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From: Kevin Woodside <woodside@bnr.ca>
Subject: Re: XWindows on the Mac???
X-Xxdate: Tue, 10 Nov 92 21:28:15 GMT
Organization: Northern Telecom Canada
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 21:26:24 GMT

In article <83336@ut-emx.uucp> , blade@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu writes:
>Does anyone know of a program which lets a Mac logged into a Unix
>machine over a high-speed modem serve as an XWindows display?
>
>Will MacX do this?  Are there any other programs that will?

I currently use MacX on a Quadra 700, and it provides a good XWindow
interface.  However, I connect to the Unix box via ethernet, not modem. 
I'm not sure if MacX supports this capability.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,misc.taxes
From: srs@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Stephen R. Schach)
Subject: MacInTax and Quicken
Originator: srs@cs4
Keywords: MacInTax, Quicken, export, STD
Organization: Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, Nashville, TN, USA
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 02:42:48 GMT

I am unable to export Quicken (version 3.0) data to
MacInTax.  Specifically, when I select the MacInTax
STD template, I get the error message

   This is not a valid STD template file

This happens with both 1991 MacInTax (final version)
and 1992 MacIntax (preliminary version).  

I would be grateful for any suggestion as to how
solve this problem.  

Steve 
srs@vuse.vanderbilt.edu
From: dopp@csa.bu.edu (Christopher Dopp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Where to buy CD/ROMs?
Date: 5 Nov 92 15:45:51 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Boston University
In-reply-to: jsp@uts.amdahl.com's message of 3 Nov 92 22:53:13 GMT

In article <f02.03Hqb77t00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> jsp@uts.amdahl.com (James Preston) writes:
Path: bu.edu!att!linac!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!nsc!amdahl!jsp
   From: jsp@uts.amdahl.com (James Preston)
   Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
   Date: 3 Nov 92 22:53:13 GMT
   References: <BwuqL4.HE6@news.udel.edu>
   Reply-To: jsp@pls.amdahl.com
   Distribution: usa
   Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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   schliep@bach.udel.edu (Alexander Schliep) writes:

   }I would like to get recommendations for cheap sources for CD/ROMs.

   }In particular i am looking for Groliers Encyclopedia. MacsSomething
   }a Mailorder placs wants $ 249 for it? Is this a good price?

   Forget that.  MacWarehouse has it in a bundle with the ToolWorks atlas
   (which is pretty worthless, by the way), and The Timelines of History,
   all for $100.  And it's the brand new version of the Encyclopedia which
   includes some QuickTime movies and animations.

   --James Preston

I think that you have to buy their cd-rom drive for $300 in order to
get the $99 CD package.



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: kayser@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (Susan E. Kayser NSSDC/STX (301)513-1673)
Subject: Re: Word processor that does math formulas
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 00:57:00 GMT

>In article <1992Nov5.135702.5116@infonode.ingr.com>, I wrote:
>> 
>> I am in need of a cheap word processor that will allow me to write
>> fairly complex mathematical formulas (not solve them).  What are my
>options (text omitted...) 
>MS Word 5.0
>Expressionist
>MathType
>Framemaker
>TeX
>LaTeX
> 
>Of these, Expressionist and MathType sound the best (features vs $$$).
>I got the MathType demo from the net.  It looks quite good, but is fairly
>old (Copyright 1989?).  Does this product still exist?  The demo has a
>phone number to call for info on the real thing (the demo limits the size
>of the expression and places a big X through the expression when you
>paste it into your word processor).  I haven't called them yet.

Both of these have just come out in v 3.0, a fairly significant upgrade.  They
are fairly similar, according to a recent MacWeek (?) review.  The reviewer
said that Expressionist is a bit more flexible--it will even do "tree"
diagrams--whereas MathType is more user friendly.  Last June, MathType was
offering a demo on a floppy for $5; if you ordered the full version, you got
the $5 credited to the cost. 

Susan Kayser		NCF::KAYSER  or  kayser@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov
Hughes/STX at NASA/GSFC/NSSDC
Greenbelt, MD
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: carlsonb@mari.acc-admin.stolaf.edu (Bradley P Carlson)
Subject: Need GETCHAR(c) func for Excel macro
Summary: Check for/read keystrokes during macro execution
Organization: St. Olaf College; Northfield, MN
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 14:48:29 GMT

I would like to make a macro interactive, without falling back to the Excel
dialog box convention.  Is there any way to read keystrokes _during_ the
execution of a macro?  I could get by using the ON.KEY function if it
worked while a macro was running.  This would be useful, for instance, in a
macro that varies one parameter of a chart until a key is pressed, then
varies another parameter, etc ., etc.  Has anyone written a function like
this (maybe using an external code resource)?

-Bradley Carlson
carlsonb@stolaf.edu

PS-Can anyone recommend a public domain C compiler, like PDC or ZC (do
these exist for Mac?)?

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: mol@fwi.uva.nl (Maurice Mol (I88))
Subject: multifinder
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 14:50:06 GMT

Hi,
I was wondering how to put off MultiFinder without restarting my Mac
(I use a litte startupprogram called 'toMultiFinder' from which I only
 at startup can choose between Finder and Multifinder)

 Thanx
                Maurice Mol

(Note: please e-mail me, because I don't frequently use netnews:
                mol@fwi.uva.nl)
From: oh@himalaya.gatech.edu (Yong-Chul Oh)
Subject: Screen Shot program
Organization: Georgia Tech College of Computing
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 06:45:56 GMT


What is the best screen shot program?
Is there any extended version of original Command-Shift-3?
Thanks is advance.

OH, Yong-Chul
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
oh@cc.gatech.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: brown@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Ed Brown)
Subject: Want info on logic simulators
Organization: CS Dept., Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 12:18:00 GMT

Does anyone know of a low cost (i.e. not 1000's) logic simulator
for the mac? To be used in the design of 68000 based boards.  Email
replies please.

E. Brown
brown@cs.mun.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: UC572722@mizzou1.missouri.edu (Matt Skipton)
Subject: Timing Programs
Organization: University of Missouri
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 10:16:57 CST

I'm posting this for a friend who has never used the News Reader.
 
Does anyone know of a timing utility that could start a clock when you
open an application and then stop and report the time when your done?
Here's the catch.  My friend would prefer a program that is available
on Mac and IBM.
 
Any suggestions would be greatly apperciated.  Please send responses to:
 
 Davin Desborough    C506449@mizzou1.missouri.edu
 
Thanks
 
 
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From: kucharsk@solbourne.com (William Kucharski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Do any WPs out there read UNIX FrameMaker files?
Date: 10 Nov 1992 12:17:52 -0700
Organization: Solbourne Computer, Inc., Longmont, CO
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: anthrax-fddi.solbourne.com


Does anyone know of a way, other than via FrameMaker for the Mac, to get
FrameMaker files from a UNIX machine into a format readable by a Mac WP or
page layout program?  I've run into this twice now, and I just don't know
what to tell people who want to get their nice Frame graphics into something
suitable for manipulation on a Mac.

Thanks in advance...
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From: mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Mac vs. IBM & quality of writing--Ref?
Date: 13 Nov 92 21:29:48 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps

In article <BxKoCE.Bn9@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, jjmckay@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Jim
McKay) wrote:
> 
> It was by a professor whose last name was Peoples-Halio and it appeared
> in the now defunct "Academic Computing" magazine sometime in early 1990.  
> 
> A similar paper (and study) by myself is "Interfacing The Design Process:
> A Study of Designers and Planner's Attitudes Towards Microcomputer
> Interfaces."  After all, if a poor paper/"study" can get so much publicity
> and I'm going to reference it, I think I should reference my own study
> which, while not perfect, attempted to scientifically study the topic,
> albeit for Designers and Planners.  This can be obtained by writing to me
> at jjmckay@uiuc.edu
> OR 
> Jim McKay
> The LAS Hypermedia Lab
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
> 326 Lincoln Hall
> 702 S. Wright St.
> Urbana, IL  61801
> 217/333-1950 

Could you summarize your findings for us?

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From: HarriRehnberg@salient.com (Salient Software)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Is there a fix for FullWrite/HP DeskWriter incompatibility?
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 11:29:54 PST
Organization: Fifth Generation Systems
Reply-To: HarriRehnberg@salient.com (Salient Software)
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.5v3


In article <1992Nov5.160131.5547@gvl.unisys.com> (comp.sys.mac.apps), dave@prc.unisys.com (David Lee Matuszek) writes:
> 
> On my recommendation, a friend of mine just bought an HP DeskWriter.
> Unfortunately it now turns out that the DeskWriter is partially
> incompatible with his el cheapo word processing program, FullWrite.
> He says that letters come out "ectomorphic," not true, rich blacks.
...
Sounds like the base styles for text is set to a gray scale setting.
 This will result in a lightening of the text on printout.  You need
to keep in mind that FullWrite is "feature rich" and if you do not
set the base styles correctly ALL documents created will share those
settings.

> He had previously had some problems printing from this program on his
> old ImageWriter, mostly letter-spacing problems.
...
Again "feature rich".  Kerning?

> I suspect that FullWrite, being a port, doesn't properly use the 13
> "bottleneck" QuickDraw routines, and that is the source of the
> problems.  If so, it would seem that a real fix is very unlikely...but
> I thought I'd ask.
...
FullWrite is NOT a "port".  It was originaly written by Ann Arbor
Software (I may have the name wrong) and the rights to the "Full"
prefix along with all software was acquired by Ashton-Tate so that
they could use the name FullImpact.  Ashton-Tate basically abandoned
all the acquired software.  Since the acquisition of Ashton-Tate by
Borland it looks like the same fate awaits FullWrite that is experienced
at Ashton-Tate.  It's too bad because FullWrite has some features
that come in very handy.

The opinions expressed are mine.

for all FGS products FIFTHGEN@aol.com
for AutoDoubler & DiskDoubler techsupport@salient.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <needje@msen.com>
Subject: Re: Autodoubler & other transparent compression progs
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 92 16:47:35 EST
Organization: The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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X-Xxdate: Mon, 9 Nov 92 16:48:04 GMT

In article <0105010A.hr7721@salient.com> Salient Software,
HarriRehnberg@salient.com writes:
>Although most of the 'bugs' were really INIT conflicts, that's no
>excuse for not finding them before shipping. I think the real problem
>is that there are just too many INITs to adequately cover with a few
>hundred beta testers.
>
>What's the solution? I honestly don't know.

I've got a few ideas for such beta testing. In my experience, firms
generally look for very experienced users to do beta tests. When the
products are released, the "bugs" that turn up are usually reported by
"lower echelon" users who are using shareware, old versions of programs,
old system software, or who have cheaper machines with less memory, no
math coprocessors, and so forth. I think that after the regular beta
testers have a go at a program there should be a trial period of the
pre-release beta with the general public on AOL or even Prodigy, limited
by an expiration date feature, for example,  perhaps with a free copy of
the final version sent to anyone who reports a verified and
yet-unreported bug.  (You can maintain an on-line list of reported,
verified bugs with the user IDs of the people who reported them first.
Make a game out of it with programs as the awards.)

In addition to exposing the program to a wider range of problems than
experienced testers will ever face, such testing makes the on-line beta
testers loyal cash purchasers of the software later on.  I think the
idea's worth a try, anyway...

Jeff Needleman
From: bCole@ultramac.uucp (Robert Cole)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Comments on First Things First 3.0?
Date: 5 Nov 92 03:56:17 GMT
Organization: Odyssey Ultraware, Inc

>> I received an offer for a "special low introductory" price ($39.95,
>> includes Kaboom and DynoPage Lite) for First Things First.

>> The premise sounds good to me. Can anyone comment on the application

Yes, I took advantage of the offer and have now used the program for the past
3 days.  I find it to be very easy to use and quite effective.  I honestly
believe that I am getting more work done because it continues to remind me of
what I have to do.  It helps me schedule my day better.  Gotta go...something
just came up for me to do.

Bob Cole
bCole@oui.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: fisher@ncselxsi.uucp (Chuck Fisher)
Subject: Re: PowerPoint latest version?
Organization: National Computer Systems, San Jose, CA  95131
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 18:25:37 GMT

In article <javad.720918548@nsisrv> javad@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov (Javad Boroumand;SNO) writes:
>We just purchased the MicroSoft PowerPoint version 2.01f,
>but the latest MacConnection catalog includes version 3.0.
>What is the latest version?  Is MS shipping version 3.0?

I received an upgrade coupon in the mail last week for version 3.0 and
ordered it by phone a couple of days ago.  The order taker said that
I should recieve the package in 4 or 5 business days.

Chuck

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From: stephen@linus.cc.ncsu.edu (Stephen Jackson)
Subject: Re: WANTED: convert Mac sounds to Sun .au format
Keywords: HELP!
Reply-To: stephen@ncsu.edu
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 14:19:19 GMT


There is a freeware program called SOX out there, which you can use to convert
files from Mac to Sun, Mac to pc, pc to mac, this to that, etc.  Do an archie
search on sox, and you should be able to find the binaries and source code for
it.

Stephen 

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From: erh0362@tesla.njit.edu (Elliotte Rusty Harold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: SpaceSaver or AutoDoubler?
Date: 5 Nov 92 20:35:45 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology

> 
> AutoDoubler has always allowed you to specify a list of files (or folders)
> that you don't want to have compressed.  Isn't that, in essence, what you
> want?

	No.  While that may be logically equivalent, it is not interface 
equivalent.  First, I want the default to be no compression.  Secondly I want a 
simple menu choice to select a file for compression or no compression.  I don't 
want to have to edit a list of file names in a CDEV.  
And finally I want my choice for a given file to stay with the file 
whether I edit it, move it, or rename it.

--Elliotte
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Sean McMains <mcmains@unt.edu>
Subject: Re: Help with hqx ???
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A729602F48060205@isbdeskmac.acs.unt.edu>
X-Xxdate: Fri, 13 Nov 92 06: 37:51 GMT
Organization: University of North Texas
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 19:37:53 GMT

In article <BxnF6z.Bsq@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Crying Freeman,
cw21219@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>Can someone tell me what the hqx extension means?
>Thanks.

It simply means that the binary data has been converted into a text
format by a program such as BinHex. Most of the major compression
software packages can decode BinHexed files. The format is useful to make
sure both the resource and data forks in a file survive a trip through
Unixland.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: leonardr@netcom.com (Leonard Rosenthol)
Subject: Re: How does Autodoubler perform on a Powerbook?
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 19:21:44 GMT

In article <BxA0Bp.H2x@access.digex.com> hacker@access.digex.com (Dark Hacker) writes:
>Anyone have Autodoubler on a Powerbook?  How does it perform?  The
>sales blurb for Autodoubler says "absolutely will not slow your mac
>down."  Oh yeah.... free CPU cycles huh?
>
	Well I won't comment on AutoDoubler, but StuffIt SpaceSaver works just
beautifully on a Powerbook - in fact it incorporates "PowerBook Smarts" such
that it know when you are running on batteries (and won't do unneeded drive
access) and also knows about "processor rest mode" and will dynamically adjust
it when it needs a bit more processor power to do an operation.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: kanefsky@halcyon.com (Steve Kanefsky)
Subject: Re: Faking a coprocessor?
Keywords: PowerBook, Matlab, Coprocessor
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 00:22:18 GMT

In article <1dpceaINNho9@sipi.usc.edu> kuznia@sipi.usc.edu (Charles Kuznia) writes:
>Can a powerbook 160 fake a software program into believing it has a
>math coprocessor?

Yes.  Get Software FPU, shareware, available from sumex.stanford.edu, in
the file /info-mac/cp/software-fpu-221.hqx


>I would like to run Matlab, but Matlab v3.5 requires a math
>coprocessor.  I don't need heavy number crunching or speed, I just
>want to set-up data graphs for inclusion in figures.

That's good, because you'll find software FPU is a couple orders of magnitude
slower than a hardware FPU.


--
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: ib90vogt@htlulx.htl-bw.ch (Vogt Adrian)
Subject: Word 5.0a breakdown => Word 5.0a bug?
Organization: HTL Brugg-Windisch, Switzerland
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 17:42:13 GMT

Dear Netters

I recently posted an article where I wrote:
> If I open *some* documents the application crashes and I am in the debugger.
> The error message says: illegal Instruction

A very kind person (I couldn't find a name) from FifthGeneration/Salient 
answred:
> If you are running system 7.0.X and a tuner file AND you installed
> Word 5.0 while the tuner was running you may have a corrupted system
> file.  I believe this is fixed in the later release of Word, I don't
> know the version number.
> ...

So I reinstalled my System 7.0 again, but *without* localicing the resouces
related to the date and time (using the swiss german itl' resouces).
==> I could read the suspicous files again.


But then I tried to find out what happend.
In the swiss german itl' resouces a bit is set to suppress the name of the
weekday. Whenever you insert the date in a word document using word 5.0a's
insert/date command or when you try to open a document whitch contains such
a date, you end in the debugger.
After I cleard the suppress 'name of the weekday' bit in my itl' resouces
I had no more problems with the dates.


Adrian
ib90vogt@htl-bw.ch

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: raj@gdstech.grumman.com (Rajesh Chawla)
Subject: Help with Managing Your Money
Organization: GRUMMAN DATA SYSTEMS
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 18:42:14 GMT


Hi,

I just got a Mac IIci.  I have Managing Your Money (Version 8.0) on
the PC and have about 8 months of financial data in it.

Does anyone have a scheme for moving the data from the PC to the Mac?

I have talked to the company that puts MYM out (MECA) and they say it
can't be done.  I was hoping someone had already done the impossible.

Any help would be appreciated,


Rajesh
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