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Info-Mac Digest             Mon, 29 Jun 92       Volume 10 : Issue 155

Today's Topics:

      [*] * FinderMenu 1.0
      [*] AliasZoo1.4 (utility)
      [*] Bookends Mac Demo Upload
      [*] BunchTyper_101.sea.hqx
      [*] How to Refill StyleWriter Cartridges, version 2.
      [*] lp-decode.hqx
      [*] Macintosh FAQ
      [*] miniWRITER1.73.sit
      [*] MoriaPX1.0b2.cpt.hqx
      [*] new version of generating-postscript.txt
      [*] PlayOn! -- sound play-through utility
      [*] poly-30.cpt.hqx
      [*] Remember 2.3.2 Updater
      [*] Responses on Fax-modems
      [*] stylewriter-on-appltalk.hqx
      [*] Suitcase 2.1.1 updater
      [*] Type 1 PostScript Font For Posting
      [*] Updater to Shanghai II 1.04
      Alysis/Aladdin Dispute (C)
      Apple not excited about MIDI?
      A question about Soft PC (C)
      awk for the mac: summary
      Barcodes and PC Input devices (Q)
      bidirectional imagewriting
      Binary File Tansfer (A)
      CD-ROM control via HyperCard
      CD-ROM control via HyperCard (Q)
      Chinese word processors
      Connecting CDROM drive to Macs
      Cooling fans for Mac Plus (Q)
      Copying and moving files in the Finder
      Database program for CD's
      Direct PowerBook 100 cable?
      DiskFitPro (Q)
      expiring shareware
      expiring shareware (continued)
      Fonts
      For info-mac digest
      Info-Mac Digest V10 #154
      internet baby question
      LocalTalk - Ethernet Bridge
      MS Word - Customized Menus using "Commands" menu item.
      Needleman/Alladin/Alysis
      Problem with VM after RAM upgrade. Please help.
      QuickDraw Printers and Publish & Subscribe Problem
      Shareware Authors: an idea
      SoftPC (C)
      True Type and Jagged Print (Q)
      Using a DEC tape drive for backing up Macs
      what's the cache
      Why does my Round WDEF break under sys7 Hide/Show feature ?
      WK Script WINDOW ERASE (C)
      zapping the parameter ram in a Quadra...
      ZIP files won't unzip

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Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1992 12:10:46 -0500
From: Matthew Wall <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] * FinderMenu 1.0

I'm posting FinderMenu 1.0 to info-mac for David Winer of UserLand
([e-mail]). A most nifty and needed extension for
Frontier; see the article on the inside page of this week's MacWeek for the
press blurb. Still waiting for standalone double-clickables, though!

If you're not familiar with Frontier, it's a scripting language for the
MacOS that can do anything and everything except MakeJulienneFry().
Original posting message from AppleLink follows.

- Matt Wall
  Swarthmore College Academic Computing
  [e-mail]

Menu Sharing for the Finder!
============================

Here's everything you need to write scripts that live in the Finder's menu
bar.
In other words, menu sharing for the Finder!

With the FinderMenu INIT and app, developed by Steve Zellers of Berkeley
Systems, the System 7 Finder can receive structures of shared menus from
Frontier. You can assign single keystrokes to commands. Scripts can operate
on
the Finder's selection.

Includes a menu of sample (useful!) scripts and complete docs. Lots more!

Requires System 7 and Frontier 1.0, expand with StuffIt Expander, available
in
the StuffIt & Family folder in Hot Apps.

UserLand Software
June 14, 1992

Author: EL.GRANDE

[Archived as /info-mac/util/finder-menu-10.hqx; 107K]

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Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1992 09:50:27 -0500 (CDT)
From: Larry Rymal <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] AliasZoo1.4 (utility)

AliasZoo 1.4 is a major re-write of version 1.2.5.  Now it locates all
alias files on a selected volume, shows you clearly which ones no longer
point to their owners, allows you to select aliases to delete or
to re-connect to new owners.  Now you can select multiple aliases and
re-connect them all at once.  Also includes a new feature that allows you
to double-click on an alias file and see the location of it's owner.
All functions have been re-written for speed (the delete function is
dramatically faster).

Requires System 7.
Requires Compact Pro to unpack.
Shareware $20.  Author: Cliff McCollum

[Archived as /info-mac/util/alias-zoo-14.hqx; 82K]

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Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1992 13:27:16 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Bookends Mac Demo Upload

Bookends Mac II is a HyperCard-based reference manager. It has fields for
an article's or book's Authors, Title, Editors, Journal, Volume, Pages,
Date, Publisher, Location, Abstract, and Keywords (each field can contain
up to 30,000 characters). Information can be _rapidly_ retrieved by boolean
searches (AND, OR, NOT) on any combination of fields. Reference information
can be formatted to suit virtually any type of bibliographic style (e.g.,
first author [surname first], second author [surname last], title, year in
parentheses, volume, colon, page range, etc.) One can easily embed
citations in documents (written in Word, WordPerfect,  etc.) and Bookends
will retrieve them, format them for a bibliography, and create a copy of
the manuscript with the appropriate citations inserted (e.g., changing a
citation to (1,2) or (Jones et al., 1989)). Bookends can download reference
information from many national online databases and CD-ROMs. Finally, there
are numerous features that make reference management easier (link any
picture [such as one of a chemical structure] to a reference, a journal
glossary that fills out a journal name after you type a few letters, an
automatic alphabetized index of all authors and keywords in the database, a
predefined "bank" of over 80 bibliographic formats for oft-cited journals,
automatic removal of duplicate entries, etc.).

[Archived as /info-mac/demo/bookends-mac.hqx; 288K]

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Date: Fri, 26 Jun 92 19:40:30 -0400
From: [e-mail] (LEE,KWANG-SEOG)
Subject: [*] BunchTyper_101.sea.hqx

BunchTyper 1.01
 ---------------------------------------------------
version 1.01 Release(6/25/92):
- bug fixed : bus error if QuickTime is on.
- much better READ-ME documentation.

 ---------------------------------------------------
BunchTyper is a utility designed for the Macintosh running under System 7.0 or
later.  BunchTyper does a simple task: changing the type/creator information
of a file or a group of files, but just with the great flexibility.

Changing the type/creator information of a file is so easy, right?
There exist, however, three possible cumbersome difficulties that make a user
to hesitate to change type/creator info of files:

- it is not always easy to remember the type/creator codes.
- when you want to change the type/creator info of many files located in many
different locations(i.e., subfolders or disks), you need many repetitive
operations.
- if you made a mistake(i.e., changed to wrong type/creator), there's no easy
way to restore the original info of files.

BunchTyper is designed to overcome the above annoying situations.

[Archived as /info-mac/util/bunch-typer-101.hqx; 105K]

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Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1992 02:30 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] How to Refill StyleWriter Cartridges, version 2.

How to Refill StyleWriter Cartridges and Fountain Pen Cartridges, version 2.

Edited and augmented by Brian Richmond: [e-mail]

Based on an Internet and TorontoUs Magic Bulletin Board notes from: Kees
Huizing ([e-mail]); Bruce.Henderson ([e-mail]); Louis Bergeron
([e-mail]); Michael McKeever, etc.

[Archived as /info-mac/report/style-writer-refills.txt; 6K]

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Date: SUN, 28 Jun 92 15:06:22 EDT
From: "Louis_Bergeron"[e-mail]
Subject: [*] lp-decode.hqx

file (I presume you know what to do with it...).

have fun!

| From: JOHN HILL
|   To: SAK WATHANASIN
| Subj: REPLY TO MSG# 21142 (LPUNCH DECODER)

 Thanks, Sak, for forwarding this.
 LB> The actual program seems to work very well even with
 LB> System 7.0 and Tuneup 1.1.1. But I would like to know if any
 LB> improvement have been done.

 Curiously, I revisited LPunch decoder only a few weeks ago, I gave a copy to
Lloyd Wood (did he ever contact you? I suggested he should, for e-mail gen)
and
he said it was a bit flaky with certain cdevs and INITs. He didn't say which
ones, but I recompiled it with the latest version, tarted up the icons with a
bit of colour and sent him a copy of the resulting 1.1.2. Otherwise it's
unchanged.

 Now that I no longer have free access to e-mail (and insufficient need to pay
for access) I can't get hold of any test files from EARN or anywhere else. So
I
have neither incentive to make further improvements, nor material to test them
on. I did suggest to Lloyd that he do some tests, but I haven't heard anything
>From him; I assume that if he was still having problems he would have let me
know. The algorithms as they stand were pretty exhaustively tested before
1.1.1
was released.

 The application does pretty well everything I wanted of it, and nobody came
 up
with any suggestions for improvements when it was new; so I assume that either
everyone is happy with it or few people are using it. I don't want to fall
victim to creeping featurism!

 I have uploaded 1.1.2 to HQ F32, and sent DNC a message suggesting that he
delete the earlier version. Feel free to forward 1.1.2 on to the Info-Mac
archives, or anywhere else you and Louis Bergeron think fit. There should
still
be a copy of 1.1.1 on the Dublin archive, BTW.

[Archived as /info-mac/util/lp-decode.hqx; 40K]

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Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1992 23:19:48 PDT
From: Bill Lipa <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Macintosh FAQ

>From the Usenet comp.sys.mac.xxx groups...

From: [e-mail] (Rusty Harold)
Subject: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Date: 27 Jun 92 02:30:54 GMT

              comp.sys.mac.faq

              Table of Contents

 I.    Introduction
     1. What other information is available?
     2. Posting Etiquette
 II.   The Question of the Year:
     Why is my system using so much memory?
 III.  FTP
     1. Where can I FTP Macintosh software?
     2. Can I get shareware by E-mail?
     3. Where can I find Application X?
     4. Can someone mail me Application X?
     5. What is .bin?  .hqx?  .cpt?  .image? .etc?
 IV.   Viruses
     1. Help!  I have a virus!
     2. Reporting new viruses
 V.    Printing
     1. How do I make a PostScript file?
     2. How do I print a PostScript file?
     3. Why won't my PostScript file print on my mainframe's printer?
     4. Why are my PostScript files so big?
     5. How can I print PostScript on a non-PostScript printer?
     6. How do I make my ImageWriter II print in color?
     7. Why doesn't PrintMonitor work with the ImageWriter?
     8. Why did my document change when I printed it?
 VI.   System Software
     1. What is System 7 Tuneup?  Do I need it?
     2. Do I need System 7.01?
     3. How can I get System 7.01 on 800K disks?
     4. Why do my DA's disappear when I turn on MultiFinder?
 VII.  DOS and the Mac
     1. How can I move files between a Mac and a PC?
     2. How can I translate files to a DOS format?
     3. Should I buy SoftPC or a real PC?
 VIII. Security
     1. How can I prevent users from changing the contents of a folder?
     2. How can I password protect my Mac?
 IX.   Hard Disks
     1. Help! My folder disappeared!
     2. Why can't I throw this folder away?
 X.    Floppy Disks
     1. Why can't my new Mac read my old Mac's floppy disks?
     2. Can I turn a double-density disk into a high density disk by
        punching an extra hole in it?
 XI.   Miscellaneous
     1. How can I preview a PostScript file?
     2. How do I edit a PostScript file?
     3. What does System Error xxx mean?
     4. How do I use a picture for my desktop?
     5. How do I make a startup screen?
     6. Can I Replace the "Welcome to Macintosh" box with a picture?
     7. What is AutoDoubler? Is it safe?
     8. How does AutoDoubler compare to other compression products?
     9. What's a good text editor for the Mac?
    10. Where did my icons go?

[Archived as /info-mac/report/cmsf-faq.txt; 55K]

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Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1992 09:57:24 -0500 (CDT)
From: Larry Rymal <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] miniWRITER1.73.sit

miniWRITER is a popular text editor desk accessory which is great for
composing and uploading text messages to bulletin boards.  Also good for
creating short (or small) text-only documents.  Configurable, will add
carriage returns after a certain amount of characters per line (you specify
the number of characters).  Excellent text editor DA!  Shareware, $10.00.

[Archived as /info-mac/da/mini-writer.hqx; 31K]

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Date: Fri, 26 Jun 92 15:05:46 +1200
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] MoriaPX1.0b2.cpt.hqx

Announcing a New Colour, All Singing, All Dancing port of UMoria 5.4.0 for
the Macintosh!

Purple X's Moria for the Macintosh v1.0b1 is now ready for public release.

This is a completely new port of Moria for the Macintosh that has many
improvements over the current version. The interface code has been totaly
rewritten to provide:

* Full Colour support (Thanks to Edouard Poor for Colour code from his
  excellent Archimedes port.) Green Dragons are Green. Red Nagas are Red,
  Ancient Multi-hued Dragons Change colour everytime you move. And there
  is no change to the save file to support it.

* Much improved key handling. ie it actualy works properly cf previous
  ports.

* A Recall Window, that shows recall information (Normally avaliable via
  the (r)ecall command) in a seperate re-sizable window. The information
  is also shown for each creature that you hit. Thanks to Edouard Poor and
  Jason Williams.

* Options settable via an options dialog, plus an improved interface for
  the standard options (=) command.

* A very large speed improvement over previous Macintosh ports.

The Author can be reached at:
[e-mail] (until October 92)
[e-mail]    (most reliable)

[Archived as /info-mac/game/umoria-54.hqx; 298K]

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Date: Sat, 27 Jun 92 04:06:03 -0500
From: Don Gillies <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] new version of generating-postscript.txt

This file is called "generating-postscript.txt" and lives on the
computer [sumex-aim.stanford.edu] in the /info-mac/tips/ directory.
last update was 6.25.92.

DIRECTORY
Generating Postscript
  (0) The laserwriter 7.0 way is easy
  (1) The onetime postscript generator [with keypress] (5.x, 6.x)
  (2) The weekend postscript generator [with checkbox] (5.x, 6.x)
  (3) The user with no laserwriter at all [with asm patch] (5.x - 7.x)
  (4) The user with a dedicated computer listening to the serial port
  (5.2/6.0)
Appendix
  (A.1) Forcing the postscript file to go to one directory
  (A.2) Printing the file on a non-apple laser printer(pre system-7)
  (A.3) Downloading a postscript file to an attached laser printer
  (A.4) Making laserwriter 6.x driver generate black/white by default
  (A.5) Getting laserwriter 5.2 to coexist with 6.1 and 7.0
  (A.6) Making the laserwriter driver relinquish the appletalk port
  (A.7) Changing the defaults in the laserwriter dialogue
  (A.8) Avoiding HUGE font files with the 7.0 print driver

[Archived as /info-mac/tips/generating-postscript.txt; 14K]

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Date: Sat, 27 Jun 92 01:08:56 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] PlayOn! -- sound play-through utility

PlayOn! is a control panel that enables the playthrough feature
on Macs with built-in sound input.  With playthrough on,
whatever signal comes in through the microphone jack (say your
CD player) gets played through the Mac's speaker or headphone
jack.

$5 Shareware.
Stuffed and Binhexed for your downloading pleasure.
PlayOn! requires System 7 or later.
Please send any comments to [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/sound/program/play-on.hqx; 21K]

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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 92 22:51:25 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Kevin Gong)
Subject: [*] poly-30.cpt.hqx

Polyominoes is a very interesting strategy game in which you try to put the
last piece on the board.  The pieces can be flipped or rotated in any manner.
With Version 3.0, you can use any of the 15 different boards, or create one of
your own using the Board Editor.  It's you against the computer (or you
against another person).

Polyominoes is Shareware, $7.00 registration fee.  It should work on any Mac
with any system.  However, if you are running system 4.2 or earlier, you
should probably turn the sound feature off, as that may cause problems.

Changes since version 2.4:
    %       added 3 more boards
    %       added board editor -- users can now create their own boards!
    %       improved on-line help

 - kevin ([e-mail])

[Archived as /info-mac/game/polyminoes-30.hqx; 190K]

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Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1992 07:23 CDT
From: PETER GINGISS <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Remember 2.3.2 Updater

This is an updater for Remember 2.3, updating it to version
2.3.2.  There are no major changes, only bug fixes.
Remember is a reminder and calendar DA (with extension).

[Archived as /info-mac/da/remember-232-updater.hqx; 120K]

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Date: 25 Jun 92 20:42:00 EDT
From: "Charles E. Bouldin" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Responses on Fax-modems

Thanks to those of you who replied to my query about fax-modems. I think
that I will try the Supra FAXmodem+. It appears to be a good deal on features
and price. Summary of responses follows...

[Archived as /info-mac/report/fax-modems.txt; 5K]

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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1992 01:39:09 +0200
From: Eric Aubourg <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] stylewriter-on-appltalk.hqx

Here is a small application that allows to share a StyleWriter printer on an
AppleTalk network. You just have to put it in replacement of the standard
PrintMonitor, and create an alias to the PrintMonitor folder of the server
Macintosh.
Shareware $10

ric Aubourg

[Archived as /info-mac/util/stylewriter-on-appltalk.hqx; 33K]

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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 92 18:36:25 PDT
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Suitcase 2.1.1 updater

Here's the new Suitcase 2.1.1 updater for Fifth Generation Software's
popular Suitcase 2 utility, written by Steve Brecher. (You need the
commercial program Suitcase 2 to use this updater. Don't confuse the new
Suitcase 2 programs with the earlier Suitcase II versions, for which the
latest version is 1.2.12.) This updater will change either 2.0 or 2.1 to
2.1.1.

According to its author, version 2.1.1 has these changes:

>Fix Suitcase 2.1 DA's occasionally altering the value in Suitcase's 'sysz'
resource to an odd (as opposed to even) number, which caused some model Macs
to crash at startup.
>
> Fixed 2.1 not finding fonts in ROM in certain applications which have FOND
resources in the application which refer to ROM fonts.
>
> Fixed 2.1 not being able to open DAs in suitcases from the Apple menu in
certain applications (including File Director 3.1 and applications written
with MacApp 3.0).
>
> Change for compatibility with System 7.1 alpha pre-release.
>
> Fix bug that could cause a startup crash when startup font conflict checking
is turned on (the initial setting) in Suitcase's Preferences/Fonts.
>
> Change to enable sounds that are compressed with Apple's System 7 resource
compression scheme to be played from suitcases.
>
> Fix calculation of the Resources window size in certain cases when the
Suitcase DA is opened on a smaller screen than had been in use previously.
>
> Work around problem related to AppleTalk Remote Access serial port
arbitration that could cause a crash when a DA was closed when the DA (or
other software) had altered memory location 0.
>
> Fix bug that caused crash or other problems under System versions earlier
than 7.0 when opening a DA from Suitcase's Resources window while
automatically closing the Suitcase DA (see Preferences/General).
>
> Fix incompatibility with Movie Recorder application.

Jeff Needleman  <[e-mail]>

[Archived as /info-mac/util/suitcase-211-updater.hqx; 80K]

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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1992 14:41 PDT
From: Scott Remen <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Type 1 PostScript Font For Posting

Petrograd is a Cyrillic-based shareware Type 1 PostScript font that I created
for Jason Fosback, UO Computing Center UNIX/NeXT/VMS Consultant.

Enjoy!

Scott Remen
Internet: [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/font/petrograd.hqx; 104K]

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Date: Fri, 26 Jun 92 10:26:26 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Brodie Lockard)
Subject: [*] Updater to Shanghai II 1.04

[Moderators:  please delete "Updater to Shanghai 1.03" and
replace it with this.]

This is a self-unstuffing archive containing three files:
*"Updater to Shanghai II 1.04" (264K)
*"Postcards ad" (59K)
*"Read Me" (5K)

"Updater to Shanghai II 1.04" updates earlier versions of
Shanghai II to version 1.04.  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 1.04
*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 1.04
*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-104-updater.hqx; 289K]

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Date: Sun, 28 Jun 92 18:33:42 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Alysis/Aladdin Dispute (C)

I've been watching the Stuffit/MDS traffic with amusement. I've seen Jeff
Needleman and Adam Engst and Aladdin present facts. I've seen Alysis and
its few supporters present ad hominem rebuttals. I've seen Aladdin bend
over flat backwards to accomodate MDS's errors in its new Stuffit Lite.

Just from watching the two "sides" of the dispute, my respect for Jeff
and for Aladdin has increased. I can't respect Adam Engst any more than
I already do. I'd never even thought of Alysis before, so zero respect is
no downgrade. However, my respect for a non-participant in this war has
increased markedly. Against my better instincts, but certain I was not
going to keep buying Leslye 200M of disk space every two months, I got
Salient's AutoDoubler for her. Over the past couple months we found a
very few real bugs and rather more spurious ones. Whether real or not,
the Salient people always addressed the issue at hand. Never the person
who was asking. Makes Alysis look a tad sleazy to this observer. Makes
Salient look professional. I may drop AutoDoubler and get Leslye a Gbyte
worth of disk space, but I'll always give a sincere look at *anything*
Salient produces.

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 92 11:32:29 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Robert O'Brien)
Subject: Apple not excited about MIDI?

Recently, Info-Mac has seen several comments about how Apple has
apparently never worked very hard at making MIDI work well.

I have no knowledge of why this may/may not be true, but a bit of
history *may* prove interesting...

When Steve and Steve founded "Apple", the inspiration for the name
had at least a little to do with "Apple Corps", the Beatles' publishing
company. It has been reported that S&S contacted Apple Corps, and though
the Corps probably didn't take these guys very seriously, they agreed to
the use of the name on the *condition* that Apple Computer NOT get involved
in music. If such an agreement was really made, it may, in fact, be
enforceable
today.


    Bob O'Brien  [e-mail]

My AT&T "Easy Reach 700" (new toy) is  0-700-bob-o'bob {toll charges apply}
(you know there's no dash, so don't look for the apostrophe on your phone!)
I only mention it for fun, I'm not suggesting you call me, especially
when *this* channel is "free" (paid for).

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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1992 00:42 EST
From: MacPhreak! <[e-mail]>
Subject: A question about Soft PC (C)

Bryan Walls ([e-mail]) writes:

Rather than going with Soft AT on an SE (this would be terribly slow), or
with an accelerator, I would suggest looking into getting a cheap AT or
386sx (well under $1000) and the program that allows it to use the mac's
screen and keyboard.  I haven't seen this in action, but if it works as
advertised I expect it would come at a comparable price and much better
performance than SoftAT on an accelerator.

I don't remember the name of the program, unfortunately.  Does anyone else?
I know I saw it mentioned here, and it caught my imagination.  Has anyone
had experience with it?  What kind of graphics can you get?  Can you cut
and paste out of the PC window?  Run windows?  I'd love to see a review in
Tidbits (hint, hint). :)

Bryan Walls
 -------------------

That product is called RunPC by Argosy software you can reach them at:

113 Spring St.
5th Fl.
New York, NY  10012
212/274-1199

Later

Juan

INTERNET [e-mail]   BITNET JPons@ClarkU  AOL MacPhreak

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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 92 9:32:01 BST
From: Susannah Skyer <[e-mail]>
Subject: awk for the mac: summary

Hello all,

Thanks for everyone's help on where to find awk for the Mac;
here's a summary of the responses:

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

I believe that MacGawk is available from INFO-MAC ftp.  I have it,
have looked at it, and find that if you're used to UNIX awk, there's
a lot to be desired in this free, Mac version.  Apparently, if you
have MPW, there are several versions of AWK that you can run.

Hey, let's get some UNIX guru to design us a great MAC AWK.  Even if
we have to pay $100 ? :{)

Louis Janus
sometimes part of the Scandinavian Dept
U of Minnesota

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

There is a Mac port of GNU awk on mac.archive.umich.edu; the filename is
/mac/utilities/developerhelps/macgawk2.11.cpt.hqx.

Christopher Davis * [e-mail] * System Administrator, EFF * [phone]
There's a port of GNU awk (gawk) to the MPW environment.
Is that what you're looking for?
I forget whence it came. I could mail it - about 113K.


Alex Colvin
New England Digital
[e-mail]

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

Susannah,

There is a version of gawk that runs as an MPW tool, which is probably
the most straightforward way to manage that sort of thing on a Mac.
I have it lying around here somewhere, but I have never really exercised
it so I can't promise it would make you smile... but it does run and
my very limited fooling with it didn't reveal any weirdness. (Except what
you would expect from awk anyway.)

Odds are good that I got it from sumex-aim.stanford.edu, although there are
other sources. I'll bet it is also on ftp.apple.com. If you have trouble
finding it, let me know and I could send you a copy.

Good luck,
Mark Lankton    ([e-mail]) (303-492-7915)

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

Susannah Skyer
[e-mail]
/* not speaking on the behalf of SCO */

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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 92 12:16:41 BST
From: [e-mail] (Tech Pubs)
Subject: Barcodes and PC Input devices (Q)

I would like to use barcode data on my Mac, printing my own labels on a
Stylewriter (preferably) or LaserWriter.  The commercial stuff I have seen
is too expensive e.g MacBarcoda at around 350 pounds.
can anyone suggest a PD, Shareware or more reasonably priced commercial
package?

I've seen PC barcode wands *much* cheaper than Mac versions, although
the cost difference may be due to s/ware.  Question - how easy or otherwise
is it to convert a device intended for a PC kbd input to ADB?
(I own a soldering iron *and* I know how to drive it!)

Thanks,
Malcolm Bebb     [e-mail]   44 202 893535x209

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

Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1992 20:07 EST
From: Mark Cornick <[e-mail]>
Subject: bidirectional imagewriting

***
In Info-Mac Digest #151, Bob Crawford asks how to print
bi-directionally on an ImageWriter II.

I found the answer on p219 of The Macintosh Bible, Third edition.
Hold down CapsLock-Shift-Option as you click the OK button in the
Print dialog box.

To revert to normal printing, hold down 'z' as you click the OK
button.
***
Er, um, there was a typo in the Mac Bible on this topic, that was corrected
in the June 1991 update.

To revert to normal printing, hold dlown CapsLock-Shift-Command, not z.

Mark Cornick
James Madison University
[e-mail]

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

Date: Sun, 28 Jun 92 19:20:27 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Binary File Tansfer (A)

On Sun, 28 Jun, Jean-Luc Brousseau wrote

>I have another problem.  I got the Zmodem files and they work perfectly.
>Kermit was really a nightmare!  Now the problem is that I don't know how
>to pass binary files.  HQX files is OK, since it's only data fork.  How can
>I pass MacBinary through sz/rz?  Is there a way to do so?  How can .bin files
>be passed to the archives then?

No, Jean-Luc, you have no touble with hqx because it is TEXT, not because
it is only a data fork. Text files have only a data fork, true, but that
is only part of the problem. You can create a data-fork-only binary file
via the macbinary/mac AFE translators in the archives. That is, after all
why the MacBinary format (binhex 5) was created. Then you get into Kermit
file type. Even with a data-fork-only file, I must tell my mainframe-side
Kermit to SET FILE TYPE BINARY before transmitting a binary file, else it
will do a perfectly horrible job of sending it as text. With White Knight
I need not worry about the Mac-side Kermit. It knows all about MacBinary.
With the Kermit program, however, I suspect you would have to tell it to
set file type to binary before either sending or receiving.

And in any event, you must get a file to be uploaded into MacBinary fmt,
else you cannot post it en toto to the archives. Same for downloading a
bin file. You must be able to decode from Macbinary to Mac.

Yale's TinCan (free at Virginia Tech) is no brighter. A colleague down
the hall could not do beans with the Mac "bin" files he downloaded. Even
when he set the communications parameters properly. I gave him the AFE
Mac/Macbinary module, showed him how to use it, and he has since become
a happy camper.

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

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

Date: 29 Jun 92 15:54:00 CST
From: "Coons, David" <[e-mail]>
Subject: CD-ROM control via HyperCard

> Is anyone aware of HyperCard XCMDs/XFCNs, C or Pascal subroutines, etc.,
> which allow control of an audio CD-ROM?  One of our professors wants to
> write a music appreciation training program which would play selected
> measures from an audio CD (e.g., "Listen carefully to this symphony's
> four-measure theme").
>
> David Coons, Microcomputer Specialist
[e-mail]
> Academic Computing Services, Texas Tech University
[e-mail]

    "Never mind."  Just found out that APDA offers "HyperCard CD
    Audio Toolkit v. 1.0" (part #M0152LL/A, $75), which does
    exactly what he needs.

David Coons, Microcomputer Specialist
[e-mail]
Academic Computing Services, Texas Tech University
[e-mail]

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

Date: 29 Jun 92 11:02:00 CST
From: "Coons, David" <[e-mail]>
Subject: CD-ROM control via HyperCard (Q)

Is anyone aware of HyperCard XCMDs/XFCNs, C or Pascal subroutines, etc., which
allow control of an audio CD-ROM?  One of our professors wants to write a
music
appreciation training program which would play selected measures from an audio
CD (e.g., "Listen carefully to this symphony's four-measure theme").

I was able to locate the name of a company ("Shoal Bay") which supposedly
sells
these XCMDs, but they are apparently no longer in business.

Thanks.

David Coons, Microcomputer Specialist
[e-mail]
Academic Computing Services, Texas Tech University
[e-mail]

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

Date: MON, 29 Jun 92 10:36:37 EDT
From: "Michel Gosselin" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Chinese word processors

Hi netters! NEED HELP
A new 'Chinese' researcher was recently invited to join the team...  And I
don't know anything about working with a macintosh in Chinese.
IS there a word program that we can write with chinese characters?  Is there a
system file in Chinese ?  Someone told me of a Hanzi Macintosh International
System Software?

Is there a good Chinese soul who can help us with that?

Thank you
Michel Gosselin, University of Quebec Rouyn-Noranda
BITNET: ORSMICH@UQUEBEC
INTERNET: [e-mail]
[End of file]

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

Date: Sun, 28 Jun 92 11:05:01 PDT
From: "William H. Greene" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Connecting CDROM drive to Macs

Can anyone help me connect a generic SCSI CDROM player
to the Mac? I tried using the Apple CDROM driver and it
didn't seem to recognize the drive. Is there a public
domain or cheap commercial CDROM driver available? I'd
be much obliged if someone who has done this could
email me some information-- I'm not a subscriber to the
list. Thanks in advance for the help.

          Bill Greene

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

Date: Mon, 29 Jun 92 19:23 WET
From: "Alun J. Carr" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Cooling fans for Mac Plus (Q)

Does anybody out there have any recommendations about fitting a cooling
fan to my Mac Plus (either a fan from Tandy, with wiring diagram, or
some commercial product -- preferably available in Europe or easily
obtainable from the USA)?

Thanks a million.

Alun

Alun J. Carr, Mech. Eng. Dept., UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Internet: [e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1992 13:43:51 -0300
From: [e-mail] (Daniel Schwabe)
Subject: Copying and moving files in the Finder

Many people have realized that the desktop metaphor is actually inconsistent
as implemented in the Finder today. For example, one may have the SAME file
appearing TWICE on the Desktop - suffices to have a copy in the Desktop folder
of two different disks - try it. If it was made clear that the Desktop is
really that - a FOLDER at the top level of EACH DISK, perhaps many users would
not be confused.

But suppose we are willing to accept it as it is. In this case, I would expect
that the OPTION key, when pressed, would change the "mode" of the operation
being
performed, in the sense explained below.

Currently,
(1) if I drag a file/folder from one location to another IN THE SAME DISK,
the Finder just moves it.
(2) If I drag it TO ANOTHER DISK, the Finder copies it.

When I press OPTION while dragging, case (1) above becomes a COPY, whereas
case (2) above remains the same. I would like to see a Finder in which case
(2) above would become a MOVE! In other words, if I option-drag a file/folder
>From one disk to another, the file/folder is MOVED instead of copied.

Any takers?

Daniel Schwabe                              Dept. de Informatica, PUC-Rio
Tel: [phone] 4449   R. M. de S. Vicente, 225
Fax: [phone]                 Rio de Janeiro, RJ 22453, Brasil

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

Date: 29 Jun 92 15:01:00 EDT
From: "\]" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Database program for CD's

   I have decided that it is time to catalog my growing CD collection and
wanted to do it on my Mac.  I would like to use some sort of data base
program to do this.  I only want to enter things like artist, album title,
running time, etc.  I was wondering if anyone knew of a specific
program that exists to do this or could recommend a good data base program
to do this with.

                        Thanks,
                        Michael Chabinyc
                        BITNET: chabinml@dayton

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

Date: Sun, 28 Jun 92 23:08:40 MDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Direct PowerBook 100 cable?

Hi,

I have heard unsubstantiated rumors that there is a straight HDI 30 (PowerBook
weirdness SCSI) cable to a DB25 Male cable, for connecting the PowerBook 100
as a hard drive to another mac.

Does anyone have any info about this?  I find it stupid that Apple gave us a
cable that needs a normal SCSI 1st-on-the-chain cable to connect the PB 100
to another computer.  Not only that, but what do you do if you want to connect
the PB as the second device on the chain?

the Dumb (PowerBook is a hard disk) cables.  On one or the other, certain
leads are hot, whereas on the other cables, they are not, so just using the
Smart PB cable (HDI30 to Centronics Male) as a Dumb cable won't work (I
haven't tried it, but I assume this.  My luck with SCSI bus stuff of late
is worse than average, so I'm not trying it... :)

Thanks, and sorry to be long-winded,

Vaughan

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

Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1992 13:12:04 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Rick Sutcliffe)
Subject: DiskFitPro (Q)

       DiskFitPro (Q)
     I am a (relatively) happy user of this package and have been since
DiskFit 1.4.  However, I believe it has a bug.  I have a Mac at home and at
my office, and regularly use my DPI44 Syquest to back my working files up on
the one machine, then restore to the other to maintain a continuous working
environment.  Because I am somewhat of a heavy user, anywhere from 20 to 200
files may get changed in a day, so the cartridge is always in flux.  All
goes well for the first ten or so backups to a freshly formatted cartridge,
and then a backup fails to copy some or all files properly, leaving the
directory of the target cartridge corrupted.  Norton + re-initialize yields
only the 10M or so that was unused, and the cartridge must be reformatted.
    Sometimes DiskFit will report its failure to copy properly to the
backup, but many times it will not, and the first I will know about the
problem is when the restore operation fails on being unable to read the
corrupted disk.  (At this point, far more than just the files last copied
are inacessible.)  The restore operation itself never fails; that is the
problem ocurrs only with backup to the cartridge. I am running Mac IIfx 8M
with various APS HDs, and a ton of extensions & system 7 with tuneup.  The
cartridge drive is a DPI 44.  Had the same problem with DiskFit 1.5 and
system 6.0.5 and 6.0.7 (but few things ever worked right under 6.0.7.)
    Moral: unless you work as I do, DiskFitPro is probably safe.
    Problem:  I think that the entries in the directory are not being
properly marked as unused when files are deleted from the cartridge, causing
the directory eventually to run out of useable space.  Or, DiskFit cannot
properly re-use a previously used directory entry position.  Or, somehow
else, DiskFit loses track of the directory structure on a disk with a lot of
deleted directory entries, or goofs up in reading or writing a directory
sector for some obscure reason.
   My answer:  Soon, I got to get something more reliable.
   The Questions:  Will it be a fixed DiskFit, or what do you netters
suggest for me.  It has to be fast, easy, and dead reliable.
   Dantz ... you out there?
Rick Sutcliffe
Trinity Western University

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

Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1992 19:59 EST
From: Mark Cornick <[e-mail]>
Subject: expiring shareware

***It is the shareware author's fault you can't afford their software, so
therefore they should give it to you free? (or should that "can't" be a
"won't"?)

Hey, using that rationale, since you can't afford to buy Microsoft Word,
Microsoft should give you a copy of that, too.

>Flame off

Yeah. Sorry, don't cut it. Just because it ain't shrinkwrap doesn't mean you
can steal it. And just because you don't want to pay for it doesn't mean the
author has to make it easily stolen.
***
Geez, with the hate mail I've been getting, you'd think I'm Salomon Rushdie.
FIRST: It is not the shareware author's fault I can't afford their software.
I did not say that. People have been reading some pretty bizarre inferences
into my statements.
SECOND: I resent being called a thief. If I can't pay for a shareware program,
and can't get permission from authors to use it without paying, _I delete the
software._ Much of the world is not as honest as I am, I agree. But don't
call me guilty without first proving it.
THIRD: I didn't say that I didn't want to pay. I only said that I have *no*
budget. I have a conscience and have therefore deleted any shareware I haven't
paid for or made other arrangements for. (See point 2.)

All I asked was for a little understanding. Instead, with only a few
exceptions, I have received an emailbox full of seething rage. My next
shareware program won't be crippled. The rest of you can do as you prefer.

Mark Cornick
James Madison University
[e-mail]

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

Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1992 20:32 EST
From: Mark Cornick <[e-mail]>
Subject: expiring shareware (continued)

Oops... I love how our e-mail system sometimes sends incomplete messages.

Continuing my comments:

When I said I'd like some additional time to use shareware without paying,
I forgot to mention that the assumption would be that the shareware would
eventually be paid for. This was a mistake on my part that undoubtedly
resulted
in a whole lot of confusion.

I'm going to try to make this a little clearer for everyone. All I am asking
for--NOT demanding, just requesting--is shareware that will allow users to
have
a fully functional program that can be registered at their convenience. This
is
the approach I use.

There is an inherent problem with that strategy, in that the software might
never be paid for. Shareware authors need to face up to this sooner or later.
The only way to guarantee you'll get your full money's worth is to go
commercial. Sad but true. Authors need to decide if the values of the
shareware
concept outweigh the risk of not getting paid. To me, the values outweigh the
risks. Granted, I don't make a living writing programs. If I did, my views
would probably be different--and I wouldn't be writing shareware.

These are my opinions. Everyone, worldwide, would prefer that most people, if
not everyone, shared their opinions. If you choose to ignore my opinions,
fine.
Write any old crippled program you want--just don't expect me to use it.

Constructive criticism will be accepted at the address below. If you just want
to blast me, reread my comments and try to understand. If you still feel the
need to flame at me, try to avoid the borderline libel I've been getting from
some people.

Mark Cornick
James Madison University
[e-mail]

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

Date: SUN, 28 Jun 92 23:18:58 EDT
From: "Louis_Bergeron"[e-mail]
Subject: Fonts

On page 142 of the official Apple System 7 Reference Manual, it's possible to
read:
"When you select a font size, the Macintosh first checks to see if there is a
fixed-size font available. If there is no fixed-size fonts available, the
TrueType font is used.
If you have a TrueType font and a fixed-size font with similar names and you
want your Macintosh to use the TrueType font, you need to remove the
fixed-size
font from your System file. This will produce a closer match between how type
appears on screen and how it appears when printed. However, any existing
documents you've created with the fixed-size fonts will be reformatted with
the
TrueType fonts, and line breaks in these documents may change."
Following Apple's advice someone, who prints to a StyleWriter with fonts
designed for it like Courier, Helvetica, Times and Symbol, should remove the
fixed-size fonts.
For someone printing to an ImageWriter the fixed-size fonts should be left if
he created a lot of documents before and wants to keep the formatting.
Am-I right??
Louis Bergeron [e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 29 Jun 92 09:05:27 -0900
From: "Lewis Overton"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: For info-mac digest

Outbound: better than PowerBook?
For those of you who would like to have a Mac for the road but are
concerned about limitations of the PowerBooks, I have an alternative to
suggest. We recently purchased two Outbound 2030s in my office and am
quite pleased with them. They are about the same size as a PowerBook,
but mine is configured with 16 Meg of RAM (14 usable), a 40 Meg hard
disk (up to 120 Meg available, I think). The 16 Mb memory cost $500 from
Technology Works. It is *NOT* the expensive PowerBook stuff. Memory,
processor, and disk drive are all plug-in modules which are easily
upgraded. Back of the box has standard connectors for SCSI, ADB, serial
and printer ports, and sound. It has a built in microphone for sound
input. The pointing device is an odd-seeming track bar, which works fine
after a day or two of learning to use it. I used a mouse for a while,
but gave it up as having no great advantage over the track bar.

    Outbound Systems, Inc.
    4840 Pearl East Circle
    Boulder, CO 90301
    Sales rep: TimO'Neill
      [phone]; x113
      [phone];
      [phone] fax

Disclaimers: I don't have any relationship with Outbound except as a
satisfied customer. These ideas are mine, not my employer's.
    Lewis Overton, Research Associate
    University of Alaska
    [e-mail] or [e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 29 Jun 92 13:32:43 MDT
From: [e-mail] (Feb-Shannon V Spires)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V10 #154

Andy-
Thanks for your response to plugging in/out of a sleeping PB.

> After all, presumably they ain't going to be carrying in their PBs
> either powered up or asleep (unless they're really big on HD
> hacking), so they're going to have to turn their machines one when
> they plop 'em on the desk anyway.

Au contrare. I NEVER shut down my PB and have never had a problem. I
think Apple's advice not to move a sleeping PB is hogwash. The heads
are just as parked when asleep as when shut down. The only "danger"
is if the thing accidentally wakes up, which is impossible unless
you somehow press a key (a tough trick with the case closed). Of
course, theoretically the Power Manager does allow for software to
wake up the mac (at least the Mac Portable), but I've never seen any
software take advantage of this.

BTW, I even change batteries without shutting down: just put
the PB to sleep, plug in the AC adaptor, change the batteries, and
unplug the adaptor. Won't work on an airplane, but works wherever
you have an AC outlet. (I know. Apple recommends not running the
thing without a battery in place. But it works just fine. Just don't
be changing batteries with the thing awake because you don't want to
jostle a PB with the disk spinning.)

However, I'm still sufficiently port-paranoid that I think I'll
refrain from plugging/unplugging stuff in sleep mode.( At least SCSI
and ADB. The Localtalk and Faxmodem ports don't seem to be
as dangerous; at least I've never heard of a motherboard fried by
plugging in Localtalk with the power on.)
The Power Manager chapter of Inside Mac implies that the power
manager chip does indeed shut off power to the ports, but I'd like
to get the real story before I try it.

-Shannon
[e-mail]

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

Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1992 21:40 EST
From: "David C. Garrett" <[e-mail]>
Subject: internet baby question

Howdy y'all,

I've been reading the postings about MacTCP and FTP client packages with much
interest, but little comprehension.  So here's my baby question:

How do I put my Mac on the Internet?

OK, I realize that that's pretty vague, but if someone could just point me
toward a book that I could get via the library or something, that would be
great.

What I want (maybe I'm dreaming, I dunno) is to be able to FTP stuff from the
archives directly onto my hard disk.  What I do now is FTP them to my VAX
account and then use MacKermit 0.99(94) to dial up the VAX and, running
Kermit-32 on the VAX, download to the Mac. Trouble is, my disk quota on the
VAX
is laughably small (1000 blocks, or 512 K) and I don't even want to talk about
why I can't get it increased.  But sometimes I'd like to be able to download
big stuff...

I don't really care about speed (or price; I'm planning on winning the lottery
next week).  Seriously, though, I'd just like to understand it, even if I
can't
do it.

Thanks a lot for any leads or info you can offer.

David Garrett   Salem State College   [e-mail]

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

Date: MON, 29 Jun 92 11:41:32 EDT
From: "Michel Gosselin" <[e-mail]>
Subject: LocalTalk - Ethernet Bridge

I would appreciate to have some advice about bridges between localTalk and
Ethernet.
We currently have 5 independent localTalk networks (for 5 nearby
departments) and a Thinnet ethernet backbone also not too far away.

What is the best way to link those localTalk segments to the ethernet
backbone.
Is it a good idea to create a localTalk backbone and then link both backbone?
(The traffic should be light between the segments.)
Any experience with the Shiva fastpath or the gatorbox ?
Is someone could direct me to a report on that subject ?

Many Thanks
Michel Gosselin, University of Quebec, UQAT
Bitnet: ORSMICH@UQUEBEC   INTERNET: [e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 29 Jun 92 12:32:29 BST
From: [e-mail] (Tech Pubs)
Subject: MS Word - Customized Menus using "Commands" menu item.

The Word 4/5 Commands option has been mentioned on this list, almost as a
fix for "missing" menu items.

It seems a great shame to leave it in this light - it provides an excellent
facility for customizing your copy of Word, menus/commands, to fit *your*
way of working.
You can use it to get rid of those menu items that you never use (or don't
understand!!), to add others that you *do* want, and to move things to
different menus if you don't like where Microsoft put them.
You can also add, remove or alter kbd shortcuts to suit you or to match
other applications, and you can keep different versions of menu setups
for different tasks. You can even alter the "Mac standard" short-cuts if
you want to, but of course nobody would.....

Sorry if this sounds like an ad for Microsoft, but this facility I really
do like and curse other applications for not having it.

PS I'm not sure if previous correspondence made clear that if you alter
the menu settings you have to save the settings file, from the commands
dialog box, if you want to keep the new settings.

Malcolm Bebb     [e-mail]   44 202 893535x209

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

Date: 29 Jun 92 13:31:42 EDT
From: Justin Gray <[e-mail]>
Subject: Needleman/Alladin/Alysis

Jeff, thank you for your persistent notices on the conflict between Stuffit
and More Disk Space.  We may be slow in our responses while our information
services attendant is on vacation.  Please accept my apologies if it has
appeared to you that we are not paying enough attention to your postings or
those of Alladin.

Ron Hovingh has confirmed that there is a conflict.  We are looking into it.
When we have a solution we will post it in the form of an online updater.  In
the meantime the immediate solutions for users of More Disk Space are to add
Stuffit to the exceptions list for applications, or to use Compactor,
PakWorks, Disk Doubler or More Disk Space to create archives.

When Alladin releases the new version of their software, we will make sure
that we are compatible with it also.

Justin Gray
_____________________________________________________________________
Alysis Software Corporation             |  CIS:       75300,3011
1231 31st Ave, San Francisco, CA 94122  |  AOL:       Alysis
Tel:  [phone]                      |  AppleLink: Alysis
FAX:  [phone]                      |  Support:   800 8Alysis
_____________________________________________________________________

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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 92 10:39 MET
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Problem with VM after RAM upgrade. Please help.

Hello Netters,

I recently upgraded my IIci from 5 to 12 MB. After the upgrade I encountered
Problems with virtual memory. The story in steps:

The starting config. was 4 SIMMS at 1Mbit, 4 SIMMS at 256 Kbit.

I bought 4 SIMMS at 2Mbit, removed all SIMMS from the Mac,
put the new 2Mbit ones into bank A (where formerly the
1Mbit SIMMS where located) and plugged the 1Mbit
SIMMS into bank B (Where formerly the 256Kbit have been).

Virtual mem. and 32bit adressing where off at power up. Looking at >about this
Macintosh< showed 12MB internal memory. Ok so far.

Then I turned on virtual memory, nothing happened. (Disk updated for use of VM
of course). As the default for VM ist the same amount of disk space like RAM,
the total would be 24MB which cannot be adressed in 24bit mode.

So I turned on 32bit adressing and voila, the VM in the control panel appeared
with the default value 24MB overall memory.

Again >about this Macintosh< then he told me: Internal memory 12 MB (ok so
far), overall memory 24MB (ok so far) and 24MB!! used on disk HD. This should
be
only 12MB! The message of 24MB used on disk is correct. He really reserves
24MB
instead of 12 on my disk as far as my remaining diskspace is concerned. Also a
disk analyze with Norton utilities' disk analyzer shows 24MB used for VM.

PLEASE: How can I get this crazy mashine to correctly use the virtual memory
as
I really need it.

                 Thanx for help    jens
                           [e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 29 Jun 92 11:16:24 EDT
From: Pat Pruyne <[e-mail]>
Subject: QuickDraw Printers and Publish & Subscribe Problem

Running 7.0.1 (tuned 1.1.1) with ATM 2.0.3 on a 6MByte LC printing to
a StyleWriter I have been vexed by a loss of smoothing and text rotation
in graphics published and subscribed.  Specifically, graphs generated in
DeltaGraph Pro containing regression curves and rotated text print
beautifully from within DG-Pro, but when Published and Subscribed to in
MicroSoft Word 5.0 the curves look stair-stepped and the 90-degree rotated
text reverts to a chunky bit-map.  The DeltaPoint folks whacked at this for
a few days and then reported to me that it was an 'information overhead
limit' inherent in the P&S feature of System 7 that prevented smoothness from
being exported.  Does anyone have any clues as to how to deal with this?

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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 92 11:43:40 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Robert O'Brien)
Subject: Shareware Authors: an idea

I'm not qualified to try this, but it looks like it would be well
received:

How about a tool to tell the user how RAM is allocated, much more explicitly
than the About... box does?  It could be called RAM detective, or RAM Probe,
or something like that, though probably should have a more inventive (unique)
name than those.

Apple is not likely to do such a tool, since it would have to inform some
users that they've paid for memory that can't be used.

    Bob O'Brien    [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1992 17:15 EDT
From: "Peter D.M. Macdonald" <[e-mail]>
Subject: SoftPC (C)

Kieran O'Connor asked recently if Soft PC would run Lotus 123,
Wordperfect 5.1, and the like, what version of Soft PC to buy and
whether he should accelerate his SE. A number of good response have
appeared already, but I will add mine anyway.

I keep Universal SoftPC on my Classic II and use it frequently to see
what is on DOS disks, try out new DOS software without looking for a
DOS machine, etc. I would never, ever, consider using it for serious
production work. Computing and printing are just too slow. It is not
cheap at $199.

There is a faster version, Soft AT, but at a street price of $299. I'm
sure you could buy a used XT with an EGA card and a colour monitor for
only slightly more than that, and you would have a faster machine. You
would also have two machines at home, so the DOS user wouldn't be
tying up the Macintosh, and vice versa.

I have tried WP 5.1 under Soft PC and it certainly works, but there
are two drawbacks. First, if you don't have an extended keyboard on
the SE, you will find the function-key equivalents annoying. Second,
WP 5.1, like many DOS programs, seems to require a colour monitor.
Running it with Soft PC on the Classic II, I could not find any way to
make the cursor visible on my monochrome screen, and using WP 5.1 with
an invisible cursor is a challenge I can do without.

As to whether to buy an accelerator for the SE, the answer is most
emphatically "yes", whatever you are using the SE for, especialy if
you are runing System 7. I recently put a NewLife 16+ board into my
old Plus and turned it back into a usable machine. The newest Mac
software is just too big to run efficiently on 68000 machines.

Peter Macdonald
Math and Statistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario

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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1992 15:19 CST
From: "Anand Rao, Univ. of Wisconsin-River Falls" <[e-mail]>
Subject: True Type and Jagged Print (Q)

 Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest
 Keywords: True type, Jaggies, printing

 When I print rotated text using True Type, the text prints jagged.  This
 happens on both DeskWriter and Apl Personal LaserWriter LS (both Quick
 Draw printers?)  I have not tried this on a PostScript printer.

 It was my undersanding that TrueType provides all the hints necessary to
 print good quality text in any size and at any angle.... am I mistaken?
 Is there any way I can get good rotated text output without having to load
 bitmapped fonts?

 Relevent Info:
 Mac SE/30 5M/40M
 System 7.0 w/ TuneUp 1.1.1
 Deskwriter driver 3.1

 Thanks for any help.
---Anand Rao                              E-mail:  [e-mail]
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-RIVER FALLS

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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 92 10:19:52 CST
From: "Juan M. Courcoul" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Using a DEC tape drive for backing up Macs

For preliminaries, we are a small shop which has been predominantly
MeSsy-DOS oriented. However, we've seen the errors in our ways and are
in the process of balancing our installed PC base with more Mac gear.

Currently, we've installed three Appleshare servers w/Print spoolers
and are now in the need of performing server backups. Unfortunately, the
state of our current budget precludes buying a tape drive. However, we
have a DEC TK50Z-GA tape drive (part of a MicroVAX 3100, but we aren't
backing up that machine ALL of the time... ;) ), which has a SCSI interface.

Is it possible to use this drive from the Mac ? Where may we find drivers
for it ?  Thanks in advance for any help.


Juan M. Courcoul
Monterrey Institute of Technology             [e-mail]
Queretaro, Qro., Mexico                       [e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 27 Jun 92 19:46:51 CDT
From: "Eric H. Durbrow" <[e-mail]>
Subject: what's the cache

I got two responses to my question on setting the IIsi cache for best
performan
ce in System 7. One response was posted. The second response was a suggestion
that the cache should be set 384k. I ran Speedometer with different cache
sizes
and the best results were produced by the 384k and 256k cache runs. Graphic
performance and, especially, hard disk performance suffered under the 1024k
and
768k cache runs. (I have 5 MB of RAM and ran only the Tune-up extension during
these tests.) Thanks again for people's help. Eric.

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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 92 10:59:42 GMT
From: ROBERTO AVANZI 338188/SM <[e-mail]>
Subject: Why does my Round WDEF break under sys7 Hide/Show feature ?

Hi!
i need your help, netters...
I have some experience writing WDEFs, but i cannot cope with this problem.
Suppose I am writing a new WDEF, whose contRgn (or contentRgn ? contRgn. i
think) is formed by two non intersecting ovals.
That is

....
rect = ((WindowPeek)window)->windowRect;
hsize = rect.left - rect.right;
halfhsize = hsize >> 1;
rect . left -= halfhsize;
InsetRect(&rect,5,5);
OpenRgn();
    FrameOval(&rect); /* BOOM */
    rect . left += (halfhsize+10);
    rect . right += (halfhsize+10);
    FrameOval(&rect);
CloseRgn( & ((WindowPeek)window).contRgn) );
CopyRgn( ... contRgn ... struc Rgn)...more code

well EVERITHING works FINE. my window shows up (slowly, but ...), i can
show it and resize it (i option click drag to do that in my app )
move it (cmd click drag), and my app can go to the background.
BUT IF  UNDER SYS 7 I TRY TO HIDE IT AND THEN I MAKE THE APP
REAPPEAR ... BOOOM AT THE LINE LABELED WITH /* BOOM */.
note that if i compile FrameRect instead of FrameOval the window works fine,
but ONLY WITH FRAMEOVAL if i hide my app and then select show all from
the Application Menu.... BOOM with BusError (1) an my Mac.
I have a IIsi , 32bit, VM10megs, Sys 7.0.1 tuneup 1.1.1.1.1.1.1... etc
(indeed TuneUp 1.1.1) and it bombs. Am i doinmg something wrong ?
I believe it is not MY error. I simply cannot have it
working under that situation. If it is the System's error, please Apple
correct it !!!!!
Cheers.
Roberto Avanzi
<[e-mail]>
please respond me directly. if you really want, send also your answer to
the newsgroup, but i would appreciate direct answers more : they are easier
to find.

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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 92 09:27:46 +0300
From: [e-mail] (Akif Eyler)
Subject: WK Script WINDOW ERASE (C)

In I-M 154, Allan M. Bloom said:
> I was too hung up on WINDOW ERASE. Going through the procedure section of
> the manual with no preconceived notions this morning, I ran across the
> simple CLEAR command. Oh for naughtyword's sake, how did I miss *that*?

You are not alone, Al. This morning, just after reading your note about
WINDOW ERASE function of WK, I noticed that VersaTerm-Pro also has a
"Clear" command exactly where it should be. I remember trying (hopelessly)
to clear the screen a few weeks ago, concluding that such a function
was probably "forgotten".

Another point to the credit of VersaTerm (to my debit, of course) is
that the menu actually says "Clear Buffer" and it still was missed.
We unconsciously think of the first part of the Edit menu only for
selected text.

Akif Eyler
Bilkent University
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 92 08:47:41 PDT
From: "Phillip Broussard" <[e-mail]>
Subject: zapping the parameter ram in a Quadra...

Netters,

Can someone tell me the keystrokes needed to zap the PRAM on a Quadra?  I
couldn't find it in the manual.

Thanks!

Phill Broussard

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Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1992 23:37:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail] (Bob Canfield)
Subject: ZIP files won't unzip

Hello net-experts,

Is there anyone who has (cringe :< ) tried to unzip *.ZIP files
originating from the MS-DOS world? My attempts so far are unsuccessful.
Here were my steps.

1. Two ZIP files were ftp'd after giving the BINARY command. The
Vax host verified that files had 512 byte records.

2. Next I used Kermit after giving the SET FILE TYPE BINARY
command and received them using White Knight (w/o any local
change in settings).

3. Finally, I used the UnZip 1.10 program downloaded from sumex
to open one of the ZIP files. Its window showed a header for file
info (e.g., name, size, etc.) but no files.  When I tried to
extract, 2 lines in the window appeared saying the headers were
bad. On the second file, UnZip reported that the file was not a
ZIP file immediately when I tried to open it.

I'm trying to download instructions for XLISP which my brother
has on a Mac, but needs some documentation.  Archie found the
documentation, but all the files are either *.ZIP or *.ARC. I'll
try ARC next, but unsure whether it'll be any more successfule
(and I'll need something to de-arc, as well).

BTW, I also tried a program called Mac-Unzip 4.2, but it was no
more successful (and less informative).

Any suggestions?

Bob Canfield, [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 92 03:46:46 EDT
From: "Wechsler David Mr., PF/ID, 15/125, Phone 6592"
<[e-mail]>

Subject:SoftPC and F-key emulation

Dear netters

I have a problem with the SoftPc-emulator.To run Dos programs (forgive me),I
need the F-Key(1-10) to run,start and stops the application.But on the small
Apple Keyboard there arn't F-keys.

Any ideas?
If I receive significant respones I will summaries here on the net

Thanxs in advance

                        David

Internet: [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 92 10:37:40 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Dominique Landry)

To whom it may concern:

I would like some technical information about the processing power
on a few Macintosh models (in terms of MIPS and MFLOPS).

Please complete the table below:

                 MIPS            MFLOPS

Mac Classic II
Mac IIx
Mac IIsi
Mac IIfx
Mac IIci
Quadra 900
PowerBook 170


NOTE: MIPS means million of instructions per second while
      MFLOPS means million of floating point instructions per seconds.

REPLY TO
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Internet: [e-mail]

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