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From: brianj@bedrock.cs.umd.edu (Brian Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,sci.research,alt.grad-student.tenured
Subject: Mac Disertation Word Processor
Date: 24 Dec 92 04:52:01 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Distribution: comp
Organization: Computer Science, Univ. of MD, College Park, MD 20742

I'd like to hear some opinions about word processors for large
projects (my dissertation).

I have a Macintosh at home and at school, as well as access to UNIX.
I prefer not to use latex.

Latex		Nasty for images.

MacWrite	No support for multi-piece projects.

Microsoft Word	Minimal support for multi-piece projects
		ok references with WordRef
		good tables, list generation
		good for figures

WordPerfect	Nice, clean looking interface
		multi-piece projects with publish and subscribe?
		table and list generation
		automatic figure numbering and cross references
		support for bibliographic references???

I have not tried any others

Is Nisus the way to go?  I am still a poor grad student working on his
dissertation so money is a factor, but so is time.  I wnat to
concentrate on writing - not tables, figure numbering, citations, etc.

Thanks for any feedback.  Any pleasant dissertation writing tales out
there?

I will be gone for 12 days so email opinions would be nice.  I'm not
sure how soon my news server rolls over old articles.  I'm not sure
which group follow-ups should go to - probably comp.sys.mac.apps or
alt.grad-student.tenured.

Thanks
--
Brian Johnson                                       Computer Science Department
brianj@cs.umd.edu                                        University of Maryland
(301) 405-2725                                           College Park, Md 20742

  ...there are no strangers in this world, only friends who have never met...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: grismore@adobe.com (Doug Grismore)
Subject: Re: Screen saver for Powerbook
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: Adobe Systems
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:48:15 GMT

In article <1992Dec29.093213.834@midway.uchicago.edu>,
choi@gsbsrc.uchicago.edu (Dongseok Choi) wrote:
> 
> Hello, netters!
>  I missed the tread about screen saver program for powerbook.
>  Is there any freeware/shareware screen saver program specailly
>  designed for powerbook?
>  Or, can I use 'Afterdark' or 'Pyro'?
> 
> Thank you in advance and A Happly New Year!
> 
> Choi
> choi@gsbsrc.uchicago.edu

My two roommates have PowerBooks, and they *SWEAR* by Connectix PowerBook
Utilities (CPU).  It has a screen saver that's supposed to be good for your
PowerBook screen and a power-saver as well!  You might want to check it out
- they're at 415-571-5100.

--- grismore@adobe.com --- original thoughts, not my employer's --- 
--- "are we all out of Powdered Toast (TM) again, Stimpy? - Ren --- 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: tthiel@cs.uiuc.edu (Terry Thiel)
Subject: Re: WordPerfect for the Mac: Is this a soon-to-be-dead product?
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 16:25:30 GMT

I don't understand your logic.  Just because there's not a lot of third party books on an application is no reason to assume it's in trouble.  Especially when comparing it to Windows books on the product!  There's many fewer Mac software
books because people don't need them like they do with Windows.
-Terry
From: hcrain@convex.csd.uwm.edu (Helen C Crain)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Virtual Memory on MacII? Help!
Date: 22 Dec 1992 15:21:15 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Reply-To: hcrain@convex.csd.uwm.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.30
Originator: hcrain@convex.csd.uwm.edu

From article <1992Dec21.214757.11209@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>, by bradcox@sitevax.gmu.edu (Dr. Brad Cox):
> I just bought a copy of Omnipage Pro (optical character recognition) for my 
> MacII (8mB). It immediately crashes with an 'unimplemented trap' message. 
> The manual says the cure for this 'feature' is to turn on virtual memory 
> in the Memory CDEV, which any MacII user will immediately know is not there.

I have a MacIIci which runs on System 7.0.1.  I can turn
virtual memory on and off in the Memory CDEV.  Are you using
System 7?

-- 
Helen C. Crain             hcrain@convex.csd.uwm.edu 
UWMilwaukee Nursing                   Wisconsin, USA
"There is more of good nature than good sense at the
bottom of most marriages"    HD Thoreau
From: drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David Gutierrez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: QuickMail vs Microsoft Mail
Date: 21 Dec 1992 18:28:35 GMT
Organization: Univ. Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

In article <1992Dec19.180102.8435@newssun.med.miami.edu>
jpb@newssun.med.miami.edu (Joe Block) writes:
>cc:Mail has one major flaw.  I got their demo, and it turns out that you have
>to have a publically writable directory on your server machine.  Anyone can 
>just delete the contents of the mail folder if they don't want someone to
>receive an irate email they sent, and there is no unsend function to keep
>people from figuring this out.  Even if they do it out of ignorance/stupidity
>rather than malice, the cc:Mail files seem too vulnerable to me.  

Also, cc:mail only permits the one address book for the network, centrally
administered (not user-modifiable), containing all known addresses. In our case
this would make an address book withover 5000 addresses (assuming we could find
gateways to our Vax and IBM mainframe systems). 

When I asked about mail withing a department, the salesthing suggested a
distribution list. When I asked about mail to individuals within a department,
he suggested individual single-entry distribution lists for each person in the
department.

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

"Only fools are positive." - Moe Howard

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: mspace@netcom.com (Brian Hall)
Subject: Re: Bernard Gallet - Inside Mac DA
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 10:24:19 GMT

watling_p@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:

>Can someone please give me the address of Bernard Gallet the author of the
>most excellent Inside Mac DA? I've sent off some Dollars and they've come 
>back to sender, I fear I'm going to get conflicking replies but here goes... 

>Could the real Bernard Gallet please stand up!

>I now know it isn't Knollwood Drive or Millar Av, Addresses I obtained from 2
>versions of the DA that I have.

Have you tried information?  (ie, 408-555-1212)  I did that a year or so ago
and got his phone number, called him up, and asked about current pricing
(I ordered a few copies for my employer at the time).

-- 
 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: M16302@mwvm.mitre.org
Subject: Graphics File Conversion  McDraw Pro Vector Formats ->  CGM
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, McLean VA 22102
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 16:57:59 GMT

I need to move some graphics files form McDraw Pro to a UNIX application that
can import CGM.  I need to be able to edit the converted graphics so need to
stay in vector format.  Does anyone know of a utility that can convert any of t
the formats that Mcdraw Pro can save as (PICT, PICT2, ...) to CGM. Thanks in
advance.
ROBERT B. SHAIN                              EMAIL: RSHAIN @MITRE.ORG
THE MITRE CORPORATION                        VOICE: (703)883-5592
CENTER FOR INTELLIGENCE & SPECIAL PROGRAMS   FAX: (703)883-6991
MAILSTOP W955
7525 COLSHIRE DRIVE                    "MY OTHER COMPUTER IS A CRAY"
MCLEAN, VA. 22102                      "MY OTHER CAR IS A BIKE"
 
 
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From: juan_e@spcvxb.spc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Speech Recognition on IBM's and MAC's
Date: 4 Jan 93 03:41:28 GMT
Organization: St. Peter's College, US

In article <1992Dec30.194102.2814@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu>, greenie@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu writes:
> Hello...
>     About 6 months to a year ago I saw a fantasticvoice recognition demo on
> Good Morning America (or one of those shows) with the MAC.  There were several
> people standing around it (different voices) giving it orders through voice
> commands, like "Show me my checkbook balance" and things like that.  It was
> mostly just a nifty new vospeech recognition method.  Does anyone know when
> this technology will be available to us consumers?  And for that matter, does
> anyone know when this kind of technology might be available on an IBM with
> Windows? (IBM compatable, whatever :-)
> 
> |Andy

Hi Andy,

     I recently came off a NJ state sponsored program that helped schools
in the Hudson County area get in tune to a multi-cultural curriculem,
involving satellite TV; one of the programs was a program spotting Multi-
Media tools in the Classroom, which I had to help "pipe" down to each school.
About 10 months ago, when that program was being aired Live, it was being 
sponsored by Apple, hilighting the use of the Mac -also giving demos on that
same technology, the technician on the show said that it is being used now
but on a limited basis around Apple to test it and hoped it would come to a
consumer level around 1997 (but he said not to bet on that).

                           Thanks
                           Ned
                           St. Peter's College
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: zoetrope@netcom.com (Devan DzM MacFarlane)
Subject: Re: Stuffit SpaceSaver..
Keywords: compression stuffit spacesaver
Organization: Hell's Ditch
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 01:29:30 GMT

The world paused when macarthu@ee.ualberta.ca (Thomas MacArthur) said:
>I've had Stuffit Spacesaver on my computer for about a week now, and a
>though it is a very good product, I'd like to take it off.  The ONLY
>problem is that most of my Hard Drive has been compressed.  Is there
>a utility out there that scans my whole hard drive and decompresses
>all Spacesaver files?  

A couple things come immediately to mind:

1) Please remember to hit return at the end of a line while typing in a
   *NIX environment. Unlike oue Macs most *NIX text-processors do not
   automatically wrap a line.

2) You could try selecting your HD and giving it a "big" label (from the
   Label menu in Finder). This >should< tell Spacesaver to uncompress
   everything on the drive and to not recompress it.

3) If you have MagicMenu: Select your HD and select Magic->Expand. (You may
   want to hold down the Option-key when doing this. This will bring up a
   "One-Time-Only" prefferences box for Magic Menu. Make sure that
   "Spacesaver Files" is selected.)

No matter how you extract the drive anke sure that you remove Spacesaver
immediately (otherwise you'll get the same bloody problem).

Good luck.

-- 
DzM                      | Did you keep a watch for the dead man's wind
1455 Bellomy St, #B      | Did you see the woman with the comb in her hand
Santa Clara, CA 95050    | Wailing away on the wall on the strand
                         | As you danced to the Turkish song of the damned
zoetrope@netcom.com      -- The Pogues, Turkish Song of the Damned
From: absmith@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Alfred Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: MICROSOFT PROJECT 3.0 EXPERT ADVICE REQUESTED
Date: 24 Dec 92 22:31:13 GMT
Reply-To: absmith@oasys.dt.navy.mil
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

I need some advice on the operation of MS Project V3.0.
I am using the tool to track 20 different tasks that are
not linked to each other but do draw on the same resources
(people).  The idea was to estimate the total cost of each
task while identifying over and under allocation of the
people in the section.

Establishing the project was fairly easy.  But when it came to 
making changes to resource commitments the program started to
produce numerous unexpected and illogical results.

If you believe you can help me, and can spare the time to do so
please email your phone number to me and I'll give you a call 
in the new year.

Everyone else in the office has the same problem so
I'm on the verge of buying MACPROJECT from Claris just to see
if it is easier.s easier to use.  But before turning my back on MS, I
am willing to give it one more shot.
From: Steven_D._Luscher@magicbb.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Where can I get Castle of Dr. Brain BEFORE XMAS?
Date: 23 Dec 92 20:29:47 GMT
Organization: MAGIC - Macintosh Awareness Group In Canada


  Before Christmas!!! Wow. In my new InterAction magazine they are selling
games at a place called Nick's, a long time patron of Sierra. they have the
Castle of Dr. Brain for $42.95 US.

  Call 1-800-326-6654 ( outside the US it's 1-209-683-4468 ) and see how fast
they can get it to you.

  Add $5 for shipping to Canada ( that might be normal post, not express ).

  Keep looking around and call lots of mail order places!

  MacConnection: 1-800-800-3333
  The Mac Zone: 1-800-248-0800
  MacWarehouse: 1-800-255-6227
  Mac'sPlace: 1-800-367-4222
  SaltSpring Software: 1-800-265-3492

  Merry Christmas!!!

 ..... Steven Luscher ..... (Steven_D._Luscher@magic.bbuucp)
From: chapman@centerline.com (Scott Chapman, (Scott Chapman x233))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Spectre
Date: 21 Dec 92 20:05:39 GMT
Reply-To: chapman@centerline.com
Organization: CenterLine Software
NNTP-Posting-Host: divine.centerline.com

I have been having problems running Spectre on my ci. I bought my version as
a pre-released version (long ago). Does anyone know what the current version
is? Thanks in advance.

---
                                  |
                    Scott Chapman | chapman@centerline.com
              CenterLine Software | (617) 498-3230
                   10 Fawcett St. | (617) 868-6655 (FAX)
              Cambridge, MA 02138 | (Centerline was formerly Saber Software)
                                  |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Distribution: world
From: Kim_Shekar@bmug.org
Organization: BMUG, Inc.
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 09:26:48 PST
Subject: Re: Stellar 7 (was Re: Macintosh Games release listing

All you have to do to really speed up your game is to start your mac while
holding the SHIFT key, so no INITS boot up. Now the game on a IIci is as fast
as Spectre.Maybe not quite that fast but it is very good.




SPOILER.........





To warp to the last level, you can shoot the left-bottom obstacle on your radar in the first level. It will take lots of shots to destroy it. You are
now warped to Deneb(blue level). Here you destroy the bottom left obstacle on your
radar again and will be taken straight to the final level. All you do is pass
the level and then Gir Draxon will come down from the big ship. While he
transports halfway down, fire a LOT of the super cannons. That should beat him
when he touches the ground.

**** From Planet BMUG, the FirstClass BBS of BMUG.  The message contained in
**** this posting does not in any way reflect BMUG's official views.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
From: jm13@ellis.uchicago.edu (Kermit T. Frog)
Subject: Mission Thunderbolt
Reply-To: jm13@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:54:52 GMT

Lots of hints were noted about Thunderbolt in this newsgroup,
but I just got the game, and I am wondering if some hints
are available for ftp somewhere.  Is there such an archive?

Thanks for any help,

Jonathan

jm13@ellis.uchicago.edu

-- 
jm13@quads.uchicago.edu

"I may not understand what you say, but I'll defend to your death 
 my right to deny it." -- Albert, from 'Outrageously Pogo'
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
From: dave@vfl.paramax.com (David Lee Matuszek)
Subject: Where can I get Castle of Dr. Brain BEFORE XMAS?
Organization: Paramax Systems
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 17:13:50 GMT

From what I have heard about "Castle of Dr. Brain," I think my
daughter would like it.  However, I can't find it listed in any of
my Mac catalogs.  Can someone can tell me where to order it?  I need
it before Christmas.

A recent copy of the games list that is posted frequently to this
list mentions this game as having shipped in July, but it isn't in
the list of games.  I don't know how I'm supposed to interpret that.
(The game list is a good idea, but could be clearer.)

Suggestions, anyone?
Also, if anyone has it: are the graphics decent or are they an IBM
port?  (Just curious; probably won't affect anything unless someone
says they're really bad.)

Thanks!

  --dave

------------------------
My old address is:  dave@prc.unisys.com     (expires soon)
My new address is:  dave@vfl.paramax.com    (please use this one)

My mailer is unlikely to get either of them right :-(
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
From: erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com (Harry Erwin)
Subject: Re: Mission Thunderbolt Question
Organization: TRW Systems Division, Fairfax VA
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 13:16:48 GMT

>What is the best way to deal with the Kiddie Kommando Units?
Shoot them with the air gun.

-- 
Harry Erwin
Internet: erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
From: conty@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (E. Kontei)
Subject: Re: Artillery Duel?
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 01:45:12 GMT

In article <1993Jan1.164551.9823@ac.dal.ca>, roald@ac.dal.ca writes:
> Does anyone know of a good Artillery Duel-type game for the Mac?

I have here something called Gravity Wars, which is supposed to extend
the idea of GW into space, where you have to take into account
gravitational pulls and other fun stuff.

Unfortunately, it says it's "A Rulebook for GameMaster".
I don't know what GameMaster is, nor where to get it.

Anyone here can help?

> I was playing Scorched Earth for the pc last night, and it's set me
> looking for anything like it at all for Macintosh.

Umm... I thought SCORCHED EARTH was a strategy game ala V FOR VICTORY?
-- 
			    E n r i q u e  C o n t y
			       Master of Science!
			      jester@ihlpm.att.com
		    Disclaimer: You're not dealing with AT&T
From: cs922102@ariel.yorku.ca (MARTIN J WITKOWSKI)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Mac games for sale
Date: 3 Jan 93 19:08:52 GMT
Distribution: all
Organization: York University, Toronto, Canada

I have been a Mac user for quite some time, however, I have now 
purchased a PC, and I am getting rid of my Mac software.
I have the following games to sell:

Citadel B&W   The closest thing to Dungeonmaster on a Mac -10$
Might & Magic I B&W   -10$            
Might & Magic II B&W  -10$
Bane of the Cosmic Forge ( Color & B&W ) -15$
Pool of Radiance  B&W  -10$
Curse of the Azure Bonds  B&W & Color -15$
Secret of the Silver Blades  B&W & Color -15$
Bard's Tale B&W -10$
Moebius     B&W -10$

All games include manuals, and some have boxes as well.

I'd prefer to sell the whole lot for 100$.

Please leave E-mail if interested.
From: casgrain@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Casgrain Philippe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Prince of Persia saved game question
Date: 2 Jan 93 15:14:57 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal

cole@unix.SRI.COM (Susan Cole) writes:

>I bought Prince of Persia for my Mac, but I am finding it most annoying
>so far.  I got really sick of going through the motions of running through
>the first part of the dungeon and so I decided to save the game after I had
>accomplished something (like picking up a sword).   I figured that after I
>next got killed, I could just re-open that game and go on from where I was,

The save-game command only save your 'beginning of level' position.  You have
to complete the first level before your game becomes significant enough to be
saved.  Thus, it's good practice to save your game _just_ when you started
a new level.  There are only two levels that allow for a saved game in the
middle of a level, and that's levels 3 and 12.

Philippe
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
From: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy)
Subject: Re: Lemmings, Level 14 Mayhem
Reply-To: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 01:03:52 GMT

In article <26641@io.camcon.co.uk> aw@camcon.co.uk (Alain Waha) writes:
>Make my Xmas bearable.  I am blocked at level 14Mayhem, and
>I am loosing sleep, friend etc... because of it.
>
>In the spirit of Xmas, deliverme from this evil spell!
>
>Level 14 Mayhem is the one with a single wide pool in the middle 
>of the screen.  It is too wide to build a bridge over it,
>and when trying to go under it, I always end up falling off the
>bottom of the screen.  We only have vertical diggers, bridge builders
>blockers & bombs.

Lemee guess: you have a small-screen Mac, like I do (an SE/30), and
can't see the little islands in the middle of the pool because of the
graphics boo-boo.  The solution is to play the level on a color Mac (I
used my brother's).




--
"What does not kill me only makes me stronger, right?"
	"Ooooh, no. You're weak as a kitten!"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
From: kayser@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (Susan E. Kayser NSSDC/STX (301)513-1673)
Subject: Hints available for Fool's Errand!
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 19:11:00 GMT

Having successfully made it through Fool's Errand, I've printed up a "Cheat
Sheet", which I'm willing to email to anyone desperate enough to need it. (It's 
an MSWord document.)

I am missing the program "Prologue-Finale" that comes with Fool's Errand, so I 
can't see the finale.  Could someone send me a copy?


Spoilers follow (responses to recent postings):


Clues in the pictures... The first doesn't have a clue in the picture, that I 
could find; the clue was in the text for that episode (where was he going?).
The other pictures do have clues, but each has a different kind of clue. Look 
at whatever letters are shown (you may have to look for the letters!); you may 
need to unravel some anagrams, too.

High Priestess... That one was the worst, for me; I even posted a call for 
help, and thought of the answer immediately after (just as well, because I got 
no responses).  Consider the keys of the Book of Thoth.  (If that isn't enough, 
email me.)


Susan Kayser		NCF::KAYSER  or  kayser@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov
Hughes/STX at NASA/GSFC/NSSDC
Greenbelt, MD
From: hulsej@sun.lclark.edu (Jose Hulse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Starflight II, Wizardry 6 for sale
Date: 24 Dec 92 19:19:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: lclark.1992Dec24.191957.7348
Distribution: usa
Organization: Lewis & Clark College, Portland OR

Happy Holidays to all!

Starflight II for Mac, twenty-three dollars, (includes shipping).

Wizardry 6, Bane of the Cosmic Forge, twenty-three dollars (includes
shipping).

Let me know!  (I had to write out the # because my "two" key is flaky)
Thanks!
-Jose'

-- 
_______________________________________________
Jose' Hulse  hulsej@lclark.edu |  Four years ago, Bush said that if I voted 
for Dukakis I could expect crime,taxes and the deficit to go up.
I guess he was right...I voted for Dukakis and look what happened!
From: iron@imag.fr (Francois Menneteau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Loom (an other pb)
Date: 28 Dec 92 11:56:55 GMT
Organization: IMAG Institute, University of Grenoble, France

In article <1992Dec24.025535.15860@ultb.isc.rit.edu> smt1179@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:

To anyone who has played Loom:

I have a small problem... too

I am in the black dragon lair, and I cannot see how to leave it.
Please HELP







-- 
Francois Menneteau ()   __|||||__   () "... I had their lives in my hands
================== ()    /O   O\    () their fate their fortune in my visions
iron@imag.fr       ()    - .|. -    () No one believed in my true prophecy
================== ()     \=^=/     () And now it's too late."  (Iron Maiden)