Subject: Programs for learning Spanish on the Mac (A)
One of the best sources of programs--HyperCard stacks and others--for
learning Spanish on the Mac is Lingo Fun in Westerville, Ohio. Sorry
I don't have one of their catalogs handy to profide the phone number.
Lingo Fun (the name MUST be a tongue-in-cheek joke) also has programs
for many other languages.
For those looking for public domain or shareware stacks that will teach
Spanish, I'm afraid you'll not find much. As neat an idea as teaching
languages with computers is, it is not something whose end results count
for promotions, salary increases or tenure.
Most publishers of commercial text books either have jumped over computer
assisted language learning--favoring video today--or supply computerized
materials that are well below what the state of the art should/could be.
J. Feustle
Professor of Spanish
University of Toledo
FAC0395@UOFT01.BITNET
HISPANIAJ@UOFT02.UTOLEDO.EDU
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Date: Thu, 4 Jun 92 09:02:02 PDT
From: knight@swfmc1.SINet.SLB.COM (Francis Knight, SIEM UK Felixstowe)
Subject: SE -> SE/30 Upgrades [C]
I've been following the threads of the SE/30 upgrade vs ClassicII
discussion. The decision isn't clear cut in the UK, as I've just
discovered:
A basic SE may well materialise here in the next couple of weeks, by
transfer from another site. I plugged the upgrade to the potential
recipient, as I think the SE/30 is a wonderful machine, even now,
(especially now, even, even ;) ), given System 7 and Ethernet pervading
the department. I've just phoned a couple of UK dealers, and found the
upgrade is indeed still listed, (wait for it) for 900 to 950 pounds. This
doesn't include a SuperDrive either. A ClassicII 2/40 can be had for 761
pounds, from an "Authorised Apple Dealer", too.
I always thought the ClassicII was the best promotion Apple ever ran on the
SE/30, but I can't believe that demand is keeping the upgrade so
highly-priced. I'd hate to see the kits follow Lisa to that landfill site.
Can anyone explain the logic behind this?
I also quizzed the dealers about the unannounced recall on Sony hard drives
in SEs (unfortunately, my SE/30 has one). They'd never heard of it. Has
anyone managed to get their Sony drive swapped in the UK?
Cheers,
Francis K.
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Date: Fri, 5 Jun 92 03:30:03 EST
From: ninja@ecr.mu.oz.au (Jonathan_Piers HEARN)
Subject: SE memory (Q)
I am currently running a Mac SE with 4 Meg of memory. Does anyone know whether it is possible/easy/cheap to increase this memory. This current memory consists of four 1 meg SIMM's, which fill all the slots. Please e-mail me with any info.
Thanks in advance.
ciao4niao
e-mail to:
ninja@ecr.mu.oz.au
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Date: Thu, 4 Jun 92 1:01:59 PDT
From: obrien@netcom.com (Robert O'Brien)
Subject: Squirrely lines on Classic screen
I, too, experience the phenomenon of horizontal lines of slightly lightened gray
on my Classic screen. Usually one is about 20% down from the top and one about
20% up from the bottom. I can usually ignore them, but sometimes they jitter
too much for that. I tried putting the Mac on a different power circuit than
my laserprinter, but that's not enough. Switching off the printer has always
eliminated them, however.
I wouldn't say I made it a scientific test, but I'm convinced. It is my opinion
that the Classic is *very* susceptable to RFI (Radio Frequency Interference)
>From my Real Tech Laser (=Dataproducts 960) and lots of other stuff.
I wouldn't operate a ham transmitter anywhere near a running Classic!
Bob O'Brien, WA6RGA
obrien@netcom.com
Disclaimer: I dont need one anymore!!! My *former* employer, Lockheed, was
generous enough to provide eMail access for the last year, and deserved the
consideration of appropriate disclaimers. I thank them, and am proud to say the parting was on good terms (well, I've two days to go, technically). Now, I'm
paying for Netcom service for myself, and I can write what I think without
further disclaimers. I have to admit I had fun creating some of them...
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Date: Thu, 04 Jun 92 13:09:12 EST
From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU>
Subject: StartUp problems (32-bit addressing) and other stuff (some A)
On 3 Jun 92 12:18:00 EST you said:
>I have been playing "system won't startup" game. It occurs when I
>switch on 32-bit addressing. The failure occurs when the "Welcome to
>Macintosh" screen is supposed to appear. I just get an empty box.
