HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: parkyn@fraser.sfu.ca (Dale Parkyn)
Subject: Re: disinfectant 3.0????
Keywords: virus
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 06:02:12 GMT

Sorry. Just reviewed previous articles and found that the rumoured 
virus was 'Aliens4', not 'T4' nor 'T2'. I confused the movie reference...
 
If you are able to, try searching old articles for the word 'virus' in
the subject line. At my site I use 'nn -xmstopicword' to search.

nn means NetNews reader
 x  "    look at previously viewed articles
 m  "    group all matching article into a meta group - easier to view
 s  "    attempt to match articles subject line against topicword

Dale
parkyn@sfu.ca


From: davea@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Dave Arns)
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 21:02:59 GMT
Subject: "Performer" software?
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps

Greetings,

I am starting to get into digital music and have heard of a program called
Performer, by Mark of the Unicorn.  It is a music-writing, music-editing,
sequencing, music-playing program that is reportedly quite good.  I'd like to
hear some opinions from net.folks on whether this program is all it's cracked
up to be.

Is it System 7-savvy?  How much does it cost?  What are MOTU's address and
phone?

Thanks,
Dave Arns

davea@hpfcdma.fc.hp.com

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: phils@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Phil Shapiro)
Subject: Re: StuffIt Converter (was Re: More SpaceSaver) 
Organization: Symantec Corp.
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 23:41:22 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.030327.8672@terminator.cc.umich.edu> leonardr@ccs.itd.umich.edu writes:

   In article <714790816.F00001@blkcat.UUCP> Rick.Zeman@p943.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Rick Zeman) writes:
   >
   >      I presume then that Aladdin is aware that in the Finder
   >(viewing by name) that listing a directory by clicking on the
   >triangle causes all of the files within that folder to be
   >decompressed.  I presume that that's because of the need to get
   >the icons out of the rforks.  Still not cool, though.

	   This wll ONLY happen for folders containing files with
   custom icons.  It will NOT happen for normal files, nor for folders
   w/custom icons!   

What I've seen (and perhaps what the original poster was referring to)
is that if you have "show version" turned on in your 7.0 Views Control
Panel, then all of the files will be uncompressed when they are viewed
in any non-icon view. I don't recall seeing this mentioned in the
documentation.

	-phil
--
   Phil Shapiro                                   Software Engineer
   Language Products Group                     Symantec Corporation
		   Internet: phils@cs.brandeis.edu
From: jmoulder@mis.mcw.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Word 5 question
Date: 1 Sep 92 18:55:12 CDT
Distribution: na
Organization: Medical College of Wisconsin

> How do I set up "first page special" headers and footers in Word 5??

Try the index of the Users Guide under:
 Header/footer
    different first page  561

Its now in the Format menu under Section, (and they changed its name)
then you will have to go to the View menu to enter the actual headers 
and/or footers.

Word 5 has changed the location and names of many features, but the index of
the Users Guide is fairly decent.  It you use many of the advanced features of
Word it will take some time ti find things that they've renamed and/or moved.  
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Subject: Re: Emacs availability?
Originator: d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 09:06:39 GMT

> spworley@netcom.com (Steven) writes:

   I'm looking for an Emacs port for the Mac: I have microemacs from
   sumex-aim, but I really want a complete emacs, instead of the
   tiny subset that microemacs has. (It doesn't even have search-and-replace!)
   If I can find a PD or shareware version, great, but I'd be even willing
   to pay for a commercial port or clone, like Epsilon on the PC. Since
   I got a new PB 145 to just type in text and C code, I suddenly realize
   how essential this editor is to me.

You could:

1) Buy MachTen by Tenon; it's a Mach that runs under MacOS (and on
   PowerBooks, no less!)
2) Hack the source to micro-emacs
3) Hack the source for GNU Emacs (...NOT!)

or:

4) ftp cs.rics.edu  user anonymous  password:yourname@yoursite
   cd pub/Alpha
   get Alpha.5.04.sea.hqx


Alpha is a cool editor with most of emacs functinoality, and it
is configurable using the "tickle" extension language. It's share-
ware, and some of the best money I've spent (along with ZTerm)

It of course also allows for full mouse-editting. You can hack
menus, command-control-option-escape-ctrl-X-keys, and just about
anything else to customize the editor.


And I'm only a satisfied user, no less!

-- 
Jon W{tte, h+@nada.kth.se, Sweden, Phone +46-8-107069
White, Literate, Employed, Higher-Educated, Male, Straight and Not Poor.
I must be a bad guy.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: xxmartn@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (Jeff Martin)
Subject: Re: Mac PC Exchange, AccessPC & DOSMounter
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date: 27 Aug 1992 08:48 EST  

In article <val-260892180058@kip-20.apple.com>, val@apple.com (Jack Valois) writes...
>In article <1992Aug17.203906.15711@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>,
>geoffb@coos.dartmouth.edu (Geoff Bronner) wrote:
>> 
>> In <3974@svin02.info.win.tue.nl> robg@wsinfo11.info.win.tue.nl (Rob Gerth) writes:
>> 
>> >Does anyone have experience with Apple's Macintosh PC Exchange and is willing
>> >to comment on its virtues/vices as compared to AccessPC and DOSMounter?

(stuff deleted)

FYI,  The most recent issue of MacWorld (Oct 92, pg 188) reviews all three: 
AccessPC (4 stars), DOS Mounter (4 stars) and Mac/PC Exchange (3 stars).

They liked AccessPC for dealing with several types of DOS media, DOS 
Mounter for if you need wild cards in extension mapping, and Apple File 
Exchange (bundled with Apple Software) if you only transfer a file once 
in a while.
From: rc05@gte.com (Ramesh Chandak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: THINK C / APPMAKER / PICT FILES Question
Date: 30 Aug 92 20:18:37 GMT
Organization: GTE Laboratories Incorporated, Waltham MA


1.Got a question : I'm using AppMaker to generate the interface.
Later, I have to incorporate PICT files into the application.  What's the
best way to do this ? Is there any public domain THINK C code that will
let me do it easily ?  any pointers / references / suggestions will be
highly appreciated.  Thank you.

2. since I'm new to AppMaker, i don't know what's going wrong with my program.
I'm trying to use AppMaker to generate the code for a very simple interface.
Only two menu items : FILE and EDIT.  I go thru the process of creating
THINK C code.  And then according to the manual, I define the project
name and resource name.  So when I try to run the program, it says "main"
undefined.  It seems AppMaker does not create a main program.   Is that
correct ?  Do I have to write the main program ? ANd then call all the
routines one at a time to generate the run-time executable ?

What's going on here ?  I mean I would like to know.  What's the deal with
AppMaker ?  

Please email your responses to Ramesh at rc05@gte.com.   Thank You.

- Ramesh
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From: wang_dj@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (David J Wang)
Subject: Chinesetalk                    
Followup-To: wang_dj@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu
Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 21:14:16 GMT

I have recently seen talk about the Chinesetalk init on the net, but I can not
find it.  I have poked around apple.com, but to no avail.  Anyone care to help
me out?         
Please send e-mail.  Thank you.

David J. Wang
wang_dj@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu
From: jtk@world.std.com (Joseph T Kelley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Word 5.00 bug (?)
Date: 28 Aug 92 12:42:06 GMT
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA

Remember that Word is not completely Wysiwyg in Page layout view.  If you have 
hidden text that shows on the screen (you can use Preferences to totally hide
hidden text) it shows in layout but not in Print Preview.  Also, if you have
line numbers, they are visible in Print Preview and the paper output-only.  
Hope this helps.
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From: Glen.Stewart@f175.n2240.z1.ieee.org (Glen Stewart)
Subject: RE: Looking for Music Notation Program
Organization: FidoNet node 1:2240/175 - The Associati, Grand Blanc MI
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 13:14:43 GMT

Would ConcertWare +Midi do?  I've written a few sheets of music on it, and my
friend (who's in the church band) writes the parts for the several instruments 
each sunday.

I have a copy just sitting around if you'd like to buy it for $20 or trade
something for it.  It's about $55 new, I think.


