HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: wong@athena.mit.edu (David C Wong)
Subject: Re: Caveat Emptor: After Dark
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 23:56:58 GMT

In article <60550@aurs01.UUCP> davisw@aurs01.uucp (Walt Davis) writes:
>
>After a long wait we were finally bequeathed a Radius Pivot gray-scale
>monitor for our poor MAC nSE/30 from our secretary who upgraded to a full
>two-page display.  The installation was trivial, however after power-up
>we noticed some strange artifacts at the bottom of the monitor
>(long-ways).  It wasn't until we blackened the entire screen that the
>mystery was solved.  It turns out that the famous After-Dark fish
>"screen-saver" had burned the ocean floor into the phosphor of our
>monitor.  Granted our secretary probably kept the monitor on for months
>with the fish scene "saving" the monitor every night, but when does a
>"screen-saver" turn malicious?  Any other persistent ocean floors out
>there?
>
>Walt Davis
>Alcatel Network Systems
>Raleigh, NC
>davisw%aurgate@mcnc.org


Walt, there is a warning in the After Dark Manual that says "You may 
  'Show sea floor' if you wish, however, if you leave it on for too long
  you won't be saving your screen."  In other words, you have the option
  on whether to turn on the sea floor or not.  Unfortunately, your secretary
  chose to leave it on, hence the burned-in image.
This is the only option I know on any screen saver that would leave a burned-
  in image on a monitor.  Hopefully, Berkeley will take the option out so
  that the "Fish!" module will truly be a "screen saver" in all respects.

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From: pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.wanted
Subject: Simple FFT program?
Date: 17 Apr 92 17:24:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: mmm.1992Apr17.172427.20504
Organization: 3M Company

I'm looking for a "simple" program for the Mac that does FFTs.  I need
to be able to get an FFT on a 256 point data set as easily as possible.

I've looked at Igor, and while it is one heck of a program, it is a bit
much for our simple needs.  The ImageFFT program available from NIH
appears to only work with pictures, not raw data.  And Spyglass
Transform only wants to deal with square arrays of data, not
single-column stuff like we have.

Has anyone done a quick-and-dirty FFT generator for the Mac that is
simple to use?  Heck, if it's using the Think C console library, that's
just fine. :-)

  Thanks for any leads.
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From: djd8031@tamsun.tamu.edu (Dave Duchscher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: PICT -> QuickTime-compressed-PICT ?
Date: 7 Apr 92 03:26:48 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station

cs225ex@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (A A DeGuzman) writes:

>Is there any application available (freeware or shareware) that compresses
>a PICT file using QuickTime?

>-- 
>Alan A. DeGuzman       |   "I think that the surest signs of intelligent life 
>Calculus&Mathematica   |    elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has
>Dept of Math, UIUC     |    tried to contact us." - Hobbes to Calvin
>                                                                     

Yes,
   Auto Compressor and QT Batch Compressor, both availiable on
   sumex.stanford.edu.

Dave D.
dave-d@tamu.edu

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From: pmfisher@milton.u.washington.edu (Patrick Fisher)
Subject: free upgrade for WriteNow 3.3 after certain date?
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 00:03:04 GMT


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: HK.MLR@forsythe.stanford.edu (Mark Rogowsky)
Subject: Setting Freehand Printer Default?
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 06:59:17 GMT

I am wondering how one sets the default printer driver in Freehand
3.x.

In other words, how do I get it to default to Laserwriter IIg or
Lino or whatever I want

Mark Rogowsky
rogo@forsythe.stanford.edu
From: jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Claris bashing (and a bit of DeltaPoint bashing)(was: Misc Bashing)
Date: 13 Apr 92 12:23:48 EDT

egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson) writes:
>--> >>support Publish and Subscribe. Was it a secret or something? 
>--> >Because they had frozen the feature set for MacDraw Pro before
>--> >they could include any of the System 7.0 features. 
>--> Is this supposed to be an excuse, an explanation, or a definition
>--> of the problem?
>--Yes.
>Well whatever it is, it's totally unacceptable.

So:  do you prefer your software late, or buggy?

If, on the other hand, you want your software NOW and PERFECT without time
for proper development and testing:  what alternate universe are you from?
From: pdejong@fwi.uva.nl (Paul Gerard de Jong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Excel bug? in MEDIAN function
Keywords: Median
Date: 14 Apr 92 06:15:19 GMT
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam

jbush@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (John E Bush) writes:

[Stuff killed ]

>Without looking too hard, I would say that the error is occuring when
>there is an even number of scores in the sample, and the column just isn't
>wide enough to display the entire score.  If you set the column value
>format to display only one decimal place or something similar your problem
>should be solved.


>Eric

NO

First thing I tried, doesn't work. I think there really is a bug here.

Bart van Deenen
From: egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Claris bashing (and a bit of DeltaPoint bashing)(was: Misc Bashing)
Date: 16 Apr 92 14:24:45 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <11401@ksr.com> jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods) writes:
--egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson) writes:
-->--> >>support Publish and Subscribe. Was it a secret or something? 
-->--> >Because they had frozen the feature set for MacDraw Pro before
-->--> >they could include any of the System 7.0 features. 
-->--> Is this supposed to be an excuse, an explanation, or a definition
-->--> of the problem?
-->--Yes.
-->Well whatever it is, it's totally unacceptable.
--
--So:  do you prefer your software late, or buggy?
--
--If, on the other hand, you want your software NOW and PERFECT without time
--for proper development and testing:  what alternate universe are you from?

I'm prepared to accept it as late and buggy as Word 5. It's not perfect, but it was
out months ago, and it hasn't crashed on me yet.



-- 
-jeremy henderson        | I do wonder that so brave a prince as King James 
egpv29@uk.ac.ed.castle   | should be born in so stinking a toun as Edinburgh
                         | in lousy Scotland.
From: jgrape@coos.dartmouth.edu (Johan A. Grape)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Program to convert PostScript to PICT, PICT 2 etc.
Date: 12 Apr 92 17:10:40 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Originator: jgrape@coos.dartmouth.edu

I need to convert a postscript graphics file into a format that is readable
by CANVAS 2.1, i.e. PICT, PICT 2 or TIFF.  Anybody know of such a utility?

Thanks
Johan

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From: cht@athena.mit.edu (Chester Liu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: have you used AnimationWorks?
Date: 8 Apr 92 21:43:44 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology


	I'm considering animation programs to make short
clips.  AnimationWorks won an Editor's Choice award, but none
of the mail-order companies offer money-back guarantee on it.

	If you have used this program, can you describe it and
its strengths and weaknesses?  How about in comparison to
MacroMind Director?

thanks!
Chester Liu


--
His Royal Highness <cht@athena.mit.edu>
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From: jpons@vax.clarku.edu
Subject: Windows 3.1 and DOS 5.0 on SoftAT 2.51
Organization: Clark University
Date: 14 APR 92 17:37:46 GMT

Hello,

        For reasons that would take WAY too much bandwidth to explain I need
to run Windows 3.1 on my Mac IIci. I installed SoftAT 2.51 on my Mac (no
problem) and then Installed DOS 5.00 (no problem), When I type MEM the system tells me I have 655360 total and available conventional memory,
587168 largest executable program size and 1048576 total and free EMS memory.
When I try to install WIN 3.1 by selecting drive a: and typing setup I get
an error message from SoftAT saying "SoftAT does not support more than 1 MB
of memory. and I am given two options 'Quit' or 'Reset'. Does this mean I
will not be able to run WIN 3.1 on my Mac? is there a way around this?
Please I am desperate, I need to install this ASAP, Please send me
E-Mail and I will post here if there is enought interest!

Thanks a bunch

Juan

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From: gapdrr@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (Daniel R T Rothman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Microsoft and Hierarchical Menus
Keywords: microsoft hierarchical menu word 5.0 excel 3.0
Date: 15 Apr 92 15:30:49 GMT
Organization: Georgia State University

scott@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu (Scott Bronson) writes:

>Has anyone else noticed that Word 5.0 and Excel 3.0 both totally
>lack hierarchical menus?  Is this a conscious decision on Microsoft's
>part, or did it just happen that way?

>I noticed because there are a few aspects of both programs user
>interfaces that could be greatly enhanced by a hierarchical menu.
>For instance, the alignment dialog in Excel 3.0 could be turned
>into a hierarchical menu with virtually no effort.  Also, the recent
>files in both the Word and Excel File menus could be releagted
>to a hierarchical menu, thus allowing the number of files remembered
>to reach a useful length.  

>Did Microsoft's shunning hierarchical menus come as a result of
>Windows not having an equivalent (does it?  I don't know).  Any
>ideas?

heresay evidence: excel and word (dos/windows and mac) are compiled on a 
    third platform (i don't know what, but would guess probably a vax)
    FROM THE SAME SOURCE. 

warning: this is many generations old in the grapvine, and may be suffering due
to transmission noise.


daniel rothman                        | gapdrr@gsusgi2.gsu.edu  Internet
computer specialist - GAP             | gapdrr%gsusgi2@gsuvm1   Bitnet
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From: drz@po.CWRU.Edu (David R. Zinkin)
Subject: Re: DosMounter or AccessPC???
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 92 02:43:07 GMT


In a previous message, tobias@athena.mit.edu (John W Tobias) says:

>I have spoken a number of times to the Tech Support people at Dayna
>(the company that produces DOS mounter) and they have said that there
>are no plans as yet (4/9/92) to make DOS mounter v.3.0.1 compatible with
>System 7 tuneup.  It works in the untuned version.

Well, what did you expect?  It's not as if Tune-Up is something
*important*, right?  :-) :-)

>If Insignia's product is compatible with tuneup, then the choice is clear.
>The Dayna people bordered on rude when I pointed out the problem.

No "if" here; I've been using AccessPC 1.2 with TuneUp 1.0 -- and later
1.1 -- with no problems whatsoever.  And Insignia's tech support group
is first-rate.

>John Tobias
>tobias@athena.mit.edu

 -- Dave Zinkin

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Subject: Illus 3.0 on SE 30
From: jacobs@cerritos.edu
Date: 7 Apr 92 21:10:37 PDT
Organization: Cerritos College, Norwalk CA

I own a Mac SE 30 and am having trouble running Adobe Illus 3.0 on my system.
The program will start up but will not let me create or open a file. The error
message says that Either I am out of memory or have a missing resource. The
program is installed from origional disks and I have 4 mg ram. The only inits
are ATM and AfterDark. I am running system 6.0.7.
I have tried everthing I could think of,( reinstalling all software, etc.)

Help!!!!!!!!!!!

Jacobs@Cerritos.edu

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From: alex@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Alex Pournelle)
Subject: Re: Mac EPS ==> PC EPS?
Organization: College Park Software, Altadena, CA
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 23:21:33 GMT

alex@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Alex Pournelle) writes:
>We are having a real problem migrating Mac Illustrator 3.1 EPS files to
>the peecee.  I can get them to print in PageMaker Mac 4.0, Quark 3.1,
>Illustrator, but importing them to PM PC results in a gray box with text
>in it showing the filename, revision, etc.--clearly the header off the
>file.

We have now got it printing in PMPC4.0, because we saved it as a DOS
.EPS from within Illustrator.  It's much b i g g e r (3Mbytes instead of
1.4M) but it places and sizes.

>When brought into WP5.1 PC, the results are even more boring--a blank
>page.  Mind you, WP5.1 will pump the file (3000K) in, but nothing prints
>(and it takes forever, too!). 

This is still true.  And WPCorp. has been no help yet.

>Help!?  Anything appreciated; I have someone contacting Adobe.

Who said "it's not our problem" of course--did I expect different?

>This is (I'll say!) a learning experience, and I'll share...

	TNX,
		Alex
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From: werner@cs.utexas.edu (Werner Uhrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Autodoubler 1.0.6 (rascal&sumex)
Date: 9 Apr 1992 04:06:14 -0500
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

In <1992Apr9.002517.475@yvax.byu.edu> evensens@yvax.byu.edu writes:
|> If someone will tell me how to upload to sumex I'll send it over there so
|> everyone can get it.
>
>Thanks to Dave Faust who informed me of what I need to do all of you who have
>AutoDoubler will now be able to download the patch for 1.0.6 from rascal and
>sumex. Scott

	one should wait with such announcements until AFTER the file
	is available.  It saves us all the run-around of emailed
	queries of "where is it", "when", and similar (which makes
	being a volunteer archiver a pain in the butt unnecessarily);

	fyi, Scott sent the file, but it was corrupted.  We are trying
	to figure out where the "rat lies buried" ...
-- 
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From: howard@locus.com (Howard Moskovitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: CANVAS 3.0: object manager question
Date: 13 Apr 92 20:44:02 GMT
Organization: Locus Computing Corp.
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.0

>Another question: has anybody experienced unprecise
>drawing in CANVAS 3.0? Lines that are matching on 
>screen don't match on the printer, or I even had
>problems to have horizontal/vertical lines on screen,
>i.e. with the measurement-arrows.
>

I talked to Deneba about that and they said that was a known bug and that 
it was fixed in the latest poit release. You have to mail them your 
original program disks along with a filled out copy of the Disk 
Replacement form in your user's manual and ask for the latest release 
which they will send you (supposedly). I have also asked that they 
consider posting updaters to the net ala Suitcase.

Howard
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From: kanala@sc2a.unige.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Scientific graphing program
Date: 12 Apr 92 17:23:54 GMT
Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland

>>looking for a scientific graphing/charting program that would be a good
>>replacement for DeltaGraph (which I'm about ready to give up on). Something
>>with equivalent or better features, and less bugs is the idea. :-)
> 
> A replacement for DeltaGraph? Well, a blunt pencil would certainly be
> a big step forward.

Igor. If it still exists, it's the best graphing program available for Mac.
A little ad I got about one year ago (yes, they bothered to answer my mail):

From:   IN%"WAVEMETRICS@AppleLink.Apple.COM"
... [deleted] ...
Igor is unlike any of the graphing programs you mentionned.
  It is strictly for technical users.
  It handles large amounts of data very well.
  It has very powerful number crunching capability.
  It has a powerful macro language for automating tasks.
  It is on the complex side, most appreciated by "power users".

Cricket Graph. Computer Associates announced a new, much improved version
2.0 of Cricket Graph. I don't trust them, they are too much MS-DOS oriented.

Mathematica. It has beautiful graphics.
Statistica. The same. Both are so expensive and feature loaden it would
be money wasting to buy them just for graphing.

Hope this can help,

Roman Kanala, COMIN, University of Geneva, Switzerland, kanala@sc2a.unige.ch
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From: Timothy.Allen@dartmouth.edu (Timothy Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Image Processing Software
Date: 13 Apr 92 17:35:25 GMT
Reply-To: tim.allen@dartmouth.edu
Organization: Dept. of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

I am interested in learning about what Image Processing software
packages people are using for the analysis of multi-band data sets,
such as Landsat Imagery.  What are the major software packages in use? 
What are the capabilities of each package -- e.g. rectification,
classification, PC and IHS transformations, filtering, contrast
enhancement, overlays?  Is the software specifically designed for
remote-sensing images, medical images, or more generally for any kind
of multi-band images?  What are the hardware requirements? Any special
requirements for display systems?

I am particularly interested in any software for Macintosh platforms,
but would like to hear about packages that people are using on PCs and
UNIX workstations as well.  I am familiar with Terra-Mar's "MicroImage"
software, and have heard of "ERDAS" but know nothing about it.  I am
also familiar with some single-band image processing software such as
the excellent public-domain "NIH Image" program for the Macintosh.

I'll be glad to post a summary of the responses I receive.

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tim.allen@dartmouth.edu
Earth Science Department
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755
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From: miyazaki@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Takeshi Miyazaki)
Subject: Quill and MacWrite II document
Originator: news@ernie.Princeton.EDU
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 05:08:24 GMT


Quill 2.04 can open MacWrite II document. For some sense, it is better 
than MacWrite II itself for DarkSide Doc. Since it aligns the document
to fit to the window. 

Quill is in sumex-aim.stanford.edu info-mac/da, and it is free.  
It also open Word (up to 4.0), Nisus, MacWrite, WriteNow format. The
way it handle the pictures is not so elegant, though.


-- 
Takeshi Miyazaki (miyazaki@ee.princeton.edu)
From: roy@adeptsln.cts.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Claris bashing (and a bit of DeltaPoint bashing)(was: Misc Bashing)
Date: 16 Apr 92 07:38:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: adeptsln.1992Apr16.073805.2335
Reply-To: roy@adeptsln.cts.com
Organization: Adept Solutions

In article <1992Apr13.001051.2834@athena.mit.edu> dks@athena.mit.edu (dks)  
writes:
> In article <1992Apr12.203519.16037@m.cs.uiuc.edu> coolidge@cs.uiuc.edu  
writes:
> <<Random Bashing deleted>
> We're talking about a wholly owned Apple subsidiary here.  If I can read
> Tech Notes, so bloody well can they.  Not to mention the little detail
> that System 7 itself was slightly late so that there ought to have been
> ample time to put in all the features and bugs we were expecting.  Besides,
> if Claris doesn't showcase OS7 features, who do you think will?
> 
> 
> Dhanesh

We're also talking Tech Notes, not Ten Commandments (e.g. not written in  
stone). There are still System 7.0 features that are not 'per spec' as they  
were discussed at that fateful WWDC in 1989.  Many of the original 'features'  
were postponed until Pink. You probably would not have wanted to wait for  
MacDraw Pro to perfect the use of Line Layout Manager, since it was dropped  
until 7.1 or so.  The fact that 7.0 was late did not give us registered  
developers 'more time', it actually just kept us guessing a little longer if  
Apple had removed a parameter from an AppleEvent rountine, or some other such  
non-sense, so that our products would break the INSTANT 7.0 shipped. ;)

Believe it or not, there is not a direct mind link between Apple system  
software engineers and Claris developers.  Apple is a large corporation, with  
many different R&D departments. Communication breaks down.

As a Claris veteran (empl #173), I can say that there was NO special treatment,  
when Claris was a separate (??) company.  We were treated as fourth-class  
developers.  I had friends, with their OWN companies, who were getting seed  
machines / system software MONTHS before Claris did.

Just $.02 from someone who has done time in the big house. er. big wedge?
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From: iadmr@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: HyperCard for Educators
Date: 15 Apr 92 00:08:18 GMT
Reply-To: iadmr@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
Organization: Montana State University

I have had numerous requests for information regarding the HyperCard for
Educators stacks.  I have been telling most people to check with their local
apple dealer or local public school computer teacher.  It appears that the
local apple dealer is of little use here, but check with your local public
school teachers.

I looked at the credits to the stack and found little, except for the Northwest
Regional Educational Laboratory.  You might consider contacting them at this
address:

Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory
101 S. W. Main St., Suite 500
Portland, OR   97204

503-275-9597

Good Luck!

Mark...
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