HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: Francois Lalonde <lalonde@ireq.hydro.qc.ca>
Subject: Re: French & other foreign language spell checkers?
Organization: Hydro-Quebec
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 13:26:48 GMT

In article <1992Dec9.183721.4561@netcom.com> Daniel J Wood,
danwood@netcom.com writes:
>Is there a way that in the USA, one can purchase spell-checkers or word
>processors with a spell-checking module in a language other than English?
>I'm learning French right now, and I'd like to have my horrible spelling
>corrected.

French spell-checkers is easy to get from Claris, Microsoft and many
other in Canada.  It should be same in USA.  Ask your dealer for it.  I
use ClarisWorks and MacWriteII with the same spell-checker and thesaurus
install in the Claris folder in my System folder.  I have install 2
dictionary in my Claris folder (French and USA) and 3 thesaurus (French,
USA and UK)

Bonne chance!!

-- 
Francois Lalonde
Institut de recherche d'Hydro-Quebec
1800 Montee Ste-Julie   	       	      lalonde@ireq.hydro.qc.ca
Varennes, Quebec    	              Tel (514) 652-8283
Canada, J3X 1S1                 	      Fax (514) 652-8435
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:10:30 EST
From: Behrend AArea <OPA@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: MacWrite margin problem

I have a problem with MacWrite II the margins don't print like the page formati
ng is.  The printer is setup correctly and on the Mac screen the page has the r
ight margins.  I don't think its a problem with the server because other machin
es don't have this problem.  I'm lost!

Eric
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From: tabron@binah.cc.brandeis.edu ("Sod the proles!")
Subject: Word 5.0a patcher
Reply-To: tabron@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 23:20:39 GMT

I note with interest the existence of this patcher at sumex. Can anyone tell me
if there are any other bugs besides the default font bug already mentioned in
this group that this patcher fixes, and if so, what are those bugs?

Thank you

Judith Tabron
Brandeis University
tabron@binah.cc.brandeis.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: mingo@world.std.com (Charles H Mingo)
Subject: Re: SoftAT Scandal?!?!?!?
Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 17:29:18 GMT

tjc@castle.ed.ac.uk (A J Cunningham) writes:

>>Insignia has net access.  You can reach them at insignia@netcom.com.

>It's insignia.uucp, actually. And we don't have a newsfeed as such.
>Tony

>Tony Cunningham, Insignia Solutions Ltd. tjc@ed.ac.uk or tjc@insignia.uucp

According to your Mountain View tech support dept, Insignia can be reached
at the netcom.com address.  I don't know what arrangements you have in
the UK.


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From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Unique Calculation Field checking in Filemaker Pro
Date: 14 Dec 92 18:03:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: dartvax.1992Dec14.180306.8840
Reply-To: hades@Dartmouth.Edu
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Disclaimer: Personally, I really don't care who you think I speak for.
Moderator: Rec.Arts.Comics.Info

squid@carroll1.cc.edu (Craig C Schanning) writes:

>I currently have a filemaker document that contains a bunch of peoples
>names and other data.  I have a First Name field and a Last Name
>field.  I want to have to computer automatically verify that the person
>is not already in the file.  There is no option for this when I make a full-
>name field that just concatenates the first and last name fields together.
>I don't really want to make the Full Name field the field where I
>enter the data, since it is hard to pick out the first and last names
>out of that field when some names have "Jr." or "Sr." at the end or
>when some names have middle initials and some do not.  Does any one
>know a work around, or do I have to just do a find before every new
>record I make?

    Well, your kind of up against a wall with this one. There is no
automaticway of having Fm Pro verify that a name is a duplicate,
especially since there are so many ways that a person can write their
name. Once this is understood, people usually go to some kind of unique
identifier field, that is almost always a number, like a serial number.
But this doesn't seem to be what you are looking for, so perhaps you
might want to try a variation of this workaround:
    Take the two name fields and concatenate the first name on to the
last name, ie: Last Name & " " & First Name. Then you can have the file
perform a lookup on this Full Name field within the database file, if it
returns with a match, then you have a duplicate name, otherwise you
don't. I don't know how effective this will be, but it will probably
work 80-90% of the time if you are really careful with your data entry.
Hope this helps...


--
-Brian V. Hughes
	     "If you could care less, then why don't you?"
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From: misc042@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz (Mr M J Miller)
Subject: Re: MacPascal
Organization: at University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 11:01:13 GMT

Eric Weidl (ejw1@kimbark.uchicago.edu) wrote:
<deleted stuff>
> 
> Why don't you just get THINK Pascal?  It's $40 with university pricing.
> >Phil Etheridge               P.Etheridge@massey.ac.nz
> >Macintosh Consultant         Phone: +64+6-356-9099 x8689
> >SMIS, Massey University      Fax:   +64+6-350-5611
> >Palmerston North, NZ         40*23'S 175*37'E,    GMT+13
> 
> Eric

Well Eric the sad thing is that here in New Zealand (turn left when
going to australia) academic prices for Think Pascal are in the hundreds
not a mere US$40 (=nz$80+-) however I agree: get think pascal, it is the 
only way to go. -The instant project feature is as simple as using Macpascal
and you have something to grow into, the code is fast(ish) and clean(ish)
and if you can cope with the odd interface quirk.. whats $100+ anyway?

;-} Martin Miller

(I am in no way: employed by, nor a spokes person of, the University of
Canterbury)
From: jwr1@ecsa01.encon.pge.com (John Rostoni)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Word 5.1: VERY frequent unexpected quits. Init conflict?
Date: 17 Dec 92 21:46:39 GMT
Organization: Pacific Gas & Electric, SF, CA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

I had some problems with Word 5.0 and Helium.  Removing Helium *cured*
  the problem.  Maybe this would be a place to start in your quest...


John Rostoni
Pacific Gas & Electric

jwr1@encon.pge.com
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From: malan@leland.Stanford.EDU (Paul Malan)
Subject: Using Expressionist to Generate TeX Equations
Summary: Can't stop "\rm" from being inserted in macros
Keywords: Expressionist, TeX
Organization: ME Dept., Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 19:10:22 GMT

I recently obtained Expressionist V3.0 for the purpose of generating
TeX equations. The default Expressionist palette is set up to 
generate equations in normal (non-italic) text. Consequently the TeX 
code generated  is sprinkled with "\rm" commands to change the math 
mode font back to the regular "upright" font.

Since I like the default appearance of TeX equations, and to maintain
compatibility with existing documents, I set about changing the entire 
Expressionist palette to italics. This is an easy, but very tedious,
task. In general, the result works, except for some macros. For instance,
even though I have recreated the partial derivative macro in italics,
it always gives the code: $${\partial \rm ? \over \partial \rm ?}$$.

A less-than-ideal solution is to manually edit the \rm out afterwards --
but if that's the only way I'll probably go back to hand-crafted equations.

Does anyone have an alternative suggestion on how to rectify this problem? 

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malan@leland.stanford.edu
Organization: Valencia University (Universitat de Valencia) SPAIN
Date: Monday, 14 Dec 1992 11:30:42 EST
From: Werenfried Spit <SPIT@EVALUN11.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Alpha: strange problem with <opt><e>

Hello,

I'm using alpha (version 5.1.3) and I have a very strange problem: when I
enter <opt><e> I get the result of <opt><b>. I checked the keybindings,
there is nothing bound to <opt><e> (depending of the mode I'm in there
is something bound to <opt><b>). Other combinations using the <e> key
work normally. Anyone an idea of what could be going on ?
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Werenfried Spit                         tel: +34-6-386 4551
  Departament de Fsica Terica         spit@vm.ci.uv.es
  Universitat de Valncia               spit@evalun11.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Rob_Stokes.Operations@QMail.SSC.Gov (Rob Stokes)
Subject: Re: How to get System 7.1 - Help
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: SSC Information Center
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 19:25:44 GMT

In article <1992Dec2.205617.1179@alc.com>, ballard@alc.com (Carl Ballard)
wrote:
> 
> I understand that you can get System 7.1 from Apple for no charge if, as I did,
> you bought your computer after September.  There is supposed to be a telephone
> number to call.  Anyone have that number?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> - Carl Ballard
>  e-mail: ballard@alc.com 

I just called 800.SOS.APPL and they told me that they would not give out
System 7.1P system disks and that Performas will not be a "supported
platform" of System 7.1!  You better not have to reinstall that System or
your SOL!
Rob Stokes
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From: esooter@x102a.harris-atd.com (sooter eric 64050)
Subject: Re: Flowcharting For The MAC
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 22:24:59 GMT
Reply-To: esooter@x102a.ess.harris.com (sooter eric 64050)    
Organization: Harris Corporation GSS, Melbourne, Florida

In article <28767@oasys.dt.navy.mil> absmith@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Alfred Smith) writes:
>Can anyone recommend a Flowcharting Program for the MAC?
>In a previous life I used EASYFLOW on a PC and am looking
>for something at least as powerful on the MAC.  Specifically:
>able to choose the appropriate symbol from a menu; automatic
>line routing; place text anywhere; flow and org chart capable;
>infinit scaling to a laser printer; etc, etc..
>I do have Powerpoint 3 which provides a selection of symbols;
>however, I find it is still labour intensive.  There has got to
>be a more elegant tool out there that doesn't cost a fortune.
>Any suggestions?

	You should look on archive.umich.edu in the 
dir mac/misc/compsci.  There is a shareware program there,
but I don't know anything about it.

regards,
els

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From: haase@meediv.lanl.gov (Peter Haase )
Subject: AppleShare Server 3.0 and Cache Size????
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 07:35:33 GMT

I increased the the Disk Cache on a Quadra 950 to 4mb. It seems that
disk access is slower. I was under the impression that increasing the
cache would provide faster disk access. Does anyone know what the
optimum disk cache size would be? I have 20mb of RAM on the server.
Approx 50 users and 3 ea 1.2GB Drives. Thanks in advance

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Peter Haase                                   haase@meediv.lanl.gov
Los Alamos National Laboratory                Applelink: HAASE
Mechanical Electronic Engineering Division    505-667-2684
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From: bwilliam@oyster.smcm.edu (Bill Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Igor Mailing List Created
Date: 14 Dec 92 14:34:48 GMT
Organization: St. Mary's College of Maryland
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d13
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X-XXDate: Mon, 14 Dec 92 14:36:00 GMT

In article <1g98voINNo4e@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> , Sundar_Prasad@mtsg.ubc.ca
writes:
>Pleeze, pleeze, pleeze. Can we get a comp.sys.mac.engsci (name was
coined
>by another netter) group for Christmas? I promise to be a good boy
and not
>read alt.sex again (which is not saying much since the University
dons here
>killed all the '..pornographic material invading University
computers..'
>anyway).

Didn't I read in the latest Mac Sci-Tech mailing that they were going
to be available via News?
 I didn't take much time with it, but I did do a cursory search in the
comp.sys.mac.* area and
 didn't come up with anything.  Were they fooling, or did I misread?
 
___________________________________
William E. Williams, bwilliam@oyster.smcm.edu
Divison of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
St. Mary's College of Maryland
St. Mary's City, MD 20686
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: winney@dal.mobil.com (Randy Winney)
Subject: KidDesk vs. At Ease 
Organization: Mobil Exploration & Producing Technical Center(MEPTEC), Dallas. 
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 15:53:06 GMT

Is anyone familiar with both KidDesk and At Ease? Do they both
offer the same level of security? Do kids prefer one over the other?

winney@dal.mobil.com
From: lederman@taney.uscghq.uscg.mil
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Turn PICTS into Movie?
Date: 12 Dec 92 01:01:59 EST
Organization: United States Coast Guard

    A generous person on the net did send me a hypercard stack
 (movie converter, I think) which will convert PICTs to a movie. 
 However, when I first tried to use it, it didn't work.  As an
 experiment, I went back to Quicktime 1.0 instead of 1.5: the
 stack then ran, but would not make movies.  I decided that my
 version of Quicktime had been corrupted somehow, and installed a
 new version of 1.5.  At this point, the stack would create
 movies.

    However, I also discovered another method now that I have a
 1.5 Quicktime which works.  Many of the movies players will allow
 creating movies from PICS files (there are at least two PD
 players on various archives which will do this: I'm on the road
 and don't have the names with me).  NIH Image, which is a nifty
 PD image manipulation / enhancement / modification utility, will
 make PICS files from a stack of PICT files.  I found this method
 works well for me for at least some sequences of images, though
 the hypercard stack is really nice to have as well.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: David C. Doherty <doherty@msc.edu>
Subject: Re: Inserting Postscript in Word 5.1
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A74E2F6F73010CAD@msc.edu>
X-Xxdate: Fri, 11 Dec 92 17:43:43 GMT
Organization: Minnesota Supercomputer Center, Inc.
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d15
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 17:59:29 GMT

In article <qBemVB32w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew, mathew@mantis.co.uk
writes:
> jonkatz@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jonathan W. Katz) writes:
> > I have a postscript file (text) that I want to place into Word 5.1. 
When I
> > attempt to load it, the program says that it's converting an EPS file
> > (which it's not), and then says, "Invalid data in conversion file."
> > 
> > That's where I'm confused.  I've printed this file with the
LaserWriter Utili
> > without a problem, so I know the file is fine.  Does anyone have any
ideas?
> 
> You cannot load a Postscript file into Word.  Postscript files are
> intermediate printer dump files.  

This is very incorrect.  Postscript files are ascii.

> EPS is "cleaned-up" Postscript, which can sometimes be included in
documents
> (if you're lucky).  Even then, it isn't treated as text, but rather as
> graphics. 

Actually, Encapsulated PostScript  has a very precise definition which
does not 
have anything to do with "cleaning up" postscript.  A nice feature of EPS
is that
it can (optionally) include a bitmapped preview.  Among the allowed
preview formats
is PICT.  If you have an EPS with an embedded PICT preview, programs like
Word will
display the PICT as the graphic.  Otherwise, most of them just display a
big
box with an X across it.  The actual postscript doesn't appear.

There are (mostly unix-based) ps to EPS converters available. Mostly (I
believe) what
they do is to incorporate BoundingBox information and fix the header.

Alternatively, you could just read in the postscript and assign its style
to Postscript (look in the Format menu).

Which of these you want depends on exacly what you are trying to do.
My descriptions are admittedly vague, and RTM is highly recommend here.


> Basically, your question is like asking "I got an HP Laserjet printer
dump
> file, and I'd like to load the text into Word.  Why can't I?"

no.

--
David C. Doherty
Minnesota Supercomputer Center, Inc.
doherty@msc.edu
From: bcoleman@hayes.com (Bill Coleman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Help: Sharing non-networkable modem
Date: 14 Dec 92 10:48:47 EDT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: Hayes Microcomputer Products, Norcross, GA

In article <1992Dec11.203013.10496@netcom.com>, friedman@netcom.com (Greg Friedman) writes:
> I am looking for a utility that would allow me to share a non-
> networkable modem on an appletalk network.  I've seen it done
> before - so I know it's possible.
> 
> There's a commercial product out called ShadowWriter that lets
> a networked mac share it's personal printer.  I am looking for
> the modem equivalent.
> 
> I am hoping to find shareware that will do it, but please let
> me know of ANY software that can do the trick.

HayesConnect does exactly this. HayesConnect consists of two parts. The
Server runs on a Mac with a modem (or other serial device) and allows
that device to be shared with any number of client Macs. HayesConnect
works over all forms of AppleTalk (LocalTalk, Ethertalk, TokenTalk).

Clients access the server by using the HayesConnect chooser device, much
like they select a printer.

HayesConnect is about $79 from the larger mail order houses, like 
MacWarehouse. It should do what you want.

-- 
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Principal Software Engineer        ! Packet Radio: AA4LR @ W4QO
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Disclaimer: "My employer doesn't pay me to have opinions."
Quote: "The same light shines on vineyards that makes deserts." -Steve Hackett.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Seaman)
Subject: Re: Excel Day of Month as Value???
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 14:43:21 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.023449.1@acfcluster.nyu.edu>  
mullignj@acfcluster.nyu.edu writes:
> I need to know what to do so that a given cell in an Excel worksheet
> will have as its value whatever the day of the month it is.

=DAY(TODAY())

--
Dave Seaman
ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu
From: casgrain@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Casgrain Philippe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: creating a PostScript file from a PageMaker file (help request)
Date: 20 Dec 92 04:23:28 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal

In article <1992Dec20.014314.8100@u.washington.edu> neutron@stein.u.washington.edu (   ) writes:
>
>	Pagemaker 4.0 has that as an option in the PRINT OPTIONS

Use the LaserWriter printer driver (version 7 or later).  It has a PostScript
file option.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Jean-Marc Bourgeois <bourgeoi@ireq.hydro.qc.ca>
Subject: PowerDraw4.0BUG
Organization: Institut de Recherche en Electricite du Quebec
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 19:03:43 GMT

I've just received my PowerDraw4.0. It's great and works well on my IIfx.
I'm trying to run this package on my PowerBook170 with no succes.
It simply doesn't run at all, freezing the screen after the first window.
Any suggestion. (PowerBook 170, 4Meg ram, System 7.0.1 Tuner 1.1.1)

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Institut de recherche d'Hydro-Quebec	Tel (514) 652-8477
1800 Mtee Ste Julie	Fax (514) 652-8435
Varennes, Quebec
Canada, J3X 1S1
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From: mark@prepress.com (Mark S. Bubien)
Subject: Re: SoftAT Scandal?!?!?!?
Organization: Pre-Press Technologies, Carlsbad Ca.
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 17:30:53 GMT


Here's a question that someone mentioned briefly in this thread.

If I remember correctly, the Sumex archive has been put on CD ROM.
Now, did the SoftAT "demo" get put on the CD ROM as well?

If so, it seems like there could be some pretty major legal 
repercussions!

-Mark
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Subject: Re: (!) SofatAT Demo location
From: kent@centauri.dmc.com (Tom Kent)
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 07:54:49 EDT
Reply-To: kent@centauri.dmc.com (Tom Kent)
Organization: Sophist Solutions
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1

As far as I know, the SoftAT Demo doesn't self-destruct, at least
not intentionally. The version I got, from a CD-ROM of demo programs,
simply limits session length to a few minutes, then does an orderly
shutdown.

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Tom Kent                           Internet:       kent@centauri.dmc.com
Sophist Solutions                  UUCP:           ...uunet!thehulk!kent
375 Pond St.                       CompuServe: 73300.2677@compuserve.com
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From: jmoulder@post.its.mcw.edu (John Moulder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: DOS Mounter, Latest Version = ?????
Date: 18 Dec 1992 14:36:03 GMT
Organization: Medical College of Wisconsin
Distribution: world
Reply-To: jmoulder@post.its.mcw.edu (John Moulder)
NNTP-Posting-Host: moulder.radbio.mcw.edu
Keywords: DOSMounter

> What is the latest version of DOS Mounter?

The latest version of MacLinkPC came bundled with DosMounter 
Version 3.0.1, dated 29 Apr 92.

John Moulder (jmoulder@post.its.mcw.edu)      414-266-4672
Radiation Biology Group
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisc     
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