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Subject: Info-Mac Digest V10 #194
Date: 13 Aug 92 21:46:45 GMT
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Info-Mac Digest             Thu, 13 Aug 92       Volume 10 : Issue 194

Today's Topics:

      (Q) About TeachText and PICT's
      Adobe Illustrator -> Aldus Freehand
      Aggravating Mac Plus Clock (replies) (2 msgs)
      AntiFinder Author
      Apple II <--> Mac
      appletalk over air
      Appmaker Update
      APS Driver
      Backup Media
      Business Simulation Game(A)
      Cycling through applications under System 7.
      Digital photo editing help (Q)
      E-Mail Address for MAGNA? (Q)
      Edit II 2.0.2 : forward printing ?
      Empower and Stuffit Lite Problems (A).
      IIci Memory
      Info-Mac Digest V10 #193
      Internet dial-in in Costa Rica?
      KeyCaps Equivilant
      LaserWriter Output Problems (Q)
      looking for programs(A)
      lost color patterns in sys 7. (Q)
      Mac IIsi
      MathType 2.11 -> 3.0 upgrade problems (R)
      Musings about Future (!)
      Need a reliable .zip unZipper (R)
      Nisus according to MacWeek
      pb video cards
      PC Windows Word to MAC Word (Lost annotations?)
      PC WP 5.1 <--> Mac Word (A)
      Personal LW LS Driver (Q)
      Printing Postscript on a VAX (R)_
      Q&A for Mac - Symantec, get this thing going!
      Replacing/Changing Internal Hard Disks
      Rewinding the Page Count on a LaserWriter?
      SCSI monitors (Q)
      Seek comments on using MacX or eXodus as X window terminal.
      S L O W printing on Apple LW LS
      SoundEdit Pro is not for 68000!!!!
      Statview 512+ and II version (Q)
      SyQuestion
      THINK Pascal 3.0
      Trying To Find Program Similar To "At Ease" (Q)
      VGA monitor <-> Mac IIci cable [Q]
      Virtual Desktop for the Mac
      Word 5 Can't Find It's Commands! (Q & A)

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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 13:08:57 +0100
From: "P.J. Hardman" <hpj%cxa.dl.ac.uk@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: (Q) About TeachText and PICT's

How does one place PICT files in TeachText files? I want to be able to
include some screen shots in some documentation but cannot figure out how
to get teachtext to use the picts that i have put into the resource fork
of the file.

Does anyone have some instructions.

Thanks

Peter Hardman  hpj@cxa.dl.ac.uk (World order) hpj@uk.ac.dl.cxa (UK order).

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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 16:21:01 -0700 (MST)
From: BGS@ALPHA.SUNQUEST.COM
Subject: Adobe Illustrator -> Aldus Freehand

I have a file with the following creator:

%!PS-Adobe-3.0
%%Creator: Adobe Illustrator(TM) 3.0.1


Does anybody have Adobe 3.01, if so, would you be willing to have me send you
the file, open it, save it in Aldus Freehand format and remail it?

I have tried other avenues but this seems my only hope.

Thanks,

Ben
			**  BGS@alpha.com   **

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Date: Wednesday, 12 August 1992 12:31pm CT
From: G.Hahn@UTXVM.CC.UTEXAS.EDU
Subject: Aggravating Mac Plus Clock (replies)

Recently I described how my Mac Plus clock functioned only intermittently.
Two suggestions were offered.  One person speculated that my new battery may
have not been up to par.  Some companies sell inferior batteries.  The
author recommended that I order from Soft Solutions.  The 2nd author said
that similar problems were solved by replacing the Plus's real time clock
chip with one from a 512.

Gene Hahn

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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 13:00:07 +0200
From: pooh@es.ele.tue.nl (Ernst Mulder)
Subject: Aggravating Mac Plus Clock (replies)

If you replace your clock chip with one out of a 512 (which comsume much less
current) you also loose a couple of bytes of parameter ram (the 512 clock
chip has less pram as the plus clock chip) which may cause annoyances if
you use system 7, or use the sound cdev.

pooh

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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 08:01:05 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <IRBLOOM@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject: AntiFinder Author

On Tue, 11, RICHARD LIM wrote:

>Author of Anti-Finder: I have the following address for Eric Bloodworth
>but have no idea whether it still applies: ericb@csugrad.cs.vt.edu

Don't try that one. According to University records, Eric was last seen
in Spring 1990.

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 22:09:43 EST
From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU>
Subject: Apple II <--> Mac

On Wed, 12 Aug 92 11:13:03 EDT you said:
>My father just dropped the bombshell: "I guess I'm gonna have to buy a Mac."
>(I've already converted my older brother.)  He's used an Apple IIe since
>1982.
>
>We can handle the decision around which Mac he needs, but I need advice
>on two counts: file transfer, and BASIC.  He has several hundred 5 1/4"
>disks, a 40-MB hard drive on the Apple, and *no 3 1/2" drive*.

I've done that.  I tried ][ in a Mac (I can't recommend it).  I've been
happy with Kermit transfers over a null modem, but I haven't found it
necessary to deal with nearly as much data as your father seems to have.


It appears from your description that an LC II would be a satisfactory
Mac.  I've read that the best selling Apple 2 at the moment is called
the //e card for the Mac LC ;-)  I haven't tried this (and therefore
don't know how and can't verify its veracity) but I'm told that it IS
possible (in spite of Apple's official line) to get an old Disk ][ to
work with the //e card (something to do with a cable adapter).

The LC with a //e card (as I recall the new software makes it possible
to define a ProDOS partition on the LC's disk; I don't know whether it's
possible to recognize your dad's existing 40 MB drive along the SCSI
chain) would seem to be the most rational solution (it would allow your
father to migrate his Applesoft to some flavor of Mac Basic at his
leisure too because he could continue to run Applesoft on the //e card.

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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 17:26:23 EDT
From: Michael Pieper <PIEPERMW%DUVM.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: appletalk over air

My friends and I would like to carry our network to another house,the problem
i
s that in this city the only way we see it possible is to use some type of
tran
siever to send it via radio or possibly infra-red.  Has anyone out there done
t
his and if so could you give me some tips on how to go about this.  If not can
anyone out there give me the whereabouts of technical information on the
applet
alk system.
		 Thanx
		 Mike Pieper
		 piepermw@duvm.drexel.edu

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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 11:25:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: MENDELSSOHN@SSURF.UCSD.EDU
Subject: Appmaker Update

A little while ago you had the update to Appmaker (version 1.5.1) on the
app directory.  It is no longer there.  Any idea what happened?

Thanks,

Roy Mendelssohn
RMendelssohn@ucsd.edu

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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 22:40:50 -0400
From: jtbell@cs1.presby.edu (Jon Bell)
Subject: APS Driver

Those of you with APS hard disks ought to know (if you don't already)
that APS has a BBS from which you can download the current version of
their driver software.  The number is (816) 478-4541.  It can handle
9600bps connections, so the cost isn't outrageous if you dial up during
off-peak hours.

The version I have is 2.6.4, dated April 21.  There may be a more recent
version, as I haven't checked in a few months.

Jon Bell
Dept. of Physics & Computer Science
Presbyterian College, Clinton SC
jtbell@presby.edu

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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 09:11:39 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <IRBLOOM@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject: Backup Media

On Wed, 12 Aug, Mike Tanner asked about what backup media folk use.

My tale: When Leslye overflowed her 80M last year, I bought her a 200M
internal and put her 80M in an outside box. And I flat refused to back
that mass (mess?) up to floppy. At the time it seemed a TEAC-150 tape
cassette drive was the way to go ($700 at MacProducts, $30/cassette).
It comes with Retrospect, and a tape'll hold about 250M with compression.
I admit liking simply popping a tape in the drive and letting Retro back
up both drives into a single archive with no attention on my part. She
now has so much AutoDoubled stuff on both drives that I devote a tape
to each, but that isn't too much extra hassle.

What bothers me is that the drive can't be used for anything *but*
backup. I could be severely tempted today by a 3.5" 128M magneto/optical
drive. Twice as pricey, both for the drive and media, but lots more
useful. Now if Leslye would just stop making demands on the toys budget,
like upgrading her Tek 4693dx color printer to a Phaser PXi and 16 more
meg of SIMM's in the past two months, maybe I'll indulge that temptation.
On *my* machine.

Or maybe I'll just surrender and buy a couple tapes to back up my IIci
>From her machine over our little network. More likely.

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 22:22:24 EDT
From: Mark Schupack <EC405000@BROWNVM.brown.edu>
Subject: Business Simulation Game(A)

I have been using a simulation called the Competition Game, written by
Thompson & Stappenbeck, published by Prentice Hall. The students
think it is the best part of the managerial economics course.
Unfortunately, it must be played using Lotus. Up to last year, that
meant using IBM's for both playing and processing the game. The
authors tell me that some users have successfully run the game on
Macs using the mac version of Lotus. Look into it.

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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 19:17 GMT
From: STCH8002%IRUCCVAX.UCC.IE@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU
Subject: Cycling through applications under System 7.

Under System 6 I could assign a QuicKey to cycle through multiple applications
opened under MultiFinder. I seem to remember seeing mention of a shareware
application to do this under System 7 but I can't locate it in my files. Could
someone remind me please?  Regards - Fergus.

Fergus J. Lalor, Department of Chemistry, University College,
Cork, Ireland.
STCH8002@IRUCCVAX.UCC.IE

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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 10:07:11 LCL
From: jim palmer <ZOOEY%SUVM.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Digital photo editing help (Q)

I regularly make simulations of what proposed designs are going to look
like when they are built.  The method brings together digital images from
various places and 3D drawings.  Often it would be nice to have a
transparent window over my work (in Photoshop) where I could paste/resize
guidelines for my work.  Does anyone know of such a utility?

It needs to remain in the foreground even though it is inactive.  When active
It needs to support cut and paste as a minimum, but resizing and modest
paint or drawing capabilites would help.

I would appreciate direct responses to zooey@suvm.acs.syr.edu

------------------------------

Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 19:00 GMT
From: STCH8002%IRUCCVAX.UCC.IE@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU
Subject: E-Mail Address for MAGNA? (Q)

Does anyone know if MAGNA, makers of EmpowerII, can be reached by E-Mail.
				Thanks - Fergus.

Fergus J. Lalor, Department of Chemistry, University College,
Cork, Ireland.
STCH8002@IRUCCVAX.UCC.IE

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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 11:03:53 EDT
From: knguyen@emr.ca
Subject: Edit II 2.0.2 : forward printing ?

Hi,
- Edit II 2.0.2 just permits a reverse printing and gives no control for
forward or reverse printing. Can anyone give me a clue to print forward
with Edit ? My email to its author has no answer.
- Why reverse printing ?
Thanks in advance for your help.
       Khanh Kim, Nguyen
       internet : knguyen@emr.ca
       cc:mail: knguyen@cc2smtp.emr.ca

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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 18:56 GMT
From: STCH8002%IRUCCVAX.UCC.IE@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU
Subject: Empower and Stuffit Lite Problems (A).

Thanks to all who contacted me about my problems with Empower 4.0.7 (which
turns out to be completely incompatible with the Quadra 700) and Stuffit
Lite (I had inadvertently DiskDoubler-ed the entire Extensions folder in
my System Folder - God knows how). One out of two ain't too bad.
					Fergus

Fergus J. Lalor, Department of Chemistry, University College,
Cork, Ireland.
STCH8002@IRUCCVAX.UCC.IE

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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 05:05:10 GMT
From: John Quiggin <jxq302@coombs.anu.edu.au>
Subject: IIci Memory

What's the correct layout for 1 and 4 MB Chips in a MAc IIci. When I
bought my 4xeMb Chips I installed them in the second bank without
thinking about it. Unfortunately I missed a connection and ahd to take it
to my technician who swapped the banks around. Recently I read an article
in MacUser suggesting that because the first bank is used to run the
built in video, the original layout is best. Is this right?

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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 16:19:36 CDT
From: PULLMANN@VM1.TUCC.TRINITY.EDU
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V10 #193

>and design with the simplest of understanding. In the process of development
>we
>have forgotten what an amazing thing a Mac is.  We got so damn smug about
what
>our latest machines were capable of and left our old machines to pine away
and
>be forgotten with such arrogance.  Myself I could never bring myself to sell
>my original Mac Plus as I upgraded ever towards the penthouse of luxury in
>the skyscraper I set my sights on.  That little machine was such a friend to
>me
>and though I use it seldom these days I still give it a stroke now and again
>as it sits watching my IIcx zooming past, disturbing all the neighbours and
>not realizing what it's missing in its haste.  The dreaded trap of marketing
>and the market economy make it very hard for innocent, still very young Mac
>Pluses.
>
(stuff deleted)

>the world.  The secret is: Stop reading the magazines telling you to ask for
>more, and see what you've already got.

What a great letter.  Absolutely.  You might be surprised, though, like
I was, to realize how many folks out there still do use their Pluses.
I've posted a couple of notes in the past on this subject (as I'm sure
a lot of you remember ;)), standing up for those of us who can't afford
the latest and greatest, and received quite a bit of private mail in
response agreeing and thanking me for expressing those thoughts.

My own system is a floppy-only (two drives), and while of course I would
like a hard disk, and will have one when I can afford it, I've found that
having a floppy-only system is not really a bad way to learn a little
more about the Mac.  At least it makes you a little more careful, makes
you think some more about what you're doing, what you need and don't
need, etc.  I've learned more, and understand more, about Macintoshes
since I got my machine at home and started having to do some cerebrating
about why things work or don't work.  A Plus is not a bad teaching tool,
not at all.  Like you, when my ship comes in and I can buy the hottest
Mac on the market, I think my Plus will still have a place in the corner
of the room.

Pat Ullmann  PULLMANN@VM1.TUCC.TRINITY.EDU or PULLMANN@TRINITY (BITNET)

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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 20:51:21 PDT
From: sheckler@leland.stanford.edu (Steven Heckler)
Subject: Internet dial-in in Costa Rica?

Hi Folks!

     One last question on Internet dial-ins (thanks to all the terrific
folks who responded to my earlier posts).  I have another friend who will
be studying in San Jose, Costa Rica, after the 1st of the year.  Any dial-ins
for the Internet (so he can access his Middlebury acct.) or reasonably priced
Internet e-mail services available?  I don't know how long-distance prices are
in that area, but I'm sure he'd be interested in any info on Panama and
Honduras, as well as for all of Costa Rica.  Thanks a lot (and again!)

			Steve Heckler
			sheckler@leland.stanford.edu

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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 02:54:41 -0400
From: "Keith E Gatling" <kgatling@mailbox.syr.edu>
Subject: KeyCaps Equivilant

Just out of curiosity, does anyone know if there's a KeyCaps equivlant out
there that lists the fonts in a menu called FONTS rather than one called
KEY CAPS?  It is *so* confusing when I tell people to go to the KEY CAPS
menu to see the fonts and they all go to the KeyCaps title bar.

Think maybe Apple will get it right next time?  For that matter, who do I
have to write to at Apple to get them to change it?  In fact, while I'm
thinking about it, how would I go about hacking the sucker in ResEdit to
change it myself?

Such simple things cause such great problems.

keg

* Keith E Gatling                                  kgatling@mailbox.syr.edu *

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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 12:40:56 EDT
From: grant@itd.nrl.navy.mil (William Grant)
Subject: LaserWriter Output Problems (Q)

	Well, time to test the long-distance diagnosis capabilities of
the net.
	I have a LW II NTX hooked up via appletalk to a bunch of Macs.
Over the last several weeks, an intermittent problem has developed.
Some jobs sent to the printer are printed with some of the scan lines
shifted horizontally.  The shift is always horizontal on portrait
orientation pages (haven't seen it show up on landscape pages yet).
The shift affects the whole line (ie, every letter in that line of
text has a portion of it shifted the same direction and apparently the
same amount).  Random scan lines seem to be shifted (not in same place
on each page, not in same spot on line of text, not regular distance
between shifted lines).  Sometimes adjacent scan lines are shifted
(and a block seems to be shifted out of the letter).
	I have printed the same file from the same machine to the LW IIG
sitting next to the printer (both physically and figuratively on
Atalk), and had the problem only show up on this printer.  I have
printed a file and reset the printer and printed it again and had the
same problem.  However, the test page inbetween was clean.  The
printer in question is about to hit the 43,000 page mark if that makes
any difference.
	The engine controller board (smaller board) was replaced
several months ago due to a bad sensor switch.  The technician who
looked at it today was unsure whether the main board (large, with
atalk, serial, etc. connectors) needed to be replaced or the
controller board.  While I had samples of the output, it would not
manifest itself while he was here (of course).
	Most of the printout where the problem showed up (if not all)
were MS Word files of primarily text, using builtin fonts.  I can't
place a lot of faith in this being significant since this is our most
widely used application and manner of printing.
	Any hints as to what is wrong/broken/outoftune would be
helpful.  The technician was assuming that something was wrong with
the communications interface, since it looked like noise to him.  I
had to explain that line noise would have created other problems since
the macintosh was using PostScript exclusively.  This took a bit of
explaining, he's used to HP's on klones and thought PostScript just
meant you needed more memory.  (yeah, the text is complete and
ungarbled, the font is correct, just random scan lines shifted)
       Please reply direct to me at "grant@itd.nrl.navy.mil" and
I will summarize for info-mac.

Liam Grant, NRL, Code 5541, Washington, DC 20375-5000, (202) 767-2392

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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 23:52:57 -0400
From: ad841@yfn.ysu.edu (Robert Winston)
Subject: looking for programs(A)

 >I am looking for the following programs:

 >Revisionist 1.1 by C. Reichenberger
 >InstallerSpy 0.30 by Alex Maluta
 >MiniScreen (demo) by Morgan Davis Group
 >FileList+ 1.0b21 by Bill Patterson

 >I spotted those programs on America Online, but it is
 >prohibitively expensive for me to download them from there.
 >Thus, if anyone knows where I can get any of them via ftp, I
 >would appreciate letting me know.


At mac.archive.umich (ftp to shavenyak.css.itd.umich.edu)
mac/util/organization/revisionist1.1.cpt.hqx
mac/util/developer/installerspy0.30.sit.hqx
mac/system.extensions/init/miniscr.sit.hqx

For a list of all the files in the Mac archive, download:
mac/00help/allfiles.txt

FYI, from the Archie reference manual:

 >The archie system allows the user to query a database
 >containing a list of files available on hosts connected to
 >the Internet. For hosts connected to the Internet, software
 >located through this service can be obtained by means of
 >ftp. For info on how to use Archie:

 >1) telnet to the archie
 >system closest to you.

 >2) Login as user archie (no capitals, no password required).
 >The system should print a banner message and status report
 >before presenting you with the command prompt.

 >3) Type ``help'' for further information.

 > Archie locations:
 >  archie.mcgill.ca McGill University,Montreal, Canada
 >  archie.sura.net SURAnet, College Park, Maryland, USA
 >  archie.ans.net ANS, Elmsford, New York, USA
 >  archie.unl.edu Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
 >  archie.rutgers.edu Piscataway, New Jersey, USA
 >  archie.au Deakin University, Geelong, Australia
 >  archie.funet.fi FUnet, Helsinki, Finland

 >Archie can also be accessed by E-mail.
 >For more info send mail to:
 >archie@mcgill.ca
 >Leave the subject blank and send the message:
 > Help


____
Robert E. Winston   usr4818a@tso.uc.edu

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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 17:10 MST
From: NOHL@CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: lost color patterns in sys 7. (Q)

I'm running sys. 7.0 with Tune-up 1.1.1
and some how I can't access the color desktop pattern
in the general control panel.

I was using the wallpaper demo, but trashed it.
I was using the Desktop Pattern, but trashed it too.
Since then, I've been stuck with just black and white
desktop patterns.  Help please. :}

thanks,
Nohl Lyons
Internet: Nohl@ccit.arizona.edu

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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 12:21 EST
From: PC Coordinator <LFINKELSTEIN@vax.clarku.edu>
Subject: Mac IIsi

Try getting rid of the Startup Screen.  Just to see if that is the problem.

			Loren Finkelstein

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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 17:25:11 PDT
From: kroemer@ece.ucsb.edu (Herb Kroemer)
Subject: MathType 2.11 -> 3.0 upgrade problems (R)

In #192, Richard Lim writes:

>We have been using Microsoft Word 5.0 and MathType 2.11 (in preference to
>Word's similar Equation Editor) for the preparation of scientific papers
>etc.  Recently we upgraded to MathType 3.0.  This has given rise to the
>problem that equations prepared with MathType 2.11 will no longer print
>properly on our laserwriters (IINT's).

>I am aware that the remedy is supposedly to copy all the equations from
>the Word document into MathType 3.0 and then paste them back; this is
>however extremely tedious as you can imagine.

Don't! Based on my own experience with hundreds of 2.11-generated equations
mixed with 3.0-generated equations, you need not copy and re-paste the
older equations, so long as you keep BOTH the Belmont and the MTExtra
Postscript laser fonts around.

>MathType 2.11 required the Belmont font to be
>installed, whereas version 3.0 uses MTExtra (probably the same thing by a
>different name?).

I thinks MT changed fonts because Belmont was not a Type-1 Postscript font,
whereas MTExtra  is.

>Will reinstalling Belmont solve our problems?

Probably

>And does
>the font have to be downloaded to the laserwriter or can it just be in the
>System?

Just put it where the Belmont Laser Font used to be, probably in the System
Folder, or, if you use Suitcase, in the Fonts Folder inside the System
Folder.


----

Regards,

Herb K.

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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 15:48 CST
From: "Anand Rao, Univ. of Wisconsin-River Falls" <Anand.Rao@uwrf.edu>
Subject: Musings about Future (!)

 When Apple came out with System 7, the software was available
 both commercially and via anon_FTP.  Now that Apple has come up
 with a better file transfer software i.e., Mac PC Exchange, why
 isn't this available via anon_FTP?

 Does this suggest a change in Apple's user support philosophy
 (HA! What user support?!)  Didn't it start with loss of
 HyperCard?  And then came a commercial version of system
 software... now it's a utility that one has to purchase! What
 next?
 Just wondering!
---Anand Rao                              E-mail:  Anand.Rao@UWRF.edu
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-RIVER FALLS

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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 00:40 CDT
From: WMPORTER@Jetson.UH.EDU
Subject: Need a reliable .zip unZipper (R)

StuffIt Deluxe will decompress a .zip file and is one of the most reliable
programs I've ever used. I haven't tried to unzip anything as large as 100K,
but it's worked great on smaller files. I'm using ver. 2.1 but 3.0 is in the
mail and should be here any day; I assume un-.zip-ing is still available.

William Porter / University of Houston

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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 18:20:57 CDT
From: Graeme Forbes <PL0BALF@VM.TCS.Tulane.EDU>
Subject: Nisus according to MacWeek

For all the Nisus fans out there still fuming at the lukewarm reviews
of Nisus in the September MacWorld and MacUser, there's long-overdue
vindication in the current MacWeek. Don Crabb is going to start looking
for examples of programs that are the best, or best-equal, of their
kind, but dwarfed in marketing and hence in sales by the product of
some overgrown company like Microsoft or Lotus.

Don's first example of such a product is Nisus, to which he is encouraging
his users to move. He describes it as the best example of small-company
software that deserves attention by Mac managers but doesn't get it
because of factors not related to the quality of the software.
(MW 6/29, p.49)

Graeme Forbes

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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 08:11:46 -0500
From: tabone@calshp.cals.wisc.edu
Subject: pb video cards

A friend of mine recently purchased a pb170 and wants to use it to give
presentations.
Question 1:  I know there are a number of color video cards out there and
	     was wondering if anyone had any recommendations or experience
	     with any of them.
Question 2:  He will obviously, also need to purchase an lcd panel.  I have
	     actually been leaning more towards the projectors since a
	     strong light source is included.  Any recommendations?
Please respond directly to me - I will summarize.  Thanks.

Tom J. Tabone
tabone@calshp.cals.wisc.edu

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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 10:18:31 CDT
From: "Ray Carlson            2-5805" <B28384@ANLVM.CTD.ANL.GOV>
Subject: PC Windows Word to MAC Word (Lost annotations?)

When Word 5.0 on the Mac converts a document from PC Word for Windows 2.0,
the annotation text is lost.  Shouldn't this have been converted to hidden
text?  Any ideas or suggestions?  Thanks

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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 22:10:22 EST
From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU>
Subject: PC WP 5.1 <--> Mac Word (A)

On Tue, 11 Aug 92 23:19:27 EDT you said:
>I would like to import files made with Word Perfect 5.1 on an IBM clone to
>my Mac. I plan on using Word 5.0 on the Mac to add to these files. I was
>thinking of Mac Link or Apple PC Exchange. What does the net recommend?

Apple's PC Exchange ONLY mounts disks; it doesn't translate at all.
MacLink Plus includes DOS Mount along with the translators.  I'd hope
that they are shipping a more current version of DOS Mount than the
obsolete, buggy version that came with my package (since I'm a long time
AccessPC user, I haven't bothered to try and get a current DOS Mount).
Anyway, you shouldn't have to buy PC Exchange too.

>Seeing that these files are computer generated forms, I would like to
>conserve the exact formatting.

Call Claris and tell them you are going to hold your breath until you
turn blue.  They've been promising MacWrite Pro and XTND 2 since before
George Bush forgot to read his own lips.  MacLink will do a fine job of
translating straight text and *some* formatting between WP 5.1 and Mac
Word, but lots of special features such as you are likely to use in
forms will either disappear or appear as strange characters in strange
places.

Apple is trying to convince the corporate world that a Mac makes a hell
of a lot more since than Intel architecture as an upgrade path from all
those obsolete '286 boxes (still a HUGE installed base) to a GUI
interface.  It's a great concept (should be a winning marketing idea),
BUT success depends on relatively trouble free and SIMPLE translation
between major Mac software (read Word and Excel) and top selling PeeCee
software (read WP 5.1, PC Word, WinWord, Lotus 1-2-3, and Win Excel).
So far Apple hasn't lived up to the advertising :-(

I've found that translation from WP 5.1 to Mac word processors *usually*
isn't too bad (the other way more often is a hassle).  However, we have
a typist in our word processing center who either wants to demonstrate
her proficiency or make herself too essential to be laid off by using
every feature WP 5.1 has (including all the obscure ones) to produce
documents that won't even print under WP 5.1 connected to most HP
LaserJets ;-)  When I try and import her stuff, I get the text, but I
have to do all the cute "forms" stuff over cause it shows up as assorted
hash (when it shows up at all).

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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 09:13:35 EDT
From: JF <acrnrjf@ccc.aes.doe.CA>
Subject: Personal LW LS Driver (Q)

I have heard that the driver for the Personal LW LS printer
has been upgraded.  I have printer driver version 7.1 and
associated system version 1.1.  Is this software upgradable
and if so where can I get the upgrade?

Thanks in advance, John

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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 15:57:31 -0400
From: bewilson@Kodak.COM (Bruce E. Wilson, ECCR-PA, B95-A, X8886
(bewilson@kodak.com))
Subject: Printing Postscript on a VAX (R)_

I tried sending this to the original poster, but it "bounced"

> account.  I can view it and it looks like a real valid postscript file, with
> all the commands in ascii text.  HOW DO I SEND THIS TO THE PRINTER SO THAT
THE
> PRINTER WILL INTERPRET IT AS A POSTSCRIPT FILE???  I know for certain that
the
> printer is a postscript printer.  Is there a utility that is needed on the
vax
> to change this file before sending it?????

On our VMS system (which is running Pathworks, and I don't know if that
is what is required or not), the command

	PRINT <filename>/PARAMETER=POSTSCRIPT

accomplishes the goal of not interpeting the thing as a straight ASCII file.

		Bruce Wilson (bewilson@kodak.com)

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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 08:10:32 -0800
From: kcary@pepvax.pepperdine.edu
Subject: Q&A for Mac - Symantec, get this thing going!

Someone said the folk at Symantec (and HP) are monitoring this list; and
well they may, as they can gain a lot of marketing and technical reactions
to their products. Well, Symantec, I want Q&A for the Mac, now would be
fine, but make it a good product. All the PCs 'round here have it, and you
could probably sell us a copy for every admin. (and some academic) mac
we've got.

For those of you that don't have the pleasure, Q&A PC is a very simple,
programmable, word processor/database combo. Our staff uses it to send one
or two page business letters, track what little student/alumni info doesn't
get stored on the mainframe, and manage project mail lists. I download a
lot of mainframe information to Q&A from our student info system, which
saves the staff a lot of re-entry keystrokes. I've also programmed up a
bunch of inter-database lookups, and multi-part form printouts. It's
primarily the former which have me wanting the Mac version of Q&A, so that
staff with Macs and staff with DOS PCs can share the same databases.

Currently, there is no cross-platform product like this. Sure, Fox can
share databases across Mac and DOS, but then you have to use Word
(byzantine) to do the merge; and dbase programming is not for users, here.
Remember, Omnis is a windows thing. Filemaker Pro is coming, but that'll be
windows too, and the interface (Mac version) for the form letter features
is too cluttered with database functions (I think the modal separation, as
in Q&A or Works is good for our users, as they don't have to be thinking
about database when they do word processing). Am I wrong, or will this be a
one of a kind product (in it's DOS/Mac cross-platform aspects) if Symantec
can get it out the door? Do you have a different solution for this kind of
thing that you are using now?

Kim Cary, Systems Support Coordinator         | "DOS: 3xSupport =
Function/4"
Pepperdine Univ., Grad. School of Ed. & Psych.| kcary@PEPVAX
My opinions, not those of GSEP or Pepperdine  | kcary@sun.pepperdine.edu

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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92  16:19 GMT
From: Big Nose <LAWA%IAPE.AFRC.AC.UK@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Replacing/Changing Internal Hard Disks

Anyone with experience of changing internal hard disks care to share their
experiences? I need more disk space than the original 20 meg device in my
SE can muster. An internal replacement would be convenient for portability.
Questions:-
1) Is replacement simply a question of removing the old drive, and inserting
the
  new one? Do the internal drives I see advertised in MacUser etc. come ready
to use like that, or do I need to fiddle around further. Do I need special
 tools?
2) What are the major do's and don'ts of the procedure.
3) Are there certain drives that I should avoid or go for?

I've opened up the mac to put in extra memory prior to this, but the hard disk
changing protocol frightens me a bit more than that did. Is this a reasonable
fear or am I being a WIMP in the non-GUI sense of the word?

Thanks

Andy Law                            (Big Nose in Edinburgh)

PS Please reply direct to me.
(LAWA @ UK.AC.AFRC.IAPE    or    LAWA @ IAPE.AFRC.AC.UK to some Statesiders)

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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 23:24 CDT
From: trimper@edsi.plexus.COM (Greg Trimper)
Subject: Rewinding the Page Count on a LaserWriter?

Nelson Byrne (nbyrne@aol.com) writes:

nbyrne> I too have been searching for a way to reset the
nbyrne> LaserWritter's page count, as I hope to trade it in
nbyrne> soon. Thanks to the helpful and now the page count
nbyrne> is negative and prints in red. I don't want Is
nbyrne> there some PostScrip code that will ADD a certain
nbyrne> amount to the page count (so I can up it back to
nbyrne> zero)?


Excuse me for saying so, but is this exactly ethical, honest, or LEGAL?

a Laserwriter, so that you get a higher value on the trade it/resale.

There are laws against doing this to cars, and for good reason - every
two-bit salesman would rewind the mileage and advertise a rund down
car as "Low Miles."  It seems to me that you want to sell your obviously
well-used laserwriter as a "little used" laserwriter.  Thank you for
warning myself and other potential used laserwriters of this bit
of dishonesty.

Greg Trimper   trimper@edsi.plexus.com

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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 13:01:18 -0700
From: moynihan@venice.sedd.trw.com (Bill Moynihan)
Subject: SCSI monitors (Q)

Has anyone had any experience with any such device? I've seen two
advertised, namely Sigma Designs 'Power Portrait' and Generation
Systems 'Power Play'. First impressions from the advertisements
have you wondering why it wasn't done sooner and they seem
particularly suited to compact Macs and PowerBooks.

I'd appreciate your input. Email direct if possible and thanks
in advance for your time and help.

Bill Moynihan (moynihan@venice.sedd.trw.com)

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Date: Wed, 12 AUG 92 18:45:24 PDT
From: ""Micro Mauler"" <MICRO2.SCHWER@CRVAX.SRI.COM>
Subject: Seek comments on using MacX or eXodus as X window terminal.

     I am considering purchasing MacX or eXdous to run X windows
sessions from my Mac to my Sun ELC. I am interested in comments
on either software package and any performance problems. Thanks,

		--Len Schwer  schwer@unix.sri.com

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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 15:43 CST
From: "Anand Rao, Univ. of Wisconsin-River Falls" <Anand.Rao@uwrf.edu>
Subject: S L O W printing on Apple LW LS

 Hi:

 I've heard that Apple Personal LW LS is rather slow..but until I
 started using it, I didn't realize what S L O W meant!

 I'm using SE/30 w/5 Meg; System 7.0 and TuneUp 1.1.1
 LW latest version (can't think of the number... downloaded it
 recently from Apple.com) and only TT fonts (no bitmaps on the
 hard drive!)

 when I try to print a normal text page from Page Maker 4.0, it
 takes almost 3 minutes before the paper comes out!  If I have any
 graphics, it's even s l o w e r! Argh!  The same sluggishness is
 experienced with printing from other applications (FullWrite Pro,
 SuperPaint, WingZ, TeachText)

 I've tried various things... quitting all applications when I
 start to print (including the application from which I printed),
 turning off all Extensions, boosting the allocated memory for the
 LW driver, increasing Finder's memory cache, even pulling TunUp
 out onto the desktop (i.e. disabling it.)  None of the above made
 a difference in printing speed.

 Does anybody have any suggestions?!  Thanks!
---Anand Rao                              E-mail:  Anand.Rao@UWRF.edu
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-RIVER FALLS

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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 22:29:13 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Anthony F. Gaudiano II" <anthonyg@tenet.edu>
Subject: SoundEdit Pro is not for 68000!!!!

Howdy,

    Well, anybody planning to get SoundEdit Pro had better have System
6.0.7 or greater and had better have a 68020 or greater.  Real nice of
MacroMind not to tell me this before I called to upgrade.  In the
literature they sent me for the upgrade, they mention the price, and what
new features, but, they fail to tell you that it won't work on any 68000
based machine, nor will it work if you have a accellerator for that 68000.
The program also requires the Apple Sound Chip.  The upgrade price is
$75.00 from version 2.x of SoundEdit to SoundEdit Pro.  The number to call
and complain, upgrade with for MacroMind is: 1-800-248-4477.
Hope this helps save someone the trouble that I am going through now.
I for one have written a letter trying to find out why and if it will be
fixed in a later release and will try to let everyone reading this know if
something changes.

Anthony F. Gaudiano II
SFASU Apple Student Rep.
Applelink: ST0503
Internet: Z_GAUDIANOAF@CCSVAX.SFASU.EDU
Tenet: anthonyg@formby.tenet.edu

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Date: 13 Aug 92 10:31:49 U
From: "bnhirsch" <bnhirsch@wiccmail.weizmann.ac.il>
Subject: Statview 512+ and II version (Q)

Does anyone know what the latest version of Statview is and how to contact the
distributors (fax or E-mail) for and upgrade?

Thank you, David
bnhirsch@wiccmail.weizmann.ac.il

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Date: 13 Aug 92 13:21:10 GMT
From: linger@drystone.attmail.com
Subject: SyQuestion

I recently bought a SyQuest 88M drive from MacConnection (great deal, too.
They throw in either Norton 2.0 or Autodoubler).  I have been more than happy
with it, except for one small problem.

After formatting it, I moved some files onto it.  Everything worked fine.
But, after a while, upon startup, the Mac would scan the drives (internel,
external SCSI, and SyQuest), clear the screen, and then rescan the drives.
This goes on indefinately.  What I suppose is happening is that it is trying
to boot from the SyQuest and can't, so it tries again.  I've always been
booting from the internal and haven't changed anything.

For the record, I'm using an SE/30, 8M, 40M internal, 105M external, and the
88M SyQuest.  The system is 7.0.1*.  When I reformat the SqQuest and put the
files back, it works again.  But, not for long.

On another note, can I configure virtual memory to use my SyQuest?  I'm aware
of the problems that may cause, but was wondering if anyone knew of a hack to
modify the memory CP to use removables.

Thanks for any help anyone can send me.

Ken Linger
linger@drystone.attmail.com   (Until August 15)
Linger@starsys.laf.in.us      (After August 15)

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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 13:22
From: HUENSD@VAX1.COMPUTER-CENTRE.BIRMINGHAM.AC.UK
Subject: THINK Pascal 3.0

I note that MacApp 3.0 is written in C++. As I would like to
eventually use MacApp, does that mean that I need to give up
on THINK Pascal and switch over a completely MPW environment
to secure this option? The Apple blurb seems to only mention
that MacApp 3.0 is fully compatible with the MPW version of
Pascal.

Anyone know whether Symantec have a way around this potential
problem? Thanks in advance for any advice and help.

David Huen, Dept.of Cancer STudies, Univ. of Birmingham,UK.

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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 14:37:16 -0500 (CDT)
From: engcon!GEMINI!"POPEYE::SISSON_MD"@uunet.UU.NET (Mike Sisson)
Subject: Trying To Find Program Similar To "At Ease" (Q)

Greetings,

I seem to recall seeing a shareware/freeware program in the past that was
similar to Apple's "At Ease" as far as function goes. I pretty much ignored it
as I didn't need it but with my 3 year old using the computer I would like to
protect all but his games from his inquiring mind and mouse clicks. Does
this ring any bells with anyone and if so what is the program called? Any
other
suggestions on childproofing will be appreciated.

Thank you,
Mike Sisson
engcon!GEMINI!"POPEYE::SISSON_MD"@uunet.UU.NET

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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 22:12:38 EST
From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU>
Subject: VGA monitor <-> Mac IIci cable [Q]

On 12 AUG 92 11:17:30.15-GMT you said:
>What connections should be made to attach a VGA Monitor
>to a MacIIci ?  Side question: is it the same cable to
>attach this Monitor to a LCII, a IIsi, a Quadra ?

The IIci and IIsi DO NOT support VGA.  Apple promised that the LC would
have a //e card.  The //e has an entirely different scan rate than the
Mac.  Therefore, it was necessary to design the LC with VRAM that
supports multiple scan rates (low and behold VGA got included in
that--not really on purpose, but as a serendipitous benefit).  When
Apple designed the Quadra they used existing VRAM technology (a problem
that already had been solved) -- that is the LC's VRAM technology.  Why
reinvent the wheel?  Hence, quite by chance the Quadra also will support
VGA.  At least in theory, that means some clever sole could create a
NuBus adapter for a //e card to work on a Quadra (I've still got enough
//e disks around that I might even be persuaded to buy such a gadget ;-)

The cable that works on an LC also works on a Quadra.  You'll find that
all VGA isn't equal.  Some of the monitors produce decent Mac displays
(Sony's 14" Trinitron, for example) while others produce really ugly
color shifts :-(

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Date: 13 Aug 92 04:46:07 GMT
From: yuan@asis.unimelb.edu.au (William Yuan)
Subject: Virtual Desktop for the Mac

Hi netters,

	Is there an startup INIT/control panel CDEV/ or application which
allows you to have a virtual desktop similar to the one available in
XWindows.
If there are enough requests, I'll post a summary to the net.

Thanks,

	William

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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 11:46 EST
From: David Elbert <ELBERT%MIDD.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Word 5 Can't Find It's Commands! (Q & A)

As more and more of us at Middlebury change over to Word 5, one
particularly annoying and silly problem crops up. When you install Word
you get a folder filled with the application itself and a bunch of other
folders containing the "usual suspects" (i.e. sample documents,
tutorial files,...).  One of these folders contains "commands"; this
includes things like the grammar "checker", and the symbol command
that offers a small keycaps-like table of the symbol font.  Problem
is..if you move the application out of the Word 5 folder, it can't
locate this folder full of commands (unless you simply place it on the
desktop..not in another folder or at the top level of your disk).  In system
7, you can cicumvent this problem by leaving the application
in the Word 5 folder and creating aliases in other locations; in system 6
you seem to have to grin and bear it.

I may have missed a posting on this when Word 5 was new, but I have seen
so many people confused when their newly installed version of the software
can't access its commands, that I thought I'd post this (reinstalling the
individual command is a popular incantation that doesn't solve
anything).  I also was hoping that there might be a way around this.
Does Word 5 have a way to "learn" the locations of files?
Sometimes it's so sad that Microsoft is a software giant...

David Elbert
Elbert@midd.bitnet

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