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From: purp@wixer.cactus.org (Jim Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Hiearchical Font Menus?
Date: 14 Aug 92 16:22:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: wixer.1992Aug14.162253.14647
Organization: Real/Time Communications

In article <1992Aug14.014028.22454@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> an446@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Daniel Boeringer) writes:
>
>Hi there...
>
>Are there any extensions which provide user-definable 
>hierarchical font menus?

I believe WYSIWYG Menus, part of the NOW Utilities package, is capable
of doing this. Unfortunately, I canUt tell you more because IUm a
die-hard Type Reunion user. :)

--Purp, Adobe's #1 Fan.


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From: egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: MacDraw Pro 1.5: Worth upgrading?
Date: 14 Aug 92 11:20:46 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <1992Aug13.211323.23802@sura.net> wbarnes@sura.net (Bill Barnes) writes:
=>We've currently got MacDraw Pro 1.0 and wonder if 1.5 is worth it.
=>In particular, I wanna know if it's significantly faster than the
=>slow-as-molasses Pro 1.0.  A reasonable speed increase alone is
=>enough to make us consider buying it.  Second, is there an upgrade
=>option for MacDraw Pro owners like us?  I've seen them offered for
=>MacDraw II users, so I'm presuming Claris has one for Pro users too,
=>but I haven't gotten anything about it from them (the bums!).

It's well worth upgrading - apart from the speed increase, 1.5 fixes the
horrible text-editing bug. There is a cheap-upgrade deal.

-- 
-Jeremy Henderson            |  Anisotropic
 egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk	     |  Density tensor!  Truly
       			     |  a wonderous thing.
			     |			(Joe Green)
From: pollard@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu (Tom Pollard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Equation-editing software
Date: 19 Aug 92 02:53:28 GMT
Organization: Center for Biomolecular Simulation

I'm interested in getting a good equation-editing package, but the only one 
that I have any experience with is Expressionist.  What other comparable
programs are out there, and how do they stack up against Expressionist in 
terms of ease of use, flexibility, and quality of output?

I am not interested in hearing about MS Word's equation editor or TeX - I want
something that I can use with any word processor (I'm thinking about getting
WriteNow or Nisus).  I've seen people use the equation editor in MS Word 4.0
and it is a big step down from even the earliest version of Expressionist.

It seems like this was already a topic of discussion here not long ago, but
I unfortunately didn't follow it all that closely.  Was there ever a summary
of that discussion that someone could repost or mail me?

Thanks,,

Tom


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From: tonyg@spock.retix.com (Tony "Salty Dog" Goulding)
Subject: Word 5.0 table format question
Organization: Retix, Santa Monica CA
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 19:08:56 GMT

I'm working with a table, or more correctly, a lot of tables each
separated by a carriage-return character.  I would like to combine each
row of cells into a single table for ease of maintenance.  The problem
I'm facing is that I would like to visually separate the text in each 
row by 4 points.  This is why the (4-point) carriage return exists 
currently.  
If I remove all the carriage returns to produce a single table, I then
need to create this 4-point gap between rows by adding a 4-point-CR 
at the end of the text in the fullest cell of each row.  Problem is, that
when I format this CR character to 4-point, the row gap doesn't decrease
proportionally, so I'm left with the 9-point (the size of my text within
the cells) gap in-tact.
I'd rather not replace the original CR character with a new row of
empty cells, formatted to a 4-point height.
Hopefully, this makes sense to someone.  Any ideas would be very 
appreciated
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From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: FileMaker Pro -question on page boundaries
Date: 13 Aug 92 17:11:03 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

bub@theus.rain.com (Barbara Theus) writes:

>I have created a layout with multiple sub-summaries and have marked each
>part definition that I do not want to break the part across page
>boundaries.  This doesn't work the way I expect it to.

    The Do not break across page boundaries option in the Layout Parts
dialog is so that if you have a large Part that would have had some of
it on the bottom of one page and the rest on the top of the next, FM Pro
will keep the whole part together and put it all at the top of the next
page. This is how it's supposed to work according to the manual.

>Part Definitions:

>   Header
>   Sub-Summary by Stock  	(no page boundary breaks)
>   Sub-Summary by Names  	(no page boundary breaks)
>   Footer

    Where does the Body factor into this layout, and what is being
printed in the Body.

>I then sort by Stock first, Names second.  My goal is to have a list
>of all Names under each Stock.  The list I get is great.  However, I
>can't seem to prevent the page boundary breaks.

>What I'm trying to do is to prevent the list of names from wrapping to
>the next page.  If there are too many names, I want a page break before
>typing the Stock.  What I expected was a page break before the Stock
>(Stock2 in above example), so that all names associated with that will
>fall on the same page.  My database has 1-8 names per stock. 

    The page boundary breaks apply only to each part individually. If
you have a single part that is used multiple times on the page then each
part is looked at as separate from the rest. That is why you are getting
the output you have.

>Any ideas how to get FileMaker Pro to output this in the format I want?
>Any and all suggestions are appreciated.  TIA.

    Unfortunately, there is no way to have FM Pro do what you want, what
you are asking for is very fine record by record control that you can't
get unless you program it in yourself. Since FM Pro has no programming
language you can't do this. The only possible solution to your problem
is to print out one stock per page. It might be a bit of a waste, but
you will arrive with a solution close to what you want.

--
-Hades (Brian V. Hughes) Moderator: Rec.Arts.Comics.Info
		   "A clear case of curare poisoning
	       of one of her Majesty's Cold-Cream Guards"
						   -- Durlock Holmes
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From: richard@raet-sh.UUCP (Richard van Denzel)
Subject: Mounting DOS floppies
Organization: RAET Industrie & Handel, Utrecht
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 14:28:45 GMT


Hi there,


Is there anyone aout there who knows about an utility which will let me mount
DOS floppies on the Good Old MACPlus (or rather an 512K converted to a 
MACPlus).
Prefferably a FREEware or SHAREware utility. Please be so kind as where to
get it (I can not FTP, but can receive by E-mail).

Thanx in Advance,

Richard.
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From: kemper@millelac.rhrk.uni-kl.de (Michael Kemper [Informatik])
Subject: Re: Mac PC Exchange, AccessPC & DOSMounter
Reply-To: kemper@millelac.rhrk.uni-kl.de (Michael Kemper [Informatik])
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern (Germany)
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 09:44:50 GMT

I have severe problems with PC Exchange (german version). When I copy
files (usually binhexed files) onto a DOS disk at my Sun Workstation
(using mtools on the Sun), I get a normal DOS disk, which every PC can
read. When I mount this disk on my Mac (SE/30 5/40, System 7 (german),
TuneUp 1.1.1) using PC Exchange and then try to copy the files onto my
hard disk, PC Exchange writes the files without ever reading the DOS
disk. The resulting files on my hard disk are as long as the original
files on the DOS disk but contain only garbage.
  When I try to open a file on the DOS disk using BBEdit, the file opens
normally. When I then try to copy the file to the hard disk, the file is
normally copied. Strange, isn't it?

Is there any help?

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From: teague@Apple.COM (Terry Teague)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Userland Frontier...
Date: 14 Aug 92 03:07:43 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

In article <1992Aug11.082827.25678@rdg.dec.com> catlin@iosg.enet.dec.com (Ian Catlin) writes:
>Frontier is well supported on Compuserve where there are many "clever"
>scripts and suites.  I'm not aware of any scripts etc on the Internet
>(I'd be please to find some though).  There is a healthy exchange of
>scripts etc and I expect this to grow with the release of Runtime...
>
>Ian.

There are a couple of places on the Internet where there is Frontier
stuff - there is a users group, with a mailing address of :

Frontier.Info@dartmouth.edu

and there is an anonymous FTP site that collects most of the Frontier
stuff :

directory /Frontier on syrinx.kgs.ukans.edu

Hope this helps.
Regards, Terry Teague

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From: David Brady <Brady_David@Tandem.Com>
Subject: Re: FETCH and GIF Weather Maps?
X-Xxdate: Thu, 13 Aug 92 23:01:27 GMT
Organization: Tandem, Inc.
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d7
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 21:57:27 GMT

In article <1992Aug13.004531.24026@riacs.edu> Owen S. Nishioka,
owen@olympus.arc.nasa.gov..arc.nasa.gov writes:
>In article <1992Aug12.180610.15566@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
artis@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu 
>(David A. Artis) writes:
>>I read in one of the alt.pictures groups about GIF weather maps,
updated 
>>hourly, available at FTP site vmd.cso.uiuc.edu (you have to tell Fetch
to 
>>change working directory to wx).  I got into the site ok, and tried 
>>dowloading a few examples, using "binary".  However, I've not been able
to 
>>get any of the files to display with any of several Mac GIF viewers-
each 
>>says the file is damaged or in an invalid format.  A friend on an IBM
PC 
>>downloaded the same files and had no problem displaying them with his
GIF 
>>viewer. Any ideas?
>
>I have done this without any problems.  However, make sure you have
>switched to BINARY or IMAGE mode before transferring.  Also, disable
>MacBinary.

Seeing the above prompted me to try to look at the pictures myself.  I
couldn't get it to work either.   Here's what I did:

1) In Fetch I switched to binary and taught it about my viewer.
2) Downloaded - no problem.  It even shows up with a pretty GIFf icon.
3) Tried to view it - viewer said "Can't decode as a GIF file"
4) Checked to see if Imagery could do anything with it - "Incompatible
File Format or Damaged File"
5) Stuck.

Can anyone help me too?

Thanks.
-----------------------------------
email: Brady_David@Tandem.Com

Remember, David Brady IS Lee Harvey!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: boyce@amo.mit.edu (Kevin Boyce)
Subject: Looking for schematic drawing application
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 18:56:28 GMT

I want a simple schematic drawing program, which will automatically
stretch connections as you move components, ties labels to components,
comes with a decent component library, allows adding PICTs to the
library, etc.  Preferably in the $100-200 range, or PD if there is
one.  

OR

A complete package including schematic drawing and analog simulation
(PC layout not necessary, but maybe unavoidable?).  This is going to
be major bucks, I assume.  Under $1K would be nice in this category.
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Kevin		boyce@amo.mit.edu
"I will do whatever I have to to get reelected."  --G.H.W.Bush
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From: beldar@MicroUnity.Com (Gardner Cohen)
Subject: Save us from Microsoft Mail
Reply-To: beldar@MicroUnity.com
Organization: MicroUnity Systems Engineering, Inc.
Distribution: na
Date: 12 Aug 92 16:55:58


Help!  We're tired of Microsoft mail, and we want to switch to Eudora.

Everyone here who's tried Eudora likes it, but nobody wants to abandon
all their old messages that are stored in microsoft mail's database.

It's incredibly tedious to forward all those messages back to oneself,
and saving them individually to files isn't satisfactory, either.

Does anyone know of a solution that would automate extracting
microsoft mail and converting it to unix mbox format (which Eudora
will then happily accept)?  I have taken the step of copying the
database and taking a look inside it, but things are rather jumbled.

Many thanks for any suggestions.  Of course, the obvious solution is
to accidentally delete the 18 Meg MSmail database that's apparently
never been backed up...
--
Gardner Cohen / beldar@microunity.com / 408-734-8100
From: ferch@ucs.ubc.ca (Les Ferch)
Subject: Re: Archie
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 08:11:17 GMT

In <fred-mckenzie-200892103050@128.159.169.79> fred-mckenzie@ksc.nasa.gov (Fred McKenzie) writes:

>In article <1992Aug19.192349.17475@nrc.com>, Mikey <mikey@nrc.com> wrote:
>> What is it??? If it is something I want...Where do I get it???

>Mikey-

>Archie is a service available on several machines around the world.  It
>consists of a database containing filenames and anonymous ftp sites.  You
>can search for a file using a fragment of the filename, and it will return
>a report of all the sites that have files containing that fragment in their
>name.

>To access Archie, telnet to one of the sites (NOT ftp), and use "archie" as
>your user name.  No password is required.  The one I generally use is at
>archie.rutgers.edu.  There is a list of other sites on the log-on screen.

>To get info on how to use the system, type "help" at the prompt.  The
>system has some sophisticated searching capability, but I generally just
>use the "prog" command.  For example, to find sites with files containing
>the fragment, "electro", I would enter the command as "prog electro". 
>After a search that lasts 3 or 4 minutes, the list is generated, containing
>sites and the filenames found.  If you use too common a fragment, the list
>can get rather long.  A control-C will stop either the search or the list.

>fred-mckenzie@ksc.nasa.gov

It is more efficient to email your request to archie (less waiting around
on your part). The following example (using the McGill archie server) will
mail back with a report showing all locations having a program whose
filename contains the string "wolfenstein". Send a message with just the
single word "help" in the boddy of the message for more information.

Mail To: archie@quiche.CS.McGill.CA 
Subject: <none> 
 
prog wolfenstein
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From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)
Subject: SendPS problems with System 7?
Originator: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu
Organization: George Washington University
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 15:04:47 GMT

I'm a new System 7 user and seem to be having problems with SendPS,
which I use frequently to dump ASCII files to my printer. SendPS
2.0 seems to run OK but has trouble retrieving the name of the
printer from the LaserWriter driver. Any thoughts on this?

I think I saw in a recent info-mac digest a reference to a SendPS FAQ.
Can someone point me to it? It doesn't seem to be at sumex.

Thanks!

Mike Feldman
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From: johnson@ssvax1.ssd.loral.com (Christopher Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: FileMaker Pro: Report format question
Date: 20 Aug 92 16:52:48 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: Space Systems/LORAL

Question for the Net:

I am creating a membership database with FileMaker Pro. I have three
catagories of members:
    Regular members
    Instructors
    Members with lapsed dues

It is set up with one record for a member with an Instructor field and a
date field for dues. I would like to have a single report with Instructors
bolded, delequint members italicized, and normal members plain. I haven't
been able to figure out a way to do this. Is it possable?

Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks
    Chris



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From: 93asw@williams.edu (Andrew Wright)
Subject: Re: Short Nuntius/NewsWatcher review
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: Williams College
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 14:02:39 GMT

Newswatcher has two big advantages over Nuntius (IMO).

1) Newswatcher can automatically download and upload .newsrc files from a
UNIX host.  This is crucial if you read the news on both platforms (i.e. at
work/ at home over a modem).

2) Size - Nuntius builds a lot of preference files in the System folder
which end up taking a lot of room.

In article <1992Aug14.111134.429@ludd.luth.se>, matti@my.sm.luth.se (Matti
Larborn) wrote:
> 
> Someone asked me to compare Nuntius and NewsWatcher and
> write a short review.
<stuff deleted>
>There is
> a lot of built in functions (which i did not test).

Andrew
Jellybirdbigbangboom
From: davidst@tekig1.PEN.TEK.COM (David D Stubbs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Changing page background color in MS Word?
Keywords: Microsoft Word color hack
Date: 19 Aug 92 22:42:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: tekig7.6634

My wife has taken to wearing orange sunglasses while working with
MS-Word on our Macintosh.  She loved WordPerfect's access to color
characteristics and had WP set for a brownish-orange background with
black characters on our old DOS system.  Without the sunglasses, she
can use MS-Word only for about 30 minutes before her eyes fuzz out
(even on the E-Machines T16/2).

I've tried to Colorize but it can only get at the same data structures
available through resedit.  Now I'm left with the prospect of munging
through the resedit disassembly to find where MS has circumvented
this particular data structure convention.

Anyone happen to know where, in the disassembled code, the character or page
background color might live?
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From: mkl@rob.cs.tu-bs.de (Mario Klebsch DG1AM)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: HD backup software
Date: 21 Aug 92 19:03:38 GMT
Organization: TU Braunschweig, Informatik, Bueltenweg, Germany

flui@fraser.sfu.ca (Francis Wai Gee Lui) writes:

>What's everyone's favourite HD backup software?

I like suntar very much. But it is quite slow. Some days ago
I got the source code and I will try to speed it up. I tried
to write my own backup program and was able to achieve quite
good speed. Although suntar is written a bit confusing I hope
I will be able to tune it the same way.

The best thing is that you can read the backup disks on almost
any UNIX machine to get your data if your MAC is down.

Mario						mkl@rob.cs.tu-bs.de
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From: mzajac@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Michael Stephen Zajac)
Subject: Re: CPUseless???
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 08:21:03 GMT

In <1992Aug20.211535.3410@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> Robert.H.Gross@dartmouth.edu (Robert H. Gross) writes:

>I just went back and checked Word 5 and Excel 3 (I don't have 4.0) and
>they work fine (e.g. the clock is visible). I admit that I don't use
>the dialog or menu keys, but the parts that I DO use seem to work fine.
>I wonder if we have some kind of INIT conflict here?

With the Work menu turned on in Word 5 the CPU menu disappears.  I can see it
when I switch to the finder or any of my other applications, though.

I am quite happy with CPU so far.  All of the functions I don't need can be
turned off, and I am surprised that a cp that messes with so much of the 
system has shown no conflicts or bugs yet.

I do find the windows-style keyboard shortcuts to be overly obtrusive.
I have disabled them and plan to see if escapade will still work with CPU
installed.

Michael Zajac
From: uyyifrah@mcs.drexel.edu (Y Yifrah [y^2])
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Look & Feel
Date: 13 Aug 92 14:08:09 GMT
Organization: Drexel University

In article <eric-130892090932@131.211.80.202> eric@cs.ruu.nl (Eric Nieuwland) writes:

[decent metaphor deleted]

>What might be subject to a patent is how one uses a combination of well
>known things to achieve a goal. It should be this combination that is
>not obvious, novel etc.
>As a paradox, I guess it would be best if the same problem usually was
>solved in a different way to demonstrate patentability of a solution.
>
>--eric (eric@cs.ruu.nl)

The problem is, most companies will do this, and patent that solution to,
its called clustering, and its stifling and perverting the original idea of
the patent....

Mathematical and mental processes are supposed to be unpatentable...

What computer algorithm are is up for debate, but its obvious that the
Patent office is way over its head. With more and more patents being applied
for every day. They are just not able to make consistent decisions when it
comes to software...

BTW, who said that patents were better? Better for who? Patents give the
holder a legalized monopoly. Copyrights work differently, they give the holder
a claim on a specific work. Patents are a much more powerful protection for
a software company to have, and much more desirable. They last very long,
and have become the "new" battleground for R&D companies, with blocking and
clustering being the order of the day...





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