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From: Paul.Conaway@p22.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Paul Conaway)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: RE: Help: Jasmine InnerDrive formatting utility
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 23:57:28 EST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:226/20.22 - cmhGate UF Gateway, Columbus OH

To: rglewis@athena.mit.edu (Richard Griggs Lewis II)
   
Richard Griggs Lewis Ii writes in a message to All on 25 Aug 92

 RGL> My lab has a Mac SE with 4 Megs of RAM that we want to upgrage 
 RGL> to System 7. The problem is that the Jasmine InnerDrive that 
 RGL> we have isn't System 7 compatible. 
 RGL> I've been told that we need a formatting utility from Jasmine 
 RGL> (a company which has gone out of business). I also found out 
 RGL> that a French company, Chess, bought Jasmine, but the phone 
 RGL> numbers I have for Chess don't get through.  So, does anyone 
 RGL> know about this company, or does anyone know where we can get 
 RGL> this utility? email me at rglewis@athena.mit.edu 


Richard, does this drive have to be formatted with the Jasmine drivers? If not
why not try using another hard drive utility package. Hard Disk Tool Kit from
FWB is a very good package. All you need to do is back up your drive reformat
with the new software and restore. 

Paul

 
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From: kmarko@hpbs654.boi.hp.com (Kurt Marko)
Subject: Re: Backup Scenario From Hell (BSFH)
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 19:36:27 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard / Boise, Idaho

In article > whitmore@iastate.edu (Kurt D Whitmore) writes:

>Is there a program that will mirror my pocket drive so when I make
>files on either Mac I can have them saved into the mirror and then
>update my pocket drive from the mirror. This way I can:
>
>o	Save files in there appropriate folders
>	(same hierarchy on all 3 drives).
>
>o	Access my frequently used files on all three hard drives
>
>o	Keep the pocket drive updated from both HD's EASILY. 

There is a new program due out from a company called NoHands Software
called Magnet that I played with at MacWorld that will do exactly
this.  You can set up `magnets' to mirror specific folders from one
disk to another; thus with a couple of bi-directional Magnets you can
mirror from one Mac to the portable drive and from the portable to the
other Mac.  The Magnets can be set to trigger either on a disk mount,
shutdown or periodically (say after a few minutes of idle time).  

I think Magnet is due to be released in the next month or so; list is
supposed to be around $100-125.

Kurt Marko

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: collet@scripps.edu (Thomas Collet)
Subject: MS Word: Can file name be in header?
Organization: The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 00:20:36 GMT

Title says it all: is there a way to set up a document
in MS Word so that the name of the file automatically
appears in header or footer?
Thanks

Thomas
From: teplitz@optilink.UUCP (Ron Teplitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Command key symbol
Date: 28 Aug 92 14:54:15 GMT
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA

From article <116978@muvms3.bitnet>, by gary@muvms3.bitnet (gary's news):
> What key combinations and font will produce the Command key symbol ???
> 
> Thanks,
> Gary

Well, according to Norton KeyFinder, neither Times or Helvetica have the
cloverleaf Command symbol, but they have the apple with a bite out of it:
that is option-shift-k.  Know anyone who has Fontographer? Make a cmd
charater for yourself...
.

-- 
Ron Teplitz - Tech Writer/Cellist
UUCP:   uunet!optilink!teplitz	Internet: teplitz@optilink.com 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Quinn <quinn@cs.uwa.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Which packages are PowerPoint's competitors?
Organization: The University of Western Australia
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Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 02:11:25 GMT

In article <26AUG199217453863@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov> Susan E. Kayser
NSSDC/STX, kayser@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov writes:
>Aldus Persuasion usually gets the top rating.

Yeah, with the added bonus that it's not a Microsloth program (-:

But seriously I've Persuasion for a number of presentations and,
despite having a few foibles (and what applications don't?), it
gets the job done well.

Quinn "The Eskimo!"      <quinn@cs.uwa.edu.au>     "Support HAVOC!"
Department of Computer Science, The University of Western Australia
  -- Microsloth:  Just say NO!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.comm
From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Subject: Re: How to get N telnet windows & large fonts (with VersatermPro)
Reply-To: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 14:58:29 GMT

johng@informix.com (John Galloway) writes:

>If I were to give up A/UX, going to just sys 7, what would replace the
>ability to have multiple windows (command shell) with varying fonts/pt sizes,
>logged into various machines?

>I could use MacX/xterm, but then I would have to first telnet to each host
>(via say Versaterm) and then fire up an xterm, seems like a pain.  Versaterm
>alone won't allow multiple windows (or at least I can not get it to open them,
>though it uses the telnet tool just fine for one).  And while I am on the
>subject, VersaTerm also only goes up to a 12 pt font.  I like to use
>18 pt courier in a 40 line window.  Not exactly vt100ish, but in the
>A/UX command shell it works like a charm, and I can have N of them with
>different sizes and fonts (i.e. a 130 column 12 pt, etc) what Mac app
>will give me this?.

The latest version of VersaTerm supports larger font sizes (15 and 18)
as well as multiple sessions.
-- 
    Jim Jagielski               | "This is supposed to be a happy occasion.
    jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov   |  Let's not bicker and argue about who
    NASA/GSFC, Code 734.4       |  killed who."
    Greenbelt, MD 20771         |
From: hcheng@Auspex.COM (Howard Cheng)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Error type 25
Date: 28 Aug 92 22:00:15 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

Okay, here's a problem that's been stumping me for a bit.

Lately, two applications have been "unexpectedly" quitting due to an "error
type 25." Retrospect was the first one to do this, so I thought it was a 
problem with that. I talked with Walt Hays of Dantz Development and he gave
me some ideas, so I thought it fixed. But then TCP/Connect started doing it
too.

The symptoms: Well, the program works fine. The error seems to occur after it
has been idling for a little while (at least 15-20 min.) and never while I'm
next to the computer (of course). I come back and see the dialog box on the
screen ("The application unknown has unexpectedly quit..."). Not only that,
but the rest of the screen takes on a gray tinge. Open windows have a gray
background instead of a white one. The parts that are white are the parts that
were redrawn because they were covered by the windows open in the application.
Ever odder is the complete uninstallation of After Dark. After the error 
occurs, After Dark is kicked out of operation. I check in the Control Panels
folder, open After Dark, and it tells me that it must be installed first, when
it was working fine before the error.

The system: Mac IIci, System 7.0.1, Tuneup 1.1.1, Radius display & card,
Asante ethernet card, a whole bunch of extensions (doesn't seem likely because
this error happens only every once in a while but I haven't tried changing
them yet).

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Howard
From: mzajac@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Michael Stephen Zajac)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Filemaker Pro bombs in system 7 - advice, please
Date: 3 Sep 92 17:34:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: ccu.1992Sep3.173441.2319
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

We just bought a copy of Filemaker Pro (bundled with MacWrite II and 
MacDraw) from the local university bookstore.  It runs once, creates a
"Filemaker temp" folder, then bombs on startup when it runs again.  
It will run successfully when the temp folder is removed.

Claris tech support told us that the version 1.0v2 we have should be
'mostly' compatible with system 7, but were surprisid that we could even
buy such an out-of-date copy.  They said that academic upgrades
are handled by the seller.

The people at the bookstore were most unhelpful - saying that they never
handle upgrades, but would check on the price.  I found this to be quite
rude after I had stressed that we bought the software last week and
hadn't had it working right yet.

So does anyone on the net know exactly which version of Filemaker Pro
works with system 7?
From: jess@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jess M Holle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Archive search and listing program...
Date: 3 Sep 92 01:06:17 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

Thank you very much to everyone who responded via e-mail and news.

I downloaded File List+ and it does all I want and more (and is free).  I
don't think that it understands the Stuffit Lite 3.0 format, BUT I haven't
tried it (since I have no Stuffit Lite archives).

As for Stuffit Lite vs. Compact Pro, the consensus of those who responded
to this portion of my question was that Stuffit Lite was at best SLIGHTLY
better than Compact Pro as far as archive size.  Since no one mentioned an
automatic search and translation program, I will definitely be sticking
with Compact Pro.  I probably would anyway since the new version of Compact
Pro is faster than ever and File List+ reads its files quite well.

Jess Holle
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.apps:13840 comp.sys.mac.misc:15568
From: braun@Oswego.EDU (Stephen F. Braun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Autodoubler kills desktop?
Date: 28 Aug 92 02:07:54 GMT
Reply-To: braun@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Stephen F. Braun)
Organization: Instructional Computing Center, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY

In article <1992Aug26.191033.1585@newshost.unh.edu> K_LEPA@unhh.unh.edu (Kristen   Lepa) writes:
>I just bought Autodoubler yesterday and I threw it on my LC.  When I 

{ explainations & problems deleted}
>Thanks for any info,
>	-Kristen
>k_lepa@unhh.unh.edu

I have also installed Autodoubler and found that it interfears with
my DiskExpressII.  No bombs either, but DEII gives me a directory error.
Is AD all it is cracked up to be?  Any real-time solutions?
Thanks        - Stephen
braun@Oswego.oswego.edu
.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: sears@cello.hpl.hp.com (Bart Sears)
Subject: Re: GIF viewer for Plus?
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 01:48:04 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories


GifConverter 2.3b1 is a beta (the "b1") and is known to crash on non 7.0
systems.  2.3b2 should fix this problem and is due out soon.  In the
meantime, I suggest getting "Giffer" which is freeware, or getting
GifConverter 2.2 which is the last stable release.  Both of these are
available from mac.archive.umich.edu in /mac/graphics/graphicsutil.

							Bart
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.apps:13875 comp.sys.mac.misc:15625
From: hcheng@Auspex.COM (Howard Cheng)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Label software wanted
Date: 28 Aug 92 19:15:40 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

In article <1992Aug28.172746.17324@leland.Stanford.EDU> davidw@jessica.Stanford.EDU (David J. Whelan) writes:
>Does anyone have any recommendations for software that can print on a
>wide variety of laser printer labels?  I'm interested in a program
>that can handle "free form" label information as well as structured
>labels for addresses.  Ability to include graphics would be a plus.
>

There's a program called FastLabel (I forget the manufacturer) that may be
what you're looking for. It comes with templates for all popular Avery labels
and you can create more if you like as well. As for printing, it works great
on Laserwriters (where I tested it) and it's very fast as well.

h.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: sew@design.canberra.edu.au (Simon Ward)
Subject: MacSurf?
Organization: University of Canberra
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 08:09:39 GMT

There used to be an interesting hull design program MacSurf.
Does anyone know if it's still available and from where?


Simon Ward
Faculty of Environmental Design
University of Canberra

sew@design.canberra.edu.au
From: eck@saul.upenn.edu (Brian J. Eck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Which packages are PowerPoint's competitors?
Date: 26 Aug 92 20:17:38 GMT
Organization: People of Rome


   I've recently been asked to find a good presentation-making
application for our Macs.  It's been a few years since I've been
heavily into Mac presentation, so I'm not up on the latest
developments.

   I used to use MS PowerPoint, and I believe it's still around; I'm
fairly sure there are other applications that match/beat it in terms
of price, performance, etc.  My only requirement is that the
applications be able to use color and output it as color PostScript.

   Thanks in advance for any recommendations...

brian

--
Brian Eck   eck@saul.cis.upenn.edu
Civilization is merely a momentary lapse of entropy.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: ferch@ucs.ubc.ca (Les Ferch)
Subject: Re: File viewer for Big Text Files?
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 03:00:02 GMT

>>I just got the Walnut Creek Desktop Library CDROM, but am at a loss
>>of a way to conveniently view the books on it.  I tried EasyView, but
>>it doesn't seem to like plain text.  TeachText doesn't like huge files,
>>and Word seems like overkill for just reading text, although that's what
>>I ended up using.
>>
>>Is there any PD program which does this well?  One neat way would be

>I'm a big fan of Edit II 2.0.2, a truly wonderful shareware text editor.

Although programs like Edit II, Vantage, Alpha, etc. can read files as big
as available memory, there is still a need for a fast text reader (and
editor) that can use text files of any size by reading only a portion at a
time. Word processors like MIcrosoft Word do this, but very slowly.

Using one of the above editors with virtual memory is NOT a solution. Just
try reading a text file on an 8MB RAM Mac that is much bigger than 10MB.
With virtual you'll get a maximum of 12MB total and with System 7 using
upwards of 2MB, that leaves about 10MB available. On top of that, you have
to find 12MB of free disk space (NBL when you are dealing with 10MB text
files!).

PS. NBL = Not Bloody Likely

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: dylan@cs.washington.edu (Dylan McNamee)
Subject: File viewer for Big Text Files?
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 22:48:01 GMT


I just got the Walnut Creek Desktop Library CDROM, but am at a loss
of a way to conveniently view the books on it.  I tried EasyView, but
it doesn't seem to like plain text.  TeachText doesn't like huge files,
and Word seems like overkill for just reading text, although that's what
I ended up using.

Is there any PD program which does this well?  One neat way would be
for a program to break a file into hypercard stacks, but anything better
than Word would be great.  (like more?)

thanks in advance--
dylan
From: ecoli@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Michael Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Mac PC Exchange, AccessPC & DOSMounter
Date: 3 Sep 92 01:26:16 GMT
Organization: UT Austin (student)
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X-XXDate: Wed, 2 Sep 92 20:26:46 GMT



I have used both Apple's PC Exchange and Insignia's Access PC, and can
recommend
both, though I definitely prefer Access PC.

-- Access PC gives you the _option_ of saving the resource fork to the DOS
floppy (that is, the extended Mac filename you give the file, the icon,
etc.) while PC Exchange does it for you w/o the option.

-- When you give a file on a DOS disk an extended Mac filename, PC
Exchange
renames the DOS filename to be the first 10 characters of the Mac
filename, 
preceeded by an exclamation point. That is: a DOS file on the DOS disk
renamed
in the Mac finder to "My file of names" has its DOS filename changed to
!MYFILEO.FNA

Access PC is more intelligent. It truncates at the end, and preserves
whatever
extension you might have given the file. That is: you can have a file
which
begins life on the PC called "DATA.XLS", rename it on the Mac in the
Finder to 
"My Data File of Stuff.XLS", and Access PC will change the DOS filename to
"MYDATAF&.XLS".  Both programs retain the information so that when you
put the
disk BACK in the Mac, you get the long Mac filemane again.

-- Access PC can allow you to mount SoftPC hard disk files to the
desktop, and
copy files to and from the SoftPC hard disk w/o starting Soft PC. This is
VERY
useful if you're a hardcore SoftPC user.

So, it's my choice. They're based on the same basic engine; Apple
liscensed
the code from Insignia rather than start from scratch. Why not get the
original?

Mike Mitchell
ecoli@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: johnston@me.udel.edu (Bill Johnston)
Subject: Re: Emacs availability?
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 02:15:27 GMT

In article <p8knq8d.spworley@netcom.com>, spworley@netcom.com asks:

>I'm looking for an Emacs port for the Mac: I have microemacs from
>sumex-aim, but I really want a complete emacs, instead of the
>tiny subset that microemacs has. (It doesn't even have search-and-replace!)
>If I can find a PD or shareware version, great, but I'd be even willing
>to pay for a commercial port or clone, like Epsilon on the PC. 

This question has an easy answer:  Alpha (shareware) is an excellent
emacs- clone/workalike.  The current version 5.04 is available on
cs.rice.edu in /public/Alpha.  It's got most of the same features
that make emacs addictive;  it's fully programmable through its 
embedded implementation of "tcl" and has with grep-like search/replace
built-in.  For $25 shareware, it's possibly the best buy in Mac software.
-- 
-- Bill Johnston (johnston@me.udel.edu)
-- 38 Chambers Street; Newark, DE 19711; (302)368-1949
From: eric@bcserv.wustl.edu (Hugo (Eric))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Mac utility for reading HP diskettes
Date: 1 Sep 92 09:55:10 GMT
Organization: Washington University in Saint Louis, MO USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: bcserv.wustl.edu
Summary: Does anyone know of a utility for reading HP9000 floppies on the Mac
Keywords: HP9000 floppy drives Mac utilities

Dear Netters,
     Does anyone know of any Macintosh utilities that will allow
a Mac Classic or SE/30 (with superdrive) to read 3.5" floppies
from a Hewlett-Packard HP9000 series 300 computer?
     Please email a response I will forward information to any
interested parties.   Thanks.
                              Eric
-- 
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  Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics|                
  Washington University School of Medicine      |               
  Box 8231, St. Louis, MO 63110_________________| (314) 362-3342
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: DOBENSON@ua1vm.ua.edu (Joe Demon)
Subject: The Sun (Remarketing) is setting
Organization: The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 18:19:25 GMT

I have a Lisa that I got from Sun Remarketing quite a while ago, and it
has been quite a bit of trouble. No problem, though. I didn't expect
the best. However, when I did have a problem I could call Sun Remarketing
and they would usually help me over the phone. Now there's a new
wrinkel -- a 900 number at $2/PER MINUTE! to call for any problems.
  I agree that service should be charged for -> but this is ridiculous.
Most of the time, the techs were unable to help, and their standard advice
was to "box it up and ship it back." Great advice at $2/PER MINUTE!
  Beware of Sun. It is setting.
  Oh, yeah. If you want the 900 number, it's:
  1-900-786-7782, and have your wallent ready.
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From: rgonzal@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Ralph Gonzalez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Hardware/software recommendations for Video sought?
Keywords: video
Date: 30 Aug 92 20:03:04 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Distribution: usa
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


Hi. My sister is preparing to buy a new Mac with insurance money from
a previously-stolen one. She and her friend want to do a little video
production with it, for a business which distributes tutorials. For
example, they want to take video footage (either filmed or possibly
created on the Mac) of a drawing of the digestive system, and animate
the passage of medicine through the system. They also want to add
titles, etc.

I don't think this is extremely high-end stuff, and they'd prefer not
to spend $10,000 on a system. (Under $5000 for hardware and software
combined, if possible.)

I know very little about the requirements for this. My inclination is
to say they need at least a IIci (or one of the forthcoming multi-slot
Macs), and can start with a low end frame grabber like videospigot.
Perhaps they need a special (multisynch) monitor and something to
synchronize the NTSC signal with the Mac?

I'd appreciate any recommendations. If anyone in the vicinity of
Akron, OH is willing to talk to them, please contact me.

Thanks,
Ralph
gonzalez@clam.rutgers.edu
-- 
Ralph Gonzalez, Computer Science, Rutgers Univ., Camden, NJ
Phone: (609) 757-6122; Internet: rgonzal@elbereth.rutgers.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: knop@dutecag.et.tudelft.nl (Peter Knoppers)
Subject: Re: WANTED: ASCII CHART DA
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 17:38:49 GMT

Can't you make one in your preferred word processor / drawing program
and copy it to a page in the Scrapbook DA ?
--
Peter Knoppers - knop@duteca.et.tudelft.nl
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: tonyg@spock.retix.com (Tony "Salty Dog" Goulding)
Subject: Problems Unstuffig archive...
Organization: Retix, Santa Monica CA
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 00:10:27 GMT

Hey Ho!
A while back, I downloaded a few files from sites I don't recall.  They
are cipher-10, regulator1.2, and soundasleep1.0b1.  All were binhex'd.
I unbinhexed them, but couldn't unstuff them.  I ran Unstuffit Delux Vn
2.0 and Stuffit Classic Vn 1.6, but both report that the item was
compressed with a method that it couldn't handle, and maybe a newer
version is required.  All 3 files have a Type of SITD and Creator of
SIT!. 

ANy ideas?
Thanks
Tony.

-- 
Tony [All views expressed are mine - if anyone is to blame its me]
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