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From: leonardr@netcom.com (Leonard Rosenthol)
Subject: Why StuffIt is so "big" (was Re: Can't UnStuff)
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 06:21:20 GMT

I apologize for re-entering this issue, but since I have been out of town, I
felt that it was appropriate for an "official" responce.

One of the longest standing complaints about StuffIt (Lite/Deluxe, etc.) is
that it is MUCH larger disk and RAM footprint than Compact Pro, and that
some don't see what they gain for that extra overhead.

Well, let me see if I can explain what you get...

1) More features.  StuffIt 3.0 offers a number of features that CP does not
and that many of our users find important and in some cases "unlivable without".
Some of these features include the ability to open multiple archives at the
same time, copy & move files within and between archives, create exportable
encrypted archives (and SEA's), adding files based on "match criteria". Also
in Deluxe you get the ability to view the contents of files w/o expanding them
first (and using another application).

2) Support of Apple Technology.  StuffIt 3.0 was the first shipping application
to take advantage of Apple technology including Apple events/AppleScript, 
WorldScript, Easy Open, and more.  We have also been demonstrating support
for OCE since last May.  You can bet that as Apple releases new things, we'l
be there with proper support.

3) Multi-format support.  Whereas CP only support it's own formats, BinHex
(though not fully to spec) and StuffIt 1.5.1, StuffIt Lite also supports
StuffIt 2.0 & 3.0 formats, MacBinary, Disk Doubler, PackIt, and AppleLink
Package files.  StuffIt Deluxe adds the ability to handle PC formats such as
ARC & ZIP, as well as common Unix formats like Compres, Tar, UUCode, etc.  To
quote MacUser, "If StuffIt Deluxe can't expand it, it probably isn't worth
having."

--
Onto a different, though related subject, someone else commented that because
of all our recent updates that StuffIt is not stable - that is FAR from the
truth.  Sure we fixed bugs, but let me give y'all some ideas as to why there
were each version.

StuffIt Lite 3.0 - first release
StuffIt 3.0.1 - bug fixes and initial Deluxe release
StuffIt 3.0.2 - minor fixes to coincide with SpaceSaver 1.0.1 update
StuffIt 3.0.3 - MANY new features, plus support for WorldScript
StuffIt 3.0.4 - fixes (and support for) Easy Open


I agree that we've had a few too many updates in a very short period of time,
and you will (hopefully ;) not see any new minor ones for a while.  However, 
we felt that the work we have/had done in order to improve your usage of our
products was worth the time to produce and make the updates available.

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From: a-kraus@uiuc.edu (Albert L. Kraus)
Subject: RTrace Modeler for sff files?
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: PES
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:05:46 GMT

Can you create sff files with a Modeller? 

Thanks!
Have a nice day!
From: wilde@hri.com (Scott Wilde)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Quicken vs Managing Your Money
Date: 12 Jan 93 19:50:38 GMT

As I long time user of MYM, I feel compelled to add a few cents worth in support of MYM.

In article <C0r7F8.95u@fc.hp.com>, rodc@fc.hp.com (Rod Cerkoney) writes:

|> the account balance appears at the bottom of the window. In MYM you must go
|> to a 'Transaction Register' find the item of interest double click it, the
|> you are presented with another window in which you can make your change. If
|> you need to make multiple edit you go back and forth between windows to make
|> each edit. This seems clumsy to me. In Quicken you stay in one window and

	This is true.  On the other hand, the only time I really needed to edit previous
transactions was with my car payments.  When I wrote the check I had some amount allocated
to principle and some to interest.  When I got my statement I would go back and change the
amounts to  match the statement.  That (and the occasional mistake) are the only times I
needed to modify transactions.

|> 	Comment on data entry: Quicken & MYM both allow 'splitting'
|> allocations entering data. [Example: $X dollars to Mortgage Principle Y$ to
|> Mortgage interest.] In Quicken's 'split window' As I enter allocation amount
|> the balance to remaining to be allocated is displayed at the bottom of the
|> window in a blank line. In MYM no 'balance to allocate' is displayed but when
|> I press the button to record the transaction and a balance of greater than
|> $0.00 dollars exist a warning panel appears. I must the decide how to deal
|> with the warning and the unallocated balance, dismiss the panel to get back
|> to the split entry screen and make my corrections/edits. You guessed it

	MYM  does not display the "balance to allocate".  Instead it automatically fills in
the remaining amount when you select the next budget category.  If you didn't want the
entire amount to go to the second category, type over it with the amount you wanted to
allocate, select a third category, and the remaining amount is filled in for you.  Works
fine for me.

One of the big pluses of MYM  (I don't know whether Quicken has this, and no one has
mentioned it) is the "Recurring Transactions" window.  You can set up any number of recurring
transactions.  All you do is click on that transaction, change the amount ( if needed),
and hit the record button.  MYM fills in the payee and all the rest.  When you set up
recurring transactions, you tell MYM the frequency; it keeps track of the last time
you entered that transaction, and flags it with an asterisk when it is past due.  This is
invaluable when the electric bill has gotten lost in the pile of mail and you have forgotten
all about it. (Ask me how I know :-).

Scott
wilde@hri.com
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From: tedcrane@cs.cornell.edu (Ted Crane)
Subject: Re: Tax software?
Organization: Tompkins County Computing, Ithaca, NY
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:49:18 GMT

In article <dnsurber.726763492@node_26400> dnsurber@lescsse.jsc.nasa.gov (Douglas N. Surber) writes:
>The '91 version was the first version
>from ChipSoft.  Given the obviously high quality of the program in previous
>incarnations, ChipSoft must have worked pretty hard to hose things up in
>just a few months.

Beg to differ about "High Quality."  To agree, I would have to overlook
the year when the 15th (and last) line on an itemization sheet did not get
added into the total.  I might also have to overlook other bugs.

ChipSoft tries hard.  I doubt they had a bullet-proof product in the first place
and they've generally improved it (don't ask for specifics, I can't remember
the improvements).  Unfortunately, I wonder whether they test their code,
and thest the product on _real_ users.

In spite of the complaints, notice how we all still use it?
-- 
- ted crane, alias (tc)                  tedcrane@cs.cornell.edu
From: long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Rich Long)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Excel 4: Publishing a chart?
Date: 7 Jan 93 15:27:39 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


 In Excel 4, I published a chart that was embedded in a worksheet. This worked
 fine, and I was able to subscribe to it. Later, I wanted to change the
 options for that publication, so I went back to Excel, expecting to find a
 "Publisher Options" menu somewhere. Wrong! According to the help, it's in the
 "File/Links" menu item. One selects the type of link (Publisher) and then
 clicks the Options button to set options. I did this, but the Published chart
 shows up as an Excel Link (not!) and I cannot apply Options to it. 

 If I double-click the embedded chart, and Publish it from it's own window, I
 can apply Options to it as a Publisher, but it's appearance is not as it is
 when embedded in the worksheet (which is the appearance I want Published).

 So, how can I Publish a chart so it's appearance is as when it is embedded in
 a worksheet, while retaining the ability to edit its Publication options? Is
 this a bug or a feature?

 Thanks-
 Rich

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From: kjh+@cs.cmu.edu (Kenneth Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Drawing program with publishing facilities
Date: 6 Jan 93 19:05:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.C0G51J.2MJ.1
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon


Canvas 3.0 supports System 7's Publish and Subscribe.
Around $260 on the street.  Sidegrades for $150 from Debeba.
Contact	Debeba Software	at 800-622-6827 or your favorite mail-order house.

-- 
Kenneth J. Hughes     (kjh@cs.cmu.edu)
Entelechy Corporation
From: wstrain@azure.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Jeff Strain)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: NOW up-to-date
Date: 8 Jan 1993 15:22:14 GMT
Organization: Texas Instruments Incorporated, Austin
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: azure.ppe.ppd.ti.com

In article <1465@my.sm.luth.se>, jem@sm.luth.se (Jan Erik Mostr|m) writes:
|> 
|> Does a demo version of NOW Up-To-Date version 2.0 exist ?
|> 
|> 		jem

Yes. It is on AOL. And it is great!
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From: spencer@med.umich.edu (Spencer W. Thomas)
Subject: Re: FaxSTF questions
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 93 10:46:33 EST
Organization: University of Michigan
	<1993Jan3.234043.46078@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <23150@venera.isi.edu>
	<C0DAow.L7K@well.sf.ca.us>
Distribution: usa

In article <C0DAow.L7K@well.sf.ca.us> oster@well.sf.ca.us (David Phillip Oster) writes:
> STF's export of fax data is poor: you get three choices:
> 1.) a 72 dpi macpaint file.
> 2.) a 72 dpi PICT file.
> 3.) a 200x100 dpi TIFF file.

Actually, the PICT file is saved at the FAX resolution.  You've got to
have software that understands hi-res PICTs to properly view/print it,
though. (I've got version 2.0.9.)

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   "Genome Informatician"	|  Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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Subject: Re: App for making diagrams?
From: kent@centauri.dmc.com (Tom Kent)
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 07:48:05 EDT
Reply-To: kent@centauri.dmc.com (Tom Kent)
Organization: Sophist Solutions
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1


In article <1993Jan7.150543.6699@news.eng.convex.com>
(comp.sys.mac.apps), graham@convex.com (Marv Graham) writes:

> What MAC application program can I use to make diagrams for the foils
> in a presentation? The diagrams are like flow charts: boxes of various
> shapes connected by lines with arrow heads on one end.  I know about
> programs like Nisus that lets you make graphics, but you can't
> rearrange the graph without having to move all of the boxes and arrows
> individually. I would like a program that lets me specify the
> connectivity of the diagram and then rearrange by moving one or more
> boxes with the connecting lines folllowing along.

Aldus FreeHand makes it easy to create this kind of diagram. When
a selection includes a line segment, only the end(s) within the selection
are considered part of the selection and only those endpoints move
when you drag. For example, consider a box with an incoming arrow
and two outgoing arrows. If you make a selection a bit larger than
the box, it will encompass the nearest line segment ends, and dragging
the box also repositions all the line ends. This solution certainly
isn't perfect. You still have to fix overlaps or lines that end up
on the wrong side of a box, but it saves a great deal of time over
other approaches.

--------
Tom Kent                           Internet:       kent@centauri.dmc.com
Sophist Solutions                  UUCP:           ...uunet!thehulk!kent
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From: ibhan@husc8.harvard.edu (Ishir Bhan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Soft PC Windows
Date: 5 Jan 93 22:53:35 GMT

Does anyone know if Soft PC Windows is out yet?
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From: triantos@netcom.Netcom.COM (Nick B Triantos)
Subject: Re: FileMaker Pro externals?
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Service
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:21:50 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.164328.495@otago.ac.nz> anadig@otago.ac.nz writes:

>Does anyone know if there is a way of writing external code resources for
>FileMaker Pro, so that it could be made to, say, control a piece of equipment
>?

Sorry, but there's no way to do FileMaker Pro externals right now.
Hopefully, that would be something that will be implemented in the future.

Nick Triantos                     Avoid bus errors... Take the train!

Though I work for Claris in Technical Support, the thoughts, words, and
suggestions expressed here are NOT officially endorsed by Claris in any way

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From: aa443@Freenet.carleton.ca (Robert Szarek)
Subject: AutoDoubler Worth
Reply-To: aa443@Freenet.carleton.ca (Robert Szarek)
Organization: The National Capital Freenet
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 01:14:17 GMT


For $20 sure is. But some programs may not like AutoDoubler. Off hand I 
can't list any but I had a lot of trouble with various INITs and
ONLocation. If you ever decide to use SyQuest Cart. drives look out when
dismounting the cart. Weird things happened to me. 

FifthGen. would not want
to admit that thier software was giving me problems (this pissed me off)
with my SyQuest drivers. I used my original drivers from ETC Peripherals,
SCSI Probe and SilverLinning and each driver had problem with AutoD when
I ejected the drive and powered it off the SCSI bus. NO, I'm sorry but the
SCSI experts told me this is safe since the bus will "know" the drive is
no longer available. It seems the AutoD can't figure this out.

I still feel their product is good but not the greatest. BTW SpaceSaver
doesn't suffer from the SyQuest forget-me-and-cripple-the-mac syndrome.
Explain that! I'm pinning my hopes for my compression needs on Stacker
for the Mac since it is installed at the HD driver level and not 
patching into/above the Mac OS.

Finally, ever since Salient was taken over by Fifth Generation, I
noticed that service was not good. I never had my calls returned, was
forgetten several times and was never even offered an upgrade to the
lastest version AutoD. I sure missed it when Salient was running the
show.


Alas this is only my beef. I'm sure others had a better experience.

Rob
Land Software Engineering Centre
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NCF/National Capitol Freenet
Ottawa, Canada
aa443@freenet.carleton.ca
From: perr@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Gregg Perr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Looking for a program to make an app. use its icon.
Summary: Looking for an app. to make app icons look different than hand with pen
Keywords: application, icon
Date: 6 Jan 93 06:45:05 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

I am looking for a program that will make application icons which appear as the generic hand with the pen on a diamond, appear as a nice icon.  I have an LCII and on my system several applications that I have do not have their icon that is on other systems.  Any guess as to why?  Any help would be appreciated.  Either post a reply or e-mail me.  perr@gandalf.rutgers.edu


	Thanks, Gregg
From: v065hjku@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Jason Osborne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Looking for info on TIMESTWO (?)
Date: 6 Jan 93 04:29:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

If I understand what I have heard recently, there is a program out there called
TIMES TWO or something which functions to double disk capacity, but not in
the normal comprression methods.  Now, I am not a technical wizard
(Far from it), but this sounds tough to believe.  IT seems to me they are
saying something like the program fools the disks into believeing
they are twice the size?  The confusing thing for me is that I seem to 
remember them saying that one could compress a disk like this, and that
somebody else could read the disk w/o the program?  Can somebody
give me some more info on this, especially if you have tried it out.
SOunds like pure hocus-pocus to me.

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From: bruceh@access.isc-br.com (Bruce Hogan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Inventory/database program for Macintosh
Date: 5 Jan 93 15:07:11 GMT
Organization: ISC-Bunker Ramo

In article <sfG5=Ey00WBL81gd95@andrew.cmu.edu>, ag3n+@andrew.cmu.edu (Amy L. Gilligan) writes:
> 
> I was wondering if there is any decent inventory packages for the
> macintosh at a reasonable price ( less than $500) or database programs
> that allow basic statistical analysis, such as determining cost of total
> inventory.  
> 
> I have a weekend business selling comicbooks that I want to buy a
> computer to keep records.  I am trying to decide between getting an IBM
> or Mac.  My preference is a mac because I use that at my full time job,
> but most inventory applications are written for the IBM.  I know I can
> do what I want with Dbase IV and a lot of programming to manipulate the
> data.  I am not familiar enough with Macintosh software to know if
> anything similar exists and whether it would be easier or more difficult
> to use that Dbase IV.  Thanks for any help.
> 
> Amy  

Amy,

     I'm not familiar with any other database manager than Panorama by 
ProVue, though I am the only Mac in an IBM shop environment and know that the
department I am in has tried to find an IBM version of what I do with Panorama 
but hasn't been able to yet, so take what I say with a little salt...

I have written a package for our software library here that tracks the 
inventory and allows you to create new titles, adjust inventory, calculate 
charge backs to the ordering departments, prints a bibliography of what's 
available, prints a 'shorts' report (which manuals have fallen below a reorder 
point), and prints a history report of what has been shipped.

The inventory I have to keep track of contains about 3000+ titles.  Panorama 
is fast and has a good, intuitive scripting language.  I love Panorama.  I can 
do, and have done, just about anything I have needed to do.  The program I 
wrote is front-ended by a graphics screen with buttons to do whatever the 
department requires.  Runs beautifully ;-) .  

And if I can do it, believe me, anybody can do it.  So, I wanted to encourage 
you to try it yourself.  But if you don't have time or interest to try, you 
could contact ProVue yourself and ask about what they call "Popups", which are 
programs like mine that folks have submitted (I haven't yet, somthing about 
developing items for profit on company time) which ProVue 
markets for them and they might have just what you need.  Call them at 
(714) 892-8199.  Panorama II (with full programming features) is $239 from 
MacConnection.  ProVue also has a non-programming version of Panorama II 
in case you find the perfect PopUp that costs something like $60, if my 
memory hasn't taken a few too many gammas.

Any other questions, I can be reached at (509) 927-5449 6am to 3pm PST.
> 
> 
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From: peppert@iastate.edu (Kitchen Barbarian)
Subject: TimesTwo Sucks?
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 23:15:35 GMT

I installed x2 onto my little 80 megger I got here, ran some pretty simple
programs (photoshop, hypercard 2.1, SoundEdit Pro, etc.) and my directory
came back corrupted.  Unrecoverable.  What I liked about AutoDoubler is that
I had a good chance of recovering the files.  What I hated about AutoDoubler
is that it took so much RAM.  TimesTwo took care of that, but slowed my write
throughput to (ack!) about 25K/sec.  It also hated any files I brought in from
Remote Access.  

I'd complain to the company, but I lack time right now.  Just wondering if
anyone out there has similar gripes or if I'm just stupid.

-Tom
From: kayser@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (Susan E. Kayser NSSDC/STX (301)513-1673)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: How to unpack once application is downloaded?
Summary: Having trouble turning downloaded files into app's.
Date: 7 Jan 93 21:34:00 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1993Jan6.081849.13891@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, luism@genesis.Berkeley.EDU (Luis Miguel) writes...
..
>I have them in my hard disk. To uncompress it I use MacCompress3.2, and I get
>an uncompressed file with no ".Z":
>	windsor-demi.hqx
> 
>Then I have used Binhex5.0 to convert to a font file. I end up with
>an untyped file with name:
>	windsor-demi

You need to use Binhex 4, not 5. I forget what Binhex 5 does, but it is 
something different from 4; it is not just the latest version. 

Susan Kayser		NCF::KAYSER  or  kayser@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov
Hughes/STX at NASA/GSFC/NSSDC
Greenbelt, MD
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From: jmw@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (John Mark Williams)
Subject: basic for the Mac
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 23:02:30 GMT

Is there a pd/shareware basic interpreter available for the Mac? Nothing
fancy, just enough for a friend to complete some simple programming exercises
for a correspondence course he is taking.

Please reply via email as I don't often read this group.

Thanks,
--
John M Williams, 
School of Health Sciences, University of Tasmania
J.M.Williams@med.utas.edu.au

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From: uwostner@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu (Ulf Wostner)
Subject: Entire pathname for open folder?
Originator: uwostner@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu
Keywords: pathname directory folder
Organization: San Francisco State University
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 21:43:29 GMT


It would be great to be able to see the entire pathname of a
folder (or a file)  when it is open on the desktop.

It would read "Gaia:Films:Biographical:Chaplin" rather than
just "Chaplin".

Particularly useful when two files have the same name.

Maybe this feature could be activated by option-clicking on the
title.

Is there such an animal out there?

Thanks,

Ulf Wostner
wostner@nes.nersc.gov
uwostner@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu



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