Info-Mac Digest V12 #90
Posted: June 27th, 1994, 11:41 pm
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Info-Mac Digest Mon, 27 Jun 94 Volume 12 : Issue 90
Today's Topics:
[*] AliasResMaker1.0; creates 'alis' (alias) resources
[*] Antony.Cleopatra.1.0.sea.hqx; Shakespeare play HC stack
[*] AutoClock 1.4.4; sets your clock
[*] BalloonHelpMe; a Control Strip module
[*] Bird Songs; "learn the wonderful songs of birds"
[*] burn21; a file obliteration utility
[*] Chime 4.0.6; chimes every 15 minutes
[*] chucks-printer-driver-121; for Epson compatible printers
[*] Frances' Recipes; for use with Mangia!
[*] glyph; a PostScript hieroglyphic font
[*] Gradebook Stack v1.9; for keeping grades
[*] Greg's Browser 2.3; a file browser
[*] Greg's Buttons 3.4 -- user interface customization
[*] Imagery 1.9 Graphics Converter
[*] internet-dial-in-Europe-1.4; a list of providers
[*] MacAnim Viewer 1.0.2; an animation viewer of variious formats
[*] MacAnim Viewer 1.0.2 Updater; a graphics utility
[*] MacScribe1.3Demo; a hieroglyphic text processor
[*] MacWeb 0.98 alpha WWW browser
[*] Make-A-Maze; "allows one to draw mazes"
[*] MR. TIMER V2; a timing device
[*] msword-dictionary-creator; from text files
[*] MusicBox XCMD v3.0; adds sound and music to HyperCard
[*] NET_Mac2.3.41; supports TCP/IP over packet-radio
[*] Personal Log v1.5.2; a diary keeper
[*] PortShare Pro 2.1 Demo; share your serial ports between Macs
[*] rlab-1.0.hqx: a linear algebra package
[*] sAVe the Disk 1.4.2; for AV Macs
[*] SCRIPTURE MEMORY 1.2; a memorisation aid
[*] ScriptWiz.demo; for AppleScripts
[*] Shutdown FX 2.0 - public beta release
[*] Shutdown FX 2.0 source code - public beta release
[*] super-clamp-001-hc; a magazine
[*] Symantec C++ 7.0.3 EDS Update
[*] Symantec C++ 7.0.3 Full Update
[*] t-test HyperCard stack; a statistical test
[*] The Indexer 1.0; A Yearbook Indexing Utility
[*] VideoToolbox.94.6.23; some C video routines
[*] World Cup '66 sounds
"Folio" Printing Software?
"The Macs" software describing all Macs
.dp files (Q)
[R] Clock chipping consequences?
Accessing files by mail? (A)
Anyone got Ztemr Sounds?
Apple LaserWriter 8.2 Driver
ARA modem script for Practical Peripherals MC144MT II?
Archie?
C64 .D64 files for emulator - Where, please?
CD-ROM benchmark program?
ClarisWorks -> Filemaker Pro
FileMaker Question
Film Recorders for the Mac
FreeHand 4/MasterJuggler Conflict
GeoPort, Quadra 840AV, and America Online 2.1
How to create ZIP files for DOS
is it possible to run HyperCard stacks under Windows?
I Veronicad Al Gore on Information Superhighway
LC575 coprocessor
Mailing Documents
Mathematica on PPC (A) (2 msgs)
Mathematica on PPC (Q)
MIDI on a Mac (A)
Monitor adjustment
Monitor resolution switching
Monitor Test Pattern Software (A)
NCSA Telnet 2.6 [Q]
Nikon CoolScan
Not a Disk Eject Button?!
OCR software
PB170/System Update 3/Problems
PocketHammer problems & a Wish List item
Powerbook 2400 modem [R]
Pproblems recording in 24 bit mode on a 6100AV?
Rodime Cobra Driver? (R)
Rot-13 extension for BBEdit?
Simultaneous emailing and Usenet posting (R)
SOS APPL [R]
Source for Plastic Trays & Guides for LaserWriter Plus?
StartupScreen and extensions (Q)
Summary of Macintosh Application Environment replies
SuperLaserSpool
System 7.1 emergency disc (long summary)
Three Button Mac Mouse
Voices
What happened to Rescue! (a Star Trek game)
Windows 3.1 driver for Apple Color Printer?
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Date: Sat, 25 Jun 1994 15:56:23 -0500
From: Michael Kershaw
Subject: [*] AliasResMaker1.0; creates 'alis' (alias) resources
AliasResMaker 1.0
By the BIOHAZARD Development Group
AliasResMaker is a very small developer tool that creates 'alis' (alias)
resources. Alias resources let you program quickly search for needed files.
**How to use AliasResMaker**
When you first open up AliasResMaker it will display a registration and
About dialog box. Read the information and tell it Ok. AliasResMaker willl
then display a standard "Open File" dialog box. Choose the file you wish to
make the target of your alias resource. AliasResMaker will then ask for the
name you would like to give your saved file (already set to open into
ResEdit with a double click) that contains the 'alis' resource. The third
box displayed asks for an ID number for the resource and a name.
Thats all there is to it! AliasResMaker will create a ResEdit file holding
the 'alis' resource of your specified name and Id. Just copy it into your
applications file!
**Legal Stuff**
AliasResMaker is not warranteed. I am not responsible for any damages
incurred through use or Misuse of AliasResMaker.
**Registration**
AliasResMaker is SHAREWARE. Please feel free to distribute it over the
internet and in User group libraries, but DO NOT CHARGE A FEE FOR IT.
If you use AliasResMaker, please register it by sending $5.00 to:\
Michael Kershaw
145 Sandy Lane
Warwick, RI 02889
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/alias-res-maker-10.hqx; 25K]
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Date: Sat, 25 Jun 1994 08:15:34 -0700
From: [email protected] (Mark Edward Zimmerman)
Subject: [*] Antony.Cleopatra.1.0.sea.hqx; Shakespeare play HC stack
appended below, mailer willing, is the 164kB binhex'd compact'd
Hypercard 2 stack of the Shakespeare play "Antony & Cleopatra" version
1.0 --- free software under the GNU GPL! I'll try to pull together
the past dozen Shakespeare Stacks into a single big stack
"Shakespeare's Works Vol. 2" and post that in a week or two; will
begin work on Henry VI Part I after that.... ^z (Mark Zimmermann)
[Archived as /info-mac/info/nms/antony-and-cleopatra-10-hc.hqx; 163K]
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 09:07:26 -0500
From: [email protected] (Tim J. Courant)
Subject: [*] AutoClock 1.4.4; sets your clock
AutoClock 1.4.4
=A9 1991-94, Jean-Pierre Gachen.
All rights reserved.
This software is free of charge and may be freely copied and distributed,
provided that this document is included with it, and that the software and
its documentation are not modified in any way. This software may not,
however, be sold or distributed for profit without authorization from the
author. Use it at your own risk. I will not be responsible for any problems
this software might cause you or your computer.
What is AutoClock ?
AutoClock is an application and a system extension that maintains the
accuracy of your Macintosh clock. As a matter of fact, this clock has the
tendency to deviate from the correct time every day, and can accumulate to
minutes or dozens of minutes after one year, if not corrected.
The AutoClock application allows you to:
* set the clock by calling a time server, if you have a modem,
* set the clock manually from an accurate source (for example a voice time
server (303-499-7111) or the radio),
* display a logbook of every clock change on your Macintosh, whether it was
done with AutoClock, or with another application (the General or Data &
Time control panels, or the Clock desk accessory for example),
* compute the mean clock deviation of the Macintosh clock for a 24-hour
period, using data recorded in the logbook, and
* display the date and time in almost any country of the world.
[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/auto-clock-144.hqx; 208K]
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 12:22:27 +0100
From: [email protected] (patrick mcclaughry)
Subject: [*] BalloonHelpMe; a Control Strip module
BalloonHelpMe is a simple Control Strip Module that allows you to quickly
turn Balloon Help on and off. You must already have Apple's Control Strip
control panel to use BalloonHelpMe. BalloonHelpMe is freeware, but not
public domain. You may include BalloonHelpMe on any archive CD-ROM.
Enjoy,
--pat
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/control-strip-balloon-help-me.hqx; 22K]
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Date: Sat, 25 Jun 1994 11:09:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] Bird Songs; "learn the wonderful songs of birds"
Learn the wonderful songs of birds using the power of the
Macintosh. Learn to identify them by their songs. Package
including parts 1 and 2 contain the Bird Songs application and
four sets of birds, including common birds, woodpeckers, and
sparrows. Review the birds, listen to their songs, and see their
pictures. Then shift into game mode. Challenge yourself in a
game where the computer plays a random bird song and you must
identify the bird by the song. You can also select background
mode, where the program can be instructed to play random bird
songs while you use your computer to do other things. A great
way to sharpen your birding ear! Bird Songs will play on any
Macintosh more modern than the SE, using system 6.0.5 or better.
Bird Songs 1.0.2 adds recognition of alias files. The Bird Files
themselves no longer have to reside in the Bird Files folder as
long as the alias to the file does. The version also improves the
popup menu in the List Manager dialog box.
[Archived as /info-mac/game/bird-songs-102-pt1.hqx; 1684K]
[Archived as /info-mac/game/bird-songs-102-pt2.hqx; 1884K]
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Date: Sat, 25 Jun 94 21:07:55 MDT
From: [email protected] (Mike Watson)
Subject: [*] burn21; a file obliteration utility
Burn is a file destroying utility that prevents undelete utilities from
recovering data.
Burn features multi-pass erasure, user-selectable and random erase
patterns, and free disk space erasure; all with a convienient drag-n-drop
interface.
Burn 2.1 is a maintenance release that fixes a couple of annoying bugs:
- Burn won't crash anymore if cancel is selected
while burning a file or free space on the disk.
- The Title of the burn free disk space dialog box was
changed from "Erasing " to
"Erasing free space on ", apologies for those who
discovered the cancel bug after seeing this come up.
If your happy with version 2.0 there's no need to download this file.
Burn is freeware.
For maximum security check out my data encryption application Enigma
also available from this service.
[Archived as /info-mac/disk/burn-21.hqx; 35K]
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Date: Sat, 25 Jun 1994 10:52:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: Robert Flickinger
Subject: [*] Chime 4.0.6; chimes every 15 minutes
Chime 4.0.6 plays sounds at quarter hour intervals much like the
belltowers of a bygone era. Chime features hour tolling, ship's bells,
asynchronous sounds and compatibility with the new sound Manager.
This new version accomodates the new AV Macs and Power Macs and plays
ship's bells in pairs. Requires System 6.0.4 or above, a Mac Plus
or above, and at least one sound file. Freeware.
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/chime-406.hqx; 20K]
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 14:26:57 -0500
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] chucks-printer-driver-121; for Epson compatible printers
The following is the latest version (1.2.1) of Chuck's Printer Driver.
A printer driver for Epson compatible 9-pin and 24-pin printers (and
configurable for most dot matrix printers). Just drop the driver and
the spooler application into your system folder!
It fixes a few bugs:
* problem with some memory configurations on some machines
* problem with updating from old version with Microsoft Word
* problem while doing print dialog with some applications
And has new features:
* scaling
* horizontal and vertical flipping
* nicer looking dialogs
* spooled text printing
- Charles Rentmeesters
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/prn/chucks-printer-driver-121.hqx; 69K]
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Date: Sat, 25 Jun 1994 16:15:56 -0500
From: [email protected] (jennie bolton)
Subject: [*] Frances' Recipes; for use with Mangia!
Hello, all! Here is a collection of several hundred recipes for use with the
program Mangia! The selections are eclectic, ranging from a number of sources,
including dishes from Western and Eastern Europe, the Americas, the
Mediterranean, the Near and Far East. This collection was prepared by my mom,
who just got her first Mac, and I am posting it for her, with the request that
if you find recipes you like in this collection, please send her a postcard at
the address included in this archive, with one of your own favorite recipes, so
that she can add it to her collection, and so she can see just how wide the Mac
world really is.
This file has been stuffed and binhexed, and was checked for viruses with
Disinfectant 3.5 and CP AntiVirus.
Thanks! Jennie (:^
[email protected]
GC/MS Pro and sometime SysAdmin
Northwest Fisheries Science Center
[Archived as /info-mac/info/nms/frances-recipes-mangia.hqx; 389K]
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 94 13:14:59 PDT
From: [email protected] (Eric Aubourg)
Subject: [*] glyph; a PostScript hieroglyphic font
The Glyph Basic font set contains about 900 signs, corresponding roughly to
Gardiner's Grammar "Sign List". It was designed on the lead font of the
French Institute in Cairo (IFAO).
"Glyph Basic" is freeware but NOT public domain. Utrecht University, the IFAO
and the Universite de Paris-Sorbonne hold all the rights to the font. You may
use the font for any publication purpose, but you may NOT modify it in any
way (including changing the ASCII code of characters), and you may not build
another font based on it.
You are free to distribute this package, as soon as you include this file.
Eric Aubourg
[Archived as /info-mac/font/ps/glyph.hqx; 921K]
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Date: Sat, 25 Jun 1994 01:40:46 -0600
From: [email protected] (J. Witte)
Subject: [*] Gradebook Stack v1.9; for keeping grades
The Gradebook Stack keeps grades for teachers. A departure from
"spreadsheet" grading programs, the stack keeps information in lists,
allowing the user to concentrate on relevant information. Weighting and
grade cut-offs are flexible and easy to set up. Several clever keyboard
shortcuts make entering grades as painless as can be.
Handles classes of 400+ students, unlimited number of grade entries, does
letter grades, numerical grades, and "check - plus - minus" grades. Also
keeps absences, prints lists and reports both for the teacher and the
students.
Real user comments: "Very easy to use...", "Elegant user interface...",
"Saved me at least 10 hours last semester..."
v1.9 fixes a few bugs and runs a little faster.
Shareware, $15
Jim Witte
Univ. of Illinois
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/app/gradebook-19-hc.hqx; 193K]
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Date: Sat, 25 Jun 1994 14:08:18 +0100 (BST)
From: Greg Landweber
Subject: [*] Greg's Browser 2.3; a file browser
Greg's Browser v2.3 (25 June 1994) (c)1991-94 Gregory D. Landweber
REGISTRATION FEE: US $20 or UK L12 Internet: [email protected]
Greg's Browser requires System 7 and Color QuickDraw.
Do you think the Finder is too slow and clumsy when navigating through your
folder structure? Do you perhaps use a hierarchical Apple menu utility but
are tired of zigging and zagging your mouse from submenu to submenu? Or
maybe you just like color icons. If so then you should try Greg's Browser.
Displaying multiple folders in a single window, Greg's Browser lets you
simultaneously see the contents of a folder, its parent, and a subfolder,
providing a quick and easy way of moving both up and down through your
folder hierarchy.
Greg's Browser takes advantage of the "Macintosh Drag and Drop" and
"Stuffit Engine" extensions. Mac D&D can be found at ftp.apple.com,
and the Engine is a part of Aladdin's "DropStuff with Expander Enhancer",
which is currently available as a public beta from the usual ftp sites.
Changes since version 2.2
o You can now browse into Stuffit and Compact Pro archives, and if you
have both "Macintosh Drag and Drop" and the "Stuffit Engine", you can
drag files into or out of Stuffit archives to stuff or unstuff them.
o If you drop files on the System Folder, the Browser routes them to the
appropriate subfolders, just like with the Finder.
o Put in small icons to show the "Projector"/"SourceServer" status of
project files. If you don't know what this means, you don't need it.
o Made lots and lots of small improvements and a couple of bug fixes.
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/gregs-browser-23.hqx; 114K]
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/gregs-browser-23-ppc.hqx; 128K]
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Date: Sat, 25 Jun 1994 14:06:26 +0100 (BST)
From: Greg Landweber
Subject: [*] Greg's Buttons 3.4 -- user interface customization
Greg's Buttons 3.4 (25 June 1994) (c)1991-94 Gregory D. Landweber
Internet: [email protected] ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
CompuServe: 73131,3326 REGISTRATION FEE: US $15 or UK L10
Do you think your Mac's interface looks flat and boring? Do you wonder why
the push buttons are still in black and white, while the scroll bars and
windows are shaded with color tinges? Are your eyes tired of staring at
white windows? Does the blocky Chicago font get you down? Maybe you just
yearn for a red stop sign. If so, then you should try Greg's Buttons. If
not, you should still try Greg's Buttons, and after a week or two you'll be
shocked by how plain your Mac looks without it!
Greg's Buttons is a control panel and requires System 7 and Color QuickDraw.
It works fine with both color and gray-scale monitors, and although it will
still work on a black and white screen, the effect will not be as impressive.
Greg's Buttons is a "fat binary", containing both 680x0 and PowerPC code for
optimal performance on both Macintosh and Power Macintosh computers.
Changes since v3.3
o Fixed a problem with System 7.5 that caused the buttons to revert to
the standard black and white regardless of the control panel settings.
o Cleaned up the trap patches; version 3.4 should be significantly more
stable than versions 3.2 or 3.3.
"They don't look like buttons unless they're Greg's Buttons"
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/gregs-buttons-34.hqx; 77K]
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Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 01:59:47 -0700
From: [email protected] (Jeff Lewis)
Subject: [*] Imagery 1.9 Graphics Converter
The following is an update for the Imagery graphics converter which is
currently at Sumex. There have been numerous additions and enhancements
including translation of nearly 100 graphics, sound and movie file formats
into 15 commonly used Mac and PC formats. As well, the user interface has
been streamlined substantially and preview icons can now be generated for
all converted (image) files. While there are too many formats to list here,
Atari ST, Amiga, Mac, PC, Windows and Unix sound and bitmap formats are
supported. Best of all, it's still freeware.
[Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/imagery-19.hqx; 211K]
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 03:35:41 -0100
From: Benoit LIPS
Subject: [*] internet-dial-in-Europe-1.4; a list of providers
internet-dial-in-Europe-1.4.txt is a list of European internet access
providers or BBS allowing cross posting mail to internet.
UPDATES V1.4
Change of the file format (setext format), still ASCII file readable with
text editors or wordprocessor, but enhanced reading with EasyView.
Added Entry for :
Russia : GlasNet, Demo BBS
France : Oleane, TRANSPAC (France Telecom)
U.K. : Compulink Information eXchange (CIX), CityScape,
GreenNet, infocom interactive, On-line, Pipex Ltd.,
Sound & Vision BBS, Specialix
Updates for :
U.K. : CompuServe Information Service U.K.
The Direct Connection, DEMON, EUnet GB
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/info/internet-dial-in-europe-14.txt; 17K]
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 94 15:39:51 PDT
From: [email protected] (Martin Fong)
Subject: [*] MacAnim Viewer 1.0.2; an animation viewer of variious formats
This Compactor Pro archive contains MacAnim Viewer 1.0.2, which
displays GL, FLI, FLC, DL, GIF, and PCX/PIC files, and automatically
unzips .zip archives in search of the same. MacAnim Viewer was built
presupposing a 68020 and 32-bit QuickDraw and works best with an 8-bit
color monitor. This bug fix release supercedes all previous versions.
24MAY94 Martin Fong ([email protected])
P.S.: I am interested in obtaining any file that causes MacAnim Viewer
to crash your system. I would also like to obtain documentation for
the latest version of GL. This would enable me to correctly implement
additional GL directives. TIA!
[Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/mac-anim-viewer-102.hqx; 209K]
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 94 15:39:47 PDT
From: [email protected] (Martin Fong)
Subject: [*] MacAnim Viewer 1.0.2 Updater; a graphics utility
This Compactor Pro archive contains applications that update MacAnim
Viewer 1.0 and 1.0.1 to version 1.0.2 (a bug fix release). MacAnim
Viewer displays GL, FLI, FLC, DL, GIF, and PCX/PIC files, and
automatically unzips .zip archives in search of the same.
24MAY94 Martin Fong ([email protected])
P.S.: I am interested in obtaining any file that causes MacAnim Viewer
to crash your system. I would also like to obtain documentation for
the latest version of GL. This would enable me to correctly implement
additional GL directives. TIA!
[Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/mac-anim-viewer-10x-to-102-updt.hqx; 206K]
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 94 13:14:16 PDT
From: [email protected] (Eric Aubourg)
Subject: [*] MacScribe1.3Demo; a hieroglyphic text processor
This package contains
- MacScribe 1.3 demo version
- The "Glyph Basic" font set, with Type 1 PostScript and bitmap
- 24-pt bitmaps of the "Glyph ExtLib" font set.
MacScribe allows you to typeset Egyptian hieroglyphics easily, and then
either print directly or export to another document.
The Glyph Basic font set contains about 900 signs, corresponding roughly to
Gardiner's Grammar "Sign List".
The Glyph ExtLib font contains 4700 signs.
Both were designed on the lead font of the French Institute in Cairo (IFAO).
MacScribe demo has all the functionalities of the full version, but cannot
export by copy-pasting, and has limited printing capabilities (in particular,
all signs are printed with a stroke on them).
The author can be reached by e-mail at
[email protected] until the end of July 1994
[email protected] after.
Eric Aubourg
[Archived as /info-mac/app/mac-scribe-13-demo.hqx; 1379K]
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 10:46:51 +0100
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] MacWeb 0.98 alpha WWW browser
MacWEB 0.98alpha is half as big as NCSA Mosaic 1.03 (!!!), does everything
it did and more. (Extras include a working newsreader and forms support.)
What else does a webroamer want?!? It seems to be as stable as (and on my
PB170, definitely faster than) Mosaic 1.03; let's not even MENTION the
elephantine Mosaic 2.0alpha which died almost instantly on my machine.
I am NOT the author of MacWEB but downloaded it off ftp.switch.ch. See the
accompanying documentation for information about version 1.0 (to be
released around August).
To life!
Jan M.L. Martin --- [email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/net/mac-web-098a.hqx; 279K]
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Date: Sat, 25 Jun 94 19:11:11 CDT
From: [email protected] (Bob Schenk)
Subject: [*] Make-A-Maze; "allows one to draw mazes"
Make-A-Maze allows one to draw mazes on the computer screen with mouse
or arrow keys. It allows several transformations of mazes, and allows
a person to solve the maze or have the computer find the solution. Mazes
can be printed from the program or saved as files and then opened and
printed from a word-processing program.
Make-A-Make is promo-ware. It is free and may be freely distributed
as long as no changes are made and all files are kept together. It
advertises a more capable program called MazeMaker 3.3. See the
enclosed documentation for details.
Robert Schenk
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/game/make-a-maze.hqx; 374K]
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 94 08:30:29
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] MR. TIMER V2; a timing device
Here is Mr. Timer v2.2 for the Macintosh! Many of you have been waiting
for me to post this to Sumex, and I'm sorry for the wait. But I think
you'll find it worth it!
Mr. Timer v2.2 is a basic, but complete, Macintosh timing device for
the Macintosh computer. It currently runs 110K of RAM... that's it!
It counts down, acts like a stopwatch, allows you to pick which cursor
you'd like to use, as well as allowing you to style the text in the
window! This version even includes a System Clock menu, which performs
functions using data from your system clock!
This program is copywrited (c) 1994, Charles DeLauder. If you need
furthur information, contact Kitty - Kat Software at:
or by one of the methods listed in the documentation.
[Archived as /info-mac/app/mr-timer-22.hqx; 65K]
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 16:28:29 --100
From: [email protected] (Jacek Lipok)
Subject: [*] msword-dictionary-creator; from text files
This is a simple 'drag&drop' utility for those who likethe 'drag&drop' feature
of the system 7. I wrote it tocreate the sorted lists of words and the
customdictionaries for the MS-Word from arbitrary text files.You can drop
several text files and/or the custom MS-Worddictionaries into the wordlistmaker
icon to create asingle wordlist or dictionary. You can also excludearbitrary
words from the output file.Jacek Iwanski.
[Archived as /info-mac/app/msword-dictionary-creator.hqx; 246K]
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Date: Sun, 26 Jun 1994 15:12:02 -0400
From: Alex Metcalf
Subject: [*] MusicBox XCMD v3.0; adds sound and music to HyperCard
MusicBox XCMD v3.0 The professional audio development system
for HyperCard and SuperCard
by Alex Metcalf Best Before Yesterday software release
* HyperCard edition *
MusicBox is an XCMD which provides a number of sound and music
capabilities for HyperCard and SuperCard. Previous versions of MusicBox
already provided a number of sound and music features:
o Multi-channel sound support
o Multi-speed fading effects
o MOD music file playing
o AIFF sound file playing
o Pause/resume features
Now there's MusicBox 3, which provides even more advanced audio
and music features that anyone can use in their stacks and projects.
The new features include:
o Sound Manager 3 savvy
- Stereo positioning and panning effects
o System 7 sound file playing
o Stereo sound channel support
o New special effects
- echo
- speed and pitch control
o Play sections of a sound
- specify start and end points, in seconds
o Play AIFF sound files on any channel
o Improved music code
- stereo surround sound capability
- pause and resume features
- loopable music support
- higher quality sound
- faster music code takes less Mac processing time
o Pause command extended to work with all sounds
o Improved volume control
o Improved error messages
o Complete re-write of MusicBox code
- prioritised command recognition for increased speed
- error messages in separate, editable resources
- improved memory management
o 'Lite' install feature (no music features)
o Completely re-written stack
- improved interface
- more example scripts
- added demonstration "sound mixer" section
- "smart" installer
- error messages section added
MusicBox requires System 6.0.7 or later and a 68020 Mac or
better. Some parts of the stack require HyperCard 2.1 or later. The
SuperCard version of MusicBox will be out soon, providing all the
features of MusicBox for SuperCard version 1.6 or later.
MusicBox is shareware: with MusicBox 3 you can now also pay
with US or Canadian dollars, by cash or by cheque. Commercial licenses
are also available. See the stack for more information.
Alex Metcalf
Best Before Yesterday
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/card/music-box-30-xcmd.hqx; 390K]
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 12:41:31 +0200
From: [email protected] (Adam van Gaalen PA2AGA)
Subject: [*] NET_Mac2.3.41; supports TCP/IP over packet-radio
The Netherlands, June 23, 1994.
Hello dear reader,
Today I distributed NET_Mac2.3.41.sea.hqx...
For those who don't know NET/Mac... NET/Mac is the application that
supports TCP/IP over packet-radio, which means, that hamradio operators
can use NET/Mac for their wireless TCP/IP network...
In this version of NET/Mac I implemented the following:
- Allow recording of finger-sessions to a file
- Mods to prompt for username and password (FTP)
- Truncate hostnames that are too long to be printed
- Fixes for AddResMenu() bug in System 7.5
- Password-protect 'remote reset' command
- Make sure NET/Mac doesn't leave a watchcursor on the screen
- Change double linespace to single space in TRACE-files
- Create new TRACE-files only when the traceflags are nonzero
This version obsoletes all versions of info-mac/comm/net/radio-netmac in
the Sumex-Aim archives.
The new NET/Mac has (hopefully) been uploaded to:
1) ucsd.edu, to the directory hamradio/packet/tcpip/incoming.
If it's not there then look at hamradio/packet/tcpip/mac.
It may have also been uploaded to:
oak.oakland.edu, to the directory pub/hamradio/mac/digital
Kind regards,
Adam PA2AGA (e-mail: [email protected] )
( or: [email protected] for letters only, NO BIG files here)
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/net/radio-net-mac-2341.hqx; 375K]
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Date: Sat, 25 Jun 94 17:05:08 -0500
From: "Michael F. Kamprath"
Subject: [*] Personal Log v1.5.2; a diary keeper
Have you ever wanted to keep a diary? Do you need to document your actions?
Would you like to be able to easily take notes? Do you currently keep notes in
one, big, disorganized Word file?
If you answered yes to any of these, then Personal Log is for you. Personal
Log
allows you to keep a collection of notes in a single, easy-to-use file. You
can
password protect this file, search it's entries, and even "speak" the entries
(if you have Speech Manager" installed). Unlike other "note taking" programs,
Personal Log's interface is very simple and easy to use. Personal Log fully
supports System 7: Balloon Help is enabled in every menu, dialog, and window;
you may use Apple Script to control Personal Log; and the interface is in full
color (when available).
Improvements since v1.0:
* Now supports styled text editing.
* Supports Apple's new Drag & Drop technolody (if installed).
* Subject & Date sorting in the log windows.
* Faster file loading.
Personal Log is shareware; the fee is US$15. See the accompying manual for
more
information.
Personal Log v1.5.2
by Michael F. Kamprath
e-mail: [email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/app/personal-log-152.hqx; 454K]
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 23:26:57 +0400
From: Vladimir Butenko
Subject: [*] PortShare Pro 2.1 Demo; share your serial ports between Macs
The PortShare(tm) Pro software enables your Macintosh to share serial
communication ports (i.e. modems/printers/etc attached to those ports)
with other Macintosh computers connected to your network.
The PortShare Pro can run only under System 7, but it can communicate
with PortShare Lite installed on computers running System 6 or
System 7.
This demo version has the session time limited to 2 minutes.
The PortShare 2.1 is compatible with AV and PowerMacs, and it has
improved support for LineShare port arbitration. See the Release
Notes file.
For instructions, see the ReadMe file.
Please, send your comments to: [email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/net/port-share-pro-21-demo.hqx; 72K]
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Date: Mon, 20 Jun 94 16:31:10 -0700
From: [email protected] (Tzong-Shuoh Yang)
Subject: [*] rlab-1.0.hqx: a linear algebra package
Hello,
This is the Mac port of Ian Searle's RLaB 1.0.
RLaB is a Matlab-like linear algebra and plotting package.
Have fun!
T. S. Yang
([email protected])
[Archived as /info-mac/sci/rlab-10.hqx; 1626K]
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 19:37:10 +0200
From: Stefanie Thies
Subject: [*] sAVe the Disk 1.4.2; for AV Macs
The enclosed file is a bin-hexed/compact-pro archive.
I am the author of this FreeWare system extension,
which I call "sAVe the Disk".
This file contains version 1.4.2 of sAVe the Disk which
supersedes all previous versions up to 1.4.
sAVe the Disk 1.4.2 fixes three deficiencies of the AV Macs:
It speeds up certain Resource Manager operations, improves
performance of the disk cache built into the system and
prevents extra disk activity before and after sounds are
played.
sAVe the Disk works on Centris/Quadra 660av and Quadra 840av.
It requires System 7.1 and version 1.0, 1.1 or 1.2 of the
System Enabler 088.
Although sAVe the Disk has not caused me any trouble I'm not
responsible for any (unlikely) problems you may experience.
This updated version works smoothly with the latest 1.2 Enabler
and includes my new Internet address. It fixes a bug, which
caused sAVe 1.4 to hang during start-up, when the 1.0 or the 1.1
Enabler was used.
Best regards,
Michael Thies. ([email protected])
[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/save-the-disk-142.hqx; 17K]
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Date: Tue, 21 Jun 94 13:08:35 -0400
From: [email protected] (Douglas E. Ivers)
Subject: [*] SCRIPTURE MEMORY 1.2; a memorisation aid
This stack, an update to Scripture Memory 1.0, is best suited for memorizing
Scripture verses. It can also be used to memorize other texts such as poetry
or speeches. You can type in anything you want to memorize. Seven
increasingly difficult quizzes challenge your memory skills. The stack keeps
track of your familiarity with each verse, and modifies quizzes appropriately.
Shareware fee is $7.
If you are already a user of Scripture Memory, open Scripture Memory 1.2, go to
the verse database summary card, click on the "Import verses..." button, and
open your existing Scripture Memory stack to install your verses.
This stack requires HyperCard 2.0 or later, or the HyperCard Player.
Version Information: 1.2 fixes some bugs and adds a few minor features to
1.0.
Douglas E. Ivers
1027 Plantation Dr.
Cary, NC 27511-4334
[email protected]
or [email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/app/scripture-memory-12-hc.hqx; 211K]
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 14:48:09 +0100
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] ScriptWiz.demo; for AppleScripts
Enclosed is a trial version of ScriptWizard, plus tutorial-style electronic
documentation. ScriptWizard is the first integrated script editing and
debugging environment for AppleScript. We built ScriptWizard to make life
easier for you by including features that are designed to simplify and
speed the creation, testing and debugging of scripts. You will find when
using ScriptWizard that it is much easier to navigate through scripts,
track what's really going on when they execute and get to the essential
Apple event dictionary information that you need.
ScriptWizard is a commercial package. The launch price is $45 + tax and
shipping in the US, and UK pounds 39 + tax and shipping in Europe. Full
details are in the enclosed package. For more information please e-mail
Mike Hopkins: [email protected] (not me, I'm off on vacation tonight!).
Please note that Mike does not receive the Info-Mac digest, so he won't see
postings there.
My own email address is: [email protected].
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/script-wizard-demo.hqx; 443K]
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 22:40:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email protected] (Mark Pilgrim)
Subject: [*] Shutdown FX 2.0 - public beta release
Shutdown FX 2.0 is a fun little software package which will fade your
screen to black on restart and/or shutdown with one of over 50 graphic
effects. This package includes a system extension to install Shutdown FX;
a startup application to install Shutdown FX (for system 7 users); a control
application to preview, install, and disable fades; a folder of 59 fade
modules; installation instructions.
C source code (for all components of the Shutdown FX package, including all
59 fade modules) is available; check ftp sites or e-mail [email protected].
Finger [email protected] for complete program list. Copyright (C) 1993-4,
Mark Pilgrim. Please read enclosed file "GNU General Public License" for
licensing details.
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/shutdown-fx-20.hqx; 157K]
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 22:41:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email protected] (Mark Pilgrim)
Subject: [*] Shutdown FX 2.0 source code - public beta release
Shutdown FX 2.0 is a fun little software package which will fade your
screen to black on restart and/or shutdown with one of over 50 graphic
effects. This package includes complete THINK C 7 source code, project
files, and resource files for all components of the Shutdown FX package:
system extension, startup application, control application, Gestalt
function, shutdown procedure, Notification Manager response procedure,
and all 59 fade modules. (Relax, I didn't include 59 project files.)
Since fades are stored as external modules (each in its own file), other
programmers can easily create their own fades and add to their collection.
See the Shutdown FX control application help section ("tech talk" page)
for more details, or read about it yourself in TEXT 613 in sfx..rsrc.
The compiled, ready-to-use files are available; check ftp sites or e-mail
[email protected]. Finger [email protected] for complete program list.
Copyright (C) 1993-4, Mark Pilgrim. Please read enclosed file "GNU General
Public License" for licensing details.
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/src/shutdown-fx-20-c.hqx; 420K]
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Date: Sat, 25 Jun 1994 05:24:07 -0400
From: [email protected] (Blaise Faint)
Subject: [*] super-clamp-001-hc; a magazine
SuperClamp001.sit.hqx is a HyperCard 2.2 stack of a Chapel
Hill NC chick zine.
[Archived as /info-mac/per/super-clamp-001-hc.hqx; 203K]
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 06:26:30 -0800
From: [email protected] (Tom Emerson)
Subject: [*] Symantec C++ 7.0.3 EDS Update
In our continuing effort to provide quality development tools, we are
releasing this incremental update in response to problems reported in
the 7.0.2 release of Symantec C++ for Macintosh. The Symantec C++ 7.0.3
patch fixes problems discovered in 7.0.2 and earlier versions. It fixes
the Symantec C++ translator and THINK Project Manager, as well as bugs
in the Visual Architect, THINK Class Library, and the Apple interfaces.
This update contains patches for the THINK Project Manager, Symantec
C++ and THINK C translators, and minor corrections to the interface
files. It does *not* include the Visual Architect or TCL update. If you
do not already have TCL 2.0.x then you should use this updater.
Symantec Development Tools Group
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/symantec-cpp-eds-703-updt.hqx; 530K]
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 06:28:23 -0800
From: [email protected] (Tom Emerson)
Subject: [*] Symantec C++ 7.0.3 Full Update
In our continuing effort to provide quality development tools, we are
releasing this incremental update in response to problems reported in
the 7.0.2 release of Symantec C++ for Macintosh. The Symantec C++ 7.0.3
patch fixes problems discovered in 7.0.2 and earlier versions. It fixes
the Symantec C++ translator and THINK Project Manager, as well as bugs
in the Visual Architect, THINK Class Library, and the Apple interfaces.
This is the complete update, including patches for the THINK Project
Manager, Visual Architect, Symantec C++ and THINK C translators, minor
corrections to the interface files, and an updated TCL. Users of the
PowerPC CDK should download this update as well; new PowerPC translators
will be available soon - the problems corrected in the 7.0.3 release of
the C++ translator were 68K specific.
Symantec Development Tools Group
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/symantec-cpp-703-updt.hqx; 1397K]
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 10:07:04 -0600
From: [email protected] (Randy Schumann)
Subject: [*] t-test HyperCard stack; a statistical test
t-test HyperCard stack
by Randy Schumann
version 1.0, 1989
This stack is freeware. You may use and distribute it freely as long as it
is not modified in any way and it is distributed with this READ ME file.
The contents of this stack are Copyright 1989 Randall Schumann.
HyperCard is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.
t-test performs the Student's t-test statistical test between two
population or sample means. A brief help screen is accessed by clicking
the "about" balloon in the upper right corner of the stack's main card.
t-test is in the HyperCard 1.2 format so if you have a newer version you
must convert the stack in order to use it. HyperCard automatically asks
you to do this when you begin.
[Archived as /info-mac/sci/t-test-10-hc.hqx; 43K]
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 22:48:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: Todd Clements
Subject: [*] The Indexer 1.0; A Yearbook Indexing Utility
The Indexer, Version 1.0, by Todd Clements ([email protected])
This utilities main purpose is to aid in the creation of indexes for
yearbooks. What it does is simple, it reads in a file of names, and allows
you to associate page numbers with each of these names. However, it makes
the process easier than doing it by hand (My own experience with a ~1500
name index had the time go from 9 hrs to 2 hrs.). It offers find features
that will allow you to find names (or portions of names), or find those who
are indexed to a certain page.
You can open up previously made indexes and continue with your work at any
time. The Indexer also offers Alphabetical sorting functions, and functions
to create useable index files. (As an example, I received a DOS file from
the District in All caps, with extraneous information all over the
place... The Indexer allows you to selectively remove that extraneous
information and create a useable file).
If you are involved in anything that involves association of text with page
numbers, The Indexer could be useful to you. The Indexer is Shareware $5US.
I am the author and can be reached at [email protected].
The Indexer may be included on CD ROMs or other such packages as long as the
fee is for cost of product, and not profit.
[Archived as /info-mac/text/indexer-10.hqx; 85K]
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Date: 24 Jun 1994 21:10:13 -0500
From: "Denis Pelli"
Subject: [*] VideoToolbox.94.6.23; some C video routines
The VideoToolbox is a collection of two hundred C subroutines and several demo
and utility programs that I and others have written to do visual psychophysics
with Macintosh computers. It's free and may not be sold without permission. It
should be useful to anyone who wants to present accurately specified visual
stimuli or use the Mac for psychometric experiments. The text file "Video
synch" discusses all the ways of synchronizing programs to video displays and
the many pitfalls to avoid. The TimeVideo application checks out the timing of
all video devices in anticipation of their use in critical real-time
applications, e.g. movies or lookup table animation. Low-level routines control
video timing and lookup tables, display real-time movies, and implement the
luminance-control algorithms suggested by Pelli and Zhang (1991). (D.G. Pelli
and L. Zhang, 1991, Accurate control of contrast on microcomputer displays.
Vision Research, 31, 1337-1350. Reprints are available.) In particular,
GetPixelsQuickly and SetPixelsQuickly peek and poke pixels in bitmaps and
pixmaps, CopyBitsQuickly copies bit/pixmaps to the screen, and
SetEntriesQuickly and GDSetEntries load the screen's color lookup table, all
without any of QuickDraw's color translations. High-level routines help analyze
psychophysical experiments (e.g. graphing or maximum-likelihood fitting of
psychometric data). Assign.c is a runtime C interpreter for C assignment
statements, which is useful for controlling experiments and sharing calibration
data. This collection has been continually updated since 1991. Many colleagues
have indicated that they are using the software in their labs. Documentation is
in the source files themselves. Many of the routines are Mac-specific, but some
very useful routines, e.g. the luminance-control, statistics,
maximum-likelihood fitting algorithms, and the runtime interpreter are written
in Standard C and will work on any computer.
Denis Pelli
Professor of Neuroscience
Institute for Sensory Research
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244-5290
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/src/video-toolbox-94-06-23-c.hqx; 2035K]
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 09:58:48 +0000
From: Graham Allsopp
Subject: [*] World Cup '66 sounds
As one or two of you may have realised, football's (soccer) World Cup
finals are currently being played in the States. I've found two sound files
>From the 1966 World Cup final. Kenneth Wolstenholme's final minute
commentry has become probably the most famous words ever spoken on British
TV.
The shorter one makes a particularly pleasing shutdown sound.
Graham
[Archived as /info-mac/snd/world-cup-66.hqx; 227K]
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 94 15:25:16 PDT
From: "A. R. White"
Subject: "Folio" Printing Software?
I want to produce 5.5" x 8.5" booklets from 8.5" x 11" pages printed
on both sides and folded in half. To do this, I need to print files
so that, for an 8-page booklet, (what will be) pages 1 & 8, 7 & 2, 3 & 6,
and 5 & 4 will print on separate pieces of paper. I believe this is called
folio printing, but I'm not sure.
Does anybody know of such software, or have any suggestions? I use
Word 5.1 and LaserWriter 8.1.1.
Respond directly to me, please; no use bothering everybody else.
Thanks,
A. R. White
Internet: nomdenet @ ISI.edu
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 10:23:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: #66 Andrew Brandt
Subject: "The Macs" software describing all Macs
I downloaded The Macs from the archives. It is beta 6 and it has
expired. Is there a newer version? Covering up to the Q840 (or maybe
the PPCs!). Any help would be appreciated.
--
Andy ([email protected] OR [email protected])
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Date: Sun, 26 Jun 94 14:20:51 EDT
From: [email protected] (Alan Piszcz)
Subject: .dp files (Q)
The Mosaic Documentation is in '.dp' format. What application
reads/converts this format?
Thanks.
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 94 23:48:26 PST
From: Marc Schrier
Subject: [R] Clock chipping consequences?
[email protected] (Dieder Bylsma) wrote:
>What are the consequences of clock chipping a mac?
There are no short term consequences of properly clock chipping a Mac. The
long term consequences are unknown. People have had IIsi's clock chipped
for several years now with no long term problems. I've had my Quadra 800
clock chipped to 42MHz for over a year now, and I've had no problems. Yes,
there is a greater risk of burning out the processor, but I have not heard
of a single such case. If however you make a mistake while doing the
modification you can fry components on your motherboard and render it
useless. If you run too fast it will be obvious; your Mac will have serial
port problems, crash a lot, have video or floppy problems. If this is the
case, just use a slightly slower oscillator.
>I know that you can increase the speed of the mac, but I would imagine
>that by increasing the frequency, you increase the heat produced by the
>poor 68040.
Yes, running the 68040 (or any processor) faster than it is rated will make
it run hotter than it was designed to run. If you add a heatsink to those
machines that do not have one already, or a fan to those machines that
already have heatsinks, you can dissipate most of the additional heat.
>What other components are affected or stressed out of their tolerances by
>the clock chipping?
The serial ports, floppy drive, and VRAM have been known to show symptoms
of being over clocked. There is a separate modification needed for the
C610 if you want to use the onboard ethernet hardware since it derives its
timing from the main oscillator.
>I would imagine that the video circuitry would not be seriously affected
>since all the VRAM machines take the same speed VRAM. Same for the
>seperately clocked serial ports and ethernet ports as well as the ADB
>ports and SCSI ports etc.
There is a modification to fix a timing problem with the C650 that fixes
the serial port problem at frequencies over 30MHz.
>is it worth it to clock chip a mac?
I sure think so -- I love the 27% speed increase. It all depends on what
you do with your Mac, and what risks you are willing to take.
>How can I alleviate any of these negative side-effects? A Heat-sink?
>Immerse the entire thing in liquid helium?
When you have problems, just use a slower oscillator until the problems
dissipate. Yeah, a heatsink and fan are also helpful. Liquid helium is a
bit expensive and makes your Mac sound a bit funny.
There is a file with more on this here at SUMEX in
/info-mac/info/hdwr/crystal-speedup-history-23.txt. And the topic of
clock-chipping is frequently discussed on comp.sys.mac.hardware as well.
Marc Schrier
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 1994 09:44:13 GMT
From: [email protected] (Anders Stegen)
Subject: Accessing files by mail? (A)
You probably have a dozen or so replies by now but anyway:
I know of three mailservers. My favourite is the umich server for
Mac stuff. As always, use the ftp access firsthand. For umich; use the
ftp mirror sites.
[email protected]
send email with body text HELP for help text
[email protected]
send email with body text HELP for help text
[email protected] both file retrieval and some mail lists
send email with body text HELP for mail list help
send email with body $mac help for file
retrieval help
cheers /Anders
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Date: Sat, 25 Jun 1994 07:44:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Kieran O'Connor"
Subject: Anyone got Ztemr Sounds?
Hi,
Does anyone out there have the Zterm patch which adds Star Trek sounds
when you dowload with Zterm? I had it but my system got corrupted and I
lost it. I cannot find it anywhere in info-mac.
if you've got it--coudl you send me the sounds? Direct responses to my
account woudl be appreciated--I dont read I-Mac every day. Thanks.
Kieran O'Connor
E-Mail Address: [email protected]
Syracuse, N.Y. USA
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 17:19:27 -0500 (CDT)
From: Neil Eric Mickelson
Subject: Apple LaserWriter 8.2 Driver
Hey everyone!!
Does anyone have any idea when Apple will be releasing the LW8.2 driver?
Thanks!
Neil
[email protected]
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 16:54:53 -0500
From: [email protected] (Jan Richard)
Subject: ARA modem script for Practical Peripherals MC144MT II?
I just finished recommending the Practical Peripherals PM14400FXMT modem to
300 incoming freshman for dialing into our ARA (Netblazer) server, and
yesterday I discovered that they discontinued that model. I called
Practical Peripherals, and they assured me that the new MC144MT II used an
identical command set and would (should) work with the same ARA modem
script. I got the modem and could not get it to work with our setup. Has
anyone else used the new model successfully with ARA, preferably dialing in
to a Netblazer? Is there a new modem script out there somewhere? Do I
have to change some modem settings to get the old script to work with the
new modem? The freshman letter went out last Tuesday, so I expect to start
getting phone calls next week. Help!
Jan Richard ([email protected])
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 11:34:32 -0600 (CST)
From: [email protected]
Subject: Archie?
Has something happened to the archie server at nic.sura.net? I've tried a
couple of times over the past week to get a response from them, but to no
avail. I'm sending the message just like I always have: (1) TO:
IN%"[email protected]" and (2) the body of the message as "prog ..."
I usually get a response within 24 hours, but I've been waiting for a week now
for a response to a message sent to the server a few days ago. Anybody know
what's going on? Thanks.
Steve Waechter
swaechter@utmem1 (bitnet)
[email protected] (internet)
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 12:55:06 -0700
From: [email protected] (Gary Goldberg)
Subject: C64 .D64 files for emulator - Where, please?
I`ve downloaded a copy of the C64 emulator fir the Mac which I think is
incredibly cool. Does anyone know where I can locate .T64 or .D^$ files for
use with it? Particularly some of the old C64 games, like Archon and
Archon II, or the RaceTrack Construction Set? Thanks in advance. -Gary
- .sig under construction - No 2-way radios during daylight hours.
Gary Goldberg KA3ZYW email: [email protected] [email protected]
Digital Marketing, Inc., Bowie, MD. - An Internet Services Company
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 08:46:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Lyman Green
Subject: CD-ROM benchmark program?
Hello Fellow IMers..
Are there any CD-ROM benchmarking programs out there?
I'm testing CD-ROM's and would like to know if the 3XP really is a 3X.
Thanks in advance to anyone who wishes to help!
Lyman
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Date: Sat, 25 Jun 94 13:34:28 +0200
From: [email protected] (Frederic Vecoven)
Subject: ClarisWorks -> Filemaker Pro
I'd like to convert my ClarisWorks file to Excel and FilemakerPro.
For Excel, no problem, as ClarisWorks (v1.0) can save for Excel 3,
and, of course, Excel 4 can import Excel 3 format.
But, I can't open the databse file with FilemakerPro. And the "import"
menu is not very good. I have to re-define the fields, this is
annoying ! (and more, I'll lose all my models)
Does somebody know how to get my files into Filemaker Pro ????
Later,
Frederic Vecoven ([email protected])
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 18:25:23 -0400
From: Paul Westbrook
Subject: FileMaker Question
Is it possible to use FileMaker Pro to create a database that will
be used for a hotel type of registration? What I would like to do
would be to have a list of open rooms. Then, when some one comes in
and states how long they want to stay, it will list all of the rooms
that would be available using these criteria. Then, as the person
chooses which room, it will become unavailable during those times.
Is this possible? How can I get the criteria to narrow down the
possible rooms? How can I then remove the chosen room from the
available room list?
Any help will be appreciated. Please send me e-mail with you help.
Thank you,
Paul Westbrook
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 94 16:41:09 CDT
From: [email protected] (David V. Wiltschko)
Subject: Film Recorders for the Mac
Our department is looking for a good quality film recorder for making
35mm slides. There is a Montage elsewhere on campus (overworked) and I have
heard that there are others out there includes one by Polariod. Our
questions are:
1) Are any of these networkable or do they all require a dedicated Mac
2) What's the *best* one. Please share your experiences.
3) Is the speed bottleneck the attached Mac or the recorder.
I will summarize responses.
Dave Wiltschko
Texas A&M University.
+==================================+
Dave Wiltschko
Professor of Geology and Geophysics
Texas A&M University
+==================================+
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Date: Mon, 27 Jun 1994 07:06:43 -0400
From: [email protected] (Carol Conti-Entin)
Subject: FreeHand 4/MasterJuggler Conflict
I recently upgraded to FreeHand 4.0 and find that it won't finish
loading if I am also using the MasterJuggler I bought 2 years ago:
Release 1.57c. (Incidentally, I mailed in my registration card promptly,
but ALSoft has never sent me an upgrade notice.) My questions:
1) What is the latest MasterJuggler release, and does IT work with FH4?
2) Is an updater available on the Internet somewhere?
3) If not, does ALSoft have an 800 # &/or e-mail address?
Many thanks!
--
Carol Conti-Entin Internet: [email protected] N.E. Ohio, USA
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Date: Mon, 27 Jun 94 11:18 EST
From: Daniel Bailey
Subject: GeoPort, Quadra 840AV, and America Online 2.1
I have a Quadra 840AV and I was trying to install America Online & use it with
my GeoPort Telecom Adapter. I called America Online Technical Support and we
tried several things, but they were unable to help me. Does anyone use this
combination of hardware/software? If so, could you let me know what you do to
get it to work? Thanks.
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 21:56:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: "JULIO E. IBARRA"
Subject: How to create ZIP files for DOS
Can someone tell me how to create a ZIP file using a Mac which can then be
UNZIP'd from a DOS PC? Does anyone know of a utility for the Mac that can
do this? I have PS files which I would like to make available to Mac and PC
users, but I would like to know if I can do all the compressing from a
Macintosh and not have to use a PC.
Many thanks,
Julio Ibarra
[email protected]
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 10:19:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email protected]
Subject: is it possible to run HyperCard stacks under Windows?
The subject line says most of it. Are there tools that allow one to
convert HyperCard stacks to some format suitable for playing under *ANY*
Windows application (Toolbook, etc.)? Is SuperCard cross-platform yet?
Any gentle prods in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks a lot,
Eric Davies
[email protected]
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 20:23:31 -0500
From: Paul M Sheldon
Subject: I Veronicad Al Gore on Information Superhighway
I used Veronica, after I found the excerpts for keywords.
I wrote this:
gopher wiretap.Spies.COM
then arrowed down as follows:
Government Docs (US & World)
Gore's National Performance Review Report
Then I slashed searched down the doc with "highway" and found:
DOC14 Build a Business and Economic Information Node for the
Information Highway
To assist in the distribution of government information to private
citizens, Commerce should build a business and economic
information node to the "information highway."
cbe cbe
Aha, information highway not information superhighway! What a man calls
his thing might be different than the people who cite him.
Now, I veronica searched that keyword at my university site through
gopher.
I added the find to my bookmarks and then pico edited my .gopherrc
file and searched for Gore to paste. Thus, I came up with the gopher
pointer (there is a long line that truncates with a dollar sign).
I wrapped this long line to see what it was and so present unwrapped
with dollar sign and wrapped and leave you to infer the line:
Unwrapped:
---
Type=1
Name=VP Gore's Speech on the Information Highway
Path=m/gophers/public_policy/Education/American Association for the
Advancement$
Host=mercury.cair.du.edu
Port=70
Wrapped:
---
Type=1 Name=VP Gore's Speech on the Information Highway
Path=m/gophers/public_policy/Education/American Association for the
Advancement of Core Curriculum/About Gopher in General/VP Gore's Speech on
the Information Highway Host=mercury.cair.du.edu Port=70
---
So, the long line is inferred to be:
Path=m/gophers/public_policy/Education/American Association for the
Advancement of Core Curriculum/About Gopher in General/VP Gore's Speech on
the Information Highway
---
That's how it is done.
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 94 23:44:05 -0400
From: [email protected]
Subject: LC575 coprocessor
>Hi, netters, I have a question for you.
>We all know LC 575 comes without a math-coprocessor. I'm
>wondering if I may put in a math coprocessor. A technician
>with Apple's license here told me it's impossible to do "because
>the LC 575 is upgradable to PowerMac which comes with a built-in
>math coprocessor." I feel bewildered by that statement.
not the correct answer that you can't put a coprocessor on a 68LC040?
PowerMac upgrade has nothing to do with that.
louis [email protected]
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Date: 26 Jun 94 12:41:24 EDT
From: Hans Kroeger
Subject: Mailing Documents
On 11 Jun 1994 13:01:52 -0500 (CDT), Dwight K. Lemke wrote:
>>I am conversing with a couple of colleagues and we need to start sending
>>documents over the 'net. I used Eudora, one uses Pine and the third is
>>using Pegasus. Is there a format for attachments that they all have in
>>commmon?
On 15 Jun 1994, Murph Sewall wrote:
>1) ASCII
>
>2) binhex (as long as no one has a PC--I've found that Eudora's binhex
>encoder ALSO uses Macbinary so even if I have a PC format file and Binhex
>it the PMail decoder can't produce something that a PC word processor
>understands
Not true:
I am creating MS Word documents on my Mac, save them as WinWord files, send
them as BINHEXED files to my counterpart, he unbinhexes the file and works
with it on his PC. Also works the other way around.
Same can be done using UUENCODE instead of BINHEX.
Hans
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 00:37:57 -0400
From: [email protected] (Charlie Mingo)
Subject: Mathematica on PPC (A)
"A. Moiseff" writes:
>A colleague has asked whether anyone has tried Mathematica vers 2.2
>enhanced on a PowerPC 6100. If anyone has tried this software on a PPC
>please tell me 1) Does it work, 2) How does the performance compare to
>running on a Quadra series machine. Thanks.
According to posts on MacWeek, MMa 2.2.3 (native PPC code) running on an
8100 is about five times faster than 2.2.3 on a Quadra 840av, at least for
numeric intensive operations. Your miliage may vary, but clearly it is
faaaast..
MMa 2.2.2 and before (available only in 680x0 format) will run on a PPC,
but only if the modern memory manager and caches are turned off, which
slows it down considerably. Anyone with 2.2.2 or before would be well
advised to upgrade to 2.2.3 for $125.
Also, I'd make sure you have a lot of RAM on your PowerMac, as MMa 2.2.3
(PPC) prefers 6.5 Mb with VM turned on and 12.3 Mb with it turned off.
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 14:11:32 -0400
From: [email protected] (Gary L. Gray)
Subject: Mathematica on PPC (A)
> A colleague has asked whether anyone has tried Mathematica vers 2.2
> enhanced on a PowerPC 6100. If anyone has tried this software on a PPC
> please tell me 1) Does it work, 2) How does the performance compare to
> running on a Quadra series machine. Thanks.
Mathemtica 2.2 is now native on PowerMacs. It works rather nicely!!! I run
it on a PowerMac 8100/80, but my wife runs it on a 6100/60 and it screams
on both machines. I did some benchmarks comparing Mma 2.2 on my PowerMac
8100 to 2.2 on a Quadra 800 and the PowerMac 8100 was a minimum of 5-6
times faster than the Q800 on a variety of operations (graphics, numerical
integration of ODEs, symbolic algebra). Some tests (primarily floating
point stuff) showed it to be 10+ times faster. Don't try and run the
non-native version since I believe it does not like the Modern Memory
Manager.
I recommend it highly.
Best regards,
--
Gary L. Gray | Engineering Science & Mechanics
Assistant Professor | Penn State University
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 23:39:26 -0700
From: [email protected] (Mark Obsniuk)
Subject: Mathematica on PPC (Q)
I have not tried it myself but the Beta version is out. There is a speed
up of 10-15 times over the Quadras on integer calculations and about 4
times for graphics related calculations. Beyond that I can not help.
Mark
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 19:25:22 -0500
From: Paul M Sheldon
Subject: MIDI on a Mac (A)
I'm pretty sure midi files are standard according to someone else
than a computer platform. I get my stuff to jam with from something
called jamnet at Berkeley. So, I'm pretty sure that with binary transfer
>From a PC source to a unix, I could get it into my mac, going directly
>From a PC to mac, I would be confused.
The second idea was interesting. I have two sound modules separate
>From my mac. That internal sound cards or DSP chips could do what they do
might be an interesting challenge for a freeware author out to prove
himself and publish rather than get absorbed by a commercial institution.
I don't know whether this has been already done. Could anyone mention
the appropriate keywords for wais. I might suspect interapplication
communication, a program to play the notes in the card and seem like
external midi channels to another midi program to send it signals. So, I
think apple events might be a keyword.
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Date: Sat, 25 Jun 1994 20:18:34 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jay Poutinen
Subject: Monitor adjustment
I have a 16" Apple monitor that has lost some of its brightness over
time. The brightness control on the front of the monitor is all the way
bright, and I've set the gamma setting in the monitor control panel to
maximize brightness.
I suspect there are adjustments under the monitor cover somewhere. Can
someone tell me whether there is such an adjustment and where to find
it before I start tinkering.
Thanks,
[email protected]
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Date: Sun, 26 Jun 1994 14:07:47 -0700
From: [email protected] (Scott T. Spencer)
Subject: Monitor resolution switching
Ref: Query from "James Ashton" in IM 88.
Hi, by now this may be a "moot" question since I see that IM #89 had a detailed
answer to your question about monitor resolution switching on PowerPCs (from a
fellow in Holland.) However, I'll pass along the name and address of a company
in San Ramon, California that might be helpful. A man named John Milich of CD
Solutions came to a user's group meeting this week to discuss just this topic.
It seems that many of the more recent Macs have the technical capability to
interface with multisync monitors of different sizes and/or screen
resolutions.
To the local BMUG meeting, he brought a basic Quadra 605 model and an Altima
17"
monitor. Using a black box of his company's devising, he showed that he could
run the monitor at a variety of different resolutions - up to and including a
"two page format" of about 1150x870 (or similar - unfortunately, I've mislaid
the monitor spec sheet he provided.) His black box was a $99 US item that
adapts
a monitor cable to send signals that the Mac interprets. After changing the
box's switch settings, it's necessary to reboot the Quadra to get the benefit
of
a different "resolution."
I remember that the box had three 3 position switches, so presumably the box
can
send 27 distinct signals. I think the Quadra 605 supports about 4 different
Apple monitors of differing size and resolution, so many of the 27 possible
signal states aren't directly revelant. However, there are other things in the
world to interface a Mac to (than Apple monitors.) Mr. Milich showed that his
"box" could interface the Quadra 605 to a fancy projection system installed in
the local conference room. (As an aside, his technical expert (along for the
ride) showed how to use the box to interface a Powerbook (with an external
video
port, of course) to that same projection system - this has been a continuing
problem over the months when speakers brought their own demonstration
computers.
I gather that the projection system doesn't provide useful synchronization
signals to the Powerbook.)
John Milich's full address is - CD Solutions, 2551 San Ramon Valley Blvd.,
Ste.
214, San Ramon, CA 94583. Phone numbers are 510.820.5400 & 510.820.4115 (fax).
This company is said to offer "computer display sales & engineering." He
offered
BMUG members the "box/cable" to BMUG members for $99 as I recall; and the 17"
Altima monitor with "box" for $850. Monitor was a Hitachi and said to have its
own internal microprocessor.
Mr. Milich had an interesting line about how a nameless Japanese company has
been successful in convincing American users that you need a Trinitron tube if
you want high quality video. I'm not much of a judge but his Hitachi
(non-Trinitron) looked pretty good to me.
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 19:45:22 GMT
From: [email protected] (Mark Gadzikowski)
Subject: Monitor Test Pattern Software (A)
[email protected] writes:
>A program called Test Pattern Generator by Larry Rymal will do what you
>want. It *may* be in the archives. You can certainly get it on the disk
>that comes with Rymal's book "Macintosh Repair and Upgrade Secrets" (Hayden
>Books) and maybe with other of Rymal's books as well.
The author's name is Lary Pina.
--
I used to drive a Heisenberg Uncertainty car, but I could never read the
speedometer without getting lost.
Work: [email protected]
Netcom: [email protected]
NewtonMail: [email protected]
America Online: [email protected]
That's "Mark Gadzikowski" to you, Human.
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 12:19:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: Irv Wiswall
Subject: NCSA Telnet 2.6 [Q]
Folks,
Using NCSA Telnet version 2.6 on a Mac Plus, I have not been able to
figure out how to generat a control key. Neither commmand nor option
does it and I cannot find a setting that will make this work. Note that
this did work in version 2.5. Anyone have any ideas?
Also, I am still trying to figure out a font problem with 2.6. On come
computers, in some situations, it will print just fine if the font is
Monoco 9, but other times it will not. In all cases, system 7.1, monico
10 bitmap and monico truetype are installed. Again, anyone have any
ideas of what I should be looking for?
Irv Wiswall | [email protected]
Director of College Computing | 503 472 4121
Linfield College | McMinnville OR 97128
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 20:13:17 -0400
From: "Tom Scott"
Subject: Nikon CoolScan
Nikon CoolScan
I'm looking at a Nikon CoolScan for a proposal I'm putting together for my
Publications department. Anyone know what the best price/vendor is to get this
from? How about a phone number, e-mail address, etc. for Nikon? TIA!
Cheers!
Tom
Thomas Scott, Systems Manager, College of Engineering
Cornell University, Carpenter Hall Annex, Ithaca, NY 14853
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 94 21:34:59 CDT
From: [email protected] (Edward Floden)
Subject: Not a Disk Eject Button?!
At work, we've just received and installed three new Macs: one PowerMac
6100/60 and two Quadra 610s; I have one of the Quadra 610s.
Yesterday, I was BS-ing with my cubie-mate. I noted that the placement of
the power switch, located on the front panel below and to the right of the
floppy opening, could be mistaken for a disk eject button. Especially, I
thought, if a Mac-unsavvy DOS PC user was present in front of the monitor.
Then, in one of those rare coincidences that boggle the mind, one of our
development guys came into the building, bringing with him his own
PowerMac 6100/60. (The development department lives down the street. They
don't like us.
And attached to the front of his PowerMac, covering the
power switch, was a homemade cardboard-and-electrical-tape safety cover! I
asked why, of course. He told me that he installed the safety cover after
one of the DOS people in his building, who was using the Mac, attempted to
eject a floppy.
By pressing the "disk eject button", of course.
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 94 17:02:53 +0000
From: Mark Armitage
Subject: OCR software
Hi,
Does anyone know of any shareware OCR software for the Mac? I would like to
turn my received faxes back into text.
Also does anyone have any info. about the TEXTBRIDGE and OMNIPAGE/DIRECT OCR
software - i.e. are they any good, which is best etc.
Thanks alot,
Mark.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mark Armitage [email protected]
Please reply directly - my newsreader is a pain...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Date: Sun, 26 Jun 1994 22:13:40 -0500
From: [email protected] (James Williams)
Subject: PB170/System Update 3/Problems
Shortly after installing Update 3, I began having problems with the PB170.
They might be strictly coincidence - then again they might not. The main
problem is that the computer will not awaken properly from the Sleep mode.
Upon awakening, all seems normal for about 5 seconds, and then the watch
appears and the computer seems to hang up. After about another 5 seconds I
get the following alert on the screen:
[Sorry a system error occurred. "Finder" error type 43]
On one occasion I receievd the alert:
[Sorry a system error occurred. "Finder" bad F-line instruction].
I have reinstalled the update to no avail. I have even tried to restore
the system to its original un-updated system 7.1 configuration. However,
nothing seems to eliminate the error. It even does this when I have booted
without extensions. I can live witout the sleep mode, but I am perplexed,
especially since it used to work before. Anyone have any ideas or
information. BTW, virus checks show no sign of viral activity.
Configration info:
System 7.1, 8Mb RAM, 120Mb Quantum HD
Main utilities:
MS Word
WP
FileMaker Pro
Canvas
Zterm
ccMail
Numerous MacTCP aplications
Numerous extensions
Thank you in advance.
Jim Williams
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 94 12:42:46 +0100 (WET)
From: Marion GUNN
Subject: PocketHammer problems & a Wish List item
Wish to say "thanks" for response to my INFO-MAC appeal for advice on
that PocketHammer disk. The suppliers have yet to acknowledge either
of my two e-mail msgs to them. I guess their lines must be busy, or
they dont realise how serious it is for the average user to have a
damaged disk on her hands for even a short while. I had hoped they'd
e-mail me some quick fix of which I had never heard. Responses from
fellow users just confirm my own diagnosis: no option but to reformat,
reload from originals and backups. Of course, I do have backups of
(almost!) everything, but nobody seriously believes that even the
most disciplined of users regularly back up the contents of a 100 MB
drive to floppies. Perhaps the most irritating thing of all is, when one
has to reinstal from the original disks (NOT my first time to have to
do all this) everything gets reset to defaults options. Think about that.
Most people have scores of utilities whose preferences they haven't given
thought to in a long time. Wouldn't it be great if someone could develop
a little Settings Saving utility, that would worm its way into all other
utilities, take a note of preferences saved, and put them all together,
stashed in a file one could download and save at the first signs of any
trouble? Something that would take due note that I like my old and
obscure, but lightning fast, little word processor set to smart quotes,
not dumb, that I prefer to work with Courier on my screen, than Helvetica
(yes, honest!), that I cannot do a dial-in to the net, unless my comms
utility is set to 7 plus even, etc.
Another item for the Wish List!
Marion Gunn
[email protected]
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 09:52:26 -0500
From: [email protected] (Vinko Tsui (312) 329-3455)
Subject: Powerbook 2400 modem [R]
Rob,
>
You really should try to find out what type of modem is it. You probably do
not have a modem that support MNP error correction. One way to determine
the type of modem it is would be to open your PB 180. I do not recommend
you do this if you're unsure about taking it apart or putting it back
together. You should ask your local dealer for assistance.
When you take the top case apart you may break the tabs which holds the top
and bottom cover together. When you put the PB back together you may bend
one of the ground metal strip.
Some modem command I do know are:
AT = gets the modem's attention, you should prefix this before each command.
Mn = sets the volume of the speaker on the modem, where "n" is a number from
0 - 9 (0 turns the speaker off).
&F = change the modem setting to the factory default.
I hope this helps.
-- Vinko
Vinko Enterprises, Oakville, Ontario, Canada, [email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 09:57:24 -0500
From: [email protected] (Michael E. Gaines)
Subject: Pproblems recording in 24 bit mode on a 6100AV?
Howdy,
A few weeks ago, I bought a PPC 6100/60 AV. I love it, the only
problem is that when I try to digitize video with the monitor set to 24 bit
color, the monitor turns this strange shade of magenta, and these small
horizontal lines move from left to right diagonally. I called SOS-Apple and
they told me to record in 8 bit mode. Umm...that's NOT why I got a 24 bit
monitor guys! This happens with HSU 3.0 on and off the hard drive so I
can't account for that causing the problem. This also happens with
extensions (except QT) off. Anyone else have this problem? Thanx!
============================Mike Gaines=================================
= WHAT is your name? Captain Jean-Luc Picard =
= WHAT is your quest? I seek the Holy Grail =
= WHAT is the top velocity of a Bird of Prey? Romulan or Klingon? =
= I....I don't know...AAAHHHH!!!! =
[email protected]==========================
THX Approved
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 13:15:46 +0200
From: [email protected] (Christian F. Buser)
Subject: Rodime Cobra Driver? (R)
[email protected] (Rod McCormack) wrote:
>The only formatting software I have for the drive is the Rodime Cobra
>Driver Utility mentioned above. (I own Silver Lining, but La Cie advises
>me not to use that on the Cobra, as they don't support it.) I updated the
>Cobra driver several times, and am now using Version 1.1.4, the last I am
>aware of. Around the time that version came out, System 7 hit the
>streets, and Rodime went "toes up," (no connection, I presume).
True, Silverlining does not support drives with block sizes other than 512
bytes; and to my knowledge, these Rodime drives used 1024 byte block size.
But I was told that Hard Disk Toolkit (HDT) from FWB indeed does support
1024 byte block size. I suggest you contact FWB if my info is right (I
don't own HDT).
>I would appreciate it if someone knowledgable (please don't guess) could
>answer that question for me.
I would like to be an expert in all points, but I still think it's worth
to ask FWB - even if I don't know for sure
Greetings, Christian
email: [email protected] or: [email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 22:25:43 -0500
From: [email protected] (Clinton MacDonald)
Subject: Rot-13 extension for BBEdit?
Friends:
I am a big fan of two of the best programs available in the known
universe: Newswatcher and BBEdit. My habit has been to zip through
Newswatcher, saving news articles as they catch my interest, and save them
to my drive for later reading (usually with EasyView -- another universal
best). I admit here, publicly, that, on occasion I save a Usenet article
that is encrypted with Rot-13 (the shame! ). EasyView cannot (to my
knowledge) decrypt Rot-13. Is there an extension for BBEdit which will
decrypt Rot-13?
An Anarchie search (okay -- four best programs) found the following:
which is not exactly what I had in mind. If such an extension for BBEdit
does not exist, would some enterprising programmer care to cobble one up?
Or perhaps Akif Eyler would be interested in adding it to his next release
of EasyView?
Thanks,
Clint
Dr. Clinton C. MacDonald | [email protected]
Howard Hughes Medical Institute | [email protected]
Department of Molecular Biology | 609/258-5993
Princeton, NJ 08544-1014 | 609/258-1704 (FAX)
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 13:18:45 +0200
From: [email protected] (Christian F. Buser)
Subject: Simultaneous emailing and Usenet posting (R)
[email protected] (Mike Craymer) asked:
>... Also, how can I post to a Usenet newsgroup via email (Eudora)?
Address your mail to [email protected]
this will post your message to the newsgroups.
Replace the "xxx" by the newsgroup names, for example
[email protected] for posting to comp.sys.mac.apps
There are other gateways as well, but this is the one I use.
Greetings, Christian.
email: [email protected] or: [email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 21:15:37 EDT
From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz"
Subject: SOS APPL [R]
Traci J. Ingram said:
TJI> Our school just installed about $30,000 worth of PowerMac
TJI> equipment, including a Work Group Server 9150 (for our first
TJI> network). When we called SOS-APPL to ask a few questions about
TJI> AppleShare 4.02, and whether it was recommended that System
TJI> Hardware Update 3.0 be installed on the server - the snottiness of
TJI> the Apple technician was little short of breathtaking.
TJI>
TJI> Is this amazing - or merely business as usual at Apple?
Traci, I suppose that Apple, like everyone else, has its share of
good people and bad. Also people have their share of good and
bad days. I'm sure the folks at SOS-APPL could tell us stories
that would curl our hair.
However, I have to agree that you should have been treated with
patience and respect.
I have to say that for the most part I have found the folks at
SOS-APPL to be much better in dealing with problems and irrated
people (like me!) than most support services. My experience has
been very positive.
Jeffrey Fritz
Telecommunications and Network Services
West Virginia University
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 94 17:22:30 PDT
From: "A. R. White"
Subject: Source for Plastic Trays & Guides for LaserWriter Plus?
Recently I've acquired a creaky LaserWriter Plus. (Don't laugh; at $150,
including a toner cartridge, it was a bargain as a first laser printer!)
Unfortunately, most of its plastic pieces have had bits broken off; the
output tray, for instance, is suspended by one pin.
Could anyone point me to a source for replacement input & output guides,
and additional paper trays? I know Imagen used this same engine, but I
haven't been able to get in touch with them.
Respond directly to me, please; no use bothering everybody else.
Thanks,
A. R. White
Internet: nomdenet @ ISI.edu
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 04:04 EST
From: "Don't Panic!"
Subject: StartupScreen and extensions (Q)
Hello,
I just noticed two weird things happening, and I wondered if they may be
related:
the run of extension icons at startup does not start until after the
startupscreen image disappears, to leave a blank menuless desktop.
DiskExpress mentions something about Orphaned Extents, and refuses to
optimize my hard disk because of them.
On a separate note:
I just got Atticus Vista 1.0.2. And what do I find when I make a vista? A
bunch of 0k aliases and folders make the Vista. Yet when I make a new vista
space on the hard disk disappears. The finder does not show it in the
calculate folder size, it only shows it in the total hard disk space. Sure
enough when I run DupLocator I find that Atticus makes a bunch of invisible
icon files. Yet why doesn't the calculate folder size show the new true size
of the folders in the Vista?
This is still baffling me.
Could the three bugs be related?
What are Orphaned Extents? Is an Extent the same as an extension?
I am puzzled as to why DiskExpress can't optimize around these extents when
Speed Disk can?
baffled but not panicked,
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 09:45:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email protected]
Subject: Summary of Macintosh Application Environment replies
First, let me acknowledge and thank the following people who responded
to my inquiry about MAE:
Jean-Francois Sygnet [email protected]
Scott Kelsey [email protected]
Jill Williams [email protected]
Steve Strassman [email protected]
Bob Lantz [email protected]
Sridar Narayanan [email protected]
MAE Product Technical Support [email protected]
I must also apologize for my earlier remark implying no one at Apple
cared about promoting MAE -- within 36 hours of my posting I had received
3 separate responses from Apple employees, all of whom were extremely
helpful and knowledgeable. Special thanks to them for going out of their
way.
In summary, the responses I got basically said MAE's emulation is very
robust, but a little on the slow side. No surprise there. The MAE folks
at Apple make the good point that speed will of course vary, depending on
the power of the Unix box you run it on.
As everyone pointed out, the best way to learn whether MAE is for you
is to test drive the demo. It is available free of charge on CD by
calling 1-800-769-2775 ext. 7675 or you can ftp it from
ftp.support.apple.com (NOTE: the file is about 12MB; use discretion).
There are also two mailing lists, mae-users and mae-announce, to which you
can subscribe by sending mail to [email protected] with text in
the BODY that reads:
SUBSCRIBE mae-users
SUBSCRIBE mae-announce
I'm in the process of evaluating MAE and would be happy to post my
findings to the net if there's sufficient interest.
Eric Davies
[email protected]
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 94 23:58:19 -0400
From: [email protected]
Subject: SuperLaserSpool
Comment: Regarding the recent question about a conflict between SuperLaser-
Spool and Omnis 3, I recently found out through the MACAV-L
list that SuperLaserSpool conflicts with RamDoubler, and indeed,
when I removed SLS, the problems I was having disappeared.
Answer: I have both SuperLaserSpool 3.0 and RamDoubler and I didn't have any
conflict. The problem must be Omnis 3. Recently I contacted Symantec which now
supports Fifth Generation Systems products and the technician was very
informative. He told me they stop developing SLS because they had many problems
PageMaker was one of those. Also with a new system coming they will wait.
Also I prefer PrintMonitor because it's taking less space on the disk to spool
and doesn't create another driver for every printer you use. These drivers
takes
a lot of space.
louis [email protected]
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Date: Sun, 26 Jun 1994 05:40:47 GMT
From: Sven Guckes
Subject: System 7.1 emergency disc (long summary)
[email protected] writes:
>As usual, several imdigest readers came to my rescue. The following are
>excerpts of each suggestion with my comments in brackets [].
I think some people can't tell a summary from an annotated log. *sheesh*
Sven
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 94 16:43:08 CDT
From: [email protected] (David V. Wiltschko)
Subject: Three Button Mac Mouse
Knowledgeable Mac/Unix Folks:
Has anyone had experience with third-party three button mice for the
Mac. I use MacX to work on UNIX workstations and would like a better way to
work that to hold the option key down and press an arrow key (usually one
had over the other). Does logitech make one? I suppose there'd have to be
an INIT or extension to map the buttons to a key sequence but that would be
fine. I'd summarize the experience of others if there is sufficient
response.
Dave Wiltschko
Texas A&M University
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 12:28:41 +0200
From: [email protected] (Robert Geisler)
Subject: Voices
Speech Manager 1.2.1, MacinTalk Pro (formerly called PlainTalk
Text-to-Speech), and the associated voices can be obtained by gopher from
info.hed.apple.com. They also have the PlainTalk speech-to-text software
for Power Macs.
Robert
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Date: Sun Jun 26 13:26:55 1994
From: [email protected] (Capt Jon Dagle;86 OSS/DOW;480-2077)
Subject: What happened to Rescue! (a Star Trek game)
Does anyone know where to get the current version of the Star Trek theme game
Rescue! by Tom Spreen? It used to be in the info-mac archive in the /game
directory, but its gone. I thought there was a newer-than-1.5.1 version out,
but the moderators don't know where it is.
If you can tell me anything, please drop a line to my email acct since my
opportunity to read the list is somewhat limited.
Regards,
Jonathan Dagle//[email protected]
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Date: Sat, 25 Jun 94 12:12:06 JST
From: [email protected]
Subject: Windows 3.1 driver for Apple Color Printer?
Hi there,
Is there exist a DOS/Windows driver for Apple Color printer?
We are working in a multiplatform lab and would like to connect Apple
Color printer through it's parallel port to an IBM Pc running windows 3.1.
please mail me direct and I will summarize it latter.
Thanks for your help.
E.S. Magdi (M.D., Ph.D)
Cardiovascular Physiology Res.
E-mail: [email protected]
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Info-Mac Digest Mon, 27 Jun 94 Volume 12 : Issue 90
Today's Topics:
[*] AliasResMaker1.0; creates 'alis' (alias) resources
[*] Antony.Cleopatra.1.0.sea.hqx; Shakespeare play HC stack
[*] AutoClock 1.4.4; sets your clock
[*] BalloonHelpMe; a Control Strip module
[*] Bird Songs; "learn the wonderful songs of birds"
[*] burn21; a file obliteration utility
[*] Chime 4.0.6; chimes every 15 minutes
[*] chucks-printer-driver-121; for Epson compatible printers
[*] Frances' Recipes; for use with Mangia!
[*] glyph; a PostScript hieroglyphic font
[*] Gradebook Stack v1.9; for keeping grades
[*] Greg's Browser 2.3; a file browser
[*] Greg's Buttons 3.4 -- user interface customization
[*] Imagery 1.9 Graphics Converter
[*] internet-dial-in-Europe-1.4; a list of providers
[*] MacAnim Viewer 1.0.2; an animation viewer of variious formats
[*] MacAnim Viewer 1.0.2 Updater; a graphics utility
[*] MacScribe1.3Demo; a hieroglyphic text processor
[*] MacWeb 0.98 alpha WWW browser
[*] Make-A-Maze; "allows one to draw mazes"
[*] MR. TIMER V2; a timing device
[*] msword-dictionary-creator; from text files
[*] MusicBox XCMD v3.0; adds sound and music to HyperCard
[*] NET_Mac2.3.41; supports TCP/IP over packet-radio
[*] Personal Log v1.5.2; a diary keeper
[*] PortShare Pro 2.1 Demo; share your serial ports between Macs
[*] rlab-1.0.hqx: a linear algebra package
[*] sAVe the Disk 1.4.2; for AV Macs
[*] SCRIPTURE MEMORY 1.2; a memorisation aid
[*] ScriptWiz.demo; for AppleScripts
[*] Shutdown FX 2.0 - public beta release
[*] Shutdown FX 2.0 source code - public beta release
[*] super-clamp-001-hc; a magazine
[*] Symantec C++ 7.0.3 EDS Update
[*] Symantec C++ 7.0.3 Full Update
[*] t-test HyperCard stack; a statistical test
[*] The Indexer 1.0; A Yearbook Indexing Utility
[*] VideoToolbox.94.6.23; some C video routines
[*] World Cup '66 sounds
"Folio" Printing Software?
"The Macs" software describing all Macs
.dp files (Q)
[R] Clock chipping consequences?
Accessing files by mail? (A)
Anyone got Ztemr Sounds?
Apple LaserWriter 8.2 Driver
ARA modem script for Practical Peripherals MC144MT II?
Archie?
C64 .D64 files for emulator - Where, please?
CD-ROM benchmark program?
ClarisWorks -> Filemaker Pro
FileMaker Question
Film Recorders for the Mac
FreeHand 4/MasterJuggler Conflict
GeoPort, Quadra 840AV, and America Online 2.1
How to create ZIP files for DOS
is it possible to run HyperCard stacks under Windows?
I Veronicad Al Gore on Information Superhighway
LC575 coprocessor
Mailing Documents
Mathematica on PPC (A) (2 msgs)
Mathematica on PPC (Q)
MIDI on a Mac (A)
Monitor adjustment
Monitor resolution switching
Monitor Test Pattern Software (A)
NCSA Telnet 2.6 [Q]
Nikon CoolScan
Not a Disk Eject Button?!
OCR software
PB170/System Update 3/Problems
PocketHammer problems & a Wish List item
Powerbook 2400 modem [R]
Pproblems recording in 24 bit mode on a 6100AV?
Rodime Cobra Driver? (R)
Rot-13 extension for BBEdit?
Simultaneous emailing and Usenet posting (R)
SOS APPL [R]
Source for Plastic Trays & Guides for LaserWriter Plus?
StartupScreen and extensions (Q)
Summary of Macintosh Application Environment replies
SuperLaserSpool
System 7.1 emergency disc (long summary)
Three Button Mac Mouse
Voices
What happened to Rescue! (a Star Trek game)
Windows 3.1 driver for Apple Color Printer?
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,
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Date: Sat, 25 Jun 1994 15:56:23 -0500
From: Michael Kershaw
Subject: [*] AliasResMaker1.0; creates 'alis' (alias) resources
AliasResMaker 1.0
By the BIOHAZARD Development Group
AliasResMaker is a very small developer tool that creates 'alis' (alias)
resources. Alias resources let you program quickly search for needed files.
**How to use AliasResMaker**
When you first open up AliasResMaker it will display a registration and
About dialog box. Read the information and tell it Ok. AliasResMaker willl
then display a standard "Open File" dialog box. Choose the file you wish to
make the target of your alias resource. AliasResMaker will then ask for the
name you would like to give your saved file (already set to open into
ResEdit with a double click) that contains the 'alis' resource. The third
box displayed asks for an ID number for the resource and a name.
Thats all there is to it! AliasResMaker will create a ResEdit file holding
the 'alis' resource of your specified name and Id. Just copy it into your
applications file!
**Legal Stuff**
AliasResMaker is not warranteed. I am not responsible for any damages
incurred through use or Misuse of AliasResMaker.
**Registration**
AliasResMaker is SHAREWARE. Please feel free to distribute it over the
internet and in User group libraries, but DO NOT CHARGE A FEE FOR IT.
If you use AliasResMaker, please register it by sending $5.00 to:\
Michael Kershaw
145 Sandy Lane
Warwick, RI 02889
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/alias-res-maker-10.hqx; 25K]
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Date: Sat, 25 Jun 1994 08:15:34 -0700
From: [email protected] (Mark Edward Zimmerman)
Subject: [*] Antony.Cleopatra.1.0.sea.hqx; Shakespeare play HC stack
appended below, mailer willing, is the 164kB binhex'd compact'd
Hypercard 2 stack of the Shakespeare play "Antony & Cleopatra" version
1.0 --- free software under the GNU GPL! I'll try to pull together
the past dozen Shakespeare Stacks into a single big stack
"Shakespeare's Works Vol. 2" and post that in a week or two; will
begin work on Henry VI Part I after that.... ^z (Mark Zimmermann)
[Archived as /info-mac/info/nms/antony-and-cleopatra-10-hc.hqx; 163K]
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 09:07:26 -0500
From: [email protected] (Tim J. Courant)
Subject: [*] AutoClock 1.4.4; sets your clock
AutoClock 1.4.4
=A9 1991-94, Jean-Pierre Gachen.
All rights reserved.
This software is free of charge and may be freely copied and distributed,
provided that this document is included with it, and that the software and
its documentation are not modified in any way. This software may not,
however, be sold or distributed for profit without authorization from the
author. Use it at your own risk. I will not be responsible for any problems
this software might cause you or your computer.
What is AutoClock ?
AutoClock is an application and a system extension that maintains the
accuracy of your Macintosh clock. As a matter of fact, this clock has the
tendency to deviate from the correct time every day, and can accumulate to
minutes or dozens of minutes after one year, if not corrected.
The AutoClock application allows you to:
* set the clock by calling a time server, if you have a modem,
* set the clock manually from an accurate source (for example a voice time
server (303-499-7111) or the radio),
* display a logbook of every clock change on your Macintosh, whether it was
done with AutoClock, or with another application (the General or Data &
Time control panels, or the Clock desk accessory for example),
* compute the mean clock deviation of the Macintosh clock for a 24-hour
period, using data recorded in the logbook, and
* display the date and time in almost any country of the world.
[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/auto-clock-144.hqx; 208K]
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 12:22:27 +0100
From: [email protected] (patrick mcclaughry)
Subject: [*] BalloonHelpMe; a Control Strip module
BalloonHelpMe is a simple Control Strip Module that allows you to quickly
turn Balloon Help on and off. You must already have Apple's Control Strip
control panel to use BalloonHelpMe. BalloonHelpMe is freeware, but not
public domain. You may include BalloonHelpMe on any archive CD-ROM.
Enjoy,
--pat
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/control-strip-balloon-help-me.hqx; 22K]
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Date: Sat, 25 Jun 1994 11:09:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] Bird Songs; "learn the wonderful songs of birds"
Learn the wonderful songs of birds using the power of the
Macintosh. Learn to identify them by their songs. Package
including parts 1 and 2 contain the Bird Songs application and
four sets of birds, including common birds, woodpeckers, and
sparrows. Review the birds, listen to their songs, and see their
pictures. Then shift into game mode. Challenge yourself in a
game where the computer plays a random bird song and you must
identify the bird by the song. You can also select background
mode, where the program can be instructed to play random bird
songs while you use your computer to do other things. A great
way to sharpen your birding ear! Bird Songs will play on any
Macintosh more modern than the SE, using system 6.0.5 or better.
Bird Songs 1.0.2 adds recognition of alias files. The Bird Files
themselves no longer have to reside in the Bird Files folder as
long as the alias to the file does. The version also improves the
popup menu in the List Manager dialog box.
[Archived as /info-mac/game/bird-songs-102-pt1.hqx; 1684K]
[Archived as /info-mac/game/bird-songs-102-pt2.hqx; 1884K]
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Date: Sat, 25 Jun 94 21:07:55 MDT
From: [email protected] (Mike Watson)
Subject: [*] burn21; a file obliteration utility
Burn is a file destroying utility that prevents undelete utilities from
recovering data.
Burn features multi-pass erasure, user-selectable and random erase
patterns, and free disk space erasure; all with a convienient drag-n-drop
interface.
Burn 2.1 is a maintenance release that fixes a couple of annoying bugs:
- Burn won't crash anymore if cancel is selected
while burning a file or free space on the disk.
- The Title of the burn free disk space dialog box was
changed from "Erasing " to
"Erasing free space on ", apologies for those who
discovered the cancel bug after seeing this come up.
If your happy with version 2.0 there's no need to download this file.
Burn is freeware.
For maximum security check out my data encryption application Enigma
also available from this service.
[Archived as /info-mac/disk/burn-21.hqx; 35K]
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Date: Sat, 25 Jun 1994 10:52:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: Robert Flickinger
Subject: [*] Chime 4.0.6; chimes every 15 minutes
Chime 4.0.6 plays sounds at quarter hour intervals much like the
belltowers of a bygone era. Chime features hour tolling, ship's bells,
asynchronous sounds and compatibility with the new sound Manager.
This new version accomodates the new AV Macs and Power Macs and plays
ship's bells in pairs. Requires System 6.0.4 or above, a Mac Plus
or above, and at least one sound file. Freeware.
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/chime-406.hqx; 20K]
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 14:26:57 -0500
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] chucks-printer-driver-121; for Epson compatible printers
The following is the latest version (1.2.1) of Chuck's Printer Driver.
A printer driver for Epson compatible 9-pin and 24-pin printers (and
configurable for most dot matrix printers). Just drop the driver and
the spooler application into your system folder!
It fixes a few bugs:
* problem with some memory configurations on some machines
* problem with updating from old version with Microsoft Word
* problem while doing print dialog with some applications
And has new features:
* scaling
* horizontal and vertical flipping
* nicer looking dialogs
* spooled text printing
- Charles Rentmeesters
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/prn/chucks-printer-driver-121.hqx; 69K]
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Date: Sat, 25 Jun 1994 16:15:56 -0500
From: [email protected] (jennie bolton)
Subject: [*] Frances' Recipes; for use with Mangia!
Hello, all! Here is a collection of several hundred recipes for use with the
program Mangia! The selections are eclectic, ranging from a number of sources,
including dishes from Western and Eastern Europe, the Americas, the
Mediterranean, the Near and Far East. This collection was prepared by my mom,
who just got her first Mac, and I am posting it for her, with the request that
if you find recipes you like in this collection, please send her a postcard at
the address included in this archive, with one of your own favorite recipes, so
that she can add it to her collection, and so she can see just how wide the Mac
world really is.
This file has been stuffed and binhexed, and was checked for viruses with
Disinfectant 3.5 and CP AntiVirus.
Thanks! Jennie (:^
[email protected]
GC/MS Pro and sometime SysAdmin
Northwest Fisheries Science Center
[Archived as /info-mac/info/nms/frances-recipes-mangia.hqx; 389K]
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 94 13:14:59 PDT
From: [email protected] (Eric Aubourg)
Subject: [*] glyph; a PostScript hieroglyphic font
The Glyph Basic font set contains about 900 signs, corresponding roughly to
Gardiner's Grammar "Sign List". It was designed on the lead font of the
French Institute in Cairo (IFAO).
"Glyph Basic" is freeware but NOT public domain. Utrecht University, the IFAO
and the Universite de Paris-Sorbonne hold all the rights to the font. You may
use the font for any publication purpose, but you may NOT modify it in any
way (including changing the ASCII code of characters), and you may not build
another font based on it.
You are free to distribute this package, as soon as you include this file.
Eric Aubourg
[Archived as /info-mac/font/ps/glyph.hqx; 921K]
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Date: Sat, 25 Jun 1994 01:40:46 -0600
From: [email protected] (J. Witte)
Subject: [*] Gradebook Stack v1.9; for keeping grades
The Gradebook Stack keeps grades for teachers. A departure from
"spreadsheet" grading programs, the stack keeps information in lists,
allowing the user to concentrate on relevant information. Weighting and
grade cut-offs are flexible and easy to set up. Several clever keyboard
shortcuts make entering grades as painless as can be.
Handles classes of 400+ students, unlimited number of grade entries, does
letter grades, numerical grades, and "check - plus - minus" grades. Also
keeps absences, prints lists and reports both for the teacher and the
students.
Real user comments: "Very easy to use...", "Elegant user interface...",
"Saved me at least 10 hours last semester..."
v1.9 fixes a few bugs and runs a little faster.
Shareware, $15
Jim Witte
Univ. of Illinois
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/app/gradebook-19-hc.hqx; 193K]
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Date: Sat, 25 Jun 1994 14:08:18 +0100 (BST)
From: Greg Landweber
Subject: [*] Greg's Browser 2.3; a file browser
Greg's Browser v2.3 (25 June 1994) (c)1991-94 Gregory D. Landweber
REGISTRATION FEE: US $20 or UK L12 Internet: [email protected]
Greg's Browser requires System 7 and Color QuickDraw.
Do you think the Finder is too slow and clumsy when navigating through your
folder structure? Do you perhaps use a hierarchical Apple menu utility but
are tired of zigging and zagging your mouse from submenu to submenu? Or
maybe you just like color icons. If so then you should try Greg's Browser.
Displaying multiple folders in a single window, Greg's Browser lets you
simultaneously see the contents of a folder, its parent, and a subfolder,
providing a quick and easy way of moving both up and down through your
folder hierarchy.
Greg's Browser takes advantage of the "Macintosh Drag and Drop" and
"Stuffit Engine" extensions. Mac D&D can be found at ftp.apple.com,
and the Engine is a part of Aladdin's "DropStuff with Expander Enhancer",
which is currently available as a public beta from the usual ftp sites.
Changes since version 2.2
o You can now browse into Stuffit and Compact Pro archives, and if you
have both "Macintosh Drag and Drop" and the "Stuffit Engine", you can
drag files into or out of Stuffit archives to stuff or unstuff them.
o If you drop files on the System Folder, the Browser routes them to the
appropriate subfolders, just like with the Finder.
o Put in small icons to show the "Projector"/"SourceServer" status of
project files. If you don't know what this means, you don't need it.
o Made lots and lots of small improvements and a couple of bug fixes.
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/gregs-browser-23.hqx; 114K]
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/gregs-browser-23-ppc.hqx; 128K]
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Date: Sat, 25 Jun 1994 14:06:26 +0100 (BST)
From: Greg Landweber
Subject: [*] Greg's Buttons 3.4 -- user interface customization
Greg's Buttons 3.4 (25 June 1994) (c)1991-94 Gregory D. Landweber
Internet: [email protected] ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
CompuServe: 73131,3326 REGISTRATION FEE: US $15 or UK L10
Do you think your Mac's interface looks flat and boring? Do you wonder why
the push buttons are still in black and white, while the scroll bars and
windows are shaded with color tinges? Are your eyes tired of staring at
white windows? Does the blocky Chicago font get you down? Maybe you just
yearn for a red stop sign. If so, then you should try Greg's Buttons. If
not, you should still try Greg's Buttons, and after a week or two you'll be
shocked by how plain your Mac looks without it!
Greg's Buttons is a control panel and requires System 7 and Color QuickDraw.
It works fine with both color and gray-scale monitors, and although it will
still work on a black and white screen, the effect will not be as impressive.
Greg's Buttons is a "fat binary", containing both 680x0 and PowerPC code for
optimal performance on both Macintosh and Power Macintosh computers.
Changes since v3.3
o Fixed a problem with System 7.5 that caused the buttons to revert to
the standard black and white regardless of the control panel settings.
o Cleaned up the trap patches; version 3.4 should be significantly more
stable than versions 3.2 or 3.3.
"They don't look like buttons unless they're Greg's Buttons"
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/gregs-buttons-34.hqx; 77K]
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Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 01:59:47 -0700
From: [email protected] (Jeff Lewis)
Subject: [*] Imagery 1.9 Graphics Converter
The following is an update for the Imagery graphics converter which is
currently at Sumex. There have been numerous additions and enhancements
including translation of nearly 100 graphics, sound and movie file formats
into 15 commonly used Mac and PC formats. As well, the user interface has
been streamlined substantially and preview icons can now be generated for
all converted (image) files. While there are too many formats to list here,
Atari ST, Amiga, Mac, PC, Windows and Unix sound and bitmap formats are
supported. Best of all, it's still freeware.
[Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/imagery-19.hqx; 211K]
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 03:35:41 -0100
From: Benoit LIPS
Subject: [*] internet-dial-in-Europe-1.4; a list of providers
internet-dial-in-Europe-1.4.txt is a list of European internet access
providers or BBS allowing cross posting mail to internet.
UPDATES V1.4
Change of the file format (setext format), still ASCII file readable with
text editors or wordprocessor, but enhanced reading with EasyView.
Added Entry for :
Russia : GlasNet, Demo BBS
France : Oleane, TRANSPAC (France Telecom)
U.K. : Compulink Information eXchange (CIX), CityScape,
GreenNet, infocom interactive, On-line, Pipex Ltd.,
Sound & Vision BBS, Specialix
Updates for :
U.K. : CompuServe Information Service U.K.
The Direct Connection, DEMON, EUnet GB
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/info/internet-dial-in-europe-14.txt; 17K]
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 94 15:39:51 PDT
From: [email protected] (Martin Fong)
Subject: [*] MacAnim Viewer 1.0.2; an animation viewer of variious formats
This Compactor Pro archive contains MacAnim Viewer 1.0.2, which
displays GL, FLI, FLC, DL, GIF, and PCX/PIC files, and automatically
unzips .zip archives in search of the same. MacAnim Viewer was built
presupposing a 68020 and 32-bit QuickDraw and works best with an 8-bit
color monitor. This bug fix release supercedes all previous versions.
24MAY94 Martin Fong ([email protected])
P.S.: I am interested in obtaining any file that causes MacAnim Viewer
to crash your system. I would also like to obtain documentation for
the latest version of GL. This would enable me to correctly implement
additional GL directives. TIA!
[Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/mac-anim-viewer-102.hqx; 209K]
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 94 15:39:47 PDT
From: [email protected] (Martin Fong)
Subject: [*] MacAnim Viewer 1.0.2 Updater; a graphics utility
This Compactor Pro archive contains applications that update MacAnim
Viewer 1.0 and 1.0.1 to version 1.0.2 (a bug fix release). MacAnim
Viewer displays GL, FLI, FLC, DL, GIF, and PCX/PIC files, and
automatically unzips .zip archives in search of the same.
24MAY94 Martin Fong ([email protected])
P.S.: I am interested in obtaining any file that causes MacAnim Viewer
to crash your system. I would also like to obtain documentation for
the latest version of GL. This would enable me to correctly implement
additional GL directives. TIA!
[Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/mac-anim-viewer-10x-to-102-updt.hqx; 206K]
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 94 13:14:16 PDT
From: [email protected] (Eric Aubourg)
Subject: [*] MacScribe1.3Demo; a hieroglyphic text processor
This package contains
- MacScribe 1.3 demo version
- The "Glyph Basic" font set, with Type 1 PostScript and bitmap
- 24-pt bitmaps of the "Glyph ExtLib" font set.
MacScribe allows you to typeset Egyptian hieroglyphics easily, and then
either print directly or export to another document.
The Glyph Basic font set contains about 900 signs, corresponding roughly to
Gardiner's Grammar "Sign List".
The Glyph ExtLib font contains 4700 signs.
Both were designed on the lead font of the French Institute in Cairo (IFAO).
MacScribe demo has all the functionalities of the full version, but cannot
export by copy-pasting, and has limited printing capabilities (in particular,
all signs are printed with a stroke on them).
The author can be reached by e-mail at
[email protected] until the end of July 1994
[email protected] after.
Eric Aubourg
[Archived as /info-mac/app/mac-scribe-13-demo.hqx; 1379K]
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 10:46:51 +0100
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] MacWeb 0.98 alpha WWW browser
MacWEB 0.98alpha is half as big as NCSA Mosaic 1.03 (!!!), does everything
it did and more. (Extras include a working newsreader and forms support.)
What else does a webroamer want?!? It seems to be as stable as (and on my
PB170, definitely faster than) Mosaic 1.03; let's not even MENTION the
elephantine Mosaic 2.0alpha which died almost instantly on my machine.
I am NOT the author of MacWEB but downloaded it off ftp.switch.ch. See the
accompanying documentation for information about version 1.0 (to be
released around August).
To life!
Jan M.L. Martin --- [email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/net/mac-web-098a.hqx; 279K]
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Date: Sat, 25 Jun 94 19:11:11 CDT
From: [email protected] (Bob Schenk)
Subject: [*] Make-A-Maze; "allows one to draw mazes"
Make-A-Maze allows one to draw mazes on the computer screen with mouse
or arrow keys. It allows several transformations of mazes, and allows
a person to solve the maze or have the computer find the solution. Mazes
can be printed from the program or saved as files and then opened and
printed from a word-processing program.
Make-A-Make is promo-ware. It is free and may be freely distributed
as long as no changes are made and all files are kept together. It
advertises a more capable program called MazeMaker 3.3. See the
enclosed documentation for details.
Robert Schenk
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/game/make-a-maze.hqx; 374K]
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 94 08:30:29
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] MR. TIMER V2; a timing device
Here is Mr. Timer v2.2 for the Macintosh! Many of you have been waiting
for me to post this to Sumex, and I'm sorry for the wait. But I think
you'll find it worth it!
Mr. Timer v2.2 is a basic, but complete, Macintosh timing device for
the Macintosh computer. It currently runs 110K of RAM... that's it!
It counts down, acts like a stopwatch, allows you to pick which cursor
you'd like to use, as well as allowing you to style the text in the
window! This version even includes a System Clock menu, which performs
functions using data from your system clock!
This program is copywrited (c) 1994, Charles DeLauder. If you need
furthur information, contact Kitty - Kat Software at:
or by one of the methods listed in the documentation.
[Archived as /info-mac/app/mr-timer-22.hqx; 65K]
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 16:28:29 --100
From: [email protected] (Jacek Lipok)
Subject: [*] msword-dictionary-creator; from text files
This is a simple 'drag&drop' utility for those who likethe 'drag&drop' feature
of the system 7. I wrote it tocreate the sorted lists of words and the
customdictionaries for the MS-Word from arbitrary text files.You can drop
several text files and/or the custom MS-Worddictionaries into the wordlistmaker
icon to create asingle wordlist or dictionary. You can also excludearbitrary
words from the output file.Jacek Iwanski.
[Archived as /info-mac/app/msword-dictionary-creator.hqx; 246K]
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Date: Sun, 26 Jun 1994 15:12:02 -0400
From: Alex Metcalf
Subject: [*] MusicBox XCMD v3.0; adds sound and music to HyperCard
MusicBox XCMD v3.0 The professional audio development system
for HyperCard and SuperCard
by Alex Metcalf Best Before Yesterday software release
* HyperCard edition *
MusicBox is an XCMD which provides a number of sound and music
capabilities for HyperCard and SuperCard. Previous versions of MusicBox
already provided a number of sound and music features:
o Multi-channel sound support
o Multi-speed fading effects
o MOD music file playing
o AIFF sound file playing
o Pause/resume features
Now there's MusicBox 3, which provides even more advanced audio
and music features that anyone can use in their stacks and projects.
The new features include:
o Sound Manager 3 savvy
- Stereo positioning and panning effects
o System 7 sound file playing
o Stereo sound channel support
o New special effects
- echo
- speed and pitch control
o Play sections of a sound
- specify start and end points, in seconds
o Play AIFF sound files on any channel
o Improved music code
- stereo surround sound capability
- pause and resume features
- loopable music support
- higher quality sound
- faster music code takes less Mac processing time
o Pause command extended to work with all sounds
o Improved volume control
o Improved error messages
o Complete re-write of MusicBox code
- prioritised command recognition for increased speed
- error messages in separate, editable resources
- improved memory management
o 'Lite' install feature (no music features)
o Completely re-written stack
- improved interface
- more example scripts
- added demonstration "sound mixer" section
- "smart" installer
- error messages section added
MusicBox requires System 6.0.7 or later and a 68020 Mac or
better. Some parts of the stack require HyperCard 2.1 or later. The
SuperCard version of MusicBox will be out soon, providing all the
features of MusicBox for SuperCard version 1.6 or later.
MusicBox is shareware: with MusicBox 3 you can now also pay
with US or Canadian dollars, by cash or by cheque. Commercial licenses
are also available. See the stack for more information.
Alex Metcalf
Best Before Yesterday
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/card/music-box-30-xcmd.hqx; 390K]
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 12:41:31 +0200
From: [email protected] (Adam van Gaalen PA2AGA)
Subject: [*] NET_Mac2.3.41; supports TCP/IP over packet-radio
The Netherlands, June 23, 1994.
Hello dear reader,
Today I distributed NET_Mac2.3.41.sea.hqx...
For those who don't know NET/Mac... NET/Mac is the application that
supports TCP/IP over packet-radio, which means, that hamradio operators
can use NET/Mac for their wireless TCP/IP network...
In this version of NET/Mac I implemented the following:
- Allow recording of finger-sessions to a file
- Mods to prompt for username and password (FTP)
- Truncate hostnames that are too long to be printed
- Fixes for AddResMenu() bug in System 7.5
- Password-protect 'remote reset' command
- Make sure NET/Mac doesn't leave a watchcursor on the screen
- Change double linespace to single space in TRACE-files
- Create new TRACE-files only when the traceflags are nonzero
This version obsoletes all versions of info-mac/comm/net/radio-netmac in
the Sumex-Aim archives.
The new NET/Mac has (hopefully) been uploaded to:
1) ucsd.edu, to the directory hamradio/packet/tcpip/incoming.
If it's not there then look at hamradio/packet/tcpip/mac.
It may have also been uploaded to:
oak.oakland.edu, to the directory pub/hamradio/mac/digital
Kind regards,
Adam PA2AGA (e-mail: [email protected] )
( or: [email protected] for letters only, NO BIG files here)
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/net/radio-net-mac-2341.hqx; 375K]
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Date: Sat, 25 Jun 94 17:05:08 -0500
From: "Michael F. Kamprath"
Subject: [*] Personal Log v1.5.2; a diary keeper
Have you ever wanted to keep a diary? Do you need to document your actions?
Would you like to be able to easily take notes? Do you currently keep notes in
one, big, disorganized Word file?
If you answered yes to any of these, then Personal Log is for you. Personal
Log
allows you to keep a collection of notes in a single, easy-to-use file. You
can
password protect this file, search it's entries, and even "speak" the entries
(if you have Speech Manager" installed). Unlike other "note taking" programs,
Personal Log's interface is very simple and easy to use. Personal Log fully
supports System 7: Balloon Help is enabled in every menu, dialog, and window;
you may use Apple Script to control Personal Log; and the interface is in full
color (when available).
Improvements since v1.0:
* Now supports styled text editing.
* Supports Apple's new Drag & Drop technolody (if installed).
* Subject & Date sorting in the log windows.
* Faster file loading.
Personal Log is shareware; the fee is US$15. See the accompying manual for
more
information.
Personal Log v1.5.2
by Michael F. Kamprath
e-mail: [email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/app/personal-log-152.hqx; 454K]
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 23:26:57 +0400
From: Vladimir Butenko
Subject: [*] PortShare Pro 2.1 Demo; share your serial ports between Macs
The PortShare(tm) Pro software enables your Macintosh to share serial
communication ports (i.e. modems/printers/etc attached to those ports)
with other Macintosh computers connected to your network.
The PortShare Pro can run only under System 7, but it can communicate
with PortShare Lite installed on computers running System 6 or
System 7.
This demo version has the session time limited to 2 minutes.
The PortShare 2.1 is compatible with AV and PowerMacs, and it has
improved support for LineShare port arbitration. See the Release
Notes file.
For instructions, see the ReadMe file.
Please, send your comments to: [email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/net/port-share-pro-21-demo.hqx; 72K]
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Date: Mon, 20 Jun 94 16:31:10 -0700
From: [email protected] (Tzong-Shuoh Yang)
Subject: [*] rlab-1.0.hqx: a linear algebra package
Hello,
This is the Mac port of Ian Searle's RLaB 1.0.
RLaB is a Matlab-like linear algebra and plotting package.
Have fun!
T. S. Yang
([email protected])
[Archived as /info-mac/sci/rlab-10.hqx; 1626K]
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 19:37:10 +0200
From: Stefanie Thies
Subject: [*] sAVe the Disk 1.4.2; for AV Macs
The enclosed file is a bin-hexed/compact-pro archive.
I am the author of this FreeWare system extension,
which I call "sAVe the Disk".
This file contains version 1.4.2 of sAVe the Disk which
supersedes all previous versions up to 1.4.
sAVe the Disk 1.4.2 fixes three deficiencies of the AV Macs:
It speeds up certain Resource Manager operations, improves
performance of the disk cache built into the system and
prevents extra disk activity before and after sounds are
played.
sAVe the Disk works on Centris/Quadra 660av and Quadra 840av.
It requires System 7.1 and version 1.0, 1.1 or 1.2 of the
System Enabler 088.
Although sAVe the Disk has not caused me any trouble I'm not
responsible for any (unlikely) problems you may experience.
This updated version works smoothly with the latest 1.2 Enabler
and includes my new Internet address. It fixes a bug, which
caused sAVe 1.4 to hang during start-up, when the 1.0 or the 1.1
Enabler was used.
Best regards,
Michael Thies. ([email protected])
[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/save-the-disk-142.hqx; 17K]
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Date: Tue, 21 Jun 94 13:08:35 -0400
From: [email protected] (Douglas E. Ivers)
Subject: [*] SCRIPTURE MEMORY 1.2; a memorisation aid
This stack, an update to Scripture Memory 1.0, is best suited for memorizing
Scripture verses. It can also be used to memorize other texts such as poetry
or speeches. You can type in anything you want to memorize. Seven
increasingly difficult quizzes challenge your memory skills. The stack keeps
track of your familiarity with each verse, and modifies quizzes appropriately.
Shareware fee is $7.
If you are already a user of Scripture Memory, open Scripture Memory 1.2, go to
the verse database summary card, click on the "Import verses..." button, and
open your existing Scripture Memory stack to install your verses.
This stack requires HyperCard 2.0 or later, or the HyperCard Player.
Version Information: 1.2 fixes some bugs and adds a few minor features to
1.0.
Douglas E. Ivers
1027 Plantation Dr.
Cary, NC 27511-4334
[email protected]
or [email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/app/scripture-memory-12-hc.hqx; 211K]
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 14:48:09 +0100
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] ScriptWiz.demo; for AppleScripts
Enclosed is a trial version of ScriptWizard, plus tutorial-style electronic
documentation. ScriptWizard is the first integrated script editing and
debugging environment for AppleScript. We built ScriptWizard to make life
easier for you by including features that are designed to simplify and
speed the creation, testing and debugging of scripts. You will find when
using ScriptWizard that it is much easier to navigate through scripts,
track what's really going on when they execute and get to the essential
Apple event dictionary information that you need.
ScriptWizard is a commercial package. The launch price is $45 + tax and
shipping in the US, and UK pounds 39 + tax and shipping in Europe. Full
details are in the enclosed package. For more information please e-mail
Mike Hopkins: [email protected] (not me, I'm off on vacation tonight!).
Please note that Mike does not receive the Info-Mac digest, so he won't see
postings there.
My own email address is: [email protected].
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/script-wizard-demo.hqx; 443K]
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 22:40:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email protected] (Mark Pilgrim)
Subject: [*] Shutdown FX 2.0 - public beta release
Shutdown FX 2.0 is a fun little software package which will fade your
screen to black on restart and/or shutdown with one of over 50 graphic
effects. This package includes a system extension to install Shutdown FX;
a startup application to install Shutdown FX (for system 7 users); a control
application to preview, install, and disable fades; a folder of 59 fade
modules; installation instructions.
C source code (for all components of the Shutdown FX package, including all
59 fade modules) is available; check ftp sites or e-mail [email protected].
Finger [email protected] for complete program list. Copyright (C) 1993-4,
Mark Pilgrim. Please read enclosed file "GNU General Public License" for
licensing details.
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/shutdown-fx-20.hqx; 157K]
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 22:41:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email protected] (Mark Pilgrim)
Subject: [*] Shutdown FX 2.0 source code - public beta release
Shutdown FX 2.0 is a fun little software package which will fade your
screen to black on restart and/or shutdown with one of over 50 graphic
effects. This package includes complete THINK C 7 source code, project
files, and resource files for all components of the Shutdown FX package:
system extension, startup application, control application, Gestalt
function, shutdown procedure, Notification Manager response procedure,
and all 59 fade modules. (Relax, I didn't include 59 project files.)
Since fades are stored as external modules (each in its own file), other
programmers can easily create their own fades and add to their collection.
See the Shutdown FX control application help section ("tech talk" page)
for more details, or read about it yourself in TEXT 613 in sfx..rsrc.
The compiled, ready-to-use files are available; check ftp sites or e-mail
[email protected]. Finger [email protected] for complete program list.
Copyright (C) 1993-4, Mark Pilgrim. Please read enclosed file "GNU General
Public License" for licensing details.
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/src/shutdown-fx-20-c.hqx; 420K]
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Date: Sat, 25 Jun 1994 05:24:07 -0400
From: [email protected] (Blaise Faint)
Subject: [*] super-clamp-001-hc; a magazine
SuperClamp001.sit.hqx is a HyperCard 2.2 stack of a Chapel
Hill NC chick zine.
[Archived as /info-mac/per/super-clamp-001-hc.hqx; 203K]
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 06:26:30 -0800
From: [email protected] (Tom Emerson)
Subject: [*] Symantec C++ 7.0.3 EDS Update
In our continuing effort to provide quality development tools, we are
releasing this incremental update in response to problems reported in
the 7.0.2 release of Symantec C++ for Macintosh. The Symantec C++ 7.0.3
patch fixes problems discovered in 7.0.2 and earlier versions. It fixes
the Symantec C++ translator and THINK Project Manager, as well as bugs
in the Visual Architect, THINK Class Library, and the Apple interfaces.
This update contains patches for the THINK Project Manager, Symantec
C++ and THINK C translators, and minor corrections to the interface
files. It does *not* include the Visual Architect or TCL update. If you
do not already have TCL 2.0.x then you should use this updater.
Symantec Development Tools Group
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/symantec-cpp-eds-703-updt.hqx; 530K]
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 06:28:23 -0800
From: [email protected] (Tom Emerson)
Subject: [*] Symantec C++ 7.0.3 Full Update
In our continuing effort to provide quality development tools, we are
releasing this incremental update in response to problems reported in
the 7.0.2 release of Symantec C++ for Macintosh. The Symantec C++ 7.0.3
patch fixes problems discovered in 7.0.2 and earlier versions. It fixes
the Symantec C++ translator and THINK Project Manager, as well as bugs
in the Visual Architect, THINK Class Library, and the Apple interfaces.
This is the complete update, including patches for the THINK Project
Manager, Visual Architect, Symantec C++ and THINK C translators, minor
corrections to the interface files, and an updated TCL. Users of the
PowerPC CDK should download this update as well; new PowerPC translators
will be available soon - the problems corrected in the 7.0.3 release of
the C++ translator were 68K specific.
Symantec Development Tools Group
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/symantec-cpp-703-updt.hqx; 1397K]
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 10:07:04 -0600
From: [email protected] (Randy Schumann)
Subject: [*] t-test HyperCard stack; a statistical test
t-test HyperCard stack
by Randy Schumann
version 1.0, 1989
This stack is freeware. You may use and distribute it freely as long as it
is not modified in any way and it is distributed with this READ ME file.
The contents of this stack are Copyright 1989 Randall Schumann.
HyperCard is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.
t-test performs the Student's t-test statistical test between two
population or sample means. A brief help screen is accessed by clicking
the "about" balloon in the upper right corner of the stack's main card.
t-test is in the HyperCard 1.2 format so if you have a newer version you
must convert the stack in order to use it. HyperCard automatically asks
you to do this when you begin.
[Archived as /info-mac/sci/t-test-10-hc.hqx; 43K]
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 22:48:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: Todd Clements
Subject: [*] The Indexer 1.0; A Yearbook Indexing Utility
The Indexer, Version 1.0, by Todd Clements ([email protected])
This utilities main purpose is to aid in the creation of indexes for
yearbooks. What it does is simple, it reads in a file of names, and allows
you to associate page numbers with each of these names. However, it makes
the process easier than doing it by hand (My own experience with a ~1500
name index had the time go from 9 hrs to 2 hrs.). It offers find features
that will allow you to find names (or portions of names), or find those who
are indexed to a certain page.
You can open up previously made indexes and continue with your work at any
time. The Indexer also offers Alphabetical sorting functions, and functions
to create useable index files. (As an example, I received a DOS file from
the District in All caps, with extraneous information all over the
place... The Indexer allows you to selectively remove that extraneous
information and create a useable file).
If you are involved in anything that involves association of text with page
numbers, The Indexer could be useful to you. The Indexer is Shareware $5US.
I am the author and can be reached at [email protected].
The Indexer may be included on CD ROMs or other such packages as long as the
fee is for cost of product, and not profit.
[Archived as /info-mac/text/indexer-10.hqx; 85K]
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Date: 24 Jun 1994 21:10:13 -0500
From: "Denis Pelli"
Subject: [*] VideoToolbox.94.6.23; some C video routines
The VideoToolbox is a collection of two hundred C subroutines and several demo
and utility programs that I and others have written to do visual psychophysics
with Macintosh computers. It's free and may not be sold without permission. It
should be useful to anyone who wants to present accurately specified visual
stimuli or use the Mac for psychometric experiments. The text file "Video
synch" discusses all the ways of synchronizing programs to video displays and
the many pitfalls to avoid. The TimeVideo application checks out the timing of
all video devices in anticipation of their use in critical real-time
applications, e.g. movies or lookup table animation. Low-level routines control
video timing and lookup tables, display real-time movies, and implement the
luminance-control algorithms suggested by Pelli and Zhang (1991). (D.G. Pelli
and L. Zhang, 1991, Accurate control of contrast on microcomputer displays.
Vision Research, 31, 1337-1350. Reprints are available.) In particular,
GetPixelsQuickly and SetPixelsQuickly peek and poke pixels in bitmaps and
pixmaps, CopyBitsQuickly copies bit/pixmaps to the screen, and
SetEntriesQuickly and GDSetEntries load the screen's color lookup table, all
without any of QuickDraw's color translations. High-level routines help analyze
psychophysical experiments (e.g. graphing or maximum-likelihood fitting of
psychometric data). Assign.c is a runtime C interpreter for C assignment
statements, which is useful for controlling experiments and sharing calibration
data. This collection has been continually updated since 1991. Many colleagues
have indicated that they are using the software in their labs. Documentation is
in the source files themselves. Many of the routines are Mac-specific, but some
very useful routines, e.g. the luminance-control, statistics,
maximum-likelihood fitting algorithms, and the runtime interpreter are written
in Standard C and will work on any computer.
Denis Pelli
Professor of Neuroscience
Institute for Sensory Research
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244-5290
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/src/video-toolbox-94-06-23-c.hqx; 2035K]
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 09:58:48 +0000
From: Graham Allsopp
Subject: [*] World Cup '66 sounds
As one or two of you may have realised, football's (soccer) World Cup
finals are currently being played in the States. I've found two sound files
>From the 1966 World Cup final. Kenneth Wolstenholme's final minute
commentry has become probably the most famous words ever spoken on British
TV.
The shorter one makes a particularly pleasing shutdown sound.
Graham
[Archived as /info-mac/snd/world-cup-66.hqx; 227K]
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 94 15:25:16 PDT
From: "A. R. White"
Subject: "Folio" Printing Software?
I want to produce 5.5" x 8.5" booklets from 8.5" x 11" pages printed
on both sides and folded in half. To do this, I need to print files
so that, for an 8-page booklet, (what will be) pages 1 & 8, 7 & 2, 3 & 6,
and 5 & 4 will print on separate pieces of paper. I believe this is called
folio printing, but I'm not sure.
Does anybody know of such software, or have any suggestions? I use
Word 5.1 and LaserWriter 8.1.1.
Respond directly to me, please; no use bothering everybody else.
Thanks,
A. R. White
Internet: nomdenet @ ISI.edu
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 10:23:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: #66 Andrew Brandt
Subject: "The Macs" software describing all Macs
I downloaded The Macs from the archives. It is beta 6 and it has
expired. Is there a newer version? Covering up to the Q840 (or maybe
the PPCs!). Any help would be appreciated.
--
Andy ([email protected] OR [email protected])
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Date: Sun, 26 Jun 94 14:20:51 EDT
From: [email protected] (Alan Piszcz)
Subject: .dp files (Q)
The Mosaic Documentation is in '.dp' format. What application
reads/converts this format?
Thanks.
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 94 23:48:26 PST
From: Marc Schrier
Subject: [R] Clock chipping consequences?
[email protected] (Dieder Bylsma) wrote:
>What are the consequences of clock chipping a mac?
There are no short term consequences of properly clock chipping a Mac. The
long term consequences are unknown. People have had IIsi's clock chipped
for several years now with no long term problems. I've had my Quadra 800
clock chipped to 42MHz for over a year now, and I've had no problems. Yes,
there is a greater risk of burning out the processor, but I have not heard
of a single such case. If however you make a mistake while doing the
modification you can fry components on your motherboard and render it
useless. If you run too fast it will be obvious; your Mac will have serial
port problems, crash a lot, have video or floppy problems. If this is the
case, just use a slightly slower oscillator.
>I know that you can increase the speed of the mac, but I would imagine
>that by increasing the frequency, you increase the heat produced by the
>poor 68040.
Yes, running the 68040 (or any processor) faster than it is rated will make
it run hotter than it was designed to run. If you add a heatsink to those
machines that do not have one already, or a fan to those machines that
already have heatsinks, you can dissipate most of the additional heat.
>What other components are affected or stressed out of their tolerances by
>the clock chipping?
The serial ports, floppy drive, and VRAM have been known to show symptoms
of being over clocked. There is a separate modification needed for the
C610 if you want to use the onboard ethernet hardware since it derives its
timing from the main oscillator.
>I would imagine that the video circuitry would not be seriously affected
>since all the VRAM machines take the same speed VRAM. Same for the
>seperately clocked serial ports and ethernet ports as well as the ADB
>ports and SCSI ports etc.
There is a modification to fix a timing problem with the C650 that fixes
the serial port problem at frequencies over 30MHz.
>is it worth it to clock chip a mac?
I sure think so -- I love the 27% speed increase. It all depends on what
you do with your Mac, and what risks you are willing to take.
>How can I alleviate any of these negative side-effects? A Heat-sink?
>Immerse the entire thing in liquid helium?
When you have problems, just use a slower oscillator until the problems
dissipate. Yeah, a heatsink and fan are also helpful. Liquid helium is a
bit expensive and makes your Mac sound a bit funny.
There is a file with more on this here at SUMEX in
/info-mac/info/hdwr/crystal-speedup-history-23.txt. And the topic of
clock-chipping is frequently discussed on comp.sys.mac.hardware as well.
Marc Schrier
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Date: Mon, 27 Jun 1994 09:44:13 GMT
From: [email protected] (Anders Stegen)
Subject: Accessing files by mail? (A)
You probably have a dozen or so replies by now but anyway:
I know of three mailservers. My favourite is the umich server for
Mac stuff. As always, use the ftp access firsthand. For umich; use the
ftp mirror sites.
[email protected]
send email with body text HELP for help text
[email protected]
send email with body text HELP for help text
[email protected] both file retrieval and some mail lists
send email with body text HELP for mail list help
send email with body $mac help for file
retrieval help
cheers /Anders
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Date: Sat, 25 Jun 1994 07:44:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Kieran O'Connor"
Subject: Anyone got Ztemr Sounds?
Hi,
Does anyone out there have the Zterm patch which adds Star Trek sounds
when you dowload with Zterm? I had it but my system got corrupted and I
lost it. I cannot find it anywhere in info-mac.
if you've got it--coudl you send me the sounds? Direct responses to my
account woudl be appreciated--I dont read I-Mac every day. Thanks.
Kieran O'Connor
E-Mail Address: [email protected]
Syracuse, N.Y. USA
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 17:19:27 -0500 (CDT)
From: Neil Eric Mickelson
Subject: Apple LaserWriter 8.2 Driver
Hey everyone!!
Does anyone have any idea when Apple will be releasing the LW8.2 driver?
Thanks!
Neil
[email protected]
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 16:54:53 -0500
From: [email protected] (Jan Richard)
Subject: ARA modem script for Practical Peripherals MC144MT II?
I just finished recommending the Practical Peripherals PM14400FXMT modem to
300 incoming freshman for dialing into our ARA (Netblazer) server, and
yesterday I discovered that they discontinued that model. I called
Practical Peripherals, and they assured me that the new MC144MT II used an
identical command set and would (should) work with the same ARA modem
script. I got the modem and could not get it to work with our setup. Has
anyone else used the new model successfully with ARA, preferably dialing in
to a Netblazer? Is there a new modem script out there somewhere? Do I
have to change some modem settings to get the old script to work with the
new modem? The freshman letter went out last Tuesday, so I expect to start
getting phone calls next week. Help!
Jan Richard ([email protected])
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 11:34:32 -0600 (CST)
From: [email protected]
Subject: Archie?
Has something happened to the archie server at nic.sura.net? I've tried a
couple of times over the past week to get a response from them, but to no
avail. I'm sending the message just like I always have: (1) TO:
IN%"[email protected]" and (2) the body of the message as "prog ..."
I usually get a response within 24 hours, but I've been waiting for a week now
for a response to a message sent to the server a few days ago. Anybody know
what's going on? Thanks.
Steve Waechter
swaechter@utmem1 (bitnet)
[email protected] (internet)
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 12:55:06 -0700
From: [email protected] (Gary Goldberg)
Subject: C64 .D64 files for emulator - Where, please?
I`ve downloaded a copy of the C64 emulator fir the Mac which I think is
incredibly cool. Does anyone know where I can locate .T64 or .D^$ files for
use with it? Particularly some of the old C64 games, like Archon and
Archon II, or the RaceTrack Construction Set? Thanks in advance. -Gary
- .sig under construction - No 2-way radios during daylight hours.
Gary Goldberg KA3ZYW email: [email protected] [email protected]
Digital Marketing, Inc., Bowie, MD. - An Internet Services Company
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 08:46:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Lyman Green
Subject: CD-ROM benchmark program?
Hello Fellow IMers..
Are there any CD-ROM benchmarking programs out there?
I'm testing CD-ROM's and would like to know if the 3XP really is a 3X.
Thanks in advance to anyone who wishes to help!
Lyman
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Date: Sat, 25 Jun 94 13:34:28 +0200
From: [email protected] (Frederic Vecoven)
Subject: ClarisWorks -> Filemaker Pro
I'd like to convert my ClarisWorks file to Excel and FilemakerPro.
For Excel, no problem, as ClarisWorks (v1.0) can save for Excel 3,
and, of course, Excel 4 can import Excel 3 format.
But, I can't open the databse file with FilemakerPro. And the "import"
menu is not very good. I have to re-define the fields, this is
annoying ! (and more, I'll lose all my models)
Does somebody know how to get my files into Filemaker Pro ????
Later,
Frederic Vecoven ([email protected])
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 18:25:23 -0400
From: Paul Westbrook
Subject: FileMaker Question
Is it possible to use FileMaker Pro to create a database that will
be used for a hotel type of registration? What I would like to do
would be to have a list of open rooms. Then, when some one comes in
and states how long they want to stay, it will list all of the rooms
that would be available using these criteria. Then, as the person
chooses which room, it will become unavailable during those times.
Is this possible? How can I get the criteria to narrow down the
possible rooms? How can I then remove the chosen room from the
available room list?
Any help will be appreciated. Please send me e-mail with you help.
Thank you,
Paul Westbrook
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 94 16:41:09 CDT
From: [email protected] (David V. Wiltschko)
Subject: Film Recorders for the Mac
Our department is looking for a good quality film recorder for making
35mm slides. There is a Montage elsewhere on campus (overworked) and I have
heard that there are others out there includes one by Polariod. Our
questions are:
1) Are any of these networkable or do they all require a dedicated Mac
2) What's the *best* one. Please share your experiences.
3) Is the speed bottleneck the attached Mac or the recorder.
I will summarize responses.
Dave Wiltschko
Texas A&M University.
+==================================+
Dave Wiltschko
Professor of Geology and Geophysics
Texas A&M University
+==================================+
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Date: Mon, 27 Jun 1994 07:06:43 -0400
From: [email protected] (Carol Conti-Entin)
Subject: FreeHand 4/MasterJuggler Conflict
I recently upgraded to FreeHand 4.0 and find that it won't finish
loading if I am also using the MasterJuggler I bought 2 years ago:
Release 1.57c. (Incidentally, I mailed in my registration card promptly,
but ALSoft has never sent me an upgrade notice.) My questions:
1) What is the latest MasterJuggler release, and does IT work with FH4?
2) Is an updater available on the Internet somewhere?
3) If not, does ALSoft have an 800 # &/or e-mail address?
Many thanks!
--
Carol Conti-Entin Internet: [email protected] N.E. Ohio, USA
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 94 11:18 EST
From: Daniel Bailey
Subject: GeoPort, Quadra 840AV, and America Online 2.1
I have a Quadra 840AV and I was trying to install America Online & use it with
my GeoPort Telecom Adapter. I called America Online Technical Support and we
tried several things, but they were unable to help me. Does anyone use this
combination of hardware/software? If so, could you let me know what you do to
get it to work? Thanks.
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 21:56:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: "JULIO E. IBARRA"
Subject: How to create ZIP files for DOS
Can someone tell me how to create a ZIP file using a Mac which can then be
UNZIP'd from a DOS PC? Does anyone know of a utility for the Mac that can
do this? I have PS files which I would like to make available to Mac and PC
users, but I would like to know if I can do all the compressing from a
Macintosh and not have to use a PC.
Many thanks,
Julio Ibarra
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 10:19:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email protected]
Subject: is it possible to run HyperCard stacks under Windows?
The subject line says most of it. Are there tools that allow one to
convert HyperCard stacks to some format suitable for playing under *ANY*
Windows application (Toolbook, etc.)? Is SuperCard cross-platform yet?
Any gentle prods in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks a lot,
Eric Davies
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 20:23:31 -0500
From: Paul M Sheldon
Subject: I Veronicad Al Gore on Information Superhighway
I used Veronica, after I found the excerpts for keywords.
I wrote this:
gopher wiretap.Spies.COM
then arrowed down as follows:
Government Docs (US & World)
Gore's National Performance Review Report
Then I slashed searched down the doc with "highway" and found:
DOC14 Build a Business and Economic Information Node for the
Information Highway
To assist in the distribution of government information to private
citizens, Commerce should build a business and economic
information node to the "information highway."
cbe cbe
Aha, information highway not information superhighway! What a man calls
his thing might be different than the people who cite him.
Now, I veronica searched that keyword at my university site through
gopher.
I added the find to my bookmarks and then pico edited my .gopherrc
file and searched for Gore to paste. Thus, I came up with the gopher
pointer (there is a long line that truncates with a dollar sign).
I wrapped this long line to see what it was and so present unwrapped
with dollar sign and wrapped and leave you to infer the line:
Unwrapped:
---
Type=1
Name=VP Gore's Speech on the Information Highway
Path=m/gophers/public_policy/Education/American Association for the
Advancement$
Host=mercury.cair.du.edu
Port=70
Wrapped:
---
Type=1 Name=VP Gore's Speech on the Information Highway
Path=m/gophers/public_policy/Education/American Association for the
Advancement of Core Curriculum/About Gopher in General/VP Gore's Speech on
the Information Highway Host=mercury.cair.du.edu Port=70
---
So, the long line is inferred to be:
Path=m/gophers/public_policy/Education/American Association for the
Advancement of Core Curriculum/About Gopher in General/VP Gore's Speech on
the Information Highway
---
That's how it is done.
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 94 23:44:05 -0400
From: [email protected]
Subject: LC575 coprocessor
>Hi, netters, I have a question for you.
>We all know LC 575 comes without a math-coprocessor. I'm
>wondering if I may put in a math coprocessor. A technician
>with Apple's license here told me it's impossible to do "because
>the LC 575 is upgradable to PowerMac which comes with a built-in
>math coprocessor." I feel bewildered by that statement.
not the correct answer that you can't put a coprocessor on a 68LC040?
PowerMac upgrade has nothing to do with that.
louis [email protected]
------------------------------
Date: 26 Jun 94 12:41:24 EDT
From: Hans Kroeger
Subject: Mailing Documents
On 11 Jun 1994 13:01:52 -0500 (CDT), Dwight K. Lemke wrote:
>>I am conversing with a couple of colleagues and we need to start sending
>>documents over the 'net. I used Eudora, one uses Pine and the third is
>>using Pegasus. Is there a format for attachments that they all have in
>>commmon?
On 15 Jun 1994, Murph Sewall wrote:
>1) ASCII
>
>2) binhex (as long as no one has a PC--I've found that Eudora's binhex
>encoder ALSO uses Macbinary so even if I have a PC format file and Binhex
>it the PMail decoder can't produce something that a PC word processor
>understands
Not true:
I am creating MS Word documents on my Mac, save them as WinWord files, send
them as BINHEXED files to my counterpart, he unbinhexes the file and works
with it on his PC. Also works the other way around.
Same can be done using UUENCODE instead of BINHEX.
Hans
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 00:37:57 -0400
From: [email protected] (Charlie Mingo)
Subject: Mathematica on PPC (A)
"A. Moiseff" writes:
>A colleague has asked whether anyone has tried Mathematica vers 2.2
>enhanced on a PowerPC 6100. If anyone has tried this software on a PPC
>please tell me 1) Does it work, 2) How does the performance compare to
>running on a Quadra series machine. Thanks.
According to posts on MacWeek, MMa 2.2.3 (native PPC code) running on an
8100 is about five times faster than 2.2.3 on a Quadra 840av, at least for
numeric intensive operations. Your miliage may vary, but clearly it is
faaaast..
MMa 2.2.2 and before (available only in 680x0 format) will run on a PPC,
but only if the modern memory manager and caches are turned off, which
slows it down considerably. Anyone with 2.2.2 or before would be well
advised to upgrade to 2.2.3 for $125.
Also, I'd make sure you have a lot of RAM on your PowerMac, as MMa 2.2.3
(PPC) prefers 6.5 Mb with VM turned on and 12.3 Mb with it turned off.
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 14:11:32 -0400
From: [email protected] (Gary L. Gray)
Subject: Mathematica on PPC (A)
> A colleague has asked whether anyone has tried Mathematica vers 2.2
> enhanced on a PowerPC 6100. If anyone has tried this software on a PPC
> please tell me 1) Does it work, 2) How does the performance compare to
> running on a Quadra series machine. Thanks.
Mathemtica 2.2 is now native on PowerMacs. It works rather nicely!!! I run
it on a PowerMac 8100/80, but my wife runs it on a 6100/60 and it screams
on both machines. I did some benchmarks comparing Mma 2.2 on my PowerMac
8100 to 2.2 on a Quadra 800 and the PowerMac 8100 was a minimum of 5-6
times faster than the Q800 on a variety of operations (graphics, numerical
integration of ODEs, symbolic algebra). Some tests (primarily floating
point stuff) showed it to be 10+ times faster. Don't try and run the
non-native version since I believe it does not like the Modern Memory
Manager.
I recommend it highly.
Best regards,
--
Gary L. Gray | Engineering Science & Mechanics
Assistant Professor | Penn State University
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 23:39:26 -0700
From: [email protected] (Mark Obsniuk)
Subject: Mathematica on PPC (Q)
I have not tried it myself but the Beta version is out. There is a speed
up of 10-15 times over the Quadras on integer calculations and about 4
times for graphics related calculations. Beyond that I can not help.
Mark
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 19:25:22 -0500
From: Paul M Sheldon
Subject: MIDI on a Mac (A)
I'm pretty sure midi files are standard according to someone else
than a computer platform. I get my stuff to jam with from something
called jamnet at Berkeley. So, I'm pretty sure that with binary transfer
>From a PC source to a unix, I could get it into my mac, going directly
>From a PC to mac, I would be confused.
The second idea was interesting. I have two sound modules separate
>From my mac. That internal sound cards or DSP chips could do what they do
might be an interesting challenge for a freeware author out to prove
himself and publish rather than get absorbed by a commercial institution.
I don't know whether this has been already done. Could anyone mention
the appropriate keywords for wais. I might suspect interapplication
communication, a program to play the notes in the card and seem like
external midi channels to another midi program to send it signals. So, I
think apple events might be a keyword.
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 1994 20:18:34 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jay Poutinen
Subject: Monitor adjustment
I have a 16" Apple monitor that has lost some of its brightness over
time. The brightness control on the front of the monitor is all the way
bright, and I've set the gamma setting in the monitor control panel to
maximize brightness.
I suspect there are adjustments under the monitor cover somewhere. Can
someone tell me whether there is such an adjustment and where to find
it before I start tinkering.
Thanks,
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 1994 14:07:47 -0700
From: [email protected] (Scott T. Spencer)
Subject: Monitor resolution switching
Ref: Query from "James Ashton" in IM 88.
Hi, by now this may be a "moot" question since I see that IM #89 had a detailed
answer to your question about monitor resolution switching on PowerPCs (from a
fellow in Holland.) However, I'll pass along the name and address of a company
in San Ramon, California that might be helpful. A man named John Milich of CD
Solutions came to a user's group meeting this week to discuss just this topic.
It seems that many of the more recent Macs have the technical capability to
interface with multisync monitors of different sizes and/or screen
resolutions.
To the local BMUG meeting, he brought a basic Quadra 605 model and an Altima
17"
monitor. Using a black box of his company's devising, he showed that he could
run the monitor at a variety of different resolutions - up to and including a
"two page format" of about 1150x870 (or similar - unfortunately, I've mislaid
the monitor spec sheet he provided.) His black box was a $99 US item that
adapts
a monitor cable to send signals that the Mac interprets. After changing the
box's switch settings, it's necessary to reboot the Quadra to get the benefit
of
a different "resolution."
I remember that the box had three 3 position switches, so presumably the box
can
send 27 distinct signals. I think the Quadra 605 supports about 4 different
Apple monitors of differing size and resolution, so many of the 27 possible
signal states aren't directly revelant. However, there are other things in the
world to interface a Mac to (than Apple monitors.) Mr. Milich showed that his
"box" could interface the Quadra 605 to a fancy projection system installed in
the local conference room. (As an aside, his technical expert (along for the
ride) showed how to use the box to interface a Powerbook (with an external
video
port, of course) to that same projection system - this has been a continuing
problem over the months when speakers brought their own demonstration
computers.
I gather that the projection system doesn't provide useful synchronization
signals to the Powerbook.)
John Milich's full address is - CD Solutions, 2551 San Ramon Valley Blvd.,
Ste.
214, San Ramon, CA 94583. Phone numbers are 510.820.5400 & 510.820.4115 (fax).
This company is said to offer "computer display sales & engineering." He
offered
BMUG members the "box/cable" to BMUG members for $99 as I recall; and the 17"
Altima monitor with "box" for $850. Monitor was a Hitachi and said to have its
own internal microprocessor.
Mr. Milich had an interesting line about how a nameless Japanese company has
been successful in convincing American users that you need a Trinitron tube if
you want high quality video. I'm not much of a judge but his Hitachi
(non-Trinitron) looked pretty good to me.
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 19:45:22 GMT
From: [email protected] (Mark Gadzikowski)
Subject: Monitor Test Pattern Software (A)
[email protected] writes:
>A program called Test Pattern Generator by Larry Rymal will do what you
>want. It *may* be in the archives. You can certainly get it on the disk
>that comes with Rymal's book "Macintosh Repair and Upgrade Secrets" (Hayden
>Books) and maybe with other of Rymal's books as well.
The author's name is Lary Pina.
--
I used to drive a Heisenberg Uncertainty car, but I could never read the
speedometer without getting lost.
Work: [email protected]
Netcom: [email protected]
NewtonMail: [email protected]
America Online: [email protected]
That's "Mark Gadzikowski" to you, Human.
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 12:19:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: Irv Wiswall
Subject: NCSA Telnet 2.6 [Q]
Folks,
Using NCSA Telnet version 2.6 on a Mac Plus, I have not been able to
figure out how to generat a control key. Neither commmand nor option
does it and I cannot find a setting that will make this work. Note that
this did work in version 2.5. Anyone have any ideas?
Also, I am still trying to figure out a font problem with 2.6. On come
computers, in some situations, it will print just fine if the font is
Monoco 9, but other times it will not. In all cases, system 7.1, monico
10 bitmap and monico truetype are installed. Again, anyone have any
ideas of what I should be looking for?
Irv Wiswall | [email protected]
Director of College Computing | 503 472 4121
Linfield College | McMinnville OR 97128
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 20:13:17 -0400
From: "Tom Scott"
Subject: Nikon CoolScan
Nikon CoolScan
I'm looking at a Nikon CoolScan for a proposal I'm putting together for my
Publications department. Anyone know what the best price/vendor is to get this
from? How about a phone number, e-mail address, etc. for Nikon? TIA!
Cheers!
Tom
Thomas Scott, Systems Manager, College of Engineering
Cornell University, Carpenter Hall Annex, Ithaca, NY 14853
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 94 21:34:59 CDT
From: [email protected] (Edward Floden)
Subject: Not a Disk Eject Button?!
At work, we've just received and installed three new Macs: one PowerMac
6100/60 and two Quadra 610s; I have one of the Quadra 610s.
Yesterday, I was BS-ing with my cubie-mate. I noted that the placement of
the power switch, located on the front panel below and to the right of the
floppy opening, could be mistaken for a disk eject button. Especially, I
thought, if a Mac-unsavvy DOS PC user was present in front of the monitor.
Then, in one of those rare coincidences that boggle the mind, one of our
development guys came into the building, bringing with him his own
PowerMac 6100/60. (The development department lives down the street. They
don't like us.
And attached to the front of his PowerMac, covering thepower switch, was a homemade cardboard-and-electrical-tape safety cover! I
asked why, of course. He told me that he installed the safety cover after
one of the DOS people in his building, who was using the Mac, attempted to
eject a floppy.
By pressing the "disk eject button", of course.
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 94 17:02:53 +0000
From: Mark Armitage
Subject: OCR software
Hi,
Does anyone know of any shareware OCR software for the Mac? I would like to
turn my received faxes back into text.
Also does anyone have any info. about the TEXTBRIDGE and OMNIPAGE/DIRECT OCR
software - i.e. are they any good, which is best etc.
Thanks alot,
Mark.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mark Armitage [email protected]
Please reply directly - my newsreader is a pain...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 1994 22:13:40 -0500
From: [email protected] (James Williams)
Subject: PB170/System Update 3/Problems
Shortly after installing Update 3, I began having problems with the PB170.
They might be strictly coincidence - then again they might not. The main
problem is that the computer will not awaken properly from the Sleep mode.
Upon awakening, all seems normal for about 5 seconds, and then the watch
appears and the computer seems to hang up. After about another 5 seconds I
get the following alert on the screen:
[Sorry a system error occurred. "Finder" error type 43]
On one occasion I receievd the alert:
[Sorry a system error occurred. "Finder" bad F-line instruction].
I have reinstalled the update to no avail. I have even tried to restore
the system to its original un-updated system 7.1 configuration. However,
nothing seems to eliminate the error. It even does this when I have booted
without extensions. I can live witout the sleep mode, but I am perplexed,
especially since it used to work before. Anyone have any ideas or
information. BTW, virus checks show no sign of viral activity.
Configration info:
System 7.1, 8Mb RAM, 120Mb Quantum HD
Main utilities:
MS Word
WP
FileMaker Pro
Canvas
Zterm
ccMail
Numerous MacTCP aplications
Numerous extensions
Thank you in advance.
Jim Williams
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 94 12:42:46 +0100 (WET)
From: Marion GUNN
Subject: PocketHammer problems & a Wish List item
Wish to say "thanks" for response to my INFO-MAC appeal for advice on
that PocketHammer disk. The suppliers have yet to acknowledge either
of my two e-mail msgs to them. I guess their lines must be busy, or
they dont realise how serious it is for the average user to have a
damaged disk on her hands for even a short while. I had hoped they'd
e-mail me some quick fix of which I had never heard.
Responses fromfellow users just confirm my own diagnosis: no option but to reformat,
reload from originals and backups. Of course, I do have backups of
(almost!) everything, but nobody seriously believes that even the
most disciplined of users regularly back up the contents of a 100 MB
drive to floppies. Perhaps the most irritating thing of all is, when one
has to reinstal from the original disks (NOT my first time to have to
do all this) everything gets reset to defaults options. Think about that.
Most people have scores of utilities whose preferences they haven't given
thought to in a long time. Wouldn't it be great if someone could develop
a little Settings Saving utility, that would worm its way into all other
utilities, take a note of preferences saved, and put them all together,
stashed in a file one could download and save at the first signs of any
trouble? Something that would take due note that I like my old and
obscure, but lightning fast, little word processor set to smart quotes,
not dumb, that I prefer to work with Courier on my screen, than Helvetica
(yes, honest!), that I cannot do a dial-in to the net, unless my comms
utility is set to 7 plus even, etc.
Another item for the Wish List!
Marion Gunn
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 09:52:26 -0500
From: [email protected] (Vinko Tsui (312) 329-3455)
Subject: Powerbook 2400 modem [R]
Rob,
>
You really should try to find out what type of modem is it. You probably do
not have a modem that support MNP error correction. One way to determine
the type of modem it is would be to open your PB 180. I do not recommend
you do this if you're unsure about taking it apart or putting it back
together. You should ask your local dealer for assistance.
When you take the top case apart you may break the tabs which holds the top
and bottom cover together. When you put the PB back together you may bend
one of the ground metal strip.
Some modem command I do know are:
AT = gets the modem's attention, you should prefix this before each command.
Mn = sets the volume of the speaker on the modem, where "n" is a number from
0 - 9 (0 turns the speaker off).
&F = change the modem setting to the factory default.
I hope this helps.
-- Vinko
Vinko Enterprises, Oakville, Ontario, Canada, [email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 09:57:24 -0500
From: [email protected] (Michael E. Gaines)
Subject: Pproblems recording in 24 bit mode on a 6100AV?
Howdy,
A few weeks ago, I bought a PPC 6100/60 AV. I love it, the only
problem is that when I try to digitize video with the monitor set to 24 bit
color, the monitor turns this strange shade of magenta, and these small
horizontal lines move from left to right diagonally. I called SOS-Apple and
they told me to record in 8 bit mode. Umm...that's NOT why I got a 24 bit
monitor guys! This happens with HSU 3.0 on and off the hard drive so I
can't account for that causing the problem. This also happens with
extensions (except QT) off. Anyone else have this problem? Thanx!
============================Mike Gaines=================================
= WHAT is your name? Captain Jean-Luc Picard =
= WHAT is your quest? I seek the Holy Grail =
= WHAT is the top velocity of a Bird of Prey? Romulan or Klingon? =
= I....I don't know...AAAHHHH!!!! =
[email protected]==========================
THX Approved
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 13:15:46 +0200
From: [email protected] (Christian F. Buser)
Subject: Rodime Cobra Driver? (R)
[email protected] (Rod McCormack) wrote:
>The only formatting software I have for the drive is the Rodime Cobra
>Driver Utility mentioned above. (I own Silver Lining, but La Cie advises
>me not to use that on the Cobra, as they don't support it.) I updated the
>Cobra driver several times, and am now using Version 1.1.4, the last I am
>aware of. Around the time that version came out, System 7 hit the
>streets, and Rodime went "toes up," (no connection, I presume).
True, Silverlining does not support drives with block sizes other than 512
bytes; and to my knowledge, these Rodime drives used 1024 byte block size.
But I was told that Hard Disk Toolkit (HDT) from FWB indeed does support
1024 byte block size. I suggest you contact FWB if my info is right (I
don't own HDT).
>I would appreciate it if someone knowledgable (please don't guess) could
>answer that question for me.
I would like to be an expert in all points, but I still think it's worth
to ask FWB - even if I don't know for sure
Greetings, Christian
email: [email protected] or: [email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 22:25:43 -0500
From: [email protected] (Clinton MacDonald)
Subject: Rot-13 extension for BBEdit?
Friends:
I am a big fan of two of the best programs available in the known
universe: Newswatcher and BBEdit. My habit has been to zip through
Newswatcher, saving news articles as they catch my interest, and save them
to my drive for later reading (usually with EasyView -- another universal
best). I admit here, publicly, that, on occasion I save a Usenet article
that is encrypted with Rot-13 (the shame!
). EasyView cannot (to myknowledge) decrypt Rot-13. Is there an extension for BBEdit which will
decrypt Rot-13?
An Anarchie search (okay -- four best programs) found the following:
which is not exactly what I had in mind. If such an extension for BBEdit
does not exist, would some enterprising programmer care to cobble one up?
Or perhaps Akif Eyler would be interested in adding it to his next release
of EasyView?
Thanks,
Clint
Dr. Clinton C. MacDonald | [email protected]
Howard Hughes Medical Institute | [email protected]
Department of Molecular Biology | 609/258-5993
Princeton, NJ 08544-1014 | 609/258-1704 (FAX)
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 13:18:45 +0200
From: [email protected] (Christian F. Buser)
Subject: Simultaneous emailing and Usenet posting (R)
[email protected] (Mike Craymer) asked:
>... Also, how can I post to a Usenet newsgroup via email (Eudora)?
Address your mail to [email protected]
this will post your message to the newsgroups.
Replace the "xxx" by the newsgroup names, for example
[email protected] for posting to comp.sys.mac.apps
There are other gateways as well, but this is the one I use.
Greetings, Christian.
email: [email protected] or: [email protected]
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 21:15:37 EDT
From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz"
Subject: SOS APPL [R]
Traci J. Ingram said:
TJI> Our school just installed about $30,000 worth of PowerMac
TJI> equipment, including a Work Group Server 9150 (for our first
TJI> network). When we called SOS-APPL to ask a few questions about
TJI> AppleShare 4.02, and whether it was recommended that System
TJI> Hardware Update 3.0 be installed on the server - the snottiness of
TJI> the Apple technician was little short of breathtaking.
TJI>
TJI> Is this amazing - or merely business as usual at Apple?
Traci, I suppose that Apple, like everyone else, has its share of
good people and bad. Also people have their share of good and
bad days. I'm sure the folks at SOS-APPL could tell us stories
that would curl our hair.
However, I have to agree that you should have been treated with
patience and respect.
I have to say that for the most part I have found the folks at
SOS-APPL to be much better in dealing with problems and irrated
people (like me!) than most support services. My experience has
been very positive.
Jeffrey Fritz
Telecommunications and Network Services
West Virginia University
[email protected]
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 94 17:22:30 PDT
From: "A. R. White"
Subject: Source for Plastic Trays & Guides for LaserWriter Plus?
Recently I've acquired a creaky LaserWriter Plus. (Don't laugh; at $150,
including a toner cartridge, it was a bargain as a first laser printer!)
Unfortunately, most of its plastic pieces have had bits broken off; the
output tray, for instance, is suspended by one pin.
Could anyone point me to a source for replacement input & output guides,
and additional paper trays? I know Imagen used this same engine, but I
haven't been able to get in touch with them.
Respond directly to me, please; no use bothering everybody else.
Thanks,
A. R. White
Internet: nomdenet @ ISI.edu
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 04:04 EST
From: "Don't Panic!"
Subject: StartupScreen and extensions (Q)
Hello,
I just noticed two weird things happening, and I wondered if they may be
related:
the run of extension icons at startup does not start until after the
startupscreen image disappears, to leave a blank menuless desktop.
DiskExpress mentions something about Orphaned Extents, and refuses to
optimize my hard disk because of them.
On a separate note:
I just got Atticus Vista 1.0.2. And what do I find when I make a vista? A
bunch of 0k aliases and folders make the Vista. Yet when I make a new vista
space on the hard disk disappears. The finder does not show it in the
calculate folder size, it only shows it in the total hard disk space. Sure
enough when I run DupLocator I find that Atticus makes a bunch of invisible
icon files. Yet why doesn't the calculate folder size show the new true size
of the folders in the Vista?
This is still baffling me.
Could the three bugs be related?
What are Orphaned Extents? Is an Extent the same as an extension?
I am puzzled as to why DiskExpress can't optimize around these extents when
Speed Disk can?
baffled but not panicked,
[email protected]
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 09:45:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email protected]
Subject: Summary of Macintosh Application Environment replies
First, let me acknowledge and thank the following people who responded
to my inquiry about MAE:
Jean-Francois Sygnet [email protected]
Scott Kelsey [email protected]
Jill Williams [email protected]
Steve Strassman [email protected]
Bob Lantz [email protected]
Sridar Narayanan [email protected]
MAE Product Technical Support [email protected]
I must also apologize for my earlier remark implying no one at Apple
cared about promoting MAE -- within 36 hours of my posting I had received
3 separate responses from Apple employees, all of whom were extremely
helpful and knowledgeable. Special thanks to them for going out of their
way.
In summary, the responses I got basically said MAE's emulation is very
robust, but a little on the slow side. No surprise there. The MAE folks
at Apple make the good point that speed will of course vary, depending on
the power of the Unix box you run it on.
As everyone pointed out, the best way to learn whether MAE is for you
is to test drive the demo. It is available free of charge on CD by
calling 1-800-769-2775 ext. 7675 or you can ftp it from
ftp.support.apple.com (NOTE: the file is about 12MB; use discretion).
There are also two mailing lists, mae-users and mae-announce, to which you
can subscribe by sending mail to [email protected] with text in
the BODY that reads:
SUBSCRIBE mae-users
SUBSCRIBE mae-announce
I'm in the process of evaluating MAE and would be happy to post my
findings to the net if there's sufficient interest.
Eric Davies
[email protected]
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 94 23:58:19 -0400
From: [email protected]
Subject: SuperLaserSpool
Comment: Regarding the recent question about a conflict between SuperLaser-
Spool and Omnis 3, I recently found out through the MACAV-L
list that SuperLaserSpool conflicts with RamDoubler, and indeed,
when I removed SLS, the problems I was having disappeared.
Answer: I have both SuperLaserSpool 3.0 and RamDoubler and I didn't have any
conflict. The problem must be Omnis 3. Recently I contacted Symantec which now
supports Fifth Generation Systems products and the technician was very
informative. He told me they stop developing SLS because they had many problems
PageMaker was one of those. Also with a new system coming they will wait.
Also I prefer PrintMonitor because it's taking less space on the disk to spool
and doesn't create another driver for every printer you use. These drivers
takes
a lot of space.
louis [email protected]
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Date: Sun, 26 Jun 1994 05:40:47 GMT
From: Sven Guckes
Subject: System 7.1 emergency disc (long summary)
[email protected] writes:
>As usual, several imdigest readers came to my rescue. The following are
>excerpts of each suggestion with my comments in brackets [].
I think some people can't tell a summary from an annotated log. *sheesh*
Sven
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 94 16:43:08 CDT
From: [email protected] (David V. Wiltschko)
Subject: Three Button Mac Mouse
Knowledgeable Mac/Unix Folks:
Has anyone had experience with third-party three button mice for the
Mac. I use MacX to work on UNIX workstations and would like a better way to
work that to hold the option key down and press an arrow key (usually one
had over the other). Does logitech make one? I suppose there'd have to be
an INIT or extension to map the buttons to a key sequence but that would be
fine. I'd summarize the experience of others if there is sufficient
response.
Dave Wiltschko
Texas A&M University
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 12:28:41 +0200
From: [email protected] (Robert Geisler)
Subject: Voices
Speech Manager 1.2.1, MacinTalk Pro (formerly called PlainTalk
Text-to-Speech), and the associated voices can be obtained by gopher from
info.hed.apple.com. They also have the PlainTalk speech-to-text software
for Power Macs.
Robert
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Date: Sun Jun 26 13:26:55 1994
From: [email protected] (Capt Jon Dagle;86 OSS/DOW;480-2077)
Subject: What happened to Rescue! (a Star Trek game)
Does anyone know where to get the current version of the Star Trek theme game
Rescue! by Tom Spreen? It used to be in the info-mac archive in the /game
directory, but its gone. I thought there was a newer-than-1.5.1 version out,
but the moderators don't know where it is.
If you can tell me anything, please drop a line to my email acct since my
opportunity to read the list is somewhat limited.
Regards,
Jonathan Dagle//[email protected]
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Date: Sat, 25 Jun 94 12:12:06 JST
From: [email protected]
Subject: Windows 3.1 driver for Apple Color Printer?
Hi there,
Is there exist a DOS/Windows driver for Apple Color printer?
We are working in a multiplatform lab and would like to connect Apple
Color printer through it's parallel port to an IBM Pc running windows 3.1.
please mail me direct and I will summarize it latter.
Thanks for your help.
E.S. Magdi (M.D., Ph.D)
Cardiovascular Physiology Res.
E-mail: [email protected]
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