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From: bowman@reed.edu (Eric Bowman (bobo))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: MacApp application program
Keywords: MacApp
Date: 3 Sep 92 20:26:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: reed.1992Sep3.202617.6542
Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR

In article <1992Sep3.185352.6786@fwi.uva.nl> maes@fwi.uva.nl (Mickel Maes (I87)) writes:
>does anyone knows about the MacApp application program.
>I'd like to have some program samples of this application.
>You see i am a young programmer working with MacApp (no experience)
>and i would be very gratefull if someone could help me with some
>MacApp program samples.
>My email address is gene.fwi.uva.nl .

Well, MacApp does *come* with sample source code, not to mention its own
source code.  But anyhow, beyond that there are a few things:

Check out Programming/C++ Programming with MacApp, by David Wilson, Larry
Rosenstein, & Dan Shafer.  It was written for 2.0, but it's still quite 
useful.  It's part of the Macintosh Inside Out series [a great series in
general, except for _Extending the Macintosh Toolbox_:  don't buy this book!]

Join MADA, the MacApp Developers' Association.  Info for this comes with
MacApp.

Get on the MACAPP3TECH$ mailing list.  I can't remember to whom one sends
mail to get on this list, though...anyone?

lood guck,
bobo
bowman@reed.edu
George Clinton in '92
From: bk1a+@andrew.cmu.edu (Bryan Michael Kearney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Switching systems
Date: 25 Aug 92 16:21:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.Yeagu7u00WBL47g0Vn
Organization: Junior, IM - MCS/CIT Track, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Does anyone know of a system which can switch the syswtem which will be
booted off of. Right now I have a drive with two system folders on it.
My disk drive does not work so I would need to download the files onto
my drive and switch the system.

-- bk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: zben@ni.umd.edu (Charles B. Cranston)
Subject: Re: $$$$$$$$$$$$$         WARNING  !!!!!         $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.unix.aux
Organization: UM Home for the Terminally Analytical
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 00:09:48 GMT

In article <1992Sep1.180948.2166@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>,
Minh Lang <minh@inst-sun1.jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:

> ... I believe that the VISA bank can take back the money even that
> it was paid.

In many cases the credit card people (in this case the bank) will just
eat the differance, in the interest of maintaining the fiction that
credit cards are a good thing.  They make enough from the 5% fee charged
to the vendor to eat a certain amount of lossage...  Then again, these
days banks don't have the margins they used to...

zben@ni.umd.edu     -KA3ZDF
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Pete Kelly <pfkelly@bnr.ca>
Subject: Re: Looking for _Powerful_ Personal Organizer
X-Xxdate: Wed, 2 Sep 92 02:34:12 GMT
Organization: Bell-Northern Research/Northern Telecom
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 01:27:17 GMT

In article <MERLYN.92Sep2134838@romulus.reed.edu> Randal L. Schwartz,
merlyn@ora.com writes:
>Yes, I have Thoughtminder.  

What's Thoughtminder ?
From: ggmar@ducvax.auburn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: postscript from microsoft word?y
Date: 27 Aug 92 19:05:49 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.230102.1@uncavx.unca.edu>, peake@uncavx.unca.edu writes:
> In article <1992Aug25.210845.24852@athena.mit.edu>, 
tracadas@athena.mit.edu (Philip W Tracadas) writes:
>> 
>> How do I make a postscript file from Microsoft word?  Isn't there some key
>> sequence that I use in the print dialogue box?
>> 
>> thanks in advance
>> -phil
> 
> 
> In Word 5.0 there's a button to make the file postscript in the PRINT dialog
> box.
> 
> 
> peake@uncavx.unca.edu
> peake@unca.bitnet

After saving the Word document as a PostScript file, will any PostScript
printer print the document with all the page breaks, tables, graphics, etc.
that I saved when working on my Mac with an HP DeskWriter? If I upload the
file to a Sun and print it out on a Sun Sparcprinter, will it look exactly
like it was printed on a LaserWriter? My department doesn't have any funds
for Macintoshes for the graduate students, so we either have to use the
Suns or fight the undergrads for the Macs.

Thanks in advance,

Gerald

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From: Rick_McCormack@mindlink.bc.ca (Rick McCormack)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Disk//autoDoubler w//On Location?
Date: 4 Sep 92 17:58:56 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

I think I understand the difference between DiskDoubler and
AutoDoubler. But I have not access to either program. My
questions:

1. How does On Location work with either or both programs? I use
On Location to track "themes" and referrences across a
multi-customer melange of letters, proposals, invoices, etc., so I
really need On Location, but I also would like low-cost extra
storage space, IF they are NOT mutually exclusive.

2. Will either DD or AD cause problems when Retrospect backs up or
restores from tape? How will files be stored on the
tape--compressed or uncompressed? Can I set a device (the tape
drive) to be a non-compressed device in either/both of DD or AD?

My thanks to the Net for any enlightenment.

Rick McCormack

PS I checked out the archives of past messages on "doubler",
"archives" and a few others, and have looked at the relevant
messages. Unfortuneately, our archives here go back only about a
week.
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From: val@apple.com (Jack Valois)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Mac PC Exchange, AccessPC & DOSMounter
Date: 27 Aug 92 01:20:05 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.

In article <1992Aug17.203906.15711@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>,
geoffb@coos.dartmouth.edu (Geoff Bronner) wrote:
> 
> In <3974@svin02.info.win.tue.nl> robg@wsinfo11.info.win.tue.nl (Rob Gerth) writes:
> 
> >Does anyone have experience with Apple's Macintosh PC Exchange and is willing
> >to comment on its virtues/vices as compared to AccessPC and DOSMounter?
> 
> At the moment I'm having problems getting my boss to let me buy a current
> version of DOS Mounter so my impressions of that product are way out of
> date.
> 

I have had the oppertunity to use DOS Mounter and had a lot of problems
with it.
I was unable to access anything on my network with it installed under
System 7.0.1.

> BUT, I'm quite familiar with ~AccessPC and PC Exchange as I am evaluating
> them for my boss at this very moment.
> 
> PC Exchange is very stable and has no apparent problems with most
> software, but I did discover a couple minor INIT conflicts with some
> PD/Shareware. The one major problem with it is that unlike ~AccessPC it
> writes a directory to each and every DOS disk that it reads.
> 
I agree that this is a problem with some people.  The problem is that the
Finder
wants to create a desktop file on all disks.  You can lock the disk and
still mount the disk, but that only works if you want to copy from the DOS
disk to the Mac.  

Let Apple know how much this "feature" bothers you.  If enough of you are
dissatisfied with this behavior, we will change it.  You have to realize
that
what you will give up is some Mac compatibility.  The folder it creates is
for
the resource fork of the files in the current directory.  If you don't care
for this, Do you ever care about making aliases to a file on the disk or
ever copying a Mac file to that disk?

> 
> As far as I can tell, all three utilitys only provide Mac app
> double-clickability on _disks_ and are no help on local hard disks or
> NetWare volumes, that's really too bad.
> 
Your correct about this.  The reason is that the mapping is being done by
the file system.  In the case of PC Exchange and ~AccessPC they are a
foriegn file system and only manage PC disks.  When the file resides on a
Mac disk or file server the PC foriegn file systems are not in the call
chain and don't have a chance to map the file to another application.  What
you want would require a much different approach to accomplish.

> So I'm going to try and get a look at the current DOS Mounter and then
> choose between it and ~AccessPC.
> 
Don't dismiss PC Exchange!  It is significantly more stable and compatible
with System 7.  TRUST me I know!!!  If you are using System 7 and don't
have the need to transfer files via something like a Syquest cart, I would
go with PC Exchange or wait until PC Exchange supports other type of media.
 Once again, Let Apple know that you NEED this type of media support.  You
will be surprised how much you can effect changes...


Jack Valois
Mac OS Group
From: moj@risken.vd.volvo.se (Mats-Olof Sander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: MS Word Recovery - Possible??
Summary: Is it possible to recover a MS Word document (after crash) .
Date: 31 Aug 92 16:28:46 GMT

Is it possible to recover the changes to an unsaved MS Word document
after a crash using the temp-files left from the session. The previous
version of the document is undamaged and the temp file contains some
more or less useless data.
Mats-Olof Sander, Volvo Data AB, Sweden
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc
From: Andrew.Brennan@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Andrew Brennan)
Subject: One track minds and System 7  :^)
Keywords: multifinder timeouts system 7 applications
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 19:39:18 GMT

      Here's the problem.  I've recently switched the local lab to
   System 7 from 6.0.7.  We have come up with a number of different
   problems - none too terrible, but little problems none the less.

      One is the memory constraints of a SE with 2.5M - you can get
   Sys 7 and maybe one or two small applications in there and that 
   is about all.  Not a problem - except for the user who switched
   out to Finder w/o leaving their application.  The next user is
   unable to enter anything.  (makes sense, no?)

      We're ordering more memory, but this situation is related to
   at least one or two more problems.  Has anyone written a timeout
   to kill inactive applications?  Perhaps as a Sys 7 extension?

      Along the same lines, we have laser-printing stations and the
   laserwriter drivers are loaded on all of the machines so that a
   user can have their formatting ready - instead of tying up the
   few stations in the lab.  But, the next user (what a curse!  ARG
   "The Next User..."  :^) doesn't know that the Chooser settings 
   have been altered and gets garbage when they print to the linked
   imagewriters.  Anything in this area?  Something that would be
   able to restore Chooser settings after a period of inactivity?

      andrew.  (brennan@hal.hahnemann.edu)


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: tracadas@athena.mit.edu (Philip W Tracadas)
Subject: postscript from microsoft word?
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 21:08:45 GMT


How do I make a postscript file from Microsoft word?  Isn't there some key
sequence that I use in the print dialogue box?

thanks in advance
-phil
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: e-sink@uiuc.edu (Eric W. Sink)
Subject: Publish It! Easy and ATM, FOPL
Originator: sink@ux2.cso.uiuc.edu
Reply-To: e-sink@uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 14:25:16 GMT

I have Publish It! Easy, which I really like.  But my printer is a
Personal LaserWriter LS (non-PostScript).  Rotated text looks awful
on the printer.

If I install ATM, will it help ?  (What was that number to call to get
ATM for $7 again ?)

How about Freedom of the Press Lite ?  How does this product really work ?
Can I use it to make my LS a cheap, very slow, PostScript printer for use
with Publish It! Easy ?

Thanks in advance,

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From: triantos@acsu.buffalo.edu (Nick B Triantos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Infini-D:  3 questions
Date: 27 Aug 92 02:03:17 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: The University at Buffalo
Originator: triantos@autarch.acsu.buffalo.edu

Hello, netters.

I've got, as the subject says, 3 questions about Infini-D.  I'm using v1.1.

1.  The manuals are hazy, at best, about composing surfaces.  I'm trying to
make a wall with a window in it, so I figured that I'd just design a composed
surface using the wall surface, plus a transparent spot for a "window".  Am I
supposed to design a surface which looks like a black rectangle within a larger
white rectangle and use this as a mask for a transparency?  I used "Egg shell"
for my walls, and so I made my surface with a full rectangle of egg shell
first, then a "Black plastic" second, in a smaller rectangle, with the
transparency value set to 100% and the checkbox checked.

2.  I know that I can make a ripple using the terrain tool, but is there any
way to animate the ripple?  In other words, if I have a body of water and I
animate an object touching the water, am I only able to animate a ripple by
designing a small ripple terrain, then stretching it in the next snapshot?

3.  Is the $95 upgrade to 2.0 worth my money?  I don't know of a need for fog
yet, so it doesn't seem like it's enough of a reason.  The support for
subscribing to Freehand / Illustrator objects will be very useful, but I don't
use either of those packages yet.  Faster rendering or better output are
extremely nice, but not necessary, and I'm still unclear of how one would use
alpha channels, or how that's of great benefit to me.

Thanks for any advice,
-Nick

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: dnwhiteh@eos.ncsu.edu (DUANE N WHITEHURST)
Subject: WHAT'S THE MAGIC WORD FOR HYPERCARD????
Originator: dnwhiteh@c00486-224wi.eos.ncsu.edu
Reply-To: dnwhiteh@eos.ncsu.edu (DUANE N WHITEHURST)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 18:49:53 GMT


hi...

a few weeks back some one posted a question (yeah I should've saved it)
about how to set the hypercard program shipped with system7 to a higher
userlevel to allow scripting...

I'd like to know how this is done.

If anyone knows how or knows where I can find out how to "cheat" and get
scripting with the shipped hypercard I'd love to hear it....

thanks for your help

				-_- duane
dnwhiteh@eos.ncsu.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: tlt38517@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Terry Thiel)
Subject: Re: Excel 2.2 upgrades.
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 14:07:07 GMT

David Tsai <dt1n+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>Sorry if this is a FAQ, but I'd like to know what the prices are to upgrade 
>from Excel 2.2.  
>	Is there a difference in price between an upgrade to 3.0 and another
>upgrade to 4.0?
>Dave
No there isn't.  Kind of irritating to me because I paid the $120 bucks to
upgrade to 3.0 and then a year later I paid $88 (thru MacWarehouse) to
upgrade to 4.0.  Thats good for you though.  I suggest you upgrade thru
a mail order house, its alot faster,  come to think of it I ordered my
upgrade from MacZone not MacWarehouse.  I ordered it on Friday and got it
on Saturday!
-Terry
From: dent@DIALix.oz.au (Andrew Dent)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: ATM/Laser don't see Type 1
Summary: Why no scaling?
Keywords: PostScript
Date: 31 Aug 92 15:15:49 GMT
Organization: DIALix Services, Perth, Western Australia

I have observed a funny problem with several Type 1 fonts downloaded
recently - they refuse to find their outline file.

The symptoms are repeatable under Syustem 7.0.1 using Suitcase 2
as well as under System 6.0.7 with the fonts in the System file.

The outline files are named correctly (according to the docs and the
name that Suitcase proposes).
However, they fail to scale either with ATM or on a Postscript printer!

The file types and Finder flags look OK.

Any ideas?

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: chris@mta.ca (Chris McNeil)
Subject: Re: Is there a MacTCP-based Archie client??
Organization: Computing Services Mount Allison University
Distribution: global
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 14:15:00 GMT

In article <177pj9INNk0u@network.ucsd.edu> u_banzai@mcl.ucsb.edu (Marc Tamsky) writes:

>Well, after finding out there is no such beast, I decided I am going to write
>it.

>I've collected a bunch of MacTCP example code, and I'm going to sit down this
>week and write the thing.

>Anyone have suggestions for features, interface designs, anything?

>----------
>u_banzai@mcl.ucsb.edu            KB6JWE                 Marc Tamsky

>In New Salem, ND stands the worlds largest Holstein Cow.
>12000#, 38' H, 50' L.....      it's fiberglass!

I've got one written, I just need to pretty up the display and get some of
the last few menu items ( such as save and print finished). Right now it
only outputs to the screen but you can select the output and copy it.

Chris McNeil
Mount Allison University
Sackville NB Canada
cmcneil@mta.ca
From: knapp@cs.purdue.EDU (Edgar Knapp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Autodoubler kills *everything*
Date: 27 Aug 92 02:22:41 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Purdue University

In article <1992Aug26.235828.5267@newshost.unh.edu> K_LEPA@unhh.unh.edu (Kristen   Lepa) writes:
>Not only do the files not know their applications and "Fat Elga" need minor
>repairs, but the icons have now lost their bundle-bits and Norton can't find
>them, so they're all generic icons.  Ugh, what a nightmare.  

I am afraid your disk is in serious trouble. It appears to me that AD
only brought your disk trouble to the surface rather than cause them.
I have been using it from the start with about 30 other extensions,
and never lost a file or even an icon. 

Also, Salient's tech support used to be excellent. Now that they are
part of Fifth Generation Systems, we'll have to see.

Edgar

(knapp@cs.purdue.edu)

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: barto@tsunami.megatek.com (David Barto)
Subject: Filenames and MSWord 5.0a
Organization: Megatek Corporation, San Diego, California
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 00:09:10 GMT


When you save a file in 5.0(a) for the first time, a dialog box prompts
for information.  This information is saved in the file (and can be seen
in the RTF document).

What I want is to print some of that information as the footer to each
page.  How do I do that?  I can't find anything in the fine manual.

	-barto
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: ddl683@csc.albany.edu (Dreaming)
Subject: Re: Backup Scenario From Hell (BSFH)
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: Hall of Holy Holdsworth, Albany, NY
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 21:18:16 GMT

In article <BtnqGr.J2M@hpbs654.boi.hp.com>, kmarko@hpbs654.boi.hp.com (Kurt
Marko) wrote:
> There is a new program due out from a company called NoHands Software
> called Magnet that I played with at MacWorld that will do exactly
> this.  You can set up `magnets' to mirror specific folders from one
> disk to another; thus with a couple of bi-directional Magnets you can
> mirror from one Mac to the portable drive and from the portable to the
> other Mac.  The Magnets can be set to trigger either on a disk mount,
> shutdown or periodically (say after a few minutes of idle time).  
> 
> I think Magnet is due to be released in the next month or so; list is
> supposed to be around $100-125.

This has no bearing on the subject of backups, but I have serious blocks
about bringing a product called "Magnet" anywhere near my disk media... :-)

						Derek L.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Date: Wed,  2 Sep 1992 01:45:53 -0400 
From: David Tsai <dt1n+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Excel 2.2 upgrades.

Sorry if this is a FAQ, but I'd like to know what the prices are to upgrade 
from Excel 2.2.  
	Is there a difference in price between an upgrade to 3.0 and another
upgrade to 4.0?

Dave
From: pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: File viewer for Big Text Files?
Date: 2 Sep 92 21:33:39 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: 3M Company

In article <38335@unix.SRI.COM> mxmora@unix.SRI.COM (Matt Mora) writes:
>Thanks for the plug but it should be known that this program as it stands
>now is buggy and is still in beta. It requires system seven,only does line
>wrapping not word wrapping and it reads the entire file into memory to 
>display the file. It uses temp memory if there is not enough memory in the 
>app's partition to read the file.

I've found MoreOrLess 1.0b5 to be quite useful (it holds a coveted
"Drag and Drop" spot on my desktop).  It's a super way to quickly peek
at 'read me' files and the like.

Just stay away from the About box!

   <<CRASH>>

See?  I _TOLD_ you so... :-) 

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: phils@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Phil Shapiro)
Subject: Re: More 3.1, ResEdit, Compressed Rsc.s (Not for the faint of heart)
Organization: Symantec Corp.
	<1992Aug30.221953.1@tesla.njit.edu>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 12:46:41 GMT

In article <1992Aug30.221953.1@tesla.njit.edu> erh0362@tesla.njit.edu (Elliotte Rusty Harold) writes:

	   This is purely guesswork based on a lot of playing around with More
   Disk Space, but I'd bet that More 3.1 and MacTools 2.0 have been compressed
   with a product from Alysis called the Alysis Resource Compressor.

I don't know about MacTools, but I'm pretty sure that More uses VISE
compression. This is an on-the-fly compression that has been around
for quite some time, you can probably find an ad for it in old issues
of MacTutor.  As far as I know, VISE is for applications only; they
don't make a general system extension like Alysis.

	-phil
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