HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: parkyn@fraser.sfu.ca (Dale Parkyn)
Subject: Re: Postscript Files on Non-Postscript Printers?
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:30:19 GMT

31babik@gw.wmich.edu writes:

>I have a friend who told me he found a program (for the IBM) that will let 
>him print postscript files to non-postscript printers (I think it is called 
>GhostWriter).  Is there something like that available for the Mac?

>          (__)		  Lisamarie Gemma Babik				

The System 7 disks have 'LaserWriter Font Utility' program that
primarily deals with font management, ie. donwloading fonts to printer.
It also will send a Postscript file to the printer and turn off/on your
printer's startup page.

Dale
parkyn@sfu.ca

*** Yes, young cows do. But they grow out of it... ***
From: cjin@snake3.cs.wisc.edu (Cjin Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: SCSI Tape Driver for Mac needed
Date: 21 Nov 92 00:38:39 GMT
Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept

Hi,
	I'm posting this request on behalf of my friend who has no
	email access:

        --------------------------------------------------------------
	Hi,
		I have a 525MB 1/4" SCSI tape streamer (the kind used
	by UNIX boxes) and would like to know if any Mac user can help
	suggest a way/ways that I can employ it to back-up my SCSI
	harddrive on the Mac.

		Thanks in advance.

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

	Please send replies to me at:

			cjin%bc@cs.wisc.edu
	or
			cjin%whipple@cs.wisc.edu

	Thank you.

						-  cjin pheow
From: din@gradient.cis.upenn.edu (Clarence Din)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Need advice on IIsi accelerators
Date: 23 Nov 92 16:49:16 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

I'm looking to buy an accelerator or cache card for my IIsi (something
to put a little more snap into it).  I've seen four cache cards so
far: Quicksilver by Applied Eng, FastCache and Combocache by Daystar,
and Logicache by Logica.  All claim 40-50% improvement in speed.  I
have also seen various ads for the Daystar Powercache, but it is a
little too pricey for me at this point.  Could anyone give me any
reviews or opinions concerning any of the above products or on any
product I've failed to mention?  Thanks in advance!
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Clarence K. Din
Information Systems Specialist III, Dept of Chemistry, Univ of Pennsylvania
din@gradient.cis.upenn.edu
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I have my toys (D-50+M-EX, SR-16, TurboDuo, SNES, HP48SX) and you don't!  Nyah!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Distribution: world
From: Darren_E._Tong@fourd.com
Organization: 4th Dimension BBS
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 09:12:04 EST
Subject: Re: Colour Powerbooks

I saw one at MacWorld-Boston- But it costs another 5000.00 for a color monitor
to be retrofitted into a powerbook-TOO MUCH $$$$

- BulkRate... getting slower everyday!-darren_tong@fourd.com

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From: HarriRehnberg@salient.com (Salient Software)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Autodoubler
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 10:30:40 PST
Organization: Fifth Generation Systems
Reply-To: HarriRehnberg@salient.com (Salient Software)
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.5v3


In article <1992Nov20.105348.23319@cs.unibo.it> (comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.programmer), speranza@cs.unibo.it (Sauro Speranza) writes:
|In article <92324.132959U59985@uicvm.uic.edu>, <U59985@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
|> AD 2.0 is great. I've saved so much room on my hard drive by using it.
|
|I agree.
|
|> 
|> Personally, I've had no problems with 2.0, but I'm always wary so I've been loo
|> king for 2.01. Apparently, 2.0 is stable enough that a bug fix is not going to
|> be needed. This is wonderful news from Salient, especially after what happened
|> with version 1.0.
|
|sorry, but it's NOT stable enough: every time I click the status button whoam!
|i'm into MacsBug with bus error for a0==FFFF0448, i write into a0 448 and
|all goes well. It succeed also if AfterDark blanks the screen and AutoDoubler 
|must redrasw the dialog.
...
You must be running SpeedyFinder.  If so, The SpeedyFinder author
is aware of the problem and is working on a fix.  It's in SpeedyFinder,
not AutoDoubler.  If your not running SpeedyFinder please send a listing
of your system, control panel, and extension folders when viewed by
name.

for all FGS products FIFTHGEN@aol.com
for AutoDoubler & DiskDoubler techsupport@salient.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: Apgar@Apple.com (Gar)
Subject: Re: AppleShare 3.0 and 2.Xproblems
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 09:12:11 GMT
Organization: Apple
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc

In article <92316.210453TJK111@psuvm.psu.edu>, <TJK111@psuvm.psu.edu>
wrote:
> 
> Anyone know why networked ImageWriters print out pages with too much space
> starting with the second page in 3.0? Will the update fix this?

Fixed in AppleShare Print Server 3.0.1. Call the AppleShare Answerline...

> In 2.X with System 6, when restarting after setting the disk cache down to
> 0 or some other low number, it always resets to 15XX K? I am relaying these
> questions for a friend, so pardon the ambiguity...

I'm not sure here, but I think under File Server 2.x the Ram Cache is
set automatically depending on the amount of RAM.


Apgar@Apple.com   |   Eric Apgar  alias  Gar   |   I said it, NOT Apple.
From: suhler@pollux.usc.edu (Paul Suhler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Any Experience With "Pre-Owned Electronics"?
Date: 17 Nov 1992 13:24:26 -0800
Organization: USC Advanced Computer Architecture Laboratory
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: pollux.usc.edu

I'm considering buying a $329 reconditioned Syquest 44MB drive from
Pre-Owned Electronics, in Masschusetts.  They give a 90-day warranty,
but I'm not sure that the risk is worth saving $70.

Does anyone have any experience, good or bad, with them?

Thanks.  Please e-mail me and I'll summarize to the net if there's
interest.

Paul Suhler
From: werner@cs.utexas.edu (Werner Uhrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: not-so-neat bug in human found
Date: 23 Nov 1992 19:01:27 -0600
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: dimebox.cs.utexas.edu



	"neat bug", eh ?!?	NOT !

	more likely "a virus"....   ;-)


 rudolph@unixg.ubc.ca (Christopher E Rudolph) writes:

>I have found a wierd bug that causes any folder that begins with a 'U' or
>a 'u' becomes invisible to the user.  Even applications don't show it. 
>However if you know the name, or part of the name, of the folder you can
>use the FileFinder or FindPro II to make the file visible again.  Once you
>cause a screen update the folder gets hidden again.  This seems only to
>work on external drives.


	run DiskFirstAid, make sure it is the latest version (7.1) and
	expect to find it reporting a problem on your (one?) external disk.

	Most likely you'll get lucky and 7.1 will offer to fix it for you
	(older versions won't).

	oh, and next time, don't speculate on what you found, just report
	your observations;  save us all the scare (and yourself the ridicule :-)
-- 
  werner@cs.utexas.edu |  ..!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!werner | werner@UTXVM.bitnet

              "Free Advice and Opinions -- Refunds Available"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: agoodrid@vaxa.weeg.uiowa.edu (Stephen Klautky)
Subject: Re: binary transfer problem
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 20:37:00 GMT

In article <18NOV199214572665@vaxa.weeg.uiowa.edu>, agoodrid@vaxa.weeg.uiowa.edu (Stephen Klautky) writes...
>I'm interested in downloading some of John Pugh's binary files
>from apple.com.  I am working on a MacII (without MacTCP)
>connecting to a VAX account - which does the file transfers.  I
>tried setting the VAX transfer to binary then downloading to the
>Mac with Macbinary (using NCSA Telnet 2.5).  However, I still have
>problems opening the files.  Am I doing something wrong?
> 
>Is there information lost/changed in the transfer between apple.com
>and our VAX using "binary"?  If so how can I get around this?
> 

Well, I guess I get to answer my own post.

It turns out that the Macbinary setting on NCSA Telnet is
the problem.

I get around this by downloading the binary file from our
VAX to the mac by typing binary at the VAX end (at which
time it informs me that macbinary is disabled).  Then I
convert this file with Apple File Exchange and the Macbinary
to Mac setting.

I should have guessed at the culprit beforehand but I don't
get too annoyed - it is free software after all.

Steve     AGOODRID@VAXA.WEEG.UIOWA.EDU
From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: February's batch of new Macs
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 11:54:46 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.

bskendig@netcom.com (Brian Kendig) writes:
> Apple wants to move its product line up to the 040 to stay competitive
> with 486 machines, and to handle additions such as QuickTime,
> QuickDraw GX, and OCE (Open Collaboration Environment).

So all these extra goodies I've been told I'll be able to get if I upgrade to
System 7.1 won't actually work on my machine anyway, even if I do upgrade?


mathew
-- 
Macintosh System 7.1 -- just say no.  If I'd wanted to pay $50 for OS upgrades
I'd have bought an IBM.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Distribution: world
From: James_R._Posey@bmug.org
Organization: BMUG, Inc.
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 02:24:52 PST
Subject: Re: Mac as a drum machine?

There's more than one way to beat an R-5 (or an R-8 like I did)!!!
I use a Roland R8M with Vision at home and an Alesis DataDisk on the gig.
Controlled by Roland Pad80 and some external pads & pedals, effected with a
couple of Microverb III's and 800 watts into a refrigerator sized Cerwin-Vega,
I can Pretty Much shut anybody down on stage with truly incredible sound
reproduction.  Yes, the Mac as a Drum Machine is quite the good idea!@!
Jim..
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From: cottle@cmp-rt.music.uiuc.edu (David M. Cottle)
Subject: Re: Music editor for Apple Mac
Organization: University of Illinois School of Music
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 21:52:52 GMT

In article <1992Nov20.213050.27628@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> rags@triples.math.mcgill.ca (Robert A. G. Seely) writes:
>Lime sounds fine - but is there anything equivalent for a PC?  I am aware of

It should be finished this spring.



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.comm
From: hshubs@cis.umassd.edu (Howard S Shubs)
Subject: Re: HQX files
Organization: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 19:07:12 GMT

In <By3qt6.MDo@sju.edu> mctague@sju.edu (Brendan McTague) writes:

>alan@pacdata.com () writes:
>> Not sure exactly what to do with these ".hqx" file extensions.
>> If there is an archiver or something on FTP could someone point me in
>> the right direction?

>Use DeHex and Extractor ... both support drag and drop under system 7.x.
>and both are available on the net!

Or any version of Stuffit or Compact Pro.
From: trefz@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: HELP: Strip out screen control characters
Date: 17 Nov 92 09:42:41 EST

Does anyone have a program which will strip screen control characters out of
a file?  Several of the libraries have CDROM searches but no download features,
so I capture EVERY THING as it comes,  the text is there but when you print all
the control characters are there also.

Thanks for the help.

Kelvin Trefz
trefz@mps.ohio-state.edu
From: Keith.Jones@macrocosm.omahug.org (Keith Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Easter - Eggs
Date: 21 Nov 92 01:05:37 CST
Reply-To: keith.jones@macrocosm.omahug.org
Organization: The MacRocosm BBS, Lawrence, KS
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc


If you go to the "About" window in Norton Utilities and Option click on the
small triangle you will get a treat.  

Is this old news?

Keith
From: hp48sx@wupost.wustl.edu (HP48SX Archive Maintainer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: official apple font? (where??)
Date: 15 Nov 1992 18:52:06 -0600
Organization: Washington University in Saint Louis, MO USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: wuarchive.wustl.edu

Apple uses a 80% condensed ITC Garamond. I think it is the free font you
will get with your $7.50 ATM from Adobe. And then you can use it without
risk of you mac turning into a pumpkin :^)
-- 
Povl H. Pedersen             hp48sx@wuarchive.wustl.edu
HP48sx archive maintainer

All Opinions (C) Copyright the Intergalactic Thought Association
From: erh0362@tesla.njit.edu (Elliotte Rusty Harold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Bad Sector
Date: 18 Nov 92 14:18:11 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology

> In article <1992Nov8.205527.29321@leland.Stanford.EDU> (comp.sys.mac.misc), Ravi Konchigeri <mongoose@cardinal.stanford.edu> writes:
> |	My computer was sitting idle today when Autodoubler popped up this nice
> |little dialog box.  It said something like, "Autodoubler has caught an
> |error or type -20999 ... The file is good but your hard disk might be
> |bad.  Please contact tech support."  I looked up -20999 in the
> |SystemErrors DA and couldn't find it.  Does anyone know what this error
> |is?
> 
> -20999 is a AutoDoubler internal error.  It means that AutoDoubler
> encountered a checksum error while checking the copy against the original.


	It's nice that Autodoubler checks for these errors and that there's 
somebody on the net to explain them.  However it would be even nicer if the 
error message itself gave this explanation rather than something confusing like 
"-20999."  Of course Autodoubler is far from alone in presenting confusing and 
possibly frightening error messages.  Among competing transparent compresssion 
software, SpaceSaver has been frequently telling me that "An error occurred 
during compression" (Why? What kind of error?  What can I do to prevent it?) 
when in fact no error exists.  Leonard Rosenthol has promised me this will be 
fixed in the forthcoming update to 1.0.2, but if there really was an error I'd 
like to know a little more about it.  

	And of course confusing error reports aren't limited to transparent 
compression software by any means.  The System itself generates plenty of Type 
XXX errors.  Even when something is reported in English rather than numeric 
code it's typically of no use to the user.  Does anyone really need to know 
that there's been a "Stack Collision with Heap" in Quark XPress?  How about 
instead an error message that says "Sorry, our programmers goofed and weren't 
as careful as they should have been.  It's not your fault and we'll try to do 
better next time." which is about all anyone can do after a stack-heap 
collision error anyway.

	If Apple wants to add something really useful to the System software, 
how about an Error Manager which provides a standard set of strings for 
various system errors written in English ordinary humans can understand?  And 
there should of course be hooks for programmers to replace the error messages 
when appropriate.  This would mean more programs could have readable error 
messages, and save space since every program wouldn't have to store a separate 
set of error strings in its resource fork.  (Of course Apple will probably 
charge us $35 for the privilege of having new improved system errors so people 
won't upgrade so programs will have to keep error strings in their resource 
forks anyway.)

Elliotte Rusty Harold		Department of Mathematics
elharo@m.njit.edu		New Jersey Institute of Technology
erh0362@tesla.njit.edu		Newark, NJ 07102
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: UC525655@mizzou1.missouri.edu (Mark Eaton)
Subject: RE: World Maps Available?
Organization: University of Missouri
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 11:57:09 CST

I'm sorry, I missed this thread... but did somebody have information on
where to obtain maps on the internet (I'm just guessing based on the follow-
up about stuffit)
thanks!
 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: jstc_ss@troi.cc.rochester.edu (j. collins)
Subject: Re: Colour Powerbooks
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 00:09:47 GMT

In <1992Nov19.173348.27452@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> afry@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Alan R. Fry) writes:

>In article <19NOV199210331784@vax2.concordia.ca> wes@vax2.concordia.ca (Wes Schyngera) writes:
>>This may be a stupid question, but here it goes anyway: If
>>the PC world can enjoy colour notebooks, why can't Mac users?
>>Obviously Apple must be working on them, but it seems a little
>>unfair that once everyone has bought their Powerbooks and Duos
>>yet another line of laptops will come out, making even the 
>>impressive Duo system seem a little obsolete. What's the story
>>here, how long before these things come out? If colour PB's are
>>only a year or so down the line, why bother buying one of the
>>current models?
>>
>>--Wes--


>Good questions.  Color (us spelling :-) notebooks are in the works at
>Apple.  Right now the color screens are too big and suck too much power for
>Apple's tastes in notebook computers.

Actually, what I have heard is that the problem is expense.  The cost of
an 8-bit active matrix color screen would double the price of a 
PowerBook 180.  Also I have worked a little with a powerbook 180 and while
I very much like color, the screen on the 180 is really very nice in my
opinion.  I only find color really necessary when I am working with images
anyways so if I were to own a 180, I would really never *need* color
while I was using it as a portable, and if needed color I could always place
a monitor off of it.

peace,
-justin m. collins <jstc_ss@troi.cc.rochester.edu>
From: sacg@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (giuseppe sacco)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: voice recognition for speech to text
Keywords: voice recognition, voice synthesys, speech to text, voice navigator
Date: 20 Nov 92 16:07:21 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University


Hi netters,
a friend of mine is looking for some application to synthesize and recognize voice. He needs them as is developing a system for a boy who suffers of progressive muscolar distrophy (Italian : "distrofia muscolare progressiva") and is unable to use nothing more than his voice. This piece of software have to deal with italian language and, as for the piece for voice recognition, be able to navigate him through the various Mac application and speech to text.
He already has The Voice Navigator, and is thinking to buy the software version to use on a powerbook with the system mike. The problem is the system can deal with 200 words only, and isn't enough for speech to text: he needs at least some thousand of words or even more.
Is there someone who could help him?
Any kind of help will be greatly apreciated.

Please, as this friend of mine hasn't acces to nn, please E-Mail to me:

	sacg@ghost.dsi.unimi.it

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From: tokma@mars.lerc.nasa.gov (Kamel Al-Khalil)
Subject: Need French Dictionary for MS WORD
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date: 17 Nov 1992 16:10 EDT  

Is there a public domain French dictionary out there?
I would like to use it with MS WORD 5.0.
How about commercial versions?
Any comments or help would be appreciated. Please reply by e-mail. 

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Apple Crippling Systems?!?
From: seth@physc1.byu.edu
Date: 21 Nov 92 02:06:04 -0700
Distribution: world
Organization: Brigham Young University

I have heard the rumors that one of the new up-coming machines Apple will soon
be releasingis a 20 MHz 040 machine, but WITHOUT the fpu on board. Is this
true? If it is then WOE unto us, my brethren! Apple must be going the way of
Intel faster and faster! Does this mean that Apple will soon sell you a
68883 "math-coprocessor" a la Intel's 487, which in fact is a fully functional
486 chip which effectively wrests control of the motherboard from the 486SX?
I really HATE (read in to this statement as much disgust as you can dream of)
companies that intentioanlly CRIPPLE their cpus in an attempt to please their
marketing a-holes. I know a company needs to make a profit to survive, and I
am not averse to paying a fair price for a product, but CRIPPLING a product
is just too much! That would be funny to see Motorola come up with a 68883
which was just a fully functional 040 to provide buyers of this machine with
 a "math-coprocessor." I understand (sort of) them making a IIsi 20 MHz so that
it wouldn't hurt the IIci's sales, and I understand also why they made the LC
a 16-bit bus machine, so as to prove that it truly was a low-end mac. What I
just can't fathom is WHY they made the IIvx a 16-bit bus machine?!? I just 
don't know. I have high hopes every time Apple releases new machines, and it
seems that they disappoint way too often. It's as if they are afraid that as
soon as they come out with a FAST machine for a low price they will never
sell a high-end machine again. Maybe they were too worried that if they made
the IIvx a full 32-bit bus machine nobody would buy Q-700s anymore. (I doubt
it) If anybody has figured those Apple marketing types out yet, please let me
know, as I just can't understand their logic. I personally would LOVE to buy
a machine that had maybe just one expansion slot (I have a IIsi, and apart 
from an fpu and a cache have not used the slot for anything at all yet), a
small, trim, case, just 4 simm sockets, etc., just like the low-end machines
they have out now, but with a full 32-bit bus and maybe a 20 or 25 MHz 040, 
but Apple's marketing types would NEVER let it happen.

-Seth Leigh
BYU Physics Dept.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc