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From: tabron@binah.cc.brandeis.edu ("Sod the proles!")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: re: cleaning up my font menu
Date: 15 Oct 92 16:08:00 GMT
Reply-To: tabron@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University

is suitcase II pay- or share-ware? is it available at sumex, etc.? (I may
want/need to give it a try.) just for my info, what are the benefits of
being able to store your fonts outside of your system folder? (the only
benefit I can think of right now is that it would enable me to seriously
shrink my *%^&*&%%$! 12 mg system folder.)
I believe I've seen mention of a program that would enable me to create
hierarchical menus. This would maybe help with my overloaded font menu,
because I could create families of fonts and be able to access only one
group at a time rather than looking at all 100+ fonts every time I choose
a font (at least that's what I'm hoping? given my luck, such an arrangement
would probably screw up some Important MS Word 5 Function.) Someone out there
please tell me if my assumption is right and if so, what are the programs that
would enable me to create hierarchical menus and where can I find them?

Judith Tabron
Dept. of English
Brandeis University
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: umcho000@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Connie Cho)
Subject: Re: Whos been a silly boy then
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 14:55:11 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.181438.3786@clark.edu> watson@clark.edu (Dennis Watson) writes:
>In article <1992Oct7.161447.3248@syma.sussex.ac.uk> peterhi@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Peter Hickman) writes:
>>Well I have this problem. We, a friend and I, got two copies of Excel 4.0 for
>>a client and tested then on the network we made from our machines. As we were
>>pressed for time we just installed them and got things running.
>
>
>
>In the future, make a copy of the install disk (no. 1) and use the copy!!!

Perhaps you could send the disks back to Microsoft and ask for replacements.
I don't know if this is possible; just a suggestion.

CKC
From: t89par@tdb.uu.se (Par Svensson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: AutoDoubler improvements
Date: 17 Oct 92 00:58:24 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Scientific Computing, Uppsala Univ.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]


Hello,

I'd like to know what improvements have been made in AD2.0
compared to 1.0.7 and DiskDoubler 3.7.7 vs. 3.7.6.
Is it worth getting if you have the 1.0.7 ?

Thanks,

/Par
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: aras@eceris.ece.ncsu.edu (Caglan M. Aras)
Subject: Re: Textures Editor
Organization: /etc/organization
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 15:32:29 GMT

I would recommend Alpha 5.05 for any serious TeX editing. It has a lot
of TeX macros (which you can change and add to), go to line# etc. It is
also aware of sections etc. You can find it at sumex-aim under the
/info-mac/app directory. The package is shareware ($25).



Caglan M. Aras			| Robotics and Intel. Systems Lab.	
RISL- Box 7911			| aras@eceris.ece.ncsu.edu
North Carolina State University | ph: 919-515-5405
Raleigh, NC 27695		|
From: tabron@binah.cc.brandeis.edu ("Sod the proles!")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: two questions
Date: 7 Oct 92 16:38:48 GMT
Reply-To: tabron@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University

I have two problems I'd like some help with:
1) I desperately need a disk optimizer. I don't understand why one did
not come with the other disk tools (like DiskCopy) that I got when I
bought my Classic II w/ sys. 7 in April. I do not have any money to
buy anything huge, nor do I want something like Norton Utilities that
will duplicate most of the tools I already have. What I would _really_
like is to be able to find a freeware/shareware disk optimizer somewhere.

2) I use QuickLink II/Fax with a ZOOM modem and my Classic II. I have
Stuffit Lite 3.0.1, UnZip, and Compact Pro. I also have a friend who
wants to send me files zipped with PKZip on an IBM clone. Mail sent to
me over (forgive me) CompuServe arrives with a *Binary* tag. When I go
to download it, I seem to have two options: to download as text (the
"Save" button) or using MacBinary (the "MacBinary" button). When I 
click MacBinary, it saves the download as a QLII text document. When I
click Save, it saves as a QLII text document. Obviously, this is not
useful. BinHex 5.0 does not transform these to the proper format, but
it _does_ work on other compressed archives that I download accidentally
as QLII text from the same source (CompuServe.) So what's the deal?
I've never even gotten to try my UnZip as i don't really think it's 
going to do anything to a QLII text file. 

two smaller, but related questions:
a) I thought compact pro was just a compressor/decompressor, but I
getthe idea from stuff posted here that it has conversion capabilities
as well. How can I find out what these are? (for that matter, how can
I find out about the capabilites of Stuffit Lite? I have no documentation
for either of these.)
b) just what the hell is MacBinary anyway? How is it different from 
plain old binary? i've thought that maybe my problem is that the file
is being zipped in binary, and that there's a problem with trying to
convert it to MacBinary.

anyway, any help at all would be hugely appreciated.
email would be best as I don't know when I'll have a chance
to catch up here again, though i'm going to try to keep up.
thanks!

Judith L. Tabron
Dept. of English and American Literature
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA 02155

tabron@binah.cc.brandeis.edu

Darwin's Law: If You're Dumb, You Die!
From: sboyle@maths.tcd.ie (Simon Boyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Problems with symbol font in word 4
Date: 12 Oct 92 15:20:55 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Organisation: Trinity College Dublin, League for Programming Freedom, Church of the SubGenius... need I go on?


Does anyone know why the universal quantifier symbol
(i.e. the upside down 'A' or <shift>-<'> in symbol)
persistently appears as the registered trade mark symbol
in Word 4 and in no other application I have. It manages 
It manages to get corrupted even when imported as a graphic
from MacDraw II or pasted from key-caps under both the US
and British Keyboard layouts.

I'm using a Powerbook 100 with 7.0.1

Answers by e-mail please.
From: d6caps@dtek.chalmers.se (Per Bergland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Word 5.0 problem
Date: 12 Oct 92 18:20:22 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology

Anyone know if there's a bug fix for MS Word 5.0 when it comes to handling
large files w. lots of subscriptions?

I've got about 40 subscribed-to Adobe Photoshop gray-scale pictures in the
document, which is about 40 pages long and contains only Times and Avant-Garde.

Problem:
1) Not really a bug,but if I subscribe to a picture, scale it to let's say 75%,
shouldn't Word keep my scaling even if the edition is updated?
2) Bug: If I perform a Save As... to the same name as the current, the 
document increases in size by about 800K every time I save. Not good.
The only solution is to do a Save As.. to another name, but I don't want to do
that since this might screw up the Alias Manager, which is a fairly integral 
part in the Edition Manager. I know it shouldn't, but if a document changes 
names AND file refnum, the alias mgr can't find it any longer.
3) Since bug 2 kept recurring, I split the document into three parts, and
for now, bug 2 seems to be gone.
4) I scanned through my document wit ResEdit, and noticed that there were
duplicate 'alis', 'sect' and 'link' (types may be wrong, got them off memory)
for every subscribed-to picture. Should it really be that way?

Env: IIci, Mode32, 20M RAM, 7.0.1 w. TU1.1.1
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Rick E Romkey <rer@sun1x.res.utc.com>
Subject: Freeware EPS->PICT converter...
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A70189FD2C010309@cheetah.res.utc.com>
X-Xxdate: Wed, 14 Oct 92 08:25:33 GMT
Organization: United Technologies Research Center
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 12:11:41 GMT

The subject says it all....are there any out there?

Rick.
From: isler@gradient.cis.upenn.edu (Sylvia Isler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Editing screen snapshots (PICTS)
Date: 10 Oct 92 23:23:31 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania



I have made some snapshots (using cmd-shift-3) from of the finder on my
Mac and have attempted unsuccessfully to edit them using Superpaint
and MacDraw II. 

I wish to cut out certain parts of the snapshot. However these
applications do not allow me to do this. Can someone suggest an
application that does allow this form of editing?

Thank you,
Sylvia Isler
isler@gradient.cis.upenn.edu
Sylvia Isler
isler@gradient.cis
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Lauger%ssdvax.decnet@mdcgwy.mdc.com (John Lauger)
Subject: Re: Editing screen snapshots (PICTS)
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 92 00:24:17 GMT
Organization: McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Co.
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps

In article <92479@netnews.upenn.edu>, isler@gradient.cis.upenn.edu (Sylvia
Isler) wrote:
> 
 > I have made some snapshots (using cmd-shift-3) from of the finder on my
> Mac and have attempted unsuccessfully to edit them using Superpaint
> and MacDraw II. 
> 
> I wish to cut out certain parts of the snapshot. However these
> applications do not allow me to do this. Can someone suggest an
> application that does allow this form of editing?

Sylvia, Just open them in TeachText.  Once they are open, you can cut out
rectangular sections using the Marquee tool.
JL
From: mssmith@afterlife.ncsc.mil (M. Scott Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Mac emulators running on a Sun
Date: 13 Oct 92 19:31:37 GMT
Organization: The Great Beyond

Hello..

   I was wondering if I could get any information on Mac emulators which
run on Suns.  Ideally, I would like a Mac emulator which runs on the Sun,
requiring no Mac.  (That is, I don't want the program running on a Mac
and just displaying on a Sun.)  Also, the emulator needs to support
color, and hopefully will be at least comparable in speed to a Mac LC.

   Is anyone familiar with such a product?

   Thanks in advance for any information.  If you mail me info, I'll
re-post a summary later on if there's enough replies.

Thanks,

M. Scott Smith
  (mssmith@afterlife.ncsc.mil)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: hcls7@jetson.uh.edu (Marino, Nancy F.)
Subject: Word 5 gets hung up in save
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 16:49:00 GMT




	In the last couple of days, when I save in Word 5 everything gets hung
up about 2/3 of the way through, and I have to shut down and lose what I was
trying to save. This only happens when I initiate the save command myself (but
not all the time), not when the save is prompted by the program itself.
	Recently I added the Disk Doubler update. Could this have anything to
do with the problem.
	Thanks for any responses, posted here or through e-mail.
From: Glen.Stewart@f175.n2240.z1.ieee.org (Glen Stewart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: RE: Drawing Gantt charts
Date: 7 Oct 92 18:44:20 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:2240/175 - The Associati, Grand Blanc MI

In a message to everyone written on Tuesday, October 6, 1992 at 12:12:26 PM,
jvp@doc.ic.ac.uk writes:

jvp-> Is there a specialised application for drawing Gantt charts, or is this
jvp-> sort of thing done using standard Paint/Draw applications?

I looked for the same thing, and found:

Graphic Utilities - #8, 74 files
================================

AHSCHEDULE2.SIT     :   243k+:Creates Gannt charts, etc. for time management.


It's here on the BBS - 313-695-6744 (HST) or 313-695-6955 (v.32bis) if you
can't FTP it from some other location.









--  
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 Glen Stewart - Internet: Glen.Stewart@f175.n2240.z1.ieee.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: dsato@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu (Derek Sato)
Subject: ColorDesk
Organization: University of Engineering, College of Engineering
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 02:02:29 GMT



Does anyone know of the program called ColorDesk?
If you know who the publisher is or where I could obtain/buy a copy,
please e-mail me.  Many Thanks...


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: agoodrid@vaxa.weeg.uiowa.edu (Stephen Klautky)
Subject: Restricting application use
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 19:22:00 GMT


Hi,

I have a strange request.  Do you know of any application, cp or
extension that limits the number of times another application is
run?  Or, confines the use of that application to particular times
of the day.  For example, preventing certain programs from being
run during working hours but allowing access afterwards and at
night?

Any information about this would be appreciated whether the be based
on freeware, shareware or commericial products.

-=] Steve [=-     AGOODRID@VAXA.WEEG.UIOWA.EDU

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: mmartin@dante.nmsu.edu (Marilyn Martin)
Subject: Foxbase+ PC > Mac
Followup-To: mmartin@nmsu.edu
Organization: New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 21:22:44 GMT

How hard is it to convert a Foxbase+ program running on a PC to 
a Mac?

What level of skill would it take?

Thanks in advance
Marilyn
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: jarthur@jamatx.lonestar.org (John Thompson)
Subject: Re: need helpful hints: WP(pc) to Word(mac) file conversion
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 19:17:00 GMT
Organization: An Asylum in Texas

Word 5.0 is able to open a WordPerfect 5.1 document directly, so once you
get it to the Mac it shouldn't be a problem.  I think there has to be a
filename extension, though, something like .WP5.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: fowell@netcom.com (Richard A. Fowell)
Subject: Re: Disk Catalog Program?
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 07:20:25 GMT

I've tried about 9 floppy disk indexing programs, and I use
FileList+ - a freeware utility that has more functionality than
any other I've seen. You should be able to ftp it from Sumex.
My online index to 272 floppies (12,112 files) takes up 804K.
I run it on System 7, no problems. Current version 1.0b21.
- Easy to add update floppies: launch program, insert floppy-
  FileList indexes, and ejects. I indexed 200 floppies in a couple of hours.
- Indexes contents of .cpt and .sit (1.51 only?) archives.
- very fast online search.
- very configurable format.

This is an EXTREMELY capable program - high grade commercial
quality. The only thing I can think of that it won't do is 
print floppy labels - for that I use the shareware program Loodle.

It is fast!

My 272 floppy database launches in 5 seconds on my IIsi-
much faster than my address book program with a fraction of the size:
File search takes less than 1 second for string search.

Lots of information:

File name, type, creator, size, creation date, mod date & path stored
for each file. Volume name, freespace, fullspace, number files, mod
date, create date stored for each volume. Hard disks indexed, too.

Lots of user control (If desired - standard setup is just fine for me)

83 menu items under 7 pull-down menus, including
17 dialog box menu items, and five hierarchical menu items
Two main windows with scrollable lists, rearrangeable list columns,
radio buttons, popup menus.

I have no connection with the authors other than as an extremely
satisfied user.

fowell@netcom.com
From: wes@vax2.concordia.ca (Wes Schyngera)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: sound files
Date: 14 Oct 92 01:03:00 GMT
Organization: Concordia University
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


Does anyone know what application(s) would uncode downloaded sound (.wav)
files?
From: groggy@unixg.ubc.ca (Clive J Grogono)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Backup Utility HELP!
Date: 15 Oct 92 23:49:31 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
NNTP-Posting-Host: unixg.ubc.ca
Summary: need backup utility
Keywords: backup utility


Dear network; 

Backing-up is sooo boring! By the time I get around to it, 
I have 150 files which  belong on 25 different floppies. 

Can anybody tender advice on backup programs - commercial  
or otherwise?  Are  Norton Utilities or SAM the solution to  
all my trials?  Is there a package out there that has the  
smarts to know which files have never been backed-up? 

Is the only simple solution a removable cartridge or tape drive?

thanks in advance,
  
Clive Grogono 
groggy@unixg.ubc.ca 
Regent College, 
Vancouver, B.C.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: wildcard@nevada.edu ( WildCard !!)
Subject: ClarisCAD question...
Organization: University of Nevada System Computing Services
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 18:00:58 GMT




What is this program like? They don't have it for display at my local Mac
dealer. Is it good for drafting architecture/landscape architecture? What
are the requirements for memory, etc? Is it good? fast?
Need input!!

Thanx in advance. Email welcome.

                                    - WildCard !!

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Distribution: world
From: Mark_Werner@bmug.org
Organization: BMUG, Inc.
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 21:49:45 PDT
Subject: Teachtext w/ Graphics

Might anyone be able to tell me how to open TeachText files with another word
processor (such as MacWrite II) and have the graphics preserved.  It seems
that when I try to open TT files with graphics, the graphics are lost if I
open with another application.
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From: pkellma@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Peter Kellman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Word Question: Mac/PC compatibility
Date: 12 Oct 92 13:12:56 GMT
Organization: The Great Beyond

I have read that Microsoft Word 5.0 for the Mac is compatible with
Word for Windows for the PC.  The article I read stated that it was
compatible for graphics as well as formatted text.  However, I did
a test by creating a Mac Word document with text and 2 types of
graphics: 1) Mac Draw copied & pasted, and 2) pict screen capture
copied and pasted.  The Word for Windows document opened without
problem...but both types of graphics were very poor...infact, unusable.
I assume this has has to do with the different screen resolution.
Is this true?  I don't consider this compatible! Am I doing something
incorrectly? How do I make my graphics look on the PC the same as they
were on the Mac?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: heeschv@cognos.com (Brian VanHeesch)
Subject: Re: Font for Microsoft Word 5.0 help
Organization: Cognos Incorporated, Ottawa CANADA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 18:25:23 GMT

: >
: >	Does anybody know off the top of their heads what font family and size 
: >Microsoft Word 5.0 uses in its Help windows?  I've got pretty much all the 
: >standard ones in all the standard sizes installed, but the help window in Word 
: >still looks like it's trying to create a 12 point bitmap from a 9 point font.
: >Is it perhaps a special font that Word didn't install because I did a custom 
: >installation and didn't let it put in any System resources?
: >
: >
: 
: Word does install something called MTEtext, I think, in the system file, along
: with some fonts, I think.  I'm surprised word is running at all, or isn't
: crashing on you.
: 
WRONG!  I installed WORD5 under sys6.0.7 and THEN upgraded to SYS7.0+tuneup

and have had no problems with fonts inside of WORD.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: lmlars01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu
Subject: Textures Editor
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 16:35:02 GMT
Organization: University of Louisville

I use Textures with Nisus as the editor. All you have to do is leave a main
file open in Textures with the command \input myfile.

=============================================================================
Lee Larson                                     lmlars01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu
Department of Mathematics                                       (502)588-6826
University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky 40292 USA

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: tobridg@scivax.lerc.nasa.gov (Dr. James Bridges)
Subject: Ofoto 1.1.1 | Quadra 700 | OneScanner
Reply-To: tobridg@scivax.lerc.nasa.gov (Dr. James Bridges)
Organization: Sverdrup Technology Inc., NASA Lewis Research Center
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 18:24:50 GMT

I am trying to use the combination listed above. I just upgraded to the 
Quadra from a IIci where the scanner worked fine. In the process of obtaining 
the upgrade to 1.1.1 (listed in the Apple Compatability Guide as necessary 
for the Quadra), I was told that it might not work on the Quadra. After 
upgrading, I tried running Ofoto and was rewarded by an alert box which said 
that the scanner was not communicating. I checked that the scanner was 
selected in Chooser and used a SCSI utility to see that device is being 
properly recognized by the Mac. I have tried both 32bit on and off. And I 
have a call in to the Light Source tech desk. In the meantime, can anyone 
tell me if they have any experience with Ofoto on a Quadra, especially using 
a OneScanner?

-jb

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: mseabloo@david.wheaton.edu (Mark Seabloom)
Subject: Can Word 5.0 collate
Organization: Wheaton College
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 18:57:07 GMT


Does anyone know if there is any way to make MS Word 5.0 collate multiple
copies of a document when printing. I understand from the standpoint of
printing efficiency that it makes sense to print all of one page at a time,
but we have a situation where collating would be awfully nice.

Good ol' MacWrite II can do this: why not MS Word?


Mark Seabloom
mseabloo@david.wheaton.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: simon@uhuru.uchicago.edu (Shandor Simon)
Subject: System 7.1 & Fonts
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 19:53:25 GMT

I have been playing with System 7.1 and have discovered that you cannot have 
more then a certain number of fonts. I don't, off hand, remember how many, but
I think that it was something like 128. This REALLY STINKS!!!! I assume that 
this means that I will have to shell out the extra bucks and go buy some
program. Any suggestions?? THINK CHEEP, like system software [Apple now 
charges for software that makes you go out and buy more software :-(


Shandor Simon


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps