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From: n7949188@henson.cc.wwu.edu (John Hatten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: USPS zipcode service, Mac compatible?
Summary: How do I convert files so the USPS can read for zipcode verifying?
Keywords: USPS zipcode mail postal compatibility file conversion
Date: 8 Oct 92 06:40:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: henson.1992Oct8.064048.22012
Organization: Western Washington University


 I`m looking for info on how to convert my Mac files to a format that the US
Postal Service can read and write onto.  I`ve read in several places that it
can be done, but the details have been missing. I know it needs to be a text
file, but there are requirements for field length, which I haven`t figured
out how to create on any of the software I have available to me.
 This seems like a common enough problem to make it into an FAQ list, but
maybe not? Would a general posting be appropriate?
 Any help would be much appreciated!
 Thanks, in advance,

John Hatten N7BWX
Bellingham, WA
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system
From: gpb@gpb-mac. (greg berryman )
Subject: Re: Get system bus error--trying to upgrade to 7.0
Organization: SPS
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 19:19:29 GMT

hume@abp.ICS.UCI.EDU (Tim Hume) writes:
: HELP!  I am trying to upgrade my Mac II from system 6.05 to System 7.0.
: Everytime I start up my machine I get a System Bus Error.  The mouse
: works; I can click on the Restart box.  I have also tried a hard power
: up and that didn't help.  I have nothing in my System Folder except
: the Finder and the System software.  I have a 6.0.5 bootable floppy
: with Disinfect 2.9 on it.  I checked my hard drive and it found no
: infections.
: 
: Anyone have any ideas?
: 
: Thanks for any help,
: Tim Hume
: email: hume@ics.uci.edu
: 

I've taken many Mac IIs to 7.0 and have seen this happen on the oldest systems
with origional disk drives.  The drivers installed "way-back-then" were not
compatible with System 7.  Use HD Setup to update the drivers.  

Disclaimer: I am prone to error.  :wq     <-- see what I mean?

--
Greg Berryman       gpb@gpb-mac.sps.mot.com
Motorola Inc.       Austin Texas
From: Jim.Kauffman@f20.n3603.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Jim Kauffman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Virus vs disk compression
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 92 15:46:11 EDT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:3603/20 - Mercury Opus NEC360, St Petersburg FL

In the current issue of the Information Systems newsletter where I work, 
there was an article suggesting that "While any disk compacting utility, 
such as Disk Doubler, or Auto-Doubler, is active, your Virus protection 
software is rendered virtually useless." I will assume by this statement 
that they mean to include other utilities such as More Disk Space, 
SpaceSaver, and others as well.

This strikes me as a gross oversimplification at best. Can anyone offer 
authoritative refutation or confirmation? Perhaps the answer depends on 
the virus and disk compression utility?

Jim K.


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From: "norman danner" <ndanner@kiwi.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: FPU &/or accelerator
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 13:23:52 -0500

Hi folks,

	I have a Mac LC, and am thinking of buying an FPU for it.  But now
I also hear of acclerators, which (as far as I know) are either better
(i.e., 030 or 040) CPU's and/or faster clock speed 020's.  I've looked
through the contents of the last year and a half of MacUser and did not
see a single article on FPU's, but there was one on accelerators, which
did mention FPU's, but didn't say much about them.  So  my question is
this:  Is there any point in buying an FPU w/out an accelerator?  My
motivation for buying the FPU is to speed up just a few programs--e.g.,
Freedom of Press Light, which will apparently run faster with an FPU, as
well as some simulation software that I have that comes with versions
for a 68881 (there's no point in running *that* program w/out an FPU,
because it takes roughly forever to run a few cycles of simulation).
What seem to me to be non-number-crunching routines (e.g., starting
applications, word processing, etc.) are fast enough for me, so I'm
not really looking to speed up overall system performance.  Thanks
in advance for any help!  Later...
-- 
Norman Danner                    | The only difference between mathematicians
"The guy with the hair."         |  and philosophers is that mathematicians
ndanner@indiana.edu              |      throw away their scratch paper.
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From: hume@abp.ICS.UCI.EDU (Tim Hume)
Subject: bus error upgrading to 7.0
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system
Date: 9 Oct 92 18:27:32 GMT

Okay, here's some more detail of the problem:

I boot from a floppy with System 6.0.4 on it and I can run fine.  I
copied that floppy to my hard drive and rebooted from these files on
my hard drive.  It works fine, except MaxAppleZoom 1.42 is not
enlarging the screen area.  I have two monitors--2 Toby Frame Buffer
Cards.  The first monitor always runs good.  The second one messes up
when I get the Bus Error after trying to come up on System 7.  The
monitor flips static.   I can run Multifinder 6.0.7. fine.  When I
installed the System 7 software, I used the Installer program that
came with it and did the Easy Install.  I checked for conflicts before
installing and that was OK.  I have 8 Meg memory and a 40 Meg Quantum
Hard Disk.

Thanks,
Tim
From: jbaron@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Jeffrey Baron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Greyscale on a compact mac -> Micron
Date: 16 Oct 92 15:31:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: usenet.Bw80G1.2MK
Organization: Indiana University

There is a writeup of the micron card available at sumex.  Note that it does
some really wierd things in order to work around some fundimentals regarding
monitor size in order to get the system to acknoledge that it's a special
case...things like "makes the screen one pixel narrower in both directions
so that the operating system doesn't look at the monitor and say 'whoop!
can't do that!  You've got a 9" monitor, and you can only do 1 bit depth 
on one of them'".  Under most circumstances (like when using software which
conforms to the Apple Programmer's commandment, 'tho shalt not assume the
monitor to be of one particular size'), this is not a problem.  But on
certain shareware's out there (notibly games which try to take over the
monitor) there's a tendency to bitch.

(.X.X.X.X.X.X.X.X.X.X.X.X.X.X.)/ I heard two claps of thunder         \ 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: hideg@spsd630a.erim.org (Steve Hideg)
Subject: Re: That Blinking Cursor
Organization: Environmental Research Institute of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 15:48:23 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.010231.10557@udel.edu> bower@pecan.cns.udel.edu (Tyson Bower) writes:

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   From: bower@pecan.cns.udel.edu (Tyson Bower)
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   Well, this may or may not be helpful, but...

   Right now, I'm staring at a completely solid, non-blinking cursor.

   Yippee-skip.  :-/

   No big deal... I'm using Zterm 0.9.  If you look under the 
   "Terminal Preferences..." menu, there is an option to turn cursor
   blinking on and off.  Of course, it doesn't carry over to other 
   applications, but if David Alverson (author of Zterm) can do it,
   I don't see why someone else can't...


The original poster is referring to the text insertion bar that the system
has for use by most text programs. Some terminal emulators (such as yours)
have their own cursor mechanisms independent of the system's text insertion
bar.

_________________________
Steve Hideg  N8HSC

hideg@amadeus.erim.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: maynard@groo.msc.cornell.edu (Maynard J. Handley)
Subject: Hard drives have lost icons and won't allow them to be pasted
Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 07:09:09 GMT

Following a crash after trying out a new INIT, my (all three) hard drives
have lots their pretty system 7 icons. I tried pasting them back into the
get Info window and they won't paste. I tried trashing the invisible
rootlevel icon file but that didn't help. I tried booting with vanilla 7.01
and no INITs, no joy.

Related is the fact that I can't rename any of the hard drives. Noe please
don't tell me I have file-sharing on. My mac is not, and never has been,
part of an AppleTalk network. Besides which I spefically checked to make
sure sharing wasn't on. I can rename the drives if I boot under system 6,
but that still dosen't help with the icons. I have rebuilt the desk top and
checked with Norton Utils 2.

My guess is that there is a software flag somewhere on each volume that
says that the volume name (and I guess icon) are locked. Is this true? How
can I get to it?

Thanks,
Maynard Handley
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: maynard@leah.msc.cornell.edu (Maynard J. Handley)
Subject: Re: Color Startup Screens in Sys 7.0
Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 04:50:49 GMT

In article <9OCT199215452071@uhdvx3.dt.uh.edu>, csc_hector@uhdvx3.dt.uh.edu
(Mactoes) writes:
>In article <9OCT199211501944@phobos.ucc.umass.edu>,
>s5170748@phobos.ucc.umass.edu (THAN LEE) writes...
>>I have some beautiful color PICT images for my Mac II, but I don't know
>how
>>to get them to be used as startup screens.  They have the correct file
>type,
>>so where do I put 'em in directory, and what do I call 'em?
>> 
>>Thanks,
>>Nathaniel Lee
>
>Did you try naming the picture "STARTUPSCREEN" and placing it in the
>system
>folder?
>
This will, of course, not work, because PICT files stores the PICT data in
the data fork, while startup screens store the PICT data in the resource
fork (for reasons having to do with compatbility with b/w macs). Best thing
to do is to use PhotoShop (if you have it) or GifConverter (from any decent
ftp site) to do the conversion.  Probably other decent image packages like
Canvas will also do this.

Maynard Handley
From: mark@hsi.com (Mark Sicignano)
Subject: Re: Halftones on Stylewriter?ex
Organization: 3M Health Information Systems, Wallingford, CT.
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 18:04:49 GMT

In article <1992Oct6.124106.76@taney.uscghq.uscg.mil> lederman@taney.uscghq.uscg.mil writes:
>In article <1992Oct5.163604.13354@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>, jjstrout@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Joe Strout) writes:
>> How can I print greyscales (halftoning) on the Stylewriter?  I know Adobe
>> 
>> Someone told me last week that GIFConverter (>v2.2.10) could do it.  I got
>> version 2.3b1, and there is a setting for "StyleWriter (360dpi)", and when 

This requires a lot of work.

I saw Joe's posting, and mentioned that there was something called 
WonderPrint in the Mac's Place catalog for $38 that claimed to do
greyscales on the StyleWriter.  He bought it and said that it
was well worth it.  He claimed that it worked great.

So, I turned around and bought it on his recommendation.  It does
work great with all of the software that I've tried it with, except
for WriteNow 3.0.  It won't print at all with WriteNow 3.0.

I have a feeling that WriteNow is choking, not WonderPrint.  Using
SuperPaint 3.0, Claris Resolve, TeachText, and other things that will
print grey's, I have had no trouble.  It works pretty good and gives
good results.

I'd recommend it (unless of course you really need it to work with
WriteNow).  I'm going to put a call into Delta Tao (makers of WonderPrint)
to see if they are familiar with this problem and have a work-around.

-mark
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: bernardi@pql840.bwi.wec.com (Dave Bernardi)
Subject: Another stooge trying to decode files from comp.binaries.mac
Organization: Westinghouse Electronic Systems Group, Baltimore, MD
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 19:55:19 GMT

I know we have been through this 1000 times before, but I must be missing 
something.  I'm trying to use files that are posted in  comp.binaries.mac. 
They look something like this:

---
(This file must be converted with BinHex 4.0)

:&NPZGQ9cG'ePER3J6@&ZB@GPFLjcDA3!8dP8)90*9#%!!!!"rmB!!!!!1,a6593

Do I need to do something to this ASCII file before I use one of the many 
DeCompression utilities?

I have tried all different combinations of things with: Stuffit 1.5.1  
CompactPro 1.32   tickle ....  I never end up with an executable type 
file (application)

Thanks,
- Dave Bernardi
From: dsteele@igc.apc.org (Peace and Justice Network of SJC)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: GIS Info for Mac User
Date: 12 Oct 92 03:43:00 GMT
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1364700012:000:340
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!dsteele    Oct 11 20:43:00 1992


I would like to hear from anyone with experience using GIS software on 
macs.  I would be especially interested in hearing of any recommendations
or cautions.  I am hoping to manage endangered species, habitat and landuse
info and ultimately expand to include infrastructure and development info.
Any help would be appreciated!
Dale Steele
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From: gt8798a@prism.gatech.EDU (Anthony S. Kim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.app,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Word 5.0 updater, (where to FTP)
Date: 9 Oct 92 01:11:57 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.app
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

i'd like to find the updates word version from 5.0 to 5.0a, can anyone tell me
where to ftp.

please e-mail to gt8798a@prism.gatech.edu
From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: NOW Utilities 4.0 instability
Date: 9 Oct 92 01:29:18 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

jacobs@cerritos.edu writes:
>	2 weeks ago I ordered the upgrade for NU 4.0 . One week ago I heard
>about all the instability problems. I just recieved 4.0 in the mail today,
>Should I assume that It would be in my best interests not to install it until
>there is a bug fix released?

I decided to wait. I know others who upgraded with no problems. A few others
who upgraded with some problems. In other words, there is no wrong answer.
I'm somewhat in the middle of a project and didn't want to waste time
upgrading right now, anyway.

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From: olle@astro.uu.se (Olof Morell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: What is a .hqx file?
Date: 8 Oct 1992 09:58:09 GMT
Organization: Uppsala University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: solaris.astro.uu.se

In article <1992Oct7.121757.24309@medtron.medtronic.com>, bb11807@thug (Brian A. Blow) writes:
|> toddwall@rock.concert.net (R. Todd Wall -- Catholic Diocese of Raleigh -- Computer Services) writes:
|> : 	On many of the FTPable sites there are files labeled .sit ..  I've
|> : fiqured out how to unsit them.  However, receintly there has been a 
|> : number of files labeled  .hqx ..  How do you unhqx them???
|>
|> Using StuffIt compresses a file or group of files into a file with a
|> hqx suffix.  Use StuffIt to uncompress it to get the original file(s).

Hm, not correct.
StuffIt -> .sit   (if you ask it to!)

.hqx is a binhexed file, converted to ASCII format for easy
tranportability (at some loss of space)

The normal thing is to first stuff your files with some variety of 
StuffIt, things on e.g. Sumex should be in the old 1.5.1 format,
and then you binhex the resulting archive with Encode Binhex File,
available at one of the rightmost menues in StuffIt. 

To extract the files you reverse the process: unbinhex (Decode
Binhex File on the same menu) and then you have a StuffIt archive 
(or Compact Pro .cpt (can also be uncompressed by StuffIt Lite or 
StuffIt Deluxe))

Voila!

Good Luck
*** Olle ***
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Good font for PowerBook/Imagwriter II
From: zaphod@vax2.winona.msus.edu (Gregory Talmo)
Date: 8 Oct 92 12:05:26 -0600
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Distribution: na
Organization: Winona State Academic Computing

In article <BvMqqx.M1A@well.sf.ca.us>, vito@well.sf.ca.us (Andris Paul
Vitols) wrote:
> 
> 
> I seem to remember reading about a shareware/freeware font that is
> especially readable for ImageWriter II printouts.  Recently Powerbook users
> have been using it for the same readability.  Anyone remember the name of
> it?

  My favorite for ImageWriter output was always New York.  It looked quite
good, and it comes free with every Mac.


- Greg Talmo  (zaphod@vax2.winona.msus.edu)
                                   | The opinions expressed above are my
own,
 "A censor is a man who knows more |and do not necessarily reflect the
 than he thinks you ought to."     |opinions, tastes, or policies of Winona
                 - Granville Hicks |State University, its faculty, staff or
                                   |students.
From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: SEX SEX SEX
Date: 11 Oct 92 01:41:22 GMT
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam

In article <92284.171630SXL136@psuvm.psu.edu> SXL136@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
...
 >                                                        stripped of color
Is that the sex part?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: flip@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Phillip Russell)
Subject: Re: PDA'S are flop
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 04:41:34 GMT

In article <Bvu6Eo.5qG@world.std.com> jbailey@world.std.com (james d bailey) writes:
>How about this for a new application only available on a PDA.  Use the
>built in microphone to record a lecture or meeting.  As the recording 
>is happening the user is also taking notes.  These notes are coordinated 
>with a time - code from the recorded audio.  On playback your notes
>are displayed when the appropriate audio comes up.  All of this is
>

Sounds good, but think about all the memory a sound file would take up!!!!

That kind of application will have to wait until we have larger
memory storage.

Flip



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From: bb11807@thug (Brian A. Blow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: What is a .hqx file?
Date: 7 Oct 92 12:17:57 GMT
Organization: Medtronic, Inc.
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toddwall@rock.concert.net (R. Todd Wall -- Catholic Diocese of Raleigh -- Computer Services) writes:
: 	On many of the FTPable sites there are files labeled .sit ..  I've
: fiqured out how to unsit them.  However, receintly there has been a 
: number of files labeled  .hqx ..  How do you unhqx them???
:

Using StuffIt compresses a file or group of files into a file with a
hqx suffix.  Use StuffIt to uncompress it to get the original file(s).

--Brian             brian.blow@medtronic.com
From: Jim.Kauffman@f20.n3603.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Jim Kauffman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Another question about Ch
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 92 19:19:11 EDT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:3603/20 - Mercury Opus NEC360, St Petersburg FL

On 10-06-92, JAMES PRESTON wrote:

 JP> I've just gotten the CheckFree software and I'm considering trying 
 JP> it out. One thing, however, that doesn't seem to be addressed in the 
 JP> documentation: For all the bills that I pay, they want you to return 
 JP> the bill stub along with your payment.  Obviously, if you use 
 JP> CheckFree, the merchant doesn't get that stub, even if CheckFree 
 JP> sends one of their laser drafts by mail. 

I've been using CheckFree by way of Quicken for the best part of a year 
and that has not been a significant problem for me. I have had one or two 
payments go awry seemingly at random, but none that systematically just 
don't work due to lack of a stub. (CheckFree was able to straighten out 
all of these problems is relatively short order.) You do need to make sure 
that your account or invoice number is correctly entered with the Merchant 
information though.

In the introductory materials I got, it suggested making a small trial 
payment to yourself. That was very instructive and shows you exactly what 
the merchant sees.

Jim K.


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