HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David Gutierrez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: At Ease
Date: 9 Sep 92 16:32:43 GMT
Organization: Univ. Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

In article <18jj9nINNjdb@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> yjc@po.cwru.edu (Jerome Chan)
writes:
>  Does anyone know where I can get -At Ease-? I've got a whole floor full
>of people who wander in and out of my room and I'd like to have some form
>of security and easy to use interface for all those occasion Mac users.

I don't think it's shipped yet - at least it doesn't appear on my educational
price list.

David Gutierrez
drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu

"Only fools are positive." - Moe Howard
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: dh747612@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Dana Hartshorn)
Subject: Mobile Computing Roundtable
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1992 02:33:10 GMT
Distribution: USA
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523

I'll be participating in a discussion on the future of mobile computing next
week & I'd like to get some input from y'all about your concerns.  The sponsor
is Microsoft, the meeting in Denver on Wednesday.  While the topic seems vague,
I'd like to know how you feel about distributed networks (ARA), notebook/small
computers & what problems they present, security, keeping multiple sets of
files synchronized, and other items of concern.  I'm not just looking for
negatives either.  Be sure to mention what you like & want to see more of.
Please reply by E-Mail.
BTW, my 'reward' is the Microsoft app of my choice, would I be wasting it on
Excel 4.0?  
Dana
From: sticklen@cps.msu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: MathType vs Expressionist
Date: 14 Sep 92 15:46:47 GMT
Organization: AI/KBS Lab, Michigan State University

In article <1992Sep14.102026.15333@lin.foa.se> eriks@lin.foa.se (Erik Svensson
FOA2) writes:
>Greetings
>
>We've had some (ha!) problems with MathType 2.05, Word 4 and Sys 7.
>It has reached the level where we are considering converting to another
>equation writer. For various reasons we're not interested in Formulator.
>
...

The version of MathType that I have is not causing problems with Sys7. Since I
don't use WORD, i can't comment on that. The version of MathType we use is
2.11. I am not sure if that is the most recent, but you might want to look into
upgrading your 2.05 version.

  ---jon---
From: Glen.Stewart@f175.n2240.z1.ieee.org (Glen Stewart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: RE: Norton's Utilities 2.0's Speed Disk
Date: 3 Sep 92 15:29:58 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:2240/175 - The Associati, Grand Blanc MI

I've used it on my BBS.  No problems so far...


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: ferch@ucs.ubc.ca (Les Ferch)
Subject: Re: Wanted: System 7 compatible McSink
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 07:57:29 GMT

Come on people, if you find McSink so useful, then why not pay the money
and get Vantage (the commercial version). It is completely System 7
compatible (and takes advantage of color icons and drag and drop). The
price for Vantage via mail order is only a little more than the shareware
fee for McSink. Vantage will continue to be updated but McSink is DEAD,
DEAD, DEAD. 

Vantage has many features missing from McSink. Most useful to me is the
full word wrap capability (can be turned on and off) and the spell checker
is handy too. But the main reason I bought it is to have a stable,
supported product (Preferred Publishers even sends me a newsletter once in
a while with updated info on their products). 

Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.apps:14397 comp.sys.mac.wanted:8290
From: dplatt@ntg.com (Dave Platt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.mac.sys
Subject: Re: Comparison: FWB Hard Disk Toolkit & Personal Edition
Date: 10 Sep 92 17:19:45 GMT
Organization: New Technologies Group, Inc.  Palo Alto CA

>Will someone familiar with both describe what's different between
>FWB's Hard Disk Toolkit (~$124) and their Personal Edition (~$49)?

As I understand it, the Personal Edition has the formatting program (HDT
Primer) and some of the utilities (Mounter and Light Show, I believe?),
but does not include the disk-benchmarking utility nor HDT World Control
(the tweak-the-firmware-parameters utility).

I admit, I like having World Control... but then again, I'm a tweaker.

- It lets you examine and change the various Mode Sense pages supported
  by your drive.  You can adjust the drive's automatic-retry counters,
  the spare-sector allocation algorithms, the flags which control
  automatic reallocation ("sparing out") of dubious blocks during reads
  or writes, etc.

- It lets you examine the bad-sector lists.

- It lets you reallocate a block manually.

- It lets you tweak other things to your heart's content... including
  tweaks which could have evil effects on your drive or its performance.

For the average user, the Personal Edition is probably entirely
adequate, and the price is right (competitive with Drive7).  Hard Disk
Toolkit is a good disk-driver package (it'll drive an older Rodime
without difficulty... not many third-party drivers can do so), it
performs well, and I haven't had any compatibility problems with it at
all.  FWB's update policy is enlightened and friendly... all of their
updates to date have been free "mail back the master disks and we'll
upgrade them" ones.


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              Domain: dplatt@ntg.com      UUCP: ...netcomsv!ntg!dplatt
 USNAIL: New Technologies Group Inc. 2468 Embarcardero Way, Palo Alto CA 94303
From: delaney@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (John Delaney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: RFC: House Design Software
Date: 14 Sep 92 15:03:43 GMT
Reply-To: delaney@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (John Delaney)
Distribution: usa
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory

My wife and I are looking for software to help us firm up ideas for
the design of a new house before we start working with an architect on
detailed plans. I don't think we need the sort of CAD software a
professional architecture would use. The only alternative I have seen
on the market is "Design Your Own Home: Architecture" from Abracadata.
But a friend who used that package was not happy with it. So I am
soliciting from the net

1) Comments on "Design Your Own Home: Architecture" from past and
present users.

2) Suggestions as to alternative packages to investigate.

3) Comments on alternative packages.

Thanks in advance,

John

--
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: disinfectant 3.0????
From: stanger@otago.ac.nz (Nigel Stanger)
Date: 11 Sep 92 20:45:11 +1300
 <9224811.19747@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <j-norstad-040992163248@norstad.acns.nwu.edu> <1992Sep6.020354.5476@cs.cornell.edu>
Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

In article <1992Sep6.020354.5476@cs.cornell.edu>, csuley@cs.cornell.edu (Christopher Suley) writes:
> In article <j-norstad-040992163248@norstad.acns.nwu.edu> j-norstad@nwu.edu (John Norstad) writes:
>>In article <9224811.19747@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>, gleeson@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU
>>(Red Mountain) wrote:
>>> So they can release system 7.1.1 and you can't release 2.9.1 ? Not very
>>> nice of them really...
>>
>>I use the second digit for new virus releases, and the third digit for bug
>>fix releases (I've had two in the past, most recently 2.7.1).
>>
> I'd say go ahead and do 2.10, 2.11, etc. (hope we don't need them, sigh)
> White Knight and Red Ryder both did that... isn't White Knight up to
> 11.17 or something?  Or you could introduce Disinfectant Classic.
> Or follow Claris and do Disinfectant II, soon to become Disinfectant Pro.

It's not that simple: what I think John means is that the 'vers'
resource (which gives you some of the info in the Get Info window
in the Finder) only allows one byte for each digit of the version
number (i.e. 3 bytes in total with a filler byte at the front).
Now normally, that would let you go up to 15 for each number, but
the 'vers' resource editor in ResEdit zaps anything larger than 9
and turns it into a zero. Ergo, you can't go higher than 9
(except maybe for the first number).

Of course, if you're not worried about that, you can use any
version number you like... :)

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University of Otago,            Phone: +64 3 479-8179
Dunedin, NEW ZEALAND.           Fax:   +64 3 479-8311
"nI Ni NI ni sptang grep fuzzy urgle glunk" -- a (very weird) friend
From: mwojcik@pennsas.upenn.edu (Michael Wojcik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Looking for German dictionary to use with Word 5.0
Date: 8 Sep 92 18:15:08 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: the University of Pennsylvania

(Roland Strobel) wrote:
> 
> Stuff Deleted asking for German Dictionary for Word 5

Me too.

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From: jess@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jess M Holle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Does a QT utility exist such that...
Date: 10 Sep 92 02:44:34 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

Does a QuickTime utility exist (freeware or shareware) which will take a
movie which is saved in 32-bit color and save a dithered copy of it at a
lower bit-depth?  What I would like to do is to be able to take 32-bit
color animations and save a version that is dithered to, say 8-bit color.
This way the file would be much smaller and, unless I am mistaken the
animation would be smoother.

I am somewhat ignorant on Quicktime, since I have an SE/30 and do not 
really get into HUGE, choppy, dithered animations of 24-bit color scenes.
I would like to make use of this QT, however, if I could create animations in
24-bit color (made up of ray-fired frames or the like) and then convert
them to lower bit-resolutions as needed.

Jess Holle
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: sgrenander@NASAMAIL.JPL.NASA.GOV (Sven U. Grenander)
Subject: Re: RAM disk for system 7?
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 15:52:21 GMT

In article <BuL8tJ.z6@acsu.buffalo.edu>, triantos@acsu.buffalo.edu (Nick B
Triantos) wrote:
> 
> In article <1992Sep14.203705.27376@menudo.uh.edu> sunnyt@coding.bchs.uh.edu writes:
> 
> >Is there a ram disk program like 'Ram Disk+' or a new version of 'Ram Disk+'  
> >that works with system 7.  If there is one, is it commercial, shareware, or  
> >freeware??  I can't get 'Ram Disk+' (can't remember which verion, but its
> >kind of old) to run on my IIsi with system 7.  Any information will be
> >greatly appreciated. Thanx!!
> 
> On the shareware/freeware side, AppDisk, available at sumex, umich, etc., is
> nice.  Nothing too fancy last time I had looked at it, but it's apparently at
> least functional.  Commercially, there is Maxima, by Connectix, which is
> supposed to be great.  It allows for addressing up to 128MB of RAM, plus a RAM
> disk that can withstand restarts, shutdowns, and even crashes.  It's not too
> expensive (between $42-$50 where I've seen it in mail order), and Connectix
> usually makes some pretty neat utilities from what my friends tell me.
> 
> Hope this helps!
> -Nick
> --
> Nick Triantos    internet: triantos@acsu.buffalo.edu
>                  AOL:      Triantos
> "Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of
> 120 ft/sec, is a cow that has been dropped out of a helicopter." - Dave Barry

The most recent version of AppDisk is 1.6, (1.5 would not save to file if
the RAM allocation was larger than 16Mb). UMich has the 1.6 version.

My personal experience is that it is certainly worth the $15 shareware fee.

-Sven
From: ra_novy@DAL.MOBIL.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Persuasion:  Rotating Text
Date: 8 Sep 92 13:47:27 GMT

I enjoy the drawing capabilities of Persuasion 2.0, but I think it lacks a
useful feature, i.e. being able to rotate text strings.  I'd like to have a
string appear as would a label on the y-axis of a plot (with the baseline of
the text running parallel to the y-axis).

I'm able to rotate _each_ letter of a string: for example,

L
A
B
E
L

but this isn't what I want.

Have I missed something?  Can version 2.1 draw text with a vertical baseline?

Bob Novy
ra_novy@dal.mobil.com
Dallas, TX

No profundity today.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: sgrenander@NASAMAIL.JPL.NASA.GOV (Sven Grenander)
Subject: BlitzMail ?
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 21:06:30 GMT

At the suggestion of an earlier poster in this forum I downloaded a
copy of BlitzMail from the Dartmouth ftp site. It does indeed look
interesting, but the ftp version doesn't have what is needed to set
up a server (or whatever keeps addresses and passwords). Thus I
never got past the "enter name & password" dialog.

Does anyone have an e-mail address for the Dartmouth folks who
implemented this potentially nice application ? As it was version 
1.5 (no "b" or "d") it looks like it may be ready for experimental 
use if one could just set up a log-in name and address file.


Thanks.

-Sven
From: dana@are.Berkeley.EDU (Dana E. Keil)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Excel selection question
Date: 10 Sep 1992 17:27:05 GMT
Organization: UC Berkeley, Agr & Res Economics
NNTP-Posting-Host: are.berkeley.edu

I think what will work for you in this case is to use the function
FREEZE.PANES instead of SPLIT to make the row and column headings
always visible.
-- 
Dana E. Keil           Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
dana@are.Berkeley.EDU                 University of California, Berkeley
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc
From: wbarnes@sura.net (Bill Barnes)
Subject: Label and envelope printing program?
Organization: SURAnet, College Park, MD, USA, NA, Earth, Milky Way
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 22:04:58 GMT

I know that sounds like a trivial request, but we'd like to find a
good envelope and label printing program.  One that can do mail merges
and import addresses from a file, preferrably one that uses an
Informix or standard SQL interface.  Considering how many label
printing programs are out there, I assume some of you have used one
and could give us some pointers.

Please E-mail me your recommendations.  Thanks.
-- 
Bill "Whassamatter?!  Can't you take a joke?!" Barnes   wbarnes@sura.net
Disclaimer:  The author apologizes for any thought-provoking material he may
	     have accidentally included and promises not to do it again.
Datclaimer:  My employers wouldn't WANT to share some of my opinions.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: jlaurent@encore.com (Jim Laurent)
Subject: Re: mounting unix files on a Mac
Organization: Encore Computer Corporation
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 14:15:03 GMT

steele@vlsi.caltech.edu (Craig Steele) writes:

>>> Does anyone in netland know how to mount Unix file systems on a 
>Mac
>>> that is tied into an ethernet (with an ethernet card) as well as with
>>> a LocalTalk wire?
>>> --Bill
In an office of a number of people, the Cayman Gator box is an Ideal
solution.  It is an appletalk-ethernet NFS router.  It also supports
telnet and printing from the Unix system to an Apple laserwriter.
(Postscript or plain text)  It allows you to set up 'tunnels form your
appletalk through etihernet to another Gatorbox somewhere else.  In my
case I can "choose" a printer in Ft. Lauderdale, Houston Dallas or Boston
from my location in Washington D.C.  They cost about $2000 so you do
need several users to make in cost effective.  A mounted Unix file system
simply appears as a disk Icon on my desktop.  I have 5 Mac Pluses and Se
in my office.  It is easy to adminster


Jim Laurent				
Encore Computer Corporation		INTERNET: jlaurent@encore.com
4061 Powder Mill Road #400
Calverton  MD  20705
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: DOBENSON@ua1vm.ua.edu (Joe Demon)
Subject: Spell Checker for a Mac 512?
Organization: The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 16:27:20 GMT

  I have recently purchased an old Mac 512 and am running System 4.1 with
RamStart & MacWrite. I need a spell checker. I found one once at an FTP
site, but have since lost it. Anyone know of a spell checker that will
run on System 4.1?
 
 
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From: vvann@umbio.med.miami.edu (Vince Vann)
Subject: Re: WriteNow 3.0
Organization: University of Miami Medical School
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 00:43:11 GMT

ljones@utkvx2.utk.edu (Jones, Leslie Lamont) writes:
:      I sympathize with all those who are looking for an alternative
: to WORD, but for me, that alternative is not WriteNow 3.0
:      I purchased WN 3.0, learned to use it, and found a number of
: likable features, particularly in the area of disk and RAM use and 
: some niceties in the way the app operates.
:      After a few days, however, I knew I'd stay with WORD. I missed some
: of the very clever, useful features in WORD that I had taken for granted:
: the ability to navigate Yes/No/Cancel dialogues from the keyboard, a list of
: the last four open files, the ability to delete files from within WORD, etc.
:
: [Stuff Deleted]
:

All this talk about different word processor features... However, I have 
yet to see or hear of a word processor that supports "scientific-style"
references.  

In all scientific publications, each article that is referenced is
assigned a unique number that is cited multiple times throughout the
document.  I find it hard to believe that a "standard" such as Word 5.0 
does not support such an essential feature.  Maybe non-scientific
users don't care, but to scientific writers this is crucial.  

And yes, I am aware that third party software (such as EndNote, or
ProCite) can provide flexible reference managament, but it is just 
too combersome to use two programs for such a simple task.  

-- Vince

E-mail: vvann@umbio.med.miami.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: R.Singh@massey.ac.nz (R. Singh)
Subject: Writing a book in electronic format
Organization: Massey University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 22:57:28 GMT

What's the best way to write a book in electronic format? I need text,
graphics and "hot" text, that is clicking on it takes you further detailed
explanation. Hypercard does seem to be the obvious choice but I wondered if
there is another application designed for this sort of thing. However
references to Hypercard stacks I could use as a stating point would be
excellent. 


Raminder Singh
From: geoffb@coos.dartmouth.edu (Geoff Bronner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: BlitzMail ?
Date: 10 Sep 92 16:46:35 GMT
Reply-To: geoffb@Dartmouth.EDU
Organization: Amos Tuck School

In <1992Sep9.210630.17541@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> sgrenander@NASAMAIL.JPL.NASA.GOV (Sven Grenander) writes:

>At the suggestion of an earlier poster in this forum I downloaded a
>copy of BlitzMail from the Dartmouth ftp site. It does indeed look
>interesting, but the ftp version doesn't have what is needed to set
>up a server (or whatever keeps addresses and passwords). Thus I
>never got past the "enter name & password" dialog.

I don't know why someone would have suggested this. BlitzMail is an
internal Macintosh email program which is dependant on a central server
and name server at Dartmouth.
Even if you could get to our server (via MacTCP or something) you would
not have an account.

Sorry,

-Geoff Bronner
 Tuck School Computing, Dartmouth College.
--
geoffb@Dartmouth.EDU - Computing Support Consultant, Tuck School of Business

	"Excuse me, you're not that cool."
		-Dana Carvey
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: kgraff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Kathy A Graff)
Subject: Macintosh Users Group Meeting
Originator: kgraff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: milw
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 02:06:33 GMT

Announcing:

                      SEPTEMBER DOUBLE CLICK MAIN MEETING

                         Sunday, September 20, 2:00 PM
                           Bolton Hall, Room B46
                                UW-M campus

Double Click is the Macintosh Users Group of Milwaukee. If you use a 
Macintosh computer or are interested in them, please come. These 
meetings open to the general public. You don't have to be a member 
to attend.

AGENDA:

     * Demonstration of shareware and freeware available on 
       Double Click Disk # 81
     * Question and answer session
     * News and announcements
     * Reports from the Special Interest Groups (SIG's)

     * Break

     * Main Demonstration:
       
       This month's meeting is for beginners. (And experienced users 
       who want a review or to learn some new tricks!) We will be 
       showing everything beginning with how to set up your computer.
        
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Double Click activities:

DATE/TIME          GROUP                CONTACT
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September

20 (Sun) 2:00 PM   MAIN MEETING         kgraff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
                   Specially for Beginners
                   B46 Bolton Hall, UW-M

24 (Thur) 7:00 PM  Programmers          Warren Miller 1-284-7169
                                        wleemiller@aol.com

                   MIDI-Music SIG will not meet in September
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October

 7 (Wed) 7:00 PM   Telecommunications   Jim Macak 964-3147

12 (Mon) 7:00 PM   Multi Media          Jim Wamser 774-7336

14 (Wed) 7:00 PM   Business             Randy Groh 548-0159
                                        rgroh@aol.com

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Subject: Which uuencoder generates .rsrc and .finfo??
From: stanger@otago.ac.nz (Nigel Stanger)
Date: 7 Sep 92 14:18:27 +1300
Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

I just downloaded a uuencoded file with .finfo and .rsrc sections
in it. I vaguely remember that one of the many Mac
uuencoder/decoders does this, but I can't remember which one, and
I haven't got a copy of it (I tried UULite and UCMP so far).

Any ideas? Thanks.

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Nigel Stanger,                  Internet: stanger@otago.ac.nz
University of Otago,            Phone: +64 3 479-8179
Dunedin, NEW ZEALAND.           Fax:   +64 3 479-8311
Today's secret word is: "        ". (What do you expect? It's a secret!)
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