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From: jahnke@biosci.arizona.edu (Jerome Jahnke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: SPA piracy raid at Oregon?
Date: 27 Jul 92 20:10:23 GMT
Organization: Biology Learning Center

In article <1992Jul25.093643.20412@newstand.syr.edu>, ksalper@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Ken Alper) writes:
> 
> 
>   Well, Jon, I guess Jer is right and we're all wrong...don't you remember

Ummmmmm who is *WE* whiteman? It looks to me that there is an even balance.
Tell me how the market will support it's self if everyone gave copies away?
Do you think Bill got billions of dollars by giving software away? He may be
mad when he does not sell software, but just like individual rights, if you
do not protect them you will one day find them gone.

Jer,
----
Jerome Jahnke
Biology Learning Center
University of Arizona
'jahnke@biosci.arizona.edu' or +1 (602) 621-3820
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Subject: Re: Stallman & lawyers (was Re: SPA piracy raid at Oregon?)
Originator: d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 13:16:36 GMT

> jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) writes:

   How "creative" are you to take what someone else has done (spending
   millions of dollars in R&D), add a bell or a whistle, and sell
   zillions of copies?

Well, there is cloning, and there is independent re-creation.

Basic concepts, things trivial to a skilled practitioner of
the art, and algorithms should NEVER be protected. Like:

The spreadsheet metaphor, the click-and-type metaphor, the
XOR cursor, ...

Implementations of algorithms may be patentable, but if I
sit down, think about how to do something, and then do it
(sithout disassembling anyone else's code) there should be
ZIP chance of me infringing on someone elses patent.

-- 
      Jon W{tte, Svartmangatan 18, S-111 29 Stockholm, Sweden
                  h+@nada.kth.se    +46-10-141652

              My cat usually runs around on the roof.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Mathematica question
From: guelzow@brandonu.ca
Date: 30 Jul 92 10:30:14 CST
Organization: Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada

In article <whitmore.712441064@pv343f.vincent.iastate.edu>, 
whitmore@iastate.edu (Kurt D Whitmore) writes:
> In <3954@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> macman+@pitt.edu (Dennis H Lippert) writes:
>>A friend of mine is looking into buying a Mac to do general word-processing
>>and such, but she'll also have to run Mathematica.
> 
>>So, the questions are:
>>(3) how much memory is necessary?
> 
> Don't try getting by with virtual memory Mma runs real slow.
> 8 megs is the absolute min with system 7 (the current shipping software)
> This will give you about 6 megs to allocate to mma, but no other programs can
> be run in the back ground. Dont quote me but I believe the si has a meg
> soldered on the motherboard so when you get eight 1 meg simms you actually
> have 9 megs of RAM, that would be ideal.
Yes, with 8 1Meg Simms and 1Meg soldered in you would have 9Meg, but that's not
quite ideal: since you don't have them in you Mac IIsi ;-)
The IIsi has only 4 simm slots, i.e. you need 4 2Meg or 4 4Meg Simms.
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Guelzow@BrandonU.Ca
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From: echong@dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu (Edwin Chong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Finder Commands CDEV 1.0.1; help needed
Summary: Finder Commands CDEV 1.0.1, help
Keywords: finder commands, help
Date: 23 Jul 92 21:32:34 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

Is anyone out there familiar with the cdev "Finder Commands"? (it's
shareware, available in umich). It's supposed to install personal
command keys for items in the Finder menus.

Problem is, I can't get it to work properly.
If I double click it, no dialog box pops up. But it does install
some command keys. I just can't change the key settings.
BTW, the version is 1.0.1.

The author is Bob Stuller (I think), but the doc file doesn't have his
e-mail (nor does it have much else).

Any help would be appreciated.

Ed Chong
echong@ecn.purdue.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D.)
Subject: Re: Macintosh Pascal Upgrade?
Keywords: Symantec, bugs, Pascal
Reply-To: aland@cs.brandeis.edu
Organization: As little as possible
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 18:30:51 GMT

lari@strauss.cs.unc.edu (Humayun Lari) writes:

>In article <1992Jul21.223725.622@massey.ac.nz> P.Etheridge@massey.ac.nz writes:
>>For some time we have been trying to find out SYMANTEC's official policy
>>regarding Macintosh Pascal.  The NZ agents for SYMANTEC have been unable to
>>obtain any definite information either.  We are currently running version 3.02,
>>having obtained a patch, which adressed some bugs, but by no means all (see
>>below).

>>In case you didn't know, there are a couple of serious bugs in Macintosh
>>Pascal:

>>* Printing text > 1 page in length causes LaserWriters to hang

>A year or so ago, I wrote a program for printing source files written in a
>Pascal-like language, with THINK Pascal-inspired headers and boldfaced
>keywords. (The language is being used at UNC, and its Macintosh implementation
>printed files *incredibly* slowly.)

>I don't know if it would help, but it shouldn't be terribly hard to modify the
>program to recognize Pascal instead, so you could use it for printing purposes.
>Of course, if you meant plain text rather than source, that would be easy.

The only problem with this might be that Think Pascal source text is
tokenized; the file does not just contain ASCII text.  Think Pascal
4.0 comes with a desk accessory text editor which expands the
tokenized text into normal ASCII.

	-=Alan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick)
Subject: Re: MacX and MacTCP
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 05:05:27 GMT

johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Erik A. Johnson) writes:

>Where does the MacTCP tool allocate memory to do the domain name resolving?
>Is it in the program's memory, or in the system heap?

MacTCP (not the MacTCP Tool) allocates memory for DNR lookups in the
application heap and, from time to time, does not properly dispose of
that memory. I have seen this happen in Eudora and Fetch from time to
time. I believe it is a bug in MacTCP.

pr
--
Pete Resnick             (...so what is a mojo, and why would one be rising?)
Graduate assistant - Philosophy Department, Gregory Hall, UIUC
System manager - Cognitive Science Group, Beckman Institute, UIUC
Internet: resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: pmfisher@milton.u.washington.edu (Patrick Fisher)
Subject: Is there a way to repair MFS disks?
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 00:10:11 GMT

	The subject header says it all.  My copy of the old flight
simulator has become corrupted and I have no way to repair it (so
far as I know.)

	Thanks, pat

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: david@bourbon.ee.tulane.edu (David Kaufmann)
Subject: Quicken Help
Organization: E.E. Dept., Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 14:52:42 GMT
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-402]: bourbon


I'm having some difficulty getting Quicken to accept categories after
a change in definition. Please e-mail if you know the program and can
  
help. I'll send some details. Thanks.

David Kaufmann
INTERNET:	david@bourbon.ee.tulane.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: zaphod@bluemoon.rn.com (Peter Bierman)
Subject: Re: More Disk Space
Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 22:08:33 EDT

d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) writes:

> "On a Clear Disk you can Seek Forever"
> 
> That about sums it up.
> 
> It has no de-installation capability, installs into the System file,
> and I have made copies (that should have been auto-expanded) to
> backup cartridges, only to see at the destination that they
> HADN'T been auto-expanded (MDS was definately told not to compress
> the opto !)
> 
> Buy a larger disk.
> 

Well, the review that just came out in MW was that that copying files 
compressed was a feature. I guess you just have to run the decompressor on 
the MO after copying compressed files to it.

BTW, if you don't like it, maybe you want to sell it (dirt cheap; I can't 
afford it, let alone a new HD!)


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outragous to post here.

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From: lac@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Les Carr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Fill-in-the-blanks documents in Pagemaker 4.0?
Date: 21 Jul 92 11:59:47 GMT

I've recently had to produce a little training manual
where the students have to fill in missing words. To
show where the missing words are, the actual text is replaced
by a ruled line---you've all seen the kind of thing.

I've been trying to work out the best way to do this in PageMaker
(or anything, really!) since to paste in actual lines in the text
is both very difficult (ie it takes a lot of mouse movements) and is
tricky to edit when changes have to be made. My preferred solution
would have been to type the missing words (in a suitably big font to
leave the correct amount of space) and to have the letters in "reverse"
but with underlining on!

The best method I hit on is to use a special font (eg AvantGarde 130% set
width) and to alter the Aldus Prep file so that the PostScript driver
draws a line every time text in this font is used. I know its a kludge,
but it lets me keep an editable text, which seems quite important.

There must be a better way---or better software. Any pointers:
I've another two volumes of this thing to produce!
-- 
L.Carr@ecs.soton.ac.uk               Les Carr
Tel: +44 703 593649                  Dept of Electronics and Computer Science
Fax: +44 703 593045                  University of Southampton SO9 5NH England
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: shaase@microsoft.com (Stephen Haase)
Subject: Re: Two questions about colour
Date: 22 Jul 92 18:24:06 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <3974@news.duke.edu> jwang@phy.duke.edu (James Wang) writes:
>
>
>A-1 >>	Yes, GIFConverter (latest vers 2.1.10) will do that.  Although you will
>	have to set the color startup screen option in the preferences the first
>	time you use it.
>
>A-2 >> 	DeskPict is a shareware program that will do just what you need.
>	However, I have a problem with the way it does it.  Namely you need a
>	file named "DeskPicture" with a PICT resource #0 containing the picture.
>	I liked the way BackDrop (a similar program that only handled B&W) did
>	everything >> a folder called screens containing the plain pictures, any
>	name you want individually, dynamic switching of backdrops (no restart),
>	random rotation of files, etc.

I missed the original post, but the above reply sounded something along the
way of what I wanted to know.  Basically I'm trying to get some color 
background pictures but I'm having problems with color conflicts.  I've 
rendered a number of pictures that I want to use but when I try to use them
as a deskpicture(using Now Utilities Deskpicture) I get a screwed up palette 
resulting in a bad image.  If I force it to use the color table from the 
picture, then the system palette gets hosed and everything BUT the picture
has screwed up colors.  I'm running an 8 bit IIcx and most of the pictures
I'm trying to use are using <256 colors, so if the colors could be remapped
so as to leave room for the standard system palette then I'll be in business.
Gifconverter 2.1.10 (mentioned above) doesn't  do this, at least not well
enough for my pictures. If anyone knows of an app that can do this, please
MAIL me with your response as I don't always get a chance to keep up with 
the newsgroups. Thanks!

steve
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: karches@utdallas.edu (Tom Karches)
Subject: Re: questions about powerBook - default Keyboard
Organization: Univ. of Texas at Dallas
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 18:27:30 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.200237.10263@utdallas.edu> karches@utdallas.edu (Tom Karches) writes:
>In article <92210.105047GFX@psuvm.psu.edu> <GFX@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>>Hi!
>>
>>1) My PB has a French keyboard layout, but I prefer to use the
>>   US system. How can I set the default keybord to French, while
>>   retaining the US date? I'm quite familiar with ResEdit but
>>   couldn't figure which resource tells which keyboard is default.
>>   (Note - the International CP won't do because it changes sorting
>>   order and dates as well)
>>
>>2) If there an extension that would allow to change the dates
>>   resource on-the-fly? I prefer to keep US date in general because
>>   my datebook stack uses this layout to navigate, and I write close
>>   to 50% of memos in English anyway.
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Stephane
>>
>>
>>
>>
>WriteNow comes with a Date CDEV that allows the default date format to be
>altered. I'm not sure if you can get the CDEV without buying a copy
>of WriteNow. You may want to call T/Maker (MacConnection can probably
>give you the number.)
>
>I don't know if it will work with a French System configuration.
>
>Regards,
>Tom Karches
>

I checked my copy of the Date CDEV and T/Maker classifies it as freeware
that should be freely distributed. Mail me and I will send you a copy.

Tom Karches
karches@utdallas.edu
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---------------------'----------------------------------- Richard Nixon
From: cory@enigami.mv.com (Cory Kempf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: SPA piracy raid at Oregon?
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 18:10:41 EST
Organization: EnigamI, Inc., Nashua, NH
Reply-To: cory@enigami.mv.com
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.5v5


In article <D88-JWA.92Jul23004334@dront.nada.kth.se> (comp.sys.mac.apps), d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) writes:

>Which brings us to an interesting point:

>Why is new software created ? Why is the software industry still one
>of the more viable and prosperous industries there is ? Piracy has
>been going on in scale for AT LEAST 15 years.

Because the ratio of honest people (or at least people who cannot
wait for a pirated copy, or don't know someone who has a copy of the
application that they need, or who need the manuals, tech support, etc)
to crooks is still sufficient to allow the software developers to
make a profit.

Additionally, there is still a *LOT* of software that needs to be
developed still.  Newer, faster machines are comming out, and have
been for the past 15 years.  The newer systems often offer capabilities
that were not possible with the other systems, or are incompatable
with them, etc.  Thus, we have a rather bad backlog of products that
need to be developed.  For each of these products, there are enough
people who are willing to pay for the product to make it worth while
to develop it.  If there are not, the product DIES, not future version,
no support, nothing.

Have you ever pirated a product that was killed?  How about a product
of a company that went under?  Or left the market?

Additionally (as our pirates are so eager to point out), after the
initial investment in development has been made, the per unit cost
to reproduce is very small.  The product can be repositioned and repriced
based on the market, with MUCH better range than hardware can.  The
chances of being able to recover the initial investment are fairly
good.

+C


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Cory Kempf                    EnigamI, Inc.
cory@enigami.mv.com           ...!decvax!enigami!cory
Annon:	wi.5036@wizvax.methuen.ma.us

"F' cryin' out loud, it's *your* life; shouldn't you at least examine 
your lifestyle values to see if they are really what *you* want."
										--Keith Lim
From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Word vs. Repeating Fields in Filemaker PRO
Date: 24 Jul 92 14:03:51 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

kantor@nd.edu (Jeffrey C. Kantor) writes:

>What I would like to do is a Mail Merge using Microsoft Word 5.0. Using
>the Merge export option in Filemaker fails, however, because it
>gives records with a varying number of fields. The repeating fields
>are separated by some odd ball character, not by the comma that
>separates ordinary fields. But this is still enough to make word barf.

    Do you actually need to export the keywords in the repeating field
for a mail merge? That odd-ball character you talk about is the vertical
tab (vt) character, and that is what FM Pro uses to separate repeating
fields.

>Is there any simple way to do mail merge with  a file from Filemaker
>that has repeating fields?

    Well, if you really need the values of the repeating field in the
mail merge what you can do is a find/replace of the vt character in the
data file with a comma before you merge. This will at least make the
format consistent.


--
			"Seems awfully breezy in here." - Drip-along Daffy
-Hades (Brian V. Hughes, Moderator: Rec.Arts.Comics.Info)
From: piper@rsvl.unisys.com (Piper Keairnes )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Need 'On Cue'-like program
Date: 28 Jul 92 17:57:13 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: rsvl.unisys

In <36189@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> al@jeeves.ucsd.edu (Andy Lee) writes:

>I have been using On Cue to launch applications from the menu
>bar, but seem to be having an init conflict with some of my
>other indispensible cdevs/inits.  Does anyone know of something
>similiar that I could use and also where I might find it?

Apollo 0.6b1 - available at sumex-aim.stanford.edu I think.
MultiMaster - part of Now Utilities.

Apollo probably has fewer features than On Cue. MultiMaster probably has
more. I've never used On Cue so I can't be sure. I like the MultiMaster
interface... it's very handy.

-- 
      Piper Keairnes      *   piper@rsvl.unisys.com     *  Purdue  University
    Unisys Corporation    * uunet!rsvl.unisys.com!piper *   Computing Center
 Site Management Products *   ar4@sage.cc.purdue.edu    *      Consultant
From: Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: SPA piracy raid at Oregon?
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 18:05:37 EST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:226/20.18 - cmhGate UF Gateway, Columbus OH

dms50304@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Darkman) writes:

>jahnke@biosci.arizona.edu (Jerome Jahnke) writes:
>
>>would fall back on our laurels. The Communist creed of "from
>>each according to his ability, to each according to his
>>need" does not work, the fall of mother Russia should make
>>that clear to you.
>
>Off the subject, but Russia wasn't a "true" communist
>country.  It was there own version of it.

yeah, but you should _expect_ Jerome to mouth off when he doesn't know what
he's talking about.  It's his credo.

--Adam--
 
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From: rfisel@informix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Musical OCR ???
Date: 29 Jul 92 23:51:44 GMT
Reply-To: rfisel@informix.com
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.

In article <22912@oasys.dt.navy.mil> gotimer@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Gene Gotimer)  
writes:
> >In article <7709@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> linley@ada.seas.ucla.edu (Bruce Linley)  
> >writes:
> >> Does anyone know if there exists an OCR program that can read sheet music
> >> and save it in a format readable by Finale???
> 
> 
> rfisel@informix.com wrote:
> >--I don't think there is one, but there's not much reason there couldn't be  
> >(provided you're reading printed music, not handwritten). Finale et. al. use  
> >music fonts for notes, repeat signs, etc. OCR would have to be enlightened  
that  
> 
> You may want to try OmniPage Pro.  It has an excellent training feature
> for teaching the OCR software what a particular symbol means.  It
> should be able to learn to read sheet music.
> 
> 
This is interesting, but I'll bet it's not enough for two reasons.
1. Input: it's not just the note that's important, but also it's location on  
the staff (vertically). It's also tricky to imagine the OCR being smart enough  
to know that an eighth note A on a staff is the same as the font key, which is  
an eighth against a white background. And how would you read a "p" beneath a  
sequence of notes - as a modifier or a separate "note" in Times instead of  
Sonata font?

2. Output: Finale doesn't read ascii, and translation to MIDI standard files,  
say, is not at all straightforward. Finale does a reasonably good job of  
matching notes plus tempo and volume notation to MIDI, but it would be tricky  
to get it read in at the right time.

It's still an interesting idea. Anyone have this OCR program and want to try it  
out?

Rick
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P.S. Sorry for the prior copy-only post. That's what I get for using NeXT  
NewsGrazer.

Rick Fisel 
opinionated employee of opinionless
Informix Software
I prefer replies by email.
From: lhp@daimi.aau.dk (Lasse Hiller|e Petersen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: NCSA/BYU Telnet 2.5: Problem with keyboard
Date: 16 Jul 92 02:48:17 GMT
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark

diessel@informatik.unibw-muenchen.de (Thomas Diessel) writes:

>I can`t set NCSA/BYU Telnet 2.5 to use my German keyboard layout.
>The mentioned KHCR switch doesn`t seem to work.
>Is there anybody who succeeded using a foreign keyboard layout with
>Telnet 2.5?

I was wondering whether others had the same problem, and then I saw your
post. Well, then I peeked into Telnet 2.5 with ResEdit.

I managed to get a satisfactory behaviour by opening the System file,
copying the correct KCHR resource (There are three in a danish system:
US, Dansk, and Dansk Mac Plus Beige, I chose the Dansk one. I don't know
which would be right for german systems.)

Telnet has a KCHR resource, which it seems to insist using. (I didn't
actually check this thoroughly, though. Perhaps when it is supposed to
use the system KCHR, it always uses the US one. Just as bad.)

This KCHR has ID=12000 and name 'US-CTRL/OPTION'
It is locked and not purgeable.
I simply pasted the KCHR from the System file, and renamed and renumbered
it to match exactly. (I'm not sure how much of this was actually necessary.)

Works as a charm! Except the dead keys for accents don't work. But they
are not as vital as / and @.
(And what do you expect at 4:20 in the morning? Miracles?)

Now this can only be a temporary solution, but a solution nevertheless.
(It is f**king annoying to type & when you mean /!)
Viel glueck!

Let's hope the NCSA folks (hey, you're doing a great job!) will get this
fixed soon. And perhaps change the icons to conform to Inside Mac Vol. VI
standard. The mac on the Telnet Set icon is really awful.
-- 
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Department of Information & Media Science  ! /*<  the afternoon, there lived
Aarhus University, DENMARK                 !/* *\ a wise&benevolent&wonderful
(I _am_ a student, but not at DAIMI)       ! L L  wizard who wore a big hat...
From: matti@my.sm.luth.se (Matti Larborn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: printer driver for Epson & Mac ?????
Date: 30 Jul 92 08:20:18 GMT
Organization: Lule} University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1

In article <1992Jul29.195318.17396@newshub.sdsu.edu> donny cherf,
cherf@serg writes:
>Hi
>
>Does anyone know where (or if one is even available) to get a printer
>driver for use with an Epson printer on a Macintosh?
>
>Thanks a lot.    dcj

I have once seen one for RX80 and FX80, but I don't know where you can
buy it.
I hope this will encourage you to search more.

--Matti L., Sweden

Elm: matti@my.sm.luth.se
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps