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From: moher@bert.eecs.uic.edu (Tom Moher)
Subject: FTP sites for "educational" software
Summary: Looking for free/shareware learning environments
Keywords: education, mac
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 18:15:26 GMT


i am working with a school with a roomful of macs, but no
(or let's say a very limited) software budget.  i was wondering
if anyone knows of any FTP sites specializing in learning
environments, especially for elementary school-age kids.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: peterhi@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Peter Hickman)
Subject: Whos been a silly boy then
Organization: University of Sussex
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 16:14:47 GMT

Well I have this problem. We, a friend and I, got two copies of Excel 4.0 for
a client and tested then on the network we made from our machines. As we were
pressed for time we just installed them and got things running.

The tests went OK and simon took them up to london to install for the client
and at startup up comes the user registration dialog. One for him and one for
me - the problem is the client would probably like to see their own name in
the user registration dialog. Simon is bringing them down tonight and we are
going to try and remove the user id. Incase there is no information in the
three manuals that came with Excel does anyone know how we can change the user
registration dialog?

Please........HELP!!!
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From: rcarr@zeus.calpoly.edu (Robin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Nissus demo
Date: 14 Oct 92 21:27:23 GMT
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

I have been looking around for a demo version of Nissus that I was told 
about.  I looked at sumax, but I wasn't able to find it by hunting, or
by looking in the directory file.  Does anyone know where I might be 
able to ftp it from?

Thanks
--Robin

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From: eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Textures (was Re: LaTeX for the Mac)
Date: 12 Oct 92 14:47:45 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Department of Computer Science
Distribution: world
Reply-To: eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
NNTP-Posting-Host: cupid.cs.utk.edu

In article <4323@svin09.info.win.tue.nl>, robg@wsinti03.info.win.tue.nl (Rob Gerth) writes:

|>   talking about the TeXtures editor.....
|> 
|> TeXtures is an integrated package right?
|> So I'd expect an editor to be knowledgable about TeX and, more importantly,
|> about its major formats (LaTeX, AmsTeX, etc).
|> 
|> When I use LaTeX, I expect the editor to know about \sections, \subsections,

Agreed. And (anticipating your comment below) if I don't use LaTeX there
should be a way that the editor knows about my favourite macro
package (Lollipop!). You realize of course that this takes the editor
beyond being an editor and becoming an outliner, but that's beside the point.

|> Better, yet: I'd like to have style sheet for environments, style parameters
|> etc.  I don't want to hunt in the LaTeX manual for the precise way to change
|> the \leftmargin in a list environement.

You want the editor to know the whole implementation of LaTeX and
how to change it? Wow.

Other comment: the least a TeX-sensitive editor
could do is flash matching parens, braces, and brackets.
And provide a few (emacs-lisp-mode-like) commands such as jump
over matched group, jump left/right outside matched group.
(This is of course mostly of use for people writing macros,
but believe me I've been using TeXtures for many hours per day
the last few days debugging my macro package, and it's no
fun having to count braces by hand.)

Victor.
From: jon@weber.ucsd.edu (Jon Matousek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Nisus demo
Date: 15 Oct 1992 15:29:53 GMT
Organization: Nisus Software, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: weber.ucsd.edu
Keywords: nisus demo disk

In article <1992Oct14.212723.109122@zeus.calpoly.edu> rcarr@zeus.calpoly.edu (Robin) writes:
>I have been looking around for a demo version of Nissus that I was told 
>about.  I looked at sumax, but I wasn't able to find it by hunting, or
>by looking in the directory file.  Does anyone know where I might be 
>able to ftp it from?
>
>Thanks
>--Robin

Nisus' and Nisus Compact's demo disk can be obtained for free by calling
Nisus Software: 1-800-922-2993

-jOn

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From: ack@coos.dartmouth.edu (Andy J. Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Need to ged rid of AD password.
Date: 14 Oct 92 17:26:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: dartvax.1992Oct14.172653.19353
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

whs1@cornell.edu (Bill Stearns) writes:

>How can I delete the old password in After Dark when someone has
>forgotten it?
>- Bill Stearns
>   Director, Cornell Chemistry Research Computer Facility

Reinstall it from the master disk. That's the only way I know about, and
certainly the safest.

-A


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From: long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Rich Long)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Word 5 gets hung up in save
Date: 15 Oct 92 12:13:43 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


> 
>>	In the last couple of days, when I save in Word 5 everything gets hung
>>up about 2/3 of the way through, and I have to shut down and lose what I was
>>trying to save.

 The only time I've seen something like this is when I was trying to use the
 Text with Layout filter. It apparently is 32-bit dirty, and consistently hung
 in that mode.

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Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Date: Wed,  7 Oct 1992 22:47:48 -0400 
From: Barry_Wolman@transarc.com
Subject: Problem Installing Excel 4.0 Help

I've tried multiple times to install the Excel 4.0 Help application;
each time I get a "disk is full" error reading the portion of Help
stored on disk 5.  I've tried a total of three volumes on two physical
disks.  Two of the volumes on which I tried to install Help had 25MB
free.

I've managed to install all of Excel 4.0 _except_ Help.  I haven't
checked everything (there's so much of it!), but the basic application
works fine.

I'm using 6.0.7 on a 8MB IIci.  I turned off virus protection.

Has anyone else had any problems installing Excel Help?

Thanks,
Barry
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: ole@gorgon.forut.no (Ole Jorgen Maland ?)
Subject: Problems with NewsWatcher
Organization: Norwegian Telecom/FORUT, Norway
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 12:43:09 GMT

I have been using NewsWatcher v1.0.2 for more than a year now. Recently we got
a newsserver at our organisation wich I wanted to get my news from. But after
I changed, my newsrc got screwed up. All the new groups appeard to be ok, but
none of the old groups was. After that I have tried to reinstall NewsWatcher
and deleted it completely, but nothing helps. Is there a hidden file wich holds
the newsgroup list? Because whenever I quit the program it takes some time to
"Write to the Group list". I thought that if I could find this group list and
deleted it I could have NewsWarcher to rebuild it.

Please respond by mail though I don't read this group regular.

Thanks



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From: dent@DIALix.oz.au (Andrew Dent)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Log Book or Diary Software?
Date: 15 Oct 92 14:49:32 GMT
Organization: DIALix Services, Perth, Western Australia

I find ThoughtPattern to be an excellent note-taking tool. It allows you to
cross-reference or manually tabulate the entries and to do complex searches
based on the tabs. The alarms feature can be used in sorting to effectively
organise by date, and the linked files feature means you can use it to 
group together different applications' files used in a project.

Andy Dent (A.D. Software - Mac & VAX programming)
94 Bermuda Dve, BALLAJURA  Western Australia  6066
Phone/Fax: 09 249 2719 (local)  +619 249 2719 (International)
       Internet: dent@DIALix.oz.au    Compuserve: 100033,3241
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Jonathan A. Duke <jonathan@hermes.bc.edu>
Subject: Re: Font organizing software.
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A702E4AC45030508@ipmc08.bc.edu>
X-Xxdate: Thu, 15 Oct 92 09:04:44 GMT
Organization: Boston College
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 13:13:28 GMT

Subject: Font organizing software.
From: JHenderson, jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk
Date: 15 Oct 92 09:31:12 GMT
In article <26900@castle.ed.ac.uk> JHenderson, jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk
writes:
>My font menus are now totally jammed with names of fonts, so I'm thinking
>of investing in some package to clean the mess up. The two I'm aware of
are
>Adobe Type Reunion and Suitcase II. I'd be grateful for firsthand
information
>on how these perform.

First, Suitcase (current version 2.1.2) only allows you store your fonts
outside of the system folder.  It doesn't do anything to "clean up" your
menus.

On the other hand, Adobe Type Reunion does clean up your menu, somewhat.
It does that by creating a submenu for **unharmonized** fonts.  These 
the fonts that look like the ones in the example below.

I'll try to demonstrate:

Normal font menu:	B Times Bold
					BI Times BoldItalic
					I Times Italic
					Times
					
ATR Menu:			Times >	Roman
							Italic
							Bold
							BoldItalic

Now, if you have a font that only has a single variation, like Graphic
Light, ATR won't do anything with it, just leaving it in its normal
position in the menu.

I hope this helps.


Jon Duke
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: vthrc@mailbox.uq.oz.au
Subject: Re: Font Kerning problem, Word 5.0?
Organization: Vision, Touch & Hearing Research Centre
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 11:10:16 GMT

unnamed person (to5232@iscsvax.uni.edu) writes:
>Has anyone notice a font kerning problem in Word 5.0?  Especially with
>Helvetica, 12 point?

I'm not quite sure what you mean by kerning - believe me I've tried to kern in
Word 3/4/5 without usable results. For the title of our annual reports I've
been forced to resort to PostScript. The Character Spacing option allows some
control in 0.25 point steps, but the way Word seems to use the LaserWriter
driver causes characters to be regularly realigned to a 72dpi grid causing
horrible results. The spacing possible in Formula's is even worse in being
limited to whole point units.

BTW I nearly always use the Precise Character Spacing option, if only cause it
usefully shrinks text by 5-10%.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: df2tg2n@ties.bell-atl.com (Steve Rosen)
Subject: Info on IdeaFisher
Reply-To: df2tg2n@shoes.bell-atl.com
Organization: Bell Atlantic - Phila, PA
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 18:19:43 GMT

Is anybody using the program IdeaFisher?  If so I'd be interested to know
what you thought of it and a brief description of what application you are
using it for.  Thanks, e-mail appreciated.

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From: ZoeHeimdal_S._Heimdal@bmug.org
Organization: BMUG, Inc.
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 17:29:50 PDT
Subject: Re: Suitcase 2.1.1 and 32 bit addressing

I had that same problem with 32 bit/suitcase 2.1.1 crashing my fx.
What I did was order the update for ATM  (version 2.0.3)
(do you have that?), and my problems were solved! This also took care of the
system eating up all of my memory under System 7.
-Zoe
Type Reunion (do you have those?)
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From: bernardo@erevax.bitnet (Marcelino Bernardo)
Subject: Re: WANT: to track Application/System USAGE on one mac
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: Exxon Research & Engineering, Co.
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 00:44:13 GMT

In article <1992Oct9.141737.14767@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>,
binder@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (BINDER KEVIN T) wrote:
> 
> I'm looking for an extension/control panel or small application that
> will log various activities that take place on my mac. I would like
> to record the startup and shutdown times of the computer system itself
> as well as log the usage of applications. Do you have a solution?
> Please email me at:
> 

Now Utilities includes a control panel/init called Screen Locker that does
what you want in addition to providing password protection for your Mac. 
(It does conflict with OzTeX though and must be turned off in the control
panel when running OzTeX.)

Marcelino Bernardo
bernardo@erevax.bitnet
*These opinions are my own*
From: GTE@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Log Book or Diary Software?
Date: 14 Oct 92 13:33:44 GMT
Organization: Penn State University

Does anyone know of a software package designed for keeping free form text for
a log book like a lab notebook or a personal diary.  This sounds like a good
use for hypercard.

            Thanks,
            Bob Gould
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: ma3602@eehp14 (Michael J Alford)
Subject: Re: mac & sound/music
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 03:52:48 GMT

horen@medusa.bioc.aecom.yu.edu (Ben Horenstein) writes:

>I am running a MacII si and was wondering just what's out there to
>sample sounds with the mac, and if there is anything available on
>the network that would let me compose and play(on the mac) some
>tunes.  I've tried to locate something appropriate with archie
>but I only come up with sound libraries.  Does something like this
>exist as freeware or shareware? Before I think about investing in
>some of the commercial software I've seen, I'd like to try something
>out with a small investment.  Well, thanks if anyone has any suggestions!

FTP to sumex-aim.  info-mac/sound/programs.  
All sorts of neat sound programs you will find there.
From: dbarnden@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Dennis Barnden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Utility that logs time of strtup and shutdown?
Date: 16 Oct 1992 15:37:55 +0800
Organization: The University of Westrn Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: uniwa.uwa.edu.au
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

GateKeeper keeps a list of the startup/shutdown times in it's log file.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.dcom.lans,comp.dcom.lans.misc
From: mvolo@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Michael R. Volow)
Subject: Lantastic Mac, anyone seen it?
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: lantastic mac
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 01:09:51 GMT


Recently noticed in a Lantastic ad an notice about Lantastic Mac.
Does anyone know anything about this?
-- 
Michael Volow, Psychiatry, Durham VA Med Center, Durham NC 27712
919 286 0411 Ext 6933               mvolo@uncecs.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: u920604@postoffice.utas.edu.au (Matthew King)
Subject: Help - Binary File Splitter Needed
Organization: University of Tasmania
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 06:42:06 GMT

Ok, what I'm after is a program that splits a binary file into as many pieces
as I want.  However I don't want the program to compress the data or add any 
other bits and pieces to it.  I have seen a program or two that does this 
for text and I've got a binary one for the ibm, but I need one(desperatly!!!)
 for the mac.  Any help appreciated.

        Please reply via email if possible

Matthew King
(u920604@postoffice.utas.edu.au)
From: nau@frabjous.cs.umd.edu (Dana Nau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Textures (was Re: LaTeX for the Mac)
Date: 11 Oct 92 22:49:52 GMT
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
In-reply-to: trivedi@yukawa.uchicago.edu's message of 9 Oct 92 07:22:34 GMT

In article <1992Oct9.072234.1732@midway.uchicago.edu> trivedi@yukawa.uchicago.edu (Anil Trivedi) writes:

   ... I was inspired enough to try Textures (can't recall the version
   number). It was very nice, but ... as is my experience with most
   Mac applications, I found the bundled editor to be somewhat
   underpowered.

   So I would add my wish to the wishlist that Barry is accumulating:
   please power up the editor a little!

Even better, why not provide a way for the user to use whatever
text-editor he/she wants?  There are some very nice freeware/shareware
editors out there, and I suspect that a number of potential Textures
users would like to use one of them instead of the built-in editor.
--
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	University of Maryland		UUCP:  uunet!mimsy!nau
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: stiber@uxmail.ust.hk (Dr. Michael D. Stiber)
Subject: Re: LaTeX for the Mac
Organization: HKUST Computer Science Department
	<1992Oct6.100852.5971@coli.uni-sb.de> <1992Oct8.033550.14419@reed.edu>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 13:49:58 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.033550.14419@reed.edu> barry@reed.edu (Barry Smith) writes:
   In article <1992Oct6.100852.5971@coli.uni-sb.de> espen@coli.uni-sb.de (Espen J. Vestre) writes:
   >The font used by TeXtures for the
   >(standard) LaTeX section headings is just _terrible_, looks almost like
   >printed on an Imagewriter...  (this is not a problem if you have the
   >Postscript cm fonts of course).

   The section heading font (like all bitmap fonts) suffers if it is not
   available at the resolution-dependent size.  The symptoms you saw were
   not due to the font, but to the scaling of bitmap fonts, and can be
   easily resolved by installing the correct (resolution-dependent) size
   for your printer.

An alternative solution (and much better, if you dislike the Computer
Modern fonts) is to get the files to build yourself a New Font
Selection Scheme format for Textures.  Then, you can use any of the
LaserWriter's postscript fonts in your document.

--
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Department of Computer Science				tel: (852) 358 6981
The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology	fax: (852) 358 1477
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From: Bob_Grahame_-_Admin.@edgeway.wimsey.bc.ca
Organization: EdgeWays! InfoLink - A FirstClass GUI BBS - "The Edge of Communications and GateWays to the World." North Vancouver, BC Canada
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 19:34:20 PST
Subject: Re: Easily managing file names

Try a little program called BatFiler (I think that is right). I have it, but,
have not had a need for it.

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From: werner@soe.berkeley.edu (John Werner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: SPSS macintosh - any good?
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Date: 12 Oct 1992 19:01:23 GMT
Organization: UC Berkeley School of Education
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.32.157.31

In article <1992Oct12.165421.11371@waikato.ac.nz>, atc@waikato.ac.nz wrote:
> 
> I'm looking for peoples experiences with SPSS macintosh.

I used to work for SPSS, and I'm one of the unlucky souls who did their
Macintosh conversion, so I can make a few comments.  SPSS for the Mac is
probably the best version of the "old" SPSS user interface, with input
windows, an output window, and a command generator.  But it doesn't have a
real Mac interface.  You have to type in commands (or let the command
generator type them for you) and run them, then go look at the text output
in the output window.  We sometimes called the command generator the "card
punch", the input window the "card reader", and the output window the "line
printer".

The Mac SPSS is version 4.0, which means it doesn't have all the dialog
boxes and graphics that got added to version 5.0 on Windows.  I don't what
what (if any) plans there are for a port of the 5.0 version to the Mac, but
I wouldn't hold my breath.

> What is the minimum hardware specification required to use it successfully?

I think the minimum it will run on is a 2Mb Mac Plus.  The minimum you
really _want_ to run it on is a 680[23]0 with an FPU.  The minimum memory
partition is 1.2 Mb.  If you're going to run huge analyses, you might need
more.

> What alternatives are available?

If you need the heavy-duty statistics that SPSS does, it's probably the
best bet.  Last time I looked, the only competition for serious statistics
on the Mac was Systat, and their user interface was even worse, although it
did have graphics. If you don't need the heavy-duty stats, you should
probably look at other packages like DataDesk, SuperAnova, JMP, etc.

-
John Werner                         werner@soe.berkeley.edu
UC Berkeley School of Education     510-642-9651
From: evans@deakin.OZ.AU (Peter Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: word 5: pagination and text flowing around figures
Date: 10 Oct 1992 10:21:56 +1000
Organization: Deakin University, Victoria, Australia
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.deakin.oz.au

I am working on a long document (250+ pages) containing lots of figures and
tables.  What is the best way to keep the figures and captions on the one
page and have the text flow around them so there are not big blanks
(vertically).

I am using Word version 5.

I will post summary if there is interest.

Thanks for assistance,
Peter Evans     (evans@deakin.oz.au)

Organization: Doctoral student, Psychology, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA