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Info-Mac Digest             Tue, 23 Jun 92       Volume 10 : Issue 150

Today's Topics:

      [*] Auto Menus II version 1.0
      [*] BBEdit 2.1.2
      [*] Comp.Sys.Mac.Programmer Digest Volume 1 #110-119
      [*] Escapade
      [*] Files To Be Posted
      [*] Harvest C 1.2 compiler and sources
      [*] Imagery 1.8
      [*] PSI 2.2
      [*] Shanghai II 1.03 Updater
      [*] SimPiglet 1.0.0 [*]
      [*] Task Manager 2.2.1
      [*] TidBITS#130/22-Jun-92
      [*] WDEF PAtch from apple:further changes
      3.5" Floppy Protection (FAQ...?) (C)
      32 Bit Addressing XFCN answer
      AIFF sounds
      Anybody using bar-code readers for Data Input? (Q)
      Asante EtherNet v4 Driver Software
      Color Comm Tools?
      CompuServe & Shareware fees
      Cricket Presents (correction)
      DNA analysis software
      Ethernet driver for Quadra (R)
      File Creators and Types
      Fix your PB100 Trackball (a must read for owners!)
      Fonts: usage (C)
      FTP Programs for the Mac (C)
      Getting by with a non non extended keyboard
      GhostScript for the Mac (A)
      Info-Mac Digest V10 #146
      Info-Mac Digest V10 #149
      LC II or wait?
      Legality of uploading TT -> Type 1 conversions
      LocalTalk via Radio? (Q)
      LPunch Format (3 msgs)
      Lpunch Format (A)
      LPunch Format <A>
      Mac + and HD (Q)
      Mac Expo - Toronto
      Macs that will run System 6
      MacTCP & PowerBook (A)
      MacTCP & powerbook (R)
      MacWeek (C)
      MDS & StuffIt conflict
      Mice for Mac Pluses
      More Disk Space
      Multiple references to footnote in Word 5.0 with System 7
      Needleman Errors
      New Mac site
      Nisus - the next generation
      NUVOLINK SC
      Ofoto without scanner
      PB100. run Sys 6?
      PICT Screen Grabbing Utility (Q)
      Postscript to PICT conversion utility (A)
      PowerBooks and Sleep mode
      Qudra Cpu cache aut-configuration tool?
      Re-formating my hard drive
      reading HPGL files on a Mac
      Repeat bibliographic citations, yet another round
      Rumors of a (marginally) new powerbook 145.
      SLIP
      Software Registry Question <Answer>
      Sound recording with Macintosh LC (A)
      Sounds help request
      Stuffit Lite Beta
      System 7 and Hypercard Licensing (again!) (Q)
      TTConvert
      What is on a CD?

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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 92 06:41:13 -0400
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Auto Menus II version 1.0

AutoMenus II version 1.0 is the latest version of this popular shareware
control panel written by Michael Conrad ($10, $13 with disk, free if you're
physically handicapped). It provides drop-down menus either instantly or with
a single mouse-click: menus that stay available until you make a selection.
The latest version allows you to set the menu activation time and toggle the
automatic dismissal feature (the dropped-down menu goes away if your mouse
moves away). You can choose where on the menu the automatic activation takes
place and choose to reserve the top left pixel of the screen as a buffer (for
utilities which allow you to scroll the entire screen). You can add a buffer
to the bottom of the menus as well.

The new version even includes a nice Auto-Termination feature. If a menu is
dropped down, basically processing on your Mac is stopped until a menu choice
is made; with this feature, AutoMenus II will release a menu after a settable
time interval so that processing can continue. (That's useful if you're not
observing your mouse at all times your Mac is working. For example, I once
lost a few hours of data when a book I moved hit the mouse of a data-
collecting machine, moving the cursor to a menu, and activating an earlier
version of AutoMenus. The machine waited for me to make my selection...not
collecting any data.)

[Archived as /info-mac/cp/auto-menus-ii-10.hqx; 35K]

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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 92 17:05:20 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Rich Siegel)
Subject: [*] BBEdit 2.1.2

This is the second revision of BBEdit, a free text editor. This revision fixes
a few bugs and incompatibilities that surfaced in BBEdit 2.1, the first public
release, and in 2.1.1, the first revision. The version enclosed is version
2.1.2,
which completely supersedes versions 2.1 and 2.1.1.

BBEdit is 32-bit clean, compatible with any Macintosh running system version
6.0 or later, and when running under System 7.0, takes specific advantage
of new features to enhance performance and appearance.

BBEdit is also very economical with respect to disk and memory usage; it will
run in a partition as small as 256K. The size of any file is only limited
by the amount of memory available in BBEdit's partition; there is no 32K
upper bound.

BBEdit offers fast and flexible multi-file search and replace capabilities;
under System 7, it can also use On Location 2.0 as a searching engine. Grep
pattern-matching is available for single- or multi-file searches.

BBEdit may be freely distributed, subject to the conditions specified in
the "Read Me" file, which is part of the distribution archive.

Rich Siegel
Internet: [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/app/bbedit-212.hqx; 223K]

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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 92 14:02:16 -0700
From: "(Michael A. Kelly)" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Comp.Sys.Mac.Programmer Digest Volume 1 #110-119

Issues #110 through #119 of Volume 1 of the Comp.Sys.Mac.Programmer Digest are
now available.

[Archived as /info-mac/digest/csmp/csmp-v1-110; 51K]
[Archived as /info-mac/digest/csmp/csmp-v1-111; 49K]
[Archived as /info-mac/digest/csmp/csmp-v1-112; 33K]
[Archived as /info-mac/digest/csmp/csmp-v1-113; 49K]
[Archived as /info-mac/digest/csmp/csmp-v1-114; 43K]
[Archived as /info-mac/digest/csmp/csmp-v1-115; 44K]
[Archived as /info-mac/digest/csmp/csmp-v1-116; 44K]
[Archived as /info-mac/digest/csmp/csmp-v1-117; 47K]
[Archived as /info-mac/digest/csmp/csmp-v1-118; 46K]
[Archived as /info-mac/digest/csmp/csmp-v1-119; 36K]

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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1992 11:36:06 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Thomas R. Blake)
Subject: [*] Escapade

Folks,

    I take no credit or blame for Escapade, when I downloaded it, I found
that it had been binhexed twice, so I am reposting it, with the
Introduction extracted from it's documentation.

                            Tom Blake
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Introduction

Escapade is a Control Panel ("cdev") designed for people who prefer to keep
their hands on the keyboard while using a Macintosh.  Escapade provides:

  Keyboard shortcuts for buttons and check boxes in dialogs.
With Escapade, you can select the Cancel button in a dialog box by pressing
Escape, -Period or -Delete.  You can also select any button or check box by
pressing the first letter of the control's title.  In addition, with
Escapade you can move through all the buttons and check boxes in a dialog
box and "press" any of them via the keyboard.

  Support for the standard -key equivalents for Cut, Copy, Paste and Select
All.
In dialog boxes with editable text fields, Escapade allows you to use the
standard -key equivalents (X, C, V and A) for Cut, Copy, Paste and Select
All, respectively.  If you have an extended keyboard (one with a row of
function keys across the top), Escapade will recognize and handle F2, F3
and F4 as Cut, Copy and Paste, respectively.

  Support for "smart" quotes in dialog boxes.
When you enter a regular quotation mark into a text entry field in a
dialog, Escapade can automatically convert it to the appropriate "curly"
quotation mark, if so desired.

  Support for the standard text-editing cursor in dialog boxes.
With Escapade, the cursor will automatically change to the standard
text-editing ("i-beam") cursor when the cursor is positioned over an
editable text field, enabling you to accurately select text and position
the insertion point.

[Archived as /info-mac/cp/escapade-132.hqx; 47K]

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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1992 13:49 PDT
From: Scott Remen <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Files To Be Posted

Greetings!

I've compiled a small collection of Macintosh StartupScreens taken from "Ren &
Stimpy", the definitive cartoon of the 21st century.

Hope they fill your heart with blood!

Scott Remen
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/art/ren-n-stimpy-startup.hqx; 1291K]

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Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1992 13:57:23 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Eric W. Sink)
Subject: [*] Harvest C 1.2 compiler and sources

Announcing the release of Harvest C 1.2

I am uploading Harvest C 1.2 today to mac.archive and another
place or two.  Feel free to propagate it far and wide.

This release includes full source code.  Please read all the
README documents and the like carefully.

My official email address remains [e-mail].

The major direction of future plans for Harvest C is to use it as
support for a port of GNU CC 2.x.  A team of volunteers has been
organized as part of TopSoft, Inc. to manage this effort.  Your
support and assistance is welcome.  A mailing list has been established
for communication within the team.  Send mail to [e-mail]
for more information.

The plan is to port GNU CC 2.x to the Macintosh, resulting in an
integrated application similar to Harvest C is now (ie somewhat like
THINK C without a built-in editor).  The linker,assembler and various
other parts of Harvest C will be necessary for the port, as GCC lacks
these extremely-Mac-specific items.

Regards,

Eric W. Sink
Spyglass, Inc.
[e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1992 21:34:24 -0500
From: Tim Burrow <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Imagery 1.8

Here is version 1.8 of Imagery by Jeff Lewis, the freeware graphics
conversion program. It converts between IBM-PC, Windows, Amiga, Atari and
Macintosh formats. Self extracting archive

Note that I am uploading this on behalf of Jeff Lewis who does not have
Internet access. He may be contacted on  Compuserve at 76217,2241, on
America Online as "T Werewolf" or via the Internet at
[e-mail].

Tim Burrow
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/app/imagery-18.hqx; 170K]

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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1992 11:49:12 PDT
From: Markus Fromherz <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] PSI 2.2

      PSI     2.2 / June 21, 1992

      Personal System for Information Management and Retrieval


  I recently posted PSI 2.0 and got a lot of response. So here is
  version 2.2. The most important changes are:

      Windows adapt better to small screens (SE, Classic).
      Export procedures can define font information (in RTF).

  See the Read Me file for more information.
  Note that PSI is not yet 32-bit clean; if you get a type 1 error
  when trying to run PSI, you have to switch to 24-bit mode.

  About PSI:

  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. (Try the sample sessions!)
  PSI is 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.

  PSI is shareware. Give it a try - and if you decide to use it,
  please register and send $20 to one of the addresses given in the
  documentation. (Site-license rates are available.)

  If you have questions, send me e- or p-mail.

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

[Archived as /info-mac/app/psi-22.hqx; 498K]

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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 92 16:29:44 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Brodie Lockard)
Subject: [*] Shanghai II 1.03 Updater

This is a self-unstuffing archive containing three files:
*"Updater to Shanghai II 1.03" (264K)
*"Postcards ad" (59K)
*"Read Me" (5K)

"Updater to Shanghai II 1.03" updates Shanghai II versions 1.0,
1.01 and 1.02 to version 1.03.  This version fixes some bugs and
adds a feature (see below).

"Postcards ad" displays and can print an ad/order form for
"Postcards for Shanghai II," a trio of photographic-quality
tilesets for use with Shanghai II.  The tilesets--Beasts,
Landmarks and Tropics--include sounds, animations, and
informational blurbs about each tile.  There's also a Postcards
Demo tileset here on sumex-aim.

"Read Me" contains instructions and details about the other two
files.

BUGS FIXED IN SHANGHAI II 1.03
*After Dark, QuickMail, Eudora and SuperClock will no longer
crash when they try to beep or play sound while Shanghai II is
running.
*Version 1.0 did not run under A/UX due to sound driver
incompatibilities.  Sound and music are now disabled under A/UX.
*Dragon's Eye games will no longer end if a Slayer's hand is
empty and the Slayer still has legal moves on the board.
*Several small bugs that might have caused seemingly random
crashes have been fixed.  This includes the occasional crashes
after the fourth tournament game or while showing scores during a
tournament on certain configurations of Macs.

NEW FEATURES IN SHANGHAI II 1.03
*Guide to These Tiles, Guide to Tilesets and Guide to Layouts now
have a "Done" button for returning to the game, instead of
returning after a single click.  This allowed the addition of
arrow buttons in Guide to These Tiles, for more friendly help.

Clicking any tile while in Guide to These Tiles displays an
informational blurb about that tile.
*The program now requires only a 750K partition for the built-in
tilesets, instead of 800K.

[Archived as /info-mac/demo/shanghi-ii-103-updater.hqx; 288K]

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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 92 03:37:27 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Mark Hayes)
Subject: [*] SimPiglet 1.0.0 [*]

Introducing SimPiglet 1.0.0 - a robust yet compact audio simulation
of a young Vietnamese Potbellied Pig, using an array of digitized sounds
semi-randomly triggered according to a sophisticated algorithm in
amateur veterinary psychology. Excellent for people in "no-pets" housing.
Features five differently expressive "mood" settings, from "idle" to
"hysterical", as well as a (non-porcine) "belch" option for your
convenience and entertainment. Free.

Requires System 7, and also appears to require a machine with the
Apple Sound Chip (I don't know why, but I assume that's why I can't
get it to run on an SE).  A binhexed Compact Pro archive.

Downloaders are invited to drop me a line with opinions, bug reports,
death threats, etc.

MODERATORS: I guess you could consider this a game.

[Archived as /info-mac/game/sim-piglet-10.hqx; 96K]

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Date: 22 Jun 92 10:31:23 U
From: "Michael Hecht" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Task Manager 2.2.1

Regarding   Task Manager 2.2.1
The Task Manager is a C source code package for creating and managing
tasks--separate execution threads that run nonpreemptively in the background.
Tasks should periodically call a Task Manager yielding routine to allow other
tasks to run. Tasks are ideal for lengthy processes that you would like to run
in the background, since the task runs in a separate execution thread from your
event loop.

--Michael

[Archived as /info-mac/source/c/task-manager-221.hqx; 49K]

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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 92 21:41:02 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: [*] TidBITS#130/22-Jun-92

TidBITS#130/22-Jun-92

 Hot news arrives in the form of the PowerBook 145 and Salient's
   acquisition. Mike O'Connor contributes some little-known tips
   for working with QuickTime movie players, and for you network
   junkies we have a detailed look at the Internet, the first in a
   series of articles on network connections. Finally, for those
   of you using PowerBooks, check out our review of Nisus
   Software's smaller word processor, Nisus Compact.

Topics:
    MailBITS/22-Jun-92
    QuickTime Tips
    Salient Acquired!
    Gateways 1: Internet
    PowerBook 145
    Nisus Compact
    Reviews/22-Jun-92

[Archived as /info-mac/digest/tb/tidbits-130.etx; 29K]

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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 92 11:18:03 GMT
From: ROBERTO AVANZI 338188/SM <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] WDEF PAtch from apple:further changes

Hi, netters
WDEFPatch is an Apple sample code snippet that shows how to
add in a clean way a new behaviour to an existing WDEF. It adds
a new part in the window title bar that, when clicked, is reported
to the application. I implemented the tracking of that part.
In case you downloaded the improved WDEFPatch (originally from
Steve Falkenburg), in the meantime I discovered a funny quirk
in the system software WDEF. (at least, sys 7's). I found it
when adding a zoom box to the window. Falkenburg's had not, neither
did my original improvement. It can only be the system's misbehaviour
but luckily a workaround could be found very easily (and is clean).
I included the two apps. The one without workaround and one with it.
Read the source for details. Then laugh when you see what happens.
I feel my new knowledge can be useful also to others.
Enclosed is a binhexed-compactpro archive.
Roberto Avanzi.
<[e-mail]>

[Archived as /info-mac/source/c/wdef-patch-21.hqx; 18K]

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Date: Tuesday, 23 June 1992 2:01am CT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: 3.5" Floppy Protection (FAQ...?) (C)

[e-mail] (Kenneth Falkenstein) writes:

>There seems to be a debate around the hallways here as to the
>merits of the plastic bags that come with all boxes of floppies.
>The question is: "Should we keep the floppies in these bags after
>we store data on them?" I have always heard that they are prone
>to static build-up, which sounds logical.  But what about protection
>from dust and link, since they fit so nicely in our shirt pockets.
>Is this just another case of over-packaging, since the boxes are
>usually shrink wrapped? If adequate interest, I will, of course
>summarize.  Thanks all!


The plastic bags can generate an electrostatic charge when rubbed,
but it would be highly unlikely that this would cause disk failure.
When a plastic bag comes in contact with another piece of plastic
(the disk case) it is not going to generate any static charge worth
talking about.  Some material (like fur) when rubbed sufficiently
vigorously could create a charge.  Even so, disks store information on
ferromagnetic media, not an electrostatic one.  Ordinarily, the
electrostatic charge will create an electric field, but not a magnetic
one (the exception being if it is a moving charge - i.e., the charge is
grounded or "discharged").

Even though a discharge can momentarily create an electromagnetic
field, it would have to be a strong discharge very close to the media
to cause disk damage (IMHO).  I do not know the minimum strength of
the field that could affect a disk, but since the earth's magnetic field
does not cause immediate disk failure, it would probably be at least
of the order of a few gauss - could even be more than a couple of
orders of magnitude greater.  (What is the threshold strength of the
magnetic field which would affect a disk?  There is always
experimental observation; offhand, I cannot think of any easy
theoretical answer.  It probably involves figuring out kt, or the
quanta of energy required to move the aligned magnetic particles out
of the potential well that they are residing in.  Perhaps some QM guru
in netland with copious free time at their disposal will oblige :-)

Intuitively, I'd say that you are much more likely to loose the
integrity of the media by keeping the disks near your telephone
receiver than you are by storing them in a plastic pouch inside your
fur-lined pocket on a dry winter's day.  A particle with a radius of a
few microns can cause a head/disk-crash, and the bags definitely
help keep dirt/lint out.  Rather than leave the disks to the tender
mercies of dust-mites, I'll take my chances with that electrostatic
thing any day.

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

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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 92 14:54:11 -0900
From: "Ant Man"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: 32 Bit Addressing XFCN answer

Someone asked a question about an XFCN that tells whether the machine is
running 32 bit or not.
One function is available for that purpose and is part of a set of 58 other
XFCNs called 'GestaltLook!'
The XFCN called 'findAddressingModeAttr' will indicate whether the Mac is
running under 32 bit addressing, whether the Mac is capable of 32 bit
addressing, and if the system header blocks are 32 bit clean.

It is compatible with Mode32 and will correctly report a machine like a
IIcx with Mode32 as 32 bit capable.

The 57 other XFCNs give other information about the Mac including monitor
settings, keyboards, FPUs, menubar height, system versions, QuickDraw versions
hardware features, etc.

GestaltLook! is $49.95
from:
Amadeus Enterprise
355 Cloudberry Drive
Fairbanks, Alaska 99709
[phone]
[phone] -- fax
AppleLink: AMADEUS
Internet [e-mail]

Dan LaSota
Ant Man!

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Date: 23 Jun 1992 11:50:31 +1200
From: "matt n." <[e-mail]>
Subject: AIFF sounds

What free-/shareware program can play / make AIFF sounds? (In
particular, the ones that come with Lemur?) I tried soundMover and
soundExtractor but they played the sounds as garbage. This may be
due to 16-bit encoding of the sounds in question.
 --------
matt neuburg, phd = [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1992 15:54 EST
From: "Russell Aminzade: Trinity College of VT"
<[e-mail]>
Subject: Anybody using bar-code readers for Data Input? (Q)

      The subject line pretty much says it.  The little credit-card-
      sized jobbies look particularly nice, since this will be a mobile
      application.

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Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1992 11:47:24 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Chrome Cboy)
Subject: Asante EtherNet v4 Driver Software

Howdy all,
    I just got off the phone with William at Asante, and unfortunately
he isn't willing to release the upgrade software for general distribution to
the Internet. Asante *does* have a presence on the Internet
(asante.asante.com),
but for unspecified reasons they'd like to keep the on-line distribution
limited to AppleLink. So, if you want the new driver software, do it the slow
and more expensive (to Asante) way and call [phone]. Enjoy...

Blake Sobiloff ([e-mail]) speaking for himself
Human-Computer Interaction Lab; Department of Psychology; U of MD

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Date: Tue Jun 23 11:03:57 EDT 1992
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Color Comm Tools?

I recently purchased PacerTerm and I'm quite happy with it, specifically with
the scripting ability and with the included Zmodem, Kermit, and VT320 tools.
However, there is one thing its missing.

Color.  The menus indicate that it supports color, yet it doesn't.  When I
called the company, they said that the program handles color, but since
everything is tool based and there are no color supporting tools, you don't
see any color.

My question is this:  are there any color TTY tools out there?  It seems a
waste to have a program this good just sit around in B&W.

Ken Linger
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1992 15:21 GMT+1
From: [e-mail]
Subject: CompuServe & Shareware fees

> CompuServe will pass on to the authors 85% of the shareware fees
> collected, which is VERY reasonable.

I think it's unfair.
First of all, Compuserve gets the shareware fee in terms of $$$, and
gives it back to the author in terms of hours.
But do those online hours actually cost anything to CIS? I think they
cost almost nothing, except the fact that if all ports are in use, a
potential paying user could not be able to connect and would have to
connect later. Everything a user can do on CIS is handled by
computers, which don't get paid by the hour. And connection fees are
still paid by the user.
This means that not only CIS gets 100% of the shareware fee, giving
the author something that doesn't cost anything to CIS, but it also
gives the author only 85% of the shareware fee!!!
Well, I am a CompuServe user and a shareware author, but I think I
won't enroll in this program.
The only thing I am sorry of is that users would have an easier way
to register.

- Alberto Ricci.

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Date: 22 Jun 92 15:00:32 U
From: Evans-IM-IS <[e-mail]>
Subject: Cricket Presents (correction)

I commented in an earlier issue (V10#137) about Cricket Presents from Computer
Associates not being sys7 compatible.  I received no comments from the
net-landers, so assumed no one uses it. :-(

>(2)     The group I support used Cricket Presents around here before we
> upgraded their macs to sys7.   Cricket stopped working due to the
> printer drivers new location in the system folder (extensions folder).
> The Cricket 2.01 application would not even open.  I faked out the
> application by making an alias of the print drivers and located them in
> the system root folder.  Then Cricket would open but still would not
> print BUT ... I could cut previously created documents and paste that
> into Mrs. PowerPoint. .........
> [c] Did Computer Associates ever get Cricket to work with sys7 ?
> MacWharehouse says there is an update out but lists the version
> number as 2.0  It has a new pretty box but no sys7 sticker on it like
> other packages.

We just received Cricket Presents 2.1 and it works on sys7 with 32bit
addressing on, but the sys7 sticker is still missing from the box.  Wonder why
??

FYI
Troy

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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 92 17:12:26 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Thomas Collet)
Subject: DNA analysis software

Someone recently asked about opinions on DNA analysis software
and mentioned the MacVector program sold by IBI. IMHO, this
program stinks! We have tried it on a MacIIsi and a MacIIci and
are consistently experiencing problems. The most annoying bug
is the bomb you get every now and then when you save a sequence
that you just entered through the digitizer. But it will also
freeze spontaneously! Compared to that the annoyance of still not
having a manual that shows the same windows and manuals as the
program is minor. The response from IBI to these problems is nil.
The person on the phone is apologetic, but not helpful. The area
rep who came out to see why I was complaining was a joke. He
essentially told me that I was the problem. Supposedly no one else
has these problems. Too bad that  I know of two other labs that
have neither the time nor the energy to keep on complaining.

Any of these things one could accept, if at least it was a
superior program, but it is not! You can't even manually
edit codon preference tables! "Our customers don't need that."

I am sad to say that I am stuck using MacVector right now, but
I would jump at the chance to try another program. The new
version of Geneworks, for example, looks much better.

In conclusion, the next time I buy a program like this I would
insist on trying it for at least a couple of days before
purchasing it.

Thomas              [e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1992 09:40:28 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Opus)
Subject: Ethernet driver for Quadra (R)

Alan Piszcz (alan @kaman.com) aks in InfoMac Digest v10#149 where to find
the Ethernet driver for the Quadra.

So far as I know, Alan, all you need is the EtherTalk 2.0 extension that is
installed with System 7.0.x. Then go to the Network control panel, select
Ethertalk, and provided that your FriendlyNet connector is hooked up, and the
network connection is working, you should be up and running on the Ethernet.
The only reason you had to install a driver for your Asante card is that the
hardware was an add-on. Since the Quadra has built-in Ethernet support,
you don't need an additional driver to make it work, just the network
extensions to talk to it.

     -Tim Castle
      [e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 22 Jun 92 19:06:01 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: File Creators and Types

Steve Stearns asked about a complete list of file types and creators. I
am sure some Apple type has that list and am equally sure that he or she
will not share it with us illiterati. However, I noticed long ago that
Hand Off II knew more about odd files than was decent. ResEdit on HO2
shows a remarkably complete list of creators, double clicking on any of
which yields a text string that identifies the program in English.

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

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

Date: Tue, 23 Jun 92 01:02:57 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Fix your PB100 Trackball (a must read for owners!)

The following message was recently posted to the Mac Hardware section of
America Online.  I don't know anything about the author, except that his
Screen Name is WSMIII.  His tip works beautifully!

**** Top of forwarded message ****

Subj:  PB 100 Trackball Solution
From:  WSMIII

I have restored my PB 100 trackball to 100% smooth rolling.  Dirt has little
or nothing to do with the sticking and chattering you have experienced.  To
get a great fix, try the following (this may seem counter-intuitive, but it
works!):

Remove the ring, remove the trackball, and find the little blue rollers.
Each roller can be moved back and forth along it's axle. Slide the bottom
roller to the right, moving it to a position about 2/3 the length of the
axle, checking to ensure you have vertical trackball control.  Essentially,
only the left "rim" of the roller will be in contact with the ball.
Similarly, move the vertical roller down to a position about 2/3 the length
of the axle, while still retaining horzontal cursor control, again leaving
only the top "rim" of the roller to contact the ball.  Reassemble.  From that
moment forward, you will have a silky smooth track ball that RARELY or NEVER
catches and jumps.  You'll be tempted to send me money out of gratitude.

What Happened?  This is counter-intuitive, right?  You wanted to center the
rollers to intersect with the vertical and horizontal axis of the ball, to
get the best friction, right?  Big mistake.

The "catch" and "jump" you have been experiencing has nothing to do with
dirt.  If you inspect the trackball mechanism, you will find a perforated
disk mounted on the far right end of the bottom axle and the extreme bottom
end of the left axle.  This is the disk that the LED sensor shines through to
detect trackball motion.  When the ball is seated against an axle, the axle,
which is fixed at the disk end, is deflected to an angle.  The disk, in turn,
is tilted as the axle is deflected; this causes the perforations in the disk
to catch upon nearby fixed nylon parts, momentarily jamming the axle and
causing the ball to stick or jump.  By moving the rollers "off axis" in the
way that I describe, the ball deflects each axle significantly less, each
disk is tilted less, and this catching no longer occurs.

Go try it, then include me in your will. Good luck!

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

Date: Mon, 22 Jun 92 20:03:19 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Fonts: usage (C)

On Sun, 21 Jun, Charles A. Patrick wrote

>The ongoing discussion about font technology usage and preferences has
>finally provoked me into advertising my choices:

>Armed with this prejudice and an awareness of the pecking order in which
>PostScript printers deal with fonts, I have chosen to cast my lot with
>Type 1 technology, and more particularly Adobe Type 1 technology whenever
>possible, even to the point of converting available TrueType fonts to
>Type 1 fonts. I happen to have Metamorphosis and BitFont.

Gee that is odd, Charles. Armed with the same prejudice and pecking order
awareness, I ordered Metamorphosis Pro (I did not happen to have it) to
convert the fonts built into my LaserWriter IINT into their TT equivalent
fonts -- so that I could save a bunch of disk and memory space. Bitmaps
can be memory hogs if you keep all the sizes you might use. I've seen no
drawback to having all LW-built-in fonts in TT format -- and many draw-
backs to having non-built-in fonts in any other format.

Do your thing, guy. But please consider *all* aspects before recommending
any particular thing to all members of this list. I am not at all certain
that I have addressed concerns of all folk on this list. I am, however,
certain that you have not.

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

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

Date: Mon, 22 Jun 92 21:09:08 PDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: FTP Programs for the Mac (C)

>One of the most visible time thieves that I've noticed is the
>directory list downloads that the windowed FTP programs
>automatically do.

Funny thing is that they don't *have* to be slow at bringing down
partial directories at least. For example, with MacIP, although it
has a "filter" box where you can enter something like "disk*" the
program downloads the entire directory and then filters out what you
don't want rather than sending a "ls disk*" command to the remote.
Most frustrating.

I always use Fetch when I want to browse, and the fact that it saves
the directory listings locally (for whatever amount of time you
specify) really helps. However, I often use Telnet when I know
exactly what I want and don't want to wait for a listing. Just goes
to show that there is rarely one "best" program for all users.

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

Date: 22 Jun 92 14:32:00 -0700
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Getting by with a non non extended keyboard

Although I'm a happy IIsi user, I'm stuck at work with a MacPlus, 20 MB HD,
1MB memory and this dinky little keyboard.  It has no arrow keys, no control
keys, etc.  I would give anything to have a mac at work that didn't need the
watch to appear when you select a different paint tool.  Sigh!

I'm wondering if there's a way to get the arrow keys by a key combination.
I miss them.

Our net connection and workstations are on seperate machines (at least
mine is) so please don't both suggesting anything that I might ftp from
somewhere as I'm not currently able to do that.

Thanks to everyone for suggestions.

replies to [e-mail].  [e-mail] will
most definitely bounce.

Steve

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

Date: Tue, 23 Jun 92 11:56:58 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: GhostScript for the Mac (A)

  There is actually a port for GS to the Mac.  Right now, though, it
doesn't have much functionality.  No printer support.  No generation of
PICT files. It only produces Adobe Photoshop files as output.  Pity.
The 'author' of the port also discourages distribution of the port,
probably because it is half done.

  The solution that I use now for generating PICT files is ghostscript
to ppm then ppm to pict on a decstation.  See ps2eps-11.shar in the unix
subdirectory of the info-mac archives.


Shih Tung
Chem E
Best l'il Tech School
in Cambridge

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

Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1992 00:31:07 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Bill Moynihan)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V10 #146

In article <[e-mail]>
[e-mail] writes:
>
>From: David Hartmann <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Apple Video Cards and Monitor (Q)
>
>Hi,
>
>I have a few questions about Apple video cards and monitors:
>
>First, I have a Mac II.  I would like to use Apple's new 21 inch color
>monitor.
>What video card do I need to use this monitor?  Will Apple's 8*24 card drive
>it or do I need a third party card?  Or will the old Apple 8-bit video card
>that currently runs a 13 inch Apple RGB be able to run the 21" monitor (I
>can dream, can't I)?
>
Referring to my Apple Service Technical Procedures manual I read
"The display can be run from any Macintosh with NuBus slots and
the Macintosh Display Card 4*8, the Macintosh Display Card 8*24,
or the Macintosh Display Card 8*24 GC.".
>Second, assuming the ancient 8-bit card can't run the 21" monitor, can it be
>used in a Mac IIsi, or does the IIsi require a more recent video card, say an
>8*24?
Again referring to my manuals under the Macintosh IIsi System
Features...Video Display, they make no mention of the 21" display
as being supported.
>
>Any information would be greatly appreciated!
>
>Please mail responses (I'll summarize if there's interest) to:
>[e-mail]
>
>Thanks,
>David Hartmann
>
--
Bill Moynihan ([e-mail])

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

Date: 22 Jun 1992 21:27:16 -0600 (MDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V10 #149

I have a question regarding Sound Master 1.7.2 (I believe that's
correct) and a Mac Classic with System 7 and 2mb of ram.  My sister-in-law
has this configuration and keeps getting a 192 error - out of memory.

Does this program really take up that much room?  I run a II SI and of
course I don't see a problem with 5mb and virtual memory.  Also,
why in the heck can't she use virtual memory on her machine, is it
because of the CPU type?

Thanks for your time in answering these questions!

[e-mail]

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

Date: 23 Jun 92 15:35:00 EDT
From: "BURGER,DAVE" <[e-mail]>
Subject: LC II or wait?

Hmmm....
I'm looking to purchase a new Mac in the next couple of months, and the
recently released LC II seems interesting.  Unfortunately, I'm afraid it
may lack the horsepower needed in the coming age of Quicktime and
who-knows-what.

If anyone could give me some feedback on their experiences with this CPU,
I would be most grateful.

Also-is there any truth to the conventional wisdom that the IIsi/ci models
are soon to be discontinued and replaced with a new Mac?  If so, it may be
well worth my while to wait a few more months and pick up a dirt cheap IIci.

Thanks,

David Burger
UCIS - Villanova University
[e-mail]

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

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

Date: Tue, 23 Jun 92 14:28:06 EDT
From: "Charles A. Patrick" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Legality of uploading TT -> Type 1 conversions

In a recent posting I advertised my TT -> Type 1 conversion of the fonts
Chicago, Geneva, Monaco and New York, which I use with ATM 2.0.3. Thus in
effect flushing my system of TrueType, which I view as an unfortunate
development. One surprising consequence, at least to me, of this posting was
the immediate interest shown, by other Netters, in acquiring these Type 1
versions. In particular, I have been asked to make these available to the
Info-Mac archives. I would be happy to do the necessary if there is a well-
founded consensus that this will not be a violation of copyright, and if the
moderators feel secure in accepting the postings.

Any opinions, comments and advice?

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

Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1992 10:41:03 PDT
From: "Kee Nethery" <[e-mail]>
Subject: LocalTalk via Radio? (Q)

    Reply to:   LocalTalk via Radio? (Q)
Does anyone know of products that could be used to transmit LocalTalk traffic
via Radio? I know of the Photonics IR products, this application is not line of
sight.

[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 22 Jun 92 17:27:20 CDT
From: "Mark R. Williamson" <[e-mail]>
Subject: LPunch Format

Louis,

You may find it more convenient to use LPDECODE.HQX from the $LOCAL
directory in the shadow Info-Mac archives here at RICEVM1 (Internet
address [e-mail]).  Send the command

  $MAC GET $LOCAL/LPDECODE.HQX

as an interactive message of the body of email.

Mark R. Williamson, Rice University, Houston, TX; [e-mail]
Coordinating BITNET redistribution of Info-Mac archive files from Rice.

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

Date: Mon, 22 Jun 92 21:51:29 EST
From: Murph Sewall <[e-mail]>
Subject: LPunch format

On Sat, 20 Jun 92 10:02:15 PDT you said:
>> Some files are archived in LPunch Format because some lines have more than
80
>> caracters. Is there a program to convert these into a normal format?
>
>I personally just run them through a Nisus macro that replaces
>
>    (one or more digits)/(one digit)/  with nothing
>
>Piece of cake and quick too...

What happens when you tell LISTSERV to send you a file (a list's
FILELIST, for example?) that actually does have lines more than 80
columns wide?  In those instances, you'd like to piece the lines back
together and recover the original file (what the LPUNCH format is all
about in the first place).

In truth, I don't mind that the mainframe dinosaurs are line oriented
rather than paragraph oriented, but I don't understand why it's
necessary to limit networks conceived after the age of the punch card to
80 character lines (maybe its a subtle memorial to Hollerith without
whom we might not have an asterisk for our country <-- REALLY OLD EDP in
group humor <answer to "why's the last card in the deck which contains a
/* known as a 'Nathan Hale' card?"> ;-)

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

Date: Tue, 23 Jun 92 09:22:37 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: LPunch format

In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
> On Sat, 20 Jun 92 10:02:15 PDT you said:
> >> Some files are archived in LPunch Format because some lines have more than
80
> >> caracters. Is there a program to convert these into a normal format?
> >
> >I personally just run them through a Nisus macro that replaces
> >
> >    (one or more digits)/(one digit)/  with nothing
> >
> >Piece of cake and quick too...
>
> What happens when you tell LISTSERV to send you a file (a list's
> FILELIST, for example?) that actually does have lines more than 80
> columns wide?  In those instances, you'd like to piece the lines back
> together and recover the original file (what the LPUNCH format is all
> about in the first place).

Whoops, forgot to mention that I prefix all of that with a (line start)
which makes sure that the above pattern (or whatever LPunch does)
is only replaced at the beginning of a line, and no where else in
the line. Nisus is the ultimate Mac program for massaging text that a
mainframe screwed up. :-)

> In truth, I don't mind that the mainframe dinosaurs are line oriented
> rather than paragraph oriented, but I don't understand why it's
> necessary to limit networks conceived after the age of the punch card to
> 80 character lines.

I really don't know. Perhaps someone who's been around a bit
longer than I will know the history behind the return delimited
lines. It's always intrigued me that the PC uses CR/LF to end a
line, the Mac uses CR, and Unix uses LF (CR = carriage return,
LF = line feed, which are different ASCII characters)

cheers ... Adam

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

Date: Tue, 23 Jun 92 19:18:35 CEST
From: Vittorio Dell'Aiuto <[e-mail]>
Subject: Lpunch Format (A)

About the conversion from LPunch format,
I still have to download the utility to do it: until now I used
McSink 6.5, that has two items in the menu Convert: Strings and
Line Numbers (also Strip and Add LineFeeds, that's very fast as
well).
Set the Prefix string to "/", and then you're done with a few
menu selections:
Convert/Strip Line Numbers
Convert/Strip Prefix String
Convert/Strip Line Numbers
Convert/Strip Prefix String

It doesn't take more than ten seconds even with very long files,
because it doesn't have to search the whole text but only the
start of lines.

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

Date: MON, 22 Jun 92 13:45:39 EDT
From: "Louis_Bergeron"[e-mail]
Subject: LPunch Format <A>

As I wrote before, LPunch Decoder 1.1 is available with the command:
$MACarch GET LPDECODE.HQX sent to [e-mail].
Also there is   $MACarch GET DA/MCSINK-70.HQX
        $MACarch GET DA/MCSINK-70-FILES.HQX
These are not dedicated LPunch Converter.
Thanks again for all those who help me.
Louis Bergeron [e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1992 09:21:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Keith C. Lantz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mac + and HD (Q)

I'm having a problem hooking up a hard drive to my Mac +.  The drive is
a APS with 100meg hooked up through the SCSI interface.  Is it the the
Mac + doesn't support this drive?  What happens is that when I turn the
drive on, then turn the computer on, the screen goes blank on the Mac
and it locks up.  Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

Keith C. Lantz
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 23 Jun 92 14:55:19 IST
From: "Dr. Michael Silverstein" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mac Expo - Toronto

Where can I get information (where, when, how...)
on the Mac Expo in Toronto sometime this fall?

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

Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1992 19:45 -0500
From: "Thank you for all your support. -Dave Sim" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Macs that will run System 6

I'm actually not certain that the LC II WILL run System 6.0.8, but I'll
be happy to give it a stab when I get to the office tomorrow. But even
if it does, it's far from the "highest-end" machine that will. The
IIsi shipped with 6.0.7, and old reliable, the IIci, will run earlier
versions that that. And if you can find one, the IIfx takes System 6, too.

-Craig

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

Date: Tue, 23 Jun 92 10:15:55 +0100
From: Jean Thioulouse <[e-mail]>
Subject: MacTCP & PowerBook (A)

Jeffrey L. Needleman <[e-mail]> says:
>Bob, move MacTCP to the root of your System folder (that is, in the System
>folder but not contained within any subfolder). I'll be that does it--it
>solved a similar problem for me.
>

This is only for old software, and not for MacTCP 1.1, which works
perfectly in the control panel folder. I had a problem with MacTCP 1.1 on
my PowerBook 170. It worked during about 1 month, then I tried to install
ARA, and could not make MacTCP work again (there was no icon in the control
panel window, not even the "Built-in LocalTalk" icon). After asking Apple
and comp.protocols.appletalk, I found that zapping the PRAM (hold down
command - option - P - R - keys while restarting the system - it gives the
standard startup sound, after the sound let go of the keys) was the
only way to get MacTCP working again. There was at least one other person
who had exactly the same problem.

Jean

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

Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1992 07:59:37 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Michael A. McGuire)
Subject: MacTCP & powerbook (R)

>Date: Fri, 19 Jun 92 23:05:58 -0400
>From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <[e-mail]>
>Subject: MacTCP & powerbook (A)
>
>In 10-148, Bob Greenlaw reports problems getting MacTCP1.1 to work on his
>Powerbook.
>
>Bob, move MacTCP to the root of your System folder (that is, in the System
>folder but not contained within any subfolder). I'll be that does it--it
>solved a similar problem for me.
>
>This technique is very useful whenever something in the Extensions folder
>or the Control Panels folder won't work. System 7, for backwards
>compatability will always look in the System root for stuff that it can
>load after loading everything from the "right" subfolders. Some programs
>written years ago looked for such items in the System root and, by gum,
>darn it, they still do. (None of this System 7 Extensions nonsense for
>them!)
>Jeff Needleman  <[e-mail]>

The latest verison of the MacTCP installer puts two files into your System
folder.
MacTCP is put in your Control Panels folder (where it belongs) and MacTCP
dnr is put a the root level of your System Folder.  The reason for all this
is that not all communication apps know to look in the Control Panels
folder.  MacTCP dnr allows programs the are not System 7 aware to use TCP.
You should not make two copies of MacTCP.  These files are not clones.
MacTCP dnr has been hacked.  If you do not have the MacTCP installer from
Apple the one that comes with VersaTerm and VersaTerm-PRO will do the same
job.

The same kind of problem exists with SendPS which can not find the
LaserWriter driver in the Extensions folder.  It just does not know to look
there.

Michael McGuire, [e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 23 Jun 92 13:11:16 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Hades)
Subject: MacWeek (C)

In comp.sys.mac.digest Blystone writes:

[ Flames about MacWEEK and Ziff Davis press, as well as praise for
PCWEEK deleted for space ]

    I'm not relly going to comment on the flame that much, except to say
that MacWEEK has been invaluable to me, and the work that I do. But did
you know that the publication company that you flamed so heavily in your
article also produces the magazine that you gave so much praise to?

--
                "Where's the scenery" -Daffy(Duck Amuck)
-Hades (Brian V. Hughes)

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

Date: Tue, 23 Jun 92 00:43:25 EDT
From: Leonard Rosenthol <[e-mail]>
Subject: MDS & StuffIt conflict

Let me shed a bit more info on the StuffIt/MDS conflict...

The problem is that when StuffIt (all versions <= 3.0Public Beta 2) used a
standard technique for determining the size of a file before opening it for
stuffing into an archive (a call to _GetCatInfo).  This works just fine under
normal MacOS (1.0 - 7.x), A/UX (1.0-3.x), and when all compression products
are running EXCEPT MDS...For reasons that Alysis won't detail, they do not
return the correct information causing StuffIt to "corrupt" archives by not
copying all the data contained in the compressed file.

In order to avoid the "bashing", we have made a change to StuffIt 3.0 so
that it will use an alternative method of determining file size (_GetEOF)
when stuffing files.  This method, although a bit slower, will work with
MDS.

So I will leave the "location of guilt" to the reader, but needless to say
we at Aladdin have gone out of our way to solve the problem.


Leonard Rosenthol
Director of Advanced Technology
Aladdin Systems, inc.

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

Date: Tue, 23 Jun 92 11:01:36 PDT
From: "Phillip Broussard" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mice for Mac Pluses

Netters,

We have an old Mac Plus that needs a new mouse (the non ADB type).  The folks
at
the computer place mentioned that there are 2 types (platinum and beige color )
and there is a $30 price difference.  Has anyone heard of a difference in
replacement mice for the Pluses??  Also, are there any 3rd party replacement
products for the Plus?  Thanks

Phill Broussard

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

Date: 22 Jun 92 18:08:28 EDT
From: Justin Gray <[e-mail]>
Subject: More Disk Space

After seeing so many heated debates here, on CIS, on AOL, and on Prodigy, I
felt compelled to reprint the one posting that I made regarding the flame war
over the Alladin (Alysis' competitor) warning to not use More Disk Space in
combination with it's beta software.

>I could be walking out on a limb here, but I believe that one purpose of
>beta testing is to uncover incompatibilities with software that has already
>been released.

>Since beta software is a work in progress, it is generally the
>responsibility of the software developer doing beta testing to correct the
>incompatibility.  A work in progress can be changed with less investment of
>resources than a product which has been frozen and released.  Of course this
>requires an understanding of the incompatibility on the part of the company
>doing the beta testing and development.

>Aladdin has posted a message stating that they have an intimate
>understanding of the incompatibility between their beta software and our
>released software.  They chose to blame released software that was working
>well for many thousands of users rather than make their beta software
>compatible.

>Since the Aladdin software is in beta, pointing fingers on either side or
>trying to find a party at 'fault' doesn't make a lot of sense -- the purpose
>of beta testing is to find problems and then fix them, not to find problems
>and then fix the blame on someone.

>In the past we have worked with Microsoft, WordPerfect, Symantec, Dantz,
>Magic, CE Software and a host of other companies to insure compatibility
>between their software and ours.  Aladdin is not an exception: We have
>offered to correct the incompatibility as soon as Aladdin stops changing
>their software and releases it.   We have also informed users of how to work
>around the problem using the MDS exception lists and other archiving
>programs, including MDS.

Justin Gray,
Alysis Software Corporation

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

Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1992 11:23:24 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Martin Josso)
Subject: Multiple references to footnote in Word 5.0 with System 7

A few Digests back, in a discussion about how Microsoft responded to the
needs of academic users of MS Word, people were complaining about the
impossibility to reference the same footnote or endnote several times.
Well, I was talking to technical support at Microsoft about another problem
in Word and I thought I would mention the footnote problem just to let them
know it bothered me. To my surprise, the rep. told me it could be done and
faxed me instructions. I don't remember seeing them on the digest so here
goes:
1. Make the footnote the usual way the first time it appears.
2. When it needs to be referenced again, copy the reference mark from the
main body of text,put the insertion point where you want the additional
reference and do paste special (you need system 7). From the paste list,
choose Picture and choose the Paste Link button.
The second reference will automatically update when the first changes.


                        Martin Josso

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

Date: 22 Jun 92 18:08:48 EDT
From: Justin Gray <[e-mail]>
Subject: Needleman Errors

Jeff Needleman has posted a number of messages recently which erroneously
describe More Disk Space as not using temporary files.  He says that a power
failure during compression will produce files which are, "toast--burnt toast,
and unrecoverable"  Jeff says that, "Alysis admitted the problem,"  He says
that, "I mentioned a definite problem with MDS--since it didn't make a copy of
a file before compressing it, a power failure at that moment would trash the
file completely and make it unrecoverable."

Fortunately, these statements are incorrect.

We've taken great pains to ensure that More Disk Space is the safest
compression program available.

More Disk Space incorporates checksums in every document that it compresses.
If a file is damaged by unreliable media or a virus, then when it is next
accessed, More Disk Space will display a dialog alerting the user to the
problem and allowing him to cancel or continue the current operation on the
file.

More Disk Space will optionally verify every write operation that is
performed.  If an operation is performed to unreliable media, More Disk Space
checks to see if the information written to the disk matches the information
in memory.  If the match fails then More Disk Space will display an alert
informing the user of a media failure and allowing him to cancel the current
operation.

More Disk Space comes on a System 7.0.1 800K startup disk which prevents
conflicts with INITs and anti-virus programs.  This configuration prevents the
spread of viruses from one application to the next.

Most importantly, More Disk Space uses temporary files whenever it compresses
files, in order to prevent data loss in the event of a system crash or power
out.   Under no circumstances is it possible to lose data by interrupting the
compression process.

Justin Gray,
Alysis Software Corporation

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

Date: Mon, 22 Jun 92 17:03:42 CST
From: (Malik K. Rahman) <[e-mail]>
Subject: New Mac site

We are in the process of planning our first MAC lab at our school.  We are
hoping to put together about 20 CI class machines with no local hard disk.
These machines would be networked using Ethernet cards to a DEC PCSA server.
We will probably use Sony 1024x768 resolution color monitors.  These
systems will be used primarily by our College of Education in their
coursework.

Any thought, comments, suggestions, ideas, do's, and don't will be
appreciated.

Please respond directly to us.  If there is interest in this topic,
we will compile the responses and post them.

Thanks.

Malik
Northeastern Illinois University

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Date: Tue, 23 Jun 92 14:57:32 IST
From: "Dr. Michael Silverstein" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Nisus - the next generation

Does anyone out there know if the next version
of Nisus will have the ability to use multiple
citations (tables, equations, figures) and
cross-references?

I was thinking of purchasing a new word processor
to replace FullWrite and was hoping to avoid the
multo grande price of Frame Maker...Nisus, except
for the citations, seems ideal....

mike

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Date: Tue, 23 Jun 92 14:42:38 SST
From: Chiang-Seng Chong <[e-mail]>
Subject: NUVOLINK SC

Dear netters,

I would like to get in touch with the people who are selling the NuvoLink
SC. I saw an ad from them in MacUser June 92. Please let me have their
_fax no_ and _email_ address.

Thank you.

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Date: Tue, 23 Jun 92 15:15:11 IST
From: "Dr. Michael Silverstein" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Ofoto without scanner

There was once a programme at sumex that allowed
you to analyse Ofoto file from the apple scanner
without having to be directly connected to the
scanner....

