HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: glb@yarra.pyramid.com.au (George Budahazy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc,aus.mac
Subject: QK possible config problem
Keywords: 10 application Max.
Date: 28 Jul 92 03:47:52 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp PL, Melb., Australia


 Hello to All,

 Does anyone know why Quickeys stops working when any more than 10 applications
 are open. It is independent upon available memory (eg 3.1mb available out of 8)

 I have tried to increase the memory to quickeys but to no avail. It will
 fail on any 10 applications that are open. The machine config is MacCi-8mb-no
 vitual-system 7.0.1(tune up) and QK 2.12a. If one closes an application
 irrespective of how large or small, quickeys returns. I have checked the
 number of files open and there is still more than 20 to go.

 Is this a feature or a bug?

 A second question, it is posible for quickeys to react to key words rather
 than control, option and command and the combinations thereof. I know this
 may defeat the designed purposes of quickeys but its sometimes easier to
 type a keyword (and remember) rather than wrapping one fingers around the
 keyboard.

 Thanks in Advance.

 Regards
      -m-------   George Budahazy - Victorian Engineering Manager 
    ---mmm-----   Pyramid Technology Corporation Pty. Ltd.  fax  +61 3 525 1730
  -----mmmmm---   1st Floor, 553 St. Kilda Road             tel. +61 3 521 3799
 ------mmmmmm--   Melbourne, Victoria, 3004       AUSTRALIA       (03) 521 3799
-------mmmmmmm-   Email Address: glb@yarra.pyramid.com.au
From: stricher@masig.fsu.edu (Char Aznabul)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Fair profits and Killings (was: SPA piracy raid at Oregon?)
Date: 24 Jul 92 22:23:26 GMT
Distribution: na

In article <0105011F.99c9sv@dragon.enigami.mv.com> cory@enigami.mv.com (Cory  
Kempf) writes:
[quoting me]

+ >Programmers deserve to make a living, not a killing.
+ 
+ I really cannot understand this attitude.  Why are software engineers
+ special in this case?  Why shouldn't they be allowed to make money
+ from their abilities?  Why is it that the parasites of the world seem
+ to think that there are classes of people who, instead of being rewarded
+ for their abilities, should only be allowed to exist.

Do you complain about oil companies? Why shouldn't they be permitted to
make a killing? The same for any manufacturing corporation - why shouldn't
they be permitted to make a killing?

Let me take a WAG: you are a programmer, and secretly desire to make a
killing, so you can retire at 40?

This is the attitude that I don't understand - why should you be permitted
to make a killing? Please do explain this.

James
From: jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Best FAX software?
Date: 22 Jul 92 17:19:29 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: USC-ISI


I'm getting a send/receive FAX modem, and have decided to opt for
buying my own, rather than paying for the bundled software.  So...
what's the best Fax software out there?

I have a Mac II running System 7.0.1, and the modem will be able to
send/receive up to 14,400 bps.

jas
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From: knguyen@emr.ca (Khanh Kim Nguyen)
Subject: Canvas :how to get back icon of old version ?
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: emr
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 16:31:09 GMT

Hi friends,
 I mainly run Canvas 2.1.1 (fewer options but faster than 3.0.4). I also
keep compressed Canvas 3.0.4 on the same hard disk and use it when
necessary, but I never save a file as Canvas 3.0.4 one. I know that it
should not keep both versions on the same volume . As a result, all icons
or view by name" info are for Canvas 3.0.4. I use my copy to install
2.1.1; as soon as I insert the disk in I see the con of 3.0.4, so I stop
right there.
 Do you have any solution to press all 3.0.4 icons or view by name" info
to go back 2.1.1. Thanks for your sharing!
From: maurer2@urz.unibas.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: PROBLEMS with BinHex. HELP!!!!!!!!!
Date: 31 Jul 92 12:36:47 MET
Organization: University of Basel, Switzerland


I retrieved Binhex50 from an ftp, but the it doesn't work right. When I want to
translate a .hqx file into binary I get a "BinHex document" but not a program.
I'm disappointed! What am I doing wrong? Am I trying to do something
impossible?
I'm a bloody beginner.
 
                    Patrik
From: sna@prophet.pharm.pitt.edu (Stewart N. Abramson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Is There a Mac X11 Graphics Program?
Date: 26 Jul 92 21:02:27 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

Hi out there.

I am running a graphics program on a Sun.  The program is written to allow
graphics to be run on any X11 graphics terminal.
I am therefor looking for a program that will allow my Mac to be an X-terminal.

Can anyone help me?????????

Stewart
sna@prophet.pharm.pitt.edu
From: pbrooks@agora.uucp (Paul Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Spell Checking & Illustrator 3
Summary: Looking for a spell checker for Illustrator
Keywords: Spell Check Illustrator
Date: 28 Jul 92 17:44:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: agora.1992Jul28.174439.18676
Organization: Open Communications Forum

I have a need for a spell checker for Illustrator 3.0, which would run
under both system 6.0.x and 7.0.x.

Has anyone else run into a solution for this problem - any direction
appreciated.

Please respond via e-mail, and I'll post a summary.                


Thanks
pb 

pbrooks@agora.rain.com


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <JNeedleman@MCIMail.com>
Subject: Re: Hard or non-breaking spaces
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor, MI
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 20:44:34 GMT



In article <1992Jul21.152144.20356@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> BRANDAUER CARL M,
brandy@tramp.Colorado.EDU writes:
>Where, oh where can one find documentation on hard or non-breaking
spaces?

See page 79 of the Word 5.0 User's Guide. A nonbreaking space is either
option+spacebar or command+spacebar.

>Also, in the back of the WORD manual there is a table showing all the
>characters available* with a few selected type faces.  Has anyone
published
>tables for other type faces and how does one get them?

The Symbol command in Word will show a similar table of all 256 ASCII
characters for any font that you select. Utilities like TypeBook or
FontDisplay will print out such tables for you on request; both are
available for ftp from the usual Mac sites...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: sgrenander@NASAMAIL.JPL.NASA.GOV (Sven Grenander)
Subject: Re: FoxBase+/Mac vs 4th Dimension
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 17:41:47 GMT

In article <1992Jul31.011004.3052@cornerstone.com>, aefron@cornerstone.com (Andrew Efron) writes:
> 
> Anyone have experience using both FoxBase and 4D?  Even better, has anyone 
> switched from one to the other?  My company is a heavy user of Foxbase but 
> I'd like to get them to look at something else--I find Foxbase rather quirky 
> (i.e. doesn't always do what you tell it to do), too I-O intensive and since 
> it only allows single-user access to database files, I end up running around 
> the office trying to figure out who's got my file open.  I've heard some good 
> things about 4D but no one has been able to make specific comparisons.
> 
> Also, now that Microsoft has taken over Fox software, any thoughts on the 
> prospects for FoxPro/Mac being a significant improvement (and for that 
> matter, if we will ever see it)?
> 
> Andy
> 
> Andrew Efron
> 
> 

Stay with FoxBase !

BTW, where did you hear good things about 4D ? was it from someone whose main
objective was job security ?

-Sven
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: t-jacobs@ced.utah.edu
Subject: Re: SPA piracy raid at Oregon?
Organization: University of Utah
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 18:54:39 GMT

In article <D88-JWA.92Jul20002831@dront.nada.kth.se> (comp.sys.mac.apps),
d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) writes:

>
>If I opened up my Sony Whatever and made a copy of it
>with my own tools for my own amusement, would that be
>theft from Sony ?
>

No, its not theft, but it is breaking the law, you ar violating their patent.

From the general information pamplet on patents:

"The right conferred by the patent grant is, in the language of the
statute and of the grant itself, 'the right to exclude others from
making, using, or selling' the invention"

!!! MAKING, USING, or SELLING !!! pretty powerful aye?


Tony Jacobs
Center for Engineering Design
University of Utah
From: los@coos.dartmouth.edu (Charles Dubuque)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: ThoughtPattern? Any Good?
Date: 24 Jul 92 01:34:53 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

I have been using the Demo for ThoughtPattern for about a day now, and I
think it might be able to help me in my research. I am about to undertake 
a rather huge research project, and already I have a little stack of post-
it notes and index cards to sort through.

My question is: has anybody used TP for any extended period of time, or for
a large academic project? How is it? What are my other options in this area?

I need to know ASAP since there is a special offer ending next week. If I
buy it before then, I only pay $75 (vs. $149SRP) and I get a free upgrade to
2.0. Is this worth it?

Please respond via E-Mail. I will post results late next week.
Thanks for your help,
Chuck
los@coos.dartmouth.edu
ced@dartmouth.edu
From: triantos@acsu.buffalo.edu (Nick B Triantos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Info about 3270 emulators, please.
Date: 21 Jul 92 16:11:51 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: The University at Buffalo
Originator: triantos@autarch.acsu.buffalo.edu

Hello.

An office where a friend of mine works has just established TCP/IP access to
the Internet.  She is looking for a good 3270 emulator to hook up to some
horrible IBM MegaThingy.  In particular, she would like a package that can
emulate the extended keyboard and color.  Someone has mentioned InterCom(?)'s
TCP/Connect to her, but that can only emulate 3278 (no color, ext. kbd) as best
as she knows.  Ideally, if the program also has any of the following, it would
be even better.
   * POP Mail access                      * NNTP News access
   * Mac-like interface for FTP           * VT100/VT320 emulation
   * Mac-like talk facilities             * System 7 compatibility

If everyone can email me (triantos@acsu.buffalo.edu), I'll post a summary in a
few days.

Thanks in advance,
 -Nick
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                     -Ren Hoek, from Ren & Stimpy's "Space Madness"

  ... Don't knock 6 years of college until you've tried it.
From: RROXBY@MAINE.MAINE.EDU (Robert Roxby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: ibm equivalent to ofoto/canvas?
Date: 31 Jul 92 15:51:05 GMT
Organization: University of Maine System

I would like to know what the best ibm software/hardware
combination is for image processing, primarily b/w photos.
The Mac people all tell me that there isn't anything, you
have to buy a Mac.  Can this be true?  Thanks, Robert
From: cory@enigami.mv.com (Cory Kempf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: How to change Start Up Font in Nisus?!
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 17:45:14 EST
Organization: EnigamI, Inc., Nashua, NH
Reply-To: cory@enigami.mv.com
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.5v5


In article <1992Jul22.224550.29778@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> (comp.sys.mac.apps), Jerome Chan <yjc@po.cwru.edu> writes:
>  How does one change the startup font in Nisus? I would like to startup
>with Times 14 instead of Geneva 12.

There is a very simple method: create a file in your Nisus directory
called "Nisus New File".  This file will be used as stationary for
all new documents created.  If you set its font to be Times 14, or
its rulers, they will be set that way for all new documents that you
create.

Additionally,  you can make a document titled "Nisus Text Stationery"
which will be used to format pure TEXT files.

+C


-------------------------------------------------------------
Cory Kempf                    EnigamI, Inc.
cory@enigami.mv.com           ...!decvax!enigami!cory
Annon:	wi.5036@wizvax.methuen.ma.us

"F' cryin' out loud, it's *your* life; shouldn't you at least examine 
your lifestyle values to see if they are really what *you* want."
										--Keith Lim
From: tkelley@hel4.brl.mil (Troy Kelley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Init for 2 monitors showing same
Date: 27 Jul 92 19:42:12 GMT
Organization: HEL


	I am interested in getting an init that would allow two monitors
to show exactly the same thing. Or both the be the primary monitor
with the system menubar at the top of each. Is that possible?
Would it be possible to write on?

Thanks
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: steve@sdf.lonestar.org (Steve Fuller)
Subject: Re: SPA piracy raid: Call for Solutions
Organization: sdf Public Access UNIX, Dallas--unrestricted free shell access
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 21:01:25 GMT

In article <9960@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> stricher@masig.fsu.edu (Char Aznabul) writes:
>In article <1992Jul23.081608.15309@sdf.lonestar.org> steve@sdf.lonestar.org  
>(Steve Fuller) writes:
>
>+ 1. Each copy of the software sold had a physical registration card.
>+ 2. Each card has a serial number.
>+ 3. The user MUST have registered (sent in the card) to get an upgrade.
>+ 4. Software is only shipped to owners address.
>
>Ok, how do you insure that a registration card is properly entered into
>the database and that database is kept safe?
>
>How many people have sent in registrations and not heard a peep? I know
>I have.
>
Ok, look at it this way, If you can't trust the U.S. snail (or whatever 
method you want) to get the registration card to the vendor, you want to
send your master disk? You must be kidding. 

(I really don't want to have to use insured mail)

How can you be sure ANY method of upgrading is fool-proof? 

Steve Fuller
steve@sdf.lonestar.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: proth@sabotage.eng.uiowa.edu (Phil Roth)
Subject: Anyone know where ( the official ) tickle is?
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 21:48:13 GMT
Organization: Department of Elect. and Comp. Engr., University of Iowa, USA.
Keywords: tickle, tcl

I once found the program tickle at an ftp site, but have forgotten
where.  The documentation says the domain is ice.com, but no machine name
given.  I tried archie, and every ftp list I can get my hands on, but
with no luck.  ftp.apple.com claims to have it, but I haven't been
able to ftp there to find out if they have the parts I am missing.

Does anybody know which machine tickle is on at ice.com?

Thanks,
Phil
proth@eng.uiowa.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: martinn@mksol.dseg.ti.com (niels r martin)
Subject: Re: PROBLEMS with BinHex. HELP!!!!!!!!!
Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 17:22:47 GMT

In article <1992Jul31.123647.34683@urz.unibas.ch> maurer2@urz.unibas.ch writes:
>
>I retrieved Binhex50 from an ftp, but the it doesn't work right. When I want to
>translate a .hqx file into binary I get a "BinHex document" but not a program.
>I'm disappointed! What am I doing wrong? Am I trying to do something
>impossible?
>I'm a bloody beginner.
> 
>                    Patrik

Some programs require that you remove any characters (usually the description ofthe program) from the header (i.e. everything before the first ":" before you   can convert it.  I'm not sure if this is the case with Binhex50 or not, but wo
rth a try, I suppose.



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: k32116h@puukko.hut.fi (Petri Riihikallio)
Subject: Summary: Looking for a JPEG-app (A)
Summary: PictPixie lets experiment with compressions
Keywords: jpeg graphics compress
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 17:33:42 GMT


Hi

This was what I asked:

>I am looking for a JPEG-viewer for Mac that can compress a picture and show
>it after different compressions. I would like to experiment with different 
>pictures and compression levels. I think I have heard about one program in
>public domain, but I haven't found it. JPEG-view doesn't seem to compress.
>I don't have the skill to roll my own from Independent JPEG Group's files.
>Has somebody done it?

I got several answers:

JPEGView does compress. It's under Preferences, but there are only three levels
of choice. The latest version is 1.1.

QT Batch Compress bombed on my Mac.

I couldn't find PictCompressor, but it is said to do what I wanted.

PictPixie is a tool to test different compression methods and levels. It
works OK and did exactly what I wanted. I downloaded it from ftp.apple.com.

Thanks to Larry, Mike, Sam and Rick.

Petri
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From: jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Stallman & lawyers (was Re: SPA piracy raid at Oregon?)
Date: 28 Jul 92 18:15:27 GMT
	<D88-JWA.92Jul28141636@dront.nada.kth.se>
Organization: USC-ISI
In-reply-to: d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se's message of 28 Jul 92 13:16:36 GMT

In article <D88-JWA.92Jul28141636@dront.nada.kth.se> d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) writes:

>> jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) writes:
>
> How "creative" are you to take what someone else has done (spending
> millions of dollars in R&D), add a bell or a whistle, and sell
> zillions of copies?
>
>Well, there is cloning, and there is independent re-creation.
>
>Basic concepts, things trivial to a skilled practitioner of
>the art, and algorithms should NEVER be protected. Like:
>
>The spreadsheet metaphor, the click-and-type metaphor, the
>XOR cursor, ...

If these were so trivial, why hadn't they been invented before they
were?  Many things look trivial in hindsight... It's impossible to say
what is "trivial" and what is "elegant," in many cases.

>Implementations of algorithms may be patentable, but if I
>sit down, think about how to do something, and then do it
>(sithout disassembling anyone else's code) there should be
>ZIP chance of me infringing on someone elses patent.

Where did you get the idea to sit down and think about it?  Did you
see someone else do domething great, and all you're thinking about is
how to rip it off?  I don't see that as particularaly defendible.

If you came up with it on your own, then you should be in the clear,
right?

And if no, do you really have a valid claim?

jas
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From: Quinn <quinn@cs.uwa.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Quick Microsoft bash! ;-) (Word not closing files properly)
Organization: The University of Western Australia
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 02:37:38 GMT

Adam Frix, Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG comments on Word's
ability
to delete files without leaving the application:
>
>Well, I think such a feature comes from both the DOS world and from the
days
>before MultiFinder was a commonly used feature.

Three things:
o Macs are not DOS boxen, Microsloth shouldn't treat them as such
o Under MonoFinder you could always use a DA to delete files (unless Word
  has them still open of course (-; )
o Most DOS applications support shelling out to DOS.

>There were (and probably are)
>many people who just use their computers as word processing machines. 
In such
>situations, a Delete Files... command would be very nice to have.

Nooooo.  This is stupid.  One of the main reasons for the Mac was get some
consistency across applications so that even gumby users could learn more
than one application.  And the statistics show that Mac users use a wider
variety of applications than DOS users (of course one could argue that the
Mac users are more intelligent (why because they bought a Mac (-: ) and
thus
are guaranteed to use more applications but that's beside the point) which
means that the idea is working.

>(In DOS WordPerfect, you can do most general file management from within
WP
>itself-rename, move, copy, look at files, etc.) In fact, I've heard of
some
>people referring to their computers as "the WordPerfect machine."  It's
set to
>boot up w/WP, and as far as these people are concerned, it's dedicated
to that
>task and can't do anything else.  They don't know anything else.  In
such a
>situtation--perhaps uncommon, but still--the Delete Files makes good
sense.
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ More common than you think I suspect.

I realise you're not actually advocating the situation but still it
deserves to be criticised.  The whole reason that MessDOS applications
have
this is because the Finder equivalent in MessDOS (ie the command.com) is
totally braindead and not at all appropriate for gumbies.

Every time I see someone who's afraid to leave WordPerfect I feel pity
for another poor person lost to the evil Microsloth/Intel/IBM conspiracy.

Quinn "The Eskimo!"   <quinn@cs.uwa.edu.au>  "Real Coke, Diet .sig"
Department of Computer Science, The University of Western Australia
  -- Next target:  The evil standard file dialog!
  -- Never use MessDOS and 'good sense' in the same paragraph without an
     odd number of negations.
  -- /stupid/ adv. [Techspeak]  Not conversant with the relevant
technology.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: robert@metropolis.com (Robert Munyer)
Subject: Re: SPA piracy raid at Oregon?
Organization: Metropolis Software, Inc.
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 05:16:24 GMT


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.

                                        Robert Munyer
                                        robert@metropolis.com
From: george@mech.seas.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: File translators
Date: 31 Jul 92 15:19:55 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania, Mechanical Engineering

[ fix your "From" line Ken, if you want answers.. ]

:
:And on a related note I would like to find a program for the conversion of Gifs
:to PICT.  Preferrably in a batch process. 

:I also
:have access to a UNIX Sun Sparc system on which the conversion could in

get the pbmplus package for the sun.  pbm is a set of ( about 1000.. )
x->y conversion utilities, among which you will find gif and
( pretty much write only ) pict.

ftp export.lcs.mit.edu ( contrib/pbm )

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