HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jjmckay@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Jim McKay)
Subject: Re: Experience with SoftPC
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 16:49:40 GMT

hackett@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Mike Hackett) writes:

>My father just bought an LC II, and he uses Word Perfect at work.  I
>suggested that he could get WordPerfect for the Mac and read and write
>files on a PC disk (is this correct? - is anything extra needed?).  I
>think he is also interested in the possibility of getting SoftPC (AT?)
>and bringing a copy of WP home to use on the Mac.  How well do either of
>these solutions work?  Any other suggestions?

Access PC with either Word/Mac 5.x or WordPerfect Mac 2.x would be best.
I am very happy with such an arrangement; in fact I'm impressed with how
well it works.  While Soft PC or Soft AT will work running Wordperfect, 
it's just s-l-o-w by comparison if you are used to using a real PC.

He will need to use the "Apple File Exchange" that comes bundled with the
Mac O/S disks.  It works but is slightly awkward and reminds many folks of
teh Font/DA mover.  I suggest that you buy "Access PC" for about $55-60 and
use that instaed of the free Apple File Exchange as it is more elegant
and transparent than Apple File Exchange.  DOS disks act just like
MAc disks and appear as icons on the screen. 

I think it best he use WordPerfect Mac or Word Mac.  Word Mac 5.x reads and 
writes in WordPerfect 5.1-PC fomat. While I use WP 5.1 on a PC I use
Word 5 on a Mac, even though I have WordPerfect Mac too.  Both Mac 
wordprocessors are good though.

>Also, which of the MSDOS compatibility product would you recommend?  What
>about Apple's PC Exchange, or whatever it's called?  If we're going to
>have to deal with MessyDOS, I'd like to at least do it well.  BTW, I am
>not a regular reader of this newsgroup, so please respond via email.

I would buy Access PC; Apple's PC exchange is basically a more expensive version
($60-75) of an old version of "Access PC".  (But you do get the pretty 
Apple Logo on the disks, it must be worth $10.)   Dayna DOSmounter
is a third option but I found it to be buggy.  

All of these opinions are from my firsthand expereince.

>Thanks in advance.


>=====================================================================
>Mike Hackett                  | "She wouldn't make love,
><hackett@gaul.csd.uwo.ca>     |  but she could make good sandwich"
>Honors Computer Science IV    | -Ian Anderson, "Budapest"
>University of Western Ontario |                - _Crest of a Knave_
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: "Gary Hopkins" <wk00624@psilink.com>
Subject: Re: Looking for World Map
Organization: Gary Hopkins Typesetting
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 00:47:27 GMT
X-Mailer: PSILink-DOS (3.3)

>DATE:   8 Jan 93 07:58:37 GMT
>FROM:   Keesung Nam <namk@eniac.seas.upenn.edu>
>
>Hello. I am looking for a drawing of world map.
>Does anyone out there know where I can find this file
>from any anonymous ftp sites?
>(PostScript file would be better...)
>Thank you in advance...
>
>Keesung

If a small one will do, you probably already have it--you can (at least 
in System 7) copy the world map from the Map control panel.
From: daver@sunspot.ssl.berkeley.edu (David Ray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Could someone kindly answer a newbie's question?
Date: 11 Jan 1993 21:22:47 GMT
Organization: Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: sunspot.ssl.berkeley.edu

In article <1993Jan11.203957.29358@samba.oit.unc.edu> David.White@launchpad.unc.edu (David White) writes:
> ..But what about files that have a .Z extension?

If you can't uncompress it on the UNIX end, you can use a Mac program
called Zippop, available at Sumex. Don't forget to use binary mode when
transfering the .Z file to your Mac.

>- What's the deal with StuffIt and Compact Pro?  Are they just 2 rival,
>incompatible file compressing programs?  Will either one decompress the other?

Yes they are 2 rival programs, constantly adding features to out-do the
other. I believe that currently, one of them does decompress the other,
but I forget which. They are both shareware, so you can downloadd them
and check for yourself. They also have recently added other features...
One of them decompresses binhex (.hqx) files, one of them does pure
binary conversion, etc..

>- What's the deal with BinHex?  Why are most uploaded programs in .HQX
>format if it makes the file BIGGER?

The reason is that many people can't download binary files. Binhex format
converts binary files into ascii format, so that it can be downloaded by
everybody. This is usually because some people only have a 7-bit
connection, which can only transfer ascii. (All Mac programs are binary.)

>- Are there any other extensions besides what I've listed that I'll need
>to know about? (and their corresponding programs?)

Another UNIX compression scheme is uuencode. There is a Mac program which
will convert these, I think it's called UULite.

>Will I ever encounter Mac files with .tar extensions?  And if so, what do
>I need to handle THAT?

This would be highly unusual, but it could be done. I don't know of any
Mac utility for .tar files, so I think you have to "un-tar" them on the
UNIX end before transfering them to a Mac. 
>

Dave Ray

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: haferman@icaen.uiowa.edu (Jeff Haferman)
Subject: Re: A list of important share/free ware inits for a new user
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 03:10:50 GMT
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA


I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned Gatekeeper ...






Jeff Haferman                            internet: haferman@icaen.uiowa.edu
Department of Mechanical Engineering     DoD 0186  BMWMOA 44469  AMA 460140
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA  52242                                 '76 R90S
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: rowley@theporch.raider.net (Michael Rowland)
Subject: Re: what is hendrix
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 08:25:36 GMT
Organization: The MacInteresteds of Nashville, Tn.
Keywords: appliation

szikopou@alfred.carleton.ca (Steven Zikopoulos) writes:

> I downloaded an application call Hendrix from an FTP site (probably
> SUMEX or U of Michigan).  I unstuffed it, ran it and can't od anything
> with it.  Does anyone know anything about it?
> 
Are you sure it's an application?
I downloaded a file from a local BBS here named Hendrix. It's a 
self-unstuffing archive, therefore is an "application"... but after it 
unstuffs it is a sound file that plays a Jimi Hendrix guitar lick.
If it doesn't work with System 7, as did mine, use SoundConverter on it 
to convert it to a System 7 Sound File format.

jmr

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: tsandeson@mta.ca
Subject: IRC
Reply-To: tsandeson@mta.ca
Organization: Mount Allison U, Sackville, N.B. Canada 
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 20:32:38 GMT

   Hello,

   I just found a program to run IRC on my mac LC, but I don't know
about IRC very much. Can anyone give me hints and a place where I can
get IRC addresses that mac users use.

  TONY
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: wondertr@fraser.sfu.ca (wondertree learning center)
Subject: Re: inside mac stack?
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 18:07:00 GMT

Regarding your query about Think Reference... I have the program and have
found it to be very useful and quit in depth for an online reference.
I only covers Inside Mac Vols I-V and reflects changes from Tech Notes
1-293... so if your heavy into System 7.x then you'll still need the
Inside Mac books.

The code samples are of great help BUT the can't be cut and pasted into
your apps ... a serious flaw in the program ...

I hope that it will be updated soon as this is version 1.0 and could use
the improvements mentioned...

All in all though a good buy for the money.

TED

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: awg0971@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: Looking for Monitor
Reply-To: awg0971@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:57:13 GMT

Is there a amc compatible monitor that has a composite input AND is
a multisync? I want to to be able to work on my mac and take the
composite input of, say a VCR. Reply via e-mail plz,

                     ____        ___  ___   ___
  /  /   /  /\    / /      /    /    /  /  /    /   /    AWG0971
 /--<   /  /  \  / /   _  /    /--  /--<  /    /---/ @Ritvax.Isc.Rit.Edu
/   |  /  /    \/ /____/ /___ /__  /   | /___ /   /  @Ultb.Isc.Rit.Edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: rcarvin@x102a.ess.harris.com (carvin robert 60184)
Subject: Source for UUlite or Alternate
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:29:44 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Organization: Harris ESS, Melbourne, Fla.

I have an uuencoded PICT file that was sent to me via e-mail. I would
like to decode this file using my mac and have been told to use UUlite
to do so.  Using the Archie data base, I determined that there is only
one anonymous ftp site, forwiss.uni-passau.de, that has this software.
Unfortunately, its server is down.  Does anyone know of an alternate
anonymous ftp source or an alternate program (freely available).  

--
================================================================================Bob Carvin (rcarvin@x102a.ess.harris.com)|  The usual disclaimer of the non-
GASD Harris Corp. (407) 727-5574         |  responsibility of ones employer    
P.O. Box 94000 Melbourne, FL 32902       |  and cohorts applies.
================================================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: bredell@tdb.uu.se (Mats Bredell)
Subject: Re: virtual memory
Reply-To: Mats.Bredell@udac.uu.se
Organization: Uppsala University Computing Center (UDAC)
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:08:33 GMT

Daniel P. Reed (dr3w+@andrew.cmu.edu) wrote:
: when virtual memory is set to 10MB, the about this macintosh box under
: the apple only says that 10MB of total memory is avaliable.  Is the real
: RAM not added or is it not used when vitural memory is on?

Both are being used.

Let's say you have 5 MB of RAM, and set the virtual memory to 10 MB. This will
make the memory look like 10 MB, and you will lose 10 MB of your hard disk
space. The reason for keeping data both in RAM and on the virtual memory
file on disk is that it makes it much more efficient.

/Mats
-- 
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Uppsala University Computing Center (UDAC)     Ph:  +46 18 187817
Department of medical systems                  Fax: +46 18 187825
Sweden                                         Think straight - be gay!
From: daniel@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu (Dan Quoidbach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Help me with e-mailing please
Date: 8 Jan 93 14:51:47 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Organization: Ocean Drilling Program/LDGO

I realize that this request is a bit of a stretch for the topic of this
newsgroup, but perhaps one of you can point me in the right direction. I
have a cousin in Switzerland who is on a network in Zurich. He works for a
company called the Swiss Re. He thinks he has a connection to the outside
world and wants to try to communicate with me via email. The address he
gave me was simply SRZHAL. SRZ refers to the Swiss Re and HAL is his
personal address. If you have any idea how to reach this from the internet
or where a more appropriate place to ask this question would be, please
send me some email. Thank you very much.


Dan Quoidbach                               daniel@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu
Ocean Drilling Program
Lamont-Doherty Geological
Observatory
Palisades, NY 10964
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.wanted
From: craigh@cserver.plexus.com (Craig Heilman)
Subject: Shareware/freeware hard disk "profiler"???
Summary: I'm looking for a hard disk profiling utility
Keywords: profiler shareware freeware
Organization: Plexus Corp. -- Neenah Wisconsin
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 16:53:03 GMT

Can anyone suggest a shareware/freeware hard drive profiling utility?
By profiling utility I mean something like Now Profiler that creates
a text file listing of all the applications/extensions/cdevs etc. that
exist on a hard drive.  I have Now Profiler but I need something that
will also work with System 6.0.x.

Thanks,
	Craig
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*                           * "I just found out that the brain is like a   *
* Craig A. Heilman          * computer.  If that's true, then there really *
* craigh@cserver.plexus.com * aren't any stupid people.  Just people       *
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Where's "ChineseTalk" app??
From: ggale@vax1.umkc.edu
Date: 8 Jan 93 15:09:44 CST
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City
NNTP-Posting-Host: vax1.umkc.edu

A British colleague mentioned that she'd gotten an app called "ChineseTalk"
from a cd-rom 'developer's disc'. I couldn't find any mention of it at
apple.com apda. Does anyone know where I might find this program? I'd
appreciate the info a bunch. Thanks! please reply via e-mail.
George
IN%"ggale@vax1.umkc.edu"
From: wstomv@wsinpa04.win.tue.nl (Tom Verhoeff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Mac to Sun
Date: 11 Jan 93 08:57:22 GMT
Reply-To: wstomv@win.tue.nl
Organization: Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands

In article <1993Jan10.211456.11663@afterlife.ncsc.mil> mlbelan@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Mark Belangee) writes:
>I'm interesting in porting some text files from a macintosh to a sun using
>only disks.  Question: What's the best way to do this?
>
>I've tried saving the files to disks on my mac using MS-DOS format, but 
>I don't know how to tell the sun to read a MS DOS disk. I've heard that it
>is possible.
>
>Is there another way? Or, does anyone have a sol'n to this problem.

To read MS-DOS disks on SUNs you can use the public domain (?) software
package called mtools.

However, what I find much easier is: suntar (available on sumex-aim
for example, see directory info-mac/util).  This lets your Mac read
HD floppies that were written on (for instance) a SUN using the unix
tar or bar commands.  Suntar also has other nice features, e.g.
certain automatic translations (MacBinary, BinHex, Ascii etc.).
It can also create tar archives on HD floppies.  This requires no
special formatting because the low-level format of HD disks is "standard"
(that is, the same for MS-DOS, SUN, Mac).

	Tom
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From: mross@antigone.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: In search of 'clock daemon' (CRON) for MacOS
Date: 11 Jan 93 11:04:33 GMT
Organization: Antigone Press, San Francisco, CA, USA

Chris Johnson <chrisj@emx.cc.utexas.edu> writes:
: In article <102886@netnews.upenn.edu> tony@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu (Anthony
: Olejnik) writes:
: >Does anyone know of a product (public domain/commercial) that 
: >executes commands at specified dates and times?
: >
: >Something along the likes of UNIX's CRON would be ideal.
: 
: I wrote a BSD-style cron for System 7 a year and half ago. 
: Unfortunately, 
: I haven't gone out of my way to tell anyone about it.  :-)  Nonetheless
: it 
: exists, it's free (with source), and lots of people use it and find it
: very useful.  It even defines a potentially standard method for aguments
: to be passed to mac programs.
: 
: It's available for anonymous ftp from the pub/gatekeeper directory of
: emx.cc.utexas.edu.  Note that I have a mailing list for cron users, so 
: if you try the product and like it, send me email and ask to be placed
: on the cron mailing list.  That way I can notify you of updates, etc.
: 
: 
: Chris Johnson
: 
: Internet:   chrisj@emx.cc.utexas.edu
: UUCP:       {husc6|uunet}!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!chrisj
: BITNET:     chrisj@utxvm.bitnet
: CompuServe: >INTERNET:chrisj@emx.cc.utexas.edu
: AppleLink:  chrisj@emx.cc.utexas.edu@internet#

Would your cron be able to act as a client to a NeXT timeserver which is connected to a
Mac running MacTCP?


-- 
Michael Ross
Antigone Press, San Francisco, California
e-mail: mross@antigone.com
FAX: 1-415-431-3650
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: tsandeson@mta.ca
Subject: MAC PROGRAMMING AND SOURCE (HELP)
Reply-To: tsandeson@mta.ca
Organization: Mount Allison U, Sackville, N.B. Canada 
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 20:23:44 GMT


   Hello all:

   I was wondering if anyone could help me with some information about 
how to program for the mac, what I want is FTP site addresses that may
have text,programs on how to start programming for the mac. Also any source
that was used to program so I can look and learn (especially how to
program for games, adding graphics, creating  graphics,...etc). I would
like to try to program something to see if I would be interested in
persuing this avenue.


  Thanks for all or any help,
  TONY>>>>> tsandeson@mta.ca                 


  Please e-mail me since I don't regularily subscribe to this group or
look at it(mostly I follow comp.sys.mac.games).
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: doucas@cerberus.bhpese.oz.au (Chris Doucas)
Subject: Printing extended reports
Organization: BHP Information Technology
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 23:33:13 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hypercard

Anyone have a suggestion on how I can produce tabular reports such as

					    _______________________________________________________
        |  Date      |   Name           |  Text        | etc.   |
        |_______________________________________________________|
        | 8/12/92    | J. Doherty       | Found dead   | BL Eyes|
        |    .       |      .           |     .        |   .    |
        |    .       |      .           |     .        |   .    |

The data is collected and formatted into columns as above. I know I
could set up a card template but my data could spill over to many pages
that I would need to print. 

If I use variable/scroll fields, how do I print the gridlines(cols & rows)
of the table?

Would appreciate any enlightened suggestions....
  
>              ______________________________________________________________
Regards,      | BHP Information Technology | eMAIL:
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: danny@martha.utcc.utk.edu (Danny William McCampbell)
Subject: Background troubles...
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:07:45 GMT

Can someone tell me what is wrong with this statement and why it refuses
to work?

hide bg field id 72 of bg id 5181

also

hide bg field id 72 of bg "Introduction"

Neither of the above work.  I would much rather use the first line.

I am just simply trying to hide a field on another background from where
I am currently at.  Please help my stupidity....


--
Danny McCampbell
UT Computing Center
danny@utkux1.utk.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: jwa@vipunen.hut.fi (Jyrki J Wahlstedt)
Subject: blank
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Distribution: comp
Date: 6 Jan 93 01:10:42

  I imagine this question has already been answered, but as I don't
  remember the answer, I'll make it again.
  When I go from one stack to another, there is a short time, when
  the whole window is white. How can I avoid this blank?
--
!
!	Jyrki Wahlstedt
!		Jyrki.Wahlstedt@hut.fi
!
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: cad0410@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Cecelia A. Dorn)
Subject: MacRecorder and stacks
Reply-To: cad0410@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 20:39:57 GMT

I'm in the process of creating a stack which will be used for
pronunciation training with deaf students.  I'm thinking of using
MacRecorder to allow them to record their attempts and storing
those attempts as "snd" resources of the student's stack.  This
is a fairly straight-forward process but it leaves me with a few
concerns:

  1) the faculty requesting this project don't want to restrict
the students in terms of length of time of utterances and
there are A LOT of words that they will have to record  --
consequently I'm worried about how large these stacks will grow
with so many "snd" resources.

  2) the recording XCMD's supplied from Farallon are weird in
that the _slightest_ movement of the mouse signals that you're done
recording (the alternative is to set a time limit and as stated
above that's not an option here).  Since you have to click the mouse
to begin recording, any slight side-to-side movement of the mouse
turns off the recording.  I have trouble getting in a clean click
even knowing the problem so I'm sure the students will be really
confused as to the operation.

Anyone have any experience using MacRecorder?  Can you offer any 
suggestions for its use in light of the concerns I've stated above, 
or better yet, alternatives other than MacRecorder?  

Thanks in advance,
Cea
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: yeidel@tomar.accs.wsu.edu (Joshua Yeidel)
Subject: Re: Scrolling field problem....
Reply-To: yeidel@tomar.accs.wsu.edu (Joshua Yeidel)
Organization: Academic Computing Services, Washington State University
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 19:42:51 GMT


In article <1993Jan7.183928.25218@utkux1.utk.edu>, danny@martha.utcc.utk.edu (Danny William McCampbell) writes:
|>From: danny@martha.utcc.utk.edu (Danny William McCampbell)
|>Subject: Scrolling field problem....
|>Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
|>Lines: 17
|>
|>Hi all.  I have two scrolling fields side by side.  Each contain text.
|>I have enabled an option to have the fields to scroll together or
|>seperately.  The problem is when the fields are set to scroll together
|>one field has more text than the other and the last few lines of the
|>other field are not visible.  I cannot have this.  Is there any way
|>to find out what the very last scroll number is in the field with
|>the longest text as well as the other field so when one gets to the
|>end I can set the other one to the end?  Please help me........
|>
|>Any suggestions on maybe a different way to go about this would be
|>greatly appreciated.
|>
|>
|>--
|>Danny McCampbell
|>UT Computing Center
|>danny@utkux1.utk.edu
|>

You might try adding lines to the shorter of the two fields to make
them equal in height ( I don't know whether wrap-around of text would
create problems as well).  

For example, if your fields are F1 and F2, you might have the script
of F1 contain

on closeField
   put the number of lines of fld f2 into n
   repeat while the number of lines of me < n
      put return after me
   end repeat
end closeField

This is *NOT* tested -- I didn't even look up the "repeat"
syntax -- this is just a sketch of code.

--
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Academic Computing Services | All standard disclaimers apply
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From: Chandima Cumaranatunge <chan@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: How to find if you are in the background?
Date: 4 Jan 1993 22:08:46 GMT
Organization: Kansas State University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.130.116.60
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
X-XXDate: Mon, 4 Jan 93 22:09:37 GMT

how can I find out if I'm in the background from within a HyperTalk
script?
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