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Info-Mac Digest             Mon, 14 Dec 92       Volume 10 : Issue 296

Today's Topics:

      [*] /sound/delta-delta-delta.hqx
      [*] /sound/loopback-grp1.hqx
      [*] AppDisk 1.6
      [*] Archie Client For The Mac
      [*] autoboot11.hqx
      [*] Carpetbag 1.3.4 control panel & extensions
      [*] comm/chat-110.hqx
      [*] FileMakerDB_TimeDIFF.hqx
      [*] flight-simulator_v2.hqx
      [*] fret-tutor.hqx
      [*] Gottfriend_Bottger.sea.hqx
      [*] hellcats-more-missiles-10.hqx
      [*] Hershey Kisses Christmas SOund
      [*] HyperType 1.5
      [*] Investment Tracker 1.0
      [*] KTVU_News.cpt.hqx
      [*] Lockup 1 (QuickTime 1.5 movie)
      [*] MacGambit Scheme 1.9.1 (with Thomas/Dylan)
      [*] Machine icons
      [*] mansion-nine-demo
      [*] mcvert-188.shar
      [*] merriemelodies.hqx
      [*] Nuntius1.1.1d15
      [*] Re: Microsoft Rich Text Format Description
      [*] Re: Mouse Odometer
      [*] risk-ii.hqx
      [*] SNL_Sounds_12_13_92.cpt.hqx
      [*] SoundTrecker file: Invisible Man (Queen)
      [*] source/pascal/chat-110.hqx
      [*] Splitter1.0.sit.hqx
      [*] Strip-Mac! v2.0.1
      [*] Submitted hqx file in two parts
      [*] wordcount.sit.hqx - a BBEdit extension
      (A) Lisp on the Macintosh
      (Q) 37 pin _APPLE_brand MS-DOS DRIVE data ?????
      (Q) Disk mounting difference between sys 6 vs sys 7 ?!
      7 file sharing and security
      ADB extension cable(A)
      After Dark Question
      A game is a demo
      Am I correct in assuming that Discipline is worthless?
      anyone know of a System-7 compatible Scrabble game?
      Apple Laser writer II
      Apple Records - Apple Computer law-suit (A)
      Appleshare users log and usage activity
      A round of applause please
      Autodoubler Woes
      Battery problems on PB100s
      Brightness CDEV
      Canvas 3.0 Rulers & StyleWriter
      Centipede game for the Mac???
      Classic II ROM version
      Cleaning Floppy Drive (A)
      CRC Help
      Curve Fitting (A) (3 msgs)
      Curve Fitting (R) (2 msgs)
      daily announcements
      Delta Graph fits curves.
      DeskWriter won't print MacDraw Pro (A)
      Disappearing Folders bug in Sys. 7.0
      Fax through RDEV?
      Gopher and Email access to UMICH-archives implemented
      Hardware handshaking? (A)
      Header/Footer Question for Word 5.0 (A)
      How did the Macintosh get its name
      HP LJ 4M: Dataprint price (correction)
      I'm soooo confused. :-)
      Keyboard extension cable
      keyboard question (A)
      Lisp on the mac (A)
      Macintalk
      Macintalk Files
      Mail for Macintosh new mail notifications (R)
      mailing lists
      OmegaSANE in 7.1 and Apple's policy about FPU's in Macs
      Partitions
      PBD Molecular Visualiser needed
      PowerPC with Taligent OS vs DEC Alpha with Windows NT
      Price Club - available mac stuff
      Quicken & System 7.1 Incompatibility (Q)
      RevRdist off of a local hard disc
      right-to-left WP
      Scrambled Quadra Video Follow-up
      Screen inverter
      Screen Text Capture Utility
      Self-rejoining segmented files (2 msgs)
      Self-rejoining segmented files (A?)
      SE upgrade
      Stylewriter vs. HP Deskwriter
      Sumex mirrors
      switching between fax and answering machine
      video out from a mac
      What does ARNS do?
      Where to find MacWorks+ for Lisa ? (Q)
      Why Won't Edit II Launch?
      ZModem for VAX

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Date: 12 Dec 1992 17:21:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] /sound/delta-delta-delta.hqx

    Here's a collection of sound from the SNL skit with the girls of
tri-delt sorority.  All are sampled in crisp, clean, 22kHz, 8-bit mono sound,
and are in the System 7 double-clickable format.  I sampled these with the
CEDAR sound digitizer from a line level signal.

The compact pro archive includes the following sounds:

- "Delta Delta Delta! Can I help ya, help ya, help, ya?"
- "Oh my gawd!..." (blond girl)
- "Oh my gawd!..." (red-head girl)
- "Oh my gawd, what have we done?" (all three girls in unison).

The first one makes a great intro for an answering machine's outgoing message
if you're into that kinda nerdy thang...

L8r...

David C. Pearson
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/sound/delta-delta-delta.hqx; 234K]

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Date: 12 Dec 1992 16:57:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] /sound/loopback-grp1.hqx

    This is the first of a collection of high-quality loopbacks (sounds
that can repeat over and over) that I digitized (with the CEDAR digitizer).
This sound is called "Creation" which I sampled off the videotape "The Mind's
Eye: A Computer Animation Odyssey" from Miramar.
    These loopbacks are nice to use in any multimedia animations or
anything that can use an instrumental soundtrack in the background.... but
they're also nice just to listen to, and they're long enough that they don't
become irritatingly repetitive.

Crisp, clean, 22 kHz, 8-bit mono, SoundEdit file (type FSSD).

Enjoy!...

David C. Pearson
Internet: [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/sound/loopback-grp1.hqx; 128K]
[Archived as /info-mac/sound/loopback-grp2.hqx; 300K]
[Archived as /info-mac/sound/loopback-grp3.hqx; 125K]
[Archived as /info-mac/sound/loopback-grp4.hqx; 186K]

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Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 19:02:41 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Sak Wathanasin)
Subject: [*] AppDisk 1.6

I am enclosing a binhexed, Compactor Pro archive containing AppDisk 1.6 and
its doumentation. This is to replace AppDisk 1.5 which is currently in the
archives. Please note that I am not the author; you can reach him by sending
mail to

 [e-mail]

---
AppDisk is a System 7-dependant ramdisk that allows you to create a
ramdisk at any time, not just at start up.  It has many options for
saving the contents of the ramdisk, and works well on both desktop
machines and PowerBooks.  Since it uses an application to allocate ram
for the disk (instead of an INIT), you can get all of your ram back for
other uses at any time by simply quitting the AppDisk or unmounting the
ramdisk.

[Archived as /info-mac/util/app-disk-16.hqx; 33K]

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Date: Thu, 10 Dec 92 15:04:46 PST
From: "Chris J McNeil" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Archie Client For The Mac

Enclosed is version 0.9 of an Archie Client for the Mac.
This software is still beta but I have been using it for a couple of months
with
no major problems.

What does it do ?
Archie allows you to query an Archie server to find files that are available
via anonymous ftp.

What do I need to run it ?
You must have MacTCP installed on your machine. I have only tested this
program
under system 7.01 and MacTCP 1.01.

What does it cost ?
Archie is Shareware and costs $6.00 US. See the README file or About Archie
for
details.

Please Archive in the info-mac/comm directory

Chris McNeil

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/archie-client-09.hqx; 97K]

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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 20:20:19 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Karl Pottie)
Subject: [*] autoboot11.hqx

AutoBoot version 1.1 (c) 1992 by Karl Pottie


A. What is AutoBoot ?

AutoBoot is a Control Panel/System extension which will reboot
(restart) you Macintosh after a System Error or a Freeze-Up has
occurred. This comes in handy when your Macintosh must be 'on-line' at
all times, even when it is left unattended for long periods of time.

For instance, people using Timbuktu (a package which allows you to
operate a Mac remotely by modem) complained that they had to drive
down to the location of the Mac to reboot it after a system crash.
Very nice if the Mac is located at the other side of town !

Other uses can be found for file servers, systems that carry a BBS,
systems with a FAX modem, systems which have file sharing turned on ...
AutoBoot allows maximal availability of these Macs, even in the
presence of System crashes or Freeze-Ups.

As one user wrote to me: "Permit me to thank you a thousand times for
having developed it [...] For the fact that we were running your product
last night, we were able to obtain 2 very important telefaxes that we
would not have otherwise received".

Version 1.1 will now also reboot your Mac after a Freeze-Up.

I suggest you carefully read the "About AutoBoot" document before
installing AutoBoot on your system. If you're a version 1.0 user, please
read the "Version 1.1 changes" document to be notified of some important
changes.

AutoBoot requires at least system 6.0.4. It is 32 bit clean,
compatible with system 7 but it is not compatible with virtual memory
(yet). I'm working on it, though.

Shareware: The basic fee for the first copy of AutoBoot is $15. For
each additional macintosh you run this product on, you must pay
another $5.

You can distribute this software by giving it away to friend, upload
it to a BBS or online services like Compuserve or AOL, or send it to
any ftp site. Basically you can distribute it any way you like, as
long as you don't ask any money for it, other than a small charge
related to distribution costs (cost of a disk, postage or download
fee) and keep it together with the unmodified document in the
original compressed archive this product came in.

Karl Pottie
e-mail:

[e-mail]
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/cp/auto-boot-11.hqx; 130K]

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Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 16:17:18 EST
From: [e-mail] (Jim Walker)
Subject: [*] Carpetbag 1.3.4 control panel & extensions

Carpetbag is a shareware ($5) control panel extension that makes
resources such as fonts, sounds, FKEYs, and keyboard layouts
available to your programs without installing the resources in
the System file.  You specify certain folders, and Carpetbag
opens all resource files therein at boot time.  It works under
System 6, but is smarter about keeping track of folders
under System 7.  It should even be able to use a folder on a remote
Appleshare volume.

This file is in StuffIt 3.0 format.  It can be decompressed with StuffIt
Expander (freeware) or anything in the StuffIt 3.0 family.

v. 1.3.3 mounts volumes at startup.
v. 1.3.4 fixes a bug that caused a crash if you didn't show the icon.

 -- Jim Walker

[Archived as /info-mac/cp/carpetbag-134.hqx; 77K]

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Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 12:00:31 +0800
From: Peter N Lewis <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] comm/chat-110.hqx

Chat v1.1.0 is a background only application that lets Macs with
MacTCP 1.1 serve as a very primitive IRC.  Basically, once Chat is
running on your mac, multiple people can Telnet to a port on your
mac and have online discussions.  I wrote this to hold the weekly
online meetings of the TopSoft group, which have proved very
successful.

This version adds multiple independent channels, with independent
logging, some new commands (commands now start with a / like
IRC), and automatic word wrapping.

Chat is free and should run under System 6 or 7, and requires
MacTCP 1.1 or later.

Hope you like it,
   Peter.

Chat 1.1.0 Copyright 1992, Peter N Lewis <[e-mail]>

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/chat-11.hqx; 22K]

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Date: 11 Dec 92 09:31:15 U
From: "Andrew Lee" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] FileMakerDB_TimeDIFF.hqx

TimeDIFF v1.1
(c)1992 Andrew Lee.

The TimeDIFF FileMaker Pro database contains
calculation fields that allows you to determine the
time differences between a period before
and after midnight. This is useful for time-logging purposes,
especially for people who work all through the
night. Conventional: Endtime-StartTime calculations
in FileMaker does not produce reasonable results.

[Archived as /info-mac/app/filemaker-pro-time-diff.hqx; 7K]

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Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 10:32:00 PST
From: [e-mail] (Chris Moll)
Subject: [*] flight-simulator_v2.hqx

    This is the source code for a program to
demonstrate how to do 3D perspective drawing and
clipping.  It's written as a sort of crude flight
simulator - you "fly" through a rather simple world.
It also shows how to do simple animation.
    All math is fixed-point to make the speed tolerable
on feebler Macs.  With an FPU the speed would be roughly
the same using floating point.
    The package contains the source code, a ThinkC
vers.5.0.3 project, and an executable version compiled
for any Mac.  The changes from the old version are minor,
mostly I fixed things that would prevent it from compiling.

    Comments etc. to
        Chris Moll
        [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/source/c/flight-simulator-20.hqx; 58K]

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Date: 11 Dec 1992 16:10:21 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (eric shelden (wadsworth))
Subject: [*] fret-tutor.hqx

Fret Tutor is a program designed to teach the notes of the guitar fretboard
using a game like interface. Users can change the range of frets being worked
on, several levels of difficulty are supported. The program maintains and can
print a record of the past ten user sessions. A built-in manual is included.
Has been run on Classic, LC, IIcx, IIfx, using systems 6.0.5 or later
(including System 7). Must be unstuffed using Stuffit. Shareware, 10$. Eric
Shelden ([e-mail])

[Archived as /info-mac/app/fret-tutor.hqx; 52K]

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Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 11:36:09 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Dameon D. Welch)
Subject: [*] Gottfriend_Bottger.sea.hqx

A cute little application that plays some piano music with someone singing
about a "Macintosh". Self-extracting Stuffit Deluxe format.

[Archived as /info-mac/sound/program/gottfriend-bottger.hqx; 1202K]

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Date: Thu, 10 Dec 92 14:37:18 -0500
From: My Account <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] hellcats-more-missiles-10.hqx

[More missles for hell cats...? -- Gordon]

[Archived as /info-mac/game/hellcats-more-missles-10.hqx; 25K]

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Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 10:48:04 EST
From: Eric B Armstrong <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Hershey Kisses Christmas SOund

This sound is from the Hershey Kisses commercial in which the chocolates jump
up and ring like bells. They play "We Wish You a Merry Christmas." This
sample was recorded at 11KHz.

Eric B. Armstrong  (E!)
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/sound/hershey-kiss-bells.hqx; 301K]

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Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 16:31:11 EST
From: [e-mail] (robert biggar)
Subject: [*] HyperType 1.5

HyperType is a new way of writing prose allowing interactive
cross reference. It is a fun way to read text, and a fun way to
write it. Especially useful for personal correspondance.
Uploaded for someone without net access. Shareware (small fee).
Requires Hypercard 2.0 or later.

[Archived as /info-mac/card/hypertype-15.hqx; 96K]

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Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 15:29:05 EST
From: Larry Wink <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Investment Tracker 1.0

My first HyperCard project is an implementation of a BASIC Program I wrote
about 10 years ago (for an Apple II+) to track investments in stocks and
mutual funds.  I hope you like it and find it useful.

"Investment Tracker" is a HyperCard 2.1 Stack that can be used to track
investments in stocks, mutual funds, or anything else that issues shares for
which a price quote is available.  The information for each investment is
stored on a single card of the stack which contains the buttons for entering
and manipulating data and calculating various interesting things about the
investment.  It is particularly valuable for tracking investments in which you
are making periodic investments (Dollar Cost Averaging, Dividend Reinvestment
Plans) or withdraws.

-- Features --
- Records date and dollar amount of transaction and price per share for
  purchases, dividends or sales (partial or total).  These records can be
  displayed and edited at any time.

- Calculates total shares held in each stock or mutual fund.

- Calculates total dollar amount invested in each stock or mutual fund.

- Calculates total worth of each stock or mutual fund.

- Calculates tax basis of each stock or mutual fund taking into  account
  dividends reinvested and partial sales.

- Calculates average price paid for each stock or mutual fund.

- Calculates (by iteration) the average annual yield for each stock or
  mutual fund.

--System Requirements--
HyperCard 2.1.  This stack was written under System 7 on my new Classic II.
I see no reason it won't work on any machine that is running HyperCard 2.1
or the new HyperCard Player.

--Shareware--
A US$5 registration fee is requested.

Compacted and BinHexed using Compact Pro 1.33.

--Larry Wink
  Internet: [e-mail] <or> [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/card/investment-tracker-10.hqx; 61K]

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Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 11:32:09 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Dameon D. Welch)
Subject: [*] KTVU_News.cpt.hqx

Here's a sound that individuals who live or have lived in the Bay Area might
appreciate -- the beginning of the KTVU Channel 2 News. In System 7 Format.

[Archived as /info-mac/sound/ktvu-channel-2-news.hqx; 145K]

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Date: Thu, 10 Dec 92 17:09:05 PST
From: [e-mail] (Jaime Villacorte)
Subject: [*] Lockup 1 (QuickTime 1.5 movie)

[ This movie *requires* QuickTime 1.5 and will not play back with QT 1.0 ]

Description:    A Formula 1 race car, suffers a mechanical problem during a
        race, locks up it's brakes, goes off course, and damages it's
        front end.

        This is a full-frame view from the driver's-perspective. It
        is an expanded version of the driver's viewpoint that was
        originally presented as a tiny picture-in-picture insert in
        another QuickTime movie called "Lockup 2" (uploaded earlier to
        the sumex archive).

Name:           Lockup 1
Frame size:     200x150
Frame rate:     20 fps
Length:         20.0 seconds
Compression:    Compact Video @ quality = 3.00
Audio:          11Khz, 8-bit mono (uncompressed)

                        - jaime villacorte

[Archived as /info-mac/art/qt/lockup-1.hqx; 3276K]

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Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 17:34:56 -0500
From: Steve Strassmann <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] MacGambit Scheme 1.9.1 (with Thomas/Dylan)

If you're interested in exploring Lisp on the Mac, MacGambit is an
excellent place to start. Here's the Mac implementation of the Gambit
Scheme interpreter and compiler, by Marc Feeley. It includes full
sources and on-line help.

This submission also contains a version of Gambit customized as a Thomas
interpreter. Thomas is an implementation by Digital Equipment Corp (DEC)
of Dylan, the object-oriented dynamic language recently developed by Apple.
Full sources for Thomas and more info about Dylan is available from
cambridge.apple.com:/pub/dylan/.

Content:
macgambit-1.9.1-interp.hqx     MacGambit interpreter only
macgambit-1.9.1-sources1.hqx   THINK-C 5.0 sources files for interpreter
macgambit-1.9.1-sources2.hqx   Rest of sources for compiler
macgambit-1.9.1-thomas.hqx     Standalone interpreter for DEC's Thomas system

Note: all of these files are (c) 1992, Universite de Montreal.  Check the
"About MacGambit" dialog box for details.

Here is an announcement by Gambit's author, Marc Feeley. Please direct
all questions regarding Gambit to him, not me.

 -----------
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 92 11:51:59 -0500
From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Release 1.9.1 of Gambit for the Mac

MacGambit version 1.9.1 is now available via anonymous FTP from
trex.iro.umontreal.ca in the pub/gambit/gambit1.9.1 directory.  The
interpreter AND THINK-C 5.0 sources to the whole system (including the
compiler) are there.  There is also a version of MacGambit linked with
DEC's Thomas system release 1.1.

All of these programs are now in the public domain and may be
distributed to others as long as they are not sold or transferred for
compensation (other than a reasonable duplication fee).  The copyright
notice must also remain with the programs.

Please understand that these programs are the result of an UNFUNDED
group at the Universite de Montreal.  Users who enjoy the system
should consider sending a donation to our group so that we can fund
students to continue improving MacGambit.  Corporate funding is of
course welcome!

Marc Feeley

[Archived as /info-mac/lang/macgambit-191-thomas.hqx; 550K
         /info-mac/lang/macgambit-191-interpreter.hqx; 333K
         /info-mac/lang/macgambit-191-sources-1.hqx; 664K
         /info-mac/lang/macgambit-191-sources-2.hqx; 841K]

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Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 12:50:02 +0000
From: Graham Allsopp <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Machine icons

OK, you've got your nice, new, shiny IIvx up and running - but what's this?
a boring old hard disk icon in the top right-hard corner - wouldn't a
pretty little icon of your machine look far nicer there instead ? No ?

- Well then, you don't need Machine icons - a (reasonably) complete set of
icons of Macintosh computers, and some Apple peripherals.

Just Cut & Paste 'em !

Graham

[Archived as /info-mac/misc/machine-icons.hqx; 54K]

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Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 14:28:36 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (R.E. Wilhelm)
Subject: [*] mansion-nine-demo

Dear info-mac mods,
 attached is a binhex copy of a demo for the mansion nine! bulletin
board system. It is extremely customizable, featuring external
applications, custom menus, and even a scripting language. Downloaded
>From AOL. This version has all the fuctionality of the release version,
but it only allows 2 users with out a registration file.

Ron Wilhelm                     | [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/demo/mansion-nine.hqx; 1481K]

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Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1992 09:29:37 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Joseph Skudlarek)
Subject: [*] mcvert-188.shar

mcvert, written in C, runs under UNIX and converts among Macintosh
file formats including BinHex4.0 and MacBinary.  See mcvert.1
(the man page) for details.

Please replace mcvert-187.shar with mcvert-188.shar, which follows.
Major changes since 1.87 and current usage are detailed below.

One major change is the reporting of the Mac file creation and
modification times: accurate for MacBinary format files; always "now"
for BinHex4.0 files (since BinHex4.0 files do not encode the time).
This is useful for determining when a Mac file was last modified,
if you can transfer it in MacBinary format, for example, with ftp.

The other major change is to fix a regression, and mcvert supports
more than one BinHex4.0 file in a single input file again.  Thanks to
<[e-mail]> for pointing out this regression.

Also, the distribution now includes a README file which describes how
to configure and compile mcvert for different machines.

[Archived as /info-mac/unix/mcvert-188.shar; 87K]

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Date: 11 Dec 1992 15:56:14 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Jose M. Alcaide)
Subject: [*] merriemelodies.hqx

Hello,

Here is a superb sound ideal to be included in the Startup folder of the
System folder.

I sampled the opening music of the "Merrie Melodies" classic cartoons of
Warner Bros. (I love those cartoons!). The music is in a System 7 sound file,
compacted (self-extracting) and binhexed.

If you enjoy this sound, please e-mail me. I would like to know if it
becomes popular in the Mac community.

Jose M. Alcaide      <[e-mail]>
Dept. of Electronics - Science Faculty
University of the Basque Country
48080 Bilbao (SPAIN)

[Archived as /info-mac/sound/merrie-melodies.hqx; 360K]

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Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 13:32:55 EST
From: [e-mail] (Thomas R. Blake)
Subject: [*] Nuntius1.1.1d15

Folks,

    Yes, here it is, the latest developmental version of Peter Speck's
Newsreader for the Macintosh.  I am not the author, a beta tester, or
anything fancy like that.  I'm just a humble user, passing on the latest
version.

    Differences between this and the version posted days ago?  I'll let the
author explain:

>Bugs fixed:
>
>1.1.1d15:
>      Fixed bug in killing processes for periodic task like updating groups
>         (fixes "In TPeriodicThread::GoSleep, fThread was not killed")
>      Reserved more memory for low memory situations
>      Stops updating processes etc when in low memory situtation, but
>         user can still abort updating etc.
>      Fixed bug in disposing thread when it was not started
>         (eg not enough memory to create it).
>         This caused some "TThread::Free: 'this' is not gCurThread"
>      Fixed bug in asking for password (cleared local copy unless it was
>         stored in the prefs)

                        Tom Blake
                        Binghamton University

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/nuntius-111d15.hqx; 426K]

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Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 20:29:39 MET
From: [e-mail] (Leo Breebaart)
Subject: [*] Re: Microsoft Rich Text Format Description

> Could you resubmit?

Sure, no problem.

Congratulations, by the way, on your new hard disk -- I wish I had
known earlier that your fundraising drive accepted credit cards, or I
would have donated some money myself (let me know if can still use
donations). Sumex has been a wonderful resource the past few
years. I couldn't have survived without the services you people and
the umich guys have been supplying. Thanks for everything...

Leo

This is the description of Microsoft's Rich Text Format (RTF).

Additional (Unix-format) software for building simple RTF
translators has been written and made available by Paul DuBois
([e-mail]) on ftp-site ftp.primate.wisc.edu in the
pub/RTF directory.

Leo Breebaart (leo @ cp.tn.tudelft.nl)


[Archived as /info-mac/tech/rich-text-format.hqx; 38K]

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Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 15:07:16 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Samuel L. Shank)
Subject: [*] Re: Mouse Odometer

Here's the re-upload of Mouse Odometer.

To find out how far you have gone, just go to your control pannel and click
on the MouseOdometer icon.  It will tell you then.

Here is a program called mouse odometer.  It will tell you how far your
mouse has gone on your screen in miles (up to 1/10000 th of a mile).

There is a blurb telling a little more about it.

It was stuffed and bin/hexed with StuffitLite.

[Archived as /info-mac/cp/mouse-odometer.hqx; 34K]

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Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 10:14:55 MST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] risk-ii.hqx

Dear Moderator,

Please post this file Risk_II.sit.hqx (repost) to your info-mac/game
directory.
This file was stuffed with Stuffit Lite 3.03, then binhexed. Risk! was
verified
virus-free with Disinfectant 2.9 before it was stuffed and binhexed. There
seemed to be an early end-of-file error on my first attempt to post this
game.
I hope this corrects the problem.

The features of this version of Risk! (v2.50):

(1) a glorious full 256-color background map, with a gradient deep-blue ocean,
    and the status bars, button bars, and the game window have a wood-like
    frame
    to set the ambiance of a 17th century atmosphere.  The buttons also have a
    3-D brass-like finish.  The continents start off with a speckled
    brown/white
    fill-in pattern, and with the initial deployment of the armies, the user-
    selectable fill-in colors are offset to give the continents an appearance
    of height.  The continents, status bars, and the button bar cast shadow(s)
    upon the blue ocean(s).  All this makes for a cool 3-D look.

(2) user-selectable colors are now used instead of the old black/white
patterns
    in the new-game settings dialog window.  Nice color icons (actually small
    PICT resources) replace the old b/w icons for the human and 3 different
    mac
    player icons.

(3) for the winner, a very nice digitized photograph of the Earth as seen from
    a satellite in orbit!  (The old button that was used to clear the victory
    screen and resume to a new game or to quit has been removed, and the photo
    has been enabled instead, thus clicking anywhere on the photo will
    function
    as the old 'OK' button.)

(4) a minor feature, but there none-the-less:  the message&arrow in the help
    dialog box has been colorized.

(5) the Risk! game cards now have a cool, blue/gray/red/white 3-D backface, as
    seen when clicking OK upon selection of the card sets to be turned in.

(6) color icons resources have been placed into the game for the b/w soldier
    and army(s) icons. They do not appear, but the old b/w icons still work.

(7) best of all:  this is FREEWARE!  (This is NOT the commercial version sold
    by Virgin Games.)  So download and ENJOY!  Definitely worth it!

[Archived as /info-mac/game/risk-ii.hqx; 117K]

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Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 11:30:02 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Dameon D. Welch)
Subject: [*] SNL_Sounds_12_13_92.cpt.hqx

Here are some sounds I digitized last night from SNL:

"It's like Butter" from Coffe Talk
"Phallocentric" from the Lesbian "Season" Scene
"I'm good enough..." from Stuart Smalley's Daily Affirmation

All in System 7 Format. Compressed with Compact Pro.

[Archived as /info-mac/sound/snl-clips.hqx; 288K]

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Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 04:10 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] SoundTrecker file: Invisible Man (Queen)

I found on the Amiga archives of wuarchive.wustl.edu a couple of songs that I
would like to share with the net. I decompressed them with Mac LHa and then
converted them to the Mac SoundTracker format. This is "Invisible Man", from
Queen.

Jose M. Payo   <[e-mail]>

[Archived as /info-mac/sound/st/invisible-man.hqx; 335K]

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Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 12:00:45 +0800
From: Peter N Lewis <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] source/pascal/chat-110.hqx

This is the pascal source for Chat 1.1.0, a background only application
that lets Macs with MacTCP 1.1 serve as a very primitive IRC.

The source is very simple, only around 500 lines, and could be used
as example code if you wanted to write your own MacTCP server.

Chat is free and should run under System 6 or 7, and requires
MacTCP 1.1 or later.

Hope its useful,
   Peter.

Chat 1.1.0 Copyright 1992, Peter N Lewis <[e-mail]>

[Archived as /info-mac/source/pascal/chat-11.hqx; 51K]

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

Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 00:07:56 -0700 (MST)
From: "J. Taggart Gorman" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Splitter1.0.sit.hqx

  Please place the folloing utility in the archives.

  Splitter is a utility that splits files into segments of roughly equal size,
chosen by the user.  Splitter can be run and will ask for a file to be split
or System 7 users can drop any number of files on the icon to be processed
seperately.

  Splitter was written to fill a gap in my utilities and is freeware.

[Archived as /info-mac/util/splitter-10.hqx; 11K]

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

Date: 10 Dec 1992 10:53:03 +0800
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Strip-Mac! v2.0.1

This is version 2.0.1 of Strip-Mac!, a minor bug fix that replaces
version 2.0.

Strip-Mac! is a risque' adult game that resembles strip poker.
The game is fully customisable and extensive online help is provided.
Strip-Mac! is FREE. Enjoy.

Cheers,
Tim North.

[Archived as /info-mac/game/strip-mac-201.hqx; 359K]

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

Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 7:07:32 EST
From: [e-mail] (Mike Kazmierczak)
Subject: [*] Submitted hqx file in two parts

 Almanac version 2.02. This is a hypercard stack which calculates lunar, solar
and planetary postitions, rising, setting times, magnitudes. There are cards
for asteroid data if one has coordinates (or I can provide some), position
conversion and astrophotography. This new version does not need to be updated
yearly due to the new VSOP method of position calculation. It is $5 shareware
and I have 17 (!) registered users to date.

Mike Kazmierczak
X Systems
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/card/almanac-202.hqx; 101K]

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Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 12:02:06 -0500
From: Kamal Abdali <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] wordcount.sit.hqx - a BBEdit extension

Below is Word Count, an extension to BBEdit in stuffed, binhexed
format for distribtion to ftp archive sites.  It is offered as free
software on as is basis.

Word Count displays the number of paragraphs, sentences, nonblank
lines, words and characters in the current selection in the active BBEdit
window.  If the current selection is null, the counts are for
the entire file.

I like BBEdit's capabilities and interface very much, and appreciate
it that such a superb program is available without charge.  Word Count
is my small contribution in return for my free use of BBEdit.

Kamal Abdali
P.O. Box 65207
Washington, DC 20035-5207

[Archived as /info-mac/app/bbedit-word-count.hqx; 8K]

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

Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 17:21:13 -0500
From: Steve Strassmann <[e-mail]>
Subject: (A) Lisp on the Macintosh

This posting hopefully helps answer Jens Eickhoff's request for Lisp on the
mac.

There's a lot to choose from. You might enjoy exploring Scheme, a dialect of
Lisp popular in academia for its tiny size and expressive elegance.

Shareware/freeware Lisps for the Mac:
   XLISP 2.1 by David Betz, from many places incl.
   glia.biostr.washington.edu:/pub/xlisp/

Shareware/freeware Schemes (most available from
nexus.yorku.ca:/pub/scheme/imp/*)
   XScheme - by David Betz, author of XLisp
   Gambit 1.9.1 - by Marc Feeley. Includes compiler, full sources, online help
   SIOD 2.9 (Scheme in One Defun) by George Carrette; supertiny Scheme, with
   sources
   Pixie Scheme (available from rascal.ics.utexas.edu:/misc/mac/programming/)
   HELP (A lazy evaluation scheme)
   sumex-aim.stanford.edu:/info-mac/lang/lazy-scheme.hqx

Commercial Lisps (including Scheme) for the Mac:
   MCL 2.0 - Macintosh Common Lisp, $495 from Apple (APDA)
    email [e-mail], newsgroup: comp.lang.lisp.mcl
   Procyon Common Lisp  from Scientia Ltd., Cambridge, UK
    phone [phone], fax [phone], email [e-mail]
   Franz Lisp 2.0 for Mac from Fort Pond Research, Acton, MA (student edition
   $60)
    phone [phone], email [e-mail].
   MacScheme - (student version $70 to pro version $495) from Lightship
   Software
    phone [phone] or 801-484-3923
   EdScheme - $50 from Schemers, Inc. Ft. Lauderdale, Fla (DOS & Atari too)
    phone [phone], fax [phone], email [e-mail]

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

Date: 14 Dec 1992 13:14:08 +0100
From: ROB KOUWENBERG <[e-mail]>
Subject: (Q) 37 pin _APPLE_brand MS-DOS DRIVE data ?????

Hi Netters, ( wow 2 questions in a row ! )
I recently purchased an ms-dos 1.2M 5 1/4 floppy drive. I bought it not
only for using it, but also for the knowledge that I finnally can order
MacTools for the Mac on 5 1/4 inch :-) ( this was a smiley subject some time
ago ).
HOWEVER, the drive comes with a standard MS-DOS floppy connector 37-pin D
cannon
connector. Do I need some interface card, or does a cable adaptor exist ?

Please help me, as I spent some very precious money on it ! ( students in
the netherlands _WERE_ financed quite nicely ... )
Greetings, Rob Kouwenberg, student Technical University Eindhoven
( [e-mail] )

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

Date: 14 Dec 1992 13:07:58 +0100
From: ROB KOUWENBERG <[e-mail]>
Subject: (Q) Disk mounting difference between sys 6 vs sys 7 ?!

Hello netters,
I recently noticed a difference in the way system 6 and system 7 cope with
mounting disks. In system 6 I can rename MD-DOS files ( access pc 1.1 ); in
system 7 I can't. In system 6 ( 6.0.8 to be precise ) I can mount unidos 3.3
diskettes in ][ in a mac 2.5; in system 7 I can't. Although I KNOW that
apple never recognized unidos 3.3, but only prodos. I think that this IS a
design
flaw ( I don't know if it was done intentionally .... ).
As I don't own system 7.1 yet, I don't know the situation else than from
sys701

Could anyone spread some light on this issue ??
Greetings, Rob Kouwenberg, Student Eindhoven University of Technology

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

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 13:41:48 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Karl Pottie)
Subject: 7 file sharing and security

We've got a small network of 5 macs in an unattended place, where anybody
can sit down and log into the file sever. Due to circumstances, Due to
circumstances I've been forced to move the files of the server to one of
the Macs and use System 7 file sharing. I've created groups and users like
on the server, but there is still a security problem: on the system 7
server mac, the moved files and folders are visible to anybody. I'd need
two things:

(1) A way to prevent the shared folder from being accessed on that mac

(2) A way to make that Mac "see" itself in the chooser, so that a user is
forced to log in to gain restricted access to his/her files.

Does anybody have a (partial) solution to this problem ? The 5 macs are
heavily used, so locking that one machine away in a closet is NO option.

Karl

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

Date: 14 Dec 1992 10:32:58 -0600 (CST)
From: BILL SIMPSON <[e-mail]>
Subject: ADB extension cable(A)

Thanks to Alan Bloom, here is a supplier for a 6' keyboard extension cable:
Inmac (800-348-3636) catalogue #D074532, $16

Bill Simpson

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

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 11:36:36 MST
From: COBURN  NICHOLAS SCO <[e-mail]>
Subject: After Dark Question

Are there any modules, shareware or otherwise that could randomly put
up GIFs and JPEGs?  I got this idea from a post someone put up recently
called ScreenSavor.  Unfortunately, this module only displays graphics
created for that format.

Thanks,
Nick

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

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 13:59:12 CST
From: "Conrad Halling" <[e-mail]>
Subject: A game is a demo

/info-mac/game/centipede.hqx is actually a demo program, not a full-featured
game.

Conrad Halling
[e-mail]

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

Date: 14 Dec 92 20:51:15 GMT
From: quesnel@ems (Rene Quesnel)
Subject: Am I correct in assuming that Discipline is worthless?

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>For the heck of it, I installed Discipline and started playing with it.
>After I quit all of the other apps I was running (because Discipline would
>jump into MacsBug about every other second), I let it loose on my current
>project. It doesn't seem very useful. I haven't gotten lazy on this project
>*yet* and I'm actually coding defensively. Of course, Discpline drops me into
>MacsBugs every other second, (every time I get an event, I guess...). Am I
>correct in assuming that Disclipline has little or no value?
>
>Ed
>

Ed,

Try activating Discipline with 'dsca'. This will limit Discipline's
actions to your application. When I use only 'dsc', Discipline
keeps dropping into Macsbug but the current application is Finder.

I find Discipline most useful. It saved me a lot of time.

Rene Quesnel
[e-mail]

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

Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 17:04:57 EST
From: [e-mail] (Eric Davies)
Subject: anyone know of a System-7 compatible Scrabble game?

Does anyone know of a version of Scrabble that will run on a
Mac IILC under System-7?  My parents, the scrabble fiends, have
just broken down and bought a Mac and I thought it'd be a swell
gift, but didn't see it in catalogs for MacWarehouse, Mac's Place,
MacZone, etc.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks!

Eric Davies
[e-mail]

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

Date: 13 Dec 1992 11:08:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Apple Laser writer II

Hi netters, I have an opportunity to get a used Apple Laser writer II.
However,
I know nothing about it. Can somebody tell me anything about it, such as its
engine, speed or whatever. I appreciate any tips.

Thanks.

Hong Wang
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 12:29 N
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Apple Records - Apple Computer law-suit (A)

Greetings,

Someone asked in digest 294 what happened with the Apple Records -
Apple Computer Inc. law-suit.
I've heard already a long time ago that they have come to some sort
of agreement and that Apple Records has dropped the suit, so don't
worry Apple Computer will not have to change it's name (Thank God) !

Dimitri Boone
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:43:45 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Kemi Jona)
Subject: Appleshare users log and usage activity

Is there any facility (cdev/extension/app) that will let me monitor more
closely the activity of Appleshare users on my mac?  Specifically, I had in
mind two things:

1)  A way of telling which users were using which shared items.  The Users
& Groups control panel tells me which items I am currently sharing, and
which users are currently logged on.  It doesn't say which users are logged
on to which items.

2)  A utility that would write a log file of all login/logout Appleshare
activity showing who logged on, when, and to what items.

It seems like both of these would be helpful additions to the file sharing
mechanisms currently available (that is, in 7.0.1).

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

Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92  15:16 BST
From: Richard Lim <"RTL"[e-mail]>
Subject: A round of applause please

Isn't it about time we had a portrait of Mr Lipa archived for posterity in
art/mugshot - oh, that seems to have vanished along with Murph Sewall's
photo...Shame, we "net.geeks" (copyright Jon Pugh, who is now also the proud
father of a newborn baby girl - had to slip that one in!) deserve to know
what the net.luminaries look like.  So how about it Bill?  It doesn't have
to be full frontal y'know :)


[Hey, I would, but I have no scanner or anything like that. I guess I'm just
 out of it in this multimedia world. Maybe I'll try to rustle one up one
 of these days. -Bill]

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

Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 21:47:18 PST
From: Paul Brians <[e-mail]>
Subject: Autodoubler Woes

I recently bought the upgrade to AutoDoubler and have since had some
unhappy experiences.  I foolishly compressed all kinds of stuff in
my System Folder with the new AutoDoubler Internal Compressor, which
issues dire but frustratingly vague warnings about what may or may
not work compressed.  My internal hard disk almost immediately
began having problems, then went belly-up and had to be reinitialized.
Needless to say, I did not use AIC on the restored volume.

Then, in for I think unrelated causes, my external 105 meg drive
died in a big way and could not be recovered by Norton Utilities
because of course FileSaver was not turned on (it conflicts with
AutoDoubler).  Some statements by Fifth Generation imply that File
Saver is superfluous if you have AutoDoubler.  Don't believe it.
AutoDoubler saved nothing.  I am almost certain that if I had had
FileSaver installed, I would not now be sending my hard drive back
to the manufacturer and losing all the work I've put in on a
newsletter I was trying to get out before Christmas.

I'm not necessarily blaming AutoDoubler for my problems; but I've
decided I can live in more cramped disk quarters if I can only
keep FileSaver.  Anybody want to buy an almost new copy of
AutoDoubler?

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

Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 13:21:12 EST
From: Matthew B Cravit <[e-mail]>
Subject: Battery problems on PB100s

I'd like to add a comment to the stuff that's been said about PB100 battery
problems.  If the battery life seems very short, or does not seem to be
charging correctly, try pulling the battery pack and starting the machine up
using just the AC adapter.  If the display flickers but does not start up, or
the machine does nothing, then check the black plastic ring that goes around
the AC adapter plug near the end.  If it is cracked, broken or missing pieces,
then you have probably blown the fuse on the logic board.  If not, (as was
recently the case with my PB100), then it is possible that you may have a
blown
Power Manager chip.  If this is the case, call Apple (1-800-SOS-APPL) and they
will arrange to pick up your computer and replace the main logic board.

This happenned to me recently, and I had my computer back and with a new logic
board in about 4 business days.

/Matthew
[e-mail]

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

Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 16:02:25 EST
From: "Dieder B>" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Brightness CDEV

Okay...I give up.

For the longest time, I could use the BRIGHTNESS CDEV on my IIsi.
It actually worked. I could set the brightness, and the level went
up or down appropriately. I did not, to my recollection, do anything
to the darn thing in order to get it to work. Now it don't wanna
work no more. Sheesh. It was with 7.0.0 and 7.0.1 that it reinstalled
fine, and now it doesn't. I know this is really trivial, but it is
one of those really annoying trivial things that just don't stop
until they're resolved. This worked on the internal video of the IIsi
using a 640x480 display. Any clues, or suggestions appreciated.

Dieder

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

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 14:19:36 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Ricardo C. Davis, 725-5172)
Subject: Canvas 3.0 Rulers & StyleWriter

Software:  Canvas 3.0.3
Hardware:  Mac IIsi (5 Mb, System 7.0, TU 1.1.1)
       ImageWriter II, StyleWriter, LaserWriter
Problem:
   When I set up the rulers (Layout/Rulers...) in a document, the dialog has
two choices for printers:  the ImageWriter and the LaserWriter.  Then Canvas
proportions the rulers (144 and 300 dpi, respectively?).  Since the
StyleWriter
is 360 dpi, the page is not to scale.  Thus I have to fudge with my
templates.
Things get more exciting when I print the StyleWriter-fudged file on an
LaserWriter.

Is there an easier way?  Does Deneba Software have a ruler fix for other
printers (360 dpi, 400 dpi (i.e. NeXT), 600 dpi, etc.)?

<> Ricardo C. Davis                               [e-mail]

P.S.  Does anyone have any Canvas templates they'd like to share?

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

Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 14:46 MST
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Centipede game for the Mac???

I remember a posting a while ago implying there was a color version of
the classic arcade game Centipede available for the Mac (Bpeed?)  I have
looked at all the popular ftp sites, but to no avail.  Did I just imagine
this?

        Aric Friesen

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

Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 19:54:18 -0500 (EST)
From: Ronald G Mackley <[e-mail]>
Subject: Classic II ROM version

Hello,

    I have a question that I hope the networld can answer.  What is the
    ROM
version of the Classic II's ROM.  (Is there a table of ROM versions
anywhere?)  Cursor animator's given me nothing but greif since I left my
plus and I want a left-handed cursor.  What I was thinking was put my
own left handed arrow into the system file and ROv# it.  Has anyone
tried this?  Will this work or is the OS biased against southpaws.

    Respone to me and I'll summarize.

    --Thanx,

    Ron Mackley
    [[e-mail]]

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

Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 21:56:26 EST
From: [e-mail] (Prof. L.G. Leduc)
Subject: Cleaning Floppy Drive (A)

>
> To all interested in cleaning the ejection mechanism in 400K floppy
> drives, the following is the method according to Larry Jensen. I hope that
> he does not mind me posting this.
>
> Procedure to free ejector mechanism:
>
> I thought I would wait and see what response you got from the net,
> but I decided that I should tell you that the 400K disk is probably
> all right.  I have at least four in my basement as spares plus two
> more in 512K Macs (bought for kids to take to collage) and only one
> actually turned out bad.  All the rest just needed the mechanism
> freed up because the grease had gotten hard.
>
> If you cannot get a disk to eject that is probably the problem.
> Open up the case by removing all 6 screws that you can see from
> the bottom, there is one screw holding the drive in the sheet
> metal housing, and one to to take off a sheet metal cover over the
> top of the drive towards the rear.  On the side are two metal
> parts that slide front to rear, one above the other.  A pin
> sticks out from inside the mechanism and fits in the notches
> of the slides.  The pin MUST FREELY move up and down.  I used
> a light oil (sewing machine oil) and CAREFULLY put a little
> in between the slides and the frame AND down in where the piece
> that holds the pin pivots (hard to get to but crucial).  You
> have to work the slides back and forth (by hand) to get the oil
> to work in to dissolve the hardened grease, much the same as if
> you are inserting a disk then ejecting it. (You do know about
> putting a straightened paper clip in the small hole to the right
> of the disk slot? - it pushes on the bottom slide)  I sometimes
> took a minute or more to get the mechanism to free up - and then
> cycled it many more times to be sure!!
>
>
> [e-mail]
>
>

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

Date: 14 Dec 1992 17:04:29 U
From: "Komp John" <[e-mail]>
Subject: CRC Help

Hi,

     I'm looking to write a program that has serial communications in it.  I'd
like to find some information on the various serial transfer protocals like
XMODEM, ZMODEM etc so I can understand the error correction routines in them.
Is there some good references for such.  Also is there any public code already
written in C for such?

Thanks

-John Komp
[e-mail]

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

Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 12:26:48 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Tony Huang)
Subject: Curve Fitting (A)

>From: Michel Dery <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Curve Fitting
>
>Hi Netters,
>
>I'd like to know the software's names availables making curve fitting.
>I know the "Igor" one but I want to know if there's another
>one better. (Like fitting 3 and more exponentials...)
>

It depends on what you mean by "better". KaleidaGraph is easier to use but
not as flexible. For simple curve fitting (such as the application you
mentioned), KaleidaGraph is definitely better. On the other hand, if the
problem is very complex or if you need to fit a huge numbers of data points
(in the thousands), use Igor (Igor is faster at fitting and drawing a large
number of points).

Tony Huang
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 14:33:24 CST
From: Graeme Forbes <[e-mail]>
Subject: Curve fitting (A)

I believe DeltaGraph Pro does curve fitting. I gather it is the most
full-featured of the graphing programs. Before buying mail order,
check with Campus (800-543-8188) for the academic price - they once
had a big discount on this program, which I almost bought just for
the discount (I have absolutely no need for a graphing program!).

Graeme Forbes

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

Date: 14 Dec 1992 10:20:58 -0600 (CST)
From: BILL SIMPSON <[e-mail]>
Subject: curve fitting (A)

With Igor you can fit ANY ARBITRARY FUNCTION to your data.
So I don't know how you could do better than that!  By the way,
this is called "nonlinear regression" in the statistical literature,
if you want to look up some books on the subject (e.g. Ratkowsky).

I personally prefer Kaleidagraph to IGOR for most things (I use both).
Kaleidagraph also does nonlinear regression with user-supplied function.

You can also use SYSTAT, the freeware xlisp-stat, and SAS JMP.
I Find Kaleidagraph is usually sufficient for my purposes, plus you
have the publication-quality graph at the same time (instead of 2 steps).

Bill Simpson

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

Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 13:27:30 MDT
From: Alonso Castro <[e-mail]>
Subject: Curve Fitting (R)

>I'd like to know the software's names availables making curve fitting.
>I know the "Igor" one but I want to know if there's another
>one better. (Like fitting 3 and more exponentials...)
>
>               Thanks in advance. Michel and Chantal

Just a clarification that you may already know...Igor is capable of fitting
data to any user-defined function (such as a triple exponential).
Alonso.

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

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 17:41:27 GMT
From: John McKinley <[e-mail]>
Subject: Curve Fitting (R)

Michel Dery writes:
>I'd like to know the software's names availables making curve fitting.
>I know the "Igor" one but I want to know if there's another
>one better. (Like fitting 3 and more exponentials...)

Actually, Igor will fit curves to user defined functions too.

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

Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 11:01:30 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: daily announcements

There used to be a network utility that would play a sound,
display a graphic, and show a textual message when a user
started up their computer. I'm looking for a way to
present daily announcements to people as they enter
the network.

I've searched the comm directory but to no avail.

Anyone remember?

Thanks very much.

Scott McLagan
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 10:08:56 PST
From: Nelson Byrne <nbyrne@139.121.24.140>
Subject: Delta Graph fits curves.

Michel Dery asks (IMv10-295) about curve fitting software. Delta graph does a
very slick job of it, shows you the fit (you've got many choices - piecewise
linear, exponential, spline...) and even copies the formula for the fit to the
clipboard!
>>>>>[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 08:55:13 -0800
From: [e-mail]
Subject: DeskWriter won't print MacDraw Pro (A)

Simon:
You describe a problem with a DeskWriter not printing two large grey
characters from MacDraw Pro...

The DeskWriter driver runs in the Finder's memory partition. Assigning more
memory to MacDraw Pro won't help anything. The Installer program for the
DeskWriter drivers ups the Finder's memory allocation (I forget how much,
but it's significant - and important), so you *must* use it when installing
the DW software.

Something else you might try is turning background printing off. This has
often helped me in low-memory situations.

You don't mention how large the characters are. If they're over a page in
height, the driver might get very confused, or take hours to print.

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

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

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 17:12:15 EST
From: [e-mail] (Travis Heath)
Subject: Disappearing Folders bug in Sys. 7.0

Could you folks in the know please take a few moments and explain to me
what I've seen discribed as "the disappearing folders" bug in System
7.0?  I've had a folder on my hard drive go into the great beyond
without a trace what of what happened.  I'm having trouble convincing
the local Mac gurus that I'm not having delusional spells.  Please
respond via e-mail to:  [e-mail]
I'll summarize if there is interest.

For those who care, I checked every faq list I could find before I
posted this message, so bear with me if this is old news to you.

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

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 11:17:47 EST
From: [e-mail] (Lou Casagrande)
Subject: Fax through RDEV?

Fellow Infomacers,
I think that I remember seeing a chooser document (RDEV) which would
allow one to "print" a fax through a modem connected to one's Mac.
This was a few years ago, and now I have a need for such an animal. Is
there a share/freeware package which fits this description? Is there a

commercial package which fits it? Any leads are appreciated.

As always, advTHANKSance,

Lou Casagrande
Grumman Corporate Research Center

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

Date: 12 Dec 1992 22:16:19 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Michael Dautermann)
Subject: Gopher and Email access to UMICH-archives implemented

I'm pleased to announce that you can now retrieve files from our
archives on MAC.ARCHIVES.UMICH.EDU by EMAIL and by GOPHER requests.


We have just been added to the list of Archive sites on the University of
Minnesota Gopher server.  Also, you can connect to U-Michigan's Gopher
server (port 70 of "gopher.uis.itd.umich.edu"...  check the section
"special topics").  We would actually prefer that you files this way instead
of with FTP (as Gopher is stateless and doesn't need to maintain a connection
while you are looking at directories/files).  There is no quota on the
number of files/connections via Gopher.

If you don't have AFS, Gopher or FTP access, we invite you to try out
our mail server.  To get introduced to it, just send the command "help"
(in the message text, not the subject line) to the address
"[e-mail]".  There is a quota of 5 files or 1000K per day
(files over 1000K can be retrieved by specifying "parts".. directions are
in the help file).

The #1 preferred way for you to retrieve files is via AFS, if you have
access.  If you do have access to AFS, it is highly suggested that you
make a link in your AFS home directory to our archive (which lives in
/afs/umich.edu/group/itd/archive/mac), and then you can ftp/Fetch to
your machine directly (which would save our ftp machine some cpu).
If you don't have AFS access and you want to find out more about it,
read the "00doYOUhaveAFS" file on the top level of the archive.

And if you would like to be on our mailing list of recent files (this is
the same list that is posted to  COMP.SYS.MAC.DIGEST  once a week or so),
you can send me e-mail at "[e-mail]".

If you have any questions... please feel free to e-mail us at
"[e-mail]".

Thanks a lot for helping us to evangelize the Mac world!

Michael Dautermann - U-M Ann Arbor, Dearborn and, soon.. the world!

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

Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 22:00:39 EST
From: Murph Sewall <[e-mail]>
Subject: Hardware handshaking? (A)

On Sun, 13 Dec 1992 02:32:44 GMT you said:
>I set software flow to "Hardware" and restarted to see if the correct
>script came up and to check for any speed improvements. The right script
>did come up, but the modem returned an error message. However, when I
>issued the commands contained in the init script in blocks of about 4
>commands each, there was no problem. Does this mean my cable is capable
>of hardware handshaking or not, and what is going on?

Your symptoms indicate a cable that does NOT support hardware flow
control--once the buffer overflows, the modem loses characters (that's
why you're getting errors when you try and run the whole script).  It'll
crash during file transfers as well.  A hardware handshaking cable will
cost you about $20 (mail order).  Just make sure you deal with a vendor
that understands what you want (if the order taker says "huh?" call
someone else ;-)

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

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:22:19 -0500
From: Ed Ver Hoef <[e-mail]>
Subject: Header/Footer Question for Word 5.0 (A)

A week or so ago I posted a question about how to set up Microsoft
Word 5.0 so that the ruler and/or the ribbon would be displayed
automatically whenever a header or footer was opened.  I have since
learned that this is not possible in Word 5.0 but the capability has
been added in Word 5.1.

Ed Ver Hoef

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

Date: 14 Dec 1992 11:06:26 +0100 (CET)
From: ALEXEI TSVETKOV <[e-mail]>
Subject: How did the Macintosh get its name

I think David Friedlander almost got it right, but not quite. The
Scottish name McIntosh is intentionally misspelled so as not to
infringe on the trademark of the US high end stereo manufacturer.
Still, what is the answer to the original question? No idea.

Alexei Tsvetkov
Munich

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

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 14:49:04 CST
From: Graeme Forbes <[e-mail]>
Subject: HP LJ 4M: Dataprint price (correction)

When I reported on my first impressions of the LaserJet 4M a few digests
back, I gave the wrong academic price for the printer from Dataprint.
It's $1829. (Yes, more than a $1000 less than list.) My shipping was
$15 (this amount may vary depending on how far you are from North
Carolina).

Dataprint is at 800-274-1515, or at 704/847/7800 (fax [phone]).

In my previous posting I was a bit cautious about the speed of the printer.
It turns out that having "unlimited downloadable fonts" on slows it
down considerably. I don't know when you'd need that option, since I
just discovered that it prints my docs fine with it off, docs that have
5-8 non-resident fonts in them. In fact it just spat out an 11-page
paper in 5 non-resident fonts so fast I blinked.

*What* other printer?


Graeme Forbes

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

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 14:16:22 EST
From: bytepb![e-mail] (Tom Thompson)
Subject: I'm soooo confused. :-)

Adam:

The latest table I sent you is the one to use: it has the Official BYTE
Benchmark Results. The code is frozen and all new Macs will be benchmarked
using this application.

As for all the other OmegaSANE info, I think the way to distill it is thus:

First, SANE presents an API that performs floating-point math. It allows
you to write hardware-independent code that does intensive math processing.
Your application makes calls to SANE; SANE figures out whether to use an
emulation library or the FPU (if present). SANE has been present in Macs for
a long time, since the Mac Plus era, I think.

The problem with SANE is that it uses the Mac Trap Dispatcher to route
floating-point calls. The Trap Dispatcher adds too much overhead to the
calls: To improve peformance, some vendors by-passed SANE and hammered
at the FPU directly. You got better performance, but you ran the risk of
your code breaking if the FPU changed or disapppeared. (Witness MS-Excel
3.0 blowing up on the Mac IIsi when it was first introduced.)

With System 7.0.1, Apple introduced OmegaSANE. OmegaSANE *backpatches*
applications that make SANE calls. These patches redirect SANE; it bypasses
the Trap Dispatcher to access the FPU, while at the same time providing
the same consistent API. This supplied better performance while providing
compatbility to existing code. According to a tech note, the Mac Installer
installs OmegaSANE. It checks to see if an FPU is present. If one is,
OmegaSANE is installed. This means that if you add an FPU later on, say,
to a Mac IIsi, to get OmegaSANE you'd have to reinstall the Mac OS.

OK, at the same time OmegaSANE was introduced in System 7.0.1, Apple also
introduced the Mac Quadras and PowerBooks which have OmegaSANE in ROM. On
a IIci, OmegaSANE is probably routed through code loaded into RAM. On a
Quadra, the calls get routed into the ROMs.

With System 7.1, something's changed. If the Mac has OmegaSANE in its ROMs,
you get use of OmegaSANE. If it's not, you don't. I don't know why this
happens, but I have two theories: 1) For compatibility reasons, it was
decided that it's safer to use OmegaSANE in ROM, and so if your machine
doesn't have it, your floating-point calls get routed through the Trap
Dispatcher, or 2) Somehow the Installer script got goofed up. Based on
the hack you forwarded me, theory 2) has some plausibility.

Some facts to remember are:

There's no special way to call OmegaSANE. You make calls to SANE; the OS
then either directs processing through the Trap Dispatcher or through
OmegaSANE.

Based on the results in the recent table I've given you, OmegaSANE is
present in every 030- or 040-based Mac's ROMs since 1991.

Whether or not you get OmegaSANE at all also depends upon your hardware
configuration when you install the System software. If you don't have
an FPU installed (say, in a Classic II or LC II) when you load the OS,
you don't get OmegaSANE. If you install one later, you have to reload
the OS you get OmegaSANE installed.

Sorry for rehashing the explanation dude, but I feel like I had to put
all the facts together in one note for things to make sense. For the
record, the low-level BYTE benchmarks use assembly language to make
SANE calls. It so happens there are certain ways (in assembly or as
compiler-emitted object code) that can bamboozle the OmegaSANE patches
and cause a crash. This is what the Igor people are talking about. By
a fluke, our assembly code was written the correct way. The Speedometer
tests possibly hit the FPU directly, if they then use a high-level
language for the math tests, the the compiler code itself might be
calling OmegaSANE for that section of code. I'm guessing, of course, I'd
have to see the code to know for sure...

Does this help?

---Tom Thompson

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

Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 12:13:33 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Tony Huang)
Subject: Keyboard extension cable

>I am using a Mac IIsi for an expt.  I would like the monitor to sit
>on the Mac case some distance away from the viewer, who uses the
>keyboard.  I would to get an extension cable so the viewer could be
>say 4 metres from the Mac and still be able to use the keyboard.
>Does anyone know where I can get such a thing?
>
>Thanks very much for any help.
>
>Bill Simpson

Hi Bill,

What you need is an ADB extension cable. I'm not sure they're available
anymore. Check with your local stores and mail order houses. If you can't
find one, I might have one to spare (I don't remember exactly how long it
is since I don't have it with me at the moment).

Tony Huang
[e-mail]

P.S. I try to email this message to you directly but it bounced.

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

Date: 14 Dec 1992 13:13:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: Peter Jorgensen - Colgate University
<[e-mail]>
Subject: keyboard question (A)

WD40 or tuner cleaner (available at Radio Shack) are know to have "fixed" keys
that have stopped working. As a last resort, replacing the key-switch isn't
too awfully hard for those of use with a phillips-head screw driver and a
soldering pencil. Larry Pina's book gives excellent directions, and the
switches themselves can be purchased from large electronics supply houses.

The DataDesk Mac 101E keyboard can work with either ADB Macs or the old "phone
jack" style ones. It's a great keyboard!

Peter Jorgensen - Colgate University Research & Instructional Computing Spec.
        - Mac/DOS/VMS consultant, PMDF Postmaster, HyperTalker

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

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 12:20:23 -0600
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Lisp on the mac (A)

>The copy I have is version 2.0, runs on my Plus, and came with a
>documentation file about 60 or so pages long (text).  I'll be
>more than happy to upload it somewhere, if you like (let me know
>where).  The date on the documentation is a couple of years old,
>so there may be a more recent version.  But, like I said, this
>one works great, has the menus, etc.

The version on mac.archive.umich.edu with the stat package included is
version 2.1 of XLISP,
version 2.1 rev 2 of XLISP-STAT. I did a pretty heavy duty search on
Archie, and the latest
version of XLISP by itself for the mac (XLISP is available on all sorts of
platforms) is 2.0.
Does anyone know where to find 2.1? Has it been assembled as a package?

I'd like to see 2.0 uploaded to sumex-aim on info-mac, unless 2.1 exists,
in which case that
would be better.
Bryan Walls
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:35:16 +1000
From: [e-mail] (John Quiggin)
Subject: Macintalk

I threw out my old version of Macintalk when it crashed my Mac II 5 years
(and many Systems) ago. Now it appears I could have got a working
replacement, thanks to Paul Mercer. But I can't find a copy of it anywhere.
Could anyone tell me where to find a copy (or even send me one eg as an
X-attachment to a Eudora msg).
Following an earlier suggestion I downloaded 'If Monks had Macs".
Turbogopher took 2.5 hrs at 2400 baud. There was lots of fascinating stuff
there and some bits that would work with Macintalk, but, as far as I could
tell, no Macintalk.

BBFN
JQ

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

Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 18:37:50 EST
From: [e-mail] (Ken Linger)
Subject: Macintalk Files

Where can I find PD/Shareware programs that use Macintalk and what are they?

Ken Linger
[e-mail]

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

Date: 14 Dec 1992 13:14:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Peter Jorgensen - Colgate University
<[e-mail]>
Subject: Mail for Macintosh new mail notifications (R)

Richard Lim writes:

>So what is the mysterious Pathworks Listener, and how do we sort our
>notifications out?

The PathWorks Listener is an extension. It can be found in the "Examples"
folder of the "PathWorks V1.1" Volume.

Hope this helps

Peter Jorgensen - Colgate University Research & Instructional Computing Spec.
        - Mac/DOS/VMS consultant, PMDF Postmaster, HyperTalker

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

Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 18:06:18 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: mailing lists

I am a developer of macintosh software and I am interested in obtaining
a mailing list of user groups, resellers, and publishers to use in
marketing.  Is it possible to obtain such information on the InterNet.
Any information on how I could obtain such mailing lists (from the
internet or elsewhere) would be greatly appreciated.  I would be most
greteful if someone could send me a list or upload it to the archive.
(If you are uploading a list to the archive, please mail a copy to me
directly so I have it right away)

Thanks in advance,

Terry Koyn

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

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 10:10:44 -0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: OmegaSANE in 7.1 and Apple's policy about FPU's in Macs

>Contrary to my previous posting - OmegaSANE is present in system software 7.1
>but it is not active (on my LCII at least - I suspect this is for
compatibility
>reasons; the LCII doesn't have an FPU socket, so OmegaSANE doesn't activate -
>but I have an FPU card, so this is a Bad Thing ;-).
>So could Apple be trying to discourage people adding FPUs to 'low-end' Macs?
>Or maintaining compatibility? Discuss...

Apple seem to have got the idea that because 90% of applications don't
need an FPU they might sell 90% of Macs without it.  Note the new
powerbooks.
To get an FPU on a Duo, you need to buy the DESKTOP docking box.  Or else
you
have to pay $4000 for a fancy active matrix screen. This when most PC-clone

notebooks have at least a socket for an FPU.

If you need an FPU for even 10% of your work, you NEED an FPU dammit !

I bought a Silicon Graphics Indigo this year.... Does it have a fast FPU ?
You bet !

Alan Hewat, ILL Grenoble, FRANCE ([e-mail]) Fax (France=33).76.48.39.06

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

Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 13:10:14 EST
From: Matthew B Cravit <[e-mail]>
Subject: Partitions

Can anyone help me here?  I would like to create about a 7MB partition on my
PB
100's 40 MB drive to hold System 6.0.8 and THINK C.  Then, when I need more
RAM
to compile something under THINK C, I can use the "Startup Disk" control panel
to set startup to that partition and I then have enough RAM to use THINK C.

Now my problem.  Apple's HD SC setup will not, for some reason allow me to
create more than 1 Macintosh partition on the same drive.

Is what I want to do possible?  If so, are there any shareware utilities out
there that will allow me to make multiple HFS partitions on the same drive?

/Matthew
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:54 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: PBD Molecular Visualiser needed

    We have PBD molecular structure data files, and we are looking for
a commercial OR shareware program for 3D visualization and rotation,
scaling, etc. We would appreciate suggestions and, if possible, sources for
purchase or download.

    Please reply to me, and I will summarize to the net.

Thanks in advance:

Victor Lukas    [e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 11:35:09 PST
From: Data untouched by human hands <[e-mail]>
Subject: PowerPC with Taligent OS vs DEC Alpha with Windows NT

The whole question of Windows NT seems to be shaping up differently than
many of us thought, if I am reading InfoWorld and some other trade
publications correctly. Apparently, vendors are NOT lining up behind
Windows NT on anything other than Intel platforms. It has become very much
wait and see.

Obviously, unless there are dramatic changes, Windows NT will be the next
operating system for Intel machines. However, much to DEC's dismay,
developers are not flocking to the Alpha with Windows NT. The usual
vendors are developing VMS applications for the Alpha, but are not
investing a lot of effort on Windows NT. DEC was hoping Microsoft and
Windows would come to their rescue on the Alpha, but that may not be.

Sources also indicate that Intel may be calling more shots at Microsoft
than people would suspect. Apparently at Fall Comdex, Intel had some sort
of veto power over what and who would show in Microsoft's booth. It would
indeed be to Intel's favor if Windows NT worked well on only their own
microprocessors.

So the answer for Mac users seems to that the great operating system
battle for the PowerPC may never really happen. You need applications to
sell systems, and strong applications for Windows NT may only be available
for Intel machines.

My concern is the apparent neutering of Mac applications coming from
Microsoft. Microsoft is developing for Windows first and the Mac second.
They are developing only enough to stay competitive with other Mac
vendors, while giving Windows products more significantly enhanced
features than the Mac. A lot of us have too much money invested in
Microsoft based office environments to switch over to other vendors.

Saturday's newspaper also had an interesting item. Novell is talking to
Apple about a series of items, one of which is possible merger. Novell is
the current producer of DRDOS, the other operating system for Intel
platforms, and the current networking king. The coming system assult may
not be Microsoft on the Mac, but Apple (or Taligent) on the Intel
machines.

The real loser in all this may well be DEC. They have a great chip in
Alpha with really nowhere to go.

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

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 09:12:06 -0500
From: "Steve Marsh"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: Price Club - available mac stuff

Just an update from my latest Price Club trip - They now have MacInTax for
$42, and The Macintosh Bible book/disk bundle for $27. The PB100's are gone.
Hopefully, they will stock new hardware soon!

- Steve Marsh  "[e-mail]"   ;-)

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

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 00:22:49 EST
From: "Paul D. Bain" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Quicken & System 7.1 Incompatibility (Q)

Has anyone with Quicken 3.0 and System 7.1 had a freeze up?  I am using a
Classic and have had several freeze ups with Quicken when trying to save a
transaction.  I have plenty of ram and Quicken worked like clockwork under
System 7.0 with the tuneups.

    Any remarks before I call the makers of Quicken?  By the way, does
anyone know Intuit's e-mail address?

                        Thanks,
                        Paul D. Bain
                        Gainesville, Florida

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

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 17:30:44 GMT
From: John McKinley <[e-mail]>
Subject: RevRdist off of a local hard disc

Is it possible to make RevRdist update files from a local hard disc rather
than
>From an AppleShare server? I'm running a student computer room, so I want to
be
able to use RevRdist or something similar to help keep the Macs in some sort
of
order, but it is just LocalTalk without a dedicated fileserver. I can,
however,
partition the local hard discs, making one of those read only, though I
realise
that that is less secure.

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

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 15:16:51 ITA
From: maurizio lana <[e-mail]>
Subject: right-to-left WP

I read the message from D. Hanson about right-to-left WP.
I'd like to know more clearly:
1) if it is true that Word 5.1 is able to write from right to left;
2) if Word 5.1 is already sold or if it is planned;
3) what's Worldscript, exactly;
what of this all is already usable with a Systsem 7.
Sorry if I go to the discovery of warm water (so we say in italian!)...
Thank you. Maurizio

MAURIZIO LANA | E-MAIL: [e-mail]  | phone & fax [phone]
CISI - Universita' di Torino - V. S. Ottavio 20 - 10124 Torino Italy

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

Date: 15 Dec 1992 00:16:59 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Dave Flowers)
Subject: Scrambled Quadra Video Follow-up

    When I upgraded my Quadra 700's VRAM, I bought 6 256K VRAMS from
Chip Merchant.  When I installed them and tried running 24-bit color,
applications tended crash, and the computer would not boot in 24-bit color
(perhaps due to innumerable inits :).  I sent the VRAM back and got 6
more from them.  The same thing happended.  I then reinstalled the system, and
everything workded fine (except for some programs which really don't run
under 24-bit color).  This doesn't sound like the other problem, but, who
knows, it might help.

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

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 15:00:03 +0100
From: [e-mail] (J|rn Erik Wennerstr|m)
Subject: Screen inverter

Hello netters.

    I ve been asked to find out if it is possible somehow to invert the
screen on a Mac - in casu a Mac LC.  (Inverting: having the off/black
pixels printed white and  vice versa)
    I ve been nosing around in the archives but have so far been unable
to retrieve anything to that effect - INIT, DA or the like. Could the
helpful person reply directly to me,  I ll then summarize to the net.

Thanks in advance,

Jorn E. Wennerstrom

Assistant Systems Manager.
Faculty of the Humanities.
University of Odense.
Denmark
Venlig hilsen,

J|rn E. Wennerstr|m
                ;-)

lok 2147

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

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 12:56 EST
From: Dr.Peter T. Boag <[e-mail]>
Subject: Screen Text Capture Utility

Does anyone know of a utility that can capture text from an application
such as Word and print it or save it to a file. I am familiar with
graphics based programs such as SnapShot or Flash-It, but I want to catch
text. The immediate application is to grab the address out of a letter and
print it separately for the envelope. Thanks, Peter Boag

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

Date: 14 Dec 1992 11:47:34 +0100 (CET)
From: ALEXEI TSVETKOV <[e-mail]>
Subject: Self-rejoining segmented files

Apologies for not quoting - my current mail facility does not let do
that easily.
Anyway, Richard Lim asks whether it is possible to distribute large
segmented files without the original application. This certainly could
be done with files segmented with Compact Pro, as long as the are
compressed as self-expanding and clearly numbered. I assume any other
application which does .sea and segmenting would also do the trick.

Alexei Tsvetkov
Munich

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

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 17:33 BST
From: RICHARD LIM <[e-mail]>
Subject: Self-rejoining segmented files

A big thank you to the 10 or more people who pointed me at Bill Goodman's
Compact Pro

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

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 12:20:30 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Self-rejoining segmented files (A?)

In IM #294 Richard Lim ([e-mail]) said:

>Are there any utilities out there which will segment a file in such a way
>that the files can be rejoined without the original application being
>present?

Compact Pro can create multi-part self-extracting archives, which do what
you want.  There is very little overhead (13K or so), and they are easy to
use.

Hope this helps

Darin Takemoto
[e-mail]

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

Date: 15 Dec 92 11:23:31 GMT-1200
From: [e-mail]
Subject: SE upgrade

I apologize if this is a faq or has recently been discussed (i don't
get much chance to read infomac, so i'm not aware what's been
discussed and what hasn't).

I want to upgrade my old SE, mainly in terms of ram, since i find 4
mb woefully inadequate for my purposes. A recent MacUser article
listed several vendors who make 68030 accelerator boards, and I'm
looking for information which will help me choose among them. If
anyone has any experience, negative or positive, with any of the
following, I'd appreciate hearing your experience, and the pros and
cons of the board you've used. They are: Applied Engineering, DayStar
Digital, Extreme Systems, Fusion Data Systems, MicroMac, NewLife,
Novy and Total Systems. Please send your responses directly to me at
[e-mail] or [e-mail]. If there is
interest, I will summarize for the net.

Thanks,
Fay Wouk
Fay Wouk
Dept. of Anthropology, University of Auckland
[e-mail], [e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 00:51:51 MEZ
From: Patrick Maun <[e-mail]>
Subject: Stylewriter vs. HP Deskwriter

Hello all,

   Could some kind soul enlighten me on the differences (read: which is a
better buy) between the Apple Stylewriter and the HP Deskwriter. I have
heard rumor that Apple is bringing a new low-end printer out. Is there any
truth to this? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Patrick Maun
Hochschule fuer Angewandte Kunst
Vienna, Austria
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 13:10:55 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Dr. C.K. Farn)
Subject: Sumex mirrors

Someone recommended:
130.235.20.3 (in Sweden)
130.149.17.7 (in Germany)

There is another mirror in the Far East, National Central University,
Taiwan, synchronized weekly:

imftp.mgt.ncu.edu.tw[140.115.83.90]:/mac/sumex

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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 15:20:28 ITA
From: maurizio lana <[e-mail]>
Subject: switching between fax and answering machine

Sorry for this question a bit 'hardwaristical'.
Has anyone experience of those little box that connect to the phone line,
and are able to appropriately switch fax calls to the local fax, and voice
calls to the answering machine and the telephone (so that if I am there, I can
answer the voice call, or if I am away the answering machine records the
message)?
I saw a small ad in Byte, perhaps, or Macuser, but don't recall anymore;
I'd like to know if they really work, and how much do they cost.
Thank you.
Maurizio

MAURIZIO LANA | E-MAIL: [e-mail]  | phone & fax [phone]
CISI - Universita' di Torino - V. S. Ottavio 20 - 10124 Torino Italy

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Date: 14 Dec 1992 16:28:19 -0700 (MST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: video out from a mac

Hi my friend needs help!
He wants to record an animation on his mac
to vhs video tape.  I want to help him but
I don't know much about this subject.

He has a Quadra (no kidding :D) and a Video Spigot
card.  He says that the Video Spigot has port for
audio in and out and video in, but no video out.

He says that he wants at least vhs quality output.

Does anyone know which products offer this feature?
Or of related articles in MacUser?

Thanks in advance for any help,
Nohl Lyons
University of Arizona

Please send responses to:
[e-mail]

thanks again, you guys (not a sexist remark) realy know your stuff.

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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 12:15:02 MDT
From: Roger Marks <[e-mail]>
Subject: What does ARNS do?

My local network administrator (Unix but not Mac fluent) and I (a
run-of-the-mill Mac user) have together been unable to make much sense out of
the documentation that accompanies CAP and ARNS. Can someone answer a few
simple questions in English?

The scenario: my Mac is connected to a Sun Unix system via Ethernet. I use
MacTCP and a SCSI Ethernet box to communicate with the outside world. What I
want is to be able to use the Sun's hard drive as a Finder-mountable volume.
It
would be nice if I could also easily access the LaserWriter hanging off the
Sun, but this is a secondary issue.

Believe it or not, the CAP documentation does not clearly explain whether or
not CAP serves these functions. CAP's installation instructions are also
extraordinarily difficult to understand. We've essentially given up any hope
of
using it.

On the other hand, I've recently discovered ARNS, which seems to be much
simpler and easier to install. But I'm still not certain that it will do what
I
want. Can someone tell me if it will? Does CAP do the same things? Is ARNS
easy
to install and use? Does CAP have any advantages over ARNS for a pure Ethernet
user (i.e., one without a LocalTalk/Ethernet bridge)?

Thanks, and once again: English preferred.

Roger
[e-mail]    NIST/Boulder,CO

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Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 00:01:03 PST
From: Neil Crellin <[e-mail]>
Subject: Where to find MacWorks+ for Lisa ? (Q)

A friend of mine just got a Lisa working again and wants to run as
up-to-date a system on it as possible. He has MacWorks and is able
to run System 3.2 (and Word 3.01!), but wants MacWorks+ which he believes
will let him run System 6. Will this work, and where on earth can one
obtain such software relics these days? Any tips will be much
appreciated.

-Neil Crellin, Statistics & Residential Computing, Stanford U., CA, USA.

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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 17:23:04 EST
From: MG John Fryer <[e-mail]>
Subject: Why Won't Edit II Launch?

  My Powerbook 170 "hung up" the other day while I was changing the layout
  in FileMaker PRO 2.0. I had no choice but to restart. Unfortunately, my
  hard disk no longer showed up on my desktop after restart, and I couldn't
  get SCSI Probe, Silverlining, Norton Utilities or any other aid program
  to recognize that the disk was there. With SCSI probe I did get feedback
  that "the SCSI bus is not terminated. " On a hunch, I hooked up my Caere
  Typist to the SCSI port and "viola, " the disk showed up. At that point I
  was able to run Norton Utilities and, to be safe, rebuild the System.

  At this point everything seemed to be fine. Most of my programs seem to
  be functioning normally. However, when I open Edit II, it quits and says
  it's because of a "Type 1" error. Suspecting that somehow the program got
  corrupted in the crash, I obtained another copy and it did the same. I
  was nearly convinced that this program was better than sliced bread and
  that I would send the author his shareware fee--but now I'm concerned.
  Anyone have any ideas?

  Thanks.

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Date: 13 Dec 92 21:07:00 CST
From: "Eugene Cohen" <[e-mail]>
Subject: ZModem for VAX

Problem:
Transporting files from a VAX to a MAC.

Current solution:
Using the kermit protocol (Yuck!) with 2048 byte packets.

What I want:
A compiled version of ZModem for VMS systems.

Can anyone point me in the right direction to find this?
Mucho thanks.

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Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 14:21:15 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Benjamin J. Turner)

Subject: SpeedyFinder & SpaceSaver
To: [e-mail],
    [e-mail] (Info-Mac Submission)
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 14:21:15 PST
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]

    Upon reading about Mr. Porter's problems with SpaceSaver and use
of SpeedyFinder, I thought I'd offer up something I've noted about
SpeedyFinder. If I choose the sixth item in any Finder menu (aside
>From the Apple Menu, which is another story entirely, I think), the
Finder does a 'Get Info' command, which is, incidentally, the sixth
item in the File menu. Hmmm. Choosing View by label doesn't work
correctly, nor does the fourth label in my list, nor does Clear in the
Edit Menu (the Special menu's sixth item is a grey bar). I turned off
SpeedyFinder and rebooted, finding that these menu items all worked
correctly. Have other people experienced this problem? I'm not
entirely sure that SpeedyFinder alone is causing this, but it makes me
wonder. I like SpeedyFinder enough to keep it despite this
inconvenience, but this seems like something that could be fixed.

        Benjamin John Turne

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Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 23:53:48 EST
From: [e-mail]

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest
Path: news
From: [e-mail] (Robert Berger)
Subject: Omega SANE and math programs
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Sender: [e-mail] (Usenet News System)
Nntp-Posting-Host: alexander.vi.ri.cmu.edu
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 04:51:58 GMT
Lines: 21

> Anyone see the benchmarks between System 7.0.1 (with Omega SANE
> patch) and 7.1 (without the patch) in the latest TidBITS??  Pretty
> big slowdown on those math functions, huh?  Well, I use a high-end
> math package (Mathematica) for a lot of my work, and I'm getting a
> IIvx, which only runs System 7.1.  Thus, I'm kind of resigned to a
> slowdown.

Many math programs detect if an FPU is present, and use Motorola
FPU instructions directly if it is there.

Such a program would not be slowed down by the lack of Omega SANE.

Excel is such a program; I don't know about Mathematica.

The Speedometer MATH rating uses SANE, and is therefor slower
under 7.1.

The Speedometer FPU benchmarks use the FPU hardware directly, so they
are not slowed by 7.1.

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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 00:00:58 PST
From: backmod (Backup Moderator)

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Subject: AIEEE! The tax man cometh!
To: [e-mail]
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(To the tune of Christmas is Coming...)
"Tax time is coming...  The IRS is getting fat..."

How would you like to reduce your income tax payment or increase your
refund by getting rid of something that you no longer use?  Most people
realize that cash donations to non-profit organizations are tax deductible,
and can reduce taxes.  What most people don't realize is that donations of
new or used equipment are also tax-deductible!

Have you computed out what your 1992 income tax will be?  If not, you might
want to do so (or have your accountant do it for you).  Then play around
with the figures and see what kind of a deduction you need to lower your
taxes.  Once you've figured this out, you can donate the appropriate amount
to a non-profit organization of your choice.  Or...  Remember that old
80286 computer that you haven't used since you got the new 80486?  Or that
old 2400 baud modem that nobody wanted to buy?  You can donate these items
to a non-profit organization, and deduct the value of the items on your tax
return!  Just remember, these items have to be donated before January 1,
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Greater Europe Mission is a non-profit evangelical Christian mission*.  We
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Schools, and we are rapidly becoming more involved in several former
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write to the address at the bottom of this message.

We can use your computer equipment.  If you have new or used computer
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you might be interested in donating to Greater Europe Mission for a tax
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if you like - just make a notation to that effect), please send it to the
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Thank you so much, and may God bless you and your family in this time of
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      - Paul Waterman                                         _
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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 09:25:30 +0000
From: James Thomson <[e-mail]>

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest
Path: thomsonj
From: [e-mail] (James Thomson)
Subject: Re: OmegaSANE in 7.1 - IT LIVES!!!
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Organization: Glasgow University Computing Science Dept.
References: <[e-mail]>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 09:25:21 GMT
Lines: 19

Well, almost....

Okay, in my initial amazement at getting OmegaSANE running under 7.1 I
neglected to check a few of the details. Don't get me wrong, I still have
got OmegaSANE running under 7.1; the bottom line is still the same!

However, OmegaSANE is not naturally present in the 7.1 System - unless of
course like me, you installed 7.1 on top of 7.0.1. As well as preserving
your Fonts, Sounds and Desktop Pattern, it seems the 7.1 Installer also
preserves OmegaSANE.

So when I opened up 7.1 with ResEdit after installing it and found the
OmegaSANE resources I guess I made a wee assumption... Sorry! Cold fusion
anyone?

However, it *does* appear to work. I will investigate further and post again
when I am sure of all the details.

James Thomson - [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 23:29:36 HKT
From: [e-mail]

TO: Info Mac     (INFOMAC)
FR: Patrick Kwok (R12563)
DA: 14 Dec 92 at 23:26:41


RE: Racel InterLan EtherTalk driver

Do anyone know where can I find the Racel InterLan EtherTalk card
for Macintosh driver?

Regards,
PatrickKwok
[e-mail]

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