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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Schedule reminder during startup for Mac?
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 19:15:57 -0500

  {A> Hi, is there a appointment/schedule/birthday reminder for Macintosh
  {A> that will pop up during the startup?  If yes, where can I find it?
  {A> Thank you.

I use the shareware program "Remember" which does everything you requested and
much more.  I would assume you could find it on any BBS that has mac software.
From: stauffer@cc.swarthmore.edu (R. Glenn Stauffer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Admissions Office Scheduling Application
Date: 28 Jul 92 16:41:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: cc.QCCNBFCB
Organization: Swarthmore College Computing Center
X-Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 17:41:31 GMT
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d3

We are searching for a scheduling application for our College Admissions
Office that can be used to schedule candidate interviews with our
admissions officers.   

The system should maintain schedules for each admissions officer where
they could designate hours during which they can be scheduled for
interviews and "unavailable" time where they are engaged in other
activities.  The office receptionist would be able to see all schedules -
in a format like a doctor's office appointment book - and make interview
appointments.  Ideally, we'd like something that would allow the
receptionist to attach notes to an appointment, and would notify the
Admissions Officers that they have scheduled appointments. 

To date, we've reviewed Meeting Maker, but it doesn't allow the
receptionist to view all schedules unless we make the receptionist a
proxy to the schedule of all other users.  I also have heard of a product
called Front Desk, but do not know how well it handles networked
schedules.

Please email replies.  I'll post a summary, if there is sufficient
interest.

Glenn Stauffer
Swarthmore College
stauffer@cc.swarthmore.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: zaphod@bluemoon.rn.com (Peter Bierman)
Subject: Re:  How to uncripple HyperCard?
Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 22:47:16 EDT

mcolthea@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au (Max Coltheart) writes:

> 
> About 18 months ago there was information floating around about a method
> of getting access to all of the capabilities of HyperCard 2 when supplied 
> with the crippled version that is standardly distributed. It was simply done
> via the message box. I did it and it worked with the version of HyperCard 2 
> then around. Now I've forgotten how it's done - just when I want to do it
> again.
> 
> Anyone out there with a better memory than mine?
> 
> MaxC
> 

Yeah, it's easy. Just hit cmd-M to get the message box, jump to the last 
card in the home stack, type "Set level to 5", and you should get some new 
menus.

Pick the field tool, and delete the big blak field that they placed over 
the various buttons on the last card. Then do the same with the button 
tool.

Wala! HC 2, sans docs.

s.
.d26

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From: silverma@girtab.usc.edu (David Silverman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: WingZ - sys 7 compatible version ?
Date: 22 Jul 1992 09:28:28 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: girtab.usc.edu

In article <1992Jul19.021429.4291@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> jonkatz@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jonathan W. Katz) writes:
>In article <4yo5NB1w164w@netlink.cts.com> macdevil@netlink.cts.com (Leonard Cayetano) writes:
>>I forgot which Mac magazine, MacWorld or MacUser, stated it, but 
>>Informix will be coming out with a new version (2.x) of Wingz.  That
>>will be System 7 savvy.
>>
>>--                    
>
>Do we know when???????

Who cares, I've already switched back to excel (which takes up 5Meg+, while
wingz took less than 1M).
From: ejohnso@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Eric Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: TeX to Word or other Mac WP formats
Summary: Need translator from TeX to Word or other Mac WP package
Keywords: TeX Word translation
Date: 29 Jul 92 15:20:56 GMT
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Are there any translators for getting from TeX to Word or MacWrite
or any other Mac/PC based word processor? Please e-mail, or better,
post here. Thanks.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: gn@cc.gatech.edu (toM o. genesE)
Subject: Looking for Online Stock Trading App
Reply-To: gn@cc.gatech.edu
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 00:50:14 GMT


Greetings:

  A friend of mine would like to use his Mac to do online stock
trading.  That is, he is seeking an application (perhaps offered
through a brokerage firm) that will allow him to buy and sell stocks
via modem.  He knows about CIS, but it looking for other alternatives.

  Does anyone know of any such applications, and any fees that would
accompany its usage?

  Please respond via email.

  Thanx.

toM o. genesE                         Bont             --      I feel 
#8-) C&U&L2&S2WIT                      Hustler     ---/  )     that we
Inet: gn@cc.gatech.edu                Mogema      (      )     must hit
Home: gn@philios.atl.ga.us            Bones     ---=-----=-    the pavement
UUCP: ...!rutgers!emory!philios!gn    Hyper    O  O  O  O  O   right NOW!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: proth@northwest.eng.uiowa.edu (Phil Roth)
Subject: PostScript Type 3 fonts with ATM
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 17:54:53 GMT
Organization: Department of Elect. and Comp. Engr., University of Iowa, USA.


In the ATM manual, it is claimed that PostScript Type 3 fonts are 
recognized by ATM but not scalable.  I have a Type 3 font, and would
like to use it through ATM, but cannot find a format in which ATM will
recognize it.

Anyone know what format the font needs to be in?  If anyone has gotten
a Type 3 font to work with ATM, could you either mail( or post ) the
font, if that is legal, or describe the format of the resources and
data fork it uses?

Thanks to the Icelandic gentleman who has been answering my previous
question...

Close to giving up,
Phil
proth@eng.uiowa.edu
From: aefron@cornerstone.com (Andrew Efron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: FoxBase+/Mac vs 4th Dimension
Date: 31 Jul 92 01:10:04 GMT
Reply-To: aefron@cornerstone.com (Andrew Efron)
Organization: Cornerstone Research

Anyone have experience using both FoxBase and 4D?  Even better, has anyone 
switched from one to the other?  My company is a heavy user of Foxbase but 
I'd like to get them to look at something else--I find Foxbase rather quirky 
(i.e. doesn't always do what you tell it to do), too I-O intensive and since 
it only allows single-user access to database files, I end up running around 
the office trying to figure out who's got my file open.  I've heard some good 
things about 4D but no one has been able to make specific comparisons.

Also, now that Microsoft has taken over Fox software, any thoughts on the 
prospects for FoxPro/Mac being a significant improvement (and for that 
matter, if we will ever see it)?

Andy

Andrew Efron
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: buckc@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Carolyn Buck-Gengler)
Subject: MS Works vs Claris Works
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 17:18:54 GMT

In response to a previous posting where I said I'm looking at MS
Word and MS Works (due to the fact that I *know* I can read files
back and forth between them), one helpful reader gave his opinion
that Claris works is much better than MS Works, and felt that CW
ought to be compatible with MSWord.  On the other hand, last Sat at
Denvers CWElectronics, a salesdroid spent quite a bit of time trying
to get files to read in back and forth, and could not.  (I don't
KNOW that he tried every last thing possible -- he was going too
fast to follow everything he did.)

So, specific question about these two works programs and MSWord.
I would like responses dealing with actual experience, not "well
they are the same company so they should work together" or "well
claris says it works with popular mac sw so they should work
together" or "well they are NOT the same company so obviously you
should get both MS products" -- I have gotten all those responses
from salesdroids over the last several days, at several stores.  I
want real experience, the only demonstration I've seen of it says
it won't work.
<this is not to discount the experience of my original correspondent
in this matter! but I wasn't able to duplicate it, and I'd like to
before I am stuck with CW and it won't deal with word!>

so, for those who have used both works, which do you prefer and why?
and for those who successfully (and without more conversion sw) use
CW and MSWord, please let me know.

(the reason I want a works is to have a db and spreadsheet; I don't
know ANYTHING about the db's that are standalone, other than that the
university doesn't have ANY of them in their lab at school; if someone
could recommend a particular db that works with word and excel I might
lean that way, but for now, unless the works spreadsheets are junk,
at least I could have 3 things with two packages - oh, also,
eventually we will use the communications stuff in works as well)

Thanks, as usual, for your advice!  (responses to my previous
postings have contained a LOT of excellent information!)

Carolyn
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Carolyn Buck-Gengler		Department of Linguistics
buckc@ucsu.colorado.edu		University of Colorado, Boulder
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: forman@ide.com (Bonnie Forman)
Subject: Re: Typeit4me3.0
Organization: IDE, San Francisco
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 15:12:29 GMT

In article <1992Jul17.183209.15572@venice.sedd.trw.com> moynihan@venice.sedd.trw.com (Bill Moynihan) writes:
>In article <1992Jul16.201242.13878@husc3.harvard.edu> mirsky1@husc8.harvard.edu (David Mirsky) writes:
>>I am looking for a copy of the Shareware program, Typeit4me.  
>>I used the archie server to search for it, but I couldnt find
>>version 3.0. Does anyone know if it is somewhere on the internet?
>>Please respond if you have actually seen it somewhere.
>>thanks
>>David
>>
>
>David,
>
>Try sumex-aim.stanford.edu (36.44.0.6) in the /ex directory. It
>looks like version 3.2 not 3.0 as you requested. Does this
>matter?
>-- 
>Bill Moynihan (moynihan@venice.sedd.trw.com)


   I don't have access to that network.  Does anyone out
   there have time to email me a copy of it?

	thanks,

		Bonnie

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From: howie@intermec.com (Howard Kaplan x1696)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: How to uncripple HyperCard?
Date: 21 Jul 92 19:41:17 GMT
Reply-To: howie@intermec.com (Howard Kaplan x1696)
Organization: Intermec Corporation, Everett WA

In article <1992Jul20.021613.17250@CSUFresno.EDU> rhorowit@zimmer.CSUFresno.EDU (Rick Horowitz) writes:
>I have been wondering about this, too.  I heard that it was
>simply so Claris could make money by charging for a developers'
>kit, without needing to write another version of the program.
>Apparently, someone leaked the info (thank the gods).
>
>What I *can't* figure out is: if someone uncripples their 
>HC app, is there perhaps still a reason they would want to
>purchase the Developers' Kit?  What's in the Kit?
>
>Thanks for any replies. 
>
>||======================================================================||
>||  Rick Horowitz                  || If a tree falls across the road   ||
>||  CSUFresno, Philosophy          || and no one is there trying to     ||
>||  rick@csufres.csufresno.edu     || pass, does it block the road?     ||
>||  rhorowit@zimmer.csufresno.edu  ||          -Nick Serafimidis        ||
>||======================================================================||

First of all just enabling the scripting does not get you much unless you
have documentation to go with the functionality.  Claris offers two levels of
Hypercard.  Both come with the same basic software which includes  the all
important help stack as well as sample home stacks and other goodies.  The
first (cheaper) package from Claris includes some manuals, but they are
pretty terse and basically give you an overview of Hypercard and a manaul
that has the command syntax.  This is the package I have.  I have not seen
the more advanced developers kit, but it has additional manauls.

If you are not interested in the support stacks, I recommend you do the
"magic" trick and go out and buy Danny Goodmans HyperCard books for your
supporting documentation.  In fact even if you spring for the basic Hypercard
offering from Claris I recommend these books as a supplement.

Howard Kaplan
There are two packages that come from Claris.  Th
From: Douglas Merrill <dmerrill@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu>
Subject: Re: WingZ - sys 7 compatible version ?
Organization: Institute for the Learning Sciences
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 20:49:04 GMT

Subject: Re: WingZ - sys 7 compatible version ?
From: Leonard Cayetano, macdevil@netlink.cts.com
In article <4yo5NB1w164w@netlink.cts.com> Leonard Cayetano,
macdevil@netlink.cts.com writes:
>I forgot which Mac magazine, MacWorld or MacUser, stated it, but 
>Informix will be coming out with a new version (2.x) of Wingz.  That
>will be System 7 savvy.
>


You could also try Claris Resolve -- there's an "upgrade" from Wingz to
Resolve 1.1, which is System 7 savvy, and is shipping (unlike Wingz 2.0).
 Call Claris and ask about pricing (it was cheap...)

BTW -- Claris bought part (perhaps all) of the code to Wingz and snazzed
it up some -- I have been able to open all my Wingz files (about 50 of
them at ~500k each) and work with no problems (i.e., no export/import,
etc) since Resolve is in large part Wingz minus some of the annoying bugs.

Good Luck...
Thanks,

Douglas Merrill
Visiting Scholar
The Institute for the Learning Sciences
Northwestern University
1890 Maple Ave
Evanston IL 60201
dmerrill@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: R. Glenn Stauffer <stauffer@cc.swarthmore.edu>
Subject: Re: Looking for .zip for the mac
Organization: Swarthmore College
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d1
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 20:01:40 GMT

In article <1992Jul21.031518.1490@zip.eecs.umich.edu> Jeffrey L.
Needleman, JNeedleman@MCIMail.com writes:
>There are a few unzip utilities for the Mac, but until this month no zip
>utilities. That has now changed! Zip 1.0 was just made available on
>America On Line. Since this question comes up a lot, I think I'll
>download it myself tonight and post it at sumex-aim.stanford.edu.  Look
>for it there later in the week.
>

I've had Zip 1.0 for quite a few months.  Unfortunately, the program
appends a "d" to the names of files being "zipped".   One of the program
authors,  Johnny Lee (johnnyl@microsoft.com) apparently is working on an
update.
From: iscjcw@uccvma.ucop.edu (Jerry Wilcox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Looking for .zip for the mac
Date: 27 Jul 1992 17:38:06 GMT
Organization: University of California
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: ajax.ucop.edu

In article <1682F716E.GILMART@LSTC2VM.stortek.com> GILMART@LSTC2VM.stortek.com
(Paul Gilmartin) writes:
> 
>I tried it and couldn't get it to work at all on my SE running sys 6.0.7.
>The best it would do is create an empty archive, complain that it was empty,
>then quit.
> 
>The user interface is crude; the icon is generic -- the product of a novice.
>
Although I admit to not having used it extensively, it seems to work fine on
both machines to which I have access (IIsi and IIci). I was able to zip a
couple of files, unzip them, and compare the unzipped copy to the original
successfully.

As to the crude inteface and generic icon, perhaps they simply indicate
something that was done quickly to fill a need. All of the glitz of a fancy
user interface and a spiffy color 3D icon are pretty well wasted if the program
itself doesn't work. 

In this case, we don't have any alternatives and someone spent time putting Zip
together - I'm not gonna look a gift horse in the mouth.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: SPA piracy raid at Oregon?
Reply-To: bradcox@infoage.com (Brad Cox)
Keywords: Superdistribution, pay-per-use, piracy, copyright, useright
Organization: Information Age Consulting
From: bradcox@infoage.com (Brad Cox)
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 14:16:42 EST
X-Mailer: Fernmail 1.2b1

> 3. Everyone else in the world who has a need for a car uses the
>    "Super-Duper-Car-Duplicator" to make a copy of either the original car or
>    of other copies of the original car.

This is a beautiful example. I use the same example in my new book;
Object Technologies; A Revolutionary Approach; Addison Wesley late
1992.

Accept that scenario as stated and consider how the auto makers would
respond.

Their first response would be to pass laws, bust duplicators, and so
forth, just as SPA is doing today. But if the duplicators were as
readily available as software duplicators, they'd be likely to
fail...or at best, the duplicators would force car prices downwards for
precisely the reasons that shareware prices are forced low. As someone
said in this thread, the best anyone could hope for in the way of
quality is a fresh copy of a black, century-old Model T Ford since the
innovators would soon go out of business.

But the innovators have another card to play. They'd design and
manufacture *one* copy of a modern high-quality car, and invite
everybody in to duplicate it *for free*. After all, why should they
hassle with manufacturing when customers can do it for them with the
car Xerox? And why would customers drive a black Model T when they can
have a modern car *FOR FREE*! Just walk in, Xerox your very own copy
and wave bye-bye at the door! No muss, no fuss, no money changes hands.

The innovator's apparent generosity is possible because the copies have
strings attached. They contain an armorplated (tamper-proof) meter such
that the designers can collect revenue based on use as opposed to by
the copy as today. (Precisely the way car rental companies collect
money today based on odometer readings, with the odometers read and
fees paid, perhaps, by gasoline stations). Alternatively, they could
simply legislate a tax on gasoline and ignore the odometer altogether.
Both approaches amount to switching from pay-per-copy revenue
collection to a pay-per-use basis.

The point is that this would allow the automobile industry to thrive
just as before.

Pay-per-use revenue collection has been extensively discussed as it
might be applied to software in comp.object under the subject
"Superdistribution: Making money on objects". The thread focuses around
a recent column I wrote for the June issue of the Journal of
Object-oriented Programming titled "What if there is a silver
bullet...and the competition builds it first".
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Information Age Consulting     bradcox@infoage.com [or bradcox@aol.com (25kB max)]
From: marvin@norton.com (Marvin Carlberg)
Subject: SAM T4 virus defs file difficulties
Organization: Symantec / Peter Norton
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 21:36:29 GMT

Attention SAM Users:

If you are experiencing any difficulties after updating your copy of SAM 
for the T4 virus and its associated strains, please note that SAM's ability 
to provide protection, detection, and repair via Virus Clinic, Intercept, 
or Intercept Jr are not compromised or diminished in any way.

If your system satisfies all three of the following conditions, you may 
experience errors when attempting to launch some applications.  

    1) using SAM version 3.0.3 or earlier
AND
    2) using the latest SAM Virus Definitions file (7/8/92) or have added  
       the T4-A/T4-B virus definition manually via Virus Clinic
AND
    3) running System 7 or MultiFinder under System 6

The specific errors include a -605 system error, -33 system error (only with 
System 7 File Sharing enabled), an 'Unknown' system error, and a system freeze 
or hang.  Please call technical support at 310-449-4990 from 7:00am - 5:00pm 
Pacific time, Monday through Friday if it appears that this situation is 
affecting your system.

Once again, please keep in mind that protection for all currently known 
Macintosh viruses, including the T4 strains, is still very complete even if 
you are having these difficulties.


Thank you,

Symantec
From: macferri@husc8.harvard.edu (Kurtis Macferrin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Any apps which can publish TEXT files?
Summary: are there any apps which can publish a file in TEXT format?
Keywords: publish, subscribe, TEXT
Date: 30 Jul 92 11:36:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc8.macferri.712496191

Hi,
	Does anyone know of an app which can publish (in the system 7 sense)
data from a TEXT format file? Neither MS Word nor Excel can! In the case of
Word, it changes the file type to WDBN, and in the case of excel, it forgets
all about publishing after reopening the file. Versions are 5.0A for Word
and 3.0A for Excel. I realize that the publishing might result in the add-
ition of resource fork info, but can't the data fork just remain plain ASCII?
	Thanks for any info!

Kurtis MacFerrin	macferrin@slsvax.harvard.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: fullerto@tortoise.cis.ohio-state.edu (timothy dwight fullerton)
Subject: White Knight 11.11
Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and Information Science
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 01:20:01 GMT


	I have seen upgrade patches to take White Knight up to v11.14. 
Unfortunately, I have version 11.11. The patch that I have found to go
to 11.12 is designed to come from 11.10! Does anyone know of a patch that
will get me out of 11.11?

			Thanks

				Tim F.
				fullerto@cis.ohio-state.edu
From: bonnie@earth.njit.edu (Bonnie MacKellar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: C++ and other compilers
Date: 29 Jul 92 14:10:52 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

I have a pretty basic question : I am interested in buying a Mac
(possibly a powerbook 140 or 170), but I do a lot of programming
and people have told me tha the Mac is not a good programmers
machine due to a lack of good compilers.  Is this true or not?
I do not use "boxed applications" very often.
I normally use gnu C++  and Bim Prolog on a Sparcstation.
I also often need Lisp.  What is available for the Mac that
is comparable?  I understand that Think C is not really C++,
so I am not interested in that.  Is there anyting available
for free, like the gnu software?  Or am I better off
buying a PC?

                                 Bonnie MacKellar
                                 bonnie@vienna.njit.edu

                                  
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps