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From: grega@daphni.hq.verdix.com (Greg Alonso)
Subject: Re: Screen saver for Powerbook
Organization: Verdix Corp., Herndon, VA
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:11:31 GMT



In article <ibhan.725652966@husc.harvard.edu> ibhan@husc8.harvard.edu (Ishir Bhan) writes:

	 choi@gsbsrc.uchicago.edu (Dongseok Choi) writes:

	 >Hello, netters!
	 > I missed the tread about screen saver program for powerbook.
	 > Is there any freeware/shareware screen saver program specailly
	 > designed for powerbook?
	 > Or, can I use 'Afterdark' or 'Pyro'?

	 I don't believe PowerBook screens need screen savers.
	 -- 

You don't need a screen saver, but you do want a backlight saver.
Turning of backlighting has the advantage of not just saving the
batter life but also saving the life of the backlight itself (which is
about 2 years).

You can get Backlight_Control.hqx @ apple.com in
/pub/powerbook/backlight_control


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From: shawley@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Night Hawk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: System 7.0.1 w/tuneup and System 7.1 Question!!!
Date: 29 Dec 92 01:05:20 GMT
Organization: University of Cincinnati


I have not noticed any problems using 7.1 on my Classic II with apps
that I used to run under 7.0.1 w/ tuneup 1.1.1....
the only limitation is if you are using MacTCP you must upgrade to
version 1.1.1 of it (unless you do not use Virtual Memory [Rumor has it]).
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: jack@sybil.jpl.nasa.gov (Jack Kobzeff)
Subject: Re: What happened with...?
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: Jet Propulsion Lab
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 18:54:23 GMT

In article <1992Dec29.134452.27414@ulrik.uio.no>, rivero@cc.unizar.es
(Alejandro) wrote:
> 
> Any info about the status (last version, last machine it worked,
> current seller) of the following things:?
> 
> MacInTalk.
Apple (or someone inside Apple) did a System 7 update to this, I believe it
is 2.0. Current version works.

> ChipWits.  (remember that old robot...)
Yep, I do. Sorry, it broke so long ago (with no updates) that I don't have
any info on this. ChipWits is long dead, but the closest equivilant product
probably would be RoboSport, from Maxis.

> SmoothTalker. (better 
First Byte is still around, and I guess that Smoothtalker is also. They
make a DOS/Windows version now, also.
BTW, Apple has been promising a newer, much better 'MacInTalk' replacement
for quite a while now. I have even talked to a person that claimed to have
heard a demo of an Apple text-to-speech software that was VERY clear, with
very little 'accent' or 'mechanical' sound. WELL??? Where IS it, MAN????

> Servant. (guess what system version Im not using)
Hmmm, System 7? Andy Hertzfeld gave up on this before MultiFinder came out,
please don't even try to use this. I would guess that it stopped working
somewhere early in the System 3 / Finder 5 era. This was never a commercial
product, it was 

> Switcher.  
If you have enough memory for Switcher, you have enough for MultiFinder.
They both need to load all programs into RAM. Go with MultiFinder. Switcher
worked until MultiFinder was released, then support was dropped. Late in
the Finder 5 era. 

> rivero@cc.unizar.es

Jack Kobzeff     (jack@????.jpl.nasa.gov) Mail address is changing
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: pg@sanitas.stortek.com (Paul Gilmartin)
Subject: Re: Can't UnStuff DarkSide 3.2 From Sumex (Heed Nelp!)
Organization: Storage Technology Corp.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 06:38:03 GMT

Rich Siegel (siegel@world.std.com) wrote:
: In article <1993Jan1.020105.9470@stortek.com> pg@sanitas.stortek.com (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
:
: >Curse Aladdin for planned obsolescence; a powerful argument for staying
: >with Compact Pro.
: 
: How do you figure this? By definition, if there are architectural changes
: in a file format, an older version can't open files created by a newer
: version of the program, or if it can, it can't take advantage of the 
: functionality offered by the newer version's format.

For certain adaptive compression schemes, such as Lempel-Ziv-Welch,
much efficiency can be gained by cleverer heuristics within the
compression algorithm without invalidating the existing file format
architecture.
: 
: This isn't 'planned obsolescence', this is progress.
: 
: It's not a 'powerful argument for staying with Compact Pro', because
: Compact Pro is subject to the same limitations.

The latest Compact Pro, for example, slightly improved the compression
and nearly doubled speed (both within a few percent of StuffIt Lite,
with the difference admittedly in favor of StuffIt), and the files
can still be extracted by the original Compactor.
: 
: There's no reason to 'curse Aladdin', since, after all, they provide a
: free expander for their current file format, as they always have. In 
: fact, it's a pretty good reason to use the Aladdin format, since they
: haven't forgotten to support the users of the shareware StuffIt products.
: Whether this is smart PR or common sense is moot - the fact is that
: StuffIt Expander can unstuff any StuffIt file format back to the 
: original.

Granted, but sometimes I want to compress files, also.  The key I got
when I registered Compactor unlocks the latest distributed Compact Pro.
StuffIt, on the other hand, keeps asking me for money.

And, unfortunately, there's a synergistic obsolescence:  Compact Pro
takes 96K of disk space and 504K suggested application memory.
When I registered StuffIt 1.5.1 Aladdin sent me StuffIt Classic.  I
installed it.  File after file after filter.  I just didn't have
room for it on my SE with 20M internal -- it became shelfware.

As I see it, Compact Pro is cheaper, smaller, and simpler than StuffIt.
I could live happily without StuffIt, and would if I had the choice.
A few percent in performance isn't worth the money and disk space.
But, yes, I am grateful for the free StuffIt Expander.

YMMV
gil
From: tmplee@TIS.COM (Theodore Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Spooling PostScript Files/DTPrinter
Date: 3 Jan 93 23:13:06 GMT
Reply-To: tmplee@TIS.COM
Organization: Trusted Information Systems

OK, I must be doing something trivially wrong.  I have a frequent need
to download postscript files and print them locally on my
MacIIvx/Everex LaserScript setup.  The LaserWriter utility works fine,
except that it is a foreground application.  Is there anything
available that will spool postscript files and print them in the
background?  I grabbed DTPrinter in the hopes that it would do the
job, but it appears to be too smart -- it appears to print things
using the original application (if there is one) -- I can't make it
print a postscript as anything other than the raw ascii text.  (As an
experiment I tried saving output as a postscript file from Clarisworks
-- DTPrinter choked on the resulting file [can't open Desktop
Database, Can't find application] -- but the LaserWriter Utility
handled it just fine.)

TMPLee@TIS.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: pg@sanitas.stortek.com (Paul Gilmartin)
Subject: Re: Word tab settings
Organization: Storage Technology Corp.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 15:40:52 GMT

Stan Horwitz (STAN@VM.TEMPLE.EDU) wrote:
: 
: I want to set up the entire document so that indents will be placed every
: .75 inch along the ruler. I see who to make an index for a particular
: paragraph, but how do I set up the document so that every paragraph can be
: indented to the nearest .75" just by pressing the tab. I tried moving the
: indent marker by hand, but it just moves. I really want to copy the marker.
: This way, I won't need to set up each individual paragraphy or use styles.

Styles sounds like the right tool.  Why do you feel compelled to do this
without using the right tool?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: psybeast@dracut.keps.com (Andy Seymour)
Subject: Re: Microsoft Installer ate my System
Originator: psybeast@dracut
Organization: Kodak Electronic Printing Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 17:11:24 GMT

In article <29847@castle.ed.ac.uk> ngse18@castle.ed.ac.uk (J R Evans) writes:
> 
> 	SetFlameTarget(Microsoft);
> 	theFlame = BeginFlame();
> 

What a wonderful way to begin!! Three, no make that, four cheers!!!!

> 
> After taking the better part of an hour's worth of disk shuffling and
> decompaction,

> These folks can't even label the
> disks in a sensible order -- I have to insert them in the order
> 2 - 1 - 5 - 6 - 3 - 4 !!  And why do I have to spend half an hour waiting
> for these overgrown shibboleths to unpack themselves --

Here is something that I ran into by accident (kinda)...
I found that if you do a disk copy (insert the disk into floppy drive,
drag the floppy icon on to HD) to HD all in the same folder, and then run
the installer, you can save alot of time and disk swapping... BTW I also
run a SE (vintage 1986,first and only owner, very high mileage) at home...

As for the installer 'playing' with the System folder...

MS, 
You have already shown us what you can do with DOS (Damaged Operating
System), please do not do it to the Macintosh!!!!!!

My System folder is mine!!!!! Not yours!!

If you are going to do "things" to the system, could you please be polite
enough to give the user a report?!?! Aldus does it!! Why can't you!!

Russ,
Thanks for the smile this morning!! and I hope that you are back up and
running!!

There are a few of us on this side of the puddle that have simular feelings!!

PsyBeast
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From: rterry@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Ray Terry)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:58:13 GMT
Subject: Re: Stuffit Deluxe and Stuffit Expander
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps

> I get a request for a password.  Did I miss something? 

As I recall, I had the same problem.  A simple <CR> (return) at the password 
request prompt did the trick.

Ray
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Eric Topp <topp@roses.stanford.edu>
Subject: MIllie's Math House crashes IIsi
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A76646D8F30100EF@cdr-va-macs2-dynamic.stanford.edu>
X-Xxdate: Tue, 29 Dec 92 02:18:00 GMT
Organization: Rehabilitation R&D Center
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d13
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 02:15:09 GMT

I bought Millie's Math House as a gift for my nephews. It works for a
while and then crashes. After this initial crash it will not work at
all, bombing after its musical intro.  Reinstalling (which takes a
while--four disks of compressed material) merely repeats this cycle.

This happens on an IIsi with 5 megs of RAM running 6.0.7.  Doesn't seem
to matter whether we use multi or uni-finder.  We tried a virgin system
to no avail. I didn't diddle with the recommended 2M memory partition
and there always sufficient memory available

Tech support for MMH was not much help.  They suggested trashing the
preferences file and nixing all inits.  They also said that MMH just
crashes for some people and they don't know why.

All this is too bad because when it does work my nephews are delighted.
It really is a nice program

Anyone out there got an answer or care to commiserate?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: choi@gsbsrc.uchicago.edu (Dongseok Choi)
Subject: Screen saver for Powerbook
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 09:32:13 GMT

Hello, netters!
 I missed the tread about screen saver program for powerbook.
 Is there any freeware/shareware screen saver program specailly
 designed for powerbook?
 Or, can I use 'Afterdark' or 'Pyro'?

Thank you in advance and A Happly New Year!

Choi
choi@gsbsrc.uchicago.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: siegman@EE.Stanford.EDU (Anthony E. Siegman)
Subject: Re: SPICE for the Macintosh
Keywords: SPICE, MACSPICE, PSPICE
Organization: Stanford University
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 22:25:06 GMT

An inexpensive student version of SPICE for the Macintosh that is to
be highly recommended is "B-squared Spice" from

Beige Bag Software
715 Barclay Ct.,
Ann Arbor MI 48105
313-663-4309

71620.3474@compuserve.com

It doesn't do everything that full SPICE does, but it has the
matchless advantage that it has an excellent interactive graphics
circuit editor, i.e., you can wire up a circuit on the screen by
dragging components out from a palette onto the screen; wiring them up
with the mouse; then double-clicking on individual components to set
or change their component values.  You can then run dc, transient or
frequency-swept responses and view the results graphically, in the
same program, add or delete components, change components, drag the
circuit elements around to reshape the circuit, etc.

   As I understand it, the program runs "real Spice" (and in fact it
saves a net list which you can open as a text file), but doesn't
implement all the full bells and whistles of a complete Spice program.
Our students love it (and so do I).
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Freedom Of Press
From: suhlmann@vax1.umkc.edu
Date: 30 Dec 92 20:06:25 CST
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City
NNTP-Posting-Host: vax1.umkc.edu

I am interested in the programs Freedom of The Press and Freed. of Press
Light. Could people who own or have used these progs. send me their
opinions?
I am interested in it to print FreeHand files both to a SupraFax modem
and to a Deskwriter C. I don't know exactly what the programs do, is this
something they could handle?
I am hoping this is possible, because I only print postscript files
occasionally and would much prefer to get color printer than buy a
postscript laser printer.

Thanks a lot!
S. Uhlmann

suhlmann@vax1.umkc.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: mem@world.std.com (Jeff Lesser)
Subject: Re: Morph and PICTs
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 21:00:22 GMT

Robert.H.Gross@dartmouth.edu (Robert H. Gross) writes:

>Merry Christmas to everyone-

>Santa brought me a program called Morph and I have been trying to get
>it to  work with only limited success. The manual states that I can
>open PICT files for my start and stop images, but the program seems to
>have some very weird limitations. Lets say that I have a PICT file that
>is called Square and another PICT file called Circle. If I double-click
>on th START image "slot" I can see both files listed in the SFGetFile
>dialog, but once I load one of the PICTs and try to specify a secon
>PICT for the other slot, all I can see is the name of the PICT already
>chosen. For example, if I load SQUARE into the START image slot, when I
>double-click on the END image slot, the only file I see in the
>SFGetFile dialog is the SQUARE file. What happened to the other PICTs
>that ore available? I also haven't been able to use the clipboard to
>paste in images. The online help and the manual are useless in
>providing any insight. Can you help me out? How can I load two
>DIFFERENT PICTs in the Start and End slots?

>Thanks for your help.

>Bob Gross
>Dept. of Biology, Dartmouth College
>bob.gross@dartmouth.edu


I don't know the solution to your problem, but I have a couple ideas that
may help:
 
1.  Try putting the two PICTs in different folders.  Does that help?
 
2.  Perhaps the two images must be in the same file??

3.  The obligatory answer:  try running with all extensions & control
    panels disabled.  Also, are you using the correct version of the
    System (maybe you're using System 6 and it requires 7)?

Good luck

...Roy Eassa


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: wouk@alumni.cs.colorado.edu (Arthur Wouk)
Subject: what is a .hqx file?
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:51:48 GMT

i am trying to help my daughter, who has a mac, and who connects to a
unix machine at her location, to get a sensible communication system
working between them she has white knight, but has trouble getting it
to get files. i picked up mackermit from the umich archive and put it
on her unix machine, which i can reach via ftp. but it comes as a .hqx
file. where can i find the correct program to convert it to a usable
file?
-- 
arthur wouk 
internet: wouk@alumni.cs.colorado.edu
From: farber@linc.cis.upenn.edu (David Farber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Thought Pattern 2.0... When?
Date: 24 Dec 92 17:33:20 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Pennsylvania



I just will not believe BananaFish till I see the disk in hand.
I bought the old version over 1 year ago and when I told
them it was no good they said wait till you see 2.0 REAL soon
they said. Well!!!!!

Dave
David Farber; Prof. of CIS and EE, U of Penn, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: rmarten@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Randy Martens)
Subject: Application menu via keyboard
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 00:19:31 GMT

Is there a program that will allow me to select an application menu item
using the keyboard keys?

Randy     rmarten@ccu.umanitoba.ca
From: tompkins@dream11.ibmpcug.co.uk (Eric L. Tompkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: NOW Utilities Address or Phone?
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 19:31:44 GMT
Organization: Dream Engineering
Reply-To: tompkins@dream11.ibmpcug.co.uk (Eric L. Tompkins)
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1


In article <85857@ut-emx.uucp> (comp.sys.mac.apps), miles@emx.cc.utexas.edu (Miles Abernathy) writes:
> Can anyone out there in Greater Netland tell me how to contact Now
> Software? I want to ask them whether or not Now Utilities Scrapbook can
> import PictureBase files with indexing intact. I could use email, regular
> mail, or phone number. Thank you.

Now Software, Inc.
319 S.W. Washington, 11th Floor
Portland OR 97204

Ph: 503-274-2800

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Eric L. Tompkins				Internet: tompkins@dream11.ibmpcug.co.uk
Dream Engineering			  CompuServe: 100013,1444
                                   Phone: +44 638 533 543
"Do not search for the truth, merely cease to cherish opinions."	
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: "orestes appel" <oappel@moose.cs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Communicating a Mac with an IBM Mainframe System
Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 12:26:13 -0500

Hello  there,

	I do need to communicate my Macintosh with an IBM system
(two of them, actually) running either MVS or VM. This will be done
through a telephone line and a modem (I have a UserID at the target machines).

Could someone indicate me a good communication software that would allow
me  to do this?
Please reply to my e-mail address, because I am not subscribe to the newsgroup.

Thanks in advance.

oappel@cs.indiana.edu  OR oappel@dino.conicit.ve

Thanks again
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Date: Fri,  1 Jan 93 13:12:25 MST
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: WordPerfect for the Mac: Is this a soon-to-be-dead product?
Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo UT USA
From: mikad@bones.et.byu.edu (David P. Mika)

WordPerfect Dead?!?!? Pull your head out guy, Didn't you know it
is one of the top selling Wordprocessing programs for the Mac?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: johnj@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu (John A. Johnston)
Subject: Subscription Management.
Organization: Johns Hopkins Univ. Welch Medical Library
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 20:55:04 GMT


I need to find a Mac Application that will manage a subscriber database.
The needs to fulfill are:

	Person information (address etc.)
	Subscription start
	Subscription end

A need to place this stuff on a label (esp expiration date) and to
easily extract reports of labels to mail late notices, or time is up
notices.

The basics are in an old version of FileMaker, and personal database
software seems to be about as powerful as that.  

Any tips experience appreciated.
-johnj

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: sharad@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Sharad)
Subject: .sit files
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:36:03 GMT

hi,
							   tm
  I have question about .sit files.  I use Unstuffit Deluxe    to unsit most .sit
files.  Some .sit file, however, won't unsit ..... I get a message that the 
programm was compressed using a newer file compression programm. 

	..... what is the name of the program I need to unsit the most
recent .sit files ?

thankyou.

		... sharad@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au
--
sharad
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: grandoni@iei.pi.cnr.it (Fabrizio Grandoni)
Subject: Re: HELP:  I need a utility that will quit an app after idle time
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: IEI-CNR
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 11:40:44 GMT

In article <1992Dec27.051111.28088@wam.umd.edu>, lud@wam.umd.edu () wrote:
> 
> I need an a utility that will let me automatically quit my app if I am idle for
> a certain amount of time...Thanks in advance,,


ShutDownLater, by Richard Chandler, is a down-to-the-earth solution which,
in its simplicity, does not behave as politely as the other suggested
tricks: it lets you specify a time of the day when you want to shut down
your mac, and it DOES it: beware, however, not to have anything valuable to
save, because no open file will be saved. It is absolutely easy to use, as
it is simply a (very small) application to run.

Happy New Year to all netters!
    
                  fab

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: lind@ll.mit.edu (Tom Lind)
Subject: Removing MS Personalization
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 20:26:07 GMT

Does anyone know of a utility that can be used to remove the
personalization of the MicroSoft install disk for Word 5.1.  I mistyped a
name and now it is a permanent "mistake" every time word starts.  I have
tried Anonymity v1.2, but it always asks for the install disk that puts the
incorrect name back in.

E-mail replies appreciated.

Thomas A. Lind  < lind@ll.mit.edu >   |   Work Hard, tell everyone every-
Electrooptical Devices Group          |   thing you know, close a deal
MIT Lincoln Lab                       |   with a handshake, and HAVE FUN.