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From: Paco Ojeda <ffoogg@macmailgw.dfci.harvard.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Searching For Fax Cover Sheet Printing Application
Date: 29 Dec 1992 20:53:45 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: macdrf_43.dfci.harvard.edu
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X-XXDate: Tue, 29 Dec 92 20:56:06 GMT

Greetings, netters. Just as there is a DA called "Easy Envelopes" with
which you can print envelopes by just typing the address, I'm looking for
an application that will print a fax cover sheet. 

I use TouchBase as an address book, and the program has a nifty feature
that prints cover sheets. There are times, however, in which I wish to
fax someone that I don't particularly wish to add to my address book
permanently. I could enter the data in the address book, print the fax
cover sheet, and then delete the entry, but I'm looking for something
more practical.

Does this even exist?

Many thanks,

Paco
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From: absmith@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Alfred Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Flowcharting For The MAC-THANKS
Date: 23 Dec 92 01:37:16 GMT
Reply-To: absmith@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Alfred Smith)
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

In comp.sys.mac.apps, absmith@oasys.dt.navy.mil I wrote::
>Can anyone recommend a Flowcharting Program for the MAC?
>(remainder deleted) PC and am looking

Thanks to those who took time to respond, I have narrowed
the decision to either MACFLOW 3.7 or TOPDOWN 3.0.  I contacted
each of the companies and each agreed to fax to me the
lastest information on their product. Each of them have also 
sent me a demo disk.  Armed with the "pros/cons" information
that I received from many of you, I will be in a position to make 
an informed evaluation.  Thank-you forro your responses.
From: Barry_Wolman@transarc.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: FileMaker Pro 2.0 Init Conflicts
Date: 28 Dec 92 09:54:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: transarc.UfDphSCSMUI31CMfQ5
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Barry_Wolman@transarc.com writes:
> I just installed FileMaker Pro 2.0 (v1 9/92) on my 8MB IIci running
> 6.0.7.  When I use my normal large complement of INITs, launching FM
> Pro 2.0 causes it to freeze during the initial splash screen.  When I
> cut back to a minimum set of INITs, FM Pro 2.0 launches and runs fine.
> Before I embark on a series of experiments where I turn off individual
> INITs and combination of INITs (I recommend a binary search), I thought
> I would check the Net.
> 
> Has anyone experienced INIT conflicts with FM Pro 2.0?  If so, what
> INIT(s) were the culprit(s)?
> 
> Please email, I'll summarize.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Barry


To answer my own question ... The hang during the splash screen was
due to the two Tempo II Plus INITs (a macro package).  Fortunately,
this was this first set of INITs I deactivated.  Without Tempo II, I
got past the splash screen, but then FM Pro hung when I tried to open
an existing FM II file.  Fortunately, the culprit here turned out to
be Swatch INIT (a heap monitor) that I only use occasionally.  With
both Tempo II and Swatch deactivated, FM Pro seems to run fine.

Barry
From: ngse18@castle.ed.ac.uk (J R Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Microsoft Installer ate my System
Date: 29 Dec 92 13:05:22 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Edinburgh University


	SetFlameTarget(Microsoft);
	theFlame = BeginFlame();

Why do Microsoft believe that because I've bought one of their software
items, they can do whatever they like to the system file on my hard disk? 
[No, buying up a third-rate jumble of assorted I/O routines and passing
them off to the world as an operating system is not adequate reason.]

So what have Microsoft done to annoy me?

Just before Christmas, my trusty Mac SE turned up a corrupt disk, and
despite getting it back on its feet, I decided to take the opportunity
to do a complete reformat and reinstall, getting rid of the three years'
worth of accumulated cruft just lying around and leaving me short of
space.  After four hours work, the last item to go on was MS Word 5.0.  
[Now here is a bloated monster if ever I saw one!]

After taking the better part of an hour's worth of disk shuffling and
decompaction, I get a message from Gatekeeper to say that MS Word
Installer is trying to screw around with the System file, and when I
restart, I find that all my network resources are irretrievably 
damaged!  Two hours' worth of repair attempts failed, and I had to
come back to a complete reinstall job this morning (which is why I've
got the time on my hands now, to be posting messages on Usenet).

I concede that MS put a notice at the start of the installation, saying
to remove Gatekeeper from the System Folder, but just what the ^&*( are
these guys and gals (note the political rectitude, even within a flame!)
doing, screwing around inside the System's network resources to install
a word processor [I was doing a customised installation of the basic
wordprocessing components -- none of their half-baked mail stuff] ??
I keep Gatekeeper on my system constantly, for the very good reason
that it has warded off virus attacks on several occasions.  I don't
have confidence that MS quality control is good enough to ensure that
they aren't planting a virus on me.  These folks can't even label the
disks in a sensible order -- I have to insert them in the order
2 - 1 - 5 - 6 - 3 - 4 !!  And why do I have to spend half an hour waiting
for these overgrown shibboleths to unpack themselves -- for the hundreds
of pounds this thing cost, they could surely afford the pennies to put
unpacked copies on a few more disks?  The offence is all the worse that
I've had to suffer it twice!

I used to consider myself fairly neutral towards the 'rubbish Microsoft'
campaigners, but after this round, I'm definitely joining them.

	ExtinguishFlame(theFlame);

Seriously, boys and girls, those giants of computing at Microsoft *mean*
it when they warn you to deinstall GateKeeper whilst installing their
products.  You can lose a lot more than an aborted installation.  I was
lucky, I was 100% backed up when it happened.

But don't forget to put Gatekeeper back when MS has done, and if you're
like me, you'll run Disinfectant across the disk immediately MS has had
its merry way with it!

Russ
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: bradcox@sitevax.gmu.edu (Dr. Brad Cox)
Subject: Re: FaxSTF questions
Organization: George Mason Pgm on Social and Organizational Learning
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 23:30:39 GMT

In article <1992Dec30.231103.12924@cs.cornell.edu> tedcrane@cs.cornell.edu (Ted Crane) writes:
>After some difficulty installing and using FaxSTF on a Mac IIx with a 
>SupraFAX v.32bis modem, I wonder if any glaring errors (or obvious suggestions)
>are elicited from the following problems:
>Advice?

Yes. Remove FaxMenu altogether. In fact, remove everything by this company you 
can possibly get by without. I'd remove the whole package and substitute 
well-written fax software, except I suspect there's no such thing.

You'll find if you ever get FaxMenu working, the problem then is you can't get
it to stop, so you're menu says 'Fax' even when the printer is selected.
-- 
--
    Brad Cox bradcox@sitevax.gmu.edu 703 993 1142 work 703 968 8229 home
         George Mason Program on Social and Organizational Learning
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: myllynen@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Olli-Pekka Myllynen)
Subject: Re: Communications Prog Text Speed Differences
Organization: University of Helsinki
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 11:01:03 GMT


About VersaTerm... Does it handle 8-bit characters (as the skandinavian
characters require) any better than Zterm, which seems to loose them all?

Thanks, Olli-Pekka
 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: pg@sanitas.stortek.com (Paul Gilmartin)
Subject: CPS Differential Backup
Summary: Central Point Differential Backup appears to change Backup Date
Keywords: central point differential backup date change
Organization: Storage Technology Corp.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 06:43:47 GMT

When I use Central Point Software Mac Tools 2.0 Backup, selecting method
"differential", the backup date of backed up files is changed (confirmed
by inspecting with CPS MT 2.0 Disk Edit).  According to the doc, this
shouldn't happen: the essential difference between Incremental and
Differential Backup is that the latter is supposed to "_not_ update the
backup dates ..." (emphasis sic in CPS RM).

Has anyone else any experience to confirm or refute this?  I've filed
bug report with CPS; I assume they'll get to it after the holidays.
From: siili@sumppu.fmi.fi (Tero Siili)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: PICT/EPSF/Freehand 3.0 problem
Keywords: PICT, EPS, Freehand, Spyglass Format, Spyglass Transform
Date: 3 Jan 93 13:41:48 GMT
Organization: Finnish Meteorological Institute


Help!

I working on a colour figure for an annual report and I am using Freehand 3.0
for the work.  I am importing images from three different sources: a colour
gif image converted to eps and imported to Freehand, a PICT plot from Igor
(B/W) and a colour raster image from Spyglass Format, imported using copy
& paste.

When I print this combination to Postscript laser printer, the eps image is
printed in colour, but the imported Spyglass Format image is printed as
greyscale, although it shows in colour on the screen.

I have tried to bring this Format image to Freehand with multiple methods:
1. copy in Format, paste to Freehand
2. save as PICT2 in Format, import/place in Freehand
3. copy canvas in Format, paste to Freehand

Only method 3 works properly, in method 2 the image does not even show up
in Freehand.

Does anyone out there have any ideas, how to get the Format image to print
in colour?  Is there some setting in the Freehand that I am omitting?
Is there perhaps a PICT2-> eps converter available someplace that I could
use, since the eps imported image prints just fine?

Please reply by e-mail, since I do not read this group regularly.

Tero Siili
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Geofysiikan osasto               Department of Geophysics
From: Eric.Choi@p5.f175.n2240.z1.ieee.org (Eric Choi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: What's Special about Super ATM?
Date: 3 Jan 93 03:05:03 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:2240/175.5 - The Associati, Grand Blanc MI

I just got my $49.00 SuperATM upgrade last week. I have not installed it but
the reasons I ordered it is the claim of creating a substituted font when you
open a file from someone who used a font that you don't have. Theoretically
SuperATM will try, say, re-create a serif font as closely as possible if the
file was done in a serif font.

The SuperATM package contains:

* SuperATM
* 2 multiple master typefaces for typeface substitution
* database of font metrics for the entire Adobe Type 1 library and selected
TrueType
* Latest version of Adobe Type Reunion
* Type On Call CD
* Font builder application
* manual
* 5 bonus typefaces

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 Eric Choi - Internet: Eric.Choi@p5.f175.n2240.z1.ieee.org
From: dl2p+@andrew.cmu.edu (Douglas Allen Luce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: File format for MS Word
Date: 28 Dec 92 07:07:03 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.wfDnEri00XQG1DhGB=
Organization: Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

We've recently had a rash of bad disks going around here.  Most of the
disks contain damaged Microsoft Word (4.0/5.0) files.  It appears that
some of the data is intact, but I usually cannot fully recover the
files.  Since people around these parts use lots of figures and
equations, merely getting the text back is usually not satisfactory.

I'm looking for a description of the MS Word format that I might
employ in detailed recovery analysis.  Just a document that explains
how the data fork is formatted, and some explanation of whatever
resources are used.

Any such thing out there?  I've not contacted Microsoft yet, having
traditionally had rotten luck getting them to even realize they sell
Macintosh software.

Along these same lines, I'm also seeking the format of Excel, Cricket
Graph, MacDraw, Cricket Draw, FrameMaker, MacWrite II, and PageMaker.

Thanks,

Doug Luce
Chemical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon
dl2p+@andrew.cmu.edu
412/268-6095
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: hameluck@mercury.cs.uregina.ca (Jeff Hameluck)
Subject: Trouble with True Type / Pagemaker 4.2 / LaserWriter IIg
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 01:15:06 GMT
Organization: University of Regina, SK, Canada


We have a bunch of networked Macintoshes and two people have been having
trouble printing TrueType fonts from PageMaker 4.2.  They each have their
own LaserWriter IIg (which you may or may not know, the IIg does NOT have
Zapf Dingbats in its ROM)  Anyway, both people have trouble when they 
print Zapf Dingbats.  (We installed the TrueType version from Apple
since their printers no longer had a Postscript version) and they can
print it once but then the printer will not print again.  It has to be
reset.  Also one of them said the Old English TrueType font which comes
in the Apple Font Pack (we got this when we bought some Personal LaserWriter
NTRs) caused a Postscript error when she tried to print it from Pagemaker.

Anyone else have problems with TrueType fonts not printing, Pagemaker and
TrueType fonts or the LaserWriter IIg and TrueType fonts?  These fonts 
print just fine from other apps on my machine to the HP IIIsi that I use.
Pagemaker does have it's own printer drivers.

Some people have version 7.1.1 of the LaserWriter driver, some people have
version 7.1.2  Could this cause problems (I know there are problems when
some people use a System 6 LaserWriter driver and others use System 7's..)

Is there a public domain Postscript equivalent of Zapf Dingbats?  I've looked
in the archive.umich.edu Type 1 fonts directory on wuarchive but couldn't
find anything.  I don't see why we should have to buy Zapf Dingbats, we've
bought over 14 printers with it already...  We also have Adobe's Type on Call
CD-ROM and Image Club's but neither lists Zapf Dingbats as a font they sell
anyway (why would they it's built into every Postscript printer, well expect
the IIf and IIg)

Does it sound like a problem with the TrueType font, Pagemaker, the printer?
Macintoshes in general :)

Jeff Hameluck
Regina Public Library  (also University of Regina)
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: kby@cco.caltech.edu (Kimo B. Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Excel 4.0 problem
Date: 24 Dec 1992 04:50:39 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: alumni.caltech.edu
Summary: CREATE.OBJECT broken in Excel 4 for Mac?
Keywords: excel 4 charts create.object compatability


Does anyone know of a problem in the CREATE.OBJECT function for embedded
charts in Excel 4.0 for Macintosh?  The gist of the problem is it doesn't
do what it's supposed to do when the selection is multiple (two discon-
tiguous columns, in this case).

The history of this is as follows:

I am developing an application in Excel for cross-development on Mac/Windoze.
The application creates a number of embedded charts.  In 3.0 (Mac),
CREATE.OBJECT worked fine; you SELECT (FORMULA.GOTO) the the data to plot
(XY chart) and then use COPY followed by CREATE.OBJECT (all of this is
happening on an add-in macro sheet adjunct to the worksheet).

In 4.0 Windoze version this also works fine (the screen graphics aren't
quite the same size but the effect is basically the same).  In 4.0 for
the MAC it works in one instance but not in the other.  The only difference
appears to be that the non-working instance is a multiple selection whereas
the working is not.  The symptom is that, without additional arguments, the
function creates a column graph instead of an XY as requested, but, even
with the extra arguments (all appropriate specified), the resulting XY
graph uses the wrong series values.  The X series gets left blank and the
Y series is what the X series is supposed to be.  In one instance, it seems
even more badly mangled although I haven't debugged it enough to get the
details (the result is that the y series ends up being a superset of the
desired X series).

Using the chart wizard tool on the tool bar with the same data works fine.
I could use the CHART.WIZARD function, but I'd like to maintain compatability
with 3.0 if possible.  I can presumably work around this with EDIT.SERIES, but
that's a crock.

I'm mainly asking to see if (a) anyone else has seen this, and (b) is there
a known fix.  For the moment, I'll assume I can work around it, I'd just like
to find a reasonably elegant fix as opposed to something like an EDIT.SERIES
crock. (e. g., specifying arguments more explicitly is acceptable as long
as it works the same in 3.0, but putting in what should be superfluous
functions is not).

Please reply by EMail if possible, but here is OK if not.-kby@caltech.alumni.edu
From: marglin@stein.u.washington.edu (Stephen Marglin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Excel Headers
Date: 24 Dec 92 23:37:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Dec24.233741.20792
Organization: University of Washington

Is it possible to have headers in Excel, version 3.0, that are more than
one line long. There does not seem to be any mention of this possibility
in the documentation, and attempts such as shift-return, option-return,
command-return don't work. It would be helpful to be able to do so in
reports, schedules, etcetera.

Happy Holidays!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: svoboda@mv.us.adobe.com (Ed Svoboda)
Subject: Re: (Q) Illustrator - memory
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 01:03:58 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.181757.1@esat.kuleuven.ac.be>,
proesmsf@esat.kuleuven.ac.be wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Seems i got a hungry bug eating up my memory...Okay. let's
> be serious for a moment. I've got Illustrator 3.2 installed on my
> little Mac machine ( LC-7.0.1*-4/80). System/Finder itself takes up
> about 1300M, the screen saver, what's its name again ? can't remember -
> Dark**something- v3.0 needs only 64K. This leaves about 2.6M for Illustrator 
> to run. Well,no problems so far, it lanches and takes 2M... While moving 
> around playing-clicking dialog boxes aren't always properly displayed ...
> Shortage of memory, i think...and in the 'About this humble macintosh'
> i notice that 'ZeroK/M'is free ...Despite having a mac, i am still capable 
> of doing mathematics myself...more than 600K is missing. Total of memory adds 
> up to 3.4M, i had 4M installed!! Quiting the application does not change a 
> thing, only rebooting frees the memory... This is bit too peculiar to me and
> actually it does not explain why Illustrator, having enough memory to run - the
> 2M it asked for, should act as if lacked the proper space ....
> 
> WouldYouPLeasePLeaseHelpMe,
> 
> Frank ( proesmsf@esat.kuleuven.ac.be)

Frank,

As Adobe Illustrator is launched, the system software allocates memory for
each font that you have installed. This memory is not deallocated until you
restart your Macintosh. I am suprised that you are losing 600K; it appears
you have numerous fonts installed. You can reduce this problem by using a
font utility such as Suitcase II or MasterJuggler to disable fonts until
they are needed.

-----
Ed Svoboda	(svoboda@mv.us.adobe.com)
Product Support Engineer
Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View, CA, USA
From: ivar@elm.ppc.ubc.ca (ivar jonsson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Postscript previewer
Date: 22 Dec 1992 07:47:38 GMT
Organization: University of B.C. Pulp & Paper Centre
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: elm.ppc.ubc.ca
Keywords: Postscript, preview, ghostscript

I hope somebody has needed this before, at least it would save some laser print-outs.

Are there any Postscript previewing application, similiar to the UNIX application Ghostscript,
available for the Mac?
What for a Postscript editors are available where the Postscript file can be edited and previewed

Thanks for any suggestions,

-- 

Ivar Mar Jonsson			E-mail: ivar@ppc.ubc.ca
Control Engineer			Tel:  (604) 980-3421
Measurex Devron Inc.			FAX:  (604) 980-0120
North Vancouver

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: searsk@med.ge.com (Kevin D. Sears)
Subject: Need App for Cataloging Slides,Photos,Negatives
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: GE Medical Systems
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 12:40:12 GMT

Are there any freeware/shareware cataloging programs(general or custom)
which I can use to organize my photo interests?

Who: Kevin D. Sears-searsk@med.ge.com
What: System and Network Admin(a.k.a "Sr. Maintenance Droid")
Where: GE Medical Systems
Disclaimer: I know nothing for sure but I sure try hard!
From: stefan@stefan.spn.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Font question. Need very weird accents and diactritics for Skt.
Date: 3 Jan 93 22:32:00 GMT
X-Mailer: rnMac Buggy, I mean Beta, Test Version


> Related question: in which word processors is it possible to combine
> _arbitrary_ letters with _arbitrary_ accents?

As far as I know, you just can't. I see only one way: Take fontographer
or a similiar program and create your own font. You just have to cut and
paste together the characters and the appropriate accents and assign
them to an otherwise unused keystroke. You'll loose compatibility with
other machines, though. (i.e. you just created your own fonts)

Stefan
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