Is your hard disk's driver (or drivers if you have more than HD) 32-bit
clean (if it was formatted with a System 6 version of HD SC Setup,
launch the System 7 version and click "update")? If it was formatted
with another program, you'll need get a 32-bit clean version (which will
update the driver if you're fortunate; I had an older APS drive that had
to be backed up and reformatted).
>Is there a tool available that would compare two applications and give
>you a "diff of the resources."
get info-mac/util/res-compare-245.hqx
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Date: Thu, 04 Jun 92 13:44:15 EDT
From: Clare Durst <CCD@brownvm.brown.edu>
Subject: stuffit woes
John Tomas, I'm pretty sure it's not YOU with the Stuffit problems; it's
the way they were saved before being uploaded. I don't know who posted them
but for a good while Stuffit 1.6 would save things into 1.5 format
(if asked) but that format could not be opened by the original Stuffit 1.5.
And the 2-part upload of 1.6 on Sumex was flawed; I could never patch it
together to make it work. (I got another one elsewhere that worked)
I thought this had all been fixed, but if the
files you were trying to get had been created by someone with the faulty
Stuffit (uploaded elsewhere, since the Sumex one was sick) that may have
been why. Anyone else have recent experience? (recently a lot of people
have been using SEA compactor archives, and some ftp sites use something
like Fetch that automatically un-stuffs, so the problem may have been
overlooked.)
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Date: Thu, 4 Jun 92 9:57:23 WET DST
From: Ian C McCall <csc345@central1.lancaster.ac.uk>
Subject: Sun/NeXT sound samples to Mac (Q)
How can I convert a Sun or NeXT format sound sample to a standard Mac
System 7 sound?
I've got SoundHack, which is what identifies the sound as being Sun or
NeXT, and this saves in a variety of formats. Surprisingly though, it
doesn't save in the standard one. It -does- save in AIFF, but I can't
find a converter to handle that either.
Cheers,
Ian
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Date: Wed, 3 Jun 92 21:10 CDT
From: "Alberto I. Roca" <ROCA@macc.wisc.edu>
Subject: Teaching Close vs. Quit (C)
wow, three comments about using applicon...we support people must think
alike. i thought of another problem w/ applicon, though. how can you
prevent someone from quitting applicon itself. is there a way to use
resedit to disable "Quit" under the "File" menu of applicon?
alberto :|
roca@macc.wisc.edu
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Date: Thu, 4 Jun 92 00:51:24 PDT
From: Les.Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: Teaching Close vs. Quit (C)
>Running Applicon with the Applicon icon hidden on all your machines
>might help. I visually shows you how many applications are open, and
>when the bottom of your screen fills with applications (that's where
>I put them), you have to get rid of some before you start more.
YES, excellent suggestion! I've been doing this for quite a while
now for users who have larger than 9" screens and it has worked
great! It is a good idea to move Applicon's "hot spot" to the
lower right corner then, as the default of the upper-right always
causes troubles for users when they reach for the Apple menu.
What are the proper settings--preferences and such--that would allow me
to encode a MacWord file using UUTool and then decode it on a PC using
UUDecode?
I have encoded MacWord files with UUTool, sent them over the network
only to get an end of file error message from the PC UUDecode program
when I attempt to decode them on my PC. I hoped to be able to do this
so I could read the Mac files into Word for Windows 2.0.
Any suggestions or observations will be appreciated.
Joe Feustle
FAC0395@UOFT01.BITNET
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Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1992 13:53 EDT
From: ALAW@smith.smith.edu
Subject: What am I doing?
From: SMITH::ALAW 4-JUN-1992 13:46:27.49
To: ADA::ALAW
CC:
Subj: Need help on locking harddrives
Date: 3-JUN-1992 09:01 Expires: 15-JUN-1992 08:43
From: ADA:: ALAW
Description: Need help on locking harddrives
I don't know if I am sending this to the right place, but I was told that I
should give this a try. I am a student intern working at a small college that
uses macintosh SE/30's, classics, and IIsi's. They are all linked through
a novell netware account but they all also have their own harddrives. I have
installed a certain number of programs that are in the right running conditions
for our purposes. The problem is that students and faculty seem to save their
own personal information on these harddrives and it causes a problem because it
clutters up our work and confuses other users. What I need to find is an
application for the computer that will allow us to lock the harddrive for read
only purposes, taking into account that it must run with the server, and that
several different types of programs are on the drive that may or may not have to
create temp files while they are running. Also, if it is possible to keep this
process as simple as possible (by avoiding the use of passwords, etc.), that
would be wonderful. Thanks for any help that comes about from this message!
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Date: Thu, 4 Jun 92 10:32:32 WET DST
From: Ian C McCall <csc345@central1.lancaster.ac.uk>
Subject: What handles MacUnary? (Q)
What applications will handle MacUnary format files? I've not really
come across this format before - it serves the same purpose as MacBinary
in that it creates a file capable of being put onto a PC disk from a Mac
data/resource fork format file, and is used by the PC's CopyIIPC option
board when copying files from Macintosh disks to PC ones.
Cheers,
Ian
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Date: Thu, 04 Jun 92 06:54:01 EDT
From: imma@aol.com
Subject: Word 5.0 styles bug
The bug described in Tidbits is hardly rare! I never copy files to/from other
macs, and use Suitcase to install fonts. It happens to me frequently...it
must be everytime I open/close a new font. It makes me so frustrated I've
started importing everything into PageMaker, and will soon just switch to
Nisus if Microsoft doesn't fix it soon. Too many hours spent fixing up
styles...and the save as RTF is not a fix, as far as I'm concerned.
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Date: Wed, 3 Jun 92 21:35:15 -0400
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <5257779@MCIMAIL.com>
Subject: Word 5.0 styles bug (A)
In 10-135, David A. Belsey asks about the Word 5.0 "font information bug"
mentioned in the new TidBits. The discussion in TidBits suggests two
workarounds--saving in RTF format or making sure that every Mac likely to
see your file has the same fonts and the same font ID numbers for those
fonts. Now, all of us would agree that the same fonts used to prepare a
document should be on every machine that edits or prints or views the
document; no dispute there. But how do you know that the fonts on other
machines haven't been renumbered to avoid conflicts?
A good answer is to use a feature of Suitcase 2.0. (Latest version of
Suitcase 2.0 is 2.1; don't confuse Suitcase 2.0 with Suitcase II, whose
latest version is 1.2.12. Confusing, isn't it?) Here's an excerpt from the
Suitcase 2.0 Hypercard Tutor which explains the feature:
>Suitcase 2.0 allows you to simulate your own Macintosh's ID numbering scheme on a different Macintosh which is also using Suitcase 2.0, so that you may open and print documents without difficulty. You instruct Suitcase 2.0 to make a file containing a list of the fonts and their ID numbers on your Macintosh. On a different Macintosh, you instruct Suitcase 2.0 to use this list. The system then uses the ID numbers listed in this file (the numbers from your own Macintosh). You may now easily view and/or print documents from your Macintosh on the other Macintosh.
>
>The file containing the list of your font names and ID numbers is not a text file; hence, it is usable only by Suitcase 2.0.
>Once you are done using the document, however, be sure to instruct Suitcase 2.0 to stop using the imported ID numbers. To do this, choose "Use Local Font IDs" from the Suitcase menu. This is very important. Otherwise, documents already created on this Macintosh will appear with the wrong fonts.
Jeff Needleman <JNeedleman@MCIMail.com>
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Date: Thu, 4 Jun 92 13:58:18 -0400
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <5257779@MCIMAIL.com>
Subject: WorkAround for More Disk Space--Warning! (A)
Alan Danziger suggests that the MoreDiskSpace/Stuffit problem can be solved
by adding Stuffit to the MDS exception list. But that solution just causes
more problems. The Stuffit archive created will then contain MDS-compressed
versions of files. Anyone who gets such an archive (by downloading from a
bulletin board, or over a network) will have nothing usable after
unstuffing UNLESS MDS is installed in that other machine as well. I suppose
Alysis could make a public domain decompressor available--but even then the
unstuffed files would have to be run through the un-MDS decompressor too
since I doubt the public decompressor would have the transparency feature
that's so beloved.
A better workaround is the obvious one. Just don't add an MDS-compressed
file to any StuffIt archive (as Aladdin's warning said). Expand it first
yourself before you tell StuffIt to deal with it. One mindless approach to
help you remember to do that is to just copy all the files you want to
archive to a floppy before running StuffIt; that will automatically
decompress the MDS-compressed files, and Stuffit will have no trouble.
To wax philosophical for a moment (forgive me; I have my pompous moments
and can't always restrain them), in a year or two we'll all have fast
optical drives with a cost of pennies per megabyte, and all our
communications will be rapid beyond belief, so there will be no need for
compression software of any sort. I exaggerate a wee bit, but the need for
these products will soon disappear. You'll note that no one is attempting
to write tight code now that RAM is usable and cheap; back in the CP/M days
when the Z80 chip could address only 64K of memory, careful assembly
language programming and segmentation were essential--but there's no need
for that today. Similarly, when storage is cheap and communication fast,
there's little need for compression software. The economics of the computer
world influences what products are needed. Compression software is on the
way out, (Lossy compression for image processing is an exception.)
Jeff Needleman <JNeedleman@MCIMail.com>
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Date: Thu, 4 Jun 92 12:36:40 -0400
From: "Alan D. Danziger" <aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>
Subject: WorkAround for Re: More Disk Space--Warning!
In comp.sys.mac.digest <Jeff Needleman> wrote:
>Came across this important warning from Alladin on CompuServe and thought
>it worth passing along:
Aladdin, actually... And thanks. But it isn't necessary to NOT use
MDS, you just have to tell MDS what else you are doing. Shouldn't be
necessary, but it is.
Here's the workaround, then the warning (reposted, in case anyone
missed it...):
MoreDiskSpace, just like AutoDoubler and (to my understanding)
Aladdin's own SpaceSaver, has an 'exceptions' list of applications
which need to specifically be given compressed files rather than
having them automatically expanded. If you tell MDS that Stuffit
needs the compressed files (as you do for terminal programs, etc.)
then MDS will not expand the documents 'transparently' and you will
not run into this problem. I do not have my MDS manual here at work,
so I can't tell you how to add the exception... But I'm 90% sure the
ability is there.
-=Alan
>>From: Greg Friedman [Aladdin], 75300,1666
>>Topic: More Disk Space Warning!
>>Msg #24717
>>Section: Extensions
>>Forum: Macintosh System 7+
>>Date: Mon, May 11, 1992, 3:53:04 PM
>>Warning:
>>More Disk Space causes StuffIt to create invalid archives. This is
>>a direct result of a bug in More Disk Space. Until MDS addresses this
>>problem, we recommend not stuffing any file compressed with MDS.
>>The source of the problem is MDS's incomplete patches to the file
>>system. It appears that MDS patches high-level file manager calls,
>>but fails to patch at least one low-level call that StuffIt and many
>>other applications use.
>>Before stuffing a file, StuffIt makes a standard file manager call
>>(PBGetCatInfo) to determine the size of the resource and data forks of
>>the file. If the file has been compressed with MDS, StuffIt gets
>>back _compressed sizes_. When StuffIt opens the file to compress it,
>>MDS expands the file. StuffIt thinks it already knows how big the
>>file is, and reads only the smaller amount. Consequently, incomplete
>>files are placed into the archive. StuffIt Lite's verify archive
>>feature will report that the file is intact, since all the data that
>>StuffIt compressed is really valid - it just didn't get all the data!
>>StuffIt's file reading routines are very standard. MDS inserts itelf
>>into the file system at a low level, but fails to address an integral
>>operation that many applications perform.
>>We already know that backup software from Dantz Development,
>>including Retrospect, has a similar problem backing up files
>>compressed with MDS. We suspect that other applications will exhibit
>>similar problems with MDS's methodology.
>>This information is being made available to avoid potential loss of
>>data. Please feel free to post this message text on other online
>>services.
>>Greg Friedman
>>Director of Technical Services
>>Aladdin Systems, Inc.
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Date: Thu, 04 Jun 92 15:07:10 PDT
From: gregg@CS.Stanford.EDU
Subject: Zoom-Apple Modem Tool and Modem Tool in general (Q)
I just downloaded the Zoom-Apple Modem Tool, as I have a zoom modem. I
dumped it in my extensions folder. But I don't know what to do with it
now. The readme file included with the normal Apple Modem tool speaks
of "custom" menus and the like. How do I get to these menus?
Basically, dumping it in my extensions file didn't seem to do anything
for me. Sorry if this question has already been asked. I think
