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From: reppert@unixpop.ucs.indiana.edu
Subject: Backup programs (shareware)?
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 05:20:27 GMT

Does anyone know of any shareware programs similar to Fastback?  I'd like
to be able to do fast backups from my harddrive to diskette.  If there
aren't any good shareware solutions, is Fastback the way to go?  Any
suggestions will be greatly appreciated. 

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Organization: Junior, IM - MCS/CIT Track, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:13:43 -0500 
From: "Jonathan L. Hutchison" <jh6r+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: MacWrite Pro

FYI-
The long awaited release of MacWrite Pro has been delayed once again
according to Claris until March or April.  This product was first
advertised when System 7 was announced.  I like MacWrite II, since it
only takes up about 750K, but I want something better and not a pimped
out word processor like Microsoft Word.  I also like Claris and would
rather not support Microsoft who is trying to take over the world.

One Person's Opinion
From: aris@psssun (Aris Gerakis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Quick Link Fax Software doesn't autodetect
Keywords: quick link, fax
Date: 23 Jan 93 21:56:56 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: psssun.pss.msu.edu

I have Quick link II fax software with the traveller pocket fax/modem.  It will detect fax calls or phone calls depending on how you set it up.  It won't autodetect between fax and phone (voice) calls as it' ssupposed to.  Any clues?
aris@psssun.pss.msu.edu
From: long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Rich Long)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Journaling word processor?
Date: 23 Jan 93 20:18:02 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


 Is there a word processor that journals keystrokes/mouse clicks so that a
 file could be recovered in the event of a crash? 

 Thanks,
 Rich
From: briscoe@cco.caltech.edu (Duke P. Briscoe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Small business software help, please
Date: 29 Jan 1993 04:44:42 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: alumni.caltech.edu

I would recommend MYOB.  I have used it for two years and like it.  It
is a little more powerful than what your brother needs since it has
some inventory management features, but it is distinguished from other
accounting packages in that it has a nice interface and also good
integrated facilities for managing records of contacts with customers.
If you have a modem, it will autodial phone numbers for you using the
phone numbers recorded on the client list.  It sells for around 139,
although I think there was a recent rebate of 40 giving the very good
price of 99.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.wanted
From: monitn@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Nicholas Monitto)
Subject: Seeking- Anagram software
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 08:36:05 GMT

I'm looking for some kind of anagram software for the Macintosh. I can't
remember a title or company, the only thing I know is that it was mentioned in
at least one newspaper op-ed piece shortly before the November election (New
York Times, I think). It also may have been mentioned on election day, when
many papers ran headlines with anagrams. Any information would be appreciated.
Thanks...

Nick
monitn@rpi.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: fisher@ncselxsi.uucp (Chuck Fisher)
Subject: Re: Excel and PB 160/System 7.1
Organization: National Computer Systems, San Jose, CA 95131
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:09:48 GMT

In article <12690@cayman.COM> mccoy@cayman.com (Michael McCoy) writes:
>Help! Is there any incompatibility between Excel 3.0 or 4.0 and System 7.1 
>running on a PowerBook 160? When I try to run either version, the program 
>gets as far as putting up the menu bar and then freezes my PB. I can run the 
>same application on a Mac IIsi running System 7.0, and I have tried starting 
>the PB with extensions turned off. The PB has 10 MB of RAM and no weird 
>configuration, and all other programs seem to run correctly. Any ideas?

I installed Excel 4.0 from the distribution disks onto my PB160 and
have had no problem whatsoever.  You should specify more about your
configuration and how you installed the product (MS puts a lot files
in different places.)

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Chuck Fisher                                        (800) 359-7997 Work
ncselxsi system administrator                       (415) 964-2819 Home
uucp:  ...!netcom!ncselxsi!fisher
From: mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: MacWeek
Date: 25 Jan 93 19:54:58 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps

In article <1057310.2B5C1312@cmhgate.fidonet.org>,
Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) wrote:
> 
> mwojcik@mail.sas.upenn.edu (Michael Wojcik) writes:
> 
> MW> I wouldn't shell out the $99.00/year. It's just not worth 
> MW> it.
> 
> well, look at your alternatives:  Macworld and MacUser magazines.
> 
> Those rags have gotten so bad with advertising that I've let my subscriptions
> lapse.  I'll try to pick them up in the library to read Steven Levy and Andy
> Ihnatko, but otherwise I'll let them go.
> 
> Last week I picked up my car magazines.  Car and Driver doesn't see the
> absolute need to stuff 5 catalogs full of ads into every issue, and neither
> does Road & Track.  And yet, the car is every bit as entrenched into our
> society--nay, more so--than the computer.

It's not a matter of the publisher needing to stuff them in; it is a matter
of the advertisers paying to have it stuffed in.  If JC Whitney wanted to
pay to have a portion of its catalog included as an ad in an auto magazine,
you'd find it in the magazine.  Also, how much stuff does the average car
owner who reads auto magazines buy for the car after buying the car?  How
much stuff does the average computer owner who reads computer magazines buy
for the computer after buying the computer?  They are different kinds of
industries.

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From: mp@az.stratus.com (Mike Peters)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: FastBack or Retrospect?
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.system
Date: 25 Jan 1993 19:14:30 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: kohlsranch.az.stratus.com

I'm purchasing an Archive 2150S tape drive (DC6150/6250) to use on my IIci
(MacOS and A/UX).

I would like to hear about experiences using FastBack and Retrospect backup
software so I can decide which one to buy (the tape drive I'm looking at
does not include software).

TIA,

Mike
From: Ilkka Priha <priha@tik.vtt.fi>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Speed synthesis in System 7
Date: 22 Jan 1993 10:35:30 GMT
Organization: VTT/TIK
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: m24.tik.vtt.fi
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d13
X-XXMessage-ID: <A7859A04AD01347C@m24.tik.vtt.fi>
X-XXDate: Fri, 22 Jan 93 12:33:08 GMT

Hello all

Does anyone have information about possibilities for speed synthesis
under System 7. As stated in Tech. Note 268, Apple no longer supports
Macintalk, although even version 1.1 partly works in my Mac with a
SpeechLab application. However, the note includes very serious warnings
not to use it. So, are there any alternatives, either commercial or free.
Any hints appreciated.

-- Ilkka
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Greg Ferguson <rtmd30@email.sps.mot.com>
Subject: Re: help: software recommendation for children
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A78996D6EC02320C@godzilla.sps.mot.com>
X-Xxdate: Mon, 25 Jan 93 19:08:38 GMT
Organization: Motorola, Inc.
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d17
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 20:11:19 GMT

In article <147154@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> Kai Yung, kai@concannon.llnl.gov
writes:
> Hello netters,
> 
> 
> I am trying to find educational and fun games for my 5 years old
> daughter on the Mac. Can anyone out there give me some recommendation
> on the shareware and not too expensive programs. 
> 
> Thanks in advance.

I highly recommend Kid Pix. My daughter is 2 and she loves it.

Also, if you have a CD-ROM drive, get "Just Grandma and me". It's got
great animation.

Either program should be less than $40.

Greg
Regards,

Greg

gregf@shaman.sps.mot.com
rtmd30@email.sps.mot.com
=========================================================
"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window."
    -- Steve Wozniak
=========================================================
From: WHITESR@CONRAD.APPSTATE.EDU (Steve White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: MacInTax 10.01 (the update) Chapter 2
Date: 22 Jan 1993 12:03:11 GMT
Organization: APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: conrad.appstate.edu
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24

In <1993Jan21.052747.24783@cs.cornell.edu> tedcrane@cs.cornell.edu writes:

> Chipsoft/MacInTax tech support responded to my query about installation
> problems with the usual questions (do you have Inits? etc.?) and finally
> suggested the following installation method.  It seems a bit extreme, to
> me, but then I'm not as smart as them.  I guess.
> 
> 1)***
> 2)***
> 3)***
> 
> Needless to say, this did not work any better than previous installations.

***

It seems that this company may have overlooked the purpose for which most
people have a computer: to save time and increase productivity.

Steve
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: jjs@vfl.paramax.com (James Solderitsch)
Subject: Application to create picts from X Screen Dumps
Keywords: X pict xwd screens
Organization: Paramax Systems
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:49:50 GMT

I am looking for an application that will allow me to include
X-Window screen dumps in Mac-produced documentation.  I can create
screen dumps on my SPARC with xwd or xgrabsc and these create various
internal representations that I can manipulate on my SPARC (e.g.
with the drawing application tgif).  However, I need to include
some screen snapshots inside some MSWord files.  I was hoping not
to have to go the full encapsulated postscript route -- there is
a facility called ps2eps-mac which might work but it seems like overkill.

I had an application I saved off the net called Display X/Sun which
looked like it might handle this but on my Powerbook 100 today, I couldn't
make it work (system 7.01 tuned).  There was a 1-page doc file that
cautioned that Sun raster images produced by xwd must be transferred in
binary mode and I did that but I couldn't get the app to process the
file successfully (Unimplemented trap error I recall).  Running under
6.08L, left the app unable to find a file it could open at all.

The doc identifies the author as Eric Anderson, eta@ic.berkeley.edu.
I fingered this userid at ic.berkeley.edu and didn't turn up any info.

So, anyone know more about this particular app (e.g. how to make it
work under system 6 or 7)?

Are there other alternatives?

I also know about ghostscript 2.5.2 on the Mac and its ability to
make picts, but I think there is an unacceptable loss in quality
in the resulting pict image.

Any and all help appreciated.

I will summarize useful results as I find them.

Thanks.

-- 
Jim Solderitsch

jjs@vfl.paramax.com

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From: tal691@huxley.anu.edu.au (Tonio Loewald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: MacWeek
Date: 28 Jan 93 08:32:05 GMT
Organization: Australian National University
NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.2.12

Your sig says "boycott Colorado".

We get very sketchy info about US referenda here in Australia, and I
heard that Colorado passed a proposition 9 (?) style law. Is this your
reason? If so or otherwise, could you give details?

American Expatriate in Aussie Wilds,

Tonio

-- 
Tonio Loewald | tal691@huxley.anu.edu.au

"Anybody with priorities so far out of whack
 doesn't deserve such a fine automobile." (Ferris Bueller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: rrgd50@email.sps.mot.com (Chris Terwilliger)
Subject: Re: NQ: How to stop HD access from floppies
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: Motorola
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:40:30 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.145638.20921@mic.ucla.edu>, cjones@physci.ucla.edu
(Chad Jones) wrote:
> 
> Empower II will prevent bootup from floppy.   At $149/copy, you're
> looking at quite an investment for a lab.

so use Empower I.  Same protection from floppy startup, less cost ($89),
better investment.


* Chris Terwilliger, KB7PPT                rrgd50@email.sps.mot.com *
* Motorola                        "And now, the sequence of events, *
* 2100 E. Elliot Rd. EL374         in no particular order."         *
* Tempe, AZ  85284                                     - Dan Rather *
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc
From: ppetree@nyx.cs.du.edu (P.J. Petree)
Subject: Utility for GIFs -> finder background
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 18:34:40 GMT

Is there a utility (PD, shareware, or commercial) that has the ability to
display a GIF file as the background in the finder?  Please tell me where
I can get this utility and anything else that might help me.

Thanks in advance....

P.J.

--
P.J. Petree  --  Electrical Enginnering  --  Georgia Institute of Technology
Internet: gt8915b@prism.gatech.edu,  ppetree@nyx.cs.du.edu
From: 89611628s@sgcl1.unisg.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: l
Date: 26 Jan 93 09:57:42 GMT
Organization: University of St.Gallen, Switzerland

Hello Gururs,

I have two tiny FileMaker Pro 2.0 questions:

First say I wanna copy all files which cointain some string in one cell to
another database, and there make some operations (sums, etc). How could that be
automatized ?

Second, I wanna make some calculations with data from another database. Is it
possible to put a direct reference into the calculation, or have I to make a
reference from the current database, and calculate with this reference ?


Thanx a lot for ur help.

Greetings  Ralph Schwegler
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: hans@smab.se (Hans C Larsson)
Subject: Illustrator, is 3.2 latest version ?
Organization: Saab Missiles AB, RLD-Gbg, Sweden
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 10:34:51 GMT

Is there any newer version that 3.2 (which seems to
have trouble on LC's with 16-bit color) ?
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From: mccoy@cayman.com (Michael McCoy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: 1-800 number for ATM
Date: 28 Jan 93 17:31:25 GMT
Reply-To: mccoy@cayman.com (Michael McCoy)
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: cayman.com

I have a flyer offering SuperATM for $49. The number to call is 1-800-64-
ADOBE. The same flyer offers five typefaces (Poetica Ornaments, Poetica 
Chancery, Blackoak, Juniper, and Trajan Regular) for $29.

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You are not here to verify,
Instruct yourself or inform curiousity
Or carry report. You are here to kneel
Where prayer has been valid.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: eriks@lin.foa.se (Erik Svensson FOA2)
Subject: Re: Multiple Alarm Clock sought -- try "cron"
Organization: FOA, Linkoping, Sweden
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 09:53:41 GMT

Chris Johnson <chrisj@emx.cc.utexas.edu> writes:

>	0 17 * * 5 nobody -b echo -t 120 "Get out of the office! Drink some \
>	beers. Have a nice weekend."
>	
>This displays an alert which makes sure we don't forget it's quitting 
>time on Friday afternoon. (Otherwise, we might work straight through the 
>weekend and not even notice. :-)

Oh yes! And it's happened too. I'll be a-getting this!

cheers
--
     Erik Svensson
    Research Officer            National Defense Research Establishment (FOA)
 Guided Weapons Division        Stockholm, Sweden      eriks@fenix.lin.foa.se

"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present"
 -- Hobbes
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From: geoffb@coos.dartmouth.edu (Thumper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: After Dark version that handles 16-bit color ?
Date: 26 Jan 93 13:35:39 GMT
Reply-To: geoffb@Dartmouth.EDU
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Organization: Amos Tuck School
Disclaimer: I don't represent Dartmouth and Dartmouth doesn't represent me.

In <1993Jan26.105233.8479@smab.se> hans@smab.se (Hans C Larsson) writes:

>As the subject implies, does anyone know if there's a
>After Dark version that can handle 16-bit color (e.g. my LC).

>2.0 crashes horribly when the password dialog (doesn't)
>comes up.

It would help if you mentioned which version of AfterDark 2.0 you are
using?

I know someone using AfterDark 2.0v or 2.0w on a Q950 in 16bit mode
without any problems.

I've also heard that AfterDark 2.0x/ST (Star Trek) comes with a number of
modules that do not work in 16bit mode. Can anyone confirm this?

-Geoff
--
geoffb@Dartmouth.EDU - Computing Support Consultant, Tuck School of Business
    "An ancestor of mine maintained that if you eliminate the impossible,
     whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
		-Spock, "STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: martin@DMI.USherb.CA (Jean-francois Martin)
Subject: Word 4.0, Word Finder and System 7.0.1
Organization: Universite de Sherbrooke -- Dept. d'Informatique
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 01:37:25 GMT

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

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= Jean-Francois Martin                                     martin@dmi.usherb.ca=
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= "In complete darkness we are all the same" Janet Jackson                     =
From: jbg@sdc.boeing.com (James Glidewell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: What's the deal with Macintalk?
Date: 27 Jan 93 17:34:32 GMT
Organization: Boeing Computer Services (ESP), Seattle, WA

In article <1993Jan26.045957.12738@netcom.com>, harrym@netcom.com (Harry Myhre) writes:
|> 
|> 2) You might find it available for download on a local BBS. You
|> could buy 'The Talking Moose' from one of the mail order outfits. 
|> The Talking Moose ships with Macintalk. It's a DA that pops up on
|> your screen and says something using the Macintalk synthesized speech.
|> 
|> 3) Don't know if it works with system 7, but I would imagine that
|> if it's shipping commercially with 'The Talking Moose' that it does.
|> No publisher in his right mind would distribute software these
|> days that isn't system 7 compatible.

Just to clarify...

The versions of Macintalk that you find on BBS's are not the same as the
one that ships with the 'Moose. I have heard rumors of a version of 
Macintalk that is System 7 compatible and freely available (or at least
non-commercial) but I never found one. Every version I ever found either
1) didn't talk 2) crashed immediately 3) caused a crash on a sound after
speaking or 4) some such combination of the previous three problems.

I finally popped for the $24 to buy Talking Moose (USA mail order price).

If you have use for a (funny-sounding) talking Mac, I strongly recommend
that you buy Talking Moose and use the included moose-version of Macintalk.
It comes with a couple of text-to-speech tools, including a moose XCMD.

It has given me no trouble on my LCII with 7.0.1+.

(Well, almost no trouble. It seems that the Moose DA/INIT/... conflicts
somehow with At Ease, which I use to keep my kids from trashing my HD.
So I have fallen back to only using the Macintalk part of Talking Moose,
which is all I really wanted anyway... I notified Baseline Publishing of
the problem. :-( )

P.S. There are long-standing rumors of an Apple "son-of-Macintalk" with
greatly improved pronunciation, etc. It has been shown at developer's
conferences. For some reason, Apple appears to be sitting on this technology.
In any case, given Apple's new OS pricing strategy, it will probably
cost a non-trivial amount of money to acquire, if and when they ever choose
to release it...

Summary: Buy the Moose.

Disclaimers: Just a satified Moose customer, I don't speak for Boeing
-- 
Jim Glidewell
jbg@sdc.boeing.com or jbg%sdc@atc.boeing.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: dtaylor@garnet.acns.fsu.edu (Douglas Taylor)
Subject: On Installers:
Summary: My Installer chokes, but... 
Keywords: INSTALL RUSSAIN SOFTWARE BY GOD 
Organization: Florida State University
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 14:56:23 GMT

 I have recently been going through quite a trial installing the official Mac
	System 7.0.1 from apple.com; everything installs correctly, until the
	program asks me for a non-existent utilities disk!  So, my question is
	two fold:  can I "manually" install the software by dragging and drop-
	ping the apps I need, or wil teh installer3-4 available at apple.com
	be of any service?  I wouldn't feel too bad, but *all* the int'l 
	disks lack a Utilities disk.
--- 
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| L. Douglas Taylor | dtaylor@garnet.acns.fsu.edu |  A Cynic Seeking Hope  |
|-------------------------------------------------|     and Redemption.    |
| It is not the burdens of today that drive a man |                        |
| to madness, but the regrets of yeserday, and    | May Joy and Innocence  |
| the fear of tomorrow - so let us live this life |       Prevail...       |
| laughing more, crying less - savoring the days! |                        |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: a-kraus@uiuc.edu (Albert L. Kraus)
Subject: Quadra 950 and MIDI ?
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: PES
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 20:00:15 GMT

I have problems getting my Qudra 950 and MIDI to work.
I would like to know if somebody has a similar setup running? 


Thanks!
Have a nice day!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps