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From: brown@ccit08.duq.edu (Jason Brown)
Subject: Tranfering mac files to NeXT computers
Organization: J. Random Misconfigured Site
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 13:34:26 GMT
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Ok folks of Mac-dom, I've a question.  We're trying to get WAIS for the  
MacIntosh.  Our means of access is ftp to some site via a NeXT.  So I  
found the source code for WAISStation and the file is of the dreaded  
'.sit.hqx' type.  (dreaded because I'm not sure what to do with it.)   
Anyway, we thought, 'Oh we need binhex' to unpack it.  So I go looking on  
the archives for binhex and I found version 4.0 and 5.0 except they are in  
'.bin' format (arrghh).  I think what happens is that Mac's do something  
to the files during transfer that make it a .bin file and then when a mac  
downloads it, it knows to undo the .bin part.

Would someone like to suggest how I can get the source for WAISStation and  
the necessary utilities to unpack it on a NeXT (mach unix).  What we had  
planned at that point was to copy the stuff to a Mac disk and load it onto  
a mac for compilation.  We're going to deal with getting the network to  
the Mac after that.

Any ideas?  If you have any, emailing me would probably be better than  
posting here because I don't read this group.  I'll try to remember to  
check it though.

Thanks.
--Jason Brown
(NeXT Mail Welcome)
brown@ccit01.duq.edu

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From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: TT Fonts:  Wind 3.1 <--> Mac Sys7
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 92 17:45:25 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.

dave@gergo.tamu.edu (Dave Martin) writes:
> TT-Converter, above, seems to be missing something -- I could print text
> entered in a translated Win31 TT font from PageMaker with no problem, but
> Word substituted Courier every time. 

Yeah.  TT-Converter seems to be much better at converting from Windows to Mac
than from Mac to Windows.  Although it could be that Apple's TrueType font
handling code is well-written whilst Microsoft's is a pile of...

I converted all the Windows TrueType fonts and used them on the Mac with no
trouble.  But some of the standard Mac fonts -- like Chicago, for example --
cause Windows to fall over and die.


mathew
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: More TT fonts from Apple?
From: codish@chen.bgu.ac.il (Shlomi Codish )
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 17:05:06 GMT
Organization: Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel


Almost all "big" FTP sites for the Mac carry TT fonts. Try nyx.cs.du.edu
or mac.archive.umich.edu.

We have quite a few neat TT fonts on a server here at BGU, but I'm afraid
no Anonymous FTP. If all else fails, I could probably send you some dingbats
via e-mail...

Shlomi

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.programmer
From: joshr@kronos.arc.nasa.gov (Joshua Rabinowitz-Summer-91)
Subject: Re: Color Disk Icons?
Organization: NASA/ARC Information Sciences Division
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 19:09:35 GMT

In article <1992Nov3.055656.7844@news.weeg.uiowa.edu> smills@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (MuffinHead) writes:
>ebido@bio.vu.nl (Etienne Bido) writes:
>
>>Is it possible to have the Finder display the icons of inserted floppies
>>in color? I know there are extensions like Cfloppy but I would like to know
>>how to resedit the finder or system to use color icons. Peeking around
>>in the system and finder I saw that there are color icons (icls) for 
>>coloured disks, so why aren't they used?
>
>   You can use something like SpeedyFinder, but I don't trust that one.
>Besides, the icon drawing isn't very Mac-like as it doesn't convert 
>properly when you switch to a different bit depth.
>   If you REALLY want NICE color icons on your floppies, find a cool one
>and paste it into the info box of each and every floppy you own. :)
>


DOes anyone know how to find the regions of disk, folder and mounted
disks on the desktop?
It's fairly easy (I assume) to find files on the desktop --
but how about the regions that the icons and names occupy?

Any hints will be appreciated.  This is for a project of my
own that could conceivable become shareware.

joshr@kronos.arc.nasa.gov


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From: grae@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU (Graeme Gerrard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: System 7.1 in perspective
Date: 6 Nov 1992 13:53:03 +1100
Organization: University of Melbourne
NNTP-Posting-Host: ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au

In article <DREIER.92Nov3115033@lhasa.berkeley.edu> dreier@lhasa.berkeley.edu (Roland Dreier) writes:

>I anticipate that developers will continue to do this: write their basic
>program to run under 6.0.7

Some will, of course.  Others will forget about supporting
older systems altogether.
Digidesign, a company that has developed several products for
the Mac for digital hard disc recording, has dumped System 6
compatibility for its ProTools system. I guess it
was just too much trouble.
No doubt other companies will feel the same.


Graeme Gerrard
School of Music, Faculty of Music, Visual and Performing Arts
University of Melbourne
graeme_gerrard.music@muwayf.its.unimelb.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: qc@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Quentin J Clark)
Subject: TT Fonts:  Wind 3.1 <--> Mac Sys7
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 18:37:07 GMT

hello.

I need to translate TT fonts from PC Windows 3.1 [a .TTF file] to
my mac running sys7.  Is this possible?  How is it done?

thanks...
	

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From: mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: What are the different flavors of Mac?
Date: 10 Nov 92 00:50:25 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Distribution: comp

In article <MAS.92Nov5162948@mipl8.jpl.nasa.gov>, mas@mipl8.jpl.nasa.gov
(Marc Sarrel) wrote:
> 
> 
> What are the different flavors of Mac that Apple currently markets?

Chocolate, vanilla, candy-apple, and Delicious.

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From: da003b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Vogon Poet)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Hiding the menubar
Date: 9 Nov 92 15:08:12 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

In <1992Nov06.173256.94175@bmug.org> Aaron_S._Friedman@bmug.org writes:

>Is there a script I can put into a stack that hides the menubar ONLY if the
>screen is 9"?

consider the fact that on a 9" screen the "standard" window size in HC will
fill it.  Just test:

if the loc of window (the short name of this stack) is "0,0" then
   --Do 9" stuff
else
   --assume larger
end if

the syntax may not be exact, but try it.  It works.

Darrell.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: marie@paris.erg.sri.com (Marie desJardins)
Subject: Resizing stacks
Reply-To: marie@paris.erg.sri.com (Marie desJardins)
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 23:22:05 GMT

I'm trying to resize a Hypercard stack (using the Resize...
dialog under the Stack Info. menu item).  There seems to be
a maximum area that's allows -- if I try to drag the corner
beyond a 600x600 square, it won't increase the size.  (I can
make it wider than this, but then it gets shorter.)  Is there
a built-in limit, or a way to circumvent the limit?

I'm running Hypercard 2.1 on a Mac II with a big (19"?) screen,
and I'd like to be able to fill (more or less) the whole screen.

Thanks in advance.
Marie desJardins
marie@erg.sri.com


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: Jay Lozada <Jay.Lozada@mail.trincoll.edu>
Subject: client-server?
Organization: Trinity College
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 17:23:56 GMT

I need to build a client for a server that has been built on a Unix
platform with Perl.
Where would be the best place to look for information delaing with this
topic?
I need to know all the basics of connecting, querying, and disconnecting
from this
server.

Could someone point me in the right direction of where to look.  Any help
would be
greatly appreciated.


Jay

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Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.hypercard:4169 soc.culture.greek:10499
From: kurtg@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard,soc.culture.greek
Subject: Seeking Greek Language Resources
Date: 12 Nov 92 12:17:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: drycas.1992Nov12.171714.2539
Organization: Carnegie Mellon Computer Club

I am looking for any on-line resources to help in learning the greek
language/alphabet.  A Macintosh hypercard stack would be ideal, but
I would appreciate any pointers at all.

Thanks in advance,

- Kurt

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From: mchupa@brahms.udel.edu (Michael A Chupa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Supercard 1.6 breaks my STND!
Date: 9 Nov 92 06:28:27 GMT
Organization: University of Delaware

I recently installed SuperCard 1.6, it having sat in the box for quite
a while. After opening and making a few cosmetic changes to a stand-
alone project, I found a lot of flaky behavior. For instance several
banks of radio buttons on one card do not behave as their scripts
indicate--I can't fathom what's going on, but if anyone has been where
I am, I'm all ears!.
Mike Chupa

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From: draper@odin.mda.uth.tmc.edu (E.J. Draper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Background Apps and IP Numbers
Date: 10 Nov 1992 14:35:14 GMT
Organization: U.T.M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
X-XXMessage-ID: <A72525D31001019A@mdarpi1.mda.uth.tmc.edu>
X-XXDate: Tue, 10 Nov 92 14:39:47 GMT

In article <nick.waanders-101192015611@no-name-nib.med.umich.edu> Nick
Waanders, nick.waanders@med.umich.edu writes:
>Is there an XFCN to provide a list of applications
>running, including applications in the background?

HyperCard 2.1 includes a function called (appropriately) The Programs.

Try:
 answer The programs

or

If "Nisus 3.06-040" is in the programs then
	Answer "You're using Nisus.  I'm impressed!"
end if


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: jpugh@apple.com (Jon Pugh)
Subject: Re: Think C 4.0, Hypercard, sys7, glue-routines, etc..
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 07:59:11 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.system

In article <1992Nov10.193540.26758@cs.ucla.edu>, jason@lanai.cs.ucla.edu
(Jason Rosenberg) wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> We are in the process of writing some xcmds for hyperCard, running on
> system 7, with Hypercard 2.1.  We have been using Think C 4.0.  
> 
> We have had several problems, especially in the area of i/o (fopen, etc.).
> The system hangs when when we attempt an fopen call, when executing as an
> XCMD within hypercard.
> 
> Is it simply not ok to use stdio calls within Hypercard?  I've heard this
> vaguely before, but didn't get the full explanantion.  If so, are there any
> suggestions out there for opening a binary file within an XCMD?
> 
> Is there a problem with using Think C 4.0 and system 7?  We are aware that
> there is a new version of Think C (5.0).  Might this help?  
> 
> Also, have the hypercard glue routines changed for HC 2.1?  We down loaded the
> glue-routines from an ftp site at uc irvine under the Symantec directory.  Is
> this the most uptodate set of glue routines?  If not, where might we find
> the latest versions of these?

The stdio library routines use globals.  This is bad.  You are probably
munging some of Hypercard's globals.  I can't guarentee that this is what's
going on, but I believe it is.

You should use the Macintosh File Manager routines to do IO.  See the new
Inside Macintosh: Files (or Inside Mac II, IV, V & VI) for a synopsis.

You should also be using THINK C 5.0.3, although I'm not sure if 4.0
malfunctions under System 7.  Perhaps someone who has tried can fill us in.
 I just make a point out of using the latest versions.

Finally, the XCMD interface header should be present in THINK C's Mac
includes, Apple includes folder.  If it defines XTalkObject then it is the
latest version. There's a library around there too.

Good luck!

Jon
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: jpugh@apple.com (Jon Pugh)
Subject: Re: Can Hypercard use Excel's databases?
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 07:47:56 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hypercard

In article <1992Nov6.145241.4592@kth.se>, d89-pja@zwart.nada.kth.se (Pasi
Jakkola) wrote:
> 
> 
> Is it possible to use Excel's data in Hypercard? 
> 
> I have quite many files, which contain Excel's data and I would
> like to use them in Hypercard. I know, that I can save the file
> in 'text format' in Excel and then read the file as a text file 
> in Hypercard, but is there any other (better?) way to do this
> task? In Windows, for example, you can use also DDE. Is there
> something similar in Mac?

You can communicate with Excel from Hypercard via AppleEvents, given that
you
use Ed Lai's SendAE XCMDs.  These allow you to build object specifiers that
Excel will understand.  It isn't trivial and you need Excel running to do
anything.  Personally I would write an Excel macro to translate and dump
the files to text and then another to read them into Hypercard.  I think
this would be simpler, given the state of Hypercard's AE support, although
Ed's XCMDs do work and would allow you to do a bunch of really cool stuff. 
They aren't for the weak of will though.

Jon
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: John_Miller@mindlink.bc.ca (John Miller)
Subject: Re: Closing the Finder
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 00:56:57 GMT

> Closing the finder does the trick, but has the drawback
> of disabling DA's - in particular, the Chooser and the Scrapbook are
needed.

If you use the latest version of the Font/DA Mover, you
can install the DAs directly in the System file.
System 7 -- don't know whether it is still true with 7.1 --
will support the old System 6 mechanism for DAs.  These
DAs will then show up even if the Finder is killed off.

John Miller
Symplex Systems

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: emp@xgml.com (Eric Promislow)
Subject: Re: HyperCard on IBM systems
Summary: What to expect from Convert-It
Organization: Exoterica Corporation
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 17:50:40 GMT

In article <92308.210622SCB107@psuvm.psu.edu>, <SCB107@psuvm.psu.edu>
wrote asking if ConvertIt would get his Mac stacks into ToolBook.

Well, SCB, I had mixed results going from HC to TB using Convert-It.
It did a fine job with the physical layout, especially graphics, but
didn't make any attempt at translating the scripts.  It just commented
the HC scripts and left them for me to discover.

Where Convert-It worked beautifully was in getting bit-mapped graphics
into ToolBook, which uses object-based graphics.  I haven't found any
other way of getting bitmaps into ToolBook, but then our suite of
PC-based graphics tools is fairly limited here.
-- 
-- Eric Promislow--emp@xgml.com--Exoterica Corporation, Ottawa, Ontario
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
From: David_Greg_Herlihy@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Emulating tabs in print reports
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 05:40:46 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

OK, here's the problem (some might find this an odd mission, but HyperCard
should be kinky!)

I've go t a field I want to print out as part of a print report.  I don't
want to load up the field with all sorts of "on mouseleave" type handlers,
just let the user type what she or he wants.  When I print the field in
the Report, however, I want to give it an indented effect.  In Word, this
would be like inserting a tab before each line to indent, say, half an inch.

Problem #1, a tab seems equivalent to a space in Hypercard fields and Reports
and there seems to be now way to adjust its length.

Problem #2, I want to preserve whatever styles are set in the field for the
Report, so passing the text through a function won't work.

I know there are some crude solutions; I could maintain a hidden field
and echo the text in the field, use a repeat loop and insert, say, five
spaces before each line, then print that field in the REPORT.  But I'm
looking for an ELEGANT solution; am I a hopeless dreamer?

Thanks,

David
From: crahn@carroll1.cc.edu (Christopher J Rahn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Hypercard and servers and Networking
Date: 5 Nov 92 20:08:57 GMT
Organization: Carroll College-Waukesha, WI

Hello again.  I am inquiring about networking on the Macintosh.  I did this
before, and people told me to use the send command.  Here is my situation:

I am trying to write a game in HyperCard 2.1.  I would like to have a
master stack, and a slave stack.  I have a scrollable field in both, and
would like to send a message back and forth to the stack.

I could do something like put line 1 of card field x into it.  However, how
do I send the contents using the command send?

If I try to run HyperCard from the same server, it says that the appication
is busy.  

Help! :)

e-mail crahn@carroll1.cc.edu
From: gibson@degas.cs.unc.edu (William Gibson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Hypercard 2.0 and odd behavior with resources and other stuff
Date: 5 Nov 92 14:55:32 GMT
Organization: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


    I'm having some odd behavior on my SE/30 7.0.1-tuneup and Hypercard 2.0.
When opening my favorite stacks (and all of the others I have) the buttons,
sounds, and menus tend not to be there.  Old 1.2 type stacks can't be
converted because Hypercard won't compress them (something here about it
not being open).  It looks like hypercard opens a stack, reads the scripts,
then promptly closes the stack but keeps running the script.  I've tried
to give hypercard more memory but even with 4+MB it still had the same
problems.

   Thanks for your help/input!
   Bill Gibson
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.system
From: jason@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Jason Rosenberg)
Subject: Think C 4.0, Hypercard, sys7, glue-routines, etc..
Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 19:35:40 GMT

Hello,

We are in the process of writing some xcmds for hyperCard, running on
system 7, with Hypercard 2.1.  We have been using Think C 4.0.  

We have had several problems, especially in the area of i/o (fopen, etc.).
The system hangs when when we attempt an fopen call, when executing as an
XCMD within hypercard.

Is it simply not ok to use stdio calls within Hypercard?  I've heard this
vaguely before, but didn't get the full explanantion.  If so, are there any
suggestions out there for opening a binary file within an XCMD?

Is there a problem with using Think C 4.0 and system 7?  We are aware that
there is a new version of Think C (5.0).  Might this help?  

Also, have the hypercard glue routines changed for HC 2.1?  We down loaded the
glue-routines from an ftp site at uc irvine under the Symantec directory.  Is
this the most uptodate set of glue routines?  If not, where might we find
the latest versions of these?

Thanks

-- 
Jason Rosenberg                           Computer Science Department
jason@cs.ucla.edu                         University of California
{uunet,rutgers,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!jason      Los Angeles, CA  90024
From: bobjen@darwin.ntu.edu.au (Bob Jenner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: HyperCard on IBM systems
Date: 6 Nov 92 05:18:49 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Organization: NTU

In article <92308.210622SCB107@psuvm.psu.edu>, <SCB107@psuvm.psu.edu>
wrote:
> 
> Alright all you netheads,
> 
> I've been doing stack design in HyperCard on Mac for some time now.  Some of
> the stacks I've done would be good for distribution to people with IBM
> systems.  I've heard of the program called "ConvertIt" which converts HC to
> ToolBook.  Has anyone ever used this program and (2) is it worth it???  I've
> never done any programming in ToolBook, would this be a better idea??  or
> does the convertIt Program completely convert the HC stack to ToolBook.
> ALSO..........  Is there a FTP site or other place where I may be able to
> obtain this "ConvertIt" program??  I've seen it adv.  in Heizer Software for
> $200.00 a little steep I think.  Any opinions...  Please Email me responses
> since I usually don't net around much!
> 
> Shawn C. Begolly
> College of Agricultural Scienecs
> Pennsylvania State University
> <scb107@psuvm.psu.edu>

I am led to believe that "Spinnaker Plus 2.0" allows Hypercard stacks to
run on a PC. I don't have a US address but can give you an Oz supplier,
mind you, we usually pay twice the US price or therabouts.

Cheers
Bob Jenner
Northern Territory University
Darwin, Australia
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard