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From: kersey@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Bo Kersey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Visually Impaired vs a GUI Interface
Date: 13 Dec 92 21:51:38 GMT
Organization: University of Texas - Graduate School of Business
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Visually Impaired vs a GUI Interface

Yes, there is a product called the Voice Navigator that can be used for
this purpose.  Additionally, Apple is working on voice independent speech
recognition.

Since the mac has build in sound processing chips and a consistent
interface with almost all programs (i.e. File ... Save, File...Quit,
Edit...Copy) it seems to be the ideal system for the visually impaired. 
The only problem I see is dragging files around in the finder, but surely
something is being done there.

A friend of mine here at UT is working on software for the Mac that reads
text intelligently.  That is the software knows when St. should be street
and when it should be saint by the context in which it is used.  I saw a
demonstration and frankly, I was amazed.  His philosophy is to work with
standard, off the shelf equipment so he got a Mac.  That way, a visually
impaired person could sit down at any Mac and go to work.

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From: rgonzal@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Ralph Gonzalez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Quicken?? Think again...
Date: 18 Dec 92 19:14:20 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

c2xdlp@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Don Plym) writes:

>BOTTOM LINE: (ok, 3 or 4 lines) It's not worth my time (yet) to
>convert to MYOM, but any new user should factor Intuit's
>(a)pathetic product support into the equation before making
>a final decision about which program to use.    -- Don

I haven't tried either Quicken or Managing Your Money, but I was
recently alerted to the fact that MacWarehouse is selling MYM for
$35, and you can get a $15 manufacturer's rebate if you are
upgrading from an earlier version or if you are taking a 
"competitive upgrade" from another product. That is, you can
get it for $20 if you have Quicken.

-Ralph
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From: 9999sc01@uhdvx3.dt.uh.edu (Alexandre Khalil)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Flowcharting For The MAC
Date: 19 Dec 1992 19:24 CDT
Organization: University of Houston-Downtown
Distribution: world
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News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41A   

In article <1992Dec19.222459.16179@mlb.semi.harris.com>, esooter@x102a.ess.harris.com (sooter eric 64050) writes...
>In article <28767@oasys.dt.navy.mil> absmith@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Alfred Smith) writes:
>>Can anyone recommend a Flowcharting Program for the MAC?
>>In a previous life I used EASYFLOW on a PC and am looking
>>for something at least as powerful on the MAC.  Specifically:
>>able to choose the appropriate symbol from a menu; automatic
>>line routing; place text anywhere; flow and org chart capable;
>>infinit scaling to a laser printer; etc, etc..
>>I do have Powerpoint 3 which provides a selection of symbols;
>>however, I find it is still labour intensive.  There has got to
>>be a more elegant tool out there that doesn't cost a fortune.
>>Any suggestions?

  Kaetron Software specializes in this kind of programs.  TopDown is the elder
brother. It is targeted towards flowcharting and is very good at it. The
younger brother OrgChart, as its name indicates, is more directed towards
organizational charts.  It is very sophisticated and remarkably user-
friendly.

  If you are interested in flowchart, TopDown is your guy. If you are into 
really powerusing and are building and modifying large hierarchies, 
OrgChart fits the description.

  On the down side, neither is free/shareware.

alex@dt.uh.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: antkasx@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (Ken A. Sturrock)
Subject: Re: McWrite Pro?
Organization: Georgia State University
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 17:44:12 GMT

triantos@netcom.Netcom.COM (Nick B Triantos) writes:



>I work at Claris, and use MacWrite Pro for many of my day-to-day tasks.  It
>officially enters "beta test" stage by year-end, and is now officially
>slated for release in the second quarter of 1993.  It is a nice program, by
>the way...  8->

Claris ( to my knowledge ) has never failed to write nice programs. MacWrite
II is a nice program, just a little limited. What features can we now expect
in MacWrite Pro ( If you are at liberty to say )?

Inquiring minds want to know.
The only person still using MacWrite II in the department wants to know.

						
						-ks
From: Andrew.Cohill@vtssi.vt.edu (Andrew Michael Cohill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: What's the best Mac spreadsheet?
Date: 18 Dec 92 13:51:02 GMT
Organization: Fire in the Mountain
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X-XXDate: Fri, 18 Dec 92 08:55:15 GMT

For the application you describe, I would look very closely at Resolve, 
from Claris.  I switched to it from Excel and am much happier.  It never 
crashes, unlike Excel, has very nice graphics that compare very favorably 
with Excel (3-D, many chart types), has an extremely nice scripting 
language for power users, unlike Excel (macros only), and in general 
looks and feels like a Mac application, instead of a Windows application 
that was ported sloppily to the Mac.

Claris is also not in the business of maximizing profits by issuing 
frequent upgrades at outrageous prices.  If you buy Excel plan on 
spending $129 *a year* for upgrades.

One nice thing about the Claris products is that they all use common 
dictionaries, the Xtnd technology,  and Resolve supports real Mac publish 
and subscribe.  You can do some really nice things now with MacProject 
Pro and Resolve, for example.  Excel's support of Apple events is iffy at 
best.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.misc
From: friedman@netcom.com (Greg Friedman)
Subject: Help: Sharing non-networkable modem
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:30:13 GMT

I am looking for a utility that would allow me to share a non-
networkable modem on an appletalk network.  I've seen it done
before - so I know it's possible.

There's a commercial product out called ShadowWriter that lets
a networked mac share it's personal printer.  I am looking for
the modem equivalent.

I am hoping to find shareware that will do it, but please let
me know of ANY software that can do the trick.

Thanks!

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: zeke@fasttech.com (Bohdan Tashchuk)
Subject: Re: McWrite Pro?
Organization: Fast Technology
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 10:47:27 GMT

In <TRIANTOS.92Dec10184648@netcom.Netcom.COM> triantos@netcom.Netcom.COM (Nick B Triantos) writes:

>  > Has anyone heard anything on the release of the proverbial McWrite Pro?
>  > John

>  It will DEFINITELY be available in late 1990. We promise. Really. We mean it.

>I work at Claris, and use MacWrite Pro for many of my day-to-day tasks.  It
>officially enters "beta test" stage by year-end, and is now officially
>slated for release in the second quarter of 1993.  It is a nice program, by
>the way...  8->

It had better be a VERY nice program. People are pretty disgusted with the
unending delays. As recently as MacWorld in August I was told "winter".

Microsoft has been very busy improving Word. They had a demo of the latest
version at the local Mac user group just yesterday. They offered $99 copies
to people attending the demo.

They've also recently improved Excel and Works. Also, they seem to be serious
when they ask for user input on what they should be doing.

Claris has been utterly inept. They've let Microsoft walk away with the high
end word processor market. Microsoft already totally owns spreadsheets and is
making another attempt at the integrated software market.

In my wildest dreams, heads rolled at Claris over the MacWrite fiasco. A more
likely scenario is that competent people left or were fired and bozos were
rewarded with promotions.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Gareth Swarbrick <gareth@civeng.unsw.edu.au>
Subject: Interleaf CGM to Macintosh PICT
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A7524557E401A440@rageth.civeng.unsw.edu.au>
X-Xxdate: Mon, 14 Dec 92 14:06:15 GMT
Organization: University of New South Wales
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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 03:06:36 GMT

Dear vast body of immeasurable knowledge,
        	       	       	       	       	we have a Sun network here upon
which Interleaf 5 features quite prominantly. I have an SparcStation SLC
and a Mac IIsi on my desk and would like to harness the advantages of
both. So far I have been able to port formatted text (including tables)
to and from machines without too much difficulty.

I can port graphics to the Sun but I cannot seem to port graphics from
the Sun to the Mac. The only available graphics filter for converting
from Interleaf to some other format is an Interleaf to CGM (Computer
Graphics Metafile(?)). I have serached both Mac and PC archives but have
not found any reference to how I might convert a CGM file to, say, PICT
on the Mac. Can anyone help me?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: nilesinc@well.sf.ca.us (Avi Rappoport)
Subject: Re: McWrite Pro?
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 19:55:03 GMT

In <TRIANTOS.92Dec13101343@netcom2.Netcom.COM> triantos@netcom2.Netcom.COM (Nick B Triantos) writes:

>....
>There is also support for Add-It modules, to allow companies that make
>auxiliary programs to word processors directly available from with in
>MacWrite Pro (a la Word, Quark, etc).  An example of these Add-Its could be
>a grammar checker (yech), math typesetting program, or footnote package like
>EndNote.

Sorry folks, the application programmer interface for Add-Its is not rich
enough to support a bibliography module like our Plug-In Module for Word 5.
Maybe we can work around this in the future, but please don't expect our
support for MacWrite Pro to be integrated.  We do hope to use XTND to format
MacWrite Pro files, though.
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From: frederic@cs.unc.edu (Robin Fredericksen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Mathematica
Keywords: interpolation functions
Date: 18 Dec 92 18:52:18 GMT
Followup-To: poster

Thanks in advance for any help that anyone can provide on this topic.
If this question belongs on a different news group I apologize and
request a pointer to that group.  If it is some sort of FAQ, then
I would love to read the FAQ list for such a thing.

I am using Mathematica (on a Mac) for reading in a data file
with points with a non-square (non-regularly spaced) grid of points.

(i.e. sample points that look like)

	0	0		0				0
	
	0	0		0				0


	0	0		0				0





	0	0		0				0







	0	0		0				0



I am using the interpolation function that mathematica offers

	Function = Interpolate[ <datalist>, InterpolationOrder->1]


As I understand the manual, this should create a function which provides as output
the above data with linear interpolation between the points.  However the output
that I get from this is definately NOT a linear interpolation, but something
that looks quadratic.

Can anyone tell me how to fix this?  Is therea simple work-around?

Please email responses to 
frederic@cs.unc.edu

Thanks.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: jdurham@atg.amex-trs.com (Jeff Durham)
Subject: Re: Duplicating Copy Protected Floppies
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:46:43 GMT
Organization: American Express
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps

In article <85241@ut-emx.uucp>, ifby661@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Adam) wrote:
> 
> Hello. I have just bought some MIDI software from Opcode, and the disks
> are coppy-protected. I have tried DiskCopy 4.2, DART, and some other
> disk-copying programs, and they all give me error -71 (I think). Well, I
> would like to make a back-up copy FOR MY OWN USE, and I dunno what to do.
>  Can anyone suggest some program that will let me do this? (Hopefully
> shareware/freewhere, and whre to get it)
> 
While we are on the subject does anyone know how to create the invisible
files that MOTU's MIDI products (Performer, Composer) create using the
hardisk install? I'm paranoid that my hardisk will crash again and I'll
lose my last remaining hardisk install.

Copying the floppies would also be an option but if I remember correctly,
none of the various versions of Copy II Mac that I own will copy them.

Jeff Durham
jdurham@atg.amex-trs.com
From: brecher@husc8.harvard.edu (Jonathan Brecher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: (!) SofatAT Demo location
Date: 11 Dec 92 20:41:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc8.BRECHER.92Dec11124106
Organization: Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services, Cambridge, MA
In-reply-to: parkyn@fraser.sfu.ca's message of Thu, 10 Dec 1992 16:13:37 GMT

parkyn@fraser.sfu.ca (Dale Parkyn) writes:
>parkyn@fraser.sfu.ca (Dale Parkyn) writes:
>>SoftAT-251 demonstration file seems to have disappeared. I just checked
>>a 'sumex-aim mirror site' and SoftAT is no longer in the DEMO directory.

>FURTHER INFORMATION
>FTP sites that may still have SoftAT Demo
>src.doc.ic.ac.uk@/computing/systems/mac/umich/misc/demo/softatdemo2.51sit.hqx.Z
>plaza.aarnet.edu.au@/micros/mac/umich/misc/demo/softatdemo2.51.sit.hqx
>wuarchive.wustl.edu@/mirrors3/archive.umich.edu/mac/misc/demo/softatdemo2.51.sit.hqx

...not to mention mac.archive.umich.edu/mac/misc/demo/softatdemo2.51.sit.hqx,
the original site that all of these mirror.  Not only do we have all of the
files that sumex does (excluding those added in the last day or two and 
certain general classes, such as quicktime and sounds), but we have most
of the files that sumex had at one time but since deleted.  And all of 
our files are orgainzed in a simple, logical hierarchy.  Check out our 
800K index in /mac/00help/index.txt.

As always, questions, comments, flames, or anything else you'd like to
share with the people who run the archive should be sent to 
comments@mac.archive.umich.edu

					jonathan brecher
					brecher@husc.harvard.edu
					assistant mac.archivist
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: mark_silbernagel@mentorg.com
Subject: Re: TheNews- 32-bit Clean?
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 00:14:36 GMT
Organization: Mentor Graphics Corporation

In article <1992Dec11.004811.20798@news.mentorg.com>
mark_silbernagel@mentorg.com writes:
>
>The fellow in the next office runs an SE/30, 7.0 (with patches), MacTCP
>1.1 and localtalk through a FastPath.
>

Oops, he upgraded/downgraded a bit since I last peeked. It's an 8Mb II (yes,
II) running 6.05 (the downgrade part).

Mark Silbernagel                |
Mentor Graphics Corporation     | ...Don't let the sands of time
8005 S.W. Boeckman Road         |    get in your shorts      ;')
Wilsonville, OR  97070-7777     |
(503) 685-4738                  |    mark_silbernagel@mentorg.com

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: gpb@gpb-mac (greg berryman )
Subject: Re: Redirect printing to a file?
Organization: SPS
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 16:36:30 GMT

morris@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Ted Morris) writes:
: We are using a terminal emulation package to access a CD-ROM gateway
: which runs MS-DOS-based search engines to retrieve data from the
: CD-ROMs.  Since we're having the Macs act as terminals, users can print
: to their "slave printer" (as DEC VMS calls them) attached to their Macs,
: but can't "download."  For the MS-DOS users, we have a program which can
: be turned on and off to redirect information destined for the printer to
: a file instead.  Is there something like this for the Mac?  It would
: have to be something the user could turn on and off at will, during a
: work session.
: 

I don't know if such a program exists, we use Versaterm for our terminal
emulation package and it will happily stream capture any session or part
of a session.  Other emulation packages will do so too.  Perhaps it would
be possible to change terminal emulators.

Remember, the above free advice is worth what you paid for it.

Greg.

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From: neutron@stein.u.washington.edu (   )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: creating a PostScript file from a PageMaker file (help request)
Date: 20 Dec 92 01:43:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Dec20.014314.8100
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle


==============================================================================
	How can I get a postcript file from a pagemaker file? 
	Pagemaker 4.0 has that as an option in the PRINT OPTIONS
	menu, but 3.0 does not.   But I thought there might be
	some way of doing it.  Maybe in a similar way as with
	MacDraw (pressing command-F while printing stores the
	file in a postsscript form).

	Any help will be greatly appreciated.

	Ron  
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: garrett@me.udel.edu (Joel J. Garrett; Office 127 CMSL; Phone 831-2332)
Subject: (Q) Mac Diagnostic programs...
Followup-To: garrett@me.udel.edu
Summary: Snooper, MacEKG, or something else, what's best?
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 19:14:19 GMT

Recently a host of diagnostic utilities has come on the scene, such as Snooper
and MacEKG.  Which of these programs do you all recommend for helping to
diagnose hardware/software problems?  Can they really help, or are they just
not useful for spotting such problems as bad/marginal RAM, hard disks, other
hardware?  I always found that things like the "Advanced Diagnostics" disk for
IBM PCs never told me anything that I didn't already no - problem or no problem.
Is this true for these types of Mac programs as well?

Please respond by email, I will post a summary if there is interest.

						Joel Garrett
						garrett@me.udel.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: malj8589@mach1.wlu.ca (maljkovich john)
Subject: Re: v7.0.1 crashes with MacWrite II with 32-bit on
Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:49:47 GMT

I've got MacWrite II 1.1 v3 and I've go no problems.  I don't think that v2
is fully system 7 compatible but I may be wrong.

John Maljkovich
From: pmcilroy@bt-sys.bt.co.uk (Paul McIlroy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Listing fonts used in MSWord docs.
Date: 14 Dec 92 20:29:21 GMT
Reply-To: pmcilroy@bt-sys.bt.co.uk
Organization: British Telecom

If you read a PageMaker file written by someone else then 
PageMaker warns you if you do not have all of the requisite
fonts.  However, if you read someone else's MSWord file with
MSWord it does not warn you if you are missing some of the
necessary fonts.  It just quietly substitutes some other
(arbitrary ?) font.  Does anybody know of a way of listing all
the fonts used by a Word document ?  That is, how can I find out
what fonts I need if I am to print someone else's word document
and have it look the way they intended ?

Many thanks,

Paul McIlroy (pmcilroy@bt-sys.bt.co.uk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Demo CD-ROM Available Free
From: kent@centauri.dmc.com (Tom Kent)
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 08:54:54 EDT
Reply-To: kent@centauri.dmc.com (Tom Kent)
Organization: Sophist Solutions
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1

In a recent posting I listed information about a CD-ROM with information
about 2800+ Mac applications and 294 demos. In this posting I listed the
vendor's price of $29.95. This morning I saw the disk listed as a
giveaway ($3 shipping) in a "Dr. Mac" catalog. So don't pay for it!

The disk is called Apple Macintosh Software Product Database.


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From: bernard@hydra3f.cs.utk.edu (Lance Bernard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Query: TimesTwo or AutoDoubler 2.0???
Date: 18 Dec 1992 18:11:50 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Department of Computer Science
Distribution: world
Reply-To: bernard@hydra3f.cs.utk.edu (Lance Bernard)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hydra3f.cs.utk.edu
Keywords: Times Two, Autodoubler

Having a 4/40 powerbook, is Times Two as good as it description indicates, or
would Autodoubler 2.0 be a better bet? (I mostly use ThinkC, GreatWorks, 
Writenow 3.0, Zterm 0.9, ThinkPascal, & QuickBasic.)  I'm asking because the 
description of Times Two looks like a dream come true, & you know how those
sometimes turn out!

Direct post is fine, or net post if you think more useful.  If I get enough
good info by direct post, I will summarize to net.

Thanks!

Lance Bernard (bernard@cs.utk.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: aa550@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Don Zolinski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: editing TIFF images
Date: 14 Dec 1992 23:28:53 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: aa550@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Don Zolinski)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


I am looking for a shareware program on FTP that will 
allow me to edit a TIFF scanned image. I have several 
images that I want to be able to place on disk to 
printout on a laserwriter at a different site. The
images presently are about 2.5 megs, but could be
edited into three sections and placed on disks.