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From: hshubs@eff.org (Howard Shubs)
Subject: Re: Microsoft Question
Originator: hshubs@eff.org
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1992 01:13:20 GMT

In article <21061@venera.isi.edu> jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) writes:
>In article <J40iiB4w164w@banana.ithaca.ny.us> henning@banana.ithaca.ny.us (Henning Pape-Santos) writes:
>
>>silvers3@husc8.harvard.edu (Jolyon Silversmith) writes:
>>
[strange griping deleted]
[reasonable response deleted]
>
>Conversely, I posted a real bug report that nails me, and I never
>heard from ANYONE about a workaround or fix, Microsoft or not.

I've got a problem which MS can't seem to help me with, even after
quite a few calls to their tech support line.  I'd like to know if
anyone else has or had this problem with Word 5.

Ocassionally, when coming back to Word 5 under System 7 from another
program (Finder, ZTERM, Microphone II), the whole machine crashes.  It
-only- happens when I switch into Word 5.  It didn't happen under Word
4.0B.  What it looks like is this: I switch in, the insertion point
freezes for a second.  If it's going to crash, it does the job then.
If the insertion point starts blinking again, it won't crash this
time.  When I say "crashes", I mean all the way down to a warm start.

I'm running System 7, TuneUp 1.1 (though it happened under Tune-Up 1.0
and before Tune-Up showed up), on a Mac SE with 4MB, no network.
Other peripherals include an IW II, a modem, and a Q105-based disk
drive.  It's not the driver sw for the disk drive, since I tried
changing that sw and it continued to happen.

The problem is itermittent (of course), and doesn't appear to be
easily recreatable.  MS said "INIT conflict", so I'm running with my
minimal INIT set up and waiting for the thing to happen again.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?

-- 
Howard S Shubs      hshubs@eff.org      I don't represent the EFF,
The Denim Adept     hshubs@BIX.com      but I do agree with them.
From: dave@gergo.tamu.edu (Dave Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Canvas 3.03 -- problems with inverted text
Date: 16 Apr 92 12:56:00 GMT
Organization: Geochemical & Environmental Research Group, Texas A&M University
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Apr15.191434.14666@sarah.albany.edu>, ddl683@csc.albany.edu (Dreaming) writes...
>Hi-- has anyone else seen this problem?  Changing text color (say, black
>to white, or grey), will not sucessfully print on a postscript laser printer.
>Text defined as white against a black background (say, a black rectangle
>behind it) properly shows up in relief on screen, but when
>printed, the text is invisible:  solid black rectangle.

One thing to check is the transfer mode of the text block (you know, the Copy,
Or, And, etc.). It's one of the pop-up menus in the tools (below the line types
and above the zoom factor, if my memory serves correctly). PostScript doesn't
do any of the QuickDraw transfer modes, so that portion of Canvas is useless.
Of course, for some reason, text blocks default to (and need to be set to) Or,
otherwise they don't work. Check to see if you've set the mode to Copy on the
text, and also make certain that you do not have a fill pattern applied to the
text block that is a solid black fill. This doesn't work too well at all. You
should either draw your black rect and send it behind an unfilled text block
with white (or gray) as the fore color for the text, or, a bit easier if you
just want the rect behind the text, dupe the text block with no offset and, via
Object/Object... (Pizza! Pizza! ? ;), convert the dupe text to a rect (tell it
that it's OK to do so) & set your fill pattern et al.

Hope this helps. 


 -                                                                     -
 - Dave Martin - Geochemical & Environmental Research Group, Texas A&M - 
 - DAVE@GERGA[GERGO,GERGI].TAMU.EDU - BROOKS@TAMVXOCN.BITNET - AOL:DBM -
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Gerard Van der Leun <van@eff.org>
Subject: Word 5.0 How do I turn off the text or text w/ layout box?
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1a2
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1992 17:26:02 GMT



One of the annoying little features of Word 5. is the dialogue box that
pops up every time I double click on anything other than a pure Word 5
file.

It asks me if I want to open the file as text or as "text with layout".

Since I **never ** want to open a file as "text with layout" this is
irritating to see ten to twenty times a day. 

Does anyone know how to turn off this "feature"?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: cabruen@athena.mit.edu (Charles Alan Bruen)
Subject: How do I change print margins in Alpha
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 00:24:39 GMT

Hello:

	How can I move the left-hand print margin in Alpha. I am using
version 4.01 of Alpha. My defualt font is Courier 12. But when I print
it is too close to the left side to punch holes in the paper. Any help
would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.



Charles Bruen
cabruen@athena.mit.edu
From: tbeaubie@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Todd Beaubien)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Expert Color Paint
Summary: Draw tools are a little needy
Date: 13 Apr 92 20:14:45 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio

In article <181040@pyramid.pyramid.com> andrem@pyrman2.pyramid.com (Andre Molyneux) writes:
>I just got an advertisement in the mail for "Expert Color Paint", offering
>to sell me this product for $29.95 (the only catch appears to be that you
>must currently own another Mac painting program).  They make it sound fairly
>good on paper, but I certainly won't send them my money based just on an
>advertisement.  Has anyone actually used this program before?
>
>+--------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+
>| Andre J. Molyneux              | Internet: andrem@pyramid.com            |
>| Pyramid Technology Corporation |                                         |
>| San Jose, California           | Packet:   ka7wvv@n0ary.#nocal.ca.usa.na |
>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+

I rented this program a while back for a week. It seemed to me that stuff like
drawing is a pain because it tries to dither your lines and I couldn't see how
to turn that off. The result are lines which aren't solid, crisp, and black while
only being x bits wide. Kind of a pain since I was trying to touch up a line 
diagram with no color. Other than that, it seemed really neat and powerful. I
might still buy it and use it in conjunction with my other cheapo color prog.

Sombody explain to me why ColorIt and Expert Color Paint look like the same
program. I was very surprised to see that myself.

Todd Beaubien
tbeaubie@ringer.cs.utsa.edu
UT at San Antonio
From: omalley@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Word Dictionary Wrong?!?!?
Summary: A poem four ewe too sea
Date: 7 Apr 92 16:15:33 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center

>>>|I'm getting no error on the word 'dependant'
>
>>Now that the original poster has been suitably humiliated, I'd like to take
>>his side a little further.
>
>'the' is a *terrible* spelling of 'then' (and vice versa) but
>spellcheckers can never catch that mistake, which, although a little
>more extreme, is really of the same ilk.

Found the following on a chalkboard in a classroom on campus.  Please
forgive the intrusion in our regularly scheduled Macintosh discussion,
but it seems appropriate:

Spellbound

I have a spelling checker
It came with my PC;
It plainly marks four my revue
Mistakes I cannot sea.
I've run this poem threw it
I'm sure your pleased too no.
It's letter perfect in it's weigh.
My checker tolled me sew.

     -- Pennye Harper


-John
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John O'Malley           /    User Services           /  Purdue University
omalley@cc.purdue.edu  /  Instructional Labs Group  /  Computing Center
From: barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Wanted: name of app that warns you when you have to rest
Date: 15 Apr 92 17:46:24 GMT
Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.ge.com
Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY

I have a repetitive motion injury. What is the name of the commercial
program that warns you when you need a break?

Please respond by mail. Thanks. 
--
Bruce Barnett <barnett@crd.ge.com> uunet!crdgw1!barnett
From: Romain.Vignes@fifi.univ-lyon1.fr
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: CLARIS support address
Date: 13 Apr 92 09:52:13 GMT
Organization: INSA Informatique, Lyon, France
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: fifi.univ-lyon1.fr

Hi there,

Does somebody know the Email address of the CLARIS technical support ??

I recently discovered a small bug (I think!) in ClarisWorks and I would like
to contact them about this ...

thanx in advance !!

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Computer Science Dept - INSA Lyon, FRANCE - roms@fifi.univ-lyon1.fr
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: diessel@informatik.unibw-muenchen.de (Thomas Diessel)
Subject: Re: DosMounter or AccessPC???
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 09:11:18 GMT

eboltz@CNDENEXT.MRS.JHU.EDU (Eric S. Boltz) writes:
>I need to get a transparent DOS diskette translation utility for my Dad. The more transparent  
>the better. To my knowledge my choices are Dayna's DOS Mounter or AccessPC.
>Anyone have any recommendations?
Apple promised to deliver its own transparent DOS diskette translation utility
which might be a licensed AccessPC.
--
Thomas Diessel
Federal Armed Forces University, Munich  -  Computer Science Department
Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39  -  W-8014 Neubiberg
Germany
From: urban@stout.atd.ucar.edu (Art Urban (PROFS))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Homemade Color-Matching charts?
Date: 8 Apr 92 20:21:08 GMT
Organization: Atmospheric Technology Division/NCAR, Boulder, CO

I need a specific color-output utility. I'm sure most folks are familiar with
the Pantone color-matching system cards/books, and they're great...if you
happen to be doing high-end four-color output. I'm not; my output is just for
me, but here's the problem. I know empirically that the color I view on screen
is *not* what will be hitting the paper. So what I need is my own homemade
color-matching charts. For many mac programmers this may be a trivial
exercise, but it would be infinitely useful. Imaging printing off a couple
thousand color swatches, picking the color you want, and *knowing* that's
just how it will look when printed! User options that would be nice, would
allow the user to determine the size of the swatch printed, the CMYK/RGB/HSV
information beneath it, a starting color and ending color, allow for three
hole punching for easy storage in a binder for future reference. I realize that
with 16+ million combinations, this would chew up paper like mad. To try and
keep that down, it would be nice if the utility would print as many vertical
strips to a page as is useful, and allow the user to specify some color step
value (65535, 65535, 65534 still looks pretty much like 65535, 65535, 65535).

Is there already such a utility (doubt it...). Thanx!

--
Art Urban 					       urban@stout.atd.ucar.edu
===============================================================================
 "It's a long way down to the bottom of the warp core..." -STNG
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: ddl683@csc.albany.edu (Dreaming)
Subject: Re: Canvas 3.03 -- problems with inverted text
Organization: State University of New York at Albany
	<16APR199206564632@gergo.tamu.edu>
Date: 17 Apr 92 00:34:35


I've gotten a few email replies to my original question, suggesting
that I toggle the Black-and-White/Color option in the print dialog
(to color).  I was swamped at work today, and I forgot to test it out.
When I referenced the manual on modifying text, this wasn't apparant
to me, but in hindsight it seems logical (at least, if you consider
black and white to be colors!).  :-)

As for object transfer modes, I was using "Or" on most of my tests,
although I ran one test checking all the modes.  You really can waste
a lot of paper this way...

                                                Derek L.
--
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Dreaming
ddl683@csc.albany.edu
my navel is an interdimensional portal
From: jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Expert Color Paint
Date: 16 Apr 92 19:21:48 GMT

e-sink@uiuc.edu (Eric W. Sink) writes:
>In <ewright.703441923@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
>>In <181040@pyramid.pyramid.com> andrem@pyrman2.pyramid.com (Andre Molyneux) writes:
>>>I just got an advertisement in the mail for "Expert Color Paint", offering
>>>to sell me this product for $29.95 (the only catch appears to be that you
>>>must currently own another Mac painting program).  
>>That's pretty silly, since Expert Color Paint sells for $27-29.95 mail order.
>>(No competitive upgrade required.)
>I got the ad too.  Is it any good ?  I know $30 is cheap, but time spent
>using a lousy program is not.

It's kind of slow, but it works.  I haven't used any other color painting
programs, so I don't know how it compares.  Someone wondered about its
color-gradient ability, and when I tried it, I was quite unimpressed (though
it might be hard to do better on a 256-color Mac).

Choosing colors is a little confusing; a careful read through the manual is
a necessity, which seems out of place in a Mac product :-).
From: wgns@troi.cc.rochester.edu (C. Wiggins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Excel 3.0a HELP!!! (color wierdness)
Date: 9 Apr 92 02:27:10 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

My Excel is freaking out.  I have a 6/40 LC, 14" monitor w/VRAM, and System 7.
Even with no extentions on, I get very strange results when I'm in 4 or 8bit   
mode.  Moving windows around "skrews up" the worksheet in unpredictable ways  
(some text becomes invisible, some border lines stop at strange places, colors
get mixed up, and worst of all, occasionally what look like color bar codes (as
on soft drink cans) will cover most of the screen!!).

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.  I've tried trashing the copy on my HD 
and starting over with a fresh one, but the same thing happens.  I'm mystified.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: gyoungs@isis.cs.du.edu (Greg Youngs)
Subject: MIDI Software recommendations?
Summary: MIDI software (music prose composition) recommendations
Keywords: MIDI Music Composing Mac
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 92 02:24:13 GMT


I am looking for software for church music director for chorus 
to create and printout music scores. No mixing required!
 
I looked at a demo of Music Prose 2.0 - is that my best shot?
The Demo for Beyond is not (yet) System 7 stable and did not
bother dling (AOL). How about Encore?

Coda Systems recommended IIsi w/ portrait monitor (grey or mono)
and strongly suggested that both Finale and MP both need just as
much processing power. An SE/30 & add 12 or 15" later seems like
another alternative.

Which MIDI Interface? 
Does it matter even? 

Sites with MIDI for ftp? 
 
An LC II would be the low-end configuration. Any good suggestions on 
dealer/mail order for one? When will the new IIsi be available?

I try to keep up but often cannot login often enough so email
please! I will summarize if desired.

Thanks,
Greg Youngs
gyoungs@nyx.cs.du.edu
    or
AOL: GYoungs  CIS: 76665,3010 (but not from net)
From: ellens@bnr.ca (Chris Ellens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Error -192 printing TeachText
Date: 13 Apr 92 17:06:28 GMT
Organization: Bell-Northern Research

Frequently, when attempting to print a TeachText file, the PrintMonitor
gives an an error dialogue (-192) and asks me if I want to try again (it
always fails again). Printing the same text from Word 4.0 is fine. Anybody
know what -192 means?

..Chris
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: tnf70@isuevax.iastate.edu (Greg Radke)
Subject: AutoCad -> DXF -> Infini-D ??Why NOT?
Reply-To: tnf70@isuevax.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 16:20:23 GMT


Why can't I import a file from AutoCad rel. 11
to a DXF file and then into Infini-D 1.1.2 ?

One file I could but the one I really wanted
gave me a "strangley formated DXF file".

Any help greatly appreciated.

Greg Radke
radke@iastate.edu   or  TNF70@evax.iastate.edu
  ___________________________________________________________________________
  Greg Radke - Iowa State Univ.    | Over tolerance of inaccurate thinking 
  Senior - Aerospace Engineering   | causes part of social downfall.
  Internet: TNF70@evax.iastate.edu
NOTE:THIS ACCOUNT WILL CEASE TO EXISTS AFTER MAY 15, 1992.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: hshubs@eff.org (Howard Shubs)
Subject: Re: Superclock is not problem w/Word 5
Originator: hshubs@eff.org
Keywords: superclock, microsoft word 5
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1992 04:15:17 GMT

I found that lots of strange crashes I used to get disappeared when I
got rid of SuperClock.  I've been without it for a long time now.

-- 
Howard S Shubs      hshubs@eff.org      I don't represent the EFF,
The Denim Adept     hshubs@BYTECOSY     but I do agree with them.
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.apps:7967 comp.sys.mac.misc:9163
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center
Date: Tuesday, 14 Apr 1992 18:07:17 EDT
From: Evan Stark <EXSGC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject:    Text-to-Braile software

A startup non-profit group is looking for software
that converts text to Braile so they can make various
material available to the blind and visually impaired.
This query pertains to public-domain software, though
any information would be appreciated.
Please send replies to:
nav@cunyvms1.bitnet (bitnet) or
nav@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu (internet)
Thanks.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: UC572722@umcvmb.missouri.edu
Subject: Re: Sound conversion - SoundEdit to "real" sound
Organization: University of Missouri, Columbia
Date: 8 Apr 1992 10:20:15 CDT

------------------------- Original Article -------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: hshubs@eff.org (Howard Shubs)
Subject: Re: Sound conversion - SoundEdit to "real" sound
Originator: hshubs@eff.org
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 20:34:44 GMT

In article <32243@darkstar.ucsc.edu> capri@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (71062000) writes:
>
>Anyone figure it out?  I have some really cool sounds in SoundEdit format and
>some others in .snd format, but I WANT them in Mac sound format, the kind
>I can stick in my system and use as beeps.  I've mucked around with ResEdit
>and with a utility called SoundMover but just can't seem to figure it out.

What you need yo do is write your sound file out as a SND resource.  This
can be done directly from SoundEdit.  Sounds that appear in the Sounds
Control Panel are of the type SND and are located in the System file.
If I remember right, you should be able to save directly into the System
from SoundEdit.  Just follow these steps.
 1) Load the sound into SoundEdit
 2) Do a "Save As"
 3) Click on the "Resource" radio button
 4) Open your System file with the open file dialog box.
 5) Give the sound a name and click save.

This should install the sound in the System and you should be able to use it
with the Sounds Control Panel.

In System 7, the sound can then be drug out to the desktop and played by
just double clicking on it.

If you just want to make a double clickable sound in System 7, just follow
the same steps as above except select "New" instead of opening your System
file.  Then save the sound in the new file.  After that you can make it
double clickable by either using the Shareware program called SND Converter
or you can do it your self with ResEdit or File Typer.  All you have to do
is change the file type to "sfil" and the creator to "movr".  After this,
you might have to reboot to get the Finder to recognize the changes.

If you have any other questions or just need clarification just let me
know.

Matt Skipton
uc572722@umcvmb.missouri.edu
From: barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Wanted: name of app that warns you when you have to rest
Date: 17 Apr 92 14:12:56 GMT
	<7azjt#q.mspace@netcom.com>
Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.ge.com
Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY

In article <7azjt#q.mspace@netcom.com> mspace@netcom.com (Brian Hall) writes:
>   >I have a repetitive motion injury. What is the name of the commercial
>   >program that warns you when you need a break?
>   Try Lifeguard from (I think) Visionary Software.

Thanks. I have also been told about 'At Your Service' and a
PD/freeeware program called 'save-a-finger'.  However, the person who
told me about the free program mentioned it was on Sumex (which it
isn't) and I can't reply to Ida's mail address to ask for a copy.

(I hope Ida sees this and mails me a copy. If anyone else wants a
copy, send me mail, and I'll forward it.) Again, thanks for the help.
--
Bruce Barnett <barnett@crd.ge.com> uunet!crdgw1!barnett
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: desavouret@fnalb.fnal.gov (Gene Desavouret 4402, 3700)
Subject: Re: GIF viewer for Mac II
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-a4  
Reply-To: desavouret@fnalb.fnal.gov
Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 16:34:29 GMT

In article <1992Apr9.115414.24757@ssd.kodak.com>, polvino@ssd.kodak.com (Joe Polvino) writes...
>I'm looking for an application that will display a .GIF file from the MS-DOS
>domain on a Mac II with a color monitor.  The file itself is easily displayed
>on a PC and I believe it has 8 colors.  The file in question is called
>wxmap.gif and is found on the ftp server wasp.eng.ufl.edu (it is a weather
>map of the US).
> 
>I've tried Adobe Photoshop, Aldus Freehand, and three others, but have had
>no luck.  Any help would be appreciated.
> 
A program named GIFConverter is available via anonymous ftp from (possibly)
sumex-aim.stanford.edu, and is shareware.  If it isn't there, write to:
    Kevin A. Mitchell
    P.O. Box 803066
    Chicago, IL 60680-3066
He requests $40 + $5 S&H

I played with the program briefly; it works.
From: albert@edison.seas.ucla.edu (Albert E. Chou)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Why doesn't Excel turn off the bloody numlock light?
Keywords: ADB Excel keyboard lights
Date: 11 Apr 92 23:22:25 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: SEASnet, University of California, Los Angeles

Excel always turns on the num lock light when I start it up, which makes sense
since I have num lock on.  However, version 3.0 is even worse than 2.2 was	about turning that light off again when I quit Excel.  Is there any way to
get control over the keyboard lights so I don't have to resort to repeatedly
starting and quitting Excel in the hopes that it'll eventually turn off the	bloody light?  I know there must -- the MacLights cdev allows you to use the
lights as disk activity indicators.  The trouble is, the author didn't include
an address of any kind where he can be contacted.  So, anybody know how to
manipulate the keyboard lights?

Al
From: drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David Gutierrez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Daytimer, calendar programs
Date: 9 Apr 1992 19:02:23 GMT
Organization: Univ. Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

In article <1992Apr9.165135.5447@e2big.mko.dec.com> long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com
(Rich Long) writes:
> I've been pretty happy with CE's Alarming Events. It's pricy, but at the time
> I bought it, there weren't many alternatives. The only major hole I can find
> is that there is no Search... commmand, so that it is difficult to determine,

Version 1.1 (still in beta) adds a Find command.

David Gutierrez
drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu

"Only fools are positive." - Moe Howard