Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest
Subject: Trashcan Label Help!!
From: lee5@husc8.harvard.edu (Patrick Lee)
Date: 16 Nov 92 19:57:36 GMT

Help!! I'm used to having my trashcan labelled as color7 (green on my
comp), but suddenly it keeps on reverting to plain grey... I think this
might be due to it getting a 6.0x finder flag but I can't find anything to
correct the problem...
 I'm running system 7.0.1 tuned....

-Pat
 <lee5@husc8.harvard.edu>

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Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 20:30 PDT
From: "Tony Wong ......" <TWONG@SCUACC.SCU.EDU>
Subject: What is LaTex, by the way?

Hi,

It may be yet another FAQ. What is LaTex?

I found Alpha is very well designed, sophisticated program editor, but
just don't know what is LaTex.

Thanks.

							Tony Wong
							twong@scuacc.scu.edu

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Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 11:42 CDT
From: "Dwight Lemke @ Wisconsin Oshkosh" <LEMKE@VAXA.CIS.UWOSH.EDU>
Subject: Word 5.1

The question was weather or not the upgrade to Word 5.1 was worth the
$14.95 that Microsoft was charging us.  Well, I just got my upgrade three
days ago so:

It depends on it you are missing any new bells and whistles that you haven't
heard of and therefore haven't developed a need for.  This is not a
maintenance
release nor a full upgrade--it adds more features.

Probably the neatest new feature is the addition of a toolbar to go with the
ribbon that we got with 5.0.  It is nearly identical to the toolbar from
Excel 4.0.  It is also customizable wo that you can take the commands you
use most often and put them in front of you.

Next, I'd have to say that the table function has been greatly simplified with
the addition of a pull-down table.  You just drag it to the desired dimensions
and it creates the table.

Less interesting, but still useful is an addressbook feature to let you
store frequently used addresses in the toolbar prefs file.  However, it is
merely support to an very easy to use envelope printing utility.  Just
select the address in the letter you're creating and select envelope from
the toolbar.

The last feature is probably the least useful--especially for someone like
me who has both Excel 4 and DeltaGraph Pro--it is a graphing plug-in.  It
allows you to select a table in your document and create a graph from it.
While useful for those without a better alternative, I'll stick to sub
-scribing to my DeltaGraph output.

Is it worth the $14.95 (+ $5 shipping)?  As that only covers the cost of
distributing the disks--yes.

-DWight

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Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 10:31:27 EST
From: tblake@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (Thomas R. Blake)

>>I just would like to know if it is possible to connect a Mac to an EPSON
>>FX printer ? The EPSON FX printer has a parallel port, and the Mac has
>>only serial ports.
>
>The Epson FX is supported by Orange Micro's Grappler II which is
>available from the usual mail order suspects.

I own a Grappler, and am not entirely pleased by the results I get from it.
 Personally I would suggest checking out GDT PowerPrint.  You see, the
grappler works by using your ImageWriter driver, and then trying to map the
ImageWriter graphics to your (my) Epson.  Well, they don't quite.  As a
result, I get straight lines that aren't really, and text that just isn't
as nice as I'd expect.

Using Chuck's Printer Driver, I got comparitively beautiful results, but
unfortunately, the software is not as rigorous as it might be.  (I suffered
greatly from crashes.)  The advatage of Chuck's Printer Driver is that it
*really was* a driver for the Epson.  (Note that CPD still requires the
purchase of a Serial to Parallel converter.  Both the Grapppler, and GDT
are partly this converter.  The Grappler converter has more brains on
board, to do the ImageWriter funkiness.)

GDT PowerPrint also provides you with a *real* Epson driver.  I am familiar
with PowerPrint from helping set one up for a user here with an HP.
Eventually, when I get frustrated enough by my Grappler, I'll probably buy
a PowerPrint.  (The thing is, for the money I will have spent on the two
converters, I could have bought a large part of a StyleWriter by now!
Sheesh!  [Sound of hand hitting forehead.])

In all fairness, there is some advantage to using the Grappler "Pseudo
ImageWriter" solution, in that there may be programs that know how to drive
an ImageWriter, (and take advantage of its specific features).  Also keep
in mind that the ImageWriter driver should be compatible with future
versions of the OS while there may be some question about the GDT driver.
(I'm not too worried though.)

						Tom Blake
						Binghamton University

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