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Info-Mac Digest             Thu, 28 Jan 93       Volume 11 : Issue 22

Today's Topics:

      [*] MacFormat 1.0 submission
      [*] Murph's VAPORWARE Column for February 1993
      [*] Upload of bolo maps
      "Luck" in Maelstrom?
      "Swiss Army Knife" request...
      (Q) MacTCP and 7.1
      2MB upgrade kit offer!
      3 button mice on a Mac running as an X-terminal
      3 button mice on a Mac running as an X-terminal (A/Q)
      3 button mice on a Mac running as an X-terminal (Q)
      3M Diskettes
      3M disks-How good are they? (C)
      6.0.8 and networking
      about curve-fitting
      Apple takes back HyperCard
      Backup drives
      booting help/Sys7/Radius
      Borland
      Borland and the Mac
      CanvasPostscriptView/Mac figs in LaTeX (R)
      Cricket Graph Colour Problem
      Cyberspace (C)
      Desktop picture with an 040
      Diacritical Marks for Transliteration
      Diacritical Marks for Transliteration (A)
      DigiCHANNEL Nu/Xi drivers available via FTP
      DiskLight
      DoveFax+ & PowerKey Remote (Q)
      DUOQUEST POST
      Electronic Sign-out board question
      Ethernet number of Quadra
      Font savants
      FreeHand 3.1 printing directly to DeskWriter C (Q)
      GDS to Mac graphic formats
      Ghostscript Problems (R)
      Global Village addresses
      gopher for news.answers
      Info-Mac Digest V11 #8 (2 msgs)
      Internet services: 2 questions
      LaserWriter to modem port (R)
      Mac or PC
      Making chooser find a default printer (A)
      Memory on the Quadra 700
      Need regression analysis app (Q)
      new programs and updates... (A)
      Odd Finder Problem (Q)
      PB as SCSI (R)
      Photo CD -> PICT
      problem with some icons
      Put Away errors
      Quadra SIMMS again
      quadra vram (q)
      Questions ref. Performas and System Software
      Rotated text on Deskwriter C
      Source for WAIS software
      Statistics (A)
      Strange error message (Q)
      StyleWriter: no fractional widths!
      SuperClock! 4.0.2 Problems
      SuperClock 4.0.1 and 4.0.2
      System enabler for 32 bit dirty ROMs (Q)
      virus?
      WAIS client for Mac
      WAIS info (A)
      Where can you get the best price/deal on Macs ? (Q)
      Wyse Emulation

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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 19:18:54 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Marcelo A. F. Gomes)
Subject: [*] MacFormat 1.0 submission

Dear moderators:

This is MacFormat, a program to initialize Macintosh disks
on Unix compatible hosts.

It is a "tar" file, compressed with "compress," and encoded
for reliable mailing with "uuencode." Unix gurus know how
to unpack it.

It would be nice to see it placed in the unix directory, under
the name "macformat10.uu".

Below is an exerpt from the enclosed README file:


[Archived as /info-mac/unix/macformat-10.uu; 22K]

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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 14:17:33 EST
From: Murph Sewall <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Murph's VAPORWARE Column for February 1993

Vaporware also is available by email to [e-mail]
(subject ignored)
$MAC GET VAPORWARE-02-93.TXT

[Archived as /info-mac/digest/vapor/vaporware-02-93.txt; 10K]

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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 13:44:46 -0600
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Upload of bolo maps

These are bolo maps that we at Technology Resources have created.  The
Maryville Centre is of the campus where we work in St. Louis.  Enjoy!!!

[Archived as /info-mac/game/bolo-maryville-maps.hqx; 21K]

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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 16:49:03 EST
From: [e-mail] (Steve Portigal)
Subject: "Luck" in Maelstrom?

 Does anyone who plays Maelstrom know what the 4 leaf clover means?
I know it means luck, but I'm not sure how exactly it affects your game
play or your chances, etc.

Thanks,
--
|  Steve Portigal  University of Guelph  Guelph, Ontario      |
|  [e-mail] [phone] x 3580      |

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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 16:16:51 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Chip Benowitz)
Subject: "Swiss Army Knife" request...

*************************************************************************
*I am starting a list for all those things that do more than you expect *
*and you just can't live without. I have seen stuff quoted as "The Swiss*
*Army Knife of <topic>", such as THINK C of compilers, or The Macintosh *
*Bible of books. If you have some great book/saftware/hardware/system/? *
*that you have or use and you think it is wonderful, please tell me at: *
*<[e-mail]> and winners will be posted to c.s.m.announce.*
*************************************************************************

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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 09:32 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (Q) MacTCP and 7.1

    Hi, yesterday I installed MacTCP into a Quadra 950 and needed to log
into the VAX of the campus, the problem was that my Ethernet cable had some
trouble so I needed to use LocalTalk lines, the wierd thing is that the
Quadra,
wich is using system 7.1 would not show the appletalk icon inside the MacTCP
control panel, I worked at this problem for over 2 hours, installing a fresh
copy of the CP, reinstalling the EtherTalk from my system 7.1 disks and
nothing
finaly in desperation I called the guys over at the Network and Telecomunica-
tion Dept. and finally they came....2 hours later it still didn't show the
appletalk icon, so we desided to reinstall system 7.0.1 and of course it
did work......any IDEAS!!!  maybe a new version of MacTCP compatible with
system 7.1 (if so could someone tell me how to get it?)
    Thanks a lot.....
Charles Turnbull
Universidad de las Americas-Puebla
Puebla, Mexico
[e-mail] (internet)
[e-mail]       (of course Bitnet)
     P.S. Thanks to all who can help!

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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 09:31:19 -0600
From: [e-mail] (W.A.Kibbe&L.C.Brinson)
Subject: 2MB upgrade kit offer!

Free to a good school! Only people with 1MB macs need apply.

I have been seeing a lot of submissions from people regarding programs and
upgrades for older macs.  I have an old Dove 2MB SIMM upgrade kit that will
convert a 1MB mac to a 2MB mac, and I would like to donate it to a school.
Any takers?  First person to send me their name and school address gets it,
along with the installation instructions.  The manual is a real gem -
describes the possibility of having a Mac with the unheard of total of
4MBytes of RAM! I bought the kit in '86 or '87 for $400+.

Warren
W.A.Kibbe   internet: [e-mail]   GEnie: W.Kibbe  AOL: WAKibbe
        internet: [e-mail]
Voice: [phone]

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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 09:36:53 -0800 (PST)
From: Jim Flanagan <[e-mail]>
Subject: 3 button mice on a Mac running as an X-terminal

in Info-Mac Digest #21, Alan Hewat asks:

> A big problem with using a Mac as an X-terminal to a Unix box (eg Mac-X)
> is that Unix uses a 3 button mouse, and the solution to this in Mac-X is
> clumsy (using the arrow keys).
>
> Does anyone know about using a three button mouse on a Mac?  I have seen
> them advertized, but apparently the other buttons can only be programmed
> to cut, paste etc... in normal Mac applications.

  I am doing this to some degree. I have a Logitech MouseMan, the control
  panel for which allows one to associate buttons with arbitrary key
  combinations (and they can be different from App to App).

  However, I found that if I tried an Option-<Key> combination that a
  mouseup event was never generated. (I had the "Option-arrow means
  mouse click" option selected in MacX). Irritating.

  If I selected "plain arrow means mouse click" option in MacX, I could
  use the mouse normally, but the arrow keys were lost to me unless I
  held the option key down of course. I'm a vi user who has trained my
  spine to use the arrow keys rather than the HJKL keys.

--Jim Flanagan, Software Engineer <[e-mail]>
--Department of Applied Mathematics, FS-20
--University of Washington, Seattle

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Date: 28 Jan 1993 08:59:27 +0100 (MET)
From: "fa-voe@mac-fa" <@dornier.de:"fa-voe@mac-fa"@RGSUN1.DORNIER.DE>
Subject: 3 button mice on a Mac running as an X-terminal (A/Q)

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From: Nick Faller Mic Voelker <fa-voe@mac-fa>
Subject: 3 button mice on a Mac running as an X-terminal (A/Q)
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Alan Heawat wrote:

>A big problem with using a Mac as an X-terminal to a Unix box (eg Mac-X)
>is that Unix uses a 3 button mouse, and the solution to this in Mac-X is
>clumsy (using the arrow keys).
>
>Does anyone know about using a three button mouse on a Mac?  I have seen
>them advertized, but apparently the other buttons can only be programmed
>to cut, paste etc... in normal Mac applications.
>

We use the logitech 3 button mouse at our Macs. The use of this mouse with
Mac-X is absolutely no problem. The mouse buttons can be specialy programmed
for every aplication. In Mac-X case you have to programm them to the arrow
keys.

Our problems with Mac-X are:
- We have no idea how to use the arrow keys in their normal functions, and

- how to reprogram the Mac-function keys for also use of the X-Terminal
  function keys F16 to F20 (Sun unix, find, copy and paste) which are not
  available at the Mac keyboard.

If anyone have an idea, please give a respose.

Nick Faller
Space Division, Dornier GmbH, Friedrichshafen, Germany
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 14:32:02 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Stan Kerr)
Subject: 3 button mice on a Mac running as an X-terminal (Q)

[e-mail] writes:

>A big problem with using a Mac as an X-terminal to a Unix box (eg Mac-X)
>is that Unix uses a 3 button mouse, and the solution to this in Mac-X is
>clumsy (using the arrow keys).

>Does anyone know about using a three button mouse on a Mac?  I have seen
>them advertized, but apparently the other buttons can only be programmed
>to cut, paste etc... in normal Mac applications.

There are at least 3 on the market: the Logitech Mouseman, the MouseSystems
A3 mouse, and the Gravis Supermouse. I have a Logitech mouse; the keys
can be programmed for individual applications, and can be made equivalent to
a double click or a modified keytroke (e.g. option-left-arrow for MacX).
If a modifier key is depressed at the same time a mouse button is depressed,
the modifier is ignored, so the X META key can't be implemented. Logitech has
told me they plan to add a modifier-key capability, to make the mouse a fully
functional X mouse. I haven't tried the other mice yet. Within its limits,
the Logitech mouse has functioned quite well, although some sort of system
conflicts occasionally cause the mouse driver to be disabled, causing it
to behave like a single button mouse (but this is rare).
--

Stan Kerr
Computing & Communications Services Office, U of Illinois/Urbana
Phone: [phone]  Email: [e-mail]

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Date: Thursday, 28 Jan 1993 09:00:36 EST
From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: 3M Diskettes

> Subject: 3M disks-How good are they?

> RE>>Inexpensive 3.5 bulk dis > Sorry for the hasty post before--those disks
w
ere 3M: very reliable.


I have to add my comments that I have found 3M HD disks in particular to
be very nasty in the past.  A significant number in a new box would fail
to format or fail shortly after they were put in use.  A commercial vendor
that we work with also had problems with 3M HD disk failures in their
distribution disks.  (This was last fall).

Recently, our office staff purchased (by mistake) a box of 3M HDs.  Since
I couldn't return them, I used them.  So far they have all been good, but
I haven't gone through the entire box yet.  Perhaps 3M discovered they
had a problem in manufacture and quietly corrected it.  It's too early
to tell (but one can hope).

I used to work in the broadcast field where 3M products were the hallmark
of quality.  I expected the same from their floppy disks and clearly was
dissappointed.


Jeffrey Fritz, [e-mail]
West Virginia University

***** These are my own personal comments, observations and opinions *****

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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 2:25:51 EST
From: Shaw Bernard Wu <[e-mail]>
Subject: 3M disks-How good are they? (C)

On Wed, 27 Jan 93 12:22:20 EST, Pete Tamas states:
>> RE>>Inexpensive 3.5 bulk dis
>> Sorry for the hasty post before--those disks were 3M: very reliable.
>>
>My experience with 3M is pretty negative. Perhaps they have
>improved in the last few years, but before we used high density
>disks, the 800K (double density disks) seemed to go bad regularly.
>Anyone else care to refute that with good results in the last few
>years?

I've used Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing disks for many years and
I haven't had a problem with 'em. In fact, I'm still using 3M disks from
about 5-6 years ago and they still work fine (but it'll probably be wise
for me to replace such 'old' disks).

___
Shaw Wu, NYU Stern School. <[e-mail]>

[Bill, or whoever is the moderator...please post this for me. Thank you.]

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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 21:32:50 GMT
From: Michael Everson <[e-mail]>
Subject: 6.0.8 and networking

What does anyone know about linking to a network via 6.0.8? I don't know
anything about this. I just tried to boot a IIci off 6.0.8; it's
connected to our Ethernet. On one machine the Responder "was not installed"
and the machine crashed. On another machine it "was not installed"
but it didn't crash. I had the idea to pop the System 7.0.1 EtherTalk
Phase 2 extension into the System folder; this time the Responder
was installed, but I couldn't invoke anything in the Chooser
since "AppleTalk was not available". The 6.0.8 disks have no networking
software other than the Responder on them. What do I do?

Michael Everson
School of Architecture, UCD, Richview, Clonskeagh, Dublin 14, E/ire
Phone: [phone]  Fax: [phone]  Home: [phone]

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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 16:38:40 GMT
From: Francois Ichas <[e-mail]>
Subject: about curve-fitting

Dear Networkers,


        I just downloaded curve-fit 0.7f by K.Raner. Although this
        pro-
-gramme is quite nice, I'd like to know if anybody has heard of an improvement
of this stuff, or of similar share/freeware which could perform data fitting
using a lot of parameters (>5) and allowing large data input (>18).
        Just a word concerning gatekeeper : it works quite fine,
        people
using AutoDoubler 1.7i could just notice a slight slowing while uncompressing
files. The list of authorized events provided by the author covers so many
pos-
-sible situations that even unexperienced Mac-ers (as I am) should be advised
to use it.
           Yours, sincerely        Francois   (mazat@frbdx11)

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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:18:24 PST
From: Bill Lipa <[e-mail]>
Subject: Apple takes back HyperCard

As part of a continually
increasing commitment by Apple Computer, Inc. to world-class development
tools, Apple and Claris Corp. today announced they will move product
development of future versions of HyperCard into AppleUs Developer Tools
organization in the Apple Developer Group.
    Apple plans to coordinate HyperCard development efforts with its
AppleScript project to give Apple a unified approach to, and a competitive
advantage in, the emerging area of next-generation software-developer
tools.  AppleScript is an advanced scripting technology for integrating
applications to create custom solutions and to automate routine tasks.
It is scheduled for release in the first half of 1993.
    Apple and Claris believe that this strategy assures the best future
for HyperCard and its users.  With HyperCard as a strategic cornerstone of
AppleUs development-tools strategy, developers and users can look forward
to significant investments in future tools for the HyperCard development
community.
    Claris will continue to market, sell, and support the current version
of HyperCard until Apple ships the next version of HyperCard.  At that
time, HyperCard will become an Apple-labeled product and Apple will assume
worldwide responsibility for support of the HyperCard product.  Apple will
ensure a smooth upgrade path to future HyperCard releases to both current
HyperCard users, as well as new customers who buy HyperCard from Claris.
    "HyperCard perfectly complements AppleUs portfolio of developer
tools," said Kirk Loevner, vice president of AppleUs Developer Group.
"HyperCard and next-generation development technologies such as AppleScript
underscore AppleUs long-standing commitment to excellent authoring and
high-level programming tools."
    "This is a very positive move for HyperCard developers and users,"
said Daniel L. Eilers, Claris president and CEO.  "Apple is well-equipped
worldwide to support development tools, developers, and authors, which
makes this an important step forward for HyperCard."
    HyperCard was transferred from Apple to Claris in late 1991.  Since
then Claris has released HyperCard 2.1 with QuickTime extensions, and the
HyperCard Player and the HyperCard Developers Licensing Kit.  There are
currently more than 100,000 active corporate, education, and commercial
HyperCard developers; three million active users; and the quantity and
quality of HyperCard applications are at an all-time high.











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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 07:34:50 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Mark Vellek, M.D.)
Subject: Backup drives

In Info-Mac V11 #21, [e-mail] (Andy Rollins) queries about
different backup media for a medium sized drive (230meg)...

(R) I've been backing up on a SyQuest mechanism, so you already know my bias
:-)

If you're looking to spend $1200 for the drive and another couple hundred
for media, and you're not planning on backing up another 500meg drive in
addition, I think the cost of media turns out to be the best for
magneto-optical (about $28 per 128meg disk) whereas a SyQuest 88meg is $99
and the Bernoulli 150meg runs $250 (heck, for the price of two of those
cartriges, I can buy an entire new SyQuest mechanism with cartridge!). A
reasonable SyQuest 88 will cost $700 (with a total of three cartridges) and
a MO will cost about $1250 (with two disks). The MO is reported to be more
stable media, even better than Bernoulli, but I've never had a problem with
SyQuest and think the "failure" rate is much talked about, but rarely
experienced. Besides, I use my SyQuest as a second HD all the time, as well
as using it for backup (something you would never even consider with a
DAT).

Enjoy

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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 11:09:23 EST
From: "Christopher B. Hopkins (Wesley)" <[e-mail]>
Subject: booting help/Sys7/Radius

Help!  Here's the problem.  I have a 4/40 SE with a FHDH drive and
a Radius Accelerator 16 (v2.1 ROM) which currently runs System 6.0.7.
I am trying to update it to System 7 but everytime I try to boot off
of the  Installer disk, it fails.  What happens is that the Radius
"business card" appears in the bottom portion of the screen (normal),
the "Welcome" thing shows up, and then it just simply stops spinning the
disk after about 5-10 seconds.  I have tried to boot off of 3 different
disks and they all bomb.  Radius claims their card is the latest version
and should be OK.  What's up??????????

Christopher ([e-mail])

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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 10:11:06 +0200
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Borland

> They've left the products they got when they bought Ashton-Tate
> (FullWrite Pro, Full Impact, and FullPaint) to wither away as changes in the
> operating system and new hardware make them stop working.

This is, of course, unforgivable.  (This means war???)

--Loyal Fullwrite Pro User (Michael Silverstein)

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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 9:43:35 CST
From: [e-mail] (David Gutierrez)
Subject: Borland and the Mac

Borland and the Mac
A couple of digests back, I wrote:
>But can we trust Borland? Look at their support for their various Mac
>products.

>They dropped their utility package (Sidekick). They sold their database
>(dBase Mac).

Ack. I meant Reflex.

David Gutierrez
Univ. Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 13:40:30 EST
From: [e-mail] (Tony Silva)
Subject: CanvasPostscriptView/Mac figs in LaTeX (R)

I know (for sure) that Canvas 3.0.4 will show you a Postscript figure
if the file has (I believe) the EPSF info in the data fork AND
corresponding PICT info in the resource fork. I believe that the
latter is what's used for previewing.  Producing such a Mac file is
not for the faint of heart, but is possible using a bunch of public
domain UNIX tools (GNU awk, grep, and sed; and ps2eps, which requires
pbmplus, pbmtoepsi, and GNU gs). I'm still experimenting with the
process myself, and will hopefully have a GNU Makefile which drives
the whole thing.

Incidentally, my real goal is getting Mac drawings from Canvas 3.0.4
and MacDrawPro 1.0v1 (printed to Postscript files under System 7), as
well as plots and images, into LaTeX documents. I'm currently trying
out tools like psfig.tex, epsf.tex, and dvips. Anyone have any
comments on the best ones to use?

The usual disclaimers apply. If I've misrepresented anything, please
let me know (politely :-)).

Tony Silva, Atlantic Aerospace Elec. Corp., [phone], [e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 09:40:28 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Francis Knight, SIEM UK Felixstowe)
Subject: Cricket Graph Colour Problem

Recently, I almost got excited by the news of a Cricket Graph rewrite. So,
I've upgraded to CG III. There is a history of "III"s not setting the world
alight, and this one is true to form. It tolerates System7, but misses the
opportunity to be truly useful in this decade by omitting Publish &
Subscribe, for instance.

Most annoyingly, though, it's giving some sort of memory problem on my LC
(which is stuffed full of RAM). Even though CG is shown as using only half
of its 1.5M partition, the system's colour handling is periodically
disturbed, to the point of running in monochrome. This is especially
noticeable when switching between Applications.

Anyone using CG these days?
Anyone using CG III _successfully_?

Cheers,
Francis K.

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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 13:06:43 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Cyberspace (C)

Mike Reddy <[e-mail]> writes
>Paul, your admonishment to 'keep our language accurate' with the threat of
>'what
>are the media going to do?' [to language?] is unrealistic. As 'cyberspace, at
>least Gibson's view of it, is not available yet, the word can only serve in a
>jargonistic fashion anyway. Truth to tell, the most annoying terms seem to
>stick; How many people say "Hoover" instead of vaccuum cleaner?

There's the rub: the word is finding application to an existing entity that
does not embody the original intent.  If it looks like a duck, walks like a
duck, and smells like a duck, only then should we call it a duck.

As for annoying terms sticking, in a similar vein, one of my favorite
disappointing terms is "EtherNet".  Think of the marvelous technology that
would justify the use of this name:  something like the "Ocean" concept,
under development (available?) for the Mac, by which you walk around in a
"soup" of connectivity.  However, some selfish oaf just snatched that
lovely term and applied it to what is now boring technology.  A shame.

Paul Baim

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Date: 28 Jan 1993 09:35:48 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Desktop picture with an 040

I remember this subject being explored a few weeks ago, but I never saw
the actual solution.

I'm trying to replace the desktop background with a graphic; previously
(on our IIci) we were using the ColorDesk cp to do so.  Unfortunately, it
doesn't want to work with the Quadra.

Anyone know how this can be solved?

Thanks

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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 14:30:26 GMT
From: [e-mail] ()
Subject: Diacritical Marks for Transliteration

In digest <[e-mail]>
[e-mail] writes:

>Is there anyone on this list who is aware of a font which contains
>diacritical marks, particularly those which are useful in the
>transliterations of lanuages using non-Roman alphabets? I am particularly
>interested in the characters necessary for transliterating Hebrew
>consonants (sin, shin, etc.) and vowels (pointing for hireq and others)
>and the like.

>Would this require a special character set like those used in phonetic
>alphabets, or is there a readily-available font which contains these
>or similar markings?
-----
Perhaps you should look into a font from Linguist's Software, Inc.,
PO Box 580, Edmunds WA 98020-0580 USA, phone [phone].

I know they offer "laserFrench German Spanish (TM)" that has probably
all the diacrics you will need.  But also I seem to remember
that one of their Hebrew fonts also has necessary character modifications
for transliterations.

Louis Janus

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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 11:29 EST
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Diacritical Marks for Transliteration (A)

In 11-21, Alan David Bulley asks for diacritical marks for Hebrew
consonsants and vowels.

I don't know of an explicit Mac font, but there is a file just posted for
Windows that may help. The True Type fonts can be converted to Mac fonts by
using the TT converter in the archives. Naturally, be sure to check with
the creator of the program to make certain such platform conversion is
kosher (good choice of word there, eh?).  Here's the info:

>I have uploaded to WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil:
>
>pd1:<msdos.windows3>
>WGREEK17.ZIP    Greek-Hebrew Fonts/Accenter/Conv CCAT for Win3
>
>                      WinGreek Version 1.7
>   WinGreek - Greek and Hebrew Package for Windows 3.0 and 3.1
>
>Shareware Package for using Greek and Hebrew in Windows.
>
>Includes:
>
>-Screen Fonts for Hercules, EGA, VGA & 8514
>-Printer fonts for 9pin & 24pin Printers, HP LaserJets & Postscript.
>-Utilities for Entering Accents (European Languages & Greek) and
>      Converting between File Formats (WinGreek <=CCAT).
>
>NEW:  Coptic / Greek / Hebrew TrueType Font for Windows 3.1!
>      TrueType For All Printers Supported by Windows 3.1.
>
>
>If You Receive WinGreek in ZIP Files, PKUNZIP will produce the
>following AUTHENTICATION MESSAGE:
>
>Authentic files Verified!  # EMK287  PETER J GENTRY
>
>- -
>Peter Gentry          INTERNET: [e-mail]
Jeff Needleman  <[e-mail]>

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Date: 28 Jan 1993 12:36:06 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Merlyn LeRoy)
Subject: DigiCHANNEL Nu/Xi drivers available via FTP

The new drivers for DigiBoard's Mac serial card, the DigiCHANNEL Nu/Xi, are
now available via anonymous FTP to digibd.com in pub/updates/nuxi.
You can get just the Mac or A/UX driver, or the entire distribution disk.

size name
414K archive.sit.hqx
    A binhexed, stuffit 1.5.1 file of the entire distribution disk.
    Version 3.1.0 (Mac OS, for System 7.0 & 6.0.x)
    Version 3.2.0 (A/UX, for A/UX 3.0 and 2.0.1)
    If you get this file, you don't need the next two - they are
    included.

 32K digichannel.sit.hqx
    A binhexed, stuffit 1.5.1 file of the DigiCHANNEL Mac OS driver.
    Version 3.1.0

 67K dcn.tar.z.uu
    A uuencoded, compressed tarfile of the A/UX driver files.
    Version 3.2.0

You can also get the new driver disk mailed to you by contacting tech.
support at 612/943-9020

---
Brian Westley
DigiBoard
[e-mail], uunet!digibd!merlyn

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

Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 13:17:22 PST
From: "Anthony E. Siegman" <[e-mail]>
Subject: DiskLight

   I recently posted a message about problems with DiskLight.  Turns
out I was using version 1.1, and from messages I've since received it
appears there were widely enountered problems with version 1 of this
program. Version 2.0 may have fixed these; I haven't tried it.

  Apologies for cluttering the net with an old topic; but if it saves
someone else from similar problems, maybe it won't be a complete waste
to have it repeated.

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

Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 19:07:20 -0230
From: "Michael Coyne, Grenfell College, Memorial University of Newfoundland"
<[e-mail]>
Subject: DoveFax+ & PowerKey Remote (Q)

Can anyone tell me whether PowerKey Remote will work with the DoveFax+ modem?
I seem to recall reading somewhere that it will not. Thanks.

Michael Coyne : [e-mail]

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

Date: 28 Jan 1993 08:33:12 -0700
From: "Carl Schlachte.Jr" <[e-mail]>
Subject: DUOQUEST POST

Hello,

I have a question about the makeup of a fully configured DUO "system".
Namely,  what are the minimum components needed to configure the
desktop docking station?  If I read the trades,  etc. I think I need
the following:

1)  Duo 210 or 230
2)  Duo Dock:  comes with mouse and FD.
3)  Keyboard
4)  Monitor (color)

What I'm confused about is,  do I need a display card?  Since the Duo
210 / 230 support gray scale already,  I think I don't...  Do I need
something extra to run a 14" color monitor?  Since the Duo Dock has
only two NuBus slots,  I really rather not use up one to run the
display...  Thanks in advance for any direction that can be provided.

Regards,
Carl

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

Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 09:47:32 -0500
From: [e-mail]  (John DeVivo)
Subject: Electronic Sign-out board question

Has anyone come across a shareware "Electronic Sign-Out" application out
there. We need something that we can have running on a host machine and
people can log onto it to see where their fellow workers are? If not free
shareware does anyone know of an inexpensive program of this kind ?

Thanks'
J. DeVivo, Cornell Information Technologies, [e-mail]

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

Date: 28 Jan 1993 10:14:53 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Charles Grosjean)
Subject: Ethernet number of Quadra

[e-mail] writes:

>>Can someone tell me how can I find out the ethernet number our Quadra 700?
>>Any software tips? (I was hoping for MacEnvy until I realized it is too
>>old.) If I open the casing, can I find the number on the Ethernet "card"?

With MacTCP, hold down the option key and click on the "Ethernet" icon. You
will see a bunch of hex digits below the icon which is your number.

Charles
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 14:25 CST
From: "Robert E. Front" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Font savants

Font savants,

Am interested in locating a TrueType (or LaserWriter)
version of the following fonts: Bodoni, Garamond, and Trump.
Anyone with information leading to their whereabouts please
contact me via my e-mail address.

Thanks,
r o b e r t

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

Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 11:21:27 -0500 (EST)
From: Bill Brideson <[e-mail]>
Subject: FreeHand 3.1 printing directly to DeskWriter C (Q)

   Have any of you run into problems attempting to do this?  When I try
it, I get the lower left quarter of the picture just fine, but that's
all.  The other three-fourths of the picture simply don't appear in any
form at all on the paper.

   I haven't yet asked Aldus or HP about this; thought I'd try you all
first.  My instinct (from past experience) is to distrust HP's printer
driver first, though I'm sure it's possible that FreeHand doesn't print
to QuickDraw printers correctly.  (I don't recall seeing any such
warning in the README file, though.)

   Would it be expedient to solve this by getting Freedom of Press
Light, making FreeHand print to a PostScript file, and letting Freedom
of Press convert the PostScript file to QuickDraw for my DeskWriter C?

   Thanks in advance; I'll post a summary of e-mail responses if
appropriate.

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

Date: 28 Jan 1993 16:14:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Ernest Potenziani <[e-mail]>
Subject: GDS to Mac graphic formats

Does anyone know of any shareware utilities for converting between Mac graphic
formats (such as PICT) and GDS II formats (Graphics Data Stream).  The GDS
format is used for describing masks for lithography, printed circuit board
patterns, etc. Any help would be appreciated.

Ernie Potenziani
US Army Research Laboratory , [e-mail]

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

Date: 28 Jan 1993 15:11:10 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Peter Wayner)
Subject: Ghostscript Problems (R)

Hey, my notes for Ghostscript say that Printing is a no-op.
Any idea how long it will be before I can use Ghostscript
to drive my HP Deskwriter?

-Peter Wayner
([e-mail])

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

Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 00:14:17 PST
From: Willie Strickland <[e-mail]>
Subject: Global Village addresses

Thanks for all the help finding Global Village.  Following is a summary of the
info I received.

   Phone [phone]
   [e-mail].
   GO GLOBAL ...on CompuServe, or send to ...
   FMJM51A ... on Prodigy, or...
   GlobalVillag ... on America On Line.)



Willie

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

Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 08:24:37 EST
From: Clare Durst <[e-mail]>
Subject: gopher for news.answers

I'm not one for reinventing the wheel. Looking for a central gopher
location for FAQs, people pointed me to the news.answers newsgroup
as a central repository of many FAQs, and indeed it is - over 2000, I
think, with everything from unix to dogs to Northern Exposure trivia
cited. But before I pester our beleagured systems people to work yet
another miracle, has anyone else put these into a gopher site? I think
there'd HAVE to be an index for it.

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

Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 05:14:35 EST
From: Greg Stark <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #8

Someone was having trouble getting eps to display in cavas:

EPS is a complicated format that includes both Postscript code (its a
fully functional programming language) and a PICT representation of the
image for screen viewing. The PICT representation is there for the
benefit of devices that can't interpret postscript, including Quickdraw
which is the software that drives the screen and non-postscript printers
like the stylewriter or the imagewriter.

Apparently the EPS file you have does not have the PICT representation
and Canvas cannot interpret Postscript code (a difficult job). What you
need is a program that can interpret the code and add the PICT. I am
told that either freehand or illustrator acn (though Im not sure I
believe that).

Someone asked about a font that has diacritical marks and non-roman
characters:
These are two separate problems. I have a font called the International
Font that claims to have accents for any language that uses the roman
characters, (though my mac is a days drive away by car and its not on
the net, so I cant download it). This would give you flexible accents
for the roman alphabet.

For other alphabets like Hebrew, you would need a Hebrew font. It would
be a big hack to use one font's accents on another's characters, They
dont normally work that way. Thiough they are two separate keystrokes,
the mac chooses a character based on the two keystrokes that contains
both the accent and the character. Mind you, the Hebrew font I have is
not very good, mainly because it doesnt do this. This means the accents
aren't always perfectly well placed.

Somone asked a while ago about a mac that spits out disks before it even
shows an icon:

The only way that could happen is if the mac believes the mouse button
is down. Holding down the mouse button at startup tells the computer to
eject all disks and ignore hard drives until the button is released.
Handy, even necessary since there is no manual eject button. Try
unplugging the mouse before startup. Maybe you have a mouse with the
same problem someone else's had: their button got stuck in the down
position too.

Sorry to combine three answers (and to repeat the last, but I dont
remeber seeing it posted). If this is really bad tell me I wont do it
again.
        --Greg

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

Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 05:27:58 EST
From: Greg Stark <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #8

Someone gave a list of WPs that displayed their font menus in the
various actual fonts:

This list included MacWrite listed as not having this feature. This is
certanly true of the pre-Claris versions, but the MacWrite II that I saw
did indeed display its menu this way.

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

Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:59:31 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Tobias Kuipers)
Subject: Internet services: 2 questions

[e-mail] writes:

>In the current MacWeek there's an article (p. 22) on free databases
>available via Wide Area Information Server (WAIS). According to the
>article, "with a WAIS Mac interface already available, users can
>begin datasurfing WAIS servers today."

>No further details are given. Can anyone expand on this? Where is
>the interface to be found, and how do you access the databases?

>Graeme Forbes

Check out TidBITS #160 it has an article about WAIS. This article explains
a lot more. TidBITS is available thru comp.sys.mac.digest.

--
Tobias Kuipers - [e-mail] - University of Amsterdam - Netherlands

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

Date: 27 Jan 93 21:30:00 CST
From: "Eugene Cohen" <[e-mail]>
Subject: LaserWriter to modem port (R)

I assume that AppleTalk is on, so your Danyna Ethernet Adapter is receiving
plain 'ol localtalk signals.  If that is the case, then you could use
The Apple Internet Router (The old one was called AppleTalk Internet Router).
This will allow you to use both your printer port and your modem port as
AppleTalk network connections.  I'd only do this if I were kind of desperate,
but if you must do it, it'll work.  I'm not sure of the lastest pricing,
but that shouldn't be too hard to find out.  Good luck!

eugene cohen
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 20:06:59 +0100
From: Peter Brunner <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mac or PC

Question:

For what computing platform should one decide when he wants to
do data acquisition and analysis:

    MACINTOSH OR PC ??

I'm not subscribed to the list. Please send to e-mail address

Thanks for any reply

Peter Brunner
M.E.Muller Institute for Biomechanics
University of Bern
Postfach 30
3010 Bern
Switzerland

[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 11:30 EST
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Making chooser find a default printer (A)

In 11-21, Kyle Barger asks for a way to make the Chooser default to a
specific printer after a restart, regardless of its prior setting.

I'd suggest using the Choosy extension provided with QuicKeys. Make it part
of the Finder keyset, timed to run a few seconds after the Finder starts.
(There are timing options of your choice available for every QuicKey.) All
your usual Chooser options can be set through that single extension
(including Printer name, zone, background printing).

QuicKeys is really dozens of programs in one. If I had to pick just one
utility to take to a desert island, it would be QK. Incredibly useful--and
highly recommended to all.
Jeff Needleman  <[e-mail]>

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

Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 13:55 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Memory on the Quadra 700

It sounds like the person having trouble installing an 8 mb RAM SIMM in a
Quadra might be doing just that--trying to install just ONE SIMM.

If that't the case, I believe the solution will be to install 4 SIMMs
(to fill all four slots in the memory bank).

Jay

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

Date: 28 Jan 1993 18:04:51 -0600
From: "Maslin William" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Need regression analysis app (Q)

A toxicologic chemist friend of mine would like to get
some sort of Mac program to do linear regressions and then
calculate the predicted values of x (or is it y?) for his
assays. Presently he uses a calculator for this but would
like to move up into the computer age.

Costly programs like StatView seem like overkill to me
although the student versions might be a solution. Have
any of you math literate netters got any recommendations for
simple shareware or commercial programs to accomplish this
seemingly trivial task?

I'll be happy to post a summary if there is sufficient
interest.

Thanks.

Bill Maslin <[e-mail]>

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

Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 11:30 EST
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <[e-mail]>
Subject: new programs and updates... (A)

In 11-21, Bryan Smith, having deleted Dec/Jan Info-Macs, wonders:
>if anyone could tell me
>if there were any important new programs
>or program updates during this period which
>should be noted.

The answer is categorically NO, Bryan. Nothing of interest to anyone has
been posted to the archives. Everyone is just twiddling their thumbs
waiting for a good one to show up, somewhere. <g>

Seriously--just about everything posted is of interest to someone; many
things are regarded by somebody as important. Without knowing YOUR
interests or the programs you use, how can anyone answer the question for
you? Either download the erased issues once more, or just get some or all
of these files:

-r   148685 Jan 18 20:07 ./help/popular-files.txt
-r   220171 Jan 18 02:17 ./help/recent-abstracts.abs
-r    12297 Jan 19 02:01 ./help/recent-files.txt

Our beloved archivists make the job of catching up pretty easy--but you
have to read through the files yourself to find the "goodies" YOU want.
Jeff Needleman  <[e-mail]>

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

Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 12:07:28 EST
From: Todd Breslow <[e-mail]>
Subject: Odd Finder Problem (Q)

Suddenly the Finder has decided that when a document is double-clicked
(or opened) it wil open the application that created the document but
with a blank, untitled document and not with the document that was
double clicked. What the devil is going on here? I reinstalled the
System and Finder but to no avail.

Does anyone have any idea how I can get rid of this new feature?
I have a Classic II running System 7.1.

Todd Breslow
Internet: [e-mail]
Bitnet: v5149u@templevm

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

Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 15:25:59 -0700
From: [e-mail] (dylan k kuhn)
Subject: PB as SCSI (R)

    A dealer might say that the desktop Mac needs an external HD
already before you can use your PB Duo 230 as one because the HD30
(I think that's the one) cable you must use adapts to a regulare HD
CABLE, not to a port.  If you have access to an AppleTalk network
somewhere: plug an AppleTalk cable into the PB and share your HD
using File Sharing.  Then you can use the PB HD from any other machine
on the network!

    Dylan
    ([e-mail])

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

Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:56:14 -0600
From: Neil Eric Mickelson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Photo CD -> PICT

Hello again!

I've just got one quick question -

What is the quickest, easiest way to convert Photo CD pictures to PICT
format (realizing I will have to save to hard disk) for use in a program
such as Macromedia's ACTION?

Thanks for the help!!

Neil E. Mickelson
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 10:45:27 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Art Werschulz)
Subject: problem with some icons

Hello.

For some reason, the icons for the System, Finder, and Clipboard files
in my System Folder are showing up as plain vanilla document icons,
rather than the usual icons one expects for these files.

I have run Norton Utilities and fixed any existing problems.  I have
rebuilt the Desktop.  Still, I'm seeing the wrong icons.  Norton is no
longer reporting any problems.

HD First Aid showed some problems, but couldn't fix them (it can't
repair the startup disk).  Can I use a System 6 startup disk with HD
First Aid 7.1, or is this doomed?

Other suggestions?

  Art Werschulz         (8-{)}
  Internet:  [e-mail]  ATTnet: [phone]

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

Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 10:06:01 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Jennifer Spielberger)
Subject: Put Away errors

Hello netters!
We have a variety of Macs running Dayna's DOSMounter.  We frequently have a
problem when trying to eject a floppy disk using "Put Away", or by dragging
the disk to the trash.  These problems seem to happen only when the disk is
PC disk, or has PC files on the disk.  We get the message: "Cannot put away
because you don't have enough access priviledges." The disk icon then
dissappears.  The only way to get the disk out is to restart, or use the
"emergency" eject hole.

Has anyone ever had this problem? Is it a DOSMounter bug?  I'd appreciate
any assistance offered!!

Jennifer Spielberger
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 10:11:16 +0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Quadra SIMMS again

Hi all,
Thanks to those people who tactfully pointed out that ALL slots in any bank
should be populated with SIMMS, the problem not simply being that 8MB
devices were prohibited in a Quadra 700. Apparently these are viable too.
(Good job I'm not upgrading my machine!) But it does perhaps go to show
that the upgrade process should be researched a little before splashing out
on new stuff.
"Act in haste, repent at leisure"

Cheers!
Steve
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 14:00:54 +0200
From: [e-mail] (David L. Hirschberg)
Subject: quadra vram (q)

Hello,

Do Quadra 950's come with any VRAM in them?  Ours was delivered with 1 MB
(thousands of colors).  We paid for a VRAM upgrade.  Does that mean we were
suposed to get 2MB or did we get what we paid for.

Also what ever happened to Apollo?  I thought it was in the CP sub directory.

Thank you,

David
[e-mail]

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

Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 23:39:21 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Questions ref. Performas and System Software

Greetings Mac Gods:

Having been computerless more or less for one year now I find myself
the owner of a Performa 600 CD  ($2250) and the regular Apple
hi-res 14" (still 640x480, but with swivel;) monitor.

The first thing I've noticed of course is the talk of the new products
for Feb:)
{[Maybe I'll save for the RISC!]  My questions are basically:

1) Does Apple offer the regular system software setup for the P line?
2) Are there articles on adapting conventional system 7.1 for use
with the Performas?
3) Any juicy rumours on the 040 migration path for the 600 series?
(Heard some a while back)

Re. 2: I don't like the default setup for all docs going into a
Documents folder on issuance of the "Save" command.  Great for
novices I'm sure, but annoying to me.  I like to click on the
desktop or ten other windows to go hither and yon (and possibly
back again).  Anyway, I'm using regular 7 so I've worked around this
for now, but would like to hear of other solutions, approaches, and maybe
an official word from on high.

BTW: The 600 CD has been a wonderful machine the past two days that
I've had it, but with the bundled CDs it's hard to get any time
when my kids aren't crowding me out:)

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

Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 09:21:35 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Francis Knight, SIEM UK Felixstowe)
Subject: Rotated text on Deskwriter C

I had the same problem as Gene Mayro, where rotated text printed as a
bitmap image. In my case, it occurred when using Nisus. I found I could
workaround it by placing an empty line first in the text block. This may or
may not help in Gene's case, as I believe this is an Application problem
rather than the printer driver's.

Cheers,
Francis K.

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

Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 12:30:57 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Joshua Yeidel)
Subject: Source for WAIS software

WAISstation for the Mac is available via ftp from think.com
in the /wais folder.  The docs that come along will get you
started.

-- Joshua

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

Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 10:50:37 PST
From: Jerry Tangren <GSW$[e-mail]>
Subject: Statistics (A)

>Does anybody on the net know anything about software, preferably
>shareware, for the Mac which is similar to SSPS for PC's.  A friend of
>mine needs to do some statistical work around questionnaires.
>Any hints?

If a person is not afraid of programming in Lisp, the best free stats
software available is xlispstat by Luke Tierney. It is available on
archives worldwide as well as directly from

   umnstat.stat.umn.edu in the pub/xlispstat directory

Jerry Tangren
Wenatchee WA
<gsw$[e-mail]>

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

Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 14:29:48 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Strange error message (Q)

A couple of times lately I have seen a peculiar error box on my SE/30.
It reads:

     'The application Unknown has unexpectedly quit because <Hard Disk
     Name>.'

It doesn't tell me what the hard disk did or didn't do. It's not even a
complete sentence. Most recently I saw this message when attempting to
open a non-TeachText doc in TeachText. First I got the box telling me
the prog was not installed and would I like to open with TeachText; when
I said yes, TeachText opened momentarily then shut again and the strange
error box popped up.  I tried again, with the same result. Anyone have
any ideas what this message might be trying to tell me?

As always, many TIA for any help.

Pat Ullmann  [e-mail] or PULLMANN@TRINITY (BITNET)

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

Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 11:59:21 +0100
From: [e-mail] (lab stp - Fabrizio Oddone - 181292 )
Subject: StyleWriter: no fractional widths!

I am the author of the function key (FKEY) Font Control 1.0 (it is not an
extension!), available on Sumex as /info-mac/fkey/font-control-10.hqx; 7K.
As you can see by choosing Page Setup... or Print... in the Finder, the
ImageWriter and StyleWriter drivers offer no control over Fractional Widths.
Print a Times 12 page with FW turned on and off, then compare.
There is a thorough explanation about the "Fractional Widths & Font Scaling"
story in the docs enclosed with Font Control. (It is worth the 7K download!)
Regards,
- Fabrizio Oddone

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

Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 19:02:39 GMT
From: "Ray Kallman" <[e-mail]>
Subject: SuperClock! 4.0.2 Problems

All,

    I just downloaded and installed SuperClock! (4.0.2) only to find
that I have the same problems on my Plus (with 6.0.7) that I had with
version 4.0.1.  Version .2 was supposedly a bug fix to correct problems
with the first version.  Version .1 crashed on b&w macs running both
system 6.x and 7.  Now version .2 crashes my mac Plus on startup even
with no other inits (extensions) running.  Version .2 does run on a mac
SE with system 7.

    Has anyone else had these problems?

-Ray Kallman
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 28 JAN 93 13:05:41 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: SuperClock 4.0.1 and 4.0.2

I downloaded SuperClock! 4.0.1 just after it appeared, and installed it
on two Macs with colour and System 7 without problems. When I tried to put
into onto a Plus running System 6.0.7, it damaged my Finder when I tried
to set up the controls. So it seemed nice to see the note in Info_Mac
saying there WERE problems and that 4.0.2 should fix them. However, when
I tried to put 4.0.2 onto the Plus the same thing happened, this time along
with various startup messages about being out of memory! So it's back to
the old version for the Plus.
   Sorry to have to mention this, since I am a happy and long-time user
of SuperClock!

Eric Eisenhandler, Physics Department, Queen Mary & Westfield College,
University of London, England          [e-mail]

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

Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 12:52:36 ITA
From: [e-mail] (Fabrizio Oddone)
Subject: System enabler for 32 bit dirty ROMs (Q)

Has anybody news about the System Enabler for Mac II, IIx, IIcx, SE/30 ??
Was it AppleVaporware or what?

Bye.

--
Fabrizio Oddone, user of the UnixBBS System @ osra.sublink.org
E-Mail: [e-mail]
    ****< UnixBBs Italy (Turin) >****
    Ph: [phone] [phone]

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

Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 08:22:13 EST
From: Clare Durst <[e-mail]>
Subject: virus?

Aha, I knew that would get your attention! A friend just passed this
to me: info that in Tidbits 14/Dec/92 Frederic Rinaldi warned about
 a possible Trojan Horse virus. I've seen nothing about this since
then, and I did do a scan of past digests. I haven't seen an update
to Disinfectant, and I don't use Gatekeeper. Am I missing something
here?

[A Trojan horse is not a virus; it does not spread automatically. Disinfectant
 doesn't "do" Trojan horses. I am pretty sure that it has been discussed in
 the digest, but I don't recall the issue number. -Bill]

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

Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 10:33:54 PST
From: Nathan Gilliatt <[e-mail]>
Subject: WAIS client for Mac

Graeme Forbes <[e-mail]> asks:

> In the current MacWeek there's an article (p. 22) on free databases
> available via Wide Area Information Server (WAIS). According to the
> article, "with a WAIS Mac interface already available, users can
> begin datasurfing WAIS servers today."
>
> No further details are given. Can anyone expand on this? Where is
> the interface to be found, and how do you access the databases?

WAIStation is available via anonymous FTP from think.com. Get:

    /wais/WAIStation-0-63.sit.hqx
    /wais/WAIStation-User-Guide.sit.hqx

You'll need MacTCP and a willingness to learn what is still an experimental
service.  Thinking Machines' WAIS server is the best source of info on
finding other sources.

    - Nathan

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

Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 09:00:17 -0500
From: [e-mail] (STAN NICKLE, MARSHALL LAB, 339-6409)
Subject: WAIS info (A)

In Info-Mac Digest V11 #21 Graeme Forbes asks...

>In the current MacWeek there's an article (p. 22) on free databases
>available via Wide Area Information Server (WAIS). According to the
>article, "with a WAIS Mac interface already available, users can
>begin datasurfing WAIS servers today."

>No further details are given. Can anyone expand on this? Where is
>the interface to be found, and how do you access the databases?

Checkout the WAIS article in TidBITS#160/25-JAN-93. It discusses info
on WAIS client software for Macs and VT100s emulators.  Additional
info can be found in the wais directory on think.com and in articles from
the comp.infosystems.wais newsgroup.

Stan Nickle
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 12:08:56 -0700 (MST)
From: [e-mail] (dave)
Subject: Where can you get the best price/deal on Macs ? (Q)

I have a friend that is a commercial artist that is getting ready
to take the plunge into automation. I have two questions to ask on his
behalf:

   1. What is the best configuration to meet his needs ?

   2. Where can he get the best price ?


He has gotten two quotes locally here (educational via local community college
and a business called ValCom). Here is the configuration he has looked
at with the approximate costs:

    Quadra 700 230/4          $ 4118.00
    Extended keyboard            156.00
    Apple 16in monitor          1199.00
    SunlandMicro 4mb memory      153.00
    MicroTek Scanmaker II XE    1122.00
     (flatbed 1200 dpi)
    Pinnacle Micro 650mb        2848.00
     (optical)
    Procom Tech 44mb remov HD    475.00
     (Syquest w/cart)


Any and all assistance would be appreciated. Thanks in advance !


David Foard

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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 14:33:32 -0500
From: Brian K. Kobleur <[e-mail]>
Subject: Wyse Emulation

I'm looking for a Wyse emulation tool for the Communication Toolbox.
Commercial or public domain.

Rusty Rowell
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Rusty, don;t know where you can find a CTB tool for this, but MacEmulate is
an excellent terminal emulation program that will do both Wyse 50 and Wyse 60
emulations, both regular and enhanced.

MacEmulate is by Cornerstone Data Systems in Anaheim, CA.  Their phone number
is 714/772-5527.

Brian

I am not affiliated with CDS in any way.  I just like their emulator!

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