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Info-Mac Digest             Mon, 15 Jun 92       Volume 10 : Issue 144

Today's Topics:

      [*] Bouncing Polygon
      [*] Hardware-price-report.sea.hqx
      [*] Merz Poetry 3.1
      [*] Sound format converter - Sun ulaw to Mac snd
      :? Mac<-INTERNET->DOS secure comm?
      [Q] Powerbooks - Free Case and Using Abroad
      Apple RBG HiRes Monitor Recall Followup
      Audio CDs: How Do It Know? (A)
      AutoDoubler and Dove
      Basic reference works in electronic form
      Can you create a PICT image from postscript code
      CCITT Group 4 bilevel TIFF Software
      Cheap Powerbooks ?!
      Clarus
      Connectivity
      Data Modem 2400 (Q)
      diacretics (2 msgs)
      Dot surface --> Solid surface (C + Q)
      Error codes
      EtherNet networks (setting one up)
      FEdit+
      File: "INFO-MAC MAIL" being sent to you
      FTP programs for the Mac
      How do I access genie address from internet or bitnet?
      How to get Mac Word to DOS Word Perfect 5.x?
      HP LaserJet Driver ?
      HyperCard Serial Toolkit
      ImageWriter I (A)
      Inaccessible Truetype characters
      Info-Mac Digest V10 #141 'help needed'
      Info-Mac Digest V10 #142
      Info-Mac Digest V10 #143
      init-crashes
      Installing a 68020 into an SE
      Mac+ memory
      MacIIFX update, problem solved
      Microswitch solution?
      MS QuickBasic->THINK C 5.0
      Partition Switching (A)
      Personal Laserwriter LS upgrade (C)
      Phrase
      PLW LS to PLW NTR upgrade
      PLW LS to PLW NTR upgrade (A)
      PowerBook and Modem (Q)
      PS files and SendPS (A)
      Purchasing Upgrade to Personal LaserWriter NTR (Q)
      QUADRA 750
      Query for posting in the digest.
      se/30 question
      SendPS under System 7 (A)
      Show Icons
      Spreadsheet question
      startup sheet blues
      Stylewriter Background Printing
      Superfluous LF's vanish in at a single stroke (A)
      Synergy (VersaTerm-PRO) Telephone Number?
      Sys7 suitcase --> Sys6 DA (Q)
      Text editor for large files (A) (2 msgs)
      thank you
      Tiger Software
      Typing diacritics after a vowel (A)
      Voice Navigator SW
      Workstation WP (A)
      Zoom modem and AppleTalk Remote Access

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Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1992 02:00:25 -0700
From: Gary Arnold <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Bouncing Polygon

Bouncing Polygon 2.1 After Dark module
By Gary Arnold, Banzai Software

This is an interesting little AD module I whipped up.  It's my
first one, so let me know what you think!  If you like it,
please send a few bucks to:
Gary Arnold Jr.
1000 Piner Rd.
Santa Rosa, CA  95403

Even if you don't like it, send me a postcard or Email, so I can
see how far and wide it has spread!

This module requires 256 colors/grays.  (Sorry! :-)

Gary Arnold/Banzai Software
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/util/ad/bouncing-polygon-21.hqx; 6K]

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Date: Fri, 12 Jun 92 07:50:30 -0400
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Hardware-price-report.sea.hqx

Here's a listing of current computer hardware (and some software) with the
prices charged as of June 5th for departmental orders at the University of
Michigan (Ann Arbor). U-M is a member of the Apple Consortium but sets its
own prices for faculty and students. In my experience the U-M prices are a
bit higher than those set by other universities. This report will give you
a notion of what current prices are (something that is not easy to obtain
at many other universities, whose computer purchasing offices do not
prepare comprehensive lists or do not update them frequently).

Also, this particular list serves as a handy reference to what is
available, since it is a descriptive list with much information. For
example, here's a typical listing:

985855   $2140.95   Macintosh PowerBook 140 4/40

                    4 MB RAM; 40 MB internal hard drive (20ms); 1.4 MB
internal
                    floppy drive; 16 MHz; 68030 processor; 10" backlit
display;
                    sound port; 63-key keyboard; trackball; 2-3 hour
battery;
                    and AC adapter.  7lb.

                    (Individual purchase includes Disinfectant.)


Enjoy!

Jeff Needleman  <[e-mail]>

[Archived as /info-mac/report/um-hardware-prices.hqx; 56K]

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Date: Fri, 12 Jun 92 00:07:47 EDT
From: J. R. Valentine (Creider) <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Merz Poetry 3.1

A thousand pardons, the version of Merz Poetry (a HyperCard stack
that produces random art and ghastly haiku) that I submitted was
an early version that had not been render user-friendly. I am
submitting Merz 3.1 to replace 3.0. Please destroy any copies
of 3.0 that you have and replace them with 3.1. I am deeply committed
to making intelligible HyperCard stack, and was grieved when I
saw that the version I had released was an early, unfriendly one.

Rand Valentine
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/card/merz-31.hqx; 84K]

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Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1992 16:14:39 PDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Sound format converter - Sun ulaw to Mac snd

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A recent request showed there is still interest in a Mac program to convert
Sun ulaw-encoded audio files to Mac snd format.  I decided to upload the
program I've been working on in its present incomplete state. As a Mac program
it is not pretty but it is functional. It will read ulaw-encoded sounds and
save them as Mac snd resources in an "sfil" type file. This means System 7
will let you double-click on them to play them or drop them into the System
file.

It has a few known bugs. The most serious one occurs when too many large sound
files are converted at once. The Mac will just freeze up and you have to
reboot.
So far the program works for fairly large individual files but there is
probably an upper limit. Theoretically it will handle up to 20 (small?) files
in one
batch. When such an sfil is dropped in the System, however, the first snd
resource gets the name of the file and not that of the resource as the
remaining
resources do.

Because of these bugs and its ugly UI, I'm not asking a shareware fee for this
version. Use it at your own risk but please send additional bug reports,
comments and suggestions to me.

Vic Heintz
vic:[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/sound/program/sun-ulaw-to-mac.hqx; 26K]

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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1992 12:36:21 PDT
From: Vaughan Johnson <[e-mail]>
Subject: :? Mac<-INTERNET->DOS secure comm?



I have a Macintosh.  I correspond w/someone who has a DOS
machine.  We each log onto a UNIX machine to send mail
back & forth, but neither UNIX machine has any encryption
software.  We would like to send each other encrypted
email.  Our best hope so far was to get encryption software
>From the same company w/Mac & DOS versions for our two
personal machines, and do the encryption/decryption off
the UNIX machines.

I have Norton Utilities for Mac 2.0.  My friend who has a
DOS machine has the latest version of Norton Utilities for
DOS.  Here's what I've tried for sending:
-    Use Norton Encrypt to encrypt an ASCII file (an MPW
    Shell text document).
-    Upload the encrypted file to the UNIX machine.
-    Convert the encrypted file to ASCII with uuencode for
    sending over INTERNET.
-    Send it.

Here's what I've tried for receiving:
-    Receive the encrypted mail file, & save it to my
    directory.
-    Use uudecode to invert the uuencode that the sender did.
-    Download the encrypted file.  It has a file type &
    creator of the terminal emulator I use (ZTerm 0.9).
-    Use ResEdit to change the file type & creator to those
    of Norton Encrypt.
-    Try to decrypt it with Norton Encrypt.

Neither of these approaches works.  Can you help us?  Thanks!


Vaughan Johnson

[e-mail]

(Please reply to me directly, as well as to the bulletin board,
because I sometimes have trouble w/the bboard reader.  Thanks!)

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Date: Sun, 14 Jun 92 09:49 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [Q] Powerbooks - Free Case and Using Abroad

Two Q's:
(1) I remember hearing about Apple offering free Powerbook carrying cases--
    are they still available?

(2) I'm bringing my Powerbook and a Stylewriter to France. I've heard they both
    have international power supplies. Does that mean all I have to do is buy
    a converter? What else should I be aware of?

Reply to [e-mail] and I'll summarize for the net.

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Date: Monday, 15 Jun 1992 07:40:03 EDT
From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Apple RBG HiRes Monitor Recall Followup

Several people sent me e-mail about Apple's recall (if you can call
it that) of certain S/N Hi Res RGB monitors.

I appreciate the responses.  All the responders asked me for more
information on the RGB Monitor problem reported in MacWeek.  None
had any insight on how Apple is actually handling the problem.

For those who asked, here are the details as far as I have them:

The February 24th edition of MacWeek carried an article indicating
that Apple had issued some defective RGB monitors between March
1990 and July 22, 1991.  They gave the serial number range as
7000001 - 7101012, 5378111-5624450 and 9000001 - 9029500.

We have two of monitors in our department which fall in the
serial number range of the defective monitors.  I asked
our computer store how to arrange to get the monitors repaired
or replaced.  Their response was that:

      "In order to be eligible for the warranty extension repair,
       the serial numbers of the monitors must fall in the specified
       range, the monitors must exhibit the ailment mentioned in the
       article, AND the capacitor must be within a specified serial
       number range."

This strikes me as stange.  Usually when Apple finds a problem
they repair or replace all units in the bad serial range -- whether
they've already failed or not.  (Is my memory playing tricks on
me?)  MacWeek included a number in the article for more info (303)
297- 2321.  I haven't called it for clarification.  (I suppose I should!)

Hope this is helpful.  I'm still trying to learn if Apple will repair
or replace all bad monitors in the serial range -- not just ones that
fail.  Any wisdom or experience from the net would be appreciated.


Jeff Fritz
West Virginia University
[e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 14 Jun 92 07:05:36 EDT
From: [e-mail] (David Fry)
Subject: Audio CDs: How Do It Know? (A)

Audio CDs have encoded on them someplace the number of 72nds of a second
of music that is recorded on them.  For instace, if the
CD is 53 minutes, 28 seconds long, the CD has the number
53*60*72 + 28*72 = 230976 stored on it.  It is assumed that
no two CDs have exactly the same length, so the CD Player software
uses this number to identify the disks.


David Fry                               [e-mail]
Division of Applied Sciences            [e-mail]
Harvard University                      ...!harvard!huma1!fry
Cambridge, MA  02138

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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 92 15:22:31 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: AutoDoubler and Dove

If you have a Dove accelerator and AutoDoubler, you shouldn't. What I've
been calling the "Joyce Johnstone Memorial Update" to AutoDoubler (1.0.7)
has, in addition to the fix for the bug that clobbered Joyce's files, a
README note about why some of Leslye's files got garbled. AD will now no
longer install if any Dove upgrade card is installed. It is a problem
with Dove hardware (Note that Dove is now in Chapter 11 bankruptcy and
has more pressing issues to consider at the mo) that is pretty unlikely
to get fixed Real Soon Now. It was dumb luck that I donated L's Dove card
to the University last month when I got her a DayStar PowerCache and
quite inadvertently pre-solved her semi-trashed PICT problem.

Actually, of course, all I did was prevent recurrence. The PICT file of
particular interest (a poster for my regional association's meeting in
October) was still goofy. Based on what I had discovered from Joyce's
problem, I tried a bunch of stuff based on a GIF intermediary. I found
ColorIt! could read the PICT as it had been. GIF Converter and other pgms
including the producing program (PhotoShop) saw the poster with heavy
jaggies and dropouts. Giffer saw the first 2/3 of the PICT beautifully
and overlaid the last third on itself. Imagery refused to admit it was
a standard PICT file. ColorIt! would not save the PICT as itself in PICT
format useful in other programs, but it would save a good GIF file. Then
it read the GIF and would save it as a PICT in untrashed form useful to
other programs.

I don't know about y'all, but that experience is enough to make me feel
very warm and fuzzy about MicroFrontier's ColorIt! program. We have lots
of high priced and no priced graphics programs. ColorIt! is a mid priced
program that (1) won Leslye's heart when she had to teach computer art
on 2mb LC's last year and (2) won me over with its marvelous conversion
abilities and with its ability to properly read graphics files that other
programs said were trash. If you're into graphics and if you don't have
ColorIt!, I think you're shooting yourself in the foot.

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

Disclaimer Time: Leslye was one of the pissier beta testers of ColorIt!
version 2. She was getting betas ftp'd her the weekend before the master
was to go gold. And she kept finding bugs. Maybe that is why MicroFontier
didn't have the courtesy to give her a production copy. Much less pay
her for beta testing. Doesn't pay to be pissy. She and I still like the
product.

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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 92 12:29:00 EST
From: [e-mail] (Dhanesh K. Samarasan)
Subject: Basic reference works in electronic form

Hello:

I would like to have a set of basic reference works -- including
dictionaries, thesauri(!), encyclopaedia, etc. -- in electronic
form.  What would you all recommend?

I am looking for CD-based packages that contain non-trivial
information and have a REAL Macintosh interface.

If possible, they should take advantage of such modern wonders
as System 7.x, etc., but they don't actually have to EXIST yet,
if you can also cite an expected ship date.

Thanks for the help.


Dhanesh

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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 92 16:13:01 -0700
From: Jon Pugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Can you create a PICT image from postscript code

Another option for creating a PICT from arbitrary Postscript code is to use
SmartArt, which sends the PS to your laserwriter and has it send back a
bitmap.  I checked it out some time ago and it worked.  Not fast, but it worked.

Jon

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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 92 09:52:58 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: CCITT Group 4 bilevel TIFF Software



Hello - I am looking for MacIntosh software that will allow me to do the
following.  (Not limited to this only)

-- Display of compressed bilevel TIFF files (compression type CCITT
G3-1D, CCITT Group 4 or Packbits)

-- view and print the above file types.

I know of a package called "VuImagePlus" in the MSDOS environment, but I
want to find the same capability in the MacIntosh environment.  Please,
anyone with information, let me know what is available.  Thank you very
much for taking the time to read and respond to my inquiry.

--Randy Austin ([e-mail])

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Date: Sun, 14 Jun 92 20:29:41 EDT
From: Jason W Botts <[e-mail]>
Subject: Cheap Powerbooks ?!

I don't want to sound like a classified ad
but I am in search for the cheapest
Powerbook 140 or 170 that I can find.
I would be more than happy to post the results
back to Info-Mac as soon as I get a response.
I am a student so please feel free to let me in
on all the educational discounts Apple so kindly provides.

Send the story of your "wheeling  and dealing"
for a Powerbook to:
  [e-mail]

If you attach a note I'll send you a more
complete copy of all the results.

Thanks,

Jason W. Botts    [e-mail]  Compuserve 70302,40
Wake Forest University - Winston-Salem, NC

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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 92 10:50:29 EST
From: [e-mail] (Dhanesh K. Samarasan)
Subject: Clarus

> Ed Costello asks what a dogcow is.
>
>
> The infamous dogcow is the Mac developers' mascot. Rumor has it
> the dogcow came into being thanks to the Blue Meanies, on a three
> day Mountain Dew high...but no one knows for sure.
>
> Actually, I'm not sure if anyone knows unquestionably if it was
> meant to look so much like a cow or not but Apple employees
> invented it, so it was probably intended to look like a fish...


To quote Macintosh Technical Note 252:

    There is reason to believe that this representation is actually a baby
    dogcow.  Due to the protective nature of parent dogcows, young dogcows
    are rarely seen.  This one was spotted during a DTS meeting after it
    drew attention to itself by crying "moo! woof!".  (Note that this
    dogcow said "moo! woof!" because it was immature; adult dogcows
    naturally say, "Moof!".)

The full story is told in Macintosh Technical Note #31...


Dhanesh
  somewhat versed in the ways of Clarus.

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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 92 12:43:09
From: [e-mail] (Dieder)
Subject: Connectivity

I assume that it is indeed possible for IBMs to use Zmodem protocol. I
would like to link two computers up, a Mac and an IBM together via a
serial cable. I have Zterm on this end, but I need a Zmodem protocol
supporting program on the IBM. I don't want to buy any software. Any
suggestions?

Is there a possibility of being able to use an IBMs HD from a mac? i.e.
a direct connection, almost pseudo-network like? Without the network
cards and such? Thanks in advance,

D

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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 92 20:59:59 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Data Modem 2400 (Q)

I have a new Data Modem 2400 and am using ZTerm to try downloading
materials from a UNIX system, using 'sz'.  How should I set up my
system to recieve?  I have this line put in:

 ' sz -rul 512 w 2048 '

But I am gettin logs of CRC errors.  What parameters should I set to be
able to ZModem stuff?  Any help[ would be appreciated.  Thanks.

Doctor Voodoo
[e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 14 Jun 92 21:36:01 EDT
From: CYMT000 <[e-mail]>
Subject: diacretics

Bonjour Louis
Merci pour votre response. One of the reason I want to have diacretics
typing after the vowel is that I saw PC can do it. I wonder if Mac
technique can do the same thing. The technique which has been used in
Mac right now is the 'dead key' which is used in both US and ISO
Canadien. We can have an 'e' with grave accent by typing '`' and then
'e', then the sreen will show us an accent grave e, which has been
already designed in the font (which you have said).

Itmay not be logical by typing a diacretic after but some of my friends
prefer to use my sanskrit font which I created from Font Studio, with
the keyboard that can type the diacretics after exactly like handwriting
Since there are a lot of genius out there on the list I would like to
know if we can alter the deadkey technique in some ways which meet
someone's preference.

Well, part of my reason is that I don't want PC can do something which
Mac would disperately say:"I am sorry Mac technology is not able to
do that". To me it is a challenge eventhough this technique of typing
does not meet a lot of people's preference.

Mai Ba Tong
[e-mail]
McGill University
Montreal Quebec

P.S. I know that with font utility you are able to type diacretic after
(such as Linguistic's Software font) but as result you have 2 ascii
values for such word as e accentgrve. Merci encore pour votre reponse.

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Date: Sun, 14 Jun 92 21:43:28 EDT
From: CYMT000 <[e-mail]>
Subject: Diacretics

Bonjour Louis
Merci pour votre response. One of the reason I want to have diacretics
typing after the vowel is that I saw PC can do it. I wonder if Mac
technique can do the same thing. The technique which has been used in
Mac right now is the 'dead key' which is used in both US and ISO
Canadien. We can have an 'e' with grave accent by typing '`' and then
'e', then the sreen will show us an accent grave e, which has been
already designed in the font (which you have said).

Itmay not be logical by typing a diacretic after but some of my friends
prefer to use my sanskrit font which I created from Font Studio, with
the keyboard that can type the diacretics after exactly like handwriting
Since there are a lot of genius out there on the list I would like to
know if we can alter the deadkey technique in some ways which meet
someone's preference.

Well, part of my reason is that I don't want PC can do something which
Mac would disperately say:"I am sorry Mac technology is not able to
do that". To me it is a challenge eventhough this technique of typing
does not meet a lot of people's preference.

Mai Ba Tong
[e-mail]
McGill University
Montreal Quebec

P.S. I know that with font utility you are able to type diacretic after
(such as Linguistic's Software font) but as result you have 2 ascii
values for such word as e accentgrve. Merci encore pour votre reponse.

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Date: Sun, 14 Jun 92 17:19 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Dot surface --> Solid surface (C + Q)

Dear Info-Mac,

I would like to thank Malcolm Slaney, Peter Hardman, Randy Bradley
and Mark Nutter for their responses to my question in Info-Mac No. 134
regarding Dot surface --> Solid surface conversion and a comparison
of the various 3D rendering programs available. Having received some
information about Mathematica from Wolfram Research ([e-mail] or
[e-mail]) it seems that this program will do the job and more.

I would still like to hear if anybody uses the dedicated rendering
programs Stratavision 3D, Ray Dream Designer, Swivel 3D etc. to
find out what sort of input they accept (i.e. a list of coordinates
or just user sketching ?).

Of course, any user's experiences with Mathematica would also be
useful... is there a Mathematica BBS ?

Thanks again,

Andy Sheppard ([e-mail] or [e-mail])

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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1992 12:40 CST
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Error codes

Where can I get a list of what the error codes mean?  I have seen two so far,
error type -192 and error type -39.  I would like to be able to know what the
Mac is telling me; I'm reasonably sure it's not good news.  Thanks for the
help.

Steve Waechter
swaechter@utmem2 (bitnet)
[e-mail] (internet)

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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 92 00:43:11 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Apu Mullick)
Subject: EtherNet networks (setting one up)

  I am currently involved in designing, researching, proposing and
implementing an EtherNet network in a K-12 school.
  I am interesting in any suggestions, comments, recommendations, etc.
that anyone can give me.
                                       Thanks, Apu

InterNet: [e-mail]            UUCP: rutgers!bobsbox!graphics!apu
_x

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Date: Sun, 14 Jun 92 09:10:02 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: FEdit+

In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
> >Someone on the Mac-User list asked about FEdit. It wasn't in the
> >sumex archives, so here it is. In the "About FEdit" box it says that
> >the program is available "from better computer stores" *OR* by sending
> >$40 to MacMaster Systems in Fremont, California. That sounds to me like
> >a shareware arrangement.
>
> Well it sure doesn't sound like one to me! It sounds like ordering
> directions for a fully commercial product, and I would *really*
> hate to see SUMEX get burned on this one, especially after its
> recent embarrassment with BeHierarchic.

I have no idea about the shareware or commercial nature of FEdit+,
but that's mostly because the program is seriously old and hasn't
been upgraded in years. As a testament to its programmer though, I
believe it still mostly works on new Macs under System 7, or at least
that's what a friend who paid for the original version years ago and
still has it said.

cheers ... -Adam

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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 92 15:32:24 -0700
From: Jon Pugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: FTP programs for the Mac

VersaTerm's FTP Client does indeed let you customize the fetch to something
like infomacv10-1* through the Filter option (on the popup menu). Basically
this just restricts the list to the files which pass the filter.  It's very
simple.

Of course, using the client you actually get a multiple selection standard
file type dialog which allows you to select all the files you want before
pressing the download button.  It's even easier!

Note that this is not the Receive File menu item, but the standalone FTP
Client program which is included with VersaTerm.  I am using VT-PRO 3.6.2.

Jon

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Date: Fri, 12 Jun 92 22:07:04 CDT
From: "Paul M. Sheldon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: How do I access genie address from internet or bitnet?

  You can get someone on applelink by building their address name for yourself.
I learned that you can build addresses from a rather lengthy book I skimmed
with a rather different purpose in mind. I expect that GEnie has a node name
and that someone totally in GEnie would simply write his pre@ thinger like
when I write someone in my own university. I expect that. What's the GEnie
nodename (ie. what's after @).
  Thanks in advance for whatever conjectures!!!
Acknowledge-To: <LZCB@UTDALLAS>

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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1992 21:02 EST
From: ROBERT_BROCKMAN <[e-mail]>
Subject: How to get Mac Word to DOS Word Perfect 5.x?

Here's the problem: I use MS Word 5.0 on my SE/30 but one of my summer
supervisors wants me to submit my reports (I'm a psychology intern) in DOS
Word Perfect 5.x format.

Word 5 has the translator, but the manual doesn't really elaborate how to
get it to a DOS disk. If I had more time I could try a bunch of different
ways and see which works best, but I don't have more time, and would rather
draw on the experience of all you kind folks.

Do I:

  1. Save it as a DOS WP file on my hard disk and then use
     Apple File Exchange to transfer it over to a HD DOS disk?

 1a. Using what, binary to binary?

  2. Or something else (i.e. should I buy a translator package?)

 2a. Which I'd rather not, since Word 5 allegedly offers smooth and
     effortless translation (my words, not theirs).

Should I create the documents on my Mac in Courier, to keep things simpler?
Formatting is rather simple, but there is a part with a lot of tabs:

          NAME:  Hanibal Lechter              DATES SEEN:  6/13,15,17/92
       ADDRESS:  2001: A Prison Oddessy Rd.  REPORT DATE:  6/25/92
         PHONE:  1-666-MAN-EATR                 EMPLOYER:  unemployed
 DATE OF BIRTH:  June 6, 1966                  CLINICIAN:  Robert Brockman

etc., that is no problem to set up on my Mac, but I know can be hell on a
plain old DOS machine---should I use spaces?

ANY other help/tips anyone can send would be very much appreciated! I'll be
writing dozens of these reports in the next few weeks, and I'd rather do
them on my Mac than have to spend half my life in my office at school trying
to learn Word Perfect on my generic PC clone (with a zippy 8088! We're
talking raw speed, here!).

Thanks,

Robert Brockman    aka [e-mail]  or  [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 92 05:34:24 PDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: HP LaserJet Driver ?

Greetings From Nacogdoches--

I'm in need of a way to connect a Mac to 1) LocalTalk, for network access
and 2) to an HP LaserJet via a serial connection.  This is in my  Dean's
office, so I can't just tell them to come upstairs to the closest networked
printer :-}}

Installing an AppleTalk card in the LaserJet isn't an option. The LaserJet
is connected to 4 other DOS machines via a printer sharing card insatalled
in its option slot.

I seem to recall that there once was a Chooser level driver for the HP--

Anyone have any suggestions ?

Ron Rushing     S.F.A University        [e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 92 09:44:59 GMT +0100
From: [e-mail] (Paul G. Smith)
Subject: HyperCard Serial Toolkit

In article <[e-mail]> ([e-mail]), you write:
> Does anyone have experience with the Serial Comm Toolkit for Hypercard
> that they would like to relate? We are just getting into roll-your-own
> uses of the Mac serial port and would like to keep them within
> HyperCard. I am assisting a faculty member with almost no programming
>  ....
> This is the Toolkit offered in the APDA catalog. Apparently, develop-
> ment was halted at an early stage, and it's offered under the user
> beware heading.

APDA also offer our, commercial and fully supported, product called 'CommsTalk
for HyperCard'. The product is APDA ref# T0458LL/A. If you want printed
literature then by all means email me your postal address.

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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1992 07:56:15 -0800
From: [e-mail]
Subject: ImageWriter I (A)

>We have an ImageWriter here. It's the old square one, not the IWI or
>IWII that's tilted at an angle.
>
>Can we use this with modern software and equipment?

Sure. It's horribly slow with TrueType, in my experience, but that's
probably more a function of the Mac Plus I drive mine with rather than the
printer itself.

Cheers
Mike Dustan, Computing Services, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC Canada

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Date: 14 Jun 92 00:24:14 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Tony Kroch)
Subject: Inaccessible Truetype characters

I have discovered what many of you must already know. There are a number of
characters in the truetype times font (fractions, thorn, eth, and others) that
are associated with the control keys (CNTRL-A, etc.). However, I can't get
these characters to print in my word processing program (Word, for one). Can
anyone tell me how to access them? By the way, is this a FAQ?

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Date: Sun, 14 Jun 92 10:46:06 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Michel Eytan LILoL)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V10 #141 'help needed'

I would like to thank publicly all the people who have responded to my call
for help, both publicly (on the list) and privately. The best indication I
got was a private e-mail from Bill Maslin who writes (I have not asked his
permission for reproducing this, I hope I have not committed a felony):

"Apple mice manufactured in Taiwan between Oct and Dec 1990...are...susceptible
to a defect that makes pressing the mouse button have no effect." These mice
have eleven digit serial numbers between LT043xxxxxx and LT051xxxxxx. "The
program offers free replacement through March 23, 1994." (MacWeek 02/24/92,
page 4).

This is exactly the case with my mouse, #LT043DRZC22. I hope Apple France
have heard about this!!!

The brunt of my posting however, is the *second* point of my message, to which
I have got ZERO replies. Can somebody help?

Many thanks

==michel [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 92 09:13:10 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Julian E. Gomez)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V10 #142

Edward Floden asks how Apple's CD software uniquely identifies audio CD's:

Audio data on a CD (also called a red book CD) is stored in "frames,"
each frame being 1/75th of a escond.  Apple uses the total number of
frames as the identifier.  Even for two disks that are supposedly the
same length (say 54 minutes 13 seconds, which is nominally 243975
frames) the chances are still pretty low that they will have the same
number of frames.

There is absolutely no identifying information on a red book CD other
than the embedded artwork, which is sometimes wrong.

    Julian "a tribble took it" Gomez
    [e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 92 21:27:52 EDT
From: "Schmidt,Rodney" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V10 #143

You inquire re: video capture on the mac. We use a ColorSnap 32+ nubus
board from Computer Friends in Protland, OR. It has been in use for
a year now and is quite reliable. Inputs via an adaptor cable from
laserdisc, vcr, videocamera, or Canon Xapshot. Reasonble price, and
QuickTime compatible also.

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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 92 18:14 GMT+0200
From: "MIA S|DERB{RJ, TELEMATIKENHETEN" <[e-mail]>
Subject: init-crashes

Hi! My name is Mia Soderbarj and I work at the university of Stockholm. A friend
of mine suggested this way of trying to obtain information on macproblems. I
have heard or read about a program (commercial or shareware I don't know!),that
monitors what inits you have installed and if they crash or "don't get along"
somehow the program tells you which init to remove. My mac sometimes crashes
and I suspect it's one of my inits, but I have removed the ones I can do without - the ones I still have are those I can't do without. IF anyone recognizes
this program and knows where and how to obtain it please let me know! I can
be reached at [e-mail]. Thanx!

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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1992 16:16:03 -0400
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Installing a 68020 into an SE

        At my job they have me working on an SE.  My supervisor said that
she had an extra 68020 chip laying around and she was wondering if she
could install it in my SE to give a little bit better performance.  What do
you think?  Can it be done?  Has it been done? Should it be done?
        You can respond personally to me if you would like
([e-mail]).  Thanks!
~~~
Bill Jenkins  -  [e-mail]

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Date: 15 Jun 92 09:27:28 U
From: "Rick Jarvis" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mac+ memory

 Mac+ memory
My direct mail to David Wiltschko bounced; hope he sees this post.
David - relative to your posting in Info-Mac. I have had trouble with fast
memory in mac+. We purchased 1meg simms, came in 80ns variety, some of same
symptoms you described. I swapped the simms for some 120ns chips from a mac ii
and all was well again. The mac ii had no trouble with the faster chips. Hope
this helps.
Rick Jarvis, Clemson University, [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 92 14:02:54 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: MacIIFX update, problem solved

    Well after a lot of sweating I fixed my Mac by just removing the
    chips and reinstalling them in a different order. I don't think
    the order was the problem, but I do think one was loose. Now the
    door bell sound is gone. Thanks to everyone who sent suggestions.

    Troy Kelley

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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 92 02:21:28
From: [e-mail] (Dieder)
Subject: Microswitch solution?

I came up with an idea, however it is kinda convoluted. A while ago I
posted my inquiry regarding mouse replacements/microswitch broken and
whatnot. Well, my dealer, some 2000 miles away, sent me a new one, and
asked for the old one to be sent back. He pays both ways! Nice eh?

But I stray...here's what I would suggest...get a local dead mouse, and
disembowel it, and remove the necessary microswitch (using the proper
tools of course! ;-) ). Radio Shack's microswitches listed in their
catalogue work fine, but as you may have discovered, they're kinda big.
I used their microswitch for a Mac Plus mouse replacement switch and it
worked great, however, I would rather not try paring the thing down to
fit into an ADB mouse!

Hope I've helped,

Dieder

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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 92 11:09 MET
From: Max <[e-mail]>
Subject: MS QuickBasic->THINK C 5.0

DEAR networkers,
    I`d like to create pure-code-resource library using THINK C 5.0 for
my program written in MS Quick Basic 1.0 .
If this is possible what`s the steps?
Thanks for any help.
        -Massimo La Farciola-

E-Mail: [e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 12 Jun 92 23:57:50 PDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Partition Switching (A)

>SPECIAL THANKS to Kevin Aitken for System Picker 1.0b11 (c) 1991
>(not 1.0b10) which precisely and beautifully solves the problem! You
>can "bless" any valid system folder on any partition of any disk,
>without fuss.
>
>I recommend this version highly; if it has any remaining "beta test"
>bugs they have not yet shown up, and no other such utility is
>available.

Au contraire mon frere. The program System Switcher is also an
excellent System Folder blesser. It's in...

             info-mac/util/system-switcher-11.hqx.

PS. Since the archives seem to have System Picker 1.0b10, could
you please post version 1.0b11 (unless you have already done so).

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Date: Sun, 14 Jun 92 16:21:22 CDT
From: Reverend John <[e-mail]>
Subject: Personal Laserwriter LS upgrade (C)

Actually, it *IS* upgradable...to an NTR, I don't know, but Xante
sells an upgrade board for a number of printers (including the LS)
that does the following:

RISC processor for faster speed
PostScript level 2
600 DPI printing

Other stuff I can't think of...sells for about $1600 I think which is
a lot, but the 600 DPI increase makes that comparable to other 600 DPI
printers with similar features.. I *think*.

I don't have the board, and am only repeating what I recall from the
ads. I am considering getting it for my LS (the 600 DPI is the most
important draw for my work) but was curious what the NTR upgrade
might run if it existed.

Rev

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Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1992 22:58:15 -0800
From: Scott Allen Gruby <[e-mail]>
Subject: Phrase

"Keith E Gatling" <[e-mail]> asks:
>I can't take the mystery anymore, I have to ask...what exactly
>is Ness Gadol Hayah Sham"?  It sounds like Hebrew to me, but that's about
>all I can figure out.

You are correct. The phrase is Hebrew and is inscribed on dreidels that are
used on Hanukah. The phrase means "A great miracle happened there". This
refers to the miracle of lamp oil lasting for 8 days that should only have
lasted one or two.
I hope that this helps your curiosity.

Scott Gruby
[e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 92 00:03:20 PDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: PLW LS to PLW NTR upgrade

Scott Maxwell writes:

>Now to the answer to his main question: Is the LS upgradable? The
>answer is NO (at least not at this time). Contrary to what
>[e-mail] said, I don't think there was ever an upgrade
>from an LS to an NT.

Whoops, thanks for the clarification. I was mixing up the LS and SC.

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Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1992 23:49 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: PLW LS to PLW NTR upgrade (A)

On 12-JUN-1992 22:31:54.02, Scott Maxwell said:

>Just so you know, both MacUser and MacWorld stated that the LS could
>not be upgrade to postscript (NT or NTR) when they reviewed it.  Also,
>Ionce ask my local dealer if it was possible to upgrade the LS.  The
>answer was NO.

Contrary to what you've stated, MacUser said "No" and MacWorld said
"Yes". Please refer to the specific issues for verification. All the
Personal Laserwriters have the same form factor. The only difference
is the controller board, (which in this case, makes all the
difference...:-) If you've seen the NTR, it looks exactly the same
as the LS. The NT strangely (because of the tray) looks larger.

I admit that I was a bit vague when speaking of a controller board.
By that logic, I meant one with a processor and not just the ASIC's
the LS has. BTW, thanks for information of the MC68000 present in
the Personal LS SC...I wasn't aware of that...

You're right in that there's been no upgrade path of a LS to
a NT.


Shaw Wu <[e-mail]>

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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 92 11:07:42 -0400
From: (Jason D Blue) <[e-mail]>
Subject: PowerBook and Modem (Q)

PowerBook 170, with the Apple Fax/Modem.  Trying to send a Fax that fails
(phone line not connected or dialing does not complete for one error or
another), we find that the hiss from the modem (sound of the static on the
line?) stays in the background after telling the Fax Monitor to discard the
fax.

Any one else encounter this?  Any ideas how to solve it?  Reducing the volume
speed does not effect it, nor does putting the Mac to sleep - it comes back
once it wakes.  The only thing that worked was a restart.

Jason Blue, User Support Center Specialist, The MITRE Corporation, McLean VA

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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 92 00:38:10 PDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: PS files and SendPS (A)

Generally when a PostScript file is distributed, the idea is that
all the recipient is going to do with file is print it on a
PostScript printer and get a nice formatted document.

The benefit of doing this over sending a Word, Nisus, PageMaker,
XPress, etc. file is that the recipient does not need to have the
application used to create the document to get a printout. It also
avoids problems with different screen fonts used on different Macs
and allows for downloadable fonts to be part of the document.

The downside is that PostScript files are often very BIG.

To send a PostScript file to a PostScript printer from a Macintosh,
you can use one of several utilities:

LaserWriter Font Utility (comes with System 7 on the Tidbits disk)

LaserWriter Utility (comes with new Apple LaserWriters and is on
ftp.apple.com)

SendPS (old, but will work with System 7 if LaserWriter is moved out
of the extensions folder into the System Folder proper)

Downloader (comes with all Adobe font disks and is apparently the
replacement for SendPS, but I don't think it is freeware)

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Date: Fri, 12 Jun 92 18:07 HST
From: Bill Soong                           <[e-mail]>
Subject: Purchasing Upgrade to Personal LaserWriter NTR (Q)

Please post the following query:

What's the street price for upgrading a Personal LaserWriter NT to NTR ?
Are any mail-order vendors supplying the genuine upgrade?
Is there an Apple Product No. for this upgrade?

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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 92 11:39:54 PDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: QUADRA 750

    I WAS WONDERING IF ANYONE OUT THERE
KNOW IF APPLE IS PLANNING ON RELEASING A
33 MHZ VERSION OF THE QUADRA 700, CALLING
IT THE QUADRA 750?
THANKS,
    [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 92 15:21:06 -0700
From: bgoldstein@omni:.dna_node.jplsp1.span (Bruce Goldstein, [phone])
Subject: Query for posting in the digest.

I have a question that I would like to have posted in the info-mac digest:

DEC PATHWORKS-LASER WRITER NTR COMPATIBILITY

Does anyone know whether or not the Apple Laser Writer NTR is compatible
with DEC Pathworks Version 1.1 (DEC software support could not provide an
answer)?


Note to SUMEX-
AIM archivist.  I don't know whether people should respond directly to me
or to the digest.  If the former (either is fine with me) please add the
following line.

Please respond to [e-mail]

Thank you,  Bruce Goldstein

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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1992 12:46 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: se/30 question

        I'm running a SE/30 with 8MB RAM and with system 7.0.

        It seems that more and more, the applications that I try to run
        after taking RAM to 8MB(from 5MB) are getting "BUS" errors of
        some sort or another...

        I used to be able to run/compile MS-BASIC when I had 5MB of RAM
        under system 7.0, but now I cannot with 8MB...

        Anyone else have these problems ? Suggestions ?

        thanks.

        dan dalal

        email => [e-mail]

        PS. I'm also running MODE32

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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1992 22:46:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail] (Bill Wing, OLC, 615-574-8839; [e-mail])
Subject: SendPS under System 7 (A)

Mark Dubin Writes -

>I find that Send PS does NOT seem to work with System 7.
>I am using the newest version now available through sumex-aim.
>It is in my system extentions folder, as is the routine LaserWriter.
>Am I doing something wrong?  Do others have this problem?

Mark,
  You have probably been flooded with these answers, but there are three
solutions: 1), use the LaserWriter Font Utility on the S-7 Printing Tools
disk, it has the ability to download an arbitrary PostScript file to your
printer; 2), use the LaserWriter Utility available from FTP.APPLE.COM,
which has a slightly different (and largely overlapping) menu of abilities;
3), if the file isn't too big and complex, you can use Microsoft Word.
You perform this latter trick by selecting the whole file, apply the
"PostScript" style to it (PostScript isn't normally listed in the style
dialog box, but if you enter it it will suddenly appear, 10 pt, boldface,
hidden text).  With the whole file converted to PostScript style, Word
will "spool" it for you.  The reason you may have trouble with big or
complex objects with this latter approach is that you will now get Word's
Dictionary prepended to your file as well as what ever dictinary the file
itself contains.  The result can overwhelm minimum-memory printers.

                    Good luck
                    Bill Wing

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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1992 19:44:02 -0800
From: Scott Allen Gruby <[e-mail]>
Subject: Show Icons

I remember awhile ago there was an init that would not allow inits to clear
the screen so that all of the icons could be seen at startup. Does anyone
know where I can find this.

Thanks.

Scott Gruby
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 92 06:39:06 CDT
From: Graeme Forbes <[e-mail]>
Subject: Spreadsheet question

Does anyone know if there is a spreadsheet for the Mac which allows
you to do *both* in-cell editing (1-2-3 for the Mac allows this) *and*
attach "notes" to individual cells. I think I care more about the
second capability than the first, so I'd also like to know if there's
a sheet that does it, even if not the other.

Graeme Forbes
Internet: [e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1992 21:59 EST
From: "David C. Garrett" <[e-mail]>
Subject: startup sheet blues

Hi everyone,

I want to get rid of the startup sheet on my LaserWriter IINT.  It's just a
waste of time and paper.

I read The Macintosh Bible, and it gave a little PostScript program which one
was supposed to enter and save as text-only and download to the printer using
Font Downloader or some such utility.

Here's the program as it appeared in the Bible:

serverdict begin 0 exitserver
statusdict begin false setdostartpage

I tried it.  You may not be surprised to learn that it didn't work.  I checked
my spelling and tried again.  Still no go.  It did have one effect, though - it
reset the "number of copies" odometer to zero.  Fairly useless.

Then I read Inside the Apple Macintosh by Peter Norton.  It had the same little
PostScript program, but with one important difference:

serverdict begin 0 exitserver
statusdict begin false setdostartpage end

Everybody see it?
So I tried that.  Still no go.  It did work on OTHER LaserWriter IINTs,
however; I've used this trick successfully on 4 or 5 other printers.

I suspect that my printer is waiting for me to tell it "end" so it can get on
with its life.  Meanwhile, it keeps spewing startup sheets, every time we turn
it on, happily insisting that it has printed zero copies.

If there is anyone out there who knows enough about PostScript and/or
LaserWriters who could tell me how to undo this mess, I'd be very grateful.
Please respond directly, as I don't always get the list.

If anyone from Goldstein & Blair is listening, y'all might want to fix this
typo in future editions of The Macintosh Bible.

Thanks wicked loads, people.

-Dave Garrett                         [e-mail]
Theatre Department
Salem State College
Salem, Massachusetts 01970
USA

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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 92 02:26:10
From: [e-mail] (Dieder)
Subject: Stylewriter Background Printing

I think the problem you are experiencing can be remedied by ensuring
that:

Backgrounder, and PrintMonitor, and the StyleWriter driver, are in the
Extensions folder.

That should do it.

Dieder

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Date: Sun, 14 Jun 92 00:42:12 EST
From: Murph Sewall <[e-mail]>
Subject: Superfluous LF's vanish in at a single stroke (A)

On Fri, 12 Jun 92 18:55:39 EDT you said:
>I did manage to download McSink and its files and try it out. Rather
>more than I need to simply have a menu item for LF stripping.

Shame on me for being so happy with the way I choose to solve the
problem that I failed to mention the simplest answer:

get /info-mac/util/add-strip-29.hqx

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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 92 10:11 BST
From: Mike Glendinning <"SDCW03::GLENDINNING"@sdsph.sdsci.co.uk>
Subject: Synergy (VersaTerm-PRO) Telephone Number?

Can someone please tell me a phone number for Synergy, makers of the
VersaTerm-PRO package?  Alternatively, some sort of electronic mail
address might suffice.

I will be dialling from outside the US, so toll-free numbers are no use!

-Mike.

[e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 92 18:44:23 PDT
From: Jeff Ishaq <[e-mail]>
Subject: Sys7 suitcase --> Sys6 DA (Q)

I was fed up with the perpetual freezing, crashing, incompatibility, and
general overease of system 7 so I switched back to sys6.  Unfortunately,
the demonic system 7 turned all my much-used DAs into some type of suitcase.
This wouldn't bother me if suitcase could read in more than 15 suitcases,
but it couldn't, so I am stuck with 1/6th my normal DAs.  I am curious how
I can convert a system7 DA/Suitcase thing BACK to a standard Font/DA mover-
recognizable DA.  Or am I screwed?

thanks,
-jq

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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 92 10:17:41 -0400
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Text editor for large files (A)

In 10-143, Jan Richard asks for a text editor that will open a file as
large as 185 MB, containing only digits and carriage returns.

I have no idea where to find such an animal--but perhaps a workaround will
be good enough. Disk Doubler by Salient has a feature that allows you to
split a large file into smaller ones. You can choose the maximum size of
the split pieces. (The feature's usually used for backing up large files to
floppies.) DD adds a line of header information that allows it to piece
back the file, but aside from that it makes no changes to the text file. (I
have checked.) You can view the smaller pieces easily in any word
processor.

In normal use, DD sets those file pieces to "read only" by giving them a
special file type and creator. If you want to edit the large file as well
as read it, create the pieces, strip the DD header (a macro can do it) and
save under different names. (Or change the file type/creator of the pieces
to type "TEXT" and creator "MSWD" for Word, or whatever creator your word
processor recognizes if you're not using Word. Then you can save the
changes under the same name.) When the editing is done, piece them all back
together using a concatenator such as /info-mac/util/text-merger-102.hqx.

By the way, I imagine that the only reason to look at such a file is to
compare it with something that you have somewhere else--written down, for
example, or in another file. Since Jan said the file is to be viewed,
comparing it to something written seems likely. I'd suggest looking into
the various utilities (such as CNSay) that will get your Mac to READ ALOUD
such text to you. Your eyes stay on your written material; your ears hear
the sequences of numbers. It's a lot easier to compare that way than to
switch back and forth from screen to paper; harder to lose your place that
way, too. (My brother uses this technique for comparing gene sequences.)
Jeff Needleman  <[e-mail]>

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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1992 23:09:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail] (Bill Wing, OLC, 615-574-8839; [e-mail])
Subject: Text Editor for large files (a)

Jan,
  What you need is a disk-based editor rather than a memory-based editor.
I'm aware of two such (locally) that are going to be ready "real-soon-now,"
and will prod their authors a bit.  But in the meanwhile, you might look
into MacAWK which I found some time ago at sumex-aim.  It is a pretty
complete implementation of awk, which is a very different way of doing
business for someone not accustomed to it, but it *will* edit any file
you've got room for on your disk.
                                              Bill Wing

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Date: Sun, 14 Jun 92 15:44:02 EDT
From: Seth Ness <[e-mail]>
Subject: thank you

thanks to everyone who replied to my queries about lexis and westlaw
and about sendPS

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

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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 92 02:31:21
From: [e-mail] (Dieder)
Subject: Tiger Software

Nice insert in the july MacUser that I read. However, take a look at
their picture of the Radius Rocket that they have so kindly used to
illustrate! It took me a while to figure out exactly what was wrong with
the picture, because it looked really different from all the other
Rocket pictures I've seen, but then it came to me, that I was looking at
an IBM board! Nice going Tiger Software...sure inspires confidence in
me!

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Date: SUN, 14 Jun 92 14:36:04 EDT
From: "Louis_Bergeron"[e-mail]
Subject: Typing diacritics after a vowel (A)

Every finished character either used alone or with a diacritic added must
have only one ASCII value. That value is determined by the one who created the
font. If a diacritic could be added after the main character have been typed,
it
would be very difficult for the Mac to process the information. It would have
to wait after every character over which you could add something. The other way
it's more logical.
When you type a diacritic, the Mac knows over which vowels or consonants it
could fit. That combination have been created before and must exist already in
the character set. You can't put that diacritic over anything. So being able to
type diacritics after the vowel or consonant would not be an improvement.
Louis Bergeron [e-mail]
P.S. In french we use these all the time. It's impossible to give examples in
that text since accented characters would not get through correctly.

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Date: Sun Jun 14 16:45:32 1992
From: neabbs![e-mail]
Subject: Voice Navigator SW

Hallo Boppers,

I started drooling when I saw the Voice Navigator SW ad in MacUser,
but I'll wait with ordering this gadget until MacUser or MacWorld has
done some serious testing. Meanwhile, is there anyone out there who
has some hands-on experience with this beast, or with the Navigator
II? Some questions that come to mind are:

Won't the SW version slow down your Mac (I've got a LC), while it's
trying to understand what the hell you are saying? Or even when you're
not talking at all, it must spent some CPU-time listening.. or am I
babbling here?

Can you open applications, DA's and Control Panels by voice from
within the (System 7) finder? Ah, no more mousing around in endless
sub-apple-menu's to launch that application.. I want it!

Thanks!

Erik Schuit, [e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 11 Jun 92 19:56:25 EDT
From: ZMEG000 <[e-mail]>
Subject: Workstation WP (A)

     I would be very interested in your responses. That Mac
emulator comes to mind as one possible resolution.

     Secondly-- WordPerfect for the Mac is a wonderful program
(v2.1). And it can read and write WP 5.1 (on the you know what
system) as well as a host of other file formats. There is also
a WordPerfect for UNIX. Its version is compatible with WP 5.1.

    Thirdly-- use "vi" and edit text files (hhehehe).

Take care,
    Mike

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Date: Sun, 14 Jun 92 11:35:34 -0400
From: Tom Fortmann <[e-mail]>
Subject: Zoom modem and AppleTalk Remote Access

I have a new high-speed Zoom FaxModem and can't quite get it to work with
AppleTalk Remote Access.  Apparently the problem is that ARA's repertoire
of modem types does not include a script for initializing a Zoom.  Does
anyone have such a script file?

Tom Fortmann
[e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 14 Jun 92 22:12:13 CDT
From: Jay Poutinen <[e-mail]>

Subject: Logitech's FotoMan
Status: ON 32768
Mailed To: [e-mail]

A few days ago, I asked for comments from users of Logitech's new
FotoMan digital camera.

I didn't receive any mail from FotoMan users, but I did find out
why not.  FotoMan is not yet being shipped.  Logitech says it will
ship in about 2 weeks.  MacConnection is to be one supplier.  List
price is $799.

Jay  <[e-mail]>

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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 92 06:14:14 EDT
From: "Wechsler David Mr., PF/ID, 15/125, Phone 6592" <[e-mail]>

Subject:Postscript files with V7

Dear netters
My problem is maybe a FQA,but nevertheless:
When I check the box"print to disk"in the laserwriter print dialog,I get a huge
postskript file (about 1 MB for a single page with ascii text,the same on V6
about 100 KB).
What's the problem?What must I do to get smaller files?
Thanxs for any ideas
                                David

Internet: [e-mail]

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