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Info-Mac Digest             Thu, 20 Aug 92       Volume 10 : Issue 200

Today's Topics:

      "Bus Error" ?
      a Freehand problem (2 msgs)
      AppleWorks to MS Works Translator
      Bad IIci cache card
      Ehman Repairs (A)
      Kermit 0.99(97) doesn't like Adobe Type Reunion
      KeyCaps Menu Name Results
      mac 512 system
      MacTCP - TCPack
      Moving footnotes in Word 5.0 to end of file (R)
      naming imagewriters w/sys 7
      Now Utilites 4.0 scam
      Now Utilities 4.0
      Now Utilities 4.0 (A)
      Now Utilities 4.0: scam or suave marketing? (R)
      postmaster (NOT ..mistress)
      Printing cards in HyperCard
      PwrSwitcher 1.0.final on AOL  (Request)
      QUILL copy  ( R)
      SBFix
      StartupManeger (C)
      System 7 Print Drivers (FAQ?)
      Time Stamp Versions
      Trainable OCR (Q)
      VGA monitors (C)

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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 10:19:19 -0700
From: [e-mail]
Subject: "Bus Error" ?

>>What is a bus error, in general and in this context?
>>What is it a symptom of?
>
>It's just a bug in a program really.  It can be caused by a number things,
>none of which should be your fault.  It's usually caused by something like
>a program trying to use some memory which it has already released.

I know what a bus is - it is a piece of hardware inside my machine.
Therefore the term "Bus Error" suggests a hardware failure, but apparently
that is not what it really signifies.  Can anyone explain why such
misleading terminology was adopted?

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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 08:38:06 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Yaron Minsky)
Subject: a Freehand problem

I've been having problems with Aldus Freehand 3.0. I have a rather large
document which contains a number of TrueType fonts. When I try to print it,
the
printer chokes on it. It usually prints out part of the document, along with a
message that there was a postscript error. Anyone know why this happens?

Yaron Minsky

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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 09:21:31 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Yaron Minsky)
Subject: a Freehand problem

I've been having problems with Aldus Freehand 3.0. I have a rather large
document which contains a number of TrueType fonts. When I try to print it,
the
printer chokes on it. It usually prints out part of the document, along with a
message that there was a postscript error. Anyone know why this happens?

Yaron Minsky

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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 16:56:15 -0400
From: Scott E Maxwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: AppleWorks to MS Works Translator

I want to thank all the people who responded to my request
for info on a AppleWorks to Mac translator.  Several people
mentioned a free translator file from Microsoft that would
translate Appleworks to MS Works.  They even offered to send
it to me.  If those people are out there reading this, you
don't need to send it to me.  I decided to try CompuServe.
After about 10 minutes of searching the multitude of
Microsoft Forums, I found the file and downloaded it.
Thanks to those that pointed me in the right direction and
supplied me with the information.

Scott Maxwell
The University of Michigan
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 10:25:30 -2300
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Bad IIci cache card

We got a real weird one in about a month ago - a new IIci with cache card,
etc.  It was bombing all over the place.  Bad F-line errors, "unexpectedely
quit" - etc.  We tried software, reinited the hard drive, replaced the hard
drive.

When we took out the cache card, it settled down (we had a reproducable
failure procedure - just try to open any document in Word 5 and - bombs
away!).  We put the suspect cache card in annother IIci that had an apple
portrait monitor running off internal video.  It worked fine.  But when we
attached a 12" b/w monitor instead of the portrait - bombs away!

Seems that the bad cache card is reacting with certain internal video
configs to a bad end.  When I set the b/w monitor to 8-bit greys - it
works.  When I set it to i-bit - bombs away!

Anybody else ever see this?  Any comments?  Thanks!

Colin Lamb - MacMeister 8-)>  -  Drake University  -  Des Moines

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Date: 20 Aug 92 09:33:00
From: Bob (R.B.) Summers <[e-mail]>
Subject: Ehman Repairs (A)

> From: [e-mail] (Zach, the Lego Maniac)
> Subject: Hard Drive repairs

> I have an external 80mb hd that I need to get fixed, It is an Ehman so
> I can't get them to fix it, Anyone know where I could get it fixed?


According to an article by Deorah Branscum in Aug 92 MacWorld (p65),
"Ehman ...isn't actually out of business and has no plans to file for
bankruptcy"  Michael Ehman is associated with a new company called
Bridgette, which "will support Ehman customers as it markets Ehman and
Cutting Edge products".  In fact, I saw a recent Ehman ad that mentions
that Ehman is a Bridgette company.  So all is not necesarily lost.
However, I don't have any addresses or phone numbers for either company
and I don't know who you should contact first.

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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 21:27:13 EDT
From: "Charles A. Patrick" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Kermit 0.99(97) doesn't like Adobe Type Reunion

After downloading this latest version of Kermit from Columbia, I found that it
would crash with the message Bus Error whenever I tried to open it. There are
two points worth noting in this connection: this was not my first encounter
with this message, having had the pleasure earlier and on several occasions
with Word5; this was my first encounter when trying to open an application.
Furthermore, this event disappeared when relaunched with all extensions off.

To cut a long story short: I threw out the entire system folder, reinstalled
7.0.1 and tuned it, and THEN, installed the inits one at a time, using fresh
copies, and after each installation tested Kermit. All went well for a while:
installed INIT, restarted, opened Kermit successfully, installed INIT  . . .
.
. . . . . until I installed Adobe Type Reunion and restarted, whereupon Kermit
balked with its usual Bus Error message. Removed Type Reunion and all was
sweetness and roses again. I went on with my subsequent installations without
incident.

I might add in closing that this is not my first unfortunate encounter with
Type Reunion. It also screws up certain of FoxBase's functions and I suspect
those of Word5 and others, though more sporadically.

Those long and counter-intuitive lists of font names are going to be a royal
pain . . . . .

Not so much Cheer!

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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 14:52:27 -0400
From: "Keith E Gatling" <[e-mail]>
Subject: KeyCaps Menu Name Results

Okay, thanks to all the people who responded, and here's what I've found
out.

First of all, the problem wasn't that I didn't know about such great
programs as PopChar, but that I actually wanted a KeyCaps-like DA that
merely had what I thought should be the correct menu name for selecting
different fonts.

Next, I've found out that the KeyCaps menu is really the "Whatever You've
Renamed This Stupid DA To" menu.  This means two things, first of all,
that when I renamed KeyCaps to "Ugly Sucker" it also had an "Ugly Sucker"
menu rather than a KeyCaps menu.  It probably also means that there's no
way to do a ResEdit hack on it to make it behave "correctly."

And finally, Graeme Forbes has told me about a utility available from
DublClick software, and I really ought to write them to find out more
about it.  Maybe I'll do that today.

Now...who do we have to write to at Apple to get them to make this thing
work the way it ought?!?

keg

* Keith E Gatling                                  [e-mail] *

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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 17:38:18 BST
From: Paul Johnson <[e-mail]>
Subject: mac 512 system

I have just acquired a Mac 512, and need a 400k system for it. I have
been told that it requires system 2.0 or earlier. Anybody out there
still running one of these oldies?

Thanks in advance,

Paul Johnson.

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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 13:18:18 SST
From: Chiang-Seng Chong <[e-mail]>
Subject: MacTCP - TCPack

I'm trying to access ChemX on a Vax using a Mac IIx. ChemX is a software
for analysing chemical structure. The MacIIx is connected via Ethernet
card to the campus network. I can access the Vax using Telnet 2.5. However,
the graphic software (GKS 3D Windows) that runs on the Mac needs TCPack to
interface with the Vax. Is there anyone out there with this software?

Please send mail direct to me at [e-mail]
Thank you very much.

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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 21:03:49 CST
From: Dan Griswold <[e-mail]>
Subject: Moving footnotes in Word 5.0 to end of file (R)

Peter Jorgensen asked how to change automatic footnotes in a Word 5.0
document to real numbers, still superscripted, with a minimum of pain.
I believe that the solution lies in saving the document in interchange
format, changing the relevant RTF command codes to numbers, saving these
changes, and then having Word convert the RTF file back into Word 5
format. More clearly, the steps appear to be as follows:

1.  Choose the "Save As" command. Enter a file name, and (to keep
    things clear), end the name with ".RTF"
2.  From the menu at the bottom of the screen ("Save  File as Type"),
    choose "Interchange Format (RTF)." Click the Save button.
3.  Word will give you the Summary Info box. Do as you wish with this.
    Cancel simply cancels the Summary Info, not the save process. (You
    probably knew that :-) )
4.  The RTF file will open in a new window. At this point you may change
    the automatic footnote commands to numbers. Choose the Find command,
    and in the dialogue box put "chftn" (without the quotes, of course).
5.  When it has found the first occurence of chftn, close the Find
    window, to give yourself access to your text. The chftn will be
    highlighted. Type "1" to change the auto-reference to a real #1.
6.  Find the next occurence of chftn by pressing option-command-A (that
    is, the "Find Again" command). Yer on yer way to changing all fn
    numbers.
7.  Save the file with the old-simple Command-S. Close it.
8.  Open that file again. Word will either automatically interpret
    the RTF file into Word 5 format, or it will ask you if it should.
    This all depends on how your preferences are set.

I know that this is not _quite_ as automatic as one would reasonably
want, but, with this method, one does not have to mess with super-
scripting at all. This remains unchanged.

Hope this helps.

Dan Griswold  VPNU0001@SMUVM1
          [e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 15:52:52 -2300
From: [e-mail]
Subject: naming imagewriters w/sys 7

folks,

how does one name appletalk imagewriters on a system 7 network.  It seems
the ol namer does not do system 6.  Any ideas?  thanks!

Colin Lamb - MacMeister 8-)>  -  Drake University  -  Des Moines

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Date: Thursday, 20 Aug 1992 09:17:45 EDT
From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Now Utilites 4.0 scam

Jerry Wilcox complained that the new Now Utilities Startup manager has
been changed so that it moves extensions and control panels in and
out of their folders, like the Extension Manager.  Hooray for Now 4.0!

I own Now Utilities 3.0.2 and have refused to use the old startup
manager because it does change file types.  Jerry may have a point
about incremental backups when items move from folder to folder, but
I never have liked another application fooling around with an extension's
or control panel's internals.  SAM, and other virus checkers, like that
kind of activity even less -- because it resembles what some viruses
do.  I much prefer to have something like the new version of the
Startup Manager or Apple's Extension Manager which takes a kindler
and gentler approach.  (Sorry about that, I've been watching the
Republican Convention too much!).

Jeffrey Fritz
West Virginia University

Obviously the thoughts above only represent my opinions.

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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 09:08:47 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: Now Utilities 4.0

In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
> I had been assuming that I would continue to be able to use the 3.0 version
> of DeskPicture, especially since there are only PLANS for the package which
> will include it, the package isn't ready to be released yet. This is most
> distressing.

Why? The only problem you might have is having to reinstall it if
the new Installer deletes all old versions of the utilities, including
those that aren't replaced. It's not as though it will automatically
conflict with the newer utilities or anything.

> This is, IMHO, nothing more than a marketing ripoff - let's sell a package
> of software, then break it up into two or three pieces and see if we can
> sell updates to three packages instead of one.

I must disagree with this. Now explained why they were
splitting up the utilities rather clearly. They can save memory
and clean things up by making these utilities System 7-only,
whereas DeskPicture and ScreenLocker have no relationship to
any one system, and AlarmsClock will merge with Now Up-to-Date.
They also have said that customers were consistently confused
as to why AlarmsClock, DeskPicture and Screen Locker were
included with the rest of the utilities since the others are
all functional interface enhancements, whereas those three are
independent utilities that do not specifically enhance
functional elements of the interface.

Quite frankly, I'm glad to see Now having the guts to pull the
confusing utilities from the package. It's rare in this
industry that a feature will be removed from a program just
because no one uses it, and all that results in is massive
programs with tons of features that few people actually ever
use. I use the Now Utilities and have for a long time, and I
must admit that they pegged it right for me. I use all of the
utilities they are retaining and none of the ones they are
dropping, although I also do currently use NUD.

You can't and shouldn't try to please everyone all of the time
because that waters down the original vision of the program.
This actually happened before when they added the features of
Memory Sizer (I think that's what it was called - now it's
AppSizer, both by Michael Peirce) to MultiMaster. Now has to
continually go through an evaluation process to determine the
ultimate set of utilities, not just the largest set they could
include.

I'm all in favor of assuming either ignorance or maliciousness
in many business or governmental decisions, but I'm afraid I
merely see this as a good business move for the company that
will also provide the best set of similar utilities for the
customer.

cheers ... -Adam

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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 04:10:48 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Erik A. Johnson)
Subject: Now Utilities 4.0 (A)

ROBERT_BROCKMAN <[e-mail]> writes:
> I spoke with a man named "Joe" who told me that the packages were being
> engineered to work only with the most recent pieces of each other, to
> prevent, among other things, the confusion Apple had with differing system
> version numbers (System 5.1 with Finder 6.0.2 with LaserWriter 5.2 and
> Chooser 7.0 etc.). This kind of makes sense, but I can't imagine how
> AlarmsClock 3.0.2 would have any kind of code that would disrupt subsequent
> 4.0 utilities, but I'm no programmer (still trying to get through Symantec's
> Just Enough Pascal!).
>
> Today I spoke with a woman (didn't get her name) who said that what Joe had
> said was incorrect, that YES, you could keep using the selected bits from
> 3.0.2 with 4.0 without HAVING to upgrade and buy other software (like having
> to buy Up-To-Date just to get AlarmsClock). I'd much rather believe her, but
> I'm still going to wait a few more weeks and see what really happens and how
> the net reacts to the "improvements" in 4.0.

Russ Arcuri <[e-mail]> writes:
>When I called Now with the same concerns, I was told that the AlarmsClock
>and Deskpicture utilities from 3.0 would still work along with the new
>utilities from 4.0, and that the only disadvantage would be that they would
>still use just as much memory as they always had.  I was NOT given the
>impression that version 4.0 was engineered specifically to make the older
>utilities useless.
>
>As far as marketing is concerned, I DO wish that AlarmsClock and
>Deskpicture were still included in the Now Utilities package.  But it will
>only become a major concern if the 3.0 versions DON'T work with 4.0.

One more data point ... It was said on NOW's area on AOL that v3.0.2 of
AlarmsClock _should_ work with v4.0 of the other utilities.

Erik A. Johnson <[e-mail]>

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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 19:51:38 EST
From: "Klaus Fechner" <[e-mail]> (by way of
[e-mail])
Subject: Now Utilities 4.0: scam or suave marketing? (R)

In Info-Mac Digest  Volume 10 : Issue 198 ROBERT_BROCKMAN
<[e-mail]> wrote:
 ...

>On the negative side (and what this is all about) is that I use AlarmsClock.
>If I upgrade to 4.0, I won't be able to use it anymore unless I order the
>Up-To-Date 2.0 package. I spoke with Now and they said that the 4.0 package
is
>engineered NOT to work with 3.0.x components.

...

Prompted by similar questions, one of Now's support persons stated in Now's
section on AOL that AlarmsCLock 3.0.2 should still work with the 4.0 release.

That sounds certainly more reasonable...

Klaus

Klaus P. Fechner
[e-mail], [e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 10:19:37 -0700
From: [e-mail]
Subject: postmaster (NOT ..mistress)

Robert Hess writes:
> (stuff deleted).
> In an attempt to verify this, I specifically asked CIS' Postmaster
>(who's a woman, I suspect by the name, so I guess it's 'Postmistress' [sounds
>kind of S&M] or 'Postperson') whether I could expect ...
>
"postmaster" is the name of a standard e-mail-box that exists at most
locations.  The name does not change with the sex of the person who uses
it. (Nor do Eudora or Kermit change their names according to the sex of the
users.)  The gramatical concept of gender has no place in computer
technology.

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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 13:37:07 EST
From: [e-mail], kelley@192.12.67.1
Subject: Printing cards in HyperCard

Are there any ways to speed up the process of printing cards in HyperCard. I
am
thinking of copying the graphic and printing the clipboard, or saving the
graphic as a pict file an printing it from MacDraw. Any other ideas out
there?

Troy Kelley

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Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 01:35:10 JST
From: Masatsugu Nagata <[e-mail]>
Subject: PwrSwitcher 1.0.final on AOL  (Request)

Hello,

Could someone (who has connection to America OnLine) post
   PwrSwitcher version 1.0 (final)
to Internet archives?

Sumex has only the alpha version 1.0a2,
and UMich has a later version, but a beta 1.0b1.

The author, Dave Lamkins, wrote to me:
>
> This is done in PwrSwitcher 1.0, which is available on America Online.
>

PwrSwitcher is a Control Panel (1.0a2 was an Extension), that lets you
switch between running application via keyboard (the 'Power' key).

For those who have recommended Apollo over PwrSwitcher in the Digests:
version 1.0b1 or later has an important new feature, "app-marking", that
it not only lets you cycle through applications, but also lets you
directly switch back-and-forth between two applications of your choice.
(The choice can also be done in an instant, at any time.)

Of course, Apollo's switcher has other advantages, so both are very
useful, I use them both, actually.   ;)

The author told me that the final 1.0 has fixed another problem in 1.0b1,
so, please...  Anybody?

Thank you in advance,

Mark Nagata ([e-mail])

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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 16:11:38 CDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: QUILL copy  ( R)

>Trying to find the da "QUILL". It's a DA that reads text, ttro, Word,
>MacWrite, WriteNow, Nisus, and perhaps others.....
>Alex McCormick pointed me to this da assuming it was still at sumex-aim,
>but it isn't.
>Thanks for your help!!
>
>Hans Kroeger

Hans, if you can't find Quill on any of the ftp sites I have a copy I'll
be happy to send you.  Let me know.

It's a pretty neat little DA.

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

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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 15:48:56 -0400
From: Scott E Maxwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: SBFix

I have one real simple question.  What does SupreBoomerang
Fixer fix?  I down loaded sometime ago, but there was no readme
or info file with it.  Any help would be appreciated.

Scott Maxwell
The University of Michigan
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 22:57:20 EDT
From: Tim <[e-mail]>
Subject: StartupManeger (C)

Jerry Wilcox <[e-mail]> said
>The
new version, according to the mailing, will turn them on and off by moving
them into and out of the Extensions and Control Panels folder (no mention
what they are going to do with the ones which still have to live in the
System Folder itself. Extension Manager works this way, and that is
precisely the reason why I switched to using StartUpManager...

But this is the precise reason that I use Extension Manager because I want
to be able to copy the disable init and cp to other disks without first
enable them.  But then I don't back up religiously:-)

Tim

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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 10:02:09 EST
From: John Alciere <[e-mail]>
Subject: System 7 Print Drivers (FAQ?)

Recently, several brand new Macs have been connected to our corporate
network.
These Macs, being new, are running System 7.  Because the System 7 laser
drivers are incompatible with the System 6 drivers, the rest of us have
upgraded to System 7, or at least installed the System 7 drivers.  Prior to
upgrading, we experienced a lot of "The printer has been initialized with an
incompatible version of laser prep ..." messages from our laser printers.

My group prints a high volume of MS Word (4.0) documents, which contain
graphics created via SuperPaint 2.0.  None of the pages containing graphics
could be printed.  Trying to do so generated postscript errors, and sometimes
caused our Macs to hang.  However, from within SuperPaint 2.0, the graphics
can
be printed.  Reverting to System 6 (and the old drivers) didn't help; the
documents still generated frequent postscript errors, from any printer that
had
previously been initialized with the System 7 laser prep.

The only workaround we have been able to devise involves re-opening each of
our
SuperPaint documents, using Aldus SuperPaint 3.0 (which, incidentally, is a
memory hog), and re-pasting them into the MS Word documents.  This works 90%
of
the time;  however, it is a tedious and time-consuming process!  This seems a
very high price to pay for the privilege of upgrading to System 7, considering
that we had absolutely no problems with our laser drivers or applications
prior
to upgrading.

Incidentally, because System 7 and Aldus SuperPaint 3.0 are so memory
intensive, we also had to upgrade the memory in our Mac IIcx's from 5 to 8
Meg.

My appologies if this is a FAQ:  have others experienced my frustrations?

My opinions are my own, and not necessarily those of my employer.

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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 21:05:34 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Time Stamp Versions

Folks, this is too yummy to keep to myself. I read in a recent MacWorld
that Norton 2 had problems with "certain" accelerator cards and that one
should contact Symantec for a fix. If one had a problem. Leslye's goosed
Mac II (DayStar 40MHz PowerCache and FPU) has been going kabloie of late,
for no more reason than usual, so I dropped NORTON.TECH a note. Mike said
they'd send the update. Independent of whether I had even the slightest
inkling that it was Norton instead of Leslye causing the kabloies.

A fedex arrived yesterday with the complete set of Norton 2 disks. Being
a proper dolt, I looked at the contents. Hmmm. Same version (2.0). Same
date (Monday, April 20). Did they send me what I already have? I dropped
another note. No, you silly goose. Look at the time stamp on each file.
Sure nuff, my originals were created at 2:01PM. This new set was created
at 2:03PM. Mike thought it should have been 2:02PM. They snuck a new one
in on him. That makes the new disks 2 generations newer.

Is this a hoot or what? Symantec is using the time stamp for incremental
upgrades instead of changing the version number/date. Leslye's response
was her ingenuous smile and a "We don't admit our errors, do we?"

I dunno, Symantec, do we?

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 16:44 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Trainable OCR (Q)

Hi.  Does anyone have experience with trainable OCR and/or HP Scanjet IIP
scanner.  I have used a hand scanner with Olduvai's Read-It Pro in the past.
When I moved up to this flatbed scanner I discovered that Olduvai has not
yet written a driver for this latest scanner.  Caere's OmniPage Pro apparently
uses a whiz bang method for scanning but they could not convince me that
they could teach this program to recognize the Cyrillic (Russian) alphabet.
I would appreciate your experiences.

Felix [phone]

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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 18:37:27 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Mel Martinez x8378)
Subject: VGA monitors (C)

After reading some comments in the last few digests, there seems to be some
confusion.  Let us see if we can straighten this out.

First of all, as of this writing, without the benefit of an additional video
card, the only macs currently out there that can produce VGA TIMING for their
video output are the LC, LC II and the Quadras.

Next, many VGA monitors happen to be either multi-frequency or multiscan.
This
means they can synchronize with more than one set of frequencies.  If the
monitor's sync range overlaps the output frequencies of the 'standard' Mac
640x480 frequencies, then that monitor can also work with the MacIIsi and
MacIIci built-in video.  Given the proper mapping of pins in the cable
adapter,
of course.

Thus, it is definitely possible for some Mac IIci's & IIsi's to be out there
with 'VGA'-labeled monitors.  They just happen to still be driving it at
Mac-frequencies, is all.

For the record:

VGA signal properties:

Resolution :          640 x 480
Horizontal Scan       31.47 kHz
Vertical Scan         59.95 Hz
Pixel Clock           25.175 MHz


Mac standard '13" Apple RGB' signal properties:

Resolution :           640 x 480
Horizontal Scan        35.0 kHz
Vertical Scan          66.7 Hz
Pixel Clock            30.24

As you can see, the Mac standard calls for refreshing the screen much more
often and accounts for why, despite identical resolution, a 'Mac' display
often
seems nicer and easier on the eyes.  It also points out that, between just
these two standards, the Mac standard is more demanding and has called for a
generally higher quality (i.e. more expensive) monitor.  With the advent of
other standards such as SVGA and XVGA in the PC world, more and more monitors
are multiscanning and serve equally well on both platforms.

I hope this clears up some confusion.

Mel Martinez
The Johns Hopkins University
Dept. of Physics
[e-mail]

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