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From: jmoulder@mis.mcw.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Word will not open file -- Help!
Date: 19 Nov 92 16:08:09 CDT
Organization: Medical College of Wisconsin

We have created a MS Word file (Version 4) that cannot be opened.

Attempting to open it gets the message:
"Not enough memory to run Word"

Loading a new copy of Word does not help.
Reloading system files (6.0.8) does not help.
Norton DiskDoctor reports no problems on the disc.

The file can be copied from the floppy to the hard disc, but it stil cannot be
opened.

The file can be copied to another machine, but it still doesn't work.

Meanwhile, we have noticed no other system or MS Word problems.

The current version is not backed-up (some people never learn), and Norton
Unerase says the old copies are in "poor" condition.

This is a new problem to me, and I don't recall any discussion of similar
problems on the net.

If you have any ideas, please e-mail (or post if you think the issue is of
general interest).

John Moulder (jmoulder@post.its.mcw.edu)
Radiation Biology Group
Medical College of Wisconsin
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: ccjal@cc.newcastle.edu.au (John A Lambert)
Subject: Re: a Date with Word 5
Organization: University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 22:51:11 GMT

In article <14NOV199217305031@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov>, kayser@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (Susan E. Kayser NSSDC/STX (301)513-1673) writes:
> When I choose Date from the Insert menu in Word 5.0a, I get only the year,
> i.e., "1992".  According to the command description of Date, in Commands..., I
> should be getting month, day, and year.  (The Glossary has lots of date
> formats; the one called Date there is indeed just the year; the other formats,
> such as Date Long, are not in the Command list.) 
> 
> Has anybody else found this?  Is there any way to actually get the month, day, 
> year format, as advertised?   (Mac IIci, System 7.0.1+TuneUp 1.1.1; also 
> running Int'l Rescue. Now that I think of it, I'll take it out next time I 
> restart, but I don't think that's the problem.)
> 
-- 
I'm using Word 5.0a, system 7.0, TuneUp 1.1.1, Int'l Rescue. After using Int'l
Rescue to set date formats (short date, etc.) -- no problems.

John A Lambert
Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing
The University of Newcastle NSW 2308 Australia

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: fowell@netcom.com (Richard A. Fowell)
Subject: Needed: mega mail merge utility for MS Word
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 20:17:51 GMT

I have ca. 120 MS Word files with ca. 3000 item numbers that
need to be periodically updated. I want to replace these
item numbers by distinctive mnemonics (e.g. <$price of prune juice$>),
and have a separate "key file" of replacement strings for these mnemonics.
The built-in mail merge capabilities of MS Word looked like an acceptable
solution, but Word dies when given far fewer than 3000 variables to replace.
The folks at MicroSoft didn't have any useful suggestions on beating this.
 
Since the 120 Word files are constantly being updated, I'd like to be able to
do this on the Mac conveniently for a single MS Word file at a time. Since the
"key file" defining the reference numbers would get occasional minor updates,
as well as periodic massive updates (almost everything changed) I'd like to
be able to conveniently to update a whole folder/disk full of MS Word
files at once, too.

Of course, I'd like this utility to be cheap, blindingly fast, with an
elegant and intuitive interface ... but I'm willing to negotiate <grin>.

Suggestions, anyone?

fowell@netcom.com (Richard A. Fowell)
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From: dckim@cs.purdue.edu (David Kim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.wanted
Subject: HELP!!!!! Desktop printer programs....
Date: 23 Nov 1992 15:35:51 -0500
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Purdue University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: arthur.cs.purdue.edu

Help needed.....

  Has anyone out there used little utilities called DTPrinter
  and EasyPrinter....  They both are Desktop printer programs.
  But they seems to be not working at all.

  The docs says that it will work with network printers as well
  but they are not working at all in my case.  And especially
  DTPrinter will not even let me choose printers at all.....

  Or is there any good desktop printer program out there that
  will let me have access to several different LaserPrinters that
  exist on the network.

	HELP..HELP....HELP.....HELP.....HELP....
  thanks in advance......

  David Kim

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: simon@archsci.arch.su.edu.au (Simon Hayman)
Subject: Re: Word processor that does math formulas
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: University of Sydney
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 23:07:13 GMT

>If you are talking of actual mathematics,
> and want to communicate your work to others,
> you will be very unwise to use anything other than TeX/LaTeX ,
> as 99% of mathematicians use these.

But why?
Unless you want to transfer the data as a file any WP program with maths
capability (inherent or attached via something like expressionist) is fine
if paper output is all that is needed. And a damn sight easier to use!!
From: myke@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu (Michael Dautermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,umich.archives
Subject: check mac.archive.umich.edu Re: Screen capture software
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Date: 23 Nov 1992 02:18:33 -0500
Organization: We're from the government, ma'am
Distribution: world
Expires: 12/20/92
NNTP-Posting-Host: terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu
Summary: our site has it... here's where to find it...
Keywords: screen, capture, mac, archive, ftp, site, shareware

In article <1eprdqINNevn@pollux.anu.edu.au> drew@cs.anu.edu.au (Drew Corrigan) writes:
>I am after a PD or Shareware screen capture utility for the Macintosh.
>I need it to take snapshots of pulled-down menus, dialog boxes and the
>like for some documentation I am writing. Ages ago I used to have such
>a utility, but must have lost it. It must be System 7 compatible.
>
>Does anyone know of such a utility?

  
You're looking for:

/mac/system.extensions/cdev/flashit2.2.cpt.hqx
  65    8/26/91     BinHex4.0,Compact1.3

   Like DA/CAMERA, this one lets you get screendumps  of any Mac
   screen (including ones where the menus are down) by installing a
   couple of appropriate "hotkeys".. one to dump the screen to the
   clipboard, one to dump to a file (on the fly), one to dump
   straight to the printer.. other definable features.
   Other screen snapshot capture tools: Artisto, Camera, Scope
   (now System 7 compatible)

and you can find it on the macintosh archive site >> mac.archive.umich.edu <<
(and there's a faster, closer Austrailian (sp?) mirror for you, as well...
"archie.au").  To find a copy of our index, it's in the 00help directory
as the file "index.txt".  And if you want to be put on our recent files
mailing list (tell your non-Usenet-endowed friends about it, we can
mail them the list!), drop me a note at 
"mac-recent-request@mac.archive.umich.edu"....

hope that helps!


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From: vanover@bcsaic.boeing.com (Jann VanOver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: I NEED ALTERNATIVES! Re: MacInTax 92 Woes
Date: 16 Nov 92 19:24:14 GMT
Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle

zaccone@bucknell.edu writes:
> .. describes problem installing MacInTax '92 ...

>Is it me or does MacInTaX seem as though it has declined in quality
>since ChipSoft acquired it?  

No, Rick, it's NOT just you!  I really HATED the changes they made to
the software last year and have really been on the fence about whether
to order it again this year.  All that CRAP that they added to help you
fill out the forms is completely unnecessary, and the software itself
was really buggy.  

* I couldn't get it to print out all my forms with one
  print request - I had to "manually" print out all the forms needed to
  file.

* It was REAL screwy with the menus - putting two or more menu items for
  what should have been one form.

I TRULY LOVED MacInTax before ChipSoft got their grubby hands on it.  It
was so easy, so elegant.

I've used MacInTax for 4 or 5 years now, and I think that's as far as
I'll go.

What are the alternatives?  Any recommendations?

Jann "ChipSoft's on my S--T List" VanOver
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Simon Ward <sew@design.canberra.edu.au>
Subject: form.Z  autodessys Email Address?
Organization: University of Canberra
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1a2
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 01:30:57 GMT

form.Z is a wonderful solids modeller developed by autodessys in Columbus
Ohio.

Does anyone have their Internet Email Address?



Simon Ward
Faculty of Environmental Design
University of Canberra

PO Box 1
Belconnen  A.C.T.
2617
Australia

Ph  61 6 201-2939
Fax 61 6 201-5034

sew@design.canberra.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick)
Subject: Re: MacWrite II, anyone?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:27:26 GMT

brennan@hal.hahnemann.edu writes:


>      Ok - the only "fix" that I thought was in the works for 1.1v1
>   to 1.1v3 was that user X launchs MacWrite II, does his work and 
>   closes the document (under Sys 7) ... user Y sits down at the 
>   same machine, double-clicks on *his* document from the Finder and
>   MWII ->should<- open the document, right?

>      Uh unh - and it's not there for 1.1v3, either.  Anyone know
>   if this is slated for future fixes?

I just tried this under 1.1v3 and it worked perfectly well for me.
If I am not mistaken, it always has. I have no idea what's wrong on
your system. What is it saying? (Are you getting the "Open in from
within MacWrite II" message?)

pr
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System manager - Cognitive Science Group, Beckman Institute, UIUC
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From: PENNY@brownvm.brown.edu (Penny Theodore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: What software for a graphic artist?!?
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Date: 18 Nov 1992 14:59:42 GMT
Organization: Brown University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cis_staff-kntx43.cis.brown.edu

> The biggest problem, of course, is output.  For bitonal or limited halftone
> work, the current crop of ink jet or laser printers is pretty good.  However,
> for serious color work, the types of printers generally for personal use are
> really only "draft" quality at best.  For work that's being prepared for
> commercial production, there is software to produce color separations suitable
> for four-color process printing.  However, for single copies,  I don't know of
> a good hardcopy solution.

I would recommend the high end IRIS Smartjet printers or their other inkjet
models. A service bureau I use in Boston has these and the output is very
high resolution when images are sent in color postscript format from
Photoshop. They claim that effective dpi is 1800! I would tend to belive
it, as images from Painter and Photoshop come out like color photos, many
people I show them to cannot detect any pixels and don't realize they're
digital images. Cost per print where I go is $35. 

Penny Theodore
Penny@brownvm.brown.edu
Opinons are my own :)
From: Paul.Huang@f204.n2603.z1.ieee.org (Paul Huang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Music Editor For Apple Ma
Date: 21 Nov 92 18:05:00 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:2603/204 - Not Even Odd, Forest Hills NY

On 11-19-92, SFR@PRAXIS.CO.UK wrote to ALL:

 S> I am seeking recommendations for a music editor for the Apple Mac.
 S>  
 S> I need a program which will allow me to copy instrumental pieces from 
 S> sheet music, `play' them using the Mac to achieve *reasonable* 
 S> fidelity, do a bit of harmonisation, and then print them out.  This 
 S> will be used as both a learning and a composition tool.  No MIDI 
 S> involvement is required, at least at the moment, but it would be nice 
 S> as an option for later.

Steve,

The notation programs that I am most familiar with are MusicTime 
(Passport) and MusicProse (Coda), which are stripped down versions of 
Encore and Finale, resepctively. They run about $160 to $180 mail order. 
Encore runs about $380, and Finale runs in the $500 range. The main 
difference between the lower priced and higher priced programs has to do 
with the ability to do non-standard notation. If your needs are pretty 
simple and you do more traditional scoring, then MusicTime or MusicProse 
would probably be sufficient. I have personally found Coda products to 
have a very high learning curve, while Passport products tend to have a 
very intuitive interface. When I was evaluating demo programs of MusicTime 
and MusicProse, it was extremely easy to get MusicTime up and running 
without any instructions. OTHO, I couldn't for the life of me figure out 
how to use MusicProse. Users of MusicProse, though, state that the program 
is quite powerful once you learn how to use it. I imagine that the 
functions between MusicTime and MusicProse are very similar.

You also state that MIDI is not necessary for your needs at this moment, 
but that you would like to be able to play your compositions via the Mac. 
All the programs that I mentioned use MIDI. IMHO, MusicTime's MIDI 
implementation seems to be much better that MusicProse. However, MusicTime 
will not play compositions over your Mac speakers - if I remember 
correctly, MusicProse *will* allow you to do this. I don't know if the 
more expensive programs will let you do this. I would suggest that you get 
a MIDI interface and an inexpensive MIDI keyboard. Both can be obtained 
inexpensively on the used market, and you can expand your system later as 
your needs change.

One final note. MusicTime only allows 6 staves per system. I believe 
MusicProse allows 32, Encore 64, and Finale 128. Thus, if you are 
composing for large groups (>6 instruments), MusicTime will be 
insufficient for your needs.

Hope this is helpful. Good luck!

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: jdunning@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (John Alan Dunning)
Subject: Re: Looking for Photoshop book...
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 03:24:08 GMT

In article <1992Nov19.014057.10125@mercury.unt.edu> mi@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Mark Interrante) writes:
>Are there any tutorials or assistance books out there for Photoshop?

Yes, I have "The Official Adobe Photoshop Handbook," by David Biedny and
Bert Monroy, published by Bantam Computer Books.  It covers all of the
program's many features and has lots of tips on how to achieve various
special effects. It was written for version 2.0 of Photoshop, but I believe
version 2.5 is out or will be soon, so you may want to wait for them
to update the Handbook (assuming that they will).

John



Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.misc
From: ddaly@draper.com (Daniel Cameron Daly)
Subject: C.P.U. on PB 100 causes problems
Reply-To: ddaly@draper.com (Daniel Cameron Daly)
Organization: CS Draper Lab
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 19:47:03 GMT

I recently loaded the Connectix Powerbook Utilities (C.P.U.) onto my PowerBook
100 and was very happy with the range of controls it offered, allowing me to
eliminate a bunch of random extensions and control panels I had picked up.
However, there is a catch.  Whenever I try to run certain programs that try
to take over the screen, they only have spradic control - for example, 
After Dark melting clock can only produce flickering floating digits, the
rest of the screen is still normal.  I didn't think much of it until I
tried to run a few of my favorite games, Oids and Spectre, and neither of
them worked either!  Without the C.P.U. in the Control Panels, the games work
fine, but otherwise they can't draw to the screen corectly and are out of
control.  
Has anyone else had trouble with C.P.U. and other applications?  Is there any
way to tell C.P.U. to relinquish control of the screen?  Even with all the
sections in C.P.U. turned off, the problem persists.  I don't really want to
have to reboot to play certain games, so C.P.U may have to go.  Any help
would be appreciated.
Too bad there isn't a comp.sys.mac.powerbook for dedicated problems like
these. Sorry about cross posting.


Daniel Cameron Daly
ddaly@draper.com
"He who fights and runs away, lives to nuke the site from orbit"
From: kahn@wupost.wustl.edu (Michael Kahn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Personnel tracking software
Date: 23 Nov 1992 22:36:09 -0600
Organization: Washington University in Saint Louis, MO USA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: informatics.wustl.edu
Summary: Looking for software for personnel tracking
Keywords: personnel profiles

I'm looking for a software package that will enable me to keep track
of various aspects of the professional activities of the physicians in
our medical school department.  For example, we'd like to store and
retrieve the list of physicians who belong to a specific professional
organization or who received grants from a specific organization or
who have received awards in the past year.  Yes we COULD write our own
database application, but I'm wondering if any package already exists
or if somebody has used a more general product for this purpose.

Thanks for any info in advance,
Michael Kahn
(kahn@informatics.WUSTL.EDU)

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: begley%lock.dnet@jesnic.jsc.nasa.gov
Subject: Re: check mac.archive.umich.edu Re: Screen capture software
Organization: Lockheed Engineering and Sciences
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:50:43 GMT

>In article <1eprdqINNevn@pollux.anu.edu.au> drew@cs.anu.edu.au (Drew Corrigan)
writes:
>>I am after a PD or Shareware screen capture utility for the Macintosh.
>>I need it to take snapshots of pulled-down menus, dialog boxes and the
>>like for some documentation I am writing. Ages ago I used to have such
>>a utility, but must have lost it. It must be System 7 compatible.
>>
>>Does anyone know of such a utility?

  Try "Image Grabber" from Sabastian Software in Bellevue, WA.
It costs $49 and is sys 7 compatible.  Call (206) 865-9343.

Organization: Junior, Architecture, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.mac.misc
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 23:35:50 -0500 
From: "Erik K. Larson" <el17+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Texture and Bump Maps

I am doing a great deal of rendering and would like to find more images
that can be used as textures or bump maps that can be put underneath the
textures.  Are there any ftp sites that would have a great deal of such
a thing?  

It is not important if the images were created for such a purpose, just
that they have interesting patterns.

Just about any file format is ok.

Thanks...
Erik 

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: owen@olympus.arc.nasa.gov..arc.nasa.gov (Owen S. Nishioka)
Subject: Mac X refresh problems
Organization: Nasa-Ames Research Center
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 22:39:59 GMT

I am using Mac X to connect to a DEC 5000 running ANSYS FEM software.
The problem is that when ansys throws up a dialog or message window, it
forgets to redraw what was under it when the box is removed.  (This is
not a problem when running ANSYS from the DEC console.)  This is an
annoying problem in that each time this happens I must manually refresh
the screen.  Does anybody know what the problem is or a possible fix.
FYI, this is on a mac IIfx, (allocating 20 MB's to X), sys 7, 32 bit
mode.  Version 1.1.7 of Mac X software.  Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thx.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: leonardr@netcom.com (Leonard Rosenthol)
Subject: Re: can spacesave coexist with AutoDoubler?
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:46:49 GMT

In article <1992Nov17.154210.7169@mail.cornell.edu> John T. Chapman <jtc1@cornell.edu> writes:
>In article <Nov.16.22.06.10.1992.20748@gandalf.rutgers.edu> Hong-yu Shih,
>hongyu@gandalf.rutgers.edu writes:
>>Hi, anyone can tell me the SpaceSaver coexist or cowork withautodoubler?
>>ta
>>thanx
>>henry    shih@cancer.rutgers.edu
>
>Can't say for sure, as I've never used SpaceSaver, but my guess is no (or 
>at least, not happily.)
>
	Actually they can co-exist just fine together, though AD 2.0 gets
along better with SpaceSaver than AD 1.0.x (due to a change in handling of
DD Method A/B files).  

	Should you choose to run both (for whatever reason), you DEFINATELY
only want to run one of them in "background/Idle-Time compression" mode.

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Subject: Re: Way to hack PICTs into TeachText docs?
From: macdevil@netlink.cts.com (Leonard Cayetano)
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 17:19:59 PST
Organization: NetLink Online Communications, San Diego CA

jdunning@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (John Alan Dunning) writes:

> I think I once saw a utility that could insert PICT graphics into
> normal TeachText documents, much like you can do with other word
> processors.  I thought it was called DocMaker, but that creates
> stand-alone documents.  Is there a way to do this, or am I dreaming?
> 
> 
> John

The application you are looking for is called TeachTextMaker.
 
Leo.

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From: cosc184z@menudo.uh.edu (David Alten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: converting JPEG to GIF
Date: 22 Nov 1992 01:36:29 -0600
Organization: University of Houston
NNTP-Posting-Host: menudo.uh.edu

>Is there a utility (shareware or freeware) that will convert JPEG files to GIF
>format?  JPEGview and QuickTime won't run on my Mac.  So I need to convert some
>JPEG files to GIF files

Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you _need_ QuickTime to view (or convert)
JPEG files??

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