Info-Mac Digest V14 #186
Posted: August 9th, 1996, 4:00 am
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Info-Mac Digest Fri, 9 Aug 96 Volume 14 : Issue 186
Today's Topics:
[*] 1700 Win icons
[*] AppleScript Eudora Reply with IP 1.0
[*] AudioStripGH1.3.3J - Japanese Version
[*] Gradekeeper 4.3 is now available!
[*] Jared: Butcher of Songs v.1.1
[*] KeyCommander 68K 1.0J - Japanese Version
[*] KeyCommander PPC 1.0J - Japanese Version
[*] Samplifier 1.0
[*] SimStapler v6.2
[*] Tex-Edit Plus 1.8.3J - Japanese Version
[*] The Complete State!
(Q) PB 160 button battery
Canvas 3.5.4 & Text Ruler...
Eudora mailboxes received as attachment
making line art in Photoshop?
Multiple Eudora users
My MAC SE doesn't boot ! ! !
QuickDraw GX (Q)
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Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 20:50:01 -0500
From: (Daniel Pfarrer)[email protected]
Subject: [*] 1700 Win icons
This archive contains ~1,700 Win icons that were converted to .gif files
using GraphicConverter 2.2 (US). The icon of each .gif file is the .gif
image itself. I orig. converted these icons for my personal use; then I
decided that the rest of the Mac community could use them also. You can use
the .gif file in html documents or use the icon itself and replace the
icons of other files/folders icons' with the one of your choice.
Instructions are included in the Readme file for those who do not know how
to change icons on a Mac.
The original .zip file can be obtained from:
ftp://info.umd.edu/software/Windows/Icons/1700ico.zip
[Archived as /info-mac/art/grf/1700-icons.hqx; 4911K]
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Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 20:50:00 -0500
From: (Erik Bjorling)[email protected]
Subject: [*] AppleScript Eudora Reply with IP 1.0
A simple AppleScript applet I wrote, that runs in background and works with
Eudora Pro to reply automatically to incoming requests for your IP number.
Useful with internet connections with dynamic addressing where your IP
number changes with each connection. Allows people to get your current IP
for connecting with your computer for FTP, HTTP, CUSeeMe, or any other net
process you might have running.
Requires:
AppleScript
Eudora Pro 2.1.3 or higher
TCP/IP Scripting Extension, and OSAX by Atul Butte An Internet connection
Instructions included for creation of mailbox and filter in Eudora to
handle the incoming messages - see ReadMe.
Shareware, see ReadMe.
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/mail/eudora-reply-with-ip-as.hqx; 15K]
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Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 20:49:49 -0500
From: (Christopher Li)[email protected]
Subject: [*] AudioStripGH1.3.3J - Japanese Version
This is the Japanese version of the AudioStrip GH Package.
Audio Strip GH is a set of Control Strip modules for Macintosh which
facilitate the playing of audio CDs through an attached CD ROM player. You,
the user, can build your own personalized CD controller with the buttons
you want,and no more waiting for a stand-alone application to launch, the
controller is always right in front, with its buttons available and it's
display information visible.
[Archived as /info-mac/gst/snd/audio-strip-gh-133-jp.hqx; 254K]
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Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 20:49:59 -0500
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] Gradekeeper 4.3 is now available!
Attached you should find version 4.3 of Gradekeeper. Please include
Gradekeeper in any shareware collections, disks, or CD-ROMs which you
distribute. Thank you.
Gradekeeper is the answer for teachers who need a powerful Macintosh
gradebook program which is easy to learn and use. Gradekeeper has the
features teachers need:
- Use semesters, trimesters, quarters, or six-week terms - Assign letter
grades using your own letter grade cutoffs - Compute grades using total
points earned or category weights - Excuse any assignment, or drop the
worst score in any category - Final exams may contribute to the term,
semester, or final grade - Provides a variety of reports to keep students
and parents informed
Gradekeeper works just like your paper gradebook but does much more. You
enter students, assignments, and scores by simply clicking and typing.
Gradekeeper does the rest. And help is never far away. An extensive user's
guide is built into the program. There is also complete balloon help.
Version 4.3 includes the following improvements:
+ Import and export commands have been added. The import command will allow
you to read a list of students from a text file. The export command will
allow you to write a list of students and their grades to a text file.
+ The class summary report now includes the semester grade and a final
grade for the year. You may choose whether or not to show these grades by
using the Report Options command.
+ The report options dialog has been redesigned to include several new
options for the class summary report. It now uses a "multi-paned" method to
show options for only one report at a time.
Gradekeeper is distributed as shareware. It is not free. You may try
Gradekeeper for 30 days. If you decide to continue using it, you are
expected to pay a registration fee of $20. Registered users may use any
future version at no additional cost
[Archived as /info-mac/data/gradekeeper-43.hqx; 109K]
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Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 20:49:50 -0500
From: (FreeVerse Software)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Jared: Butcher of Songs v.1.1
While Central America has seen more than its share of atrocities in recent
years; never before has a lovely Guatemalan folk song been brutalized as
thoroughly as by the vocal stylings of JARED, the Head of Security at
FREEVERSE SOFTWARE.
Like an angry Immigration officer, Jared's distinctive rendition grabs us,
slaps us around, threatens to cavity search us and ultimately demands our
passport be issued from that same circle of hell from which his voice
originates.
Never has the mating of cats sounded so melodic as after one has listened
to "El Carnicero de Canciones." the "Butcher of Songs," as Jared was known
in Guatemala. Yet, this is perhaps the worst part, one is somehow drawn to
his song, playing it over and over again. So listen to, "Shayla-uuugh", and
suffer -- for this is art.
Download this hilarious stand-alone application from FreeVerse Software!
[Archived as /info-mac/game/jared-11.hqx; 545K]
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Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 20:49:47 -0500
From: (Christopher Li)[email protected]
Subject: [*] KeyCommander 68K 1.0J - Japanese Version
This is the Japanese version of the KeyCommander 68K package.
Don't you hate it when applications don't have command-key equivalents for
some frequently-used menu items? KeyCommander is a control panel that lets
you fix that problem by allowing you to add command-key equivalents to
applications.
And it does all of this in RAM without directly modifying the applications
themselves. It features a snazzy user interface. It requires System 7 or
higher.
This version is made for 680x0 Macs.
For questions in Japanese please contact
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/key-commander-68k-10-jp.hqx; 183K]
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Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 20:49:48 -0500
From: (Christopher Li)[email protected]
Subject: [*] KeyCommander PPC 1.0J - Japanese Version
This is the Japanese version of the KeyCommander PPC package.
Don't you hate it when applications don't have command-key equivalents for
some frequently-used menu items? KeyCommander is a control panel that lets
you fix that problem by allowing you to add command-key equivalents to
applications.
And it does all of this in RAM without directly modifying the applications
themselves. It features a snazzy user interface. It requires System 7 or
higher.
This version is made for Power Macs.
For questions in Japanese please contact
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/key-commander-ppc-10-jp.hqx; 194K]
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Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 20:49:50 -0500
From: (Doug Wyatt)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Samplifier 1.0
Samplifier is a small MIDI/sound utility. Here's a summary of its features:
- Exchange sound files between your computer and Roland S-760 sampler over
SCSI (MIDI connection also required).
- Transfer sound files between your computer and other sampler using the
MIDI Sample Dump standard.
- Utility functions save time when working with an S-760.
- Reads AIFF and 'snd' sound file formats; writes AIFF files.
- Uses OMS for reliable MIDI communication
with any Mac MIDI interface.
$20 shareware. May be included on CD-ROM. http://www.sonosphere.com/sonosphere/
[Archived as /info-mac/gst/midi/samplifier-10.hqx; 265K]
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Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 20:49:51 -0500
From: (FreeVerse Software)[email protected]
Subject: [*] SimStapler v6.2
The first true office equiptment simulator, SimStapler brings all of the
thrill and excitement of a "real" stapler right to your computer screen!
Until now, the dream of stapling without a stapler remained just that, a
dream. Only with the latest advances in virtual reality technologies has
that dream become a true reality! Today, anyone with a multi-thousand
dollar Macintosh computer, color monitor, keyboard and mouse, can enjoy the
act of virtually stapling, without the expense and bother of a "real"
stapler.
It has been said that it is humanity's imagination that sets us apart from
the beasts of the field. Now, your children can learn to be more human by
imagining they are stapling two sheets of paper together, with SimStapler.
Having ones children be "human" isn't the only benefit of SimStapler.
Adults can pretend they are stapling three or more pages together. They can
even imagine they are stapling one thousand pages together. Try THAT with a
"real" stapler!
Perhaps you would like to staple the Declaration of Independence to the
Magna Carta? Or, your phone bill to the Book of Kells? With SimStapler and
your imagination it's "no problem!"
SimStapler, another quality program from FREEVERSE SOFTWARE.
http://www.freeverse.com
[Archived as /info-mac/game/sim-stapler-62.hqx; 157K]
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Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 20:49:45 -0500
From: (Christopher Li)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Tex-Edit Plus 1.8.3J - Japanese Version
This is the Japanese version of the Tex-Edit Plus Package. This version
includes many revisions to the preferences dialogs, improved tab handling,
and more...
Welcome to Tex-Edit Plus, my multi-window, styled text editor that fills
the gap between Apple$B%f(Js bare-bones SimpleText and a full-featured
word processor! It is particularly useful for formatting text that is
transmitted to and from a BBS. Tex-Edit Plus is small, fast, easy-to-use
and requires little memory. Tex-Edit Plus is Shareware ($10).
With Tex-Edit Plus you can:
$B!&(J Quickly create, edit and print styled text documents of any size
(limited by RAM).
$B!&(J View and print TeachText or SimpleText read-only (ReadMe) documents.
$B!&(J Easily create TeachText/SimpleText read-only documents, including
embedded pictures.
$B!&(J View and print color PICT files, such as those produced by draw
programs or
Apples built-in screen snapshot utility.
$B!&(J Copy a selection from a PICT file, cropping the image for use in
the company newsletter.
$B!&(J View, edit and print text documents created by virtually any word
processor or computer.
$B!&(J Reformat downloaded e-mail or text, correcting word-wrap problems
and removing
extraneous, non-Mac characters.
$B!&(J Prepare text for upload to a BBS, so that people with MS-DOS
systems can view the
document as it was intended to be viewed.
$B!&(J Instantly quote a brief passage from received e-mail, allowing the
sender to remember
their original message.
$B!&(J Read any text document aloud, if you have Apples Speech Manager
extension. (Listen
to a SimpleText read-only file, for example, as the text and pictures
scroll by!)
$B!&(J Quickly optimize a document for printing, replacing generic,
typewriter-era characters
with professional-looking typographically correct text.
$B!&(J Create simple hypertext documents.
$B!&(J Insert attention-getting sound annotations to spice up ordinary
inter-office mail.
$B!&(J And more...
Tex-Edit Plus is a MUT 1996 Shareware Awards winner, and a winner of the
MacUser 1995 Shareware Awards. For further information, please check out:
[Archived as /info-mac/text/tex-edit-plus-183-jp.hqx; 481K]
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Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 20:50:02 -0500
From: (FreeVerse Software)[email protected]
Subject: [*] The Complete State!
Welcome Citizen, to THE COMPLETE STATE; your guide to a harmonious
existence with totalatarianism.
Each time you turn on your computer, you will be greeted with a helpful
hint for eeking out whatever small share of not-miserableness* THE STATE
may see fit to allow you.
It's Fun! and Educational Too!
* *
\____/
[Archived as /info-mac/app/complete-state-20.hqx; 79K]
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Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 15:47:52 -1000
From: Jerry Levinson
Subject: (Q) PB 160 button battery
I am about to add some RAM and a new HD to my PB 160 and thought, while I
had the thing open, I'd replace the PRAM battery (which I assume is a
button type).
So, does anyone know the battery type, model number, etc.? Would it be
available at Radio Shack? How long should one last, anyway? (I was put in
mind of this when one of my lab Macs suffered from a deceased battery...I
think I will have to replace all the batteries soon.)
Reply directly to me, I will summarize. Thanks.
Jerry
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Date: 09 Aug 96 11:02:47 +0200
From: Elliot Bennett
Subject: Canvas 3.5.4 & Text Ruler...
Subject Canvas 3.5.4 & Text Ruler... 9.8.96
10:48
I seem to suddenly have a strange problem with Canvas 3.5.4 and the Text =
Ruler, namely: The Text Ruler menu item is ALWAYS greyed out (can't select =
it even when I've selected only a single block of text).
I have tried all of the following in various combinations to no avail:
- Loading Text Ruler with Load Tool Manager (get an error of -1/0)
- Removing (and deleting) all tools except the Load Tool & Text Ruler and =
moving Text Ruler somewhere else (so that Canvas loads with virtually no
tools). Still get error when trying to load the Text Ruler
- Tried running with ALL inits off (made no difference)
- Deleting the Prefs file
Note that when I removed all the tools I actually compacted them (=
otherwise Canvas seems to search my entire hard disk and finds the tools =
and loads them automatically on start-up). I WAS able to load other tools,=
but not the Text Ruler (interestingly, even when all tools were not =
loaded I STILL had a greyed out Text Ruler menu item, whereas I would have =
expected no Text Ruler item to appear at all).
In any case I find this all very strange. Perhaps someone out there has =
an idea or would, perhaps, be willing to send me JUST the Text Ruler tool (=
please send a message offering before actually sending it and I'll reply- =
no need for me to get 50 copies from all the helpful people I usually =
encounter when I have such a problem
.
Again, I would be most grateful for ANY hints, recommendations or (even) =
an actual solution...
Much TIA,
Elliot Bennett
Cologne, Germany
[email protected]
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Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 01:41:06 -0800
From: Mike Blackwell
Subject: Eudora mailboxes received as attachment
Pete Resnick wrote:
>I find it much easier to use Eudora to read the digest now with the digest
>as a Eudora mailbox.
I would, too, except that in my case, the Info-Mac digest "mailboxes" only
had four or five messages in them, when I could open it in Word and find 30
or 40 separate articles. It could be due to interference from Adam's Plug
In; I still can't get it to add a space after "Re:".
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Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 01:55:55 -0800
From: Mike Blackwell
Subject: making line art in Photoshop?
[email protected] (Pat Chesney) wrote:
>I would like to take a scanned image of a picture and convert it to line art.
[snip]
>I want to make the outline look like someone drew in in ink with a pen
At the print shop where I work, I'm often asked to scan in a black & white
logo. Since scanning it as pure black & white can wipe out the finer
detail, I scan it as grayscale, _manually_ adjust the Brightness to get the
level of detail I want, and set the Contrast to 100% to make it a 1-bit
image. Sometimes this takes several steps, tweaking Brightness and Contrast
a bit at a time, occasionally using different settings for various sections
of the logo. Then I save it as a 1-bit compressed TIFF to save disk space.
Another alternative, depending on what you want, is to use the Sharpen
filter, which is included with PhotoShop 2.x and 3.x, I believe. This can
also get you down to where you can convert it to monochrome. Sharpening a
detailed image (like a photo), however, can induce vertical stripes unless
you apply a two- or three-pixel horizontal motion blur first, before you
sharpen it. Weird but true.
Another option, although I don't know if this is what you're after, is to
take the resulting 1-bit TIFF (non-compressed, for maximum compatibility)
and run it through Adobe Streamline 3.0 (or whatever's current): I don't
know of a better program for creating vector-based line art from TIFF
files. You'd open the resulting line art in Illustrator, Freehand, Canvas,
or something similar, and you could drag and shape it to your heart's
content.
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Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 13:05:45 +1000
From: Bill Stanford
Subject: Multiple Eudora users
In Info-Mac Digest V14 #181 [email protected] (Quentin North) wrote
>I would like to be able to allow different From tags for the other people
>who share my Mac from within Eudora Lite.
>
>My IP allows me to have multiple aliases to the same mailbox, so I would
>like outgoing mail to reflect the From tag of the person who sent it rather
>than just my name every time. Is there an extension or alternative solution
>that allows this, ideally extending to individualised signatures also?
>
>Collection is no problem is at all appears in the same pop account and I
>can just "filter" it based on the To tag using one of the variety of
>solutions that already I know about.
Quentin, this is an easy one - it's even in the manual
Find your Eudora Folder (it's usually in the System Folder root directory).
Drag the Eudora Folder out of there, and put in its place a blank
SimpleText doc (or any blank text file) named Eudora Folder - this makes it
necessary to start Eudora from one of its settings files - Eudora will give
you a neat dialog now telling you this if anyone runs the application
itself.
Open your Eudora Folder from its new location, and find your existing
Eudora settings file. Duplicate that file and name each duplicate for the
user in question. Rename the original with your own name.
Now run Eudora by clicking on the first of these new settings files. From
its Special menu, open the Settings dialog. At Getting Started, type in
the Real Name of this user. Save settings and quit Eudora.
Do this for each of the users' settings docs. Alias all of them when
finished and plop them in the Apple menu. That's it!
Observation: bet we get some letters saying this is even easier in Claris
Emailer
Ah, but the limit is 5 users. Home use only I'm afraid Yes, OK, I'm a
Eudora bigot! I confess it! (And the usual disclaimers apply!
--Bill || [email protected] || [email protected]
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Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 13:08:06 +1000
From: Bill Stanford
Subject: My MAC SE doesn't boot ! ! !
From: Info-Mac Digest V14 #181...
>From: [email protected] (Gib Henry)
>
>> From: Pascal BRENNER
>>
>> When I boot my mac SE, nothing happen, except an icon with a small
>> floppy icon with "X" or "?" inside.
>> The hard disk seems to be allright.
>> The hard disk light flashs.
>> Is there anybody who can help me ??
>> Just send me a EMail at :
>
>Hmmmm...you might have a bad memory chip. Often bad memory will give you
>the "chimes of death," but on my SE/30 I had the problems you have, and no
>chimes.
>
>I don't know of a way to test it except at a Mac repair shop. Good luck.
Pascal, hang on a bit...
For a Mac HD system disk to boot, two conditions have to be met: the driver
on the disk has to be in working order, and the "Boot Blocks" of the disk
have to be OK.
Without going into the gory details, the driver is the code that allows the
disk to handshake with the Mac (it's copied in RAM at startup); and the
boot blocks tell the Mac about there being a system on the disk - you can
see the type of stuff in here by running a disk editor like Norton's and
examining the boot blocks...
If a Mac crashes on startup at the first smiling Mac then probably the boot
blocks are damaged (and if it crashes during Welcome to Macintosh the
System file is probably corrupt...) The fix in these cases is initialize
and reinstall the system
But if the Mac can't find the drive ('?") or reports an "X", then the
driver is clobbered, and - happiness! - this is easily repaired. Boot your
Mac off your Disk Tools floppy, run Apple's HD Setup, and hit the Update
Driver button. Now the computer should boot, assuming that whatever did
this naughtiness hasn't taken out the boot blocks as well.
OK, I suppose I should add that there's a chance that HD Setup won't "see"
the drive at all, HD Setup being a weakwilled, finicky thing. Run Disk
First Aid, hope it sees the drive, go Repair, and try HD Setup again. But
there is some chance that this won't work either, and in that case you'll
want a copy of Norton Utilities Emergency disk, from which you run Disk
Doctor and do initial repairs on the drive. If these work then run Disk
Tool's HD Setup again, and update the driver... Voila! you'll have your
Mac again...
If none of this works, and you haven't got a friend with expertise, then
you'll have to follow Gib's advice and hie thee to a shop. But I don't
think it'll come to this...
Good luck!
--Bill || [email protected] || [email protected]
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Date: Thu, 08 Aug 1996 21:46:53 -0400
From: [email protected]
Subject: QuickDraw GX (Q)
Dear Digest readers,
Awhile back I asked what does QuickDraw GX for my printing, that can't
be done by my Stylewriter 2200 driver software alone? Surprisingly,
there were no replies.
It appears the Stylewriter 2200 driver software comes with the option
to install QuickDraw GX, and I was wondering if it was worth it?
What do I get for using GX, are there any incompatibility problems known
with it, and what does it do for my Stylewriter 2200 that I couldn't do
earlier?
Please reply via e-mail, as reading the digest is now just taking too
much my time.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
[email protected]
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Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 13:48:39 +1000 (EST)
From: [email protected]
Eudora 2.1.4. Mail
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 13:48:40 +1000
To: [email protected]
From: [email protected] (Christian Stricker)
Subject: [Q] Which Ethernet Card for Performa 5400?
Hi all,
we have got a Performa 5400 and would like to hook it up to the
Ethernet by some card (Appletalk is a bit slow). The reseller told us that
we had to wait till the new cards are out some time in October. Has anybody
got experience with an Ethernet Card for the 5400 and could recommend a
product that is available right now? If sufficient interest I will
summarise to the net.
Thanks and all the best
Christian.
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Info-Mac Digest Fri, 9 Aug 96 Volume 14 : Issue 186
Today's Topics:
[*] 1700 Win icons
[*] AppleScript Eudora Reply with IP 1.0
[*] AudioStripGH1.3.3J - Japanese Version
[*] Gradekeeper 4.3 is now available!
[*] Jared: Butcher of Songs v.1.1
[*] KeyCommander 68K 1.0J - Japanese Version
[*] KeyCommander PPC 1.0J - Japanese Version
[*] Samplifier 1.0
[*] SimStapler v6.2
[*] Tex-Edit Plus 1.8.3J - Japanese Version
[*] The Complete State!
(Q) PB 160 button battery
Canvas 3.5.4 & Text Ruler...
Eudora mailboxes received as attachment
making line art in Photoshop?
Multiple Eudora users
My MAC SE doesn't boot ! ! !
QuickDraw GX (Q)
The Info-Mac Network operates by the volunteer efforts of:
Gordon Watts, Liam Breck, Adam C. Engst, Demitri Muna, Mike O'Bryan
The Info-Mac Archive is available at 50 public and private sites around
the world. For the site list, request it by mail (address below), or try:
Also accessible by ftp. Help files and indexes are also in info-mac/help/.
Administrative queries & info:
Articles for digest publication:
Files for inclusion:
To submit a file greater than 800K, or to avoid submitting by (and
segmenting for) email, send email describing the file to
and upload it to:
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Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 20:50:01 -0500
From: (Daniel Pfarrer)[email protected]
Subject: [*] 1700 Win icons
This archive contains ~1,700 Win icons that were converted to .gif files
using GraphicConverter 2.2 (US). The icon of each .gif file is the .gif
image itself. I orig. converted these icons for my personal use; then I
decided that the rest of the Mac community could use them also. You can use
the .gif file in html documents or use the icon itself and replace the
icons of other files/folders icons' with the one of your choice.
Instructions are included in the Readme file for those who do not know how
to change icons on a Mac.
The original .zip file can be obtained from:
ftp://info.umd.edu/software/Windows/Icons/1700ico.zip
[Archived as /info-mac/art/grf/1700-icons.hqx; 4911K]
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Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 20:50:00 -0500
From: (Erik Bjorling)[email protected]
Subject: [*] AppleScript Eudora Reply with IP 1.0
A simple AppleScript applet I wrote, that runs in background and works with
Eudora Pro to reply automatically to incoming requests for your IP number.
Useful with internet connections with dynamic addressing where your IP
number changes with each connection. Allows people to get your current IP
for connecting with your computer for FTP, HTTP, CUSeeMe, or any other net
process you might have running.
Requires:
AppleScript
Eudora Pro 2.1.3 or higher
TCP/IP Scripting Extension, and OSAX by Atul Butte An Internet connection
Instructions included for creation of mailbox and filter in Eudora to
handle the incoming messages - see ReadMe.
Shareware, see ReadMe.
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/mail/eudora-reply-with-ip-as.hqx; 15K]
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Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 20:49:49 -0500
From: (Christopher Li)[email protected]
Subject: [*] AudioStripGH1.3.3J - Japanese Version
This is the Japanese version of the AudioStrip GH Package.
Audio Strip GH is a set of Control Strip modules for Macintosh which
facilitate the playing of audio CDs through an attached CD ROM player. You,
the user, can build your own personalized CD controller with the buttons
you want,and no more waiting for a stand-alone application to launch, the
controller is always right in front, with its buttons available and it's
display information visible.
[Archived as /info-mac/gst/snd/audio-strip-gh-133-jp.hqx; 254K]
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Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 20:49:59 -0500
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] Gradekeeper 4.3 is now available!
Attached you should find version 4.3 of Gradekeeper. Please include
Gradekeeper in any shareware collections, disks, or CD-ROMs which you
distribute. Thank you.
Gradekeeper is the answer for teachers who need a powerful Macintosh
gradebook program which is easy to learn and use. Gradekeeper has the
features teachers need:
- Use semesters, trimesters, quarters, or six-week terms - Assign letter
grades using your own letter grade cutoffs - Compute grades using total
points earned or category weights - Excuse any assignment, or drop the
worst score in any category - Final exams may contribute to the term,
semester, or final grade - Provides a variety of reports to keep students
and parents informed
Gradekeeper works just like your paper gradebook but does much more. You
enter students, assignments, and scores by simply clicking and typing.
Gradekeeper does the rest. And help is never far away. An extensive user's
guide is built into the program. There is also complete balloon help.
Version 4.3 includes the following improvements:
+ Import and export commands have been added. The import command will allow
you to read a list of students from a text file. The export command will
allow you to write a list of students and their grades to a text file.
+ The class summary report now includes the semester grade and a final
grade for the year. You may choose whether or not to show these grades by
using the Report Options command.
+ The report options dialog has been redesigned to include several new
options for the class summary report. It now uses a "multi-paned" method to
show options for only one report at a time.
Gradekeeper is distributed as shareware. It is not free. You may try
Gradekeeper for 30 days. If you decide to continue using it, you are
expected to pay a registration fee of $20. Registered users may use any
future version at no additional cost
[Archived as /info-mac/data/gradekeeper-43.hqx; 109K]
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Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 20:49:50 -0500
From: (FreeVerse Software)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Jared: Butcher of Songs v.1.1
While Central America has seen more than its share of atrocities in recent
years; never before has a lovely Guatemalan folk song been brutalized as
thoroughly as by the vocal stylings of JARED, the Head of Security at
FREEVERSE SOFTWARE.
Like an angry Immigration officer, Jared's distinctive rendition grabs us,
slaps us around, threatens to cavity search us and ultimately demands our
passport be issued from that same circle of hell from which his voice
originates.
Never has the mating of cats sounded so melodic as after one has listened
to "El Carnicero de Canciones." the "Butcher of Songs," as Jared was known
in Guatemala. Yet, this is perhaps the worst part, one is somehow drawn to
his song, playing it over and over again. So listen to, "Shayla-uuugh", and
suffer -- for this is art.
Download this hilarious stand-alone application from FreeVerse Software!
[Archived as /info-mac/game/jared-11.hqx; 545K]
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Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 20:49:47 -0500
From: (Christopher Li)[email protected]
Subject: [*] KeyCommander 68K 1.0J - Japanese Version
This is the Japanese version of the KeyCommander 68K package.
Don't you hate it when applications don't have command-key equivalents for
some frequently-used menu items? KeyCommander is a control panel that lets
you fix that problem by allowing you to add command-key equivalents to
applications.
And it does all of this in RAM without directly modifying the applications
themselves. It features a snazzy user interface. It requires System 7 or
higher.
This version is made for 680x0 Macs.
For questions in Japanese please contact
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/key-commander-68k-10-jp.hqx; 183K]
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Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 20:49:48 -0500
From: (Christopher Li)[email protected]
Subject: [*] KeyCommander PPC 1.0J - Japanese Version
This is the Japanese version of the KeyCommander PPC package.
Don't you hate it when applications don't have command-key equivalents for
some frequently-used menu items? KeyCommander is a control panel that lets
you fix that problem by allowing you to add command-key equivalents to
applications.
And it does all of this in RAM without directly modifying the applications
themselves. It features a snazzy user interface. It requires System 7 or
higher.
This version is made for Power Macs.
For questions in Japanese please contact
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/key-commander-ppc-10-jp.hqx; 194K]
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Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 20:49:50 -0500
From: (Doug Wyatt)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Samplifier 1.0
Samplifier is a small MIDI/sound utility. Here's a summary of its features:
- Exchange sound files between your computer and Roland S-760 sampler over
SCSI (MIDI connection also required).
- Transfer sound files between your computer and other sampler using the
MIDI Sample Dump standard.
- Utility functions save time when working with an S-760.
- Reads AIFF and 'snd' sound file formats; writes AIFF files.
- Uses OMS for reliable MIDI communication
with any Mac MIDI interface.
$20 shareware. May be included on CD-ROM. http://www.sonosphere.com/sonosphere/
[Archived as /info-mac/gst/midi/samplifier-10.hqx; 265K]
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Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 20:49:51 -0500
From: (FreeVerse Software)[email protected]
Subject: [*] SimStapler v6.2
The first true office equiptment simulator, SimStapler brings all of the
thrill and excitement of a "real" stapler right to your computer screen!
Until now, the dream of stapling without a stapler remained just that, a
dream. Only with the latest advances in virtual reality technologies has
that dream become a true reality! Today, anyone with a multi-thousand
dollar Macintosh computer, color monitor, keyboard and mouse, can enjoy the
act of virtually stapling, without the expense and bother of a "real"
stapler.
It has been said that it is humanity's imagination that sets us apart from
the beasts of the field. Now, your children can learn to be more human by
imagining they are stapling two sheets of paper together, with SimStapler.
Having ones children be "human" isn't the only benefit of SimStapler.
Adults can pretend they are stapling three or more pages together. They can
even imagine they are stapling one thousand pages together. Try THAT with a
"real" stapler!
Perhaps you would like to staple the Declaration of Independence to the
Magna Carta? Or, your phone bill to the Book of Kells? With SimStapler and
your imagination it's "no problem!"
SimStapler, another quality program from FREEVERSE SOFTWARE.
http://www.freeverse.com
[Archived as /info-mac/game/sim-stapler-62.hqx; 157K]
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Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 20:49:45 -0500
From: (Christopher Li)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Tex-Edit Plus 1.8.3J - Japanese Version
This is the Japanese version of the Tex-Edit Plus Package. This version
includes many revisions to the preferences dialogs, improved tab handling,
and more...
Welcome to Tex-Edit Plus, my multi-window, styled text editor that fills
the gap between Apple$B%f(Js bare-bones SimpleText and a full-featured
word processor! It is particularly useful for formatting text that is
transmitted to and from a BBS. Tex-Edit Plus is small, fast, easy-to-use
and requires little memory. Tex-Edit Plus is Shareware ($10).
With Tex-Edit Plus you can:
$B!&(J Quickly create, edit and print styled text documents of any size
(limited by RAM).
$B!&(J View and print TeachText or SimpleText read-only (ReadMe) documents.
$B!&(J Easily create TeachText/SimpleText read-only documents, including
embedded pictures.
$B!&(J View and print color PICT files, such as those produced by draw
programs or
Apples built-in screen snapshot utility.
$B!&(J Copy a selection from a PICT file, cropping the image for use in
the company newsletter.
$B!&(J View, edit and print text documents created by virtually any word
processor or computer.
$B!&(J Reformat downloaded e-mail or text, correcting word-wrap problems
and removing
extraneous, non-Mac characters.
$B!&(J Prepare text for upload to a BBS, so that people with MS-DOS
systems can view the
document as it was intended to be viewed.
$B!&(J Instantly quote a brief passage from received e-mail, allowing the
sender to remember
their original message.
$B!&(J Read any text document aloud, if you have Apples Speech Manager
extension. (Listen
to a SimpleText read-only file, for example, as the text and pictures
scroll by!)
$B!&(J Quickly optimize a document for printing, replacing generic,
typewriter-era characters
with professional-looking typographically correct text.
$B!&(J Create simple hypertext documents.
$B!&(J Insert attention-getting sound annotations to spice up ordinary
inter-office mail.
$B!&(J And more...
Tex-Edit Plus is a MUT 1996 Shareware Awards winner, and a winner of the
MacUser 1995 Shareware Awards. For further information, please check out:
[Archived as /info-mac/text/tex-edit-plus-183-jp.hqx; 481K]
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Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 20:50:02 -0500
From: (FreeVerse Software)[email protected]
Subject: [*] The Complete State!
Welcome Citizen, to THE COMPLETE STATE; your guide to a harmonious
existence with totalatarianism.
Each time you turn on your computer, you will be greeted with a helpful
hint for eeking out whatever small share of not-miserableness* THE STATE
may see fit to allow you.
It's Fun! and Educational Too!
* *
\____/
[Archived as /info-mac/app/complete-state-20.hqx; 79K]
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Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 15:47:52 -1000
From: Jerry Levinson
Subject: (Q) PB 160 button battery
I am about to add some RAM and a new HD to my PB 160 and thought, while I
had the thing open, I'd replace the PRAM battery (which I assume is a
button type).
So, does anyone know the battery type, model number, etc.? Would it be
available at Radio Shack? How long should one last, anyway? (I was put in
mind of this when one of my lab Macs suffered from a deceased battery...I
think I will have to replace all the batteries soon.)
Reply directly to me, I will summarize. Thanks.
Jerry
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Date: 09 Aug 96 11:02:47 +0200
From: Elliot Bennett
Subject: Canvas 3.5.4 & Text Ruler...
Subject Canvas 3.5.4 & Text Ruler... 9.8.96
10:48
I seem to suddenly have a strange problem with Canvas 3.5.4 and the Text =
Ruler, namely: The Text Ruler menu item is ALWAYS greyed out (can't select =
it even when I've selected only a single block of text).
I have tried all of the following in various combinations to no avail:
- Loading Text Ruler with Load Tool Manager (get an error of -1/0)
- Removing (and deleting) all tools except the Load Tool & Text Ruler and =
moving Text Ruler somewhere else (so that Canvas loads with virtually no
tools). Still get error when trying to load the Text Ruler
- Tried running with ALL inits off (made no difference)
- Deleting the Prefs file
Note that when I removed all the tools I actually compacted them (=
otherwise Canvas seems to search my entire hard disk and finds the tools =
and loads them automatically on start-up). I WAS able to load other tools,=
but not the Text Ruler (interestingly, even when all tools were not =
loaded I STILL had a greyed out Text Ruler menu item, whereas I would have =
expected no Text Ruler item to appear at all).
In any case I find this all very strange. Perhaps someone out there has =
an idea or would, perhaps, be willing to send me JUST the Text Ruler tool (=
please send a message offering before actually sending it and I'll reply- =
no need for me to get 50 copies from all the helpful people I usually =
encounter when I have such a problem
.Again, I would be most grateful for ANY hints, recommendations or (even) =
an actual solution...
Much TIA,
Elliot Bennett
Cologne, Germany
[email protected]
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Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 01:41:06 -0800
From: Mike Blackwell
Subject: Eudora mailboxes received as attachment
Pete Resnick wrote:
>I find it much easier to use Eudora to read the digest now with the digest
>as a Eudora mailbox.
I would, too, except that in my case, the Info-Mac digest "mailboxes" only
had four or five messages in them, when I could open it in Word and find 30
or 40 separate articles. It could be due to interference from Adam's Plug
In; I still can't get it to add a space after "Re:".
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Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 01:55:55 -0800
From: Mike Blackwell
Subject: making line art in Photoshop?
[email protected] (Pat Chesney) wrote:
>I would like to take a scanned image of a picture and convert it to line art.
[snip]
>I want to make the outline look like someone drew in in ink with a pen
At the print shop where I work, I'm often asked to scan in a black & white
logo. Since scanning it as pure black & white can wipe out the finer
detail, I scan it as grayscale, _manually_ adjust the Brightness to get the
level of detail I want, and set the Contrast to 100% to make it a 1-bit
image. Sometimes this takes several steps, tweaking Brightness and Contrast
a bit at a time, occasionally using different settings for various sections
of the logo. Then I save it as a 1-bit compressed TIFF to save disk space.
Another alternative, depending on what you want, is to use the Sharpen
filter, which is included with PhotoShop 2.x and 3.x, I believe. This can
also get you down to where you can convert it to monochrome. Sharpening a
detailed image (like a photo), however, can induce vertical stripes unless
you apply a two- or three-pixel horizontal motion blur first, before you
sharpen it. Weird but true.
Another option, although I don't know if this is what you're after, is to
take the resulting 1-bit TIFF (non-compressed, for maximum compatibility)
and run it through Adobe Streamline 3.0 (or whatever's current): I don't
know of a better program for creating vector-based line art from TIFF
files. You'd open the resulting line art in Illustrator, Freehand, Canvas,
or something similar, and you could drag and shape it to your heart's
content.
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Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 13:05:45 +1000
From: Bill Stanford
Subject: Multiple Eudora users
In Info-Mac Digest V14 #181 [email protected] (Quentin North) wrote
>I would like to be able to allow different From tags for the other people
>who share my Mac from within Eudora Lite.
>
>My IP allows me to have multiple aliases to the same mailbox, so I would
>like outgoing mail to reflect the From tag of the person who sent it rather
>than just my name every time. Is there an extension or alternative solution
>that allows this, ideally extending to individualised signatures also?
>
>Collection is no problem is at all appears in the same pop account and I
>can just "filter" it based on the To tag using one of the variety of
>solutions that already I know about.
Quentin, this is an easy one - it's even in the manual
Find your Eudora Folder (it's usually in the System Folder root directory).
Drag the Eudora Folder out of there, and put in its place a blank
SimpleText doc (or any blank text file) named Eudora Folder - this makes it
necessary to start Eudora from one of its settings files - Eudora will give
you a neat dialog now telling you this if anyone runs the application
itself.
Open your Eudora Folder from its new location, and find your existing
Eudora settings file. Duplicate that file and name each duplicate for the
user in question. Rename the original with your own name.
Now run Eudora by clicking on the first of these new settings files. From
its Special menu, open the Settings dialog. At Getting Started, type in
the Real Name of this user. Save settings and quit Eudora.
Do this for each of the users' settings docs. Alias all of them when
finished and plop them in the Apple menu. That's it!
Observation: bet we get some letters saying this is even easier in Claris
Emailer
Ah, but the limit is 5 users. Home use only I'm afraid
Yes, OK, I'm aEudora bigot! I confess it! (And the usual disclaimers apply!
--Bill || [email protected] || [email protected]
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Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 13:08:06 +1000
From: Bill Stanford
Subject: My MAC SE doesn't boot ! ! !
From: Info-Mac Digest V14 #181...
>From: [email protected] (Gib Henry)
>
>> From: Pascal BRENNER
>>
>> When I boot my mac SE, nothing happen, except an icon with a small
>> floppy icon with "X" or "?" inside.
>> The hard disk seems to be allright.
>> The hard disk light flashs.
>> Is there anybody who can help me ??
>> Just send me a EMail at :
>
>Hmmmm...you might have a bad memory chip. Often bad memory will give you
>the "chimes of death," but on my SE/30 I had the problems you have, and no
>chimes.
>
>I don't know of a way to test it except at a Mac repair shop. Good luck.
Pascal, hang on a bit...
For a Mac HD system disk to boot, two conditions have to be met: the driver
on the disk has to be in working order, and the "Boot Blocks" of the disk
have to be OK.
Without going into the gory details, the driver is the code that allows the
disk to handshake with the Mac (it's copied in RAM at startup); and the
boot blocks tell the Mac about there being a system on the disk - you can
see the type of stuff in here by running a disk editor like Norton's and
examining the boot blocks...
If a Mac crashes on startup at the first smiling Mac then probably the boot
blocks are damaged (and if it crashes during Welcome to Macintosh the
System file is probably corrupt...) The fix in these cases is initialize
and reinstall the system
But if the Mac can't find the drive ('?") or reports an "X", then the
driver is clobbered, and - happiness! - this is easily repaired. Boot your
Mac off your Disk Tools floppy, run Apple's HD Setup, and hit the Update
Driver button. Now the computer should boot, assuming that whatever did
this naughtiness hasn't taken out the boot blocks as well.
OK, I suppose I should add that there's a chance that HD Setup won't "see"
the drive at all, HD Setup being a weakwilled, finicky thing. Run Disk
First Aid, hope it sees the drive, go Repair, and try HD Setup again. But
there is some chance that this won't work either, and in that case you'll
want a copy of Norton Utilities Emergency disk, from which you run Disk
Doctor and do initial repairs on the drive. If these work then run Disk
Tool's HD Setup again, and update the driver... Voila! you'll have your
Mac again...
If none of this works, and you haven't got a friend with expertise, then
you'll have to follow Gib's advice and hie thee to a shop. But I don't
think it'll come to this...
Good luck!
--Bill || [email protected] || [email protected]
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Date: Thu, 08 Aug 1996 21:46:53 -0400
From: [email protected]
Subject: QuickDraw GX (Q)
Dear Digest readers,
Awhile back I asked what does QuickDraw GX for my printing, that can't
be done by my Stylewriter 2200 driver software alone? Surprisingly,
there were no replies.
It appears the Stylewriter 2200 driver software comes with the option
to install QuickDraw GX, and I was wondering if it was worth it?
What do I get for using GX, are there any incompatibility problems known
with it, and what does it do for my Stylewriter 2200 that I couldn't do
earlier?
Please reply via e-mail, as reading the digest is now just taking too
much my time.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
[email protected]
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Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 13:48:39 +1000 (EST)
From: [email protected]
Eudora 2.1.4. Mail
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 13:48:40 +1000
To: [email protected]
From: [email protected] (Christian Stricker)
Subject: [Q] Which Ethernet Card for Performa 5400?
Hi all,
we have got a Performa 5400 and would like to hook it up to the
Ethernet by some card (Appletalk is a bit slow). The reseller told us that
we had to wait till the new cards are out some time in October. Has anybody
got experience with an Ethernet Card for the 5400 and could recommend a
product that is available right now? If sufficient interest I will
summarise to the net.
Thanks and all the best
Christian.
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