HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: Kevin Woodside <woodside@bnr.ca>
Subject: Mac News Readers
X-Xxdate: Thu, 15 Oct 92 16:32:39 GMT
Organization: Northern Telecom Canada
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 15:31:01 GMT

I posted this question earlier, but got no response (except for a pile of
mail asking me to forward any replies I got!), so I'm going to try again.
 
I have tried several News Reader programs for the Mac (TheNews, Nuntius,
and Newswatcher), and while they are acceptable programs, my ideal news
reader would actually consist of bits and pieces of each.
 
For example, Nuntius does an excellent job of extracting uuencoded
binaries, but is limited in the fact that these binaries MUST be in the
proper order.  If the binaries are posted out of order, there is no
"append" function to save the binaries properly.  Some of the other news
readers (can't remember which) allow you to append, but do not
"auto-uudecode".
 
I am therefore interested in your suggestions for the "ideal" news reader
for the Mac (in your opinion of course).  It can be freeware, shareware,
or commercial.  I have never seen advertisements for a commercial news
reader, but I imagine the market for this type of product is somewhat
limited.
 
Kevin
woodside@bnr.ca
From: schindler@rz-berlin.mpg.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Wanted: Send sound to other mac
Date: 7 Oct 92 11:34:44 +0100
Organization: Rechenzentrum MPG Berlin

Hi there,

        I remember a piece of software, with which you could send a
sound to other macs on a net. I forgot the name, though. Can someone
help me out and tell me the name or even the source of this app?

		Thanks a lot - Michael.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: John Wilkins <john@publications.ccc.monash.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Word Question: Mac/PC compatibility
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A7008E59E3012434@manager.ccc.monash.edu.au>
X-Xxdate: Tue, 13 Oct 92 22:31:53 GMT
Organization: Monash University, Melbourne Australia
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 04:31:53 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.131256.15588@afterlife.ncsc.mil> Peter Kellman,
pkellma@afterlife.ncsc.mil writes:
>incorrectly? How do I make my graphics look on the PC the same as they
>were on the Mac?

You'll have to convert the graphics separately using  MacLink or
something, then reimport them into Word. The Word-created graphics ought
to convert in the file OK (at least, they have for me)

John Wilkins
Manager, Publishing & Advertising
Monash University, Melbourne Australia
Internet: john@publications.ccc.monash.edu.au
Tel: (+613) 573 2099

"Nature is profligate in variety but niggardly in innovation"
Charles Darwin, Origin of Species
From: vanover@bcsaic.boeing.com (Jann VanOver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Help needed: MS Word 5.0a
Keywords: menu commands...
Date: 6 Oct 92 15:57:18 GMT
Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle

vanover@bcsaic.boeing.com (Jann VanOver) writes:
>c60a-bh@danube.Berkeley.EDU (Zaphod Beeblebrox) writes:
>>
>>   Hi.   I'm being driven up the wall with what seems to me to me an atrocious
>>bug in Word 5.0a.   To explain:
>>   I recently installed MS Word 5.0a, and went in to the Commands... dialog
>>under the Tools menu.  For some reason, there was a separator in the Fonts
>>menu where there should not have been one.  So I scrolled down until I found
>>the --Separator-- command, then selected the position over the offending
>>separator from the popup menus, expecting to see the Add button dim and the
>>Remove button un-dim.  This did not happen.  I tried adding and then removing
>>a separator from another place.  It did not remove either.  I tried the same
>>thing again.  Same result.  Now I have THREE extra separators on my Fonts menu
>>and that does not mesh well with my sense of esthetics.
>>
>>      Answers would be greatly appreciated!!!
>>
>>/--------Ben  Cottrell--------\
>>\-c60a-bh@danube.berkeley.edu-/
>
>A shot in the dark - do you have NOW Utilities?  My cubemate does and
>his menus are REAL screwy!  He even disabled Now Menus and still gets
>wierd file menus!

Sorry to follow up my own post, but I should have mentioned that NOW
menus only screw up with Word 5, not with any other applications.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Pete Kelly <pfkelly@bnr.ca>
Subject: Re: Disk Doubler 3.77
X-Xxdate: Mon, 12 Oct 92 00:42:08 GMT
Organization: Bell-Northern Research/Northern Telecom
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 23:34:45 GMT

Subject: Disk Doubler 3.77
From: Hamish Mogan, hcm@ausom.oz.au
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 10:03:39 GMT
In article <1992Oct12.100339.4378@ausom.oz.au> Hamish Mogan,
hcm@ausom.oz.au writes:
>Can someone tell me how to password protect .sea files compacted by DD
>
>Thanks
>
>HM
>

I've been baffled by that reported capability too.  I saw it mentioned in
an advertisement from MacWarehouse that password protection was a DD
feature but I've never read anything about in the DD manual.  

What I've been doing to protect a DD .sea is to drag/drop it onto
MacEncrypt 1.1's icon (shareware, available from SUMEX) which immediately
prompts for a password and then quickly turns it into an encrypted file. 
Anyone who subsequently clicks on the resulting document must input the
same password before MacEncrypt will return the original self-extracting
archive. 

Of course a copy of MacEncrypt must exist on each machine to which you
wish to send encrypted archives.

Maybe MacWarehouse has been given advance information on future DD
features. If there IS a way to do it in 3.7, I'd  like to know how too.
From: breger@santafe.sitka.sun.com (Ron Breger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Word Diff program
Date: 16 Oct 1992 03:40:39 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: breger@santafe.sitka.sun.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: santafe.sitka.sun.com

DocuComp should do the trick.

-Ron-
From: babcock@cayman.com (Bill Babcock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Word 5.0 - Memory shortage
Date: 9 Oct 92 16:49:52 GMT
Organization: Cayman Systems, Inc.
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
X-XXDate: Fri, 9 Oct 92 12:49:06 GMT

In article <oelNoB600WB781NqIL@andrew.cmu.edu> Albert H. Gough,
ag14+@andrew.cmu.edu writes:
>>I have a Mac LC with 10 meg of RAM (that's not the problem)            
    
>>and I am running Word 5.0.  Some times (approx 25% of the time)        
    
>>when I start up the application it tells me that I am low or out of
system  
>>memory (and a "button" to quit). After quiting I try to run the        
    
>>application again and no probs it runs.                                
     
>I have the same problem on a MacII with 8 Mb of RAM, System 7.0, and 
>TuneUp 1.1.1. It doesn't seem to be related to how much memory is
>allocated for Word 5.0, especially since it happens before any 
>documents have been opened. I think it is a System 7.0 problem,
>because I have only had it happened immediately after I booted the
>computer, before running any other applications. I think, that if
>any application is run then Word will start normally. I would be 
>curious to hear any theories about this. 

I|ve had the same problem on a PB 170 w/ 8 meg RAM, sys 7.0.1 w/ the
1.1.1 tuner. I haven|t been able to track it down as it|s only happened
twice since I started using it. 

Ditto on being curious about why.
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.apps:15751 comp.sys.mac.comm:10137
From: A.L.Radtke@bradford.ac.uk (Drew Radtke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Mskermit with SoftPC?
Date: 16 Oct 92 22:43:06 GMT
Organization: University of Bradford, UK
Originator: s3535@mail

wilhelm@mcst.ae.ge.com (Roland Wilhelm) writes:
>In article <1992Oct12.084154.9670@kth.se>, lenb@nada.kth.se (Lennart
>Brjeson) wrote:
>> Has anyone used  MSKERMIT (DOS) successfully with SoftPC? 

I assume you are trying to run MSkermit under SoftPC just for interest
sake (you know, like people run window 3.1 under SoftPC)? I only ask cos
there is a Mac version of kermit which does not a bad job at running a
modem and sending Hayes Commands. It's not a finished version; I've got
version 0.99(93) and it's hunky-dory.
-- 
Drew Radtke * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * A.L.Radtke@bradford.ac.uk
* * * * * * * * Fax: +44 274 305340 * Voice: +44 274 383180 * * * * * * * *
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: collin@angelo.amd.com (Collin K. Ong)
Subject: Illustrator 3: Placing black text over black/white picture
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 17:45:57 GMT

I have a Illustrator 3 document which is built around a black and
write artwork (that was drawn inside Illustrator not imported). I
want to place black text across the page so that part of the text
is over pure white sections of the page, but then it overlays the
black/white of the drawing so that the letters are obscured.  To
get around this I selected the text and changed the Paint/Style/
Stroke so that there is a white outline around each letter.  This
looks fine on the screen but when it was printed, the large type
sizes were okay but the smaller type sizes had their thinner parts
thinned to nothing because they were only one pixel wide at some
points and the white stroke covered that up.

