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From: HarriRehnberg@salient.com (Salient Software)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Autodoubler & other transparent compression progs
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 92 15:29:39 PST
Organization: Fifth Generation Systems
Reply-To: HarriRehnberg@salient.com (Salient Software)
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.5v3


In article <Ts-=5+B@engin.umich.edu> (comp.sys.mac.apps), needje@msen.com (Jeffrey L. Needleman) writes:
> In article <1992Oct31.055032.3074@netcom.com> Leonard Rosenthol,
> leonardr@netcom.com writes:
...
> As I see it, Salient scored a coup on other compression products by
> releasing AutoDoubler 1.0 back in January. The program really was
> bug-ridden; Salient went through five versions in the first month.
> Clearly, in my opinion, it was released too early. But equally clearly,
> by releasing it "too soon" Salient got the bucks and the support of those
> who might ordinarily have bought MDS or SpaceSaver instead had they been
> available at the same time.
...
I agree. In retrospect, AutoDoubler 1.0 could have benefited from
another month of beta testing. But at the time, the bug reports from
our 100+ beta testers had stopped coming in. So we decided to ship
in January.

Although most of the 'bugs' were really INIT conflicts, that's no
excuse for not finding them before shipping. I think the real problem
is that there are just too many INITs to adequately cover with a few
hundred beta testers.

What's the solution? I honestly don't know.

Sincerely,
terry morse
Compression Products
Fifth Generation Systems
(former Salient President)


for all FGS products FIFTHGEN@aol.com
for AutoDoubler & DiskDoubler techsupport@salient.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: truher@netcom.com (Joel Burke Truher)
Subject: TOPIC text retrieval database
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 05:33:29 GMT


Does anyone have any anecdotes about this text retrieval database
system?  Specifically, does anybody use it with Calera's Wordscan?

I'll summarize if there are several e-mail responses . . .

Joel
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: geno@arco.com
Subject: Re: Experience with SoftPC, MacPlus, System 7?
Organization: ARCO Oil & Gas Co. 
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 02:11:59 GMT

In article <goodill_eric-101192144018@ericg.cpd.tandem.com>
goodill_eric@tandem.com (Eric Goodill) writes:
>Hi,
>
>My mom is considering buying a MacPlus.  It has 4 MB and a 20 MB hard disk.
> Her office uses mostly PC programs, so she wondered if SoftPC could soft
>her problem of compatability with PC programs while still using a Mac for
>her personal stuff.  Any advice as to whether this will work well (aside
>from slow)?
>
>Cheers, Eric
>Eric Goodill, goodill_eric@tandem.com, Tandem Computers, Cupertino, Calif.
>
Eric,
I wouldn't highly recommend it.  First of all, SoftPC will take up some of your
MAC HD, as a DOS partition, the minimum is 5 MB, but 10 MB is more comfortable,
depending on what PC applications she will use.  Perhaps if you add another
external hard drive to increase disk capacity.   Your System 7 System file will
take up nearly half of your RAM, leaving you with only about 2 MB of RAM to
use.  If your mom is going to use applications such as Word and Excel, the
machine's RAM will be used up.  She probably won't have the disk space to load
the System files, Word, Excel (or other typical OA applications) and a 10 MB
SoftPC partition on that 20 MB HD.

Perhaps with a 40+ MB extra external HD, System 6.0.7 (w/System 7.0 print
drivers), the machine may perform okay.
From: mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Mac vs. IBM & quality of writing--Ref?
Date: 10 Nov 92 21:49:04 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Distribution: comp.sys.mac.apps

In article <SRO.92Nov9040421@media-lab.media.mit.edu>, sro@media.mit.edu
(Shawn O'Donnell) wrote:
> 
> I heard of a study a couple of years ago--at the University of Delaware,
> I think--according to which students who used (DOS) IBM PCs wrote better
> papers than students who used a Macintosh.  (The students using the Mac
> allegedly spent all their time fiddling with fonts and formatting instead
> of worrying about what they were saying.  Since it was so hard to do
> formatting on old DOS PCs, the students using the IBMs spent all their
> time thinking about the writing assignment.  Or so the story goes.)
> 
> Does anyone know of a reference for this study?  
> 
> And I know I read about it recently... I can't remember where, though.
> Maybe in a Boston Computer Society publication?  BCS Update?  In don't
> know.
> 
> Any pointers?

It wasn't a study.  It was the report of one teacher.  Nothing ever came of
it.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: c150-ei@po.berkeley.edu (Randall Gee)
Subject: Flowchart program wanted
Organization: University of California, at Berkeley
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 05:35:11 GMT

I am looking for a program that will allow me to easily create flowcharts,
finite state machine (ASM) diagrams, orginazational charts, or stuff like
that easily.  I have found that standard drawing programs aren't all that
well suited for it, for I can't seem to make boxes with text inside them
in one step.  Editing text frequently requires resizing its associated box,
and that's a pain.  Also, lines and arrows aren't associated with boxes, so
moving a box around involves a lot of redrawing.  Can anyone help me out?

Replies through E-mail please.

-- Randall M! Gee
(c150-ei@po.berkeley.edu)
From: schatz@chaos.utexas.edu (Mike Schatz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: ThoughtPattern 2.0 upgrade?
Date: 10 Nov 92 14:28:20 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, University of Texas at Austin

Has anyone obtained the upgrade to ThoughtPattern 2.0 (personal organizer
software)?  I've sent e-mail to Bananafish and haven't received any response.

Mike

schatz@chaos.utexas.edu
From: mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: SpaceSaver or AutoDoubler?
Date: 5 Nov 92 23:00:45 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps

In article <1992Nov4.193358.3121@netcom.com>, leonardr@netcom.com (Leonard
Rosenthol) wrote:
> 
> In article <1992Nov4.090914.1@tesla.njit.edu> erh0362@tesla.njit.edu (Elliotte Rusty Harold) writes:

> >I don't use System 7 so labels aren't an option, and 
> >even if I did they're still too clumsy.  
> >
> 	I have to disagree that labels are clumsy - they work quite nicely for
> many users as a way to specify what files to compress and/or never compress.
> However, they are not for everybody.

For what its worth, what I do is append a bullet (Option 8) to files and
folders I want always compressed, and an asterisk (shift 8) to files and
folders I want never to be compressed.  However, there are certain files
and folders whose names I can't change without having to change other
stuff.  For those, I use labels--I even changed the names of the lables to
"Always Compress" and "Never Compress."

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: martin@DMI.USherb.CA (Jean-francois Martin)
Subject: PageMaker 4.2a upgrade and lots of problems!!!!!!!!!e
Organization: Universite de Sherbrooke -- Dept. d'Informatique
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 19:08:34 GMT

By the the way, anybody with experience in printing on a DeskWriter 
with PageMaker 4.2 (documents with lots of grayscale images, quickdraw, eps)?
I'm having problems with the printing of fonts (they look very squeezed) and
some image don't print at all. PLEASE HELP!!!!


JF Martin

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: gbartels@dfv.rwth-aachen.de (Gordon Bartels)
Subject: Probs with Ragtime 3.2 & PersLW LS
Keywords: Ragtime 3.2 & Personal LW LS
Organization: Communication Networks
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 15:31:57 GMT

A few days ago I purchased the Ragtime 3.x -> 3.2 update and installed
it on a MAC LC with System 7.0.0 an a Personal Laserwriter LS.
After that it was impossible to print lines thinner than 1 pt, and 
all Bitmaps printed with 75 dpi. Alltogether Ragtime 3.2 behaved like
Ragtime 3.1 without the switch "highest printer resolution for graphics" in the 
page-setup dialog marked. (Possibly the names of the menus and/or switches
differ a little from my tries, but my version of Ragtime 3.1/3.2 is 
german.)

Does anyone know how to get the 300 dpi pictures and 0.25 pt lines back ??

Gordon

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: news@massey.ac.nz (USENET News System)
Subject: Re: Organisers/Calenders
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: SMIS, Massey University
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 03:48:23 GMT

Stephen Marshall <marshall@kauri.vuw.ac.nz> wrote:
> 
> Hi, I have been asked to recommend organiser/calender software to
> colleagues here at the university. We are after something that provides a
> daily diary and calender, with reminding functions, even possibly address
> book and phone lists. What are people using and what do you recommend?
> Commercial or PD would be fine, also pointers to any reviews would be

Try Remember?, available on most archives.  It's a DA/extension combo which
performs the diary, calendar and reminder functions.

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SMIS, Massey University      Fax:   +64+6-350-5611
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From: truher@netcom.com (Joel Burke Truher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Application to share SCSI devices over LocalTALK?
Date: 12 Nov 92 05:41:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.1992Nov12.054101.28760
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)


Does anyone know of an application (similar to ShadowLAN)
which allows one user to use the SCSI device (e.g. scanner)
attached to another user's Mac?

Thanks very much.

Joel
From: e5tx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject:  Points connecting program?
Date: 9 Nov 92 00:02:08 EST
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cornell University

I am working on a design project and needed a graphing program that can
sketch the shape of a 3 -dimensional wing surface of an aircraft by given  many
sets of X , y , and z coordinates and connnceted all these data points and be
able to show the shape from given data.

does anyone knows about this program  ?

thanks
From: temple@ucbeh.san.uc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: GIF to PICT/QT BATCH conversion
Date: 11 Nov 92 22:43:52 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Univ. of Cincinnati

Anybody know of any batch GIF to PICT (preferrably with QuickTime 
compression as an option) programs???

I have megs and megs of GIFs. I'd ultimately like to compress them using 
QuickTime JPEG (I've done this --- the savings can be quite high). 
However, doing this one-by-one is slow and time consuming. 

I'd like to be able to do it by batch (drag-and-drop would be nice 
under sys 7).

I have the QT Batch compressor (version 1.00), but it requires that 
the files be PICTs first; I need something that can work with GIFs as 
well, in batch.

E-mail direct and I'll summarize the responses and post them.

				Jon Temple
				TEMPLE@UCBEH.SAN.UC.EDU
				Dept. of Psychology
				University of Cincinnati
From: clarke.stevens@gtri.gatech.edu (Clarke Stevens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: File Splitter
Date: 12 Nov 92 22:19:14 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: GTRI/AERO

Does anyone know of a PD/ShareWare program that will split a large file up
to be stored on floppies?  The easier to do, the better.  I need to back up
a very large file (~3 MB) and my only backup resource is a 3.5" floppy disk
drive.

I know of some commercial backup packages that can do this, but I would
rather support the ShareWare industry.  Compression would be nice, too, but
is not necessary.  The people who use this will be Mac novices, so it
should be very easy to use.

Thanks in advance,
Clarke

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From: werner@cs.utexas.edu (Werner Uhrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: CopyDoubler made GateKeeper flip (maybe)
Date: 6 Nov 1992 19:14:19 -0600
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: dimebox.cs.utexas.edu


 scot@jlc.mv.com (Scot Salmon) writes:
| I'm wondering if anyone else had this problem...I've had GateKeeper 1.26 on
| my IIci for a while now, and it's been pretty quiet.  However, after I installed
| the CopyDoubler demo control panel, it flipped.  When I booted up it gave me
| a dozen warnings (it stopped giving me individual dialogs after 3 and just said
| "For purposes of brevity" that the rest of the errors could be found in the
| log).  They were all very similar and said something like "Extension X 
| violated the Res(Self) privilege" by modifying one of its INIT codes.  Later,
| I copied a large (18 meg) folder using CopyDoubler and every application
| gave GateKeeper trouble - after the copy was done, GateKeeper said that all
| these files had violated some privilege by changing their type from " " to
| "APPL" (which actually makes some sense).

	this is an incompatibility between CD and GK which (has been related to
	me) the author(s) of CD is/are refusing to address.  To the best of my
	knowledge, GateKeeper's author Chris Johnson has been interested and
	willing to cooperate with CD's authors to resolve the issues (and I have
	myself been in the loop, trying to see this happen) but, apparently, the
	CD authors take the attitude that they do not need to bother making any
	efforts on their part to accomodate "unimportant fringe products"... 
	I think they are dead wrong and that (and other things I have noticed
	about their products) had me conclude that AD/CD/DD is software to be
	avoided....

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  werner@cs.utexas.edu |  ..!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!werner | werner@UTXVM.bitnet

              "Free Advice and Opinions -- Refunds Available"
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 00:59:43 EST
From: Jeff Campbell <JSC115@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Freedom of the Press Light

Hello.  I own a Apple LaserWriter LS (quickdraw) printer and I heard that
Freedom of the Press Light would simulate greyscale (eg tiff and gif) but
the documentation only mentions EPS.  Could someone who owns it or has
experience using it help me out?  How does it work? (Does it simply have
a replacement printer driver which converts postscript information to
quickdraw or do you have to run a program to convert the file you want to
print and then print it?)

Thanks for all of your help.

Jeff (JSC115 @ PSUVM.bitnet or PSUVM.psu.edu)
From: canfield_rw@lrc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: bbs system
Date: 12 Nov 92 20:24:04 EDT
Organization: Lenoir-Rhyne College, Hickory, NC

I am looking for a bbs that maybe availible for the mac.  It would be for the 
school news paper office so that they can upload and download articals as well
as use a mail system.  If anyone knows of a product like this please e-mail or
post it here.  It could be commercial if needed.  Any help would be greatly
appreciated.  
	Thanks,
	  Raymond.

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From: ivg@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Char problem with Excel
Date: 4 Nov 92 17:15:57 EST
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cornell University

Subject:
From: brasen@ui.org (Steve Brasen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Powerpoint 3.0
Date: 10 Nov 92 20:20:40 GMT
Organization: UNIX International  Parsippany, NJ

Does anyone know what advantages Powerpoint 3.0 has over 2.1?

I'm a big Powerpoint user.  Is the upgrade worth it?

Thanks in advance,
--
Steve Brasen
brasen@ui.org
Systems Administrator 
UNIX International

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From: rbatt@adam.adelaide.edu.au (Richard Batt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: PERT / Gantt / CPM / project apps?
Date: 5 Nov 1992 23:29:24 GMT
Organization: University of Adelaide, South Australia
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: adam.adelaide.edu.au
Originator: rbatt@adam.adelaide.edu.au


Hi!

I would be interested in any information or recommendations that people
have for Mac applications for Pert or Gantt charts, CPM or project
management software (both shareware and commercial).

I will summarize to the net if others are also interested in this information.
Thanks for you help.

cheers, Richard

rbatt@adam.adelaide.edu.au
University of Adelaide, South Australia
From: moj@risken.vd.volvo.se (Mats-Olof Sander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: FinderEvents from Excel?
Date: 12 Nov 92 12:39:25 GMT

Is it possible to execute 'finderevents' from an Excel macro in a
similar way that the FinderEvents XCMD for HyperCard does?

Any Advice Appreciated,
Mats-Olof (moj@risken.vd.volvo.se)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: jack@umbio.med.miami.edu (Jack Herrington)
Subject: Video controller request...
Organization: University Of Miami, Biomedical Computing
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 15:09:35 GMT

I need to know if there is any vendor out there that has a VCR controller
for the Macinotsh that can be used with Adobe Premier (or any of the 
multi-media editing packages).  BTW, any good reccomendations on a multi-
media editing program??

Thankx in advance.

-Jack
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Jon Gotow <gotow@ansoft.com>
Subject: Re: XWindows on the Mac???
X-Xxdate: Tue, 10 Nov 92 03:59:20 GMT
Organization: Ansoft Corporation
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 04:01:56 GMT

In article <mike.721438673@keckiris> Michael L. Quillin, mike@rice.edu
writes:
>MacX will run over a SLIP line, but you need a fast modem on both ends or
>its not worth it.

I run eXodus both at work over ethernet and at home over a Telebit T1600
modem (9600 baud carrier + compression) running SLIP.  eXodus is very
good with the ethernet connection (ok, it's acceptable over ethernet -
it's still no match for a good workstation), but it absolutely crawls
over the SLIP connection.  Even simple text editing in an xterm is slower
than I can work with for any prolonged period.  I usually run NCSA telnet
to do editing and compiling, and just use X to test the results.  I
imagine MacX's performance will be very similar (I've actually heard that
eXodus is faster).

BTW, does anyone have a cslip server running on SunOS 4.1.1?  I can only
find sources for it for 4.0.
___________________________________________________________________
Jon Gotow            |   "Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump;
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From: efranqui@aludra.usc.edu (Eduardo Franqui Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Biorhythem Program?
Date: 11 Nov 1992 11:46:10 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu


Does anyone know where I can get a Biorhythem program for my Mac?  Or perhaps
some one who can program one if all else fails.  Thank-you.  Please e-mail me
directly.

-Eddy
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: fisher@ncselxsi.uucp (Chuck Fisher)
Subject: Re: PowerPoint latest version?
Organization: National Computer Systems, San Jose, CA  95131
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 19:06:03 GMT

In article <76510001@hpsgl1.sgp.hp.com> jtang@hpsgl1.sgp.hp.com (Jerry TANG) writes:
>Yes.
>
>Jerry Tang.

 Version 3.0.  Received mine on Monday.

Chuck
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: martinn@mksol.dseg.ti.com (niels r martin)
Subject: HP Deskjet vs. Deskwriter
Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 18:01:32 GMT

Can anyone tell me if there is a way to print to the Deksjet (using the Desk-
writer driver?), or are there hardware differences.  Specifically, I need to
print from a PB160 and/or a Classic.

I suppose that the Grappler might work, but a software fix would be preferred.

Thanks,

Niels
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From: tdboyce@cco.caltech.edu (Tom Boyce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: best software combo for research papers?
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Date: 9 Nov 1992 21:51:50 GMT
Organization: caltech
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 131.215.139.52

I am looking at software combinations for doing long research papers. What
I need is something that can handle footnotes, endnotes, bibliography,
tables (and auto table numbering), no equations, etc. Possible combinations
I am considering are:

FrameMaker
MS Word 5 + Endnote
WordPerfect + Endnote
Nisus + ?
TeX (NOT)

Any comments pro or con on these products? any alternatives I should
consider? 
Also, I am looking for something in software that can replace the usual
collection of notecards that goes with doing research papers. I guess some
sort of simplified database would be appropriate; I could probably hack one
in FileMaker Pro, but is there something already out there? Is endnote
suitable for this sort of thing?


Thanks in advance,

Tom
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps