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From: cubsfan@camelot.bradley.edu (Michael Silverman)
Subject: Re: ColorDesk
Organization: Priests of the Temples of Syrinx
Date:  8 Oct 92 17:50:07 GMT

In <1992Oct8.020229.2615@news.Hawaii.Edu> dsato@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu (Derek Sato) writes:



>Does anyone know of the program called ColorDesk?
>If you know who the publisher is or where I could obtain/buy a copy,
>please e-mail me.  Many Thanks...

I have a beta version of colorDesk...If this is what you are
looking for: It basically lets you place a picture over your
desktop pattern...sort of like wallpaper but much nicer because
you can use an entire picture...one flaw though (maybe this
is corrected in the commerical product) is that when you move
an icon around, you can see "through" you picture
down to the original desktop pattern. All in all, it is
worth picking up if the price is right....
--
cubsfan@camelot.bradley.edu

"One likes to believe in the freedom of baseball" - Geddy Lee
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: margaret@sfu.ca (Margaret Sharon)
Subject: Re: Word Strangeness
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 15:30:33 GMT

Robert Sadowski writes
> I have recently been having problems with Microsoft Word wrapping text
> at odd places in the middle of a line for no apparent reason. It is almost
> like there are some "phantom tabs" in the line that are causing it to break.

Having fractional widths turned on sometimes causes behaviour like this.  Do  
the lines readjust properly if you repaginate the document?

--
Margaret M. Sharon, Academic Computing Services      margaret@sfu.ca
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby BC Canada V5A 1S6   604-291-4633
From: Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: RE: Pagemaker 4.2a problems
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 20:14:55 EST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:226/20.18 - cmhGate UF Gateway, Columbus OH

mmt@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca (Martin Taylor) writes:

MT> Problem 1. I want to have my fourth-level headings in Times 
MT> 14pt italic, with the following paragraph not separated by 
MT> a newline, but following immediately on the same line. The 
MT> heading wants to be in a style "head4", the text in "normal" 
MT> which is Times 10 pt on 12 leading (and other stuff). How 
MT> can I get this to happen? If I set the heading style, it asserts 
MT> the same style for the text, overriding my setting of "normal". 
MT> If I reset the text to "normal" it overrides the heading style. 
MT> I could do this in the first book, and I want the second to 
MT> look just the same as the first. 

You're talking about character-level style sheets, which I don't think
PageMaker ever had.  It certainly doesn't have them now, in 4.2x.

--Adam--
 
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From: pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby)
Subject: Re: any program to de-tar files?
Organization: 3M Company
Distribution: comp
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 12:52:09 GMT

In article <26868@castle.ed.ac.uk> crs@castle.ed.ac.uk (C R Smart) writes:
>Is there any PD/shareware program that will read and expand *.tar files?

Tar 3.0 should be available from most of the archive sites.  StuffIt
Deluxe will also read and create .tar files with the Translators included.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: hise@iastate.edu (Allan R Hise)
Subject: Sound conversion utility
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 17:46:20 GMT

Is there a preferably shareware utility that will allow you to play
sound in the *.au format on a mac.  SOund Extractor will do it, but
the sounds seem muddy and it can't find the proper sampling
frequency...

Thanks for any help.

-- 
Allan		 | Could someone explain Ohm's Law to me?  I'm a senior in
hise@iastate.edu | electrical engineering and I guess I'm supposed to know it
"I'm gonna be puhsykeologist when I grow up"
"I'm gonna be a roadrunner.  Meep Meep Whiz Bang!" 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: eepmatt@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Matthew Friedman)
Subject: Does anyone have an email address for Mindscape Software?
Summary: Does anyone have an email address for Mindscape Software?
Keywords: Does, anyone, have, an, email, address, for, Mindscape, Software?
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 06:07:01 GMT

Does anyone have an email address for Mindscape Software?

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: srussell@cie.uoregon.edu (Steven Russell)
Subject: ThoughtPattern v2.0  -- Is it available?
Organization: University of Oregon Campus Information Exchange
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 08:32:17 GMT

Anyone know if the new version of ThoughtPattern is available yet? 
Bananafish Software was saying that it would be ready by the end of
summer, which I suppose is right about now.  I'm looking forward to
the seeing the upgrade.

--
Steven Russell
srussell@cie.uoregon.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: psyc285@csc.canterbury.ac.nz
Subject: Smart Alarms 
Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 22:17:51 GMT

For a long time I have had an illicit copy of Smart Alarms. It has been one of
the most useful programs ever, and now I would like to go legit, but canUt
locate a new copy to buy. The Get info section is practically useless it simply
says copyright 1990 John R. McMullen.

If anyone knows where I can get hold of a legitimate copy, newer than 1990
preferably, or the name of the company which distributes it, I would be very
grateful.

I suppose there might be another program around thats as good, but I have used
smart alarms for so long it has become part of my day.

==== Ijan Beveridge Animal Psychologist, Department of Psychology ====
                         University of Canterbury
                              CHRISTCHURCH
                              NEW ZEALAND
PSYC285@CANTERBURY.AC.NZ                      NUCLEAR FREE NEW ZEALAND
=======================================================================   
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: gmarfoe@eng.auburn.edu (Gerald G. Marfoe)
Subject: Re: SF-171 FORM SOFTWARE FOR
Summary: Mac Product Registry location?
Keywords: SF-171, MacDraw II, Mac Product Registry
Reply-To: gmarfoe@eng.auburn.edu
Organization: Auburn University Engineering
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 18:43:16 GMT

In article F00001@blkcat.UUCP, Philip.Schuler@f421.n109.z1.fidonet.org 
(Philip Schuler) writes:
> Gerald G. Marfoe writes:
> > Is there any software with the latest copy of the SF-171 (US Government
> > employment application form)? I tried a place that last advertised in MacUser
> > in January, but got no response.
>  
>   My wife recently re-did her SF-171 with a program called "SF-171 Works"
> published by Keator Software [PO Box 608, Bozeman, MT  59771]. It requires
> Microsoft Works (she used Works 2.0, not the recently released 3.0) and comes in
> either a LaserWriter or ImageWriter version (you have to specify which one you
> want when you order it). It cost around $60, I think, which is cheap IMHO,
> considering what a hellish form the 171 is to deal with. I can offer no comments
> on how well it works other than it seemed pretty slow to me (we have a SE, so
> that may be the culprit rather than the software).
> 
>   As I recall, there were a couple other SF-171 packages listed in the Mac
> Product Registry. One used MacDraw and another used some forms software package.
> From time to time I've seen templates for things like Filemaker or drawing
> packages posted on America OnLine, but I've never tried them.
> 
> Good luck,
> Phil Schuler
> 

Thanks for the info on SF-171 Works, Phil. Where can I find the Mac Product
Registry? I'm interested in using the SF-171 for MacDraw II, if it exists.

Gerald Marfoe
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From: erh0362@tesla.njit.edu (Elliotte Rusty Harold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Font for Microsoft Word 5.0 help
Date: 11 Oct 92 16:19:26 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology


	Does anybody know off the top of their heads what font family and size 
Microsoft Word 5.0 uses in its Help windows?  I've got pretty much all the 
standard ones in all the standard sizes installed, but the help window in Word 
still looks like it's trying to create a 12 point bitmap from a 9 point font.
Is it perhaps a special font that Word didn't install because I did a custom 
installation and didn't let it put in any System resources?

Elliotte Rusty Harold		Department of Mathematics
elharo@m.njit.edu		New Jersey Institute of Technology
erh0362@tesla.njit.edu		Newark, NJ 07102
From: tal691@huxley.anu.edu.au (Tonio Loewald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Word 5.0 DIE DIE DIE!
Date: 11 Oct 92 04:53:38 GMT
Organization: Australian National University
NNTP-Posting-Host: huxley.anu.edu.au

Word 5.0 isn't a word-processor. It's Windows for the Mac. It has its
own printer drivers, its own applications, and its own filing system.

I'm just waiting for MicroSludge to include Minesweeper in it.

Tonio

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tal691@huxley.anu.edu.au | Fax 06 290 1595 | ACT 2601   AUSTRALIA

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: bartosz@milton.u.washington.edu (Bartosz Kijanka)
Subject: Suggestions about office apps.
Keywords: office applications, productivity software, mail, printing
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 19:10:02 GMT


I need to find a good program capable of mail-merging, printing labes etc.
I'd appreciate any suggestions....  Also, I would like to share a laser
printer amongts several macs, what is the preffered way to do this?  Thanks
a lot....



bartosz@u.washington.edu
(please mail your responses)




Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: R.Singh@massey.ac.nz (R. Singh)
Subject: Utility that logs time of strtup and shutdown?
Organization: Massey University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 02:46:26 GMT

Is there a utility that logs the time of when the mac starts up and shuts
down.

Raminder Singh

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: smytonj@murr11.alleg.edu (James Smyton)
Subject: Re: Word 5.0 DIE DIE DIE!
Organization: Allegheny College
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 14:11:38 GMT

In article <1992Oct11.181300.5625@netcom.com> derek@netcom.com (Derek  
LeLash) writes:
> In article <tal691.718779218@huxley> tal691@huxley.anu.edu.au (Tonio  
Loewald) writes:
> >Word 5.0 isn't a word-processor. It's Windows for the Mac. It has its
> >own printer drivers, its own applications, and its own filing system.

What are you talking about?  Word 5 has TEMPLATES, but it uses APPLE's  
drivers.  What the hell do you mean by "Windows for the Mac?"  Isn't  
windows just a cheap immitation of the Mac OS anyway?  Were you feeling OK  
when you wrote this?
--
J S  (smytonj@alleg.edu)

Sometimes ya just gotta grab life by the teeth and yank as hard as you  
can.		-Weird Al
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: sims@possum.den.mmc.com (John Sims)
Subject: EPS => Macdraw, etc converter
Organization: Martin Marietta Astronautics Group, Denver
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 17:52:15 GMT

Hi Folks,
Sorry if this is another FAQ, but does anyone have a lead on an EPS to
macdraw (or other common mac drawing program) converter.  It seems
MacDraw Pro just draws a box as a placeholder for the EPS file.  I need
to be able to see the drawing on the screen.  

email replies are preferable.  If there's interest, I'll post a summary.

Many thanks in advance,
John
-- 
John Sims    sims@pogo.den.mmc.com
From: dg@cam-orl.co.uk (Dave Garnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Wanted: Info on 'Miracle' piano and similar.
Date: 12 Oct 92 09:19:03 GMT
Reply-To: dg@cam-orl.co.uk (Dave Garnett)
Organization: Olivetti Reasearch Ltd, Cambridge, England

Does anyone in Netland have any experience of the 'Miracle'
piano, or any similar Midi based music teaching aid ?

regards, Dave
From: erh0362@tesla.njit.edu (Elliotte Rusty Harold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Font for Microsoft Word 5.0 help
Date: 15 Oct 92 04:52:33 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology

>>	Does anybody know off the top of their heads what font family and size 
>>Microsoft Word 5.0 uses in its Help windows?  I've got pretty much all the 
>>standard ones in all the standard sizes installed, but the help window in Word 
>>still looks like it's trying to create a 12 point bitmap from a 9 point font.
>>Is it perhaps a special font that Word didn't install because I did a custom 
>>installation and didn't let it put in any System resources?
>>
>>
> 
> Bad boy.
> Word does install something called MTEtext, I think, in the system file, along
> with some fonts, I think.  I'm surprised word is running at all, or isn't
> crashing on you.

	I did a custom installation that deliberately didn't put any resources 
in the system file since previous inquiries on the subject were met with claims 
that Word only put some resources for voice annotation and a font for the 
equation editor there, neither of which I needed.  I'll try installing just the 
system resources and see if that cures the problem.  Just one more example of 
Microsft violating good programming practices.  Interestingly enough in 4.0 
they had a special version of one of the system fonts (I forget which one.) 
installed in the application itself.  I wish they had gone that route in 5.0.  
But of course there was that still unidentified problem in 4.0 where Word would 
COMPLETELY lose track of what font was used in a document (i.e. it couldn't 
even tell you what font a given character was in when asked) and produce some 
of the strangest and weirdest text I ever saw.  By the way, a neat trick to 
avoid the whole hassle of firing up the installer every time you want to change 
your Word configuration and searching around for the personalized copy of your 
master install disk, Stuffit Lite can decompress the various files on the Word 
disks straight to your hard disk without using the installer at all.  I'm not 
sure if this works for system resources, but maybe I can sneak the fonts 
out of the archives.

Elliotte Rusty Harold		Department of Mathematics
elharo@m.njit.edu		New Jersey Institute of Technology
erh0362@tesla.njit.edu		Newark, NJ 07102
From: delaney@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (John Delaney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Word 5.0 DIE DIE DIE!
Date: 14 Oct 92 12:53:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: xn.1992Oct14.125356.11683
Reply-To: delaney@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (John Delaney)
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Would you guys please take this verbal foodfight to
comp.sys.mac.advocacy or alt.flame or any other group to which I don't
subscribe?

Thank you,

John and hundreds of other bored readers of comp.sys.mac.apps
--
From: campbell@leonardo.src.honeywell.com (Jim Campbell 7644)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Macintosh Emulator for Sun
Date: 13 Oct 92 22:23:46 GMT
Reply-To: campbell@leonardo.src.honeywell.com
Organization: Honeywell Systems and Research Center

Thanks to all who replied to my request for Macintosh emulators
that run on Sun SPARCStations.

The overwhelming majority suggested Liken from Xcelerated Systems,
Inc.  They can be reached at (619) 576-3080.

I obtained an evaluation copy of this software for one month, and
I will post a complete evaluation after that time.  

The software emulates Mac Classic.  It supports window sizes up to
1024X768 pixels.  No Appletalk support (at least none I can find).
System 6.0.7 ONLY!

Xcelerated Systems said they will be releasing a better emulator
product at the end of this year that will be color.  This version
is only B&W.  Maybe this means that they will emulate a 68030 in
the new version...

Jim Campbell
Honeywell's Systems and Research Center
Minneapolis, MN
From: mark@prepress.com (Mark S. Bubien)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Authoring Software Recommendations??
Date: 9 Oct 92 17:21:27 GMT
Organization: Pre-Press Technologies, Carlsbad Ca.


I am thinking about getting into the world of authoring.
I am a total novice, and I know almost nothing about the field.

I am hoping to produce some kind of CD-ROM based, multimedia,
interactive program.  I have heard of Macromind Director, but
it's pretty darned expensive (and I don't know what it can do).

Does anyone have any recommendations, given the above constraints?
IE Hypercard, Supercard, Macromind, or whatever else is out there.

Thanks
	Mark
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: robb@mentorg.com (Rob Bartel)
Subject: Re: QuickKeys 2 PB "rest" extension?
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 21:28:39 GMT
Organization: Mentor Graphics Corporation
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Dave DeVisser (Dave_DeVisser@mindlink.bc.ca) wrote:
: > Rob Bartel writes:
: >
: > Msg-ID: <1992Oct05.235210.26501@news.mentorg.com>
: > Posted: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 23:52:1
: >
: > Org.  : Mentor Graphics Corporation
: >
: > Anybody know if there is a QuickKeys extension somewhere that allows
: > keyboard switching of the "rest" and "don't rest" setting on the
: > PowerBooks?
: >
: > --
: >        Rob Bartel -- Mentor Graphics Corp.  rob_bartel@mentorg.com
: > *** These thoughts are my own and should in no way be construed to be
: > *** related to Mentor Graphics thoughts in any useful way
: 
: 
: Yes.  In the most recent version of Quickeys (2.1.2) in the "Finder Events"
: extension, there is a function for "Sleep."  I use it often!
: 
: TTFN
: 

Yeah, I knew about that one. The one I want is not in the QuickKeys stuff, I
don't think, and would turn off the "rest/don't rest" "feature" of the
PowerBooks. (As an aside, I really think that Apple blew it with this one.
Surely there is some way to distinguish between "application running" and
"system idling" modes.) In any event, there is a pair of tiny applications out
there (on ftp.apple.com, I think) called "rest" and "don't rest" that
turn this on and off, but particularly in low memory situations they can kill
running applications.

So, what I was wondering is if anyone knows of some
third-party/shareware/freeware QuickKeys extension that does this.

--
       Rob Bartel -- Mentor Graphics Corp.  rob_bartel@mentorg.com
*** These thoughts are my own and should in no way be construed to be
*** related to Mentor Graphics thoughts in any useful way
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: bernardo@erevax.bitnet (Marcelino Bernardo)
Subject: Re: Word 5 Equation Editor font printing problem--Help!
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.periphs.printers,comp.fonts
Organization: Exxon Research & Engineering, Co.
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 15:07:35 GMT

In article <14OCT199218255198@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov>,
kayser@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (Susan E. Kayser NSSDC/STX (301)513-1673)
wrote:
> 
> I've got a problem getting various fonts to print when they are used in 
> equations generated by Equation Editor in Word 5 (and inserted into the text).  
> Postscript fonts that are in my printer's ROM (the usual 35) work fine.  
> TrueType fonts such as New York, which came with the System, and--more 
> important--such as MT Extra, which comes with the Equation Editor and includes 
> the special symbols the Equation Editor needs, look fine on the screen, but 
> "cannot be found" by my printer, so it uses Courier instead.  (I have the 
> RealTech Laser, same as the DataProducts Laser 960, with minimum memory, using 
> PostScript Level 2.)  When printed on an Apple IINTX, these fonts do print
> correctly.  However, bitmap fonts, for which no outline font exists, do not
> print correctly (Courier replaces them) on either printer, although again they
> look right on the screen. 
> 
> When any of these fonts are used in ordinary Word text, or in equations
> generated using Word's formula commands, they print perfectly. 
> 
> I don't know if the problem is in my printer (or with Level 2), or in Word, or 
> in the Equation Editor (courtesy of MathType).  I've talked to a MS tech, and 
> his suggestions to turn fractional widths and font substitution on/off made no 
> difference; he had no other suggestions.  Can anyone tell me where to start 
> looking for help?
> 

Do you have "MTExt" installed in the "Extensions" folder?

Marcelino Bernardo
bernardo@erevax.bitnet
*These opinions are my own*
From: errera@ese.ogi.edu (Claude Errera)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Problem Installing Excel 4.0 Help
Date: 8 Oct 92 14:39:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: ogicse.43826
Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute - Department of Env. Science and Eng.

In article <1992Oct8.125235.19426@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> geoffb@Dartmouth.EDU writes:
>In <ceou5IT0Bwx3Ej=UF3@transarc.com> Barry_Wolman@transarc.com writes:
>
>>I've tried multiple times to install the Excel 4.0 Help application;
>>each time I get a "disk is full" error reading the portion of Help
>>stored on disk 5.  I've tried a total of three volumes on two physical
>>disks.  Two of the volumes on which I tried to install Help had 25MB
>>free.
>
>>I've managed to install all of Excel 4.0 _except_ Help.  I haven't
>>checked everything (there's so much of it!), but the basic application
>>works fine.
>
>What about your startup volume? A part of Excel 4's help system is buried
>into the active System Folder (so are the Spell checking resources). If
>you are installing hep and spell checking you'll need a hald MB of free
>space on the startup volume.
>
I've had real trouble with Help, also. At first, I was unable to install
it, but not for lack of space (the partition that Excel went on had 30M 
free, and the startup volume had 7M free). On the third or so try, I was
able to install it, but then couldn't get it to work. I tried 
everything, from rebooting with extensions off to rebooting from a 
floppy to reinstalling the system. When I called Tech support, they 
decided I must have had faulty installer disks, and sent me a new batch
(in other words, they couldn't come up with any tests to try that I 
hadn't already tried).

The new disks had almost the same problems as the old. I still cannot
access Help from within Excel. I can, however, open the Microsoft folder
in my Extensions folder and launch Help manually. The memory setting 
on that file is 512K, and I tried setting it as high as 2M, just to see
if that may have been its problem. I still get the message that there 
is not enough memory to access Help (Excel has 3.5M, Help has 2M!).

Placing Excel on my startup partition doesn't help, either. Placing an 
alias of the Microsoft folder from the extensions folder (or anything
in it) in my Excel folder, to make it a bit easier for Excel to find 
Help, is also unproductive. So far, the only workaround I've found is to
keep an alias of Help (from the system folder) handy, and launch it 
manually. Not very context-sensitive, but what do you want for $100?

If anybody can think of anything I _haven't_ tried, I'd be grateful.
--
Claude
errera@ese3.ese.ogi.edu