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From: anderj2@rs6415.ecs.rpi.edu (Jason Anderson)
Subject: Question about Laser Optics
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:42:51 GMT


Hello,

I was asked about a program called "Laser Optics".  I have never heard of it.
Does anyone out there no anything about this program?  A brief description
of what it does would help me before I go to try to help him.  He claims that
since he upgraded to Sys 7, it does not work any more.  He said that the
program says that it is Sys 7 compatiable.  

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Email me at anderj2@rpi.edu if you
wish.

Thanks,

Jason
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From: kby@cco.caltech.edu (Kimo B. Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: MaxApplZoom
Date: 25 Jan 1993 05:57:21 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: alumni.caltech.edu
Summary: Anyone have a problem even though MAZ loads?
Keywords: MAZ, MaxAppleZoom

Has anyone had the problem that MAZ loads and appears to be happy, but when it
tries to run it does horrible things to the video (looks like non-integral
multiples of screen size in horizontal/diagonal stripes)?  I've tried with or
without the recharger (at this point w/o works better as with gives an
insufficient memory message) in 32 or 24 bit mode with or without other
extensions (including VM).  Running the old Apple 8-bit card on a IIfx.
	Response by email preferred.-kby

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: purcell@hera.astr.ua.edu (Guy B. Purcell)
Subject: Re: how do I make bitmap fonts from outline fonts with fontographer?
Organization: The University of Alabama
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 20:10:23 GMT


Get BitFont from sumex-aim & you won't need Fontographer.

Guy (purcell@hera.astr.ua.edu)

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Richard J. Gaylord <gaylord@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: creating bootable 7.1 disks for Norton Emergency & Sam Decontam. (instrctions))
X-Xxdate: Fri, 22 Jan 93 02:11:02 GMT
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Organization: University of Illinois
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 08:10:37 GMT
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A785083624019B15@mm-mac21.mse.uiuc.edu>

Norton faxed me the instructions for creating bootable 7.i disks for
Norton Utilities Emergeny disk and for the Sam 3.5 decontam. disk.

they said i could post thedirections on the net but the instructions are
5 pageslong and i lack the tme or typing skills to do this. ifsomeone is
willing to type the instructions up and post them , i can send them a fax
of the instructions.

please only respond if you are willing to do the typing. i will only faX
the instructions to one person.

-richard-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: johnston@me.udel.edu (Bill Johnston)
Subject: Re: Daystar Woes -- Help!  PowerCentral Control Panel Crashes!
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 04:55:11 GMT

In article <timmbake.727752179@mcl> writes:

[ mail bounced to timmbake ... this may not be of general interest ]

>	Hi -- I just installed the 50MHz PowerCache *without* FPU into my MacIIx
>(w/ FPU).  I'm running 7.0.1* w/ 20Meg RAM.
>
>	Now, the only Daystar software I have is PowerCentral 1.3 control panel
>that I downloaded from sumex.  I don't have PowerMath.  Is not having this
>causing my Mac to crash when I open the PowerCentral 1.3 control panel?

The PowerCentral cdev has PowerMath built in.  There is no stand-alone
PowerMath cdev that I know of.  

I'm running a 50 MHz PowerCache with FPU on a 20 meg IIx.  The control
panel does crash when opened under A/UX, but it should work fine with
MacOS.  If that is your problem, just install the cdev in your 
MacPartition sys folder, and configure it properly before launching
A/UX.  If the cache is enabled when A/UX is launched, it will stay
enabled when it is running.

If PowerCentral is crashing under MacOS, call Daystar.  That shouldn't
happen.  I don't know whether PowerMath will work without an on-board
FPU;  what it does is to pass SANE traps to the FPU -- I'm not sure
if it will work with the 16 MHz FPU on the motherboard.
-- 
-- Bill Johnston (johnston@me.udel.edu)
-- 38 Chambers Street; Newark, DE 19711; (302)368-1949
From: willa@vcd.hp.com (----- Will Allen -----)
Subject: Re: Photoshop filters
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 16:44:28 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard VCD
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Ralph:

Make sure your new filters are in the same folder as your preferences file.
It's usually named 'PS Prefs'.

--

 . .Will

Will Allen
HP Vancouver Division
willa@vcd.hp.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: jdunning@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (John Alan Dunning)
Subject: Re: Photoshop: "Save" does the same thing as "Save As..."?!?!?!?
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:46:23 GMT

In article <1993Jan20.084645.19698@uwasa.fi> te@uwasa.fi (Tuomas Eerola) writes:
>In article <1993Jan19.144343.28940@Princeton.EDU> jdunning@picasso.Princeton.EDU (John Alan Dunning) writes:
>>"Save" and "Save As..." function as they should when you're working
>>with Photoshop-format files.  But if you open a TIFF file, say, then 
>>make a change to it, and select "Save", it asks you for the file name
>>again.  Also, if you import an EPS file and save the imported version
>>to another name, the original version stays open, rather than that
>>window receiving the new name.
>>
>>Having to type in the name every time I want to save is a real pain,
>>especially since some of the formats, like TIFF, make you go through
>>seconday dialog boxes when you do "Save As...".
>>
>>Am I doing something wrong or is this Photoshop's fault?  I'm running
>>v.2.0.1 on a Quadra 700 with System 7.0.1.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>John
>
>All programs behave like that! At least those text-prosessing programs I know.
>If you import something with non-native format it treats it as a new document.
>If you save something with some other format it does not change name.
>Try it with something else than photoshop!
>
>Tuomas

Yes, if you import a non-native format with a word processor you usually
end up with an untitled document.  And that makes a certain amount of
sense, because you may have lost some information in the translation and
the word processor probably can't save documents in that non-native format.

But the situation is different with Photoshop, because TIFF, GIF, Targa, etc.
are all standard file formats readable and saveable by any decent image
processor.  If word processors worked like that, you'd get an untitled 
window if you opened a plain TEXT-type document.

The only time it would be reasonable for Photoshop to open a new 
document would be when importing an EPS file.  You're losing information
since you're taking the bitmapped screen representation and throwing
out the PostScript commands.  But in this case Photoshop gives you a 
window with the same name as the EPS file.  And if you Save or Save As...
from this file and change the name, the window name changes to the new
name only if you saved as a Photoshop file.

This is very weird, idiosyncratic, counter-intuitive and just plain bad
behavior in an otherwise exceptionally well-written program.  Hopefully
it will be fixed in v.2.5 as some have suggested here.

John
From: bmyers@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Billy Myers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Floppy cataloger
Date: 29 Jan 1993 02:23:52 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Distribution: world
Reply-To: bmyers@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Billy Myers)
NNTP-Posting-Host: doc.cc.utexas.edu
Originator: bmyers@doc.cc.utexas.edu

Doe anyone have any recomendations on a floppy disk cataloger?
I used to use Disk Ranger in the long ago misty past, but that
one fell by the way.  

I downloaded DiskLibrarian from Sumex, but I can't get it to 
print lables, a must for this type of program.  Loodle lables
just fine, but the disk database is clumsy at best.

Anyone have a program that they love?

Thanks,

Billy


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: urban@yoda.fsl.noaa.gov (Art Urban)
Subject: Re: Word 5.1, Envelopes, and DeskWriter C-- Help!
Organization: Forecast Systems Lab, NOAA, Boulder CO, USA
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 22:15:06 GMT

In article <2399@sousa.tay.dec.com> long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Rich Long) writes:
%
%In article <1993Jan18.144426.4401@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>, trocklin@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (Tom Rocklin) writes...
%>When I use Word 5.1's envelope command and print to my DeskWriter C
%>(version 2.0 drivers-- is this current?) the left portion of my return address
%>is cut off.
%
% I have the same problem.
%
% I could find no mention of this in the manuals, either. My solution is to put
% a couple of spaces in front of each line of the return address. Since it is
% entered only once, this is relatively painless. 
%Richard C. Long		                  | long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com

I suspect this has to do with the Deskwriter's 1/2" margin in which it 
cannot print on the top and sides. You might also try adjusting the margins
when printing envelopes; perhaps even create a new style sheet for this...


-- 
Art Urban 					        urban@yoda.fsl.noaa.gov
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From: isler@gradient.cis.upenn.edu (Sylvia Isler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: DVIM72-MAC Problems -- merging PICTS with .dvi files
Date: 21 Jan 93 16:26:08 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania


I am using OzTeX and DVIM72-MAC.  I've tried unsuccessfully to merge
PICT files into my latex documents.  When using OzTeX, the merge is
successful. That is, the PICT file is merged correctly.

However DVIM72-MAC does not merge the PICT at all. I have the PICT
file in the same directory as my dvi file and the command I use
to merge the files is: \special{pict=<filename>.pict}

If anyone can give me some clues as to what the problem might be,
please do.

Thanks,
Sylvia Isler
isler@gradient.cis.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Ian Catlin <catlin@iosg.enet.dec.com>
Subject: Re: Stuffit Query
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A7859744CF0160EB@wonky.reo.dec.com>
X-Xxdate: Fri, 22 Jan 93 12:21:24 GMT
Organization: digital
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d13
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 12:22:56 GMT

Re: Stuffit Query

In article <wondertr.727642725@sfu.ca> wondertree learning center,
wondertr@fraser.sfu.ca writes:
>using System 7.1 on a IIvx with only the Apple CD-rom drivers loaded 
>In addition to SpaceSaver (I narrowed it down to this combination)
>I found that if you change the label color of items on the hard drive
>and there is a CD in the CD drive the CD ejects... neat eh?

This is the same behaviour as when I compressed on a floppy using labels
(ejects after compression).  The next time I changed a lebel the floppy
ejected - slightly annoying, but not as much as the CD problem you have...

Ian.

All my views are my own and not those of my company, wife, friends,
relations and dog.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: yefchak@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com (George Yefchak)
Subject: Re: Chemical structure word processor
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 23:54:16 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Palo Alto,CA
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]

I've seen two packages, ChemIntosh and ChemDraw (I think I have
the names right.)  Of these, I thought ChemIntosh was by far
the better.  I don't remember the company that makes it, though.
(So much for the giant poster they give away at conferences...)
It's somewhat slow, even on a 68030-based Mac, but I remember
we did run it successfully on a Mac Plus once, so it should be
OK on a Classic.  (This was back in my grad-school days, a couple
of years ago.)

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: heidi@moe.coe.uga.edu (Heidi Thompson Ed. Psyc.)
Subject: Re: how do I make bitmap fonts from outline fonts with fontographer?
Organization: University of Georgia Economics Department
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 16:15:50 GMT

I want to know, too.


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.system
From: dan@Name:    hpnmdp (Dan Pleasant)
Subject: Re: FastBack or Retrospect?
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 16:53:00 GMT
Organization: HP Sonoma County (SRSD/MWTD/MID)
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8.2]

Chris Ellens (ellens@bnr.ca) wrote:
>In article <mp-250193121237@134.111.45.21>, mp@az.stratus.com (Mike Peters)
>wrote:
>> 
>> I'm purchasing an Archive 2150S tape drive (DC6150/6250) to use on my IIci
>> (MacOS and A/UX).
>> 
>> I would like to hear about experiences using FastBack and Retrospect backup
>> software so I can decide which one to buy (the tape drive I'm looking at
>> does not include software).
>> 
>> TIA,
>> 
>> Mike

>I have Fastback, some of my colleagues have Retrospect. I think I lost out.
>Fastback may be (marginally) faster, but Retrospect has a better interface
>(from what I've seen). What really bothers me about Fastback is that I
>can't restore a file to a volume with a different name than the one it was
>backed up from. Retrospect apparently handles this with it's
>archive/retrieve function.

>Chris Ellens         ellens@bnr.ca

Don't be ridiculous.  OF COURSE you can restore a file to a different
drive with Fastback.  If you're going to slam something in public,
at least get your facts straight first.

Dan Pleasant
[Wrote large parts of Fastback]
From: tro@sunrise.uucp (Tom Olin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Personal Press vs Publish It Easy
Date: 25 Jan 93 14:29:46 GMT
Reply-To: tro@partech.com
Organization: PAR Technology Corporation
In-reply-to: pflinn@matt.ksu.ksu.edu's message of 22 Jan 93 15:49:46 GMT

In article <1jp52qINNjqt@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> pflinn@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Paul W
Flinn) writes:

   I want to buy software to do flyers, short manuals and newsletters.
   I have been using word 5.1, but I don't like the way it handles large
   tiff and eps files.  Would a low end dtp product like personal press
   or publish it easy handle what I want to do, or do I need to use
   Something like Pagemaker or QuarkXPress?  On the low end, which is
   better personal press or publish it easy? Are there others I should
   consider?  Thanks in advance for any advice.

I have Personal Press 2.0, but it's not in front of me right now, so I can't
answer all of your questions.  However, I can warn you that it does have bugs,
some of which are rather serious.  On at least 2 occasions, it actually lost
pieces of my document.  I have since learned to be *very* careful with it.  I
make frequent backup copies of my document, just in case.  And I no longer type
ahead while doing any file I/O, because I was doing that one of the times it
lost stuff.  I don't remember about the other time(s).

It has other less serious but still annoying bugs.  Its screen updates are
often sloppy and/or incomplete.  Character, line, and paragraph formatting are
flaky and often unpredictable, although persistence on my part has always been
able to overcome the problem.

Personal Press is a nicely featured program, and it does about everything that
a low-end publisher needs.  I just wish that Aldus had finished debugging it
before they shipped it.  If I had to buy another package, I would take a close
look at any alternatives.
--
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 PAR Technology Corporation * 220 Seneca Turnpike * New Hartford NY 13413-1191
From: tgpt_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Tom Guptill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: MacWeek
Date: 21 Jan 93 16:08:19 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York



	In case this hasn't been posted, MacWEEK offers free 'professional'
subscriptions.  I just filled one out myself.  The require all sorts of
information, and I'm sure they sell your address to every shady operator
that wants it, but it is *free*.  The cards generally appear somewhere in
the magazine.  
				Tom
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Subject: Re: What's the deal with Macintalk?
Originator: torrie@Xenon.Stanford.EDU
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
Date: 28 Jan 93 07:55:22 GMT

jbg@sdc.boeing.com (James Glidewell) writes:

>P.S. There are long-standing rumors of an Apple "son-of-Macintalk" with
>greatly improved pronunciation, etc. It has been shown at developer's
>conferences. 

  Also in public forums.  I saw Kai-Fu Lee give a demo of the
Galatea text-to-speech technology at Xerox Parc late last year.

>For some reason, Apple appears to be sitting on this technology.

  They showed it last May at the developer conference, and I'd been
hearing rumours about an imminent release for a year or so before
that.  I suspect that they may be waiting either for Casper to become
a reality, so they can market them together, or else they're waiting
for the DSP-equipped Macs to emerge since they will probably require
significant rewrites of any sound code (such as a TTS product).

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: ivab015@chpc.utexas.edu (Albert Wu)
Subject: Any Substitute for SendPS ?
Organization: The University of Texas System - CHPC
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 21:03:57 GMT

Hi, friends.  Adobe used to give out an application called SendPS to be
used for sending PS files to printers.  Apparently, when invoked, SendPS
always searches for a printer named Laserwriter, and it does not
recognize anything named otherwise.  I wonder if there is a new version
that works with networked Laserwriters with arbitrary names, or if
there are other shareware or freeware that do the job.

