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From: malay@sae.com (Bob Malay)
Subject: WK 11.13 -> WK 11.14
Reply-To: malay@sae.com
Organization: Template Software
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 15:30:21 GMT


We have White Knight 11.13 (was shipped with Okyto) - according to the header from
the WK 11.14 updater we're supposed to have something called PUP Decriptor 2.0. 
We don't have this and I haven't found anything mentioned in the WK Docs. Whats
the story here??

Bob Malay

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Ken Pedrotti
Subject: Re: Quicktime Movies Compression
Organization: Rockwell Science Center
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 19:41:30 GMT


>> Quicktime USES the JPEG compression algorithm.  I have tried compressing QT 
>> movies before and its a silly exercise because they are already compressed.
>
>Well, QuickTime movies *can* use JPEG, but very few do.  It's just
>too slow on playback.  Most movies use the Video compressor.  The
>Animation compressor is next msot popular, followed by the graphics
>compressor.  (Personally I think the graphics compressor is way cool.
>It does a killer job with 8-bit dithered pictures and is fast enough
>for decient playback speed).
>

A related question:  The compression of each frame by itself will give you
quite a bit of savings in file size, but as is the case with the new proposed
Digital TV standards, the real savings come when you start encoding only
inter-frame differences or only the difference between what you predict to be
the next image to be and what it actually is.  Are any of these compression
techniques available for making movies from PICS?
From: mplumlee@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Michael A. Plumlee)
Subject: Re: WingZ - sys 7 compatible version ?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Reply-To: mplumlee@ics.uci.edu (Michael A. Plumlee)
Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
Date: 25 Jul 92 02:19:22 GMT

In article <l6r35cINN2t4@girtab.usc.edu> silverma@girtab.usc.edu (David Silverman) writes:
>In article <1992Jul19.021429.4291@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> jonkatz@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jonathan W. Katz) writes:
>>In article <4yo5NB1w164w@netlink.cts.com> macdevil@netlink.cts.com (Leonard Cayetano) writes:
>>>I forgot which Mac magazine, MacWorld or MacUser, stated it, but
>>>Informix will be coming out with a new version (2.x) of Wingz.  That
>>>will be System 7 savvy.
>>>
>>>--
>>
>>Do we know when???????


Actually Claris bought Wingz from Informix and used it to create Resolve, so
basically Resolve is an upgrade to Wingz!




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Michael
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: cchd@lucifer.latrobe.edu.au (Huw Davies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Problems with PixieScheme
Date: 24 Jul 92 07:05:19 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University

I've got a copy of pixiescheme from archive.umich.edu. I'd intended to
run it on my PB100 under 7.0.1. It seems to start OK, but it either
beeps when I press any key or dies with the 'standard' system 7 error
"application quit..."

I've tried pixiescheme under A/UX version 2.0.1 and it works fine, so I
guess that the problem lies with System 7. Is there a fix or a later
version?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: zaphod@bluemoon.rn.com (Peter Bierman)
Subject: Re: Macintosh Pascal Upgrade?
Keywords: Symantec, bugs, Pascal
Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 22:54:08 EDT

> introductory courses.  One suggestion by SYMANTEC, via its NZ agents, is to
> upgrade to THINK Pascal, but the teaching staff feel this product is too
> complex for introductory courses.
> 

Well, I bought THP to learn Pascal, and I dodn't find it very confusing at 
all. Especially since it seems to be more confusing to try to find an 
alternative. :)

But, using THP for generic Pascal isn't hard at all. It really only takes 
one extra line "ShowText;" which shows the text output window.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: schweda@iastate.edu (Christopher Schweda)
Subject: Password a file without encryption?
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 20:44:20 GMT

Is there a way -- a program, init, CDEV -- that would allow me to 
password protect a file without encrypting/scrambling the file? What
I'd like to happen is this:

a) I double-click on a file
b) Dialogue box pops up, says: "Please enter password:"
c) If the password is correct, the file launches.
d) If the password is incorrect, the dialogue box disappears and
	the user is returned to the finder.


Ages ago, I used to own a TRS-80 Model III and used this sort of
feature frequently. Instead of a dialogue box, however, the process
was a little more difficult. I believe there was a way to append the
password at the end of the filename. Something like: MYFILE/TXT.PASSWORD.
And if the PASSWORD wasn't entered correctly, TRSDOS would give
an error message: Password Incorrect -- and return me to the TRSDOS
prompt. But there was no scrambling, no encryption, no lengthy waiting
for things to happen in the background before the file was launched.

Anyway, I'm wondering if this sort of the thing -- or something similar --
is available (preferably shareware or PD) for the Mac. I have Norton Encrypt
and an old Jasmine DEncrypt program that came with -- I think -- SUM
utilities. The encryption programs work fine -- but I just wish I could
launch the file faster. Norton Encrypt seems incredible slow -- especially
with my relatively small 2K-4K files. 

Anybody have any ideas? E-mail or posts would be much appreciated.


Thanks,
Chris Schweda
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From: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: SPA piracy raid at Oregon?
Date: 24 Jul 92 19:11:58 GMT
Reply-To: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
Organization: Peirce Software
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.5v4


In article <1992Jul23.051624.24426@metropolis.com> (comp.sys.mac.apps), robert@metropolis.com (Robert Munyer) writes:
> 
> In article <1992Jul20.210610.20414@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
> jahnke@biosci.arizona.edu (Jerome Jahnke) writes:
> 
> > [...] you have read Stallman's misguided software manifesto (he has a
> > Carnegie Genius Grant, and does not need to sell software to pay his rent).
> 
> I thought it was a MacArthur.  Anyway, ...
> 
> Stallman was crusading (and programming) long before he got the grant.
> 
> And I can't think of anybody (at least in this industry) more deserving.

Come on.  Stallman would like to see the end of the commercial software
industry as we know it.  

Personally I boycott anything that is associated with GNU.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: toj8j@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (T.S. Eliot)
Subject: PageMaker 4, Meta Pro Type One, & StyleWriter
Summary: Getting all of the above to work together in peace & harmony... 
Organization: University of Virginia
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 17:37:59 GMT

I'm having difficulty getting a Student PageMaker 4.0 document to print
properly, and cannot think of a way to get it to work.  The document uses
(PostScript Type 1) Palatino, in 40% black and full black.  Of course, if
I print this directly on the StyleWriter, the 40% black type doesn't print.
So my workaround, in the past, has been to print a PostScript file, then
use Freedom of the Press to send that to the StyleWriter.

My problem began when I used Metamorphosis Pro to generate Type 1 versions
of Palatino so that I could use ATM to get a better idea of how my layout
actually looked.  The Aldus PostScript driver apparently doesn't include
my Palatino type descriptions inside the PostScript file, so that when I
try to print the PostScript out I get Courier instead (Freedom of Press
performs the substitution).

Are there any suggestions as to how to get greyscaled Palatino out of the
StyleWriter at proper resolution?  I've tried the same document using
TrueType and had the same problems.  All I can think is that:

a)  Student PageMaker is dysfunctional with Meta Pro's Type One fonts; or
b)  Meta Pro didn't generate the Type One properly.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated (especially if they included
a phone # for Aldus, which my Student PM documentation didn't include).

Thanks in advance -- tj (toj8j@fermi.clas.virginia.edu)

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.unix.misc
From: ins712r@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Heng Chiang)
Subject: A/UX 3.0 vs. MachTen 2.0
Organization: Monash University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 05:25:34 GMT

charlesa@niwot.scd.ucar.edu (Charles Albrecht) writes:
: 
: (A/UX and MachTen are UNIX implementations for the Macintosh.)
: {A/UX is a System V - BSD hybrid, requires 68030 w/PMMU (or 040) (32 bit mode) 
:  & special disk formatting.  It runs Mac OS as a UNIX process.
:  MachTen is BSD (Carnegie Mellon Mach kernel), runs on 68000 - 040, using
:  native mac file system.  It runs as a Mac application.}
: 

Hi,
  I know A/UX is Apple's implementation, but who made MachTen, and where
can I get (buy?) from?

    Heng.

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From: marti@nugget.inf.ethz.ch (Robert Marti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: THINK C and C++ (was: C++ and other compilers)
Date: 31 Jul 92 13:33:13 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Dept. Informatik, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH

In article <1992Jul30.230729.4830@sunb10.cs.uiuc.edu>,
pjl@sparc9.cs.uiuc.edu (Paul Lucas) writes:
|>
|> In <Jul.30.09.18.31.1992.14015@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
|> rgonzal@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Ralph Gonzalez) writes:
|>
|> > [THINK C 5.0] still lacks many C++ features, though this
|> > may in some cases be an advantage -- I've seen some really
|> > impenetrable C++ code...
|> 
|>      What...and there aren't impenetrable pieces of C (or Lisp, or
|> 	Ada, or Pascal, or...) code?  It's _always_ up to the programmer
|> 	as to how comprehensible to make his/her programs; it's got
|> 	nothing to do with the given language...nor should it.  It's a
|> 	people issue: languages don't make incomprehensible programs,
|> 	programmers do.

Let's just say that in some languages, it is much easier to write
incomprehensible code than in others.  This is especially true for
beginners, but sometimes also for experienced people who haven't had
a good introduction into programming and computer science.

As for C++, features like the resolution of overloading in the face
of user-defined type conversions -- to name but one -- seem to give
anyone more than enough rope to hang himself (or herself).


|> 	I also respectfully put forth the suggestion of the possibility
|> 	that perhaps [Ralph Gonzalez] just [doesn't] understand C++ very
|> 	well.  (That was a hyposthesis, not a flame.)

After this posting, you may conclude that _I_ may not understand C++
very well.  So be it.  However, I think that language designers should
make languages as simple to use as possible -- while still providing
adequate efficiency and expressive power.  Of course, all languages
are a compromise between these often conflicting goals.  But for me,
the compromise "embodied" in C++ is just not good enough.

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From: hp48sx@wupost.wustl.edu (HP48SX Archive Maintainer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Scanning program for HP Scanjet C
Date: 26 Jul 1992 13:46:14 -0500
Organization: Washington University in Saint Louis, MO USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: wuarchive.wustl.edu

I have a HP Scanjet IIc, is there anybody who has some software for it ?
I do not have any software, so the program that comes with the scanner
is OK.
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From: jwang@phy.duke.edu (James Wang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Two questions about colour
Date: 21 Jul 92 13:52:20 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.



A-1 >>	Yes, GIFConverter (latest vers 2.1.10) will do that.  Although you will
	have to set the color startup screen option in the preferences the first
	time you use it.

A-2 >> 	DeskPict is a shareware program that will do just what you need.
	However, I have a problem with the way it does it.  Namely you need a
	file named "DeskPicture" with a PICT resource #0 containing the picture.
	I liked the way BackDrop (a similar program that only handled B&W) did
	everything >> a folder called screens containing the plain pictures, any
	name you want individually, dynamic switching of backdrops (no restart),
	random rotation of files, etc.
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.apps:12582 comp.sys.mac.misc:13990
From: miyazaki@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Takeshi Miyazaki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Top Ten Software Rip-offs, 1992-07-13
Date: 29 Jul 92 13:45:00 GMT
Organization: Princeton University
Originator: news@ernie.Princeton.EDU

In article <Z1aooB22w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk> writes:
>jsp@uts.amdahl.com (James Preston) writes:
>It is alleged that if you try to run AD on anything other than a US version
>of the system, it displays an alert saying it won't run and quits.

I asked this to Salient. (I am now in the U.S., and planing to buy AD,
but need to use AD both on U.S. and Japanese system.)

They replied that there is an international version of AD, and they are
happy to send me. I have not yet bought AD, though.

-- 
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From: mpaul@unlinfo.unl.edu (marxhausen paul)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Bigger Text in ClarisWorks
Date: 22 Jul 92 13:01:37 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac,unl.general
Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln

I broke down and bought ClarisWorks on the recommendation of several net-
readers (one of whom sold me his new copy at a discount!)  Anyway, I'm
still exploring it but there's one thing that puzzled and startled me:

when I brought in some Microsoft Word 3.02 files (CW is pretty good at
importing and exporting to a lot of different file formats, BTW), it
seemed to me that with the same margins set, CW was getting fewer words
on each line.  I know the Word's display is not true WYSIWYG (the ruler
is actually stretched a little), but this effect was noticible in the 
final printout also.  I printed a few test documents from both applications,
some with super-sized type, and discovered that _ the characters were
actually different widths when printed from the two applications!_  
The font characters printed out from CW are actually a bit wider than
when printed from Word.  This kind of astounded me, I thought all Mac
apps using the same fonts would pretty much always print the same.
So . . . does anybody know, does Claris actually use a different print
driver or something like that?  I thought something was fishy when I
went to print from CW and the print dialog has the "Faster" option
dimmed - you either print "Best" or "Draft".  

I guess this isn't a crime or anything, the print looks fine, I'm just
curious about this . . .

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: chu@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Subject: Postscript Output for Printserver 40
Reply-To: chu@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 22:37:51 GMT

I know that outputting postscript files has been discussed in detail here, but I would like to go another round.  Like the previous writers, I also use the following printing metaphor: 1) create document, 2) create postscript file, 3) download to vax, 4) send to printserver 40 to print.  
This method only seems to work in programs which have to features: 1) printer driver for the eventual output device (In my case, the printserver 40 PPD) 2) print-to-disk option which is built into the program (not open apple+K (sys 6.X) or the postscript option in the print dialouge box (sys 7.X))
When I chose the printserver 40 PPD in Pagemaker and then print-to-disk using Pagemaker's print-to-disk feature, I get perfect output from the printserver 40.  When I do a system-level postscript output (open apple+K or postscript option in print dialoug box) IT NEVER WORKS.

In short, does anyone know how to get correctly formatted postscript output from programs which have the correct printer driver but do not have a built-in print-to-disk feature (i.e. Aldus Freehand)?

p.s. I have a feeling that whenever you do a system-level postscript output (i.e. open apple+K (sys 6.X) or postscript option in print dialouge box (sys 7.x) the system formats the file for the chooser-selected printer.  I anyone knows this to be true,then is there a printserver 40 chooser-level printer driver available?

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Seaman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Word_5_Sys_Resources_R-installing_Sys_7
Date: 22 Jul 92 19:11:00 GMT

In article <6985@lib.tmc.edu> drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David  
Gutierrez) writes:
> In article <whitmore.711818010@pv343f.vincent.iastate.edu>  
whitmore@iastate.edu
> (Kurt D Whitmore) writes:
> >Does re-installing system 7 negate the system resources added during
> >installation of Word 5.
> 
> Probably. An application has no business modifying the System file.
> 

The installer doesn't touch resources that it doesn't know about. For  
example, I have an FKEY that I originally added to System 6.0.3, which has  
persisted through multiple upgrades and is still there under 7.0.1.

--
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Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.apps:12527 comp.sys.mac.hardware:14335
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 10:50:47 EDT
From: <GFX@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: questions about powerBook - default Keyboard

Hi!

1) My PB has a French keyboard layout, but I prefer to use the
   US system. How can I set the default keybord to French, while
   retaining the US date? I'm quite familiar with ResEdit but
   couldn't figure which resource tells which keyboard is default.
   (Note - the International CP won't do because it changes sorting
   order and dates as well)

2) If there an extension that would allow to change the dates
   resource on-the-fly? I prefer to keep US date in general because
   my datebook stack uses this layout to navigate, and I write close
   to 50% of memos in English anyway.

Thanks

Stephane




Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: dgraham@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (David Graham)
Subject: Re: PowerBook 170 Briefcase??????
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 14:35:56 GMT

In <aland.711830472@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D.) writes:

>dcb@wdl1.wdl.loral.com (David C Blume) writes:
>>In article <45491@shamash.cdc.com> paul@svl.cdc.com (Paul Kohlmiller) writes:

>>> I used and liked the Kensington case for the PB170. 

>>I like this one best, too.

>A friend of mine told me that Radio Shack sells a case that works
>perfectly, and costs $15.  I'm tempted to buy one now, before they
>raise the price, in case I ever get a PB.  I can use it for other
>things in the interim...

I haven't looked at the Radio Shack cases, but my wife did, and came
away unimpressed (she ended up buying a briefcase to hold her PB100). I
have a Kensington case for my PB170 and recommend it without reservation
(so far!).

>	-=Alan
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: majnun@parrot.in-berlin.de (Albrecht Hofheinz)
Subject: Error - (paramErr): HELP!
Summary: How can I prevent error -50 (user parameter list)?
Keywords: paramErr
Organization: Parrot Public BBS
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 08:37:23 GMT

Hi netters,

Recently, I get A LOT of errors -50: paramErr (error in user parameter
list) with files downloaded from the nets, particularly with .sea
archives. When I try to open them (to run the self extracting archive),
I get this error (sometimes it also says: "Run out of finder memory").
When I check "Info", I find that both the suggested and the actual
memory sizes are "n/a" (not available). Trying to enter any value into
the memory size field returns the same "Out of finder memory" error.
NowMenu'es  Memory Sizer does not help either.

What's wrong? And how can I fix this?

Thanx for your help,	B|

Albrecht Hofheinz
majnun@parrot.in-berlin.de
From: cchd@lucifer.latrobe.edu.au (Huw Davies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: NUDIST and Law Dictionaries
Date: 24 Jul 92 06:47:08 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University

In article <1992Jul22.165820.9545@waikato.ac.nz> ccc_susan@waikato.ac.nz writes:
>Does anyone have information on a software program for analysis of 
>qualitative research data called, I think, NUDIST?

Nudist was developed in the Computer Science Department of La Trobe
University. I suggest you try e-mail to nudist@latcs1.cs.latrobe.edu.au
for further information.

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