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From: mem10@po.CWRU.Edu (Milton E. Moskowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: PageMaker 4.2a?
Date: 8 Nov 1992 20:01:49 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: mem10@po.CWRU.Edu (Milton E. Moskowitz)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


Greets!
	Got a question -- I just saw a post with "PageMaker 4.2a" in the
title -- is there an updater to bring 4.2 up to 4.2a, or does it have to be
ordered from Aldus?  Thanx much!
-- 
Milton E. Moskowitz         mem10@po.CWRU.edu       IRC Operator Warlock
"We close our eyes and the World has turned around again.  We close our
 eyes and dream and another Year has come and gone" -Boingo
"Even Paranoids have enemies" -John Hale  "Oh Great Wizard..." -Michelson
From: macdevil@netlink.cts.com (Leonard Cayetano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: SpaceSaver or AutoDoubler?
Date: 6 Nov 92 04:41:56 GMT
Organization: NetLink Online Communications, San Diego CA

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

> > 
> > AutoDoubler has always allowed you to specify a list of files (or folders)
> > that you don't want to have compressed.  Isn't that, in essence, what you
> > want?
> 
> 	No.  While that may be logically equivalent, it is not interface 
> equivalent.  First, I want the default to be no compression.  Secondly I want
> simple menu choice to select a file for compression or no compression.  I don
> want to have to edit a list of file names in a CDEV.  
> And finally I want my choice for a given file to stay with the file 
> whether I edit it, move it, or rename it.
> 
> --Elliotte

Under the CDEV Spacesaver, you are given the option of compression only 
those files with an appropriate Finder LABEL.  From what I understand 
from your message, and the one preceding it, that is what you are looking 
for.
 
Leo.

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From: brownc@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Christopher C. Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: STN editor for the MAC wanted
Date: 9 Nov 92 13:24:29 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester

Does anyone know if there is a shareware/freeware/demo STN (State Transition Network)
editor anywhere in an FTP archive?

- Chris Brown
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: liu@cerl.uiuc.edu (Albert Liu)
Subject: Re: Mac vs. IBM & quality of writing--Ref?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 20:30:21 GMT

The article is titled "Student Writing:  Can the Machine Maim the
Message?" published in the January, 1990 issue of Academic Computing.

The author was an assistant director of the writing program in the
English department at the University of Delaware.  (Unfortunately, I
don't have the name!)

It was not an experiment.  It was more of an observation.  There
was a writing course with IBM and Mac sections.  This was in the fall of
1988.

The most confounding factor in this "observation" is the self-selection
of the subjects.  There was little indication of the students' backgrounds.

This is exactly the type of observation that should lead to more
rigorous studies.

Albert
liu@cerl.uiuc.edu

In article <1992Nov11.162551.5080@gvl.unisys.com> dave@prc.unisys.com (David Lee Matuszek) writes:
>
>>In article <SRO.92Nov9040421@media-lab.media.mit.edu>, sro@media.mit.edu
>>(Shawn O'Donnell) wrote:
>>>
>>> I heard of a study a couple of years ago--at the University of Delaware,
>>> I think--according to which students who used (DOS) IBM PCs wrote better
>>> papers than students who used a Macintosh.  (The students using the Mac
>>> allegedly spent all their time fiddling with fonts and formatting instead
>>> of worrying about what they were saying.  Since it was so hard to do
>>> formatting on old DOS PCs, the students using the IBMs spent all their
>>> time thinking about the writing assignment.  Or so the story goes.)
>>>
>>> Does anyone know of a reference for this study?
>
>Sorry I don't have a reference, but I can confirm that this was a REAL
>article in a REAL educational journal.  It recorded the personal
>opinion of one teacher in (I think) one writing class.  It was not a
>"study" in any sense, and IMHO is an indication of the sorry state of
>American education that something of this quality was printed.  I saw
>it and promptly forgot it, not realizing that it would attain the
>status of an urban legend.

--
Albert Liu
liu@cerl.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: hacker@access.digex.com (Dark Hacker)
Subject: Re: How does Autodoubler perform on a Powerbook?
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 14:47:33 GMT

In article <parkyn.721066714@sfu.ca> parkyn@fraser.sfu.ca (Dale Parkyn) writes:
>
>AD does work well and increased effective size of the 40MB HD to ~55MB.

Gripe here about Autodoubler... 55 megabytes is *NOT* what I call "double"
the hardware capacity of a 40 megabyte drive.  I would expect a LOT more
compresion out of AD than ... what is that about 25%?

- Hacker
-- 
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Phone: (703) 356-6514    Internet: hacker@black-silicon.mclean.va.us

"I am the very instantiation of object oriented evil!"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: samr@saipan.wri.com (Sam Roseman)
Subject: Re: Possible Bug in 7.1
Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 19:19:01 GMT

alan@pacdata.uucp (Alan McLachlan) writes:

>In article <1992Nov9.095418.2419@vax1.mankato.msus.edu> t303grey@vax1.mankato.msus.edu writes:
>>  Does anybody know if 7.1 has any bugs in Comm. toobox? I tried to use Zmodem
>>in MicroPhone II 4.0 but couldn't get it to work correctly. Error happens most
>>frequnetly when Now Utility (NowMenu) is loaded but it happens even on bare 7.1
>>
>>  I down graded my system to 7.0.1/1.1.1 and MP2 works like a charm.
>>
>>  Any information regaring this issue is appriciated.
>>
>>                                                DevilCat

>I had a similar situation happen, though thought it was my system. Something
>like an error -127 if my memory is good... I'm using MPII 3.0 so I wonder
>the same thing if its the comm toolbox....

i am experiencing the same problem. I think the relevant apps are
use zterm, and NowMenus, and more disk space.

error -127 doesnt let you open up any other windows - the only thing
to do is reboot. how annoying!

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: lester@naomi.b23b.ingr.com (Les Bartel)
Subject: Word processor that does math formulas
Reply-To: lester@naomi.b23b.ingr.com
Organization: Intergraph Corporation
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 13:57:02 GMT

I am in need of a cheap word processor that will allow me to write
fairly complex mathematical formulas (not solve them).  What are my
options.  I find that creating the formula in Mac Draw and pasting
them into the word processor document to be too cumbersome.  What
are my options?  I am running on a 1 Meg MacPlus with a hard disk.

 - les

-- 
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Intergraph Corporation		Huntsville, AL
Electronics Division		(205) 730-8537

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Faking a coprocessor?
From: zaphod@vax2.winona.msus.edu (Gregory Talmo)
Date: 12 Nov 92 14:38:33 -0600
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Distribution: world
Organization: Winona State Academic Computing

In article <1dpceaINNho9@sipi.usc.edu>, kuznia@sipi.usc.edu (Charles
Kuznia) wrote:
> 
> Can a powerbook 160 fake a software program into believing it has a
> math coprocessor?
> 
> I would like to run Matlab, but Matlab v3.5 requires a math
> coprocessor.  I don't need heavy number crunching or speed, I just
> want to set-up data graphs for inclusion in figures.

  I don't knw where it came from, but there is an init called PeasudoFPU
that will trick your FPUless Mac into thinking it has one, but I knwo not
where to get a copy of it.  But you could try an Archie search for
"PesudoFPU," for I know that that is the title of the program.

- Greg Talmo  (zaphod@vax2.winona.msus.edu)
                                   |The opinions expressed above are my
own,
 "A censor is a man who knows more |and do not necessarily reflect the
 than he thinks you ought to."     |opinions, tastes, or policies of Winona
                 - Granville Hicks |State University, its faculty, staff or
                                   |students.
From: dcheenne@unlinfo.unl.edu (Dominique J. Cheenne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: QuickBasic 1.0 libraries
Date: 13 Nov 1992 22:00:37 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln	
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: unlinfo.unl.edu
Keywords: basic

I am currently trying to locate a source of scientific libraries for
use with QuickBasic 1.0 on the Mac. I am looking mostly for various
integration routines and transforms.

Any ideas? Thanks!

Dominique J. Cheenne
dcheenne@unlinfo.unl.edu
From: das@eplunix.UUCP (David Steffens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Talking Moose includes Sys7 compatible Macintalk?
Date: 4 Nov 92 16:11:50 GMT
Organization: Eaton-Peabody Lab, Boston, MA

In article <1992Nov02.232709.24329@mixcom.com>,
John.Hirsch@mixcom.mixcom.com (John.Hirsch) writes:
>... I don't know of any other way to get Macintalk these days.

Try ftp.apple.com.  A version for Sys7 is in /dts/mac/hacks, I think.
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: jabba@deathstar.Stanford.EDU (Richard Charles Graves)
Subject: Re: Free Software!
Organization: Residential Computing, Stanford University
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 23:47:33 GMT

mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner) writes:
>mwojcik@mail.sas.upenn.edu (Michael Wojcik) wrote:
>>Even more stupid, Apple ships machines to end users WITH
>> NO SYSTEM DISKS!
>> Anyway, the General Control Panel of my friends System 7.1 just died. With
>> no system disks to work from, he's in trouble. What I need is some kind
>> soul who recently bought a Mac with system 7.1 to E Mail me a copy of the
>> Sys 7.1 General Control Panel.

>A note for anyone who owns a Performa or who has a friend who ows one.
>Apple provides a backup application with the Performa, and the
>documentation with the machines say to backup the hard disk first thing,
>and to make regular backups.
_Maybe_. What if the software was corrupted out of the box? In my experience,
this happens on at least one file on up to 5% of the drives preinstalled by
Apple or NeXT. Considering shipping, handling, maybe different orientations,
humidities, etc. between the factory and the consumer, this is pretty good.
>If Michael's friend had backed up the hard disk, he would have been able to
>recover the control panel from the backup set.
What happens if the hard disk crashes? If the System or Finder get corrupted
and you need to reinstall the system from scratch? I hope they at least get
a boot disk with Disk First Aid on it.
I don't know exactly what Apple's policy or reasoning is, but any policy that
would lead to someone begging for a minor piece of system software or taking
their computer in for warranty service for a trivial software problem seems
pretty dumb.
Perhaps better advice for Performa owners: buy the System 7.1 update kit.
$30 for system disks is a lot, but it's worth a little peace of mind. I'd
feel more confident installing system software from master disks than
installing modified second-generation backups.
--
|Rich Graves, Stanfd Res Affairs Mac Tech, and Occasional Senior, Poli Sci|
|jabba@deathstar.stanford.edu    319 Slavianskii Dom        (415) 497-4948|
|                   WHAT'S LOVE BUT A SECOND HAND EMOTION                 |
From: ra_novy@dal.mobil.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Word: Total Page Count in Header/Footer
Date: 6 Nov 92 14:38:16 GMT
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

I've seen a couple of questions asking how to put a dynamic total page count in
a header or footer.  I found two somewhat-dynamic ways to do this described in
the August 1992 issue of Inside Word, which is published monthly by The Cobb
Group ($59/yr in the USA, $79/yr elsewhere).  Their publication provides a
whole bunch of tricks and tips, many of which I've found useful.  [A truthful
plug that assuages feelings of possibly treading on their copyright by
summarizing this tip on the net.]

Here are the two methods.  Neither is fully dynamic.  The first requires the
user to specify the total page count in a SET instruction, and the second
requires that the document be closed and re-opened if the total page count has
changed.

A. Use of Print Merge

1. Define with a SET instruction at the beginning of the document a variable
whose value is the total page count.

2. Use this variable's name in the header or footer. The name must be enclosed
in the Print Merge characters, i.e. <<name>>.

3. Move to the end of the document and Repaginate.  Note the number of the last
page and enter it in the SET instruction.

3. Use Print Merge to print the document.

So this way requires some moving about, but there are simple keystrokes to move
to the very start or very end of a document.

I wouldn't be able to use this way in documents that have figures embedded in
them, however.  In these docs, I use INCLUDE instructions to read in plots, and
the post-merge document has more pages than the pre-merge doc.  Seems I would
have to do two successive merges: one to get a version with all of the figures
included and then one to set the total page count in the headers and footers. 
The next method is an alternative.

B. Use of Paste Special (requires Word 5.x)

1. Scroll to the last page and Repaginate.  Enter a dynamic page number from
the Glossary at any place on the last page.  Format it as hidden text if you
don't want this number to actually appear there.

2. Copy that page number and open the header or footer.  To put the total page
count there, choose Paste Special..., then Picture, then Paste Link.

The drawback here is that the total page count is updated only when the
document is opened.  So if you suspect the number has changed, you must save
the document and re-open it.

Bob Novy
ra_novy@dal.mobil.com
Dallas, TX

Now is the time for all good men to emigrate.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: hcls7@jetson.uh.edu (Marino, Nancy F.)
Subject: Norton Backup does eat Chicago
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 01:05:00 GMT



	The Norton Backup only appends changes made in files. In no time, you
can accumulate scads of back-up disks. Since I like Norton Utilities in
general, I have decided to get around this problem by making a complete, fresh
back-up each time. This is, of course, time-consuming, and may not be
desireable if you have a lot to back up.
	Maybe Nprton will improve this in a future version.
From: black@mpd.tandem.com (David C. Black)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Bug in SuperBoomerang ?
Keywords: SuperBoomerang Version3.0.2 BBEdit CapitalLetters
Date: 9 Nov 92 12:02:08 GMT
Reply-To: black@io.UUCP (David C. Black)
Organization: /etc/organization

In article <walkerj.720937220@milo.math.scarolina.edu> 
walkerj@math.scarolina.edu (Jim Walker) writes:

>In <roh.720715475@gmd.de> roh@gmd.de (Peter Rohleder) writes:
>
>>We have not yet received any information from the company producing
>>NowUtilities about the availability of an upgraded Version of
>>NowUtilities. Are the NowUtilities or SuperBoomerang 4.0 yet available
>>and does anybody know the price of an Upgrade to Version 4.0.
>
>Yes, in fact version 4.0.1 is now available.  I don't remember the price.

Call Now-Software 503/274-2800 (nowsoftware@applelink.apple.com).  I think
if you reference an existing NU owner before November 31st, you can get a 
discounted price (? $59 +/- $10).

The latest update (4.0.1) still has some bugs (being worked), but is MUCH
more stable than 4.0.  You can get the 4.0->4.0.1 updater from SUMEX.

TIP: SuperBoomerang still has "groups", but you need to hold down the 
	 CMD-OPT-SHFT keys to access their definitions in the control panel.

>>Perhaps anybody has an e-mail address of this company?
>
>Try now@aol.com.
>--
>
> -- Jim Walker  USC Dept. of Math.  walkerj@math.scarolina.edu

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: 9999sc01@uhdvx3.dt.uh.edu (Alexandre Khalil)
Subject: TextEdit, International Scripts and others....
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41A   
Organization: University of Houston-Downtown
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 16:08:00 GMT

  Hello, I am looking for a wordprocessor that, like TeachText, could be used
under Arabic/Hebrew System 6/7.

  I have been told that the reason why regular wordprocessors fail to pass 
the international scripts tests is that they bypass TextEdit to handle
text management more efficiently:

  - Is there a wordprocessor that is more elaborate than TeachText ( font 
and styles handling, formatting ) but still uses TextEdit ?

alex khalil
alex@dt.uh.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Michael F. Kamprath <kamprath@space-grant.sprl.umich.edu>
Subject: Re: ** SELECTING MAIL PROGRAMS?? **
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 21:38:08 EST
Organization: University of Michigan, Aerospace Engineering
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
X-Xxdate: Fri, 13 Nov 92 03:38:37 GMT

In article <cfarmer-061192104325@mac20-152.ncsa.uiuc.edu> Chuck Farmer, cfarmer@ncsa.uiuc.edu
writes:
>> Comming the other way is just a simple.  The QM user uses an internet style
>> address in addressing the message.  The gateway knows to put it out the
>> SMTP gateway.  The gatway uuencodes any attachments.  The latest version of
>> Eudora (1.3b6) has a uudecoder built-in.
>
>I would also like to endorse Eudora. Most of our center, the university and
>schools that we work with use Eudora for Mac mail. one correction the most
>recet version is something like 1.3b106 and a no beta 1.3 is expected very
>soon.

If your mac has a pernament IP number, you can send and receive mail by
SMTP with Lee Mail.  It is really easy to use.  You almost don't need to read the
documents.

========================================================================
| Michael F. Kamprath                   | The University of Michigan   |
|   kamprath@space-grant.sprl.umich.edu |      Aerospace Engineering   |
|   kamprath@engin.umich.edu            |      Graduate Student        |
+---------------------------------------+------------------------------+
| This country is a _democracy_.  We all must take responsibility for  | 
| our government's actions because we the people are legally the basis |
| of its existence.  This means that we all owe at least $10,000 each  |  
| on the national debt.  You can't get something for for free.         |
========================================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.system
From: arie@eecs.umich.edu (Arie Covrigaru)
Subject: Re: SuperLaserSpool and 7.1
Reply-To: arie@eecs.umich.edu
Organization: AI Lab, The University of Michigan
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 04:22:54 GMT

>>>>> On Sun, 8 Nov 1992 00:51:43 GMT, gurman@umbra.gsfc.nasa.gov (Joseph B. Gurman) said:
| Nntp-Posting-Host: umbra.gsfc.nasa.gov

|     Does anyone know if SuperLaserSpool works under system 7.1?
| Specifically, the ImageWriter spooler?
|     Thanks,
| 						Joe Gurman
| --
| J.B. Gurman / Solar Physics Branch / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center /
| Greenbelt MD 20771 USA / gurman@umbra.gsfc.nasa.gov
| | Federal employees are prohibited from holding opinions under the Hatch Act.|
| | Therefore, any opinions expressed herein are somebody else's.              |

I am using SuperLaserSpool 3.0 with system 7.1. Haven't had any problems
so far.
--


Arie.

=========================================================================
| Arie Covrigaru                 |  University of Michigan AI Lab       |
| Phone: (313)994-8887           |  Room 149, Advanced Technology Bldg. |
| Internet: arie@eecs.umich.edu  |  1101 Beal Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109 |
=========================================================================
From: geoffb@coos.dartmouth.edu (Geoff Bronner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: PageMaker 4.2a?
Date: 9 Nov 92 15:01:28 GMT
Reply-To: geoffb@Dartmouth.EDU
Organization: Amos Tuck School
Disclaimer: I don't represent Dartmouth and Dartmouth doesn't represent me.

In <1djrndINN144@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> mem10@po.CWRU.Edu (Milton E. Moskowitz) writes:

>	Got a question -- I just saw a post with "PageMaker 4.2a" in the
>title -- is there an updater to bring 4.2 up to 4.2a, or does it have to be
>ordered from Aldus?  Thanx much!

There is no updater as the upgrade requires a re-install of the entire
PageMaker application file.
While your at it, order the upgrade that Aldus released of several printer
drivers and filters (including Word 5).

-Geoff
--
geoffb@Dartmouth.EDU - Computing Support Consultant, Tuck School of Business

Ren and Stimpy for President!
"Give Ren and Stimpy the power to push the button!"
From: seanmcd@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: What software for a graphic artist?!?
Date: 13 Nov 92 17:32:52 -0400
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

I'm giving my brother a IIvx so he can get started learning how to
be a "computer artist". He has extensive art experience, went to a
highschool specializing in visual arts, etc. He's in architecture
school right now, but he's probably not going back because no
architects can get jobs.

What pieces of software are most important to get? We've only got a
limited *student* budget, so I can't get everything. He'll likely
be working with a colour scanner, drawings and type. So far I can
think of some obvious things:

Photoshop (probably in a scanner bundle)
Painter
Sketcher
Fontographer
Canvas

Does anyone have any recommendations? What software do you find
indispensible?

Also, if anyone out there uses a graphics tablet: are they worth
getting?

Thanks for any and all responses. I'll forward postings/e-mail to
my brother, who is eagerly awaiting this new computer while I
work away on my Classic...

Sean

 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: lsr@taligent.com (Larry Rosenstein)
Subject: Re: Mac vs. IBM & quality of writing--Ref?
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: Taligent, Inc.
Distribution: comp.sys.mac.apps
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 17:45:53 GMT

In article <1992Nov11.162551.5080@gvl.unisys.com>, dave@prc.unisys.com
(David Lee Matuszek) wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately, it is human nature to grasp at straws.  A "study" like
> this is sure to be picked up on by people who feel defensive about
> their PC clones.  As an analogy, look at some of the nonsense floating

And of course the follow up letters to the journal, etc. never get the same
publicity as the original article.  

Larry Rosenstein
Taligent, Inc.

lsr@taligent.com
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