HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: A new SpeedyFinder?
Date: 25 Jan 93 19:50:35 GMT
	<1993Jan21.193126.29661@netcom.com>
Organization: USC-ISI
In-reply-to: leonardr@netcom.com's message of 21 Jan 93 19:31:26 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.193126.29661@netcom.com> leonardr@netcom.com (Leonard Rosenthol) writes:

>In article <1jmebbINNspm@rs2.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> eggert@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Lars Eggert) writes:
>>I heard rumours about a version of SpeedyFinder7 that is more recent
>>than 1.5.4 which is available at sumex. I think it was said that
>>only registered users received it.
>>
>      Any version of SpeedyFinder7 > 1.5.4 is for registered users only.
>If there is such a version on sumex (or other FTP sites), it should be
>removed...
>
>>IS THIS TRUE? What are the improvements? I think about registering,
>>but I won't if the conflict with AutoDoubler was not solved.
>>
>      The current (registered) version of SpeedyFinder7 (1.5.8) does
>have the AD bug fixed.
>
>[disclaimer: I am friends with the author of SpeedyFinder, and a registered
>user of this wonderful product]
>

I also tried this neat CP, but discarded it because it had some bugs,
like turning on and off baloon help, that were either conflicts with
INITs I couldn't ditch (Now Utilities) or just outright bugs.

The problem is, that I'm not willing to register to "hope" these are
fixed.  If I saw a version that fixed the bugs, I'd probably register.

jas
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From: James_Tilley@tcs.las-vegas.nv.us
Organization: Cyber Sanctum
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 03:11:07 PST
Subject: Re: Stuffit Query

>>using System 7.1 on a IIvx with only the Apple CD-rom drivers loaded 
>>In addition to SpaceSaver (I narrowed it down to this combination)
>>I found that if you change the label color of items on the hard drive
>>and there is a CD in the CD drive the CD ejects... neat eh?

>This is the same behaviour as when I compressed on a floppy using labels
>(ejects after compression).  The next time I changed a lebel the floppy
>ejected - slightly annoying, but not as much as the CD problem you have...

That isn't quite as bad as what has happened to me.  Mostly it is just the CD
that has been ejected, but I have also had it unmount a partition on me, and
then it wanted me to insert that disk... How the heck am I supposed to that
with a fixed drive?!?!
From: chapman@centerline.com (Scott Chapman, (Scott Chapman x233))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Problems with SpaceSaver (vs. AutoDoubler)
Date: 25 Jan 1993 15:20:44 GMT
Organization: CenterLine Software
Distribution: world
Reply-To: chapman@centerline.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: divine.centerline.com

In my on going quest to determine which disk compression utility should remain
on my hard disk (AutoDoubler or SpaceSaver), I decided to switch back to SS
when SS 1.0.3 was out (as suggested by Leonard Rosenthol). Anyway, I did post
my findings in a rather nasty (perhaps unnecessarily so). but I thought I should
post my findings here as well. Excuse me if some of this is old news, and excuse
me if I focus on my findings of SpaceSaver.

First of all, let me say that I do think 1.0.3 of SpaceSaver is *much* better
than the first release. However, many of the behaviour quirks are still present.

1) SS does not work well with CopyDoubler. Should I expect that they would ever
work together (CopyDoubler being from arch-rival Fifth Generation)? The result was
that files were uncompressed during the read, and re-compressed when writting 
(copying a folder label "Compress").

2) "SpaceSaver Info..." from the SpaceSaver menu causes files compressed to SpaceSaver
to revert back to standard Stuffit Deluxe icons. The original icons can only be
restored (as far as I can tell) by doing a "Get Info..." from the finder which
*still* results in the file getting uncompressed.

3) No way to halt a timely operation. Suppose you move a large unlabeled folder out
of a folder labeled "compress". You can get SS to skip some files, but you cannot
get it to stop the uncompress operation. I still do not understand why it is
uncompressing the files anyway, I did not move them to a folder labeled "uncompress"...

4) I couldn't not figure out how SpaceSaver works with nested folders. For example
(I am writting this from memory, but I think I remember the behavior) If you have
a folder labeled "uncompress" which contains another folder, you cannot get files
to compress in the nested folder (even if it is labeled "compress"). However, if
you label the outer folder "compress" and the nested folder "uncompress" then the
files will not compress. I would have expected that SpaceSaver would search the
folder hierarchy (starting with the folder containing the file) and stop as soon
as it finds a label that is relevent.

5) No way (in idle-time compression) to compress files which have not been USED
(as opposed to modified) in a given amount of time. It would be great to have 
my infrequently used applications remain compressed, but the ones I do use on a
day-to-day basis remain uncompressed.


I have not experienced any crashes, it does seem to be a 
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              CenterLine Software | (617) 498-3230
                   10 Fawcett St. | (617) 868-6655 (FAX)
              Cambridge, MA 02138 | (Centerline was formerly Saber Software)
                                  |
From: apdoo@alice.att.com (Alan Weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Where can I buy Logo for Macintosh?
Date: 26 Jan 93 22:16:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: alice.24712
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ


My son uses a Mac in school, and has one at home (as do I and also my wife).
He recently asked me to get him "Logo", which is (I think) a programming
language. Does anybody know where to get this? MacWarehouse, MacConnection,
and others I called don't seem to have it. By the way, none of us is an
educator, so we can't use some of the sources that most of the rest of you
can to get stuff cheap.

Thanks,
Alan Weiss
apdoo@research.att.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc
From: harry@cs.cornell.edu (Harry M. Barshatzky)
Subject: Hard disk reports...
Keywords: hard disk, report
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 23:54:48 GMT

Hi Everyone --

I am looking for an application that I can run on a mounted volume,
which would create a report of ALL files found on the disk.  I have
seen this for reporting on system related files (eg. Tattletale), but
I haven't seen one that would really make the disk divulge everything.
(Norton utilities might qualify).  Any ideas and assistance is greatly
appreciated.  Thanks -- Harry
-- 
	Harry Barshatzky			hmb1@cornell.edu
 			  CIT Service HelpDesk
	 	  121 Computing & Communications Center
			     (607)255-8990
From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Brian Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Hey how about a new group for UTILITIES ???????
Date: 25 Jan 93 17:44:25 GMT
Reply-To: hades@Dartmouth.Edu
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Disclaimer: Personally, I really don't care who you think I speak for.
Moderator: Rec.Arts.Comics.Info

erh0362@tesla.njit.edu (Elliotte Rusty Harold) writes:

>    The key difference is that Word is something you buy your Macintosh
>to run, a utility is something you buy to make your Macintosh run
>better.  Word is a production application.  MacTools or ATM are just
>things that help Word run better.

    I know the difference between a productivity application and a
utility application, but the fact remains that both of them are
applications. Now, if the person wanted to create comp.sys.mac.app.util
it would at least have a better name. But I don't see that the level of
traffic in this group is so overwhelming that people can't find the
discussions they want. Besides, think of the cross posting everytime a
conflict is found between an "app" and a "util." It would be a
nightmare.

>It's the difference between going to the grocery store in your car and
>going to the gas station.  If you didn't own a car you'd still go to the
>grocery store, just not as easily as with the car.  If you didn't have
>Word you'd still write, just not as easily.  Only the first kind of
>utility (i.e Word) belongs in comp.sys.mac.apps.  The second kind
>belongs in comp.sys.mac.misc.  This will be made more explicit in the
>next version of the FAQ.

    This is just wrong. All application discussion belongs in .apps.
That is why it is called .apps. There is nothing in the group's charter
that prohibits discussion of things like Stuffic, or Norton Utilties, or
any of the other popular utilities on the market. Applications and
utilties are too closely tied together to effectively separate the
discussions. As for .misc, it is there for topics that aren't
necessarily covered by one of the existing groups and for those
discussion that would be crossposted across a larger number of the
groups (or something like this, I haven't seen the charter for the group
in a couple of years so it's a little fuzzy).

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: jjs@vfl.paramax.com (James Solderitsch)
Subject: Spreadsheet Frames In ClarisWorks DBs
Keywords: database spreadsheet summary
Organization: Paramax Systems
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 13:49:58 GMT

I am trying to create a simple invoicing set-up for a psychologist
friend of mine.  She is currently using an old version of Microsoft
Works and creating separate spreadsheet files for each patient to
contain treatment data, and then creating a separate billing letter
file (also for each patient) that she cuts and pastes the relevant
treatment data into to create her billing invoices.

I prefer ClarisWorks and am trying to set up a semi-automated system
where there is a ClarisWorks database file containing a record for
each patient and a separate treatment DB file that contains financial
data for each patient, one record per treatment.  The "link" between
the two files is a patient ID.  What I thought I would do was collect
the relevant records for each patient (last billing date to the current
date) and then cut and paste the found records into a spreadsheet frame
that I install into a layout for the patient file.  Suitably formatted
and totalled, the resulting form would make an ideal invoice.

My problem is that if the spreadsheet frame is put into the layout,
data can be cut and pasted into the frame only when I am actually
in layout mode, not when I am physically looking at the records themselves
(called browse mode in CW).  This means I can only assemble data for
one patient at a time -- what I want is to generate a report of invoice
records, one for each patient, that I can then print as a group.

Has anyone attempted anything like this in ClarisWorks?  I have
Filemaker Pro 2.0 which I may turn to, but the use of spreadsheet
frames within a database layout appears at first glance to do what I
want, except I can't put different data values into each spreadsheet
frame on a per record basis.  Am I asking too much of CW?  Also, what
is the latest CW version? -- I have 1.0v2.

Thanks for any information.  I will post a summary if interest in this
topic develops.

-- 
Jim Solderitsch

jjs@vfl.paramax.com

215 648 2831
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: aggie@wealthy.ocean.fsu.edu (I R A Aggie)
Subject: Re: Converting Iris raster images to PICT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: An Ol Ag surrounded by a bunch of unfriendly Seminoles
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 12:07:13 GMT

In article <1k3c3hINN2vk@rave.larc.nasa.gov>, Gary P. Warren
<warren@tab00.larc.nasa.gov> wrote:
> 
> I need a program that will convert Iris raster images to pict
> files.  Currently SGI has a program called "topict" but it assumes
> classic quickdraw and converts everything to 8 colors.  Is there 
> a program available anywhere that will convert these images 
> using more than 8 colors????  I need this to make some quicktime
> movies....

Try imconv from ucsd.edu. This is a program for the SGI (and a bunch
of other unix boxes) for image conversion.

James
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: ztac18@hou.amoco.com (Tom Chaimov)
Subject: Re: Mac disk on a SparcStation
Reply-To: ztac18@hou.amoco.com
Organization: Amoco
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:30:07 GMT

In <5693@disuns2.epfl.ch> dinarich@.epfl.ch (Mirko Dinarich, EPFL INFO 95) writes:

>Hello

>I'm looking for a program that read/write a mac disk on a Sun SparcStation.
>Someboby can tell me if such program exist ?

Not exactly what you are looking for, but...
What about formatting a DOS disk on the Sparc or your Mac and simply using
AcessPC or something when you read/write from/to it on your Mac?
From: Dantz Development Corporation <dantz@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Date: 26 Jan 93 16:34 PST
Subject: Re: FastBack or Retrospect?
Nf-ID: #R:mp-250193121237@134.111.45.21:1289219111:cdp:1533900028:000:707
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!dantz    Jan 26 16:34:00 1993



Mike:

Retrospect works quite well with the Viper drive, but you need 
to have a particular version of firmware or later. Archive Corp. 
recently fixed a bug in the Viper drive and released firmware 
version -013 which fixed their problem. To successfully use the 
Viper with Retrospect, you would need to get that drive's firmware 
updated to -013. 

With that firmware, Retrospect works quite well with that drive. 
If you have further questions, feel free to contact us directly. 

Walt Hays                  /  CIS:         73367,2416
Dantz Development Corp.    /  AOL/Connect: DANTZ
1400 Shattuck Ave          /  AppleLink:   D0011
Berkeley, CA 94709, USA    /  Internet:    D0011@applelink.apple.com
From: hue@pro-freedom.cts.com (Scott Hudziak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: -Chess program for 12" monitor?
Date: 24 Jan 93 00:23:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: pro-free.1993Jan23.172321.7790
Organization: ProLine [pro-freedom] AppleVan (Apple UG of Vancouver, WA)

I need a chess game. I have an LC w/12" monitor. All the ones I've called
up on either are balck and white, or they only work on a 14" monitor. I
foud a game "Checkmate" but hte guy didn't know if would work on a 14 incho
monitor.

ProLine:  hue@pro-freedom
Internet: hue@pro-freedom.cts.com
UUCP:     crash!pro-freedom!hue
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: jayb@laplace.MATH.ColoState.EDU (Jay Bourland)
Subject: Re: Mac disk on a SparcStation: a simpler method
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:25:24 GMT
Distribution: na
	<Jan.26.14.43.33.1993.2653@math.rutgers.edu>
Organization: /home/laplace/jayb/.organization

In article <Jan.26.14.43.33.1993.2653@math.rutgers.edu> bohus@math.rutgers.edu (Geza Bohus) writes:
>
> I already answered the original question by email, but it seems that
> several people missed a very simple solution: tar. A small and free
> utility on the Mac can read/write disks in tar format. You need a high
> density disk formatted on the Mac and that's it. On the Unix you type
               ^^^^^^^^^
This is all correct except that the disk does not have to be
formatted! You have to start suntar on the mac before inserting the
disk, however. There are several nice things about this approach.
(1) Since the disk doesn't have to be formatted, you can use the whole
2Mb on the HD instead of just 1.44.
(2) You don't have to mount the disk on your Unix box, which is a
head-ache in a multi-user environment. 
(3) Suntar also understands bar, which is the disk-related cousin to
tar. 





--
Jay Bourland
jayb@Math.ColoState.EDU
From: lvh@uctgeo.geo.uct.ac.za (Leon van Heerden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: So what does SendPS do?
Summary: Questions on SendPS
Keywords: PostScript, printing
Date: 22 Jan 93 07:47:54 GMT
Organization: University of Cape Town

In this group everynow and again I read about something called SendPostScript.
Now this sounds like a really neat utility and one that I can probably get
a lot of mileage from, but 
     (1) Does it just send PostScript down a printer cable?
	     Is there any way of configuring baud rates, parity and that 
	     sort of thing
     (2) Does it do anything else - like generate PostScript from applications?
     (3) How fast is it?

and most important of all - how do I get my grubby little hands on a copy?

Thanks in advance for info

Leon van Heerden
Geological Sciences
University of Cape Town
From: aaron@studsys.mscs.mu.edu (Aaron Schrab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Word 4.0, Word Finder and System 7.0.1
Date: 24 Jan 1993 03:33:37 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Department MSCS
NNTP-Posting-Host: studsys.mscs.mu.edu

In article <C1C4IF.IJo@DMI.USherb.CA> martin@DMI.USherb.CA (Jean-francois Martin) writes:
>Can someone tell me how I can make Word Finder and Word 4.0 work together on
>a mac using system 7.0.1
>
>JF Martin

You can use either ResEdit or Font/DA Mover to install Word Finder into
Word. To use ResEdit just copy all of the resources from Word Finder into
Word. To get Font/DA Mover to open Word, you must hold down a key (I
believe that it's the Option key) while clicking the Open button.

Hope this helps.
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 aaron@studsys.mscs.mu.edu  |  The world isn't what I want it to be   
 Kammerling@aol.com         |  anymore. It used to be so easy ...    
 A.Schrab@genie.geis.com    |  to make believe.      -the Tick #4    
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: zmaa27@trc.amoco.com (Mary Ann Adair)
Subject: Retrospect
Keywords: Retrospect
Reply-To: zmaa27@trc.amoco.com (Mary Ann Adair)
Organization: Amoco Production Company
Distribution: na 
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 14:13:46 GMT

Hi:

I'm using my Quadra 700 to backup Macs in my groups at night.
Using the calendar, I can get their Macs to shut down, but not	
mine.  Am I missing something in this manual (I swear I've been
all through it).   I've gotten it to the point where it will quit
the app but not shut my Mac down. 

I don't know if it will hurt the HD to have it on constantly or 
not, but I am not really comfortable leaving it on constantly.

Failing a Retrospect solution to this, does anyone know of some
useful application that will autoshut down a macine at a specified
time?

Mary Ann Adair
zmaa27@trc.amoco.com
 


Mary Ann Adair
Geological Research, Geoscience Division
Amoco Production Research 
zmaa27@trc.amoco.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: chrisa@fc.hp.com
 (Chris Anderson)
Subject: Re: Reflection 3.31
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:24:52 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Site
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.1 PL6]

In my original article, I neglected to mention that I do not read this group,
and would appreciate responses by e-mail.  Thank you very much.

Chris.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Richard J. Gaylord <gaylord@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: creating 7.1 NUM and SAMD disks :directions posted
X-Xxdate: Tue, 26 Jan 93 03:20:45 GMT
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d13
Organization: University of Illinois
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 09:20:27 GMT
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A78A5E8D4D039B17@mm-mac23.mse.uiuc.edu>

gaylord@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Richard J. Gaylord)

symantec sent me the directions for creating 7.1 disks for NUM and SAM. i
sent them to comp.sys. mac. announce. this morning. you can get them
there.

-richard-
From: Ladd.Morse@p804.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Ladd Morse)
Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Retrospect Question
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:38:11 -0500

Any idea if one can do an initial comprehensive backup to tape, then do
incremental backups to floppy?
 
I've recently gotten a large hard drive at home and at work we have a DAT tape
drive. I was wondering if I could take the external drive to work, back up the
entire drive, then perform incremental backups at home to floppy.

I suppose I could do the initial backup to to tape, then at future times at home
just do a backup of everything that has a date later than the initial backup. I
could see some files not being caught that way, but it should be most of them.
 

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: chrisa@fc.hp.com
 (Chris Anderson)
Subject: Reflection 3.31
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:09:16 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Site
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.1 PL6]

We have used Reflection 2.02 as our terminal  emulator on the Mac  successfully
for years.  Then a couple of years ago, we purchased Reflection 3.31 and ran it
successfully  on our MacPlus  (System 6.0.7) for a long time.  We have also run
this  version of  Reflection  on a Mac II (System  7.0) and it runs  perfectly.
HOWEVER,  when we upgraded  the MacPlus to System 7,  Reflection  3.31  stopped
working entirely (system bomb:  unimplemented  trap).  Has anyone else had this
problem?  Any  solutions?  We are  thinking of  upgrading/replacing  Reflection
3.31 on the Plus with the  latest  version  but I'm not sure we won't  have the
same problem.  BTW, Reflection 2.02 still works on the Plus under System 7.

Chris.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: arie@eecs.umich.edu (Arie Covrigaru)
Subject: ATM 3.0 & Suitcase 2.1.1 Conflict
Reply-To: arie@eecs.umich.edu
Organization: AI Lab, The University of Michigan
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:56:58 GMT

I found a strange incompatibility between Adobe Type Manager (ATM) version
3.0 and Suitcase version 2.1.2 and I wonder if it is a known problem.
I installed the two on a PowerBook 160 on top of a clean out of the box
installation of System 7.1 using the customized software installation for
the PowerBook 160. The PB would stop during the startup process after 
loading ATM and would display a blank screen (no messages, no errors,
no crashes). When I tried to load each of the two, either ATM or Suitcase,
the startup process finished and all was well. This happened even when 
Suitcase wasn't opening any suitcases. Finally I changed the loading
order having ATM load before Suitcase and they both worked together.

Did this happen to anyone else and is there a fix other than changing
the order?
--


Arie.

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From: sarachanbd@crd.ge.com (B. D. Sarachan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Excel macros
Date: 28 Jan 93 19:44:22 GMT
Reply-To: sarachanbd@crd.ge.com (B. D. Sarachan)
Organization: GE Research & Development Center

In article <1993Jan28.164650.3857@dxcern.cern.ch>, moreau@cernvm.cern.ch (DM for A Moreau) writes:
|> Hello,
|> 
|> Excel macro can call code ressource libraries, which contain code ressources
|> written in C. But when I compile my program to make a code ressource, I
|> have to give a creator name (XCEL), a file type and a type. These informations
|> are written in the ressource fork.
|> Does someone know what to write in these fields ?
|> 
|> Thanks,
|> 
|> Alain Moreau    (MOREAU@cernvm.cern.ch)
|> 

The file type is CODE.  The file type is XLLB for a normal code resource or XLL (followed
by a space) for a stand-alone code resource.

This is documented in the "Microsoft Excel Software Development Kit", available from
Microsoft Press.

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==
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  Brion Sarachan
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  Tel. (518) 387-6553
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