HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: pg@sanitas.stortek.com (Paul Gilmartin)
Subject: Re: Stuffit Expander only watches disk it's on?
Organization: Storage Technology Corp.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 07:18:14 GMT

Thomas E. DeWeese (deweeset@ptolemy3.rdrc.rpi.edu) wrote:
: 
:   One other little thing.  The Watch Folder is worthless for my useage.  I 
: normally download files with a modem, thus it takes a significant amount of
: time to down load the files.  DownLine (which unfortunately is cripled by not
: decompressing compactor archives :( ) also has a watch folder operation but 
: unlike Stuffit Expander it will wait until the file is compleatly down 
: loaded before it tries to decompress it.  Obviously Stuffit Expander has 
: a hard time uncompressing 1/3 of a file.  If you could modify Stuffit 
: Expander to make sure the file is done being written before you try to 
: decompress it, I would consider trying it again.  It would be nice to 
: have one Application that undoes everything.

Even better would be behavior like that of GifWatcher, which paces itself
so it never outruns the DL program.  It decompresses the 1/3 it's got,
then the next 1/3 when it arrives, and finishes when the final 1/3 gets
there.  What a concept!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Wanted: Function key emulator
From: tnakada@eis.calstate.edu (Tom Nakada)
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 04:30:53 GMT
Organization: Calif State Univ/Electronic Information Services

umlippen@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Rick Lippens) writes:
> 
> Just wondering if anyone knows if there is a little utility that emulated
> the IBM function keys (F1 .. F10) on an 88-key keyboard for the Mac.
> I can't seem to use any applications in SoftPC that need the function keys...
> is there a way of mapping other keys to be those function keys (like Apple-8
> mapped to F8  etc.) ?
> 
> Curious...
> 
> 
> Rick
> -- 

It *is* in an obscure place in the SoftPC manual... but it does say that
you can use the Command Key with the number keys on the Numeric Keypad to
emulate function keys 1-10...

Happy New Year!

Tom
tnakada@eis.calstate.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: dwsmith@bilbo.encore.com (Dwight Smith)
Subject: WANTED: Waffle Iron or info where I can get it
Organization: Encore Computer Corp.
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 18:26:55 GMT
Keywords: waffle iron

Anybody know where I can get waffle iron? I tried the stanford net, but they
must have renamed it something else. I think it's shareware. Help if you can.

Thanks,
Dwight

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: tthiel@cs.uiuc.edu (Terry Thiel)
Subject: Re: Word 5.0 --> 5.1 Upgrade
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:40:05 GMT

craigw@fnal.fnal.gov (Craig Williams) writes:
>In article <dchou.724887851@husc.harvard.edu>, dchou@husc11.harvard.edu
>(David Chou) wrote:
>> Hello.  Sorry if this is an FAQ, but I don't normally read this group
>> very often.  This time, I'm looking for some net-wisdom; quite simply,
>> I'm currently using Word 5.0, and would like to know how I could upgrade
>> to 5.1, how much it would cost, etc.  E-mail responses will be much 
>> appreciated.  Thank you very much.
>Well assuming you purchased it from Microsoft you will usually receive an
>update notice from them. If not, call 'em. What do you want us to do for
>you, mail it to you?!

What a dick!  Anyway I have a registered copy of Word as does my wife and 
neither of us got upgrade notices.  Nor did we receive any for the 20+ copies
we have at work.
-Terry
From: dws@ssec.wisc.edu (DaviD W. Sanderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: possible to save ASCII postscript from Quark?
Date: 3 Jan 93 20:16:40 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: UW-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center

Is it possible to save something from Quark in ASCII encapsulated
postscript form?  I've been trying to help someone save an image from
Quark in encapsulated postscript format, and all he can get is a
postscript file with a binary header and trailer, with all the newlines
in the postscript text removed.  Since the newlines in the postscript
text are all gone, the postscript text has the tokens at the end of
what would have been lines 'glued' to the tokens at the beginning of
what would have been following lines.  This makes the postscript text
useless.

If there isn't a way to save the figure as ASCII EPS, does anyone have
a program which can read the Quark binary EPS format and produce
regular ASCII EPS?  I imagine the binary header and trailer record
where the newlines should be....

DaviD W. Sanderson (dws@ssec.wisc.edu)
From: nagata@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp (Mark Nagata)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Application menu via keyboard
Date: 4 Jan 93 03:43:29 GMT
Organization: Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto, Japan.

Sure.  There are two categories of such utilities:

(1)  Switch to a particular application via keyboard.

Kerry Clendinning's EasyKEYS Control Panel
(info-mac/cp/easy-keys-15.hqx; 92K)

You assign one separate hotkey for launching/switchingTo
each one application/DA.   I set cmd-ctrl-T for NCSATelnet,
cmd-ctrl-E for ResEdit, cmd-ctrl-R for Rolodesk, etc.

I think CE Software's QuickKeys offers a similar capability.

Matt Mora's GoTo FKEY (freeware)
info-mac/fkey/goto-14.hqx; 7K

You hit the FKEY, then a dialog box appears, listing the 
running applications.  You type the first characters of 
the name of application you want to switch to, and hit Return.

There are other keyboard launchers that offer similar things,
including CE Software's DTLaunch (part of DiskTop package),
Matt Mora's another freeware LaunchApplication (info-mac/
util/launch-applications.hqx; 40K)


(2)  Hotkey that switches you to the "next" application.

Jeremy Roussak's Apollo 1.0 (shareware)
info-mac/ex/apollo-10.hqx; 372K

One hotkey switches to the alphabetically-next running
application.
Another hotkey switches to that application, too, but
after 'Hide'ing the current application.
Apollo has a LOT more features than just the switcher hotkey.
Highly recommended.


David Lamkins' PwrSwitcher Control Panel (freeware)
info-mac/cp/power-switcher-10.hqx; 40K

One hotkey switches to the next application in the order
the apps had been launched.
Another hotkey switches to the _previous_ application in
that order.
Yet another hotkey "sets" the current application as "marked",
and another hotkey toggles back-and-forth directly,
between the current app and the "marked" app, afterwards.
(This last feature is a VERY handy one when you want to go 
 back-and-forth between two particular apps, while you are
 running lots of apps.)


There are several other similar utilities, but these two
are the best ones, as far as I know.

Cheers,

Mark
--
Mark Nagata
nagata@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: vbhatt@cs.cornell.edu (Vivek Bhatt)
Subject: Editing UNIX generated Postscript files
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 03:04:49 GMT

Hi,

I am not sure about which newsgroup to post this query to and this seemed the closest.

I have some postscript files generated by MATLAB on a Sun station. They are both in the ps and EPSF format. Is there a way I can edit these graphically (e.g. add extra stuff to the pictures) on Canvas etc.

The problem is that there is no pict resource in the Unix files and somehow the Mac does not like it.

Thanks for any pointers.

--Vivek
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: jwn2@qualcomm.com (John Noerenberg)
Subject: Re: QM vs Eudora/POP (was Re: QM vs MS Mail)
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 01:27:50 GMT

In article <8263@lib.tmc.edu>, drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David
Gutierrez) wrote:
> 
> The new version (3.0) of Farallon's PhoneNetTalk (now called PhoneNet PC)
> supposedly makes it easier to use other protocols along with AppleTalk. I
> haven't read through all the materials yet - I want to make it live with
> TCP/IP, probably the one from FTP.
> 
PC-Eudora is written to run with FTP's stack.  We're thinking about WinSock
compliance.  Does anybody not want that?  (Who said this was a Mac group?
:-))

john noerenberg
jwn2@qualcomm.com
noerenberg.j (Applelink)
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failed, your life's plans that have all ended in despair.  Like a man long
prepared, like a man of courage, bid her farewell, the Alexandria that
leaves you.
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From: hcs+@cs.cmu.edu (Henry C Schmitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Geneology (family tree) applications for Macintosh
Summary: Get Personal Ancestral Filer
Keywords: Geneology
Date: 23 Dec 92 14:23:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.Bzpunu.JHx.1
Organization: Engineering Design Research Center, Carnegie Mellon


	Unless you're doing major geneological research, I recommend
getting Personal Ancestral Filer from the Church of the Latter Day
Saints (Mormons).  As I'm at work, I don't have details but as I
recall it was <$100.  When I was asking around, I was told this was
the best for smaller databases (i.e. <3-4K entries).  If you get
larger, then get Reunion as recommended in the other reply to your
message.

	I've currently got 1200+ entries in my database.  The only
complaint I've had is that it doesn't allow for entry of unmarried
couples having children.  My solution has been to make an entry in the
notes about the "marriage."  No troubles with compatibility, it even
runs under A/UX!

	Oh, one other thing, if you do order from the Mormons don't
use your credit card.  They charge it as a Cash Advance rather than a
Purchase.  Most cards charge immediate interest for advances; mine
told me there was nothing they could do about it.
-- 
Henry C. Schmitt
Home: 2863 Beechwood Blvd.,Pittsburgh, PA 15217-3114 (412) 421-8482
Work: 2212 Hamburg Hall,5000 Forbes Ave,Pittsburgh, PA 15213 (412) 268-2257
E-Mail: InterNet: hcs@cmu.edu CIS: 72275,1456 AppleLink, AOL, GEnie: H.Schmitt
From: mls@panix.com (Michael Siemon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Communicating a Mac with an IBM Mainframe System
Summary: apologies in advance ...
Date: 3 Jan 93 23:42:15 GMT
Organization: Panix Public Access Internet & Unix, NYC

orestes appel (oappel@moose.cs.indiana.edu) wrote:

> 	I do need to communicate my Macintosh with an IBM system

and I find it impossible to suppress the picture of an appropriately
garbed priest feeding a little Mac to a big blue mainframe that is
kneeling at the altar rail with mouth agape ...
-- 
Michael L. Siemon	"We honour founders of these starving cities
mls@panix.com		 Whose honour is the image of our sorrow ...
			 They built by rivers and at night the water
			 Running past the windows comforted their sorrow."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: cve@ped.kun.nl
Subject: plan-board software
Reply-To: cve@ped.kun.nl
Organization: KUN
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 09:29:35 GMT

Does anyone know of a program for the Mac that enables/facilitates:
- planning course dates and times for curricula
- intelligently compose a scheme for the same, using information on
	lecturers, rooms, different 'types' of students, with different
	schedules etc.

We do this by hand now, could be much easier I think.

Thanks a lot, Grretings, Kees van Eekelen, University of Nijmegen.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: gpb@gpb-mac (greg berryman )
Subject: Re: Where can I find Apple File Exchange?
Organization: SPS
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 01:45:35 GMT

cw21219@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Crying Freeman) writes:
: Is there a site where I can get Apple File Exchange?
: 
: I'm assuming this is freeware?
: -- 
Try ftp.apple.com if you can't find a set of system disks.

It is as free as the operating system on your Mac since it comes with it.

Greg.

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Motorola Austin, Texas, USA *   \/   *     First, be true to yourself.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: nilesinc@well.sf.ca.us (Avi Rappoport)
Subject: Re: bibliographic database apps with Word 5.0?
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Distribution: comp
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:36:41 GMT


I have sent email about EndNote: anyone else interested should contact me
directly so we don't take up net bandwidth.


-- 
--  Help me justify my online bills: ask me about EndNote!               --
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: monitn@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Nicholas Monitto)
Subject: Re: Need Word Proc. with Zoom-in...
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 04:24:13 GMT

jmacphai@cue.bc.ca (James MacPhail) writes:

>I'm looking for a word processing application that has a zoom-in
>or magnification feature.

>Anyone know of such a beast?

The only thing I can think of is some sort of page-layout program with % views
that can be changed. I understand that may well be overkill, but if there's no
other alternative, it just might work. I believe programs range from Aldus
PageMaker and Quark XPress (on the high end) down to Publish-It on the low end.

Please correct me if I've missed something- I'd be interested if a smaller
product actually supports this kind of feature...

Nick
monitn@rpi.edu

>This is for someone with less than perfect vision. Close-View is
>too crude to be useful for someone that isn't sure what is going
>on (lost dialogs, menu-bar, insertion point, not to mention extra-
>jaggy text) Can see Chicago-12 ok, so dialogs and the menu-bar are
>fine, we just need to expand the view of the document (without 
>increasing the size of the text which would screw up the formatting)

>Thanks for your help.

>James MacPhail  jmacphai@cue.bc.ca  james@mirg2.phy.queensu.ca
From: pg@sanitas.stortek.com (Paul Gilmartin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: what is a .hqx file?
Date: 3 Jan 93 18:05:36 GMT
Organization: Storage Technology Corp.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]

ROUSSEAU PAUL (roussea@server.uwindsor.ca) wrote:
: 
: ".hqx" means that the file has been compressed or coded as a 
: BinHex file. ...
: 
: Remember to send the file from the server to your mac as a
: binary file.  ...

Binary shouldn't be necessary; BinHex is a text format.
From: cole@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Sandra Stewart-Cole)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: McWrite Pro?
Date: 21 Dec 92 18:12:33 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

In <1992Dec20.203703.137143@ultramac.uucp> starsabre@ultramac.uucp (JT August) 
writes:

>My question is, when will McWrite Pro be released?

Don't hold your breath. I guarantee it is a year closer than  it was when I 
first heard a Claris programmer promise it 'Real Soon Now' and 18 months closer
than a Claris hypeflack said it would be out before Word 5.0. 

Bottom line is that like all vaporware, it is a nonexistent object. If you even
bother listening to what the developer tells you, you are giving them too much
credit. The only relevant reliable info on MWPro is that it might be out soon 
and might have some new features and improvements that Claris has mentioned. On
the other hand, it may end up with the same status as Modern Jazz, or Turbo 
Pascal 2.0, or any of a number of other forever-vapor programs.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: bradcox@sitevax.gmu.edu (Dr. Brad Cox)
Subject: Virtual Memory on MacII? Help!
Organization: George Mason Pgm on Social and Organizational Learning
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:47:57 GMT

I just bought a copy of Omnipage Pro (optical character recognition) for my 
MacII (8mB). It immediately crashes with an 'unimplemented trap' message. 
The manual says the cure for this 'feature' is to turn on virtual memory 
in the Memory CDEV, which any MacII user will immediately know is not there.

I remember Connectix released a free doodad a year or so ago to Apple that 
provided, as I recall, software-supported virtual memory on MacIIs. Apple
released the software for free.

I'm virtually certain I saved the software on an archive, but cannot for the 
life of me remember the name. Can you provide the name or recommend a site
I can download a copy from?
-- 
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    Brad Cox bradcox@sitevax.gmu.edu 703 993 1142 work 703 968 8229 home
         George Mason Program on Social and Organizational Learning
From: Alister.Webb@f406.n712.z3.asstdc.oz.au (Alister Webb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Address of SaveAll author
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 23:49:35 +1100

I use and paid the shareware fee for a Control panel called SaveAll version
1.11. There's a small bug in this version when running it with system 7.1. My
last letter to the author Boris Tsikanovsky at P.O. Box 7024 Colorado Springs,
CO 80933-7024 USA came back as Return To Sender (Hi Elvis). 

I know I'm talking miracles here, but is there any other SaveAll user who
knows where he's moved to and/or how I can contact him? Or is there a newer
demo version on the net which might have a more current address?

Your help much appreciated in advance!

AW
From: mixterhp@appstate.edu  (Perry Mixter )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Word 5.1a converter for PM4.2?
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Date: 31 Dec 1992 19:12:54 GMT
Organization: Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: caff.appstate.edu

A friend of mine just got Word 5.1, but says that PageMaker 4.2 wont import
text from Word 5.1 files. I have looked in the archives for such a
converter to no avail. Anyone know of such a beast and where I could find
it? Thanks in advance.

Happy New Year to all.

Perry Mixter                          Director, Office of Cultural Affairs 
Appalachian State University          Boone, North Carolina  28608
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From: brianc@nvr.com (Brian Chapin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Wanted: security prog. for public Mac
Date: 21 Dec 92 23:49:48 GMT
Organization: SmartStuff Software

In article <1992Dec18.093802.1@vms.ocom.okstate.edu>, churchwell@vms.ocom.okstate.edu (Kimberly B. Churchwell) writes:
> 
> Our library staff is looking for a free, shareware, or inexpensive
> commercial security program to use on a publicly-accessible IIci running
> 6.0.7.  (For various reasons, they prefer not to upgrade to 7.x.)  At

I have written a software product called FoolProof - Desktop Security
for the Macintosh.  It was designed and written for schools in the Portland
Meto area.  They were considering At Ease and Kids Desk but were concerned
about loosing the Mac desktop in the trade ( both products provide security
by covering the finder interface with a custom launcher thus providing a
measure of security ). In the interest of computer literacy they felt it was
important not to eliminate the Mac interface.

FoolProof offers several desktop security features.  It is not a full blown
security product.  FoolProof locks the Macintosh desktop, preventing movement
and renaming of files, folders, and applications.  Dragging icons is disabled
and all finder renaming is refused.  Inadvertant trashing is impossible.  
Unauthorized copying either onto or off of the hard disk is impossible.

FoolProof locks control panels, preventing unauthorized changes to settings 
and configuration.

FoolProof can be configured to save only to floppy disks or to direct all
saves to a specified directory on the hard disk.

FoolProof is really a desktop and hard disk control product, not a security
product in the traditional sense.  It has been a hit in the classroom and
other public mac locations. It sets up in a minute and turns on with a single
switch.

If you are interested give me a call ( 503 ) 690-2366 - leave a message,
mail me, or write to: Brian Chapin
																						SmartStuff Software
																						PO Box 82284
																						Portland, OR, 97282

Sorry for the commercial nature of this message but I've seen so many 
about this type of product that I thought people might like to know about
this.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: ljones@utkvx3.utk.edu (Leslie Lamont Jones)
Subject: Re: Application menu via keyboard
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 21:13:00 GMT

In article <C07A8J.H46@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, rmarten@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Randy Martens) writes...
>Is there a program that will allow me to select an application menu item
>using the keyboard keys?
> 
>Randy     rmarten@ccu.umanitoba.ca  wr

PwrSwitcher and Apollo both allow you to switch applications
from the keyboard. Neither will present a list of open
applications, however. PwrSwitcher is the more powerful of
the two as far as keyboard switching. Apollo has many other 
features, however, including an application launching menu,
a window menu, and the ability to set the default 
 sound level and monitor depth for an application, al a 
HandOff II.

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the ability to set monitor depth for an applicatio a la
HandOff II
From: stan@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Stan Twiefel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: At Ease -- File maintenance?
Date: 31 Dec 92 18:18:30 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

yeah.. i'd love to run AtEase in my labs here on campus.. we have a total
of about 100 macs that I've currently taken care of by hiding all the folders
and running somethine like OnCue or Apollo to allow users to launch apps from.
Users may still double-click on a document from their disk to launch the app,
also.  This unfortunately limits us to running sys 6.0.x because an app
in a hidden folder under system 7 is for all practical purposes not there.
You cannot launch it by double-clicking on a document.  I like what AtEase
does to prevent users from saving files on our hard drives, and limiting
access to control panels... but we need to allow users access to their disks.
Basically, AtEase has oversimplified the mess too much.  Now.. if it would
not completely replace the finder, but instead just remove the hard drive icon
and prevent user modifications to the hard drive (saving and deleting stuff),
i'd buy 100 copies in a minute!  All the graphical stuff they did in AtEase
is nice, i guess, but it's not an entirely difficult concept.  all they need
is a standard file window (possibly not closable :) which the admin could
, with a password, drag aliases of apps into.  For that matter, it doesn't
even need to be in a window.. placing them on the desktop would be fine.
Just as long as they couldn't be trashed... so.. anybody at Apple (or anywhere
else...) want to write an AtEase II -- for us lab people????
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