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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 94 00:13:59 PST
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Info-Mac Digest             Mon, 28 Feb 94       Volume 12 : Issue 32

Today's Topics:

      [*] Asante EtherTalk Installer 5.2.9
      [*] blackjack.awsme.11.sea.hqx
      [*] cfg/default-application-10a1.hqx
      [*] ChunkJoiner 1.0.5
      [*] Dissolve 1.0
      [*] DNA-Teacher-13-sea.hqx
      [*] Edit II 2.1.5
      [*] Electron Cloud Mapper [PLANET software]
      [*] Folder Icon Cleaner 1.1.1
      [*] Incognito 1.1.2 submission
      [*] JCONV-DD ver.1.6.2
      [*] Jim's SimCity2000 Starter Cities
      [*] Jupiter Satellites
      [*] Malph 1.0 submission to sumex archives
      [*] Math 2.0
      [*] More Beavis & Butt-Head Sounds
      [*] Open-wide 3.5.8
      [*] SoundMaster 1.7.5.sit
      [*] Submission - Claris Impact Trial Demo
      [*] teletimes-94-02.hqx
      [*] TTidyApplication - A leak detector for MacApp
      [*] Turnaround Textures(tm) Volume III
      [*] Turnaround Textures(tm) Volume IV
      [*] UsenEdit v1.1.3
      (?) Adam Engst's Book
      14.4 modem Software (Q)
      2-sided laser printing?
      9-pin b/w monitor into 15-pin color socket?
      Any "DATA" art work out there ?
      Apple 40Sc Cartridge Unit
      ARA and (no) compression (A)
      ARA and (no) compression (Q)
      ARA v. Timbuktu Pro
      ARA vs. Timbuktu Pro?
      ASCII to Binary converter
      Baud -vs- Megabyte
      Bits per Byte Using Modems (was: Baud -vs- Megabyte)
      Canon BJ10e on a Mac (Q)
      CD-ROM Setup probs
      CD-ROM Setup probs (A)
      CD-ROM Setup probs (R)
      CD-ROM Setup probs [R]
      CD-ROM V. 5.0; where did the A-B Loopback button go?
      Client software
      Computer Graphics
      Computer Safeware Insurance (C)
      CopyDoubler (Q)
      Duo Enabler Patch Problem (Q)
      Editor Librarian for Proteus II
      Finder doesn't accept colons anywhere? [R]
      Florida map w/counties
      FoxPro 2.5 for Macintosh
      Frog Systems?
      HELP: How to read ATARI discs on Mac
      IM/Mac & PowerPC...
      Looking for a simple postscript viewer
      MacGolf Upgrade
      Mac net help
      modem rates
      Mouse (Taiwanese) w/ problem
      Newbie SLIP conundrums
      New PowerLaunch version...
      Norton_Utility_request
      Please release the 610
      PostScript 2 => 1 (Q)
      PowerPC in MacUser
      Problems Upgrading to 7.1
      Problems with CD ROM
      Problems with SITcomm
      Quadra 610 DOS Compatible
      Quark text formatting
      RESEDITing LaserWriter8
      Scanning & faxing question
      Scanning Resolution, HELP!
      Serial Clients for the Mac (Q)
      Serious Matlab Bug
      Shareware NFS?
      SITcomm v. 1.0 - Instability of Character Set - Self toggles
      Speech Manager (R)
      Ten Bits
      The decline and fall of the Macintosh...
      UNIX .AU Decompression
      Unstuffit + Mac-II + APS drive problem
      Using TurboGopher through At Ease
      Where is Network Launch Fix? [Q]
      WinWord <-> Mac Word
      WinWord to Mac Word

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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 10:28:19 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Martin Jourdan)
Subject: [*] Asante EtherTalk Installer 5.2.9

Here is the latest version of the software for the Asant family of
Ethernet products (NuBus cards and SCSI adapters). It contains the
following files (from the ReadMe file), in the form of a DiskCopy image
with installer:

NuBus Software Driver 7.2.5
SE Software Driver 5.2.1
EN/SC Software Driver 5.2.8
Asant Mac Agent 2.4
Troubleshooter 1.7.0
ADLS 1.1.6

 1994 Asant Technologies, Inc.

Disclaimer: I'm only a satisfied user. Of particular interest to me and my
Duo 250 is that SNMP MacAgent does not complain anymore when set to off in
the configuration file (which is fine when I'm on the road).

Martin Jourdan -- INRIA, Projet ChLoE, Rocquencourt, France

[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/asante-ethertalk-installer-529.hqx; 614K]

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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 21:06:01 -0500
From: Bryan Arntson <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] blackjack.awsme.11.sea.hqx

The following file is titled "Awesome BlackJack v1.1".  This program
plays casino type blackjack.  It includes the surrender option, in
addition to the regular options (i.e. split, hit, etc. ).  Whats
different about it?  It has two spots ( currently ), where you play
the LEFT spot, and the computer plays the right spot.  However, you
only play against the dealer (the computer spot is just for fun
right now).  Awesome BlackJack has $1, $5, $25, $100, $500 and $2000
chips, and will pay you off with these when you win.  Fifty-two
digitized cards are dealt to you, with numerous sounds.  The program
requires a 13" or larger monitor, 256 colors, and 756k free ram.
Awesome Black Jack is $10 ShareWare, if you like it, print out the
registration form, or see the README file ( which has other helpful
information about the game ).

Thanks,

Bryan
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/game/awesome-blackjack-11.hqx; 836K]

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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 94 15:44 +1300
From: "Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University, Hamilton, NZ"
<[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] cfg/default-application-10a1.hqx

Hi.

Here is a small update to my Default Application control panel. It allows you
to override the locking of the resource map in Finder 7.1.3. I've also added
a bit more error checking.

Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Info & Tech Services Division
University of Waikato
Hamilton
New Zealand
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/default-application-10a1.hqx; 14K]

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Date: Sat, 26 Feb 94 13:27:01 +0100
From: "Fabrizio Oddone" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] ChunkJoiner 1.0.5

ChunkJoiner is a small utility that lets you join (concatenate)
any group of files in a single chunk. To use it, simply select
the files you want to join, and drag&drop them onto ChunkJoiner.
You will be asked the "type" and "creator" for the newly
created file. You will be also asked for the name of the
application which can open the resulting file; I have added
this because the Finder 7.x can read this name and show it
to the user if the application is not present.
ChunkJoiner works on any Macintosh, but it
**requires** System 7 or later.
Life is easier with a drag&drop interface.

New in 1.0.5:
Fixed an incredible bug, causing ChunkJoiner not to quit after joining.

Enjoy yourself and remember the $5 shareware fee!

Fabrizio Oddone

[Archived as /info-mac/disk/chunk-joiner-105.hqx; 32K]

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Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 14:11:13 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Central Scrutinizer)
Subject: [*] Dissolve 1.0

Dissolve is a quick After Dark module that I wrote one day.
It just slowly overwrites the screen with black pixels.

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/ad/dissolve-10-ad.hqx; 2K]

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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 94 10:46 MST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] DNA-Teacher-13-sea.hqx

             DNA Teacher 1.3

 This fun HyperCard stack gives a well animated sequence depicting
 the two processes of DNA: Replication and Protein Synthesis.  It
 includes molecular structural diagrams of each component of DNA
 such as Guanine and Deoxyribose, as well as a listing of possible
 codons and the amino acids synthesized from them.  Also included
 is a 10 question quiz complete with bells and whistles and a
 glossary.  (The stack was designed to be entertaining as well as
 educational.)

 Version 1.2 was slowed down since on most machines now the
 animations whizzed by too fast.
 Version 1.3 added a few comments noting and clarifying the
 simplified explanations of the processes of DNA.

 Note: This stack was not designed for college level use.  It is
 best suited to an introduction to the processes associated with
 DNA.  Some details have been omitted for simplicity.

 The stack is shareware (US$20 or equivalent).
 Jeff Willden
 [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/sci/dna-teacher-13-hc.hqx; 186K]

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Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 22:10:21 -0600
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Edit II 2.1.5

Edit II is intended as a replacement for the Consulair Edit text editor but
which alllows the use of the cursor keys on the Mac keyboard for
navigation. If the extended keyboard is used, then the num lock LED will
indicate whether the cursor pad or the numeric pad mode is on.  The home,
end, page up, page down keys will also work, as will the delete right key.
One level of undo is supported.  You can launch Edit II by double clicking
old Edit files (since Edit II uses the same creator signature as Edit, that
is, EDIT). Stationery documents are supported under System 7.

Thanks for all the support from registered users.  Your feedback has been
incorporated into this version.

2.1.5 (02/24/94) Bug fixes and a few minor new features
~~~~~
** New features **
* cmd-option-W triggers 'Close All'.
* cmd-option-S triggers 'Save All'.
* Disallow opening of filenames beginning with a period (even TeachText
barfs on such filenames, and DTS says it's BAD!).
* Documentation has been updated to reflect the above (and converted to
MS Word 4.0 format - should be readable by *all* word processors!).
** Bugs fixed **
* With the assistance of Mouse Systems Inc, I've fixed a long standing
problem of the repeating a's across the window when you ran Edit II on
a system that used the A3 mouse and an extended keyboard. It's *not*
due to an extension conflict - just an ADB conflict. Thanks to all who
reported the errors over the years and stuck it out! (thanx Chris)
* GREP initialization now checked for errors.
* Read-only files are saved under a new name.
* Check for locked volume for so we can consider all files as read-only.
* Turn on the watch cursor while searching (dumb of me to forget!)
* Remember to close old file when doing 'Save As' (thanx Robby)
* Added AOL text file type

[Archived as /info-mac/text/edit-ii-215.hqx; 105K]

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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 14:13:36 GMT+13:32
From: Kenji Takeuchi <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Electron Cloud Mapper [PLANET software]

This is a developmental version of the Electron Cloud Mapper, which draws
images (3-D raytrace, or 2-D) in black and white or full 24-bit color.
It is fully functional, except for some minor interface glitches.

This program is extremely flexible, where the user can rotate, set orbitals,
etc.  And the result is quite amazing.

Main glitches:

 * Although ECM should technically work on a Mac Plus, a Mac with a FPU
is highly recommended.
 * If you have a monitor larger than 640 x 480 pixels, you may need to
increase the memory partition for ECM.

NOTE:  This will probably be the last version for the Macintosh.  The next
version will be a native application for the PowerPC chip.

[Archived as /info-mac/sci/electron-cloud-mapper.hqx; 89K]

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Date: Sat, 26 Feb 94 13:26:16 +0100
From: "Fabrizio Oddone" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Folder Icon Cleaner 1.1.1

Folder Icon Cleaner is a small utility that lets you get rid
correctly of those space and time wasting custom icons, sticked
right there on your folders.
The Finder keeps every folder icon in a separate hidden file.
The known versions of the Finder (7.0, 7.0.1, 7.1) do not
delete this file when removing a custom folder icon. They only
delete the icon resources from the file. Note that no other
information is kept into these Icon files. Folder Icon Cleaner
correctly removes the icon by deleting the file (and by updating
the Use custom icon attribute of the folder). No data is lost,
you only gain a little more free space on your disk.
You can even erase every custom folder icon on your disk.
Folder Icon Cleaner can only be used under System 7 or later;
however, it is rather useless on a System 6-or-older Macintosh.
Life is easier with a drag&drop interface.

New in 1.1.1:
Fixed an incredible bug, causing ChunkJoiner not to quit after joining.

Enjoy yourself and remember the $5 shareware fee!

Fabrizio Oddone

[Archived as /info-mac/disk/folder-icon-cleaner-111.hqx; 33K]

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Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 03:20:06 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Manuel Veloso)
Subject: [*] Incognito 1.1.2 submission

Hi there,

attached is Incognito 1.1.2, which fixes a major bug in Incognito 1.1.1. In
short, a fix to prevent crashing prevented crashing, but also prevented
Incognito from working. Thus are the travails of early-morning programming
exposed.

Manuel

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/net/incognito-112.hqx; 25K]

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Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 14:13:08 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Natsu Sakimura)
Subject: [*] JCONV-DD ver.1.6.2

Attached please find the sit-hqx archive of JCONV-DD
version 1.6.2. This version added the following features:

1) Balloon help
2) Unique filename generation

JCONV-DD is a DONATEWARE which interconverts among various
Japanese encoding schemes.

Hope it will be useful.

Best wishes,

Natsu Sakimura

[Archived as /info-mac/text/jconv-dd-162.hqx; 51K]

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Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 17:21:11 -0500 (EST)
From: Jim McQuillan <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Jim's SimCity2000 Starter Cities

Here are a couple starter cities that I created for use with SimCity 2000.
They were created using the Macintosh version of SimCity2000 and saved in
the Terrain Edit mode so that all you have to do is place any tress or
water you wish, and click 'Done'.  Then you can pick in which year and at
what level you begin.

If you like these, please let me know and I will create more.  This
software is not actually shareware, but I would appreciate if you would
share any cities you build using these terrains by e-mailing them to me at
the address below.

Thank you very much,
Jim McQuillan
1855 Midland Rd.
Saginaw, MI  48603-4341

Please send any comments, questions, critisms, requests, or SimCity2000
city files to <[e-mail]>

This file may be included in any type of shareware collection or CD-ROM.

[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/simcity2000-jims-cities.hqx; 19K]

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Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 19:15:14 -0500
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Jupiter Satellites

Jupiter Satellites is a program which calculates and displays the
satellites of Jupiter as seen from the Earth. A tabular list, telescope
view and graphical chart are all displayed wither for the current or a
selected time. $5 Shareware

Mike Kazmierczak

[Archived as /info-mac/sci/jupiter-satellites.hqx; 38K]

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Date: Thu, 24 Feb 94 13:23:55 -0800
From: Nitin Ganatra <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Malph 1.0 submission to sumex archives

This is a request to submit Malph 1.0 to the Sumex archives.

Malph is a small utility that allows users to quickly switch
between running processes on a System7 or later Macintosh.  If you
have Balloon Help turned on, dragging the mouse over the application
icons will display process information for that application, including
the Process Serial Number, memory information, SIZE resource flags,
and the date and time the app was launched.  If you don't want to see
an application's icon show up in the display you can hide it with
a command-click on the icon, and it won't show up every time you launch
the program.

Finally (the coolest feature, IMHO) if you have the Drag Manager on your
machine you can drag Finder icons and drop them on application icons,
and those files will be opened with the selected application.

Malph is freely distributable, but please include the README file with
it, and do not modify it or sell it.  If you have any questions or
suggestions I'd loe to hear 'em.

Enjoy!

--N

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/malph-10.hqx; 48K]

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Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 19:16:09 -0500
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Math 2.0

Math 2.0 is a program to help children learn to add and subtract at the 1-2
grade level. Macintalk (if present) is supported. $5 Shareware

Mike Kazmierczak

[Archived as /info-mac/game/math-20.hqx; 39K]

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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 10:27:20 -40962758 (MST)
From: Matthew Grossman <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] More Beavis & Butt-Head Sounds

Here are even more Beavis & Butt-Head sounds from MTV for the
digest and archive.

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/beavis-n-butthead-grp3.hqx; 1020K]

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Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 21:31:39 -0500 (EST)
From: Jim Walker <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Open-wide 3.5.8

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.

V. 3.5.7 fixed the broken Help button in v. 3.5.6, and was updated for use
with Dialog View 1.0.8.
V. 3.5.8 fixes a bug that caused crashes in Now Compress and certain other
programs.

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

 -- Jim Walker

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/open-wide-358.hqx; 37K]

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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 09:42:58 -0600 (CST)
From: "Bruce D. Tomlin " <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] SoundMaster 1.7.5.sit

This control panel file will let you set up sounds for startup, restart, shut
down, disk insert, disk eject, bad disk, disk request, beep, key click, return
key, space key, hourly chimes, alarm clock, empty trash, and many other
sounds.

Shareware, $15.  Put it in your System Folder and call up the Control Panel.
Don't forget to get some sound files!

SoundMaster requires at least System 6.0.4.  This is a StuffIt 3.0 file.

This version fixes a problem in 1.7.4 that would cause some types of sound
files to not load and put up the small "x" on the screen during startup.
(Version 1.7.4 fixed problems with Sound Manager 3.0 and the AV.)

Bruce Tomlin
15801 Chase Hill Blvd #109
San Antonio, TX  78256-1037
Internet: [e-mail]
Fidonet: 1:387/555

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/util/sound-master-175.hqx; 64K]

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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 94 14:16:20 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Submission - Claris Impact Trial Demo

This is a demo/trial copy of Claris Impact downloaded from AOL. Claris Impact
is an impressive all-in-one program that incorporates the graphics
capabilities of MacDrawPro and includes a host of new graphics functions
suitable for generation of business graphics with online presentation
capabilities.

Some features have been disabled in this version of the application. You will
not be able to save documents or copy objects to other applications via the
clipboard. However, cut, copy and paste will work within the application.

Printing is available, but printouts will have a watermark. This watermark
will appear as 1) diagonal gray text if the Color/Grayscale option is used
when printing to postscript printers; 2) diagonal black text when printing to
postscript printers without Color/Grayscale enabled; 3) diagonal white text
when printing to non-postscript (QuickDraw) printers.

The trial includes a sampling of the styles and art that are available.

This demo copy is compressed in a self extracting format.

Cliff Huff
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/app/claris-impact-demo.hqx; 1708K]

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Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 20:31:56 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Ian Wojtowicz)
Subject: [*] teletimes-94-02.hqx

This issue may be late, but I'm sure you'll agree that it was worth the
wait. This month's theme, TV AND FILM. Send any questions or comments to
[e-mail]. Be sure to read about the Photo Contest!

-- Contents --

SLEEPING WITH ELEPHANTS
  "In 1990 over 90% of screen time in Canadian theatres was
  taken up by foreign films. So why is it that the Canadian
  film scene was and is so dominated by American imports?"
  - by Dr. Euan Taylor

WHAT'S THE IP ADDRESS OF MY TV?
  "The television industry provides information and
  entertainment to the people. What is lacking is the
  availability of entertainment or more information on
  demand." - by Prasad Dharmasena

X-PRESSING OURSELVES
  "This universalization of our generation across racial,
  sexual, class, cultural lines -- lines that matter --
  erases and marginalizes profound human differences."
  - by Johnn Tan

KEEPERS OF LIGHT
  "This month we visit the Station Street Arts Centre to
  view Female Nudes, and exhibition by Vancouver artist Skai
  Fowler." - by Kent Barrett

THE WINE ENTHUSIAST
  "With the end of apartheid, international trade barriers
  are being lifted, worldwide. This means that South African
  wines will be available in many parts of the world for the
  first time in many years." - by Tom Davis

NEWS ROOM
  "It has become quite fashionable of late to attack
  political advertisements. Some decry the corrupting
  effects of televised political manipulation, while others
  fear the advantage they bring to more affluent parties.
  Both, however, are wrong." - by Jon Gould

  "Because political commercials are produced by the same
  advertising agencies that spew forth corporate
  commercials, they provide politicians with the opportunity
  to control the image seen on television fully and
  completely." - by Paul Gribble

THE QUILL
  "The Beast has a hypnotic eye. When it stares at me, into
  me, its thoughts become my reality, and I can't
  discriminate between my own consciousness and the trance.
  It's not unpleasant, really. The Beast is gentle when it
  has my mind, but persistent." - by David Fitzjarrell

DEJA VU
  "One cannot imagine a situation more primed for social
  explosion. It was with little surprise, that the Zapatista
  Army of National Liberation, stormed the town of San
  Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, and officially proclaimed
  its armed insurrection." - by Andreas Seppelt

[Archived as /info-mac/per/teletimes-94-02.hqx; 643K]

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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 00:08:25 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Adam Wildavsky)
Subject: [*] TTidyApplication - A leak detector for MacApp

TTidyApplication is a C++ class for software developers who use MacApp,
Apple's object oriented application framework. Its purpose is to help
locate all the TObject descendants which a MacApp application has allocated
but not freed.

TTidyApplication is intended to be easier to use than the "Leaks" dcmd. It also
works in MacApp 3.1 where "Leaks" is ineffective.

In order to use the code you'll need MacApp 3.0.1 with Steve Jasik's "The
Debugger" or MacApp 3.1 (I used b1) with either The Debugger or Mike Lockwood's
"VoodooMonkey" debugger. VoodooMonkey is available on Apple's "Tool Chest"
edition of its monthly developer CD.

For more information see the enclosed summary and my article in the March '94
issue of Frameworks magazine (forthcoming.)

Adam Wildavsky - Sr. Consultant - KPMG Peat Marwick - [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/src/t-tidy-applciation-cpp.hqx; 27K]

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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 00:58:16 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Steven Hatch)
Subject: [*] Turnaround Textures(tm) Volume III

Turnaround Textures(tm) Volume III is a multi-volume collection of
professionally designed patterns to liven up your Macintosh desktop.

You can easily install Turnaround Textures with any utility that supports
standard desktop patterns including Chameleon and Desktop Textures.
Turnaround Textures requires a minimum of 256 colors.

StuffIt archive. Enjoy...

:-steve h.

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/grf/turnaround-textures-grp3.hqx; 281K]

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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 01:20:35 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Steven Hatch)
Subject: [*] Turnaround Textures(tm) Volume IV

Turnaround Textures(tm) Volume IV is a multi-volume collection of
professionally designed patterns to liven up your Macintosh desktop.

You can easily install Turnaround Textures with any utility that supports
standard desktop patterns including Chameleon and Desktop Textures.
Turnaround Textures requires a minimum of 256 colors.

StuffIt archive. Enjoy...(there's more to come)

:-steve h.

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/grf/turnaround-textures-grp4.hqx; 292K]

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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 16:59:35 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Erik Schwiebert)
Subject: [*] UsenEdit v1.1.3

UsenEdit v1.1.3 (thats /Yooz' ned it/) is a very small, very fast text
editor.  It was written to cooperate with Peter Speck's Nuntius newsreader,
especially in low-memory situations.

Features:
    Multiple files of 32k each open at the same time;
    Takes only 50k of RAM to operate;
    Full Cut, Copy, Paste, Undo support, including F1-F4 on extended kybds;
    Stationery documents for all those various .sigs;
    Email-ware, no $$$!;
    AppleEvent aware (sorry, no AppleScript);
    Wordwrap at specified boundary (without <RETURN>'s!)

Requirements:
    50k free RAM;
    System 7.0 or later;

Cost:
    All you do is send me email saying where you found UsenEdit, what you
    think of it, and what you would like to see in future versions!

Modifications and fixes since v1.1.2:
     * Miscellaneous code improvements;
     * Text caret no longer disappears below the bottom of the window;
     * User can now specify the maximum number of windows;
     * Files larger than 32k are opened into Untitled windows so you don't
       accidentally overwrite the original.
     * No longer saves a blank document on top of the original if you "Cut"
       the entire text out of the document.
     * "Save" is now available after "Cut", "Clear", etc.

Enjoy, and have fun posting!  ttyl, erik

[Archived as /info-mac/text/usen-edit-113.hqx; 32K]

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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 94 21:43:25 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (?) Adam Engst's Book

I've heard that Adam Engst's book on the internet is available electronically.
Is this true? If so, where can I ftp it? If not, how can I buy it? Adam, are
you out there?
Thanks,
Glenn Fink
[e-mail] (Please send a copy of your response to this
address since I don't regularly read the list. Thanks.)

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

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 10:52:20 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Bill Barnett-Interdepartmental Labs)
Subject: 14.4 modem Software (Q)

>------------------------------
>
>Date: 24 Feb 1994 09:50:33 U
>From: "Harris Tom" <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Supra 144PB
>
>Does anyone have any experience or knowledge of the Supra 144PB?
>The Supra 144PB is an internal PowerBook modem.
>
>------------------------------

Funny thing about 14.4 modems, there seems to be no software that supports
14.4 transmission [That I Know Of!]. I have a copy of Z-Term (v.0.9) that
supports 9600 and 19,200 so with a 14.4 modem I end up running at 9600.
Hardly seems worth the price.  Anyone know of software (shareware
particularly) that supports 14.4?
Thanks.
Bill Barnett <[e-mail]>  American Museum of Natural History

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

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 94 08:13:48 MST
From: [e-mail] (Jonathan Lundell)
Subject: 2-sided laser printing?

Anyone out there have experience with a laser printer that does
competent two-sided printing? My IINT is pretty much a disaster; not
only does it require lots of manual intervention, but it jams about
every third page.

I saw a review of an Olympus (Olympia?) printer recently that does
two-sided printing automatically and reliably, but it was intended for
use in a Sun NewsPrint environment (PostScript interpretation on the
work- station, video interface to the printer). Is that engine
available in a Mac-compatible form?

600 dpi preferred.

/Jonathan Lundell.
[e-mail]

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

Date: Sat, 26 Feb 94 17:08:38 JST
From: [e-mail] (Thomas Robb)
Subject: 9-pin b/w monitor into 15-pin color socket?

I can't believe that I'm the only one who would like to use their
old b/w monitor with their new Mac which sports only a 15-pin
connector for a color monitor!  Does anyone know if an adaptor is
available that will do this slight of hand?  The vendor of the
monitor says that they can't help! I'm willing and able to make my
own adaptor, but I don't know the pinout for the 9-pin side, which
I believe must be fairly standard between the various manufacturers
of monitors and cards.  Does anyone know?

Cheers, Tom Robb     <[e-mail]>   Kyoto, Japan

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

Date: 25 Feb 94 10:36:00 -0800
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Any "DATA" art work out there ?

                        Tandem-QM Gateway: Version K3.G
TO: info mac [SMTPGATE@COMM([e-mail])]
cc. Zar via Internet [SMTPGATE@COMM([e-mail])]

Greetings,

The type of item I am searching for are PICS, GIFS, etc. of Commander Data on
ST-TNG.  Most of the art work I've located contains pictures of the
Enterprise, but few of the crew.  If anyone has info or actual art work, I'd
appreciate hearing from you.  Of course, reasonable charges for such items
will be considered.

Many thanks!
  Leon Zar
  [e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 94 9:49:44 CET
From: Carlo Viviani <[e-mail]>
Subject: Apple 40Sc Cartridge Unit

Hi netters,

I have a little problem. I got an old Apple 40sc cartridge backup unit,
that came bundled with a little program (by Apple of course) to use it.
The program works fine with sys. 6.0.7, but it doesn't work with system 7
& 7.0.1, also with 32-bit addressing turned off.
As I should use this machine with an LC III and a IIci, both with sys.
7.1, you understand what the problem is.
I searched for a newer version of the program (it's dated 1987), but with
no results.
Is anybody so kind to help me? If you tell me how to find a newer version
of the program (or if you mail it to me directly :-)), or whether there is
an alternative way to make the cartridge unit work, I would be VERY
grateful to you all!

Thanks a lot,

Carlo <[e-mail]>

PS: answer directly to my mailbox, please, as I don't read digests
regularly :-))

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

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 12:08:21 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Kee Nethery [phone])
Subject: ARA and (no) compression (A)

>Does anyone know why ARA explicitly disables modem-level compression ?
>I've just purchased a US Robotics Courier V32bis/V42bis modem, and was
>suprised to see that the ARA CCL script turns off compression ! I'm sure
>there's a good reason for this, as this is Apple software, right ?? ;-)

I was told during a Q&A session that they do compression in the Mac to gain
performance.

Modems have a limited amount of RAM available to use for compression
tables. Imagine a small table where there are say twenty substitution
codes. 011 = 11111111, 010 = 00000000, etc. Now if you look at the RAM in a
Mac, you can provide a greater number of substitution codes so that you
have a greater number of bit combinations that can be reduced to a smaller
set of bits.

Compared to a modem, your Mac has a ton of RAM available for compression
codes. Yes, your Mac might be busy doing the compression while using ARA
but the data going across the line is compressed much tighter than would be
possible with a modem. Thus, he claimed that the data rate with ARA was
actually much greater than would be possible with onboard modem
compression.

He never showed performance data but I doubt they would suffer all the
grief from users about not using modem compression if there was not a
compelling reason.

Kee Nethery

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

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 94 10:56:30 -0700
From: Bruce Carter <[e-mail]>
Subject: ARA and (no) compression (Q)

Greetings,

>Does anyone know why ARA explicitly disables modem-level compression ?
>I've just purchased a US Robotics Courier V32bis/V42bis modem, and was
>suprised to see that the ARA CCL script turns off compression ! I'm sure
>there's a good reason for this, as this is Apple software, right ?? ;-)

ARA likes to do its own compression.  However, due to a funny setup with our
digital switch, we had to change the scripts so that the error correction and
compression in the modem bank is not turned off.  It works fine, probably a
little extra overhead in the double compression check.

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

Date: 25 Feb 1994 20:34:59 -0800
From: "Rob Dewhirst" <[e-mail]>
Subject: ARA v. Timbuktu Pro

  > ARA vs. Timbuktu Pro? I'd like some input to some questions I have
  > about setting up remote dial-in: One main topic I'd like to find out
  > about is a comparison of Timbuktu Pro and Apple Remote Access to
  > provide remote access.

Apple Remote Access allows users access to AppleTalk services such as file =
servers, printers, e-mail, etc., over a modem line.  It makes your phone =
line a branch of your AppleTalk network.

Timbuktu Pro allows users to control remote computers and exchange files =
with them over AppleTalk and TCP/IP networks.

The two work together to allow Timbuktu Pro users to control remote =
computers and exchange files over modem lines.


  > Is there any need to have ARA if I can make a
  > TCP/IP connection to my desktop Mac with Timbuktu Pro?

No.

You will need some way to connect the two machines.  If you are not using =
ARA to connect to your desktop mac with Timbuktu Pro, you will need to =
have TCP/IP installed on both machines to connect them together.

  > Are there any
  > features that ARA provides that Timbuktu Pro does not?

It supplies a different set of features that compliment Timbuktu Pro.

  > Here's the
  > scenario: Instead of buying a modem for my office computer and using
  > ARA, I'd like to dial in to a central modem pool using SLIP and =
connect
  > to the campus internet and make a TCP/IP connection to my office Mac
  > using Timbuktu Pro.

Yup. You can do that.

  > That way I'd have a "virtual screen" of my desktop
  > Mac on my PB screen, and be able to manipulate files/processes as if I
  > were at my desk.

This is correct.

  > To make this work, I think I need to register the
  > machine IP address that I wish to connect to with the campus Domain
  > Name Server.

Your desktop mac will need to have a STATIC address.  At least, it needs =
to have an address you will know before you try to connect to it.  This =
need not be a _name_ like "toms_mac@office" but it must have an IP =
address. Open your MacTCP control panel and click the "More" button.  If =
the radio button marked "Manual" is clicked, all you need is the IP =
address shown in the first window when you open the control panel.

  > Can anyone verify this? (In other words, can you make a
  > TCP/IP connection to a Mac with a static MacTCP address *WITHOUT*
  > registering with your local DNS?)

Yes.

  > Other issues I'd like to find out
  > about concerning ARA vs. TP are security, dial-back authorization,

Contact Apple computer for information on Apple Remote Access.

Timbuktu Pro introduced a substantial number of security improvements.

  > and
  > any other advantages/disadvantages of choosing one or the other. Any
  > help would be greatly appreciated.

It would probably be helpful to point out that Timbuktu Pro *requires* =
either SLIP software or Apple Remote Access to use over a phone line.

Apple Remote Access provides none of the remote-control features of =
Timbuktu Pro.  The only feature the two packages have in common is the =
ability to exchange files over a modem.  Timbuktu Pro is much faster than =
Apple Remote Access at doing this.


*NOTE* There is a FREE TRIAL VERSION of Timbuktu Pro on Farallon's FTP =
server, and at most major FTP sites.  Try it out over your SLIP connection =
in the office modem pool.

You can obtain information about Farallon products by calling (510) =
814-5000, via anonymous FTP to ftp.farallon.com (dir /pub), or by sending =
e-mail to [e-mail].

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

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 94 10:29:09 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: ARA vs. Timbuktu Pro?

In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
> I'd like some input to some questions I have about setting up remote
> dial-in:
>
> One main topic I'd like to find out about is a comparison of Timbuktu
> Pro and Apple Remote Access to provide remote access.

I've barely used ARA, but I've used Timbuktu Pro over SLIP a bit now.

> Here's the scenario:  Instead of buying a modem for my office computer
> and using ARA, I'd like to dial in to a central modem pool using SLIP
> and connect to the campus internet and make a TCP/IP connection to my
> office Mac using Timbuktu Pro.  That way I'd have a "virtual screen" of
> my desktop Mac on my PB screen, and be able to manipulate
> files/processes as if I were at my desk.
> To make this work, I think I need to register the machine IP address
> that I wish to connect to with the campus Domain Name Server.  Can
> anyone verify this?  (In other words, can you make a TCP/IP connection
> to a Mac with a static MacTCP address *WITHOUT* registering with your
> local DNS?)

I don't think this would be necessary, since you can tell Timbuktu
to connect to an IP address. I see no inherent reason you'd need a
domain name too.

I've used Timbuktu to administrate a remote Gopher server (FTPd) via
SLIP, and although it's certainly a bit slow over the phone, it's
surprisingly good. I'd say that it's only slightly less quick than
over LocalTalk.

> Other issues I'd like to find out about concerning ARA vs. TP are
> security, dial-back authorization, and any other
> advantages/disadvantages of choosing one or the other.  Any help would
> be greatly appreciated.

No idea on those, sorry.

cheers ... -Adam

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

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

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 94 17:20:58 EST
From: PAUL SALITSKY <[e-mail]>
Subject: ASCII to Binary converter

I am looking for a converter/translator that will work on graphics from IBM
to Mac.  This is not for me so I might not be able to be more specific. Please
respond to me directly if this is a FAQ.   Thanks

Paul Salitsky    [e-mail]    or   V1393G@templevm

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

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 94 11:06:59 EST
From: "Roger D. Parish" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Baud -vs- Megabyte

On Wed, 23 Feb 94 06:48:55 +0000 BST Richard Smith said:
>In Info-Mac Digest V12 #29:
   (lines deleted)
>
>So, and this is where we have to rap Jeffery's knuckles, there are (usually)
>TEN
>bits per byte when we are talking of modem communications, with Macs and other
>personal computers, - the eight data bits, one parity bit, and one stop bit.
So

Here we rap Richard's knuckles: if there are eight data bits, there is NO
parity bit.  If there is a parity bit, then there are only seven data bits.
Richard forgot the Start bit.  So, to recap; there are TEN bits per byte:
 One Start bit, either eight data bits or seven data bits and one parity bit,
 and one stop bit.

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

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 12:48:18 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Charlie Mingo)
Subject: Bits per Byte Using Modems (was: Baud -vs- Megabyte)

Richard Smith <[e-mail]> writes:

> So, and this is where we have to rap Jeffery's knuckles, there are (usually)
> TEN bits per byte when we are talking of modem communications, with Macs and
> other personal computers, - the eight data bits, one parity bit, and one
> stop bit.

All 14400 modems use error correction (usually v.42). Error correction
means that FEWER than 10 bits are sent for each byte transmitted; it
usually averages out to around nine bits.

> So the calculation is easy, as Anders wrote in his reply. Simply divide
> the modem speed (14,400bps) by ten and you have the throughput in
> characters-per-second (1440cps). A typical connection with a 14,400
> modem will achieve something like 1480cps on a good line and a
> compressed file,

The 1480 cps should have tipped you off.  If there were ten bits-per-byte,
it couldn't exceed 1440 cps sending a compressed file over a 14400
connection.  Most people I know get about 1625 cps, which works out to 8.86
bits-per-byte (on average).

> I find that a rough speed calculation is 4Mb per hour,

5 Mb/hr might be a little more typical (I get 5.5).

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

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 10:29:35 +0000 (GMT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Canon BJ10e on a Mac (Q)

Peeps,

My girlfriend has been offerred a Canon BJ10e (think thats the right code) and
I want to know if anyone knows how it might be connected to a Mac. I believe
this is the same print engine used in the Stylewriters. Problem is, the canon
badged one has a PC type parallel printer port on it. Is there a box and driver
that will allow this to be used? or an upgrade of some form that will add
a localtalk port onto it so's the Stylewriter driver will work?

Can't sneer at a free printer, so any advice appreciated.

jonathan

--
Jonathan AH Hogg, Electronic and Software Engineering, University of Glasgow
[e-mail] || [e-mail] || http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~hoggja

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

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 94 11:02:48 -0700
From: Bruce Carter <[e-mail]>
Subject: CD-ROM Setup probs

Greetings Brian,

>Is anyone having as much trouble with that new CD-ROM stuff from
>ftp.apple.com as I am? After de-binhexing and de-stuffing, I end up with
>a file that has ".image" on the end and doesn't do anything interesting?
>What do I do with it now?

You need to run the .image file through DiskCopy (available on ftp.apple.com
among other places) which will give you a diskette copy identical to the
original.

There are a couple of other utilities that will also read DiskCopy files.
Unfortunately, their names escape me at the moment.

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

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 09:20:24 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: CD-ROM Setup probs (A)

>Is anyone having as much trouble with that new CD-ROM stuff from
>ftp.apple.com as I am? After de-binhexing and de-stuffing, I end up with
>a file that has ".image" on the end and doesn't do anything interesting?
>What do I do with it now?

That's a disk image file.  It is used to create an exact
copy of the (in this case) installation disk.  You will need
a free program from Apple called DiskCopy to create the
installation disk.  You'll need it for a LOT of stuff there,
and it's a great way to copy any disk, really, especially if
you want to make more than one copy of it.

>From ftp.apple.com, get:
dts/utils/diskcopy-4-2-readme.txt
dts/utils/diskcopy-4-2.hqx

DiskCopy is a bit quirky in that it doesn't issue many warnings
etc...  For instance, if you read in a 'master' disk (for
making a disk image or for making a copy) but don't do anything
with it, it will blithely let you read in another 'master'
disk without a warning that you have not saved the image
or written a copy.  It's very efficient to use once you have
some experience with it, but it's not really what most would
call an "end user" utility.

You can also get a program called Mount Image that will
essentially fool your mac into thinking the image file
IS a disk.  This one is on sumex, at disk/mount-image-12b2.hqx.

I know this is a faq reply, but maybe someone else will
benefit from reading it.

--Brian Pickerill  <[e-mail]> Ball State University

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

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 11:24:19 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Vinko Tsui [phone])
Subject: CD-ROM Setup probs (R)

>Is anyone having as much trouble with that new CD-ROM stuff from
>ftp.apple.com as I am? After de-binhexing and de-stuffing, I end up with
>a file that has ".image" on the end and doesn't do anything interesting?
>What do I do with it now?
>

Brian,

This is normal. What the ".image" extension mean is that the package is a
Disk Copy image file. You can download the latest version of Disk Copy
(v4.2) from ftp.apple.com. Disk Copy image files are how Apple distributes
diskette images to their developers and dealers. You may find it very
useful also. I frequently use it to create backup diskettes images of
software I purchase. After doing so I'll store the image files on Bernoulli
cartages.

I hope this clears things up for you. Let me know if you need more assistance.

-- Vinko

Vinko Enterprises, Oakville, Ontario, Canada, [e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 25 FEB 94 17:4:44 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: CD-ROM Setup probs [R]

Brian Veenker writes:

>Is anyone having as much trouble with that new CD-ROM stuff from
>ftp.apple.com as I am? After de-binhexing and de-stuffing, I end up with
>a file that has ".image" on the end and doesn't do anything interesting?
>What do I do with it now?

Welcome to the world of Apple and Macintosh, where the putative "Intuitive"
description is a matter of degree and comparison rather than an absolute.
To do anything with a .image file, you need Disk Copy, an Apple utility
that should have come with your system software (hopefully you have a copy
on something other than a CD :-}).  If you don't have it, it's available
at:

    ftp://ftp.apple.com/dts/utils/diskcopy-4-2.hqx

Get the README file also, located in the same directory.

Hope this helps,

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


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

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 94 17:09:36 +0100
From: "Ad Herweijer"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: CD-ROM V. 5.0; where did the A-B Loopback button go?

I installed the new Apple CD-Rom software, Version 5.0. Okay, it has a nicer
user interface and a more appropriate name for the audio part. But what
happened
to the "A-B Loopback" button? It worked in the CD Remote DA of Version 4.0.2
and
my son used it for his guitar studies. Have I overlooked something?

BTW, the AppleCD Audio Player is the first one I have seen that allows me to
preview the "Shuffle" selections that it's gonna treat me to. How about that: a
random number generator right here on my desktop!

Ad Herweijer

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

Date: Sat, 26 Feb 94 14:18:24 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Client software

Hello
How do I get on OneNet and is it possible to get the software transfered
through AOL.
Also, any E mail information about OneNet would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks.
Steve Haynes
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri Feb 25 07:40 EST 1994
From: [e-mail] (MNibeck)
Subject: Computer Graphics

    Does anyone know of a computer graphics mail group/sig
on the net.I am primarily looking for 3D/animation for the Mac,
but any would do.
Are there other readers on info-mac that might be interested in
forming a local group(DC,Virginia).

Thanks,

    Mike Nibeck
    President - Digital Horizons, Inc.
    "The Future of Computer Visions"
    [e-mail]
Mike Nibeck

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

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 94 19:51:07 EST
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Computer Safeware Insurance (C)

On Tue, 22 Feb, Brian Amira wrote

>I have had Safeware for over a Year now and am quite happy with it. I
>have never made a claim but it seems like it would be very easy. They are
>quite helpful.

Let me toss a minor wet blanket on the subject. If your computer is not
used in a business, your homeowner's or renter's insurance already
covers your computer. The difference with special computer insurance is
that it is "all hazards." If you spill your can of Jolt Cola onto the
keyboard, the special computer insurance covers it. Your normal insurance
doesn't.

If you, like me, have this thing against calling the insurance company
and telling them that a can of Coke killed your keyboard (Hey, even I
can be embarrassed), special computer insurance is a waste of money. My
insurance company (USAA) said I might want to increase my "contents"
coverage to handle my high priced toys, but that increase was pretty
small compared with separate computer insurance.

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

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

Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 00:09 EST
From: Don't Panic! <[e-mail]>
Subject: CopyDoubler (Q)

Dear Netters,
I downloaded the CopyDoubler 2.0.3 update from Sumex, and I found that it does

NOT include the special updater for versions 1.x and lower.  Where can I find
this over anonymous
FTP or Gopher?  I have version 1.1 which came with Autodoubler 2.0,
and would like to be able to update CopyDoubler the same way I did
Autodoubler to version 2.0.3.  BTW is there anything significantly different
>From CopyDoubler 1.1 and 2.0.3?
Thank you.
Sincerely
[e-mail]

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

Date: 25 Feb 1994 10:34:00 -0600 (CST)
From: "Robert E. Malick" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Duo Enabler Patch Problem (Q)

I have been having a problem with a Duo 230 using the recently released
Duo Battery Patch and Duo Enabler 1.0...

The internal screen dimmer locks up everything (mouse, keyboard, etc.)
on the second activation of more than a few minutes.

Anyone having similar problems or know of a solution?

Please E-Mail directly and I will forward any solution to the list...

Thanks,
Rob Malick

[e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 08:01:09 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Lefort)
Subject: Editor Librarian for Proteus II

Dear Sirs,

I am looking for an editor Librarian Universal or otherwise that is
shareware or freeware that will allow the Yamaha SY55 and/or Proteus II
module to be edited.  Any informaiton as to where I could find such a
program.  Thisisthe information thast I have so far, culled form
Yavelov's book Mac Sound Bible:  YLib by Kevin Rosenberg, MIDILibDA by
Michael Williams, MIDIEx by Thomas W. Inskip, E-mu Sp-12Librarian by Steve
Makohin, U110 Patch Report by Robert E. Otto. There may be more, but thisisall
I could find referecne for. Do you have any of these programs or others
on INFO-MAC?

Kindly,

Clinton R. LeFort
L.S.U. School of Music
Baton Rouge, La.

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

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 94 11:57:26 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Finder doesn't accept colons anywhere? [R]

>In digest <[e-mail]>
>[e-mail] writes:

>] It really seems that the Finder traps all the way to write a colon: I tried
>] by
>] copying the char from the Clavier oops, the Keyboard CP and pasting it in a
>] filename or Info box, but I still get a dash (an hyphen)...
>] Never noticed before, thanx Mijnheer Reinder..

>Colons can't appear in file names because the file system uses them as
>delimeters.

>There are a few places where they forgot to trap the colon character.  For
>example, when you record a new sound with the sound cdev, the name you give
                               ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>it may contain colons.  Try dragging that sound out of the System Suitcase,
>though, and you'll get a badly phrased error message.

>brian

The name you give there is a resource name, not a file name!

    Paolo

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

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 20:32:52 -0500 (EST)
From: Arlen Carey <[e-mail]>
Subject: Florida map w/counties

I am looking for a file containing a map of florida (including county
boundaries).  If you have such a file or can direct me to one, please
respond directly to me at the address listed below:

[e-mail]

Thanks.

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

Date: 25 Feb 1994 15:07:43 CST
From: "Dr. Francis J.  Van Wetering"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: FoxPro 2.5 for Macintosh

We are enrolled in Microsoft Developer's program and as such receive copies
of all MS database products.  We recently received FoxPro 2.5 for Macintosh
(and it looks good). The twist is that the manuals cost extra, and our
College is a Windows/Intel shop, NOT a Mac environment.

Can anyone recommend a good book on FoxPro 2.5 for the Mac?  A related
question is this:  will a book on FoxPro 2.5 for Windows be identical?

I will eventually purchase the manuals (if the College won't), but right now
I would like a book that goes into considerable depth.  Any leads will be
appreciated.




F. J.  Van Wetering               INTERNET: [e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 94 00:53:39 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Red Sox #1 !!!)
Subject: Frog Systems?

     We have a 200 MB Rodime Hard Drive in the lab that I run.  It was
bought from a company called Frog Systems.  We've had some problems with
it and the manual was lost.  Does anyone have an address and/or phone #
for Frog Systems.  Much appreciated.

Tim Barron
Educational Computing Lab
U of H
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 08:08:53 GMT
From: [e-mail] (J|rgen Bergstedt)
Subject: HELP: How to read ATARI discs on Mac

I have some discs fom a ATARI machine with some files I would like to read
on my Mac LC. PC disc are no problem to read with Apple Filekonverter but it
can`t read ATARI discs. ATARI discs should be quite close to PC disk because
ATRI machines can read and write on PC discs. Is there someone who has managed
to do this? Maby there is someone who has made a program which does this.
Please mail me any solution to my problem.

/Jorgen. E-mail: [e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 10:48:33 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Adam van Gaalen PA2AGA)
Subject: IM/Mac & PowerPC...


Hello IM/Mac user!

On March 14, 1994 Apple will launch the long awaited PowerPC models.

With a bit of luck IM/Mac will run on them in emulation mode. I have not yet
got
the possibility to test the current version, but I hope to be able to do so
before the launch date.

A native version of IM/Mac is something else. Before I can start coding I need
to invest a lot of money in a new computer and new software tools.

Before I decide to go ahead I need to have a rough idea about the number of
people that use IM/Mac and how many of you plan to switch to the new platform
and at what approximate time frame.

I do not plan to start asking money for IM/Mac present or future versions, but
I
need to know if my investment both in time and in money would be well spent. I
do not know how much time will be involved to make IM/Mac fully native, but I
do
know that the investment in money will be around 000.

Knowing how many of you will be moving to the PowerPC at what time would help
me
in making that decision.

You can write me at any of the following addresses:

AX25 mail:      on1xk@on6ar.#an.bel.eu
AMPRnet: ivo@on1xk [44.144.8.5]
Internet: [e-mail]
AppleLink: vanursel.ivo

Thank you for your time!

PS: thanks Adam for sending this message on to the Internet

Best 73's, es cuagn de Ivo, ON1XK @ ON6AR.#AN.BEL.EU [44.144.8.5]
Thursday, February 24, 1994 - 19:08:52 +0000 UTC

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

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 94 11:57:58 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Looking for a simple postscript viewer

The "LaserWriter Utility".
Too bad, it requires a printer!

    Paolo

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

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 09:08:09 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Monty Hampton)
Subject: MacGolf Upgrade

Does anyone know how to get a hold of XOR Corporation? I would like to
upgrade my MacGolf game, but when I call 800-635-2425 I keep getting the
message, "The mailbox for XOR Corporation is full..."

Any help would be appreciated.

TYIA

Monty

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

Date: Sat, 26 Feb 94 08:49:58 -0500
From: Scott Simons <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mac net help

    i'm from michigan, and our professor at my univ. is a pc lover and hasn't
    offered any help for anyone owning a mac.  is there a special process or
    number that i can call to use my modem software for the mac instead of
emulating a pc.
    i love my mac and would perfer to use it, but i can get around with
using my emulator.
    please post. thanx. :)

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

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 94 07:51:21 MST
From: [e-mail] (Jonathan Lundell)
Subject: modem rates

Richard Smith writes:

> So, and this is where we have to rap Jeffery's knuckles, there are
> (usually) TEN bits per byte when we are talking of modem
> communications, with Macs and other personal computers, - the eight
> data bits, one parity bit, and one stop bit.

Well, there's more knuckle-rapping to be done. Our modems do take 10
bits to send a byte, but they're a start bit, eight data bits, and a stop
bit. If there's a parity bit, it generally replaces the eighth (most
significant) data bit.

Modems (and computers) are capable of other combinations of 5-8 data bits
plus an optional parity bit, but these formats see little if any use;
certainly not in a Mac comm environment.

You'll see an option in some comm software for two stop bits. This is
a holdover from 110-baud electromechanical teletypes, which needed a
little extra time to do their electromechanical thing. So 11 bits/byte
at 110 bits/second made TTYs 10 cps.

/Jonathan Lundell.
[e-mail].

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

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 94 07:24:13 EST
From: Pete Tamas <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mouse (Taiwanese) w/ problem

I have a really bad mouse made in Taiwan with black ball and serial #
LT032A4JC27. Anyone know if this may be from a defective batch?
Thanks, Pete Tamas [e-mail] or TempleVM.bitnet

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

Date: Sat, 26 Feb 94 01:45:25 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Newbie SLIP conundrums

Hello,

I'm a newbie that's taken advantage of Northwest Nexus' special two-weeks
free access offer through Adam Engst's Internet Starter Kit.  So far I've
been able to use ftp, gopher, wais, etc. with relatively few problems (in the
Unix shell -- blechh! <g>).

My problem is getting Fetch, Eudora, and TurboGopher to work correctly with a
SLIP connection, and if anyone has any ideas why I'd love to hear them.

With TurboGopher I get the error "Unable to resolve host name."  With Fetch,
"Error: No name server can be found to help locate this host.  If you know
the host's IP address you should enter it directly."

I'm at a loss after rechecking my MacTCP, InterSLIP and program settings (and
using all the online help I can find).  I can't get a newsreader to work
either, so could you mail responses to [e-mail]?  I'd really
appreciate it, and I'll pass whatever I learn back to this list.

Thanks.

- Chuck

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

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 94 21:50:16 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: New PowerLaunch version...

PowerLaunch is in the beginning stages of a version upgrade. If you are a
PowerLaunch user and have suggestions of features to add to the new version,
please e-mail them to [e-mail].

Currently, the following features are being explored :

[*] Direct drag and drop adding from the System 7 Pro Finder onto the
PowerLaunch App Palette.

[*] Incorporating "PowerLock" directly into PowerLaunch.

[*] Support for Folder adding / opening.

[*] Security Logging...

[*] You decide... Sent us e-mail, today!

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

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 94 11:50:18 +0200
From: Barbounakis I. <[e-mail]>
Subject: Norton_Utility_request

Dear Info-Mac Moderators,

  I have some problems with my Mac's hard disk. Although I have a
  version of Norton Utilities in order to correct it, there is incompatibility
  with my operating system 7.0.1. Could you suggest me a solution to this
  problem? Perhaps a latest disk_doctor utility.

  Sincerely,

--
Ioannis Barbounakis
 Graduate Student


Dept. of Electronics & Computer Engineering
Technical University of Crete
37 Iroon Polytechniou, Chania,
Crete, 731-33, Greece
Tel. [phone]      Fax. [phone]
     [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]


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

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 94 08:36:19 EST
From: Scott Kelsey <[e-mail]>
Subject: Please release the 610

Hi All -- Does anyone out in "netland" know when Apple is going to start
shipping the Quattra 610. I have spoken with my university purchasing people,
who stated that Apple was suspending the shipment until they receive parts.
That
really does not tell me alot. Should I try and order another model. I just read
TIDBITS about the lower prices, but are they shipping?

TIA

Scott
[e-mail]
university of delware
morris library

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

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 94 09:42:58 MEZ
From: David Steiner <[e-mail]>
Subject: PostScript 2 => 1 (Q)

Here's another one of the persistent PS questions:

We have several software packages here that are capable of outputing only
PostScript 2 output and we have access to a couple of output devices that
are only understand PostScript 1. I know that PS2 devices can understand
PS1 output but not the reverse. Does anyone out there know of a PS2 => PS1
converter?  It does not have to run on a Mac as I have access to UNIX and
DOS.

TIA

David R. Steiner, Research Assoc., Remote Sensing & GIS
ISPA-Uni. Osnabrueck     D-49364 Vechta, Germany

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

Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 22:56:23 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Veenker <[e-mail]>
Subject: PowerPC in MacUser

Hot new tip on streets (hot to me anyway)...

MacUser will be featuring the PowerPC in their next issue. It's supposed
to be something special: the mag's are being shipped in special boxes that
will not allow the couriers to open and read them before March 15. That's the
magic day...

Meet ya at the news stand March 15!

Brian Veenker

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

Date: Sat, 26 Feb 94 14:17:12 EST
From: "George Boccanfuso" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Problems Upgrading to 7.1

Hi everyone

I have been trying to upgrade to 7.1 and I have been getting an error:

"Cannot overwrite a protected resource."

I have tried to upgrade when booted up from the hard  drive I want to
upgrade and from the diskette. With all extensions off.

Any ideas what I should do?

Thanks
George

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

Date: Sat, 26 Feb 94 08:45:50 -0500
From: Scott Simons <[e-mail]>
Subject: Problems with CD ROM

    i purchased a centris 610 8/230 w CD ROM in august 1993,  for the past
    month i can not get my CD ROM to use time warner cd's and i can use my
    audio cd's, but the icon doesn't appear on my desktop.  i re-installed the
    cdrom software adn [D[D
and rebuilt the desktop and it still doesn't help.  i have also done numerous
other things that i have forgotten about, and they didn't help either.

     can anyone help, i've called apple and did what they said and it didn't
     help.  i also went to where i bought my computer from, and they didn't
help either.  i trying everything possible before i decide to take it in
and have a technition take a look at it.

     if you can help, post it here so everyone else that might have this
     problem can find the answer.


[e-mail]

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

Date: Sat, 26 Feb 94 13:39:10 +0100
From: "Fabrizio Oddone"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: Problems with SITcomm

Here are my opinions about SITcomm; I recently bought it, but my registration
form is still here on my desk... sorry Aladdin, you will receive it soon.

1)
Slowness in dialing & resetting the modem is caused by the "sleep"
WaitNextEvent
problem, NOT by the Apple Modem Tool. I explained the meaning of the sleep
parameter in a previous submission to this digest (with the subj: CPU cycles
and
apps). The Aladdin programmers do have an algorithm for determining the optimal
sleep time; this algorithm uses "CaretTime" (the rate of insertion point
blinking) while dialing. It is right to use sleep=CaretTime when the terminal
window is in front, to assure optimal cursor blinking. The algorithm should
change sleep=1 tick (sixtieth of a second) while dialing, in order to solve the
problem. To alleviate this annoying bug, you may set the blinking to "fast"
(which will set sleep=12), or repeatedly click on the window: the
dialing/resetting process accelerates a lot.
BTW, the Aladdin software has a bad "sleep" track record: Stuffit Lite (3.0.7)
uses a fixed sleep=3 (1/20 second) even when it is idle in the background doing
nothing at all, keeping the CPU abnormally busy. Dear Aladdin, will you fix
this
one, too? :-) I am a loyal registered user of Stuffit Lite.

2)
Does not allow accessing (scrolling) the terminal window while a file transfer
is taking place. ZTerm allows this.

3)
Some dialog boxes do not allow accessing the Help menu in order to activate
Balloon Help. I previously saw only Microsloth and Now Software programs doing
this. Shame, shame!

4)
The popup menu with the addresses in the Toolbar appears incorrectly when you
put the Toolbar at the very bottom of the screen. Do not tell me that is
Apple's
fault, because I programmed popups with the Apple popup CDEF in System 7 in my
Microarchitecture Simulator: they work right when placed at the bottom of the
screen.

5)
The address book is nice, but two functions (Duplicate and Load) are invisible
to the user. I know that there is Balloon Help, but I honestly could not found
out how to duplicate an entry until I read the manual; a Mac user is not
supposed to have to read the manual ;-)
I would like two visible buttons instead.

6)
The auto-login feature is nice, but does not work with my Hermes based BBS. My
BBS asks "NN:" for the name, and "PW:" for the password. SITcomm should leave
the strings "UserName:" and "Password:" configurable, instead of giving a fixed
set of choices. I hacked this one with ResEdit (I do not know if it works: I
have not tried to connect yet).

More to come as soon as I remember them...
The user interface is very good, overall. Well, those normal windows behaving
as
utility (floating) windows...

Is it true that Apple will drop Communication Toolbox soon? Aagghhh!
Are we going to switch to Magic Cap? :-)

--
Fabrizio Oddone

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

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 12:54:32 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Juan M. Courcoul)
Subject: Quadra 610 DOS Compatible

With regards to the new Quadra 610 with the 486SX PDS card and DOS
built-in, does anybody know if:

* It is networkable from the DOS side of things ?
  (Specifically, can you connect it to an Ethernet and run Novell IPX/SPX ?)

* How compatible is it REALLY ?
  (Do most DOS applications, including Windows, run ok ?)

* How do you print on the thing ?
  (Does it have its own serial/paralell ports ?)

...and any other interesting comments you might have on the machine.

TIA

Juan

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

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 94 07:26:11 EST
From: Pete Tamas <[e-mail]>
Subject: Quark text formatting

In Canvas 2.1 you can select text and format it in such a way that
the first letter of every work is capitalized. As far as I can tell,
Quark has all caps and small caps but not this. Anyone know
differently?-Pete Tamas [e-mail] or TempleVM.bitnet

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

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 16:33:16 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Jason Coleman)
Subject: RESEDITing LaserWriter8

>Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 15:32:58 -0600
>From: "Earl Misanchuk"  <[e-mail]>
>Subject: RESEDITing LaserWriter8
>
>We recently added a 500-sheet tray to our LaserWriter Pro 630. We would like
to
>keep letterhead in the 250-sheet tray and regular paper in the 500-sheet
tray.
>Since the vast majority of our printing is on regular paper, it is
inconvenient
>to have LaserWriter8 default to the 250-sheet tray setting. We would like it
to
>default to the 500-sheet tray setting instead.
>
>I have a bit of experience with ResEdit and am not afraid to try fiddling a
>copy
>of LaserWriter8 until I get what I want, but I have no idea where to look for
>the proper resource to edit. Can someone provide me with a starting point:
>dFlt?
>DLOG? hdlg? TMPL? ARgh? HeLp?
>
>ADVthanxANCE

You can do this without ResEdit using LaserWriter 8.1 (Laserwriter 8 won't
do it).  To do this, select the printer in the Chooser and then hit the
setup button.  In the setup mode, you'll need to select the LW Pro 630 PPD
by hitting either Auto Setup or Select PPD.  After this, all that needs to
be done is to hit the Configure button in this same dialog.  Tell it that
the 500-sheet feeder is "Installed and Preferred".

I had this same problem, and while this fix works, it seems to me that
there should be a way to change the default paper tray by configuring the
printer itself instead of the Laserwriter 8.1 driver on each machine (which
might not be wanted on each machine).  As a matter of fact, by printing the
configuration sheet for the printer with the Laserwriter Utility, it
actually lists a "Default Tray" setting, which is set to the 250 sheet
tray.  Does anyone know how to change this setting on the printer?  I can't
find it in the LW Pro 630 manual or in the Laserwriter Utility.

Thanks,

Jason Coleman
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 10:54:44 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Tim Neese)
Subject: Scanning & faxing question

Hello,

I have a HP Scanjet IIcx with a document feeder on a Mac that is connected
to a fax server via FaxPro II.  I'm wondering if anyone knows of any
scanning software that would allow me to scan in multiple pages from the
document feeder as an image, so I could then fax it out by holding down the
Option key and selecting Print to get to the FaxPro II fax dialog.  It
would be nice if it allowed a default resolution to be saved since FaxPro
II only send out at 216 dpi and any higher settings are unnecessary for
this purpose.

The problem that I've been having is that image scanning software tends to
be geared toward only handling one page at a time.  OCR software like
OmniPage works nicely with scanning multiple pages from the document
feeder, but only when converting to text rather than scanning images.  So
far, I haven't found any fax software that's really geared toward getting
it's input from a scanner, especially one with a document feeder.

As you've probably guessed by now, my goal here is to be able to use this
scanner as a fax machine (in addition to image scanning and OCR, of course,
for which there is plenty of great software) for non-computer generated
outgoing fax documents.  So far, the only solution seems to be scanning in
and saving each page individually and then faxing them out as attachments,
which is a very time consuming and cumbersome process.

Thanks for any suggestions.
Tim

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

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 94 8:49:19 EST
From: Tom Coradeschi <[e-mail]>
Subject: Scanning Resolution, HELP!

Brian Amira <[e-mail]> wrote:
>Ok, I have read everything I could find and It all talks about LPI and
>SPI. What I need to know is what DPI to scan images at for printing on on
>a 600 DPI laserprinter. I beleave this value will be different if the
>scan is 1bit or 8bit.

Here's what I have archived:

Date:     Mon, 5 Mar 90 21:23:42 EST
From:     Bob Miletich <[e-mail]>
To:       [e-mail], [e-mail]
Subject:  Scanning Tips

Scanner Discussion (Halftone scanning)

    No one really asked for this information, but I think it may be
useful. Chances are, it's news to someone. If someone doesn't agree with
this or has corrections to anything here, please let me know.

    The problem with using a scanner and gray-scale photographs, is
that the images come out huge when scanned intuitively. In fact, a short
discussion of scanned images can help to reduce the size of the files when
used and stored.

4 bit scanners can produce 16 shades of gray
6 bit scanners can produce 64 shades of gray
8 bit scanners can produce 256 shades of gray

    4 bit scanners may be fine for most work that goes into a laser
printer as its final form, but should not be used if you intend to send
your photograph to a higher resolution output device such as a
phototypsetter or imagesetter. On high resolution devices, 4 or 6 bit
scanners produce "banding" ( a clear threshold level between gray levels),
which is unacceptable for most professional output.

    Imagesetters accept only 8 bit halftone scans, so if you're going
to send it out for processing, it should be scanned on a 8 bit scanner.
Additionally, 8 bit scans are much higher quality and contain more
information per pixel, therefore are more suitable for image-editing and
retouching through appropriate software. Note that conventional draw
packages that read scanned tiff files are usually not the thing to retouch
multi-gray images with. On the Macintosh, Image 1.19 or Image 1.22 is
state-of-the-art in freeware retouching technology (if you put a price on
it, I'd say its worth about $1000). I don't think that an acceptable
freeware package exists on the PC. If anyone knows of one please let me
know. Please don't tell me that PC Paintbrush IV Plus is acceptable. It is
not. Compared to Image 1.19, ZSoft (PC Paintbrush) should pay you to use
their product.

    8 bit files are also quite a bit larger than corresponding 4 and 6
bit files.

DEVICE OUTPUT

    Scanner manufacturers would like you to think that if you don't
have a zillion dpi scanner, you wont get well scanned pictures. That's not
quite true when considering halftone scans. The output resolution is much
more important when considering a scanner for purchase. Say that the sum of
your output will be going to a LaserWriter or some other 300dpi printer.
300 dpi output is generated by laser printers in typography and line art.
Output is generated in lines per inch (lpi) when a halftone image is
printed. Your 300 dpi laser printer will produce about 85 lpi when
outputting halftone images (that's not bad -- most newspapers are 85 lpi;
great quality magazines like Sports Illustrated or Newsweek are 133-150
lpi). So if you know that your printer can produce only 85 lpi on halftones
you can scan your photographs at lower resolutions (but with the full range
of gray-scale) to save yourself disk space. Here's a handy formula for
figuring out the scanning resolution if you know what output device you're
going to and how large your placed image will be.

Formula: (lpi x 1.25 x final size)/original size = dpi setting on scanner

therefore, a 5x4 inch photo that will eventually be printed on a
conventional laser printer at a 3" height is used as follows: (85lpi x
1.25 x 3")/5" = 63.75 dpi setting on scanner. Round up to 72 to 80 dpi for
ease of calculations and final scaling adjustments. A 5x4 inch picture
scanned at 300dpi at 256 levels turns into a 1.64MB monster. The same
picture scanned at 75 dpi is 105K large. You can see that a 105 K file is
much easier to load and work with. The only offset is that this newly
scanned file can be minimally resized (perhaps 1/2" up ) before getting
less desirable results.

    Technically, it works like this: 5"x4" at 300dpi works out to 1500
x 1200 = 1,800,000 cells total. If you scale the scanned image, the number
of cells stays the same, they only get distorted. A 5" image that contains
1500 cells vertically which is resized to 2" now has 750 cells per inch
vertically. This is too much information for the printer (and your hard
disk). The qualitative differences in print are well offset by the disk
space savings and ease of image editing software. This formula is only for
grayscale (halftones). For conventional line art, use the maximum
resolution of your scanner.

PRINTER and GRAY LEVELS

    Another thing to consider is the available number of gray levels
that your printer can reproduce. The following formula is commonly used:

(dpi/lpi)^2=available gray shades on the printer. Some printers may not
fall into this category, so you should consult your manual or call the
printer company to ask.

Example: (300/85)^2=12.46 levels of gray (not much is it) ... considering
this, the size of the file goes down even further.

SCANNING FROM NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES

    Usually the results are not great. Halftone printing, gray and
color, uses patterns of dots to represent shading and color differences.
The problem is that the scanner uses a similar method to scan the picture.
The result is a moire pattern that occurs when patterns of dots repeat and
combine from two sources (original and scanner). To get around this is
simple. Don't scan pre-printed pictures. If you have to scan printed
halftones, and moires appear, try changing the angle of the picture in the
scanner (this will hopefully offset the patterns enough that the two will
not meet). Moire patterns are less of a problem in color published pictures
because the patterns representing the CMYK model are more complex than the
gray scale patterns.

SCANNING COLOR PICTURES

    Actually, color pictures (originals), scan better than black and
white. It's something about color providing more threshold levels than gray
scale. You can bring out faint details of color pictures by scanning
(filtering) them through some colored acetate. I use red, green, blue and
yellow sheets that are used for overhead transparancies. Just put one of
them between the flatbed scanner and your picture; the results may surprise
you.

 -----------
Credits:
Publish! magazine, various articles
Canvas Update Manual
 -----------

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

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 19:30:26 -0800
From: Milton D VanDyke <[e-mail]>
Subject: Serial Clients for the Mac (Q)

For those without SLIP acces but with dial-in access to a UNIX account there
exist two programs that I know of that will give you that Mac interface by
simply running them after connecting with your usual comm. program:

MacNews1.1 [read/manage/post to Usenet newsgroups!]
Homer.99.3 [there is both a serial and tcp version for irc]

So, are there other programs out there.  I would like to find gopher, ftp, www,
and telnet software.  I'd appreciate any information on this.

-Christopher Van Dyke
Hohokam Middle School
[e-mail]

[BTW, I'm still trying to find a way to set a default printer on a LAN.]

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

Date: 25 Feb 1994 08:50:02 -0500
From: "JT Green" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Serious Matlab Bug

There is a serious bug in Matlab for Macintosh v4.1 that can cause you
to lose files.  If you open a Matlab 3.x file in Matlab 4.1, edit it and
then use "Save As" to save it with a new name; the new file will then
*OVERWRITE* the original file. You cannot undelete the lost file with
Norton since the file was never deleted. The work around is to change
all m-files to text files with Matlab 3.x (or with FileTyper) before using
Matlab 4.1.

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

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 94 08:59:13 EST
From: Scott Kelsey <[e-mail]>
Subject: Shareware NFS?

Hi All -- Is there a shareware product that would let me mount a file system on
a Unix machine? I am running MacX from a MacIIsi and connected by ethernet.
There is a product by InterCon call NFS/Share for about $258 but that a little
steep for my budget.

Thanks

Scott
[e-mail]
university of delaware
morris library

p.s. In a early message I spelled Quadra wrong. That was before I had my fourth
cup of coffee.

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

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 21:33:32 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: SITcomm v. 1.0 - Instability of Character Set - Self toggles

When I use Aladdin SITcomm v. 1.0 I get a toggling action between GO and GI
going from ASCII to Graphics. When this occurs I get a lot of gibberish on
the screen in the form of numbers, letters, and symbols. What would cause this
to occur. I am using a Macintosh IIsi with 17M RAM. Using Kermit protocol,
and a baud rate of 9600. Transfer is Macbinary and Packet lenth 256. Any
thoughts as to why this happens. Thanks for any assistance.

Bob Penman

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

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 11:38:52 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Vinko Tsui [phone])
Subject: Speech Manager (R)

>Where can one obtain Apple's Speech Manager and/or Macintalk2 or Pro?

Dr. Bensman,

There are many different places. First of all do you already have a AV Mac,
if so it should be on your Install CD. Otherwise, you can get it from the
ETO or Developer CD series. Both of these CDs can be purchased from APDA
[phone]. You do know that a regular Mac without the AV technology
cannot take advantage of Speech Recongnition.

I hope this helps. Let me know if you need more information.

-- Vinko

Vinko Enterprises, Oakville, Ontario, Canada, [e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 08:32:11 EST
From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Ten Bits

RS> So, and this is where we have to rap Jeffery's knuckles, there are
RS> (usually) TEN bits per byte when we are talking of modem
RS> communications, with Macs and other personal computers, - the eight
RS> data bits, one parity bit, and one stop bit.

Richard is correct.  I have been working too much with synchronous
circuits where a byte is indeed 8 bits.  In asychronous communications,
which most modems use, there are two extra bits as Anders Stegen and
Richard Smith both said.  So a byte of data actually is ten bits.
Sorry for the confusion!  :-(

BTW, this is one of the reasons that synchronous communications devices
(such as ISDN network bridges) are inherently more efficient than modems.
64 kbps synchronous is faster than 57.6 kbps asynchronous by a factor
approaching two in actual throughput.


Jeffrey Fritz
[e-mail]
West Virginia University

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

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 19:21:05 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Arild Eugen Johansen)
Subject: The decline and fall of the Macintosh...

>A friend at Lotus tells me that they think the Mac is dead, so they
>will not be bringing out anymore Mac software.  His belief is that
>everyone will move to IBM-compatibles. This isn't an official
>announcement, but he's in a position where he should know.
>
>
>--
>--David Wittenberg
>[e-mail]

Maybe your friend is half-dead, because what does IBM-compatible mean
today? It used to be a name for clones of the IBM PC in the early/mid 80s.
Today it is meaningless because there are conflicts in the OS world of
IBM-clones. IBM itself is supporting the OS/2 (half an operating system) as
a future operating system and not MS windows it seems and PowerPC (running
OS/2, System7, PC-DOS and MS-DOS (?) and Windows 3.x and Windows NT). Lotus
has never been successful on the Mac. Instead of admitting that, they
(well, your friend)  predict that the archaic system they support is the
winner and the up-to-date  system 7 (soon on the PPC) is dead. So far 11
million people are using a mac of some sort, Apple expects to increase that
number by 4 million every year! (I think that's what I read somewhere). If
Lotus can make decent software, they can still sell millions of copies for
the mac because on the PowerPC Mac you can run all operating systems. Ask
your friend to try that on an "IBM-compatible"!


Arild

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Date: 25 Feb 94 01:29:40 EST
From: Charlie Summers <[e-mail]>
Subject: UNIX .AU Decompression

Folks;

   The Background: I've recently become addicted to Internet Talk Radio (send
mail to [e-mail] if you don't know what I'm talking about); and for a guy
who isn't directly connected to the Internet, it takes a little work. (Yes,
Adam, MCI Mail _is_ an alternative, especially when using redirectable FTP mail
servers like BITFTP or FTPMAIL. And as an aside, I wrote that MCI Mail ->
Eudora
app you suggested was possible for a friend who can't do without Eudora, and
will never forgive you for suggesting it!)

   Anyway, recent Internet Talk Radio files are in SUN U-LAW format, which Rod
Kennedy's excellent SoundMachine 2.02 plays quite nicely in the backgound, so I
can listen to Geek of the Week while I'm working.

   Some archive sites are now storing older files in .ADPCM format; this is, as
far as I can tell, a lossy compression scheme. There are UNIX decompressors
(SOX, anyone?), and even a version of SOX for MS-DOS which is _supposed_ to
handle this format and convert to .AU, but I can't get it to work. (Considering
SOX' interesting syntax, that shouldn't be a surprise...)

   Also, sunsite.unc.edu is storing the files in .GSM, about which I know
absolutely nothing.

   The Question (Finally!) : Does _anyone_ know how I might convert .ADPSM
and/or .GSM files to .AU on the Macintosh? If not, how about a DOS box? (It
does
seem a bit much to buy a UNIX machine just to convert the files...;)

   I will happily summarise for the digest, if replies are sent to me at
[e-mail] or [e-mail] (AOL thinks it's Internet mailer is
working correctly, but I know better, so that one's out.)

   Thanks in advance!

     Charlie Summers

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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 16:30:00 +0000
From: "andre (a.n.) vellino" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Unstuffit + Mac-II + APS drive problem

I have a problem that I don't know how to diagnose and with which I
would welcome some help.

I've recently bought an APS 170 (which, of course, is only 1/2 as much
as I *really* needed) Quantum HD, with which I am very happy in most
respects.  It works well on my II-ci at work but not perfectly on my
68020 Mac-II at home.  The problem is with (and only with, it seems)
'unstuffit' which bombs when I try to unstuff some of the P.D.
software that comes with the APS disk.  The odd thing is that the same
program on the same stuffed file on the II's internal drive works
O.K.. Also, decompacting compact-pro archives seems to work fine on
the APS disk.  Furthermore, 'Stuffit Lite' unstuffs the files fine
too.  Both disks are using the same (APS) SCSI driver, so that's not
the problem, and the APS disk diagnosis doesn't say anything is wrong
either (so the disk seems to be fine).

MacsBug tells me "Bus error .... while reading long word from .... in
supervisor data space", which suggests it's a memory problem but I
can't figure out what that might be or why. The (very helpful) techies
at APS were at a loss on this one too and suggested a system (7.1)
reinstall, elimination of extensions etc. none of which helped).

The only conclusion is that this is a bug in 'unstuffit' that
manifests itself only in peculiar kinds of hardware arangements
(memory/access/timing problem perhaps).  Any other ideas anyone?

 --------------------------------------------------------------------
Andre' Vellino,   [e-mail],   [phone],  fax [phone]
Bell-Northen Research,  Box 3511,  Station C,  Ottawa, CANADA K1Y 4H7
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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 16:06:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Using TurboGopher through At Ease

We are trying to run TurboGopher through At Ease.  Unfortunately
TurboGopher can't make  the required NSCA Telnet connection although we
also have this in the At Ease inferface.  Anyone know of a solution to
this?

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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 15:19:48 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Vinko Tsui [phone])
Subject: Where is Network Launch Fix? [Q]

>The Readme file on the Network Software Installer 1.4.2 disk states:
>
>"On Macintosh computers with a 68040 microprocessor (Quadra, Centris,
>and Performa 470 series), some programs may quit unexpectedly or cause
>the computer to freeze when you attempt to open them over the network.
>This problem is fixed by using the Network Launch Fix available from
>AppleLink or the InterNet (ftp.apple.com)."
>
>I was not able to locate this patch/fix on ftp.apple.com. Has anybody
>figured out where it is hiding?
>

Stefan,

Well Stefan, the Read Me was correct, but from the date of your EMail it
looks like Apple might have removed it from (ftp.apple.com). This is due to
a major incompatibility with Apple's MPW Shell; this is the software that
many Macintosh developers use. The patch causes MPW to crash.

So may be Apple is trying to come out with a new version.

-- Vinko

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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 94 08:07:54 MST
From: [e-mail] (Jonathan Lundell)
Subject: WinWord <-> Mac Word

>From: Dwight Lemke at Wisconsin Oshkosh <[e-mail]>
>Subject: WinWord <-> Mac Word
>
>What's the recommended way to transfer files back and forth between Word
>for Windows (2.0, I believe) and Word 5.1a?  RTF?  Save in WinWord on
>my Mac?  Let the PC do the translations?
>
>Which requires the least clean-up afterwards?  Is the same method the best
>in both directions?
>
I occasionally send Word 5.1a files to an associate who uses Windows.
He reports that Winword 6 imports 5.1a files *much* better than Winword 2.

If you make a habit of this, try using the MS TrueType Master Set on both
machines. The fonts are decent, cheap and compatible.

Another advantage to WW6 is that it'll presumably be pretty compatible with
Mac Word 6, sharing the same source base.

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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 09:29:07 -0600 (CST)
From: "Traci J. Ingram" <[e-mail]>
Subject: WinWord to Mac Word

From: Traci Ingram
Reply to: Dwight Lemke at Wisconsin Oshkosh <[e-mail]>
Subject: WinWord <-> Mac Word

>What's the recommended way to transfer files back and forth between >Word
for Windows (2.0, I believe) and Word 5.1a?  RTF?  Save in WinWord >on my
Mac?  Let the PC do the translations?

>Which requires the least clean-up afterwards?  Is the same method the
>best in both directions?

Dwight,

These conversions work reasonably well in both directions, but whichever
method you choose, creating custom font mapping files on both platforms can
save a lot of work later.  On the IBM, the two files MW5_RTF.TXT and
RTF_MW5.TXT include instructions on how to edit them to your
specifications, and then save them back to the WINWORD directory with .DAT
extensions.

On the Mac, a single file in the Word Commands folder, MS Word for Win
FontMap, serves the same function as the two Windows files, and likewise
has documentation included within it as comment lines.  Unless you are
doing some very simple conversions, the small amount of time it takes to
customize these files is well worth the effort.  (Having your most-used
fonts installed on both platforms is also a big help.)

Some other notes:  If you open/convert a native Word for Windows file on
the Macintosh, the program has the annoying behavior of *always* placing it
in an Untitled window.  If you wish to keep saving, in Windows format, over
the original file (under the same name), you have to retype the filename
each time.  By contrast, if you open a WinWord file that has been
saved/converted by the Mac program, the original file name will be assumed.

I upgraded to Word for Windows 6.0 specifically to improve cross-platform
file transfers, but have not yet been able to install and test it.  It
seems that the new version requires 25mb of HD space for a full install,
6mb minimum.  It also requires 4mb of RAM.  I have the latter, but am
scrambling to find the former.

One other point:  If you upgrade to Windows 6.0, it also licenses you to
use DOS 6.0, which presumably makes more modest hardware demands.  If you
need this, the disk set is $15.

ItUs anybodyUs guess how monstrous the new Mac version of Word will be, but
it at least shouldnUt be as bad as the PC is.  (I still use Word 4.0E Mac
for much of my word processing, as it boots and opens a text file in 5
seconds versus about 15 in 5.1a.  Removing unneeded items from the Commands
folder helps the latter considerably.)

Traci J. Ingram

[e-mail]  |  [e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 94 10:23:03 EST
From: Scott Kelsey <[e-mail]>

Hi All - In a previous message I spelled Quattra instead of Quadra. I should've
had a cup of coffee before I started writing.

Later

Scott

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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 22:48:37 +0000
From: [e-mail] (infidel)

>Received: from RICEVM1.RICE.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@RICEVM1) by
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>Date: 21 February 1994, 09:03:58 EST
>From: Robert E. Moore           404-651-3990         PRPREM   at GSUVM1
>To:   INFO-MAC at RICEVM1
>Subject:  OED
>
>I am interested in finding out if there is currently a location on the
>internet where a remote user can get access to the Oxford English Dictionary.
>I used to occassionally reference the one at Stanford via turbogopher;
>recently, however, it has been made unavailable to users not from Stanford.
>Is there an alternate location?  Thanks.

For one, can someone tell me how to e-mail Robert E. Moore?  This
bitnet/listserv is way out of my league.  Besides that, I'm having the same
troubles and would like the same information.
Thanks!

Corey
[e-mail]

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