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- Info-Mac Digest Thu, 12 Nov 92 Volume 10 : Issue 271
-
- Today's Topics:
-
- [*] Fist Fighters
- [*] Maple V Demo
- [*] Personal Bomb! 1.0.1
- [*] Re: Mini Chihuahua Mini Chihuahua Mini Chihuahua Mini Chihua
- [*] replacement of NEW-teeny-deriver.sit.hqx
- [*] StackPacker 1.0.1
- Alternative to Chooser for printer selection?
- Anagrams <-> Ars Magna
- Apple TrueType Font Pack
- Archives on CD-ROM
- Ars Magna/Anagrams/A Rags Man
- Balloon creator/ TeX fonts.
- Cant empty trash (Q)
- ClarisWorks and Virex???
- Coprocessor not installed?
- Ethernet Cards for IIsi (Q)
- I think you are the one to ask
- Long signatures & disclaimers
- Mac and Espon FX printer ??
- Mail Order ADVISORY!
- Mystery file in Apple Menu Items (Q)
- Need help importing 3D DXF files
- None
- PowerBook 100's available
- Printing fonts
- Quadra 900/Hard disk Icon
- quicktime15.image???
- Startup Screen disappears before extensions load
- Upgrade program for Personal LaserWriter LS in the USA ?
- X Windows on the Mac
-
- The Info-Mac newsgroup is moderated by Bill Lipa.
-
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-
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 18:07:01 PST
- From: cokin@scf.usc.edu (Darren Cokin)
- Subject: [*] Fist Fighters
-
- This is a karate game by Cellusoft. Cellusoft is the one man operation that
- brought us Movod I & II, and Mr. MakeMagic (which I haven't seen). Like the
- Movod games, Fist Fighters has good graphics but still isn't that great a
- game. This game does look good, but the game play is bad. One or two
- players,
- 256 colors required. I'm posting it because some people expressed intrest
- in it, but I don't really like it myself.
-
- Darren
-
- [Archived as /info-mac/game/fist-fighters.hqx; 678K]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 16:00:05 EST
- From: J S Greenfield <greeny@top.cis.syr.edu>
- Subject: [*] Maple V Demo
-
- This is a demo for Maple V. (The demo is actually a user-controllable
- movie of Maple V in action, doing different things...)
-
- For those of you who don't know, Maple V is a symbolic and numeric math
- package, similar to Mathematica. However, the student version of Maple V
- is only $99, and *does* include an FPU version, for those of us who are
- lucky ebough to have FPUs! :) Also, Maple uses a relatively small core,
- along with library modules, so that it is much less demanding than
- Mathematica in the RAM department.
-
- The demo has an 800 number for ordering, in case you decide you are
- interested.
-
- Enjoy.
-
- [Archived as /info-mac/demo/maple-v.hqx; 969K]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 12:30:49 GMT+13:32
- From: Kenji Takeuchi <takeuchi@uhuru.uchicago.edu>
- Subject: [*] Personal Bomb! 1.0.1
-
- Version 1.0.1.
- Personal Bomb! is a small program which displays a fake but
- real looking System Error alert with your name on it.
- Check it out! Great joke!
-
- System 6 compatible, System 7 Savvy.
-
- [Archived as /info-mac/misc/personal-bomb-101.hqx; 9K]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 12 Nov 1992 8:48:02CST6CDT
- From: "Mark Thacker...CC1 LAN Manager" <Mark_Thacker@unt.edu>
- Subject: [*] Re: Mini Chihuahua Mini Chihuahua Mini Chihuahua Mini Chihua
-
- Attached is a sound of my miniature chihuahua growling at the microphone of
- my Mac Quadra 950! It makes for a really cute Empty Trash sound in
- SoundMaster!
-
- This was sampled at 22Khz in Sample Editor and then exported using Mace 3 to
- 1 compression. This reduced the 176K file to 70K without any real loss in
- clarity. It is Binhexed.
-
- [Archived as /info-mac/sound/mini-chihuahua.hqx; 81K]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 22:47:58 +0300
- From: amit@newton.bgu.ac.il (amit ailon)
- Subject: [*] replacement of NEW-teeny-deriver.sit.hqx
-
- I have added to your archive a file called NEW-teeny-deriver.sit.hqx.
- I forgot the archive was password protected (oops...) so please replace
- it with the following file which is a self extracting archive (encoded with
- Binhex 4.0)
- The file is called NEW-teeny-deriver-1.1.cpt.hqx
-
- HEADER OF FILE:
- NEW-teeny-deriver is an easy-to-use application for symbolic derivation of
- functions.
- It can deal with any trigonometric, inverse-trigonometric, hyperbolic
- inverse-hyperbolic,algebric and complex functions.
- To use it, download it, then decode it by Binhex 4. It will create a self
- extracting file that will create 2 files:
- 1 - the application
- 2 - the help file
-
- Please read the help file . . .
-
- [Archived as /info-mac/app/new-teeny-deriver-11.hqx; 32K]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 12:34:27 GMT+13:32
- From: Kenji Takeuchi <takeuchi@uhuru.uchicago.edu>
- Subject: [*] StackPacker 1.0.1
-
- Version 1.0.1.
-
- Freeware HyperCard utility which compacts stacks in batches
- (i.e. many at a time) resulting in a large amount of disk space
- saved at once. Extremely useful to all HyperCard users!
-
- Requries HyperCard 2.0 or higher. System 6 and 7 compatible.
-
- [Archived as /info-mac/card/stack-packer-101.hqx; 6K]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 11:42:25 -0800
- From: Michael_Hayward@sfu.ca
- Subject: Alternative to Chooser for printer selection?
-
- System 7 aliases are an extremely handy way of mounting networked
- AppleShare volumes without having to navigate through the Chooser each time
- - is there an equivalent shortcut that would allow one to select another
- printer, again, without having to brave the Chooser?
-
- I would like something that could be accessed via the Apple Menu Items
- folder that, when selected, would either
-
- 1) switch immediately to a single, predetermined printer (i.e: an Apple
- Menu item that corresponds to an individual printer)
-
- or
-
- 2) bring up a configurable (short) list of printers that are commonly used.
-
- Does anyone know of such a beast?
-
- ...Michael Hayward hayward@sfu.ca
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 10:11:39 EST
- From: Ephraim Vishniac <ephraim@Think.COM>
- Subject: Anagrams <-> Ars Magna
-
- From: "Russell Aminzade: Trinity College of VT"
- An
- Someone else asked about an anagram unscrambler. Many years ago
- I downloaded a neat program called ARS MAGNA...
-
- On my Mac SE, it had a nasty habit of blanking out parts of the
- screen if you ran it under multifinder. When I moved to a IICX,
- the program would no longer run at all.
-
- Ars Magna still works on my Mac II running System 7.1. It covers the
- entire screen for a console. As the Finder updates things in the
- background, they poke through, get scrolled,... It's pretty weird, but
- it does work.
-
- In the meantime, I had been trying to track the author down and
- send him the shareware fee. I tried the BCS and the address in
- the readme file, but no luck.
-
- The author, Mike Morton, is now mike@proponent.com. He's living in
- Hawaii, although he occasionally comes here to Cambridge for a decent
- lunch. I asked him for the source code a few years ago, and he told
- me, "It's not that hard, just write something yourself."
-
- Ephraim Vishniac ephraim@think.com ThinkingCorp@applelink.apple.com
- Thinking Machines Corporation / 245 First Street / Cambridge, MA 02142
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 06:34:26 EST
- From: gt3017c@prism.gatech.edu
- Subject: Apple TrueType Font Pack
-
- Has anyone had a chance to look at Apple's new TrueType Font Pack? If not,
- you might want to take a second look. From an initial comparison (memory, not
- side by side), it looks like the new font pack is the same or mostly the same
- as the LaserWriter TrueType fonts that we were always allowed to copy freely
- from our local dealer (Correct me if I'm wrong, but that is/was the policy,
- right?). If this is the case, what gives? Are we being taken for suckers, or
- has the new policy of copying the LaserWriter TrueType fonts been 'revised'?
- I came across this because the department down the hall bought a IIg and I saw
- the font disks (I have not copied yet, until I get a concrete answer on any
- past or present policy regarding the distribution of the disks), then I looked
- into purchasing the font pack for our use. The packs seem very much alike.
- Any questions, comments, etc.. are welcome.
-
- --Bill Waits
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 14:37:39 GMT
- From: simba@vnet.ibm.com
- Subject: Archives on CD-ROM
-
- Some time ago it was mentioned that the info-mac archives had been
- put onto CD-ROM and an address and price was given.
- I missed this at the time and I wondered if someone could give
- this info. again.
-
- Thanks,
- R. Kirk
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 10:24 GMT
- From: STCH8002%IRUCCVAX.UCC.IE@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU
- Subject: Ars Magna/Anagrams/A Rags Man
-
- In a posting without a subject heading (grumble grumble) in
- V10/269 Russell Aminzade (aka Nazi Slum Rulers) wonders
- about the whereabouts of the author of the anagram generator
- Ars Magna. I don't know either - but the app. is currently
- advertised as part of the Games 5 (BB51A) disk of MacPremier-
- ware in the Oct.30th issue of the UK version of MacUser so
- Tony Tyler (the person mentioned there as having chosen the
- selection) might have a lead. I've been thinking of buying Ars
- Magna - has anyone managed to run it on a Quadra 700?
- With thanks -
- Fergus Lalor, Dept. of Chemistry, University College, Cork, Ireland.
- STCH8002@IRUCCVAX.UCC.IE
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 12 NOV 92 10:33:13.01-GMT
- From: FAVERGEO%FRESE51.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU
- Subject: Balloon creator/ TeX fonts.
-
- I know it exists a freeware, or shareware, for creating the resources needed
- by
- the balloon manager when you want to have the system7 help on-line in a soft.
- I
- think its name is Balloon Creator. Where can I FTP it ?
-
- I am also looking for a freeware for creating TeX fonts. Does it exist ?
-
- Thanks
-
-
- FAVERGEO@ese-gif.fr
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 22:21:09 +0100
- From: "CHRISTIAN F. BUSER" <cbuser@pegasus.ch>
- Subject: Cant empty trash (Q)
-
- Can anyone tell me why this happened - it is new to me even
- though I am a Macintosh users since the time of the ORIGINAL
- Mac 128:
-
- I moved a file into the trashcan and selected "Empty Trash"
- >From the menu. The finder says "the trash is empty", although
- the can's appearance says this is not true. When doubleclicking
- the trash, I still see the file in it.
-
- I've checked with ResEdit whether any unusual bit is set, but
- this did not reveal anything. A restart did also not help.
- At the end, I got rid of the file by creating a new empty folder
- and moved it to the trash and then emptied it.
-
- This worked, but, but I'd like to know how this can happen. Any ideas?
-
- Info on my equipment: Mac Plus, 4mB RAM, System 7 tuned (International
- English versions).
- Extension folder has following contents:
- Desktop Reset, Disk Doubler INIT, File Sharing, Foreign File Access,
- NECCDDrvr, Network, System 7 Tuner, some CTB tools and printer drivers
- for the LaserWriter and the ImageWriter.
- Hard drive formatted and partitioned with SilverLining 5.31
-
- Thank you for any suggestions, Christian cbuser@pegasus.ch
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 19:20:25 GMT
- From: Michael Everson <EVERSON%IRLEARN.UCD.IE@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
- Subject: ClarisWorks and Virex???
-
- The Virex init seems to make ClarisWorks crash (address error or
- illegal command) when you try to save a document. Turning it
- off so it doesn't load fixes this, but leaves us vulnerable.
- (We were just attacked by nVIR A, though I thought we wouldn't
- be since we're running with the Disinfectant init.)
-
- Michael Everson
- School of Architecture, UCD, Richview, Clonskeagh, Dublin 14, E/ire
- Phone: +353 1 706-2745 Fax: +353 1 283-7778 Home: +353 1 78-25-97
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 12 Nov 92 08:37:31 U
- From: "Tom Scott" <tom_scott@qmrelay.mail.cornell.edu>
- Subject: Coprocessor not installed?
-
- Coprocessor not installed?
- I have a user that's getting this "coprocessor not installed" error message
- and
- system bomb whenever he tries to do graphing in Excel 3.0. He's running on an
- LC, running System 6.0.7, and 4 MB of RAM. He said sometimes he'll get the
- bomb after he's clicked on the graphing tool and drawn the graph window
- rectangle. As soon as he finishes drawing this rectangle and releases the
- mouse button, it bombs. Other times, it will draw the graph just fine, but
- will bomb when he tries to close the graph window. Sometimes, he has no
- problems (albeit this being a seldom occurence).
-
- Anybody have any ideas on what's going on here? I remember a few months ago
- someone asking about this "coprocessor" error message, but don't remember what
- was the cause of or the solution to this problem. Please help!
-
- ADVAthanksNCE!
-
- P.S. I'm cross-posting this to Mac-L and Info-Mac. Please respond directly
- to
- me; I'm no longer subscribed to Mac-L and I'm behind reading the Info-Mac
- digests. Thanks again!
-
-
- Thomas Scott, Systems Manager, College of Engineering,Cornell University
- E-Mail: Tom_Scott@qmrelay.mail.cornell.edu
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 23:07:25 -0800
- From: Josh Berman <jberman@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
- Subject: Ethernet Cards for IIsi (Q)
-
- I am interested in buying an Ethernet card for my IIsi. I have a DayStar
- ComboCache installed, so I need to buy a card that connects through a
- PDS slot. I would like to hear good and bad experiences from people who
- have purchased Ethernet cards from Dayna, Farallon, TechWorks,
- Asante, Focus or any other manufacturer. Which cards are good,
- which should I stay away from, etc...
-
- Thanks for your help,
- Josh Berman
-
- jberman@jarthur.claremont.edu Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 17:19:03 -0500
- From: kfb2@CS1.CC.Lehigh.EDU (Keenan Brock)
- Subject: I think you are the one to ask
-
- I have been using SystemSwitcher1.1 for some time. But when you go from
- system 6 to 7 it rebuilds the
- desktop. I used a init before called Desktop Manager, which i got from
- SUMEX-AIM, but for some reason
- when I went back to get another copy it was not here.
-
- My question is this:
- Are there other inits that will prevent this rebuilding?
- Was Desktop Manager defective and removed for that reason. Or was it not used
- and I have no reasons to
- worry.
-
- Please foreward or tell me who I should contact. Thank you for your time.
-
- Keenan Brock
- kfb2@lehigh.edu
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 06:22 PDT
- From: "RGB Technology, Inc/703-834-1500" <SATRE@cisco.nosc.mil>
- Subject: Long signatures & disclaimers
-
- To the moderator:
- I seem to remember some time back that you asked for people to restrain
- themselves from using cute disclaimers and excessive signatures. I cheered
- that policy then and wonder if you could reiterate it now. A blatant
- example of getting carried away with a signature was in issue 268. A certain
- (nameless) person's simple message was:
-
- > Where can I FTP MacOberon ?
- >
- > Thanks...
-
- He then followed with a 19 line signature. A one-liner seems to suffice
- for most people...
-
- [He's right. I've had to bounce back a large fraction of messages with
- long .sigs in the past few days. Let me see, our official policy:
-
- --
- Long signatures are discouraged in the Info-Mac Digest because they use up
- valuable space better used to distribute actual messages. Our standard
- requirements are:
-
- 1. One-line (80 character) signatures may contain anything.
- 2. Two-line (160 char.) signatures are allowed if they are just-the-facts --
- no ASCII graphics, quotations, etc.
- 3. No signatures longer than 160 characters are allowed.
- --
-
- We screen the messages as we put them in the digest, so every now and
- then one gets through (ops!). But, in general, a message will be
- returned to the sender if the .sig dosen't match the above three rules.
- Thanks for your hlep! -- Gordon]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 17:41:18 +0100
- From: Jordi Stephane <jordi@scsun.unige.ch>
- Subject: Mac and Espon FX printer ??
-
- Hello,
- I just would like to know if it is possible to connect a Mac to an
- EPSON FX printer ?
- The EPSON FX printer has a parallel port, and the Mac has only serial
- ports.
- How can you connect them together ?
-
- Thanks for any info !
-
- Sincerely,
- Steve Jordi-Dpt of Geophysics-U of Geneva-Switzerland-jordi@scsun.unige.ch
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 11:58:50 -0500
- From: baim@aaec1.aaec.com
- Subject: Mail Order ADVISORY!
-
- We purchased a printer from Hardware and Software That Fits under their "30
- Day MBG". As the 30 days near an end, we have decided we don't like the
- printer and called to return it. They are ready to take it back BUT there
- is a hidden requirement in their policy: they must RECEIVE the printer by
- the 30th day from the date of SHIPPING! If you order something shipped by
- UPS Ground (5-10 business days depending on where you are) and expect to
- return it the same way, you may really have a 2 DAY MBG unless you are
- willing to foot the bill for expensive shipping options both ways. This
- requirement is NOT printed in their ads, the shipping materials, invoice,
- or anywhere else I have looked.
-
- Buyer BEWARE!
-
- Paul Baim
-
- PS - I managed to twist their arm and get permission to ship it back ground
- so it arrives "late" but this is not their normal policy and required a LOT
- of self-righteous arm twisting!
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 11:39 PDT
- From: "RGB Technology, Inc/703-834-1500" <SATRE@cisco.nosc.mil>
- Subject: Mystery file in Apple Menu Items (Q)
-
- I just noticed an item in my Apple Menu Items list for which
- there is no corresponding file in the Apple Menu Items folder.
- The item in question is Language Maker which is a component of the
- Voice Navigator system. Several months ago I was trying to help
- a customer figure out the Voice Navigator and I installed the software
- on my IIfx. The Voice Navigator is long since gone and just today I
- was doing some housecleaning and noticed the Language Maker item.
- But there was no such file in the Apple Menu Items folder! I even
- checked for an invisible file using ResEdit: nothing.
-
- Does anyone know what has happened and how I can get rid of this
- item. Note: Since the Voice Navigator software has been deleted
- >From my disk, if I invoke Language Maker from the Apple menu, my
- Mac crashes.
-
- Steve Satre -- RGB Technology, Inc. -- Reston, VA
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 08:13 EST
- From: B E W A R E ! ! ! Love Never Dies! <MCOHEN@vax.clarku.edu>
- Subject: Need help importing 3D DXF files
-
- Help me, help me please, if you can. I'm having a difficult time importing a
- seemingly large (760K) .DXF file into 3D modeling programs. This DXF was
- generated on Autocad (PC), recent version. I've tried bringing this model
- into Infini-D, Modelshop II and MacroModel. Modelshop simply freaks.
- Infini-D seems to import it alright, the objects even show up in the objects
- list, but the objects have no dimensions and don't even display a bounding
- box. MacroModel chews on it for quite a while (wants 17MB RAM for the
- import!), and eventually gives a DXF error. It too will list the objects
- without displaying a thing.
-
- But before you think the DXF is completely messed, I can easily translate the
- DXF to PICT (2D only) using MacLink (v5.0 I think). The PICT file looks
- great, but since I need to do a walk-through, it doesn't help much.
-
- This is the largest DXF import I've attempted. Smaller files have been fine.
- If anyone has any experience importing large DXF files with greater success,
- or knows a better way to handle this translation, please let me know. EMail
- works best, and if requested, I'll happily summarize here. Many thanks.
-
- ...Mitch Cohen, MCohen@vax.clarku.edu
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 13:48:21 EST
- From: Mark A. Saper <saper@umich.edu>
- Subject: None
-
- I have a new APS 128 Mbyte optical plugged into my Mac IIci. It works well,
- but the drive's noise though not loud is sometimes bothersome. Does anyone
- know an unendorsed method for unloading the disk's device driver so I could
- safely turn off the power of the optical drive without hanging up the Mac?
- APS says not to do it.
-
- Thanks, Mark
-
- Dr. Mark A. Saper, Biophysics Research Division saper@umich.edu
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 07:56:35 -0500
- From: "Steve Marsh" <marsh2@nrlfs1.nrl.navy.mil>
- Subject: PowerBook 100's available
-
- Howdy, Just thought I'd pass on a recent (last night, 11/11) sighting of
- Powebook 100 4/40 computers, with external floppy, for $899. at the Price Club
- that just opened in Newington, VA (just south of Springfield & D.C. on
- Interstate 95). I don't know how many they have left, and don't have a phone
- number (sorry!), but the area code is 703.
-
- - Steve Marsh "marsh@anvil.nrl.navy.mil" ;-)
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 08:34 CST
- From: <SWAECHTER%UTMEM1.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
- Subject: Printing fonts
-
- I am having trouble printing character sheets for my fonts. Here's the
- scenario:
-
- All fonts, except for Chicago, Geneva, and Monaco, are in separate suitcases
- and managed by CarpetBag. When I use either FontClerk 4.1 or FontPrinter 2.1
- to print character sheets or samples, two things happen: (a) the application
- quits because of a "type 1" error; (b) the print monitor says the document
- cannot be printed. I used CarpetBag's "add folder" feature and restarted the
- computer to make all of the fonts accessible to programs. I also tried
- printing some text in WordPerfect with one of the fonts in question, and that
- would not print either.
-
- Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
-
- Steve Waechter
- swaechter@utmem2 (bitnet)
- swaechter@utmem2.utmem.edu (internet)
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 11 Nov 92 09:35:02 U
- From: "Richard Tanner" <richard_tanner@msmailbo.gatech.edu>
- Subject: Quadra 900/Hard disk Icon
-
- I am having a problem changing my hard disk icon on my Quadra 900(using 7.0.1
- and the new 7.1 system). I have tried turning off sharing but could not paste
- (in the "Get Info" window) a new icon to the hard disk. I tried booting up
- with the Extensions off and still no luck.
-
- Any solutions or suggestions would be much appreciated. Please respond to me
- directly at:
- richard.tanner@business.gatech.edu
-
- Thanks. -Richard
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 10:14:54 -0500
- From: askoonce@unity.ncsu.edu (Tony Koonce)
- Subject: quicktime15.image???
-
- This subject has probably come up before, if so, sorry for wasting net space.
- What is the file type .image and how do I decompress it or make it usable.
- e-mail me with the answer if possible.
- Thanx in advance.
-
- Tony Koonce
- askoonce@unity.ncsu.edu
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 11:28:12 -0500
- From: wurst@cse.uconn.edu (Karl Wurst)
- Subject: Startup Screen disappears before extensions load
-
- I recently backed-up, repartitioned my hard drive, and restored the
- contents. Everything is working fine, except for one thing: when I start
- up, the startup screen appears, but disappears before the extensions load.
- It used to stay on the screen while the extensions loaded.
- I did not restore my system folder completely from the backup, but
- instead, after reinstalling the system on the repartitioned drive, I restored
- only the files that were missing. What could be the problem? Could it be
- some setting that is incorrect since I didn't copy everything back and used
- some of the files as installed? Does anyone have an idea? Thanks for any
- help you can give me.
-
- Karl R. Wurst - wurst@cse.uconn.edu - UCONN Computer Science & Engineering
-
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-
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 12:32:49 MET
- From: nicky@fdn.org (Jean-Philippe NICAISE)
- Subject: Upgrade program for Personal LaserWriter LS in the USA ?
-
- Bonjour a` tous,
-
- Is there an offer from Apple to upgrade a Personal LaserWriter LS
- into a PLW NT or a PLW NTR ? The information is for the USA, not France.
-
- This is for my brother who lives in the USA and plans to sells its
- PLW LS in order to buy a PLW NT ot NTR. But since there is an upgrade
- offer in France, there must be one in the USA. But at what priceJ?
-
- Merci a vous,
-
- Jean-Philippe
- nicky@fdn.org
-
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-
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 14:14:46 PST
- From: ke_reich@rom.tcpl.ucalgary.ca
- Subject: X Windows on the Mac
-
- If anyone has information on X Windows packages on the mac, I would
- appreciate hearing about them. I have looked at both MacX and Exodus and
- neither package fits my needs.
-
- My needs are fairly straightforward. I have an SCO Unix box running Open
- DeskTop. On this machine, I have a phone switch management package that is
- X unaware. However, In a SCO Term window, I am able to focus the mouse and
- use the Xmouse to control the cursor for the management application. With
- MacX, I am unable to get color windows, because MacX foolishly (and I
- stress foolishly) creates new windows that have nothing to do with the Open
- DeskTop screen, hence I lose color in the windows, and this is important to
- the users. As well, focusing the mouse doesn't work, and mouse support is
- critical. Exodus at least gives me the color and mouse support, but it's
- slower than pushing rope up a hill. What is interesting to me is that my
- Mac IIcx with A/UX running X is significantly faster than running Exodus on
- my Mac IIci.
-
- Again if anybody has information directing me to a better package (or
- platform - a DOS machine running X will be significantly faster, but
- politically incorrect :-). Thanks in advance, and I will summarize to the
- net, provided of course that there are answers. As an aside, please reply
- to the below listed address as I do not read info-mac.
-
- Kevin Reichert phone: (403) 267-6290
- ke_reich@rom.tcpl.ucalgary.ca fax: (403) 267-8991
-
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