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From: rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.atari.st,rec.music.synth
Subject: Re: Best Bang for the Buck
Date: 9 Apr 92 12:47:23 GMT
Organization: Miami University Academic Computer Service"

In article <1992Apr7.110733.837@sun.pcl.ac.uk>, marcus@sun.pcl.ac.uk (Marcus Harvey) writes:
> I think LC's will have to become significantly cheaper to penetrate the music
> business here. The PowerBook could have done very well (again with those
> with big money) but apparently MIDI is screwed up on it... shame.

     Can you explain why MIDI is screwed up? The reason I'm asking is
that I'm a music education major, and I was thinking of getting a
notebook computer to do MIDI. I thought about waiting for the ST Book (I
have actually played on one, very nice.) but the attractive prices of
the Powerbooks have turned my head.

Later.......

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From: macman@banzai (Chris Silverberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Help with fonts in documents!
Date: 16 Apr 92 16:30:36 GMT
Article-I.D.: wpi.1992Apr16.163036.21325
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Hello.

I have a friend who has a problem and I'm hoping that perhaps someone might
have some advice.

My friend is running System 6.x and he uses MS Word 4.0, and also has MacWrite
II.  He has many documents in primarily Symbol and Helvetica.  Well, somehow
along the way the Font ID number for his Symbol font was changed.  So,
if he gave a document to a friend, the Symbol font changed to Zaph Chancery.

As a fix, he tried changing the font with Resedit to the standard number for
symbol. (not sure what that is...).  Now documents that he gives to someone
come out fine, (symbol is correct), but his OLD documents are now messed up.

I thought that word processors were supposed to use the font NAME instead
of the ID number... well, apparently MS Word 4.0 uses the ID number.

Is there any way of taking a document and globally changing the font number
for one font to something else?  Any ideas?

Thanks much. Please email.

- Chris
From: franklin@secum.cs.dal.ca (Steve Franklin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: POSTSCRIPT AND GHOSTSCRIPT
Date: 6 Apr 92 12:38:57 GMT
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

We have been working with an electro-static plotter, more specifically 
called the Versatec Plotter. The software used to drive this is GhostScript 
1.3. We are trying to send postscript files to the plotter, but apparently, 
there is a conflict between the postscript output from the Mac, and the 
postscript that Ghostscript is able to convert. 
   What I am curious about, is the level of postscript. Is it true that 
System 7 will output Postscript II when you select the output to Postscript 
option in the Laserwriter drivers? Is there no way to select Postscript 
level 1? Many laserwriters can't handle the level 2 postscript, so surely 
the Mac can put out both? Why am I running into this incompatibility 
between the ghostscript and the Mac? Are there any solutions or ways to get 
around this?
   Any suggestions would be appreciated, even if you suspect it may not be 
specifically related to the Versatec problem...
   steve
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From: rhorowit@ZIMMER.CSUFRESNO.EDU (Rick Horowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: THANKS & Superdrive Question
Date: 6 Apr 92 21:40:10 GMT


The following is posted through a gateway to comp.sys.mac.apps,
comp.sys.mac.system, and comp.sys.mac.misc.  Since I can't do a
"normal" crosspost, this serves as warning: if you see an article
with the same subject/name and author as the one you are now 
reading, it is an identical post; you need not read it twice.

I received approximately 40 responses to my previous posting
entitled Mac to DOS-NEED HELP (or something like that).  That's
a tremendous response.  Thanks!

Virtually all folks said "Buy an FDHD drive."  Some added,
"and get PCAccess".  

One person suggested that I could do what I wanted (save
MSW 5 files as WordPerfect 5.1 DOS files) with my existing
equipment by formatting 800K diskettes as 720K DOS diskettes.
Not enough detail on this was given, but mail to that 
individual was returned by the demonic Daemon.

NEW QUESTION:

The Apple Upgrade to my Mac II would cost $400 through the
university.  An ad in MacUser (MacWarehouse ad) lists an 
"AE Superdrive" for only $219.  Can anyone tell me if the AE
drive would suffice?  I really don't have much money.  I also
want to know if I could save all the files either straight to
the DOS diskette, or maybe in a folder so that later I could 
transfer them all at once to the DOS floppy.  Finally, I think
I might have neglected to mention that I need to also provide
hardcopy.  Does anyone know a way to send all those files to
a Laserwriter Plus?  Do I have to first make them MS Word files
and send them one at a time? Or could I somehow "batch print"
them? even after they are saved in WP 5.1 DOS format?

Normally I save all reports in ONE MSW 5.0 document, and just
send that one document to print, then go have coffee.  I'm 
worried that if I have to type one report (some are shorter 
than a page, some are possibly 4-5 pages), then print, then
save as DOS WP 5.1, then transfer, etc., that I will lose so
much time that it isn't worth it.  Any ideas/experiences 
concerning this worry?  

Thanks again, 

||======================================================================||
||  Rick Horowitz                  || If a tree falls across the road   ||
||  CSUFresno, Philosophy          || and no one is there trying to     ||
||  rick@csufres.csufresno.edu     || pass, does it block the road?     ||
||  rhorowit@zimmer.csufresno.edu  ||          -Nick Serafimidis        ||
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: huesmann@wam.umd.edu (Joseph Edward Huesmann)
Subject: Where can I get 32-bit QuickDraw?
Originator: huesmann@rac2.wam.umd.edu
Organization: University of Maryland at College Park
Distribution: dc
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 13:35:11 GMT


Can anyone please tell me where I can FTP 32-bit QuickDraw from? I
tried to install QuickTime, but it wouldn't load because I don't
have 32-bit QuickDraw. Thanks.

Joe
huesmann@wam.umd.edu
From: jpittas@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (john.pittas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: DiskLight
Date: 10 Apr 92 18:25:24 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: AT&T

In article <1992Apr10.074401.16220@morrow.stanford.edu> HK.MLR@forsythe.stanford.edu (Mark Rogowsky) writes:
>Disk Light violates the developer guidelines egregiously according
>to many.
>
>It does not work with Salient's delightful DiskDoubler and may cause
>many problems that you can't otherwise blame on anything.

Huh?  I use DiskLight and DiskDoubler and have not noticed any problems.
What do you mean by "it does not work"?  Does the "light" not appear
when DiskDoubler is doing its thing?  If so, so what?
From: glenn@gla-aux.uucp (Glenn Austin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Communications Toolbox
Date: 6 Apr 92 21:59:59 GMT
Article-I.D.: gla-aux.1CE00001.0c2euq
Reply-To: glenn%gla-aux.uucp@skinner.cs.uoregon.edu
Organization: The Pit Lane
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.5v4


In article <204458@unix.cis.pitt.edu> (comp.sys.mac.misc), szsst@unix.cis.pitt.edu ( Sebastion) writes:
> I installed Communications Toolbox yesterday, but I find it useless and it 
> also interferes with some of my applications. I want to deinstall it now, but I
> can't! I went into the System with Resedit and deleted all of the resources
> that looked like they belonged to CTB, but it is still there! Someone please
> help me... this is a problem on a higher scale than the infamous
> Folder From Hell.....

First, to remove something, you have to go to Easy Install, choose what
you want to remove, then hold the option key down.  The Install button changes
to Remove.

Second, what applications is it interfering with?  I've had no problems
with any applications I run on a regular or even semi-regular basis.

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| Macintosh Wizard and           |    Turn too late, much better fate."       |
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From: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov (John Hutchinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Which Mac-II : II-si or II-ci ?
Date: 13 Apr 92 19:31:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: newshost.1992Apr13.193121.14353
Reply-To: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory

Undoubtedly, the ci is the better/more capable of the two machines.  However, the si _is_ a true MacII (unlike the LC) and _is_ 32-bit clean and _is_ a heck of a lot cheaper than the ci.  It also comes with built-in hardware for sound sampling (if
that's important to you) and is packaged in a very slick, trim case.

The si's biggest detractions, IMHO, is it's single-expansion slot, lack of a standard (no-extra cost) math-coprocessor and... well, I guess that's it.  It shares the ci's problem with slow video if you use the on-board video but it's still nice to have 8-bit color out-of-the-box until you can afford an accelerated card.  The ci is 25MHz, 3 slots, built-in cache-card slot and at least $1,000 more money.

I use a ci at work and an si at home so I'm quite familiar with both.

For the average home user, I'd recommend the si based on it's lower cost.  If money is no object, heck, pop for a Quadra!!!
From: 880774h@aucs.acadiau.ca (Chris Hulan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: History of virurii?
Date: 8 Apr 92 15:13:26 GMT
Organization: Acadia University

Does any have any info, or know of any sources, concerning
the histiroy of virurii.  I'm looking for stuff like when 
the first was created, what it was/did.
Also some general info on currently known virii, and possibly
some opinions on why virii are written.

Thanks for any info

Chris
"The Rockies may crumble, Gibralter may tumble. But a plastic
six pack container never dies. Like diamonds, plastics last
forever."--Fred Pohl,_Homecoming_
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: duane@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov (Duane Clark)
Subject: Re: Apple File Exchange
Keywords: info
Organization: Image Analysis Systems Group, JPL
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 15:36:38 GMT

exby@pogo.Colorado.EDU (J.'Doc' Exby) writes:


>Could someone take a second and explain what "Apple File Exchange" is,
>what it does, and where it's available from?  Thanks again oh wise       
>net-folk. 
>I'm running a SE with 030 accel card, and Sys 7.0 w/ TuneUp 1.1.1

If you have System 7, it should be in your Utilities Folder. Apple File
Exchange simply allows you to read and write DOS floppies on your Mac.
File converters can be added to convert between incompatible word
processing formats - such as your WordPerfect to Word.
From: Martin.Friedrich@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Martin Friedrich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Help with LC & TokaMac LC
Date: 14 Apr 92 08:12:50 GMT
Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany

Hello, Netters!

Two days ago, I've finally gotten a TokaMac LC accellerator board for my LC.
It behaves just fine, except for two annoying errors, needless two say, with
copyback mode on.

My configuration is:
Mac LC with 4MB, System 7.0.1,TokaMac LC with software version 1.2.
Both errors occur both with german and US system software, regradless
wether inits are in use or not.

The first one:
When selecting Restart or Shut Down from the Special menu, the machine
freezes completely if I previously did some other action (i.e. opening a
folder, selecting another menu item etc.). However, disks are ejected, and
the ShutDown-Manager tasks seem to be executed properly.
If restarting or shutting down is done immediately after booting, the result
is erracticly the first case or an system error alert is displayed
with error -41. When choosing restart at this point, everything works fine.
This seems to be an error of the board's software, because on Quadras
System 7.0.1 runs fine, doesn't it.
Another, maybe related, error is, that the TokaMac apparently can't turn
itself off when in copyback mode - the machine freezes again.

The second one:
When starting MPW 3.2.x the machine freezes. MPW is fully compatible to the
mc68040 according to the compatability list supplied with the TokaMac.
Maybe they're wrong?.

Any help would be appeciated,
-- 
LLaP
       Martin Friedrich

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: internal speaker in a IIsi problem...
From: stanger@otago.ac.nz (Nigel Stanger)
Date: 15 Apr 92 14:54:26 +1300
Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

In article <1992Apr13.192050.16175@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, 
dmmg1176@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (David M Marcovitz) writes:
> unruley@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu (Kriss Boyce) writes:
>>I was the origional poster of the speaker problem, and I just wanted
>>to clarify that this happened in any software from Loom to
>>wordprocessing so I personally doubt that it is a software problem.
>>I'm still hesitant to pull out my hard drive.  I don't have a problem
>>with the LED on the front panel, so is this really necessary?
> 
> I find it hard to believe that you can fix a hardware problem by
> resetting the volume through the control panel.  There may be a
> hardware problem, but if the control panel fixes the sound, I think
> there is also a software problem.
[...]

This isn't as silly as it sounds. If the speaker has a flakey
contact on it or something that stops the signal getting through,
cranking the volume up increases the strength of the signal,
presumably enough to force it's way through the "obstruction"
and get to the speaker. Yes? No?

--
See ya
                                Nigel.
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University of Otago,            Phone: +64 3 479-8179
Dunedin, NEW ZEALAND.           Fax:   +64 3 479-8311
If two toucans can can-can, can one toucan can-can too?
From: ace@tidbits.halcyon.com (Adam C. Engst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: TidBITS#116/Nisus_Intro posted in c.s.m.digest
Date: 8 Apr 92 05:55:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: tidbits.D2150083.apwgex
Reply-To: ace@tidbits.halcyon.com (Adam C. Engst)
Organization: TidBITS

TidBITS#116/Nisus_Intro
=======================
 
 Thinking about upgrading to Word 5.0? Thinking about switching to
   a different word processor? Think about Nisus. Nisus is arguably
   the most powerful word processor to appear on the Macintosh, and
   it has features that no other program can even approach. Despite
   this incredible power, Nisus has some potentially serious flaws
   for creating complex formal documents. This review uncovers the
   power and the problems to help you decide which program to use.
   Part one of three.
 
Topics:
    Nisus Introduction
    Typing, Clicking, and Moving
    Windows
    Menus
 
[Archived as /info-mac/digest/tb/tidbits-116.hqx; 25K]

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: dmmg1176@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (David M Marcovitz)
Subject: Re: internal speaker in a IIsi problem...
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 23:36:06 GMT

I've had similar problems, but I haven't had any problems since I
fixed some code that I wrote so that it plays sound properly.  It is
very easy to write sound code that causes the speaker to stop working.
Fortunately, it's also easy to write sound code that works (if you
have the right references to sample Apple code).


-- 
David M. Marcovitz                     |  internet: marcovitz@uiuc.edu
Computer-based Education Research Lab  |            dmmg1176@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
University of Illinois                 |  novanet:  marco / cca / nova
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Thursday, 9 Apr 1992 19:18:08 CDT
From: <U43610@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Help needed on Image files

Help!
=
I have some software that was given to me..  It is compressed using binhex.. Wh
en the binhex is decompressed, I am left with a "disk image" file--
-
How do I get the image file to a usible file?  Where can I get the decompressor
 for it (If I do not already have it)--   I have three files which need to be d
e-imaged.. (Each of the files are 800K long.. Hence, the disk image length of a
 ordinary disk)
-
Any information on this type of file would be appreciated.
-
Ken.
Internet:  U43610@uicvm.uic.edu
Kenneth Ameika
From: wgns@troi.cc.rochester.edu (C. Wiggins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: PixelFlipper Problem?
Date: 10 Apr 92 22:53:18 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

A while ago, someone was complaining that PixelFlipper caused his mac to startup
in 16 color mode, no matter whether he had "Make settings Permanent" set to in
the control panel.  I didn't pay attention, since it wasn't happening to me :)
NOW IT IS!  What's wrong, and how do I fix it?

How do I keep PixelFlipper from causing my (6/40) LC from powering up in 4bit 
mode?

(sure wish I had saved those messages...!)
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.misc:8970 comp.sys.mac.hardware:9025
From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
Subject: Re: How to zap the pram?
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1992 00:28:18 GMT

 Mark> == Mark Rosen <marosen@gandalf.rutgers.edu> 

 Mark> OK, now I've been told to hold down option-command-p-r at startup to
 Mark> zap the pram.  But when I do that, all I get is the dialog asking
 Mark> if I want the desktop rebuilt (I guess because option-command is down).

 Mark> Does anyone know how to zap the pram?

Command-Option-P-R will zap PRAM under System 7; you'll notice that the
machine will start to boot, then chime & reboot.  When it chimes, the
PRAM's been zapped; you can let go of the keys.

Under System 6, hold down some combination of Cmd-Opt-Shift-Ctrl and
pull down the Control Panel DA.  (I don't remember the exact
combination, I usually just hit them all.)
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From: kayser@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (Susan E. Kayser NSSDC/STX (301)513-1673)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: re: is TuneUp 1.1 available for FTPing?
Date: 10 Apr 92 16:52:00 GMT
Organization: NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Apr9.170223.6766@morrow.stanford.edu>, XT.VBM@forsythe.stanford.edu (V. Bandeira de Mello) writes...
>Thank you all for pointing me to the various online sources
>for TuneUp 1.1.
> 
> 
>FTP.APPLE.COM    dts/mac/sys.soft/7.0.tuneup
>SUMEX-AIM        info-mac/sys
> 
Keep in mind that an announcement on comp.sys.mac.announce recently suggested 
that TuneUp 1.1 has flaws and a new version is expected soon. 

Susan Kayser		NCF::KAYSER  or  kayser%nssdca.span@star.stanford.edu
Hughes/STX at NASA/GSFC/NSSDC
Greenbelt, MD
From: molla@paone.uucp (Levent Mollamustafaoglu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: printed info-mac
Date: 15 Apr 92 16:25:23 GMT
Article-I.D.: das.1992Apr15.162523.25878
Organization: Aiken Computation Lab, Harvard University

In article <1992Apr15.091547.26679@acsu.buffalo.edu> yaosenko@acsu.buffalo.edu (Yaosen Ko) writes:
>My friend in Taiwan told me a new magazine named InfoMac (ISSN 1018-4511)
>showed up in Taiwan lately.  Does anybody know if this magazine is
>published by Info-mac from Stanford or just a coincidence?
>
>Thanks for any information.

It's probably yet another clone from Taiwan. :-)


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molla@paone.harvard.edu    molla@metatron.harvard.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Print to File (Non PS)
From: jenner@post.ntu.edu.au(Bob Jenner)
Date: 9 Apr 92 13:36:57 +0900
Distribution: world
Organization: NTU

Does anyone know of a way to direct printing to a text (ASCII) file?
Cheers...Bob Jenner 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: johnston@me.udel.edu (Bill Johnston)
Subject: Re: There is a crippled  LC II because ...
Summary:  it's cheaper to build a Mac w/o FPU and a 16-bit bus
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Delaware/Department of Mechanical Engineering
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 01:27:00 GMT

In article <4563@unccvax.uncc.edu>, mpd@unccvax.uncc.edu (Michael Parker Davis) writes...

>Why would Apple Computer limit the LC's 68030 upgrade?

[...must be a conspiracy, huh?...]

>  Speculated limitations that led to this decision have included...
> 
>    ROMS are located at 10 Meg -- so still use a 32 bit data path
>    Apple 2e card needed it    -- so release LC II as an additional model
>                                  after all we can now buy the classic and the
>                                  classic II.  Those that neede 2e emulation
>                                  could make their decision to get an LC not 
>                                  an LC II
>  Whatever the reason, it was obviously a result of groupthink, and not of a
>thinking group.
>  Would you have paid $20 more and waited an extra month for a coprocessor 
>socket on the motherboard?  I think so.  Would you have paid $20 more for a
>32 bit data path?   I think so.

$20 ????  An extra month????  For hardware engineering/testing????

Get real.  Look at the price difference between the IIsi and the LC,
and you have the difference between a 32-bit machine and a 32/16.

The price differences between "SX" 'x86 clones with a 16 bit bus and a "DX" clone with a 32-bit bus are even greater. 

-- Bill (johnston@me.udel.edu)