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From: linley@hougen.seas.ucla.edu (Bruce Linley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: The Gestapo and you (was  Re: Copyrights and piracy...)
Keywords: Piracy, Copyright
Date: 28 Jul 92 20:52:00 GMT
Followup-To: Re: Copyrights and piracy...
Organization: SEASnet, University of California, Los Angeles

[Stuff Deleted]

| What about the multiple machine case?  Lets say I have two computers.  Can I
| have my copy of Word installed on both?  Unless I am mistaken I think that
| technically this is a no.

| Interesting question that falls under all this.  Public transmission enter my
| house.  ie. Satelite.  If I crack the scrambling method, am I violating a
| copywrite?  Wasn't there a big controversy about this a few years back?  Radio
| Shack selling HBO busters or something like that.

<FLAME ON>

What about putting that original copy of word on a network where n number of
people can launch it simultaneously? What about renting software? As as for the
point about it being OK to videotape broadcast TV shows because they ARE being
broadcast over public airwaves, tell me please, why has the federal gov't ruled
that it is ILLEGAL to intercept cellular phone calls with a scanner? These
calls travel over public airwaves. (If it's passing through my skull, I have
every damn right to be able to listen in.) HBO descramblers are another story
though because the signal is coming over a PRIVATELY owned medium (i.e. cable)
unless you are descrambling the satellite transmissions.

<FLAME OFF>
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From: rfisel@informix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Musical OCR ???
Date: 28 Jul 92 01:12:41 GMT
Reply-To: rfisel@informix.com
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.

In article <7709@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> linley@ada.seas.ucla.edu (Bruce Linley)  
writes:
> Does anyone know if there exists an OCR program that can read sheet music
> and save it in a format readable by Finale???
> Thanx.
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--I don't think there is one, but there's not much reason there couldn't be  
(provided you're reading printed music, not handwritten). Finale et. al. use  
music fonts for notes, repeat signs, etc. OCR would have to be enlightened that  
position has meaning within a staff, and would have to be able to tell that a  
double dot in a repeat sign means something different than a double dot next to  
a quarter note; it would also have to be programmed to treat staff lines  
differently from notes (not put them into the MIDI app). I don't see that this  
is a worse problem than scanning handwriting or voice pattern matching, but I  
think the market for this would be small, so it might not get made for economic  
reasons. I've wished for this kind of thing for a long time - it would be great  
for music education!

Rick Fisel 
opinionated employee of opinionless
Informix Software
I prefer replies by email.
From: stricher@masig.fsu.edu (Char Aznabul)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: SPA piracy raid: Call for Solutions
Date: 28 Jul 92 21:40:10 GMT
Distribution: na

In article <1992Jul27.210125.16978@sdf.lonestar.org> steve@sdf.lonestar.org  
(Steve Fuller) writes:

+ How can you be sure ANY method of upgrading is fool-proof? 

Then one should be careful in making accusations of piracy, and 
should be able to provide proof, instead of the other-way-around, 
eh?

James
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: max@eskimo.celestial.com (Max Pinton)
Subject: Re: Fill-in-the-blanks documents in Pagemaker 4.0?
Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 08:23:58 GMT

lac@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Les Carr) writes:
: I've recently had to produce a little training manual
: where the students have to fill in missing words. To
: show where the missing words are, the actual text is replaced
: by a ruled line---you've all seen the kind of thing.
: 
: I've been trying to work out the best way to do this in PageMaker
: (or anything, really!) since to paste in actual lines in the text
: is both very difficult (ie it takes a lot of mouse movements) and is
: tricky to edit when changes have to be made. My preferred solution
: would have been to type the missing words (in a suitably big font to
: leave the correct amount of space) and to have the letters in "reverse"
: but with underlining on!
: 
: The best method I hit on is to use a special font (eg AvantGarde 130% set
: width) and to alter the Aldus Prep file so that the PostScript driver
: draws a line every time text in this font is used. I know its a kludge,
: but it lets me keep an editable text, which seems quite important.

	How did you do this? It seems like the best way, compared to the
leader or underscore approach, and has the advantage of allowing you to
print an "answers" version by just changing your Aldus Prep.

	Another option might be to make a typeface with lines at the
baseline of varying widths. The disadvantage would be some strange looking
text-wrapping.

From: blalock@hpl-otis.hpl.hp.com (Travis Blalock)
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 23:05:43 GMT
Subject: Frame -> Quark
Organization: HP Labs, High Speed Electronics Dept., Palo Alto, CA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps


Hello,

I need to send a Framemaker document to a publisher who is using Quark
Express.  Are there any Quark users out there who can tell me what input
formats Quark accepts?  Any ideas on the best conversion path for this?
BTW, the Framemaker doc is on a Unix box but that shouldn't make a big
difference since the Mac and Unix versions of FrameMaker are compatible.

Thanks in advance for any info,

Travis Blalock
blalock@hpl.hp.com

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: GILMART@LSTC2VM.stortek.com (Paul Gilmartin)
Subject: Re: Looking for .zip for the mac
Organization: StorageTek SW Engineering
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 14:03:49 GMT

In article <YQ3MBX1L@cc.swarthmore.edu>
R. Glenn Stauffer <stauffer@cc.swarthmore.edu> writes:
 
>In article <1992Jul21.031518.1490@zip.eecs.umich.edu> Jeffrey L.
>Needleman, JNeedleman@MCIMail.com writes:
>>There are a few unzip utilities for the Mac, but until this month no zip
>>utilities. That has now changed! Zip 1.0 was just made available on
>>America On Line. Since this question comes up a lot, I think I'll
>>download it myself tonight and post it at sumex-aim.stanford.edu.  Look
>>for it there later in the week.
>
>I've had Zip 1.0 for quite a few months.  Unfortunately, the program
>appends a "d" to the names of files being "zipped".   One of the program
>authors,  Johnny Lee (johnnyl@microsoft.com) apparently is working on an
>update.
 
I tried it and couldn't get it to work at all on my SE running sys 6.0.7.
The best it would do is create an empty archive, complain that it was empty,
then quit.
 
The user interface is crude; the icon is generic -- the product of a novice.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: good@pixar.com (Our vision is to speed up time, eventually deleting it.)
Subject: Startup screens
Originator: good@hogey.pixar.com
Organization: Pixar -- Point Richmond, California
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 19:03:17 GMT


I'm pretty new at this Mac game, and I wonder if anybody would like to email
me a short explanation of startup screens.  I gather that it's possible to
have something other than the "Welcome to Macintosh" screen displayed at boot
time, but I have no idea how.  Also, is it possible to use a picture as the
desktop instead of one of those little tiled patterns?

If it makes any difference, I'm on a PowerBook 170.  So I'm obviously in the
1-bit world.  Thanks,

		--Craig
-- 
	good@pixar.com
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Vote for a change this fall!  Don't fixate on the White House.
Vote all those Liberal Spendocrats out of Congress instead!
From: maine@maine.net.com (Dennis J. W. Maine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Info on eXodus by White Pine?
Date: 24 Jul 92 17:53:34 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Network Equipment Technologies, Redwood City

>I'm interested in opinions about "eXodus" X-windows software by White Pine.
I have tried MacX and eXodus. I prefer eXodus. My biggest disappointment
is that the functionality I get from a X-terminal is not identical
to X servers running on a Powerbook.

eXodus...
Example #1. Cut and paste between windows. or even the same window.
Example #2. Running Openwindows utilities that create
child windows. If you close a child window, the parent dies too. 
E.g. Open up a read or compose window under mailtool. hit the close box
and mailtool dies.  This doesn't make it easy to read a bunch of messages.
you need to leave all the windows up you create until you're finished 
with mailtool. bummer.
Example #3. Configuring a real 3-button mouse.  I have a Mouse systems
mouse that was hard to configure w/o a lot of experimentation. I finally
did it under eXodus.  I still haven't figured it out under MacX.  

It might be interesting to note that my experimentation was for a 
projection machine to be used for reviews and presentations.  I have
a powerbook with a VGA display adapter, a Ethernet/SCSI port and
a LCD flat panel display for an overhead projector.  I want to
project Sun/NFS files with a GUI familiar to Sun programmers.
It's been a real blast trying to do this. Mac people don't know Sun
and Sun people don't know Mac.  Nothing you probably don't already know.

A Sun laptop is toooooo expensive and I can't run Excel on it.
Running AUX on a powerbook doesn't sound feasible to me.

Good luck,
  Dennis J. W. Maine, Principal Engineer in Software Technology 
  IDNX Operating Systems Department, Network Systems Division
  800 Saginaw Drive, Redwood City, CA. 94063 (mailstop 24.1.2)
  VoiceMail	:(415) 780-5965
  FaxMail	:(415) 780-5004
  Internet Email:maine@NET.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Drag-drop deBinHex application saught
From: guelzow@brandonu.ca
Date: 30 Jul 92 10:19:27 CST
Organization: Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada

In article <Bs5wrn.DLw@acsu.buffalo.edu>, 
v065hjku@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Jason Osborne) writes:
>>Is there a program which allows me to deBinHex a bunch of binhex files in
>>one go, either by drag-drop or via a batch process.
> 
> The utility is called DeHQX, surprisingly enough, and is in the sumex-aim.
> stanford.edu ftp site under info-mac/util.  However, even better is 
> compact pro 1.33, also in the same directory, which will not only dehqx
> a file for you without having to worry about the headers (actually, DeHQX
> does that too...), but it will then open up the archive and decompress
> it for you, and it can handle almost any compression scheme.
I may have missed it, but compact pro 1.33 does not seem to permit batch
debinhexing nor drag&drop debinhexing.
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Guelzow@BrandonU.Ca
From: gt5571d@prism.gatech.EDU (AB RAHIM,HARMAN SHAM)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: I need opinions on DesignCAD 2D/3D software.
Date: 28 Jul 92 18:00:51 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

Hi!
	I'm wondering if anyone in this newsgroup has any experience using
DesignCAD 2D/3D.  I would like to know how reliable this CAD package is   
compared to AutoCAD or ClarisCAD.  Please indicate if you find that Design
CAD is much easier to use.  Also, I'm interested to know if DesignCAD is
compatible with all rendering packages.  By the way, if you have some
other CAD packages in mind, feel free to let me know.  I'm looking for a
good CAD package with a good price too!







:x

-- 
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Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: edd701ssft@vx24.cc.monash.edu.au
Subject: Two questions about colour
Organization: Computer Centre, Monash University, Australia
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 06:33:33 GMT



Question 1 :

Is there an application that will enable me to save colour pictures
(eg gif, tiff, jpeg, bmp) as colour startup screens ? 

Question 2 :

Is there an application that will enable me to change my boring background
desktop to a colour picture ?


If you know the answer to one or both of those questions I would greatly
appreciate you sharing your knowledge with me!

Vincent,

Monash University,
Australia.

Internet Address : edd701ssft@vx24.cc.monash.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: ivab015@hermes.chpc.utexas.edu (Albert Wu)
Subject: Sys-7-happy Spooler for Poor Imagewriter Wanted
Organization: The University of Texas System - CHPC
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 03:09:27 GMT

Hello, Mac users.  I used to use a "Multispool" shareware to spool to my
old Imagewriter.  It worked fine until I installed Sys 7.  Is there an updated
sys-7-happy version of it or is there a new software like it that I can get ?

Many thanks in advance.
From: ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: QRT Ray Tracer ?
Date: 31 Jul 92 10:54:43 GMT
Organization: KFA  Forschungszentrum Juelich

Hi folks,

Is there a version of the QRT ray tracer for the Mac ? The program comes from
Amiga and has been ported to a number of other machines including PC and HP9000

THANX, Michael Bode.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: franjion@spot.Colorado.EDU (John Franjione)
Subject: HELP--3D graphics software
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 19:30:47 GMT

I need a relatively simple 3d graphics software.  It must be able to
draw spheres and spheroids.  I would prefer shaded objects, rather
than wire frame ones.  Is there any Mac software which can do this?

John Franjione
franjion@spot.colorado.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener)
Subject: ReadIt OCR vs OmniPage Pro
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 03:54:12 GMT

Has anyone heard of (or done) comparisons between OmniPage Pro and 
Read It OCR?  I'm curious to know how the overall performance of
these two packages compare.  Any comments would be appreciated.

Thanx in advance...


--
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gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu       to be seriously considered as a means of 
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From: richieb@bony1.bony.com (Richard Bielak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: SPA piracy raid: Call for Solutions
Date: 28 Jul 92 12:38:45 GMT
Organization: multi-cellular

In article <1992Jul17.084854.5977@sdf.lonestar.org> steve@sdf.lonestar.org (Steve Fuller) writes:

[...]

>
>All methods of software copy protection are useless. Software Pirating is a
>moral issue and will not be solved by legal or technichal methods.
>

I agree that software copy protection is useless. But software piracy
is not necessarily a moral issue. It's a cultural issue. 

The problem is the way we make money selling software today. If, as
Brad Cox suggest, we charged for software per user, not per copy, then
coping would not be a problem.

In fact, duplication would be great - if more copies are in
circulation, there is more use, therefore more revenue :-).

Software is *so* easy to copy, why not use this strength to our
advantage instead of fighting it.

...richie

P.S. see the thread on "superdistribution" in comp.object

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From: fetzer@sdphu3.ucsd.edu (Michael E Fetzer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Why is PacerLink so *slow* over tcp/ip? Especially SLIP?
Date: 25 Jul 92 18:28:07
Organization: /u2/grads/fetzer/.organization
NNTP-Posting-Host: sdphu3.ucsd.edu

I've used both VersaTerm and PacerLink over localtalk to make tcp/ip
connections. PacerLink at those speeds always seemed a bit slower, but
I thought it was my imagination.

Recently I tried VersaTerm over a slip link, and I was impressed.
Considering it was a 2400 baud modem (MNP5) I could have several
connections open at the same time. But, why, I thought, should I pay
for VersaTerm if I can get a copy of PacerLink for free. We have a
site license for it in our department. So, out with VT, in with
PacerLink. All of a sudden, nothing moves. Just typing plain text, I
can't go faster than maybe 10 words perminute or the connection starts
to lose characters. The speed is attrocious! I know what you're
saying... 2400 baud SLIP is silly. Well, I've had the new modem on
order for 9 weeks now! But... *one* single telnet connection should
work almost as fast as a plain serial connection... I'm slipping with
a Xylogic Annex box, if that makes any difference, but the performance
is completly unacceptable.

What does PacerLink do that makes it perform so slowly?! NCSA Telnet
works fast... uATerminal works well... just PacerLink twiddles it's
(an my) thumbs.

*confused*

Mike
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: gukgn@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Kim Guan Ng)
Subject: Word 4.0 + Truetype = printing errors; help!
Organization: University of Western Australia
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 12:19:01 GMT

I have Word 4.0. Ever since I started using Truetype under system 7,
characters have started to print on top of one another.

Is this bug due to word or TT? If it is word, has it been fixed in
later versions? I have not been able to find updaters at sumex
or mac archive.

Please help!

Thanks for your time.
-Kim
From: george@mech.seas.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Quick Microsoft bash! ;-) (Word not closing files properly)
Date: 29 Jul 92 15:02:35 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania, Mechanical Engineering



:"Short Menus" sucks (and besides... who's idea was it
: to modify dialog boxes with full/short menus?))

with word 5 "Short Menus" have been eliminated.  There is a short menu
command set, but the modified features and dialog boxes are gone...
( perhaps the only significant improvement over word 4... :-)
--
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From: deal@hightop.nrl.navy.mil (Richard Deal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: A/UX 3.0 vs. MachTen 2.0
Date: 22 Jul 92 13:01:35 GMT
Organization: Naval Research Labs (Washington DC)

In article <1992Jul21.223426.20299@ncar.ucar.edu> charlesa@niwot.scd.ucar.edu (Charles Albrecht) writes:
>(A/UX and MachTen are UNIX implementations for the Macintosh.)
>{A/UX is a System V - BSD hybrid, requires 68030 w/PMMU (or 040) (32 bit mode) 

A/UX also runs on a 68020 with PMMU, 68030 doesn't need a PMMU it is 
built in to the chip.



-- 
#include <std/*>
The Butcher                  
Butch Deal                   deal@hightop.nrl.navy.mil
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From: mwalker@wc.novell.com (Mel Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: SPA piracy raid at Oregon?
Date: 22 Jul 92 23:59:09 GMT
Organization: Novell, Inc. - Walnut Creek

In article <D88-JWA.92Jul23004334@dront.nada.kth.se> d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) writes:
>.arizona.edu> jahnke@biosci.arizona.edu (Jerome Jahnke) writes:
>
>   caused by fairies and gnomes. Time marches on. The people who create software 
>   deserve to be paid. If not they will not create sofware. You feel you do not
>   have to pay becuase it is not like you taking it from them. How do you feel
>
>
>Which brings us to an interesting point:
>
>Why is new software created ? Why is the software industry still one
>of the more viable and prosperous industries there is ? Piracy has
>been going on in scale for AT LEAST 15 years.

I would say it's because there are still a few honest people out there.

Others would apparently say that it's because there are still a few
suckers out there.

>
>-- 
>         Jon W{tte, Svartmangatan 18, S-111 29 Stockholm, Sweden
>
>### You have the Easy Access virus. This virus may cause strange sounds.
>### You have the 24-bit virus. This virus eats system memory like CRAZY.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: dent@DIALix.oz.au (Andrew Dent)
Subject: Re: ThoughtPattern? Any Good?
Organization: DIALix Services, Perth, Western Australia
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 15:45:32 GMT

In <1992Jul24.132419.21162@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> rufat@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (Jorge Rufat 283-4308) writes:


>One of my objectives in using TP was to make a flat bibliography
>file a little smarter. The file is 672k. I tried to import the 
>file into TP (there is a command to do that in the package), but
>TP complained about lack of application memory. At the highest
>application memory I could afford, 3870, I could only afford to
>import about 50k. <-(
I just ran a quick test import of 114kb into TP v1.3, creating a TP file
of 112kb. I used a 500kb partition for TP!

I suggest you had your field or record delimiters set so that TP was trying
to create a single huge record.

Andy Dent (A.D. Software - Mac & VAX programming)
94 Bermuda Dve, BALLAJURA  Western Australia  6066
Phone/Fax: 09 249 2719 (local)  +619 249 2719 (International)
       Internet: dent@DIALix.oz.au    Compuserve: 100033,3241
From: erics@infoserv.com (Eric S. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: PageMaker 4.2 filter for WriteNow 3.0?
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 08:25:12 PDT
Organization: Reigning Cats and Dogs
Reply-To: erics@infoserv.com
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.5v4


hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades) writes:

> dlutz@uoft02.utoledo.edu writes:

> >The subject line says it all - is there a filter for PageMaker 4.2 that
> >allows one to place WriteNow 3.0 documents? If so, is there a site it can be 
> >FTPed from?

>     As far as I know there is no such filter.

There isn't but I believe T/Maker says they're working on one. No date
has been announced for availability though.

-----
Eric Smith
erics@infoserv.com
CI$: 70262,3610


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From: jpurlia@qualcomm.com (John Purlia)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Converting Word equations to ASCII
Date: 21 Jul 92 19:25:02 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc.

Does anyone know of a utility for translating Microsoft Word Equation
Editor files into some sort of ASCII format which may be interpreted by a
text to speach reader?  Equation Editor stores symbols and such in a format
that can't be identified by our reader.  We would like to be able to have
an equations read (integral, sumation, etc...) from documents produced
using MS Word.

Any push in the right direction would be immensely appreciated, and thanks!
...........................................................................
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