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- Info-Mac Digest Tue, 12 Jan 93 Volume 11 : Issue 8
-
- Today's Topics:
-
- [*] 1.4M Music upload
- [*] 1.5M Music upload
- [*] AliasBoss 2.03
- [*] Digest Browser v1.6
- [*] Fraction Fonts v2.0 (PS Type 1)
- [*] info-mac/card/x/windowsmenu.hqx
- [*] Lazy, a program for calculations of crystal powder patterns
- [*] lazy-scheme-1.4.hqx
- [*] Locutus of Borg Sounds
- [*] Radius Math v1.5
- [*] SAM Virus Defs 1/6/93
- [*] Send Script 1.0d6 (BBEdit 2.2 Extension)
- [*] SpaceSaver 1.0.2 -> 1.0.3
- [*] StuffIt Deluxe 3.0.3->3.0.4
- [*] Stuffit Lite Version 3.0.4
- [*] SuperATM press release
- [*] verausser.hqx
- "PowerBook" Desk Accessory under 7.1
- 128K software needed
- About LaserWriter Pro 630 Fonts:
- ALDUS PageMaker 5.0 demo
- Appleshare Optimization?
- Appletalk Remote Access
- AppMaker Update Needed
- Background mirroring program?
- Balloon Help killer, CompuServe address
- CD-ROM Publicist
- changing HD icons
- Columnbo
- Cricket Graph not "languishing" under CA
- Curve fitting programs (2 msgs)
- Database Transition from DBase
- Desktop Pictures (A)
- Deskwriter Quality!!
- Disinfectant (error -43) (*Q)
- Disinfectant and error -43
- Displaying fonts in the font menu-Word
- Does memory help in Personal Laserwriter LS? (Q)
- Eudora a mail security risk?
- FileMaker Pro List(s)???
- Fraudulent e-mail (A)
- Fraudulent e-mail, dissausion from sending
- Fraudulent e-mail, dissausion from sending (C)
- FUNNIES: Apple macs,the lastest development (C)
- GrayShare on StyleWriter (C)
- Hard drive won't mount
- How do I join together a large number of small text files ? [A]
- HP scanjet IIC
- Is the PB 160 a 32-bit machine?
- JFK Stack whereabouts (Q)
- KanjiTalk/FPUs
- Mac Binary to Appledouble
- MacTCP connection tool failure (Q)
- Making Business Cards (A
- Making business cards on a Macintosh (A)
- Malaysian mice-what are their serial numbers
- more stuff
- Motorola price cuts
- music downloads
- Music Organizer by Michael Perry ?
- Norton for Mac vs? SUM
- Opening PageMaker 2 files i
- PB100 batteries (Q)
- PhotoCD (2 msgs)
- Postscript books
- Postscript to bitmaps
- Powerbook startup sound
- Presentation Software
- Prices on '030 accelerators continue to fall
- Project Gutenberg?
- Question about Inside Macintosh books (A)
- Quidnunc (A)
- SE->SE/30 Upgrade
- Search & replace for large text files
- Slow hard disk with system 7 SOLVED
- Spacesaver and Optimization (Q)
- Teleport modems and PB160s
- Teleport modems and powerbooks (A)
- TimesTwo
- Turbo Gopher questions...
- VAX <=> zmodem <=> Mac <=>
- vmarc
- Where to find Resorcerer?
- Why does my hard drive spin
-
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-
- Date: 03 Jan 1993 19:39:17 -0500
- From: woodruff@Butler.EDU
- Subject: [*] 1.4M Music upload
-
- The following binhexed file is a 2 minute "floppy excerpt" of music created
- in a Mac
- based studio. After unbinhexing and uncompacting, the file will play
- through your
- Mac's speaker by double-clicking under System 7. The 2 minute playable
- sound file
- fits on a 1.3M HD floppy disk. This file is the second in a series of
- floppy excerpts
- covering a wide variety of avant-garde material.
-
- The copyright owner is uploading this as freeware. Please freely distribute.
-
- The binary file may be included on the commerically available CD-ROM of the
- archives.
-
- Charles Shriner Composition & Sound Design Studio
- 5249 Crittenden Avenue, Indianapolis, IN 46220
- 317.254.0739
- e-mail: Woodruff@Butler.edu
-
- [Archived as /info-mac/sound/avante-garde-music-2.hqx; 1522K]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 03 Jan 1993 19:27:58 -0500
- From: woodruff@Butler.EDU
- Subject: [*] 1.5M Music upload
-
- The following binhexed file is a 2 minute "floppy excerpt" of music created
- in a Mac
- based studio. After unbinhexing and uncompacting, the file will play
- through your
- Mac's speaker by double-clicking under System 7. The 2 minute playable
- sound file
- fits on a 1.3M HD floppy disk. This file is the first in a series of floppy
- excerpts
- covering a wide variety of avant-garde material.
-
- The copyright owner is uploading this as freeware. Please freely distribute.
-
- The binary file may be included on the commerically available CD-ROM of the
- archives.
-
- Charles Shriner Composition & Sound Design Studio
- 5249 Crittenden Avenue, Indianapolis, IN 46220
- 317.254.0739
- e-mail: Woodruff@Butler.edu
-
- [Archived as /info-mac/sound/avante-garde-music-1.hqx; 1442K]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 12 Jan 1993 09:42:26 -0500
- From: Pete Roberts <proberts@draper.com>
- Subject: [*] AliasBoss 2.03
-
- AliasBoss is a shareware alias manager. Version 2.03 fixes a problem with
- pop-up menus. Downloaded from GEnie.
-
- [Archived as /info-mac/util/alias-boss-203.hqx; 84K]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 09:59:53 EST
- From: perez@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Manuel A. Perez)
- Subject: [*] Digest Browser v1.6
-
- This is a new version of the Digest Browser. It has been updated to
- fix a few errors, and to add some of the most requested features.
- Keep your suggestions and ideas coming.
-
- Digest Browser is a Mac application that reads Info-Mac
- digests. It displays a window with two panes, the top pane
- contains an index to the digest, the bottom shows the message
- selected in the index. I have used it also to read saved EMail
- messages, and other digests (for example csmp, vaporware).
-
- Most significant new features:
- (+) Added a Mark Item command. You can now mark (or tag) items in the
- display panel. Marked items can then be saved to a separate file.
- (+) Drag and Drop works.
- (+) It now requires System 7.0. Let me know if this is an inconvenience,
- and I will make the appropriate changes.
- (+) See the ReadMe file in the package for more details.
-
- There are still a few bugs, but none of them make the program unsuable.
- Hope you have fun using this program. As before, this is a freeware, but
- it is copyrighted by myself. Portions of the program are copyright of
- others. You may distribute this program for free. May NOT be distributed
- for money (profit or non-profit), except in the InfoMac CD-ROM. Distribute
- application, source code and documentation all together.
-
- Manuel A. Perez EMail: perezM@aol.com (America Online)
-
- [Archived as /info-mac/app/digest-browser-16.hqx; 178K]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 22:58:16 -0500
- From: tonyh@lynx.msc.cornell.edu (Tony Huang)
- Subject: [*] Fraction Fonts v2.0 (PS Type 1)
-
- Here is a collection of true fractions that matches some of the most
- popular fonts. It's in the PostScript Type 1 format and has build-in
- kerning controls. It's downloaded from the Adobe Forum on CompuServe.
-
- Tony Huang
- tonyh@msc.cornell.edu
-
- [Archived as /info-mac/font/fraction-font-ps-20.hqx; 184K]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 14:34 +1300
- From: "Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University, Hamilton, NZ"
- <LDO@waikato.ac.nz>
- Subject: [*] info-mac/card/x/windowsmenu.hqx
-
- Here's a utility XCMD to allow convenient access to multiple simultaneously-
- open windows from HyperCard.
-
- Lawrence D'Oliveiro
- Computer Services Dept
- University of Waikato
- Hamilton
- New Zealand
- ldo@waikato.ac.nz
-
- [Archived as /info-mac/card/x/windows-menu.hqx; 10K]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 14:17:01 -0100
- From: hewat@ill.fr
- Subject: [*] Lazy, a program for calculations of crystal powder patterns
-
- Lazy calculates crystallographic powder diffraction patterns
- for X-ray, synchrotron and neutron radiations. It can be
- used either as a teaching or research tool to investigate the
- effect of structural changes. This demo version is not time
- limited, and is fully functional except that it calculates
- only for large d-spacings. The full version is marketed by
- the University of Geneva.
-
- Lazy is derived from the main-frame programme 'Lazy-Pulverix',
- but the Mac interface makes it very easy to set up the data
- and plot the results. Simply point to the crystal symmetry,
- and select from the list that unfolds. Then point to one of
- the proposed space groups, point to the radiation, the diffr-
- action technique etc. The only thing you need to type is the
- atom co-ordinates. You can even avoid that if you construct
- a library of your favourite structures. Then you simply
- select one from the data window to call up the co-ordinates,
- which you can edit to create a new structure. The plot output,
- with all of the reflexions labelled, can be resized, cut and
- pasted between applications, saved as a PICT file, and printed
- to high resolution laser or color printers.
-
- Lazy will work on any Macintosh computer with an FPU running
- system 6 or 7 with at least 2Megs of memory and a hard disk.
-
- [Archived as /info-mac/demo/lazy.hqx; 774K]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 14:20:39 +0100
- From: schiex@thalassa.cert.fr (Thomas Schiex)
- Subject: [*] lazy-scheme-1.4.hqx
-
- This is rel. 1.4 of Help. Help now works correctly under System 7 (thanks
- to Steven Mattan for the help in the bug hunting). The archive presentation
- has been improved, some (previously fake) menu items now work and various
- ResEdit files are given for Help customization (from lazy to strict, English
- to French...)
-
- Help is a complete and efficient Scheme-like functionnal lazy Lisp
- interpreter. It works only on 68020 (or more) based Macintoshs. It has a
- 'friendly' interface (parenthesis matcher, auto-indent), uses a full
- call-by-need semantics and includes many examples, including a symbolic
- compiler for the 680x0. Efficiency is good (fib 20 in 5.4" on a 68030/25Mhz
- emulated Mac, 1.15" compiled... but compilation is impossible for the vulgum
- pecus), bugs are few, if any (it has been intensively used by a friend of
- mine), and lazyness is fully parametrable (you main turn Help into a strict
- Scheme-like language if you like). French AND English updated docs included
- in Word4 and plain text formats.
-
- Thomas SCHIEX (schiex@cert.fr, schiex@irit.fr)
-
-
- [Archived as /info-mac/lang/lazy-scheme-14.hqx; 350K]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 11:23:50 EST
- From: Michael Fulmer <mfulmer@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Subject: [*] Locutus of Borg Sounds
-
- The 2-hour premiere of Deep Space Nine included new scenes of the Federation
- getting blown away by the Borg. Captain Pickard was again shown as Locutus,
- directing the Borg attack. With this in mind, here then are two sounds from
- Star Trek: The Next Generation of Locutus of Borg. They are normal sfil
- format,
- recorded at 11KHz, and contained in a self-extracting archive. Resistance is
- futile.
-
- Make it so.
- Michael Fulmer
- mfulmer@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
- --------------------------------
-
- [Archived as /info-mac/sound/locutus.hqx; 336K]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 23:22:03 -0500
- From: tonyh@lynx.msc.cornell.edu (Tony Huang)
- Subject: [*] Radius Math v1.5
-
- Radius Math (version 1.5) is a system extension that substantially enhances
- the performance of floating point calcuation if your Mac is equipped with
- an FPU. It accomplishes this by rerouting SANE calls to the FPU. In my
- limited testing, it outperforms Apple Omega SANE and two other SANE patches
- that I have. It's downloaded from American Online.
-
- Tony Huang
- tonyh@msc.cornell.edu
-
- [Archived as /info-mac/ex/radius-math-15.hqx; 8K]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 12 Jan 1993 09:42:16 -0500
- From: Pete Roberts <proberts@draper.com>
- Subject: [*] SAM Virus Defs 1/6/93
-
- SAM Virus Definitions file for SAM 3.0.x and 3.5. Includes CPro Trojan
- Horse.
- Downloaded from GEnie.
-
- [Archived as /info-mac/virus/sam-virus-defs-0193.hqx; 21K]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 93 21:08:46 EST
- From: edw@distant.uucp (Ed Watkeys)
- Subject: [*] Send Script 1.0d6 (BBEdit 2.2 Extension)
-
- This file contains a SD 3.0.3 archive with version 1.0d6 of Send Script,
- a BBEdit Extension which allows you to send scripts to Apple event-aware
- applications which understand the do-script event.
-
- 1.0d6 now checks to make sure that the script is not too long, and will
- tell the user if it is. It will also now properly send scripts when
- there is no selection. I realized that it didn't work at all after I
- mailed 1.0d5 out. The source is now a bit cleaner looking, more error
- checking is done, and fixed some things which might result in a crash
- on rare occassions.
-
- Send Script requires version 2.2 or later of BBEdit.
-
- Ed
-
- [Archived as /info-mac/app/bbedit-send-script-10d6.hqx; 10K]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 12 Jan 1993 09:44:20 -0500
- From: Pete Roberts <proberts@draper.com>
- Subject: [*] SpaceSaver 1.0.2 -> 1.0.3
-
- Updates StuffIt SpaceSaver and related files from version 1.0.2 -> 1.0.3.
- Will
- NOT work on versions other than 1.0.2. Aladdin recommends updating to this
- version. Downloaded from GEnie.
-
- [Archived as /info-mac/util/stuffit-spacesaver-103-updater.hqx; 178K]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 12 Jan 1993 09:41:54 -0500
- From: Pete Roberts <proberts@draper.com>
- Subject: [*] StuffIt Deluxe 3.0.3->3.0.4
-
- Updates StuffIt Deluxe application version 3.0.3 to version 3.0.4. Will not
- work on versions other than 3.0.3. Repairs various problems. Aladdin
- recommends updating to this version. Downloaded from GEnie. SpaceSaver
- update
- is NOT included in this file but is provided separately.
-
- [Archived as /info-mac/util/stuffit-deluxe-304-updater.hqx; 248K]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 10:26:07 PDT
- From: Morris Balamut <balamut@morris.hac.com>
- Subject: [*] Stuffit Lite Version 3.0.4
-
- Here is the latest version of Stuffit Lite directly from Aladdin Systems
- at MacWorld.
-
- It is a binhexed self-extracting achive. The following is from the
- file "What's New in Lite 3.0.4".
-
-
- StuffIt Lite 3.0.4 Version Notes
-
- Remember to register your shareware!
-
- StuffIt Deluxe 3.0.4 application
- ============================
- Various Improvements And Fixes
-
-
- StuffIt Lite 3.0.3 application
- ==========================
- Auto-Segmenting Archives (Including Self-Extracting Archives)
- You can now create an archive (or Self-Extracting archive) which spans
- multiple disks. Begin by creating an archive as normal. Then, with the archive
- open within the StuffIt application, choose Save As from the File menu and
- optionally click the Self-Extracting check box. Select (or insert) the disk
- to save the first segment onto and click Save. If the archive can not fit on
- this first destination disk, you will be prompted for additional disks until
- the archive is completely saved.
-
- Small Icon Preference
- A new preference has been added which will cause StuffIt to display
- the
- small icon (including color ones) for any item instead of generic ones. The
- small icons that StuffIt uses are the same ones that the Finder displays.
-
- Compression Updating
- When copying or moving a file from an older archive into a 3.0
- archive,
- you will be given the option of having the file recompressed using the
- powerful
- 3.0 compression method to save more space. Remember that you must be
- registered
- to open more than one archive.
-
- Support For System 7.1 And WorldScript
- StuffIt now supports improved handling of non-roman based languages,
- including asian (Japanese, Chinese, etc.) text. Inline input of asian
- languages
- is now supported. Version 3.0.3 also provides better handling of all
- international characters within file names.
-
- New Apple Events For Automating StuffIt
- New Apple events include Copy/Move, Get/Set Label, Convert 1.5.1, Cut,
- Copy, Paste, and Clear. These Apple events become active only after youre a
- registered user of StuffIt Lite. A revised Userland Frontier 2.0 install file
- including updated DocServer text, is available to help you with these new
- events.
-
- Faster Compression Speeds
- Compression of files is up to 10% faster than earlier 3.0.X versions.
-
- Other Various Improvements And Fixes
-
- [Archived as /info-mac/util/stuffit-lite-304.hqx; 618K]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 23:49:42 -0500
- From: tonyh@lynx.msc.cornell.edu (Tony Huang)
- Subject: [*] SuperATM press release
-
- Adobe SuperATM is now shipping and for registered ATM owners the upgrade
- fee is $49 directly from Adobe (for comparison, MacConnection sells it for
- $89). It includes lots of goodies (Adobe Type Reunion, Adobe Type On Call
- CD-ROM, two multiple master fonts and five other fonts). In case you
- wonder, the two multiple master fonts are NOT the Minion or Myriad multiple
- master fonts - which you still have to pay (dearly!).
-
- This press release was downloaded from Adobe Forum on CompurServe.
-
- Tony Huang
- tonyh@msc.cornell.edu
- Adobe Announces SuperATM Revolutionary Font Substitution Software
-
- [Archived as /info-mac/report/super-atm-pr.txt; 7K]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 02:03:59 -0800
- From: tbridgwa@nike.calpoly.edu (Tom Bridgwater)
- Subject: [*] verausser.hqx
-
- Verausser is a control panel which does not have the resources
- to do anything on it's own, rather it adds functionality to the
- "Options..." dialog of the Monitors control panel by allowing you
- to disable the Built-in display. At this time it works ONLY with
- the PowerBook.
- Disabling the LCD screen will allow you to use your PowerBook as
- if it is a desktop computer without windows getting "lost" on the
- LCD screen. Attach a low power ADB keyboard and a low power mouse
- and you can push the CPU to the corner of your desk (or under the
- monitor stand of your computer station).
-
- This file fits best in "Control Panels" and/or "PowerBook" directories.
- It may be included in all distributions of share/freeware.
-
- [Archived as /info-mac/cp/verausser.hqx; 16K]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 12 Jan 1993 12:59:43 -0400 (EDT)
- From: AL BEST <BEST@Gems.VCU.EDU>
- Subject: "PowerBook" Desk Accessory under 7.1
-
- System 7.0 had a DA called "Sleep" (I think) that controlled
- when your hard disk or CPU went to sleep in the PowerBooks.
-
- The new "PowerBook" DA has 4 settings from "maximum performance"
- on one end to "maximum conservation" on the other. The documentation
- that came with my 7.1 upgrade was silent on this DA (and my original
- PB140 documentation had the old DA).
-
- So, how do the settings work? What controls disk spin down? What
- controls CPU slowness? What other stuff does it control?
- How do I decide what is best for me?
-
- Thanks in advance, Al Best
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 10:47:05 PST
- From: Larry <0084P%NAVPGS.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
- Subject: 128K software needed
-
- A month or two ago, I asked this list if anyone had a copy of MacWrite
- 5.0, since it runs on a 512 with no hard disk. Two good people responded
- with disks and manuals (you know who you are!) Now our little elementary
- school has been given a perfectly functional 128K machine (remember
- them?) because she can't get software anymore. But she doesn't have
- access to you good people. And we're a school. We've gotta use whatever
- we can get. Does anybody have software that teaches grade school kids
- how to type, making it kind of fun? I'm assuming, like MWrite 5.0, that
- it would be an early version no longer offered for sale, and thus you
- can give me a copy (or give me a no longer used set) without violating
- intelectual property law. I'm glad to pay postage (I don't have a Mac
- connected to the Net.) Thanks for reading this far, and thanks to those
- who respond!
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:57:54 GMT
- From: umrb021@cc.ic.ac.uk (SIMON FRASER)
- Subject: About LaserWriter Pro 630 Fonts:
-
- About LaserWriter Pro 630 Fonts:
-
- >Does any one know exactly _which_ 28 fonts are included with the recently-
- >announced LaserWriter Pro 630 printer?
- >No assumptions or hypotheses, please.
-
- Quoting from Apple's tech notes on the LaserWriter Pro 600/630...
-
- "As with all of Apple's PostScript printers in this time frame, the
- LaserWriter Pro 600/630 printers will ship with the Apple Font Library.
- 64 fonts in TrueType format comprise the Apple Font Library. The 35
- fonts that have historically been in ROM on Apple's Postscript printers
- will also be in ROM as well as provided on disk. The remaining 29
- fonts will only be shipped on disk. The table below shows which
- fonts are in ROM and which are only provided on disk.
