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From: hpoppe@ncar.ucar.edu (Herb Poppe)
Subject: Re: McWrite Pro?
Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR Boulder, CO
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:46:11 GMT

In article <TRIANTOS.92Dec13101343@netcom2.Netcom.COM> 
triantos@netcom2.Netcom.COM (Nick B Triantos) writes:

> Anyway, that's what the MacUser sidebar showed, plus the things I've 
seen so
> far in the beta.  There's probably more, and of course, there's always 
the
> possibility that if any of these features contains bugs that can't be
> repaired, the features might vanish from the release version.  In other
> words, I can't guarantee you anything, but this is what appears to be 
new.

Will MacWrite Pro (initial release) support the Apple Event Object Model?

Herb Poppe                 National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
hpoppe@ncar.ucar.edu       1850 Table Mesa Dr.
(303) 497-1296             Boulder, CO  80303
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From: mem@world.std.com (Jeff Lesser)
Subject: Re: Times Two
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 21:29:07 GMT

narain@ih-nxt09.cso.uiuc.edu (Nizam Arain) writes:

>I have Times Two running on my two Hard Drives at this very moment.
>It made my internal 120 and my external 80 into 240 and 160, respectively.
>IMHO, Times Two is much more versatile than Spacesaver, AutoDoubler, etc.  
>because (A) you can copy files to disk w/out wondering if they're  
>compressed or not. (I'm not sure if current versions of AD or SS do this) 
>and (B) I can plug my external drive to another computer and be certain  
>that it will be able to access the files, without having TimesTwo on the  
>other computer. The HD Driver implementation works very well.

>The only drawback I can think of is that large (i.e. over 10MB at a time)  
>file transfers are slowed down to about 2/3 or 3/4 of normal speed. For  
>me, though, this is seldom a worry.

>Nizam Arain
>narain@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu


Times Two doesn't support partitioning, does it?


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From: ld231782@LANCE.ColoState.Edu (L. Detweiler)
Subject: OzTeK postscript fig with 7.1 driver?
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 00:19:02 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523

- - -

Hello, I'm trying to get postscript figures in OzTeK to print under the 7.1.1
driver from Apple. I have a 7.0 Laser prep for OzTeK. Do I need a new version?
I get the error

*** POSTSCRIPT ERROR ***
%%[ Error: limitcheck; OffendingCommand: framedevice ]%%
%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%

*** CANCELLED ***

The figures are being sent to a disk file from MacDraw II 1.1.  I turned off
PrintMonitor and this seemed to have a different effect.


Please email if possible.



P.S. What are people using to get postscript figures out in OzTeX? Has anyone
gotten PSFig to work?  Is that unnecessary?

many tx.

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From: triantos@netcom.Netcom.COM (Nick B Triantos)
Subject: Re: is there an XTND Translator for Claris Works ?
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Service
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 03:57:14 GMT

In article <nilesinc.724101737@well.sf.ca.us> nilesinc@well.sf.ca.us (Avi Rappoport) writes:

   In <1g98iiINNcoj@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> jxs18@po.CWRU.Edu (Jerry Sy) writes:


   >I sounds odd, but Claris Works does not come with an XTND translator !
   >or is there one out there ?  I'd like to know where and how I can get
   >it.  any idea ? Nick of Claris Tech support ?

   >jerry

   Please post the answer to the net.  The original ClarisWorks came with XTND
   translators for other formats, but not for the native format.  So EndNote
   can't work with it directly (we support XTND).  If there is a ClarisWorks
   translator, we'd love to hear about it!!!

Hmm.  If you're talking about a translator that lets other programs import
the ClarisWorks word processing format, no, you're right.  There is no such
translator.  My guess is that the reason for this is that XTND translators
are classified by their type, and so other word processing programs wouldn't
know what to do with the charts, graphics, etc.  Kind of a weak guess at
what's happening, but I'll ask our Technical Lead for ClarisWorks if he
knows why and let you all know on Monday or so...

8-)  Havin fun in Silicon Valley..

-Nick Triantos
 Claris Technical Support

Disclaimer: Mine, not theirs...
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From: ebail@ctp.com (Erik Bailey)
Subject: Re: Rename an account in Quicken?
Organization: Cambridge Technology Partners
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 19:07:47 GMT

In article <2340@shaman.wv.tek.com> Alan.Jeddeloh@tek.com writes:
>Anybody know a reasonable way to rename an account in Quicken 3.0?  My
>checking account is still named "Checkbook 91"!

In some menu (Accounts maybe) there's an "Account List" menu item. Select
that, then highlight the account you want to change. Go to the Edit mnu,
and select Edit Account (or Update Account, or whatever -- forgot the exact
name). This willl do what you want.

Good luck! --Erik

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From: jbailey@world.std.com (jim bailey)
Subject: Re: (!) SofatAT Demo location
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 18:30:25 GMT

barretpj@cs.aston.ac.uk (Phil J Barrett) writes:

>In article CAp@news.udel.edu, johnston@me.udel.edu (Bill Johnston) writes:
>>
>>Here's a no-brainer:  what about this thing makes it a demo?
>>
>>It was able to create its own virtual hard drive and run software 
>>on DOS floppies.  There was no documentation, and the only
>>indication that it was a demo version was the "Soft AT Demo"
>>that appears in the main window titlebar.  
>>
>>I didn't test everything, but I didn't find any disabled 
>>features either.  Does it self-destruct?
>>-- 

>As far as I could see, the demo version limits the size of the DOS hard
>drive to 1M, which is scarcely enough to do anything with.

>Phil

The demo version I just downloaded doesn't have this limitation.  I created
a 30 MB disk and it has network drives that seem to have no size limit
at all.

Jim
From: stuart@lorelei.ece.drexel.edu (Stuart R. Harper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Need to Mount Internal HD??
Date: 18 Dec 92 15:41:32 GMT
Organization: CCD - E4 - Drexel University

In article <jlong-171292112837@192.67.80.41>, jlong@calvin.rl.af.mil (Jeff Long) writes:
> 
> 
> I have a large internal HD (600Meg) that I partitioned with SilverLining
> into two volumes.  What I would like to do is have only one of the volumes
> mount during startup.  That was easy, using the SilverLining configuration
> pannel.
> 
> But, what I need is a way to open up the other volume on demand!
> 
> Is there any kind of Control Pannel that will allow me to scan for all
> available mountable volumes and pick which one I would like to mount?
> 
> 
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Capt Jeff Long
> Network Design Facilty,  Rome Laboratory, Griffiss AFB, NY
> jlong@calvin.rl.af.mil
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------


  Use the SilverVolumnes DA for the Silverlining disks.
From: rgonzal@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Ralph Gonzalez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Music software: mail me summary please?
Keywords: music midi
Date: 18 Dec 92 13:56:53 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


Hi. Could someone email me a copy of the recent thread(s) on music
software, or a copy of the summary? 

My brother is looking for a midi sequencer but he also is interested in
getting standard notation for output. He'll probably get EZ Vision for
the former but I don't know what's a good inexpensive musical notation
program (any shareware ones?). Or perhaps there's an inexpensive
sequencer competitive with EZ Vision, but which does notation?

Thanks for any help!

-Ralph
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: narain@ih-nxt09.cso.uiuc.edu (Nizam Arain)
Subject: Re: Times Two
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 19:57:42 GMT

I have Times Two running on my two Hard Drives at this very moment.
It made my internal 120 and my external 80 into 240 and 160, respectively.
IMHO, Times Two is much more versatile than Spacesaver, AutoDoubler, etc.  
because (A) you can copy files to disk w/out wondering if they're  
compressed or not. (I'm not sure if current versions of AD or SS do this) 
and (B) I can plug my external drive to another computer and be certain  
that it will be able to access the files, without having TimesTwo on the  
other computer. The HD Driver implementation works very well.

The only drawback I can think of is that large (i.e. over 10MB at a time)  
file transfers are slowed down to about 2/3 or 3/4 of normal speed. For  
me, though, this is seldom a worry.

Nizam Arain
narain@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: vutien@cenatls.cena.dgac.fr (Vu Tien)
Subject: Real life opinion on Stuffit, Compactpro and DiskDoubler
Originator: vutien@bibop
Organization: Centre d'Etudes de la Navigation Aerienne
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 18:54:58 GMT


I trashed last week-end the extent file of my hard disk.
I spent three days to recover 90% of the files using Mac Tools Deluxe.
Thank you, Central Point Software.

       but.....
Recovered Stuffited archives could not be unstuffited.
Recovered Compatored archives could not be decompacted.
Disk Doubler files could be open again.

Of course, this is not a statistical test. Just my own real experience.
Any opinions ?


vutien.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: zoetrope@netcom.com (Devan DzM MacFarlane)
Subject: troff on the Mac
Summary: Looking for a Mac version of troff
Keywords: troff, Mac
Organization: Hell's Ditch
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 02:53:28 GMT

I'm looking for a program that will interpret troff or groff files
on my Mac. If such a program exists (shareware, commercial, or other)
I would >very much< appreciate your letting me know.

Thanks in advance ...


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: c.brennan@student.utas.edu.au (chriss brennan)
Subject: Re: mac to ibm
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:31:21 GMT

In article <1992Dec7.232206.12262@athena.mit.edu>, rar@athena.mit.edu (Roger A Roach) writes:
> 
> ? Is there anyway to read a microsoft Word 4.0 ( for Macintosh) file into
> ? a Microsoft Word 2.0 under DOS? Without buying extra hardware or connecting
> > both machines by a cable.
> 
yeah, use a mac fitted with a 'smart' drive and use apple file exchange
in it's straight copy mode, ie. without any text translation.

word for mac usually has a 'save as' dos version option.

end.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Distribution: world
From: Peter_Dusicka@edgeway.wimsey.bc.ca
Organization: EdgeWays! InfoLink - A FirstClass GUI BBS - "The Edge of Communications and GateWays to the World." North Vancouver, BC Canada
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1992 19:41:44 PST
Subject: Re: dxf files to DOS

> Has anyone tried to translate dxf files from mac to DOS?

Yes, I had no problem doing so!  It mainly depends on the export functions and
capabilities of your Mac program, since everyone is trying to meet the AutoCAD
dxf standard. (ie. blame the Mac program if it doesn't work)

So, I just:
- exported the drawing from my Mac CAD program (Ashlar Vellum) to dxf and saved it on my HD.
- poped a DOS formated disk in my floppy (using some extension to except such
a disk, or the apple file transfer program)
- copied (draged) the file to the floppy.
- brought the floppy to the clone, poped it in
- open autoCAD with new drawing
- say 'dxfin' and type in the name of the file

There it was, no prob. for me.  Now if you are using AutoCAD for Mac, you
don't (as far as I know -  do correct me if I'm wrong) have to convert to
'.dxf' format for file transfers.  Just transfer the '.dwg' file should be
fine.

Good luck,

Petr
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: John T. Chapman <jtc1@cornell.edu>
Subject: WARNING! (Re: Where is System 7 TuneUp?)
X-Xxdate: Fri, 18 Dec 92 16: 34:06 GMT
Nntp-Posting-User: jtc1@cornell.edu
Organization: Office of Computing and Statistical Consulting
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d16
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 16:22:28 GMT

In article <1992Dec18.013811.4925@newsgate.sps.mot.com> greg berryman,
gpb@gpb-mac writes:
>Or find somebody who got a new Mac recently.  The ci we got this week had
>7.0.1 and a tuneup disk with it.

DON'T rely on this!!! We got some new machines shipping with TuneUp, but 
the version was TuneUp 1.0, which was seriously buggy.

Best bet is to do an anonymous ftp to ftp.apple.com and snag the disk 
image of TuneUp 1.1.1 from there. DiskCopy is also on the server, under 
dts/utils (or somesuch). Oh yeah, don't even think about using 
MountImage; it trashes the mounted disk so that the installer is
worthless.

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  Cornell University - College of Human Ecology
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: ellens@bnr.ca (Chris Ellens)
Subject: Re: PictureBase Replacement?
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: Bell-Northern Research
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:04:19 GMT

In article <85377@ut-emx.uucp>, miles@emx.cc.utexas.edu (Miles Abernathy)
wrote:
> 
> PictureBase was a good old image database. First you put all your clip
> art (PNTGs and PICTs only) into files called Libraries, and then you
> typed in keywords to describe each image. Inputting the keywords took
> quite a long time, but after it was done, you could use the PB Retriever
> desk accessory to search for images by keyword. 
> 
> The interface was a little offbeat, and searches on a Mac Plus could take
> a while (about 5 minutes for about 60 libraries of roughly 15 images
> each), but it did the job. Old as it is, it still works on System 7.0.1.
> 
> Is there anything newer out there that will do at least as much, and
> accept or convert existing PB libraries?

Now Scrapbook, part of Now Utilities 4.01, catalogs images, text, sounds,
and movies. It dosen't appear to be able to import PictureBase libraries
though.

Chris Ellens         ellens@bnr.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: mullignj@acfcluster.nyu.edu
Subject: Thanks All! (was Excel date as value)
Organization: New York University
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 02:29:34 GMT


Thanks to all who responded to my query about using the day of the 
month as a value in an Excel sheet.

I received quite a few solutions, some long and some short.  The
shortest was: DAY(today()).

Thanks again everyone!!!

Jim Mulligan
mullignj@acfcluster.nyu.edu
 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: guay@fraser.sfu.ca (Tim Guay)
Subject: Word and DeskWriter 3.1, etc
Summary: Word printing from DW 3.1 ok, etc
Keywords: Word, DW 3.1
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:12:01 GMT

Hi; I would like to thank everyone who answered my question as to why, when
printing from Word 5.0a using the DeskWriter 3.1 driver, I was getting a not
enough memory for HP fonts message. The solution is to not use the HP fonts
since the printer will use TrueType fonts just as well. So I trashed the HP
font folder and also installed an Init that clears up some problem Word has
with TrueType. The result of all this is that It prints just fine. 

Well, two weeks after buying my first MAC (a Classic II) I can clearly state
that dumping my 386SX for a MAC was a VERY good decision. A happy camper am I!

About the only thing that could be better is to add one of those full-page
monitors that plug into the SCSI port. Do they slow the machine down? 
What is a good make?

Some may say that the low end machines are crippled. But for some of us
they are just what we need. Until the Classics came out I could not afford
a MAC. For what I do the Classic II is fast enough. For the rest there is
always the Quadra. 

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system,bionet.software
From: lpcasson@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Lawrence P. Casson)
Subject: Apps hang with 32-bit addressing turned off?
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 06:21:00 GMT

Our Mac LCII has been running with 32-bit addressing turned on with no
problems.  I just got Authorin3.0 for submitting sequences to GenBank,
EMBL, etc. and it requires that 32-bit addressing be turned off.

Trouble is, within a few minutes of being restarted, the computer hangs,
even when no program is running.  The only unusual error message I have
seen is from NCSA/Telnet2.5 which said something like bad F-line, though
this may be unrelated.  Being that it's a lab computer, I'm not positive
that it has ever been run with 32-bit addressing off, but I'm reasonably
sure it has.  Since then, Tuner has been installed (onto a reinitialized
HD after a disappearing folder problem), Word 4.0 upgraded to 5.0,
Asante ethernet board, MacTCP and Telnet2.5 installed, and Norton
Utilities 2.0 added.  The few other Inits and Control Panels do not seem
to be the cause.

Has anyone seen anything like this?

Another curious observation:  I (thought I?) removed all Norton Utilities
related extensions and control panels to another folder, but after
crashing with Word running, a new folder appears in the trash titled
"Items Rescued from MacintoshHD".  Does Word5.0 now put TMP file in the
Trash folder?

System = Macintosh LCII, System 7.0.1 + Tuner 1.1.1, MacTCP 1.1, NUM 2.0

Thanks for any information.

Larry Casson
lpcasson@phoenix.princeton.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: rodc@fc.hp.com (Rod Cerkoney)
Subject: Re: Quicken?? Think again...
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 18:31:03 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Fort Collins, CO
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.3 PL6]

Add adding to the frustration...

	I am moving from an IBM PC to a Mac. I've used Quicken on the IBM for
several years so naturally I thought I would be able to move my data via QIF.
Easier said than done! The QIF translator on the IBM side puts out records
that cause the Mac QIF translator to report that the QIF file [from the IBM]
is not valid! After some study I discovered that the IBM version puts out
"!Account" records, these records cause the Mac translator to report an
invalid QIF file. Thus there is no way to automatically import your account
structure into the Mac. So, I typed in all 50 of my accounts. (gack)

	OK, now I export [from IBM] transactions only from my check register
and successfully import them into the Mac. The category/account balances are
even correct. BUT--when I import the Mastercard transactions, payment data
is posted back to the checking account. A call to Intuit acknowledges this
problem but they have no solution to offer. AAAARRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH! Bottom
line, the translators don't have a common file format definition and they are
naive about the way they handle transfer of funds between accounts.

	My solution. Buy SoftPC for the Mac & stay with PC Quicken for now.
Does anybody have a better solution? 
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From: hans@smab.se (Hans C Larsson)
Subject: Re: Excel 4.0 - BH Menu = Nasty bus error
Organization: Saab Missiles AB, RLD-Gbg, Sweden
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 17:42:44 GMT

Igor Livshits <igorl@uiuc.edu> writes:

>Howdy,

>My apologies if this bug was reported before...

>Apparently, Excel 4.0 does not like it when the Balloon Help menu has
>been hidden.  I have repeatedly hit a bus error while working with charts
>in Excel.  The other features seem to work fine, but while in a charting
>window, numerous actions trigger a crash (especially, while dialogs and
>windows are activating or deactivating).

>These errors appear to be independent of which control panel or extension
>hid the BH menu.  I have repeated the crash with SpeedyFinder7 about 57
>times this afternoon.  When I originally got the upgrade, I experienced
>similar crashes.  They mysteriously went away after I stopped using an
>extension (No Help Menu, I think -- the icon was a cracked help balloon)
>and have surfaced again today as I was working with Excel.

>Running SpeedyFinder7 with BH menu showing has not had any detrimental
>effects on Excel, yet.  These crashes have been confirmed on an fx and a
>ci.  Both running 7.0.1 with tuner 1.1.1.  Addressing mode does not seem
>to matter.

>Question is, why the &*&*(^&*^* does Excel rely on the BH menu being
>visible?

Try using a INIT called "CramBar", it condenses the Chicago
font in the menu bar so that Excel (*in particular*) won't
"crush" the Ballon Help. (works fine with 7.1-)
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From: merlyn@ora.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Powerbook HDs and Silverlining
Date: 13 Dec 92 22:54:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: romulus.MERLYN.92Dec13145449
	<1992Dec11.174013.1@wharton.upenn.edu>
Organization: Stonehenge Consulting Services; Portland, Oregon, USA

In article <1992Dec11.174013.1@wharton.upenn.edu> glende20@wharton.upenn.edu (John Glendenning) writes:
   I believe that the tech support person meant to set the appropriate control
   panels to not allow the PB to sleep while the drive is being formatted.  As
   near as I can figure, this means also the PB should be plugged in because I have
   not seen any standard control panel to disable sleep without it being plugged
   in.

Just turn on AppleTalk.  Keeps the puppy perked up for hours, A/C or not.

Just another PB 160 owner,
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