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Info-Mac Digest             Tue,  9 Jun 92       Volume 10 : Issue 140

Today's Topics:

      [*] Blade Demo
      [*] Comp.Sys.Mac.Programmer Digest Volume 1 #100-109
      [*] Filetyper replacement
      [*] Graf 1.4.3 (replaces 1.4.2)
      [*] MenuChoice 1.1 cdev
      [*] PSI 2.0
      [*] SetOutlinePreferred fkey
      [*] TidBITS#127/08-Jun-92
      512K SIMMs--The Use (A)
      A bug in Word 5's footnote handling ?
      Backup Software
      ChineseTalk II problem solved
      Compression/transparency pitfalls
      Dead mice
      Deskwriter3.1/sys6 macs
      DeskWriter C - New Model? (Q)
      Dialog Box shortcut?
      DiskMaker
      Experience with dual monitors
      FileTyper 3.2 decompression tip
      Icon clumping in Sys 7 (A)
      Mac emulator on Sparc (A)
      Mac internal SCSI standard
      NEC Mulitsync 5FG and Mac IIci
      On printing Theorist notebook on Mind of God, used print-2-pict-30
      Optical Disk Drives (Q)
      Printing linked documents to file (R)
      QuicKeys upgrade in last TidBITS
      Re-referencing and Citations
      Rebuilding the desktop of external hard disk
      Repeat Bibliographic: Advocacy for the Devil.
      Resurrecting a dead Mac
      SIMMs x 8 or SIMMs x 9?
      Some answers to numerous questions
      SUMMARY: FDHD repair and replacement (long)
      Undeletable folder in System 6
      Word 5.0 patch (C & Q)
      wordprocessing on a Sparc and an SE/30?

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Date: Tue, 9 Jun 92 11:51:39 -0400
From: [e-mail] (King Rhoton)
Subject: [*] Blade Demo

Here is a DEMO copy of Blade from Leviathan software.  If you've seen their ads
in the back of your favorite Mac periodicals and have wondered how good their
stuff was, here's a painless way to try it out.  Level one (at least) is fully
functional.
King

[Archived as /info-mac/demo/blade.hqx; 634K]

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Date: Tue, 09 Jun 92 15:45:30 -0700
From: "(Michael A. Kelly)" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Comp.Sys.Mac.Programmer Digest Volume 1 #100-109

Issues #100 through #109 of Volume 1 of the Comp.Sys.Mac.Programmer Digest are
now available.

[Archived as /info-mac/digest/csmp/csmp-v1-0100; 43K]
[Archived as /info-mac/digest/csmp/csmp-v1-0101; 47K]
[Archived as /info-mac/digest/csmp/csmp-v1-0102; 48K]
[Archived as /info-mac/digest/csmp/csmp-v1-0103; 44K]
[Archived as /info-mac/digest/csmp/csmp-v1-0104; 44K]
[Archived as /info-mac/digest/csmp/csmp-v1-0105; 40K]
[Archived as /info-mac/digest/csmp/csmp-v1-0106; 42K]
[Archived as /info-mac/digest/csmp/csmp-v1-0107; 45K]
[Archived as /info-mac/digest/csmp/csmp-v1-0108; 45K]
[Archived as /info-mac/digest/csmp/csmp-v1-0109; 43K]

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Date: Tue, 9 Jun 92 03:29:37 PDT
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Filetyper replacement

>From:     Info Mac Request
>          EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414
>          MBX: [e-mail]
>
>TO:     * Jeffrey Needleman / MCI ID: 525-7779
>Subject:  Re: FileTyper format
>
>Could you please upload a new one? That would be much easier for me.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Bill

OK--here it is. This should replace:

/info-mac/util/file-typer-32.hqx

Jeff

[Archived as /info-mac/util/file-typer-32.hqx; 128K]

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Date: Tue, 9 Jun 92 10:56:07 EST
From: [e-mail] (Ralph Sutherland)
Subject: [*] Graf 1.4.3 (replaces 1.4.2)

Dear Moderators,
    One of my Site Testers finally reported some bugs in the
publish/subscribe features of Graf 1.4.2.  AFTER I had posted it
off.  I am sorry if this causes too much inconvenience.  Since
most of the positive comments I have received on Graf 1.4.2 are
about the potential uses for Publish and Subscribe features I
felt it was important to fix things right away, even though they
are relatively minor bugs.
    The attached is a self extracting archive of Graf 1.4.3
which is intented to REPLACE 1.4.2.  Hopefully before 1.4.2
reaches the archives.

Many thanks

ralph sutherland


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This file contains the latest release of Graf v1.4.3, a Scientific
X-Y plotting application.

This version has Publish and Subscribe when run under system 7.
A non-standard, automatic pulshing feature allows Graf to
add interactive plotting facilities to any app that can publish and
Subscribe.

Many of the user interface elements have been changed on the basis
of user's comments and some of the new features are the direct
result of user email conversations. This version fixes many 'features'
in the  Graf 1.3.1 release and some long standing omissions,
like coloured symbols have at last been implemented.  The interface
makes better use of a colour display if present.

Graf will work under system 6.0.2 or newer on a 1MB MacPlus or
better.  It has even been tested on a Quadra 950 with A/UX 3.0
(sigh) for ~ 5 minutes until it was taken away from me!.

This software is Freeware.

Enjoy!

ralph

[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/app/graf-143.hqx; 134K]

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Date: 8 Jun 92 14:59:29 U
From: "Poncelet Gene" <[e-mail].>
Subject: [*] MenuChoice 1.1 cdev

Title   : MenuChoice 1.1 (makes S7 Apple menu hierarchic)
Keywords: MENUCHOICE APPLE MENU HIERARCHICAL HIER HIERDA HAM MENUCH.SEA
          SYSTEM 7

MenuChoice is a 30K cdev that makes folders in your Apple Menu Items
folder show up as submenus under the Apple menu. It also features a Recent
menu, which holds the last 10 items used. Submenus can be sorted with
folders separate from other items.  Compatible with Mac Plus and SE. Version
1.1 adds better control over AppleShare and  removable volumes. Requires
System 7. Auth: Kerry Clendinning. Ref: Editor's Choice. Shareware $15.

Downloaded from ZMAC at great expense by
[e-mail]
Ogden, Utah

[Archived as /info-mac/cp/menu-choice-11.hqx; 68K]

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Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1992 12:21:36 PDT
From: Markus Fromherz <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] PSI 2.0

  PSI 2.0

  Personal System for Information Management and Retrieval

  PSI is a handy system for the management and retrieval of your
  personal data, be it addresses, CD collections, or bibliographic
  references. It is intended for the non-commercial user. It may not
  be as full-fledged as some data-base systems, but has many features
  that you won't find in most commercial systems. Also, you may find
  it easier to set up and faster to use, especially once you grasped
  the idea. (Try the sample sessions!) PSI is comparably small, versa-
  tile, and useful for a broad range of data. Indexing with descriptors
  makes searching for the data you need fast, and the interface to
  other data-base formats (import and export) is quite powerful.

* Documentation with introductions and sample sessions as well as
  context-sensitive on-line help are available.

  See the documentation for more information.
  If you have questions, send me e- or p-mail.

  Markus P.J. Fromherz
  <[e-mail]>

[Archived as /info-mac/app/psi-20.hqx; 478K]

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Date: 8 Jun 92 15:15:04 U
From: "Poncelet Gene" <[e-mail].>
Subject: [*] SetOutlinePreferred fkey

Title   : SetOutlinePreferred FKEY v.1.0
Keywords: SET OUTLINE PREFERRED SETOUT.CPT TRUETYPE FKEY BITMAPPED FONT

SetOutlinePreferred is a very simple FKEY named after the corresponding Font
Manager routine that tells the Font Manager to prefer either TrueType or
bit-mapped fonts for screen display or printing. Requires System 7 or 6.0.7
with the Apple TrueType INIT installed. New file. Auth: David L. Fowler.
Ref:  MacUser 7/92. Freeware.

Downloaded from ZMAC at great expense by
[e-mail]
Ogden, Utah

[Archived as /info-mac/fkey/set-outline-preferred-10.hqx; 4K]

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Date: Mon, 8 Jun 92 21:26:35 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: [*] TidBITS#127/08-Jun-92

TidBITS#127/08-Jun-92

 In this issue we offer two beginnings: part one of an excellent
   review of what's new and easy to do in Excel 4.0, and part one
   of our discussion about Apple's Newton technology. In the
   on-going department, the estimable Bob LeVitus passes on a
   better workaround for the Word Styles bug. Endings for the week
   include Solutions, Inc. going out of business, and CE's
   discounted email-only upgrade offer for QuicKeys, which ends
   in a week.

Topics:
    MailBITS/08-Jun-92
    No More Solutions
    Apple Newtons I
    QuicKeys ElectroUpgrade
    Excel 4.0 for the Mac I
    Reviews/08-Jun-92

[Archived as /info-mac/digest/tb/tidbits-127.etx; 30K]

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Date: Mon, 8 Jun 92 20:33:52 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Steven Heckler)
Subject: 512K SIMMs--The Use (A)

    The opinion is pretty unanimous that 512K SIMMs work in the IIsi and
II ci only.

                        Steve Heckler

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Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1992 11:32:59 +0000
From: Graham Reynolds <[e-mail]>
Subject: A bug in Word 5's footnote handling ?

>>Has anyone else experienced the following 'odd' behaviour with Word 5's
>>footnotes (Word 4 as well I think).
>>
>>Place a footnote reference within a paragraph somewhere on an arbitrary
>>page within a document, and then on the same page start a new section with
>>the 'no break' section flag selected. Set the document flag for Footnotes
>>to 'bottom of page'. Suprisingly, an automatic page break occurs at the
>>start of the new section.

>>This doesn't seem like a feature to me. I imagine that anyone who makes use
>>of sections to structure a document (e.g. to switch headers) and uses
>>footnotes, even only occasionally, will be suprised to find these unwanted
>>page breaks in an otherwise neatly layed out document.

Having checked in the Word user guide, this turns out to be a "feature"
after all. Oh well, I guess I must be one of those minority users trying to
use Word for technical reports and other lengthy documents, who would
prefer Word's user interface to have a bit more affordance!

MicroSoft should seriously consider the need for an "Absolutely No Break"
section setting in any new release of Word!


Dr G.J. Reynolds,       Email(Janet): [e-mail], Tel: +44 603
592319
School of Infomation Systems, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ,
UK.

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Date: Tue, 9 Jun 92 15:23:41 EDT
From: Daniel Arkin <[e-mail]>
Subject: Backup Software

I am under contract to upgrade a LocalTalk Macintosh Network with 135 Macintosh
Computers on it.  No one is performing any formal backing up at
this time.  The client wishes to have a backup system
implemented.  I would like users to do their own backups to
floppies.  Since some of their DB files may not fit on one
floppy and/or they need some automated process, I need a backup
program to recommend.  135 users could be expensive to purchase
a program.  What ever happened to HD Backup?  Are there other
public domain (shareware) options?

Configurations will include System 7.1.1 and 4+ MB of RAM per
machine.

Thanks for your help in advance.

Daniel Arkin    workSmart
        Richmond, Virginia
        [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1992 21:18:32 -0500
From: Wei-Ming  Wu <[e-mail]>
Subject: ChineseTalk II problem solved

Sincere thanks to all of you who responded to my request for help
regarding a problem with ChineseTalk II.  As usual, people in the
net are kind and eager to help. My problem was that no Chinese
input interface showed up on my IIcx even though the program indicated
that it loaded successfully during the bootup. Mark Wang at MIT sent
me email saying that he had the same problem before and the culprit
is the Alliance Power Tools hard disk driver. After I installed a new
driver using Silverlining, the problem disappeared. It's great to be
able to use two languages at the same time on a computer. I've heard
that system 7.1 will support multiple languages and believe that
this will make macs even more popular. Thumbs up to Apple.

Wei-Ming Wu
([e-mail])

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Date: Tue, 9 Jun 92 06:07:24 PDT
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Compression/transparency pitfalls

Over on Prodigy, I've been participating in a debate on the importance of
the More Disk Space conflict with StuffIt. It only arises when you try to
add an MDS-compressed file to a StuffIt archive and, says one side, only an
idiot would do that. The other side (mine) points out that, due to
transparency, users will simply forget that their files are MDS-compressed.
I was indeed wise to point this out <g>--but I didn't know I had already
fallen into a similar trap myself.

About ten days ago I obtained a copy of the new FileTyper 3.2 version and,
after trying it out, sent it on to the archives. Yesterday I got a few
e-mail messages asking what the format of the file was. I figured the
upload had arrived corrupted. But no--when I downloaded the .hqx file from
the archives and dehqx'ed it, I wound up with an application of type "APPL"
and creator "alyS" which self-extracted when I clicked upon it.

Anyway, to make a long story short (although it is indeed a bit too late
for that), it turned out that the file in the archives actually dehqx'ed
into an autodoubler-compressed diskdoubler file. I have autodoubler
installed, so the format was totally transparent to me. (I've uploaded a
proper version of the same file; if you downloaded the original, just
decompress it by info-mac/util/ddexpand-373.hqx.)

How did this happen? The file downloaded by me from AOL was a More Disk
Space self-extracting format file. This new file format from Alysis is not
on the exception list of AutoDoubler. So AutoDoubler, which is sensible
enough to leave Stuffit or DiskDoubler or Compactor programs alone, just
compressed the MDS.sea program as part of its usual scavenging routine in
the background, unbeknownst to me. Although I have AD set to leave alone
files that were modified less than 3 days ago, the file was compressed at
once. Why? I had just downloaded it! But of course the file itself carried
a last modified date of more than 3 days ago, although I had just added it
to my disk.

This didn't explain why AD's transparency feature didn't decompress the
file when I created an .hqx file. It should have expanded the file when
binhex or Eudora called for it. And then I remembered how I created the
file. I access the net through a dial-up connection using MacTCP. I found
that if I had Eudora binhex a file on the fly, I'd get time-out errors on
long uploads. So I've gotten in the habit of binhexing first and attaching
that file to my upload. As it happened, I was using Compact Pro, so just
used the "Create BinHex 4.0 document" option of Compact Pro (under the Misc
menu) on that file.

But Compact Pro is on the exception list of AD! So AD did not expand the
file when the .hqx version was created. So the reconstituted version of
that .hqx file is really an AD-compressed file, and that's what got
uploaded. (This last sentence courtesy of my Dept. of Redundancy Dept.)

To avoid these kinds of problems, I have two workarounds:
Cheap workaround--think about what's happening and remember the pitfalls.
Best workaround--buy a larger disk and toss out any "transparent"
compression program.

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Date: Tue, 9 Jun 92 18:16:23 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Scott McLagan)
Subject: Dead mice

A bunch of our Mac Plus mice have packed it in. I remember some
talk about an extension-control panel that allowed the Mac
to use an el-cheapo Dos-box mouse ($40) via the serial port.
So far my only other alternatives are real Apple mice ($130)
or third party equivalents ($75 and up).

Is anyone using this system? Any warnings? Of course this would
occupy the modem port but this wouldn't be a problem in my
case.

Thanks for the help.

Scott
[e-mail]

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Date: 9 Jun 92 12:27:30 U
From: Evans-IM-IS <[e-mail]>
Subject: Deskwriter3.1/sys6 macs

Deskwriter 3.1 has not given me any problems so far (Knock-on-wood) with sys7
macs.  But a co-worker tells me it will not work with sys6.07 macs.  I have not
tried this myself but I understand that the deskwriter name will not show up in
the "select deskwriter" window part of the chooser.  Is this true ?   Has
anybody else seen this ?
If you have a sys6 mac driving a DeskWriter driver 3.1 with out problems,
please let me know.

Thanx
Troy

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Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1992 09:58:24 -2300
From: [e-mail]
Subject: DeskWriter C - New Model? (Q)

Netters,

I have heard various rumours about HP having a new model of the DeskWriter
C scheduled for release sometime soon.  This new model would have a second
cartridge holder so that you could print color and black at the same time
(kind of like the 11" x 17" version).  Is this true?  Does anyone have any
idea when this new DeskWriter C might be available?

Thanks!

Colin Lamb - MacMeister 8-)>  -  Drake University  -  Des Moines

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Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1992 15:52 PDT
From: Tigger <[e-mail]>
Subject: Dialog Box shortcut?

Help!  For the longest time, I used a wonderful little piece of software
called Commander Dialog that allowed selection of buttons other than
the default in a dialog box simply by pressing the key corresponding to
the first letter in the button label.  However, when I finally went to
System 7 the other day, Commander Dialog broke in a big way.  Now I'm
looking for something that will serve the same purpose under System 7.
I have Norton Utilities 2.0, Now Utilities 3.0 and On Cue II 2.0, and
nothing in any of them seems to do what I want.  Am I missing something?
Is there some other freeware, shareware or commercial utility that will
do the job?  Help me please!  I'm going out of my mind having to reach
for the *$^#% mouse!

Greg Orman

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Date: Tue, 09 Jun 92 16:14:41 EDT
From: Clare Durst <[e-mail]>
Subject: DiskMaker

I just got MacTools and DiskMaker. Haven't had a chance to play with MT,
but am curious about DiskMaker. I am buying some Classic IIs with 40 or
80 meg internal drives, which won't of course be partitioned. Has anyone
partitioned these Apple drives with DiskMaker? Is it wise? Safe?

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Date: Tue, 9 Jun 92 17:35:39 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Tom Van Vleck)
Subject: Experience with dual monitors

I thought I'd share my experience with dual monitors.
I had a Mac with an Apple 19" Monochrome tube, and just got a second
monitor, an Apple 13" color.

Apple's architecture that lets you drop in a second video card and
reboot, and use the monitor right away, is BEAUTIFUL. The elegance of
the Monitors control panel and the absence of teeny little switches or
arcane configuration options is Right.  On a PC, it would take weeks
to figure out how to do it, and then at least a day of frustrating
trial and error to install and configure.

But there are some problems.  The first one is that the 19" display
jiggles when the 13" is next to it.  It's a constant,
eystrain-inducing wiggle on the side of the screen near the other
monitor.  (The monitor cases are about 5" apart.)  If I need to use
the big monitor for anything much, I have to turn off the little one.

In addition, there are software problems with some applications.  Some
programs, such as NIH Image, require a color primary monitor, so I
gave the color monitor the menu bar. Then I found that other
applications, such as Aldus Persuasion 2.0, size their windows
depending on the size of the primary monitor, so I couldn't make a big
window on the big tube, so I put it back.  Persuasion and SuperPaint
2.0a both froze the machine when I dragged a window from the b/w to
the color tube, and several other commercial applications crashed or
froze the Mac. Try before you buy!

Tom Van Vleck <[e-mail]>

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Date: Tue, 9 Jun 92 08:45:57 -0400
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <[e-mail]>
Subject: FileTyper 3.2 decompression tip

If you downloaded FileTyper 3.2 from the archives in the past few days and
have wondered about how to decompress it, it is a DiskDoubler compressed
file. You can decompress it by info-mac/util/ddexpand-373.hqx; that will
turn it into a self-extracting file that you can double-click on to expand.
I have uploaded the same file in a  standard version which will replace the
other version in the archives; wait a few days to give our beloved
Moderators a chance to make the change.

For an explanation of how this happened and a general warning, see the
subject "Compression/transparency pitfalls" above.
Jeff Needleman  <[e-mail]>

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Date: Tue, 9 Jun 92 06:10:12 PDT
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Icon clumping in Sys 7 (A)

In 10-139, Erick Young wonders about icons clumping together in System 7.

The Finder automatically aligns icons to an invisible grid unless you
request otherwise, so icons can wind up on top of each other easily. If you
drag an icon with the command key held down, you can position it wherever
you like.

I use this feature combined with Alias Director's ability to create aliases
WITHOUT icons to stack up aliases of frequently-used applications on the
right of my desktop. Since only the names appear with no wasted space
in-between, you can get a lot of programs listed per inch that way. It's
very convenient.
Jeff Needleman  <[e-mail]>

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Date: Tue, 9 Jun 92 12:31:42 +0200
From: Peter Barneveld <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mac emulator on Sparc (A)

"Put an Apple in your Sun".
With Liken software, your sun requires no additional hardware to run Mac
app's.
On an IPX, performance equals a Mac 16Mhz 68030.

Sunburst Computers
[phone], FAX [phone]
e-mail [e-mail]

Peter
(I don't work for Sunburst, neither do I use the product).

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Date: Tue, 9 Jun 92 12:59:16 WET DST
From: Ian C McCall <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mac internal SCSI standard

Could I hook up just any old SCSI drive in place of my LC's internal
40meg one, or is there some quirk in the Mac implementation of SCSI that
prevents me from doing this?

I'm looking to change the drive that came with it for a 100meg hard
drive from a PC dealer I know.



Cheers,
    Ian    [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 9 Jun 92 09:38:26 +0200
From: [e-mail]
Subject: NEC Mulitsync 5FG and Mac IIci

Dear net,

I would like to connect a NEC multisync 5FG to my Macintosh IIci (System
6.0.7, 8MB RAM if this matters) as a second monitor. And, of course,
there are some questions:

*  What is a "good" video card to drive this monitor (a resolution of
1280 x 1024 at 8 bit would be fine, at least it should be > 1000 x something)?

*  What other hardware is necessary to use this monitor?

*  What about the internal video card of the Mac IIci (it is not used
   up to now)? Is it absolutely unable to do something with the NEC
   or is it just poor resolution at 4 colors?

Any bit of information will be received with gratitude

Georg Denk, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
e-mail: [e-mail]
or:     [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 09 Jun 92 10:00:47 CDT
From: "Paul M. Sheldon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: On printing Theorist notebook on Mind of God, used print-2-pict-30

    When I read my own submission to info-mac, I realized I had missed giving
credit to Baudouin Raoult's Print2Pict 3.0. I remind the digest readers of this
wonderful printer driver that allows you to make a correspondence in your
favorite word processor and print it to disk. That document was:
  [Archived as /info-mac/ex/print-2-pict-30.hqx; 102K]
    My theorist document was:
  [Archived as /info-mac/misc/theorist-reading-god-grp2.hqx; 24K]
    When I originally submitted my Alternate Universe Navigator to info-mac,
one George Tempel suggested that instructions for programs should be in a
format that the user would know. I repeat that this Print2Pict 3.0 will make
a document that System 7.0's teachtext and Stuffit's viewer will see.
Further, it will make so called post cards that, when clicked on, don't
need to be opened by external applications, but are applications themselves.

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Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1992 08:08:53 +0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Optical Disk Drives (Q)

Dear Readers

I am considering one of the new optical disk drives from Panasonic (the
LF-3000E) which is a 3.5 inch rewritable Magneto Optical Drive. Has anyone
had any experience with this drive or similar?

Thanks.

Tony D'Emanuele ([e-mail])

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Date: Tue, 9 Jun 92 12:34:10 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Mel Martinez x8378)
Subject: Printing linked documents to file (R)

Yet-another-suggestion:

After printing each document to separate postscript files, you can just drop
them all together on text-merger-102.hqx which appends them all into one big
file.  This will print just fine when sent to a printer.  Unfortunately, unless
you take measures to adjust the content of your postscript files, this will
result in repeat occurences of the AppleDict and perhaps some fonts and the
TrueType dictionary as well.  The fie can get huge easily.

The main advatage of this method is that it applies to all postscript files,
not just those generated by WORD.  You can combine the output from several
programs.

If you have a macro-writing ability such as in Nisus or QUED/M, you could
concievably write a script that will strip repeat occurences of dictionaries
and fonts and also move the flush commands to the end of the file.  Then you
would have a much more compact version of the file which should (cross-fingers)
print faster.

By the way : I really wish application writers would rewrite their print-files
-from-Finder routines.  From what I know of Apple's guidelines from the various
mac programming books I have, this is somewhat left up to the programmer.  What
seems to typically happen is that they totally neglect the case where you might
want to print multiple files to postscript files instead of sending them all to
a printer.  Thus they only present a Print Dialog for the first file and NO
MATTER WHETHER YOU CHOOSE PRINTER OR POSTSCRIPT FILE FOR THAT ONE, they then
send ALL the rest of the files to the printer!  If any of you do not believe
me, just select several files while in the finder, then select the Print
command.  When the Print dialog comes up, click on Postscript File and watch
what happens.

