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From: Bob Polis <bobp@cc.mey.nl>
Subject: Re: Question about Nuntius
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d13
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 09:21:20 GMT
X-Xxdate: Tue, 12 Jan 93 09:20:45 GMT
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Organization: Moret Ernst & Young

In article <ya-3cw@rpi.edu> Stormbringer, mateyg@rpi.edu writes:
>Hi, I've been using Nuntius for a while and just got version
>1.1.1d14 about I am still unable to access the first two items
>in the Articles menu:  Post follow-up article... and
>Reply to author by mail. I have Eudora so I beleive it should
>be possible.  Any Nuntius users out there please help!!!!!!
>Please post or email me. Thanks!!!!   :)

(1) WARNING: As I have understood, Nuntius 1.1.1d14 and d15 contain an
important bug - you should use 1.1.1d13 instead. It has something to do
with long names and the trashing of your file system as a result. Contact
the author, Peter Speck, (speck@dat.ruc.dk) for details.

(2) Answer to your question: you must first select one or more lines in
the article you want to post a reply to. Then the two commands will be
active. Nuntius will send some messages to Eudora through Apple Events
(oh boy, ain't that elegant...! ;-)  ), after which Eudora opens a window
with some information already filled out for you.

Hope I shed some light on it for you!

Bob Polis.
From: bernard@cs.colorado.edu (Bernie Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Mac Disertation Word Processor
Date: 5 Jan 93 16:50:55 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder

In article <o891He9jwb@atlantis.psu.edu>, mek@guinan.psu.edu (Mark E.
Kotanchek) wrote:
> [pros & cons of MS Word and a recommendation of FrameMaker munched]
> 
> My recommendation would be for FrameMaker. I use it it on my NeXTstation  
> as well as my Powerbook 170 and for doing technical documentation it kicks  
> MS Word's butt. A special favorite of mine is the equation formatter also  
> being a symbolic processor so I can easily rearrange, expand, simplify,  
> transform, etc. equations.

I have FrameMaker and MS Word. I agree that FrameMaker is better for large
documents. It handles cross-references very well. It can auto-number
tables, figures, and any number of variables that the user wishes to deal
with.

The only problem I have had is dealing with references (bibliographical).
There are utilities for MS Word which can auto number and otherwise deal
with their formatting like End Note and WordRef. Do these utilities work in
FrameMaker? I would like to hear how people handle references with
FrameMaker.


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From: rgonzal@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Ralph Gonzalez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: GifConverter or JPEGView better?
Date: 9 Jan 93 22:53:34 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

mccarty@vmser.enet.dec.com writes:

>There is also another utility called pictpixie that's fairly good - can
>be found on ftp.apple.com  in (I think) /dts/mac/quicktime.  This is free 
>whereas gifconverter if your conscience so dictates is $30 shareware.
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Don't take this as a flame, but the shareware system is not simply
a matter of "conscience". You are legally obliged to either pay up or
destroy your copy after you've tried it out. If you don't do either,
you are committing software piracy.

So that's a pretty good reason to prefer JPEGView...

-Ralph



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Phone: (609) 757-6122; Internet: rgonzal@elbereth.rutgers.edu
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From: John T. Chapman <jtc1@cornell.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Autodoubler vs. Diskdoubler (Powerbook question)
Date: 12 Jan 1993 15:30:21 GMT
Organization: Office of Computing and Statistical Consulting
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 132.236.42.176
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d17
X-XXDate: Tue, 12 Jan 93 15:43:29 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.215205.8531@nuchat.sccsi.com> Mark Johnson,
markj@nuchat.sccsi.com writes:
> I am trying to figure which one to get for my powerbook 140. 
Autodoubler or 
>Diskdoubler.  They both compress files.  Autodoubler is definately
automatic.
>Diskdoubler says it will expand compressed files ond execute compressed
programs
>.  I know Autodoubler has an Init that runs at startup how about
Diskdoubler?

Both are INITs (well, Autodoubler is actually a control panel that has an 
INIT component). IMHO, Autodoubler would be better for you if you are 
just interesd in increasing your disk space. It's compression and 
decompression algorithms are much faster and it decompresses read-only 
files and applications to memory only, reducing disk accessing.

Diskdoubler is not as 'smooth' at decompression/recompression on the fly, 
but works ok. It's really more intended for selective compression of 
things you don't use too often and for archiving purposes.

Of course, they work well together, giving you the best of both worlds... 
Unfortunately, that means spending a bit more, but I've seen a few places 
with 'special package deals' (mail-order houses and the like).

Good luck!

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: tom@ulysses.att.com (Tom Smith)
Subject: Re: looking for VCR+ software
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:42:23 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

Earlier, jjp8508@chensun1.tamu.edu (Jeffrey J Polasek) wrote: 
|> does anyone out there know of any software that can gererate VCR+ codes? 
|> or have an idea on what algorithm is that is used to gererate these numbers?

Check sci.crypt (maybe FAQ).

Tom Smith.
tom@ulysses.att.com
From: drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David Gutierrez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Tax software?
Date: 12 Jan 1993 23:55:38 GMT
Organization: Univ. Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

In article <1993Jan11.194918.9794@cs.cornell.edu> tedcrane@cs.cornell.edu (Ted
Crane) writes:
>In spite of the complaints, notice how we all still use it?

No, we don't. I went back to doing it by hand.

David Gutierrez
drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu

"Only fools are positive." - Moe Howard

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: tom@ulysses.att.com (Tom Smith)
Subject: Re: Road map software ???????
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:42:27 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

In article <1993Jan11.155157.8252@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>, hhasan@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Peace Peace Peace) writes:

|> I am looking for a software which is basically a road map of the United
|> States (highways).  I saw a similar software for the IBM called Automap.
|> In that particular software you would give the starting and ending city
|> and it will give you the shortest, quickest and preferred routes.

I called Automap last year, and they told me that a Mac version was
under development and to check back at the first of the year.  I called
back on 1/4/93 and was told to check back in a month or so.

Any competing products?

Tom Smith.
tom@ulysses.att.com				"Hold these pies."
From: jem@sm.luth.se (Jan Erik Mostr|m)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: NOW up-to-date
Date: 8 Jan 93 13:41:11 GMT
Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden


Does a demo version of NOW Up-To-Date version 2.0 exist ?

		jem
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: graham@convex.com (Marv Graham)
Subject: App for making diagrams?
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 15:05:43 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

What MAC application program can I use to make diagrams for the foils in a presentation?
The diagrams are like flow charts: boxes of various shapes connected by lines with arrow
heads on one end.  I know about programs like Nisus that lets you make graphics, but you
can't rearrange the graph without having to move all of the boxes and arrows individually.
I would like a program that lets me specify the connectivity of the diagram and then
rearrange by moving one or more boxes with the connecting lines folllowing along.

I suppose I could use something like MacProject. Alternatives? Suggestions?

Marv Graham; Convex Computer Corp.  graham@bach.convex.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: scouten@staff.tc.umn.edu (Eric Scouten)
Subject: Re: possible to save ASCII postscript from Quark?
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 04:53:09 GMT

In article <VHgZwB12w165w@theporch.raider.net> rowley@theporch.raider.net (Michael Rowland) writes:
>dws@ssec.wisc.edu (DaviD W. Sanderson) writes:
>
>> Is it possible to save something from Quark in ASCII encapsulated
>> postscript form?  I've been trying to help someone save an image from

I just picked up an XTension which purports to offer ASCII PostScript.
I haven't had a need to test it yet -- so I'm not sure if it affects printed
output or "Save page as EPS" output.

I got it from Compu$erve; not sure if it's available on an FTP site. BTW,
it's one of the QuarkFreebies that's part of the updater disk for 3.11.

-Eric
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From: tmplee@TIS.COM (Theodore Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Background Printing of PostScript files
Date: 4 Jan 93 18:04:11 GMT
Reply-To: tmplee@TIS.COM
Organization: Trusted Information Systems

(second try, having received no responses to first query)

I recently just acquired a IIvx rather than some flavor of 486/50,
partly on assurances that I could do everything I needed to on it,
easier and just as fast as on a PC.  I find that one of those
assurances may have been misleading.  After having tried what I think
are all the appropriate applications or DA's/extensisons, I can't seem
to find any way of getting downloaded postscript files to print *in
the background*, i.e., using the PrintManager.  Is there some magic
answer? (The LaserWriter Utility works just fine, but it sits in the
foreground with the watch cursor and a dialogue window up. DTPrinter,
EasyPrint treat the postscript file as text and print it that way;
they would presumably work if there were a very simple application that
just read the postscript file a byte at a time and shipped it off to
printer-land.  PS Printer doesn't seem to work with the file manager;
Adobe's PrintPS  doesn't even work, probably not system 7 compatible
...)

(I'm using 7.1, the printer is an Everex Laserscript LX, some kind of
pretty darn exact clone of an apple laserwriter.)

tmplee@tis.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: oster@well.sf.ca.us (David Phillip Oster)
Subject: Re: FaxSTF questions
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 10:35:53 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.192351.1@tesla.njit.edu> erh0362@tesla.njit.edu (Elliotte Rusty Harold) writes:
>    FaxSTF includes an unsupported program called FAX Utilities that will 
>convert phonebooks to and from text files.

In article <1ic2soINN4up@cabernet.cs.purdue.edu> knapp@cs.purdue.edu (Edgar Kna
pp) writes:
>The disks include a tiny application called FaxState that 
>toggles the status of the fax software. Takes about 1 second to do.


Neither of these are on the disks that shipped with the U.S. Robotics modem
I bought last month. Those disks say "version 2.2.0" What is the current 
version?  What other improvements have been made?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: trsnyder@mcs.drexel.edu (Bob Snyder)
Subject: Re: Quicken vs Managing Your Money
Organization: ASCI
	<1993Jan6.174035.19752@udel.edu> <1iki8qINNhis@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
	<C0r08A.52u@avalon.nwc.navy.mil>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 20:50:45 GMT

>>>>> In article <C0r08A.52u@avalon.nwc.navy.mil>, Larry F. Brauer
>>>>> <brauer@chinalake.navy.mil> writes:

Larry> About 2 years ago, when I first purchased my Mac, I tried
Larry> Quicken and was very disappointed.  The version I had was only
Larry> a single checkbook register, nothing else.  No capability for
Larry> credit cards, investments, loans, or anything else unless you
Larry> made a separate file.  I then tried MYM and was very pleased.

The current version is much better than what you describe.  It does credit
cards, loans, etc....  I'm very happy with it.

Bob
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: trimper@edsi.plexus.COM (Greg Trimper)
Subject: BBEdit 2.2 crashes when waking my PB160!
Organization: Enterprise Data Systems Incorporated, Appleton WI
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 06:26:50 GMT

Has anyone else had this problem before I bug the author about it?

Here's the deal:

I launch BBEdit (doesn't matter if I have a doc open or not),
the PB goes to sleep after a few minutes of non-use, and if
BBEdit was the front application, when the PB wakes up, BBEdit crashes
with a "Type 1" Error.  This is with or without any extensions.

If BBEdit is in the background, it seems to survive.  Problem is, I'm trying
to use BBEdit as the editor on it, and I can't really predict when it will
go to sleep and put it in the background right before it goes to sleep
(which would keep it from sleeping, anyway)

Anyone else?  Can someone try it on their machine?

Greg Trimper   trimper@edsi.plexus.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: FileMaker Pro externals?
From: anadig@otago.ac.nz
Date: 11 Jan 93 16:43:28 +1300
Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Does anyone know if there is a way of writing external code resources for
FileMaker Pro, so that it could be made to, say, control a piece of equipment
?

Replies by e-mail, thanks.


Michael(tm) Hamel

Analog Digital Instruments, Dunedin, New Zealand.
From: jjp8508@chensun1.tamu.edu (Jeffrey J Polasek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: looking for VCR+ software
Date: 9 Jan 1993 21:29:32 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, Chemical Engineering
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: chensun1.tamu.edu

hello world!!

does anyone out there know of any software that can gererate VCR+ codes? 
or have an idea on what algorithm is that is used to gererate these numbers?

any help at all will be greatly appreciated!!  Mucho Thanks!!
respond by either email or to the net...

-Jeff (Loon)
From: fairchil@helix.ucsd.edu (Kevin Fairchild)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Disinfectant
Date: 12 Jan 93 00:55:50 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego


From fairchil Mon Jan 11 16:55:40 1993
To: /home/helix/fairchil/.article

John Norstad wrote,

>There haven't been any new Mac viruses for a long time now, so there 
>haven't been any new versions of Disinfectant. The current version is 2.9.

On behalf of the Mac people I know at a couple of college Mac labs, and anyone
else who cares to join in, I would like to thank Mr. Norstad and his colleagues
at Northwestern for his work with Disinfectant.  I am certainly no expert on
computer viruses, but from my own experience and observation I conclude that
the rapid freeware distribution of Disinfectant had a lot to do with the
drastic reduction of Mac viruses.  About three or four years ago, I would get
viruses on my disks that I used in the college lab about once a week.  Now I
have set up a small Mac system for the program I teach in, and with about 15 or
20 people regularly using the system for about six months, I have yet to see
one virus, even an old one.

Thank you, John Norstad.

Kevin Fairchild
Soon-to-be-late-of-UCSD

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: cmp@fig.citib.com (Craig M. Plunkett)
Subject: Microsoft WORD
Originator: cmp@owl
Keywords: word,difference,utility,synchronization
Organization: Citibank IBISM
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:26:20 GMT


I'm looking for a utility that will output the differences between two Microsoft WORD files.  I'm collaborating on a book with someone, and we need some software to enable us to keep in synch when we work on different copies of the same document.  It should be something like the VAX/VMS differences utility.  Anybody heard of such an app?

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: greeny@top.cis.syr.edu (J. S. Greenfield)
Subject: Re: Which app gets launched?
Organization: Syracuse University, CIS Dept.
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 18:42:59 EST

In article <1ia7s5INNgvi@agate.berkeley.edu> dana@are.Berkeley.EDU (Dana E. Keil) writes:

>>A "third party marketing opportunity" would be a Finder Hack that lets a user
>>manually pick out which application they really want launched, and have it
>>remembered.  If it can't be found, then the Finder would continue its search
>>path.
>
>What I do to accomplish this (using System 7 is necessary though)
>is to make an alias to the desired copy of the application and put
>it in a convenient place (for me that's the desktop) and then
>open documents by drag and drop on the application alias rather
>than double-clicking the document.

Better yet, use the nice little freeware utility "Save a BNDL."  It's *not*
a Finder *hack*, but it does exactly the necessary job.  Say you have two
different versions of an app on your disk--you just drop the one you want
launched when double-clicking the documents onto "Save a BNDL."  The utility
changes the Desktop Database entry for the app to achieve this.

Nice and convenient.


-- 
J. S. Greenfield                                         greeny@top.cis.syr.edu
(I like to put 'greeny' here, 
but my d*mn system wants a 
*real* name!)                        "What's the difference between an orange?"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: clawton@tfs.com (Chris Lawton)
Subject: binhex4.0
Organization: TRW Financial Systems
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 05:04:49 GMT

I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post this so anyway...

I just downloaded binhex4.bin and some .hqx files to convert but
I can't get binhex to work.  I ftp'ed in binary mode every step of the way
(I'm sure of this) but I don't know if there is another step -
for example, uuencode the file.  (It doesn't look as if it needs it)
I have resedit 2.1 if anything needs to be modified.

Any hints on getting it working would be great as I'm in a tight spot here.
(i.e. I need it working ASAP!)

Thanks in advance! :)

Chris Lawton
clawton@tfs.com

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Dave Jensen <djensen@claven.idbsu.edu>
Subject: Apple HD SC setup dilemma
Organization: Morrison Center for the Performing Arts
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 23:20:14 GMT

According to "The Dead Mac Scrolls," version 1.5 of Apple's HD SC setup will
recognize and allow replacing of the SCSI driver when version 2 will not. This
is confusing since the version of HD SC I have is #7... I would think it would
be superior. 

However, version 7 gives the same dialogue box (that it can't find a suitable
SCSI driver) as is mentioned about version 2 in "The Dead Mac Scrolls."
According to the book, version 1.5 will supposedly recognize the disk in this
instance and allow updating.

I'm pretty sure it's only the SCSI driver since the disk spins, provides
parameter data to, and allows a seek-time test by, the utility application
"SCSI Evaluator".

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Dave Jensen
Email: djensen@claven.idbsu.edu
From: pwai (Patrick Wai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Looking for Quicktime movie files
Date: 12 Jan 93 18:49:37 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: Adobe Systems Inc.



I'm looking for any interesting QuickTime movie files.

I've already checked the usual places like Summex, UMich, etc.

Does anyone know of other sources where I could download the files?

Thanks.





Patrick
From: vanover@bcsaic.boeing.com (Jann VanOver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Tax software?
Date: 11 Jan 93 22:19:51 GMT
Organization: Boeing Computer Services, Seattle

steinman@hslrswi.hasler.ascom.ch writes:
>In case anyone's taking count, here's another "thumbs down" on ChipSoft. I
>suspect anyone who did not have trouble with 1991 MacInTax had pretty trivial
>taxes, and did not stress the system. For instance, I started filling out a
>form by mistake, and I never was able to get rid of it, or even delete certain
>fields -- it ended up adding in $0.02, which I subtracted out near the end
>of the form to keep it from screwing up everything else.
>
>That was just one of the many problems I had. If you do a 1040EZ, I'm sure
>MacInTax is fine, but if you have investments, rental income, and run a
>business, forget it!
>
If you do a 1040EZ and STILL pay $80+ for a tax program every year, you
must be missing a few lugnuts!

I'm another "used MacInTax for 5+ years and really HATED what ChipSoft
did to it" user.  Let's see if I can remember my specific problems:

  1) Duplicate erroneous forms listed in the menus.  One was really
linked to my 1040, the other was out in the ozone.
  2) When requested to "print all" forms, only about the first 5 came
out.  I had to individually pull up each form I had filled out and print it.

All the stuff they added was completely useless to me.  I don't need them
to "walk me through" - I got a K-2 from my investments and just want
to pull up the "put your K-2 stuff here" form and go on.  I didn't
understand the value of the file drawer or other nifty icons they added
to clutter up the screen.

I'm still undecided about this year's taxes.    Even if MacInTax has
gotten better, I am SOOOO mad about last year's version that I just
don't want to give them another penny.

TaxCut users, please continue reporting on its quality and performance!
From: jnsims01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Can Word & Excel Share Spellcheck&Help Stuff?
Date: 6 Jan 93 17:32:41 GMT
Organization: University of Louisville

Why is it that Microsoft Word and Excel do not or cannot use the same spell
checking utility and main dictionary? Why don't they use the same Help
facilities? Am I missing something here, or am I doomed to duplicate more than
a megabyte of disk-consuming junk? Any suggestions or help greatly appreciated;
post or e-mail as you feel inclined...

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