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From: macq@miguel.llnl.gov (Don MacQueen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: postscript to postscript-pict
Date: 9 Sep 92 18:11:52 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

The following is a variant of a FAQ, and is probably also
a NAQ (never answered question!)

Does anyone know of apps to do either of the following:

1. Take a file of standard postscript and create a
"postscript-pict" file.

2. Take a file of standard postscript, create a screen
image, allow some editing of the image (revise text and
text formatting at least), then save as either standard
postscript, or preferably postscript-pict.

The purpose of all this is to get scientific graphics
created on a Sun workstation into Mac wordprocessing
programs, and allow the technical editors on the Mac side
to make simple changes (titles, axis labels) 
to the graphics created by the scientists on 
the workstation side.

Postscript-pict is probably not a standard term. I use
it to refer to a file which contains both the postscript
commands for a plot, and a pict version of the plot. When the
file is imported (or pasted) into, say, Word, the screen
display comes from the pict, but the printed copy comes from
the postscript. This gives maximum resolution in the hardcopy,
and also allows preview and adjustment of the layout.

App #2 above is what we really need, but app #1 would be
very helpful.

Thanks
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From: ferch@ucs.ubc.ca (Les Ferch)
Subject: Re: Text file editor wanted
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 08:08:02 GMT

Also worth trying is Edit II (can be found on sumex.stanford.edu).

I use Vantage myself. It is reasonably priced commercial software, but at
least twice as much as your $30 limit. 

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Rick.Igou@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Rick Igou)
Subject: Re: Freeware Screen Saver
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 04:20:45 GMT

In article <1992Sep10.034446.15868@samba.oit.unc.edu> Rick.Igou@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Rick Igou) writes:
>In article <1992Sep9.174239.23656@den.mmc.com> b78261@venus.cap.mmc.com (Kevin Brislin) writes:
>>I am looking for a freeware screen saver for our Macs. Everything I run
>>across seems to be shareware. Any suggestions, anyone? Please?
>
>Try AutoIdle. It's *absolutely* free, takes a miniscule amount of memory,
>and is elegantly simple.
>
>It's at ftp.apple.com -- exactly where I can't remember, but it's there.
>
>- Rick Igou

Sorry for my error, but I just looked in ftp.apple.com and couldn't find
it.  I did, however, find it instead at wuarchive.wustl.edu in
/mirrors4/macintosh/init.

- Rick Igou
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From: smills@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (MuffinHead)
Subject: Re: Very slow writing to HD floppies -- Help?
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 05:04:42 GMT

   First of all, DOSMounter *could* be slowing it down a bit. I've noticed
that when I've used it. Another thing, Saving a file is not the same as the
Finder Copying a file. Saving involves figuring out what should be in the
file, etc. where copying a file only involves moving data from one spot to
another. And, of course, floppies are very slow to begin with.

Muff
From: ndanner@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (norman danner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: non-builtins with Freedom Of Press Light?
Summary: How To?
Date: 7 Sep 92 16:18:51 GMT
Organization: Indiana University

Hello there,

	Could somebody please tell me if it is possible to use
non-builtin fonts with Freedom Of Press Light and, if so, how
one does so?  I've tried putting the .AFM files in the metrics
folder, but that doesn't seem to do much.  Please forgive me
for begin ignorant in the ways of PostScript and Mac apps--I'm
just a lowly user...  I'd prefer e-mail if possible.  Thanks
much in advance!!

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From: holupka@snips.harvard.edu (Edward J. Holupka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Reading DOS diskettes
Date: 11 Sep 1992 14:36:37 GMT
Organization: Joint Center for Radiation Therapy - Harvard Medical School
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: snips.dfci.harvard.edu

Yo all,
	This may be a stupid question but does there exist any 
shareware/freeware/pd software which will allow my IIsi to 
read/write from/to a DOS diskette? I have heard of Apple File
Exchange, PC Exchange, and Access PC but none of these are 
avialable off the net (I think!). Anyway any and all responses
will be very greatly appreciated. Thanks.

	holupka@snips.dfci.harvard.edu


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From: brandy@tramp.Colorado.EDU (BRANDAUER CARL M)
Subject: Re: Pro-Cite info?
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 20:16:35 GMT

My most recent communique from ProCite includes:

	Support@pbsinc.com
From: Kirtan_Singh_Khalsa@mindlink.bc.ca (Kirtan Singh Khalsa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Need Advice on OCR software
Date: 10 Sep 92 05:56:42 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

Omnipage Professional is their current top of the line product. Omnipage Direct
is a stripped down version that works from within programs like Word etc. It
comes with some less than great scanning software. Go for the Professional
version if you are serious. The type of scanner you have makes a big difference
in both accuracy and speed. I recently saw a PC World (I think it was that
magazine) review of a variety of OCR software run on a variety of scanners. The
top performers were the HP and the Umax. Both these scanners come equiped to
run with Macs. Unfortunately, we still dont have the right drivers to run
Omnipage Pro with our HP Scanner, so I cant tell you how great it is. We are
still limping along with Omnipage Direct.
/ex
From: raf50@JUTS.amail.amdahl.com (Richard A Frankel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Text file editor wanted
Date: 8 Sep 92 22:41:18 GMT
Organization: Amdahl Corp.
In-reply-to: js17@cornell.edu's message of 7 Sep 92 14:30:53 GMT

In article <1992Sep7.143053.6144@mail.cornell.edu> js17@cornell.edu (Joel Sumner) writes:


   Teach Text can't do 2,3,4, or 5
   I have tried Alpha and found that too much of a pain and a bit buggy
   (4.0.3)
   I have also used MicroEmacs and can't stand that either.  

Try BBedit. It's clean and fast. (should be on SUMEX)
rick
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From: lcgordon@milton.u.washington.edu (Lisa Claesson-Gordon)
Subject: Re: Word publish,PageMaker subscribe!!!
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 02:26:21 GMT

richard@adpgate.UUCP ( ADP OPuS) writes:

...stuff deleted...


>	the workaround - drumroll please...
>	  When you publish the graphic as an edition in Word, include a 
>	  line above and a line below with the edition. This allow you 
>	  and the application to retain the separate identities of both 
>	  the link and the edition. 
>	------MICROSOFT IS THE WORKAROUND A TICKING TIME BOMB????-------
>		If I do this to several 12 chapter, 100+ page documents, 
>		will my files self-destruct?
>	
>	* subscribe to the edition in PageMaker - watch out, its TEXT, not
>	a graphic!!

>	The net result is that I can now change ONLY the actual table; the 
>	table (linked to the graphic) updates the graphic right inside of 
>	Word from the link; then PageMaker is updated via publish & subscribe.

There is another trick you can use that may be simpler: use Shift-Subscribe
in PageMaker. This will read the PICT image from any edition that contains
both text and image formats, giving you full updatability.

hope this helps.

rick_gordon@aldus.com

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: minsky@media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky)
Subject: Re: Superclock and 32-bit mode
Organization: MIT Media Laboratory
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 01:23:40 GMT

Thanks to all who suggested using Superclock 3.9.1.  But that's what I
was using.  The crashing bug went away after I reloaded the System.
Sorry to have badmouthed an innocent utility.  (Does it really
conflict with Word-wrapping?  I haven't noticed this.)


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: John T. Chapman <jtc1@cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: Disinfectant 2.9 && Autodoubler
X-Xxdate: Fri, 11 Sep 92 15: 25:28 GMT
Nntp-Posting-User: jtc1@cornell.edu
Organization: Office of Computing and Statistical Consulting
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Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 14:12:54 GMT

In article <djpadz.716159241@orion.oac.uci.edu> Dj Padzensky,
djpadz@orion.oac.uci.edu writes:
>AutoDoubler's files contain no resource fork, so I don't think
>Disinfectant will detect viruses in them.  However, if you run
>Disinfectant on the decompressed file and it turns up clean, the
>compressed file, lacking the resource fork, will be basically immune
>to virus infection.
>

Well, um, kinda.

(This is mostly speculation - I use both AutoDoubler and Disinfectant 
frequently and have a fair amount of technical knowledge, but have not 
seen the inner workings of either program. Please post a correction if I 
have made any invalid assumptions.)

If you are booting from a 'Emergency Disk' that does NOT have AutoDoubler 
installed, Disinfectant will have problems finding viruses in compressed 
files, whether they are infected or not.

However, if you are working from a startup disk that does have 
AutoDoubler working, Disinfectant should be able to find infections in 
compressed files as AutoDoubler should be uncompressing to memory and 
passing Disinfectant the 'real' files. Similarly, AutoDoubler should 
uncompress to disk if Disinfectant needs to Disinfect a file.

Unfortunately this probably also applies to many viruses. As long as the 
virus is using more or less standard file access methods (ala Apple's 
guidelines), AutoDoubler should try and decompress the file to disk, 
since something wanted write access to it.

The advantages and disadvantages of transparent compression...

DiskDoubler archives, on the other hand (and StuffIt archives and
CompactPro 
archives), _should_ be relatively safe from infection by MOST viruses as 
they do not possess executable code in their resource forks. However they 
are still subject to damage and infection by viruses that work on 'files' 
as well as applications.
Similarly, all Self-Extracting Archives are vulnerable to infection as
they 
are applications, regardless of what they have archived within. 

Hope this helps.

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From: bwilliam@oyster.smcm.edu (Bill Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Questions on SoftAT (or SoftPC)
Date: 14 Sep 92 13:39:04 GMT
Organization: St. Mary's College of Maryland
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X-XXDate: Mon, 14 Sep 92 14:40:22 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.000025.15802@informix.com> John Galloway,
johng@informix.com writes:
>Even on my Quadra 700, its STILL to slow.
>Also it does not perfrectly emulate the x86 floating point, so for
some apps
>you must disable 80287 emulation for them to run (this wasy the case
for
>the AIQ stock program for which I bought SoftAT.)

This question now appears as a FAQ on comp.sys.mac.*.  The answer is
the same:  don't bother with it.  The FAQ also notes that at least the
higher-powered versions of the program approach the cost of an
inexpensive used PC.  We inherited an old Toshiba lap-top from a friend
and find it a perfectly adequate PC for all our PC needs. 
___________________________________
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Divison of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
St. Mary's College of Maryland
St. Mary's City, MD 20686
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: tlt38517@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Terry Thiel)
Subject: Re: WriteNow 3.0
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 12:47:08 GMT

Eric.Choi@p5.f57.n7000.z8.ieee.org (Eric Choi) writes:
>We use mostly PageMaker and other graphic programs here. MS-Word is used
>occasionally.
>The version 5.0 is getting awefully large and slow to launch (yes, we have a
>lot of fonts). We are seriously considering WriteNow 3.0. It appears to be a
>leaner and faster program.
>We appreciate your inputs if you use WriteNow 3.0, especially if you also use
>MS-Word 5.0. I saw a Nisus demo on MacConnection's MacTV off the satellite
>last
>week. It looks very good. Any comments regarding Nisus?
WriteNow 3.0 is indeed leaner and faster while offering as many or more options
as other word processors of its type.  But be aware that it is not supposed to
be a mega word proccesor on the order of Microsoft Word.  It may not have
some features you desire.  What are you using Word for right now?  BTW I can
sympathize with your complaints about Word 5.0.  I use it but its still too
unwieldy to suit me.  You will find alot of Nisus devottees on the net and with
good reason.  Personally I think WriteNow has a simpler more intutive interface
and is better at getting in and getting out when you want to write something
with a minimum of interference from your software.          
-Terry
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.apps:14413 comp.sys.mac.misc:16360
From: kolding@cs.washington.edu (Eric Koldinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: ZModem Tool...
Date: 11 Sep 92 00:32:20 GMT
Article-I.D.: beaver.1992Sep11.003220.28919
Distribution: na
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle

Does anyone out there know if there exists a ZModem file transfer tool for the
Communications Toolbox?  I've got the Xmodem and Kermit tools, but they just
don't approach the throughput that Zmodem can achieve.  Thanks alot...
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From: whitmore@iastate.edu (Kurt D Whitmore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: MathType vs Expressionist
Date: 14 Sep 92 16:47:02 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA

I use MathType 3.0 for Word (This is a special version that replaces word 5's
equation editor) but you can get an application only version as well.

I mostly use the command-option backslash to form my equations in word 
(90 % of the time) and then use MathType when I have matricies or
complicated bracketing schemes in really nasty equations. I tried
expressionist for a few days on a friends machine and decided I
did _not_ like it. 

The only thing I wish these programs has was a "Convert to command-option / 
form" so you could edit them from inside Word. It shouldn't be that difficult
since MathType has a Convert to TeX form.

Kurt 
                                            

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From: mirsky1@husc8.harvard.edu (David Mirsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Excel Execute Help Needed
Date: 7 Sep 92 20:41:25 GMT
Organization: Harvard University Science Center


I need some help using the Execute macro function in Excel 4.0. If
you have successfully used it and are willing to help me, please
send me email. Thanks
 
David Mirsky
mirsky1@husc.harvard.edu
From: yjc@po.cwru.edu (Jerome Chan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: At Ease
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Date: 15 Sep 1992 03:19:12 GMT
Organization: The Tofu Society of Singapore
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: b61539.student.cwru.edu

In article <14SEP199216120285@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov>,
kayser@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (Susan E. Kayser NSSDC/STX (301)513-1673)
wrote:
> Are you sure this is enough security for you?  Are you trying to protect your 
> Mac against well-meaning users who don't know the Mac, in which case this
> sounds like the right program, or against knowledgeable people who have no
> qualms about messing up someone else's machine? 
> 

  Yes. Most of the people on my floor are Mac-Naive. They just want to run
word processors, POP mail clients and Games. The security is good enough.
It would be nice if we could have a login window and sperate folders for
different people.

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From: sullivan@granite.ma30.bull.com (Marie J. Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: InUse conflicts with FileGuard?
Date: 10 Sep 92 21:39:50 GMT
Organization: Bull HN Information Systems Inc.
Originator: sullivan@granite.ma30.bull.com

When I got FileGuard a few weeks ago, I experienced a few weird effects:

Superclock flickered constantly (so I removed it).
Menus flickered while functions were selected (e.g. while doing a find
  next in ThinkC) instead of highlighting once, then dehighlighting.
The screen-save option of FileGuard stopped working after a while.

I was starting to get annoyed with FileGuard until I noticed that one of
the other icons at startup was blacked out. It was the InUse CDEV (which
puts up a flickering (aha) icon on the menu bar when the disk is in
use).  When I removed InUse, all the symtoms went away, and I could use
SuperClock again (hurrah).

Has anyone else seen this (or similar problems) with either FileGuard or
InUse? I've started using DiskLight from Norton Utilities instead and it
seems to work just fine.

For completeness - I'm running System 7.0 with Tuneup 1.1.1 on a IIsi.
Other extensions include Disinfectant, Gatekeeper and Gatekeeper Aid
(better paranoid than sorry), Norton FileSaver, Think Back, Auspice (a
calendar program), TrashAlias, PopChar, and Extensions Manager. 

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From: callahan@itr.wa.com (John Callahan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Desperately Seeking ReadLisa
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 22:13:35 PDT
Organization: Information Technology Research, Seattle, U.S.A.
Reply-To: callahan@itr.wa.com (John Callahan)
Distribution: world
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1

Dear Colleagues,

I'm trying to locate an application called ReadLisa or any similar
application that will let me read disks originally written on my
(antique and incapacitated) Lisa on a Macintosh.

Any clues?

Thanks.

John

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From: russol@marcus.its.rpi.edu (Louis Peter Russo)
Subject: MacDraw II 1.1 and dashed bezier curves?
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 23:21:04 GMT


I have not used a drawing application in quite some time and was wondering
if MacDraw II 1.1 could create dashed bezier curves.  If so, could some 
kind soul please let me know how to do this.  If not, than does anyone
know of any drawing package that can do these types of things?

I am considering buying some new drawing software anyway, any suggestions
would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Lou Russo


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.mac.sys
From: steinman@is.morgan.com (Jan Steinman)
Subject: Comparison: FWB Hard Disk Toolkit & Personal Edition
Organization: Morgan Stanley & Company
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 18:12:32 GMT

Will someone familiar with both describe what's different between
FWB's Hard Disk Toolkit (~$124) and their Personal Edition (~$49)?
I'm using DiskManagerMac, but I've been having some problems with it
since I switched to S7.

Anyone have a copy of of either they want to sell?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Duane Clark <duane@maddog.jpl.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: Disk Defragmenter
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X-Xxdate: Tue, 15 Sep 92 15:30:16 GMT
Organization: Jet Propulsion Labs
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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 14:22:48 GMT

In article <1992Sep15.060021.5871@news.weeg.uiowa.edu> MuffinHead,
smills@news.weeg.uiowa.edu writes:
>>Chris Christensen (cnc@Apple.COM) wrote:
>
>>: It seems to me that my hard disk is shrinking in capacity. I wonder
if it is
>>: getting fragmented. Any good tools for testing for and fixing
fragmentation?
>
>>Have you tried Disk First Aid?  It generally recovers a couple hundred
K for
>>me.
>
>Disk First Aid doesn't defrag disks. Buy Norton Utilities.

Well, first of all, the original post came from cnc@apple.com which I
assume indicates an Apple employee. Would they be allowed to buy Symantec
products? Anyhow, fragmenting doesn't really shrink disk capacity. Disk
FIrst Aid (and Norton) will often recover space on disks from pieces of
trash files left laying around on the disk. Among other times, these can
occur if a program has created a temporary file and then the system
crashes and you hit the reset button.
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From: justin@mik.uky.edu (justin sullivan)
Subject: Any Grading Programs available?
Keywords: grading app
Summary: grading apps for the Mac
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 03:02:17 GMT

Does anyone know of a good grading program (high-school type mostly, but
anything will probably do) for the Mac? I have a client who needs one and I'm
at a total loss for a recommendation. One of her colleagues recommended
SoftPC, if you can believe that.. >:(
Shareware, freeware, commercial.. Doesn't matter. Most anything will do.
Please e-mail (and fast, if you can..)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps