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From: yefchak@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com (George Yefchak)
Subject: Re: Mac Disertation Word Processor
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 00:41:13 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Palo Alto,CA
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I did my dissertation using Word, as did my wife.  I didn't have
any significant trouble, and my dissertation included zillions
of equations and lots and lots of figures (mostly imported from
Canvas).  The other advantage I can see with Word is that,
despite some advantages that other specialized programs may
have for certain operations, Word is quite commonly used and
so you'll have lots of company.  The most common problem I've
seen with large documents is that people don't start out using
Styles.  If you don't already use styles, play with them on
a small document until you feel comfortable.  Then use them
ALL the time (I do...).  This will save you lots of headaches
later.
Good luck

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: parkyn@fraser.sfu.ca (Dale Parkyn)
Subject: Re: Looking for info on TIMESTWO (?)
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 13:55:47 GMT

v065hjku@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Jason Osborne) writes:

>somebody else could read the disk w/o the program?  Can somebody
>give me some more info on this, especially if you have tried it out.
>SOunds like pure hocus-pocus to me.

Oh so cynical! 

Apparently the compression algorithm is incorporated in the disk driver and
is 'invisible'. Any machine that will connect to the drive will load the
driver at startup and work. 

But read the opinions for yourself. At an 'info-mac' ftp site 
(such as 'ftp 36.44.0.6', 'cd info-mac/report') you will find
the following:

-r     7768 Dec  7 08:30	./report/times-two.txt


And for owners of TimesTwo there is an update!

-r    77541 Dec 22 23:23	./util/times-two-101-updater.hqx


As for any compression scheme you will notice slightly longer opening time
for apps etc. while files are decompressed. 

Dale
parkyn@sfu.ca
From: SteveWall@aol.com (Steve Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Need Word Proc. with Zoom-in...
Date: 4 Jan 93 15:02:59 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: Anhedonics Anonymous

In article <1992Dec28.184108.19142@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>,
ralph@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (Ralph Brandi) wrote:
> 
> In article <1992Dec28.015654.9090@softwords.bc.ca> jmacphai@cue.bc.ca (James MacPhail) writes:
> >I'm looking for a word processing application that has a zoom-in
> >or magnification feature.
> 
> >Anyone know of such a beast?
> 
> FrameMaker has this feature. 

And on the other end of the price scale...BeagleWorks has zoom-in in the 
wordprocessor module.  WordPerfect Corp recently bought this package from
the
developer (Beagle Bros, who are out of business) so you can probably expect
it to become compatible with the WordPerfect format someday soon.  The
rumor is
that it'll debut under WorPerfect shrink-wrap, possibly with new features,
this week at MacWorld SF.

Steve Wall

become compatible
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: begley@l14h13.jsc.nasa.gov
Subject: Re: Looking for Terminal Emulators
Organization: Lockheed Engineering and Sciences
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 23:55:49 GMT

In article <jgladu-110193085853@128.249.27.63> jgladu@bcm.tmc.edu (grungy (John
F. Gladu)) writes:
>I'm looking for vt320 and vt420 emulators for use on Macs.
>
   I use Versaterm 3.6.2 for VT220 emulation.  I like its multiple
session (one at a time) menu bar.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: rowley@theporch.raider.net (Michael Rowland)
Subject: Re: Font question. Need very weird accents and diactritics for Skt.
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 01:12:57 GMT
Organization: The MacInteresteds of Nashville, Tn.

> Related question: in which word processors is it possible to combine
> _arbitrary_ letters with _arbitrary_ accents?
> 

ANY word processor can do it on the Mac... it's built into the operating 
system. Using KeyCaps find out the keyboard locations of the diacritical 
you want; they are Option-key strokes. For instance, the umlaut is 
Option-U; the tilde is Option-N, other accents are located as Option keys 
hidden behind other vowels... circumflex is Option-I, etc. These are 
"dead-key" combinations...they take two keystrokes. Hold down the Option 
key and strike a lowercase u... at first nothing will happen...THEN 
strike the vowel you want to put the umlaut over, and it will show up 
onscreen complete with diacritical.

Correction> actually, it's not the operating system, it's built into most 
well-behaved fonts. But it's been there all along.

jmr

--
  rowley@theporch.raider.net (Michael Rowland)
theporch.raider.net  615/297-7951 The MacInteresteds of Nashville
From: iscjcw@uccvma.ucop.edu (Jerry Wilcox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: App for making diagrams?
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Date: 11 Jan 1993 21:26:07 GMT
Organization: University of California, Office of the President
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: ajax.ucop.edu

In article <1993Jan7.150543.6699@news.eng.convex.com>
(comp.sys.mac.apps), graham@convex.com (Marv Graham) writes:
> What MAC application program can I use to make diagrams for the foils
> in a presentation? The diagrams are like flow charts: boxes of various
> shapes connected by lines with arrow heads on one end.

I earlier suggested a couple of programs for this purpose and now would
like to add another one, courtesy of a demo I saw at MacWorld on Friday.
Inspiration (version 4.0) is a most intriguing charting program, allowing
you to do all kinds of charts, including preparation of presentation foils.
Many standard and not-so-standard chart shapes are included -- and if those
aren't enough, you can define your own. 

JoeBob sez 'Check it out!'

-----------
Jerry Wilcox - iscjcw@uccvma.ucop.edu
All opinions expressed are MINE -- I'd have a different job if the
University wanted me to speak for it.
From: mmigdol@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (michael a migdol)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Looking for info on TIMESTWO (How safe is it?)
Date: 7 Jan 93 14:37:54 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX


    In regards to TimesTwo and other "disk doubling" software, I'm curious as
to how safe they are to use. MacUser (2/93) said something along the lines of
"Backup your HD before you install and frequently while using"; my boss said
something along the lines of "It totally trashes the volume directory". Are
there any users out there that have had problems with TimesTwo or similar
software?

Thanks in advance...
Michael

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: stevens@cs.colorado.edu (Curt Stevens)
Subject: Any major bugs in Word 5.1????
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:25:57 GMT


I am considering the Word 5.1a upgrade (from 5.0a). Is there any reason NOT
to get this upgrade? The cost is not really the issue for me. I am
wondering if any of my old documents will "break" or if MS introduced any
major bugs or other types of "brain damage" that didn't already exist in
5.0.
Thanks.

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From: bwilliam@oyster.smcm.edu (Bill Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Tax software?
Date: 6 Jan 93 19:42:05 GMT
Organization: St. Mary's College of Maryland
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d13
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X-XXDate: Wed, 6 Jan 93 19:44:23 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.211146.13422@hou.amoco.com> Denton Meredith,
zmyd02@hou.amoco.com writes:
>I've had terrific luck with MacInTax the last two years and have
purchased a copy
>for this year's taxes.  It has a good interface and leads you through
the forms in
>a (more or less) logical manner.  It also has a nice "interview" you
can take to
>help determine what forms you'll need to complete and what
documentation you need
>to have handy.  Also, you get the ability to file electronically,
which I used last
>year and got my refund in <2weeks.  I'll never face tax time without
this program
>again, I hope.
>
>Meredith Denton

There's been a lot of grumbling on this newsgroup about this product. 
It worked fine for me,
if a bit slowly, however in 1991 there was apparently a fairly major
bug that caused dependent forms not
to be updated, and the company deemed it a feature.  I'd like to hear
from other users of MacInTax,
both satisfied and un-, and also from the one other program available
(whose name I've forgotten). 
Any newly satisfied or dis- users out there?
___________________________________
William E. Williams, bwilliam@oyster.smcm.edu
Divison of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
St. Mary's College of Maryland
St. Mary's City, MD 20686
From: jjp8508@chensun1.tamu.edu (Jeffrey J Polasek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: NW4MAC: Need help with Mac Setup
Date: 7 Jan 1993 19:51:31 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, Chemical Engineering
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: chensun1.tamu.edu


Hi,
We are adding macintosh file sharing services(3.01) to our Novell
server (3.11).  This is in a student departmental lab (apprx 500
accts on the server). we have macs running both system 6.0.8 and 7.0 1.
There will be many students using the same macs. so each mac can not
be individualized for a single user.

I am looking for ways to set up the Macintoshes so when a person turns
on the mac, it will:

1. prompt them for a username and password without the user manually using
   the chooser. and log them in without letting them pick which volumes
   to mount or the save name/password options.

2. i would like to have the users personal directory mounted on the desktop
   rather than making the user go to it themselves.  Is there a way to have
   the alias function or Novell itself do this??

or if you have any other ideas on a way to setup macs for this type of
enviorment, let me know!! all ideas (well within reason) appreciated :-)

well this is enough for now...  please respond either to me directly
(jjp8508@chennov1.tamu.edu) or to this list.

Thanks in advance!!
_jeff (Loon)


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: noah@apple.com (Noah Price)
Subject: Re: Archiving CD's ?
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:13:44 GMT
Organization: (not the opinions of) Apple Computer, Inc.
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps

In article <1is6d7INNavr@mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE>, andreasm@cs.tu-berlin.de
(Andreas Mueller) wrote:
> Is their a Shareware Program for archieving the directories of cd's available?
> Sometimes I am searching for a program and do not know on which CD I saw ist.
> 
> Any hints?

It's not shareware, but I use On Location (from On Technology) to do this. 
I create an index and store it in my system folder rather than on the
volume.  Great for M/O drives and other large removables too.

You can then search not only by title, but by text contents of the files if
you like.  They get pretty big (I have a 4 MB index of a 160 MB drive) if
you index the contents of files.  I have others where I just indexed file
names, and some volumes containing roughly 280 MB got indexed in 200K to
900K.

noah

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noah@apple.com                                 Macintosh Hardware Design
...!{sun,decwrl}!apple!noah   (not the opinions of) Apple Computer, Inc.
From: Roman.Brice@f204.n2603.z1.ieee.org (Roman Brice)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Pagemaker upgrade question
Date: 8 Jan 93 20:54:00 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:2603/204 - Not Even Odd, Forest Hills NY

I would suggest that you give Aldus a call and explain the situation to them.

They should be amenable to giving you the new version without any upgrade

price.  If some person on their end tells you differently, go up the ladder
to
 a higher person and tell them, "This is not acceptable."

The only problem that I see is if you haven't sent in your registration card.

Good luck.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.multimedia
From: Lars Andersen <rodgrim@imv.aau.dk>
Subject: Re: Adobe Premiere keeps crashing
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A77347E9910312F7@unicorn.imv.aau.dk>
X-Xxdate: Fri, 8 Jan 93 15:02:01 GMT
Organization: Information and Mediascience Aarhus University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d16
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 14:00:00 GMT

Subject: Adobe Premiere keeps crashing
From: stenhouse
Date: 7 Jan 93 16:07:01 GMT
In article <34961@twics.co.jp> , stenhouse@twics.co.jp writes:
>Please can comebody help me! I am using Adobe Premiere 1.0.1 and
>it continually crashes on me when I am creating a movie.
> 
>System 7.0.1 + tuneup
>Quicktime 1.5J  (japanese version)
> 
>Create a new project
>Import a number of PICTs and audio clips
>place the PICTs into video track A
>place the audio tracks into audio track A
>command-S to save the project
>Then when I click in the construction box to move the audio clips
>around, I get a program crash into MacsBug.
>
>Is this a problem with the old version of Premiere perhaps? Or perhaps
>a memory problem? I have allocated Premiere 5 Meg and the finder
>report that it's not using much of that.
>
>Any ideas anyone? Upgrade?
>
>Thanks for any help,
>
>Alan Stenhouse
>stenhouse@twics.co.jp
>

You need to upgrade your Premiere. Premiere 1.x works only with
Quicktime 1.0 not the new Quicktime 1.5

Premiere 2.0 is out now, and it works with QT1.5 . I did however
read sometime ago something about one being able to do some work
with resedit to get premiere 1.x to work with QT1.5, but I cannot
remember what.

---Lars

Lars Andersen, Information and Mediascience, University of Aarhus
Email: rodgrim@imv.aau.dk,  Phone: +45 86136711 ext. 171
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: ib90vogt@htlulx.htl-bw.ch (Vogt Adrian)
Subject: Re: Sound Recorder
Organization: HTL Brugg-Windisch, Switzerland
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:37:29 GMT

gary.garrett@hyperion.lanl.gov (Gary Garrett) writes:

>Does anyone know of a shareware sound recorder application?

>Thanks,

>...Gary Garrett

Try the sampleeditor. You can find it at
mac.archive.umich.edu:/sound/soundutil in hqx format and compressed
with compact pro.

enjoy it

Adrian Vogt
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Date: Tuesday, 5 Jan 1993 13:51:20 PST
From: Bebo White <BEBO@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Page SetUp Puzzler?

I hope that this isn't too trivial a question-

My wife has just gotten a PowerBook 145 and still uses her old LC.
Both have MSWord 5.1 on them and the same version of the StyleWriter
driver. Both have the same page setup defaults in Word....

However, when printing/viewing the same document, the page layouts
come out differently (e.g., page breaks aren't in the same places).
This makes no sense to me, so I figure that I must be missing something
rather trivial. Please help!

Please respond via e-mail. Thanks in advance for any help.


Bebo White
---> the opinions expressed are mine alone and not necessarily those
     of SLAC, Stanford University or the DOE
From: segall+@cs.cmu.edu (Edward Segall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Mac Disertation Word Processor
Date: 4 Jan 93 19:06:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.C0CFrB.np.1
Distribution: comp
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon

brianj@bedrock.cs.umd.edu (Brian Johnson) writes:

>I'd like to hear some opinions about word processors for large
>projects (my dissertation).

>I have a Macintosh at home and at school, as well as access to UNIX.
>I prefer not to use latex.

>Latex		Nasty for images.

>MacWrite	No support for multi-piece projects.

>Microsoft Word	Minimal support for multi-piece projects
>		ok references with WordRef
>		good tables, list generation
>		good for figures

>WordPerfect	Nice, clean looking interface
>		multi-piece projects with publish and subscribe?
>		table and list generation
>		automatic figure numbering and cross references
>		support for bibliographic references???

>I have not tried any others

>Is Nisus the way to go?  I am still a poor grad student working on his
>dissertation so money is a factor, but so is time.  I wnat to
>concentrate on writing - not tables, figure numbering, citations, etc.

>Thanks for any feedback.  Any pleasant dissertation writing tales out
>there?

Here's an unpleasant dissertation writing tale.  MS Word sucks for
doing a dissertation.  Maybe 5.1 is better, but I found a half-dozen
confirmed bugs in 5.0 that stopped me cold.  I ain't stupid, but for
that and many other reasons, I averaged about 2 calls/week to MS tech
support over the course of about 8 months.  

Why all this trouble?  First, as with every complex system, Word has
many ways to do things.  Therefore, when doing a document as large and
complex as a dissertation, if you don't have prior experience with the
application, you are going to organize things the wrong way sometimes,
and have to reorganize them, possibly several times.  Second, as a
technical person, I tried to actually use many of Word's more advanced
features.  But certain features, like OLE and publish/subscribe, were
meant to have limited use, so that slow speed and fixing Word's
screwups would not be problems.  Not true if you use them extensively.
There are many other reasons to list, but it's not worth the time and
effort.

I am currently learning Framemaker, which I would not originally
consider, due to its cost.  But the time I lost by working on Word's
screwups would have paid that cost many times over in lost wages
(since I didn't start working till I defended the dissertation).

My advice: Check out framemaker. Biggest benefit: Cross-platform
compatibility (except Mac figures, but you can use Framemaker's figure
editor to work around that).


--Ed
From: 3060jjm@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Jim McCord)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Mac Models of Cancer
Date: 10 Jan 93 02:40:00 GMT

In article <jr_1-050193144605@webmac4.his.path.cam.ac.uk> jr_1@mbuk.bio.cam.ac.uk (Jem Rashbass) writes:
You might want to check with Intellimation (Box 1530, Santa
Barbara, CA 93116 USA, fax 805-968-8899), which acts as a
clearinghouse for Mac education s/w and might have something
like this.  Another alternative could be a modeling package
like Stella/iThink from High Performance Systems in Lyme,
New Hampshire - I have seen biological models built in
this dynamic modeling environment.
--Jim McCord
>Does anyone know of any programs available for the Mac that model
>neoplastic cell growth?


>Many Thanks,

>Jem Rashbass,                       jr_1@mbuk.bio.cam.ac.uk,
>Dept of Histopathology
>Addenbrookes Hospital
>Cambridge UK.
From: dnsurber@lescsse.jsc.nasa.gov (Douglas N. Surber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Tax software?
Date: 11 Jan 93 14:44:52 GMT
Organization: Lockheed Engineering and Sciences

In <jtwarden-080193213049@mac2.chem.rpi.edu> jtwarden@rpi.edu (Joseph Warden) writes:
> 
>Remarkable! MacInTax never did THAT before. SO....Mr. Surber, if an
>humble chemist can use this program without despair, I would meekly
>suggest perhaps you might need to consult the manual next time. :-) :-)

Real Mac Users don't read manuals!  That's for poor dumb DOS dweebs. :-)

I have no complaints about MacInTax prior to the '91 version.  But it was
owned by a different company then.  The '91 version was the first version
from ChipSoft.  Given the obviously high quality of the program in previous
incarnations, ChipSoft must have worked pretty hard to hose things up in
just a few months.

As for specific problems, I had only one, whenever I changed a value in a 
certain fields, the program bombed.  Thus to do what-ifs I had to reenter
all the data multiple times, correctly.  This was more than annoying.  The
only field that I remember for sure that caused this problem was filing
status.  Only one bug, yes, but it bit me over and over and over.



--
Douglas Surber             "Would you rather debug at
Lockheed                    compile time or run time?"
Houston, TX                      --Michael B. Feldman
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: wlarkin@hounix.org (Ward Larkin)
Subject: Scripting with a Mac?
Organization: Houston UNIX Users Group (HOUNIX), Houston, TX
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 17:43:46 GMT

Is it possible to script and pipe data thru application
software on a Macintosh similar to unix?

For example, I have 5 24-bit PICT images stored on my
hard drive.  I want to print black & white versions of
these images on my laser printer.  And I'm using Adobe  
PhotoShop to print the PICT images.

I would rather not have to manually open each file,
convert to greyscale, change the gamma setting from 1
to 2 and then print each.  

I would much rather setup an automatic routine ( a
script ) which will read each file, convert to greyscale,
change the gamma and then print each image.

It would be ideal if this could be done in the back
ground, but I'll settle for the foreground.


-- 
-- Ward Larkin
   wlarkin@hounix.org
From: bosoni@helios.enst.fr (Francois Bosoni)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: LOOKING for a server-based startupscreen application
Date: 5 Jan 93 13:21:26 GMT
Organization: Telecom Paris, France


	I'm looking for a client-server startup screen that has been available
 on comp.sys.mac.binaries or on the sumex-aim server, but I can't remember
 its name. The only thing I remember it's its icon: a coffee mug.

	Thank you for refreshing my rusty neurons by mail (I can't read news,
 there's too much) at this address: bosoni@inf.enst.fr

	Once again, merci beaucoup.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: gary.garrett@hyperion.lanl.gov (Gary Garrett)
Subject: Sound Recorder
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 16:09:19 GMT

Does anyone know of a shareware sound recorder application?

Thanks,

...Gary Garrett
From: Eric.Choi@p5.f175.n2240.z1.ieee.org (Eric Choi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: FaxSTF questions
Date: 10 Jan 93 02:20:36 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:2240/175.5 - Association M, Grand Blanc MI


  
  sv> I was quite happy to shell out an additional $90 each to replace two
  sv> worthless Supra v.32bis + FAXstf bundles with Glabal Village Teleport
  sv> Golds. So I wholeheartedly concur with your suggestion.
  sv> 
  sv> -Sven
  sv> --- Squish v1.01
  sv>  * Origin: zeus.ieee.org * [140.98.1.1]  (1:107/10)

Same here. I was happy to sell my Supra with a small loss and bought a
Teleport/Gold
at the $349.00 price offer from GVC. The FAX software is simply much better
and I cannot remember the last time my GlobalFAX init causes a conflict.


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