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Info-Mac Digest             Tue,  5 May 92       Volume 10 : Issue 113

Today's Topics:

      [*] Before Dark ppats (2 msgs)
      [*] info-mac/tech/adobe-premiere-developer.hqx
      [*] Light Cavalry theme
      [*] Mac->Win31 TTConverter 1.1
      [*] macbeth.1.cpt.hqx
      [*] MICN 1.3 - Menu Bar icons - Now a Control Panel (System 6 or 7 )
      [*] popup.1.cpt.hqx
      [*] Potbellied pig beep
      [*] Strip-Mac! v1.2 (/info-mac/game)
      [*] StuffIt Lite Public Beta.sea.hqx
      [*] tape-labeler40.sit.hqx
      [*] Think C commToolbox stuff
      [*] TidBITS#122/04-May-92
      [*] Total Recall Sounds Upload
      [*] William Tell Overture
      'Phoenix'(?) Postscript / Xante Accel-a-Writer
      3.5" External 19-pin floppy drive
      A file that can't be deleted
      Aladdin's SpaceSaver (C) (2 msgs)
      Alternatives to Just Click
      AOL and Internet -- FTP anytime?
      A plea for submissions <= 80 chars/line (C)
      Apple CD 150 - any reports/reviews?
      Appleshare 3.0 Problem (A)
      ASCII character input in Word 5.0
      Clip Art
      Color Monitor (Q)
      Converting Sound Files? (Q)
      DIGITAL CAMERA (A)
      Dividing land equally
      E-Mail From Internet to AOL? (A)
      EduCorp CD-ROM
      FileMaker Pro (Q)
      Hard Drive Recommendation (C)
      Jasmine Hard Drive Problem Identified
      LaserWriter IIg on Novell Network (A)
      LW IIg Quality
      Mac EKG II 2.0 (Q)
      MacKermit & Mac LCIIs
      MacMinix
      MacTCP (A)
      News servers with anonymous access
      PowerCache for faster macs (Q)
      Printing Banners
      Ray-tracing info (C)
      Reading NEWS from remote MAC
      Save as w/ label?
      Sokoban
      Spanish characters
      Spanish characters (A)
      Spanish characters, completed (a)
      System 7 Boot Floppy (Success!)
      Textures (Q)
      Word Perfect Questions (A)
      XTND clarification required (A)
      XY Graphing, EPS Art (Q)

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Date: Mon, 4 May 1992 13:53 CDT
From: "Dwight Lemke @ Wisconsin Oshkosh" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Before Dark ppats

This is a binhexxed file of ppat resources to add to Before Dark.
Nothing fancy--just quick and dirty.

-Dwight

[Archived as /info-mac/util/before-dark-ppats.hqx; 12K]

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Date: Mon, 4 May 1992 13:53 CDT
From: "Dwight Lemke @ Wisconsin Oshkosh" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Before Dark ppats

This is a binhexxed file of ppat resources to add to Before Dark.
Nothing fancy--just quick and dirty.

-Dwight

[Archived as /info-mac/util/before-dark-ppats.hqx; 12K]

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Date: Tue, 5 May 92 14:39 +1200
From: "Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University, Hamilton, NZ" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] info-mac/tech/adobe-premiere-developer.hqx

The following archive includes information and sample code (in MPW C
and assembler) for writing your own add-ons for Adobe Premiere. You can
create custom visual transition effects, video filters, and audio filters.

I found this originally posted on AppleLink by Randy Ubillos, author
of Premiere.

Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University, Hamilton, New Zealand.
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/source/c/adobe-premiere-developer.hqx; 36K]

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Date: Mon, 4 May 1992 01:01 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Light Cavalry theme

Greetings,
  Thanks to all who responded to my recent postings.  Here's more classical beeps as promised.  This is the theme from Franz von Suppe's Light Cavalry Overture.  Enjoy!
_______*Matt Cable*______
|[e-mail]|

[Archived as /info-mac/sound/light-cavalry-overture.hqx; 211K]

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Date: Mon, 4 May 1992 7:18:42 -0500 (CDT)
From: [e-mail] (Geochemical & Environmental Research Group)
Subject: [*] Mac->Win31 TTConverter 1.1

(NOTE: I submitted this last week -- 04/28 -- but it may have
 been thought to be another copy of the 1.0.1 which was put in
 the archives on that day.)

Here is version 1.1 of TTConverter, a shareware utility for
converting Mac TrueType fonts to Windows 3.1 TT font files and
back. (Downloaded from America Online, see readme included).
This version adds the ability to convert an entire Mac suitcase
of TT fonts to Win31 files, as well as the ability to put the
converted Win31 files into a Mac suitcase.
Don't know how well it works yet since nobody I know has wanted
to spend the $50 to upgrade to Win31.

Dave Martin

[Archived as /info-mac/util/tt-converter-11.hqx; 19K]

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Date: Mon, 4 May 92 06:33:49 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Mark Edward Zimmerman)
Subject: [*] macbeth.1.cpt.hqx

appended below is a compact'd binhex'd HC2 stack, Macbeth v.1.0, containing
the full text of Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth, as proofread against the
out-of-copyright 1911 Globe edition -- free software under GNU GPL -- ^z

[Archived as /info-mac/card/mac-beth-10.hqx; 86K]

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Date: Tue, 05 May 92 13:47:19 EST
From: Murph Sewall <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] MICN 1.3 - Menu Bar icons - Now a Control Panel (System 6 or 7 )

MICN: Version 1.3. This is a clever CDEV (formerly an extension) that
displays the names for File, Edit, Font, Help (and more) in the menu as
icons, which conserves menubar space. System 7 compatible.  The READ ME
file appears to be for an earlier (INIT) version; hence, it's confusing!
The cdev also installs set OFF (you have to turn it on in the Control
Panel).  You can select icons for other menu items (a telephone for
"Logon" in a commware menu, for example), but you must restart to see
the effect.  Downloaded from the Stellar Sabre BBS in Coventry
Connecticut, [phone], which got it from AOL.

[Archived as /info-mac/cp/menu-icons-micn-13.hqx; 15K]

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Date: Mon, 4 May 92 06:35:17 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Mark Edward Zimmerman)
Subject: [*] popup.1.cpt.hqx

appended below is the binhex'd compact'd HC2 stack "pop-up note stack 1.0",
which provides scripts and buttons and documentation on how to easily add
pop-up note fields to a reference stack (such as a Shakespeare play or
whatever) ... free software, under GNU GPL ... ^z

[Archived as /info-mac/card/pop-up-note-10.hqx; 13K]

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Date: Mon, 4 May 92 19:41:08 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Mark Hayes)
Subject: [*] Potbellied pig beep

DEAR MODERATORS:

I have just been informed that my recent submission, archived as
/info-mac/sound/pot-bellied-pig-grunt.hqx, is corrupt. Please replace
it with the following. Sorry for the inconvenience.
 ------------------------------------------------------------

Here is a System 7 sound file containing a recording of a single
grunt from my pet pot-bellied pig. It is compact yet robust, just
like him! Makes an excellent alert sound. If you do use this, I'd
appreciate hearing from you. Enjoy!

[Archived as /info-mac/sound/pot-bellied-pig-grunt.hqx; 6K]

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Date: Tue, 5 May 1992 10:25 +8:00
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Strip-Mac! v1.2 (/info-mac/game)

This is version 1.2 of Strip-Mac! -- a slightly risque computer-moderated
card game for two or more adult players.

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

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

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.2
The program now provides the option of having randomly generated 'virtual'
opponents to play against.

Various pictures throughout the game can be censored to remove any depictions
of female nudity. The game is now shipped with this option enabled. It can be
disabled using the Game Options dialog.

A preferences file now exists in order to retain all 'Game Options' settings
between games.

There was a spurious call to 'FrameRect()' within the routine that displayed
cards. This has been removed.

Various other minor changes and enhancements.

[Archived as /info-mac/game/strip-mac-12.hqx; 378K]

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Date: Tue, 5 May 92 00:12:17 EDT
From: Leonard Rosenthol <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] StuffIt Lite Public Beta.sea.hqx

StuffIt Lite 3.0 will ship later this year as the upgrade to StuffIt
Classic 1.6, our current shareware compression product.  Many of our users
have expressed an interest in seeing StuffIt Lite prior to shipping.
Attached is a public beta release of the StuffIt Lite 3.0 application and
some of the extras that will ship with StuffIt Lite 3.0. This package
contains, for the first time, a Compact Pro(tm) Translator.  UserLand
Frontier users will be especially interested in the StuffIt verb table
included in this package.

Please read the enclosed "Read Me" file (in MacWrite 5.0 format) before
attempting to run the StuffIt Lite 3.0 application.  It contains important
information about installing the pieces of this package.  Have Fun!

This package is being distributed by Aladdin Systems, Inc. and Raymond
Lau.  This package must be distributed in its entirety.

[Archived as /info-mac/util/stuffit-lite-30b.hqx; 479K]

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Date: Sun, 3 May 92 13:19:24 CDT
From: Jonathan Simon <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] tape-labeler40.sit.hqx

I sent this same file to you yesterday, but the documentation included in
it had the wrong filetype and so was unreadable without TeachText.
This version is identical except the documentation is now of type TEXT
and so can be read by any word processor. Sorry for the mistake.

Jonathan Simon

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

                            TAPE LABELER 4.0

                           Jonathan Z. Simon
                             (c)1988-1992

Tape Labeler makes labels that take the place of the cardboard inserts
that come with cassette tapes. The labels it makes are quite pretty,
especially compared with those made the usual way of filling out the
insert by hand.

Version 4.0 is a large step upward from previous versions. It should
work on all Macintoshes (except the ancient Mac 512K's or older), and
is compatible with any system in common use for the last several
years, including System 7.0. If you have an older version, please
delete it before installing the new version (this version can read all
old formats).

Send bugs and e-mail to: [e-mail]

---

[Archived as /info-mac/app/tape-labeler-40.hqx; 97K]

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Date: Sun, 3 May 92 20:56:01 EDT
From: [e-mail] (R.E. Wilhelm )
Subject: [*] Think C commToolbox stuff

Dear Moderators,
   This archive contains the source code for a program called Surfer,
which is a demo of the Macintosh Communications Toolbox. Also included
are some libraries and interfaces that work with Think C 4.0(Think c 5
include these files). The program compiles under Think C 4.0. I'm not
smart enough to get it to work under version 5.0:) but I'm sure it can
be done. Enjoy.

Surfer was originally a Pascal program release by Mac DTS for MPW
Pascal.

Ron Wilhelm
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/source/c/surfer.hqx; 51K]

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Date: Mon, 4 May 92 22:09:14 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: [*] TidBITS#122/04-May-92

TidBITS#122/04-May-92
=====================

 This week's opinions include an article on computer-based racism
   and a tale of emulator woe. We also have lots of useful
   information bits including more details about the newest
   StyleWriter driver, why Apple didn't just patch the System for
   he disappearing file bug fix, the codes to help Virex correctly
   identify CODE 252, a note on how Inspiration stacks up to MORE,
   how to install penguins in your Mac, and updates for several
   of CE's products.

Topics:
    MailBITS/04-May-92
    Inspiration Corroboration
    Virex Corrected
    StyleWriter Update
    Tune-Up Rationale
    CompuBigotry
    Berkeley Announces Winners
    In Search of Stickybear
    Reviews/04-May-92

[Archived as /info-mac/digest/tb/tidbits-122.etx; 28K]

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Date: Sun, 3 May 92 13:43 EST
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Total Recall Sounds Upload

v7A\>>>>>>)c?*?*?*?*
?Y@9@9H@x?*@o AA2*A\>Dear Info-Mac moderators,
        Please place this in the Sound directory.

This one is for all you sound buffs out there on Internet.  It contains the foll
owing sounds from Totall Recall:

"What about the guy you labotamized, did he get a refund?"
"You make me wish I had three hands."
"Get ready for a surprise!"
"You blew my cover!"
If you like these drop me a line and I'll send a few more.

[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/sound/total-recall-grp-1.hqx; 132K]

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Date: Mon, 4 May 1992 01:15 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] William Tell Overture

Greetings,
  Thanks to all who responded to my recent postings.  Here's more classical beeps as promised.  This is my favorite part (being a trombone major) of the William Tell Overture: the trombone soli.  Enjoy!  As school is ending these will be my last postings until next fall.  Have a great summer, and I'll be back next year from my new academic home, Tufts University.  Good-Bye!
_______*Matt Cable*______
|[e-mail]|

[Archived as /info-mac/sound/william-tell-overture.hqx; 309K]

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Date: Tue, 5 May 92 11:21:29 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Robert O'Brien)
Subject: 'Phoenix'(?) Postscript / Xante Accel-a-Writer

I've had a call from a friend/co-worker to whom I've explained the
value of Info-Mac.

He asked me to inquire about experiences with the Accel-a-Writer,
which is an enhancement board for LaserWriters.  It enhances the
resolution (up to 850 dpi, I believe) and also considerably speeds up
processing, according to Xante advertising, with a RISC processor.

Dave's understanding is that it uses a clone Postscript, possibly
called Phoenix, and that is where the concerns are.  Does anyone have
experience with the level of compatibility of Phoenix 'Postscript'
either in an Accel-a-writer or otherwise?  If we're wrong about it
being Phoenix, please correct me, as well.

Please respond directly to me - if there is enough interest, I will
summarize for the net.

                Bo'b
                Bob O'Brien
                [e-mail]

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Date: 5 May 92 16:17:00 EDT
From: "DRCV06::OPER1" <[e-mail]>
Subject: 3.5" External 19-pin floppy drive

I have a MAC II with an internal 3.5 and an external 5.25" floppy
drive(Apple PC 5.25 Drive - s/n:H709590) which is connected to a
"Macintosh II PC Drive Card".  I would like to connect an external
3.5" drive(Apple 3.5 Drive - p/n:825-1304-A) to the MAC II.
The external 3.5" is of the 19-pin variety (MAC Plus type connector)
There is no 19 pin connector on a MAC II.
Is there any way I can connect this drive to the MAC II

Glenn Andrews          | [e-mail]  (Arpanet)

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Date: Tue, 5 May 92 12:24:30 -0400
From: [e-mail] (C.-T. Chou)
Subject: A file that can't be deleted

I have a file, namely Disinfectant 2.5.1, that just refuses to be
deleted. It is not locked. If I put it in the trash can and
select "empty trash", nothing would happen. No warning, nor any error
messages. It would simply stay in the trash can (enjoying that
environment?). If I put a bunch of files along with Disinfectant
2.5.1 in the trash and select "empty trash", only disinfectant would
be left in the trash can. If I copy it to another disk, the copy can
be deleted without problems but if I try to replace the original
with the copy, I would get an error message saying the file is
locked even though it is not. Any help? I am running System 7.0 on a
IIcx.

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Date: Tue, 5 May 92 08:51:20 -0400
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Aladdin's SpaceSaver (C)

In 10-112, Reverend John reports that Aladdin claims as a SpaceSaver
feature:

>* SS knows to decompress files you're sending over the modem, while AD
>  doesn't

I'd view that as a bug rather than a feature! One of the purposes for
compressing a file is to save time (and money) in transfers; I wouldn't
want a compressed file decompressed for a modem transfer. If a machine
receives an AD-compressed file via modem and doesn't have AD installed, the
file appears as a DD-compressed file and can be decompressed with the free,
publicly-available decompressors for DD. If AD is installed, no problem at
all--and no need to decompress.

Jeff Needleman

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Date: Tue, 5 May 92 14:25:26 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Mel Martinez x8378)
Subject: Aladdin's SpaceSaver (C)

Reverend John provides a useful and ptentially informative post providing info
on Aladdin's SpaceSaver compression software which, when it ships, may or may
not prove to be a useful product for some users.

However, in the information Aladdin provided him, there are a couple of points
that are wrong and seem like attempts at misinformation tactics from Aladdin
which surprises me since my experience has been that they are a fine company
with great products that don't need that kind of thing.

Specifically:

>* SS knows to decompress files you're sending over the modem, while AD
>  doesn't (according to Aladdin..I haven't used AD)

Not true.  Any program that reads and writes files in a normal fashion will see
AD-compressed files as normal files.  That includes all the communications
programs that I am familiar with.  When they open a file to read from and
transmit, AD automatically decompresses.  I have done this dozens of times
myself.  While SS may do this as well, why does Aladdin claim that AD doesn't?

>* SS is "more flexible" in letting you decide what to compress.

How much 'more flexible' do they mean?  I can specificy exactly which files I
do or don't want compressed with AD.  I can select whole folders or specific
files.  I can specify how long to wait after a file is made or changed.  I
must be missing something.

The other two features cited of Idle time compression and speed claims don't
seem particularly diferent from AD.

Finally, this is a preference thing.  The posting goes on to describe how SS
and Stuffit will work together.  That is fine, as they should.  But once again,
ala SuperDisk, the techniques involve putting filename suffixes such as '.ss'
on the file to automatically activate compression.  Is it just me, or wasn't
the whole idea of the Mac's brilliant FILE/CREATOR specifiers to get away from
that kind of idiocy?  I do NOT like the idea of surrendering 3 to 4 charcters
out of my 32 character limit in a file name just because some program is too
dumb to distinguish files some other way.  Why not use a menu command?  If you
don't want to compress now, but want to compress later, the menu cammand can,
instead of changing the name of the file, just put a new resource in the files
resource fork that the program can scan for later.  It is not hard.  The
resouce would be a flag saying: 'HEY! Compress me!"  Conversely, they could
just do it the nice slick way that AD works by simply intercepting calls to the
File Manager,(basically replacing it) and providing programs an invisible
interface for disk access.  But then again, AD already did it that way didn't
they?  And it is shipping.  Filename suffixes are great for those who love
PC-DOS, VMS and other operating systems of the ancient world.  This is the Mac.
Presumably we can do things differently in the modern age.

Whoops!  The 'digest-postings-should-be-three-sentences-long' police are gonna
be mad at me again! :)

Mel Martinez
The Johns Hopkins University
Dept. of Physics

Disclaimer: These opinions are mine as a I write them.  Subject to change...

Well, when SS ships, I am sure someone will do

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Date: Tue, 05 May 92 10:34:18 EST
From: Murph Sewall <[e-mail]>
Subject: Alternatives to Just Click

On Sun, 3 May 92 22:06:28 PDT you said:
>I have grown very dependent upon the utility, Just Click, which allows one
>to move between open applications under System 7 the way one did under
>6.0X.  However, I seem to have discovered a conflict between it and
>SuperLaserSpool...

There are two alternatives to Just Click (both free :)

/info-mac/cp/apollo-08b2.hqx allows you to define any keystroke to
switch applications (I use the otherwise unhelpful power-on key) or to
switch while hiding (I use option-power).  It's under Apollo's
Preferences menu.

Actually, I rarely use that feature (even though I have it defined) as I
really like /info-mac/util/applicon-22.hqx.  It allows you to place
icons (or small icons) of open applications anywhere you like on the
screen (I prefer across the very bottom from the left edge).  You can
even tell Applicon to "hide" ones you don't want (such as Applicon's own
icon).  With Applicon, you don't need to rotate through current apps,
you can simply click the one you want (VERY nice).  If you hold down the
option key while clicking, the windows of the app you're leaving hide.

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Date: 5 May 92 09:44:00 EST
From: "IMVS9::JDANANBERG" <[e-mail]>
Subject: AOL and Internet -- FTP anytime?

Now that there is an internet mail connection to AOL, I wonder if they will run
an ftp process so that users (those already paid subscribers) can log into AOL
and transfer files at a better than (modem) snail pace. Anyone at AOL willing to
commit to this?

[e-mail]   or [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 5 May 92 09:08:44 -0400
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <[e-mail]>
Subject: A plea for submissions <= 80 chars/line (C)

In 10-112, Jerry Wolf complains about Info-Mac posts going more than 80
characters per line. I agree with him--but I'm puzzled.  I've had
submissions to info-mac rejected automatically BECAUSE more than 80
characters appeared on a line. Why doesn't the software catch and reject
all such instances?

Jerry might be seeing a result of transmission errors in the various paths
between sumex and his machine. I know that my own rejected messages all
were properly formatted to the right length by Eudora software
automatically when I sent the message. But in the transmission, a carriage
return or two was lost, resulting in line lengths over 80 characters when
the file was received. The few times this happened a resending of the
original file with no changes by me got through fine, so I don't blame
Eudora. With several other stopping points along the way, by the time
INFO-MAC reaches us there are a lot of opportunities for carriage returns
to be omitted in the transmission. If this happens often to you, just
download directly from sumex by ftp; that's an error correcting protocol
method, of course, so you'll get a clean copy--which isn't guaranteed by
the listserv approach, apparently.

Jeff Needleman


[I try to catch submissions with lines longer than 80 chars, but I don't
 have software to do it automatically. It's harder because my terminal
 automatically wraps. -Bill]

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Date: Mon, 4 May 92 15:10:39 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Robert O'Brien)
Subject: Apple CD 150 - any reports/reviews?

Does anyone on the net have experience with the AppleCD 150?

Or could you even point me to where I might find reviews of same?

I believe this is a very recent incarnation of the Apple CD-ROM drive,
and would be interested to know how it compares in the marketplace.
As I understood it the original Apple CD SC was a turkey, and the
"plus" a serious improvement, but I dont recall reading about the 150.

As a certified developer (now "Associate") I have the full set of
Developer CD-ROMs from Apple, but have not had the $$ to get a drive.
Things are looking up in my $$ department, plus now there's an offer
through the Lockheed Management Association and the retail chain known
as CompUSA (recently mentioned in Info-Mac) through which I can
purchase the AppleCD 150 for $450.32 "out-the-door".  And the physical
location of CompUSA's nearest door (Laurence Expressway and El Camino
Real, Santa Clara) is reasonably convenient.

                Bo'b
                Bob O'Brien
                [e-mail]

*** My developer activities as recognized by Apple are not an official
*** function of my job at Lockheed, but it sure doesen't hurt!

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Date: Tue, 5 May 1992 14:26 CDT
From: Adrian Irish <[e-mail]>
Subject: Appleshare 3.0 Problem (A)

>AppleShare 3.0 keeps randomly marking users as "Login Disabled." Is this a bug
>or an undocumented security feature?

I haven't seen any other replies to this so I'll see if this could possibly
be causing the problem.  One of the options under the "File Server Prefs"
command in the Appleshare Admin progam is a check box labeled
"Number of Failed Login Attempts Before Login Disabled".  If this option is
checked and a value entered, Appleshare will actually disable a users account
if they fail to enter the correct password in the specified number of tries.

This is not much help for us, since we have *many* clients who have trouble
remembering their password.  I have not heard of any other bugs or "features"
which might be causing this problem, so I hope this helps.

Adrian Irish, Senior Analyst/Programmer
Baylor University

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Date: Tue, 5 May 92 08:32:09 -0400
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <[e-mail]>
Subject: ASCII character input in Word 5.0

J. R. Valentine was kind enough to post a new version of Ascii/Font Peek to
the archives (mentioned in 10-112), which has a shareware fee of $15.

Word 5.0 owners have no need for this program nor for similar ones such as
PopChar. The new version of Word includes an ASCII table that not only
displays all the characters for every font, but gives the ASCII number, the
keystrokes needed to access it--and even inserts the character by a mouse
click (just like PopChar). (That's especially useful for characters that
have no keystroke equivalent.) You can access this feature through the
Symbol command in the Insert menu. (The old method of inserting ASCII
characters is still maintained in Word 5.0 as well.)

I've seen several users of Word 5.0 still using PopChar, so thought I
should pass this little tip along.

Jeff Needleman

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Date: 5 May 92 12:12:44 U
From: "Tom Scott" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Clip Art

                       Subject:
                       Clip Art
I was wondering if you can tell me where I can find clipart?
I need all kinds of pictures to cut and paste in publications.
Shareware or Freeware please.  Can you help me?
 --------------------
If you have FTP access, most of the sites I know of have a "directory/folder"
of art files, some clip art, some startup screens, some GIF images.  Try
info-mac/art at the sumex archive.


 From the desk of:
Tom Scott

 Cornell University

 Carpenter Hall Annex
 Phone: [phone]
 [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 04 May 92 18:40:37 CDT
From: Graeme Forbes <[e-mail]>
Subject: Color Monitor (Q)

In view of tax refunds and other unexpected manna from heaven, I am
almost resolved to indulge myself by retiring my Apple Portrait (i.e
full page) Display and buying a color monitor to replace it. I would
appreciate netters' advice and responses to any of the following
questions.

(1) The safe and simple solution is to buy the Apple 16", currently
$1105 here with ed discount. However, I have become used to seeing
a full page of text on my PD. (a) Would I lose much height in switching to
the 16"? The campus store doesn't have a sample to check out. Secondly,
the typically insufficiently informative review in the current or previous
MacWorld noted that scrolling in 8-bit with this monitor (8 bit is all I
want) is slower than scrolling in 24 bit (on a Quadra) because of the
mapping of however many colors to 256 that's needed. I assume this means
*only* that if you have 2 meg of VRAM on a Quadra, and set the monitor
to 8 bit, you get slow scrolling, so if you have just 1 meg or .5 meg,
scrolling would be at least as quick as 24 bit with 2 megs of VRAM. (b) Am
I right? Lastly, the monitor does 8 bit color with either .5 meg or 1 meg
of VRAM. (c) Would performance be better with 1 meg?

(2) I can't afford a bigger monitor from Apple, but could go third-party.
Some manufacturers claim to have "seventeen inch" monitors where others
claim only 16". I assume that "17" refers to the size of the tube and
"16" to the size of the active display area. On the other hand, a picture
in an ad for the NEC Multisync 17" appears to show *no* black border
around the active display (maybe this is only if hooked to a PC?). Is
"seventeen inch" just misleading, or do you actually get a bigger
active display area?

(c)  Question 1a would be moot if I bought a 19" third party monitor,
but these all seem to be out of my range, *except* the Raster Ops 19"
Hitachi which at $1600 I could almost afford. That price is about $1000
less than other similar-sized monitors except Supermac's 19" Supermatch.
Does anyone have any experience with these "cheap" 19" monitors, or of
the 2 companies offering the prices I'm quoting, Mac News and CompuD
respectively?

Thanks in advance for any help. I will summarize replies that don't go to
the digest.

Graeme Forbes

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

Date: Tue, 5 May 92 16:38:40 EDT
From: Ben Rosen <[e-mail]>
Subject: Converting Sound Files? (Q)

I have the simple need to extract just the 'time series' part or
sample values of a sound file which I would like to port over to a Sun
Sparcstation to do a little more sophisticated signal processing (at
least more sophisticated than found in most sound manipulation
programs on the Mac).  The exact nature of sound is not that
important: either sounds recorded with a microphone on a Quadra or
some canned sounds (but>uncompressed) will do. The preferred output
can either be 8-bit or 16-bit signed integers or if necessary ASCII.
Please respond with any info that you might have.  Thanks.

Ben Rosen
Atlantic Aerospace Electronics Corp
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 05 May 92 08:57:29 EDT
From: SDIA000 <[e-mail]>
Subject: DIGITAL CAMERA (A)

The Canon electronic camera is first of all not a digital camera at all.
It is an example of what many companies are offering which is a still-
video camera. It records still frames or fields of analog video on a
2x2 floppy disc. The Cannon system comes with an interface box which
does connect to the SCCI port on a Mac. The PC version comes with a card
which needs to be installed into the computer. Ther is one (affordable)
digital camera which is made by Lexicon (I think). Kodak/Nikon have also
introduced a true digital system but it is in the $20,000 price range.

Stan Diamond
St. Lawrence Univ.
[phone]
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 4 May 92 15:13:24 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Steve Hunter 423-2219)
Subject: Dividing land equally

    Does anyone know of a program that will allow one to take an
arbitrary shape, in this case a piece of real property, and divide it into
several equal area pieces? My family has to divide a a ranch into 3 pieces.
Some pieces may be smaller than others, but we need to know the area of each
piece. The pieces will probably not be simple shapes due to the topography.

    Steven Hunter
    Seismic Observatory
    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    [e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 5 May 1992 02:03:28 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Erik A. Johnson)
Subject: E-Mail From Internet to AOL? (A)

[e-mail] writes:
>In comp.sys.mac.digest, Jeff Needleman wrote:
>>In 10-108, David Van Nuys asks how to send e-mail from the Internet to AOL.
>>There's no way to do that at present. But AOL is now testing its gateway to
>>the Internet and should make it available in the next few months. (Source
>>for this info is scuttlebutt on AOL and the latest issue of MacWeek.)
>
>However, I just saw a posting from a [e-mail], so I would imagine
>that when they are all hooked up, that will be how. :)

AOL has some sort of computer on the internet side of the future gateway
and is, I believe, aol.com

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Date: Tue, 5 May 1992 01:59:00 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Jones, Leslie Lamont)
Subject: EduCorp CD-ROM

     Several people have requested information about sources of clipart and
educational shareware. I would suggest the latest version of the EduCorp
CD-ROM. It contains ~770 Mb of public domain, freeware, and shareware
software. EduCorp also sells floppy disk sets of software, but buying
the both CD-ROMs is by far the cheapest way to go.
     My school, UT Knoxville (you know-the Vols), has the EduCorp collection
on a networked CD drive. Check your local university, or call EduCorp at
1-800-843-9497.
Leslie Jones
Maryville, TN
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 5 May 92 17:07 CST
From: Andy Kesling <[e-mail]>
Subject: FileMaker Pro (Q)

Can anyone point me to instructions on how to do a lookup within a data base
(as opposed to looking up information in another data base)? I understand that
this can be done, but I can find no documentation on how.

Thanks,
Andy Kesling

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

Date: Mon, 04 May 92 18:25:06 CDT
From: Graeme Forbes <[e-mail]>
Subject: Hard Drive Recommendation (C)

The new line of large Fujitsu drives from MacDirect were well-reviewed
in the May MacWorld for their price-per-meg/speed ratios. Current
MacWeek price is $1128 for the internal 330 and $1098 for the internal
425meg - better ask MacDirect about that one! 800-621-8462, I've used them
before and have no complaints.

Graeme Forbes

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

Date: Tuesday, 5 May 1992 9:42am CT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Jasmine Hard Drive Problem Identified

Thanks to all who wrote me suggesting various ways of saving my dead Jas-
mine hard drive.  One of the people recommended a company called DriveSav-
ers, and here is what one of their (courteous) reps told me.

The Jasmine DriveWare experiences major problems running with systems
larger than 6.0.4 (I know that the rep was wrong about this because I have
been running 6.0.5 for an extended period of time).  The installation of
6.0.8 caused damaging corruption to occur (This occurred even though I in-
stalled it on a SUM partition).  There were two solutions: to pay a sub-
stantial lump of change for binary recovery, or re-format.  I chose the
latter, and am now sadder, but wiser.

Thus, all Jasmine hd users should avoid upgrading past 6.0.4/6.0.5 if you are
using the Jasmine DriveWare.  DriveSavers offers a piece of software that all-
ows one to upgrade safely.

Gene Hahn

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

Date: Tue, 5 May 92 09:57:36 PDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: LaserWriter IIg on Novell Network (A)

Your Netware people are taking the wrong approach. The last thing
you want to do is use the serial port on the IIg (or any laser
printer for that matter) because it will cause a major throughput
bottleneck.

There are two good ways to connect the IIg to the network so that it
can be used by both Macs and PCs.

1. The IIg has built-in ethernet, so just get the appropriate
transceiver from your dealer for the type of wire you use. Then
install Netware Mac 3.01 on the server (read the docs for more
details).

2. Install a Dayna DL2000 LocalTalk card in the server and put the
IIg on the LocalTalk segment. Again, Netware Mac must be installed.

If all your Macs have ethernet cards, then there is no need to go
with the DL2000, but if your Macs are on LocalTalk, then the DL2000
is needed. However, it is perfectly fine to have the Macs on the
LocalTalk segment and the printer on ethernet. Netware makes all the
connections so it all appears transparent to the user.

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

Date: 5 May 92 15:51:00 EST
From: "GINBOX::"Doug_Wilson-2141_EMail"" <"Doug_Wilson-2141_EMail"[e-mail]>
Subject: LW IIg Quality

 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date:    Tue, May 5, 1992 @ 1:47:03 PM
Re:      LW IIg Quality
Jay ,
You are asking a very subjective question. I found that scanned images
(grey-scale) were unexceptable when printed with a LW II. They are MUCH better
on a IIg. I believed that they were acceptable for inclusion in Tech Memo
quality reports. Whether the improvement is enough to make them acceptable for
your needs is something only you could decide,however.
Maybe you should try printing out a sample file. I would be happy to help.

Doug Wilson <[e-mail]>

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

Date: Tue, 5 May 1992 11:17:55 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Wade Williams)
Subject: Mac EKG II 2.0 (Q)

We've just purchased Mac EKG II 2.0 from MicroMat Computer Systems.
This software preforms hardware diagnostic tests.

It tests:
1)  Logic tests including:
    - Direct floating point addition, subtraction and multiplication
    - Floating point addition, subtraction, mult, and div through
complex      function calls
    - Floating point addition, subtraction, mult, and div through an
if/else loop
    - Direct integer addition, subtraction and multiplication
    - Trigonometric function loop
    - Proportional floating point math test through complex function
calls
    - Array indexing loop
    - Log, exponent, and square root loop
2)  PRAM
3)  RAM (except the portion occupied by System software)
4)  the VIA1 chip
5)  the VIA2 chip
6)  the Zilog SCC chip
7)  the SCSI chip
8)  the Apple sound chip (just plays a sound to be sure it works,
does not actually test the chip)
9)  SCSI device read tests
10)  Video

With most of these chip tests, it uses a "bit rotation test" which is
a 100-step test which repeatedly sends bits to the chip and reads
them back for verification.

I'd consider myself a very sophisticated user, but my knowledge
pretty much stops at the hardware level.

So, I ask of those with more technical knowledge:
1)  How valid are these tests?
2)  Does this test enough of the Macintosh circutry (i.e. the most
important parts)?  Or, is it only testing 10% of the circutry,
leaving a million other possible culprits open?
3)  If you've had any experience with this product, what are your
observations?
4)  If you're not an Apple service center, these are the only
diagnostics available to you.  Are they worth the $130?

Any comments/observations are welcomed.

Wade Williams
[e-mail]

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

Date: 5 May 92 11:41:38 cst
From: ECKARDPP/[e-mail]
Subject: MacKermit & Mac LCIIs

Does anyone out there have a stable version of Kermit that works on Mac
LC II's? I have tried versions .99(.4#) and .99(6#) and every time I
quit Kermit I get a diaslog box that says ...Trouble with RAM serial
Driver.... and I click OK.  Sometimes when I shut down a Mac LC I also
get a error message from Kermit.  Also random crashes.
I looked at Kermit version .99(99)BETA but have had other problems with
it.  If there is not a stable version of MacKermit out there are there
any suggestions?  I know about MicroPhone which is an EXCELLENT product
but we don't have the $$$.  Thanks for any help.
--Chip Eckardt, Computing & Networking Services
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

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

Date: Tue, 5 MAY 92 08:37:52 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: MacMinix

Has anyone had any experience of this product.  I'm thinking of purchasing
it to help in a course for secondary (ie High school) students to deal with
bits of operating systems which are not easy to do on the Mac.

Peter Lennon

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

Date: Tue, 5 May 92 08:44:31 -0400
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <[e-mail]>
Subject: MacTCP (A)

In 10-112, Mike Post asks how to obtain MacTCP.

You can get it from the APDA for $100; for more information, go to the APDA
price list on ftp.apple.com.

Or you can get it for free. It's not legal to distribute MacTCP by itself,
but it may be distributed as part of a software package that uses it.  One
such package is Eudora, which includes the latest MacTCP 1.1. Get it by
anonymous ftp to ftp.cso.uiuc.edu. Note that you will not see a separate
listing for MacTCP--you must download the Eudora package itself; MacTCP is
included within as a file.

Jeff Needleman

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

Date: Tue, 5 May 92 08:36:51 -0400
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <[e-mail]>
Subject: News servers with anonymous access

In 10-112, the description of the news server program Nuntius is
accompanied by the line

>users must have their Macs registered with their local NNTP server before
>Nuntius will do them any good,

sol.ctr.columbia.edu (128.59.64.40) serves any computer that contacts it
over the net, even unregistered Macs like mine.

Does anyone know of other such anonymous NNTP servers?

Jeff Needleman

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

Date: 5 May 92 15:17:00 EDT
From: Bob (R.B.) Summers <[e-mail]>
Subject: PowerCache for faster macs (Q)

With all the good words about PowerCaches boosting performance of Mac
LC models, I have a question about how they work with faster machines.
Is it a case of diminishing returns?

According to one happy user, adding a 33MHz PowerCache brought an LC
to 'about 85% of the speed of a IIfx'.

If you add the same 33MHz PowerCache to a IIsi or IIci (which are
already clocked at 20MHz and 25MHz to begin with) do you:
    a) still approach 85% of the speed of a IIfx, or
    b) go above and beyond?

You already pay a decent price to get the speed of a IIsi or IIci, so
is the extra expense of a PowerCache worth it for these machines?

My experience with DayStar's 'lowly' FastCache on IIci is positive; it
can increase throughput by over 25%.  In my case, reading a text file,
processing it and writing out a new file took 7 minutes on a stock
IIci and 5 minutes with a FastCache running.  However, the FastCache
is a lot cheaper.

I've never really understood the difference among Apple's built-in RAM
cache (or is that DISK cache?), simple RAM cache cards (ala
FastCache), PowerCaches, and Accelerators.  I understand that
there is a 'optimal' control panel cache setting depending of the
memory installed (32k per Meg??).

As a slightly side issue, I'm pleased with the speed of my IIsi, but I
do find the screen refresh a little slow with color turned on.  I have
5 Meg of RAM which I think is shared with the screen as well.

This is my first net submission.  Thanks to all you good folk, those
with the questions as well as those with the answers.  I learn a lot
>From Info-Mac.

Bob Summers      [e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 4 May 92 15:53:18 PDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Printing Banners

I can suggest three programs:

1. Bannermania from Broderbund. Awesome stuff!

2. BannerMaker, shareware. It should be in one of the archives.
   If not, let me know and I'll upload it.

3. ImageWriter Banner from Adobe. It came with ATM at one time.

I can't vouch for the compatibility of any of these with System 7.
The last one I used was BannerMaker under System 6. I bought
Bannermania recently based on the print samples and it claims
complete compatibility. When I have time, I'll make some banners for
our labs with it and find out first hand how well it works.

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

Date: Tue, 5 May 1992 10:13:31 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Bruce Kahn)
Subject: Ray-tracing info (C)

  I missed Phil Ryan's question but judging from Graeme Forbes's response he
was asking about available raytracers for the Mac.  Along w/several of the
commercial ones (which I assume Graeme was refering to) there are also several
PD or Shareware ones available from around the Internet or from places like
Educorp.  I dont know where Phil is but Im sure he can reach the authors of the
Mac version of DBWRender or check out RayShade 4.0.  The Mac author of
DBWRender can be reached at [e-mail].  Check w/Archie about
finding RayShade 4.0 or some other PD renderer.

Bruce
----
Bruce <I-wont-give-my-middle-initial> Kahn   Phone [phone]
Data General Corporation, Westboro MA USA    INet: [e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 5 May 1992 11:43 EDT
From: RICH FRIEDMAN <[e-mail]>
Subject: Reading NEWS from remote MAC

powI occasionally read news postings from my Mac at home.  In  the#
lab I can use The News to read the groups I "subscribe" to, but#
at home I can't use this application.  #
#
Is there an application that will let me get the news when I #
connect to the news server via my modem?#
#Rich#
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 4 May 1992 21:09 EST
From: Mark Cornick <[e-mail]>
Subject: Save as w/ label?

Has anyone written a hack that will place a popup menu of labels (or some
such thing) in the Save As... box, so that you can save a new file and label
it at the same time? If not, here's a suggestion for some bored MacHacker
out there...

Mark Cornick
James Madison U
[e-mail]
"If you don't get it, you don't get it." -- The Washington Post

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

Date: Mon, 4 May 92 21:57:16 -0400
From: Takeshi Miyazaki <[e-mail]>
Subject: Sokoban

Recently there are two implementations of Sokoban for macintosh. I
downloaded two, Sokoban 1.0 (by Scott Lindhurst) and MacSokoban 1.0
(by Ingemar Ragnemalm).

These are good games, but somewhat vague about the origin of
"Sokoban". So I will explain a short history of Sokoban, here.

This game was originally a commercial game for NEC computers in Japan.
(Probably around 1982 or 84). "Sokoban" means a wearhouse keeper in
Japanese, and I guess "gold bag" was meant to be a corrugated
cardboard box originally. I heard that this game was a winner of one
of computer game contest in Japan. Anyway it was the days of
LodeRunner, Space Invaders and "Heian-kyo Alien". ("Heian-kyo Alien"
was also a popular computer game at that time in Japan.)

I don't know levels are the same as the original, but the game concept
is exactly the same.

Oops. I forgot the name of the author. Probably someone will help
me.:)

Takeshi Miyazaki ([e-mail])

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Date: Tue, 5 May 1992 10:37:44 -0800
From: [e-mail](Thomas C. Garcia)
Subject: Spanish characters

>Besides accented vowels and n~ N~, spanish requires the u with the
>umlaut (two dots arranged horizontally) on top (as the "u" in "aguero"),
>the inverted question mark and the inverted bang symbol (!).
>
>Eduardo Krell
>Fundacion Chile
>Santiago, Chile
>
>[e-mail]


You are right; I will forward your message to Gordon, but I believe the use
of the "dieresis" (that's what the two dots are called in Spanish, I
believe) has been eliminated since quite some time ago, and it is accepted
that you use those words without them.

For Gordon:

To get the inverted question mark:     OPTION-SHIFT-?
To get the inverted exclamation point: OPTION-1
To get the umlaut:                     OPTION-u plus the letter "u" or "U".




** Thomas C. Garcia S .               ** [e-mail]      **
** The University of British Columbia ** [e-mail] **

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Date: Tue, 5 May 1992 18:10:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail] (VAX Academic Support)
Subject: Spanish characters (A)

>As far as I know (and my first language is Spanish), there is nothing else
>you would need.

Al contrario.  You may need the very infrequently used dieresis (double dot)
over a vowel (usually "u."  Because this editor may cause garbage to appear on
your screen, and to be brief, I will type a capital "U" in lieu of "u with a
dieresis over it".)

A "U" usually appears in words containing the "ue" and "ui" combination such as
"gUiro" and "vergUenza" to indicate that the "u" is pronunced as a "w" and not
as the "u" in guerra and guitarra.)

To obtain a dieresis, type OPTION-U followed by the accented vowel.

Josephine Colmenares
Fordham University
colmenares@fordmrh1 via BITNET
[e-mail] via Internet

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

Date: Tue, 05 May 92 12:33:22 GMT
From: Michael Everson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Spanish characters, completed (a)

Thomas Garcia told Gordon Oppenheimer how to get acute-accented
vowels and the n-tilde for Spanish (option-e-VOWEL, option-n-n).
Gordon might also need the turned exclamation point (option-1),
the turned question mark (shift-option-/ (or option-?, which is the
same), and the u-diaresis used to show the w-glide after g (on
option-u-u).

Michael Everson
School of Architecture, UCD, Richview, Clonskeagh, Dublin 14, E/ire
Phone: [phone]  Fax: [phone]

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

Date: Mon, 04 May 92 20:29:23 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: System 7 Boot Floppy (Success!)

On Monday, May 4, Murph Sewall wrote:

>If you received the new Norton 2.0 for the Mac, have you noticed that
>Norton's HD Emergency Disk has ONLY System (7), Disk Doctor, and Speed
>Disk on it (*NO* file named "Finder" and no folders)?  Amusing.

You think *that* is fun, Murph? You should see what LaCie did with its
1.4M version of SilverLining 5.33. It has a stripped 800K or so System,
a Finder of 2K, a README file and two apps -- SilverLining and Disk First
Aid. Bill Moynihan sent me a copy today.

For the copyright nuts about, I did have version 5.31 of SilverLining
already. The 5.33 update was a freebie from LaCie. No harm, no foul.

That System 7.01 boot disk is a strange and wondrous thing. The key to
the disk is not just the stripped system and the baby finder. It is
also the readme file, believe it or not. If that readme isn't on the
disk, the boot process aborts. The readme acts like a sort of finder.
The transfer menu finds all apps on the floppy, so you can have several
and launch whatever thrills you. Quitting the app returns to the readme,
>From which you can launch another app, restart, or shut down.

I did thereby get a System 7.01 SAM boot disk that doesn't require the
power switch to exit. I even used the dread ResEdit to replace its TEXT
resource with a message a tad more general than LaCie's original. Not
required, but not confusing to folk who use it for other purposes.

OK, I'm now in hog heaven, and I'll stop bothering y'all with this stuff.

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

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

Date: Mon, 4 May 92 18:57:15 MDT
From: GERTNER BRADLEY J <[e-mail]>
Subject: Textures (Q)

Hello all,
I have a couple of simple questions regarding Textures:
1. Is Textures v1.2 System 7 compatible?
People use it at work, and I'd like to upgrade the machines to
System 7 (which I use at home without Textures)...
2. What is the academic price of Textures these days?
I have a friend in academia that will be purchasing a Mac, and he
wants Textures.
3. Where do I tell him to buy it?
4. If you say, "From Blue Sky Research," what's their address?

Thanks in advance...
--
Brad Gertner ([e-mail])

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

Date: Tue, 5 May 92 09:17:16 -0400
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Word Perfect Questions (A)

In 10-112, Hans Kroeger asks for a interest-group publication that will
answer questions on DOS Word Perfect.

One reason that WP is so popular in the DOS world is that its support for
end-users is virtually legendary. Hundreds of technical support people
staff the toll-free support lines 24 hours a day. For immediate answers to
any WP questions at all, just give them a call.

Also, consider preparing the document with the Mac program you're used to,
and then translate it into WP5.1 format for the IBM. MacLink/PC includes
such translators from the common Mac programs to WP. I don't know how much
exotic formatting carries over, so before adopting this approach test any
unusual features you use that might cause problems (like indexing). If the
translator can't handle that, do that on the DOS side in the WP program
itself. But the bulk of the job can be done undoubtedly in whatever Mac
program you're using, and then translating to DOS WP and completing the job
there.

Jeff Needleman

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

Date: Tue, 5 May 92 12:49:26 -0400
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <[e-mail]>
Subject: XTND clarification required (A)

In 10-112, Ian McCall asks how to setup the MacLink/Plus translators to
work with the XTND translators.

Ian's friend has part of the answer right. You should have the MacLink
Plus/Bridge file in System Folder:Claris:Claris Translators.  But the
MacLinkPlus/Translators files go in the same folder as MacLink/Startup,
i.e.
System Folder:DataViz.  The "Bridge" file is a bridge to that DataViz
folder in the System Folder.

Version 6.0 of MacLink Plus/PC came out in December; it's well worth the
upgrade cost if you have an earlier version; my comments are based on this
version. DOS Mounter is bundled with MacLinkPlus/PC, by the way--I know
some people who bought it separately (or the similar program AccessPC) and
were chagrined to learn that it was included in the MacLinkPlus/PC
package...

Jeff Needleman

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

Date: Tue, 05 May 92 16:18:43 EDT
From: Clinton Collins <[e-mail]>
Subject: XY Graphing, EPS Art (Q)

Dear Networld,  I have two pressing questions:
1) We just bought DeltaGraph Pro hoping it would do a particular kind of
graph.  It seems to do everything (even org charts!) except what we
really need to do.  We need to plot an XY graph but instead of using a
symbol for a plotted point, we want to insert the number of the observa-
tion.  DeltaGraph calls this a scatter graph.  Any ideas about how to get
DeltaGraph to do this or other software (shareware or commercial) that
will do this seemingly simple thing.  We also have MS-Excel, but I can't
get it to do this either.
2) I am looking for EPS Logos of Hotels, Motels, Gas Stations, and other
travel oriented places.  Can anyone point me to a collection of these
types of graphics?  Again, either shareware or commercial.

Clinton Collins, University of Florida, [e-mail]

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