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From: Michael F. Kamprath <kamprath@space-grant.sprl.umich.edu>
Subject: Re: FTP sites for "educational" software
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 20:45:27 EDT
Organization: University of Michigan, Aerospace Engineering
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In article <cfarmer-121092140254@mac20-152.ncsa.uiuc.edu> Chuck Farmer, cfarmer@ncsa.uiuc.edu
writes:
>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
>

I have a program (I wrote) that targets High School age students (but has
been used for 5-8 graders).  It is essentially a a lesson in the engineering
process (from designing, to building, to testing).  It is "unfinished" for
full scale public release, but it is definately usable (and I have several
lesson plans written up) in the current form.  More importantly, it is 
absolutely free.

If you are interested, just e-mail me.  Presently, I am only set up to send
the program through e-mail (binhexed, of course), but if you send me a disk
with a SASE, I will mail it to you. 

If you are in Michigan, I (err, the office I work for) can do alot to supply
you with lessons and "extra-curricular" activities in math and science for
4-12 graders.  Conact me for more info.

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From: bruggink@neep.engr.wisc.edu (Dennis Bruggink)
Subject: Need RAM diagnostic app : errors during FTP sessions
Organization: 
Distribution: comp.sys.mac.apps
Date: 9 Oct 92 11:01:42

I just added 4 MB to a IIcx which already had 4 MB.  I suspect the added
RAM may be bad, since I'm getting errors during ftp sessions (a character
substituted for another), and I'm convinced software and wiring are not 
possible causes.

Other than swapping simms, is there any RAM-checker program around that
can spot bad memory?  I was under the impression that these simms either
worked or they didn't.

thanks,

dennis bruggink
From: lchang@uoft02.utoledo.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Program for saving Get Info comments
Date: 10 Oct 92 21:12:55 EST
Organization: University of Toledo, Computer Services

	Does anyone know of any program/cdev/init that will allow you
to save the names and get info comments to a text file or the clipboard
or something? 

Please reply via e-mail, as I do not frequent this newsgroup.

Sonya Chang
lchang@uoft02.utoledo.edu
From: tnakada@eis.calstate.edu (Tom Nakada)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Illustrator 3: Placing black text over black/white picture
Date: 14 Oct 92 16:52:00 GMT
Organization: Calif State Univ/Electronic Information Services

collin@angelo.amd.com (Collin K. Ong) writes:
> I have a Illustrator 3 document which is built around a black and
> write artwork (that was drawn inside Illustrator not imported). I
> want to place black text across the page so that part of the text
> is over pure white sections of the page, but then it overlays the
> black/white of the drawing so that the letters are obscured.  To
> get around this I selected the text and changed the Paint/Style/
> Stroke so that there is a white outline around each letter.  This
> looks fine on the screen but when it was printed, the large type
> sizes were okay but the smaller type sizes had their thinner parts
> thinned to nothing because they were only one pixel wide at some
> points and the white stroke covered that up.
> 
> I need a better way to make the text readable over the black
> portions of the page. The smallest type size is 36 pts.  

The easiest fix that I can think of is to select the text, Convert it to
outlines, then select the text that overlays the black portion and
fill/stroke it with white.

Alternately, you can select the text and back portion and "Make Compound."

Good luck!

Tom
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: dpl@dfv.rwth-aachen.de (Dieter Plassmann)
Subject: Re: Word Question: Mac/PC compatibility
Organization: Communication Networks
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 15:40:51 GMT

pkellma@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Peter Kellman) writes:

>I have read that Microsoft Word 5.0 for the Mac is compatible with
>Word for Windows for the PC.  The article I read stated that it was
>compatible for graphics as well as formatted text.  However, I did
>a test by creating a Mac Word document with text and 2 types of
>graphics: 1) Mac Draw copied & pasted, and 2) pict screen capture
>copied and pasted.  The Word for Windows document opened without
>problem...but both types of graphics were very poor...infact, unusable.
>I assume this has has to do with the different screen resolution.
>Is this true?  I don't consider this compatible! Am I doing something
>incorrectly? How do I make my graphics look on the PC the same as they
>were on the Mac?

I did tested the same, but I didn't had your problem.
I copied & pasted Canvas drawings and saved it as WinWord 2.0 without
any problem. Opening with WinWord didn't make any problem, the solution,
the pattern and so on everything seems to be ok. But when I tried to
print it all pattern were reversed (e.g. white areas were black).
I tried to edit the files with WinWord graphic editor and got the
same result (changed pattern).
Has anyone an idea, if I made something wrong or if it's just a bug?

