HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: brian_vickers@isd.jpl.nasa.gov (Brian Vickers)
Subject: Re: WANTED-- AfterDark Prog. Kit
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:36:12 GMT

In article <1992Nov9.211111.23802@leland.Stanford.EDU>,
kessler@roses.Stanford.EDU (Will Kessler) wrote:
> 
> Hello Mac Experts,
> 
> I would like to code an AfterDark screensaver, and I have heard
> there's a kit you can either buy or download with required header
> files, protocols, libraries, etc.  Can anybody fill me in on this?
> E-mail would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Will Kessler
> kessler@roses.stanford.edu
> Rehabilition Research Division
> Dept. of Veterans Affairs
> 3801 Miranda Avenue/153
> Palo Alto, CA 93404-1200
> (415) 493-5000 x4478 (w/v-mail) FAX (415) 493-4919
> 
> Seen on local vending machine:
> 
>   "Anti-theft device prevents obtaining free product."

Hello Will,

The After Dark Programming Examples that you refer to came with your
original After Dark diskettes. You do have your ORINGINAL disks, don't you?
:)

-- Brian

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: ygor@aplexus.jhuapl.edu (Daniel E. White  (F2C))
Subject: Re: HP Deskjet vs. Deskwriter
Organization: Johns Hopkins U. Applied Physics Lab
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 17:09:59 GMT

In article <1992Nov9.180132.29901@mksol.dseg.ti.com>, martinn@mksol.dseg.ti.com (niels r martin) writes:
|> Can anyone tell me if there is a way to print to the Deksjet (using the Desk-
|> writer driver?), or are there hardware differences.  Specifically, I need to
|> print from a PB160 and/or a Classic.
|> 
|> I suppose that the Grappler might work, but a software fix would be preferred.
|> 
|> Thanks,
|> 
|> Niels
|> -- 
|> ____________________________________________________________________________
|> --When will there be a woman in the White House?
|> 
|> ----About five minutes after Hillary leaves to visit her parents.


  Try a set of third party printer drivers called "Better Writers"

  Ask your favorite software source for it.  I think it has a DeskJet driver.

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From: aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: NOW Utilities 4.0.1
Summary: ... about time *grin*
Keywords: NOW Utils 4.0.1 updater released
Date: 5 Nov 92 15:23:51 GMT
Reply-To: aland@cs.brandeis.edu
Organization: As little as possible

Well, after saying I'd wait to see if anyone else got the Now
Utilities 4.0.1 updater, I buckled under the pressure & downloaded it
from AOL last night.  Then, I binhex'd it & tried to upload it to my
unix box, but it didn't work (according to mcvert).  Anyway, just
wanted to let people know it's been released, & will be sent to sumex
(by me) tonight, if no one else has beaten me to it...

	-=Alan
From: erh0362@tesla.njit.edu (Elliotte Rusty Harold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: How does Autodoubler perform on a Powerbook?
Date: 7 Nov 92 16:06:40 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology

>>AD does work well and increased effective size of the 40MB HD to ~55MB.
> 
> Gripe here about Autodoubler... 55 megabytes is *NOT* what I call "double"
> the hardware capacity of a 40 megabyte drive.  I would expect a LOT more
> compresion out of AD than ... what is that about 25%?
> 
> - Hacker

	A lot depends on your files and what you choose to compress.  A disk 
with lots of GIF or StuffIt files will see a much smaller gain than a disk full 
of MacPaint documents.  A 50% improvement also normally requires that you 
compress everything.  As has been discussed in other threads some people such 
as myself are just too paranoid (with or without reason) to compress our data 
files and thus only compress the fraction of our disk that contains application 
and support files.  Naturally this results in less effective disk space.

--Elliotte
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Distribution: world
From: Thomas_Zeller@cybermacuvm.edu
Organization: Adrenaline Online
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 10:25:12 EDT
Subject: Re: Looking for a "shell" program on the Mac

I believe what you are describing was a demo only, and was merely written by
the author to show that a command line interface for the Mac "could be done". 
I think that a commercial product called "MasterFinder" may be just what you're
looking for.  It's very "NeXT-like" and has gotten good reviews from MacUser
and others.
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From: wallich@ncd.com (Ken Wallich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: How does Autodoubler perform on a Powerbook?
Date: 11 Nov 92 00:37:35 GMT
Reply-To: wallich@ncd.com (Ken Wallich)

erh0362@tesla.njit.edu (Elliotte Rusty Harold) writes:

>>>AD does work well and increased effective size of the 40MB HD to ~55MB.
>> 
>> Gripe here about Autodoubler... 55 megabytes is *NOT* what I call "double"
>> the hardware capacity of a 40 megabyte drive.  I would expect a LOT more
>> compresion out of AD than ... what is that about 25%?
>> 
>> - Hacker

>	A lot depends on your files and what you choose to compress.  

What he said.  I use Autodoubler on everything, and have been doing so
since it came out.  I also backup my data to floppies regularly, and
back up the whole hard disk every week or two.  I keep mostly apps and
data (no gifs, no quicktime movies), and for *me* Autodoubler reports
an 'effective disc size of 88 megabytes' from my 40 meg disc.  This is
with 8 meg in my system folder, and 6 meg free.  I've got WriteNow,
lots of Hypercard stuff (mine and Jurassic Park), Excel, Framemaker,
some TeX package (a biggie), the Far Side Calendar (funny stuff, but
the worlds least intuitive calendar), PowerUp Address Book, Daymaker
(a much better calendar), ThoughtPattern (when oh WHEN will 2.0 come
out, so I can *use* it?), More (totally misunderstood and
underestimated word processing, outlining, graphing, note taking
package), MacPaint, FileGuard, uupc, Eudora (the greatest thing since
sliced bread.  All it's missing is a text object that can handle more
than 32K), MacSLIP and MacTCP, uAccess, and both Hellcats and Glider,
plus other apps I'm not thinking of right now.  Plenty of space for
me.  I'd like to get a 120meg drive so I can put MPW and Common Lisp
on it as well, instead of having to carry an external drive when I
want to have *everything*, perhaps next year.

--
Ken Wallich
wallich@ncd.com  
ken@wallich.com
From: watts@teal.csn.org (Dale E. Watts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: MFS Disk Utility Needed
Date: 11 Nov 92 04:01:38 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.

Does anyone know of a utility (free if possible) to recover
files from MFS (400K) disks that have become unreadable?
Thanks,  Dale.
--
From: mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: ATM?! What's the difference?
Date: 10 Nov 92 22:04:07 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps

In article <5517@gold.gvg.tek.com>, bryanh@stout.gvg.tek.com (Bryan
Hilterbrand) wrote:
> 
> In article <mike_steiner-061192141315@192.35.50.131> mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner) writes:
> >In article <Bx7qL7.5CH@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>,
> >cbsmith@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca (Chris Smith) wrote:
> >> 
> >> -- 
> >> $7.50 ATM gives you display postscript. The expensive one gives you "Multiple Master" capability if you are into it.
> >> 
> >> --Bo ("the One who Knows")
> >
> >ATM does not give you Display Postscript.  Display Postscript involves a
> >lot more than just fonts; it is the entire display or printout.  At best,
> >one might say that ATM is a subset of Display Postscript.
> 
> Both the $50 ATM and the $7.50 ATM allow your Mac to display Postscript
> FONTS -- as in CHARACTERS.  It doesn't display Postscript; there are
> several, somewhat expensive programs (such as Freedom of the Press) that
> allow you to preview Postscript.

That's what I said.  ATM does is not Display PostScript.  All it handles
are fonts.

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From: chang hsu liu <cliu@silver.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Targa tips file can be read from Photoshop!!
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:33:28 GMT


Dear netters,

        I posted a question on opening targa tips file on the Mac. I
was wrong that Photoshop couldn't open targa. I should have used
"Open As" instead of "Open" in reading the image. It came out very
well from Photoshop after I tried "Open As".

	My sincere thanks to the support from Adobe (Sorry, I lost your
e-mail address.) and FIXER@FAXCSL.DCRT.NIH.GOV for letting me try his 
own program (not released yet) to read the file.

Peter Liu
cliu@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
From: mem10@po.CWRU.Edu (Milton E. Moskowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: PageMaker 4.2 Questions
Date: 8 Nov 1992 21:49:35 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: mem10@po.CWRU.Edu (Milton E. Moskowitz)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, lwwarpup@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Lonnie W. Warpup) says:

>1.  If I create a document using my IIsi w/System 7.1, Personal LW LS,
>    and TrueType fonts, and then switch to the LaserWriter driver and
>    create a PostScript file, could my friend print that PostScript file
>    from his Plus and original LaserWriter?  BTW:  He is running System
>    4.2 (don't ask me why, he says he has had problems upgrading with
>    his existing software).
	Since a PostScript file is pure text, and a PostScript Printer is a
PostScript printer, I don't see any reason why creating the PS File on your
machine and then transferring to his wouldn't work.  But I'd suggest doing
a test first.  Just make a page that says, "TESTING!" and make a PS File
out of that.  Then try to print in on his computer.  If it works - I'd
assume you're pretty safe doing the real thing on it.  If it doesn't print
-- well, you'd have not much of a hope with a more intricate document.  


>2.  What kind of things WON'T I be able to do because I have a Personal
>    LW LS?
	My guess is that all you won't be able to do it to print...  I
can't picture PageMaker caring that you don't REALLY have the printer...
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From: tdboyce@cco.caltech.edu (Tom Boyce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: looking for StripFonts on the Mac
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Date: 11 Nov 1992 21:43:09 GMT
Organization: caltech
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 131.215.139.52

Does anyone know where the Mac app version "StripFonts" can be found? I've
poked around in the standard archive sites but can't seem to find it. 

Thanks,
Tom
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From: pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby)
Subject: Re: Bug in StuffIt Expander??
Organization: 3M Company
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 15:24:56 GMT

In article <derwent.1-111192074255@derwent.math.nd.edu> derwent.1@nd.edu (John E. Derwent) writes:
>In article <1dpj48INNeud@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>, rsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu
>(Roby Sherman) wrote:
>> I'm having a problem with Stuffit Expander extracting Compact Pro
>> archives. The problem is that SE will frequenty quit before extracting
>> the entire contents of the archive, leaving me unaware that any sort of
>
>I had the same problem.  Frequently archives with many files in them would
>only have about half or two-thirds of them expanded.  Sometimes if I
>restarted it would work on one archive that it hadn't worked on before.  I
>was unsuccessful in finding any init conflict.  Finally I quit using it.  

Known problem, which will be fixed in a coming release (shortly, I
hope).  Leonard Rosenthal can probably give us an
estimated-time-of-arrival on the new version....

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From: lpb@cs.bham.ac.uk (Luc Beaudoin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Word 5.0a and the Finder--Word crashes when switching to it
Date: 5 Nov 92 12:20:46 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK

justin@mik.uky.edu (justin sullivan) writes:

> sh nntpcat comp.sys.mac.apps 4283
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>
> In <720291204.12455@minster.york.ac.uk> simpson@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
>
>
> Is this where you get the 'flashing box' onscreen and the whole system is
> locked up? I mentioned this right when Word 5.0 came out (and again after
> 5.0a) and abrasive yankees accused me of creating an anti-Microsoft
> sentiment. Sheesh..

Yes, that's the problem.

Thanks to all for the many useful suggestions. I am applying some of
them sequentially to pinpoint the problem. (Unfortunately, some of the
tests have irreversible effects, so my experimental design isn't
perfect.) Someone suggested that I replace the Finder, which I did; that
may be working, since I haven't had such a crash since then, in about 40
hours of use.

ghammond@metz.une.edu.au (Gerard Hammond,Org. Chem.,732382,732382) writes:
> The embedding preference file in the extension folder in the system
> folder can get mucked up. This causes MS WD 5 to crash at very
> random times. Simply trash this file and re-launch
> word (which will then create a new version) and you'll be right.
> I've just spent 2 days replacing system/finders/inits/etc/etc to
> work this one out.
> Note all your previous prefs will be lost.

I'm reluctant to lose all of my preferences, but that'll be my next try
if a crash recurs.

Many people have suggested installing more RAM; that'll be my strategy
if all else fails.

HarriRehnberg@salient.com (Salient Software) writes:
> Are you saying that DiskFirstAid failed to do a repair or failed to
> find a problem?

DiskFirstAid failed to start up. I got a -199 error. But my version of
DFA may be corrupted.

Thanks for the suggestions,

Luc
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From: HarriRehnberg@salient.com (Salient Software)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: CopyDoubler made GateKeeper flip (maybe)
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 13:41:00 PST
Organization: Fifth Generation Systems
Reply-To: HarriRehnberg@salient.com (Salient Software)
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.5v3


In article <aland.721159185@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> (comp.sys.mac.apps), aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D.) writes:
> werner@cs.utexas.edu (Werner Uhrig) writes:
> > scot@jlc.mv.com (Scot Salmon) writes:
> 
> [ Gatekeeper warned that Copydoubler "Violated Res(Self) privilege" ]
> 
> >	this is an incompatibility between CD and GK which (has been related to
> >	me) the author(s) of CD is/are refusing to address.  To the best of my
...
> Well, as I have been informed, CopyDoubler uses an Apple-provided
> mechanism to identify compressed resources (travelling the resource
> map) which GateKeeper feels is "suspicious."  Both are right, in that
> it is an Apple provided routine, which is being used for its purpose,
> yet some viruses might use that same mechanism to infect applications.
> 
> I understand that Salient might have had an 'attitude' of the sort you
> mention in the past, but it is also my understanding that GateKeeper's
> author basically "won't give them another chance."  Salient has been
> good about working with other software authors trying to track down
> any bad interactions & notifying their users when necessary (eg. the
> Norton DiskLight incident).
...
=================

Any decent virus would bypass the resource manager entirely. All viruses
written for the Mac today are crap and the people who write them are
jerks who are incompetent programmers. Whew!

Salient (FGS) products are compressed with the AutoDoubler Internal
Compressor. These include DiskDoubler, AutoDoubler, CopyDoubler and
related utilities. The stub code in them uses the system call (ROM
trap) _RsrcMapEntry to find the location of a resource. This is one
thing that GateKeeper objects to. Note that NO CHANGE of any kind
is occuring; the stub code is simply asking where a resource is stored--a
read only operation.

Lloyd Chambers
Salient/FGS
AutoDoubler author

=================

Norton DiskLight Incident???  Norton DiskLight 1.1 & earlier had a
problem in that it relocated system memory when it wasn't supposed
to.  This had NOTHING to do with any of our products.

Harri Rehnberg

for all FGS products FIFTHGEN@aol.com
for AutoDoubler & DiskDoubler techsupport@salient.com
From: 00bwanderson@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Problems with SITLite's UnPack translator
Date: 8 Nov 92 05:49:21 GMT
Organization: Ball State University, Muncie, In - Univ. Computing Svc's

Hey there...just had the weirdest thing happen to me.

I dl'd a .pit file from my unix (MacLanding/MacMissles package) and when I ran
it through StuffIt Lite's Unpack translator (v 3.0) it churned out the files
well enough, but WITHOUT FILE ATTRIBUTE CODES-no APPL/MMSL in the file
type/creator...it happened with another file, too.  Is this a repeatable bug,
something no-one realised?  Or is it just my copy????

Bruce
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc
From: Herwig.Henseler@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Herwig Henseler)
Subject: Re: Bug in StuffIt Expander??
Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 12:55:39 GMT

Hello,

>> archives. The problem is that SE will frequenty quit before extracting
>> the entire contents of the archive, leaving me unaware that any sort of

Try Version 1.0.1.

Herwig
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From: greeny@top.cis.syr.edu (J. S. Greenfield)
Subject: Re: SpaceSaver or AutoDoubler?
Organization: Syracuse University, CIS Dept.
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 92 23:23:21 EST

In article <1992Nov4.090914.1@tesla.njit.edu> erh0362@tesla.njit.edu (Elliotte Rusty Harold) writes:
>
>	Therefore I want to use transparent compression to 
>compress only applications and SUPPORT FILES.  For example
>I want to compress Microsoft Word documents that contain manuals for freeware 
>or Readme files but not Microsoft Word documents that contain the latest, 
>unreleased version of the FAQ.  And I don't want to have to reorganize my hard 
>disk to accomplish this.   I don't use System 7 so labels aren't an option, and 
>even if I did they're still too clumsy.  I want to tell StuffIt SpaceSaver or 
>MDS or AutoDoubler or whatever to compress (and automatically decompress and 
>recompress) File A and have it rememeber that in the future without worrying 
>about the side effects this might have on any other file on my disk with 
>possibly the same type, creator, label, and even contents.  No 
>currently shipping utility let's you do this.  When I ran More Disk Space I 
>compromised by just compressing applications, but that saved me substantially 
>less space than if I had also been able to compress support files.

AutoDoubler has always allowed you to specify a list of files (or folders)
that you don't want to have compressed.  Isn't that, in essence, what you
want?


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From: jjmckay@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Jim McKay)
Subject: Re: Mac vs. IBM & quality of writing--Ref?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:11:59 GMT

It was by a professor whose last name was Peoples-Halio and it appeared
in the now defunct "Academic Computing" magazine sometime in early 1990.  

A similar paper (and study) by myself is "Interfacing The Design Process:
A Study of Designers and Planner's Attitudes Towards Microcomputer
Interfaces."  After all, if a poor paper/"study" can get so much publicity
and I'm going to reference it, I think I should reference my own study
which, while not perfect, attempted to scientifically study the topic,
albeit for Designers and Planners.  This can be obtained by writing to me
at jjmckay@uiuc.edu
OR 
Jim McKay
The LAS Hypermedia Lab
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
326 Lincoln Hall
702 S. Wright St.
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