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From: whir@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Rick Allard)
Subject: Re: Conway's "Life" for the Mac
Organization: nil
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 00:36:51 GMT

In article <5131@news.duke.edu> jfw@neuro.duke.edu (John F. Whitehead)
writes:
>Does anyone have a version of "Life" for the Mac (the program inspired
>by John Conway)?

Yes, take your favorite macro utility and make one generation: View by
Icon, Clean Up Window, View by Small Icon, Clean Up Window.  Repeat as
necessary.



-- 
      W  e     a  r  e     i  n     o  p  e  n     c  i  r  c  u  i  t  s
The signal, where the message is sent, plays equally important role as
the signal, where message is not sent [sic].  --Nam June Paik quoting
Norbert Wiener as a pre-echo to McLuhan.          temp .sig; new in works
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
Subject: Re: MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 16:49:39 GMT
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

In <92252.141443ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET> Michael Bode writes:

>No it doesn`t and yes it does. The name of the diskette is not A: it is a name
>of up to 11 characters that is almost never used. At least I don`t know anyone
>who gives names to his floppies (except mac users exchanging disks with PC`s).

I don't see what exchanging disks with PCs has to do with naming disks.
Maybe you think Mac users are just doing this to annoy you.  I name all
my floppies *except* the ones I exchange with PCs.  It makes it easier
to know what's on them.  I bet most other Mac users do the same thing, 
even if they never exchange disks with PCs at all. 

You see, the Macintosh is smart enough that it actually knows what 
floppy disk is in the drive at any given time.  On the PC, if you're
saving your work on a certain disk, then remove that disk to do some 
other task, and forget to change disks back before you save your work
again, you may end up saving your latest version on the wrong disk
without ever knowing it.  Several days later, when you insert the disk
you *thought* you'd saved it on, you find that your latest work just
isn't there.  That won't happen on the Mac because you can see the name
of the disk you're saving it to.


>A: is the name of the DRIVE and that can be changed to almost everything. 

Almost anything?  Well, in English, there are lots of things that you
can't fit into 11 characters.  Like "Price Carl Wayne's floppy."  And I
know for damn sure that there are lots of things in German that you
can't fit into 11 characters.  And those 11 characters can't include
spaces, mixed cases, or punctation marks like in this example.  At least,
not in DOS or MS Windows.  Maybe this is different in OS2, but even if it
is, I'll bet that those DOS and Windows programs you're running under OS2
will go ballistic if you type in file name like "Michael Bode's New File".


>Just ALT-click on the disk icon title and type something you like. That 
>only works in WPS but in a command line window nobody would like to use 
>a drive name like "Price Carl Wayne`s floppy"

So, if WPS is great, why do you need a command-line window?  For that
matter, if WPS is so great (and intuitive), why don't you call it by 
a real name, instead of yet another TLA (three-letter acronym)? 

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.system
From: davecole@cie.uoregon.edu.uoregon.edu (Dave Cole)
Subject: Re: Uncompressing .hqx, and related questions!
Organization: University of Oregon Network Services
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 16:02:12 GMT

  I believe that STUFFIT-LITE will do all of the uncompressing you will
need.  It does TAR, BINHEX, etc.
Dave
From: ddev@src.umd.edu (Don DeVoe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: PowerBook 140 price?
Date: 12 Sep 92 15:17:04 GMT
Organization: Systems Research Center (ISR/SRC)


	We all know what the PB100's are going for these days, but how about
the PB140?  Is this (discontinued) model widely available?  At what price?

-- 
Don DeVoe
ddev@src.umd.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: RJONES1@ua1vm.ua.edu (Bart Jones)
Subject: Re: Mac educational discount prices
Organization: The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 17:06:47 GMT

In article <1992Sep10.134533.24672@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov>
robichau@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov (Paul Robichaux) writes:
>The IIsi 5/80 is $1570 at the University of Alabama/Huntsville and $1580 at
>the Georgia Tech bookstore.
 
   The II SI 5/80 is $1479 at Alabama and comes with The American Heritage Dict
, Roget's Thesaurus, Correct Grammar, Random House Encyclopedia, Resume Writer,
and Calendar Creator.   : )
-Bart Jones -- rjones1@ua1vm.ua.edu
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.misc:16366 comp.unix.misc:3631
From: pollard@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu (Tom Pollard)
Subject: Re: How good is AutoDoubler?
Organization: Center for Biomolecular Simulation
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 05:45:22 GMT

Eric.Choi@p5.f57.n7000.z8.ieee.org (Eric Choi) writes:
>
(Somebody else wrote:)
>  sa> Yeah!  I think Autodoubler's pretty cool too! Only thing is, I
>  sa> recently bought another hard drive, and now I have space to spare.  So
>  sa> I decided I could do without Autodoubler (until I fill the new HD up
>  sa> :-) ).  Unfortunately there is no easy way of weaning my old hard
>  sa> drive off of Autodoubler.  If I remove AD from my system, I have a
>  sa> hard drive full of Disk Doubler files.  Looks like I'll have to
>  sa> uncompress each and every file one at a time...If I really want to
>  sa> bother.
>
>Just set AutoDoubler to "do not compress". Eventually all the files will be
>expanded back to normal size. That's how Aladdins suggest people like I to do
>as we switch back to SpaceSaver and Stuffit Deluxe 3.0.
>

The ADExpand Utility that you received with AutoDoubler will decompress your
files directly.  You can decompress things file-by-file, or by folders; I think
under system 7 you can specify that the entire disk be decompressed in one
shot.  I was pretty sure that you could do this with Aladdin's product also,
but maybe not...

Tom


-- 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: ray@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Jeff Ray)
Subject: open 'About...' at startup?
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Organization: NASA (Dryden)/Woodside Summit
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 17:05:40 GMT


Some time ago someone posted (and I'm not even sure to which group) a
little app
that used AppleEvents to open the "About This Macintosh..." box, then quit.
 The intent was to drop it into the Startup Items folder, so the box would
open at startup.

Unfortunately, I neglected to grab it when it was available, expecting it
to
show up at Sumex later.  No such luck.  Could someone please email it to
me?
I'd be ever so thankful.

Jeff Ray <ray@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov>
Woodside/NASA Dryden
Irritant-at-Large
From: jeremyr@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Jeremy Roussak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: INIT for picking system?? Wanted!!
Date: 13 Sep 92 19:05:58 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London

In <unruley.716333223@mcl> unruley@mcl.ucsb.edu (Kriss Boyce) writes:

>I am looking for an INIT that allows you to pick which system file to use
>at startu...ie.from 6.0.7 or 7.0.whatever....what I am trying to do is
>avoid [artitioning my hard drive. If you know where I can FTP one or can
>buy one, PLEASE let me know if it even exists.

I think that by the time an INIT is run at startup, it's too
late to change systems. However, there are a few programs which
let you "bless" a new system folder, so the next startup will
be from that folder. I find the most useful to be System
Picker, a small application. I forget where I found it:
probably sumex. It's by Kevin Aitken, of Apple.

As an aside, if you're planning to run systems 6 and 7 on the
same disk (and it seems perfectly safe to me, despite what
others have said in the past), I strongly recommend you install
a copy of the Desktop Manager INIT in your system 6 system
folder. This prevents the need for system 7 to rebuild your
desktop after you've run system 6.

Jeremy
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: slothrop@cheshire.oxy.edu (Roger Lebow)
Subject: Re: looking for scroll bar INIT
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA.
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 06:05:47 GMT

I believe that you're speaking of SFScrollInit. Don't know just where you'd
find the little puppy, though...
From: nick@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: PowerBook 160: availability, price, etc.
Date: 10 Sep 92 11:28:12 GMT
	<NICK.92Sep9132228@vaila.ed.ac.uk>
	<1992Sep10.092513.27647@sun.pcl.ac.uk>
Organization: Naff Green Shorts Dance Co.
In-reply-to: marcus@sun.pcl.ac.uk's message of 10 Sep 92 09:25:13 GMT

In article <1992Sep10.092513.27647@sun.pcl.ac.uk> marcus@sun.pcl.ac.uk (Marcus Harvey) writes:

   Just being curious - how much did Customs sting you for?

Duty on computers is 4.9%. VAT is 17.5%. For some reason I've never tracked
down, both are charged on the item cost plus shipping.

UPS 2nd-day air from Chicago was around $90. So, for a $600 PB100, I make
that around the $850 mark, or L430 total. That's well under half the Apple
UK price (L1100-L1200 inc. VAT?).

Nick.
--
  Nick Rothwell, LFCS, Edinburgh | "Say, how many contemporary dancers are
               nick@dcs.ed.ac.uk |     there in this bar?"
CASSIEL Contemporary Music/Dance | "Dunno; count the Dr. Martens and
     cassiel@cix.compulink.co.uk |     divide by two..."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: Stuart Cheshire <cheshire@cs.stanford.edu>
Subject: Apple 13inch colour monitor
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A6D9534F2F010010@bolo.stanford.edu>
X-Xxdate: Sun, 13 Sep 92 04:21:35 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d10
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 03:21:40 GMT

I have a 13 inch Apple colour monitor, and the case is much deeper than I
had expected it to be, so when I put it on my desk, with it pushed all the
way back against the wall as far as it will go, the screen is still closer
to my face than I would like it to be. I don't have room to move the desk
a long way back from the wall to make space behind it.

To make matters worse, the plug on the end of the Apple monitor cable is
large, and the cable is quite stiff, so that forces the monitor to be
another three inches closer. That might not sound like much, but with the
monitor almost against your nose, those three unnecessary inches are very
irritating.

Other people with limited space must have got annoyed with this too. Does
anyone know where I can buy a right-angle monitor connector, so that the
cable hangs down, flat against the case, instead of sticking straight out?

What I think Apple should have done is to design the case more like
a conventional television set, so that it is shorter, and the back,
instead of being flat, has a blister to accomodate the neck of the tube: 

             ------------
            |            |
            |              \
            |                \
            |                /
            |              /
            |            |
            |            |===
            |            |   |
             ------------    |

There is now room for the monitor cable to plug in below the blister and
hang down naturally, without contributing unnecessary extra length to the
length that is actually required by the physical dimensions of the tube.

The dimensions of the Trinitron tube are not under Apple's control,
but their designers could at least try not to make it any worse.

Stuart Cheshire <cheshire@cs.stanford.edu>
 * Liliore Green Rains Houses Resident Computer Coordinator
 * Stanford Distributed Systems Group Research Assistant
 * Macintosh Programmer
From: ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Seaman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Quadra 950 compatibility fun and games
Date: 15 Sep 92 18:40:29 GMT
Organization: Purdue University

In article <1992Sep15.130211.4834@syma.sussex.ac.uk>  
paulr@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Paul Russell) writes:
> Is there anyone who has recently upgraded to a Quadra (in particular a  
950)
> and would like to compare notes ? So far I've had problems with:
> 
>   TMON Pro (waiting for a response from ICOM tech support)
>   Excel 3.0 (freezes when opening or saving files)
>   Nisus 3.06 (I believe there's an upgrade for 040 machines)

Excel 3.0 should work if you disable caching (use the control panel called  
Cache Switch, or something like that). There are two upgrade paths that  
will avoid the difficulty: Excel 4.0 (costs money), or Excel 3.0a (free if  
you have 3.0). I think 3.0a is the correct version number, but you can  
just call Microsoft and ask about Quadra compatibility for Excel.

Microsoft Word 4.0 has similar problems, but Word 5.0 is  
Quadra-compatible.

FoxBASE+/MAC is not 32-bit clean and will not run if loaded in high memory  
above 16MB. There was a patch posted to the net to fix this (let me know  
if you need a copy).

--
Dave Seaman
ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu
From: jfw@neuro.duke.edu (John F. Whitehead)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Conway's "Life" for the Mac
Date: 4 Sep 92 21:38:53 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

Does anyone have a version of "Life" for the Mac (the program inspired
by John Conway)?  I can't find any in the usual ftp locations.

Thanks!

-- 
 ________________________________________________________________________
|   John      jfw@neuro.duke.edu          Duke University Medical Center |
| Whitehead   jfw@well.sf.ca.us           Department of Neurobiology     |
|________________________________________ Durham, North Carolina ________|
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: R.Singh@massey.ac.nz (R. Singh)
Subject: Writing a book in electronic format
Organization: Massey University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 23:00:54 GMT

What's the best way to write a book in electronic format? I need text,
graphics and "hot" text, that is clicking on it takes you further detailed
explanation. Hypercard does seem to be the obvious choice but I wondered if
there is another application designed for this sort of thing. However
references to Hypercard stacks I could use as a stating point would be
excellent. 


Raminder Singh
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Subject: Re: Printers cost too much!
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 92 22:02:04 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park

In article <92252.143953ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET> ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET writes:
>In article <1992Sep07.163625.14865@eng.umd.edu>, russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew
>T. Russotto) says:
>>are comparing Apples to Crabapples.  There's lots of non-PS SCSI
>>printers out there for less than $1500, including the Apple Personal
>>Laserwriter LS.
>
>Does that mean there is a possibility to connect a Laserwriter LS to the SCSI
>port ?  Will that increase printing speed opposed to connecting it to the
>printer port ?

I was under the impression the the LW LS (like the LaserWriter SC it
took the place of) WAS a SCSI printer.  Sorry for the misinformation.
-- 
Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
Some news readers expect "Disclaimer:" here.
Just say NO to police searches and seizures.  Make them use force.
(not responsible for bodily harm resulting from following above advice)
From: ebail@ctp.com (Erik Bailey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Ularn or Larn for a Macintosh.
Date: 14 Sep 92 17:10:33 GMT
Organization: Cambridge Technology Partners

In article <rsvanc00.716071265@mik.uky.edu> rsvanc00@mik.uky.edu (Randolph S. Vance) writes:
>That's my question. Does anyone know if such a Mac application
>/game exists? :)

Oh, boy, would I ever love that! As a fan of the game from the day it was
first posted to the net (and an addict for years of the PC version much
later), a Mac version (even just a straight character-based port) would be
great!! --Erik

-- 
Erik Bailey   | Cambridge Technology Partners      | Usual disclaimer
              | 304 Vassar St., Cambridge MA 02139 | applies: this post is
ebail@ctp.com | (617) 374-8418                     | mine, not my employer's
	/earth is 98% full; please remove any excess inhabitants.
From: ntc@doc.ic.ac.uk (N T Cheung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: System memory useage under system 7
Date: 7 Sep 92 14:12:35 GMT
Organization: Department of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
NNTP-Posting-Host: oak2.doc.ic.ac.uk

>In article <1992Sep1.004906.5000@sierra.com>
>tbiggs@sierra.com (Todd Biggs) writes:
> 
>>Why under system 7 on a MAC with 17MB of memory does the system take up
>>12 MB of space when the system that is there should only use 3 MB at most ?
>>

You are probably operating in 24 bit mode.  You have to operate in 32bit mode
to access memory above 8mb.
Open the memory control panel, change your setting to 32bit mode, then restart.

You should have access to all 17mb.

Good luck,

Tseung
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Macintosh LC and NCSA Telnet probs
From: Rick Jansen <SSCPRICK@HASARA11.BITNET>
Date: Friday, 11 Sep 1992 14:27:21 CET
Organization: SARA - Stichting Academisch Rekencentrum Amsterdam

We have a number of Mac LC's here, and I have a problem
getting NCSA Telnet and tn3270 to work. I have found
MacTCP, but haven't got that to work either.
 
Does anyone reading this have a working Telnet connection
with Mac LC through LocalTalk and Gatorbox?
 
Thanks in advance,
-Rick Jansen
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Friday, 4 Sep 1992 20:38:29 MST
From: <ICBAL@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject:    Russian Keyboard?

I am looking for a US source for a Mac Russian keyboard. A friend has
just arrived from Russia and wants to use the Mac to write letters
to send home, but cannot "touch-type", so using the Mac with only
the English keyboard is rather difficult (even though I have obtained
the Russian System).  Any help out there in locating a source for a
hardware Mac Russian keyboard?

Bruce Long
Department of Mathematics
Arizona State University
icbal@asuvm.inre.asu.edu
From: gisie@wam.umd.edu (Satan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: WinScenario SF 171 (Filemaker PRO Template)
Date: 14 Sep 92 13:05:18 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park

Just a small note to all of those who dl'd the SF 171
template that was posted under the comp.binaries.mac
newsgroup a few weeks ago...

	If you have any questions, either write to me
	at this address or call M-F, 8am - 5pm EST.

	If you do call or write, ask for Tim Demarest
	or Joe Michela.  The former is preferred but
	Joe can answer questions if I am not here.

	Any bugs, comments or other - email is preferred
	but you can call or write by snailmail if you
	don't have email access....

Thanks,
	Tim D.

HJ Ford Associates Inc.
(703) 553-5580
-- 
gisie@wam.umd.edu
"Beat me, whip me, make me feel small..." :)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: ljd@world.std.com (Larry Davidson)
Subject: Re: Paradigm Software: phone #?
Keywords: MacUser magazine, robot
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 14:01:36 GMT

In article <qmdbms.716348668@gsusgi1.gsu.edu> qmdbms@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (Brian Schott) writes:
>On page 243 of October 1992 MacUser the phone number for Paradigm Software's
>Pearl Controller is given as 617-576-7680.  When I dial the number I get
>a modem sound.  Does anyone know how to contact this company?

That's their fax number.(MacUser got it wrong. Sigh.) Voice is -7675.

-- 
Larry Davidson                        
Learning Strategies            
955 Massachusetts Ave Suite 182        Internet: ljd@world.std.com
Cambridge MA 02139                     (617) 825-4684
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: eriks@lin.foa.se (Erik Svensson FOA2)
Subject: Nisus e-mail address ?
Organization: FOA, Linkoping, Sweden
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 08:33:48 GMT

The subject line says it all.
--
Erik Svensson			Research Officer
Guided Weapons Division		National Defense Research Establishment (FOA)
Stockholm			Sweden

net.address: 	eriks@fenix.lin.foa.se

"I've got LOT's of common sense. I just choose to ignore it." -- Calvin
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: scasterg@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Stuart M Castergine)
Subject: Re: good vi editor for the mac
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 06:28:25 GMT


Jeeez, did anybody ever actually try to answer the guy's question? I
couldn't tell through all the holy editor wars.

The only vi implementation for the Mac that I know of is Stevie. I
believe it is available at the sumex archives.

Other possible choices are BBEdit, Alpha (my preference), and a couple
microemacs clones. All these are available for anonymous ftp at
sumex-aim.stanford.edu.

Other than my little parenthetical above, I won't make any judgments
on the quality of any of the choices. I think we've had quite enough
of that.

-- 
scasterg@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu -- Stuart M. Castergine
Fiver: "Oh, Hazel, look! The field! It's covered with blood!"
Hazel: "Don't be silly, it's only the light of the sunset." -- Watership Down
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.misc:16455 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:12585 comp.sys.amiga:260
From: disk@lakes.trenton.sc.us (Diskraker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Atari Falcons $799...
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 03:37:58 EDT
Reply-To: disk@lakes.trenton.sc.us
Organization: The Veronica Lake Fan Club

mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) writes:

> James.Hampton@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
> > In article <7i5iqB22w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) writes
> > > The ST Book does actually exist.  I've seen it for sale.  It just suffers
> > > from the unfortunate problem of costing twice as much as a Powerbook 100 
> > > for a machine with 1MB of RAM, 20MB hard disk and no floppy drive.  It lo
> > > ugly too.
> > 

Excuse me, but hasn't this thread gone on long enough in 
"COMP.SYS.AMIGA?"  If you simply MUST cross-post things, PLEASE make them 
relevent to the newsgroup you're putting them.  I'd doubt the majority of 
the Amiga users care if the Macs and Falcons could have sex with you and 
make you coffee in the morning...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc