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Info-Mac Digest             Thu, 15 Oct 92       Volume 10 : Issue 248

Today's Topics:

      [*] AmsterdamAirdisaster.cpt.hqx
      [*] doublescroll-113.hqx
      [*] Edit II 2.1.1
      [*] fclerk41.hqx
      [*] Marker-Control-0.5.sit.hqx
      [*] Mazer 3D 2.1
      [*] PowerPeriod StartupScreen for 12" RGB monitors.
      [*] Right On Time 1.0
      [*] StackedNews 1.4
      [*] ToggleAT.hqx
      [*] Vendor Emails 1.3
      (Music) Theory and Ear-Training Programs (Q)
      24 bit, VM, etc...
      accessories to print over ethernet?
      Ada for Macintosh
      AD and Norton
      Adobe Type Manager preserve options (Q)
      A New/er/est Version of MacTCP???
      Anyone used CodeBase? (Q)
      Backup Utility HELP!
      barcode writer
      BibTeX style for EndNote (Q)
      Color Pivot/LE (R)
      Connecting a Canon BJ-10e to the Mac
      Dead Quantum 105S hard disk (2 msgs)
      DeskWriter drivers (Q)
      dongles
      Edit II 2.1 vs. Apollo on PowerBooks
      FAQ's (A)
      Filemaker Pro - can it compute "balances"?
      file type question
      finding Quadra Advert (again
      FORTH on the Mac?
      Gif's (A)
      IIf Printing Problem (DOS/NOVELL/MS WORKS)
      Internet Tour (R)
      Internet tour stack
      locked HD icon
      lpr 1.2 client in background? (Q)
      Macintosh Security
      MacTCP and Ethernet
      Mac Tracks
      MaxAppleZoom
      Microsoft QuickBasic
      My Spreadsheet Search -- "sort of" a review
      PowerBook 180 (Q)
      QT-compressed --> StartupScreen still compressed!
      Quadra vs. PC Drive Card
      QuickBasic vs. System 7
      repairing 140s
      Small Business Accounting Packages
      Subject: Liken! Macintosh Emulator on
      Subject: RAM prices
      Sys errors, Xwindows, etc.
      Tape Backup
      Text file from a directory? (Q)
      The Namer
      The Namer (A)
      Trouble downloading GIFs (answer)
      two probs
      What should PB 100 Battery Voltage be?
      WindowScript from Heizer Softwr (A)
      Word's Grammar Checker
      World Script and System 7.1

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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 12:22:13 MET
From: "Rene G.A. Ros" <rgaros@bio.vu.nl>
Subject: [*] AmsterdamAirdisaster.cpt.hqx

At 6:38 pm on Sunday October 4, 1992 an El-Al air-cargo plane
(Boeing 747F) crashed into two 10-floor appartment buildings
in a south-eastern suburb (Bijlmermeer) of Amsterdam, the
capital of The Netherlands (Europe).

The exact number of victims is still unknown. On October 11
there were 16 deceased persons identified, while a total of 51
bodies has been recovered from the site.

This has been the worst accident in the history of the
Netherlands in decades. The press mentioned it is also the
airdisaster which caused the most casualties on the ground.
The flood after a dam-burst in 1953 caused the death of about
1700 persons.

Rene Ros
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

rgaros@bio.vu.nl

Included are two (system 7) sound files related to this
airdisaster and a list of victims and missing persons.

[Archived as /info-mac/sound/amsterdam-air-disaster.hqx; 564K]

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Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 12:24:36 -0700
From: Samuel S. Tai <sstai@ocf.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject: [*] doublescroll-113.hqx

DoubleScroll 1.1.3
An ISYS Development Product
(c) 1992 Edward Voas

Changes since ver. 1.1.2

 - Gratuitous animated startup icon

 - Fixed compatibility problems with Excel 4.0, and ClarisWorks

 - Option-clicking on arrows will scroll by pages

DoubleScroll is a shareware ($7.00) control panel that puts bidirectional
arrows on your scroll bars.  But this is not just another Scroll2 wannabe --
the arrows and scroll bars follow the System 7 color scheme, so they look
as if Apple had designed them.

Archived in StuffIt Lite 3.0.1 format.

 ---------------------------------------------------------------

[Archived as /info-mac/ex/doublescroll-113.hqx; 88K]

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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 16:36:05 -0600
From: kseah@procyon.austin.tx.us
Subject: [*] Edit II 2.1.1

Edit II is intended as a replacement for the Consulair Edit text editor but
which alllows the use of the cursor keys on the Mac keyboard for
navigation. If the extended keyboard is used, then the num lock LED will
indicate whether the cursor pad or the numeric pad mode is on.  The home,
end, page up, page down keys will also work, as will the delete right key.
One level of undo is supported.  You can launch Edit II by double clicking
old Edit files (since Edit II uses the same creator signature as Edit, that
is, EDIT). Stationery documents are supported under System 7.

Thanks for all the support from registered users.  Your feedback has been
incorporated into this version.

2.1.1 (10/12/92) Maintenance Release
~~~~~
* No changes in documentation from 2.1 (except for the registration page)
** Bugs fixed **
* Doing 'Save As' with the same filename gave a -47 error [Tried to delete
an existing file of the same name] 2.1.1 now closes the file before
doing a delete.

2.1 (09/24/92)
~~~
** New Features **
* Reverse printing is now optional (accessible from the Print dialog box).
* Autowrap now implemented (thanks to all who requested it).  What happens is
that the first space after the wrap column is automagically converted into a
space.  If the cursor happens to be clicked in the middle of a line and typing
starts, then the rest of the line is not pushed over the wrap margin until
the space is typed.
* Wrap on open implemented (useful for opening TeachText files).
* Respects file access rights (should be great for all you who wanted to use
Edit II on networked files).
* Can set default size for new window (great for those with HUGE screens).
* command-up arrow does a page up while command-down arrow does a page down
(this was devised for PowerBook users - like me).
* A bullet appears in front of the names of the unsaved files in the Windows
menu.
** Bugs fixed **
* Transfer now doesn't reopen files.
* Additional menus (such as fax modem menus) don't corrupt the menu bar.
* Double-clicking on an Edit II alias doesn't keep the cursor to the watch.
* Clicking on Cancel in the Quit dialog box doesn't cause an immediate quit.
* Clicking on No on the Quit dialog box doesn't skip all the other windows.
* Unwrap now marks the window as being changed.
* File names containing ; ^ ! < / and ( are now set up properly in the
windows menu. (AppendMenu doesn't like these characters!)

[Archived as /info-mac/app/edit-ii-docs-211.hqx; 33K]
[Archived as /info-mac/app/edit-ii-211.hqx; 95K]

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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 15:05:19 PDT
From: Robert_T._Chancellor.LAX1B@xerox.com
Subject: [*] fclerk41.hqx

This is the newest release of Font Clerk, version 4.1. This new version
includes the following enhancements:

[1] New "Show Only Screen Fonts" options to view only screen fonts
[2] Support for Balloon Help
[3] The active filter is printed on screen and reports.
[4] Export file now cotnains flags for what type of fonts for each typeface is
installed.
[5] Better control of cancelling print operations.

In addition to the new enhancements, several bugs have been fixed, including
one that caused page numbers to be printed incorrectly on reports.

Font Clerk 4.1 runs on any Macintosh running at least System 6.05. It is
32-bit
clean, and runs on the all models of Quadra with or without the cache.

For those not familiar with Font Clerk, it is a utility for analyzing and
reporting on fonts installed in your system. You can print reports that show
the required keystrokes for all characters in the font (including those
special
hidden graphic characters), a list of fonts printed in their own typefaces,
and
an informative report showing what font types are available for each typeface
(screen fonts, TrueType, or Type I). Font Clerk fully supports ATM (Adobe Type
Manager).

Font Clerk 4.1 also allows you to create empty font suitcases for organizing
your fonts, convert Macintosh TrueType fonts into a format of TrueType used in
Microsoft Windows, put custom header and footers on each report printed, and
export font information for use in other applications such as Microsoft Excel
ot Word.

As usual I would like to hear from you about Font Clerk. If you have any
comments or suggestions (or find any bugs), please contact me at the address
listed in the about dialog. Font Clerk is an ever-changing application, and I
am always looking for ways to improve it.

PS : I do not have access to services such as Compuserve and America Online. I
would appreciate it if any of you could upload Font Clerk 4.1 to these other
services.

[Archived as /info-mac/util/font-clerk-41.hqx; 119K]

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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 18:10:34 PDT
From: tla@netcom.com (Troy Anderson)
Subject: [*] Marker-Control-0.5.sit.hqx

This is a Control Panel that causes files in THINK C to be
marked and their window positions saved.

Executive Summary
 ----------------
  * Save window positions in THINK C.
  * Mark functions in source files.
  * Drop RMarker ControlS onto your System Folder and restart.
	Open the RMarker ControlS control panel to configure its operation.
  * Run THINK C and notice the difference.
      - Window positions are saved (open a file, move its window,
	close it, reopen it to try this out)
      - Command-click on the title bar of source file windows to
	see a list of the functions in that file.
  * #pragma mark <yourLabel>    // to mark things other than functions
  * #pragma markOff             // turn marking off until the end of the file
				// or a #pragma markOn
  * #pragma markOn              // turn marking back on

There is a "read me" file included.

[Archived as /info-mac/cp/marker-control-05.hqx; 23K]

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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 19:41:43 PDT
From: jafl@Alice.Wonderland.Caltech.EDU (John Lindal)
Subject: [*] Mazer 3D 2.1

Mazer 3D 2.1                Generates 3D mazes up to 30x30x10.  You view the
			    maze from inside the tunnels.  Map also
			    available.
			    Find the crystals, then the exit portal.

			    The graphics for version 2.0 are much improved,
			    as are the controls (mouse!) and sounds.
			    You can also place markers to remember where you
			    have already been.

John Lindal
jafl@alice.wonderland.caltech.edu

[Archived as /info-mac/game/mazer-3d-21.hqx; 118K]

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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 22:07:22 -0500 (CDT)
From: Larry Rymal <lrymal@tenet.edu>
Subject: [*] PowerPeriod StartupScreen for 12" RGB monitors.

	Are you impressed with the beautiful PowerPeriod that was
recently sent to the net?  But, do you have a 12" monitor and
have a slightly crowded picture?  Well, read on:
	This is a 12" PowerPeriod, resized to better fit the 12" RGB
Mac monitor, especially for "neglected" Mac LC users and others
with the 12" RGB monitor.

--Larry Rymal <lrymal@tenet.edu>

[Archived as /info-mac/art/power-period-12-rgb.hqx; 27K]

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Date: 12 Oct 1992 16:02:03 -0800
From: "John Covele" <john_covele@smtp.ESL.COM>
Subject: [*] Right On Time 1.0

		      [*] Right On Time 1.0
Right On Time is a personal time manager, with a calendar and To Do list.  You
can set up reminders which repeat and/or warn you ahead of time, play sounds
when an event is due, put tasks in your To Do list, etc.  This application has
been under development for quite a while and is fairly polished.  Requires
system 6 or above, system 7 and Quadra friendly, uses color if you have it.

This version is a demo version which is limited to 5 events, but otherwise
fully functional.  The full version is shareware ($10 - a steal!).

[Archived as /info-mac/app/right-on-time-10.hqx; 90K]

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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 13:50:33 -0800
From: gollmann@email.tuwien.ac.at (Georg Gollmann)
Subject: [*] StackedNews 1.4

Hello,

I have appended the latest version of my HyperCard based newsreader
"StackedNews". It replaces version 1.3 and improves the handling of groups
with a lot of unread messages.

Have fun !

Georg
-----

Dipl.Ing. Georg Gollmann           gollmann@edvz.tuwien.ac.at
TU-Wien, EDV-Zentrum               +43 (222) 58801/3611 (voice)
Gusshausstr. 25                    +43 (222) 505 68 49  (fax)
A-1040 Wien, Austria

[Archived as /info-mac/card/stacked-news-14.hqx; 37K]

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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 11:08:58 -0700
From: Jon Pugh <jpugh@apple.com>
Subject: [*] ToggleAT.hqx

An errant mouse click caused my last attempt to be 2 read me files instead
of the FKEY and the read me, so here's another upload.

This is version 2 of my ToggleAT FKEY which turns AppleTalk on and off. This
update includes notification through the menubar and optional sounds.

Jon

[Archived as /info-mac/fkey/toggle-appletalk.hqx; 10K]

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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 12:59:53 EST
From: msimpson@loop.ausom.oz.au (Matthew Simpson)
Subject: [*] Vendor Emails 1.3

Version 1.3 of the Vendor Email, BBS, FTP site and FAX  list!

Enclosed is a binhex4-encoded file containing a self-extracting folder with
three files in Word 4/5, Excel 2.2 and tab-delimited text format.  Each file
contains a list of Email, BBS, FAX numbers and FTP sites for Macintosh
vendors. Depending on your needs, feel free to delete the others: other than
formatting they are identical!

My goal with this list is to maintain an accurate and up-to-date list of those
companies that are on the internet or an internet-reachable service. I have
considered making a list with sales, tech support, and 1-(800) numbers, but
since my primary interest is in maintaining a list that is usable to those of
us who do NOT live in the U.S.A, and secondarily to promote those
forward-thinking companies who currently use electronic services, I will limit
myself to those companies making or selling Macintosh hardware or software
that maintain a BBS or active Email presence.

We will be adding more Australian vendor information to this list. If anyone
out there has any information to be added to the list please let us know.

I have the vendors entered alphabetically, without street addresses or
information regarding their products. I have a partial listing of AOL
addresses FAX numbers and FTP sites: please send me any appropriate
information that you might have!

June 1, 1992: Version 1.0  First list sent out:
July 2, 1992: Version 1.01 Corrections and a few additions
July 14, 1992: Version 1.1 Partial list of AOL addresses, FTP sites and FAX
numbers added.
July 24, 1992: Version 1.2 More than 240 vendors are now listed!
Oct 13, 1992: Version 1.3 New Editor Matthew Simpson
Matthew Simpson

msimpson%ausom.oz@sol.cc.deakin.oz.au
MACHOUSE@AppleLink.apple.com

October 13th, 1992

[Archived as /info-mac/report/vendor-emails.hqx; 72K]

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Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 20:15:57 -0600
From: "ozymandias G desiderata" <ogd@selway.umt.edu>
Subject: (Music) Theory and Ear-Training Programs (Q)

	Howdy, all! I have a friend who recently discovered (much to
his surprise and chagrin) that he is not doing as wonderfully in his
theory course as he might be. This concerns him.
	Do any of you out there know what theory/ear training programs
for the Mac are worth the price? I remember a few from the last time I
perused a MacWarehouse catalog, but I don't have the catalog anywhere
in this time zone and have forgotten what I read, anyway. Complete
purchasing info would be nice, too. Please respond directly to me; (as
always) I will summarize and post to the list. Thank you in advance.

yours,
ozymandias G desiderata
(ogd@selway.umt.edu)

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Date: 15 Oct 1992 00:44:15 -0700
From: "Apgar, Eric" <apgar#m#_eric@msgate.corp.apple.com>
Subject: 24 bit, VM, etc...

From: Laird Popkin <laird@Think.COM>

>The situation is a little more complex, actually.  Of the 16 megabytes of
>address space implemented in 24-bit memory, 8 megabytes of address space is
>allocated to system RAM, and 8 megabytes of address space is allocated to
>the nuBus slots, with 1 megabyte allocated to each slot.

No. 6 Megs are reserved for NuBus slots. 2 are for ROM and I/O.

>The Mac OS' 24-bit memory manager will only address the regular 8 megabytes
>of system memory.

Not under System 7. With System 7, and say 10 Megs of RAM and
24-bit addressing on, say a IIci with no NuBus cards, you CAN turn
on VM and set it to 13 Megs. (I did it.)

Apgar@Apple.com   |   Eric Apgar  alias  Gar   |   I said it, NOT Apple.

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Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 20:12:43 EDT
From: Chris Jones <CHMCHRIS@vm.uoguelph.ca>
Subject: accessories to print over ethernet?

Hello everyone.
      I have a problem concerning a recently purchased laserwriter:
I'd like to print on it from a IIcx which is elsewhere in the same building,
but the cx is connected only to ethernet, and the laserwriter is connected
to another mac via the regular built-in appletalk. (This other mac is on the
same ethernet as the cx.) Is there a utility which will cause the mac
in-between to act as a server and intercept stuff meant for this printer?
 This sounds like it should be an easy question, but the manuals we have
gave us no help.
AdvThanksance for *any* advice/help on this!

Chris

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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 13:21:08 GMT
From: Jeff E Mandel <mandel@tmc.tulane.edu>
Subject: Ada for Macintosh

"Kelly T. Kirk" <kirk@BRL.MIL> writes:

>       Meridian Software System INC. make OpenAda for the Macintosh and PC.

[stuff deleted]

> The price is $129 plus $12 for UPS shipping and handling.
> To order call 800-221-2522, ext. 224
>
> Address:  Meridian
>          Software System INC
>          10 Pasteur Street
>          Irvine, CA 92718
>
>P.S.  So far I am very please with this compiler. I use it on my Mac IIcx
>      running System 7.0.1.

I agree that it is a nice package. Before plunging in, be advised that
there is no evidence that Meridian will ever update this package. Their
tech support people told me that they are concentrating their efforts on
the PC and workstation platforms. They periodically send me mail offering
upgrades on these products, but I haven't seen anything on the Mac
platform. Also Note that while the compiler will run under System 7,
there are no headers for anything beyond System 6. This is a major pain
if you want to do anything major, on the other hand, if you just want to
do your Ada homework, go for it.

Jeff E Mandel MD MS
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Tulane University School of Medicine
New Orleans, LA

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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 10:30:20 IST
From: "Dr. Michael Silverstein"
<MTRMS01%TECHNION.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: AD and Norton

The older version of AutoDoubler did not seem to like
the older version of FileSaver and asked that it be
removed.

Can someone update me on the current versions of both?
Are they compatible? Is it the sacrifice of FileSaver
too much to ask (I like the idea of having my files
saved, what can I say)?

Thanks for you input....m  i  k  e

"It all comes down to who's holding the umbrella"
The Penguin

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Date: 15 Oct 92 13:32:41 GMT
From: Bob.Kenyon@SP1.y-net.es
Subject: Adobe Type Manager preserve options (Q)

Can anyone describe what the Preserve Character shapes and Preserve Line
spacing
options are supposed to do? And does it just affect the screen output or also
the output on QuickDraw devices?
I suppose it should have no effect on PostScript devices.
The manual is very vague on this and Adobe keep promising to send a reply but
don't.
I can't see the difference myself.
Regards, Bob Kenyon

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Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 16:28 PDT
From: Michael A Reed                       <IZZYFI1@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU>
Subject: A New/er/est Version of MacTCP???

Any takers?  My version of ye olde MacTeeCeePee is 1.1 -- someone yesterday
said that that wasn't the latest version...

I'm looking for the upgrade to solve my SE/30's prediliction to "hanging" my
connection when I try to disconnect.  You basically flip a coin, and if it's
tails, boyoboy, just gotta Force Quit that sucker.  Kinda nasty, as it totals
my network ties so that I have to restart.  What's a poor soul to do?

Pray...

OR.. See if the new version of 'TCP fixes it.  Any info is appreciated.

--Me

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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 18:09:38 EDT
From: abboud@cedrus.cedrus.com (Hisham A. Abboud)
Subject: Anyone used CodeBase? (Q)

I finally located a company that has a dBase compatible C library
for the Mac.  They call it a portability kit, comes with source code
that the sales rep says one can recompile on any machine.

The scary part is that the sales rep said they didn't have any
Macs in-house!  He tried to reassure me by saying other clients
have recompiled it successfully on the Mac.

Would any of these "other" clients be reading this message?  :-)
I was wondering if it works as advertised, and if it can read
dBase files created on the PC.  Thanks,

					Hisham.


Hisham A. Abboud, Cedrus Corp.  [Internet: abboud@cedrus.com]

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Date: 15 Oct 92 23:56:32 GMT
From: groggy@unixg.ubc.ca (Clive J Grogono)
Subject: Backup Utility HELP!

Dear network;

Backing-up is sooo boring! By the time I get around to it,
I have 150 files which  belong on 25 different floppies.

Can anybody tender advice on backup programs - commercial
or otherwise?  Are  Norton Utilities or SAM the solution to
all my trials?  Is there a package out there that has the
smarts to know which files have never been backed-up?

Is the only simple solution a removable cartridge or tape drive?

thanks in advance,

Clive Grogono
groggy@unixg.ubc.ca
Regent College,
Vancouver, B.C.

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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 09:20:32 EDT
From: dkwagner@mailbox.syr.edu
Subject: barcode writer

Does anyone out there know of a Mac-based barcode program that will address
ZIP+4 zipcodes on mail labels.  The program would need to handle about 1200
Zipcodes and be customizable to generate Zipcode validation reports for the
Post Office.

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Date: 15 Oct 1992 09:45:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: Perry.Alexander@UC.Edu (Perry Alexander)
Subject: BibTeX style for EndNote (Q)

Does anyone out there know of an EndNote style that will allow me to
generate citations and bibliographies in BibTeX format?  I'd settle
for just being able to output files of selected EndNote records in
BibTeX format.

- Perry
(Perry.Alexander@UC.EDU)

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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 09:51:32 PDT
From: jbthoo@ucdavis.edu ( John Thoo )
Subject: Color Pivot/LE (R)

On Tue, 13 Oct 92 11:50:13 MDT Roger Marks <marks@bldr.nist.gov> said:
% Has onyone worked with the Radius Color Pivot/LE monitor? How is the
picture?

I recently bought such a beast, and have absolutely *no regrets*.
That's the short answer  :-)

As you probably know, the Color Pivot/LE displays only 8-bit color, and
is limited to a resolution of 832 X 624 (I think that works out to be
76dpi at 15", but don't quote me on that).  This differs from the (more
expensive) Color Pivot, which can display up to 24-bit color, and has _two_
resolutions, namely, 72dpi WYSIWYG and 82dpi full-page.

I really like the ability to pivot.  Landscape mode gives me a good view of
my spreadsheets, and (using FullWrite Professional, anyway) I can view an
entire (useable) page in portrait mode.  (Same goes for OzTeX---I can view an
entire useable page in portrait mode, which I find simply fantastic!)

I find that the colors are good (not washed out), and text sharp (although
sometimes apparently not quite as sharp as my SE/30's built-in monitor).

RadiusWare (a control panel), among other things, provides a nifty
screen capture capability (I can now capture _portions_ of my screen).
RadiusWare doesn't conflict with my dozen-plus other extensions/cp's;
however, if I need to, I can still use the */LE in color with RadiusWare
switched off.

Finally, I've had the opportunity to contact Radius tech support via
e-mail for help in understanding how some features work.  Tech supp
always got back to me with 24--48 hours.  If you need *immediate help*,
then there's always the telephone  :-)   I've found the tech supp people
courteous and helpful.

And, finally-finally, at the advertised mail-order prices of about $800 for
the
monitor *with* card, I'd think that the Color Pivot/LE would be hard to pass
up.

Well, I hope my blatering helps some.

Good luck!
--John.

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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 18:26 BST
From: bcek1@cus.cam.ac.uk (B.C.E. Khoo)
Subject: Connecting a Canon BJ-10e to the Mac

My brother, after working as support to PCs all summer, has acquired a BJ-10e
bubblejet. He'd like to connect this to his SE/30 (to replace the IW LQ, not
one of Apple's best products, IMHO).

Question: what solutions are available, including the serial-to-parallel
cable?

Bernard Khoo, Wellcome/CRC Institute.
University of Cambridge, UK.
bcek1@cus.cam.ac.uk, @mbuk.bio.cam.ac.uk or @phx.cam.ac.uk

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Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 16:42:40 PDT
From: Kevin Purcell (Rho) <a-kevinp@microsoft.com>
Subject: Dead Quantum 105S hard disk

I have just bought a dead Storage Dimensions MacinStor external hard
disk with a Quantum 105S drive in it. I'm trying to figure out if this
drive is still covered by Quantum's warranty (either if its a recent
drive < 2 years, or if it is an old "sticktion" drive).

Some questions:

1. Anybody know how to extract a date from the serial number from the
numbers on the drive? On this drive there three numbers:

10007091007     Serial number (8 digit version# + 3 digit sequence#?)
0385            Lot number?
220591          A date?

The external box also has some stickers indicating it was aquired on
11/20/91 (but I don't know if this was new or just when it got checked
into somebodies inventory).

2. What was Storage Dimensions reputation? Are they still in business
(in San Jose, CA)? What is their phone number?

3. What is Quantum's phone number/address? What are the warrenty
details of their drive models? Did they extend the warrenty for drives
affected by "stiction"?

4. Over what time period was the 105S manufactured? Current drives are
LPS, EPS and Go -- I don't see people selling 1" tall S-series drives
anymore. I installed one into my Mac SE in 1990/91 when I was in the UK.

5. Anybody out there resurrected a "sticky" drive (apart from running
it forever :-)

Any info appreciated (otherwise I'll put a junked 30Mbyte drive in the box!).

Kevin Purcell
a-kevinp@microsoft.com
My views are often orthogonal to those of Microsoft Corp

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 09:34:04 PDT
From: Kevin Purcell (Rho) <a-kevinp@microsoft.com>
Subject: Dead Quantum 105S hard disk

I tried playing with my recently purchased (pre-owned) dead MacinStor
(Quantum 105S) mechanism. Initially I though the problem might be
"sticktion" from the owners description, but it seems to spin up most
of the time.

Attempting to boot a Mac Plus from the disk results in a Sad Mac 0F000A
rather than a '?' floppy icon. The mac boots fine from a floppy. No
other symptoms were reported by the previous owner: she just turned it
on one day and it didn't work, she said it didn't make the same noise
(I presume she meant disk seeks).

However when the drive spins up it sounds like most other Quantum disks
I've played with: whirrrrrrrrrr, clickityclickityclick (we'll have
multimedia one day! :-).

Any suggestions, hints and tips appreciated -- I don't have a Sad Mac
code list here.

Thanks,
Kevin Purcell
a-kevinp@microsoft.com
My views are often orthogonal to those of Microsoft Corp

------------------------------

Date: 15 Oct 92 13:30:55 GMT
From: Bob.Kenyon@SP1.y-net.es
Subject: DeskWriter drivers (Q)

Could someone tell me what features the DeskWriter drivers since 2.1 have?
(e.g. support system 7, VM, 32 bit address, Quadra cache, background etc...)
Is 3.1 the latest? I get the impression that the later the version, the slower
the driver, so I am keen to use the earliest version that supports my needs.
I tried my dealer and HP but no luck.
Is it possible to download these drivers from somewhere?
Regards, Bob Kenyon

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Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 16:29:18 -0500
From: Charlie.Mingo@p4218.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Charlie Mingo)
Subject: dongles

iscjcw@uccvma.ucop.edu (Jerry Wilcox) writes:

> Somone in the latest issue of the digest was singing the praises of
> "dongles" the little plug devices often found associated with PC software
> as a copy protection device.
>
> His/Her comment was that there could be no conflict with these devices.
> Well, although I'm a Mac person myself, we do have a number of PeeCees in
> the shop and I can guarantee you that the kind, gentle dongle does, in many
> cases, cause problems.
>
> On the PeeCee, the dongle generally goes on the printer port, between the
> machine and the printer.

    I wrote the previous article.  I was describing the dongle on the
Macintosh (this is the Info-MAC Digest, isn't it).

    Jerry seems to assume that something that doesn't work well on a PC,
can't possibly work on a well on a Mac.  Even though he knows the Mac
version does not "go[] on the printer port, between the machine and the
printer," but is an independent ADB device.  Unlike PC's and printer
ports, the Mac is designed to handle more than a single device on the
ADB bus (eg, the keyboard and the mouse).

    My experience with Mac dongles is that they work fine: you just
install them and forget them.




------------------------------

Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 8:02:43 PDT
From: lux@sol.UVic.CA (Michael O'Henly)
Subject: Edit II 2.1 vs. Apollo on PowerBooks

	Kenneth Seah, author of Edit II, has suggested this easy fix
to a problem that appears when you launch version 2.1 of Edit II on
a PowerBook that's running the utterly indispensible Apollo.

  Problem:

	'Type 1' error when you double-click the Edit II application
	icon or a document icon.

  Fix:

	In the 'Monitors' control panel, click on 'black and white'.
	This will apparently cause a 'scrn' resource that Apollo is
	looking for to be created. Reboot the Mac, and from that point
	on, everything should be fine.

	Kenneth says that he has pointed out this problem to Jeremy
Roussak, author of Apollo.

	Michael.
--
Michael O'Henly
McPherson Library                Internet:  lux@sol.uvic.ca
University of Victoria                      lux@uvvm.uvic.ca
Victoria, B.C., Canada             BITNET:  lux@uvvm

------------------------------

Date: 15 Oct 92 17:41:38 U
From: "Ron Beloin" <ron_beloin@qmrelay.mail.cornell.edu>
Subject: FAQ's (A)

		       Subject:                               Time:05:33 PM
  OFFICE MEMO          FAQ's (A)                              Date:10/15/92
>rcjpjrv@uxmail.ust.hk (Rick Jarvis) asks:
>Subject: FAQ's
>
>I was quite interested in some of the implications of the posting of the
>FAQ for comp.sys.mac.comm in Digest #245. Is there a centralized depository
>of such FAQ's?

I justed learned about this ftp site yesterday:
rtfm.mit.edu     look in /pub/usenet/news-answers

R.Beloin@cornell.edu

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 09:52:47 -0400
From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades)
Subject: Filemaker Pro - can it compute "balances"?

Irv Wiswall writes:

>I'd like to get Filemaker Pro to compute "balances".  My particular
>application is account keeping.  I want to record purchases and compute
>the balance left in the account.  I know, this would better be
>accomplished in a spreadsheet or an accounting package, but I'd like to do
>it in Filemaker Pro anyway.  But I can't figure out how to do it.  Can
>anyone offer any help?

    You need to look at summary fields. They will allow you to compute a
total of the current invoices and then you can use that total in
calculations to find the balance that you are looking for. FM Pro isn't
a spreadsheet but it can do these kinds of simple calculations.

-Hades

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 11:29:15 EST
From: Paul Savage <paul.savage@carbon.chem.csiro.au>
Subject: file type question

I have a file with type CWWP and creator BOBO, does anyone know which
application this belongs to? While I'm on the subject, is there a list
somewhere of filetypes/creators and to what application they correspond. This
would be a very useful report.

Paul.

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 18:55:26 EDT
From: HOPKINS@american.edu
Subject: finding Quadra Advert (again

Help.  I sent an email here a few weeks back asking about where I could
find the quadra advertisement quicktime movie.  Sadly, even though several
people responded, I didn't act fast enough and the file is not at the
locations they gave me anymore.  Alas, I ask for your help again.  Does
anyone know where I can FTP this file?  If you can help, send a reply to
Christopher at HOPKINS@AMERICAN.EDU  Thanks!

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 10:27:55 GMT
From: Stefan Schmiedl <schmied@pentheus.mi.uni-erlangen.de>
Subject: FORTH on the Mac?

Since there are a whole lot of *REALLY FRIENDLY PEOPLE*
out there who *LOVE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS* ...

If you are in a hurry, skip to line 'QUESTIONS'
otherwise read on.

After having done programming in BASIC and Assembler
on my old ZX81 -- ever heard of it? --, some Pascal
in High School, FORTRAN and C at the university, I
developed a certain predilection for LISP.
It's a nice language and confusing to everybody else
in my neighbourhood.

Being stuck in work by exam preparations and hence
having absolutely *no* time for it, I happily decided
to learn another language. I looked around, and one
thing came to my mind: An advertisement for replacing
the BASIC-ROM of the ZX81 with a four-times-as-fast
FORTH-ROM.

So why not FORTH?
Looking into Brodie's book, it makes a very good
impression on me, probably allowing for fast and small
programs. Besides, just as LISP, no one else around
here can read it.

QUESTIONS:
 - Has anyone had any experience with FORTH on the Mac?
 - What kinds of development environments do exist?
 - Can I order from Germany, Europe without paying
   *large* sums of money?

DREAM QUESTION:
 - Since I still have my ZX81 somewhere buried at
   my parent's home, does by any chance somebody
   know something about the FORTH-ROMs for this
   machine?

If you want to take the burden of replying, please do so
to my address, since I am not a regular reader of the
digest.

	    Have a nice and wonderful day,
	      and greetings to your families

		  Stefan Schmiedl
		  schmied@mi.uni-erlangen.de

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 09:04:41 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <IRBLOOM@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject: Gif's (A)

On Tue, 13 Oct, LEARYJ@SNYCORVA.BITNET wrote:

>I've been having trouble downloading gif's from diffrent sites
>(uwp.cs.edu) in particular.  I get the file in my directory then
>procede to use kermit to d/l most of the time my applications (gif
>convertor, cybergif) will tell me that the file is corrupt and tomake
>sure I use binary d/l method.  What am I doing wrong?

Start with the archive you mentioned. It is really CS.UWP.EDU.

Once you get the archive right, and you're in the archive's directory
of choice, you'll find two possibilities for storage format at that
site (whatever.gif and whatever.gif.Z). Getting either to your mainframe
is the same. First issue the BINARY command. That yields a confirmatory
message saying that "integer" transfer will occur. Then issue the GET.

Once you get the file on the mainframe, you have to tell Kermit to send
the file binary. Invoke KERMIT. At the prompt, SET FILE TYPE BINARY. At
the next prompt, SEND the file.

The files on cs.uwp.edu are not in MacBinary format. So they'll come in
as whatever default document type you have (Looks like a MacWrite file
on my system because I normally download text files).

If you got a ".Z" file, use MacCompress to uncompress it to a GIF file.

With a straight ".gif" suffix, GIF converter will open and decode the
file directly, but you may have to tell GC to ignore the Mac file type.

I suspect your problem was not doing a "binary" transfer in one or both
of the file transfer steps.

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 13:42:58 -0400
From: geoffb@coos.dartmouth.edu (Geoff Bronner)
Subject: IIf Printing Problem (DOS/NOVELL/MS WORKS)

In comp.sys.mac.digest Russell Aminzade: Trinity College of VT writes:

>We've a Novell netware network, with MS-Works (for the PC) loaded
>on the server.  We print by using Novell's CAPTURE command.  It
>works fine for non-laser printers.  It works fine for laser
>printers in every application except MS-Works (i.e. old-fashioned
>Quattro).  I've got MSofts printer driver for the "Apple
>Laserwriter."  We've got a LaserWriter IIf, and I'm wondering if
>their PSCRIPT.INI file (this looks like a PS header file) isn't
>working.

We ran into a similar problem here with two captured Laserwriter IIg
printers and MS Word for DOS 5.5. The problem is that the newer drivers
that must be used with the IIf/IIg printers are incompatible with the
older Microsoft Software.

In the case of Word 5.5 the best advice Microsoft could come up with is:
"Upgrade to Word for Windows!"

You may be running into the same sort of compatibility Catch-22.

-Geoff

------------------------------

Date: 15 Oct 1992 09:54:43 -0500
From: mcguire@utkvx.utk.edu (Michael A. McGuire)
Subject: Internet Tour (R)

>Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 9:50:34 MDT
>From: powlesla@acs.ucalgary.ca
>Subject: Internet tour stack
>
>A few days ago someone posted info about how to obtain the
>internet-tour stack from the site nnsc.nsf.net. After repeated
>attempts and "data connection timed out" messages, I finally gave
>up. Does anyone know the sys-ops internet address at that
>location? Or, could someone give the exact name and location of
>the file(s) in the directory at the location? Simply stating that
>"/internet-tour can be found at nnsc.nsf.net" is not good enough.

The Internet Tour hypercard stack is available via anonymous ftp from

   nnsc.nsf.net (128.89.1.178)

It is in the directory

   /internet-tour

Michael McGuire,  UTCC :-)

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 9:21:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: CANFIELDRA@VTCC1.CC.VT.EDU (Bob Canfield)
Subject: Internet tour stack

In info-mac 10-247:

> Could someone give the exact name and location of
> the file(s) in the directory at the location? Simply stating that
> "/internet-tour can be found at nnsc.nsf.net" is not good enough.

Here's the directory listing:

-rw-r--r--  2 16835    nnsc         7737 Mar 27  1992 Internet-Tour-README
-rw-r--r--  2 16835    nnsc       629490 Nov 19  1991
Internet-Tour4.0.2.sit.hqx
-rw-rw-r-- 29 nnsc     nnsc        16582 Sep  4 18:03 help
-rw-rw-r--  1 nnsc     nnsc         1609 Feb 20  1992 index-internet-tour
-rw-rw-r--  1 nnsc     nnsc          339 Feb 19  1992 ls-ls

Bob Canfield, Internet: canfieldra@vtcc1.cc.vt.edu

------------------------------

Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 21:36:55 CDT
From: Mark Eaton <UC525655@MIZZOU1.bitnet>
Subject: locked HD icon

This is a follow-up to John Tynes post about our 7.0.1 tuned IIx with the
locked HD icon. Well, we've discovered some more strange (related?)
problems...
Not only is the HD icon locked, but get ingo gives you nothing, same with
the trash can. Unlock folder (shareware util from sumex) could offer no help.

Now heres the really weird part: if you have a file or folder hilited, and
you go to the apllemenu and select chooser, you get info, but the actual get
info command does nothing... however, if you open the apple menu items folder
and dclick on chooser, you get the chooser!!!

what in bejeezus is going on here???

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 20:24 GMT
From: GADDIS <SN=GADDIS%GI=DANIEL%IN=X%DDA=ID=DXG012%CONOCO@mcimail.com>
Subject: lpr 1.2 client in background? (Q)

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Does anyone know how to make lpr 1.2 client fot he Macintosh work in the
background?  The documentation says that it is supposed to work in the
background; however, I am not having much luck at it.  I am running
System 7.0.1 with Tune-up 1.1.1 and of course MacTCP 1.1.

Daniel
gaddis@pogun.dnet.dupont.com
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    Created: 10/15/1992
       Time: 14:55:25
    Subject: lpr 1.2 client in background? (Q)




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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 11:52:44 EDT
From: "Charles A. Patrick" <PATCHAS@VM.NRC.CA>
Subject: Macintosh Security

The organisation I work for is a PC-clone shop, with a few pockets of
Mac subversives. Recently I attended a seminar on Securing desk top
computers.
While I knew that the seminar was principally for the benefit of our PC-clone
types, and was to announce and introduce our site licensing of a security
package called PC-DAC, I went along to primarily to stay aware. In one of the
 stretch-breaks, I asked the PC-DAC rep who was making the presentation
 whether
 they had any plans for a Mac implementation. His response was vague and short
on any specifics about an eventual Mac version. However, he DID say that
they were collaborating with a developer out of San Jose called MAGNA, who had
developed a package called EMPOWER, which had most of the Features of PC-DAC,
and that they were recommending it to Mac users.

Well since I am not very confident about his recommendation, I thought I would
tap into the collective wisdom for information and advice.
Has anyone out there had any experience with EMPOWER? and any associated words
of wisdom?

Thank you all.

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 14:35:38 WET DST
From: ercn81@castle.edinburgh.ac.uk
Subject: MacTCP and Ethernet

In comp.sys.mac.digest you write:

>I just started working in my school's computing services department, and I
>have come across a problem that I am having trouble fixing. I am very new
>to ethernet, TCP, etc., so please excuse my ignorance on this subject.

>Here is the problem. We have 2 Mac labs, one with 15 Mac IIsi's all with
>ethernet cards that all seem to work fine. The other lab has 12 Mac IIci's
>all with ethernet cards also. The problem is that sometimes some of the
>machines will not let us open a NCSA Telnet (or other MacTCP based program)
>session for various mainframes around campus. What happens is that the
>connection opens up and then immediately closes. We can connect to other
>machines without any problems, but just certain ones it has problems on.
>This is an intermittent problem and MacTCP along with the other files
>associated with it have been replaced and the problem doesn't go away. If
>we come back to the machine the next day, it may work fine.

>Does anyone have any suggestions on how we may be able to track down the
>problem or fix it? (We are running MacTCP 1.1-not the latest version, but
>that shouldn't matter.)

Is the problem associated with particular machines only, irrespective of
the software on them (you've replaced it from a machine that works
fine)? If this is so, I'd check the ether card and connection. If there
are intermittent problems but not on the same machines, I'd get the
ethernet segment and any routers or gateways checked. MacTCP is not
usually susceptible to intermittent errors once it is installed OK, so
I'll blame the ethernet !
Helen Sargan
User Support
Edinburgh University Cumputing Service

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 11:37:17 PDT
From: "Tom Wilson" <wilsont@fedc04.fed.ornl.gov>
Subject: Mac Tracks

A week or so ago, I posted a request for help regarding "tracks" on my
monitor.  THese tracks were really remnants of objects that had been moved
(windows, Icons, and in some cases objects in Draw documents.)  This
phenomenon occurred only after I had installed System 7.

I have an SE/30 with a Nutmeg 30/2 video card and an Apple two-page
monochrome monitor. I'm running System 7.0 with Tuneup 1.1.1, 80MB Internal
HD with VM on, a La CIE Pocket 40 HD, 256K cache and 8-MB RAM.  The problem
is independent of INITS, CDEVS and Applications.

I had already tried replacing the system, INITS OFF, INITS REMOVED, Boot
>From another disk with a new system, etc.

I just found out that the problem goes away if I unplug the La CIE Drive
and reboot.  If I reconnect the Pocket drive AFTER reboot (Yes, I know how
risky that is) the problem does not come back.  Oddly enough, this was the
same exact  procedure that I had to use to remove a conflict with EUDORA
and the La CIE drive under system 6.0.7 (that problem no longer exists
under system 7).

So now I have two interesting observations that seem related to the La CIE
drive.  I have to question the wisdom of using the ADB port as a power
source for an external drive.  Has anyone else experienced anything weird
with a Pocket drive?

Tom Wilson
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
<wilsont@fedc04.fed.ornl.gov>

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 06:32:11 EDT
From: gt3017c@prism.gatech.edu
Subject: MaxAppleZoom

These are some of the responses so far to my earlier posted question regarding
MAZ:

>From williams@sunny.mdh.umn.edu -

>Regarding your question about MaxAppleZoom
and System 7.0.1.  I have had no trouble running
MAZ on my IIcx with 7.0.1 with Tune-up. I also run
a variety of other extensions/cps such as Gatekeeper,
AutoDoubler, MenuChoice, and about a dozen others with
no glitches or conflicts.  My video card is a 1989
vintage Mac II High Res card, if I recall correctly. My
only disappointment is that I can't use MAZ on my home
IIcx since I have a Micron video card. At least two
other people I work with use MAZ with system 7.0.1 on
Mac IIcx's.  Good luck.
Al Williams
PS: I use MAZ 1.43 (the last version avail. to my knowledge)

>From chai@cs.uiuc.edu

>Who claims it's incompatible? The Sys7 compatibility checker? That
program is *way* too conservative. I'm running it in a similar config
(I have more memory and disk space, but otherwise I think it's the
same system as yours.)

and finally from dfrick@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu -

>I'm using MaxAppleZoom 1.43 under System 7.0.1(tuned1.1.1) on a
MacII w/IIx ROMs. I assume you also have one of the older video
boards.
When I first ran the thing, it said it was incompatible. However,
after extensive messing around with the system, I found that you
need to restart, go into the Monitors control panel, set your colors
down to 1 bit, switch back to (whatever depth you have), then try
going into MAZ. Or maybe restart, then try setting up MAZ.
It seems that there is a connection between some setting in the
Monitors control panel that needs to be loaded before MAZ can figure
out what kind of board you have. This 'incompatibility' can also
occur after you move the video board to a different slot.
Something else to try: if you have multiple NuBus boards, make sure
the video board is the one closest to the power supply (while still
keeping all the boards as far from the power supply as possible).
I hope this helps. I had the problem several times and fixed it by
appropriate fondling of the Monitors control panel or by swapping
NuBus board locations.

My response -

Thank all of you for your responses, including others that I have not
mentioned for redundancy reasons as well as others, but actually, my problem
was solved by another means.  Actually, I never used the compatibility
checker, so I don't know what it would say about MAZ (I do have version 1.43,
though),  I was about to try dfrick@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu 's response until I
stumbled upon the answer by accident.  Unfortunately, I neglected 1 bit of
information, I am using a 14" Goldstar SVGA monitor having a Mac converter
cable.  When MAZ was telling me itself that it was incompatible with my system
setup (or actually my machine), I decided to try to make sure all cables were
firmly connected.  By dumb luck, I switched converter cables and it worked.
When I switched again, it would not work.  So my frustrations are solved.
Again, I want to dearly thank all who sent responses, as I would have never
have guessed to move the card closer to the power supply or use the
compatibilit!
y checker (I still to this day do

Now that this is resolved, I have one final question.  Does anyone know an ftp
site that has a large selection of amiga MOD files that I could convert and
maybe submit to info-mac?  Thanks again for the help.

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 10:03:30 PDT
From: alexm@netcom.com (Alex McKale)
Subject: Microsoft QuickBasic

Just received brochure from Microsoft about QuickBasic 1.00
e, a maintenance version that ensures compatibility with System 7.
They say to call them at 1-800-426-9400.  The cost is $10, the cost
of disks and freight.
This version does not take advantage of system 7 special features like
Publish and Subscribe, Balloon Help, or Quicktime.

--

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 12:33:53 -0500
From: chai@cs.uiuc.edu
Subject: My Spreadsheet Search -- "sort of" a review

>> 5. There are Shareware spreadsheets on Sumex: Biplane and Mariner.
>> I downloaded Biplane and Mariner and plan to try them out.
>
>   Could you please post some kind of review...
>
Well, I have been pretty busy so haven't had time to put 'em through
their paces yet.

Biplane seems like the more full-featured program, tho it's also
correspondingly more expensive. It supports color and importing a
standard spreadsheet format (I forgot what it's called... SLYK or
something like that) so I could easily get my old spreadsheets from
Excel into it.

Neither seems to support macros, so if you're into really fancy stuff,
sorry...

I tried the charting feature on Mariner, the method I used in Excel ie.
select the cells and then say chart it. Mariner got terribly confused,
probably because the cells weren't what it expected -- I don't know
what it expects -- whereas Excel came up with a nice chart showing me
how much I spent over that time period, etc. But of course Excel costs
an order of magnitude more...

I ran into a serious usability bug on Biplane, perhaps due to my unique
screen config -- I'm using the MaxAppleZoom Ctrl Panel which makes the
screen as big as possible on a standard Apple color monitor -- the
window keeps zapping to about 1/3 screen height, many, many times
screen width -- which makes it impossible to use the scroll bars or
resize it as the scrollbar is *way* off the right edge of the screen.
Twice, I took the trouble to move the window, one screen at a time,
left until I could find the zoombox -- and I click on it, and the
window resizes nicely to the full screen... except it snaps back into
that weird mode whenever I try to resize it! Horribly irritating. I
wrote to the author's compuserve address to ask about it but have
gotten no reply as yet. This one mis-feature will keep me from settling
with Biplane despite its other nicities because it makes it well-nigh
unusable for any normal-sized spreadsheet.

(I've yet to try this out on another mac to see if it'll work properly,
due to my busyness.)

I dunno. I might still go ahead and get the $90 or whatever it is Excel
upgrade, or I might not.

Ian
empty-tomb@uiuc.edu

------------------------------

Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 19:52:05 EDT
From: abboud@cedrus.cedrus.com (Hisham A. Abboud)
Subject: PowerBook 180 (Q)

Hi netters,

Anyone knows how the video built into the new PB 160/180 will work?
Would it be in "presentation" mode, meaning that the external monitor
and built-in display show the same picture, or b) as an additinal
monitor that extends the desktop?

Ideally, I'd be able to do both.  What's the scoop?

				Hisham.


Hisham A. Abboud, Cedrus Corp.  [Internet: abboud@cedrus.com]

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 07:24:07 PDT
From: jbthoo@ucdavis.edu ( John Thoo )
Subject: QT-compressed --> StartupScreen still compressed!

Problem:  I wanted to convert some of Jon Pugh's recent PICTs at
<ftp.apple.com> to StartupScreen files with PICT ID 0 because that's
what DeskPict requires.  I grabbed GIFConverter from the archive to use,
but found that GIFConverter took a (average) 300K PICT file, and saved it
as a 1.5MB StartupScreen file.
     ^^^^^
Explanation:  I posted a question asking why a roughly 5-fold size increase,
and what I might do to shrink the files again.  A couple of people wrote me
directly, and explained that Jon's PICTs were QuickTime-compressed, and when
GIFConverter converted them to StartupScreen files, it UNcompressed them.

An (IMHO :) elegant solution:  Richard Lim <RTL@siva.bris.ac.uk> finally
sent me the following tip.

% Download JPEGView 1.1 from Sumex.  It is a great little freeware which
% allows you to open QT-compressed PICTs or JPEG images very quickly, and save
% them in the "other" format.  It does not handle ordinary PICTs.  But it does
% have a facility which allows you to save an image as a file containing a
% PICT resource with ID zero, and the PICT is still compressed!  This file
% will have type PICT, but all you have to do is change it to SCRN.  It works
% PERFECTLY.  The program also includes lots of very good online help which
% will explain a bit more about QuickTime picture compression.

I can testify that Richard's tip does, indeed, work like a charm.  So now
I can reclaim several megabytes of my hard disc  :-)

	[./app/jpeg-view-11.hqx]


Hope this proves useful to someone.

--John.
<jb2@math.ucdavis.edu>

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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 10:54:46 EDT
From: Erik Stiegler <T01ERIK%ETSU.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Quadra vs. PC Drive Card

A Mac user here recently got a Mac Quadra 700 and has had all sorts
of problems with the thing (crashes, won't print, won't save, you
name it.) The one card he has in the machine is a Mac II PC Drive Card
that he transferred from his Mac IIcx when he got the Quadra.

Almost all of his software is the latest revision, and should work with
the Quadra. Could this card be causing some of his troubles?

Thanks in advance,
Erik Stiegler
T01ERIK@ETSU.BITNET

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Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 18:27:59 PDT
From: kroemer@apex.ece.ucsb.edu (Herb Kroemer)
Subject: QuickBasic vs. System 7

In #247, Jean-Pierre Gattuso writes:
>I am sick of struggling with Microsoft Quickbasic (v1.0) which is not system
7
>compatible and have heard no word about an upgrade. I can't believe that
>Microsoft does not care to provide its customers with a decent version of
this
>program.

A student of mine recently called Microsoft, and received from them a
diskette with version 1.00E of QB, dated 23 April 1992, which is allegedly
compatible with System 7. The version number should tell you that this is a
bug fix, and that nothing else has changed.

>Could someone recommend a good and reasonably priced basic program?

Someone recommended ZBasic to me, but I did not follow up.

And then there is a new version of TrueBasic, which is a very different
BASIC, which tends to divide people into those who like it and those who
don't.

Regards,

Herb K.

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Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 22:52:17 PDT
From: ace@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: repairing 140s

In Regards to your letter <199210140050.AA00345@nwnexus.wa.com>:
> > Hmm, let's see, if I open up my PowerBook and poke
> > at the CPU with some stuff, the send it to Apple(TM) and say it "dun
> > broke" will they put in a new CPU?
>
> Well, according to the Apple rep who was here at MSU about a week ago,
> PowerBook 140s being repaired will be repaired as 145s.  ie if the
> processor daughterboard blows, a 145 board will be installed instead.
> However, he indicated that computers that showed any signs of tampering
> with the daughterboard would not be repaired.

That's not what a recent dealer bulletin said. MacUser incorrectly
reported that in the October issue and will be supposedly printing
a retraction in the December issue...

cheers ... Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor

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Date: 15 Oct 1992 16:58:54 -0500 (CDT)
From: Rick Gore <GORER@carleton.edu>
Subject: Small Business Accounting Packages

Does anyone have any experience with small business accounting packages for
the
Mac?  I'm looking for something that can keep track of Accounts/Receivable and
Accounts/Payable.  Check-writing as well as payroll would be nice extras but
are not really necessary.

On a related note, is the database module in ClarisWorks powerful enough to do
simple office automation?  I want to replace some paper forms with electronic
ones.  It has to have a fairly powerful FIND command (so you could look up an
old invoice easily) but no need for fancy scripting a la FileMaker Pro.

Info:  These items will most likely be run on a Macintosh Classic II or LC II
with Monochrome monitor.  Also looking at a cheap PostScript laser printer,
but
at minimum will get a Personal LaserWriter LS.  The business is a small
shipping/brokerage firm.  3 employees.  Family owned.

Please E-mail directly to me.  If there is sufficient interest I will post to
the net.

Rick Gore
gorer@carleton.edu

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Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 16:50:54 -0700
From: "Maurice M. McNeil" <mmcneil@BBN.COM>
Subject: Subject: Liken! Macintosh Emulator on

the SUN (R)
To: alan@kaman.com
Cc: info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 16:56:29 PST
Mail-System-Version: <BBN/MacEMail_v1.5@Kirin>

>Does anyone have any experience with LIKEN! the Macintosh emulation
>software that runs on SUN workstations?
>If so has anyone run the speedometer program using it to see what the
>performance is?

	Only demonstration and the reports of a co-worker. He seemed to
like it, but it is a MacPlus for all practical purposes in performance.
I believe it is equivalent to System 6.0.X.

 -------
Thanks
-----^-----
    0-0     Maurice "Mike" McNeil, BBN San Diego
    (_)+    (619) 224-3240    "mmcneil@bbn.com"

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Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 17:19:32 -0700
From: "Maurice M. McNeil" <mmcneil@BBN.COM>
Subject: Subject: RAM prices

RAM prices (R)
To: andy@msc.edu
Cc: info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 17:25:07 PST
Mail-System-Version: <BBN/MacEMail_v1.5@Kirin>

>I am interested in upgrading my SE/30 from 4Meg to 8Meg.  I am
>interested in the best prices for 1Meg SIMMS.

We've had good luck with both of these, Chip Merchant has advertised in
MacUser.

Chip Merchant in San Diego, CA (619) 268-4774 Excellent Prices.

Micro Electronic Tech  in Hopkinton, MA (508) 435-9057
 -------
Thanks
-----^-----
    0-0     Maurice "Mike" McNeil, BBN San Diego
    (_)+    (619) 224-3240    "mmcneil@bbn.com"

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Date: 15 Oct 1992 15:54:25 GMT
From: pford@bcm.tmc.edu (Patrick V. Ford)
Subject: Sys errors, Xwindows, etc.

I have several items to cover and I will try to be brief:

1) Awhile back I posted a message re: type 1, 3 and bad F line errors.
Thank you to all who responded. As a follow up, although I reinstalled
Sys7.01 several times, the bugginess did not stop until I took a clean
copy from another FX and reset the PRAM. It seems the corruption kept
being reinstalled along with the desktop pattern, FKEYs, FONTS and SNDs.
I will not swear that it is fixed yet since I have only had going 3 days
so far.

2) I would appreciate comments on XWINDOWS, Openlook, Motif, etc
immplementations. The FX at work is connected to a Sun workstation via
ethernet and there is software that I need to run without having to
walked over to the other side.

3) One of the hospitals I am associated with is looking into using hand
held input devices for MD and nurses. What little I have heard on how
they plan to implement it sounds really dumb. For example, MSDOS pen
devices that have to be trained with an estimated cost of $6,000 K. From
what little I have read about Newton, it sounds superior. What I need to
get is a contact at Apple Computer Inc who can cut through red tape re:
demonstration of technology and cooperative ventures.

THX

Patrick Ford, MD
Baylor Colleg of Medicine
pford@bcm.tmc.edu

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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 19:06:37 -0400
From: kkirksey@world.std.com (Ken B Kirksey)
Subject: Tape Backup

I've noticed that you can pick up an Apple Tape drive fairly cheap (~ $150).
So I'm considering picking one up for doing backups (the floppy thing is
getting old).  Is there any problem with these drives, other than being
godawfully slow?  I'd be using Retrospect for my back-up software.  Thanks
in advance for the info.

				     Ken

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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 09:58:12 -0600
From: daspit%zodiac.colorado.edu@spot.Colorado.EDU (John Daspit, C.U. LASP,
(303)492-6951)
Subject: Text file from a directory? (Q)

Hi,
	I know how to get a PostScript file of a folder's directory listing,
but is there any way to get a simple TEXT file of it? thanks, JD

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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 16:30:58 cdt
From: "Duckenfield,Paul" <DUCKENFI@AC.GRIN.EDU>
Subject: The Namer

	Someone asked a question about naming the ImageWriter printer that
	they
owned with The Namer application that Apple distributes. In order to actually
rename a particular device, several circumstances have to be met:

Hardware: you have to have a network connection via AppleTalk to the
particular printer or device that you want to name. The device that you want
to name also has to have the ability to accept a name. Only AppleTalk devices
are designed to take names (to my knowledge). For instance, a regular old
ImageWriter cannot have a name. However, an ImageWriter with the AppleTalk
interface card in it can have a name. If I were to guess, I would guess that
this is the problem.

Software: you need to have the appropriate driver for the device that you
wish to rename in your System Folder. Otherwise, The Namer doesn't know how
to communicate with it. You also need The Namer.

I've never played with the LaserWriter IISC, so I don't know if any of this
applies to a SCSI printer. I wouldn't be surprised if it did, but I have no
first hand knowledge.

Paul Duckenfield        Grinnell College        DUCKENFI@AC.GRIN.EDU

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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 12:49:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: COLMENARES@rhoda.fordham.edu (VAX Academic Support)
Subject: The Namer (A)

Hi,

Thanks to all who responded. For interested folks, you can rename your
Imagewriter (under System 7, which I am running) by doing the following:

1. Remove the Imagewriter extension from the Extensions folder to the
   System Folder.

2. Run The Namer.

3. Replace the Imagewriter extension into the Extensions folder.

4. Make sure you specify the new printer in the Chooser, otherwise in
   your print requests the old printer name will show up.

5. Viola!

Josephine Colmenares
Fordham University
colmenares@fordmrh1 via BITNET
colmenares@rhoda.fordham.edu via Internet

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Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 20:11:44 -0500
From: chai@cs.uiuc.edu
Subject: Trouble downloading GIFs (answer)

Make sure you are downloading in *BINARY* format.
GIFs are not Mac files and oftentimes Macs will treat non-MacBinaried
files as TEXT and mess with the CR/LF... bad deal if it's a GIF.

Hope this helps.

spectre@uiuc.edu

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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 17:05:09 MEZ
From: David Steiner <DSTEINER@dosuni1.rz.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE>
Subject: two probs

Hello Mac-addicts,
I am experiencing two problems which are (I don't think) related but are
similar to ones that have been recently posted. I haven't seen fixes (at
least that work for me) yet, so I though I would post them as well.

Background: I am running a Mac IIsi, Sys 7.0.1 with the Tune-Up 1.1.1.

The first problem is similar to the Word 4.0 crash problem that J. Franken
posted. I am using Word 5.0. When I format a document with EndNote Plus and
try to reopen it in Word, it closes up with the same "...Application
'Unknown'.....error Type 1" message that J.F. got. The strange thing is that
an earlier version of the same document was also formatted with EndNote and
it opened OK (still does). I have tried the 'rip out all the extensions' trick
looking for conflicts, but the problem persists. (Thanks to J.F., but no joy)

The second problem is similar to the one posted by Maurizio Lana. I have
downloaded some BinHexed files from sumex-aim recently that have been
un-BinHexed successfully by Compact Pro. They have a .sit suffix and the get
info box tells me they were created by StuffIt 1.5.1, BUT they have a plain
text document icon and neither Stuffit 1.5.1 or Compact Pro recognize them
(they don't show up in the Open File Dialog). If I double click on them from
the finder, StuffIt launches but no archive window shows up (only the menu
bar).

I have downloaded files in the past that have been Stuffit archives with no
problems, but this has happened with 5 or 6 of the last ones that I have
tried. (No problems with the .sea or .cpt archives, by the way)

Any suggestions on these would be greatly appreciated (especially the
EndNote one--the paper is due soon!).

Reply directly via email, I will summarize for the net.

David Steiner
ISPA - Uni. Osnabrueck
Vechta, Germany
dsteiner@dosuni1.bitnet

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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 11:13:24 -0500
From: Kazys_Varnelis@cornell.edu
Subject: What should PB 100 Battery Voltage be?

What should the voltage on a fully charged PB100 battery be? All the
battery utilities I've been able to ftp say that my battery never charges
above 6.28 V or so. Using another battery does not change the situation.
Two Apple service techs say that my PB is broken and needs to be sent back
to apple for repairs to the motherboard. On the other hand, other sources
maintain that around 6.28 V is normal for a fully charged 100 battery. Any
clues? The battery seems to last anywhere from one to two and a half hours,
depending on disk access.

While I'm at it, does anyone know if Word 5 still has a "keep program in
memory feature?" I've looked for one in vain and can't find it. Should I
just jack up the partition in the get info box or is there some other
alternative?


Kazys_Varnelis@cornell.edu

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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 11:05:29 -0700
From: yeidel@tomar.accs.wsu.edu (Joshua Yeidel)
Subject: WindowScript from Heizer Softwr (A)

We use and like windowscript.  I think the claim that it

'make[s] it possible to develop stacks with the same "look and feel" as
normal Mac applications'

is a little overstated.  What it DOES do is  permit you to use
design dialog bozes with MUCH more freedom than native Hypercard.
You can also do some stuff with menus (but we just used the
standard HC commands for that, so I can't say much about it).

There are some bugs in WS, but overall, I'd say it's great!  We
would be bogged down with a cumbersome and depressing user
interface for our multi-media shell without it.

-- Joshua

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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 08:36 CDT
From: "Dwight Lemke @ Wisconsin Oshkosh" <LEMKE@VAXA.CIS.UWOSH.EDU>
Subject: Word's Grammar Checker

Before you consider comparisons of grammar checkers, you need to remember
their limitations.  First of all, they all have a fairly limited set of
rules AND they are fairly rigid in their application of those rules.  This
leads to two problems: false positives and false negatives.  Particularly
with academic writing, with our tendencies towards loquacity and jargon,
the false negatives are clearly most annoying.

Also, the user of these programs needs to be a fairly decent grammarian.
The most critical aspect of this is knowing when to ignore the software's
recommendations.  There is also the problem of grammaically impure (as
opposed to the clearly wrong) writing that is part of really good
literature.  Run any Hemingway piece through one of these checkers and you
get the impression that Papa didn't know sh** about writing.  Yet, he knew
when to violate the rules for literary purposes.

That being said, once you fine tune the rules, all grammar checkers (at least
the top ones) are about the same.  I've got a copy of RightWriter for my
girlfriend's use.  It does a reasonable job.  I've also seen good reviews of
both Grammatik and Correct Grammar.

"You pays your money and you takes your chances."

-Dwight

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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 14:42:21 WET DST
From: ercn81@castle.edinburgh.ac.uk
Subject: World Script and System 7.1

In comp.sys.mac.digest you write:

>Simple question - will I get a simple answer?  Can existing System 7.0 and
>maybe even System 6 foreign language scripts be plugged directly into
>System 7.1 with WorldScript present?  Or does WorldScript also necessitate
>buying a whole new set of foreign language versions of 7.1 so you can get
>new WorldScript-savvy scripts?

You'll need to put in the individual Worldscript files and fonts for each
language, the base 7.1 remains the same. I suspect these will be
available either individually or in sets unless you have CD access to
the whole thing.
Helen Sargan
Edinburgh University Computing Service

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Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 17:29:58 PDT
From: howie!tratner!wong@JANET.UCLA.EDU (Bennett Wong)

I have a question regarding the networking of Suns and
Macs over Ethernet. We currently are using a public domain
software program called CAP 6.0 (from Columbia University). It
currently supports the EtherTalk Phase 1 protocol. Is there
a version of this program that supports Phase 2, or that allows you
to talk across multiple zones?

Please reply directly to me.

Thanks in advance,

Bennett Wong
wong@ee.ucla.edu or wong@janet.ucla.edu

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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 13:50:02 EDT
From: JKUSHNER@Kentvm.Kent.edu

Hope this is the right place to send this:

I was wondering if anyone knows of a program for the MAC that will read,
and play, .fli files from Autodesk Animator (DOS)

Thank you,
jkushner@kentvm.kent.edu

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