	Dieter

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From: balogh@python.cis.ohio-state.edu (kevin m balogh)
Subject: MWII-Disk Full error?
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 20:18:36 GMT

Ok..
	I work in a Lab on the Campus of OSU. We have a room full of MacSE's with two disk drives. They are connected to a File Server with several applications on it including MacWrite II.  Several people have come to me in the past few weeks with the same problem.  While typing or editing or printing, an alert window appears with the message "Disk is full. Try to save document first" (or something to the effect). Well here's the problem, Saving does not help,Nothing helps until I quit from MWII, open MWII, and 






then nothing seems to be wrong?

	I'm at a loss and just need your Ideas.

Thanks.  K.B.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Editing screen snapshots (PICTS)
From: news@massey.ac.nz (USENET News System)
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 92 19:16:21 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: SMIS, Massey University

isler@gradient.cis.upenn.edu (Sylvia Isler) wrote:
 
> I have made some snapshots (using cmd-shift-3) from of the finder on my
> Mac and have attempted unsuccessfully to edit them using Superpaint
> and MacDraw II. 
> 
> I wish to cut out certain parts of the snapshot. However these
> applications do not allow me to do this. Can someone suggest an
> application that does allow this form of editing?

In SuperPaint, select the picture (which is a PICT object in the Draw
Layer) then use Cmd-Y (Cut to Painting).  When you switch to the Paint
Layer, the bitmap is available for editing with the Paint Tools.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Glen.Stewart@f175.n2240.z1.ieee.org (Glen Stewart)
Subject: RE: Family Tree (Geneology) SW for MAC?
Organization: FidoNet node 1:2240/175 - The Associati, Grand Blanc MI
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 23:41:36 GMT

Can you mention what you like best about Reunion and PAF?  Do you know what
they cost?  How are the printouts from each??

Thanks!



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From: galeana@nauvax.ucc.nau.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: unbinhexing program on the VAX/VMS
Date: 12 Oct 92 05:27:42 GMT
Organization: Northern Arizona University

I have an account on the vms/vax system.  From there I use ftp and get the
software that I need.  I know that there is a program that is calle mcvert that
will unbinhex the file on a unix account.  People say that it is faster to
downloaded this way.  But is there on for the vax/vms.

THANKS FOR ANY RESPONSES OR REPLYES

Juan
GALEANA@NAUVAX.UCC.NAU.EDU
From: Bruce.Giuriceo@p4.f204.n2603.z1.ieee.org (Bruce Giuriceo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Auto Doubler 2.0 crash-savings button
Date: 14 Oct 92 06:12:47 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:2603/204.4 - Not Even Odd, Forest Hills NY

Regarding "Auto Doubler 2.0 crash-savings button", lind@ils.nwu.edu wrote to
All on 10/7/92: 

  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.
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Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.apps:15474 comp.sys.mac.system:12657 comp.sys.mac.misc:17586
From: gt8798a@prism.gatech.EDU (Anthony S. Kim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.app,comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: program to use GIF files as desktop.
Date: 9 Oct 92 02:51:25 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.app
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

a couple that i know are DeskPict and DeskPicture.  where can i ftp these files.

please e-mail to gt8798a@prism.gatech.edu
From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: I hate fonts
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 16:39:14 BST
Distribution: world
Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.

tobridg@scivax.lerc.nasa.gov (Dr. James Bridges) writes:
> I still hate fonts, but at least I fixed my problem. I should have just had 
> patience and waited for Adobe to open (I know, it's 6am there, but I have to 
> get this thing working before my 10am meeting!). They gave me the scoop which
> is:
> 
> 1) Throw away all TrueType fonts if you have ATM and PostScript fonts which 
> duplicate them.

I have a better suggestion.

1. Throw away all your ATM fonts.

2. Throw away ATM.

3. Use TrueType for everything.

Hey presto, you now have a single font type for all devices, seamless font
handling from the desktop, and much better quality font scaling and spacing
than you had before.  You even free up some valuable RAM.

Optional step:

4. Convert your old ATM fonts to TrueType format using FontMonger or similar.


mathew
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From: Stephen Cooper <stephen@csd.uu.se>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Posting to comp.binaries.mac
Date: 15 Oct 1992 03:10:11 GMT
Organization: Uppsala University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: mac-4.csd.uu.se
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X-XXDate: Thu, 15 Oct 92 08:38:17 GMT

Hi!
  Im having some problems posting to comp.binaries.mac.  I have a few
questions:

- Whats the recommended max. size of each post?  Im using 28K.  I
figured that 32K might be the max size, and this way, theres 5K for 
administation

- I using Nuntius 1.1.1, and have test-posted to a local test group.  I
ve tried first bin-hexing and then segmenting, as well as first
segmenting and then bin-hexing.  Nuntius doesnt like either -- I can
post, but I cant extract the file later.  What am I doing wrong?

- I also have tried posting a file which is about 15-20K.  Works great
to/from the test group, but when I sent it to comp.binaries.mac, it never
showed up.  Sent a test posting there too.  It never showed up either. 
What gives?  Is it a moderated group??

- Shouldnt there be a faq posted weekly/monthly to comp.bin which
answers my first two questions (at least)?

Thanks for your help!
  Stephen

ps:  Im using MS Word 5 for editing articles, Stuffit lite for
segmenting, and Downline for binhexing.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: bredell@tdb.uu.se (Mats Bredell)
Subject: Re: System 7.1 & Fonts
Reply-To: Mats.Bredell@udac.uu.se
Organization: Uppsala University Computing Center (UDAC)
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 14:30:54 GMT

Craig Richmond - division (craig@ec.uwa.oz.au) wrote:
: 
: I think you will find that if you take the fonts and put them into
: suitcases, you will be able to have 128 suitcases instead of 128 fonts.
: Now all I want is a New Suitcase in the menus somewhere.

I think someone told me that you were supposed to be able to just drag one
font file on top of another font file, and the Finder would create a font
suitcase with the two fonts inside. I just tried this in the 7.1 beta, but
it didn't work. Has anyone else heard about a feature like this, or was it
just my imagination?

/Mats
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From: raoul@fangio.wa.com (Jeffrey E. Benedict)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: How to connect PC to Mac
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 21:08:28 PDT
Organization: J. Benedict Computing
Reply-To: raoul@fangio.wa.com (Jeffrey E. Benedict)
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1


In article <71218@hydra.gatech.EDU> (comp.sys.mac.apps), gt5571d@prism.gatech.EDU (AB RAHIM,HARMAN SHAM) writes:
> I'm wondering if there is a way that I can connect a PC to my Mac  so that
> I'll be able to run PC applications through Mac. This PC application which
> I have does not have a Mac version. Besides, it is a CAD program.
> 	I have try using this program with SoftPC, but it is just too slow.
> I'm hoping that by running it on PC and monitors it through Mac will speed
> up the program.

	If you already own a PC, it's pretty easy.  There is something
called RunPC that , I believe, is produced by the same people who
make SoftPC.  You connect the PC to the Mac with a wire (or via network)
and operate the PC in a window.  

	It's just as easy if you *don't* own a PC- you'll just have to
buy one is all!! :)

Jeff

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: esc@ulysses.att.com (E. Steve Crandall)
Subject: OED II on CDROM
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 17:32:46 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill


The OED II is available now on CDROM for windows and sometime after the
first of the year for the Mac.  An inquiry resulted in a letter that leads
one to believe that they don't believe the Mac market is large.

This is a title that would make me buy a CDROM player if I could get the
OED and the player for < $1k.  Apple would be smart to make a deal with
these folks and offer some kind of package deal.

Steve Crandall

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: tobridg@scivax.lerc.nasa.gov (Dr. James Bridges)
Subject: Re: I hate fonts
Reply-To: tobridg@scivax.lerc.nasa.gov (Dr. James Bridges)
Organization: Sverdrup Technology Inc., NASA Lewis Research Center
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 13:47:53 GMT

I still hate fonts, but at least I fixed my problem. I should have just had 
patience and waited for Adobe to open (I know, it's 6am there, but I have to 
get this thing working before my 10am meeting!). They gave me the scoop which 
is:

1) Throw away all TrueType fonts if you have ATM and PostScript fonts which 
duplicate them.

2) Remove EZAccess unless you are physically challenged and need it. That's 
what was giving me the funny beeps on key strokes.

Could someone who knows this font business put a few paragraphs in the FAQ?
The Apple docs are pathetically innocent and Adobe's are way behind (although 
their support line was great).

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From: ruegg@darwin.ntu.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: e-mail address for Working Software Inc. wanted
Date: 9 Oct 92 10:54:06 +0900

additional dictionaries and spell checks for Microsoft Works Version 2.0e
wanted.  Can anybody help me with the e-mail address of the following company
                         
                         Working Software Inc.
                         Box 1844,
                         Santa Cruz, CA 95061

Your reply to my e-mail address would be greatly appreciated. 
Thomas Ruegg, NT University, Darwin, Australia

e-mail address: ruegg@darwin.ntu.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: bwolfe@trentu.ca (BEN WOLFE)
Subject: Re: How is NISUS?
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Trent University Computer Services Department
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 07:57:00 GMT

Hmmm. I spend about 4-6 hours a day using it as a writer/editor, and
despite numerous minor frustrations I've currently got no intentions of
switching to MicroSoft Turd or anything else.

Nisus is the best tool there is for the serious writer/editor on the Mac.
Its multiple undos (I set it to 20; theoretically you can have thousands)
are so necessary for editing that I can't imagine what users of other
word processors do without them. Its search and replace function is miles
(actually kilometres here in Canada) beyond everyone else, allowing not
just searches by any attribute you can think of, but extremely
sophisticated pattern matching that saves me hours of tedium on complex
jobs. Example: today I used a pattern matching macro that took minutes to
put together to format a huge bibliography downloaded from a CD-ROM search
for export to FileMaker Pro. Once the macro was ready, one command
standardized the format of a thousand 18-field records in several open
and UNOPENED files. Try that in Word.

Some of this I've said before. Style sheets are among the most powerful
available, but with a clunky interface. Integration with DTP packages is
non-existent, an oversight I just can not understand given the intended
user base of Nisus. Instantly and easily customizable multiple-character
command keys offer fast and simple access to commands that would
otherwise be hard to remember and find among the program's many features.

There's no WYSIWYG multiple column support, and no table support. Both
are supposed to be coming in the relatively near future, and not a moment
too soon. A handy feature is non-contiguous selection. Hold down option-
command and choose a word here, a word there, throughout your document.
Then change all of their attributes with a single command. Nisus has
indexing, table of contents generation and cross-referencing, though all
need some refinement. The spelling checker is uncanny in its ability to
suggest corrections, but has a couple of mildly irritating quirks.

The whole thing needs an upgrade, and there's been a LONG delay in getting
it out (current claim is by the end of the year), but still -- there's no
other word processor that comes close to Nisus' best features. If you
take writing seriously, give it a good look.

Ben Wolfe
From: jjn@cse.unl.edu (James Neugebauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Looking for BBS Software
Date: 13 Oct 1992 23:33:26 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln	
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: cse.unl.edu
Keywords: BBS. Software,

I am interested in finding a good multiuser BBS software system.  It does not
have to be public domain.  If you have any experience with a commercial BBS
software product or know of a good easy to use BBS system please let me know.  
I would like to know the price too.  Please E-Mail me because I don't always
read this group.   Thanks!
			Jim Neugebauer
			jjn@cse.unl.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: purp@wixer.cactus.org (Jim Meyer)
Subject: Re: Mac News Readers
Organization: Real/Time Communications
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 15:21:26 GMT

In article <1992Oct15.153101.26590@bmerh85.bnr.ca> Kevin Woodside 
 <woodside@bnr.ca> writes:
>I posted this question earlier, but got no response (except for a pile of
>mail asking me to forward any replies I got!), so I'm going to try again.
> 
>I have tried several News Reader programs for the Mac (TheNews, Nuntius,
>and Newswatcher), and while they are acceptable programs, my ideal news
>reader would actually consist of bits and pieces of each.
> 
>[rest of commentary deleted]

While we're at it, I'd like to know if anyone has a NewsReader available
for those of us who have to use a modem to dial a local USENET
connection. I'd like something a bit more GUI than TRN or TIN.

--Jim, Modem Weenie.
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From: ogil@quads.uchicago.edu (Brian W. Ogilvie)
Subject: Re: Word 5.0 DIE DIE DIE!
Reply-To: ogil@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Morris Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 23:51:49 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.123205.14453@bilpin.co.uk> jim@bilpin.co.uk (JimG) writes:
>                                             MS have somehow lost control on
>    this one, and it's developing crazily beyond anything which could
>    reasonably be called a word processor - kitchen sinks come to mind.)

Yes, it's the new Microsoft/Ronco Food/Word Processor! Slices, dices,
chops, cuts, pastes!  Handles kerning and kernels (the corn variety)
with no problems--cut your document and dinner preparation time in
half!  But wait, there's more...
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