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From: chuckc@sr.hp.com (Chuck Corley)
Subject: Re: MIllie's Math House crashes IIsi
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 21:51:08 GMT
Organization: HP Santa Rosa, CA
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]


:: I bought Millie's Math House as a gift for my nephews. It works for a
:: while and then crashes. After this initial crash it will not work at
:: all, bombing after its musical intro.  Reinstalling (which takes a
:: while--four disks of compressed material) merely repeats this cycle. ...
:: 
:: Anyone out there got an answer or care to commiserate?
: 
:         I share your frustration.  For the longest time I couldn't even
: get it to finish installing on our Mac Plus (with 2.5 Meg of RAM).
: 

        I just received new disks from Edmark, and now Millie's Math
House works perfectly on our Mac Plus.  So my conclusion is that except
for the occasional bad disk :-(, Millie's Math House works fine on all
Macs except for some problems on the occasional Mac IIsi.

        After all the false error messages, it makes me kind of wish
that the installer would have better error detection and/or
checksumming.  Apparently no checksum was done to verify that the
installation was correct (?).

	My daughter loves the program, by the way ...

                                        Chuck Corley
					chuckc@sr.hp.com
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.apps:19328 comp.sys.mac.hardware:25308
From: barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: attaching mike to modem or printer port (Wavicle)
Date: 5 Jan 93 16:43:52 GMT
Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.ge.com
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY

Along with the CEDAR mike, I use Ribbit - a shareware package that
allows me to record sounds and add them to my system.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: luism@genesis.Berkeley.EDU (Luis Miguel)
Subject: How to unpack once application is downloaded?
Summary: Having trouble turning downloaded files into app's.
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 08:18:49 GMT

Pardon the ignorance, but this is the first time I try to do this.
I found out about the sumex-aim Mac archive, and I downloaded some fonts.

For example I have:
	windsor-demi.hqx.Z

I have them in my hard disk. To uncompress it I use MacCompress3.2, and I get
an uncompressed file with no ".Z":
	windsor-demi.hqx

Then I have used Binhex5.0 to convert to a font file. I end up with
an untyped file with name:
	windsor-demi

How can I get the system to recognize this file as a font (or a program,
or document as applicable)?

I appreciate all your responses.....	Best regards,

/Luis Miguel
luis@cs.berkeley.edu

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From: frankb@hal.COM (Frank Bieser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Looking for X11 over dialup (SLIP or PPP)
Date: 6 Jan 93 22:32:07 GMT
Organization: HAL Computer Systems, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: floyd.hal.com


I know I'm shooting in the dark here, but I would like to find
software for the Mac that will allow my Mac to act as an X server
to X client software running on a remote machine over a dialup
line using TCP/IP with SLIP or PPP.  Any insights for me out there?


	thanks in advance,


	-- Frank Bieser (frankb@hal.com)
From: cse0603@desire.wright.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Quicken vs Managing Your Money
Date: 5 Jan 93 12:29:47 EST
Organization:  Wright State University 

Hello

Any opinions on Managing Your Money vs Quicken would be appreciated.
I'd like to keep my household budget on my MAC and I've narrowed my choices
to these two.

Thanks

-Steve
 Wright State University
From: seanmcd@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: System 7 version of Thunderworks: what v. number?
Date: 12 Jan 93 22:40:20 -0400
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

If anyone out there has successfully used the Lightningscan 400 scanner
on a Mac with System 7 or especially 7.1, could you please tell me
what version of the ThunderWorks software you've got?

I think my version is 1.06. I gave my scanner to my brother, who just
got a IIvx, and he can do everything all right except he can't save scans.
He doesn't know too much about Macs, so he might be doing (or not doing)
something to bring this condition about, but I can't really tell over the
phone. I've got him saving images in the Scrapbook right now, but I'd
like to know if there's a version of ThunderWorks that fixes this problem,
if indeed it is a problem, with the software.

I previously used this system with 6.07 on a Classic...

Thanks for your help,

Sean
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From: callahan@itr.wa.com (John Callahan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Opinions on ACT! for the Macintosh?
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 23:45:30 PDT
Organization: Information Technology Research, Seattle, U.S.A.
Reply-To: callahan@itr.wa.com (John Callahan)
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1


In article <1993Jan5.174403.7930@gdwest.gd.com> (comp.sys.mac.apps), collins@gdwest.gd.com (Gary J. Collins) writes:
> 
> 
> 	Has anyone used ACT! for the Macintosh?  I am
> 	considering purchasing it and would like some feedback
> 	on its performance?  Any comments welcome. Even
> 	heresay. (ACT! is contact management software)
> 
> 	Thanks,
> 	Gary John
> 	collins@gdwest.gd.com
> 

I bought ACT! for the Macintosh as soon as it was available.

I have used ACT! for more than 5 years, since Version 1 of ACT! for DOS. 
Frankly, I couldn't wait for the Mac version.

I could not get by without contact management software.  Whether ACT! is the
best, I can't tell you.  I have only looked at one other product, Telemagic
and I didn't like it as well as ACT!

I started using ACT! to keep track of the calls I had to make in recruiting
speakers for a very large telecommunications conference.  I also use it to
make prospect calls for new clients and, of course, as a tool for keeping
track of the people I have to call to complete research projects (ITR does
market research in the computer industry).  

I also use ACT! to keep track of calls to suppliers.  I'm upgrading one Mac
to System 7.1 and you wouldn't believe how many software vendors I had to
call to get software upgrades that will run with 7.1.

I almost never dial a phone call.  The amount of time I save from NOT misdialing
probably pays for ACT!  (BTW, I have not yet been able to get ACT! to dial
calls through an external modem connected to the modem/printer port of my Duo 230. 
Apparently Contact Software International did not use Communications Tool
Box as its dialing resource.  I sure hope they fix this in an update.)

I have two computers in my office: a Mac and a Compaq DeskPro. One of the
reasons that I kept the Compaq was that I needed it to run ACT!  Now that
I have ACT up and running on the Mac, I should be able to get rid of the Compaq
-- as soon as I port all of my DOS ACT! databases to ACT! for Macintosh.

Contact Software International does not have an 800 number for support and
sometimes you can be on hold for several minutes.  However, the ACT! Tech
Support people are knowledgeable and pleasant to deal with.

If you need the functionality of a contact manager, I would recommend ACT!

I vaguely remember a recent reference on the net to a review of contact management
software in the February 1993 issue of MacWorld.  You may want to check it
out.

Good luck.

John


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From: Roman.Brice@f204.n2603.z1.ieee.org (Roman Brice)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Is Auto-Doubler worth it?
Date: 8 Jan 93 21:13:02 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:2603/204 - Not Even Odd, Forest Hills NY

You are very LUCKY!

Get Autodoubler.

You'll never regret it.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: hong@mbfys.kun.nl (Hong Zhou)
Subject: PostScript to HP LaserJet and/or StyleWrite convertor needed
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 15:43:46 GMT

Hi Everyone out there!
I am looking for a utility that converts a postscript file
to HP LaserJet format and/or StyleWriter format. If you happen
to know something about this, please drop me a line.

Thanx
hong@mbfys.kun.nl
From: dev@cats.ucsc.edu (/dev/null)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Shareware laws (was: GifConverter or JPEGView better?)
Date: 12 Jan 1993 18:12:38 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: am.ucsc.edu
Keywords: shareware


I believe that there has not yet been a court case that has established
that even shrinkwrap license agreements are valid.  If there was such
a case, it might be applied to shareware.

In many states, contracts are not recognized unless money has changed
hands.  This is why you sometimes see public facilities leased to 
charitable organizations for a buck a year.

Previous piracy lawsuits have been based on copyright law, and
not on the license agreements.