Thanks for your help.
From: dlutz@uoft02.utoledo.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Looking for multiple-scrapbook utility
Date: 26 Jan 93 11:38:38 EST
Organization: University of Toledo, Computer Services

I'm looking for a utility that will allow one to access multiple
scrapbook files - probably some sort of desk accessory. The number and
size of images I have in the current scrapbook has become unwieldy; it
would be more convenient if I could break the images up into several
separate scrapbooks that could be accessed when needed. Please send any
replies to:

David B. Lutz
dlutz@uoft02.utoledo.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: hpoppe@ncar.ucar.edu (Herb Poppe)
Subject: Re: Where can I buy Logo for Macintosh?
Organization: National Center for Atmospheric Research
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:31:43 GMT

In article <24712@alice.att.com> apdoo@alice.att.com (Alan Weiss) writes:

> My son uses a Mac in school, and has one at home (as do I and also my 
wife).
> He recently asked me to get him "Logo", which is (I think) a programming
> language. Does anybody know where to get this? MacWarehouse, 
MacConnection,
> and others I called don't seem to have it. By the way, none of us is an
> educator, so we can't use some of the sources that most of the rest of 
you
> can to get stuff cheap.

Logo for the Mac is available from Paradigm Software. I believe they have 
two versions available: one is Object Logo and the other is an 
inexpensive, stripped down version intended for the education market. You 
buy directly from them. Unfortunately, I don't have a phone number or 
address for Paradigm.

Herb Poppe                 National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
hpoppe@ncar.ucar.edu       1850 Table Mesa Dr.
(303) 497-1296             Boulder, CO  80303
From: brownc@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Christopher C. Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: TimesTwo vs SpaceSaver et al?
Date: 27 Jan 93 17:42:40 GMT



colin@callisto.pas.rochester.edu (Colin Roald) writes:


>Does anyone have any opinions of TimesTwo, and any comparative 
>experience with, say, SpaceSaver? My hard drives are starting to 
>run low on space (which means I ought to get ruthless with the 
>crap...), but I figure I might as well look into software
>solutions.

>So, how's the reliability of these suckers?  I really hate crashes...
>I'm running a IIsi--is speed a concern?  Would an fpu help any? 
>What are the compression ratios like?  Would I do just as well to
>use compact pro (which i've already paid for) on the stuff I never 
>use, but don't really want to get rid of?

I've used Times Two for two months now, and haven't had any crashes.
The advert says that it doesn't compress data, but increases disk size.
Of course, this is complete bo***cks. It just doesnt *look* like anything
is compressed. It also *looks* like the compression ratio is 2::1, according
to the disk size in the finder.

HOWEVER:
The compression ratio is probably at best 1.5:1. Any gifs, quicktime movies
and archives will worsen this ratio. It has no "intelligence" about file
type (since it's a driver) so compresses everything (compared to autodoubler,
which doesn't attempt to compress gifs (i think)).

SPEED:
Using version 1.0, my hard disk speed (with speedometer) went from 1.3 (before)
to 0.6 (after). Note that 1 is the classic speed. That's on a 50Mhz '030
(IIcx w/daystar) CPU speed will affect this - the cpu is doing the compression.
I would think a IIsi would manage (on my drive) about 0.4 or 0.5.

SIZE:
I mentioned before that after installing times two fools the finder into
thinking that the disk has doubled, but that the compression ratio is only
1.5:1. Why this inconsistency?

When you install times two, it will create an invisible file which makes up
any of the space which it can't compress. So on my 105MB quantum, it looks
like I have 198MB, but there is also a whopping invisible file taking up
space.

Also, I just put something on my disk the other day, bringing the total used
to 130MB (out of 198, apparently) and times two brought up a dialog saying
there was only 3MB free!!!! and not to put anything else on the disk.

I updated at this point to the 1.01 driver (my space used increased to 150MB
immediately) and it hasn't said this again.

INCOMPATIBILITIES:
Two of my friends used times two and had drive crashes. Tech support helped, 
but they couldn't recover data. Previous to this they had had numerous 
drive full messages etc. Also they were running on LC's so it was murderously
slow. They re-formatted (with apple driver) and reinstalled from backup
(lucky they had it).

My drive hasn't crashed (yet??) but i'm keeping it backed up in case.

- Chris