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From: masson@solbourne.com (Bob Masson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Excel counting letter grades???
Date: 16 Nov 1992 10:02:03 -0700
Organization: Solbourne Computer, Inc., Longmont, CO
NNTP-Posting-Host: ollie.solbourne.com

In article <41030@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> fairchil@helix.ucsd.edu (Kevin Fairchild) writes:
>
>From fairchil Sun Nov 15 18:26:39 1992
>To: /home/helix/fairchil/.article
>
>What am I missing?  I'm using Excel 4.0 to keep track of my students' grades. 
>I have a column of letter grades.  What I want to do is create a simple
>distribution; that is, tell me how many A's, how many B's, etc.  I have found

Excel is bad at this (wingz has a freq distribution command), but anyway, one
learns to live with this stuff!  If you're familiar with using arrays, the
following array command (you have to use apple-enter to enter this into a
cell) assumes that i have a list of "records" (rows 2 through 158);  in
column B there is a character {a,b,c,d,e}.  I want to count the number of
each of them at the bottom.  At the bottom (starting at row 168), there are 5
summary rows, with the character "a..e" in column b.  In whatever column the
following formula appears will be the frequency count.

{=SUM(IF($B$2:$B$158=$B162,1,0))}

Note that the braces {} are applied by Excel; don't enter them into the
formula.  Also, you can substitue lots of things for the "1", like:

{=SUM(IF(LEFT($B$2:$B$158,1)=$B162,E$2:E$158,0))}

this formula sums column E for all rows that contain the single letter in
the summary rows column B in the first position of the string in column B.

Anyway, if this is confusing read the section about arrays in the Excel
manual.  You won't know any more about arrays, but *this* posting will look
trivial!

masson
masson@solbourne.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: peter@ncrpda.curtin.edu.au (Peter N Lewis)
Subject: Re: Balloon editor
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: NCRPDA, Curtin University
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:34:51 GMT

In article <1992Nov13.202908.6259@netcom.com>, leonardr@netcom.com (Leonard
Rosenthol) wrote:
> 
> In article <83503@ut-emx.uucp> rick@ut-emx.uucp (Rick Watson) writes:
> >Is there an application that will assist in creating Help Manager
> >balloon resources for dialog item lists? Ideally, the application
> >would display the dialog items like ResEdit does, and then allow you
> >to add/edit the help resources, showing the balloons as you go, etc. 

> 	Personally, I use Rez (from MPW) and Resorcerer to do my balloons -
> not the most graphical approach but it is quick & easy (and I can use cut/copy
> paste to speed things up).

I just wanted to profusely agree with Leonard.  Under absolutely no
circumstances use BalloonWriter, SARez or Rez are much easier to use, and
much quicker once you get the hang of it.  Sorry, I had very bad
experiences with BalloonWriter!  Of course, the best bet for Balloon Help
is to get someone else to do it for you, right Quinn? :-)

If anyone wants some sample balloon .r files to look at, let me know and
I'll mail you one or two of mine.
   Peter.

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GPO Box U1987, Perth WA 6001, AUSTRALIA              Ph: +61 9 368 2055
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Distribution: world
From: Darren_E._Tong@fourd.com
Organization: 4th Dimension BBS
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 17:27:09 EST
Subject: Re: Postscript to PICT/TIFF ?

 know that photoshop will do the trick-but its pricey just for conversion-maybe
canopener by abbot systems!
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From: afry@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Alan R. Fry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.wanted,rec.pets.dog
Subject: Looking Mac program for dog pedigrees
Date: 23 Nov 92 18:51:19 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)


My sister is looking for a kind of family-tree program for the Mac to chart
the pedigree of her whippets.  Does anyone know of something, shareware or
commercial?  Email replies would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Alan
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Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 11:07:29 MST
From: freeze@gecko.ee.byu.edu (Jim Freeze)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Distribution: world
Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo UT USA
Subject: Scientific Word processor Wanted


Does anyone know where I can get a word processer that does:

1.	Equations
2.	Auto updating of equations, figures, tables
3.	Auto Bibliography updating


I am using LaTeX but try doing:

1.	A simple closed loop Surfaces Integral
2.	Printing a graphic other than PIC or Postscript.


I have heard of three different scientific wordprocessor but
I don't remember who made them.

I you know, please help me out.

Thanks

Jim		freeze@newt.ee.byu.edu
From: Eric.Choi@zeus.ieee.org (Eric Choi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: MacShopper Offer #1
Date: 19 Nov 92 01:47:20 GMT
Organization: IEEE Service Center, Piscataway, NJ

Here is an offer I just received from MacShopper, which someone claimed was
closed down. It is still alive and I ordered and received a TypeReader OCR
full package for US$99.00 plus shipping.

Software Bundle from Computer Associates

$89.99 plus shipping (a savings of $238.01 from the SRPs)

ACCPAC Simply Accounting (retail $199)
CA-Cricket Graph (retail $129)

The ACCPAC Simply Accounting looks like a nicely put together accounting
program for small business or an individual. It contains modules for general
ledger, patroll, accounts receivables and accounts payable, inventory control,
job costing and detailed reporting.

CA-Cricket Graph is the current version. As a matter of fact, all products I
have ordered from MacShopper were current shipping versions, not preivous
closeout versions.

To order, call 1-800-622-7006 or
FAX at 1-908-370-7046.

I do not work for MacShopper, but simply wish to share this good deal with
fellow Mac users.
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From: mdmnh@cc.newcastle.edu.au (Martin Hicks)
Subject: How to view EPSF clip art ??
Organization: University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 00:00:28 GMT

What is a good program for viewing and editing EPSF clip art?

Please e-mail any suggestions and I will summarize for the net.

Thanks,

Martin
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: parkyn@fraser.sfu.ca (Dale Parkyn)
Subject: Re: Word 5.1 update: What's it do, reports?
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 01:53:28 GMT

daspit_j@cubldr.colorado.edu writes:

>Hi all,
>	Can anyone tell me what the 5.1 update does, and what users have
>generally said about it? I've tried skimming the BBDs but haven't had a lot
>of luck yet. Thanks mucho for your time. JD

Here is what the 'Readme' file said. Quoted.

"
The Word 5.1a Patcher included on this disk is for use with Microsoft Word for the Macintosh version 5.1. This fixes a problem that was discovered with Word version 5.1 that occurs when fast saving a document with Footers or Headers. This problem resulted in the Footer or Header disappearing in the last section (or only section) of a document.
This patcher fixes the program and identifies your version as Word 5.1a rather than Word 5.1.
"
From: sean@coombs.anu.edu.au (Sean Sebastian Batt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Macintosh to telephone connectivity.
Date: 18 Nov 92 09:36:47 GMT
Organization: Australian National University
NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.76.2
Keywords: Macintosh,telephone connectivity, caller ID,call accounting, on screen

I am looking for anyone who knows about Macintosh to telephone
connectivity, especially caller ID, call accounting software &
telephone billing systems.  Ideally, I am looking for a software
system which can dial out through the screen (eg by a modem as opposed
to an audible tone that requires a user to hold the telephone receiver
up against the speaker, eg such as "Hyperdialler") and then either
automatically or by a user input window enables the call to be costed
against a costing code at the end of the month. Northern Telecom is
working on a Mac to telephone system at its research facility in
Wollongong, NSW, Australia, but thst is the only lead I have. Please
contact me by either fax on + 61 3 696-3325 or by e-mail. 

Posting for a friend...

Sean Batt
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From: adr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Tony Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Ars Magna
Date: 19 Nov 92 12:44:33 GMT

It's on sumex-aim.stanford.edu now.

Cheers,
From: tgl+@cs.cmu.edu (Tom Lane)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: converting JPEG to GIF
Date: 22 Nov 92 20:19:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.By4wH9.Eut.2
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon

galeana@nauvax.ucc.nau.edu writes:
>Is there a utility (shareware or freeware) that will convert JPEG files to GIF
>format?  JPEGview and QuickTime won't run on my Mac.

Since Apple provides JPEG compression/decompression in QuickTime, not many
Mac programmers have bothered to implement JPEG on their own.  One
standalone Mac JPEG->GIF program is Jeff Lewis' "Imagery JPEG", which you
can get from the sumex-aim.stanford.edu archives (I think the file name is
/info-mac/app/imagery-jpeg-something).  Unfortunately this program is based
on an ancient version of the free IJG JPEG code, meaning it produces pretty
awful color GIFs.  But if you are on a black&white Mac, color output quality
may not be an issue... I believe there is a grayscale-only output option in
Imagery JPEG, and results in that mode should be OK.

You could also try Storm Technology's Picture Decompress, a free JPEG
viewer/converter available from sumex,
/info-mac/app/picture-decompress-201.hqx.  This doesn't need QuickTime, but
it does require 32-bit QuickDraw and gobs of memory, so it may not run on
your machine either.

The next release of GIFConverter will include the latest version of the IJG
code, making it capable of handling JPEGs with or without QuickTime.  That
will definitely be the way to go on old Macs once it's out.  I have no idea
how soon that will be...

				regards, tom lane
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From: nestor@hub.toronto.edu (John Nestor)
Subject: MS Word 5.1/5.0a update
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Organization: University of Toronto
Date: 20 Nov 92 18:36:07 GMT
X-XXDate: Fri, 20 Nov 92 18:37:54 GMT

We're currently using Word 5.0a (i.e. Word 5.0 updated with the 5.0a
patcher).  Is there an update available to bring our version up to
Word 5.1?  I've heard about the 5.1a patcher, but this seems to require
Word 5.1 to work on.

Thanks in advance ...
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From: masson@solbourne.com (Bob Masson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Modem/FAX software/hardware??
Date: 19 Nov 1992 11:44:34 -0700
Organization: Solbourne Computer, Inc., Longmont, CO
NNTP-Posting-Host: ollie.solbourne.com

I'm soliciting recommendations for a modem/fax combination.  I would like to
use the modem to dial-in host UNIX machines, and send and receive FAXes.  I
currently have DoveFAX+ on my mac at work, and it works fine, but seems a
bit pricey(?) and at home I don't need the voice options.

Any suggestions?  Also, what if I already have a standard 2400bps modem -- is
there any inexpensive FAX software available?  or does the modem have to
have some special stuff in it to do faxes?!

thanks in advance
masson
From: rw91@ecs.soton.ac.uk (R Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: MS-Dos reader
Summary: asjkhdk
Date: 19 Nov 92 10:31:35 GMT

Is there any app in the PD to read/write to MS-dos
format disks?
From: victor@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (V Menayang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: HP Deskjet vs. Deskwriter
Date: 15 Nov 92 16:47:17 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin

Have you checked out HPDJ 2.1.  It's free and you can get it from
many of the ftp sites.  I've been using it for about a month
to print to my deskjet 500.  No problem at all.


-victor
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From: Emme@Tweety.intel.com (David Emme)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: File from Hell (solved!)
Date: 17 Nov 92 16:40:46 GMT
Reply-To: demme@fa.intel.com
Organization: Az-Kal

In the course of recovering from a dying hard disk over the weekend, I
somehow created a "file from hell."  The simple data file was not
locked, in use, or anything else I could see, yet the Trash Can
refused to dispatch it.  It just quietly sat in the Trash and would
not go away.

I looked at the file attributes with ResEdit 2.1.1 (Sys 7 with
tuneup), and the only attribute turned on was INITED. And
specifically, LOCKED was *not* turned on.  Yet if I tried to change
the file attributes or rename the file from within ResEdit, I got a
message to the effect of "file locked -45".

So I cranked up FileKit, which I had recently obtained (shareware)
from the net. It reported the same attributes as ResEdit. But using
FileKit, I was able to:
  1. lock the file (no error reported)
  2. unlock the file (no error reported)

This fixed the problem, and the Trash Can then was able to delete the
file normally.

So this is a plug for FileKit from a very satisfied user.  Pay your
shareware fees!

-Dave


David Emme                  Intel Corp., CH2-23
demme@fa.intel.com          Knowledge Applications Lab.
(602) 554-3328              5000 W. Chandler Blvd., Chandler, AZ 85226
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From: owen@olympus.arc.nasa.gov..arc.nasa.gov (Owen S. Nishioka)
Subject: Re: MS Excel 4.0 crashing with Print Preview
Organization: Nasa-Ames Research Center
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 17:43:02 GMT

In article <claw-141192162523@spac-at1-54.rice.edu> claw@spacsun.rice.edu (Colin Law) writes:
>Does anyone out there know why my copy of Excel 4.0 would repeatedly quit
>with the usual type 1 bus error when I try to print preview???  This is
>incredibly annoying!!
>
>I am running it on a Quadra 700 with system 7.0, and it quits whether the
>cache is on or off.
Actually, the problem is not the quadra, the caches, (but maybe
microsoft).  In fact, I have had the same thing happen on several
IIfx's, an si, and a couple quadra's (both 900 and 700).  The only fix
that I have found, is to reinstall it.  Sometimes, removing the prefs
file works too, but not always.  Don't know why this happens though.



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From: wolff@inf.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Wolff)
Subject: Re: Adobe --> TrueType font conversion software?
Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 13:55:08 GMT

lam@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Ken Lam) writes:

>Does anyone know of a cheap Adobe->truetype font conversion program?
>Preferably FW/SW/PD, but cheap commerial is O.K. also.

Why would you want this? The main difference after that conversion would 
be that your fonts use more than twice as much of precious disk space 
than before.

Thomas
wolff@inf.fu-berlin.de
From: msung@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Michael L Sung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Sigma Designs Laserview Monitor
Date: 20 Nov 92 20:14:38 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

Does anybody who has a 19" B&W Sigma Designs Laserview been having
problems with display bugs?

Specifically, I am working on a Macintosh IIx computer with 8 megs of RAM
and System 7.0.1 tuned up.  After reinstalling INITs one by one, I have
isolated the incompatibility to be with Suitcase 2.12.

Specifically, font display in certain windows (i.e. Get Info about this
Macintosh) are screwed up...  it displays it in 10 point Avant Garde
Italic?! and the spacing when using "View by Name" is also widely and
annoyingly increased.  I recently got an upgrade to the display board but
that did not help.

Thanks in advance to anybody with help, because I need it!  This monitor
is driving me crazy!  (BTW, Sigma was clueless, of course.)  I would
appreciate any e-mail responses...  thanks again.

msung@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
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From: collin@angelo.amd.com (Collin K. Ong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: TimesTwo initial impression
Date: 17 Nov 92 01:48:53 GMT
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

I just got TimesTwo v1.0 in the mail this weekend and spent a few hours
installing it last night.  This is on a Powerbook 100's internal 40M 
drive.  The installation is easy, but be warned, the installer writes to
the original disk after the install is through. IE, the personalization
info is written to the original disk.

The 40M drive had 38M on it when I ran the installer.  Now the finder
says that there is 59M on disk and 20.xM free.  I'm not sure why the
amount on disk is higher than before, but I suspect that the fact that
I had a lot of things DiskDoubler'ed and about 10M worth of Compactor
archives is the culprit.  Perhaps they got bigger when x2 tried to 
compress them again?  I tried out decompressing some DD files (DD init
stopped working for some reason but DD App kicked in) but the space
free went down as it would normally.

Speed.  There is definitely a noticable slowdown in all disk accesses.
This is not unbearably slow, however. Things just aren't as snappy.
I'd say that it makes disk accesses look sorta like Mac Plus speeds.
Hopefully, it'll be faster on my SE/030, since I have noticed that
compression is one of the things that the 68000 in the PB100 is really
slow at (judging from Compact Pro and DD).  Unfortunately, the drive 
needs to be backed up and reformatted if you want to remove x2, so 
take any benchmarks BEFORE you install!

More later as I get more experience with TimesTwo.

Collin Ong
(opinions are mine, not AMD's.  no affiliation with Golden Triangle)
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Subject: Re: HOW do I update White Knight?
From: macdevil@netlink.cts.com (Leonard Cayetano)
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 15:12:17 PST
Organization: NetLink Online Communications, San Diego CA

CHUCK WILLIAMS <34A6J53@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> writes:

> Hi netmen and netwomen,
> 
> How do I update White Knight?  I have version 11.10 and I have downloaded
> the updates from SUMEX; but what do I do with it??
> 
> Please help me!!
> 
> Chuck

Get a program called Pup Decrypter.  That file is needed, plus the 
updater files, in order to update White Knight.

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From: tokma@mars.lerc.nasa.gov (Kamel Al-Khalil)
Subject: Need FRENCH Dictionary for MS WORD
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date: 17 Nov 1992 16:08 EDT  

Is there a public domain French dictionary out there?
I would like to use it with MS WORD 5.0.
How about commercial versions?
Any comments or help would be appreciated. Please reply by e-mail.  

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: ljones@utkvx3.utk.edu (Me? Graduated? Nope. Not yet.)
Subject: How to find someone on the internet by name?
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 01:40:00 GMT

     I understand that it is possible to find someone's account 
name on the Internet using their real name. I realized I could 
use this facct to find a friend of mine from elementary school.
This assumes that he has an account somewhere on the Internet.
I think theis is likely. His father was a professor, and he was
a very bright guy. It wouldn't surprise me at all if he had an
account.
     So, how does one find a person's user account using just
their first and last name?

Thanks in advance,
Leslie
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: gpb@gpb-mac. (greg berryman )
Subject: Re: extensions
Organization: SPS
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:01:45 GMT

Peter_Dusicka@edgeway.wimsey.bc.ca writes:
: 
: BTW what is the difference in hexed and binary file?
: 
A binary file contains 8-bit data.  This is a real problem for
many mailers that only work with 7-bit ascii and for transfer via
modem.

A hex'd file uses ascii 0-F hex digit pairs  to represent the values in
each 8-bit integer.

At least, that's my understanding of it.
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From: johnsh@rpi.edu (Hugh Johnson)
Subject: Quicktime movie sites?
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: Rensselaer Psychotropic Institute
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:22:38 GMT

I was wondering if there are any FTP sites anyone knows about where
QuickTime movies are archived (besides /pub/pugh/quicktime on ftp.apple.com
and the usual sites like sumex and umich).  I know that a whole lot of
movies are available on CD-ROM, but unfortunately don't have access to one.
 Also, I'd think with the recent release of QuickTime 1.5 there would be a
bunch of new movies floating around taking advantage of the new compact
video format.  Please email or post responses.  Thanks in advance.

Hugh W. Johnson (johnsh@rpi.edu)
Rensselaer Polyhedral Institute
Troy, New York
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps