Info-Mac 4/Info_Mac IV CD-ROM (Pacific HiTech Inc.)(August 1994).iso/Periodicals/InfoMac Digest volume 12/infomacv12-056.txt

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Date: Thu,  7 Apr 94 00:20:09 PDT
From: The Info-Mac Moderators <[e-mail]>
Reply-To: [e-mail]
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V12 #56
To: info-mac-list


Info-Mac Digest             Thu,  7 Apr 94       Volume 12 : Issue 56

Today's Topics:

      [*] Blackjack Deluxe version 1.5; a card game
      [*] csmp-digest-v3-009
      [*] Enhanced Release 2; a game
      [*] Enscriptor v3.0; a text printing utility
      [*] Fontographer 4.0.3 > 4.0.4 FPU patch
      [*] gestalt300; info about your configuration
      [*] HIPPARCHUS 4.0.0 DEMO - Observational and Positional Astronomy
      [*] KeyMenu; command keys for all menus
      [*] Macintosh Cellular Automata; one-dimensional growth simulator
      [*] MacTools 3.0a update: Build Disk Data
      [*] MacTools 3.0a update: FileFix
      [*] MacTools 3.0a update: Undelete
      [*] MacTools 3.0b update: DiskFix
      [*] MacTools 3.0b update: TrashBack
      [*] PHOTON '94 - photo contest
      [*] playerpro-info.txt
      [*] PopChar 2.7; pops a table of available characters
      [*] PowerPC disassembler v2.0
      [*] RAM Disk Iconer 1.0; gives your RAM disk a custom icon
      [*] Return-2-Womb 1.0 arcade game
      [*] Roland TR-505 Sound Sample Set
      [*] RunTime 1.1; displays total power-on time
      [*] SciNotation XFCN for HyperCard and SuperCard
      [*] shadowrama-fkey; a window utility
      [*] sound-machine-21; Play and record SND/AU
      [*] Speak-to-me 1.0 date managment util with speech
      [*] Strip-Mac! v3.0 -- Adult party game.
      [*] SymC++ v6.0->v7 full; an upgrade for Symantec C++ 6.0
      [*] SymThC v6.0->v7 full; THINK C 6.0 upgrade to 7.0
      [*] The SITComm Update (to version 1.0.1)
      "Undeleteable" files
      (Q) Editors that accept G4 TIFF?
      [C] PowerPC News and how to subscribe!
      About MountImage
      Allan Bloom re Sys 7.1, MacTCP 1.1.1
      Announcing submissions to info-mac'd archives
      Apple font
      apple kills services (thanks)
      automatic delete
      Binary vs binhex
      Cache setting
      ClarisWorks 2.1 and slow cursor
      ClarisWorks 2.1 shortcuts
      CompuServe on the Internet(?)
      Correct time stamping (2 msgs)
      CP Backup to tape under VM
      DOS Compatibility Card Notes
      Energy Saver Freezes
      External Monitor for SE (Q)
      File access woes when several applications try to open their docs.
      Growing system heap - culprit found
      Hack MacWrite Pro for Autosave?
      Info-Mac Digest V12 #54
      Info-Mac mirrors and ftp congestion
      Info.Sigmaplot.posting
      Init to change screen refresh rate (Q)
      InterSLIP *CALLBACK* script needed urgently!
      Keeping time
      LC problem
      Mac Classic Won't Talk to LaserWriter
      Mac disks on a PC
      MacLayers file transfer
      MACPB-L Digest - 4 Apr 1994 to 5 Apr 1994
      Mactools updates
      Modems for a powerbook
      My mac just shuts down
      My stack won't stop growing (Q)
      Mystique Pt.1 ? (Q)
      Photoshop Plug-in Compatible Programs
      PowerBook device for disabled
      programmer's switches for MacLCIII [Q]
      QuickMail-cc:Mail gateway
      RAMDiskSaver 2.0
      Re- FTP transfer from pro
      Reading WPerfect 3.0 Mac with Word 5.1a
      Scripting Beginner
      Shared (modem) fax (Q)
      SLIP busy-work utility
      Stylewriter II grayscale/B&W
      Suitcase
      suitcase under sys 7.1 [A]
      Tape Drive (Q)
      Telnet 2.6 and setting transfer directory
      Think C 6.0.1 to 7.0 patches
      TrueType font converter
      Which INITS for 840av?
      Will Hewlett-Packard laser printer work w/ Mac II?

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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 94 16:37:09 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Dan Morrow)
Subject: [*] Blackjack Deluxe version 1.5; a card game

Enclosed is the latest version of Circumflex Software's Blackjack Deluxe
version 1.5

The most new feature of this program is a new deck of cards, which look
a lot cooler.

The author of this program should contact Ed Trice at
[e-mail]
if there are any problems/questions about this program.

[Archived as /info-mac/game/crd/blackjack-deluxe-15.hqx; 356K]

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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 94 15:00:15 MET DST
From: [e-mail] (Francois Pottier)
Subject: [*] csmp-digest-v3-009

C.S.M.P. Digest             Tue, 05 Apr 94       Volume 3 : Issue 9

Today's Topics:

    Better QuickTime play rates
    Debugging: when does an app start to execute?
    Full C++ Mac Framework wanted
    LISP on MAC
    MIDI Manager Source Example
    Making a font menu
    MoreFiles 1.1.1 - example file manager code
    NewGWorld - please help!
    Thread Manager 2.0


The Comp.Sys.Mac.Programmer Digest is moderated by Francois Pottier
([e-mail]).

[Archived as /info-mac/per/csmp/csmp-v3-009.txt; 42K]

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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 09:49:05 +0200
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Enhanced Release 2; a game

I have just found out that the posting of Enhanced I did a few days
ago didn`t work as expected. We seem to have triggered a compiler bug
that wasn`t there previously.

Here follows a new, fixed version. Sorry about the hassle.

/ Hans, SophistiChaos Game Design

[Archived as /info-mac/game/enhanced-r2.hqx; 264K]

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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 15:41:14 -0500
From: [e-mail] (John S. Cho)
Subject: [*] Enscriptor v3.0; a text printing utility

Title  : Enscriptor v3.0
Author : John S. Cho
Date   : 4/4/94
Type   : Printing Utility
Kind   : Shareware ($10)
CPU    : Mac 680x0 (PowerPC under emulation)

Description : Enscriptor prints TEXT files in a multi-column format that looks
          nice and is very presentable. It's main purpose is for printing
          source code files but will work with any TEXT file. Users can set
          options as to how they want to the output to appear. Shareware.

Virus Check : Disinfectant 3.5

[Archived as /info-mac/prn/enscriptor-30.hqx; 72K]

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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 1994 12:11:43 -0500
From: Michael Macrone <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Fontographer 4.0.3 > 4.0.4 FPU patch

Attached is the latest Fontographer updater from Altsys, found on their
BBS (1-214-680-9696, First Class). It is uploaded with permission of
technical support.

This updater converts Macintosh version 4.0.3/FPU to 4.0.4/FPU. There are
numerous revisions in the code, including enhanced Unicode support and
better ATM support. This version also corrects problems I've had with
version 4.0.3, including an apparent bug in the guides drawing layer.

Michael Macrone
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/font/util/fontographer-403-to-404-fpu-updt.hqx; 489K]

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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 94 21:12:30 +0200
From: "Roland Mansson, LDC" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] gestalt300; info about your configuration

Gestalt!

This application uses the Gestalt trap ($A1AD) available in System 6.0.4 and
later to show various info about your Macintosh. System 6.0.4 or later is
required.

Public Domain by Roland M}nsson, SiC! Development HB, Lund, Sweden.

[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/gestalt-300.hqx; 46K]

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Date: Tue, 05 Apr 1994 14:45:31 -0500 (EST)
From: "Glenn Schneider @ STScI 410-338-4717" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] HIPPARCHUS 4.0.0 DEMO - Observational and Positional Astronomy

This is a demonstration version of HIPPARCHUS, a fully integrated, high
precision, astronomical planning, observing, and research tool for positional
astronomy.

Among its many features HIPPARCHUS, allows you to produce star maps and charts
in either Mercator or polar projections of any region of the sky, at varying
scales, in color or Black-and-White.  Stellar positions are rigorously
precessed to the equator and equinox of any date, with or without corrections
for stellar proper motions.  Targeted regions may be selected for display or
tabulation either by absolute boundary coordinates, centering on a celestial,
or solar system target or on the observer's zenith.  Individual stars may be
selected based upon position, brightness, proper motions, catalog numbers,
spectral type, and/or stellar characteristics such as duplicity and
variability.  Zoom in or out on targeted regions by interactively choosing the
area from the HIPPARCHUS star chart and horizon view windows, or by varying
field radii in polar projections.  Any or all stars may be annotated with
their catalog numbers, Bayer or Flamsted designations, V-magnitudes, spectral
types and luminosity classes.  Indications of stellar duplicity and
variability, and constellations overlays may be applied.  Non-stellar objects
>From the Messier catalog also may be displayed and annotated.  The
instantaneous positions, or orbital tracks, of any of the planets,  Sun, Moon
(drawn to scale, or designated by their symbols), minor planets, comets and
artificial Earth-orbiting satellites may also be indicated on any star chart or
horizon view when they fall within the selected area boundary for a specified
date or range of dates.  Click on any stellar target to obtain detailed catalog
and instantaneous topocentric, or field centered positional information about
that object.

Precision ephemerides of solar system targets may be computed geocentrically or
topocentrically for any epoch.  The precision of the HIPPARCHUS solar system
ephemerides is more than sufficient to examine the topocentrically viewed
appearance of phenomena such as solar eclipses, planetary transits, and lunar
occultations of stars.  Search for planetary phenomena such as conjunctions,
node crossings, oppositions, orbital extrema, perihelia, aphelia and more.  Use
the HIPPARCHUS orrery to view the solar system from the north ecliptic pole.
The artificial satellite ephemeris computation capability allows you to compute
the position, visibility and ground tracks of these objects from their
Keplerian
orbital elements.  Other handy positional tools such as a perpetual graphical
ephemeris for the Galilean moons of Jupiter, a visual display of the lunar
aspect, and a real-time "world clock" showing the terminator delineating day
and
night regions of the Earth, the sub-solar and sub-vernal equinoctial points,
the
demarcation of the longitude at 0h sidereal time, and the sidereal time for a
specified observer are also included.  And much more...

Source:  sofTouch APpLications, 646 North Bend Road, Baltimore MD 21229 USA

Requirements: Macintosh computer, 700K free memory, System software version
6.x.x or 7.x.x.

[Archived as /info-mac/sci/hipparchus-400-demo.hqx; 1422K]

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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 22:39:51 -0400
From: [e-mail] (John Rethorst)
Subject: [*] KeyMenu; command keys for all menus

Here is KeyMenu, something I've wanted for years. It provides keyboard
control of all menus, in the MS Word paradigm, but accommodates
hierarchical menus and is configurable. Works with the application menu,
balloon help, Applescript menus.

Other such things I've tried, such as Staircase, I've found buggy. This
isn't, even though it's version 1.0 of 1989, and the extensive
documentation says the author did most of his testing on a Mac Plus with
system 6.0.2. I've been using it for a week on a IIsi, system 7.1, with no
problems. Works with Adobe Illustrator 3.2, Finale 3, WordPerfect 3,
Filemaker 2, ReadySetGo 5, Canvas 3, Hypercard 2.1. Doesn't work with
Symantec's More 3.1, which uses non-standard menus, but doesn't crash.
Author says non-standard menu structures may present a problem, and there
are many implementations of those, but I have used it on quite a range of
programs. I don't use Microsoft programs, though, so I don't know there. No
conflicts with my ton of inits, except for Windows 2.1 (sometimes listed as
Window), an older cdev that adds a window menu to any app lacking one (use
ApplWindows instead). Freeware.

I'm sending this by attaching the .sit file to Eudora mail. Let me know if
that doesn't work for you, and we can try something else. I haven't seen
this anywhere on the Internet, have subscribed to AOL for a week now, and
have hit gold already. Author says distribute freely. It's wonderful. Let
me know what else I can do for you.

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/key-menu.hqx; 40K]

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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 12:42:33 -0700
From: Thai Binh Truong <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Macintosh Cellular Automata; one-dimensional growth simulator

Thai Truong
@Play Corp.

Macintosh Cellular Automata 1.0
Simulate 1-Dimensional cellular growth.

Requires: System 7 (32-bit QD) and 13" or better screen.

[Archived as /info-mac/sci/cellular-automata-10.hqx; 38K]

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Date: Tue, 05 Apr 94 11:37:41 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] MacTools 3.0a update: Build Disk Data

These are the remainder of the MacTools 3 updates, in addition
to those posted in March. CP Filefix, Undelete, and Build Disk
Data are from the 12/03/93 update to 3.0a. CP DiskFix and
Trashback are from the January 3.0b update. These files are
in CP Backup 3 format. See the CPS README for instructions on
decoding.

These files came from the CPS Bulletin Board System.

This posting contains only Build Disk Data 3.0a

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

[Archived as /info-mac/disk/mactools-30a-updt-build-disk-data.hqx; 1044K]

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Date: Tue, 05 Apr 94 10:01:02 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] MacTools 3.0a update: FileFix

These are the remainder of the MacTools 3 updates, in addition
to those posted in March. CP Filefix, Undelete, and Build Disk
Data are from the 12/03/93 update to 3.0a. CP DiskFix and
Trashback are from the January 3.0b update. These files are
in CP Backup 3 format. See the CPS README for instructions on
decoding.

These files came from the CPS Bulletin Board System.

This posting contains only FileFix 3.0a

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

[Archived as /info-mac/disk/mactools-30a-updt-file-fix.hqx; 343K]

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Date: Tue, 05 Apr 94 10:58:23 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] MacTools 3.0a update: Undelete

These are the remainder of the MacTools 3 updates, in addition
to those posted in March. CP Filefix, Undelete, and Build Disk
Data are from the 12/03/93 update to 3.0a. CP DiskFix and
Trashback are from the January 3.0b update. These files are
in CP Backup 3 format. See the CPS README for instructions on
decoding.

These files came from the CPS Bulletin Board System.

This posting contains only Undelete 3.0a

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

[Archived as /info-mac/disk/mactools-30a-updt-undelete.hqx; 378K]

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Date: Tue, 05 Apr 94 10:27:09 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] MacTools 3.0b update: DiskFix

These are the remainder of the MacTools 3 updates, in addition
to those posted in March. CP Filefix, Undelete, and Build Disk
Data are from the 12/03/93 update to 3.0a. CP DiskFix and
Trashback are from the January 3.0b update. These files are
in CP Backup 3 format. See the CPS README for instructions on
decoding.

These files came from the CPS Bulletin Board System.

This posting contains only DiskFix 3.0b

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

[Archived as /info-mac/disk/mactools-30b-updt-disk-fix.hqx; 568K]

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Date: Tue, 05 Apr 94 10:56:44 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] MacTools 3.0b update: TrashBack

These are the remainder of the MacTools 3 updates, in addition
to those posted in March. CP Filefix, Undelete, and Build Disk
Data are from the 12/03/93 update to 3.0a. CP DiskFix and
Trashback are from the January 3.0b update. These files are
in CP Backup 3 format. See the CPS README for instructions on
decoding.

These files came from the CPS Bulletin Board System.

This posting contains only TrashBack 3.0b

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

[Archived as /info-mac/disk/mactools-30a-updt-trash-back.hqx; 122K]

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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 01:16:53 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Ian Wojtowicz)
Subject: [*] PHOTON '94 - photo contest

This text file contains information about an Internet Photography Contest
hosted by International Teletimes electronic magazine. The text file also
includes an entry form in case you would like to submit some of your
snapshots.

The deadline for submissions is May 31st, 1994. All inquiries should be
sent to [e-mail]

Regards,
Ian Wojtowicz
Editor-in-Chief

[Archived as /info-mac/info/nms/teletimes-photography-contest.txt; 5K]

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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 94 01:48:51 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Jamal Hannah)
Subject: [*] playerpro-info.txt

The Player Pro Demo Info File version 1.0 by Jamal Hannah
<[e-mail]> for the Player Pro, Music Module editor by
Antoine Rosset <[e-mail]>.

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/util/player-pro-demo-info-10.txt; 11K]

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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 94 11:27:44 +0100
From: Guenther Blaschek <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] PopChar 2.7; pops a table of available characters

This is PopChar version 2.7.
What's new in this version?
 - Online documentation.
 - Full TrueType compatibility.
 - Faster.
 - Maximum chart width can be specified.
 - Minor cosmetic changes and internal improvements.

For those who do not know what PopChar is for:
PopChar is a control panel that simplifies "typing" of unusual characters.
Click the PopChar icon in the menu bar, select the character you want,
and PopChar automatically inserts it in the current document as if you had
typed the proper key combination on the keyboard.

PopChar is FREE.
  e  Guenther Blaschek, University of Linz, Austria
 gu  E-Mail: <[e-mail]>

[Archived as /info-mac/text/pop-char-27.hqx; 67K]

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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 94 12:55:25 PDT
From: Alain Birtz via marcouet login
Subject: [*] PowerPC disassembler v2.0

file is compacted via CompactPro and then BinHexed
Thank you.

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/powerpc-disassembler-20.hqx; 148K]

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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 1994 11:29:15 +0200
From: Patrick Stadelmann <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] RAM Disk Iconer 1.0; gives your RAM disk a custom icon

Hi !

This is RAM Disk Iconer 1.0, a control panel that allows you
to customize your RAM Disk name and icon. It requires a
RAM Disk capable Mac with Color QuickDraw and System 7.0
or higher. Should work on a PowerMacintosh, but not tested.

RAM Disk Iconer is PostcardWare : if you like it, please
send me a postcard.

Written by : Patrick Stadelmann
    e-mail : [e-mail]

Enjoy !

Patrick

PS : This software may be placed on the Info-Mac CD-ROM.

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/ram-disk-iconer-10.hqx; 32K]

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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 1994 01:46:21 -0700
From: Jack Copeland <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Return-2-Womb 1.0 arcade game

Return to the Womb 1.0 is a 32-16-8-bit Mac game. The user
finds himself lost in a maze of rooms and must find his way
to the womb to be fertilized. To complicate matters millions
of mutant sperm try to fertilize you prematurely. Excellent
graphics and interface. The best game you'll ever download
>From here.

It may be included on a CD and distributed freely.

Pat Copeland
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/game/arc/return-to-womb-10.hqx; 1747K]

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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 23:21:09 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Michael Fischer)
Subject: [*] Roland TR-505 Sound Sample Set

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/roland-tr-505.hqx; 1893K]

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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 1994 11:28:31 +0200
From: Patrick Stadelmann <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] RunTime 1.1; displays total power-on time

Hi !

This is RunTime, a little app that gives you the total power-on
time of your Macintosh. Should work with System 6 (not tested).
Tested on the following Macs : ci, fx, vx (all running sys 7.1).
Also tested on a PowerMacintosh 8100... and it works !!!

Macintosh models prior to the IIci don't remember how long they've
been running, so RunTime is useless on theses machines.

RunTime is is free and can be distributed freely.

New in version 1.1 : The "Toggle View" button change display from
             hours & minutes to years, months, weeks and
             days (requested by some users).
             Fixes several cosmetic problems & bugs when run
             on machines without Color QuickDraw (Thanks Judd).

Send comments, bug reports, suggestions...
to [e-mail]
                                                Patrick

[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/run-time-11.hqx; 12K]

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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 10:57:43 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Mark Winter)
Subject: [*] SciNotation XFCN for HyperCard and SuperCard

The SciNotation XFCN allows HyperCard and SuperCard to work with scientific
number notation (e.g. -1.23E4). Numbers are converted into scientific
number notation and vice versa. Significant figures (including trailing
zeroes) are preserved. It's free.

Scanned with Disinfectant 3.4.1/Merry XMAS Vaccine 1.3, and OK for CD-ROM

[Archived as /info-mac/card/scientific-notation.hqx; 46K]

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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 94 11:09:33 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Robert Reeves)
Subject: [*] shadowrama-fkey; a window utility

    Attached (hopefully) is a small FKEY that will convert the
active window to "Shadowrama-mode".  Please note that this was not
written by me, just passing it along from the authour.  For more info-
read the Read Me- It's Fun!  I guess standard ResEdit and FKEY
disclaimers would apply.

**Keep circulating the Fkeys!**

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/shadowrama-fkey.hqx; 10K]

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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 1994 09:13:24 +1000
From: The Gronk <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] sound-machine-21; Play and record SND/AU

SoundMachine 2.1

Description: Play and record SND/AU (mu-law, A-law, linear) and
AIFF/AIFC (MACE3, MACE6) sound files.  Plethora of buttons during play
to change speed, play backwards, loop sounds, switch formats, etc.  No
restriction on file size; playing can take place in background.

Freeware

Archive in sound utilities area

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/util/sound-machine-21.hqx; 74K]

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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 1994 01:44:57 -0700
From: Jack Copeland <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Speak-to-me 1.0 date managment util with speech

Speak-to-me 1.0 is a utility for the Mac that uses the speech
manager. Its public domain. It tells the user the time and the
day of the week. It can be customized to repeat a users
upcoming events (ie birthdays, etc...) and user the users
own name in the time telling. Can be used as a startup to
remind the user of important dates or just as a novelty
to tell the time.

It may be included on a CD and distributed freely.

Pat Copeland
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/app/speak-to-me-10.hqx; 49K]

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Date: Wed, 06 Apr 1994 16:25:09 +0800
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Strip-Mac! v3.0 -- Adult party game.

This is version 3.0 of Strip-Mac!. It is a significant upgrade from
version 2.4. Details of new features are given in the file "Release
information".

A quick outline of the game Strip-Mac! is a risque, computer-moderated
party game for adults. It is similar to a game of strip poker, but with
"surprises", "rewards" and "punishments" thrown in for good measure.

Briefly, the game plays as follows. Players take turns in drawing a
playing card from the deck. A player who fails to turn up an appropriate
playing card must then choose between options that include:
    (a)  being paid to removing a piece of clothing;
    (b)  being paid to take a punishment; and
    (c)  purchasing a reward.

Play continues until one or all players are naked. What happens next is
up to you...

Cheers,
Tim North.

    _--_|\   | Dept Computer Engineering, Curtin University of Technology
   /      \  | Perth. Western Australia. 6102.      Phone: [phone]
-->\_.--._/  | Internet: [e-mail]  FAX:   [phone]
     v

[Archived as /info-mac/game/crd/strip-mac-30.hqx; 293K]

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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 05:57:50 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Rick Hartmann)
Subject: [*] SymC++ v6.0->v7 full; an upgrade for Symantec C++ 6.0

This updates the following components of Symantec C++ v6.0 to v7.0 :
Symantec C++, Think C, Think Project Manager, Think Debugger, Think Rez,
Resource Copier, C Libraries (v6.0->v6.0.1), C++ Libraries (v6.0->v6.0.1)

Rick Hartmann
Symantec Dev Tools Support
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/symantec-cpp-60-to-70-full-updt.hqx; 1801K]

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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 06:06:24 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Rick Hartmann)
Subject: [*] SymThC v6.0->v7 full; THINK C 6.0 upgrade to 7.0

SymThC v6.0->v7 full.sea.hqx

This updates the following components of Think C v6.0 to v7.0 : Think C,
Think Project Manager, Think Debugger, Think Rez, Resource Copier, C
Libraries (v6.0->v6.0.1)

Consider downloading a different patch if you have Symantec C++ v6.0.

Rick Hartmann
Symantec Dev Tools Support
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/think-c-60-to-70-full-updt.hqx; 1670K]

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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 10:54:53 -0700
From: Aladdin Systems <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] The SITComm Update (to version 1.0.1)

This installer updates the 1.0 version of SITcomm to version 1.0.1. We
recommend that all SITcomm users update, since this new version has
significant improvements over previous versions, including a new version
of the Frontier Runtime, more logon scripts, and more built-in modem
choices.  Power Macintosh users MUST update to this version for full
compatibility with their systems.  Disinfectant 3.5 shows no viruses in
this file.

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/sit-comm-10-to-101-updt.hqx; 1061K]

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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 1994 20:59:10 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Traci J. Ingram" <[e-mail]>
Subject: "Undeleteable" files

> Date: Mon, 4 Apr 94 13:49:15 EDT
> From: [e-mail] (Prof. L.G. Leduc)
> Subject: Deleting Missing File (Q)

> I'm trying to delete a missing file.  Although the file is missing, I
> can see its icon in the folder and I would like to know how to delete it.
> It's a teachtext file. Norton Utilities could not open or delete it. I'm
> stuck!

> Any help would be appreciated.

Over the past few months there have been numerous discussions about how to
address this recurring problem, including share- and freeware programs
designed specifically to handle such problem files.  One solution that has
not appeared, in my recollection, is to do a re-boot under another version
of the Mac operating system.

Most definitely, if the problem "file" appears under System 7.x, it can
easily be deleted after a restart under System 6.x.  Is there some hidden,
wicked penalty for doing it this way that has yet to surface?

Traci J. Ingram

[e-mail]     | or |     [e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 1994 08:20:26 PDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (Q) Editors that accept G4 TIFF?

TWIMC-
I'm looking for Mac-based image editing packages that accept Tiff files with G4
compression. So far, I've found none, but my search has just covered the half
dozen or so popular packages I've access to. Is anyone out there aware of
programs that will accept this format? I need to be able to open, modify, and
save a G4 Tiff image.
Thanks,
Ben

barlow:[e-mail]  -  or [phone]

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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 1994 00:15:28 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Gordon Werner)
Subject: [C] PowerPC News and how to subscribe!

Hi there...

I recently found this cool news digest for the PowerPC / PowerMacintosh.

Here is how to subscribe:

 _______________ POWERPC NEWS SUBSCRIBER INFORMATION__________________
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|     To become a new subscriber to PowerPC News send a message to    |
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You don't need to type anything...no subject no message body...it gets your
e-mail address and then sends you all the instructions.

Unlike the Info-Mac digest, this one you simply request the article number
>From the idex that they send you and the server will send you that
particular message/s

it works really well and is quite informative



thanks

Gordon K. Werner   *8^)

[e-mail]                               Gordon K. Werner
[e-mail]                                  4 Church Court
[e-mail]                         Nantucket, MA 02554-3675
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 06 Apr 94 01:33:25 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: About MountImage

> Both 1.1b3 (which is still shipped on Apple Dev CDs)
> and 1.2b2 (or any version of 1.2) are buggy.  1.1b3 is less so and has
> been known to work in a majority of the cases, although it can still
> produce corrupt files with alarming regularity.
>
> Steve's pretty damn busy and about a year ago he said that he was
> working on a deal to get someone to pay him to finish MountImage.  I
> haven't seen any result of that, so I presume that it fell through.
>
> My recommendation?  Throw MountImage away.  Use Steve's finished and
> proven utility DiskCopy to copy the image file onto a disk and then read
> that. Sure, it's slower, but if you've been burned like I have been by
> corrupted files you will relish the time you don't spend trying to
> figure out what is wrong.
>
> I'm not slamming Steve, but I sure would like him to fix MountImage.  It
> would be awesome if it were reliable.

Hmmmm...doesn't the new version 5 of DiskCopy include the ability to
open/save image files?

Tells me it won't run when my Duo 230's undocked at home, though (this model
lacks certain required support, it says)!  So I can't open an image file and
copy stuff to my hard disk unless I'm docked at work.  Too bad.

Cheers!
--Gib

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Date: 5 Apr 1994 16:44:52 GMT
From: baum/[e-mail] (Christopher F Baum)
Subject: Allan Bloom re Sys 7.1, MacTCP 1.1.1

Well, Allan, I'm sitting here running System 7.1 with MacTCP 1.1.1, running
NewsWatcher, NCSA telnet 2.5, MacMosaic 1.03! It may not work for some
people, but I have had no difficulties with Mosaic and this supposedly
obsolete version of MacTCP (even works over ARA). So the generalization is
perhaps not appropriate (or perhaps as you suggest I'm just lucky).

--
Christopher F Baum
baum/[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 1994 21:22:00 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Murph Sewall)
Subject: Announcing submissions to info-mac'd archives

On Tue, 5 Apr 1994 09:20:39 -0400 Tom Scott wrote:
>>Would it be fair (reasonable?) to add Apple's only one connection
>>at a time per domain filter (that encourages domains to put things
>>in local shared volumes)?
>
>I don't think this is reasonable.  For an environment as diverse as
>Cornell, many sys admins might need different items from ftp.apple.com.
>I don't think it's fair to expect our central IT group to archive the
>entirety of Apple's ftp site or to "second-guess" what sys admins might
>need and then just archive that.

Nevertheless, ftp.apple.com DOES enforce a one ftp per domain at a time
restriction (haven't you ever gotten the "sorry someone from your domain is
already connected" message?).  I wondered if a similar restriction at sumex
(as opposed to mirrors) wouldn't make sense (the idea would be to push more
users toward mirrors).

I believe gophers connect to a different port.  If my (always fallible)
memory is correct, then the number of ftp connections wouldn't affect
access via gopher (which, at sumex at least, is itself excessively heavy).

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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 22:06:53 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Jason Stone)
Subject: Apple font

Hi,

Does anybody know where I can get a copy of the TrueType version of the
font Apple uses. It's based on Adobe's Garamond font and I think it's
called simply Apple Garamond or AGaramond. Any help would be most
appreciated.

Thanks,

Jason Stone
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 94 16:06:13 BST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: apple kills services (thanks)

hey ftp.apple.com gurus.


****
what came out of it basically was:
the internet seems to be quite overloaded and gets slower and slower - as you
 know... especially from abroad when you access the states while people aren't
asleep (after 1200 european time) therefore the apple server doesn't get it's
repuest answered in time and knocks you out. thats it.
so get up early folks...
****

thanks for all the replies and suggestions and sorry for the delay.
i haven't been in lately.
anyway. sorry to those who don't get a personal reply. as i let some friends
use my account, someone fiddled in my mbox...
anyway. i think most of you got it.


thanks a lot.
miron

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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 11:44:01 -0400
From: Paul Westbrook <[e-mail]>
Subject: automatic delete

   Is there a shareware or freeware program that is on one of the ftp
sites that will let you create a folder that will delete files after
they get older that a specified time?

                Thanks,
                Paul Westbrook

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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 1994 21:22:04 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Murph Sewall)
Subject: Binary vs binhex

On Mon, 4 Apr 94 10:05:01 MST Jonathan Lundell wrote:
>there are a lot of us with modem connections
>to the net, and the extra overhead in size of binhex encoding starts to make
>a real difference when we get to megabyte files.

We've only recently switched from 7 to 8 bit dialup, and I haven't done
timing studies yet, but...

With (mainframes until very recently) 7-bit dialup, the (necessary) 8th-bit
'quoting' that allows binary downloading more than offsets the file size
saving of binary vs binhex.

Even with 8-bit transfers, modern V.32bis compression of binhex seems
likely to offset the advantage of transferring binary (a binary StuffIT or
Compact Pro archive not only isn't very compressible, but just trying to
further compress probably wastes time).

I've taken to using the CMS BINHEX app to convert HQX to Macbinary before
downloading mainly because a vector processing ES9000 CPU does it so much
faster than a 68040 :-)  I haven't downloaded a large file in both hqx and
macbin yet to see if there's any appreciable difference in modem transfer
time.  Perhaps some enterprising student will undertake that effort as an
exercise ;-)

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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 1994 14:19:47 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jay Poutinen <[e-mail]>
Subject: Cache setting

I've never been sure what the best setting is for the "disk cache" in the
memory control panel of my Quadra 700, sys 7.01 (w/tune-up), and 20 mg
RAM.  I don't run short of RAM, so that's not much of a limitation.

Is their some "guideline" or "best" setting for the disk cache?

Jay
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 94 13:28:39 -0600
From: Takamasa Takahashi <[e-mail]>
Subject: ClarisWorks 2.1 and slow cursor

This comment (and question) is both for those who use ClarisWorks 2.1 and for
those who know the inner workings of ClarisWorks 2.1, and who may be able to
give me insight into what determines the speed of the cursor in an
application.

I have tried both ClarisWorks 2.0 Demo and ClarisWorks 2.1 Demo on my Color
Classic (with DayStar PowerCache 33 MHz accelerator installed running a handful
of extensions). The problem is that in the 2.1 Demo, the cursor slows down to
about one half its normal speed and if I try to move the mouse fast, the cursor
trails and creates a ghost image, a bit annoying to say the least. Funny thing
is that this behavior of the cursor is NOT present in the 2.0 Demo. So in
upgrading from 2.0 to 2.1, Claris must have changed something to slowdown the
cursor on machines like Color Classic. On my Centris 610, there is no such
problem. I called the Claris technical support about this and he told me that
it
was my machine and there is nothing one can do about it. BTW this behavior
happens even with all the extensions turned off.

So my question is:
1. Has anyone else experienced this? Especially those who use the release
version 2.1? Is this common to both the release version and the demo version?
2. There must be a patch that can be written to correct this for the 2.1 since
the problem is not there with the 2.0. Does anyone know exactly whatUs wrong or
whatUs different about the 2.1 from the 2.0 as far as the cursor control is
concerned?

Maybe because of this, 2.1 Demo does not seem as robust as 2.0 Demo, and I am
assuming the same problem might exist for the release versions.

Takamasa Takahashi/Dept. of Physics/St. Norbert College
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 06 Apr 1994 15:54:38 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Scott Lindsey)
Subject: ClarisWorks 2.1 shortcuts

Pete Chane <[e-mail]> wrote:

>ClarisWorks 2.1 includes a non documented text-to-speech function.  You can
>have text read back to you (on a PlainTalk machine) by using the "lips"
>button in the shortcuts.  The speech button is the last one in the edit
>shortcuts list.  You must install this shortcut manually.

Actually, it's mentioned in the "More About Shortcuts" file that ships with
the program:

New Shortcuts in ClarisWorks 2.1

Mail Menu Commands

* Add/Delete Mailer, Send, Forward, and Reply to Letter commands. These
shortcuts are available only if PowerTalk* (included with System 7 Pro*) is
installed.

More Word Processing Shortcuts

* Auto Hyphenate command.

* This shortcut uses PlainTalk* to speak the current text selection. If
speech is in progress, the Shortcut pauses the speech. To cancel active
speech, type Command-. (period). This shortcut is available only if
PlainTalk is installed.

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Date: Wed, 06 Apr 94 19:19:26 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: CompuServe on the Internet(?)

Folks, I noted that CompuServe is now available directly (via Telnet)
>From the internet. Have any of you tried it? I got in this evening via
NCSA Telnet 2.5 (telnet to compuserve.com, host is CIS, logon at 9600,
give your CIS ID and password) and told Telnet to log the session -- to
a text file apparently called naughtyword. Lots of unprintables. Telnet
didn't give me an option for naming the capture file.

But, apart from reading CIS stuff, I couldn't think of a way to do what
I normally use the service for -- reply to mail via uploading text files
that I compose offline while the meter isn't ticking and getting files
>From the various libraries.

Compuserve is marvelously uninformative on the subject. If you plan to
download binaries, disable your escape character. Say what?

I'm not feeling real experimental at the mo. If any of you real experts
can figure out what to do to get/put files through telnetting to CIS,
this inquiring mind would like to know what hoops must be jumped thru.
And does it work with ZMac?

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 12:56:12 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Gavin Kistner)
Subject: Correct time stamping

At 10:09 AM 4/5/94 -0400, Murph Sewall wrote:
[a tip for getting the time settings right with all the EDT silliness]

>Does anyone (else :-) ever notice times on incoming email?

Actually I've moved the bars in Eudora so I don't see all that time-zone
silliness...mail gets to me when it gets to me.

- Gavin

simoN is the screw that falls from the car for no reason.
[e-mail]   "Tell me you're crazy, maybe then I'll understand...."

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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 10:09:26 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Murph Sewall)
Subject: Correct time stamping

Here's a tip for Eudora (and users of any other Mac email software that
uses the Mac's clock to time stamp outgoing email): if you have your clock
set to EDT, then the offset should be -0400 (CDT is -0500, PDT is -0700,
etc.).  You put the offset into PRAM in the Map control panel (Time Zone).
Unfortunately, when you change the Time Zone your clock will "spring
forward" again, so you'll have to go into the General control panel and fix
it back (unless, of course, you used the Time Zone in the Map control panel
to adjust for daylight saving time in the first place).

Does anyone (else :-) ever notice times on incoming email?

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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 1994 11:38:26 -0500
From: [e-mail] (David Bourne)
Subject: CP Backup to tape under VM

Hello

I recently upgraded to CP Tools for the Mac v3.0. I tried out CP Backup
with the hope of backing up to my tape drive. The tape drive was recognized
but I got a message that the tape facility doesn't run under VM. I'm using
Ramdoubler on a Mac II under System 7.1. Is this true that you can't backup
to tape under VM (or is it just Ramdoubler) with CP Backup? It makes this
utility useless for me since I would like to schedule backups for after
hours - without rebooting etc? Fastback II and Plus (older version) also
seem to have problems with VM/Ramdoubler. Any advice? Thanks.


David Bourne, Ph.D.
OU HSC College of Pharmacy
Voice: [phone]           FAX: [phone]
Internet: [e-mail]
OUHSC College of Pharmacy WWW server: http://157.142.72.77/

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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 1994 16:53:59 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Richard Cardona)
Subject: DOS Compatibility Card Notes

As some of you know Apple introduced the DOS Compatibility Card about a
month ago for the Quadra 610.  I've had it for about a week and here's the
scoop.

The card has several interesting options as far as memory, monitors and
hard drive options

Memory

It has one 72 pin SIMM slot (empty) for RAM and it accepts 4, 8, 16, and
32mb SIMMs. (I'm not sure about a 1 mb SIMM)  It can also "borrow" memory
directly from the Mac.  In a 20 mb machine I was able to assign increments
of 4mb up to 16mb to the DOS card.  The memory control panel will just show
a large System Software partition when the DOS card is using the Mac's RAM.
Also, you can't both have on-board RAM and share some of the Mac's RAM it's
either or.  I don't have enough RAM to test if you can assign more than
32mb to the card from a Mac.  It shares the RAM with a DMA controller on
the card.

Monitors

The DOS card can share one monitor attached to both cards via a Y cable or
it can independently drive a VGA, Apple 13, 14 and 16" monitor.  The
connector is a standard Mac 15-pin connector.  If you use one monitor, the
image jumps when you switch but Apple has an option to fade the Mac screen
before this happens.  When you use two screens you can see both update
simultaneously, but when you are in a DOS environment the Mac screen is
always slightly dimmed.  I tried connecting two Apple 16" displays (one the
Mac and one to the card) it worked fine.  In fact, with the correct Windows
drivers you can easily get 800x600 on the Apple 16".

Hard Drives
The DOS card comes with PC Exchange 2.0.  The major difference in 2.0 is
that it has a built-in PC SCSI Probe which allows you to mount PC SCSI
discs on your Mac desktop as well as CD drives too.  Otherwise you can
create a PC partition file on one of your Mac volumes just like SoftPC.  PC
Exchange 2.0 also reads SoftPC hard drive partitions although the
documentation says you can't boot from a SoftPC volume.  If you set the
LASTDRIVE option in your CONFIG.SYS in DOS, you can assign multiple volumes
or folders as shared drives in DOS.  Which means you can access your Mac
data in DOS by assigning a drive letter to whatever folder you want.  The
drawback is that DOS supports only 8.3 names so your long Mac names look
funny in DOS.

Networks

The DOS card doesn't support the on-board Ethernet so you can't do Ethernet
in DOS/Windows.  The documentation doesn't even mention this.

Serial Ports

The DOS card allows you to use any Mac serial port as a COMx: device in
DOS.  You have to assign the port in the PC setup and the card opens the
port so you can't share a modem between the two without going into PC
setup.  The card only supports COM1 and COM2.

Parallel Port

There is no physical parallel printing port available with the card, but
the card does emulate a PC printer though LPT1:.  There is a PC Print
Monitor installed in your extensions folder that prints jobs from the card.

Mouse

The DOS card doesn't come with a Mouse.COM driver, but the Mac mouse works
in Windows.  I installed a MOUSE.COM from my Dell and it found and
recognized the mouse in DOS applications.

Game Port

The DOS card monitor card has a 15-pin connector for PC-style joysticks.  I
don't have one around, but I assume it works.


OS's

The DOS card comes with a shrinked-wrapped copy of MS-DOS 6.2.  If you
setup a partition you have to install it.  It doesn't come with Windows,
but I took a shrink-wrapped copy of Windoze 3.1 and installed it.  I
haven't tried OS/2 or any x86 Unix but I suppose they would work.

Copy & Paste between

The DOS card installer includes a utility for the Mac and a PC TSR which
converts the Mac clipboard into a DOS clipboard or Windows clipboard and
vice-versa. I tried using simple text transfer between both and it worked
fine.  A little message comes up everytime you switch so I disabled this
feature.

Macintosh Easy Open

The DOS card also comes with Mac Easy Open 1.0.4 to facilitate conversion
between the different environment formats.  If you need heavy duty
conversion you still require a commercial package for this.  Mac Easy Open
1.0.4 has another subtle enhancement, it uses the small icon view for icons
in open/save dialog listings.  This is similar to the DialogView extension.


Hacking around

Different CPUs?

It's supposed to be used only in a Quadra 610 - but I dediced to play
around with other machines I have.  The card is mounted on a bracket designed
for the Quadra 610.  It's really just a 040 PDS card plugged into a converter
for the Quadra 610 slot.

I have verified the card works on a Quadra 700 and Quadra 800.  Since the
card doesn't have a crystal on-board, the i486sx runs at the same speed the
CPU it's plugged into runs, thus 33 Mhz in a Quadra 800.  I should note the
040 PDS slots in those machines are well inside and the monitor cable that
plugs into the DOS card just hangs out of Nubus slot that is parallel with
the PDS slot.

On Monitors...

One limitation I did find was that the card doesn't support one 16" display
on a Quadra 700 - the PC setup control panel just says "wrong type" for the
display.  Two 16" screens or one 14" screen worked fine.  Also if you put
the DOS card into a Mac with more than one Mac screen, during the first
switch from Mac to DOS the system will freeze.  I don't blame that
situation since you can't have two Mac screens active on a Quadra 610
anyway

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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 11:13:19 EDT
From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Energy Saver Freezes

I am (was) using the Energy Saver CP to blank the sceen of an Apple
16" color (RGB) monitor attached to a Quadra 840av.   I noticed
that after a while, the Energy Saver would cause the entire system
to freeze.  Pressing the spacebar (or any key) would bring back
the desktop, but with everything frozen including the mouse.

Has anyone else encountered this kind of problem?

Jeffrey Fritz
West Virginia University
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 94 12:46:17 CDT
From: Mike Sisson <[e-mail]>
Subject: External Monitor for SE (Q)

I am looking to add a 19"-21" monitor with video card to a Mac SE. Monochrome
is perfectly acceptable but color would be nice. I would like any and all
recommendations (short of getting a different computer) as to sizes, brands
(reliability and compatibility are paramount) and anything else that is
pertinent. Please also suggest purchasing sources if you have them.


Thanks,
Mike Sisson
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 1994 10:27:39 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Juan M. Courcoul)
Subject: File access woes when several applications try to open their docs.

I am probaby overlooking something, but I can't place it, so here goes:

* Downloaded Internaut Issue 1 from sumex, unpacked the files and tried to
view the contents using NCSA Mosaic 1.0.3. However, all attempts are met
with an "Unable to access document/Text has not been loaded" error.

* Downloaded Bird Songs from sumex, unpacked the files (placing the sound
files from Pt. 2 in the Bird Files folder, as per instructions) and tried
to play. Application starts, displays splash screen, followed by the "bird
feeder" screen. However, an error message then appears "Fatal error: At
least one Bird File must be present in Bird Files folder...", after which
the application quits. The Bird Files folder is in the same folder as the
application, and it contains all the bird files included in the release.

Since  both cases seemed to be that the application was not locating its
files, I attempted rebuilding the desktop (using TechTool 1.0.3), as well
as disabling all inits, to no avail. Bird Songs refuses to see that its
bird files are where they're supposed to be, and Mosaic can't open the
Internaut index.html.

Is there something awry in my machine (PB 180, 80MB HD, 10MB RAM, Sys
7.1US), or is the problem related to these two downloads ?

Thanks for your thoughts.

Juan

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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 1994 16:33:25 +0100
From: [e-mail] (John Williams)
Subject: Growing system heap - culprit found

    I posted a note to the digest yesterday about my system which
appears to grow and occupy more and more RAM as time goes by.

    Since then, I've done a little testing and found that:
    a) INITs and extensions do not seem to be responsable, since the
problem still arises if I start with everything turned off.
    b) There are two culprits: Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel.

    Let's illustrate the problem.  At startup, the 'About this
Macintosh' window indicates that the system is eating up 3120 Ko.  After
loading and unloading WordPerfect 3.a and Kaleidagraph 3.01, the system
rises to 3252 Ko and sinks back to 3177 Ko. After loading Excel, it
occupies 4074 Ko and when Excel is unloaded it *only* shrinks to 4043 Ko.

    Can anyone kindly explain what is going on?  And is there a cure
(knowing that I've tried HeapTool which doesn't fix the problem).



John Williams

INRA Station de Recherches Avicoles, Centre de Recherches de Tours, 37380
Nouzilly, France

Tel [phone]    Fax/telecopie (33) 47 42 77 78

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Date: 6 Apr 1994 23:07:47 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Pete Resnick)
Subject: Hack MacWrite Pro for Autosave?

In [e-mail], Pete Jones <[e-mail]> writes:

>Netters, has anyone found a hack or resedit codes to make
>the "Auto Save" function in MacWrite Pro always "on"? We have
>MWPRO 1.0 and autosave has to be turned on for every document
>you create.... which has left my spousal unit grumbling when
>she forgets to do so and then we suffer a crash at the hands
>of the local power company. Seems there ought to be a way to
>make Autosave default to "on" instead of "off". Any suggestions?

As with all settings, to make them global save a MacWrite Pro Options
document in your Claris Folder with everything set the way you want a
default document to open.

pr
--
Pete Resnick - [e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 94 10:33 EDT
From: "Cindy Decker Raynak" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V12 #54

Hello Folks,

We are talking about what a client/server environment should look like here
at PSU.  Included in these discussions are references to ODBC, the Microsoft
protocol, and DCE the open communications protocol.  I am not familiar with
either of these items, beyond what I've read by various proponents/opponents
of each.  Can anyone out there speak to a rookie about these?

Specifically, what does each of these protocols mean to me in developing
clients on a Mac/PowerMac?  Since this issue is fairly new I'm having a hard
time finding specific information.

HELP!!  And I hate alphabet soup.  Especially when it's tossed with abandon
at meetings!!

Thanks for any input.

Cindy


Cindy Decker Raynak
CES Systems Office
Penn State University
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 94 15:49:57 MST
From: [e-mail] (Simon Radford)
Subject: Info-Mac mirrors and ftp congestion

Although delaying the announcement of new submissions may
help the congestion problem a bit, the real problem is that
there simply aren't enough mirror sites, at least in the
continental US. In the list in issue 49, I count a total
of 7 US sites (amug.org, grind.isca.uiowa.edu,
gopher.lcs.mit.edu, wuarchive.wustl.edu, ricevm1.rice.edu,
ftp.uu.net, and sumex, of course). Two of these are
special purpose (mit, rice) and all of the others limit
the number of ftp sessions. Wuarchive seems to be the
biggest, but it only serves 175 sessions during the day
and is often clogged.

Undoubtedly the continental US has more people trying
to access these archives than anywhere else, yet there
are only a small number of archive sites. What to do?
Recruit more public archive servers? Certainly, but
where? Cross mount the archives to CompuServe or AOL
(and let them worry about archive server load)?
Practical, but neither egalitarian nor, I suspect,
popular?

Any other ideas?

Simon Radford, NRAO, Tucson

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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 94 11:55:42 +0100
From: "vidal ibaez, juan carlos" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info.Sigmaplot.posting

I am inquiring about *SigmaPlot software for Macintosh* information.
If you have been using this programm and have any information about
it, please drop me a line.

Thank you for your consideration.

Prof. JC Vidal; *e-mail*: [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 12:05:18 -700 (MDT)
From: "Matthew D. Maddox" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Init to change screen refresh rate (Q)

I have heard tell of an init that allows you to change the refresh rate of
Macintosh screens. This allows the screens to be video taped directly from
a video camera. I have heard it is what Apple uses when they video tape
commercials. Does anybody know about this?

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

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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 17:23:45 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Joerg Schaeffer)
Subject: InterSLIP *CALLBACK* script needed urgently!

I remember reading about a script for InterSLIP that could handle Callback
Connections on comp.sys.mac.comm some time ago, but forgot where it was
available...
Could a kind soul please point me to a place where I could get it?
(Please CC any replies to my adress.)

Thanks *a lot* in advance
Joerg

--
Joerg Schaeffer <[e-mail]>   "I can't do it any shorter"
:)

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Date: 6 Apr 1994 23:05:06 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Pete Resnick)
Subject: Keeping time

In [e-mail], [e-mail]
(Murph Sewall) writes:

>Does anyone have an email address for Gunther Blaschek, author of
>ClockAdjust (I have v1.2)?  That control panel does a nice job of keeping
>my Mac on time and springing forward and falling back when daylight savings
>time goes on and off.

>When daylight savings time started, ClockAdjust dutifully set my MacClock
>ahead an hour, but it didn't change the time offset in the PRAM.

Guenther is aware of the problem. What you should do for the time being
is not let ClockAdjust take care of daylight savings time. Use Daylight
or WorldTime instead until Guenther is able to fix the problem.

In any event, his address is: [e-mail]

pr
--
Pete Resnick - [e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 94 11:11:02 EDT
From: Scott Kelsey <[e-mail]>
Subject: LC problem

 Hi all -- I am asking a question for a friend, so I have limited information.

Here is the problem.  When the machine is started up after it has been turned
off, it can not locate the printer and reverts to black and white.  I must go
to the chooser to select the printer and must go to the monitor icon in the
control panel to select color.  A restart will leave these changes in place,
but if the machine is turned off, I then need to make the changes in place,
ideas on what might be wrong would be apprecieated.

System 7
LC 8megs of memory
Color Monitor

Thanks in advance

Scott Kelsey
[e-mail]
University of Delaware

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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 94 16:43:50 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Wendy L. May)
Subject: Mac Classic Won't Talk to LaserWriter

Hello info-mac,

I'm sending this message for a friend of mine who is having problems with a
LaserWriter in their office.  They have a LaserWriter IISC that was hooked to
an SE/30.  The SE/30 died recently and they are trying to hook the printer up
to a Mac Classic.  However, when they connect the printer to the Classic it
refuses to boot, just gets the dreaded disk with a question mark.  According to
my friend, the printer doesn't have a Localtalk port, but rather a SCSI and an
ADB (??!) port.  The SE/30 was accessing it through SCSI.  How do we get the
Classic to talk to the LaserWriter?

I have to admit I'm spoiled with my Quadra 800 and HP LaserJet and that's why I
can't help her ;-)  Kind of like velcro shoelaces...

TIA,
Wendy L. May
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 05 Apr 94 15:55:11 CDT
From: Michael Conwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mac disks on a PC

I have seen and briefly used a utility called MAC-ETTE that will read
and allow you to copy files from Mac disks (HD) to the PC.  I might
have seen it at FTP GARBO.UWASA.FI

Mike

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

Date: Wed, 6 Apr 94 10:19:45 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Gavin Brebner)
Subject: MacLayers file transfer

I am having problems getting the MacLayers package to accept file
transfer from a Sun to my LC II. Using exactly the same equipment,
I can perform transfers easily using something like Kermit, but
with MacLayers, macbput <filename> results in nothing but error
retries until the error threshold is reached. As I like and use
MacLayers a lot for remote login, I would like to get this working.

I am connected at 2400 baud, 8 bit, no parity. Anyone seen this
before or have any ideas ?

Gavin Brebner

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

Date: Wed, 06 Apr 1994 14:59:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: levin <[e-mail]>
Subject: MACPB-L Digest - 4 Apr 1994 to 5 Apr 1994

Can anyone tell me where I can find a list of which enablers are required for
use with which Macs. Most immediately, I need to know which enablers are
required for use with System 7.1 in a Duo 230. I believe I have more than I
need and I need to make a bootable floppy that has the minimum System software
on it for use with MacTools DiskFix.

Thanks for your help.


Jerry

Jerome A. Levin, Ph.D.
Director, Computer Learning Resource Center
Medical College of Ohio
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 17:27:34 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Jason Stone)
Subject: Mactools updates

Hi everyone,

Does anyone know where I can pick up the other updates of Mactools 3.0.
According to the readme file that came with the one's on Info-mac, there
should be a bunch more. There are only 4 posted on Info-mac though. The
readme also says you can send $15 to Central Point for a complete update,
but why would they post some files and not the others? Besides, I don't
think they should charge people for an update released so soon after the
program hit the stores. Please help!

Thank you much,

Jason Stone
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 94 18:51:26 -0400
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Modems for a powerbook

    i am considering purchasing a 14.4K bps modem.  i am currently
looking at zoom and magic models.  can anyone give me any insight on
these or any other inexpensive 14.4k bps powerbook modems?  suggestions?
recommendations?

    TIA!!

    ([e-mail])

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Date: 7 Apr 1994 01:11:29 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Steve L Portigal)
Subject: My mac just shuts down

I dunno if anyone has ever had this problem. It's very sporadic, maybe
once or twice. My IIsi just clicks off while being used, not being
touched in the back, just normal usage. I power it up and the picture
]is all screwy (sort of hourglass distortion), until I power cycle
the (Trinitron, not Apple) monitor....

Steve

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

Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 16:09:06 +0100
From: [e-mail] (John Williams)
Subject: My stack won't stop growing (Q)

    I first suspected something wasn't right when I got a low memory
warning box when I wanted to open Word after Excel.  Normally, I had been
able to do this on an 8Mo Centris 650 (yeah, remember those machines?)
running system 7.1 with no trouble.  Not today, though.

    So I looked at the 'about this Macintosh' item under the Apple menu
and found that the system was eating up over 4Mo, when previouslt it had
been around 3Mo. Thanks to Memory Mapper, I was able to pin this down to an
unusually large system heap.

    I re-started the Mac and all was OK, back to about 3 Mo for the
system, and this is still the case every time I re-start.  However, every
time I load an application, the system GROWS - today it went from 3268 Ko
to 3723 Ko.  I tried to force a purge using HeapTool and got it down to
3686 Ko.

    What is going on? Should I re-install my system?  Should I hunt
down an ill-behaved INIT or CDEV?  C'mon you gurus, help me out!!!! And
many thanks in anticipation.



John Williams

INRA Station de Recherches Avicoles, Centre de Recherches de Tours, 37380
Nouzilly, France

Tel [phone]    Fax/telecopie (33) 47 42 77 78

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

Date: Thu, 7 Apr 1994 05:53:42 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Mystique Pt.1 ? (Q)

Is there a Mystique Part 1, I found parts 2 to 6 that was posted
but no Part 1.
Anyone knows if it exists?
Thanks
-Mike

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

Date: Tue, 05 Apr 94 14:23:51 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Photoshop Plug-in Compatible Programs

I am currently trying to put together a list of programs which support the
Photoshop plug-in standard [Acquire, Export, Filter, and the new Format
plug-in].

As Adobe was very good at 'spreading the word' with its free distribution of
the 2.0 Plug-in Developers Kit, many programs took up the standard, ranging
>From Ray Dream Designer 3.0 to NIH-Image 1.50.

While searching through mail order catalogs, company literature, MacWeeks, &
other Macazines in order to compile my list, I was struck by the happenstance
nature of the information on Plug-in compatibility.  Calling the smaller
companies led to quick responses, but calling Claris...  5 hours later:
'well, I think that BrushStrokes supports some but not all of the plug-ins'.
Read: buy it and see, get off my back.

Thus, my request to Info-Mac readers:  If you have any experience with
plug-in compatible programs, please e-mail me, I will put together a list,
and resubmit it to Info-Mac.

By showing companies like Claris that the competition is jumping on the
band-wagon, maybe the Plug-in standard can do what the TWAIN idea  attempted
to, to create a standard method for addressing our scanners, cameras,
printers, and filters. I sure would like to bring data directly into MacDraw
Pro or Hypercard without worrying about XTND's, XCMD's, Xetc. [By the way,
how many people have even heard of the TWAIN standard? And with Adobe's
purchase of Aldus, how many ever will?]

Thanks,

Hugh Lyshkow
Designed Access
[e-mail]

P.S. Does anyone know where there is an FTP'able copy of the Photoshop 2.5.1
Developers kit?  Adobe Tech support had promised me long ago but...

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

Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 21:53:45 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Arild Eugen Johansen)
Subject: PowerBook device for disabled

Does anyone know of a device that would make a PowerBook usable for someone
with a severe hand movement disabilty? The lady in question has lost her
speech, she can only mutter some sounds. My idea was to let her navigate on
the screen where, using HyperCard, I could make buttons that would
pronounce common words that she needs to "speak".

I tried this out on her, and although she had big problems in rolling the
ball, it was not impossible for her. With a hand-rest it would be easier.
But maybe there are other aids to be used for people in that situation. Or
devices that could turn a PowerBook into a really useful device. Things
like joysticks, large buttons etc.

I know that Apple, at least in earlier years, has focused on disability. We
all remember the slogan: Apple Computer lets ordinary people do
extraordinary things and also extraordinary people do ordinary things! The
disease she is suffering is called "skydivers syndrome"

Any leads?

Arild

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

Date: Wed, 6 Apr 94 14:24:25 EDT
From: Tony Silva <[e-mail]>
Subject: programmer's switches for MacLCIII [Q]

Pardon my ignorance on this one, but does such a beast exist? I'd like
to have unconditional soft-reset and interrupt capability. Right now
I'm using power cycling for rebooting and MacsBug with an FKEY for
interrupting, neither of which I'm too fond of. I don't like hammering
my power supply just to reboot when things lock up, and the FKEY
doesn't work in all circumstances.

Any info on installing a programmer's switch on my LCIII or getting
the same functionality by some other means will be greatly
appreciated. TIA.

Tony Silva, Atlantic Aerospace Elec. Corp., [phone], [e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 20:19:02 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Rip Van Winkle)
Subject: QuickMail-cc:Mail gateway

Does anyone know of a direct gateway between QuickMail and cc:Mail? I feel
sure that StarNine's product is fine - but expensive as well in an
environment with many QuickMail users and few cc:Mail users. The gateway
should work within an AppleTalk network - nope, no TCP/IP here :-)

Rip Van Winkle
[e-mail]

Nothing can astound an American - Jules Verne
You can always tell a Dane, but you can't tell him much - Unknown

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

Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 11:28:26 -0400
From: [e-mail] (David Kreindler)
Subject: RAMDiskSaver 2.0

RAMDiskSaver is now published by Atticus Software Corporation and is
distributed in the normal commercial manner, rather that as shareware.
Atticus RAMDiskSaver 2.0 incorporates numerous new features and bug fixes.
The shareware version of RAMDiskSaver will no longer be supported.

For more information, contact:

    Atticus Software Corporation
    456 Glenbrook Road
    Stamford CT 06906-1800

    Telephone: [phone]
    FAX: [phone]
    America Online: Atticus SC
    AppleLink: Atticus
    CompuServe: 75300,3173

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

Date: 05 Apr 94 16:21 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Icon - Alexander Falk,AT,IDV)
Subject: Re- FTP transfer from pro

Attn: Info- Mac
SentBy: Alexander Falk

Subject:Re: FTP transfer from program
In Info-Mac Digest Volume 12 / Issue 46 (21 Mar 94) Alfred Mayer
<[e-mail]> writes:

> Subject: FTP file transfer from 4th Dimension?
>
> We are currently developing a 4D database application and need a way
> to transfer files between the Mac and a Unix host under program
> control (preferably using the FTP protocol). Does anyone know of
> a product that lets you do FTP transfers and does NOT requires
> interaction with the user? We would be interested in either
> 4th Dimension Externals or a C Library.

Hi Alfred,

Our company has a product called "Developer's FTP-Kit for the
Macintosh" that will give you exactly what you need. It is
available both as a C Library and a set of two external functions
for 4th Dimension. Two convenient functions FTPSend() and
FTPReceive() will allow you to transfer a file from the
Mac to any FTP server and vice versa under full program
control (IP-Address, UserID, and Password are given as
parameteres, so there is absolutely NO interaction with
the user necessary!). Extensive error reporting is also
included and an optional progress bar can be displayed
to keep the user informed. The price is US$ 79.-, payment
is accepted via credit card (Visa, MC, AmEx, Diners, JCB).

If you are interested, send e-mail to <[e-mail]>
or give us a call at [phone] and I'll forward our detailed
product and order information to you. You can also fax us at
[phone].

Hope this helps,

Alexander Falk, President
Icon Information-Systems GesmbH.



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

Date: Wed, 6 Apr 1994 11:38:04 -0500
From: [e-mail] (David Bourne)
Subject: Reading WPerfect 3.0 Mac with Word 5.1a

Hello all

Does anyone know of a way to read Word Perfect 3.0 for the Mac (and/or Word
Perfect - latest version >5.1 for IBM) with MS Word 5.1a (for the Mac :-)).
Have I missed news of an updated translators. Thanks.


David Bourne, Ph.D.
OU HSC College of Pharmacy
Voice: [phone]           FAX: [phone]
Internet: [e-mail]
OUHSC College of Pharmacy WWW server: http://157.142.72.77/

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

Date: Wed, 6 Apr 1994 17:26:32 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Graeme Forbes)
Subject: Scripting Beginner

I'm wondering about the best way to get a hold of Applescript. If you want
to write scripts, are the versions that come with third-party books like
Danny Goodman's or with other products like Hypercard 2.2 adequate, or do
you need to buy the full package from Apple?

Thanks in advance,
Graeme Forbes

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

Date: Wed, 6 Apr 1994 10:29:28 +0200
From: "David C. Roessli" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Shared (modem) fax (Q)

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest
Path: usenet
From: David C. Roessli <[e-mail]>
Subject: Shared (modem) fax (Q)
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
X-Xxdate: Wed, 6 Apr 94 08:25:57 GMT
Sender: [e-mail]
Organization: Dpt. Anthropology, U of Geneva, Switzerland
X-Useragent: Nuntius Version 1.1.3
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 1994 08:29:24 GMT


Hello world,

Does anyone know if it's possible to share a fax/modem through a network ?
(The same way you can share a StyleWriter II). And if so, what software
would be suitable ?
Thanks.
--
David Roessli - Dpt. Anthropology & Ecology, U of Geneva, Switzerland
Email [e-mail]  Tel [phone]  Fax [phone]

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

Date: Tue, 5 Apr 94 14:27:52 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: SLIP busy-work utility

Yup, if I remember correctly, if you run Peter Lewis's Talk program,
it continually polls the connection, keeping it up all the time. :-)

cheers ... -Adam

In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
> I have a problem. My SLIP provider's UNIX machine has the strange habbit of
> hanging up on my Mac if the connection is idle for a not too long time
> (aprox. 5 min.) Aparantly, this is their way of keeping users from keeping
> up connections round the clock. In the words of an ex-pres, "I am not a
> crook." I am not trying to defraud my hookup. Thing is, if I get called
> away from my computer for a few minutes, I end up having to come back and
> perform some pointless operation to keep from getting hunged-upon. So, does
> anyone know of a utility that would perform some trivial task on a regular
> basis to keep Mr. UNIX happy. *Thanks*

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

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

Date: Wed, 6 Apr 94 11:34:18 EDT
From: Jerry Wolf <[e-mail]>
Subject: Stylewriter II grayscale/B&W

A while back there was an inquiry re the Grayscale/B&W choice for the
Stylewriter II -- which was preferable for text, and could the default
be changed.

For what it's worth, the ReadMe on the Stylewriter II Software 1.2 disk
says (among other things), "It is recommended that you select Print
Quality as Normal and Image as Grayscale in the Print dialog box because
it gives you the best results with the fastest printing. (This is the
default setting within the Print Dialog box.)"  This seems to imply that
there's no penalty in using Grayscale, eh?

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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 1994 20:39:45 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Jay L. Cross)
Subject: Suitcase

John McMillan ([e-mail]) asks:

> I'm gradually building a library of fonts and want to divide
> them up into "text fonts", "display fonts" "fonts for odd
> languages" etc, with the intention that depending on the job
> I'm doing, not all the fonts appear in the font-menu at once.
> It appears that Suitcase will do this. Can anyone confirm?
> Does it run under System 7.1 and is it easy to change font
> cases when its running. Does it have any disadvantages (other
> than costing money)?
>                              John McMillan

I haven't used Suitcase with 7.1, but I believe the last couple of
minor updates (2.1.4 is the latest I have) have been to fix problems
with 7.1 and/or the Quadras.  It works fine for me  on a IIsi with
7.01.  I keep most fonts, most DAs, FKEYs, and sounds in folders
outside my system folder.  I do, however, keep Monaco, Geneva, and
Chicago in the System.  Makes them all easier (IMHO) to manage, and
helps reduce the size of the system folder a bit.  Disadvantages?  It
tends to break with new releases of system software or new Macs,
and the updates, which are available on-line, sometimes take a
couple of days (;-)) to appear.  And, it costs money.  No idea what
Symantic will do to it.

Usual disclaimers apply (I don't work for anybody), but I recommend
it.


--
     Jay Cross      CROSS Resources     [phone]
  [e-mail]   [e-mail]
    HyperCard development, Macintosh user training, DTP

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

Date: Wed, 06 Apr 1994 13:41:22 +1200
From: "matt n." <[e-mail]>
Subject: suitcase under sys 7.1 [A]

[e-mail] wrote:

>I'm gradually building a library of fonts and want to
>divide them up into "text fonts", "display fonts"
>"fonts for odd languages" etc,  with the intention that
>depending on the job I'm doing, not all the fonts appear
>in the font-menu at once.  It appears that Suitcase will
>do this. Can anyone confirm?  Does it run under System
>7.1 and is it easy to change font cases when its running.
>Does it have any disadvantages (other than costing money)?

Yes it works, yes it easy to change suitcases any time, no I have
not found any problems with it, yes it does exactly what you want
and this is exactly what it is for, and *why* the heck doesn't
system 7.1 work more or less this way already? I was really looking
forward to the "Fonts Folder" which 7.1 introduced, and was really
disappointed when it turned out that you couldn't take something
*out* of that folder while any applications were running. Since I
use several Startup utilities, applications are *always* running on
my machine. IMHO the Fonts Folder is no improvement at all over the
"openable" System introduced with 7.0. Use Suitcase! By the way, I
am still using the "old" version of Suitcase; I never upgraded to
Suitcase II. m.

matt neuburg, phd = [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 05 Apr 94 16:16:31 EDT
From: Gene Mayro <[e-mail]>
Subject: Tape Drive (Q)

Does anyone have any experience with tape backup drives? Though I would
like to purchase a 2 GB DAT drive, my budget director tells me
that I can only go as high as $500 (the drives I will be backing up only
go as high as 240 MB, but I can always hope for the future...) That
leaves me with the APS Teac 155. Does anyone have any experience with
this drive? It comes bundled with Retrospect. Does this (or any other
software) compress data as it is being backed up? I know that this
software exists for the PC, I would hope that it would for the Mac.

TIA

- Gene Mayro (vm.temple.edu)

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Date: Thu, 07 Apr 1994 11:23:18 SST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Telnet 2.6 and setting transfer directory

When I try to ftp a file down to my Mac using the new Telnet 2.6, my
machine hangs. I suspect this has to do with setting the transfer directory.
We used to be able to set the transfer directory in version 2.5 but I can
no longer find a way to set this parameter in version 2.6.

Has anyone had a similar experience? Can someone help?

Thank you.
Y S Chee
[e-mail]

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

Date: Wed, 6 Apr 1994 15:12:18 -0600
From: (Pete Chane) <[e-mail]>
Subject: Think C 6.0.1 to 7.0 patches

Anyone else getting errors when updating the THINK Project Manager to v.
7.0 with the patches posted on sumex?  I get errors that the patch is
unable to locate a resource in the file - even on a cleanly installed copy.

HELP!  Symantec - email me back!

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

Date: 6 Apr 94 09:24:58 -0600
From: [e-mail]
Subject: TrueType font converter

               Subject:                               Time:8:11 AM
  OFFICE MEMO          TrueType font converter                Date:4/6/94
Appreciate any reply - short or long. Please response to:
[e-mail].

I'm having trouble converting a Windows TrueType foreign language font over to
the Mac (system 7). The font uses the upper ASCII codes (128 to 255) for its
special foreign characters. After the conversion to the Mac, these special
characters are all present but in the wrong positions. I've tried several
shareware font conversion packages (including TTconverter) and FontMonger, a
commercial package. They all have this problem.

Any idea why? Please suggest solution.

For the worst case , if none of the available utilities can convert fonts using
upper ASCII codes then I'll try to write one myself. Where can a person obtain
documents describing the internal structure of font files for Windows and
Macintosh?

Thanks in advance for any advice,

Tin Nguyen

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

Date: Wed, 06 Apr 94 12:52:51 PST
From: "Michael Brodsky" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Which INITS for 840av?

When I got my 840av I was disappointed with the speed at which it recognizes,
reads, and writes floppy disks. I was wondering if any of the following
INITS (or others) address this problem:

AV Cache Tuner 1.01
AV Boost 1.0
AV Speedup 1.1d1
AV Resource Manager Tuner 1.0
AV Turbo ROM

I was also wonder which of these INITS (or others) that people have tried
and found signifcant improvements and/or incompatiblities with the 840av?

Thanks. Michael

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

Date: Wed, 6 Apr 1994 16:06:48 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Wayne Rowley)
Subject: Will Hewlett-Packard laser printer work w/ Mac II?

I have a Mac II and am looking to buy a laser printer which will be used
for printing text (few if any graphics). There are a few ads in the paper
for Hewlett-Packard laser printers. Are these for IBMs only or will they
work with my mac? I don't have an ethernet card. Otherwise I am looking at
a Personal LaserWriter 300. Any experiences with this printer, good or bad?

Any help is appreciated; e-mail to me directly and I will post results to
the digest if I receive a request to do so.

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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 94 13:17:31 PDT
From: backmod (Backup Moderator)

[e-mail])
Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
X-Sender: [e-mail]
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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 15:45:47 -0500
To: [e-mail]
From: [e-mail] (Jerome Chan)
Subject: Mystique; a Quarterly Myst Fan Club NewsLetter

Here's the Quarterly Myst Fan Club NewsLetter.

[Archived as /info-mac/per/mystique-001-pt1.hqx; 952K]

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