I raised this point once before.  Am I the only one who finds this annoying?
I would like the following behavior:

    1-option to have Print Dialog options apply to all subsequent files in
    selection.
    2-option to have individual Print Dialogs for each file.
    3-option to have all files' output merged into single postscript file.

These don't seem like unreasonable requests to me.

Mel Martinez
The Johns Hopkins University
Dept. of Physics

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Date: Tue, 9 Jun 92 08:59:05 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: QuicKeys upgrade in last TidBITS

I completely forgot to mention in the TidBITS#127 what the QuicKeys
upgrade was for, and I can't really expect everyone to have seen TidBITS#123,
which talked about what would be in the upgrade. My apologies!

Here's the article from #123...

cheers ... Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor



QuicKeys Line Enhanced by CE
 ---------------------------
  by Mark H. Anbinder -- TidBITS Contributing Editor

  CE Software has been in the press quite a bit lately, and
  deservedly so. The latest piece of news out of West Des Moines,
  Iowa, is that CE has announced two new pieces in the QuicKeys
  product line, one of which will ship later this month.

  QuicKeys is CE's macro product for the Macintosh, allowing users
  to customize and largely automate their work environment by
  assigning frequently-used or "menial" operations to one-or-two-
  keystroke commands. Version 2.1.2, scheduled to ship on 20-May-92,
  is 32-bit clean, System 7 savvy, and supports Apple Events of all
  kinds. This latest version also offers improved compatibility with
  Microsoft Word 5.0 and other minor changes.

  The additions to the family are Instant QuicKeys and QuicKeys
  Runtime. The former is a new installation and modification
  application that leads users through a process that automatically
  sets up dozens of useful QuicKeys without having to use the
  regular QuicKeys editor. With Instant QuicKeys, which will ship in
  the box with QuicKeys 2, CE says they no longer have just a "power
  user's" product, but a product that will cater to all levels of
  Mac user.

  Instant QuicKeys will also allow users to set up on-screen
  palettes of "SoftKeys" containing up to ninety frequently-accessed
  macros, accessible through a single keystroke or by clicking on
  the screen. An additional application, QKIcons, will allow users
  to create icons that can invoke any QuicKey with a single click.
  The icons can be placed on the desktop or in any folder for easy
  location and use.

  This last feature is reminiscent of Tiles, CE's "intelligent
  desktop" product, which hasn't done as well in the marketplace as
  the company would have liked. One of the features of Tiles is that
  a QuicKey can be assigned to a tile, which resides within the
  program's windows or can be dragged out to float over the desktop.
  The program is an application launcher and desktop organizer, but
  users have complained of a confusing interface and excessive
  memory requirements, and many prefer to accomplish the same tasks
  with simpler, less-expensive utilities.

  QuicKeys Runtime, for which a shipping date and price are not yet
  set, is a runtime version of QuicKeys that will allow system
  managers, consultants, or value-added resellers (VARs) to create
  customized sets of QuicKey macros and install them for users who
  won't need to modify them or create their own. We hope that CE
  will elect to price the runtime package at an affordable level
  that will enable large workgroups to afford to share in QuicKeys's
  benefits without the extra expense. Since the product is obviously
  aimed at workgroups and larger installations, it would make sense
  for CE to offer quantity pricing, as they do with QuickMail, their
  flagship electronic mail product. Five, ten, fifty, and one
  hundred user packages would make sense.

  Current QuicKeys 2 users will be able to upgrade to version 2.1.2,
  including Instant QuicKeys, for $30, and users of versions prior
  to 2.0 will be able to upgrade for $49. Users who are interested
  in upgrading from 2.1 to 2.1.2 without getting Instant QuicKeys,
  SoftKeys, or QKIcons may download an updater utility from various
  online services, or may obtain an update disk from CE for $15.
  Users who purchased QuicKeys after 01-Apr-92 will be able to
  upgrade to 2.1.2 (with Instant QuicKeys) for free. International
  users should contact their local distributors, or call CE customer
  service at 515/224-1995.

    CE Software -- 800/523-7638 -- 515/224-1995

  Information from:
    CE propaganda



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Date: Tue, 09 Jun 92 10:08:46 IST
From: "Dr. Michael Silverstein" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re-referencing and Citations

I would rather switch than fight
through renumbering Tables, Equations, Figures,
and References every time I break something I am
writing down to pieces and reassemble.

FullWrite Professional is a word processor
that renumbers, re-references, anything under
the sun.  There are plenty of drawbacks to
the programme, the biggest one is that it is
pretty much in the deceased catagory, but I have
not found anything better for this purpose.  I would
rather put up with its minor shortcomings than have
to manually renumber and re-reference everything.

I was saved endless frustration when I
 added in an extra Figure to the middle of my text
while working under a deadline. I did not have to
worry about searching through the text and remembering
when to change the numbers etc.  I just added the
Figure and FWP did the rest....

WHY CANT ANYONE ELSE INCORPORATE THIS ESSENTIAL
FEATURE IN THEIR PROGRAMME?

That is a really good question...

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Date: Tue, 9 Jun 92 09:42:41 +0200
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Rebuilding the desktop of external hard disk

Dear net,

I would like to know how to rebuild the desktop of an external
hard disk (you see: System 6!). Inserting it like floppies doesn't
work and at startup only the internal hard disk gets a new desktop
file. Is it okay to delete the desktop file and hope that everything
will be okay after startup?

Thank you in advance

Georg Denk, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
e-mail: [e-mail]
or:     [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 8 Jun 92 23:13:43 EDT
From: Stephen Wall (SFAE-AR-HIP-SY) <[e-mail]>
Subject: Repeat Bibliographic: Advocacy for the Devil.

I've been reading all the recent postings about repeating bibliographic input
and footnoting in Microsoft Word, and it seems that one basic thread is
that academic customers are being treated like second class citizens.

Playing Devil's Advocate for the moment, I'd ask: Is there any profit in
adding new features purely for academia?  With the deep discounts typical
at educational institutions (Well, at least here in the USA), maybe Microsoft
and other developers don't see enough potential profit from additional academic
sales to expend the effort.

Steve Wall    [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 08 Jun 92 19:03:49 PDT
From: Paul Brians <[e-mail]>
Subject: Resurrecting a dead Mac

Here's a tip that might help somebody.  After a momentary power outage
my IIsi refused to power on.  I thought sure a surge had fried it, but
it turned out the PRAMs were simply trashed so that it didn't know
enought to turn on.  The fix was briefly removing the battery (obviously
the usual PRAM-zap routine wouldn't work because I couldn't turn it on
to do it). This cost me $37.95 to learn.  The repairman says it's rare,
but it's worth a try if your Mac suddenly goes belly-up.  Unless, of
course, you're one of those poor souls with a soldered-in battery.

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Date: Tue, 9 Jun 92 13:09:49 WET DST
From: Ian C McCall <[e-mail]>
Subject: SIMMs x 8 or SIMMs x 9?

Do Mac LCs take by 8 SIMMs or by 9? I'm trying to assess how much it
would be for me to upgrade to 10 megabytes with two 4 meg SIMMs.

By the way, if any Americans could tell me how much SIMMs are over there
so I could guage the cost of importing rather than buying here, I'd be
grateful.


Cheers,
    Ian

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Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1992 12:18:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail] (VAX Academic Support)
Subject: Some answers to numerous questions

RE: Notify
 ---------
I haven't used it on a network, but it seems that Notify is a more of a
reminder program.  Enter messages and frequency (do you want to be reminded
every 5 minutes or 5 weeks?) and Notify displays the message on your screen.

RE: Madness Rage
 ---------------
You receive the cow "dumping" in addition to other guns and ammunition, after
you submit the shareware fee.

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

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Date: Mon, 8 Jun 92 23:15:15 -0400
From: Gary Goldberg <[e-mail]>
Subject: SUMMARY: FDHD repair and replacement (long)

I wanted to share what I found about replacing and repairing FDHD disks
with the net, but unfortunately, the story is still going on. Here is
what I've found so far...

Late Friday night I ejected a disk from the drive in my IIcx and it got
stuck midway through the release. This happened once before, so I knew to
get a paperclip and tried to release it. No good. At this point, I knew what
a bad idea it is to try to force the disk, so I didn't.

NOTE #1 - Don't DON'T try to force the disk. Even if you think it'd be
simple to do. It WILL cost you money.

I powered the machine down, and began to disassemble it. I found that the
IIcx comes apart surprisingly easily. Take the cover off. Disconnect power
cables. Disconnect all plugs, adb, serial, video etc. Blow the dust out.
(If you've had the drive more than a couple of weeks there will be plenty.)
Disconnect the hard drive data cable and power cable. Depressing the catches
on both sides of the drive, lift the hard drive basket and place aside.

The power supply slides up and away from the motherboard, where it is tied in
with a single Molex connector. Pull it up from underneath (go slowly).
Once it is removed, use a Phillips screwdrive to remove the screw from the
disk plastic housing. Disconnect the FDHD cable at the disk drive. Depress
the catch on the housing and remove the housing.

Turn the housing over to reveal the disk drive. Two screws in the back sides
of the housing secure the FDHD. Remove these. Remove the drive from the housing by slightly bending the plastic outward. Careful! The drive sits in a
cage - remove the screws holding it and remove the cage. What you are left with
is the drive.

At this point - I must have damaged something - probably the head. I thought I was being careful when I extracted it. Oh well.

Turns out the the mechanism, a Sony, is manufactured exclusively for Apple and
only Apple sells the replacements. This means that most street prices are about
$300.

I then looked into repair. I found the following places willing to repair -
1. MiproIII - as recommended by people on America Online. $125 for any repair.
They sold their floppy repair unit to a company called ERC, at [phone].
$125 + shipping and handling. The technician there said that these drives
are EXTREMELY prone to the head assembly getting bent or broken, making them
useless. This looks like the best place to get fixed. Also,
2. Shreve Systems [phone]. They won't fix - replace $289.
3. Quadmation [phone]. Any repair, $197. This didn't seem like much
of a deal.
4. Falcon Microsystems, Landover, MD. Government reseller, will fix for
$75/hour plus parts. (At least the same as a new unit.)
5. I also called some places in the back of MacWorld/MacUser. None will fix
for less than $150.
Dan Lunderville of Wisconsin also suggested the following places -
6. MicroMat Computer Systems
   7075 Redwood Blvd. - Warehouse 4
   Novato, CA  94947
   [phone]
7. Soft Solutions
   907 River Rd., Suite #98
   Eugene, OR  97404
   [phone]  voice
   [phone]  FAX
8. G.E. Repair Services
   3400-M De La Cruz Blvd.
   Santa Clara, CA  95054
   [phone]
   (800) WE-FIX-MACS
9. Pre-Owned Electronics
   205 Burlington Road
   Bedford, MA  01730
   [phone]
10.Microdoc
   Eugene, OR
   [phone]

I eventually ordered a new Applied Engineering AE HD external floppy for $229
>From MacConnection. It has a number of nice features that improve upon Apple's
external unit, including a combo red/green LED to indicate write/read.
But I still find myself sticking disks into the internal, and getting the
awful "Not a Mac disk - Initialize?" message. So I'll be getting the internal
fixed at ERC.

Some more notes - I looked at the mechanism for the FDHD in a Sun SPARCstation.
It appears to be near the same unit, but the model numbers were different, as
well as enough circuit board differences to convince me that it wouldn't
work as a replacement.

I also read through the DEAD MAC SCROLLS, a book by Larry Pina that discusses
repair. Very informative. Unfortuanately it also said the heads would have to bereplaced.

In messages from America Online, I learned that the IIcx and the IIci are
VERY prone to FDHD breakage, mostly because of the fan drawing dust through the
floppy slot and mechanism on its way out the back. One man said that of the
eight IIcx he purchased for an office, seven of the floppy disks went bad withinthe first year. There were numerous mail messages complaining about breakage,
stuck disks, etc., with these models. The best thing you can do to prevent
this happening to you is to keep the drive clear of dust and dirt, and keep
the slot covered when not being used. There were enough disgruntled people
with IIcx/ci's that they wanted to complain ala MODE32 to get Apple to acknow-
ledge guilt and repair them (on AOL).

I've learned a lot about motorized floppy drives in the past few days. I hope
that some of this can help you. Thanks everyone for the advice and suggestions.

- Gary Goldberg [e-mail] Bowie, MD KA3ZYW

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Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1992 21:50:34 PDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Undeletable folder in System 6

Why do I have a folder I can't delete?  I can drag it into the trash can.  But
when I try to Empty Trash, I get an alert saying "The Trash couldn't be emptied
(a file was busy or a folder was not empty)." (OK).  Of course, the folder
*appears* to be empty.  "Get Info" from the Finder's File menu says "0 bytes
used, 0K on disk, for 0 files".  However, DiskTop says "-3 files/folders".
Ring any bells?

The folder in question is on my hard drive, directly in the folder for the
whole drive (although it used to be one level lower down).

This state is quite robust.  I've done a lot of rebooting, and several rebuilds
of the desktop (via option-clover during boot).  I'm running System 6.0.7, with
Finder 6.1.7.  My System folder has a few dozen inits, including InitPicker,
which I quickly set to not run any others.  At first I had only the initial
load of DAs installed in my System file (I normally use SuitcaseII, except when
InitPicker or desktop-rebuilding causes it to not run); partway through my
exploration of this state I used the Font/DA Mover to move DiskTop into my
System file.

Any help appreciated,
Mike

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

Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1992 15:03:53 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Michael A. McGuire)
Subject: Word 5.0 patch (C & Q)

Spoke to Microsoft today.  The said there was a problem using the Grammer
checker and Spell checker on a Mac Plus using Word 5.0 and running System
7. They are sending me a patch.  As always you have to call to get the fix.

They also said that a new version of Word, rewritten from the core, was in
our future and would address some of the Figure/Footnote/Table numbering
problems that have been discussed here in the last week or so.  I hope it
runs faster. Don't hold your breath on this one.  He could not give me a
date.

I have been reading on the net, that people are having problems with Word
5.0 crashing when printing, running the grammer checker, or spell checking
when they have not saved their file.

Can anyone verify this?  Does it happen all the time?  What mac and OS are
you running?  How much memory have you given to Word?  We are looking in to
this at our site and I am trying to get all the data I can.  I can not
reporduce the problem consistentily yet.

If I get enough responses I will summerize for the net.

Thanks

Michael McGuire, [e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 9 Jun 92 10:00:21 EDT
From: JF <[e-mail]>
Subject: wordprocessing on a Sparc and an SE/30?

I have a sparcstation at work (with TEX, which I have never used) and an SE/30 at home (with Word, which I always use).  What I need is a single wordprocessor which I can use on both machines (transferring files between the machines on floppies or a modem).  Does anyone have a solution?

John Fyfe
[e-mail]

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