HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: walsteyn@fys.ruu.nl (Fred Walsteijn)
Subject: Re: NCSA DataScope Difficulties
Organization: Physics Department, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 09:03:27 GMT

In <1993Jan26.220936.11035@Arco.COM> jrowney@arco.com writes:

>I am attempting to use NCSA DataScope 2.0.2.  When I select the About... item
>in the Apple menu (to get at the Help), a blank dialog with two buttons is
>drawn and the Mac freezes.  If I am lucky I can get into Macsbug and do an
>'es'.  If I am unlucky, I must restart.

>Has anyone else seen this problem?  What is/was the solution?

Yes, I've encountered that bug too.
I've reported it to NCSA twice, but I think they don't work
on DataScope any more because the new program NCSA Collage has most 
of NCSA Image's and NCSA DataScope and PalEdit's options.
What's missing is DataScope's Notebook :-(((.
My ``solutions'' are: 
- use an older version of DataScope (if you want the aboutbox/helpinfo),
- don't select the About menuitem (ha-ha),
- use SpyGlass Transform (commercial software),
- use NCSA Collage (if you don't need the Notebook),
- complain to NCSA and ask them to update DataScope (I would
  like to keep on using DataScope because it's compact/fast/nice/...).

>MaAc ][fx, 7.0.1+tuneup, 20mb RAM, lots of inits.

The bug occurs on ``all'' Macs.
Good luck,
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Pamela G. Gades <pam@cab.mrs.umn.edu>
Subject: AppleShare Version 3.0.1--What's New?
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A78473158001082A@pam.mrs.umn.edu>
X-Xxdate: Thu, 21 Jan 93 15:34:45 GMT
Organization: University of Minnesota, Morris
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:31:14 GMT

We just finished upgrading our macintosh file servers to AppleShare 3.0
and today I received upgrade notices for AppleShare 3.0.1.  Can anyone
tell me what is new in AppleShare 3.0.1?  Is it an important upgrade?

Pam Gades, User Services Specialist
University of Minnesota, Morris
Computing Services
pam@caa.mrs.umn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Sean McMains <mcmains@unt.edu>
Subject: Re: Quadra 950 and MIDI ?
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A78D561D81020222@seanmac.nms.unt.edu>
X-Xxdate: Thu, 28 Jan 93 15: 21:33 GMT
Organization: University of North Texas
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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:21:39 GMT

In article <a-kraus-250193151005@pesa.physics.uiuc.edu> Albert L. Kraus,
a-kraus@uiuc.edu writes:
>I have problems getting my Qudra 950 and MIDI to work.
>I would like to know if somebody has a similar setup running? 

One thing you might want to try is adjusting the setting on one of the
control
panels that deals with the serial port, whose name I don't remember
offhand --
probably "Serial Switch" or something clever. I believe some MIDI
equipment
has difficulty communicating with the serial port at the higher speeds a
950
is capable of, and this control panel adjusts the speed, thus resolving
the
problem. It is part of System 7 and should be on your intaller disks, if
it
isn't currently in your control panels folder. Good luck!
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University of North Texas            | battle." -- GI Joe
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: leonardr@netcom.com (Leonard Rosenthol)
Subject: Re: Problems with SpaceSaver (vs. AutoDoubler)
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 07:29:05 GMT

In article <1k10gdINN5p@armory.centerline.com> chapman@centerline.com writes:

I sent a similar responce to Scott via AOL, but for the net as well...

>1) SS does not work well with CopyDoubler. 
>
	My understanding is that CD 1.0.1 should be much better behaved than
1.0 and may work better with SpaceSaver.  However, you may find that other
"finder speeder uppers" (SpeedyFinder7, CopyRIGHT, etc.) would also better
serve your purposes and some even support copying SS files in compressed form.

>2) "SpaceSaver Info..." from the SpaceSaver menu causes files compressed to 
>SpaceSaver to revert back to standard Stuffit Deluxe icons. 
>
	I have heard this report before but have not been able to verify it
ourselves.  I will, however, investigate it and you may also wish to check 
into the possibility of an extension conflict.
	
>3) No way to halt a timely operation. 
>
	That is because it would leave your files in an "inconsistant" state.
If you move a folder of "small" files into a "big" folder, those files should
definately be compressed - if you interrupted, then things could end up in
a BAD stat (ie. you copy a folder of compress files into the System folder,
and then interrupt the progress - WHAM - compressed files where they do not
belong).

>Suppose you move a large unlabeled folder
>out of a folder labeled "compress". You can get SS to skip some files, but you
>cannot get it to stop the uncompress operation. 
>I still do not understand why it is uncompressing the files anyway, 
>I did not move them to a folder labeled "uncompress"...
>
	No you did not move them into "uncompress", but you moved them out
of "compress" which is almost the same.  By moving them out of "compress" the
files no longer had any "attributes" that would designate them as being
compressed and as such they were expanded.

>4) I couldn't not figure out how SpaceSaver works with nested folders. 
>
	It's all pretty simple.  "BIG" (uncompress) always takes precidence
over small since that way you can not put compressed files into a "big"
folder (like the system folder).  

>5) No way (in idle-time compression) to compress files which have not been USED
>(as opposed to modified) in a given amount of time. It would be great to have 
>my infrequently used applications remain compressed, but the ones I do use on a
>day-to-day basis remain uncompressed.
>
	NONE of the compression software does this since the Macintosh OS does
not store this information - only the last modified date.  We could maintain
this info ourselves, but that would require a (possibly HUGE) file to be 
created to store that info and since we are trying to save space, putting
a large file on your disk wouldn'[t make much sense ;).

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: flowers@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Margot Flowers)
Subject: MacInTax update - $80 fax/modem offer
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm
Summary: any comments on fax/modem offered with MacInTax update?
Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 21:59:04 GMT

Has anyone tried the $80 fax/modem offered with the MacInTax upgrade?

I posted a query (included below) about this on comp.sys.mac.comm.
Since there are so many MacinTax upgraders on this group, perhaps
someone here can comment on the fax/modem hardware or software?  Is it
worth getting, or does it work as badly as MacinTax itself?  Followups
are directed to comp.sys.mac.comm, where I posted the original query.
Any & all information appreciated.  thanks, Margot

----------------------------------
Subject:  $80 fax/modem? (SmartOne 9624FX Mac, QuickLink; Macintax Offer)

I'd like to know if the $80 fax/modem offered with MacinTax upgrades
is worth it?  It is a Best Products SmartOne 9624FX for the Mac, with
QuickLink software (couldn't get them to tell me which version).  Does
anyone have any comments or experience with this hardware?  Suggestions
for preferable products in the same price range?
(Detailed specs at the end of this message).

Is QuickLink plus whatever else it has a reasonable software interface?
(they claim it can work with any other fax/modem software so are there
suggestions for alternative software I should obtain instead?).

If this has been discussed in the past, pointers to back messages or
FAQ appreciated.  Thanks for any info.
[Followups directed to comp.sys.mac.comm .]
-- Margot

Margot Flowers
Flowers@CS.UCLA.EDU
...!(uunet,rutgers,ucbvax,randvax)!cs.ucla.edu!flowers

from the literature:
Best Data Products 9648FX-Mac.  Class II
  2400/1200/300 bps
  9600/4800 bps send/receive & fallback
Data Compatibility:
  "AT" command set
  CCITT V.22bis, V.22, V.21
Fax Compatibility:
  Group III
  CCITT V.27ter
  CCITT V.29
Error Correction / Data Compression:
  CCITT V.42 error correction
  CCITT V.42bis data compression
  MNP 1-4 error correction
  MNP 5 data compression
Form Factors:  External stand-alone
Extended Features:
  Auto speed detect
  Suto detection of fax and data calls
  Time scheduled transmission
  Auto answer/auto dial
  Diagnostic self-tests
  Fax broadcasting
  Selectable font options
  Full background operation *semi-background operation
  LED indicator lights
Full 2 year warranty, free technical support, free software
list $249.00
From: russell@Apple.COM (Russell Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Temp memory in artWorks (was Re: Deneba offer for ArtWorks & Spelling Coach Pro)
Date: 27 Jan 93 17:31:08 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA

In my last post, I mentioned artWorks' use of temporary memory for
document storage as "against Apple guidelines". That was incorrect.
Use of temp memory for document storage is perfectly reasonable in
System 7, and (as I noted in my previous post), it has big advantages
when the document sizes can vary widely.

This use of MultiFinder temporary memory is not possible in System 6,
where such memory must be released between calls to WaitNextEvent.
-- 
Russell Williams
Not speaking for Apple Computer
From: erh0362@tesla.njit.edu (Elliotte Rusty Harold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Hey how about a new group for UTILITIES ???????
Date: 23 Jan 93 14:39:23 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology

In article <C19E6u.Bw9@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>, hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Brian Hughes) writes:
> wondertr@fraser.sfu.ca (wondertree learning center) writes:
> 
>>Hey I just thought that it might be a good idea to make a new NewsGroup
>>for Mac Utilities....
> 
>>We could call it comp.sys.mac.util
> 
>     Is there something new in the water, or what? Everytime I turn
> around someone is proposing a new newsgroup. While the addition of a
> newsgroup to talk about utilities would be helpful, I really don't see
> an efficient way to word a charter to distinguish it from c.s.m.apps.
> Isn't Microsoft Word a utility?

    The key difference is that Word is something you buy your Macintosh to run, 
a utility is something you buy to make your Macintosh run better.  Word is a 
production application.  MacTools or ATM are just things that help Word run 
better.  It's the difference between going to the grocery store in your 
car and going to the gas station.  If you didn't own a car you'd still go to 
the grocery store, just not as easily as with the car.  If you didn't have Word 
you'd still write, just not as easily.  Only the first kind of utility (i.e 
Word) belongs in comp.sys.mac.apps.  The second kind belongs in 
comp.sys.mac.misc.  This will be made more explicit in the next version of the 
FAQ.

Elliotte Rusty Harold		Department of Mathematics
elharo@shiva.njit.edu		New Jersey Institute of Technology
erh0362@tesla.njit.edu		Newark NJ 07102
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: jrg@punch (James R. Goble)
Subject: Re: MacWeek
Organization: The Aerospace Corporation; El Segundo, CA
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:13:36 GMT

In article <1057310.2B5C1312@cmhgate.fidonet.org>  
Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) writes:
> mwojcik@mail.sas.upenn.edu (Michael Wojcik) writes:
> 
> MW> I wouldn't shell out the $99.00/year. It's just not worth 
> MW> it.
> 
> well, look at your alternatives:  Macworld and MacUser magazines.
> 
> Those rags have gotten so bad with advertising that I've let my  
subscriptions
> lapse.  I'll try to pick them up in the library to read Steven Levy and  
Andy
> Ihnatko, but otherwise I'll let them go.
> 
> Last week I picked up my car magazines.  Car and Driver doesn't see the
> absolute need to stuff 5 catalogs full of ads into every issue, and  
neither
> does Road & Track.  And yet, the car is every bit as entrenched into our
> society--nay, more so--than the computer.
> 
> No, at $99/year, I think MacWEEK deserves a look-see.  True, it's for  
only 42
> issues (compared to 50 or so for its sister PCWeek).  But it's as full  
of
> information, if not fuller than, the two main monthlies, and without the
> tremendous amount of crap advertising.  Plus, the advertising that's in  
there
> is much more timely.
> 
> Does anyone remember MACazine?  That was my favorite.  I picked up a  
very old
> issue, and came across a tip that I never knew or remembered.  Thanks,  
Bob. 
> It was a good time...
> 
> Aloha,
> --Adam--
>  
> --  
> Adam Frix via cmhGate - Net 226 fido<=>uucp gateway Col, OH
> UUCP: ...!uunet.uu.net!towers!bluemoon!cmhgate!20.18!Adam.Frix
> INET: Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG

Adam,

I don't really find all the advertising in MacWorld and MacUser offensive.  
Advertising lets me know what new products are available.  It's those  
sorry *%& obsolete reviews that they keep passing off as information that  
really annoys me.  That MacUser directory of products that they sent out  
last month nearly sent me ballistic.  Some of those reviews were for  
programs that don't even run anymore. (Even under Sysem 6.0.7)
From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Brian Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Hey how about a new group for UTILITIES ???????
Keywords: New Group Utilities
Date: 22 Jan 93 14:13:42 GMT
Reply-To: hades@Dartmouth.Edu
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Disclaimer: Personally, I really don't care who you think I speak for.
Moderator: Rec.Arts.Comics.Info

wondertr@fraser.sfu.ca (wondertree learning center) writes:

>Hey I just thought that it might be a good idea to make a new NewsGroup
>for Mac Utilities....

>We could call it comp.sys.mac.util

    Is there something new in the water, or what? Everytime I turn
around someone is proposing a new newsgroup. While the addition of a
newsgroup to talk about utilities would be helpful, I really don't see
an efficient way to word a charter to distinguish it from c.s.m.apps.
Isn't Microsoft Word a utility?

--
-Brian V. Hughes 
"December 1 - What begins as a friendly transitional get-together between
 the Bushes and the Clintons ends in tragedy when Millie ralphs up what
 is later identified as Socks the cat." Dave Barry 1992 Year in Review
From: unique@mcl.ucsb.edu (The One And Only)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Word 5.1 vs Word 5.1a
Date: 22 Jan 93 22:12:16 GMT

One other caveat: the academic version has paperback manuals, while (as I
undersand it) the full version has hardback manuals. Not worth the extra $ in
my opinion...

unique@mcl.ucsb.edu



Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.apps:20710 comp.sys.mac.misc:22500 comp.text:1637 comp.infosystems.gopher:2120
From: ccoprmm@prism.gatech.EDU (Michael Mealling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.text,comp.infosystems.gopher
Subject: Mac to Text cleanup utilities (UNIX)
Keywords: text,mac,QuarkXpress
Date: 28 Jan 93 17:47:40 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology


    I was wondering if anyone had any UNIX utilities for cleaning up text.
fmt and col don't seem to be as robust as I need. The problem I'm having
is that Macs seem to think that when I export to ASCII TEXT that it can
go ahead and throw anything above 127 in there as well. This includes those
pretty-double-quotes and other formatting stuff.
    The files are coming from QuarkXpress, through Word and being exported
as Text. I've tried all of the different formats: PC Text, UNIX, etc and they
all have the same cruft in 'em.
    I can write it myself but I hate re-inventing the wheel

Any help would be greatly appreaciated!

(I don't usually keep up with these groups so please respond via mail)
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From: brecher@husc8.harvard.edu (Jonathan Brecher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: umich question
Date: 26 Jan 93 01:25:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc8.BRECHER.93Jan25172545
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services, Cambridge, MA
In-reply-to: bjag@nwu.edu's message of 25 Jan 93 18:23:25 GMT

bjag@nwu.edu (Bharathi Jagadeesh) writes:
>Am I right in believing that umich is no longer available for anonymous
>FTP? I've seen it through the wuarchive.wustl mirror, but it rejects my
>anonymous FTP. If it's only accessible through the mirror, are
>contributions still being accepted, and how do we send them?

Nope, you are not right.  mac.archive.umich.edu is alive and well, and 
expanding even.  We accept submissions in any of several ways:

1)  ftp to mac.archive.umich.edu and just put the submissions in our
    /mac/incoming directory.
2)  mail the submissions (binhexed, with explanatory header, please) to
    macgifts@mac.archive.umich.edu.  Anything sent to this address is 
    automatically forwarded to sumex.stanford.edu, comp.binaries.mac, 
    and a bunch of other sites.
3)  mail the submissions to submissions@mac.archive.umich.edu which is
    exactly the same as (2), but doesn't get forwarded.

Hope this helps...
					jonathan brecher
					brecher@husc.harvard.edu
					assistant mac.archivist
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: yahnke@macc.wisc.edu (Ross Yahnke)
Subject: FileGuard, MS-Word, & ImageWriters
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: University of Wisconsin Academic Computing Center
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 21:35:25 GMT

I'm working with someone using FileGuard on a Sys 7 Mac attached to
a serial ImageWriter. Of all the apps on the machine, MS-Word is a
troublemaker cuz it refuses to print to the ImageWriter in anything
but draft mode.

FileGuard has been used to lock the System Folder, so I assume maybe
either a) the ImageWriter driver is trying to write to itself, or
b) maybe some TrueType font code is writing to the System???

FileGuarded machines under Sys6 weren't a problem. Turning off FileGuard
makes the problem go away. Only MS-Word has this problem.

I know this isn't much to go on but does anyone have some clues?

- Ross
                                     Madison Academic Computing Center
                                               University of Wisconsin
                                                          608.262.8626
From: diessel@marthe.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de (Thomas Diessel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: MacX/System 7.1 problems
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Date: 27 Jan 1993 08:59:16 GMT
Organization: Federal Armed Forces University, Munich
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: macthomas.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de

In article <12740@cayman.COM>, chris@cayman.COM (Chris North) wrote:
> I upgraded to System 7.1 and MacX began crashing. I read some notes
> here about how I should upgrade to MacX 1.2. I did that and now my
> mac crashes every time I execute a command. Anyone else seen this?
> MacTCP 1.1.1, MacX 1.2, System 7.1.
I have seen MacTCP 1.1.1 on the CAYMAN FTP server on 12/24/92 in the XGator
2.0 demo package. I read in the news that it disappeared on 12/30/92. 
Yesterday Apple Germany told me that MacX 1.2 is now available.

Thomas Diessel
Federal Armed Forces University, Munich
Computer Science Department
Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39, W-8014 Neubiberg, Germany
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: liemandt@trilogy.com (Joe Liemandt)
Subject: Now UpToDate 2.0
Organization: Trilogy Development Group
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1993 02:53:30 GMT

We are about to upgrade a 50 person network with this.  How stable have people 
found it?  Should we wait for 2.01?

Thanks

Joe Liemandt
liemandt@trilogy.com
From: Bill Flowers <bill@seattleu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: MacTCP off a PowerBook 170 broken?
Date: 26 Jan 1993 01:57:31 GMT
Organization: Seattle University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: blake.seattleu.edu
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Subject: Re: MacTCP off a PowerBook 170 broken?
From: greg berryman, gpb@gpb-mac
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 15:14:33 GMT
In article <1993Jan20.151433.6817@newsgate.sps.mot.com> greg berryman,
gpb@gpb-mac writes:
>stanyermp@rcwusr.bp.com writes:
>: I am having problems getting MacTCP to work on my PowerBook 170. My
connection
>: to our network is via an Ethernet connection provided off an Asante
EN/SC
>: connected to my SCSI. I am using MacTCP Tool V1.2 in my extensions and
MacTCP
>: 1.1.1 control panel. The best message that I get is "The connection
came up
>: halfway and then failed" (off VersatermPRO).

I just went through this.  The answer turned out to be with the
Asante box.  It seems our distributor sent us boxes with a slightly
older ROM revision.  This caused problems with the PowerBooks.
The EN/SC worked fine with everything else we tried it on.  The
solution was to contact Asante for an RMA.  They've fixed the
problem on the current ROM.

Hope this helps.

Bill Flowers, TechnoGEEK*
Seattle University / bill@seattleu.edu
My words, my thoughts.
From: jmoulder@post.its.mcw.edu (John Moulder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Sigmaplot  - Sys7 tuneup conflict
Date: 28 Jan 1993 14:54:41 GMT
Organization: Medical College of Wisconsin
Distribution: world
Reply-To: jmoulder@post.its.mcw.edu (John Moulder)
NNTP-Posting-Host: moulder.radbio.mcw.edu
Keywords: sigmaplot

>> Some features of Statview (Jandel) will not run under System 
>> 7.0.1 unless the System 7 Tuner is removed from the system.  
>>
> Aren't you referring to SigmaPlot from Jandel? 

Arrrrgh, yes I meant SigmaPlot!!

Statview has a different (printing) problem that driving me 
crazy.

> What improvements has Jandel made to SigmaPlot over the last
> year? . . . Besides the fact that I managed to crash the
> program within two minutes, it was by far the slowest graphing 
> package I'd ever used.

Current version (4.14) is faster than the original, and can be 
speeded up by allocating it lots of memory, but its still slow 
(even on an accellerated IIci).  I use it because I can't find 
anything better to discontinuous, non-linear, curve fitting.

John Moulder (jmoulder@post.its.mcw.edu)      414-266-4672
Radiation Biology Group
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisc     
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc