Info-Mac 4/Info_Mac IV CD-ROM (Pacific HiTech Inc.)(August 1994).iso/Periodicals/InfoMac Digest volume 12/infomacv12-061.txt

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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 94 07:14:02 PDT
From: The Info-Mac Moderators <[e-mail]>
Reply-To: [e-mail]
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V12 #61
To: info-mac-list


Info-Mac Digest             Tue, 19 Apr 94       Volume 12 : Issue 61

Today's Topics:

      [*] Amy's Recipes; a recipe database
      [*] BijouPlay 1.2 QuickTime player
      [*] Cool Address Book
      [*] csmp-digest-v3-016
      [*] Doc Creator; create teachText read-only documents
      [*] dvorak-keyboard; replaces the qwerty key map
      [*] Five Dice v1.5; a Yatzee-type game
      [*] FL Package of BBEdit extensions v1.1
      [*] Font library
      [*] Gradebook Stack v1.82; a teacher's friend
      [*] Hellcats (a game) 1.0.2 to 1.0.4 updater
      [*] Jon's Commands 1.1; a set of AppleScript scripting additions
      [*] Leyte Gulf (a game) patch 1.0.1 to 1.0.2
      [*] Macintosh V for Victory Updates (a game)
      [*] MOD-Editing-Lesson (instructions)
      [*] No Erase 1.0; disables the Erase Disk menu
      [*] PB_Insomnia; helps prevent your computer from sleeping
      [*] poor-mans-newton-12-hc; a Newton-like information database
      [*] PopChar 2.7.1; presents available characters of a font
      [*] PowerMac_The_future_is_here; a startup screen
      [*] PowerXplorer1.01; test your PowerPC performance
      [*] QuickEditor; a QuickTime editor
      [*] roland-tr-626; sound samples from the drum machine
      [*] roland-tr-707; sound sample set
      [*] Science Jeopardy HC stack; a Jeopardy-style trivia game
      [*] Speak Note GH 2.0; hear your alerts and notifications
      [*] SWIIPrintUseMon version 1.2; keeps track of pages printed
      [*] UUParser 1.71; a UUcode utility
      [*] WriteThrough; disabled disk caching
      [?] MacWrite Pro/LaserWriter LS problem
      A New Electronic Magazine: PowerPC News
      C Coding Standards
      CD-ROM start-up disk
      Color StyleWriter Pro brief review/speed test
      Dead HD20 in my SE. Advice?
      Decompressing Mystique
      Easy Open (MacLink 7.5) Problems
      F/A-18 Hornet On Ara
      FaxSTF 2.6.1 updater problems
      File Sharing Startup [A]
      Fontographer & other font creation utils.
      FTPd Virus: False Alert!
      Gopher's tradeoff
      Hard Disk Overview
      HP printer/scanner drivers -- official ftp site for
      Info on Spyglass/Transform/Dicer
      Init limits
      ink jet color transparencies
      Internet software
      irc clients [A]
      LAT tool
      Looking for shareware or freeware that changes icons
      LW printer driver (Q)
      Modem difficulties...
      MS FoxPro and LCIII - slow ???
      Network Instant Message?
      NewsWatcher: dialup use
      OneNet
      Postscript printing on a Quickdraw Printer
      Printer Question
      Serial Port Resetting Question
      SoftWindows and PowerPC - only available as a bundle?
      Spooling ImageWriter Files
      TelNet 2.6
      Telnet 2.6 and hash (#) character
      Telnet 2.6 and setting transfer directory
      WordMac List: Does it still exist? (Yes)
      WordPerfect 3.0 -> QuarkXpress 3.2
      WriteNow 4.0 feature/bug (Q)

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Date: Sun, Apr 17, 1994 2:43 PM
From: Kent Pilkington <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Amy's Recipes; a recipe database

[Archived as /info-mac/app/amys-recipes.hqx; 195K]

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Date: Sun, 17 Apr 94 4:35:21 CDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] BijouPlay 1.2 QuickTime player

Enclosed you will find BijouPlay v1.2.
BijouPlay is a QuickTime player for your Macintosh or Power Macintosh.
BijouPlay v1.2 has been compiled as a Fat Binary to run native on a
PowerMacintosh computer.
Please see the README document enclosed for more information.

David A. denBoer                        University of Manitoba
[e-mail]                 Computer Services -- User Services

[Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/bijou-play-12.hqx; 29K]

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Date: Sun, Apr 17, 1994 2:48 PM
From: Kent Pilkington <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Cool Address Book

[Archived as /info-mac/app/cool-address-book.hqx; 403]K

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Date: Mon, 18 Apr 94 14:57:43 MET DST
From: [e-mail] (Francois Pottier)
Subject: [*] csmp-digest-v3-016

C.S.M.P. Digest             Mon, 18 Apr 94       Volume 3 : Issue 16

Today's Topics:

    AppleTalk ON and OFF
    CtoPstr in THINK C 6.0
    Highlight colour?
    Picture Recording
    Speeding up animation; questions
    Tools to improve segmentation?
    copy file question, code available?
    skeleton code generators?

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

[Archived as /info-mac/per/csmp/csmp-v3-016.txt; 69K]

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Date: Sun, Apr 17, 1994 2:57 PM
From: Kent Pilkington <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Doc Creator; create teachText read-only documents

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; 761K]

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Date: Sat, 16 Apr 1994 17:05:13 -0400
From: [e-mail] (John Rethorst)
Subject: [*] dvorak-keyboard; replaces the qwerty key map

Here's a gem for your archives. The .sit file contains a small installer
application, two inits, an fkey, and good documentation. The package is
used to add the Dvorak keyboard to any Mac; this implementation is
particularly good on pre-system 7 Macs, although it retains some of its
advantages with system 7, compared to Apple's Dvorak keymap.

August Dvorak developed this keymap in the 1930's. The standard typewriter
keyboard, called 'Qwerty' for the first six letters on the top row, was
designed when manual typewriters were in their infancy. The very first
typewriters had letters in alphabetical order across the keyboard. Fast
typists were able to move more quickly than the primitive mechanisms could
accommodate, and they constantly jammed. The Qwerty keyboard design was a
response to this, and placed letters specifically to slow typists down.
Well and good until the electric typewriter came along.

By that time everyone knew Qwerty and a change seemed impossible,
especially since modifying a typewriter's mechanism to reposition letters
involved major redesign (unlike remapping the Mac's keyboard, which is
simple). Nonetheless, Dvorak designed an optimal keyboard that offered
astonishing advantages.

On a Qwerty keyboard, the average person's fingers move 16 miles in eight
hours. On the Dvorak keyboard, they move one mile. On Qwerty, you can type
only 100 English words from the center row of the keyboard, where your
fingers rest. On Dvorak, you can type 4000 words. Qwerty uses the top row
the most; Dvorak the center row. Qwerty uses the left hand more than the
right, just because more people are right-handed.

Since Dvorak puts all the vowels in the center row for the left hand, and
the most common consonants in the center row for the right, and no common
letter sequences are accessed with the same finger, typing becomes rhythmic
and even. You're much less tired afterwards, and threat of serious injury
such as Carpal-Tunnel Syndrome is much lower.

The installer adds the keymap resource (technically the KCHR) to the active
system file. The fkey, which the installer also (at the user's option)
adds, switches from the Dvorak to the standard layout and back. Of the two
inits, you should place only one in the system or extensions folder,
according to which keymap you want to be effective at startup.

System 7 users will want to switch keymaps with system 7's standard
keystroke of command-option-spacebar rather than use Electric Dvorak's
fkey. The inits add a useful functionality to any system, especially for
shared computers.

Freeware. I've used it for quite some time, and have found no bugs.

[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/dvorak-keyboard.hqx; 37K]

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Date: Sun, Apr 17, 1994 3:18 PM
From: Kent Pilkington <[e-mail]>
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 RyatzeeS together.  As in Amy's recipes, there is no version history to
let me know what is different about this one.

[Archived as /info-mac/game/five-dice-15-hc.hqx; 570K]

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Date: Sat, 16 Apr 1994 15:05:09 -0500 (EST)
From: Paul van Mulbregt <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] FL Package of BBEdit extensions v1.1

The FL Package of BBEdit Extensions contains four Extensions

     Function Lister
     Fast Search
     Word Completion
     Function Lookup

Function Lister is a utility for programmers which displays information about
functions defined in a source file (especially good for C++);
Fast Search is an alternative to BBEdit's regular search, a fast incremental
search which finds as the user types characters;
Word Completion enables the user to type a few letters of a variable name and
have the extension type the rest;
Function Lookup is a convenient way to access Think Reference or MPW 411.

v1.1.  ShareWare.  Works with BBEdit Lite or BBEdit.
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/text/bbedit-fl-package-11.hqx; 105K]

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Date: Sun, Apr 17, 1994 3:29 PM
From: Kent Pilkington <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Font library

[Archived as /info-mac/font/util/font-library.hqx; 118K]

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Date: Sat, 16 Apr 1994 20:39:33 -0600
From: [e-mail] (J. Witte)
Subject: [*] Gradebook Stack v1.82; a teacher's friend

Here is v1.82 of the Gradebook Stack, a hypercard stack for teachers to
keep grades. Gradebook is easy to use, and makes life much simpler at the
end of the semester!

Version 1.82 fixes two bugs on the student record. It will now let you
delete student absences properly, and will now properly print a report for
a single student.

Shareware, $15

[Archived as /info-mac/app/gradebook-182-hc.hqx; 171K]

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Date: Thu, 14 Apr 1994 15:48:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Russ Blaine <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Hellcats (a game) 1.0.2 to 1.0.4 updater

Hi. I am including a file with this message that I wish to be placed on
the info-mac archives. The file is:

Hellcats102-104.hqx

This is the LONG awaited patch from GSC that fixes the problems with
sound on AV's and PPC's with Hellcats.

Thanks.

| ----  Russ Blaine  ---- |  "Achilles was dipped in the River Stynx |
|  [e-mail]   |     until he became intolerable."        |

[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/hellcats-102-to-104-updt.hqx; 103K]

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Date: Sun, 17 Apr 1994 17:06:46 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Jon Pugh)
Subject: [*] Jon's Commands 1.1; a set of AppleScript scripting additions

Here are Jon's Commands 1.1, a set of AppleScript scripting additions which
provide system level functions in a convenient and delicious package.  Full
documentation is included and technical support is free.

Jon's Commands are free for non-commercial use.  If you wish to use them in
a commercial package, please contact me for a cheap licence.

Version 1.1 fixes some bugs and adds some new commands and features.  In
the following list, * means added while | means modified.  See the
documentation for a complete and detailed change list.

Jon's Commands includes these commands:
|  deleteFile - delete a file or files
|  renameFile - rename a file
|  moveFile - move a file or files to a different folder
*  copyFile - copy a file or list of files
   sound volume - get the volume setting
   set sound volume to - set the volume setting
   clipboard info - get a list of data on the clipboard
|  set the clipboard to - put data on the clipboard
   the clipboard - get data from the clipboard
|  execute FKEY - run an FKEY resource
|  screen list - describe the monitor configuration
|  finder selection - return the Finder's selection
   keys pressed - get a list of pressed keys
   machine environment - get info about the machine
   play sound - play sound resources, files and descriptors
   run script resource - run an 'Scpt' or 'scpt' resource
   free memory - return the free memory available
   the ticks - return the current value of tickCount
*  walk folders - walk folders and run a script on each file

Jon's Commands includes these objects:
   picture - for getting them off the clipboard =ABclass PICT=BB
   sound - for getting them off the clipboard & playing them =ABclass snd =
=BB
   screen info - for describing the monitors
   environment info - for describing the machine

Jon's Commands includes these coercions:
*  string to file specification - 'TEXT' to 'fss '
*  styled text to file specification - 'STXT' to 'fss '
*  international text to file specification - 'itxt' to 'fss '

Share and enjoy.

Jon

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/jons-commands-11-as.hqx; 25K]

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Date: Thu, 14 Apr 1994 15:49:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: Russ Blaine <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Leyte Gulf (a game) patch 1.0.1 to 1.0.2

Hi. I am including with this message another file that I wish to be
placed in the Info-Mac archives. The file is:

Leyte101-102.hqx

This file fixes problems with sound on the AV's and PPC's with Leyte
Gulf.

Thanks.

| ----  Russ Blaine  ---- |  "Achilles was dipped in the River Stynx |
|  [e-mail]   |     until he became intolerable."        |

[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/leyte-101-to-102-updt.hqx; 117K]

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Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 13:59:24 -0500
From: [e-mail] (keith)
Subject: [*] Macintosh V for Victory Updates (a game)

To whom it may concern:
I am sending 20 files that will update the all Macintosh versions of the
game V for Victory to the current 4.01 version.  I am the author of these
games and I hold the copyright to them and to these patches.  I represent
to you that I have the authority to provide these files to the public.
Please place them in a public Macintosh games folder (strategy or wargames
would be best).  If you have any questions or comments, please drop me a
line.  I have never done this before, so be gentle with me =).  In a day or
so, I will upload a demo of my latest program.

Keith Zabalaoui
Atomic Games
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/vfv-401-updt-notes.txt; 8K]
[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/vfv-color-401-updt.hqx; 361K]
[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/vfv-bw-401-updt.hqx; 156K]
[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/vfv-40-to-401-nofpu-updt.hqx; 70K]
[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/vfv-40-to-401-fpu-updt.hqx; 68K]
[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/vfv-311-to-401-nofpu-updt.hqx; 32K]
[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/vfv-311-to-401-fpu-updt.hqx; 32K]
[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/vfv-30-to-401-nofpu-updt.hqx; 238K]
[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/vfv-30-to-401-fpu-updt.hqx; 227K]
[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/vfv-20-to-401-nofpu-updt.hqx; 547K]
[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/vfv-20-to-401-fpu-updt.hqx; 532K]
[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/vfv-11-to-401-nofpu-updt.hqx; 1350K]
[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/vfv-11-to-401-fpu-updt.hqx; 1305K]
[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/vfv-10-to-401-nofpu-updt.hqx; 1366K]
[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/vfv-10-to-401-fpu-updt.hqx; 1347K]
[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/vfv-utah-beach-bw-updt.hqx; 69K]
[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/vfv-utah-beach-color-updt.hqx; 159K]
[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/vfv-mg-scenarios-401.hqx; 104K]
[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/vfv-ub-scenarios-401.hqx; 120K]
[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/vfv-vl-scenarios-401.hqx; 169K]

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Date: Sun, 17 Apr 94 00:47:03 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Jamal Hannah)
Subject: [*] MOD-Editing-Lesson (instructions)

Instructions for learning how to edit MOD files!  MOD file included with
text lesson.  Print text file with a monospaced font (Monaco) and tab-lengths
set to 8 spaces, word wrap at 80 col.
  - [e-mail] (Jamal Hannah)

[Archived as /info-mac/info/sft/mod-editing-lesson.hqx; 168K]

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Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 08:10:18 +0200
From: Patrick Stadelmann <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] No Erase 1.0; disables the Erase Disk menu

Hi !

This is No Erase, a little INIT that helps prevent accidental erasure
of disks in the Finder. When No Erase is installed, the "Erase disk"
command in the Special menu always appears dimmed, unless you hold
down a "hot key"  while pulling down the menu.

System 7.0 or higher required.

No Erase is freeware.

Written by Patrick Stadelmann ([e-mail])

Enjoy !

Patrick

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/no-erase-10.hqx; 5K]

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Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 12:22:03 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Robert C. Best III)
Subject: [*] PB_Insomnia; helps prevent your computer from sleeping

PowerBook Insomnia 3.1.1

For PowerBooks 140,145,145B,160,165,165c,170,180 & 180c only!!!!

PowerBook Insomnia is a utility that will help prevent your computer from
going to sleep on its own. This can be useful if you wish to drain batter
energy (more than if you let your computer go to sleep on its own) to help
prevent 'battery-memory'.

PowerBook Insomnia 3.1.1 is freeware.

[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/powerbook-insomnia-311.hqx; 11K]

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Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 09:33:11 -0700
From: Joe Cicinelli <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] poor-mans-newton-12-hc; a Newton-like information database

Poor Man's Newton v1.2 (HyperCard 2.2 Version)
Copyright (C)1993-94.  Joe Cicinelli.

What is it?

Poor Man's Newton is a HyperCard stack that contains address and
telephone information and generally behaves like Apple's new Personal
Digital Assistant (PDA), the Newton MessagePad.  If you are like me
and you can't afford to buy one of these high tech tools, here is your
chance to own a virtual one that can used on your Macintosh.

Unlike previous versions which were simply v2.x HyperCard stacks, the
current version of Poor Man's Newton is being distributed as both a
HyperCard stack for those individuals that have HyperCard 2.2 and as
a standalone application for those who don't.

[Archived as /info-mac/app/poor-mans-newton-12-hc.hqx; 152K]

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Date: Thu, 14 Apr 94 10:08:43 +0100
From: Guenther Blaschek <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] PopChar 2.7.1; presents available characters of a font

This is PopChar version 2.7.1. It corrects an error that was introduced
during the development of version 2.7.
Sorry for any troubles you might have had.

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/gui/pop-char-271.hqx; 67K]

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Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 14:05:26 -0500
From: Chris Shaw <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] PowerMac_The_future_is_here; a startup screen

Here is my newest creation.  It is the final screen from the PowerMac
commercial.
 It says "Power Macintosh.  The future is here."I couldn't find it anywhere so
 I
made it myself.  If you liked my PowerMacintosh Period startup screen then I
think you will like this one.  It lookes real cool in all black when your inits
load up.  Enjoy and please e-mail me if you like the screen.  I like to see how
far my stuff has gone.  Later...Chris Shaw

[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/grf/powermac-the-future-startup.hqx; 15K]

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Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 10:11:49 +0200
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] PowerXplorer1.01; test your PowerPC performance

PowerXplorer 1.0 documentation
April 1994

WARNING: REQUIRES MATH COPROCESSOR OR POWERPC

(Note: this document has color and styles, use Apples new SimpleText to display
them)

PowerXplorer is a small application I wrote to test the PowerPC speed in native
floating-point calculations. It draws the Mandelbrot set and lets you explore
it
by zooming in and out at will. The iterations may be increased (when theres too
much black in the image) or decreased.

Sent by Massimo Gagliasso
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/power-xplorer-101.hqx; 42K]

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Date: Thu, 14 Apr 1994 13:01:49 +0200
From: sicmu <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] QuickEditor; a QuickTime editor

QuickEditor is an application that allows you to easily edit QuickTime
Movies.
ShareWare 10$
It requires System 7 or grater and QuickTime 1.5 or grater.
Mathias Tschopp
13 Troupe
CH-1253 Vandoeuvres
GENEVA/SWITZERLAND
Fax: [phone]

[Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/quick-editor.hqx; 107K]

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Date: Fri, 15 Apr 1994 23:35:07 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Michael Fischer)
Subject: [*] roland-tr-626; sound samples from the drum machine

This archive contains a complete set of 16 bit, 44.1kHz samples of the drum
sounds from the classic Roland TR-626 Rhythm Composer Drum Machine.

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/roland-tr-626.hqx; 2124K]

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Date: Fri, 15 Apr 1994 20:59:01 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Michael Fischer)
Subject: [*] roland-tr-707; sound sample set

This file is an updated version (this is version 1.1.0) of the Roland
TR-707 Sound Sample Set...It should replace the file that you currently
have (you currently have v1.0.0).  The name of the file on sumex should be
"roland-tr-707.hqx"

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/roland-tr-707-11.hqx; 1126K]

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Date: Sun, 17 Apr 94 11:27:17 EDT
From: Mike Laven <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Science Jeopardy HC stack; a Jeopardy-style trivia game

This is a HyperCard 2.2 stack that allows teachers (or anybody, really) to
add their own answers and questions to a Jeopardy-style trivia game.
This is not a real sophisticated stack (it's one of my first) but, hey,
it's FREE!
It's meant for educational use, so anyone can distribute or even modify it
to meet their own needs.
Enjoy, Mike Laven ([e-mail])

[Archived as /info-mac/game/science-jeopardy-10-hc.hqx; 61K]

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Date: Fri, 15 Apr 1994 17:38:03 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Glenn R. Howes)
Subject: [*] Speak Note GH 2.0; hear your alerts and notifications

  Speak Note GH is a control panel, init, and background only
application (daemon) which uses the Speech Manager to speak the contents
of alerts and notifications.

   Featuring:
      *  Configurable voices
      *  AppleScriptable daemon
      *  Balloon Help
      *  Option to be quiet on dismissal
      *  Option to not speak on quickly dismissed Alerts
      *  Subscribers can use the daemon over AppleTalk networks

Caution:
  People who have beta versions of this software should throw all
previous versions out (including preference files).
  For goodness sake, read the read me files if you plan on using Macintalk
Pro voices.

Requirements:
  System 7, and the Speech Manager required; Sound Manager 3.0 recommended.

Cost:
  $10 Shareware. Subscribers will get a stand alone program which
allows using the Speech Manager over AppleTalk networks.

Glenn R. Howes
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/speak-note-gh-20.hqx; 138K]

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Date: Fri, 15 Apr 94 11:11:56 BST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] SWIIPrintUseMon version 1.2; keeps track of pages printed

SWIIPrintUseMon version 1.2

If you use a StyleWriter printer then you may find this
application useful. It counts the pages printed and warns
you when the ink is about to run out.

SWIIPrintUseMon examines the Log file, which is updated
by the SWII driver. This utility will therefore also work
with SW1 printers provided that you have the SWII driver
installed.

You can specify the maximum number of pages to be printed
before SWIIPrintUseMon outputs a warning. Version 1.2 can
also tell you the number of pages printed so far and the
average print rate.

Version 1.2 will work with English, French and German log
files. What's more, it outputs it's messages in the same
language as the Log file.

Please feel free to distribute on the CD-ROM of the info-mac
archives if you wish.

Steve Smith
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/prn/stylewriter-ii-use-mon-12.hqx; 26K]

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Date: Thu, 14 Apr 1994 10:04:52 -0700
From: [e-mail] (John S. Lee)
Subject: [*] UUParser 1.71; a UUcode utility

The following bugs have been repaired with these versions.:

Locking up during uuparsing or crashing while parsing (due to \n being
present).

Error given during join from desktop or the menu.  This was due to use of
non staic variables.

Please contact [e-mail] with any bugs/info/tips/suggestions.

[Archived as /info-mac/cmp/uu-parser-171c.hqx; 104K]

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Date: Mon, 18 Apr 94 18:17:37 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Rob Kouwenberg)
Subject: [*] WriteThrough; disabled disk caching

In some info-mac a small init was included as text. Somehow it got mailed
through, but not archived. To my astonishment in info-mac 58 only the
source code got posted ??

Included is the original authors remarks as a readme file, and the little
writethrough extension.

Rob Kouwenberg

[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/write-through.hqx; 5K]

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Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 07:38:12 PDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [?] MacWrite Pro/LaserWriter LS problem

Hi. I have a friend that asked me for assistance with a problem he has with his
MacWrite Pro (1.0v2), System 7.1 SEED, LaserWriter driver 7.2, Print Monitor
7.1 running on a Mac IIsi with 3MB of RAM, to a Personal LaserWriter LS. The
problem is a overprinting when he is using certain combinations of bold fonts,
the last few characters are printed over the last few of each other. The
example he supplied shows the sentence, "This is normal New York 11 point. Is
it ok?" printed fine but the sentence, "This is bold New York 11 point. Is it
ok?" has the words "Is it" printed over the word "point." When he uses an
italic bold, "Is it ok" is printer over the word "point." Is this a MacWrite
Pro problem or a LaserWriter LS or something else? What is the fix?

Thanks in advance.

Bruce

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Date: Sun, 17 Apr 1994 23:49:58 +0100
From: Francis Knight <[e-mail]>
Subject: A New Electronic Magazine: PowerPC News

    I guess I haven't fully recovered from Vaporware withdrawal symptoms,
but they are being eased by a new semi-interactive Internet Magazine which
has recently come into being. Unusually, its source is the UK.
    As you might guess from my subject line, its focus is the PowerPC, but
is not so narrow as to ignore the issues overlapping from the Mac business
as a whole.
    By signing up, you get an abstract page every two weeks; if you want
further depth, you request individual articles from the server, simply by
listing their reference numbers as the subject of your mail message.
    I'm undecided whether to forward them to the Digest as I receive them,
or whether to suggest the Moderators sign up. Votes anyone?

    Here's Vol 1 Issue 3 as a taster:

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Date: 18 Apr 1994 10:10:40 -0500
From: "Marc Leroux" <[e-mail]>
Subject: C Coding Standards

I know this isn't the appropriate place to post this, but I would appreciate
any help that people in the Mac community can give to me (as well as pointers
as to where else I could post this).

On behalf of a friend, I would like to know if there are either published
benchmarks (or internal development benchmarks)  that exist for the number of
lines of fully debugged "C" code that are generated per programmer/day. I am
specifically interesed in the development of applications following Military or
Aviation standards.

Being that this topic is not (necessarily) relevent to most Info-Mac readers, I
would appreciate any responses be directed to me directly.

Thanks in advance for your co-operation.

Marc Leroux
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 94 11:15:10 WET DST
From: [e-mail] (Robert H. Peters)
Subject: CD-ROM start-up disk

Hi,
For some reason I did not get a start-up CD-ROM with my 660AV. If there is
someone who has a copy to spare I would be delighted...
Thanks... Robert.

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Date: Sun, 17 Apr 94 09:54:58 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Fred M. Hoppe)
Subject: Color StyleWriter Pro brief review/speed test

I'll second the poor speed specs of the Color Stylewriter Pro provided by
[e-mail] (Johan Solve), this based on my one day's experience with
it.  Mine was attached to a Mac II with 5 megs ram.  I printed the same pages
of text (couple of symbols too) using Word 4, Claris Works, and miniWriter (an
editing DA). I also printed a page of output from Textures (math composition),
a picture from Kid Pix, and a sign from The Print Shop.  While the quality of
BW is excellent (there are three modes, best, normal, and draft;  best is
remarkably crisp and draft is fine for its purpose though some of the letters
in
New York font came out slanted) it took upwards of three minutes to print a
page(Claris Works was noticeably the fastest), though I didn't take a stopwatch
since I was mesmerized waiting expectantly for each successive line of print to
appear.  A Mondrian type abstract piece of art produced by my five-year old in
30 seconds took nearly 10 minutes to appear in best mode (I thought the quality
was excellent, but the ink cartridges paid a price).  Textures was the worst
time-hog.
My previous printer was a GCC BLP II laserprinter rated at 4 ppm and all the
above applications (non-colour) achieved or surpassed that speed.
Apple rates its machine at 2-3 pages BW per minute and 4 minutes per page
colour, hardly my experience.  I found it hard to believe that Apple would
release such a slow printer so I turned to my machine and I turned off virtual
memory (my vintage Mac II does have the PMMU) and Claris Works printed at one
minute per page, quite an improvement, possibly liveable with, and I don't know
enough about the inners to understand why setting aside 5 MB of disk space
for memory would slow the process down.  I shut down each application as soon
as possible and only had Print Monitor running during the actual printing.
I suspect that Apple's specs are for, and target machines at which this printer
is aimed are, the '040 and Power PC series with lots of ram (Apple employees,
if you're reading this, perhaps you'd like to comment).
I've got 15 days to decide whether to keep the printer.  My inclination is
not.
I'd urge anyone contemplating a purchase to ask for an in-store demonstration.
If you don't own an '040, ask the salesman to print off a powerbook with specs
close to those of your own machine and bring your own software and documents to
test out.

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Date: Sun, 17 Apr 94 11:31:26 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Dave Platt)
Subject: Dead HD20 in my SE. Advice?

Executive summary:  junk the drive and replace it.

> Symptoms started two days ago. On booting up, startup screen was displayed
> OK and the Gatekeeper Icons also showed up fine. Then something went amiss
> quite seriously. Disk access light was on with a repetetive chunk-chunk,
> chunk-chunk noise. Got no further....
> ...
> This morning though, same problems again, but worse. ScsiProbe knows that
> there is adrive attached to SCSI 0, it even knows what the vendors name
> is and the serial number but it can't mount it. Norton also chokes at an
> attempt to mount the damaged drive. Apple's HD Setup reports that it was
> unable to read required information from the disk. Disk First Aid (Well I
> was desparate!! :)) also barfs.

Based on the symptoms you report, I'm guessing that your drive is one
of the old, slow, noisy stepper-motor Miniscribe 20-meg mechanisms that
Apple shipped with many of the Mac SE (and perhaps some SE/30)
machines.

In a sense, "Congratulations!".  You've gotten five years out of that
drive, which is longer than I ever saw one of these drives survive.
Their lifetime in the sort of use I've seen around here tends to run in
the 3-year range.

The bad news is several-fold.  They tend to fail in the way you've
observed (or to go completely belly-up with a frotzed controller);
they're difficult and expensive to get repaired, they don't tend to
_stay_ repaired for all that long, and the company that made them is out
of business (its assets were purchased by Maxtor).  These old 20-meg
Miniscribe drives are simply not worth trying to fix.

Buy yourself a new half-height or 1"-high 3.5" drive mechanism from a
reputable generic-drive vendor (one who can sell you the necessary
brackets and cables and generic-drive-formatting software).  You can
probably buy a 120-meg drive (faster and quieter than your old 20) for
less than the cost of repairing the 20.

Take the 20 out into the parking lot and vent your frustrations upon it
with a ball-peen hammer.  It's the best use for one of these drives once
it gives up the ghost.
---
Dave Platt
    [e-mail]       (domain/MX)
or  apple!snulbug!dplatt              (uucp path)
or  [e-mail]     (non-MX Internet)

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Date: Mon, 18 Apr 94 22:26:08 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Decompressing Mystique

Date: Sat, 16 Apr 94 15:28:58 PST
>>From: Paul Brians <[e-mail]>
>>Subject: How to unstuff Mystique files?

>>OK, so I used Anarchie to download the Mystique files and they were
>>automatically binhexed and now look like this:
>>MYSTIQUE Issue 1.sea.1, etc.
>>This looks to me like some concatenation needs to be done before
>>self-extracting, true?  Double-clicking gives a missing application
>>message, Stuffit Expander does nothing with them.  What's the trick?

>>Paul Brians, Washington State University, Pullman, WA  99164-5020

You are looking at what Aladdin calls a "Segmented" archive--it's been split
 into pieces, each of which will fit on a floppy disk (in this case, an 800K
floppy, though there are other options available). StuffIt Expander cannot
decompress segmented StuffIt archives. Instead, you'll need any of:
StuffIt Lite 3.x (commercial)
StuffIt Deluxe 3.x (shareware)
UnStuffIt (freeware)
The latter two should be available on info-mac, or any major commercial
online service.
Dave Axler (AFA [e-mail])
Forum Assistant, Mac Utilities Forum, America Online

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Date: Sun, 17 Apr 1994 17:32:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brian Amira <[e-mail]>
Subject: Easy Open (MacLink 7.5) Problems

Ok, it appears that Easy Open works like it should from within any
application, but from the Finder it does not work. In other words, when I
doubble click a foregin file I do not get the easy open dialog like I
should. I only get the unknown app dialog box. I have rebuilt the
deskteop and done all the trouble shooting I can. Also, when I run the
MacLink Document Converter (which needs Easy Open), it says easy open is
not installed, even when the init loaded and works from within
applications. Any ideas? (Quadra 840av)

--Brian

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Date: 18 Apr 1994 14:44:02 -0400
From: [e-mail] (David Shaw)
Subject: F/A-18 Hornet On Ara

[e-mail] writes:

>Is there anybody expertise about F/A-18 Hornet on ARA ???
>I get connected with a friend but I cannot join the network host.
>What I gotta do after connected with a remote Mac to "fly Kuwait"???

One player has to select Network Host, and then the other must select
Network Join.  It works flawlessly if you follow the instructions in the
right order.  With the new 1.1.3 version, the game is much more realistic.
Make sure you are using 1.1.1 or later to ensure that you're not getting
any networking bugs (also be sure both copies are the same version).
--
David Shaw, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Internet: [e-mail]
"Among our weaponry, are such DIVERSE elements as ...bla
bla bla..."

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Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 19:32:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: "William P. Krauthammer" <[e-mail]>
Subject: FaxSTF 2.6.1 updater problems

I recently downloaded the somewhat confused FaxSTF updater image for versions
2.2.3 and above. However, when the updater choked I looked and found my version
of FaxSTF is 2.2.0. I tried just replacing the FaxStatus init and FaxManager
control panel but I couldn't select FaxPrint in the Chooser because I still
have FaxMonitor 2.2.0 and it won't run with the 2.6.1 pieces.

This is frustrating because just a few months back I called STF and asked
them to send me the most recent version, which I had heard was 2.2.3. The
person told me I had the latest version (2.2.0) and wouldn't listen to my
claim that I was fairly certain a newer version existed. I think STF's
upgrade policies stink, and I just don't like their attitude. I wish someone
would come out with an alternative that just blows their program off the
line, so to speak.

Anyway, I was wondering if anyone has an updater for 2.2.0-->2.2.x that they
would be kind enough to email me. Alternatively, a 2.6.1 FaxMonitor would
also do the trick. I have no idea if STF updated any of the other unsupported
stuff they send with the original program disks, but those would be appreciated
as well, if the versions are newer. Sorry to put this particular request on
here but I've been trying to reach STF by phone for two days. All I get is a
busy signal.

Thanks,

Bill

--
William P. Krauthammer
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 14:12:53 -0700
From: Robert Hess <[e-mail]>
Subject: File Sharing Startup [A]

Roger Marks asked about file sharing:

What's the deal with File Sharing? Why does it take so long to start =
up? Is
there any way to speed up the process?

Delete your AppleShare PDS file, then reset all folder privileges. It=
=D5s kind
of like rebuilding your desktop file, something we should all do from=
 time to
time if we change privs a lot.

Robert

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Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 09:13:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Eric W. Davies" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Fontographer & other font creation utils.

Can anyone tell me whether Fontographer or any other font creation
utility allows one to use scanned images as the basis for a new
font?  In other words, if I see a non-copyrighted "A" that I really
like and would like to scan it in and have it be the "A" of a new
font I'm creating, is it possible to import the scanned "A" into
the font creation utility rather than drawing the "A" from scratch?

Also, does Fontographer convert between Type 1 and TrueType fonts?
Has anyone had any experience with a conversion utility called
Metamorphosis Professional?  What would you recommend as the best
tool for converting between Type 1 and TrueType?

Thanks for the help.

Eric Davies
[e-mail]

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

Date: Sun, 17 Apr 94 13:15:20 EDT
From: Tom Coradeschi <[e-mail]>
Subject: FTPd Virus: False Alert!

Brandon Munday <[e-mail]> wrote:
>I'm sure this has already been noted by all you savvy MacHackers, but since
>I use Peter Lewis' FTPd on my Mac, I was worried by the posting about a
>possible virus in FTPd.  I went to see for myself, and here's the
>directory listing from ftp.uu.net that supposedly contains the defective
>program:

No. This is the directory listing from ftp.uu.net that contains the CLEAN
version of the wu-ftpd code.


>-rw-r--r--   1 34       archive       103 May 18  1993 .message
>-rw-rw-r--   1 34       archive     21436 Apr  4 00:16 .mirror
>-rw-rw-r--   1 34       archive       318 Apr 14 11:40 CHECKSUMS
>-rw-rw-r--   1 34       archive      7761 Apr 14 11:40 patch_2.3-2.4.Z
>-rw-rw-r--   1 34       archive    184907 Apr 14 11:41 wu-ftpd-2.4.tar.Z
>
>As you can see, it appears to be an IBM file.

No. This is a tar'ed and compressed bunch of unix (probably C) source code.
I doubt that it would run on any IBM not running AIX.

>                                               So all you users of FTPd,
>take heart.  Not your problem.

Nobody ever said they had a problem. The problem was noted with a hacked
version of the wu (Washington University of St Louis, if you didn't know)
ftp server. This is code which runs on unix boxen. While Peter Lewis' ftpd
may accommodate some of the features of the wu code (I don't know one way or
the other) it's not the same item. At all.

>                                Besides, whoever wrote that article in
>the Journal of Higher Education ought to have provided some REAL information,
>like who wrote the software, what platform it supports, etc.

Hmmmm. Check the mirror, dude.

             tom coradeschi <+> [e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 18 Apr 94 09:06:51+080
From: [e-mail] (Stephen Smoliar)
Subject: Gopher's tradeoff

In Info-Mac Digest V12 #57, Jim Matthews wrote:

>  The typical Gopher server makes a different, and in some
>ways inferior tradeoff: it fires off a new process for every directory
>listing or file transfer.  The processes don't last longer than the
>transfer, but the cost of creating and tearing down these processes is
>significant.
>
This cost is most significant if you are connected to a busy host.  You may
discover that, when you find what you want, you cannot make the connection
to transfer it!

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

Date: 18 Apr 1994 15:02:17 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Tom Weston)
Subject: Hard Disk Overview

Help
I'm looking for a utility that will give me a quick view of all the
applications and games and other files that are stored on a Mac disk. A
format similar to the PC Keep Track would be nice. Keep Track showed the
disk as a series of directories all linked together like a family tree.
Does anything similar exist for the Mac.

Regards Tom Weston
Daresbury Labs
Warrington
Cheshire
WA4 4AD
tel [phone]

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

Date: Mon, 18 Apr 94 15:01:24 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Kelly Hoffman)
Subject: HP printer/scanner drivers -- official ftp site for

The latest HP printer and scanner drivers for various computer
platforms are now available in the /pub directory of the anonymous ftp
site at ftp-boi.external.hp.com (192.6.71.2).  This site is an
official distribution channel.

>From the README file:

> The files provided here are an attempt to provide improved access to
> drivers and utilities for Hewlett-Packard hard copy (printer) products.
> We will attempt to keep the files up to date,  and make them available
> as quickly as we can.  It is our intention to expand this library service
> over the following year and to add support for additional products as
> interest in this service grows.
>     [...]
> If you have suggestions, or comments please send them to:
> [e-mail]

My understanding is that this ftp site is equivalent to the CompuServe
distribution channel that HP has provided for some time.

Disclaimer: Yes, I work for HP, but I don't speak for them.  My
division makes LAN and WAN test products.  I have nothing to do with
HP printers, scanners, or their drivers, except that I use them. :-)

Kelly K. Hoffman                 Hewlett-Packard, Network Test Division
Learning Products Engineer       [e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 15:12:07 +0200
From: Jean-Pierre Gattuso <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info on Spyglass/Transform/Dicer

I am currently using DeltaGraph Pro v 3.0.4 to make graphs. This package suits
my needs quite well except for 3-D charts for which few options are available.
I'm theerfore looking for another program.

I was told that Spyglass Plot/Transform/Dicer might be the way to go but I
would like to have comments on this program before purchasing yet another piece
of software. Suggestions on other programs welcome.

Many thanks in advance,
Jean-Pierre
[e-mail]

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

Date: 17 Apr 1994 04:59:32 GMT
From: [e-mail] (dan mahalek)
Subject: Init limits

[e-mail] writes:

>I was directed here to post this question. Our "server" mac is also used by a
>less than wonderful secretary who does things like turn off file sharing and
>disable routers.At least some of it seems intentional.

>I'd like to limit some of the options on control panel devices in system 7. I
>used res-edit to remove the "quit" from the mail server, but couldn't remove
or
>fix the settings of Monitor and Memory, and file sharing. Can you help?

>Thanks in advance.

>Adam Harris.

>Adam I. Harris, M.D.
>  Internet: [e-mail]
>           [e-mail]
>  Compuserve: 73047,440
I don't know if this will help in your situation, but in our school district we
have students who can screw up more things faster than a flock of sectetaries.
We use At Ease--problem solved.

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Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 17:25:35 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Murph Sewall)
Subject: ink jet color transparencies

On Wed, 13 Apr 1994 09:21:06 +0100, Johan Solve wrote:
>The printer comes bundled with two
>transparencies and two high quality glossy papers go give a taste of what
>can be done (special ink jet transparencies are needed.)

Elek-Tek in Chicago (1-800-395-1000) sells Hewlett-Packard (brand) ink jet
transparency masters for 54.99 (box of 50) and 3M ink jet transparency
masters for $35.99 (box of 50).


/s Murphy A. Sewall <[e-mail]> [phone] voice
   Professor of Marketing                          [phone] fax

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Date: Sun, 17 Apr 1994 22:31:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Internet software

I am doing research on educational applications of the Internet and read
your *Internet World* magazine regularly.

I am curious to know if there are Internet client software products for
Windows and Macintosh that provide off-line demos of their product's
look and feel.  It seems that there are a variety out there, but what
I have seen suggests that you "*buy* before you try."

Can you provide me with some advice on this matter? {:)

Walter Westrum
[e-mail]
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL)
Oak Brook, Illinois
[phone]  Office
[phone]  Fax
[phone]  Home

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Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 14:10:06 -0700
From: Robert Hess <[e-mail]>
Subject: irc clients [A]

Like Stein asked about irc clients.

There are two for the Mac:

ircle: this is nearly as full-featured as many unix clients, but it u=
ses a
command-line interface.

Homer: this has a beautiful interface but it doesn=D5t support some c=
ommands
many people find very important (like chatting with bots).

Most people will be happiest with Homer.

Robert

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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 94 09:32:25 -0400
From: [e-mail] (David B. Reiser)
Subject: LAT tool

Is there a more recent version of the LAT tool than 1.1 (with a 1991
creation/modification date)?

I'm running in a Pathworks environment and a few months ago, the LAT tool
quit working properly, at least the portion that queries the net about
available services. For a while, my Mac would crash whenever I tried to get
service info via the LAT tool. Now it just doesn't do anything. However, I
can still make connections that I had set up in Versaterm before the trouble
began -- suggesting that the main comm functions in LAT still work.

I'm running AppleTalk 58.1.2 and Ethertalk 2.5.6. I think I may have
upgraded AT versions sometime recently, but I don't remember exactly when.
DECnet Mac 1.1 (Thursby systems) still seems to work fine. TPTB aren't
particularly interested in helping me solve this problem, so I can't tell you
what is running on the bridge/router setup on our net. The Pathworks server
is a Vax.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Dave Reiser
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 16:53:23 PDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Looking for shareware or freeware that changes icons

All,

I recently saw a Mac that has its icons changed to more interesting and fun
ones - like the Muppet characters as icons (instead of the boring default
rectangular hard disk icon). Someone told me this was done using freeware or
shareware. Does anyone know of such program? Is there one that I can use to
change the icons to Marvel Comics characters?


-Steve

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Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 12:52:20 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Wendy Farkas)
Subject: LW printer driver (Q)

I'm trying to locate v. 8.1.2 of the Laserwriter printer driver and haven't
been able to find it in the Apple archive or at Sumex. Can anyone direct me
to it?

Thanks.

Wendy Farkas
Virginia Tech

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Date: Sun, 17 Apr 1994 21:42:24 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Larry Rymal:T.E.M.U.G.-EAST_TEXAS-" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Modem difficulties...

Folks,

    I'm trying to help a friend who is having connect problems with
both a geoport-used 660AV and a PowerBook with an Express modem.  Here is
a quote:  "I get the whoshing and squeaking noises like it will
connect.  However, it cuts off and maybe by the 24th attempt (sometimes
the 36th), it connects."
    Typically, I'm pretty good at helping on this stuff ("Are you
using hardware handshake if a high speed modem, do you have a
highspeed/hardware handshake cable, etc., do you have hardware handshake
selected, etc.....").
    However, I know nothing about either system's hookups.  I don't
have experience with the Express modem and certainly don't have
experience with the geoport.
    If anyone could forward some help to me, or point me in the
direction of a FAQ concerning the Express internal PowerBook modem and
problems/solutions dealing with the Geoport, I'd be very appreciative.

--Larry Rymal <[e-mail]>

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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 94 10:49:18 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Erik Schils)
Subject: MS FoxPro and LCIII - slow ???

I like to know if there's a minimum computerconfiguration when you're
working with MS FoxPro. According to some people, MS Foxpro on a LCIII is
very slow. They are complaining that the speed is terrible and it's only a
few lines of programming....

Erik Schils ([e-mail])

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Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 08:34:22 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Brad Nation)
Subject: Network Instant Message?

I am looking for a program that will send a message over a network, not via
email,. One that will bring up a message window on the recipient's screen.
I have tried BroadCast and
Announce. Both work OK. But I would like to know what else is out there.
There also seems to be a limit as to the message legenth (Broadcast-3
lines, Announce-@256 characters). Is this a system max for Macs?
Send replys to: [e-mail]. I'll compile the results for the
net.
Thanks in advance

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Date: Sat, 16 Apr 1994 23:33:18 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Donato Zipeto)
Subject: NewsWatcher: dialup use

I'd like to use John Norstad's NewsWatcher on my mac, connected via modem
to the SUnet (Stanford University Network).
The 'read me' file that comes with the program says that "for dialup use,
NewsWatcher works together with the various SLIP and PPP programs".
Following the suggestions found in comp-sys-mac-comm, I've tried to use
MacPPP (from merit.edu) and then InterSLIP (from InterCon), (both of them
require MacTCP) to conect my mac to the news server, but unsuccessfully
("could not open MacTCP"; "line dead", and similar error messages).
I think I'm really doing something wrong with the configuration, and I
don't know how to proceed.
Do some of you use NewsWatcher over a phone line? How can you configure the
connection? Which is the exact procedure to follow? What's important to
know?
All informations, suggestions and tips are welcome!
I hope some of you could help me.

Donato
e-mail: [e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 17 Apr 94 13:56:29 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: OneNet

I saw the writeup in Wired and would like to get more information. I have a
Mac PowerBook.

Thanks

Rich Sagall
73 Congress St
Bangor ME 04401-3835

E-mail: [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 12:20:00 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Ralf Sigmund)
Subject: Postscript printing on a Quickdraw Printer

I have problems in printing Postscript code on a Apple Personal Laser
Writer LS  Quickdraw-printer.

If I use Publish and subscribe to Import Graphics from a
Postscript-graphic-generating program (in my case Cambridge Scientifc
computing=B4s CSC Chem Draw Plus, but also from Illustrator 5.0) into
Microsoft Word 5.0 ,  there is a extreme drop in printing Quality on my
Quickdraw Printer.
This loss of quality does not occur if the printing from Word is made on a
Postscript LaserWriter.

I understand that Postscript generating applications use something called
"Laser Prep"

My Question is: Would I gain any quality in my printouts from Microsoft
Word, if I would use a software Postscript Interpreter like Freedom of
Press or TScript.
Would Freedom of Press or TScript use the information, which is included in
a "Laser Prep"?

Programs like Adobe Illustrator 5.0 generate Postscript Level2 postscript co=
de.
Is there any software postscript interpreter which understands Level2
postscript code?
This should actually correspond to the ability to use the Laserwriter 8.x
Driver which is required to print form Illustrator. Is there any software
postscript interpreter, which is able to use the Laserwriter 8.x driver ?





[e-mail] (Ralf Sigmund)
Tel.: [phone]
University of Hannover, Germany

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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 07:31:23 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mark Picozzi <[e-mail]>
Subject: Printer Question

Greetings,

    The school secretary told me about this problem with her
machine.  I later encountered it on my machine.  We both have an
identical setup... IIsi with a Personal LaserWriter NTR.  The printer has
a paper cassette, and therein lies the problem.
    When we change the print option from paper cassette to manual
feed, the print monitor immediately reports there is no paper... even
when there is paper.  When you go to the multifinder, and to the print
monitor, the print job immediately starts.  ???
    The paper was set up in the manual feed slot, all ready to go.
Any way to avoid having to do this by hand?

Mark Picozzi
Coldspring-Oakhurst CISD
[e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 17 Apr 1994 15:03:21 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Charlie Mingo)
Subject: Serial Port Resetting Question

[e-mail] (Gordon Werner) writes:

>I have a problem with my serial port and Eudora.
>
>The only way I have access to my PoP mail account at Netcom.com is via
>modem.  To use Eudora I need to use the Apple Serial Modem tool.

Lets get a few things straight.  There is an Apple Modem Tool, and an Apple
Serial Tool, but there is no "Serial Modem Tool."  Which are you using,
(and which version)?

>However,
>once I am finished logging in to netcom.com or any other of my remote
>internet connections I have to use another app like America Online to reset
>the serial port otherwise Eudora will give me a message saying that the CCT
>(communications toolbox refuses the command becasue the serial port is not
>free.

It sounds like the program you are using to log into "netcom.com or any
other of my remote internet connections" is not freeing the serial port
when it is done.  I assume this must be a terminal program.  Which one is
it?

Regardless, the easy way to fix this is to hold down the <option> key when
the Serial Tool tells you the port is busy; the "OK" button will turn into
an "Override" button.  The better fix is to change terminal programs so you
don't leave the port locked up.

> I have a Supra Fax Modem

Are you running fax software?  If so, this may be causing your problem; try
de-installing the software and see if the problem goes away.  (Fax software
has to "listen" to the serial port all the time to detect an incoming fax,
and when another program tries to use the port the fax software must
gracefully cede it; some fax software does not do this gracefully enough.)

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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 14:32:40 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Rob Forsyth)
Subject: SoftWindows and PowerPC - only available as a bundle?

Some members of the department have just taken delivery of two PowerPC
8100's, without the bundled SoftWindows emulation software option. They had
assumed (as would I) that SoftWindows was available separately and could be
purchased later. This is apparently not the case at present, in the UK at
any rate. They have been told that there is not yet even an announcement
date for the release of SoftWindows as a standalone product.

I mention this (i) in case anyone else was planning to buy a PowerPC now
and SoftWindows later and (ii) has anyone else come across this problem and
found a solution? We have one particular Windows-only application that we
need to run, and bought the PowerPCs in the expectation we'd be able to run
it.

Any solutions greatly appreciated!

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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 00:07:13 -0600
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Spooling ImageWriter Files

ImageWriter Files on a Mac with System 7 and 32-bit addressing. I
do this with SuperLaserSpool 3.1. Occasionally it chokes up with
complicated files (mainly files for a LaserWriter), but it
usually works well.
    Now, I have a question of my own. Since I converted my
ImageWriter to Appletalk, I lost my ability to print in colour.
Does anybody know of a colour driver for the ImageWriter II on Appletalk?

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Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 15:08:33 -0400
From: "Charles A. Patrick" <[e-mail]>
Subject: TelNet 2.6

How does one increase the scrollback in v2.6? I cannot seem to find
anything in the Beta documentation for 2.6.

 V2.5 had an explicit adjustment in the configurations panel.

Thanks

Charles A. Patrick ([e-mail])
International and Professional Relations Division
Statistics Canada
Ottawa, ON  K1A 0T6
CANADA
Tel: [phone]           FAX: [phone]

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Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 17:40:26 +0000
From: Mike Brudenell <[e-mail]>
Subject: Telnet 2.6 and hash (#) character

Is anyone else with a non-US keyboard having problems with NCSA Telnet 2.6?

I am using it on a Mac running System 7.1, which has an Extended
Keyboard.  The symptoms are that the "3" key on the main part of the
keyboard has the English pound sign printed above it (that is, an "L"
with a dash across it) rather than the hash (tic-tac-toe) sign.

Previous versions of Telnet seemed to remap the Shift-3 combination to
generate the (more useful) hash sign to the host computer, rather than
the pound sign printed on the key top (to get a pound one used Option-3)

Unfortunately Telnet 2.6 doesn't seem to do this any more (indeed the
ReadMe file *boasts* it doesn't tamper with the System's KCHR resource
anymore!).

The problem is that Shift-3 now generates "pound", and my years-of-terminal-
trained fingers have to try and find Option-3 to get a "hash".

I've rummaged through the documentation as far as I can, and played with
all the settings I can find.  Anyone know of how to reconfigure Telnet
2.6 to go back to the "old" behaviour please?

(I know about the Command-Option-Space trick to get the System to switch
KCHR resources, but this affects ALL applications, not just Telnet -- not
what I want).

I've fiddled with KCHRs using ResEdit in the past, but never figured out
how to modify one (assuming this is needed to "fix" this particular
problem).

I've also tried e-mail the bug report address, but to no avail so far.

Any hints very welcome!

                        Mike B-)

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Date: Mon, 18 Apr 94 08:55:46+080
From: [e-mail] (Stephen Smoliar)
Subject: Telnet 2.6 and setting transfer directory

I tried working with the FTP User Preferences for 2.6;  and they just do not do
what I need, which is the dynamic changes Bob Clemmons mentioned in Info-Mac
Digest, Volume 12, Issue 57.  I even sent mail to [e-mail] about
this.  That was back on April 6, and I still have not received a response.
Were they devoured by the Easter Bunny?

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Date: Sun, 17 Apr 1994 15:33:39 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Charlie Mingo)
Subject: WordMac List: Does it still exist? (Yes)

"Fergus Lalor" <[e-mail]> writes:

>Subject says it all, I suppose. I haven't had mail from
>this list for ages. Does anyone know if it has imploded?
>If it still exists I would be grateful if someone could
>send me the subscription information - I seem to have
>lost my original copy.

Yes, Word-Mac still exists.  It still comes out several times a week.
However, in a recent issue the moderator warned that, unless he could find
a replacement moderator, he would have to end the list.

>Posts to the Word-Mac list: [e-mail]
>Problems re the Word-Mac list: [e-mail]
>Subscribe/Unsubscribe and commands: [e-mail]

(The list may also be available as bit.mailserve.word-mac.)

>Date: Thu, 14 Apr 1994 18:12:55 +1000 (EST)
>From: Word-Mac Moderator <[e-mail]>
>To: [e-mail]
>Subject: Future of the Word-Mac list
>
>Hi folks .. I want to try again to find a taker for the word-mac list. I
>thought that I had a new home for the word-mac list, but this
>arrangement seems to have fallen through.
>
>If we cannot find a new home soon, Word-Mac will come to an end. My time
>is now being taken up with ANet (the international accounting network I
>am establishing).
>
>So please, is there anyone out there that wants to maintain a list with
>1,075 moderately happy subscribers?
>
>Cheers
>Roger Debreceny
>
>-- Roger Debreceny, Moderator of the Word-Mac mailing list.

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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 00:08:30 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Arild Eugen Johansen)
Subject: WordPerfect 3.0 -> QuarkXpress 3.2

Where can I find a filter that would allow a WP 3.0 file to be imported
into QuarkXpress 3.2? And when I am at it, how can someone with Xpress 2.11
read a 3.2 file? Or how can I save a file using 3.2 that I can send to
someone with 2.11?

Any leads?


Regards Arild

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Date: Sun, 17 Apr 1994 11:21 EST
From: "Don't Panic!" <[e-mail]>
Subject: WriteNow 4.0 feature/bug (Q)

Dear Netters,
I just upgraded to WriteNow 4.0 and found a bug/feature.  I do a page setup so

my left and right margins are 1 inch a piece.  I find that my ruler still sets

the right margin at 6.5 inches, even though one inch on a US letter is at the
7.5 inch column.  In addition, that 6.5 inch is at the farthest right hand
point
of a window that does not allow you to scroll horizontally anymore.  It used
to
be with WriteNow 3.0 you could scroll horizontally and adjust with the ruler
the
right margin marker beyond 6.5 inches.  My question is: what is going on?  Is
there any way one can adjust the right margin past 6.5 inches with WriteNow
4.0?

I have a Macintosh LC, System 7, 10 MB of RAM and a 512 x 384 Apple 12 RGB.
I
doubt the monitor should matter much, because WriteNow 4.0 still claims it
will
run on the  512ke Mac which had a lower resolution than the 12 inch RGB.  .

Thank you.
Sincerely,
[e-mail]

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