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Subject: Info-Mac Digest V10 #304
Date: 24 Dec 92 01:21:29 GMT
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Info-Mac Digest             Wed, 23 Dec 92       Volume 10 : Issue 304

Today's Topics:

      [*] Add/Strip 3.0.2
      [*] beer coasters startupscreen
      [*] cLayers 1.10
      [*] rocky-horror-lips startupscreen
      [*] Shadow's Keep 1.1 Demo
      [*] Simpsons Sounds - Group 2
      [*] TEXX 0.2.1 (a scripting program for the mac)
      [*] This is a stack containing (1/2)
      [*] Three More classical music pieces for Der Sound Trecker
      [*]TimesTwo 1.0.1 updater
      (A) FTP-ing fonts from UMICH
      (C) Features wanted in new macs...
      (Q) Hard Disk Icon
      2 or more languages in Word 5? (Answer)
      7.1 SANE
      9 to 5 Office
      Announcing CONNECT Magazine
      AppleTalk 58 & DECNet Mac (NOT!)
      Color Printing for Macs and IBM compats
      Correct response to my Word 5 import text query
      Disclaimers (C)
      Disk Partitioning and Shadowing
      Downloading NON .hqx files
      Easter Egg in Maelstrom
      error of type -1070 (Q)
      Expressionist 3.00 to 3.01 Updater
      Fetch 2.1 modification
      FTP-ing fonts from UMICH
      Future Macs
      Help! MacTCP guru needed
      How are Zoom Fax v.32bis modems?
      Info-Mac Digest V10 #298
      Install AppleTalk 58.0 on PB 160
      Macintalk
      MacX (q) Zoom (c)
      New MAC Prices
      Opening Text files in Word 5.0 (2 msgs)
      Opening Text files in Word 5.0 (A)
      Portable 1.3 Control Panel on PB100
      ResEdit 2.1.1 & SoftwareFPU incompatibility...
      Satellite images (Q)
      The TaxMan Cometh, and the TaxMan Taketh Away
      Who services Ehman drives?
      Wireless Mouse
      WordPerf/Mac 2.1<-> DOS 5.1 comment

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Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 16:35 EST
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <needje@msen.com>
Subject: [*] Add/Strip 3.0.2

Here's the latest version 3.0.2 of Jon Wind's fabulous utility Add/Strip
(shareware $25). A/S has been designed to automatically perform much of the
work of cleaning up TEXT files destined for import to page layout, word
processing, database, or spreadsheet programs, as well as export from these
programs to a DOS-based or mainframe computer, all in a fraction of the
time ordinarily needed to manually reformat using a word processor.

The program comes with extensive documentation listing the dozens of
changes since the last posted version, which was 2.9.2 here on Sumex. For
example, here's a quick list of changes in 3.0:
1.  Process Select window is modeless 2.  Expanded online help system 3.
Expanded application preferences 4.  System 7 support - Balloon Help,
AppleEvents, color icons, drag & drop 5.  150 pairs of 32 character
replacement
strings, each opt. case insensitive 6.  CRs and wildcards can be used in
search
strings 7.  Specifying a folder for auto-processing its contents 8.
Specifying
a folder for favorite settings used for a hierarchical menu 9.  Option to open
to favorite settings folder when saving settings 10. Scanning for possible
virus
infection/damage of application upon opening 11. Progress bar uses patterns
and
system highlight color 12. List selections use system highlight color 13.
Shareware registration form printing 14. Two program modes to help hide
program
complexity 15. Location and size of movable windows are remembered 16.
Improved
handling of low memory conditions during processing 17. Support for animated
color cursors 18. Memory info/compaction when choosing About A/S. with the
option key down 19. "Never merge lines to fit" checkbox for Force Line Width
20.
"Remove all indention" checkbox for Make Paragraphs & Make Paragraphs2 21.
Buttons are disabled in background windows 22. Improved processing speed by as
much as 50% 23. Fixed all known bugs 24. Many cosmetic interface changes 25.
Removed A/S TEXT file icon and customized Monaco font

You can get an idea of the usefulness of the program just from that. It's a
marvel of programming too and a pleasure to use. (I can say that because
I'm only a happy user with no other connection to the product--and I have
paid my shareware fee.)  Enjoy.

(This should replace info-mac/util/add-strip-292.hqx.)
Jeff Needleman  <needje@msen.com>

[Archived as /info-mac/util/add-strip-302.hqx; 176K]

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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 15:22:40 EST
From: Paul Savage <paul.savage@carbon.chem.csiro.au>
Subject: [*] beer coasters startupscreen

This colour startupscreen is a collection of beer coasters, 640x480.
Compacted. Enjoy.

Paul.

paul@carbon.chem.csiro.au

[Archived as /info-mac/art/beer-coasters-startup.hqx; 223K]

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Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 05:17:03 -0500 (EST)
From: Jeff Linder <jeff@picasso.ocis.temple.edu>
Subject: [*] cLayers 1.10

Well, everybody wanted to know where I got it, so here it is!

MacLayers 1.10k (beta).

For those of you who were wondering, MacLayers is a term program that
supports multiple windows/sessions when connected to a UNIX system.

Note, the UNIX system must have the LAYERS UNIX end installed (available
>From 128.83.138.20, where I got this...)

J

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/mac-layers-110k.hqx; 126K]

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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 15:19:18 EST
From: Paul Savage <paul.savage@carbon.chem.csiro.au>
Subject: [*] rocky-horror-lips startupscreen

This is a 640x480 colour startupscreen of a pair of red lips on a black
background. Looks like the lips that sing the opening song (science fiction?)
of the Rocky Horror Picture Show movie. Conpacted. Enjoy.

Paul.

paul@carbon.chem.csiro.au

[Archived as /info-mac/art/rocky-horror-lips-startup.hqx; 44K]

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Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 23:17:54 EST
From: David Chaim Worenklein <dcw@tune.cs.columbia.edu>
Subject: [*] Shadow's Keep 1.1 Demo

There's been much talk of the Ultima(tm) twin "Shadow's Keep" on
comp.sys.mac.games lately.  I found it in Finland.  It's not very user
friendly.

From: kenh@eclectic.com
Subject: Shadow Keep 1.1

Enclosed is Shadow Keep 1.1 Demo, a fully functional (except for
5 saved game limit/adventure).  This upgrade of a huge b/w RPG
game now includes the option for keyboard controls.  The Catacombs
have also been made tougher.

Part of the December GAMER Distribution.

[Archived as /info-mac/demo/shadows-keep-11.hqx; 425K]

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Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 22:39:25 EST
From: Michael Fulmer <mfulmer@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: [*] Simpsons Sounds - Group 2

This is my second set of Simpsons sound samples (BINHEXed but once).  These
samples are longer than those in the first set, therefore there are fewer of
them (only 6). Again these are 'sfil' format, and were taken from VCR via a
MacRecorder.

$847.63?
Michael Fulmer
mfulmer@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu

[Archived as /info-mac/sound/simpsons-grp2.hqx; 502K]

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Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:32:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: DSOUTH@uoft02.utoledo.edu
Subject: [*] TEXX 0.2.1 (a scripting program for the mac)

TEXX 0.2.1
Archive produced by Stuffit Deluxe 3.0.3

TEXX 0.2.1, Jose Aguirre's implementation of the Rexx scripting
language on the Mac. Supports Apple events. The Texx application
allows scripting on the Mac, with a scripting language that
resembles "a cross between C and Pascal with the simplicity of
HyperTalk". Despite the version number, the current release of
Texx looks like it has enough power to develop some really useful
scripts (IMHO).

Example scripts include a shutdown "exec" that purges those pesky
Word temp files from the Hard Drive (though I have to admit that
switching to Nisus did the job of removing my Word temp files ;-) )

Though I haven't had enough time to fully test Texx, it seems
powerful enough to keep me from buying Frontier for at least
a couple weeks more.

Shareware $25.  System 7 required.

Dale Southard
(dsouth@uoft02.utoledo.edu)

[Archived as /info-mac/util/texx-021.hqx; 118K]

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Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 11:23:15 EST
From: bryden@QMAIL.dgrc.doc.ca (Karen Bryden)
Subject: [*] This is a stack containing (1/2)

REGARDING                This is a stack containing file server mount and
unmount
The attachment is a stack called AppleShare Chooser 2.3, containing file
server mount and unmount XCMDs.  I recently went hunting for it and could
not find it anywhere.  Fortunately, a kind person at Berkely helped me out.
Could I suggest that it be reposted?
thanks
Karen

[Archived as /info-mac/card/x/appleshare-chooser-23.hqx; 33K]

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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 13:51:26 EST
From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU>
Subject: [*] Three More classical music pieces for Der Sound Trecker

I found three more pieces of classical music for Der Sound Trecker
in /systems/amiga/audio/music/st-nt/classical.lzh at
wuarchive.wustl.edu.  These have been converted to type STrk and
Stuff'd.

[Archived as /info-mac/sound/st/three-classics.hqx; 174K]

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Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:15:13 -0700
From: tonyh@lynx.msc.cornell.edu
Subject: [*]TimesTwo 1.0.1 updater

The TimesTwo 1.0.1 Updater is an application that updates TimesTwo from
version 1.0 to 1.0.1.

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.0.1:
 -----------------------
Version 1.0.1 of TimesTwo is a maintenance release that provides:
- Improved performance for disks not at SCSI ID 0. (I was told that
there're apparently some special extra instructions for SCSI devices at
address 0)
- Greater flexibility for "Hot" installations.
- Support for Asynchronous I/O, including Personal File Sharing and Modem
programs.

Happy holidays to all netters.

Tony Huang
tonyh@msc.cornell.edu

[Archived as /info-mac/util/times-two-101-updater.hqx; 76K]

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Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 20:55:49 -0500
From: brecher@husc.harvard.edu
Subject: (A) FTP-ing fonts from UMICH

Pete Tamas <GNOME%TEMPLEVM.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU> writes:

>I've been having trouble FTP-ing fonts from umich. Lets say I
>want the file bevhills.sit.hqx, typing get bevhills.sit.hqx gets
>me an error message that I am using an incorrect mode. Since
>I am used to FTP-ing files with a filename and ONE extension
>after only one dot, that makes sense to me. Typing get bevhills.sit
>or bevhills.hqx both get me an error message. What should I be doing?

The first thing anyone should do when they encounter a problem with
mac.archive is to mail the archivists (me, for example) *there* at
comments@mac.archive.umich.edu and see if they can provide a direct answer.

In this case, all you need to do is to type
get remotefilename localfilename

where remotefilename here is bevhills.sit.hqx and localfilename is
bevhills.hqx

					jonathan brecher
					brecher@husc.harvard.edu
					assistant mac.archivist

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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 16:00:19 GMT
From: eytan@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr (Michel Eytan, LILoL, Univ. Strasbourg II)
Subject: (C) Features wanted in new macs...

>Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 11:23:14 -0500
>From: mikeg@asylum.gsfc.nasa.gov
>Subject: Features wanted in new macs...
>
>        One thing I have been hoping to see for a long
>time is a "Mac IImp" where the "mp" stands for Multi-
>processor.
>        I wonder if a cyclone model might look like this? ;-)
>Hope Apple is listening, my next machine will be either an
>MP something or a Radius Rocket for my mac.
>        Of course a PowerPC MP sounds good too. :-)
>Take care all,
>        Mike
>        mikeg@asylum.gsfc.nasa.gov

I believe *this* will prove to be the undoing of Apple, who was supposed to
produce an mp-system for 7.0 already, but has shown itself uncapable of
doing what Amiga has done several years ago, that IBM (ps/2) can do now and
MS (Windows NT) real soon.

~=michel eytan@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr

Merry Xmas and a Happy  New Year
Joyeux Noel et Bonne Annee
Frohliche Weinachten  und ein Glueckliches Neues Jahr
Boldog Karacsonyt es U jevei Unnepeket

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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 09:10:24 PST
From: John.Muirhead@mtsa.ubc.ca
Subject: (Q) Hard Disk Icon


     After using an old version of FolderBolt with Sys7, I now have a generic
 document icon for my hard disk. I cannot clear or paste over the icon
 using Get Info. An alert says the commands are not available.
 To no avail I've tried reinstalling the system, copying the icon file
>From another computer's hard disk using ResEdit, and rebuilding the desktop.

 Does anybody have any suggestions? (Other than erasing the disk)

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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 08:47:07 -0500
From: brad@n1mnb.oau.org (Brad Ackerman)
Subject: 2 or more languages in Word 5? (Answer)

Choose "Open..." from the File menu while the spellcheck window is in the
foreground.  Choose another dictionary, and it will add it to the
dictionary list.  Ist das eine gut Idee nicht?

Brad Ackerman (brad@n1mnb.oau.org)

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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 11:51:14 -0500
From: brad@n1mnb.oau.org (Brad Ackerman)
Subject: 7.1 SANE

One more time, can someone print the directions for patching in the old
SANE to 7.1?

Brad Ackerman (brad@n1mnb.oau.org)

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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 00:00:11 -0500
From: bww@po.CWRU.Edu (Brian W. Wolf)
Subject: 9 to 5 Office

>
 I'm sure I'm not the only one to get the info on 9 to 5 office software
deal.  It states that it contains abbreviated versions of some programs,
and Hypercard 2.1 is included.  Has anyone gotten this yet? Is it worth
the $20?  Sounds to me like a few Hypercard stacks and some demo
programs put together to make $$.
  Thanks

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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 04:41:46 GMT
From: pegasus@grex.ann-arbor.mi.us (Patricia Snyder-Rayl)
Subject: Announcing CONNECT Magazine

For a limited time, Pegasus Press is offering dramatically
discounted subscription rates on its new magazine, CONNECT. Covering the
major commercial online services, Internet/Usenet and bulletin board system
networks, CONNECT focuses on telecommunications from a user's perspective.
The first bi-monthly issue of CONNECT will be available in March, 1993.

Issue after issue, CONNECT shows you how to get the most from the
commercial online services you're using -- CompuServe, Delphi, America
Online, Prodigy, GEnie and BIX. With columnists on staff to cover these
services in depth, you'll find CONNECT a valuable resource.

CONNECT also shows you what "free" networks like Internet have to offer.
Every issue of CONNECT contains Internet coverage that helps you find your
way around the biggest network in the world.

[...]

For more information, please contact Pegasus Press at 3487 Braeburn Circle,
Ann Arbor, MI 48108 or phone (313) 973-8825.  For the fastest response and
a copy of the subscription form, please email us at
pegasus@grex.ann-arbor.mi.us.

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Date: 23 Dec 1992 14:17:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: Peter Jorgensen <PJORGENSEN%COLGATEU.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: AppleTalk 58 & DECNet Mac (NOT!)

Greetings,

I just spent a morning restoring my system (7.0) after installing the new
AppleTalk (v58) and discovering that DECNet Mac won't run with it. I'm not
sure whether it was DECNet, the new Network cp (which DIDN'T show all zones
for me to choose mine from) or AppleTalk 58, but I had to reinstall the
System, DECNet, etc. to get working again.  Any one else have this
experience?

Have a Happy New Year.

Peter Jorgensen - Colgate University Research & Instructional Computing Spec.
		- Mac/DOS/VMS consultant, PMDF Postmaster, HyperTalker

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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 13:53:08 EST
From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU>
Subject: Color Printing for Macs and IBM compats

On 21 Dec 92 20:54:00 CST you said:
>At home, I've got a Macintosh and an IBM compat within six feet of each
>other. Right now, I've only got a DeskWriter (no AppleTalk) hooked up to
>my Mac, and nothing hooked up to the IBM compat.  I need to print COLOR
>from both the Mac and the IBM comap, and I don't want to shell out twice
>the $$$ for two printers. So, I'm looking for a color, Mac and IBM
>compatible, low-cost, 300dpi printer.  Any suggestions?

The DeskWriter is capable of being a serial printer for the PeeCee as
well.  You can use an electronic serial switch box to connect both
computers to the printer.  We have a box with no buffer (about $75) in
our department office and it works fine (it tells one computer the
printer is busy when the other computer is using it).  Your biggest
problem will be to get correct cables.  PeeCee to switch box (RS-232) is
easy.  Mac to RS-232 printer is a little harder (in a pinch, use a Mac
to modem cable with a null modem block on the end).  RS-232 to
DeskWriter (as opposed to DeskJet, which is for all intents and purposes
the same printer) may be impossible to come buy commercially.  You may
have to make a custom cable for that one.

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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 00:23:23 EST
From: Pete Tamas <GNOME%TEMPLEVM.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Correct response to my Word 5 import text query

>>Does anyone know how to turn off the "Select a Converter" dialog
>box when opening a Text-only (ASCII) file in Word 5.0?
>
>Sure, just drag the other converter out of the Word Commands folder.  Now
>it has a Hobson's Choice--Text only or Text only.  The dialog will not show.
>
>-Dwight

Right again, Dwight! I did not even have to quit Word for this to work.-Pete
Gnome@VM.Temple.EDU, Temple Univ, Philadelphia (betw New York & Wash DC)

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Date: 23 Dec 1992 14:19:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Peter Jorgensen <PJORGENSEN%COLGATEU.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Disclaimers (C)

One in four people in the US are involved in litagation at any given time!

Peter Jorgensen - Colgate University Research & Instructional Computing Spec.
		- Mac/DOS/VMS consultant, PMDF Postmaster, HyperTalker

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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 08:36:19 -0600
From: spohn@rcf.mayo.edu
Subject: Disk Partitioning and Shadowing

Howdy -

1. Is there such thing as a rule of thumb on how to partition a disk for
best performance?

2. I'm looking for disk shadowing software - if anyone has any
recommendations I'd appreciate it.  This would be for a Quadra 950
fileserver shadowing from one 1.8 gig drive to another.

Thanks in advance!

- Al Spohn  spohn@mayo.edu

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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 02:23:45 EST
From: Todd Breslow <V5149U%TEMPLEVM.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Downloading NON .hqx files

I came across some files I'd really like to download at the umich
archive site, and they are listed as simply ".sit" and not ".hqx"
files. I've had a hell of a time trying to get them to work.
I've downloaded the files both in ASCII mode and in BINARY mode,
and neither work. StuffIt will recognize the ASCII download, but
can not unstuff it. The Binary version is complete nonesense.

I ask: what am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance,
Todd Breslow
v5149u@vm.temple.edu
v5149u@templevm

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Date: 23 Dec 1992 11:32:52 U
From: "Anne" <harwell@bandw.panam.edu>
Subject: Easter Egg in Maelstrom

Anyone with Maelstrom ought to fire it up today and see the Merry Christmas
"Easter Egg" on the high scores screen. :-)

-abh

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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:22:43 +0200
From: bnhirsch@weizmann.weizmann.ac.il (David L. Hirschberg)
Subject: error of type -1070 (Q)

Dear Netters,

Has this ever happened to you?

You have one or more remote volumes mounted and are working away when
suddenly someone on the remote machine shuts off the Mac, the remote mac
crashes, or you lose the phone line (if you are using ARA).  You get the
following window:

'The disk "disk name here" cannot be used, because of an error of type
-1070 ocurred. And an Okay button.'

Most likely -1070 must mean something like I have lost my remote contact
with the volume(s).  The problem is that when I click on the Okay button
the window keeps coming back.  It is like a window from hell.  It disrupts
all processes that are going on (if you are in the finder) and there is no
way short of restarting the Mac to get rid of it.  The 'feature' appeared
in System 7.0 and seems to still be around in system 7.1.

Has anyone figured out a way short of shutting down the Mac to get rid of it?

Thank you, David
bnhirsch@weizmann.weizmann.ac.il

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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 11:36:58 PST
From: Gordon.S.Bates@mtsa.ubc.ca
Subject: Expressionist 3.00 to 3.01 Updater

  Would whoever posted the Expressionist 3.00 to 3.01 Updater please do
so again -- I have downloaded what is on Sumex and get a file of size 0K.

Thanks

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Date: 23 Dec 1992 10:52:11 -0500 (EST)
From: mixterhp@CONRAD.APPSTATE.EDU (Perry Mixter )
Subject: Fetch 2.1 modification

Re: Fetch Modification

Try setting up a shortcut named General that has no addresses listed in
the host field. Then set that to be your default host selection. Should
work.

Happy Holidays.

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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 09:13:02 PST
From: Data untouched by human minds <GSW$EN@WSUVM1.CSC.WSU.EDU>
Subject: FTP-ing fonts from UMICH

Pete Tamas writes

> I've been having trouble FTP-ing fonts from umich. Lets say I
> want the file bevhills.sit.hqx, typing get bevhills.sit.hqx gets
> me an error message that I am using an incorrect mode.

Pete this is one problem when FTP-ing back to a CMS site. CMS substitutes
blanks for each period in the filename, and then tries to save it
under that name by default. So in this case CMS is assigning bevhills
to the filename, sit to the filetype, and hqx to the filemode. hqx
is an incorrect format for the filemode.

To get around this problem, you need to provide a filename in the get
command that CMS can use. In your case I would use the command
   get bevhills.sit.hqx bevhills.hqx

You were correct in knowing that you only wanted one period in the
name. You just didn't know to provide this as a second parameter
in the get command.

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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 15:24:09 CST
From: Graeme Forbes <PL0BALF@VM.TCS.Tulane.EDU>
Subject: Future Macs

Just a quick note as I rush off for Xmas with the in-laws. The
January Byte has an interesting piece on Motorola's successor to the
'040, the '060. It will run at 50MHz for 77 MIPS and subsequently
be jacked up to 66MHz for 100 MIPS. It won't ship in production
quantities until '94, whereas Intel's Pentium is due in '93 (tho'
another article says that most PC developers are sceptical about that).
The 50MHz '060 will have three and half times the performance of a
25MHz '040. Still, Apple is worried about the time gap between the
Pentium and the '060, which is why we're supposed to  see RISC Macs
next year.

It would be interesting to know how RISC and '060 Macs will compare.
The problem is, as I understand it, that the RISC Mac will only be
compatible with current Mac software via an emulation mode
and will rely on developers porting their apps. If an '060 Mac is
only 6 months behind a RISC Mac (a Power PC, I seem to remember they're
called) it's conceivable that the '060 Mac would be worth waiting
for, since it *is* guaranteed to be compatible with current software,
or at least no more problematic than the '040 was. Anyone got other
speculations?

Graeme Forbes

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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 16:23:39 GMT
From: eytan@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr (Michel Eytan, LILoL, Univ. Strasbourg II)
Subject: Help! MacTCP guru needed

Hi Folks,

I need urgently a MacTCP guru, since that appears to be the problem.

Here is what happens:
  I *can use* Eudora 1.3b102 to send and receive mail and NCSA Telnet
2.4.02 to connect to my Sparc1 and do everything except have the
OpenWindows GUI.
  I *cannot use* Gopher App.d, WAIStation 0.6.2, NewsWatcher and lately
Fetch 2.1 (except locally).

The connection just times out... I am using an LCII 4/80, sytem 7.0, no
extensions except the standard Apple ones + Hard Disk Partition (opens at
startup). It has an EtherNet Card, the Admin MacTCP is configured as
follows:
1. On the front page, The EtherNet icon is highlighted (not the EherTalk
one); the IP Address is 130.79.160.96 (present machine: this is not my
Sparc1, but a Mac I use now for e-mail with Eudora 1.3b102).
2. Inside (when you click on "More"), here are the various settings:
- Obtain Address: Manually
- Gateway address: 130.79.160.1 (local name-server and mail-host)
-IP Address:
	- Class: B Addresss: 130.79.160.96 (same as on front page, created
by the soft)
	- Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
	- Bits
		- Net: 16
		- Subnet: 8
		- Node: 8
	- Net: 33350
	- Subnet: 160
	- Node: 96
	(all this created by the soft)
- DNS Info:
	-Domain: u-strasbg.fr; IP Address: 130.79.160.1; default on
				(local name-server and mail-host)
	- Domain: u-strasbg.fr; IP Address: 130.79.200.1; default off

We are on internet.

Thanks. Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year
 ~=michel

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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 13:53:38 EST
From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU>
Subject: How are Zoom Fax v.32bis modems?

On Tue, 22 Dec 1992 02:01:49 GMT you said:
>There is an ad in the latest Mac Connection catalog for a Zoom v.32bis fax
>modem for about $269. Has anyone had any experience good/bad with this
modem?

My only grunch is that MacConnection lowered the price a couple of
months after I bought mine.  The knock on the Zoom is that it doesn't
tolerate a little phone line noise nearly as well as others.  I've found
that to be true, but I rarely have trouble connecting to the 9.6 Kbps +
V.42 modems that the University mainframe uses (that's what I bought it
for).  I've never had a problem connecting at 9.6 or 14.4 with modems in
the midwest and Canada that I've tried, but I can't get a protocol lock
on the First Class BBS in the next town :-(  I can get a 14.4 + V.42bis
connection from the second phone in the sysops home, but from my house,
the best I can do is a 9.6 no protocol connection.  Fortunately, First
Class has its own error correction and data compression has almost no
value when what's being transferred is a StuffIT archive.

On the whole, I don't find the problem with line noise enough of a
nuisance to wish I'd paid $80 or more additional for one of the more
favored brands.  MacConnection will give you 30 days to return the Zoom
if you don't like it.  The Zoom comes with a hardware handshaking cable
(worth $15 all by itself).  I haven't tried the fax software; the
telecom software works, I guess, but it's not nearly as nice as ZTerm or
TinCan (or almost anything else ;-)

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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 11:47:28 -0800
From: moynihan@venice.sedd.trw.com (Bill Moynihan)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V10 #298

In article <9212170053.AA09164@SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU> you write:
>
>Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 14:07 EST
>From: Kenny <KFREUNDLICH@LUCY.WELLESLEY.EDU>
>Subject: New Network Software Installer -- where is it?
>
>The 12/14 issue of MacWEEK said that there's a new version of the Network
>Software Installer -- V. 1.3 -- and that it's on AppleLink.
>
>I looked in the obvious places and couldn't find it.
>
>Anybody know where it is?
>
>I didn't see it on ftp.apple.com either.
>
>Kenny Freundlich
>Wellesley College
>

Kenny, et al,

If you have access to AppleLink the path is Software Sampler/Apple
SW Updates/Macintosh/Networking & Communications/Network
Installers. I just now (Wed. 12-22 11:30AM PST) checked and it
is not there. It was to be posted this week per the
announcement but I'd check next week.

Happy holidays,

Bill Moynihan
Internet=moynihan@venice.sedd.trw.com or AppleLink=moynihan.b

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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 00:18:51 CST
From: C526142@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu
Subject: Install AppleTalk 58.0 on PB 160

Dear Netter:
The Network Software Installer 1.3 seems caused some trouble and
confusion. First, I installed AppleTalk 58.0 on a IIsi running
7.0.1 & TuenUp 1.1.1 successfully and the machine came back fine
after the restart. Then I tried to do it on PB 160. The installstion
was still fine. BUT, the PB 160 couldn't boot up successfully after
I hit the restart key. During the bootup procedure, chord came out
normally, the welcome window showed up as usually, so was the loading
of extensions. Just before finishing the loading of Finder, the
white background of menu bar and DeskTop pattern showed up and then
everything was freezed. Hit the keys sometimes brought up Mac's Bug.
The programmer's Reset bottom cured the problem halfway. It gave you
the way towards the Finder, BUT NOTHING appeared under the APPLE
menu except About... The RESTART and SHUT DOWN commands under
SPECIAL menu wouldn't work either. Reinstalling the system followed
by network software install right after didn't help either. Maybe
all these trouble just prooved this version was not a official
release as suggested in Issue 302

Liu

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Date: 23 Dec 1992 04:34:59 +0100 (CET)
From: ALEXEI TSVETKOV <TSVETKOVA@NEWS.RFERL.ORG>
Subject: Macintalk

Recently a few people inquired were Macintalk could be found. I am
unable at the moment to upload it, but you can ftp it from
ftp.uni-kl.de (pub/macin/macintalk.hqx).

Alexei Tsvetkov
Munich

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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 14:34:19 -0500
From: mikeg@asylum.gsfc.nasa.gov
Subject: MacX (q) Zoom (c)

	When MacX is running and I open a xterm on the UNIX host.
The delete key does not work properly. So I try a "stty erase ^? echoe"
but still it does not work. What is MacX doing to the delete key?
How can I get it to work as a "delete" key in my xterm? Note my
UNIX host is a RS/6000.

	Zooms:
	Not bad modems. They are based on the Rockwell chipset,
which has its flaws. But Better yet for only a few dollars more
you could purchase a Digicom scout+, which will dial into just
about any other modem and does not degrade much due to line noise.
And again for about a hundred or so more you could purchase a
Zyxel 1496.

	e-mail: wolfgang@netcom.com for more info about the Digicom.
Note: I have no affiliation with Wolfgang, Zoom, Digicom, or Zyxel,
I have just listened to a lot of users praise their Digicom and Zyxel
modems.

Take care,
	Mike
	mikeg@asylum.gsfc.nasa.gov
=-=-=-=-====-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=
Std. Disclaimers...
Def. Universe -- The largest known Fractal.
			--Personal Theory

Froehliche Weihnachten und ein glueckliches neues Jahr!

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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 14:35:06 -0600 (CST)
From: Stuart Greenfield <sjg@tenet.edu>
Subject: New MAC Prices

 According to the current issue of Computer Reseller News, Apple will
announce/release 6 CPUS in February. The following table was presented in
the article:
		THE VALUE of NEW MACS
      CPU               Projected Price
  Color Classics
	4mb/80mb hd        $1,370
  LCIII
	4mb/80mb hd         1,330
	4mb/160mb hd        1,470
  Centris 610 (68040)
	4mb/80mb hd         1,890
	4mb/230mb hd        2,260
  Centris 650 (68040)
	4mb/80mb hd         2,700
	4mb/500mb hd        4,160
  Quadra 800
	4mb/230mb hd        4,650
	4mb/1,000mb hd      6,090

Any comments?

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Date: 23 Dec 1992 08:23:22 -0600 (CST)
From: "John A." <ANTOLAK%RADPH6.DECNET@relay.the.net>
Subject: Opening Text files in Word 5.0

If you don't want to see the dialog asking for you choice between "Text" or
"Text with Layout", go into the Word commands folder and trash the "Text
with Layout" file.

Hope this helps.        John A.

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Date: 23 Dec 1992 09:13:21 -0800
From: "Anker, Andrew" <anker@spayot.com>
Subject: Opening Text files in Word 5.0

>Does anyone know how to turn off the "Select a Converter" dialog
>box when opening a Text-only (ASCII) file in Word 5.0? Or, is the
>ability to turn this off a feature of 5.1? Thanks, Pete Tamas

This was actually in one of the "Tips" columns in a recent issue of
Macuserworld:  In your Word folder should be a folder called "Word Commands".
In that folder should be a file called "Text With Layout" or something
similar.
Trash it.  The dialog should no longer show up.

Andrew Anker
anker@spayot.com

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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 09:45:43 MST
From: sharmony@nova.ta52.lanl.gov (Stephen C. Harmony)
Subject: Opening Text files in Word 5.0 (A)

In Info-mac v10 #303 Pete Tamas writes:

> Does anyone know how to turn off the "Select a Converter" dialog
> box when opening a Text-only (ASCII) file in Word 5.0? Or, is the
> ability to turn this off a feature of 5.1?

Remove the Text with Layout converter from the Word Commands folder in your
Microsoft Word folder. If Word can't find any converters for TEXT files it
will just open them as simple text, which is what I usually want. Thinking
I might someday want to use Text with Layout files, I created a Word
Commands (disabled) folder in my Microsoft Word folder and put the Text
with Layout converter there.

Steve Harmony
Los Alamos, NM

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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 11:06:31 PST
From: Kee Nethery <nethery@parc.xerox.com>
Subject: Portable 1.3 Control Panel on PB100

Strangeness. When I open the Portable version 1.3 control panel on my
PowerBook 100 I notice that the screen goes dim (no backlighting), the
system and Hard disk sleep times are set to 1 minute. When I increase the
backlighting from none to something, backlighting turns back on. I can move
the sleep sliders from 1 minute to various other settings. When I close the
Portable control panel and then reopen it, everything has been reset to no
backlight, 1 & 1 minute for sleeps. What is going on and how do I get it to
remember te settings? No, the file is not locked. Hmmm.

Also the other thing I notice is that when the PB100 is plugged into power,
it never goes to sleep. I do not have the "don't sleep when plugged into
power" checked in the Portable control panel.

I am running 7.0.1 with Tuneup 1.1.1.

Any ideas?

Kee
Nethery@parc.xerox.com

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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 05:00:56 +0000
From: Elliot Bennett <Elliot.Bennett@europa.rs.kp.dlr.de>
Subject: ResEdit 2.1.1 & SoftwareFPU incompatibility...

Not that anyone probably really cares, but ResEdit 2.1.1 simply will not open
ANYTHING if SoftwareFPU is installed ("Can't open resource [-192]" I
believe).


Just thought I might be able to save someone else the trouble of rebooting a
hundred times (like I had to) until the offending cdev is found...

The author of SoftwareFPU will be informed of this as well..

-Elliot Bennett
elliot@europa.rs.kp.dlr.de

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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 04:41:03 +0100
From: pelli@suniroe.iroe.fi.cnr.it (Stefano Pelli)
Subject: Satellite images (Q)

Hi everybody,
first of all I wish you all a Merry Christmas!

I have a not quite Mac-related question to ask,but I don't know whereelse
I could find this information,so I hope that the Christmas spirit will help
me!
I would like to watch weather satellite images,in particular regarding
Europe.
This is of course a totally non-commercial interest,I am just interested in
weather forecasts as a private fun.
Does anyone know if there is any ftp site keeping up-to-date images taken by
weather satellites?
I know that this might not be easy,since these photos are usually sold,
rather than given away to anybody that requests them,but maybe weather
satellite
images could not suffer so tight a copyright control...
Thanks for any suggestions!
			Stefano Pelli
 ----------------------------------------------------------
Stefano Pelli pelli@suniroe.iroe.fi.cnr.it

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Date: 23 Dec 1992 09:04:01 -0800
From: "Anker, Andrew" <anker@spayot.com>
Subject: The TaxMan Cometh, and the TaxMan Taketh Away

Just to add another 2/100's of a dollar on the subject of Andrew Tobias'
TaxCut:

The Headstart Edition has an important feature disabled--the ability to
import.
All of my finances are in Managing Your Money and one of the things that
attracted me to TaxCut was the ability to instantly grab all of my records
from
MYM...

Well, I guess not until February when the final version comes out.  For now,
I'm
resigned to printing out everything in MYM and then reentering it into
TaxCut.
Clearly a less than optimal solution.

Otherwise, a good program, though.

Andrew Anker
anker@spayot.com

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Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:16 EDT
From: "DAVID A. BELSLEY" <BELSLEY@bcvms.bc.edu>
Subject: Who services Ehman drives?

My daughter's Ehman drive went fritz.  Can anyone tell me who services
these jobbies now-adays?  What is the relevant telephone number and
address?

My many thanks,

david a. belsley

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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:43:01 GMT
From: bobley@aplcenmp.apl.jhu.edu (Brett Bobley)
Subject: Wireless Mouse

Mac fans,

Here at the US Coast Guard, we use a Mac for briefings
and presentations.  We would like to purchase a wireless
Mouse for controlling presentations from across the room.

We would like it if the mouse had more than one button.  For
example, if one button could emulate the left arrow key
and the other the right arrow key, we could use it to move
forward and backward in slide show presentation software, like
MORE or Persuasion.

If anyone can recommend a wireless mouse, please send me mail at:
bobley@aplcenmp.apl.jhu.edu

tks,

Brett Bobley
bobley@aplcenmp.apl.jhu.edu

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Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 23:08:29 -0500
From: reiserdb@ttown.apci.com (David B. Reiser)
Subject: WordPerf/Mac 2.1<-> DOS 5.1 comment

I can say for sure that some of the problems mentioned for transferring files
between platforms did _not_ slip through testing. The biggest problem is that
fonts on the two platforms (for any software) are not identical. The problem
is a bit worse for WordPerfect DOS because WPCorp. designed their own fonts
for the DOS program. No matter what WPCorp does with fonts, unless the same
type house wrote fonts with identical metrics for both platforms (ATM,
anyone?)
there is _no_ hope of perfect translations.

I'm not sure, but some of the margins and tabs problems may be related. WP
may be attempting to compensate for known font metric conversion problems.
I think they'd be better off translating margins and tabs exactly.

Also, the file transfer capability definitely falls down on multiple passes
between platforms. There is some degradation on the return of a round trip.
Some of that is lack of a feature on one platform or the other -- DOS WP
doesn't have page borders, for example, and missing features sometimes get
stripped entirely.

I like WPMac a lot (Tables and one other font handling item are the
exceptions).
But I'm also not an impartial observer (I wrote part of a book about it.).
I've found even more problems converting Word files between platforms.

Dave
reiserdb@ttown.apci.com

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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 12:29 EDT
From: LEARYJ%SNYCORVA.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU

Date sent:  23-DEC-1992 12:28:59
Sorry, if im being lazy(I didn't check the archives for a report:-)
but...can any one whip a "Apple Talk Remote for the complete idiot"
guide?  Thanks in advance

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