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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: How to convert: KAPS-TEXT
From: garks@otago.ac.nz
Date: 17 Aug 92 11:28:57 +1300
Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

In article <neils.713969063@bAARNie>, neils@tafe.sa.edu.au (Neil Strong) writes:
> tlh@ecl.psu.edu writes:
> 
>>I need a utility that can convert Text written in
>>............. Maybe a hint whether an other word-
>>processor can do the job would help, too.
> 
>>Thanks Tom
> 
> --------------------------------------------
> 
> Tom -  WordPerfect 2.1 has a macro that converts Uppercase to lowecase
> other than fist letter.-  Neil (neils@TAFE.SA.edu.au)

Word 5.0/a changes text written in all caps to any of four or five different
ways. Select the text and <Change Case...> in the <Format> menu
 if missing from that menu one can
install it by using the <Commands...> in the <Tools> menu.

Alistair
From: dr_mcgee@pnl.gov (David R. McGee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Document Management
Date: 14 Aug 92 00:51:43 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: Pacific Northwest Laboratory

I am searching for a document management system. This system should be able
to perform the following functions on a Macintosh network.

	% Store revisions of different types of binary data (i.e. MacDraw and Word
		documents)
	% Check-in/Check-out documents in read-only and read-write mode.
	% Work with multiple users on a LAN that might have different access
		restrictions.
	% Retreive old revisions based on different search criteria.
	% Archive older versions upon reaching a certain delta time.
	% etc.

If you know of an application that can fit the bill, or at least part of
the
bill, I would be very interested in hearing from you.

David R. McGee
Network Manager
Battelle Northwest
Pacific Northwest Laboratory
Battelle Boulevard, M/S K1-88
Richland, WA 99352
(509)375-6994
fax  375-6631
ALINK drmcgee
internet dr_mcgee@pnl.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: tinsel@uiuc.edu (Thomas Aaron Insel)
Subject: Re: Need complete path to..
Originator: tai50080@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Reply-To: tinsel@uiuc.edu
Organization: {not speaking for the} University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 17:38:09 GMT

jay@rosemount.com (Jay Warrior) writes:

> Somebody mentioned the CDEV called Trimmer which cuts down the size of
> those large PostScript files. Could someone give me a path (system/directory/
> filename) where I can find a copy ?

wuarchive.wustl.edu : mirrors/info-mac/cp/ps-trimmer-101.hqx

and, presumably, from anywhere else you can find the info-mac archive.
-- 
Thomas Aaron Insel (tinsel@uiuc.edu)
  I speak for myself, and not for the State or University of Illinois.
  "We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty." -- Edward R. Murrow
From: erh0362@tesla.njit.edu (Elliotte Rusty Harold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Fullwrite Professional
Date: 13 Aug 92 13:51:08 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology

> 
> Since the Borland/A-T acquisition was technically a merger, I understand
> we weren't allowed to sell off assets, for tax reasons. Dang shame,
> though.
> 
> --Cy--
> cy@borland.com

	Didn't Borland sell dBase/Mac back to the original developers?  Or was 
that done by Ashton-Tate pre-merger?  In any case if you aren't allowed to SELL 
FullWrite and FullImpact and if Borland really doesn't plan to do anything with 
them, is ther any chance of convincing the corporate types to GIVE them away? 
i.e. to release the programs and all source into the public domain so that 
others can upgrade or update them?  This would buy Borland a lot of goodwill 
though admittedly mainly in a market they've abandoned.  My guess is this ought 
to be a no-loss proposition for Borland unless they're selling a lot more of 
those $39.95 FullWrites than I think.  My impression is that what's still being 
sold is mainly old dealer stock and that Borland's not even manufacturing new 
copies.

Elliotte Rusty Harold		Department of Applied Mathematics
elharo@m.njit.edu		New Jersey Institute of Technology
erh0362@tesla.njit.edu		Newark, NJ 07103
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: perrocho@inf.ethz.ch (Louis Perrochon)
Subject: Word 5.0 and Print Merging/Tables
Originator: perrocho@antares.inf.ethz.ch
Organization: Dept. Informatik, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 06:36:28 GMT

I would like to use the print merge command to put a list into a table. This
does not work they way I tried.

1. If my main document allready is a table, the result are individual tables
for each entry in the data document. How can I cocatenate these tables???
(I found out how to remove the section breaks, but don't know how to get rid of
the paragraph-marks, wich separate the tables.)

2. If my main document produces a tab-separated list of items, I could
transform it to a table, but I then have to set the width of each column
separately. This is boring, as the table is fairly long, and there are
about 20 columns. (After I changed the width of 1 column, it takes about
30 seconds to format the whole thing) And I can just sit there and wait.

Any hints?



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: hunter@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Hunter Scales)
Subject: WHERE IS DEPTHKEY ?????
Organization: Motorola Inc., Austin, Texas
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 20:01:45 GMT

 	Until last week, I used an fkey called depthkey 1.4 to change the
	pixel depth of my color screen.  Worked beautifully.  Then,
	after many disk machinations (swapping hard disks, backup,
	wipe disk, reinitialze, new driver, etc.) I found that I 
	had somehow "mislaid" the depthkey file.  No problem, I say,
	I'll just ftp to sumex and.... hmm no depthkey.  Ok, so I call
	archie: dozens of machines all over the world have depthkey.
	Hmm, looks like dozens of machines all over the world *had*
	depthkey as of May 5.  I couldn't find a single copy *anywhere*
	looks like it has been removed from sumex and all the mirrors
	have faithfully removed it as well.  What gives?  Did the 
	author recall it?  Does anyone know where I can find it?

	Thanks.

-- 
Motorola Semiconductor Inc.             Hunter Scales
Austin, Texas                           hunter@prometheus.sps.mot.com
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From: charestm@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Martin Charest)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Expressionist 3.00 (problems)
Date: 21 Aug 92 04:29:44 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal

Hello the net!
               Is anybody out there have problems with the copy fonction in
the all new "Expressionist 3.00"?  Sometimes, when i do copy, the system quit
the application, with a message saying "...an error 28 occured...", or all
the mac frost. This appen so frequently that the program is useless!
 
If the copy worked, certains equations as they appears in a word processor
( Word 4, Nisus ) are botched ( Radicals, brackets, absolute values, for
instance... ).
 
I will appreciate any comments or whatsoever about these two major problems.
 
Note; I have a mac IIci with 20 Mo of ram, and 32 bit addressing.  I give
a lot of memory for Expressionist, so that's not the cause... I have
tried some tests for the inits, etc... and found noting.
 
Thanks
                                       Martin.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: csmith@blackplague.gmu.edu (Blackplague)
Subject: Re: ?? NOTEPAD & SCRAPBOOK DA Files ??
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system
Organization: George Mason University
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 23:43:01 GMT

In article <1992Aug21.074400.12932@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>,
smills@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (MuffinHead) wrote:
> 
> geg625n@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (Dave Bulman) writes:
> 
> >I have a curious problem with the NOTEPAD and SCRAPBOOK DA's that I would like
> >an explanation/solution for.
> 
> >I have a Mac+ (2.5Mb ram) using Finder Z1-6.1.4 and System 6.0.7 with an
> >external 42Mb HDD partitioned into 4 volumes.  The system and most of the
> >applications that I generally use are on one volume with uilities et al  of
> >various kinds distributed among the other volumes.
> 
>    That's weird. It really shouldn't matter what application you open the
> DA's from because the Notepad File and Scrapbook File are both opened by 
> their DA's. Are you starting up from different partitions?

Here is a posibility that I will check when I have a chance to put Sys6.0.7
on my ci.  If the application contains the scrapbook DA, it is possible
that this copy of the DA would override the copy installed in the System. 
So, open the application with FontDA Mover  (you do this by holding down
the option key when you click on the open button) and see if it is there. 
If so, remove it.  This might cause the program to chrash, so do it on a
copy.  If it's not there, then I was on the wrong track.

Chris
Blackplague
From: maru@enea.se (Martin Runesson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: uncompress & display CCITT compressed TIFF images
Date: 12 Aug 92 11:02:46 GMT
Organization: Enea Data AB

Hi,
I am looking for software that uncompress and displays CCITT compressed
(fax group 3 or 4)  TIFF images on the Mac.


Thanks for any hints,


Martin Runesson


 


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From: stricher@masig.fsu.edu (Char Aznabul)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Fetch and GIF Weather Maps, SUMMARY
Date: 22 Aug 92 14:26:46 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: Murasami Labs

In article <1992Aug21.022424.18765@Arco.COM>, suchland@arco.com (Craig
Suchland) wrote:
> 
> Can anyone help with downloads from vmd.cso.uiuc.edu - I can't seem to
> get anywhere with FTP!

Command line ftp or mac-based ftp? This is what I use for a command line
session once I've connected to vmd:

ftp> binary
ftp> cd wx
ftp> get CI082119.GIF
ftp> get CV082119.GIF
ftp> get SA082120.GIF
ftp> get U2082112.GIF
ftp> get U3082112.GIF
ftp> get U5082112.GIF
ftp> get U7082112.GIF
ftp> get U8082112.GIF
ftp> get acus1.gif
ftp> bye

With the latest version of fetch (2.1b4), I would modify the short cut
to point to the wx directory. Fetch already knows that I want .gif files
transfered in binary mode, and automatically does so [look under Customize/
Suffix Mapping...]. The one time I used Fetch to get the images I used 
binary and had no problems with viewing them in Adobe PhotoShop - and 
Photoshop is *very* picky about it's images.

I have written a unix shell script that will determine the latest set of
images, and retrieve them automatically. If the demand warrants, I can 
post it here.

James
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
Subject: Re: Look & Feel
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central
	<D88-JWA.92Aug14130203@dront.nada.kth.se>
	<mwalker-140892084316@mwalker1.npd.provo.novell.com.>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 18:30:23 GMT

Mel> == Mel Walker <mwalker@novell.com> 

 Mel> As I said in another message, there will likely be more lawsuits
 Mel> as the patent office and legal system discovers (and sets
 Mel> precendents for) just how and what should be patented. Ours is not
 Mel> the only industry which has gone through this. I expect that it
 Mel> will work itself out eventually. And I think that you will still
 Mel> be able to use quicksort if you want.

Too bad I can't use host-independent byte order (MWC), backing store
(AT&T), or an XOR cursor.

Maybe I should go patent the bubble sort, and then collect royalties
from stupid CS students.

(BTW, you're running an old version of NewsWatcher that doesn't conform
to the RFCs.  Please upgrade.)
--
Christopher Davis * ckd@eff.org * System Administrator, EFF * +1 617 864 0665
            ``Ed Gruberman, you fail to grasp Ti Kwan Leep.
            Approach me that you might see.'' -- The Master
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: borders@ms.uky.edu (Johnny Borders)
Subject: Re: JPEG decompressor? (Summary)
Keywords: JPEG, JFIF, Viewer
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 04:59:21 GMT
Distribution: usa

mvw@anywhere.umd.edu (Martin V. Walser) writes:

>There are 3 viewers worth trying: picture decompress (shareware?),
>jpegview, and pictpixie.  I think jpegview is the fastest, but I've
>run across a few JPEGs that it doesn't decompress well.
>-----
>From mccarty@vmser.enet.dec.com:
> 
>There is a brand new version of GIFconverter (v2.3b1) that will read JPEG.
>I got it off our corp. network, but is probably available from your favorite
>FTP site.  It is definitely available off Compu$erve.  This program is
>$40 shareware... require Quicktime compressors installed...

No mention of mac.archive? I'm hurt..  '( <sob sob>
GIFConverter 2.3b1 is on mac.archive.umich.edu in /mac/graphics/graphicsutil
for those that are interested. So far, I'm somewhat disappointed with it.
JPEGView 1.1 will decompress JPEGs that GIFConverter gives disk errors on.
It also won't let you dither JPEG files for preview on black&white Macs
with QuickTime (JPEGView will). Hrmph. Well, it is just a beta..
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From: rick@ut-emx.uucp (Rick Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Retrospect 1.3 not saving all files
Date: 22 Aug 92 23:14:36 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas

I'm using Retrospect 1.3 to backup 2 volumes to tape. 

If I create an archive that only includes one of the volumes 
as the source, all the files get backed up.

If I create an archive that includes 2 source volumes, some of the
files in the second volume are not saved. They don't show up in
the archive browser, the number of files reported saved in the
status window is wrong, etc.

The second volume is supposed to be 5204 files, only 4893 were saved.
As far as I can tell, I have all files selected for backup. The 
volumes window lists all the files before the backup is started.

Both archives were new archives; the hard disks were not changed between
test runs.

Has anyone else seen this, is there a fix, etc?

Other info: Quadra 700, 20M memory, 80 and 880M disks.

Rick Watson
Hyde Park Software
info@hydepark.com
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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 01:10:47 MDT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Cross-products in Mathematica 1.1, how?
Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo UT USA
From: parkj@bones.et.byu.edu (john r park)

I'm using Mathematica 1.1 and I can't for the life of me
figure out how to tell M_ to take a cross-product.  Dot
product is in the index but I can't find cp mentioned
anywhere.  Help!
-- 
#include <std_disclaimer.h>

John R Park                |  Dept of Mech. Engineering
parkj@bones.et.byu.edu     |  Brigham Young University
From: kohler@fenris.com (Kurt Kohler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Morph - where?
Keywords: gryphon morph source
Date: 17 Aug 92 23:09:53 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Fenris Inc. - Purveyors To The Trade


  I just called MacConnection and they don't stock Gryphon Software's
Morph. In fact the guy I talked to had never heard of it.
  Does anyone know of a mailorder place that has it? I could order it
directly from Gryphon I suppose, but I was hoping to get it for less 
then list.

  Kurt Kohler
-- 

     Kurt Kohler

     Asset Control Systems, Inc.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Subject: Re: What is "compact virtual 3.0" ?
Originator: d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Distribution: comp.sys.mac.apps
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 20:43:32 GMT


   >I thought virtual memory was part of system 7.0 and
   >didn't need any third party software to work.


Note that slapping a 030 onto your Plus, Classic or SE
will give you no more Virtual Memory than it will Color
QuickDraw or QuickTime, since the ROMs are still the
same.

-- 
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- Traitor! This kind of attitude will get you nowhere around here. If you must
  know, it's not your boxes that are the problem, it's your lack of a
  sufficient number of boxes. Go out and buy something.
From: stricher@masig.fsu.edu (Char Aznabul)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Archie
Date: 22 Aug 92 14:33:34 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: Murasami Labs

Les Ferch wrote:

> It is more efficient to email your request to archie (less waiting around
> on your part). The following example (using the McGill archie server) will

There is also client software for unix boxes, and GUI interfaces for NeXT
and Xwindows. I'm kinda surprised that no enterprising mac programmer
hasn't adapted that software to the mac. Gopher would be a good candidate
for this.

James
From: sholden@cod.nosc.mil (Steve Holden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: In Control vs Daymaker?
Date: 18 Aug 92 20:52:00 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: NRaD

In article <1992Aug18.143413.29968@wixer.cactus.org>, purp@wixer.cactus.org
(Jim Meyer) wrote:
> 

> However, I feel obliged to tell you that MacUser panned DayMaker as "the
> interface you'll love to hate." [paraphrased by yours truly from their
> review] Apparently it's not so hot for day to day use. I've also been
> looking at DateBook (I think this is the one I'll buy; it's VERY
> comparable in features to DayMaker) and First Things First, which sounds
> comparable to In Control.

I have been using DayMaker for the last two months, and I still
can't understand why MacUser was so down on the GUI.  I haven't
had a problem and neither has many of my co-workers who aren't
Power Users.  Day Maker allows you to create a new task with out
have to say new task, with a new window (you can if you want).  Date
Book and Up-To-Date require you to say new, and then wait for
a window to open. 

I also don't like the views in DateBook, I think DayMaker does
a much better job in the month view.

The other big DateBook set-back is that you only get two tags per
item.  In DayMaker you can have as many as you want!

I think DateBook with be a great product, but it will be like
TouchBase. You'll have to wait until 2.0.

DayMaker does have some annoyances though ... especially with
printing (to those day planners) and exporting information.

I hope my ranting and raving wasn't to annoying.

> --Purp, trying to get organized.

Aren't we all ... ;-)

Steve

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From: rperry@uswat.uswest.com (Roy Perry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: WANTED: Simple Incremental Backup
Date: 20 Aug 92 22:00:01 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: US WEST Advanced Technologies

I am looking for a VERY simple utility which copies only the files on my
hard disk which have been created/modified since a certain time/date to an
Appleshare file server. Thanks...

Roy Perry
--------- It'd be a lot easier to design networks if there weren't so many
rules against designing networks ---- A frustrated data network architect
in a telco
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: btoback@netcom.com (Bruce Toback)
Subject: Re: Look & Feel
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 05:35:39 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

In article <D88-JWA.92Aug20094026@dront.nada.kth.se> d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) writes:
>
>A computer program is very
>much like a painting (and ALL paintings are, by default, covered
>by copyright) - and we already HAVE copyrights for programs.
>That's a kind of protection I don't mind, since it protects the
>work of the program makers, while leaving the field open for
>independent program makers. 

Copyright protects the exact expression of the program maker, but not
the design or algorithm that was the real creative work in the program.
That also deserves protection.

Rather than an "all or nothing" approach, why not a special patent 
that is appropriate in a very fast-moving field like software?
Such a patent would not last for 17+ years, but for a shorter 
period of time, e.g., 3-5 years. These patents would be issued for
algorithms that were "unique and nonobvious" just as patents are 
today. The shorter period of protection makes misjudgements on that
score less harmful, while still allowing the inventor to profit
from his/her/its creative efforts. 

Disputes over the uniqueness of an algorithm or the first to invent
would be settled by arbitration rather than through the courts as 
they are now. An algorithm patent would be interpreted narrowly, so that
(for example) the patent on the RSA cryptosystem could not be extended
to cover all public-key cryptosystems, or the Hayes patent on 
escape-with-guard-time would not preclude the use of timing in
other ways in order to share a channel. Narrow interpretation would
help insure that it was worth patenting only the most unique and
least obvious algorithms. Applications would be published immediately
to help prevent "blanket" patenting.

Such a narrow, short-term patent could be useful in other fields. 
Gene sequences could be covered by such a patent, helping researchers
recover their costs but not precluding innovation based on the
information contained in the sequence.
-- Bruce Toback

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Pete Kelly <pfkelly@bnr.ca>
Subject: Re: In Control vs Daymaker?
X-Xxdate: Tue, 18 Aug 92 01:29:17 GMT
Organization: Bell-Northern Research/Northern Telecom
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d7
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 00:24:34 GMT

Re: In Control vs Daymaker?

Before commit to *anything*, be sure to take a look at v 2.0 of
ThoughtPattern due out in a month or so.  Saw it at MacWorld just down
the aisle from the DayMaker and In Control demos and it convinced me to
wait for it.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Edward.Visse@wblab.lu.se ()
Subject: Freehand EPS->PICT or TIFF converter
Organization: Wallenberg Lab/Lunds University
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 14:09:51 GMT

Hello out there,

Does anybody know of a program (PD, Shareware or Commercial) that can convert
Freehands color EPS files into PICT or TIFF formats?

with kind regards, Edward
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps