HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: root@iguwnext.tuwien.ac.at (Peter Purgathofer)
Subject: Wanted: handwritten font (a little urgent...)
Reply-To: root@iguwnext.tuwien.ac.at (Peter Purgathofer)
Organization: Technical University of Vienna
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 17:32:06 GMT

For the completion of an animation project at our institute we need a  
comicbook-like font, that is

handwritten
readable
brilliant
straight.

We need it in sizes compareabel to Helvetica 14, 18 and 24 point (never mind if  
its 20 or 22). And it is a little bit urgent (Im just too polite to say its  
VERY ururgent indeed).

I have seen the fonts "Handwriting" and "Ashley" from sumex-aim. Ashley  
somewhat resembles to what I need, but its to, er, well, too fancy. I have a  
font called Comicbook that looks relatively good, but I have it only in 10 and  
12 point, and that doesnt help me much.

Thanx for any help inadvance,

Peter

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Peter Purgathofer
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Fachgruppe Informatik / Techn. Universitaet Wien
Moellwaldplatz 5/187                 A-1040 Wien
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"ROMANES EUNT DOMUS"  (Brian)

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.apps
From: jess@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jess M Holle)
Subject: Is this possible?
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 02:32:24 GMT

I have several programs which print MUCH better when sent directly to a laser
printer or to postscript file which is downloaded to a printer than when their
figures/plots are copied and pasted into another program before printing.
These programs (Wingz and Claris CAD in particular) do not come with an EPS
output option.

My question is whether it is possible to print to a postscript file and then
use some sort of utility to convert this into something which can be read as
an EPS by MS Word 5.0, Pagemaker, Framemaker, etc, etc.  Does such a utility
exist?  Free/shareware is preferable.

Thanks to all who respond.

Jess Holle
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: kanefsky@halcyon.com (Steve Kanefsky)
Subject: Re: ***** HELP ***** MACINTOSH W/ CACHE ****
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 17:15:44 GMT

In article <9209141803.AA21939@kiwi.tropix.uucp> bng@tropel.gca.com (Baldwin Ng) writes:
>HELLO EVERYONE!
>
>A simple question:
>
>What is "CACHE" or "CACHE CARD"?
>How will a Macintosh computer's performance differ if
>there is a CACHE CARD?

A cache is a relatively small, relatively fast type of storage which is
used to hold the most-frequently or most-recently used contents of another
relatively large, relatively slow storage system.

A disk cache is a kind of cache where some of the contents of your disk
drive are stored in RAM.  RAM is much faster to read and write to than a
disk drive, but it also holds a lot less (usually) than your disk drive.
By storing the most-frequently or most-recently used data on your disk,
the CPU can still get most of the data it needs without having to wait for
the disk drive.  The program that does the disk caching can even be smart
and try to predict what data the CPU will need next and get it ready in
the cache ahead of time.

A RAM cache is similar to a disk cache, except that it uses a small amount
of very fast RAM to store some of the contents of the slower system RAM.
Even regular system RAM is too slow for the CPU sometimes, and it has to
wait around for a cycle or two when it needs data from RAM.  By using some
very high speed RAM which can keep up with the CPU, the CPU rarely has to
wait for the slower system RAM because the data it needs is in the cache
RAM.

A cache card is usually just a RAM cache that comes in a card you plug
into your computer.  The Mac IIci, IIsi, and Quadras can all easily accept
cache cards, but some companies have thought up ways to put cache cards in
other machines as well.  Some companies also offer faster CPUs and/or
floating-point coprocessors on the same card with a RAM cache.  A RAM
cache card alone may speed up overall peformance by 30%, and a RAM cache
in addition to a faster CPU can triple your computer's performance.

The ways in which computers access data is generally predictable enough
that a good caching algorithm can have the requested data in the cache up
to 80 or 90% of the time.  That's why a disk cache is built into many hard
disk drives today, and into system software as well (there can actually be
two levels of disk caching).  RAM caches are becoming increasingly popular
too.  Put all these caches together and a lot of the data the computer
needs can end up in 25ns RAM cache rather than on a 25ms disk.  That means the
data is ready up to one million (!) times sooner (in the extreme case) than it 
would have been with no caching.

--
Steve Kanefsky
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: sfuller@tamsun.tamu.edu (Steven Eric Fuller)
Subject: MacPlus, marketing and 32bit CQD
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 22:27:23 GMT

In article <1992Sep11.161141.3985@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> (jmhodapp@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu) writes:
>In article <1992Sep8.150041.1@idicl1.idi.battelle.org>, sschechter@idicl1.idi.battelle.org writes:
>> 
>> In article <1992Sep4.144322.17454@unlinfo.unl.edu>, dcheenne@unlinfo.unl.edu (Dominique J. Cheenne) writes:
>> > There has been a couple of post lately about netters willing to add the
>> > 32-bit Quickdraw software to the System folder of their Pluses or Se's.
>> > (standard or accelerated).
>
>>    Well, the answer is pretty much NO. The problem is that Color Quickdraw
>> (from which I believe part of 32 bit QD was built) was written when the
>> Mac II came out and it was assumed that all future machines, and hence
>> all machines that could run color, were to be at least 68020 machines.
>> So...color quickdraw, and 32 bit quickdraw, require at least a 68020
It was not assumed that all future machines were to 68020 or greater.
Portable,Classic,PB100....

>
>Where does that leave PB 100 users, with a 68000?  While I don't need
>color, it would be nice to run those applications that require 32Bit QD.
>
>Any ideas?
Buy a better Powerbook! :)

I posted about this subject earlier this year. Here are some thoughts that have
come to me since then:

Apple made a marketing decision. IMHO an incorrect one. They apparently decided
that gaining color would influence people to upgrade their macs sooner. In 
this, they were aparently correct. But they seem to have again focused on the
high end and new customers rather than the loyal customers they already had.

Apple COULD have at least let people with accelerated pluses or SEs use
CWD or 32bitCQD. But they would have sold less machines doing so.

Alternately, since these machines are usually operating at 1-bit depth,
writing stub routines in 68000 code for compatability would not have slowed
the machines down significantly. ( Many people have posted here before saying
CQD on a 68000 would be too slow to be useful. ) I have seen very few apps
that refuse to run in 1-bit mode.

I would love to attempt to write these routines myself, but unfortunately I
have neither the time nor ability.

All that is really required is to rewrite the CQD Atraps in 68000 code and
make the assumption that 1-bit mode the only depth possibe. should be easy.

Anyone want to make some money? I would pay BIG to get CQD in my MacPlus.

Steve Fuller
sfuller@tamu.edu
From: Glen.Stewart@f175.n2240.z1.ieee.org (Glen Stewart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: RE: Info regarding: Maxtor, SyQuest, ClubMac, & MacLand
Date: 31 Aug 92 14:04:39 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:2240/175 - The Associati, Grand Blanc MI

I purchased a HD from MacLand.  No problems.  They didn't send the bowl of
candies that I got from Hard Drives Int'l, but their price was good anyway.


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 Glen Stewart - Internet: Glen.Stewart@f175.n2240.z1.ieee.org
From: cld@genii.com (Chuck DuBois)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: STOP: THE MAC COST TOO MUSH
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 15:01:33 EST
Organization: Genesee Optics Software, Inc.
Reply-To: cld@genii.com
Distribution: world
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.5v3


In article <Btswn9.MGo@DMI.USherb.CA> (comp.sys.mac.misc),
martin@DMI.USherb.CA (Jean-francois Martin) writes:

> At least an good article on the PC. Not a flame that we get used to see on
> this newsgroup. For the others, stop bashing everybody else who don't
> use the same computer as you do. PLEASE, STOP THE THREAD: THE MAC COST TOO
> MUCH.

Don't forget the Atari Falcon thread.  This has dragged on for a bit to many
months too.  Big deal, so Atari (will/is/has/might) (release/releasing/
released/release) a machine called the Falcon which is so incredibly low priced
that everyone in their right mind will abandon their (Mac,PC,Amiga,Sparc,Vax)
to purchase one.  Enough already.  Post the product announcement to
comp.newprod and let's be done with it.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: fnawaz@nyx.cs.du.edu (fried!)
Subject: Mac ][si & LC ][
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 00:42:53 GMT


 Hi!
I am a college student, and I have to buy a Mac during the next week or
so. Since the LC ][ and ][si are being sold at a student discount and 
are both cheap, I'd like to know which one I should buy. I've also
heard that Apple has come out with some new models. Could someone send
info on them too?

Thanking you in advance...
From: DCA105@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: JPEG files from ftp
Date: 14 Sep 92 21:13:45 GMT
Organization: Penn State University

Sorry if this is in some FAQ list, but how can I convert JPEG files to another
format (GIF,PICT,etc) that my mac can understand?  I've tried just about every
utility with a 'j' in it hoping it was a jpeg converter, but to no avail.  I've
 seen the file 'JPEGView_intro (off rascal I think) and it refers to JPEGView v
.9, but I couldn't find the application file.  Does anyone know where I can ftp
 a JPEG viewer or a JPEG->GIF conversion utility (JPEG->GIF would be best)  I h
ave a set of apps called 'jpeg2gif', 'jpeg2ppm', 'ppm2gif' etc. but they don't
seem to work.  I usually use Fetch 2.0.6 to grab files via ftp since it often c
an decompress the file as it DL's it.  Please e-mail me directly since I don't
read this newsgroup very often (no time).  Thanks for the help

e-mail to DCA105@psuvm.psu.edu

Dave
From: eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Peanut Power !
Date: 10 Sep 92 01:27:59 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Department of Computer Science
Distribution: world
Reply-To: eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
NNTP-Posting-Host: cupid.cs.utk.edu

Situation: me, in easy chair, Powerbook 145 on lap, working at home
on not work-related stuff, late at night, can of beer at one
elbow, bowl of peanuts at other.

Development: growing irritation at bad tracking of trackball.

Sudden insight: peanuts == fat -> slippery surfaces.

Immediate action: remove trackball, wash hands and ball, and lo
and behold.

Harumpf.

Does anyone have any further comments on the tracking of
the Powerbook trackball? Because I get the impression that the
things definitely has a preferred direction (vertical) and that
it is rather susceptible to grease / sweat / whatever excuse it
can find to slip.

Victor.
From: rrw@elden.cse.nau.edu (Bob Wier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Sys 6 on PowerBook?
Date: 11 Sep 92 22:47:43 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff AZ
Originator: rrw@elden.cse.nau.edu

A colleague here has asked me if there is a way to run system 6
on the machines which are supposedly System 7 only (Powerbook, etc).
He says he believes he saw a student who was able to go this some
time before he ended up buying his machine, but can't remember
the details.

Sorry if this is a faq, but if you have some information on this, 
I'd appreciate a note.

THANKS!

 - Bob Wier

  ---------- insert favorite standard disclaimers here ----------
                   College of Engineering
      Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff Arizona
  Internet: rrw@naucse.cse.nau.edu | BITNET: WIER@NAUVAX | WB5KXH
From: mcdonald@cs.sfu.ca (Ken Mcdonald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: FullWrite Upgrades
Date: 9 Sep 92 06:04:41 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: CSS, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada


I suspect that this question if of interest to enough people out there
to warrant being posted . . .

I'm a registered user of FullWrite 1.1.  I'd like to know if there is
any way of upgrading inexpensively to a more recent version, and if
FullWrite will be updated in the future.  I don't generally read
comp.sys.mac, so I'd appreciate an e-mail answer, but will answer
e-mail queries from other interested parties based on the response I
get, or (if interest warrants) post a response.

Thanks,
Ken McDonald
mcdonald@cs.sfu.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: price@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu (John Price)
Subject: Re: YAA - Yet Another Acronymn
Reply-To: price@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu
Organization: UCLA Particle Physics Research Group
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 06:58:14 GMT

In article <1992Sep10.014315.1@vax1.umkc.edu>, tmaehl@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
>In article <ewright.716058614@convex.convex.com>, 
>ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
>> And let me add, once again, that the Macintosh does not have
>> a GUI.  It simply has an interface.  Real computers do not
>> need three-letter acronyms just to make simple things sound
>> IMPORTANT.

>	ADSP	Appletalk Data Streaming Protocol (?)

This one doesn't count -- it's an FLA, not a TLA.  :)

           John Price * * * * price@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu
           Where there is no solution, there is no problem.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: dcho@scott.skidmore.edu (douglas cho)
Subject: Re: MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY, 12866
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 17:04:20 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.141353.8719@cbis.ece.drexel.edu> paul_sample@lvhd.ece.drexel.edu (Paul Sample) writes:
>In article <ewright.715999347@convex.convex.com> Edward V. Wright,
>ewright@convex.com writes:
>>In <0efEbii00WB311oHYp@andrew.cmu.edu> Faisal Nameer Jawdat
><fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>
>Shut up!

Well said!  ;-)



Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: rrumpf@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Robert Rumpf)
Subject: Re: SpeedyFinder7 1.5.2 errors
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 16:43:21 GMT

I do not have FTPd installed....however, FTPd opens up at bootup, much as the 
program I was having problems with does.  It seems that the problem must be 
with SpeedyFinder7?

Bob
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: Anders.Holm@elmat.lth.se (Anders Holm)
Subject: Mail order MIDI recommendation?
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Organization: Electrical Measurements, Lund University
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 11:30:41 GMT

Anyone out there that can recommend a mail-order shop (US or Europe) that
carries a good selection of MIDI-interfaces and MIDI-paraphernalia. Replies
through email might be more appropriate.

Thanks in advance!
/AH

********************************************************
Don't need no disclaimers!
Anders Holm
Dept. Electrical Measurements, Lund University, Sweden
Voice: + 46 46107532   FAX: + 46 46104527
Email: Anders.Holm@elmat.lth.se
Mail: P.O Box 118, S-221 00 Lund, Sweden
From: Glen.Stewart@f175.n2240.z1.ieee.org (Glen Stewart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: RE: trouble with HP Deskjet after Sys7 upgrade
Date: 3 Sep 92 15:40:54 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:2240/175 - The Associati, Grand Blanc MI

I have the DeskWriter 3.1 driver here.  Don't know if that'll work for you.


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From: an780@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Travis Grundke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Phone Number to QUANTUM
Date: 10 Sep 1992 20:58:34 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: an780@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Travis Grundke)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


Could someone E-MAIL me with the phone number to QUANTUM, the hard disk
maker? I need it rather urgently.
-- 
         Travis Grundke- Contributing Editor, MacGames Digest
                      an780@cleveland.freenet.edu
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  
    MacGames Digest: The first magazine dedicated to Macintosh Gaming.
From: rankin@ms.uky.edu (David W. Rankin Jr.)
Subject: Re: Copyright of letters (was Re: ewright is full of Bull.....)
Keywords: copyright mail
    <1992Sep4.151427.18985@u.washington.edu>
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 22:31:48 GMT

In article <1992Sep4.151427.18985@u.washington.edu> larry@spike.rprc.washington.edu (Larry Shupe) writes:
>
>I believe it is only the senders words that cannot be used.  There is
>no reason why the recipient cannot DESCRIBE the CONTENTS of the
>message in his or her own words as he or she interprets the letter.
>Also it is probably permissible to quote excerpts from the letter as
>long as they are clearly marked as quoted.  Does anyone know more
>about this?
A general overview MIGHT be permissable, but quoting isn't. It's just like 
me "quoting" a portion of your new program in mine. (Books, etc. are often
quoted because the authors give them permission.) 
I'm not sure about overviews/outlines, but they might fall under trade secrets,
or privacy acts, etc. IMHO, it's wrong to tell anything about a letter that is
obviously private, and usually Email is assumed private.
>--
>Larry Shupe

David W. Rankin, Jr.,  Mac Archiver for f.ms.uky.edu   Yorick on IRC
rankin@ms.uky.edu  rankin@ukma.BITNET rankin@ukma.UUCP uunet!ukma!rankin
Alternate addresses: rankin@mik.uky.edu  djrank00@aix3090b.uky.edu
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"Now all has been heard;/ Here is the conclusion of the matter:/ Fear God and
keep his commandments,/ for this is the whole duty of man."
    "The Teacher", Ecclesiastes 12:13 (NIV)
From: 00mmnorris@bsu-ucs.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Singin the MACblues...
Date: 16 Sep 92 01:50:46 GMT

I ordered a Mac IIsi a long friggin time ago (I got an order acknowledgement
from APPLE that said they entered my order on August 10, 1992, but have yet to
hear anything from them since then.  I have but one question: What the hell is
taking so long?!?!?

Sincerely, 
/----------------------\
| M. Norris            |* Science is the topography of ignorance*
| Muncie, Indiana      |* Whatever is is right*
|----------------------|* Ignorance is voluntary misfortune*
 
                        Fear not, for I shall return!
 
                        00MMNORRIS@LEO.BSUVC.BSU.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.apps
From: haferman@icaen.uiowa.edu (Jeff Haferman)
Subject: Word 5.0, System 7, and non-breaking hyphens
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 17:18:18 GMT
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA


I can't seem to get non-breaking hyphens to work in Word 5.0
(key sequence is command-tilde).  When I hit the key sequence,
the screen just blinks at me.  Any ideas on what to try?

I have a few difference control panels and extensions installed,
but nothing that has ever caused any problems in the last
several months.

Please e-mail any responsed.  Thanks.

 


Jeff Haferman                            internet: haferman@icaen.uiowa.edu
Department of Mechanical Engineering     DoD 0186  BMWMOA 44469  AMA 460140
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA  52242                                 '76 R90S
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.amiga
From: bcleve@ha10.eng.ua.edu (Brian D. Cleve)
Subject: Was the A4000 announced? 
Organization: The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 17:07:29 GMT

I heard that it was to be announced this past friday..?
Some one please post or mail the specs and price for the A4000 when it
comes available.

Thanx in advance,
bcleve@buster.eng.ua.edu
From: allen@uthep2.ph.utexas.edu (Charles C. Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Conway's "Life" for the Mac
Date: 9 Sep 92 19:15:31 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Organization: UTexas-Austin Physics

> have recently been discovered.  It would be really neat if some enterprising
> freeware/shareware author would write a research-oriented Life CA app for
> the mac.  By "research-oriented" I mean one with a good pattern editor which

It doesn't exactly fit the bill as a "research-oriented Life app", but
there is a very good general cellular automaton application available for
the Mac.  CASim is not freeware or shareware, but it is cheap ($35 as I
recall).  It's available from

        Algorithmic Arts
        PO Box 20191
        San Jose, CA  95160

The only name I see in the manual is Kenneth Karakotisios, so I assume that
he essentially is Algorithmic Arts.  I first heard about CASim from short
post by him in one of the CA newsgroups.  I've cleverly lost the e-mail
exchange, but as I recall he works at Apple, so try variations on his
name@applelink.apple.com, or @apple.com if you want to try e-mail.

CASim has built-in rules for several of the popular CA rules, and a general
rule editor for making your own.  The built-in rules usually have lots of
parameters to tweak.  I see the following in the Table of Contents of the
very nice, 124 page manual:  Rug, Wolfram 1D, Totalistic, NLUKY (of which
Life is one type), Ecology, Turmites, Diffustion/Growth, Hodge, Wire,
Custom Rules, Griffeath and Pastels, Langton Loops, Hex Growth, Rucker's
Ranch.  Some of those may use the Custom Rule generator instead of a
built-in algorithm.

You can change the color mappings, world size, topology, cell size, as well
as log data to a file for analysis later.  CASim 1.2 (the version I have)
only does 8-bit cell values, but Kenneth does mention larger cell value
sizes as a thing to be done.

Hey, *I'm* hooked!
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.misc:16072 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:12288 comp.sys.amiga:246
From: Jonas_Svensson@augs.se (Jonas Svensson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Atari Falcons $799... WHO CARES! Just emulate it.
Date: 5 Sep 92 23:19:30 GMT
Organization: Amiga User Group - Sweden

MOVE THIS CRAP TO some .advocacy group !

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From: pg@sanitas.stortek.com (Paul Gilmartin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: PGP - public key encryption for the Mac, anyone???
Date: 11 Sep 92 20:58:38 GMT
Organization: Storage Technology Corp.

David Meyers (gt9022a@prism.gatech.EDU) wrote:
: I am interested in public key encryption, 
   ... 
: If someone out there either already has PGP for the Mac, or is
: working on it, or lastly, if they have generic sources (perhaps
: unix) for it, PLEASE let me know.

I understand that PGP encroached on the intellectual property of a firm
called RSA.  RSA reached an agreement with the author of PGP that RSA would
regard PGP as a scholarly publication rather than an infringing software
product, _provided_ that the author _never_ issues any upgrades, enhancements,
or bug fixes.

The chance of seeing PGP for Mac seems pretty slim.