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Info-Mac Digest             Fri,  3 Dec 93       Volume 11 : Issue 233

Today's Topics:

      [*] 3d Brick Bash! v1.1
      [*] 3d Paddle Bash! v1.04
      [*] alarm-book-131-demo.hqx
      [*] AV DSP Power Plug-in
      [*] cpoker.sit.hqx (network card game)
      [*] crlf.sit.hqx
      [*] Default Folder 2.45 Submission
      [*] Eric's Ultimate Solitaire Demo
      [*] Finder Liaison 1.1 submission
      [*] LabMaster 1.0
      [*] LabMaster Docs (PS)
      [*] LabMaster Docs (RTF)
      [*] LabMaster Docs (WN3)
      [*] MacTracker1.1.1update.cpt.hqx
      [*] Movie Import Component Source Code
      [*] RSI Network News, plain Text, #14
      [*] RSI Network Newsletters, 1-15 (12/93)
      [*] RSI Newsletter, text version
      [*] ShalomOldStyle 1.2
      [*] ShalomScript.cpt.hqx
      [*] ShalomStick.cpt.hqx
      [*] Submission: "Static" QT Movie (Problem found)
      [*] SubtleWinterStartupscreen
      [*] Termy 2.3 sit
      [*] TEXX Release 0.3
      [*] the MACS 1.0b5
      [*] Universal Card Copier
      [*] UsenEdit -- A text editor
      [*] Word 4 Print Bugfix INIT
      [*] Zoom Lens 2.0
      "xterm emulators for the Mac"
      -t114 error?
      A/UX Help needed
      Anybody successfully registered MAZ? (Q)
      ARA Hayes 144 modemscript
      A Sound Question...
      Attach printers to apps?
      Audio CD tracks -> ?
      AV Macs and System Update
      Beatles font request
      BOMBER(tm) 1.2
      boomerang type utility?
      CEToolbox 1.7 and Now Utilities... (A) (fwd)
      Checking mail w/o running Eudora (Q)
      DesktopTextures Unexpectedly Quits (A)
      Ergo Mouse Gone To Pot
      ESL software for the Mac?
      Gold Disk E-Mail address ?
      Gold Disk E-mail or BBS address
      Golf handicap program
      Greg's Buttons & WP 3.0
      Group Mail program (Question)
      Info-Mac Digest V11 #231
      Internal Hard Drives
      LC -> LC 475: mystery deepens
      localtalk-ethertalk bridges
      Logitech mouse turns itself off
      long lines and word wrap from hell (c)
      Looking for a X-mas desktop pattern.
      Mac 512 and Mainframe Communications
      Macintosh Database Viewers
      Macintosh VUMeters Available for AV
      Macintosh webster client?
      Mac Word 5.1a Address file?
      MacWrite Pro - ability to Zoom ?
      MaxFax patch(Q)
      Microphone input on Quadra 605
      Need help with Kennect Drive 2.4 w/Rapport!
      Novy Systems: RIP
      Offline Newsreader for the Mac [Thanks]
      Opinions on the new DeltaGraph v3.0 (Q)
      OptiMem
      PC Exchange
      Performa 450 quality (Q)
      PSWriter vs Native printer
      Re-naming hard drives (Q)
      Reinstalling System software
      Robert's Rules of Order
      Rodney King & LA Riots QuickTime movies available
      SetupPartitions (A)
      Small dbase engine
      SNMP Agents Summary
      Strange document
      System 7 family flag
      Text-cruncher
      Upgrading a LC to use a SuperDrive
      Using BOTH ethernet and AppleTalk (2 msgs)
      Why one might save bitmap files as EPS
      X11R5 server(s) for the Macintosh (Q)

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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 23:10:26 EST
From: Matthew T Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] 3d Brick Bash! v1.1

3d Brick Bash! is a three-dimensional version of the old break-out game.
Version 1.1 replaces previous versions.

It requires:    Color Quickdraw, System 6.0.5+ or 7.0+, 68020 CPU or greater,
and 1,300K free memory to run in 256 colors (only 800K for 16,4, or 2 color).

New features: enhancements to make levels progress faster...
you can influence the ball speed, start play on any level previously
reached, and random targets appear from time-to-time which award goodies.
The ball generally moves and accelerates faster than before (unless you
turn this off.)

Not least, several bug fixes and an address change, too.

Shareware.  *Free for users who registered for previous versions.*

[Archived as /info-mac/game/arc/three-d-brick-bash-11.hqx; 157K]

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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 23:12:57 EST
From: Matthew T Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] 3d Paddle Bash! v1.04

3d Paddle Bash! is a 3d version of pong, with customizable computer
opponents.
Described in passing by Compuserve Magazine (10/93, p.55) as "a wonderful
implementation of Pong..."  Version 1.04 replaces earlier versions.

It requires:  Color Quickdraw, System 6.0.5+ or 7.0+, 68020 CPU or greater,
and 1,000K free memory to run in 256 colors (700K for less;  works fine in
16, 4, or 2 colors.)

1.04 has no major differences from 1.03 (though my address changed),  but it
DOES fix several problems of version 1.0.  Players with v.1.03 don't need this
update, unless they plan on redistributing the files.

Shareware (free to users who registered for a previous version.)

[Archived as /info-mac/game/arc/three-d-paddle-bash-104.hqx; 139K]

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Date: Thu, 2 Dec 93 16:41:47 CST
From: [e-mail] (Dan Repich)
Subject: [*] alarm-book-131-demo.hqx

I apologize for the last submission of AlarmBook 1.3 and its
destructive actions.  I think I have resolved the problem.
If for some reason this version is corrupt, or behaves in a similiar
manner, can you please mail me a short description of your test
environment and what action exactly caused the problem?

Any information would greatly speed up my debugging process.
You can reach me at my National Instruments IP address:

[e-mail]

Thanks, and I apologize again.

[Archived as /info-mac/app/alarm-book-131-demo.hqx; 957K]

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Date: Wed, 1 Dec 93 12:15:44 PST
From: [e-mail] (Kevin Alexander)
Subject: [*] AV DSP Power Plug-in

Attached is a binhexed Stuffit self-extracting archive of Spectral
Innovations' PhotoShop plug-in which uses the built-in DSPs of the 660 and
840 AV machines to accelerate filters such as Unsharp Mask, Gaussian Blur,
and Find Edges, among others.  Image Size, Scale, Skew, Perspective, Rotate
and RGB to CMYK mode change are also accelerated.  This plug-in was
described in the 11/15/93 and 11/29/93 issues of MacWEEK.

System requirements:  AV Mac (or NuBus Mac w/ Spectral Innovations 3210 DSP
card installed) and PhotoShop 2.5.1.

This file was downloaded from the Adobe BBS.

[Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/photoshop-av-dsp-filters.hqx; 119K]

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Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 14:31:12 -0800
From: David Blume <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] cpoker.sit.hqx (network card game)

Chinese Poker 1.0
Freeware, by David Blume

Requires: MacTCP.
          At least one other mac connected on a network.

This game is derived from a card game in China.  It is an addictive game that
is easy to learn.  (The goal is to discard your cards before your opponents
do.)  This computer version is an interactive network game between 2, 3 or 4
players.  (Details are in the "about" box.)

--David Blume

[Archived as /info-mac/game/crd/chinese-poker-10.hqx; 71K]

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Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 1:13:02 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Natsu Sakimura)
Subject: [*] crlf.sit.hqx

    [Archived] please find a Sit&Hqxed file of CRLF.

        CRLF is a drag & drop application which performs
        the conversion of CR(Mac), LF(Unix) and CRLF(PC) files. It
        auto-detects the end of line code of the file which was
        dropped and converts to the desired file type. Once you
    have set up the preference, you will rarely need to make
    any interaction with CRLF later.

    CRLF converts the file "in place". The filename stays the
    same before and after the conversion. You will notice that
    it was converted just by looking at the icons. You can
    set up these icons by specifying the creator for each type
    of output file.

    Also, CRLF is capable of dealing with Japanese text, unlike
    some other similar utilities.

    This is a freeware.

    Natsu Sakimura

[Archived as /info-mac/cmp/crlf.hqx; 27K]

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Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 00:54:29 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Jon Gotow)
Subject: [*] Default Folder 2.45 Submission

Following is the latest release of Default Folder, version 2.45.  It fixes
a bug which caused the rebound feature and folder history to occasionally
stop working.  It also adds the ability to switch and modify link sets from
within a file dialog.

Default Folder is a control panel device that allows you to set up default
folders for specified applications and desk accessories (good for use with
file launching utilities, and launching an app that's sitting on the
desktop). It also provides a pop-up menu in the standard file dialog for
navigating between often-used folders and disks, and provides a "rebound"
feature which reselects the last file you chose in a file dialog.  Default
Folder is shareware, and is uploaded as a compact pro archive.

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/default-folder-245.hqx; 138K]

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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 93 11:48:11 PST
From: [e-mail] (Eric Snider)
Subject: [*] Eric's Ultimate Solitaire Demo

This is version 1.0.1 of the Eric's Ultimate Solitaire Demo from Delta
Tao software. It plays Eight Off which is one of the 17 solitaire
games that the full version offers. It supports color and b&w and has
lots of great features. You can move cards by dragging, double
clicking, and "throwing." To throw a card you give it a flick towards
a target and let go. Then it'll fly in a nice arc to the destination.
Other features include unlimited undo/redo, statistics, and what we
like to call "Weasel flavor." The artwork is by Howard Vives the same
artist that drew everything for Spaceward Ho!

That's it... Eric's Ultimate Solitaire demo is for free distribution
only. The retail price of the full version is $59 and is available
>From the big mail order places or from Delta Tao directly. Delta Tao's
number is [phone] or [phone].

If you are a registered user of one of my shareware games (Forty
Thieves, Baker's Dozen, and Montana) then you can upgrade to Ultimate
Solitaire for $25.

Thanks,

Eric Snider
Delta Tao Software

[Archived as /info-mac/game/crd/ultimate-solitaire-101-demo.hqx; 170K]

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Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1993 22:42:34 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Geoffrey C. Wenger)
Subject: [*] Finder Liaison 1.1 submission

Here's the latest version of Finder Liaison downloaded from AOL.
I'm not the author, I'm just uploading it.
[Note that this is the same Gregory H. Dow of THINK Class Library
fame.]
Geoffrey C. Wenger ([e-mail])

Here's an edited (for brevity) excerpt from the included read me file:

Finder Liaison sends AppleEvents to the Finder. Requires System 7 or later.

Usage:
The System 7 Finder supports the Finder Suite of AppleEvents. Unfortunately,
there is no way to explicitly send AppleEvents to the Finder from
AppleScript.
Finder Liaison acts as an intermediary between AppleScript and the Finder.

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/finder-liaison-11-as.hqx; 24K]

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Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 12:21:21 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Peter Dodd)
Subject: [*] LabMaster 1.0

Hello,

[Abstract doctored.  -isl]

Files in this archive:

        LabMasterIntro  (3k)   contains and introduction to LabMaster
       LabMaster1-0.cpt (933k) contains the LabMaster software

Files archived separately:

LabMaster1-0DocsPS.cpt (789k) contains the LabMaster documentation in
                               PostScript
LabMaster1-0DocsRTF.cpt (729k) contains the LabMaster documentation in
                               RTF format
LabMaster1-0DocsWN3.cpt (515k) contains the LabMaster documentation in
                               WriteNow 3.0 format

Excerpt from the Intro:

The basic premise behind LabMaster is to simplify the job of programming
client-server software in a networked environment. The core of LabMaster is
a network transportation system that allows code on a client Mac to easily
communicate with code on a server Mac. A whole range of features can be
implemented with little programming overhead and minimal knowledge of the
underlying AppleTalk network. Each required feature is implemented as a
LabMaster module. A module performs a specific function either
independently or in cooperation with other modules. LabMaster can load
these modules at any time and interacts with them through a well defined
programming interface.

Please mail [e-mail] if there are any problems.

Thanks in advance.

Peter Dodd         e-mail: [e-mail]        fax: [phone]
The University of Western Australia, Computer Science Department MacLabs

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/labmaster-10.hqx; 1143K]

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Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 13:18:21 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Peter Dodd)
Subject: [*] LabMaster Docs (PS)

LabMaster 1.0 documentation in Postscript.

Peter Dodd         e-mail: [e-mail]        fax: [phone]
The University of Western Australia, Computer Science Department MacLabs

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/labmaster-10-docs-ps.hqx; 1073K]

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Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 13:09:00 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Peter Dodd)
Subject: [*] LabMaster Docs (RTF)

LabMaster 1.0 documentation in Rich Text Format.

Peter Dodd         e-mail: [e-mail]        fax: [phone]
The University of Western Australia, Computer Science Department MacLabs

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/labmaster-10-docs-rtf.hqx; 991K]

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Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 13:07:51 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Peter Dodd)
Subject: [*] LabMaster Docs (WN3)

LabMaster 1.0 documentation in WN3.

Peter Dodd         e-mail: [e-mail]        fax: [phone]
The University of Western Australia, Computer Science Department MacLabs

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/labmaster-10-docs-wn3.hqx; 700K]

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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 13:42:58 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Thomas R Lawrence)
Subject: [*] MacTracker1.1.1update.cpt.hqx

Suggested Name:  MacTracker1.1.1Update.cpt.hqx

This does NOT replace Macintosh Tracker 1.1.0, it merely
updates it.

Marc Espie has been working on his Tracker program and it is up to
version 3.19.  Therefore, I've obtained the new code and replaced
the "Tracker Server" from Macintosh Tracker.  There are some bug
fixes, but no major changes.

Note to 16MHz users:  The new version uses a bit more processing
power, so you might not be able to play songs with anti-aliasing
and 22kHz without skipping.  Don't throw away the old version
until you're certain this one works.

Thomas R. Lawrence
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/util/mac-tracker-111-updt.hqx; 48K]

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Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 16:07:50 +0800
From: Quinn <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Movie Import Component Source Code

Greetings

EatAU is a QuickTime component that converts Suns audio (.au) files into
QuickTime movies.  It comes with full source code and is a simple example
of how to write a component in Pascal.

Share and Enjoy.

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/util/eat-au.hqx; 17K]

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Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 11:30:46 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Backup Moderator)
Subject: [*] RSI Network News, plain Text, #14

RSI Network Newsletter #14/October 93
=====================================

The RSI Network Electronic Newsletter
For People Concerned About Tendinitis, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome,
and Other Repetitive Strain Injuries


Produced by:
  Caroline Rose, 970 Paradise Way, Palo Alto CA 94306
  <[e-mail]>

Setext formatting, electronic version editing, distribution by:
  Craig O'Donnell, Assistant Sysop, MacWEEK Forum on ZiffNet
  <[e-mail]> or <72511,240> on CIS.

To subscribe, see "Electronic Subscriptions", below. To get old
issues, see "Online Distribution".

[Archived as /info-mac/per/rsi-network-news-14.txt; 33K]

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Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 11:31:03 -0600
From: "Craig O'Donnell" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] RSI Network Newsletters, 1-15 (12/93)

This self-extracting archive contains all RSI Network Newsletters to
date, Issues 1-15. It supersedes the previous archive file with the same
name. It also contains an EasyView index for browsing with EV.

The Newsletters are standard Macintosh text documents.

The Newsletter covers all aspects of wrist and arm pain related to
keyboard use. It covers both Mac and PC products, magazines and books,
exercise, and resources on and off-line.

For a subscription send a message to <[e-mail]>.

Note: PC-compatible text files are available by ftp to <world.std.com>
and are located in the directory /pub/rsi.

[Archived as /info-mac/per/rsi-network-news-01-to-15.hqx; 223K]

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Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 11:30:36 -0600
From: "Craig O'Donnell" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] RSI Newsletter, text version

RSI Network Newsletter #15/December 93
======================================

The RSI Network Electronic Newsletter
For People Concerned About Tendinitis, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome,
and Other Repetitive Strain Injuries


Produced by:
  Caroline Rose, 970 Paradise Way, Palo Alto CA 94306
  <[e-mail]>

Setext formatting, electronic version editing, distribution by:
  Craig O'Donnell, Assistant Sysop, MacWEEK Forum on ZiffNet
  <[e-mail]> or <72511,240> on CIS

To subscribe, see "Electronic Subscriptions", below. To get old
issues, see "Online Distribution".

[Archived as /info-mac/per/rsi-network-news-15.txt; 31K]

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Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 12:02:27 +0100
From: dr. Jan Martin <martin@alpha>
Subject: [*] ShalomOldStyle 1.2

These fonts are required with HebrewPad (formerly SHalomPad), but not in the
archive.
Some people will be happy. ShalomOldStyle, ShalomStick, and ShalomScript are
Adobe Type 1 Hebrew fonts including vowel marks. ShalomOldStyle is the "tradi-
tional" Hebrew typeface. ShalomStick is a "sans serif-like" modern typeface,
ShalomScript simulates Hebrew handwriting (which looks quite different from
the printed typefaces). I am enclosing the original blurbs to all files,
Shareware by Jonathan Brecher. Enjoy!
                                             Jan Martin
                                             [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/font/ps/shalom-old-style-12.hqx; 43K]

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Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 12:04:42 +0100
From: dr. Jan Martin <martin@alpha>
Subject: [*] ShalomScript.cpt.hqx

ShalomScript is a PostScript Type 1 font containing a complete Hebrew and
Yiddish character set, including vowels and punctuation.  This font is
informal, simulating a handwritten cursive style.  Because this font functions
under the standard American system software, it is constrained to a left-to-
right text direction and as such is not suitable for long documents or
letters.

This file contains ShalomScript version 1.2.  This supersedes and replaces
any earlier versions of ShalomScript and my original font Shalom.  Please
remove these earlier versions from the archives.  ShalomScript is copyright
(c) 1990-1992 by Jonathan Brecher.  All rights reserved.

     jonathan brecher
     [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/font/ps/shalom-script-12.hqx; 44K]

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Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 12:03:50 +0100
From: dr. Jan Martin <martin@alpha>
Subject: [*] ShalomStick.cpt.hqx

ShalomStick is a PostScript Type 1 font containing a complete Hebrew and
Yiddish character set, including vowels and punctuation.  This font is in a
modern, sans serif style.  It is a monoweight font, with no curves.  Because
this font functions under the standard American system software, it is
constrained to a left-to-right text direction and as such is not suitable for
long documents or letters.

This file contains ShalomStick version 1.2.  This supersedes and replaces
any earlier versions of ShalomScript and my original font Shalom.  Please
remove these earlier versions from the archives.  ShalomStick is copyright
(c) 1990-1992 by Jonathan Brecher.  All rights reserved.

     jonathan brecher
     [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/font/ps/shalom-stick-12.hqx; 34K]

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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 21:50:05 -0500 (EST)
From: Kevin R Lesniewicz <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Submission: "Static" QT Movie (Problem found)

If you've been aching to use that trendy "static hit" transition in
your QuickTime movies, here's all you need. I created this static,
complete with sound, entirely in software. It's like the 'snow' that fills
a TV screen when you switch channels or go to a channel with no
signal. Perhaps you may find a use for it *sometime*--feel free to use
it. Let me know, okay?

-kevin l. <[e-mail]>

[Archived as /info-mac/grf/qt/static.hqx; 141K]

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Date: Wed, 1 Dec 93 12:15:44 PST
From: [e-mail] (Jay Boersma)
Subject: [*] SubtleWinterStartupscreen

Enclosed is SubtleWinterStartup, a seasonal variation of the Mac's standard
startup screen with an evergreen & snowman in place of the little Mac
picture, snow along the top of the window, and an icicle or two hanging
down.

Pleasant to look at in a quiet sort of way...

To use it, just drop it into your System Folder and re-start. If you pass
it on to anyone else, please keep this README with it.

Jay Boersma
[e-mail]
America Online JayB47

[Archived as /info-mac/grf/subtle-winter-startup.hqx; 17K]

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Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 00:40:45 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Lance K. Chun)
Subject: [*] Termy 2.3 sit

>Browsing through the comm directory I noticed the version there not being
>the latest one I have. According to an Archie search the latest version is
>v2.1. Here it is. I retrieved it from ftp.msen.com and the pub/vendor/ice
>directory there.
>
>Termy was written by Tim Endres.
>
>>tim endres - [e-mail]  -or- tbomb!time
>>ICE Engineering, Inc - 8840 Main St, Whitmore Lake, MI 48189
>>Phone [phone] - FAX [phone]
>
>He is also the author of the connection tool "TGE TCP Tool" in this
>archive. Termy is unique in that it is the only free/shareware terminal
>emulation program that uses the Communication Toolbox's Connection,
>Terminal, and File Transfer tools.
>
>Dominik Hoffmann ([e-mail])

Well, browsing again, I seem to have located v2.3 of Termy. Here you go
folks. Enjoy the update!

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/termy-23.hqx; 145K]

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Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 11:30:49 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Jose B. Aguirre)
Subject: [*] TEXX Release 0.3

TEXX Release 0.3                        11/14/93

This is the third release version of the Texx scripting interpreter.
This scripting language is an attempt to implement a version of the
Rexx interpreter that is commonly used on IBM's VM/CMS mainframe
operating system.  This version of Texx is far from a full implementation,
so don't think that you can copy your CMS execs and run them on your Mac.
This is a very minimal implementation, however, it still adds additional
functionality to the Mac OS.  My plans are to keep updating Texx and
hopefully it will mimic the mainframe version very closely.

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/texx-03.hqx; 128K]

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Date: Wed, 01 Dec 93 14:19:19 EST
From: "M. David Greenspon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] the MACS 1.0b5

the MACS is a freeware application which displays a large number of specs for
all Macs that have ever been released.  For a more thorough description, see
the help included in the application.

the MACS supports all Macs from the Plus up and all Systems from 4.1 up.

In October Apple introduced no fewer than *sixteen* new Mac models!  That's
more models than they introduced in Macintosh's first 7 1/2 years.  the MACS
1.0b5 has entries for all the new *non-Performa* models:  LC 475, Quadra 605,
610, 650, and 660AV, Duo 250 and 270c, Macintosh TV, and Color Classic II.
The Performa 410, 460, 466, 467, 475, 476, and 550 will be added soon.

The other improvements in version 1.0b5 are:
-Filled in the empty "Speedometer speed" field for as many Macs as I could,
 and provided display and Search support for this field
-Divided Help into bite-sized sections, with a pop-up menu to select them
-Added more Help info
-Fixed an incompatibility with LaserWriter Driver 8.x
-Many minor changes, spec additions/corrections, and bug fixes

Thanks to the many people who have sent me corrections and suggestions!

This is still a beta version of the MACS.  I don't have all the specs yet;
some info is quite difficult to find.  I would really like for people to send
me bug reports, corrections, specs I don't have, and suggestions.

--David

[Archived as /info-mac/info/hdwr/the-macs-10b5.hqx; 114K]

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Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1993 14:45:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: kfl <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Universal Card Copier

This is the first posting of the Universal Card Copier,
a HyperCard stack/utility that makes cutting and pasting cards
>From one stack to another real easy.

You can copy a whole stack, only marked cards, or you can select
the cards you want from a list of card names/ids.  You can paste
them anywhere you want in the stack you are copying to.
(e.g. at the beginning, the end or at any point you specify)

WARNING/discalimer:  This is not the be-all, end-all of stack
merging utilities!  ALWAYS SAVE a copy of the stack you are
copying cards INTO BEFORE attempting to copy any cards into it.
This stack uses the HyperCard Menu commands of "Copy Card" and
"Paste Card" just as if you were doing it manually.  This may
or may not be what you want to do when you say you want to
"merge" two stacks.  If the stacks are dissimilar and you paste
a card(s) from one stack into the middle of a different stack,
you can break the stack you are copying to since hypercard will
create a new background in the middle of the stack and this may
cause some scripts to not work correctly.

This stack is freeware and may be distributed freely by any and
all non-profit groups.

Hope someone finds this useful...

Kevin Forsberg-Lary

[Archived as /info-mac/card/universal-card-copier.hqx; 39K]

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Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 16:50:40 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Erik Schwiebert)
Subject: [*] UsenEdit -- A text editor

Attached please find UsenEdit v1.1 (/ Yooz' ned it /), a Text-Edit based
editor designed to work with Peter Speck's Nuntius in low-memory
environments for the porpose of editing and posting of UseNet articles.
UsenEdit requirews only 50k of RAM, allows up to 3 windows of 32k each open
at a time, supports stationary, Apple Events, Undo, F1-F4 as Cut, Copy,
etc...  Due to the need for apple events, UsenEdit REQUIRES system 7.

Note to all, especially the moderators --  This program is an update from
my previous version NewsEdit v1.0.  I was informed a few weeks ago that the
name NewsEdit is already copyrighted, so I had to change the name.

Update notes, bug fixes, and contact information are included in the archive.

Thanx all, and happy posting!

[Archived as /info-mac/text/usen-edit-11.hqx; 37K]

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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 14:46:04 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Miles Abernathy)
Subject: [*] Word 4 Print Bugfix INIT

Here is the official Microsoft INIT that fixes a bug in printing Word 4
docs to QuickDraw printers.

Symptoms of the problem are that words get overprinted, mostly along the
left side of the page. This is said to mainly happen under System 6, but I
can vouch for the fact that it can also happen under 7.0.1.

[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/word-4-print-bugfix.hqx; 18K]

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Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1993 14:16:26 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Zoom Lens 2.0

Enclosed is Zoom Lens 2.0, a neat app that displays a magnified
view of everything around the mouse cursor in a window.  You
can change the degree of magnification from 1:1 (boring) to
24:1, the window size, and the window update rate. You can also
copy the magnified image to the clipboard.

Zoom Lens is freeware by Steve Crutchfield ([e-mail]).

Darin Takemoto
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/zoom-lens-20.hqx; 26K]

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Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 12:04 EDT
From: [e-mail] (J. LEKO)
Subject: "xterm emulators for the Mac"

Dear Moderators:

I have known and been using the sumex archives now for about two years, but I
have only recently discovered your peroidical.  Perhaps though you can help
me.  I have been attempting to locate an xwindows emulator for the Macintosh
which would allow a user full connectivity to a Sun Unix workstation.  Does
such a thing exist, and if so, where can I find it?

As I am new to this digest, please excuse me if I have posted this
incorrectly.

Thank you,

J. Leko

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Date: Thu, 2 Dec 93 12:30:00 -0700
From: Bruce Carter <[e-mail]>
Subject: -t114 error?

Greetings Steve,

>I have a HyperCard stack which runs perfectly on a an SE with an
>accelerator and a IIcx, but generates a -t114 error (or similar) on a
>Powerbook.  Anyone know what this means?
>Steve Tripp, ci52@ukanvax, [e-mail]

Error T114 is "Expected stack here".  Somewhere in a script something is
expecting to see stack and sees something else.  You must be using the Player,
because full versions of HyperCard do not give these code phrases.  If you
have
a full copy of HyperCard and a copy of ResEdit you can look these error codes
up.  Inside HyperCard, in STR# resource number 132 named "TalkErrors" are all
of the English expansions of these error codes.  Just take the number
following
the T and find the string in the STR# that has the same number.

If someone who is more adept at resource manipulation than I am would write a
little utility to extract all of those error messages into a nice little text
report it would probably be useful to folks who are stuck with the Player.

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Date: 01 Dec 1993 11:02:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Peter Jorgensen - Colgate U." <[e-mail]>
Subject: A/UX Help needed

Greetings,

I need some help setting up a Mac WorkGroup Server 95 as a netnews server for
our campus. I've got TCP/IP running, but can't configure it to use our name
server. If you could help me or tell me how to access another appropriate list
I'd appreciate hearing from you. TIA

[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 1 Dec 93 17:29:45 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Urs W. Grob)
Subject: Anybody successfully registered MAZ? (Q)

Dear Info-Mac Community

A bit more than one year ago I 'registered' MaxAppleZoom 1.43 by sending
the author (Naoto Horii in Bruxelles) the usual registration form and the
amount of $25.- in cash. I never received an answer, but this didn't really
bother me - 'til the appearance of MAZ 1.44. This latest version finally
allowed me to enjoy the benefits of MAZ with my Apple 8.24 video card
(version 1.43 refused to work with newer Apple 8.24 video interfaces).
Great! - but...

With the latest version of MAZ Naoto Horii obviously included some code
that makes MAZ display a note at - say - every tenth startup telling the
user he needs to register MAZ in order to get a code that suppresses the
nagging message at startup.

Well, I wrote N. Horii a kind snail-mail letter, asking for this secret
code (for free - since I paid for the software), but again I didn't get an
answer.

So I'd like to ask you a) if anybody successfully managed to register MAZ
(any version) and b) if anybody actually received the code needed to patch
version 1.44.

Any reply would be appreciated. Thank you in advance!



Urs W. Grob
[e-mail]


PS:
I only have the address of N. Horii but no e-mail address. If you have one,
please let me know. Thanx again!

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

Date: 3 Dec 1993 11:10:01 U
From: "Mikael Hansen" <[e-mail]>
Subject: ARA Hayes 144 modemscript

  REGARDING           ARA Hayes 144 modemscript
Using ARA 1.0 as dial-up server as well as client, we're looking for ARA Hayes
144 modemscripts (Optima or Ultra). ARA 1.0 merely offers Hayes 9600 baud.
(PS:
I don't know when 2.0 will arrive around here.)

Mikael Hansen
[e-mail]
The Royal Library, Denmark

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Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 00:58:34 GMT+1
From: [e-mail]
Subject: A Sound Question...

Hello, everybody!
I am writing a sound editor, and I need to work directly with the sound
samples, I don't have to just pass some data to SndPlay. The problem is
this:

I noticed that, when the sound is an 8-bit 'snd ' resource, samples are,
as for the wave table synthesizer described in Inside Mac, stored in
such a way that the 'zero' or 'silence' value is 0x80, and the lower
limit of the waveform is 0x00, and the upper limit if 0xFF.

But, when it comes to 16-bit sounds, the 'silence' or 'zero' value is
0x0000, and then, treating every sample as a signed short integer, the
upper limit is 0x7FFF (
32767) and the lower limit is -32768.
The 16-bit way of storing samples is the same for 'snd ' resources and
for AIFF files, whereas 8-bit AIFF files don't store samples in the same
way as 8-bit 'snd ' resources, instead they store them in the 16-bit
way, i.e. like signed chars: silence is at 0x00, then
127 is the upper
limit and -128 is the lower limit.

I also noticed that all this is consistent with what SndPlay plays. I
mean, I have to pass sounds stored in the described way to SndPlay for
them to play correctly. I can't get the data from an 8-bit AIFF file,
add a sound header and then play it with SndPlay: I need to convert all
the samples first, so that 0x80 becomes the middle (silence) value, 0x00
the lower limit and 0xFF the upper one.

Do you know if there is a way to pass data to SndPlay so that I can keep
8-bit sounds always in such a format that 0x00 is the middle (silence)
value?

Have you had any experience with 24-bit or 32-bit sounds? What if the
sampling size is not a multiple of 8 bits, i.e. 12 bits? Do you know
what are the silence, lower and upper limit values in these cases?

I couldn't find an answer to these questions in Inside Mac VI...

Thanks a lot!

Best,
- Alberto Ricci.
[e-mail]

P.S. Please reply directly to me, if you can, since I'm a bit late
reading the digests...

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Date: Thu, 2 Dec 93 10:28:29 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: Attach printers to apps?

Here's an odd one. A friend has some clients who have three
printers, a networked LabelWriter, a networked StyleWriter, and
a laser printer of some sort. They want to be able to have
certain apps, like their address database, always print to the
LabelWriter or one of the other printers, and they don't want
to have to remember to switch the printer before they print or
after they print, which rules out macro use.

I can't offhand think of any way to do this without them at
least being conscious of which printer is the selected one.
Forgetting to change the printer is a big deal, since letters
then print to the LabelWriter, etc.

Any ideas? Will QuickDraw GX help with this specific problem?

cheers ... -Adam

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

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Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 10:22:11 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Audio CD tracks -> ?

OK, I have all the CDROM and Quicktime stuff loaded and I can open an Audio
CD and see all the tracks as little icons.  I have an older CDROM drive and
the Quicktime readme says the conversion to MooV only works with the Apple
CD300 drives and that seems to be correct:  none of the MooV players I have
even shows the tracks in the Open dialog, much less offers to convert them.
 Is there any way to get these tracks off the CD digitally?  Replies to me
please and I will summarize.  Thanks.

Paul Baim

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

Date: 2 Dec 93 09:08:00 EST
From: "Dananberg, Jamie" <[e-mail]>
Subject: AV Macs and System Update

Here's some questions that I hope some wise soul on the net can probably
answer. I have an 840AV and am wondering whether I should run System Update
2.0.1 on it. I've noticed that my Memory CP is newer then SU's (7.1.2 vs
7.1.1), my Express Modem Software is the same (1.1.2), but that the Sound CP
is
older (8.0 vs 8.0.1)!

So:
1. Will the installer only replace the older stuff?
2. Also, are other patches installed that aren't as obvious and do these
   patches apply to the new AV ROMs?
3. Finally, is the Sound Manager routines built into the AV? (I assume so
since
   there is no Sound Manager Extension requried).

Thanks

Jamie Dananberg
University of Michigan

E-mail: [e-mail]  OR  [e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 16:22:16 +0200
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Beatles font request

Hi,

As the subject line says, is there a truetype font like the one used on
The Beatles drums?

Please reply directly to me,
Thanks,
                                                        Federico

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Date: 1 Dec 1993 14:47:41 U
From: "Harris Tom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: BOMBER(tm) 1.2

I have a legal copy of BOMBER(tm) 1.2. I have a Performa 475 with the
Hypercard
2.1 player.  I can play this game but it will not allow me to save settings.
It says that it needs to be converted.  BOMBER(tm) is a protected stac.  Does
anyone know of a more recent release?  Is there a way to unprotect this stac?
Is there a way to convert the stac?  I have tried to convert it using the
player I have but nothing happens.

BTW BOMBER(tm) was from Deadly Games, LTD

Thanks in advance.

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

Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 17:20:47 -0500 (EST)
From: Seth Ness <[e-mail]>
Subject: boomerang type utility?

hi,
for a quadra 610, with system 7.1, are there any simple freeware or
shareware extensions that will modify the open/save dialog box so you can
move in one step to certain designated folders? I think superboomerang
does this but its commercial.



Seth L. Ness                         Ness Gadol Hayah Sham
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 10:07:02 -0600
From: Paul M Sheldon <[e-mail]>
Subject: CEToolbox 1.7 and Now Utilities... (A) (fwd)

Postmaster didn't like this address:
 Christian_Gingras <[e-mail]>
:-}
    Christian said he was now running steady as a rock after the net
helped him a bit. He didn't quite know why. I wrote the following so you
all could understand a little more. Here is what evidentally happened and
what I had tried to write Christian.

    Prefs files can get corrupted and cause a utility to crash. You have
set things up so that your system is running w/o utility and you can delete
the corrupted files while retaining the utility that utility will regenerate
uncorrupted prefs files (without the work you put into informing the
older other corrupted prefs file, of course).
    Instead of moving utility out of systems folder, you might have simply
started with the shift key down and disabled all extensions. Then, you
would have
1. rapidly started up without waiting for the init parade
2. bounce into your apple menu'd aliased pref's folder
and
3. you could delete the prefs and wind up where you are now, stable as a
rock.
4. for prefs with valuable information in them, like shortcuts that has
frequently accessed folders in it, I sometimes back them up with a bunch
of alias folders to help me in the apple menu.
    Hope this clarifies a bit more what is going on right and what more
could be done.

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

Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 17:41:04 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Li-Hsiang Tu)
Subject: Checking mail w/o running Eudora (Q)

I thought I saw something that allows one to check mail without running
Eudora in the previous Info-Mac digest.  Does anyone remember what it is
called?

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

Date: Wed, 01 Dec 93 21:32:42 PDT
From: Paul Brians <[e-mail]>
Subject: DesktopTextures Unexpectedly Quits (A)

Thanks to three people who pointed out its existence to me, I downloaded
Texture Installer 2.1, which is hidden inside Desktop Textures III.  It
opens the troublesome ppats easily and works fine.  It's archived at
SUMEX-AIM and mirrors as util/desktop-textures-21.hqx.  The change in
name and packaging made it easy to overlook.

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

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

Date: Fri, 03 Dec 93 00:06:02 EST
From: Chris Gorski <[e-mail]>
Subject: Ergo Mouse Gone To Pot

Hi!

I'm starting to have severe problems with my ADB Mouse II (the
dreaded Ergo Mouse). Ever since I purchased my Centris, the mouse
has had problems with the mouse button sticking and poor tracking.
Lately, things have been getting much, much worse.

I had heard talk that Apple was taking action to correct bad
Ergo Mice. I've also heard that Apple vehemently denies that
anything is wrong. Which is true and do I have any recourse in
that matter? For what it's worth, I'm still under warranty.

Please respond directly to me and I will post what I find out.

Chris Gorski
[e-mail]

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

Date: 1 Dec 1993 17:39:40 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Brad Cahoon)
Subject: ESL software for the Mac?

On behalf of a friend who teaches English as a second language to
students here at the University of Georgia, I'm trying to collect
information about Macintosh software.  We're interested in programs
that teach English grammar from an ESL perspective or help students
prepare for the TOEFL test.  My friend has found some IBM-compatible
products, but no Mac material.  We are developing some HyperCard
stacks for this purpose ourselves but would like to find or buy more
Mac software.

Thanks for any and all help!

Brad Cahoon
Georgia Center for Continuing Education
The University of Georgia
[e-mail]

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

Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 16:24:43 GMT
From: Jan Robert Johnsen <[e-mail]>
Subject: Gold Disk E-Mail address ?

Does anyone know if Gold Disk have an e-mail address og BBS ?


--
<Jan>                   Jan Robert Johnsen            [e-mail]
JR Design Studio        Carl Jeppesens gt 22          N-0481 OSLO, Norway
Tlf: [phone]

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Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 14:20:09 GMT
From: Jan Robert Johnsen <[e-mail]>
Subject: Gold Disk E-mail or BBS address

Does anyone know if Gold Disk have an e-mail address og BBS ?

--
Jan Robert Johnsen            [e-mail]           Tlf: [phone]
JR Design Studio        Carl Jeppesens gt 22          N-0481 OSLO, Norway

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Date: Thu, 2 Dec 93 13:42:59 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Golf handicap program

My assistant is looking for a program to help with the chore of
maintaining the golf handicap stats for his group.  Has anyone seen
such a beast in free/shareware version for the Mac?

Thanks in advance!

Eric

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

Date: Wed,  1 Dec 1993 10:07 CST
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Greg's Buttons & WP 3.0

There seems to be some conflict between Greg's Buttons 3.1.3 and WordPerfect
3.0.  The pull-down menus lose their color and the menu bar goes white.  I
realize these are pretty minor problems (thank goodness), but it doesn't
happen
with my other applications.

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

Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 07:49:01 -0500 (EST)
From: Al Silva 94 <[e-mail]>
Subject: Group Mail program (Question)

        I have been searching the internet for an application program that
would allow users on a network to send mail to each other.  This is not
your typical e-mail situation.  The situation is that we have 7 groups of
students, each group writes log entries that reply to log entries of
their group members.  This is somewhat of a community diary.
        Current situation is that we have a appletalk network setup and each
group would access their own word processing file, append to it, and then
save it.  Problem: most students(freshmen) do not yet have enough computer
experience to go about these steps without causing some problems.
        Therefore, if anyone can e-mail me about a application that would
solve our problem or if you have any other ideas that might help, please
let me know.  Thank you for your time.

Best to all,
Alfred Silva
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 2 Dec 93 10:37:22 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #231

In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
> I hope that there is somebody out there who is able to give some clues
> regarding
> the SLIP-problem described below? Because I'm stuck. I tried everything I
know
> of and I'm out of inspiration now.

It definitely sounds like a MacTCP DNS problem. I don't know about
the specific bugs in 1.1.1, but it's possible that 2.0.4 would help.

The main thing I would try is configuring the DNS part of MacTCP like
this.

machine.domain     130.90.111.111  (o)
.                  130.90.111.111
.                  140.234.234.234

Those number are completely fictitious, replace them with your nameserver's
IP address. The second nameserver address (the third number) is your
backup nameserver - your sysadmin should be able to tell you of two
of them. The dots instead of the names? It has something to do with
queries outside of the domain listed in the first box, beyond that
I don't really understand it. People over in comp.sys.mac.comm are
good at this sort of thing.

So, in summary. Make sure the first two numbers are the same, make
sure that the first one is the default, and make sure to put the dots
in.

cheers ... -Adam

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

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Date: Fri, 3 Dec 93 09:29:08 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Adam Hauerwas)
Subject: Internal Hard Drives

Hi everyone.  I run a network with aging machines:  SE's, II's, IIcx's,
IIci's, IIsi's, a IIfx file server, and Centri.  On my older machines,
though, I've still got 20 meggers and 40 meggers, and the largest
Apple-purchased drives I've got are 80 meggers.

I will be moving to Word 6 and Excel 5 once they are bundled into the new
version of Office, and I'm thinking to myself "Hmm.  Word is going to be a
monster.  How am I going to fit it on the disks?"  I've already lost two
20's to stiction, so I'm thinking about replacing most of my internal
drives next year.

For two workstations, I've already gone ahead and purchased 170MB LaCie
internals because the price was good and I had been satisfied in the past
by their externals.  But other people have steered me clear of LaCie,
saying that they are Quantum's B-level drives that fail the first tier of
quality assurance.

So, what kind of hard drives should I buy?  Has anyone had experience with
other companies for volume purchase agreements?  I'm looking to buy
somewhere in the neighborhood of 50, so please let me know.  And how much
is enough?  Any pointers would be appreciated.

Adam
----
Adam Hauerwas, Macintosh Specialist | [e-mail]
Duff & Phelps Financial Consulting  | 55 E. Monroe, Suite 3600, Chicago
60603

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Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 13:39:15 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Graeme Forbes)
Subject: LC -> LC 475: mystery deepens

I took MacWeek's advice and "asked David Ramsey" whether an LC -> LC 475
upgrade could be cobbled together from the logic board for the LCII/III
upgrade, together with a new power supply (many people had suggested that
the reason there is no LC upgrade is that the LC's power supply isn't
robust enough).

DR replied almost immediately (!) to the effect that as far as he knows the
power supply in the LCII is the same as that in the LC. Therefore the power
supply can't be the reason there's no upgrade being offered. He included
the following exceprt from the developer notes on the differences between
the LC and the LCII:

*      The Macintosh LC II uses a 68030 processor rather than the 68020 used
in the Macintosh LC.
*      The Macintosh LC II comes standard with 4 MB RAM soldered to the main
logic board, while the Macintosh LC has 2 MB soldered down. Both computers
support a maximum of 10 MB RAM.
*      The Macintosh LC has a second internal floppy disk connector for the
addition of a second (optional) 1.4 MB Apple SuperDrive. The Macintosh LC II
does not support additional internal or external floppy disk drives.
*      The Macintosh LC II microphone kit does not include a phonograph
adapter plug.
*      The Macintosh LC II uses a slightly modified version of the Macintosh
LC case.

No mention of power supply changes. Bearing in mind that you can upgrade an
LC to an LCII, can anyone see anything in this list that would explain why
you couldn't put an LCII-LC 475 upgrade board in an LC and expect the thing
to work?

Graeme Forbes

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

Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 17:13:45 -0500 (EST)
From: Seth Ness <[e-mail]>
Subject: localtalk-ethertalk bridges

hi,
we have a hp 4M hooked up via local talk to a centris 610.
the centris is also physically connected to the campus ethernet, but in
order to print we don't keep it on ethertalk.

we'd like to be able to print to the hp 4M from the other two computers in
our lab (a centris 610 and quadra 610) and to keep the first centris on
ethertalk. I know a software bridge will allow this, but then the printer
will show up on the network and the business office will charge us for a
full ethernet hookup (thats the policy).

so, are there bridges that let you make the printer visible to only a few
specific computers. Any suggestions welcome, also for bridges in general.
thanks.



Seth L. Ness                         Ness Gadol Hayah Sham
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1993 16:18:46 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Stan Kerr)
Subject: Logitech mouse turns itself off

Logitech makes a 3-button mouse, called the MouseMan, that works very well
for X Windows, e.g. with MacX. Their current version of the driver, 1.11,
has a problem with turning itself off periodically, so that the mouse key
mappings are lost; when this happens, the left button still behaves like a
regular Mac mouse. I've called Logitech about this a few times, and they
say they haven't pinpointed the cause, but that things like extension
conflicts and context switching appear to affect it; in my case, for
instance, rapid and frequent switching between two of my applications
(doing copy and paste) seems to cause it. They say a new driver is being
released in a few months, but they don't know if it will fix the problem.

I'd like to encourage anyone who has a Logitech mouse and who has
experienced this problem to call their technical support number at
510-795-8100. If enough people express concern about this, perhaps it will
be fixed (at least, assuming it's really a problem with their driver, and
not with something else).

--
Stan Kerr  [e-mail]  217-333-5217  fax:[phone]
Computing and Communications Services Office
U of Illinois/Urbana

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

Date: Thu, 2 Dec 93 08:07:31 PST
From: "Dave Leiner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: long lines and word wrap from hell (c)

I recently wrote:

>The problem is that my mail client (VersaTerm-Link) does not support an
>adjustable right margin. It uses the standard 80 column word wrap. I know I
>could go through the extra step of using a text processor, but so far it
hasn't
>been worth the extra hassle. I just called VersaTerm developer, Synergy, and
>they were unaware of the difficult caused by the fixed margins. Maybe this
will
>spur a fix, Pete.

I already received the following reply from Synergy. Sounds like a
responsive, customer-oriented company to me. Thanks, Synergy. Also, I was
wrong with the wrap width on VersaTerm Link; apparently the fixed wrap works
better with Info-Mac. A previous mail client I was using had an 80 column
wrap.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Dave,
Link wraps at 72 to 76 characters if no carriage returns are encountered
prior to this point in the string.  I talked to the programmer and he told
me to add a request to our "Requested Features" file to allow users the
ability to specify a wrap or to specify no wrap.  He will seriously consider
adding this in the next version.
================================
+  Diana Abelbeck              +
+  Technical Support           +
+  Abelbeck Software           +
+  [e-mail]  +
================================
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

--Dave

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Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 13:04:34 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Dufour Stephen)
Subject: Looking for a X-mas desktop pattern.

Dear netters,

Last year, I found a wonderful X-mas desktop pattern which contained
a black background with golden bells and green (or red?) ribbons.
Unfortunately, I lost it.  Can someone tell me where I can find it.
Or you can e-mail it to me at [e-mail].

Since it's X-mas time, I like to put my machine in the mood.  Term
projects work seems less difficult in an holiday environment.

Thanks
Steven

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Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 11:02:16 -0600 (CST)
From: Eric Durbrow <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mac 512 and Mainframe Communications

Hi. A user wants to use MacKermit or Zterm to communicate with a
mainframe. So she needs function keys and arrow keys. Her 512 keyboard
does not have these keys. And MacKermit, I think, no longer has settings
for nonABD keyboards. She can't use an escape sequence because she does
not have an escape key. Any ideas? Would greatly appreciate help.


Eric Durbrow
University of Missouri-Columbia

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Date: Thu, 2 Dec 93 15:30:24 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Michael Selewach  713  967-5251
[e-mail])
Subject: Macintosh Database Viewers

Does anyone know of a product that will allow a Mac to read (or run reports)
on Microsoft Access database files?  The data will reside on a VAX and will
be shared via DEC Pathworks.  When (and if) I get some solutions, I'll post
them on the board.

Thanks in advance,
Michael Selewach                              [e-mail]
Rosharon, Texas

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Date: 2 Dec 1993 22:53:02 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Malcolm Slaney)
Subject: Macintosh VUMeters Available for AV

I'm happy to announce the availability of an application for displaying
sound levels on the new Macintosh AV computers.  This application uses the
DSP chip built into the 660AV and 840AV to measure the level of sound coming
into or leaving the machine.  The sound level can be displayed as either a
peak reading or the more conventional power reading.

Sources are included.  This should be a good example of how to program the
DSP system.

Thanks to the denizens of comp.dsp for providing the references to the
original 1940 BSTJ articles that specified the behaviour of analog VU Meters.
I've tried to simulate their behaviour as closely as possible.

The application and sources are available via anonymous FTP or gopher from
        ears.atg.apple.com (17.255.4.17)
as the file
        /pub/VUMeters.sit.hqx
This is a BinHexed, StuffIt compressed archive.

-- Malcolm Slaney
   Apple Advanced Technology Group

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

Date: Wed, 1 Dec 93 14:19:42 EST
From: Phil Budne <[e-mail]>
Subject: Macintosh webster client?

Does anyone have a Macintosh webster client?

Thanks!
-phil

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Date: Thu, 2 Dec 93 16:05:47 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Randy Patton)
Subject: Mac Word 5.1a Address file?

Does anyone know where MS Word stores the addresses entered into its
envelope generator?  A colleague of mine has compiled a fairly large body
of addresses in Word and would like to export them to a file for separarte
sorting and printing, but we've both searched in vain for the file(s) Word
stashed the data in.

Is there a quick and easy way to export Word's entire address list, or at
least print it out?

H. Randy Patton, Technical Coordinator,Virginia Tech English Department

[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 2 Dec 93 18:03:03 EST
From: Mark A. Saper <[e-mail]>
Subject: MacWrite Pro - ability to Zoom ?

Could someone tell me if MacWrite Pro has the ability to view the window at
different magnifications?  I know that ClarisWorks has this capability but I
don't think Word has it (at least 4.0).

Thanks, Mark Saper

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Date: Fri, 3 Dec 93 23:43:39 JST
From: [e-mail] (Yoshimasa Awaji)
Subject: MaxFax patch(Q)

Sorry if it's written in the summary just uploaded on the archive, but
I'm not alble to get the file because I'm not allowed ftp from our site.

What I'd like to know is if anyone knows how to patch the MaxFax so that
it works with the Japanese system I'm using.

The software seems to be searching for 'File','Print', or 'Page Setup' when
it enables the Fax menu items.  The problem is that in most applications as
well as in Finder the menu names are written in Japanese.

I changed the names into English with ResEdit, but it doesn't work properly.
Menu items are enabled, but I can't print from the print menu.

Appreciate any help.

Thanks,

Yoshi

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Date: Thu, 02 Dec 93 10:05:44 -0500
From: Steve Chamberlin <[e-mail]>
Subject: Microphone input on Quadra 605

What gives with the mic input on the Quadra 605? I just bought a new
Q605 (which comes without a microphone) and when I attach the mic from
my old LC, I get nothing, zip, nada, zilch. The docs say it uses the
PlainTalk Microphone, does this mean it won't work with the old mic? I
thought microphones were microphones, more or less. Also, is there any
kind of adapter I can get to let me record output from a stereo system
or other music device instead of from the mic?

Thanks!
Steve Chamberlin
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 01 Dec 93 21:15:15 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Need help with Kennect Drive 2.4 w/Rapport!

This is a plea to anyone in the Washington DC metro area (or anything in a
stretch that could  be considered the DC area):  I have a Kennect Technology
Drive 2.4 with Rapport.  A wonderful device,
 when it's working.  When it's not working, dozens of 2.4 Mb floppies with
lots of goodies and  important stuff, all of them unreadable, is not that
wonderful.  That's the situation I've found myself in lately.  My drive (as
near as I can tell) has gone toes up, and now many, many hours of expensive
download time lies dormant in my desk drawers.  And it seems that Kennect
Technology has gone under, or otherwise disappeared:  I cannot reach them by
telephone (no information is available), their AppleLink account is gone, and
I can no longer find anything to do with Kennect on AOL (or anywhere else for
that matter!).

Does anyone out there know anything about Kennect?  Have they been sold to
another company?  Anybody know the (former?) president's name and phone
number?  Bueller??

No?  Well how 'bout this?  Anyo
ne even remotely near  DC have one of these contraptions that they'd let me
borrow for a couple of hours or days, at either your site or mine?  I could
make it worth your while (negotiable!).

If you can help in even the smallest way, please contact me:

Randy Meadows
310 Old Dominion Ave.
Herndon, VA  22070

[phone] (day)
[phone] (anytime)

rmeadows on AOL
[e-mail]

Many thanks in advance!
rbm

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

Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1993 13:49:58 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Novy Systems: RIP

Novy Systems, vendors of quality accelerators boards for the last 8 years, has
gone out of business. It isn't suprising, given Apple's price cuts over the
last couple months, that the business is drying up. I expect that this is not
the last such company to go away.

Too bad, I liked their products, and they were a reasonably priced alternative
to Apple back in the bad old days of overpriced Macs.

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

Date: Thu, 02 Dec 93 16:17:12 -0500
From: "Keith E Gatling" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Offline Newsreader for the Mac [Thanks]

Just a short (and overdue...but more on that shortly) note to thank all the
people who responded to my request, both through Info-Mac and through direct
email.  The upshot is, as Adam Engst pointed out, that because I have a
shell account, and not a direct UUCP or SLIP connection, I can't read news
offline.  Oh well, I guess this means I'll just have to continue tying up
the phone line at home and using one SU's dial-in connections while I read
and reply to stuff online.

As far as my long overdue responses go...this is one of the "unfortunate"
side effects of using EasyView.  GREAT program...I can go through all the
Info-Mac digests offline, and a lot faster...but it does sort of put a crimp
into responding immediately.  I'll try to get a little better at this.

keg

* [e-mail]   I've got plenty of opinions.  Just ask my wife! *

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

Date: Wed, 01 Dec 93 16:17:47 -0500
From: Paul Schwarz <[e-mail]>
Subject: Opinions on the new DeltaGraph v3.0 (Q)

Hi,

I'm interested in hearing opinions about the latest release of
DeltaGraph (v3.0).  I'm primarily interested in using DeltaGraph for
scientific applications (as opposed to business applications), and I'm
not sure whether the new features/functionality in version 3.0 warrant
an upgrade.  For example, is it possible yet to include 2 different
fonts in axis label e.g., text plus a greek symbol?

Thanks.

-Paul
[e-mail]

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

Date: Wed, 1 Dec 93 14:27:01 MST
From: [e-mail] (Jonathan Lundell)
Subject: OptiMem

I did a little checking on the CIS forums before buying OptiMem; seems like
the real thing. I'm using a copy on my 4MB Duo 210 while I wait for RAM
prices to come back down, and it seems to work fine. It can be enabled or
disabled for specific apps; my primary use is Word and Excel; now I can have
them both in memory at once (obviously you don't want to use virtual on a
PowerBook, at least not with batteries).

I'll probably keep using it once I expand my memory, and will probably expand
only to 8MB instead of 12-16MB as I had originally planned.

Some apps apparently don't benefit, due to the way they obtain their memory.

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

Date: 2 Dec 1993 13:01:27 -0500
From: "dlawrence" <[e-mail]>
Subject: PC Exchange

=> Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1993 18:20:04 -0500 (EST)
=> From: David Garrett <[e-mail]>
=> Subject: PC Exchange incompatibility?
=>
=> Running PC Exchange 1.0.1 on my Centris with the processor caches
=> turned on, Word 5.1a hangs when I try to run it.
=> If I remove PC Exchange or shut off the processor caches, Word runs
=> fine.  I suspect that a more recent version of PCX exists that would
=> solve this problem.  Can anyone confirm or deny this hypothesis?


Current version is 1.0.3, available to registered users by calling
1-800-SOS-APPL.

David Lawrence -> [e-mail]...CIS:75300,2460...AOL:
OLTDavid/DoctorMac
*** Macintosh Product Evaluation Specialist <-- coolest job *in* the world ***

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

Date: Thu, 02 Dec 93 10:58:23 CDT
From: Paul Koch <[e-mail]>
Subject: Performa 450 quality (Q)

I have an opportunity to buy a 'refurbished' Performa 450 at a
tempting price.  Before I bite, I would like to know:
1.  How close is it, really, to the LC III?
2.  Can I run System 7.1?
3.  How good is the 14-inch monitor which comes with it?

Any advice would be much appreciated.  If there is a faq file
which addresses these questions, please point the way.
Kindly respond to [e-mail] directly.
Thank you!

--Paul Koch

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

Date: Wed, 1 Dec 93 18:44 GMT0
From: Pindar Infotek Ltd <[e-mail]>
Subject: PSWriter vs Native printer

>From Pindar user Ian McCall

Subject: _PSWriter vs Native printer drivers
I'm using a LaserJet 4M, for which Hewlett-Packard provide a printer
driver. However, I also have a .PPD to use with PSWriter.

Which driver is likely to prove better in terms of both performance
and quality? I'd tend towards the native mode one myself, since this
must surely have been specifically designed around the particular
printer in question. I'm not sure though, so if anyone has any
information I'd be glad to here it.


Cheers,
       Ian



---
Please make 'Attn:<space>Ian McCall' the first line of your reply
(not the subject) to ensure automatic forwarding to the correct
Pindar user.

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

Date: Thu, 02 Dec 93 00:08:41 +0000 BST
From: Richard Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re-naming hard drives (Q)

I know I've seen this before but I can't find the gen in my Info-Mac
archive.

How do I change the name of my hard drives? (system 7.1)

Why can I change the name of one of my drives, but not the other two?

I really need to do this, I'm using an SE/30 at the moment, and it's
getting fed up with my boot drive which is called 'Mac IIcx'. I think
the machine's suffering a kind of electronic identity crisis, so I
thought that if I named my drives after something less identifiable
I could happily transfer them from machine to machine without trouble!
(I regularly change the Mac I'm using, so I find it easier to install
my boot drive in the fresh machine, rather than setting a new one up
for all the INITs and networking stuff every time)

Please reply to me.

Thanks,

Richard Smith
([e-mail])

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

Date: Thu, 02 Dec 93 10:30:02 EST
From: Pete Tamas <[e-mail]>
Subject: Reinstalling System software

Try to make sure the old System and Finder files are removed
before you try installing the new system. If the old System is
not removed, the new one just updates the resources, generally
keeping the corrupted sections you want to get rid of.-Pete Tamas
[e-mail] or TempleVM.bitnet

> From:         Oliver Fross <[e-mail]>

> OK: Here's the current problem (just as finals roll around,
> right? :-)) My neighbor's IIci w/ the cache card, 8x1meg SIMMs
> and nothing else non-standard inside the case and 7.1, the
> usual software etc on the drive  will NOT start up. He gets to
> the "Welcome to Macintosh" screen and it stops there.  It is
> possible to get the system going with a IIci specific start-up
> disk, but things run pretty slowly... SO, you say "re-install the
> system, you fool!"  right?  Well I tried that, and the error still
> occours...and there's no chance that the system is corrupted as
> it is being installed from a CD (can't write to it, can't corrupt
> it...)
>
> SO: Any ideas on why / how to fix this startup problem?
> TIA.
> --oliver
>
>

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

Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 08:40:48 -0800
From: [e-mail] (John Rosborough)
Subject: Robert's Rules of Order

Anybody know of an electronic version of this book? Something that would
work with is Mac would be preferable.

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

Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 21:21:49 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Jaime C. Villacorte)
Subject: Rodney King & LA Riots QuickTime movies available

I have 2 sort-of-related QuickTime movies that I'm making available
*temporarily* via anonymous ftp.

The first is of George Holliday's home video of the Rodney King beating.
It runs about 1 min 15 seconds at a frame size of 200x118 at a frame
rate of 10fps. Uses Cinepak compression, 256 grayscale (it's not color,
so I'd suggest switching your monitor to display gray scales when
watching the movie). It has no audio track. It's about 3.3 Mb.

The second piece is called "LA '92" It's a QuickTime movie I put
together from clips of local news coverage during the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
I had left my VCR on for about 18 hours over the span of 3 days,
recording various local TV channels during most of the riot. Back in
October, I quickly scanned through the tapes, digitizing interesting
bits of video, and added a classical music sound track (Delibes'
Lakme - Viens, Mallika...Dome epais). Runs about 1 min 24 sec at a
frame size of 200x150. Uses the Cinepak video compression (16-bit color).
It has an 11 Khz audio track. It's about 5 Mb.

The movies are available via anonymous ftp *temporarily* from Netcom in the
directory /pub/jaimev. For space reasons, both files will be deleted
after Friday, Nov 10.

The Rodney King movie is broken into 3 binhex files: rodney_king_1.hqx,
rodney_king_2.hqx, and rodney_king_3.hqx. Unbinhex them and then use
Stuffit Lite to join the 3 segment files together to form the movie.

LA '92 is broken into 4 binhex files: la_92_1.hqx, la_92_2.hqx, la_92_3.hqx,
and la_92_4.hqx. Unbinhex them and then use Stuffit Lite to join
the 4 segment files together to form the movie.

Use any of the Netcom machines below to access the movies.

          netcom.com         192.100.81.100
          netcom2.netcom.com 192.100.81.108
          netcom3.netcom.com 192.100.81.103
          netcom4.netcom.com 192.100.81.107
          netcom5.netcom.com 192.100.81.113
          netcom6.netcom.com 192.100.81.114
          netcom7.netcom.com 192.100.81.115

- jaime villacorte                            Apathetic Surfers Association
[e-mail]                            "We don't care if we don't surf."

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

Date: Fri, 3 Dec 93 13:08:06 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Alex Rodella)
Subject: SetupPartitions (A)

FO> Quadra AV users will particularly appreciate SetupPartitions: in
FO> fact, it seems that the only driver exploiting the new awesome
FO> hardware capabilities of the AVs is the Apple one. So you want
FO> to format with Apple HD SC Setup. Since these days hard disks
FO> are pretty huge, you also want to partition. So you want
FO> SetupPartitions.

In Info-Mac Digest V11 #230 Jeffrey Fritz ([e-mail])
wrote:

>  My preference is to do a "hard" partition (creating
>  several logical partitions) as opposed to a soft
>  partition (a large file(s) that fools the Mac OS into
>  thinking that the drive is partitioned.) Does
>  SetupPartitions support hard partitioning?

Yes. SetupPartitions allows **hard** (as opposed to soft)
partitioning. You no more need Silverlining, HDT, or other third-party
formatters in order to "hard" partition your drive.
You still need Apple HD SC Setup, but since every Mac user can freely
obtain a copy of it, this is not a problem, of course.
I admit my blurb is not clear; I will mention the hard vs. soft issue
in the next release.

Fabrizio Oddone

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

Date: Thu, 2 Dec 93 11:53:20 EET
From: Sot.Mpantas - NTUA <[e-mail]>
Subject: Small dbase engine

Simple:
I am looking for a small database application, DA-like, that will perform
text searches in a given file of suitable format (tab-separated text,
CSV etc.).

Is there anything of this sort in the archives? Elsewhere?

Thanx.

Sotiris Bantas - Athens, Greece
*e-mail: [e-mail]



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

Date: Thu, 2 Dec 93 07:32:18 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: SNMP Agents Summary

A while back I posted I request for info on SNMP agents for the Mac.
Sadly, it does seem that the Mac does not have the corporate influence
that the PC does - while I found dozens of low cost Windows based agents,
there was only two leads on SNMP products for the Mac:

Thanks to Kee Nethery:

        WatchTower from InterCon Systems
        703-709-550 (US) or [e-mail]
        - around $2K, a full fledged agent

Thanks to Bill  Vilberg:

        NetWorks JR from Caravelle
        613-596-2802 (CA) or 800-363-5292 (US)
        - around $500, an SNMP monitor (traffic, collisions, addresses, etc.)

Both companies seem willing to send demos (I am waiting to receive).

If anyone else finds other products, please let me know.

Thanks,
paul waxman
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 14:31:19 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Norm Friedman)
Subject: Strange document

I find that I have "obtained" (how?) a document in Word 5.0 with the title
consisting of numbers, letters, symbols, etc.  When I am in Word and open
to view documents, this name does not appear as a readable file; but it
will open with all files.  It then opens to a blank page with notation of
"locked file".
I cannot seem to trash or get rid of this thing.  Keeps coming back like a
sore tooth.  Anyone know how it came about and How To Get Rid Of It??

Thanks to everyone in advance..
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 2 Dec 93 16:08:11 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Guy BRAND)
Subject: System 7 family flag

Hi,

I'm very fond of Macintosh since the beginning. This means also that I'm very
interested in modifying or implementing what is still missing to MacOS :
multi-
user features !

When Apple released System 7, I was wondering why they9ve added a family
Finder
flag and what applications could do with this flags. The only utility that I
know for using this flag is Auto Doubler from ??? this CDEV compresses files
automatically when they9ve not be modified since xx/xx/xx, except if you set
their family flag to something different from "none" and ask Auto-Doubler not
to
compress these 3flagged2 file !!! In my idea, Apple could have given this
family
flag an other sense in MacOS : owner9s protection. Used in conjunction with
AppleShare9s users, one could have expected a kind of 3local file sharing
system2 in which you could give read-write-execution priorities to
family/owner
3flagged2 files or folders. On setting a family/owner flag for a file or a
folder, the password entered in the 3User and Groups2 CDEV, could have been
asked to the user. Same of course when a user wants to open such a 3flagged2
file or folder from either the Finder or another applications. Even if an
application is not written to handle this flag, it should be able to ask the
Finder to check for it before processing any further.

My question is how can I know if such a project is already studied by Apple or
by a team of developpers ? Is there a released System planned including such
multi-user features ? Where to get these informations ? APDA ? Maybe here...

I'm not a developper and such a nice project goes too far for me !

Quite a similar question comes to my mind when I think about the coming
PowerPC
chips inside Macintoshes... is System 7 going to be fully multi-user ? Is
Apple's System 7 just going to be the File/Window Manager of a modified Unix
system like the one of Carnegie Mellon ? If System 7 is kept, I guess
multi-user features are going to be implemented, but where and how ? That's
not
so secret at all, but it's worthy ! Can you give some informations ?

Last question about System 7 family flag... in which struct does it appear ?

Thanks for any reply !
Regards,

Guy

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

Date: Thu, 2 Dec 93 11:56:38 EET
From: Sot.Mpantas - NTUA <[e-mail]>
Subject: Text-cruncher

I am looking for a fast _text-cruncher_ program, that will open
(large) text files(preferrably by drag'n'drop), and perform such tasks as
find/replace, line-sorting etc. on them.
General-purpose text editors won't do, because they usually display the
file in their text-edit window and that slows down find/replace processes
a lot. Instead, I am looking for something that works off-line on the file
and maybe displays a progress bar for the process.

Is there anything of this sort in the archives? Elsewhere?

Thanx.

Sotiris Bantas - Athens, Greece
*e-mail: [e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1993 13:47:08 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Upgrading a LC to use a SuperDrive

I have an old LC, I also have an old SE that I don't use. The SE has a
high density drive, while the LC has an 800K drive. I would like to transplant
the drive from the SE to the LC. Will this work? Do I need a ROM upgrade?
Is such a thing available???

I know, I know, this is, at best an obsolet configuration that I shouldn't be
wasting my time on anyway, but you gotta work with whatcha got!

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

Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 11:23:01 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Vinko Tsui [phone])
Subject: Using BOTH ethernet and AppleTalk

>I just bought an ethernet board to hook into
>our Vax mainframe - TCP/IP, FTP and all that.
>I just assumed that the board (and my software)
>would talk to the wire hanging out of the wall
>AND EVERYTHING ELSE would be the same.
>
>Not.
>
>In particular, I use AppleTalk to print stuff
>out on my own LaserWriter and to share a disk
>with my powerbook using AppleShare. I just assumed
>that my printer port would continue to talk to
>these other two machines (LW and PB) and
>Ethernet would talk to the "phoneline".
>
>Apparently, I could buy a bunch more hardware and
>cables to do everything in Ether - BUT I don't want
>to! Isn't there some way to make this work?
>
>Question:
>I understand that Apple and Farallon each have
>some sort of software solution that will solve my
>problem.  Will it?
>How much will it cost?
>Does anyone have any experience with this situation
>and can you give me any advice on how to choose
>between the two?
>
Al,

>From your discription, it sounds like you want to run AppleTalk via two
seperate medium, Ether and LocalTalk. This is not possible. Your Mac wants
to talk one form of AppleTalk at a time. It can either be EtherTalk or
LocalTalk. That's what you choose in your Network control panel.

As to the solutions from Apple and Farallon. I do not believe that Apple or
Farallon have any software solution that will allow for the above. There
are 3rd party devices that will allow LocalTalk printers be shared on a
EtherTalk network, that may be what you're looking for, for your printer.

As to your PowerBook, Apple definitely do not have a software solution to
your delima. Farallon on the other hand do have their new EtherWave
products that will offer one of many solutions. Farallon's EtherWave device
for the PowerBook will not be available until the end of the month. You
should look at other solutions to your PowerBook. Like the ones from
Asante, Dyna, Focus, etc., before deciding on Farallon's solution. Even
Farallon themself has alternatives to the EtherWave.

Be prepare to spend some time with this.

Good Luck!

-- Vinko

Vinko Enterprises, Oakville, Ontario, Canada, [phone],
[e-mail]
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., [phone], [e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1993 10:38:23 GMT
From: Dylan the Hippy Wabbit <[e-mail]>
Subject: Using BOTH ethernet and AppleTalk

Path: wheel!d_spacey
From: [e-mail] (Dylan the Hippy Wabbit)
Newsgroups: info-mac
Subject: RE:Using BOTH ethernet and AppleTalk
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 3 Dec 93 10:37:52 GMT
Organization: Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, UK
Lines: 20

Al Best recently wrote:-

>I just bought an ethernet board to hook into
>our Vax mainframe - TCP/IP, FTP and all that.

>In particular, I use AppleTalk to print stuff
>out on my own LaserWriter and to share a disk

If that's all you want ethernet for it's quite easy.  Telnet, which is free of
charge from the usual archives, will talk to the VAX down the ethernet card
even if the rest of the MAC is using the Appletalk port.  No extra anything
required.       :-)

That's how I'm using it, and also to talk to a VAX.

*HINT*  If any one at Apple is reading this, I'd like the ability to use both
networks to be in the next version of the system please.

        Dave Spacey

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

Date: Thu, 02 Dec 93 10:32:50 EST
From: Pete Tamas <[e-mail]>
Subject: Why one might save bitmap files as EPS

EPS files print more easily on imagesetters (those 1270/2540, etc.
dpi things that output on paper or film). Also, the EPS files can be
resized more accurately, even if the original was a bitmap (scanned
image). If you resize TIFF files at the wrong percentages, you may
get a moire pattern.-Pete Tamas
[e-mail] or TempleVM.bitnet
>
> From:         Brian Amira <[e-mail]>
>
> I have been using Color It! and PicturePress and have noticed that they
> both have EPS Options (Color It! Saying EPSF) and was wondering why I
> might want to save in EPS format. What does it come in handy for? I
> know why I might Print to a PostSript File useing the print driver,
> but why Save as EPS?
>
> --Brian
>
>

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Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 11:55:17 +0000 (GMT)
From: Mike Brudenell <[e-mail]>
Subject: X11R5 server(s) for the Macintosh (Q)

I have been having a play with the MacX 1.2 X server for the macintosh.
However it (at least, this version) is an X11R4 server, and we are
looking at moving our systems to X11R5.

Can anyone:

*  Say if they have heard any rumours of a future version of MacX supporting
   X11R5 in the not too distant future?

*  Tell me if there are any reasonable (price, speed, etc.) alternatives to
   MacX that are X11R5 servers?  (I have only heard of Exodus, and don't
   know whether it is X11R4 or X11R5)

Thanks in advance,

                                                Mike B-)
                                                University of York, UK

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