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From: mjr@zoo.bt.co.uk (Mark J Ridley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: .hqx files
Date: 14 Dec 92 08:59:07 GMT
Reply-To: mjr@zoo.bt.co.uk
Organization: BT Laboratories

In article 81H@news.udel.edu, philly@brahms.udel.edu (Robert Hite) writes:
>
>Hi,
>
>Would some kind person out in networld please tell me what to do once I
>download a .hqx file into my MAC harddrive?  How do I execute such a file,
>or do I need to encode it using something else?  I am downloading this from
>a UNIX based ftp site.  Any assistance you can give will be vastly appreciated!
>
> 

All you have to do, is get a copy of BinHex version 4 or 5. And away you go.

After BinHex has done it's stuff, it more than likely leaves you with a .sit file.

Use StuffIt! to convert this file to Mac executables etc.

Mark Ridley.
From: amun@quads.uchicago.edu (james frederick amundson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Aladdin Email Support?
Summary: does it work?
Keywords: Stuffit, Aladdin
Date: 19 Dec 92 03:05:20 GMT
Reply-To: amun@midway.uchicago.edu
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

Has anyone out there communicated with Aladdin by email? I want to
register my copy of StuffIt Lite. When I noticed that they have an
email address, I sent them a message asking if I could register via
email. That was Sunday. This is Friday. This makes me wonder how much
support I can expect from them--after all, I'm trying to give them
money and they aren't responding.

So, is this a pattern of behavior, or an anomaly?

--Jim Amundson
  amun@midway.uchicago.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Distribution: world
From: starsabre@ultramac.uucp (JT August)
Organization: Odyssey Ultraware, Inc
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 05:46:05  CDT
Subject: Re: StartUpScreen under System 7

You need to use Gif Converter or something similar to resave it as a startup
screen (Pict 0 resource).
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Distribution: world
From: asjk@ultramac.uucp (John Knefel)
Organization: Odyssey Ultraware, Inc
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 02:52:46  CDT
Subject: Re: Apple & Novell???

About Apple and Novell "getting together".

Apple said it "does not comment about aquisitions and mergers." Novell more
pointedly denied merger rumors. Novell lost ground (stock dropped) mostly on
the expectation of earning less then projected.

source, FNN
From: Michael_J._Bell@fourd.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Read DOS files
Date: 14 Dec 92 04:35:44 GMT
Organization: 4th Dimension BBS

Easily. Free solution: Run Apple file exchange (its on your system disks
somewhere)...its kinda weird to figure out, but while its running, you can
insert dos disks, and they'll be recognized just fine
Better solutions: dos mounter, access pc, Apple pc exchange allow you to mount
the disk from the finder as if it were a mac disk...

In all cases you'll need translators for anything except text files.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: glf@oclc.org (Greg Feldman-Hill)
Subject: Wrap text WITHIN a graphic: How?
Keywords: wrap text graphic help
Organization: OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 21:01:09 GMT


I have a question for you wise and inventive netters about wrapping text.

My wife does calligraphy, and uses our Mac to set
up text so she doesn't have to figure word wrapping and spacing for
mutli-paragraph documents.  She then puts the printed page(s) under
her paper and on a light table and writes over the guide page(s).

She occasionally has a need to create text in a large oval shape.  The
problem is, most software that does text wrapping assumes you want to
go AROUND an object.  She wants to draw an oval and have the text wrap
WITHIN the oval.

The only thing I could think of was to draw a left-half and a
right-half of an oval as two graphics, adust the box around it to
match the curve of the oval and then wrap 'between' the two, but
that's tedious and not too accurate.

I have (or have access to) SuperPaint (newest version), MS Word 4.x,
or PageMaker 3.x (yup, 3 not 4).  If anyone has any ideas on how to do
this, OR, if anyone knows of a software package
(free/share/commercial) that can just do what we need, I'd appreciate
the info.

Many thanks.
   === Greg ====



-- 
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    "If winning is not important, then Commander, why keep score?" -- Worf
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: jwa@vipunen.hut.fi (Jyrki J Wahlstedt)
Subject: Apple & Novell???
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Distribution: comp
Date: 11 Dec 92 22:32:17

  Yesterday I read in a somewhat esteemed magazine that there are RUMOURS
  about Apple and Novell getting together? Has anyone else heard anything
  like? It would be logical because of Microsoft's NT (when they get it
  ready :-) and regarding the rumours that Apple is planning a server
  machine. Well, who knows...

  PS. This is not actually in the area, but in another magazine I read a
  column of a PC fellow, who wrote about Bill Gates. He said that Bill
  is very determined and has read several biographies of Napoleon. I just
  wondered what will be Gates' Russia and Waterloo!?!
--
!
!	Jyrki Wahlstedt
!		Jyrki.Wahlstedt@hut.fi
!
!  Our life is no dream, but it should and will perhaps become one.
!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: 098802@adpdp2.lanl.gov (098802)
Subject: MAC percentage of the Market
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory, EMVAX
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 00:31:00 GMT

Does anyone have a cite (something I can quote from) about what the MAC
percentage of the Micro-Computer Market is? 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: jdurham@atg.amex-trs.com (Jeff Durham)
Subject: Re: Apple Tape Drive
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:07:44 GMT
Organization: American Express
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc

In article <rrgd50-111292162441@222.5.80.3>, rrgd50@email.sps.mot.com
(Chris Terwilliger) wrote:
> I agree, retrospect is great, the apple software just plain sucked...
> 
Apple's software is on some of the old Developer CDs - but buy Retrospect
instead. Apple's s/w does not work with System 7.

Jeff Durham
American Express Advanced Technology
Phoenix
jdurham@atg.amex-trs.com
From: cosc184z@menudo.uh.edu (David Alten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: .hqx files
Date: 15 Dec 1992 00:59:27 -0600
Organization: University of Houston
NNTP-Posting-Host: menudo.uh.edu

>>Hi,
>>
>>Would some kind person out in networld please tell me what to do once I
>>download a .hqx file into my MAC harddrive?  How do I execute such a file,
>>or do I need to encode it using something else?  I am downloading this from
>>a UNIX based ftp site.  Any assistance you can give will be vastly appreciated!

>All you have to do, is get a copy of BinHex version 4 or 5. And away you go.
>
>After BinHex has done it's stuff, it more than likely leaves you with a .sit file.
>
>Use StuffIt! to convert this file to Mac executables etc.
>

OK, you get partial credit.  You need a program that will decode BinHex 4
(not 5).  Compact Pro, StuffIt, and several other programs can do this. I
recommend using StuffIt Expander 3.0, freeware, that will decode BinHex 4.0
files and extract files stuffed with either AppleLink, Compact Pro, or StuffIt.

BinHex 5 is for the MacBinary format, usually denoted with a .bin extension.
Such files should automatically be converted if you have a decent communications
program.  ZTerm!!!  ZTerm!!  ZTerm!!   :)

-- 
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 It's better to burn out, than to fade away!!!"   |  cosc184z@menudo.uh.edu
   -- Highlander                                  |  HE KUER!!
       ** T h e r e    c a n    b e    o n l y    o n e ! ! **
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: kc@netcom.com (Dameon D. Welch)
Subject: Re: SoftAT demo Scandal?!?!?
Organization: Wayne's World, Inc -- NOT!
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 03:13:15 GMT

In article <1gnvqiINNlmf@morrow.stanford.edu> lipa@camis.Stanford.EDU (Bill Lipa) writes:
>
>I'm not sure I know what's going on -- I don't recall having a SoftAT demo,
>removing it, or anyone complaining. Your message is the first I've seen
>suggesting that we had the original on-line.

The illegitimate demo was on mac.archive.umich.edu... I guess the
poster got confused or didn't remember correctly.
-- 
Dameon D. Welch, NH6TW               kc@netcom.com OR dwelch@scuacc.scu.edu
       Sophomore CS Major at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
--
          "Don't be afraid, it's only business." -- Roger Waters
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: bwilliam@iat.holonet.net (Bill Williams)
Subject: Re: MAC percentage of the Market
Organization: HoloNet National Internet Access BBS: 510-704-1058/modem
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 12:44:09 GMT
Re: Does anyone have a cite (something I can quote from) about what the MAC

percentage of the Micro-Computer Market is?


NBC National evening news on May 12th said that 1 out of 5 Macintoshes in
business workplace versus IBM clones.

Many industry folks and Mitch Kapor said their were 60 million total
perosnal business related computers (no ataris, commodores, apple II's
etc.) in late 1991 and of those then industry claimed 6 million Macs.

One year later 2 million Macs were sold ( a twelve month period spanning
Merch to March? bringing the total still functioning and existing Macs to
about 10 million or so, but the IBM clones sufferred terrible losses in
numbers due to "trashing" computers (gutting old 8088 and 80286 for parts,
or writing off to charities and schools, etc.) This is because many many
people in the last two years bought new IBM clones but no functional use
was made of their ols mother boards in many cases.

I read in MacWeek and PCWeek (vague recollection) that 1 out of every 5
(yes 1/5) of every newly purchased personal computer bound fgor a business
desk IS A MACINTOSH!!!! Wow! Astonishing number, but then again I know
some firms with over a Hundred Macs and have corporate bans on IBM clone
purchases so its not hard to imagine those figures nowadays.

Conservatives place Mac to functioning PC Clone ration at 1:8 ratio, I now
cautionsly place the ratio at 1:7.

Apple has sold more computers (in dollar value) than IBM has for over 3
straight years, but then again who buys IBM equipment when looking for "PC
generic clones"

The imagewriter II is the most "popular" (total units) printer ever sold
in history from any company.

Localktalk wiring connects far more people on networks than all other
networking technologies in the world combined. (was true in 1988, probably
still true)

Apple sold over 50,000 Mac 128's before Feb 1984, but in the last three
years only a little over 100,000 NeXT computers total have been sold.


Diclaimer: most of these lies and statistics were just whipped up from my
vague memories of info in computer magazines and are probably loosely
accurate.


Bill Williams


Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.misc:20552 pnw.forsale:2390 seattle.forsale:572
From: mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM (Mark Crispin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,pnw.forsale,seattle.forsale
Subject: Re: 2MB Mac PowerBook memory for sale
Date: 13 Dec 92 09:22:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: Ikkoku-K.MS-C.724238522.377401575.mrc
Organization: University of Washington
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
To: Werner Uhrig <werner@cs.utexas.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0

Thanks.  I already have a $40 offer.  This seems to me to be a bit on the low
side, given that that's about $20/MB which is about what you'll pay for SIMMs
in the used market, not pseudo-static memory.  At that price, I'll probably
just hold on to it.
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.misc:20709 gnu.misc.discuss:3998
From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Apple/Novell merger discussed
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 12:57:39 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.

bskendig@netcom.com (Brian Kendig) writes:
> San Jose Mercury News via First!: Executives of Apple Computer Inc.
> and Novell Inc. have engaged in top-level discussions in recent weeks
> about the possibility of rewriting the rules of the computing world by
> merging their two companies into an $8 billion hardware-software
> giant.

That would be interesting.  We'd get to see whether the FSF would stick to
their professed principles and boycott DOS machines.


mathew

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: Ravi Konchigeri <mongoose@leland.stanford.edu>
Subject: Non Apple Monitors
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A7538EB06B0100ED@kimball-pc-316.stanford.edu>
X-Xxdate: Tue, 15 Dec 92 13:31:28 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 21:28:37 GMT

	Does anyone out there use non-Apple monitors? (I guess this mainly means
multisyncs.)  I use a ViewSonic 5E.  It's got a .28 dot pitch, 14", Trinitron
tube and the colors and sharpness are great (besides that glitch that all
Trinitron monitors show when you turn the contrast way up.  Why does that
happen?).  What's more, it cost me 1/2 the price of  an Apple 13" RGB.  I've
compared the screen with my rommate's Apple 13" and I've found the only
difference is that the Apple monitor's contrast adjustment gives Slightly
better results.
	What I'm getting at is: have other people found multisync monitors to be
comparable to Apple's monitors?  If so why don't more people buy third party
monitors (as they happen to be cheaper)?  Almost everyone I know has an Apple
monitor.
	Incidentally, I'm running my monitor off a Micron Xceed30 8-bit card in an
SE-30.


"A crash a day keeps your work at bay."

Ravi Konchigeri.
mongoose@leland.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: jcav@ellis.uchicago.edu (JohnC)
Subject: Re: Quadra 700 - How many monitors?
Reply-To: jcav@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: The Royal Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 19:29:34 GMT

In article <1992Dec11.172422.23014@pcnntp.apple.com> x.man@applelink.apple.com (Francisco De Leon) writes:
>You can have 4 monitors on a Quadra 700. Here's how:
>
>You have a total of 3 expansion slots on a Quadra 700. Two of these slots are
>Nubus slots so you can plug in two monitors with the appropriate Nubus card.
>1 expansion slot is a Processor Direct Slot (PDS) so you'll need to get a
>monitor with a PDS card (most Mac monitor Mfg's make these). The fourth
>monitor can be plugged in to the built in monitor port on the back of the
>Quadra. You won't need to use any special software to do this.

This is incorrect.  The physical layout of the PDS slot is such that if a
card is plugged into it you can't use one of the NuBus slots, and if you've
got a card in that NuBus slot you can't use the PDS.  In fact, to the OS,
the PDS and the NuBus connectors occupy the same "slot".

-- 
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University of Chicago Hospitals |         John_Cavallino@uchfm.bsd.uchicago.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: antkasx@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (Ken A. Sturrock)
Subject: Re: What's missing from Q700/Q950? (Was: Re: Apple Crippling Systems?!?)
Organization: Georgia State University
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:05:30 GMT


Bill Coderre writes:

BC> What would you like to see in a new technology-leading Mac?
BC> What's missing from the Quadra 9xx and 7xx? 

Tony Rich responds:

TR> 1.  Free scriptable HyperCard again
TR> 2.  Free system software & updates again
TR> 3.  Video support for 19" color monitors (1024x768) -- at least 8-bit color.
TR>     It wouldn't have to be accelerated.
TR> 4.  Educational pricing at $2000 or less per machine.
TR> 5.  A/UX right-to-copy licenses for $50 or less per machine (not $290).
TR> 6.  Ethernet transceivers for $25 or less per machine (not $122.50).

[More "sad but true" education information deleted]

Tony is right...to a point. While everything listed would be really
nice, there is a limit in terms of what is realistic. While I (as an
education kinda guy) think educational prices are great, they have to
make *some* money on all sales...the possibility of future customers
when these students graduate isn't quite enough.

1.) I don't know if Apple has that much control over hypercard right now,
    that may be Claris' baby.

2.) Agreed, but I don't want to start that 3 month flame-fest again.

3.) 19 inches!? Learn to conserve screen space, it's good for your soul.
    I agree, however that it would be nice, but most of the new "personal
    workstations" are using 16" monitors with extra $$$ upgrade to a 19".

4.) "Why when I was a youngster we paid $2500 for a Mac SE with 1M of RAM
    .....and we liked it!". Seriously, what does a 68040 ( just the chip )
    cost? Maybe we could just buy 2 Classic IIs, give one to the department
    administrative assistant...she'll help you get more funding for more
    Macintoshes!

5.) low-cost A/UX. Nice idea, but seriously. I wonder what Apple has
    to pay AT&T for each A/UX license. If UNIX is your goal, and money
    is the problem...there are better ways to get UNIX than by turning 
    a nice spiffy Macintosh into a UNIX machine.

6.) Another nice idea. I don't know what is involved in that Ethernet
    connector box. Is it possible to even make one for the cost you list?
    Why not just build COAX, twisted pair, and thick connectors right
    into the machine? ( More cost but no hassle with that little box. )

No slams were intended with this, but I think that the spirit of Bill's
question was focused on hardware. Without good marketing, it is difficult
to sell any hardware, no matter how nice. The two are linked together,
but Apple must address the real world(tm) and the financial deals associated
with it. In education, we tend to become rather short-cited about our
god given right to buy computers for cheap.

Now how about those $2000 Quadras? I'll take a demo model.


                                                    -ks
From: ifbb657@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Douglas Floyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: A good BBS program for MS-DOS (It will be a Mac BBS on a PC)
Date: 15 Dec 92 23:11:45 GMT
Reply-To: ifbb657@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Douglas Floyd)
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Originator: ifbb657@donald.cc.utexas.edu

What is a good BBS program for a MS-DOS machine?  I plan to use
a MS-DOS machine for the purpose of running a Mac BBS, since there
is really no other use for it.  Is WWIV any good?

adTHANKSvance

Please E-mail to save bandwidth,

-- 
              ifbb657@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu  (Douglas Floyd)
              Disclaimer:  I speak for myself

Windows NT is a great reason to leave your 486-66 EISA turned off.
From: rdm@contrast.wlink.nl (Richard de Mos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Ink for Stylewriter
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 11:15:00

Hello Chen-Kuang!

11 Dec 92 06:33, Chen-Kuang Yu wrote to All:

 CY>     What's your favorite ink for refilling stylewriter?  Is it
 CY> possible to refill it with waterproof ink?

It is possible but you need to find an ink that stays liquid. Most waterproof
inks have the habbit of getting drying while in the reservoir.
I'm sorry that I don't have brand names of inks that will do the job....

   Kind regards,
        Richard
                                  FIDO: 2:281/527.21
                                  e-mail: rdm@contrast.wlink.nl

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: jkellow@chopin.helios.nd.edu (John Kellow)
Subject: electric-fence.hqx on the info-mac ftp archives
Organization: University of Notre Dame
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 09:31:41 GMT

Has anyone downloaded the file electric-fence.hqx in the /info-mac/art/qt
directory on sumex.stanford.edu?  Its an application program that plays
a clip from a ren & stimpy cartoon.  I became a little suspicious of the
file because it has a creation date of Friday, Nov. 13 and is dated
Dec. 13 on sumex.  Nothing seems to happen but the program has plenty of time
to mess around with the system while the movie is playing.  Could these dates
be a coincidence or am I now the victim of a hacker's practical joke?

John C. Kellow
John.C.Kellow@nd.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
From: lam@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Ken Lam)
Subject: Re: Apple/Novell merger discussed
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 15:32:45 GMT

mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk> writes:

>bskendig@netcom.com (Brian Kendig) writes:
>> San Jose Mercury News via First!: Executives of Apple Computer Inc.
>> and Novell Inc. have engaged in top-level discussions in recent weeks
>> about the possibility of rewriting the rules of the computing world by
>> merging their two companies into an $8 billion hardware-software
>> giant.

>That would be interesting.  We'd get to see whether the FSF would stick to
>their professed principles and boycott DOS machines.

Yeah, but the Novell VP in charge of such ventures as mergers says that
this is not so.  He says he hasn't even seen Apple's President in over
a year.

--
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: mross@iat.holonet.net (Michael Ross)
Subject: Re: Devanagari Font for Mac
Organization: HoloNet National Internet Access BBS: 510-704-1058/modem
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 04:53:05 GMT

: Does any one know where to get the Devanagari font for the Mac?  This
: is the font used for Hindi and Sanskrit script.  I found Bombay and
: Sanskrit at sumex, but they were both actually Roman fonts.  

Linotype makes a Devanagari if you're willing to pay for it.... :(

Michael Ross 
Antigone Press
mross@antigone.uu.holonet.net

Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.misc:20899 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:16015 misc.invest:15182
From: wats@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Bruce Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,misc.invest
Subject: Re: History was made today...
Date: 18 Dec 92 18:45:14 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Organization: Alpha Science Computer Network, Denver, Co.

In article <parkyn.724609082@sfu.ca| parkyn@fraser.sfu.ca (Dale Parkyn) writes:
|hacker@access.digex.com (Dark Hacker) writes:
|
|*** Don't you wish you had any money NOW to buy IBM?
|
That's a 65 percent drop since its high in 1987 which is about as low
as things can get. The problem is that it may take quite a while
to rise.

-- 
Bruce Watson (wats@scicom) Bulletin 629-49 Item 6700 Extract 75,131