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From: craigh@cserver.plexus.COM (Craig Heilman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: More Disk Space
Date: 6 Apr 92 15:45:08 GMT
Article-I.D.: cserver.1992Apr6.154508.4769
Organization: none

bmyers@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Billy Myers) writes:

>I noticed that More Disk Space is finally shipping, but I haven't
>seen one message that it is having compatability problmes.

>Anyone using it?  Any trouble so far?

>>Billy Lee Myers, Jr.     bmyers@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu

I have been using it for about a week now. My system: Mac II,
PMMU, 8MB RAM, 90MB drive, System 7.0, no virtual memory or
32-bit addressing. NOTE: MDS = More Disk Space. Some notes:

1.) took several tries to install. Got to remember to disable
	your virus protection. Once installed on my hard drive it
	wouldn't compress the disk so I had to run off the floppy.

2.) Copy protected. You cannot install from the floppy without
	first entering your name, company and serial number. I tried
	to make a backup floppy but it wouldn't run off that at all.

3.) It seemed to trash Suitcase (1.2.10). Good thing I made a 
	complete backup before I installed MDS.

4.) Performance? Too early to tell. My initial impression is that
	some programs/documents open slower, some faster. Once 
	open (ie. once loaded in RAM), there are no delays. 

5.) Documentation: so-so. Looks like they used MS-Word for the 
	manual -> there's lots of little "." commands strewn
	throughout and the explanations are not very in-depth. 
	Of course I was looking for a detailed technical description
	of how MDS works... 8-)

6.) One option allows you to put a "MDS" menu in the Finder's 
	menu bar. Unfortunately this menu doesn't allow access to 
	the "options" (ie. preferences). You have to start the
	application for that. The MDS menu allows you to (working
	from memory here...) "Make Smaller", "Make Larger", "Make
	Auto" (for SEA's), "More Disk Space" (run program on volumes
	previously selected in "options"), "Make Segmenting" (for 
	compressed files which need to fit on a floppy (size of 
	which was again selected in "options"), etc. To use the
	"Make xxx" commands you simply select a file or files or
	folders and then select the command from the menu.

7.) Lots of options. Documents and applications can be auto-
	decompressed when copied to other volumes. Application can
	be left compressed and still run on other machines even if
	they don't have MDS! Works across a network. Exceptions list
	for applications/documents not to compress. Background
	operation (ie. leave it running under multifinder) with inactive
	time to wait before compressing. etc...

8.) Verdict? Too early to tell yet, and since I have no experience
	with the alternatives (AutoDoubler, DiskDoubler, SuperDisk, 
	DiskSpace, etc.)... Oh, the results: before compress - 89MB of
	"stuff", after compress - 52MB of "stuff".

Craig
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: hhwong@athena.mit.edu (Henry H Wong)
Subject: DiskDoubler 3.01
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 16:33:27 GMT

Hi!

A friend of mine has a copy of DiskDoubler 3.01 and she is looking to
update it. She does not need all the features of the latest version, and
so she only wants to update as much as possible for free (She only wants
to make DD system 7 compatible. She says that when 3.01 is used under system 7,
her machine crashes. It may not be 3.01's fault, but I'm sure a later version
won't hurt.)

I saw patches for 3.0.1 on various BBS a couple of months ago, but when I
looked now, I only find the one that updates to DD 3.7.

Would it is poosible for someone out there to send me some of the old
patches for 3.01 so I may pass them along to my friend?

Thanks!
hhwong@athena.mit.edu


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From: bob@iastate.edu (Robert P Kuehne)
Subject: FoxBase Field Question...
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 19:54:53 GMT

Just a quick question about FoxBase searching.  It seems that all fields
are case sensitive.  How do you de-case sensitize the fields, if that
makes any sense?  Or, to put it another way, is it possible to do
non-case sensitive searches of fields?

Thanks
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From: sadowsky@nyu.edu (George Sadowsky)
Subject: Word 5.0 footnotes overlay text! Feature or bug? $#@%$#&!
Organization: New York University
Distribution: global
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 12:07:59 GMT

I've used Word in its pre-5.0 versions to produce hundreds of documents, 
many with footnotes.  Things generally worked quite well.

But with Word 5.0, when composing in galley mode, using the double  column 
point and click option, I've uncovered a new Word feature!  The text is 
laid out in double columns, with NO space left at the bottom of the column 
for footnotes, and then the footnote text is laid out directly OVER 
however much text it takes at the bottom of the page to print the 
footnotes!  This result is the same when using page preview or when 
printing the page.

When I used Page View, the bug disappeared, but I'm concerned that this 
will come back to haunt me the day before a major paper, loaded with 
footnotes, is due for submission.  Has anyone else had experience with 
this or related problems?  Is staying in Page View a reliable workaround?

George Sadowsky, Director
Academic Computing Facility
New York University
251 Mercer Street
New York, New York  10012-1185
(212) 998-3040
From: mzajac@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Michael Stephen Zajac)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Is Onescanner upgrade worthwhile?
Date: 12 Apr 92 18:45:36 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

We have an old Applescanner in our Faculty of Architecture computer
lab.  I think it might be worthwhile to upgrade to a onescanner
to save students a lot of trouble.  I'd like your opinions, please.

What about buying Ofoto for our color flatbed and slide scanners?

Thanks in advance,
Michael Zajac
mzajac@ccu.umanitoba.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: stcroix@ultra.com (Bill St. Croix)
Subject: Re: Microsoft Bashing (Was: Re: News from Microsoft)
Reply-To: stcroix@ultra.com (Bill St. Croix)
Organization: Ultra Network Technologies
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 19:03:17 GMT

In article <1992Apr3.013247.2148@eff.org> hshubs@eff.org (Howard Shubs) writes:
>In article <1992Mar31.213207.12639@ultra.com> stcroix@ultra.com (Bill St. Croix) writes:
>>
>>In case you haven't heard....$99 to upgrade from Excel 3.0 to 4.0.  What
>>a great scam...get a good share of the market and then dollar your users
>>to death once a year.
>
>So you feel that they shouldn't make a good profit on their work in
>upgrading a product?
 
I think that charging $99 for an upgrade that is supposed to make the product
easier to use is ridiculous.  If you remember correctly, that was what Excel
3.0 was supposed to do.  Especially a little over ONE year after that
release.   

If you paid $200 for 2.2 and paid $129 for the 3.0 upgrade, now you need
to paid (maybe not "need") the $99 for the next upgrade...you've just
paid $430 for 4.0.  Yes, I know....you have used the product for "all
those years".  What about the Word upgrade.  If you were still using Word
1, you could upgrade to 5.0 for the SAME price as the upgrade from 4.0!
Is that *fair*??  I don't think so.  I have no problem with a company
making money off of the original product and upgrades, but charging 33-50%
of the original price once a year (or every other year) seems a bit
extreme.

I know a lot of companys and individuals that are not going to Word 5.0
as a company purchase due to the cost.  I think that the same thing will
happen with Excel.  I know my company is doing this considering that it 
will cost us upwards of 10k to upgrade or 80 Macs to Word 5.0....and another
8k or so in a few months for Excel.  Sure, it is a *cost of doing business*,
but when will it slow? 
 
>>My personal favorite is the *personalization* of the original floppies...
>>one of the WORST "features" anyone has ever implemented for any reason.
>
>You mean you actually _use_ the original floppies for installation??!?

No...I have to copy the original (INSTALLER disk ONLY) ever time a new
user gets a copy of Word 5.0.  I use the same 4 other back up disks for
the other installations.  Also, it is NEVER stated in the WORD 5.0 "Getting
Started" manual that one should backup ones disks!  Therefore *some* (NOTE
SOME) people think that they *have* to use the original disks!  It seems
obvious to me that Microsoft either forgot to include this in the manual,
thought *everyone* "knows" to make backups first, or they WANT the originals
personalized!

>            Shaking head in amazement...

After you stop shaking, just consider how many "non-techies" use the
original disks for installations or do the install just as the manual
reads!
 
	Bill

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From: kettler@mitme5.mit.edu (KETTLER, THOMAS R.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Caveat Emptor: After Dark
Date: 14 Apr 92 17:14:00 GMT
Organization: MIT Lab for Nuclear Science
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1

In article <60550@aurs01.UUCP>, davisw@aurs01.uucp (Walt Davis)             writes...
> 
>After a long wait we were finally bequeathed a Radius Pivot gray-scale
>monitor for our poor MAC nSE/30 from our secretary who upgraded to a full
>two-page display.  The installation was trivial, however after power-up
>we noticed some strange artifacts at the bottom of the monitor
>(long-ways).  It wasn't until we blackened the entire screen that the
>mystery was solved.  It turns out that the famous After-Dark fish
>"screen-saver" had burned the ocean floor into the phosphor of our
>monitor.  Granted our secretary probably kept the monitor on for months
>with the fish scene "saving" the monitor every night, but when does a
>"screen-saver" turn malicious?  Any other persistent ocean floors out
>there?
> 
>Walt Davis
>Alcatel Network Systems
>Raleigh, NC
>davisw%aurgate@mcnc.org
Since I am an MIT grad student, I was close enough so I could go to the 
MacWorld Expo at Boston in August last year. While there I stopped by the 
Berkeley Systems booth. I talked with people there and said I felt it was not a
good thing to have an ocean floor for this particular reason. However, the man
I talked to said that was why After Dark has an option to turn the floor off.
Personally, I prefer the Boris cat screen saver which comes with MAD. This one 
has a kitten either chasing after a butterfly or with the butterfly turned off,
will have the kitten occasionally purr, clean its face, or lie down. However, 
no screen saver should be considered a replacement for the best things of all 
to do: turn off your machine if you will be gone a long time, or use the knob
or brightness cdev to turn the brightness of your monitor off. Replies may be
sent to kettler@pierre.mit.edu.

					Sincerely yours,

					Thomas R. Kettler "Mac Nut"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: stevenw@disk.uucp (Steven Weller)
Subject: What desktop publishing programs can handle footnotes ?
Organization: Digital Information Systems of KY
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 02:13:22 GMT



From the discussions going on here, it seems that Pagemaker, Framemaker,
and QuarkXPress cannot handle foor notes.  Is this the case ?  If
so, what does ?????

Can anyone contrast the three packages ?

Thanks !

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby)
Subject: Re: PICT -> QuickTime-compressed-PICT ?
Organization: 3M Company
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 12:44:52 GMT

In article <1992Apr6.222126.8067@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> cs225ex@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (A A DeGuzman) writes:
>Is there any application available (freeware or shareware) that compresses
>a PICT file using QuickTime?

There were a few recently through comp.binaries.mac.  Look at SUMEX for
"AutoCompressor 1.3" and another with a similar name.  There is also
PICTCompressor from the QuickTime release CD, but how distributable that
one is I'm not sure.

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From: asp@trail.sharpstone.com (Alexandre Sasha Polozoff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Great new HP Deskwriter 3.0 
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 22:44:02 GMT
Organization: Sharpstone Trail Productions - Austin Texas USA
Reply-To: asp@trail.sharpstone.com
Distribution: world
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.5v4

If you don't have the HP Deskwriter 3.0 driver, get it!  It is good!
Finally, background printing on the Deskwriter *without* third party
software.  And the best part?  It's free! (almost, download time of
CI$) unless you find it on the net.

This is really great.  Thanks HP.  Its nice to be a supported customer
and not left out.


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From: pfeifer@alw.nih.gov (John Pfeifer)
Subject: Re: sys 7 eating up tons of memory.
Organization: National Inst. of Health, DCRT, CSL
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 12:01:34 GMT

Why, why, why *WHY* didn't apple make the "About This Macintosh..." window
clearer on this point?  The question seems to get posted at least once a
week and I've been asked it here at work.

I'll stop frothing at the mouth now.

-John
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	"The most creative and holy of men are always quite mad.
	 It is simply a social thing as to wether one is sane or
	 _insane_."				-The Madonna Vampira
From: Mike.W.Miller.40@nd.edu (Mike!)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: PICS editor?
Date: 16 Apr 92 18:54:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Apr16.185443.2582
Organization: Office of University Computing

In article <D2150035.15nrie@outpost.SF-Bay.org>, peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce) writes:
> 
> In article <1992Apr15.202715.8248@news.nd.edu> (comp.sys.mac.apps), Mike.W.Miller.40@nd.edu (Mike!) writes:
> > 
> > Does anyone know of a good editor for PICS files?  What I'd like to see
> > is something that can:
 
> PICS is a dying format.  QuickTime does animation much better than
> PICS.  

I appreciate the opinion, but if you use any Macromedia products (or all of
them, as I do) you'll realize that PICS is still very much alive and presently
the only reasonable output option.

> There *are* a number of excellent editors for QuickTime movies including
> Premier from Adobe.
> 
> There are also utilities that will convert a PICS file into a QuickTime
> movie.

Yes, and I use them -- soemtimes.  For ModelShop, Three-D, and other packages,
I still need a good PICS editor.

Mike!

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: aw@camcon.co.uk (Alain Waha)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: WordPerfect & Quadra ?
Date: 15 Apr 92 08:25:00 GMT
Organization: Cambridge Consultants Ltd., Cambridge, UK

news@email.tuwien.ac.at writes:

>we have encountered what seems to be an incompatibility between 
>WordPerfect 2.0.4 and the Quadra 900. Can anybody confirm or disprove this 
>?  Is there a newer (German) version of WP ?

I find this very unlikely.  I am using WP 2.0.3 on a Quadra 900 on a daily 
basis without problem.  (That is, with no more problems that I get on a LC!)

General note:  Detail your system configuration in more details if you
want more than an educated guess for an answer.  

For example, my system works with

System 7.0.1 Tune Up 1.0
WP 2.0.3

DepthGauge 2.3
SuperClock 3.9
Iomega Driver 3.4
Retro.Prep
Mirror
JustClick
BeHierarchic
InUse 2.0


So for yor information, those can't be the culprit!

Hope this help

Alain
From: sjames@digi.lonestar.org (Stephen James)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Good program to learn piano?
Date: 9 Apr 92 16:50:18 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: DSC Communications Corp, Plano, TX

In article <1992Apr7.195013.7244@cs.dal.ca> franklin@ug.cs.dal.ca (Steve Franklin) writes:
>
We were provided with a lovely algorithm -- NOT
please provide structured algorithms

var
   quality = integer

begin piano_learn
   quality = 0
   Maxsound = max_quality (current_piano)
   get a piano
   find a teacher
   for (;;) {       /* remember music is a lifetime pursuit */
      while (quality < Maxsound) {
         practice
         practice
         practice
         quality = quality + 1 }
      get a better piano }
end.

We must remember that our MACs must be used for more mundane pursuits
-- Yea like killing that 27th level lich.


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From: hshubs@eff.org (Howard Shubs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: StuffIt Deluxe 3.0
Date: 7 Apr 92 21:17:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: eff.1992Apr7.211742.21905
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Originator: hshubs@eff.org

In article <1992Apr7.185649.4991@cs.dal.ca> franklin@ug.cs.dal.ca (Steve Franklin) writes:
>In <1992Mar20.040148.25884@eff.org> hshubs@eff.org (Howard Shubs) writes:
>
>
>>I've never understood this viewpoint.  Anyone can get Unstuffit
>>Deluxe, so what's the problem with the new format?
>
>   ANyone can get Unstuffit Deluxe? I've never understood THIS viewpoint. 
>First of all, downline is a Godly utility which will convert Stuffit

Sounds to me like you've got more of a complaint with the programmers
of these lesser utilities than you do with Aladdin.  Myself, I never
create 1.5.1 archives.  If that means that you can't deal with it,
that's your problem.  _I_ can deal with almost any archive intended
for a Macintosh which someone sends my way.  Putting your head in the
sand and refusing to deal with new superior technology is one of the
attitudes that I refuse to respect.

Flexibility is to be respected, OTOH.


>and although I would prefer Compact Pro, it seems that it has only released
>it's algorithm to the Public Domain recently? I heard somethign about this,

Compact Pro is not PD.  It's shareware.  Do you understand the difference?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: stevenw@disk.uucp (Steven Weller)
Subject: How do applications handle bitmapped/TrueType/Postscript ?
Organization: Digital Information Systems of KY
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 13:36:53 GMT



If I have a page layout program or something similar that can put
fcharacters in many scaled fonts on the screen, what is the relationship
between the internal storage of the font in the computer and the printer ?

If the printer can scale the font, but I have a bit-mapped font on 
the computer what do I see for different font sizes ?

If I don't have the same font on the computer as on the printer what do 
I get ?  Will the (wrong) font on the screen be justified and laid out
correctly ?

What packages are available for grnerating fonts ?  Do any of them 
make TrueType fonts ?

How big are fonts typically, in terms of memory storage ?

I don't have a Mac yet !  So I can't look in the manual.

Thanks

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: gregf@shaman.sps.mot.com (Greg Ferguson)
Subject: Re: PD security for the Mac - FAQ
Reply-To: gregf@shaman.sps.mot.com
Organization: MOTOROLA 
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 01:35:03 GMT
Originator: usenet@nddsun1

In article <1992Apr9.002653.29220@newsroom.utas.edu.au>  
Jane.Hogan@cc.utas.edu.au (Jane Hogan) writes:
> I know this was discussed last year sometime but alas I failed to keep  
the 
> files.
> 
> What PD or ShareWare software is available for preventing other people  
from
> using your Mac?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Jane

Yes, MacPassword has been posted to SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU. It was a  
fairly recent version (3.9).

-r   226534 Apr 13 15:33 ./demo/mac-password-39.hqx


We've had good luck with the program. It's shareware and has good features  
including disk-locking. We're using it on several thousand Macs in our  
group.

Greg Ferguson
rtmd30@email.sps.mot.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,su.computers.rcc,su.macintosh
From: robinson@EE.Stanford.EDU (Heyward G. Robinson)
Subject: Re: Daytimer, calendar programs
Organization: Stanford University
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 01:15:15 GMT

You should also check out Bananafish Software's ThoughtPattern.  It is
a unique product that is a combination free form database, file
manager, address book, and reminder program. Macworld Magazine called
ThoughtPattern "the Mac's first serious personal information manager."
It has a powerful search engine and allows cross indexing of both
notes and files.  It has an alarm feature for notifying you of
important events.  A calendar view (along with many other exciting
features) is being added to version 2.0 which is due to ship later
this spring.

I can send you a demo, or you can contact Bananafish directly.

Bananafish Software, Inc.
730 Central Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94117-1317 USA

Voice:          (415) 929-8135
Fax:            (415) 929-8146
AppleLink:      BANANAFISH
America Online: BANANAFISH
CompuServe:     72567,44

Thanks for your interest.
                               -Heyward Robinson


Disclaimer:  I am a part time consultant and beta tester at Bananafish.

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