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From: teh1@cec2.wustl.edu (Trent E. Hemmings)
Subject: Re: TeachText : Typeface and size
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis Mo.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 12:30:45 GMT

In article <STEINMAN.92Aug25094813@hawk.is.morgan.com> steinman@is.morgan.com (Jan Steinman) writes:
>In article <1992Aug25.100252.24337@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> probulf@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Frank Probul) writes:
>
>   |> How can you set your preferred typeface and size ? For example, I would 
>   |> like to have Monaco size 9 in every window of TeachText. The reason is 
>   |> I want to use TeachText as text editor for editing posting in Nuntius; 
>   |> furthermore my favorite typeface and size is Monaco 9. 
>
>   Changing the font an size in TeachText:
>
>  [directions ommitted]
>
>Note that changing the size (and possibly changing the font) will
>create havoc with "ttro" documents -- those that display as the
>newspaper icon. In those, line spacing is used to allow room for
>graphics. Choose a smaller size (or an expanded font), and graphics
>will overrun text. Choose a bigger size (or a kerned font), and there
>will be white gaps around graphics.
>
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This is why it's a good idea, as long as your hacking around in 
ResEdit, to change the application signature from ttxt to something    
different.  This will prevent documents you've created with your 
altered teachtext from opening with any other version.  Or better
yet, cut the ttro file type from the BNDL resource on your altered
version - so it can't open those types of files.  (just thought of that :^)

Trent.

Trent Hemmings, teh1@cec2.wustl.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc
From: 11437294@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (NATHAN WHEAT)
Subject: Re: SoftPC info wanted
Organization: Faculty of Engineering, Monash University 
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 00:31:23 GMT

>Could someone give me a rundown on what SoftPC/SoftAT can do (other than
>run DOS programs)?  What problems/limitations does it have?  We're considering
>getting it, obviously so people can run PC applications on Macs, but we
>want to know how good it is first.  Also, what competitors does it have
>and are they any good?

SoftPC/AT is too SLOW!  I don't think it is reasonable for use with IBM 
software.  There is a product called RunPC which is out, I don't know who 
makes it or how much better it is, though I've heard it's a little faster.  
SoftPC in my opinion is too slow, but is most other respects (compatability, 
etc) it seems to work fine.

Nathan.
From: flash@austin.lockheed.com (James W. Melton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: How can one copy an audioCD sound ?
Date: 2 Sep 92 03:25:15 GMT
Organization: "Lockheed Austin Division, 6800 Burleson Rd, Austin, TX 78744

In article <1992Aug31.213102.20195@newshost.lanl.gov> gavin.adams@lso.mts.dec.com (Gavin Adams) writes:
>I haven't heard of ANY CD-ROM drive capable of sending CD Audio (Red Book
>or is it Orange) out the SCSI port.  Most drives have a line-level output
>on the drive.  This can be routed to a stereo, DSP, whatever.
>
>On PC's (IBMs) the line-out on the CD drive goes to a line-input on a
>sound card.  Sampling to waveform files is normally done via DMA access,
>and for CD quality audio (44 Mhz 16 bit sampling) a '386-based machine is
>needed.

Just for the record, Silicon Graphics sells a CD-ROM drive that
provides SCSI audio of Red Book CDs. The Indigo has the DSP
necessary to convert the signals to audio and play them out the CPU
sound port.

However, this hogs the SCSI bus / CPU so much that you would not
normally do this to listen to your CDs. It is better to get some
speakers and play your CDs through the audio port.

As far as sampling on an LC goes, even if you got the audio data
via SCSI, you need software on the Mac to interpret the data for
your sample (I plead ignorance here). I don't know of any.

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Subject: Re: Expressionist 3.00 (problems)
From: guelzow@brandonu.ca
Date: 25 Aug 92 13:19:43 CST
Organization: Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada

In article <1992Aug21.042944.23452@IRO.UMontreal.CA>, 
charestm@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Martin Charest) writes:
> Hello the net!
>                Is anybody out there have problems with the copy fonction in
> the all new "Expressionist 3.00"?  Sometimes, when i do copy, the system quit
> the application, with a message saying "...an error 28 occured...", or all
> the mac frost. This appen so frequently that the program is useless!
I don't happen to have such problems (IIsi 5MB, 10MB virtual, Syst. 7.01tuned)
but:
>  
> If the copy worked, certains equations as they appears in a word processor
> ( Word 4, Nisus ) are botched ( Radicals, brackets, absolute values, for
> instance... ).
This problem occurs on screen when 300dpi Postscript is included and looks
awful but it seems to rpint just fine. Certain brackets appear 4 times the
size they should be, i.e. there may be a problem with 72dpi screen to 
300dpi printing.
>  
> I will appreciate any comments or whatsoever about these two major problems.
>  
> Note; I have a mac IIci with 20 Mo of ram, and 32 bit addressing.  I give
> a lot of memory for Expressionist, so that's not the cause... I have
> tried some tests for the inits, etc... and found noting.
>  
> Thanks
>                                        Martin.
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From: erude@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Erick Rudiak)
Subject: Re: bobe plot software
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 12:43:41 GMT

In article <hise.714934772@vincent1.iastate.edu>, hise@iastate.edu (Allan R Hise) writes:
|> Does anyone know of any software, perferably PD/Shareware, that can be used
|> for making Bode plots?  
|> 
|> Thanks,
|> Allan
|> hise@iastate.edu

	Don't know about PD or shareware.  MatLab is what we used in our Control
Systems class here at NU.  It was pretty sophisticated (even the student version)
and it had decent documentation, as well as an almost-manageable programming
environment.  It also does Nyquist plots, and tons of other stuff we never used.

-- Erick
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From: ifaq570@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Kitchen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re:  WARNING !!!
Date: 1 Sep 92 21:45:38 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin

In article <BtpHDs.6BD@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca> cyor@logos.uwaterloo.ca (                ) writes:
>
>My impression is that it was a set up by Second Wave. 
>
>1) they told me that they had customers who tried it before and it works.
>   (Radius said it does not)
>   They tricked me to buy their product and  said I have to pay
>   for the decision I made.
>
	I took some time out from my busy day to call Second Wave in Austin
and ask them some questions about their product.  I was hoping they would
incriminate themselves to me by telling me their product would run the 
Radius Rocket.

	What happened was they told me up front, that the chassis they
sell only adds 4 Nubus slots.  They said that no extra capabilities were
added to an SI. In fact, the person on the phone (sorry, I did not take a 
name, because I felt that would look suspicious) told me that the only 
known problm with it was that Radius Rockets wouldn't run on it.  This, he 
said, was because the rocket doesn't run on ANY SI.  He also told me that
Radius was coming out with a SI accelerator this fall.  He then told me
that other accelerators, such as Applied Engineering and Impulse worked
fine on their expansion chassis.
	
	I don't know anything about the money problems you seem to
have had with them, but for the net's info, they didn't misrepresent the
product to me.
	Dated Sept 1,1992  time 4:15 Austin Time (central)

	Perhaps the company hires temporary employees to man the phones 
sometimes.  Said temp would not have been told everything, in fact probably
couldn't understand your question, therefore resulted to the tactic of all
salespeople everywhere: say yes!
      
	Just my observations and experiences with them. I am not affiliated
with them in any way!  Only setting the record flat.

allen kitchen
ifaqq570@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu


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From: ahlenius@rtsg.mot.com (Mark Ahlenius)
Subject: No
Summary: Norton Utilities Directory Assistance problems	
Keywords: Norton utilities Directory assistnace
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 20:21:17 GMT

Since installing Norton Utilities a few weeks ago, I have been
having some strange problems with Directory Assistance - the
file opening/loading dialog utility it provides.

First of all I am running Sys 7.0 with tune up.
Whenever I try to open or load a file, and the Directory Assistance
and it displays the current folders at that level of the
file system, I can almost never double click on a folder and
have it open up.  I must select the folder and then click the
OPEN button.

Also whenever I have to type a name for a file I am saving in the
same Directory assistance type window, the display of the characters
that I am typing is VERY S L O W!.  I can usually get about 8 char's
ahead of it.  When I look at the disk led on my drive, its flashing
away like mad.  I am not sure what's going on.

I don't believe I have any unusual inits installed on the machine
either.  I have reinstalled the entire Norton Utility package
with all extensions turned off, and it made no difference.

I know another coworker who has the same problem on his machine,
while yet another worker does not have these problems and we are
all running ~~same stuff.

Any ideas would be appreciated.  Please email responses, as I 
can't read this group every day.  

thanks

'mark

ahlenius@rtsg.mot.com or just try to respond to this address of posting.






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From: bazell@stsci.edu (David Bazell)
Subject: MacX or other X server
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 15:24:10 GMT


Were does one get MacX and exactly what is it. Do I need A/UX to run
it.  I want to run X applications from my mac on a remote Unix system,
is this the best way?  Are there other X servers?  What other h/w or
s/w would I need, and how much would it all cost?

Thanks very much

Dave
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From: lhermens@luke.eecs.wsu.edu (Leonard Hermens - CS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: $$$$$$$$$$$$$ WARNING !!!!! $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Date: 28 Aug 92 18:43:18 GMT
Organization: Washington State University!

In article <parkyn.715021817@sfu.ca> parkyn@fraser.sfu.ca (Dale Parkyn) writes:
>The difficulties encountered with product misrepresentation in this case
>and the difficulty of refunding money should be brought to the attention
>of the credit card company used. (VISA account use was mentioned.)
>
>While I have not gone through the procedure personally, the Card company has
>tremendous power to extract funds.

   I HAVE done this, through a US credit card firm.  You simply have to
   say that the product was defective as advertised and that the company
   is not willing to negotiate a replacement or a refund.  The credit
   card company will back the charges off the bill and you will not
   have to pay until the difficulty is resolved.

   You WILL have to explain to the card company exactly what steps you
   have taken to remedy the situation, so have your list of phone calls
   and letters ready.

   My particular situation was resolved so that I did not have to pay the
   charges, plus the company in question sent me a check for the refund
   amount by accident.  Did I keep the check?  You'll have to guess on this
   one.  :-)

Leonard
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: leonardr@ccs.itd.umich.edu
Subject: StuffIt Converter (was Re: More SpaceSaver) 
Originator: leonardr@diddley.ccs.itd.umich.edu
Organization: Campus Computing Sites, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 17:43:48 GMT

In article <1992Aug20.030656.15265@ariel.ec.usf.edu> pollock@eggo.tmc.edu (Wayne Pollock) writes:
>Today I got my StuffIt Deluxe 3.01 and found it has some problems (minor)
>under System 6.  (For one thing, the disks that were shipped didn't have
>desktop files!)  
>
	Sorry about the desktop problem, the guy who builds are disks has
been appropriately flogged!!

>one thing I did notice is that if you do a get info on a
>compressed file, it accurately reports the compressed and uncompressed
>sizes!  (i.e., "302,126 bytes used, 173K on disk")  Unfortunately, doing
>the get info uncompresses the file as others have already noted.
>
	Yeah, blame the Finder.  The Finder opens a file (actually it
opens it twice!) in order to get all the "info" that it displays in the 
"Get Info" window.  Since SpaceSaver decompress files when they are opened,
we decompress them here too.  We are looking into ways to "determine" that 
the open is really for a "Get Info " and avoid the decompression, and also
give more info in the Get Info dialog.

>The StuffIt Converter application is dangerous!  It doesn't appear to be
>as well thought out as the rest of SD.  
>
	As the author of Converter, I have to agree!!  Converter did not go
through all the rigorous testing that the rest of the producdt did, and as such
we are finding that it has a couple of problems that can cause problems. As
Wayne suggested, you might want to be careful in your use of Converter until
we have a chance to update it (probably next week some time!).

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From: dnwhiteh@eos.ncsu.edu (DUANE N WHITEHURST)
Subject: excel 3.0 -> 3.0a? HOW
Originator: dnwhiteh@c00466-224wi.eos.ncsu.edu
Reply-To: dnwhiteh@eos.ncsu.edu (DUANE N WHITEHURST)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 13:32:49 GMT


hi again..

wondering if anybody knows if there's an update script to
update ms. excel from 3.0 to 3.0a?

and if there is where could I find it?

i've seen people talk about excel 3.0a and I was wondering
what the difference is too but, going on the "updates are
always for the best" theory I'd like to upgrade my copy...


thanks..

				+=+ duane
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From: ednstras@kraken.itc.gu.edu.au (Michael Strasser)
Subject: Re: ZTerm 0.9 and Quadra 950 problem
Organization: ITC, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
Date: 26 Aug 92 00:00:00 GMT

I have fixed the problem.  I needed to re-specify the receive folder
on the new machine (even though the directory structure is *exactly*,
letter-for-letter, the same).

Thanks to all those who replied.

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From: ccoprmm@prism.gatech.EDU (Michael Mealing)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Extracting text from QuarkXpress documents
Keywords: QuarkXpress, text
Date: 28 Aug 92 08:31:36 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

I need to be able to convert several rather large QuarkXpress documents in
to plain text. I tried CanOpener but it failed misserably to produce anything
useful. Any ideas?

Thanks!

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From: gyoungs@nyx.cs.du.edu (Greg Youngs)
Subject: Re: Looking for app to run DA's under System 7
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 20:06:39 GMT


DAs under System 7 can be put anywhere and accessed like applications
Create a folder for DAs, alias it to the Apple Menu Items.

You can double-click on them, launch via Quickeys, etc.


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From: ejohnso@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Eric Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: $$$$$$$$$$$$$ WARNING !!!!! $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Date: 31 Aug 92 15:06:09 GMT
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

A minor footnote to this saga re: what CIBC is.  In Canada there are something
like 5 or 7 bank corporations nation-wide. Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce 
is one of them, so it is hardly the small bank that was suggested in one post.

Canadian banks are considerably less customer driven than those
in the U.S. to the extent that several years ago parlimentary hearings found
horror stories like children's christmas club accts being depleted by monthly
fees, 20% fees to change a $20 bill into quarters (for laundry), and others.
Since then they've lightened up a bit, but it still takes 2 pieces of ID to
_deposit_ money at a branch office other than your regular one.

Likewise their credit cards are not too helpful when trying to get your money
back. I still think the guy in question should write to the President of the
bank and complain. It _might_ get some action.


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From: strollo@ssd.kodak.com (Larry Strollo)
Subject: Re: bogus WriteNow upgrade gimmick
Keywords: writenow tmaker
Organization: Eastman Kodak
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 18:08:19 GMT

In article <Sep.3.09.36.08.1992.7825@gandalf.rutgers.edu> rgonzal@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Ralph Gonzalez) writes:
>
>
>Yet, inside, it is just yet another notice trying to talk me into
>upgrading from WriteNow 2.2 to 3.0. (Does bombarding people with
>upgrade notices actually eventually make them want to upgrade?)
>
>So either there was an error in the printing of the envelopes, or
>T/Maker (makers of WriteNow) considers the deluge of WriteNow upgrade
>notices to be a "subscription". So if I don't get the upgrade, the
>"subscription" will run out! Of course, if I were to take the upgrade,
>I assume they'd stop the "subscription" anyway... :-)
>

I got the same silly blurb - AND I ALREADY BOUGHT THE UPGRADE, and sent the 
registration card in 3 months ago !

So, I called their 1-800 number in buffalo to ask them "what gives?".  I 
wanted to make sure that they had received my registration, so I can 
continue to receive these sophisticated mailings |8-).  She said she didn't
know whether they got it or not, and that I would have to call Mountain View
(not a 1-800 number).  I asked her: "Don't your computers talk to each other ?"
Her reply: "No, we don't have a modem or anything".  Go figure.


LMS


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From: perrocho@inf.ethz.ch (Louis Perrochon)
Subject: Word 5.00 bug (?)
Originator: perrocho@antares.inf.ethz.ch
Organization: Dept. Informatik, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 08:03:36 GMT

When I use the "Page Layout" view, the pagination is different, than with
"Print Preview". 
This means, that a couple of paragraphs which are a section of their own and
designated to stick together will be on page x in "Print Preview" and
(also when printed), but will be on page x+1 when in "Page Layout" view.

The annoying thing is, if I want to find out, how many lines can be inserted
above the paragraphs, without pushing them to page x+1, I have to switch from
"Normal" to "Print Preview" and back. (I can't see the page break line, because
there are sections markers above and below the critical paragraphs.)

Is this a bug or has it any advantages?

Louis


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From: chuck@westford.ccur.com (Chuck Palmer)
Subject: Inventory Management Software for MACs
Cc: anne@westford.ccur.com
Organization: Concurrent Computer Corp. Westford MA.
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 18:38:49 GMT


I was recently asked about Inventory Management software
for the MAC. I have never thought about it before, so
after I returned a blank stare, I looked in a couple
of Mail Order catalogs and found several packages.
Some appear to be stand-alone and others integrate
with a larger set of accounting functions.

Does anyone have comments/experience with these packages?

The application is to a small business that sells uniforms
to hospitals, police and fire departments, etc. so I think
the magnitude of "parts" is bounded in types and quantities
and probably centralized to a single location (but I'm not sure).

		thanks,

			chuck palmer


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