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From: bosoni@helios.enst.fr (Francois Bosoni)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.wanted
Subject: LOOKING for a server-based startupscreen application
Keywords: request, startup-screen
Date: 5 Jan 93 13:14:46 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Distribution: comp
Organization: Telecom-Paris, France


	I'm looking for a client-server startup screen that has been available
 on comp.sys.mac.binaries or on the sumex-aim server, but I can't remember
 its name. The only thing I remember it's its icon: a coffee mug.

	Thank you for refreshing my rusty neurons by mail (I can't read news
, there's too much) at this address: bosoni@inf.enst.fr

	Once again, merci beaucoup.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: robichau@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov (Paul Robichaux)
Subject: Re: Shareware laws (was: GifConverter or JPEGView better?)
Keywords: shareware
Reply-To: robichau@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov
Organization: New Technology, Inc.
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:12:49 GMT

In <Jan.12.11.18.31.1993.18389@gandalf.rutgers.edu> rgonzal@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Ralph Gonzalez) writes:

>Actually, I don't see why any special law is necessary. If the
>shareware license provided by the author says that you've got to pay
>if you keep it, then that's that! Similarly, consider the used-car
>dealer who says you can take the car for a test drive. If you never
>come back from the test drive, are you not stealing?

Oops. I detect a rerun of the whole tiresome software license debate.

How are shareware licenses different from shrinkwrap licenses on
commercial products? Does your use of a product imply agreement to the
terms of the license?

I don't think it does. OTOH, I register shareware that I use... not
because it's illegal (I'm no lawyer), but because it's the right thing
to do.
-- 
Paul Robichaux, KD4JZG              | May explode if disposed of improperly.
Mission Software Development Div.   | Printed on recycled phosphors.
New Technology, Inc.		    | ** PGP 2.0 key available on request **
From: mettelus@cyberden.sf.ca.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Files Types?
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 93 15:48:54 PST
Reply-To: mettelus@cyberden.sf.ca.us
Organization: Indescribable Creations

Ok.  Here is my question.  I own an IBM, and often when I am BBS'ing, i 
encounter games.  My english teacher at my High school lets me screw 
around on her MAC.  I have MAC-IN-DOS which lets me convert them from my 
IBM disk to her MAC disk.  When I try to run it, it says "Unable to view 
document" when it is really executable code.  Is there any way to tell 
the MAC that it a program and not a txt file?  Please answer private, 
since god knows if I can find this message section again.  Thanks in 
advance.

__________________________________________________________________________
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   | H E   \ Y B E R |/ E N            [ mettelus@cyberden.sf.ca.us ]
From: Malcolm Pradhan <pradhan@camis.stanford.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Now Up-to_Date: Memory & other costs?
Date: 9 Jan 1993 06:19:33 GMT
Organization: Section of Medical Informatics, Stanford University
Distribution: world
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X-XXDate: Fri, 8 Jan 93 06:21:17 GMT

In article <golub-060193132232@elvex33.acns.nwu.edu> Robert Golub,
golub@nwu.edu writes:
>No sign of it yet, but I did get a card from them in November saying that
>the release was being delayed (I think it said until December), and that
my
>credit card would not be charged until it was shipped. So far I haven't
had
>any credit card charge.

Now Up-to-date 2.0 was released at MacWorld Expo on Wednesday. I'm
going to pick up a copy tomorrow if the to-do list is half
reasonable.

 Regards,
 Malcolm
--------------------------------------------
Malcolm Pradhan
Section on Medical Informatics
MSOB X-215, Stanford University, CA, 94305
pradhan@camis.stanford.edu  (415) 725-3398
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: koby01@ccsg.tau.ac.il (gabai jacob)
Subject: Video Editor avid
Organization: Tel-Aviv University Computation Center
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 10:48:41 GMT




hello all
needs info about the mac "AVID" Video editor
for the mac
and info if anyone uses it in any TV ststion around the globe
thanks
koby
email koby01@ccsg.tau.ac.il

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: trimble@ph-meter.beckman.uiuc.edu (Chris Trimble)
Subject: Re: Video Editor avid
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:21:19 GMT

koby01@ccsg.tau.ac.il (gabai jacob) writes:

>hello all
>needs info about the mac "AVID" Video editor
>for the mac
>and info if anyone uses it in any TV ststion around the globe

 It is being used (or at least I saw it in a mini-demonstration) at
 the IPA editing house in Chicago, IL.

   - Chris

--
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B.I. Systems Services    | the deed! - tear up the planks! - here, here! -it is
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: segall+@cs.cmu.edu (Edward Segall)
Subject: Re: Mac Disertation Word Processor
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 23:48:39 GMT

arie@eecs.umich.edu (Arie Covrigaru) writes:

>I used MS word for large manuscripts that included figures, tables,
>formulae and imported EPS. In putting a manuscript together I made
>use of Word's links, table generation, publish and subscribe (I
>subscribed to charts generated by MS Excel) and TOC (table of contents)
>generation. I was able to have all my text and graphics manipulated
>with Word's styles and made use of Word's integrated outlining
>features, which I find much improved in the latest versions of Word.
>I recommend MS Word for writing a dissertation on a Macintosh computer,
>unless it must be portable and editable in other platforms. I have
>seen dissertations written in MS Word in computer science and 
>mathematics and they looked as good as any other LaTeX processed 
>manuscripts.


I did all of these things as well, and I think my results stand up
well against Latex, too.  However, I still do not recommend that
anyone use Word for such a large, complex project unless they are
already familiar with its range of features, and are willing to work
around nasty bugs.  If you already know Word cold, fine.  But it's a
pain in the butt to learn.  Plus, I can tell you real, repeatable
horror stories about using links for cross references, where the links
became corrupted, or where editing the link source causes the link to
be broken.

Rest assured that I have informed MS tech support about these and
several other problems.  I hope they have remedied them in v. 5.1, or
they should burn in H*** as far as I'm concerned.

--Ed

PS Here's one of my pet peeves that cancels out one of Word's chief
advantages (outlining&renumbering).  Suppose you want to reference a
section by number, and you want the number to be updated when you
renumber the document after reorganizing it.  If you make a link to
the number, as defined in the appropriate heading, then when you
renumber the document, the link gets trashed when the old number is
deleted.

Anyone know if there's a better way to do this, and if its been fixed
in 5.1?

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: panos@fem.uta.edu (Panayiotis Shiakolas)
Subject: Trimmer ???(Where can I find)
Keywords: postscript, print
Reply-To: panos@mecad.uta.edu
Organization: University of Texas at Arlington
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 14:56:16 GMT

Hello there,

I am trying to find the shareware package Trimmer.
This package reduces the postscript file size created
when using system 7. 

If anyone has any experience with it or knows where it can be 
obtained, please e-mail me at

panos@mecad.uta.edu


thanks a lot for your time

panos
From: rgonzal@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Ralph Gonzalez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Shareware laws (was: GifConverter or JPEGView better?)
Keywords: shareware
Date: 12 Jan 93 16:18:32 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


OK, I'll risk starting a flamewar :-)...

I recently posted a response to the question on the Subject line,
saying that you are legally obliged to either pay the shareware
fee on shareware you're using, or to delete it from your disk.

I got several responses by email asking what the legal precedent was.
Does anyone know of one? I don't keep up with software court cases!

Actually, I don't see why any special law is necessary. If the
shareware license provided by the author says that you've got to pay
if you keep it, then that's that! Similarly, consider the used-car
dealer who says you can take the car for a test drive. If you never
come back from the test drive, are you not stealing?

-Ralph
-- 
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Phone: (609) 757-6122; Internet: rgonzal@elbereth.rutgers.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Font question. Need very weird accents and diactritics for Skt.
From: kent@centauri.dmc.com (Tom Kent)
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 08:04:54 EDT
Reply-To: kent@centauri.dmc.com (Tom Kent)
Organization: Sophist Solutions
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1

> To: rowley@theporch.raider.net
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
> Subject: Re: Font question. Need very weird accents and diactritics for 
> Skt.
> 
> > > Related question: in which word processors is it possible to combine
> > > _arbitrary_ letters with _arbitrary_ accents?

I haven't followed all of this thread so the following may be redundant.
Unusual combinations of diacritical marks can be accomplished in Word
using the formula operators, which include overstrike and fine positioning
controls. This process is laborious and will require experimentation,
but the finished composites can be entered into the glossary and used
with reasonable convenience thereafter.

Also, the equation editors available with Word or FrameMaker, or the
freestanding ones (MathType, Expressionist) can be used to create
most desired characters. However, since equation editors aren't really
targeted at handling overstrikes, this could be an awkward solution.

If you need very high precision in the resulting letters, you could
prepare them in a high quality drawing program such as FreeHand or
Illustrator, then export them to Word as pictures. Again, you could
create a glossary of the letters and insert the tiny pictures this
way.

Yet another alternative is to create your own PostScript font using
Fontographer.

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Tom Kent                           Internet:       kent@centauri.dmc.com
Sophist Solutions                  UUCP:           ...uunet!thehulk!kent
375 Pond St.                       CompuServe: 73300.2677@compuserve.com
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From: Roman.Brice@f204.n2603.z1.ieee.org (Roman Brice)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Is Auto-Doubler worth it?
Date: 8 Jan 93 21:12:01 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:2603/204 - Not Even Odd, Forest Hills NY

I definitely would second your support of Autodoubler.

For $20, that's a steal alright.
Wish I was that lucky to get an offer like that.
All I get is Adobe Type fonts offered for $179 - which I don't need.


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From: jsd@cs.bham.ac.uk (Jetinder Singh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: re: mif-2-word5 ?
Date: 11 Jan 93 11:19:37 GMT
Organization: Birmingham University
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X-Xxdate: Mon, 11 Jan 93 11:19:39 GMT
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d16

Is there a conversion utility for changing Unix Framemaker documents ( or 
even mif documents ) to word 5 ?
Thanks

Jetinder
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: lam@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Ken Lam)
Subject: SND->MOD sound converter?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 17:31:46 GMT

Does anyone know of a SND to MOD converter?

TIA

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System Administrator                                        (803)-792-4969 (W)
Integrated Techinical Systems                               (803)-792-5446(FAX)
UNIX/Netware/Multimedia                                      lam@jove.cofc.edu
MultiMedia Works & Video Productions ======= Teaching the world in better ways

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: zmyd02@hou.amoco.com (Denton Meredith)
Subject: Re: Tax software?
Reply-To: zmyd02@hou.amoco.com
Organization: Amoco
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 18:06:41 GMT

In article 726417115@node_26400, dnsurber@lescsse.jsc.nasa.gov (Douglas N. Surber) writes:
>I have used Mac_In_Tax since '86, but never again.  The '91 release was
>so bug ridden and the support so pathetic that I will not give those jerks
>a ChipSoft another cent.  The ruined a good product.  I will order
>TaxCut just as soon as I get my W2s.
>
>I strongly encourage anyone who is planning to buy Mac_In_Tax to think again.
>Is it really easier to reenter all of your data multiple times since the
>program blows up when you try to change the values of certain fields?  Don't
>encourage vendors who don't care about the quality of their products.
>
>
>--
>Douglas Surber             "Would you rather debug at
>Lockheed                    compile time or run time?"
>Houston, TX                      --Michael B. Feldman


Not everyone was affected by the bugs in the '91 version...I had a relatively
simple return, and had no problems whatsoever.  Having heard about these problems,
however, I decided to give ChipSoft a call;  they claim to have fixed all the
problems some users experienced and also claim to improved and added to the
features of the program.  I plan to use MacInTax again this year and we'll see
how it goes.

Meredith Denton
Amoco Production Company
Houston, Texas

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: aaron@noproblem.uchicago.edu (Aaron L. Bratcher)
Subject: Autocad viewer
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 14:33:35 GMT

does anyone know of any software that will allow me to view AutoCAD files?

Except AutoCAD of course :-)

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-- Aaron L. Bratcher
From: dana@are.Berkeley.EDU (Dana E. Keil)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Which app gets launched?
Date: 4 Jan 1993 20:49:09 GMT
Organization: UC Berkeley, Agr & Res Economics
NNTP-Posting-Host: are.berkeley.edu

In article <1i9uidINN35l@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> dev@cats.ucsc.edu (/dev/null) writes:
>
>The app gets launched from whichever disk was mounted last, and on a particular
>disk, the first entry in the DeskTop file is used.
>
>This has the really obnoxious effect of always launching an application from
>a fileserver even if there is a copy of the app on your hard disk.
>
>I haven't found any predictable way to reorder the entries in the DeskTop file.

True, it's not really predictable, but the last moved copy of the
application should be the first one found in the desktop file.
>A "third party marketing opportunity" would be a Finder Hack that lets a user
>manually pick out which application they really want launched, and have it
>remembered.  If it can't be found, then the Finder would continue its search
>path.

What I do to accomplish this (using System 7 is necessary though)
is to make an alias to the desired copy of the application and put
it in a convenient place (for me that's the desktop) and then
open documents by drag and drop on the application alias rather
than double-clicking the document.

-- 
Dana E. Keil           Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
dana@are.Berkeley.EDU                 University of California, Berkeley
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: crg@rocky.raleigh.ibm.com (Chuck Grissom)
Subject: Re: Stock market ap
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 14:39:00 GMT
Organization: IBM, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

In article <1993Jan5.025851.16694@eskimo.com>, jammer@eskimo.com (Lyle Harwood) writes:
|> 
|> Hi, guys. I'm interested in buying and selling stocks, bonds, and
|> futures.
|> I got the mac, I got the modem, and I want to know if there's any way
|> or any ap that will let me call in, get data, analyse data, and place
|> buy and sell orders from my mac.
|> Any comments?
|> Thanks, Lyle

Try to get a copy of "Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities" magazine.
You'll find a good number of ads and software reviews.  If you can't find it,
the address is 

	Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities
	3517 SW Alaska St.
	Seattle, WA 98126-2700
	800 832-4642
	206 938-0570

Chuck G.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: friedman@nrel.gov (Daniel J. Friedman)
Subject: Re: EndNote PIM
Keywords: Word, Endnote
Organization: National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 02:58:15 GMT

In <nilesinc.726258389@well.sf.ca.us> nilesinc@well.sf.ca.us (Avi Rappoport) writes:

>In <1hqjojINNeer@shelley.u.washington.edu> eckman@stein.u.washington.edu (John Eckman) writes:

>>I am looking to find the PIM (Plug in Module) for Word 5.0a that allows it to
>>access Endnote -I'm trying out the Endnote demo, but that PIM is not included!

>I still read this group, when I can.  I would recommend buying the program 
>from someone who gives a 30-day money-back guarantee (MacConnection and 
>MacWarehouse come to mind).  Then you get all the docs and the full program,
>with the Plug-In Module, and can test it at your leisure.  If you don't like
>it, return it.  Sorry we can't do a demo of the Plug-In Module (I'm sure
    ..... stuff deleted ....

Don't worry, you won't want to return it! It works great! (And no, I am in no
way connected with the company that publishes it.)

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Kevin B. Woodside <woodside@bnr.ca>
Subject: Re: GifConverter or JPEGView better?
X-Xxdate: Thu, 7 Jan 93 21:23:41 GMT
Organization: Northern Telecom Canada
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Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 21:20:58 GMT

In article <1993Jan7.141949.6565@doug.cae.wisc.edu> Brian E. Saunders,
saunders@luther.che.wisc.edu writes:
>The latest version of GIFConverter opens JPEG files if you have Quicktime
>installed.

Drats!  Brian beat me by minutes...

Kevin


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: gray@tinman.asel.udel.edu (John Gray)
Subject: Re: Quicken vs Managing Your Money
Organization: AI duPont Institute
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 17:40:35 GMT

I bought a copy of Quicken for my mom's use.  After looking at a while
I was very disappointed that it didn't handle loans payments is a nicer
fashion.  By nicer I mean that I would like to see Quicken figure out what
went to interest and what went to principal, but it doesn't.  Does MYM?

John
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.databases
From: nilesinc@well.sf.ca.us (Avi Rappoport)
Subject: Re: Library (i.e. real books) software
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 18:35:13 GMT

In <1993Jan03.122012.398869@magicbb.uucp> Richard_McDonald@magicbb.uucp writes:

>A friend runs the library in a local school, and they've been able to get some
>Macs.  We'd like to find out what turnkey applications are out there for the
>Mac for use in libraries:  card catalogues, databases, etc.  Small-scale, simple
>stuff - she's not interested in learning to be a systems designer, and hopes
>to avoid having to custom-build something with a generalized database package.

Join the Apple Library User Group!  It's run out of the Apple Library,
10381 Bandley Dr., Cupertino, CA 95014.  It's free, has a newsletter and
a discussion group on the Well and great meetings.  And in the back of
the newsletter, there are several ads for Macintosh library software.
From: paulonis@kodak.com (Mike Paulonis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Reverse Video Characters?
Date: 12 Jan 93 15:55:30 GMT
Organization: Eastman Chemical Co., Kingsport, TN, USA
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d13
X-XXDate: Tue, 12 Jan 93 10:58:03 GMT

I am looking for a way to generate reverse video characters (white 
letters on a black background) in Microsoft Word.  I expect that the 
solution may not be specific to Word, but maybe it is.  Is there some 
way to do this short of generating a reverse video font?  If the answer 
is no, then is there a way to take an existing (bitmap) font and convert 
it to reverse video without using a commercial font creation/editing 
program?  Post replies or email to paulonis@kodak.com.  Thanks.
From: al862@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Brent D. McLean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Converting PC sounds
Date: 7 Jan 1993 18:17:43 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: al862@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Brent D. McLean)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


	I use both a Mac and a PC running Windows, and I would like to be
able to convert sounds between the two machines. I believe that Windows
uses Wav format sounds. The conversion program could be either on the PC
or the Mac. Any help in directing me to such a program would be much
appreciated. Thanks.

-- 
 Brent D. McLean                     -  "I'm at the corner of Walk and 
 al862@cleveland.freenet.edu         -       Don't Walk..."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: freek@phil.ruu.nl (Freek Wiedijk)
Subject: Re: Font question. Need very weird accents and diactritics for Skt.
Organization: Department of Philosophy, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 10:49:31 GMT

I wrote:
>> Related question: in which word processors is it possible to combine
>> _arbitrary_ letters with _arbitrary_ accents?

rowley@theporch.raider.net (Michael Rowland) writes:
>ANY word processor can do it on the Mac... it's built into the operating 
>system. Using KeyCaps find out the keyboard locations of the diacritical 
>you want; they are Option-key strokes. For instance, the umlaut is 
>Option-U; the tilde is Option-N, other accents are located as Option keys 
>hidden behind other vowels... circumflex is Option-I, etc. These are 
>"dead-key" combinations...they take two keystrokes. Hold down the Option 
>key and strike a lowercase u... at first nothing will happen...THEN 
>strike the vowel you want to put the umlaut over, and it will show up 
>onscreen complete with diacritical.

Interesting.  So, to put a tilde accent on a capital E, I'll have to
type Option-n Shift-e, right?  (Try it, you will see that it won't
work...)

Freek
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