--  
=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=
 Glen Stewart - Internet: Glen.Stewart@f175.n2240.z1.ieee.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: pjl@sparc6.cs.uiuc.edu (Paul Lucas)
Subject: Re: The Updated Grammar File for MS Word 5.0 (mac version)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 22:23:11 GMT

In <4381@equinox.unr.edu> zhimin@unssun.nevada.edu (Zhimin Chen) writes:

>I just received a copy of updated speller and grammar for MS Word 5.0 for Mac
>from MicroSoft Corp.

>I installed it in the MS Word 5.0. I found the speller is a real improvement
>in terms of speed.

*****>	Really?  I noticed no difference.  Microsoft still needs a
	lesson in human-interface issues.  The questionable word in the
	document that gets highlighted isn't sensitive to the speller
	window's position: put the window on the bottom of the screen,
	then you can't see the context for footnotes; put it on the top
	of the screen, then you can't seen the main document.
	Obviously, Microsoft's programmers don't use Macs with 9-inch
	screens.

	Ever notice how _long_ it takes for it to respond when you click
	on a button in the speller window?

	BTW, I'm using a Mac SE/30 so it's _not_ my machine that's slow.
	From what I can remember, Word 4's speller was faster.

>However when I tried to use the grammar, the computer
>can't locate the file, although it IS there in the Word Command file. Does
>anyone know what the problem is?

>By the way, I previously trashed the grammer because it takes lots of space
>and gives nothing but very stupid suggestions. This time I wanted to give
>the new version a new chance to see if it's better than its predecessor.

*****>	I was under the impression that it was _just_ a bug fix.  All
	grammar-checkers are _slow_ and give stupid suggestions.  Why?
	Because it requires real intelligence and real-world knowledge
	to properly grammar-check a document.  They do have such things
	currently...they're called people; artificial-intelligence just
	isn't there yet.
-- 
	- Paul J. Lucas				University of Illinois	
	  AT&T Bell Laboratories		at Urbana-Champaign
	  Naperville, IL			pjl@cs.uiuc.edu
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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Subject: Re: Any experience TypeReader OCR from ExperVision?
Organization: Alfalfa Software, Inc.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 16:32:15 GMT

jwenn@world.std.com (John C Wenn) writes:
: Does anyone have any experience with the new TypeReader OCR program from
: ExperVision?  The ads in the Mac magazines make it sound great.  And the
: introductory price sounds wonderful too ($149 for a side-grade).
: 
: Thanks for any information,
: 
: /John
: 
: jwenn@world.std.com

It's mindblowingly good.  I had ReadIt! Pro before and there is just
no comparison.  This thing handles faxes very well (faxes sent from
a Mac perfectly).  I just did a test scan of a weekly rag (Network
World) with my handscanner and it did great!  I've spent long
hours trying to train ReadIt on that particular font.  With this I
just swept down the page with the LightningScan, not paying a lot
of attention to either contrast or straightness, saved it as a tiff
file.  Pointed TypeReader at it and told it to go.  If found all of
the columns, discarded the picture and gave me a text version, 
completely formated in columns with italic fonts and bold fonts
all fine.  As well as all the fonts scaled to the appropriate sizes.
It missed maybe one space between two italic words and turned a long
dash into a double dash.  And it did that all in very reasonable time
on a Mac II (certainly faster than ReadIt).  So far my only wish
list items are that it could rotate images and save in multi-column
or pagelayout format.  In maintains all of that format, but saving
to MSWord or WriteNow doesn't seem to preserve columns.  (In all
fairness, it would be hard, you might need to save to a page layout
program format instead.)

One note.  It comes on high-density floppies, so if you have a II
you'll need to ask them to send it on low density as well.  Also,
make sure you have disk space.  I forget the exact size, but I
think it's around 6 meg.
-- 
						nazgul@alfalfa.com

I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
From: ferch@ucs.ubc.ca (Les Ferch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Wanted: System 7 compatible McSink
Date: 27 Aug 92 05:51:54 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

In <66926@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt5116b@prism.gatech.EDU (TUREK,GABRIELLA) writes:

>I have an old version of the application McSink which doesn't work
>with system 7. I am not sure where the copy I have came from.
>Is anyone familiar with this application and know where I could get an
>updated version?

Ahem, McSink is shareware. If you looked at the documentation or About
information, you would have been lead to the source of the product and
found out (as I did) that for a few dollars more, you can get the
commercial version called "Vantage". Vantage is System 7 compatible and is
a big improvement over McSink. Well worth the money. Preferred Publishers
is working on Vantage 2.0, which promises to add many new features users
have been requesting. But don't wait for 2.0, it's still a long way off.
The current version is 1.6.1. Buy it!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: tachaimov@hou.amoco.com (Tom Chaimov)
Subject: Please wake up?!
Reply-To: tachaimov@hou.amoco.com (Tom Chaimov)
Organization: Amoco Production Company
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 20:54:12 GMT

This started yesterday:

When After Dark goes to sleep, I get the
"Please wake up!" message scrolling
across the menu bar region of my monitor.
Great, except that there's no pop-up
notice anywhere, I'm not running any
applications, and I'm wide awake.

I just upgraded my Quadra 700
from 8 to 20 Meg.  Other than that,
I can't think of any changes
I've made.  So what did I do? 
Better yet, what do I do?

Help me convince my Mac that I'm
awake.

Thanks,

Tom
From: cdelay@inferno.uoregon.edu (Christian De Lay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Hard drive partitioning?
Date: 2 Sep 92 17:59:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: nntp.1992Sep2.175907.7230
Organization: University of Oregon Network Services

I am wondering if it is possible to use HD SC Setup to partition a Macintosh  
hard drive into two volumes?  I've heard people say that it is possible, and  
other people say that it is only possible for use with A/UX.  I've got  
someone who wants to partition an 80MB HD into a 60MB volume and a 20MB  
volume (the 20MB to be an AppleShare volume).  

--
cdelay@inferno.uoregon.edu
NeXTmail gladly accepted.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: jbush@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (J Eric Bush)
Subject: Re: ...  ZTERM  HAS  STRIPES  ... ??  How to remove ??
Keywords: Zterm .9 alternates hilight, normal, hilight, normal, etc.
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 19:52:47 GMT

In article <1992Aug30.065338.10827@sherpa.uucp> david@sherpa.uucp (Dave Quarles
) writes:
>I tried to use Zterm 0.9.
>
>How is this eliminated ??
>
>I'll admit I have not read the docs completely, but I don't see
>how this would be a desirable feature.

If you are using VT-100 or some other emulation, it might be that your
screen got set to 23 lines of display instead of 24.  Look in the lower
left portion of the information line at the bottom of the window and
see if it says 24x80 (Yours may say 23x80) or something.  That would
be my guess.  --Eric
-- 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Internet: jbush@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: postscript from microsoft word?
From: peake@uncavx.unca.edu
Date: 25 Aug 92 23:01:02 -0500
Organization: University of North Carolina at Asheville
Nntp-Posting-User: peake

In article <1992Aug25.210845.24852@athena.mit.edu>, tracadas@athena.mit.edu (Philip W Tracadas) writes:
> 
> How do I make a postscript file from Microsoft word?  Isn't there some key
> sequence that I use in the print dialogue box?
> 
> thanks in advance
> -phil


In Word 5.0 there's a button to make the file postscript in the PRINT dialog
box.


peake@uncavx.unca.edu
peake@unca.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: a-giles@uchicago.edu (Aaron Giles)
Subject: Re: JPEG decompressor? (Summary)
Reply-To: a-giles@uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago High Energy Physics
	<1992Aug29.000004.26165@cello.hpl.hp.com>
	<1992Aug28.221733.15201@husc3.harvard.edu>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 08:47:52 GMT


 David> Thanks very much for the summary.  I just want to say that
 David> *if* you are lucky enough to have a 24-bit color system (and I
 David> realize this thread is about people who don't), I think
 David> JPEGView is pretty good. It does have the annonying habit of
 David> crashing if you have a bad or incomplete file; it would be
 David> nicer if it could politely tell you something's amiss rather
 David> than take out the machine.  Does anyone know if the beta
 David> version of GifConverter handles bad JPEG files better?

I suspect GIFConverter has the same problems JPEGView does, as they
both rely on QuickTime to do the decoding, and it's the QuickTime JPEG
decompressor which chokes and crashes the system during decompression
of bad images.  I suppose a lack of thorough error checking is a price
you pay to get the speed that QuickTime gives you.

Returning to the color-quantization issues raised before, however --
and at the risk of giving too much away about software still in
development :-) -- let me just say that JPEGView 2.0 *will* support
color quantization on 8-bit (or less) systems, and it will be fast.

'Nuff said.

Aaron Giles
JPEGView Author
a-giles@uchicago.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: dnsurber@lescsse.jsc.nasa.gov ()
Subject: Looking for cheap OCR application
Organization: Lockheed Engineering and Sciences
Date:  4 Sep 92 14:31:32 GMT


I am looking for an affordable OCR app. By affordable, I mean less, 
preferably much less, than $100. As I don't need to read more than
a few pages per week, I cannot justify the expense of the name brand
products. Conversely, speed is not really an issue. It doesn't much
matter if the thing is dead slow as long as it's cheap, reasonably
accurate, and reasonably flexible. I guess I am most likely looking
for some sort of shareware/freeware. 

I want to use it to read faxes, so there is no issue about hardware
support or the like. I would like it to be able to recognise italic,
bold, underline and serif characteristics, recognise line drawings,
correct misspellings, translate into English, ... .

If there is no such beast, I would contemplate writing one myself, 
*IF* someone can point me to some really good character recognition
code in C, Pascal, or Ada. I think I can handle the code necessary
to pick out the characters and feed them to the recogniser, but I
generally avoid doing AI (I just don't have the right kind of
personality) so I don't want to do the actual recogniser itself.
If I actually do write this thing I would of course make it avaliable
as shareware or freeware.

I don't have e-mail or ftp access ( :( ) so you'll have to post your
response.

Douglas Surber			My employer doesn't listen to my 
Lockheed			opinions, why should you?
Houston, Texas
From: DOBENSON@ua1vm.ua.edu (Joe Demon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: where is init to run truetype with system 6.0.7???
Date: 4 Sep 92 15:31:41 GMT
Organization: The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

In article <12187@cis.rand.org>
hanser@rand.org (Lawrence M. Hanser) writes:
 
>Can someone please tell me where I can find the init that allows Truetype
>fonts to work with system 6?
 
  I picked up the init about 9 months ago at Sumex (sumex-aim.stanford.edu).
Don't know if it's still there, though. To tell you the truth, I used
Fontmonger to convert all of my Trutypes to Type 1s, because the Truetype
kerning was so skewed.
  ATM is the only way for me.
 
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From: darkwing@waffle.sns.com (Darkwing)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Programs
Date: 26 Aug 92 21:52:33 GMT
Organization: Systems'n'Software, Fremont, CA  94539-6669

I only see comp.binaries.mac... where are all the programs I heard about?

Steve

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: rkmossm@pbhyb.PacBell.COM (Richard Mossman)
Subject: Re: Personal Organisers??
Reply-To: rkmossm@PacBell.COM (Richard Mossman)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 22:45:40 GMT


I am assuming the ThoughtPattern demo you are referring to is in one of the
directories on Compu$erve. If that is true, which one?

-- 
Richard K. Mossman  {att,bellcore,sun,ames,decwrl}!pacbell!rkmossm
510/823-0974
=========================================================================
"I need to put some distance between overkill and me!" -- E. John (1988)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: smills@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (MuffinHead)
Subject: Re: Word 5.0 file corrupted : help
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 19:48:43 GMT

knguyen@emr1.emr.ca (Kim Nguyen) writes:

>Hi experts out there,
>My friend brings me a corrupted and strange file from Microsoft Word 5.0. I can
>open the whole file, but cannot save it with a notice about file corruption. I
>try to save only in text that file; the percentage at the bottom left corner
>stops at around 56% and, bingo !, I've got the above notice. Frustrated, I open
>again the file and copy the whole file and paste on a new file; the process goeson and stops at 56% of the file.
>Honestly, I never imagine that there is a kind of file corruption like this. I
>often confront with file corruption caused by hardware on floppy disk.
>Shed the light for me, please
>Thanks 

   Hmmmm, try searching for ASCII values lower than 10. Try ASCII 4 first.
That's "End of Tape". There could be a strange combination of characters
that Word interprets as "end of file".
   Try scrolling to around 56% and look for strange chars. Cut the text
between 50% and 60% and Paste it into a new file. Keep doing this until
you can narrow it down to a few chars, then just retype that small section.
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