You can change connection with modem/printer port by Apple Script.

This application requires :
System7 + QuickTime + Apple MIDI Manager or
System7.1 + Apple MIDI Manager

Shareware

Takashi Suzuki

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/util/midi-packen-103.hqx; 68K]

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 12:25:11 +0900
From: [e-mail] (Takashi Suzuki)
Subject: [*] MIDI Pack'en 1.0.3

MIDI Pack'en is an application for the Macintosh which allows you to
keep system exclusive data in files. (So called MIDI Data Filer.)
When this application receives system exclusive data, a new window'll
tell you the datasize and manufacturer.
MIDI Pack'en can handle any kind of system exclusive data.
Apple Script recordable.

What's changed in 1.0.3.
 Fixed the bug related to Windows menu.
 You can change connection with modem/printer port by Apple Script.

This application requires :
System7 + QuickTime + Apple MIDI Manager or
System7.1 + Apple MIDI Manager

Shareware

Takashi Suzuki

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/util/midi-packen-103.hqx; 68K]

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Date: Sun, 13 Feb 94 04:42:09 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Nstack 2.0a

Nstack 2.0a
Copr. 1994 Mark Cornick

Version 2.0a is a major new version of Nstack, a HyperCard guide to naturism.
Nstack includes an introduction to naturism, answers to frequently asked
questions, and listings of local naturist organizations in the US and Canada.
This new version includes nearly double the organizational listings of
version 1.1, as well as an improved interface. This version obsoletes all
prior versions of Nstack.

Previous versions of Nstack were in the public domain. This version of
Nstack is shareware, with a registration fee of $5.00, $4.00 of which will
be donated to the Naturist Education Foundation. Details are included in
the stack. Registration entitles the user to quarterly updates.

Nstack requires HyperCard 2.0 or greater, or the HyperCard Player. Given
this, it will run on any Macintosh.

Mark Cornick - [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/info/nms/nstack-20a-hc.hqx; 57K]

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Date: Sun, 13 Feb 94 04:42:09 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Nstack 2.0a

Nstack 2.0a
Copr. 1994 Mark Cornick

Version 2.0a is a major new version of Nstack, a HyperCard guide to naturism.
Nstack includes an introduction to naturism, answers to frequently asked
questions, and listings of local naturist organizations in the US and Canada.
This new version includes nearly double the organizational listings of
version 1.1, as well as an improved interface. This version obsoletes all
prior versions of Nstack.

Previous versions of Nstack were in the public domain. This version of
Nstack is shareware, with a registration fee of $5.00, $4.00 of which will
be donated to the Naturist Education Foundation. Details are included in
the stack. Registration entitles the user to quarterly updates.

Nstack requires HyperCard 2.0 or greater, or the HyperCard Player. Given
this, it will run on any Macintosh.

Mark Cornick - [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/info/nms/nstack-20a-hc.hqx; 57K]

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Date: Sat, 12 Feb 1994 23:20:12 -0500 (EST)
From: Jim Walker <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Open-wide 3.5.7

Open-wide is a control panel extension (INIT/cdev) that widens directory
dialogs (Open... and Save... dialogs), the better to see long file names. It
can also stretch these dialogs vertically, so you can see more file names.
Online documentation included.  Postcard-ware.

This update fixes the broken Help button in v. 3.5.6, and is updated for use
with Dialog View 1.0.8.

System 6.0.4 or later is required; compatible with System 7.

This is a StuffIt 3.0 archive.

 -- Jim Walker

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/open-wide-357.hqx; 37K]

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Date: Sat, 12 Feb 1994 23:20:12 -0500 (EST)
From: Jim Walker <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Open-wide 3.5.7

Open-wide is a control panel extension (INIT/cdev) that widens directory
dialogs (Open... and Save... dialogs), the better to see long file names. It
can also stretch these dialogs vertically, so you can see more file names.
Online documentation included.  Postcard-ware.

This update fixes the broken Help button in v. 3.5.6, and is updated for use
with Dialog View 1.0.8.

System 6.0.4 or later is required; compatible with System 7.

This is a StuffIt 3.0 archive.

 -- Jim Walker

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/open-wide-357.hqx; 37K]

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Date: Sat, 12 Feb 1994 23:15:40 -0500 (EST)
From: Jim Walker <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] OtherMenu 1.3.1

OtherMenu creates a system-wide hierarchical menu somewhat like the Apple
menu. It can launch applications and documents, do things such as Restart,
Delete, File Info, and execute FKEYs. In a directory dialog, you can use the
menu to select a file or folder. Requires System 7. Shareware, $10.

version 1.3 includes a new "recent items" folder and a new "Clip Info"
external, eliminates "Volume Watch" as a separate entity, and fixes many
bugs.
v. 1.3.1 fixes more bugs.

 -- Jim Walker

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/other-menu-131.hqx; 203K]

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Date: Sat, 12 Feb 1994 23:15:40 -0500 (EST)
From: Jim Walker <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] OtherMenu 1.3.1

OtherMenu creates a system-wide hierarchical menu somewhat like the Apple
menu. It can launch applications and documents, do things such as Restart,
Delete, File Info, and execute FKEYs. In a directory dialog, you can use the
menu to select a file or folder. Requires System 7. Shareware, $10.

version 1.3 includes a new "recent items" folder and a new "Clip Info"
external, eliminates "Volume Watch" as a separate entity, and fixes many
bugs.
v. 1.3.1 fixes more bugs.

 -- Jim Walker

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/other-menu-131.hqx; 203K]

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Date: Sat, 12 Feb 1994 23:17:32 -0500 (EST)
From: Jim Walker <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] OtherMenu 1.3 to 1.3.1 update

This package includes an updater to convert OtherMenu 1.3 to 1.3.1, plus 5
modified externals.

 -- Jim Walker

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/other-menu-13-to-131-updt.hqx; 70K]

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Date: Sat, 12 Feb 1994 23:17:32 -0500 (EST)
From: Jim Walker <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] OtherMenu 1.3 to 1.3.1 update

This package includes an updater to convert OtherMenu 1.3 to 1.3.1, plus 5
modified externals.

 -- Jim Walker

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/other-menu-13-to-131-updt.hqx; 70K]

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 08:33:50 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Nick Schmitt)
Subject: [*] SimpleName

A number of people on ISCA were asking for some simple quicktime clips.
Here is a REALLY simple rendering that didn't get used in a project.

Nick

[Archived as /info-mac/grf/qt/simple-name.hqx; 428K]

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 09:21:01 +1100
From: The Gronk <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] sound-machine-202.hqx

This is SoundMachine 2.0.2 and replaces SoundMachine 1.0 in the sound
utilities area.

It plays ulaw or mu-law files primarily with a lot of controls and in
the background if desired.  See readme for further information.

[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/util/sound-machine-202.hqx; 77K]

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Date: Sat, 12 Feb 1994 23:59:42 +1100 (EST)
From: Victor Tan <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] SpeedyFinder7 1.5.9b

Dear Moderators,

SpeedyFinder7 is a system software enhancement control panel
for the Macintosh Operating System. It requires at least System
7.0 and will function under System 7.0.1, System 7.1 and now with
version 1.5.9 System 7 Pro. This is version 1.5.9b.

It is fully PowerTalk compatible and with registered versions will
copy mail enclosures in the background.

This binary has been compressed with Aladdin's StuffIt product. You
will a StuffIt version 3.0 product to decompress it.

This version may be freely placed on bulletin board services for
download or CD-ROM for distribution. Please make a note that it is
shareware and requires registration.

Remember, SpeedyFinder7 is shareware. See the enclosed documents for
more details. Support shareware and register.

Victor.

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/speedy-finder7-159b.hqx; 216K]

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Date: 15 Feb 1994 05:14:41 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Joaquim Jorge)
Subject: [A] LZW decompression from Unix->Mac

   Does one of you unix guru types have a magic app that will decompress data
   that has been subjected to Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) encoding via the Unix
   program "compress"?

Try sumex-aim.stanford.edu:/info-mac/util/maccompress-32.hqx

--
Joaquim Jorge
======================================================================
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute  | E-mail: [e-mail]
C.S. Department                   | Phone:  [phone]
RPI,Troy, NY 12180                | Home:   [phone]
======================================================================

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 94 07:21:51 EST
From: "George Boccanfuso" <[e-mail]>
Subject: About this MacIntosh... RAM allocation

The weirdest thing happened to me I got a message that there wasn't enough
memory to copy a 69K file. I looked under the apple at the 'About This Mac...
and found that the Total memory was right (10,240K) but the amount available
was 22,005
was 22,005 and that the System was using -12,122K (that's right negative)
I have At ease and a host of other extensions (a dozen) or so.
I did a restart and everthing seems O.K.
Does anyone have any suggestions or ideads where I should beginning
trouble shooting.

Thanks
George Boccanfuso

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 94 14:31:01 EST
From: Tom Marx <[e-mail]>
Subject: Academic DataManager demo

I recently uploaded a demo of our program, Academic DataManager, v2.0.
It has come to my attention that I should have included a description
of this demo so folks would know if they were interested in downloading
it. I am sorry. ADM is a bibliography manager for the Mac. It tracks
all your references and notes and formats them in four styles: APA, MLA,
Turabian, and Name & Year. It does footnotes and bibliographies and imports
and exports data. It can perform boolean and/or/not searches, has
a keywords field, and is generally very helpful for anyone in academia or
who needs to track books, articles, etc. This demo is fully operational
except you can only use it a few times and there is a limit on the number
of references you can track. You can e-mail me for further info:
[e-mail] or call 800-296-6279. Thanks.
-Tom Marx
KalMarx Software

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 10:37:28 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Juan M. Courcoul)
Subject: AppleTalk a'la serial cable (was: LaserWriter Select 360 on serial)

On Sat, 29 Jan 1994 17:55:09 -0800, Gabriel M. Schuyler wrote:

>No need to change "network" software for "serial" software.  Connect the
>computer to the printer with the din-8 cable and turn on appletalk.  It may
>not look like a network, but you've got a two device network there, and it
>works just like a serial printer that way.

I usually carry a printer din-8 cable in my PB's carrying case. That way, when
I'm helping out some user with a crashed HD, I only need to get some sort of
system with Appleshare up, so I can remote mount the PB's HD and get ahold of
the necessary resuscitation tools.

JMC

P.S. Nope, I have not shelled out the 50 bucks my dealer wants for the HDI-30
     SCSI adapter cable that tricks the PB into thinking it's only a HD.

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Date: 14 Feb 1994 10:44:19 +0000
From: [e-mail] (Alan Hewat, ILL Grenoble)
Subject: AppleTalk over Ethernet (Long Distance) (A)

A.D'[e-mail] (Antony D'Emanuele) writes in Info-Mac 10 Feb:

>Is it possible to log into a remote Mac (e.g. another country) over the
>ethernet and use Appletalk ie. I would like to be able to mount a remote
>disk as you can using ARA but over the network rather than a telephone
>line. I don't know if it is possible but it would be neat if it could be
>done. I imagine that if it is possible using a telephone line it should be
>possible over the ethernet.

You can put Peter Lewis' excellent $5 FTPd daemon on the Mac and then
use one of the Mac FTP clients such as that which comes with Versaterm
or the shareware Fetch to get and put files. (FTPd and Fetch are on sumex).
That may be sufficient for most purposes.

You can use Timbuktu (Pro) to control the remote Mac over ethernet OR
over a telephone line.

Alan Hewat, ILL Grenoble, FRANCE ([e-mail]) Fax (France=33).76.48.39.06

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Date: 14 Feb 94 03:07:00 EST
From: "tom moore" <[e-mail]>
Subject: ARA for LineLink?

I've had a little trouble tracking down an ARA script for our pal the
LineLink 14.4e. (I was passed a PC-version LineLink without any Mac docs
or diskies.) Could someone point me in the right direction? Thanks.

Tom Moore
Systems Editor/Computer Journalism
Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 94 18:35:06 EST
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: BackSplash 1.0.3 Problem (Solved!)

I got no responses to my query about BackSplash 1.0.3 being naughty (I've
been sharing 1.0.2 with several dozen of my close personal friends over
the past week or so), so I dropped the author a note. His response came
promptly and is attached. Mike is quite right. The "sysz" resource in
the 1.0.3 version was set at 0005584E, compared with 0001128E in the
1.0.2 incarnation. A quick mental hex-dec conversion says BIG NUMBER. But
it came with the virgin 1.0.3 direct from ZMac. It had not been messed
with.

With a bit of ResEdit magic, I pasted the 1.0.2 sysz resource into 1.0.3
and no problem, mon.

The problem with the virgin 1.0.3 showed up only on my office IIcx, with
MODE32 necessary to see/use its 24meg. Didn't happen on my home 24M IIci.

I suggested that Mike change the 1.0.3 on ZMac to drop its sysz.

Hope this information helps someone.

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech



========================================================================
"Got a message saying that BackSplash didn't have enough memory and
inviting me to reboot with extensions off so I could kill the sucker."

Well, that message isn't one of BackSplash's. Between versions 1.0.2 and 1.0.3
of BackSplash, the changes relate mainly to adding alias resolution and
randomly choosing from more than the 1st ten pict's in the BackSplash PICTs
folder.

It sounds like to me that the memory size request stored in the 'sysz' resource
(much like the memory size mechanism used for regular applications) somehow got
way too large. BackSplash adjusts this size itself when during installation, it
does not have enough memory to load the picture. It increases the size by a
guestimate (sometimes it can't really tell how much more is needed) and gives
you a message telling why it didn't install a picture and how much more memory
it thinks it needs. Sometimes this process _can_ get out of whack because the
System heap just can't be made big enough for a particular picture. If the
'sysz' value gets too big, you can "reset" it by either reloading the original
release version of BackSplash from the .sit file, or, using ResEdit or
Resorcerer to set the size in the 'sysz' resource back down to something low
like 100K or so. The 'sysz' resource is a 4-byte hex value so to set it to
100K, you'd make it look like 00019000.

One of these days, I'll replace that whole mechanism with a better one, but
there is nothing intrinsically wrong or different with it between 1.0.2 and
1.0.3.

Mike T.
========================================================================

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Date: 13 Feb 1994 23:00:05 -0500 (CDT)
From: Dwight Lemke at Wisconsin Oshkosh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Calculator DA replacements

Date sent:  13-FEB-1994 22:55:45

Can someone recommend a replacement for the Calculator DA?  I am not
looking for something that will do everything but walk the dog.  (No HP
clones--I already have a real one).  I just want some additions to the
four-function calculator.  Square roots, maybe a log or two. Perhaps a
memory function.  Nothing fancy--just like the ones they give away now that
cost me $150 20 years ago!

Thanks!

-Dwight

|>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>| Dwight <[e-mail]>
|<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<| University of Wisconsin Oshkosh

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 11:30:14 +0200
From: [e-mail] (David L. Hirschberg)
Subject: cc:mail (q)

Does anyone know if the makers of cc:mail have an internet address?  It
seem like they would.

I need to exchange docs between someone using cc:mail and me using Eudora
and would like to get some info from someone using cc:mail

Thanks, David
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 10:37:18 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Juan M. Courcoul)
Subject: CD's with Apple CD Drive

>Conclusion (from my info): Apple no longer includes the CD bundle with drives
>(or computers with drives). This is a very bad change for Apple (but I don't
>know the real dollar effect). You might be able to still get the bundle by
>buying from someone that has stock left over from around Oct/Nov 93.

Correct. We (the computer center) bought two vx with internal CD drives during
their brief period of existence (yeah, don't laugh...), and they came with the
five-pack bundle, but when we bought two 660
v with CDs late last year, they didn't include even a single CD.

In other words, the international market gets screwed too. We really get even
more screwed, given that we have less legal alternatives and thus less
leverage, but that's another story....

JMC

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 23:16:40 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Kee Nethery [phone])
Subject: Email for Working Software (Spellswell)(a)

>Does anyone have the correct Email for Working Software, the makers of
>Spellswell?
>
>THe address I have is: [e-mail].  Compuserve bounces
>saying that there is no one by that address there.

The address I last saw for them was:
[e-mail]
But they never replied to my e-mail so maybe this too is not longer valid.

Kee Nethery

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 13:10:23 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Juan M. Courcoul)
Subject: Eudora Macro for Info-Mac posting

Using Easy View to read the Digest and Eudora to reply selected articles, side
by side, is great, but I was wondering if someone had ever automated the
process.

My idea is a macro for Eudora, if such a thing is possible, that takes the
entire text of an article in the clipboard (placed there by doing a Select All
and a Copy in Easy View), extracts the subject from the header, inserts a "On
<date>, <name> wrote:" line at the beginning, taking the name and date from the
header, then inserts the entire article body, prepended with >, and places the
cursor right after.

Is there such a beast out there ? If not, is this doable ?

Thanks,

Juan

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 94 14:51:45 GMT
From: "G.C.Q.Birch" <[e-mail]>
Subject: fetch (and serial port) speed

In
> Info-Mac Digest             Sun, 13 Feb 94       Volume 12 : Issue 24

[e-mail] (Charlie Mingo) writes

> Most workstations and routers cannot run serial
> ports at over 38400 (sometimes much less).

In that case, won't such devices be very inefficient when communication
over ISDN at 64kbps becomes common?  And there seems no chance in using
the full available bandwidth of a basic rate (2B+D) connection.

--
Greg Birch
Computing Services, Southampton University, U.K.

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 94 16:30:55 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Michael Sullivan)
Subject: FTP Problems

I last reported a problem FTPing through an FTP server and assembling the
response mail pieces in their proper order for decoding. I had used Eudora
to save the entire mail response (in order) and could not decode the file
(Stuff-it threw up). Well, after getting a helpful hint from a fellow
netter(??) I decided to get anal about the whole process and rechecked all
of my steps along the way. Sure 'nuf, I had "guess paragraphs" checked on
the Eudora "Save as..." option. I turned that baby off, resaved the file
and it decoded nicely. Obviously, with "guess paragraphs" enabled, Eudora
had no choice but to make guesses, all wrong as far as "Stuff-it" was
concerned. All I got to say is, watch those options!

Mike Sullivan - 609-338-4098 @ Martin-Marietta Comms Systems - Camden NJ

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Date: Sun, 13 Feb 94 13:32:03 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Grammar checker

Does anyone know where I can get the shareware grammar checker Critic?

Adriane Moser                                     [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 94 09:00:44 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: HTML convertor

In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
> I'm trying to find a program that will convert, for example, from MS Word
> to HTML friendly format.  It should convert different sizes to the various
> headline formats of HTML.  Does this program exist?

Look in ftp.tidbits.com in /pub/tidbits/tisk/mactcp/www/

for a set of all the convertors that I know about. I don't know if
one will do exactly what you want.

cheers ... -Adam

--
Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor -- [e-mail] -- [e-mail]
Author of The Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh -- [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 10:37:21 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Juan M. Courcoul)
Subject: Hypertext History

On Fri, 28 Jan 94 18:34:00 CST, Harmon_Dow wrote:

>I have a vague recollection of reading that the notion of a hypertext
>type of computer environment was described as long ago as the 1940s.
>But maybe that was something else....

Wasn't the hypertext concept also from Xerox's PARC, together with all the
other goodies that helped lay the groundwork for the Mac look-and-feel ?

JMC

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 06:36:30 -0600 (CST)
From: "Larry Rymal:T.E.M.U.G.-EAST_TEXAS-" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info-Mac CD-ROM Profits (C)

Cliff Miller <[e-mail]> wrote:

> I bet I've opened a can of worms here that I'm going to pay for
> shortly.  We'd like to think that we're providing a service, but if a
> lot of people feel strongly that we're taking advantage of the authors
> and the sumex-aim site, then we'll seriously consider not doing it in
> the future.

Cliff,

    You guys ARE providing a service and I'll bet more than one of us are
showing off our spankin' brand new InfoMac CD Disk III to several hundred
folks during the workshops that are occuring throughout the country. I'd
think the poster who made the comment hasn't priced CD ROM games, either.
I'd certainly hate to see your valuable service cancelled due to the sour
grapes of one user who doesn't comprehend the labor of love associated
with the archival and organization of files.
    My only 'complaint' is the lacking of sounds.  sniff...  Durn, I
wish we had more variety of sounds on the disk.  But, honest...!  That's
my only negativism toward the disk.  It is a great disk and I like the
fact that one can use either the direct route of going immediately into
the directories or use the marvelous interface.

--Larry Rymal <[e-mail]>

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 10:37:25 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Juan M. Courcoul)
Subject: info-mac CD-ROM profits?

On 28 Jan 94 23:35:16 EST, Ric Ford wrote:
...
>- I thought the cost of producing CD-ROMs was well under $10 a copy.

You also have to take into account the cost of producing the pressing master.
In commercial music CD's this isn't a significant factor, cause it gets spread
out over the several thousand copies made and sold. However, in a much smaller
market, such as the one for the Info-Mac CD, the number of copies sold will  be
much fewer, and this will necessarily raise the individual cost.

>- I thought the Internet, and the info-mac digest, were kept free from
>commercial advertising.

Speaking of the Internet, up to last year, yes. However (and I'm sure the net
gurus will set me right if I am significantly off the mark), as of Jan 1 1994,
the U.S. federal government is no longer paying for the operation of the
Internet (via the National Science Foundation), so it's a whole new ball game.
Our super-duper moderators can tell us what the story is for Info-Mac.

JMC

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 23:57:14 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Kee Nethery [phone])
Subject: Info-Mac CD Profits (C)

[Mild Flame On]

am happy to pay the people that create the Info-Mac CD-ROM the $50 for
their efforts to compile info-mac archives into one CD-ROM.

If someone thinks they could do it and charge less, I say go for it or stop
complaining.

Let's look at the numbers.

You have to press enough CD-ROMs to be able to give one to every author.
Lets use $1.50 per CD-ROM for manufacturing plus shipping ($2.50) and a
rough count of 1502 individual items on the CD-ROM brings your initial cost
to $7510 before you even produce the CD-ROM. Then of course you need to pay
people to do all the permission checking and copying (say 15 minutes for
each item and low wages $4.00 * 15/60 * 1502 = $1502). And 5 minutes per
order that needs to be shipped ($4 * 5/60 * 1502 = $500). Oh yes, you need
to have several very large hard drives ($3000) and a communications budget
that is at a minimum $0.50 per author to obtain their permissions ($751).
You'll need a color Mac for the single employee ($2500). My rough
calculation brings the startup cost to $15763.

[I forgot the NetCom charges for downloading all the files. I forgot office
space or even rent for a room.]

Now at $10 income per CD-ROM minus the $2.50 you pay for shipping and the
$1.50 for production and the 5 minutes processing per order $0.33, you are
left with around $4.67 "profit" from each CD-ROM you sell.

Based upon these quick estimates, after you sell your 3376th CD-ROM at $10,
you will break even. Hey if you feeling lucky, go for it and compete with
them.

By my estimates, if he takes no salary and doesn't have to eat or pay
insurance or pay for gasoline for his car, doesn't need to pay an
electricity bill or rent, he breaks even after selling 353 copies of the
CD-ROM. I sincerely hope he sells that many, it's a gamble I would not want
to take. If someone else thinks that they can do the job for less than $50
per CD-ROM, and do it legally, I say go for it! But, unless you are willing
to go through the same effort, and put down significant cash with no
promise you'll get it back, don't begrudge these folks the money they
charge.

[Flame Off]

Kee Nethery

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Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 12:44:27 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Monty Hampton)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V12 #16

>I don't know whether you can use DOS mounter or any of the other
>DOS-format disk readers to get HDFD files into your Mac286, but
>why don't you bypass the drive problem altogether and just use
>your old 360K 5.25" drive.  I know you said that the INSTALL.EXE
>file is too big to fit on a single low density disk, but there
>is a DOS shareware app called "CROSS.EXE" that will split any
>file into small chunks over as many disks as you need.  Just
>copy these into your C: drive, unCROSS them back into a single
>file and install into Mac286.


Colin,

Thanks much! I'll try to track it down. I've got plenty of old 5.25 disks
around, so this is a viable option. Sorry it took so long to get back to
you. I am that far behind on my InfoMacs! Thanks again!

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 15:03:41 -0600 (MDT)
From: MACINTOSH NETWORK ADMINISTRATOR <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V12 #24

Does anyone have the file POOR MAN'S POWERBOOK?  I may have overlooked it,
and it might be up, but the only place I know where it is on ZIF-NET
in the Computer Shoppern area.  If someone can get it, it does look cool!

Da\/e-

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Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 12:44:08 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Monty Hampton)
Subject: INFORMED ANYONE (S)

Sorry for the delay in this posting. Many thanks to everyone who responded
to my inquiry regarding Shana's Informed. I was specifically inquiring
about the ability to use the data in a variety of forms (data-basing).

I.SaywardK@Vitro Corp responds:

I have used Shana's Informed package for a while now, and I think it
is definitely worth you taking a look.  You can get a set of 'Database
Externals' with it, which integrates the forms with 4D or FileMaker Pro.
This should provide what you are looking for.  Also, integration with
Apple's AOCE (digital signatures), and various e-mail programs make this
a pretty complete forms solution.


[e-mail] contributes:

My initial response to your question is that you couldn't use multiple forms
with the same data. But I've been thinking that Informed Manager lets you
export data in its own format. I think you might be able to export the data
>From one form and then import data into the summary form.

I think that a better bet is to export the data and use a database manager
for the summaries -- speed and flexibility will be much improved.

[e-mail] adds:

Shana bought the True Forms technology and has incorporated it and a
translator for existing True Form forms in it. Like True Forms, you could not
have multiple layouts for one forms database. However, you can both export and
import data, and you can write scripts to automate the update of a database
that could give you that reporting capability.

[e-mail] says:

One nice feature that might be useful for you is it's ability to query a
database and pull information off the database for use in the form.

The internal script language does a good job of creating interactive forms
and the ability to use DigiSign on various fields in the form allows you to
let people sign a form electronically and know with absolute certainty that
they and only they signed the form. NASA Ames demonstrated their electronic
purchase requisition a couple weeks ago. They have a hellishly complex
purchase req and the electronic version goes through the system in hours
now instead of weeks and with fewer mistakes since choices are checked
electronically.


Again, thanks to all of you. I hope the information in this summary is
useful to others.

 -------------------------------------------------
|E.M. Hampton, Pharm.D.                           |
|Director, Pharmacokinetic Dosing & Research Unit |
|VAMC, OKC   ..........and............            |
|Clinical Associate Professor                     |
|University of Oklahoma College of Pharmacy       |
|[phone]                                   |
|[e-mail]                         |
 -------------------------------------------------

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 94 08:45:39 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Michael Sullivan)
Subject: interslip

I'm sure Intercon can describe their product well, but here goes: Interslip
is a system extension that allows the Mac to access a slip (serial line
interface protocol) connection to a unix or slip host. It works with MacTCP
(which it must have) to provide a genuine tcp/ip connection to the remote
host. You use the Interslip setup program to setup the system extension
with baud rates, phone numbers, slip connection types, etc. I have used it
and it works quite well. However, in order to use it you must have MacTCP,
an internet address, a modem, and some tcp/ip access software such as ncsa
telnet or other. First you install the interslip system extension, reboot,
configure MacTCP with the correct ip addressing info and select slip in the
MacTCP control panel, reboot, then you then configure interslip with phone
number info, and you are ready to call a slip line from interslip setup.
After connection is established you then use a telnet or ftp (or whatever)
program to reach the distant host through the phone connection. Neat huh???

Mike Sullivan - 609-338-4098 @ Martin-Marietta Comms Systems - Camden NJ

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 94 09:06:56 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: InterSLIP

In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
> Alright, so I feel a little dumb about asking this question, but....
> I just downloaded InterSLIP and read through the documentation and set it
> up, but I don't know what it's for.  Can anybody spell out what it does?

cheers ... -Adam


  MacTCP is a translator. It enables the Macintosh to speak the
  language of the Internet, TCP (Transmission Control Protocol),
  just as Macs normally speak AppleTalk to one another. You must
  have the MacTCP control panel installed and configured properly
  for the MacTCP-based programs like Fetch and TurboGopher to work,
  although keep in mind that MacTCP is not making the connection
  itself. Think of MacTCP as the Babel Fish from the Hitchhiker's
  Guide to the Galaxy. Pop it in your Mac's ear, and your Mac
  understands the Internet noise that's flowing in and out.

  SLIP and PPP provide the connection for that Internet noise for
  those of us who connect via a modem. If you have a network, either
  Ethernet or LocalTalk, connected to the Internet, you don't need
  SLIP or PPP. The easiest way to think of SLIP and PPP is to assume
  that you don't have water service to your house. Every time you
  want to take a shower, you must run a garden hose out to the water
  hookup outside, take your shower, and then bring the hose back in.
  That's exactly what SLIP and PPP do - they establish a temporary,
  low-speed connection to the Internet. You must create that
  connection before you can run programs like Fetch and TurboGopher
  that assume the connection exists. Although some implementations
  of SLIP and PPP allow you to launch a MacTCP-based program without
  connecting first (SLIP or PPP see what's up and then establish the
  connection), I've found that these auto connect features tend to
  be flaky. If you can use an auto connect feature, great, but if it
  doesn't work reliably, always connect manually first.

  SLIP and PPP are more or less functionally identical - they do the
  same thing. However, SLIP and PPP accounts are not the same, so
  you cannot use a SLIP program with a PPP account and vice versa.
  When I wrote my book, I felt that InterSLIP was the best of the
  free implementations, but now I think that MacPPP 2.0.1 has the
  edge because it supports loopback addressing, which enables Peter
  Lewis's Talk to work on a Server addressed account (which isn't
  true of InterSLIP). There are two other commercial SLIP programs,
  VersaTerm SLIP and MacSLIP, and a commercial PPP program called
  InterPPP should be out soon. I'll mostly concentrate on InterSLIP
  and MacPPP but keep in mind that the commercial implementations
  have solved some problems that I've been unable to fix using the
  free implementations and generally are more full-featured. You
  get what you pay for.

  You can use either SLIP or PPP, but not both at the same time - I
  merely include information on both below because InterSLIP and
  MacPPP are both free and valid ways of connecting to the Internet
  via modem. I know more about InterSLIP so those sections will be
  more detailed.

  So your SLIP or PPP program dials the modem to create a connection
  to the Internet, and MacTCP translates all the Internet traffic
  appropriately for programs like Fetch and TurboGopher.

--
Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor -- [e-mail] -- [e-mail]
Author of The Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh -- [e-mail]

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

Date: Sun, 13 Feb 94 08:58:56 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Karl Thomas)
Subject: LC speeds

[e-mail] writes:

>I'm just curious--about how many times as fast as the LC II are the '040
LC's?

>TIA.                                    -- Jay
Here's what the speedometer results show

        Mac LCII        Mac LC475    Mac LCII w/AE 4340 ('030-40Mhz)

CPU              4.03            16.17              11.02
Graphics         4.50            18.94               9.82
Disk             1.54             1.95               2.54
Math             5.78            31.64              14.812
New PR           3.23             6.84               6.394

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

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 16:34:22 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Ron Richter)
Subject: Location of Thread Manager at ftp.apple.com

Here is the Mosaic location for thread manager.

ftp://ftp.apple.com/dts/mac/hacks/thread-manager-exten-1-2.hqx

or

ftp to ftp.apple.com in /dts/mac/hacks/thread-manager-exten-1-2.hqx

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

Date: 12 Feb 94 12:56:51 EDT
From: Tracy Cummings <[e-mail]>
Subject: Looking for a Mac file

Hello,
I am looking for a program that will remove all Microsoft Word temp
files from a hard disk at start up??

Can you help?

Tracy Cummings
tscummin@cs_acad_lan.lakeheadu.ca

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

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 15:35:33 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Looking for an audio clip...

Does anyone have a System7 sound file (or even a .au file) of that
annoying ping sound that cars make these days when you have the key in
the ignition and the door open?  Owners of Sables, and most comapact
cars will know what I'm talking about.

thanks much!
  _DHMS

 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
David HM Spector                                        [e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 14 FEB 94 11:31:15 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: LZW decompression from Unix->Mac [A]

Larry Innes asks:

>Does one of you unix guru types have a magic app that will
>decompress data that has been subjected to Lempel-Ziv-Welch
>(LZW) encoding via the Unix program "compress"?

I'm not a UNIX guru, but I've run into similar problems.  Try
MacCompress 3.2, available at:

ftp://sumex-aim.stanford.edu/info-mac/util/maccompress-32.hqx

or at various mirror sites.  If that doesn't work, you might try
MacGZip, which you can get from:

ftp://plaza.aarnet.edu.au/micros/mac/umich/util/compression/macgzip0.2.cpt.
hqx

and also from (presumably, though it didn't show up on my archie search):

ftp://mac.archive.umich.edu/util/compression/macgzip0.2.cpt.hqx

Hope this helps.

Bill Cameron
[e-mail]
[e-mail]


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

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 08:45 +0000 (GMT)
From: Fabio Viviani <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mac & VGA Monitor.

Hi,
Could someone give me the connections necessary to build
a cable in order to use a VGA or SVGA monitor with a Mac?
Thanks in advance.
Fabio Viviani - CSELT - Turin, Italy
([e-mail])

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

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 94 16:49:22 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Steve Taylor)
Subject: Mac Plus "Killy Clips" (Summary)

Hi,

Many thanks to those people who suggested possible sources of the Mac Plus
"Killy clip", that had held a Nutmeg Systems macplus video board of ours to
the mac's own 68000 processor; the clip had disintingrated and I needed a
replacement in order to use the video board again.

Sources suggested:

Soft Solutions - recommended as approachable and good firm to deal with;
had recommended to one respondent that a solder-on clip that they supply
(at $5) was electrically superior to the push-fit Killy clips.
907 River Road, Suite #98
Eugene, Oregon 97404
Phone [phone]
FAX   [phone]

Focus Enhancements (California) - don't necessarily manufacture the clip
but do use one with some of their peripherals;
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Tech Support (toll free, maybe): 800-647-7744

....I'll give these a shot.
An Apple service engineer I spoke to here mentioned that some sort of
special tool is required to properly remove and reinstall these clips to
their correct tightness - otherwise their friction contact becomes (more?)
unreliable.

Cheers all,
Steve

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

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 10:08:31 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Antonio Fern\ndez Mart\nez)
Subject: MacroMaker under System 7

Hello:
    I'm a regular user of Textures and when using system 6.0.7 the
MacroMaker was an very usefull program in order to automatize some commands
of Textures (some of them truly complex) in a few keystrokes. But on system
7 the MacroMaker doesn't work fine. Are there in the network any substitute
of MacroMaker?.
Please send your answers directly to my mail address. I'll sumarize.

Thanks in advance.

Antonio Fernndez Martnez
University of Salamanca
Salamanca, Spain

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

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 13:04:17 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Juan M. Courcoul)
Subject: MDictUpdt.hqx

On Tue, 8 Feb 1994 05:32:40 -0600 (CST), Roger Stryker wrote:
...
>% Expletives have been removed as alternative suggestions
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Sigh... not ANOTHER piece of politically correct software ! Sheesh !!

JMC

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

Date: 13 Feb 94 03:04:33 EST
From: Hans Kroeger <[e-mail]>
Subject: MSWord Printing problem with Pasted Drawing

I am experiencing the following problems with Microsoft Word 5 :

If I copy and paste a drawing from Mac Draw Pro into Microsoft Word, and
then print the Word document I get the text characters with odd spacing.

Other shortcomings are that underlining of text is partly missing.
I am using standard fonts like Helvetica 10....

Any idea how to resolve this problem ....?

Your help is highly appreciated !

Hans

[e-mail]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

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

Date: Sun, 13 Feb 94 16:35:52 EST
From: Gilbert April <[e-mail]>
Subject: NEC CD-ROM incompatibilities(Q)

I have a problem mounting a new CD on my NEC CDR-25 drive. The probematic CD
is "BBS-in-a-BOX vol X". I got the newest software from the NEC BBS but this
had no effect. It seems also that the Info-mac CD-ROM vol 3 has the same
problem. The disk is OK because it can be mounted on a Apple CD 300 for
example, but there seems to be an incompatibility with some NEC drives models.
Does anyone experienced the same problem and found a fix?

[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 12:32:25 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Povl H. Pedersen)
Subject: NEC Problems

NEC drives are NOT 100% Mac compatible.
As an examples, you can NOT install A/UX (Apple UNIX) from a NEC drive. All
other brands works.

To have the NEC drive working, you need some NEC drivers that will handle
the non-standard NEC drive behaviour.

BTW: I think that the $50 for the CD_ROM is NOT unreasonable. Just look
what the other CD-ROMs with shareware collections costs. Cutting the price
$10 would be nice, but I understand they run at higher prices at least
until a break-even is reached.

DISCLAIMER: I do not know if the NEC problem is fixed in their new 3X speed
drives.

---
Povl H. Pedersen  -  Macintosh Consultant and Programmer
System Administrator at the Aarhus Engineering School
[e-mail] (preferred)  /  [e-mail]

"Macintosh...for those who can see through Windows!"

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

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 94 2:01:57 EST
From: J. Warner Soditus <[e-mail]>
Subject: networking with Stylewriter II (Q)

I would really appreciate any creative ideas here.

I have two macs, a IIci and a duo.
I have a faxmodem on the modem port of the IIci to receive fax/voice
mail.

I have a phonet net connector for the IIci, the duo, and the
Stylewriter II.
but, I can't get it to share the printer through the appletalk network.
also, it won't print through the phonenet even if I turn the appletalk
off.

Is there any creative arrangement so that I don't have to unplug the
phonnet and plug in a printer cable each time I want to print?

I'd appreciate any suggestions...
Thanks!
Warner
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 94 17:33:03 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: New PowerBooks

Alberto Cambrosio <[e-mail]> asks:

> . . . . Does anyone know whether there will also be a new PowerPC chip, and,
> if so, when will they be put on the market?

The PowerPooks will be based on the PowerPC 603, which is currently
undergoing tests and is expected to be generally available later this year.
Accorng to the current crop of rumours, the first of the PowerPC notebooks
will become available this fall. The crop of 6804erPowerBooks are all but ready
 and are being shown under controlled circumstances. I suspect the will be
shipping at about the same time as the PowerPC desktops (March 14?).

Cheers.

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

Date: Monday, 14 Feb 1994 06:32:42 EST
From: [e-mail] (Scott Dunham)
Subject: New Quadra With Hiccups (Q)

I recently got a Quadra 800 which was allegedly configured by the dealer.  On
power-up, it gives the ever-popular "This startup disk won't work with this
Mac - you need something newer than system 7.1" message.  Subsequent restarts
work fine using either the menu or the restart button on the box...this ONLY
happens on powerup.  The 040 enabler file is in the system folder.  So far,
I've tried trashing and deleting the system folder, and completely
reinstalling 7.1; booting off the System Tools disk (works fine); and moving
the system folder to my external HD, which I then set as the startup disk.
That caused it to bomb both on powerup and all subsequent restarts, sending me
back to the system tools disk to get the machine to run at all.  I even tried
replacing the system folder on the internal hard drive with the System Tools
system folder, on the theory that it works OK on the floppy so should work on
the HD as well.  Still bombed on powerup.  I'm confused.  Any ideas?

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
*  Scott Dunham (Internet: [e-mail])   *
*  MITRE / LONDON   011-44-81-745-3613          *
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

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

Date: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 00:06:19 +0100 (MET)
From: Mark Dols <[e-mail]>
Subject: No more problems with LineLink 144e modem

Mea Culpa...

The problems with my LineLink modem were caused by the power supply. I used an
AC/DC adaptor (300 mA), but an AC/AC adaptor (1 A) is required. Now the
modem works excellent.

Thanks to Ron Richter, Joseph A. Counsil, Michael Sullivan and Brian
Veenker for their help.

BTW If someone at Macwarehouse is reading this: the LineLink modem which I
returned is most probably not faulty. Mayby it's possible to ship a 220V
adaptor to european buyers.

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

Date: 14 Feb 94 17:15:00 EST
From: "Troen, Bruce" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Online Dictionary (A)

There are several options using Mosaic.  These include both Webster's and the
American Heritage dictionaries.  Roget's thesaurus is also available.

Point Mosaic at:        http://nmt.edu/~mfisk/inet.html


Bruce Troen

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

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 16:50:39 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Andy Moiseff)
Subject: Postscript Error (Q)

I have been trying to print from a NeXT to my Apple LaserWriter NTX via
it's appletalk interface.  I keep getting the error:   "PAP open error 15".
 Can anyone provide insight into the meaning of this error?

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

Date: Tue, 15 Feb 94 15:46 +1000
From: Jason Trump - Computing Services <[e-mail]>
Subject: Postscript Previewer Wanted

Has anyone come across a Postscript previewer for the Mac?

I would greatly appreciate any information (name of application,
possible FTP sites etc).  Of course PD/Shareware would be preferable!

Thanks in anticipation.

Jason Trump
Queensland University of Technology - Computing Services

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

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 20:46:26 +0000
From: A.D'[e-mail] (Antony D'Emanuele)
Subject: PowerBook Screen - Problems with Black & White Reversal(Q)

I have a PB180 which I usually put to sleep rather than shutdown. Sometimes
when I wake the computer up the screen reverses the pixel shades ie. black
becomes white and vice versa. Sometimes I can cure the problem by going to
the Monitors control panel and switching to a different screen resolution
and then back again. Sometimes however I have to restart. Has anyone had a
similar problem and if so how do I cure it.

Regards, Tony D'Emanuele, University of Manchester.

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

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 94 18:30:17 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Power User SyQuest Drives ?

Greetings All,

Does anyone have any experience with the Power User 3.5" SyQuest drives
advertised in the latest MacWarehouse catalog ? There are two capacities
advertised: 105Mb and 270Mb. The prices for the 105 are pretty tempting.
I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who's using one of these as to
reliability, speed, etc.

Any info would be appreciated.

TIA,
Rich   ([e-mail])

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

Date: 14 Feb 1994 17:09:57 -0700
From: "John.Reed Maffeo" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Printing a PostScript File ??

I would like to know how to print out a postscript file that I get
>From a foreign operating system (VM-CMS) on my departmental laserprinter.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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

Date: Sun, 13 Feb 94 13:11:17 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Jean-Francois Sygnet)
Subject: Problem with Mac LC and text-editors [Q]

Hi

HELP!! a friend of mine have a strange problem with his LC.

The setup is as follow: Vanilla Macintosh LC
Hard Disk reformatted with "Apple HD SC Setup 7.2.2"
Vanilla System 7.1 [French] installed
Hardward System Update 2.0.1 installed afterward

Using TeachText (or Edit II for example), maintaining down
the CarriageReturn key: after a while a bip-bip-bip sound is heard
(every 30 sec or so if you keep on pressing the key)
After 2 or 3 of theses sound (corresponding to about 200 white lines
created) THE KEYBOARD IS LOCKED !!
Reboot solve the problem, that can be reproduced at will.

One last comment: I'm unable to reproduce this on my IIcx.

If you have any idea of what's going on, please help me
and write directly to me: [e-mail] and I'll sumarize for the net
if needed.

Thanks in advance

Jean-Francois Sygnet
Institut d'Astrophysique
98 bis Bvd Arago, 75014 Paris, France
Tel   : [phone]
Fax   : [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]


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

Date: Sun, 13 Feb 94 10:37:39 EST
From: Allan Hunter <[e-mail]>
Subject: Puny disk capacity, etc....

On my SE, now accelerated to 40 MHz 68030 and with 16 MB RAM, I just
booted from [drum roll, please] a 400K disk that included Macintosh
system 3 and a game program from that era; ran the game for awhile
(ran fine; kicked my butt.  Anyone know how to play "The Uninvited"?)
and then quit to finder, moved things around on the desktop, and was
generally satisfied with my Mac's ability to load and run from ancient
op systems.

I'm curious to know if macs that have been accelerated to run with a
68040 CPU (when previously they didn't) are still backward-compatible
with older op systems:  say, for instance, is someone out there has a
Mac II with '040 accelerator, can you still run system 4?

The point being, unless there's something about the chip architecture
of the '040, there's no excuse for recent machines' lack of backward
compatibility--especially the inability of some recent Macs to run
system 6!  The idea that a modern Mac cannot boot from the largest
conventional-sized floppy that it supports is rather ridiculous.  BTW,
I remember that there was once a Mac that contained an emergency op
system on the ROMS--if you used a certain key combination, it would
boot up from that system.  Good idea--why can't Apple stick a copy of
7.1 on the ROMS if they can't make a Quadra run system 6 or shoehorn
their bloated OS onto a 1.44 disk?


-Allan Hunter
<ahunter@sbccvm>
<[e-mail]>

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

Date: Mon, 14 FEB 94 11:38:9 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: questionable APS behaviour [comment]

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 10:36:24 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Mark W Modrall)
Subject: questionable APS behaviour

Mark W Modrall writes in IM Digest v12-24:

>i just called APS this morning to order a SCSI boy adapter for
>my PB180; this was in response to their ad in the feb issue of
>macworld announcing in a bright red flag "NEW LOW PRICES" and
>a price of $19 for the SCSI boy... the sales person tried to
>charge me $29, and i said the printed price was $19... she went
>off to her supervisor and came back to say that it was a misprint;
>that the price was $29... i said "well, you advertised $19" and
>she said "we are not going to honor that advertisement."
>
>i find that marginal behaviour for a company; to advertise in
>bold letters a "NEW LOW PRICE" and then claim it was a misprint...
>even it if was a misprint and it should have been $29, then the
>claim of lower prices was a crock...

Hmmm....  Isn't it amazing, in this world of relative values, that when it
affects us personally, we expect companies, individuals, and even
politicians to live up to their words.  :-}


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

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 94 09:22:11 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: RAM Doubler

In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
> On a lark, I decided to try RAM Doubler again. This time, at the end of the
> extension-loading seqence, I got an error dialog that said "The System file
is
> damaged. This file can be fixed by running the Installer... blah blah blah."
I
> restarted, and told my extensions manager to turn off RAMM Doubler, and the
> system came back famously. Turned RD back on, dead system. Back off, no
> problem.

I don't want to imply that RAM Doubler isn't causing you problems,
since anything that works at such a low level is bound to have some
conflicts (and many have already been fixed - Connectix just posted
a free updater here a few days ago), but have you considered the possibility
that your System really is damaged, and that the presence of RAM Doubler
is merely the trigger necessary to display that fact to you? Frankly,
if anything told me my System was damaged, I'd tend to believe it,
since it's pretty easy to replace a damaged System, whereas it might
take more time to recover from a nasty crash if I hadn't saved my
work in a while. System files get corrupted - there's nothing shocking
in that...

cheers ... -Adam

--
Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor -- [e-mail] -- [e-mail]
Author of The Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh -- [e-mail]

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

Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 17:26:07 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Eric Burger)
Subject: RAM Doubler advice wanted (Q)

Forwarded message from Fergus Sullivan:
> I'm considering buying RAM Doubler.  Anyone have any opinions on it?
> Adam & Tonya Engst gave it a rave review in TidBITS a couple of weeks
> back, but I just thought I'd check for any negative experiences.
>
> If anyone wants to mail me direct about this I'll post a summary in a
> couple of days.

I uploaded a summary to the archives last week.  I don't remember
what name it's under, though :-(

In short: AN EXCELLENT BUY!  A NO BRAINER!
Well, there is one caveat: If you need twice the RAM for a *single*
application, you need twice the RAM.  Otherwise, if you need twice
the applications, GO FOR IT!

[ A happy aggregate owner (businsess & personal) of 3 copies,
a PB Duo (4MB phys), SE/30 (20MB phys), and Centris 610 (8MB
phys); about to buy more for a Centris 650 with 24MB phys. ]


--
--  Eric William Burger       --  [e-mail]  --
--  The Telephone Connection  --  Tel. [phone]       --

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

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 94 15:29
From: [e-mail]
Subject: RamDoubler vs FAXstf

I installed RamDoubler on my PB 145b 4/80 with great success. But on my
LC III 12/160 there seems to be a major conflict with FAXstf 3.0. The
problem is that incoming faxes hang the computer, requiring a manual
shutr down and restart. Take off RamDoubler and the faxes come in fine.
Has anyone else had this problem? I'll be very grateful for any advice.

Allan Brockway ([e-mail])

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

Date: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 08:47:32 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Johan Solve)
Subject: RAM Troubler, er... Doubler

> I first installed it on one of the machines I manage, a IIci with 8
> MB. It seemed to work fine, giving me an apparent 16 MB. The next
> morning, though, it couldn't seem to find any network out there. That
> was a little odd, because it's got an Ethernet card, and every other
> machine around it seemed to have no problem finding the network. I
> restarted the machine, and it was happy again. A few hours later, it
> began ignoring the network once more!

I just experienced exactly the same behaviour when returning to work after
the weekend. The IIvx had been on over the weekend, and today the network
was gone. LocalTalk worked fine though.
After reading your posting, I tried a restart. Suddenly the ethernet was
back were it used to be... I have never seen this before, and I have had
RAM Doubler 1.01 installed for about one week.

I haven't done any further investigations as to see if RAM Doubler was the
cause for this, but I thought my observation could be of interest.

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

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 94 08:22:50 EST
From: John Alciere <[e-mail]>
Subject: Recommended TCP/IP Applications

I recently inquired as to what folks recommend for TCP/IP applications for the
Mac. Here's a summary of the responses I received:

    MacTCP 2.0.4 (must buy - best source is Adam Engst's Book Internet
             Starter Kit for the Macintosh - (2.0.2) is on the floppy
             in the back and updaters are available on the net
             2.0.x->2.0.4)
    Eudora 1.4.1 - free email program (Commercial version available)
    NewsWatcher 2.0d17 - free
    Fetch 2.1.1 - free/shareware ftp (free to individuals...)
    Anarchie 1.1.0 - $10 shareware, easily worth 5x that price
    Mac Mosaic 1.0.3 - free ftp/news/gopher/wais/WWW interface (get the
               helper apps too - JPEGView 3.0, SoundPlayer...)
    Finger & Fingerd - $5(povertyware)
    NCSA Telnet


John Alciere <[e-mail]>
Technical Publications
Xyplex Inc., Littleton MA

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

Date: Mon, 14 FEB 94 11:24:44 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Resolving names of Gopher hosts and their IP numbers [A]

In reply to Kee Nethery, Greg Birch asks ...

>I'd like to know whether it is possible to snoop on how Gopher is
>connecting to a particular host; in other words, is it possible to
>discover the IP number or domain name of the Gopher host to which it
>is trying to connect  (or has been unsuccessful in trying).

Get Peter Lewis's MacTCP Watcher 1.1.0, available at various archive and
mirror sites.  One it's the windows will display all TCP connections as
they occur.

Bill Cameron
[e-mail]
[e-mail]


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

Date: 13 Feb 94 03:04:46 EST
From: Hans Kroeger <[e-mail]>
Subject: Running Mac and PC simultaneously ?

The new project I am working for requires me to generate various documents
using Word for Windows. These documents must be stored and maintained on a
"Microsft LAN Manager" server.

I am currently using a Quadra 700 and I do not want to give up my Mac for a
PC. I first thought I could install an Orange Micro board (with a 486
processor) in the Quadra but I was told that I should expect quite a number of
problems with such a configuration.

Now I am planning to buy a PC and run it simultaneously with the Mac. As a
consequence I will have to use two screens and two keyboards....   :-(

Questions:

1. I am sure there are quite a number of you which are working simultaneously
in both environments, Mac and PC. How did you resolve this problem?

2. Can I expect MS Word 6 for the Macintosh (once it becomes available) to
offer improved conversion features with its Word for Windows counterpart ?

3. When is MS Word 6 for the Macintosh expected to be released ?

4. Can I connect a single screen to the Mac and the PC and then switch forth
and back ?

Thanks for your reply !

Hans

[e-mail]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 94 09:15:43 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: SITcomm

I expect Leonard will step in here, but if he doesn't see this...

In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
> Initializing and resetting the modem take a very long time (maybe as much
> as a full minute).  I've selected "custom" modem in the Apple Modem tool,
> and use the init string AT&F1&K3 S95=3 W2 M3.

I'd look for an extension conflict there - it doesn't take anywhere
near that long for me, although the CTB is none too fast in this regard.

> SITcomm will not dial unless it is the front-most application - it won't
> dial in the background.

This may be a CTB limitation as well.

> You can't type in the terminal window to send commands to the modem.

That's the problem with the way the CTB works, no? I think if you
select the Serial tool, you can do this.

> You need additional software to create "macros".

True, but it's not particularly hard to come by AppleScript since
there are at least two books (the Tao of AppleScript and a handbook
by Danny Goodman) that include it for about $30. It would have been
nice if Aladdin had included AppleScript, but SITcomm is small and
cheap and wasn't meant to be a mongo app like MicroPhone. I approve
of including the ability to record macros, but not increasing the
price of the package by including everything you might want, like
Word does.

> The Apple VT102 tool does not seem to be ANSI, even though the pop-up in
> the terminal tool window says "ANSI/VT102", so bbsUs that require this
> (like Hermes) look terrible on screen (not really a SITcomm issue, I
> suppose).

Right, once again a CTB problem.

I don't want to sound as though SITcomm is flawless, but I did want
to point out that a number of the problems here could very well apply
to any CTB application, which is not Aladdin's fault, but Apple's.

cheers ... -Adam

--
Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor -- [e-mail] -- [e-mail]
Author of The Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh -- [e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 13:49:27 -0600
From: Bienvenu Jay  <[e-mail]>
Subject: strange noise

Lately my LC's been making some kind of alert sound.  It sounds kinda like

        m/ M/ M\ M\

i.e. it rises in pitch for teh first two notes, then drops in pitch for the
latter two.  The sound occurs about every half hour (not on any specific inter-
val) after my Mac's been on for some time.  I think its due to an extension; I
have far too many to list here.

Anyone out there have any clue as to what is causing this and what it
indicates?

                    -- Jay

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Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 22:38:19 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Norman Friedman)
Subject: SW II Page Set-up

Can anyone tell me if it is possible to print last page first using the
SW II?  When printing a long document, I get tired waiting and taking off each
sheet until the end. It would be easier if last page came out first which would
make the last sheet on top of the pile the first in the document. Laser print
has this option, wonder if it can be done with the StyleWriter II

Thanks to all in advance
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 10:39:55 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Glenn R. Howes)
Subject: TIFF file problem

My roommate has been trying to read some TIFF files which he downloaded
(using fetch binary mode) from the Journal of the American Chemical Society's
collection of suplementary material. I've tried the following programs
on it:
Program                                Result
================================================
Color It                                "Unsupported Compression"
TIFF Window (hypercard stack)           Big Blank File
ClarisWorks (XTND translation)          "Unsupported Compression"
Imagery                                 "Doesn't Support 1-bit TIFF"
GifConverter                            "Unsupported Compression"
XlateGraf                               "Unsupported Compression"
JPEGView 3                              "Unsupported Compression"

My roomate thinks this format has something to do with Group IV Fax
Compression.

Anyway, I'd appreciate anybody's help.

--glenn
[e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 13 Feb 94 13:17:13 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Troubles with InterSLIP

Hi to anyone who may be able to help me.

I am using a Macintosh Color Classic with system 7.1.  I have a USR Sportster
v.32bis and can not get InterSLIP to connect.

I aquired InterSLIP from Adam Engst's book "The Internet Starter Kit for
Macintosh" it is version 1.0.1.  I have followed all the instructions in his
book as to the set up of InterSLIP and MacTCP.

I have done a clean reinstall of the system software.  I reintalled InterSLIP
and MacTCP (and yes I deleted all the extranious related files), I have
eliminated any init, control panel, extension conflicts and I am still lost.

After running InterSLIP Setup and setting up the configuration, I click on
the CONNECT button, the status line says "waiting" the Terminal Ready light
shines on the modem and then nothing, InterSLIP simply reverts to "idle".

If there is anyone out there that can give me a hand I would be very
appreciative.  Thanx.

Bob Kenyon (CorporalK)

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 19:28:24 -0600
From: (Pete Chane) <[e-mail]>
Subject: Type 1s

If I get a lot of "App quit because of Type 1 errors," what is the prob?  I
have 8 megs RAM, 16 with RAMdoubler.

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 21:25:19 GMT
From: [e-mail] (David Bengtson)
Subject: Unship for Macintosh

Is there an Unshipper for the Macintosh? Ship is a fairly new replacement
for uuencode for some of the usenet newsgroups, and I've been unable to
find a working version. There is a version on Wuarchive, but it doesn't
seem to work. Any suggestions?

--
David Bengtson                               All Standard Disclaimers apply
Motorola Paging and Wireless Data Group      Sorry, no witty quote.
MS 98
1500 NW 22nd Ave
Boynton Beach, FL 33467

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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 94 00:38:52 PST
From: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH <[e-mail]>
Subject: VIDEO CARD FOR SE/30 ANYONE WITH INFO ?



    Hi,
        I've got an SE/30 and am thinking of adding a color
        monitor.
        Could anyone give me some advice as to options I have

        I have a 25" Sony Triniton color telivision which
        has an RGB input. I've heard that Raster-ops make
        a card which fits into the PDS slot (does any one
        know their e-mail address ?)


        please mail me back at [e-mail]


                            thanks
                            frank.



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Date: Sun, 13 Feb 94 21:32:23 PST
From: [e-mail] (John Thoo)
Subject: Webster's Dictionary via gopher (Q)

I connected to  gopher://vixen.cso.uiuc.edu/9/3  which got me Webster's
Dictionary.  When I selected  1.  About the Webster's Dictionary,  the
very first lines read

> About the Webster's Dictionary
>
> First, business:
>
> This service is restricted to the University of Illinois.  That includes only
> UIC campus and the UIUC campus.

Does this mean that, being at UCDavis, I'm not supposed to access the
Webster's Dictionary via gopher at vixen.cso.uiuc.edu?

Sorry if my question seems daft, but I'd appreciate some clarification.
Thanks.

--John.
J. B. THOO, Math Dept, Univ of California, Davis <[e-mail]>

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 94 15:18:20 EST
From: [e-mail] (Dave Chou)
Subject: Writing to 5.25" PC floppy?

Hello wise netters,

Question:
  Does there exist a Mac-to-PC file exchange app (Mac/PC Exchange, AccessPC,
etc.) which will work with a 5.25" floppy drive through an Apple IIe card
inside the LC (LCII, LCIII) ?

Background:
  A friend would like to start a small in-home business.  He'd prefer to stay
Mac based.  The major requirement is to be able to write PC formatted floppies,
both 3.5" and 5.25".  Writing to the 3.5" is not a problem with a SuperDrive
equipped Mac.  It's the 5.25" format that is the problem, IMO.  If my friend
cannot find a Mac solution, he's gonna buy a PeeCee  8-( .

  Applied Engineering's 5.25" Apple II drive will work on an LC with the IIe
emulation card installed.  So, I was hoping to recommend my friend to buy
an LCII or LCIII, the IIe card, the AE 5.25" drive and one Mac-to-PC file
exchange program.


Thanks for your attention,
--
Dave Chou                                                [e-mail]
       "Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors." -- African proverb

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 09:16:12 -700 (MST)
From: "Matthew D. Maddox" <[e-mail]>
Subject: ZTerm Font Confusion (A)

> I'm having a particularly queer problem with ZTerm lately.  When trying to
> install ZTerm on a Quadra 800 (System 7.1, a few standard freeware.
> extensions that all work fine on my own IIvx) for my dad, I have been
> utterly and completely unable to have the program show up using
> the correct font.  Instead of using the built-in terminal fonts,
> ZTerm uses Helvetica Bold Oblique.  Copying from my working (correctly)
> version of ZTerm, from CD-ROM, or from a compacted floppy disk all resulted
> in the same thing.

> I am using ATM 3.5.1, Adobe Type Reunion, and about 7 megs of Adobe
> PostScript Type 1 fonts.  Is there a font ID number conflict going on here?

There is a font conflict going on. We had the same problem. I seem to
recall that ZTerm has its own fonts it draws from and it has the same id
as one of the Helvetica varieties (either Postscript or Truetype, I can't
remember which). Try disabling all of your Helvetica fonts and then enable
them one-by-one to see which is the offender. Of course you have to reload
the application each time you enable another font.


Matthew D. Maddox          | [phone] (direct dial)
Writer/Video Producer      | [phone] (corporate office)
Dynix, Inc.                | [phone] (fax)
400 Dynix Drive            | [e-mail]
Provo, Utah USA 84604-5650 |

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 94 08:52:46 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Mathias Lorieux)

Hi!
Do you know if there is an application  such as tops for sending messages
between macintosh running system 7, and which are on a network?
Sorry for my poor English!
Thank you very much
my E-mail is [e-mail]

Mathias Lorieux

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 12:10:31 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Dana J. Bolden)

In Info-Mac Digest V12 #24 "Judi Kornfeld" <[e-mail]> writes:
>>In an article about Disk Charmer, 2.1.3., Fabrizio Oddone mentioned Apple's
>Thread Manager, said to be available via ftp.apple.com.
>
>Where is it? supplying the full path would be a great help.
>
>Thanks!

Thread Manager can be found on ftp.apple.com at
/dts/mac/hacks/thread-manager-exten-1-2.hqx.

Dana

 ---------
Dana J. Bolden, N. C. Division of Environmental Management
Internet: [e-mail] (preferred) or
      [e-mail]
 ---------

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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 16:34:02 +1100
From: David Hornsby <[e-mail]>

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest
Path: djh
From: [e-mail] (David Hornsby)
Subject: Re: AppleTalk over Ethernet (Long Distance) (R)
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
References: <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 05:33:52 GMT
Lines: 26

Tony D'Emanuele, University of Manchester writes:
>Is it possible to log into a remote Mac (e.g. another country) over the
>ethernet and use Appletalk ie. I would like to be able to mount a remote
>disk as you can using ARA but over the network rather than a telephone

You can make a "personal appleTalk tunnel" connection from a Macintosh
to an ARNS server over the IP-connected internet.  The Mac clients may
be any of
    * A Macintosh with Ethernet/SLIP/PPP, MacTCP and IPRemote AT adev.
    * A Macintosh with Async AppleTalk adev 2.0 connected to a serial
      port on a UNIX machine running the 'async' program.
    * A Macintosh with AppleTalk Remote Access connected to a serial
      port on a UNIX machine running the 'aarap' program.

The ARNS server currently supports Phase 1 and Phase 2 EtherTalk networks
on SUN, DEC ULTRIX/Alpha, SGI IRIX, Sony NEWS 4.2, HP-UX 8.07 and IBM RS6000
AIX workstations, and Phase 1 only on Sony NEWS pre-4.2 and 386BSD/FreeBSD
workstations.  Security for access to the server is provided with an optional
server password and/or username & password pair.  Access can be restricted to
clients that appear on an IP address filter list.  The server may only be
run by a UNIX superuser.

ARNS is available via FTP from munnari.OZ.AU as mac/arns.tar.Z, ARA clients
are in mac/arns_arap/*

 - David.

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