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Info-Mac Digest             Fri,  5 Jun 92       Volume 10 : Issue 137

Today's Topics:

      [*] CapsControl, a PowerBook utility
      [*] font-card-11.hqx
      "Good" grammar checker (A)
      "Put" via FTP from within HyperCard (A)
      [Q] how do I get MacMH
      Alysis Phone Number
      AutoDoubler Don't Compress
      Can a DeskWriter be used as a PC printer as well?
      Can My Mac Support a PC? (A)
      Changing types and creators (A)
      Complete Macworld collection
      Conner Periphals
      Correctly spinning earth
      DeskWriter 3.1 and FullWrite Pro (Ashton-Tate, Borland, HP)
      EtherTalk and LocalTalk Again! (C)
      Finder Icons: Pasting problems (A)
      How to convert SUN rasterfiles to PICT- Streamline Problem (Q)
      Is there a translator for Mass-11 to Mac format? (Q)
      Linking Mac & PC (A)
      lost folders (Q)
      MAC-L Listserv
      MacX terminal emulator
      Math Coprocessor AND EtherNet in LCII (Q)
      menu dropping software (Q)
      menu dropping software: correction
      Mice
      Mirror Portable power supply problems
      Modem 14400?
      More Disk Space
      Mounting Apple II CDROM on a Mac?
      Multifinder (A)
      No 3 Stooges Sounds?
      Numerous Questions (long)
      One line file descriptions for sumex-aim
      Palette switching
      PB 100: does it run Sys 6?
      PB 100: does it run Sys 6? (P.S.)
      PhotoCD (A)
      Powerbook Sound Bug
      Problems with System 7 Tune Up 1.1.1
      Problem with Dove Accelerat
      ps2ascii & dxf format
      Quadra 700 w/ DEC 19inch color (Q)
      RECOVERING EXCEL DATA (A)
      re Installers and updaters
      Repeat Bibliographic .... etc. - The final Word from Word?
      Repeat bibliographic citations .... Son of.
      Running PC from Macintosh (A)
      Scary icon and Bad Things
      Security on New Macs
      Stolen Equipment - Please save for reference
      StyleWriter Vertical Printing
      System 6 and/or 7
      System 7 icons
      Teaching Close vs. Quit (C)
      TrueType fonts - saving $18
      Using Mac to control PeeCee (w/o Monitor & KB)
      UUTool to PC UUDecode (C)
      Word Bug from TidBITS

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Date: Sun, 31 May 1992 22:04:26 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Stewart Kevin Hester)
Subject: [*] CapsControl, a PowerBook utility

    Attached is CapsControl 1.01, a replacement for CapsKiller.  CapsControl is
a fairly well tested extension that deactivates the PowerBook 'caps lock' key.
It has been tested on System 7, but should work on System 6 as well.  The
Compact Pro archive contains documentation and the extension.

Kevin

S. Kevin Hester
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/ex/caps-control-101.hqx; 4K]

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Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1992 01:19 EET
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] font-card-11.hqx

FontCard (v1.1) is a HyperCard 2.x stack  for to catalog your fonts.
With it, you create A4-letter-sized forms containing (all) keyboard
characters of (all) active fonts and get them printed or bitmap images
of them stacked. There's also a report template for you  get a printout
with only one or a few sample lines of each font (save much paper).
Some features of FontCard are:
   - the default character sets are editable
   - each font card (character sets) is editable
   - text size may be chosen from 9 to 48 for each card
   - quick text spacing chages
   - mark card, unmark card, invert all marks,  unmark all.
   - new cards marked automatically; cards for fonts that are
      not available,  unmarked automatically  (on startup)
   - print card / marked / all
   - create bitmap "shadow" of card / marked / all

Some of those features help you scan through the fonts you keep
in suitcases or in only one or two machines on your large network.
FontCard can't catalog fonts from closed suitcases, though, but you
can open a bunch of fonts, catalog them, unmark them, close them
/move to another machine, open another bunch of fonts (partly the
same than the first one, maybe), catalog (only the marked ones of)
them, etc.

Version 1.1 works with HC2.1 also (1.0 didn't).

FontCard is mostly FREE; It _may_, though, and if used at work or
in business, _should_ be paid for. Please give a copy to your friends.

 Created by Taneli Armanto,  univ. of Turku,  Finland,   1992.
                  e-mail    [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/card/font-card-11.hqx; 40K]

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Date: Fri, 05 Jun 92 03:40:06 EDT
From: Shekhar Govind <GS#[e-mail]>
Subject: "Good" grammar checker (A)

>1)  Can anybody recommend a good grammar checker?  Preferably one that
>works with WordPerfect 2.0.  I asked this several weeks ago but got no
>response.

"Good" grammar checker?  There is no such beast.  However, you could
check out (sorry!) RightWriter. It has options to check for 3 levels of
education (general public, high school, and college) and five levels
of writing type (fiction, business, technical, manual, and proposal).
These catagories are primarily for different writing styles, and not,
one would hope, for the rules of grammar ;-)

Grammatical tests are based on 12 set rules. While some can be helpful
(e.g., noun-verb mismatch), other rules can flag down perfectly correct
usage which even Fowler would not sneer at.  RW also comes loaded with
style, usage, and punctuation rules.  As with the rules of grammar, some
suggestions for changes are worthwhile; others are not.  Mercifully,
you can disable any rule you find to be idiosyncratic (such as what it
considers to be "weak wording" or "vague").  I must add that all grammar
checkers are supposed to suffer from similar problems - I can vouch that
for GramaticMac I tested on a friend's mac.  Of course the following is
completely subjective, but I prefer RW's interface to GM's. While I
haven't had the occasion to test whether or not WP files can be checked,
the documentation for the software claims it can.

BTW, a few (4-5?) months ago, one of the Macazines reviewed this class
of software.  Since I don't have the back issues handy, perhaps someone
else on the net can direct you to the relevant source.

Cheers - Shekhar Govind       Lafayette College,   [e-mail]

Disclaimer: The 15 grammatical and stylistic "errors" in the letter
            above are my own and not RightWriter's.

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Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1992 11:58:29 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: "Put" via FTP from within HyperCard (A)

Jim Allison asked:
Does any one know how to upload a file from within Hypercard via FTP to an
account on a local VAX cluster?  Is there an xCmd which can do the job
assuming that the Mac is set up for ethernet access to the internet?

an Answer is:
There is a stack called hyperftp archived as /info-mac/comm/hyperftp-13.hqx
in the archives that can perform ftp from within hypercard is you have
MacTCP propperly installed.

Cas Meijer

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Date: Fri, 05 Jun 92 12:46:17 +0200
From: Erik Zegwaart <[e-mail]>
Subject: [Q] how do I get MacMH

Dear Mac-user/experts/programmers/...

I have a question:

I'm a Mac-user that uses MH and XMH. I know that there are beter user agents
(Eudora from Steve D.) but in our office we have selected MH as the standard
'mailhandler'.

I have heard that there should be a product called MacMH (from Stanford?) but I
could not find any information about this product yet (Archie couldn't help). Can
anyone tell me where I can get:

- more information about MacMH;
- the software.

Please reply to me directly.

Thanks (for reading),

Erik Zegwaart
SURFnet (Holland)
[e-mail]

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Date: 05 Jun 92 00:38:43 EDT
From: "Farokh Lam [Alysis]" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Alysis Phone Number

Yesterday I posted a message in which I included our phone number.
Unfortunately, the number got garbled somehow.

The phone number for Alysis Software Corp. is 1-800-8-ALYSIS.

Farokh Lam
Alysis Software Corp.

Internet: 75300.3011@@compuserve.com
CIS: 75300,3011
AOL: Alysis, Alysis Tec

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Date: Fri, 05 Jun 92 20:01:04 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: AutoDoubler Don't Compress

I flat love telling tales out of school. AutoDoubler has an undocumented
feature for preventing a file from being compressed. If you don't want to
explicitly tell AutoDoubler to not compress a file, you can add a ".dc"
for "don't compress" to the file name.

A friend of ours was told this by a Salient tech support type as a kluge
while they were looking into a rather severe AD problem she ran across
with her Stuff'd PICT files. The good folk at Salient did find the bug
that caused her problem, and the "Joyce Johnstone" updater is promised
to be on CompuServe's MACCVEN Lib/12 Real Soon Now.

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

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Date: Fri, 5 Jun 92 08:32:50 pst
From: [e-mail] (Phil Ryan)
Subject: Can a DeskWriter be used as a PC printer as well?

Hi

The header says it all really. A friend wants to get a Desk{Jet,Writer} and
doesn't know whether he would be better off getting the DJ and a Mac driver
(he would be principally using it with the Mac), or a DW and some sort of
PC driver for it.

I have a DJ (not the DJ500) and am happy with it being used 100% with a
Mac, but I purchased it before the DW came out, and would have got a DW if
they had been available.

Thanks for the help in advance. Will summarize if folks are interested.
(Would there be anything to be gained from sending this message to a
PC-info newsgroup?).

Phil Ryan * Materials Research Lab * Melbourne * Australia * fax [phone]

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Date: Fri, 05 Jun 92 01:22:14 EDT
From: Shekhar Govind <GS#[e-mail]>
Subject: Can My Mac Support a PC? (A)

>I have a Mac SE/30 with an external MacSync monitor.  Is there a method
>to buy an IBM compatible computer--but just the computer, no monitor,
>keyboard, etc--and link it to my Mac so that there would be only one of
>everything that each has in common?

I am currently using  RunPC/Remote.  Using a serial cable (comes with
the software), hookup the serial ports of your Mac and PeeCee.  When
RunPC is launched on both machines, the Mac monitor and keyboard double
up as the PeeCee keyboard and monitor. All DOS commands that are typed
on the Mac Keyboard are relayed to the PeeCee, executed on the PeeCee,
and the results relayed back and displayed on the Mac monitor. Thus, a
dedicated PC keyboard+monitor become redundant.

While the system works as advertised, there is every indication that the
product must have been designed by a bunch of Messy DOS hackers. Things
you would take for granted in Mac applications (i.e., cmd Q to Quit,
to list just one teeny-tiny item from my fairly long list of peeves)
are missing. The dialog boxes and menus are even more byzantine and
confusing than some prior versions of Ms Word that I used to work with
(and that is no small feat- I mean both, being more confusing than Word,
& working with Word ;-).  From my point of view, all I am thankful about
is that my mac has a pseudo-bridge to a tokenringed-IBMed campus.
Oh yes, it does translate/transfer files to and from either platform.

The product is available from the usual mail order suspects (MacZone/
Warehouse/Connection) for about $140.  There is also a network version
that wont hog up your serial port; it will run happily off of an
AppleTalk connection.  The "slave" PeeCee can be run by any of 10
"master" Macs on the network.  Cost for this version is ~ $280. Since I
have the single mac version, I am unable to comment on how well the net-
work version performs. In all likelyhood, the core program is probably
the same for both versions.

This probably wont work but...it used to be advertised in MuckWorld/User
but not any more - it was a product called MicroOrange (or something
like that). Basically, it was a PeeCee clone on a NuBus board.  As I
remember, it was steeply priced ( a 286 equivalent board cost as much as
some complete 386 clone systems did).  I am also not sure whether they
had a version for the SE/30 PDS. Actually, it wouldn't matter anyway
since your processor-direct slot already has a video card (or does the
video card have a pass-thru slot??)

Hope this helps.

Cheers - Shekhar Govind       Lafayette College    [e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 05 Jun 92 11:08:12 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Changing types and creators (A)

On Thu, 04 Jun, Dan Shapiro wrote:

>Jeffrey Needleman had a posting that spoke of making bootable system
>7.0.1 disks that have autodoubler installed and boot to e.g. a disk
>optimizing application.  To do this it is necessary to change the
>application's type to "FNDR" and its creator to "MACS".  How does one go
>about changing these file attributes?

Several utiliies can do that, Dan. Two (bunch-typer-10.hqx, file-typer-
30.hqx) are in the archives.

However, it is often not necessary to use them to make a System 7 boot
floppy. Very often all you need to do is change the application's name
to Finder. Then, when you quit the app, the system invites you to re-
start. If you also change type/creator to FNDR/MACS, you cannot quit
without the programmers or power switch. Quitting just brings you back
to the application. Upon restart, you must hold the mouse button down
to eject the boot floppy. All told, if you can get away without changing
type/creator, it is best to do so.

Some applications need a FNDR/MACS Finder (SAM 3.0 Virus Clinic and
AutoDoubler come to mind) in a blessed System folder. I cannot get
SAM to activate unless it is a FNDR/MACS Finder in a blessed System
folder with its subfiles in their proper sub-folders. I cannot get
AutoDoubler to activate unless it is in the Extensions folder of a
blessed System folder -- with the application being a FINDR/MACS Finder.

A neat way of getting around all that is available for folk with LaCie's
SilverLining 5.33 (et seq). It has a baby Finder in its System folder
that launches a README file that is really an app launcher. Copy the disk
and remove the apps. Then put your own app(s) on the copy. README's
LAUNCH menu then lists all apps on the disk for you to launch. Quitting
returns to README, from whose FILE menu you can then shut down or
restart. No renaming or retyping involved.

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

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Date: THU, 04 Jun 92 20:08:18 EDT
From: "Louis_Bergeron"[e-mail]
Subject: Complete Macworld collection

I would like to donate the entire Macworld collection including the original
first issue. These magazines would be interesting from an historical point of
view. The evolution have been fantastic since 1984 and books could be written
about that. A library or an association devoted to the Mac would be perfect for
the purpose mentioned before.
Contact me directly about that.
I WON'T PAY FOR THE SHIPPING.
Louis Bergeron [e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1992 13:21:49 PDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Conner Periphals

To:    [e-mail] (Sorry, my system couldn't resolve your address
correctly.)

Kevin,

    Try calling [phone].  That'll get you to Conner's voice mail
system and from there you should be able to get what you need.

'til next we type
HAVE FUN!!    --    Jesse

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Date: Fri, 05 Jun 92 10:37:39 PDT
From: Paul Brians <[e-mail]>
Subject: Correctly spinning earth

I was asked if I would upload the corrected version of the spinning
earth QuickTime movie.  Unfortunately it is too big (490 K) for my
mailer to handle.  Would someone like to volunteer to send me a floppy
for a copy which they would then upload?

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Date: Fri, 5 Jun 92 10:10:52 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Jeffrey C Jodoin)
Subject: DeskWriter 3.1 and FullWrite Pro (Ashton-Tate, Borland, HP)

Hi all,

I've noticed the comments that people have had about the DeskWriter
greyscale Driver (3.1) and the problem of printing white text on a black
background.  I have had NO problems doing this.  Maybe the application
in use is set so that it does an OR on the black and white overlay, not
an AND operation.  I have done this just recently using MacDraw II 1.1 -
no problem (old but good).

Also, although the readme file that comes on the driver disk says
that it will not work with Borland bought Ashton-Tate software such as
FullWrite Professional, I have had no problems.  In fact I have a
FullWrite document that the System 7 Laserwriter driver refuses to print
(image too complicated or some such error) that the DeskWriter Driver prints
perfectly fine.  The readme in this case should have refered only to the
color driver which none of the former Ashton-Tate software supports - the
B & W driver works well and is terrific!

Oh yeah - I'm running a Mac LC, 4 meg 40, System 7.0.1, Tune Up 1.1 and
~many~ extensions and utilities including Norton 2.0.

Thought you should know,

Jeffrey C. Jodoin   xx  RIT's School of Computer Science
[e-mail]  xx     and Information Technology

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Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1992 08:42:12 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Wade Williams)
Subject: EtherTalk and LocalTalk Again! (C)

>In Inof-Mac #130 Wade Williams says that you can;'t put localtalk and ethertalk
>on the same machine at the same time, not true.
>
>There are two options, either Apple's internet router, or there exists
>a public domain version (could someone please say where or post to
>archives).  In this case the "network" control panel is by-passed,
>and machines on the ethertalk can see devices on the localtalk.
>
>How do you suppose people with ethertalk netowrks user Laserwirters other than
>the IIg?

Ok, here we go again....

What I said was, you cannot run EtherTalk and LocalTalk on one
Macintosh at the same time.  That is 100% true.

However, if you turn that Macintosh into a router by using Liason or
Apple's Internet router, then it can be done.  But then you're not
running EtherTalk and LocalTalk on a Macintosh.  You're running
EtherTalk and LocalTalk on a Macintosh that is running a router.

That may seem picky.  My point was, I didn't want to give users the
idea that doing both is no problem.  Many users don't understand that
LocalTalk and EtherTalk cannot be active at the same time, so when
they get their Ethernet card, they're quite surprised when they have
to disconnect LocalTalk.

For most users, running a router on their machine is not an option.
It slows down the machine too much and is fairly expensive.  Most
places that add Ethernet do it full scale and either dedicate a Mac
to routing or purchase a hardware router.

As to how users print, the either buy a hardware router, an
EtherPrint or similar product, or one of the software routers already
mentioned.

Wade Williams
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 4 Jun 92 23:15:07 CDT
From: [e-mail] (Francis J. Van Wetering)
Subject: Finder Icons: Pasting problems (A)

>The problem:
>I use 'borrowed' icons for every folder and disk on my two drivecs.  I think
>it dresses up the desktop, and allows for more rapid recognition of folder
>contents.  The problem is with the Jasmine drive (who would have guessed? ;)
>I open up the information window of a 'contributing' applications, select the
>icon, copy it into the clipboard.  Fine.  Next, I select the Jasmine
>drive, do a "Get Info", select the (boring) generic paper document icon,
>and attempt to "Paste" from the Edit menu.

>A dialog box appears, stating:
>"The command could not be completed, because it cannot be found."

Well, the answer appeared in the same issue of info-mac digest.  Robert Hess
([e-mail]) wrote:

>When you add an icon to a folder, two things are done:
>An invisible file named "Icon\13" ("\13" is a carriage return) is created
>containing the icons for that folder, and;

>A flag is set for that folder indicating that the Finder should look inside
>the folder for the invisible file.

>If you simply delete the invisible file and don't reset the flag and then (at
>a later time) try to give that folder a custom icon again, you will get a
>message indicating that the command cannot be completed because it cannot be
>found (great grammar...).

My work-around was actually quite simple.  I used ResEdit to locate the file
called "Icon" in the Jasmine drive, made it visible, deleted it.  Next, I
copied the file "Icon" from a folder to the Jasmine.  The logic was sound.
After deleting the 'custom' pasted icon from the Jasmine drive, the original
icon shows up!

The more I work with ResEdit, the more false confidence I acquire...

| F.  J.  Van Wetering, Ph.D.    INTERNET:    [e-mail]    |

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Date: Fri, 5 Jun 92 14:58 MET
From: [e-mail]
Subject: How to convert SUN rasterfiles to PICT- Streamline Problem (Q)

Hello Netters,

I have got a problem with SUN rasterfiles (screendumps) I have to convert to
PICT format. In out department we have a graphics vectorizer program called
ADOBE Streamline (Version 1.2xx). In the manual of this software it reads that
it can convert such SUN raterfiles to PS, EPS and PICT. The program has a panel
where I can select the target file format, but I have no idea how to tell the
software that the source format is SUN raster.

When I try to open the screendump files with the file requester the files don't
appear. Streamline does not recognize the files. I have tried both ways,

- writing the screendump file to a DOS HD diskette on the SUN and insert it
into the MAC drive (ACCESS-PC installed) and
- copied the screendump files to our VAX and tried to access the files from the
MAC via DEC Pathworks Software. In this case the MAC always recognizes the
files as teach-text documents.

Please give me a hint how I can solve this problem.


Thanx in advance                           Jens ([e-mail])

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Date: Fri, 5 Jun 92 09:41:09 EDT
From: Scott Traurig <[e-mail]>
Subject: Is there a translator for Mass-11 to Mac format? (Q)

Hi folks,

    Does anyone know of a translator or converter of Mass-11 word processing
files to any Mac format?  Translation to WordPerfect would be best, but
anything other than plain text (I can do that now) would be great.

           Thanks,
                     Scott ([e-mail])

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Date: Fri, 5 Jun 92 12:54:16 CDT
From: [e-mail] (Francis J. Van Wetering)
Subject: Linking Mac & PC (A)

[e-mail] writes:
>Is there a method for me
>to buy an IBM compatible computer--but just the computer, no monitor,
>keyboard, etc--and link it to my Mac so that there would be only one of
>everything that each has in common?
>{stuff deleted}
>SuSuggestions, or do I just have to buy a complete IBM system?

I don't know of a product like that, but with the hardware prices of IBM clones
dropping faster than a lead weight, I would opt for purchasing a total system.
I mean, what will it cost to get a 386-SX clone?  about $1,500? (total system)
I haven't looked into retail prices, but I am sure you can do a bit better
than this.

Still, it is only a PeeCee clone... but you get what you pay for ;-)

| F.  J.  Van Wetering, Ph.D.    INTERNET:    [e-mail]    |

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Date: Thu, 04 Jun 92 22:59:55 EDT
From: ZMEG000 <[e-mail]>
Subject: lost folders (Q)

    Ok, one little addendum to my "what to do when you've
lost your folders" question. The folder was lost before the
system was tuned up (with v1.1.1).
Thanks,
   Mike

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Date: Thu, 04 Jun 92 23:17:41 EST
From: Murph Sewall <[e-mail]>
Subject: MAC-L Listserv

On Thu, 4 Jun 92 12:43:54 CDT you said:
>Someone recently mentioned a MAC-L list.  Could some please give me the
>Listserv address so I can subscribe.

A nice thing about LISTSERV is that you can send a subscription request
to ANY handy LISTSERV (you can also get a list of LISTSERV lists by
sending any LISTSERV the command LIST GS).  Just make *sure* you send
commands to LISTSERV and NOT a list name.  For example, email to:
[e-mail]
(subject ignored)
SUB MAC-L David Fiel

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Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1992 14:17 CST
From: "Prof. David Miller" <[e-mail]>
Subject: MacX terminal emulator

Michelle Ginsburg writes:

> Dear MacNetters,
> Faced with the probability of X-terminal arriving on our central computing
> resource, does anyone have experience, suggestions, comments about MacX (which
> I have been looking at in ac VMS environment) or alternatives worth evaluating.
> With much appreciation and thanks

I am about in the same place you are Michelle, except I've learned that MacX
is bundled with PathWorks, so I've adopted a wait-and-see attitude. When I
get PathWorks for Mac I'll test MacX, and if it doesn't do well, *then* I'll
start looking for another package.

FYI, I've already tested the Xwindows emulator that DEC supplies with PathWorks
for DOS, and it is better (by far!) than third party emulators. So I expect MacX
to be reasonable too.

Dave.
[e-mail]
Bemidji (Minn) State University

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Date: Fri,  5 Jun 92 10:49:30 PDT
From: "Peter Jorgensen" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Math Coprocessor AND EtherNet in LCII (Q)

Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1992 13:55 EDT
From: Peter Jorgensen <[e-mail]>
Subject: Math Coprocessor AND EtherNet in LCII (Q)
To: infomac: ;
X-VMS-To: in%"infomac"

Is there an expansion card(s) that allows both a math coprocessor and Ethernet
in a Mac LCII?

Thanks in advance.

Peter Jorgensen: User Services/VAX/Mac/DOS Consultant, PostMaster, PMDF guru
[e-mail]     Colgate University - 315-824-7742

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Date: Fri, 5 Jun 92 15:30:23 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Hades)
Subject: menu dropping software (Q)

Murph Sewall wries about Now Utilities:

>Now's MagicMenus does that plus a very satisfactory hierarchical Apple
>Menu (including a hierarchical Chooser).  I'm glad I got the Now
>Utilities, the whole package has more than enough useful stuff to
>justify the purchase price.

    I agree completely with Murph that Now Utilities is worth the price.
In fact NowMenus (not MagicMenus as Murph stated) and SuperBoomerang
alone are more than worth the price of the package, but you also get
MultiMaster (cute for keeping applications handy), and AlarmsClock
(which if used properly is better than SuperClock, IMHO) and
StartUpManager is really good as well, but I wish it would move
turned-off extensions instead of changing the file type. I like how you
can set up links for possible conflicts with it. If you can afford it,
get Now Utilities, you won't be disappointed.

-Hades

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

Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1992 17:01 CST
From: "Robert E. Front" <[e-mail]>
Subject: menu dropping software: correction

On Thu, 04 Jun 92 13:07:02 EST Murph reported:

> Now's MagicMenus does that plus a very satisfactory hierarchical Apple
> Menu (including a hierarchical Chooser).

Unless the name has been changed, the utility is called NowMenus. As I remember
   MagicMenu is a StuffIt utility.

r o b e r t

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Date: Fri, 05 Jun 92 01:30:24
From: [e-mail] (Dieder Bylsma)
Subject: Mice

I have a number of questions regarding mice.

1) If the mouse-switch is broken on an ADB mouse, (i.e. the switch is
broken internally and isn't crushed or anything), and the mouse is less
than a year old, would it still be covered under warranty?

2) how much does Apple sell replacement mice for?

3) What could be suggested as an alternative mouse? I don't have that
great amount of real-estate (screen is 640 x 480) that would necessarily
justify a track-ball, but if the price is right I would consider it.
What are the experiences with these alternative mice?

Thanks in advance,

Dieder

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

Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1992 20:56 EST
From: NETWORK SERVICES SLAVE <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mirror Portable power supply problems

Help!

I own a Mirror portable hard drive (40 Meg) and an external power supply for it
since the Plus can't handle the power drain.  Every now and again (usually on a
Friday night like now), I can't get the drive to power up at all.  Tech support
isn't in on weekends, and by the time I get through to them, it's usually
working again.  Tech support just says not to worry about it, it's not a major
problem if it solves itself (I've gotten more than one variation on that line).

No matter what I do, I can't seem to get it working, but I can leave it and
come back a few hours later and it works perfectly.  I'm just about at the end
of my rope on this (as evidenced by the fact that I'm using a PeeCee to send
this note), and am wondering if anyone has had similar trouble and/or knows a
way I can solve the problem.  I don't think it's a wiring problem in my
apartment, because it happened (with less frequency) at college, and the line
tested perfectly at 120V 60hz.

Please!  I need any help anyone can offer me on this.

Thanks in advance.

Tim Dixon

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

Date: Fri, 05 Jun 92 13:47:27 HAE
From: Denis Gauthier <5703DGAU@LAVALVM1>
Subject: Modem 14400?

Hi netters

Any information about fax/modem at 14400 ? (Dove, Supra,...)

Reply to me

[e-mail]
Denis Gauthier
Centre de traitement de l'information
Universite Laval

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

Date: Fri, 5 Jun 92 15:00:01 EDT
From: "Alan D. Danziger" <[e-mail]>
Subject: More Disk Space

  Just as an aside...  It has been brought to my attention that Alysis
will be revising the manual for More Disk Space to be "more
informative."  (I'm hoping they give me a chance to proof-read it, but
'whatever'. *grin*)

  A more precise, informative manual will solve my main concerns
(complaints) about MDS.  If anyone else has particular problems with
or horror stories about AutoDoubler, MDS, or Stuffit SpaceSaver, I
would appreciate it if you could let me know -- I'm working on
compiling information about the various packages to do a somewhat
detailed comparison.

  Thanks,
    -=Alan

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

Date: Fri, 05 Jun 92 15:41:32 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Mounting Apple II CDROM on a Mac?

Mount a Prodos format CD-ROM disk on a Mac?

I have an Appletalk network that includes an SE/30  (7.01 tuned 1.1.1, file
sharing enabled) with an Apple CDSC+. On this net is an Apple IIGS running
the new IIGS System 6.0 (very hot software).

Most CD-ROM disks are Macintosh, or HFS partitions with Prodos files, e.g.,
the Apple II System 6.0 CD-ROM just released by APDA.

The quandry. I have the GEM II CD-ROM in Prodos format released in 1990. It
has seven 32 meg partitions. This disk mounts when the CD-ROM drive is
attached to Apple II via the Apple II High Speed SCSI card.  Dave Lyons of
Apple said in a note to me he thought it would not be possible to SHARE the
Prodos CD-ROM on the  System 7.0 net, but he thought it could be possible to
MOUNT the Prodos CD-ROM on the Mac.

I installed Mac v.3.2 CD-ROM extensions, foreign file access, ISO 9600 et al,
and installed the PRODOS file extension from the IIe card software for the
Mac LC. (Which allows mounting Apple II 3.5 disks on the Mac desktop)

I have no luck in mounting this CD-ROM when hooked to the MAC. Am really only
trying to avoid moving the CD-ROM player from computer to computer. If I
could get the disk to mount, I could copy a Prodos partition to my SE/30 hard
drive and then share that. I cannot afford (nor will buy) dedicated
Appleshare file server software.

Any ideas or successes to report on mounting a PRODOS format CD-ROM on a Mac?
 Many thanks.

ddimick
@aol.com;  [e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 04 Jun 92 22:14:26 EST
From: [e-mail] (Dhanesh K. Samarasan)
Subject: Multifinder (A)

> Date: Wed, 03 Jun 92 17:54:11
> From: [e-mail] (Dieder Bylsma)
> Subject: Multifinder
>
> A while ago before Apple released system 7, there was a version of
> system 6 multifinder that supported 'hiding' of applications a la
> System 7 MF. Does anybody have a copy? It would be most nice to have
> about to run on my System 6 disk!


Hello, all!

The version Dieter is talking about is MultiFinder 6.1b9 and I have it.
Even though it has a "b" designation, it is as stable as any release
version of MultiFinder ever was.

I would be more than happy to mail it (or even to send it off to the
archives) if someone can assure me that a plague of lawyers will
not descend, sue us all to smithereens, and shut down sumex.

Any comments?


Cheers!
Dhanesh


PS:  If any Apple person is reading this,
     how about asking Mark to put a copy on ftp.apple.com?

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

Date: Fri, 5 Jun 92 09:48:22 EDT
From: chronos![e-mail]
Subject: No 3 Stooges Sounds?

Hey Porcupines,

What's the matter with you?
No Three Stooges sound clips out there?
Somebody please post a few Moe, Larry and Curly beeps.

Woop! Woop!  Nyuk, nyuk,

Hank Grebe
[e-mail]

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

Date: 5 Jun 92 15:43:14 U
From: Evans-IM-IS <[e-mail]>
Subject: Numerous Questions (long)

(1)    Has anybody tried out this new communication package called "Notify".  Is
it anything like the chooser extension called Broadcast or is it more like a
mail package (i.e. Mrs. Mail or Quickmail).
(2)    The group I support used Cricket Presents around here before we upgraded
their macs to sys7.   Cricket stopped working due to the printer drivers new
location in the system folder (extensions folder).  The Cricket 2.01
application would not even open.  I faked out the application by making an
alias of the print drivers and located them in the system root folder.
Then Cricket would open but still would not print BUT ... I could cut
previously created documents and paste that into Mrs. PowerPoint.  Now we are
having problems with Powerpoint 2.01 locking up with documents with numerous
slides or heavy graphics.  Microsoft says "They know of the problem, we have
people working on it in the labs as we speak".  So we now we have switched to
Persuasion.  Version 2.1 is out and I was told it fixes some bugs with 2.0 and
sys7.         Here are my questions....
[a] What were those bugs with Persuasion 2.0. ?
[b] Anybody seen any bugs with 2.1 yet ?
[c] Did Computer Associates ever get Cricket to work with sys7 ? MacWharehouse
says there is an update out but lists the version number as 2.0  It has a new
pretty box but no sys7 sticker on it like other packages.
[d] What about Powerpoint ?  Anybody hear of the same bug or the bug fix?
(3)    I thought Madness Rage was neat (with the pointer turning into a 44 magnum
and blowing holes in your mac screen).  Now I've heard that a new version is
out with a COW (yes, a moo moo cow) taking a dump onto the screen.  Anybody
seen this and can I expect it to hit the sumex archives also ?
(4)    For those with Voice Navigators, the new ad confuses me.  If you have a LC,
LCII, or SI with the built-in mic.  Why do they offer you their mics for input
instead of using the built-in ones to reduce their price.
(5)    Mass Micro has a hitchiker pocket diskdrive that gets its power from the
ADB port on the mac.  Those out there that might have one ... have you had any
problems zapping the board (inoperable) on older macs such as a SE, SE/30, Plus
or even an MacII.  A co-worker is jinkzed and has zapped one from each model
above BUT ...  I think its her `Static Personality'  :)
Any comments ?

Thanx
Troy

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

Date: Fri, 5 Jun 92 11:28:25 pst
From: [e-mail] (Phil Ryan)
Subject: One line file descriptions for sumex-aim

I have just recently been trying to get some IBM stuff from a simtel-20
mirror site in Australia. Although the 'complete' directories of simtel-20
are not as useful as the 'complete' directory on sumex-aim, the indexes of
each subdirectory are much more useful than the 'abstracts' files on sumex.

On simtel-20, every program/file/picture etc has a one line description
(actually, 46 descriptive characters, along with the filename of up to 11
chars, date of 6 chars, length of up to 7 chars and a few spaces).

I fully realize that it is less simple when mac files have more descriptive
names anyway, and so the names can be up to 30 or so chars.

However, it couldn't be too hard for posters to include a one-line description
of what they are posting (say an 80 character limit) AS WELL AS the normal
abstract. Then, at some later date it would be easier to compile a file
including the filenames, sizes, upload dates, and this description, which
would then have a maximum of 2 lines per file.

I would estimate that the entire sumex-aim directory, if done this way, would
be about 200 k in size (up from the present 100 k or so for merely the filenames,
sizes and upload date).

If people thought that it was a reasonable idea, and that it was worth doing
it for the archive as it is, then we could probably split up the task of
describing the various files by subdirectory. Anyone else interested in the
idea?

Although there is a lot of stuff there, and you personally may not have used or
downloaded much of it, the abstracts file itself should be able to tell you
the minimum amount of info necessary. Files for which the abstract is no good
or non-existent, would have a one-line description of "-" or "not known".

Phil Ryan * Materials Research Lab * Melbourne * Australia * fax [phone]

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

Date: Fri, 5 Jun 92 15:46:05 BST
From: Jonathan Kolodny <[e-mail]>
Subject: Palette switching

Dear Bill,

Actually, the day after sending that message to Info-mac, someone suggested
that I use the AnimatePalette procedure instead.  While it seems ridiculous
to have to use AnimatePalette just to change a single color, it DOES work,
so I am pleased for the moment.   However, I am still stymied as to why
AnimateEntry does not work as advertised.

Oh, almost forgot.  You are quite right that black and white are reserved
(or, rather, the first two entries in the Palette are reserved).  However,
I created a new palette and used the third and fourth entries which were
almost black and almost white, and AnimateEntry still wouldn't work.  I
am wondering if anyone has managed to use
AnimateEntry successfully.

Thanks again for the response,

Jonathan Kolodny
MRC Applied Psychology Unit

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

Date: Fri, 5 Jun 92 09:49 CDT
From: [e-mail] (Aaron Barnhart)
Subject: PB 100: does it run Sys 6?

All right, I'm going to get brained for this because I didn't
pay attention to the discussion going on when the PowerBooks were
released last autumn.  But now that Comp USA is pricing the 100
at $999 w/ClarisWorks, naturally I'm interestd.

But I *refused* to run the supplied Sys 7.0.1 with the 100.  I'm
sorry, I ran it on my Classic for 3 months and it bout drove me
crazy, waiting waiting.  (Careful Info-Mac readers know my gripes
tend to be of the foot-tapping sort.)

Apple literature hints that the PBs may be *incapable* of running
any OS prior to 7.0.1 without actually saying as much.  Anybody
want to clear this up for me?

As usual I ask that you e-mail me and I will post the winning
reply in a timely manner.

Aaron Barnhart
[e-mail]



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

Date: Fri, 5 Jun 92 09:51 CDT
From: [e-mail] (Aaron Barnhart)
Subject: PB 100: does it run Sys 6? (P.S.)

Since one letter a difference makes, I meant to say I *refuse*
to run Sys 7 on the PB 100, not I *refused,* as if I had
actually bought the thing.  This is a pre-purchase question,
as they say in the bidness.  Thanks in advance ....


Aaron

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

Date: Thu, 04 Jun 92 22:13:27 EST
From: [e-mail] (Dhanesh K. Samarasan)
Subject: PhotoCD (A)

> Date: Wed, 3 Jun 92 18:47:15 -0700
> From: [e-mail] (Robert O'Brien)
> Subject: TigerSoft, PhotoCD, AD, UK Addressing...
>
> ALL literature I have seen for drives that claim PhotoCD
> compatibility have contained the words "single session" in fine print.
> My GUESS, therefore, is that ALL CD-ROM drives are PhotoCD *single
> session* compatible, and that this means NOTHING!
>
> PhotoCD is THE reason I have not bought an Apple CD 150.  "Single
> session" to me sounds like if I send a CD back to Kodak to put
> another roll of images onto, I wont be able to see them.


Hello, all!

Robert is correct about the shortcomings of "single-session" CDs.

MicroNet recently announced its new Quadra-compatible CD-ROM drives,
in both internal and external models.  According to MicroNet, they
will be offering these drives with MULTI-SESSION capability within
two or three months.

I have no connection with MicroNet, but I have additional information
and can post it if there is interest.  Just let me know.


Cheers!
Dhanesh

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

Date: 5 Jun 92 12:38:29 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Powerbook Sound Bug

Whenever I set my PB 170's sound to 0 (usually while I'm in my classes taking
notes, or when someone near me is asleep) the restart function sound pumps
itself up to what seems like the loudest possible volume.

The computer is practically silent otherwise. Is there a reason why Apple
made the restart so darned loud when you set it to 0? When I set it to 1, the
startup sound is rather quiet.

Is it just mine?

-tig

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

Date: Fri, 5 Jun 92 18:23:23 -0700
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Problems with System 7 Tune Up 1.1.1

I've run into a problem with the System 7 Tune Up version 1.1.1.  We're
running System 7.0.1 on a Mac Plus with 2.5MB RAM and two hard drives.  The
Mac's primary mission is group file serving, and the AppleShare software
has been running fine...until I installed the System 7 Tune Up.  It
replaces the File Sharing Extension, which causes the Mac to freeze up
when the file sharing is restarted after a reboot.  Are there system
dependent Tune Up packages out there, or is the Mac Plus not supported
by Tune Up?  We've successfully installed the same Tune Up package on a
Mac IIci.

                Thanks,
                    Ron Lehmer
                    [e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1992 11:56:11 CST
From: [e-mail] (James Tyrrell)
Subject: Problem with Dove Accelerat

Subject:    Problem with Dove Accelerator Board and Mathcad
I have been running Mathcad v2.06FP successfully on a Mac SE with a Dove
Accelerator board equipped with a 68881 coprocessor in syatem 6.03.  I
recently upgraded to system 6.05 and now when I try to open Mathcad it tells
me it needs a 68881 coprocessor-in other words it is not seeing the
coprocessor on the accelerator board. I have also run Speedometer and it
also does not recognize that there is a coprocessor with system 6.05 but
does give significantly different relative speeds when the FPU unit is
switched on or off.  I have tried to get help from Mathcad and Dove without
success. Does anyone have any suggestions. Please contact me directly as I
am not on the list. Thanks
-----
James Tyrrell, Professor
[e-mail]   or   [e-mail]
Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
618/453-6411

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

Date: Fri, 05 Jun 92 01:53:15 CDT
From: "Paul M. Sheldon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: ps2ascii & dxf format

   To look for a file in the whole world, ask archie:
        Telnet archie.sura.net
        and log on as
        archie
   I found out about this by reading digests saying "ask archie". I thought tha
t was a euphimism for readers of the digest. Not so! What I did was to ftp to
 sumex and check out the cumulative abstract (listing all the subjects of the
digests only). Then I got the digests that had that subject.
   You can also mail your command to archie, here is an example:
   mail [e-mail] (ack)
   prog Print2Pict
   It is less frustrating. If you ftp to archie you can get a unix program
that your host can run to interact with archie in a way "he" prefers.
Telnet logon stuff will tell you about that.
   dxf format might be trickier. First off try the abstract to see if you can
catch leads. Next try telnet info.cern.ch to access supercollider project
world wide web. Thru them access WAIS, wide area info service.
This explodes electronic digests so you can get at the contents as well as
the subjects. I haven't used it. Contact [e-mail]
he told me alot about it. It sounds tremendous way to get privy to all
the worlds conversations. Hope this helps. Paul M. Sheldon
Acknowledge-To: <LZCB@UTDALLAS>

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

Date: Fri,  5 Jun 92 05:28:12 PDT
From: "Peter Jorgensen" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Quadra 700 w/ DEC 19inch color (Q)

Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1992 08:34 EDT
From: Peter Jorgensen <[e-mail]>
Subject: Quadra 700 w/ DEC 19inch color (Q)
To: infomac: ;
X-VMS-To: in%"infomac"

Greetings,

Has anyone tried to use a Digital Equipment 19inch color display with the
built-in video of a Quadra 700? We've got two of these monitors sitting around
looking for some use. I don't have my Quadra yet, so I can't test it myself.

Is there a comprehensive list of monitors that work with the Quadras?

Thanks in advance

Peter Jorgensen: User Services/VAX/Mac/DOS Consultant, PostMaster, PMDF guru
[e-mail]     Colgate University - 315-824-7742

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

Date: 5 Jun 92 14:07:00 EST
From: "GINBOX::"Bob_Greenlaw-2141_EMail"" <"Bob_Greenlaw-2141_EMail"[e-mail]>
Subject: RECOVERING EXCEL DATA (A)

 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date:    Fri, Jun 5, 1992 @ 11:59:02 AM
Re:      RECOVERING EXCEL DATA (A)
to recover data from a corrupted excel spreadsheet, try this:

open a new worksheet
select a range of cells the same size that you want to recover from the
corrupted sheet (for example A1:Z50)
enter the following formula (while the range is still selected)

=filename!$A$1:$Z$50      apple-enter

where filename is the name of the file to recover the data from
$A$1:$Z$50  matches the dimensions of the selected range in the new worksheet
and identifies the range of cells in the original file to recover from.  The
range need not begin at $A$1
apple-enter  means to hold down the apple key (some call it the command key)
while typing the enter key

this method very often works, but is limited to recovering the values (not the
formulas) of the corrupted file.  You may have to vary the size of the range in
order to skip-over the corrupted range of data in the original file.




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

Date: Fri, 5 Jun 92 09:49:25 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Jeff Beard)
Subject: re Installers and updaters

Mr [e-mail] writes
> ... Why not tell us to simply copy the new drivers over the old ones
> ... With updaters, you are never sure that everything was fine.

Quite the inverse! The support people can't tell if Joe User followed the
instructions, which leads to 1/2 hr fruitless phone discussion re

    did you ... ?
    try ...
    call me back when you've ...

If you've never experienced this,

    1) try calling any PC support group.

    2) you're running on a Mac!

Besides the GUI and ease-of-use issues, Mac has been most innovative in
the business of software install and configuration.  Let's NOT go
backwards, PLEASE.


J.O.Beard        [e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1992 20:51 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Repeat Bibliographic .... etc. - The final Word from Word?

Hallelujah Folks!
I have just received the following from Dave Sauntry (IN%"[e-mail]")
- and, sorry, I dont know how to get those funny quote things that everyone
seems to use:
Quote begins:
 Actually, you can do exactly what you want in Word 5.  You want to:

1. create the initial reference as you would normally do.
2. when you wish to create the second reference to the same footnote, select
        the original footnote character (the 'updented' number), choose
        Copy, place the cursor where you wish the footnote character to
 appear, and choose Paste Special...  You will have to paste this
        character as a Picture.

that's it.  You have created a linked object (a picture) to the original
footnote character.  Whenever that character is updated, the linked
picture will also be updated.
End of Quote.
I don't have my MSW 5.0 upgrade yet so can somone out there check this out
for me (We scientists are trained to be skeptical, Dave). And, while we're
at it, how DO you get those funny quote things?
                                Fergus.

Fergus J. Lalor, Department of Chemistry, University College,
Cork, Ireland.
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1992 09:32 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Repeat bibliographic citations .... Son of.

Keith Gatling (InfoMac V10, Issue 135) makes a good point - when faced with an
irritating problem it is easy to fall into the trap of thinking that it *must*
be everyone else's problem as well.  So, how serious is it?
        OK - I don't actually KNOW what percentage of the users of MSW share my
   problem
with the automatic reference/footnote facility.  What I *DO* know is that
virtually all chemistry journals that I read (a large sample) require the
reference format that I describe - and so do those chemical engineering,
physics, biochemistry, pharmacology and medical chemistry journals with which I
am familiar (a smaller but not negligible sample).  It is also pretty standard
format for theses in these subjects.  I suspect (but cannot prove) that the same
is true of a goodly number of other scientific journals as well.  The number of
people writing scientific papers on MSW world-wide must surely be as large as,
say, those requiring to type complex mathematical relationships - an activity
well provided-for for in Word.  In other words I think that there is at least a
reasonable case for assuming that *my* problem is not an insignificant
peripheral minority problem.
        Incidentally, contrary to what a number of people seem to have assumed,
   I am
absolutely *not* making the case that Word should include the elements of a
sophisticated bibliographic database.  All I need is that the same reference can
be cited more than once within the framework of the automatic footnote/reference
updating routine.  (On the other hand I must acknowledge that some of the people
who responded to my original posting do want much more than this minimum).
        My thinking has been stimulated by this correspondence to the extent tha
   t I
have come up with a work-around for Word 4/5 which - though not elegant - should
at least be *almost* confusion proof.
        The first time a particular source is cited, use the automatic footnotin
   g
routine to insert a reference mark (say superscript 1) and insert the citation
(say "(1) B. Gates and S. Ollson, J. Entrepreneurial Sci., 10 (2001) 167" ) in
the footnote window.  When this source is cited a second time open the footnote
window, copy *the entire reference* and paste it into the text at the
appropriate point - I'll call this a "text reference mark".  Bracket this text
in some distinctive fashion to make it easy to locate with the Find command,
e.g. <<< (1) B. Gates and S. Ollson, J. Entrepreneurial Sci., 10 (2001) 167 >>>
and/or change it to bold (or give it a colour) to make it easy to spot visually
while rapidly scrolling through the manuscript.
        Repeat this operation with each multiple citation.  Word will renumber t
   he
automatic reference marks during subsequent rounds of editing, addition of
further citations etc. - the "text reference marks" will remain unchanged unless
you deliberately move them around.  When you are *absolutely certain* (and this
is critical) that the text is in its final form - and hence that the automatic
reference marks have stabilised to their final values - search or scroll through
the document to find the "text reference marks".  At the first encounter, open
the footnote window, identify the corresponding true reference mark and use the
global Find/Change-To routine to replace the "text reference marks" with
non-automatic but otherwise correct superscripts.
        The only potential pitfall that I see in this is the possibility that a
   major
change-around in the text could result in a "text reference mark" being placed
earlier in the text than the corresponding automatic reference mark.  It would
be necessary to watch out for this and make appropriate adjustments before the
final global replacement.  If someone comes up with a simpler confusion-proof
answer please let me know.
        I hope that sympathetic non-scientists out there can now see why some of
    us
wish that those friendly folk at Microsoft Corp. would take this one on board?
Appropos of which - can anyone tell me if *they* can be contact ed by E-mail?
Fergus.


Fergus J. Lalor, Department of Chemistry, University College,
Cork, Ireland.
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1992 08:41:59 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Wade Williams)
Subject: Running PC from Macintosh (A)

>I have a Mac SE/30 with an external MacSync monitor.  Is there a method for me
>to buy an IBM compatible computer--but just the computer, no monitor,
>keyboard, etc--and link it to my Mac so that there would be only one of
>everything that each has in common?


You can do that with RunPC from Argosy Software.

Wade Williams
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 5 Jun 92 11:50 GMT
From: Simon Shum <[e-mail]>
Subject: Scary icon and Bad Things

Help - I got a weird icon on start-up after my system crashed.

End of last week, my Mac wouldn't boot, just giving me the enquiring floppy
disk/question mark icon.  On booting from a IIsi minimal system disk, the HD
wasn't shown on the desktop.  Norton utilities DiskDoctor found various things
to fix, and a few it couldn't.  However, it fixed enough sufficiently to
successfully reboot and I had no more time to delve deeper.

However, this morning, my Mac didn't display the Finder menus, and on clicking
where they should have been, gave me:
    system error (Finder), bad F-line instruction

On rebooting, along with the usual startup icons, I then got this new icon,
which I've encountered once before (when Other Bad Things happened).

White square, with three horizontal bars along the top. three ???'s underneath,
and what looks like a matchstick (representing a disk head?) hanging diagonally
down from the right side, something like:

        __________
        __________
        ==========
           ???   /
              /
           /
         OO

Then got the same Finder menus problem and error.

DiskDoctor again found various things to fix which I recognised from the last
time, but are well beyond my understanding (e.g. non-zero fLink on last leaf
node; volume information block damaged, duplicate down link), but couldn't find
a missing thread for a folder, and when Checking Allocation, couldn't fix an
incorrect parent ID, and found a couple of damaged files which I've since
trashed.

Have successfully rebooted, everything 'seems' normal, though Disk First Aid
still tells me the disk is damaged and can't be repaired.

Sorry about the exhaustive detail - I don't what's important to know.

(I was about to install Tune-Up 1.1.1 on a Tuned-Up (1.0) IIsi 5/80).

Thanks for any insights,

Simon


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Date: Fri, 5 Jun 92 08:14:28 PDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Security on New Macs

We run several Mac Labs and have close to 650 macs in administrative offices
across campus. They are being stolen at a rate of 10 a semester. We have
tried fiber optics security, the bracket in the security slot and "pads"
that adhere to the cases. What are your solutions for keeping Computers
in place?

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Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1992 00:41 CDT
From: Stark Raving <[e-mail]>
Subject: Stolen Equipment - Please save for reference

If you buy/sell used equipment, please keep a look out for
the following Items:

The equipment listed below was stolen on May 31, 1992 from Lawrence
University, Appleton, Wisconsin 54911.  Contact James S. Evans, Director
of Computer Services, 414/832-6571 (email: [e-mail]) if you
have information on the whereabouts of any of these items.

   MAKER        MODEL        SERIAL              DESCRIPTION

Anchor       2400E        24181        Modem, 2400 baud
Digital      LA75-CA      TY03495      Printer, dot-matrix
IBM          8530-E31     23-A535752   PS/2 Model 30 286 30MB
IBM          8513-001     23-CNT45     Monitor, 12" color
HP           2277A        2949S93140   DeskJet PLUS
Apple        M2503        F5453AW      Macintosh Plus (Upgrade)
Apple        M0131        Y610JFT      800K External Drive
Apple        A9P0303      0776854      Printer, ImageWriter II
Apple        M5030        F73525C      Macintosh II HD40
Apple        M0401        5053916      Monitor, high res RGB
Apple        M6051                     FDHD 1.4MB diskette drive
Apple        M0360        F2103JASC53  Macintosh IIsi
Apple        M0298        E04861       Monitor, 12" monochrome
HP           33427A       3049J0015S   LaserJet IIP PostScript


Thanks,
Greg Trimper
[e-mail]

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Date: FRI, 05 Jun 92 00:08:51 EDT
From: "Louis_Bergeron"[e-mail]
Subject: StyleWriter Vertical Printing

I wrote before about problem printing vertical text with a StyleWriter 7.2.2
or 7.1 or 7.0 using Superpaint 3.0. I received some fine answers. Recently I
tried the following software: MacDraw II version 1.0 (1987) and even if it's
not perfectly compatible with System 7.0 would you believ it prints vertical
text. Don't forget that it's a 1987 version of MacDraw II. I think that some
softwares developers are not following Apple guidelines. I heard of problems
with other softwares. Obviously those who designed MacDraw respected the
guidelines. I dont't remember if Claris existed at the time or if it was Apple
who produced that software.
Best answer I received for my problem: QuickDraw replace TrueType when printing
a vertical text and it will print at 72 D.P.I. doing so instead of 360 D.P.I.
Louis Bergeron [e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1992 14:59:34 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Joseph_So)
Subject: System 6 and/or 7

[e-mail] writes:

>On Fri, 29 May 92 10:56:27 -0700 you said:
>>Q.1:  Some Macs can run either System 6 or System 7, whereas others can run
>>only System 7.  Can anyone provide a definative list?  I am particlularly
>>interested in the Classic II and the LC II, but a complete list would be
>>helpful, since I am  shopping for a new machine.

>Macs that can run either System 6 or 7: Mac+, SE, SE/30, Classic, LC, LC
>II, II, IIx, IIcx, IIsi, IIci, IIfx, PowerBook 100

My Mac Portable also run system 6 and system 7.

>Macs that can only run System 7: Classic II, Quadra 700, 900, 950,
>PowerBook 140, 170.

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Date: Fri, 05 Jun 92 15:20:30 EST
From: Thomas Fruin  <[e-mail]>
Subject: System 7 icons

As Robert Hess mentioned, custom icons are stored in invisible files named
"Icon\13". Unfortunately someone in Apple Spain goofed and in the localization
process decided to translate the invisible icon filename to "Icono\13" (the
Spanish equivalent).

So how does this cause problems? Well, in our office we have users that have
the US version of System 7 installed and others that have the Spanish version.
If we interchange floppies, removables or hard disks between a US and Spanish
Mac, we "lose" custom icons. Even worse is that the fancy custom icon I put
on my shared folder doesn't show up when users of the other system mount my
folder :( All they see is the plain document icon.

Apple Latin America came out with a temporary fix that lets you translate all
"Icon\13" files on a disk to "Icono\13", but of course this doesn't help with
File Sharing (uhh, that's "Compartir Archivos" :) The best thing is to wait
(and hope) for a correctly localized System 7.1. This is clearly a problem
with the Spanish system, because the Dutch version works fine (no "Ikoon\13"
file, thank you!).

Finally, my workaround has been to maintain the custom icon file in both
languages for those cases where it matters. Works fine!

-- Thomas Fruin        Santiago, Chile           [e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 04 Jun 92 23:18:29 EST
From: Murph Sewall <[e-mail]>
Subject: Teaching Close vs. Quit (C)

On Thu, 4 Jun 92 00:51:24 PDT you said:
>>Running Applicon with the Applicon icon hidden on all your machines
>>might help.
>
>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!

What's wrong with using Applicon on the 9" screen?  Select the smallest
tile style from the Preferences menu and there should be plenty of room
tiles along be bottom of the screen.

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Date: Fri, 5 Jun 92 11:29 GMT
From: Simon Shum <[e-mail]>
Subject: TrueType fonts - saving $18

on:       Thu, 28 May 1992 19:30 EST
      Mark Cornick <[e-mail]>
wrote on: Completing your set of TrueType fonts: here's how...

and asked:

>>...how to get truetype versions of Avant Garde, Bookman, Palatino, New
Century Schoolbook, Helvetica Narrow, Zapf Chancery, Zapf Dingbats, etc. (the
fonts built into LaserWriters Plus.) The solution is to get a thingy from your
dealer called the "Printer Tune-Up" which contains, among other things, all the
TrueType fonts.something called "truetype-fonts.hqx" from Apple-Com if you want
the whole set; that file contains only Times, Helvetica, Courier and Symbol. If
anyone has any creative ideas on how to save $18.00, let me know :) <<


=:))  Interestingly, my local Mac people don't blink an eyelid about supplying
Printer Tune-Up free.  As it is, I'm on a DeskWriter (with DW3.1), so wouldn't
benefit from it (I'm told - is that correct?) but they've still come up with
the fonts without fuss.  Not sure if that's a UK Apple or individual dealer
policy or what, but there you go - some good news...well at least for other
Brits...well at least for those in York...

Simon

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Date: Fri, 05 Jun 92 09:37:40 EDT
From: "Jim Henry in Chattanooga [phone] or 886-6425" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Using Mac to control PeeCee (w/o Monitor & KB)

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To: attmail!drystone!linger

"RunPC" will do what you want, I believe.  You may need to borrow a monitor
& keyboard for the PeeCee top get it set up, but thereafter the Mac can
run it.

The 1-800 companies have it

JIM

Jim Henry <[e-mail]> U of Tennessee at Chattanooga 615-755-4398

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Date: Thu, 04 Jun 92 23:18:59 EST
From: Murph Sewall <[e-mail]>
Subject: UUTool to PC UUDecode (C)

On Thu, 04 Jun 92 16:56:12 EDT you said:
>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.

Why is UU coding necessary?  Surely Word for Windows reads RTF.  If
there's a problem sending RTF over a network, then Microsoft goofed--it's
my understanding that's what RTF is for.

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Date: Fri, 5 Jun 92 09:49:30 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: Word Bug from TidBITS

In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
> 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.

Hmm, I have gotten some mail about this too. One piece, from Bob LeVitus,
suggested a better workaround. When the styles lose their font information,
re-import the style information from another, good document that has
the same styles. I gather this is a matter of going to the Styles
dialogs, clicking Open, and selecting the file with the proper styles.
All will be well again. I'll include Bob's letter in the next TidBITS
for the complete description...

cheers ... Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor

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