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From: poehlman@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Andreas Poehlmann)
Subject: HPGL -> MacDraw
Originator: poehlman@hphalle3a.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:42:20 GMT




Is there any possibility to read HPGL-Files into MacDraw?

Thanks a lot

Andy

mail to:
poehlman@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: MacCron or reasonable facsimile?
From: kenw@skyler.arc.ab.ca (Ken Wallewein)
Date: 22 Jan 93 04:50:04 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: K&M Systems

What do folks use on a Mac these days to schedule tasks for the wee hours?
Is it still QuicKeys?  Does that work well?  

Sometimes one needs to shut down a data base server for backups, or things
like that.  Small system developers tend to think small; they seem to have
a blind spot to the needs of larger sites.  Sometimes it seems like the
only way to back up some servers is manually.  There's _gotta_ be a better
way! 

--
/kenw  (as me)

Ken Wallewein
kenw@noah.arc.ab.ca
(403) 274-7848

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: bgingric@nyx.cs.du.edu (Barry L. Gingrich)
Subject: Re: Mouse Pointer Size Doubled!
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 22:58:31 GMT

In article <C182yC.Kz3@world.std.com> gunther@world.std.com (Gunther W Anderson) writes:
>The system involved is a Mac SE with a Radius Full Page display.  She's
>running System 6.0.5.  I believe that the problem lies with the Radius
>card, but nothing in the Radius software says anything about mouse pointer

Someone where I work had the same problem.  If I remember correctly,
we finally fixed it by holding down the mouse key during a reboot, 
which convinced the Mac to display some sort of Radius control panel.
From there, you can make the appropriate selection to kill the giant 
arrows.  A most bizarre problem, and a fairly brain-dead way of getting 
to the settings, but it works.

Good luck.
--
- Barry L. Gingrich
  bgingric@nyx.cs.du.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: Christian Olsson <d87co@efd.lth.se>
Subject: Re: How to put an LC to sleep?
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A78C1A12AD013415@svld.efd.lth.se>
X-Xxdate: Wed, 27 Jan 93 10:53:06 GMT
Organization: Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 09:50:06 GMT

In article <1jdb0aINNojc@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> Chris Roberts,
ctr@po.cwru.edu writes:
>It's a hardware solution, but at least it's a solution..  There's a power
>strip type device called PowerKey.

Is there a 220V version of PowerKey for e in Sweden?

/Christian Olsson
 d87co@efd.lth.se
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: powlesla@acs.ucalgary.ca (Jim Powlesland)
Subject: Re: Superclock Battery indicator indicates wrong?!?!?
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 17:47:44 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta


SuperClock 4.0.1 is full of bugs. Use 4.0.2. It is now available
at info-mac.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: cyor@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca ( )
Subject: Restrospect for FREE?
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:35:59 GMT

I wonder if we can get Restrospect for Free or at a lower price?
Is it shareware?

Thanks..
From: erh0362@tesla.njit.edu (Elliotte Rusty Harold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Where is 6.0.8L?  (FAQ)
Date: 26 Jan 93 13:16:04 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology


    It's been pointed out to me that not only is my path in the FAQ for System 
6.0.8L slightly incorrect (It should be mirrors/rascal.ics.utexas.edu, not
pub/mirrors/rascal.ics.utexas.edu.) but that wuarchive appears to have removed 
the System 6.0.8L disk images which were in fact present there just two weeks 
ago.  Can anyone suggest an alternate ftp site for 6.0.8L?  Preferably one with 
a license to distribute Apple system software?  I know it's a long shot but 
there are a couple of authorized Apple dealers with ftp sites.  Perhaps one of 
them has put it up.  Nonetheless an archie search turned up nothing.

Elliotte Rusty Harold		Department of Mathematics
elharo@shiva.njit.edu		New Jersey Institute of Technology
erh0362@tesla.njit.edu		Newark, NJ 07102
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: antjcb@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (J.C.Burns)
Subject: Re: Interface disimprovement: A simple no would suffice
Organization: Georgia State University
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 10:27:26 GMT


(much deleted about "Yes/No" vs "Save/Don't Save")
>But to a user it doesn't much matter what kind of quote is used for an
>apostrophe.  You're complaint is because QuicKeys isn't smart enough to
>recognize that they are the same.

Well my complaint is also that the new standard, by its inconsistency,
is a somewhat lamer standard, even if it does make more sense from an
ergonomic..er, human reaction point of view.

But I do indeed which the Quickeys button extension let you specify
"starts with" or "is kinda like" or "contains" in its neverending
search for button text.

And of course I'm probably the only person in the world who is
annoyed at the inconsistent usage of three dots for an ellipsis (...)
vs. the option-semicolon-thingie.

And I'm REALLY annoyed at the drugstore down the street whose sign
says "Drug's". Also "Athen's" or "Burn's". And by the way, in your
quote above, it's "your", not "you're."

Maybe I'm just really annoyed in general. i'll try to mellow out.

--jcburns
From: darrell@twics.co.jp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: VX, Lies and Doubletalk
Date: 26 Jan 93 17:27:28 GMT
Organization: TWICS, Tokyo, Japan

Can anyone verify the following story?
 
Background:
 
We recently purchased a Mac iiVX with 
System 7.1 from Canon in Tokyo. Today, 
after an _attempted_ fix of the CD-ROM 
drivers by Canon, it will no longer 
boot, giving the message 
 
This startup disk does not work on 
this Macintosh model. Use the latest 
Installer to update this disk. (System 
7.1 does not work on this model; you 
need a newer version that does.)
 
at system startup. Our Canon rep. 
tells us that this is a known bug in 
7.1 and that patches or upgrades will 
not be available until end of Feb/Mar. 
Is any/all of this true?? What are the 
workarounds (if any)? Have Apple 
fucked up totally? 
 
Ive been in Tokyo a while and am 
almost completely _out of touch_ with 
the Mac system scene in the _real_ 
world. Please help!
 
------------------------
darrell@twics.co.jp
Darrell Berry

Can anyone verify the following story?
 
Background:
 
We recently purchased a Mac iiVX with 
System 7.1 from Canon in Tokyo. Today, 
after an _attempted_ fix of the CD-ROM 
drivers by Canon, it will no longer 
boot
From: Chris Johnson <chrisj@emx.cc.utexas.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: MacCron or reasonable facsimile?
Date: 25 Jan 1993 22:35:27 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at Austin Computation Center
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: gargravarr.cc.utexas.edu
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d17
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X-XXDate: Mon, 25 Jan 93 22:34:09 GMT

In article <KENW.93Jan21215004@skyler.arc.ab.ca> Ken Wallewein,
kenw@skyler.arc.ab.ca writes:
>What do folks use on a Mac these days to schedule tasks for the wee hours?

I use cron for the Mac.

I wrote cron for System 7 several years ago.  It works, a lot of
people use it, it's free and the source code is available at no cost.
It even uses the same format for its crontab file as the real BSD UNIX 
cron (no common source code at all, however).

Anyone interested can get it via anonymous ftp to the pub/gatekeeper
directory of emx.cc.utexas.edu.

If you like it, send me email and I'll put you on the list of cron
users so you'll be notified of updates.


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#
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: eepmatt@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Matthew Friedman)
Subject: 7.1 Font Weirdness?
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:02:36 GMT


So, I'm working on a machine with 7.1 installed. I need to use the font
TektonBoldOblique, so I drag both the screen font and the outline font into
the new Font folder. I open up my application, and sure enough, there's
TektonBoldOblique. However, also present is Tekton, TektonOblique, and
TektonBold. Hmm.

I checked in both the system file and all the font suitcases in the Font
folder. Those mysterious three were nowhere to be found. I removed
TektonBoldOblique, and all four disappear from my menues. I put it back and
tried typing a bit in each of the four styles. Well, each one produces the
same text: TektonBoldOblique. Is this normal?

Cheers,
Matt

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| much closer than either his father or his mother. Mrs. Shaw was honest,|
| at least. She didn't dance. It all went on the bill at the end of the  |
| month, and she always cut the crusts off the sandwiches."              |
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From: bruck@mtha.usc.edu (Ronald Bruck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Daystar Woes -- Help!  PowerCentral Control Panel Crashes!
Date: 22 Jan 1993 19:06:12 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: mtha.usc.edu

In article <timmbake.727752808@mcl> timmbake@mcl.ucsb.edu (Bake Timmons) writes:
>

>	Now, the only Daystar software I have is PowerCentral 1.3 control panel
>that I downloaded from sumex.  I don't have PowerMath.  Is not having this
>causing my Mac to crash when I open the PowerCentral 1.3 control panel?
>

PowerMath is part of the PowerCentral 1.3 control panel; you would see this
if it weren't crashing.  Are you perchance running A/UX?  The 1.2 control panel
was inconsistent with A/UX, and I'm sure the 1.3 is too (Unix doesn't like
you messing with the hardware...)

--Ron Bruck
bruck@mtha.usc.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: kuhn@ham.enet.dec.com ()
Subject: Re: HELP! Apple HD SC...Answered!
Reply-To: kuhn@ham.enet.dec.com ()
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 09:08:46 GMT


In article <lenh-260193092542@mac02.isc-br.com>, lenh@mail.isc-br.com (Len Humbird) writes:
From: jxj24@po.CWRU.Edu (Jonathan Jacobs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Command Keys in 7.1.  What happened?
Date: 22 Jan 1993 00:57:19 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: jxj24@po.CWRU.Edu (Jonathan Jacobs)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc12.ins.cwru.edu


OK, Apple -- what gives?

Why have you changed the way command keys are interpreted in 7.1?
You've mucked around with the "option" key and have screwed me up.
I mean, I can understand not differentiating between "a" and "A", since
that would be pretty confusing, but I don't really think that "option-A"
should be the same as "a" (or "shift-a").  

I really liked being able to assign command-option-whatever to a menu
selection in the Finder.  Now I can't do this.  Booo!  And for this I
paid $30?

So how can I hack the option filter out?  There must be some bytes to
null away somewhere in your code to remove the option equivalence, right?

I await your reply with palpable eagerness.  Right.


jon jacobs
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Case Western Reserve University

"The opinions expressed above don't really exist.  No one could really
think like that..."

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: squeegee@world.std.com (Stephen C. Gilardi)
Subject: Re: Mouse Pointer Size Doubled!
Organization: SQ Software via The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:01:44 GMT

It's not a bug it's a feature...

It's toggled on and off by double-clicking in the menu bar.

--Steve

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: gunther@world.std.com (Gunther W Anderson)
Subject: Mouse Pointer Size Doubled!
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:13:24 GMT

One of my people here has managed somehow to double the size (both horizon-
tally and vertically, so I guess it's actually quadrupled) of all her mouse
pointers.  The watch is just a straight pixel magnification, but the arrow
still has smooth edges, even though it too is twice as big.

The system involved is a Mac SE with a Radius Full Page display.  She's
running System 6.0.5.  I believe that the problem lies with the Radius
card, but nothing in the Radius software says anything about mouse pointer
sizes.  And naturally no one here has seen the manuals in years.  We
apparently had and fixed the problem in the past, before I came on board,
but no one remembers how.

Please help.  Followup articles or e-mail are both just fine.

						Gunther
From: erics@infoserv.com (Eric S. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: memory configuration crisis!
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 08:06:55 PDT
Organization: Reigning Cats and Dogs
Reply-To: erics@infoserv.com
Distribution: world
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1


David_B._Hauer@bmug.org writes:

>  >Look at the available memory+system memory
> >and you will see that it adds up to 20megs.

> We're all so used to hearing this question that several people failed to
> notice an important anomaly: the original post indicated that the ci had 20
> megs of RAM, and that with 32-bit addressing off, the system occupied nearly
> 16 megs of memory. If this is true, something strange is going on.The 24-bit
> limitation should bloat the system up to 12 megs, but not more. 
> 
> Anyone have further suggestions?

I didn't see the original message, but I don't follow your reasoning.
If the IIci had 20 Mb of memory, in 24-bit mode everything over 8 Mb
(12 Mb) would be added to the reported system memory. So if the system
actually took up nearly 4 Mb the reported size would be nearly 16 Mb.

-----
Eric Smith
erics@infoserv.com
CI$: 70262,3610


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: antjcb@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (J.C.Burns)
Subject: Re: Interface disimprovement: A simple no would suffice
Organization: Georgia State University
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 11:35:53 GMT


>The problem for you is that either QuicKeys isn't smart enough or that
>programs aren't consistent on how the button names are spelled.  This seems
>to be minor issues compared to making sure the user knows what is going to
>happen.  (You can use ResEdit on your apps to make them all have the same
>button names.)

I didn't realize there was this epidemic of baffled people when a
dialog with "Yes" and "No" came up. But hey, it's not that I object
to the terms "Save" and "Don't Save"--I object to the haphazard way
it gets implemented by developers--because, I contend, Apple didn't
make a big enough deal that there be a specific and consistent spelling
of '"Don't Save". Heck, I'm talking major developers here! Adobe
Illustrator uses "Yes/No", and Dimensions uses the mutant "Don't Save",
and Photoshop...welll, you get the idea.

For a company that makes this big a deal about interface consistency,
this seems like a definite weak point. (Of course, why can't there be
a system-level way to type the first letter in a dialog button to hit
that button...I'm not talking 3rd party here.)

And don't get me started on developers who bypass the standard SFGetFile
dialog things (or whatever they're called, heck, I'm no developer),
thwarting the use of useful third-party things like Shortcut or Boomerang.

Now you're at Taligent, you get a chance to clean-slate a lot of this
interface stuff. Here's hoping for a clean, fresh, consistent approach
from your finished products.

--jcburns
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: hpoppe@ncar.ucar.edu (Herb Poppe)
Subject: Re: HELP! Apple HD SC Setup 7.0 Cant see my HD!
Organization: National Center for Atmospheric Research
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:06:51 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.175458.10669@isc-br.isc-br.com> lenh@mail.isc-br.com 
writes:

> I am preparing to format an external hard drive (Rodime R03000S 68 meg) 
with
> System 7.0.1, but Apple's HD SC setup doesnt see it. Why not?

Apple's HD SC Setup only works with drives shipped by Apple. This is 
extremely irritating and causes enormous hassles trying to support many 
Macs in an institutional setting, especially now that Apple is out of the 
add-on drive market. There is no [good] reason for this; after all, if 
Apple's A/UX can support third-party drives, so can the MacOS. 

Herb Poppe                 National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
hpoppe@ncar.ucar.edu       1850 Table Mesa Dr.
(303) 497-1296             Boulder, CO  80303
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
From: roberts@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Michael Alan Roberts)
Subject: Anyone running System 6.x AND System 7.x??
Organization: University of Cincinnati
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:39:26 GMT

I am a recent convert to System 7, which I use on my Mac Plus (4MB RAM,
80MB HD). After using System 6.0.8 for what seemed like the longest
time, I have grown a bit fond of it, and for the stuff that runs on it
that doesn't run under System 7.

I have two questions:

1) Am I alone in my nostalgia for system software that actually lets me
load Excel and Word or Filemaker Pro without running out of room?

2) What are users experiences with a partitioned drive, one running
System 6.x, and the other running System 7.x? Any tips, precautions, or
other advice?

If this gets interesting, I will post a summary of replies.

Michael Roberts
roberts@ucunix.san.uc.edu
From: johore@teal.csn.org (John Orendt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Sys 7.0 bombs on boot. Why?
Date: 22 Jan 93 01:58:41 GMT
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

Hi 

I'm trying to Upgrade from sys 6.0.7 to Sys 7.0. I don't get 
any errors during the installation of sys 7.0 or when I do 
the sys 7. tuneup. When I boot up I get system error "finder" 
bad f-line instruction or if I hold down the shift key 
(causing extensions not to load) while booting I get system 
error "finder" illegal instruction. Amazingly, the booting 
process completes successfully if I lock the disk before 
booting. I think the error occurs while the system is trying 
to rebuild the desktop for some reason unknown to me. 
Unfortunately, there is not much I can do with a locked disk!

I have a Mac II with no internal hard drive and two 800k 
floppy drives, an 11" apple B/W monitor with 8 Megs ram and 
an AST286 card installed. My hard drive is an almost new 
removable media Bernoulli Dual 90 Pro which I boot from. I 
have no problems with system 6.0.7 except for my FaxSTF 
software bombing randomly when sending faxes (some times it 
works sometimes it don't) which is why I'm trying to upgrade 
to sys 7.0. 

I got the sys 7.0 software, disk tools, and tuneup from ftp 
ftp.apple.com in ./mac/sys.soft/7.0... via the Colorado Super 
Net. (Has anyone successfully upgraded from this source?) 
I decoded the binhex files to the image files using Stuffit 
Classic 1.6. I transfered the image files to 800k floppies 
using DiskCopy 4.2. 

I did a full backup.

I booted from a sys 6.0.7 floppy with the Iomega driver. 
which lets me see the mounted 90MB cartridge. I threw away 
the old system folder. Then, I put in the sys 7.0 Install 1 
floppy and used the default install. The standard install 
asked for all the floppies except the disk tools and the 
tuneup. This completed successfully. 

When I try to boot from this cartridge I get the system bomb.

Then, I tried various permutations like installing only the 
minimum Mac II configuration. Same result. I also tried 
zapping the pram. Same result. I also tried running the 
tuneup. This completed successfully. Same result. 

The cartridge passes disk first aid and Norton Utilities Disk 
Doctor.

Thanks in advance for any help.

-- 

  JOHN ORENDT         johore@csn.org               .-~~~-,
  O                                               (       )
  H                                              (         )
From: Ellenb@mac.dev.upenn.edu (Ellen Bart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: LCII memory problems
Date: 21 Jan 93 17:28:20 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.system
Organization: Univ of PA

My LCII with System 7 lately has been refusing to open more than one
application at a time, telling me there is not enough memory unless I close
up some of the windows or applications. Sometimes, it won't  let me print,
saying there is not enough memory for this.  There seems to be no rhyme or
reason to when I get these messages.

The ram cache is set at 256K, and there seems to be plenty of memory left
on the hard drive.    I am a novice at all this, and would appreciate any
advice at all.

Thanks,
Ellen
From: ChazL@county.lmt.mn.org (Chaz Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Please tell me where printmonitor goes in 7.0.1...
Date: 25 Jan 93 19:07:20 GMT
Reply-To: ChazL@county.lmt.mn.org (Chaz Larson)
Organization: LaserMaster Corporation

In article <C15pq2.I3J@acsu.buffalo.edu>, v065hjku@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu 
(Jason Osborne) writes:
> My printmonitor just won't work.  Could somebody tell me where to put
> it in the system folder?  It keeps dropping into the extensions folder,
> but it does not work when it is in there.

That's where it goes.

What specifically do you mean by "just won't work"?

Are you printing to a LaserWriter-type printer?

chaz

..must think...bubble pipe will relax me and I think...
LaserMaster Macintosh Typesetting Tech Support
From: bkph@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Printing PICT/EPS in MSword
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.system
Date: 21 Jan 1993 19:42:46 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
NNTP-Posting-Host: wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu
In-reply-to: ohbuchi@cs.unc.edu's message of 20 Jan 1993 15:51:18 -0500


In article <1jke06INNbgi@rameau.cs.unc.edu> ohbuchi@cs.unc.edu (Ryutarou Ohbuchi) writes:

   I have been trying to print a document that contains PICT/EPS graphs 
   generated by Mathematica 2.1.  

   1) The graphs are  generated by Mathematica 2.1 on a Macintosh IIci running 
      System7.0.1. 
   2) Graphs are pasted into a MSWord5.1 document on the same Mac, via two ways;
       a) Clipboard
       b) PICT/EPS file generated by "Convert Clipboard" menu in Mathemtatica.
   3) The documents are printed from MSWord5.0 on a MacIIx, to LaserWriter(s) 
      over EtherTalk.

   Documents do not print, and PrintMonitor complains as follows;

     Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: defcurrentpoint

   Then, after a while, 

     A PostScript error has been generated by the LaserWriter Extension file;
     The document is O.K., but can not be printed.

   Is it the bug on Mathematica, MSWord5.0, or LaserWriter printer 
   driver?  Is it insufficient memory in the LaserWriter(s)?  Or else?

   Any constructive comment is greatly appreciated.  I prefer direct email
   responses, but posting to comp.sys.mac.system is good.

Different platforms use different line terminations.  When you move 
a PS file from a Mac to a PC you need to convert control-M to
control-M followed by control-J.  Otherwise you loose the line separation
and `def' runs into `currentpoint'.  Most software for moving files
between platforms gives you an option to make the translation.

This should be in the FAQ...

Berthold K.P. Horn
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA