HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: gmarfoe@eng.auburn.edu (Gerald George Marfoe)
Subject: Re: New PowerPoint?
Reply-To: gmarfoe@eng.auburn.edu
Organization: Auburn University Engineering
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 17:56:10 GMT

In article D5B@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu, jjmckay@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Jim McKay) writes:
> I talked to the Microsloth folks at MacWorld.  They said the new PowerPoint
> for the Mac is due in October.
> 

(original posting and reply deleted)

Will the new Mac PowerPoint have an equation editor though?


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From: ses@cmns-sun.think.com (Simon Edward Spero)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
Date: 19 Aug 92 19:26:20
Organization: What's your clearance, citizen?
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In-reply-to: mike_steiner@qm.claris.com's message of 19 Aug 92 20:35:18 GMT

I would now like to make an offer at considerable moral cost to myself; If 
anyone out there feels they payes too little for their Mac, I will personally
accept a cheque for the difference between the price you paid, and a reasonable
higher price. 

Simon // $2700 PB 140 4/40 
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From: landwebe@math.rutgers.edu (Peter Landweber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Taking a Mac to England
Date: 15 Aug 92 20:19:01 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

I'm planning on taking my Mac IIcx to England, and I'm wondering
whether or not it will work on the 220V current there.  Would I need
to get a voltage converter, or does it just need a new power cord?
I'm also planning on taking a StyleWriter, Apple CD-ROM drive, and a
POWERDrive hard disk.  If anyone has taken a Mac to England, please
let me know what your experiences have been.  Thank you.

-- Greg Landweber  (landwebe@math.rutgers.edu)
From: graham@ug.cs.dal.ca (Michael Graham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Laser prep file needed (sys 6.02) (should i upgrade to 6.05?)
Date: 12 Aug 92 16:26:33 GMT
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

If anyone has a laser prep file for sys 6.02 (LaserWriter 5.2) please send me
a copy.

Also - I am probably going to upgrade my plus to 6.05. Can I ftp the disk
images? 

thanks
mike
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: MacWEEK info requested
From: stephen_howard@macweek.ziff.com (Stephen Howard)
Date: 19 Aug 92 22:01:43 EDT
Organization: MacWEEK

In article <16serpINNcpm@agate.berkeley.edu>, dana@are.Berkeley.EDU (Dana E. Keil) writes:
> Info from the latest MacWEEK may stimulate you to try for another
> freebie:
> "One-year subscription rate: U.S. $99, Canada/Mexico U.S. $175,
> International: U.S. $300 (airmail). All orders must be prepaid.
> Direct subscription inquiries to Customer Service Department,
> MacWEEK, c/o JCI, P.O. Box 1766, Riverton, N.J. 08077-7366; (609)
> 461-2100."

> No mention of email address or payment method for subscriptions.

If you have subscription questions, you can E-mail MacWEEK's circulation
coordinator, John Liston, at "72511.355@compuserve.com".

Stephen Howard
MacWEEK
From: jmoulder@mis.mcw.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: TIFF files?
Date: 13 Aug 92 16:00:20 GMT
Organization: Medical College of Wisconsin

>> >|> I purchased some TIFF graphic files and don't have a clue how to get
>> >|> them into a format I can use. 

<stuff deleted>

> There is a shareware program called GIFConverter2.2.10 available from  
> sumex-aim that I am using with great success.  It reads and saves files in  
> the GIF format as well as TIFF, PICT, RLE,RIFF, StartUpScreen, and  
> Postscript EPSF.  All in all a very handy little program.
> 
> 
Just downloaded GIFConverter (v2.3b1) from Info-Mac.
When trying to run (IIci, Daystar accelerator/cache, 6.0.8)
I get a message
"could not start application because of a program error" 

Any suggestions??

John Moulder (jmoulder@mis.mcw.edu)
Radiation Biology
Medical College of Wisconsin
From: smittie@beach.csulb.edu (Smittie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: * America On-Line vs. Prodigy vs. Genie...which one??
Date: 12 Aug 92 17:08:10 GMT
Article-I.D.: beach.SMITTIE.92Aug12100806
 <TSLATER.92Aug11111918@zeste.nmsu.edu><1992Aug11.155027.2424@nic.csu.net> <1992Aug12.164822.24162@clark.edu>
Distribution: usa
Organization: Cal State Long Beach

>What is this hangup people have about wanting to do things the hard way????
>If you like Compu$serve without Navigator you must just LOVE Unix and DOS!

A true AOL evangelist at work. Doncha just love it.

smittie
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From: watson@clark.edu (Dennis Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: QuickTime Movies...
Date: 17 Aug 92 19:03:11 GMT
Article-I.D.: clark.1992Aug17.190311.12256
Organization: Clark College, Vancouver, Wa.  USA

In article <4606@news.duke.edu> jwang@phy.duke.edu (James Wang) writes:
>
>Com'on, hunting these behemoth files is the best part. :)

Behemoth is right. Sumex has several (in art/qt??) including an 
EIGHT MEG file dealing with Quayle!
watsib@clark.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: edcrwfrd@unlv.edu (Edward Crawford)
Subject: Re: MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
Organization: UNLV
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 01:18:45 GMT

---
>Then again, making products obsolete within a year and halving the
price in
>the first six months isn't the way to do it either.
>
>I know I moaned about this a week ago, but I'm not the only person
fed up
>with being sold a brand new machine which is in the shops at half the
price
>two months later, and discontinued shortly after that.

>two months later, and discontinued shortly after that.

There will *ALWAYS* be *someone* who purchases something, only to
find out it's discontinued not too long after that purchase unless
a company puts a product line into production forever.
---

Right... I agree with you... I can understand people being 
disappointed that there now is a better faster machine out now,
but they should ask are they happy with there machine? Did the
machine slow down or get worse after the new one came out? And
about the comment someone made that people should wait till
apple gets there act together, (the bad act being machines were
coming out too fast) well then there in for a long wait as
apple wants to INCREASE the spead that new machines hit the
market.... They are shooting for a 6 months target!
From: hcheng@Auspex.COM (Howard Cheng)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: e-mail
Date: 18 Aug 92 18:53:01 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

My recommendation is for TCP/Connect, from InterCon. The interface is amazingly
easy to use and easy to set up and once it's going, it doesn't have many 
problems. It does mail, telnet, FTP, and news. List price is like $495, 
however, so it ain't cheap.

h.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: oleary@epx.cis.umn.edu ()
Subject: Re: Gifconverter 2.3b1
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 19:20:23 GMT

In article <16fqbsINN9h1@agate.berkeley.edu> c60c-2am@web-2f.berkeley.edu
(Peter Yung) writes:

>Does anyone else one the net have problem with the new release of Gifconverter?
>I got it from sumex and it doesn't seem to work.  When I run it, it says
>something like "Unable to continue due to program error."  At first, it was
>just because I have a SE, but the some thing happened on my friend si.   
>Does anyone have the scoup on this?  Thanks.

I have also been having major problems with the new GifConverter.  It ran OK
the first couple of times I tried it, but then it bombed with a bus error
(SampleLine Macsbug says).  Now I'm getting miscellaneous system errors with
other programs (including many bus errors and quite a few -605, which is
strange because the programs have plenty of memory allocated to them and, if
I try a second launch, they start up fine).  I'm also having problems with
disk blocks being improperly allocated (Norton reports and fixes them, but
they seem to reoccur).  I've reinstalled the System and Tuner, but the errors
persist.  I'm finding it difficult to track down exactly where the corruption
is in my setup.  I'll probably have to reinstall from backup.  Sigh.

Bottom line, stay away from GifConverter 2.3b1.

         ---------   Doc


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From: jack@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Jack Kobzeff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Whatizit fur?
Date: 20 Aug 92 22:23:57 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Organization: Jet Propulsion Lab

In article <Bt15Ar.7M1@acsu.buffalo.edu>, yaosenko@acsu.buffalo.edu (Yaosen
Ko) wrote:
> 
> Inside the Mac IIfx logic board upgrade kit there is a sticker about
> the size of poker card.  It has a big red "S" and an Apple at the
> upper left corner.
> 
> Anybody knows whatizit for?

It's for the return of your old motherboard. It's supposed to be your
mailing label. I'm suprised that your dealer didn't do this......

Jack Kobzeff     (jack@jato.jpl.nasa.gov)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: kayser@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (Susan E. Kayser NSSDC/STX (301)513-1673)
Subject: Re: BinHex 4.0
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 22:34:00 GMT

In article <1992Aug17.144237.11260@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, gblanken@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Gerime P Blankenship) writes...
> 
>     Where Can I get/buy BinHex 4.0.

Try mac.archive.umich.edu (actually, right now access is through yak.css.itd.
umich.edu) in directory /mac/util/compression.  Be sure to ftp it as binary, 
not text.  It's freeware.  Probably all the archives have it. 

Susan Kayser		NCF::KAYSER  or  kayser%nssdca.span@star.stanford.edu
Hughes/STX at NASA/GSFC/NSSDC
Greenbelt, MD
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
Subject: Re: Macs cost too much (NOT!)
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central
	<STRANGE.92Aug11100636@hang.dec.com>
	<1992Aug11.234015.2689@CS.ORST.EDU> <14996@claris.com>
	<1992Aug13.150734.18531@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
	<ewright.714079437@convex.convex.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 23:28:20 GMT

EW>  == Edward V. Wright <ewright@convex.com> 
SJM> == smoon@strfleet.gsfc.nasa.gov (Sang J. Moon) writes:

 SJM> The initial investment needed for a Mac is definitely much higher
 SJM> than a pc, but in the long run, the cost in time, software, and
 SJM> hardware for corresponding systems is pretty much the same.

 EW> Really?  Last week, I saw a computer store selling Adobe Type Manager
 EW> for the PC for $45.  Mac users can get it free (well, almost free, $7
 EW> shipping) by calling Adobe's 800 number.  Here is yet another example
 EW> to show: PCs cost too damn much!

PC Connection charges $5 shipping per order.

MacConnection charges $3 shipping per order.

If you order mail-order once a month, that's $24 a year :-)
--
Christopher Davis * ckd@eff.org * System Administrator, EFF * +1 617 864 0665
            ``Ed Gruberman, you fail to grasp Ti Kwan Leep.
            Approach me that you might see.'' -- The Master
From: broten@alder.sdd.trw.com (Thomas A. Broten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Files Disappear from Disks in System 7, How to recover?
Date: 12 Aug 92 19:47:28 GMT
Reply-To: broten@alder.sdd.trw.com (Thomas A. Broten)
Organization: TRW Systems Integration Group

In article <1992Aug8.053630.18814@news.columbia.edu>, 
ia4@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Imran Anwar) writes:
> I had heard mention of System 7 losing files that took up disk space but
> did not show up and I never paid attention as it never happened
> to me, until today :-(

Check my response to Stephen Shapero's System 7 Tune up woes...

-- Tom

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From: vandelhg@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu (MCG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: System 6.0.7 or less on LCII??
Date: 13 Aug 92 18:39:02 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Distribution: usa
Organization: Vanderbilt

In article <10AUG199211270515@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov>,
inthalw@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (Magnus) wrote:
> 
> I just heard a rumor (though I can't remember where) that due to the ROM 
> chips in an LCII, you *must* run system 7+. Is this true or am I just 
> gullible and paranoid? I'm thinking of getting an LCII and this will influence
> my decision.  


		Well, you needn't be afraid -- for two reasons.  The first is that the
LCII ships with System 7.0.1 & Tuner already installed (at least, mine was)
-- so you don't have to go digging for it.  The second reason is that yes,
it will run with 6.07. or 6.0.8 -- although I personally recommend 6.0.8. 
Also, do *not* try to use 6.0.5, because the machine won't take it (it's
that ROM thing you were talking about).  So buy the computer (go for the
4/80+512 model).


MCG>
Who exists?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: kaneda@loki.stanford.edu
Subject: Re: SuperBoomerang + CE Toolbox conflict
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Organization: DSG, Stanford University
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 08:53:59 GMT

In article <1992Aug16.064313.9874@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> jowens@cory.Berkeley.EDU (John Owens) writes:

   When I try to turn on SuperBoomerang 3.0.2 in Startup Manager, I get this
   message: 
   "Sorry, you can't turn on that INIT, because the links to it conflict about
   'CE Toolbox'. "

   I don't even know what the CE Toolbox is much less how to fix the problem.
   I like SuperBoomerang when it used to run before I got version 3. Any
   suggestions or explanations?

John,

Do you have CEToolbox in your system folder?
SuperBoomerang 3.0 is a part of Now Utilities which includes CEToolbox.
S-Bmrg 3.0 DOES require CEToolbox to run. If you don't have CET-box, 
StartUp Manager would not activate it because SUMgr has the link such that
you cannot use S-Bmrg without CET-box.

If you use the installer of that software, it installs CET-box automatically.

Yushi
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.misc:14707 comp.sys.mac:199
From: lhermens@luke.eecs.wsu.edu (Leonard Hermens - CS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What's the real measure of the standard screen?
Date: 12 Aug 92 15:34:12 GMT
Organization: Washington State University!

In article <BsuoIt.C41@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> cliu@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (chang hsu liu) writes:
>
>Could someone explain to me why the box I created with 640*480 in Illustrator
>printed out a box that's smaller than the Mac screen? Mac screen is supposed
>to be 640pts * 480pts, and Adobe Illustrator is supposed to be accurate, isn't
       ^^^^^    ^^^^^^
   I assume you mean pixels, not points...?
From: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
Date: 18 Aug 92 05:17:28 GMT
Reply-To: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
Organization: Peirce Software
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.5v4


In article <1992Aug15.011845.13915@unlv.edu> (comp.sys.mac.misc), edcrwfrd@unlv.edu (Edward Crawford) writes:
> ---
> >Then again, making products obsolete within a year and halving the
> price in
> >the first six months isn't the way to do it either.
> >
> >I know I moaned about this a week ago, but I'm not the only person
> fed up
> >with being sold a brand new machine which is in the shops at half the
> price
> >two months later, and discontinued shortly after that.
> 
> There will *ALWAYS* be *someone* who purchases something, only to
> find out it's discontinued not too long after that purchase unless
> a company puts a product line into production forever.

As an owner of a Q900, I'm happy that Apple came out with it when
they did and didn't wait for the faster parts needed for the Q950.

So the Q950 is out now.  Does that make my Q900 any slower?  Nope.
It's still a very fast Macintosh and I'm very happy with it.  I recently
upgraded it with even more RAM and I'll probably buy a faster, bigger
Hard disk in the next 12 months to keep it growing.  In a few years I will
again buy the top of the line Mac (hopefully a very fast PowerPC based Mac).  

Computer models are a very fast moving target.  There will *always*
be a faster model out real-soon-now.  So jump in, grab what's available
TODAY, and get ready to do it again in X months (where X is different
for every one).

I personally use a Mac to do development work daily, i.e. it's easy
to justify buying a faster Mac fairly often.  I was using a Mac IIci
for quite some time (I bought a cache card as a midlife kicker). 
I skipped the Mac IIfx and waited around for the Quadra.  I'll probably
skip the next faster Mac (not counting the 950) and go for a PowerPC
late in 93 (or so).

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From: werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu (Werner Uhrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: only of interest to PowerBook users (or friends with such)
Date: 22 Aug 1992 14:37:50 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Reply-To: werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu (Werner Uhrig)
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 06:12:47 PDT
From: lza@ulysses.caltech.edu (Lawrence Anthony)
To: macgifts@rascal.ics.utexas.edu
Subject: pb-battery-voltage.hqx (Volts) version 1.1.1

attn: archive moderator

re: pb-battery-voltage.hqx (Volts) version 1.1.1

enclosed please find the latest version of Volts.  the present
version was released to correct difficulties that some users had
in running Volts under MultiFinder and/or System 7's Finder.
the problem manifested itself in an inability to switch from
Volts to the Finder or any other application or desk accessory
(i.e., an inability to run Volts in the background).  if you
have an older (version 1.1) copy in your archives, please
replace it with the enclosed contents.

Volts is a mini-application which displays a digital readout of
the battery voltage (and other status information) of one's
Macintosh PowerBook or Portable.  it also provides (indirectly)
a rough estimate of the amount of battery life remaining.

the application and a manual (Microsoft Word format) are in
a binhqxed self-extracting archive.

thanks in advance.

lawrence anthony
lza@ulysses.caltech.edu

	[ expect the file to appear in the FTP archives shortly...]
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.misc:14989 comp.sys.mac.system:11053
From: mis_student@mentorg.com (Arjan van der Valk)
Subject: PacerForum
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 11:14:17 GMT
Organization: Mentor Graphics (Netherlands) B.V.
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc

Hi, I have a demo copy of PacerForum (Bulletin Board) and I try to evaluate
the program.
It looks OK, but I still wonder if it's a useful product!
Can someone mail/post me their experience with this tool?
(And how about Inforum?)

Thanks,
     
Arjan! 

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From: kellogg@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Lars Kellogg-Stedman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Information on: The IIvi, IIvx, and Performa 600
Keywords: performa new macintosh
Date: 12 Aug 92 23:35:45 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Doctor Teeth and The Electric Mayhem

Beyond the short posting in c.s.m.a, I haven't seen any information on the
new Macs.  I'm about to purchase a IIsi - are any of the new Macs similar
in price/performance?  The Performa 600 is listed as a 32mhz, 68030 machine
without an FPU.  Will that run about the same price?

Alternately, if you could just point to towards an online source for the
information (I'm going to check ftp.apple.com for a press release), I'd
appreciate it.

I'm sure these questions will be legion before long; I will post a summary
of any information I receive.

Many thanks!
--
Lars Kellogg-Stedman                 | "Someday we'll find it,
kellogg@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu |  The Rainbow Connection;
                                     |  The Lovers, the Dreamers, and Me!"
From: maynard@esther.msc.cornell.edu (Maynard J. Handley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Macs cost too much (NOT!)
Date: 18 Aug 92 05:43:15 GMT
Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center


>PC Connection charges $5 shipping per order.
>
>MacConnection charges $3 shipping per order.
>
>If you order mail-order once a month, that's $24 a year :-)

And one wonders why this is so. My guess is that PC owners are rather more
likely to ship stuff back, with consequent headaches for *Connection,
because the stuff doesn't work on their systems, or sucks or whatever.

Maynard Handley
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: darragh@maths.tcd.ie (Darragh J. Delany)
Subject: Re: Accounting program for printer use
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 14:36:10 GMT

stevens@horta.rice.edu (Richard Stevens) writes:

>We have a problem with an expensive color laser printer that is
>often used for inappropriate applications. 
>Does anyone know of software that can identify users and keep an
>account of jobs sent into the print queue???
>Thanks,
>Richard
>please e-mail responses

We also have a similar problem and I imagine others do as well
so could we have a posting summarising responses.

-- 
Dj.

ESS students don't have plans, silly 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc