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From: bwalls@eng.auburn.edu (Bryan K. Walls)
Subject: MS Works 3.0 doesn't work with Popchar?
Organization: Auburn University Engineering
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 14:03:26 GMT

I just got my update to MS Works.  It's much nicer than the old one, even
a good bit quicker (pleasant surprize), and being 32 bit clean is great (I
can use all 10MB on my LC).  Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work with
PopChar.  I mean it works, and so does PopChar in any other app, but not
the two together.  PopChar just doesn't open when you're in a Works doc.
Really annoying.  Anyone else noticed, any workarounds?  PopChar 2.5.2, I
believe.

Bryan Walls
bwalls@marvin.msfc.nasa.gov

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: kenh@world.std.com (Ken Hancock)
Subject: DeSEA Users Please Read
Organization: Isle Systems - Waltham, MA
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 13:51:35 GMT

DeSEA 1.4 will be released in the next week or two.  Among the new features
will be the ability to preserve selected resources when stripping out the
self-extraction code.

Currently, I have two resources:

'SitC' StuffIt archive comments
'FCMT' Telefinder comments (upload comments)


If you have other resources which you'd like to see preserved when removing
the self-extraction code, please mail me a message at kenh@world.std.com
with the following information:

1) Title (i.e. "StuffIt Archive Comments", Telefinder Comments, etc.")
2) Resource type (4 letters, include hex if non-ascii)

Any other comments or requests are, of course, welcome as well.

Ken


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: cfarmer@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Chuck Farmer)
Subject: Re: How can you print overheads on Stylewriter without smearing??
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps,aus.mac,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system
Organization: NCSA
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 18:51:57 GMT

From my experience at Kinko's in a college town and as a Stylewriter owner:

Don't bother. Make a standard print out and Xerox it on to a transparency.
The cost of printing and then copying is more than made up by the number of
transparencies that would get smeared trying to print directly.

Thanks
Chuck
cfarmer@ncsa.uiuc.edu


Only a fool is sure - Moe Howard
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: sfuller@tamsun.tamu.edu (Steven Eric Fuller)
Subject: Re: Help Settle MacPlus Bet
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 14:17:31 GMT

In article <397@mindlink.bc.ca> Linda_Richards@mindlink.bc.ca (Linda Richards) writes:
>My boyfriend says the Mac+ is maxed out at 4 megs.
>I say 4.5.

Definitely 4. Perhaps you forgot that 2.5 megs + 2 megs = 4 megs. (plus some
paper weights) :-)

/s Steve Fuller        sfuller@tamu.edu        Texas A&M University
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.apps:15223 comp.sys.sgi:14457 comp.sys.mac.wanted:9057 comp.sys.mac.misc:17295 comp.misc:3844
From: vanover@bcsaic.boeing.com (Jann VanOver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.sgi,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.misc
Subject: MacFlow => SGI Software Through Pictures?
Keywords: the impossible dream DFD conversions
Date: 1 Oct 92 18:07:56 GMT
Organization: Boeing Computer Services, Seattle

Hi all you clever netters!

I don't have much hope for a satisfactory answer to my question, but here
it goes:

I support a group that currently has HUNDREDS of structure charts
created with MacFlow.  They are starting a development project on
Silicon Graphics Iris workstations for software that will run on their
SGI server. Their new development effort will be using STP (Software 
Through Pictures) on the SGI and .. here's the hard part ..

   they want to transfer all these MacFlow charts to STP!!!


Any ideas?  

Only in my dreams do I think there might be software to
directly translate the MacFlow files to STP.  But - some dreams come
true, right?

I thought they could save the MacFlow pages as individual PICT files, 
then do a graphics conversion to some graphic format that would input to 
STP, but I'm told that STP's graphic input is expected as ascii 
descriptions of graphics, not some standard (or semi-standard) SGI 
graphics format.

Luckily, I'm not the one who will have to rebuild all these charts from
scratch if they can't be transferred - but I'd like to help these people
out!

Any and ALL ideas will be welcome!

