HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: matt@wardsgi.med.yale.edu (Matt Healy)
Subject: Re: Pascal; fax; backup programs
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc
Organization: Yale University--Genetics
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:28:00 GMT

In article <ASHWIN.93Jan19142235@pravda.gatech.edu>, ashwin@gatech.edu
(Ashwin Ram) wrote:
> 
> I would appreciate recommendations for:
> 
> 3. A good backup program, preferably one that allows incremental backups and
>    does some sort of compression so I don't have to use 80 floppies :-)

I recommend Retrospect for backup.  Very powerful; lets you search
the backups in all sorts of ways.

Matt Healy
"I pretend to be a network administrator; the lab
 net pretends to work!"

matt@wardsgi.med.yale.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: jimy@cae.wisc.edu (Jim Yu)
Subject: Any good GL movie player?
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
Date: 23 Jan 93 16:47:53 CST

Could someone tell me where I can find an application that plays
.gl movies on a Mac? 
I've tried glviewer but it doesn't seem to work with System 7.0.1*

Thanks for any pointers.

Jim Yu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: tthiel@cs.uiuc.edu (Terry Thiel)
Subject: Encryption software.
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:57:35 GMT

I need some information on encryption software for the Mac.  It should be able
to encrypt text files from Word at a minimum.  What's out there?  Cost, ease
of use, and efficiency are prime interests.  I would particularly like 
something that can also do password protects on individual files or folders.
-Terry
-- 
-Terry
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: hiroki@limerick.cbs.umn.edu (Hiroki Morizono)
Subject: How to script menus ending in ...?
Reply-To: hiroki@limerick.cbs.umn.edu
Organization: University of Minnesota
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:27:57 GMT

Are there any macro or scripting tools that will let me pull down a menu,
go over to a hierarchial menu and select it? I've been trying to automate 
some things with Easy Alarms, and they allow for clicking in specific areas of
the screen but don't seem to be able to drag down a menu, and choose an item. 

I'm running System 7.01, moving to 7.1 sometime soon. 

Will QuickKeys do it for me? or are there better things out there? ftp-able
$hareware stuff much more appreciated than expensiveware options.

Failing that, is resediting in keyboard equivalents for these 
commands possible? Which resources should I be looking for?

Email would be preferred, I'll be happy to summarize if people want.

Thanks in advance,
Hiroki
--
Hiroki Morizono
[Department of Biochemistry|University of Minnesota|St Paul MN 55108|USA]
hiroki@limerick.cbs.umn.edu 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: greeny@top.cis.syr.edu (J. S. Greenfield)
Subject: Re: Stuffit Query
Keywords: StuffIt SpaceSaver Problem
Organization: Syracuse University, CIS Dept.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 11:33:07 EST

In article <wondertr.727642725@sfu.ca> wondertr@fraser.sfu.ca (wondertree learning center) writes:
>While we're on the topic of SpaceSaver... I have an interesting problem...
>
>using System 7.1 on a IIvx with only the Apple CD-rom drivers loaded 
>In addition to SpaceSaver (I narrowed it down to this combination)
>I found that if you change the label color of items on the hard drive
>and there is a CD in the CD drive the CD ejects... neat eh?
>
>Its really anoying if your listening to tunes when this happens
>
>any ideas?

It's definitely due to SpaceSaver--which does force the Finder to execute
an "Eject Disk" command after label changes.  Why this is necessary, and
why your CD gets ejected, I can't say.


-- 
J. S. Greenfield                                         greeny@top.cis.syr.edu
(I like to put 'greeny' here, 
but my d*mn system wants a 
*real* name!)                        "What's the difference between an orange?"
From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Brian Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Retrospect Question
Date: 26 Jan 93 14:44:06 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

geoffb@coos.dartmouth.edu (Thumper) writes:

>In <728024516.AA00000@blkcat.UUCP>Ladd.Morse@p804.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org 
(Ladd Morse) writes:

>>Any idea if one can do an initial comprehensive backup to tape, then do
>>incremental backups to floppy?

>You couldn't do it with the same archive. Retrospect ties each one to a
>specific media type. But you could have a backup archive on DAT that
>automatically resets and does a comprehensive backup each time you use it
>and have an incremental archive on disk at home that is based on
>modification dates.

>Not perfect but functional.

    Actually, you could make this a bit more functional by telling the
incremental backup script to check the Modification Date against the
Backup Date (set by Retrospect and most backup utilities whenever they
back something up). This will give you a little better control than just
using the Modification Date.

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From: John T. Chapman <jtc1@cornell.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: help with ms word
Date: 25 Jan 1993 22:34:03 GMT
Organization: Office of Computing and Statistical Consulting
Distribution: world
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X-XXDate: Mon, 25 Jan 93 22:44:51 GMT

In article <43990@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> Anand Rao, ee52fas@sdcc15.ucsd.edu
writes:
>i am trying to use microsoft word 5.0 (macintosh version) to prepare
>a class assignment.  this asssignment requires that i draw an
>electric
>circuit diagram on the paper.  to do this, i am using the paintbrush
>feature of word.  here is my question:  I have created several
>symbols for resistors, capacitors, inductors, etc etc.  i would like
>to take all these symbols, put them into one single library on
>a disk and then, whenever i created a circuit diagram i would like
>to access this library and transfer whatever symbol i needed into
>my document.  Now, I am new to the macintosh so i don't know a whole
>lot about cut and paste (i think that is what i have to do) could
>someone please explain to me in some detail how i should go about
>doing whatever i have to do to get the job done? thanks a lot!

Well, Word's graphic tools are hardly the best, but they're probably 
adequate for what you're doing.

Given that, read up on the Glossary feature of Word.

Basically, you'll want to select each symbol you've created, select 
'Glossary' and define a new entry, naming the symbol with a unique 
keyword.

From then on, you will be able to insert that symbol by selecting the 
Glossary keyword. (Shortcut: When typing, press <Command-Delete> and type 
enough of the keyword to be unique. Press return and the symbol should be 
inserted.)

You'll want to save the changes to your Glossary once you are finished. 
You can either choose to save it in the Standard Glossary or create a 
custom Glossary (using Save when the Glossary dialog is up). You will 
need to load the custom Glossary when you need it, however. (The Standard 
Glossary automatically loads each time you run Word.)

Good luck!

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  John T. Chapman                                     jtc1@cornell.edu
  Office of Computing and Statistical Consulting
  Cornell University - College of Human Ecology
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"Truth is after all a moving target/Hairs to split, and pieces that don't 
fit/How can anybody be enlightened?/Truth is after all so poorly lit"
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.protocols.appletalk,comp.sys.mac.comm
From: Pete Kelly <pfkelly@bnr.ca>
Subject: Re: Server Manager (AppleShare Admin Replacement)
X-Xxdate: Mon, 25 Jan 93 00:27:34 GMT
Organization: Bell-Northern Research/Northern Telecom
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d17
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:27:39 GMT

Subject: Server Manager (AppleShare Admin Replacement)
From: Peter Haase, haase@meediv.lanl.gov
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 04:42:43 GMT
In article <haase-240193214020@mac_dialin1.meediv.lanl.gov>
Peter Haase, haase@meediv.lanl.gov writes:
>Just thought I would post this for all users that are
interested in remote
>AppleShare File Server Management.
> 
>APPLESHARE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE SHIPS

We appreciate this information but did you have to blast it
across to every group EXCEPT the one where it belongs:
comp.sys.mac.announce.
From: mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Color Hypercard
Date: 25 Jan 93 19:50:55 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps

In article <93020.200825KCR103@psuvm.psu.edu>, KCR103@psuvm.psu.edu wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know if Claris has released the color version of Hypercard yet?

Nope; Claris has not released a color version of Hypercard.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: cavanaug@lees.cogsci.uiuc.edu (John Cavanaugh)
Subject: Linear Programming......
Summary: Who makes a good(and inexpensive) linear programming package
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 19:36:06 GMT
Keywords: math, linear, quadratic, optimization


  I am looking for a program that can solve linear programming
problems including quadratic and integer programming.

  I have the student version of MacLindo and while it does give
accurate solutions the interface(based on command line derived
from its pc origins) is awful at best.

  Does anyone have any suggestions?  Consider the following
constraint(ha ha) that I am a student and dont have a lot
of cash to spend.

  If someone could point me in the direction of some source code
maybe(in time) I could put something together and distribute
it.


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  John Cavanaugh                               University of Illinois
  j-cavanaugh@uiuc.edu                             at Urbana-Champaign
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             And make us lose the good we oft might win,
             By fearing to attempt.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: ssartori@iat.holonet.net (Steven Sartorius)
Subject: FPU emulation on SoftPC
Organization: HoloNet National Internet Access BBS: 510-704-1058/modem
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 04:45:17 GMT

A DOS question....

In order to run a couple of in-house DOS programs I have SoftPC (ver. 2.52) on
my PB100 (yes, it is slow but it beats spending the money on a DOS laptop).
Anyway, one of these programs requires a math co-processor to run.  Since
my PB won't support an FPU and SoftAT won't run on a PB100 anyway I thought
I'd try to emulate an FPU within SoftPC itself with a DOS program.  I FTP'ed
a copy of 'EM87v1_3' which emulates a 8087 co-processor (according to the
enclosed docs this has most of the functionality of a 80287) and got it to
run. My application, however, refused to acknowledge the existence of the
software FPU.  I pulled up a copy of Lotus 1-2-3 and checked to see if it
knew I "had" an FPU.  No dice.  Any ideas about how I can get this to work??
Or should I just give up and buy a PB180 with an FPU :).  

Any suggestions appreciated....

steve


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Bob Masson <masson@convex.COM>
Subject: weather info?
Originator: masson@convex1.convex.com
Reply-To: masson@convex.COM (Bob Masson)
Organization: CONVEX Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx., USA
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 04:27:29 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

Has anyone seen any s/w h/w that allows you to monitor the temp, wind
speed, etc with your mac?  you know, like those heathkit weather stations
you used to be able to buy (what happened to heathkit, anyway?).  i guess
the monitoring equipment would hook up via the serial connection..

thanks
masson
From: bri@ws.kpc.com (Brian Rice)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: lpr daemon for the mac (clarified)
Date: 21 Jan 93 07:43:52 GMT
Reply-To: bri@ws.kpc.com (Brian Rice)
Organization: Kubota Pacific Computer, Inc.


In article <202@kixtal.UUCP>, micjrs@mica.mic.ki.se (Richard Soderberg, MD) writes:

> Re: lpr daemon for the mac
> By lpr daemon i mean a piece of software running all the time in the
> backround looking for print requests over an IP network. To other
> (mostly Unix) systems on the network the Mac printer looks like any
> other printer connected to the system itself.

Sounds like you want is lpd for the Mac. That would allow Unix Systems
to access Mac printers.  We're doing *that* with Caymen Systems
Gator box but it's terribly unreliable (at no fault of the Caymen Box)
so we'd like to do the opposite - attach the printers to the Unix
machines (or the Ethernet directly) and print from the Macs to Unix.
I haven't had any luck finding that package either.  If your network
isn't terribly flooded (yeah, right) you might just contact Caymen
and go that route.  Our problem is that we're using the Caymen Box at
about 8 times its design specification.  To Caymen's credit, it doesn't
flake out all that often - it's just that when it does it's tedious as
hell to restore the print net.

--
Bri
From: russell@Apple.COM (Russell Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Deneba offer for ArtWorks & Spelling Coach Pro
Date: 27 Jan 93 16:26:09 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA

In article <2431@sousa.tay.dec.com> long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Rich Long) writes:
> I've gotten an offer from Deneba to purchase their new paint program,
> ArtWorks, and Spelling Coach Professional, for an attractive price. I wonder
> if any of you have seen either of these yet, and could comment on them?

artWorks is basically a new version of UltraPaint. I've used UltraPaint for
years as my main drawing and painting program and always liked it better
than SuperPaint. I found it to be solid, easy to use, with incredible 
graphics power for the price. I use it for drawing technical figures at
work and for editing 300 dpi scanned images at home. I've only had 
artWorks for a week or so, and am happy with it. 

It's easy to combine bitmap images of any resolution (up to 2700) and
bit depth (up to 32) with draw objects. You can even edit 32 bit color
drawings and paintings on an 8 bit system.

It reads and writes lots of graphics formats:  Canvas, EPSF, GIF,
Illustrator 1.1, Illustrator 88, MacDraw I, MacDraw II, MacPaint, TIFF,
Startup Screen, PICT I and II, and of course UltraPaint..

I found UltraPaint to be a very solid program; Deneba put out a couple of
free updates to fix minor problems. artWorks has a minor screen redraw
bug at high magnification (it will show up to 3200X); based on
previous experience with Deneba, I'm confident it will be fixed
quickly. 

artWorks has introduced a new feature that seems great, but I'm
reserving judgement. Against Apple guidelines, they use MultiFinder
temp memory (the memory normally used to launch new applications)
for image storage. UltraPaint was always memory-hungry, and any time
you're editing large 300 dpi images you will need lots of memory.
But if you switch between editing draw graphics or small bitmap
images and editing large scanned images, you have to keep readjusting
your application memory partition. By using MF temp memory, artWorks
avoids this. If you watch the Finder about box as you edit in artWorks, 
the "Largest unused block" bounces up and down as you edit and undo.
artWorks will happily eat all the free RAM in your machine as needed to 
allow editing of large images. When you close the file, it releases the
memory.

artWorks is not a replacement for PhotoShop. It can't feather
selection edges -- an absolute necessity for sophisticated photo manipulation.
It can, however, use Photoshop filter plug-ins to expand its already
large repertoire of image effects. And it does have a magic wand and
a smudge tool, so basic photo editing isn't totally hopeless. 

artWorks gives you the drawing power of MacDraw II and the painting
power of Studio/32 (more or less) for a fraction of the price of either.
I think it's a great program at a great price.
-- 
Russell Williams
Not speaking for Apple Computer
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: sbilik@cs.wright.edu (Scott Bilik)
Subject: Problems using a Deskwriter with Pagemaker 4.2
Summary: Inter-word spacing is having problems at times.
Organization: Wright State University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 01:45:25 GMT

   My wife and I are trying to put out the Apple-Dayton newsletter and
have noticed a small problem when we print to our Deskwriter. In many
instances, inter-word spacing becomes almost none existant, esp. with
bold text. This problem does not seem to appear when we print to a
PostScript printer. The PageMaker screen shows it correctly. It is
interesting that HP's print preview even shows the words crushed
together. Does Pagemaker hate TrueType or QuickDraw printers? Is it
common with other supposedly WYSIWYG word processing/layout programs,
like Word or MacWrite? Some version numbers may help:
	ATM V2.0.3
	Deskwriter Driver V3.1(Serial)
	Pagemaker 4.2
	System 7.0.1 with Tuneup
   I'm interested if there is some hidden Pagemaker/Deskwriter flag that
I need to set. I should mention that I have HP Fonts, font substitution, etc.
all turned off. ATM/TrueType was supposed to make those settings
obsolete, weren't they?
   Please email me directly if I can supply more clues as to the cause of the
problem.

sbilik@el.wpafb.af.mil (will reach workstation on desk for quick response)
sbilik@valhalla.cs.wright.edu (my News posting sight, checked once daily)
-- 
--
sbilik@cs.wright.edu, Wright State University, dayton ohio
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: mbernar@erenj.com (Marcelino Bernardo)
Subject: Re: Sigmaplot  - Sys7 tuneup conflict
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: Exxon Research & Engineering, Co.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 21:37:03 GMT

In article <1k8s3hINNf9@post.its.mcw.edu>, jmoulder@post.its.mcw.edu (John
Moulder) wrote:
> 
> 
> > What improvements has Jandel made to SigmaPlot over the last
> > year? . . . Besides the fact that I managed to crash the
> > program within two minutes, it was by far the slowest graphing 
> > package I'd ever used.
> 
> Current version (4.14) is faster than the original, and can be 
> speeded up by allocating it lots of memory, but its still slow 
> (even on an accellerated IIci).  I use it because I can't find 
> anything better to discontinuous, non-linear, curve fitting.
> 

Have you tried Igor from Wavemetrics?  It too was incompatible with Omega
SANE, but they fixed it almost immediately after 7.0.1 came out.  If I
remember right, your problem with SigmaPlot is it's incompatibility with
System 7.0.1 Omega SANE.  It seems the developer is a bit slow in making
their program compatible.

Marcelino Bernardo
mbernar@erenj.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: keitru1@netcom.com (Keith Trussell)
Subject: Help! Need to print to edge of page via Mac PS...
Organization: Netcom
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 00:41:18 GMT

I'm trying to print "bleed tabs" on a document, and using FrameMaker,
Word, and even Freehand, I'm running into the problem of there being a
boundary of about a quarter inch from the edge of the page beyond which
I can't print.  Is there a hack to the print driver (7.1.2) or Laser
Prep to allow me to print to the very edge of the page on a sutably
equipped printer?

Please either E-Mail or post.... I will gladly summarize if anyone's
interested.

				Thanks,
				Keith Trussell
				keitru1@netcom.com


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: siegman@EE.Stanford.EDU (Anthony E. Siegman)
Subject: Re: Basic for MacIntosh
Organization: Stanford University
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 01:52:46 GMT

trimper@edsi.plexus.COM (Greg Trimper) writes:

>True Basic is a very nice BASIC development system from the company of
>the same name...... I would recommend it over MS Basic for anyone
>who needs to program in Basic.

   This depends to some extent on what you want to do.  I haven't used
True Basic, so perhaps shouldn't comment, but I believe because it's
intended to run on many platforms, so far as graphics and other
capabilities are concerned you may be largely limited to the user
interface built into True Basic itself; and can only take limited
advantage of the unique Mac GUI capabilities.  And for some of the
extended capabilities you may have to buy not only the program itself
but various of the additional libraries.

   Microsoft QuickBASIC on the other hand provides quite full (and
quite easy) direct access to all the Mac GUI and Mac Toolbox
capabilities, menus, windows, QuickDraw commands, dialog boxes,
buttons, scroll bars, and so on; allowing one to build and compile
fully Mac-like double-clickable applications.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: simon@archsci.arch.su.edu.au (Simon Hayman)
Subject: Re: A new SpeedyFinder?
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: University of Sydney
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:44:28 GMT

> I also tried this neat CP, but discarded it because it had some bugs,
> like turning on and off baloon help, that were either conflicts with
> INITs I couldn't ditch (Now Utilities) or just outright bugs.
> 
> The problem is, that I'm not willing to register to "hope" these are
> fixed.  If I saw a version that fixed the bugs, I'd probably register.
> 
> jas

As a satisfied user of SpeedyFinder and Now Utilities (V3 & 4) and about
two dozen other "evil" inits, etc, I can vouch for the fact that there have
been no problems to my knowledge that hadn't been there beforehand. Of
course, I am only rumnning a humble ClassicII :-). As far as I know Victor
is very prompt with bug fixes to registered users - I haven't had to ask
for one it has just turned up in my email.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: matthew@unislc.uucp (Matthew Smith)
Subject: MacInTax 10 - any trouble printing?
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 05:15:09 GMT


Just curious if anybody else has had trouble printing?
Maybe I should wait for the real thing - still using headstart
at the moment...

Mac IIsi, System 6.0.7, Deskwriter (3.1 driver)

matt.
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From: e5tx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: delete a file in Retrospect
Date: 24 Jan 93 19:51:16 EST
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cornell University

Is there any way to delete a single file from a session in Retrospect?

Tim
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.wanted