-
-
- ROM & Disk Disk only
- ---------- ---------
- Avant Garde (4 styles) Chicago
- Bookman (4 styles) Delphian
- Courier (4 styles) Garamond Narrow (4 styles)
- Helvetica (4 styles) Geneva
- Helvetica Narrow (4 styles) Helvetica Black (4 styles)
- New Centuary Schoolbook (4 styles) Helvetica Compressed (2 styles)
- Palatino (4 styles) Lubalin Graph (4 styles)
- Symbol Lucida Bright (4 styles)
- Times (4 styles) Machine
- Zapf Chancery Monaco
- Zapf Dingbats Nadienne (2 styles)
- New York
- Old English Text
- Onyx
- Oxford
- Swing
- Zeal"
- Earlier on in the document...
- "TrueType and Type 1 fonts are supported in ROM."
-
- Hope this gives a satisfacory assumption-free answer.
-
- Simon Fraser, Imperial College at Silwood Park
- Ascot, Berkshire, England. (UMRB021@uk.ac.ic.cc.vaxa)
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:53:42 GMT
- From: parkyn@sfu.ca (Dale Parkyn)
- Subject: ALDUS PageMaker 5.0 demo
-
- >(Just my opinion)
- >
- >I was disappointed in this demo. It impressed more for the work
- >put into the MacroMind Director 3.1 presentation than for the
- >information about PageMaker 5.0 for Mac. I still will likely
- >ugrade though.
- >
- >I realize that it would be difficult to send a 'crippled' version
- >of PageMaker 5.0 as a demo, but that is what I was hoping for.
- >(Similar to other crippled software demo, ClarisWorks for example.
- >ClarisWorks, decompressed, was still only 50% the size of the
- >PageMaker 5.0 'commercial' demo.)
- >
- >I am now interested in how easily Director 3.1 creates interactive
- >presentations.
- >
- >Dale
- >parkyn@sfu.ca
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 11 Jan 1993 15:57:10 -0700 (MST)
- From: James Fish <ISTJWF@asuvm.inre.asu.edu>
- Subject: Appleshare Optimization?
-
- Does anyone know of a way to "optimize" Appleshare to get any
- type of performance improvement from it? I'm working with an Appleshare
- 2.0 system running on a Mac SE30 with 10-15 workstations accessing it
- via Ethernet. This server is scheduled to be replaced by a Novell
- Netware system running Netware for Macintosh primarily for its performance.
- Until this happens, we would like to tweak the Appleshare system as much
- as possible to get any kind of performance increases from it.
-
- Any help would be much appreciated!
-
- James W. Fish
- Student Information Systems
- Arizona State University
- istjwf@asuacad.bitnet
- istjwf@asuvm.inre.asu.edu
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:45 CST
- From: Carlos Aramburo <CHARLY@UDLAPVMS.PUE.UDLAP.MX>
- Subject: Appletalk Remote Access
-
- Hi Friends: We have a local network of macintoshes and we can make a
- remote connection using a modem (on the other part there is a lanrover device
- >From shiva which give us connection with the global network including all
- zones) but the problem is that people connected to the local network can not
- see all zones, they can only see users and services from the local network
- but not all remote zones. What can i do ? Do you know some public domain
- software which can resolve my problem ? If you know something about that
- tell me please ... Thank's in advance ...
-
- Carlos Aramburo e-mail : charly@udlapvms.pue.udlap.mx
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 12 Jan 1993 13:00:08 -0500
- From: "Scott Bresnahan" <scott_bresnahan@terc.edu>
- Subject: AppMaker Update Needed
-
- AppMaker Update Needed
-
-
- If anyone has the latest AppMaker updater,
- (version 1.5.2 I believe), or knows where
- to ftp it from, it would be most helpful!
-
- Thanks.
-
- --Scott Bresnahan
- TERC
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 13:24:55 PST
- From: "Phillip Broussard" <broussard@anvil.nrl.navy.mil>
- Subject: Background mirroring program?
-
- Netters,
-
- I have a user who is interested in a program/extension that you can configure
- to
- monitor a folder, for instance, and continually make a mirror image of it on
- another hard drive/partition when you say save a new file or modify an
- existing
- one. Has anyone heard of a program that does this?
-
- Thanks for your help! Phill Broussard
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 08:52:20 -0600
- From: andyr@rdr.chem.niu.edu (Andy Rollins)
- Subject: Balloon Help killer, CompuServe address
-
- Hey all,
-
- Anyone know of a utility that disables Balloon Help? A friend of mine is the
- Administrator of a couple of Mac labs at the high school where my wife
- teaches,
- and they're running systems 6.0.7 and 7.0.1. He wants to disable Balloon Help
- in order to make all the machines more consistent.
- I'll post a summary if there's enough response. Also, I'm trying to send mail
- to Bob Levitus on CompuServe from the InterNet, only I don't remember the
- "machine" name. I know I could just page through old 'Digests, but this would
- be faster. Thanks _Extremely_ much for your time!
-
- Andy
-
-
- andyr@rdr.chem.niu.edu or | Life is too important to be
- T40ANR1@NIU.BITNET or | taken seriously.
- t40anr1@mp.cs.niu.edu | -Oscar Wilde
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 13:53:49 +0100
- From: zabin@rz-berlin.mpg.de
- Subject: CD-ROM Publicist
-
- I will soon be starting a project to produce CD-ROM versions of scientific
- (reference and text) books. Is there any interest out there in starting a
- net-group concerned with CD-ROM publicication, where we could exchange
- ideas and experiences?
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 20:09:27 PST
- From: jbthoo@ucdavis.edu (John Thoo)
- Subject: changing HD icons
-
-
- On 9 Jan 93 tomj@pnet16.cts.com (Tom Jenkins) said:
- % Is there some sort of program that changes the HD icon? I've an external
- % drive that I'd like to change the icon on.
-
- Get [./app/visage-101.hqx]. That should do the trick.
-
- --John. <jb2@math.ucdavis.edu>
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 14:41:42 EST
- From: Clare Durst <CCD@BROWNVM.brown.edu>
- Subject: Columnbo
-
- I suddenly had need of a util that would take a fixed-format text file
- (from mainframe or micro) and put it into its columns. Yes, Excel with
- parsing works, but it is tedious, to say the least. And finally I remembered
- Columnbo, and dug out an old (2.1) version I'd downloaded from Infomac
- back about 18 months ago. It works beautifully but handles only up to
- 32k and only 256 chars/column. the blurb on it says if you send the guy
- money you get an improved version that doesn't have those limitations.
- NOW: it's not still on Infomac. An Archie search found it at uwustel,
- and I downloaded it but I can't tell what version it's in, and since it
- ends in .z I assume it's stored in a unix format - is that right? In any
- event does anyone have a later v. than 2.1, or know how to reach David
- Craig who used to be at MIT at submicron.ii.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:42:59 GMT
- From: royappa@athena.mit.edu (A. Tim Royappa)
- Subject: Cricket Graph not "languishing" under CA
-
- For everyone's information, Cricket Graph is not "languishing" under
- Computer Associates. As a matter of fact, they've just released the
- latest version, Cricket Graph III, which I understand is a fine product
- (the lab next door just bought a copy and they're very happy with it).
-
- -Tim Royappa
- royappa@athena.mit.edu
-
- (I'm not associated with CA in any way - just a satisfied user of older
- versions of Cricket Graph.)
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 14:53:04 -0500
- From: stewart@shiva.PSU.EDU (Dr. Jon Stewart)
- Subject: Curve fitting programs
-
- With the recent discussions about the relative merits of the various programs
- for curve fitting, I noticed that my favorite hasn't yet been mentioned. So
- here's a shameless plug :-). For my needs, CurveFit 0.7 works really well.
- It allows you to fit data to any equation you can type. Even better, it's a
- snap (well, actually a click) to convert between variable and non-variable
- parameters. It has only two limitations. First, as far as I know, you're
- limited to 32 data points (unless this has been increased in a later
- version).
- Second, the graphs are not fancy presentation-type works of art. They can
- be exported into something like MacDraw, though if you want to pretty them up
- without any trouble. Best of all, it's available at Sumex. Thanks to the
- author for a great program!
-
- Jon Stewart - Department of Chemistry - Penn State University
- stewart@shiva.psu.edu
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:32:49 +0000
- From: vollrath@vax.ox.ac.uk
- Subject: Curve Fitting programs
-
- Continuing this discussion of graphics programs that can do curve-fitting,
- note that Cricket-Graph 1.3 (the last versions, so far as I am aware)
- does not calculate linear curve fits accurately. Sometimes this is
- very obvious, but other times it may not be. The solution is to
- choose 'Polynomial curve fit' and set the power to 2.
-
- Alun ap Rhisiart
- Animal Behaviour Research Group
- Oxford University
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 10:21:55 -0500
- From: jkahn@mitre.org
- Subject: Database Transition from DBase
-
- Having a large database with about 15,000 records on DBase, and needing to
- port it to a Mac, what kind of database products are available that can
- accommodate this range of records.
-
- Are there any aids or tricks to porting the data over to this new database
- product?
-
- Jay Kahn, The Mitre Corporation, jkahn@mitre.org
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 12 Jan 1993 12:28:22 -0500
- From: "Tom Scott" <Tom_Scott@qmrelay.mail.cornell.edu>
- Subject: Desktop Pictures (A)
-
- Desktop Pictures (A)
- J Fletcher <jf1@forth.stirling.ac.uk> asks:
-
- >I apologise for this FAQ, I'm not sure where I should be looking for
- >the answer. Please can someone point me at a piece of software that
- >enables an image (PICT probably, but not necessary) to be placed
- >as the background on the desktop. (I mean like a startupscreen, but
- >on the desktop all the time). Ideally one that handles full 24-bit
- >colour would be nice, but is not crucial.
-
- Try sumex:/info-mac/ex/deskpict-11.hqx. Another file worth your while
- is sumex:/info-mac/report/startup-deskpict-faq.txt.
-
- Thomas Scott, Systems Manager, College of Engineering
- Cornell University, Carpenter Hall Annex, Ithaca, NY 14853
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 12 Jan 1993 08:21:15 GMT
- From: dbutcher@shelley.u.washington.edu (Derek Butcher)
- Subject: Deskwriter Quality!!
-
- People may already know this, but I found it so incredible I had to share it
- in case there are others who are in the dark like I was:
-
- TRY MEAD 25%cotton ERASABLE TYPING PAPER IN YOUR DESKWRITER OR DESKWRITERC,
- THE QUALITY IS INCREDIBLE!
-
- I know HP says good paper makes a difference, and I've never tried their
- paper,
- but I happened to try some good quality Mead paper by accident and I would say
- it is *better* than any postscript laserwriter I've seen. Obviously the type
- quality isn't any better (though it is as good) but the spacing and overall
- appearance looks better.
-
- This is a huge improvement over the mediocre quality one gets with the normal
- copier or laserwriter paper; I strongly suggest trying it.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 12:52:00 EST
- From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL%UCONNVM.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
- Subject: Disinfectant (error -43) (*Q)
-
- On Sun, 10 Jan 93 19:31:55 GMT you said:
- >I have been trying to disinfect a file using the newest version of
- >Disinfectant 2.9. I always get this message
- >
- >### File infected by nVIR B.
- >Last modification 26.12.1992, 22:11:39.
- >### Unexpected error (-43) occurred while trying
- >### to open this file for repair.
- >### WARNING: This file is still infected!
- >
- >I have tried to turn off all protectors but nothing works. What is
- >wrong?
-
- Error -43 is "file or folder not found" which I take to mean that the
- 'file' now consists ONLY of nVIR B (that is remove the virus and there's
- nothing else left). As a general rule, assume any file Disinfectant
- can't fix immediately as 'toast' (even if you can recover something,
- it's likely to be badly damaged, if not still infected). Once again, an
- indication of the value of current backups.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 10:28:35 EST
- From: Ephraim Vishniac <ephraim@Think.COM>
- Subject: Disinfectant and error -43
-
- lars@ismennt.is (Lars H. Andersen) asks what to do when Disinfectant
- complains of error -43 while attempting to repair an infected file.
- -43 is a "file not found" error, which doesn't make much sense in this
- context. Nonsensical results from directory operations could be
- symptomatic of a damaged file system. So, I think the best thing to do
- is to run Disk First Aid 7.1 (available by anonymous ftp from
- ftp.apple.com) or your favorite disk maintenance utility to check your
- file system.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 17:05:21 EST
- From: Pete Tamas <GNOME%TEMPLEVM.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
- Subject: Displaying fonts in the font menu-Word
-
- > >In response to the question about making fonts in a font menu
- > >"appear" in their own font, I don't think you need a special
- > >extension or init -- it's my understanding that simply holding
- > >down the option key while selecting the font menu will
- > >accomplish this as well....
- >
- > I had not heard this tip before, so I immediately fired up ClarisWorks
- and
- > tried it. It didnt work. But.....I tried holding down the command key
- > while selecting the font menu and that worked. Thats great!
- >
- The option key works with Word 5.0. Command doesn't.-Pete Tamas
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:39:58 -0600
- From: bwalls@marvin.msfc.nasa.gov
- Subject: Does memory help in Personal Laserwriter LS? (Q)
-
- I have a Personal Laserwriter LS with the 512K memory they come with.
- I'm somewhat confused from some conflicting info I got when the newest
- driver came out (7.2). I heard that it allows full size printing on
- legal sized paper (if you choose "Use larger print area") without expanding
- the memory. It was also _implied_ that since the new driver it doesn't even
- help to add memory anymore.
-
- Well, my experience with the new driver is that on a reasonably complex legal
- sheet (I do a monthly newsletter), the smallest margins I can get without
- graphics just disapearing is about .4" all around, even using the larger print
- area. I'm printing from Works 3.0, which has plenty of problems, but the
- problem
- is even worse from Word 4.0. What I'm wondering is, will more memory even
- help,
- or is the new driver written so that it doesn't have to know how much
- memory is in the printer? Or is it the program instead of the driver, since
- things are clipped in Print Preview? I'd really like to use that extra space,
- and the memory only costs about $25.
- Bryan Walls
- bwalls@marvin.msfc.nasa.gov
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 09:45:04 -0500
- From: rarcuri@itsmail1.hamilton.edu (Russ Arcuri)
- Subject: Eudora a mail security risk?
-
- Ben Fowler writes:
-
- >He has been advised Eudora should not be used because it can be use to send
- >e-mail as though it came from someone else, that is, forged mail.
-
- >I think that this is wrong for two reasons, firstly the "problem" is an
- >internet one rather than an application one in the sense that machines
- forward
- >e-mail trusting that it is authentic as opposed to verifying authenticity. It
- >is difficult to see how this could be otherwise. Therefore e-mail is
- >inherently insecure in the sense that you don't know that the person is sent
- >it is the one whose name appears on it.
-
- Ben, you are absolutely right. This can be looked at a number of ways.
- First, anyone is capable of forging a letter. (The old-fashioned kind that
- you use pen and paper for). So this problem is not limited solely to
- electronic mail.
-
- Second, no internet-based e-mail system is immune to forgery. Any
- semi-knowledgeable user who is motivated to do so can forge mail that looks
- like it came from John Sculley if he wanted to. Again, this is not a
- problem with Eudora, but something inherent in the way internet-based
- e-mail works.
-
- >Secondly, that Eudora attempts to do something about this by annotating mail
- >according to whether the POP sever has verified the sender's password.
-
- This is also true, although it wouldn't be much trouble for a knowledgeable
- user to get around, just by using something other than Eudora.
-
- I guess my point is this: There is no reason whatsoever to avoid using
- Eudora because of "security" issues.
-
- Russ Arcuri
- rarcuri@hamilton.edu
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 23:12 CST
- From: STJONES%MTSU.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU
- Subject: FileMaker Pro List(s)???
-
- Does anyone know if there are any internet subscription lists for FileMaker
- Pro users? And if so, what is the address?
-
- Thanks in advance!
-
- Steve Jones
- Assistant Professor of Design & Technology
- Middle Tennessee State University
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 15:29:21 PST
- From: Ray Charles <uh-huh@diet.pepsi.com>
- Subject: Fraudulent e-mail (A)
-
- In 11-7, Ben Fowler is looking for ammunition to refute a colleague's
- warning against Eudora (based on Eudora's ability to send mail with fake
- addresses).
-
- I'd only point out, Ben, that there are many ways to send fake messages.
- The Internet protocols for SMTP mailers do not check for ids or passwords;
- this particular message is being sent from the Stanford mailer, although I
- have no connection with Stanford, via the dial-up modems at the Merit
- Network, although I have no connection with Merit. Anyone using a dial-up
- modem is virtually anonymous in any case--the Internet header path will
- stop at the modem: all calls answered by that modem will have the same
- return address. Nor am I aware of any serious identity checks on those who
- have access to the net through the many independent providers now
- operating. I suspect that Prodigy (which allows members to add six
- additional IDs at no extra cost automatically--there are a number of "Darth
- Vaders" and "Amy Fisher" is posting a lot these days) will be the source of
- a lot of fictitious names and return addresses when its Internet mail link
- opens.
-
- The question is whether anonymous access is used for good or evil. What
- harm does it create? I, being pure of heart and clean in word and deed, see
- no problem so far; fake addresses have been possible for years. A cure will
- require the SMTP protocols to be changed for greater security--and that
- will cause problems for those logging on from home whose account is usually
- elsewhere, or those whose addresses have changed (Eudora's ability to use
- any address is very handy for signing off lists when a system's address
- changes--otherwise, hundreds of people have to plead with a list owner to
- get an address changed because the listserv won't let you sign off a list
- if you are not mailing the request from the address it has [which may no
- longer exist]).
-
- And with that contorted sentence, I'll just close by reminding all that the
- U. S. Post Office also has no protection against fictitious names or return
- addresses, yet no great problems seem caused by that, and that I am really:
-
- Jeff Needleman <needje@msen.com>
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 12:52:49 EST
- From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL%UCONNVM.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
- Subject: Fraudulent e-mail, dissausion from sending
-
- On Sun, 10 Jan 93 21:19:49 GMT you said:
- >This may be both FAQ and a RTFM, but I am asking on behalf of a friend.
- >
- >He has been advised Eudora should not be used because it can be use to send
- >e-mail as though it came from someone else, that is, forged mail.
-
- And perhaps color copiers should be banned because they can be used to
- counterfeit twenty dollar bills? As I recall, the U.S. Treasury did
- institute (or consider) a legal action to require Xerox and other copier
- manufacturers to design color copiers so that they would not faithfully
- reproduce the particular color of green used in U.S. currency. The
- Treasury didn't win that one as the recent success of homebrewed $20's
- amply demonstrates.
-
- Anyone who understands the basics of SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer
- Protocol) can 'forge' mail with a simple text editor (just as it used to
- take engraving skill to counterfeit U.S. currency). Eudora may make it
- easy for the casual user to forge mail, but that's not a legitimate
- reason for telling someone Eudora should not be used as intended by
- honest users.
-
- It may be that a system operator or postmaster may decline to support a
- POP server for Eudora on grounds of maintaining the postmaster's
- responsibility to the Internet to insure the trustworthiness of outgoing
- mail headers. I'd say that's a legitimate administrative policy
- position. In that event, improvements in POP or Eudora's validation of
- outgoing headers may be necessary to make them consistent with Internet
- standards.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:17:47 -0600
- From: bwalls@marvin.msfc.nasa.gov
- Subject: Fraudulent e-mail, dissausion from sending (C)
-
- Actually, that is a feature of Eudora I really like, and use all the time.
- Note this message, from bwalls@marvin.msfc.nasa.gov. It's not, really. I'm
- on colin.msfc.nasa.gov, my macintosh. The other address is for the unix box
- that collects all my mail. I don't have access to a Pop server, so this
- saves a lot of headaches. After all, 90% of people answering posts just
- respond. I can say this with authority, because when I post to usenet news,
- it is from a different machine than marvin, but my sig has the marvin
- address. Guess which machine the answers come to!
-
- It's also useful if you are in an environment that has a generic, rather
- than machine specific, address. For instance, the machine I just mentioned
- for posting news is at a university. When
- my mac was on campus, the address was bwalls@colin.ee.eng.auburn.edu, but
- my return address had to be bwalls@eng.auburn.edu. How would you do that if
- you couldn't set it?
-
- It's just like return addresses on envelopes. Sure they can be forged. That
- doesn't make it wrong to use envelopes with blank return address positions!
- And there is nothing wrong with using your home address on a letter mailed
- >From somewhere else, if your return address is where you want replies sent.
- Bryan Walls
- bwalls@marvin.msfc.nasa.gov
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 18:46 EST
- From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <needje@msen.com>
- Subject: FUNNIES: Apple macs,the lastest development (C)
-
- In 11-7, there is an outrageous (supposedly-humorous?) fake press release
- >From Apple. We are NOT amused. I am SHOCKED that such trash can be posted
- to the hallowed halls of Info-Mac and....uh, wait a second--I posted that
- one to Mac-L myself a few days ago, didn't I? Never mind.
-
- But to give credit where it's due, the fake press release was originally
- written by:
-
- rreiner@netxcom.UUCP (Ron Reiner)
-
- and was originally published in rec.humor.funny. (Proper attribution is a
- matter of honor with us stuffy academics...<g>)
- Jeff Needleman <needje@msen.com>
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 12:53:41 EST
- From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL%UCONNVM.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
- Subject: GrayShare on StyleWriter (C)
-
- On Mon, 11 Jan 1993 08:30:59 -0600 you said:
- >I had been told about a eighteen months ago that they were working on a
- >grayscale driver for the SW, but apparently that was either abandoned or in
- >error.
-
- They WERE (GrayShare). Alas, the SW they had in mind (SW II) wasn't the
- SW you had in minde :-(
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 17:16:42 EST
- From: Pete Tamas <GNOME%TEMPLEVM.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
- Subject: Hard drive won't mount
-
- > From: Dan Becker <DBECKER@macalstr.edu>
- > Subject: Mac Plus not recognizing startupdisks-help? (Q)
- >
- > A friend with a Mac Plus returned from Winter break to find her
- > computer not recognizing the (external) hard drive on start-up
- > --that is, displaying the blinking disk-with-question-mark icon.
- > We tried to boot from another external hard drive; no luck. We
- > tried booting from several floppies which had previously worked;
- > the Plus ejected them immediately upon insertion (seemingly not
- > even bothering to check to see if they were good system disks).
- >
- 1) Make sure that the floppies still work on a different Mac. 2) Try
- starting up with a disk that has SCSI Probe or another utility which
- mounts hard drives. This problem is actually fairly common, I have
- seen it before, several dozen times.
-
- As for the Mac rejecting a good System disk, that's not as common.
- I've never personally seen it, but it can happen. Also fairly common is
- that floppies go "feet up" due to bad sectors. Its most likely that she
- had two common problems at the same time than one or two uncommon
- problems.
-
- If the floppies are absolutely, positively OK, the floppy drive is suspect,
- and you may still have two unrelated problems. Let me know what
- happens. Good luck! -Pete Tamas
- Gnome@VM.Temple.EDU, Temple Univ, Philadelphia (betw New York & Wash DC)
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 13:13 CST
- From: <MPARK%UTMEM1.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
- Subject: How do I join together a large number of small text files ? [A]
-
- > I
- > could cocatenate them under Unix or Dec-VMS I suppose. But is there a
- > Mac application that will do this ?
- MPW (Macintosh Programmer's Workshop) by Apple and available from APDA.
- MPW is not just a development system but is also a complete command-
- line operating system in itself. Concatenation, grepping, file
- manipulation, etc. can all be done from within it, and it's a dandy text-
- editor as well. The MPW shell alone costs just $150.
-
- -Mel Park
- mpark@utmem1.utmem.edu
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 13:52 EST
- From: "FELIX KREISEL (617)253-8625" <KREISEL@YSKRA.PFC.MIT.EDU>
- Subject: HP scanjet IIC
-
- I am not sure of HP Scanjet IIc; I have the gray-scale version IIp.
- The major problem is documentation. I bought the scanner last summer and
- it's basically useless since its User's Guide and on-line help both suck
- and the Deskscan II user interface is somewhat inscrutable.
- Good luck with it, Felix Kreisel (617)253-8625
-
- The opinions are my own. Felix Kreisel (617)253-8625
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 13:40:13 EST
- From: casgrain@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Casgrain Philippe)
- Subject: Is the PB 160 a 32-bit machine?
-
- In the booklet 'Apple Facts 10.92', it is stated (p. 31) that the
- PowerBook 160 has "greater performance" than the PB 145 (in the 'Other
- Macintosh models to consider' section).
-
- My question is: how is that possible? They both share the same
- processor and clock speed!
- Is it because the PB 160 is a 32-bit machine whereas the PB 145 is
- 16-bit?
-
- Advance thanks,
-
- Philippe Casgrain,
- Universite de Montreal
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 13:37:42 GMT
- From: Mike Reddy <mike@sun-a.computation.umist.ac.uk>
- Subject: JFK Stack whereabouts (Q)
-
- A while ago an excellent stack about JFK (including the quicktime form of the
- famous movie) was available on sumex. Due to my computer being stolen a while
- back, I no longer have a copy, but cannot find it anywhere. I did find the
- quicktime clip, but the stack - which I think was just called 'JFK' is
- nowhere.
-
- Can anyone tell me how to get hold of it again; my reasons are not only an
- interest in the stack itself, but also the way it handled the movie. If anyone
- has this stack, and its distribution is not restricted, could they contact
- me.
-
- Yours Mike Reddy
-
- (mike@uk.ac.umist.co.sna)
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 18:46:27 PDT
- From: antaki@outb.wimsey.bc.ca (Paul Antaki)
- Subject: KanjiTalk/FPUs
-
- I have two brief questions I was hoping someone could help me with:
-
- (1) Is KanjiTalk 7.1 available? If so, where can I find it (in Canada if
- possible)?
-
- (2) Are there any software hacks (such as SoftwareFPU) which will permit one
- to
- use software that requires and FPU on a Powerbook 160?
-
- Thanks for your help,
-
- Paul Antaki
-
- antaki@outb.wimsey.bc.ca
- CompuServe: 74640,142 (Please use only if mailing from CompuServe)
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 12:48:06 WET
- From: Terence Mc Goff <terry%Kaitain.ucd.ie@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
- Subject: Mac Binary to Appledouble
-
- Hi netlanders.
-
- Just a quick question. I download most of my files to a unix
- box
- ,
- and then use mcvert to convert them to MacBinary files. This was great when I
- wa
- s
- using Fetch to transfer them to my mac, but now, I have bought NFS/Share,
- and i want to use this to transfer my files. However, for NFS/Share to
- recognise
- the files, they have to be in AppleDouble format, whereas mcvert produces
- Ma
- cBinary.
- What I'm looking for is something on either the macintosh side, or the Unix
- side
- to convert from
- MacBinary to AppleDouble.
-
- Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
-
- Thanks in advance,
- Terry
-
- Terence Mc Goff | Terry@Kaitain.ucd.ie
- Department of ForestryUniversity College Dublin | terry@oersted.ucd.ie
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 06:10:16 PST
- From: Steven_E._Haehn.Roch803@xerox.com
- Subject: MacTCP connection tool failure (Q)
-
- Received: by alex.isdl (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA12941; Tue, 12 Jan 93 09:10:09 EST
-
- Folx,
-
- I have recently changed to system 7.1 and have installed the MacTCP
- version 1.1.1 control panel. During the creation of a remote command I need
- to assign a host to which the command is to be applied. When I poke the HOST
- button, the remote command window disappears. That's not what it is supposed
- to do. On the older 7.0 systen with the 7.1.1.1 patch this procedure works as
- expected bringing up the Mac Connection Tool. Has anyone else experienced this
- problem? Any solutions available? Thanks in advance.
-
-
- -- Steve
-
- Haehn.Roch803@xerox.com
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 14:15:49 EST
- From: Louis Brousseau <408260@acadvm1.uottawa.ca>
- Subject: Making Business Cards (A
-
- In info-mac vol. 11 #006, Pete Tamas suggests to Al to print his business
- cards on normal laser paper then send it to a printer. Of course this will
- work but there is another option. The laserprinter will not accept card
- stock if there is no straight through paper path (i.e. envelope capability)
- since the paper has to bend in order to follow the standard path. If your
- laserprinter does have envelope capabilities it does not necessarily mean
- you can feed it card stock, check the owners manual to see what is the
- maximum paper weight that can be fed to the envelope tray. If it does not
- specify, go to an art supply store and buy a few sheets of card stock of
- various thickness (they might not know what card stock is, so just browse
- in the cardboard section). Start with the thinest stock and work your way
- up, of course check with the administrator for authorisation. At one point
- the cardboard will not feed through properly, note the weight of the stock
- (there are many types of units in use to define the weight so be specific)
-
- With this info try out different brands/surfaces to find the cardboard
- that gives the best results.
-
- If your laserprinter does not have an envelope capability or the admini-
- strator does not give you permission to experiment with the printer you can
- use your StyleWriter (use the envelope mode). I have personnaly used the
- StyleWriter to print my own business cards with great results (better results
- are obtained with ATM and ATA). The resolution is less then from a printer
- or laserprinter but not enough to warrant the higher cost of professional
- printers. I also used the PLPII and BLP Elite from GCC with great results.
-
- If you want more info, you may contact me directly at
- 408260@acadvm1.uottawa.ca.
-
- Please keep in mind that these are my personnal observations, be careful
- when trying paper or stock whose units of measurements are unknown.
- You may also try contacting the manufacturers technical dept. to verify if
- it will accept the various weights/units.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 15:06:52 PST
- From: hunter@s07.es.llnl.gov (Steve Hunter 423-2219)
- Subject: Making business cards on a Macintosh (A)
-
- I have made business cards for years using a Mac and a LaserWriter.
- The card stock must not be textured because the toner gets down into the
- cracks, but the fuser cannot get enough heat down there to bond the toner
- to the paper. Consequently, the toner rubs off easily.
- The card stock that I have standardized on is manila file folders
- cut into 8-1/2 inch wide sheets. This holds toner as well as anything that I
- have tried, is readily available, and looks pretty good. Note that the toner
- will rub off with some effort and the card will not last forever in
- someone's wallet, but for those of us who go through 20-30 cards per year,
- it works fine.
- I make the cards with a rectangle the size of a standard business
- card, and then cut off the lines with a paper cutter. If you select
- size A4 paper in Page Setup, you can get 10 cards per page using the
- paper described above.
- Note that the paper must be fed manually, and the printer must have
- a straight feed path. No printer can bend heavy paper stock around a
- corner.
-
- Steven Hunter
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 17:08:39 EST
- From: Pete Tamas <GNOME%TEMPLEVM.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
- Subject: Malaysian mice-what are their serial numbers
-
- > From: "Tad Davis" <davist@a1.relay.upenn.edu>
- > Subject: Sticky Mouse Followup
- >
- > Several weeks ago, I raised a question about my mouse: sometimes it seems
- > to get stuck in "mouse-down" mode. Several people responded privately. My
- > conclusion, on the basis of those responses, is that this is a known
- > hardware problem. The mouse is, in fact, from one of the Malaysian batches
- > that has already been reported to Apple as suspect.
- >
- I have been able to help quite a few people because I knew the serial
- numbers of the defective monitors that Apple was fixing for free.
- Therefore, I think that it may be good if the serial numbers of the
- Malaysian mice could be posted by someone in the know.-Pete Tamas
- Gnome@VM.Temple.EDU, Temple Univ, Philadelphia (betw New York & Wash DC)
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 11 Jan 93 23:52:52 EST
- From: David.M.Tillinghast@Dartmouth.EDU
- Subject: more stuff
-
- This is great stuff, Adam.
-
- I'm all set to pump out an article, but I still haven't gotten a single
- company to comment on it themselves. I have complaints and praises, various
- observations, reasonings and such, but no concrete answers from the companies
- themselves. My mail isn't being answered in most cases.
-
- What I'm going to do is try them all again, and failing any useful response,
- I'll call up to request very specific price quotations to conduct a
- semi-scientific survey on the price differentials.
-
- I was hoping you would perhaps have some strings to pull at particular
- companies. Maybe you could forward a few questions to a friendly executive?
- Unfortunately, the information I have so far is largely one-sided.
-
- Thanks for all the help,
- -tig
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 12:35:14 CST
- From: drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David Gutierrez)
- Subject: Motorola price cuts
-
- Motorola price cuts
- In Info-Mac Digest V11 #6, Tony Huang (tonyh@lynx.msc.cornell.edu) writes:
- (regarding price cuts in DayStar and Logica accelerators)
- > I'm now told that one of the major
- >reason for the price cuts is that Motorola has announced major price
- >reductions on its microprocessor chips. New prices will take effect on the
- >11th.
-
- Huzzah! What are the chances that we'll see reduced prices on high-end Macs?
- And when?
-
-
- David Gutierrez
- Univ. Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
-
- drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 12:35:54 -0500
- From: mrr1@cornell.edu (Michael Roman)
- Subject: music downloads
-
- I'm putting together readme files for the DMCS and Finale music files that
- I'm going to upload. They ought to be ready by the end of next week
- (there's a little bit of research to be done...). There are about 15 DMCS
- pieces and 4 Finale pieces (I haven't had Finale that long).
-
- Does anyone have any ideas on how to convert DMCS files to Finale files?
-
- Mike Roman
- mrr1@cornell.edu
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 19:13:00 GMT
- From: "J. Rossi" <jr10@leicester.ac.uk>
- Subject: Music Organizer by Michael Perry ?
-
- Greetings all,
-
- Two questions and a personal message:
-
- Point 1: Would someone know anything about a program called
- music organizer or his author, Michael Perry ? I was
- given the address 6600map@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu but could
- not contact him.
-
- I don't have any Archie access yet so can't Telnet.
- Any help appreciated on the location of this program.
-
- Point 2: Does anyone know anything about the fax/modem
- Personics Concept 144e ? What software bundled with it,
- performance, user experience ....
-
-
- Personal Message: to Alexander Perry
-
- Thanks a lot for the file EN+/BiB TeX. I'm sorry that
- I could not thank you earlier. It seems that I can't
- find your address in my files.
-
-
- Francois Rossi jr10@le.ac.uk
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 09:26:18 EST
- From: mlo@bio-rad.com (Mark L. Olson)
- Subject: Norton for Mac vs? SUM
-
- I have Symantic Utilities for the Mac (SUM) and recently picked
- up a cheap copy of the Norton Utilities for the Mac (NUM?), now also
- >From Symantic.
-
- Can anyone tell me if the NUM directory backup obviates the need for
- the SUM directory backup? Does NUM replace SUM entirely?
-
- Mark Olson mlo@bio-rad.com
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 12 Jan 1993 12:25:30 -0500
- From: "Tom Scott" <Tom_Scott@qmrelay.mail.cornell.edu>
- Subject: Opening PageMaker 2 files i
-
- Opening PageMaker 2 files in 4.2 (A)
- Randy Patton <PATTONR@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU> asks:
-
- >I have a colleague who has recently upgraded to version 4.2 of Aldus
- >Pagemaker. The problem: all his existing documents are in PM 2.0
- >format, and PM 4.2 doesn't seem to recognize the older format. (A
- >peek with ResEdit confirmed that they really are different doc types.)
- >
- >What should he do? Is there any utility (preferably freeware or
- >shareware) that can convert between 2.0 files and 4.2 files?
-
- One of my users upgraded from 3.0.x PM to PM 4.2 about six months ago,
- and he had the same problem (if, when you say, PM 4.2 doesn't recognize
- the older format, you mean you can't double-click on them to open them
- up --- that's the problem my user had).
-
- Here's the low-tech solution: (I think it should work for the PM 2.0
- documents --- it's been so long since I've worked with them :-)
- Just open PM 4.2 and then open the 2.0 docs from within 4.2.
-
- I'm sure that's what you want to do with your hundreds of PM 2.0 docs -
- open them one by one --- NOT!
-
- Here's probably a better solution: use either FileTyper or BunchTyper
- to change all the doc types and creator codes to those that are asso-
- ciated with a PM 4.2 doc. Create one, and then use ResEdit to find out
- what those codes are. And then specify those codes within one of the
- two shareware utilities I've suggested. They're both at sumex:
- info-mac/util/file-typer-32.hqx and info-mac/util/bunch-typer-101.hqx
-
- I think BunchTyper is exactly what you need: it allows you to change
- the type/creator codes for "bunches" of files at the same time, even
- if they're in different folders. Give it a try!
-
- Thomas Scott, Systems Manager, College of Engineering
- Cornell University, Carpenter Hall Annex, Ithaca, NY 14853
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 07:36:22 PST
- From: Kee Nethery <nethery@parc.xerox.com>
- Subject: PB100 batteries (Q)
-
- Is there another source other than Apple for PowerBook 100 batteries?
-
- Kee
- Nethery@parc.xerox.com
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:18:28 -0500
- From: kkirksey@world.std.com (Ken B Kirksey)
- Subject: PhotoCD
-
- > > You get back on your CD 5 copies of each photo at different
- > resolutions: > > Size (pixels) > > Wallet 128 x 192 > Snapshot 256 x
- > 384 > Standard 512 x 768 > Large 1024 x 1536 > Poster 2048 x 3072 > >
- >
- >
- > To give you an idea what this means:
- >
- > Newspapers are raterized with about 90 lines/inch Magazines 150
- > high-quality prints 200
- >
- > To achieve a qualitatively good result, your file must have a
- > resolution of roughly twice the raster lines. Go and calculate the
- > maximum size of the printed photo. Keep in mind that you probably
- > will want to crop it.
- >
- > Stefan
-
- You seem to imply that the images on PhotoCD would not be large
- enough for most publication purposes. This is simply not
- the case.
-
-
- Four our purposes (magazine using l50 lpi screen) the poster size
- will give you a maximum of about 6 x 9 inches, which is MUCH larger
- than most of the photographs we, or most other magazines, run. Take
- a pica pole to any issue of Time, Newsweek, etc, and check the
- average size of the color photographs. The only exception in our case
- being the cover, which is delivered to us as a large
- format transparency. So for 99% of our photos (and I'd suspect
- 90% of most other magazine's) the sizes provided by PhotoCD are
- sufficient.
-
- Kodak has stated that they'll be able to scan large format transparencies
- and negs into PhotoCD format later this year at comparable resolutions.
-
-
- Newspapers, using an 85 lpi screen, could get up to 12 X 18 using the
- poster size. I've NEVER seen a newspaper run a photo that large.
-
-
- Ken
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 14:26:07 PST
- From: quiglea@sfu.ca
- Subject: PhotoCD
-
- I would really appreciate it if someone would tell me what I need to have
- to run a PhotoCD. My school would like to be able to use a PhotoCD as part
- of our computer projects program. We have a Chinon CDA-431 CD-ROM player,
- but I have had conflicting reports as to whether it could read a PhotoCD.
- I read about the latest CD-ROM drivers and PhotoCD software in a recent
- Info-Mac. If I am able to obtain these drivers will they enable our Chinon
- CD-ROM player to read a PhotoCD?
- We are using Mac Classic II computers running system 7.01--Tuned.
- Also, I have seen no follow up to th request for someone to post a copy
- of Metamorphisis to sumex. We would like a copy of this program as well
- if it is possible. We received the QT 1.0 CD when we ordered the kit.
-
- Many thanks for any advice and assistance.
-
- Bill Colston
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 17:06:59 EST
- From: Pete Tamas <GNOME%TEMPLEVM.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
- Subject: Postscript books
-
- > A good way to have some fun with this is to get a copy of the
- > Postscript Tutorial and Cookbook (the "Blue Book") from Addison-Wesley
- > and program the Postscript code yourself. The book has many
- > examples of how to do exactly what you are looking for. All it takes
- > is a text editor, the LaserWriter Font Utility (to send the Postscript
- > files to the printer)
- >
- There is also a book published by Peachpit Press called "Postscript:
- A Visual Approach." My Macintosh students really like books published
- by Peachpit, particularly Robin Williams' "The Little Mac Book" and
- "The Mac is not a Typewriter" as well as Blatner & Stimley's "The
- QuarkXPress Book." If I were buying a book, I would always consider
- the book published by Peachpit Press, if such a book existed. I'm not
- sure if this book covers exactly the topics you need, but if so, it
- probably is easier to follow than the Addison-Wesley book. So, what
- I am saying is, if you have time, compare the two before you buy. Also,
- some PostScript books have been out long enough that you can find
- some of them on the discount rack for about $2. I have a few, but I
- haven't read them yet: I only have them because they cost $2. ;-)
- Pete Tamas
- Gnome@VM.Temple.EDU, Temple Univ, Philadelphia (betw New York & Wash DC)
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 17:19:56 EST
- From: Pete Tamas <GNOME%TEMPLEVM.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
- Subject: Postscript to bitmaps
-
- > From: kroemer@apex.ece.ucsb.edu (Herb Kroemer)
- > Subject: Postscript-to-Bitmap?
- >
- > I often use the postscript code of our institutional letterhead, and paste
- > it at the front of letters written using Microsoft Word, and print
- > everything on non-letterhead paper. This works like a charm when I actually
- > want to print and mail a letter. But often I would just like to send the
- > letter by fax modem, without first creating a printed hard copy and scan
- > that, with the usual loss of quality. Is there a way to convert the
- > Postscript into, say, a 200dpi bitmap, or something else that a standard
- > fax modem can handle?
- >
- In addition to all the clever suggestions you will undoubtedly get
- to solve this problem, you can save this file as an EPS image in
- Adobe Illustrator or Freehand. Then take ResEdit and find the PICT
- resource (won't be hard-there's only 1-2 resources in an EPS file).
- Open the resource and you'll find a bitmapped version of your graphic.
- Select it, copy it, paste into your scrapbook and you're ready to go.
- BTW- there was a shareware EPS to PICT utility that didn't really
- do anymore than make a copy of that PICT resource.
-
- Another way is to display your graphic on the screen in Adobe
- Illustrator or Freehand and make a screen dump with Flash-it or
- with command-shift-3. Since the screen dump will yield a 72 dpi
- bitmap, if you want exactly 200 dpi, you should zoom in on the
- graphic 278% (200V72) before you make the screen dump. Then, take
- the graphic and scale to 36% (72V200) of the original size. Programs
- such as Canvas do this well, but there are probably good alternatives.
- QuarkXPress comes to mind. You can paste it into Word and scale it
- by eye. I'll be happy to clarify any of this that needs clarification.
- -Pete Tamas
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 12 Jan 1993 13:45:51 +0100 (CET)
- From: tsvetkova@news.rferl.org (Alexei Tsvetkov)
- Subject: Powerbook startup sound
-
- >This question has been asked before, but I can't find the answer in the
- >>info-mac archives. Can the powerbook startup sound be changed or disabled?
-
- Use the Sound control panel
- Alexei Tsvetkov
- Munich (I'd rather be in Philadelphia)
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:47:45 -0600
- From: Neil Eric Mickelson <nem52463@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Subject: Presentation Software
-
- Hello again!
-
- Well, it's good to be back to school after Christmas break, but now I've got
- quite a challenging project ahead of me. One of the organizations I'm a
- member of is putting together a five-to-seven minute video for an upcoming
- conference, and I'm responsible for it. I am planning to use Macintosh
- presentation software to put together the screens, and using a combination of
- digitized and direct-to-videotape sounds to provide audio. I will be putting
- this together on a Mac IIvx, and will be outputting to video using my
- school'
- Radius VideoVision board.
-
- Here's my question - what do you think of the current presentation heavy-
- weights, Aldus Persuasion and Microsoft PowerPoint? I've read reviews of
- both,
- and it seems PowerPoint 3.0 may have finally topped Persuasion in some
- people's eyes. Here's what I need:
- - Pre-made templates
- - Support for Photo CD, maybe through QuickTime or conversion to
- PICT files
- - Transition effects between slides
- - Sound support for "spot sound," which would occur with each slide
- and/or topic, and would play without user interaction
- - Maybe even an overall "soundtrack" channel, for sound that would
- go on throughout the presentation; the "spot sound" would
- be done on top of this soundtrack
-
- So what do you all think would be the best? By the way, I can't afford stuff
- like Director or Action (money or time to learn), so I'm gonna have to go with
- the presentation category...
-
- I'd appreciate your help. Send replies to me, and I'll summarize for the
- net.
- Thanks!!!
-
- Neil E. Mickelson
- n-mickelson@uiuc.edu
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 01:09:39 -0500
- From: tonyh@lynx.msc.cornell.edu (Tony Huang)
- Subject: Prices on '030 accelerators continue to fall
-
- Since DayStar announces major price reduction on its accelerators on the
- 6th, Logica lowered prices twice on LogiCaches (three times since the
- beginning of the year). Here're the latest list prices:
-
- 50MHz w/o FPU 50MHz w/FPU
- DayStar PowerCache $849 $999
- Logica LogiCache 699 799
-
- You can expect the street prices to be $100-150 less on the PowerCaches and
- perhaps smaller discount on the LogiCaches.
-
- Tony Huang
- tonyh@msc.cornell.edu
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 08:01:01 CST
- From: "Eric H. Durbrow" <C509393@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
- Subject: Project Gutenberg?
-
- Does anyone know how to access Project Gutenberg? or Online Bookstore PC?
- Yesterday's Wall St Journal reports that one can download books from these
- databases. Thanks for any info. Eric.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 17:52:23 EST
- From: jfw@neuro.duke.edu (John F. Whitehead)
- Subject: Question about Inside Macintosh books (A)
-
- In Info-Mac Digest 11:7, Dimitri Boone asks what Inside Mac books he
- should buy...
-
- You might want to consider Symantec's new online version of Inside Mac.
- I haven't seen it, but did receive a brochure on it in the mail. It has
- all of Inside Mac vols 1-6, and has cross-referencing, hypertext
- capabilities, etc. It's also cheaper: ~US$80 I think. And it saves
- trees!
-
- If you're set on hard copies, you may want to check the prices at the US
- mailorder houses like MacWarehouse, MacConnection, etc. They're cheaper
- than bookstores, though I don't know how feasible or cost effective it
- would be for you since you are in Belgium.
-
- - John
-
- John jfw@neuro.duke.edu Duke University Medical Center
- Whitehead jfw@well.sf.ca.us Durham, North Carolina
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 07:36:05 PST
- From: Kee Nethery <nethery@parc.xerox.com>
- Subject: Quidnunc (A)
-
- >I recently came across a description of a London based company named
- "Quidnunc" which is developing Mac software for corporate clients and
- front-ends for the "Bespoke" database.
-
- >If anyone knows about this "Bespoke" product or anything about the company
- named above, perhaps you could contact me via email.
-
- Laurence Holt
- Quidnunc Limited
- 62 Lambs Conduit Street
- London WC1N 3LW
- 071-831 6679 voice
- 071-831 3628 fax
- 262433 telex
-
- It has been a year since I lsst saw Laurence so this information might be
- out of date.
-
- Isn't the internet wonderful! A person in germany can find the address of
- someone in england through someone in california!
-
- Kee
- Nethery@parc.xerox.com
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 10:58:00 PST
- From: Brad E Sandman <Brad_E_Sandman@ccm.hf.intel.com>
- Subject: SE->SE/30 Upgrade
-
- Bernard Khoo asks about the SE -> SE/30 upgrade...
-
- The most strightforward answer to the question is, "Yes, it's a simple
- motherboard swap." However, there are a few stipulations.
-
- If your SE is a double 800K floppy version, it's complicated. First of
- all, the SE/30 motherboard only supports ONE internal floppy drive, so
- you'll lose one of the drives. Also, you'll need to buy a new internal
- frame, since the SE/30 motherboard has some _slight_ differences in the
- connector locations.
-
- If the SE was a floppy + hard drive model, you're fine (800K or 1.4MB
- --doesn't matter). Just remember that the SE/30 uses the RAM SIMMS four in
- a row -- and each row must have the same access time. So, if you've added
- extra memory to your SE, let's hope all four of your SIMMS are the right
- speed. Otherwise you'll have to get some new memory.
-
- Oh, of course if you've never upgraded the memory, you'll have to do it
- now. The SE came with 4, 256K, 150ns SIMMS. No good. The SE/30 requires
- 120ns SIMMS or better, as long as all the memory in each bank is the same!
- Plus, you'll want at _least_ 4MB to run System 7.
-
- Well, that should do it.
-
- Brad Sandman
- brad_e_sandman@ccm.hf.intel.com
-
- p.s. If anyone knows where the SE/30 motherboards can be bought for
- approximately $300, please let me know. I have an old SE myself, and I'd love
- to upgrade cheaply.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:58:04 +0000
- From: Graham Allsopp <G.Allsopp@Sheffield.ac.uk>
- Subject: Search & replace for large text files
-
- I am currently converting a series of PostScript files from a mainframe for
- use in FreeHand. To do this, I need to amend the PostScript code slightly
- as shown below:
-
-
- From:
- 702.95 8.43 l
- 703.09 8.78 l
- 703.09 8.78 m
- 703.79 8.87 l
- 704.46 9.11 l
- 705.04 9.50 l
-
-
- To:
- 702.65 7.78 l
- 702.95 8.43 l
- 703.09 8.78 L
- S
- U
- u
- 703.09 8.78 m
- 703.79 8.87 l
- 704.46 9.11 l
- 705.04 9.50 l
-
-
- This will occur hundreds, or even thousands of times in one file, which
- range from about 250k - 1Mb in size. I am currently doing this search and
- replace on a mainframe as I have found no suitable alternative on the Mac.
- I have no complaints with the mainframe - it can normally do the job in
- around 4 minutes, but it is soon to be withdrawn, so I need an alternative
- (preferably Mac-based).
-
- Word processsing packages all seem to have a simple Find & Replace
- function; running a macro with Vantage (McSink) takes for ever (ie I gave
- up after an hour) as it always re-draws the screen, and other text-handling
- packages seem to fall over when you show them a 1Mb file. Anyone out there
- got any suggestions ?
-
- Graham
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 14:30:25 EST
- From: Robert J. Hill x6369 <HILL@ANT.dnet.ge.com>
- Subject: Slow hard disk with system 7 SOLVED
-
- I haved solved my problem with the slow hard disk (fast without
- extensions) buy updating the hard disk driver. The hard disk had been
- formated and updated when 7.0 was installed. After updating to 7.01
- driver Speedometers hard disk speed went up to 1.96 (up from .55).
-
- Robert J. Hill hill@snet1.dnet.ge.com
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 09:46:30 ITA
- From: Davide Proserpio <STINCH%IMISIAM.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
- Subject: Spacesaver and Optimization (Q)
-
- Hi,
- I have some questions about Aladdin SpaceSaver 1.0.2
- How can I know how much space I save in Total?
- When I copy a file on a disk, I copy the compressed version or the normal?
-
- Can I optimize my hard disk using the optimization tool distributed with the
- Ce
- ntralPoint MacTools, while the hard disk is compressed with Space Saver?
-
- Any other comments about the use of SpaceSaver are welcome
-
- thanks Davide
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 10:39:24 PST
- From: rjms@scripps.edu (Russell Mortishire-Smith)
- Subject: Teleport modems and PB160s
-
- Bill... I just sent a submission to the digest about problems
- with a teleport modem on a powerbook 160. Please replace the submission
- with the following.
-
- Subject: External teleport modems and PB160s
-
- Anyone experiencing bad problems trying to get one of the early
- teleport external modems (the one that hangs off the ADB port)
- to work on a powerbook 160 ... don't worry, you aren't doing
- anything wrong. I spent a couple of days trying to sort it
- out, the keyboard hangs whenever one starts an emulator program.
- Global Village finally got back to me today... those modems
- will not currently work with the PB160. They are working with Apple
- to try and fix the problem, which is probably software rather
- than software related.
-
- In the meantime, sit back, have a beer, enjoy freedom from
- telecommunication.
-
- Russell
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 01:12:55 -0800
- From: Robert Lenoil <lenoil@catalogic.com>
- Subject: Teleport modems and powerbooks (A)
-
- I'm sending this message using a TelePort/FullFax (uses ADB) and a
- PowerBook 140. It's important that the modem be plugged in when you boot
- the PowerBook. After that you can unplug it, but remember to open the
- TelePort control panel and click the reset button whenever you plug in the
- modem or wake the PowerBook from sleep, or the keyboard acts wacky. It's a
- pain in the ass.
-
- -Robert Lenoil
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:18:31 -0500
- From: kkirksey@world.std.com (Ken B Kirksey)
- Subject: TimesTwo
-
- > Anyone been using Times 2? Have all the bugs been worked out yet?
- > Someone I know is trying to decide whether to use Times 2 or
- > Autodoubler (she backs up religiously and with commendable paranoia).
- > Speaking of paranoia, I suggested she use Autodoubler until I hear
- > some more about Times 2 and then she called my bluff and asked me
- > when can I hear more about it? So, are all the bugs out of Times 2?
- > Thanks, Pete Tamas
-
- I'm personally very happy with AutoDoubler and have never had any
- compatibility
- problems with it. I haven't used TimesTwo, but the tales I've heard are
- not good. The fact that it REPLACES your SCSI drivers was what kept
- me from buying it in the first place. If I remember correctly, there's
- a report on TimesTwo in the info-mac /report directory.
-
- Your friend might want to wait until Stacker for Macintosh comes out. It's
- driver level compression, like TimesTwo, but unlike TimesTwo it doesn't
- replace your current SCSI drivers.
-
- Ken
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 07:53:23 EST
- From: waxman@tecnet1.jcte.jcs.mil
- Subject: Turbo Gopher questions...
-
- I am trying to be a good 'Netter and use TurboGopher. Upon launch,
- TurboGopher reports "Unable to resolve host name" and does nothing of value
- >From that point on. I am using VersaTerm's Telnet tool to connect to my host
- so I beleive this implies that MacTCP is configured correctly (I am sure it
- is a least installed). Any help? Please reply direct.
-
- Thank you,
- Paul Waxman
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:58 EST
- From: Mitch Cohen <MCOHEN@vax.clarku.edu>
- Subject: VAX <=> zmodem <=> Mac <=>
-
- In a previous article, 'Johnny Lin' <LIN@CSUPomona.Edu> wrote:
- >Does anybody know what kind of the terminal program I can use to download
- >files from VAX by using zmodem? The zmodem utility on the VAX is from
- >Omen Technology. I have tried to use the zmodem from White Knight, but
- >it didn't work.
- >
- >One of the faculties told me that he is able to use White Knight from his
- >office, but not when he is at home. The only difference is the speed
- >of the connection to the VAX (2400 baud vs 19200 baud). Does anybody
- >know why?
- >
- >I am using IIci, 7.0, and White Knight 11.14. The zmodem on the VAX is
- >for VMS v4.35.
- >
- I've had the same problem, in my case using Omen 2.02. At 2400 it runs fine,
- at high speeds it flunks. I've found that limiting the "window" usually
- solves the problem. At high speeds ZModem wants to use a larger transmission
- window, and this seems to confuse all involved. The command line I use to
- transmit a file via zmodem (from VAX to Mac) is
-
- $ SZ -l 1024 filename.ext
-
- And this usually works well. Sometimes the demons take over and I have to
- lower the window. This does bring the transmission rate down quite a bit, but
- still much better than 2400 baud.
-
- For uploading, your comm software should have the option to limit the window.
- I forget where this is in White Knight, but its there someplace.
-
- ...Mitch Cohen, mcohen@vax.clarku.edu
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:06:09 -0500 (EST)
- From: Seth Ness <ness@aecom.yu.edu>
- Subject: vmarc
-
- hi,
- does anyone know of a way on the mac to unVMARC files. VMARC is an
- archiving program on VM machines.
-
-
-
- Seth L. Ness Ness Gadol Hayah Sham
- ness@aecom.yu.edu
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: TUE, 12 JAN 93 19:29:46 MEZ
- From: Petr Skvaril <H1KSKV@DSYIBM.DESY.DE>
- Subject: Where to find Resorcerer?
-
- Hi netters,
- I am developing a relatively big project using Think C and its class
- library. For simplicity I am using dialog editor of ResEdit for windows
- ( PICT resource as the base and then controls ) but the editor has
- limited capabilities. I obtained information from Roman M. Felciano
- about Resorcerer which has a superb dialog editor.
- Could anybody tell me where can I find a demo version of Resorcerer
- or if anything similar fitting to this purpose exists?
- Thank You very much in advance for any response
- Petr Skvaril
- DESY H1 Hamburg Germany
- email address : h1kskv at dhhdesy3.desy.de
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 8:19:35 EST
- From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@pica.army.mil>
- Subject: Why does my hard drive spin
-
- Tom Scott <Tom_Scott@qmrelay.mail.cornell.edu> writes:
- >choisje@ac.wfunet.wfu.edu asks:
- >
- >>I am sorry if this is a FAQ, but I have a LC II with a stock 80 MB
- >>Apple HD (Quantum) that spins (reads?) my hard drive during inactivity
- >>for no reason. I am using AutoDoubler, but the activity seems to be
- [...]
- >My first reaction was to ask about virtual memory, since a lot of my
- >users that use VM complain a lot about disk activity. Since you mention
- >that you have VM off, my next question is: "How about file sharing?"
- >You don't mention anything about this. This could cause disk activity
- >when someone is accessing files from your disk.
- >
- >If you don't have file sharing on or VM on, I'm not sure what your problem
- >is. You don't say what INITs you're using (possibly Disk Express? ---
- >that will cause a lot of disk activity).
- >
- >If you come up with a solution, I'd like to hear it; I have one user
- >that's experiencing the same thing on a IIcx (7.0.1 tuned with VM off,
- >32-bit addressing off, but file sharing ON, even though she gets disk
- >activity when noone's connected.
-
- We had the same experience here with a IIci. Removing/installing inits and
- such made no difference. Norton Utils says the HD is OK and optimizing
- (with Speed Disk) made no difference.
-
- I finally cured it by reinstalling the system. Not running the Sys 7.0.1
- installer on the existing system folder, but by trashing the existing
- system and finder and doing a fresh installation (running the installer on
- the existing sys/finder didn't do a darn thing). Just my .02 worth...
-
- tom coradeschi <+> tcora@pica.army.mil
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 13:50:46 -0500
- From: jjd1@cornell.edu (John DeVivo)
-
- I need information on what is available software and hardware wise for
- connecting and using an old HP LaseJet 2686A with serial interface to a
- Macintosh. Please answer directly to me. I'll complie the answers and post
- the replies. Thanks ahead of time.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 10:49:53 PST
- From: "Joshua Hart -- A Forensic Chemist (to be) At Large!!!"
- <STUHART%EKU.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
-
- Received: from EKU.BITNET by EKU.BITNET (PMDF #2856 ) id
- <01GTE7WCTJRK0003NW@EKU.BITNET>; Mon, 11 Jan 1993 13:49:39 EST
- Date: 11 Jan 1993 13:49:39 -0500 (EST)
- From: "Joshua Hart -- A Forensic Chemist (to be) At Large!!!"
- <STUHART@EKU.BITNET>
- To: INFO-MAC: ;
- Message-id: <01GTE7WCTJRM0003NW@EKU.BITNET>
- X-Envelope-to: info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
- X-VMS-To: IN%INFO-MAC
- MIME-version: 1.0
- Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
-
- >Did I miss something? Does 7.1 run on classics? I installed it on one and
- >incompatability. Reinstalled 7.01 and it worked fine, so I kind of rule
- >out hardware problems. Doesn't 7.1 run on Classics? Surely it doesn't
- >need an enabler?
- >-Irv Wiswall (irvw@linfield.edu)
-
- I have system 7.1 Running on a 512K mac 2 Megs of ram, even with some room
- left over to run a few inits here and there, so I don't see why you should
- have any problems running it on a Mac Classic (providing you have the min
- 2Megs
- ram! :)
- Joshua
- <stuhart@eku.bitnet>
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 14:21:53 PST
- From: bill sawrey <7506P%NAVPGS.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
-
- >>Pete Tamas <GNOME%TEMPLEVM.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU> asks:
-
- >> Does anyone know how to turn off the "Select a Converter" dialog
- >>box when opening a Text-only (ASCII) file in Word 5.0? Or, is the
- >>ability to turn this off a feature of 5.1?
-
- And was answered by Thomas Scott:
-
- >I believe that if there are two possibilities for converting a text file,
- >"Text
- >Only" and "Text with Layout", it will pop up this dialog box. The way to get
- >rid of it is to remove the "Text with Layout" converter file from the Word
- > Cmands folder. I don't know about 5.1, since I don't have it.....yet!
- :-)
-
-
- I found a unique use for the "text with layout" feature that saved many
- hours of labor. While importing ASCII data files generated by a SUN work-
- station, I found all the vector rows to end with an unprintable "square".
- Using Teach-text or Word text only, the unprintables contaminated my data.
- However, opening the files using "text with layout", Word interprets the
- unprintables as carriage returns and delivers a perfectly translated, two
- column vector for each file. Thanks MS!!
-
- And to anyone with a need to open text created by third party software
- or import files from other sundry sources, DON'T bypass this feature!!!
-
- ------------------------------
-
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