Oh Yea, Please email your responses since I DOUBT anyone else is
interested.  Of course, if I get a lot of "me toos" (Ha ha giggle snort)
I'll post a summary!

The ever classic, Thanks in Advance!

Jann "Just trying to help" VanOver
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From: ccmlh@buitc.bu.edu (Mark Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Word 5 crashes when I try to set preferences
Date: 2 Oct 92 13:10:52 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Originator: ccmlh@buitc.bu.edu

I recently replaced the hard drive in my Mac, and so had to
restore everything from backup when I got it back from the shop.
Everything is fine except Word, which crashes every time I try
to select the "preferences" option. So I figured, eh, it must
have a pointer set to the old disk location of the prefs file,
I'll just reinstall it from scratch. So I did, but to no avail;
it *still* crashes when I try to set the prefs. Help, anyone?

Thanks, Mark

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: rjplumm@srv.PacBell.COM (RJ Plummer)
Subject: Quark XTensions
Organization: Pacific * Bell
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 23:14:52 GMT

Do any archives have free Quark XTensions? I couldn't find any in sumex or
umich.

Thanks


RJ
From: iscjcw@uccvma.ucop.edu (Jerry Wilcox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Drawing Gantt charts
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Date: 6 Oct 1992 16:53:13 GMT
Organization: University of California, Office of the President
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: ajax.ucop.edu

In article <1ase6jINNjc7@swan.doc.ic.ac.uk>, jvp@doc.ic.ac.uk (Jeremy Pitt)
wrote:
> 
> Is there a specialised application for drawing Gantt charts, or is this
> sort of thing done using standard Paint/Draw applications?
> 
> Thanks for any info,
> 
> Jeremy

I use FastTrack Schedule to draw very elaborate Gantt charts. There are
also several other commercial applications devoted to that task. In
addition, many of the Project Management packages incorporate the
capability of drawing Gantt charts.

They can be done with a draw application, but if you have to maintain the
charts, using a draw package rapidly becomes tedious.
-----------
Jerry Wilcox - iscjcw@uccvma.ucop.edu
All opinions expressed are MINE -- I'd have a different job if the
University wanted me to speak for it.
From: kuipers@fwi.uva.nl (Tobias Kuipers (I91))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Printing Postscript File on a Deskwriter
Date: 5 Oct 92 23:43:58 GMT
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam

c60a-bh@danube.Berkeley.EDU (Ben Cottrell) writes:

>akhil@zen.gsm.cornell.edu (Akhil Kumar) writes:

>>Does anyone know of some software for printing a postscript file 
>>on a HP deskwriter?  Thanks,

>>Akhil Kumar

>You're out of luck, Akhil, unless you have a fast MAC and ready money.

>If you do, the solution lies in software PostScript emulators like Freedom
>of the Press.  Since calculating all those Bezier spline curves, etc. is
>very math-intensive, you better have a fast MAC with a math coprocessor.

Well, you could try to use psPrint (version 4 I believe). It was
developed to print OzTeX postscript files and I know for sure that that
works. However, I'm not sure if it works for other PostScript files.
It's available at Sumex and mirror sites.

Tobias


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: jess@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jess M Holle)
Subject: Re: Spice for Mac...????
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 92 16:11:48 GMT

In article <16359.2AC44461@zeus.ieee.org> Glen.Stewart@f175.n2240.z1.ieee.org (Glen Stewart) writes:
>Spice is here!  Version 4.3 or something like that!

Spice IS here (at sumex among other places).  The latest version is at least
5.1, however (that is the version that I have).

Jess Holle
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: smittie@beach.csulb.edu (Smittie)
Subject: Re: System 7, DeskWriter, and print spooling. ( dont worry... )
Organization: Cal State Long Beach
	<1992Oct2.044612.20648@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> <91467@netnews.upenn.edu>
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 18:24:42 GMT

I just dumped SuperLaserSpool for the print spooling in the DeskWriter 3.1
drivers. I freed up about a meg (I removed several things, not just SLS) of RAM
and seem none the worse for it.

smittie
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From: ryanw@milton.u.washington.edu (Ryan Waite)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Word 5 "save" problem
Date: 29 Sep 92 01:15:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: milton.ryanw.717729354
Organization: University of Washington

ccmlh@buitc.bu.edu (Mark Hayes) writes:

>I've been experiencing a rather annoying problem with Word 5.0a lately.
>What happens is I start to edit a new document, save it after a while,
>continue to work, then try to save it again - and up comes a save dialog,
>without the filename filled in, as if I were still working on an "untitled"
>document. So I type the name in again, say "OK to replace", and continue.

I understand that this problem will occur when using Disk Express.  It
seems that Disk Express keeps rewriting files on the Hard Drive in order
to keep files from fragmenting.  If Disk Express is rewriting your Word
file then Word doesn't see the file any longer.

Hope that takes care of it.

ryanw@u.washington.edu
From: flash@austin.lockheed.com (James W. Melton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: TaxCut app for Mac
Date: 1 Oct 92 03:23:19 GMT
Organization: "Lockheed Austin Division, 6800 Burleson Rd, Austin, TX 78744

In article <in33011@pro-angmar.alfalfa.com> chucks@pro-angmar.alfalfa.com (Chuck Scheffreen) writes:
>I have been a long time user of MacInTax and, like other users, was unhappy
>with Turbo's version for '91. I received the offer for  TaxCut via snail
>mail and wonder if it will import info from Quicken. All of my business and
>personal records are there and it certainly saves time and effort to
>simply export to MacInTax. Do you have any info/experience with this?

No experience yet. According to the mail I got, this is the first
port of TaxCut for the Mac. It is being published by MECA
(publishers of Managing Your Money). I *know* it will import MYM
files (good thinking, MECA) because I use MYM and that caught my
eye. I *think* I remember it saying that it will also import
Quicken files. Since MYM 5.0 will import Quicken files, my guess is
that the Quicken import technology is in both products.

I am going to try TaxCut this year. The deciding factors:

	1) $19.95 introductory price vx $39.95 MaxInTax upgrade

	2) Money Back Guarantee (if ordered from MECA)

	3) Accuracy guarantee. If the IRS assesses a penalty
	   because of a calculation error in TaxCut, they pay the
	   penalty.
	
	4) MYM file import. I don't mind entering all the data by
	   hand into MacInTax, but hey, for half the price AND it
	   accepts the data I've already entered, how can I go
	   wrong?

MECA has an order line (800) 627-5162. If they want some ID number,
just sweet talk them and offer your credit card number. They will
probably take your money.

DISCLAIMER: I am not in any way connected with MECA, except as a
	satisfied customer. I have not (yet) ordered TaxCut. The
	final version will not ship until Feb 1993. The preliminary
	version is $12 extra. Your mileage may vary.

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From: carlip@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Walter C3arlip)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: LaTeX for the Mac
Keywords: Latex, Textures, student
Date: 28 Sep 92 19:06:13 GMT
Organization: Ohio University Mathematics

barry@reed.edu (Barry Smith) writes:
>>We've just introduced a student price for our Classic Textures package,
>>for full-time students only. No change to the software, but we've taken
>>the TeX and LaTeX books out of the package.

pollard@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu (Tom Pollard) writes:
>Ok, I'll bite.  What's does Textures offer that OzTeX (public domain
>port of TeX/LaTeX to the Mac) package) doesn't?  I've been reasonbly 
>happy with OzTeX, so far.

Textures is a full blown commercial implementation of TeX and has a number
of features not found in the freeware OzTeX or shareware DirectTeX.  
Probably the most notable features that I know are in Textures but not in
OzTeX (I can't testify whether they are in DirectTeX) are:
   (1) the large memory model -- useful if you define lots and lots of
       symbols or use several large macro packages at once;
   (2) the incorporation of postscript fonts (blue sky sells a very nice
       postscript version of the cm fonts)
   (3) nice visual interface for graphics.

Textures also drives nonpostscript printers (DirectTeX will also; OzTeX
requires an add-on utility like dvim72 or psprint), and, of course, as
a commercial product has a professional staff for support.  (I've heard
nothing but good reports about Blue Sky's support for their product.)

Textures has other features that I don't much care for -- an integrated
editor, 'lightening' preview mode, incorporation of dvi information in
source files, . . . . 

[I prefer to use a more powerful independent editor,
I'm anti-wysiwyg so previewing speed is not interesting to me, I prefer
complete compatibility with mainframe TeX.]

In any case, Textures is a good product.  I'd be very interested if Barry
would post (1) a more comprehensive list of Textures' features and (2) an
approximate *price* for the student version of Classic Textures.  (And lets
have no flames for advertising!)

--Walter





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From: stdnt152@whscdp.whs.edu (An elephant is only a mouse built to government specs.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: HELP: *** NEED RESEDIT ANOTHER WAY ***
Date: 5 Oct 92 11:43:21 CST
Organization: Washington HS, Milwaukee, WI

Hello all,

	
	We do not yet have any FTP access... And I am looking
	for a copy of ResEdit for the Mac. We have tried to
	have it mailed, but that didn't work. Could someone
	either post it here, or somewhere and let me know where -
	or send it to us on a real disk all ready to go. I will
	MAKE SURE to send you another disk to replace the one you
	send...

	Contact me in Email to get the address...


			Thank you much - and this is very important...
From: briang@bari.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Gordon)
Newsgroups: sun.mac-users,comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Stupid Suitecase question
Date: 5 Oct 1992 03:57:05 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: bari

I'm running Suitecase 2.1.1, and can't fin my @#!$%@ manual.  I want to delete
a font from the permanent set.  I can close it, but don't dinf a command to
remove it from that set.  Help????

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From: eaeu137@orion.oac.uci.edu (Andrew Theodore Laurence)
Subject: Re: Filemaker Pro Page Margins
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 2 Oct 92 03:15:10 GMT

Speaking of Filmaker Pro, does anyone know where I can ftp the demo for
version 1.0? (And while we're on the topic, *is* there a demo for the
new 2.0?)

Much thanks,
Andrew Laurence
eaeu137@orion.oac.uci.edu
From: f0975893@jaguar.csc.wsu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Filemaker Pro Page Margins
Date: 29 Sep 92 05:36:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: jaguar.1992Sep29.133628.1
Organization: Washington State University

I am having problems changing the page margins in Filemaker Pro.
At least I can find no way to do it. They seem to be preset. There
does not seem to be any command within the menus that controls them.
I have tried Page Setup... and the layout and preview modes.

Can anyone shed some light on the matter?
The Help file and the manuals are no help (!!) either.
The version I am using is 1.0.
E-mail or follow-up post OK.
Thanks in advance.

-Richard
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: mcolthea@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au (Max Coltheart)
Subject: Re: System 7, DeskWriter, and print spooling.
Organization: Macquarie University, Australia.
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 06:33:56 GMT

In article <1992Oct2.044612.20648@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> rrk@iris3.chem.fsu.edu (Randal R. Ketchem) writes:
>In article <1992Oct1.225919.22617@mailhost.ocs.mq.edu.au> mcolthea@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au (Max Coltheart) writes:
>>How?
>>
>>
>>MaxC
>
>Get the latest DeskWriter driver/backgrounder from sumex. Read the
>directions. Print and be happy.
>
>Randy
>
I did.

I am.

MaxC.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Kevin_Bailey@qmgate.anl.gov (Kevin Bailey)
Subject: Apple II on a Mac??
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 13:57:27 GMT

At one time a program was available that enabled Mac users to run Apple
II(e,c,+...) programs.  What was it called?  Is it still available?  What
does it's use entail???  I know...I know...

Thanks,
Kevin

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From: sdorner@qualcomm.com (Steven Dorner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Acta?
Date: 5 Oct 92 13:31:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: dorner.sdorner-051092082702
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc

Years ago, I used to have a copy of the outliner "Acta" by David Dunham,
Matreiya Design. I'd like to buy a new copy, but I can't find it anywhere. 
Has it mutated into another product?  What?

If Acta is no more, can anyone recommend an outline processor?  I don't
need to do presentations or have the ability to put 50-meg QuickTime movies
in my outline; just a simple outliner would be great.

Please mail me (sdorner@qualcomm.com), and I will post a summary if there
is interest.

Thanks!
--
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Giving one of them new-fangled Mac newsreaders a try.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: pizarro@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jose Pizarro)
Subject: Looking for ResEdit
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 19:28:43 GMT

	
	I'm looking for a binhexed copy of ResEdit 2.0 or 2.1.
	Does anyone know where I can find these?

					      Jose
			            pizarro@mentor.purdue.edu
From: erh0362@tesla.njit.edu (Elliotte Rusty Harold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Recommendation on SAT Tutor
Date: 1 Oct 92 12:49:31 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology

In article <69280@hydra.gatech.EDU>, gt8798a@prism.gatech.EDU (Anthony S. Kim) writes:
> This is not for myself, it is for my younger sister.
> I know that there are a few SAT programs out there, and I would like some
> suggestions on which ones are more helpful.  I would a highly interactive
> program that corrects your mistakes and also explains the reason for the
> correct answer.  Please e-mail or follow up.

	Don't waste her time and your money.  Until the SAT's are given by 
computer, studying by computer doesn't help.  Remember unless you're strating a 
year or more in advance you need to study the test itself, not the test 
material, and the only way to do that productively is with actual SAT's.  I'd 
recommend buying the book 10 SAT's from any general purpose bookstore.  You 
might also consider getting her a review course.  The Princeton Review is 
probably the best and Kaplan isn't bad.  If she does have a year or more to 
study then she's likely better off taking some heavy-duty math courses
and reading the New York Times every day.

Elliotte Rusty Harold		Department of Mathematics
elharo@m.njit.edu		New Jersey Institute of Technology
erh0362@tesla.njit.edu		Newark, NJ 07102

 


> 
> anthony
From: allen@uthep2.ph.utexas.edu (Charles C. Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Filemaker Pro Page Margins
Date: 5 Oct 92 12:52:03 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: UTexas-Austin Physics

> >I am having problems changing the page margins in Filemaker Pro.

> only thing you can do with the margins in FM Pro. I also don't recall
> seeing anything about margins in the 2.0 beta that I used.

No, you can't change the page margins in FM Pro 2.0.  Could the original
poster give some more detail on what he's trying to do?  In word
processors, the "virtual page margin" can be changed because that delimits
where text goes.  They're still bound by the "physical page margin".  In
FM, *everything* is in a field or some sort of object that already has
margins/bounds.

Charles Allen       UTexas-Austin Physics       allen@uthep2.ph.utexas.edu
From: brennan@HAL.HAHNEMANN.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Resetting the (print) Chooser options.
Date: 28 Sep 92 18:42:30 GMT


      A bit ago, I asked if anyone knew of something that would
   reset the Chooser's print options after a certain amount of 
   time.  Unfortunately, I asked two (or more) questions in the
   same message and this one wasn't really answered or understood.

      The problem is that User A *knows* his resume needs to be
   formatted for the laser printer and sets the Chooser to the
   LaserWriter.  User A finishs, heads to the laser station, prints
   and feels like he's accomplished something.  :^)

      User B sits down, types in a quick letter to Mom.  Prints - 
   but isn't connected to a laser printer.  After that little bit of
   confusion, we reset to ImageWriter.  Prints - and Mom would not 
   be proud.  Letter home is as ugly as sin.

      Ideally - something that would permit conversion between the
   two printer formats *seamlessly* - so that the unknowning user isn't
   stung by the forgetful user.  Or, a background timer that resets the
   options when the machine has been inactive for a certain amount of 
   time.  Or, any other suggestion that would solve the above problem ...

      Sure - teaching the user is the BEST method, but the user is often
   stung once or twice before the lesson is learned.

      andrew.  (brennan@hal.hahnemann.edu)