I do agree that one ought to be legally obligated to either pay
up or delete the software, but  I do not believe that the law
requires this as it stands.  There are other issues, such as
estoppel - if you do not take action to stop an infringement,
then you lose the right to sue.  Since many shareware authors
are students or casual programmers, they do not have the
means to locate pirates and take legal action, and so they
would probably lose on the estoppel argument.

I'm not a lawyer, but I hang out with one a lot.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: siegman@EE.Stanford.EDU (Anthony E. Siegman)
Subject: Re: Quicken vs Managing Your Money
Organization: Stanford University
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 22:10:56 GMT

>About 2 years ago, when I first purchased my Mac, I tried Quicken and was
>very disappointed.  The version I had was only a single checkbook
>register, nothing else.  No capability for credit cards, investments,
>loans, or anything else unless you made a separate file.  I then tried

   This is _very_ out of date. The current Quicken for the Mac is very
sophisticated and very good.
From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: KUDOS to STUFFIT EXPANDER- the best of the best!
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 16:28:35 GMT
Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
X-Newsreader: rusnews v0.98

merlyn@ora.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:
> Only if they'd first make an "unsit" for the Unix side that understands
> the new archives.

Fair point.  I was surprised and pleased to find UNSTUFF.EXE included with my
Stuffit Lite disk, as I wasn't expecting it...  I used to spend ages scrolling
around the file lists in Apple File Exchange to find the ones I wanted to put
on an MS-DOS floppy; now I just put them all in a single .sit archive and
transfer that.

Now all I need is hqx/dehqx for MS-DOS...


mathew
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: jbk@world.std.com (Jeffrey B Kane)
Subject: Re: Microsoft WORD
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 02:56:38 GMT

Docucomp II, Advance Sofware Inc.

   Jeffrey
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: jmooi@ra.csc.ti.com (James Ooi)
Subject: Mac Ghostscript
Organization: Texas Instruments
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 23:15:06 GMT

I just ftp'd Mac Ghostscript from Stanford. I have a powerbook 140. Is there a
way to get MacGS to display grays and colors as dots of some density rather
than as only either black or white? For example, if I create a picture in
Canvas, the Canvas display fills the gray areas with some density of black
dots, but if I view the postscript file on MacGS, some of the gray areas are
black and some are just white. Is there any way around this? The documentation
said that it MacGS "presupposes 32-bit color quickdraw", but I don't really
know what the implications of this are. Thanks.

James 
jmooi@csc.ti.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: tosca@crispin_sun.cs.adfa.oz.au (Crispin Russell)
Subject: Re: GifConverter or JPEGView better?
Keywords: GifConverter, JPEGView, latest releases
Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 00:08:49 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.045829.23642@news.duc.auburn.edu>, gmarfoe@eng.auburn.edu (Gerald G. Marfoe) writes:
|> Sorry if these are FAQs, but I couldn't find the latest FAQ list here.
|> 
|> Which of the latest releases (I can't remember the version numbers) of 
|> GIFConverter or JPEGView are better for viewing JPEG (.jpg) files on an
|> 8-bit color system with 640 x 480 resolution?
|> 
|> Do these require Quicktime 1.5, or are they compatible with Quicktime 1.0?
|> 
|> What are the ftp names of these releases, and their ftp sites and directories?
|> 
|> Finally, is an LC II with only 4 Mb of RAM capable of viewing Quicktime 
|> movies, or would that require getting special video boards and lots of money?
|> 

I can answer that one, I have the same setup and can view Quicktime movies but
only in a size about 1/4 of the screen.  I tried increasing to full screen 
size and everything ssssssssslllllllllooooooooowwwwwwwweeeeeeeedddddddd 
dddddddooooowwwwwwwnnnnnnn!!!!!!

|> Thanks in advance,
|> 
|> Gerald Marfoe
|> gmarfoe@eng.auburn.edu
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|> 
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From: ibhan@husc8.harvard.edu (Ishir Bhan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: MacWeek
Date: 11 Jan 93 17:22:19 GMT

Does anyone have the phone number for MacWeek publications?  Please
e-mail.  Thanks.
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                                     - - - 
           "The sky and the impossible explode..." -The Cure
From: armagan@sassafras (Armagan Ozdinc)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: ClarisWorks
Date: 6 Jan 93 18:24:16 GMT
Reply-To: armagan@prc.unisys.com
Organization: Paramax Systems

Can you convert spreadsheets generated by ClarisWorks into the form
of Excel 4.0?

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 Paramax Systems, Valley Forge Labs, Research and Development
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: lallu@cc.utah.edu (Upmanu Lall, Civil Eng)
Subject: Bug in Writenow ? Converting to RTF
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Organization: University of Utah Computer Center
Date:  5 Jan 1993 19:36 MST  

I am having a problem converting a Writenow Document into RTF, so it can be 
read into Microsoft Word.
Simple 1 page docs with no special formatting make it with no trouble
However, docs with footer/header , font changes + graphics etc don't

no error is reported during the conversion or reading process
when the rtf file is read into word
i get a doc with 1 character per line, the figures are gone, and page set up 
reveals 
that the left margin is 0 and the right margin -22i%4$}   (i.e. a garbage #)
can't change these or much else

tried saving as macwrite from writenow and then reading it into word
this leads to repeated errors, one after the other, that one gets out of only 
with quickness and clever placement of the mouse in between flashing dialogs


called t/maker tech support
got thru to a person who said that this was a known problem, and he will send 
me new filters that will solve it. In the interim he suggested, rereading the 
rtf file
via writenow and the re-converting the writenow version of the 1st rtf file


seemed a bit odd, but perhaps feasible


tried it, and discovered that word did not act any different
moreover the rtf file read back into writenow had corrupted formatting in some 
places

just for kicks  I repeated this process several times, and discovered that the 
degree of corruption grew rapidly with additional iterations


Summary: the writenow 3.0 filters seem to be buggy, and if you expect to be 
sending files to others who use other wordprocessors (in my case, I have been a 
Wrienow user since its inception, and like the program...however, the Journal 
in question will only accept submissions in Word)
you may want to request the new filters from t/maker
i'll try to post them to sumex if they do work on arrival, and t/maker permits 
me to.


Any comments or other solutions ?
Upmanu Lall
Please reply via e-mail to ulall@pub.uwrl.usu.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: nilesinc@well.sf.ca.us (Avi Rappoport)
Subject: Re: EndNote PIM
Keywords: Word, Endnote
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 18:26:29 GMT

In <1hqjojINNeer@shelley.u.washington.edu> eckman@stein.u.washington.edu (John Eckman) writes:

>I am looking to find the PIM (Plug in Module) for Word 5.0a that allows it to access Endnote -  I'm trying out the Endnote demo, but that PIM is not included!

I still read this group, when I can.  I would recommend buying the program 
from someone who gives a 30-day money-back guarantee (MacConnection and 
MacWarehouse come to mind).  Then you get all the docs and the full program,
with the Plug-In Module, and can test it at your leisure.  If you don't like
it, return it.  Sorry we can't do a demo of the Plug-In Module (I'm sure
everyone would rather our programmers spent time on new features, instead).

There is no other program that I have heard of, on any machine, that integrates
the bibliography into the word processor the way that the EndNote Plug-In 
Module does for Word.
From: pok@ccs.yorku.ca (Pok Ng)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Non-US system info wanted
Date: 8 Jan 93 19:33:24 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.mac, comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: Computing & Communication Services, York University, Canada

Greetings,

	Does anybody know how can I get non-US Apple product info from US/Canada.
ACtually, what I really want is to find out about the pricing and tech info. on 
Chinese Mac OS 7.1 and Chinese Apple printers( is there a LaserWriter C ). (any 
email address from Tawian or HK also help)


Thanks

/pok
From: adr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Tony Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: SuperLab - Cedrus address wanted
Date: 12 Jan 93 09:43:51 GMT

Cedrus, the makers of Superlab advertise that internet support is
provided with their products. I want to use this route to enquire
about prices etc. and would be grateful if an existing user of
superlab, or anyone who has the internet address for Cedrus could let
me have it.

Thanks,

Tony Roberts.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: GifConverter or JPEGView better?
From: Don.Rainwater@UC.Edu (Don Rainwater)
Date: 8 Jan 93 17:06:33 EST
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Distribution: world
Organization: Univ of Cinti Center for IT Services

	      I've tried both GIFconverter and JPEGview on my 8-bit, 8Mb Mac II. 
As another poster has already mentioned, JPEGview requires less memory to
do its thing.  Aside from that, JPEGview seems to do a better job of
quantizing images so that they look good in 8 bits.  JPEG files appear much
less grainy using JPEGview.

       Of course, as always, your mileage may vary. :)
--
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Don.Rainwater@UC.Edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: hcb@world.std.com (Howard C Berkowitz)
Subject: Re: Drawing program with publishing facilities
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 15:48:41 GMT

I also use MacDraw Pro's Publish and Subscribe, and find it works fairly well.
It works well when publishing MD objects to other MD documents.

I do have difficulty doing one thing that I cannot blame on MD P&S, but
would be very open to suggestions on workarounds!  I frequently develop
courses where I prepare slides using the MacDraw Pro slide tool in landscape
mode.  I then prepare handouts for these courses in Microsoft Word, where
I paste in the MD object, reduce it 50% so it fits on a portrait-formatted
page, and surround it with text.  

Publish and subscribe does update the Word documents.  Unfortunately, Word
does not seem to retain knowledge that the object was reduced, so, after a 
P&S update, the Word document now has a landscape-mode slide that fills the
entire page and extends across the right page edge.  

This isn't MacDraw's problem.  Is there any way to force Word to retain
knowledge that an object subscribed to needs to be reduced?

I recognize PowerPoint does have an integrated handout facility, but I
want the additional features of Word and MacDraw Pro.

Howard
From: sarwate@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu (Dilip V. Sarwate)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Tax software?
Date: 9 Jan 1993 19:23:12 GMT
Organization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
NNTP-Posting-Host: uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu

Count me in among those dissatisfied with MacInTax last year.  Before then, I
was a very satisfied user for at least five years.  Not only was ChipSoft's
1991 version of MacInTax bug-ridden, but ChipSoft was not interested in even
hearing about errors.  As a specific example, the 1991 version of MacInTax
does not correctly handle nondeductible contributions to IRAs (such as might be
made by people who are covered by pension plans.)  It treats the nondeductible
contribution as a premature distribution from the IRA and makes entries
on various lines of Form 1040 corresponding to its idea of the penalties and
taxes due.  (Yes, the entries can be over-ridden and 0s entered there, but I am
sure that some people assembling their tax returns in a hurry must have
overlooked this item.)  I called ChipSoft about this, and after having to listen
to music on hold for over 30 minutes, I was told that (a) there was no error in
the program logic, and (b) even if the program was making an error, it was the
customer's problem, and they had no intention of fixing the error or warning
registered customers.  In any case, the accuracy of the entries on the tax
return was the customer's responsibility.  In short, I was told to bug off.

I decided that I had better check every entry on my tax return by hand.  I did
not find any other errors, but there may well have been errors in the many
forms and schedules that I was not using.  Some of the negative comments made by
other readers of this newsgroup about the 1991 version of MacInTax lead me to
suppose that there must have been other bugs and errors as well.  I am in full
agreement with the many complaints about the 1991 version of MacInTax, about how
a good product was ruined by ChpiSoft, and about ChipSoft's poor technical
support.  I do not intend to use MacInTax this year because I do not trust the
program anymore.