HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: isler@gradient.cis.upenn.edu (Sylvia Isler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Editing screen snapshots (PICTS)
Date: 11 Oct 92 19:23:12 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania


Thanks to all who replied to my question about editing screen
snapshots.
Two ways of doing this were pointed out to me:

o Open the PICT using TeachText, select a rectangle, and copy it to the
document of your choice.

o Using SuperPaint you can select the PICT (after openning the file of
course) and choose 'Cut to Paint' from the Edit menu. This will turn
the PICT into a 'Paint' image. You can then edit this image with the
eraser tool or any other appropriate tool.

Again, thanks to all who replied.


Sylvia Isler
isler@gradient.cis.upenn.edu
Sylvia Isler
isler@gradient.cis
From: cohill@vtserf.cc.vt.edu (Andrew M. Cohill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Prograph 2.5 --> Any Good?
Date: 9 Oct 92 13:43:20 GMT
Organization: Fire in the Mountain

We're using Prograph to develop the Mac clients for our 30,000 campus
wide information system.  We are extremely happy with it so far,
although we have only been using it for six months.  Technical support
is superb, and they have a full set of development tools, including an
object database, C and Pascal primitives, Comm Toolbox support,
interface editors, a completely visual programming interface, and much
more.  The recent MacUser review did not do it justice;  you have to use
it for a while to appreciate it.

Andrew Cohill
Eris Project Leader

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: bernardo@erevax.bitnet (Marcelino Bernardo)
Subject: Re: I hate fonts
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: Exxon Research & Engineering, Co.
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 15:02:23 GMT

In article <1992Oct14.130253.9688@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>,
tobridg@scivax.lerc.nasa.gov (Dr. James Bridges) wrote:
> .....
> problem only affects Illustrator. 32bit on or off. Finally, just to make life 
> interesting, whenever you try to enter text, the shift key will play you cute 
> noises, like some video game. Beep, beep, briiip!
> 
> Does this look familiar to anyone? Or am I beset by my own personal demons?
> 

Don't worry.  This sounds like Easy Access.  This is a feature for
differently-abled (PC way of saying handicapped) people.  I never tried to
figure this one out.  I just toss the control panel to the trash everytime
I install the system.

Marcelino Bernardo
bernardo@erevax.bitnet
*These opinions are my own*
From: pollard@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu (Tom Pollard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Auto Doubler 2.0 crash-savings button
Date: 16 Oct 92 17:03:24 GMT
Organization: Center for Biomolecular Simulation, Department of Chemistry,
	Columbia University

> Bruce.Giuriceo@p4.f204.n2603.z1.ieee.org (Bruce Giuriceo) writes:
> 
>  lind@ils.nwu.edu wrote 

>  lu> Has anyone else had AD 2.0 crash consistently when you hit the savings
>  lu> button.  It actually bounces the entire finder.
>  lu> 
>  lu> My config is:  Mac IIci, 7.01 w/ tuner 1.1.1, with a over a dozen cp's
>  lu> and extensions. Is this a known problem?
> 
>Yes, me too, same configuration with 32bit addr-on an 5 meg of virtual memory.
>--Bruce--
>--  
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Someone traced this back to a conflict between AutoDoubler and the 
SpeedyFinder7 1.5.3 init.  The only response from the author of the latter
has been that he doesn't use AutoDoubler and therefore can't evaluate
the conflict himself.  The CopyDoubler init that comes with AutoDoubler 2.0
pretty much duplicates the "Speed" features of SpeedyFinder, in any case,
so I'm dropping using SpeedyFinder until the conflict is resolved.

Tom
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From: Bill Stearns <whs1@cornell.edu>
Subject: Need to ged rid of AD password.
X-Xxdate: Wed, 14 Oct 92 14: 54:21 GMT
Nntp-Posting-User: whs1@cornell.edu
Organization: Cornell University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d7
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 13:51:00 GMT

How can I delete the old password in After Dark when someone has
forgotten it?
- Bill Stearns
   Director, Cornell Chemistry Research Computer Facility
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: martin@cs.curtin.edu.au (Martin Dougiamas)
Subject: WANTED: NumberCrunch II maths software
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 08:06:21 GMT

G'day.

I have version 1.41 of the NumberCrunch DA by Jim Mahoney,
dated October 1990, which allows algebraic mathematics and
function graphing.  In the docs he mentions that a vastly
improved version with matrix operations etc called
NumberCrunch II is almost ready.  

Has anyone seen this product?  Is there a demo somewhere?
Is there some other free or shareware software that can 
do this sort of thing?

Martin
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From: Bruce.Hoult@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Subject: Re: UUPC NEWS unbatcher
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 15:58:57 GMT
Keywords: UUPC NEWS unbatcher

In article <1992Oct14.175803.9967@ntg.com> dplatt@ntg.com (Dave Platt) writes:
>
> >                        BTW MacCompress won't work because there is a text
> >string at the start of each file which MacCompress complains about. I could edit
> >each file but this could prove to be a right royal pain in the rear.
> 
> Yup.  And, you'd probably find that there are a whole bunch of separate
> articles in each "rnews" file - that's the way the batcher works.

Right, each article starts with something like "#! rnews 1261", but that's
something that's really easy to deal with since the number is the
number of bytes in the article.

A trivial little MPW script like this...

set msgNum 1
target news
find \8
 
loop
   find /#! rnews / || break
   find /[0-9]+/
   set nChars `catenate news.\6`
   find /\8/:\6!{nChars}
 
   catenate news.\6 >"msg #{msgNum}"
 
   evaluate msgNum += 1
end

... is all it takes to split the messages out into seperate files
called "msg #1" etc.  Adding detection of the Newsgroups: line and
putting the file in the appropriate place doesn't take much more.

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From: rpoldrac@s.psych.uiuc.edu (Russ Poldrack)
Subject: Looking for Swivel 3D images
Organization: UIUC Department of Psychology
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 00:45:59 GMT

We are interested in using Swivel 3D to construct and manipulate
scenes.  Are there any commercially available or shareware sets of
images for this program?

Russ Poldrack
rpoldrac@psych.uiuc.edu
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.apps:15569 comp.text.tex:12129
From: robg@wsinti03.info.win.tue.nl (Rob Gerth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Textures (was Re: LaTeX for the Mac)
Date: 12 Oct 92 12:55:44 GMT
Reply-To: robg@info.win.tue.nl
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands

In article <1992Oct12.043616.2996@reed.edu> barry@reed.edu (Barry Smith) writes:

  [stuff deleted]
  talking about the TeXtures editor.....
>I'd describe it myself as "pretty good vanilla", and repeat
>that we have a current, long-term project to improve it, so
>now is a good time to tell us what, specifically, makes a
>good editor to you.
>
Well, since you asked.....

TeXtures is an integrated package right?
So I'd expect an editor to be knowledgable about TeX and, more importantly,
about its major formats (LaTeX, AmsTeX, etc).

When I use LaTeX, I expect the editor to know about \sections, \subsections,
\paragraphs, lists, etc. I wan't to be able to see the section structure,
to easily skip to a \susbsubsection.  When I enter an itemize, I expect it
to be automatically closed with an \end{itemize}, I expect the cursor to be
at the first \item.

Better, yet: I'd like to have style sheet for environments, style parameters
etc.  I don't want to hunt in the LaTeX manual for the precise way to change
the \leftmargin in a list environement. I want to be able to open a list style
sheet and set all options and parameters that I need plus I want easy and
quick access to an explanation of such options and parameters.
I think you get the idea.

Now for the difficult part: None of this should be hardwired into TeXtures,
because you want it to adapt to different formats.
Such style sheets should be user definable and *easily* so! This means that 
I can define which parameters and options can be set and associate explanatory
text with these; and it means that I can define how this translates into
TeX macros.
Likewise, the global structure of a LaTeX text---\sections, \paragraphs, etc---
doesn't make sense for other macro packages. This, too, must be easily
configurable. I guess, the straightforward way is to tie this to style sheets:
the editor knows about objects that are defined/associated with style sheets.

As for the lower level editing primitives, the shareware editor Alpha is
very nice. I like  its configurability and the regular expression search and
change. But, please: allow such searches to be restricted to a text range
(this is unfortunately not implemented in Alpha).

Don't bother with fancy formulae editors: people who want them can already get
them; personally, I think its a waist of time.
Do include a graphical picture editor! Take a look at the shareware Unix
Xfig/TransFig package.


Now that would be what I call an integrated editor.
Rob

>
>Barry Smith, Blue Sky Research
>barry@reed.edu


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From: svarey@muppet.bt.co.uk (Stephen Varey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: MPW C / SADE source debugging problem
Date: 12 Oct 92 13:39:12 GMT
Reply-To: svarey@muppet.bt.co.uk
Organization: British Telecom

Please can anyone tell my when I compile C source with -sym full and link with -sym full I am unable to step at source level. I can only view machine code. Yes I have set the source level debugging option on. I am using Zortech C/C++ compile for MPW.



Thanks in anticipation

Stephen
From: jon@claris.com (Jon Thatcher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: StyleWriter Paper?
Date: 9 Oct 92 00:15:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: claris.15290
Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara CA

>>> artis@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu (David A. Artis) writes:
>>> 
>>>>I'm looking for recommendations on what kind of paper works best on the 
>>>>StyleWriter...

1k1mgm@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Christopher Gunn) writes:

>I've had good luck with Hammermill 'Laser Print,' which costs $11.45
>postpaid per ream (quan.1) from a place called Queblo (800-523-9080).
>Extra white, very smooth surface.  If there's a problem with it, it
>may be that is tends to curl a little more than ordinary paper, but
>I haven't tested this rigorously.  Price beats the hell out of the
>'premium' laser papers I've seen in the stores in 80-100 sheet
>packages, and it's probably pretty much the same stuff.

>Christopher Gunn	Molecular Graphics and Modeling Lab
>SPAN--KUPHSX::GUNN	Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Malott Hall
>913-864-4428 or -4495	University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS  66045

And mworley@mathcs.emory.edu (Meg Worley) writes:

>I too had to experiment before I found a paper that got along
>with my Stylewriter, but Office Depot carries it for $3-something
>a ream:  Hammermill, Savings/Recycled (50% recycled, 10% postconsumer),
>long grain, works like a charm.

>Rage away,
>meg
>--
> Meg Worley                            Internet:  mworley@mathcs.emory.edu

I was getting low on StyleWriter paper, so I experimented...

At Office Depot last night, Hammermill Laser Print was $5.95/ream and 
Hammermill Savings/DP Recycled was $3.91/ream.

IMHO, the Recycled paper is MUCH better than the Laser Print for the 
StyleWriter.  The Laser Print paper is so slick that the ink seems to 
splatter against the paper, making characters look quite fuzzy.  The 
black bars of the StyleWriter test page look grey on the Laser Print 
paper when compared to those on the Recycled paper.

In fact, print on the Recycled paper looks better than on the 25% 
cotton bond I was using, probably because the fibers aren't as long.
However, the Recycled paper is not as white as the bond, and is
definitely not the bright white of the Laser Print.  The Recycled
paper does have a few tiny non-white fibers visible in each page.

I'll be giving the Laser Print paper to a friend with a LaserWriter,
and using the Savings/DP Recycled paper for my StyleWriter from now on.

Thanks, folks!
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Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.apps:15506 comp.sys.mac.hardware:18749
From: youyx@sage.cc.purdue.edu (young)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: help/ Jasmine HD
Keywords: reformatting
Date: 9 Oct 92 20:25:10 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Distribution: na
Organization: Purdue University

I have Jasmine 40 meg HD and would like to reformat it so that I can
use mac system 7.0.1.  I found out that my Jasmine drive software is
outdated and need a driveware to reformat it.  Where can I find a 
software that can successfully format Jasmine HD?  Will La Cie's
Silverlining format Jasmine HD?  I will appreciate any help you may
offer.  Thanks.

Young
yyj@sonata.cc.purdue.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Andreas Wuertz <wuertz@tik.ethz.ch>
Subject: Re: Which Word Processor?
Organization: Federal Institute of Technology
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 10:48:37 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.151305.19892@news.cs.brandeis.edu> Sod the proles!,
tabron@binah.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
>>> I am looking into purchasing a new Word Processor for my Mac.  I have
used
>>> MS Word 4.0 and am not thrilled with it.  I tested out MacWrite II for
>>> a few hours, and I'm not all that impressed with that either.  

I'm not thrilled with Word, either. I'm using Word 5.0 and still think
it's a pain to use. It CAN do nearly everything. The problem is HOW it
does things and HOW you invoke functions (User Interface). Typical remark
of a Word user: "I know I did it before, but how did I do it??". 

For home use I prefer MacWrite II. It's not that feature-ladden, but it's
enough for most of my home purposes, and I'm still willing to give
MacWrite Pro a chance. FullWrite is quite slow, a memory greeder and not
too stable (at least what's MY experience). WriteNow is quick and easy to
use. But I haven't done heavy duty work with it/don't know it's
limitations.

Andy (wuertz@tik.ethz.ch)

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: nicky@apple.com (Nick Pilch)
Subject: Re: MPW C / SADE source debugging problem
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 02:28:33 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps

In article <1992Oct12.133912.8975@muppet.bt.co.uk>, svarey@muppet.bt.co.uk
(Stephen Varey) wrote:
> 
> Please can anyone tell my when I compile C source with -sym full and link with -sym full I am unable to step at source level. I can only view machine code. Yes I have set the source level debugging option on. I am using Zortech C/C++ compile for MPW.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks in anticipation
> 
> Stephen

It would be better to post this message in comp.sys.mac.programmer. In any
case, I don't think Zortech C++ supports debugger symbol generation.

Nick Pilch
nicky@apple.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Distribution: world
From: Bob_Grahame_-_Admin.@edgeway.wimsey.bc.ca
Organization: EdgeWays! InfoLink - A FirstClass GUI BBS - "The Edge of Communications and GateWays to the World." North Vancouver, BC Canada
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 20:14:11 PST
Subject: Re: Converting postscript file to MacPaint, GIF or TIFF

MB> Is there a utility to convert a postscript file to MacPaint file,
MB> GIF, or TIFF?

Try eps -> PICT. I think it should do the trick.

See Ya!

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From: willg@cix.compulink.co.uk (William Gallagher)
Subject: Re: which word processor?
Reply-To: willg@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 16:09:20 +0000

In article <1992Oct01.175051.118878@zeus.calpoly.edu> 
rcarr@zeus.calpoly.edu (R:
>I am looking into purchasing a new Word Processor for my 
Mac.  I have used
>MS Word 4.0 and am not thrilled with it.  I tested out 
MacWrite II for
>a few hours, and I'm not all that impressed with that either.
>
>Can anyone tell me about FullWrite?  or WriteNow?
>Also, I have been browsing at Claris Works (which I can 
purchase in the
>University bookstore for $119).

Don't touch FullWrite unless you have to.  Looks very good at 
first but then you start hitting problems: headers and footers and 
so on are shown in the text as tiny block icons placed in a 
special margin and whilst in theory this is a good way to have 
headers inserted where you want and be able to see both where 
they are and yet not have your text disrupted, it fails in
practice.  
Any header can affect the entire document so you end up slowly 
scrolling through everything looking for the tiny box at the side.  

Also, its on the slow side and can have problems with large files: 
when I tried to use it for a comparative review of indexing 
features it wouldn't even open my test document.  It claimed 
that there was not enough memory to open it, and that 
document was 180k of ASCII and I was trying it out on a 
colleague's IIci with 8Mb of RAM with nothing but FullWrite 
running.

As to the others you mention, I've never used WriteNow so can't 
comment. ClarisWorks is said to be good, and in the short time 
I've played with it I'd generally agree.  Do you want the other 
parts of ClarisWorks?  Lastly of that set, I hate and loath 
Microsoft Word, but I think you should try version 5.0: I believe 
its slower than 4.0 but friends who like it, like it a lot.

Have you considered WordPerfect or Nisus?  Nisus is quirky but 
very powerful, and again those people who like it are very keen.

I've used WordPerfect 2.1 a great deal for writing features 
(which end up as raw copy so there is no layout) and technical 
manuals (in my situation the exact opposite with a great deal of 
graphics and copysetting as well as writing).  I'm a journalist so 
I'm hopping between machines and word processors as I move 
between publications and so forth, but of all of the dozen or 
more I've used professionally WordPerfect 2.1 for Macintosh has 
been the best for the way I work and is one reason that I'm 
planning to get a Macintosh of my own.

To end, one problem with WordPerfect and Nisus is that they are 
expensive.  If you are able to try out the packages and cost is 
absolutely vital, there are the cut down versions that you could 
look at: LetterPerfect 2.1 and Nisus Compact.

Hope this helps,

William



Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: ccjal@cc.newcastle.edu.au (John A Lambert)
Subject: Re: Smart Alarms 
Organization: University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 23:51:53 GMT

In article <1992Oct16.111751.1@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>, psyc285@csc.canterbury.ac.nz writes:
> For a long time I have had an illicit copy of Smart Alarms. It has been one of
> the most useful programs ever, and now I would like to go legit, but canUt
> locate a new copy to buy. The Get info section is practically useless it simply
> says copyright 1990 John R. McMullen.
> 
> If anyone knows where I can get hold of a legitimate copy, newer than 1990
> preferably, or the name of the company which distributes it, I would be very
> grateful.
> 
> I suppose there might be another program around thats as good, but I have used
> smart alarms for so long it has become part of my day.
> 
> ==== Ijan Beveridge Animal Psychologist, Department of Psychology ====
>                          University of Canterbury
>                               CHRISTCHURCH
>                               NEW ZEALAND
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Try

Jam Software Pty Ltd
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From: winer@husc10.harvard.edu (Adam Winer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Postscript reader?
Date: 17 Oct 92 04:07:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc10.winer.719294877

What programs could I use to take a file in postscript format and
display it on the screen?  The file I have seems to indicate that
it's output from MS Word, but I can't figure out anything to do
in MS Word to interpret this kind of file.

Thanks,
Adam Winer
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From: antjcb@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (J.C.Burns)
Subject: OED on CD-ROM
Organization: Georgia State University
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 12:57:59 GMT


Does anyone know when the Oxford English Dictionary will be available
in Macintosh-readable CD-ROM format? I thought I heard something
about late this year, since the PC version is allegedly already
available. 
And while I'm asking, are there any Kodak PhotoCD compatible CD-ROM
drives out there (that is, drive which support multiple 'sessions.')?

--jcburns
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps