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From: dchopp@vicente.math.ucla.edu (David Chopp)
Subject: PD Data Acquisition SW?
Organization: UCLA Mathematics Department
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 21:07:37 GMT

I am posting this for a friend without an account:

Is there any public domain/shareware mac software for data acquisition?
My friend is a former Apple II nut who used the paddle inputs to read analog
data from experiments.  Now he would like to use the microphone on the
mac LC (or any other port for that matter) to input experiment data directly
into the mac without buying large amounts of additional hardware.  Does such
a beast exist?  Please respond by E-mail and I will forward the info.  Thanks..

Dave Chopp
dchopp@math.ucla.edu
From: yeungl@Software.Mitel.COM (Louis Yeung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: source control package
Date: 18 Nov 92 18:56:09 GMT
Followup-To: yeungl@Software.Mitel.COM
Distribution: na
Organization: Mitel. Kanata (Ontario). Canada.

Does anyone know any source control package which can run on Mac and DOS
machines? These machines are on a LAN with file servers. I guess the 
controlled files are in the file server. The package can then run in
those machines. Is this valid? If you have the answer, will you kindly
email to me. Thanks.

Louis Yeung
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: willson@seas.gwu.edu (Stephen R. Willson)
Subject: Re: Help with Retrospect Remote
Organization: George Washington University
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 00:32:37 GMT

In article <1e6g4rINN2q6@rave.larc.nas> Michael W. Rowland writes:

>First, Retrospect Remote comes with a 10-user license as standard...

Well, not always.  Dantz will often distribute Retrospect Remote with
hardware used for backups (the original poster probably got his copy with
the tape drive he purchased).  A few questions for the original poster,
how many volumes do you have mounted on the machine running the backups? 
I think you said two or three , but I can't remember.  Does this cause
many problems?  Isn't that machine incredibly slow?  At work, we run
Retrospect to backup approxiametly fifty machines over four zones and it
takes six-eight hours to backup all of the work (everything except the
applications and the system folder or an average of 2megs on each machine)
over a localtalk network.  How long does it take your backups to run?  I
would definetely recommend that you use the Remote control panel if you
backup any more than five machines.  Especially if you do this over
localtalk. 
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From: olafn@inbit.ibt.unit.no (Olaf F. Normann)
Subject: X11 client SW (lib) for mac
Organization: IBT
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 15:04:53 GMT


Hello netters!

Does anyone know if there exist X11 SW for Macintosh? 

Best regards 
olaf F. Normann
e-mail: Olaf.F.Normann@unimed.sintef.no
From: wells@cs.swarthmore.edu (Daniel Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: ChemDraw
Date: 22 Nov 92 21:42:42 GMT
Organization: Swarthmore College

Does anyone know anything about ChemDraw? I know that there was a MacWeek
article recently, but I haven't been able to locate the issue. I need it 
for an Organic Chem course in college (I cannot draw by hand). Is there 
a  competitive package from another manufacturer that may be cheaper
than the deluxe ChemDraw (I may need the color drawing capability). Beaker
won't work, ironically, because it does too much. Because it is capable
of IUPAC name generation from a structure and structure generation from 
a name, the Chem department won't allow me to use it on tests. In 
particular, does anyone know about the memory and disk space requirements
and the student price for ChemDraw?

						Thanks,


						-Dan
From: labdk@emory.edu (Davo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: changing the defaults on printers
Date: 19 Nov 92 01:48:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: emoryu1.1464
Organization: Emory University, Atlanta, GA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3


Thanks for the info...  My page setup works great.  Now all I need
is an init that forces the default printer to be the deskwriter
even if the person that last used the printer used the laser...  we
have lots of students here that accidentally print to the laser
because the last person had it set for that...

davo
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From: crmsncat@cyberden.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Zterm 0.90
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 09:04:43 PST
Organization: Indescribable Creations

anyone know when the new version of Zterm's coming out? i have version 
0.90 right now..


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From: Darren_E._Tong@fourd.com
Organization: 4th Dimension BBS
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:56:22 EST
Subject: Re: Automaticaly change printer ?!?!

>I would like to know if it is possible to create a macro to automaticaly
>change the printer selection in the chooser ?

>I actually want to let a user click on a "Print labels" button in
FileMakerPro
>without having to open the chooser, select the printer, print the labels,
>and come back to the LaserWriter.

>Is it possible with QuickKeys or Frontier ?
Yes, I do it with the choosy extention in quickeys!
It's fairly simple!

- BulkRate: the Danish call it "Spumco"! WHY??-darren_tong@fourd.com

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From: jeffp@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu (Jeff Parke)
Subject: Norton 2.0 recovers garbage
Originator: jeffp@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu
Organization: Washington State University
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 06:25:52 GMT

Files recovered by Norton 2.0 are often junk, or wrong stuff entirely.

These are marked "excellent" in the file recovery dialog.  They are always
ones deleted on a previous session.  Files deleted and then recoverd without
doing a shutdown are fine.

Anyone else have this problem?  Any known fixes?

System is SE/30, 7.01 with Tuner 1.1.1


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also:   jeffp@WSUVM1.bitnet     CIS: 71511,1512    AOL: JeffParke
Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine class of 1994
Pullman, WA  99164-7012
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Logicworks wanted
From: LHSJY@LURE.LATROBE.EDU.AU (YELLAND,John)
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 02:46:04 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24

I am using a Mac program called 'LOGICWORKS' from Capilano computing
in Vancouver, BC, Canada.  My version is 1.2.  I would dearly like
an upgrade but Capilano's address as listed in APPLE's directory of
programs etc (501-1168 Hamilton St., Vancouver) appears to be dead.

  Does anyone know the correct address?

(The program emulates, in graphic form, electronic logic, with working
Gates, Counters etc.  I saw a colour version displaying a 68000 circuit
at a PC show in Melbourne around 3 years ago.)



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John Yelland, Technical Services, School of Health Sciences, La Trobe University
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.       lhsjy@lu:latrobe:edu:au
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Leigh_MacKay@mindlink.bc.ca (Leigh MacKay)
Subject: Re: HOW do I update White Knight?
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:19:35 GMT

Make a copy of White Knight, double click on the updater for the version of
White Knight you now have, select the White Knight copy, and the updater will
do the rest.

Personally, I have been unable to take my White Knight to the 11.14 level.
The updater insists that it can't handle any version of White Knight I offer
it.  I've left it at 11.13.


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From: werner@soe.berkeley.edu (John Werner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Beaker 2.0
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Date: 16 Nov 1992 21:58:28 GMT
Organization: UC Berkeley School of Education
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.32.157.31

In article <BxsEIr.686@acsu.buffalo.edu>, Daniel A Rube wrote:
> I was flipping through Macworld and came across a review for
> Beaker 2.0. This is a program designed for Organic Chem. students to help make
> the subject more easily understood and perhaps interesting. I am taking 
> Organic Chem (201-202) next year and am interested in this program.

It's your lucky day :-).  I'm one of the people who wrote Beaker.  It can
be purchased from Brooks/Cole Publishing, 408-373-0728.  I don't remember
exactly what it costs, but with the educational discount it will be less
than your Organic textbook.  They also have a severely crippled demo
version that is (I think) free.

I'm obviously biased, so I won't say much about the program itself, other
than that it does a good job with the chemistry, but the user interface
needs improvement.  But was that a good review or what? :-)

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UC Berkeley School of Education     510-642-9651
From: 00bwanderson@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: SCSI Hard drive protection needed!
Date: 17 Nov 92 19:00:19 GMT
Organization: Ball State University, Muncie, In - Univ. Computing Svc's

This may be more appropriate in another forum, but...

We have three networks of Mac SEs and a handfule of Pluses.  Every once in
awhile, some wiseacre decides he's gonna have some fun with us and reformats
the drive and installs a minimal system on it.  Is there currently a SCSI
driver that, once installed, will prevent this without a password?
	What I am looking for is:

		Driver level
		Only requires a password if user boots from floppy or
			tries to erase the hard drive
		Shreds the floppy if password is wrong after a
			operator-selectable number of times

Does such a beast exsist?  If not, how difficult would it be to implement?  If
it does, where can I get it, and how much will it cost me?

Thanks very much in advance!

Bruce W. Anderson
Department of Journalism,
Ball State University
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From: Michael_D._Murie@fourd.com
Organization: 4th Dimension BBS
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 21:49:01 EST
Subject: Re: Recommendations for an Animation Program?

< Hello. I am currently using Alias Sketch! for modelling / rendering, and
would like to be able to take my models from Sketch! and animate them.>

It depends on what kind of animation you want to do, and how complex the
models are. Unfortunately, I haven't yet used Sketch! so have no experience
with moving models created from Sketch! into MM3D or anything else. The two
animation programs I use the most are Infini-D and MM3D. I like the way MM3D
animation is created - I think it's a lot easier to create complicated
animation with Ease In and Ease Out etc, then it is in Infini-D. However, MM3D
I find gets bogged down and rather slow when you have complex models. You want
the fastest Mac you can get with the most memory.
Infini-D, I think, performs better, but the animation is key frame based, and so I find it harder to create fluid stuff.
If you've got the bucks, you might want to look at Electric Image, which is similar
to MM3D in the way you create animations, but performance is better (but you
could buy a Quadra for the difference in price!)


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From: brennan@hal.hahnemann.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Retraction time ...
Date: 18 Nov 1992 14:02:31 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu


      Oh well ... should've triple checked before blabbing my mouth
   off, no?

      I post a problem I've had with MWII & Sys 7 (yup, tuned up)
   and someone tells me they've never heard of it ... shades of the
   "hmm"-going things ... run out into the lab, stuff the little
   Mac until only 4k of memory is left - and it works.  No glitches
   or whirring, no bombs, beeps or crashing.

      One humble apology to Claris, Usenet and anyone who's time I
   wasted by attempting to duplicate my problem.

      (and a double load of fury & documentation when it happens
          the next time ...  :^)

      andrew.  (brennan@hal.hahnemann.edu)
From: Eric.Choi@zeus.ieee.org (Eric Choi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Stuffit Lite anomaly (not bug)
Date: 14 Nov 92 21:55:39 GMT
Organization: IEEE Service Center, Piscataway, NJ

I have the same problem with Stuffit Lite 3.X. Every time I launch it, the
program asks twice for a disk that I used on my Mac long, long time ago. I hit
return twice (the dialo box asking for that disk come up twice) and the
program will run normally. Annoying indeed. The AOL tech. person from Aladdin
said it was my Mac, not the software. Now it appears someone has the same
problem as mine!

Let me know if you find a solution.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: willcox@urbana.mcd.mot.com (David A Willcox)
Subject: Re: Clarisworks or MS Works?
Organization: Motorola Computer Group, Urbana Design Center
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 19:58:57 GMT

mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner) writes:

>I won't promise to be objective, because I work for Claris, and can't be
>completely objective.  It goes with the territory.

>The major difference between ClarisWorks and MS Works is that in MS Works,
>each type of function has its own module and document, and you can't mix
>them.  If you want to put a table from a spreadsheet into a word processor,
>you have to open a spreadsheet document, do your spreadsheet stuff, copy
>it, and paste it into the word processor (and save the SS document if you
>think you may have to revise the data).  In ClarisWorks, you simply drag
>out a spreadsheet rectangle in the word processor document (the menus will
>change to the SS menus until you click out of the SS; then the menus will
>change back), and do your work right there.  You can open the SS into a
>full window if you need, but that is just for working; the SS still remains
>in the WP document.  This is not limited to just SS and WP; any module can
>be used in any other module (the only exception is that you can't
>incorporate the telecommunications module into any other, or any other in
>it).

The integration isn't quite a seamless as it sounds.  If you put a
spreadsheet into a word processor document as described here, the SS is
effectively pasted on top of the WP document.  It isn't really IN the WP
document.  If, for example, you create a SS in a WP document to create a
table, and then add text to the paragraphs preceeding the table, the
text will flow underneath the "table" and disappear.  You have to move
the "table" around manually to sit on top of the space that you've
created in the WP document (again, manually).  You can cut and paste the
SS into your WP document, and it will follow the text around, but the SS
will no longer be "live" - it will be just like in MSWorks. 

>Microsoft Works had a 90% market share before ClarisWorks was introduced. 
>Now ClarisWorks has a 75% market share.  Some of this is due to marketting
>activities, but most of it is due to the solidity of the product.

How much of this had to do with the facts that (1) ClarisWorks came
out several months before MSWorks 2.0, and (2) Claris and Apple have a
rather closer relationship than MS and Apple.  (How many copies of
MSWorks have been "given away" with Performas?)

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: skeeve@nadia.stgt.sub.org (Michael Koerner)
Subject: Re: 'Tape' Backup
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 13:52:09 GMT
Organization: Stuttgart Net Systems, FRG

macnei@hercules.cs.uregina.ca (Mike MacNeill) writes:

>Damn I hate vi.

>A couple of nights ago I had a strange dream in which I was backing up my
>harddrive using an LCII and a tape-recorder hooked up to the sound input
>and output ports.  This is quite strange as I've had a MacII since 1987 and
>have no wish to downgrade yet.  Today, though, while trying to stay awake
>in class, I started thinking about and doing some preliminary calculations.

>1) 10mb = 10240K = 10,485,760 bytes = 83,886,080 bits

>2) 45 minutes = 2700 seconds

>3) Therefore, you would have to be able to store and be able to read back
>   31,000 bits per second.
To get this idea to work you must slow down to at least 10000 bps, because 
you have to add redundant data by the factor of 1.5 and your (high quality !)
tape deck will not allow you to record more than 15000 bps (if ever!). So
forget it

Michael Koerner
E-Mail: skeeve@nadia.stgt.sub.org
From: sacg@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (giuseppe sacco)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Voice recognition for speech to text
Keywords: voice recognition, voice synthesys, voice navigator, speech to text
Date: 20 Nov 92 15:57:36 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University


Hi netters,
a friend of mine is looking for some application to synthesize and recognize voice. He needs them as is developing a system for a boy who suffers of progressive muscolar distrophy (Italian : "distrofia muscolare progressiva") and is unable to use nothing more than his voice. This piece of software have to deal with italian language and, as for the piece for voice recognition, be able to navigate him through the various Mac application and speech to text.
He already has The Voice Navigator, and is thinking to buy the software version to use on a powerbook with the system mike. The problem is the system can deal with 200 words only, and isn't enough for speech to text: he needs at least some thousand of words or even more.
Is there someone who could help him?
Any kind of help will be greatly apreciated.

Please, as this friend of mine hasn't acces to nn, please E-Mail to me:

	sacg@ghost.dsi.unimi.it

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <needje@msen.com>
Subject: Re: Ars Magna
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 11:07:19 EST
Organization: The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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X-Xxdate: Mon, 16 Nov 92 11:08:03 GMT

In article <BxnoHn.H38@news.chalmers.se> Fredrik Pihlstr|m,
d1pihlan@dtek.chalmers.se writes:
>> Does anyone out there have the Mac
>>version of Ars Magna?

It was recently reposted at sumex-aim.stanford.edu as
info-mac/game/ars-magna.hqx (179k). Warning: it's not System 7
compatible. If you must run it under Sys 7, put it on your hard disk
proper (not within a desktop folder) and turn 32-bit addressing and
virtual memory OFF. Under those circumstances, you have a chance of
getting it to run, although your screen will not rewrite properly and you
still may crash.

Jeff Needleman
From: Charles.B.Wilber@dartmouth.edu (Charles B. Wilber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: SE/30 and OmniPage Pro
Date: 19 Nov 92 17:24:40 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
X-Posted-From: InterNews1.0a5@newshost.dartmouth.edu

A colleague of mine is interested in purchasing the OmniPage Pro OCR
software but is hesitant because of rumored problems running it on an
SE/30. He remembers hearing that some folks have had trouble running it
on those machines. Not having OP myself I couldn't advise him. FWIW, he
is running an SE/30 with 8 megs and 80 meg HD, System 7.0.1 with
tune-up 1.1.1 and supporting an E-Machines 16" color monitor. Monitor
is connected to a ColorServer PDS-17 video card. He also uses
AutoDoubler version 1.07.

Any comments, pro or con, would be welcome. He would like to know if
OmniPage will run on his machine or not. Thanks in advance for any
assistance.

Charlie Wilber
Manresa Information Systems
From: sna@prophet.pharm.pitt.edu (Stewart Abramson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Help! Macwrite Spellchecker Crashes
Date: 19 Nov 92 16:18:56 GMT
Followup-To: sna@prophet.pharm.pitt.edu
Organization: University of Pittsburgh


Could anyone help me?  I have a Mac 2ci and a 2si, both with system 7. 
Both have the same inits etc, such as greggs buttons, now menus,
superclock, cursor animator etc etc.

My problem is that all of a sudden (?) the spell checker for Macwrite II on
the 2ci crashes the system.  The Macwrite files from the 2ci can be
transfered to the 2si and they can be spellchecked there just fine.  But
reloading Macwrite II from the 2si to the 2ci, and checking the 2ci with
SAM virus (V3.0.3 7/?/92) and norton utilities does not help the situation.

Things are getting desparate.  ANY help will be appreciated.

Stewart Abramson
sna@prophet.pharm.pitt.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Ian Catlin <catlin@iosg.enet.dec.com>
Subject: Re: can spacesave coexist with AutoDoubler?
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A72E8FF3650160EB@wonky.reo.dec.com>
X-Xxdate: Tue, 17 Nov 92 12:02:59 GMT
Organization: digital
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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 12:01:36 GMT

>can spacesave coexist with AutoDoubler?

Not on your life!!!

I'm waiting for FGS and Alladin to sort out the problems, but for now
Definitely NOT!

I've found that AutoDoubler is best for Background compression, but
Spacesaver gives
soooo much flexibility with its "compress now" mechnism, i REALLY wish
the two would
work together!

Cheers,

Ian.

All my views are my own and not those of my company, wife, friends,
relations and dog.
From: iscjcw@uccvma.ucop.edu (Jerry Wilcox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Reading downloaded text files
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Date: 16 Nov 1992 18:00:52 GMT
Organization: University of California, Office of the President
Distribution: world
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In article <1992Nov16.153823.10021@cas.org>, mrc65@cas.org () wrote:
> 
> I'm getting the standard, "XXX cannot be opened because the
>  program that created it cannot be found".
> 

Michael, we might be able to provide better advice if you'd use a disk
editor or any other tool (even ResEdit) to look at the file and tell us
what the type and creator codes for this file are.
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All opinions expressed are MINE -- I'd have a different job if the
University wanted me to speak for it.