HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: rick@claris.com (Rick Boarman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: EPS => Macdraw, etc converter
Date: 8 Oct 92 23:52:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: claris.15289
Distribution: usa
Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara CA

sims@possum.den.mmc.com (John Sims) writes:

>Hi Folks,
>Sorry if this is another FAQ, but does anyone have a lead on an EPS to
>macdraw (or other common mac drawing program) converter.  It seems
>MacDraw Pro just draws a box as a placeholder for the EPS file.  I need
>to be able to see the drawing on the screen.  

If you save your EPS image with a preview we'll display that instead
of just drawing a box. Someday maybe we'll be able to parse the actual
PostScript. Sorry.

Rick
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: cfarmer@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Chuck Farmer)
Subject: Re: FTP sites for "educational" software
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: NCSA
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 19:00:39 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.181526.2531@bert.eecs.uic.edu>,
moher@bert.eecs.uic.edu (Tom Moher) wrote:
> 
> 
> i am working with a school with a roomful of macs, but no
> (or let's say a very limited) software budget.  i was wondering
> if anyone knows of any FTP sites specializing in learning
> environments, especially for elementary school-age kids.

Could you please forward any responses to me?

Thanks
Chuck
cfarmer@ncsa.uiuc.edu


Only a fool is sure - Moe Howard
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: thuyan@ravel.udel.edu (Thuy-An Hartman)
Subject: Geography/History Games
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 22:53:51 GMT

I am looking for some type of social studies/educational game for the
MAC.  It will be for Middle/High school children.  I am looking for
either freeware or software I can purchase (for not too much).

If you know of anything like this, please e-mail me.

Thanks,
Thuy-An
thuyan@brahms.udel.edu
From: mmt@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Pagemaker 4.2a problems
Date: 10 Oct 92 20:47:19 GMT
Organization: Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine


System 7.0.1 tuned, Mac IIsi 17meg (no virtual memory), several inits (if that
might be important, I'll list them, but the problems occur with most of them
turned off).

Several years ago, I used PageMaker 1.2 quite happily to produce a book from
a workshop.  Last year, we ran a follow-up workshop and I'm trying to do the
same with PageMakers 4.2a.  Should be easier, right?

Problem 1.  I want to have my fourth-level headings in Times 14pt italic, with
the following paragraph not separated by a newline, but following immediately
on the same line.  The heading wants to be in a style "head4", the text in
"normal" which is Times 10 pt on 12 leading (and other stuff). How can I get
this to happen?  If I set the heading style, it asserts the same style for
the text, overriding my setting of "normal".  If I reset the text to "normal"
it overrides the heading style.  I could do this in the first book, and I
want the second to look just the same as the first.

Problem 2.  There are lots of lines that necessarily contain a variety of
fonts (Times, Symbol and Helvetica, as a rule).  These almost always want to
be in a specialized paragraph format so far as indenting and spacing are
concerned.  I cannot find a way to make a style that refers to the shape
of a paragraph and allows the fonts to be indeterminate, as set by the
word processor (which could have been one of many, the authors having used
whatever touched their fancy on Macs or PCs, although I've used Nisus to
convert some of the LaTex stuff).  Nisus is quite happy with "Any Font"
selections, but PageMaker seems to insist that you can't have more than
one font in a paragraph unless you handle each paragraph manually...which
leads to the next problem...

Problem 3. According to the manual, if you hold the shift key down when
applying a style to a paragraph, you can hold on to the original fonts.
Not what I find.  All my Symbol font arrow characters turn into the AE block.

Problem 4. Several of the source files work fine in Word or Nisus, but when
I try to Place them in Pagemaker, the progress bar completes and then I get
a dialogue that reads more or less "Illegal token in input.  This document
cannot be placed."  Why should it do that with a perfectly legal word-processing
document, and how can I find and fix the illegal character?

-- 
Martin Taylor (mmt@ben.dciem.dnd.ca ...!uunet!dciem!mmt) (416) 635-2048
Beauty being skin deep, it would seem that the hippopotamus has an
epidermal advantage that it has somehow failed to exploit. (Jack Kent)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.wanted
From: Earl D. Fife <fife@calvin.edu>
Subject: Re: LaTeX for the MAC
X-Xxdate: Sat, 10 Oct 92 04:08:58 GMT
Organization: Calvin College
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 03:10:45 GMT

In article <aland.718660061@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> Alan D.,
aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu writes:
> ATM is a commercial program, available from the mail order houses for
> around $90, or from Apple for $7.50.

I ordered ATM this past summer from Adobe, and I was told at that time by
Adobe that ATM was free to Macintosh users.  The $7.50 I had to pay was
billed as "shipping and handling."

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Earl D. Fife          |          Department of Mathematics
fife@calvin.edu       |          Calvin College
(616)957-6403         |          Grand Rapids, MI 49546

"Make up your mind, Margaret. First you tell me 3 plus 3 is 6, 
and now you tell me 4 plus 2 is six!"     --Dennis the Menace

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From: chavey@jalapeno.cs.wisc.edu (Darrah Chavey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: noknok
Keywords: noknok
Date: 12 Oct 92 16:12:47 GMT
Organization: Beloit College, Beloit, Wisc.

In article <1992Oct6.234037.21612@cs.brown.edu> em@cs.brown.edu (Evan Mair) writes:
>I saw a post regarding noknok which would let you know who is on the
>network. Does anyone know at what site I might be able to find it? I
>have check archie to no avail. Thanks for your help.
>Evan

Look on many sites for the program whos-there.hqx (search through Archie if
nothing else, but it's at most mac ftp sites). This will do what you want.
As far as I know, it's freeware -- at least I can't find any shareware
requests for $$.

-- 
--Darrah Chavey                  Department of Math & Computer Science
  chavey@beloit.edu              Beloit College, Beloit, Wisc.
From: Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: RE: Word 5.0 DIE DIE DIE!
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 20:16:59 EST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:226/20.18 - cmhGate UF Gateway, Columbus OH

tal691@huxley.anu.edu.au (Tonio Loewald) writes:

TL> Word 5.0 isn't a word-processor. It's Windows for the Mac. 
TL> It has its own printer drivers, its own applications, and 
TL> its own filing system. 
TL> I'm just waiting for MicroSludge to include Minesweeper in 
TL> it.

Take a deep breath....your lithium is right there in front of you, I'll get
you a nice glass of water, you'll be OK...

--Adam--
 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: SCHAEFER@FZIVMS.FZI.DE (Edwin Schaefer)
Subject: Looking for music notes editor
Organization: FZI, FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM INFORMATIK, KARLSRUHE, GERMANY
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 08:10:41 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.22

Hi,

i'm a big music fan und i play music by myself. Often i write music notes on
paper. 

In my company and at home i use a MAC to do difficult thinks. 

Is there a way to use a MAC to write music notes ?

Has somebody ever seen a music notes editor to write notes on the MAC. The MAC
makes a PS-File and prints at a Laserwiter.

I think PD-, SW-, or Software to pay.

Please post here or send me email!

Thanks all!

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 VAX/VMS Systems Programmer                          PSI%45721033422::SCHAEFER
 FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik                    phone  +49-0721-9654-953
 Haid-und-Neu-Str. 10-14, D-7500 Karlsruhe, Germany  fax    +49-0721-9654-959 


---
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 VAX/VMS Systems Programmer                          PSI%45721033422::SCHAEFER
 FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik                    phone  +49-0721-9654-953 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: t89par@tdb.uu.se (Par Svensson)
Subject: Now4 messing things up?
Organization: Dept. of Scientific Computing, Uppsala Univ.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1992 01:11:50 GMT


Every now and then, the following gets switched off
(that is: no option is selected);

Mouse double clicking speed
Key repetition speed
Cursor blinking speed

This results in disabling of the double-click and key
repetition, and the cursor going nuts. I suspect
NowUtilities 4.0 to have something to do with the
problem...Anyone experienced anything like this?

/Par
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: tedcrane@cs.cornell.edu (Ted Crane)
Subject: Dollars and Sense Upgrade???
Organization: Tompkins County Computing
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 20:09:54 GMT


The post office has been delivering occasional advertisements for
Dollars and Sense 5.0.  These ads claim that it's a recent upgrade,
but I've been using it for several years.

Is this just hype?  Is anyone aware of a more recent upgrade?  Other comments?
-- 
- ted crane, alias (tc)                  tedcrane@cs.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Steve Christensen <stevec@apple.com>
Subject: Re: Floppy Formatting Gripe
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 23:04:23 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.

In article <1992Sep21.165538.10587@newshost.lanl.gov> David G. Simmons,
davids@gardener.lanl.gov writes:
>I just have a very basic question about *why* I have to sit here,
>watching my mac, unable to *DO* anything, while the damned thing
>formats a floppy.  Is formatting a disk such a cpu-intensive task
>that the machine *can't* do anything else?  Is there a specific
>*reason* apple chose not to allow formatting to occur in the 
>background?   ...  I realize that some wonderful soul has probably
>written an application to circumvent this nincompoopery by apple
>(and if so, I'd love to get my hands on it), but I'd *really* like
>to know why apple deemed it necessary in the first place?
>
>Any answers?

Yes, the answer is really simple.  The floppy disk controller chip
that Apple uses requires continuous software hand-holding to perform
all read/write/format operations.  Data bytes are transferred roughly
every 16 microseconds, so there's absolutely -no- time for the Mac
to do anything else.  The chip was designed that way because it was
much cheaper ("software doesn't cost anything"--single expense to
develop the software, not a recurring cost as for a chip).

How's that for an answer?

steve
From: heeschv@cognos.com (Brian VanHeesch)
Subject: Re: I hate fonts
Organization: Cognos Incorporated, Ottawa CANADA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 16:51:34 GMT

tobridg@scivax.lerc.nasa.gov (Dr. James Bridges) writes:
: My entry in the 'Things I hate most about Macintosh' contest is the multitude 
: of font standards. This is especially true right now because I cannot get 
: Illustrator (v3.0.1; allegedly compatable with my hardware and Sys7; upgrade 
: somewhere in Procurement Dept.) to find any fonts. I recently moved to a 
: Quadra 700 and upgraded ATM to v2.0.3, which was free. I have three different 
: types of files which purport to be font files, but Illustrator can't find any 
: of them. Yes, I moved the outline fonts from the Extensions folder to the 
: main System Folder like the Adobe Sys7 errata sheet said. And yes, this 
: 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!

Beeps eh?  My problem is just as stupid.  Whenever I load Illustrator under
SYS 7, it pops to another application (including the finder).  So naturally
I click on the little mac and select ILL-ustator and it just pops back to the
finder.  Finally I pickup a util that quits the finder appl and I have to
quit all other running appl's and then I can use FR-ustrator.

BVH
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: zephyr@cory.Berkeley.EDU (COIFMAN)
Subject: GRE and SAT
Organization: University of California, at Berkeley
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 08:10:31 GMT


 I just took the GRE last year. Here is my advice for GRE and SAT prep.

1) If self motivated, buy a prep book. They are as good as the
prepcourses. Take some time to shop for a book that you like. If you can
find it, I would recomend getting something from the Princeton Review.
They are real good!!! But remember, you will have to spend about ten
weeks plowing through a 500 page book and doing lots of exircises. They
will have a big list of words you should memorize, thus, several hour of
making up flashcards, etc.. Also, you should try to get a practice answer
sheet (photo copy the one that comes with the actual test application)
and use it for all of the drill and practice tests. Then time yourself,
these tests focus on speed. But, you'll have to push yourself.

2) if not self motivated, enroll in a prep course. The school like
atmosphere and the $$$ should provide you with more motivation. It costs
more, but if there is some doubt, it might be worth it. Again, I
recomend the Princeton Review (I didn't even look at prep courses, but
the Review really knows their stuff (They aren't even paying me to say
it either)).

Reasons not to use a computer prep program (without 1 or 2 above):
a) They are likely to draw from a small pool of questions.
b) Cost more than a book and don't provide much extras. (one of my prep
books went into detail about every answer to every question in every
exircise and sample test, not just my wrong answers)
c) Most importantly, you will not be taking the test on a computer. You
should get use to scribbling in the margin as you go. Looking back and
forth between the question book and answer sheet. Filling in all of
those little black circles and all.

Good luck

Benn

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: olafn@inbit.ibt.unit.no (Olaf F. Normann)
Subject: Best News reader for Mac
Keywords: Net News Reader
Organization: IBT
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 13:52:55 GMT

Hello mac-netters!

I just wander whch news reader is the best one for the Macintosh
running 7.0.1? 

Best regards:
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From: craig@ec.uwa.oz.au (Craig Richmond - division)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Word 5.0 DIE DIE DIE!
Date: 13 Oct 1992 02:24:43 GMT
Organization: The University of Westrn Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: decel.ecel.uwa.edu.au

peake@uncavx.unca.edu writes:

>different needs for word-processing packages, but I have been very happy with
>Word 5.0. The ability to translate file-formats without AFE makes it worth the
>price of the upgrade alone,

And Writenow 3.0, WordPerfect 2.1, Claris Works (and most other Claris
Products) don't convert documents without using AFE?  Also, I think you
will find that All of the Claris Products will use the same converters.
Same Dictionaries and lots of other space saving features.  But then again,
I hate Microsoft, so I may be biassed :-)

Craig
--
Craig Richmond.  Computer Officer -  Dept of Economics (morning) 380 3860
  University of Western Australia    Dept of Education (afternoon)
craig@ecel.uwa.edu.au Dvorak Keyboards RULE!  "Messes are only acceptable
if users make them.  Applications aren't allowed this freedom" I.M.VI 2-4
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.apps:15499 comp.sys.mac.wanted:9328
From: aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.wanted
Subject: Re: LaTeX for the MAC
Date: 9 Oct 92 19:47:41 GMT
Reply-To: aland@cs.brandeis.edu
Organization: As little as possible

rinaldo@khayam.berkeley.edu (Roberto Rinaldo) writes:

>I would like to use LaTeX on my MAC IIcx, and I was interested in
>purchasing Textures by Blue Sky's. I have a HP Deskwriter printer, and I
>guess I need some software to print the postscript fonts with it.
>Does anyone has some information about this? I heard that it is
>necessary to use Adobe Type Manager: is this program public domain? If
>so, does anyone know an FTP site for it?
>Thanks in advance for any information,

ATM is a commercial program, available from the mail order houses for
around $90, or from Apple for $7.50.

You can find out exactly how to order it from Apple by calling
1-800-776-2333 (Apple's Customer Assistance number).

	-=Alan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: binder@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (BINDER KEVIN T)
Subject: WANT: to track Application/System USAGE on one mac
Summary: I want to record system & app startup & shutdown times
Keywords: system tracker, usage
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 14:17:37 GMT

I'm looking for an extension/control panel or small application that
will log various activities that take place on my mac. I would like
to record the startup and shutdown times of the computer system itself
as well as log the usage of applications. Do you have a solution?
Please email me at:

Kevin J.T. Binder
University of Colorado
Internet: binder@ucsu.Colorado.EDU

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: geoffb@coos.dartmouth.edu (Geoff Bronner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Problem Installing Excel 4.0 Help
Date: 8 Oct 92 12:52:35 GMT
Reply-To: geoffb@Dartmouth.EDU
Organization: Amos Tuck School

In <ceou5IT0Bwx3Ej=UF3@transarc.com> Barry_Wolman@transarc.com writes:

>I've tried multiple times to install the Excel 4.0 Help application;
>each time I get a "disk is full" error reading the portion of Help
>stored on disk 5.  I've tried a total of three volumes on two physical
>disks.  Two of the volumes on which I tried to install Help had 25MB
>free.

>I've managed to install all of Excel 4.0 _except_ Help.  I haven't
>checked everything (there's so much of it!), but the basic application
>works fine.

What about your startup volume? A part of Excel 4's help system is buried
into the active System Folder (so are the Spell checking resources). If
you are installing hep and spell checking you'll need a hald MB of free
space on the startup volume.

-Geoff
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  If I had a choice between George Bush and a goat I would vote for the goat.
                            Vote Goat in 92!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Earl D. Fife <fife@calvin.edu>
Subject: Re: Textures (was Re: LaTeX for the Mac)
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A6FFE2F6C202042C@44.4.106.153.in-addr.arpa>
X-Xxdate: Tue, 13 Oct 92 07:20:38 GMT
Organization: Calvin College
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 06:25:36 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.120920.22330@midway.uchicago.edu> Anil Trivedi,
trivedi@yukawa.uchicago.edu writes:
> > we have a current, long-term project to improve it [Textures editor],
> > so now is a good time to tell us what, specifically, makes a
> > good editor to you.
>
> Incremental search (forward/backward)
> Go to a particular line #
> Querry replace 
> Unconditional replace
> Delete word/line/region
> Cut/copy and paste
> Multiple undo
> Split a document into at least two windows
> Edit several (at least two) files at once
> Visit a file but make it write-protected
> A competent spell-checker
> Count words in a region (if the Abstract has to be <100 words)
>	
> I should be able to define at least simple macros: e.g., to set things
> up so that when I type { ( [ $  I get  {} () [] $$ respectively.
>	
> There should be some back-up as well auto-save fascility.

Add to this:

Balance (,{,[,$,\begin{?} and \end{?} (for LaTeX users) etc.
Show line numbers


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Earl D. Fife          |          Department of Mathematics
fife@calvin.edu       |          Calvin College
(616)957-6403         |          Grand Rapids, MI 49546

"Make up your mind, Margaret. First you tell me 3 plus 3 is 6, 
and now you tell me 4 plus 2 is six!"     --Dennis the Menace

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From: atc@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: SPSS macintosh - any good?
Date: 12 Oct 92 16:54:21 +1300
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

Hi,
I'm looking for peoples experiences with SPSS macintosh.
Preferably I would like to hear from users/support people that are using or
considering its use in a computer lab.

What is the minimum hardware specification required to use it successfully?
What alternatives are available?

Thanks for any advice.

-- 
Andrew Chambers
Computer Services
University of Waikato
New Zealand

ATC@WAIKATO.AC.NZ
From: stuart@lorelei.ece.drexel.edu (Stuart R. Harper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Word 5.0 - Memory shortage
Date: 11 Oct 92 10:51:51 GMT
Reply-To: gurman@umbra.gsfc.nasa.gov (Joseph B. Gurman)
Organization: Drexel U- CCD - E4 Lab

In article <gurman.718727914@umbra.gsfc.nasa.gov> gurman@umbra.gsfc.nasa.gov
(Joseph B. Gurman) writes:
>babcock@cayman.com (Bill Babcock) writes:
>
>>In article <oelNoB600WB781NqIL@andrew.cmu.edu> Albert H. Gough,
>>ag14+@andrew.cmu.edu writes:
>>>>I have a Mac LC with 10 meg of RAM (that's not the problem)            
>>    
>>>>and I am running Word 5.0.  Some times (approx 25% of the time)        
>>    
>>>>when I start up the application it tells me that I am low or out of
>>system  
>>>>memory (and a "button" to quit). After quiting I try to run the        
>>    
>>>>application again and no probs it runs.                                
>>     
>>>I have the same problem on a MacII with 8 Mb of RAM, System 7.0, and 
>>>TuneUp 1.1.1. It doesn't seem to be related to how much memory is
>>>allocated for Word 5.0, especially since it happens before any 
>>>documents have been opened. I think it is a System 7.0 problem,
>>>because I have only had it happened immediately after I booted the
>>>computer, before running any other applications. I think, that if
>>>any application is run then Word will start normally. I would be 
>>>curious to hear any theories about this. 
>
>>I|ve had the same problem on a PB 170 w/ 8 meg RAM, sys 7.0.1 w/ the
>>1.1.1 tuner. I haven|t been able to track it down as it|s only happened
>>twice since I started using it. 
>
>>Ditto on being curious about why.
>
>    I'm curious, too: on my PB 170, also with 8 Mbyte and 7.0.1/1.1.1,
>almost every time Word 5 is the first application launched (not counting
>things in the Startup Items folder) after booting, I get the infamous
>insufficient memory message. If I try Word immediately after, it starts
>up OK. Now, I'm certain Microsoft hasn't done anything nonstandard or
>anything --- NOT.
>
>						Joe Gurman

 Add  me to the list of memory problems as I have had EXACTLY the same thing
happen to me on my 3 work machines, a Mac IIx, Mac IIci and Quadra 700 each
with 20MB of memory. Every once in a while Word will not open because of a lack
of memory, then NOTHING else will open forcing me to <restart>, to get the
system running again.