I need a better way to make the text readable over the black
portions of the page. The smallest type size is 36 pts.  

Help!

Thanks,
Collin Ong
collin@brahms.amd.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: yefchak@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com (George Yefchak)
Subject: HELP!  Where is BinHex?
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 15:25:16 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Palo Alto,CA

I need to find an FTP site with an uncompressed, executable version
of BinHex that I can download to a Mac.  I'm sure this exists,
but I don't now where.
Thanks!

***********************************************************************
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From: dent@DIALix.oz.au (Andrew Dent)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: MS Works3 mass convrt?
Summary: Is there a way?
Keywords: Microsoft Works convert
Date: 17 Oct 92 03:35:45 GMT
Organization: DIALix Services, Perth, Western Australia

Is there a way to convert a number of MS Works3 documents from the version 2
format?

A friend rang with a complaint about the number of steps required - MS have
told him there isn't but I thought I'd ask the net.

Does anyone know enough about the AppleEvents support in Works to tell if
it could be automated using Frontier?

Andy Dent (A.D. Software - Mac & VAX programming)
94 Bermuda Dve, BALLAJURA  Western Australia  6066
Phone/Fax: 09 249 2719 (local)  +619 249 2719 (International)
       Internet: dent@DIALix.oz.au    Compuserve: 100033,3241
Organization: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Date: Fri,  9 Oct 1992 14:38:15 -0400 
From: "Stephen J. Vogelsang" <sv0k+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: True PS from Mac Draw Pro


If this is a FAQ, please forgive me and tell me where to ftp the FAQ list.

I am trying to produce true postscript output from a Mac Draw Pro
document.  I am currently running system 7.  I need postscript that can
be printed to *ANY* postscript printer.  When I create a postscript file
using the postscript option in the print box, it does not print on an
standard unix postscript printer (one of the DEC LPS40's I think).  When
I write out an EPSF file, I get the same results.  I understand unix and
how to print a postscript file as I have done it many times.  I do not
think it is a problem on the unix side.

BTW, both of these files will print on a Laserwriter II using sendps
from a mac.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.  I'd appreciate it if you could
reply to me directly (sv0k+@andrew.cmu.edu) as I do not read this
newsgroup regularly.

Thanks,
Steve
From: rh3c+@andrew.cmu.edu (Roy C. Huang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: HINTS?SpaceAce2 & Dragon's Lair1
Date: 14 Oct 92 15:56:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.Uer=CQe00iUyA84Gch
Organization: Junior, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

I am looking for the hints to both:
Space Ace II and Dragon's Lair I Macintosh Games...

..Perhaps someone jotted down the proper key combinations
to progress in the games...

I would appreciate it if anyone would reply to my address:

rh3c@andrew.cmu.edu


Regards,

R.C. Huang
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: robert@world.std.com (Robert Sadowski)
Subject: Word Strangeness
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 17:02:43 GMT

I have recently been having problems with Microsoft Word wrapping text
at odd places in the middle of a line for no apparent reason. It is almost
like there are some "phantom tabs" in the line that are causing it to break.
If you've seen this you know what I mean.

So, has anyone ever seen this, and what might be the cause or solution ?
I just upgraded several machines to system 7 and am despreately trying to
move suspicion off the upgrade.

Thanks in advance.

--
Robert Sadowski
From: aw@camcon.co.uk (Alain Waha)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: OED on CD-ROM
Date: 16 Oct 92 07:53:03 GMT
Organization: Cambridge Consultants Ltd., Cambridge, UK

>>Does anyone know when the Oxford English Dictionary will be available
>>in Macintosh-readable CD-ROM format? I thought I heard something

The CD is in a Mac readable format.  The search engine and Xref table
indexer program is IBM-PC software.  OUP have announced that they will
port the software to the Mac, but wait and see...

>>And while I'm asking, are there any Kodak PhotoCD compatible CD-ROM
>>drives out there (that is, drive which support multiple 'sessions.')?

What about the Apple CD300!!!
The only other Mac compatible ones are made by NEC,
and should be working properly now that their upgrade as come out.

Hope this helps

Alain
From: Dave_DeVisser@mindlink.bc.ca (Dave DeVisser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: QuickKeys 2 PB "rest" extension?
Date: 9 Oct 92 19:12:13 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

> Rob Bartel writes:
>
> Msg-ID: <1992Oct05.235210.26501@news.mentorg.com>
> Posted: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 23:52:1
>
> Org.  : Mentor Graphics Corporation
>
> Anybody know if there is a QuickKeys extension somewhere that allows
> keyboard switching of the "rest" and "don't rest" setting on the
> PowerBooks?
>
> --
>        Rob Bartel -- Mentor Graphics Corp.  rob_bartel@mentorg.com
> *** These thoughts are my own and should in no way be construed to be
> *** related to Mentor Graphics thoughts in any useful way


Yes.  In the most recent version of Quickeys (2.1.2) in the "Finder Events"
extension, there is a function for "Sleep."  I use it often!

TTFN
From: albert@mott.seas.ucla.edu (Albert E. Chou)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: hell folder fix
Date: 11 Oct 92 13:37:27 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: SEASnet, University of California, Los Angeles

Does anyone out there have a copy of the hell folder fix utility that used
to be on sumex (and apparently got purged because they're low on disk space)?

Al
From: neils@tafe.sa.edu.au (Neil Strong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Telecommuters, Remote Workers
Date: 10 Oct 92 12:50:32 GMT

I am undertaking postgraduate study at the School of Library and
Information Management, University of South Australia, Adelaide, on
the particular information needs of telecommuters - those who perform
job-related work at a site away from an organisation and communicate
electronically rather than commuting physically.
 
I would be very interested in, and would greatly appreciate a response
from those who are telecommuters, to the following questions. If you
are not a telecommuter but know of others who are it would be
appreciated if you could pass this on to them:
 
 
Q1      Does the organisation to which you telecommute provide any
        library and information services which are accessible to you
        online? (eg catalogs, reference assistance, databases, literature
        searches, document delivery services, organisation information
        such as daily bulletins and administrative gazettes.)
 
        If yes:
 
        (a) What services are provided?
        (b) How useful are these services to you?
 
Q2      (a)     What is the nature of the organisation to which you
                telecommute?
 
        (b)     If you sometimes commute physically to your organisation,
                how frequently do you do this?
 
Q3      What are the particular information needs that you have as a
        telecommuter?
 
Q4      What basic information services do you consider should be
        provided by an organisation for its telecommuters? (see Q5 for
        additional and desirable services)
 
Q5      What additional information services would you perceive as being
        highly desirable for an organisation to provide for its
        telecommuters?
 
Q6      Are there any further comments you wish to make regarding the
        information needs of telecommuters?
 
Q7      Would you like a summary of the results of this survey E-mailed
        to you?
 
Respondents can be assured that individuals and organisations will not
be identified in any report or summary of this survey.
 
Please E-mail your response to my Internet address:
 
9138827a@ntx.city.unisa.edu.au
 
Thank you for your cooperation
 
Bronwen Strong
From: n3x092@rick.cs.ubc.ca (Geoff Lloyd Burian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Draw program for use with EPSF files
Date: 10 Oct 92 03:23:20 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
NNTP-Posting-Host: gambier.rick.cs.ubc.ca

Anyone know of a cheap (free?) drawing program that can output in EPS format?
Even something to convert MacDraw files to EPS would be good.

Specifically I am looking for something to use in making simple diagrams
for inclusion in LaTeX documents (I'm using OzTeX as well as TeX on a Unix
machine.)

Geoff Burian
n3x092@rick.cs.ubc.ca
From: to5232@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Font Kerning problem, Word 5.0?
Date: 11 Oct 92 21:00:52 -0500
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

Has anyone notice a font kerning problem in Word 5.0?  Especially with
Helvetica, 12 point?
From: Ralph.Martin@cm.cf.ac.uk (Ralph Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: LaTeX for the Mac
Date: 8 Oct 92 08:05:37 GMT
Organization: University of Wales College of Cardiff
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A6F9AA5A53012AC7@ralph.cm.cf.ac.uk>
X-Xxdate: Thu, 8 Oct 92 09:05:30 GMT
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12

In article <1992Oct8.033550.14419@reed.edu> Barry Smith, barry@reed.edu
writes:
>I do not pretend that our support in Germany is the equal of what we
>are able to offer in the United States and Canada, although I assure
>you that we have gone to extraordinary lengths for reasonable requests.

I am a UK cusotmer of Textures, and I am extremely happy with Blue Sky's
support. Whenever I have got in touch with Barry, I have always had an
answer which has solved my problem, or even a disk shipped airmail. Blue
Sky have the best technical support of ANY software company I know of,
and thats saying a lot. Its hard to imagine how it COULD be better in the
US and Canada!

Anyhow, now that Barry's ears are burning red, perhaps he will get on
with publish and subscribe for pictures in textures - its what I need
most right now!

Ralph

[A truly unsolicited testimonial, like those you never believe, right?]
From: horen@medusa.bioc.aecom.yu.edu (Ben Horenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: mac & sound/music
Date: 7 Oct 92 23:16:34 GMT
Organization: Albert Einstein Coll of Medicine
Originator: horen@medusa

I am running a MacII si and was wondering just what's out there to
sample sounds with the mac, and if there is anything available on
the network that would let me compose and play(on the mac) some
tunes.  I've tried to locate something appropriate with archie
but I only come up with sound libraries.  Does something like this
exist as freeware or shareware? Before I think about investing in
some of the commercial software I've seen, I'd like to try something
out with a small investment.  Well, thanks if anyone has any suggestions!
From: mpark@stein.u.washington.edu (Michael Park)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Claris CAD -> dxf
Date: 9 Oct 92 01:42:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Oct9.014250.3421
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

Is there a PD or shareware program that can convert Claris CAD
files to DXF files?  E-mail responses appreciated.

Thanks in advance!


-- 
Ciao-abunga!           +-------------------------------------+
Michael Park           | This space intentionally left blank |
mpark@u.washington.edu +-------------------------------------+
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: trivedi@yukawa.uchicago.edu (Anil Trivedi)
Subject: Textures (was Re: LaTeX for the Mac)
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 07:22:34 GMT

Ralph.Martin@cm.cf.ac.uk (Ralph Martin) writes:

>Anyhow, now that Barry's [barry@reed.edu] ears are burning red, perhaps
>he will get on with publish and subscribe for pictures in Textures - its 
>what I need most right now!

After reading this thread and a brief, if frank ;-), exchange with
Barry Smith, I was inspired enough to try Textures (can't recall the 
version number). It was very nice, but:

	1. I am not sure if I would recommend it over OzTeX to someone
	   not a student (student price = $195, general price = $695;
	   OzTeX is free). 

	2. As is my experience with most Mac applications, I found the
	   bundled editor to be somewhat underpowered. 

So I would add my wish to the wishlist that Barry is accumulating:
please power up the editor a little!

As I explained to Barry, an editor is more important to me than the
speed of a TeX implementation. Why? Typically I work on 10-30 page
documents. Whether it takes *five seconds* or *two minutes* to produce 
a dvi file is almost irrelevant comapred to the sheer number of days 
if not weeks spent editing the TeX files. (Of course, a publisher who 
is TeXing whole books everyday, with author-supplied source files :-),
may feel differently.)

-----
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: bernardo@erevax.bitnet (Marcelino Bernardo)
Subject: Re: Font organizing software.
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: Exxon Research & Engineering, Co.
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 14:52:24 GMT

In article <1992Oct15.200704.11243@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>,
hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades) wrote:
> 
> bernardo@erevax.bitnet (Marcelino Bernardo) writes:
> 
> >Now Utilities 3.0.2 includes a control panel called WYSIWYG Menus which
> >does what you want.  Here are the options in the control panel:
> >     Enable WYSIWYG Style menus  - sorry I didn't understand this one
> 
>     This will change the "Style" menu and show you Bold, Italic,
> Underline, etc. in the current selected font. This can be helpful, but I
> usually don't use it.
> 

I did check this one and found that this setting didn't change the
appearance of the font menu.  It shows the actual style in the selected
font whether it was on or off. 

Marcelino Bernardo
bernardo@erevax.bitnet
*These opinions are my own*