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Info-Mac Digest             Sun, 26 Jul 92       Volume 10 : Issue 179

Today's Topics:

      [*] dictionary stack 1.0
      [*] TidBITS#134/20-Jul-92
      #173, Hebrew fonts
      [Q] 21in Monitors & I/F Boards
      AAA Amazing comment
      Annoying mouse problem
      answers to my questions in IM Digest v10 #173
      Anti-Virus
      Bad F-lines
      bad tape drive
      Boston Macworld
      Conflict Between Gatekeeper 1.2.6 and my Mirror Cartridge Drive (Q)
      Dove Fax Modem update <C>
      Excel 2.2 A or B
      Font ID conflicts
      Font Menu Problem (C)
      How To Wake A Sleeping Powerbook 140?
      Math fonts (C)
      MathType 2.11 File Limit
      Middlebury IP Address
      Pirates
      Problems with my Desktop
      QK extensions
      Remote Access software
      Sadistical (Stats) software
      SendPS Problem
      Shamu
      Statistics Applications
      Uploading PS files via Kermit to VAX?
      Wanted: latest driverss: Mobius 030/2pg disp for SE

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Date: 26 Jul 92 15:49 EDT
From: science@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Mark Zimmermann)
Subject: [*] dictionary stack 1.0

appended below is part 1 of 4 of the Dictionary Stack, v.1.0 --- a
HyperCard 2 stack based on a free research dictionary of 22,768
entries found in the orst.edu archive.  The Dictionary Stack is
a total of 3,831,477 bytes in .cpt.hqx form; the compressed .cpt
file is 2,818,629 bytes, and uncompressed it's 6,394,311 bytes ---
and I have been cautioned by the INFO-MAC moderator that it can't
stay in the archive long, so please get it within the next few weeks
if you want it.  The stack includes some nice search and lookup
facilities, and may serve as a starting point for bigger or more
current dictionary stacks.  (To date this dictionary, it includes
"hipster" and "hepcat" entries....:-)  ^z  (zimm@alumni.caltech.edu)

[Archived as /info-mac/card/dictionary.hqx; 3832K]

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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 22:39:31 PDT
From: ace@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: [*] TidBITS#134/20-Jul-92

TidBITS#134/20-Jul-92

 If you or anyone you know has ever felt hand or wrist pain while
   at the Mac, read on for more information on carpal tunnel
   syndrome and a number of easy ways of avoiding serious
   damage. We also have a look at a hot new product coming soon
   from SuperMac. Called SuperView, it will extend the PowerBooks'
   video output horizons significantly. Finally, we unveil our
   corporate sponsorship program, so check out the fileserver for
   some excellent files.

Topics:
    MailBITS/20-Jul-92
    TidBITS Sponsorship Program
    SuperView
    Carpal Tunnel Anonymous
    Carpal Tunnel Help
    Reviews/20-Jul-92

[Archived as /info-mac/digest/tb/tidbits-134.etx; 29K]

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Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 17:21:08 +0100
From: me@suzuka.u-strasbg.fr (Michel Eytan LILoL)
Subject: #173, Hebrew fonts

Richard Lim writes on  Mon, 20 Jul 92  13:42 BST (#174):

	...
	 There's also a French (I think) program called WinText, but I'm
	 finding it very
	tough to get reliable information about it over here
	...

It is indeed a French program; there is one word processing program and
different
modules for each language (hebrew, arabic, russian, etc). Cost is around
FF2200 for
the wp and same about for each module. I believe you can 'mix' latin font with
any of the ones in agiven module. I have a colleague here who has bought the
wp
and the hebrew, arabic, cyrillic modules. Anyone wanting information contact
me
privately at e-mail below.

--
Michel Eytan                                    eytan@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr
Labo. Info., Log., Lang.                        T: +33 88 41 74 29
Univ. Strasbourg II                             F: +33 88 41 74 40


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Date: Sat Jul 25 10:34:29 1992
From: earlydh@c-17igp.wpafb.af.mil (Civ Dwight H. Early III, ASC/YCAR,
DSN785-5318)
Subject: [Q] 21in Monitors & I/F Boards

Greeting fellow Info-Mac Readers,

I seek your advice.  I will be upgrading my office IIcx with a 21"
monitor & I/F card as well as a DayStar PowerCache 50MHz accelerator.
The IIcx currently has an Apple 13" with Apple's 8 bit card.

I am looking at two possibilities for the big screen monitor system.

- SuperMac 21{ and a Spectrum 24/III PDQ

- Apple 21" and the 8.24gc

Would appreciate your comments and advice.


--Dwight Early                          earlydh@c-17igp.wpafb.af.mil

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Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 10:03 CDT
From: trimper@edsi.plexus.COM (Greg Trimper)
Subject: AAA Amazing comment

lr> It would be interesting to quit the Finder and see if
lr> other apps run any faster. But I don't see how most
lr> drawing operations would speed up since apps don't
lr> usually yield the CPU in the middle of drawing. It
lr> might improve the responsiveness of apps to input, if
lr> the Finder itself isn't yielding the CPU fast enough,
lr> however.

Well, my MPW C++ builds take almost half as much time if I use
NoFinder to quit the Finder.  It is noticeable- and dramatic.  When
programming, I now make it a habit to use NoFinder to quit the finder
after I launch MPW - I can then use NoFinder or MPW to do directories,
delete/copy/etc files, launch apps, etc.  Why?  My SE/30 used to be
a speedy machine before System 7.  Now it seems rather useless of me to
have System 7, as I am continously quitting the Finder to get any
real work done.


Greg Trimper   trimper@edsi.plexus.com

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Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 12:59:40 EDT
From: jpons@black.clarku.edu (Juan A. Pons)
Subject: Annoying mouse problem

Hi!

I am having a nerve wrecking problem with an SE that is driving me crazy and I
was hoping someone here could help me.

The problem is a mouse (ADB) on a mac SE, it sometimes get's stuck. For
example: if I try to select a sentece in a word processor I click and drag
acoss the page and half-way trhough the sentence the mouse pointer decides to
stop. To say the least it is very annoying. I tried everything: Two new mice,
reinstalled the system, and now I just put in a new motherboard (but I am
using the same simms and ROMs)  and I am still having the problem. Does
anybody have any ideas. If you do I would be eternally gratefull to you.

Thanks a lot!

Juan <-- jpons@black.clarku.edu

P.S. Does anybody ahve Larry Pina's E-mail address??? Maybe he can help me. I
have his repair and upgrade secrets for the MacII book but not the SE book.

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Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 10:33:48 BST
From: bxu@sfu.ca (Bai Xu)
Subject: answers to my questions in IM Digest v10 #173

Hi, everyone,

Thanks to those who have answered my questions in Info-mac v10 #173. They
are:

Troy Kelley (tkelley@hel4.brl.mil)
Ephraim Vishniac <ephraim@Think.COM>
Georg Koch
Pat Pruyne
Rick Zaccone (zaccone@bucknell.edu)
Cheinan Marks
Spencer Marks
Bill Moynihan (moynihan@venice.sedd.trw.com)
Pat Ullmann  PULLMANN@VM1.TUCC.TRINITY.EDU or PULLMANN@TRINITY (BITNET)
Kim Guan Ng
Jose M. Payo (JMPAYO@cbm2.uam.es)

My questions were on FTP syst. 6.0.8, infomac keyword search and electron
dictionary, Here are the answers:

1) one electronic dictionary can be FTPed on "OES.ORST.EDU" in
/pub/almanac/etext.  the file pub/data/etext/dict.pu.Z
A Unix program called "uncompress" is needed to uncompress this file.  There
is a Mac version of this program called MacCompress.  The sumex
archives have a copy. Once  uncompressed, the result will be a uuencoded file.
Another Unix program "uudecode" is needed to decode it.  The sumex archives
have a program called "uutool"   that will do this on a Mac.  StuffIt also
comes with uuencode/uudeco
de translators.

2) system 6.0.8 can be FTPed by anonymous on
ftp.apple.com (130.43.2.3) in /dts/mac/sys.soft

3) For the last question, I quote part of the mail From: Ephraim Vishniac
<ephraim@Think.COM>

Subject: Searching through IM archives? Use WAIS!
"If you're on the Internet, the easiest way is to use WAIS. WAIS stands for
Wide Area Information Servers. It provides a set of user interfaces (for
Macintosh, X-windows, NeXT, DOS, gnu emacs, and dumb terminals), a
client-server protocol based on Z39.50,
and a variety of information servers. There are dozens of WAIS servers on the
net, including one on cmns-sun.think.com which includes the last few years of
the Info-Mac."

You can telnet to "quake.think.com" and login by "wais" to begin the search.

WAIS is a nice protocol, For those who like mac-interface, I suggest that you
FTP by anonymous a program in "think.com", It is in
/wais/WAIStation-063.sit.hqx. (/wais/bibliography.txt gives a good resume on
wais doc). I can run WAIStation in a networked MA
C, but I can NOT run it in home, Perhaps because I have only a 2400 bps modem
or the communication tools is not installed correctly. I use system 7 on a
classic II and it is my understanding that the communication protcol is
included in syst 7.

 et voila!
Thanks for you attention.
Bai XU

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Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 16:01:40 -0800
From: Scott Allen Gruby <sgruby@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Subject: Anti-Virus

Please ignore my last message regarding Central Point Anti-Virus. Today in
the mail I received a Backup update disk and a correction for the T4 virus
and a ChinaTalk virus update that I was able to successfully install.

Here is my next question regarding Central Point Anti-Virus. I have the
control panel scan my startup volume on shutdown. It scans the drive TWICE.
Has anyone else expereienced this problem? I turned off all my other inits,
reinstalled the control panel, talked to tech support, and can't solve this
problem.

Please respond via email.

Thanks.

Scott Gruby
sgruby@jarthur.claremont.edu

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Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92  14:30 BST
From: RICHARD LIM <RTL%SIVA.BRISTOL.AC.UK@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Bad F-lines

Regarding the highly informative advice on "Bad F-line instruction" messages
and how they can be related to code corruption, I'd just like to say that
for AGES, I couldn't boot my LC from the System 7 Install 1 disk because it
would produce...you guessed, "Bad F-line Instruction"!  The same thing
happened when I attempted to boot using the Install disk that came with my
office's Quadra 700.  In both cases, the boot process would bomb just after
the desktop pattern was drawn, but before entering the Installer.
So, I thought, I'll boot from the internal hard disk and then try to
reinstall the System on it by running the Installer from the floppy.
Everything would go okay until it got to the stage where it ejects Install 2
and asks for Tidbits.  Then the Installer would get totally out of sync
with itself, because it would suddenly produce an additional dialog box on
the screen saying "Please insert Install 2" - but refuse to continue with
either Install 2 or Tidbits disks.  The net result was that it had trashed
enough of the hard disk System to make that unusable, but you were unable
to continue with the installation procedure.  In other words, you were
completely screwed and had to boot off Disk Tools!
Am I alone in this, or have other people seen this System 7 Installer bug?
I might add that the problem occured in exactly the same way when I tried
using the Quadra startup disks on my LC.  I managed to get round the whole
problem by booting from an external hard disk every time the System on the
internal one was playing up.
At least the story has a happy ending.  In the last week, in fact, more or
less since I started reading this very Digest, my Install 1 disk has
magically ceased being unbootable.  No more "Bad F-line..."  What do the
Apple gurus have to say about that?  The Info-Mac Digest has obviously
got hidden powers (sure, sure...)

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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 10:54:40 PDT
From: ace@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: bad tape drive

In Regards to your letter <199207220056.AA17941@nwnexus.wa.com>:
> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 08:10:47 CDT
> From: Tamer M Selim <tmselim@icaen.uiowa.edu>
> Subject: Retrospect Error 206
>
> We are having a problem with Retrospect and out Third Wave 8mm tape
> backup drive.  During the backup process, Retrospect will return an error
> #206 (bad media error).  The twist is the inconsistency.  We receive the
> error at different points during the backup--on SAME tape.
>
> We have purchased other 8mm tapes to try with the system--of either
> data or high quality video types--of different lengths, all to no avail.  We
> have been able to get anywhere between 3 megabytes and 300 megabytes
> before the error would occur.
>
> The backup has been attempted on drives of varying sizes on several IIciUs
> and an LC.  I have given Retrospect a greater memory partition, and have
> run it with 32-bit addressing on and off.  I have tried it with all
> extensions off and just about EVERYTHING else I could think of.
>
> Third Wave was not very helpful and Dantz Tech Support has not returned
> my message.

> If you have had any experience with this error, or have any general advice,
> please pass it on to me.  If you have any questions, please let me know.
>
> --Tamer (tmselim@icaen.uiowa.edu)

Interesting! When I was back in Ithaca recently, one of my old clients
was having a very similar problem trying to back up a network to a
DAT drive. They had tried multiple tapes, multiple drives, and different
Macs, all to no avail. Dantz said that the error meant what it said,
but the drives checked out OK when returned to APS. Last I heard they
hadn't solved the problem either, but I'm a little surprised it's
also happening on an 8mm drive too.

Unfortunately, I can't offer any help, but only the assurance that
you aren't entirely alone in this. I'll keep in touch with these people
and see if they ever get it fixed.

cheers ... Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor

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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 10:39:33 PDT
From: ace@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: Boston Macworld

In Regards to your letter <199207230033.AA04502@nwnexus.wa.com>:
> I'll probably be there the first few days...  One day per hall, and
> then one day to cover whatever I missed due to sore feet. *grin*  I'll
> be wearing my TidBITS button! ;)
>
>       -=Alan

Well good! That will help me recognize some of the people I've talked
at Macworld SF and the people I sent buttons for returning the survey.
Of course, it won't help any of you recognize me if I'm wearing a
TidBITS button (as I will be, of course), because it might be Alan
or someone else. Two's a fad, three's a trend, and more's a movement! :-)

I'll definitely be at any netters' dinner (sounds like it's schedule
for Thursday night somewhere...)

Hope to see you all (well some of you anyway) there!

cheers ... Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor

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Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 17:39:40 -0400
From: "Keith E Gatling" <kgatling@mailbox.syr.edu>
Subject: Conflict Between Gatekeeper 1.2.6 and my Mirror Cartridge Drive (Q)

Has anyone else had this problem?

I just downloaded Gatekeeper 1.2.6 the other day and installed it, and now
I can't eject a cartridge from my Mirror drive unless I totally disable
Gatekeeper (either by restarting with extensions off or by removing it
>From the System folder).  When I try to either shut down my Mac or Put
Away the cartridge, the machine just freezes up and I have to do a
keyboard reboot.  If I take Gatekeeper away, everything works just fine.

I've tried assigning all kinds of rights to the Media Manager and the
Media Manager Init, but to no avail.  I didn't have this problem with
1.2.5.

Anybody got a clue out there?

And yes, I'll also be sending a message to Chris Johnson about this.

Thanks!

keg

* Keith E Gatling                                  kgatling@mailbox.syr.edu *

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Date: 25 Jul 1992 20:54:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: SQW6447@ACFcluster.NYU.EDU
Subject: Dove Fax Modem update <C>

>Hello, I have a Dove Fax/voice/modem that I would lile to start using.  It
>shipped with version 2.0 and 1.1 (I forgot which version went to which
module).
> Would somebody send me the latest version?  I think it is 2.03.  Is it
system
>7.0.1 compatible?

The newest version of DoveFax+ Manager software is 2.0.2 and the newest
version of FaxManager is 2.0.3.

I'm using System 7.0.1 w/ Tune-Up 1.1.1 on a souped-up LC and have no
problems (except I leave 32-Bit addressing OFF).

I heard that the DoveFax+ is not compatible with the Quadras in full-blown
mode...anybody know? And that's why Dove is *supposedly* working on
a Quadra friendly version...2.1 or something like that...?!!
(kinda tough considering they're under Chapter 11 of the bankruptcy
code of the United States; popularly known as "reorganization" or
restructuring of one's books...:-)

Anyhow, I find some minor glitches in the voice software (DoveFax+
Manager) that I just wish they would address. Too bad, but I'd most
likely get the Prometheus Ultima Home Office (v.32bis, of course!)
when my longly-anticipated Quadra rolls in! (I just envy you Quadra
owners! <g>)



Shaw Wu, NYU Stern School. <sqw6447@acfcluster.nyu.edu>

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Date: FRI, 24 Jul 92 22:37:44 EDT
From: "Louis_Bergeron"%UQAT.UQuebec.CA@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU
Subject: Excel 2.2 A or B

What is the last version of Excel 2.2? Is-it 2.2A or 2.2B?
Please answer to me directly.
Louis Bergeron ORPBERL@UQAT.UQUEBEC.CA

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Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 20:59:02 EST
From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU>
Subject: Font ID conflicts

On Sat, 25 Jul 1992 20:33:12 -0400 you said:
>Has anyone out there had font ID conflicts with
>Helvetica and N Helvetica Narrow...?
>
>My computer crashed last night and I had to format the
>HD and the works and then I got an error installing BOTH
>the TT and ATM PS Type 1 versions of N Helvetica Narrow
>(whether both installed or one at a time).
>
>I'm installing the fonts via Suitcase v2.1.1.

I called Fifth Generation shortly after I got the upgrade to Suitcase 2.0
to point out that the program seems to think Helvetica and N Helvetica have
the same font id.  I see they haven't fixed it (hence I encourage everyone
to call their tech support number and tell them there's a problem--that
*may* motivate them to fix it).  In the meantime, put Helvetica and N
Helvetica in the same suitcase and Suitcase 2.x will accept it.

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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 20:37:08 PDT
From: Les.Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: Font Menu Problem (C)

>If you want do-it-yourself font harmonizing, there are two
>commercial utilities which can help you. One is Adobe's Type
>Reunion extension (about $40), which organizes the various weights
>into pop-up menus. Another is Font Harmony, which is sold with
>Suitcase. This goes through the set and "unifies" the font families
>as though they were sold that way.

Add to this list Font/DA Utility which comes with MasterJuggler from
Alsoft.

Adobe Type Reunion is an init which reunites the fonts in your menu
hierarchically, whereas Font Harmony and Font/DA Utility modify the
fonts so that there are no longer seperate entries for bold, italic,
and bold-italic versions of the font. Selecting one of these styles
using the Style menu actually selects the appropriate font. Apple's
font system doesn't have style entries for things like "light",
"black", or "condensed" so these remain as seperate menu items with
Font Harmony and Font/DA Utility. Adobe Type Reunion knows about all
styles, so it is probably the better choice for someone with a huge
collection of Adobe fonts, if you don't mind having another init.

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Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 21:09:02 EST
From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU>
Subject: How To Wake A Sleeping Powerbook 140?

On Sat, 25 Jul 1992 18:02:00 MST you said:
>I need a way for quick keys to wake my sleeping powerbook automaticly ...

When you put a PB to sleep the processor and HD shut down.  The only thing
that's "on" is RAM (and presumably a sensor that will powerup the PB when
a key is hit).  There's no way to read a clock that's not running.

You can use Apple's Backlight Control cdev to shutdown the backlight to
your display or an out-and-out screen blanker (an After Dark module that
does that was recently posted) for the same purpose and just leave the PB
running.

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Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 22:00:25 PDT
From: jbthoo@ucdavis.edu ( John Thoo )
Subject: Math fonts (C)

On  Fri, 24 Jul 92 14:02:51 CDT Graeme Forbes <PL0BALF@VM.TCS.Tulane.EDU>
said:

% There have been a number of queries recently on infomac about the
% availability of math fonts. Here are a couple of suggestions.
%
% Dubl-Click (818-700-9525) does a Type 3 font called MathWhiz which has
% got a variety of symbols on it not in Symbol.
% [....]
% The ultimate symbol fonts are the Lucida family from Y&Y. There is a
% text font and three or four other fonts, totalling a superset of the
% full AMS symbol-set. The package comes with special variants for TeX
% users. The text font is based on Computer Modern, but is heavier in
% appearance (see e.g. any recent volume of the CSLI lecture notes for CM).

I've been away from the digest for a couple+ weeks, so I don't know if
anyone has already mentioned this, but I will anyway---Adobe's Mathematical
Pi (#158 Linotype-Hell AG $275) is a collection of six math font families
that I've been eyeing for quite a while now.

Among various symbols, Mathematical Pi also has Greek, German (AMS Euler
fraktur), blackboard bold, and the AMS-style fancy script fonts.  Well, at
least that's what I've gathered from Adobe's _Font & Function_ magazine.

Just thought I'd throw in another alternative.  :-)

--John.
<jb2@math.ucdavis.edu>

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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 18:41:52 PDT
From: kroemer@ece.ucsb.edu (Herb Kroemer)
Subject: MathType 2.11 File Limit

In #177 Rob Managan wrote, in reply to an earlier inquiry:

>eickhoff@fn.dornier.de wrote abou;getting corrupted MathType documents.
>We have run into that problem about a year ago. Design Sciences reply
>was that MathType documents are limited to 32K bytes. Their intent
>was not to have you store all the equations for a paper in one MathType
>document but in the Word document. I personally don't agree with that
>strategy but at least they werre aware of the problem.
>
>I don't know if the new MathType 3.0 has the same problem. Since I will
>use it with Word 5 I won't run into that problem since the equations
>will be stored as embedded objects within the Word document. If this
>works like they say it will be a big improvement. Hopefully my
>upgrade will arrive soon!

This problem is as old as MathType, and it used to bother me as well, but
in the end I came to agree with Design Sciences' point of view that the MT
document is a temporary scratchpad (my words, not theirs), not a place for
permanent storage. When I want to store a _lot_ of equations, without
having to retrieve them from all over a big manuscript, I have long found
it much more convenient to store them in an equations-only word processor
document (Word, WriteNow, or what have you - Acta is great for that) and to
retrieve them from there, if and when needed. You don't need MT 3.0 for
that; it has always worked.

----

Regards,

Herb K.

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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 19:30:19 PDT
From: sheckler@leland.stanford.edu (Steven Heckler)
Subject: Middlebury IP Address

     Does anybody know the IP address for the main undergraduate main-
frame at Middlebury?  (Middlebury College in Vermont).  It is a Bitnet
system and I have been unable to help a friend connect there from my
Internet account here at Stanford.  Also, does anybody know the easiest
way to look up an internet, bitnet, or international mainframe and its
IP equivalent?

	This would be very helpful to know.  Thanks in advance to all who
respond.  If I get some great answers, I'll be sure to post a synopsis
here.

					Steve Heckler
					sheckler@leland.stanford.edu

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Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 01:21:50 EST
From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU>
Subject: Pirates

On Fri, 24 Jul 92 17:56 EST you said:
>How do you know they are pirates?

The usual clue is the reaction when you point out that the reason they
can't get their application (control panel or extension) to work with
System 7 is because it's one or more versions out-of-date.  Sometimes
it's only a hint of body language (and I do have colleagues who've just
never bothered to upgrade from the original MacWrite to MacWrite II or
something else, but most of them are still using ancient Mac OS too for
the same reason--if it ain't broke, why fix it?), often its a flat out
admission that they don't actually own the software and aren't eligible
for an upgrade.

I agree, that the benefit of the doubt and a polite answer is the best
approach.  I even hand the foot shufflers a copy of the MacConnection
catalog (usually the one that I happen to have) and point out that they
can order the current version with an 800 call and have it the next day.

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Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 01:22:37 EST
From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU>
Subject: Problems with my Desktop

On Fri, 24 Jul 92 08:55:08 PDT you said:
>A very strange thing just happened with my Quadra 900.  A large number of
>folders at the top of my HD directory just disappeared!  I know that all
>the files contained in the folders are still there, because I can
>use "find" and find them.  When I run an application from one of the
>missing folders, the applications runs and the folder will show up.  As
>soon as I quit the application, the folder disappears again.
>
>I thought that I had System 7 tuneup installed.  At least a file
>"System 7 Tuneup" is in my Extensions folder.  Also, I notice that
>the Icons for many of my applications are now plain, rather than
>the custom ones that were there.  Is my only option to backup and
>reformat the harddisk?

Boy that sure does sound like the b-tree error.  What VERSION of Tuner
is in your Extensions Folder (the Get Info command will tell you).
Given that you evidently haven't changed whatever your dealer installed,
it may be only Tuner 1.0 whereas you need at least 1.1, and should have
1.1.1, to keep the problem from occurring.

Whatever tricks you might be able to concoct, backing up and
reformatting is the ONLY current way to repair the damage to the
directory (Apple promised a new, industrial strength DFA away back when,
but there's been no sign of it yet).

>Unfortunately, it turns out that I was not shipped system disks with my
>machine.  At the moment, I am not a happy Apple customer!

You've got no reason to blame Apple; they pack the System disks in the
box with the manuals and cables.  You should have required your dealer
to deliver the disks by messenger as it's the dealers goof up (one I
would not forgive a dealer for; take your future business somewhere
else; if you purchase through the institution, write your purchasing
agent a memo indicating you have not received acceptable service from
the vendor).

How did you run DFA?  If you've got a DiskTools disk at least, you can
boot from it, create a new System Folder (call it AltSystem or some
such); use the Find command to open the disappeared System Folder and
drag the stuff from it to the new AltSystem folder).  When up the
proverbial creek... improvise :)

Everyone else! Check and make sure you have (and can find quickly if you
need to, your original set of System disks (especially the Disk Tools
disk)... I'll wait ;-)

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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 10:27:01 PDT
From: ace@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: QK extensions

In Regards to your letter <199207240017.AA20838@nwnexus.wa.com>:
> In a recent issue of TidBITS, mention was made of
> "seven new logic extensions" for QuicKeys that are
> part of the latest upgrade. Can anyone provide some
> details about their functions? I'm not interested in the
> other new components of the QuicKeys package
> (Instant QuicKeys, SoftKeys, and QK Icons), so I'm
> wondering whether these new extensions are worth
> the cost of a rather pricey upgrade. Thanks.

I think they are things like ButtonWait and whatnot, but to be sure,
why don't you ask Tom Hillson at CE... <cesoftware@aol.com>?

cheers ... Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor

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Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 22:18:41 EDT
From: David Loebell <XTL00014@DUVM.OCS.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject: Remote Access software

I need some software which will do the following:

- allow me to dial in to my Mac from any remote mac, either using a
terminal interface or using client software under 300k.

- Once connected, allow me to navigate my hard drive and transfer any
files I select to the remote computer.

- Either by a command or automatically, not answer any subsequent calls
that day.

Does anyone know of any software that does what I ask?

-DAVID R. LOEBELL / XTL00014@DUVM.OCS.DREXEL.EDU [INTERNET THROUGH 8/8]
XTL0014@DUVM [BITNET THROUGH 8/8] 71055,137 [COMPUSERVE THROUGH 8/8]

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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 20:47 CDT
From: "Dwight Lemke @ Wisconsin Oshkosh" <LEMKE@VAXA.CIS.UWOSH.EDU>
Subject: Sadistical (Stats) software

The choice of a stats package really depends on what you want to do with it--
just what are your needs and procedures of choice.  For example, I lean
heavily toward multiple regression (and all its variants) in my research.
On the mainframe, my preference is therefore PROC GLM from the SAS package.
JMP 2.x (pronounced "jump") from SAS institute gives a pretty good emulation
of it as does SuperANOVA.  Systat 5.x probably has the most comprehensive
suite of routines.  JMP and DataDesk from Paul Velleman (sp?-sorry Paul)
are the best at data exploration and visualization.  And these are just
the high-end packages.  If all you have to do is an occasional ANOVA and
a correlation table, Excel 4.0 will cover it, as will MyStat or JMP IN--
student versions of their big brothers.

If you give the net a little more info, we can give you better opinions--
not necessarily more helpful, just "better".

-Dwight

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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 21:24:30 PDT
From: Les.Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: SendPS Problem

Definitely an FAQ, but that's OK. SendPS only knows to look in
the System Folder (not subfolders) for LaserWriter. It will
work if you move LaserWriter to the System Folder proper.

NOTE: Making a COPY of LaserWriter to the System Folder also
works, but then LaserWriter shows up twice in the Chooser, it's
a waste of space, and is just another thing to miss when you do
a System software update. Making an ALIAS to LaserWriter does
NOT work for SendPS 2.0 and Chooser doesn't like it either.

Alternatives:

LaserWriter Font Utility (comes with System 7 on the Tidbits disk)

LaserWriter Utility (comes with new Apple LaserWriters and is on
ftp.apple.com)

Downloader (comes with all Adobe font disks and is apparently the
replacement for SendPS, but I don't think it is freeware)

Microsoft Word (format the PostScript text as style PostScript)

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Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 13:43 CDT
From: "Dwight Lemke @ Wisconsin Oshkosh" <LEMKE@VAXA.CIS.UWOSH.EDU>
Subject: Shamu

Would anyone by chance have any whale sounds?  Particularly something like
humpbacked whale songs?  I figure with the bird and other noise my Mac
emanates, that whales and other cetaceans are in order.

Thanks!!

-Dwight

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Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 09:52 CDT
From: "Dwight Lemke @ Wisconsin Oshkosh" <LEMKE@VAXA.CIS.UWOSH.EDU>
Subject: Statistics Applications

Phil Jung asked about SPC kind of software for the Mac--he was specifically
interested in the capabilities of Statistica/Mac.  I finally found my
stats files:

Statistica seems to have been designed as a Swiss army knife package-a little
bit of everything.  It seems to be primarily for the researcher in that it
is heavy in linear modeling (ANOVA, ANCOVA, regresion), non-par stats,
clustering/factor analyis and time series.  It appears to offer little of
interest in control, Pareto, or Shewhart charts.

On the other hand, JMP 2.0 (of which I just received a demo) offers real time
control charts, Pareto charts and capability analysis.  There is a module
available that allows you to connect machines to the Mac via the serial port
to allow the real-time quality analysis.  It includes Mean and Range, Mean
and Standard Deviation, Individual Measurement, Moving Range, P, NP, C and
U charts.

Hope this was of some help!

-Dwight

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Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 11:56 EST
From: ROBERT_BROCKMAN <CDBSDUC@grove.iup.edu>
Subject: Uploading PS files via Kermit to VAX?

I've generated some rather large (surprise!) PS files on my Mac to be uploaded
to my university's VAX for output. I'm using the DMM-modified 7.1.1 driver so
as to "neuter" both the TrueType and Apple dictionaries, but I am using some
Adobe Type 1 fonts (Minion) that are included, as is an TIFF file. The result
is large file with a couple of sections (the font and image) where the text
runs on for hundreds of k without a CR/LF. When I try to upload this, Kermit
chokes on it, expecting a CR/LF every 78 characters. How can I get this file
onto the VAX without creating an invalid PS file?

ANY help/illumination would be greatly appreciated!


Robert Brockman, CDBSDUC@GROVE.IUP.EDU  or  CDBSDUC@IUP.BITNET

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Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 11:20:24 GMT
From: kgng@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Ng Kim Guan)
Subject: Wanted: latest driverss: Mobius 030/2pg disp for SE

I am posting this for a friend:

   Could some kind soul please send me the latest drivers for the
   Mobius 030/2 page display for the SE? I need at *least* version
   4.98.

   I have tried contacting Mobius in the U.S. from here in Australia
   but that has come to nothing after quite some time. Please help!

If it is too difficult to mail, could someone please point me to a ftp
site with the software (if any) or maybe an e-mail address at which
Mobius can be contacted.

Thanks heaps for your time,
Regards,

-Kim

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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 18:53:58 PDT
From: johnnyl@microsoft.com

To: Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
Subject: Re: Info-Mac Digest V10 #175
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest
Organization: Microsoft Corporation
Cc:

In article <9207220048.AA15336@SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU> you write:
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Fri, 19 Jun 92 23:42:49 -0400
>From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <JNeedleman@MCIMail.com>
>Subject: [*] MacZip 1.0
>
>Here's the first version of a MacZip, a program that creates archives in
>the IBM .zip format. (There are several Mac utilities that will unzip a zip
>archive, but this is the first one I've seen that will create a zip archive
>on a Mac.) I downloaded this from America On Line; it's freeware.
>Jeff Needleman  <JNeedleman@MCIMail.com>
>
>[Archived as /info-mac/util/mac-zip-10.hqx; 96K]
>
>------------------------------

I am the authour of the Mac port.
It didn't say so, but the version on sumex is an alpha version.
There's also an incompatibility with SuperBoomerang 3.02 and
DFaultD 2.2 as described in CSMP digest #142.

J

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