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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 94 07:07:10 PST
From: The Info-Mac Moderators <info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Reply-To: Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V12 #48
To: info-mac-list
Info-Mac Digest Thu, 24 Mar 94 Volume 12 : Issue 48
Today's Topics:
[*] Amy's recipes v1.5; a Hypercard stack to keep recipes
[*] Beer Trash Icons
[*] Cool Addresss Book v1.0b4
[*] DialScript 1.7.1; a serial communications program
[*] Doc Creator v1.0
[*] Dockernaut 1.4.2; a Dock preference management utility
[*] Enhanced; a text adventure
[*] ens-times; a font with Greek diacriticals
[*] Five Dice v1.5; a Yatzee-type game
[*] FMPro ISBN Verification
[*] Font Library v1.3; a Hypercard stack
[*] glidel-23-fr.hqx; Drag-And-Dropping on the Finder's Menus
[*] glidel-23-us.hqx; Drag-And-Dropping on the Finder's Menus
[*] GLMStat 104; linear model analysis program
[*] IconBOSS 1.0; an icon editor
[*] Ismini Greek font, metamorphosis version
[*] janet-and-bill; Janet Reno and Bill Clinton
[*] LoanCalc, a loan calculator
[*] McPoet 2.0; a random poetry generator
[*] Open Prolog 1.0.2; a programming language
[*] PM4-Launcher conversion application (and some for MacWrite)
[*] Polytris 1.03;l a game like Tetris
[*] Sailing Simulator; Sail Away
[*] santa-maria-fr; A Greek short-story translated in French
[*] SMF Utilities with better docs; for MIDI files
[*] Sound Trecker 2.01 Sound Drivers, For Developers
[*] StockCalcLite; calculates Schwab commissions
[*] subtle-spring-startup; a startup screen
[*] UpWord 1.2; a word processor
[*] wakeup-11; a sound monitoring extension
[*] Wulfila, a font with Indo-European diacriticals
(Q) InterNet Access with ARA?
32-bit System Enabler (Q)
[:-)] LEMMINGS ACCESS CODE POST
[Q] receiving fax and data on a LineLink modem
A Good Word for Radius
A Mac to VGA question
Apple kills services
AV Power PC Card?
AWK for the Mac needed.
Byte's latest editorial...
Calculas tutitorial software
cc:mail attachment format (q)
Changing MHz of a sound
Color Depth Problems
DarkSide (Q)
Dead quadra 840AV (q)
Deskwriter 650C vs Deskjet 650C
Embossed Typeface
error in my posting
ethernet address(A)
Experiences with FrameMaker 4.0 (R)
extension .tgz
Filemaker, Word, & Applescript [Q]
FoxPro: A wake-up call (C)
GeoPort? Don't do it!
Help with MacPPP/MacTCP needed...
Igor Pro ships!
Info-Mac_3_CDROM_NEC_driver_fix
Info-Mac Digest V12 #36
Info-Mac Digest V12 #47 (3 msgs)
looking for toggleAT
Macintosh Pascal Programming Primer Vol. 1
Mac PPP
Mac Suffers from Windows Compatibility
MacWrite Pro 1.5
MEDLINE on CD-ROM [Summary]
mergers
Microsoft Wake-up call (was: FoxPro wake-up...)
mini docks that come with ethernet
MPW CreateMake (Q)
Mr. Macintosh, appearing in "Blank Check"
need Duo repair help
Needed: help with Color Classic
Network problems(Q)
Network time application? (A) (2 msgs)
Now this is going to sound weird...
obtain ethernet address
PlainTalk voices
Quad605, LC475, and Performa 475 OS
Quickmail Utilities
Quicktime --> .AVI?
Receipt Printer Drivers
REQ:Timer for launching applications?
SLIP, TCP, ...?
SLIP Problems Resolved - CRL Still Sucks
Software Ventures e-mail addr.
Subject: [A]: MS Word & xtra line feeds
Temporary Items Folder
They shoot horses don't they
Unrecoverable Disk Error
utilities to block out bad sectors on a floppy (Q)
Video card for Powerbook 170 (Q)
Word 6.0 & Excel 5.0
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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 94 23:15 CST
From: kep@gandalf.baylor.edu
Subject: [*] Amy's recipes v1.5; a Hypercard stack to keep recipes
This is an update of a Hypercard stack recipe organizer. The only reason I know
this is an update (aside from the version number) is because the author is my
brother-in-law. Ill have to talk to him about including revision histories. Oh,
well. His degree is in religion, not software development.
[Archived as /info-mac/app/amys-recipes-15-hc.hqx; 146K]
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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 94 11:20:41 -0800
From: errera@ese.ogi.edu (Claude Errera)
Subject: [*] Beer Trash Icons
A pretty nice set of ResEdit docs containing replacement Trash icons.
Beer cans when empty, overflowing beer cans when full. Bud, Coors,
Heineken, Rolling Rock, and Trash Lite. I didn't make 'em, just found
'em on a local BBS.
Enjoy!
Claude
errera@ese.ogi.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/grf/beer-trash-icons.hqx; 17K]
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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 94 23:16 CST
From: kep@gandalf.baylor.edu
Subject: [*] Cool Addresss Book v1.0b4
Cool Address Book is just that ... a cool address book. It is a Hypercard stack
with a nice interface though I dont believe it prints labels or anything like
that.
[Archived as /info-mac/app/cool-address-book-10b4.hqx; 335K]
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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 01:12:51 -0500 (EST)
From: newton@cs.utk.edu
Subject: [*] DialScript 1.7.1; a serial communications program
DialScript is a freeware serial communications program that provides
an easy to use scripting language that permits users to write scripts
to automate a login process. It is intended to be used in conjunction
with a terminal emulation program that lacks or has poor scripting
facilities of its own. For example, it is often used with MacLayers.
DialScript runs, executes your script, and when login is complete
optionally automatically quits and launches your terminal emulator.
The language is powerful enough to allow you to dial a list of numbers
sequentially until one is not busy, define timeouts to deal with
unexpected problems, etc.
Version 1.7.1 is a very minor update. It contains a single language
change that simplifies scripts that must dial a list of numbers in
sequence. It should replace version 1.7 in the archives. This package
includes 680x0 code only.
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/dial-script-171.hqx; 103K]
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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 94 23:17 CST
From: kep@gandalf.baylor.edu
Subject: [*] Doc Creator v1.0
DocCreator is a standalone application compiled from a Hypercard stack that
allows developers to create ttro (teachtext read only) files for your
applications.
[Archived as /info-mac/app/doc-creator-10.hqx; 561K]
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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 21:42:16 -0600
From: martin@metronet.com (Steve Martin)
Subject: [*] Dockernaut 1.4.2; a Dock preference management utility
Dockernaut 1.4.2 is an update to the popular preference management utility
that lets you customize your environment for different docks, monitors, and
battery vs. A/C power.
Compatibility improvements: Completely compatible with VM and RAM Doubler.
Extension manager set control can now be configured to work with Now
Startup Manager 4.0.2.
Enhancements: Sets can be created for battery vs. A/C power. Old sets can
be deleted. The extension manager set key can be user defined (supports
international keyboards). Balloon help and improved documentation.
1.4.2 is a minor maintenance release that fixes the version number of the
extension and correctly deals with the VM bug in the Duo Dock ROM.
A must have for all Duo owners!
[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/dockernaut-142.hqx; 48K]
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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 10:09:17 +0100
From: unicorn@lysator.liu.se
Subject: [*] Enhanced; a text adventure
SophistiChaos Game Design proudly presents:
Enhanced
The first part of the Cyberventure trilogy (soon to be followed by
Sensorer and Icebreaker).
Enhanced is a science fiction text adventure set in a cyberpunk
environment, complete with your first opportunity to experience
cyberspace.
As Enhanced begins, you are trying to survive yet another day in the
big city with no money, no job and no hope. Walking down the street
in the government research project area, you suddenly see a sign that
you haven't seen before.
"Volunteers needed for military research project!
Do you want to make money?
Do you want to help your country?
Can you start at once?
No special skills needed.
Enter here."
Since you think that all of the items on the list fit you perfectly,
especially the part about needing money, you enter the door indicated
on the sign and sign up to be a research subject.
You have to fill out and sign a multitude of forms, asking you about
all sorts of things from what grades you had in school to if you have
any friends or relatives who know where you are. Once you finish all
the boring paperwork you are lead through a lot of white-painted
corridors, all alike. Finally, you emerge in what looks like a
surgery. You are made to lie down on an operating table where you are
tied down and covered with green cloth. You see a plastic mouthpiece
being lowered down over your mouth and you feel yourself floating
away...
When you come to, you find that some things about you have changed.
You also find that the people doing the research seem to regard you as
some kind of prototype, not a human being. Perhaps it would be good
for your health if you could get out of this mess...
Enhanced is shareware ($10) and runs on Macintosh, PC and various
flavors of Unix. If you register your copy, we will send you a
diskette with the latest release of Enhanced, a booklet with hints to
help you complete the game and also the complete TADS 2.1 source to
the game.
[Archived as /info-mac/game/enhanced.hqx; 268K]
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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 13:26:06 +0100
From: goulandr@sociologie.ens.fr (Nikos Goulandris)
Subject: [*] ens-times; a font with Greek diacriticals
ENSTimes A type 1 font including eleven diacriticalsfor the transliteration of
Greek.
Nikos.Goulandris@ens.fr
[Archived as /info-mac/font/ps/ens-times.hqx; 178K]
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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 94 23:16 CST
From: kep@gandalf.baylor.edu
Subject: [*] Five Dice v1.5; a Yatzee-type game
This is an update of a Hypercard stack that allows multiple players to play the
game yatzee together. As in Amys recipes, there is no version history to let
me know what is different about this one. (my brother-in-law wrote it.)
[Archived as /info-mac/game/five-dice-15-hc.hqx; 420K]
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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 23:26:12 -0500
From: kkirksey@world.std.com (Ken B Kirksey)
Subject: [*] FMPro ISBN Verification
This FileMaker Pro database demonstrates how to verify the integrity
of an ISBN using calculated fields. I wrote these for use in my
Personal Librarian template, but I figured someone else might find
them useful, or at least interesting. If you find anything wrong
with the way I've implemented these calculations, or know of an
easier way to do it, please let me know.
[Archived as /info-mac/app/fmpro-isbn-verification.hqx; 30K]
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 94 23:18 CST
From: kep@gandalf.baylor.edu
Subject: [*] Font Library v1.3; a Hypercard stack
This is an update of a Hypercard stack that will catalog and creates sample
text
of any resident fonts (dont know if it works with system 7.1 font setup,
though). It does not forget old fonts but they can be deleted from the database
if the user wishes.
[Archived as /info-mac/font/util/font-library-13-hc.hqx; 528K]
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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 94 09:44:27 +0100
From: sygnet@iap.fr (Jean-Francois Sygnet)
Subject: [*] glidel-23-fr.hqx; Drag-And-Dropping on the Finder's Menus
Glidel 2.3 [FR] Mars 10, 1994
by Gilles Berkovitch <GB136@calvacom.fr>
*** WHAT ***
Glidel is a Shareware system extension to Drag-and-Drop
icons on the Finder's Menu Items (works only with System 7.x).
*** THIS IS A VERSION IN FRENCH CORRESPONDING TO glidel-23-us.hqx ***
*** HOW ***
The action performed depends on where you drag-and-drop a selection to:
- The Apple Menu Icon: move it to the "Apple Menu Items" folder.
An Folder/Application in the Apple Menu: same as drag-and-dropping
the selected file on the Folder/Application's icon.
- An Item in the File Menu: same as selecting the file in the finder
then choosing that File Menu Item.
- The Application Menu Icon: move the selection to the "System" folder.
An Item in the Application Menu: same action performed as would do
drag-and-dropping the selected file on the application's icon.
If one press the option or control key when drag-and-dropping,
a duplicate or alias of the file will be moved or opened.
*** CHANGES *** Glidel 2.3: Bug fixes, works with the drag-manager
and most hierarchical menus.
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/glidel-23-fr.hqx; 29K]
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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 94 09:42:41 +0100
From: sygnet@iap.fr (Jean-Francois Sygnet)
Subject: [*] glidel-23-us.hqx; Drag-And-Dropping on the Finder's Menus
Glidel 2.3 [US] Mars 10, 1994
by Gilles Berkovitch <GB136@calvacom.fr>
*** WHAT ***
Glidel is a Shareware system extension to Drag-and-Drop
icons on the Finder's Menu Items (works only with System 7.x).
*** HOW ***
The action performed depends on where you drag-and-drop a selection to:
- The Apple Menu Icon: move it to the "Apple Menu Items" folder.
An Folder/Application in the Apple Menu: same as drag-and-dropping
the selected file on the Folder/Application's icon.
- An Item in the File Menu: same as selecting the file in the finder
then choosing that File Menu Item.
- The Application Menu Icon: move the selection to the "System" folder.
An Item in the Application Menu: same action performed as would do
drag-and-dropping the selected file on the application's icon.
If one press the option or control key when drag-and-dropping,
a duplicate or alias of the file will be moved or opened.
*** CHANGES *** Glidel 2.3: Bug fixes, works with the drag-manager
and most hierarchical menus.
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/glidel-23-us.hqx; 30K]
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 13:51:18 +1000
From: Ken Beath <CGACB@cc.newcastle.edu.au>
Subject: [*] GLMStat 104; linear model analysis program
GLMStat is a statistical program for analysing generalised linear models.
It provides a macintosh interface but otherwise operates in a similar
fashion to GLIM but with less features (most of which you probably won't
miss). Features of GLMStat are
- spreadsheet style data entry
- Normal, Poisson, Binomial and Gamma models with appropriate links and
specification of convergence parameters
- Scatter and Residual plots
- Output of deviance, parameter estimates, residuals and parameter
correlations
- Saving of data files complete with all model specifications.
- printing of data, graph and results.
- Online Help (under the apple menu) unfortunately there is currently no
other documentation.
- includes example data files for most examples in two of the texts.
The programme is shareware and now fully tested. Further details in "read
me" file. Unregistered copies are fully functional but after 31st August
1994 there is a short delay after each FIT operation with a reminder that
the programme is unregistered.
This version of GLMStat has the following changes
- improved Help display
- changed colour Icons to tasteful blue/green (you will need to rebuild
the desktop if you have a previous version and want the new icons)
- printing of data, graph and glm windows
- improved display of column headings
- fixed problem with lack of convergence error when convergence had in
fact occurred
- fix various cosmetic problems on colour machines
- completed testing of version 1.0
Ken Beath
cgacb@cc.newcastle.edu.au
[Archived as /info-mac/sci/glm-stat-104.hqx; 220K]
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 07:45:25 -0800
From: martin@wallaby.Stanford.EDU (Michael Martin)
Subject: [*] IconBOSS 1.0; an icon editor
MacWorld magazine rated this program one of the best shareware icon-editing
programs a few months back. I hadn't been able to find it on the internet
(archie turned up nothing), but I found it on a shareware disk from NYMUG.
Not the author; just passing on my find.
Cheers,
Michael.
Michael Martin, Statistics Department, Stanford University
martin@wallaby.stanford.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/icon-boss-10.hqx; 65K]
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 22:07:19 +0100
From: backmod (Backup Moderator)
Subject: [*] Ismini Greek font, metamorphosis version
This is the Metamorphosis output of the Macintosh version of Ismini Greek
font.I
have never tried it.
Nikos.Goulandris@ens.fr
[Archived as /info-mac/font/ismini-greek-metamorphosis.hqx.hqx; 129K]
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 94 22:07:01 -0500
From: rinelljv@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Joe)
Subject: [*] janet-and-bill; Janet Reno and Bill Clinton
This is a GIF of a cartoon with two of America's most favorite people
Janet Reno and Bill "Bubba" Klinton. A must download.
[Archived as /info-mac/grf/janet-and-bill.hqx; 103K]
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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 13:11:10 -0500 (EST)
From: "Glenn Schneider @ STScI 410-338-4717" <GSCHNEIDER@stsci.edu>
Subject: [*] LoanCalc, a loan calculator
Hi. I am appending a Binhexed file containing a file archive called
LOANCALC.seq.hqx. This archive contains a Mac application, and documentation
which, briefly, may be described as follows:
LOANCALC will compute loan payment, declining balance, and equity schedules
(running and cumulative) for fixed rate loans with or without prepayment
schedules. The terms of the loan (Principle, Percentage, Term, and number of
Payments per Year) and an optional schedule of discrete or contiguous
prepayments are entered. LOANCALC will then compute and display five reports,
which may be printed or exported as ASCII text files, as follows:
Annual Schedule: Principle, Interest and Balance
Declining Balance: Balance remaining for each payment period
Periodic Equity: Equity contributed in each payment period
Cumulative Equity: Accumulated equity at each payment period
Summary: Terms, Payoffs (Annual, Periodic, Total)
and life (with prepayments).
sofTouch APpLications
646 North Bend Road
Baltimore, MD 21229 USA
Telephone: 410-788-4963
Thanks. >> Glenn Schneider
[Archived as /info-mac/app/loan-calc.hqx; 257K]
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Date: Sun, 20 Mar 1994 23:25:13 -0500 (EST)
From: Chris Westbury <chris@ego.psych.mcgill.ca>
Subject: [*] McPoet 2.0; a random poetry generator
I have enclosed a copy of McPoet 2.0, the most recent version of my random
text-generation stack, now a stand-alone Hypercard 2.2 application. McPoet
generates random texts by matching rules written in a simple
sentence-specification 'language' to words contained in its dictionary.
New features in version 2.0 include macros, disjunctive sets within rules,
automatic repetition of text chunks, subject-setting functions, access to
HyperTalk functions from within rules, auto-dump to text files, and global
variables. The built-in dictionary contains many hundreds of words from 17
categories, with three user-definable categories. Everything is
user-configurable.
Chris Westbury
[Archived as /info-mac/game/mc-poet-20.hqx; 704K]
------------------------------
Date: Wed, Mar 23, 1994 11:13 am
From: Michael Brady <Michael.Brady@ashe.cs.tcd.ie>
Subject: [*] Open Prolog 1.0.2; a programming language
Fellow Netters, here is Open Prolog 1.0.2, an update to Open Prolog. It
supercedes all previous versions of Open Prolog - openprolog1.01.sit.hqx,
open-prolog.hqx and open-prolog-101.hqx, so they can be removed from the
archives.
Open Prolog is a Prolog interpreter for the Macintosh. It supports the
Edinburgh
syntax, has last call optimisation, Definite Clause Grammar support, garbage
collection, an integrated editor and a debugger. Extra facilities can be
dropped
into Open Prolog via an external interface.
This version fixes a number of bugs that stopped it from running on 660AVs, and
provides new and revised file I/O facilities for hierarchical file systems.
Windows and files are better integrated. A number of syntax processing errors
have been removed.
Open Prolog runs on any Macintosh, from a Mac Plus to an 8100/80 (in 68K
emulated mode). It's reasonably fast too.
Open Prolog is postcardware.
Michael Brady,
Computer Science Department,
University of Dublin,
Trinity College Dublin,
Ireland
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/open-prolog-102.hqx; 402K]
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 15:10:46 -0600
From: Ephraim Fithian <fithian@acad.csv.kutztown.edu>
Subject: [*] PM4-Launcher conversion application (and some for MacWrite)
This is an application that opens PageMaker 4.X files in PageMaker 5.0 by
double-clicking on the file. There are two additional applications
included that do the same for MacWrite and MacWrite II files, opening
them in MacWrite Pro. This application was released for MacWrite several
years ago by someone other than me. I take no credit for the code. Please
contact me if you know who released the original, so I can give
well-deserved credit. Included are three applications and a docs file.
Ephraim Fithian Dept. of Math. and Computer Science
fithian@acad.csv.kutztown.edu Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
fithian@aol.com Kutztown, Pennsylvania 19530
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/pm4-macwrite-launchers.hqx; 19K]
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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 17:47:55 -0500 (EST)
From: STH@eclx.psu.edu
Subject: [*] Polytris 1.03;l a game like Tetris
Triiiiiiis iiiiiiis back!!!!
Polytris is a game with falling polyomino blocks, 1 to 5 connected square
blocks. The objective is to stay in game by removing rows.
Polytris is more challenging because it has 29 kinds of blocks, bombs, weights
and water balloons. Depending on your skill, you can adjust the difficulty of
the game. It can be configured as from 'Someone's Tetris' to 'Ultra Super Duper
Extra Tris Plus Twenty-two'. (I never tried this one.)
In version 1.03, for slower color Macs, simple block pictures are added to
speed
up animation. More bugs are fixed.
[Archived as /info-mac/game/arc/polytris-103.hqx; 243K]
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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 01:07:25 -0500 (EST)
From: newton@cs.utk.edu
Subject: [*] Sailing Simulator; Sail Away
Sail Away is a simple sailing simulator. It is to Sunfish style
sailboats what flight simulators are to airplanes. It puts you at the
helm of the boat and lets you sail around a lake with some limited
shore scenery. If you have never sailed, take heart. This simulator
is harder than the real thing.
It is shareware but has no suggested price. It appears to be some
kind of pre-release. The author lists a Compu$erve and a U.S. mail
address.
[Archived as /info-mac/game/sail-away.hqx; 45K]
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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 13:26:18 +0100
From: goulandr@sociologie.ens.fr (Nikos Goulandris)
Subject: [*] santa-maria-fr; A Greek short-story translated in French
Santa Maria, A Greek short-story translated in French by the participants to a
Greeklanguage course at Orsay, France. This translation has been published in
"Racine"a newsletter edited by the "Anciens lves et amis de lUInstitut franais
de Jannina"Jannina, [Grce], mai 1993, N! 18, 1-7.
Nikos.Goulandris@ens.fr
[Archived as /info-mac/info/nms/santa-maria-fr.hqx; 33K]
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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 94 09:13:04 EST
From: bkirsch@NADC.NADC.NAVY.MIL (B. Kirsch)
Subject: [*] SMF Utilities with better docs; for MIDI files
I forgot to include important tempates and docs in my previous posting.
SMF Utilities includes a couple of functions to convert Standard MIDI files.
One function changes the type and creator to 'Midi' and to your sequencer
The other function remaps General MIDI program numbers and drum notes
to your particular synthesizers configurations.
[Archived as /info-mac/snd/util/smf-utilites-10b8.hqx; 15K]
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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 16:52:51 -0500 (EST)
From: jamal@bronze.lcs.mit.edu (Jamal Hannah)
Subject: [*] Sound Trecker 2.01 Sound Drivers, For Developers
Sound Trecker 2.0.1 Music Drivers, for playing Amiga MOD files.
- jamal@gnu.ai.mit.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/snd/util/sound-trecker-201-MOD-driver.hqx; 59K]
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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 15:11:10 -0600
From: "Nick C. Yang" <eaig045@orion.oac.uci.edu>
Subject: [*] StockCalcLite; calculates Schwab commissions
StockCalcLite 1.0 is a Mac program which calculates commission infomation
for stock investors at Charles Schwab. The program works for all
Macs from Mac SE and up. Requires 256KB of memory.
StockCalcLite is Shareware.
Nick Yang
[Archived as /info-mac/app/stock-calc-lite-10.hqx; 48K]
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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 16:10:36 -0600
From: gas52r0@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Jay Boersma)
Subject: [*] subtle-spring-startup; a startup screen
Attached is SubtleSpringStartup, a seasonal variation of the Mac's standard
startup screen with some apple blossoms in place of the little Mac picture
and a robin sitting on the top edge of the window.
Jay Boersma
gas52r0@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/grf/subtle-spring-startup.hqx; 15K]
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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 07:48:14 -0800
From: martin@wallaby.Stanford.EDU (Michael Martin)
Subject: [*] UpWord 1.2; a word processor
Enclosed is a stuffed, binhexed shareware word processing application.
FOund on a disk of shareware from NYMUG, and passed on for the archives.
Not the author, just a passer-onner (if that's a word).
Cheers,
Michael.
Michael Martin, Statistics Department, Stanford University
martin@wallaby.stanford.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/text/up-word-12.hqx; 113K]
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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 94 23:41:44 +0100
From: rickard@softlab.se (Rickard)
Subject: [*] wakeup-11; a sound monitoring extension
This is WakeUp 1.1, a shareware ($5) system extension.
Use the microphone to wake your screensaver when it has gone
to sleep. Requires system 7 and support for AppleEvents and
SoundInputDevices. The screensaver must be using the SAVR &
SAVC selectors.
Rickard Andersson, Email: rickard@softlab.se
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/wake-up-11.hqx; 22K]
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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 22:32:59 +0100
From: Nikos.Goulandris@ens.fr
Subject: [*] Wulfila, a font with Indo-European diacriticals
Wulfila, a type1 font for linguists who would need diacriticalsfor the
transliteration of indoeuropean languages.
Nikos.Goulandris@ens.fr
[Archived as /info-mac/font/tt/wulfila.hqx; 91K]
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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 13:56:56 -0800
From: "Carter, Michael H." <Carter@courier4.aero.org>
Subject: (Q) InterNet Access with ARA?
I have Internet access at my office and I want to use that access at home.
Specifically I want to use NCSA Telnet for FTP access. I have called my
office with ARA and made a connection but MacTCP will not open. I have a
PowerBook 140 at home with MacTCP configured with the same way as the MacTCP
at my office. What am I doing wrong? I heard at MacWorld Expo in San
Francisco that there was a way to do this but I don't know how. Thanks for
any help you can give me.
Michael Carter
carter@courier4.aero.org
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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 94 08:10:45 CST
From: Mike Sisson <SISSON_MD@BRUTUS.VOUGHT.COM>
Subject: 32-bit System Enabler (Q)
Recently I downloaded the 32-bit System enabler from Apple and following the
instructions I put it in the System Folder. Unfortunately, nothing happens.
I have a Mac II running System 7.1 and I recently added a PMMU chip (which is
why I hadn't tried the enabler previously). I did restart after installing the
enabler but when I pulled up the Memory control panel, no 24/32 bit option.
In case it is important, I am running INITPicker which is an INIT manager.
The enabler doesn't show up as an INIT or control panel so I don't think
INITPicker is affecting it but I thought I'd throw that in. Also, there is no
32-bit enabler icon when I start up but then I don't know if there is supposed
to be one.
Thanks,
Mike Sisson
sisson_md@brutus.vought.com
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Date: 23 Mar 94 14:41:00 EST
From: brandon_munday.sa.navairtestcen%pcgate@NATC-FW.NAVY.MIL
Subject: [:-)] LEMMINGS ACCESS CODE POST
A reasoned response (I hope):
<gamblins@nbnet>'s post of Lemmings access codes generated a pretty harsh
response today; I assume that he also got some personal email on that one.
I thought I'd pose a question to interested parties:
I've worked thru Holiday Lemmings 1993, level by painful level. Some of
them took several days to figure out. All I wanted was to get thru the
game. Well, having a succinct list of the access codes to jump to a
certain level sounds like a pretty good idea to me, being the lazy type.
Although, I admit that having plugged thru the whole game, I can't really
imagine that I'd want to go back to it, except for mindless entertainment.
Once a puzzle is solved, what's the thrill? It was a good week's
entertainement, and I'll think about getting next year's version, too. Fun
game. But I'm puzzled (bad pun, I know). Why the flame today concerning
his posting?
Since I don't have the original Lemmings game, I can only assume that it's
the same as HL93. In HL93, each level has a 10-character random code
which you must enter if you want to start at that level, instead of level
1. But there's no copy protection to prevent you from starting the game.
The only thing for which you really need the manual is that on one level,
there are 13 possible "home bases" and you need to know which one is "it".
'Course, if you're determined, you can just march thru it until you FIND
the right one. And the splash before that level says "read the hints",
referring to the manual.
So, anyone who gets a copy of my software can plug thru it, and if they're
patient, they can get all the access codes on their own. And they can
figure out which home to use. How on earth, then, does posting that list
hurt the company? All <gamblins> has done is make it faster for folks to
get to a particular level. They've already got the software, and it runs,
so what's the big deal? He's just taken away some frustration.
If I'm wrong about how the protection on the original Lemmings (or More
Lemmings) works, I apologize. Like I said, I've never seen them. But the
response I saw today seemed a bit overdone. My two bits. Am I out to
lunch?
In support of <gamblins>,
Brandon Munday
bmunday@tecnet1.jcte.jcs.mil
brandon_munday.sa.navairtestcen%pcgate@NATC-FW.NAVY.MIL
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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 94 10:15:05 MST
From: "Roger B. Marks" <marks@central.bldrdoc.gov>
Subject: [Q] receiving fax and data on a LineLink modem
I'm using a LineLink 144e modem with MaxFax software. This receives faxes OK,
but I'm thinking of setting up ARA through the same modem. Unfortunately, if
set
to receive faxes, MaxFax will pick up all calls and won't pass the data calls
on
to ARA or other data software. I am told by Prometheus (publishers of MaxFax)
that there is no way around this, due to software limitations.
I've heard that FaxSTF will do what I want, but I haven't gotten this
confirmed.
Is anyone using FaxSTF with the LineLink? Will it solve my problem?
Thanks,
Roger
Marks@bldr.nist.gov NIST/Boulder, CO
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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 94 14:25:28 MST
From: "Roger B. Marks" <marks@central.bldrdoc.gov>
Subject: A Good Word for Radius
Here's a public word of praise to Radius.
I've had a Radius Color Pivot/LE running with my Mac SE/30 for about a year and
a half. When I decided to upgrade to a Quadra 650, I was unhappy with my
monitor
choices. The problem is that the Color Pivot/LE doesn't run over internal video
but only from a Radius video card. Of course, I couldn't use the SE/30 card in
the Quadra NuBus slot. And a NuBus version, at $599, was hard to justify.
I called Radius and talked to a customer service agent named Rosa Linda. She
graciously agreed to swap the SE/30 card for a NuBus card. In fact, after I
gave
her the board's assembly number over the phone, she overnighted the NuBus board
to me immediately, before I even returned the old board. The Color Pivot/LE is
working great on my Quadra, and I'm a happy Radius customer.
Thank you, Radius.
Roger
Marks@bldr.nist.gov NIST/Boulder, CO
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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 19:29:40 -0600 (CST)
From: BRIAN SCHMALZ <SCHMALZB@lawrence.edu>
Subject: A Mac to VGA question
I have a Mac IIsi with a Radius Color Pivot monitor attached to the
Radius Video board that came with the monitor. I also have a VGA monitor.
Is there any way that I could connect the onboard video on my IIsi to
the VGA monitor? I have seen plans for a cable to connect PowerBooks to
VGA monitors, but does such a beast exist for Mac IIs? All I really need
it a pinout. TIA!
*Brian
Lawrence University
Appleton, WI
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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 94 13:09:33 GMT
From: m.deyssenroth@ic.ac.uk
Subject: Apple kills services
hello info-macs
probably all of you know the ftp.apple.com server. some of you may know the
nice welcome: this server is for USA only - byebye rest of the world (free
interpretation)
anyway, you could log in there and get your Quicktime or Speechmanager or
whatever.
I tried to do this today : -sorry, we refuse to offer our services to unknown
hosts.
well, our src.doc server is one of the biggest mirrors (sumex etc.) under the
european sky - so i just think they get serious about their anti-other-than-
usa-behaviour. (oh sure, we get the stuff ftrom our dealers - if they have it
and we've got the cash)
So has anybody an explanation for this which could prevent me to become
seriously pissed off with our loved Apple...
thanks in advance
miron
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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 18:44:47 EST
From: eugene@rover.uchicago.edu
Subject: AV Power PC Card?
As I was reviewing my latest MacUser (or was it one of those newsweek
special advertising sections? :} ), I noticed that neither the
Quadra 660av nor 840av have the little black dot that indicates that
they are eligible for the $699 Power PC upgrade card. Why is this?
I've planned on taking this upgrade path since I've purchased my 660av.
I know there will surely be third-party upgrade cards, but why shouldn't
the Apple one work? Hmmm.
Eugene Cohen
eugene@rover.bsd.uchicago.edu
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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 94 19:47:05 EST
From: rezende@dcc.unicamp.br
Subject: AWK for the Mac needed.
I need an Awk interpreter (or compiler) for the Mac.
Is there such thing anywhere?
Please, reply directly to me at rezende@dcc.unicamp.br
(I do not subscribe to this list.)
Thanks,
Pedro
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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 8:57:51 -0600 (CST)
From: Gordon Watts -- U of Rochester <GWATTS@WHCDF.FNAL.GOV>
Subject: Byte's latest editorial...
Hi all,
Anyone on this list read BYTE? I know, it seems to be a PC-centric rag, but
their high tech articles are parallel to no other magazine I know.
The editor's page --- check it out. They are talking about the move from
CISC to RISC. BYTE's board of editors is all over Intel for not going RISC.
The issue focuses on the POWER-PC, RISC, and the slow move from CISC to RISC.
It makes for some good reading; I recomend borowing a copy and taking at
glance.
They point out that soon it won't matter what kind of hardware you have.
You just need a machine that is Power compliant (I've forgotten the right
name for this). You can boot up a version of the Mac OS or Windows from
there. Clone makers will have a ball. Imagine if Apple were to licence
their OS to everyone (I know this isn't their current plan). Can you
imagine if Apple stopped making hardware... like NEXT, inc.? Do you buy
a computer for the hardware/speed or for the software that runs on it?
Soon, the question will just be "what kind of hardware do you need" because
all the software will run on all machines... (ok, this will probably never
be 100% true...)
By then, of course, we will have the next generation of microprocessors out,
and the whole thing will start over again. Imagine the mixed mode manager
then. It will do 680x0 emulation and PowerPC emulation... Or will just
emulate the PowerPC and let the 680x0 emulator run in emulation. Yuck! :)
Just watching the world go round while I try to get a degree. ;-)
Cheers,
Gordon.
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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 09:16 EDT
From: "D. Mark Sprague O&S W91-219B X4107"
<MSPRAGUE%MITVBUD.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Calculas tutitorial software
A friend of mine is looking for some software (either PD or Commercial)
that will help him with his Calc class. Is there one available?
Thanks in advance.
Mark Sprague
msprague@mit.edu
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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 94 04:24:33 PST
From: bnhirsch@weizmann.weizmann.ac.il (David L. Hirschberg)
Subject: cc:mail attachment format (q)
Hi,
I received an attachment from someone using cc:mail in a format that is new
to me. I think it is cc:mail's method of transforming files into ascii
text (like binhex). I am not a cc:mail user and I would like to decode
this attacment (and also be able to encode files into a format a cc:mail
user can read). Is there a program that will encode and decode this type
of encoding?
I posted a question related to this a few weeks back and have not received
an answer (although many people gave me pointers for more info). It seems
strange that in a world of increasing conncetivity, that cc:mail would be
so backwards in compatibility with existing standards such as binhex which
is recognized by both Eudora and MSmail.
I am hoping that last paragraph will wake up all those cc:mail fans out
there or the makers of cc:mail who have not answered the 3 mails I have
sent them. If you are going to flame me for that last statement-flame me
with some answers too!
Thanks, David
bnhirsch@weizmann.weizmann.ac.il
Here is the file format:
SSWENCODE;Version 1.0;MACB
begin 755 sswdecode.doc
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M *FB$_2IHD,4 "!@?NG #-P C
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M7U]?7U\-#0E496%M($QE861E<G,@7U]?7U]?7U]?7U]?7U]?7U]?7U]?7U]?
M7U]?7U]?7U]?7U]?7U\-#0E3=6UM87)Y(&]F($%C=&EV:71Y(&9O<B!7965K
M($5N9&EN9R!?7U]?7U]?7U]?7U]?7U]?7PT)(" @(" @(" @( T)7U]?7U]?
M7U]?7U]?7U]?7U]?7U]?7U]?7U]?7U]?7U]?7U]?7U]?7U]?7U]?7U]?7U]?
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If anyone would like to see the entire file (17K) I can send it to you. -d
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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 94 11:11:22 EST
From: Byron C Mayes <bcmayes@admin.udl.udel.edu>
Subject: Changing MHz of a sound
I have a sound that was recorded at 7 MHz and I would like to combine it with a
sound that was recorded at 11 MHz. Needless to say, that doesn't work. Either
the 7 MHz sound is upsampled (sped-up) to 11, or the 11 MHz sound must be
downsampled (slowed down) to 7...not a desirable outcome.
What's the most convenient way to resample a sound to a different MHz level? I
don't want to spend unnecessary money on this (that means no SoundEdit Pro),
but a few bucks for a cable would be okay.
Thanks,
Byron C. Mayes
University of Delaware
bcmayes@admin.udl.udel.edu (NOT what t says in the "From:" line!)
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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 94 13:38:37
From: "rrs" <rrs@fwpa.com>
Subject: Color Depth Problems
I'm having the following problem on a Duo 230, Sys 7.1 18/120Mb,
lots of extensions/control panels/Ethertalk, 14" monitor.
I can't display the correct color depth, regardless of resetting the
Monitors control panel.
Symptoms: Black Apple icon for the Apple Menu, instead of the
colored Apple. Flat trash can icon, instead of the nice round one.
Folder icons also appear incorrect. Apparently the icn4 resources
are being used, not the icn8 ones. Also, the Mac pictogram in the
"Welcome to Macintosh" box is all black, should be colored.
What Happened: After some memory problems, unexpected quits, etc.,
I zapped the PRAM the hard way (opt-cmd-P-R on restart). Since
then, no color. I followed Ric Ford's advice (in MacWeek) regarding
setting the Monitor to black & white, restarting, and resetting back
to 256 colors. This did not work. I also rezapped with the
TechTool cited in a prior InfoMac, but again, no change.
Any comments? I'd like my colored apple back.
Robert Sachs, rrs@fwpa.com
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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 94 22:51:10 PST
From: jbthoo@ucdavis.edu (John Thoo)
Subject: DarkSide (Q)
Could someone give me Tom Dowdy's (DarkSide author) e-mail address if
he has one? Thanks. It seems that DS can't recognise the No Sleep and
Sleep corners after I rotate my Radius Color Pivot/LE.
--John.
J. B. THOO, Math Dept, Univ of California, Davis <jb2@math.ucdavis.edu>
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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 94 04:42:59 PST
From: bnhirsch@weizmann.weizmann.ac.il (David L. Hirschberg)
Subject: Dead quadra 840AV (q)
Well it had to happen to me sooner or later. My 4 month old Quadra 840AV
is not feeling well at all.
I have never had a mac do this before so forgive me for ignoring all the
posts on dead macs until know.
Here is what happens at start up:
1. I plug the power cord in (it was set to auto-restart in case of power
failure).
2. There is no start up sound and the 16 inch monitor stays dark
3. The hard drive spins up (I can hear it).
4. Nothing else
Putting a boot disk in the floppy doesn't help. No sad mac appears.
Our Mac Tech here tested the hard drive,the floppy drive and the monitor
and they are all fine.
Also he pulled out the main memory so I think it is not that. He did
notice that I have one of the first 840av's becasue I have a Rom card
sitting in front of the SIMM slots.
As a last resort he has now pulled out the lithium battery and we are
waiting a few hours to empty the PRAM and other memories.
It is not looking good.
If anyone had any suggestions I would love to hear them. Especially
someone who has gone through this.
We bought the mac through a company in the US and I am sure since it is
over 90 days old we will have to deal directly through Apple. I am not
sure if the Apple rep here in Israel will honor the warranty since we did
not buy it from them.
Does anyone have the Email of the people at Apple USA that handle sick macs
under warranty?
Thank you, David
bnhirsch@weizmann.weizmann.ac.il
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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 08:27:43 -0500 (EST)
From: "Fred M. Hoppe" <hoppe@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca>
Subject: Deskwriter 650C vs Deskjet 650C
I'm interested in the Deskwriter 650C for my Mac. But I would also like
to use it with my PC. The local dealer tells me I have to purchase
separately the Deskjet 650C marketed for DOS/Windows users. This
doesn't quite make sense. According to promotional information, the
Deskwriter has an Appletalk port and a serial port, so it seems that if
one knew the pin outs on the serial port, one should be able to get a PC
to communicate with the Deskwriter.
Comments or help? Thanks in advance
Fred.
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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 94 9:11:46 EST
From: "Mr. Troy Kelley" <tkelley@ARL.ARMY.MIL>
Subject: Embossed Typeface
Anyone out there now of a graphics package for the Macintosh that will create
an embossed typeface? I tried MacDraw Pro and Adobe Photoshop but I didn't see
the capability in either.
When I say "embossed" I mean that the type appears to be pressed into the
page, or imprinted into a document.
Thanks
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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 15:58:07 -0500 (EST)
From: "Fred M. Hoppe" <hoppe@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca>
Subject: error in my posting
I inadvertently referred to the Deskwriter and Deskjet 650C printers
in an earlier posting today when I really meant the 560C printers.
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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 94 09:18:39 -0600
From: Dennis D. Davison <ddavison@next.tahc.texas.gov>
Subject: ethernet address(A)
Gerrit,
If you have MacTCP loaded you can obtain Ethernet addresses through
it. Open MacTCP, Hold down the Option Key and click on the ethernet
icon. The alpha-numeric is your ethernet address. Insert a ":"
between every two Numbers and that is your actual address.
Hope this Helps,
Dennis
ddavison@tahc.texas.gov
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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 18:55:48 -0600
From: forbes@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu (Graeme Forbes)
Subject: Experiences with FrameMaker 4.0 (R)
I bought FM3.0 to do camera-ready proofs for my logic textbook for Oxford
University Press. I rapidly abandoned Nisus as my primary word-processor.
There's a lot Nisus does that FM doesn't do but too much that is so
well-implemented in FM that the trade-off was worth it. And if you can quit
Nisus you can quit any other Mac wp, especially Word. I think FrameMaker is
pretty much peerless on the Mac.
There is one significant qualification: FM 3 and 4 have a very bad feature.
Endnotes are only semi-automatic and footnotes are poorly implemented -
specifically, if there isn't enough space under a note number for all the
text of a note, the *entire note* gets put on the next page. You either
learn to work round this or you ask Frame for your money back. If enough
people do the latter Frame may get the message in time for version 5.
Graeme Forbes
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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 94 10:05:04 CST
From: thompson@se01.wg2.waii.com (James Thompson)
Subject: extension .tgz
>>>>> "J" == J GAGNE <jgagne@edupac.qc.ca> writes:
J> I know this is not exactly the right place to ask... But it's the
J> only place I know of! I recently saw many files with a .tgz
J> extension. Those are appended to Unix files i want to download.
J> What is the program I need to decompress (I just suppose the .tgz
J> come from a compression or similar utility) those babies?
The .tgz extension is shorthand for .tar.gz. In other words, a Unix tar
file that's been compress with gzip.
Getting the stuff out is a two-step process. First get MacGzip from
info-mac and use it to uncompress the archive. Then there's a utility--
I think it's called simply "tar", but I'm not sure... it could be
"MacTar"--that you use to get the files out of the archive.
Or, if you have access to Unix, you can say
gzip -cd foo.tgz | tar tf -
To see a listing of the files, or
gzip -cd foo.tgz | tar xf -
To extract them.
Jim
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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 16:23:32 -0500
From: dallan@dow.com (David S. Allan)
Subject: Filemaker, Word, & Applescript [Q]
I would like to set up a Filemaker Pro index to a number of reports that we
maintain. I imagine that the full texts of the reports (in Microsoft Word
format) would be kept in folders on our server, and the database in FMPro would
contain summary and index information.
I would like to include a button in the FMPro layout that would automatically
open the report being browsed. I guess that this can be done using
AppleScript, but I have no clue how to do this.
If this functionality is possible, what do I need to do to make it happen? Do
I need to buy AppleScript? Do I need it for every user of the database, or
just to develop the script? Will I have to store the path for the Word
document in the FMPro database for the script to use? Has anyone else already
done this in a commercial product?
On a related note, what full-text browsers are available? I would like an
easy-
to-use utility that can search the (Word) files in a folder for specific text.
Ideally, this browser would also be scriptable via AppleScript.
Thanks.
David Allan
dallan@dow.com
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Date: 22 Mar 94 17:58:29 EST
From: Charlie Summers <72257.140@CompuServe.COM>
Subject: FoxPro: A wake-up call (C)
Folks;
Please forgive me; I never thought I'd be in the position of defending
Microsoft, but I feel the need to reply to Ron Webster's comments on
FoxPro/Mac.
> With FoxPro, gone is the friendly and familiar File Save dialog box,
>replaced by the horrors of full-path specifications, which DOS users will
>recall with unlimited displeasure: The user no longer merely types a name
>into a text box after maneuvering through the Mac's HFS via the File Save
>dialog box's pop-down directory menu--rather, the user must enter or edit a
>cumbersome string of the sort Macintosh HD:Ron's folderLibraries...
Gee, maybe we should consider RTFM. Have you tried GETFILE() and PUTFILE()?
>Gone, too, are Cut, Copy, and Paste, at least as useful and practical
>functions.
Really? My Edit menu works just fine, thanks. Exactly where are you having
problems with Cut/Copy/Paste? Maybe I can help...
> And what is it about DBM software that compels its developers to impose
>fixed field lengths on the user?
We call it dBASE. Look, FoxPro is a dBASE/IV-compatable platform. And
frankly, it works just fine for what it is. Having used 4D, I don't see much
difference between 4D's fixed-length fields and FoxPro's. I mean, FileMaker is
cute and all, but I dare it to select a 20-30 record subset from a database
containing 30,000+ records in seconds. Fixed-length fields allow for Rushmore
indexing to make it perform blindingly fast.
And by the way, FoxPro _does_ have a variable-length datatype; it's called a
MEMO. And FoxPro gives pretty impressive control over those MEMO fields.
> The documentation will also revive DOS nightmares in those who came to
>the Mac from that camp, as it all too often seems irrelevant to the software
>it purports to explain.
Yeah, well, I'd like to see a good set of documentation for dang near _any_
Mac app. (Or DOS app. Or Windows app. Or...well, you get the idea.)
> But the most flagrant and perplexing deviation from Apple's Human
>Interface Guidelines involves file management. ...DBM
>software seems to carry with it the mind-set that users shouldn't have direct
>control over when a file gets updated.
If you are refering to database files, they are constantly updated
(depending, of course, on your FLUSH settings); if you are, for example,
displaying information to the user that he/she is to change, and want them to
be
able to cancel out, try SCATTER and GATHER.
> As it happens, my IQ is greater than the number on Warren Moon's jersey,
>so I can't be expected to comprehend why certain Mac software developers think
>they are doing Mac users a favor by "freeing" us of the need to save changes
>when a file is edited.
I can't argue about your IQ, but I _can_ argue about database file updates.
That _is_ up to the developer in any dbms I've ever seen.
I think what I am trying patiently to say is that you obviously don't
understand xBASE structures and languages. FoxPro is _terrifically_ powerful,
but not really designed for those without a programming background in xBASE. If
you want to catalog your record or CD collection, FoxPro may not be right for
you. You need a flat-file database application. If, on the other hand, you need
control of customer databases, inventory control, or need to catalog every
record or CD in the country, take the time to learn xBASE as FoxPro impliments
it. If you need help, give us a yell; join FoxPro-L; check out the on-line help
(hint: if you hate Windows help as much as I do, include HELP=FOXHELP.DBF in
your CONFIG.FP file).
Truth is, FoxPro is not something to play with, although the Wizard
documentation would suggest it is. It is a professional database development
system, which will give you considerable benefits if you learn the language.
(Again, after reading the on-line help, if you don't understand something,
please feel free to ask me via EMAIL; be happy to help.)
What amazes me is the obvious flaws you _missed._ FoxPro/DOS was based on
the
Macintosh interface. When it was ported to Windows, obvious changes were made
to
conform to that user interface (if you want to call it that - I'm not terribly
thrilled about Windows). When FoxPro was ported to the Mac, the _Windows_
version was ported. Try defining a screeen (window) with the ALERT type; d*mn
thing still has a title bar, just like in Windows!
Charlie Summers
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***
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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 18:47:01 EST
From: eugene@rover.uchicago.edu
Subject: GeoPort? Don't do it!
This is in regards to any question regarding the Geoport or the Geoport
Telecom Adapter: Just don't do it! I've owned a Geoport Telecom Adapter
(for about thirty minutes!) and was severly disappointed. Rather shell
out the money on a USR FaxModem or something instead of that! It's a
terrible piece of hardware. If you really want me to go into it I can...
I'll spare y'all for now, however.
Eugene Cohen
eugene@rover.bsd.uchicago.edu
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 94 22:42:07 CST
From: GR4486@SIUCVMB.SIU.EDU
Subject: Help with MacPPP/MacTCP needed...
I believe this has been asked, but I missed the answer -
Upon a "successful" connection by MacPPP, why MacTCP just could not get the
right IP? The MacPPP "Stats" field showed everything correct, and even tn3270
had picked up the right IP number, but MacTCP only had this number in the
front box, not in the up-right area where the "Class" and "Subnet Mask" stuff
were shown.
The result was that internet client programs couldn't find a name server, and
reported something like "host unreachable" ...
Configuration: MacPPP 2.0.1, MacTCP 1.1.1 AND 2.0.4, System 7.1.
Appreciate any info...
Jack
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 01:58:13 GMT
From: hines@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (melissa.a.hines)
Subject: Igor Pro ships!
The newest version of THE best scientific graphing and data analysis
package, Igor Pro, is now shipping! As a very satisfied user since
version 1.0, I highly recommend this program to any scientist or
engineer. Igor and Igor Pro have always supported an unlimited number
of data points and graphs (limited only by available memory). The
output is exceptionally good (much better than what I would term
"publication quality" given current standards). Igor has extensive
data analysis capabilities: FFT, curve fitting to any function,
statistical functions, area analysis, etc. Igor is also completely
programmable by the user in a very FORTRAN-like (or C-like) macro
language. You can even add your own menu items for frequently used
functions. An extensive help facility (including balloons) is
available.
The new version of Igor Pro includes a 1000+ page manual (that
actually lies flat on your desk, so you can type while reading!). The
real strength of this program, though, has always been the
outstanding technical support (Hi, Larry!). Not only have the guys at
WaveMetrics showed me how to write some tricky macros, they've also
explained a couple of my programming bugs to me. For more
information, you can either contact them directly
(WaveMetrics@AppleLink.Apple.com or (503) 620-3001) or download the
demo available via ftp anonymous on d31rz0.stanford.edu. There are two
versions currently available, Igor and Igor Pro (the latter being for
power users). The guys at WaveMetrics can explain the differences.
I will be happy to answer any questions about Igor via e-mail, as I
have been beta-testing Igor Pro. The bottom line is that Igor got me
through graduate school and a post-doc -- I'd give up my Mac before
I'd give up Igor.
Melissa A. Hines
AT&T Bell Laboratories
------------------------------
Date: 23 Mar 94 14:23:34 EST
From: Cliff Miller <71175.3152@CompuServe.COM>
Subject: Info-Mac_3_CDROM_NEC_driver_fix
Hi,
[I sent a similar note yesterday but I don't think that it made it
so here goes again... BTW, does anyone else have trouble sending
mail to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu?? I've tried using LeeMail
and I keep getting timed out. I don't think this is just because
sumex-aim is busy since it can happen at times when I am able to
log on to sumex via anonymous ftp.]
This message is for people who have the Info-Mac CD-ROM 3 and are
using the NEC CDROM driver (and are unable to read the CD). To make
a looooong story short, the oneoff software (by Dataware) that we
used to premaster the CD and the NEC CDROM driver (by Trantor)
software are incompatible. Both Trantor and Dataware promise that
they are going to be releasing fixed updates of their software in a
month or two ... or three.
We couldn't wait so we went ahead and remastered the Info-Mac 3 CD
with different premastering software so that it should work with
all drivers. If you have the Info-Mac 3 CDROM and have an
incompatible driver, please get in touch with us for a free
replacement of the CD.
Regards,
Cliff
========================================================
Cliff Miller
Tel 1-801-278-2042 Pacific HiTech
Fax 1-801-278-2666 4530 Fortuna Way
Email cliff@pht.com Salt Lake City, Utah 84124
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 94 17:22:16 PST
From: mjk@suned1.Nswses.Navy.Mil (Michael J Kress)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V12 #36
|> Date: Sun, 6 Mar 1994 14:50:24 +0000
|> From: Francis Knight <francis@pinza.demon.co.uk>
|> Subject: Decline and fall of the Macintosh S/w base/SuperNerd to the
Rescue?
|>
|> Extracted from a UK national press job advert:
|>
|> o Extensive Mac C and Toolbox experience.
|> o Extensive Windows & DOS system programming experience
|> o Extensive knowledge of cross platform port tools
|> o Knowledge of communications protocols
|> o Track record of successful Project Management
|>
|> etc.
|>
|> The advert wording suggests that there is _one_ post available. Could
|> anyone less than a SuperNerd acquire all that experience in less than a
|> lifetime? I wonder what the company concerned will finally settle for?
|>
... stuff deleteed ...
|>
|> Idealist that I am, I've started learning the Mac Toolbox (in preference
|> to Windoze). To do this properly ('extensively'?), I'm also confronted
|> with the prospect of buying all the 'Inside Macintosh' books, at present
|> 11 telephone-directory-sized volumes costing in total about 280 pounds in
|> the UK! It looks like that will not be sufficient recommendation for
|> future employment.
... more stuff deleted ...
Are you thinking of the same Inside Mac books that I am? In the US of A,
phonebooks for most communities are 2-3 inches thick. Even the larger rural
phonebooks are about 1 inch thick. I thought most of the inside Mac books
on the order of 1/2 - 3/4 inch thick. Or are UK phonebooks different?
Realizing this is a nit,
Michael J. Kress
mjk@suned1.nswses.navy.mil
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 94 09:49:55 PDT
From: ace@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V12 #47
In Regards to your letter <199403222145.AA27980@nwnexus.wa.com>:
> Everyone needs to read the March 21 Tibits, if you don't normally
> read it, get it!
:-)
> Novell aquiring WordPerfect.
And Novell bought the Quattro Pro unit from Borland for another
$145 million, which isn't all that surprising given
WordPerfect's and Borland's deals in the past.
> Symantic eyeing Central point.
> I wonder who the makers of MacinTax are going to buy this year?
Oh, they were bought long ago. Let me think. MacInTax
originally came from SoftView, which was bought by ChipSoft,
which then tried to buy MECA (makers of TaxCut), but that fell
through for some reason that I can't remember offhand. Someone
else ended up bying MECA I think, but again, my memory fails
me although Intuit (makers of Quicken) might be involved somehow.
Sigh - senility at 26. :-)
cheers ... -Adam
--
Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor -- ace@tidbits.com -- info@tidbits.com
Author of The Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh -- tisk@tidbits.com
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 17:55:00 -0600
From: rubarthj@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (James Rubarth-Lay)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V12 #47
In article <9403222017.AA02443@CAMIS.Stanford.EDU>, you write:
>Date: Tue, 22 Mar 94 10:56:50 CST
>From: Bruce A. Bromberek <brombere@cems.umn.edu>
>Subject: VRAM for PM 7100
>
>I have PowerMAC 7100 , with a Mirror 15" color portrait monitor
>(640x870). with the standard 1MB vram I get 256 colors.
>Will 2 MB get me up to thousands of colors? And what kind of
>card will I need to for millions of colors?
>
>Thanks in adavance
>
>Bruce Bromberek University of Minnesota
>Email: brombere@cems.umn.edu Dept Of ChE & Mat Sci
According to Apple's data sheet for the 7100, you should get 32K colors
with 1MB VRAM on a 16" Apple display. Since you are using a Mirror monitor,
obviously your mileage has varied. The same data sheet says that with a 1MB
RAM upgrade you should get 16.7M colors on a 16" Apple monitor and 32K on
20 and 21" Apple monitors.
The kit is Apple part number M5953LL/A, 2-256K VRAM SIMMs. You need two kits.
good luck,
-jim
James Rubarth-Lay |home: rubarthj@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
Technical Support Coordinator|office: micro@bongo.cc.utexas.edu
TX Union MicroCenter |Earth: 30d 16m 01s N, 97d 44m 34s
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 14:28:07 -0600
From: Sanjiv K Sinha <sksinha@icaen.uiowa.edu>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V12 #47
I am wondering is someone can help me out with fax software.
I use Quicklink Fax modem/software which allows me to send
and receive faxes on my Mac. The problem I have is that the
fax software recognizes only macpaint/it's own editor files
as regular fax documents. I was wondering if there is a way to
either save Microsoft-Word 5.1 files as macpaint files or
if someone uses similar software, how to get around it.
Please respond by e. mail.
Thanks.
Sanjiv Sinha
Univ. of Iowa
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 15:55:51 -0600 (CST)
From: Eric Durbrow <edurbrow@bigcat.missouri.edu>
Subject: looking for toggleAT
MacUser mentioned a nifty utility called ToggleAT for toggling AppleTalk
on and off. I tried an Anarchie search of Apple, Info-mac, and Mich
mirrors but could not find it. Is this a Ziffnet exclusive? Doesn't seem
to be. Would appreciate any suggestions where it might be.
Eric
Nothing to Disclaim
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 94 18:07:26 MEZ
From: ul63@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
Subject: Macintosh Pascal Programming Primer Vol. 1
Hello Netters!
Two weeks ago I started learning to program the macintosh using Think Pascal
and the Book "Macintosh Pascal Programming Primer Vol. 1". The book contains
several long listings of Macintosh programs. Because I do not want to hack
all the code manually, I want to know wether the code is somewhere
availiable via ftp or so. In the book a disk is offered but I think it
would take many weeks until i would get one. Also I discovered some
errors in the code I have already tested. So I need the e-mail address of the
author Dave Mark.
Many thanks in advance
Andreas Frick, Univerity of Karlsruhe, Germany
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 20:06:27 -0600 (CST)
From: "Traci J. Ingram" <tingram@services.dese.state.mo.us>
Subject: Mac PPP
There has been much discussion lately about SLIP, and little about PPP.
Yet, my service provider recommends using the latter over SLIP.
Per the Mac FAQ I have downloaded MacPPP and all I could find on the
subject via ftp to merit.edu/pub/ppp. Is this preferable to SLIP for a
dial-up connection?
Traci J. Ingram
tingram@services.dese.state.mo.us | or | 101-8673@MCIMail.com
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 94 14:04:15 PST
From: lingenjs@biola.edu
Subject: Mac Suffers from Windows Compatibility
**FLAME ON**
Forgive me for complaining, but I must. I use Excel fairly regularly at
work, and I am getting more and more annoyed at using a Mac port of a
windoze product. There are some areas that could really save us time that
we can't do because of this source code compatibility issue...
For example:
No Hierarchical Menus... This is my main grief. I would love to be able to
choose fonts, number formats etc. from the menubar, but cannot. I have to
select "fonts" and then choose a font from the list... This may seem trivial
but it pisses me off almost every day, to the point where I am writing a
note to Info-Mac about it. Thank you for letting me rant and rave.
I manage a small to medium sized network, and am going to open up the field
and consider all the competing word processors when I decide to upgrade
>From Word 4.0. I will pick the one that has the best interface, speed, and
features for the money...
Thank you for listening...
**FLAME OFF**
Anyone else agree?
Joel Lingenfelter
lingenjs@biola.edu
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 03:08:02 -0600 (CST)
From: "William M. Porter" <WMPORTER@Jetson.UH.EDU>
Subject: MacWrite Pro 1.5
Clint,
You ask whether you should upgrade to MacWrite Pro 1.5. I can't answer
your question directly. It sounds like you are not very happy with
MacWrite Pro to begin with, and I should warn you that 1.5's new features
(including much fuller support for AppleScripting and the ability to
create a table of contents) are probably not going to change your
feelings about the program overall. You might want to get a friend to
show you WriteNow. I don't care for it myself, but one of my best friends
and closest academic colleagues swears by it. It's not as full-featured
as MacWrite Pro, but it's quick and lean.
Here is what I like about MacWrite Pro, and what has kept me using it for
a year now (although I haven't thrown Microsoft Word away just yet):
1. Absolutely unequalled control over character-spacing. An esoteric
concern, perhaps. But this is MWP's most outstanding word processing or
text-handling capability: Word can't touch it and even WordPerfect's
"kerning" feature is weak by comparison. Actually, MacWrite Pro is simply
great at handling LETTERS, period. Character-styles are missing in Word
and implemented poorly in WordPerfect (at least they were in 2.1).
They're a breeze to understand in MWP and to make use of.
2. The ability to edit in enlarged or reduced view, something Microsoft
Word still cannot do. I frequently work at 75% reduction, which on my 13"
monitor shows me most of a page yet is still legible. I miss Word's
Normal (non-paged) view at times, but I think the trade-off favors MWP.
3. Excellent support for AppleScript, which I'm getting more involved
with.
4. This is rather subjective, I know, but I appreciate MacWrite Pro's
clean and lean design. In my opinion, MacWrite Pro bears a closer
resemblance to the Mac's future than does Word. Word pretends to be the
single program that will "do it all" for you. But this is a DOS-based
fantasy, going back to the days when you could never hope to learn more
than one program (WordPerfect) so you wanted it to do everything for you:
file management, spreadsheets, graphics, e-mail, grammar-checking, &c.
MacWrite Pro, on the other hand, is more focused on what it does well and
quite ready to cooperate with other applications. Microsoft Basic or some
macro-language will arrive in Word 6/Mac, but for me it will be too late.
I don't want to learn another scripting language that is only good in a
single program. QuicKeys and AppleScript are a much better answer.
In general, MacWrite Pro's interface is as good as they get. Somebody at
Claris really understands the Mac interface: MacWrite Pro can do well
over 60% of what Word can, yet is two or three times easier to use. (If
Nisus or WordPerfect could hire a couple of those folks away from Claris,
Microsoft would have something to worry about.) Some of MacWrite Pro's
features are as good or better than Word's: I love Word's styles, but
MacWrite Pro's stylesheets are almost as powerful and flexible and are
definitely easier to learn.
On the other hand, the program's limitations have come to seem unim-
portant to me. And I've compensated for others. For example, I missed
Word's glossary feature very much at first, but I've now figured out how
to get QuicKeys and/or Thunder 7 to do everything for me that Word's
glossaries did. If you don't have either QuicKeys or Thunder 7, get
TypeIt4Me (in Sumex's gui directory, I think).
As I said, I haven't thrown away Microsoft Word yet, and I'm bracing
myself for the arrival of version 6. I've written three books in Word and
right now don't think I'd want to write a book manuscript in MacWrite
Pro. But for most of my word processing--letters and such--I like it
quite a bit.
Will Porter / University of Houston
wmporter@jetson.uh.edu
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 94 12:38:58 MEZ
From: "Dr. Stefan P. Mueller"
<ONM010%vm.hrz.uni-essen.de@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: MEDLINE on CD-ROM [Summary]
A couple of days I posted a summary about the relative merrits of
various MEDLINE products. Only the list of MEDLINE systems was printed
in INFO-Mac. the full text is avaiable in the file:
/info-mac/info/sft/medline.txt
There are a few troublesome observations. I was hoping the posting would
sparc some more exchange. If you are interested please download!
Stefan
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 94 08:17:08 -0600
From: tabone@calshp.cals.wisc.edu (Tom J. Tabone)
Subject: mergers
>Date: Tue, 22 Mar 94 11:41:23 -0500
>From: mikeg@endgame.gsfc.nasa.gov
>Subject: mergers...
>
> Everyone needs to read the March 21 Tibits, if you don't normally
> read it, get it!
> Novell aquiring WordPerfect.
> Symantic eyeing Central point.
> I wonder who the makers of MacinTax are going to buy this year?
>
> Seems like if you can't compete, buy'em. Soon we won't have to shop
>around for software, we'll just go to the one company that makes what we
>want. Hmmm. seems like big brother didn't get smashed by the mac revelotion
>at all.
Sounds like MicroSoft to me!
-----------------------------------------------------------
Tom J. Tabone CALS Computing & Biometry
tabone@calshp.cals.wisc.edu Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison
(608) 263-3942 Madison, WI 53706
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 94 05:50:40 EST
From: Allan Hunter <AHUNTER@CCVM.sunysb.edu>
Subject: Microsoft Wake-up call (was: FoxPro wake-up...)
OK, let's see if I've got my chronology and technology straight...
Six months ago--Apple begins making fairly specific promises about the
PowerPC platform, including "native" vs. "emulation" mode, and several
vendors announce their intention of having native mode apps out by the
hardware release date or shortly thereafter, including Microsoft;
March 1994--The PowerMac arrives. Microsoft Excel and Word are not
among the read-for-prime-time native apps. Meanwhile, mass media report
plans to port the Macintosh operating system to other hardware but only
so long as the other hardware is based on the Motorola PPC chip (so we
visualize IBM's upcoming PPC-PC being able to run the Apple Mac op
system if it wants to...), with future jointly developed OS's yet to
come; MacUser and Byte and other mags explain that the IBM version of
the PPC machine will have to emulate DOS and will mainly depend on the
new (and very cumbersome) Windows NT platform to run native apps. And
the Motorola chip looks much more robust than the Intel Pentium for now
and the apparent future.
SO! Come the not too distant future, PC users can upgrade to a PowerMac
(and bring along their old Windoze & DOS progs to run in emulation if
they want) or to an IBM-PowerPC (and choose between--please pinch me if
I'm dreaming this is too good to be true--Windoze NT or the Mac OS???)
or else they can invest in a Pentium machine that will only run the
Intel-inside type software. And lo and behold, Microsoft Corp doesn't
seem to be quite as supportive of the Mac platform as we'd like??
GEE, I WONDER WHY???
Wake up. If the Apple Mac as we know it dies off like the Betamax, it
will not be because of IBM or Compaq, it will be because of Windoze.
-Allan Hunter
<ahunter@sbccvm>
<ahunter@ccvm.sunysb.edu>
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 94 05:16:41 EST
From: Pete Tamas <GNOME%TEMPLEVM.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: mini docks that come with ethernet
Can anyone recommend any mini docks that come with ethernet
support? Thanks, Pete Tamas
Gnome@VM.Temple.edu or TempleVM.bitnet
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 15:24:22 EST
From: bouldin@anvil.nrl.navy.mil
Subject: MPW CreateMake (Q)
MPW has a graphical utility to make "Make" files, but if you forget to
include a file or library that you need, there is no recourse but to start
over or edit the MakeFile with a text editor. Given the byzantine syntax
of MPW MakeFiles, I would love to have an alternative. Some *graphical* way
to edit MakeFiles as easily as one can construct them from scratch would be
very helpful for us poor MPW users (anyone from Apple listening?). If anyone
knows of anything to help with this, I would love to hear about it.
Friends who use Windows tell me that it is routine for Visual C and similar
development environments to have graphical editing of MakeFiles, so it seems
a shame for the Mac to fall behind.
------------------------------
Date: 22 Mar 1994 19:38:24 -0500 (EST)
From: ROBERT_BROCKMAN <CDBSDUC@grove.iup.edu>
Subject: Mr. Macintosh, appearing in "Blank Check"
I saw the Disney movie "Blank Check" this weekend with a young friend, and
was pleased to see our good friend the Macintosh (a IIvx) playing a rather
prominent role in the story (indeed, "Mr. Macintosh" is one of the main
characters). Apple did a good job on this one: the movie showed how easy
it is to set up the machine (close-ups of a few cords being plugged in and
then the machine being turned on and used), and when the kids said they
didn't know how to operate the computer, dad said something like "Don't
worry, this thing is so easy it practically runs itself" (good line, but
the scene starts with the boys bringing in an old Mac Plus...).
There's a funny part where the young hero prints his "blank check" using
his StyleWriter II. He then frolicks around, and finally kisses the check.
"Uh oh," I thought, "now the ink will be smeared" (anyone familar with
Apple's water soluable ink will know), and when we see the check next, yes,
the ink is smeared. That one was a little bit too true to life.
The movie was OK, by the way, the audience (of mostly boys) all yelling at
the appropriate time "Whoa! That must have HURT!".
Robert Brockman, aka CDBSDUC@IUP.BITNET or CDBSDUC@GROVE.IUP.EDU
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 94 15:28:41 CST
From: sga!dougs@wheaton.wheaton.edu
Subject: need Duo repair help
Two questions regarding the repair of a Duo 210.
The hard drive died. I swapped the circuit board from another drive
with the dead drive and it worked fine. Anyone know of a source for
just the drive circuit board? It is an Apple labeled IBM OEM drive
model WDS-280, 80MB.
I tried using the computer without the internal drive by connecting an
external unit to my mini-dock. Unfortunately, the internal drive
connector shorted against the shielding and fried something. A good
internal drive will no longer work but the external unit works fine.
What do you think fried? I thought maybe the SCSI chip but would
the external drive still work? Is there a fuse? Anyone know a
good source for board level repairs? I could handle soldering a fuse
but I'm not sure I want to deal with surface mount chips.
Thanks.
--
Doug Smith, SGA * dougs@sga.uucp * wheaton!sga!dougs
AppleLink: G0231 * CompuServe: 72727,3532
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 19:45:45 CHT
From: pmason@chasqui.mic.cl (Patricio Mason)
Subject: Needed: help with Color Classic
Dear net denizens,
I'm trying to install a new hard disk on my Color Classic. No instructions,
of course; I'm switching drives with an older LC. I have done this
operation with the LC and even in my new Quadra 660AV, but the Color
Classic turned out to be a tougher customer than I thought.
Can someone out there offer advice/pointers on replacing hard drives on the
Color Classic? I have the proper Torx screwdrivers and opening tool. Also,
after my first unsuccessful attempt the CC screen went a bit off-focus. As
with the above operation, the solution does not seem self-evident.
I'd appreciate advice on either/both problems. TIA.
Patricio Mason
pmason@chasqui.mic.cl
Santiago, Chile
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 94 08:20:09 -0600
From: Dennis D. Davison <ddavison@tahc.tahc.texas.gov>
Subject: Network problems(Q)
Hi folks,
We split our network into Zones Yesterday. 60 users, 11 Zones. The
problem I have is that no one can ftp or telnet (from a Mac) out of
our Ciscos'. I would like any suggestions as to how to fix this. I
am using a Fastpath for the Zone allocation. I have 50 Macs and 10
Next Workstations in this office. The only devices on the LocalTalk
side of the Fastpath are three Net Serials and an ImageWriter II.
All other devices are on 10T Ethernet. I am using a combination of
Dayna Hub8's and Synoptics 2800 Series Smart Hubs. I have tried
logging into my domain Server and getting out that way but no dice.
I could really use some help,
Dennis
Please Reply to the following address
ddavison@tahc.texas.gov
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 94 12:36:06 MST
From: jlundell@skull.opus.com (Jonathan Lundell)
Subject: Network time application? (A)
> Is there an application to set the Mac clock using an Internet time server?
> I know of the Network Time control panel, but it's not convenient to use
> on my home Mac which isn't always connected to the net (it uses a modem and
> MacPPP). I would prefer an application that I can run once in a while
> whenever I'm on Internet and wish to set the clock.
A better solution, IMO, is AutoClock, freeware from Jean-Pierre Gachen.
It will dial up a public time server (typically NIST, but there are others,
including Europe) and set your Mac's clock. Better, after a minimum of two
calls, it computes your Mac's systematic drift and keeps it within a
second of correct without calling at all. So you can call the server every
month or three and maintain a very accurate clock.
You can do the setting manually, too, if you don't have a modem.
Finally, it's more accurate than a net connection, since the modem
delays to/from the server are more predictable with a direct connection.
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 14:30:52 -0500
From: craymer@emr.ca (Mike Craymer)
Subject: Network time application? (A)
In Info-Mac Digest, v12,n44 (Thu,17 Mar 94) I asked:
>
>Is there an application to set the Mac clock using an Internet time server?
>I know of the Network Time control panel, but it's not convenient to use
>on my home Mac which isn't always connected to the net (it uses a modem and
>MacPPP). I would prefer an application that I can run once in a while
>whenever I'm on Internet and wish to set the clock. Thanks in advance.
Well, it turns out I was mentally stuck in System 6 mode. I thought I
would always need the Network Time control panel installed at start up to
use it (I didn't want to do this on my SE). I forgot that under System 7
you can run most control panels just like applications without installing
them. The answer to my question is to simply double-click on the Network
Time control panel, whether it's installed or not, and click the Set Time
button. I assume the same would work with NTP, the other shareware NTP
client. Many thanks to Geert Jan Bex, Richard Wackerbarth and Will
McCauley for straightening me out.
Mike Craymer
Geodetic Survey of Canada
craymer@emr.ca
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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 19:52:02 -0600 (CST)
From: "Larry Rymal:T.E.M.U.G.-EAST_TEXAS-" <lrymal@tenet.edu>
Subject: Now this is going to sound weird...
Folks,
Recall that I posted a note asking if there was a way to slow down
the Mac's scroll rate.
Several kind netters alerted me to a program called Scroller 7.0.1
Control Panel. I found it at UMICH and it does a great job in addressing
scroll rate speeds.
At UMICH, it is located at: /system.extensions/cdev. It is named:
scrolling7.01.cpt.hqx.
Some asked me where the Babylon Five FAQ is located. All I can
say is that I found it at sumex, as per a listing in Info-Mac and by a
prompt from a friend telling me that I should look it over. The lastest
all-files.txt I have from sumex is for February (shame on me!) and Babylon
5 came out after that. Grab the lastest all-files.txt from sumex and
search for a VERY LARGE Babylon Five file. It is about 1.4meg. It has a
lot of sounds, pictures, and so forth in it. I honestly cannot recall the
path where it is. SORRY! I'm unable to get into sumex right now, so
can't search for it during the time frame of this message.
I probably missed a few, but the following gave scrolling suggestions
in today's mail. Yesterday's I forgot to save...apologies again! Thanks for
the help, folks!
Prime Minister <jpburke@VADER.CC.EMORY.EDU>
Ian Alderman <ida1@cornell.edu>
Thumper <geoffb@COOS.DARTMOUTH.EDU>
ABRODY@VAX.CLARKU.EDU
--Larry Rymal <lrymal@tenet.edu>
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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 94 15:56:53 -0800
From: Bill Rausch <t9365@cis13.nfuel.com>
Subject: obtain ethernet address
To obtain the hardware one that looks like a long serial number, bring up
the MacTCP control panel and OPTION-click on the Ethernet icon. The number
will appear just below the icon. (12 hex digits)
The IP number should be given TO YOU by your network administrator and you
tell your mac that number.
----
Bill Rausch, SW Engr, wnr@fred.nfuel.com, 509-943-0861
Numerical Applications, 825 Goethals #A, Richland, WA 99352
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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 19:03:13 -0600
From: (Pete Chane) <pchaneuw@vms2.macc.wisc.edu>
Subject: PlainTalk voices
The new Power Macs come with all sorts of cool new PlainTalk voices. Does
anyone know where I can get PlainTalk 1.2 - and will it run on Quadra AV
Macs? If so, where can I get the new voices?
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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 06:40:45 -0600 (CST)
From: "Larry Rymal:T.E.M.U.G.-EAST_TEXAS-" <lrymal@tenet.edu>
Subject: Quad605, LC475, and Performa 475 OS
Folks,
At one time, the Performa Macs were rated to only accept
Performa-flavored versions of System 7. Do you know if this is still the
case with the 68040 Performas? Specifically, I'm wondering about the
Performa 475 since it has the identical motherboard as the Quad605 and
LC475. I'd like to know if it can run System 7 PRO.
The answers are needed for a good friend of mine. I honestly
don't know since most of my knowledge on the Performa line is based on
previous-year knowledge with the 68020 and 68030 Performas.
Thanks!!!
--Larry Rymal <lrymal@tenet.edu>
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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 19:11:19 -0800
From: upijzurfluh@esd114.wednet.edu (Jon P. Zurfluh)
Subject: Quickmail Utilities
Can anyone help me find the correct sources for various quickmail
utilities. I am especially looking for an add-on to a Mac Quickmail
environment that will function like a listserv for discussion of a given
topic. Does such an animal exist? Any other utilities, products,
references would be greatly appreciated.
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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 94 18:05:55 AST
From: Trevor Sawler <TSAWLER@UNB.CA>
Subject: Quicktime --> .AVI?
Hi:
Has anyone out there had any luck finding a method of converting
Quicktime movies to Microsoft's .AVI format (Movies for Windows?)
Please reply directly to TSAWLER@UNB.CA, if at all possible.
Thanks in advance.
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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 17:52:09 -0600
From: Tamer M Selim <tmselim@icaen.uiowa.edu>
Subject: Receipt Printer Drivers
I was on the verge of buying a Star 312 receipt printer for a
point-of-sale system we are developing in-house when I found
out that it comes without a driver of any sort.
Does anyone know how involved writing a driver would be? (I have
a modest level of assembly and C programming experience.) Is
there someone out there that's selling a Mac driver (or source
code) for this printer? (The Mac POS places I called would not
unbundle their driver.)
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
--Tamer (tmselim@icaen.uiowa.edu)
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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 09:26:46 +0100 (MET)
From: "Ed van Zon, TFDL-DLO" <E.P.M.VAN.ZON@TFDL.AGRO.NL>
Subject: REQ:Timer for launching applications?
Jason Y. Kim (kim3@husc.harvard.edu) asked:
>Is there a cdev/small app out there which can launch applications (or even
>better, documents) at preset times?
Try out the shareware program PowerLaunch II Lite,
currently at version 1.6F, which can be found in the usual Internet
archives.
Launching applications at preset times is just one of the features
of this little gem.
There is also a commercial version named PowerLaunch II, which
can handle more applications (unlimited vs. 80 for the shareware version),
but has the same set of launching-features.
Hope this helps,
Ed.
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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 12:06:37 -0400 (AST)
From: LUIS HERNANDEZ <802903065@rumac.upr.clu.edu>
Subject: SLIP, TCP, ...?
Dear netters:
Could somebody please explain HOW can I connect a Mac direct to the
Internet. Is is through a serial port, with/without a modem, etc. Any
sugestions would be welcome. My actual system is a Mac LC :(
Is there a FAQ about this?
I've been trying to get Adam's book, sent for it through B. Dalton
but don't know when it will arrive ( I live in Puerto Rico, that makes things
a little harder to get )
Thanks in advance,
Luis R. Hernandez
PD: Please respond directly to my address.
I will sumarize if enough information.
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Date: 23 Mar 1994 18:30:19 -0600
From: Scott_Wilton@oui.com (Scott Wilton)
Subject: SLIP Problems Resolved - CRL Still Sucks
In spite of the fact that I got no help from the vendor (CRL), I did get my
SLIP connection to work by setting the secondary domain name server as the
default in MacTCP and also changing the gateway address to my IP address.
I have no idea why this worked but I can now read newsgroups, connect to
Gopher & FTP servers, etc. (although I still cannot ping myself with MacTCP
Watcher).
In any case, thanks to everyone for their suggestions. For future reference,
if you have a choice in local Internet vendors, I would try anyone else
besides CRL first b/c these folks provide terrible support for Mac users.
BTW, the Simple UNIX/Telebit script in InterSLIP seems to work Ok once I got
I got the MacTCP configuration squared away.
Thanks again to everyone for their suggestions - SW.
Scott_Wilton@oui.com
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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 94 08:41:52 CST
From: Mack Willingham <ZU01988%UABDPO.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Software Ventures e-mail addr.
Is there an e-mail address for the makers of Mircrophone, Software
Ventures? If so please let me know.
TIA
Mack Willingham
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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 94 12:29:30 MST
From: jlundell@skull.opus.com (Jonathan Lundell)
Subject: Subject: [A]: MS Word & xtra line feeds
> Does anyone out there know an easy way to strip the extra hard carriage
> returns from a text file downloaded from the internet?
There's a shareware app on the net called Add/Strip that does this and
lots more (change two spaces to one, -- to em-dash, curly quotes, etc).
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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 94 15:52:12 EST
From: rsmullen@tecnet1.jcte.jcs.mil
Subject: Temporary Items Folder
The temporary items folder on my Quadra 800 has suddenly become
visible. I don't know why it's become visible all of a sudden, but I do
know if I use Resedit to make it invisible, it's only a temporary fix.
The next time I restart, its back on the screen again.
Could someone tell me how to banish this folder back to its permanent
state of invisibleness? Helpppp
Regards,
J.R. Smullen
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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 22:38:48 -0400
From: gamblins@nbnet.nb.ca (Stephen Gamblin)
Subject: They shoot horses don't they
>>The lemmings copy protection really pissed me off. I usually lose the manual
>>and I found it tiresome trying to find the little guys to figure out the
>>codes. [...]
>
>and offers the public a way to break the protection.
>
>I too find copy protection tiresome and refuse to buy most software that has
>it. However, I accept it as a necessary evil on games, and feel that a
>manual-based scheme is about the most innocuous way for software publishers to
>protect their investment.
>
>I don't have a problem with Stephen breaking the protection for his own
>convenience, but I *am* surprised at you Info-Mac folks for publishing his
>posting so that anyone can run Lemmings, whether they paid for it or not.
>
>Yes, I bought (and enjoy!) Lemmings.
>
>--
>Mike Dustan, Ops & Tech. Support, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC
I feel bad that someone is offended with my post. I was very dismayed when
I first purchased Lemmings. My daughter and I had gotten great enjoyment
out of the demo program and felt that we needed the game. We purchased it,
and I was very dissapointed to find that we needed the book to launch the
program. It was even more disturbing that my daughter is only three and has
no hope of figuring it out at all. So to minimize the only pitfall to the
program, I devised a quick look up sheet. Afterall seconds seem like hours
to a three year old. Normally I don't have to monitor her when she's on the
computer, just when we use Lemmings. She has her own desktop and even knows
how to shutdown properly, which is more than a few adults can do.
What inspired me to post this data sheet was a letter to April's MacWorld,
where, Daniel Kenny wrote a letter to the editor complaining about the
frustrating time he and his seven year old were having with the copy
protection on Lemmings.
If someone wanted to copy the program, they could also photocopy the
manual. Please remove the file from the archives I don't want any negative
feelings to be directed at info-mac and I do not want it to look like I'm
advocting pirating.
Programs do not have to be copy protected, they just have to be priced right.
Steve
.....................
gamblins@nbnet.nb.ca
compuserve 72550,2450
Es ist oft besser, in Ketten als frei zu sein.
F. Kafka
[The file has been removed from the archives -Gordon]
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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 94 13:59:04 PST
From: lingenjs@biola.edu
Subject: Unrecoverable Disk Error
>However: No-one addressed the second part of my query
>- which was basically "What exactly does this error
>message mean, why did it happen and how can I prevent
>it from happening again"? And before the helpful Mac-
qraast@kiba2.ericsson.se gave us an interesting discussion of the
mac file system habits, but in this case, I don't think this is
your problem.
Here is an easy way to dupilicate your problem:
(1) Create a large file in microsoft word.
(2) Save it to a floppy.
(3) Open that file from the floppy.
(4) Scroll about halfway down the document.
(5) Eject the floppy.
(6) Refuse to give it back when word asks for it (type command .
several times)
(7) Voila! Unrecoverable disk error...
Basically, word doesn't read your entire file into memory. It
works with part of it, and leaves the rest on disk. If you remove
the disk, have an appleshare volume dismount etc. you will run
into this problem. In word four, you could fix it by going to
preferences and telling it to keep the file in memory. Apparently
this is no longer an option in word 5 (probably to keep windoze
compatibility grrr..)
The solution is to make sure that you quit word before you eject
any disks, dismount file share volumes etc. that you may have been
working with word files on... Word doesn't like letting go of
volumes.
Joel Lingenfelter
lingenjs@biola.edu
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Date: 23 Mar 1994 10:04:10 +1000
From: u9253513@cs.uow.edu.au (Timothy Connal Delaney)
Subject: utilities to block out bad sectors on a floppy (Q)
Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu writes:
>> Is there any utility that will block out back sectors on a floppy better
>> than Finder? Somehow, I don't feel that Finder is very reliable in doing
>> this job.
>I recall an init called BAD. I believe it's available in the archives.
Bad works quite well ... but *only* before system 7. It appears that the
Finder's own disk error mapping under sys 7 interferes with what BAD is
doing.
Also, I have only seen it once (yesterday in fact), but after mapping
60 sectors out there were still bad sectors on the floppy, when BAD had
passed. I'm assuming that the extra bad sectors occurred immediately (I
told the person to chuck the disk ...)
Tim Delaney
u9253513@wraith.cs.uow.edu.au
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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 94 14:00:55 +0100
From: frtjs@fy.chalmers.se (Johan Swahn)
Subject: Video card for Powerbook 170 (Q)
Has anyone out there successfully used a RAM slot video card on the
Powerbook 170 and a 14 inch Apple Trinitron monitor for any length of time?
I have an internal modem installed and would thus have to use an external
contact for the video cable. In addition I would still like to have 8 MByte
of RAM available when the external monitor is used.
If you feel that you can recommend a product please drop me a line,
especially if you can give me information on how I can place a mail order.
Best regards,
Johan
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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 94 12:05:37 +0100
From: Karl.Pottie@uz.kuleuven.ac.be (Karl Pottie)
Subject: Word 6.0 & Excel 5.0
I've been to a demo of beta-versions of Word 6.0 & Excel 5.0 for 68K Macs
(they also showed alpha-versions for the PowerMac).
The 68K versions are pretty stable at the moment, though a few things are
not implemented yet. The PowerMac version is far less stable and a lot of
things aren't finished yet.
I won't go into the details of all the enhancements they made compared to
previous versions but one thing is worth mentioning:
Word 6.0 on the 68K machines needs 3 Mb of memory and Excel 5.0 needs 5Mb.
The salesperson also said that speedwise an LCIII with 8Mb of RAM is the
BARE minimum to run either of these programs and you need a 10Mb machine to
have them open at the same time to use the more advanced OLE features (like
editing a spreadsheet in the middle of a Word document)
The PowerPC (alpha) version of Excel used 10Mb of RAM, though the
salesperson said this would decrease in the final release version when
debug code was removed.
Karl
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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 09:48:45 -0500
From: STEPHENSON RANDOLPH <r13600@er.uqam.ca>
Hi!
Question on PowerPC and disk defragmenter??????
Any of you know if Norton, MacTools or DiskExpress will
defragment safely a PowerMacintoshO 80Mhz with 1Gigabits.
TIA
Randolph Stephenson
Universite du Quebec a Montreal
r13600@er.uqam.ca
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