Info-Mac Digest V12 #102
Posted: July 29th, 1994, 2:13 am
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Info-Mac Digest Thu, 28 Jul 94 Volume 12 : Issue 102
Today's Topics:
[*] Afghanistan HTB for Newton v.1
[*] AnimHelp 1.6; creates animations for games
[*] Coffee_Break_1.1; designed to reduce RSS
[*] Colors & Objects; entertainment for young children
[*] Colortime 2.0; a coloring program for kids
[*] comms-service-11-hc; a rolodex-like communication program
[*] Communicate Lite Demo 1.0.2; a terminal emulator
[*] ControlPanel-0.9.4; examples source code (C)
[*] csmp-digest-v3-047
[*] csmp-digest-v3-048
[*] DropZone(tm) 3.0.4 (drag-and-drop utility -- formerly LaunchPad)
[*] easy-view-250; a text file browser
[*] Fantasy Fball FM-ProV1.3; a database for fantasy football
[*] fft-asm; Fast Fourier Transform in assembly
[*] Font Library v2.0; for font organisation
[*] fracppc10b2; a fractal generation program for the PPC
[*] GCC 7.0 Installation; printer driver updates
[*] GCC BLP Elite 1.0.2; a printer driver update
[*] GCC PLP II 4.2.1 Updater; for a printer driver
[*] GNU Flex 2.4.6 for THINK C 6.0
[*] GopherGolf 1.0; a game
[*] Invaders!2.0; a Space Invaders clone
[*] LisasMiscWallpaper; some desktop patterns
[*] LZSS-Res v2.1; a resource compression utility
[*] MacWeather 2.0.2; an Internet weather client
[*] Mail2000 program to read e-mail. Update.
[*] Mark's Portfolio Manager 1.2 upload
[*] merryxmasWatcher1.0; will protect against the HC virus
[*] MLK-Promised-Land; a sound clip of Martin Luther King
[*] MovieTrilogy1.1.1; a trio of Quicktime utilities
[*] museum-06; a "Slideshow/Multimedia presentation program"
[*] nervous-system-10; a "Neuron Modeling and Simulation Environment"
[*] newt-turt-book; a "Newt Turtle Tutorial"
[*] OldPrint hack for QuickDraw GX
[*] QuicKeys for After Dark
[*] RFK-Negro-Section-of-Town; a sound clip of Martin Luther King
[*] SoundApp 1.2.1; a "sound playing program"
[*] Sounds produced by Yves Lussier
[*] Sparkle 2.12 A mac-look-and-feel MPEG and QT player and converter
[*] SRS II; "a Mac reference manager"
[*] stufex_3.5_installer; StuffIt Expander 3.5
[*] symmetry; based on the Field and Golubitsky algorithm
[*] TeachText & SimpleText XTND Translator
[*] TidBITS#236/25-Jul-94
[*] Timer 1.7.1; a simple timer
[*] VA-NewsWatcher; "NewsWatcher with binary posting"
[*] wave-window-21; a "software oscilloscope"
[*] ZTerm font patcher
.hqx archive format....
.hqx archive format....(A)
.hqx archive format....[r]
[A] Easy View
[Q] Audio CDROM to sound fi
[Q] MacPPP and Shiva LanRov
Accelerator Card recommendations
API/Programmers Guide for PlainTalk
Big files from Mac to PC [r]
ClarisWorks and Sliding (A)
EKG's on quicktime/mpeg
Expo Event List version 32
flowcharting
hypercard to html
HyperGopher
Info-Mac Digest V12 #101
Inverse video software for visually handicapped
LC-Monitors (Q)
Logitech Address
looking for TrueEdit
Mac the Knife Wants You!
Move Mac to New Net & Printing
No c.s.m.p. digests in August
Notepad, Wed 7/27 12:59 pm
Pointer enlarger?
PowerBook 180 ribbon cable
Powerbook 500 and MIDI
Powerbook Questions
Problema con el disco conner de 500 mb en el PPC (R)
Problem getting CIA World Factbook (Q)
Q: Creating a Font Family
Quadra 610 DOS (Q)
QUESTION: Mac SE Internal Hard Disk broken
Searching info-mac archives
Seeking sound sample
Size Increase
Sound on PowerMac
Supra FaxModem 144LC / CommSwitch 330 Incompatibility
The incredible gliding mouse
TidBITS#236/25-Jul-94 -- no new emulator for existing PowerMacs
Usenet on Mac
Video adapter
WGS 9150 and Internet
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 10:13:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] Afghanistan HTB for Newton v.1
Afghanistan HyperTextBook for Newton
Contact: Iverson Software Co.
Jeffrey D. Iverson
P. O. Box 3
Rice Lake WI 54868-0003
(715) 236-7918
AppleLink: J5rson
Rice Lake, WI--25 JUL 94: Now available: Afghanistan HyperTextBook=
=AA for=20
Newton=AA, an educational reference book for the Newton platform that=
explores=20
over 100 topics related to the subject of Afghanistan.=20
HyperTextBooks are interactive documents which allow the user to crea=
te their=20
own path through information by using simple hypertext links. The New=
ton=20
platform allows this information to literally be "in the palm of your=
hand"=20
when away from the desktop.
Among the many topics that the Afghanistan HTB allows you to explore =
are:=20
Ahmad Shah; Bactria; Chandragupta; Faizabad; Hindu Kush; Jammu and Ka=
shmir;=20
Khyber Pass; Mazar-i-Sharif; Nadir Shah; Pamirs; Safed Koh; Sultan;=
=20
Turkestan; and more...=20
[Archived as /info-mac/nwt/info/afghanistan-hypertext-book-demo.hqx; 208K]
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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 1994 20:19:05 -0300
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] AnimHelp 1.6; creates animations for games
Below is AnimHelp 1.6, and update to the little program intended to help
artists & programmers make animations for games. This version is a fat
binary, so it should be linked to any Power Mac directories as well!
Sean
[Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/anim-help-16.hqx; 64K]
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 08:47:36 -0500
From: [email protected] (Thomas Reed)
Subject: [*] Coffee_Break_1.1; designed to reduce RSS
Coffee Break is a program designed to reduce the chances of your getting a
Repetetive Stress Injury. It does so by forcing you to take a break every
so often. You can set the time between breaks and the length of breaks,
along with some other neat features.
Version 1.1 fixes a couple bugs, the most insidious of which was one that
caused the program to crash on some machines. (I still haven't figured out
how that one made it past me and my beta testers!) These are now fixed.
See the Version History file for details.
-Thomas Reed
[Archived as /info-mac/app/coffee-break-11.hqx; 77K]
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 08:03:22 PDT
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] Colors & Objects; entertainment for young children
Colors & Objects is software for young kids. Originally I wrote it to try out
various toolbox routines. It doesn't do anything fancy, but draw various
geometric objects, letters, or numbers to the screen. If Speech Manager is
loaded it will say the object drawn.
Hope the young ones like it!
Dan
[Archived as /info-mac/game/colors-and-objects.hqx; 49K]
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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 13:42:59 -0600 (MDT)
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] Colortime 2.0; a coloring program for kids
This is a BinHexed file containing Colortime 2.0. Colortime is
coloring book program for kids which allow them to create
pictures and then forward them to the printer for coloring.
Colortime was stuffed using Stuffit Deluxe 3.0.4 and then
translated to a BixHex format.
Colortime is shareware. The author can be contacted at
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/game/color-time-20.hqx; 595K]
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 11:23:38 +1000
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] comms-service-11-hc; a rolodex-like communication program
commsService is a easy-to-use application that provides a "rolodex" like
communications facility. The application provides facilities for recording
the details of commonly used connections/sessions as a series of parameters
on an individual "card".
A communications "card" is referred to as a "service", which is defined as
any process running on a local or remote computer, eg. an Online Public
Access Catalogue (OPAC) or a Campus Wide Information System (CWIS). Each
service is uniquely defined via a series of 12 parameters that describe
attributes such as the name, the method used to connect to the service,
the login and logout scripts, etc.
Service definitions allow for multiple, simultaneous sessions to be active
at any one time. A typical session might therefore include a serial
connection to your local OPAC in one window, whilst another window displays
information from a CWIS, and a third displays a remote network connection
to a second OPAC.
The application utilises the power of HyperCard's scripting language,
HyperTalk to provide a powerful communication scripting facility. It
achieves this by defining a series of communication specific language
extensions that enable scripts to communicate directly with services.
commsService is based upon Apple's Communications Toolbox technology,
consequently connectivity is only limited by the range of Connection and
Terminal Emulation tools that are available on your machine.
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/term/comms-service-11-hc.hqx; 1000K]
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 23:56:31 -0800
From: [email protected] (Brian Hall)
Subject: [*] Communicate Lite Demo 1.0.2; a terminal emulator
Changes since 1.0.1:
- Updated contact information (phone numbers & address)
- Now includes Apple Modem Tool 1.5.3
This archive contains everything you need to try out Communicate Lite:
- a demo version of the application
- communications tools
** including the new version of the Apple Modem Tool (1.5.3) **
- a 16 page demo guide
- ordering information
Communicate Lite is...
...fun
Configure sounds to play when you connect, disconnect, download a file,
or just forget that you are connected. Use the included sounds, or record
your own.
...easy to use
Full Balloon help, topical help, and a tool bar will get you
communicating - fast! A document oriented approach means that Communicate
works like the applications you already know how to use - simply "Open",
"Save" and create "New" sessions.
...multi-session
Take full advantage of multi-port serial cards or network connections
such as telnet by creating and using multiple windows at the same time!
...and able to grow with you
Power can be added simply by adding additional communications "tools" as
you need them. The Mark/Space ZMODEM Tool is included with the purchase of
Communicate Lite.
Upgrade to Communicate Professional (under development) to take advantage
of automatic virus detection, automatic file expansion, spell checking and
support for AppleScript and Userland Frontier.
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/term/communicate-lite-102-demo.hqx; 533K]
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 21:34:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: [email protected] (Ken Long)
Subject: [*] ControlPanel-0.9.4; examples source code (C)
Folks:
I get to postin' here and there and forget where I put everything. I
scoured a.s.m., merit and sumex and found this NOT!
So here it is. will post to a.s.m., too.
Author: Ken Worley.
Type: Think C 6.0.1 project.
Content: Source for a sample control panel, sample INIT and sample
patch. Built examples of each.
Additions: Ken Long added Think C 5.0.4 projects, to make it easier on
the po' folks.
I tried these and the CP and INIT *both* show their icons at startup.
The CP won't open unless loaded, but has nice features for a shell. I
also tried building all three and there were no problems with that.
-Ken-
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/src/control-panel-094-c.hqx; 133K]
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 19:05:02 +0200 (MET DST)
From: [email protected] (Francois Pottier)
Subject: [*] csmp-digest-v3-047
C.S.M.P. Digest Tue, 26 Jul 94 Volume 3 : Issue 47
Today's Topics:
AIFF
Announcing Macintosh AIFF-based DSP Think C Toolbox
AppleEvent Question
Bug in MIDI.h (Universal Interface)
Full file path?
Looking for a friendly native component sample.
Newbie ?: Where to get good reference materials
Problem using FSpGet-SetFInfo
list of crossplatform OO (C++, Smalltalk) development tools
The Comp.Sys.Mac.Programmer Digest is moderated by Francois Pottier
([email protected]).
[Archived as /info-mac/per/csmp/csmp-v3-047.txt; 46K]
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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 15:48:03 +0200 (MET DST)
From: [email protected] (Francois Pottier)
Subject: [*] csmp-digest-v3-048
C.S.M.P. Digest Thu, 28 Jul 94 Volume 3 : Issue 48
Today's Topics:
Color in System 7 popups?
Controlling Apple MultiSync Monitors
Drag Mgr problem w- flavorTypePromiseHFS
GWorlds and other questions - Help
PBControl() "hangs" the Macintosh
Patching the GetResource() toolbox routine
The Comp.Sys.Mac.Programmer Digest is moderated by Francois Pottier
([email protected]).
[Archived as /info-mac/per/csmp/csmp-v3-048.txt; 39K]
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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 94 19:25:08 EDT
From: J S Greenfield
Subject: [*] DropZone(tm) 3.0.4 (drag-and-drop utility -- formerly LaunchPad)
(Shareware, $10)
System 7's drop-launching features are a nice idea, but
there is a catch: in order to drop documents onto an
application, you need to have the application on the
desktop, or in some other open window. This one problem is
probably the single greatest impediment to realizing the
full potential of drop-launching. In the past, you had
basically two choices: either fill up your desktop with an
array of various application icons, to keep them available
for drop-launching, or keep your desktop clean, and limit
your use of drop-launching to rare occasions.
DropZone(tm) changes all that.
DropZone is a simple utility designed to let you keep a
clean desktop, but still maintain convenient access to
System 7's drop-launching features. DropZone serves as a
drag-and-drop dock for any applications that you choose.
You simply drag documents to the DropZone icon, and then
select an application to launch from the "get file" dialog.
The dropped documents will then be opened using the selected
application (if possible).
DropZone also facilitates automated drop-launching with Valet
Launching(tm). With the included utility, DropZone Valet(tm),
you can configure DropZone to automate your most frequent drop-
launching tasks.
With DropZone, you keep your desktop clean and take advantage
of System 7's drop-launching.
So why use drop-launching or DropZone? If this question
comes to mind, then you are probably one of the many people
who have yet to experience just how convenient drop-
launching can be. Drop-launching makes many tasks much
easier. See the enclosed documentation for useful examples.
Specifications:
DropZone(tm) requires less than 35K of disk space, and as
little as 45K of RAM. DropZone Valet(tm) requires less than
25K of disk space.
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/drop-zone-304.hqx; 95K]
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 08:54:06 +0400
From: [email protected] (Akif Eyler)
Subject: [*] easy-view-250; a text file browser
Easy View is a program for browsing of collections of structured
(but otherwise plain) text files, large or small. It allows very
fast access by recognizing the internal structure. All of the
following text formats can be viewed using Easy View:
* setext, including TidBITS and similar publications
* Info-Mac, c.s.m.p, or similar digests
* Mail collections: Internet (Eudora), Navigator, Notebook, etc.
* Dictionaries
* Plain text
**New Feature**
* An extension menu is added for using external code
(Compatible with BBEdit)
Several extensions are distributed with Easy View 2.5x, with the
consent of their authors. Here is the current list in the order of
their release date:
Extension Author
Word Count Kamal Abdali
BBXKeys Jamie R. McCarthy
Import Marco Piovanelli
Speaking Mark Fleming
Get URL M. Akif Eyler
[Archived as /info-mac/text/easy-view-250.hqx; 223K]
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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 09:18:09 CST
From: [email protected] (Peterson, Chris)
Subject: [*] Fantasy Fball FM-ProV1.3; a database for fantasy football
Here's the file and info.
BinchFoot* V1.3 is now the only nifty Fantasy Football database for the
Mac. The improvements are as follows:
Draft Manager!!!: This is by far the best improvement. It assists with
your draft and team set up. By following some easy instructions, Draft
Manager helps you set up each team. It then brings you to draft day. Here
you let BinchFoot* lead you through the draft. You can keep track of how
long each pick is taking and you have a roster to choose players from. It
also warns you if a player has already been selected.
More Scoring Options
Binchfoot*1.3 allows you to keep statistics for performance. Each position
has it's special way of recieving points. Quarterbacks get points for
passing yardage, Running Backs for rushing yardage, and Receivers for
receiving yardage. Each postition can only have one Performance Statistic.
Binchfoot* 1.3 also allows you to enter statistics for actual scoring.
You can enter touchdowns, passing touchdowns, safetys, etc for each player.
And by entering these statistics, Binchfoot* will pull the value of each
type of score.
User-Defined value points: Yes, you the user can define how many points a
touchdown, safety, etc. is worth. Flexibility is great!
Line-Up: You can also define who's playing and who's not for each givin
week. If a player is playing, his points are counted, if he doesn't his
points are just something to talk about.
There are many more things that you have to see for yourself. Binchfoot*
really helps that Mac owner(and Windows) manage their league.
[Archived as /info-mac/game/binchfoot-13-fmpro.hqx; 284K]
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 10:06:11 -0400
From: Tom Barrett
Subject: [*] fft-asm; Fast Fourier Transform in assembly
This file contains three routines:
* void tb_68k_four1_extended(long double *data, long nn, long isign);
* void tb_68k_four1_single(float *data, long nn, long isign);
* void tb_68k_fourn_single(float *data, long *nn, long ndim, long isign)
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/src/fft-asm.txt; 16K]
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 23:36:32 -0600
From: [email protected] (Kent Pilkington)
Subject: [*] Font Library v2.0; for font organisation
Font Image Library 2.0 is a HC 2.0 or later stack that helps you organize
your fonts. This is an update to the Font Library 1.3. This stack is only
$3 shareware. Stand alone version is availalbe upon request.
[Archived as /info-mac/font/util/font-library-20-hc.hqx; 531K]
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 22:16:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Dennis C. De Mars"
Subject: [*] fracppc10b2; a fractal generation program for the PPC
FracPPC is a program for generating fractals on the Power Macintosh. It runs
_only_ on Power Macs. This is version 1.0b2, which fixes (I hope) a bug with
16/32 bit color displays. It also adds the ability to generate Julia sets as
well as the Mandelbrot set. It still lacks some basic features like color
editing and the ability to save or copy as a PICT (these features will almost
certainly be in the next version).
- Dennis De Mars
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/frac-ppc-10b2.hqx; 128K]
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 94 15:24:59 -0500
From: "Joshua B. Colglazier"
Subject: [*] GCC 7.0 Installation; printer driver updates
This is disk 1 of 2 to update the GCC print drivers from System 6 to System 7.
I have received permission from GCC Technical Support to post this update
to the Internet and anywhere it might end up, so long as no one charges
for its distribution (outside of normal access fees for BBS's and commercial
services).
The complete set of disks needed to update the GCC printer drivers:
GCC 7.0 Installation
GCC 7.0 Applications
This is a Dart 1.5 disk image file and has been converted to binhex using
Binhex 4.0. This file can be successfully converted back to a Dart 1.5 disk
image file by using Binhex 4.0, Stuffit Expander 3.0.7 or other utilities which
can decode the Binhex 4.0 format.
[Archived as /info-mac/prn/gcc-print-drivers-sys7-updt-disk1.hqx; 1361K]
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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 94 13:27:08 -0500
From: "Joshua B. Colglazier"
Subject: [*] GCC BLP Elite 1.0.2; a printer driver update
This is disk 1 of 1 to update the GCC BLP Elite print driver to version 1.0.2.
I have received permission from GCC Technical Support to post this update
to the Internet and anywhere it might end up, so long as no one charges
for its distribution (outside of normal access fees for BBS's and commercial
services).
This is a Dart 1.5 disk image file and has been converted to binhex using
Binhex 4.0. This file can be successfully converted back to a Dart 1.5 disk
image file by using Binhex 4.0, Stuffit Expander 3.0.7 or other utilities which
can decode the Binhex 4.0 format.
[Archived as /info-mac/prn/gcc-blp-elite-driver-102-updt.hqx; 614K]
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 94 15:36:46 -0500
From: "Joshua B. Colglazier"
Subject: [*] GCC PLP II 4.2.1 Updater; for a printer driver
This is disk 1 of 1 to update the GCC PLP II print driver to version 4.2.1.
I have received permission from GCC Technical Support to post this update
to the Internet and anywhere it might end up, so long as no one charges
for its distribution (outside of normal access fees for BBS's and commercial
services).
This is a Dart 1.5 disk image file and has been converted to binhex using
Binhex 4.0. This file can be successfully converted back to a Dart 1.5 disk
image file by using Binhex 4.0, Stuffit Expander 3.0.7 or other utilities which
can decode the Binhex 4.0 format.
[Archived as /info-mac/prn/gcc-plp-ii-driver-421-updt.hqx; 998K]
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 12:01:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Scott Hofmann
Subject: [*] GNU Flex 2.4.6 for THINK C 6.0
This is GNU Flex version 2.4.6 compiled in Symantec C++ 6.0. Flex is the GNU
lex-compatible lexical analyzer. This version is a minimal port to the
Macintosh - the only changes were to call ccommand() in main() to get the
command-line arguments.
This file replaces the THINK-C version of Flex 2.3.7. A compiled application is
included, so you do not need Symantec C++ in order to use Flex 2.4.6. Full
documentation is included, as are the sources per the GNU Public License.
Macintosh-specific release notes are included in flex-2.4.6:MISC:Macintosh.
I am currently working on a CodeWarrior port, with an enhanced front end - not
just the ccommand() dialog box. Any other questions, please drop me a line.
scott
J. Scott Hofmann | "Back off, man, I'm a scientist!"
[email protected] | -Dr. Peter Venkman, _Ghostbusters_
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/src/gnu-flex-246-c.hqx; 528K]
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Date: 26 Jul 94 16:19:20 EDT
From: Kevin Zaccone
Subject: [*] GopherGolf 1.0; a game
GopherGolf is a miniature golf game and course editor. Play one of the five
included courses or create your own with the editor.
Watch out for that pesky gopher. You never know where he'll pop up next.
Runs in B&W or up to 256 colors on monitors 9" and larger.
[Archived as /info-mac/game/gopher-golf-10.hqx; 415K]
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 94 10:48:00 MET DST
From: [email protected] (Simone Bettini 227678/IL)
Subject: [*] Invaders!2.0; a Space Invaders clone
Yet Another Invaders Game
Invaders! version 2.0
some bugs fixed and new extra features.
[Archived as /info-mac/game/arc/invaders-20.hqx; 331K]
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 94 17:56:30 -0500
From: "Lisa T. Snyder"
Subject: [*] LisasMiscWallpaper; some desktop patterns
These are my latest Wallpaper patterns to use with Wallpaper. To use
with other programs, try WPAT2PPAT, a great shareware program or
ClickChange, a commercial program. To see my mugshot, open the
"readme" file.
Also included is a small Doc-Maker document that tells all about what
I do.
All my patterns are freeware, or should I say comment ware. Let me
know what you think!
Lisa Snyder
( [email protected] or [email protected] )
See enclose read me file for my snailmail address!
Please feel freee to use all my patterns on the Info-Mac CD!
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/grf/lisas-wallpaper-textures.hqx; 441K]
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 94 19:26:14 MDT
From: [email protected] (Dmitry Boldyrev)
Subject: [*] LZSS-Res v2.1; a resource compression utility
I did some major bug fixing in LZSS Res and I'd like you to REPLACE
the old LZSS-REs v2.0 with this current version. README, C example and
library were improoved since 2.0. thank you.
Dmitry.
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/lzss-res-21.hqx; 620K]
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 16:33:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: Christopher Bruce Kidwell
Subject: [*] MacWeather 2.0.2; an Internet weather client
MacWeather allows you to connect to an Internet weather server to get
current weather information and forecasts for a specified city. It
requires a Mac Plus or higher with System 7.0 and MacTCP.
Major changes in version 2.0:
- support for many more cities in the US and worldwide
- support for near-shore marine forecasts in the US
- support for climate data in the US
- enabled saving and printing of forecasts
- added a Recent menu to switch between cities easily
Changes in version 2.0.2:
- removed PowerPC native code until more testing can be done
- fixed a small memory bug
Chris Kidwell
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/app/mac-weather-202.hqx; 112K]
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 12:01:10 +0200
From: x
Subject: [*] Mail2000 program to read e-mail. Update.
Mail2000 is a small application to read e-mail textfiles. I
wrote it because I have a lot of old e-mail lying around on my
discs which I occasionally want to read. Mail2000 reads
textfiles containing e-mail and provides threading of the
mails. This is not for people who have fancy high-speed
TCP/IP, slip connections and I dont know what else, but for
those who save their mails in textfiles and keep it at home on
their Mac.
Features include reading of UN*X style terminated files,
stripping of mail-headers and threading on subject and
sender.
It needs system 7 to run.
This archive contains Mail2000, a read me file and an example
file.
-Peter
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/mail-2000.hqx; 143K]
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 09:59:18 -0400
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] Mark's Portfolio Manager 1.2 upload
The following is a binhexed, compacted file (BinHex 4.0, Compact Pro 1.33)
containing the file "Mark's Portfolio Manager", a Microsoft Excel 4.0
application for managing equity investments.
This application ought to run just fine under System 6.0.x and System 7.x, and
requires version 4.0 or later of Microsoft Excel.
It will allow the user to keep many portfolios of stocks, bonds, mutual funds,
etc., quickly and easily make trades in these instruments, and keep track of
how well you are doing in each, and how well you are doing in your whole
portfolios.
There is an on-line tutorial, and plenty of help to get the user started. You
can even customize help to suit your individual needs if you like.
If anyone has any questions about this upload, we can be reached (for now, at
least
) on the Internet at: [email protected]
Thanks very much, and we hope that you find this program useful.
[Archived as /info-mac/app/marks-portfolio-manager-12.hqx; 92K]
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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 1994 12:33:30 -0700
From: [email protected] (Ken Dunham)
Subject: [*] merryxmasWatcher1.0; will protect against the HC virus
"merryxmasWatcher1.0" will eradicate, innoculate, and watch for
the merryxmas virus.
You have my permission to include this archive on your
commerically distributed CD-ROM.
[Archived as /info-mac/vir/merry-xmas-watcher-10.hqx; 6K]
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 12:10:05 -0600
From: [email protected] (Squeal)
Subject: [*] MLK-Promised-Land; a sound clip of Martin Luther King
This is the first in a series of clips with some historical/political
content. This sound is from the "promised land" speech of the Reverend
Martin Luther King, Jr. This is a 22kHz sound, about 625k, which is
binhexed and compacted with Compact Pro.
Email me if you like this sound and are interested in me posting others
(from many different people/sources). Email me if you'd like to help with
my project of making historical/political excerpts widely available.
Remember, it only happened it you can prove it.
[Archived as /info-mac/snd/mlk-promised-land.hqx; 750K]
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 06:26:11 -0500
From: [email protected] (Paul C.H. Ho)
Subject: [*] MovieTrilogy1.1.1; a trio of Quicktime utilities
Copyright 1993-94 Paul C.H. Ho and Pink Elephant Technologies.
All rights reserved.
This is shareware.
The is version 1.1.1 This version has no expiration date.
Note to Sysop: Please remove all old beta versions from your
archive.
What's new in 1.1.1?
DeskTopTV
Fixed a fatal error if Macintosh Drag and Drop was not installed.
DeskTopText
Fixed a non-fatal error if Speech manager was not installed.
DeskTopMovie
Add Voices menu to chose Speech manager voices.
What's new in 1.1?
*** Drag and Drop ***
DeskTopTV now support Drag and Drop. You can drag a picture from
DeskTopTV and drop it to Finder as clipping or drop it into
another Drag and Drop savvy program.
*** Text to Speech ***
DeskTopMovie now support Speech manager. You can play Text to
Speech on text track.
*** Bigger! Slower! ***
Just convert DeskTopText to TCL 2.0... Some AppleScript functions
come free from TCL 2.0 (untested).
DeskTopText now convert the attached sound into sound movie
track.
In all three program. The usual bug fix.
System Requirements
-System 7 or later.
-QuickTime 1.6.1 or later.
-Sound Manager 3.0 or later recommended.
-Some features required Speech Manager, version 1.2.1 or later recommended.
-Some features required Macintosh Drag and Drop.
-Mac II (68020) or later.
-Some features required AV class Macintosh.
(Tested on a Mac II and a 660AV)
MovieTrilogy is a set of 3 QuickTime applications designed to do
video subtitle on AV class Macintosh. DeskTopMovie and DeskTopText
also work on other Mac with some useful features.
[Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/movie-trilogy-111.hqx; 330K]
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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 1994 15:15:50 -0400
From: GSM/CCH
Subject: [*] museum-06; a "Slideshow/Multimedia presentation program"
MUSEUM v0.6 by Rustle Laidman, Shareware $5-30Mean little Slideshow/Multimedia
presentation program. Here'sthe latest version of Museum. You'll love it!-
Rock-Solid, Stand-Alone document!- Pictures, Text with Style, & Sound-
Quicktime-compressed JPEG/PICT- Runs on EVERY Macintosh/Monitor configuration-
Many features to customize- Full-Screen Slideshow- Multi-Level Destruct-
Scrolling Pictures- Extremely easy to usec1992-94 by Rustle Laidman
([email protected])All Rights Reserved (and Strictly Enforced)
[Archived as /info-mac/app/museum-06.hqx; 52K]
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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 1994 17:05:55 -0400
From: "Daniel C. McFarlane"
Subject: [*] nervous-system-10; a "Neuron Modeling and Simulation Environment"
*** ANNOUNCING: ***
NervousSystem 1.0.gwu -- Neuron Modeling and Simulation Environment for Apple
Macintosh
*** WHAT: ***
NervousSystem is an exciting new simulation tool for exploring the behavior of
networks of neurons, based on a biological model.
1. Application (Apple Macintosh computers);
2. User's Guide (MS Word format);
3. Source Code & Project File (Think Class Objects on the Think Class Library
Framework);
4. Programmer's Guide (MS Word format).
*** WHY (For Computational Neuroscience): ***
NervousSystem has the following attractive properties for investigating a
biologically based model of neurons and networks of neurons.
1. free;
2. it is VERY easy to learn and use (direct manipulation interaction style);
3. "easily" expandable and customizable because of well structured OOP source
code;
4. free.
*** WHY (For Computer Science): ***
NervousSystem has the following attractive properties for learning
direct-manipulation object-oriented programming within a framework.
1. free;
2. elegant direct-manipulation solution;
3. employs "Model-View-Controller" paradigm;
4. popular OOP language, C++ (Think Class Objects);
5. popular framework (Think Class Library);
6. popular, and inexpensive, development tools (Think C v.5, and AppMaker);
7. well crafted by OOP experts (two doctoral student in human-computer
interaction at George Washington University);
8. robust, ample structure, supports expansion and reuse;
9. free.
[Archived as /info-mac/sci/nervous-system-10.hqx; 1163K]
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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 94 17:12:47 PDT
From: Steve Weyer
Subject: [*] newt-turt-book; a "Newt Turtle Tutorial"
NewtTurT (Newt Turtle Tutorial) is an interactive tutorial (Newton book) that
will show how you can program in NewtonScript with turtle-style graphics
directly on your Newton using Newt.
Keywords: tutorial, Newt, object-oriented programming, NewtonScript, learning,
graphics, mathematics, Logo
See NewtTurT.1st for further info.
[Archived as /info-mac/nwt/info/newt-turt-book.hqx; 39K]
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 94 12:37 +1200
From: "Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University, Hamilton, NZ"
Subject: [*] OldPrint hack for QuickDraw GX
Hi.
Enclosed is OldPrint, a hack I put together as an interim solution for
QuickDraw GX users who need it. It allows you to continue using your old
printer driver with selected applications, with QuickDraw GX installed.
Hopefully it will be obsolete in a few months, as more third parties come
out with GX-compatible printer drivers.
Beware: I have done only limited testing, so use with care. Comments and
bug reports welcome.
Lawrence D'Oliveiro
University of Waikato
Hamilton
New Zealand
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/prn/old-print.hqx; 42K]
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 02:08:53 +0100
From: Richard Buckle
Subject: [*] QuicKeys for After Dark
Here is version 3.0.1 of my Screen Saver Quickeys. These fix a bug in
version 3.0 which caused Screen Saver Decision to type random keystrokes if
MS Word and MS Excel was in front and the destination shortcut was left
blank.
Version 3.0 should be deleted from the archives.
Screen Saver Quickeys allow QuicKeys 3.0 to test and control whether After
Dark (or another screen saver that uses the same Gestalt mechanism, eg
DarkSide) is asleep, awake, etc.
Postcardware.
Enjoy.
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/ad/screen-saver-qkeys-301-ad.hqx; 50K]
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 12:21:33 -0600
From: [email protected] (Squeal)
Subject: [*] RFK-Negro-Section-of-Town; a sound clip of Martin Luther King
This is the first in a series of clips with some historical/political
content. This sound is from Bobby Kennedy's crusade against racism. This
is a 22kHz sound, about 120k, which is binhexed and compacted with Compact
Pro.
Email me if you like this sound and are interested in me posting others
(from many different people/sources). Email me if you'd like to help with
my project of making historical/political excerpts widely available.
[Archived as /info-mac/snd/mlk-negro-section-of-town.hqx; 189K]
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 09:29:29 -0800
From: [email protected] (Norman Franke, III)
Subject: [*] SoundApp 1.2.1; a "sound playing program"
Enclosed you will find SoundApp 1.2.1, the latest version of my sound
playing program.
SoundApp it can play and convert the following sound formats:
SoundCap (including Huffman compressed files),
SoundEdit (including stereo files),
AIFF and AIFF-C,
System 7 Sound,
Sun Audio (AU),
NeXT .snd,
Windows WAVE,
Sound Blaster VOC,
Amiga MOD,
Amiga IFF (8SVX) (including compressed files),
Sound Designer II,
DVI ADPCM, and
any 'snd' resource file.
SoundApp also supports conversion to the following sound formats: System 7,
Sound suitcase, WAVE, AIFF/AIFF-C, and NeXT .au.
Large sounds can be played with minimal memory, and it can convert 16-bit
files to 8-bit files, if desired. It also supports true 16-bit playback of
16-bit sound files, as well as, AU and ADPCM files. Stereo playback is also
supported.
Version 1.2.1 is primarily a bug release for playback of 8SVX files. In
addition, I've added a Convert menu item.
As before, SoundApp remains Freeware. For more information, please see the
built-in help/About window or the Balloon Help.
[Archived as /info-mac/snd/util/sound-app-121.hqx; 140K]
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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 1994 20:56:08 -0400
From: Martin Charest
Subject: [*] Sounds produced by Yves Lussier
This file contains two funny sounds made by a crazy friend,
Yves Lussier. He wanted me to give you those files, so
everybody can hear him play with his computer!
Have fun!
Martin.
[Archived as /info-mac/snd/lussier.hqx; 87K]
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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 21:43:41 +1200
From: [email protected] (Maynard James Handley)
Subject: [*] Sparkle 2.12 A mac-look-and-feel MPEG and QT player and converter
This version makes the following changes to Sparkle 2.1
* A few minor bugs were fixed.
* One major bug was fixed, which required extensive reworking of Sparkle
internals. This is why I haven't been able to get this version out
sooner.
* Somewhat better (though not yet great) support for QT movies with only
sound and no video.
* In reponse to many mail message from people who didn't understand the
new features in 2.1, I've added a lot more documentation, in the
ReadMe 2nd file, and I've added balloon help.
You will get slightly better results with this version if you throw away
your old Sparkle preferences file (in the Preferences folder in the
System folder) before running Sparkle 2.12.
This isn't essential but will improve performance a little.
This version
* is not PPC native
* does not support sound
* does not support apple events
* does not support online help
These are all high priorities, pretty much in that order.
As always, if you find any bug or anomaly in this code please tell me.
The sooner you tell me, the sooner I'll fix it.
As always there remain a few rough edges to this program, though I hope
most of them won't be too distressing to users. Like previous rough
edges, they'll be done away with in time.
Sparkle plays MPEGs, PICTs and QT movies and converts between them. It is
multifinder friendly and, with enough memory, will open multiple
documents at once.
It is free.
REQUIRES:
System 7 or greater.
QuickTime 1.6 or greater.
An 020 based mac or greater.
This version requires the Thread Manager.
Maynard Handley
[email protected]
July 28 1994
[Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/sparkle-212.hqx; 351K]
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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 1994 18:46:16 -0600
From: [email protected] (John Ralph)
Subject: [*] SRS II; "a Mac reference manager"
Hi:
Attached is a new piece of free-ware (which can be updated to a full
shareware version).
SRS II is a Mac reference manager aimed at, but not restructed to, the
sciences. It was previously marketed by Trinity Software and the American
Chemical Society for $125. It is now Shareware at $15. This version, which
is fully functional but lacks some of the improt formats, can be
distributed freely.
Please note that I tried compressing this in Compact pro, but it is
significantly smaller with DiskDobuler 3 format, even when self extracting
- since not everyone has DD the enclosed file is self-extracting. The
README is kept separate and contains info on SRS II.
I look forward to seeing it on Info-Mac.
Regards,
John Ralph
GloMax Software
[Archived as /info-mac/app/srs-ii.hqx; 776K]
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Date: Fri, 15 Jul 1994 13:37:28 -0700
From: [email protected] (Bruce)
Subject: [*] stufex_3.5_installer; StuffIt Expander 3.5
Complete Installer for StuffIt Expander 3.5, a major update of this award-
winning freeware product. Designed to be the simplest, most efficient way
to expand StuffIt, Compact Pro, BinHex and MacBinary files. You can even
have it "watch" a certain folder. If you add our new "DropStuff with
Expander Enhancer" you get PowerMac acceleration, expansion of many other
formats (.gz, .z, .uu, .ARC, .ZIP), joining of StuffIt segments, and
more! Disinfectant 3.5 shows no viruses in this file.
[Archived as /info-mac/cmp/stuffit-expander-35.hqx; 203K]
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 94 15:40 MET DST
From: [email protected] (Friedrich Schotte)
Subject: [*] symmetry; based on the Field and Golubitsky algorithm
Symmetry is an application which draws colored graphics based on an algorithm
described by the mathematicians Field and Golubitsky. These graphics are of
very complex but symmetrical structure and some of them are fractals.
This application may especially interesting for those who have bought the book
"Symmetry and Chaos" by Field and Golubitsky, Oxford Press, 1993.
There are four versions of thr application:
- Symmetry-App.sit: English version for every Macintosh
- Symmetry-FPU.sit: English version for Macintosh with coprocessor
- Symmetry-German.sit: German version for every Macintosh
- Symmetry-German-FPU.sit: German version for Macintosh with coprocessor
The following additional files are supplied:
- Symmetry-Sources.sit: Source code for Think-C 6.0
- Symmetry-Samples.sit: Sample pictures created by Symmetry
You may include this application and its sources on a commercially available
CD-ROM archive.
The following is a Compact Pro archive containig the six files, converted
by BixHex 4.0.
[Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/symmetry.hqx; 819K]
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 22:45:03 -0700
From: Alan Coopersmith
Subject: [*] TeachText & SimpleText XTND Translator
TeachText/SimpleText XTND Translator version 2.0
Copyright 1992-1994 by Alan Coopersmith. All rights reserved.
Allows applications that use the Claris XTND system to read and
write TeachText & SimpleText documents with pictures and styled
text. It's freeware and has been reported to work with Nisus,
MacWrite Pro, ClarisWorks, and Framemaker.
The biggest change since version 1.0 is the addition of
SimpleText styles.
[Archived as /info-mac/cmp/teachtext-simpletext-20-xtnd.hqx; 17K]
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 23:07:27 -0700
From: [email protected] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: [*] TidBITS#236/25-Jul-94
TidBITS#236/25-Jul-94
Mark Anbinder reports on Apple's latest addition to the PowerBook
family, the PowerBook 150, along with Apple's new 15" monitor
and new keyboard. FullWrite makes the news with an Internet
mailing list and a long-awaited upgrade, StuffIt Expander and
DropStuff go back for a quick fix, and Roy McDonald of
Connectix takes us inside the process of porting RAM Doubler
to the Power Macs.
Topics:
MailBITS/25-Jul-94
GlobalFax for Power Macs
New Display, New Keyboard
More Mobile Macs
Transition to PowerPC: RAM Doubler 1.5
Reviews/25-Jul-94
[Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-236.etx; 29K]
Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor -- [email protected] -- [email protected]
Author of The Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh -- [email protected]
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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 1994 22:59:14 +0200
From: [email protected] (Bas Meijer)
Subject: [*] Timer 1.7.1; a simple timer
Hi All,
Included is the file timer171.hqx this is a BinHexed Stuffit archive =
containing
the newest version of Timer.
Timer is a small and simple alarm clock
Want to spend only 2 hours computing ? Set the timer and it will remi=
nd
you after the time is up. Want a clock in a window with your favourit=
e
font ? Timer is just that.
Timer will remember your alarm if you save when you quit.
See "About Timer=C9" under the apple menu for more info.
Timer is postcardware so if you like it send me a postcard...
Comments, bug reports etc to:
Bas Meijer=20
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/app/timer-171.hqx; 35K]
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 16:26:18 -0500
From: [email protected] (Brian Clark)
Subject: [*] VA-NewsWatcher; "NewsWatcher with binary posting"
Announcing VA-NewsWatcher 2.0b9.0+
Value-Added NewsWatcher with binary posting
MOST IMPORTANT. This version is not an "official, John
Norstad" version of NewsWatcher. John can't and won't
support it, and is not responsible to any bugs I added to
his code. I intend to do my best to keep up with whatever
changes John makes to his version, and incorporate them in
timely releases of my version. John's own binary posting
version will come later. Since binary posting is only on the
wish list, and not (to the best of my recollection) an
official proposed feature of either 2.0 final or 2.1, I have
decided to release my own version.
Apart from binary posting, I've made some other small
changes to my version. There should be a small speed
increase for Quadra owners who have installed System Update
3.0 because of a change that eliminates unnecessary '040
cache flushing. The spinning beach ball cursor has been
replaced with a color animated cursor (the small NewsWatcher
newspaper icon, with a spinning globe). The dialog to select
folders has been changed to satisfy the Apple Human
Interface Guidelines, and it's now smarted about aliases to
volumes. The subject line to file name routine has been
changed to be more intelligent and to provide less mangled
file names when saving articles to disk.
Obviously the big change is binary posting. A file icon
button is added to message windows, to the right of the
"send to self" button. Clicking on it elicits a file dialog,
where a single file to attach to your post may be chosen.
Clicking on the Send button causes the selected file to be
uuencoded, split into several sections, and sent.
I have also answered the request that the checkmarks to
the left of each button be active, so that clicking on them
will enable or disable the relevant option, exactly as if
the button had been clicked. John has announced that his
next version will do the same.
Brian Clark
[email protected] (Brian Clark)
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/tcp/va-news-watcher-20b9.hqx; 408K]
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/src/va-news-watcher-20b9-c.hqx; 499K]
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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 1994 15:16:18 -0400
From: GSM/CCH
Subject: [*] wave-window-21; a "software oscilloscope"
WaveWindow v2.1 by Rustle Laidman, Shareware $12
WaveWindow is a software oscilloscope. Very useful for anyone who
works with sound on the Macintosh, educational, and fun to play
with. It displays sound visually on your screen in real-time.
Several different modes, including dynamic color waveforms.
Requires System 6.0.7 (or greater) and a Macintosh with
microphone-input. Supports the Built-in Mic, MacRecorder,
VoiceLink, any device that follows Mac protocol.
Easy to use, try singing into the microphone. After you get the
basic idea, experiment with 'Preferences'. There are several
different synchronization and display modes. Try the 'Lissajous
Figures' in 'Async' mode and play an 'F' on your favorite
instrument. Wow!
NEW IN VERSION 2.1...
- Runs faster on faster machines.
- Invoke Preferences by clicking in display area
- Analyzes frequency (realtime) on very fast machines.
- Quadra-AV aware.
c1993,94 by Rustle Laidman ([email protected])
All Rights Reserved (and Strictly Enforced)
[Archived as /info-mac/sci/wave-window-21.hqx; 46K]
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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 1994 20:57:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: [email protected] (Trygve Isaacson)
Subject: [*] ZTerm font patcher
Hi all, enclosed is ZTermPatcher.hqx (10K).
ZTerm Patcher
Copyright c1994 by Trygve Isaacson
[email protected]
Freeware--distribute freely along with this readme.
Fat binary--contains both 68K and PowerPC native code.
This little application is a patcher for ZTerm 0.9 (this version ships
with Global Village modems). The patcher lets you specify a font for
ZTerm to use for the terminal session instead of the ZTerm built-in font
(which only has 9- and 12-point bitmaps). Of course, it'll have to be a
monospaced font (like Monaco, Courier, Noiro, ... I'm sure there are
other favorites) in order for ZTerm to draw the terminal session
properly. The patcher also lets you remove the patch or switch fonts in a
patched copy of ZTerm.
Enjoy!
-- Trygve
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/term/zterm-font-patcher.hqx; 10K]
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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 94 9:22:48 EDT
From: Tom Coradeschi
Subject: .hqx archive format....
Robert Butler wrote;
> I'm interested in the quicktime movies in the mac archives, but they're
>all compressed in some funky .hqx format... Unfortunately, I have an ibm
>clone, so if you know of any way that I can decompress these for use on
>my system, please let me know...
Do an archie search for 'binhex.exe'. I think it was written at U Michigan,
but I could be wrong (understatement of the century:-}).
tom coradeschi [email protected]
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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 15:43:54 -0400
From: "Robert E. Winston"
Subject: .hqx archive format....(A)
> I'm interested in the quicktime movies in the mac archives,
> but they're all compressed in some funky .hqx format...
> Unfortunately, I have an ibm clone, so if you know of any way
> that I can decompress these for use on my system, please let
> me know...
Binhex (.hqx) is an ascii encoding scheme similar to (but not compatible
with) uuencoding.
>From mac.archive.umich.edu:
/mac/util/compression/pcbinhex.uu
"A version of BinHex in .EXE form, which runs on IBM & its clones"
The resulting binary will be compressed with StuffIt or Compact Pro.
If it's compressed with StuffIt (.sit) use this:
/mac/util/compression/unsitins.exe.uu
"IBM executables for UnSit, a program to decode StuffIt 1.5.1, 2.0,
and 3.0 archives on IBMs and compatibles."
________
Robert E. Winston [email protected]
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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 11:09:29 -0400
From: [email protected] (Mail Delivery Subsystem) (by way of
[email protected] (Capt Bill Cameron))
Subject: .hqx archive format....[r]
Robert Butler writes:
> I'm interested in the quicktime movies in the mac archives, but they're
>all compressed in some funky .hqx format... Unfortunately, I have an ibm
>clone, so if you know of any way that I can decompress these for use on
>my system, please let me know...
>thanks in advance...
You can decode these files using PC BinHex 1.3, available at:
ftp://boombox.micro.umn.edu//pub/pc/binhex/binhex.exe
HOWEVER!!! - BinHex is not a compression utility; all it does is convert
the files into 7-bit ASCII, similar to a uuencoded file (this is done to
aid transfer over funky unix mail systems that only allow text). Once you
un-BinHex the quicktime movies, you'll probably find they have either a
.sit or .cpt extension. These files are created by StuffIt and CompactPro
respectively, which are Macintosh archive utilities similar to PKZip,
though not identical. I haven't tried any PC utilities that will unarchive
.sit or .cpt files. You might try this one, but I don't know if it works:
ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/leonardr/Aladdin/UNSITINS.EXE
Hope this helps
Bill Cameron sdg
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 10:31:54 +0400
From: [email protected] (Akif Eyler)
Subject: [A] Easy View
David L. Ellis wrote in I-M 101:
> Thanks to all who took time to answer my question about why Easy
> View sometimes splits an issue.
>
> In summary, the problem seems to be that Easy View looks for a
> line of asterisks (******) to mark the end of an issue. When a
> submission includes a line of asterisks, EV breaks at this point.
> If you want to rectify this, you can open the issue in a word
> processor and delete the offending line of asterisks.
I could give a simpler answer: just use the view that comes with
EV, rather than making a new one. This one is properly configured
to handle I-M digests. I _never_ edit the digests manually, just
download them and drag them into the I-M folder.
M. Akif Eyler /|
Bilkent University /_|
06533 Ankara, Turkey________/ | [email protected]
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Date: 25 Jul 1994 20:06:27 -0700
From: "Brian Renken"
Subject: [Q] Audio CDROM to sound fi
Subject:
[Q] Audio CDROM to sound file??
Does anyone know how to convert an audio CD ROM track to some type of sound
file??
Thanks in advance..
Brian Renken
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Date: 28 Jul 1994 12:50:53 -0700
From: "Brian Renken"
Subject: [Q] MacPPP and Shiva LanRov
Subject:
[Q] MacPPP and Shiva LanRover
Hi there,
We are using MacPPP to dial into the internet thru our Shiva LanRover.
Everything works fine, until exactly 6 hours after we end a connection. Then,
MacPPP decides to automate a new connection without any human interaction. If
the machine is unattended at that time then we end up racking up charges with
our internet provider. I have found that if I do a "Hard Close" then it wont
do
this, but then I have to open the MacPPP control panel to start the next
connection. Has anyone else seen this or know what to do to fix the problem??
Thanks in advance...
Brian
[email protected]
Software Development Manager, SensArray Corporation
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 94 17:54:12 EST
From: Charlie McLain
Subject: Accelerator Card recommendations
Hi folks,
I have a Mac IIcx that is extremely slow (18 MHz 68030). I am interested in
buying a reasonably priced accelerator card to soup this machine up. Does
anyone have a recommendation on this.
Please send all replies to:
[email protected]
Thanks.
Charlie McLain
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 13:02:58 -0700
From: [email protected] (Kevin Purcell)
Subject: API/Programmers Guide for PlainTalk
>Does anyone know where the API for Apple's PlainTalk speech recognition
>software is located?
Check out the latest Developer's CD (August 1994). There is some
preliminary documentation in:
"Dev CD Aug 94:New System Software Extensions:PlainTalk=81 Speech
Technologies:Speech Recognition:Documentation:Speech Recognition
Toolbox.RTF"
folder.
(For non-MIME folks =81 is the trademark symbol).
Kevin Purcell, Seattle dBug Developers SIG leader
[email protected]
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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 13:55:49 -0400
From: [email protected] (Capt Bill Cameron)
Subject: Big files from Mac to PC [r]
Simon H Le G Bisson writes:
>A colleague has a 10 M file he wants to move from a MAC to a PC. The
>machines are at least 30 miles apart and can't be networked... Is
>there any way of passing a disk-spanned archive from one machine to
>the other in a compatible form... Zip springs to mind as a method,
>but I've not found a Mac implementation that supports multiple disk
>archives.
Do you have modems for each machine? If so, you might try the telephone
lines for file transfer. If this isn't practical, you might try either
BinHexing or uuencoding the file, segmenting it into convenient, disk-sized
blocks and carrying it to the destination. The chunks can be joined either
by a PC uudecode or un-BinHex utility, or, lacking that capability, in a
text editor. For a Mac uuencoder, decoder and segmenter, try:
ftp://ftp.switch.ch//mirror/info-mac/ut ... ol-232.hqx
You should (I hope) be able to find a Mac utility for BinHexing. For PC
de-BinHexing try:
ftp://boombox.micro.umn.edu//pub/pc/binhex/binhex.exe
and for uudecoding try:
ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk//pub/archive/tools/ ... decode.exe
I believe this program will join segmented files also.
Hope this helps.
Bill Cameron sdg
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 09:36:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Tad Davis"
Subject: ClarisWorks and Sliding (A)
> When the 'Slide Objects' feature does work, the _record_ size remains the
> same on paper, i.e. I'm just redistributing white space, not eliminating
> it.
Yup, that's the way it works. I was quite disappointed by this too. On the
other hand, the DB module has every single feature (except for this one) I
had ever used in FileMaker Pro, and it cost me only a bit more than the
last upgrade to FileMaker would have cost me. I'd still recommend it for
anyone looking for an integrated package.
Tad Davis
[email protected]
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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 01:36:24 GMT
From: "William R. Pearson"
Subject: EKG's on quicktime/mpeg
A cardiologist is building a set of images for a Mosaic
presentation of various pathologies, and he would like to display
movies of EKG's and other time dependent data. The EKG data is
available as a set of binary (or ascii) values and a time base.
I would like to find a program that would take these values
and produce a quicktime/mpeg movie that would resemble the traces
on an EKG monitor. Alternatively, a program that would convert
this y-t data to some other image format (gif, tiff), that I could
convert to a movie would be a big help.
Bill Pearson
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 17:31:04 -0800
From: Robert Hess
Subject: Expo Event List version 32
Enclosed is the current (version 32) of my Expo Events List.
The current version may always be obtained via ftp at:
Site: ftp.macweek.ziff.com
Acct: Expo
Pass: events
This list is my own work and is in no way affiliated with MacWEEK.
Robert
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Robert Hess - MacWEEK - (415) 243-3576 - [email protected]
During Expo, page the Knife: (800) 206-5318.
>>>>>
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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 94 09:30:01 -0500
From: "Charles Betz"
Subject: flowcharting
Does anyone know of a simple freeware or shareware flowcharting program? I've
prowled the archives and used Archie but no luck so far.
Charles Betz, Principal Secretary, Carter Group
Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
204 Amundson Hall
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455-0132
Ph: 612-626-8953 Fax: 612-626-7246
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 20:54:46 -0400
From: Scott Kelsey
Subject: hypercard to html
Hi All -- I was wondering if there is a convertor out in cyberspace that would
allow me to go from a hypercard stack to a html file? What I want to do is
convert a hypercard stack to a Mosaic file (html). I have the html editor that
Murray Altheim (HTML.edit) has put out. Now I want to put the text of a
hypercard stack into his editor. Any idea's?
Thanks in advance
Scott Kelsey
University of Delaware
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 94 15:47:59 -0500
From: [email protected] (Desmond K. Mullen)
Subject: HyperGopher
>Date: Thu, 21 Jul 1994 13:43:13 -0500
>From: [email protected] (Daniel Blystone)
>Subject: HyperGopher
>
>Has anyone out there tried to write a hypercard stack that can access gopher.
>We have looked at HyperFTP and it looks to be straightforward clean code.
>The only problem we are having is getting it to access other things like
>gopher and telnet. We have gone in and edited the script to access the
>different port numbers but we keep getting our connection dropped.
>
>Is there some logistic thing we are not seeing or has someone else out
>there who has done this already. The main reason we are asking is that we
>are trying to build a smart interface to lock certain features out of
>gopher. We also want to limit the ammount of information that the user
>sees.
>
>Another thing we are looking for is some kind of source code or editor that
>we can use to create XCMDs and XFCNs to communicate with TCP.
>
>Any and all help would be appreciated.
HyperFTP was a wonderful program - especially for hackers! ;?) , but I'm
not sure I'd ever say the code was straightforward and clean - but that may
be more a result of the nature of FTPing. There's a lot of code in there
that will mess up a Gopher connection, and when you make a Gopher
connection, there's some stuff you have to send back and forth between
client and server to successfully keep the connection. What you need to do
is read up on Gopher and find out how the protocol goes. You should be able
to get all the Gopher documentation you'd ever want by FTPing to the home
of gopher: "boombox.micro.umn.edu"
If I recall correctly, Gopher used to be written in HyperCard, so connect
to Boombox and look in the "gopher" subdirectory for old Mac versions of
Gopher. There was a lot of stuff in there when I glanced before writing
this. I'm pretty sure there're HyperCard versions still around (they
haven't been updated for years, probably).
About XCMDs and XFCNs, find Apple's "HyperCard MacTCP Toolkit 1.0"
somewhere and have a field day! (try "ftp.apple.com" or one of the other
Apple archives) There's most everything you'd ever need in there. You might
consider writing your Gopher app from scratch using those externals as
opposed to trying to hack HyperFTP.
Good luck.
-DM
Desmond K. Mullen - University of Minnesota, Office of Admissions
[email protected] - 612/625-0824 - Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 94 11:35:04 EDT
From: Carolyn Fuller
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V12 #101
Has anyone had experience trying to set up SoftWindows to connect to a
Campus network using TCP/IP? I'm having trouble. I'm able to successfully
connect to our office server, but when I try to connect to our IBM mainframe
via either rn 3270 (the PC version on TN3270) or DAL, I run into problems.
There are problems when I use the same IP address as MacTCP/IP is using
or when I use a different IP address. Any insights? Any experience?
Thanks,
Carolyn
Carolyn Fuller M.I.T.
[email protected] Comptroller's Accounting Office
(617) 253-6213
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 94 15:43:46 +0200
From: "Ad Herweijer"
Subject: Inverse video software for visually handicapped
Last week I posted a question for a reference to software that enables display
in inverse video. Thanks to those who responded (George Daubert and Peter
Gerhardstein)! However, the software they recommend, Apple's CloseView, does a
little bit more than black-white inversion, which spoils the result. It
produces
a heavy frame that indicates the area that would be displayed if you were to
choose for a multiplication factor. If you are visually handicapped, like the
friend I am trying to help, this useless frame on the screen is very
disturbing.
So I decided to post my question once again: I am looking for software (not
CloseView) that inverts the screen colors. If there is a (ResEdit?) hack that
disables the frame CloseView produces, we would welcome the description of that
too.
Thanks in advance!
ir. Ad Herweijer, Delft University of Technology, Fac. of Applied Physics
Pattern Recognition Group, Lorentzweg 1, 2628 CJ Delft, the Netherlands
Phone: +31 15 782408, FAX: +31 15 626740, E-mail: [email protected]
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 12:23:06 -0500
From: "R. Scott Lillard"
Subject: LC-Monitors (Q)
Hey Folks:
I have recently upgraded my dinasour (an old LC) to a stone car (030-50MHZ
accelerator) and am preparing to upgrade my monitor (an old 12" low-res
Apple RGB, 512x384) to a 14" hi-res color. As 14" is a big boost in active
screen area (13" vs 10") I am not interested in the larger monitors (I'll
save that for a PowerMac when I get one) ... so here's the question: will
the video card that came with my LC (512K V-RAM) support the resolution /
refresh rates of todays monitors 1024x768, 75 Hz)? I know it would have
supported the old hi-res Apple monitor but I have no idea what the res. of
that monitor was (640x480 / 70Hz ?).
thanks,
Scott
------------------------------
Date: 27 Jul 1994 19:31:12 U
From: "Sebasti\n Tedesco"
Subject: Logitech Address
Does anybody know the internet address of Logitech?
Thanks
Sebastian Tedesco ( [email protected] )
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 94 09:07:04 CDT
From: [email protected] (Bob Schenk)
Subject: looking for TrueEdit
Is anyone familiar with a program called TrueEdit, which is supposed to edit
certain features
of TrueType fonts? If you know anything about such a program, please inform
me.
Thanks
Robert Schenk
[email protected]
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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 10:23:39 -0800
From: Robert Hess
Subject: Mac the Knife Wants You!
Planning on attending next week's MacWorld Expo in Boston? Well, Mac the
Knife is eager to hear from you while you're there.
On the showroom floor, MacWEEK will have a booth where you can contribute
tips; the best ones each day win prizes.
An even faster (and even more anonymous) way to whisper in the Knife's ear
is to phone it into his pager at (800) 206-5318. With all those secret
suites, you should have plenty to talk about...
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Robert Hess - MacWEEK - (415) 243-3576 - [email protected]
During Expo, page the Knife: (800) 206-5318.
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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 10:06:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email protected] (Eric William Burger)
Subject: Move Mac to New Net & Printing
All Macs running System 7.1 or System 7.1 Pro, NSI 1.4.5.
BEFORE:
We had a bunch of Mac's and a LaserWriter 630 on EtherTalk, a
GatorBox, and a bunch of Sun's that used the GatorBox LPD service
(TCP/IP BSD print service LocalTalk).
I also installed CAP on the Suns.
The EtherTalk zone was 'telecnnct'.
The LocalTalk zone was 'TeleConnect'.
AFTER:
Same Mac's, same LaserWriter, same network.
Took out the GatorBox.
Installed CAP on the Sun's.
THE PROBLEM:
The suns had no problems seeing the printer, before and after
the removal of the GatorBox (the printer and the CAP services
DID need to be restarted).
The Macs had real problems USING the printer. I restarted the
Macs, figuring they also needed to relearn the zones (with no
router, the zone reverts to '*').
Whenever I tried to 'choose' the printer, the Chooser would
say it couldn't find the printer. This happened even though
the printer NAME would appear in the Chooser select box.
The Macs could see the printer at a low level -- running
AppleTalk prober software returned the correct name and address
for the printer. The printer knew how to talk to the Macs, in
that AppleTalk echo's worked, as well.
I tried deleting the LaserWriter preferences files from the
System Folder:Preferences folder, but the Chooser still couldn't
find the printers.
Eventually, I ended up hacking (ResEdit AND WORSE!!!) the
LaserWriter and LaserWriter 8 extensions. The extensions
had the old zone ('telecnnct') coded in them!
Now everything works just fine.
THE POINT:
Have I missed something here? Have I developed a nuclear
bomb solution where a rubber hammer would have worked? SHAME
on Apple for putting a preference (the printer's zone) into
a resource! TRUE SHAME if I'm not mistaken, and you effectively
can't move a Mac to a routerless configuration!
P.S.:
I have a Duo, too, and it manages to NOT get confused when I
move it between networks...
--
-- Eric William Burger -- [email protected] --
-- The Telephone Connection -- Tel. +1 301/417-0700 --
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 15:51:43 +0200 (MET DST)
From: [email protected] (Francois Pottier)
Subject: No c.s.m.p. digests in August
Hello,
I'm going on vacation in August, so I won't be able to edit the
c.s.m.p. digests until early September. Articles will still be
recorded during the next month, but I'm not sure whether I will have
time to catch up when I come back.
Sorry for the inconvenience, and see y'all again on c.s.m.p.
in September!
--
Francois Pottier
Maintainer of the c.s.m.p. digest
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 94 00:15:52 PDT
From: [email protected]
Subject: Notepad, Wed 7/27 12:59 pm
I was wondering if you
knew of any hidden
Secrets in the apple
Newton.
ex. find elvis
a reply will be very much appreciated.
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 08:57:00 -0500
From: Mike Hutchinson
Subject: Pointer enlarger?
Howdy all,
One of the users I support is looking for an extension, share/freeware or
commercial, that enlarges the Mac pointer to a size beyond the standard
16x16 pixels. He needs a mammoth arrow on the screen so he can point at
things while doing presentations. Does anyone know of such a beast?
Any suggestions appreciated.
Thanks,
Mike
--
Mike Hutchinson
Macintosh Systems Administrator
Software Productivity Consortium, Herndon, VA
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 94 09:39:26 JST
From: Stefan Sschaal
Subject: PowerBook 180 ribbon cable
Hello,
The ribbon cable which connects the bottom part with the upper part
of my PB180 is broken. Unfortunately I am currently in Japan and I have
a hard time finding this thin 72 connector cable in Japan.
Does anybody know where to get such cable in the US or does anybody
have 4 inches of such a cable at home? I'd be most happy to buy
a piece of it.
Many thanks!!
-Stefan
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 11:38:43 +0100 (BST)
From: "G.J. Berry APEME (Microelectronics) ext 4570 "
Subject: Powerbook 500 and MIDI
Hello all,
I am currently considering purchase of a PB520c, one of the
intended uses of which is as a MIDI sequencer in live performance. I have
heard rumours that Powerbooks have problems when used for MIDI
applications. Are these rumours true, and are there ways to circumvent any
problems if any exist? I will be using Opcode Vision v2 and OMS.
I should point out I will be using mains power rather than batteries as
portability rather than lack of access to a mains socket is the main
reason for my buying a Powerbook. Sorry if this has been asked before -
I've been offline for a couple of months and haven't caught up with the
digests yet. Please reply by e-mail to the address below and I will
summarise if there is sufficient interest.
TIA
Graham J. Berry, E-mail [email protected]
University of Dundee, Scotland, UK
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 09:10:45 +0200
From: [email protected]
Subject: Powerbook Questions
Hello,
I intend to by myself a powerbook, probably of the new series that is PowerPC
ready. But I have a number of questions thereto:
Does anybody now, when the PowerPC upgrades will be available?
What will they cost approximately?
What clock rates will be available, and if I buy a 520 now (25mhz), to which
PowerPC clock rate will it upgrade?
Furthermore I heard that the 500series powerbooks after being upgraded work
with a
limited bus width. I how far will this reduce performance compared to a desktop
PPC and how far will this lead to software limitations?
Will the upgraded Powerbooks then already be compliant with the PREP standard?
Thanks for hints,
Jens Eickhoff
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 94 07:26:02 EDT
From: [email protected]
Subject: Problema con el disco conner de 500 mb en el PPC (R)
>Problem: The HD Setup of the 7.1.2 Disk Tools doesn't find the disk when it
is
>checking the SCSI bus.
The problem is that HD Setup that came with your Disk Tools will not work
with non-Apple Hard Drives. Apple installs a code into their hard drives.
If this code isn't present in the hard drive, HD Setup will not find it.
Regards,
-George
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Date: Tue Jul 26 10:52:40 1994
From: [email protected] (Capt Jon Dagle;86 OSS/DOW;480-2077)
Subject: Problem getting CIA World Factbook (Q)
I've tried twice to ftp and then download, un-binhex, and unzip the CIA
World Factbook 1993. I tried
ftp//gopher.oit.unc.edu/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext93/world93.zip
and...
ftp//mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu/etext/etext93/world93.zip
(I think these are correct)
Everything went ok until I used the new StuffIt Expander w/Expander Enhancer.
As soon as the was opened, I got a message from StuffIt Exp
that the zip header was bad, or something like that, and that the operation
couldn't continue. It then proceeds to un-hex and unzip something. The result
is a World93.txt file which Word will open. Unfortunately, the file is mostly
garbled after "Austrailia". Here is a sample
>fsd)C lhertby l1sseniMTrtheicredibilicynouhtheurefdemupooces .hIec1991,rfsd
again2)ruiec1992, butpugrroseusubstasthally,cparcicularlyninutheifavotiducbasta
>)C arens. Popularuresistasce,uchm ges,iecceslia
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Actually, its only sporatically damaged after Austria, but it becomes worse
and worse, eventually looking like the sample above a few pages later.
Can anyone suggest a solution?
Jonathan Dagle,
Ramstein Air Base, Germany
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 94 12:47:42 +0100
From: Raghbir Singh
Subject: Q: Creating a Font Family
Hi
Does anyone know how to create a SINGLE font family from separate
fonts? The reason I am asking this is that I have just converted over
a TrueType font from Windows (using Font Clerk) which has the
following separate font files:
Normal
Italic
Bold
Bold Italic
After putting the four font files into a font suitcase and putting
that into the System folder, the fonts show up ok but as FOUR SEPARATE
FONTS. However, I cannot find a way of putting these fonts together so
that the appropriate font is used automatically whenever the
corresponding style is in operation.
Thanks in advance
Raghbir.
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 09:52:33 PDT
From: [email protected]
Subject: Quadra 610 DOS (Q)
Any light on the following questions regarding the 610 DOS compatible is
appreciated:
- is the processor an 040 or an LC040?
- does the dos side see external devices such as CD-ROM and hard disks?
- is the RAM on the 486sx card of the same type as that on the macintosh side?
- in the future if I do not need the 486sx card, can I just remove it and use
the slot for something else?
Thanks
hassanyn.el_segundo@xerox:com
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 16:52:55 -0400
From: [email protected] (Chuck Goelzer Lyons)
Subject: QUESTION: Mac SE Internal Hard Disk broken
Greetings!
Problem: Turn on Mac SE w/internal 40MB hard disk. Green light goes on. No
sound (usually it makes a whir and a click or two). Eventually comes up
with an icon resembling a question mark on a disk. Green light goes off
briefly, then back on, off briefly, on for awhile, and so forth forever.
We've rebooted countless times.
The problem has been occuring off and on for months, but now it seems
permanent.
Awhile ago Paul Baim (responding to an earlier problem I had with this
machine) recommended Larry Pina's _Mac Classic & SE Repair and Upgrade
Secrets_. I've checked this book and three others at the campus store, but
to no avail. I don't want to replace the whole drive---just get this one
working. BTW, the machine will boot from a floppy disk.
Does the problem I describe above concerning the internal hard disk sound
familiar? What steps should I follow? Are there little things I could do
first to see if a small fix would make it anew again?
I'd appreciate any help any of you would be so kind to give. Please feel
free to e-mail me at [email protected].
Thanks!
Chuck Goelzer Lyons
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 15:31:53 -0500
From: [email protected] (David Bourne)
Subject: Searching info-mac archives
>Date: Fri, 22 Jul 1994 11:18:59 -0500
>From: [email protected] (David Bourne)
>Subject: Searching info-mac archives.
>
>It used to be possible to search the info-mac (and other Mac archives)
>using WAIS via think.com(?). That doesn't seem to work any more. Is there
>an alternative source? Thanks.
>
I got one direct reply suggesting that WAIS searches were still possible. I
tried WAIS for Mac and indeed WAIS searching does works. More recently I've
been using Mosaic for many things and this is where I was having problems.
Using the WWW pointers via NCSA I wasn't able to connect to the necessary
host. I'm glad to see that info-mac is still searchable.
David Bourne, Ph.D.
OU HSC College of Pharmacy
Voice: (405) 271-6471 FAX: (405) 271-3830
Internet: [email protected]
OUHSC College of Pharmacy WWW server: http://157.142.72.77/
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Date: Sun, 24 Jul 1994 09:21:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: Dwight Beebe
Subject: Seeking sound sample
God, don't you just love alliteration? I'm looking for some
enterprising individual who might have sampled a Gatorade commercial (or
who would be willing to) that has as the tag line: "Science. Don't you
just love it." This stated in a wierd voice. I'd love to have this, but
lack both the equipment and knowledge to get it. Any of you experts able
to do this? Can't offer anything in return (except for a list of great
pubs in Montreal and subjective advice on excellent Indian restaurants).
Thanks!
Dwight Beebe
Institut de recherche en biologie vegetale [email protected]
Universite de Montreal Voice:514-872-4563
4101, rue Sherbrooke est FAX:514-872-9406
Montreal, PQ H1X 2B2 Canada
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 94 09:55:24 -0400
From: [email protected] (Norm Friedman)
Subject: Size Increase
While trying to install a new program through its installer, the process
unexpectically quit (froze). After restarting my Mac SE, I found that
nothing had loaded from the program, but that the hard drive size had
increased from about 17M to 29M. I have a 40M internal. The system size did
not seem to increase (system 6.0.7 and 1.4M). Cannot seem to find anything
unusal in my system folder that would cause a hugh increase in size.
Running "AutoDoubler" and that seems OK.
Any answers would be appreciated and THANKS in advance for all answers to
[email protected]
thanks
------------------------------
Date: 28 Jul 1994 12:17:14 +0100
From: [email protected] (Bela FARAGO - ILL - Grenoble)
Subject: Sound on PowerMac
Hi Netters,
recently I tried to record a sound on a PowerMac 7100 (not AV) with
a microphone I had from an old Si. To my great suprise it did not work. ( I
set up Sound input to microphone, and tried recording in the AlertSounds
dialog. The record button comes up OK but the small loudspeaker does not
show input coming in like it did on the Q700) I tried on an other one, same
thing. Verified on a Q700, it worked. Am I missing something trivial, or
this is a "feature"?
Bela Farago ([email protected])
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 12:41:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: Peter Macdonald
Subject: Supra FaxModem 144LC / CommSwitch 330 Incompatibility
I have been using a ComSwitch 330 on my incoming telephone line; it
answers the phone silently, then rings the modem if it is a fax call or
rings the house extensions phones otherwise. This works just fine with my
Supra FaxModem v.32bis.
I replaced the v.32bis with a new Supra FaxModem 144LC. I got the
impression that it sends faxes more reliably than the v.32bis; I could
send reliably to machines I typically have trouble sending to with the
v.32bis. So, I am keen to use the 144LC.
But, the ComSwitch no longer functions; I contacted Cardinal
Communications (who sent several faxes to test and listen), they said the
switch was working correctly but the 144LC wasn't responding to the rings
it made; the ring characteristics, however, are factory-set. I contacted
Supra who assured me that the frequency of ring detected by the 144LC is
factory set and can't be changed.
I did, of course, test the modem by connecting it directly to the
telephone, without the ComSwitch.
So, I am posting this to see if anyone else has had this problem, or knows
of a work-around, or knows of a fax switch that the 144LC responds to.
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 10:26:49 -0700
From: Alex Metcalf
Subject: The incredible gliding mouse
Has anyone else experienced what seems like an occasional glitch
with the ADB Mouse II where the pointer sometimes continues to "glide" left
after you've moved left and stopped? I've had this happen on three or four
different mice, so I don't think it's just my mouse. Or is it...
Alex
--
Alex Metcalf, Best Before Yesterday
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: 28 Jul 1994 02:55:38 GMT
From: [email protected] (Erik A. Johnson)
Subject: TidBITS#236/25-Jul-94 -- no new emulator for existing PowerMacs
[email protected] (Adam C. Engst) writes:
>TidBITS#236/25-Jul-94
>=====================
>
>**Pythaeus** writes to tell us that although Apple has developed a
> new 68040 emulator for the Power Macintosh that reportedly runs
> twice as fast as the emulator, the new emulator cannot run on
> existing Power Macs due to ROM incompatibilities. The problem
> apparently lies with having too many 68040 cache-flushing calls in
> the current Power Mac ROMs, and those calls destroy the
> performance increase of the new emulator. These calls will be
> fixed in future Power Mac ROMs, but the new emulator code won't
> work on current Power Macs. [ACE]
Apple has included patches to ROM routines in the system software
for years. Why would it not be possible to patch out the offending
routines as well as the older emulator?
------------------------------
Date: 28 Jul 1994 4:11:34 GMT
From: [email protected]
Subject: Usenet on Mac
I've just had my office Mac networked after a year spent messing around with
Unix and pcs but our one and only Mac support person has gone off on his hols.
Can anyone tell me how I can access Usenet groups via the Mac?
I have the usual range, email (Pegasus), Anarchie, Fetch and Mosaic
many thanks
Steven French
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 16:28:47 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jay Poutinen
Subject: Video adapter
Does anyone know where one can purchase a composite video (RCA type) to
S-video adapter?
The Apple 14" AV display manual says, "The AudioVision video-in port
accepts both S-video input and composite video input. An S-video plug
fits directly into the AudioVision port. A composite video plug requires
an adapter." (p. 22)
Apple doesn't sell this adapter and doesn't know where you can get one.
I've tried the usual electronics places, like Radio Shack.
Can anyone help? Thanks.
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 09:55:24 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Traci J. Ingram"
Subject: WGS 9150 and Internet
Dear Info-Mac Readers:
My school is applying for a State grant that will, if approved, provide
our school district with a 56kb dedicated line, plus an Ethernet router
and a Data Service Unit (DSU). We want to connect this to an existing
Work Group Server 9150 Ethernet network having Power PC clients, plus add
a few DOS/Windozzz clients in the bargain.
It is up to us to make the Mac network TCP/IP-compatible, and to provide
SMTP mail services on the 9150. Although we plan to add native Power PC
AppleShare and PowerOpen when they become available, the latter will most
likely appear well beyond the December 31 (1994) date that we will need to
make the Internet connection (if approved).
I would appreciate reciving thoughts on how we can meet the requirements
for this connection, using our existing network, and also how best to
connect the DOS clients (they need the same Internet access as the Macs).
One final question: Given that there is no native Domain Name Server
application for the Mac operating system, and that A/UX does not run on the
Power PC WGS's, what strategy can we use for resolving Domain Names?
Best regards,
Traci J. Ingram
[email protected] | or | [email protected]
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Info-Mac Digest Thu, 28 Jul 94 Volume 12 : Issue 102
Today's Topics:
[*] Afghanistan HTB for Newton v.1
[*] AnimHelp 1.6; creates animations for games
[*] Coffee_Break_1.1; designed to reduce RSS
[*] Colors & Objects; entertainment for young children
[*] Colortime 2.0; a coloring program for kids
[*] comms-service-11-hc; a rolodex-like communication program
[*] Communicate Lite Demo 1.0.2; a terminal emulator
[*] ControlPanel-0.9.4; examples source code (C)
[*] csmp-digest-v3-047
[*] csmp-digest-v3-048
[*] DropZone(tm) 3.0.4 (drag-and-drop utility -- formerly LaunchPad)
[*] easy-view-250; a text file browser
[*] Fantasy Fball FM-ProV1.3; a database for fantasy football
[*] fft-asm; Fast Fourier Transform in assembly
[*] Font Library v2.0; for font organisation
[*] fracppc10b2; a fractal generation program for the PPC
[*] GCC 7.0 Installation; printer driver updates
[*] GCC BLP Elite 1.0.2; a printer driver update
[*] GCC PLP II 4.2.1 Updater; for a printer driver
[*] GNU Flex 2.4.6 for THINK C 6.0
[*] GopherGolf 1.0; a game
[*] Invaders!2.0; a Space Invaders clone
[*] LisasMiscWallpaper; some desktop patterns
[*] LZSS-Res v2.1; a resource compression utility
[*] MacWeather 2.0.2; an Internet weather client
[*] Mail2000 program to read e-mail. Update.
[*] Mark's Portfolio Manager 1.2 upload
[*] merryxmasWatcher1.0; will protect against the HC virus
[*] MLK-Promised-Land; a sound clip of Martin Luther King
[*] MovieTrilogy1.1.1; a trio of Quicktime utilities
[*] museum-06; a "Slideshow/Multimedia presentation program"
[*] nervous-system-10; a "Neuron Modeling and Simulation Environment"
[*] newt-turt-book; a "Newt Turtle Tutorial"
[*] OldPrint hack for QuickDraw GX
[*] QuicKeys for After Dark
[*] RFK-Negro-Section-of-Town; a sound clip of Martin Luther King
[*] SoundApp 1.2.1; a "sound playing program"
[*] Sounds produced by Yves Lussier
[*] Sparkle 2.12 A mac-look-and-feel MPEG and QT player and converter
[*] SRS II; "a Mac reference manager"
[*] stufex_3.5_installer; StuffIt Expander 3.5
[*] symmetry; based on the Field and Golubitsky algorithm
[*] TeachText & SimpleText XTND Translator
[*] TidBITS#236/25-Jul-94
[*] Timer 1.7.1; a simple timer
[*] VA-NewsWatcher; "NewsWatcher with binary posting"
[*] wave-window-21; a "software oscilloscope"
[*] ZTerm font patcher
.hqx archive format....
.hqx archive format....(A)
.hqx archive format....[r]
[A] Easy View
[Q] Audio CDROM to sound fi
[Q] MacPPP and Shiva LanRov
Accelerator Card recommendations
API/Programmers Guide for PlainTalk
Big files from Mac to PC [r]
ClarisWorks and Sliding (A)
EKG's on quicktime/mpeg
Expo Event List version 32
flowcharting
hypercard to html
HyperGopher
Info-Mac Digest V12 #101
Inverse video software for visually handicapped
LC-Monitors (Q)
Logitech Address
looking for TrueEdit
Mac the Knife Wants You!
Move Mac to New Net & Printing
No c.s.m.p. digests in August
Notepad, Wed 7/27 12:59 pm
Pointer enlarger?
PowerBook 180 ribbon cable
Powerbook 500 and MIDI
Powerbook Questions
Problema con el disco conner de 500 mb en el PPC (R)
Problem getting CIA World Factbook (Q)
Q: Creating a Font Family
Quadra 610 DOS (Q)
QUESTION: Mac SE Internal Hard Disk broken
Searching info-mac archives
Seeking sound sample
Size Increase
Sound on PowerMac
Supra FaxModem 144LC / CommSwitch 330 Incompatibility
The incredible gliding mouse
TidBITS#236/25-Jul-94 -- no new emulator for existing PowerMacs
Usenet on Mac
Video adapter
WGS 9150 and Internet
The Info-Mac newsgroup is moderated by Bill Lipa, Gordon Watts, Liam Breck
and Igor Livshits.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous,
any password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu
[36.44.0.6]. Help files and indices are in /info-mac/help.
Mail articles for inclusion in the digest to [email protected].
Send binaries to be placed in the archives to [email protected].
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 10:13:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] Afghanistan HTB for Newton v.1
Afghanistan HyperTextBook for Newton
Contact: Iverson Software Co.
Jeffrey D. Iverson
P. O. Box 3
Rice Lake WI 54868-0003
(715) 236-7918
AppleLink: J5rson
Rice Lake, WI--25 JUL 94: Now available: Afghanistan HyperTextBook=
=AA for=20
Newton=AA, an educational reference book for the Newton platform that=
explores=20
over 100 topics related to the subject of Afghanistan.=20
HyperTextBooks are interactive documents which allow the user to crea=
te their=20
own path through information by using simple hypertext links. The New=
ton=20
platform allows this information to literally be "in the palm of your=
hand"=20
when away from the desktop.
Among the many topics that the Afghanistan HTB allows you to explore =
are:=20
Ahmad Shah; Bactria; Chandragupta; Faizabad; Hindu Kush; Jammu and Ka=
shmir;=20
Khyber Pass; Mazar-i-Sharif; Nadir Shah; Pamirs; Safed Koh; Sultan;=
=20
Turkestan; and more...=20
[Archived as /info-mac/nwt/info/afghanistan-hypertext-book-demo.hqx; 208K]
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 1994 20:19:05 -0300
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] AnimHelp 1.6; creates animations for games
Below is AnimHelp 1.6, and update to the little program intended to help
artists & programmers make animations for games. This version is a fat
binary, so it should be linked to any Power Mac directories as well!
Sean
[Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/anim-help-16.hqx; 64K]
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 08:47:36 -0500
From: [email protected] (Thomas Reed)
Subject: [*] Coffee_Break_1.1; designed to reduce RSS
Coffee Break is a program designed to reduce the chances of your getting a
Repetetive Stress Injury. It does so by forcing you to take a break every
so often. You can set the time between breaks and the length of breaks,
along with some other neat features.
Version 1.1 fixes a couple bugs, the most insidious of which was one that
caused the program to crash on some machines. (I still haven't figured out
how that one made it past me and my beta testers!) These are now fixed.
See the Version History file for details.
-Thomas Reed
[Archived as /info-mac/app/coffee-break-11.hqx; 77K]
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 08:03:22 PDT
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] Colors & Objects; entertainment for young children
Colors & Objects is software for young kids. Originally I wrote it to try out
various toolbox routines. It doesn't do anything fancy, but draw various
geometric objects, letters, or numbers to the screen. If Speech Manager is
loaded it will say the object drawn.
Hope the young ones like it!
Dan
[Archived as /info-mac/game/colors-and-objects.hqx; 49K]
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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 13:42:59 -0600 (MDT)
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] Colortime 2.0; a coloring program for kids
This is a BinHexed file containing Colortime 2.0. Colortime is
coloring book program for kids which allow them to create
pictures and then forward them to the printer for coloring.
Colortime was stuffed using Stuffit Deluxe 3.0.4 and then
translated to a BixHex format.
Colortime is shareware. The author can be contacted at
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/game/color-time-20.hqx; 595K]
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 11:23:38 +1000
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] comms-service-11-hc; a rolodex-like communication program
commsService is a easy-to-use application that provides a "rolodex" like
communications facility. The application provides facilities for recording
the details of commonly used connections/sessions as a series of parameters
on an individual "card".
A communications "card" is referred to as a "service", which is defined as
any process running on a local or remote computer, eg. an Online Public
Access Catalogue (OPAC) or a Campus Wide Information System (CWIS). Each
service is uniquely defined via a series of 12 parameters that describe
attributes such as the name, the method used to connect to the service,
the login and logout scripts, etc.
Service definitions allow for multiple, simultaneous sessions to be active
at any one time. A typical session might therefore include a serial
connection to your local OPAC in one window, whilst another window displays
information from a CWIS, and a third displays a remote network connection
to a second OPAC.
The application utilises the power of HyperCard's scripting language,
HyperTalk to provide a powerful communication scripting facility. It
achieves this by defining a series of communication specific language
extensions that enable scripts to communicate directly with services.
commsService is based upon Apple's Communications Toolbox technology,
consequently connectivity is only limited by the range of Connection and
Terminal Emulation tools that are available on your machine.
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/term/comms-service-11-hc.hqx; 1000K]
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 23:56:31 -0800
From: [email protected] (Brian Hall)
Subject: [*] Communicate Lite Demo 1.0.2; a terminal emulator
Changes since 1.0.1:
- Updated contact information (phone numbers & address)
- Now includes Apple Modem Tool 1.5.3
This archive contains everything you need to try out Communicate Lite:
- a demo version of the application
- communications tools
** including the new version of the Apple Modem Tool (1.5.3) **
- a 16 page demo guide
- ordering information
Communicate Lite is...
...fun
Configure sounds to play when you connect, disconnect, download a file,
or just forget that you are connected. Use the included sounds, or record
your own.
...easy to use
Full Balloon help, topical help, and a tool bar will get you
communicating - fast! A document oriented approach means that Communicate
works like the applications you already know how to use - simply "Open",
"Save" and create "New" sessions.
...multi-session
Take full advantage of multi-port serial cards or network connections
such as telnet by creating and using multiple windows at the same time!
...and able to grow with you
Power can be added simply by adding additional communications "tools" as
you need them. The Mark/Space ZMODEM Tool is included with the purchase of
Communicate Lite.
Upgrade to Communicate Professional (under development) to take advantage
of automatic virus detection, automatic file expansion, spell checking and
support for AppleScript and Userland Frontier.
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/term/communicate-lite-102-demo.hqx; 533K]
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 21:34:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: [email protected] (Ken Long)
Subject: [*] ControlPanel-0.9.4; examples source code (C)
Folks:
I get to postin' here and there and forget where I put everything. I
scoured a.s.m., merit and sumex and found this NOT!
So here it is. will post to a.s.m., too.
Author: Ken Worley.
Type: Think C 6.0.1 project.
Content: Source for a sample control panel, sample INIT and sample
patch. Built examples of each.
Additions: Ken Long added Think C 5.0.4 projects, to make it easier on
the po' folks.
I tried these and the CP and INIT *both* show their icons at startup.
The CP won't open unless loaded, but has nice features for a shell. I
also tried building all three and there were no problems with that.
-Ken-
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/src/control-panel-094-c.hqx; 133K]
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 19:05:02 +0200 (MET DST)
From: [email protected] (Francois Pottier)
Subject: [*] csmp-digest-v3-047
C.S.M.P. Digest Tue, 26 Jul 94 Volume 3 : Issue 47
Today's Topics:
AIFF
Announcing Macintosh AIFF-based DSP Think C Toolbox
AppleEvent Question
Bug in MIDI.h (Universal Interface)
Full file path?
Looking for a friendly native component sample.
Newbie ?: Where to get good reference materials
Problem using FSpGet-SetFInfo
list of crossplatform OO (C++, Smalltalk) development tools
The Comp.Sys.Mac.Programmer Digest is moderated by Francois Pottier
([email protected]).
[Archived as /info-mac/per/csmp/csmp-v3-047.txt; 46K]
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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 15:48:03 +0200 (MET DST)
From: [email protected] (Francois Pottier)
Subject: [*] csmp-digest-v3-048
C.S.M.P. Digest Thu, 28 Jul 94 Volume 3 : Issue 48
Today's Topics:
Color in System 7 popups?
Controlling Apple MultiSync Monitors
Drag Mgr problem w- flavorTypePromiseHFS
GWorlds and other questions - Help
PBControl() "hangs" the Macintosh
Patching the GetResource() toolbox routine
The Comp.Sys.Mac.Programmer Digest is moderated by Francois Pottier
([email protected]).
[Archived as /info-mac/per/csmp/csmp-v3-048.txt; 39K]
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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 94 19:25:08 EDT
From: J S Greenfield
Subject: [*] DropZone(tm) 3.0.4 (drag-and-drop utility -- formerly LaunchPad)
(Shareware, $10)
System 7's drop-launching features are a nice idea, but
there is a catch: in order to drop documents onto an
application, you need to have the application on the
desktop, or in some other open window. This one problem is
probably the single greatest impediment to realizing the
full potential of drop-launching. In the past, you had
basically two choices: either fill up your desktop with an
array of various application icons, to keep them available
for drop-launching, or keep your desktop clean, and limit
your use of drop-launching to rare occasions.
DropZone(tm) changes all that.
DropZone is a simple utility designed to let you keep a
clean desktop, but still maintain convenient access to
System 7's drop-launching features. DropZone serves as a
drag-and-drop dock for any applications that you choose.
You simply drag documents to the DropZone icon, and then
select an application to launch from the "get file" dialog.
The dropped documents will then be opened using the selected
application (if possible).
DropZone also facilitates automated drop-launching with Valet
Launching(tm). With the included utility, DropZone Valet(tm),
you can configure DropZone to automate your most frequent drop-
launching tasks.
With DropZone, you keep your desktop clean and take advantage
of System 7's drop-launching.
So why use drop-launching or DropZone? If this question
comes to mind, then you are probably one of the many people
who have yet to experience just how convenient drop-
launching can be. Drop-launching makes many tasks much
easier. See the enclosed documentation for useful examples.
Specifications:
DropZone(tm) requires less than 35K of disk space, and as
little as 45K of RAM. DropZone Valet(tm) requires less than
25K of disk space.
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/drop-zone-304.hqx; 95K]
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 08:54:06 +0400
From: [email protected] (Akif Eyler)
Subject: [*] easy-view-250; a text file browser
Easy View is a program for browsing of collections of structured
(but otherwise plain) text files, large or small. It allows very
fast access by recognizing the internal structure. All of the
following text formats can be viewed using Easy View:
* setext, including TidBITS and similar publications
* Info-Mac, c.s.m.p, or similar digests
* Mail collections: Internet (Eudora), Navigator, Notebook, etc.
* Dictionaries
* Plain text
**New Feature**
* An extension menu is added for using external code
(Compatible with BBEdit)
Several extensions are distributed with Easy View 2.5x, with the
consent of their authors. Here is the current list in the order of
their release date:
Extension Author
Word Count Kamal Abdali
BBXKeys Jamie R. McCarthy
Import Marco Piovanelli
Speaking Mark Fleming
Get URL M. Akif Eyler
[Archived as /info-mac/text/easy-view-250.hqx; 223K]
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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 09:18:09 CST
From: [email protected] (Peterson, Chris)
Subject: [*] Fantasy Fball FM-ProV1.3; a database for fantasy football
Here's the file and info.
BinchFoot* V1.3 is now the only nifty Fantasy Football database for the
Mac. The improvements are as follows:
Draft Manager!!!: This is by far the best improvement. It assists with
your draft and team set up. By following some easy instructions, Draft
Manager helps you set up each team. It then brings you to draft day. Here
you let BinchFoot* lead you through the draft. You can keep track of how
long each pick is taking and you have a roster to choose players from. It
also warns you if a player has already been selected.
More Scoring Options
Binchfoot*1.3 allows you to keep statistics for performance. Each position
has it's special way of recieving points. Quarterbacks get points for
passing yardage, Running Backs for rushing yardage, and Receivers for
receiving yardage. Each postition can only have one Performance Statistic.
Binchfoot* 1.3 also allows you to enter statistics for actual scoring.
You can enter touchdowns, passing touchdowns, safetys, etc for each player.
And by entering these statistics, Binchfoot* will pull the value of each
type of score.
User-Defined value points: Yes, you the user can define how many points a
touchdown, safety, etc. is worth. Flexibility is great!
Line-Up: You can also define who's playing and who's not for each givin
week. If a player is playing, his points are counted, if he doesn't his
points are just something to talk about.
There are many more things that you have to see for yourself. Binchfoot*
really helps that Mac owner(and Windows) manage their league.
[Archived as /info-mac/game/binchfoot-13-fmpro.hqx; 284K]
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 10:06:11 -0400
From: Tom Barrett
Subject: [*] fft-asm; Fast Fourier Transform in assembly
This file contains three routines:
* void tb_68k_four1_extended(long double *data, long nn, long isign);
* void tb_68k_four1_single(float *data, long nn, long isign);
* void tb_68k_fourn_single(float *data, long *nn, long ndim, long isign)
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/src/fft-asm.txt; 16K]
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 23:36:32 -0600
From: [email protected] (Kent Pilkington)
Subject: [*] Font Library v2.0; for font organisation
Font Image Library 2.0 is a HC 2.0 or later stack that helps you organize
your fonts. This is an update to the Font Library 1.3. This stack is only
$3 shareware. Stand alone version is availalbe upon request.
[Archived as /info-mac/font/util/font-library-20-hc.hqx; 531K]
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 22:16:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Dennis C. De Mars"
Subject: [*] fracppc10b2; a fractal generation program for the PPC
FracPPC is a program for generating fractals on the Power Macintosh. It runs
_only_ on Power Macs. This is version 1.0b2, which fixes (I hope) a bug with
16/32 bit color displays. It also adds the ability to generate Julia sets as
well as the Mandelbrot set. It still lacks some basic features like color
editing and the ability to save or copy as a PICT (these features will almost
certainly be in the next version).
- Dennis De Mars
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/frac-ppc-10b2.hqx; 128K]
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 94 15:24:59 -0500
From: "Joshua B. Colglazier"
Subject: [*] GCC 7.0 Installation; printer driver updates
This is disk 1 of 2 to update the GCC print drivers from System 6 to System 7.
I have received permission from GCC Technical Support to post this update
to the Internet and anywhere it might end up, so long as no one charges
for its distribution (outside of normal access fees for BBS's and commercial
services).
The complete set of disks needed to update the GCC printer drivers:
GCC 7.0 Installation
GCC 7.0 Applications
This is a Dart 1.5 disk image file and has been converted to binhex using
Binhex 4.0. This file can be successfully converted back to a Dart 1.5 disk
image file by using Binhex 4.0, Stuffit Expander 3.0.7 or other utilities which
can decode the Binhex 4.0 format.
[Archived as /info-mac/prn/gcc-print-drivers-sys7-updt-disk1.hqx; 1361K]
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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 94 13:27:08 -0500
From: "Joshua B. Colglazier"
Subject: [*] GCC BLP Elite 1.0.2; a printer driver update
This is disk 1 of 1 to update the GCC BLP Elite print driver to version 1.0.2.
I have received permission from GCC Technical Support to post this update
to the Internet and anywhere it might end up, so long as no one charges
for its distribution (outside of normal access fees for BBS's and commercial
services).
This is a Dart 1.5 disk image file and has been converted to binhex using
Binhex 4.0. This file can be successfully converted back to a Dart 1.5 disk
image file by using Binhex 4.0, Stuffit Expander 3.0.7 or other utilities which
can decode the Binhex 4.0 format.
[Archived as /info-mac/prn/gcc-blp-elite-driver-102-updt.hqx; 614K]
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 94 15:36:46 -0500
From: "Joshua B. Colglazier"
Subject: [*] GCC PLP II 4.2.1 Updater; for a printer driver
This is disk 1 of 1 to update the GCC PLP II print driver to version 4.2.1.
I have received permission from GCC Technical Support to post this update
to the Internet and anywhere it might end up, so long as no one charges
for its distribution (outside of normal access fees for BBS's and commercial
services).
This is a Dart 1.5 disk image file and has been converted to binhex using
Binhex 4.0. This file can be successfully converted back to a Dart 1.5 disk
image file by using Binhex 4.0, Stuffit Expander 3.0.7 or other utilities which
can decode the Binhex 4.0 format.
[Archived as /info-mac/prn/gcc-plp-ii-driver-421-updt.hqx; 998K]
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 12:01:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Scott Hofmann
Subject: [*] GNU Flex 2.4.6 for THINK C 6.0
This is GNU Flex version 2.4.6 compiled in Symantec C++ 6.0. Flex is the GNU
lex-compatible lexical analyzer. This version is a minimal port to the
Macintosh - the only changes were to call ccommand() in main() to get the
command-line arguments.
This file replaces the THINK-C version of Flex 2.3.7. A compiled application is
included, so you do not need Symantec C++ in order to use Flex 2.4.6. Full
documentation is included, as are the sources per the GNU Public License.
Macintosh-specific release notes are included in flex-2.4.6:MISC:Macintosh.
I am currently working on a CodeWarrior port, with an enhanced front end - not
just the ccommand() dialog box. Any other questions, please drop me a line.
scott
J. Scott Hofmann | "Back off, man, I'm a scientist!"
[email protected] | -Dr. Peter Venkman, _Ghostbusters_
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/src/gnu-flex-246-c.hqx; 528K]
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Date: 26 Jul 94 16:19:20 EDT
From: Kevin Zaccone
Subject: [*] GopherGolf 1.0; a game
GopherGolf is a miniature golf game and course editor. Play one of the five
included courses or create your own with the editor.
Watch out for that pesky gopher. You never know where he'll pop up next.
Runs in B&W or up to 256 colors on monitors 9" and larger.
[Archived as /info-mac/game/gopher-golf-10.hqx; 415K]
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 94 10:48:00 MET DST
From: [email protected] (Simone Bettini 227678/IL)
Subject: [*] Invaders!2.0; a Space Invaders clone
Yet Another Invaders Game
Invaders! version 2.0
some bugs fixed and new extra features.
[Archived as /info-mac/game/arc/invaders-20.hqx; 331K]
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 94 17:56:30 -0500
From: "Lisa T. Snyder"
Subject: [*] LisasMiscWallpaper; some desktop patterns
These are my latest Wallpaper patterns to use with Wallpaper. To use
with other programs, try WPAT2PPAT, a great shareware program or
ClickChange, a commercial program. To see my mugshot, open the
"readme" file.
Also included is a small Doc-Maker document that tells all about what
I do.
All my patterns are freeware, or should I say comment ware. Let me
know what you think!
Lisa Snyder
( [email protected] or [email protected] )
See enclose read me file for my snailmail address!
Please feel freee to use all my patterns on the Info-Mac CD!
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/grf/lisas-wallpaper-textures.hqx; 441K]
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 94 19:26:14 MDT
From: [email protected] (Dmitry Boldyrev)
Subject: [*] LZSS-Res v2.1; a resource compression utility
I did some major bug fixing in LZSS Res and I'd like you to REPLACE
the old LZSS-REs v2.0 with this current version. README, C example and
library were improoved since 2.0. thank you.
Dmitry.
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/lzss-res-21.hqx; 620K]
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 16:33:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: Christopher Bruce Kidwell
Subject: [*] MacWeather 2.0.2; an Internet weather client
MacWeather allows you to connect to an Internet weather server to get
current weather information and forecasts for a specified city. It
requires a Mac Plus or higher with System 7.0 and MacTCP.
Major changes in version 2.0:
- support for many more cities in the US and worldwide
- support for near-shore marine forecasts in the US
- support for climate data in the US
- enabled saving and printing of forecasts
- added a Recent menu to switch between cities easily
Changes in version 2.0.2:
- removed PowerPC native code until more testing can be done
- fixed a small memory bug
Chris Kidwell
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/app/mac-weather-202.hqx; 112K]
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 12:01:10 +0200
From: x
Subject: [*] Mail2000 program to read e-mail. Update.
Mail2000 is a small application to read e-mail textfiles. I
wrote it because I have a lot of old e-mail lying around on my
discs which I occasionally want to read. Mail2000 reads
textfiles containing e-mail and provides threading of the
mails. This is not for people who have fancy high-speed
TCP/IP, slip connections and I dont know what else, but for
those who save their mails in textfiles and keep it at home on
their Mac.
Features include reading of UN*X style terminated files,
stripping of mail-headers and threading on subject and
sender.
It needs system 7 to run.
This archive contains Mail2000, a read me file and an example
file.
-Peter
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/mail-2000.hqx; 143K]
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 09:59:18 -0400
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] Mark's Portfolio Manager 1.2 upload
The following is a binhexed, compacted file (BinHex 4.0, Compact Pro 1.33)
containing the file "Mark's Portfolio Manager", a Microsoft Excel 4.0
application for managing equity investments.
This application ought to run just fine under System 6.0.x and System 7.x, and
requires version 4.0 or later of Microsoft Excel.
It will allow the user to keep many portfolios of stocks, bonds, mutual funds,
etc., quickly and easily make trades in these instruments, and keep track of
how well you are doing in each, and how well you are doing in your whole
portfolios.
There is an on-line tutorial, and plenty of help to get the user started. You
can even customize help to suit your individual needs if you like.
If anyone has any questions about this upload, we can be reached (for now, at
least
) on the Internet at: [email protected]Thanks very much, and we hope that you find this program useful.
[Archived as /info-mac/app/marks-portfolio-manager-12.hqx; 92K]
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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 1994 12:33:30 -0700
From: [email protected] (Ken Dunham)
Subject: [*] merryxmasWatcher1.0; will protect against the HC virus
"merryxmasWatcher1.0" will eradicate, innoculate, and watch for
the merryxmas virus.
You have my permission to include this archive on your
commerically distributed CD-ROM.
[Archived as /info-mac/vir/merry-xmas-watcher-10.hqx; 6K]
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 12:10:05 -0600
From: [email protected] (Squeal)
Subject: [*] MLK-Promised-Land; a sound clip of Martin Luther King
This is the first in a series of clips with some historical/political
content. This sound is from the "promised land" speech of the Reverend
Martin Luther King, Jr. This is a 22kHz sound, about 625k, which is
binhexed and compacted with Compact Pro.
Email me if you like this sound and are interested in me posting others
(from many different people/sources). Email me if you'd like to help with
my project of making historical/political excerpts widely available.
Remember, it only happened it you can prove it.
[Archived as /info-mac/snd/mlk-promised-land.hqx; 750K]
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 06:26:11 -0500
From: [email protected] (Paul C.H. Ho)
Subject: [*] MovieTrilogy1.1.1; a trio of Quicktime utilities
Copyright 1993-94 Paul C.H. Ho and Pink Elephant Technologies.
All rights reserved.
This is shareware.
The is version 1.1.1 This version has no expiration date.
Note to Sysop: Please remove all old beta versions from your
archive.
What's new in 1.1.1?
DeskTopTV
Fixed a fatal error if Macintosh Drag and Drop was not installed.
DeskTopText
Fixed a non-fatal error if Speech manager was not installed.
DeskTopMovie
Add Voices menu to chose Speech manager voices.
What's new in 1.1?
*** Drag and Drop ***
DeskTopTV now support Drag and Drop. You can drag a picture from
DeskTopTV and drop it to Finder as clipping or drop it into
another Drag and Drop savvy program.
*** Text to Speech ***
DeskTopMovie now support Speech manager. You can play Text to
Speech on text track.
*** Bigger! Slower! ***
Just convert DeskTopText to TCL 2.0... Some AppleScript functions
come free from TCL 2.0 (untested).
DeskTopText now convert the attached sound into sound movie
track.
In all three program. The usual bug fix.
System Requirements
-System 7 or later.
-QuickTime 1.6.1 or later.
-Sound Manager 3.0 or later recommended.
-Some features required Speech Manager, version 1.2.1 or later recommended.
-Some features required Macintosh Drag and Drop.
-Mac II (68020) or later.
-Some features required AV class Macintosh.
(Tested on a Mac II and a 660AV)
MovieTrilogy is a set of 3 QuickTime applications designed to do
video subtitle on AV class Macintosh. DeskTopMovie and DeskTopText
also work on other Mac with some useful features.
[Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/movie-trilogy-111.hqx; 330K]
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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 1994 15:15:50 -0400
From: GSM/CCH
Subject: [*] museum-06; a "Slideshow/Multimedia presentation program"
MUSEUM v0.6 by Rustle Laidman, Shareware $5-30Mean little Slideshow/Multimedia
presentation program. Here'sthe latest version of Museum. You'll love it!-
Rock-Solid, Stand-Alone document!- Pictures, Text with Style, & Sound-
Quicktime-compressed JPEG/PICT- Runs on EVERY Macintosh/Monitor configuration-
Many features to customize- Full-Screen Slideshow- Multi-Level Destruct-
Scrolling Pictures- Extremely easy to usec1992-94 by Rustle Laidman
([email protected])All Rights Reserved (and Strictly Enforced)
[Archived as /info-mac/app/museum-06.hqx; 52K]
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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 1994 17:05:55 -0400
From: "Daniel C. McFarlane"
Subject: [*] nervous-system-10; a "Neuron Modeling and Simulation Environment"
*** ANNOUNCING: ***
NervousSystem 1.0.gwu -- Neuron Modeling and Simulation Environment for Apple
Macintosh
*** WHAT: ***
NervousSystem is an exciting new simulation tool for exploring the behavior of
networks of neurons, based on a biological model.
1. Application (Apple Macintosh computers);
2. User's Guide (MS Word format);
3. Source Code & Project File (Think Class Objects on the Think Class Library
Framework);
4. Programmer's Guide (MS Word format).
*** WHY (For Computational Neuroscience): ***
NervousSystem has the following attractive properties for investigating a
biologically based model of neurons and networks of neurons.
1. free;
2. it is VERY easy to learn and use (direct manipulation interaction style);
3. "easily" expandable and customizable because of well structured OOP source
code;
4. free.
*** WHY (For Computer Science): ***
NervousSystem has the following attractive properties for learning
direct-manipulation object-oriented programming within a framework.
1. free;
2. elegant direct-manipulation solution;
3. employs "Model-View-Controller" paradigm;
4. popular OOP language, C++ (Think Class Objects);
5. popular framework (Think Class Library);
6. popular, and inexpensive, development tools (Think C v.5, and AppMaker);
7. well crafted by OOP experts (two doctoral student in human-computer
interaction at George Washington University);
8. robust, ample structure, supports expansion and reuse;
9. free.
[Archived as /info-mac/sci/nervous-system-10.hqx; 1163K]
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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 94 17:12:47 PDT
From: Steve Weyer
Subject: [*] newt-turt-book; a "Newt Turtle Tutorial"
NewtTurT (Newt Turtle Tutorial) is an interactive tutorial (Newton book) that
will show how you can program in NewtonScript with turtle-style graphics
directly on your Newton using Newt.
Keywords: tutorial, Newt, object-oriented programming, NewtonScript, learning,
graphics, mathematics, Logo
See NewtTurT.1st for further info.
[Archived as /info-mac/nwt/info/newt-turt-book.hqx; 39K]
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 94 12:37 +1200
From: "Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University, Hamilton, NZ"
Subject: [*] OldPrint hack for QuickDraw GX
Hi.
Enclosed is OldPrint, a hack I put together as an interim solution for
QuickDraw GX users who need it. It allows you to continue using your old
printer driver with selected applications, with QuickDraw GX installed.
Hopefully it will be obsolete in a few months, as more third parties come
out with GX-compatible printer drivers.
Beware: I have done only limited testing, so use with care. Comments and
bug reports welcome.
Lawrence D'Oliveiro
University of Waikato
Hamilton
New Zealand
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/prn/old-print.hqx; 42K]
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 02:08:53 +0100
From: Richard Buckle
Subject: [*] QuicKeys for After Dark
Here is version 3.0.1 of my Screen Saver Quickeys. These fix a bug in
version 3.0 which caused Screen Saver Decision to type random keystrokes if
MS Word and MS Excel was in front and the destination shortcut was left
blank.
Version 3.0 should be deleted from the archives.
Screen Saver Quickeys allow QuicKeys 3.0 to test and control whether After
Dark (or another screen saver that uses the same Gestalt mechanism, eg
DarkSide) is asleep, awake, etc.
Postcardware.
Enjoy.
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/ad/screen-saver-qkeys-301-ad.hqx; 50K]
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 12:21:33 -0600
From: [email protected] (Squeal)
Subject: [*] RFK-Negro-Section-of-Town; a sound clip of Martin Luther King
This is the first in a series of clips with some historical/political
content. This sound is from Bobby Kennedy's crusade against racism. This
is a 22kHz sound, about 120k, which is binhexed and compacted with Compact
Pro.
Email me if you like this sound and are interested in me posting others
(from many different people/sources). Email me if you'd like to help with
my project of making historical/political excerpts widely available.
[Archived as /info-mac/snd/mlk-negro-section-of-town.hqx; 189K]
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 09:29:29 -0800
From: [email protected] (Norman Franke, III)
Subject: [*] SoundApp 1.2.1; a "sound playing program"
Enclosed you will find SoundApp 1.2.1, the latest version of my sound
playing program.
SoundApp it can play and convert the following sound formats:
SoundCap (including Huffman compressed files),
SoundEdit (including stereo files),
AIFF and AIFF-C,
System 7 Sound,
Sun Audio (AU),
NeXT .snd,
Windows WAVE,
Sound Blaster VOC,
Amiga MOD,
Amiga IFF (8SVX) (including compressed files),
Sound Designer II,
DVI ADPCM, and
any 'snd' resource file.
SoundApp also supports conversion to the following sound formats: System 7,
Sound suitcase, WAVE, AIFF/AIFF-C, and NeXT .au.
Large sounds can be played with minimal memory, and it can convert 16-bit
files to 8-bit files, if desired. It also supports true 16-bit playback of
16-bit sound files, as well as, AU and ADPCM files. Stereo playback is also
supported.
Version 1.2.1 is primarily a bug release for playback of 8SVX files. In
addition, I've added a Convert menu item.
As before, SoundApp remains Freeware. For more information, please see the
built-in help/About window or the Balloon Help.
[Archived as /info-mac/snd/util/sound-app-121.hqx; 140K]
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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 1994 20:56:08 -0400
From: Martin Charest
Subject: [*] Sounds produced by Yves Lussier
This file contains two funny sounds made by a crazy friend,
Yves Lussier. He wanted me to give you those files, so
everybody can hear him play with his computer!
Have fun!
Martin.
[Archived as /info-mac/snd/lussier.hqx; 87K]
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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 21:43:41 +1200
From: [email protected] (Maynard James Handley)
Subject: [*] Sparkle 2.12 A mac-look-and-feel MPEG and QT player and converter
This version makes the following changes to Sparkle 2.1
* A few minor bugs were fixed.
* One major bug was fixed, which required extensive reworking of Sparkle
internals. This is why I haven't been able to get this version out
sooner.
* Somewhat better (though not yet great) support for QT movies with only
sound and no video.
* In reponse to many mail message from people who didn't understand the
new features in 2.1, I've added a lot more documentation, in the
ReadMe 2nd file, and I've added balloon help.
You will get slightly better results with this version if you throw away
your old Sparkle preferences file (in the Preferences folder in the
System folder) before running Sparkle 2.12.
This isn't essential but will improve performance a little.
This version
* is not PPC native
* does not support sound
* does not support apple events
* does not support online help
These are all high priorities, pretty much in that order.
As always, if you find any bug or anomaly in this code please tell me.
The sooner you tell me, the sooner I'll fix it.
As always there remain a few rough edges to this program, though I hope
most of them won't be too distressing to users. Like previous rough
edges, they'll be done away with in time.
Sparkle plays MPEGs, PICTs and QT movies and converts between them. It is
multifinder friendly and, with enough memory, will open multiple
documents at once.
It is free.
REQUIRES:
System 7 or greater.
QuickTime 1.6 or greater.
An 020 based mac or greater.
This version requires the Thread Manager.
Maynard Handley
[email protected]
July 28 1994
[Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/sparkle-212.hqx; 351K]
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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 1994 18:46:16 -0600
From: [email protected] (John Ralph)
Subject: [*] SRS II; "a Mac reference manager"
Hi:
Attached is a new piece of free-ware (which can be updated to a full
shareware version).
SRS II is a Mac reference manager aimed at, but not restructed to, the
sciences. It was previously marketed by Trinity Software and the American
Chemical Society for $125. It is now Shareware at $15. This version, which
is fully functional but lacks some of the improt formats, can be
distributed freely.
Please note that I tried compressing this in Compact pro, but it is
significantly smaller with DiskDobuler 3 format, even when self extracting
- since not everyone has DD the enclosed file is self-extracting. The
README is kept separate and contains info on SRS II.
I look forward to seeing it on Info-Mac.
Regards,
John Ralph
GloMax Software
[Archived as /info-mac/app/srs-ii.hqx; 776K]
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Date: Fri, 15 Jul 1994 13:37:28 -0700
From: [email protected] (Bruce)
Subject: [*] stufex_3.5_installer; StuffIt Expander 3.5
Complete Installer for StuffIt Expander 3.5, a major update of this award-
winning freeware product. Designed to be the simplest, most efficient way
to expand StuffIt, Compact Pro, BinHex and MacBinary files. You can even
have it "watch" a certain folder. If you add our new "DropStuff with
Expander Enhancer" you get PowerMac acceleration, expansion of many other
formats (.gz, .z, .uu, .ARC, .ZIP), joining of StuffIt segments, and
more! Disinfectant 3.5 shows no viruses in this file.
[Archived as /info-mac/cmp/stuffit-expander-35.hqx; 203K]
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 94 15:40 MET DST
From: [email protected] (Friedrich Schotte)
Subject: [*] symmetry; based on the Field and Golubitsky algorithm
Symmetry is an application which draws colored graphics based on an algorithm
described by the mathematicians Field and Golubitsky. These graphics are of
very complex but symmetrical structure and some of them are fractals.
This application may especially interesting for those who have bought the book
"Symmetry and Chaos" by Field and Golubitsky, Oxford Press, 1993.
There are four versions of thr application:
- Symmetry-App.sit: English version for every Macintosh
- Symmetry-FPU.sit: English version for Macintosh with coprocessor
- Symmetry-German.sit: German version for every Macintosh
- Symmetry-German-FPU.sit: German version for Macintosh with coprocessor
The following additional files are supplied:
- Symmetry-Sources.sit: Source code for Think-C 6.0
- Symmetry-Samples.sit: Sample pictures created by Symmetry
You may include this application and its sources on a commercially available
CD-ROM archive.
The following is a Compact Pro archive containig the six files, converted
by BixHex 4.0.
[Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/symmetry.hqx; 819K]
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 22:45:03 -0700
From: Alan Coopersmith
Subject: [*] TeachText & SimpleText XTND Translator
TeachText/SimpleText XTND Translator version 2.0
Copyright 1992-1994 by Alan Coopersmith. All rights reserved.
Allows applications that use the Claris XTND system to read and
write TeachText & SimpleText documents with pictures and styled
text. It's freeware and has been reported to work with Nisus,
MacWrite Pro, ClarisWorks, and Framemaker.
The biggest change since version 1.0 is the addition of
SimpleText styles.
[Archived as /info-mac/cmp/teachtext-simpletext-20-xtnd.hqx; 17K]
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 23:07:27 -0700
From: [email protected] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: [*] TidBITS#236/25-Jul-94
TidBITS#236/25-Jul-94
Mark Anbinder reports on Apple's latest addition to the PowerBook
family, the PowerBook 150, along with Apple's new 15" monitor
and new keyboard. FullWrite makes the news with an Internet
mailing list and a long-awaited upgrade, StuffIt Expander and
DropStuff go back for a quick fix, and Roy McDonald of
Connectix takes us inside the process of porting RAM Doubler
to the Power Macs.
Topics:
MailBITS/25-Jul-94
GlobalFax for Power Macs
New Display, New Keyboard
More Mobile Macs
Transition to PowerPC: RAM Doubler 1.5
Reviews/25-Jul-94
[Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-236.etx; 29K]
Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor -- [email protected] -- [email protected]
Author of The Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh -- [email protected]
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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 1994 22:59:14 +0200
From: [email protected] (Bas Meijer)
Subject: [*] Timer 1.7.1; a simple timer
Hi All,
Included is the file timer171.hqx this is a BinHexed Stuffit archive =
containing
the newest version of Timer.
Timer is a small and simple alarm clock
Want to spend only 2 hours computing ? Set the timer and it will remi=
nd
you after the time is up. Want a clock in a window with your favourit=
e
font ? Timer is just that.
Timer will remember your alarm if you save when you quit.
See "About Timer=C9" under the apple menu for more info.
Timer is postcardware so if you like it send me a postcard...
Comments, bug reports etc to:
Bas Meijer=20
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/app/timer-171.hqx; 35K]
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 16:26:18 -0500
From: [email protected] (Brian Clark)
Subject: [*] VA-NewsWatcher; "NewsWatcher with binary posting"
Announcing VA-NewsWatcher 2.0b9.0+
Value-Added NewsWatcher with binary posting
MOST IMPORTANT. This version is not an "official, John
Norstad" version of NewsWatcher. John can't and won't
support it, and is not responsible to any bugs I added to
his code. I intend to do my best to keep up with whatever
changes John makes to his version, and incorporate them in
timely releases of my version. John's own binary posting
version will come later. Since binary posting is only on the
wish list, and not (to the best of my recollection) an
official proposed feature of either 2.0 final or 2.1, I have
decided to release my own version.
Apart from binary posting, I've made some other small
changes to my version. There should be a small speed
increase for Quadra owners who have installed System Update
3.0 because of a change that eliminates unnecessary '040
cache flushing. The spinning beach ball cursor has been
replaced with a color animated cursor (the small NewsWatcher
newspaper icon, with a spinning globe). The dialog to select
folders has been changed to satisfy the Apple Human
Interface Guidelines, and it's now smarted about aliases to
volumes. The subject line to file name routine has been
changed to be more intelligent and to provide less mangled
file names when saving articles to disk.
Obviously the big change is binary posting. A file icon
button is added to message windows, to the right of the
"send to self" button. Clicking on it elicits a file dialog,
where a single file to attach to your post may be chosen.
Clicking on the Send button causes the selected file to be
uuencoded, split into several sections, and sent.
I have also answered the request that the checkmarks to
the left of each button be active, so that clicking on them
will enable or disable the relevant option, exactly as if
the button had been clicked. John has announced that his
next version will do the same.
Brian Clark
[email protected] (Brian Clark)
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/tcp/va-news-watcher-20b9.hqx; 408K]
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/src/va-news-watcher-20b9-c.hqx; 499K]
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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 1994 15:16:18 -0400
From: GSM/CCH
Subject: [*] wave-window-21; a "software oscilloscope"
WaveWindow v2.1 by Rustle Laidman, Shareware $12
WaveWindow is a software oscilloscope. Very useful for anyone who
works with sound on the Macintosh, educational, and fun to play
with. It displays sound visually on your screen in real-time.
Several different modes, including dynamic color waveforms.
Requires System 6.0.7 (or greater) and a Macintosh with
microphone-input. Supports the Built-in Mic, MacRecorder,
VoiceLink, any device that follows Mac protocol.
Easy to use, try singing into the microphone. After you get the
basic idea, experiment with 'Preferences'. There are several
different synchronization and display modes. Try the 'Lissajous
Figures' in 'Async' mode and play an 'F' on your favorite
instrument. Wow!
NEW IN VERSION 2.1...
- Runs faster on faster machines.
- Invoke Preferences by clicking in display area
- Analyzes frequency (realtime) on very fast machines.
- Quadra-AV aware.
c1993,94 by Rustle Laidman ([email protected])
All Rights Reserved (and Strictly Enforced)
[Archived as /info-mac/sci/wave-window-21.hqx; 46K]
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 1994 20:57:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: [email protected] (Trygve Isaacson)
Subject: [*] ZTerm font patcher
Hi all, enclosed is ZTermPatcher.hqx (10K).
ZTerm Patcher
Copyright c1994 by Trygve Isaacson
[email protected]
Freeware--distribute freely along with this readme.
Fat binary--contains both 68K and PowerPC native code.
This little application is a patcher for ZTerm 0.9 (this version ships
with Global Village modems). The patcher lets you specify a font for
ZTerm to use for the terminal session instead of the ZTerm built-in font
(which only has 9- and 12-point bitmaps). Of course, it'll have to be a
monospaced font (like Monaco, Courier, Noiro, ... I'm sure there are
other favorites) in order for ZTerm to draw the terminal session
properly. The patcher also lets you remove the patch or switch fonts in a
patched copy of ZTerm.
Enjoy!
-- Trygve
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/term/zterm-font-patcher.hqx; 10K]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 94 9:22:48 EDT
From: Tom Coradeschi
Subject: .hqx archive format....
Robert Butler wrote;
> I'm interested in the quicktime movies in the mac archives, but they're
>all compressed in some funky .hqx format... Unfortunately, I have an ibm
>clone, so if you know of any way that I can decompress these for use on
>my system, please let me know...
Do an archie search for 'binhex.exe'. I think it was written at U Michigan,
but I could be wrong (understatement of the century:-}).
tom coradeschi [email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 15:43:54 -0400
From: "Robert E. Winston"
Subject: .hqx archive format....(A)
> I'm interested in the quicktime movies in the mac archives,
> but they're all compressed in some funky .hqx format...
> Unfortunately, I have an ibm clone, so if you know of any way
> that I can decompress these for use on my system, please let
> me know...
Binhex (.hqx) is an ascii encoding scheme similar to (but not compatible
with) uuencoding.
>From mac.archive.umich.edu:
/mac/util/compression/pcbinhex.uu
"A version of BinHex in .EXE form, which runs on IBM & its clones"
The resulting binary will be compressed with StuffIt or Compact Pro.
If it's compressed with StuffIt (.sit) use this:
/mac/util/compression/unsitins.exe.uu
"IBM executables for UnSit, a program to decode StuffIt 1.5.1, 2.0,
and 3.0 archives on IBMs and compatibles."
________
Robert E. Winston [email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 11:09:29 -0400
From: [email protected] (Mail Delivery Subsystem) (by way of
[email protected] (Capt Bill Cameron))
Subject: .hqx archive format....[r]
Robert Butler writes:
> I'm interested in the quicktime movies in the mac archives, but they're
>all compressed in some funky .hqx format... Unfortunately, I have an ibm
>clone, so if you know of any way that I can decompress these for use on
>my system, please let me know...
>thanks in advance...
You can decode these files using PC BinHex 1.3, available at:
ftp://boombox.micro.umn.edu//pub/pc/binhex/binhex.exe
HOWEVER!!! - BinHex is not a compression utility; all it does is convert
the files into 7-bit ASCII, similar to a uuencoded file (this is done to
aid transfer over funky unix mail systems that only allow text). Once you
un-BinHex the quicktime movies, you'll probably find they have either a
.sit or .cpt extension. These files are created by StuffIt and CompactPro
respectively, which are Macintosh archive utilities similar to PKZip,
though not identical. I haven't tried any PC utilities that will unarchive
.sit or .cpt files. You might try this one, but I don't know if it works:
ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/leonardr/Aladdin/UNSITINS.EXE
Hope this helps
Bill Cameron sdg
[email protected]
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 10:31:54 +0400
From: [email protected] (Akif Eyler)
Subject: [A] Easy View
David L. Ellis wrote in I-M 101:
> Thanks to all who took time to answer my question about why Easy
> View sometimes splits an issue.
>
> In summary, the problem seems to be that Easy View looks for a
> line of asterisks (******) to mark the end of an issue. When a
> submission includes a line of asterisks, EV breaks at this point.
> If you want to rectify this, you can open the issue in a word
> processor and delete the offending line of asterisks.
I could give a simpler answer: just use the view that comes with
EV, rather than making a new one. This one is properly configured
to handle I-M digests. I _never_ edit the digests manually, just
download them and drag them into the I-M folder.
M. Akif Eyler /|
Bilkent University /_|
06533 Ankara, Turkey________/ | [email protected]
------------------------------
Date: 25 Jul 1994 20:06:27 -0700
From: "Brian Renken"
Subject: [Q] Audio CDROM to sound fi
Subject:
[Q] Audio CDROM to sound file??
Does anyone know how to convert an audio CD ROM track to some type of sound
file??
Thanks in advance..
Brian Renken
------------------------------
Date: 28 Jul 1994 12:50:53 -0700
From: "Brian Renken"
Subject: [Q] MacPPP and Shiva LanRov
Subject:
[Q] MacPPP and Shiva LanRover
Hi there,
We are using MacPPP to dial into the internet thru our Shiva LanRover.
Everything works fine, until exactly 6 hours after we end a connection. Then,
MacPPP decides to automate a new connection without any human interaction. If
the machine is unattended at that time then we end up racking up charges with
our internet provider. I have found that if I do a "Hard Close" then it wont
do
this, but then I have to open the MacPPP control panel to start the next
connection. Has anyone else seen this or know what to do to fix the problem??
Thanks in advance...
Brian
[email protected]
Software Development Manager, SensArray Corporation
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 94 17:54:12 EST
From: Charlie McLain
Subject: Accelerator Card recommendations
Hi folks,
I have a Mac IIcx that is extremely slow (18 MHz 68030). I am interested in
buying a reasonably priced accelerator card to soup this machine up. Does
anyone have a recommendation on this.
Please send all replies to:
[email protected]
Thanks.
Charlie McLain
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 13:02:58 -0700
From: [email protected] (Kevin Purcell)
Subject: API/Programmers Guide for PlainTalk
>Does anyone know where the API for Apple's PlainTalk speech recognition
>software is located?
Check out the latest Developer's CD (August 1994). There is some
preliminary documentation in:
"Dev CD Aug 94:New System Software Extensions:PlainTalk=81 Speech
Technologies:Speech Recognition:Documentation:Speech Recognition
Toolbox.RTF"
folder.
(For non-MIME folks =81 is the trademark symbol).
Kevin Purcell, Seattle dBug Developers SIG leader
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 13:55:49 -0400
From: [email protected] (Capt Bill Cameron)
Subject: Big files from Mac to PC [r]
Simon H Le G Bisson writes:
>A colleague has a 10 M file he wants to move from a MAC to a PC. The
>machines are at least 30 miles apart and can't be networked... Is
>there any way of passing a disk-spanned archive from one machine to
>the other in a compatible form... Zip springs to mind as a method,
>but I've not found a Mac implementation that supports multiple disk
>archives.
Do you have modems for each machine? If so, you might try the telephone
lines for file transfer. If this isn't practical, you might try either
BinHexing or uuencoding the file, segmenting it into convenient, disk-sized
blocks and carrying it to the destination. The chunks can be joined either
by a PC uudecode or un-BinHex utility, or, lacking that capability, in a
text editor. For a Mac uuencoder, decoder and segmenter, try:
ftp://ftp.switch.ch//mirror/info-mac/ut ... ol-232.hqx
You should (I hope) be able to find a Mac utility for BinHexing. For PC
de-BinHexing try:
ftp://boombox.micro.umn.edu//pub/pc/binhex/binhex.exe
and for uudecoding try:
ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk//pub/archive/tools/ ... decode.exe
I believe this program will join segmented files also.
Hope this helps.
Bill Cameron sdg
[email protected]
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 09:36:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Tad Davis"
Subject: ClarisWorks and Sliding (A)
> When the 'Slide Objects' feature does work, the _record_ size remains the
> same on paper, i.e. I'm just redistributing white space, not eliminating
> it.
Yup, that's the way it works. I was quite disappointed by this too. On the
other hand, the DB module has every single feature (except for this one) I
had ever used in FileMaker Pro, and it cost me only a bit more than the
last upgrade to FileMaker would have cost me. I'd still recommend it for
anyone looking for an integrated package.
Tad Davis
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 01:36:24 GMT
From: "William R. Pearson"
Subject: EKG's on quicktime/mpeg
A cardiologist is building a set of images for a Mosaic
presentation of various pathologies, and he would like to display
movies of EKG's and other time dependent data. The EKG data is
available as a set of binary (or ascii) values and a time base.
I would like to find a program that would take these values
and produce a quicktime/mpeg movie that would resemble the traces
on an EKG monitor. Alternatively, a program that would convert
this y-t data to some other image format (gif, tiff), that I could
convert to a movie would be a big help.
Bill Pearson
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 17:31:04 -0800
From: Robert Hess
Subject: Expo Event List version 32
Enclosed is the current (version 32) of my Expo Events List.
The current version may always be obtained via ftp at:
Site: ftp.macweek.ziff.com
Acct: Expo
Pass: events
This list is my own work and is in no way affiliated with MacWEEK.
Robert
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Robert Hess - MacWEEK - (415) 243-3576 - [email protected]
During Expo, page the Knife: (800) 206-5318.
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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 94 09:30:01 -0500
From: "Charles Betz"
Subject: flowcharting
Does anyone know of a simple freeware or shareware flowcharting program? I've
prowled the archives and used Archie but no luck so far.
Charles Betz, Principal Secretary, Carter Group
Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
204 Amundson Hall
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455-0132
Ph: 612-626-8953 Fax: 612-626-7246
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 20:54:46 -0400
From: Scott Kelsey
Subject: hypercard to html
Hi All -- I was wondering if there is a convertor out in cyberspace that would
allow me to go from a hypercard stack to a html file? What I want to do is
convert a hypercard stack to a Mosaic file (html). I have the html editor that
Murray Altheim (HTML.edit) has put out. Now I want to put the text of a
hypercard stack into his editor. Any idea's?
Thanks in advance
Scott Kelsey
University of Delaware
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 94 15:47:59 -0500
From: [email protected] (Desmond K. Mullen)
Subject: HyperGopher
>Date: Thu, 21 Jul 1994 13:43:13 -0500
>From: [email protected] (Daniel Blystone)
>Subject: HyperGopher
>
>Has anyone out there tried to write a hypercard stack that can access gopher.
>We have looked at HyperFTP and it looks to be straightforward clean code.
>The only problem we are having is getting it to access other things like
>gopher and telnet. We have gone in and edited the script to access the
>different port numbers but we keep getting our connection dropped.
>
>Is there some logistic thing we are not seeing or has someone else out
>there who has done this already. The main reason we are asking is that we
>are trying to build a smart interface to lock certain features out of
>gopher. We also want to limit the ammount of information that the user
>sees.
>
>Another thing we are looking for is some kind of source code or editor that
>we can use to create XCMDs and XFCNs to communicate with TCP.
>
>Any and all help would be appreciated.
HyperFTP was a wonderful program - especially for hackers! ;?) , but I'm
not sure I'd ever say the code was straightforward and clean - but that may
be more a result of the nature of FTPing. There's a lot of code in there
that will mess up a Gopher connection, and when you make a Gopher
connection, there's some stuff you have to send back and forth between
client and server to successfully keep the connection. What you need to do
is read up on Gopher and find out how the protocol goes. You should be able
to get all the Gopher documentation you'd ever want by FTPing to the home
of gopher: "boombox.micro.umn.edu"
If I recall correctly, Gopher used to be written in HyperCard, so connect
to Boombox and look in the "gopher" subdirectory for old Mac versions of
Gopher. There was a lot of stuff in there when I glanced before writing
this. I'm pretty sure there're HyperCard versions still around (they
haven't been updated for years, probably).
About XCMDs and XFCNs, find Apple's "HyperCard MacTCP Toolkit 1.0"
somewhere and have a field day! (try "ftp.apple.com" or one of the other
Apple archives) There's most everything you'd ever need in there. You might
consider writing your Gopher app from scratch using those externals as
opposed to trying to hack HyperFTP.
Good luck.
-DM
Desmond K. Mullen - University of Minnesota, Office of Admissions
[email protected] - 612/625-0824 - Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 94 11:35:04 EDT
From: Carolyn Fuller
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V12 #101
Has anyone had experience trying to set up SoftWindows to connect to a
Campus network using TCP/IP? I'm having trouble. I'm able to successfully
connect to our office server, but when I try to connect to our IBM mainframe
via either rn 3270 (the PC version on TN3270) or DAL, I run into problems.
There are problems when I use the same IP address as MacTCP/IP is using
or when I use a different IP address. Any insights? Any experience?
Thanks,
Carolyn
Carolyn Fuller M.I.T.
[email protected] Comptroller's Accounting Office
(617) 253-6213
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 94 15:43:46 +0200
From: "Ad Herweijer"
Subject: Inverse video software for visually handicapped
Last week I posted a question for a reference to software that enables display
in inverse video. Thanks to those who responded (George Daubert and Peter
Gerhardstein)! However, the software they recommend, Apple's CloseView, does a
little bit more than black-white inversion, which spoils the result. It
produces
a heavy frame that indicates the area that would be displayed if you were to
choose for a multiplication factor. If you are visually handicapped, like the
friend I am trying to help, this useless frame on the screen is very
disturbing.
So I decided to post my question once again: I am looking for software (not
CloseView) that inverts the screen colors. If there is a (ResEdit?) hack that
disables the frame CloseView produces, we would welcome the description of that
too.
Thanks in advance!
ir. Ad Herweijer, Delft University of Technology, Fac. of Applied Physics
Pattern Recognition Group, Lorentzweg 1, 2628 CJ Delft, the Netherlands
Phone: +31 15 782408, FAX: +31 15 626740, E-mail: [email protected]
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 12:23:06 -0500
From: "R. Scott Lillard"
Subject: LC-Monitors (Q)
Hey Folks:
I have recently upgraded my dinasour (an old LC) to a stone car (030-50MHZ
accelerator) and am preparing to upgrade my monitor (an old 12" low-res
Apple RGB, 512x384) to a 14" hi-res color. As 14" is a big boost in active
screen area (13" vs 10") I am not interested in the larger monitors (I'll
save that for a PowerMac when I get one) ... so here's the question: will
the video card that came with my LC (512K V-RAM) support the resolution /
refresh rates of todays monitors 1024x768, 75 Hz)? I know it would have
supported the old hi-res Apple monitor but I have no idea what the res. of
that monitor was (640x480 / 70Hz ?).
thanks,
Scott
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Date: 27 Jul 1994 19:31:12 U
From: "Sebasti\n Tedesco"
Subject: Logitech Address
Does anybody know the internet address of Logitech?
Thanks
Sebastian Tedesco ( [email protected] )
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 94 09:07:04 CDT
From: [email protected] (Bob Schenk)
Subject: looking for TrueEdit
Is anyone familiar with a program called TrueEdit, which is supposed to edit
certain features
of TrueType fonts? If you know anything about such a program, please inform
me.
Thanks
Robert Schenk
[email protected]
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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 10:23:39 -0800
From: Robert Hess
Subject: Mac the Knife Wants You!
Planning on attending next week's MacWorld Expo in Boston? Well, Mac the
Knife is eager to hear from you while you're there.
On the showroom floor, MacWEEK will have a booth where you can contribute
tips; the best ones each day win prizes.
An even faster (and even more anonymous) way to whisper in the Knife's ear
is to phone it into his pager at (800) 206-5318. With all those secret
suites, you should have plenty to talk about...
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Robert Hess - MacWEEK - (415) 243-3576 - [email protected]
During Expo, page the Knife: (800) 206-5318.
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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 10:06:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email protected] (Eric William Burger)
Subject: Move Mac to New Net & Printing
All Macs running System 7.1 or System 7.1 Pro, NSI 1.4.5.
BEFORE:
We had a bunch of Mac's and a LaserWriter 630 on EtherTalk, a
GatorBox, and a bunch of Sun's that used the GatorBox LPD service
(TCP/IP BSD print service LocalTalk).
I also installed CAP on the Suns.
The EtherTalk zone was 'telecnnct'.
The LocalTalk zone was 'TeleConnect'.
AFTER:
Same Mac's, same LaserWriter, same network.
Took out the GatorBox.
Installed CAP on the Sun's.
THE PROBLEM:
The suns had no problems seeing the printer, before and after
the removal of the GatorBox (the printer and the CAP services
DID need to be restarted).
The Macs had real problems USING the printer. I restarted the
Macs, figuring they also needed to relearn the zones (with no
router, the zone reverts to '*').
Whenever I tried to 'choose' the printer, the Chooser would
say it couldn't find the printer. This happened even though
the printer NAME would appear in the Chooser select box.
The Macs could see the printer at a low level -- running
AppleTalk prober software returned the correct name and address
for the printer. The printer knew how to talk to the Macs, in
that AppleTalk echo's worked, as well.
I tried deleting the LaserWriter preferences files from the
System Folder:Preferences folder, but the Chooser still couldn't
find the printers.
Eventually, I ended up hacking (ResEdit AND WORSE!!!) the
LaserWriter and LaserWriter 8 extensions. The extensions
had the old zone ('telecnnct') coded in them!
Now everything works just fine.
THE POINT:
Have I missed something here? Have I developed a nuclear
bomb solution where a rubber hammer would have worked? SHAME
on Apple for putting a preference (the printer's zone) into
a resource! TRUE SHAME if I'm not mistaken, and you effectively
can't move a Mac to a routerless configuration!
P.S.:
I have a Duo, too, and it manages to NOT get confused when I
move it between networks...
--
-- Eric William Burger -- [email protected] --
-- The Telephone Connection -- Tel. +1 301/417-0700 --
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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 15:51:43 +0200 (MET DST)
From: [email protected] (Francois Pottier)
Subject: No c.s.m.p. digests in August
Hello,
I'm going on vacation in August, so I won't be able to edit the
c.s.m.p. digests until early September. Articles will still be
recorded during the next month, but I'm not sure whether I will have
time to catch up when I come back.
Sorry for the inconvenience, and see y'all again on c.s.m.p.
in September!
--
Francois Pottier
Maintainer of the c.s.m.p. digest
[email protected]
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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 94 00:15:52 PDT
From: [email protected]
Subject: Notepad, Wed 7/27 12:59 pm
I was wondering if you
knew of any hidden
Secrets in the apple
Newton.
ex. find elvis
a reply will be very much appreciated.
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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 08:57:00 -0500
From: Mike Hutchinson
Subject: Pointer enlarger?
Howdy all,
One of the users I support is looking for an extension, share/freeware or
commercial, that enlarges the Mac pointer to a size beyond the standard
16x16 pixels. He needs a mammoth arrow on the screen so he can point at
things while doing presentations. Does anyone know of such a beast?
Any suggestions appreciated.
Thanks,
Mike
--
Mike Hutchinson
Macintosh Systems Administrator
Software Productivity Consortium, Herndon, VA
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 94 09:39:26 JST
From: Stefan Sschaal
Subject: PowerBook 180 ribbon cable
Hello,
The ribbon cable which connects the bottom part with the upper part
of my PB180 is broken. Unfortunately I am currently in Japan and I have
a hard time finding this thin 72 connector cable in Japan.
Does anybody know where to get such cable in the US or does anybody
have 4 inches of such a cable at home? I'd be most happy to buy
a piece of it.
Many thanks!!
-Stefan
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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 11:38:43 +0100 (BST)
From: "G.J. Berry APEME (Microelectronics) ext 4570 "
Subject: Powerbook 500 and MIDI
Hello all,
I am currently considering purchase of a PB520c, one of the
intended uses of which is as a MIDI sequencer in live performance. I have
heard rumours that Powerbooks have problems when used for MIDI
applications. Are these rumours true, and are there ways to circumvent any
problems if any exist? I will be using Opcode Vision v2 and OMS.
I should point out I will be using mains power rather than batteries as
portability rather than lack of access to a mains socket is the main
reason for my buying a Powerbook. Sorry if this has been asked before -
I've been offline for a couple of months and haven't caught up with the
digests yet. Please reply by e-mail to the address below and I will
summarise if there is sufficient interest.
TIA
Graham J. Berry, E-mail [email protected]
University of Dundee, Scotland, UK
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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 09:10:45 +0200
From: [email protected]
Subject: Powerbook Questions
Hello,
I intend to by myself a powerbook, probably of the new series that is PowerPC
ready. But I have a number of questions thereto:
Does anybody now, when the PowerPC upgrades will be available?
What will they cost approximately?
What clock rates will be available, and if I buy a 520 now (25mhz), to which
PowerPC clock rate will it upgrade?
Furthermore I heard that the 500series powerbooks after being upgraded work
with a
limited bus width. I how far will this reduce performance compared to a desktop
PPC and how far will this lead to software limitations?
Will the upgraded Powerbooks then already be compliant with the PREP standard?
Thanks for hints,
Jens Eickhoff
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 94 07:26:02 EDT
From: [email protected]
Subject: Problema con el disco conner de 500 mb en el PPC (R)
>Problem: The HD Setup of the 7.1.2 Disk Tools doesn't find the disk when it
is
>checking the SCSI bus.
The problem is that HD Setup that came with your Disk Tools will not work
with non-Apple Hard Drives. Apple installs a code into their hard drives.
If this code isn't present in the hard drive, HD Setup will not find it.
Regards,
-George
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Date: Tue Jul 26 10:52:40 1994
From: [email protected] (Capt Jon Dagle;86 OSS/DOW;480-2077)
Subject: Problem getting CIA World Factbook (Q)
I've tried twice to ftp and then download, un-binhex, and unzip the CIA
World Factbook 1993. I tried
ftp//gopher.oit.unc.edu/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext93/world93.zip
and...
ftp//mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu/etext/etext93/world93.zip
(I think these are correct)
Everything went ok until I used the new StuffIt Expander w/Expander Enhancer.
As soon as the was opened, I got a message from StuffIt Exp
that the zip header was bad, or something like that, and that the operation
couldn't continue. It then proceeds to un-hex and unzip something. The result
is a World93.txt file which Word will open. Unfortunately, the file is mostly
garbled after "Austrailia". Here is a sample
>fsd)C lhertby l1sseniMTrtheicredibilicynouhtheurefdemupooces .hIec1991,rfsd
again2)ruiec1992, butpugrroseusubstasthally,cparcicularlyninutheifavotiducbasta
>)C arens. Popularuresistasce,uchm ges,iecceslia
>%po,rey, an)olosshouhau8hority)C by ruia
>%7ade,1uhavr wedk1se China's populaosumh70Af2olupoogram, w2ich
i12)rue1sesthal loctheinceidi's loMT-germueconomicoiiabilicy.
>rNceidid
> pooductf ruGNP $NA
Actually, its only sporatically damaged after Austria, but it becomes worse
and worse, eventually looking like the sample above a few pages later.
Can anyone suggest a solution?
Jonathan Dagle,
Ramstein Air Base, Germany
[email protected]
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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 94 12:47:42 +0100
From: Raghbir Singh
Subject: Q: Creating a Font Family
Hi
Does anyone know how to create a SINGLE font family from separate
fonts? The reason I am asking this is that I have just converted over
a TrueType font from Windows (using Font Clerk) which has the
following separate font files:
Normal
Italic
Bold
Bold Italic
After putting the four font files into a font suitcase and putting
that into the System folder, the fonts show up ok but as FOUR SEPARATE
FONTS. However, I cannot find a way of putting these fonts together so
that the appropriate font is used automatically whenever the
corresponding style is in operation.
Thanks in advance
Raghbir.
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 09:52:33 PDT
From: [email protected]
Subject: Quadra 610 DOS (Q)
Any light on the following questions regarding the 610 DOS compatible is
appreciated:
- is the processor an 040 or an LC040?
- does the dos side see external devices such as CD-ROM and hard disks?
- is the RAM on the 486sx card of the same type as that on the macintosh side?
- in the future if I do not need the 486sx card, can I just remove it and use
the slot for something else?
Thanks
hassanyn.el_segundo@xerox:com
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 16:52:55 -0400
From: [email protected] (Chuck Goelzer Lyons)
Subject: QUESTION: Mac SE Internal Hard Disk broken
Greetings!
Problem: Turn on Mac SE w/internal 40MB hard disk. Green light goes on. No
sound (usually it makes a whir and a click or two). Eventually comes up
with an icon resembling a question mark on a disk. Green light goes off
briefly, then back on, off briefly, on for awhile, and so forth forever.
We've rebooted countless times.
The problem has been occuring off and on for months, but now it seems
permanent.
Awhile ago Paul Baim (responding to an earlier problem I had with this
machine) recommended Larry Pina's _Mac Classic & SE Repair and Upgrade
Secrets_. I've checked this book and three others at the campus store, but
to no avail. I don't want to replace the whole drive---just get this one
working. BTW, the machine will boot from a floppy disk.
Does the problem I describe above concerning the internal hard disk sound
familiar? What steps should I follow? Are there little things I could do
first to see if a small fix would make it anew again?
I'd appreciate any help any of you would be so kind to give. Please feel
free to e-mail me at [email protected].
Thanks!
Chuck Goelzer Lyons
[email protected]
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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 15:31:53 -0500
From: [email protected] (David Bourne)
Subject: Searching info-mac archives
>Date: Fri, 22 Jul 1994 11:18:59 -0500
>From: [email protected] (David Bourne)
>Subject: Searching info-mac archives.
>
>It used to be possible to search the info-mac (and other Mac archives)
>using WAIS via think.com(?). That doesn't seem to work any more. Is there
>an alternative source? Thanks.
>
I got one direct reply suggesting that WAIS searches were still possible. I
tried WAIS for Mac and indeed WAIS searching does works. More recently I've
been using Mosaic for many things and this is where I was having problems.
Using the WWW pointers via NCSA I wasn't able to connect to the necessary
host. I'm glad to see that info-mac is still searchable.
David Bourne, Ph.D.
OU HSC College of Pharmacy
Voice: (405) 271-6471 FAX: (405) 271-3830
Internet: [email protected]
OUHSC College of Pharmacy WWW server: http://157.142.72.77/
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Date: Sun, 24 Jul 1994 09:21:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: Dwight Beebe
Subject: Seeking sound sample
God, don't you just love alliteration? I'm looking for some
enterprising individual who might have sampled a Gatorade commercial (or
who would be willing to) that has as the tag line: "Science. Don't you
just love it." This stated in a wierd voice. I'd love to have this, but
lack both the equipment and knowledge to get it. Any of you experts able
to do this? Can't offer anything in return (except for a list of great
pubs in Montreal and subjective advice on excellent Indian restaurants).
Thanks!
Dwight Beebe
Institut de recherche en biologie vegetale [email protected]
Universite de Montreal Voice:514-872-4563
4101, rue Sherbrooke est FAX:514-872-9406
Montreal, PQ H1X 2B2 Canada
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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 94 09:55:24 -0400
From: [email protected] (Norm Friedman)
Subject: Size Increase
While trying to install a new program through its installer, the process
unexpectically quit (froze). After restarting my Mac SE, I found that
nothing had loaded from the program, but that the hard drive size had
increased from about 17M to 29M. I have a 40M internal. The system size did
not seem to increase (system 6.0.7 and 1.4M). Cannot seem to find anything
unusal in my system folder that would cause a hugh increase in size.
Running "AutoDoubler" and that seems OK.
Any answers would be appreciated and THANKS in advance for all answers to
[email protected]
thanks
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Date: 28 Jul 1994 12:17:14 +0100
From: [email protected] (Bela FARAGO - ILL - Grenoble)
Subject: Sound on PowerMac
Hi Netters,
recently I tried to record a sound on a PowerMac 7100 (not AV) with
a microphone I had from an old Si. To my great suprise it did not work. ( I
set up Sound input to microphone, and tried recording in the AlertSounds
dialog. The record button comes up OK but the small loudspeaker does not
show input coming in like it did on the Q700) I tried on an other one, same
thing. Verified on a Q700, it worked. Am I missing something trivial, or
this is a "feature"?
Bela Farago ([email protected])
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 12:41:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: Peter Macdonald
Subject: Supra FaxModem 144LC / CommSwitch 330 Incompatibility
I have been using a ComSwitch 330 on my incoming telephone line; it
answers the phone silently, then rings the modem if it is a fax call or
rings the house extensions phones otherwise. This works just fine with my
Supra FaxModem v.32bis.
I replaced the v.32bis with a new Supra FaxModem 144LC. I got the
impression that it sends faxes more reliably than the v.32bis; I could
send reliably to machines I typically have trouble sending to with the
v.32bis. So, I am keen to use the 144LC.
But, the ComSwitch no longer functions; I contacted Cardinal
Communications (who sent several faxes to test and listen), they said the
switch was working correctly but the 144LC wasn't responding to the rings
it made; the ring characteristics, however, are factory-set. I contacted
Supra who assured me that the frequency of ring detected by the 144LC is
factory set and can't be changed.
I did, of course, test the modem by connecting it directly to the
telephone, without the ComSwitch.
So, I am posting this to see if anyone else has had this problem, or knows
of a work-around, or knows of a fax switch that the 144LC responds to.
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 10:26:49 -0700
From: Alex Metcalf
Subject: The incredible gliding mouse
Has anyone else experienced what seems like an occasional glitch
with the ADB Mouse II where the pointer sometimes continues to "glide" left
after you've moved left and stopped? I've had this happen on three or four
different mice, so I don't think it's just my mouse. Or is it...
Alex
--
Alex Metcalf, Best Before Yesterday
[email protected]
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Date: 28 Jul 1994 02:55:38 GMT
From: [email protected] (Erik A. Johnson)
Subject: TidBITS#236/25-Jul-94 -- no new emulator for existing PowerMacs
[email protected] (Adam C. Engst) writes:
>TidBITS#236/25-Jul-94
>=====================
>
>**Pythaeus** writes to tell us that although Apple has developed a
> new 68040 emulator for the Power Macintosh that reportedly runs
> twice as fast as the emulator, the new emulator cannot run on
> existing Power Macs due to ROM incompatibilities. The problem
> apparently lies with having too many 68040 cache-flushing calls in
> the current Power Mac ROMs, and those calls destroy the
> performance increase of the new emulator. These calls will be
> fixed in future Power Mac ROMs, but the new emulator code won't
> work on current Power Macs. [ACE]
Apple has included patches to ROM routines in the system software
for years. Why would it not be possible to patch out the offending
routines as well as the older emulator?
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Date: 28 Jul 1994 4:11:34 GMT
From: [email protected]
Subject: Usenet on Mac
I've just had my office Mac networked after a year spent messing around with
Unix and pcs but our one and only Mac support person has gone off on his hols.
Can anyone tell me how I can access Usenet groups via the Mac?
I have the usual range, email (Pegasus), Anarchie, Fetch and Mosaic
many thanks
Steven French
[email protected]
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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 16:28:47 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jay Poutinen
Subject: Video adapter
Does anyone know where one can purchase a composite video (RCA type) to
S-video adapter?
The Apple 14" AV display manual says, "The AudioVision video-in port
accepts both S-video input and composite video input. An S-video plug
fits directly into the AudioVision port. A composite video plug requires
an adapter." (p. 22)
Apple doesn't sell this adapter and doesn't know where you can get one.
I've tried the usual electronics places, like Radio Shack.
Can anyone help? Thanks.
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 09:55:24 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Traci J. Ingram"
Subject: WGS 9150 and Internet
Dear Info-Mac Readers:
My school is applying for a State grant that will, if approved, provide
our school district with a 56kb dedicated line, plus an Ethernet router
and a Data Service Unit (DSU). We want to connect this to an existing
Work Group Server 9150 Ethernet network having Power PC clients, plus add
a few DOS/Windozzz clients in the bargain.
It is up to us to make the Mac network TCP/IP-compatible, and to provide
SMTP mail services on the 9150. Although we plan to add native Power PC
AppleShare and PowerOpen when they become available, the latter will most
likely appear well beyond the December 31 (1994) date that we will need to
make the Internet connection (if approved).
I would appreciate reciving thoughts on how we can meet the requirements
for this connection, using our existing network, and also how best to
connect the DOS clients (they need the same Internet access as the Macs).
One final question: Given that there is no native Domain Name Server
application for the Mac operating system, and that A/UX does not run on the
Power PC WGS's, what strategy can we use for resolving Domain Names?
Best regards,
Traci J. Ingram
[email protected] | or | [email protected]
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