Anyone remember what/where this is?

Thanks, mike

Materials Engineering, Technion    Tel: [phone]
Haifa, Israel 32000                Fax: [phone]

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Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1992 10:11:45 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Albrecht Hofheinz)
Subject: PB100. run Sys 6?

I also put a System 6.0.7 on my newly acquired PB 100, and in general
I'm very pleased with this setup. I have only two questions:

- How can I set the SCSI ID Nr it should use when hooked up to a desktop
to serve as an external HD? I'm daisy chaining through another est. HD,
which has nr 1 already assigned to it. I could of course leave the PB at
#1, and change the other HD to, say, #2, but for some complicated reason
I don't want to do that? Anyone know3ws  a solution?

- The old Battery cdev I found with my system 6 does not look as
comfortable as the new System 7 one. Can I use the new one with my old
system?

Thanks for the help
{_
Albrecht Hofheinz
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1992 17:58 EST
From: The Sorcerer's Apprentice <[e-mail]>
Subject: PICT Screen Grabbing Utility (Q)

I've already sent mail to Stan Diamond regarding screen capture under
System 7 (Command-Shift-3), but his question led to one of my own.

Does anyone know of a utility (cdev) that allows a *region* of the screen
to be caught?  Moreover, one that doesn't require a key combination?  I
would like to do some screenshots of unshifted fonts in Key Caps, but when
I try to do a screenshot Key Caps reads the Command and Shift keys.
----
Adam Hauerwas, Guild Computing Center   |  [e-mail]
Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr PA  19010  |  215.526.5002

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Date: 22 Jun 92 16:28:00 MDT
From: "5268 Spires, Shannon V." <[e-mail]>
Subject: Postscript to PICT conversion utility (A)

Mark Halliday writes:
> Is there a utility available that converts a Postscript graphics
> file (line, point, draw commands) to PICT file for display in a
> programme such as HyperCard? We have ETAK maps created on a PC in
> Postscript format that we want to use in Hypercard.

One way to do this is to convert the Postscript into the pseudo-
Postscript used by Adobe Illustrator and then cut them as
Postscript-commented PICTs or save them as EPSF files from
Illustrator. This technique works pretty well as long as the input
files use a fairly limited subset of Postscript, and map files
usually fit this requirement. It's also possible to write a fairly
simple converter in Hypertalk which will convert the pure Postscript
into Illustrator Postscript, so the process can be fairly automatic.
I've done this kind of thing in the past and it worked well.

Shannon Spires
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1992 19:41 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: PowerBooks and Sleep mode

While Sleeping a PowerBook rather than shutting it down will prevent
you from getting the boot sound when you turn it back on, it's not a
good idea. The manual that came with my 170 specifically warns that
you shouldn't move a PowerBook while it's in Sleep mode. God only knows
why, but....

-Craig

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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 92 21:52:51 EST
From: Murph Sewall <[e-mail]>
Subject: Qudra Cpu cache aut-configuration tool?

On Sun, 21 Jun 92 20:53:35 EDT you said:
>Someone told me there may be a public domain tool that automatically
>turnes on/off the CPU instruction cache on a Quadra depending on whether
>or not the application in question is compatible. Is there a tool like this?

get info-mac/cp/quadra-auto-cache-22.hqx (I probably should write a
macro to just post this info to the digest about every six weeks ;-)  It
works terrific, but getting the software upgraded works even better :)

>I wonder if there is a heuristic which can determine whether or not an
>application is compatible. From my guess, one would have to examine the
>assembly code entirely.

The four likely suspects (in order of appearance) are: '040 caches,
32-bit mode, virtual, and System 7.  I've got some 1986 stuff that runs
fine 32-bit clean, '040 caches on (I don't use virtual much).  Those who
religiously follow Apple's guidelines have to do far fewer updates (I
didn't say none, so don't pick on me :)

The only real oddity I've come across is Cliff's SAT: runs fine on a
Quadra 700 with 8 MBytes, but when I dumped it off the Quadra and
installed on the PB 170 Type 1 error city <?!>  I called StudyWare and
the tech said "turn ON virtual" <say what!?>  The program wants less
than half a megabyte.  Whatever, the tech was correct: set virtual to
the smallest possible value (5 MB) and Cliff's SAT runs fine.  Odd huh?
The tech's explanation is that the program (version 3.7N) was originally
ported from TRS-80 Basic--the Info box says it was compiled with
MicroSoft QuickBasic version 1 (I guess I should be happy it works at
all on any Mac higher than a Mac+ or any system greater than 4 ;-)

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Date: Tue, 23 Jun 92 00:24:33 -0400
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re-formating my hard drive

On 6/16/92 I wrote:
>I have a Mac LC II with the standard Apple 80 MB hard drive.  When I tally the
amount used "in disk" and "available" it comes out to be only 75.0 MB. I have
been told that this lost 5 MB may have to do with Apple's standard method of
formatting the hard drive and that if I reformat it myself (and change some
parameters) I can have a full 80 MB drive.  Does anyone have any experience
doing this with System 7?  Will I compromise data integrity?
>Please reply directly to [e-mail], and I will sumarize for
the net.

I have since received several helpful replies and have successfully
repartitioned my hard drive.  I will summarize my findings.  If I speak an
untruth, please correct me.

Bootup from your System Disk Tools disk and run the Apple HD SC Setup
program.  Click on "Partition", and then click on "Custom", you will see a
map of the hard disk partitions.  Click on "Details" for more info.  On my
stock Apple hard drive four partitions are set-up, and their types are as
follows:  Apple_partion_map, 31.5 K; Apple_Driver, 16 K; Apple_HFS, 78135
K; Apple_Free, 3886.5K.  It is this last partition that Apple reserves for
no apparent use.  I have been told that the Apple HD SC Setup program only
runs on stock Apple drives, and that third party drive formatters do not
have an equivalent "Apple_Free," wasted area.  In any case, you should have
backed-up your entire hard drive already--as is your weekly habit.  Ah
huh...  Click "OK" and return to the map of the hard disk partitions, click
on the name of your Macintosh volume (Partition Type:  Apple_HFS), and
click on "Remove"--you didn't buy generic DS/HD diskettes to back-up your
hard drive did you?  You will now see the entire map grayed out (Partition
Type:  Apple_Free) except for the Mac Driver (Partition Type:
Apple_Driver) at the top.  The Apple_partion_map is not displayed in this
screen.   Next click in the gray area and you will see a scrolling list of
partitions that you can make out of this new, huge Apple_Free partition.
Click on Macintosh Volume in the list and fill in the size of that volume
as equal to the maximum allowed.   On my drive it is 82021.5 K.  There is a
long wait at this point.  Take the opportunity to ask yourself if this is
all worth 5 extra megs of storage.  Envision the worst case scenario.  The
map should now be rid of the wasted Apple_Free partition.  Click on "Done"
and then "Test" and all should be well.  When you next open your hard drive
it should reflect the extra space.  On my system the amount used "in disk"
and "available" now tallys to 78.8 megs.  The final step is to restore your
files from your back-ups.

If you choose to engage in this process, you will have the added benefit of
a recent back-up of files, a defragmented system, and, according to one
responder, increased data integrity ["...over time the formatting on a hard
disk (actually, the magnetic "lines" put down to define the sectors)
can blur, shift, or otherwise become misaligned with respect to the
drive heads.  This is especially true if you move the drive, or change
it's orientation (flat to on it's side.)  In addition, flaws in the
media which develop over time get identified during initialization.
In other words, periodic re-initialization actually improves your
drive's integrity"].

My drive has been working fine since re-partitioning.  I have received no
negative responses regarding loss of data integrity.  Still, don't you
wonder what that Apple_Free partition was used for...hmm?  Don't think so
much and go for it.

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Date: Tue, 23 Jun 92 09:47 MET
From: Hans de Wolf <[e-mail]>
Subject: reading HPGL files on a Mac

Davide proserio asked about shareware/freeware to read HPGL plot files on a
Mac. I found in the mac archives from [e-mail] a hypercard
stack called HP2PICT that converts HPGL to PICT. I cannot find in anymore
in that archive, mayby it is in any of the other archives (sumex ?)

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

Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1992 10:20:25 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Albrecht Hofheinz)
Subject: Repeat bibliographic citations, yet another round

[e-mail] writes:

>I still recommend EndNote Plus from Niles Associates for scientific footnotes
at
>the end of the text.

I remember someone telling me that EndNote Plus cannot read Word's (or

any other program's) footnotes. Is that correct? It would be useless for

me for referencing if it can't.
Comments?

Albrecht Hofheinz
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 23 Jun 92 14:48 N
From: <[e-mail]> ([e-mail] FAX
FRANCE[33] 76-48-39...)
Subject: Rumors of a (marginally) new powerbook 145.

Distribution-File:
    [e-mail]

Titbits 130 reports:
>  The latest solid rumor, oxymoronically enough, concerns the next
>  round of PowerBooks to emerge from Cupertino. From the sounds of
>  it, Apple will be upping the ante in the middle of the line with a
>  PowerBook 145 that will essentially be a 170 without the active
>  matrix screen or the FPU. The main change from the 140 is a 25 MHz
>  68030, although we would prefer it with the floating point unit
>  (FPU) to bring it to full IIci/170 speed.

I would hope that Apple are also thinking about selling a second or 'add-on'
Mac to those of us who need a 'big' Mac at work.  The high price of the
140/170 is difficult to justify if you've just bought a Quadra !

The PB-100, which I picked up recently for $1125 (at a regular Apple dealer -
with external floppy) comes closest to that.  It is apparently being dropped,
but has advantages over the 140/170 as an 'add-on' Mac.  It plugs
in to the big Mac as a SCSI disk, it runs system-6 saving RAM but is also
surprisingly fast with system-7, it can use a RAM disk that survives shutdowns,
and it is smaller and lighter than the others - I don't even bother with the
external floppy, given these features. Sure it would be better if it had a
68030 (provided it had at least a socket for an FPU) but that's not worth an
extra $1000 ! As for the PB-100 screen - its already better than the Classic !

Where's the rumored 'docking' portable for us big Mac users ?

Alan Hewat, ILL, 156X Grenoble Cedex, 38042 France (email [e-mail])

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Date: Tue, 23 Jun 92 14:08:09 EDT
From: Seth Ness <[e-mail]>
Subject: SLIP

hi,
i'm trying to learn to use and set up SLIP.
i want to call over a modem from my home mac to my lab mac which is directly
on the internet(via an ethernet card) and has macTCP. is this what SLIP
is used for or am i totally confused. will i then be able to telnet anf ftp
directly from my home mac? i've gotten NCSA/BYU telnet 2.5. what do i do now?

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

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Date: TUE, 23 Jun 92 09:06:44 EDT
From: "Louis_Bergeron"[e-mail]
Subject: Software Registry Question <Answer>

Download the following report:
$MAC GET REPORT/SYS7-COMPAT-INFO.HQX
at the address: [e-mail]

That report is a compatibility report of most softwares that exist. It has not
been done for the purpose you want, but it will certainly help a lot.

Louis Bergeron [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 23 Jun 92 08:56:28 CDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Sound recording with Macintosh LC (A)

>  Is there anyone who know if a program exist to record sound with the
>microphone of the LC. I know that the SOUND control panel and Hypercard
>2.0 do that... but some better program must exist... no??

>Thanks for your help! (excuse my english!!)

>Francois

Someone already mentioned Wavicle.  Another possibility is sample editor,
found in /info-mac/sound/program/sample-editor-102.hqx
on sumex-aim.  I was using it on my LC last night.  It's free, and very
prettily done.  It calls for a 13" monitor, but if you are patient a 12"
will work.  You just have to keep moving the window around to get to tools.

Bryan Walls
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 92 20:18:23 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Robert O'Brien)
Subject: Sounds help request

Well, that's done it.  I've sucessfully ignored most of the messages about
neat sounds folks have uploaded and the various tools to use them with.
But I think I want the Stuff from Buckaroo Banzai, even if the submitter
did spell it inconsistently...

What I have not learned in all this time is if these sounds can be of any
use on a Classic (NOT II) running 6.0.7

So if one of the sound gurus out there would be so kind, is there a synopsis
you can send me of the tools needed to download and utilize these sounds?

Thanks!  -Bob <[e-mail]>

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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 92 19:14:02 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Stuffit Lite Beta

I'm sure I am not the only one to note that the Stuffit Lite Public Beta
expires a very precious few days from now. I dropped Aladdin a note asking
about same last week. And I did not receive the courtesy of a reply. Have
any of y'all found out what will happen next week?

Stuffit Lite is a nice program. I would really like to know its status.

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

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Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1992 15:53 EST
From: "Russell Aminzade: Trinity College of VT"
<[e-mail]>
Subject: System 7 and Hypercard Licensing (again!) (Q)

      This was a FAQ a year or so ago, but after reading all the
      comments and responses I'm still confused. I hope there is
      someone there who can lead me through the swamp of Apple/Claris
      software licenses.

      The Problem:  we just got the money for enough memory to upgrade
      our 10 SEs (now running 6.0.something) to System 7.  We'd also
      like to upgrade from Hypercard 1.x to 2.01.

      I've got install disks (from subsequent purchases of Macs), but I
      want to be lega.  I know you can pay $70 or so for system 7,
      though I haven't met anyone who has done this.  I also know that
      there are close-to-free deals for Apple HEP II schools.  I also
      know that our local user's group (MacChamp) is legally authorized
      to distribute system 7 and HC 2.01 to members (that's how I got
      my copy, and how some faculty here got 7.0 on their machines).  I
      also have some dim recollection of a site licence (it involved
      Sys 7 on a CD-ROM...not that we have a seedy-ROM drive here).

      I'll call the local users group and see if they think it's legit
      to have the school "join" the users group.  I doubt it (if I were
      Apple's lawyers I wouldn't allow it, but, hey they've allowed
      stranger things). Is there anyone out there with an alternative
      to spending the mucho dinero to purchase Sys 7.  ( No flames,
      please about how slow 7.0 is gonna be on an SE)!

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

Date: Mon, 22 Jun 92 21:55:30 EST
From: Murph Sewall <[e-mail]>
Subject: TTConvert

On Mon, 22 Jun 92 01:03:02 EDT you said:
>My friend tried to convert Window TT to Mac TT...

A member of a local user group handed me a disk of about 30 Win 3.1 to
Mac TT converts.  The DeskWriter-C likes them fine, but they generate a
"communications error" on the LaserWriter NTR (which had no trouble with
the Black Chancery TT I downloaded from the UMich archives).  I don't
know whether member who did the conversion used the most recent version
off TTConverter.  Has anyone else succeeded or failed with TT fonts and
Apple's LaserWriters (especially the more recent models)?

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Date: Tue, 23 Jun 92 12:07:41 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Julian E. Gomez)
Subject: What is on a CD?

There have been a lot of messages with misinformation about just what
is on an audio CD. My references for this post are the red book, which
is THE specification for audio CD's, and the Apple CDROM programming
manual.  There's no need to followup unless you've got page numbers
that show errors here or are amplifying an explanation.

There is no directory structure. On the Mac the Foreign Access / Audio
CD driver mounts the disk into the desktop, and when the window is
opened shows a document icon for each track. You can't open the
documents, because they aren't documents. The appearance is just an
attempt to make the CD fit into the Macintosh paradigm.

There is a header, of sorts. It is just a table of contents that gives
the starting times of each track on the CD. Example:
    track   start
    1               00:02:17
    2               00:05:02
    etc.
Times are stored in BCD.

There is no other information in the header, such as a file allocation
table, or disc name or track names.  If you ever see names displayed
somewhere, it is because the software or hardware has a feature to let
somebody type them in. It is not a lot of fun.

Given that a CD can hold over 650 MB, it is extremely stupid that they
didn't reserve a few hundred of them for information like this. But,
that's just what they didn't do, and we're stuck with it.

As has been discussed earlier, the total number of "frames" is often
used as a serial number to identify a disc. HOWEVER, that is not
actually a serial number, because there is no guarantee it is unique.
Even the UPC code for the disc is not guaranteed to be unique, although
they've come pretty close.

The definition of tracks is completely up to the record label.
Specifically with regards to classical music, some labels will create
each movement as a track, some will do the entire symphony as a track.
The former is the most convenient for the consumer so it is most
common. There is no requirement in the red book to do it either way.

I just spent more than a year implementing software and designing and
managing the development of the Intouch istation, coming soon to a
record store near you. This machine makes intensive use of red book and
yellow book (CDROM) discs, so it was necessary to acquire a lot of
information about both formats.

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

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